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only community sharing laughs and
friendships. We will not be the only
ones celebrating and learning. Rather,
we will take part in a world-wide
celebration of community and Jewish
identity. On Sunday, November 13,
the Lexington Jewish community will
participate in the Global Day of Jewish
Learning.

In the spirit of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’s
call, ”Let my people know,” Global
Day of Jewish Learning is a world-
wide, trans-denominational event fo-
cused on the unity of the Jewish people
and Jewish texts. Jews around the
world will come together in commu-
nities and homes on the same day to
celebrate our shared heritage through
events during which we will collective-
ly explore and discuss. Events vary by
community. This year’s theme is the
Shema, a central Jewish text.

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place on Sunday, November 13, 4:30

pm — 6:30 pm (followed by a pizZa
dinner) at Temple Adath Israel. The
afternoon will entail two sets of your
choice of several discussions and semi-
nars. Topics range from the arts to text
study. Facilitators are our community
members.

Whatever your interests may be,
chances are you’ll find a workshop
you’ll be interested in. One session,
Sweet Dreams with Shema, will be devot-
ed to P] Library, where young kids and
families will read a book on the bed-
time Shema, create art, and celebrate
the many ways Jews have to make
bedtime special. Two of the several
workshops are Family Life Education
programs of Jewish Family Services.
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On Sunday, November 13 at 4:30 PM,
children and their parents and grand-
parents are invited to Temple Adath Is-
rael for a P] Library program that will
be part of the events of the Global Day
of Jewish Learning. We will be learn-
ing about the bedtime Shema prayer
through storytelling and art projects.
Rachel Belin will lead the activities and

Snacks will be served and a pizza
dinner will be provided for all those
involved in the Global Day programs
at the end of the afternoon. Children
between the ages of 6 months and
eight years of age who have not yet
signed up for P] Library can register at

that time. P] Library kids each receive
a free Jewish book or CD every month
and are invited to special programs
and parties throughout the year.

After the 1’] Library program, parents
are invited to participate in other Glob-
al Day seminars including a Family
Life Education workshop on bedtime

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Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass
and the Harold Grinspoon Founda-
tion. For information, please call Talia
Smolkin at the Federation at 268-0672.
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Equine Division hears experts

On a warm night in October, the
Equine Division of the Jewish Federa-
tion of the Bluegrass met to socialize
and to listen to presentations from

two guest 5 eakers. It was a beautiful
night, and e setting fit the tone of the
evening as we were at the Ho ewell
Farm owned by Rick Trontz, e host.

The evening was opened with a gen-
eral introduction from Dan Liebman,
co-chair of the Equine Division, who
gave a brief history of the Lexington
horse business’ involvement in the
Jewish community. He especially
mentioned the work being done at Ben
Yakir in Israel. He then turned the pro-
gram over to Dan Rosenberg, co-chair,
who introduced the night’s first guest
speaker.

The originally scheduled guest speak-
er, Barry Irwin, an owner of the winner
of this year’s Kentucky Derby, was sick
and unable to attend. With last minute
notice, Steve Davidowitz stepped in
and spoke to the crowd. Davidowitz

is the author of the book Betting on
Thoroughbreds for the let Century. He

is a professional handicapper and
columnist and the founder and CEO of
gradeoneracing.com.

Davidowitz began by retracing his
own history in the horse business. He
spoke of his early days in baseball,

his injury that took him out of being

a pitcher, and an im ortant trip to Flor-
ida that introduced 'm to horseracing
in order to raise the funds for the ex—

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IN THIS ISSUE

President's Message 3
Editorial , 3
JFS: At Your Service "’ ' 4
The PJ Library Blog 5
Jewish Film Series continues 6
Combating Autism Reauthorization Act 6
Letter from Senator Mitch McConnell 6
Deborah Weiner to speak 7
Ask A Rabbi 7
Third Opinion 8
Winter Dinner to be held on December 11 8
Letter writers needed 8
Holiday shopping time: Hadassah is selling Macy’s gift cards .................... 8
Israel 21c: Ecuador relies on Israeli expertise 10
B’tayavon 13
Temple Adath Israel 14
Ohavay Zion Synagogue 15
The Lexington Chapter of Hadassah 16
Hadassah membership big announcement 16
The Lexington Havurah 17
Around the Community 19

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and the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, this opportunity to explore the timeless core
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Robert Grossman Jane Chaput Jennifer Miller
Diana Clewett Betty Nigoff
Executive Committee Susan Cobin Kathye Schattner
Gary Yarus, Vice President Gail Cohen Kae Schennberg

Evelyn Dantzic Geller David Shakib

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As you read
this message,
the Jewish
holiday sea-
son will be
fading into
memory, and
the secular holiday season will just be
warming up. The differences between
the two holiday cycles are sometimes
amusing and sometimes jarring. I am
never reminded more of my status as
a member of a minority culture than
when I miss important meetings that
someone at work has scheduled on
Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.

