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FEBRUARY 2005

Super Sunday Set for
February 27th

While we just finished a record 2004 UJC/ CKJF Community Campaign, we
are also gearing up for the 2005 Campaign. It will start on February 27 with
our traditional Super Sunday, a day in which we reach out to many JeWish
households in Central Kentucky to offer the opportunity to be part of our
efforts.

Our Campaign affects lives worldwide in a multitude of ways, from Ethiopian
refugees from the Lower Quara in Addis Abbaba, to the new immigrants to
Israel from all over the world, to the isolated seniors in Russia, to those in
need in our own Central Kentucky Jewish community. We also bring the com-
in unity together through celebration and common projects, such as Yom
HaAtzmaut, the Day of Giving, the Winter Dinner, and so many other pro-
grams. We organize and partially underwrite our Summer Day Camp and
Camp Shalom, and provide scholarships for Jewish children to attend regional
ovemight camps at GUCCI, Ramah, Camp Judaea, Camp Livingston, and
more.

On Super Sunday you will have your opportunity to help by joining our com-
mon efforts. We really are making a big difference. Take Pride—YOU are the
Federation. Remember it when you answer the phone on February 27.

 

 

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be joining the staflpart-time as editor/administrator of Shalom.
We welcome Mary and are confident she will make a significant
contribution to this publication. A briefautobiographical piece
appears below.

With the whole country to choose from, my husband and
I picked central Kentucky as the place where we wanted
to begin the next phase of our lives. We were looking for
a state with an Equal Rights Amendment, a region that
had four distinct seasons but a relatively moderate cli-
mate, affordable land, access to high-quality health care,
and proximity to institutions of higher learning and other
cultural resources. Above all, we looked for religious,
racial, and ethnic diversity; we knew that no place is the
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Work at the University of Pittsburgh, where her family
lives, and went on to pursue a degree of Master of Science
in Counseling Psychology at UK, graduating in 2002.

Since graduating, Stacey has worked as a research assis—
tant at the Markey Cancer Center and as a counselor for
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IN THIS ISSUE:

Know Your Board ........................... 3
President's Message .......................... 4
Thank You to 2004 Campaign Contributors .......... 5
From the Executive Director .................... 6
The Promise of Stem Cells ..................... 7
Sell Ads, Make Money ........................ 7
Rabbi's Corner ............................. 8
Celebrate 350 .............................. 9
Shalom Committee ls Changing ................. 9
TAl Features Three Fabulous Art Exhibits .......... l0
Jack Sharer, Third Generation Woodcarver ........ l l
Tikkun Lexington’s Day of Giving is Huge Success .l2
Genocide in Sudan — The World’s Problem ....... l4
CKJF Appeals to Youth ...................... 15
Hillel Happenings ......................... 15
Jewish Community Participates ln MLK Day ....... l6
Tenth Annual Winter Dinner Surpasses Expectations .18
One World Films .......................... l8
Community Hanukkah Celebrations ............ l9
Tikkun Lex. Celebrates Hanukkah at Stewart Home . .l9
B’tay Avon ............................... 20
Lexington Havurah News .................... 2l

Hadassah News ........................... 21

Bar/Bat Mitzvahs ........................... 21

TAI News ................................ 22
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Community Calendar ....................... 24

 

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CKJF President:
David Feinberg

Executive Committee:

Michael Grossman, Vice President
Phillip Berger, 2nd Vice President
Ginger Knight, Treasurer

Pat Shraberg, Secretary

Ruth Poley, Member At—Large

CKJF Board:

Ray Archer Mimi Kaufman
Rachel Belin Steve Kesten
Marcia Blacker Judy Levey

Gail Cohen Art Lieber

Vicki Doukas Gloria Rie
Gerald Dubilier Walter Salomon
Stanley lsenstein Carole Wilson

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 Know Your Board

By Holly Brim/rill

Retirement hasn’t quite worked out
for Marcia Blacker or Ruth l’oley. As
Marcia says, ”It’s full time work.” On
the other hand, Walter Solomon
remains firmly ensconced in his
career as senior vice president and
general manager of the Valvoline
Company. All three share common
ground: they are members of the
Central Kentucky Jewish Federation
Board.

