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Share Israel Convention Adventures

Cohen, Saxe and Moosnick Find Drama and Inspiration in Convention ,
Sessions and on Jerusalem’s Streets and Squares

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suicide bomber as a good spot to blow himself up and
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“evil” Israelis and wound many others.
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works display. altered or eliminated in a two-hour last-
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hospital there. As I looked out at the golden walls of
the Old City from the rooftop garden of the Mercaz
Shimshon next to the Jerusalem Hilton and the
Hebrew Union College, where a final Israeli buffet
dinner had been prepared for us before the closing
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University of Chicago Philosopher Opens
UK Lecture Series
Judaic Studies Program Announces Lecturers for Year

r. Leon R. Kass of the University of

Chicago will be the first speaker in the

University of Kentucky Judaic Studies
Program 2001-2002 lecture series, announced Dr.
Dan Frank, Judaic Studies Program Director. Dr.
Kass” talk, "L’Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not
Immortality?", will be 8:00 pm, Monday, October
15. in the President’s Room of the Singletary Center

for the Arts on the UK campus.

The lecture topic will be the nature of human
life, the good life and the Jewish concept of life. Dr.
Kass will discuss prolonging life and should we opt
for a healthy immortal life. Dr. Kass, a highly
regarded medical ethicist and philosopher, is the
Addie Clark Harding Professor in the College and

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its very appropriate theme: Dwelling Together in
Unity, I believe it was one of the most satisfying and
inspirational, truly one of the most successful I have
ever attended. Perhaps I should add here that I have
missed only 3 of the past 37 conventions and have
attended all of the six held in Israel since 1978. One
of the things that made it so special was the response
of the Israelis.

Gail Cohen put it this way: “Wherever we went in
Jerusalem I was struck by the warmth and gratitude

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Ernie Fletcher to
Share His Recent
Israel Experience

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tive Ernie

Fletcher will
share the impressions of
this recent trip to Israel
with the Jewish commu-
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28th, 8 P.M., at Ohavay
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In This Issue: MAZEL TOV TO: PRESMNTIS
Harriet and Leon Cooper, on their 50th
PreSldent’S Message ............................. 2 Wedding Anniversary August 19' MESbsAGE
Sue Friedman ....................................... 3 Irma Rosenstein on the Lexington Herald- 5, yg ,
, , . Leader article published in the September 6 an axe
Community Al’tliaCt .............................. 3 ‘ . ‘ . . . , , ‘. ,.\
YOU Section complimenting her many en it "I‘m verv 'nwrv butl
The Garden. The Apple. Everything 4 activities and contributions to the community. don‘t know ivlio 1,; he
L‘pcomino Events from CAC .............. 5 Ben Schumacher who was selected to partici— anerv at"
. C pate in the Gm crnor‘s Scholars program this I . «m Okla/mum (in.
Who Killed Jesus‘.7 ................................ 0 ;ummer. Ben was named a National Merit Scmi~ l‘(’.S'I(/(’III. Lw HIlHt’II, “,1”;
Leisure Club ......................................... 7 ”“1““ mm M'lm/u/w/ mflv m
. J0nathan & Angie Smith. 00 their marriage Pills/Hugh to receive a matching donor kit/Her (m
Leisure Club Survey ............................. 7 on September 1. 3001. Angie is the daughter 0,» September I].
Rabbi’s Corner ..................................... 8 Larry & Janice Newman. "Pearl Harbor was a cakewalk. we knew what we
Trip to England and Israel .................... 8 had to do 7 thls 15 a 101 more dlmcun‘
— a T. V. pundit on September 1].
Camp Shalom Pull-Out ................... 9'12 . disagree. We do know who to be angry at. We
Ask JFS .............................................. 14 REFUAH SHLEMAH (get we" “Shes” do know what ‘0 do- We know ‘0 be angry at
RUth Poley hose governments, nation-states. regimes and
CK] F/ JF S Teen Workshops ---------------- 14 their leaders who promote, condone. participate. allow.
Elena Domatov ................................... l4 disregard. desultorily are complicit. or ignore terror—
ism which is an of extreme Islamic fundamentalism.
Hadassah Projects .............................. 15 CONDOLENCES TO: We know Saffdam Hussein is in Baghdad. We know
Fletcher to Speak ............................... 15 Jon & Sandy Adland and Norma Chapman, Arafat “V65 in Gaza- We know Osama bin Laden is in
. . . on the death of Sandy's aunt and Norma s sister- Afghanistan. We know where Libya. Iraq, Iran and
Community M1tzvah PFOJCCt .............. 16 1:512:30 livelyn Chernin Chapman on september Sudan are located. We know where Hamas,
Worship Schedule ............................... l7 , I Hezbollah. 15”ij Jihad. al-Qaida (Osama bin
3 130139” 8‘ Joann Cazden, on the death 0f Laden’s Afghan-based organization) are located. What
B Tay AVOII ........................................ 18 the” SOIL Eugene Cazden on September 6Y WC dOII’t kDOW IS hOW many C611 and support groups
U] C Emer enc Relief ....................... 18 2001' the have in as many as 50'60 nations around the
g y y . _ _
Oh , S 18 Dana Osser Dugatkin on the death of her world. including Canada and the Umted States.
, avay Zion ‘ ynagogue ‘ """" , aunt,_Toby Grossman. \ _ , We know what to do. The attack on America
Temple Adath Israel ........................... 19 Larry Kant & Dianne Bazell, on the death Shbfiiafiatfimed 33 313W cufommem aCfiOIl, a i
of Larry’s aunt. Phyllis Seidelman. on Septem- judicial case. where evidence is accumulated and
bL‘I' 7. 1001. l‘it'si‘illt‘tl. litihmi‘tl l“ myxtx tll .iimtgiiim‘it! .mit .1
Elizabeth O’Dell on the death of her father. trial. The attack on America should nghttully be
CORRECTION. Barney Greenlee answered as a war on International terrorism.
_ . . ‘ Some will opt for a law enforcement action. Past
The name ofBarry Ezr me was misspelled Pl 1 t us know 0 fan news 0“ would terror attacks have been treated as law enforcement
m last month ,S Issue. ”cease 2 'th th y .y actions. That is the preference of the state sponsors of
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losing economic benefits show tacit complicity.

