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Published: 02.12.13 / Israel News

Jerusalem and Washington have set the
itinerary for President Barack Obama
visit to Israel.

Obama is scheduled to land in Ben
Gurion International Airport around
noon on Wednesday, March 20.

He will be welcomed by a State recep-
tion which will include speeches by
President Shimon Peres, Prime Min—
ister Benjamin Netanyahu and by the
American president himself.

\~—-—Obama will then fly to Jerusalem

directly to Peres’ residence where he’ll
again be ceremoniously received.

He will continue with Peres and
Netanyahu to Yad Vashem Holocaust
Museum, where he will lay a wreath in
the Hall of Remembrance.

The next stop will be Mount Herzl,
where Obama will lay a wreath on
Herzl’s tomb as a gesture to Zion—
ism. Obama will continue to Yitzhak
Rabin’s tomb, laying a wreath there as
well.

In the afternoon, the entourage will
arrive at the prime minister’s house,
where Netanyahu and Obama will
meet with small delegations to discuss

US president to arrive in Israel March

20, ahead ofstops in PA, Jordan; set to
make public speech in Jerusalem, visit Iron
Dome battery.

issues such as Iran, Syria, the peace
process and Jonathan Pollard.

Following the meeting a joint press
conference will be held, after which the
two and their staff will dine together.

The following morning Obama will
depart for Ramallah to meet with Pal-
estinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Obama will return to Jerusalem by
noon, when he will be taken by Ne-
tanyahu to examine a model of Second
Temple Period Jerusalem.

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Yom Ha’Shoah and
Yom Ha’Atzmaut
Commemorations in April

In spite of the cold’ temperatures out—
side, spring is just around the comer
and that means the Yom Ha’Shoah
committee and the Yom Ha’Atzmaut
committees are busy planning.

This year, the Yom Ha’Shoah Com—
memoration will be observed the
morning of Sunday, April 14““ at
Temple Adath Israel. The commemora—
tion shall consist of programming for
all ages. The principals of both Ohavay
Zion Synagogue (llona Szekely) and
Temple Adath Israel (Jane Crise) are

. rdamning joint programming for the

religious school students to learn to-
gether. Programs educating our youth
on empathy, tolerance, inclusion, geno-
cide, and social justice will be based on
lessons from the Shoah. Programming
for the adults will consist of a commu—
nity memorial service, music by a joint
choir consisting rot members from both

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congregations, and a short film that
will stimulate discussion connecting
the lessons of the Shoah with event in
the world today. The discussion will be
lead by committee members.

On the following Sunday, April 21st,
Yom Ha’Atzmaut will be celebrated.
We will be commemorating Israel’s
65th anniversary of independence.
The enthusiastic committee is busy
pursuing new and exciting ideas for
all ages to experience the joy of Yom
l-la’Atzmaut. There will be booths
sharing information about ways we
can support Israel as well as interac~
tive booths that exhibit Israeli life. The
community celebration is intended for
all ages. IO

Mark your calendars and plan on attend-
ing both events!

dinner, drinks

8: music for women only

Please join your friends for the 3rd
annual Women’s Happy Hour to be
held on Monday, March 18 at 5:30 pm
at Durango’s Mexican Restaurant,

2121 Richmond Road. We will enjoy a
delicious buffet of Mexican vegetarian
treats, dessert and, of course, a margar—
ita or beverage of your choice. Enter—
tainment will be provided by Elvis and
his friends. The event is being chaired
by Janice Newman. Committee mem-
bers are Marcia Blacker, Jane Chaput,
and Linda Ravvin.

The cost of the evening is $18. Bring
your mother —in-law and you will get
a $3.00 discount. All participants will
have the opportunity to contribute a
minimum of $18 to the 2013 Women’s
Philanthropy Campaign. (1

See pictures, page 18.
For information and reservations, please

call the Federation ofi‘ice at 268-0672 or
send an email to ]fb@jewishlexington.org.

