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Candidates answer questions

The Community Relations Commit-
tee of the Federation of the Bluegrass
submitted five questions to the three
candidates for governor of Kentucky.
Responses were received from Gov.
Steve Beshear (B) and Gatewood
Galbraith (G). David Williams did not
respond as of the deadline. Shalom
would like to thank Mike Grossman
for shepherding this project and seeing
it through to completion. What follows
are the questions and answers.

The University of Kentucky is Lexing-
ton’s largest employer and a major
Meconomic driver in the state, but its

budget today is about the same as it
was 10 years ago, even though costs
ar

0 help the University achieve its leg- M

islatively mandated top-20 goal?

Will you support giving the Univer-
sity bonding authority for projects
that bring in their own revenue, such
as dormitories, as many other state
universities have?

B: As governor, I have supported giv-
ing Kentucky’s universities bonding
authority and have recommended in
my budget proposals all of the agency
bond projects universities have re-
quested.

In addition, despite cutting more than
$1 billion out of Kentucky's budget,
education in our Commonwealth has
been a top priority. Higher education
has shared in the fiscal sacrifice like
every other area of state government,
but I have limited those cuts. Over the

last four years most state agencies have
been cut 25 to 30 percent, whereas the
cuts to higher education funding have
been minimal. Our universities play a
vital role in moving our state forward,
mandate or no mandate, and it is
imperative that they are funded to the
best of our ability during these tough
economic times.

G: The primary goal of the Univer-
sity of Kentucky is not necessarily to
achieve a top 20 ranking but rather

to educate students as is its original
mandate as a land grant University. A
top 20 status can be easily achieved

by remaining focused on that objec-
tive first and foremost. Salaries fogw‘ .

competitive to attract the best of the
brightest. An equal emphasis should
be placed on inevitable employment
of graduates and coincide with ongo-
ing economic development programs.
Education and Economic development
go hand in hand. Increased revenue to
UK can be achieved via royalty pay-
ments received from ongoing research
development.

To address unemployment and long-
term economic stability in Kentucky,
how do you propose creating and
promoting high-wage jobs?

B: There’s no question that the Com-
monwealth of Kentucky has a long
road ahead to full recovery from the
global economic crisis. Many families
are still struggling to regain finan-

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Several weeks ago, the Board of Direc-
tors of the Jewish Federation of the
Bluegrass voted to establish a chari-
table endowment fund with the Blue
Grass Community Foundation. More
than $50,000 of Federation’s philan-
thropic funds have been transferred
to the foundation where they will be
managed and invested to allow us to
better support programs serving the
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raised by IFB’s Equine Division.

The JFB Equine Division will meet on
Monday October 10 at 5 pm at Rick
Trontz’s Hopewell Farm. The guest
speakers will be Barry Irwin and Sena-
tor Kathy Stein.

Barry Irwin is the founder and CEO

of Team Valor International. A native
Californian, Irwin gave up fiction
writing and moved to Kentucky to
pursue a career in non-fiction as a staff
writer for The Blood—Horse. He later
returned to California and edited The
Thoroughbred of California. He contin-
ued his career as a journalist, writing

 

and hosting both a radio and a televi-

Federation forms partnership
with Blue Grass Community

The Blue Grass Community Founda-
tion is a non-profit organization that
enables individuals, families, busi-
nesses, and other non-profits like the
Federation to establish permanent
endowment funds and charitable
funds to support causes they care
about, meet community needs, and
make a difference. Overseen by a
voluntary board of community lead-

see Blue Grass, page 17

Equine Divisionrecept’ion to be
held on October 10

Ben Yakir students with instructor Gabi Azulay in front of the stable built with funding

sion program. While covering racing,
sales and horsemen on an international
basis, Irwin reached a point where he
wanted to become a player and not a
writer. In 1978, he became a bloodstock
agent. In the next decade, he bred,
raced, syndicated, bought and sold
several hundred horses. In 1987, he
formed a partnership with his friend
Jeff Siege] to operate a stable of syndi-
cated racehorses. He will speak about
"Thoroughbred Racing: The Relation-

"ship Between the Sport and the Busi-

ness.”

