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Central Kentucky Jewish Federation
Forms 1999 Campaign Committee
and 180-Day Committee

e Central Kentucky Jewish Federation has been busy .

since the departure of Executive Director, Joe] Eizenstat at ,

the end of January. During February, a campaign commit—
tee has been formed and meetings held to plan for the 1999 UJ A
Federation Annual Campaign. The Campaign Committee consists
of Honorary Campaign Co-Chairs Rabbi Jon Adland and Rabbi
Eric Slaton, Annual Campaign Co-Chairs Leon Cooper and Ellie
Goldman, Major Gifts Chair Sue Ezrine, Women’s Event Chair
Nancy Hoffman, Super Sunday Co-Chairs Martin Barr and Judy
Levine and Committee Members Mike Ades, Steve Caller and
Tomas Milch H.

The tentative campaign plan is to have a solicitor training

session in March. Major Gifts Dessert in April. Super Sunday in

     
            
    

 

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The lSO—Day (‘ommrttee has been formed to discuss the future
direction oi‘the Central Kentucky Jewish Federation. Michael
Ades is heading the committee. Committee members are: Rabbi
Jon Adland, Marty Barr, Bret Caller, Steve Caller, Leon Cooper,
Alvin Goldman, Judy Levine, Marilyn Lieber, Ken Mayer, Jonathan
Miller, Linda Noffsinger, Linda Ravvin, Judy Saxe, Rabbi Eric
Slaton, David Wekstein and Rick Zimmerman.

This committee will look at the Mission, Vision and Objectives of
your Federation. The UJA/Federation of
North America Midwest Region is involved .
in this larmin hase. Consultants James I
Samuells, Stevi IEdelstein and Judy Atkin Mark Your calendars -
presented a report with an analysis and short- . for
and long-term goals. Central Kentucky Jewish Federation

Both the 1999 Campaign Committee and the .
1 80-Day Committee are working to keep the
Central Kentucky Jewish Federation healthy and
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In This Issue:
Feature Stories

Pollard Encore ............... 4
Budapest ...................... 5
CAM Hosts Soutine 10
Israel Bonds ................ 1 3
Politically Incorrect ...... l7
Sparks Kids Page ........ 15
HIAS .......................... 18

HIAS Scholarships ...... 21
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CKJF President’s

Message ....................... 2
Leisure Club .................. 6
Hadassah ...................... 7
Havurah ........................ 7
UK Judaic Studies ......... 9

What’s Avail. On-Line . 16

Jewish Singles ............. 22
Calendar ..................... 23
TAI ............................ 24
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MILESTONES
CONDOLENCES TO:

Ken Mayer, on the death of his uncle, Mose Marcus on
January 17 in Berkley, California at the age of 90. Mr. Marcus
formerly lived in Frankfort and in Cincinnati, Ohio

Ed & Sue Hirsh on the death of Sue’s uncle, Al Kossay,
on January 18, 1999.

Elliott & Rena Marcus and Arnold & Harriet Fields,
on the death of Elliott’s and Harriet’s brother, Mose
Marcus on January 19, 1999.

David & Marcia Brown, on the death of Marcia’s
mother, Bertha Pessin on January 25, 1999.

Mark & Dorothy and Steven Halleck on the death of
their sister-in—law and aunt, Ethel Levy, on February 7, 1999.
Paul & Terry Goldfarb, on the death of Paul’s mother,

Claire Goldfarb, on February 9, 1999.

Robin, Harold, Alexis & Danielle Roth on the death of

Robin’s father, Leon Sperling.

 

MAZEL TOV TO:

Irvin H. and Sybil Stern, on the marriage oftheir grand-
daughter, Chana Stern, to Jonathan Orgel on January 17,
1999 in West Orange, NJ.

Freda Miller, on the birth of her granddaughter, and
Marjie & Lenny Lerner on the birth of their great-grand-
daughter, Chaya Lerner. The proud parents are Marc
Lerner and Lynn Frazier.

Eric & Lynley Anderman, on the birth of their son,
Jacob Daniel, on February 2. I999.

