Vol. LXXXII
No. 40
Omaha, NE
6 Sivan, 5763
June 6, 2003
SPECIAL FATHER’S DAY/GRADUATION GIFT GUIDE STARTS ON PAGE 14
Looking Beyond the Summit: Optimists and Skeptics Abound by LESLIE SUSSER JERUSALEM (JTA)--A double dose of optimism and skepticism led up to this week’s summit at the Red Sea resort of Aqaba, but what really matters is what comes next. Hardened by past failures, Israelis and Palestinians alike recognize that there is still a long way to go, and a lot that could still go wrong after President Bush meets with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas. There are, for example, still dozens of warnings of planned terrorist attacks, and a new round of suicide bombings could quickly derail a reactivated peace process. And even if the parties are able to make the first moves Bush is asking of them, they will encounter major problems down the road: Will they be able to agree on the final size of the Palestinian state, on the extent of its sovereignty, on Jerusalem and the refugee question? And what about the rejectionists on both sides? Will the Palestinians have the power to collect illegal weapons held by Hamas and Islamic Jihad? Will Israel be able to dismantle settlements? In other words, can Abbas face down the fundamentalists and can Sharon deal with the settlers? One far-right Israeli Cabinet minister, Avigdor Lieberman of Yisrael Beiteinu, warns that “any attempt to dismantle settlements will lead to civil war.”
As a goodwill gesture for the Aqaba summit on Wednesday, Israel opened up the borders between the Palestinian territory and Israel to allow Palestinian workers to work inside Photo by ISRANET. Israel. Despite all the questions, there was a fresh breath of optimism in the air this week. Israeli generals are talking about the end of the nearly three-yearlong Palestinian uprising. Palestinians are delighted by Sharon’s unprecedented use of the term “occupation”--and are looking forward to the occupation’s end. And most importantly, both sides have been sobered by what they see as the American administration’s newfound determination to put an end to the long conflict between them. Indicative of the new mood, the Israeli stock market, sluggish during the intifada years, has been skyrocketing. The Aqaba summit, designed to kick-start a new peace process, is first and foremost a statement about the degree of American commitment. Bush, who had carefully kept his distance from the treacherous Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is now making clear that he intends to play an active role and to exert heavy pressure wherever necessary. On Monday, Bush vowed to “put in as much time as necessary” to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace. Bush made his comments in France before leaving for the Middle East, where he attended a summit in Egypt with Arab leaders on Tuesday and (Continued on page 6)
Federation to Honor Friedman Family with ‘Humanitarian of the Year’ Award by PAM MONSKY, Federation Communications Director Roz Friedman sums up The Friedman’s believe her family’s philanthropic in helping others, and philosophy simply. “We’re they are involved in a motivated by things that broad spectrum of civic, are meaningful to us. communal, humanitarian, We’re drawn to projects religious and educational that hit us in the heart.” endeavors. Among the Fortunately, the Omaha many community activiJewish community has ties supported by the moved the Friedman famFriedman family through ily through meaningful their foundation are the projects and we’ve benefitSiena-Francis House, ed tremendously from National Conference of their generosity. Roz Community Justice Friedman and the (NCCJ), State of Israel Friedman family are one Bonds, AK-SAR-BEN of the Omaha Jewish comBoard of Governors, UNO munity’s most generous and the Ike Friedman and enthusiastic supportCommunity Health Plaza. ers. The Friedman family Their support of the not only supports Jewish Federation includes an causes, they fund museunrestricted endowment ums, art and cultural profund and they continue to grams, higher education lead the Annual and health and human Campaign. Roz Friedman services organizations. Susie Cohn described Because of their outstanding dedication to the how they decide which organizations and programs Omaha community, Roz Friedman and the they will support. “We receive hundreds of requests Friedman family have been named Humanitarians for support a year and we eliminate the ones from out of the Year. They will be honored at the 100th of town. We tend to support organizations that are Annual Meeting of the Jewish Federation of Omaha unique. It often boils down to the people who run the on Monday, June 9, 7 p.m., at the Jewish organization…that they’re passionate about their Community Center. The Humanitarian of the Year cause. When we give, we want to be sure that our Award honors those who have performed an out- donation will really make a difference,” she said. standing service to humanity. The Friedman family After reading the “Project Dreidel” stories in the was nominated by the Jewish Federation. Jewish Press, Roz Friedman was so moved that she Ike and Roz Friedman have a long history of phi- started an endowment for Jewish Family Services lanthropy, dating back to when they couldn’t really to help the needy Jewish families in our communiafford it. Remembering those days, Roz’s daughter, ty. This and other generous acts are proof of Roz’s Susie Cohn, said, “I remember Grandma Friedman commitment to innovative and community wide walking to the hospital every Saturday with sweets projects in the Jewish community. Over the years, and goodies for the sick. We didn’t have much back the Friedman family foundation has always been then, but we didn’t know it.” (Continued on page 6)
New U.S. Point Man on ‘Road Map’ Charged with Monitoring Compliance by MATTHEW E. BERGER WASHINGTON (JTA -As Washington prepares to send an envoy to the Middle East, expectations about what he may achieve are low. John Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for nonproliferation, was expected to be named this week by the White House as the new envoy for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. John Wolf Sources say Wolf, who is Jewish, will not have the same negotiating responsibilities that other envoys, including Dennis Ross and Anthony Zinni, have had. Instead, Wolf will serve predominantly as the head of a monitoring group that will oversee implementation of the “road map,” the three-staged approach toward IsraeliPalestinian peace drawn up by the United States and its “Quartet” partners--the United Nations, European Union and Russia. Already, close to 10 CIA officials are on the ground in the Middle East, and Wolf is expected to oversee
their efforts to make sure both parties comply with the steps outlined in the road map. Among the initial steps are specific measures taken by the Palestinians to crack down on terrorism and by the Israelis to freeze settlement building and dismantle illegal settlement outposts erected since 2001. “They will be investigating charges on both sides, investigating hot spots and reporting on violent activities,” one State Department official said. While other recent U.S. envoys have shuttled back and forth to the region, Wolf and his team are expected to stay in the Middle East, most likely (Continued on page 11)
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by RABBI BARUCH HALEVI As a rabbi, wherever I go, people always have an assumption that I was either born into a rabbinic family, groomed for the rabbinate, or that I must have known from an early age I would be well suited for such a calling. For some strange reason, however, that is never an assumption made by my friends and family--most everyone reading this paper. On the contrary, not too many years ago, nobody, myself included, would have dreamed I would become a serious Jew, let alone a rabbi. In fact, the most frequent Omaha response I receive is that no one remembers me as active in Judaism, in USY, or in the synagogue--because I wasn’t. But, boy, do they remember my commitment to exercising, my discipline and physical transformation. And of course everyone wants to know how I went from seemingly one extreme, “the gym” to the other, “the shul”. In the end, however, I don’t see either pursuit to be all that different; in fact they go hand in hand. One of the reasons I so deeply loved, and still love, physical fitness is because it embodies a truth of nature and of life: transformation, of all types, is possible only through constant and determined effort. If someone wants to lose weight, become stronger, healthier, she can do so, to varying degrees, but only through sustained, continuous effort. She would need to create a training regimen, become disciplined, and eventually, in time, her commitment would translate into physical transformation. Why is it that we understand this in regard to “the gym” but not in regard to “the home” and our relationship with our spouse, for instance? We would never expect to transform the body if we only work out occasionally, but far too often this is exactly what we do, if not physically then emotionally, in one of our most sacred relationships, marriage. If we want passion in our marriages then we must work at being as intense and disciplined and committed as we would in our exercise regimen-and hopefully more so. The same is true with another important relationship in our lives, our relationship with God. Now that I am on the “inside” of our tradition, I understand the absurdity of this demand; it is no different than showing up to the gym a few times a year and feeling like nothing is happening. It’s not, it can’t-because transformation happens only with time, with consistent, determined effort. Judaism was never meant to be a museum where we show up a couple of times a year and look around at the artifacts; it was never meant to be the opera where we buy our season tickets and come to listen to the performances. Rather, authentic Judaism has always been a passionate way of life and a rigorous training regimen for the body, the mind and the soul, designed for one specific purpose--to lead us to intellectual, emotional and spiritual transformation. This can be seen in thousands of areas but none so clearly as in this holy day of Shavuot. Shavuot is not simply the holy day commemorating God’s giving of the Torah to the Israelites, rather at a deeper level, Shavuot is the culmination of a long, arduous road of inner work, preparation and refinement. We have just spent the past seven weeks, since the second night of Passover, counting the Omer. For a Jewish mystic, (or Jewish Warrior as I have come to call her) counting the Omer is not some archaic Jewish practice, nor is it merely the rote recitation of a blessing. Rather, counting the Omer is a seven-week workout for the incredibly daunting task of receiving Torah and standing face to face with God. We set aside time every night and wrestle with who we are and what we have become. We analyze our behavior, meditate on our character and take a good look at our emotions. For hours, days, weeks we engage in this incredibly challenging, even frightening inner work of chesbon ha’nefesh (searching the soul). In the end, instead of simply coming to the synagogue on this day, instead of merely hoping to be transformed by Shavuot services, the person who fully engages Judaism, the Jewish warrior, arrives having done the work, transformed by the process and because of this, she is ready and able to fully receive Torah. May we each, in our own way, constantly and continually find our way back to Judaism and to God. May we each become Jewish warriors of the body, the mind and the soul. May this Shavuot hold blessings, insight and transformation for all Jews everywhere. Former Omahan Rabbi Baruch HaLevi (Jason Perelman) is the spiritual leader of Tifereth Israel in Des Moines, IA.
