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JEWISH FAMILY LIFE

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Presenter: Philip J. Goodman, L.C.S.W., A.C.S.W.

Admission: Free of charge
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May 5 TA] Coping with the Careg'ver Rde

June 9 OZ Coping with Grief

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Nov. 10 TN The Challenge ofRetirement
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THE MULTI—GENERATIONAL CARE

Philip J. Goodman
LC.S.W., AC.S.W.

The Multi-Generational
Care Giver Dilemma refers to
adult care givers who are
faced with caring for children
as well as elderly parents or
older persons. Having multi-
generational family members
in ones life can be wonderful
and desirable but if a care
giver who has assumed
responsibility for them comes
to feel overloaded by those
responsibilities it can have
negative effects and

a complex and multi-

layered combination of
behaviors, feelings, and
problems. Each of the
generations involved the child,
adult care giver and elderly
parent, grand-parent, or great
grand-parent in some cases is
experiencing a different life
transition fraught with her or
his own unique challenges and
crises. The interactions
become even more complex as
the individual's own
personality and behaviors are
combined with the life
transition phase they are
experiencing.

Some of the transitional
issues facing the elderly
parent can include problems
with identity, role adjustment,
fear of death, unresolved grief,
finances, health, menopause,
self-maintenence and nursing
home placement to mention a
few. ‘

The growing child faces
the transitional issues of
normal human growth and
development. A healthy child
is at the least labor intensive
for the adult care giver.
However, some adults may
face caring for a child with
hyperactivity, learning
disabilities, mental

. Multi-

GIVER DILEMMA

retardation, physical or
mental disabilities, or other
issues.

The adult care giver can
find that she or he is
positioned either by conscious
choice, but more often not,
between the child and the
aging parent. This dilemma
has been referred to in the
past as "The Sandwich
Generation".

Clearly this care giving
adult must learn to balance
her or his own wants and
needs with those who are
being cared for. The care

'v.v_ 'dult mus .acc t

care giver is essential if all of
the generations involved are

to flourish.
When coping with the

responsibilities and stresses of
care giving become a problem
one or a cluster of symptoms
can occur, such as anxiety,
fatigue, depression, sleeping or
eating disorders and
psychosomatic illnesses. Care
givers can also experience
feelings of being overwhelmed,
confused, frustrated, angry,
hurt, and lonely. It is
important for the care giver to
give themselves permission to
9,, _ e . p d to e ress their own.

' feel guilty those shits, 1w 2-. -,

cause the child or the aging
parent to not have all of their
wants or non-essential needs
met. The adult care giver
must learn to prioritize the
care giving that needs to be
done and realize that the more
the adult care giver meets her
or his own wants and needs
the stronger and better able
she or he will be to meet the
wants and needs of others.
Self-preservation of the adult

cause the adult care giver to
experience more stress,
anxiety, or symptoms. If the
care givers functioning is
impaired it can have a
negative effect on the» care
they can provide to themselves
as well as others.

Care giving adults
experiencing trouble coping

Cont. pg. 5
See MULTI

OUR NEWEST LEXINGTONIANS: Gregory, Eugene,
Alexandra, and Elena Domotov arrived in Lexington on
March 17 from Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

(Please see letter from Domotov Family - pg. 19)

 

 

 

 

 

  

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THE TORAH THIS MONTH

By Rabbi Jon Adland

BEHAR—
BECHUKOTAI
May 7/ 26 Iyer
Leviticus 25:1-
27:34

There is a double
portion for this Shabbat
Torah reading. Behar
consists of only one
chapter plus the first two
verses of the next chapter.
The main point of Behar
is to discuss the
Sabbatical and Jubilee
Year concept. The idea of
people resting once every
seven days on Shabbat is
carried over to the concept
of the land resting once
every seven years. The
Sabbatical year was

 

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important for several
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freeing of slaves, the
remission of debts called
shemitah, and as
mentioned previously that
agricultural labor was to
stop. The Jubilee or
fiftieth year is marked by
three chief features: the
land is to lie fallow, all
landed property which has
been sold is to revert to its
original owners, and
Hebrew slaves are to
receive their liberty.

Bechukotai is a
collection of laws and
commandments on a
variety of subjects and
what happens if these
laws are obeyed and what
occurs if they are not
obeyed. The reader is
struck by God's hard
stance of retribution
against those who violate
the mitzvot.