Walter brings 20 years of community
service from Cincinnati to the CKJF.
He says, "Working with Federation is
a great way for someone new to the
community to get a sense of all that’s
going on ‘Jewishly’ in the communi-
ty (taking a survey course, if you
will)" Marcia got calls to fill the
board seat and to help with the
Federation’s newspaper at the same
time. She rose to the occasion in both
instances because she thought it was
"important to work on improving the
product." Ruth downplays her active
CKJF involvement as chair of the
Community Activities Committee
(CAC) and managing editor of
Shalom as being motivated by her
”meddlesome personality." The CAC
plans and e\ei‘utes social and cullutv
ai e\ ents, including the \VIlllL‘l'
Dinner (a sell-out at Rossi’s in 2004),
Yom HaAtzmaut celebration, con-
certs, wine tastings, and the like.

Walter and his wife Terri stay busy
with sons Jake (16), Josh (l3), and
Mikey (9). The birth of his middle
son was a particularly influential
event in Walter’s life, as it caused
him, he says, "to re—evaluate my pris
orities in life." When not running to
keep up with the family’s schedule
of activities and the traveling
involved with his job, Walter likes to
read and to follow college basketball
and NASCAR, and is a self—pro—
claimed jazz aficionado. Walter reads
mostly fiction, "for the escapist
value," and is currently reading A
Salty Piece ofLmui, by Jimmy Buffet.

Marcia credits all her teachers for
being positive influences throughout
her life. Marcia herself is retired from
a career in teaching and medical edit—
ing. The births of her children—three
of them, now grown with children of
their own—-were Marcia’s most sig-
nificant lifetime events. When not
volunteering, she enjoys reading (at
the moment she’s enjoying
Housekeeping), playing bridge, and
being with family and friends.

Ruth and husband Neil are parents
of Philip (38) a resident of Boston,
Massachusetts and Sam (35), who
with wife Stephanie recently opened
a restaurant in their hometown of
Durham, North Carolina. Ruth hopes
grandchildren will arrive "before I’m
too feeble to pick them up." Ruth
loves to read, cook (Sam comes by
his talents quite naturally), and
entertain. She is also talented at knit—
ting and needlepoint. Some
Lexingtonians, especially the IO—and-
under crowd, have been known to
wear her handiwork. Ruth is current-
ly reading A11 Amateur Marriage, by
Anne Tyler.

Marcia, Ruth, and Walter all enjoy
life in Lexington. Marcia has lived in
Lexington for 37 years and finds it "a
good place to raise a family and
make friends." Ruth arrived in
Lexington from North Carolina, via
New York. She feels Lexington is just
right, "big enough to have a variety
of cultural opportunities, people, and
reasonable shopping but not so big
that it’s impersonal or unmanage-
able." Walter finds Lexington more of
a ”personal place" than Cincinnati
and says everyone here "has been so
welcoming and kind to us."

"The Federation is a great concept,”
s.i_\ s Halter. "lk'dei'ations lia\ e jtlxel

size and scope to be able to fund and ,, 7

staff critical needs in the community
(e.g. senior services, college-aged
services) that typically fall out of the
priority set of religious institutions.
Plus, it helps us keep attuned to the
considerable needs of Jews outside
our communityiand around the
world” Ruth and Marcia would both
like to see more involvement of com—
munity members with the
Federation. "[1] would like to see
many more members of the Jewish
community involved in CKJF activi—
ties. lf 150 people come to the Yom
HaAtzmaut party each year, why
can’t we have 500? It’s a great party,"
says Ruth. Marcia says, " I’d like to
see the bright young people on the
board step up and provide new lead—
ership; they’re a talented group who
could give a ’shot’ to the Federation.”

In the long term, Marcia and Ruth
would love to see a Jewish
Community Center in Lexington. A
JCC has been an unrealized dream
for many over the years. With such
high-energy volunteers as Walter,
Marcia, and Ruth on board, the
Federation has a bright future and
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is mass denial a Jewish problem?
lntellectually, we know that there are
angry, lonely, sad, and poor people in
the world. What we seem to deny is
the extent to which these emotional
and societal problems affect our
community, as well as the rest of the
world. Our senior citizens shoulder a
disproportionate share of these
problems. However, some in need are
families that have been emotionally
and financially devastated by
divorce. Such families are barely
making it. Sometimes the lonely
person is the one newly arrived to
our community. Our young people
are no less susceptible to drugs and
other perils than children are in the
greater community. Believe it or not,
being Jewish is no defense against the
ravages of societal problems.

Because there is a cultural belief that
Jews are above such needs, I believe
that we are too reluctant to seek
needed services. Maybe there is a

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appeal to help
the poor, how
many of us think that there are
Jewish poor people needing
assistance? None of us is guaranteed
a perfect life; however, we can, as a
community, offer programs to assist
others in need. The Central Kentucky
Jewish Federation is dedicated to
creating programs to address the
needs of our community. Jewish
Family Services was developed
specifically to address unmet Jewish
needs.

