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Locally produced Holocaust video

now on DVD

Andl Was There video
available to schools

§ 9 +
By David R. Wekstein

A number of years ago a history
teacher at Tates Creek High School
was informing his students that
he had serious doubts about

-the Holocaust. In response, the
Community Relations Committee
(CRC) identified a number of
peopleof the CKJF in Lexington,
both Jewish and non-Jewish, who
had personal experiences of the

“'“Bobcatst, and with the support

of WLEX-TV produced a one-hour
documentary, And I Was There
which was shown in prime time

one Saturday evening. Otis Singletary, then president
of the University of Kentucky, moderated the program.
One of the participants was Colonel Bruce Coleman,

a history teacher at Henry Clay High School for many
years. And I Was There received excellent reviews

and was awarded a ”Louie” from the association of
advertising agencies as the best public service program
in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for that year. The
program also received the Public Relations Award for
the year from the Council of Jewish Federations.

Given the recent statements of some public figures that
the Holocaust never occurred, the CRC wishes to remind
people that there is documented evidence to the contrary.
The CRC has recently converted the program into a DVD
format. \Ne would like your help in distributing copies

of the DVD to libraries in the public and private schools
in the Bluegrass. Please contact the CKJF office if you
have a school to which you would like to give one of the
DVDs. It is extremely important that the youth of the
community learn, and learn again, about the Holocaust. 1C!

  

 

 

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the March for Freeedom on
Martin Luther King Day
in downtown Lexington—nor our
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Jewish Agency mobilization during the second Lebanon War .

The first days of war

The Jewish Agency’s immediate response

On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 the Hizbullah terrorist
organi/ation entered sovereign Israeli territory and
kidnapped two soldiers on the border of Lebanon.
Eight IDF soldiers were killed. At the same time,
Hizbullah simultaneously launched Katyusha rockets
against Israeli communities near the border. The IDF

On Thursday, July 13th, Members of
the Executive of the Jewish Agency
for Israel, sent a letter to the world
Jewish community saying, ”The
State of Israel awoke this morning
to a harsh and worrisome reality;
an intensive, non-stop attack
whereupon rockets are landing in
densely populated civilian centers

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Israel responded
with an emergency
plan to bring

the children we was.

in the North out of the line of fire and to secure
the safety of new immigrants in northern
absorption centers. The decision was made to
establish summer sleep away camps in the center
of the country to bring the children to safety.

A 24/7 Jewish Agency "Situation Room" was immediately
activated, providing information to the families of JeWs
from all over the world whose sons and daughters were
participating in programs or were traveling in Israel

as tourists. The Situation Room helped them contact

their loved ones throughout the country. Zeev Bielski

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gave out his personal mobile phone number on the
web, vowing to do everything in his power to provide
aid and assistance to anxious parents. Throughout the
entire war, he kept this promise to the Jewish people.

The world Jewish community responded. Within 24
hours The United Jewish Communities (UJC) committed
$1 million toward the Jewish Agency’s effort to evacuate
children to the center of the country. Nearly a dozen
North American federations, and Keren Hayesod-
United Israel Appeal, committed immediate funds.

"Moving Our Children to Safety"
An unprecedented operation

The ”Moving our Children to Safety” Campaign was
launched. The tremendous undertaking now needed to
be transformed into an operative strategy. Logistics,
programming and budgets needed to be

identified, defined and approved.

On Saturday night, July 15th, an emergency meeting of
all Jewish Agency senior staff was called; from the three
department directors-general to the directors of logistics,
budget and planning, resource development,

public relations, social services, and regional

directors with direct access to the field.

Jewish Agency Director-General Moshe Vigdor paved
the way for intensive, ongoing interdepartmental
cooperation and an immediate decision-making process
that allowed the emergency plans to move quickly

forward. A management committee
was set up and responsibilities ‘
for implementation defined. The
Jewish Agency set the wheels in
motion to mobilize a major national
emergency mission
to protect Israel’s
children. It was
agreed that a
conference call,

led by Vigdor,
would be held
every morning

at 9:00 a.m.

to coordinate
accordingly.

Over 23 Jewish
Agency senior
staff, from all
departments,
participated

in this daily

call for the duration of the crisis;
giving reports, continually updating
and reassessing the Jewish
Agency’s response to the crisis and
responding swiftly to the urgent
needs in the field as they arose.

Throughout the duration of the war,
this management committee ran like
a well oiled machine. There were
real-time financial updates; how
much money was raised, expenses

 

accrued and swift budgetary approval for every activity
undertaken. Each day, a summary .réport was issued
detailing how many children were participating in
summer camps, a list of operating summer camps,
how many calls were received by the Global Center,

how many air
conditioning
units were
installed and
bomb shelter
kits delivered.
This real-time
reporting
allowed the
Jewish Agency
to play a leading
role in serving
the citizens
of the North
during the war.