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Editorial 3
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Two old men of Ramla 6
JFS: At Your Service 6
The Professors Rosenbaum 7
Israel 21c: Breakthrough device helps Alzheimer’s patients ........................ 8
Ask A Rabbi 10
Cincinnati campus to celebrate 100 Years in Clifton .................................... 12
An investment in our future 12
A composer in the house: Lorne Dechtenberg's ”Face Value” ................... 13
The Allards Are Coming! The Allards Are Coming! ..................................... 14
B’tayavon 14
The Lexington Chapter of Hadassah 15
Hadassah Book Club news 15
Ohavay Zion Synagogue 16
The Lexington Havurah 17
TAI rummage sale is on the horizon 17
Sim Shalom news: Volume 6 #3 17
Temple Adath Israel 18
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The Jewish Film Festival, co-sponsored
by the Jewish Federation, Hillel and
the Jewish Studies Program at UK will
begin on Sunday, October 9 at 4 pm
This year all four films will be shown
at the Center Theater at the University
of Kentucky Student Center on Avenue
of Champions between Rose and Lime-
stone Streets.

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be held on October 9. The second
film, In Rafle, will be held on Sunday,
October 23. The third film, Anita, will
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Editorial

By David Wortman

As I sit here in my study writing this
editorial, the tenth anniversary of
the 9/11 attacks has passed into the
history books. Each of us remembers

what we were doing ten years ago

when hi acked airplanes crashed mtg? ..

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Pentagon, and an open field in western
Pennsylvania. Just like my generation
will always remember where we were
when we heard about JFK’s assassina-
tion (I was in sophomore English class)
and my parents’ generation remem-
bers Pearl Harbor, the gravest terrorist
act on American soil is permanently
etched in our minds.

As I watched some of the memo-

rial ceremonies and retrospective TV
shows, I began to wonder what lessons
We have learned in ten years. I came

to no conclusions. Perhaps it is still

too close chronologically to assess the
impact on our thoughts and life pat-
terns. The events of 9/ 11 certainly have

affected our lifestyles. Ask anyone who
flies on a plane.

Rather than focus on what we might
have gleaned in the past decade, I
would rather enumerate several les—
sons I hope we will eventually discern

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0 Terror can strike anyone, at any
time, from anywhere. It is precisely
the unpredictability and randomness
of the act that makes it terror. None of
us is immune. Men, women, children,
Republicans, Democrats, Americans,
foreign visitors, Zionists, anti-Zionists,
Jews, anti-Semites, Catholics, Protes-
tants, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists,
atheists, black, white, brown, and yel-
low - all died on 9/ 11.

0 Not all terrorists are Muslim; not

all Muslims are terrorists. We cannot
paint evil with a broad stroke. Most of
us have the capacity for evil. Stanley

see Editorial, page 19

 

From the Director

Judy Wortman, JFB Director

 

 

Twice every day Jews around the word
say the Shema prayer and are reminded
to teach their children the lessons of
the Torah. Many parents struggle to
find the best means of teaching Torah
to their children. While most send their
children to congregational religious
schools so that they become B’nai Mitz-
vah, they may look for other avenues
of Jewish education. Informal, experi-
ential Jewish education is a wonderful
complement to the formal education
the children receive in congregational
and, in other communities, Jewish

day schools. As I have said before in
this column, Jewish camping is one of
the means of giving children positive
Jewish learning experience in informal
settings.

The home is the primary place to teach
Torah, and parents are the first and
post mm (Being
prOud Bubbe of 5 incredible boys, I can
say that grandparents are important
educators too.) Parents have varying
Jewish backgrounds and often look for

help in learning how to provide Jewish

homes for their families. I would like
to make two suggestions:

A Jewish home is incomplete without
Jewish books. Our community is most
fortunate to have established the PJ
Library program, a wonderful partner-
ship between our community and the
Harold Grinspoon Foundation. All
local children between 6 months and

8 years of age who have at least one
Jewish parent are invited to sign up
and receive one age appropriate Jewish
book or CD each month. Parents can
incorporate reading a Jewish book or

the

And you shall teach
your children...

singing a Jewish song into the bedtime
routine of their young children. In
addition, the Federation and the con-
gregations will be sponsoring special
programs for PJ Library kids and their
families during the year. Look for
announcements for the next one to be
held on November 13 in conjunction
with the Global Day of Jewish Learn-
ing. Please call me at 268-0672 to enroll
your children in P] Library.