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Editorial 3
JFS: At Your Service 4
Ask A Rabbi 5
Israel 21c: Israeli helps India rehabilitate polluted river ................................ 6
B’nai Mitzvah 7
Jewish Federations Engage Holocaust Survivors ............................................ 9
Yom HaAtzmaut Committee 10
Tzeason of Tzedakah at Mayfair Village 12
The Lexington Chapter of Hadassah 15
Sim Shalom news ........ ..15
B’tayavon ..... 16
Ohavay Zion Synagogue .............. 17
Women’s Night Out 2012 18
Temple Adath Israel 20
The Lexington Havurah 21
Around the Community 22

 

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 From the Director

Judy Wortman, JFB Executive

 

A time to learn and a time to give

In early February, members of the
Board of Directors of the Jewish
Federation of the Bluegrass met for a
board retreat in order to sharpen our
skills as stewards of the federation
and to plan for our future. The special
guest trainer was Debbie Stein, Senior
Director of Learning and Development
for the Jewish Federations of North
America’s Mandel Center for Leader-
ship Excellence.

One of the side benefits of the experi-
ence was learning about one another in
a context other than in the framework
of a board meeting. Our first task of
the day was to share information about
ourselves. We were asked to think
back and complete the sentences,

”When I was 10 years old, I wanted to
be

”Currently I am a

"‘ WWI)“ I really .wanted to

do right now, (aside from what I cur-
rently do), it would be to...

Did you know that among the leaders
of our Jewish community we have sev-
eral would-be ballerinas and thespians,
professional athletes, veterinarians,
and an explorer of other galaxies? I
must say that while our 10-year—old as-
pirations may not have been realized,
the collective achievements and talents
of our members are most notable — we
are attorneys, professors, social work-

First and third Sundays of the month

Yiddish Prop-in!

ers, artists,
writers,
parents and
grandpar-
ents. If not
engaged in
our cur-
rent professions, many would like to
travel the world, several would like

to be philanthropists, and one would
like to be an executive chef and open
his own restaurant. No matter what
their goals and dreams may be, all of
our board members are giving their
time and their funds to help make
this community and our world a little
better. In addition to those elected to
the JFB board, 9 are representatives of
other Jewish community organizations
including the two congregations, the
Havurah, Hadassah, and B’nai B'rith.
In addition to serving as volunteers in
these organizations, they have the full
responsibilities of board membership
at JFB as well. Those who are elected

., members are also heavily involved in ;
5 other 'com‘ munal institutions. ‘ “‘ ‘ '

On behalf of the IFB staff, I Would

like to thank our volunteer partners
for their commitment to tikkun alum,
repairing the world. Thank you for all
the time you give and for the two Sun-
days you spent last month learning to
be more effective leaders at the Board
retreat and for successfully soliciting
your friends and neighbors on Super
Sunday. Kol ha Kavod! 3:!

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Editorial

David Wortman

 

”One and done”

This seems to be the motto for good
basketball players in the NCAA. Why
finish an education when you can
make millions playing professional
basketball? It is because success in
these United States is determined by
the amount of money one makes —

not by academic achievement, not by
teaching our children, not by being a
mensch, not by doing mitzvot. I am not
belittling athletes. Few people have
their abilities. What I am saying is that
an education is at least as important, if
not more, than jumping into a sports
career too early.

Jewish tradition has always set educa-
tion at the top of its priorities. In the
paragraph after the Shema, which we
recite twice a day, it is written, ”And
thou shalt teach them diligently unto
thy children.” The Mishnah (chapter
1, mislmah 6) Rabbi Yehoshua Ben
Perachya says, "Make for yourself a
teacher...” In the Talmud (Sliabbat 31a)
Hillel responds to his questioner when
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rah while standing on one foot, ”That
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your neighbor. This is the whole of the
Torah; the rest is commentary. Go forth
and study.”

One of the few bi-partisan agreements
in the Congress is the importance of
education.

There are few occupations these days
that do not require some amount of ed—
ucation. We have an obligation to our
children to encourage them to learn.

I would further argue that learning
does not stop at graduation. We should
continue learning throughout life by
reading, attending classes (either in
person or online), emulating good

role models, helping our kids in their
studying, and / or involving ourselves
in congregations and Federation, be—
coming enlightened by the rabbis.

Some might argue that it’s hard to
teach an old dog new tricks. I would
respond that it is never too late to learn
something. Even if it is not formal
education, there are plenty of informal
education opportunities available.

