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Connections Winter 2011 / Choref 5771 Connections winter 2011 / choref 5771 Counselors Adam Olstein, Sonia Robiner and camper Zach Sain enjoy a paddle at Camp Butwin CAMPAIGN CHAIR SUMMER CAMP BUILDS UPCOMING EVENTS OVERVIEW JEWISH IDENTITY AND OPPORTUNITIES P 2 P 4 P 10 A Message from the UJFC BENEFICIARY AGENCIES Local Agencies General Campaign Hillel at the University of Minnesota Chair Jewish Community Center of the Greater St. Paul Area Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas Jewish Family Service of St. Paul Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest Polly Saxon, Lubavitch Cheder Day School Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company General campaign chair Nechama Jewish Response to Disaster Rochester Chaplaincy Sholom Community Alliance Dear Friends, Talmud Torah of St. Paul Recently, a friend sent me a fascinating article on the science of Overseas Agencies giving. It discussed a study that shows our bodies release endorphins American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee – chemicals that produce a sense of well-being – when volunteering. Jewish Agency for Israel Another study looked at brain activity of subjects who were given World ORT the choice to donate or receive money. It showed that brain activity involved in personal satisfaction was present whether subjects chose to donate or receive, providing evidence that there is an anatomical THANK YOU FOR GIVING basis for the joy of giving. TO THE MAX This got me thinking about what I receive when I give to the Jewish On Nov. 16, Give to the Max Day 2010, generous community. It’s always given me a sense of well-being because I know friends donated $25,786 to UJFC. Thank I’m part of a community that I can count on. Just as we have done for you for joining in the “great Minnesota give over 75 years, we come together to care for each other, sustain our together” and supporting the UJFC. traditions and rally in a crisis. Our 2011 Campaign is well underway and already more than 1,000 members of our community have pledged $1.4 million to ensure the Connections St. Paul Jewish community remains strong and vibrant while caring Connections is a publication of the for Jews in 70 other countries. Thank you to Phil Goldman, Men’s United Jewish Fund and Council Campaign Chair and Marsha Schoenkin, Women’s Philanthropy Chair, 790 Cleveland Ave., South and a dedicated team of 150 volunteer solicitors for your tireless Suite 227 efforts. St. Paul MN 55116 651-690-1707 If you made your pledge, thank you! If you have not, please join your www.JewishStPaul.org friends and neighbors who are generously supporting the work of the UJFC. To make a pledge or to find out how your support makes a Julie Swiler, editor difference, go to www.jewishstpaul.org or call Ted Flaum, campaign 651-695-3109 director at 651-695-3185. [email protected] Getting involved, donating and volunteering – it is a great feeling – it Contributors: Ted Flaum, Sharyn Effress Pesses, really is what being Jewish feels like. Dan Mogelson, Alisa Warshavsky Thank you for your continued support, Get involved. Donate. Volunteer. Polly Saxon It’s what being 2011 Campaign Chair Jewish feels like. 2 haiti – one year later Within days of the earthquake the global Jewish community generously responded to this disaster. One year later, we have helped improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors. One year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a beneficiary agency of the United Jewish Fund and Council, has helped 240,000 Haitians and is paving a path toward better lives for the disabled and children. Through $7.7 million dollars JDC and its partners have delivered medical services to more than in donations from the Jewish Federations of North America and 53,000 Haitians and additionally aided more than 800 people tens of thousands of individual donors, JDC’s collaboration with and fitted more than 70 prosthetics. JDC also ran 10 schools in Haitian, Israeli, and other NGOs has fed, clothed, provided state- tent camps in Port Au Prince and ensured that 150,000 displaced of-the-art medical treatment, job training, and education for the Haitians had access to 80 emergency water tanks. country’s recovering population. In 2011, JDC will focus on physical and psychological rehabilita- “Within days of the earthquake the global Jewish community tion for the disabled and schooling for Haitian children. JDC’s generously responded to this disaster. One year later, we have ongoing services for Haitian amputees will include professional helped improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Haitian training for local medical and paramedical staff and treatment by earthquake survivors. Whether we’re getting people