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added. The growing pride the Maoris
have taken in their own culture and his-
tory is fortifying a similar pride among
the Jews of New Zealand. They are
sending their children to Kadimah and
to the Moriah day school in Wellington
in greater numbers. With the influx of
immigrants from South Africa, there are
both more children in the school and
more members in the congregation,
which currently has about 300 families.
A visit to Kadimah should be high
on the agenda of every Jewish traveler
in Auckland. We saw the bright, eager
faces of children, in classrooms vibrant
with Israeli posters, Hebrew letters on
the blackboards, easels laden with hand-
made drawings about the coming
Waitangi Day. And the adjoining syna-
gogue is worth seeing at any time,
either for Shabbat services or in the
course of general sightseeing. The build-
ing design won a national award for
architect John Goldwater, a member of
the congregation and a relative of the
far-distant Goldwaters of Arizona.
If Kadimah is a major focus for
Jewish identity, it is also a bridge
between Auckland's two Jewish congre-
gations: the Orthodox and the Reform,
Beth Shalom. Whatever their ideologi-
cal differences, often irreconcilable,
members of the two congregations cross
denominational lines in sending their
children to Kadimah.
A visit to Beth Shalom was the next
stop on our city tour. I had been in the
modest building some 15 years ago,
when young Paula Winnig, one of a
series of American student rabbis, had
presided over spiritual affairs. The
building has since been substantially
enlarged, and Paul Marks, president of
the congregation of 250 families, said
that its continued growth was such that
it could no longer function properly
with part-time rabbis The congregation
needs a frill-time spiritUal leader who
can make a commitment of at least a
fixed period of years.
With limited funds, Beth Shalom
must choose between replacing a worn-
out Torah and hiring a full-time rabbi.
The difficulty is compounded, Marks
told us, by "the major economic diffi-
culties in Asia, their negative impact on
the value of the New Zealand dollar
and by the competition for rabbis, with
other small congregations throughout
the world."
Beyond the places of specific Jewish
interest — the school, the two syna-
gogues, an excellent old people's home,
a historic cemetery — cosmopolitan
Auckland has much to offer: Since my
last visit it has become a world-class city

' n ewish Heritage Week celebrates the significant contributions Jewish people have
made to American history, culture and society.

Help our community's children realize that we all have the potential to be Jewish
heroes by encoura ging them to identify a Jewish hero in their lives.

Guidelines:

• Open to children of hu grades
• Submit a short paragraph Ilaming your Jewish hero and explaining why you consider
him/her

to be a hero (ie. the impact he/she has made on your life, the values and attributes which
this person lives by)

• The Jewish hero can be someone that you ktlqw personally (parent, grandparent, teacher,
etc.) or someone, past or present, that you tiave learned about (Albert Einstein, Golda Meir,
Steven Spielberg, etc.)
• Include phone no. and photo of hero (if hero is from one's own life)
• Submission deadline April 30, 1998

First Prize : $50 Borders Gift Certificate
(2) Runners up: Jewish Sports Hall of Fame book

Winners will be picked at random. Winning entries will run in The AppleTree May 15, 1998

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