Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1996 Page: 6 of 24
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TEXAS JEWISH POST, DALLAS, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1996 ■ IN OUR SOTH YEAR!
Dallas President-Elect B nai B \rith District 7
Envisions Future of Fellowship and Harmony
of his leadership as Vice birthday of his son David. brokers ever hired in the in-
Jess Jawin
Mark Gardner
Mark Gardner of Bear
Stems, one of the youngest
brokers ever hired in the
industry, has been elected
to use his skills for the old-
est and largest Jewish orga-
ni/.ation in the world. As
president-elect. Mark will
be guiding B'nai B'nth Dis-
trict 7 through a time of
change and growth. The
District currently covers 7
states in the Southwest re-
gion, including Texas and
Oklahoma.
"Mark won the position
of president-elect because
President of District 7 and
his achievements as past
president of the Dallas’ Col.
Jonathon Netanyahu
Lodge,” says international
VP Herbie Bcrkowitz of
Fort Worth The Netanyahu
Lodge was named for the
Jewish hero who died in
action leading the spectac-
ular 1976 Israeli raid on En-
tebbe. He was also the
brother of Benjamin Net-
anyahu, the new Prime Min-
ister of Israel.
Under Gardner’s guid-
ance, the Netanyahu Lodge
received District 7’s Lodge
of the Year Award and Mark
was honored with the Cita-
tion of Service for “out-
standing performance in ad-
vancing the purpose and
ideals of B’nai B’rith and
its programs of service to
mankind'*. Mark remem-
bers the exact day, it was on
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Mark and his Israeli wife,
Sarah, have been mamed 18
years. Their household is
strictly Kosher and David
zealously serves as the Ko-
sher police. Sarah and David
speak Hebrew and the family
observes Jewish religious and
cultural activities Mark is a
lifetime member of the Zion-
ist Organization of America.
At Bellaire High School
in Houston, Mark was run-
ner-up for “Most Likely to
Succeed " He graduated col-
lege after only three years,
attending Cleveland Stale
University on athletic and
academic scholarships. He
graduated with double de-
grees in management and
mar- keting.
After first working in com-
modity futures on the ex-
change floor in Chicago,
Mark went to Merrill Lynch
in Houston. At the age of 21,
he was one of the youngest
dustry. By 1986, Mark was
at Bear Sterns in Dallas
where he is now an associate
director.
With a nickname of "The
Bear" for his tenacious atti-
tude and fierce belief in help-
ing others, Mark manages
high net worth individuals,
pension funds and institu-
tional businesses including
one of the top 100 banks in
the world. At 46, he has a 25
year track record in the in-
vestment industry
Like those before him,
Mark Gardner, "The Bear",
is leading B'nai B'nth and
the community at large. As
part of his mission is to build
bndges through interactive
and interfaith activities, he
is creating a campaign to po-
sition B’nai B’nth as “The
Link" from generation, reli-
gion to religion, country to
country, those in need to
those who can help
development of the e
This is done in swift c
continued from page 1 with stealth enemies
to devour them.
Do we need better examples in our own domain?
how quickly the human spirit responds to disaster. H
canes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes and pestilenc
not stop the predicate of humanity from responding to
each other.
Then why we are fighting wars over real estate, I
routes or petrodollars?
Why do we allow our own nation to waste its time i
gridlock when with a calmer and cooperative purpose we
can solve many ills in society?
Case in point offering a lesson in paradox: Congress
the administration is arguing that they need six or seve
years to balance the budget. Tuesday’s announcemen:
confirmed that the budget deficit for this fiscal yearendi
September 30 will be about $116 billion.
With a concentrated effort we could eliminate this
deficit in 18 months without really harming the economy
or welfare of the nation. We could then aim our fncal
sights on the national debt which will be a scourge oi the
future of this beloved land if we do not reduce it quickly.
We could do these things as the world’s spotlight aid
oldest example of republicanism and democracy if we
reduced the bickering and concentrated on sound solu-
tions. Let’s start with having a Congress that targets the
goals and realizes that there are few enemies from outer
space. Let us concentrate on the foibles from within
That’s what independence day, which really is Interde-
pendence Day is all about!
By Rachel Tdegen
Boston Jewish Advocate
They began every morn-
ing with yoga exercises and
davemng, followed by pri-
vate prayer. Then came prac-
tice in outdoor skills like
backpacking and wilderness
navigation. They celebrated
Shavuot in the woods and
performed the mikvah ritual
in a river.
The 10 participants in a
three-week training course,
cosponsored by the Coali
A New, Greener Spirituality
tion on the Environment and
Jewish Life and North Caro-
lina Outward Bound, were
members of Jewish commu-
nities from across the US.,
three from the Boston area
The program was intended,
said Michal Smart, COEJL’s
director of education, “to
train a cadre of Jewish edu-
cators to facilitate safe pro-
grams of outdoor adventure
which effectively integrate
Jewish education and liv-
ing."
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“It was really just about
being together, about Jew-
ish living and the rhythms of
a Jewish lifestyle,” said pro-
gram participant Shoshana
Guggenheim, a local COE-
JL intern.
Guggenheim, a Cam-
bridge resident raised in
Charlotte, N.C., said the pro-
gram brought together peo-
ple raised in a variety of dif-
ferent environments, those
with both extensive and min-
imal Jewish education. “All
of those backgrounds came
together into one," she add-
ed. “It was really incredi-
ble.”
Guggenheim and Smart
point to texts from Genesis
to the Talmud to prove the
existence of an histone con-
cern with nature in Judaism.
Guggenheim said that cur-
rent Jewish environmental-
ists are “breathing new life
into what already stands as
tradition, and, I think, taking
them back to their onginal
sense, the relationship be-
tween Adam and Adama [the
earth] ”
COEJL, a six-year project
intended to promote envi-
ronmental education, advo-
cacy and action in the Amer-
ican Jewish community, was
created ,n 1992 as part of the
newly founded National Re-
ligious Parnership for the
Environment, an interfailh
umbrella organization com-
posed of Protestant, Catho-
lic, Evanglical and Jewish
groups.
Smart said COEJL is a
collaboration of 22 Jewish
institutions which examines
the Jewish connection to the
natural world and top ex-
plores ways to make envi-
ronmental issues an integral
part of Jewish life. The Jew-
ish Theological Seminary of
America, the National Jew-
ish Community Relations
Advisory Council and the
Religious Action Cneler of
Reform Judaism are among
the organizations which ac-
tively work with the umbrel-
la group.
The group, although based
in New York and working
with a small local staff, has
been active in the Greater
Boston area. Smart said that
the group now functions
mainly as a consultant, “to
help things happen in the
Jewish community.” COE-
JL has advised local congre-
gations and Hillels on incor-
porating environmental is-
sues into their liturgical and
communal life.
SPIRITUALITY p. 21
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