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APRIL 2010

Yom Ha’Atzmaut to feature
musician Fran Uditsky Moss

Come to Natasha’s for good food and entertainment

Mark Sunday, April 18 on your calen-
dar for Yom Ha’Atzmaut, a community
celebration of Israel’s 62nd Indepen-
dence Day. Join us for an evening of
good food and entertainment spon—
sored by the Jewish Federation of the
Bluegrass at N atasha’s Bistro in down-
town Lexington; the highlight of the
night will be a performance by Fran
Uditsky Moss, folk singer, storyteller,
puppeteer, and cantorial soloist.

Natasha will again be offering a special
Israeli-style menu. Seating will take
place from 6:00 to 6:45 pm. and the
performance will start as won as

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advance, and you will be responsible
for the cost of your dinner.

Reserve your seats early, as the limited
seating will fill up quickly. Please mail
your checks to the Jewish Federation
of the Bluegrass to the attention of Jana
LaZur, or go on-line and make your
reservations by credit card at http:/ /
www.jewishlexington.org. Call the JFB
office at (859) 268-0672 with any ques-
tions.

We would like to express our thanks to
the owners of Natasha’s Bistro for their
generosity in helping us host this event
tor a second year.

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The community will commemorate
Yom HaShoah on Sunday, April 11 at
4:00 pm. at Ohavay Zion Synagogue.
Holocaust survivors and their families
will be honored during the candle-
lighting ceremony. Students will read
the winning essays submitted to the
Emilie Szekely Holocaust Writing
Awareness Project. Rabbis Moshe

You are cordially invited to attend the
~Pacesetters Event at the home of Susan
and Steve Caller on Sunday, April 25
at 4:00 pm. The guest speaker will be
Bret Caller. Individuals who contribute
a minimum of $1,000 and couples who
contribute a minimum of $2,000 to the
Jewish Federation of the Bluegrass An-
nual Campaign are welcome. Wine and
cheese, hors d’oeuvres, and desserts
will be served.

Bret Caller, who is Susan and Steve’s
son, is president elect of the Jewish
Federation of Cincinnati. Profession-
ally, he is the manager of Viking Part-
ners, LLC, president of Equity Man-
agement Group, Inc., and real estate
developer for Caller Companies, LLC,
His volunteer activities are extensive.
He serves on the executive committee
of the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
and was chairman of their campaign.

 

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Smolkin, Marc Kline, Sharon Cohen,
Uri Smith, and Audrey Korotkin will
participate.

The keynote speaker is Rabbi David
Wortman, who will discuss ”The Shoah
and Forgiveness.” For information, call
Judy Wortman at (859) 268-0672. Q

Pacesetters Event slatedfOr April 25

He served on the National Young
Leadership Cabinet of the Jewish Fed-
erations of North America (formerly
UJC) from 2000 to 2006. He serves on
the boards of directors of Adath Israel
Congregation, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency (JTA), and the Branch Bank
and Trust. He is a founding member of
the Caller Family Charitable Founda-
tion and a member of the United Way
Tocqueville Society.

Bret received a BSM in finance from
Tulane University and a Masters of
Science in real estate from New York
University. He is married to Allison
Caller and they are the parents of two
daughters, Danielle and Jenna.

For further information about the
event or the 2010 Campaign, please
contact Judy Wortman at (859) 268-
0672 or jfbfl‘jewishlexingtonorg. F3

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May 10. If you have an event in July that
you would like publicized, the deadline

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their surface worn smooth by millions
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— maze of stone walls, and the build-
E ings seem to spread apart just for you,
hills ahead standing tall in the dis-
tance, the blue sky above, the golden
Dome of the Rock just below, and the
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and jeans, all of them praying at once.
It doesn’t matter if you are secular or
Orthodox, being there, standing there,
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— Jews have poured their hearts out to
G-d and asked for miracles, you can’t
help but feel the power of the place,
its history and its unwavering sym-

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W city behind you, a

coastline of new architecture and an-

cient structures standing side—by-side,
I and just a short drive up the coast
people are watching the sunset from
. the ruins of Caesarea, just as they are
, in Haifa to the north and Ashkelon to
the south.

