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RESETTLEMENT PROJECT
NEEDS CONTINUED EFFORT

Photos: The Wumsers, Jerry (above)
and Rose Rita (below) recently
received the CKJF Chai Award for
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additional volunteers. Consider your human obligations to

MARCH 1994

Newspaper of the Central Kentueku
lewish Feberation

CK$JF

Several years ago the
Jewish community of Central
Kentucky decided to
participate in the
internatidnal effort to
integrate Jews from the
former Soviet Union into
Jewish communities in the
United States and Israel. We
made this commitment
eagerly and sincerely. And,
for the initial months, we
responded generously with
time and effort.

Now. it seems, our

enthusiasm has waned. The ‘

idea of resettlement still is
important. We remain
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were,

resettlement to a loyIfe‘

other human beings and let us know how you will help.
We are in dire need of two people to serve as

Volunteer Co-Coordinators.

These coordinators maintain

lists of people in the community who have volunteered to
drive or translate or help with tax preparation or explain

how to use Lextran or to assist the new Americans in coping

with the details ofa new and
different way of living. When
the Program Director calls
for assistance in any of these
areas, the coordinator
arranges for a volunteer to
provide that assistance. The
coordinators have a very
responsible position. At

Cont. pg. 5
See RESETTLEMENT

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IN ISRAEL WITH
SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL

In Israel: (from I. to r.) Senator McConnell's Alde, Steve Caller, Nancy Hoffman, Susan Caller,

Simone Salomon, Phil Hoffman. Senator McConnell, Art Salomon, Elaine Chao, Sara Levy. Alan

Bloomﬁeld, Erle Levy

BY: STEVEN H. CALLER

On January 12, seven
Kentucky couples
accompanied Senator Mitch
McConnell and his wife,
Elaine Chao, to Israel for a
week long tour. Several were
travelling to Israel for the
first time, although the
Senator had been twice and
Ms. Chao once.

Upon arrival in Tel
Aviv the group was greeted
and escorted to its hotel to
rest and deal with the jet lag
of a 12 hour ﬂight and 7 hour
time change. Several folks
walked the busy streets or
prepared for a dinner with
Yaakov Kirschner, a famous
cartoonist and satirist who
gave the group a perspective
of what could be expected
during the visit.

The Senator and Ms.

Chao went directly_ to

Jerusalem and held several
high level meetings with
Israeli military officials.
They were accompanied by
Robin Cleveland. the
Senator's chief aide on the
foreign operations committee,
on which he is the ranking
Republican member.

The rest of the group
toured the North of Israel,
spending Thursday night on
a kibbutz on the sea of
Galilee. Friday started with
a drive up onto the Golan
Heights, where the group
viewed the principal security
issues of the area. From
there, we drove along the
Jordan River down to
Jericho. We climbed the Tel
(ancient archaeological site of
the original city, thought to
be 13,000 years old). We also
viewed the city as the future
capital of Yasser Arafat and
the new Palestinian

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government. There was a
rush of building activity as
Arab speculators expect the
city to grow rapidly during
the transition to self-rule.
Late Friday afternoon
we drove west up the ancient
road to Jerusalem entering
the "City of Peace" from the
Mount of Olives. A light rain
cleared away and the sun
shone brightly on the
beautiful landscape of
Jerusalem, a view which has
captivated travellers for
thousands of years. We
made the traditional blessing
for Jews of the Diaspora as
we entered the Holy City.
From there we
proceeded to the King David
Hotel, our home for the
remainder of our stay. This
wonderful 5 star hotel has

Cont. pg. 4
See ISRAEL

Page 2

THE TORAH THIS MONTH

BY RABBI JON ADLAND

March 5/ 22 Adar
SHABBAT
PARAHIVAYAKHEL
Ex. 3521-38z20

As we begin to
conclude the book of
Exodus/Sh’mot the portion
turns its attention to the
construction of the
Tabernacle. At the beginning
of the sidrah the people are
assembled, commanded to
observe Shabbal. by complete
rest and without kindling
any ﬁre. This is followed by
the command to bring gifts
for the construction of the
Tabernacle.