We need to turn one and done on its
head. One is never done. t

 

 

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JFS: At Your Service

Mimi Kaufman, JFS Director

 

 

A lot of
professions
set aside a
month, a
week, or a
day to pause
and recog-
nize their
profession.
March is Social Work MonthI! With
”tikkun 01am” or making the world a
better place being so central to the core
of our Jewish values, it is no surprise
that there are many social workers
who are also Jewish. Happy Social
Work Month to all of the social work—
ers reading this month’s Shalom!

 

Interestingly, since taking on the
responsibility of the Jewish Family
Service Director I have had a few folks
ask me,”What do you do?” And under-
standingly, there are a lot of miscon-
ceptions about what social workers do.
So, I decided that this month I would
dedicate the ”ask JFS” article to giving
you my take on the profession of Social
Work as well as what Jewish Family
Services is about.

Our profession is called ”social” work
for a reason. We look at a person in
their environment, we look at com-
munities, and we look at systems both
large and'small. When we determine
the root cause of a problem, we look at
all the facets and the interrelationships
but it is the 'social’ that drives our
interventions.

Often, our clients are victims of im-
perfect systems. They are the disad-
vantaged, the disenfranchised, the
invisible and the forgotten. As social
workers, we stand squarely on their
side. Our belief in social justice is one
of the things that set social workers
apart from other professions.

Advocacy is the cornerstone on which
social work is built. Without it, there

would be no social work profession.

Hope is also an important concept
of our profession. Social work is the

4 | March 2013 Shalom

‘profession of Hope”. We know how
difficult it is for people to change and
maintain, to overcome setbacks and
disappointments, and suffering. Social
workers forever have hope and believe
that families can be functional; work—
places can be healthy; and communi-
ties can be safe.

So what is Jewish Family Services?
And how did it start in Lexington,
Kentucky? From my understanding,
roughly twenty years ago JFS was born
as the Social Service Committee to the
then called Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation. Its primary role at the time
was to care for our elderly and to help
our Russian Families who were reset-
tling in the Central KY after escaping
the Soviet Union. All of the work was
done by volunteers with experience

in social services. Then, in 1994 CKJF
hired their first professional to become
the Director of Jewish Family Service.

Today, JFS has one paid professional,
myself. There is also a wonderful Jew-
ish Family Service Committee which
is a very well run group of volunteers,
and it is my job to follow their direc—
tion of what they feel are the needs of
our community. The committee also

is instrumental in the planning of the
Jewish Family Life Education pro-
grams sponsored by the Jewish Federa-
tion of the Bluegrass.

Our JFS can provide direct assistance
for clients and make referrals to other
agencies when needed. All of the
services are free and confidential.
And while there is no charge for our
JFS services, it is a myth that a person
must be in financial difficulty to ask for
assistance. JFS is here to serve every-
one. At some point in life everyone
is in need of assistance whether it be
financial, physical, or emotional. We
are just a phone call away and will be
here to listen and offer confidential
professional help and support. a

Source; 2009 National Association of
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Ask A Rabbi

Rabbi David Wortman

 

: What are the differences between the
Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox
Iu aism?

: This is a frequently asked ques-

tion. The most common answer
given relates to practice. Reform Jews
do this, Conservative Jews do that,
and Orthodox Jews do something
else. There is a kernel of truth in this
response. However, the practice differ-
ences are based on deeper theological
points of view.

In Jewish thought there are two
approaches to the origin of Divine
interaction with sacred text. The first
is revelation. This argues that God
Himself dictated the Torah on Sinai
(e.g. Exodus 20) and began the process
described in Pirke Avot, chapter one
Mishnah one, ”Moses received the
Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to
Joshua, Joshua to the elders, and the
Elders to the Prophets, and the Proph-
ets to the Men of the Great Assembly.”
- ends with the codification
of the Talmud in the 4th century.

The other approach is called Divine
inspiration. According to this idea,

God inspired man to write what they
wrote and that sacred scripture is not
revealed. This process does not end at
a particular moment in time. It is pos-
sible to be inspired by God even today.
Unfortunately, there are many who
claim to be thus inspired to do evil in

the name of God.

