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CC&CD Journal09rox2:Layout 1 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 1 CAMPAIGN CHAIRS & DIRECTORS MISSION 2010/2011 Journal CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 2 Dear Friends, Our mission to Hungary and Israel will be a rewarding experience that will enrich our understanding of both the support our campaigns provides and the needs of Jewish communities abroad. In Budapest, we will explore the contrast between past and present Jewish life in Hungary. We will mourn the past in Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park, but, more impor- tantly, we will witness positive signs for the future of the Hungarian Jewish community as we visit Svarvas summer camp and meet with inspiring young leaders. In Israel we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of a momentous accomplish- ment, Operation Exodus, and explore how we can continue to help Israel effec- tively in the future. We will learn about the most pressing issues facing Israel today, including the unique challenges the Ethiopian immigrant community faces. Visits to our partners’ programs will deepen our understanding of the issues and of the impact of our work, and make us more knowledgeable and more inspired Federation leaders. This journal contains helpful background information on the places we will visit. Because we will see and learn so much in the coming week, it also provides room for you to record your reflections and take notes we know you’ll find useful when you return home. Thank you so much for joining us on this mission, for serving as a leader in your community, and for being so dedicated to tzedakah and tikkun olam. B’shalom, Stuart Kurlander, Washington, DC Marla Weiss Egers, South Palm Beach Mission Chairs Michael Lebovitz, National Campaign Chair Linda Adler Hurwitz, National Women’s Philanthropy Chair CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE ITINERARY 4 JOURNAL PAGES AND WORKSHEETS 6 FAST FACTS 54 THE JEWS OF HUNGARY: A BRIEF HISTORY 56 OUR PARTNERS AT WORK IN HUNGARY JDC 58 JEWISH AGENCY 61 ORT 63 JEWISH AGENCY SITE VISITS 64 JDC SITE VISITS 77 MISSION CHAIR BIOS 104 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 4 ITINERARY THURSDAY, JULY 8 Opening lunch in Gundel’s Queen Elizabeth Hall Depart for tour of Jewish Quarter Briefing by our scholar in residence, Jeremy Leigh, at the Dohanyi Street Synagogue. Visit the Carl Schurz Memorial Visit Balint House, the Jewish community center of Budapest to see JDC programs at work Dinner cruise on the Danube OVERNIGHT: InterContinental Hotel, Budapest FRIDAY, JULY 9 SATURDAY, JULY 10 Breakfast Breakfast Visit Raoul Wallenberg Square. Optional Shabbat services Yizkor Service at the Shoes Memorial on Walking tour of the Castle District and lunch the Danube Promenade. at the Hilton’s outdoor patio. Travel to the Szarvas Family Camp. Discussion with Jerry Silverman; breakout sessions. Activities and lunch with campers and counselors Return to hotel to relax Return to Budapest JAFI briefing: Misha Galperin and Eran El Bar Kabbalat Shabbat Holocaust survivors/teen program Shabbat Dinner with young Hungarian Jews, Café Dilemma: Dialogue with Hungary’s including Szarvas counselors and Birthright young Jewish community. Israel alumni. Dinner at the Ethnographic Museum. OVERNIGHT: InterContinental Hotel, Budapest Havdallah service and local entertainment OVERNIGHT: InterContinental Hotel, Budapest 4 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 5 SUNDAY, JULY 11 MONDAY, JULY 12 Breakfast and hotel check out Breakfast Flight to Israel Morning training session Panel discussion at Tel Aviv University: Site visits to partners’ programs. Meet with critical issues facing Israel today. representatives of the populations being served, followed by debriefings. Dinner at Beit Hatfutsot, the Museum of the Diaspora, with Operation Exodus Anniversary Dinner showcasing the work of the IDF in part- celebration; with Natan Sharansky, chair of the nership with JAFI, JDC, ENP, and Federations at executive of JAFI and other notable olim. a paratroopers base. Welcome by Col. Aharon Chaliva. Sing-along led by the IDF singing OVERNIGHT: David InterContinental, troupe. Tel Aviv OVERNIGHT: David InterContinental, Tel Aviv TUESDAY, JULY 13 WEDNESDAY, JULY 14 Breakfast and panel discussion, “Our Part- Breakfast and training session: Create ners at Work,” with Alan Hoffman, Director Gen- Your Own Story eral, JAFI; and Alan Gill, Executive Director, International Relations, JDC. Depart