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VOL. XII

JEWISH LIFE IN
IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY
SHALOM Y'ALL

The CKJF/CRC exhibit, JEWISH LIFE IN
CENTRAL KENTUCKY: SHALOM Y’ALL, opens
December 10, 1989, at the Lexington Public
Library, 140 E. Main Street, and floor,
with a program by Dr. Lee Shai Neissbach
of the University of Louisville. His
presentation, located in the Central
Library Theatre at E p.m., will focus on
the history of the Jewish community in
Central Kentucky. A reception will be
held after the program outside Conference
Room A on the lower level.

The Jewish community is an active
participant in Central Kentucky. This
multi-panel exhibit illustrates the ways
in which Jews have maintained and enriched
their own cultural and religious lives
while contributing to the growth and
prosperity of Central Kentucky. The
exhibit will be on display from December
10, 1989 through January 5, 1990.

The exhibit and program are made
possible through the auspices of the
Central Kentucky Jewish Federation, the
Kentucky Humanities Council and the
Lexington Public Library.

 

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DECEMBER 1989

Soviet Jewish resettlement is a concern
of utmost importance throughout the Jewish
world. Central Kentucky Jewish women are
co-sponsoring an evening of discussion and
education on this vital and urgent topic.
Lanna Zusstone, of Jewish Family Service
in Louisville, herself a Soviet emigre
will lead the session. It will take place
at Temple Adath Israel, Thursday, December
7, at 7:30 p.m. This program is jointly
sponsored by Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation, Lexington Chapter of Hadassah,
Dhavay Zion Synagogue Sisterhood and
Temple Adath Israel Sisterhood.

 

  

 

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For the eighth consecutive year,
joins Jews in communities around the nation in holding a day—long,

Super Sunday '90

February 25, 1990

the Central Kentucky Jewish

community
fund

raising phonathon. A major objective this year is to enlighten the
Jewish community about the diversity of recipients who benefit from your
contribution to this campaign.

When you help in "Uniting the Generations Through Giving," you
strengthen the quality of life for the people of Israel: sustain Jewish
life throughout the world: and build the communal life of the Central
Kentucky Jewish community.

Money raised on Super Sunday helps provide opportunities for Jews
locally, overseas and in Israel. Your dollars support numerous programs
in Central Kentucky, which provide educational and community services to
everyone from Jewish youth to Jewish elderly:

$25 — pays a month’s rent for an elderly Jewish couple in
Sousse, Tunisia

$40 — helps send a child to Camp Shalom

$200 - provides 100 meals at Community Kitchen

$300 - provides a month’s care in a hostel for an elderly

immigrant to Israel

$800 — provides annual funds for Central Kentucky’s Transient
Relief
$2000 - subsidizes as many\as five young people to Jewish

summer camps associated with the Lexington Jewish
community

$4800 - provides a year of learning and working on a kibbutz
to a new immigrant family

Many members of the Jewish community are already involved in this
effort. Ellie and Alvin Goldman, Sara Hoffman, Charles Stern, Nancy
Hoffman, Vicki Doukas, Stephanie Gilinsky, Liz and Bruce Broudy, Abe and
Judy Levine, and Leon Cooper all have volunteered their time to
coordinate key functions in this campaign. You can join your friends in
this important effort and help to "UNITE THE GENERATIONS THROUGH
GIVING." Volunteers are urgently needed.

Please contact the CKJF office (252-7682) or complete and mail the
following form to the CKJF, 333 Waller Ave., Suite 5, Lexington, KY.
40504.

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Pre-school Hanukkah Party
Sunday: December 17

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Temple Adath Israel

 

The party will take place in the Temple
Adath Israel auditorium for all Children
ages two and a half through five. All
parents are welcome; parents of children
under three years old must accompany their
children.

Each child is asked to bring a gift of
value not to exceed $3 with his/her name
on it. The fun filled afternoon will
include games, crafts, and refreshments.

Pre-school holiday parties are spon-
QUESTIONS . sored by CKJF in cooperation with Dhavay
1- What is the name 0f the top we spin Zion Synagogue and Temple Adath Israel.
0“ Hannukah? _ The parties are another ongoing project
2. How many candles do we light on the made possible by your support of the
last night of Hannukah? annual CKJF-UJA campaign. Pre-school
3. What are the four Hebrew letters on holiday parties are being chaired this
the dreydel? _ year by Sandy Adland, Elise Mandel, and
4- HOW many days did the one CUB Of 011 Kathy Grossman as a sub-committee of CKJF
last in the TEMPIE? _ Community Activities Committee.

5. Why is Hannukah called the ‘Festival RESERVATIONS "Av BE "ADE BY CALLING

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6. What is the name of the Jewish leader

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8. What happened to the Temple?

9. Where did the Maccabees live?

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The following is a brief review of two
books reviewed in Jewish Book World.

