Published by the Jewish Community of Louisville, Inc. April 25, 2014 25 NISAwww.jewishlouisville.orgN 5774 Community 1 INSIDE JCL Annual Meeting Is June 1 PAGE 12 Hiland Brings Ideas from Israel to ELC PAGE 14 Communit■ ■ y FRIDAY VOL. 39, NO. 08 25 NISAN 5774 APRIL 25, 2014 JCL UPDATE by Stu Silberman President and CEO Jewish Community of Louisville Happy Birthday, JCL! We were born five years ago on May 1, 2009, with the challenge of finding a new, sustainable model to strengthen our Jewish commu- nity, build Jewish identity and create a caring environ- ment welcoming to all. How have we Stu Silberman done? Only you can determine that. How much more do we have to do? Again, that’s based on you – your needs, your aspirations, your willingness to help. Master baker Paula Shoyer, in the white apron, provided tips on techniques and preparation instructions for Passover desserts during an April 10 afternoon workshop. Clock- Here are some of the facts that will wise from lower left, Shellie Branson (facing away), Diane Richter, Keren Benabou, Marci Levine, Linda Schuster, Ann Leah Blieden and Shellie Benovitz. See story, page 6. help you make those determinations. Did you know that since the JCL was formed: April 28 Yom HaShoah Program Connects Survivors and Teens • The Jewish impact our JCC is making his year’s community-wide Yom It will be much more than a solemn on our community continues to in- HaShoah program, sponsored commemoration of the events of the Ho- crease, and now Louisville rates high- by the Jewish Community Rela- locaust and remembering the victims. er than the average JCC on this very T tions Council, Pouring Out the It will also be a recognition and tribute important measure? Heart: Learning from Personal Stories of the bond of compassion and under- • The business side of our operation – of the Holocaust will be Monday, April standing that today’s middle schoolers mission-driven programming primar- 28, at 7 p.m. at the Kentucky Center for from St. Francis of Assisi and the Jewish ily at the JCC that provides income the Arts, in the Bomhard Theater. Community Center’s Teen Connections – has increased from a yearly net con- tribution of $800,000 to $1,200,000 – a 50 percent increase? JHFE Works to Create Opportunities for • Contributions to our endowment Louisville’s Jewish Community at Large Students talked with Renée and John Rothschild. funds, a measure of the community’s desire to allow us to administer their by Kevin E. Borland fied its asset portfolio and will ultimate- program have forged with several local highly valuable charitable giving, JHFE Communications ly add to the enrichment of the Jewish survivors. increased by over $1,000,000 since community, strengthening the mission The young teens, with guidance from merger? The Jewish Heritage Fund for Excel- of the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excel- St. Francis teacher and Yom HaSho- • Every year we reduce the amount of lence in December completed the pur- lence’s grants initiative. Since its cre- ah Chair Fred Whittaker, interviewed unrestricted endowment earnings chase of 150 acres in eastern Jefferson ation in 2012, the Jewish Heritage Fund the survivors, Anna Belenkiy and Sima we use to support our operations, County owned by Standard Country for Excellence has already committed Furman, Russian immigrants to this from $492,000 in Fiscal Year 2010 to Club in a proactive effort to create future over $5 million in grants to the Jewish country who hadn’t shared their stories $126,000 in this Fiscal Year? opportunities for the Louisville Jewish community at large and the medical re- in 22 years, as well as Fred Gross, Abe • Though our employees had suffered community. This move further diversi- see JHFE GRANT page 16 see YOM HASHOAH page 4 see JCL UPDATE page 16 INDEX JCRC update .......................................2 $163,175* ... Review: Jerusalem ................................2 Together Extraordinary What’s Happening in Ukraine .............3 HAPPY DAYS ARE Funds for Programs, Services ............4 HERE AGAIN POSTAGE WE DO... THINGS KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE Yom Ha’atzmaut ..................................5 PERIODICALS Lost Tribe Event ..................................5 2014 LION OF JUDAH UNIQUELY JEWISH CAMPAIGN POMEGRANATE BOURBON Israeli Art Sale and Exhibit ..................5 KICK-OFF EVENT EVENT Calendar of Events ..............................5 $30,000* $156,250* $113,920* Katchor and Naamani Lectures ..........8 $249,332* $610,528 Uniquely Jewish: Jews and Comedy ..9 MAJOR GIFTS Festival of Faiths .................................9 OTHER CHAMPAGNE Noah Budin Concert at KI .................10 PLEDGES BRUNCH JFCS MOSAIC Awards ..................... 11 2014 $44,520* Republic Bank Players Challenge ..... 11 YAD CASINO NIGHT New NCJW Court Watch ..................12 SARASOTA $87,250* 2014 DINNER Represents Zimmerman Fund ..............................12 EVENT * SUPER pledges Remembering Donald Guss .............13 SUNDAY P2G: Israeli Teacher Visits ................15 from those $150,000 who attended Online Exclusives ........................ 