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tell your child This is the Matzo of Hope that the Jews of the Soviet Union may Itnow that they have not been forgotten. the leader of the service adds the following comments when distributing the matzo after the blessing over the matzo. He lifts a matzo, sets it aside and says: "This matzo which we set aside as a symbol of hope for three million Jews of the Soviet Union reminds us of the indestructable link that exists between us. ' 'As we observe this festival of freedom, we know that Soviet Jews are not free to learn of their Jewish past to hand it down to their children. They cannot learn the languages of their fathers. They cannot teach their children to be the teachers, the Rabbis of future generations. "They can only sit in silence and become invisible. We shall be their voice and our voices shall be joined by thousands of men of conscience, aroused by the wrongs suffered by Soviet Jews. Then shall they know that they have not been forgotten and they that sit in darkness shall yet see a great light.''
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This seder plate is different because it actually is inscribed with the entire Kiddush and the order of the seder. Shown are Moses, Aaron, David, Joseph revealing himself to his brethren, and Israelites preparing to leave Egypt.
Seder Plate made by Isaac Cohen in Pesaro, Italy in 1614. Now owned by the Jewish Museum in New York and formerly owned by the Jewish community of Danzig.
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radaism-sometliing to grow up into In teaching, Mn JalMnM Bromberg tries to convey a I el ceatiMii ty of, the eUiict and the eiHaet of the Tboee fMlt. layi Mra Brambert a veteran e( ao y9KM taacWnt. ttt f*<f hit^ *y twf f'ff'ftg : of the penoB to paraoB: o( the penon to , andof tlwpenoB loGod. At Onafca JcwWl Dajr SdMol. wkcre Mrt I tMdM, tint through ilxth pade, the IcMrrteHkn is heavily geared to Israel This, uy«, [ Mrs. Branberg, gives the child a sense of time and place where the Bible happened; of what nomad or faming family life was then. This is a natural first step in a Jewish education. Mrs Branterg feels, sfaice "Judaisni is aa adult rdlfion " "The praywtook is very sophisticated literature It 8notstflapieataa."dieHys. Of all Jewlrii heUdayi. only Pesach is specifically . feared to children, rile pointed out, emphMizing that IIhe survival of Judaism depends on adult Jewish it's tnportaat that children know that I ii loaMlbiRg to row up with and iirie, staoe the powers o( abstraction don't develop until well Into the teen-age years." At the S^didsot sciMMil, emphasis is placed on vieaa. Shdrtly after a stawdalad t ssrvioe - eonpiete with miniature Torab scrolls - Mrs. Bromberg toM the Jewish Press that jHw curriculum Includes showing children how to rate holldayi by actually doing, instead of "just (about it ' On th^ level of her persanal philooophy of teaching. Mn. Braoberg feels Judaism "is sonethtag i malataMng. TbSK la a oMttve rtoJudatsm: a basically eptlalstic 110 Ma. P«nMaltaf dM aquation is the land . TSMUIV Is dolBC wliat I can do to aoaore the
continuity of the Jewlih people I wu bom Into Judaism, and I believe transmitting those vataea la positive and helpful" In the school, the optimistic and creative approach Is effected through careful selection and Interpretation of years from the Bible It is important that children lean that Judaism li a let of values, relathmahlpo and guidelines that Influence relationships between the buman beings. Creator, and creation i Including ecoldgy). Mn Bromberg feels. One of the things appealing most to Mn Bromberg Is that Judaism Is based on s strong Intellectual tradition "ThevalueoftheTorabscrolttos community is an indication of the value placed on maintaining an unintemipted, accurate continuity That means a written tradition," the points out Bsantial to maintaining the continuity It the atudy of Hebrew, she Insists "The purpose of the study of Hebrew Is for each generation to maiotalfl and renew the contact with the unchanged wrltlen tradttloa. Mrs. Bromberg seas eooouragbigtnnds In Jewish educadi»artih«BliieeWof1dWarll Oneofttaoae trandi li that laon ddldrsn are continuing Jewish edueatioa aftarlhair Bar MItsvahs. AaodMr la, that more eaOcfEa and UBlversttiea are establishing departments of Judaica. In part, Mrs Bromberg says, renewed Merest is s result of general feelings of "Why?" and "I waiH to kaov Ban," on the part of the new fsMratton. In reU^iHB tsriM, tWi sifiWes to Mrs. Brookarg a gre«tho("8hearttUrael". the remnaiitol Israel, wWch la Meipntad to mesa the percentage of knowtedgeaMe, committed and active Jews within the people o( Israel as a whole On the subject of the war. and b) line with her opthniatlc view of Jodaten. Mrs. Bronbarg feels the "is Mt enou^ to laake OM ««il to write off
mankind " Still, at her personal protest, the refuses to buy German producU Bom In Germany, Mrs Bromberg came to the I' S in 1117 and grew up In TampS, Florida She has a bachelor't degree in Hebrew literature from Brandeis University, and has undertaken grsduate studies In education She hat also taken courses at Bank Street College In New York, and at the Teacher's Inttilute of the Jewiah Theological Seminary. also In New York She came to Omaha four years ago with her husband. lUbM KcHMdi BfWBiMri of Beth El, a former director of religious education in Pittsburgh They have three children; Naomi, who graduates this year from Brandeis University In Judaic Studies, and who plans to become a loclal worker: Efrem, who Is st an ulpan (inunlgrant absorptkm center) In Israel and HUld, a junior at Central High School "I enjoy being a teacher for the same reaaon I i enjoy being a parent," Mrs Bromberg said, smiling The essence of Judaism and Jewish education Is to be found in the family " It will remain so, she feels, even Uiough family forms are changing" Perhaps the nuclear i father, mother, diUdren) family will be replaced by newer forms of extended family." she She died the lormatton of Havurot In seversi hwatlont Inthe U S Havurot. the explained. ai« groups of fsnUlies that unite to create a larger "tamUy " that works totether In times of crisis, or tor holidays Given Increaaed social and geographic mobility in the country nowadsyt, this could be an Itriamtlntdstalopiuaut. Mrs. Brooberg said ^nufoiut attaidaoce by no means can tubsUtute for family life, but rather, enhances that life, Mn Bromberg tald "Jewltb life can be improved by famUiea learning together in the lynafofue, or at camp or retreat, then returning to the home to Intensify their own Jewish experience," she said
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ttw ralHw'* whMle, blown •MTgitteally by a maa who, t( not for a buriqr BMiataciH, could alRMX br takan Iw oac o( the ftudenu The laadwr. Howard Halparte, I nakat up for hit itabiK by laadauUiartty We don't kaow what we'd do wttbout hun." lays Roefchfwik Pimdpd Kari Hughet Mr Halpnin has baaa pbyatcaJ education teacher at Roddbrook (or %ix yeart, and. uyt Prtadpal Hughea, "We're afraid [ to kiae Urn to ooe of the t aehoois where ha foaa to Mr. Malperin hae been Unrtag Nebraakaadwoidlaifteta lecturtBg on a new profram: Leaminc IHaaUlitiea - Kinderiarten (LD-Ki ThepragnunwaadarifMdtwo yun af» by a taaoi of lyeelalMs hiilmMi^nalpaiki. Tlmripflif Pi Ardrite. BiMMrt a«l Ruby Heuboer The pnwa to deai^Md to detect, evaluale, aad reoiedy leantag disaMUtiea tai UnderfarUii-ate efaildrta •UVKwUI be extended throu^HMt the state, and there'i a pos8it>llity It may go nationwide.'' says Mr Halperin But that's still in talkti« stage." LD-K. he expUins. with "normal" ctiildren's
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there are not many Jewlah studeoU at Rocfcbntok. M r Halparhi haa been a marvefcNis eianple to ttie other kids The JewWi stadaota are very praod that Ike BMat popular peraon In the aoe who is admired by aUfca-toJawtoh. Ha adds to their sUbM and makaa them (eel 4wdai. Ooa oBother has oftca told Uie story ataot the thne her sixth grade daughter haard something very traumatic. Her first statameatwas. "I've got to talk to Mr. lUpertn He'll understand Oda and help me through It" Tht parents, far from being hurt tl>at she waiMed help Irom outside die family, were happy Uiat she bad such oonddsDce In and rapport wllhhim. Otfear wsthsn. non-Jewish, whoaecMldren have had prot>lcms aneh aa poor readlag tkilla. as to repeat a grade or etc, have specified thai they want Mr Halperin at the aloiHI with school and psychologists foei be haa a unique of their child even he may not haw tte degree spadfled tor dtafsoslng the problem Anonymouf
the paraol to evatnata «lM( «t can do about M It's a conttanlng thing tram Uienon,"heexplalna. The praUeus rame from I hi Mlii« left from right, to "skills Impnlrmcnlsta "(hie motor sklllt." such aa wrMflf. uw aiw bandM throutfi U)-K, aa are baarlacaod balance proMema; dw latter aimoat always related. "Any of theae prablams may not be crippling, but they may Under a child from Khieving at the same level aa Ma daaamtfaa," Mr. Halperin says "We deatpied the program on a hit and Bitoi' basis: if It worked, we'd use tt " Much of the wwt waa done throu^ fstng ta workshops and by raadtag praiHaiooaJ literature on U^ iub)eet. he explained A native-born Omahan, son of Yale and Ida Halpertn, Mr Halperin. a. Is a Central Hi^ School graduate He reoetvad his bachelor of science decree In ediKation from the Univeraity of Nebraska-Omaha He plans to go back to actool to get a master's degree In a field related to laaniii«Aaabillties A year agp. he married a Rockbrook School teacher School policy prevents huaband and wife from working at the same school "Either she or I had logo Finally. she went to another school, while I stayed here." he said •Rockbrook School is lust about the Ideal situation to work in." Mr Halperin comments "The kids come from well-to-do famlltes. where they get diadpllne at home, and so they're disciplined and respectful at school. There are not many Jewish kids here. Most of them are at Swanson," he commented 'I love the work, mainly because I like small children They're honest, and pull no punches. You have to earn their respect, and keep It once you have It I hale to sec them bored I had physical education teachers who would set up a game or an exercise, and then goread the sports page Well, I'm not that way " Back at the gym. Mr Halperin puts on a disco record, and has a small clau of sixth-graders limber up lo the exercises, then sit on skateboards for a skate-football game that has them yelling and struggUog enthuaiastically (or the amatl football. The Bolae is not quite aa bad as the previoua basketball game: "Thebest game we've had ao far." says Mr Halperin Answering a comment on the noise level, he smiles "I'm used toll " He goes on to explain aome of the methods used hi his physical educattandaaaes. "We have movement expkwation: every child (bids his or her own space. We don't make them form lines Then we have
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exercises. I ask them to demonstrate how maiqr ways they can get around the gym on two feet 11 could be walking, skipping. Jumping Nobody's wrong It gets to be a creative dance In another session, we may have the younger kids identify different parts of the body. so they learn to know ttieir bodies, and the movements they're capable of. Then we have discodandng classesThat's gotaig pretty well Rl^ now. r m getting them past the line-dance stage to where they're actually touching At that age. that's a difficult thing to accomplish." In addition to the learning disabUlty workshops he haa been teaching In outxUte Nebraska. Mr. Halperin has also given talks to school children and young adults about Judaism He finds that at Rockbrook,
where there are few Jewish children nsaJewMi children are Interested InI Jadalsm, and often ask him the meaning of holidays I Identify mysdf as a Jew, although I'm not aggressive' about it. "hesays, adding thai he has never encountered1 problenu in his career became of being a Jew His intarest in physical education and sports started early, then continued at the Jewish Community Center where he taught boys sports for several years He still plays basketball at the Center, most recently as a member of the Wolf Brothers team "We might have had a periect season in our last game," he ^ns "We'veplayed eight gamesand lost them all" Nervous, he glances up at the clock Time for Howard Halperin to return to his kids
