Newspaper of the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation

  

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September 2002

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CKJF Announces the Michael Adelstein Holocaust
Education Program for Fayette County Teachers

his year, the Board ofDireetors of the

Central Kentucky Jewish Federation

approved funding for an educational
program in which Fayette County teachers
would visit the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington, D. C. The
proposal was generated and brought to the
board by Gay Rapley Adelstein, who wrote the
report which follows. In acknowledgement of
the long—time ardent support and activities on
behalf of the Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation by Gay’s late husband, Mike
Adelstein, the CKJF Board has designated this
program the Michael Adelstein Teacher
Training P"'P£"'

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taught for many years a class that featured Jewish
and Holocaust literature. Thanks to the inservice
training and the library at the Jewish Community
Center, l felt that I had adequate material and
knowledge. Then one year, the Louisville Jewish
Federation sponsored a trip for teachers to the
Washington. DC. Holocaust Memorial Museum. I

applied and was one of the lucky ones chosen to
participate. This was truly one of the most painful
and moving experiences of my life. and it had a
strong impact on my teaching.

Previously, I had taught Holocaust history and
novels, with students reading, discussing, and
writing about what they had read. But after my trip
to the Holocaust Museum, my students became
much more active participants in their learning. In
addition to watching actual films made in the
concentration camps by British soldiers, they looked
at the pictures from the museum of the boxcar that
Jews had traveled in, marked off the dimensions in
the hallway and huddled in the space, neck to neck,
imagining an overflowing toilet bucket in a corner.

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with no light or air conditioning. At first they sang
and laughed, but after half an hour they were angry,
frightened, overheated — yet none even asked to
get out because they trusted me not to really hurt
them. When they emerged after 45 minutes, they
said they began to understand for the first time
what it must have been like to be transported and

 

Camp Shalom Sets Records For Enrollment, Activities

Day Camp Features Creative

elebrating its 35th anniversary season

Camp Shalom, the day camp

sponsored by the Central Kentucky
Jewish Federation for children four through
ten years of age had another record breaking
year in enrollment and activities. Camp
Shalom, which was held at The Lansdowne
Club, had as its theme this year “The
Environment and Jewish Life. ” Each of the
two weeks had 60 plus enrollment. The two
one-week sessions began in late July and ended
in early August.

    

Programming

see Camp Shalom onpage 9

 

 

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also why
Jews didn’t
rebel at
first: they
trusted that
the German
government
would not
harm them.
This was an
extreme
lesson. but
one the
students and
their parents

 

 

Michael Wstein
tial lessons were enough; wanted all cut
to experience what I had done at the Holocaust
Museum — and from then until I retired, I took

see Adelstein onpage 13

L’Shanah Tovah
U’metukah

e at the office of the Central Ken—

tucky Jewish Federation and those of

us on the Editorial Board of Shalom
wish all of the members of the Central Kentucky
Jewish community a Shanah Tovah U’metukah.

At Rosh Hashanah. Jews traditionally wish one
another a year that is good and sweet. But there is
more to our tradition than wishes. We are a people
who act. We believe that words must be augmented
by doing that which is necessary in order to assure
that our wishes become reality.

With the advent of the year 5763, it seems
appropriate to add another dimension to these
concepts of goodness and sweetness. In addition,
we must not only pray —i.e. wish — for world
peace, we also must act in ways that demonstrate
our commitment to that end. We must do such
things as support our fellow Jews as we all combat
anti—Semitism and revisionism of Holocaust history.
We must be activists on behalf of other peoples
who experience discrimination and oppression. We
must educate our leaders in the paths to follow
relative to nondiscriminatory domestic and foreign
policy. In other words, we must act in order to
realize the Jewish goal of Tikun Olam - the ultimate
in sweetness and goodness.