walking again a team of Haitian/American/Israeli doctors, physiotherapists and at our rehab clinic and prosthetic lab or ensuring educational occupational therapists. outlets for Haitian children, we do so inspired by tikkun olam and our unwavering commitment to the potential of every human life,” said JDC CEO Steven Schwager. WORLD ORT AND KIRYAT YAM LAUNCH $18M SCIENCE Kiryat Yam Mayor Shmuel Sisso told a CITY PROJECT dedication ceremony at the high school, “This campus integrates values, culture, World ORT, an overseas partner of the science and knowledge in a unique way United Jewish Fund and Council, and and also combines and showcases the the Israeli town of Kiryat Yam recently character of its initiators.” launched an $18 million science city project, with support from Jewish Federa- The campus will reinvigorate the tions. The high-tech education and sports largely blue-collar community of 45,000 — Students study electronics campus boasts resources like a science comprised of many Russian and Ethiopian center, library, performing arts auditorium immigrants — where the average income is at new education center and planetarium, open to residents of the about 25 percent lower than the national coastal city. average. your support makes a differencE $18 $36 $50 $180 $300 $1,000 $5,000 A food package to an individual in Four Kosher Emergency One week of childcare financial Four days of emergency One month of A year’s rent and expenses for a need in the former Soviet Union Meals on Wheels medications assistance food and shelter adult day care new Ethiopian immigrant family to Israel 3 SUMMER CAMP MIXES JEWISH VALUES WITH LOTS OF FUN Mari Prauer remembers her first summer at Herzl Camp in Webster, Wis. She was a scared nine-year-old who wasn’t sure she wanted to stay when her parents dropped her off. But when they picked her up on the last day she exclaimed, “It’s my favorite place ever – I’m going back until I’m the director!” Now 19 and a student at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., Mari still goes back to Herzl each summer – as a counselor. She credits her experience to the camp’s hamish atmosphere and wants to help new campers have the same experience. She also says Herzl Camp helped develop her identity as a Jew. “I’m much more involved in the Jewish community than I would have been,” said Prauer, who is president of the Hillel at her school. “I would not Mari Prauer (center) have gone to Israel or been involved in Hillel, and I wouldn’t have made so with friends Molly Korman (L) many wonderful life-long friends.” and Arnina Blumenreich (r) Mari’s experience is echoed at camps all over the country. As the Jewish community wrestles with the question of how to instill Jewish values and love of Jewish life in children, summer camp is one of the answers. “Most of us don’t live in Jewish neighborhoods anymore, we’re spread out,” said Anne Hope, Herzl Camp director. “Our campers have the experience that in past Studies bear out that Jewish generations, Jewish children found just around the corner.” adults who attended summer camp are more likely to have According to research compiled by the Foundation for Jewish Camp, studies a sense of Jewish identity bear out that Jewish adults who attended summer camp are more likely to and be involved in the Jewish have a sense of Jewish identity and be involved in the Jewish community. community. They are: • 30 percent more likely to donate to a Jewish charity • 37 percent more likely to light Shabbat candles • 45 percent more likely to attend synagogue monthly or more • 55 percent more likely to be very emotionally attached to Israel “At Camp Butwin, kids are part of a Jewish community and they take that home with them,” said Alyssa Golob, director at Camp Butwin, the St. Paul JCC summer camp. “These children are the next synagogue board members, donors and institutional leaders.” Shawn Bulgatz remembers Camp Butwin as a place where, as a young Jew, he felt he belonged. That is one of the reasons he now sends his own children there. “It was a place where I felt I could be who I was and feel supported and valued,” said Bulgatz. He also sees camp as an important means to instill Jewish identity. “My kids don’t have a lot of Jewish friends. The more they are around other Jews israeli Scouts the better it is for maintaining their Jewish identity. The great thing about Jewish life at camp is that it’s experiential and fun. They live Jewish values concert at camp Butwin while they spend the entire day outside swimming, canoeing, riding horses and exploring nature.” Living Judaism while having fun and bonding with others is essential to the Jewish camp experience. At Camp Butwin, fun activities are also moments to instill Jewish values.
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