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The month of December—Tzeason of Tzedakah

Donate your time, your effort, yourself to help those in need
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By Jana LaZur and Talia Smolkin

With so many people in need, espe—
cially in this economy, it's time for
our community to come together
again to make a difference. Join us
for a few hours as we volunteer in
various organizations in the wider
Lexington community. We are work-
ing with more places this year than
ever before to serve people of all
ages, the sick and the homeless, and
even the animal's If you don't have
the time or ability to volunteer in the
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to help. You can buy groceries, prepare meals, or donate
items you no longer need. Simply sign up using the form
on page 9 of this issue of Shalom.

Typically, over 100 volunteers assist more than 300 recipi-
ents. This year, the program will run for the entire month
of December. ”Tzeason of Tzedakah," the new name for
”Day of Giving," reflects the fact that this important work
is ongoing. It embraces the Jewish value that tzedakah is

a responsibility, that it is up to each of us to serve those in
our community who are vulnerable, and that this ongoing
responsibility takes many forms and certainly lasts more
than rust a day.

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— CAMPAIGN NEWS —-

Campaign Committee to
present the film Watermarks

The Campaign Committee of the
Central Kentucky Jewish Federation
invites the community to a showing
of the film Watermarks on Sunday,
November 15 at 7:00 pm. at Temple
Adath Israel. There is no charge for
admission; anyone 13 years old or
more is welcome. Refreshments will
be served.

Watermarks is the story of the cham-
pion women swimmers of Hakoah
Vienna, the legendary Jewish
sports club. Hakoah (which means

”strength" in Hebrew) was founded in 1909 when a new
Austrian law prohibited sports clubs from accepting
Jewish athletes. Hakoah grew into one of Europe’s larg-
est and most successful sports clubs. In the 19308, their
best-known champions were their women swimmers.
In 1938—after the political unification of Germany and
Austria—the Nazis shut down the club, but Hakoah’s
leaders implemented an escape plan enabling the swim-
mers to flee before the war broke out.

Sixty-five years later, the film’s director, Yaron Zilberman,
locates seven of the swimmers, interviews them in their
homes around the world, and arranges a reunion for

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Kentucky Jewish Federation, Ohavay Zion Synagogue, ‘
and Temple Adath Israel. Please bring toiletries, warm l -
coats, clothing, and blankets as well as gently used toys.
The Lexington Humane Society needs towels, pet beds, x
dog food, and cat toys. For the youth and the homeless,

please bring all varieties of baby care items (e.g., diapers,
baby-wipes and baby shampoo), Target or Dollar Store .
Gift Cards, shampoo/conditioner, disposable razors, dis- ,'
posable cameras, journals, picture frames, pillows, twin '
sheet sets, bath towels, wash cloths, lip balm, and puzzle , .
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see Tzeason of Tzedakah, page 11

CKJF Winter Dinner to
be Sunday, December 13

Offers opportunity to try Petra

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Make your reservation now for the Central Kentucky
Jewish Federation’s annual Winter Dinner to take place -
on Sunday, December 13, from 6:00 pm. until 8:00 pm. ,
at Petra Mediterranean Restaurant on the corner of f
Nicholasville Road and Man 0’ War. The restaurant is
new to Lexington, but the family who owns it is not, and
the food is delicious. They have chefs from Israel and
Jordan so the cuisine is authentic, and the owner’s mother
comes in daily to make the Greek-style pita bread. They

see Winter dinner, page 16

 

 

  

IN THIS ISSUE

2009 Hanukkah stamp available ..................... 3
TAI Sisterhood announces paid-up members dinner ...... 3
President's Message .............................. 4
Third Opinion ................................... 5
From the Director ................................ 6
Ask a Rabbi .................................... 7
JFS: At Your Service .............................. 8
Yiddish drop-in class launched ...................... 8
Please answer the call ............................ 9
B’tayavon ...................................... 10
Israel 21c: Dates protect against heart disease .......... 13
Ohavay Zion celebrates fall festivals .................. 14
Lexington Chapter of Hadassah ..................... 15
Lexington Havurah ............................... 16
Temple Adath Israel .............................. 17
Ohavay Zion Synagogue ........................... 18
Olmert visits Lexington ............................ 18
Around the Community ........................... 19
Community Calendar ............................ 20

