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New Yom HaShoah Concept Being Planned for Omaha I •jrCMradlWta'

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Jawlah Cultural ArU CouncU. Iha SacMy of Survtvon, and UM «Mirai Jewlab public hat baaa aiaattm raoandy to put tagithar a eomprahanilve plan to Involvr all eirmpntt of the community in thr comme moratloa of Yom HaShoah Tba purpaat o< the rxpandnl effort dila year la to begin to •hlfl tha raaponalbUlty of rr^ iminliahin Uw Hdorautl in •he yauBMR' genrralion. ac rofding to Sam Kried. pretl dent of the Society of Survl vort and coordinator of thu year'! program II wr do not makr sure that our rhlklren learn thr leuon of the Holocauiit. Ihrn that letion will t>e Icat after uur gen eratkm,"uldUr Fhed

.COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN. OMAHA Vol. LVIII No. 23

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The committee haa decided to expand the concept of Ihe-

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obttrrvame In addilion lo a main pri»gram ifwrr will l>e the Miowlng ctcmenU i IMHM rttMl tad ba davaiapMl: a maHwd of lavalvli^ Ibe rillgtoua tebooU will be formulalad: Sber Home reaklenU will have a ^MClaJ program there wlU be a ^lecial picture display in the Omaha Gallery Weat. rilma will be shown and a unique coUactkw of memorablllla will be on display The focal point of the com memoration will take place at ] p m . Sunday. April 22 at Itir Jewish Community f^mler The JCC Boaril of ' hat agreed to clow at 2.30 p m !•»"••. Hies retaUd lla Shoah program UK to Phil Cofman, JCC executive director Thoae involved on the Advl lory Commlllee lor the Yom

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State Supreme Court JusUoaNormao Krtvoaha (Ml) poMawNh tormar UraaUPrtmaMlnialar VltibakRaMn. Mrs HalawKrtva*a.DlZalklii. iraarlandHarry Allen. UNLplaaat^dlNCtar aodprsaldantofTllaratfclaraalayiiafoflue.

HaShoah program Indude: Dan Bredkey. Rabbi oeth Braoabarg. Jaae Br >roofcs, ' Rabbi Stdnay Broaka, Rick CaanaM, Laalle Epatctn, Caniw Leo Peltman Also, Magda Fried. Murray Froat, Bella F:iaenberg. Joe KIrahenbaum, Forrest Knit ter. Ilse Kuttner, and Stanley Mitetaell Alto, Rabbi Isaac Nadoff. Jeanette Nadoff, Baa Pappenhelmer. Bob Pappenhelmar^ Jan Perelman. and S(4 RIeket _ Alao. Michael Richmond" Carl Roaenberg. Judi Ronenb latt. Charlene Snyder. Stepha nie Wakthlag. and Kdythe Wolf Aiao. Marty Wolf. Aron Zel derman. David Lazana. and Phil Wayne

Project Elijah Expands 9 Seder Hospitality Program this yf.ii Ij. 'iillet h;iv#* rtpftv^i -,» in ' "* ' ' -ii** iirsi and/or

ByOMrail 1 PtMiMr laraail Pilme MloYlltbak RaMn facml a •4 pro-Paieatlnlan backMag In Uacain iMl vaak Mr Rabbi waa a anal laclarar at Iba UnlvanUy af Nabraska-Llacoln's Student Uaiab, March t DaHvarad to an aiidlaw» of nMatofUwmUNL the ipeech waa lo the ont delivered at CratgMoa Unl la both Iccturaa. Mr I pradlctad an EorptatolaraaN paaea traaty would ba ri*Md by Aprii, mi aultoad OH HMary af Ibe laraalt-Arab . TbaCm^HB laetyra I Mamvtad. and rea MwiJHBg ovatkHi M apprttximatdy 100 At UNL, ibauU of "mur dsrar," apd "Uar," broke into Mr Rabtn'sapaadkiaitUUNL Regent Ed Scbwartxkopf iCaatbHNdoaPagelt

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On this rommltlee are rep rescnidlivrR from Jewish Service, the Jewish i . I' I iiionnf Omaha, the Bu reau of AglnR and the Depart ment of Jewi.«h Frtwalion The expaminii IS lo Include newcomers to ..,,..,,„ II.MU.J inR lamllles The committee took Into consideration tlie (act that many new famlHes to our community have no relatives locally and would have no one with whom to spend the holi days Since It la traditional lo

spend the holidays with family and friends, and since It it also traditional to invite In tiie stranger, the committee felt that openln* Ihe program up to Ih' 1,1 mak' 1 pleaN>..... infiful Represent inK Jewish Fag ly Service on the commitb are Natalie (iendler. pn dent, and Bob I>ovetl. e cutive direilor Kepresentii Federation and er's Committee ; Iman, prrsidenl. er, committee chairn Conrad Koller. staff aa Representing the Bureau AKing IS Hen I.auh exeruliV lor And i '••parlmeni ...<.,iiHi

