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islaers Lake Kinneret,

2001

Soon there won
any water left to part.

Touching bottom—the imminent death of Israel's major source of fresh, sweet water

Lake Kinneret, 1992

The people of Israel are watching their
most important source of fresh water die.
Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) is at
its lowest point in recorded history. It is a
tragic drama that gives renewed urgency
to Jewish National Fund's $250-million
initiative to rescue Israel from its
increasingly life-threatening water famine.

Unseen but not unharmed.

The nation's two other main fresh water resources, the mountain
and coastal aquifers deep below the surface, are at equally
precarious levels, contaminated by pollution and drained by years
of over-pumping to provide water for the population Israel has
worked so hard to attain.
Israel's worst drought in 100 years continues to ravage the land.
These conditions — and more — drive JNF to redouble its efforts
to assist the people of Israel.

Extreme water restrictions—

just a matter of time.

The meager winter rainfall did nothing to diminish Israel's
53-billion-gallon fresh water deficit, the difference between what
Israel needs to survive and what it gets. Farmers face catastrophic
water quota cuts of 70%. Tourism around the Kinneret is drying up

as fast as the lake itself. Painful prohibitions on water use in towns,
cities and businesses are just a matter of time.
"The situation is dire," says Amos Epstein of Mekorot, the
company managing Israel's water resources. "We have dipped
below all the redlines. We are in serious distress!'
Short of a meteorological miracle, the outlook for enough water
remains grim.

JNF: providing real hope for a real crisis.

Now comes real faith in the future. Jewish National Fund has
pledged to build 100 more reservoirs as part of a $250-million plan
to store over 53 billion gallons of water and extend the life of Israel's
remaining water resources.
-That's how passionate JNF is about harvesting and storing
enough water for Israel, developing water recycling techniques,
and restoring Israel's rivers and streams to their former purity and
beauty. But only with your participation can JNF fulfill its
commitment to help free Israel from the bonds of its water famine.
Will you join us with your generous contribution? Only then can
we live up to the "Together, We Can" promise we
have made to the people of Israel.

Please say' "Yes" to Israel's urgent need. For life,
for peace, for the land of Israel... just add water.
Thank you. — Ronald S. Lauder, JNF President

To learn more, call toll free 1.888.JNF.0099 or visit www.jnf.org

Yes, I'll help give the people of Israel the promise of water by donating to JNF today.

Please mail your tax-deductible contribution to: Jewish National Fund, Attn: Water Campaign Dept., 42 East 69th St., New York, NY 10021

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JTS Dean Speaks
At Patron Reception

Rabbi Allan Kensky will be the
featured speaker at the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
patron reception on Wednesday,
April 25, at Congregation Beth
Ahm.
Leaders of the Conservative
movement locally will receive the
Shin Award: Alfred and Lillian
Becker, Evelyn Kasle, Herbert W.
and Flora
Kaufman,
William and
Irene Schumer,
Marc Sussman
and Lynne
Avadenka.
Rabbi
Kensky is the
Rabbi Kensky
Pearl Resnick
Dean of the
Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbinical School and the Helen
Fried Kirshblum Goldstein
Professor of Practical Rabbinics.
Born and raised in New York
City, Rabbi Kensky, upon ordina-
tion in 1971, assumed the pulpit
of Beth Israel Congregation in
Ann Arbor. He pursued his doc-
toral studies in midrash at JTS
and earned a doctorate in 1990.
In 1988, Rabbi Kensky moved
to Philadelphia; for three years he
served as scholar-in-residence at
Har Zion Temple. He began lead-
ing a seminar for JTS rabbinical
students designed to impart
strong professional skills to aid
them in their spiritual develop-
ment. He was associate dean of
the rabbinical school from 1991-
1999.
Also at the patron reception,
two JTS cantorial students,
Sharon Bernstein and Daniel
Najman, will be highlighted in a
program of cantorial and Yiddish
music.
Money raised at the patron
reception and the JTS dinner on
June 7 help provide financial
assistance and support to 1,000
students enrolled in five different
schools at JTS.
JTS is the spiritual and acade-
mic center of the Conservative
movement. For reservations for
either the patron reception or gala
dinner, call the Detroit JTS

office, (248) 258 0055.

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