BEMIDBAR
May 14/4 Sivan
Numbers 1:1—4z20

Bemidbar begins
the fourth book of the
Torah which we call
Numbers. This is based
on the extensive census
conducted of the tribal
families in the first 2
chapters of the book.
Chapters 3 & 4
describe the importance of
the line of Moses and

     

Aaron who are to give rise
to the priestly families.
The duties and
responsibilities of the tribe
of Levi and spelled out.
This is followed by further
genealogies of the
descendants of Levi. One
very interesting
observance, pidyonha-ben,
is described in 3:13.

Pidyon ha-ben or
the redemption of the first
born son draws its basis
from the words “Every
first-bom is Mine.” When
God smote the first-bom
in Egypt, God set aside as
God's own every first-born
in Israel, both man and
beast. Because the
consecration of every first-
born male into the
Israelite priesthood is too
many, an exchange of
monetary compensation
was worked out for the
family to buy back their
son. The practice
continues to today in
many parts of the Jewish
world.

NASO
May 21/ ll Sivan

7 Ngimbers 4:21-7:89?!“

Naso begins by
concluding the census of
Bemidbar. It then turns
its attention to laws which
affect the everyday lives of
people. We learn about
persons excluded from the
camp because they are
ritually' unclean; a priest
receiving offerings from a
confessed robber; and the

procedures to be followed
when a woman is accused
by her husband of having
committed adultery.

C h a p t e r 6
introduces us to the
special group of people
called Nazirites. A Nazir
would make a vow of
abstinence for religious
purposes. (As a result of
the nazir making vows we
learn about the
importance of vows in
general.) In addition to
avoiding alcohol and
contact with the dead, the
nazirite also had to let his
'hair grow in order to
fulfill his vow. The
chapter concludes with the
special three-fold priestly
benediction, birkat
Koh_anim. This special
blessing is still a
significant part of our
religious worship today.

Chapter 7
describes twelve days of
offerings brought by the
twelve tribes, one tribe per
day, to the dedication of
the altar. The offerings
consisted of sacrificial
animals, meal offerings.
and instruments needed

for the cultic rifitigablag
”"pemmt - ’

BEHA’ALOTECHA
May 28/18 Sivan
Numbers 8:1-12:16

Beha’alotecha
continues the consecration
of the Tabernacle by the
Levites. Lampstands
made of gold with seven

 

branches are set up and
the Levites were prepared
for ordination with rites of
purification which
included shaving their
bodies and sprinkling
water on them. After this
was completed, the Levites
offered special sacrifices.
At the end of chapter 8,
we are told of the
substitution of the Levites
to do the work of those
who are first-born.
to maintaining it. The
“riffraff’ of the community
complained about their
diet wanting meat to eat.
They recall the fish given
freely to them by the
Egyptians, as well as the
cucumbers, melons, leeks,
onions. and garlic. They
say, “There is nothing at
all! Nothing by this
manna to look to!"

Moses turns to
God for some relief. He
reminds God that these
are God's people. Moses
complains that the burden
is too great for him.
Either give him some help
or take his life so he
doesn't have to listen to
their whining.

 

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Moses will be relieved of
total responsibility for the
Israelite community, but
as to their whining for
meat, God will provide
meat. In fact, there will
be so much meat for the

Cont. pg. 19
See TORAH

 

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ANYTOWN Holocaust Memorial Services AIDS WALK FOR LIFE
KENTUCKY . ~
The second annual Aids Walk for Life will be held on
Sunday, May 1, 1994. This 5K walk begins at 2:30 PM at
ANYTOWN,KENTUCKY, On Thursday eve—

Commonwealth Stadium. Proceeds will be used to help people
who are HIV+ or have AIDS with health care, housing and
utilities, food and many other necessities. Walkers and
sponsors are needed.

ning, April 7th. the
entire Jewish com—
munity, as well as
many non—Jews, gath-
ered together at
Ohavay Zion Syna—
gogue to observe Yom
HaShoa —— Holocaust
Remembrance Day. Rabbi Adland delivered
the sermon after which we honored the
memory of the 1 1/2 million children who

a one-week summer human
relat ions/ leadership workshop
for teenagers. is now accepting
applications from students
who will be juniors or seniors
in the fall.