REFUAH SHLEMA:

Continued speedy recovery to Jimmy Levenson, Sr. and
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The
President’s
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by
Evelyn Dantzic Geller

SO MUCH TO DO:
SO LITTLE HELP!

 

s 1998 was drawing to a close, Joel Eizenstat, the

members of your Board, I suddenly realized how much

there was to do. Some of the major tasks facing us
were to name a Nominating Committee, approve a budget,
recruit a Campaign Committee, help the Jewish Family Services
Advisory Committee find a new Social Worker, revise the
bylaws, revive the Resettlement and Acculturation Committee,
support the Program Director’s efforts to locate a site for Camp
Shalom, try to set reasonable goals and priorities for 1999, and
do whatever we could to assist the staff in carrying out the other
tasks and activities that are the responsibility of the Central
Kentucky Jewish Federation. Then, to add to the complexity of
the situation, we were confronted with the devastating news
that, effective the end of January, Joel was resigning. This meant
forming a Search Committee. There was so much to accom-
plish and, literally, no volunteers from the community who were
willing to help do the work that had to be done.

I was at my wits’ end. I was terrified that I. WRkLLdPEiQQ
person who presided over the demise of the Central Kentucky
Jewish Federation! But ever the savior, Joel came up with a
plan. First, he suggested that we bring in some people from our
region’s United Jewish Federation staff to offer objective
suggestions as to how we could most effectively deal with our
predicament. To this end we arranged for Steve Edelstein,
Associate Director for Community Services, Judy Adkins,
Community Consultant, and Jim Samuels, Region Cash Chair, to
serve as our advisors and mentors as we planned for 1999.
Incidentally, Jim is a civilian volunteer, not paid staff.

Joel’s second stroke of genius was to recommend that the
Board ask Kim Slaton, our part-time Program Director, to take
on an additional part-time position and serve also as Acting
Executive Director until the end of June. The Board agreed with
this recommendation and offered the position to Kim. She
acceded graciously to our request and now is wearing two hats
for CKJF. Kim, I am most grateful to you for rearranging your
busy life to accommodate our needs.

During their first visit, our regional advisors met with a
number of people to try and get an overall picture of out com-
munity from the perspectives of both members of the Board and
of members of the Central Kentucky Jewish community at large.
Within a few days we received their analysis of our situation,
along with some very workable recommendations as to how we
could most expeditiously approach the resolution of our short
term difficulties. Our primary task was to form a “180 Day
Committee”, representative of the entire community, to develop

President’s Message continued on page 8

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happen. Something awful
might eventually turn out to
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to maintain a balanced atti—
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sentence for stealing and selling classified
- material to Israel. .
Since that time, Pollard has been catapulted
into the news as a result of Netanyahu’s last
minute demand at the October 1998 Wye
Peace Conference that Pollard be released.
Supposedly, Clinton agreed, but reneged when
our intelligence community reacted strongly
against this possibility, being led by George
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crossfire. Pleaing for Pollard is not only
Netanyahu, who is undoubtedly primarily
motivated by political reasons, but the Confer-
ence of Major American Jewish Organizations,
a consortium of 55 Jewish groups, as well as
the Reform Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations and the Orthodox Union.

This controversy has resulted in more
information about Pollard’s case being made
public. Little of it is in his favor.

First of all, he appears not to have been an
admirable character, spying out of loyalty to
Israel, The truth seems to be that he was
primarily interested in money to pay for his life
style, especially his drug habit, his drinking, and
his high living. Heavily indebted, he agreed to
spy for the Israelis who paid him $2,500 a
month as well as thousands of dollars for hotels,
meals, and jewelry. In addition, there is evi-
dence that he received 5550,0000 in cash, and
was promised that $30,000 would be deposited
annually in a foreign bank.

In addition to these disclosures about
Pollard as a person, more information has been
revealed about the nature of the material he

sold. Ordinarily. it would seem that there could
be little harm in providing classified material to
Israel, an ally.

After all it is well known in intelligence circles
that friendly nations spy on one another. We
allegedly spend billions ofdollars a year to
monitor the communications of friendly nations.