An example is the Pan Am 103 bombing over
Lockerbie. Scotland. This attack, discovered to have
been designed and carried out by the Libyan govern-
ment, found European nations not willing to punish
Libya. Fearful of economic trade and oil loss they
chose to believe the Pan Am bombing was simply the
work of two Libyans ( two indicted. only one con-
victed in a Netherlands court ) who happened to be
employed by their government. This type of response
is what James Woolsey, former CIA director, de-
scribes as similar to arresting the Japanese pilots at
Pearl Harbor to end the problem.

There will be those at home and abroad who will
promote the law enforcement action and point to
Osama bin Laden to deflect attention away from
themselves. I expect to hear much about the “rule of
law” from those despotic regimes, most in the Middle
East, who have instigated, supported and condoned
terrorism. They fear an all out war by Western
civilization. led by the United States. against interna-
tional terrorism. a war against fundamentalist Islamic
radicals. Such a war requires the political will on the
pan of America’s allies. We have seen how the

President continued on page 6

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Memory of Sue Friedman to be Honored at
EKU Dinner

uzanne Friedman was born in Cleveland,

Ohio, in 1932 and died in Lexington,

Kentucky in 1984. Sue graduated from the
University of Kentucky and received her MSW
from Case Western Reserve University. For 15
years she was a psychiatric social worker, supervi—
sor and administrator at Eastern State Hospital in
Lexington. In 1973 she became a full time faculty
member in the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology at Eastern Kentucky University and
went on to develop a full fledged program in Social
Work, thus changing the name of the department to
the Department of Anthropology, Sociology, and
Social Work. Sue became the first Coordinator of
the Social Work Program and shepherded the
program to its first accreditation by the Council on
Social Work Education.

Sue was very active in the Lexington community.
She served as the first president of the Jewish
Community Association (later the Central Kentucky
Jewish Association). Using her professional skills
and great tact she guided the organization through
its initial self-study and evaluation, which greatly
influenced the direction of the organization. Sue
continued to serve on the board of the CKJA until
1982 as Chair of the Social Services Committee.
Sue also provided volunteer supervision to the
CKJA Community Worker. She was a board

member and officer of 'hc Oltnvzo' 7ion Syna

Sue Friedman (1932-1984) was one of the
founders of the Jewish Community
Association, predecessor of the Central
Kentucky Jewish Federation.