DEATH RICHARD M. GOLDSTEIN Richard M. Goldstein died May 29 at the age of 37. Services were held June 1 with burial at Temple Israel Cemetery. He is survived by his parents, A. David and Judi Goldstein; brother and sister-in-law, Joe and Jill Goldstein; nephews, Jack and Alex Goldstein; and grandmother, Lillian Ban. Memorials to Rose Blumkin Jewish Home.
Temple Israel Says Shalom to Director of 20 Years by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator
Nearly 400 people were at Temple Israel on June 1 to pay tribute to Dorothy Spizman who retired at the end of May as Temple’s Executive Director of 20 years. Her family (from left: Randy, David, Jacob, Julie, Dorothy, Mikaela, Mark and Beth); Temple Presidents, past and present; clergy; staff; members of the congregation and the Jewish community joined to honor Spizman at the largest sit-down dinner crowd ever served at Temple. Michelle Shkolnick is Temple’s new Executive Director.
CDC Exhibits Art in JCC Gallery by JEWISH PRESS News Service
Preschoolers at the Pennie Z. Davis Child Development Center created works of art that rival those of adults, according to CDC Assistant Director Carole Greenberg. Jake Meyerson’s still life painting, pictured above left, is one of dozens now on exhibit in the Gallery of the Jewish Community Center. Jake is the four-year-old son of Scott and Jennifer Meyerson.
Local Women Organizes Drive for Youth Emergency Services by JEWISH PRESS News Service Y.E.S., Youth Emergency Services needs clothing, shoes, blankets, sheets, towels, canned and packaged food items, and toiletries for teens, children and babies. This local shelter which serves and protects at-risk youth by providing programs to keep teens off the streets and strengthen families, needs help from the community. And JoAnn Blatt is willing to help. She’ll pick up any nearly new or used items in good condition and deliver them right to the door of the shelter, located at 39th and Harney. To donate, call Blatt at 880-6606. She’ll also provide a receipt for tax deductions.
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FRIDAY: Shavuot service and Yizkor, 10:30 a.m.; Men’s Club, 11:45 a.m. All male members of Temple Israel are invited to a weekly informal get together at Spirit World, 7517 Pacific St. Join us for some relaxation and great conversation; Tot Shabbat, 7 p.m. A short service of song and prayer, followed by cookies and juice. Toddlers through children in the primary grades are encouraged to bring their families. Come enjoy songs and a story with Rabbi Aryeh Azriel; Shabbat Evening Service, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Craig Marantz and Cantor Wendy Shermet will officiate. Rabbi Marantz will give the sermon. The Oneg will be sponsored by Suzan and Jay Kenik in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Samantha Elyse Kenik. SATURDAY: Bagels and Sacred Books, 9:30 a.m., in the Milder Center; Morning service, 10:30 a.m.; Samantha Elyse Kenik, daughter of Suzan and Jay Kenik, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. ADULT EDUCATION THURSDAY, June 12: Adult Study with Rabbi Marantz, 10-11:30 a.m. SPECIAL KABBALAT SHABBAT Friday, June 13: Kabbalat Shabbat honoring Cantor Emil Berkovitz, 7:30 p.m. In honor of his years of service and creativity in the Omaha Jewish community, the congregation is encouraged to come and celebrate as Beth El Synagogue’s Cantor Berkovitz joins Temple’s Cantor Shermet on the bimah. Cantor Berkovitz is retiring from Beth El after 22 years; he also served as Beth Israel’s cantor for four years in the 1960s. Kol Rina will sing an extended Kabbalat Shabbat worship service with the cantors. There will be an opportunity to thank both the Cantor and his wife, Lili, at a special Oneg following services.
Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner. FRIDAY: Shavuot services, 8:45 a.m., a special dairy kiddush is sponsored by Sisterhood; Mincha, 8:40 p.m. West Minyan, 8:40 p.m. at the home of David and Brooke Shrago. SATURDAY: Morning Services, 8:45 a.m. Free babysitting begins at 10 a.m.; Yizkor, 10:30 a.m. Kiddush is sponsored by Sisterhood, followed by a speacial Shavuot luncheon. Mincha, 8:30p.m., followed by Shalosh Suedot and Ma’ariv; Havdalah, 9:46 p.m. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m. and 7 p.m MONDAY: Talmud class with Rabbi Kutner, 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. FRIDAY: We come together to welcome Shabbat with prayer, music and song at a joyful Kabbalat service, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Please join us for Morning Services, 9:30 a.m., as we observe Shavuot, recite Yizkor, and dedicate Memorial Plaques. Also scheduled is the Installation of our New Officers and Incoming Members of our 2003-04 Board of Trustees. In addition, we will honor our out-going Board members. Following services, Beth El will host the Kiddush. Evening services at 8:50 p.m. SUNDAY: Services at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 6:55 a.m. (followed by an optional continental breakfast); and 5:30 p.m. A THOUGHT FOR SHABBAT To receive Rabbi Mordechai Levin’s weekly “Thought for Shabbat,” please send your e-mail address to exec@bethel.org. Rabbi Levin’s meaningful messages are free and open to all members of the community regardless of synagogue affiliation. ADULT EDUCATION Wednesday, June 11: The Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class, 7:30 p.m. taught by Cantor Emil Berkovits, continues in Stage Two with studies focusing on the Shaharit Service for Shabbat. Rabbi Levin, as guest instructor, will present “The Way into Jewish Prayer: Why and How We Pray.”
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Rachel Michelle Gordon, daughter of Sandy and Bruce Gordon, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 14 at Beth El Synagogue. Rachel, a superior honor roll student, will be in eighth grade at Kiewit Middle School this fall. She has been selected to be a participant in the Duke University Talent Identification Program, and she enjoys dancing, art and cooking. For her mitzvah project Rachel spends her summers volunteering at the CDC. Rachel has two brothers, Russell Bennett and Ben Gordon, and a sister, Rebecca Gordon. Grandparents are Annette and Malcolm Gordon of Marina Del Ray, CA and the late Betty and Maurice Weiss.
Elina Yurikov, daughter of Galina and Artur Yurikov, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 14 at Beth Israel. Elina, a superior honors student, will be in eighth grade at Morton Middle School this fall. She enjoys playing tennis, swimming, reading and spending time with friends. For her mitzvah project Elina volunteers at the Millard Public Library, and a portion of her Bat Mitzvah celebration budget will go to the American Arthritis Foundation. Elina has a sister, Renata. Grandparents are Genya Itkovich of Omaha, the late Mikhail Faynshteyn, Yuriy Yurikov of KfarSaba, Israel and the late Sima Yurikov.
Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Monday-Friday: Services at 7 a.m. SATURDAY: Services at 9:30 a.m. SUNDAY: Services at 8:30 a.m.
B’NAI MITZVAH Rachel Alexandra Brodsky, daughter of Jodi and Joel Brodsky, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 14 at Temple Israel. Rachel, an honors student, will be in eighth grade at Westside Middle School this fall. She enjoys basketball, flute, computers, racquetball and painting. For her mitzvah project Rachel conducted pet therapy at the Rose Blumkin Home. Grandparents are Joan and Gene Kern, Richard Bell, and Judy and Sheldon Brodsky. Great-grandmother is Laura Plattner.
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EDITORIAL What Happens When There’s a Crisis? Since Sept. 11, life in America has changed. Life in Jewish communities has changed even more. No longer do we leave the doors to our Jewish institutions unlocked; now we have security systems to allow us to decide who we want to enter. We check photo identifications and ask people to “sign in” and we watch for suspicious behavior--like the wearing of heavy coats in warm weather (which could conceal weapons or suicide bombs). It may be distressful to some who remember “the good old days” but today, it’s a fact of life. There are other crises for which we need to prepare as well. The Jewish Community Center, for example, has long since established procedures in case of severe weather or tornados. Those procedures were updated and republished to include intruder alerts. The JCC staff and the staff of the Federation and its Centers of Excellence are to be commended for their foresight in developing orderly plans for these potential disasters. We know it works because its implementation was tested last month during Yom Ha’Atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day) and Shop Shalom.
