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CAMPAIGN NEWS
2012 Campaign to kick-off with
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On Super Sunday, February 26, we will
come together in spirit and in action,
as one community, to make the world
a better place. The Jewish Federation’s
annual community campaign for 2012
will begin ofﬁcially on Super Sunday
to be held at the Federation's new
ofﬁces in Suite 112 on the ﬁrst ﬂoor

at 1050 Chinoe Road. Please answer
our phone call and make a generous
donation so that thousands of needy
Jews in our community, in Israel and
around the world can get the help they
need. Your support of JFB helps us to ﬁght
poverty, rescue and resettle Jewish im-
migrants, and strengthen Jewish life. The
co-chairs of Super Sunday 2012 are Jen-
nifer Miller and Paul Tillier.

Volunteers are needed to make phone
solicitations. There are a few slots
each session for other administrative
functions. There will again be three
shifts and you are invited to volunteer
for one or more. The ﬁrst shift is 9:30
to 11:30am; the second shift is 11am

to 1 pm; the third shift is 12:30 to 2:30
pm. Each shift begins with a training
session. As always, breakfast, lunch
and snacks will be available for all
volunteers. We ask that all volunteers
bring their cell phones and chargers.
Pease join us that day and remember to

' "answer your'phone when it rings. Gifts

pledged now can be paid throughout
the entire year.

Save the date, March 14, for the second
annual Happy Hour for Women Only.
The event will be held at Baan Isaan
Thai Gourmet at 115 North Locust

Hill Drive at 5:30 to 7 pm. The chair
again this year is Janice Newman. We
will feature a fashion show by Chico’s
and a number of our own community
women will model. The cost for dinner,
wine and soft drinks is $18. Bring your
mother—in-law and get $3.00 off! All
participants will have the opportunity
to make a gift of at least $18 to the 2012
Women’s Philanthropy Campaign.

For information or registration for
either event, please call Judy Wortrnan
at 268-0672 or email her at jfb@jewish-
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Camp Shalom/Gesher reunion —-

Sunday, March 4

By Elissa Weinstein,
Camp Committee Chair

Has the cold got you down? Do you
miss your friends and counselors from
last summer? Parents, are you look—
ing for a fun family activity out of the
house? Then you’re in luck . . . because
we’re having a Camp Shalom/ Camp
Gesher reunion! We’ll be gathering at
Collins Bowling Center (the Southland
Dr. location) on Sunday, March 4 from
4:00-6:00 pm. The cost will be $7.00
per person (shoes are included). We

will be celebrating everyone gather~

lng together with cake and there will
be drinks available at the concession

v stand.

Parents, I’m sure you’re thinking
friends, bowling, cool shoes and cake

. . how could things get any better?
As a special one day only discount,
we are offering an extra $25.00 off
the early bird discount if you choose
to register your child for camp at the
reunion. This discount will apply only
to the base price of camp (there is not
a discount for extended day). That’s
a $45.00 savings per child! Remember
this extra discount is only available
during the reunion.

So come one, come all, to a fun Sunday
afternoon of bowling and friends. We
are looking forward to seeing all of our
alums on March 4th!

For information and registration, call ' -
the JFB ofﬁce, 268-0672. 10!

No goods or services were received

By Talia Smolkin

No one asked for a ’thank you.’ No
one received a tax-donation letter. No
goods or services were received for
anything volunteers gave this Tzeason
of Tzedakah. But these volunteers
deserve many thanks, and it turns out
that by giving, there are beneﬁts.

This Tzeason of Tzedakah, volun-
teers went to eight organizations. We
started by going to Stewart Home in
Frankfort for a Chanukah party for
residents, giving individuals who

are far away from home a chance to
celebrate together. Head volunteer
Alison Courant said, ”the residents
love the Jewish connection,” and their
families had comfort knowing this
took place. Volunteers also served at
God’s Pantry, where the Jewish com—
munity volunteers monthly. Later in
December; volunteers delivered food
for two Meals on Wheels locations

and Moveable Feast. They created
incredible meals for Catholic Action
Center to feed those who are hungry,
as well as Ronald McDonald House,
that provides food and lodging while
children receive medical treatment.
When asked about the Catholic Action
Center, head volunteer Lori Bernard
stressed that volunteers were terriﬁc,
and did not hesitate to fill last minute
needs in order to give recipients a
good Christmas dinner. We also had
a Chanukah party at Mayfair Village.
As head volunteer David Wekstein
explains, ”Lorne Dechtenberg enter-
tained the group with. . .Chanukah
songs. The singing was then followed
by a number of rousing bingo games...
Then, courtesy of the facility, all
enjoyed some pimento cheese sand-
wiches and dessert." Volunteers also
donated and delivered badly needed
supplies to some organizations.

