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Camp Shalom and Camp Gesher celebrate staff leadership

Largest percentage ever

of returning staff
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More than twenty Camp Shalom
and Gesher staff members will be
returning this summer, bringing a
high level of commitment and years
of camp experience as campers and
as staffers. Our community summer
camp supports our children, estab-
lishes Jewish values, and creates a
camping experience that enriches
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future. Once campers have advanced

to staff level, the program helps develop and encourage
leadership skills for life.

At the 40th anniversary reunion dinner last summer, the
original campers shared stories about camp experiences

and how they positively influenced their adult lives. The
current staff was strengthened in their love of camp and
encouraged for the future to hear these stories.

If you have not yet signed up for camp, please register
now. Take advantage of the discount for pre-Iune 2 pay—
ment.

'1 his summer, Kathy Feinberg returns for her ninth year
as director. She will help the camp go green by educating
herself and teaching staff and campers man} cool tricks

  
 

 

Wanted: CKIF Campaign
leadership for 2009

New structure planned for
development effort
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By Judy B. Wortmun

When I came to Lexington for an interview several
months ago, I was introduced to many leaders in the
Jewish community including rabbis, presidents, and
representatives of the Lexington congregations and orga-
nizations, founders of Camp Shalom and the Central
Kentucky Jewish Federation, generous donors, and CKJF
staff members. It occurred to me at the time that I hadn’t
met the Campaign chair or Cabinet members. I simply
assumed that they were out of town or unable to meet me
that day.

— CAMPAIGN NEWS —

As many of you know, I was hired to
be the executive director of the CKIF
and began on May 1. After several
days on the job, I asked about meet-
ing the Campaign leadership and
found that there was no chairperson,
no Campaign Cabinet, no plans for

a Major Gifts event, no Women’s
Division (or Women’s Philanthropy,
as it is now being called), no Young
Leadership Cabinet, and very few
people who were willing to solicit
other community members on a face-
to—face basis.

Having been a student of the art of
fundraising for decades, I would like
to suggest that if we ever hope to

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was to email our brochure this summer, to conserve
paper. Please help spread the word about camp and tell
people to go to our website at www.jewishlexington.org
or to Facebook and become a friend of Camp Shalom.

Our new assistant director, Rachel Heller, is not new to
Camp Shalom at all; she has been working for the past ten
years with the Ofarim (Deer), campers 4 to 5 years old, and
for the last five years as a group leader. She has studied in
Italy for the past couple of months and will have a lot to
share with campers and staff.

We have three new group leaders this year. Lizzie Engel
will head the Qfmim, and Nora Simon will lead the

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on her tenure at OZS

Enthusiasm and passion have

benefited community
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By Marcia Blacker

Even before she saw Lexington and Ohavay Zion
Synagogue, Rabbi Sharon Cohen knew she was going to
like both. Rabbi Cohen had been an
assistant in a large congregation
in Phoenix for three years before
deciding to seek her own pulpit.
During OZS’s search for a new
rabbi, several members of the
congregation were in Phoenix
and met with her. She was so
taken with their warmth, enthu-
siasm, and knowledge that she
knew she would be making the
right decision to move to Lexington.

   

Rabbi Cohen lived in Miami as a young girl. A large
Jewish population made being a Jew easy; however, when
her family moved to Chattanooga, she realized that it was
more difficult to be Jewish in a small community. ”You
had to work at it,” she said. ”You have to really want

it.” One of the reasons she chose to come to Lexington
was the similarity she saw between Chattanooga and

see Rabbi Cohen, page 13

    

  

IN THIS ISSUE

Profile: The Sanford Levy family ........................ 3
President's Message ................................. 4
Third Opinion ...................................... 5
From the Director .................................. 6
New Israeli ambassador born in U.S. .................... 6
Ask a Rabbi ....................................... 7
JFS: At Your Service ................................. 8
The costs of violence ................................ 9
Letter to the Editor ................................ 10
Participants sought for study on women’s health .......... 11

CKJF celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut with a variety of activities. . 12
History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — Part XXXVIII . . . .14