for Kiryat Ono Academic College. Campaign training session Small-group discussions on Jewish values— a look at how the work we do connects to our Site visits personal and communal values. All buses meet at Ben Shemen Youth Free afternoon in Tel Aviv. Aliya Village for lunch and panel discussion on Israel Advocacy with Mark Regev and Miri Eisen Farewell dinner ENP home hospitality visits Depart for the airport Visit President’s private residence with welcome remarks by President Peres Free time in Jerusalem Return to Tel Aviv OVERNIGHT: David InterContinental, Tel Aviv 5 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 6 7.8 DAY 1 Budapest In dreams sometimes the landscape still rises before you, the home of your poetry, where the scent of freedom wafts over the meadows, and in the morning when you wake, you carry the scent with you. —from “Monday Evening” by Miklós Radnóti 6 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 7 One of Hungary’s foremost 20th- century poets, Radnóti was born in Budapest in 1909. He was deported to a labor camp in 1944, shot during a forced march, and buried in a mass grave. When the grave was exhumed 18 months later, his last poems, describing the march, were found in his trench coat pocket by his wife. 7 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 8 7.8 DAY 1 Budapest 8 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 9 DAY 1 BUDAPEST DAY The Dohanyi Street Synagogue is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world (after Temple Emanu-El in New York City), with 2,964 seats. It was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moor- ish Revival style, based chiefly on buildings from North Africa and Spain like the Alhambra. Theodor Herzl, father of modern Zionism, was born in Budapest in 1860 in the house next door to the Dohanyi Street Synagogue. The Jewish Museum was constructed on the site of the Herzl family’s home. 9 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 10 7.8 DAY 1 Budapest If only once again I heard the quiet hum Of bees on the verandah, the jar of orchard plums Cooling with late summer, the gardens half asleep, Voluptuous fruit lolling on branches dipping deep, And she before the hedgerow stood with sunbleached hair, The lazy morning scrawling vague shadows on the air... Why not? The moon is full, her circle is complete. Don't leave me, friend, shout out, and see! I'm on my feet! —from “Forced March” by Miklós Radnóti 10 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 11 OPENING EXERCISE DAY 1 BUDAPEST 1 DAY 1. Personal Goal: 2. Professional Goal: 3. Three things I hope to take away from the mission: 11 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 12 7.9 DAY 2 Szarvas There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind. —Hannah Senesh 12 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 13 DAY 2 SZARVAS DAY Szarvas camp, a joint initiative of the JDC and the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation, was opened in 1990 and became a flagship project for Jewish education and youth outreach. Approximately 2,000 young Jews, half from Hungary and half mainly from Eastern Europe, attend each summer. 13 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 14 7.9 DAY 2 Szarvas 14 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 15 DAY 2 SZARVAS DAY The Shoes on the Danube memorial honors the Jews who fell victim to fascist Arrow Cross militiamen in Budapest during the last years of World War II. It de- picts the shoes they left be- hind on the river bank when they fell into the Danube after having been shot. 15 CC&CD_journal09ROX2:Layout 1 6/30/10 2:54 PM Page 16 7.9 DAY 2 Szarvas MEMORIAL SERVICE El Malei Rachamim El malei rachamim shokhen ba-m'romim ha-m'tzei m'nuchah n'khonah tachat kanfei ha-sh'khinah b'ma'alot k'doshim u't'horim c'zohar ha-rakiah maz'hirim l'nishmot yakireinu u'k'dosheinu she-hal'khu l'olamam. Ana ba'al ha-rachamim ha-s'tirem b'tzel k'nafekha l'olamim u-tz'ror bitz'ror ha-chayim et nishmatam. Adonai hu nachalatam v'yanuchu b'shalom al mish'kabam v'nomar amen. God filled with mercy, dwelling in the heavens' heights, bring proper rest beneath the wings of your Shehinah, amid the ranks of the holy and the pure, illuminating like the brilliance of the skies the souls of our beloved and our blameless who went to their eternal place of rest. May you who are the source of mercy shelter them beneath your wings eternally, and bind their souls among the living, that they may rest in peace.
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