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about our upcoming activities, I want
to give a big thank you to all of you
who volunteered during our Tzeason
of Tzedakah. Abig thank-you also to
Talia Smolkin for organizing the activi-
ties.

The Jewish Federation. of the Bluegrass
that we know today might not exist
were it not for the dedicated efforts of
Jewish parents in the late 1960s who
decided that Lexington needed to have
a Jewish day camp over the summer.
Camp Shalom has been going strong
ever since, and our dedicated Camp
Committee, under the leadership of
Elissa Weinstein, has been working
hard to continue its success in the 2012
session. We are very pleased that the
Girl Scouts will host us again at their
Camp Shawano facility in southern

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4 pm at the Collins Bowling Center on
Southland Drive on Sunday, March 4.
Any children who register for camp on
that day only will receive a $25 camp
discount in addition to the $20 early
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President’s Message

Bob Grossman, JFB President

Representatives from around the
community join with JFB every year
to plan the Yom Hashoah memorial
service. A group led by Jeremy Popkin
is working hard to design a meaning-
ful service. Last year’s innovations,

in which we had small discussion
groups as part of the service, met with
wide approval, so we can expect to see
something similar this year. The 5772
Yom Hashoah service will be held on
April 22 at Ohavay Zion Synagogue.

We are also gearing up for our 2012
Campaign. JFB cannot put on these
and other programs without your gen-
erous financial support. Super Sunday
will be on February 26 this year. Think
about all the programs that JFB orga-
nizes: not only the ones that I men-
tioned above, but also Jewish Family
Services, Leisure Club, the Jewish film
series, the PJ Library, scholarships for
Jewish camps, visits to the Jewish resi-
dents of the Stewart Home, support for
the Ben Yakir horse therapy and music
therapy programs for troubled Israeli
boys, support for elderly and destitute
Jews around the world,. ”the list goes

, on and on. These activities comple-

ment the efforts 6? theemgxegaﬁom
and other Jewish organizations in
Lexington. Even though most of us do
not participate in all of these activities,
Lexington would surely be a much
poorer place Jewishly if JFB were not
here to provide these services. Please
give generously when we call on Super
Sunday. x)

Thank you to our 20l i Shalom Contributors
for your generous contributions to keep Shalom solvent.

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William G. Deehan John Harrison

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Susan & Jack Miller Annette & Kenneth

Linda & Leon Ravvin“ Three Times Chai Mayer

Judith 8. Not Sandler Sandra Bouzaglou & Sheila & Robert Orbach

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By David Wortman

We recently were reminded of the

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other. In many communities, the move-
ments, at best, consider each other as
competition. At worst, the movements

legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Heo show no respect for one another. The

had a dream - a dream that one day

all would be equal, black and white
children together, Jew and Gentile.

His vision was a utopian vision based
on his commitment that all men and
women are created equal. He lived his
life demonstrating this philosophy. His
marches included blacks and whites
walking side-by-side, Dr. King himself
arm in arm with rabbis.

There is much to be learned from

Dr. King’s notion of nonviolence,
tolerance, dignity, and respect. Not

all groups practice this. Hatred and
bigotry between religious groups, na-
tionalist identities, political rivals, and
those we consider as “other,” are rife
in our society. Even in our own Jewish
community, we find an internecine in-
tolerance, bigotry, and lack of respect.

In Israel, we see conﬂict between the
ultra Orthodox and others for control
of daily life. This is not a one-way
street. Amongst the secular Jews of
Israel there is contempt and disdain
for the Orthodox. Neither side has any

_ patience for Reform or Conservative

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find ugliness within the Jewish com—
munity. Right here in America we
find everyone throng stones at each

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situation is so egregious that those few
organizations that make a conscious
attempt to bring together all 4 move-
ments have become exceptions that
prove the rule.

In my days as a member of the Rab-
binic Cabinet of the UJA, I remember
that we prided ourselves on the in-
volvement of various Orthodox groups
as well as Reform, Conservative, and
Reconstructionist rabbis. We had sup-
port of the state of Israel as our com-
mon denominator. All differences were
respected. Jewish federations, theoreti-
cally, can be another venue in which
this multiplicity of Jewish identities
can come together.

Not to compare myself to Dr. King, but
I, too, have a dream. I dream that one
day Reform, Conservative, Reconstruc-
tionist, and Orthodox Jews will learn
to live together in peace - each able to
attain an identity that is at once unique
and tolerant of others. There should be
a time in which temples, synagogues,
and shuls can coexist in harmony. If we
can leam this lesson and practice it in

improving our own mm‘but also ‘
set an example for our children and for
other communities to follow. t

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Mail to:
JFB, 1050 Chinoe Rd., Suite 112, Lexington, KY 40502

Make checks payable to JFB and write "Shalom”
on the memo line.