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religious and ethnic
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can find help and support
through a variety of sources.
Support systems are essential
and should not be overlooked.
Support can come from
family and friends.
community service provider
agencies. self-help books, self-
help groups, or from mental

health professionals and
organizations. The Multi-
generational Care Giver

Dilemma is a reality of
American life that needs to
be addressed on a personal as
well as on a societal level.
Fortunately society has
begun to recognize this
dilemma as a very real crises
in terms of health care and
hopefully even more support.
programs and assistance will
become available and more
research will be done in this
area.

The causes of The Multi-
Generational Care Giver

Dilemma are varied.
However. one primary factor
is the increase in the aging
population. The reason for
the increase of the life span
of Americans can be
attributed to advances in
medicine, science, nutrition
as well as other areas.
According to the United
States Census Bureau in
1965 the over 65 year old
population was
approximately 18 million and
in 1989 their numbers were
approximately 30 million.
The United States Census
Bureau projected that by the
year 2000 there will be
approximately 35 million
people over the age of 65. By
the year 2020 they projected
that Americans over the age
of 65 should make up
approximately 17 % or 18% of
the United States population.

Some additional causes of
The Multi-Generational Care
Giver Dilemma include the
number of child births and

the number of divorces
occurring in the United
States. According to The

Vital Statistics of The United
States published by The
Department

Education and Welfare the
number of child births in the
U.S. for 1991 was
approximately 4 million 111
thousand and the number of
divorces in the U.S. was
approximately 1 million 187
thousand. According to The
National Center for Health
Statistics and The
Department of Health and
Human Services as published
in The 1994 Information
Please Almanac the number
of child births in the U.S. for
1992 was approximately was
4 million 84 thousand and
the number of divorces was
approximately 1 million 215
thousand. The above
statistics indicate the large
number of persons that need
or potentially may need
caretaking services. The
above statistics also indicate
the number of divorces which
may have decreased or
altered family care giver
support systems.

Most of us know someone
or are ourselves part of The
Multi-Generational Care
Giver Dilemma. Resources
are available and care givers
should feel comfortable

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in Los Angeles, a great deal more than
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people's lives was disrupted, their homes,
belongings and Jobs were destroyed, and In
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 A RESPONSE FROM THE NATIONAL
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS
ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE
ENDORSEMENT OF FARRAKHAN

In the aftermath of the endorsement by the Reverend
Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, of the
outrageous charges by his disciple Khalid Abdul Muhammed
regarding the role that Jews played historically in the slave
trade. a number of CRC‘s reported that friends and partners
from the black community and elsewhere asked for
information that would dispel the obvious misrepresentations
and distortions emanating from the Nation of Islam. Most of
the charges against the Jews were drawn from a pseudo-
academic volume entitled The Secret Relationship Between
Blacks and Jews prepared anonymously and published by the
Nation of Islam.

The following article seeks to correct a number of the
principle charges included in The Secret Relationship.
Prepared by Jessica Lieberman, program assistant at the
NJ CRAC, under the supervision of Karen Senter and Jerome
Chanes, NJCRAC co-directors for Domestic Concerns, the
critique is drawn from a number of sources, especially the
analysis developed by Dr. Harold Brackman, an historian and
research consultant for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los
Angeles. Among other sources consulted were writings by Dr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chairman of the Afro-American
Studies Department at Harvard University, a recent Anti-
Defamation League publication entitled, Jew Hatred as
History: An Analvsis of the Nation of Islam's "The Secret
Relationship Between Blacks and Jews." and work by David
Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History at Yale University.

The reader should also be aware that the American
Jewish Historical Society, whose archives contain a
considerable amount ofuseful informat ion on this subject (and

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The Historiml Record: Respmding with Fact to
Charges in The Secret Relationship Between
Blacks and Jews

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1. The Charge: Jews were major slavetraders and
slaveholders in the Old South.

The Truth: In 1830, Jews comprised under one-half
of one percent of all Americans. About one in three American
Jews lived in the South; by 1860, only one in ten did.

Regarding Slavetrading: Frederic Bancroft, in his
classic study of the slavetrade, found eight Jews out of 125
professional slavetraders in Richmond, Charleston, and
Memphis. In Kentucky and Mississippi there were no Jews.
Equally significant, no Jewish slave traders were ”major
trader(s)." It. is probable that all of them combined traded
fewer than the non-Jewish firm of Franklin and Armfield
which dominated the Southern slave trade.

