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from everyone at the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation- We wish you a \{J

HAPPY HANUKKAH & a GREAT NEW YEAR'"

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have to get dressed up. you don‘t have to amuse
your lxids. and the only gift required is food for the
need}.

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he ﬁrst visiting Moosnick Scholar at the Lexington Theologi-

cal Seminary has been announced for this coming spring

semester. The Moosnick Scholar program is an expansion of
the endowed Moosnick Lectureship series on topics of Judaic interest
held at the Seminary for the past 15 years in honor of Dr. Franklin B.
Moosnick. Dr. Hanna Liss. of Frankfurt. Germany. will be in resi-
dence at the Seminary spring semester 2002.

The Moosnick Lectureship, endowed by friends, patients and families
of patients of Dr. Moosnick, has presented eminent scholars to interact
with students and faculty of the Seminary and to speak before the Jewish
community over a two to three day period. With an increase in the
endowment, the Seminary has launched the visiting Moosnick Scholar
program which provides for a visiting faculty person to be in residence
. and teach for an entire semester. The Moosnick Scholar program will be
. every other year. In alternate years the Moosnick Lectureship program

Moosnick Scholar continued on page 2

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Central Kentucky
Represented at
General Assembly
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exington and Central Kentucky were

represented at the 70th General Assembly

(GA) of United Jewish Communities, the
organization resulting from the merger completed
two years ago of the Council of Jewish Federa—
tions, United Jewish Appeal and United Israel
Appeal. The Central Kentucky Jewish Federation
was represented in Washington DC in mid-Novem—
ber by President Stan Saxe and Executive Director
Dan Chejfec. Judy Saxe also attended.

“On one hand, the GA program is about commu-
nity building, the next generation, developing skills
for federations to serve their constituencies,
strengthening connections with Israel and halacha,”
said Co-National GA Chair Sandy Baklor, “while
the GA experience is about networking, meeting
and learning from members of the Jewish commu-
nity from all over the world.” Despite a cautious
fear that has put a huge dent in the nation’s airline
industry, the Jewish community showed up at this
GA in impressive numbers. Over 3,600 to be
precise—of which one out of every ﬁve was a
student. And add to that a major delegation from
Israel, headed by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

Jonathan Kessler, editor of Insight magazine,
spoke to students about confronting anti-Israel and
anti-Jewish activity on campus. Kessler noted

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General Assembly continued on page 6

In This Issue: MAZEL TOV TO:
President’s Messa e 2 Bruce & Rachel Belin, on the birth of their
. g .................................. daughter, Sarah Julia, on October 25. The

Josh Adland in Israel .................................. 3 proud grandparents are Bob & J0 Belin.

Winter Dinner Registration ......................... 3 Gail & Ernie Cohen, on the birth of their

Turning Points and Personal Choices ......... 4 granddaughter, Melanie Shira Silver, on

Cam a' n C nt' ‘ 5 August 26, in Deerfield, Ill. The proud parents
p 1g ‘ 0 miles ................................... - are Steven & Elaine Silver. Also on the birth

Mystery of Embrmdered Cloth Solved ....... 5 of their grandson, Jared Robert Charney

AGrat(z)ifying Discovery .......................... 6 Cohen, on October 19. in Rehovot, Israel. The

Leisure Club ............................................... 7 med parents are Alex 8‘ Sara Charney

R' bb" C 8 Cohen.

a is orner ........................................... Stephen & Nancy Kesten, on the birth of
FletChCF’S VlSlt to Israel ............................. 9 their grandson, Ethan Robert Kesten’ on
Zantker Lecture ................. L ........................ 9 November 4. The proud parents are Robert &
KAPT revisited .......................................... 9 Sarah KeSten-

S h 1 h' &C h' 9 Russell & Susan Kettenring, on the birth

c o ars 1ps ampers 1ps ...................... of their son, Holden William, on October 26.
ASk JFS About ......................................... 10 The proud grandparents are Bin & Dodi
Singles Hanukkah Party ........................... 10 Clemmons.