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Books feed the hungry mind "The three R's of our schocd system must be supported by the three T's ... Teachers who are superlorr techniques of instrucikxi that are modem, and thinking about education which places it first in all our plans and hopes." —Lyndon B. Johnson Tbe above ti from Uw plirue coUecUoa o( Morris Hoffnun, wto alao collects ponies md preaeoU them Such as: •to would want to move from Carmel, CalUornia. one o( the most t>eautif ul and comfortable places tn the U S . to Omaha? The answer is: Moriis Hoffman, and the reason is that he came to Omaha to beeeoie director of information aarvlces at Northern Natural Gas Company In 19U Having started a J«»lsh day school in Carmel, he gravitated to teMhIog at Temple Israel, where he eventually beeanedlreetor of education He now laadMB courses in Reform Judaism and Ethics His iMcMng method Incorporates pussies, which also tIfUK prominently in the Northern Natural Gas Company's library twlletin, wUeh be edits. A library expert-he derifwd the Jewish Pederstion's library at the Jewish Community Center here-Mr Hoffman feels booia and teaching, and teaching and Judaism are inseparable. "We have fostered learning (ran ilie ghetto, and to teach you need freedom. Freedom of apeschls s JewMi vahie, and to leach well, you also have to have Itaedsm. "Ttereai«dtfferentkladsofteacherB."he adds. "You can be a diaclpltnarian. a 'fact' teacher, or open-ended teacher. Either one of those works. One ^^op y that doesn't work, is trying to teach as though you selling s conunodity." In addition to pudes, Mr. Hoffman uses articles and clippii«s 10 get Ideas aeroaa to his pupUs. It is a method devalopnd (kroo^ a UMIne of teaching 8tartii« with his Univenlty of MtoneaoU bachelor's degree to library science, and a master's degree to education and hiatory, Mr Hoffman became Ubrartan at the Navy Postgraduate School In CaUfomia. ConcurreaUy, be taught
A bachelor at the time, be did what any young Jewish man would do In a small town get in touch with the nearest Jewish comnuinlty, which happened to be In Salinas Throu^ activities and publicity supported by the Salinas community. Mr Hoffman discovered that in Carmel and Monterey there was a significant number of Jews Enough, in fact, to form a religious school, which started out with about 10 students, and volunteer teachers One of the teachers Is now a US Army general. Anotlier is a .Manne coloml. "We started out with three or four rooms St the PreskHo, which Is the Navy base there.' Mr Hoffman recalls. "Later, we rented a hall We had kids from Bges five toeleven, and I bought the primers in San Francisco At peak, we had 25 kids" At the same time, Mr Hoffman taught history and citizenship for new Immigrants at night school In 19S8. he left Carmel for his present position as director of Information services at Northern Natural Gas in Omaha He describes his work u supervising "one of the best technical libraries In the Midwest; mpervlBing reproduction and control of forms, and management of records He also teaches company employees reading and writing "Most people can't read or write, "Mr Hoffman says. They don't need to. We live abbreviated lives, and people want everything condmsed or indexed. They have no need to communicate " Still. Mr Hoffman feels, the trend is starting to change, the pendulum lo swing "The statistics uy more books are purchased today than ever before, but people don't seem to read them But people are starting to realize that they must listen, read and write" It Is the toacher's moat Important functkm to teach those skills, Mr Hoffman feels Insomeofhtselssaes. he has students read and bring in articles about Je%rish people to the news He recalls one boy bringing In a headline that read "Mooes builds Trlboro bridge." The story rHerred to brtdge-builder Robert itoNewYork "Teaching kids U one of the grealoM satlafactlons
one can have." says Mr Hoffman "Noneof titema alike That's what makes leaching so unpredictable It keeps you young " "It's when you see that light In a kid's eyes that you feel you've really hit on something " To get the light to shine. Mr Hoffman resorts lo a wide range of themes with relevance to everyday life Illustrating the theme of the Creation, and making the point that God meant mankind to conserve what was created, he brings up the story of Martha the pigeon In 1922. Martha the last passenger pignn, died Passenger pigeons became extinct JusI s few years before that, countless milltonsof passenger pigeons darkened American skies Perhapa because there were so many, they were netted, shot snd trapped until one of God's creations disappeared from the earth forever "Teenagers are aware of what happens when a resource Is not renewed. "Mr Hoffman said He speaks about children with some auUiority Hoffmans have seven children Uf his wife. Geraldine Mr Hoffman says she Is the best cook lo the world, and is very proud of being a good housewife. She also dees volunteer work at the Doctor Sher home "She Is talented, but not well known In the community Like many people, she doein't come forth, and there are many talented people who are not put to use by the oonununlty here." Mr Hoffman remarked Currently, Mr Hoffman Isworktogonsettlngupa network of Jewish libraries. { With Sherm Poska. he hopes toestabllsh a dau bank enabling Jewish libraries natlon-wfcte to have access to each others' materials, as well as to private and Jewish community center collections " Were trying to fill part of the need for more Jewish knowledge, education and methods," Mr Hoffman said. "We need to Idenlify the mass of Jew •dHcatlonal material avaUable: to make It Tbe bilomation is there, but there's a human retrieving It As It Is. Jewish echicatkm should not be oversimplified The fact Is, that the amount of money spent on Jewish education research these days is pathetic It's frustrattog to have an idea you're not ^ able to carry out fully "
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Incentive program offers 150 points for no arguments at iiome Call It bribery If you want Cantor Leo Fettman calls It the Beth Israel Talmud Torah locentlve Program, and tayi It works The (act ts, the Cantor's students win gift certtflealM lor beonilng (Mr liarants aeoanHat to tiM oonmaBdmeni Tte potat ayilMi Inding to the gift eertlflcaie raofBi tram 10 points (or wearing a yarmulke at dinner i (or the boys) to 100points (or attendingShabbat morning service during the summer, or UO polBtf for "No arvmeots a( home for OM wMk." Kiaii^ ike BMunrii ^rhanBtorti^andlcav<i^tl>ftome a day Is worth 30 points; rtalng a psrsnt Misrs uM room (once a and only If (he parent has bean away for a while) gets the youngster 30 points
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The mttzvot and Qie points accrued vary from aft pTNV to ace group. Saying specUlc prayers at approfNiate times and oceasioas alao receive points which are much the same lor each age pvup. To an outsider, some items seem htndeiiuaey rewarded. Only 100 points tor a girl who pians and cooks (with a UtUe help) the Shabbat meal for the wkolt (amlly? M painta for giving up ^riovMn (ran •>•«( to sunset on ^K^biMt doesn't seem much either ^^ The goal o( the system is "to bring AidntMB ailve at sd[|}ol, synafofue and la UM home." Cantor Fettman states "RnUgfon docs not betong in the ^nafsgue alone We prepare students tor a future In which they will teach their children, and not leave all education to the schools. Wc also prepare them (or when they leave home to fo to coUege, so that they won't be dragfsd away by ctdU They )eia culu becauae the culls have something to offer Jews who don't know (he beauty o( Judaism," he emphsslied "Knowledgealone is not enough." says the Cantor, explalntaig the rattonale beliiad the (aeentive pro-am. "You •Mit have parfsmanee; nitivat to the
home Knowledge without commitment Is not Judaism We instill In the chUdren the responsibUlty of msking the American Jewish house a Jewish home " The problem o( Judaism In America today is that many of our schools are nothing more than Bar Mitxvah (actories This is not education ' Cantor Fettman believes thai unless Jewish education Is constantly renewed, emphasized and Implemented, "we run the risk of finishing what Hitler didn't the annihilation o( the Jewish people " He hu first-hand knowledge of HlUer During a 13-manth stay at Auschwitz concentration camp, he was hanged, but the rape broke Later, he was at ttie displaced persons camp at Bergen-Beisen. another conoentration camp. Bcfdrt the war. Cantor FMtman was a haasld, studying al the Scatmar YeshivB in hto nstive Dahraoen, Hungary. (TbeStatmarhaosidIm evolved later tato the Natorel Karta. a rellgioHS group now baaed to New York that actively opposes exislence o( the state of Israel I From the Bergen-Belsen camp, he emigrated to Canada and studied at Uaor HafsUh Yeshivs to Moolnal, graduating after eight years u rabbi, cantor and teacher His first sppolntment was at North Bay, Ontario He went on to a congregatton to Gary. Indtona, then to Madtoon. WtocoMto where he stayed (or II years, then became cantor at Beth Ivael Synagogue here He has been acting principal of Beth Israel school since last year and, he says. Is pleased with (he support he has received from all members of the congregation. " I can't give up teaching," the Cantor uys Right now, I have a bad case of laryngitis, but I can't call off my claSaes You see, a teacher Is B part-time parent At the same Ume, a parent akoold be a
"Hebrew is not the first priority" In Jewtoh education, Bath Israel Cantor Lao rattaan uys As acting principal and active taadw, he feels Torah and Judaic vahMs should iaka prseadaaes a«w UH lanfnafs, given the tittle time atudcBti spend at sdMoi.
full-time teacher, because religion doesn't stop ss soon u you leave the synagogue The synagogue can't replace the home But a teacher must alao be psychiatrist, psychologist, and (most Important I a friend My students come to me because they know I don't hsve the word 'No' In my vocabulary Parents often come to me to ask me to aak their kids something, or vice-veru Many misunderstandtogs in the home arise simply because things are not explained, or because a child or parent falls to see the other person's point of view One method I use Is to get parenU and children together, then make them reverse roles" The method, which has been applied by Cantor Fettman during sunmsr ooursss at ihe Jewish Cooununity Center, has alao brought excellent results, he cUims Qffm activities Include value darlflcatioo. in which participants (adult or teen-age) relato to iheoaeives and to each other to a ssaich fir definitions snd answers to (luestions like "WholsaJew. "or "Whataremy Jewish values?" Cantor Fettman places special emphaalsoo gstttog femato students to partidpato In activities and services. "There are parts of the asrvtee to which, according to Halacha, women may take part So. every ShabtMt we have students take part to the services And they en)oy doing It " Still, (he Cantor draws the line at women rabbis. On the subject of Hebrew, the Cantor (eels the language is not the (Irst prtorily to a Jewiah afternoon school No more than five percent o( afternoon school studenU speak Hebrew to their nonschool lives, he says, and time Is llmiled " We have the stuftonts (or no more than 1,300 hours to their lives, l( we figure six hours s week. Given the short time, we risk neglecting Torah and our values The fact is, I can.leach anyone to read Hebrew to six wselu," he said. A man of deftoito optoions, the Cantor
can be vehement when It comes to anti Semltism and the Holocaust He Is a cofounder of Uie survivors group now active In Omaha, and which plans a ^m dinner In honor of (he soldiers who ^| liberated (he concentration ramps The dinner is to be held at the Hilton Hotel. April? m "Wearenotongersllcnl,"Cantor V Fettman states firmly "We cannot be silent or paulve When American Nazis were going to drmonstrste In uniform in Skokto(Illinois) I was going there I'm not saying they should not be allowed to speak. But not to uniform and even so, I think nobody should be Bllowed to preach hatred Call It censorship. If you want. "They should not be allowed" He recalls an anecdote from hU days at Madison Invited to a radto talk show. he discovered later that one of his ^ answers had not been broadcast The • VMStion came from a woman of German ikacent, who wanted to know why she had to be reminded of spmething unpleasant that had happened 10 yean agiXtheHoktcaust) From (IK pulpit of a Protestant church, the Cantor later answered; "Ask a Jew why Jews always answer questions with a question, and he'll Whynot^'IamaJew.andln r to your question I ask: Why are I of something that happened 3.000 years ago, and that we did not commit?" Very much a (amlly man. Cantor Fettman speaks proudly of his wife Annetto. who Is a sculptor and who studies at Creighton An exhibit of her work is scheduled a( the Jewish Community Onter Uler this year. The Fettmana have two daughters llvtog to Cincinnati, Ohio, where one is married to an assistant rabbi, the other at college Another daughter is married to a hassid to Rochester, N Y. another studies to Madison, snd aaonanaa a aon and a ^^^m daughter are studying toiJ«niaalen.^^H
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Blanche Wise: ' I love kids ' The aim of • Jcwiih •dueaior (rtHWid be to InsUU a feeitng lor the Mirvlval of Jewtah life, and for a (eehnK of kinahip with Jews tvarywhen aaya Beth El teacher Blanche Wlae One way to achieve ttaoae alma. Mrs Wlie (iodi. Is to tMch cMldm to obaerve holidays, customs and
•To IMUU a iealli« tor Jcvtak lUe and a faaUai of I JaMtwjflwu." laHwiaal Jawii> accofdtBf to Beth P tether WaaeheWlaa.