was a rock in the life of many, able to manage and
make do with a sense of confidence and thoughtful-
ness. '

Eastern Kentucky University will honor Sue at a
dinner on October l9. Lil 6 I’..\'l. If §ou are inter~
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1‘ the Committee on Social Thought at the University of
1 Chicago.
Dr. Kass, a native of Chicago, received both his
1 bachelor’s degree and MD. from the University of
Chicago. He holds a PhD. in biochemistry from
1 Harvard University. Following an internship at Beth
‘ Israel Hospital, Boston, he was at the National
‘ Institute of Health, Bethesda; National Academy of
Sciences in Washington; St. John’s College, Annapo-
lis; and Georgetown University, Washington before
returning to the University of Chicago in 1976. Dr.
Kass has been Senior Fellow and Associate Director
of the Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and
Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago.
There is a Kentucky connection. One of Dr. Kass’
j co—authors of a 1988 Journal of American Medical
1 Association article entitled “Doctors Must Not Kill” is
‘ Dr. Edmund Pellegrino. Dr. Pellegrino was the first
1 chairperson of the Department of Medicine of the UK
1 College of Medicine over forty years ago. He went on
1 to become president of Catholic University in Wash-
ington, DC. and a prominent medical ethicist.
Dr. Frank announced the two additional lecturers
for the 2001—2002 year. Dr. Marc Raphael of the
1 College of William and Mary will speak November 5,
1 2001, and Dr. David Sarkin of the University of
1 Wisconsin will speak March 4, 2002. The lecture
3 series promotes the aims of the UK Judaic Studies
1 Programs which includes Jewish thought, Jewish

philosophy and history. The lecture series is sponsored
by the 7.;mtlx'er Foundation. a Kentucky charitable

foundation \\ hich promotes Jewish community

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several terms. Sue integrated herself into commu-
nity and professional organizations so frequently
and with such commitment people would forget that
she had a very full professional life and a loving
family.

She was married to Ted Friedman and had two
beautiful children. Greta and Aaron. If you were
around Sue for more than five minutes you would
know how proud she was of her family. She always
had stories to tell. And she was a great storyteller.
Like all good mothers she was tuned in to the very
best in her children and would work endlessly with
them in achieving their goals. Her devotion as a
mother and wife were primary in her busy life. Her
family always came first.

Sue is remembered as “the force that got things
done." and got them done with great respect for
everyone and lots of humor. With Sue at the helm,
there was little doubt that the Social Work Program
at Eastern Kentucky University would become a
distinctive program delivering quality education and
preparation for its students. Sue loved the students
and was a strong advocate for opportunity of all of
them. She was the personification of EKU’s mission
as a University of opportunity. Her standards were
always high and she was always ready to help the
student reach them. She was a model administrator
and skillful in how to “work the system” to make
sure the program had the required resources.

Above all these accomplishments and competen-
cies Sue was simply a wonderful person. She was
warm, compassionate, solid, bright, and fun. Sue

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Community Artifact
Seeking an I.D.

e thank Harriet Ades for bringing a wonderful artifact to our

offices. It certainly belongs to the history of this community

and we need help identifying the source and the history behind
the artwork.

It is a piece of cloth, slightly over 6.5 feet on each side. with a pale blue
silk trim. There is a Star of David in the center made of the same material
as the trim, with the words “Lexington, Kentucky" around it. The names of
many people belonging to both congregations are embroidered over the rest
of the piece.

If you know anything about this incredible and wonderful piece of our
community history, please let us know. Call Danny at 268-0672.

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
  

 

 

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CKJF Community Activities Committee Plans for Year

ine tasting, screening of the new and

enhanced film Exodus, winter dinner,

a trip to DC to visit the Holocaust
Museum. All this and more is in store for you in the
coming year. The CKJF Community Activities
Committee has been working diligently to provide you
with a menu of activities to suit all interests and ages.

Starting with the Seventh Annual Winter Dinner,
coming to you in December and always a family
favorite, we have activities planned right through next
summer.

At the beginning of March, we’ll be hosting a
kosher wine tasting so you can sample and order
wines for your seder or for your table year ’round.
This event was a big hit two years ago: if you didn’t

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with which we were greeted. Whether it was by
shopkeepers or by govemment officials formally
addressingY the delegates. the first statement each made

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take advantage of the opportunity to “try before you
buy” then, I urge you to do it now. Even if you did
come to the last one, there surely will be new wines to
sample this time around.