Tikkun in December ................................. 10

Letters to the Editor .................................. 11

The Lexin ton Havurah ............................ 11

G' l’ ng W h 11 REFUAH SHLEMAH (get well wishes):

1r sBo y mage orks op ................... Kathy Feinberg, Sandy Berger, Abby

B’Tay Avon .............................................. 12 Miner, and Francie Chasen-L0pez.
Hadassah Discussion Group ..................... 12

Hadassah JNF .......................................... 12

Actor’s Guild ............................................ 12

H kkah L' ht ...................................... 13

3““ ‘g S CONDOLENCES TO:

Peres to GA .............................................. 13 The correct date of death Of Eugene
Groups Recognized as Terrorists .............. l3 Cazden, is September 5, 2001, Eugene was the
Pro-IsrealActivisim Training at UK ......... 13 50“ Of Robert & Joann Cazden.

. Judy Schwartz Berg. 20 Ponderosa Drive,
Bar/Bat Mitzvahs ..................................... 13 Melville, NY 11747, on the death of her mother,
Calendar ................................................... l4 Ethel Schwartz, on October 26, 2001.
Yom Hashoah ........................................... 15
Ohavay Zion Synagogue .......................... 15
Temple Adath Israel ................................. 15 Please let us know of any news you would

like to share with the community.
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VPresident's

M 355 a g e
by
Stan Saxe

e look to

wind up our

2( )0 l C KJ F/
UJC Community Cam—
paign. Our campaign
chairperson Alan Stein
knows what it is to be a winner, knows how to
promote a team to be the league champion. He
expects no less from we in the campaign who are
the solicitors and the solicitees. So by this time in early
December, if you have not yet been contacted to
pledge, get ready, it’s coming. We want to ﬁnish the
year as champions.

As Alan pointed out in the November issue of
ﬁbulom our funds support Jewish Family Services
here in Lexington, activities which promote Jewish life
in Central Kentucky and which represent the interest
of the Jewish community to the general public on
local, national, and international issues.

Entering basketball season means it is time to
start planning for the 2002 campaign events. The
Community Activities committee has its schedule
for the 2001-2002 seasons. The next big event is
our 7th Annual Winter Dinner on December 24. g
Tikkun Lexington needs volunteers to work in local
hospitals on December 25 to allow Christian
employees to be off work and enjoy their holiday.
From Lexington Singles (the young adults) to
Leisure Club (our older adults) events are sched—
uled for this year. We have a good team; there will
be some fun times here in Central Kentucky. We
want our Federation to be aleague champion!

Our overseas commitments remain, As has been
noted, our Central Kentucky humanitarian efforts are
channeled through the American Jewish Joint Distri-
bution Committee operating in 57 countries around the
world where Jews live; and through the Jewish
Agency for Israel. Immigration continues, with some
50,000 new immigrants over the past few months.
Our support through CKJF/UJ C does make a differ—
ence. Feel good about being part of a winning team.
Feel good about being part of the 2001 CKJF/U J C
Community Campaign.

Moosnick Scholar continued from front page

Dr. Liss, who will be at the Lexington Theologi-
cal Seminary through June, 2002, will teach two
courses at the Seminary. She will present lectures
open to the public at the Seminary, Ohavay Zion
Synagogue and Temple Adath Israel.

The courses offered for students at the Semi-
nary are “Biblical Characters and Their Critique in
Rabbinic Exegesis and in the Midrashim” and
“Higher Criticism — Higher Anti-Semitism?: The
Debate on the Hebrew Bible in 19th Century
Germany.”

Dr. Liss received her PhD. in Jewish Studies at
the Free University of Berlin. In the late 19808 she
spent a year as a visiting research fellow at He-
brew University, Jerusalem. She is married and is
the mother of two young children.