 

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Hadassah is sponsoring an activity for young March 7/ May 2-
women (under age 45) in the Jewish community Time: 1030 am. to 11:30 3-1“
to get together for coffee, bagels, and cream Location: Ohavay 210“ Synagogue,

cheese and conversation. 2048 Edgewater Court, Lexington

You do not have to be a Hadassah member to You are encouraged to bring young

participate.

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2009 Hanukkah
stamp available

The 2009 Hanukkah stamp went on sale on
Friday, October 9 and should be available at
all local post offices. It is the new menorah
design. The United States Postal Service has
printed a mere 35 million (about one half of
what is usually printed for a commemorative
stamp) of the Hanukkah stamp. Local post
offices will receive only fifteen percent of
what they usually get from a new stamp.

If the 2009 Hanukkah stamp is not available
at your post office and they tell you, ”We
never got them,” or ”We ran out and can’t
get any more,” or any other excuse, please let
me know. Send me the town name and zip
code of the post office at hanukkah@att.net.

When you buy Hanukkah stamps, don’t just

buy enough for your Hanukkah cards. Buy

100 or more and use them on all your mail through the
holiday season and beyond. I buy 200 and use them on all
my mail for the entire year.

The United States Postal service claims ”a lack of
demand” as the reason for not issuing a new Hanukkah
stamp design every year. I don’t believe this to be true.
This season is the first of the new menorah design, and I
already know that this design will be repeated next year.

 

Help raise the demand and encour-
age more frequent design changes.

Thank you,

Ronald Scheiman

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Paid-up members of the TAI Sisterhood will gather for
dinner on Wednesday evening, November 18, at the
Summit Restaurant in Lexington. This event is open to
all current members of the Sisterhood. To be eligible to
attend this dinner, you must have paid your dues for the
2009—2010 year.

We will gather at the Summit Restaurant, at 1097 Duval
Street (turn right off Tates Creek Road just south of Man
0’ War Boulevard), at 6:30 pm. for some socializing.
Dinner will be a small salad, followed by your choice of
tilapia, chicken, or a vegetarian pasta dish, and dessert.
The price of $25 includes the meal, soft drink or coffee,
and gratuity. A cash bar will be available.

Rebecca Young, Sisterhood Program co-chair, is attending
the URI Biennial in Toronto in early November. She will
tell us about this important event and what she learned of
relevance to sisterhood.

This dinner is a great opportunity to connect with old
friends, meet some new ones, and get information about
what’s going on in Reform Judaism today. Reservations
are required and must be made by Friday, November
13. Space is limited, so call Sandee Wildes at the Temple,

(859) 269-2979, soon to reserve your
place. Please pay your membership
dues now to be eligible to attend. If
you are not sure of your member-
ship status, call Christy Roth, (859)
219-3238, for this information. If your
membership in Sisterhood is not cur-
rent, now is the time to bring it up

to date; you don’t want to miss this
enjoyable and informative event.

Mark your calendar now for our
December meeting. We will join the
Temple’s Chavurat Chochma group
for a good-time Hanukkah lun-
cheon on Friday, December 4, Ned
Rosenbaum is the featured speaker. a

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 President's Message

Linda Rawin

 

How do you define the word mitzvah? It seems like
such a simple word—everyone knows what it means;
it is a mainstay not only of Jewish principle, but of
everyday expression: It’s a mitzvah! Wikipedia (what—
ever did we do without it?) defines mitzvah as a com-
mand and ”a word used in Judaism to refer to the 613
commandments given in the Torah. . . . The term can
also refer to the fulfillment of a mitzvah. The term mitz-
vah has also come to express an act of human kind-
ness.” I have also often heard rabbis translate the
word to mean ”obligation.” Of course, the most well
known of the mitzvot are the Ten Commandments.

