Please join us in welcoming Tom Moore as the new conductor of the Triangle Jewish Chorale.

Tom is presently the Music Librarian at Duke University. He directed the Collegium Musicum at Duke for two seasons. Before coming to Duke he served as the Visiting Foreign Professor in the Graduate program in Music at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and co-director of the Camerata Quantz, the early music ensemble for UNIRIO. He sang in the Symphonic Choir of Rio under the direction of Julio Moretzsohn. Before moving to Brazil he sang with Pomerium Musices and Concert Royal in New York, and directed La Fenice and the Dunstable Singers in Boston. He also performs extensively on baroque flute, modern flute, and recorder, with compact discs of chamber music by Telemann and Boismortier to his credit. He has degrees from Harvard, Stanford University and Simmons college.

We are extremely excited about turning the page of a new score with a new conductor.

If you are interested in joining us in singing and helping us continue to bring Jewish music from our Jewish heritage, both past and present to the Triangle area, please contact Bernie Most, membership chairman at: bmost@nc.rr.com. For all other questions, please contact Gayla Halbrecht, Manager of the Chorale at: ghalbrecht@gmail.com.

The Triangle Jewish Chorale (TJC) performs vocal works in concert, for special occasions, and in celebration of community events. If you enjoy singing and wish to reap the psychological and physiological benefits as well as just plain fun of entertaining yourself and others, please consider joining us.

* want to sing and perform Jewish music in English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Ladino;

* are willing to put in the time to learn their parts; downloadable mp3 files of the parts are provided and fellow chorale members are available to help in the learning process. You may also bring your personal tape recorder to rehearsals. Rehearsals of new pieces include going over each voice part individually;

* are responsible and committed enough to attend rehearsals with great regularity!! Our regular rehearsals take place only twice a month - on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, 7:30-9:30pm

* You do not have to be able to sight read but rudimentary knowledge of musical notation is required;

* You do need to enjoy the process of group creation of wonderful performances along with affable, fun-loving, and erudite individuals.

Jewish Sparks is a local weekly TV program that broadcasts the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies lectures and also other important Jewish material.

Jewish Sparks can be viewed Weekly as follows:

Chapel Hill (CH) - Peoples Channel, Time Warner Cable Channel 8: Tuesdays 2:00 PM and 9:00 PM
Durham (DR) - Durham Public Access, Time Warner Cable Channel 18 (note new channel and time): Tuesdays 7:30 PM
Raleigh (RTN) - RTN, Cable Channel 10: (note new times)Wednesdays 7:00 PM and Thursdays 8:00 PM

Students, faculty and staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University have access to what is thought to be the world's largest visual history due to the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) deploying a 5.5-terabyte digital media cache of testimonies from the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive.

http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov06/rencishoah112006.htm

The general public may access the archives as well at Duke's Perkins Library, UNC's Davis Library at UNC, and NC State's D.H. Hill Library, where special listening/viewing areas have been set aside.

A Mitzvah Opportunity to help our Jewish Elderly: On the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, Jewish Family Services provides a program and lunch for seniors in our community. This is a wonderful opportunity for our elderly seniors to get together on a regular basis, spending time together chatting over a good lunch. We are looking for small groups of friends, such as a family or two, a Hebrew school class, a B'nei Mitzvah student to consider preparing or sponsoring ($100 donation) a lunch in honor or memory of someone or just for the fun of it, for between 15 - 20 seniors. This is an easy and wonderfully rewarding mitzvah opportunity. For more information please contact Michele Pas at mjbpas@aol.com or 493-3175.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
LIBRARY DEBUTS NEW WEBSITE ON SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY

A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life went live at the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries October 17th (http://www.lib.unc.edu/apop).
It chronicles the story of Jewish settlers in the South and their descendants, from the late 1600's through the 21st century. The site includes portraits, maps, historical documents, ritual books and objects, photos, and oral histories. The accompanying text provides context and explanation. The library's web team, advised by the North Carolina Collection Gallery, programmed the site, which is based on a traveling exhibit developed by the College of Charleston.