Joshua Adland shares his insight about his semester in Israel

e have spent the past several days

learning about the founding of the

State of Israel. In the beginning. those
who came here were known as Halutzim. or
“Pioneers." However. the word Halutzim in He—’
brew carries a much greater and deeper meaning.
The Jews who came to Palestine in the Second
Aliyah between l903 and l9l4. were young.
vigorous. and prepared to dedicate their lives to
working the land. On Tuesday we dro\e north to
the city of Hadera. There we visited the Kahn
building. one of the first places Jew s came to settle
in the 1800‘s before they began to build their
moshavot. or colonies. We then drove to Kibbutz
Yi fat to \ isit a museum that helped us see what life
w as like in the times of the early settlers. They
were so im ob ed in work that life was designed to
discourage relationships and the birth ofchildren.
Individuals owned nothing and each community
shared e\ erything. We ate a Halutzi-style lunch and
then had a discussion as the sun set.

The past week and a half. our group spent some

time remembering Yitzhak Rabin, as this week
marks the anniversary of his death six years ago.
He was a great leader. a great person. and a man
of peace. Saturday evening we watched a video
depicting his life and times. We learned about how
he emerged as a strong soldier and general in the
IDF. In 1967. he stepped into the political scene and
sery ed Israel in a different manner. In the video
was footage of the historic signing of the peace
agreement in l993. After being here. learning about
this country. and watching that video, I will never
see that famous. firm. and promising handshake in
the same way. I remember watching the replay on
C—SPAN in the bedroom of my parents. At the
time. I had no comprehension of the power of that
moment. Yet. here we are. eight years later. still
hoping for another handshake.

Yesterday. something very odd happened: I
finished my seventeenth trip around the sun. My
friends here threw me a wonderful birthday party in
the evening. They managed to trick me. a task I
thought impossible. into coming to the lounge. There

they blindfolded me and played an ElE version of
MTV’s “Singled Out." We proceeded to eat cake
and just shmooze for a while.

Yesterday. I awoke in the morning and went to
the bathroom to brush my teeth as I do every other
day: However. it took me almost five minutes to do
this simple task as I stared into the mirror. I was
looking for a change — a different person staring
back at me. I didn‘t see much. but I realized that
this is what is so hard about life. We grow up
gradually and change little by little every day. It is a
dangerous phenomenon in that sometimes. we look
into that mirror and get chills as we remember that
so many years have gone by and we failed to
notice. I can‘t believe that I am now 17 years old. I
see a young adult in the mirror. but I wonder how
all the years passed so quickly. I hope that I have
made the most of the years gone by. and that the
coming year will be filled with joy and wisdom. I
suppose that joy and wisdom are what I want the
most in my life.

L'Chuyim, Josh

Central Kentucky Jewish Federation’s t

7th Annual Winter Dinner

Monday, December 24th 6:00pm
‘ ‘ Sheraton Suites Lexington (Richmond Road)"

As tradition holds, we have a very special evening planned. This is a community-wide party. Please join us for a fun

Entertainment and special activities for the children evening with old and new friends. Tickets are $16 for adults,
$7.50 for children 5- 10 and free for children 4 and under.

To help as feed the hungry. please bring two nonperishable

are scheduled.
The doors open at 6:00 pm, the buffet will begin at 6:30 pm.
fw id items t} \r each person in your party. If you forget. you will be

asked for a donation of $2.00 per person: All food and cash
donations will be given to God’s Pantry. I '

The menu m. itaiw «‘ tsi‘?1\,i’..tti pasta. ‘w'errtariaii lasagna cheese &
vegetarian pizzas, mixed primavera garden vegetables, garlic bread,
coffee, iced tea, lemonade, carrot cake, and chocolate mousse. A

cash bar will be available.

Reservations and payments must be made in advance and are due at CKJF by December 19th.
If you have questions, please call the CKJF ofﬁce at 268—0672. There will be no solicitation of any kind during this event.

The Winter Dinner is sponsored by the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation. Everyone is welcome!

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Please enclose a check made payable to CKJF and mail along
with this form to:
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Address for mailing tickets:

Names ofchildren 4 and under (complimentary)

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Help Offered

People who seek out psychotherapy have a
self-actualizing tendency toward greater
contentment and improving adaptivity. They
seek psychotherapy out of a feeling that this
tendency is frustrated.