Of course, for those of us who enjoy
being obstreperous, being Jewish
abounds with opportunities. For cen-
turies, people have been predicting our
demise, yet we have always survived.
And as the US has continued to realize
ever more fully its constitutional prom-
ise of freedom from bigotry, and with
the advent of the State of Israel, one
could credibly argue that the Jewish
people are thriving today more than
we have done for centuries or even
millennia.

But our survival is not guaranteed.

For us to continue as a people, we need
strong community organizations such
as synagogues and Federation. Being
Jewish has always been a communal
affair more than an individual one,

and without places for Jews to come
together to express their beliefs and
values, Jewish culture and identity are
likely to wither away.

Our Federation has a central role

in preserving Jewish identity in the
Bluegrass. JFB provides services, such
as Camp Shalom and. Jewish Family

Services that are not offered by the
congregations and other Jewish orga-
nizations in Lexington. Furthermore,
JFB provides the only arena in the
Bluegrass where Temple, synagogue,
Havurah, and unaffiliated Jews can
come together to socialize as Jews and
to work together on areas of mutual
interest such as social action projects,
offering the larger community our
perspectives on issues that affect Israel,
and educating our non-Jewish neigh-
bors on Jewish history and culture.

However, the survival of JFB itself is
not guaranteed, either. JFB depends on
the financial support of you, our mem-
bers, to continue its mission of helping
the Jewish people survive and thrive.
The Board of JFB has made responsible
but painful decisions in recent years

to bring JFB’s expenses in line with its
income, including the very difficult
decisions to reduce our staff from four
to about two and three-fifths. The
Board has also taken steps to assure
you that JFB is being a good steward
of the precious dollars that you entrust
to us. Most recently, JFB has joined the
Blue Grass Community Foundation, a

fluids

intended for charitable purposes. We

have put our cash in a regular account
at BGCF, but we have also established
an endowment fund, whose principal
we are not permitted to touch, but
which provides interest year after year.
Our endowment fund is currently too
small to pay out interest, but we hope
that you will help it grow. Please give
generously, both to regular Campaign
and to the JFB End0wment fund at the
Blue Grass Community Foundation, so
that JFB can help ensure the survival
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Editorial

By David Wortman

At a gathering recently, I overheard
several people discussing the current
crop of political candidates for presi-
dent. They were evaluating each one
concerning their stance on Israel. What
was absent from the conversation was
an assessment of other issues of impor-
tance to the Jewish community.

In a former job, I spent much time in
Washington wandering the halls of
Congress lobbying congressmen and
senators on issues important to the
Jewish agenda. Almost invariably, as
I entered each office, the legislator
would begin by describing his or her
position on Israel. The perception on
Capitol Hill was that the primary, if not
sole concern of the American Jewish
community was the relationship be-
tween the United States and the State
of Israel, as well as the security and
future of Israel as a nation. I would go
further to say, that this understanding
of American Jews is not substantially
different in the general population.
Moreover, based on my experience, I
would argue that much of the Ameri-
can Jewish community considers itself
a one-issue population. ,
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Yet, there are many issues about
which we should be concerned. Jewish
tradition dictates that the concerns of
poverty, civil rights, minority rights,
ecology, church-state separation, etc.
should be of vital interest to our com-
munity. Furthermore, there are issues
that are important to our coalition
partners that we need to support in
order to elicit their assistance in our
time of need.

 

Ultimately, the perception of the Jewish
community as being a one-issue com-

 

munity'is more harmful than helpful.
There are too many crucial interests
facing the world today that we need to
be understood as committed to.

This is why the Jewish community
ought to be as upset about the torch-
ing of a mosque in the Galilee as we
are about graffiti on a synagogue. We

need to be as concerned about péopie"

who have no food to eat or shelter . ;-.v‘
over their heads as we are about more
parochial interests.

With Thanksgiving approaching, it is
appropriate for us to examine about
which we are thankful. May I suggest
that one of those things is to be thank-
ful for the fact that we live in an open
and free society that allows us the abil-
ity to speak our minds and support the
causes that are so vital to us.

Let me not be misunderstood. Israel is,
and will always be, the central focus of
our collective identity. The defense of
its freedom, its existence, and its con-
tinued growth is paramount. Yet, we as
Jews can be multi-focused.