Regarding Slaveholding; Middle-class Southerners
owned slaves, and Jews were overwhelmingly middle class.
They were not major slaveholders, however, but rather "urban
smallholders," who lived in cities and owned small numbers
of domestic servants. Over 90% of the American slave
population was concentrated in plantation districts where
Jews were a rarity. The South‘s "master class" of big
plantation major slaveholders was 99.8% non-Jewish.

2. The Charge: The Jews who opposed slavery were
few and unheeded.

The Truth: In 1860 there were 150.000 American
Jews in a nation whose population numbered over thirty
million. Differing from the general population in both
religion and recent immigrant status, they were doubly a

minority. A .Pnidence dictated —maintaiaing a low political »

profile on "controversial" issues. Even so, as crisis culminated

in Civil War. Jews overwhelmingly decided for the Union
against slavery. Between 1780 and 1817 prominent Jews
spoke out against slavery and joined the organized anti-
slavery movement. Manhattan Jews assumed leadership
positions in the city's Abolition society, and Jewish
participation in the movement represented a number greater
than the percentage of Jews in the general population.
Southern Jews were limited for the most part to individual
acts of resistance, such as freeing their slaves.

In the South, pro-slavery pressures and fear of anti-
Semitism convinced most Southem Jews to accept the status
quo. The most adamant dissenters among Southem Jews
went north. Some boycotted slavery by not owning slaves.
The birth of the "immediate emancipation" movement did not
attract large numbers of Jews in part because the movement
became a crusade identified as strictly Christian, addressing
appeals to anti-slavery Christians, and was not accepting of
or sensitive to Jews.

3. The Charge: Jews dominated the slave trade in
Colonial New England.

The Truth: According to Jacob Marcus, a principle
authority on American Jewry during the colonial period,
"Jewish participation was minimal in the slave trade with
Africa." Marcus estimates that Jewish merchants accounted
for under two percent of enslaved Africans brought to the US.

The worst that can be said is that, as "men of their
times" some Jews acted in the same manner as other whites
of their class. More significant is the limited extent of
involvement by the handful of Jews in Newport, New York
City, and Charleston who did participate in the slave trade.
Newport was the leading American slavetrading center during
both colonial and early post-colonial times. During the period
of greatest activity. 1709 to 1807. Newport sent 934 slave

ships to the African coast and imported over 106.000 slaves.

the 200 international trading ventures commissioned by
Lopez, the fourteen devoted to slaving imported a total of 1165
slaves, representing one percent of the total number of slaves
imported into Newport in its heyday.

4. TheCharge: Jewsdaninatedtheslavetr’adein
Europe's New World (denies.

The Truth: Jewish merchants, whatever their
inclination, were never allowed to play a prominent role in the
slave trade across the Atlantic. From 1600 to 1700, they were
excluded from Spanish and Portuguese colonies and banned
from the French West Indies, areas of major slave trade
activity. Jews did settle in Dutch colonies, where their ability
to participate in the slave trade was severely restricted.

Between 1700 and 1800, when over six million
enslaved African were carried to the Americas, the Atlantic
slave trade was intemational "big business" dominated by the
great trading powers of the day, England. France and
Holland. Jews and Jewish names are virtually absent from
the texts and indexes of scholarly works on the Atlantic slave
trade and from recent monographs on the French, Dutch,
Portuguese and British branches of the commerce. The degree
that Jewish merchants played a role, they were bit players in
this tragic story.

5. The Charge: Jews daninated the slave trade
within Africa

The Truth: Around the year 1000, Arabs from North
Africa began massive slave raids on Beled es Sudan ("The
country of the Blacks"). Berber tribesmen from the Sahara
invaded and destroyed the ancient black empire of Ghana,
whose rulers clung to tribal religions, refusing to convert to

Cont; pg. 8
See RESPONSE

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ANNUAL
STUDENT ESSAY
CONTEST

The Southern Jewish
Historical Society will award
$500 for the best paper
dealing with Southem Jewry
by a current graduate or
undergraduatecollegestudent.
The presentation will be made
at the society's annual
meeting in Raleigh, North
Carolina, in October.

Submissions should
focus on a subject related to
Southern Jewish history. use
primary sources and
appropriate documentation.
Papers should be double-
spaced. The s