Westfield designer Devorah Wolf, with her son Avi, worked with Metuchen artist Janice Fried on the invitation for the Women’s Campaign Main Event, with its image of women uniting around the world.
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If you go...May 01, 2008
Like the artwork that serves as its logo, the annual gala dinner of the Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey’s Women’s Campaign will emphasize womanhood and global service.
The invitation for the Main Event, to be held May 14 at the Crystal Plaza in Livingston, features an illustration by Janice Fried of two women reaching out to each other. Between them is an image of the earth.
“Having the image of women joining hands around the globe seemed a perfect image for the philanthropic efforts of the women in this organization to raise money for various worldwide relief funds,” said the artist, who lives in Metuchen.
The image also thrilled organizers, including campaign director Felicia Korman, event cochairs Renee Krul of Elizabeth and Cathy Tabak of Westfield, and designer Devorah Wolf.
“The picture is meaningful to me in the ‘global’ sense of women here at home reaching out to women around the globe with a seamless connection and unity,” said Krul. “On a level ‘closer to home,’ it also represents the perpetual continuum of the individual persuasions and philosophies of the greater Jewish community that is represented in the Central federation, as we bond together for a common and unifying purpose.”
The evening itself has been designed to embody those themes. The keynote speaker is Alina Gerlovin Spaulding, director of communications for the American Hebrew Academy, the pluralistic, coeducational Jewish boarding school in Greensboro, NC.
Main Event invitation
She will describe how she and her family managed to get out of the former Soviet Union in 1979, after struggling to leave for years, thanks to the help of Jewish organizations around the world.
Korman said there will also be another speaker whose name would not be revealed in advance, a woman from Westfield who was also helped by the federation in a time of crisis.
“We wanted to show how across the world or right here in our backyard there are lives you have saved through your involvement with federation,” she said. “No matter where you are in the world, we’re there for one another.”
For the first time in the Main Event’s 20-year history, another kind of connection is also in play — between the generations. Korman said a number of women had talked about involving their daughters and granddaughters. To honor that impulse, this year young women between the ages of 13 and 21 have been invited to attend with their mothers or grandmothers.
The couvert for the event is $80, in addition to a minimum gift of $272 to the 2008 UJA-Federation Campaign. For the younger set, the couvert is just $40, and the campaign gift $18.
For women attending the Main Event for the first time, the couvert charge is being covered by the event benefactors, those who choose to pay double the regular fee.
For more information or reservations, call Korman at 908-889-5335, or visit the Federation web site.
If you go...
What: Main Event, hosted by the Women’s Campaign of the Jewish Federation of Central NJ
When: Wednesday, May 14. Cocktail reception, 6:30 p.m.; dinner and program, 7:30
Where: Crystal Plaza, Livingston
Keynote Speaker: Alina Gerlovin Spaulding
Honorees: Sylvia Seltzer, Woman of Valor Award; Joanie Schwarz Rosenthal, Rhoda Rosenbach Young Leadership Award
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