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Rotenbaum. director Individuals and families de siring to either act as hosts or as guests are requested to < ~ tact the Jewish Family vice office as soon as possible^ The telephone numt>er Is 334-1 t200ext 68

Einstein's Legacy for tiie Generations as Jew and Zionist ByPbUtpStomovtu Kdilar. Oatratl Jewtab New* I JswtebTMagrapblc Agaacy, Inc I Mere mention e( tha aaaic Albert Cbialain sufflcca lo camI hMareat. Btographieai daU about bbn becomes a wparlHoUag. AU that naa* lo bo regtalered as an induMmeot •llMl 1 Uioran^ Mudy at bla ttte aad achlavemenu is to give dMoepriorlUaa: Hewaaba(iilnin«,0«rflMay.Marcbi4,l«79 HI* Special and Oeaeral Tbaertee of Relathrlty. ritiM^H bi MM and i«lt, laapaetlvely. brought about the griolwl laMtocbial ravotaUan rinee laaae Newton Eloateia uaUled dM concapu of space and lime, aiatter aad anarfy, gravitation aad tt>«tla. all OHutft at on* Ihae to be Independent aad sb*alute —^"a*, tato on* ail-anibraclng coamic concept He won the IPrlMtoun. la MH. altar Hitler came to paver In Oermany, Btoitota )ebMd Ihe iaetltida tor Advance Study at Prtocataa. New Jeraay aa ProliMir of MHJwmanrs and Theoretical nqnte* and aa bead of Ihe MathMBaUe* Department Ironically. EbMtabi, on* «f Ihe loraBMat padflato of his time, waa the oof to, bi hta mm words.-preaa Ibe button" that mbared In the atoaiUc era to military warfare. Arrordbn to Ihe Encydopedto Judalca. Etaoiatn. whan approadtod by M* M*Bd (Uo) Sdlard. signed a tottar to PnaMant RoeaeveM pelnlbn out dw (aaeibllity of atomto Margy. II WM

the letter that sparked the Manhattan Project and future devel opments of atomic energy However. Einstein, oppoaed to the uae of tlie atomic bomb, as were many other sclenlltts. wrote another letter which, however, arrived only after Rooeevelt's These are Mghllghu in Ihe career of one of the greatest personalitlea in l^itory For world Jewry be was the giant who up held the banner of Juetlce lor the oppreeeed and championed Ihe aoplratlan* tor freedom for Jews everywhere, (or their right to rotate their legaciet and their just cause for Zion redeemed Albert Einstein was not aplogetic at a Jew He was staunch In his loyalties, even when he found it neccsaary lo deflne his faith, tlie religious concern sclentiflrally He stated "What are Uie characteristics of the Jewish group'* What. In the first place, la Jew"* There are no quick an swer* to IbM questkm The moat obvtous anawer would be the taUewlag: A Jew la a paraon protaaaing Ihe Jewtoh faith The su p*rftelal cbaractarof tbto au*aai tieaaUy recogilied by means ofashnptoparaliel LetusaAlhegnaatton What is a snalP An on*w*r atmllar tai kbid to the one given above might be: A snail I* an animal Inhabiting a snail shell This answer Is not allogeth•rtacorrect nor. to be sure, is it exhaustive: lor the snail shell bappane lo be but one of the material producU of Ihe snail "Similarly, the Jewish faith is but one of the characteristic preducU of the Jewtah community If la, turtbermore, known

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that a siull can shed its shell wlttiout tiiereby ceasing lo be i snail The Jew who abandons his faith Mn Ihe formal sense of t word I IS In a similar position He remains a Jew" Prof Kinslein could have been president o( the H"*" versity in Jerusalem He rejected the offer for su< leadership He was offered the presidency of lir,i' first president. Or Chaim Wpumann. died on Nov 9. Ii62 The | ttien Prime Minister David Ben (jurlon explained the proposal: "The presidency in Israel is a symbol." he said later It carries with It no power I thought to myself If we are looking for a symbol, why not have the most Illustrious Jew in the world, and poefibly Uie greatest man alive Kinslein'' Thafsall there was to II Had he accepted. I would have sutimilled hit name to ttie Knesset - in Israel the Knesset elects the president - and I am quite siire that Ihe motion for his election would have been carriefl by acclamation " That epiaode In Einstein's life, the oiler of the Israel presidency, la fully deUlled by hia bbigrapher. Ronald W Hark In the World published "Life andTImaaof Elnateln" "Einstein, like most of his friend*, refuaed to take Ibe Idea seriously and when the .New York "Hmet asked for Wa reaetkm on the evening of .Sunday the 16th. he refuaed to commerit. Shortly afterwards, the tdafihane in Mercer Street (Einstein's addresa in Princeton, New Jersey I rang again and the operator aaM Itaal (Continuedon Page?) Jj


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