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Shades of Pink:
An Evening for Women, Wine and Wellness.
Not a bad way to spend an evening!
Celebrate women’s health with those you love! Pacifi cSource Health Plans
and the United Way are joining forces to host “Shades of Pink: An Evening
for Women, Wine and Wellness.”
Learn the latest on women’s health,
nutrition and beauty, while sampling
local wines and products.
Shades of Pink
October 3, 2006
3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Valley River Inn
This is a free event, so invite all the special
women – and men – to join you!
Raffl e drawings for fun prizes!
12 SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
If some time in the past you felt inspired
by the musical Fiddler on the Roof in its
lighter moments and imagined joining the
cast in a song and dance number, this may
be your chance. For the first time ever, dur-
ing the high holidays of Rosh Hashanah
(Sept. 22-24) and Yom Kippur (Oct. 1-2),
Eugene is getting its own custom-made
Torah scroll. A celebratory procession will
begin at 5:30 pm Wednesday, Sept. 27, start-
ing from the UO Knight Library.
Music, chanting and torch fire will lead
the way in an investiture designed to be all
inclusive to the community at large. Why?
According to Rabbi Asi Spiegel, “Sure, the
Jews brought the Torah to the world, but
since then, millions of others have come to
believe and accept it. The street procession
represents a symbolic connection between
the message and wisdom of the Torah and
the daily life of Eugene.”
The original Torah set down by Moses
3,319 years ago became the first five books
of the Jewish Bible, adopted verbatim as the
Old Testament by Christians. So what’s the
big deal of a “made-to-order” Torah? The
answer is in the numbers.
A Torah scroll must be hand written on
kosher parchment by a specially trained
“Sofer” scribe. Before he can even begin,
he must learn more than 4,000 rules for this
sanctified task. Then comes the hard part.
There are 304,805 letters (each representing
a word, partial word or phrase) that must be
inscribed without error to duplicate the first
Torah that ever was. If only one letter is
missing, wrongly written, spaced inexactly,
or touching another letter, the whole Torah
becomes invalid and the scribe must make
corrections in a prescribed manner.
“I know it sounds harsh,” Rabbi Spiegel
said, “but 99.999 percent kosher equals 100
percent not kosher.”
Naturally this carries a heavy price, and
donations are being accepted via
www.chabadofeugene.org or by calling
Chabad House at 484-7665.
With all this at stake, the final letters of
the Eugene Torah will be inscribed some-
time between 4 and 5:30 pm in the Knight
Library Browsing Room. Hold your breath.
— Joseph A. Lieberman
WALK-BIKE
SUMMIT
Why are there so many fewer children
walking or riding their bikes to school today
than in the past? This topic was addressed
for the second year in a row at the Oregon
Planning Institute held in Eugene last week-
end, with planners from all over the state
looking at how to implement federal legis-
lation regarding getting kids to school and
home safely, without cars.
The topic of safe routes to school is com-
ing up again on the agenda of the free
Eugene Walking and Biking Summit
planned for Oct. 7 on the UO campus. Also
on the agenda are: a new pedestrian and bi-
cycle strategy planning process for the city,
making Eugene an even better place for bi-
cycling and walking, sharing the road is-
sues, Eugene’s bicycle and bike accessories
industry, bicycle tourism and innovative
pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
The summit runs from 8:30 am to 1 pm
Oct. 7 at the Erb Memorial Union on campus.
Registation
is
encouraged
at
www.eugene-or.gov/walkbike or by calling
346-3889.
CORRECTIONS/
CLARIFICATIONS
The EW cover story “Doomed to
Demo,” Aug. 17 incorrectly added $50 mil-
lion to city consultant’s estimated cost of a
new City Hall by including operations and
maintenance costs. The new City Hall is
now estimated to cost up to $135 million.
But that figure does not include construc-
tion inflation or borrowing costs, which
could push the final cost to taxpayers above
$200 million.