MARCH 2004

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Fifth Annual Women’s Community Seder

Jewish Women Come Together
to Celebrate Life

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On March 28, Women from the Central Kentucky
area will gather together to celebrate the fifth annu—
al Women's Community Seder. In keeping with
the tradition of Passover, we will address what we
consider to be the Four Questions of the Women’s
Community Seder:

1. Why have on this night a
Women’s Community Seder?
Jewish tradition is based upon
coming together as a communi—
ty as well as welcoming the
stranger. When the many
Jewish organizations in Central
Kentucky join together for the
Women’s Community Seder w,e in essence, do
both. We join with those we know from our small—

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tions in which we are active, and we welcome
those with whom we are less familiar at the same
time.

2. Why doesn’t the Women’s Community Seder
have a full meal? A key element of the Passover
seder is to recline, relax, and rejoice. Often the
women who are hosting seders at home find them-
selves spending much of their time in the kitchen
cooking or serving others. By eliminating a main
meal, the Women’s Community Seder is designed
to allow for maximum participation by everyone.

3. Why do we gather as
women only?
Unfortunately, history
often neglects the pow-
erful roles that women
have played and the
way that different cus-
toms and traditions have impacted the life of
women. At the Women’s Community Seder we set
aside time to reflect on the role of women in

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Speaker Named for MajorGlfts
Event Scheduled for Early May 2004

2004 UJC/CKJF Community
Campaign Features JDC Official

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Chairpersons Odette Kaplan, Susan Coldstein, and
Marty Barr announce the featured speaker for the
2004 UJC/CKJF Major Gifts event scheduled for
Saturday evening, May 8, 2004 will be William
Recant of the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC).

As the Assistant Executive Vice-President of the
JDC, William Recant serves as the senior staff per-
son regarding all of JDC’s non-sectarian and disas—
ter relief programs. In this capacity, he coordinates
projects relating to the rescue, relief, and renewal
of Jewish communities worldwide and develops
non—sectarian programs.

Mr. Recant is also the Desk Director for Latin
America and Europe Community Development at
JDC headquarters in New York, which involves
him in the effort to relieve the Argentinean commu-
nity in crisis.

While serving as the Washington representative for
JDC, Recant helped secure JDC’s license to work in
Cuba. He has visited Cuba over two dozen times
and has helped establish JDC’s programs of com—
munity development and Jewish renewal.

Recant has also worked with US government agen—
cies and Congressional members to brief them on
issues specific to rescue and relief, and with Private
Voluntary Organizations (PVO's) in program coor-
dination, partnership development, and cooperation.

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mandments, mitzvot, and blessings of God impact
on us specifically as women.

4. Why should I attend? You are a part of our
community and you are a part of our Jewish her-
itage. We are providing a unique forum for a multi-
generational conversation of women. Your ideas
will make an important contribution to the lively
discussions that the Women’s Community Seder
insplres.

And, by the way, the commandment of telling the
Passover story applies to YOU. For once you were
a slave in Egypt and now you are free — free to
attend an afternoon of celebration that is the
Women’s Community Seder.

The Community Women’s Seder will be on Sunday,
March 28 at the Temple Adath Israel from 2 - 4:30
PM. It will be entertaining, thought provoking,
and spiritual. The dynamic community of women
from Temple Adath Israel, Ohavay Zion

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Academic Head
Speaks at TAI

Dr. David Ellenson Acclaimed
as Rabbi, Scholar, Here for
Celebration of TAl’s 100th

Anniversary

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The president of the Hebrew Union College —
Jewish Institute of Religion, Dr. David Ellenson
will be the guest speaker at Temple Adath Israel’s
Friday evening services on March 12 in honor of
the congregation’s 100th anniversary celebration.

Dr. Ellenson is the eighth president in the 125 year
history of HUC-JIR. He received his PhD. from
Columbia University in 1981 and was ordained a
rabbi at HUC-JIR’s New York School in 1977. He is
also a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of
Jerusalem and Fellow and Lecturer in the Institute
of Advanced Studies at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem (1999 to present).

Dr. Ellenson’s work describes the writings of
Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and
Reconstructionist leaders in Europe, the United
States, and Israel during the last two centuries and

sec Judaism Reform Speaker, page 5