One of the most important things the therapist
does is to give the patient the feeling that he/
she is known by another person.

Faust was willing to negotiate with the devil
because in spite of all his erudition he never
felt he waspresent with the essence of life.
Psychotherapy can help with this feeling. And
at a much lower cost.

Harwell F. Smith, Ph.D.

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hen the Maccabees came into

Jerusalem and rededicated

the Temple, they did so after
a devastating war against the Syrian
Greeks. In order to renew the Temple, they
first had to conduct war. A renewal or
liberation following a time of despair and
oppression is such a recurring theme in
human history that German philosopher
Hegel considered it to be very much an
integral part of human nature and pro-
posed, in his seminal work “The Dialec-
tic of the Master and the Slave," the idea
that only those who have been oppressed
could really liberate themselves com—
pletely. Only those who have gone
through darkness can see the light.

American society was becoming self-
indulgent and many Americans found
themselves in a desert with no meaning,
in a search for direction, longing, in many
cases, for a sense of belonging. Septem-
ber 11th changed the game board for-
ever. New Yorkers changed and found
new dimensions to their relationship with
neighbors, with friends, and even with
strangers. All across America, people
rediscovered their connections with the
land of the free and the home of the
brave. Being American became more
important. Could it be that the terrorist
attacks shook our confidence and we
realized that freedom can not be taken
for granted? That it is a delicate sculp-
ture of crystal that can be shattered far
to easily? Whatever it is, it is a welcome
change. Freedom is an active verb. The
Hasmoneans rededicated the Temple
after a war. America is rededicating
itself to the protection of individual rights
and freedoms.

We Jews have witnessed, in the last
100 years, two Jewish events that
forever changed the character of who
we are: One was catastrophic (The
Shoah), the other a message of incred-
ible hope (Israel’s Independence), and
both of them became connected by the
personal journey of so many Holocaust
survivors. Yet today, almost 54 years
after Ben Gurion presided over the
Declaration of Independence, many
question Israel’s right to exist and even

Turning Points and

Personal Choices

By Daniel Chejfec, Executive Director
Central Kentucky Jewish Federation

whether the Holocaust ever happened.
The ongoing terrorist campaign by the
Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
and Hamas, tolerated by an increasingly
irrelevant Yasser Arafat, is aimed at the
destruction of Israel. They do not hide
their goals - Israel does not belong, in
their view, in the Middle East. Yet over
50,000 Jews immigrated to Israel in the
last twelve months and Israel, with our
help, took care of their needs and helped
them start a new life.

After the Declaration of Principles of
1993 between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser
Arafat, we became complacent. We
started to believe that we were finally
there, at the end of the long road to peace.
Yet today, eight years later, the very
existence of Israel is again on the line.
The day-to—day safety of Israeli citizens is
not a given. Peace, like freedom, is an
active verb.

Before September 11th we took
America for granted. This is, after all, the
land of opportunity and freedom. After
September 11th, we are rediscovering the
fact that the opportunities are not equal
and the economy is not always good. We
have discovered that we are all in the
same boat and need to care for each
other. And that is good — solidarity is an
active verb.

Over the last five decades, we have
gotten used to Israel being there. Yet
today, in the wake of the current terror
Intifada, Israel is going through a defining
point in its history. The economy, espe—
cially the tourist industry, is suffering.
Jewish communities in many places
around the world are experiencing re-
newed anti-Semitism in the wake of
September llth. Other communities are in
societies whose economies are failing,
dragging their Jewish communities along.
Jews from Argentina, from France, from
Russia and the former Soviet Union are
coming to Israel in great numbers, but to
an Israel that is forever changed. Israel is
there today for them. Will it be there
tomorrow? Or in 10, 20 or 30 years? What
are we doing to ensure that is the case?
Solidarity, as peace, as freedom, is an
active verb.

2001 UJC/CKJF Community Campaign Keeps Rolling

he 2001 Annual Campaign is already 5 %

ahead of where we were at the end of

November of last year, but a number of
donors have yet to make their 2001 commitment.
We need to keep at it, for when we ask people to
participate in the Community Campaign. we are not
only raising money — we are raising Jews.