"I try to give Uds a sUrt In Jewish feeling that I hope will stay with them through life Even so, roost of It must come from the home I try to be Instrumental In retnforcing what the home gives the children, but I alao wtah there were more teacWng done by the parents at home,'' she says Mrv Wise has Uughl Hebrew, remedial Hebrew and Jewtsli history at Beth El synafogue school for 20 years "I'm starting to get the children of the children I taught at the beginning, "she laughs Bom Into an Orthodox Kansas Ctty family which moved to Omaha wtMa Mrs. Wise was five years aid, ri» attended Talmud Torah here for eight years " in those days we uaed to go to Talmud Torah five days a week, aa opposed to the three days a week required nowadays," she said
"Jewish children should learn their heritage and all that goes with It They should know where they came from," she goes on
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Teaching the children to be famUlar with their roots extends to the class on American Jews Mrs Wise leaches Amoiw the contrttwtians Jews have made to American life are financing the American Revolution. Most people don't know that Chatm Solomon loaned George Washington large amounts of money to pay bia men, "she pointed GUI (Solomon never KOt the
investment back) Rebecca Gralx estaMlahed the fli Jewish Sunday School la America almost a hundred yean ago Emma Latarua, poetaas and educator, wrole the Inscription that Is engraved at the foot of the Statue of Liberty And there are bundreda more Mrs Wlae alaolakea care to point out to her | students that the US was a haven for Jews frOm Russia and Eastern Europe who otherwise would have lived In direct poverty, or died In pogroms. Mrs Wise herself feda tbereuglily American "I do everything to support Israel, but my heart Is in Anoerica. I live my Judaiam aa a natural tiling. I don't need to remind myself ollt conatantly Yes, when I wss In school. I did feel left out when everybody else had their Christmas tree But things have changed now Kids are proud to be Jewish " Asked what changes she would like to ace In Jewtah education, Mrs. Wise rapUad ihc would like to se» more HetMVw taugM In JawWi school. "Perliimis learning to speak Hebrew Is not aa important as reading," she commsnted "In almost every caae, there's nobody the children can convene with unless they go to Israel " Mrs WIsealaoUughtadulleducatkmclaaaesforlo yean, but prefen to teach children. "The reason I love kida is that they're honest, not phonies And they get enthusiastic sbout learning, and transmit that enthusiasm to the teactier ' "Like the chlldfen In my claases, my own (grown i boys always liked lo be called up at the synagogue to read the Torah Reading the Torah Is a (Hi vilege I always miaaed wtien I was s child. I couldn't understand why the boys got to read, and girli were never called. Some yean ago, I was called up to read, and fuUUlad what I had always wanted to do That one time was enough Now I fed satisfied sbout It." ihe said, smiling In response to a question, shesald she would not want to be a rabbi, but thinks it is excellent that women can became rabbis If they want to In general. .Mni Wlae approves of recent changes in reliKlous practice: changea that tend in the direction of freedom and equality between the aexes As for Increased (reedoro and more relaxed codes In society as a whola. Mn Wise feels thai the iltualion does not present an Increased danger of aasirailstion " As long aa a cMldhaaaoildroota in Judaism. I don't think he or she will become aaslmllated." she stated Still, she admlU the risks of assimilation are high, and getting higher aa society becomes more open, and people more mobile socially and geographicaily She reiterates that If the fedlng of Jewish identity, has been iaatllled In Ihe yoiBig, It will be the greatest safeguard against thdr being loot to Judaism Mn Wise U the widow of Harry Wise. Jr. who died seven yeara ago. and the mother of Michael, a graduate law atudent at Washington fniversily in SI Louis Her youngest son. Steven, graduates this year from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, . and plans to go to Isw school Steven spent his Junior year in Israel Like their mother, both boys are Central High School graduates and Beth El alumni Even though she describes baradf M "a very private person," Mre Wise Is effusive when she speaks of the synagogue "I have very good feel about Beth El. I was married there, went to there and I am still teaching and working at the synagogue office. It's s very Important part of my
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Portrait of a Family How your dollars to the Omaha Federation Campaign give Jewish life to our family (we are a family — we work and act like one) THIS IS US!
1979 Federation Allocations to local, national Er overseas agencies
(Dollars allocated from 1978 Campaign) DOLLARS AVAILABLE: $1,660,000
Campaign raised in 1978 Miscellaneous contributions • Less bad debt allowance Less capital repairs Er fixed asset purchases Dollars available
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THESE ARE OUR COUSINS! in Israel and the world
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Idea of service joyfully given helps handicapped ^•mitaldag the moit paydiedHk: f Imagliillinfirlrnrr flrflnnrrri Ttir vay IMBCiiregoing, wtw would be •urpriied to aw the blind leading Uw (igbled thanks to some already takenfgr-grantcd gadget Doiis Cohn probably wouldn't As former director of the Omaha Public Schools' Media Center (or the Visually Imiwtred, alie Is familiar with the oonMCOpla of electronic marvels that •remuuKiiMtingaminority thet>lind. oroMrMind. The ulUnute goal of Mrs Cohn's work it to teach visually impaired childrefl independence If you haven't taught them independence, you haven't taught them anything.'' she says With independence comes mobility the fbility to communicate and move aroHBd. and to learn in regular dMmnom situations m MnCoho Started the Omaha Public ^MnoU'media center In 19M after she ^Hd worked aa a volunteer (or seven I years 'We started with two bookcases. I Now. there's a staff of four people
working ckwely with 12 teachers for the vlaually impaired, and with all the latest equipment." she says The center's function is to create, produce and order materials and equipnMVt for the minority of 100 visually impaired students in the system Of the 100,13 are blind The center provides all classroom lexttMoks and supplementary charts. maps and tests in the medium which each student needs: braille, large type, or cassette recordings Much of the material is produced at the center, or by volunteers working at home, such as Mrs Cohn herself, who rKlred as director last year Her husband. Robert, is also a volunteer, specializing in wire-and-solder maps Uke braille, the wire-and-solder lectmique produces raised contours on special plastic sheets Mrs Cohn uaes a typewriter-like machine called a brailler" to produce master texts which arp then reproduced at the center "Withqpt volunteers, we couldn't function. "Mrs Cohn said One group of volunteers is from Beth El synagogue.
•alarlals, such as tida wtra I Co blind sdMoi cMMw (iniighout OH a pool oaoMnd li iMlprfla, Ky. llH •i» WMaada by Robert CMM, ate wMk Ha wUaOorli,
Darts Cohn, former director of the Omaha Public Schools M«dU Center lor the Visually Impaired, typ« a maatar o( a adnol text In braille Mrs Oohn, now retired, remains a volunteer helping the blind and near-blind Mrs. Cohn started her volunteer work Others are from the Telephone Pioneers of America, the service organizationof "MaBell " "All the centers belong to an interlocking systam loeated m Louisville. Ky ."sheexplained All materials are registered there, and made available to others throughout the country The system supplies a pool of skills and materials that add up to provide just about anything you need or want to read or consult.'' according to Mrs Cohn Main source for the equipment to use the materials Is supplied by Teleaensory. Inc. of Palo Alto, California Among the space^age marvels produced by the company are machines that translate the spoken word into printed braille instantaneously, and then "read" the braille text t>ack with a computer voice Another portable caaaette playersued gadget allows a blind person to read' a regular printed text the person runs a miniature camera < shaped like a small microphone > over the text. Klectronic impulses from the camera are translated by the machhte Into impulses thai reglater on 144 "metals " inside the machine. The reader has his or her flnfers Insartad Into the machine, and'reads'the maUto by taoeh. Other aqulimant la liflBpier, but eaaeotial for ehOdm with partial visloo to hmction la olaaaroon sltuatkna. Lighted magiUytng glaaaea allow students to develop band-eye coonUnalioo skills to learn mechanical drawing The Louisville center alao prints large-type books, btowlag Ihem 19 to the sac the student oeeda, which Is datermined by spedailaU "You must know what Impairment and degrfe of Impediment the child has, taking each child IndhrlduaUy. so you can tailor the.aiilB to Ms or her needs," Mrs Cohn explained. "Visually impaired children are a minority, and we have to provide the best poMlhle aducatton so that they too can strtve lor perfection That means tlial whoever worta with them has to be a perfaetiaiM, apadaUy U you are a braiUa transcrtber. You can't make If you do, the child UBing that
material may flunk a test," she sail All braille transcribers must be certified by the Library of Congress, she added, pointing out that there are many degrees and kinds of specializat ion among braille IramcTibers Her spe< mathematics and scien and .rman of the National Brallk AMOciation's Committee areiT representatives in math and science "If you transcribe braille, and you're not aperiectionlst.thenyoumightas well forget It Maybe because I'm M Jewlshl try harder I'm very proud of • being a Jew, and I 'm comforiablr in my relif^ Independence, mobility, affording opportunity for minority," are key expressions in Mrs Cohn's conversation While applied to the visually impaired they could as well apply to the Jewish people, as does the idea of service joyfully rendered "I enjoy the work, and it's vitally needed. Without the proper backup, vlMially Impaired children can't be educated Aside (ram academic skills, they need to learn to walk on the street, lake a tius, cope with over helpful people ^ . Also you have to have the full cooperation and understanding of paianta and toacbera," she said. Hdptng the vlauaUylinpalrcd dawlapod Mrs. Cohn's voluBteer work at Balh D iynagogue to a family anterprtae. In addition to her husband's work as a volunteer map-maker, her daughter, Pamela Morris teaches the vlaually Impaired st the Jewish Braille InaUtute in New York City "If I had to choose," she said, "I would rather be blind than deaf A blind person can read anything: have books either recorded or In braille, anclMt ormodem, In any language A blind person can enjoy music, hear one's children and krved ones, follow any caoversatkin. The deaf are more diaadvantaged than the blind Many Omaha public schools visually Impaired graduates have usehil jobs and lead hiinUed II ves She poInU out that there is a blind auto roectianic fai Omaha, and mentions many former students who work as dictaphone tranacribers, typiata, and taleptaoe receptioolsU, to mention just a few "They juat try harder..
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Rejoice With The Traditions Of Passover
The Passover Seder Sanctification
Washing The Hands
Division of the Middle Matzah Washing the Hands Bitter Herb
Karpas
Recital of the Haggadah
Blessing Over the Matzoh
Combining Matzoh with Bitter Herb
The Passover Meal
Eating of the Afikoman
Grace * Hallel
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By Ruth Erman Rabbi Jonathan Roienbauni v es around educatkM) ToRat»blRaeenbd itgtaanever ending joy (iiat la coupled with an uiiectloui enihusiasm to iliare hii knowledge with one and all As a teacher, reilgioua leader, administrator, scholar, father and husband. Rabbi Rotenbaum emtiodles a Jewish way of life Rabbi Rosenbar- '•- '-—' "•- '^-;t of both worlds in Omaha icre combines academics with communal •* orK tie is assistant pnfesaor of Judaic Studies in the Department of PhUoaophy and Rellfiion at UNO. director of the Pederation's Department of Jewish Kducatlon. and advitor to the combined Hillel of L'NOandCrelghton Rabbi Roacnbaum received hU bachelor's decree at the University of Michigan where he majored in Near Eastern Civil I'It mil ;iiiii i ;inuii:<i><>& i<i>ihi>n attended Hebrew I andspeni ayear ai iiriMvn i mxiMi^ iii,it-iu.N.iii'iti He received his master's from Hebrew Union in 1972 Then It was off to Harvard where be delved into Near Eastern Civilization and Languafes He receivedhisPhD this fall Rabbi RosentMum crediu his pareiHs and grawl^Mrents with his commitment to Judaism "Ttey uw in-depth education as the key to advancement in a positive sense. They felt that if one were to be Jewishly involved, one must have a Jewish education. Their strong commitment permitted me to feel comfortable fulfilling myself in a Jewish environment " For Rabbi Rosenbaum, "a Jewish education is stimulating and pleasant because I can continually add to it " Ev«D with hit rldi academic background. Rabbi beUevct Omaha i« MM laolatad InleUectually We have "owaUanl libraries and an excellent Intertibrary-loan system and I have acoesa to any material available That Is important for people wt» want to do sdxtlanhlp here " "Lecturars are enlisted to offset Omaha's distance ttf other academic and Jewish communities. "My departmoit (a( U NO i has brought In numerous lecturers from all over the country '' The Festival of Biblical Art and Archaeology is an example of an allout effort to bring in lecturers The list of lecturers readillkea Who g Who In Biblicai Arduwology and SehoUnhip. _ RabM RoKnbaum believes that Omabans do take of what is offered. "People are not blase or as they tend to be tai (he East where they have to wonderful museums and vast HHlvenltles" Rabbi Rosenbaum and his wife, Susan, are the parents of three young sons Joey, seven. Josh. five, and Jeremy, one. and their commitment to provide them with a proper Jewish whratlon deeply concerns Mm. "My most important personal oMIgatkM is to provide Our children with a auffldenUy deep Jewish adheaUon. niey should rsaiiw that Jytfalm Is s way of life, not something done SffaslonaBy. not something done In the context of s specific sUmuhis. I them to feel Jewish on the constant basis. I wsnt
them to feel a part of the Jewish community " I want them to be conversant with Biblical and Ral>binical texts and Jewish history 1 want them to understand and participate in Jewish ritual" Rat>bi RosentMum continues siiii'i" >'lon't want them to look at Jewish ritual at> ~ ^imeone else does, thai our grandparents diti • ur. ^lould see it as something vibrant and active, something that they know and with which they are comfortable" Rabbi Rosenbaum emphasizes that he does not want to push his children Idonot want to push the children into understanding everythin)! at once '' He continues, adding that "Judaism hi might be called a layered look, besi Passover Seder The story of the Four Sons exemplifies these layers The son who does not know how to ask questions can represent the Infant, tlie slmplf son Is the small child the wicked son can be seen as adolescent, and (he wise son Is an adult intellectually, and still iS learning" The Seder has "very pleasant mechanisms such as the search for the Aflkomen. which are aimed at small children Yel there Is an enormous amount of complicated legal and Rat>bu)lcal material which challenges (he best "'I want my children to work their way up ^aduaily on a whole series of levels I want them < 0 learn part by part, day by day I wan! them to feel lewish life Is a part of them '' The next question is, of course, can this be achieved in Omaha'' Rabbi Roaentuium believes that a Jewish Day School is (he key "Personally, I feel committed to a day school program I (Is the easiest way to expose a child organically (0 Jewish learning The child sees Jewish studies on (he same level with the same value as he sees his secular studies He doesn't see l( as something special or something ' second or third A day Mhool. (hough not a cure-all, certainly makes It more comfortable for the child" Because of Its placement In the child's day. Rabbi Rosenbaum believes that the Talmud Torah system is a more difficult vehicle from which (opresen( Judaism as positively as desired "You're getting a child later in the day and consequently the Talmud Torah is not seen u a thit priority." Unfortunately, many parents don't see Talmud Torah as a first priority either. Umy parents insist that Hebrew School come second Rabbi Roaenbaum candidly states "I only hope a student's HetMvw and reli^ous studies come SMondl It is easy for Jewish living and learning (o come fourth, fifth or last " Turning to Jewiab education of the community at large, Rabbi tUmttlmm bsUeves thai people In general must become aware of what exacUy Judaism Is. In (his way, Jews crea(e (he potential to fight vldous and Semldsm He tnentkned lieveral ways the general community has been Informed. Temple Israel ^Mmsors its annual Institute on Judaism for Christian Oergymen. the AOL aponaors many educatkmal activities including a very succaaaful Holocaust leacbIn last year UNO sponsored a Semtaiar of Holocaust Survivors In which four survivon discussed (heir experiences snd answered questions. This program.
