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Consul General Dan Ashbel to speak at
Israel 50 Jubilee Closing Program

GSunday, October 25‘“, The Israel 50 Jubilee and Literature and later a Master’s degree in Political International Cooperation. He also directed the Training

     
  
       
  
  
 
 
 
   
     

  

 

 

losing Program “Looking to the Future for Science with a specialization in Middle Eastern Studies. Mr. Division of the Ministry and served as an instructor in
Israel and the Middle East” will feature Consul Ashbeljoined Israel’s Ministry ofForeign Affairs in 1975. Israel” 5 National Defense College. Immediately prior to
General Dan Ashbel. The program will be held at Ohavay In overseas posts he served as First Secretary for his arrival in Philadelphia, he was the Director ofthe

Zion Synagogue, 2048 Edgewater Court at 7:30 pm. Press and Cultural Affairs in the Israeli Embassy in Ministry’s Westem European Division. In 1997 he
Mr. Ashbel was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. He grew Bonn, Germany; Counsellor and Deputy Head of assumed the post of Consul General of Israel for the

up in Haifa, graduating from the Leo Baeck High Mission in the Embassy in Vienna, Austria; and Press Mid-Atlantic region, which included Pennsylvania,

School, and served in the Israel Defense Forces from and Media Counsellor of the Embassy in London. southern New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Kentucky and

1 968—1 971 . Following his service, he worked as a In Jerusalem, he served a Chief Assistant to the West Virginia

teacher at the Kfar Hano’ar Hadati, a high school in spokesman of the Ministry and was later in charge of Mr. Ashbel and his wife, Zehava, have three sons,

Kfar Hassidim, and studied at Haifa University. He cooperation programs with the Central Asian States Eyal, Amit and Or. a

received a B .A. in Geography and English Language (the former USSR) in the Ministry’s Department for See more details of 50 Jubilee Program on page 1]

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In This Issue:

Feature Stories

Sandy Heymann ............. 3
Tomas Milch H. .............. 4
First Lady Speech .......... 5
Peace Process ................ 5
Politically Incorrect ......... 8
Sparks Kids Page ........... 9
Jewish Life on Campus 13
L’chayim ...... . ................ 13 . ..
HlAS ..... ; .............. 13
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CKJ F President’s

Message ......................... 2
Sharyn Sharer ................. 4
Leisure Club ................... 6
Washington 1 1 ................ 6
Hadassah ....................... 7
CKJ F Board ................ 10

Israel 50 Closing Prog. . 11
Labor Day Highlights 12
Clinton‘s Reform Prayer .. 17

 

 

MILESTONES
CONDOLENCES TO:

Janet Scheeline & Bill Spickard on the death of Janet’s
cousin, Dorothy L. Sky, on August 22, 1998.

 

To Warren & Betty Rosenthal on the death of Betty’s
sister, Eleanor Burger, on August 27, 1998.

To Del & Martha Pearson on the death of Martha’s
great-aunt, Elizabeth F eit, on September 12, 1998.

To Harry & JoAnn Miller on the death of JoAnn’s
brother, R. B. Anderson, on September 13, 1998.

'WIAZEL TOV TO:

Dr. Arthur Lieber, for being selected as the 1997-1998
recipient of the Honorary Alumnus Award by the University of
Kentucky Medical Alumni Association.

Stephen A. Miller, who has been selected to serve as a
clerk at the United States Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Stephen will be clerking for Justice Antonin Scalia. Stephen is
the son of Joe & Suzanne Miller.

Wendy Miller, who has been selected for the Central
Kentucky Community Leaders Program. She will participate
in the 9 month program sponsored by the new Charitable
Trust Civic Entrepreneurs Program.

Brian & Tammy Hershinow, on the birth of their son,
John Henry on September 8. 1998. '

Marty and Odette Kaplan on the marriage ofMarty’s

 

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October 1998, Volume VI, Issue 2
Evelyn Dantzic Geller, President
Joel Eizenstat, Executive Director
Editor & Advertising Manager, Carrie McDanaId
Sharyn Sharer, Advertising Salesperson
Michael Adelstein & Evelyn Dantzic Geller, Editorial Board

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The
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by
Evelyn Dantzic Geller

I HEREBY
RESOLVE . . .

omehow, it seems more appropriate to make resolutions
S at the start of each Jewish New Year than at the begin-

ning of a secular year. The latter event is one marked by
jocularity. We have fun, play games, but, in keeping with the
gleeful nature of the event, soon leave our promises behind. The
Yomim Nerayim, on the other hand, are characterized by
solemnity and introspection. We take what we say and do most
seriously. As we ushered in 5759, we asked forgiveness of
those whom we had wronged or offended. We then made
contrition to HaShem and prayed with heart-felt sincerity for
Divine forgiveness as well. Inherent in our petitions, to both
humans and our Creator, for absolution and pardon was the
resolve to make amends and to live better lives. Our promises
were lofty. For the most part they had to do with such ideals as
Tikun 01am and with the mitzvot that guide our relationships
with other human beings and with the environment. We are truly
repentant and desirous of improving our way of life. Promises,

1.e. resolutions, made as a consequence of Sincere repemancg ;

are not easily cast aside.