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Dad’s Eulogy

By Sarah C. Rosenbaum

There is so much to say about my
father that it’s hard to know where to
start. So let me first say on behalf of
my mother and my brothers and the
whole family, thank you all for being
here with us today. You all represent
the many aspects of his life: friends
from as far back as childhood and from
all over the country, former and recent
students, family and community.

I’m not going to try to capture his
whole life in words, or to present a
chronology of his many achievements.
It’s impossible—I’ll leave that for his bi-
ographer. But maybe we can remember
together some of the things that made
him who he was to all of us.

All his life Dad loved children of all
kinds, his own and other people’s. He
was never happier than when making
up games and stories for the entertain-
ment of any child within arm’s reach.
When he would go pick up my broth-
er’s children at their Montessori school
here in Bardstown, my niece and
nephews would always come running.
But so would all the other children on
the playground, who would swarm
around him all calling out "Grandpa
Ned, Grandpa Ned!"

My son Ben Yoshi had just asked him
to come up with a new version of a
game he’s played since our own child-
hood, now known as ”Grandpa Ned
Jail”, which involved creating a cage
out of his own body to encircle a child
on the ﬂoor, who then somehow magi-
cally escaped through an "unnoticed"
opening before they could be tickled
into oblivion.

My father was a tireless, passionate
and entertaining teacher, and some

of his happiest times were imparting
his insights to students of all ages and
backgrounds. It is so wonderful to see
so many of his former students, who
have come from all over the country
and as far away as Tokyo to be here.

A memory that exemplifies his love

of teaching for me is one that was not
from the classroom. From the time I
was 10 or 11 years old, I would ac-
company him to the Sabbath morning
services he usually led at Dickinson
College where he taught for most of
his career. Instead of the traditional
Torah service, which involves a person
chanting the week’s assigned portion

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in sonorous Hebrew, punctuated by
occasional prayers by the congregation
who are’otherWise disengaged at best,
and actively in side conversations all
too often, Dad favored a much more
interactive approach. At the appointed
time in the service, we would all fol-
low him into the adjoining conference
room, spread several books of com-
mentary out on the table, and take
turns reading the portion in English
with accompanying debate on the
meaning and intent of every line. Dad
would lead the discussion, challeng-
ing each of us, no matter our age or
previous religious education, to make
the best meaning we could of what we
were reading. ”Wrestling” with the text
in this way seemed to my father a bet-
ter way of truly engaging with it, and
he considered all his study of sacred
texts as his highest form of prayer. In
fact, outside of services, he chose to
mark the Sabbath rest by doing things
like mowing the lawn, so that he could
better make the distinction in his own
mind between the Sabbath and the rest
of the week.

Dad was on his way to his bowling
team’s tournament on Tuesday when
he left home. He loved competing,
with others and with himself; he has
been a member of at least two leagues
for many years since moving here, and
this was one of the things he loved
most about his retirement in this com-
munity.

He was an inveterate—and opinion—
ated— sports fan, who tended to favor
underdog teams, to the point we used
to joke that he was the patron saint of
lost causes. He has at least ﬁve differ-
ent types of Cubs hats at home right
now (by actual count). His hat collec-
tion is another symbol to those of us
who loved him of his quirky sense of
humor, which intersected here with

a magpie love of collecting things,
especially things he thought were—

or might someday in some alternate
universe be—practical. Nowhere could
you see that more clearly than when he
was wearing his beloved Portuguese
ﬁsherman’s hat. Brought home for him
by his mother, a world traveler, from
one of her many trips, it was a favorite
of his for many, many years, worn all
around town and around the house,
with the flaps carefully placed at full
or half-mast depending on the tem-
perature and wind direction, or in his
favorite ’mighty eagle.’

see Dad's Eulogy, page 16

In Memory Of Ned Rosenbaum
December 8, 1939 — November 29, 2011

By Hanna B. Smith

On December 2, 2011, we laid to his
eternal rest our friend Ned Rosen-
baum. Four days earlier Ned had died
in a tragic accident. His sudden death
left his family and friends reeling with
shock.

Ned and Mary, his wife, came to
Kentucky from Carlisle, Pennsylva-
nia, where Ned had been Professor of
Jewish Studies at Dickinson College.

In Kentucky, Ned and Mary settled in
Nelson County, near Bardstown. Ned
became adjunct professor of Hebrew
and Jewish History at the University of
Kentucky until ill health caused him to
retire in 2010. He was also appointed
adjunct professor at Presbyterian Semi—
nary in Louisville but never actually
taught there, according to Mary.

The couple joined the Lexington
Havurah and, for a short time, also
Ohavay Zion Synagogue.

