An Affiliate of the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte
Vol. 38, No. 4
Adar II-Nisan 5776
April 2016
Through Federation You Can DO GOOD EVERYWHERE. FROM ANYWHERE. Through our Annual Campaign, the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte joins with 153 Federations across North America to answer the needs of the Jewish world. When a child needs a Jewish education, a subsidy to participate in a Jewish experience like Jewish summer camp or a BBYO leadership conference, Federation is there. When a family loses its income or an entire community is devastated by a disaster, Federation is there. It’s a pledge we live by.
We are there to help a distressed family regain its footing; to rescue and rebuild after a catastrophe. We make sure a Holocaust survivor isn’t deserted, and that no one who is disabled is without assistance. Federation holds out a safety net. And we’ll never let it fall. The Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte has been supporting, sustaining and revitalizing Jewish life for more than 75 years. Today our work is far from finished – and we need your (Continued on page 4)
Join Federation Board Members Jason Spiegler, Julie Sheffer, Thanks to Super Heroes Tracy Brown and Amy Augus- and Justin Steinschriber to make a vital difference in Jewish tine for encouraging others to make powerful donations lives in Charlotte, in Israel and around the world by supporting to the 2016 Annual Campaign during SUPER WEEK! the 2016 Annual Campaign. Together, we can Do Good Everywhere. From Anywhere.
Community Commemorates Yom HaShoah with One Act/One Man Play Sunday, May 1, 4-5:30 PM, Sam Lerner Center at Shalom Park The program will open with a Memorial Prayer, with Holocaust survivors lighting memorial candles, and with a reflection offered by Dr. Kelly Wilson, Charlotte Holocaust Outreach Director, North Carolina Council on the Holocaust. Roger Grunwald plays the character Christoph Rosenberg, who is a German half-Jew (“Mischling”) and a First Lieutenant in Hitler’s Wehrmacht, in The Mitzvah Project: “A Mischling in the Wehrmacht,” a one act/one person play. He is a man who discovers too late that the blood flowing in his veins is no different from the Jewish blood being spilled in the
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killing fields of Poland. The presentation will be followed by a brief symposium on Germans of Jewish ancestry with Roger Grunwald, writer and actor, New York City, whose late German-Jewish mother was a survivor of Auschwitz; Dr. John Cox,
Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies, Appalachian State University. Sponsors: Butterfly Project, Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace John Cox Studies at Appalachian Thomas Pegelow State University; College Kaplan of Arts and Sciences at Associate Professor and Director Appalachian State University; of the Center for Holocaust, Center for Holocaust, Genocide, Genocide, and Human Rights and Human Rights Studies at Studies, UNC Charlotte; and Dr. UNC Charlotte; Hadassah (CharThomas Pegelow Kaplan, Leon lotte Chapter); The Jewish FederLevine Distinguished Professor of ation of Greater Charlotte; Levine
Jewish Community Center; The Levine-Sklut Judaic Library and Resource Center; North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, Queens University of Charlotte; Temple Beth El; Temple Israel; and the Temple of the High Country. Y
Do Good at the 18th Annual Spring Lecture Featuring Jennifer Teege, Author of “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past” Thursday, April 7, Temple Beth El Although she was placed in an orphanage and then adopted at a young age, as a child Jennifer Teege had some contact with her biological mother and grandmother. Yet neither revealed their family legacy, one indelibly
marked by Goeth — the Nazi “butcher of Plaszów” — and his crimes as a concentration camp commandant. Now, at age 38, beginning to learn the scope of her grandfather’s crimes, Jennifer Teege realizes: If her grandfather
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had met her — a black woman — he would have killed her. Teetering on the brink of severe depression, Jennifer Teege delves into researching her family’s past. Over the two years that follow, she tentatively reconnects with her estranged mother Monika, explores the sites of Plaszów concentration camp and the former Jewish ghetto in Kraków, and returns to Israel, where she once attended college and learned fluent Hebrew. Ultimately, Teege’s search for (Continued on page 3)
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