I would like to add a personal note.
Several years ago Kathy (my wife)
fell and broke her ankle. She required
emergency surgery and was unable
to drive or even walk on her leg for
months. Our sons were still quite
young. In all candor, I never thought
to call the Federation’s Jewish Family

asked.
Nevertheless, Jl-‘Sethen directed by
Fran Morrififlcame to our rescue.
She organized meals and helped
organize transportation, since Kathy
could not drive for three months. At
first, I felt a little uneasy about
accepting the help. But the wonderful
home-cooked meals Jan and many
others brought were very helpful as
well as highly appreciated. Women
from the Synagogue and Havurah, as
well as some of our friends from the
Temple, also offered assistance. As I
write this column I realize that part
of the reason I accepted the Board
presidency was my need to give back
to the community that has helped so
many others.

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acknmvledge publicly the help they
received. lt may be that the assistance
they received was of a more personal
and private nature. Have you in
some way been helped? ls there some
program that moved or aided you? Is
there some aspect of your life that
has aroused in you the need to give
back? Are you feeling guilty yet? If
so, it might be time to turn your guilt
to gelt. Be generous with your money
and time with the organizations that
help so much in many ordinary and
extraordinary ways. Let us be
gracious acceptors when we are in
need; conversely let us give back to
the community when we are in a
position to do so.

* I would like to publicly welcome
our new JFS director, Stacey Heisler;
you may read more about her
elsewhere in this issue of Shalom.

  
    
  
 
    

 

 

 

 Thank You. to Our 9.004 Contributors

 

Because ofyour contributions and sup-
port, 2004 was a record year for the
Central Kentucky Jewish community.

The 2004 LIJC/CKJF Community
Campaign raised $390,000, an 18 per-
cent increase over 2003; 428 families

. contributed to the Annual Campaign, a
4 percent increase over 2003. In the past
five years, the Community Campaign
increased by 39 percent in dollars raised,
and 51 percent in number of participants.

Our community continues to support
the overseas eflorts of the American
Jewish community through our overseas
partners, the Joint Distribution
Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency
for Israel (JAFI). We also enhance Jewish
life in Central Kentucky by organizing
community-wide programs, providing
social services, supporting the local
Jewish Student Union/Hillel at UK, and
lending a voice to the Jewish community
in the public arena. -

Take Pride—YOU are the Federation.

$1 - $99

 

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Janice Bales

Michael Biel

Larry Bitensky 8: Kathy Nelsen
Sylvia 8: David Boggs

David 8: Marcia Brown

Leo Chaput

Janice Crane

Gregory 8: Elena Domatov
Sidney 8: Gladys Edelstein
Evalynne 8: David Elias

Robert Ellsworth 8: Cindy Brenner
Ed Engel

Lynn Furness

Starr 8: Bruce Gantz

Jann Geddes

Eleanor Gellin

Barry 8: Linda Gerall

Larry 8: Ida Gerson

Izzy 8: Nina Goldis

Sylvia Green

Flora Guter

Len 8: Terri Harper

Marvin 8: Sandy Heymann
Marian Jonas

P. Kahn

Edward 8: Judy Kaplan
Benjamin 8: Margie Bashkin Karp
Ruth Kraman

George Levine

Ilyse Lonsbury

Chadwick McKee 8: Julie Diamond
John 8: Claudia Michler

James Miller

Fran Morris 8: Clark Mandel
Maxine Ohayan

Robert 8: Sheila Orbach
Norman 8: Adele Potter
William Quann

 

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Harold 8: Robin Roth

Jerry 8: Karen Sander

Mark Scarr

Mollye Schwab 8: Robert Ferguson
Deb Shoss

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Dan 8: Lisa Taulbee
Valentine 8: Nina Tiplinskaya
Gloria Travis

Ada Wikler

Jennie Wilson

Heidi Zimmerman

Rick 8: Leanne Zimmerman

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Sheryl Bogen

Sharon Cohen

Louis Elvove

Steven 8: Jan Fischer

Roger Fleischman 8: Elizabeth Piercy
Harold 8: Kaye Frankel

Janet 8: Gilbert Friedell

Donna Gershman

Irvine 8: Priscilla Gershman
Tom 8: Marilyn Getchell

Erin Gold

Sanford Goldberg 8: Judy Levey
Lawrence Goodman (Z"L)

