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A Double Header—Join Yom_
Ha’atzmaut Celebration on May 15

and Tour Camp Shalom
While You're There

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By Pat Slumber};

Bluegrass Christian Campsite will be
the setting for this year’s celebration
of Israel Independence and for Camp
Shalom Open House, which will be
held on Sunday May 15 from noon
until 3:00 pm. Regardless of age,
there will be something for everyone.
You will be entertained with
traditional Israeli music and if you
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their energy jumping on the air~filled bouncy rides. Keep
your energy levels up for the entire event; there will be
plenty of authentic foods to sample. However, if you
prefer not try authentic dishes, others will be available:
you won’t be hungry!

If your interests run more toward crafts, there will be
vendors and artisans displaying their goods. The articles
for purchase will include pottery, jewelry, furniture,
products from Israel such as books, music, and so forth.
If you're interested in Camp Shalom, you will be able to
tour the campsite during this event.

This is an exciting celebration that will culminate in
sharing birthday cake and song to celebrate Israeli
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By Jessica Foster, age 8

I like Camp Shalom because it is fun to go play at. Also I
like Camp Shalom because the counselors are nice! I like
to go play at the pool because it is fun and it has a neat
slide. In the gym we also get to play a game called gaga
and a lot of other sports. There is a nice View on the
mountain. You get to hike down the mountain. If you
have never been to Camp Shalom you need to think
about coming. You can have a chance to make new
friends. My opinion is that you should try to come if you
have never come to Camp Shalom. Also it is very very
fun! I can’t wait to go to the Camp. It was also very fun
last year. Please try to come. IO

 

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We all remember how, a number of years ago, the
American Jewish Community spearheaded a campaign
conceived by A1 Chemin, then executive director of the
National Jewish Community Relations Advisory
Committee (now the JCPA), under the theme "Let my
People Go." That campaign, after years of struggle, was
instrumental in making freedom of emigration for Soviet
Jews a high priority for the American administration,
eventually leading to the relaxing of emigration laws and
the opening wide of the doors after the fall of the Soviet
Union. The faces of famous refuseniks stared at us.

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Some Soviet Jews were not so famous, and were not even
refuseniks, but they were treated like refuse by the Soviet
regime. One of these was a former Soviet ski champion
who suffered an accident that rendered him unable to
continue on the ski team. That accident was the beginning
of a journey that would bring his family, including his
daughter Alina, to America and new life. We will hear the
story of that journey at the Campaign Event of the Year
on May 22 at the home of Avi and Ronit Eres.

The CKJF/ UJC community campaign allocates a
significant portion of its collections to Jewish
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IN THIS ISSUE:

Know Your Board

Community Picnic to be Held June 26 ................... 3 '
KET Airs Holocaust Specials .......................... 3
President's Message ................................ 4
Lag b’Omer: Minor Holiday, Major Mystery ............... 4
Purim at the Stewart Home .......................... 5
What’s New this Summer for Campers? It’s Gesher ......... 5
From the Executive Director .......................... 6
Celebrate 350: The Storm Breaks ...................... 7
Rabbi's Corner .................................... 8
Solidarity at Sea ................................... 9
Hadassah 7th Annual Live and Silent Auction ............. 9
Spring Concert Highlights Serious Music & Talented Soloists . .10
Stem Cells: The Dream and the Promise ................ 10
Book Review: The Trouble with Islam ................... 12
UK. Judaic Studies Head Steps Down .................. 13
Lexington Museum Opens KY Holocaust Survivors Exhibit . . . .13
Passover and Creation ....................... ‘ ...... 13
Ask JFS ........................................ 14
B'tayavon ...................................... 15
lsrael’s Consul Addresses Bonds Supporters in Lexington . . . .16
Hillel Happenings . . . . . . . . . . . . , .................... 17
Our B’Nai Mitzvah ................................ 17
TAI ........................................... 18
LexingtonHavurah....................' ............ 18
,ozs .................................. g ........ 19
Hadassah ....................................... 19
Community Calendar ......... . ......... _ ............ 20

Mazel Tov to...

0 Odette and Marty Kaplan on the birth of their newlgranddaughter, Samantha
Disken, on March 16. Samantha is the daughter of Nicole and Tony Disken,
Odette's daughter and son-in-law.