FOCUS ON ISSUES by TOM NEUMANN President Bush has now put his own and America’s prestige on the line for the Middle East peace plan outlined in the so-called ‘roadmap’ drawn up by the United Nations, European Union, Russia and the United States. The goal is clear: to establish an independent Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel. And to do it quickly, with free elections and a provisional Palestinian state within two years. But the Israelis are worried, and justifiably so. Not by the concept of a Palestinian state, but by where the borders will be drawn. Their chief concern is what if, in a genuine effort to make the roadmap a success, Israel is required to give up many of its key defensive positions, which would make it far more vulnerable to future attacks from Arab neighbors? It is worth noting that most of Israel’s neighbors--including, incredibly, Saudi Arabia--still refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. Neither Yassir Arafat nor his new prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, has ever publicly accepted Israel’s right to exist, and the elimination of the state of Israel remains the stated goal of the powerful and well funded Palestinian terrorist organizations, which have declared their opposition to the peace plan and their determination to continue terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. Altogether, 20 of the 22 Arab
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Israel, American and the Peace Plan states have yet to acknowledge actions of Israel’s neighbors. Israel’s right to exist. Since it was established in 1948 Given this environment, if the and immediately attacked by five United States and the international Arab armies, Israel has been under community push Israel to give up key constant threat. The Arab League defenses in the land west of the called for a “war of extermination” Jordan, including the Judean moun- against Israel. In the years since, it tains, it will render Israel’s borders has been subject to periodic open warvirtually fare, an indefensible. armed invaThe current roadmap sion by Syria As journalist Don offers no guarantees. And and Egypt in Feder noted blockrecent history does not 1973, recently, if ades, boythe Judean inspire confidence... cotts and heights are repeated taken over by the Palestinians, 80 terrorist attacks. percent of Israel’s population would be The Arab states consistently violatwithin range of mortars, Katyusha ed armistice agreements, using them, rockets and shoulder-held stinger mis- in historian Paul Johnson’s words, “as siles. Every plane taking off from Tel a protective screen behind which Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport would fedayeen raids and terrorism could be become a target. launched against Israel’s citizens.” It seems inconceivable today that After signing the historic peace any Arab nation or group of nations treaty with Egypt in 1978, Israel would again be so foolhardy as to offered a similar treaty to the launch a direct attack on Israel. The Palestinians, including much of the Israel Defense Force has proved its disputed West Bank. The Palestinians mettle again and again. And Israel refused to even discuss it. prides itself on its ability to defend Though Yassir Arafat was a party itself. It has never called on America to the 1993 Oslo agreement, he went or anyone else to help it defend its bor- on to ignore its terms, continuing to ders. import advanced weapons from Iran But this presupposes that its bor- and other Arab states. ders are defensible. The current At Camp David in 2000, Arafat was roadmap offers no guarantees. And offered much of what today’s roadmap recent history does not inspire confi- attempts to achieve. His response was dence in either the words or the to launch the new Intifada or ‘upris-
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ing,’ resulting in the thousands of civilian deaths and injuries of the past two and a half years. Hence Israel’s understandable suspicion that this latest peace attempt may prove no more productive than the many that have gone before--at least while Arafat and other supporters of terrorism continue to pull the strings behind the scenes. At worst, if Israel is left with indefensible borders, it could prove a roadmap to disaster. The new Palestinian state could become a staging area for a major attack by Syrian, Iranian or other hostile forces. This is why Israel is concerned. It does not have a lot of reason to trust its Arab neighbors, or their promises. And as the only democratic country in the region and longtime close ally of the United States, Israel will always be a target for the extremist antiAmerican, anti-democratic forces among the Arab states. Whatever the outcome of the current peace talks, therefore, it will be in the best interest of the United States, as well as Israel and the Palestinians, to ensure that Israel’s ultimate borders remain viable and defensible, and to let Israel’s neighbors know that the United States stands behind them. The author is the Executive Director of the Jewish Institute for National Affairs, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.
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seriously consider Israel’s reservations during the plan’s implementation--clears the way for more forceful U.S. engagement in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. If Bush puts his presidential prestige to work, the road map could mark the first real sign of progress since the Palestinian intifada began in September 2000, said Jon Alterman, director of Middle East programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
FOCUS ON ISSUES Highlights of the “Road Map” Toward Israeli-Palestinian Peace by JTA STAFF GOALS: • A “final and comprehensive settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by 2005.” • The settlement will include “an independent, democratic and viable Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with Israel.” • An “end to the occupation that began in 1967,” when Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern Jerusalem from Jordan. The Palestinians demand the land for their state, but Israel wants at least minor adjustments to the borders, if not more. The plan does not mention specifically what the final borders should be. EVALUATION • “The Quartet--the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia--will meet regularly at senior levels to evaluate the parties’ performance.” PHASE I: The Palestinian Authority must: • Issue an “unequivocal statement reiterating Israel’s right to exist in peace and security and calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire,” ending attacks against “Israelis anywhere.” • “Undertake visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt and restrain individuals and groups” conducting or planning terror attacks. • Dismantle “terrorist capabilities and infrastructure” and confiscate illegal weapons. • End all incitement against Israel. • Consolidate existing security organizations into three, under the control of the P.A. interior minister. • Hold free, open and fair elections. Israel must:
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“This is where it becomes an art and not a science,” Alterman said. “You need enough ‘oomph’ to get it moving, but not too much so that each side gets immune to presidential influence.” Israeli officials had feared that the plan diverged too much from the vision Bush presented in a speech last June 24, in which he called for a change in Palestinian leadership and an end to terrorism before progress could be made toward a Palestinian state. Reassurance from White House officials that the June 24 speech indeed sets the parameters for the road map allowed Sharon to endorse the plan last Friday. He brought it to his Cabinet for approval May 25, and it passed in a 12-7 vote, with four abstentions. The vote came days after Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice acknowledged that Israel’s concerns about the plan were valid and that the United States would “address them fully and seriously” during implementation. Yet the statement was sufficiently vague that it didn’t thwart the plan, which the Bush administration believes is the right path toward peace. The Israeli Cabinet qualified its approval by attaching 14 reservations to the plan. It also voted to reject the Palestinian demand for a “right of return” for refugees from Israel’s 1948 War of Independence and their descendants--several million people in all--to their former homes inside Israel. Israeli officials fear the plan calls for
irrevocable Israeli concessions before the Palestinians prove they are serious about fighting terror, and that it is too driven by timelines as opposed to performance. Most of Israel’s reservations relate to implementation, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported. Israel wants to stiffen the security demands on the Palestinians, delay a settlement freeze until the Palestinians start fighting terror in earnest and ensure that implementation will be monitored only by the United States--not by the European Union, United Nations and Russia, the other bodies that helped the United States draft the plan. Many in Israel saw the road map as a far cry from Bush’s June 24 speech, which set tough conditions for the Palestinians to meet before achieving statehood. The Palestinians accepted the plan quickly, and Israel came under growing international pressure when it refused to sign on. The United States at first seemed understanding, allowing Sharon to accept the plan piecemeal, making small goodwill gestures to allow the Palestinians to begin enforcing security, without binding Sharon to the goal of an eventual Palestinian state and the dismantling of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Despite Israel’s steps on the ground, however, Arab and European governments focused on Sharon’s reluctance to endorse the plan, not the Palestinian failure to crack down on terror attacks.
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(Continued from page 1) with Sharon and Abbas in Jordan on Wednesday. At the meeting Tuesday with leaders from Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Palestinian Authority at the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Bush said Israel “must deal with the settlements.” Israel must “make sure there is continuous territory that the Palestinians can call home.” These comments appeared to back up statements he made in late May, when he assured the French newspaper Le Figaro that he would have no compunction about pressuring Sharon. “If I were afraid to take the decisions necessary to move the process forward I wouldn’t have gone on this trip to the Middle East,” he declared. A few days earlier, in a private conversation at the White House, Bush was reportedly asked how he could be sure Sharon would go along with him and make the necessary concessions. “Because he owes me,” the president replied confidently. Indeed, Sharon has a lot to thank the American president for. The American-led war in Iraq removed a major strategic threat to Israel; the United States allowed Sharon virtually a free hand in fighting Palestinian terror; and in the run-up to Israel’s acceptance of the American-inspired “road map” to peace, Bush gave the green light for a billion-dollar defense deal under which Israel is to supply India with state-of-the-art Phalcon air-mounted command and control systems. At Tuesday’s summit, Arab states agreed to Bush’s request to back the road map. The president is also asking Egypt and Jordan to send ambassadors back to Israel as soon as there are tangible signs of progress. For the Palestinians, too, the president’s message will be clear: Stop the terror or nothing will go forward. To underline just how serious they are, the Americans are sending in a team of about a dozen monitors, mostly CIA officials, to determine where the parties are carrying out their road map obligations--and where they are not. And the word is that any side that creates obstacles will be publicly rebuked. At Wednesday’s summit, the president said some of the things he hoped the Israelis and Palestinians would say themselves--reaffirming a two-state vision of Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace, and that to achieve it, the Palestinians must end terror and Israel must end the occupation.