which drew too people, madethe HoliKau.si s<rm real snd sensitued IIIUM' who attended TheJewLsherfucaliiiriof lh«- ''•" "•''''immunity i.s one of Rabi)i Rosenbaum s fit'" ,ind resr""''' ''' 'iiroi Uif I'tp.iniiu'nl of Jev ItosenbdumtM'licvcsthat Jewisiii'inii .iiiofi 111 inc adult Context stMHiid be a wayj of life But coupled with this istheoppoKunlty for Jewish socializing <rning opportunities, then tie with other Jewish people iiipany andtobe com ml (ted lot I Learning needs to be buMreased by social commitment Only In this way, can our communily lie preserved, not just in Omaha, but al.so in Tehran Moscow and Leningrad" Jewish education must provide information both modern and ancient Jewish education is our cement Jewish education makes our community Uilh c-ogeni and whole Rabbi Rosenbaum t>elieves there is a strong commitment to Jewish education In Omaha Kvery segment of the Jewish community Is open and willing to ask For instance, "(he senior adult.* are interested In learning and in having academic and scholarly presentations as much as or more than their younger associates "We must provide a siroogday school and afternoon schools for Jewish studenU They must be taught by Instructors with (he bes( credendais available and the teachers must be deeply committed to (he value of Jewish educallon " Inde^. over (he pas( several years, (here has been an increase in the number of Jewish Day schools, nationally In addition. there has been an explosion of Jewish Studies Departments in American unlversKles Rabbi Rosenbaum sees a "yearning and devotion on the part of young people to learn There's a willingness (o acknowledge one's Ignorance One Is neliher ashamed nor defensive 1 now see an open and s(ralghl forward approach to learning" Today, children cannot necessarily depend on their grandparenU for a Jewish education" In the old days many were knowledgeable because (hey had been"^ reared that way They were not far away from the Bubby and Zede who knew and lived an Intensive Jewish life In many cases, (oday, Bubby and Zede are not knowledgeable Jewlshly ConsequenUy, one cannot depend on (he older generations to supply thai depth Neverthelen. Rabbi Roaenbaum thinks (he fufure Is bright for Jewish education l( will, however, lake s < real commitment from young adults. '"These young Jewish adulu will have to ask themselves Do I wan( my child to grow up Jewish, or do 1 want my child (o grow up wi(hout knowing wha( (ha( is" It requires many sacrifices I( requires affiliating with a congrega(k>n and II requires not just sending a child (o religious school. bu( a(tendlng services with the child "You can't leave a child off at Sunday School or Talmud Torah and assume thai tha( Is sufficient You have to go In, you have (o be a part of l(" Your child has to see you a( services and participating in a Jewish life If you want to affect (he future
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SDYER 1979 IDhcn all nations ''shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks." Isaiah 2,4
The words Isauh uttered 2,700 years ago are as mcanin(;f ul and appropnate today Let us pause to reflect upon the dream and the hope of freedom, the dream and the hope that have filled the hearts of men from the time our Israelite arKcstors went forth out of Egypt
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rehuUd their lives through therapy "A stroke in the medical wnseoccuni wtan an artery or otter blood vMMi that I blood to tte l>rain iNinla or rculalion to a part o( the brain !• Ibyaclot This starving Itoe twain efoiygm-rldi btaed irreveralbty damafftaaliaetedbralaoeili. Many stroke victims can resume normal lives r treatment and rehabilitation era may survive crippled So stales the American Heart Aaaociation Says Mrs Dorothy Yalfe, speech and hearing Iberapist, aad JoHoder of the Omaha StrakeaiAi: "A > would be the worst thini that Ihappentome" Eight years ago, Mrs Yaffe almost t a chance to practice what she preaches as director of the Speech and Hearing Therapy Department of Nebraska Methodist Hospital; she suffered a massive coronary, and was In imminent danger of becoming a pomanent invalid She now shows no viiMeef fecU of the attack except a ranewad detficaUoa to thoae who have sudered trrevtnible effects of Illness such as that which struck her "I think that, subconsciously, we all think we're immortal That's why I can uadaratand stroke victinu You need MBaone to puri) you. Iwcause unless aonabody does push, you will sit back It's easy to become an Invalid" Mrs Yaffe organized the Omaha StrokrClub. and watched it grow - in rive yean-fronj M Mmban to tta pnaent I ofW.aubmtMheripartiripaleiBa variety of actlvmea, iMtadlBg swimming at the Jewish Community Center, and social gatherings. Spouses and family nMfflbers are part of tte organization "Ilhinkttw spouses have gotten more out of the club than the victims ttemselvcs," Mrs.
Yaffe said "I was fortunate to have people at home pushing me. like my husband. Sol I think that's what the rlub is baaed on: people helping people A stlgM, tanae. attractive woman. Mrs Yaffe Is more active now than before ste suffered her heart attack Working between »to 4S hours a week as director of the Soeech and Hearing Therapy cr r aska Methodist'» Eugen<>< ^ ...;i(>lekon36thand Cumu . If also finds time to play t<-fitji> nil i-r limes a week In winter, altematlle with golf in the summer In addition, ste is a member of the board of admissions of the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and a board member of the Douglaa-Sarpy chapter of the American Heart Association "I'm also a mother." she adds, smiling The Yaffes have a married son. Bob. and a daughter, Jani. 16 The Speech and Therapy department at the Eugene C Eppley complex was designed and sUrted by Mrs. Yaffe Although stroke victims appear to be her foremost concern, tte department handka many kinds of pattenU "We are concerned with tte rehabilitation and habillUtkm of adulU aad children with communication problems, "Mrs Yaffe wrote recently "Patients evaluated and treated include those with speech and language problems due to brain damage, voice aad artlculaUon dlaonlen, and hMUing kiaa AudkMoetric tesUog is available at both Nebraska MethodUt Hospital and tte Eppley complex Diagnostic testing, patient evaluation, and direct patient treatment for in- or out-patients are administered on a physician's referral On one typical morning, Mrs Yaffe spent time with an elderly lady who had
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At NebrarfM Mediodiat Hoapttal's Speecti and HaartBg CUnle, Director Dorothy Vafle coaxes a stroke vidtalolottL. itlfying a sequence o(objects: comb, key. cup.
I a strote. and had difficulty IdentKytng objects and sequences For more than a hall-hour, Mrs Yaffe put tte woman through exercises consisting mainly of having tte patient identify a comb, a key, a spoon and other objecu •Put tte key in tte cup Nowtatette key out and put tte comb and tte spoon Inttecup " Tte session went well; there were not too many mistakes Later, an IS-year-old motorcycle accident victim with severe brain damage was wtteeled in His main oooocm was that te wanted to go home, a dattre te rspetted at every opportunity Despite tte damage, te could still read, write his name, and even retain some of his pre-accldent ability to draw cartoons Tte JewWt PrcM later aaked Mrs Yaffe whether tte work becomes exceedingly depressing. "You can't take tte patients home with you." ste explained "Mentally. I mean And emotkmally You come to this u to any otter Job, and when you quit at tte end of tte day, you quit Like a doctor Ttere's no other way to survive" Following tte accident victim came a cancer patient wte had ter voice box and vocal cords surgically removed. Tte tall, handaome blan woman practiced "apaaking"; making burping sounds dial occasionally were inteliigibie to a lay observer. Later. Mrs Yaffe and ter patient plckediip small objects like miniature telephone speakers With one ot tlieae alactwlarynxes. tte sounds tte patient made were clear, with an electronic resonance.
"We pick up where tte surgeon leaves off, "Mrs Yaffe explains "We try to get tte patient to use his or her remaining atiillties to tte fullest extent, realizing - to some extent - success in doing this telps tte patient with his emotional problems " Stroke victinu, ste remarks, go through five stages after tteir attack "There's a stage of anger at what happened This Is followed by a period In which tte patient tries to deny that It did happen Then ttere's a time of deep depreaaion, followed by a period of making deals If I get better, I'll donate an amount of money to Institution X ' or, I'll never again do such and such Very few patients ever reach tte stage of accepting tteir predicament. Mrs Yaffe says, adding that tte patient's families also have a hard time adjusting to tte reality and permanence of tte situation "Stroke victims tend to withdraw into themselves That's one of tte reasons for tte Stroke Club to make Item socialize with otters wte have tte same prot>lems We've had considerable success since tte club started five years ago." ste added Among otter activities. Mrs Yaffe has found time to teach graduate classes in apasia I damage to speech centers of tte brain i at UNO, and to teach Sunday school at Beth El synagogue "I live my Judaism ver> naturally." ste remarks thoughtfully 'Perhaps I was attracted to this work becauae I'm a Jew I had never really thought alxHit It
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A job of dedication lyArtCrwMl He WM a cradwrjack gwimmer an the Tedi mgl SdMi IMMM «V(M MM» - md MMNI* to bMk*tbaJI player at the ortfilnaJ Jewirii Conmunity Center, at Mb and Dodge, during the twntiM and thirties He waa phyiically hardy, rugged, aggreaalve. yat never appeared to loae hia cool while under (Ire In an adilaUc conlHt. I riMuld know I cgogpeted agataMl Al "B«rgtt" BarvMii during that era Thoae were the days when nM«taniilp due* at (he " J " were M a year for youHpIwi and a bar ol •oap and towel were all of s cents But. even thoae Inalpilflcant amounu, by today's Aaoiai^. were dlfHcult to come by during thoae paralysing deprcaslon days Many Jewish kids could not belong to the "J". even thm^ib in some caaea memhenhip dues ware waived bacauae doUan Juit plain «wc MM avattabte for Mvotous act! vWca Ufce playteg badwtball. haadhall. voUeytMll, swtmntaig. etc I in that period o( time hustled I on comers, after school, or carried paper routes or helped parents tn family-owned buslneaaes or did whatever In order to earn a lew cents and keep the family going That's why Al Bergman constantly had a yuwlag desire to do something for kids In the area of athletics, particularly thoae coming tma disadvantaged backgrmrnds. Mr Bergman eventually became proprietor of Leisure Lanes, a South Omaha bowling emporium He was always an easy touch when It came to imvlding sponsorship for kids' teams and playground equipment He was one of the first, in the Omaha vicinity, to personally conduct a weekly TV' ttowlmg show And at «v«ry opportunity be addressed himself to canaet that would benefit youngsters Interested in sports.
Along with Juvenile District Court Judfe Hettert Rhodes. Mr Bergman orgaaiaad a proffam toft jimiMm, who wars m pwhatlan. MarMad in auyotlet. Ha ototahMd spooaors for baartikll and haafcetball teams and equipment from ^MTthig fooda suppliers With the cooperation of the South Omaha Ei«las Chib bowling laagues were formed, at Leisure Umea. tor deprived kids TTiey txwled for free and Mr Bergman proudly aotea, "We kept tham olf the (treeu and out of trouble" Although this occurred over 30 years ago. Mr Bergman still receives calls from some of the young people whom he helped guide Into leading productive lives As he approached his selected time of retirement from buslnen activities he turned to what he always wanted to do—devote more lime to aidlag youngsters With this In mind, in I»74, he decided to run for the of f ice of member of the Omaha School Board He ran as an independent candidate, not seeking support from any organtiatloni or coalition of candldatea because ha preterred behig "his own man " He was elected to a two-year term i wanted to beconte a part of the School Board because I felt I could do a lot of things for all Omaha kids including those In parochial schools Their parents pay taxes toward Omaha's public school operation as well as having to support their own schools," Mr Bergman said Mr Bergman quartertackcd the plan to permit Omaha's parochial High Schools, none of which has a stadium for spectators, to use the new Bryan and Northwest stadiums on Friday and Saturday These are the moat dealrable and popular days for both participants and spectators He was instrumental In getting the Northwest Hl^ field named Nile Kinnick Stadium in honor of the renowned bcnson High athlete killed In Worid War II Mr Bergman was alao a motivating force in Central High
obtaining lu new gymnasium White athlotlcs were paramdUnt pra)ecU _ Bergman's concems as a School Board member hM laaponMblMties and efforts covered a wide range of other activities He asrved on the Amehcanlam and Budget committeaa - Along with other members of the Board he made many trips to various schools for Towm House meetings when integration and school buaing wai being debated "By doing that," Mr Bergman said, "It curb emotions of people and we had no Incidents whatsoever on this laaue No rioting, like in some other citlea. Omaha went into Its Integration and busing proframs with no repercussions ' Mr. Bergman was oppoed to the busing Issue even though. "I came from a ghetto area as a child. I fell the children for whom the busing theory was meant were actually become more depreaaed and frustrated being buaed Into a nrighbortMod with which they were unfamiliar 1 thought they would be sensitive about their clothing and appearance and not be comfortable I think (h<> present situation in Omaha Is proving to be exactly that way " 'The various PTA groups. In Omaha, do not function as actively now as they did in the past simply because their children's schools are so far away from their homes This creates a pnMem in getting to the schools in the evenings When the children attended schools cloae to their homes ^ parents were much more involved ' • Mr Bergman said Omaha has been fortunate in having many fine Jewish teschers artd assistant teachers Ui the system He would like to see Hebn-w taught, as an elective course. In Omaha's Klgh Schools He feels Israel being KiK-h a focal |X)lnl in the world today and so many people of various religious persiiaslona visiting the Holy l^nd it would be nice If they could comprehend the Hebrew language He declared. "If French. German. Spanish and other languages are taught In the public schools why not Hebrew''" Mr Bergman does not feel this would interfere in any way with Talmud Torah classes in Omaha's synagogues If anything, he believes it would enhance thecourses children are taught In Talmud Torah dasaes. In his Judgment there is another beneficial aapect of Hebrew being taught in the public sc It would provide the non-Jewish student a better understanding of what Judaism is and make for better relationship between religions Anyone seeking to get on the Omaha School Board is advised by Mr Bergman to be aware of the tremendous number of hours requi red to serve, Many weeks he spent in excess of 40 hours in hiiniling his Board obligations During the busing situation, with Its many Town Hall meetings, Mr Bergman was away from home almost every night imlUllpm and later Board members do not receive any j compensation whabMiever Twice a year. howeverj| members' expemea are paid to attend national conventions involving School Boards from all over the country Of course, this means taking time from one's occupation Asked what Omahana. who get on the School Board, could do to upgrade our city's educational proceaa. he replied. "Quit fighting each other" Mr Bergman feels the purpose of some people who run for the Board is only to serve aa a stepping stone lu further their political ambitions rather than Improve the school system. Mr. Bergman said S0rvhig on Omaha's School Board was a fulfilling and satisfying experience although one demanding a great deal of time and work It truly is a job of dedication to help young people prepare themselves for adult life And how much more dedicated can people be, reganUng aiding youngsters, than Al Bergman and his lovely wife. Midge.