     
   
   
     
     
      
      

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Phil Berger

Although Sandy and I have lived in
Lexington since 1967, I still think of
myself as a New Yorker. You can take
the boy out of the Bronx, but you
can't take the Bronx out of the boy! I
retired from the Martin School of
Public Policy at the University of
Kentucky but continue to conduct
research to evaluate worker health
and safety training programs. Off
and on over the past 35 years, I have
served in and held offices at Ohavay
Zion Synagogue, the Lexington
Havurah, and CKJF. Under the
leadership of Daniel Chejfec, the trio
of presidents—Marty Barr, Stanley
Saxe, and David Feinberg—and with
an innovative and active board, this,
my second stint on the CKJF board,
has been eminently rewarding.

How did it come about? To start
with, I attended the country's first
modern Orthodox Yeshiva, Ramaz,
for ten years. Memory may distort
reality, but I remember Ramaz as being
supportive of a secular Zionist state.

Second, I spent eight wonderful
summers at Camp Massad, in the
Pocono Mountains. Massad, a
Hebrew—speaking camp, mixed
softball and swimming with a
distinctly left-leaning Labor Zionist
cast. In addition to "Artzah Aleinu,"

one of the songs that propelled us
along on our hikes was a marching
song of the Lincoln Brigade. Just
picture preadolescent Jewish boys
and girls hiking along rural
Pennsylvania roadways chanting,
"Revolutzione will triumph!,
Revolutzione will triumph!" in
mangled Italian cadence. My very
first camp counselor—who
convinced his 6- and 7-year-old
charges that he was part American
Indian by walking barefoot—fought
and was blinded in the 1948 Israeli
War of Independence. Our one
reunion was a bittersweet moment.

Finally, Aunt Edna Baer, my mother's
older sister, was active in Jewish
organizations in Washington, DC.
Meals at her D.C. apartment when I
was in college were accompanied by
adjurations to "get involved." Twenty
years later, I finally did.

A family note. Sandy and I met in the
classroom: she an undergraduate
student and I a graduate student
instructor. We will celebrate our 39th
anniversary this August. Jon lives in
Alexandria,VA and, yes, you can fix
him up. Jeff is married with three
adorable daughters and lives in
Davidson, NC. He no longer needs to
be fixed up. Two Morgan horses '
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Community Picnic to be

Held June 26

Veteran’s Park will be
Site of Activities

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By Ruth Paley

The Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation is sponsoring a
community-wide picnic on Sunday,
June 26. We will gather at Veteran’s
Park at 4:00 pm. to enjoy an
afternoon of games, food, and
general camaraderie.

This will be the easiest picnic you’ve
ever done. All you have to provide is
your own food; you can bring a
sandwich, or join with some friends
for a spectacular spread, or do
anything in between. CKJF will
provide everything else. That
includes plates, napkins, cutlery,
cups, soft drinks, ice, and dessert. It
also includes fun and games.

We’re planning games, relay races,
storytelling, and crafts for the
children. For the adults, we’re
hoping to get enough intrepid souls
together for a co-ed softball game.

And, as usual, we’re looking for
volunteers to help us. Folks, four
overworked Community Activities
Committee members and one
dedicated staff member can NOT do
all this stuff alone. If you have ideas
for activities, would like to be a
storyteller, or organize the softball
game, we need your talent. Please
call Jana at 268—0672 ext. 4# and offer
to help with the event. It won’t take a
lot of your time and you’re sure to
have a good time and meet some
new people.

Put the date on your calendar now
and plan on joining us for a great
afternoon. IO!

 

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KET Airs Specials During Holocaust
Remembrance Month including '
Kentucky Students’ Trip to Poland

KET to Present Three Specials in May
Commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Month

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When allied troops invaded
Germany and liberated Nazi death
camps at the end of World War 11,
they made films that captured these
atrocities firsthand. The resulting
film, directed in part by Alfred
Hitchcock but never finished, was
discovered by Frontline in 1984 in
the archives of the Imperial War
Museum. Sixty years after the war
ended, KET now broadcasts this
powerful memorial in its entirety.
Frontline ”Memory of the Camps ” airs
Tuesday, May 3 at 9:00 pm. on KET2
and Monday, May 9 at 10:00 pm. on
KET1.

Next, Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness
tells the story of Japanese diplomat
Chiune Sugihara, who, in the face of
the Nazi onslaught, set about saving
thousands of lives. Sugihura:
Conspiracy of Kindness airs Thursday,
May 5 at 9:00 pm. on KETZ.

Also, in a rebroadcast of
Remembrance: A Journey of Hope, KET
takes a look at a group of Kentucky
college students from the University
of Kentucky, Berea College,
Transylvania University, and
Georgetown College, who traveled to
Poland to participate in The March of
Remembrance and Hope, an
educational leadership program that
focuses on the Holocaust. Shot on
location in Warsaw, Cracow and
Lublin, the program airs Thursday,
May 5 at 10:00 pm. on KET1.

