Masorti Olami November Tribute Dinner
Masorti Olami is proud to announce its forthcoming Evening of Tribute on November 29, 2005 (27 Heshvan 5766) at the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Several outstanding humanitarians will be honored at this event:
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Rabbi William H. Lebeau,exemplary congregational rabbi for several decades, Dean of the Rabbinical School and Vice Chancellor of The Jewish Theological Seminary. Under his leadership, the JTS Rabbinical School has flourished with students and recent graduates hailing from throughout the U.S. and a dozen other countries. Rabbi Lebeau will be the 2005 recipient of the Rabbi Mordecai D. Waxman Memorial Rabbinic Leadership Award.
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Abby and Jon Winkelried are philanthropic and communal leaders in their home community of Short Hills, NJ, as well as in New York City and in South America. In Argentina, the Winkelrieds have dedicated "Camp Elise," the network of Ramah summer camps named in honor of Abby's mother, Elise Lipsey. Jon Winkelried is on the Management Committee and is a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs. Abby and Jon are the 2005 recipients of the Sherut L'am ("service to the people") Ambassador Service Award.
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Radka and Jacob Labenz have served with extraordinary skill and dedication for the Masorti Movement's organizations in Prague and Czech Republic. Jacob dedicated a year as a volunteer in Prague on behalf of Chayl Masorti ("Masorti Peace Corps). Radka was the co-founder of the Czech Masorti Jewish Community and founder of Marom (Masorti Young Adults) in Czech Republic. Radka and Jacob are the 2005 recipients of the Simon Schwartz Memorial Young Leadership Award. |
Ms. Janet Tobin is Chairperson of the event. We invite you to join with us to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our honorees and to support the crucial agenda of Masorti Olami—the World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues. A commemorative journal will be published for this event.
For more information, please contact our New York office:
worldcouncil@masortiworld.org or call 212-678-5319.
To reserve an ad for the journal, click here for the subscription form.
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Servicing our Congregations for the Yamim Noraim
(High Holidays)
Thanks to funding from the World Zionist Organization’s Pluralistic Religious Services budget, Masorti Olami was able to send rabbis, rabbinical students and educated leaders to teach and lead services for the High Holidays in a number of our communities without a rabbi.
Members of Kehillat "Marom" in Moscow prepare for the holidays
Rabbi Daniel Goldfarb spent the holidays in Shalom Independent Congregation in Johannesburg, South Africa; Rabbi Carlos Tapiero traveled to Alicante, Spain; Schechter Rabbinical Seminary student Jean-Claude Suder returned to Adath Shalom Est in Paris where he did a five month internship earlier this year; Marik Stern, a seasoned Israeli NOAM and Camp Ramah NOAM staff member, worked with the young adults in Kehillat “Marom” in Moscow; Roman Stamov, an experienced staff member of Camp Ramah Yachad, Ukraine, and a new immigrant to Israel, returned to Ukraine to lead preparations sessions for the holidays with members of five communities. In addition, Rabbi Jules Harlow and his wife, Navah, traveled to Lisbon in September to teach and guide a new community who would like to affiliate with Masorti Olami.
We are grateful to the WZO for their support and thank all our shlichim for their wonderful work.
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Report on DPI Video on 60th Anniversary of Founding
of United Nations
By Gloria Landy
Gloria Landy and co-chair Judy Horowitz provide outstanding leadership for the World Council of Conservative/Masorti Synagogues as our representatives of an NGO (non-governmental organization) in the United Nations. We thank them for their important contribution.
| Dear Friends,The Department of Public Information (DPI) has produced a video on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations which will run continuously in the Visitors Center Lobby of the UN. The video is seven minutes long and was produced by Susan Farkas, Chief of the Radio and Television Service of the United Nations and other members of the Department of Public Information. I, among others, was invited to view the video by Deputy General Shaashi Tharoor and to comment on it. |
(left to right) Judy Horowitz, Ambassador from Nigeria, Gloria Landy |
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The main point about the seven minute video on this, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, is that it makes clear that the violence and murder that was perpetrated against the Jews was undeniably factual and was genocide. The film features a short view of Mr. Lamkin and notes that he originated the term "genocide" to describe the end goal of the Nazis towards the Jewish people.
In the video, when film clips were shown about the move to the New York headquarters of the UN, following its original founding in San Francisco, mention was made of the new nations that joined, and the flag of the new State of Israel is prominently displayed.
Another clip shows President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration following the end of World War II that a new way had to be found towards justice, equality, human freedom and human rights. The murder of gypsies, homosexuals, and others is prominently referenced as is the depiction of the Jews being hounded, the deprivation of their autonomy and being herded to the death camps. Roundups and beatings, though briefly depicted, are included. One needs to watch more than once to catch all the visuals and to become aware of the underlying subtext.
Assets of the film, in my opinion, are the non-depictions of Hitler and instead the use of the Nazi symbol, as well as an inclusion of Mussolini which truly captures in less than a few seconds the baseness of his extreme egomania.
Having witnessed this film in two consecutive showings, my conclusion is that it has made me proud to be connected to the United Nations.
Best regards,
Gloria Landy
Main NGO Representative, World Council of Conservative / Masorti Synagogues.
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