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on Herald-Leader describing the possible
sale of the Lansdowne Club to the Fraternal
Order ofl’olice. l have had almost daily conversa-
tions about the possibility of the Lansdovme Club
becoming a Jewish Community Center (J C C ) for
Central Kentucky. It turns out that the Lansdowne
Club has not been sold, but the pool has been
closed. The owners are seeking a buyer that would
continue to operate the pool and club. If they do not
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acres. Now is definitely the time to ask, “Is it time for a
Jewish Community Center in Central Kentucky?”

What would a J CC mean to Central Kentucky?
The primary purpose would be to enhance the quality
of Jewish life here in Central Kentucky. To accom-
plish this mission, a JCC would serve as a common
meeting ground for all people and all segments of our
Jewish community. It would provide meaningful
group and individual experiences which the members
of our community view as enhancing the quality of
their lives. It would strengthen family life through
programs for all members of the family, recognizing
that families come in all sizes. A Central Kentucky
Jewish Community Center would not be in competi-

   

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tion with the other Jewish organizations in our
community, but would serve as an asset.

A JCC could provide full and part-time programs
in child care and preschool, in recreation, informal
education, cultural and performing arts, physical
education and sports. The JCC would strive to
make available opportunities for authentic Jewish
experiences, to develop community based leader-
ship, and to work toward building a sense of com-
munity for people of all ages.

Some of the services that aJewish Community
Center could provide include:

I arly Childhood Development — providing full-
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include bingo, socials, day trips and arts & crafis.
It is possible that a “hot lunch” program could also
be developed.

Camp Shalom - this would be an expansion of

CKJF’s thirty-one year old Camp Shalom to a full

summer (8 weeks) camp for children 5 - 13 years

old. In addition, the Camp would provide leader-
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CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST
by Anna Smulowitz
November 5th at 4:30 p.m.
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In This Issue. PreSident’s
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Feature Star/es Robert & Karen Cole on the death of Karen’s father, Edward Levy on es S age
_ Darkening Clouds ........... 4 September 14, l998.
. . Austin & Susan Cantor on the death of Austin’s uncle, Ben Cantor by
Politically Incorrect ......... 8 on September 23, 1998. Evelyn Dantzic Geller
1 Road to Merger ............ 1 1 Alvin & Ellie Goldman on the death of Ellie’s father, Harold Paris, on WH AT IS 19
‘ Gore ............................ 12 September23, 1998‘ 9
Bill & Regina Meece on the death of Regina’s grandfather, Robert R Ev EA LE D .
Ben & Jerry’s ............... 14 Meade, Sr. on October 6, 1998. F a
Vegetarianism l 8 We note with sorrow the death of Helen Goldfarb on October 3, 1998. e Jewish people recently celebrated the event which th‘
May her memory be for a blessingZichrona Livracha. truly marked our place and purpose in the world ; the SC:
A /50 MAZEL TOV TO: revelation of Divine Law; of the specifications for living he
Bob & Judith Baumann and Shirley & Sol Aizenstein on the a good life. I’ve already done “good” _ see last month’s mes_ tht
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Message ......................... 2 August 23rd. The couple wrll resrde in Pittsburg. . message Will have to be about revelation. Once again though, I thl
Anna Smulowitz .............. 3 Stephe'f é‘ Nancy Keste" 0" the mamage 0mm" daughter’ 53” entreat you to remember that whatever is written here has no in
. 3 Ellen to William Jackson Howell III on Wednesday, Qctober 10, 1998. basis in deep study. But, as one with an opportunity to speak, V
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Joel Eizenstat, Executive Director moves forward and becomes more complex, we need to stop :1
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by Marilyn Moosnick
tall happened in one year. From the summer of l 97 1 , just
afier she received her Masters degree in Theatre from the
University of Cincinnati, until the end of the school year of
l 97 l —72.