As the electoral process unfolds, it
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commitment to our other communal
interests. The scales of balance need
to weigh all of the issues. Especially
in these economic times, in this era

of war, and in this period of threat to
human rights, we need to remain ever
vigilant.

May we ever bear in mind the dictum
of Rabbi Hillel, who once said, ”If I am
not for myself, who will be for me? Yet,
if I am for myself alone, what am I?
And, if not now, when?” It!

 

 

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“Lunch and learn with our
Lexington community rabbis”

Tuesday, November 29 with
Rabbi Moshe Smolkin I“, 7

At 12 noon on the last Tuesday of each month, in
the JFB office, rabbis, on a rotating basis, Will be
discussing the holidays, the Torah portion of the
week, and other topics of interest. A dairy lunch will
be offered at a nominal charge. If you are interested
in attending, please call Judy Wortman at 268-0672
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ISRAEL — Sifriyat Pijama was
held in the spotlight this week by
none other than the Israeli Prime
Minister himself. In a visit to an
Israeli preschool, PM Benjamin
Netanyahu took the opportunity
to read a children’s book aloud
to a classroom of Israeli students
— and a Sifriyat Pijuma book was
selected for the read.

Sifriyat Pijama is a pre-literacy
and Jewish heritage program that
provides free children’ 5 books to
students' in more than 4, 000 ofthe
10,000 total public preschools in .
Israel.

RAPID GROWTH IN IS-
RAEL

In three short years, P] Library’s
sister program in Israel, Sifriyat
Pijama, has grown dramati-

cally, providing Hebrew language
children’s books to the country’s
neediest preschoolers.

In 2009, the pre-literacy and Jewish
heritage program started by serv-
ing 3, 500 preschoolers in Israel A
year later, it grew to 45, 000 chil—
dren; and this fall, the program
will triple, serving 120, 000 young
children.

“What’s really important is that
when you are reaching 40 percent
of the public school population
with the same books, you really
are creating a common heritage

in a society where religious and
secular children usually do not
read the same books,” says Galina
Vromen, Sifriyat Pijama '5 director
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Saar (far right) share a Sifriyat Pijama book with the Nofim Elementary
School.

A NEW MARKET FOR BE-
LOVED BOOKS

Another noteworthy aspect of Si-
friyat Pijama is that it creates a new
market for books with a broad
appeal about Jewish heritage and
values. According to Vromen, Si-
friyat Pijama has even dispatched a
researcher to the National Library
of Israel to research out-of—print
books and stories that might be
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In addition to ”reviving” other-
wise out-of—print books, Sifriyat
Pijama has also prompted the
translation of some popular selec-
tions of the PJ Library into He-
brew. She cites Bagels from Benny,
as one example. ”We are stimulat-
ing publishers and children’s book
authors in Israel to think about
creating great story books that
introduce Jewish culture, folklore,
and values to children in fresh and
engaging ways,” she says.

PLANS FOR EXPANSION

The Israel Ministry of Education

is offering a challenge grant for
Sifriyut Pijama for the upcoming
school year. The overall program is
expected to cost $3. 6 million. The
Ministry of Education has commit-
ted $1.4 million toward the pro}-
ect while the Harold Grinspoon
Foundation has committed $1.2
million and is seeking additional
philanthropic partners to fund the
remaining $1 million.

The Harold Grinspoon Foundation
operates and funds the PJ Library

in North America in partnership
with more than 155 local com-
munities and donors. Each month
over 85,000 children, ages six
months to eight years old, receive
a book mailed directly to their
home. This program has received
many awards and is soon to be
launching in Australia.

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short time span affirms my belief
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stories into the hearts and minds
of young people all around the
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Jewish Film Series continues

Two new Jewish films will be shown-in—

November Wcomplete the sec:
0nd annual Jewis Film Series spon-
sored by the Jewish Federation of the
Bluegrass in cooperation with Hillel
and the Jewish Studies Program. Both
films will be held at the Center Theater
in the University of Kentucky Student
Center on Avenue of Champions at
4:00 pm. Admission is $5.00. There is
no chafge for college students with a
0111an university ID. Free parking is
available in Student Center lot and you
do not need a sticker to park there.

On Sunday, November 6, we will be
showing Anita, a film by Argentinean
filmmaker Marcos Carnevale. The film
is about a young woman with Down
syndrome and what happens to her

after the bombing of the Argentine
Israelite Mutual A§§9918fi9rt 1......
building. The film is in Spams with
English subtitles.