A Remarkable Tribute to Israel

Israel, Frederic Brenner and A.B.
Yehoshua. Edward Burlingame/Harper & Row,
10 East 53th Street, New York, NY 10022.
1988. 198 pages. $40.00. Reviewed by
Joseph Aaron

It’s the kind of book for which coffee
tables, and adjectives, were made.
Adjectives like breathtaking, stunning,
inspiring, thought-provoking, heart-
tugging.

It is, like all good coffee table books
should be, big. But the size of its
outside isn’t what’s important. It’s
what’s inside that makes Israel the book,
like Israel the country and Israel the
people, so special.

The Devil’s Arithmetic

The Devil’s Arithmetic, Jane Yolen.
Viking Kestrel, 40 West 23rd Street, New
York, NY 10010, 1988. 160 pages. $11.95.
Ages 10 to 14. Reviewed by Naomi Kleinberg

I read this book and knew no other book
could touch Yolen’s Holocaust novel in
power, immediacy, and purity of language.

The Devil’s Arithmetic begins with the
words, "I’m tired of remembering." Hannah
is complaining to her mother about spend—
ing Passover Seder listening to her
grandfather’s stories about the Holocaust,
having his memories forced on her. But
then history becomes real to Hannah in a
way that defies rational explanation: when
she opens the door for the Prophet Elijah,
Hannah finds herself literally in another
world-a Polish shtetl, where she and her
relatives face deportation by the Nazis to
an almost—certain fate.

 

As inexorably as Hannah becomes the
girl Chaya, so the reader is drawn with
her into recent history, into the mael—
strom of horror that was the Jews’ experi-
ence at the hands of the Nazis.

Yolen, an unequalled wordmaster,
creates characters so filled with life,
with all the human feelings and foibles,
that the reader comes to know them, to
identify with them in a way that makes her
or him hope against hope despite knowledge
of the outcome, and to love, to grieve, to
feel immense sorrow and rage, to vow "I
will remember."

Hannah’s stunning, unforgettable story
will burn steadily in the reader’s heart
and mind, a call to those who come after
that those who were lost must not be
forgotten. No one should ever tire of
remembering. Jane Yolen said, "This is a
story that had to be told," The Devil’s
Arithmetic is a book that must be read.

JEN I SH BOOK AWARD N I NNERS

Eleven authors and one illustrator have
won the 1989 National Jewish Book Awards,
it is announced by JNB Jewish Book Coun-
cil.

The complete list of winners in the
various categories follows:

Autobiography/Memoir (Sandra Brand and
Arik Neintraub Award): Natan Sharansky,
Fear No Evil (Random House).

Children’s Literature (Anita and Martin
Shapolsky Award): Jane Yolen, The Devil’s
Arthmetic (Viking Kestrel).

Children’s Picture Book (Marcia and
Louis Posner Award): Barbara Diamond
Goldin, author, and Seymour Chwast,
illustrator, Just Enough is Plenty: A
Hanukkah Tale (Viking Kestrel).

Contemporary Jewish Life (Muriel and
Phil Berman Award): Jonathan Kaufman,
Broken Alliance: The Turbulent Times
Between Blacks and Jews in America
(Charles Scribner’s Sons).

Fiction (William and Janice Epstein
Award): Aharon Appelfeld, The Immortal
Bartfuss (Neidenfeld & Nicolson).

Holocaust (Leon Jolson Award): Christo-
pher Simpson, Blowback: America’s Recruit—
ment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold
War (Heidenfeld & Nicolson).

Israel (Morris J. and Betty Kaplun
Award): Haim Chertok, Stealing Home:
Israel Bound and Rebound (Fordham Univer-
sity Press).

 

 

 Jewish Book Award Winners (can’t)

Jewish History (Gerrard and Ella Barman
Award): Michael A. Meyer, Response to
Modernity: A History of the Reform Move-
ment in Judaism (Oxford University Press).

Jewish Thought (Donor Anonymous):
Michael Rosenak, Commandments and Con-
cerns: Jewish Religious Education in
Secular Society (Jewish Publication
Society).

Scholarship (Sarah H. and Julius
Kushner Memorial Fund): Moshe Idel,
Kabbalah, New Perspectives (Yale Universi—
ty Press).

Visual Arts (Leon L. Gildesgame Memori-
al Fund): Leonard Gold, editor, A Sign and
a Witness: 2000 Years of Hebrew Books and
Illuminated Manuscripts (The New York
Public Library/Oxford University Press).

Hanukkah

-Is Christmas the Christian Hanukkah

or is Hanukkah the Jewish Christmas?
Sunday. December 17,3 pm.

Hear an informative discussion on the comparison of Hanuk-
kah and Christmas. Live music will illustrate the Hanukkah
spirit. Presented by A. Lawrence Sherman.