Even though she had spent four years here in Lexington, from
Fall 1966 to Spring 1970, as an undergraduate in theatre arts at
the University of Kentucky, it only took Anna Smulowitz one
season as director of the Lexington Children’s Theatre to stamp
her indelibly on the hearts and minds of every child, parent,
theatre professional and theatre lover she came in contact with.

Anna Smulowitz made a tremendous difference in a lot of
things about LCT productions: she used “casts of thousands,”
and she had an amazing season of outstanding performances:
“Wizard of 02;” “Peter Pan;” “A Christmas Carol;” “Livin’ de
Life,” based on the Brer Rabbit series; and finally at the close of
the year, a play she had written as basis for her Masters‘ thesis.
It was then called “The Children of Terezin.” It was an affirma-
tion of the lives of her parents, a tribute to them, and it was the
most heart-wrenching, powerful play any of the children of LCT
had ever tackled. The first four Children’s Theatre productions
that year were presented in the UK Fine Arts Building Guignol
Theatre at the behest of Wallace (Wally) Briggs, then director
of the Department of Theatre, whose personal recommendation
of Anna Smulowitz was the primary reason for her selection
as LCT director. But the late Spring production (it“‘(lliildrcn
Briggs Theatre.

One of the remarkable things about the impact Anna
Smulowitz made on her cast members was the high percentage
who went on to major in theatre arts in college and/or go to
New York or another major city to begin a career in theatre. To
name a few: Rose Buckner, who earned a degree in theatre at
University of Illinois, and with her theatre-department—director
husband established a major summer theatre in the Champagne-
Urbana area (Rose played Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz). The
Corea sisters and Jack Hickey who were in that 1972 cast of
Terezin went to New York to pursue New York theatre careers,
as did the Garland sisters and Steve Currents. Hope Garland
played one ofthe youngest children in “Terezin.” Cheryl
LaLonde Mooney, a Lexington attorney who was in the cast of
most of the 1971-72 plays, and played Wendy in “Peter Pan,”
had this to say about that season, “For all of us in Children’s
Theatre at that time, there never was anything like that year,
before or after.”

In a very personal way, Anna Smulowitz started our four
childrens’ lifelong love of theatre. In “Wizard of 02” all four
were in the cast: Greg was the mayor of Munchkinville and
Madeline (Mimi) and Ross, of course, were Munchkins; Jeff
played the Scarecrow and went on that year to take the lead in
“Peter Pan” and “Livin’ de Life.” He found his “Never, Never
Land” 20 years ago in the Aravah desert in Israel, where he has
been lead singer in an on-again, off-again professional band.

However, Janet Berry, who played a mermaid in “Peter Pan,’

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by Anna Smulowitz
Presented FREE OF CHARGE by
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Thursday, November 5th at 4:30 pm.
For Fifth Graders through High School Students and their parents

Anna Smulowitz was raised in America, the daughter of two survivors of
Auschwitz. Their stories and those of other relatives who did not survive the
death camps were related to her as a child. Putting pen to paper against racial
intolerance, Smulowitz wrote Terezin, a play about six children in a concentra-
tion camp cell. Terezin was established by the Nazis in 1941 in the former
Czechoslovakia. Of the 15,000 children imprisoned there between 1942 and
1944, fewer than 150 survived. At Terezin, children left behind remarkable
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Kentucky, a non-profit corporation was chartered,
authorizing the organization to establish a rural, or garden,
cemetery. The corporation was required to provide for

perpetual care of the grounds and the graves.

In its century and a half history, The Lexington Cemetery
reflects the social and economic changes that have taken

place in this city and county. Within its gates lie people

of different political, economic and social standing. race .

and religion, all in equality in the majestic beauty of
nature. Today, many of the same trees thatstood in what
was Boswell’s Woods spread their lofty limbs to shade

the headstones and monuments.