Israel 21c: Unlocking the secrets of ancient wheat

to battle disease ............................... 16
B'tayavon ........................................ 18
Lexington Chapter of Hadassah ....................... 19
Lexington Havurah ................................. 19
Temple Adath Israel ................................ 20
Around the Community ............................. 21
Ohavay Zion Synagogue ............................. 22
Community Calendar ............................... 23

 

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Profile: The Sanford Levy family

Of dairy farming and discount selling
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By Hanna B. Smith

Always looking for bargains, I found
a clothing store named Welgo soon
after moving to Lexington in the
mid-19803. Little did I know then
that the owner, Sanford E. Levy,
was a member of the Lexington
Jewish community and that I would
interview Sandy about the history
of his family for a Shalom article
some 20 years later. Welgo, renamed
Pricebusters in 1991, closed in 1998.
A friend, however, assured me

that she still had clothes bought at
Welgo. ”They had good stuff!" she
exclaimed.

Sandy Levy reported that Welgo
Traders, Inc. was founded in October
1950 by Sandy’s father, Hyman S.
Levy, with David and Vivian Weil
and Hoskle Goldberg. Within a

few months of the store's opening,
though, Hoskle Goldberg sold his
interest to the remaining partners.
The first of the Welgo stores opened
at 960 Winchester Road.

Over the years Welgo could boast

_ of a number of firsts. With the loca-

WM Welgo ,
was Lexington’s first free-standing
store outside of downtown. It was
also Lexington’s first air-conditioned
store. In 1989 Welgo held the first—
ever warehouse sale of brand—name
merchandise.

The original store measured a

fairly modest 5,000 square feet.
Nevertheless, Welgo offered a large
selection of general merchandise at
discount prices. From the beginning
business was brisk, and soon the
store was among Lexington’s high—
est volume sellers. Over the next ten
years it grew to encompass 36,000
square feet. In 1957 a second Welgo
store opened, at 450 Southland
Drive. This second store’s size was
12,000 square feet. In 1964 David and
Vivian Weil sold their interest

in Welgo to Hyman Levy.

There were always big crowds at
Welgo, according to Sandy Levy.
People frequently dressed formally
in those days, which required a
certain outlay of money. The com-
bination of quality merchandise at
affordable prices brought people into
the store.

Until the arrival in Lexington of
national discount stores, Welgo con-
tinued as a high-volume sales opera—
tion. Hyman Levy retired in 1969 and
his son Sandy took over the store.

In order to stay competitive with

the national discount stores, Sandy
Levy faced considerable changes,
such as eliminating certain merchan-
dise lines. Instead Sandy secured an
agreement with LL. Bean and Lands’
End to sell their catalogue overstock
and irregulars. He also sold Brooks
Brothers store-returned merchandise
under a neutral label. This was an
exclusive contract
that called for all
Brooks Brothers
stores to ship cus- .
tomer-returned
merchandise

to Welgo on a
monthly basis.

Welgo bought the
entire overstock
inventory of Jos.

A. Bank Clothiers
and held a ware—
house sale in the . . . .
former Kroger store on Southland
Drive, a building that Sandy Levy
had bought earlier. This was the first
warehouse sale of brand-name mer-
chandise in Lexington. For the next
several years, Welgo sold Jos. A. Bank
overstock. Welgo also bought out auc-
tion goods from Macy’s and Barney’s
in New York City. Because of an
economic downturn in the late 1970s,
Sandy Levy closed the Winchester
Road store and sold the building to
Kentucky Lighting.

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While discussing his business and
family, Sandy Levy gave me a crash
course in overstock merchandising.
When acquiring an overstock inven-
tory, the buyer also accepts items that
may not sell in his store for various
reasons. To avoid or at least minimize
financial losses, Sandy partnered
with businesses in New York and Los
Angeles who would accept merchan-
dise that did not sell here. He had to
have the approval of Brooks Brothers
and of the other name-brand manu-
facturers whose overstock he sold in
order to enter these partnerships.

In addition to the partners, other
members of the Jewish community
worked in the Levy stores. Notable

  

Joe and Jenny's son, Hyman “Murpli” Levy, with
Hyman’s grandchildren, Scott and Jennifer.