As far as the movements are con-
cerned, these are significant differ-
ences. Orthodoxy understands that all
sacred scripture (in their eyes, Torah
and Talmud) is revealed. Therefore,
we can interpret the Law but not
change it. An example is the law con-
cerning capital punishment. A number
of times the Torah calls for capital
punishment. Yet we read, ”According
to the Mishnah (Sanhedrin 1:4) the
death penalty could only be inflicted,
after trial, by a Sanhedrin composed
of twenty-three judges and there were
four types of death penalty (Sanhedrin
7:1): stoning, burning, slaying (by the
sword), and strangling.” (Louis Jacobs)
Further interpreting, the Mishnah tells
us (Mishnah Makkot 1:10): ”A Sanhe-
drin that puts a man to death once in
seven years is called destructive. Rabbi
Eliezer ben Azariah says: even once in
seventy years. Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi
Tarfon say: had we been in the Sanhe-
drin none would ever have been put to
dea .” '

In this we see that while the Torah
calls for capital punishment, God also
revealed the restrictions on its applica-
tion.

The Conservative movement has taken
a different direction In Conservative
theology, the Torah was revealed, but
the Talmud was inspired. To under-
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example again. A Conservative theo-
logian would suggest that the crimes
for which one is obligated to be put to
death are, in fact, revealed to Moses
on Sinai and written in the Torah. On
the other hand, the Talmudic interpre-
tations derive from the rabbis them—
selves, inspired by God, in trying to
understand the application of Torah
Law.

Finally, the Reform movement does
not, generally, accept revelation. All of
sacred literature is inspired and chang-
es with time and circumstance. Once
more returning to the issue of capital
punishment, a Reform theologian
would argue that the laws concerning
the death penalty in the Torah were
written by man in a manner that was
meaningful to the people at the time.
The Talmudic response comes about so
as to reflect differing views on putting
someone to death (and also to differen-
tiate the Jews from the Romans).

These are
significant
differences.
The theologi-
cal under-
standing of
Law dictates
practice.
Thus, we have returned full circle to
the initial inference that what distin-
guished one movement from another
is practice.

The important lesson to learn is that
all Jews, irrespective of movement, are
equally committed Jews, deserving of
respect and understanding. Too often,
members of one movement or an-
other express prejudice, even derision,
toward another movement. All per-
spectives are equally authentic within
their communities. We must learn to
embrace one another for the sake of
the Jewish people and for the sake of
Heaven. IO!

 

 

 

 Israel 21C: Israeli helps India rehabilitate polluted river

Technologies developed in
Israel to recycle the country’s
precious water resources are
being used to help save India’s
Noyyal River.

By Ioanna Paraszczuk

Prof. Yoram Oren first saw how chemi-
cals from textile dyeing factories were
poisoning India’s Noyyal River during
a year-long stay in the country's south-
ernmost state three-and-a-half years
ago.

Oren, an expert on water desalination
from Ben-Gurion University, spent

his sabbatical year setting up a water
research laboratory at Karunya Univer-
sity in Tamil Nadu state. A passionate
advocate of water rights, he saw the ef—
fects of river pollution on local people,
agriculture and wildlife and decided

to return to Tamil Nadu and help local
water experts save the dying Noyyal.

”Water pollution is a very serious
problem, including because water
from the Noyyal River is used by local
farmers for irrigation. But now they
can’t use the water, so it affects food
production,” Oren told ISRAEL21c in
a telephone interview from his labora-
tory in India.

A sacred river in local Tamil culture,
the Noyyal originates in the Vellingiri
Hills of the Western Chats and flows
for about 160 kilometers through Tamil
Nadu before joining another river, the
Kaveri.

The Noyyal once provided water for
around 20,000 acres of rich agricultural
land.

However, toxic industrial waste — es—
pecially runoff from cotton dyeing and
bleaching at the many textile factories
in Coimbatore and Tirupur — have
choked the Noyyal, destroying local
agriculture and killing wildlife.

Clearing out textile dye runoff

Tamil Nadu’s garment export industry
began to boom back in the 19703, when
a combination of cheap labor and
good growing conditions for cotton
and global demand for cheap textiles
provided a boon for local garment
factories.