The second suggestion is one that is
quite timely. The festival of Sukkot
begins on Wednesday night, October
12‘“. Why not consider building a Suk-
kah with your children? There are a
number of designs online that can help
with construction or you can purchase
a prefab Sukkah kit. Decorating a Suk—
kah is always a delight for Children
and they love making pictures to be
m
fruit, vegetables, Rosina“ Hashanah cards,
strings of popcorn and cranberries. In
order to avoid problems with insects
and the weather, I suggest using plastic
fruit and laminating the kids’ pictures.

 

Children love eating their meals in the
Sukkah with their family and friends
and some will even want to camp out
in the Sukkah overnight. I have found
that once children have had the experi-
ence of creating a Sukkah, their interest
in having a Christmas tree is dimin-
ished. You just can't eat and sleep in a
tree.

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Sameach and a wonderful and fulfill-
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Questions (from page 1)

cial security. But as governor I have
implemented several initiatives that
are helping turn our economy around.
In fact, Kentucky’s unemployment rate
has dropped in the last three consecu-
tive months.

My administration has focused on giv-
ing businesses the tools and resources
they need to create and retain jobs. In
2009, I proposed and passed legislation
that modernized Kentucky’s economic
development incentives toolbox to
help our state be more competitive.
This initiative has done exactly that,
leading to 350 companies investing
more than $3.4 billion in the state.
These investments have created and
retained tens of thousands of jobs for
Kentuckians. Specifically, during the
worst recession in our lifetimes, we
were at risk of losing jobs to other
states. Instead, with these new tools,
we were able to keep these jobs in our
communities and entice industries to
invest further in their future here.

Other programs, such as the Small
Business Development Credit Pro-
gram, the Kentucky Export Initiative,
the Minority and Women Business
Enterprise Certification Program, the
Kentucky Small Business Credit Initia—
tive and the expansion of the Kentucky
Micro Enterprise Loan Program, help
to strengthen the state’s small busi-
nesses.

Kentucky has gained momentum since
these programs were implemented and
folks are taking notice of our prog-
ress. The financial website Moody’s
Economy.com predicted that Kentucky
will experience a higher percentage
job growth this year than all but three
states. We improved by 12 places last
year in Forbes’ fifth-annual rankings
of best places to do business. Last fall
the national Tax Foundation ranked
Kentucky's Business Tax Climate 19th
best in the nation, up an incredible 15
spots since 2009, and ahead of neigh-
bors Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia and
Tennessee.

We are continually evaluating our
economic development toolbox so

that Kentucky and its communities
can remain competitive with other
states for the jobs of the let century. I
won't stop until every Kentuckian who
wants a job has a job.

The most important step we can take
for Kentucky, however, is not in short—

4 I October 2011 Shalom

term solutions. It is in making critical,
long-term investments in our most
valuable resource — our people.

Kentucky has faced nine budget short-
falls in just over three years. Each time,
I have protected the SEEK formula,
which provides basic funding to our
schools. And the Commonwealth
joined a national effort to develop a
set of strict, common core academic
standards to guide teaching in this
nation’s classrooms. My reasoning for
these actions is simple — our state can-
not move forward if our children are
unprepared to work and compete in
the let century economy.

And our efforts are paying off: Ken-
tucky ranks 19th among the 50 states
in Education Week’s 2011 Quality
Counts report, which offers a highly
respected assessment of education. In
addition, on the most recent National
Assessment of Educational Progress,
Kentucky’s 4th and 8th graders outper-
formed the national average in science.
And in reading, Kentucky was the only
state to improve both 4th- and 8th-
grade scores between 2007 and 2009.

We also fought to expand higher edu-
cation opportunities for Kentuckians.
Early in my administration, I secured

a $50 million bond to ensure student
loans remained available to Kentuck—
ians wanting to go to college from the
state's only public, nonprofit student
loan provider. I also created the Higher
Education Work Group to find ways

to make college more affordable and
financially more accessible for those
who want to seek post-secondary
education opportunities. I advocated
for and signed legislation making it
easier to transfer credits from a com-
munity or technical college to any of
Kentucky’s four-year universities. And
I worked with the Kentucky Commu-
nity and Technical College System to
offer a 50 percent tuition scholarship to
many of Kentucky's displaced workers
while also helping workers over age 50
obtain technology skills.