Help Wanted:

Jewish Family Services in Greensboro, NC is seeking a part-time, 20 hour a week, social worker to perform the full range of social work/case management services for our adult and senior populations. Masters in Social Work and NC Clinical Social Work license preferred. Responsibilities include case management, counseling, information and referral, advocacy, and community work. Strong knowledge base of Jewish values and traditions. E-mail bgamburg@shalomgreensboro.org for a full job description. Please send resumes to that address.

The Inter-Faith Council food pantry is in urgent need of non-perishable food: for a complete list of what they need most please visit: http://www.ifcweb.org/foodneeds.html

Please help them collect the following items for their pantry shelves.

Ramen Noodles
Can fruit
Macaroni and Cheese
Canned pasta
Can pinto beans
Dry beans (pinto, black and lentil)

For some kids, childhood means soccer games and family picnics. For others, it means abuse, neglect, and a life of hurt. But, you can help by being a powerful voice in their lives. Volunteer as a court appointed Guardian ad Litem and change a life of hurt into one of hope.
For more information or to volunteer, contact Stephanie Kelly at 564-7289 or stephanie.l.Kelly@nccourts.org

In addition to providing timely deliveries, they are donating 5% of their sales to Beth El. For more information, see http://www.grillerspride.com

Kosher Co-op Delivering to Raleigh: You can Register with the Kosher Co-op at www.kckoshercoop.com. It is free to register and you will be kept informed about ordering deadlines, specials, etc. Additionally there is NO delivery fee. All items are delivered for pick up to Shaarei Israel Synagogue in Raleigh at 7400 Falls of The Neuse Road, 919-847-8986. The next order deadline is February 23rd and is the Pesach Order. The Co-op will be donating the net proceeds for the benefit of the Jewish Academy of Wake County. The Pesach products will be updated on February 2nd. The meats that are currently listed are all kosher for Passover. For the next order only, Jeff Rosner will make an attempt to help people split products. If anyone is interested in splitting a product, please email him at rosnerlawfirm@earthlink.net.

Kosher. com will donate 5% of sales through Beth El to our Synagogue. Just use this link or give the code TR=99. They ship groceries, wine, kitchenware, gift baskets, Israeli products, fish, beef, lamb, poultry, baked goods, travel meals and more. http://www.kosher.com/?Tr=99 Phone - 1-866-KOSHER-X (1-866-567-4379) Fax - 1-866-456-8877

B’nai B’rith Radio presents Studio J -- the first-ever nationwide Jewish news and feature radio magazine. Broadcast each week from B’nai B’rith headquarters, Studio J offers a livelier, Jewish version of National Public Radio’s acclaimed show “All Things Considered.”

Studio J reveals, in-depth, the feature stories behind the weekly headlines, and covers the culture, music, arts, and entertainment events of world Jewry.

Sundays
3-4 pm EDT (noon–1 pm Pacific)
SIRIUS satellite radio Channel 115
and
24/7 at www.bnaibrith.org.

Studio J is a co-production of B’nai B’rith International and JTA – the global news service of the Jewish people.

2009-2010 Uhlman Family Seminar

Being Jewish in the Modern World
March 4-5, 2010

Identities are not stable, but are constructed, in constant negotiation and flux. The changing nature of identities will be the subject of this Humanities seminar on Jewish identity in the modern period. Our speakers will explore Jewish identity in Eastern and Central Europe, in the American South and in the Middle East, moving from the eighteenth century up to the present. Art, literature, history, and culture will be the focus of our discussion as we explore Jewish identities then and now.

Speakers:

Literature, Art and the Invention of the Ghetto: German Jewry's Romance with the Jewish Past
Jonathan Hess, Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Distinguished Term Professor of Jewish History and Culture and Director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies

A Storyteller's Worlds: The Education of Shlomo Noble in Europe and America
Jonathan Boyarin, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought

From Dixie Diaspora to Kosher Krogers: A Look at the Evolving Jewish South Marcie Cohen Ferris, Associate Professor, American Studies

Mizrahi Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
Yaron Shemer, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Levine-Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies

The seminar concludes with a panel discussion with all the speakers.