But the material Pollard sold not only revealed
sensitive information but also the process ofhow we
obtained that information. He provided data that we
had accumulated but also exposed the whole
process of intelligence collection. For example,
Pollard stole the top-secret ten volume RASIN, a
radio—signal “Bible” that reveals the physical param-
eters of all known communication signals but more
important, tells how they were collected.

In all, according to Pollard’s own testimony,
the documents he turned over to the Israelis
would have created a stack six feet wide, six feet
long, and ten feet wide.

But why worry about this material being
turned over to a friendly ally? It is widely be-
lieved in intelligent circles that Israel did not
merely usethe POMW n ' 1f but
traded it for Soviet permission for large num ers
ofJews to emigrate to Israel. In one particular
instance, a CIA agent reported that he under-
stood that the Israeli military had traded American
secrets for Jewish Russian scientists working on
missile technology and nuclear issues. There is also
the possibility that the Russians obtained the Pollard
information by infiltrating Israeli security.

Many have felt that Pollard, like the famous
French Captain Dreyfus, is being punished
because he is Jewish. However, Abraham
Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League,
has stated that his organization “looked into this
and decided there was no anti-Semitism.”
Foxman says that he is puzzled “as to why
Pollard has become a litmus test for some in the
Jewish community.”

Finally, it has been widely reported that Pollard
elected to take a plea bargain in exchange for the
government’s agreement not to ask for a sentence
of life imprisonment. If so, then the government
reneged. But the fact is that Judge Robinson
asked Pollard whether he understood that the plea
bargain did not preclude a life sentence. Pollard
said that he understood.

In the light of all the information that has come
out recently about Pollard, his chances for clem—
ency look dim.

The ball is now in Clinton’s court; it remains to
be seen what he will do with it. a

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PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM ALIVE IN BUDAPEST

t was early October of 1997 and I’d recently

arrived in Debrecen, Hungary, 120 miles north

east of Budapest, to start a year long sabbatical.
The High Holidays were coming up soon and I was
still trying to make contact with at least one of the
people on the list I’d received from Clifford Kulwin
at the New York office of the World Union of
Progressive Judaism. Clifford’s name was given to
me by Rabbi Jon Adland when I said I was looking

 

for a Reform Congregation to spend the holidays
with while I was in Hungary. Finally, I found Edit
Pragai at home in Budapest when I phoned, and
received a very warm welcome that was to be typical
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School in London, trying to reach the Rabbi—in—
training, Kati Kelemen, some months before. Edit
gave me directions to the Lauder School in Buda,
where Rosh Hashonah services were to be held, and
offered to find me an inexpensive place to stay
overnight in the neighborhood.

A week later,

I was in Budapest, on the bus from Moskva
Square, headed up one of the Buda hills toward the
Lauder School. It turned out to be a very modern
and excellent day school endowed by the family of
Estee Lauder, who have strong Hungarian roots. In
the spacious central hall, well-decorated with Jewish
motifs, chairs were set up for the Rosh Hashonah
evening service. I was greeted at the door by Edit, a
clinical psychologist and unofficial president of the
group. She showed me to a seat near the front with
some English Language materials for the service,
which was to be in Hungarian and Hebrew.

There were several other English speaking visitors
in the surrounding seats, carefully collected there by
Edit. Making preparations in the pulpit area before
the congregation were Rabbi Katalin Kelemen, a
handsome dark-haired fortyish woman with a big
smile, and several others who would participate in
the service. The room buzzed with conversation as
people shared their summer experiences while

by Jess Weil

waiting for the service to begin.

The service was very similar to what I’ve grown
used to over the years at Temple Adath Israel,
except that the vernacular was Hungarian rather than
English, and maybe less of the service was in He—
brew than in Lexington. Still, it was my knowledge of
Hebrew that kept my place in the service, and it felt
good to sing many familiar tunes in this new and
strange setting. There were probably something over

a hundred people present. The service was followed
by a trek downstairs to the school cafeteria for a
sitdown catered Rosh Hashonah Community dinner.
Again, I was seated with others who knew English,
so I could enjoy some conversation. During the
evening, several people came over to say hello and
welcome me to the services of Sim Shalom.