Our Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration this year will be
very different from previous years. This year marks
the 40th anniversary of the release of the movie
Exodus and, in honor of the event, a newly remastered
film with stereophonic digital sound will be coming
our way in mid—April. One of the passengers from the
voyage will be here to speak to us and we’ll have a
reception following the show. This will be an interest-
ing and moving experience.

On Sunday, May 19, a group of us will be flying to
Washington for a three-day. two-night trip whose

highlight will be a visit to the Holocaust Museum.
We’re planning other sightseeing, including a private
tour of the White House. This is one you don’t want to
miss. Since this event is of greater magnitude than the
others, we’d like to have some idea of how many
might be interested. Call Diana (268-0672) if you’re
thinking about this one at all.

And, for those of you who missed it in August,
we’ll be rollin’ on the river again next summer. The
boat ride on the Kentucky River was such a big hit,
we’re going to repeat it.

We’ll be giving you firm dates and more detail
about these events as time goes on. Keep reading
\Shalom for information about your favorites. And
try something new this year — you might like it! !

Organ Donor Rally in Jerusalem—The Central States Region Delegation to the 87th National
Hadassah Convention joined approximately 700 delegates and Hadassah medical personnel
in Safra Square directly in front of Jerusalem ’s City Hall to rally for increased organ donor
commitments in Israel. In the group are Lexington Members of Hadassah Nation Board:
Judy Saxe standing right, Gail Cohen standing fourth from right, and Marilyn Moosnick,

standing center.

official spot on the United Nations committee govem-
ing education and health. He said Hadassah had stood
up for the right to be called Zionist in the United
Nations and said. “Your presence here now symbol-
izes your solid and true partnership with the people of
Israel.”

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annual Lexington Hadassah service auction. I told
Morris his gift had been the highlight of the auction.
He thanked me profusely for coming to Israel at this
time. told me he knows even more about Hadassah
now, quoting the figure of $30.000,000 we send

annually to support the Hadassah Medical. Organiza—
tion and finally. he picked out another stunning three-

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the entire delegation with Israeli friends
and HMO personnel rallied almost 700
strong in the central Jerusalem Safra
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Central States Region and MidWest

Cooperative of Hadassah, who with another National
Board member cochaired the opening event of the
Convention on Monday morning, August 6, that set a
remarkably spiritual and sisterly tone for the rest of
the week. Set at the Haas Promenade, a breathtaking
open air stone arena that directly faces the Western
Wall, across several miles of “newer” Jerusalem
suburbs, the carefully planned event was the culmina—
tion for a significant group of delegates of an entire
year of study in their hometowns and was a joyful
Eishet Mitzvah Shaharit service full of song, prayer
and moving participation entirely by women. Gail
was a nurturing leader for the B’nai Mitzvot all year
and particularly during the service.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon spoke to a packed
Jerusalem Theater at the end of the first day and
received multiple rounds of applause as he made clear
he keeps up with Hadassah’s actions on behalf of
Israel and the Jewish people. He thanked Hadassah for
relentlessly and finally successfully pursuing an

costumes, exceptional scripts and able actors and
actresses. Judy Saxe said: “Israel’s history was
brought to life. Dramatic re—enactrnents at the
Jerusalem Theater, Hadassah hospitals at Ein Kerem
and Mt. Scopus, the College of Technology, Young
Judaea’s Beit Riklis.”

Judy, as the National Board member who has held
the Young Leaders chairmanship during 2000-01, and
also a past president of the CKJF, actually led a
completely separate young leaders mission that ran
simultaneously with the regular Convention program-
rriing. She had rewarding experiences as the young
women discovered quickly their sense of belonging in
Israel and told of one of those unique adventures in the
company of her young proteges.

“We were in Safed, a town with many artists in
northern Israel. I looked for and found Morris Dahan,
who paints beautifully decorated harnsas, which the
young women loved. A graduate of Youth Aliyah, one
of Hadassah’s most cherished projects, Morris had

call for greater Israeli commitment to
become offical organ donors. Jerusalem Mayor Ehud
Olrnert attended to give his unqualified support for
Hadassah’s mission and declared August 8 Hadassah
Organ Donor Day.