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A Volunteer Experience in Israel “Never to be Forgotten” by LACIE L. MORGAN, Special to the Jewish Press In late December of last year, I mile walk received an e-mail about how Israeli and a hot businesses were closing because they s h o w e r were losing money. The site requested would be out that you “buy Israeli” to help fellow of question! Jews. I asked myself what I could do None of to help besides buying products from this was Israel on the internet. true; there After some searching, I came across was air cona website called Volunteers for Israel, d i t i o n i n g located at: www.vfi-usa.org. They (we didn’t offered several opportunities to visit need the the land of Israel and help by volun- heat; it Left photo: Gabriella--from unit consisted of 40 volun- unteers learned how to seal a teering time. never got Brazil, left, Alex--from Russia, teers from all over the world. room against chemical, bioThe opportunity I chose was working below 50º and Lacie at Mount Carmel The unit was based at Tel logical or nuclear attack. The on a military base doing a wide range when I was National Park, overlooking Hashomer, north of Tel Aviv. Mogen David design is of work and, in return, the Israeli mil- t h e r e ) . Haifa. Middle photo: Lacie’s Right photo: The Sar-El vol- Lacie’s. itary would offer me a place to stay There was on the trip on Thursday and food during the night and stayed with my workweek. This particuHebrew teacher’s daughter. lar program is known as On Friday, I spent the day Sar-El. The money that shopping and exploring the military saves by Jerusalem on foot and spent providing housing and the Shabbat evening at the food to these volunteers Kotel--the Western Wall. helps the country so There was nothing more much. amazing then the feeling I Of course, the Sabbath had surrounded by hundreds is widely observed in of Jews at this holy site. Israel, so I was responI also visited Haifa for a sible for finding a place few days, and saw the place to stay on the weekwhere a bus had been blown ends. I went on the twoup by a suicide attacker. We week program; Sar-El madricha pins Lacie explored Tel Gabriella, left, and Munitions training went to the top of Mount found me airfare for A around $500 and gave Lacie during the cer- Aviv, including the Lacie, practice put- was not part of the Sar- Carmel to overlook all of and Old ting on gas masks in El course, but Lacie Haifa and the me a list of things that emony to signify com- beaches pletion of the course. Jaffa. nine seconds. practiced anyway! Mediterranean Sea. I could I would need to bring. see all the settlements to the So with my passport in hand and hot water and the bathroom was only her husband had passed away. We danced around the camp to music west and Lebanon to the north. two weeks worth of luggage I boarded 30 feet from my barrack. I ended up having to stay in Israel a plane bound for Ben Gurion. When All the Sar-El volunteers met in the from an Israeli radio station. The madrachim, our leaders, took us for an extra three days because I was I arrived in Israel, the first thing I mess hall and ate our meals alongside expected to happen did--everyone the soldiers, although they don’t use off the base several times in the there when the war with Iraq started clapped and began singing in Hebrew the line system in Israel. Our kosher evenings to see Israel. We were and flights were being bumped. I when the plane touched down. It was meals usually included hard boiled dropped off in cities to eat and shop stayed in a hotel in Tel Aviv and enjoyed all that I could take in. late at night and I couldn’t see any- eggs, bread, cheese, fruit, hummus, for hours. Though I was there at the war’s The work was a lot of fun, too. At thing but a palm tree and desert, but tahini, and chicken. I never left the I could feel it. mess hall hungry and I could always 7:30 a.m., we had breakfast and flag beginning, I was never in fear and no A Sar-El leader met me; she helped visit the shekim for snacks for a few raising and reported to duty in full one else I met was either. I spoke to military uniform. Since I speak some many Israelis about their thoughts me get to the car to take me to the shekels. base--Tel Hashomer, a medical supply Everyone I met was so wonderful; Hebrew, I reported to Mashiah, who and fears and they all seemed a little base north of Tel Aviv. 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BOOK REVIEW Reviewed by SETH STERN Washington, D.C.--Hidden by nothing more than a thin canopy of tree trunks and leaves overhead, my grandparents survived the Holocaust living underground in a Polish forest. They taught themselves to shoot. They stole their food. Yet they also depended on the generosity of a handful of non-Jews, none more than the middle aged German foreman, Mr. Kremin, who took control of my grandfather’s family factory in Lublin. Shortly before the city ghetto was liquidated in the spring of 1943, he warned them to flee. What motivated him, remains a mystery in my family, beyond my grandmother’s observation that, “Not everyone was a Hitler.” So I opened Martin Gilbert’s new book, The Righteous with great interest. This 529-page tome is a meticulously researched country-by-country catalogue of the small minority of righteous Gentiles who helped Jews survive. Gilbert shows just how unremarkable most rescuers were prior to war. They ranged from Polish priests and peasants to a Bosnian Muslim family, a Greek princess and Scandinavian diplomats. They worked as librarians and schoolteachers, soldiers and thieves. But based on their wartime actions, Oscar Schindler is far from the only one who deserves a Steven Spielberg movie. Dutch pastor Leendert Overduijn headed a rescue organization that saved 461 Jews. Tina Buehther, a 20year-old medical student, helped her mother and grandmother hide 100 Jews in their attic five at a time. What these rescuers have in common is an uncommon bravery. If caught, each faced the same fate of those they protected: death. Even priests were tortured for helping Jews. Many were rewarded for their good deeds after the war by being murdered at the hands of countrymen. “Betrayal and denunciation were a constant danger,” Gilbert writes.They relied on an endless variety of hiding spots--from horse stables and haystacks to false walls and elevator pits. For those hiding Jews in the open, the ruses were ingenious: housing them as nieces and orphans. They faked religious conversions and forged birth certificates.A few were helping friends or acquaintances. Yet most didn’t know those under their care. Their motives were usually rooted in religion or a basic sense of right and wrong. As one asked: “What is life for if it is
The Righteous by Martin Gilbert not to help other people?” Their rarity makes them all the more exceptional. Yet their ordinariness raises the question: why didn’t more follow suit? The most simultaneously heartening and dispiriting accounts are those of entire communities that banded together to help save their Jewish residents. There were 5,000 rural French citizens around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon who gave sanctuary to 3,500 Jews. The Gestapo’s buses left its villages empty as residents refused to distinguish Jew from non-Jew. In Budapest, Hungarian citizens and neutral countries’ diplomats, including Sweden’s Raoul Wallenberg, ensured that 120,000 of the city’s 150,000 Jewish residents survived the war. Both those examples hint at what might have been if collective action supplanted passivity or open collaboration in Europe’s occupied countries. Sadly, every act of generosity detailed here was outweighed by many more acts of cruelty. Unfortunately, the book’s format is not conducive to deep insights about the rescuers’ motivations. Gilbert relies almost exclusively on survivors’ accounts. Readers hear little from the rescuers themselves. These second hand accounts offer only cursory reflections. What did they think of Jews before the war? Did they ever have regrets or second thoughts? What sustained them through the years of constant danger? After a few hundred pages, the chapters become a repetitive stream of flat half-page anecdotes that provide little insight or analysis about any single rescuer. Eva Fogelman provided a better yet briefer account in her Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. For my grandparents, the war ended in the summer of 1944 when a Russian soldier galloped through the forest on horseback. They returned to Lublin to find both their immediate families completely exterminated. They never did get to thank Mr. Kremin directly. Yet they had their chance to reciprocate Kremin’s generosity, visiting the Soviet troops in Lublin who had imprisoned him. They made sure the German foreman’s act of simple kindness earned him his own freedom. (Both The Righteous and Conscience and Courage are available in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library.) Seth Stern is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor. He lives in Boston, MA.
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HIAS Extends 2003 Poster Contest Deadline by RITA ZILBERMAN NEW YORK CITY--HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, has extended the deadline of its annual poster contest, giving immigrant youth another month to create artwork exploring this year’s theme: What’s it Like to be an Immigrant in the “Land of Immigrants?” For nearly a decade, HIAS has sponsored the contest as a way to keep its legacy of rescue and resettlement alive in the minds of its youngest beneficiaries. “At the same time Americans are scrutinizing the immigration process like never before, Americans are also discussing the untold contributions that immigrants have made to this country,” says Leonard S. Glickman, president and CEO of HIAS. “This simple gesture--a contest that allows new American children to express their pride and gratitude for being here--has never been more powerful.” The 121-year-old organization has helped more than 4.5 million people escape persecution and includes in its Hall of Fame dozens of American leaders in science, education, entertainment and literature. Last year’s theme, “My America”, inspired hundreds of entries. Grand Prize winner, Rachel Ginzburg, 10, of Brooklyn, described her work: “My America is love, peace, friendship and different ethnicities. High over America flies our powerful symbol--a star-spangled eagle. It can crush anyone but it won’t--it offers the olive peace branch to the whole world.” The contest is open to immigrant and first-generation youngsters (whose parents immigrated to the United States) between the ages of 4 and 15. There
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is only one entry per contestant and art must be no larger than 20x24” (50x60 cm), in any medium-- watercolor, crayon, pencil, oil, etc. Submissions will be divided according to the following age groups: 4-7, 8-11 and 12-15. Each entry must be accompanied by a brief explanation of how the artwork relates to the theme. Contestants in the 4-7 group should prepare at least one sentence describing their work; those in the 8-11 group should write at least one paragraph; and those in the 12-15 category should write two to three paragraphs. A panel will judge all works and accompanying descriptions on the basis of creativity, originality, technique, and relation to the theme. The grand-prize winner will receive a $1,000 U.S. savings bond. Three runners-up will receive special recognition prizes. All 12 finalists will receive a certificate of achievement and have their posters included in the HIAS calendar for the year 2004. Each participant will receive one of the calendars. Entries should be mailed to HIAS Poster Contest, 333 Seventh Ave., 17th floor, New York, N.Y. 100015004 and must be received by June 30. The official entry form, which includes contest rules, may be obtained at a local Jewish Federation, Jewish Family Service Agency, the HIAS website (www.hias.org), or by calling the HIAS Communications Office at: 1-212-613-1378, or emailing: poster@hias.org.