From the beaches of Tel Aviv to the
banks of the Jordan River, Israelis
have used their little slice of land to
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speeds that are simply amazing. But
you don’t have to contemplate such
deep things on a trip to Israel, at least
not all the time. If you stand at the top
of Masada and listen to the wind as

it blows across the desert up from the
Dead Sea, you will hear a message,
the same message that you can hear
on the bustling streets of Tel Aviv or
Haifa.

 

For those of you planning to travel to
Israel this year on a Taglit-Birthright
Israel trip, a Federation mission, or
with your congregation, I feel com-
pelled to ask you for one small favor:
don’t worry about money or who
will be traveling with you. Don’t
think about the things you learned in
religious school or from your parents
and friends, don’t think about the
things you have seen and heard on
the news; do only two things, relax
and open your heart. Israel is not just
a place or some abstract concept we
think of while praying. It is a mix

of people from places and religious
backgrounds all over theworld. Yes, ,
it is mostly Jewish citizens, but that
is a miracle in itself, isn’t it? Israel is
simply an experience unlike any other
and if you only get one opportunity
to go there in your life, find a way to
make it happen. I promise you, it’ s
worth it. And when you come back,
tell us all about it! 33

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fall 2009, go to www.flickr.com/ pho-
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Linda Ravvin, JFB (Jewish Federation of the

Bluegrass) President

 

I am con-
templating
the joys and
implications
of life and
renewal as I
gaze out my
window and watch the return of the
birds and see the signs of a new spring
coming. As always, I am thankful that
winter is nearing an end—this year
especially, as I returned to Montreal in
the winter for the first time since Leon
and I moved to Lexington almost 30
years ago. The visits north gave me

a new sense of appreciation for the
”southern” climate that we happily
adopted with our move to the Blue-
grass. As I thought about the weather
differences and the warmth in Lex-
ington, my mind also reviewed all the
positive things that we have experi-
enced over the years here. Not only
have we enjoyed the warm weather,
but the warmth of the people here has
almost overwhelmed us right from our
first days. We have made and continue
to make wonderful friends, many of
whom have become our local "fam-
ily." We have been offered incredible
opportunities to grow; professionally,
personally, and Jewishly.

 

 

Thinking about renewal and new starts
brings to mind all the opportunities
within our community to renew our
connections (or perhaps to engage
them for the first time). The Jewish
Federation of the Bluegrass (J PB) offers
so many ways in which to get involved
and to enrich our lives and the lives of
those around us.

You could be a part of the Yom Ha-
Shoah remembrance and observance
on Sunday, April 11. Be with us as we
honor those survivors of the Holocaust
who are in our community, and bear
witness to the memory of the horrors
that occurred. Our speaker will be
Rabbi David Wortman, JFB Director
Judy Wortman’s husband. By observ-
ing this difficult day, we try to ensure
that, in the future, history does not,
indeed, repeat itself.

One week later, on Sunday, April 18,

we are celebrating the 62nd birthday
(Yom Ha’Atzmaut) of the State of

4 | April 2010 Shalom

Israel with a dinner and a concert by
Fran Uditsky Moss at Natasha’s. The
joyous commemoration of Israel’s re-
newed statehood in modern times is a
testament to our people’s tenacity and
bravery throughout our history.

On Monday, April 19, join in the
question-and—answer period following
the mayoral debate, which JFB is co-
sponsoring with other organizations.
We do not take any political stand but
offer the opportunity for all sides to
be heard and for you as individuals to
come to your own conclusions; we do
encourage everyone eligible to partici-
pate in the electoral process and

to vote.

We will follow all of this activity

with an opportunity to give back: our
Pacesetters Dinner, as part of our 2010
Annual campaign, will be at the home
of Susan and Steve Caller, with Bret
Caller as our guest speaker, on Sunday,
April 25. We hope that as many people
as possible will consider joining us for
this significant event, as we join to-
gether to raise funds for the programs
and assistance offered by JFB, here, in
Israel, and around the world.