Every day exciting never-before scheduled adven-
tures were a part of the agenda; we each had our
favorite. I loved the afternoon trip to a nearby Youth
Aliyah village to meet lively young students from the
three villages specially supported by Hadassah
through the years: Ramat Hadassah Szold. Meyer
Shefeyah and Neurim. We listened to a small orches—
tra. danced with a skilled folk dancing troupe, heard
reports on their study projects and, best of all, told
them everything these bright, charming young people
wanted to know about America.

Gail and I were particularly impressed with the
history and the remarkable architectural features of the
spanking new Esther Gottesman Institute of Technol-
ogy just across the street from the Hadassah College

of Technology. Dedicated in a special ceremony to
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economic interest of America’s allies in the Gulf War
have not sustained the sanctions against Iraq. Saddam
Hussein remains to develop weapons of mass destruc—
tion and continues his ties to Sudan and to Osama bin
Laden. supporting and perhaps instigating terror
attacks. all the while refusing UN inspections,

We need to know the root cause of the terror 'ittzrcl

on America. There are those well intentioned noble but A

naive individuals in our country who will blame the
United States itself. that we are too dominant eco—

nomically and militarily at the expense of the poor and ‘

oppressed in the world who are reacting in frustration

There are in the Arab world those who will blame
America. saying it hurts Iraqi people by UN sanctions
and bombings. provides money to Israel for arms
purchases from the US. and does not criticize Israeli
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Those who
use these half truths never mention the terror cam—
paign against Israel. This is similar to saying the US.
government arrests, jails. and executes its citizens
citing as an example Timothy McVeigh. without ever
mentioning the Oklahoma City federal building.

Extremist Islamic fundamentalists have prospered
because of social and economic problems of the Arab
and Muslim world. due to political leadership unsuc—
cessful or unwilling to provide adequate living
standards for segments of their population. Fundamen—
talists have offered hope to persons deprived of

economic well-being through their style of religion and ‘

the establishment ofan Islamic government. They
called for all—out war against the “infidel" Westerners
whose influences on their people’s lifestyles pare
despised. The State of Israelis “The Lesser Satan”
and the United States is “The Great Satan.”

The fundamentalist groups look to achie\ c then
political goals through the mantle of religion. Islamic
fundamentalism has exploited people suffering
unemployment and social instability. offering them as
an answer hatred against Western thought, religion
and influence which includes Western Europe, Israel
and the United States. Just as they hijack airplanes,
they hijack Islam.

We know the organizations, and how they work.
Every two years since 1996, the US. Department of
State designates Foreign Terrorist Organizations
(FTO). The last publication was October 8, 1999.
Groups are designated as Foreign Terrorist Organiza—
tions because of the acts they commit, not who they

act against and not who they are. I came across this on
the State Departments website. In 1998 there were 28
FTOs. two having been dropped from the list and one
added. The one added was al-Qaida, led by Osama bin
Laden The state department notes al Qaida “was
added because it is responsible for several major
terrorist attacks, including the August 1998 bombings
of the US. embassy in Nairobi. Kenya and Dar Es
Salaam, Tanzania.”

How do we wage war against these terror groups?
Osama bin Laden is above the level of “arresting the
pilots at Pearl Harbor.” He is perhaps the equivalent
of the captain of the aircraft carrier which supplied the
planes to bomb Pearl Harbor. perhaps the equivalent
of an admiral. But doing away with bin Laden is not the
entire answer. A war against intemational extreme
Islamic fundamentalism is what we are facing. One

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oes it matter who killed Jesus? After all,

it happened about 2,000 years ago. But

evidently the subject remains current
today',judging by recent incidents. And the subject
has been the basis for most of the anti—Semitism
down through the ages.

Today? Yes, three recent public statements
document the point. Best publicized was the
remark by Knicks point guard Charlie Ward in the
New York Times Magazine. He said that the Jews
had Jesus" blood on their hands.

About the same time, Paul Weyrich, a prorni—
nent political conservative, wrote on his
organization’s Web site that Jesus ”was crucified
by the Jews."

And there was the statement by President
Bashar Assad in welcoming Pope John Paul II to
Syria. Assad said that Jews “try to kill all the
principles of divine faiths with the same mentality
of betraying Jesus Christ and torturing him."

 
   
 

liter to this statemmt' but that is besides the point
her c.

What is the point here is that the story that the
Jews killed Jesus is associated with the nrythologr~
cal Jesus, who should be distinguished from the
historic