 

among them were Martha and
Harvey Steinberg, parents of Janice
Crane, who opened their own busi—
ness later on. Sandy Levy has fond
memories of Milton Sims in particu-
lar, among the non-Jewish employ-
ees. Mr. Sims first went to work for
Hyman Levy and then for Sandy,
after he took over his father’s busi-
ness. In his free time Milton Sims
volunteered for the Fayette County
school system. He read to the chil-
dren and made it his mission to inter-
est children in books.

The Levy family hails from
Lithuania, a shtetl named Pusalotas,
or Pushelat in Yiddish. Several of

the founding families of the Central
Kentucky Jewish community immi-
grated to Lexington from Pusalotas
and its environs. Sandy Levy said
that his family
was distantly
related to the
Herman and
Green families.
The Steinberg
and Rosenberg
families also
originate in
Pusalotas.

 

Sandy’s pater-
nal grandpar—
ents, Joe and

. Jenny Levy, ,.
came to Lexington in the early 19003.
Joe worked as a peddler but eventu-
ally acquired farmland in Athens,
Kentucky, where he raised cattle,
tobacco, corn, hay, and alfalfa. We
tend to forget that some Jews availed
themselves of the opportunity of
owning land in the New World, and
of becoming farmers.

In addition to farming, in 1910 Joe
Levy also opened a store on Upper
Street, together with his partners,
Nathan and Ben Herman. The store,
which was located next door to the

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closed, in the early 1960s.

Joe and Jenny Levy were among the
founders of Ohavay Zion Synagogue.

Hyman Solomon Levy, Joe and
Jenny’s son, married Shirley Singer
from Cleveland, Ohio. Hyman had

a degree in agriculture from the
University of Kentucky, and he con-
tinued farming. At one time he was a

' dairy farmer. In addition to farming,

Hyman Levy was heavily involved
in the retail trade. His first retail
enterprise was a shoe department
that he operated from 1946 until 1952
in Emanuel Meyer’s store. Meyers
Clothiers, located at West Main and
Mills streets, was another Jewish-
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men with the name Hyman Levy. To

distinguish among them, this tightly

knit community assigned nicknames

to each. Our Hyman was called

Murph, apparently because of his

blond hair and Irish looks!

   

Sandy Levy remembers stripping
tobacco on his father’s farm as a
child. His father hired a tenant
farmer so he could concentrate on
his retail enterprises. This tenant
was Fred Baesler, uncle of future

see Profile, page 8

 

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As the old song goes, it’s ”sum— with Shalom and Jewish Weekly, they Jewish heritage and current practice in an atmosphere
mertime and the living is easy.” revamped the accounting system so that is so fun-filled they do not realize how much they
This is how I feel now that we have that our budget is fully broken out are really learning. As they share this valuable experi-
a wonderful new executive direc- and defined as it truly should be. ence, they also learn leadership skills under the guid- T1
tor in place. Judy Wortman has This is now allowing CKJF to make ance of our wonderful camp director, Kathy Feinberg. H
assumed her position with ease use of Rakefet (our main computer As our youth progress each year from the youngest th
and grace, at the same time having program) in ways that we thought age group to the oldest and then to staff, they learn to respect others, to share, be
the drive to move us forward with were not possible, making processes and to cooperate in groups. They develop their self—esteem and gain confi- C]
every aspect of our Federation/com— much easier and more productive dence in their Jewishness and in their place in the Jewish community. In that
munity goals. Although I miss the for the future. I salute all of our staff regard, please remember that CKJF has confidential camperships available.
stimulating atmosphere of the CKJF for their dedication and hard work
office and the camaraderie of the on behalf of our Jewish community. I always know that it is truly summertime when the CKJF annual meeting
staff, I must say that I am relieved approaches. This is the time to hear the CKJF version of ”The State of the
about no longer having to spend I encourage everyone to let our Union.” There is the annual review of the accomplishments of CKJF over
at least three to four hours in the CKJF staff know how much they the last year, by both the president and the executive director. Outgoing Tr
office every day. [rather desper— are appreciated and to recognize Board members are recognized and new Board members are voted into “1
ately tried to help a little bit in the their efforts for our community. office. Outstanding members of our community receive awards for their id
absence of a director, Without mak— volunteerism and leadership. Please join us as we celebrate another year to
ing too many irreversible errors. What is summer without summer of community endeavors and accomplishments. Take the opportunity to th
camp? We are very fortunate in meet and share your thoughts about CKJF with our new executive direc- ga
I want to thank the staff with my Central Kentucky to have available tor, Judy Wortman. This year the annual meeting is Wednesday, June Je:
utmost appreciation and admiration. our CKJF Jewish summer camp pro- 24 at the CKJF office at 7:30 p.m.. I look forward to seeing you there! I)
They really kept things going during gram for two weeks at the end of T}
the absence of a director. Tamara, July and the beginning of August.
Jana, and Paula—and Gayle, newly Camp Shalom is a superior experi- Campaign (from page 1) I 1
added as a contract employee—were ence for both campers and staff. It bc
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Third Opinion

Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, PhD

 

Oy-35
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This piece might also be titled ”Texas’ Newest Adopt—a-
Highway Program.” It seems that there is an Interstate
that runs from Laredo, TX to Duluth, Minnesota that
bears the number 1-35. Now, in the biblical Book of Isaiah,
Ch. 35:8 reads:

And a highway shall appear there
Which shall be called the Sacred Way.
No one unclean shall pass along it,
But it shall be for them. (NJPS)

Translations of the last part vary because the Hebrew is
unclear, but somehow some good Texans have gotten the
idea that this verse applies to them. They are the highway
to holiness. People are gathering along it to pray loudly
that, among other things, ”adult” businesses will close,
gay people will go straight, and everyone will turn to
Jesus.

The mind boggles.

I live comfortably near 1-65 myself, though I haven’t
bothered to check what verses in Isaiah 65 were written
with Nelson County in mind. Alas, Isaiah has only 66
chapters. How thoughtless of God not to provide tailor-
made, if ex post facto, inspiration to some folks, and none

 

I’m completely revolted by people who think
thata random biblical verse, preserved for
more than 2,500 years, taken completely out
of context and translated by people whose
grasp of Hebrew is subservient to their theol-
ogy, can possibly be meant to apply to them.

 

to all who live near Interstates with numbers higher than
66. And I don’t know how to interpret the fact that it

was the 1-35 bridge over the Mississippi that collapsed in
Minneapolis.

I’m completely revolted by people who think that a ran-
dom biblical verse, preserved for more than 2,500 years,
taken completely out of context and translated by people
whose grasp of Hebrew is subservient to their theology,
can possibly be meant to apply to them. What is gentile
for Chutzpah, anyway?

But the situation is even worse than that. The authors

of Isaiah—scholars think that at least three people were
involved in its composition—did not attach chapter and
verse markings to their work. These came much later.
Moreover, Jews and Christians often disagree as to where
chapter breaks should go.

Thus, for example, Christians combine our Psalms 1 and
2 into a single piece in order to jibe with a remark of Jesus
concerning Psalm 2, which he identifies as Psalm 1. This
is not a big deal. It only means that in Jesus’ time Psalm
2 was the first piece in the as-yet-uncanonized collection

of Psalms, and
that Psalm 1, a
brief and bril-

liant précis to the book as a whole,
was added sometime between his

death, around 27 CE, and the time
that the Writings were canonized,

about 100 CE.

However, this difference does point
up the difficulty of taking such
arbitrary things as chapter numbers
and using them for anything except
pointing people to a place in the text.

Lest you think this sort of thing is

a particularly gentile vice, there is

a midrash concerning Moses stand-
ing, invisible, in the heder (classroom)
of Rabbi Akiva (d. 135 CE). Akiva
was doing exegesis based on the
serifs, those little squiggly lines that
are sometimes used as decorations
on top of certain letters. Moses, the
story goes, returns to God furious
that Rabbi Akiva is saying things
that he, Moses, never intended. God’s
response is to say something like,
”Sorry, old man, but authority to
interpret Tanach has moved on.”