Our Federation has made a commitment to
contribute part of our campaign funds to Jewish
educational initiatives led by local congregations.
We also provide substantial money for scholarships,
for direct ﬁnancial aid for those in need, and to
promote a volunteer support network for members
of our community who are in need or isolated. We
provide for Jewish life on campus, for community
programs, and for promoting Jewish culture locally.
We continue to serve as the watchdog and repre-
sentative voice for the Jewish community at large
on issues of Jewish security. Israel advocacy and
coalition with other ethnic and cultural groups in
Central Kentucky.

We also continue to provide support for Jewish
communities in Israel and overseas at a time when
the Israeli economy has been badly hit and the
tourist industry is all but defunct. It has been further
damaged by the ripple effect of the economic
downturn in Europe and the US, as well as the

ongoing terrorist campaign orchestrated by Pales-
tinian extremists. In spite of the hard realities of
today’s Israeli society, tens of thousands of Jews
continue to arrive every year from South America,
Europe, Africa, and the Former Soviet Union. Fifty
thousand immigrants arrived in Israel in the last 12
months, and every one of them needs support to
start a new life, learn a new language, and ﬁnd
housing and jobs.

With our contributions to the Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel
(JAFI), we continue to develop programs to help
those in the Israeli society who are marginalized
and in poverty. Because of the economic impact of
the Palestinian campaign, 20% of Israelis (1.2
million) are living today below the poverty level,
500,000 of them are children.

J DC and J AFI also provide soup kitchens for
elderly Jews in Russia, Ukraine, Moldavia, and, in
fact. all over Eastern Europe, Ethiopia and Argen-
tina. Two hundred dollars help provide food for a
family for a full year.

And we do not forget the needs at home.
Together with the rest of the Jewish Communities

New York Jewish agencies and Family Services are
providing, with our ﬁnancial help, counseling and
cash assistance to victims on a non-sectarian basis.
They are also providing special assistance to Jewish
families victimized in the attacks to help cover the
cost of continuous participation in Jewish life
(congregation or JCC memberships, Jewish Educa-
tion, etc); this cost is something that families would
not get help with from Federal or other sources. We
help keep these families engaged in Jewish life.

Locally, we also continue to ﬁght discrimination,
racism, economic inequalities and social injustice,
through a number of coalitions. And all of this is
possible because of the support from you and
others like you. Together we are helping to indeed
make the world a better place, helping one person
at a time while addressing the big issues of our
society.

Join the Central Kentucky Jewish Community
team. If you have not yet sent your contribution to
the 2001 Community Campaign, DO IT TODAY.

Every dollar counts.
Every contribution is a vote for a better world.

of North America, we raised almost 5 million dollars Send your contributions to .-

(and counting) to provide support and cash assis—
tance to the victims of the September ll‘h attacks.

CKJF/UJC COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN
340 Romany Road, Lexington, KY 40502

Mystery of Embroidered Cloth Solved

By Gloria Katz Travis

. to embroider the names on the cloth.
Thinking it had probably been a Hadassah
fundraising project and that they might want to
» complete it now, I showed the cloth to Marilyn
3 Moosnick. among others. I even took it to a
Hadassah meeting in hopes someone might
recognize '1!- ,. ~ .-

At one point I was showing the cloth to a
group of people (I don’t recall where) and

Mike Ades suggested his wife, Harriet, might

project from either of the congregations, as I
remember the Adath Israel Sisterhood had a similar
project ﬁrst (using linen napkins that were later
sewn together to create a tablecloth) which had
been successful. My parents belonged to both
congregations and my mother was active in both
Sisterhoods and she may have done some of the
embroidery work for Wendie!" project: ' , '

I hope this information helps clear up your
mystery.

be willing to complete the embroi-

received the October issue of Shalom today,

and saw the article on the cloth with the

embroidered names and want to give you the
history of this artwork.