Schedule and Registration Fee: 4:30 Thursday, March 4, through 1:00 p.m. Friday, March 5, 2010. The
tuition is $125 ($110 by January 5). Tuition for teachers is $62.50 ($55
by January 5). 10 contact hours for 1 unit of renewal credit. The
optional dinner on Thursday evening is $20.00.

To register: http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2010_Spring/6-JewishIdentity.htm

The seminar is offered by the Program in Humanities and Human Values and is made possible by a grant from the Uhlman Family Fund.

Hebrew Printing and Jewish Knowledge in 18th Century Germany
Monday, March 22, 2010
Academic Lecture: 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
Dirk Sadowskid, Dubnow Institut, University of Leipzig, Germany

Film Screening: The People v. Leo Frank
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South
Monday, April 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m. William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education BEN LOETERMAN, writer and director, will screen his new film which recounts the 1913 legal case of a Jewish pencil factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of murdering one of his employees. Co-sponsored by Center for the Study of the American South.

Jewish Family Services - Chaverim

“Chaverim” means “friends” in Hebrew. The Chaverim program is an opportunity to learn, meet new people and schmooze. You can make new friends and connect with old ones.
Held weekly. Contact the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation for details. http://www.shalomdch.org/page.aspx?ID=125169

Triangle Seminar for Jewish Studies Lecture Series
At the National Humanities Center in RTP

Spring, 2010
ASPECTS OF JEWISH HISTORY & POLITICS

Monday, February 22, SHEVA ZUCKER- Jews of Birobidzhan, ‘Stalin’s Forgotten Zion’, Executive Director of the League for Yiddish. Yiddish scholar Sheva Zucker taught at the First Birobidzhan International Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Culture. Birobidzhan is the Jewish Autonomous Region, sparsely populated, about 5,000 miles east of Moscow. Sheva will share her experiences and report on Jewish life today in ‘Stalin's Forgotten Zion’.

Monday, March 15, JOY JAVITS - daughter of the late United States Senator Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.). She has her own business, 'In the Public Eye', and will speak about the long career and many accomplishments of her father. He was a lawyer, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, New York State Attorney General, and then U.S. Senator from New York. He had many humanitarian interests and was involved in issues relating to Israel.

Monday, April 26, DAVID SCHANZER - "Israel & the United States: The Challenge of Democracies Combating Terrorism", Associate Professor of the Practice, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke Univ. This talk explores issues of terrorism which currently face Israel and the United States. How our countries handle this threat will occupy political & international discussion, decisions, and policy for many years.

Lectures will be on Monday nights, 7:30-9:30 p.m., at the National Humanities Center in RTP off Alexander Drive. For updates see: www.rcjf.org/calendar or www.shalomdch.org/calendar

Series Fee: $20, (students, $5). Contact: Ronni Marblestone, Ed.D., Chair, 848-3752, Bernie Most 493-1288

DIRECTIONS From Raleigh : I-40 West to Exit 279B. Take the Durham Expressway north to Exit 7 and turn left on Alexander Drive. Pass over the Freeway and turn left at the GlaxoSmithKline / National Humanities Center traffic light. Go to end of road to big white building.

From Chapel Hill: I-40 East to Exit 279B. Take the Durham Expressway north to Exit 7. Turn left on Alexander Drive and cross over the Freeway and turn left at GlaxoSmithKlein / National Humanities traffic light. Continue up the hill.

From Durham : Durham Expressway South to Exit 7. Turn right on Alexander Drive and turn left at next traffic light, and continue as above.

For updates see: www.rcjf.org/calendar or www.shalomdch.org/calendar

In addition to their generous gift of $250,000 to the PJC for the creation of the new Levin Jewish Community Center, Bob and Laura Gutman also established The Israel Center Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Durham-Chapel Hill. The purpose of the fund is to support programs and staffing of the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Community Center - Israel Center.

You can help these goals to become a reality by contributing to the Israel Center Fund. Mail your donation to:

The Israel Center Fund
The Jewish Community Foundation
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation
3622 Lyckan Parkway, Suite 6002
Durham, NC 27707

For more information on The Israel Center Fund, contact Planned Giving Director Judith "Sam" Norton at (919) 489-5335 ext. 17 or at sam@shalomdch.org.