There is a saying from The Talmud: ”Man has three
friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth—-
which goes with him only while good fortune lasts.
Second, his relatives—they go only as far as the
grave and leave him there. The third friend, his good
deeds, they go with him beyond time and place.”

I consider our community to be part of my family, and by
extension, our Jewish world and the world at large is part
of my family as well. Just as it is incumbent upon each

of us to take care of ourselves, it is equally important to
be aware of the needs of others. There are many ways to
look at what wealth is: is it only monetary or is it also all
the wonderful things that encompass our lives? Is hav—
ing love in our lives wealth? What about having good
health—is that also wealth? I take joy in the connections
I have made with my extended family, my community. I

certainly consider it a mitzvah, an obligation, to give back
to the community which continues to offer me so much.

What are the ways in which you are fulfilling mitzvot?
Are you offering your time to any of the Jewish organiza-
tions? I know how busy all of our lives are, but I almost
feel that by volunteering I am being somewhat selfish
and a little self-serving. That is exactly the opposite of
what most people think when they think of volunteering.
However, every time I do something to help, I get repaid
multifold. There is the enormous feeling of satisfaction
that maybe what I am doing is making even a tiny differ-
ence in someone’s life. There is the learning experience
of extending myself in areas that I may not be familiar
with and with people who are yet to become my friends.

Even one or two hours a week of volunteering can have
a large impact on programs and services we offer within
our community. Asking Paula at Jewish Family Services
if you can assist with friendly phone calls to shut-ins,
making contact to ask someone for a pledge to our annual
campaign, helping at the CKJF office with any number
of tasks, offering a ride to someone who may otherwise
not be able to go to one of our programs: these are all
potential ways to get involved. If you have children who
are participating in one of our camps, please think about
joining the Camp Shalom and Camp Gesher Committee.

In the realm of volunteering, we are thrilled to welcome
Eden Myers as our new camp committee chair and

Remember the taste of home with
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Israel repre-
sentative to the
CKJF Board.
We know

that Eden has
many wonderful ideas to help the
constant improvement of camp and
we look forward to her input on our
Board. We also thank David Levine
for all of his hard work as camp
chair over the past few years; our
camp and our children have greatly
benefited from his involvement.

 

We are an incredibly fortunate and
”wealthy” community to have so
many dedicated individuals and fam-
ilies offering their time, efforts, and
yes, money, to improve and enrich
our lives. Each one of us decides
how we make use of our time and
resources. I ask you to keep com—
munity needs in mind, and to work
and volunteer together to build a
stronger and better community for
all of us and our future generations.

My best wishes to you and
your families for a wonderful

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The "Liberal (read: Jewish) Agenda"

It’s no wonder that 28 of the 29 Jews currently in
Congress are Democrats. (The exception is Eric Cantor of
Virginia). We have so often been identified with a vague
”liberal agenda,” that I thought I’d clarify what that agen-
da is: ”Liberty and Justice for All.” I see this as a Gentile
version of Tikkun Olam, ”mending the world.” Okay, those
are more like goals, aren’t they, and probably shared by
many Conservatives. Where we differ is on the ways and
means of accomplishing them.

With a history that stretches back 3,000 years, Jews have
plenty of evidence that we can’t leave the accomplishment
of our ideals up to the private sector. Too many people
think that the ”deserving poor” are poor because they
deserve it or that your station in life reflects God’s judg-
ment on how well you, or your

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high places—and lampooned by late-
night comics—during the health care
debate is often amusing, but shows
how dangerously close we’ve come to
becoming a nation of Mark Twain’s
boiled frogs, not noticing how our
language has been debased.

People who don’t succeed in school,
whether because of language defi-
ciencies—and I’ve seen too many of
them at the college level—or for other
reasons, should not be put ahead
anyway so as to avoid their losing
”self-esteem.” That’s not fair to the

 

ancestors, have lived. As Tevye

laments, ”You decreed I should Too many people think that the “deserving

be what I am.”

poor” are poor because they deserve it...

