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CENTRAL KENTUCKY
JEWISH ASSOCIATION

Vol. Vlll No.3

 

WORLD JEWRY PREPARES FOR
PASSOVER 1985

The escape of the Jews from oppression
and enslavement which they had suffered
at the hands of the Pharoahs is an histori-
cal fact of striking symbolic relevance to
the desire of Soviet Jews to be free of
their oppression by the Soviet government
and the recent influx of Ethiopian Jews
to Israel. Pesach celebrates freedom.
Matzah is ”the bread of affliction.” Jews
are enjoined to teach the young the story
of the exodus and, at the seder and through-
out the week of the festival, to remind
themselves that they were slaves and were
brought forth to freedom.

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???CKJA’S CRC JOINS NJCRAC???

Alphabet soup, you might say,
but it contains important informa-
tion for all of us in the Central
Kentucky Jewish community.

The Central Kentucky Jewish

Association's (CKJA's)
Community Relations Committee (CRC)
has joined the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory Council
(NJCRAC). NJCRAC was created in
TBAA by the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions for the express purpose of
promoting voluntary cooperation
among the Jewish community relations

‘ agencies. NJCRAC today consists of

: 11 national Jewish organizations

,; including the American Jewish Com-

VQ mittee, American Jewish Congress,

f B'nai B'rith-Anti-Defamation League,
Hadassah, Jewish Labor Committee,
Jewish War Veterans of the USA,
National Council of Jewish Women,
Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations, United Synagogue of
America-Women's League for Conser-

vative Judaism, Women's American CRT, and 113
Jewish communities around the country.

This national organization has five major
commissions which provide general policy and
advice to all Jewish communities who seek it.
These commissions are: (1) Commission on
Israel, (2) Commission on International
Community Relations Concerns, (3) Commission
on Individual Freedom and Jewish Security,
(4) Commission on Equal Opportunity, and
(5) Commission on Church-State and Inter-
religious Relationships.

in addition to providing routine informa-
tion to our community on activities ranging
from recent bills pending before the legis-
lative bodies to updates on Ethiopian Jewry,

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