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erhard Schroder‘ 5
campaign and victory
over German Chan-

cellor Helmut Kohl was widely
reported in the American
media. As the accounts went,
it was the younger generation
against the older, fresh ideas
against failed ones, American—
style campaigning against a
traditional one, and a physi-
cally attractive man a la Bill _
Clinton andTony-Blair against ‘ -
a pudgy, graying politician.
And, of course, there was the
promise of creating thousands
of new jobs to replace the high
unemployment in eastern
Germany that existed under
Kohl.

There were other issues,
one of particular concern to us:
Kohl had planned for a Holo-
caust memorial to be erected
in the wntépf Berlin near the
Brandenb Gate and the
American Embassy. In that
location, it would beseen by
millions of Germans and
visitors to Germany and serve
as a reminder of that Country’s
most cruel, vicious, and
inhumane deeds.

Enter Gerhard Schroder,
opposed to the centrality of the
memorial if not the memorial
itself, espousing a vision of a
glorious firture not weighed
d0wn by past memories. In
this respect, he was spurred on
by the polls, which revealed
that a majority of Berliners
were against the memorial.

Not surprisingly, Schroder
appealed to the young Ger-
mans who wanted to be
relieved of the guilt of an older
generation.

As one newspaper colum-
nist put it, “What nation would
come up with the idea of
putting the most horrible acts
of its own history in such an
exposed position in gigantic
dimensions in its capital?”

Perhaps—”perhaps—the
Germans may not be able to
forget so easily. A short walk
from the center of town, a new
Jewish Museum is being
constructed. Like the spec—
tacular Gehry-built museum in
Bilbao, Spain, this one by the
Polish-American Daniel
Libeskind is similarly surreally
lopsided with tilted windows

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tions. It will attract many
sightseers, stand as a marked
contrast to the nearby tradi-
tional Berlin Museum, and may
remind many viewers of the
anguish of the Holocaust and
the tortured existence of the
German Jews.

Unfortunately, Germany is
not the only country in which
there is some semblance of
growing anti-Semiticism. The
problem is even stronger in
Russia. The scenario there is a
familiar one: In dire economic
times, people look for a
scapegoat. Just as historically
the Jews have been blamed, so
this is occurring in Russia
today. It will probably increase
what has been a slowing
exodus to Israel and the
United States.

Finally, a vexing question:
With Rubin and Greenspan
being the prominent managers
of the US economy, could a
recession spark a rise in anti-
Semiticism in the United
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n September 13-15,

I had the unique

opportunity to join
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women in Washington, DC.
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workshops on subjects
important to the Jewish
community and to women.
The theme of the UJ A
Women’s Division Confer-
ence was “Let us gather as
one from the four comers of
the earth.” Looking back
over my notes and the pro-
gram, I cannot believe I saw
and heard so much in such a
short time.

There were a number of
experts on the situation in the
Middle East, including His
Excellency Zalman Shoval,
Israel’s Ambassador to the

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the Permanent Observer
Mission of Palestine to the
US; Martin Indyk, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near
East Affairs; and Dennis
Ross, Special Middle East
Coordinator. I also attended
workshops on Women in
Politics and heard from one
of the authors of “The Money
Club,” a book on financial
planning for women. There
was also a very heated
discussion about the current
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Clinton at a workshop with
Ann Lewis, Director of
Communications for the
White House; Eleanor Clift,
Contributing Editor of
Newsweek and panelist on
“The McLaughlin Group; and
Lester Crystal, Executive
Producer, NewsHour with
Jim Lehrer.