In addition, there is the Leisure Club:
a once-a—month gathering for almost—
seniors and seniors offering wonderful
friendships, support, and enjoyable
programs.

Camp Shalom and Camp Gesher are
gearing up for another incredible sum-
mer. We have scholarships and camp-
erships to offer, essay contests for Yom
HaShoah and Yom Ha’Atzmaut, assis-
tance through Jewish Family Services,
and a potential mission to Israel.

In other words, I am asking you to get
involved. There are many activities
happening with the assistance of JFB
over the next few months. The Jew-
ish Federation of the Bluegrass is ”our
connection, our voice, our communi—
ty.” It is all of us working and volun—
teering together that makes Lexington
and Central Kentucky such a special
place to call home: a warm, vibrant,
welcoming, and generous community.
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Christ the King Women’s Guild
to host TAI Sisterhood at fourth
annual joint meeting

New Opportunity School for Women
to be subject of meeting

On Wednesday, April 21, the TAI
Sisterhood will visit Christ the King for
our annual joint meeting. This year our
speaker will be Jan Gill, director of the
New Opportunity School for Women
in Berea. This school runs three 3-week
sessions a year when women from all
over Kentucky who have not com-
pleted their education and do not have
the skills to enter the job market can
get training, thus enabling them either
to continue with their education or
seek employment. We will have the op-
portunity to learn about the important
work of the school and of its impact

on the lives of the women fortunate
enough to attend.

Please make every effort to attend

this program. For the two programs
we’ve had at the Temple, upwards of
35 Women's Guild members joined us.
When we went to their place two years
ago, an embarrassingly small number
of women from the Temple showed
up. This is usually a very enjoyable
evening and you are all urged to at—
tend. Please call Sandee 269-2979 at
the Temple to reserve your place so we
can let them know about how many

to expect. This program is open to all
women of the Temple and refresh-
ments will be served. That’s Wednes-
day, April 21, 7:00 p.m. at Christ the
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Unfortunately, I’m at the age where
attending funerals constitutes a sig-
nificant segment of my social life. And
with Passover just ending I have to
wonder, what did we do with our dead
on the way up from Egypt?

It’s hard to believe that the 603,550
heads of household reported in the
book of Numbers began the trip, but
tradition estimates that as many as
2,000,000 people stood before God at
Sinai. Given the estimated life expec-
tancy for people in the Late Bronze
Age, the 40—plus years of wandering
that ensued should have been enough
to finish most of them even without
God’s dictum that all those who had
earlier turned aside from entering the
Holy Land should die in the Wilder-
ness.

Forty years. Two million people. That’s
an average of 1,600 deaths a day. And
of course, more should have died
toward the end of the trip. Still, that

Third Opinion

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ought to have left a trail of graveyards
across the entire route—that is, if they
buried their dead. Much of the route
was walked over ground that is hard
and unyielding, but I can’t see our
ancestors just abandoning the bod-

ies where they fell. (Can you sit Shiva
while walking?)

No one mentions this. Not the Jews,
our ancestors, nor the Egyptians who
pursued them, nor anyone else. The
only cemetery in Sinai that I know of is
the catacombs carefully tended by the
Greek Orthodox monks of St. Cath-
erine’s monastery in southern Sinai

(a place I highly recommend that you
visit).

And the route? Some scholars esti-
mate* that if they walked ten abreast,
no mean feat in the terrain they were
alleged to traverse, the column would
have been 150 miles long and it would
have taken eight or nine days for the
trailing end to reach the place from
which the leaders began.

It simply doesn’t add up and no
amount of ex post facto Orthodox
legerdemain can make it so. But why

am I troubling myself about this? I do
believe that something happened, that
the story we recite, no matter how it
may have grown and changed in the
telling, contains a core of historical
truth.

I think that a group of ”vile Asiatics”——
that’s what the Egyptians called our
ancestorsa—discovered the principle of
monotheism somewhere around 1550
B.C.E.

Three hundred years or so later a man
named Moses (scripture’s attempt to
disguise his unremarkable Egyptian
name by inventing a bogus Hebrew
etymology is, paradoxically, proof

to me that he actually existed) led a
group from Egypt that would form the
nucleus of Israel in Canaan.