15, 16 this event. Teen Topics/Chavurat Shalom ..........17 JFCS Calendar ..................................18 Newsmakers/LEO Watch List ...........19 TOTAL TO DATE: Around Town ............................... 20-21 Lifecycle .......................................21-22 2014 Shlicha Coming to JCC Camp ..........23 FEDERATION $1,841,347 D’var Torah ........................................23 CAMPAIGN GOAL: $2.35 MILLION 2 Community April 25, 2014 25 NISAN 5774 ians from consistently tending to their Communit y own fields on the other side. While this Community is published monthly by theJewish JCRC UPDATE unfortunate situation is very real and Community of Louisville, Inc., 3600 Dutchmans by Matt Goldberg, Director Israel must do what it can to mitigate Lane, Louisville, KY 40205-3216. There are obvious differences between the hardships faced by Palestinians, Jewish Community Relations Council USPS #020-068 at Louisville, KY. these two incidents, but the similarities the speaker failed to acknowledge that The Jewish Community of Louisville is cannot be ignored. Irrational hatred, the security barrier was erected to stem a nonprofit organization. $26 of your pledge his has been a trying week for based on ethnic or national origin, led the loss of life due to suicide bombings is for a subscription for Community. us in the Jewish community in to vicious and random acts of violence. and other terror attacks or that since its For more information, call America, as we think about two So what are we to do (besides in- completion, terror attacks from the West (502) 459-0660, fax (502) 238-2724, incidents that have shaken our creased security-based vigilance which Bank have decreased over 90 percent. e-mail [email protected] or check out T sense of security and our ideas of the af- is always important)? I am not sure there The presentations attacked the Zi- the website www.jewishlouisville.org. tereffects of causeless hatred. is one answer. We will never be able to onist narrative, denied that a two-state POSTMASTER – Send address changes to The shootings at the JCC and Jewish eliminate the hatred that can sometimes solution to the Israel-Palestinian is a Community, 3600 Dutchmans Lane, Louisville, senior center in Kansas City have per- lead to incidents like this. But on the reasonable solution to the problem and KY 40205-3216. haps awakened us all from a dream other hand, we cannot wallow in resig- advocated tactics such as Boycott, Di- where incidents like these do not happen nation that “these things happen.” vestment and Sanction (BDS). The latter COMMUNITY DEADLINES to the reality that violent anti-Semitism We must educate ourselves and each is a radical and out-of-the mainstream Deadlines for the next two issues of is not a thing of the past. other to be tolerant of others. We must tactic that must be condemned by all Community for copy and ads are: May 16 It is true that Anti-Semitic incidents continue to speak up against injustice, those who seek a just solution to the Is- for publication on May 23 and June 20 for publication on June 27. have gone down in the last several years, look after those less fortunate and pro- rael-Palestinian conflict in the Middle with only (if that term is appropriate) 751 mote the Jewish value of tikkun olam, East based on a two state solution. Community publishes News makers and Around in 2013 – a 19 percent drop from 2012. repairing the world. In addition, we This demonizing of Israel and only Town items at no charge. Items must be We hear of violent incidents of Jew ha- must not let these acts of violence pre- submitted in writing. Please include your name Israel is both immoral and unhelpful in and a daytime telephone number where you tred all over the world – the Middle East, vent us from enjoying JCCs and mara- reducing tensions between the parties. can be contacted in the event that questions Asia, even Europe – and we are angered thons and any other public events. Subsequent to Israel Apartheid Week, arise. Community reserves the right to edit all and resolute. However, when it happens Apartheid Week on Campus the organization Stand With Us brought submissions to conform to style and length in our own backyard, a Midwestern JCC A few weeks ago at the University of two Israeli soldiers to U of L to talk requirements. in a Jewish community not significant- Louisville (and many other universities about their experiences. Both soldiers ly bigger than Louisville’s, we are also around the world), anti-Zionists hosted emphasized the complexity of the issue ADVERTISING INFORMATION shocked. It is only right that we are now Apartheid Week on Campus, a week of as they told some of their own person- To advertise, please contact left with new questions with elusive an- programming and events meant to de- al stories of their experiences in Gaza Jennifer Hardage, 502-418-5845 or e-mail swers.