The wonderful evening ended with the announce-
ment that the next day there would be a Tashlik
Service on the banks of the Danube a bit north of
the city. Warmed by the evening’s experience and all
the friendly people, I decided to stay over for the
next day and attend the service, even though it

meant taking a late train back to Debrecen.

After a rainy morning reading in bed at my pen—
sion in the Buda hills, I went to explore some art
galleries near Moskva Square. just to the north ofthe
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station. The train took us 10 miles to the north. There
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island in the Danube which was really a big public
park. A ramble north along the island brought us to a
gravelly beach where this surprisingly moving service
of casting away sins was carried out.

There were probably twenty or thirty people
present for this. Afterward, we all walked back in the
warm dusk to the train station, for the trip back into
the city. It was a fitting end to the holiday. This was
my introduction to Sim Shalom, the first Progressive
(Reform) congregation in Hungary, and perhaps in all
of Eastern Europe. It is certainly the first to have its
own Rabbi, and Kati Kelemen is the first woman to

be a Rabbi in
Hungary. The
group is about ten
years old, having
started in the late
19805, when
some intellectuals
of Jewish descent
decided that their
communist
backgrounds no
longer provided a
usable philosophical basis for living, and decided to
look for something better among their Jewish roots.
It’s a group that is very interested in ideas and
concepts, in the Hebrew language with it’s nuances
and intricacies, and in finding what part of Jewish
tradition and ritual can have meaning for them in their
busy lives.

Several of them have made a serious study of
Hebrew, so that they are able to read original reli-
gious texts and parse out the meanings, even the
word play that is often present. The level of scholarly
discussion at their biweekly Torah Study is impres-
sively high.

One of the fascinating things about the group is the

 

oug ' ere way ac to orpora "e OrgamtIOn ‘ ' .
(actually one of the weaknesses of the group), there
is a generally accepted rough executive committee
structure that sees that things get done. Besides

Rabbi Kelemen, a former teacher of Hungarian,
Russian, and German language and literature, there
are Gyorgyi Bollrnan, history professor, Edit Pragai,
clinical psychologist, Ibi Fischer, dressmaker, Anna
Szilagyi, English teacher, Gabor Radvanszki, stu-
dent, Andras Racz, university mathematician, Zoltan
Gardos, lawyer and Ili Gyorsok, interpreter. So over
half are women.

In the sixteen months I was in Hungary, there
were at least four weekends when important visitors
came from England for very substantial and fascinat-
ing sessions of study, prayer and discussion. Rabbi
Howard Cooper came on two occasions, giving

great insights with his background as a practicing
clinical psychologist. Rabbi Sheila Shulman, also
from the Leo Baeck College in London, and leader
of a new and diverse congregation in London, was
another provocative discussion leader with very good
suggestions about building community. Last fall, the
group was especially honored to be visited by Sir
Sigmund Stemberg, who was in town to present an
award to the Director of the Hungarian Academy of
Science on behalf of the World Council of Christians
and Jews for his ecumenical activities. The presenta-

Budapest continued on page 17

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by Ruth Maser
e started off 1999 by meeting and eating at the Coach House.
It was nice to just sit around and talk and get together. In
February we went to Szechuan Garden where we shared our
early memories of going out for Chinese. Some of the memories were
quite memorable, to say the least. This month we have a new venue at
Jonathan at Gratz Park.

Annette Milchand I had a good planning meeting in early February, and
we have ideas for almost the rest of l 999, including ending the year with
our annual Channukah Party. This year Channukah does not fall on our
usual meeting date, so we won’t be able to light menoras as we did last
time. There’s always next year.

In April we are finally having a Nutrition Mission with Beth Loiselle,
Registered Dietician at the Good Foods Co-op. Mark your calendar for
Thursday, April 15. It will be a light lunch with Beth bringing samples of
healthy foods from the co-op, and the CKJ F and the Leisure Club offering
refreshments. Just in case you don’t know, the Good Foods Co-op sells
Empire Kosher products.