The final film of the series, Rashevski’s
Tango by Sam Gabarski, will be shown
on Sunday, November 20. The film

is a portrait of three generations of a
Jewish family wrestling with issues of
Jewish identity, love, interfaith mar-
riage and long-held family secrets. The
film is in English, Hebrew and French
with English subtitles.

Both films are distributed by Menem-
sha Films. For information, please call
the Federation at 268-0672 or send an
email to jfb@jewishlexington.org. It

 

Combating Autism
Reauthorization Act

The Jewish Federations of North

America applauds the signing into law .

of the Combating Autism Reauthoriza—
tion Actby-President Barack Obama
on‘Friday,’ Sept. 30, 2011', idiom» ‘
the passage of a bill in both the House
of Representatives and Senate that
approves a three-year extension to the
Combating Autism Act (CAA). The
law ensures that essential diagnosis
and treatment programs, as well as
research and surveillance initiatives,
benefiting individuals on the autism
spectrum will continue for three more
years. Particularly during these dif-
ficult economic times, extending these
programs and initiatives is a welcome
victory for individuals on the autism
spectrum and their families:

The Jewish Federations will continue
to work with key lawmakers and
partner organizations to improve the
efficacy of the CAA, including critical
reforms that enhance participation of
individuals on the autism spectrum in
the administration of CAA program-
ming,’-focusing research funding on
the development and provision of
services and supports for individuals
and families, and expanding the focus
of research and services to include the
needs of adults on the autism spec—
trum.

”We thank the bipartisan leadership in
both chambers of Congress for pass—

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ing this reauthorization, which will
ensure ground is not lost in the effort
to provide for the needs of individu-
als on the autism s and their
families,” saidCheryl Fishbeiruchair '
of JFNA’s Domestic Affairs Cabinet.
”The Jewish Federation system and
our partner agencies look forward to
engaging with lawmakers to ensure all
individuals with disabilities and their
families have access to the services and
care they need during these difficult
economic times.”

"We wholeheartedly salute the reau—
thorization of needed research funds.
ing, but there is much work to be done
to ensure a greater focus on research to
improve the lives of individuals on the
autism spectrum,” added William C.
Daroff, Vice President for Public Policy
and Director of the Washington office.
”We seek to promote the well-being of
those on the autism spectrum, as well
as their greater inclusion in the public
policy debate about their future."

Recent federal data reveals that only 3
percent of research funding has gone
towards research aimed at improving
the quality of service-provision for
individuals on the autism spectrum
and families, while less than 1 percent
of autism research dollars focused on
the needs of adults. $1

 

Letter from Senator Mitch ,
McConnell to Judy Wortman,’

Executive Direct

September 27, 2011
Dear Mrs. Wortman,

Thank you for contacting me regarding
United States security assistance to Is—
rael. I appreciate your taking the time to
share your Views with me and I welcome
this opportunity to respond.

As you may know, the Israeli govern-
ment has enforced a lawful blockade on
the Gaza Strip since 2007. The blockade,
which is imposed on land, sea and air,

is in place to prevent weapons and arms
from making their way to Hamas, the
group that rules Gaza and is labeled by
the State Department as a Foreign Terror-
ist Organization. The blockade against
Gaza is in place because Hamas has,

on untold occasions and as recently as
April 2011, lobbed rockets and mortars
into Israel. They have done so with the
intent and effect of killing Israeli civil-
ians. In fact, the terrorist organization
has refused to accept Israel’s right to
exist and calls for the destruction of the
Jewish state in its charter. As a long-time
supporter of Israel, I am deeply troubled

I I by the multiple threats the country faces,

not only from Hamas in Gaza, but from
Hezbollah and the radical leaders who
control Iran.

Israel is America’s strongest ally in the
Middle East and is a partner in military,
intelligence and other important mat-
ters in this critical region. I fully support
Israel’s right to self-defense. As such, I,
along with 86 other Senators, sent a letter
to President Obama in June 2010 urging
that the President continue to support '
the strategic partnership with Israel. In
April 2010, I was also proud to co-sign a
letter to Sec. Clinton urging her to con-
tinue to reaffirm the strong bonds that tie
the United States and Israel together.

In the same vein, I have been proud to

 

support Israel on the Senate floor. On
April 14, I supported the FY 2011 Depart-
ment of Defense and Full-Year Continu-
ing Appropriations Act, which appropri-
ated over $415 million to support Israeli
security programs, including the Iron
Dome anti-rocket defense system. At the
beginning of the last Congress, I also was
pleased to cosponsor Senate Resolution
10, which recognized the ri