 

Religions that promote these
views have been part of the
problem as often as they’ve been part of the solution.

In the past two hundred years, however, we’ve seen the
emergence of a new entity with the power to realize our
Jewish agenda: the secular nation state. But investing our
governments with such power means that we have an
extra duty to see that they exercise it wisely.

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For example, the ”social justice” that I think is at the core
of the Hebrew prophets’ message—and the ”liberal agen—
da”—is not always well served by ”social engineering”
and shouldn’t be confused with it. I’ve never been com-
fortable with “affirmative action" because it disenfran—
chises some (often Jews) for the benefit of “minorities.” As
presently used, the word ”minorities" is a colossal crime
against the English language. Jews here number about
six million; Blacks and Hispanics over twenty million
each. It’s nice to be considered “white,” but who’s the real
“minority?”

George Orwell observed that people who can’t use lan-
guage correctly usually don’t think straight and are there-
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people who’ve done their work to
the required level. Chicago, I note,
has done away with the practice of
social promotion. Personally, I don’t
think anyone should be let out of
high school before he/she can pass

ED. Hirsch’s tests in Cultural Literay: . .

What Every American Needs to Know
(Vintage, 1988).

Speaking of language, English should
remain the only ”official” language
here. I learned some Spanish in sec-
ond grade and I wish I had learned
more. Certainly, teaching Spanish
more widely would be a good thing,
but enfranchising two languages
would put us on the road to splits—
ville as traveled by the Austro-
Hungarian Empire and, almost, by
Belgium and Canada.

I love this country and I actually
think our glass is more than half
full. I believe we’ll come out of the
current crisis stronger and better
able to assert positive moral authority in the world. Think
of how far we’ve already come: Votes for women. Social
Security. School desegregation. Civil Rights. These are, for
me, items on the ”liberal agenda.” Of course, you’ll have
your own opinion. K3

Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, PhD (Brandeis), is an adjunct profes-
sor of Hebrew at UK and professor emeritus of Judaic Studies at
Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn. The title of this recurring
column is drawn from the old chestnut, ”Two Jews, three opin-
ions.”

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An inspirational look at Jewish prayer as
a way to center your day and your life

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will take a look at ways to incorporate
spirituality into your life through music,
movement, and meditation

Sunday, November 8, 2009
2:00 — 4:00 p.m.
Home of Pat Shraberg

RSVP to Jane Chaput (859) 245—8624
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ltormerly the Day at Givingl.

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relieve or assist their statt around Christmas, ottering a
helping hand and creating a stronger
connection with our neighbors in Lexington.

Make your committeeet today.
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Grandparenting

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In my October column, I wrote about
my visit to my daughter, son-in—law,
and grandchildren in Palo Alto and
our preparation for Sukkot. There

is an old Yiddish expression that

is translated, ”Man plans and God
laughs.” One of the difficulties we
have in publishing a monthly paper
is that our deadline occurs several
weeks before Shalom actually reaches
our readers. We therefore have to
anticipate events that have not yet
happened and report on events that
have practically been forgotten.

While I had planned to be in
California during Yom Kippur and
for a few days after, I was not able
to go because my husband had to
be hospitalized. He is doing bet-
ter and is now home. The trip has
been rescheduled and, if all goes
well, I will be leaving in a few
weeks to spend five days with

my family. This time, however, I
did buy flight insurance in case
God laughs at my plans again.

I have not seen my grandchildren for
six months. Other than the semester
my daughter and son-in law spent
on sabbatical in Israel, this is the
longest separation I have had from
my grandsons since the oldest, Yosi,
was born eleven years ago. When I
was living in Philadelphia and they
were in Bloomington, Indiana, the
flight was two hours and rather
inexpensive. A drive of twelve hours
was also a possibility. We were in the
same time zone and could manage
frequent extended weekend visits
fairly easily. Their move to California
in May has meant that visits must

be longer and less frequent. This
separation has made me wonder
about the quality of relationships
between grandparents and grand-
children when distances separate
them. Since most of the grandparents
I have met in the Jewish community
of Central Kentucky are not living

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near their chil-
dren and grand-
children, I am
sure this is something that many
of you have pondered as well.