"The Museum periodically refreshes all of our galleries in order to introduce new thinking in how we display and interpret the art," said Museum Director Lawrence Wheeler. "With the Judaic Art Gallery, we also wanted to show off the many new objects acquired in the past three years."

*One of the most spectacular new objects is a large silver and gilt Torah Case made in China for a community of Baghdadi Jews in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. Baghdadi Jews immigrated to South Asia from Iraq and Persia in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and became great merchants and traders with business interests from Lebanon, China, and Japan. In Sephardic and Eastern Jewish communities, the Torah scroll is housed in a decorative case. According to the dedicatory inscription, it was commissioned by a rabbi in 1887 as a memorial to his wife. The case is that it is one of a very small group of Jewish ceremonial objects known to have been made by Chinese artisans. The case was originally placed in the Magen David Synagogue in Mumbai and was later transferred to a Baghdadi synagogue in Israel. The Museum purchased in June it with funds provided by the Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery.

"This case is an exceptionally powerful work of art, both aesthetically and historically" explained John Coffey, deputy director for art. "It is the ultimate Diaspora object."

*The Museum recently acquired other ceremonial objects related to the Torah. The oldest is a rare late 18th century silver Torah Shield from Hamburg, Germany. In Central and Eastern European Jewish communities, a decorative shield, sometimes called a breastplate, is traditionally hung from the staves of a draped Torah scroll. This elegant Torah Shield is the first piece of German silver to enter the collection. It features an imperial crown, symbolic of the majesty of the Divine Law, and the twin columns Joachim and Boaz that once flanked the Temple in Jerusalem.

*Not all of the objects in the Judaic Art Gallery are old. One of the most striking objects in the gallery is a modernist Torah Crown by Israeli artist Moshe Zabari. Inspired by the space race and Sputnik, it consists of meandering loops of forged silver like the sky traces of jets or rockets. Pearls, like stars or planets, dangle in the voids. To complement this "cosmic crown", the Museum commissioned Zabari to design and make a Torah Shield and Yad(pointer). Funding for the commission was provided by Gale and Steve Sons of Raleigh.

*Other important additions to the collection are gifts from Greensboro, North Carolina families. One is an imposing tower-shaped spice container used in the Havdalah ceremony at the close of Shabbat. Unusually tall and finely crafted of silver filigree, this spice container is exemplary of the ceremonial objects produced for the Jewish communities in Galicia, a province of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Shavitz. Smaller but no less exquisite is a spice container from the Jerusalem's famed Bezalel Workshop, the first modern design school for Jewish ritual art. The family of Albert Jacobson donated the container.

The Museum also acquired an important Hanukkiah (Hanukkah menorah), made in Warsaw, Poland in 1854. Like most finely crafted Judaica, the lamp was made by a non-Jewish silversmith for an affluent urban Jewish family. Adopting the traditional "bench-type" of hanukkiah for the home, this lamp is handsomely decorated with a basket brimming with fruits and flowers---a wish for abundance and prosperity. The lamp is the gift of Zelda Bernard.

*Grander in scale is the Standing Hanukkah Lamp, one of the masterpieces of Ze'ev Raban, the foremost designer at the early Bezalel Workshop. Raban and other Bezalel artists created a self-consciously"Hebrew Style," rooted in the romantic belief that the artistic traditions of the Islamic and local Jewish communities were closest to the forms and styles of art of the ancient Hebrews. The lamp takes the form of the Menorah, the seven-branched lamp stand of the ancient Jewish Temple. However, two additional branches have been added to allow for the required eight candles plus the central server candle. The lamp was purchased in Israel, partly with funds provided by Stanley Fox and JoAnn Pizer-Fox of Oxford and Raleigh.

"More than an astonishing work of art, this lamp beautifully summarizes Jewish history and aspiration in the early 20th century," said Coffey.

All of the recent acquisitions were made possible through the work of the Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery, a volunteer support group affiliated with the Museum.

"None of these magnificent new objects would have been possible without the commitment and support of the Friends of the Judaic Art Gallery," said Wheeler. "We owe this group and its many donors a loud round of applause."