When my Mother, Florence Travis, died in June
of 1993, I found a box with this cloth along with a
notebook listing the grandmothers who had made
contributions and the names they wanted on the
cloth. The box also contained blue silk embroidery
thread and needles. Over the next two years, I
showed the cloth to several people hoping to learn
more about the project and why it had never been
completed. There were several names written in
pencil that had not been embroidered.

My mother had not been chairman of the project
nor had she been the one to solicit the contributions.
When a grandmother made her contribution, my
mother entered her name and the names of her
grandchildren and the amount of her contribution
($1 per name) in her notebook. And then proceeded

dery work on the cloth. Harriet
agreed to do it so I left the cloth in her
capable hands when I moved to
Cincinnati in October of 1996.

I had not given it another thought
until I saw Harriet in Lexington this
past August and she told me she had
completed the embroidery work and
turned the cloth over to CKJF.

I do not know why the cloth was

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not ﬁnished. I believe the chairman of
the project may have died. I do know it
was being done in the late 19403 and
possibly the early 19505. I don’t know
why, if it was a Hadassah project, it did
not have Hadassah on it. It may have
been to attract as many grandmothers
in the Lexington Jewish community as
possible (some of whom may not have
been members of Hadassah).

I don’t think it was a Sisterhood

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General Assembly continued from front page

Israel’s detractors on campuses are seeking to
drive a wedge between the US. and Israel, to
undercut and delegitimize the Jewish State. He
defined “detractor” as not an honest critic but one
who is malevolent and malicious, one who has
hostile intentions. “Emphasize the desire for peace
through compromise,” Kessler told the students,
(Prime Minister) Sharon said he will compromise
for peace. The other side doesn’t say this.”

At the session “The Jewish Campus in Today’s
Reality,” students were Challenged to find ways to
deal with the September 11 trauma. They cited
numerous instances where they were catalysts for
campus-wide responses, from writing letters to
campus newspapers decrying discrimination toward
Muslim students, to organizing prayer vigils, to
combating assaults on the legitimacy of the State of
Israel. It is in that latter capacity that North
American Jewish students are least well prepared,
session panelist agreed.

“This is a generation that has been taught that
confrontation is bad, and so calling on young people
to be hasbara (Israel public relations) commandos
is a turn—off,” said Richard Joel, president of Hillel:
The Foundation for Campus Jewish Life. “Young
people are not interested in polemics but in facts.”
What Jewish campus activists desire for young
people to know is not only the right of Israel to
exist. but the right. as Joel puts it. for young people
“to take ownership of the Jewish story. If that
happens. we don’t have to worry about anything
else.“

At the Delegates Assembly. ten major resolu-
tions were proposed. Delegates from the 189 ‘
Federations in North America approved resolutions .
on the following: 1
* Addressing the personnel crisis in Jewish

education
* Faith—based services and the public sector
' Fostering a JCVllsll renaissance
Invest in workforce development efforts that
contribute to self—sufficiency and economic
prosperity
“Israel now and forever” campaign
Jews in the former Soviet Union
National initiative on Ethiopian absorption
Solidarity with the State of Israel
Terrorism
Transportation for seniors
United Jewish Communities personnel reported
at the time of the GA: “Interestingly, in the Jewish
world, our priorities — to help repair the world, to
pursue justice, to take responsibility one for the
other — have been reaffirmed. The pressing issues
of the Jewish communal world remain at the heart
of the 70th General Assembly. From understanding
and responding to the needs of the next generation
to performing our duty to the elderly, from awaken—
ing Jewish identity in our local communities to
sharing in the efforts of building and securing our
Jewish homeland in Israel, the sessions, forums,
and workshops will help us face these challenges
when we return home."

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6 U \Shulom

ne of the loveliest areas in Lexington is

Gratz Park. Most of the older members

of our community remember it well
because we often visited the main library, which
used to be located there at the end of North Mill

Street, next to Transylvania.

I just took it for granted all these years that
the park was named after Rebecca Gratz, the
famous woman educator (What, you don’t know
anything about her? Well, read on.) But 10 and
beho