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by HARRIS FINKELSTEIN, Kripke Library Director The annual Elinor Whitman Book Contest Awards were announced last month. The following students have won in the category of Book Jacket design: Kindergarten: First prize, Rachel Wertheim; second, Issac RogersMarcovitz; third, Yechiel Kutner; First Grade, first prize, Ari Juster; second, Maddie Jensen; third, Andy Adkisson; Second Grade, First prize, Lee Lohman; second, Lila Ferber; Third Grade First Prize, Lauren Cooper; second, Jordan Jensen; third, Ben Lohman; Fourth Grade First Prize, Samantha Juster; second, Chloe Heyman; third, Grace Zweiback; Sixth Grade First Prize (tie) Amanda Bucher and Rebecca Noddle; second (tie), Adam Goldberg and Zach Spooner; and third, Becki Frishman.
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The Melton daytime class included: back row, Beth Staenberg, left, Marta Fox, Susan Rothholz, Joan Rips, Suzanne Singer, Phyllis Aron (obscured), Ann Goldstein, Mary Anderson, Mimi Rogers, Marty Ricks, Ann Joseph, Nancy Wolf, Jerry Kohll; front row: Vicki Perlmeter, Phyllis Wasserman, John Dacey, Ozzie Nogg, Rita Novak, Zoe Riekes, Debbi Zweiback, Susie Shyken, Julee Katzman; seated: Eunice Denenberg, Cheryl Lerner. (Not pictured: Sherry Taxman and Laurie Grasso.)
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President………………………………………………………………………......Steve Pitlor Vice President/Overseas Co-Chairman….…….…………...………….……...Zoë Riekes Vice President/Secretary………………………………….……………….…...Robert Lepp Treasurer……………………………………………………….………….……...Steve Nogg Past President……………………………………………………..……….....Forrest Krutter Foundation Chairman……………………………………...……………...….…Steve Bloch Budget and Allocations Chairman………………………………………......Norm Sheldon Building and Grounds Chairman………………………………………….…..Todd Manvitz Marketing Committee Chairman………………………………………....…..Margo Riekes Overseas Co-Chairman………………………………………………….Jan Schneiderman Young Leadership Cabinet…………………………………………….……..Michael Miller Personnel Practices Chairman………………………………….……....Richard Jacobson Planning & Evaluation Chairman………………………..…………….….Sandy Friedman Jewish Press Chairman…………………………..…………….……...….Joanie Jacobson ADL/CRC OFFICERS: President ………………...…....Sara Juster First Vice President ……….David Gilinsky Second Vice President…….Keri Workman Past President……..……..Mimi Waldbaum JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES OFFICERS: President…………….…...Joanie Bernstein First Vice President…………Bob Belgrade Second Vice President………Harold Mann Secretary………………………....John Lehr Treasurer…………………….....Mort Glass Past President…………….....Sivi Roffman
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Melton Evening classes included, back row: Harry Weiner, left, with his son, Max, Dennis Paley, Steve Riekes, Melissa Hagerty, Sherry Fletcher, Jane Diesen, Bob Wolfson, Jennifer Glazer, Andy and Carole Greenberg, Harris Finkelstein, Todd Hutton; front row: Madelyn Wilen Sarah Schondelmeyer, Howard and Lee Needelman, Carol Parsow, Pam Friedlander, Patty Nogg, Colleen Kennealy. (Not pictured: Sibby Wolfson, Kate Finkelstein, Ann Moshman and Harry Berman.)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Take Three, the new threesome of Omaha triplets Erin, Missy and Mandy Maynard, will perform June 6, 7 p.m. at Westside High School. Produced by Karen Javitch of JMR Productions, the show features songs from the girls’ new CD, with musical director Chuck Penington. He and his band will accompany the triplets at the concert. Take Three will also sing the national anthem at the opening of the College World Series at Rosenblatt Stadium on June 17 and in Washington, D.C. on July 29. Tickets for tonight’s concert are $8 for adults and $5 for students and are available at the door.
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New Point Man (Continued from page 1) based in Jerusalem. Also unlike previous envoys, Wolf is not expected to settle disputes between the parties or interpret the road map. Wolf, originally from Philadelphia, is an unknown quantity in Middle East diplomacy, but someone who is well-respected within Foreign Service circles. He is a former ambassador to Malaysia, and served as a special adviser to President Clinton for Caspian Basin energy diplomacy. The selection of Wolf comes after several more prominent officials turned down the position, sources said. But in the end, they said, the choice of a career official works with the Bush administration’s revised vision of the position. “This is not negotiation, this is implementation,” the State Department official said. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT.), a Democratic presidential candidate, has long advocated a senior envoy for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and said he was disappointed by the selection. He said a more senior envoy “would have been more effective and would have shown the seriousness of this administration.” Few in the Jewish community in Washington are familiar with Wolf, whose work has focused on Asia. But while there is concern about an envoy emerging from the State Department, which is seen within the Bush administration as more sympathetic to the Palestinians, there is optimism about Wolf. “The president’s confidence in him, at this sensitive time, alleviates our concerns,” said one Jewish leader, who asked not to be identified.
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? by BERT LEWIS Remember birthday was the first week-end parties? You got to in May, and the place invite your friends and was Scottsdale, your mom baked (or Arizona. bought) a birthday cake Well folks, I’m here to and planned a couple of tell you it was a smashhours of games and fun. ing success! Names You ate special birtharen’t necessarily the day stuff and finished same (nor hair color with cake and ice either, for that matter!) cream. and there are seven difOlder kids had more ferent states in addresssophisticated parties, es. There are single Michele Rothkopf, back row left, Nancy Cohn, Joni with perhaps a theme moms and married Lohrman, Sonia Polanski, Debby Jacobson, Janet which involved entermoms and everyone Lipsey, Shelley Lewis, Gail Eisenstatt (hidden); tainment. The food pro“works”. They got togethand Kathy Goldstein, seated in front: Barbara gressed from hot dogs er in one of the resort Blank and Betsy Cohen. to pizza and the moms hotels in Scottsdale, who stayed to “help” were more concerned with starting on a Thursday and finishing when the last keeping an eye on girl/boy games than on keeping one got back on a plane for home on Sunday. two kids from fighting over one toy. What did they do in the interim? Young children have a grown-up to organize such They laughed and talked, reminisced and talked, annual celebrations. But what about young adults gossiped and talked, swam, ate, partied and talked who decide they’re also entitled to a birthday party? some more. And they laughed while remembering Aha. That’s where I’m going with this ‘q and a’ countless goofy moments from girlhood. Who you about changing the number you write in the space might ask, do I mean when I say “they”? Ok, it’s marked age: ___. only fair to tell you. The list included Sonia Some months ago, several young women who grew Polonski, Nancy Ross, Nancy Cohn, Debbie up in Omaha decided their next birthday ought to Jacobson, Kathy Goldstein, Joni Lohrman, Shelley be marked in a more than ordinary way. They and a Lewis, Janet Lipsey, Gail Eisenstatt, Betsy Cohen, number of their girlhood friends were all approach- Michele Rothkop and Barbara Blank. ing a very significant birthday. Most of them were There were several more who should have been accepting that big number with good grace, but I there, but for various reasons, weren’t able to make know of one who chose to re-celebrate last year’s it. They were truly missed. One of the highlights of age, defiant but determined! the week-end was a video of pictures and whatever Never mind, back to the topic we’re addressing else goes on a video to make viewers hysterical. here today. Let’s be brave (after all, what can they Each of the ladies received a copy to take home and do to me?) and say it out loud: it was the 50th birth- look at on rainy days! day they would each celebrate sometime during the My room-mate and I got in on the fun by inviting year 2003. The above-mentioned several young them all to lunch one afternoon. We were so glad to women got busy at their computers and began have a chance to see these lovely women we knew rounding up names and addresses of the girls they as little girls. I particularly loved having them show had gone to school with, been in BBYO clubs with, me pictures of their families and hearing them talk Girl Scout troops, camp, carpools, Hebrew classes, about their kids. high school, and just, in general, grew up with. All in all, I think it’s safe to say it was a marvelous I was aware of their search when I was called for week-end for the participants. our daughter Shelley’s address. Obviously, she was And here’s a little side bar: I had been thinking a part of the group being assembled. Also obviously, about all this recent fun and decided to take out the they were successful in the search because I even- 1971 O Book. I found each and every one of those tually learned of a really big birthday weekend girls. Some are hardly recognizable, some look almost being planned for sometime in the spring of 2003. the same. If you had a gun to my head, I wouldn’t tell When the plans were finalized, the actual date you which was which!