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She has one o( the tou#iMl aMi0iiBMiti In the Omaha ichool lystcm: inptcmenting deeegregatioo Yet. ahe comiden henelf "too Mtl" to live in Israel. "Everything I do Is as a Jew," uyi Celia Blank, "but my tneratkm has failed as Jews We had things too easy." Now "on loan" to the Omaha School District to niperviac tategratioo, Mrs Blank has twen a teacher for 15 years. She returned to the profcssloo after a long hiatus following her graduation with a bachelor's dep«e In IMO, and her marrtafe to Irving Blank. In iflS, sba was named w^stanrthig reading teacher of the year, a diatinetlon awarded only three times In the past IS years. "Like moat people. I feel that that what I m dotag now Is the most important thing I've ever done As a teacher. I've always felt that I'm spreading Hadentaading. Understanding means toterancc and iMritivtty forotiwrs, whldilsabariclMHtor AkMam. There's loo much haired to tUs world At PiiMh, there's a passage hi the aorvtee which tells UB to be hoipttaUe to tht fsr, the straflfsr. Some people take this to mean that a no»-Jew itould be preasBt at the Paaaover meal. As an educator, one must lean to accept all people and their weakaeaaes.'nut's dtartty, andthe Jew ualwaystteflnttogtvc Charity Is to ghre help before It Is needed." Mrs Blank recalls that bar motker, while raising nlae ddMw In Omaiia durlag OK Oapraaataa yeaiB, aheays had a dollar to gl«« Father nantgan. aad a Jewlsb National Fund - blue bpx" fiflared pnodaaatly tathafrbooie. Despite these difficult hi^wlag, Mrs. Blank feels thatshe.asan«Bharo(harpaeratloa.hat(attedM a Jew.'i have a daa^itor Uvtag hi laraai. rd Ian to fB and Mw UMT*. bat I feel rai too soft." The maUve eoae aodsafsty ABMrtcan Jews have eo)oyed has rendered than uawflUag or'iaiabie to cope with Israai's abraatve SDcto^oeiMmle dhnate. she Nit dMt har Uie has baea lad(li« difficutt toaks.
When she returned to teaching in the early '60s, she wu assigned to Omaha's then all-black Horace Mann Junior High School "We made national headlines then,"sheuid. "Blacks were starting to express their fmstratkms You could ahnost say that the dvil rights movenent started at Horace Mann My first year there was exceptionally difficult " She IdeatlfMs with the youBfir gaoeration of teadmv since she has been teaching for only IS years She started to teach at age 45, when many teachers ut thinking of retirement As an educator, she feels riw has run the gamut, from teaching coi% subjects In elenentary school, to reading clinician In that capacity, she fMs one of her most rewsrdlng apertaooea has been trataiing mothers to teach ehfldren to read through the Vohmteer Aides in R«adh« (VAIR) program Education U a priority in Jewish life," Mrs Blank said. "Even while we lend to make fun of the'my son the doctor; my son the lawyer'syndrome. It still meant averytlitog to our fathers who came over from the aM ooiailry. Bat wt (my generation) lost the ptaaaarlBg sptait that stin prevails in Israel It seems we Jews loae many things when life becomes safe and easy: many values And there's not one Jewish family In Omaha that's not affected. Mrs. Blank feels what she calls "vIcariouB pride" becauae her daughter lives in Israel. After a vialt several years ago, during which rile created an audtovlaual slww for the Omaha sdMwIs, Mrs Blank datarmteed that - althou^ she would have liked to stay in Israel and leach remedial reading - that life there was simply too harsh for those unused to tough oondltioaB. Israel la still small enough so that an bidlvidual's CBolrMiatleniaslgiincaBtaBdranignliabte.Paftot her eaotrtbidlaa aad that a( her huabaod. Irving, la spOBJcrlag the uphringlBg of a blonde Mas eyed. Meraeeaa JcwWi chfld to a homa at Ma'atot, near the
Jews elsewhere in the world, she says, are continually reminded of their faith by varying foi o( oppression: In Communist countries and even In South Africa, where Jews are numerous and highly prosperous Mrs Blank has relatives in South Africa who would, she clalnu, leave that country II It were not for government decrees forbidding anyone to leave with more than $35,000 Other relatives of the Blank family who live In Poland are obliged to communicate with relatives In Israel with coded letters forwarded through the US Mrs Blank's own commitment to Judaism learned from her parents - was confirmed by the leaching of Judah Wolfson, an Omaha HelMvw teacher whooe phlloaophy, she says, "deeply effected" her. and by her ei^th-grade teacher. Rosalie Kohen PIsher "They taught me atxNil charity You'll notice thai In any situation where there's need for help, the Jew wUI always be the first to give In that sense. accepting people as they are is alao a form of gi ving, of hdptog. For an educator, it's s very baaic thing to Se able to accept people as they sre" Among the things to be accepted, she believes. Is, anti-Semitism "Yes, there to, and hlatoricallyhaa been, antl-SemltIsm to the Omaha schools. But it's ' mostly hidden, and only pope up from time to Ume. _ AnU-SemltIsm is a curloua tUng; much of the time we are aware of It only becauMpeopte don't Identify us as Jews With blacks, It'sdiflteaat; they are idenUliable because of cotor. With ua. It's becauae we Identify ourselves as Jews" Around her neck on a slim chain, Mrs. Blank wears lheHei>rewtetterfor"Chal" life SheasaerU 'lam a 'positive' Jew I've never felt at a disadvantage for being a Jew. Nor, for that matter, have I felt it a disadvantage tobe short," says the diminutive lady, ss she ushers a visitor through the wide, marbtoItoored haUways of Technical High School, her praasnt headquartan.
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Dtatrlct M School Board VIeo-pfwMtat Inr Yaffe tafcaa a call at hIa prtaMhop laOBaha. B*v, Mr Yaffe chocks a prtattog Job at the iMMIir hMMaaaa I by hto father. Nathan, to IMS
tek r MO Ua Wb y«ar. Ha la alBO «n the baard of tbt . Moone PavUlOB for CHppied ChOdran, and rof ttie Cxwuttvc committee of the iSdnoi Board AaaodatiOB. a poaitlon be hat r nta»yMwa Not to ffleation Ua actMty la UM r of Commof oa. Why doaa IM do It all^ " 1 Mfipoae you could uy (it ' paying rent tor one's ipac* on tMaeartli," be lay*, "lo • way. alw. I wppoae lu tor aaU-protaction: H'l good tor aoaeaae (ram the Jewtah coauauaity to be on tbe iaaldeof thtaifi" The main reward ronenriogaa UwDtaUict M Kfaooi board. Mr Yaffe afllrma, la working with other board momben. with teachari ami admlniitralan. "There are enormous perwoal rewards In working with the people Specially, working with administrators and leacbers. who have great empathy tor the Jtids. and give of ihamailwi far above and beyond what Is expected of thorn." As an eumple. Mr Yafte neaUoaa Diatrict« ftipirhiUnilHUVaiiglwPhelpawhaltpwatdtofthe AaMrteanAaaociatkmofScfaoaiAihBtatalratarB. Phelpa U one of the outataadtag aducators In the ^.country He had been tent ovoraeas many times by the . government to inspect American schools People like Phetps have helped make District as Mr Yaffe caUs "a lltfMhoaae" aa far as education Is concerned, aad aanaidBred one of the outstanding suburban sdMMl diatricts to the couotfy. Mr Yafte has seen Dtstriet« grow from a amall dlatrtot to a peak enrollment of 10,000 in StawoOHn, feUowIng natkmwlde trends, the dtotrict baa declined to 7.»4 studenU. distributed thnn^ tour hi^ sdioois and 12 elementary schools The district was formed by the merger of three rural districU In l»47 Nearily 34,000 people now live to the district's U square miles The AA rating, highest award preaanted by Urf State Department of CducattoB, haa been Mmad coMtotently by District a school hfwhure itatca. •Rase ^P la laaaattonal academic taato, Woatshte studeflto hl^er than national averages ' aoond Laat Sprhig. M Weatslde taotors won four-year RcgenU' aehoUnhliio: about 10 percent of the aUte's total About IM Weatakte studeoU won aome type of academic or athletic acholarshlpo. Maay won multiple Bcholarahlps, acconttng to the brochure. "The atrengtb of our system la the p«at rapport we have betwaea the school board and admhilstralors, iMchen, pareaU and studenU.'Mr Yaffe said praudly. "I onjoy the people I am asaodaled with to tfato work, and have great reaped and admiratioB for whtf they do." be added Mr. Yaffe finds that his many activities do not detract unduly from his family life and hia buahisaa: Yaffe Priming Company. which he runs wMh his brother. Sol Thecompany. with lUcompact, cluttered offlees and printabap on Hamey aitd Mth StreeU to Omaha, wu tounded In IW6 by Yaffe's RuaaiaD'^Mm father. Nathan. The Yaffe traditton of public service waa started by Nathan Yaffe who. according to his son. was one of the moat active men in the Jewish community A CQ-fowder of the Jowlah PTMB. Nathan Yaffe
also served as presldenl of the Omaha Hebrew Club A plaque hanging opposite his portrait on his son's offire wall, recognizes Nathan Yaffe's SO years of membership to the Omaha chapter of B'nal B'rith The leatlmooy Is dated 19M. Mr Yaffe. .Sr. also waa a founder of the original Jewish Community Center on 30th and Dodge Streeta, and a supporter of the local Talmud Torah." I remember many a time when my father would leave his own buaineaa to go collect money for the Talmud Torah teachers' salaries," Mr Ysffe recalls with a smile EUlucation has alwsyt held an Important place In the Yaffe family Irv is a graduate of Omaha's Central High School, where he tottered to baaketbaU and tennia, and waa apocta editor of the Central High Registar. He went on to get a B S in business administration from the University of NebraskaOmaha While at the unlveraity, Mr Yaffe lettered ui basketball The Intereot to sports paid off later, when to thaoourae of his military aenrlce, he was traaaferred from the Signal Corps torecondittontog and rehabilitation programs at military hospitals throughout the coimtry Offaprlng of his marriage to Annetteto IMS, are daughters Joan and Ann. Mrs. Yaffe. a UCLA graduate, it a aecretarial aide at Westskle High School. Joan Yaffe is to charge of the Latin American library at Tulane University in New Orleans The collectton. lays Mr Yaffe. is one of the threebeattolheU.S Daughter Ann. a l^ Yale cum laadagraduate in art history, has s managemeni poMlon with the PaceGallehes to New York "Jews have survived because of our thirst for jumidadge aadfdiicrtkm.' Jir Yatfeaaid."Just to
survive, we had to be t>etter than the rest I n Omaha. Jewish kids have done very well, largely because we've had good religious eduaation. and good public education. Thai's one of the strengths of our conuumlty." he added "Public education is one of the strengths of democracy I am a firm believer In public education and public achools My faith In them has been conflnned by contact with educators, who thanks to their efforts, aiicceed where parents often fall I've seen educator* pull kids out of situations in which parents had given up." Mr Yaffe renurked that in his tenure on the school board, he had never encowteredantl-Semltlsm. in spile of his stand on separation o( church and state "I'm a strong believer in keeping religion out of the schools." he uys'Stlll. I think we create antiSemitism by being vocal about things like Christmas carols in the tchooto. Rather, we should try to keep the emphattooa rellgkNia holidays down, even though to matotato them la a direct violation of the law He points out that to even the mot>t liberal Christians, such as Unitarians, Christmas Is different" from other religious holidays "Any time we diminish the authority and scope of the public school syatero. we threaten our freedoms, "he aaaerts. When he first ran - persuaded by neighborhood frienda - for the school board to IM. Mr Yaffe believed he had not a chance of winning, and was surprised that a Jew could win Since tlten, he bar' been elected three ti mes. for ibe longest tenure In the district When thi.s term is over in 1982,1 possihiv woD'Lnn again," he said with a smito cjjL-Li- _:_"
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The Jffwtv ritntb
Why is this Passover different? Becauae, this year, we can do more than celebrate the liberation c/ the children of Israel 4.000 years ago.