These efforts are also paying off.
According to the National Center

for Higher Education Management
Systems, Kentucky has led the nation
in improvement on several key higher
education performance measures. For
example, our state ranked second in
the nation in the rate of improvement
in the percentage of younger adults,
ages 25 to 44, with college degrees and
the total undergraduate credentials
we produced increased at a rate that

- surpassed all‘but four states. Kentucky

also saw the largest increase in six-year
graduation rates at four—year col-

leges and the third largest increase in
three-year graduation rates at two-year
colleges.

Moving forward, education and jobs
will continue to be my top priori-

ties because both are essential to the
short- and long-term fiscal health of
our people and our Commonwealth as
a whole.

G: Simply, the economic model of
Kentucky has traditionally focused on
low paying/ industrial jobs, it is imper-
ative we change that model and bring
Kentucky forward. The Lt. Governor
will serve as the chief economic officer
for the state taking on the responsibil-
ity of job growth. Economic develop-
ment programs will be diversified and
a regional approach taken — highlight—
ing the best each region has to offer
including but not limited to: resort,
tourism and recreational development,
energy development in every category
with due consideration of best use of
natural resources, agricultural expan-
sion (bio-industrial development),
increased growth of small businesses
via tax incentives for increased em-
ployment numbers. Eastern Kentucky
will be a top priority. A return of
investment policy will be imposed on
all economic development expendi-
ture. Economic development will take
a leading role in a Gatewood / Riley
administration.

Given long-term budget challenges
facing Kentucky, do you support the
reform and restructuring of the Ken-
tucky tax code? If yes, please spell out
in detail your ideas and proposals for
doing this.

B: During the global economic reces-
sion, state government has tightened
its budget belt, just like families across
the Commonwealth have. I have cut
more than $1 billion in spending, mak—
ing government leaner and more effi-
cient. In my own office, many positions
remain unfilled, everyone — including
myself — took furlough days and I, my
senior staff and my cabinet secretaries
took voluntary 10 percent pay cuts.

I have balanced the budget nine times
in three-plus years, without broad-
based tax increases and while protect-
ing critical areas like education, health
care and public safety.

I am open to hearing ideas on how to
improve laws and policies regarding
revenues. However, I do not favor any

broad-based tax increases on families
or businesses at this time. Our econ-
omy is fragile as we begin to emerge
from the recession. I will not threaten
the survival and recovery of our
businesses or burden our struggling
families.

G: Yes. Estimated at 9.4 percent of
income, Kentucky’s state tax burden
percentage is ranked 25th highest na-
tionally. Yet Kentucky is the fifth-poor-
est state in the nation with an overall
poverty ranking of 17.3 percent, based
on the 2008 census. An honest evalu-
ation of Kentucky’s current tax code
must conclude that it is outdated and
in need of a comprehensive overhaul.
It is routinely described as ”non-busi-
ness friendly,” therefore requiring large
incentives of corporate tax exemp—
tions, which places a disproportionate
burden on Kentucky's small busi-
nesses and wage earners. Given that
Kentucky lost 82,200 jobs in 2009 and
was expected to lose another 80,000 in
2010, our tax base is actually eroding
and we must be creative in seeking
both short and long-term solutions

to the problem. Wage earners, many
earning $8 per hour or less, cannot be
counted on as a future tax base. The
Gatewood/ Riley tax plan seeks a
reduction in many taxes, but no plan
will defeat , «provide .
enough income if wasteful overspend-
ing continues to dominate Kentucky’s
state budget. A modernized tax code is
only one step in solving the problems
of the commonwealth, but an im-
portant one. Tax rates are a primary
consideration of businesses, both those
seeking to locate here and current busi-
nesses considering whether to remain
(thrive) here. States primarily compete
with neighboring states in recruiting
new business. A hodgepodge collec-
tion of ad-hoc tax incentives to attract
individual businesses have resulted in
inconsistencies in Kentucky’s current
model of economic development and
have relieved large corporate entities
of paying their fair share of the bud-
get. They have created an inequitable
system prone to influence peddling,
often forcing businesses to compete
for favor. In addition, existing small
businesses are overloaded with taxes,
stifling growth and limiting employee
hiring. The system is unfair and
burdens Kentucky’s bread and but-
ter — small businesses. The question
before us then is: Who should bear that
burden? We must tighten our belts
and implement an improved tax code
based on equity. It must be modern-

