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Feature Stories

Jesus & Judaim ............ 3
Time To Brag ................ 4
B’nai Brih .................... 5
Ari Pfefi‘erAppointmart . 7
Ask JFS ....................... 8
W Holocauast
Remembrance Service .. 10
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CKJF President’s

Message ....................... 2
Jews for Judaisn ........... 3

Seder Accommodations . 4

Israel 50 Jubilee ............ 5
Camp Shalom ............... 6
l-hvurah ........................ 7
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CHARTING OUR
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y the time you read this - and I surely hope you do read
these articles on which your ofl‘iccrs, editors, and staff

work so assiduously - Purim will have come and gone. I
trust you all had a “Fraylich Purim” — a Joyous Purim. And I
hope that many of you took the time to give some thought to the
question of how Jews today can find relevance in celebrating yet
another holiday which marks ourdeliverance from an evil tyrant. I
did and I’d like to share a few ofmy thoughts with you.

First, l must tell you that I had difficulty accepting the notion
that the Purim story we read from this Megilla is a record - fac-
tual or allegorical - of life in a culture and at a point in history
during which the structure of society was alien to modem thought
and practice in the United States. In particular, I wrestled with the
fact that women generally were regarded as chattel; as property
subject to the absolute authority of their husbands or fathers. This
troubled me deeply. I do not like the reality of subjugation of any
group of people I am especially troubled when the people being
subjugated are women or Jews No! lam not an historical revi-

Cally correct by today’ 5 standards l srmplv draw this to your
attention so } ou can recognize the enormity of \\ hat E sther did.
At the behest other cousin Mordecai. she presented herselfat the
court ofAhasuerus knowing that ifshe were not made queen. she
would be relegated to the king’s entourage of concubines — for
life. OK, she was spared this indignity. Then, shctook her life in
her hands by presenting herself to the king, uninvited. So one way
in which I choose to deal with putting a modern interpretation on
this commemoration of our deliverance from the despotism of
Haman is to view it, not as a tale of the bondage of women, but as
a recounting of one woman’s complete and selfless bravery. She
knew that the good of the many ofien must take priority over the
good. if not the life, of one person.

Then I pondered over the fact that nowhere in this Biblical re-
counting is there any mention of the Eternal One. There appar-
ently is no praying to Ha’Shem for deliverance or safety. There is
no reliance on Divine intervention to save the Jewish people.
Human beings are portrayed as behaving as human beings who
have both positive and negative characteristics. On the negative
side we see the selfish egomania ofthe villain Haman. On the
positive side we find that the Jews relied on their own interven-
tions - all right, on the interventions of a couple of brave leaders
- to save themselves. Is this supposed to teach us something
about our relationship with our Creator? 1 think that it exemplifies
what my father - I called him Ahvee Daddy - used to say, “The
Lord helps them that help themselves.” If we want something to

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Ohavay Zion Synagogue, Temple Adath Israel, and
U.K. Jewish Student Organization/Hillel

Present

Jews for Judaism
Fighting Back!

A Program with

Mark Powers

National Director of Jews for Judaism

Sunday; April 5, 1998
7:00 pm.

Temple Adath Israel
124 N. Ashland Avenue
Lexington, Kentucky

There are over 300 cults and missionary groups dedicated to preying on
Jewish Youth and Jewish Adults. What is the extent of this threat? What
techniques do they use? The answers will astound you! Is there anything we
can do about it? Come and find out.

Mark Powers, National Director of Jews for Judaism, has been working
for more than sixteen years to alert the Jewish community to the increasing
threat of well funded missionary movements and the impact of destructive cults.

Jews for Judaism is North America’s only full—time counter-missionary
organization, working with every segment of the Jewish community to keep
Jews Jewish. The efforts of Jews for Judaism have been endorsed by
Federations, Jewish educators and rabbis from Reform, Conservative,
Reconstructionist and Orthodox movements worldwide.

THIS IS A PROGRAM NOT TO BE MISSEDJ!
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JESUS AND JUDAISM
DON’T MIX

icture a person in a baseball uniform. The bat he uses is a

real bat, the glove 3 real glove and the ball an authentic

baseball. The person hits the ball, and instead of running
to first base, he goes to third base, heads towards second,
then first and then to home plate. This isn’t baseball as we
know it anymore.