Because, this year, we can do more than commemorate the miracle of the Exodus from Egypt.
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We can be part of a modem miracle.
For 200.000 chUdicn In Isrncrs distressed neigliborlioods today.
Providing the means for resettling in freedom every Jew who escapes from danger or oppression.
And tlMir parents and grandparents.
Or may have to.
300.000 hnaun soais in aU.
Becaute, this year, we can do nmre than recall the age-old story of the deliverance of our people.
Because, this year, we can do more than reenact our great ancestral triumph.
We can be the deliverers.
We can be their true descendants.
Leading 45.000 by-passed immigrant families oat of the baclcwaters of donbt and fntstration... into the sMiastream of creative Hie ia Israel.
Creating a Ufeline so long and strong, it can reach and sustain eveiy Jew in need in every comer of this earth.
Because, this year, we can do more. Beanue, this year, we can do more. Tluoagh Pra|ect Rei
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daylarlkeaUUtary ladNtfad kilhi praraa «« be the papalar Waat PMnt Jawlah Cadat Chair ^enored by Cadet Doug Lanhoff of Beveriy Hilla. Calif The site of the Community Seder will »<• h 1 'itortr Thayer Hotel on the campui .11 ru M111 lary Academy located In wenic Weat PolBt. NY overlooking the HMiMa River and }iiat north of New York City Inthepaat.US Military ottloert have attended the event Thoae la altaadanoa laat yaar Included: SuparWirtent Uant. Can. GooiMiter. Daaa of the Acadende Board, Brig Gen fryedehckA <miih rommandantof CadeUBriK iC Bard. Poet Chaplatn (Lt<-u> < ^n , Earl Andrewt During laat year'i aervlce. they were called upon to read aetectiona from Uw Thia year. Edgar M. Bronfman, chairman of the Fund's campaign drive and cUaf executive officer and chairman of the board of Joaeph E. Seagram & Sana. Inc. Roberts PelU. campaignco-dulrman, U.S.M.A. daas of IKO and chairman of FlafBtaff Corp : Herbert M Ames, preaident of the Fund and preaident of Pack k Procesa of Wilmington. Delaware, and Alan A Uchtenberg. treasurer of the Fund, US MA claas of 19S1 and preaident of S. Uchtenberg A Co. are expected to attend the holiday program. They and guesU of the Fund from vartoua cities will participate in the Seder Officers of the West Point Jewish Chapel F\ind which U located at 342 Madlaon Ave.. New York City. 10017. said that the Seder was one example of
Rabbi Avraham Sol tea. the Jewiah Chaplain at the UoMadSlataa Military academy, conducted the Pi riantyaar the services and acdviiies uiai one day aoon would be held In the Jewiah Chape* which win be built to paipetuate Jewiah Idantlty aa well as foeter greater underaiandlnglhrou^ Inter-falth activltiea The Chapel and Gallery Museum at the Academy will show the contributions of American Jews to the natkmal defense Mr Brattfrnanpaintad out that, "Not only have Jaws partkdpaiad ta the defenae of the Republic since the Revolution, but Jews have been prointaenUy Identlflad with Weat Potat For example the first graduating claaa of the United States Military Academy In W2 was 90 per cent Jewish: that claas conaistad of two cadets and one. Simon Levy. waa Jewish." he added. CoordlnatInK the Seder at the
Academy will be Lieut Col D P( GMchanhaua, Deputy Director of Physical Education at the Academy coordinator of Jewiah activities at West Point Organizing community partlclpati from throughout the US will tw the West Point Jewish Chapel Fund's executive director. Chalm H Friend For further information Contact Mr Friend. (212) MMOM. PUDdChaptanlntheUS are also JalBtag ta Iheanort to plan the largp Hie Waat PMnt Jewiah Chapel Fund, haa received all the necesaary I clearances for the construction of a ' Jewiah Chapel from President Jimmy Carter, the US Military Academy and the Department of the Army
Moses led the Jews from Bondage ... and during this traditional holiday of Freedom, let us re-dedicate ourselves to Freedom in the United States and to gaining Freedom for those where it is still not granted!
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lUptMo Biumatelo't Sunday! dMi at Temple Israel ByAMrfLauna 1. like moat 19-year-old boya, I eav and acdoe novtaa. Adrildwlth"aM«(drtve,"accardli«toliia paraola Rldiard and B«a, SU^lMi WM ban vttli a As a rentt or Ika IM GansM iflptdeaik. SteplMoaaly vdgHdtba. MMl U I at birth, had deft lip and Pilate aad a eaUract The deft and cataract proMeiM were wrgicaUy corrected and today Steplieo is'-• healthy chUd wtw rarely geta oolda," accordtng to hia ntotlier During the weak ttoplHa attend! the Nebraska School tor Ika Onaf and «a Sunday morally wiMt etoebutffdayffrtMol? Major Bhonalata. wt» li ki kMUpnee at Offtttt Air Pdree Baae, a^d flDdhi(ralMNi tniniac lor I was BOIWng but ftuatrattoii after rraatration ihawaa tranafarrad loOnalu two and a half years aga. The BtaMtetaa balongad to a tanple hi Aieuadrla. Vh-. and Itajrsald whan HMyappraadhad the rabU thara about hmihrtagaiavhen to their reUgtoua adtool tbcy board "a agUai rsMOM Md all bat dto bottoH UM was no.' M^lor Witotototo said after the fanfly )atoad Taopto larael to Omidto. ha appnactod RabM Barry Watoateta abool Staphen's adueattoa. "There waa no taaa, the RabM Just aakl come on in." saM Major Blumstein.' 'He may even have been
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the one who brought up the Idea of using an Interpreter in the class " For Uie first year that Stephen was enrolled In Sunday school, Mrs Blunuteln. who teaches a religious school class at Temple on Sunday, explained that the class had enough crafts In It that they felt Stephen could manage without an Interpreter Last year, two women alternated weekends, sitting next to Stephen during the class and signing the teacher's message to him This year, the same Interpreter. Bertie Lulz. Is with Stephen each week Though not Jewish herself. Ms Lutz received some general historical education In Judaism before sitting In with Stephen, "She'sexcellent, "saidMrs Blumsteln "She really knows how to gel the context of the message across, rather than trying to sign it word for word" Stephens teacher, Mrs Barbara Taxman agrees that Ms Lutz does a "wonderful }ob."' '"I watch his face," explained Mrs Taxman, 'and I can tell by his expressions how well she gets the material across to Stephen "' Mrs Taxmanadded that Stephen participates as much as possible, raising his hand and then signing his answer to Ms Lutz who In turn echoes his words to the teacher Major Blumsteln, who said he and his wife's goal Is to make Stephen self-sufficient, said he believes Stephen has learned some things and most Importantly has a sense of Jewlfhmess "He notices things that are Jewish." said Major Blumsteln "He"s aware of Israel He was Just telling me this morning about a black baseball player who converted to Judaism - he gets really excited about him"
Although the Blumstelns admit It has been difficult to raise Stephen, Mrs Blumsteln describes him as "bright and considerate'" "His Instinctive reaction Is to walk up to somebody knd talk to them He likes to get along with people." she explained "If anything, his room Is neater than most little boys," said Major Blumsteln. "and his table manners are better He tends to be loud, t>ut this partially has to do with his deafness. "Without his hearing aid. Stephen would feel noise before he would hear It " With the aid he can hear 40 to 45 decibels which Is just slightly above the normal conversation level In response to 'what do you like to do", Stephen's bedroom in his Bellevue home Is filled with answers Searching through his drawer. Stephen proudly produces part of his uniform from the Bellevue Soccer Team, filled with patches that he's accumulated over the past few years "Then he points to the hooked rugs he has made and the model cars which he painstakingly put together When you hand his poeBessk>ns back to him. he smiles and says "thank you"' as he turns to look for somelhlnK else to show you Stephen is al.so an avid sports fan and according to his father 'he really knows the stats "" Major Blumsteln said that when they recently had Stephen tested, while his math comprehension was on the level of a normal eighth grader, his reading skills are still In the third or fourth grade range "It's a plateau that has to be surmounted," said Major Blumsteln Major Blumsteln said that there are two outstanding higher education prnerams which are
available for the deaf He said one of them. The National Institute for the Deaf (NTID > in Rochester, requires only a solid eighth grade reading level NTID offers programs ranging from one to four years and prepares students for various professions which 'don't depend upon massive amounts of communication with the public. " according to Major Blumsteln The Blumstclns, who also have a daughter Leigh In the fourth grade, said they think Omaha is a good place to raise a child Originally from New Jersey, they find Omaha to be "clean and comfortable with a lot of thlnp to do for Its size" For the most part, the Blumstelns said their social llferevolvesaround the military, which they praised as being very stfhsitive to their concern for Stephen's education "They'reespeciaify accommodating when there's a physical or learning need," said Mr Blumsteln "There's got to be something for Stephen in I appropriate educationi," explained Major Blumsteln. "or they won't send me there " There can l)e little doubt that Stephen is receiving a good education, as evidenced by the foJIowuiK P<>em which he wrote on an assignment from Sunday school The students were asked to compose a diamonte, which IS a poem printed so that It Is shaped like a diamond By Stephen Blumsteln Candle Beautiful, colorful > Shining, burning, melting Chanukah. holiday New Year, celebration Praying, giving, singing Peaceful, thoughtful Menorah
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•re very many JcwB In pMftle MrvtOM," uya Evelyn Alperin, whoae work comlfU o( heiiHng people, and heiptng (raining paoplt 10 taalp otiwr people. Mri Alperto It an leiortate preiewor ol Family Practice at the Untverelty of Neto-aaka Medical Center, and one o( a IkraaHMnber taan Hut iraina docton to inlofrata tte (amfliea o( patients imo diagweta and treatment The team also prefuirei docton to make optimum uae of aervlcea offered to patlenta by tlMcoiiiinunity at larae, luclt aa Madleaid and aedal lervtoes. "Family practice tiecame a ^leclalty in IMS When applied to medicine, the ipecialty backs up tiie family doctor or general practitioner Family service came atiout by piMic demand In the 19S0's. there was a spate of ^leclalUation In the medical profeaakw. and people began to want the family doctor again People really prefer to go to one doctor," says Mrs Alperin. An important part of Mrs Alperln's work Is revtewiag vidaiMjpea of doctor patient Interviews. Once a month, student doctors are required to Interview patients through the use o( a video camera The Interviews are Uien reviewed by Mrs Alperin and the student, with a view to developing and
poilriiiBg the atudant's style' the doctor waa rtapectful to tiw patient. whether he inveatigalad and weighed the patient's emottonal prabienu, and gmeral background. "A doelariBual oenaider aU thtafs about a patient, particularly In caaea where stress Is Important, as in heart dkwaaea; what are the social, cultural, marital, flnaadal factors that may be affecting the patients health.' • explains Mrs Alperin V The doctor alao mual know how he can beat help the patient, specially one wlwhaa flnaadal prabienu Tttereare many services the community provides that many people don't know about, she says " For Instaaoe, dderiy people doinot^ I necessarily have to go to a nursing home There are day<are centers provided for them housekeeping services: home nursing: themeals-6n-' wheels program, companions On the rteing coat of medical care. Mrs. Alperin considers that much of It Is due to the many new disciplines added to the profession In recent years "There's a lot of duplication, and duplication Is cosUy," she adds Dupllcatian occurs when several hospitals In one area keep complete facilities, aa opposed to each hospital
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• t)i- social worker in a learn '„- - high-risk mothers women who have financial or emotional or marital problems The team Included a dietitian, and a specialized nurse Mrs Alperln Is also author and coauthor of art Ides deal ing wl th the behavioral sciences in the medical profession, with emphasis on family practice "I wanted to become a social worker since I was II years old." she said "I enjoy people I think my work (or the JewisI '» relugee agency in Kans.. ic World War II gaume a lot ol uiidt-rstaiiding (or people, and a deep concern (or them "
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scholar-in-realdence, and the lecture-discussions take place at each Omaha synagogue, and at the Jewish Ooaununlty Center The 1977 Kallah weekend program featured Rabhl Irving Greenberg, a profeasor at City College of New York Themes Included "Towards Jewish Liberation " • The End of Emancipation The Fate of Jewish Life." and "On Become Human Reflections on Jewish Seuialtly and Interpersonal Communications " Kallah weekends have drawn about 40 people, and a third session u planned this year C(H>rdlnaUir Rubin says t"-- •' h Cultural Arts Council Is encouraging your unit) members to attend the three-week Kaliuiunini -seminars, and other activitleB sponsored by the Council In April. Mr RuMn said. "We're gearing one of the classes to conummlty teen-agers "
The third an-n ol adult education under the aegis of the Jewish Cultural Arts Council is 'Special Events," which lnciud<- the Jewish Book Month program, the Jewish Music M< <m. and the Israel , Independence rti am B(i ive Included films. tx¥>k revli'v. ; ilory hours and (Tiift.sfDr preschoolers The Yum Ma'alzmaut i Independence Day i relet)ralion "f last ve.-ir inr-luded a special Havdalah M-rvK-e at i !ia synagogues, a reliKious s<' i an Israeli carnival