Highlights of the meeting
included an evening at the
Kennedy Center (thanks to a
generous corporate sponsor),
“Israel at 50,” a celebration
with the National Symphony
Orchestra and last but
certainly not least, the key-
note speaker at our closing
program, First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton who spoke
eloquently about how far
women have come but how

   

If it seems that I have
glossed over a tremendous
amount of important informa-
tion, it is because I feel that
the most meaningful moments
came during a presentation of
where our UJ A money goes.
A film described the elderly
citizens of the Former Soviet
Union who are alone because
their children and grandchil-
dren have emigrated. Our
donations pay for these
elderly Jews to be picked up
and taken to centers where

TO RA H TO TS

December 4

MEWEngih' ‘

Dinner (Synagogue Shabbaton)
Ohavay Zion Synagogue

Call Synagogue (266-8050) for reservations

This is the first in a series of seven programs this year for pre-schoolers (to age

4) and their parents or grandparents. The remainder of the calendar will be

announced shortly. All children in the Jewish Community are welcome. For
further information call Kathy Feinberg (223- 1 304).

they can socialize and be fed.
For those who cannot leave
their homes, food is delivered
to them.

The most moving moment
was a young Israeli woman
who grew up in Ethiopia. She
described her childhood in a
small village and her parents
who talked about not “if”
they would go to Jerusalem
but “when.” She told of their
journey across the Sudan
with her 100 year old grand—
mother and other family
members, some of whom
died before they reached
Israel. Their joy in reaching
Jerusalem was surpassed by
the surprise they felt in seeing
white Jews for the first time.

I was in awe of this lovely
young woman who was so

shared her story of reaching
Jerusalem. There was not a
dry eye as she thanked us for
our contributions to the
rescue of the Ethiopian Jewish
community.

In this New Year, let us
dedicate ourselves to teach our
children the true meaning of
Tzedakah, righteousness, by
giving of ourselves. How do
we take care of our spiritual
needs? By taking care of the
physical needs of others.

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by Ruth Mose, Central Kentucky Jewish Federation

fier all that kvetching and kvelling in September, the 0
Leisure Club was finally able to sit down and enjoy a l e 15 u re ‘ l” b
leisurely lunch at the Woodland Grill. The kvetching
and kvelling was great, and we were delighted to see so many

New Americans there. They are always welcome, and we look M E E T & EA T B U F F E T L U N CH 1

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We have almost always met on the third Thursday of the , ,
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who have standing appointments on Thursday.
The Channukah party will be December 15 at Temple Adath T U ESDA Y, November I 7th
Israel. We have an exciting program planned following the
lighting ofthe menorah: 11:45 a. m. ‘
Dr. David Haller, former Chairman of Drama at Transylvania
University, will delightus with his beautiful singing voice and In November and December we Wlll meet on
piano accompaniment. , , ,
Our very own Bob Orbach will entertain us with his famous Tuesday. Thursday meetm gs Wlll resume 1n January
rendition of the e ic oem Casey at the Bat.
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the Leisure Club. Just come and have a good time. fit 2 68_ 0 6 7 2
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Kvellmg UK Children’s Hospital
by Judy Baumann
ere’ s an opportunity to spend one afternoon or evening a month working at the Parent
Resource Center and Library at the UK Children’ s Hospital. Be part of the Lexington
Chapter of Hadassah’s exciting new community service project! Here’s what we’ve
accomplished so far!
' Boxes and boxes of books have been delivered to the library. They are being entered by our
Hadassah and other Children’s Hospital volunteers into a database, color coded and shelved. ; =
- Hadassah volunteer Linda Ravvin, a librarian, has been instrumental in classifying the books i
by reading level.
- Two classes for using the Internet to access information for parents have been attended by
Hadassah volunteers, including Judy Baumann, Evelyn Geller, Linda Ravvin, Ruth Moser,
Natalie Sherman and Hanna Smith.
AND, as a result of a Hadassah Region Enhancement Grant our chapter received . . .
- 50 cloth dolls with hospital gowns have been enthusiastically received by Judi Martin, UK
Children’ 5 Hospital Child Life Coordinator to use with young patients prior to various proce- '
dures and operations. The dolls are being sewn (25 more are ready to be stitched) by a
cadre of Hadassah volunteers including: Norma Allweiss, Shirley Bryan, Liz Broudy, Susan
Cantor and Ann Freund. Under the able leadership of Leisure Club coordinators Annette
Milch and Ruth Moser, Leisure Club members stuffed the dolls at two of their meetings.
The wheels are rolling, and WE NEED AS MANY PEOPLE ON BOARD AS POS-
SIBLE to become part of our Hadassah volunteer corps! Come help us make this Parent
Resource Center and Library a state of the art facility and more accessible to the parents
and children in the hospital. .
Our goal is to have two afternoons and one evening a week be staffed by Hadassah volun-
teers. This includes Hadassah members, Associates, teenagers, friends and family. Sundays are
also possible. Please call Judy Baumann at 223-1299 NOW to offer your help. 1%
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The 50th doll to the UK Children’s H spital~