The material required
is very speciﬁc; a theme
followed through from this
chapter until the end of the
building. God knows exactly
what the Tabernacle is to
look like when it is

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completed. God will describe
this vision in incredible detail
to Moses and the people.
Some of this material
includes gold. silver and
copper, as well as blue,
purple, and crimson yarns,
fine linen. and goats’ hair.
Also, in order to construct the
Tabernacle, tanned ram
skins, dolphin skins, and
acacia wood are required.
Once the Tabernacle is
completed the people must
also have oil for lighting;
spices for the anointing oil
and for the aromatic incense.
Moses tells the people
that every skilled workmen
must participate in the
building. He singles out
Bezalel, son of Uri son of
Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
Evidently, Bezalel is endowed
with special skills, spirit,
ability and knowledge of
every kind, of craft necessary
to building this holy place.
After choosing
Bezalel, and later Oholiab
and every skilled workmen,
the exact picture of the
Tabernacle is described
including dimension, fabric,

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poles and more

Chapter 37 describes
the ark and other vessels
that will be placed in the
Tabernacle. It is to be made
of acacia wood, overlaid with
gold, gold rings and acacia
wood poles. Two cherubim
made from gold will stand at

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Store Manager

each end of the ark. The
chapter concludes with the
description of the lampstand
of pure gold and the incense
altar of acacia wood.

The final chapter
describes the altar and its
utensils. The altar, made of
acacia wood, had horns on
each corner overlaid with
copper. The utensils included
pails, scrapers, basins, ﬂesh
hooks, and fire pans all made
of copper.

March 12/ 29 Adar
SHABBAT
HACHODESI-I/PEKUDE
Ex. 38:21—40:38

Pekude concludes the
book of Exodus. As in the
above portion, the focus is on

the erection of the
Tabernacle. The portion
begins with a statistical

summary of the materials
used for the Tabernacle.
Then follows the account of
producing the priestly
vestments, containing a
faithful repetition of earlier
chapters. When everything
is made, Moses blesses the
people and proceeds to set up
the Tabernacle. Chapter 40.
in extreme detail describes
the placing of everything
precisely in its spot in the
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the Tal'iemaele of the Tent of
Meeting. Aaron and his sons
are washed with water.
Aaron puts on the sacral
vestments and is anointed.
Next his sons put on their
tunics and are anointed.
The very end of the
is a moment. of

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intense spirituality. When
the work was ﬁnished a cloud
covers the Tent of Meeting
and God’s presence ﬁlls the
Tabernacle. As longs as the
cloud remained, the people
didn’t journey and Moses
didn't enter the Tent. When
the cloud lifted, the Israelites
would set out being led by a
cloud by day and fire by
night.

March 19/ 7 Nisan

SHABBAT VAYIKRA
Lev. 1:1-5z26
Parshat Vayikra

introduces us to the various
sacrifices of the Israelites
people. Each chapter
includes a definition of the
purpose of the sacrifice and
how the sacriﬁce was to be
carried out. Few details are
left to the imagination.

The ﬁrst offering is
the Olah - Burnt Offering.
Olah Means “what goes up,”
because the entire animal,
except for the hide, is burned
on the altar. This was
considered a standard
sacriﬁce and was not used for
atonement or petition. Most
communal sacrifices were
clot.

The minchah - meal
offering - was a gift offering

the ingredients of the
mim‘hah It might be
uncooled, or prepared in an
oven, griddle, or pan, as the
donor chose. A portion was
turned into smoke on the
altar and the rest was for
Aaron and his sons, “a most

holy portion from the Lords

Road

offerings by fire.’
Interestingly, no meal offer
could include leaven or
honey. First fruits could be
brought in their season. A
portion was turned into
smoke and the rest was for
the priests.

The Zevadi SheImniIn

sacrifice of well-being -
distinctive feature was the
festive meal eaten by the
sacrificer and his guests after
the prescribed portions had
been offered on the altar and
share had been given to the
priests. Often this sacrifice
is referred to as the peace
offering. Some Shelamim
were brought to fulfill a vow,
many were not.

The above sacrifices
were all brought voluntarily.
Chapter 4 begins describing
those sacrifices that were
obligatory because of
incurred guilt. They served
to expiate unintentional sins.
Jewish law did not allow an
individual to do a deliberate
wrong and then make it right
with a sacriﬁce, Proverbs
15:8 says, “The sacrifice of
the wicked is an abomination
to the Lord."