I think we were a very diverse group
at the beginning and remained so

until extreme outside pressure, like
that on decaying vegetable matter
underground, eventually produced the
diamond-hard nation that has out-
lasted all those who sought to destroy
us. Our continuous existence, to say
nothing of the modern ”miracle” that

is the State of
Israel, should
convince
even the
most stone-
hearted skep—
tics that an
abiding faith
in Judaism
does not, in fact, depend on defending
the historical veracity of this or that
biblical detail or even, forgive me, on
the historical existence of this or that
biblical figure.

 

Ruth is a fiction. Esther is fictional and
so is Jonah and I have no extra-biblical
proof for Moses. But I don't care. The
beating heart of Judaism, its advanced
ethical system, remains. Of course, I
like the stories, too, for what they teach
about love, community responsibility,
and

Happy Passover, everybody. n
*J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes,

A History of Ancient Israel and Judah
(SCM Press, 1986, p. 60)

 

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Celebrate Israel’s Independence Day with us at Natasha’s Bistro in downtown Lexington. Enjoy a special
performance by Fran Uditsky Moss, cantorial soloist, guitarist, and storyteller. The music program will follow
dinner. $10 per person cover plus the cost of food. There will be a special menu available.

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From the Director

Judy B. Wortman

 

 

Our community remembers

April is the month for two major com-
munity events: Yom HaShoah and

Yom Ha’Atzmaut. For those of us who
are baby boomers or older, these two
events—the murder of six million Jews at
the hands of the Nazis and the miracu-
lous birth of the State of Israel—have
helped define our Jewish identities. For
our children and grandchildren, they are
history. In recent years we have seen the
study of the Shoah included in public
school curricula and portrayed in some
excellent fihns. It is the responsibility of
Jewish parents and Jewish community
institutions to teach our children about
the significance of the birth of the State
of Israel and to include its celebration

in our lives. I hope you will consider
bringing your older children to the Yom
HaShoah commemoration and to the
Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration in the
next several weeks. I also hope that you
will help your children understand the
connection of these two holidays to one
another.

On Sunday, April 11, the annual Yom
HaShoah observance will be held at
Ohavay Zion Synagogue at 4:00 pm.
The guest speaker will be my husband,
Rabbi David Wortman, and his topic will
be ”The Shoah and Forgiveness." Rabbi
Wortman received his BA degree from
the University of Vifisconsin. He subse-
quently received degrees or certificates
from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion (BHL, MAI-IL, Or-
dination, and DD), Yale University (MA,
MPhil), La Salle University (Certificate in
Non—Profit Management), and Council
For Relationships (candidate for Certifi-
cate in Marriage and Family Therapy).

He has served as a congregational rabbi
and as executive director of the Board of
Rabbis / Jewish Chaplaincy Service and
the Jewish Community Relations Council
of Greater Philadelphia. He served as
adjunct professor of religion at Albertus
Magnus College, Yale University, St.
Charles Boromeo Catholic Seminary, and
St. Joseph’s University. He taught Bible
at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Col-
lege and at Gratz College. While at St. Jo-
seph’s University, Rabbi Wortman taught
an annual course entitled ”Jewish and
Christian Responses to the Holocaust."

In addition to Rabbi Wortman’s pre—

sentation, we will honor our Holocaust
survivors and their families and listen to

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the winning
essays from
the Emilie
Szekely
Holocaust
Awareness
Writing Proj—
ect. Rabbis
Kline, Smolkin, Korotkin, and Smith will
all participate in the program.

We hope you will join us the follow-

ing Sunday for our Yom Ha’Atzmaut
celebration at Natasha’s at 6:00 pm. In
addition to an Israeli-style dinner, we
will celebrate Israel’s 62nd birthday with
a concert of Jewish and Israeli music by
Fran Uditsky Moss.