This is how Mark Powers, director of Jews For Judaism,
describes messianic Judaism. “Yes,” he said, “they wear a
kippah and tallit and yes they have a Torah. But, they don’t
practice Judaism. They have accepted another system.”

Jews For Judaism is a national group, based in Baltimore. It
uses counseling, educational programming and outreach in an
effort to counter and expose evangelical Christian missionaries
who use Jewish symbols, like a tallit or the Torah, to draw in
unsuspecting young Jews and ensure them that to embrace Jesus
is to become a “firlfilled Jew.”

In an interview with Lynne Meredith Cohn of Washington
Jewish Week Powers notes that As a missionary religion,
“Christianity has been a failure among the Jewish People.” But
some missionaries are motivated by the belief that if Judaism
endures or prevails, it negates the premise of Christianity.

About 35 years ago, Christians with a “messianic” bent
began to look at why Judaism had endured afier centuries of
persecution, Powers noted. They came up with two reasons:
first, Jews would commonly scoff at the idea of becoming
Christian, seeing members of this religion as “those” or the other.
Secondly, Jews were reluctant to sever ties with their heritage.

Noting that Christianity builds on Judaism by adding the New
Testament to the Jewish Bible or “Old Testament” according to
Christians, missionary Christians began responding that “a real
Christian loves the Jewish people,” Powers said.

They would also tell wavering Jews: “We don’t want you to
cut your relationship” with Judaism, he noted. Jews were told
that in becoming Christian they would actually be more Jewish.
“Add to your Jewishness, fulfill your Jewishness, become a
Bible—believing Jew -- a Messianic Jew,” Powers said, para-
phrasing the missionaries.

“If by doing this you become complete, what am I? Am I less
complete?” Powers asked. “There is an underlying current of
antisemitism in this movement because of the thought that any
Jew who doesn’t have this is incomplete.”

Powers said that God has given the Jewish people guidelines
on how to recognize and accept the messiah. The Jews did not
reject Jesus, he said. Jesus simply did not fit those guidelines,
just like many others who came before and afier him claiming to
be the messiah.

Among the criteria for the messiah, according to Jewish
belief, is that he will come from human parents; his coming will
bring world peace; and he will return the Jews to Israel where
they will rebuild the Holy Temple. None of these criteria apply
to Jesus, Powers noted.

All branches of J udaism agree that one cannot accept
Jesus as the messiah and claim to be practicing Judaism. The

Jews for Judaism continued on page I 3

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INVITE A FRIEND TO SEDER

esach will soon be here. And, as you are well aware, one
P of the things we do during the seder is to ask all who are

hungry to come to our table and eat. Well folks, that is
exactly what I am asking you to actualize.

Ifyou have space at your seder table, or if you want to squeeze
over a bit and make space, there are students and other members
of the Jewish community who can help you fulfill this mitzvah.
Anyone who wishes to host a fellow Jew for seder should contact
the Temple Adath Israel ofiice (269—2979), the Ohavay Zion Syna-
gogue office (266-8050), or the Lexington Havurah (223-1299)
to let them know how many guests you can welcome for Seder.
And anyone in the community, including university students, who
wants to commemorate the Exodus with a Central Kentucky fam-
ily should call the same sources to request hospitality.

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testimonies ofHolocaust victims around the country in hearings
held in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Chicago, Miami, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York.

The collective group of insurance regulators has asked the in-
surers identified in the lawsuit to vohmtarily provide them access
to company records and policyholder information pre—dating the
Holocaust.

“The business of msurance is regulated by the individual states.
I believe the responsibility for resolving this issue lies with the
individual states,”saidCo Ntehgg, Way—teasing
of the NA] C “Through the cooperative efforts of the other states
and the NAIC and the sharing of information and resources, we
hope to give some resolution to those who have suffered tremen-
dous injustice.”

Kentucky has contacted the Jewish Community Federation in
Louisville and the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism in
New York to request their assistance in our state’s efforts to re—
solve these issues.