1 ask you, therefore, to hearken back to the personal teelirigs
each of us experienced as we uttered our penitential prayers
during Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Think about the
resolves you made to atone for the sins to which you confessed.
Don’t excuse yourself by saying you really didn’t do a particular
thing. Don’t rationalize by asserting that much of what we recite
is an exercise in which all of us repeat the formulae together;
confessing and pledging to make amends for the shortcomings
of the community. Focus on those acts or thoughts which, when
named aloud, prompted personal twinges of guilt or remorse
and contemplation of how you could change your behavior 50
that next year you would not experience those feelings of
culpability. Now, let me offer one or two suggestions as to
resolutions you might make to help you assuage any guilt you
may have experienced.

Perhaps you were goaded to reflect on your own conduct
when we recited our remorse over acts of selfishness. If this is
the case, one approach to doing better would be to volunteer to
perform acts of selflessness. You could volunteer to drive
people who cannot access public transportation to important
appointments. You could record textbooks for students with
visual deficits. You could serve as an advisor to a youth group
or a religious school teacher. You could do anything which
requires the giving of self. And, if you are unable to give of self
as a volunteer, you could consider additional or special mon-
etary gifts to specific projects sponsored by the Central Ken-
tucky Jewish Federation.

President’s Message continued on page 8

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Fayette Mall marketing director earns mark of distinction

 

Sandy Heymann

s a young girl, Sandy Heymann remem-
Aers admiring her father’s approach to a
car’s customerwiththewords, “Hey,
what’s going on?”

“My father wasn’t just a salesman on the floor,
he put personality into his job,” said Heymann,
Marketing Director at Fayette Mall. “I think I get
my personality from him.”

Like her father, Bernard Scissors, Heymann is
thriving on the passion for performance, and is
getting honored for the excellent programs that
result. Recently. she was recognized as Mall Mar~

, keter of the Year for The Richard E. Jacobs Group

of Cleveland, Ohio, which owns and manages 40
regional shopping malls in the United States, includ-
ing Fayette Mall. The award was presented at the
corporation’ 5 National Management Conference.

“It was truly an honor to receive this award,”
Heymarm said. “The competition was so incredible.
This award is one of the best honors I’ve received
in my career.”

Heymann was nominated for this award by
Myron Worley, Fayette Mall general manager, and
Steve Beaty, regional marketing manager for The
Richard E. Jacobs roup. Criteria for the award are
based on personal success within the marketing
manager’s home mall, The Richard E. Jacobs
Group, and the shopping mall industry. Heymann
has excelled threefold.

In May 1998, Heymann was appointed to
represent the states of Kentucky and West Virginia
as Chairperson for Public Relations and Community
Service on the Intemational Council of Shopping
Centers (ICSC). She was selected for this position
based on her mall marketing success and her
knowledge of the industry. Her role is to serve as
liaison between the Council and the malls in the two
states, to represent these malls as the regional
spokesperson, and to keep regional malls up-to-date
about industry news.

In 1997, Heymann received accreditation as a

certified marketing director under the ICSC. Since
the accreditation program began 1n 1975, only 2,000
marketing directors and mall managers throughout the
world have received this accreditation.

Marketer of the Year is not the only recognition
Heymann has eamed. For her innovation in initiating
and successfully implementing “A Salute to Law
Enforcement,” Fayette Mall received the Innovator
Award at the corporation’s National Management
Conference. This special mall event was a joint effort
between Fayette Mall and the Lexington-Fayette
Urban County Police Department. For two years, the
event has served as an educational opportunity for
the community to learn about the role of its law
enforcement officers and as a recruiting tool for the
police academy.

Community involvement is an integral part of
Heymann’s career. “Fayette Mall wants to be as
involved as it can in the entire Central and Eastern
Kentucky region,” Heymann said. “We are the
‘community’ withina community.”

Heymann got her idea for “A Salute To Law
Enforcement” when the police department ap-
proached her about having a recruiting table in the

' mall. When they said that, Heymann said, “WOW!