These programs contain disturbing
images and are not recommended for
the very young.

Frontlinc "Memory of the Camps " and
Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness arc
produced by WGBI-l/ Boston.
Remembrance: A Journey of Hope is a

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President's Message

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Are You a

Born Leader?
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I’ve been thinking about recruiting
new board members and the need to
strengthen leadership. What was on
my wish list? A number of board
members were about to complete
their terms and a new group of
board members was being sought.
What do we need? We need people
with a spirit of adventure—the urge
to explore, break new ground,
challenge the status quo, stand up for
personal beliefs, and innovate. Your
leadership style can be loud or quiet,
bold or more conservative. You may
be blessed with charisma that draws
people to want to follow you, or you
may be more quiet, and doggedly
persist to get things done. As Jews, we
are culturally encouraged to question
and that is something we need.

I do not think I am a ”born leader.” I
am opinionated and I see some
things I think need to be changed
about how we conduct ourselves as
community members. I do not have
much sympathy for whining, but I
have a sincere appreciation for doers.
I aspire to see a vision that develops
our community and then to bring it
to fruition. For me, that is the fun
part of leadership.

Leadership is also obligation. As a
member of the community, and
having attained a "certain age," I felt
the need to step up to a role of

David Feinberg

leadership. It sets an implicit
expectation for my children. I want
them to take their places in the
community and to be able to further
advance our communal needs and
goals when they are ready.

On a very personal note, leadership
is a link to my father. My father
worked for General Motors for 45
years, on the assembly line. This is
what he did to put food on the table
for his wife and four sons; it was not
who he was. Who he was, was the
person who did his part. He was
intensely patriotic and extremely
proud to be a Jew. He was very
active in his home state
(Pennsylvania) and in the region in
Jewish War Veterans" affairs. When
he died in 1993, the name of his JWV
post (#697) was changed to include
his name. He was the religious
school principal for many years. He
was always going to a meeting. It

No one is born a leader, just as

no one is born a talented artist.
However, you can be born with the
underlying traits that make you a
potential leader given the right
stimulus and environment. When the
nomination committee reaches out
and talks to you (or you identify
yourself as someone wanting to join
the CKJF board), let your leadership

 

style express itself. Sign on for a
meaningful experience with many
wonderful and talented, and equally
committed, individuals. fi

 

 

As a member of the community
and having attained a “certain age,”
I felt the need to step up to a role
of teadership. it sets an implicit
expectation for my chitdren.

was in these communal activities
that he was most ”himself.” My
involvement with community
activities is also my way to honor
him and to honor the work of many
other people I admire. Our
responsibility is to do our part and
to be counted upon to serve our
community.

 

 

Are you looking
for a volunteer
opportunity ?

JFS and the Federal Medical Center are looking for
volunteers to go to the prison once a month to help out.

There is 'a group of Jewish inmates that would like to
meet once a week but they need someone there to help

facilitate.

If you are interested in volunteering, please call
Stacey Heisler at the IFS Office at 859-269—8244.

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Lag b’Omer: Minor
Holiday, Major Mystery

By Stan/0y Ned Roscnlmum

Lag b’Omer, the 33rd day of the
counting of the Omer, is arguably the
most obscure of all Jewish holidays.
For one thing, it is not mentioned by
name until the 13th century; hence,
all manner of legends have grown up
around its origins and purpose.

There are a number of odd activities
associated with the holiday. Such
bizarre things as giving children
their first haircuts on that day and
then throwing the hair into a bonfire,
or shooting arrows into the air (not a
very safe practice in present-day
Israel, but probably better than
shooting Kalachnikovs), and allowing
marriages that are otherwise not
performed during the seven weeks
between Passover and Shavuot, have
grown up around Lag b"Omer.

Of all the practices associated with
Lag b'Omer, it seems to me that the
lighting of bonfires has the best
chance of a real explanation. Or more
than one. Some scholars associate it
with the Roman prohibition against
Jews lighting fires to signal the
beginning of each new month, a
consequence of the failed Bar Kochba
Revolt of 132 to 135 CE. It may be
so, but I think the origin may lie
much deeper in our history than that.

King Josiah (reigned 640 to 632
B.C.E.), Israel's best if not its most
famous king, had a plan for reuniting
the moribund Northern Kingdom,
Israel, with his Judah. This was no
merger, however, but a hostile
takeover. The newly reunited
country would have Jerusalem as its
religious capital and a purer
monotheism than had been seen
previously. Shortly after becoming
king, Josiah marched his army north,
dug up the bones of Northern

priests—the South considered
Northern religion to be apostate—
and burned them on their own altars,
thus desecrating both.