The United States is home to more than 1 50,000 Holocaust
survivors. Seventy Kentuckians are voluntarily registered with the
National Holocaust Museum as survivors of the Holocaust. The
museum estimates the actual number of survivors to be three or
four times the number on the registry.

Kentuckians who need assistance in resolving a Holocaust-
relatedinsurance claim should calltheOlficeoftheCommissioner
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Time To Brag?
by Michael E. Adelstein

 

l was unwise.)

But my point is that perhaps
many Americans have similar
feelings and do not realize the
valuable contributions that Jews

; have made to our country. Part

 

s I write this column in
early March, Black
History month has re-

cently ended. I’ve read and
heard about and watched
black athletes, musicians, writ-
ers, scientists, politicians, and
others in the press, and on TV
and the radio.

And properly so. Most of us
are ignorant about Frederick
Douglas, Marcus Garvey, Rich-
ard Wright, Ralph Bunche, Toni
Morrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, A.
Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson,
Medgar Evers, Langston
Hughes, Thurgood Marshall,
Count Basie, Ralph Ellison, Roy
Wilkens, and other African-
Americans who have contributed

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It is fitting to learn about them
and to be reminded ofthe more
publicized figures—Martin
Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson,
Mohammed Ali, Malcolm X,
and Jackie Robinson. As Ameri—
cans, we should appreciate and
respect the accomplishments of
our black citizens.

But I wonder whether many
people know much about the
contributions of American Jews.
A few weeks ago I was part of
aforeign affairs discussion group
in which a member of the class
stated in passing that Israel re-
ceives more foreign aid than any
other country because Jews con-
trol the media—TV and the
newspapers—as well as the
banks. I was guilty of letting this
remark pass unchallenged, de-
ciding to avoid an acrimonious
confiontation. (i admit now that

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of the problem is that we are
often unidentifiable. Of course,
most people know that Ruth
Bader Ginsberg is Jewish but
few realize that Stephen Breyer
is also. I would guess that such
film people as Woody Allen,
Barbra Steisand,Steven
Spielberg, and the Marx Broth-
ers are known to be Jewish, but
what about Harold Pinter, Ed—
ward G. Robinson, and Otto
Preminger? And most people
knowledgeable about music
know that Isaac Stern, Leonard
Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein,
Artur Rubinstein (the“steins” are
identifiable), and Aaron Copland
are Jews, but what about George
Gershwin, Richard Rodgers,
and Gustav Mahler?
Andhowmahypéqflé aim
Jews, know that Andy Grove
head ofIntel, Time’s man of
1997, and Michael Dell, head of
Dell Computer, are Jewish?
Or, do the millions of people

who heard glowing TV tributes
about Fred Friendly, who
died recently, realize that he was
a Jew?

I could go on and on but my
point is clear. Most people do
not realize that hundreds of out-
standing Americans are Jews,
who comprise less than two per
cent of our population.

For many years Jewish-
Americans leaders felt that such
ignorance was fine. The less said
about American Jews, the bet-
ter. Why call attention to our-
selves? Why rock the boat? Life
since the end of World War II
has generally been fine. Anti-
Semitism has been in decline.

But it has been in decline par-
tially because some Jewish—
Americans became more asser-
tive. I’ll try to document this
point in my next column. For
now, I want to suggest that we
call attention to ourselves and
our contributions. The African-
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way with their Black History
Month. We might start with a
Jewish or Jewish-American His-
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( :ulture, Conversatiaon, Comedy and Comraderie
will abound at the first annual Mid—America Region
Annual Meeting, scheduled for June 6—7, 1998 in St.

Louis, Missouri. Being billed as a “mini-convention,” the

annual meeting is open to all B’nai B’rith members who

reside in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Nebraska.

Held at the St. Louis Airport Hilton, the one and onehalfday
conference will include entertainment, educational workshops,
business sessions, and the presentation of regional awards.
Special leadership training will be conducted for unit/lodge
presidents, presidents-elect, and financial secretaries.

The registration fee is expected to be only $25, which
includes a dessert reception on Saturday evening and
lunch on Sunday. A special room rate of $69 will be
available to all attendees.

All members in good standing - defined as those persons
who have paid their 1998 membership dues by March 31,
1998 - may attend as voting delegates.