In Chapter 4, the
sacriﬁced is called chatat
usually. translated “sin-

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treatment of the. blood as a
result of who incurs the guilt.
If it is a priest or ifthe sin is
on the entire community. the
blood is taken into the “holy

Cont, pg. 4
See TORAH

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LOCAL NEWS

A RECIPE FOR SUMMER FUN

BYLYNN COOPER

Ingredients:

One - Terrifically talented camp director named Sara
Hoffman

One - Equally enthusiastic assistant director named
Sue Little

A Cluster - of competent counselors

Two - Wonderful weeks of fun August 8 - 19 (NOTE
THE NEW DATES)

One - Fabulously fun campsite at Woodmen of the

World

And - A variety of vivacious and fun-loving campers

Bake at 80-90 degrees, stirring in the pool
occasionally, and the result will be a warm, wonderful, wild
CAMP SHALOM experience?

Make your plans to cook up some fun at CAMP
SHALOM Be on the lookout for brochures to be mailed
soon.

COUNSELORS
NEEDED

It's not too soon to be
thinking about your summer
plans. Camp Shalom is
looking for counselors, age 14
years and up, for this year's
summer session, from August
8 through August 19, 1994.

C a m p e r s a n d
counselors had a great

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summer last year at our new 1

site and we are looking
forward to an even better
summer.

If you are interested
in a rewarding summer as a
counselor in a Jewish
environment. please submit a
letter of interest to the
Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation by March 31. For
more information call 268-
0672.

SMALL CITIES CONFERENCE
PARTICIPANTS WELCOME

'l'he United Jewish
Appeal / (‘ouneil of Jewish
Federations Small Cities
Conference will be held in
Ann Arbor, Michigan from '
June 3 - 5, 1994. It is hoped
that a maim‘ |75 Board Mectm- .. .

superSnaiidy Followup - p.m.
Matthew Frank Bar Mitzvah - TAI

6 OZS Education Committee - 7:30 pm.
Hadassah Fun & Fitness Day- Lexington Tennis Club
1:00 - 4:00 pm.

7 CKJF Camp Shalom Committee Meeting - Lynn
Cooper's Home - 7:30 pm.

8 Hadassah Leadership Dinner at Vinnies - 5:30 pm.

Hadassah Board Meeting/National Speaker 8:00 pm.
12 Heather Ravvin Bat Mitzvah - TAI
15 CKJF Resettlement Committee Meeting - 730 pm.
17 Hadassah Women's Discussion Group - OZS 8:00 pm.
18 Oneg - Cooper/Kirschenbaum Wedding - OZS
Ali Kaplan Bat Mitzvah - TAI
20 Cooper/Kirschenbaum Wedding - OZS - 2:00 pm.
Passover Seder - OZS
21 CKJF Executive Committee Meeting - 7:30 pm.
22 Sisterhood - Cooking for Passover - OZS - 7:30 pm
CKJF Community Relations Committee - 7:30 pm.
23 CKJF Board Meeting - 7:30 pm.
Multi-Cultural Diversity Day at UK.
24 Multi-Cultural Diversity Day at UK.
28 CKJF Budget Committee - 8:00 pm.
29 Leisure Club Meeting 2:00 pm. TAI

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THE TORAH THIS
MONTH

From pg. 2

place” and sprinkled on the

horns of the incense altar

and toward the shrine. If the

sinner is a secular ruler or a

commoner, the blood is put

on the horns of the main
altar and the meat is eaten
by the priests.

Finally, chapter 5
begins with four special cases
that require a diatat offering
and then we learn about the
ashmn - guilt offering. The
four special cases are:

1. When a person has
heard a public
imprecation and he
(1 o e s n o t g iv e
information;

2. When a person
touches any unclean
thing and the fact has
escaped him;

3. When a
touches
uncleanness

person
human
and,

though he has known
it, the fact has
escaped the person;

4. When a person utters
an oath to bad or good
purpose and the fact
has escaped the
person.

The asham sacriﬁce
was for deliberate
misappropriation of property
or by. finding something lost
and lying about it.