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Who IS hch''He who la content «itb his lot." sayii the Pirkei Abot (Sayingsof th«> (athers i Whil«' !ihe teaches in a trhnol with not one Jewish student. S' nan incorporates JewHh • . ver> phase of her lr;i d« those teachings perv.I Mrs Najman teaches a third-grade class at Sarato^.^ v;,-h,v.i >•, < im,f,t. and has taught sevc i rade public school chiiuidi ^m- diMi laughl at Hrth Kl !>ynaKOgueSunday school Beth El. where h«" 'nls cantor Is 'h^rseconNew Yorkers, the Najmans came to Omaha in 1972 and in Mrs Na]man's words - "were made to feel at home Omaha Is lovely People here are warm and friendly They welcomed us with open arms Their hospitality is beautiful "shesaid Mrs Najman taught in Chicago and New York before starting work at Saratoga School In 1973 as a subs' teacher They asked me to st«> i r substituting, and then asked to stay as a regular teacher I was very pleased." she smiled My main goal Is to make each child part of the school family, and to meet the needs of each child And they really knowil I want lomodvatr thekidstobe
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or both "I am a very lucky person," Mrs Najman says "The luckiest thing is thai I have a husband as talented, understanding, and patient as mine "
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itudenti I four girls arxl a boy i are Jewish this year, but we've had gentiles last year and the year before whodidquttewell.' Dr Weintraub says As a Central IIIKII alumnus himaHf Dr Welntrau is proud of' '.ithisalm^' employmi 'itonlyaoM. one of the hiKtx^t ranked In the »t«te m lernu ot academic standards What worries Dr Weintraub an his coUeaguaa Is that the school is not grtUng the number of students 11 deserves
Thebus >n. says Dr Weintraub, bast responslbl' ilHif^ losing many students to lilt King schools He feels that II would be worth many .< St udent's while to drive downtown with a father coming to work, to attend Central Dr Wetntraub's enthusiasm is not reserved lor Central High, nor for debate tournaments He devote* | much time to teaching Saturday and Sunday school at Temple Israel, including his course on the Holocaust HIS wife Sharon also teaches at the Temple " 11 s hard to empathise with the kids on the Holocaust, " Dr Weintraub says, somewhat sadly We're cloaer to it. as a generation But today's kids just don't empathise One girl in the Holocaust class was reading aloud one day about hundreds of thousands of Jews were burned' and she went 'Isk, tak.'" If anything is to save the young lor Judaism, Dr
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On the wall of Principal Ida Gltiln'tofflce at Indian Hill School in southeast Omaha baogi a plaque recognuing 30 o< her 40 yean of aervice to Temple Itrad't choir and reliKioui •cfaool. Mis'fowof Indian Hill's lecchera. is Jewlili IMIOI ha* not one Jcwiih student Seated in Mlu Ciilin's iieiht. airy office in the Khool'imodemi achen Mary Beth Davidaon, and Ma.^........ ^treated their conviction that Judaism is an integral and vital part of their work "Without public education." they said, "therecan •Be> node no democracy If we alkn» public education to be 1 democracy will be destroyed If we allow that. we are not living iqi to our commitment as Jews " "In Judaism, education i» an on going thing," Miss Davidaon adds "It means working w ith others, which Is the moat rewarding part of being a teacher " I live by Hlllel's 'If I am for myself akme. what am r ', adds Miss Gitlin. a veteran of Omaha schools Since im "The )oys of teaching arr tangible In other pwitwiiini. the rewards are leas ••' ng, the fdHrw are great You see rtudeni^ teadwn developing into fine people you derive joy fnn working with people, such as you find in no other line of work Children have been very good, very warm to me. and I would have wanted to remain a teacher, not become an administrator Basically, you end up saying to yourself Maybe I did do something right MMnewhere along the line ' " In Miss Gitlln's philosophy, religion is action, not neccaaarlly going lo services every Friday "Religion Is how you live your life: how you feel about other people "Still, for 40 years Miss Gitlin sang In
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UBll«d States, explaintng that he could see the threat of war and deatnietiaa years before Uw Nails lametad World War II For many years he labored at lys YIddlah wrltli« to enra s nodeat llvh«. Slnasr has always had profound Interest in the SHpimatural. and he bellevea that in decades to come sdaaee will unearth concrete Information about extraaenaory peroeptlan and wtiai Is today called the occult, naUng theae areas raapectabie subjecu for Mrtous study. He often «rriles about (^ybbuks. foreign aplrtts that enter a person's body and are iMe to cmtrol it fie does consider himself a religious man. however: although he is not otMervant of Jewish ritual, he says. "Whenever I am in trouble. I pray And since I'm always in trouble, I pray a lot " The author lives on New York's teeming Wesi Side, and despite the absence of many fellow Yiddish wrtters in the area, he finds tlw ambience of the city a cooatant challenge and source of wonder Hehas bacone deeply attached (o America, where he hu lived for more than forty years ' '.My Jewlsbness Is of great Importance to me, but I really feel that I am a longtime American and this is my country I belong to those writers who are grateful to their adopted country " He maintains an Intense interest In Israel and Is hopeful for that country's future "The hatred of Israel Is a neurosis." he says -things may look bad (for Isrsel), but in our history things look bad all the lime, and we have outlived scores of nations WeJewshave been living in an eternal permanent crisis "
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learning by rote - offers little to kids that have television and movies vying for their attention Also, secular sdMnls are using all kinds of iearalng devkaa. and It's tlHM we started adapting them to our purposes " The schoolroonu and crafts room in Temple Israel's basement are light and cheery. Cardboard, plastic, wood and metal tubes and boxes clutter tables and spill out of bines on the floor, while questlon-and-answer qulstes hang on mobiles from the celling, or adorn the walls "If we want to learn about our heritage, wt need the means to do It." Mr. Poska says while he demonstrates
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Inside the tube match up with answers appearing on yet another wimlow A Hebrew alphabH Is painted on a tsrget game board Ti covered ball H' come up •' ; iMrginning with the letter th«-. On the walls hang felt puppets, some of them representing trees, in preparation for the Keast of Trees, or Tu Bishval. which Mr Poska de8crlt)ed a.s a "minor but important Jewish holiday Mr Poska'^ " not limited toil: operates several day care centt-i» m (he Omaha-f'oundl Bluffs area A current project is manufucturinK mezuzahs. uf which he houes lo sell 2IKI to a conk' I Denver. Colo . and whui ....xls to market at a Jewish workshop in Kansas City Themezuzahs are made of wood, and sell for 30 cents He also manufactured an sron kodesh or Ark of the Torah which Is madeof easily assembled wcKiden parts Mr Poska s activities include flyinR light planes I can fly blind from here to Miami, but 1 can't give directions to get lo downtown Umaha." he jokes More seriously, he insisLs that study of the Jewish heritage mu.st provide directions and guid<-llnes for the youth of today Onewayof Implrmenlingthls is by making Jewi.sh studies a game as fascinating to children as any of (he electronic games now flooding the V S For the past six years, he has devoted much of his time to the cause of Jewish education
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I of learning disabied chUdren. evaluate present programs, and build a framework which will provide training for Jewish teachers, spactaliied materials, and other programs which will aUow the leaning diaabled to take their rightful place In the Jewish community Parents of a child with a learning disability that U presently unknown to Jewish school administrators may contact their synagogue educational director or the writer of this article All communications are held In the slrtcteat • and even members of the ad hoc
committee are unaware of the Ident ity of eftocted Aa progress is made in tte teacMng of Jewiab MudlaB to the leamtag dkabiad, the specter of diOdren with iindlsiMaad dlaabUities facii« the' alienation which often accompanies Intellectual failure should now abate. New methods and materials combined with teachers who are trained to handle special problems will allow all Jewish children the opportunity to experience the pleasure of Jewish learning that la their right
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The greatest teacher Mre Glaiar bohk her grMt-grandna. Marc Jeffrey Warren. By Marilyn Warren "Education", arcordini; lo my diclionar>' is " \he act or process of imparting Itnowledge or sliill An educator, a teacher throufthout my life there have been many however, the greatest teacher I ever had was my mother's mother. Grandma Rose She was called "(Irandma ' by most who knew her - my friends, my sister's friends, our neighbors, and even some of my parents' friends We were lucky enough to have Grandma with us to witness my wedding and my sister's wedding, and to have her enjoy the iiveline,ss of a new generation in her first two great-grandsons Grandma lived with us for as long as I can remember as my father said when my sister was married, he and mother were back where they had started. Just the two of them and Grandma' Grandma came to Umaha from Hungary m the early IWO's She supported her five children by taking in sewing Her greatest lament in life wa.s the fact that
although .she had lived very cloae lo a school, she had never had the time to learn to read or write Knglish Nevertheless, Grandma spoke Kngli.sh with no iraceol an accent, "read" KM : •••r ads every day, and imparted knou; kill.s lo my sister and to me My earliest memory of Grandma Is the kitchen' (Grandma cooked and baked as no other (x-rson ever could her spaghetti was Italian, her chili .Mexican, her chop suey('hinese, and her goulash Hungarian' The preparation lor baking was our earliest education Kirst, (irandma donned a cap so that no hair would KVKK t>e in the finished pnxlwl M-cimd. she meiiciildiisly cut her fingernails and scrutjtx-d her h irint! for surgery (ii ,iiil it inllicoven As we anxiously awaited the end result, (irandma stood at the end of the table, arms crossed, drilling us on the alphabet or on our numbers It was Important that we learn'
(irandma could sew anything we would sfiow her a picture, and .she would make a pattern from a piece of newspaper (We did nol appre<'iale the fact that we had lo wear home made clothes little did we realize how mu<'h we were envied by friends who had to settle (or "si' (iolhes How lucky we were to have; iihsilverhair and golden fingers living under our root' i (jrandma insisted that we learn to use a needle and thread because the worst thing we could ever do was go with safety pins G-d forbid we should be in an accident, what would the hospital attendants think'' It was imp(<rtanl Ihal we learn There was more to (irandma's leaching she taught us lo tx- "menchcs" and she taught us lo Ix" proud ol our heritage she taught us .su[>erstltion, and shetaughl ustradilion she taught us caring, love and respect she laughl us to make good .leu ish homes for our families It was important thai we learn
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That's no law tichool ircruitinK ad ju»t ttte considered opinion of Kodne> Shkoinlck, a man who readtly confesis to enjoying his profession, leaching it. and being Dean of Crelght"" ' •"••''-<!ily "i School of I jw To the K' • •\Me to the legal profeision. ne aods a word of caution to young people: "There are rttll many jobs in the profession, but given Ute number of law graduates, joiM are getting more dlfflcuit to come by " Teaching law should enable students to predict how Uie courts will react to a f^ven situation Most legal decisiom are not only aoiutioaa, but a compromise Often, tkcH Is tanaion between laws, or between laws and society's values at that moment" Dean Shkoinick points out As an example, he gives daclahws handed down during the Prohibition era, when, he said, laws were largely Ignored as present day examples of tension between laws and conipeliag values, he cites the 56 m.p h limit
"We could have M>l IIH-limit al 35 m.p h, saying many livfh could be Mved But there are other consider:?'"'"' u"iiir.u""•'•handlse to mark' getting paople whtTt* tnrv vtiuii iuK"' 'ast. Tbare's always a value Judgment Involved." the Dean Mid No legal system exists beyond its lime." the Dean saldThe legal system Is a part of society: perl one of the more Important parts "If the law gets too far-i^ ,-iv friiin what then society wants at Ui the law ha.^ to changfcommenled As one part hkninick present-day Ki cited legal repretifi people "Saysomet" for a matter of 10 dollars If they get rfpiMMi^ni ;.i Kin. It coHls the go > lot of money We could say i> MIX" >penslvF Underthelaw, the person has the ngh I to redress for his 10 dollars, and if he Is consistently denied the right, he'll end up rioting or rebelling ' Tension t>etween la%n and competing values increaaes with a growing body of statutes, the Dean pointed out, making room lor more | interpretation The parallel, he saitfT' Is the Talmudic tradition of an unvarying statute (the Torata) upon^ which Interpretation never < _ On the unfavorable image lawyerT seem to have acquired In public eyes recently. Desn Shkoinlck had these commenU: "In legal situations, you have an adversary situation which doesn't exist In other professions Han architect builds a bridge, there Is no opposing architect arguing against it.