The Judaic Art Gallery, founded by Dr. Abram Kanof, displays the ceremonial art of the Jewish people. The ritual objects, often made of precious metals and embellished with great artistry, beautify the ceremonies that define Jewish life and worship. Visitors may tour the gallery during Museum hours or arrange for a guided tour with one of the Museum's trained docents. Guided tours should be scheduled at least three weeks in advance by calling (919) 664-6748.

CLASP, a Caregiver Support Program of Jewish Family Services and Judea Reform Congregation

Jewish Bereavement:
Grieving Jewishly and the Meaning of Our Rituals

Topics include: grief work; mitzvah of visiting the bereaved; and maintaining your mental health while being a caregiver for your loved one.

Amy Silverman Berkowitz currently works at Neighborhood Hospice, a 20 bed inpatient Hospice and Palliative Care Unit in West Chester, PA. Amy also works part-time as Charge Nurse at Martins Run, a Jewish Life Care Community in Media, PA. Most importantly, Amy is the proud mother of Rabbi Leah Rachel Berkowitz.

To R.S.V.P. please contact Lisa Goldstein, RN, BSN, MPH @ 489-5335 or clasp@shalomdch.org

This program is provided by CLASP/Jewish Family Services and Judea Reform Congregation.

This is a course to help family members decide when and how individuals with dementia should limit or stop driving. It would also be helpful for anyone struggling with questions about whether or not any elderly relative is safe to drive. “At the Crossroads” offers practical suggestions for monitoring, limiting and stopping driving. This course is offered in three two-hour sessions, with a total of nine lessons.

Thursday, April 15, Session II: Building Family Cooperation and Communication

For more information or to register contact Lisa Goldstein at 919-489-5335 or lisa@shalomdch.org

This program is sponsored by CLASP, a Caregiver Support Program of Jewish Family Services

Yom Hashoah:
Holocaust Memorial Commemoration
Sunday, April 11, 2010
"Starting Over and Over: A Dislocated Childhood"

The annual Durham-Chapel Hill Yom HaShoah service and commemoration will take place on Sunday, April 11th, 6:30 pm at Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd, Durham. This program is co-sponsored by Beth El and other area synagogues, Generation to Generation: Triangle Area Sons and Daughters of Holocaust Survivors and the Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation.

The program this year will feature the personal story of James Muller. James Muller was born in Karlsruhe, Germany here he recalls, as a boy, the harassment in the streets by children in the Hitler Youth. After his family moved to Frankfurt in 1938, his father was arrested in the middle of the night and taken to Buchenwald. When his father was released about a month later, the family escaped into Switzerland where they spent over 2 years in limbo, trying to find a country to take them. The family eventually got a visa for the USA in 1941. James' father, who had been a professor of languages in Germany, became a poultry farmer in southern New Jersey. But he was not able to help James' uncle Leopold, who could not get out of Germany. April 1942, Leopold was deported by the Nazis to the Lublin district and there was murdered. James Muller's son, Eric, lives in Chapel Hill with his family.

Music will be provided by the Triangle Jewish Chorale. Local high-school students, winners of the Federation sponsored Holocaust essay contest, will be recognized at the event.

For more information, please contact Sheva Zucker at
(919) 286-3628, sczucker@aol.com

April 28th, Wed., The Magnolia Klezmer Quartet (part of MK Big Band) will again perform at the Irregardless Cafe, 901 W. Morgan St. Raleigh, NC 6:30-9:30pm. Eat, drink, listen, enjoy!

May 7th , Thur., The Magnolia Klezmer Band will play a concert after a reading and signing of Leonard Rogoff's new book, "Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina", at the new Flyleaf Books, 752 MLK Blvd., Chapel Hill, NC 7-9:30pm. Free.

EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Spring, 2010 ASPECTS OF JEWISH HISTORY & POLITICS

Jewish Bereavement: Grieving Jewishly and the Meaning of Our Rituals

EVENTS &
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Spring, 2010
ASPECTS OF JEWISH HISTORY & POLITICS

Jewish Bereavement:
Grieving Jewishly and the Meaning of Our Rituals