March 26/ 14 Nisan
SHABBAT
HAGADOIJ'I‘ZAV
Lev. 6:1—8z36

This portion returns
to the club, minchah, and
chatat offerings. Though the
text is new, most of the
portion discusses the ritual
surrounding the sacriﬁces.
This includes how the priest
dresses when eating the
offering, what is done with
the leftovers, and purifying
the vessels used.

Chapter 8 begins the
Cont. pg. 6
See TORAH

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ISRAEL WITH SENATOR MITCH McCONNELL

From pg. 1

been completely redone and
exudes European charm.
The hotel hosts most visiting
dignitaries and prior to 1948.
(Israel’s statehood) was the
headquarters of the British
Occupation of Palestine.
During our stay there was
resident Phil Gramm, US.
Senator from Texas, Ron
Brown, US. Secretary of
Commerce and Dennis Ross.
President Clinton's chief
negotiator for peace in the
region. Security was high
and the red carpet was rolled
out often.

W e h u r r i e d l y
registered and changed
clothes for a special Sabbath
service at the Western Wall
in the Old City. Every
Friday night, as the sun
begins to set. thousands of

Jews flock to the ancient wall
to greet the coming of the

Sabbath. There is great
excitement in the air as
hundreds of students and
scholars come singing and
dancing into the stone
courtyard. Several services
were conducted, ranging from
the Ultra Orthodox to
individuals praying along.
From there we returned to
the hotel for Sabbath dinner.

Saturday morning
was a time for touring the old
city, and our guide gave us a
three hour walking
experience through the Arab
and Christian quarters. We
visited the 1,200 year old
Dome of the Rock, a holy
Islamic shrine, where,
barefoot, we saw where
Mohammed leaped to Heaven
on his horse, El Barak. We
walked on through the
bustling streets where
merchants hawked their
wares until we arrived at the
Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. We retraced the
steps of Jesus along the Via
Dolorosa and learned of the
importance of many
Christian shrines.

By then we were tired
and ready for lunch. We
walked to an Arab restaurant
where we feasted on Arab
delicacies of Falafel,
hummas, tahina, salads and
strong coffee. Although our
bodies were telling us that
night was coming, in fact it
was just past noon, local
time. After lunch we went to
the Israel Museum and
viewed the Shrine of the

From I. to r.:
Peres and Elaine Chao.

Book (Dead Sea Scrolls) the
Billy Rose sculpture garden
and many of the exhibits of
religious and archaeological
significance.

We returned to the
hotel for a brief nap in
preparation for our ﬁrst
official dinner. At the hotel
that evening we dined with
Senators McConnell and
Gramm, their wives and
staff. Other visitors joined
the mean to listen to
speeches and declarations.
Following each event, we
adjourned to the bar to
discuss the events of the (lay
and what to expect the next
day.

. During the next few

Senator Mitch McConnell, Foreign Minister Shimon

days we had private meetings
with Yitzhak Rabin, the
prime minister, Shimon
Peres, the foreign minister.
as well as the finance
minister and members of the
opposition party. All
expressed their appreciation
for the U. S. role in
attempting to broker a fair
and lasting peace.

We gathered that
Israel is prepared to
exchange a great deal of its
country for peace with its
neighbors. We found the
man on the street willing to
give the peace process .a

Cont. pg. 6
See McCONNELL

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CULTURAL DIVERSITY AT UK

Celebrating Diversity: A Festival of Life is once
again around the corner. The celebration is a University of
Kentucky campus wide effort to share an awareness and
sensitivity to all cultures among the people at UK and the
entire community. The celebration includes food. crafts and
entertainment from different cultures. This year there will
also be a fashion show. The celebration will be held
Wednesday, March 23 and Thursday, March 24 from 11:00
am until 2:00 pm.

As in the past, the Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation has been invited to sponsor a booth in the
Student Center Ballroom displaying various Jewish
memorabilia. If you would like to be part of these
educational and entertaining days or if you have Judaica
that you feel would be important. to display at this event,
please contact CKJF at 268-0622. If you have an hour or
more to talk with students on the 23rd or 24th, you can
make a difference.