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Teen Age Salutes...
Leora Azriel
Danielle Burr
Jill Elyse Canfield
Alexander M. S. Clark
Andrea Jill Comisar
Jennifer Cooper
Ben Delman
Thomas Evnen
Lauren Calli Freeman
Alan Ross Friedman
Samantha Jo Friedman
Elyse Anne Gallner
Adam Gerber
Keith Graul
Sarah Grossman
Becca Hellwig
Amanda Rachel Ipock
Alex Katz
Rachel Shira Katzman
Benjamin Kohn
Sarah Linn
Andrew J. Malashock
Lauren Marcus
Shaina Meyers
Dan Morris
Rebekah Phillips
Kim Pitlor
Annie Rifkin
Alexis Kate Rothenberg
Sara Schweid
Jennifer Shkolnik
Shoshy Shrago
Michelle Lynn Simon
Emily Sternberg
Rebecca Sternberg
Ben Taxman
The Jewish Press has run seven ads since Feb. 7 and two editorials requesting information and pictures from Graduating Seniors. Synagogues also gave notice. We are not responsible for those not included. If you’d like to submit a graduation announcement for In the News, we will run it when space is available. Rachel Taylon
A.J. Walts
Allie Willensky
Renata Yurikov
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the Class of 2003! ! ! LEORA AZRIEL Burke
Bradley University
(Elyce and Aryeh Azriel)
Boston Conservatory
(Maralyn Burr and Jay Burr)
Loyola Marymount University
(Sandy and Rick Canfield)
ALEXANDER M. S. CLARK Elkhorn
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(Mindy and Wayne Clark)
ANDREA JILL COMISAR Millard North
BECCA HELLWIG Millard South
Capitol Beauty School
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(Cheril and Frank Comisar)
JENNIFER COOPER Millard North
Indiana University
(Rose and Harvey Cooper)
BEN DELMAN Westside
George Washington University
(Mitzi and Marc Delman)
Swarthmore College
(Debra and Bob Evnen)
Iowa State University
Washington University
(Robyn and Bob Freeman)
Young Judaea Shalem in Jerusalem
Millard School District
(Beth Friedman and Morris Friedman)
SAMANTHA JO FRIEDMAN Brownell-Talbot
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(Sandee and Howard Friedman)
IGOR KONFISAKHAR (not pictured) Westside University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Marina and Leo Konfisakhar)
(Kim and Sheldon Gallner)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(Pat and Michael Linn)
University of North Texas
(Diane and Larry Malashock)
University of Nebraska-Omaha
(Judy and Van Marcus)
Iowa Western Community College
SHOSHY SHRAGO Burke
Brandeis University
MICHELLE LYNN SIMON Millard North
Dana College
EMILY STERNBERG Millard West
University of Missouri-Columbia
REBECCA STERNBERG Millard West
University of Missouri-Columbia
BEN TAXMAN Westside
Tulane University
(Sherry and Jeff Taxman)
University of Kansas-Lawrence
(Berta and Jim Michalski and Jon and Denise Meyers)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(Cindy and Allen Morris)
RACHEL TAYLON Bellevue West
St. Louis University
(Mary Ann and Charles Taylon)
A.J. WALTS Papillion-LaVista
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(Beth and Mike Walts)
Kansas State University
(Joan and Rick Phillips)
ALLIE WILLENSKY Millard North
University of Michigan
(Andi and David Willensky)
George Washington University
(Marcia and Steve Pitlor)
KEITH GRAUL Westside
JENNIFER SHKOLNIK Millard North
(Mary and Walter Sternberg)
KIM PITLOR Omaha Central
(Laurie and Paul Gerber)
University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
(Mary and Walter Sternberg)
REBEKAH PHILLIPS Millard North
University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale
SARA SCHWEID Millard North
(Marsha and Steve Simon)
DAN MORRIS Millard North
Mary Baldwin College
Drake University
(Dani and Leon Shrago)
(Cynthia and Richard Kohn)
SHAINA MEYERS Westside
Stephens College
ALEXIS KATE ROTHENBERG Westside
(Lynne and Gerald Shkolnik)
(Carol and Michael Katzman)
LAUREN MARCUS Lincoln High
ALAN ROSS FRIEDMAN Millard North
Iowa Western Community College
(Bonnie Schweid and Jeff Schweid)
(Amy and Richard Katz)
ANDREW J. MALASHOCK Burke
LAUREN CALLI FREEMAN Omaha Central
ANNIE RIFKIN Millard North
(Bunny and Steve Rothenberg)
ALEX KATZ Westside
SARAH LINN Burke
THOMAS EVNEN Lincoln Southeast
Indiana University
(Denise and Ron Ipock)
BENJAMIN KOHN Lincoln Southeast
University of Nebraska-Omaha
(Caryn and Gary Rifkin)
AMANDA RACHEL IPOCK Burke
RACHEL SHIRA KATZMAN Westside
JACOB PRILUCK (not pictured) Omaha Central (Sheila and Ira Priluck)
(Robin Hellwig and Charlie Hellwig)
JILL ELYSE CANFIELD Millard North
ADAM GERBER Westside
University of Minnesota-Minneapolis
(Mary Sue and Alex Grossman)
DANIELLE BURR Interlochen Arts Academy
ELYSE ANNE GALLNER Brownell-Talbot
SARAH GROSSMAN Omaha North
Macalester College
RENATA YURIKOV Burke
Vanderbilt University
(Galina and Artur Yurikov)
(Diane and Lonnie Graul)
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Predictable Celebrations: Father’s Day and Graduation
THE HISTORY FOOTPRINT by OLIVER B. POLLAK Some people have the foresight to recognize significant public celebrations long before they occur. They anticipate the national importance of observing special moments in 1976, 1992, and 2003. Preparing for the bicentennial of the American Declaration of Independence, the 500th anniversary of Columbus discovering America, and the 200-year commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition takes substantial lead time, often as long as 10 years, and a lot of hoopla. The larger than life experiences are akin to smaller celebrations of parenthood, and graduation, reaching a plateau and taking steps in a new direction. It may no longer be politically correct to call the boys of 1776 the Fathers of our Country. Perhaps they were patriots, midwives of democracy or the parents of our country. And what greater example is there of graduation than leaving an Old World for a New World. Writers want their timely books to make a splash in the book store and the talk shows. Museum directors look forward to long lines waiting for the exhibition. I admire people with foresight and commitment who can devote such a long time researching, going over documents and illustrations, writing, dealing with publishers, and preparing exhibits for a museum. They combine foresight and hindsight. Carol Katzman, Editor of the Jewish Press, asked me on May 21 if I had a column in the works, and mentioned there was a special issue for Father’s Day and Graduation Day. Rabbi Kripke, Ozzie Nogg and others write columns that develop and enrich the Jewish cycle of holidays. So I set myself the task of a midrash on the secular, biological and educational. Holidays, mitzvahs, nachas opportunities, rites of passage, accomplishments, and milestones are experiences we anticipate and long for, participate in for all too brief a time, and remember with reflection and an afterglow. If you go to to Google on the web and search “Father’s Day History,” you get 685,000 hits. If you narrow it to “Father’s Day History Jewish,” you
reduce the selection to 145,000. High on the list is the story of a daughter of a single parent in Spokane, who in 1909 wanted to honor her father. Mother’s Day is clearly senior to Father’s Day. Restaurant capacity is not strained by Father’s Day. More than likely, father will preside at the outdoor grill preparing a BBQ. Fathers don’t expect and don’t get flowers. Perhaps a tie or a power tool and an admiring homage from his spouse, that is his portion. Fatherhood, whether accomplished by biology or adoption, involves emotion, responsibility, and guidance. I frequently compare what my father was doing at an equal age, and what he would have done in my situation. My father was born in Vienna in 1903, another centenary. For a few years we ushered in the New year with a bottle of room temperature Guinness. He talked about its healthful benefits and reminisced about the Vienna of his youth. The presence of a grandfather, father and son, at the same table is truly l’dor v’dor. My sons, Noah and Aaron, live in Berkeley and San Francisco. I expect a couple of phone calls and perhaps cards. Fathers look forward to their sons becoming fathers less demonstratively than their mothers. My longtime fantasy to be a graduation speaker was fulfilled a few years ago at a Friedel Academy graduation. Formal ceremonies include high school at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, bachelor’s degree in the stadium, Doctorate at UCLA, and Creighton Law degree at the Civic Auditorium. Perennial concerns include getting the requisite number of tickets, mailing out invitations, getting dressed up, renting a gown and mortar board, finding a parking space, and standing still for the multiple obligatory class and family photos. We have participated in and witnessed graduations from grammar/grade/elementary schools, various levels of Hebrew School, high school, college, professional schools of law, pharmacy, divinity and medical school. It is sort of like a B’nai Mitzvah or wedding, without religion and the house of worship. It is civic religion that virtually bars prayer, invocations and
blessings. It has the hallmark of a reunion attended by grandparents, aunts and uncles, and cousins. I have been to many graduations at UNO. I inherited the academic gowns from a predecessor there. It matters little they carry the colors of Columbia University rather than UCLA. The price was right. The Class of 2003, whether high school or the end of a four-year college education, emerges cloaked in speeches, well wishes and hope. They will return to reunions, starting with the 10th, and hopefully stretching to the 50th year plus. They will look at yellowing annual yearbooks published in the year of their graduation. Father’s Day and graduation are big business for greeting cards and stores. Do you keep your cards as mementos? What story do the greetings and inscriptions tell? Fathers and graduates should preserve these tokens in a shoe box or a drawer. Take them out on some snowy winter nights, years from now, and reminisce. OBPOMNI@aol.com
L.O.V.E. Event this Sunday by JEWISH PRESS News Service Joanie Jacobson, back row left, Andee Scioli and Mark Sanford rehearse the Kids Chorus in preparation for The Gift of Time: Honoring Our Jewish Clergy. The fundraising program, scheduled for Sunday, June 8, 1:30 p.m., at the JCC, is sponsored by L.O.V.E. and will benefit the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. Tickets may be purchased at the door.