Let’s do more than just that. Let’s bring what we are
learning in the Citizen’ 5 Police Academy (Hey mann

graduatedfromitsfirstclassandhasservedas ....,.._

alumni president)tothemalicommm1ity. We’ll bring
all the divisions of police to the mall, and let
customers touch, hear and see things related to
law enforcement.”

Worley said, “The police department loved the
idea, and has successfully added forty people to the
police force as a result of this event.” The promotion
has become a model for mall/police interaction
under the Fayette Mall Operation Cooperation
program, he said.

“Our relationship with the University of Kentucky
is also very important,” Heymann said. Three years
ago, the University of Kentucky initiated a partner-
ship with Fayette Mall to promote university athletics.
Since then, the “UK is Cool” promotion has included
Kentucky Blue retail displays,” Heymann said. “Their
sales were very successful.” Some of the Fayette
Mall stores that feature UK merchandise accom-
plished a triple digit sales increase.

Before an event ever reaches the planning stages,
Heymann carefully measures the potential outcome
for both her mall retailers and the community. “If it is
good for our retailers, it is good for me. I’m here to
help them. And we are all here for the development
of the community.”

“Sandy’s well-rounded talents are reflected in a
positive attitude, long-range planning, effective
leadership, dramatic results and timely control,”

Myron Worley said. “She’s the vital reason behind
Fayette Mall’ 3 prosperity.”

“We don’t do anything minute. If we do some-
thing, we do it 100 percent,” said Heymann. “That is
why we are so successful.” However, successful to
Heymann is not necessarily winning the Marketer of
the Year or Innovator Award. To her, it is that warm
feeling you get when you know that you’ve produced
positive results.

“As long as I’m okay in my heart about a project,
I know that I’ve been successful,” Heymann said. “I.
love coming to work everyday. I feel good about
what I’m doing, and know that I’m doing the best I
can. That in itself is reward enough for me.”

Like her father, Heymann believes in what she is
doing. Although she did not go into the shopping
business just because her dad was a salesman, she
said she stands out from the rest because of his
influence. As for her community, spirit, she gets that
from her mother, Anna Scissors, who has worked at
her local community center since Heymann graduated
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BIOGRAPHICAL
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Age: 36

Job: Marketing Director

CMD Fayette Mall, Lexington
Education: Bachelor of Arts in Speech
Communication and Human
Relations, Minor in Public

Relations, University of
Kansas, I 982

Community Involvement:
President, Citizens Police
Academy Alumni Association

Chairperson, Lexington
Chamber of Commerce

Partnership in Education
Committee Board Member

Lexington Arts Council
Mother of three

Husband: Marvin

Children: Jason, Miles,
& Hunter

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Central Kentucky Jewish Federation

Leisure Club

MEET & EA TLUNCH
at
The Woodlands Grille
II 1 Woodland Avenue

(park in the rear)

Thursday, October 15“ 0 11:45 a. m.

Please note that the Afternoon Tea originally
scheduled for this date has been cancelled. We are
meeting at the Woodlands Grille instead.
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Project some time
in the spring.
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for any inconvenience
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Leisure Club Update

by Ruth Maser

 

 

lot of meeting and eating. In June, we met at Portabellos

for a delicious lunch and complimentary dessert. We
assumed that everyone went on vacation in July, and in August we
met at Bella Notte for lunch. Now we are ready to get down to
business. When you read this we will have already Kvetched &
Kvelled to our hearts content. Our renown Yiddish teacher.
Evelyn Moreida Krislov, found a Yiddish transcript entitled
MAMELOSHEN written by Sylvia Rothchild and produced over
20 years ago by National Hadassah Program-Film Department.
Most ofus got to do a part. and we all got to laugh a lot.

At the Kvetch & Kvell we dressed the second batch ofdolls to

be delivered to the UK Children’s Hospital as part ofthe continu-
ing Hadassah/CKJF Leisure Club. Now the Leisure Club and

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Club Liaison to lladassah.

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sponsored fund raiser for the doll project, has been cancelled. We
will go instead to the Woodlands rille to “Meet & Eat“.

Annette and l are working on the November 17th meeting
which will be on a Tuesday. The next Shalom will contain the
notice. We have also started handing out announcements at each
meeting, so at the October meeting you will receive yours.

Again on Tuesday, December 15. we will have our annual
Channukah party at Temple Adath Israel. Mark your calendars,
tell your friends, and plan to have exciting times at the Leisure
Club where we always have fun. Remember, if you are a regular
Leisure Club member or not, or if you are just in town for a visit,
come to the Leisure Club. You will be more than welcome. and
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iz Fox has been chosen as the speaker to go on Speaker’s
I Tour ths fall. She is no stranger to our Region. At the last
'd-winter meeting Liz, along with Sue Spector and Judy
Bauman, ran a wonderful workshop incorporating program
and membership.