This is a wonderful opportunity to show our pride in
Judaism. We hope there will be many in our community who
will join the celebration!

UNIVERSITY TO EXAMINE HEALTH
CARE RATIONING

LEXlNGTON. KY (Feb. 8. 1994)--How much health
care will health care rationing provide? Who will decide how
limited health care resources are distributed‘.’ How can
access. costs and quality be balanced and legal, economic and
ethical coheerns be met?

An open forum to discuss these and other issues is
planned for April 6 and 7 at the University of Kentucky (U K)
Singletary Center for the Arts in Lexington. The two-day

program "llezillh (Wire liillllillll‘iif l'liiiitlements, Economies

Mn. and Health Gare.P_ractices," is a presentation of the $993394.

University Forum sponsored by the Ofﬁce of the Vice
President for Research and Graduate Studies and the
Department of Anesthesiology. UK (‘ollege of Medicine.

The forum will bring a distinguished group of
national experts and Kentucky panelists together for what
Dr. Michael Rie, Forum Director, calls a lively dialogue about
a "politically incorrect taboo subject ."

"Americans have been led to believe that they are
entitled to the best health care in unrestricted quality while
costs are contained. However, any thinking person can
reason that universal health care cannot be all things to all
people," says Rie, as associate professor of anesthesiology and
surgery at UK.

The April 6 session features an overview of the
Oregon Health Plan by Dr. John Kitzhaber, former president
of the Oregon Senate, and a presentation about reforming
malpractice laws by E. Haavi Morreim of the University of
Tennessee. Rie speaks on the administrative limits of
individual care in intensive care units and the Rev. Kevin
Wildes of Georgetown University delivers "The Gospel of
Inequality in Health Care."

The April 7 session includes presentations on "The
Science of Predicting Death in Intensive Care Units" by
Daniel Teres of Tufts University School of Medicine and ”The
Message of Oregon: Wealth Transfer, Peaceful Co-Existence
and the Virtues of a Multi-tiered Health Care System in the
American Economy" by H. Tristam Engelhardt, Jr. of Baylor
College of Medicine. A member of the Clinton
Administration has been invited to make a presentation on
balancing access, costs and quality.

Each session will be interactive with audience
participation and feedback from a reactor panel. The forum
closes April 7 with a two-hour afternoon town meeting from
2:45 to 4:45 pm.

Admission is free, but seating reservations are
requested. Some professional continuing education credits
are available for a processing fee. To make reservations or
request a brochure, call (606) 323-5956.

SIMCHAS AND SUCH

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MAZEL
TOV...

...to Bob and Penny
Miller on the birth of their
granddaughter, Emily
Beatrice Miller, on February
7. 1994.

The proud parents are
Jonathan and Lisa Miller.

...to Mark and Ginger
Knight on the birth of their
daughter, Katrina Knight, on
February 14, 1994.

...to Herb Fertig on being
awarded the Sloan
Fellowship. This pretigious
grant is given in recognition
of Herb's accomplishments in
solid state physics.

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All Ii" share her Bat Hitlvali in Eull‘tt
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...to Rabbi Eric and Kim
Slaton, and Evan and Seth
Slaton, on the birth of their
son and brother, on February
21,1994.

RESETTLEMENT PROJECT
NEEDS CONTINUED EFORT

From pg, 1
present, our Program
Director must fill it, in

addition to all of her other
staff obligations. We are

new ‘ was

our Jewish community to ﬁll
this position. but would
appreciate your assistance in
finding two Volunteer Co-
Coordinators.

Of equal importance
is our need for volunteers to
perform the many jobs that
are essential to integrating
our new compatriots into this
different world in which they

now live. If you have any
time; if you have any useful
skill or talent; if you are
willing to "do anything";
please call Sharyn Sharer at

the CKJlV office (268-0672 or,
_ ‘e‘

on a volunteer list. We need
people for just about
everything; people who can
help us find jobs, who can
drive the new Americans to
job interviews and doctors
appointments, who can help
in an acculturation program,
who are physically able to
"schlep" and help set up
apartments, and who are

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HEAHlER SUSAN

Saturday. the tIElttli of March
at IO 30 AH
lupin Adath Israel
124 North Asiiland Avenue
lexlngtun. KY