Northern religion, it seems, had
hung on to the bull/bovine
accoutrements of our religion——
which went back to Aaron and the
Golden Calf—longer than the South
had done. Ultimately, the South
cleniecl ever using such things, which
explains Aaron's lame excuse that he
didn't know what was going to
emerge from the fire into which he
threw the lsraelilt's' gold nrntnnt'nts,
he thought it might be a Golden
Armadillo, maybe. (For his part in
the Golden Calf Incident, Aaron got
to be High Priest; for her part,
Miriam, his and Moses' sister, got
leprosy. Go figure.)

There is, of course, a wide waste of
time between Josiah and the 13th
century CE, but my case is
strengthened somewhat by noting
that the word ”bonfire" comes from
"bone fire." In any case, extirpating
Northerners did not prove a simple
task. In the 5th pre-Christian century,
Samaritans offered to "help" Ezra
with the rebuilding of the Temple in
what was an attempt to exercise
control in Jerusalem. Later, in the time
of Alexander, they got permission to
rebuild their own temple, though in
fact this was never done.

We know that the North and South
remained estranged into early
Christian times, with the rabbis of
the Talmud finally deciding that
Northerners weren't Jews at all.
What better way to commemorate all
this than by lighting again the bone
fires of Josiah?

Enjoy Lag b'Omer, but don't forget to
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Take time to honor men and women who have served their country in one
of our armed services, especially those who made the ultimate sacrifice so

that we may enjoy freedom.

Join veterans of American Legion, Man O’ War Post No. 8 and its Ladies
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colors, 21 21—gun salute, brief remarks and “Taps?

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It’s Gesher!

By Kathy Feinberg

There is a brand new program
waiting for campers ages 10 to 13.
Gesher, sponsored by Camp Shalom
and the Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation, is an exciting program
including sports, art, swimming, a
sleepover, and a field trip. Gesher is
the bridge between being a Camp
Shalom camper and a counselor-in—
training.

Gesher campers will have their own
group leader and cabin. Campers
will have a mitzvah project,
participate in team building, create
unique art pieces, hear and learn
Jewish music by guest musicians,
participate in a variety of sports,
prepare for Shabbat, and more.

Sports Mania is the theme for the
first week. Campers will learn about
Jewish athletes and participate in
sports every day. The World Around

Us is the theme for week two.
During this week we will have an
inflatable planetarium at our
campsite and campers will see a
spectacular show of the stars and
planets in a summer sky. A theme
for both weeks will be Jewish
prideGesher will provide theonly
opportunity in Lexington this
summer for all our youth ages 10 to
13 to come together to bond and
learn while having a great time.

Please put May 15 on your calendar
and come to the open house at the
campsite and meet our staff. We are
off on an exciting new adventure.
Come and join us this summer and
be a part of a group that offers
campers daily activities including
sports, paddleboating, low ropes
course, and much more. Come join
us this summer and be a part of the
familiar and not so familiar. Hebrew
becomes a living language because it
is integrated into daily usage. Create

see Gesher, page 6

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From the Executive Director

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The Best Laid Plans...

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My column last month was about how I was looking
forward to going to Israel and how the prospect of the
trip led me to reflection. So what do you know? The Chief
had other plans in store for me. When I arrived at the
Bluegrass Airport, I was told that my original connection
from Atlanta to JFK was cancelled, so they rebooked me
on another one. I said fine. On arriving in Atlanta, I found
out that the new flight was delayed... fine. Then it was
cancelled. At that point, I learned that the only way to get
to Israel was to wait out the weather (a full day) and
leave for Israel a day and a half later than originally
planned, out of a total trip of five days. I decided it was
not worth it, in part because I was feeling a bit under the
weather. So I headed back for Lexington.

Upon arriving in Lexington, I had a stark reminder
of what it means to travel. My luggage was lost.
After obtaining the proper paperwork to claim it
later on, I headed home. The next morning, I
decided to go to the hospital because I was

feeling really bad, and after spending four hours
waiting at the emergency room of St Joe East, I
was diagnosed with walking pneumonia. So I

got my prescription, headed for the pharmacy,

and then home. A full week at home unable to

do anything does have a way of driving you up
the walls, especially when you don’t even have
your pet (if you own one) with you. Not everything
was bad; I want to thank all of you who called me and
inquired about my wellbeing. It made me feel, in spite
of the situation, that l was home.