 

When I was a child, I saw my
grandparents at least weekly and
they are part of all my memories
of growing up. Much of who I am
today is a result of values and les-
sons learned from my grandparents
and my parents. I can’t help but
wonder now what kind of memo-
ries my grandsons will have of me
when our time together is so lim-
ited. Will they remember our sunlit
afternoons hanging decorations

in the sukkah? Will they remem-
ber sitting with me in shul as their
mother conducted services? Will
they remember the songs and sto—
ries we shared at bedtime as they
asked for just five more minutes?

The delights of grandparenthood
seem boundless and unlike any
other relationships most of us have
ever experienced. ln exploring this
magical relationship, I have come to
understand something about myself
and the person I become when I

am with Yosi, Hillel, Lev, and Or. I
become someone who is 100 percent
tuned in to these boys’ needs, moods,
and joys and I am able to give 100
percent back to them. I am infinitely
patient—something I regret I was not
able to be as a wife or a mother. I can
read the same book to them over and
over; I can answer ”Why?” again and
again. I can cheer the loudest at a bas—
ketball game and applaud loudest at
a band concert. I can focus entirely on
these precious boys without having
thoughts about challenges at work or
unfinished tasks invading the space
between us. This will not change,
and even if my visits are less fre-
quent, the children will always know
that when we are together they are
the center of their bubbe’s world. t

 

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Ask a Rabbi

Rabbi Moshe Smolkin

 

: Since as Jews we do not believe in the same
kind ofHell that Christians do, what do our
teachings say about what happens to ”bad”
people (i.e., those who commit murder or
other egregious sins) when they die? Clearly
they do not get to experience the same peace in the
afterlife as regularfolks who go to Heaven.

 

: In considering what our tradition teaches
about the fate of the wicked, we must consider
Judaism’s multiple views concerning what
happens after death.

 

Sheol: The Pit

The most prevalent view found in the Bible is that all
who die descend to Sheol. Sheol is a subterranean abode
where life takes on a kind of shadowy existence. It is a
dark and quiet place where people are unable to praise
the Divine. As the psalmist remarks, MThere is no praise
of You among the dead. In Sheol, who can acclaim You?”
(Psalm 6:6). Moreover, those who enter Sheol seem to stay
for good. "As a cloud fades away, so whoever goes down
to Sheol does not come up" (Job 7:9). However, lest you
think that Sheol lacks any perks, it is there that people
are gathered to their kin who have passed before them.

Sheol was not seen as a punishment. It was not seen as a
type of Hell. It was simply seen as the next phase of exis-
tence following death. Everyone, both the righteous and
the wicked, would descend to Sheol.

Tedriyat HaMetim: Resurrection .

Toward the end of the biblical period, the idea of resur-
rection arose. We find explicit references to resurrection
within the book of Daniel: ”Many of those that sleep in
the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, oth-
ers to reproaches, to everlasting abhorrence” (Daniel 12:2).

At first, the idea of resurrection was not uniformly
accepted. The lst century historian Josephus wrote of the
fierce battle between the Sadducees and the Pharisees
regarding this point. The Sadducees held to the belief
that death was final, while the ancestors of the rabbis, the
Pharisees, fought for the idea of resurrection.

In addition to the text in Daniel, the Pharisees pointed

to such texts as Ezekiel’s description of the Valley of Dry
Bones: ”1 will put My breath into you and you shall live
again, and I will set you upon your own soil" (37:14). In
contrast to the Sadducees, who may have viewed this text
as a mere metaphor for national renewal, the Pharisees
claimed the prophecy of this text would literally come
true.

Another reason for believing in resurrection was the
apparent lack of justice in the current events of the world.
Justice, the Pharisees claimed, would ultimately prevail.
The wicked would be punished, and the ri