 

Fran’s career includes many years as a
professional singer and actress in theater,
television, and films. She is a folk singer,
storyteller, and puppeteer as well as hav-
ing served as a cantorial soloist for the
past eighteen years. Her performances
throughout the United States include

a concert at Carnegie Hall and one for

a First Lady. She has performed and
studied with Debbie Friedman, Jeff Klep-
per, Craig Taubman, and Theodore Bike!
at Hava Nashira Songleaders’ Institute.
Fran has taught music and drama at
religious schools and day schools and at
the URI Camp Olin—Sang-Ruby as well
as other Jewish camps. For seven years,
Fran appeared on the Emmy-winning
CBS-TV children’s show, The Magic Door.
Fran was born and raised in Chicago,
earned her BA in speech and theater
from the University of Msconsin, and
currently lives in Peoria, Illinois.

Tickets cost $10 per person, payable in
advance. You will pay for your dinner
at Natasha’s that evening. Please send
checks to the Jewish Federation of the
Bluegrass to the attention of Jana LaZur
by April 14.

I look
forward to
seeing you
and your
families at
both events.
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Camps Shalom and Gesher get

new ”old home”
At Woodmen of the World, third time is a charm

Once upon a time, in a small, under—
populated Jewish community, a Jewish
Federation formed a summer camp
that—despite having no permanent
home—managed for 42 years not only
to hold camp each summer, but to
thrive and grow. This camp grew into
two camps, Shalom and Gesher, each
offering age-related activities that are
not only fun but inspiring enough to
captivate campers from the ages of

4 through 10 and 11 through 13 and
motivate a superior staff to come back
year after year.

Camp always takes place during the
two weeks before'school starts, and
this year will be no exception. Mark .
your calendars for July 26 through
August 6.

Also, please take note of the new loca-
tion: this year, both weeks of camp

will take place at the Woodmen of the
World campsite, out Tates Creek Road
just a short drive from town. Camp
Shalom used this campsite in the ’905
and then again in the early 20005; now,
after a major renovation, Camp Shalom
and Camp Gesher hope to make the
third time a charm.

Amenities at Woodmen of the World
include a swimming pool, more than
60 acres of fields and lake, volleyball
or basketball courts, miniature golf,
outdoor picnic areas, a theater, an
indoor recreation room, and an air-
conditioned dining area for rainy or
excessively hot days. This private
campsite even has a GaGa (Israeli
dodgeball) pit! There will be canoe—
ing, as well as an obstacle course with
certified instructors. We are excited to
offer this facility to our campers and
hope that everyone takes advantage of
the discount for those who register by
June 2.

Once again, we have hired a great staff.
Kathy Feinberg will be directing for
her tenth year, while Rachel Heller,
with eleven total years of camp under
her belt, will serve a second year as
assistant director. Group Leaders this
year will include Kaitlin Graff, Lizzie
Engel, Josh Kline, and Nora Simon,
who bring a total of more than twenty
years’ experience. Counselors will be
Jessica Geddes, Ariel Gerall, Justin
Graff, Dani Heller, Danny Shapiro, and
Rachel Swanson. Tomer Eres, Jonathan
Feinberg, Chaz Foster, Jessica Foster,
Hannah Gould, Adira Jarman, and
Abby and Emily Miller make up our
counselor-in—training candidates this
year.

Specialists make a nice addition to
camp programming. We welcome
Alex Shapiro from group leader to this
area of activity; he will lead physical
activities and teach some principles he
learned at UK about movement, ex-
ercise, and making activity a primary
factor in everyone’s lives. Kendall Lev-
enson will again lead arts and crafts,

a primary component of any camp ex-
perience. Tyler Nelson, who has taken

nature studies or fem to a whole néww , :

level, will again transmute otherwise
demure, clean campers into reptile—
handling, mud-loving nature seekers.
Finally, our newest member of the
specialist staff is Rachel Meltzer, who
will lead our music/ drama and games
department. She has talent, camping
experience, and a vast knowledge of
Hebrew to share with campers.

Camps Shalom and Gesher will offer
many exciting activities and themes
this year, so don’t miss out; sign up
today! Please visit our website at www.
jewishlexington.org or email jana@jew-
ishlexington.org for more information
or questions. We look forward to work—
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