For more infomration, or to request a registration form, you
may contact the Regional oflioe byphone(3l4/569—4122), fax
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Lexington Havurah Regional State of Israel Bonds Confirms new
Executive Director

April 4"I - Shabbat Morning Services — 10 am Jay Schottenstein, General Chairman of Ohio/Kentucky

Lexington Hearing and Speech Center
162 North Ashland Avenue
(entrance is in the back)
Join us for the pre-Passover service and lively
discussion of the week’s Torah portion.
For more information call Judy Baumann, 223-1299
or Ernie Cohen, 272-1459

State of Israel Bonds, recently announced the confinna

tion of Ari B. Pfeffer as the new Executive Director of
the Regional State of Israel Bonds office which includes the
communities of Louisville and Lexington.

In making the announcement, Schottenstein stated, “Ari

' comes to our office with previous experience in the Bonds
organization, as well as a deep commitment to the State of
Israel. We look forward to his strengthening the important
connection between the Louisville and Lexington communities
and the State of Israel.”

April 30“I -- Yom Ha’Atzmaut

A 50th Birthday Party for Israel! . _ _
Mi d dle-Eastem pot luck supper for Havurah members Smce 1995, An has been the director of the Synagogue
and prospective members Division for the Baltimore, Maryland Israel Bonds office. In
For details call Kathy Feinberg, this capacity, Ari was responsible for planning and implementing all Baltimore Bonds synagogue
Membership Chair at 2234 304' activities, which resulted 1n sales of over $7 million in 1996.

Prior to his Bonds employment, Ari was a Community Relations Intern for the Baltimore
Jewish Council, a Public Policy Specialist for B’nai B’rith in Washington, DC, an editorial ;
assistant for “Moment” Magazine in Washington, DC. and also served as a Congressional I? l
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happen we cannot wait for any person or any Power to make it
happen. We are responsible for ourselves, our actions, and the
consequences of these actions - or of not acting.

If my positing has validity. the Purim story has implications
for what gets done - or doesn’t get done - in the Central
Kentucky Jewish community. We cannot rely on a few stal-
wart volunteers to do all of the work of CK] F. We cannot
expect the staff to run campaign, to operate Camp Shalom, to
do programming, to act as the Community Relations Commit-
tee, and to do all of the rest of the projects and undertakings
the community requests of CK] F and the Jewish Family Ser-
vices. The Central Kentucky Jewish Federation is mg. You
are needed if CKJ F is to accomplish all that you have asked it
to do. I urge you to consider this fact and call the office, (606)

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Most of us have stress in our life. Most of us have daily challenges we must meet that may be the
cause for our stress. Stressors may be work related, school related, family related, or a result from
other aspects in our lives. Stress may sometimes be a catalyst for positive change or events in our
lives, but more often than not, stress is not a positive experience.

Stress is typically a rCSponse to a perceived threat or danger in our lives. It is an instinctual
response to the “fight/flight” that occurs when brain signals alarm to our body and organs. The
problem with stress is that it takes a toll on us physically and mentally. Eventually our immune system
wears down and then our body. (As if we didn’t have enough to wony about!)

J ust as the causes of stress vary individually, so does the way in which each of us deal with the
stress in our lives. There have been a great deal of research on the effects of stress on the mind and
on the body. Research has also focused on the reduction of stress through relaxation and the ben- .
efitssbi‘priacticing relaxation regularly. Relaxing helps breathing and circulation. Relaxing reduces the
physical and emotional elTects of stress, enhances the ability to concentrate and can even increase a .
energy levels (mentally and physically). The relaxation response acts as a beta blocker. It is impor—
tant and healthy and produces healthier, longer lives.

Some of us may already practice stress reduction activities. Others could use some pointers. Still
others realize the benefits of relaxation and stress reduction but do not practice it. Perhaps the
biggest obstacle to practicing stress reduction is time. True relaxation requires taking the time to do
it, whatever the activity may be. Twenty minutes a day, however, may be all that is required to
achieve a good dose of relaxation and reap the benefits. There are many ways to relax. The follow-
ing isjust one exercise that can produce the relaxation response. Give it a try:

 

 

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an opportunity for
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repeat it in your mind over and over, (a
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