Joe 8: Connie Grobstein

Richard 8: Barbara Grossman
Frvda Haber

Oscar Haber

Brian 8: Tammy Hershinow
Renee Hymson

Jacquelyn Johnson

Stuart 8: Nita Kaufman

Gerald 8: Paula Klim

Max 8: Mindy Kovinow

Steve Kraman

Charlie 8: Debra Kratzer

John 8: Shirley Lakes

James 8: Rosemary Levenson Jr.
David Lebschutz

Elise Mandel 8: Joseph Anthony
Dana Manning 8: Scott Diamond
Henry Meyer

Alice Mickler

Annette Milch

Dawn 8: Steve Moore

Allen Paritz

Karen Petrone 8: Kenneth Slepyan
Jeremy 8: Beata Popkin

Joel Roitman

John 8: Jean Rosenberg

Barry 8: Jeanie Schumer

Louis 8: Roberta Shain

Harold Sherman

Miriam Siegel

Gregory Smith 8: Diane Sobel
Hannah Smith

Peter 8: Bonnie Sobel

Ed 8: Ann Stein

Charles 8: Leona Stern

Irvin 8: Sybil Stern

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Barbara Barr

Stephen 8: Peggy Bobys
Austin Cantor

Diane Friedman

Ted 8: Fran Friedman
Steve 8: Robin Gall
Arthur 8: Jane Graham
John 8: Paula Harrison
Ginger Knight

Dan 8: Elizabeth Liebman
Leonard Lipton

Louise Miller

Ruth Moser

Marilyn Robie Shechet
Jonathan 8: Lisa Satin
Rabbi Uriel Smith

David 8: Elizabeth Wachtel
Jonathan 8: Wendy Ewing Waltman
Mark 8: Yvonne Wides
Judith Worell

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Dr. Sandy 8: Sandra Archer
Martin Barr

Judith Baumann

Daniel Cheifec

Gail Cohen _ .
Robert 8: Joan Flashman
Martin Friedman

Sidney 8: Zelda Gall

Ken Graulich

Estelle Hamburg

Evelyn Hymson

Sheldon Hymson

Odette Kaplan

James 8: Ann Levenson
Judith Levine

Art 8: Marilyn Lieber
Paul 8: Carol Mandelstam
Kenneth 8: Annette Mayer
Jo Mink

Dan Rosenberg

Art Shechet

Dan 8: Mariana Shochat
Eric Waldman

Joseph Wile

Terry 8: Carole Wilson

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Robert Belin

Joseph 8: Sandy Berger
Marcia Blacker

Irwin Cohen

Vera Dubilier

David 8: Kathy Feinberg
Edith Frankel

Andrew 8: Barbara Fried
Evelyn Dantzic Geller
Dr. Martin Kaplan

 

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Joseph Krislov

Alan Leavitt 8: Meg Jewett
Avram Levine

Tomas Milch (Z"L)

Dr. Franklin 8: Marilyn Moosnick
Neil 8: Ruth Poley

Linda Ravvin

Harriet Rose

Irma Rosenstein

David 8: Patricia Shraberg

Alan 8: Kathy Stein

Richard 8: Elizabeth Trontz
David Wekstein

William Wenneker

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Robert Baumann
Harriet Cooper

Dr. Louis Dubilier

Hans 8: lnngard Gesund
Jack Goldenberg

Barry Hunter 8: Dr. Debra Katz
Dr. lra Mersack

Carl Meyers

Jonathan 8: Lisa Miller
Steve Peskoff

Dr. Leon Ravvin

Irving Rosenstein

Morris 8: Rosalyn Rozen
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Max 8: Sylvia Sittenfeld
Terri Solomon

Don Sucher

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Brad 8: Elaine Wolken

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Alison Caller

Susan Caller

Arlene Cohen

Harry Cohen

Leon Cooper

Stacy Dunahue

Stephen 8: Karen Edelstein
John W. 8: Paula Frank
Alvin 8: Elisabeth Goldman
Dr. Steven 8: Susan Goldstein
Phillip Hoffman

Erie 8: Sara Ann Levy
Penny Miller

Joe Rosenberg

Ricki Rosenberg

Walter Solomon

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From the Executive Director

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Change

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This was a difficult month for me to
pick a subject for my column. Think
about it: tsunamis, Palestinian
elections, Israeli political realignment,
and so on. There is, however, one
constant throughout it all, and it is
change.