Other exciting events we are planning include lunch at the Nagasaki Inn
where the food is prepared at the table right in front of you. Really differ-
ent. We are also working on a very special program for June, and should
know more about it soon.

Remember, we always have a good time at the (‘KJF Leisure Club.
You don’t even have to be a member. Just come and have a good time. it

CHILDREN'S THEATRE

presents

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Friday, April 30, 7:00 pm.

Saturday, May 1, 7:00 pm.
Sunday, May 2, 2:00 pm.

MODEL LAB SCHOOL
EDWARDS AUDITORIUM

If interested in the production please call
Cindy Sutton, 623-9773 or Ann Miller, 623-7403.

General Admission Tickets $5 .00
Sr. Citizens & Students $3.00

Tickets may be purchased in advance by calling
623-9773, or may also be purchased at the door

 

 

 

  

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Lexington Havurah
Calendar of Events
The following services and celebrations are open to the

Central Kentucky Jewish Community and will be held at:
Lexington Theological Seminary, 631 S. Limestone St.

Monday, March 1 — 7 pm
Purim - Megillah reading

Everyone is invited to come in costume!
Havurah bakers have been busy!
You’ll enjoy their hamentashen!

March 27 —— 10 am
Shabbat Morning Service

for our full calendar ofservices, check our website at
www.uscj.org/ohio/lexhavurah

 

 

 

 

The lexinotoh (“banter

Requests your presence

Tuesday, March 9, 1999 . 7:00 pm.

The Hadassah Fundraiser

Auctions of Every Kind

Mystery...0nly for the brave, bold & bewildered
Service...Let someone else do the dirty work
Silent...Where bucks speak louder than words

Our Auctioneer is Kathy Stein
Items to be auctioned include academic tutoring, a
birthday party by a pool, dinner
for 2 or 4, babysitting and much more!

Drinks and Hors d’oeurves

Firebrook Clubhouse
4740 Firebrook Blvd. (off Harrodsburg Road)
Lexington, Kentucky

, *P/ease bring a wrapped gift ($12 value)
to be auctioned*
Spouses and Guests Welcome

For further information call Di Sahel 224-7738

 

 

 

 

We offer an excellent
selection of certified
kosher products.

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The Lansdowne Shoppes
3887 Tates Creek Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40502

 

 

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President’s Message continued from page 2

a Strategic Plan for CKJF, complete with a mission statement, a
vision statement, goals, objectives, and suggested strategies.
And, they were to do all of this in 180 days. Almost everyone
who was asked to serve on this group said “yes”. I want to
thank each and every one of you for the work you have and will
do as a member of this committee. Remember with pride, in
years to come, the role you played in maintaining the viability of
CKJ F.

At the same time, Leon Cooper, long an active participant in
the joint campaign, took the initiative in organizing a committed
and diligent Campaign Committee. They are well on their way
to challenging this community with a meaningful and beneficial
1999 campaign. A most heart-felt “Thank you” to all of you
who are participating in this endeavor, with a special “Yasher
Koach” to Leon.

As an eternal pessimist, I cannot help but have some reserva-
tions about this wonderful outpouring. How do we sustain the
quality and quantity of the current unselfish responses when only
normal operating needs exist; when the impetus generated by a
crisis no linger drives us? How do we involve more people in
the activities of the Community Activities, Community Relations,
Campaign, Budget, Nominating, Resettlement and Accultura-
tion, and J FS Advisory Committees? Who will represent us on
Lexington .' Fayette County groups such as the Arts Council? I
need some assurance that this same type of situation Will not!» "
rear its ugly head periodically.

Therefore, I ask each of you who reads this article to
consider how you can give the Federation a few hours a
month. Pick an area in which you are interested or talented
and just call the office, 268-0672, and let us know how you
want to serve the Jewish community of Central Kentucky.
My mother, ofblessed memory, had a quotation that said
approximately that no one has to do everything, but every-
one has to do something. it:

 

 

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