However, toxic effluents from these
garment factories run into the Noyyal,
poisoning its fish and rendering the
surrounding land barren.

So bad is the pollution that it now
affects groundwater in more than 95

have had to leave their lands.

Oren is looking at how a technique

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Nano-filtration has been hailed as a
good solution for developing countries
where there is a shortage of drinking
water, because it is relatively inexpen-
sive and because unlike other water
purification techniques, it does not
strip essential minerals, such as cal-
cium, from water.

”Nano-filtration also saves energy
compared with other techniques,
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Israeli hope for the Ganges

The first step in cleaning up the Noyy-
al is to stop pollution from India’s gar-
ment industry in the first place.

”There are laws against this sort of
pollution in India, but the problem is
enforcing these laws,” Oren says.

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villages in the region. Residents can ponents from water, which makes it down on polluters. In March 2011, a '
no longer use it as a drinking source, cheaper,” Oren adds. court in Madras ruled to close all dye-
while farmers who previously relied ing units in Tiripur, which judges said
on the N oyyal to irrigate their crops According to Oren, nano-filtration is would protect the Noyyal.
used in Israel in water purification.
Israeli industries also use the technol- However, there is still a big problem in
To rehabilitate the polluted Noyyal, ogy to remove chemicals, allowing the Tamil Nadu with illegal garment dye-
same water to be recycled for further ing operations, which are difficult to
called nano-filtration can be used to fil- use in industrial processes. track and shut down.
ter out harmful textile dyes from water.
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volunteered at Rose Mary Brooks
Place, an assisted living residence in
Winchester. She also helped with fund-
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of John Quisenberry and the late
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Stamford, CT and Mary Louise Stokes
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Obama’s Israel Visit itinerary (from page 1)

They will continue to the Shrine of the
Book, where Netanyahu will show him
the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The American President will continue
to see an exhibition in the Israel Mu—
seum, which will show Israel’s latest
developments in high-tech, bio—tech,
nanotechnology and agriculture.

In the afternoon Obama will ad-
dress Israelis in a public speech in the
Israel Museum or in the International
Convention Center in Jerusalem. The
Americans have requested the pres—
ence of at least 1,000 Israelis.

Later, Obama will be hosted for a cer—
emonial dinner by Peres.

Friday, March 22, Obama will breakfast
with Netanyahu in his home or in King
David Hotel.

The two will go to visit an Iron Dome
battery, where Obama will meet with
the soldiers manning the battery.

At 13:00 a farewell ceremony will take
place in the International Airport, from
which the president will depart to
meet King Abdullah in Jordan. X?

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 Israel 21c: polluted river (from page 6)

boundaries in refining new, water-sav-
ing technologies like mane-filtration.

As a result, cutting-edge water technol—
ogy from the tiny, arid country of Israel
is being exported to other countries
with supply or pollution problems.
Oren notes that India is also looking to
Israel for help in combating pollution
in the Ganges, one of the largest and
most polluted rivers on the planet.

The World Bank has invested $1 billion
in rehabilitating the Ganges. Israel
NewTech, an Israeli initiative led by
the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade
and Labor, is assisting by matching Is-
raeli clean-tech companies with Indian
partners.

Prof. Yoram Oren ’s laboratory.

As part of that project, Oren says,
delegations from India have visited
Israel to study how Israelis have used
technologies like nano—filtration to
combat pollution.

Returning to his own efforts to re—
habilitate the Noyyal River in Tamil
Nadu, Oren says that it is the response
from local people that make the project
worthwhile.

”I got a letter from a farmer in Tamil
Nadu, thanking me for my efforts to
rehabilitate the Noyyal, because he
needs the water for irrigation,” he says.
”It’s very exciting to get this kind of
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Gala Tribute Dinner

Honoring Linda and Dr. Leon Ravvin

Hilton Suites at Lexington Green

 

 

 

Nora Rose Moosnick
Arab and Jewish Women In Kentucky: Stories of
Accommodation and Audacity

Book Signing and Lecture

Monday, March 4

7:00 pm

Boone Center, University of Kentucky

Presented by: the University Press of Kentucky 8' the
University of Kentucky Iewish Studies Program

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