On Sunday i
morning, July 16th, the Jewish Agency emergency ,
summer sleep away camps began. Children from ‘
absorption centers up North were brought to Jewish
Agency Youth Aliyah villages near Hadera, Netanya
and Jerusalem — Ben Yakir, Hadassah-Neurim and
Kiryat Yearim respectively. Jewish Agency regional staff
began registering children from hard-hit northern cities,
including Kiryat Shmona and Nahariya. Logistics in
organizing buses, finding camp staff and renting facilities
were done simultaneously with budgetary approval. The

see Campaign, page 9 r

February 2007 Shalom 0' 3

 

  

President's Message

Marty Barr

 

 

It seems as though we have barely finished 2006
and plans for 2007 are in full swing. Last year
closed on a true high note with the Leisure Club
Hanukkah party, the Winter Dinner, the Day of
Giving and the completion of the Campaign.

One of the most important events that will occur this
year is the election of a new CKJF president and of
approximately one-third of the Board membership.

For those unfamiliar with the process, the Board
consists of a mix of appointed and elected people. The
appointees are named by the presidents of the constituent
organizations: three from the Temple, three from the
Synagogue, one from Hadassah, and one from the
Havurah. Board officers, such as treasurer and secretary,
are elected by current Board members. The president
serves for a period of two years and then becomes a
member of the executive committee for one more year

to help advise the new president. All other terms are

for three years; a Board member may serve for a total of
six years. The election of the new Board members and
president takes place at the annual meeting in June.

By the time this column appears, a nominating
committee will have been appointed and assumed the
task of recommending people for election to the Board.

 

 

We will make sure that the makeup
of and contact information for this
committee are known to the general
membership, so that you may contact
them with names of potential board
members. The qualifications are
simple: that you be a member of the
Federation and sincerely interested
in the future of the Jewish people.

The Federation is yours and we can
never forget that basic fact. Please
call, fax, or email if you feel that
we are coming up short in any
way. Let me thank you for your
continued support over the past
years and rest assured that we will
continue to strive for excellence

in all facets of our operation. 33?

 

 

 

Judaic Studies Program
public events announced

Spring Semester 2007 brings talks of interest
to Lexington Jewish community

+¢+

By Oliver Leaman, PILD.

There will be two public lectures this spring, and
everyone is very welcome to attend them. They
both take place at 8:00 pm. in the President’s Room,
Singletary Center, University of Kentucky.

On Monday March 26, 2007, Dr. Benjamin Hary from
Emory University will be talking on Jewish languages
and how they differ from languages spoken by gentiles.
He will be illustrating his talk with examples from
many languages such as Yiddish, Ladino, Jewish
American English, and so on. I am sure he would
welcome contributions from the audience on differences
of which they are aware in a variety of languages.

On Monday April 23, Arie Dubnow from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, the winner of the 2007 Luckens
Prize, will be coming to give a talk based on his essay on
Isaiah Berlin and Zionism. The Luckens Prize committee
consisted of Rafi Finkel, Jonathan Glixon, Oliver Leaman,
and Jenn Lewin. The committee read a large number of
essays in English, Hebrew, German and Spanish, and it

4 0 February 2007 Shalom

was difficult to choose a winner, but
we all thought highly of this essay,
and we felt also that it would make
an interesting talk. We hope you
will join us in welcoming Arie to
Lexington and congratulating him
on his splendid piece of scholarship.

The talk by Dr. Hary is financially
supported by the Zantker

Trust and the Dean of Arts and
Sciences as part of this year’s
program on migration. The talk
by Arie Dubnow is supported

by the generous contribution
made on behalf of the Mark

and Ruth Luckens International
Prize in Jewish Thought. 0

 

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 From the Executive Director

Daniel Chejfec

 

Some of you might know that I like Star Trek. I do not
define myself as a Trekkie, however, but rather as a
Trekker. While this seems like mere semantics, there

is a substantive difference. Trekkies get hung up on
the sci-fi aspect of Star Trek. A Trekker is somebody
who likes the series for the themes it handles using sci—
fi, even when sometimes-especially in the

original series—that treatment is very naive.

sometimes “your being”). This
does not account, however, for
the subtle plural in Ievavcha “your
hearts.” Over the centuries, rabbis
explained that we are supposed to
serve God not only with our yetzer

I mention this because I find myself thinking
lately of an episode of the original series
called ”T he Enemy Within." In that episode, a
transporter malfunction—a never-before-used
plot device—divides Captain Kirk in two: one
self who is full of all the ”positive” traits of
his personality, and one who is full of all the
”negative” qualities. While the ”negative" Kirk

The message of our tradition,

like the message of the Star Trek
episode I described, is that we need
to integrate the different and often
contradictory aspects of our being
if we hope to be effective in what we
do, but how do we integrate them?

appears to be aware of the existence of the

other, the “positive” one apparently is not. But

the important message was that neither Kirk was fit for
command on its own. Only after Kirk is reintegrated does
he become again the great captain we all grew to love.