This, in itself, is unobjectionable.
Succeeding generations of religious
leaders must be able to take their
changed circumstances into account
when using Scripture. Thus did Hillel
the Great, in the generation before
Jesus, invent the legal fiction of pro-
zbul (corridor) through which at the
beginning of a Sabbatical year one
could sell a debt to a third party and
buy it back for the same price at the
end of the year. Had Hillel not done
this, credit would have evaporated
every seven years—to the detri-
ment of those who needed to borrow
money.

What the Texans are doing however,
is arrogant self-aggrandizement. Oy-
35. 1::

Stanley Ned Rosenbaum, PhD (Brandeis),
is an adjunct professor 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 opinions.”

 

 

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Though it is difficult to believe, most members of the
North American Jewish community living today had not
been born yet when the State of Israel was established.
The foundation of the Jewish State, like the Holocaust,

is something they studied in religious school and,

rarely, in the public school system. Most have not vis-
ited Israel and many have come to regard the State as

an aggressor among its Arab neighbors. As leaders of
the Lexington Jewish community, it is critical that we
teach our young—and often not so young—readers about
the miracle that Israel has been and continues to be.

Shortly after the establishment of the State, from 1949

to 1950, Operation Magic Carpet rescued about 49,000
Jews from Yemen and brought them to Israel. These were
persecuted religious Jews who knew nothing about the
technology of the time, including airplanes, and thus
their rescue was referred to as Operation Magic Carpet.

Since that time we have witnessed the miraculous rescue
and resettlement of Jews from all over the world: survi-
vors from Eastern and Western Europe, Sefardim from
many Arab countries, and, in more recent years, refu—
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Our American Jewish communities have also been
enriched by the immigration of Jews whose lives have
been endangered. In recent years we have resettled
refugees from Russia and other former Soviet repub-
lics, from Syria, from Iran, and other places. My own

 

Shortly after the establishment of the State, from
1949 to 1950, Operation Magic Carpet rescued
about 49,000 Jews from Yemen and brought them
to Israel. These were persecuted religious Jews
who knew nothing about the technology of the
time, including airplanes, and thus their rescue
was referred to as Operation Magic Carpet.

 

family has now been blessed to include my daughter-
in-law, Zhanna, who arrived from Moscow when she
was 16. She met my son, Ari, when they were work-

ing together at a JCC in Brooklyn. Zhanna is now in a
social work masters program and works full time doing
outreach to troubled Jewish teens who are Bukharian
immigrants. Ari is the director of Jewish Education at

a JCC in Brooklyn whose work helps enrich the lives

of émigré families who were denied Jewish educa-

tion and celebration in the former Soviet Union.

We are currently in a position to participate in another
miracle. There are 270 Jews left in Yemen who must be
evacuated as soon as possible. Last December a prominent
Jewish teacher was assassinated and the home of another
Jewish family was fire-bombed. This tiny community has
faced increasing intimidation from its Arab neighbors.
More than half of the community will be making aliyah
and resettling in Israel. The remaining 112 have applied

to come to the United States as refugees. The cost of this
resettlement in the United States is about $2 million. The

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael B. Oren (born Michael Bernstein in upstate New
York in 1955) was appointed to the post of Israeli ambas-
sador to the United States on May 2, 2009. He replaces
former ambassador Sallai Meridor.

A resident of Jerusalem, he made aliyah in 1979, after
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Columbia University. Oren has been a professor at
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understanding to Middle Eastern issues, as reflected in
his extensive publications including the best-selling Six
Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle
East. He is a contributing editor to the The New Republic.

According to an article by Dan Gordon in the May 13
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U.S. government has asked the Jewish
community to fund about $800,000

of these initial resettlement costs,
which will support these families

for the first six months of their lives
here. The families will be relocated

in Monsey in Rockland County, New
York. Monsey is home to a number of
very religious Jewish groups, includ-
ing a small Yemenite community.

The Central Kentucky Jewish
Federation has been asked to
contribute $500 to this life-sav-