Reservations
,. slasher

Central Library
AdthamddsDepanmem
140 East Main Street
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CENTRAL KENTUCKY JEWISH FEDERATION
NEWSLETTER
333 Waller Avenue, Suite 5
Lexington, KY. 40504
(606) 252—7622

Michael Ades. President
Linda Ravvin. Executive Director
Betty Hickey, Office Manager

MEMBER
Council of Jewish Federation

 

Ten Reasons To
Support Israel Aid

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article
appeared in the Near East Report.

In a recent speech on Capitol Hill,
Thomas Dine, Executive Director of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
outlined 10 reasons for supporting U.S.
military and economic assistance to
Israel.

1. Aid to Israel is important to Isra—
el’s survival as a free and independent
ally.

2. Aid to Israel is essential for
sustaining the Middle East peace process.
It allows Israel to take economic and
strategic risks and represents America’s
ongoing investment in peace.

3. Aid to Israel allows Israel to
promote American interests by deterring
Soviet-backed radicalism in the Middle
East; combatting international terrorism;
enhancing U.S. deterrent strength through
strategic cooperation; and improving
America’s intelligence capability.

A. Aid to Israel is one of the least
expensive and most cost-effective expendi-
tures the United States disburses for
national security.

5. Aid to Israel represents less than 1%
of the U.S. defense budget and less than
3% of U.S. expenditures on NATO’s defense
of Europe.

6. Aid to Israel is spent mostly in the
United States and, according to the former
director of the Agency for International
Development, generates 60,000 jobs for
every billion dollars of assistance.

7. Aid to Israel equals the amount
Israel must repay each year to service its
debt to the United States.

8. Aid to Israel has declined in real
terms over the last 11 years and now is
less than one-third of the 1976 level.

9. Aid to Israel prevents any further

erosion in Israel’s narrowing margin of
security, particularly in light of the
volume of weapons flooding into the
arsenals of Israel’s neighbors.
10. Aid to Israel bought Israel time to
implement the necessary structural changes
in its economy during the recent period of
economic austerity.

 

  

  

CKJF CAMP SHALOM COMMITTEE
SEEKS CAMP DIRECTOR

The Camp Shalom Committee, co-chaired
for 1990 by Terry Goldfarb and Ricki
Rosenberg, is now accepting applications
for a Camp Director.

Qualifications are: Minimum age of El
desired; B.A. degree desired; camp
experience, experience working with
children (volunteer groups, Sunday School,
youth groups, etc.); supervisory and
programming experience; Jewish; evidence
of first aid training and certification.

Dates for camp are June 4 - June 82,
1990. Resumes may be sent to CKJF, 333
waller Avenue, Suite 5, Lexington, KY.
40504. For further information contact
Linda Ravvin at the CKJF office
(858—7522).

Camp Shalom is one of the continuing
programs of CKJF made possible by your
contributions to the CKJF—UJA fundraising
campaign.

YIDDISH CLASSES TO BE OFFERED

Prior knowledge of Yiddish not neces-
sary. Have fun learning Hame-Loshn, the
mother tongue that your parents used so
you wouldn’t understand! Share it with
your children so they HILL understand. Or
come to re-awaken your knowledge. We’ll
converse and learn the alef—beyz so we can
read simple texts, understand letters from
relatives, sing songs, share jokes and
proverbs. Materials will be provided.
Class will have the option of choosing
textbook, if desired, after first few
sessions. Elliot Gertel will be the
instructor.

Classes will be on Wednesdays from
January 10, 1990, through February 14,
7:30-8:30 p.m. at Ohavay Zion Synagogue.
To cover the cost of materials and in-
struction, we are requesting $30 tuition
for the six weeks. Scholarships can be
awarded, of course.

YOU MUST REGISTER IN ADVANCE BY CALLING
THE 025 OFFICE (266-8050). If you have
any specific questions about the course,
please call Elliot (268-4017).

 

 

 

TAI SISTERHOOD LUNCHEON

Temple Adath Israel Sisterhood’s
December 20th meeting will be a lunch—time
affair, beginning at 18 noon at the
Temple. Featured speaker will be noted
cookbook author Zell Shulman, who will
discuss and demonstrate Hannukah cooking
and party—planning. The meeting is open
to all women members of the local Jewish
community, and the charge will be $3 per
person. Those attending should plan to
bring a brown—bag lunch, as the cooking
demonstration will provide only enough
food for "tasting”. The meeting should be
expected to last between 2-8 1/2 hours.
Please RSVP to the Temple (269-8979) by
December 15. Babysitting will be avail-
able upon request.

FOLK DANCING AT TAI

Learn different heritages and exercise
in a fun way! Everyone welcome, teenagers
included. Temple Adath Israel, Monday
evenings at 8pm. No charge. Contact Meg
(887-1850) after 9pm.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
Reserve Saturday Night
January 20, 1990 - 7:00 p.m.
Lexington Tennis Club
for
025 Winter Games
Tennis, Bridge, Bingo,
Trivial Pursuit, Pictionary,
Heavy Snacks and much more

$15.00 per person admission
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from all the rest?

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