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Whether you call him father, dad, daddy, papa, pop or abba, he’s the one who set the priorities when you were young. He gave you a Shem Tov, a good name, and expected you to get a good education and lead a righteous life. You’ve learned that being a good father doesn’t come from a book but from the heart.
From Your Children And Your Grandchildren
to all the fathers who have devoted themselves to protecting our individual futures and have had the vision to establish enduring assets to preserve the future of Jewish life in Omaha.
Michael & Tiffany Hoberman Joel Hoberman Sarah Hoberman Jacob Hoberman Gabrielle Hoberman Steve & Diane Kohler Alexandra Kohler Adam Kohler
If you wish to honor your father, husband or even your son by establishing a fund in his honor or memory, please call Marty Ricks, Foundation Executive Director at 402/334-6440
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BERT’S EYE VIEW by BERT LEWIS Every once in a while, I sit down to do this column and find I don’t have a thing to tell you. This time, I think I’m going to just share with you some things I’ve seen or heard about recently, which have either amused or surprised me. Nothing to stop the presses over, just odd bits and pieces. For example, I just saw (I think on one of those TV infomercial things) a new small kitchen appliance. The purpose of this is to open tight jar lids! I swear I’m not making that up. It was electric, and looked a little like an orange juicer, only it was for getting the top off that pickle jar or maybe it was a jar of salsa that seemed to be hermetically sealed. I was amazed--had no idea such a thing existed, but it does. You’ve probably seen the little robot that “walks” all over the place. It looks like an electronic cockroach to me, but I guess it has a purpose. Mind you, I don’t have a clue what that purpose is, but I guess somebody considers it a modern miracle. I’m so easily impressed I think that tiny little telephone was a terrific invention, but after they made it show pictures of who’s being called, well I sure don’t have anything to add. That’s already beyond Flash Gordon as far as I’m concerned. Of course the really modern invention that gets my number one vote every time isn’t this year’s. It’s already a few years old, but to me, nobody will ever think of anything smarter. What is it? It’s that thing you install in your car that locates any address you need. You only have to tell it where you are and it gives you a perfect route to take, to get you exactly where you want to go. Now of course people who happen to be driving in a strange city would find this the greatest invention since sugarless gum. That’s a given. But what about the person who happens to be absolutely devoid of any sense of direction? Like me, for example. I think I’m a fairly normal individual except for one thing--I was born without a gyroscope in my brain. You know, the thing that tells you whether to turn left or right or how to retrace your steps when you’ve followed specific instructions to get somewhere? Like okay, you’ve gotten there and now you want to go back. The instructions are suddenly as clear as Chinese characters on a menu. That little instrument that instructs the worst of
READ IT AND EAT Review by LOIS FRIEDMAN Half of an award winning duo who own La Brea Bakery and Campanila Restaurant in Los Angeles (her husband is Mark Peel), Silverton (expert pastry chef) five years ago began serving incredible sandwiches on Thursday nights after being inspired while on a food junket and eating at Fuori Porta, a crostini bar in Florence. It became an instant success. Casual comfort food and childhood memories are associated with sandwiches of all kinds. Expand your rustic-style sandwich horizons and concepts...be creative and think of all kinds of shapes, sizes and flavors. These sandwiches are: Open-faced, Closed-faced, Sort-of, and Tea Sandwiches, Sandwich Cakes and Cookies, Bar Snacks, Spreads and Condiments and Breads. More than 100 of Silverton’s secret recipes are included and are made on hearth baked white or whole-wheat sourdough bread and make four sandwiches. If you don’t own a homestyle panini grill ( a two-sided grill resembling a waffle iron) instructions for a cast-iron skillet and gas or charcoal grill are given. These creations are meant to be nibbled and shared and created with beauty in imperfection. Headnotes are drawn from Silverton’s wealth of eating and cooking experiences. After the ingredient list the lengthy, well written instructions give details. Some delicious color photographs that make all of the sandwiches and desserts “look as good as they’re supposed to taste” are throughout the cookbook. As you would expect from a pastry chef, the array of sandwich cakes and cookies is yummy-from Not Nutter Butters (inspired by her Girl Scout
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us is maybe the most humanitarian invention of the century. Think of how much embarrassment it could save...imagine the joy of never again having to say, “It took me so long to get here because I got lost.” Well, our wonderful world is full of things like that, some much more important than others. I have neither the time nor the inclination to mention the tools of warfare which can find targets in the dark, etc. But such things exist. Just like that “automatic” blood pressure cuff found in hospitals. It stays loosely around the arm of a patient and every so many minutes the darn thing inflates, registers its reading and deflates. You people have to admit, we’re surrounded with wondrous machines and appliances, whether we like it or not. Mostly I guess we’re grateful for the ones that make life easier in some way or other. Sometimes we have to just laugh and wonder who invented the electric jar opener. Actually, when I think about it, I’ll bet I could figure that one out. It must have been the brain child of some guy who was tired of years and years of hearing. “Honey, will you open this jar for me?” Or maybe, if we want to be more serious, it was invented by somebody who has a physical handicap which made it impossible to remove the lid of anything. After all, there are lots and lots of handy gadgets which came into being for the sake of folks in wheelchairs, for example. Like that long handled “grabber”--it works like a long arm, only it has a “grasp” on the end. If you want that box of salt on the top shelf, you extend the grabber, squeeze, and voila! It gets the salt down for you. If you’re short, like I am, you know what a great invention that is. There you have it--some of the unimportant junk that rattles around in the mind of somebody who ought to be able to write a sensible column. Chalk it up to a rainy day and a somewhat grumpy attitude about the weather. Of course it could be worse. I know somebody who spent a small fortune installing a swimming pool one summer, then spent the next several months keeping statistics. What kind of statistics? The kind that track the record breaking number of rainy days, one after the other, for what seems like forever.
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Nancy Silverton’s Sandwich Book by Nancy Silverton (Knopf, $24.95) peanut-butter cookie days) and Almost Oreos to other stacked creations to end a meal. The hard to find ingredients can be discovered through the source list. If you aren’t heading to Los Angeles with Dad, how about making him his favorite sandwich for Father’s Day? CLASSIC GRILLED CHEESE WITH MARINATED ONIONS AND WHOLE-GRAIN MUSTARD For the onions: 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil 2-3 tablespoons champagne vinegar or white-wine vinegar 2 tablespoons kosher salt 1 tablespoon freshly cracked black pepper 2 medium yellow onions, sliced into 1/8-inch-thick slices For the sandwich: 8 slices white or whole-wheat sourdough bread 1/4 cup whole-grain mustard 8 ounces Gruyere cheese, sliced into 24-32 1/16-inch-thick slices To prepare the marinated onions: In a medium bowl, combine the oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. Add the onions, toss to coat them, and allow to marinate for 15-20 minutes at room temperature. Season them with more vinegar, salt, and pepper, to taste. To assemble the sandwiches: Set half of the slices of bread buttered side down. Spread an even layer of mustard over the bread and cover with half the cheese slices, folding them back in toward the middle if they extend past the edges of the bread. Scatter the marinated onions on top and place the remaining cheese slices over the onions. Put the top slices of bread over the cheese, buttered side up. Grill the sandwiches. Cut each sandwich in half on the diagonal.