Liz is a member of the National Board of Hadassah currently
serving a the Facilitator of the Recruitment, Rentention and Imple-
mentation Cluster of the Nation Membership Division. She is also
liaison to Central States Region. Liz is a member of the Blue
Ribbon Commission, a group charged to address structural and
governance issues.

Liz was born and raised in New York City and now resides in

school teacher in the Boulder Valley Schools.

Liz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from CCN Y where she earned a
Bachelor of Arts Degree in History. She took her Master’s Degree
from NYU in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling. She worked in
that field for four yers. She returned to school in Colorado where
she earned a Colorado Teacher’s Certificate.

Married to Sidney, they have three children; David, Jonathon
and Amy. Sidney and Liz are Founders and she is a three genera-
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Hadassah and Jewish Women:
Shaping our Future

The Lexington Chapter of Hadassah is pleased to welcome

Liz Fox
Thursday, October 22, 1998
7:30 p.m.
Ohavay Zion Synagogue - 2048 Edgewater Court

Liz Fox will provide an update of our Hadassah Israel projects as
well as the broad range of programs/issues that Hadassah support-
ers in the United States. Come hear about the recent initiatives in
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as the latest medical breakthroughs at Hadassah hospital.

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COMMUNITY

Why We Need a Community Relations Committee
by Rabbi H.D. Uriel Smith, Co—Chair CKJF CRC Committee

6 Jewish community is a canary for the

I larger society within which it dwells.

Since Kentucky has a coal mining
tradition, we should remember that canaries
once were used in the mines. The miners took
the canaries down with them into the tunnels to
warn them of dangerous gasses. Since canaries
are more sensitive than people, they reacted
more quickly to the danger. If the canaries
stopped singing, the miners knew that the
concentration of methane was too high. Either
it could suffocate them or an explosion could
occur. The miners ianediately stopped work
in that level and escaped.

Because we are not just a minority, but a
sacred community, we are affected earlier than
other communities by social problems that
arise. Thus we should recognize earlier than
others when new trends appear, both good
and bad.

We all know that minorities are treated
differently by the majority community within
which they live. We are diflerentiated from the
majority because we are tagged by the larger
Christian groups as being Jews, members of
the same community within which Jesus was

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festivals, and followed many of the same
religious practices that we follow today. Some
leaders of the Jewish community considered
Jesus dangerous, arrested him, and handed
him over to the Roman authorities, who
crucified him as a rebel. Our relation to Jesus
is very central to the Christian religion, even
though we Jews consider him to be just a
minor figure in Jewish history.

Because of this “Jew” and “Israel” have
become very potent symbols for Christians.
While other symbols slowly are submerged in
a person’ 5 memory, with new memories piling
over them, day by day, week by week, sacred
symbols continue to reverberate and rise again
and again to the top of the memory pile. If they

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do not harmonize with the world-view of
that person, the sacred symbols create a
cognitive dissonance. The sacred symbols
thereby shake and reshape the person’s
emotions.

Thus Christians cannot be neutral about
Jews. They are either philosemitic or
antisemitic. If they harmonize their under-
standing of Jews with their world-view they
become philosemitic. If, unfortunately, they
cannot harmonize that understanding, they
become antisemitic. The more religion is
part of their lives, the stronger their emo-
tional reaction to Jews. Either way the
symbolic Jew becomes distorted and carica—
tured.

We can sense the power of the symbol
“Jew” when we note that in English the only
minority names with a feminine form are
“J ewess” and “Negress.” In these cases the
libido has modified the language.

The Jewish community has been able to
assimilate into the larger American society

because, first, the democratic ideal (also a
potent symbol) demands the acceptance of

  
   
   
  
 
 
  
  
  

emotional reactions.
We must recognize this and learn to deal
with it. The Reconstructionists have tried to
eliminate the problem by removing the idea
of “chosen people” from every part of their
Siddur. That attempt is futile. The problem
is not a Jewish problem. It is a Christian
problem. For Christians Jews are con-
nected to Jesus, whether we like it or not.
When Judaism became the mother religion
for Christianity and Islam this sealed our
fate as being a chosen people. The emo—
tional reactions to Jews and Israel cannot
be eliminated. They can only be sublirnated:

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Central Kentucky Jewish Federation
Community Relations Committee Meeting
Sunday, October 18, 1998 s 10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
CKJF Office s 340 Romany Road 0 268-0672

If you are interested in becoming active in Community Relations issues,
please join us for