Hadassah and Norma Allweiss from the Leisure Club. The hospital gowns were sewn by by Roberta DaViS and Gail Cohen ofthe U-K- Sanders-Brown

I hese dolls were cut out, sewn together, stuffed and labeled by Susan Canor from

Norma Allweiss and Liz Brody from Hadassah. The entire Leisure Club dressed the dolls
at the September Leisure Club meeting held at the Synagogue. This entire project has been
organized and carried out under the leadership of Ruth Moser (Leisure Club liaison to Hadassah), Babysitting i5 available—call Susan He 1 [er man at 268-8442

co-sponsor of the Leisure Club.

   
   
  

 

Hadassah General Meeting
November 1 0th 0 7:30 p.m.
Subject: Alzheimer’s

6 Lexington Chapter of Hadassah will hold its General
meeting on November 10, 1998 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple
Adath Israel. Subject: “Alzheimer’s: Update on Impor-
tant Medical Research and an Overview of Services,” presented

Center on Aging, Lindsey Eim of the Alzheimer’ 5 Association,
and Elizabeth Stotler of Richmond Place.

 

 

 

 

ADOPTION FAIR

1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Everything you want to know about adoption and foster care.

Workshops:
1:15 p.m. - Open Adoption
2:00 p.m. - International Adoption
2:45 p.m. - Transracial Adoption
3 :30 p.m. - Adoption/Foster Care — Where do we begin?

 

 

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For additional information call 246—2256, 246-2273 or 1—800-432-9346

 

 

Lexington Havurah

Friday, October 30“ — 8 pm

Kabbalat Shabbat Services

Lexington Theological Seminary
631 S. Limestone

(parking is in the back, then use back entrance to social hall.)

Friday, November 20‘“ — 8 pm

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e Lexington Havurah was founded in 1978
and is affiliated with both the United Synagogue
of Conservative Judaism and The National

Havurah Committee. Our members come from diverse 1
religious backgrounds — from the unaffiliated, to Reform, i
Conservative, Reconstructionist and Orthodox. Our
services are egalitarian, and our educational programs i
take full advantage of the wealth of knowledge of people
both inside and outside the Lexington community. Our
membership includes families with young children and
teens, couples and singles. Many members also belong to
one of the other Jewish congregations, and participate in
both groups. We have no building or professional staff.
We have a tremendous amount of energy, creativity and
the desire to live a meaningful and spiritual Jewish life. ! '
So, whether you are new to Lexington or have been here

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for a while, we invite you to attend our services. They are
announced monthly in shalom along with phone
numbers for more information. If you wish additional
information please call Jeremy Popkin, 271-3187 or Judy
Baumann, 223—1299. You can also get updated informa-
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Center to become a reality, a tremendous commitment, both
financial as well as personal, on the part of the Central Ken-
tucky Jewish community would have to be made. We would
have to undertake a major Capital Campaign. Members of our
community must become involved in focus groups and task
forces to help shape the vision of the J CC. A commitment by a
substantial majority of our community to become members of
the Central Kentucky Jewish Community Center is necessary.

During the three years that I have been the Executive
Director for the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation, I have
often heard the comment, “What we really need here is a
JCC!” Now is the time to stand up and be counted. Call the
CKJF office (268-