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Amanda Ipock, a 2003 graduate from Millard North High School, has been awarded the Jake J. Schreibman Foundation Scholarship to Indiana University, where she will enter as a freshman this fall. She is the daughter of Ron and Denise Ipock.
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Fifteen new members have been named to the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Board of Counselors, among them: Larry Kavich, CEO of All Makes Furniture. The Board of Counselors consists of community and business leaders from the state of Nebraska who serve in an advisory capacity. The board, which currently includes 56 members, meets three times per year and is provided with a variety of presentations at each meeting designed to help members learn more about UNMC. Nancy Nogg has been named Executive Vicepresident of Omaha-based Career Design, Inc., a strategic human resource management and outplacement firm that provides highly customized business consulting services. She will assume responsibility for regional and worldwide business development. An active member of Omaha’s business and civic communities, the former Dean of UNO’s College of Business Administration has served as a professor in the Bellevue University College of Professional Studies. Former Omahan Shelly Perelman will talk about his new book, A Nail in the Road, at The Bookworm in Countryside Village, tomorrow, June 7, 2 p.m. He will also sign purchased copies of his book.
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ORGANIZATIONS JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES Reminder: Celebrate the Music of the Greatest Generation with the Iowa Western Community Band on Tuesday June 10, 7 p.m., at the JCC. There is no admission fee. Refreshments will be served. Y.E.S. Members will meet Monday at the JCC. Play bingo at 10 a.m. with Eileen Remer or exercise with Stacey Paskert at 10:30 a.m. Bring articles to share for “YES Talk” at 11. Following lunch at noon, the Heartland Hoedowners will perform. For transportation call Dee Dee at 330-4272. Call Eileen Remer for reservations for the Father’s Day Party on June 16; deadline is June 2; deadline for Bluffs Run Casino on June 26 is June 19. The movie Catch Me If You Can will be shown on June 19 in the Blumkin Home auditorium. Bring a dairy sack lunch to eat or order a bagel sandwich from the Bagel Bin. Please give order with payment to Ilene Pachman. For any questions call her at 391-2603. WALK-IN, DROP-IN For those members going on the Lunch Bunch trip to Rick’s Cafe, on Thursday, please meet at the JCC main entrance at 11 am. Exercise will begin at 10 a.m. LOMIR REDN YIDDISH The Yiddish Conversation Group will meet Thursday, 1-3 p.m. at the JCC. Call Anne Skolkin for information at 343-1638. VISIONS Reminder: Visions’ Board Meeting is Friday, June 13, 9:30 a.m. in the Blumkin Home conference room. Visions’ Annual Baseball and Bar-B-Que is Thursday, June 26, 6 p.m., with dinner in the Stadium View Club; the game begins at 7:05 p.m. Cost is $16 per person includes buffet and the game. Send reservation form to Harry Alloy, 11317 Harney Plz. Cir., Omaha, NE 68154. Deadline is June 16. Visions presents a day trip to Kansas City to see The Producers on May 2, 2004. The cost will be approximately $102 per person which includes coach transportation, a box lunch and the performance. Dinner in Kansas City is on your own. If interested call Jim Wax at 393-4442. B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS Join the group Wednesday, June 4, noon, at the Park Inn Regency. Lunch is $9; beverage service only, $2. Programs are open to the community. OMAHA CENTER FOR TORAH LEARNING Rabbi Aryeh Blum will give his weekly parasha shiur tomorrow afternoon, June 7, 7 p.m. Time for Talmud is Monday, June 9, 7:30 p.m. The Beit Midrash meets on Tuesday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. The Wednesday Women’s Class is June 11, 7:30 p.m., all at the OCTL House, 1313 No. 58 St. Join OCTL for the weekly discussion of Torah Topics at Lunch ’n Learn, Wednesday, June 11, noon, at the Kripke Library; the Wednesday Teen Class meets at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Brooke Shrago, 805 So. 120 Ave. For information about OCTL, call Rabbi Aryeh Blum at 320-8055.
ENGAGEMENTS EPSTEIN/SHERMAN Tuffy and Helen Epstein announce the engagement of their daughter, Danielle, to Andrew Sherman, son of Nancy and George Sherman of Frisco, CA. The bride-to-be is a graduate of the University of Southern California. She is currently a public relations specialist and a certified Jazzercise instructor. Her fiance is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. He is a software developer and an accomplished blown glass artist. A November wedding is planned at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel in Palo Alto, CA. GINSBURG/HORWITZ Terry and Jack Appleman of Mennetonka, MN, and Larry and Cheri Ginsburg of Omaha announce the engagement of their daughter, Stacy Ginsburg, to Greg Horwitz, son of Linda and Steve Horwitz of Miami, FL. The bride-to-be is a graduate of New York University and the New York School of Interior Design. She is an interior designer in New York. Her grandparents are Elaine Ginsburg and the late Joe Ginsburg and the late Harry and Pauline Kirschbaum. Her fiance graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and is pursuing an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. He is currently an investment banker in New York. His grandparents are Leona Horwitz and the late Jerome Horwitz and Dorothye Mazursky and the late Seymour Mazursky. A November wedding is planned in Florida.
BIRTHS Jay and Gretchen Slusky of King of Prussia, PA, announce the May 16 birth of their daughter, Samantha Ellie. Samantha has an older brother, Ryan. Grandparents are Jerry Slusky of Omaha, Harriet Fishel of Boca Raton, FL, and Joe and Suzanne Hopper of North Wales, PA. Great-grandparents are Esther Dolgoff of Omaha, Loretta Anstey of Mt. Laurel, NJ, and Marv and Reds Hopper of Oreland, PA.
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Lauren Freeman Wins Federation Scholarship for Academic Excellence by CLAUDIA SHERMAN, Foundation Public Relations Coordinator Lauren Freeman, who will graduate Youth Leadership Summit, and from Central High School in May has Rotary Honor Roll. been named the winner of the David Besides her academic performance, Keiser and Lillian Keiser Stoms Lauren has been involved in the Foundation Education Academic National Honor Society at Central Excellence Scholarship by the High serving as secretary of the Financial Aid Committee of Jewish organization and participating in the Educational and Library Services Omaha Public Schools’ homework hot(JELS). line. She was also a member of the This is the only scholarship awarded Spanish National Honor Society. She by the Jewish Federation based solely served as Student Council president on academic merit and community and as Clubs and Academics Editor on involvement rather than on additional the yearbook staff. As a member of the financial need requirements stipulat- Board of Directors of DECA, an assoed by other scholarship endowment ciation of marketing students, Lauren funds. The scholarship was estab- was a medalist in DECA state compelished in 2002 from the David Keiser tition. and Lillian Keiser Stoms Charitable She also was captain of the varsity Foundation in their memory. At their tennis and swim teams and the Pom request, their niece, Sally Clayman of Squad and accumulated several athOmaha, has designated allocations, letic awards in tennis including All including three Jewish Federation Metro Academic Tennis Team, Lincoln scholarships, from the charitable Journal Star Academic Tennis Team, foundation consistent with the desires and a national Student-Athlete Day and philosophy of her aunt and uncle. Award. Lauren graduates third in her class “I have been an active member in of 476. She has earned a 4.7 grade Omaha Temple Youth Group (OTYG) point average (GPA) concentrating on throughout all of high school,” she advanced placement math and science added, and served on the executive classes as well as Honors English and board for three years. She’s also been a Spanish. member of the B’nai B’rith Youth Her academic honors include Organization since she was a freshman. University of Nebraska at Lincoln dis“NFTY (North American Federation tinguished scholar, Nebraska Girls of Temple Youth) and OTYG have State delegate, National Youth allowed me to take advantage of many Leadership Forum on Medicine at the volunteer opportunities,” Lauren said. University of California at Berkeley, “I have attended a variety of youth Purple Feather Award (for 3.5 cumu- conventions including Social Action lative GPA or higher), Central High Weekend in 2002 which was devoted School Honor Roll, Congressional entirely to community service.”
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She attributed her “amazing summer experiences at O l i n S a n g R u b y U n i o n Institute” as having “impacted my commitment to the Jewish community the most.” Her five summers there “developed a stronger sense of commitment to Judaism, lifelong Jewish friends from around the country, and countless experiences that cannot be forgotten.” “It has been very important for me to find my own Jewish identity,” Lauren pointed out. “My involvement in youth group, Jewish summer camps, and all of my other activities have helped me develop my own sense of Judaism. It defines what I value and how I will live my life.” She will attend Washington University in St. Louis in the fall. Her choice was influenced by the school’s “large Jewish population. I look forward to continuing to express my commitment to Judaism in college.” According to Cathy Andrus, Central High School advanced education counselor, “Lauren’s reputation as an unassuming, industrious, persevering student who spends more time listening than speaking is noteworthy. She
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