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ized and simplified and easily under-
stood by everyone. It seeks to promote
transparency and features pro-growth
employment incentives, requiring a
minimum amount of resources to com-
ply. Loopholes should be closed as we
seek to transition Kentucky toward the
implementation of a flat tax. Much of
this can only be done if we finally im-
plement a service tax in addition to our
sales tax. We believe an equitable tax
on services could possibly eliminate
the state income tax, reduce the tax on
small businesses, and still provide the
money needed to operate the state at
an acceptable level. There is a long list
of folks we would like to ease the bur-
den on, including seniors over age 65
who make less than $30,000 per year,
homeowners and parents with children
in college, to name a few. But we won’t
know precisely who and how until we
get into office. Our administration
will appoint a panel of experts to write
the necessary language to get the job
done. This will not be another commis-
sion to study the problem. The charge
to this panel will be “get the job done.”

How would you propose providing
more Kentuckians access to high-qual—
ity medical care?

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B: As governor, I have worked to
expand health care access to all Ken-
tuckians. I protected Medicaid, which
provides health care to vulnerable
Kentuckians, from devastating budget
cuts each of the nine times I’ve bal-
anced the state budget. I also initi-
ated a series of actions to streamline
services and improve care and health
outcomes in the overburdened system.
These include: utilize public-private
partnerships to implement cost saving
measures, eliminate the ability for pa—
tients to doctor shop, increased efforts

to collect payments from liable third
parties and more aggressively identify-
ing fraud and abuse.

My administration increased children’s
health care coverage by reducing barri-
ers to the Kentucky Children’s Health
Insurance Program (KCHIP) and inten-
sifying outreach efforts. This has led to
over 50,000 more children getting the
coverage they need. I also signed legis-
lation to eliminate the requirement for
parents to pay monthly premiums to
ensure KCHIP coverage for their child.

But ensuring a child has a healthy start
in life means addressing all areas of
health. That’s why I unveiled the Ken-
tucky Oral Health Plan, an initiative
aimed at improving children’s access
to dental care in counties overseen by
the Appalachian Regional Commis-
sion. The plan will train local dentists
in effective oral health practices, tailor
programs for individual communities
and provide portable dental equip-
ment to be used at schools and child-
care facilities. I also launched a pilot
program called Smiling Schools, which
provides protective fluoride tooth var—
nish treatment and educational materi—
als for healthy dental practices to first
through fifth grades at selected schools
in 16 ARC distressed counties.

In addition to these initiatives, I imple-
mented the Kentucky Prescription
Assistance Program, which has helped
tens of thousands of Kentuckians se—
cure nearly $100 million in prescription
drugs by tapping into assistance pro-
grams run by many drug companies;
pushed forward with plans for a new
Eastern State Hospital, maintaining
my commitment to building a mod-
ern facility suitable for the needs of
individuals with mental illness and be-
havioral health issues; and established
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information exchange, so that doctors
and other health-care providers can
obtain immediate access to complete
medical histories for their patients.

Throughout the worst global economic
climate in recent memory and nine
balanced budgets, I have repeatedly
demonstrated my commitment to
maintaining critical human services
programs. Moving forward, quality
and affordable health care for all will
continue to be a priority of this admin-
istration.

G: The Gatewood / Riley administra-
tion will increase funding to local
health departments to manage/ pro-
vide basic services with the addition of
simple diagnostic testing via a private/
public sector partnership. We will pro-
mote a renewed emphasis on preven-
tative and early detection via service
provided by local health departments.
We will embark upon and establish
policies to ensure stringent oversight
of Medicare as to eliminate fraud and
waste within the current system.

What is your view of connecting Lex-
ington and Louisville with train ser-
vice and business-government partner-
ships so that these areas can leverage

their resources and create a dynamic,
entrepreneurial, high-tech, educational
corridor?

B: Kentucky is participating in a fea-
sibility study, along with Georgia and
Tennessee, of high-speed passenger
service on a rail corridor that includes
Louisville. Our goal, ultimately, is to
see the national high-speed rail system
revised and enhanced to include the
corridors of these states, correcting an
omission in the nationwide network.

I applaud the mayors of Louisville and
Lexington for recognizing that their
cities have unique characteristics to
attract new business and collaborating
with each other to bring in jobs. This
approach makes good economic sense
and we will be there to assist them.

G: Favorable. The development of a
tra