Let’s start with the tsunami. As the
news started coming out, the first
reaction was disbelief and denial.
After all, the Talmud teaches us that
destroying a single human life is like
destroying a whole world. So how
can you wrap your mind around the
destruction of 157,000 worlds in a
couple of hours? After the initial
shock, though, the world reacted,
pouring out much-needed help for
the survivors and economic aid to
those who lost everything in the
worst natural disaster in recent
times. The world today is smaller.

Palestinian Arabs held the first
contested elections in the history of
the Arab world. The various
candidates did indeed represent
different alternatives for the political
future of Palestinian society. The
winner, Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu
Mazen, started his campaign calling
for an end of the Intifadah and of the
attacks on Israelis. Halfway through
his campaign, however, he started
appearing side by side with known
terrorists who are on Israel’s Most

Daniel Chejfec

Wanted list, changing his rhetoric to
the point that he talked in a Gaza
gathering about the "Zionist enemy,"
a code term normally used by Hamas
to refer to Israel. While he still insists
that the Intifadah must stop, he does
not do so on the principle of rejecting
violence;
rather he
made clear
that this is a
strategic
decision.
(Abbas, as
head of the
PLO and the
Palestinian
Authority,
will need the backing of Fatah if he
hopes to accomplish anything, but
the one who inherited the mantle of
Fatah from Arafat is Farouk
Kaddumi, a long-time rejectionist
who clearly stated a month ago that
accepting the existence of Israel is
just a step toward replacing it with a
Palestinian State.) If this change of
heart on the part of Abbas is real, the
prognosis for the peace talks is very
bad indeed.

More changes: while Ariel Sharon’s
political shifts in the past year have
been nothing short of astounding,
including his marginalizing the
settler movement in favor of more
moderate political forces and
pushing for unilateral withdrawal
from Gaza even before Arafat’s
death, the latest changes in the Israeli
political landscape are even more

incredible. The incorporation of
Labor into a National Unity coalition
has already paid dividends with the
passage of the new budget that
includes an aid package to encourage
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improve Israel’s demographic
problems as well as its international
diplomatic standing. Considering the
changes in Abbas’s public discourse,
however, Israelis would be well
advised to speed up construction of
the Separation Fence along the West
Bank border.

Iraqis will vote for a new
government on January 30, and most
political analysts believe that after
the elections would be the time to
announce an American withdrawal, '
in spite of the fact that several
groups have called for a boycott of
the elections. Whichever happens—
and by the time you read this you
will already know which—Iraq will
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very much to the point. Judaism
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promote a strict adherence to the
Torah accept that daily life will
continue to change, forcing Jews to
read the Torah with different eyes;
after all, that was the reason for the
Talmud itself. Yet in the midst of all
this change, some things remain
reassuringly the same: we all know
that the sound of the Aleinu marks
that part of the service where the end
begins.

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those things that remain the same,

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 The Promise of Stem Cells:
Hadassah to Present Program Feb. 2

Jonathan Satin to report on recent
stem cell research in Israel
Rabbi Sharon Cohen to present the
Jewish perspective

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The community is invited to a public awareness and edu—
cational program, "The Promise of Stem Cells," presented
by the Lexington Chapter of Hadassah, on Wednesday
evening, February 2, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., at Ohavay Zion
Synagogue, 2048 Edgewater Court.

Jonathan Satin, Ph.D., an associate professor in the
Department of Physiology at the University of Kentucky,
will explore the topic of stem cell research from the scien-
tific perspective. Recently returned from a sabbatical in
Israel at the Technion and at Rambam Hospital in Haifa,
Dr. Satin worked primarily with Dr. Lior Gepstein, who
published the first study on the differentiation of human
embryonic stem cells into heart muscle. Dr. Satin joined
Dr. Gepstein's team to train personnel in advanced intra-
cellular recording techniques to characterize the embryon-
ic stem cell derived heart cells.

Rabbi Sharon Cohen, spiritual leader of Ohavay Zion
Synagogue, will present a Jewish viewpoint on the ethical
and moral aspects of stem cell research.

Stem cells hold the potential of curing many illnesses,
from :\l/heimer‘s to Parkinson‘s. \\'ith the completion of
the human genome mapping project, scientists are tree to
explore the implications of this research. This past year,

we have seen stem cell research
progress at an increasingly rapid
rate. It is innovative technology, and
advances are occurring on an almost
daily basis. At the same time, legisla-
tive bodies the world over are debat-
ing the issues and seeking ways to
regulate stem cell research. Scientists
at the