After touring the Abbey of Gethsemani
in Nelson County during an Open
House, Ned became friendly with the
monks. He showed the monks a book
that he had written and that had been
published in 1990: Amos of Israel, A New
Interpretation. On the strength of this
book, the abbot invited Ned to become
a visiting scholar and to teach Hebrew
to the monks.

Another of Ned’s books, Understand-
ing Biblical Israel, was published in
2002. At the time of his death, Ned
was working on a book on intermar-
riage in the biblical period. In addition
he wrote a monthly column for Shalom,
the newspaper of the Jewish Federa-
tion of the Bluegrass.

Ned loved his family, and he was an
avid bowler. On the night of his death,
he had gone bowling. He was at ease
with people and he enjoyed an ex
change of ideas.

It speaks for Ned that the monks

at Gethsemani opened one of their
chapels for his funeral service. The
group who assembled in the Skakel
chapel on that sunny day in early
December was unusually quiet, even
for a funeral: Mary, their children, son-

in-law, and grandchildren, extended
family, friends, former colleagues and
students from Lexington and Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.

The service was led by Lexington’s
own Rabbi Uriel Smith. Friends and
colleagues read poems and passages
that had mattered to Ned in life. Tear—
ful but composed, daughter Sarah
gave the eulogy, portraying a kind and
jovial father. Two of the monks partici-
pated in the service. Father Michael
Cassagram read Psalm 91 and Brother
Paul Quenon chanted Psalm 130. The
latter was a special treat for those of us
who had never heard live Gregorian
chant. Brother Paul’s wearing a kip-
pah was a nice touch.

Handling a Jewish funeral was new

to the Bardstown funeral home, and
Mr. and Mrs. Greenwell and their staff
worked closely with Rabbi Smith.
There were black kippot available for
the mourners. The cemetery employ-
ees were instructed to lower the cofﬁn
into the grave as soon as the burial
service had finished, and shovels and
earth were waiting for the mourners
to ﬁll in the grave. This is counter to
Kentucky customs where cemetery em—
ployees complete the burial only after
the mourners have left.

Perhaps most touching of all, following
the burial Mrs. Greenwell produced a
pitcher with water, a basin, and towels
for the mourners to wash their hands
upon leaving the cemetery. At that
moment this was an act of pure kind-
ness, something to ease the mourners’
burden.

It was this seemingly effortless coop-
eration of people from diverse back-
grounds, their willingness to set aside
their differences for a few hours to
honor a friend, that caught my atten-
tion. Whatever awkwardness there
may have been at the beginning soon
disappeared in an acceptance of and
respect for each other's existence and
customs. This funeral was a blueprint
for how people need to treat each
other.

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By Talia Smolkin

What do you get when you bring
together Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Jew-
ish Federation of the Bluegrass & P]
Library, Ohavay Zion Synagogue and
Temple Adath Israel? One fantastic
Hanukkah party, filled with books,
latkes, and of course, dreidels.

Joseph-Beth Booksellers contacted Rab-
bi Kline of TAI and Rabbi Smolkin of
028 to create a Chanukah celebration
for the Lexington Jewish community.
They decided on a celebration geared
towards families and invited IFB &

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everyone’s resources and great efforts,
on December 21, over fifty people at-
tended the celebration.

The celebration took place on the
ﬁrst ﬂoor of Joseph-Beth Booksellers,
among the children’s books. It began
with two stories by the rabbis, Mac—
cabee! The Story ofHanukkah, by Tilda

Balsley, and Hershel and the Hanukkah
Goblins by Eric A. Kimmel and Trina
Schart Hyman. The children were
fascinated. They joined in and cheered
for the heroes. We then lit the Ha-
nukkiah (Hanukkah menorah), and
families had a chance to sample the
fantastic homemade latkes, cooked by
Brooke Raby, of Joseph-Beth Booksell-
ers. This was followed by arts and
crafts, where children received a blank
wooden dreidel, on which they could
write their own Hebrew dreidel letters
nun, gimmel, hey, and shin. They were
also excited to decorate their dreidels
with ribbon, markers and glitter.

The children had a chance to play, and
spent time with their parents and each
other. The evening also gave families
time to meet new and old friends. Ev-
eryone left with full stomachs, warm
feelings, new friends and their very
own Hanukkah dreidel. a

Kicked Back Classes

Gel closer to the music and let it take you even furlher...

MLK March 1-165-12‘

Thursday, February to, 20i 2
7:00 pm, Downtown Arts Center
Experience on up-ciose musical conversation With

E Saykaiy Garbuiinska Composer—inﬁesidence
Daniel Kellogg and discuss the making of musrc.

' 9 concert at TRUST Lounge

I Tickets available through LexPnil at 8.59 233 4320 and the Downtown Arts Center a? 859- 225 03 70
' Box Ofﬁce fees may apply ,