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ByCooradJ KflUv IJcwB and •ducaUonnMB to |o together P«riia|M laecret lo Jewtah oontlnulty lies In tiw woceee tiiat n have had with oducatioo The opeolng Itawa o( the Tainud laU la that adycaUoii. the loaning of Torah. II not only (or the M^wr odMlani of Bodety Rather, In the Jewish tradition It Is the obligation for everytme to learn Intact, one Is remiss to gain knowiadge and not transmit that knowledge, I e to study and not to teach Over the centuries, Jews have had much In translallnR their experiences to which follow They have devised many ways to pass on to their children Uw lasaons Uiaf Itey hsve learned Passover is an excellent example of this Tlie essence of transmitting an Ides to someone •lae lies In making that ides understandable The responsibility Is yours to put ttie Idea in terms that your listener can relate to with his own life A most powerful way of achieving this Is to have the person (eel ai If he actually experienced what you are trying to relate to him Thus, In the Paaaover Seder a main theme Is that each and every one of us came out of Rgy pt Emphasized is not that our ancestors came out, but that we came out, that we experienced the Exodus ourselves After many years of repeatlni; the story, one begins to put oneuel f in tl>e confines of slavery and the accompanying feeling of freedom of the Exodus Our history has taught us that by feeling as if we were there we can more easily transmit the experi ence to the next generation > It has also shown us something more profound Ry taking a negative and harsh experience such as the slavery in Egypt, and looking at the more positive ^•li, such u the triumph of freedom, history can ^^Bome a source of meaning for uur lives ^Hlt Is on Passover that we eat ttw bitter herb, and the Hwiab (the bre;ad of affliction ) However, it Is on Passover that we hope and look for a consumation of peace In the world It is this ability to change the character of an experience that Is the secret of the Jewish success In education In our own generation we have had an experience that demands our attention and our efforts to apply the uroe techniques It also Is an experience that Is fraught with many negative and harsh realities However, we in Omaha have tiegun to use the traditional Jewish form of changing the character of the experience from a negative one in the minds of the "next generation" to a lesson that can be learned and transmitted from generation to generation The experience that has compelled the
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Soshnik: from schiiol to business Ovarwortwd M It i>. the word •dteUiifutrtMd'' IM M odMr CM to JoM^ Soitalfc'I career as Mr SoriHitk Mttheedycalianal ewd In Itn ior ' prtvalc bwtaeM. a traaritiM he caflTltot ynique. but not Itequent," among adueatort. "An educated man la aUe la break new graund," Mr Soataik Mid "People who know how to do tiUap. I ManaUy be nilMrdinatc to thooe who know why wiUi M UliBfi are done This ii the advantage of a ralcducatioa EducatlOBOUtfrtint to be merely , j-ansmittmg information (ram taiatnietor toatodent. Ibut a process thai Rtvea the atudent the ablUty lodeal P with ne« proMems and issues '' He filed professor Clarenfe M profeMor ot economic theory while Mr So^f -n undergraduate at Creighton University ..p,
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admhUatraUod In 1M3. he received hia maaicf of ideiioc degree In pufeUc adniiitalnUaB The de^ee was awarded hi abMatia, as by then he was sarvtag aa a Navy MalUfaMe officer After a year at the Navy I angiiap School In Boulder, Colo., where he became fluent In JaiMneae, be waa stationed in Washington, and then sent to the Soudiwaat Pacific In IVMhe returned lo Omaha, his »' >nand s newliom son. and a teaching poBltloi :uo University "In '46, most of the students hi the American fovcmroent class I taught were my age. which made leaching more dnnanding Its not the same as it would have been with high achool graduates who are prepared to look up to a M-year-old as someone who's been around "Mystudenl^ ' llaufihl was established' jf recer' ' ui-<l vfteram.cumins luMIKMI betwt' '-n 'The classes were very large I had about IX) studentMn-rif n'-siiies, there was a shortage of textt>o)>ks N an ovenAhelmmg need to make up for the In ill HIS first 14 month commitment at Creifihton nude him (k-cKti • ilf rf Hiairi«'(), ("h D in business diut |i(idiH.t' at UM> L'iiivt!n>ay uf \«'l<! r k.!
"Thooe were Ihe pre-lnlentate M days," he raeails. "I would drive down there when they were buBdtaig the road. There were detours ail the time." In 1962, he received his PhD and was appoMad controller of Crelghton University by i then) presldRU, Kr CarlReinert "II was a part-time position," Mr Soahniksaid "I waa In charge ol Ihe budget and financial repori teactier" In ellordlfford HardinKHivileOhiin lo become t ' University of Nebraska In 1962 " me the University's vice cham • and finance, and in.l966,vici ^ administration He became president' the position is now called "chancellor" i of the University of Netjraska Lincoln I Ihe Jot) until retiring from the student 1 .in;, he ,ind1 at ily
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kprf Wrdel' thr nwnrr nf a rhnrnlate of A.. ., . .:.,.! he Mdrk'n to S' Korczak 'inthatt.w.t. it^^. iiichavp them as a gift'" ' U'lDRsel al f<i' ex le Uie final Milutiun u( Ihc Jewish Best Ion" Repealed endeavors, InrludinK a last minute effort before his death, were made by Polish admirers to have Korczak agree to be nmuggled out nf t h<' Ghetto He refused disdainfully to alMuidon hl<t charges And wi ('.•itri'' (ho 5th of August I<M2 orii>
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Among thooe partlclpatlBg In a review of the Hotocauit ooune at Millard High School •« tran Ml, Dr. EleMMT BloanlMrg, AOUnatknaledueaUmdirador; Dr Chaftaflpelkar, dtrtctor of aeooodary education in MUlard; Llaa Weber, Delroy Ortman. Mark Peteraon. Todd Outfack, Matt Keelan, nhitbirKterftudenU at right u Michael Rldmioad. director, ADL/i
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A liacl(ground report By Dr Martin P Wolf Several years ago the MUlard School Dutricl. under the direction of Dr DonStroh, superintendent. t>ef;an a dialogue with ntembers of the Jewish Community Stan Mitchell and I met with Dr Stroh and members of his staff to deal with a relatively new phenomenon for Millard, Jewish students in the school district Prior to the ItTO's Millard was a small, homogeneous community with few, If any. Jewish families By themtd-aeventiesthe district was growing In student population and young Jewish famillet were movlnR Into the area Being a tefiool adminialrator myself, there was a commcn ground and mutual undentanding and empathy between us. Admittedly, the first few meetings we had in 1*75 were conf rontationa between the dlatrict and several Jewtih famlllei who objected to current practkws of the school dlatrict The first confrontation involved "celebrating" Hanukkah intheschoolB Some of us were opposed to "celebrating" any religious holiday in the piMlc sdMota. We had to convince the school adalnlitration that we Jews were not asking for norafiprDvingan "equal time" concept With the help of the CRC and the then director of ADL, Howard Weinstein, we propoted a set of written guidelinea that adhered quite cloaely to those adopted by the State Board of Education In MasuchuaetU The reaulUof that first confrontation were a aeriet of deciskMis by the MUlard School District that reduced. If not ellmimHed.' 'celebrating" Christmas and
Hanukkah In the schools A second confrontation occurred a year later when several Jewish families challenged the district's policy of alkiwlnf; Cildeon bibUfi to be handed out each year In the MUlard Schools Again with the help of the CRC and lU attorney we began preparing an Injunction if the School Board decided to oimtlmie Its practice of ao years The practice wu legally questionable, and they proMblted the dtMrtwtkm o( any rellgtouB matter In the MUlard SchooU Through ail this confrontation Superintendent Stroh continued to explore with us ways In which their schools could accommodate their'new muwrity" As an educator his senaitivity was exceptlonaUy keen and hit leadership slowly Altered down to his ttMn admlntotratlve sUff LMt year his associate superintendent and head of Instruction attended an ADL-sponaored workshop on the east coast designed to train educational leaders In the teaching of Uie HolocauBt. In FetHvary of tMs year, Michael Richmond, Rabbi Barry Welnstelo. Dr Murray Frost and 1 met with the admlnistratkin and ninth-grade social studies teadHrs to help implement the flrst HolocauBt pragran In the MUlard Schools The two-week eipertmental course was part of the ninth-grade social studies curriculum 11 is presently being evaluated and hopefully wUI be Improved and become a permanent part of the curriculum. In my Judgment, we have accomplished some things In MUlard We have opened a continuing dialogue
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The»t' ( war andslavi ^ larg<'sl andii however, was Ohrdruf, whu: , .'ir 4lh Armored Division and elements of the 89th in early April i>f that year T! smalU-i victims, no l(-si> lion il>it'
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Kach ol the veterans will be preseni«"d with a plaque carrying a message which acconipanies this article In addition to the work of thv Society of Survivors. IheCommuniiy Helalums committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, and the Anil' '>n l^eaguenf B'nalBriihjm' furtherii . r.sjiof Holocax 'Ills area Millar IS hascompleled Its first two week course on the HolcN'aust II is the firsi school system in the Plains Stales Kegion > Nebraska. Iowa. Kanui and the Dakotas i to Integrate (he study of the Holocaust into Its standard curriculum The material will now be part of the re<juire<l ninth grade social studies program The course wa<i designed by a committee of admlnislratdr MilUird I)r ^Qiarles.SptMki i.iry education Or ^^•Mnas Nenneman. assistant supennlendanl for VStructlon John Natlerman. department of Social Studies chairman thcAntiDefamationl/eagueof B'nal B'rith: Michael Richmond, regional director and the Antl-OefamatIon l<eague Regional Cducation committee Behiard Raskin, Dr Murray Frost, Dr Allen Hackel. Ur David Kapel, of University of Nebraska at Omaha Dr Martin Wol f, Iowa Western College; Rabbi Barry Weinsteln. Temple Israel The Holocaust Is practically nonexistent In the lextbooiuof American education Inthellxhlofthe increasing anti-Semitism, the activities ol Nazi groups In the United States and ^;urope, revisionist history, which denies the Holocaust arid increasing attempts at genocide, the teaching about the Holocaust lakei on a new urgency Inyei otui advancement. SOO scholars i M-re exposed to a session on Modem Jewish History during the recent 22nd annual Missouri Valley History Conference In Omaha Dr gleaner Blumenberg. national education director of ADL; George M Kren. Kansas State University, and Michael N Dobkrowski. Hobart tt William Smith CdlcagH, ipoke dunng this session
Liberators write to Survivors (SomeexcerpU) I wa> a sergeant with the l ith Armored Division of the Third Army when Mauthausen (Austria i was liberated and have sad memoriej of the horrors we found there
I have found that despite all of the book.s,ml articles and movies that have iM'en written about what happened in (Jermany. before and during the war. that pr' Ml of the American p<'<)ple8lill don't coi, iiirinily of this crime I used to live in West Germany, but nobody wanted to talk about it. other than a lady from Vienna I understand how difficult it must be for those who lived through thai terrible period to talk about it. but 1 would like lo know more May I thank you and your friends for Iheir kindness m wanting lo honor the men who fought to destroy Ihe concentration camps during World War II in Kurope
To the Liberators On behalf of freedom-loving people everywhere, the Society of Survivors welcomes you to this recogni tion event Vour participation as a liberator of the infamous coiicenUalion vamps of Europe during World War 11 could very well account for the fact that we are alive today There seems to be pathetic effort on the pjjrt of some to completely distort history by saying with bold defiance It didn't happen there was no such thing as the Holocaust itwasmadeup" We know belter We were there You know belter Vou were there You wiere an eye-witness to a fragmeni of Hell thai even now-after 30 or more years of docunv lire has failed to penetrate th« iikind We. OH- survivors, m our own small way. are at tempting to set the record straight to placti the blame where it belongs, and to give credit where such honor Is due This occasion is one of honor We thank Ood for the llbeTSton
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Watte Kelman. Exscutlve Vice>PraaideBt of the RiMMeal Aaasnbiy and RabM Jidea Uartow. the AaaanMy's Dtroctar of PubUcattona. The editor of thet Haoadah Is MiehMl Straaaidd. aa adHar of fhe >irM rafaJloMue He exptalas the «wt In bis Introduction: •'The slavery and Eiodui did not har-^ '• thenf they happen in each generation, in ea< <•« \ Every person's life partakes of a Hillei rtumiwicn. a mixture of the redemption and the bitterness of maror I bitter herbs) Only for the siapla chUd is slavery unbearable labor, or freedom an Myfoblamatic ideal 'What is freedom? What Is sU very * Are we not all free and are.we not still enalsved'' And thus, this nlf{ht ol I'aiisoveri weheareclMsof other Jews wresllinit Mith these questions The rat)bis of ancient BnaiBrak diaaisahig the Exodus all through the night Jews in the ghetto of < medieval) Prague terrified by a blood IKwl accusation M arranos cclei>rat ing Pesacb In a Spanish cellar. J> Rergen-Beiaen concentration C.I i ned about the lack of
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A Hoppy Pesach to all of our customers. Enjoy the seder with your family and guests. We will close our shop for the entire holiday beginning Wednesday, April 11, Purchase your meat and poultry needs for the Passover week before the holiday. We will not reopen until after Pesach, Friday, April 20. Chag Someach!
NEBRASKA KOSHER MEAT MARKET Joe and Dove
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342-0953
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Hwy Z7S Waterloo
779-4040
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391 1664
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