Spice Box
ALMOG, AHARON
SPICE BOX Fiddler on the Igloo "Ride 3 dog sled with a lifetime member of Hadassah." "Buy all your Alaskan tchatchkes wholesale." "Tour a genuine fur factory and get the buy of a lifetime from a...
...The raffle just kind of snowballed," said congregation secretary Sue Bowden, Publicity for the raffle consisted of a press release and appeals to congregants to sell tickets to everyone they know outside Alaska...
...Rabbi Harry Rosenfeld called the two shul members who came up with the idea "marketing geniuses...
...The surprised and happy winners were Sam and Goldie Dellsy of Highland Park, Illinois...
...At left is part of the real Cherokee alphabet The small, script letters give the pronunciation of each Cherokee letter...
...Join a Jewish family for Shabbat dinner north of the Arctic Circla" Enterprising members of Congregation Beth Shalom of Anchorage, Alaska, came up with a creative fundraising scheme to help them build a new shul: raffle off a customized Jewish trip to Alaska, for $10 a chance...
...the winners would get accommodations and $1,000 spending money...
...Rabbi Rosenfeld said the shul is "giving serious consideration" to running another raffle next year...
...A copy writer at the newspaper explained that the artist who put this ad together thought he had the Cherokee alphabet to illustrate his work but instead used a random collection of Hebrew letters in a decalogue-shaped frame...
...Goldie is a past Hadassah president who serves on Hadassah's national board...
...Sam is a semi-retired auto dealer...
...WIN ONE OF FIVE $100 PRIZES OR A TRIP TO THE BAHAMAS Totem Torah Looks like Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman got its tribes mixed up, suggests Linda J. Gore of Oklahoma, who sent us this ad...
...The surprised and happy congregation netted a cool $60,000 from the sale of 6,800 tickets...
...The alphabet was supplied to us by Frankie Welch, an artist of Cherokee descent who has used the alphabet as a design for scarves and decorator fabrics...
...Sam loves to fish and that's what he's looking forward to most," Goidie tofd moment, adding that they considered extending the 10-day trip themselves so they could see more highlights of Alaska, but were surprised to learn that everything they wanted to see was already on Beth Sholom's itinerary...
...Will the reader who brought this gem to our attention please come forward and be recognized...
...The money enabled the congregation to meet its fundraising goals for many parts of the new building...
...Tour a genuine fur factory and get the buy of a lifetime from a Jewish furrier...
Vol. 13 • October 1988 • No. 7