And yet this whole situation still forced me to think on
issues. What can I tell you, I am Jewish and therefore a
worrier. We can make the best plans and look at every

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detail, we can do everything we need to do to make
something happen, and yet the result might be very
different than we intended. Some examples:

The current situation in Israel; Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu
Mazen, is trying hard to undo the damage done by Arafat
to the prospects of peace and Palestinian statehood. He is
indeed trying to rein in the militants and to understand
the Israeli point of View; Prime Minister Sharon, much to
most people’s surprise and in spite of his policy of
expanding settlements, is also making a real effort to
make this work, handing over the cities reoccupied since
2002, reining in his own fanatics, and preparing for an
unprecedented withdrawal from the Gaza strip in
coordination with the Palestinian Authority. People on
both sides are moving steadily but cautiously to make
this opportunity work. Yet all it would take is one crazy
thing—it could be an attack on Jewish worshippers at the
Western Wall, or the Faithful of the Third Temple holding
a prayer session on top of the Temple Mount, or a suicide
bomber killing a
large number of
Israelis in the
Israeli heartland.
In sum, there
could be any
number of
situations which
would make the
plans collapse.

 
  

 

Another thing I’ve been pondering is the Social Security
deal. Never mind how carefully the plans for a change are
laid out, the whole situation has the potential to create a
large number of elderly poor in the next couple of
decades, and yet not changing it might bring about the
same result. When FDR signed the Social Security Act, he
did not envision the government borrowing heavily from

 

the fund, nor did he expect the Baby
Boomers to overwhelm the system.
Yet that is where we are today.

This is where the wisdom of our
forebears comes into place, for it is
said that when a Jew comes into a
room through the door, he/ she is
already looking for the window. In
plain English, most plans in the
Jewish community are full of
eventualities in the form of "if this
happens. Maybe this explains
why, as a people, we are sometimes
neurotic. But it also explains why, as
a people and as a community, we get
things done—because we think
ahead.

Look at our recent history. Nobody
predicted something like the Shoah
happening until it was too late, but
somebody thought of the need for a
Jewish homeland a hundred years
before the Shoah. That would be
Moses Hess, who wrote the first
classical book on political Zionism.
Our history as a people is a constant
crisscrossing of currents and ideas,
because internal dialogue within the
Jewish community has always been a
priority. May we never lose it. 3?

 

 

 

 

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Gesher (from page 5)

and strengthen friendships that go beyond the summer
experience and last a lifetime. Come to our open house at
the campsite and meet and meet our staff. Tours will be
given at beautiful and scenic Bluegrass Christian Camp
out Richmond Road ten miles past Jacobson Park.

Gesher will be held from August 1 to August 12. Camper
drop-off is from 8:30 am. till 9:00 a.m.; pick—up is at 3:00
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The Storm Breaks
+ + +

The Second World War began on
September 1, 1939, but the German
war against the Jews was already in
full swing. What a lot of people don't
know is that of the approximately
700,000 Jews living in Germany and
Austria before the war, nearly
500,000 fled before its outbreak.
Some, like Anne Frank's family,
didn't flee far enough and so were
caught later. So it was upon the
Eastern European Jews, caught
between Germany and Soviet Russia,
that the hammer blow fell hardest.
(Some fled still farther east. The town
of Harbin, Manchuria, ultimately
boasted a Jewish population of
45,000!)

I mention this because after the war,
when the full extent of the horror
was known, some Jews uncharitably
suggested that the Reform Jews of
Germany brought it upon themselves
by their unstinting quest for
assimilation. More charitably, but
equally outrageous, was the
suggestion of the former Israeli Chief
Rabbi, (M adiah Yosef, that the six
million dead must all have been
reincarnated Jewish sinners.

But more than 1,000,000 were only
children.

Eli Wiesel is right; there is no rational
explanation for the Holocaust,
though it can be seen as a logical
progression from Christian
oppression and persecution of Jews
dating back to 300 CE. and the
Council of Elvira (Spain). In 1941,
William Montgomery McGovern
published a book entitled From
Luther to Hitler; the title tells it all, if a
bit polemically.

Trying to salvage something of value
from the flames, later observers
opined that the State of Israel would
not have come about without the
Holocaust. Again, Wiesel disagrees,
saying that it would in fact have
happened earlier. If there had been
no war, the mounting pressure from
Zionists, mostly Eastern European,
on the governments of Europe would
have overridden British pandering to
the Arabs. >

On the American scene, an unlocked
for result of the war was the
introduction of so many Bronx and
Brooklyn boys—600,000 American
Jews served in the Armed Forces—to

you—know-who, the gentile girls they
met at USO functions. Some of our
boys, like t