In our tradition, there is a similar insight: that of the
yetzer hatov and the yetzer harah, the inclination to do
good and the one to do evil. We are, however, instructed
"Veahavtah et Adonay Elohecha bechol levavcha ubechol
nafshecha ubechol meodecha." This is commonly translated
as "You shall love the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, and with all your migh " (or

hatov, but even with our yetzer harah,
because both of them define us.

In the same vein, every one of us
wears many hats in our lives. We are
parents and children, teachers and
students, victims and perpetrators.
Yet the parent also defines the

child, as the victim defines the
perpetrator. One without the other
is meaningless, as is the yetzer

hatov without the yrtzer harah
or the positive Kirk without
the negative. We also have
complex loyalties—we are
Jews, Americans, Democrats
or Republicans, and so on.

 

The message of our tradition, like the message of

the Star Trek episode I described, is that we need to
integrate the different and often contradictory aspects
of our being if we hope to be effective in what we

do, but how do we integrate them? We obviously
cannot use a transporter (not invented yet).

Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry and episode author
Richard Matheson showed us the need to integrate

both Kirks through their ability to command a starship.
Our tradition asks us to integrate the two sides of our
natures by loving our God with all we are. The society in
which we live tells us to integrate them through action.

Our Jewish concept of Tikkun Olam, our American values
of fairness and equality, the shared value of improving
the world: all of it integrates in our way of doing things
as American Jews, and one example of that effort is our
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Third Opinion

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Degrees of Separation
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In keeping with the popular trend of determining

how many degrees of separation there are between
any one of us and anyone else, I’m a little horrified to
realize that I'm only three degrees from Hitler (may his
name be forgotten) and from two directions at that.

When I first started teaching at Dickinson College in
1970, one of my colleagues was an economics professor
named Arthur Prinz. A German refugee, he was

the first Jew ever hired by the college, but that was

not his only claim to fame. Before he left Germany
Prinz had been on the Jewish team that negotiated,
unsuccessfully, with Adolph Eichmann for permission
for German Jews to emigrate to South America.

Another of my colleagues, who taught European history,
related how in London he had once run into Ernst ”Putzi”
Hanfstaengel. Hanfstaengel was Hitler’s personal pianist.
Who but a Jew (or an historian) would
even remember his name, I wonder?
So I'm that close—too close, really—to
the Great Dictator. Admittedly,

the geographical factor makes my
proximity less frightening; during

the Second World WarI was never
further east than Chicago. However,
as Elie Wiesel reminds us, every Jew
may regard him/herself as a survivor

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of the Holocaust. Even without Wiesel s permission”

to range myself alongside the real survivors, I have
for years managed a wry smile when I turn on my
shower and out comes... water and not the Zyklon B
gas that killed so many Jews in the death camps.

My practice may seem a bit bizarre, something that not
even too many Jews think to do, but I would venture
to suggest that no gentile has ever thought of it. So
why parade this piece of personal paranoia in public?

Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter and all the other people
whose evaluation of the ”Palestinian situation” takes

no account of even the last hundred years of Jewish
history, let alone the millennia that preceded it. These
people, whether well or evilly intentioned, fail to realize
that the need for a nation, and for national self—defense,
was made very real to us between 1933 and 1945.

Since that time various Arab or Muslim leaders have
expressed the desire and the hope to finish what
Hitler started. Compared to Hitler they’re two-bit
tinhorns, but we still have to take them seriously.
The more so since they don't need weapons of

mass destruction to do serious damage in Israel,

as the Hezbollah War tragically showed.

Despite this, Israel has held out the olive branch to its
neighbors on numerous occasions, even while holding
and using a big stick with the other. One might think
that sixty years of failure to dislodge the ”Zionist
entity,” and that at the cost of thousands of Arab lives,
would have convinced a majority of Palestinians that
the way forward is the way of peace. And yet, as I write
this, Palestinian factions are killing each other in the

streets because one is unwilling
to recognize Israel's right to exist