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On remembering Editor'* note: • T h e following remarks w e r e prepared b y Rabbi Myer 8. Kripke for the D a y s of Remembrance of the Holocaust program scheduled for April 13 at tbe office of Governor Bob Kerrey. By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke When Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address, he managed to put into a sharply restricted number of words the core of the tragedy of the Civil War. He touched the heart* of his generation. But he did not stop there: Ho tried to nee what the terrible sacrifices of the War were for — and to what good purpose they might lead. When we confront the HolocnuHt we ore unable to do what Lincoln did. There was no high purpose behind the daggering tragedy. The words would choke us if we tried to my that there was somehow a good purpose behind t h e mindless degradation of bunion beings, behind the starvation, entlavemcnt, torture nnd murder of nix million Jews, and millions of others. The construction of factories of death, the HUM production of death, is a Nazi achievement, but it is at the very nadir of human corruption. There are things) we roust say. In the firei place, it is not (continued on page 2)
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The Jewish Press Congratulates Israel On Her 35th Independence Day 18th April 1983 See special section Pages:11*16.
Sen. Grassley reports on Soviet Union Editor*! Note: The following tetter accompanied a group of photograph* taken recently during a trip to the Soviet Union by Iowa Senator Charles E. Grassky.
My transportation, as it turned out, was by private passenger car, it* moonlighting owner eager to pad, hia income with taxi fares from foreigners. Openly defying laws against his capitalistic pursuit, the driver claimed that within two Enclosed please find the photographs from my January hours he could collect as much with this underground cab trip to the Soviet Union. I hope they prove useful. as he earns in two days as an engineer. I would like to take thin opportunity to recognite and As we sped through Leningrad streets I had to admit thank Mm. Shirley Goldstein and the Omaha Committee slight apprehension at this expedition to analyze the plight for Soviet Jewry for the instrumental role they played in of Russian Jews seeking immigration to free societies. my trip. Though I have maintained nn interest in Soviet Other such treks to private homes, warned officials at tbe Jewry for ionic time it was not until I met Shirley, and at U.S. Consulate in taningrad, had resulted in KGB harher urging, that t actually contemplated visiting refuseniks assment. Their preference was that I gather the refuseniks in the U.S.S.R. in my hotel, allowing them to talk with Senate aides and Omaha i» very lucky U> have such a tireless and effective myself in a more secure environment. worker. My experience in the Soviet Union haa proved to Either way, our discussions were sure to be monitored be one of the most enlightening of my career in the U.S. since the refuseniks' applications for exit visas make them Senate. Thank you again and to Shirley — keep up the suspect for life, assuring constant surveillance of their good work. homes, their movements, and their contacts!. But as a Sincerely, member of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Charles E. Crasaley Refugee Policy, I was convinced I could best 'discern the United States Senate character and problems of such freedom seekers in their own environment. B y Senator Charles Grasaloy Aba greeted me at the door of his family's modest twoLeningrad's britk January wind stung my face as 1 waited room apartment where he was soon joined by about 15 other for a taxi to take me to a meeting in the home of a family refuseniks who, by prior arrangement, hod como to describe of "refuieniiu," Soviet Jew* who have been refused per- their daily struggle for human dignity. Clustered around a mission to emigrate. living room table, they poured out talcs of oppression and
suffering, yet their tones reflected extraordinary strength of will and spirit. Well educated, many of them had earned respectable wages as scientists and engineers — until they applied for exit visas. Once their applications were refused, these Jews were treated as national traitors and stripped of their professions. Those who failed to secure the lowest paving jobs .an janitors or elevator operators now survive only through outside assistance from sympathetic Westerners. Oppression is an everyday way of life for rcfusoniks, who are subject to constant KGB surveillance, threats, searches, and occasional physical abuse. Often they are even cut off from basic communications with relatives and friends when government officials disconnect their telephone service. Illustrating the cradle-to-grave difficulty of life for Jews in Russia is the job hunting experience of one young man, not a rcfusenik, who had graduated at the top of his class. During a series of interviews, ho consistently received positive feedback from prospective employers — until he was asked to produce an internal passport needed by all Russians for movement within the country. There, stamped prominently on the passport was the word "Evrei," meaning "Jew." Suddenly employers denied the existence of any job openings. On his tenth interview the young Russian landed a job — only after conveniently placing his thumb over the indicting term when asked to (continued on page 3)
Cult industry grows in wealthand power
Friedmans go to Washington Later this montb, Herbert J. Friedman, a Lincoln attorney, will appear bofore tbe United Statea Supreme Court in tbe case of Marsh v. Chambers. Mr. Friedman will ask the Court to rule that the present practice of the Nebraaka Unlcameral in utilizing tbe aervlcea of a clergyman and allied activities violates tbe Establishment Clause of toe First Amendment. Accompanying Mr. Friedman will be bia wife, Brenda, and their children, Betty, 17} Charles, 15, and Daniel, (even.
By/ Morris Mnllno The billion dollnr religious cult industry is growing rapidly in wealth and power and no one seems to be doing much about it, Omahans were told last week. Ychudah Fjne, of New York City, the only rabbi and possibly the only full time worker specializing in exit counseling from cults, wan here April 7-10 to provide the Jewish community with a greater awareness of the problem. Rabbi Firio told several hundred adults and teenagers that an estimated 100,000 Jews join new religious movements in the United States every year. Cults are active in Israel too, he said, estimating their number at 10,000. He said the cults recruit on almost every college campus including the West Point Military Academy where "20 members of the graduating class were identified as Cult members." Rabbi Fine said the magnitude of the problem can be understood better with the recent disclosure that Prime Minister Bogin's proposed trip to the Southern Baptist Conference last November was financed (without hia .knowledge) by a religious cult. Rabbi Fine also charged that the booking
agent for the annual Hadassah tour of children to Israel was connected with a cult. Rabbi Fine and his associate Zalman Corlin met with Talmud Torah students and with the Jewish community at large during their four-day stay. They were joined on their final night by Nossan Sachs, also of New York City, a rabbinical student who leaves for Israel this summer to become a chaplain in the Israel Defense Force, Their final appearance was at the residence of Paul and Margie Alpcrson where they joined' with the Alpersons' daughter, Amy, in appealing to community leaders for financial. support to carry on with their work. As reported in last week's Jewish Press, Rabbi Fine was instrumental in assisting Amy Alperson in exiting from the Mananatha Christian Fellowship at the University of Michigan. Ms. Alpcrson is now attending New York University and is working part time as an assistant to Rabbi Fine. The Omaha program was presented by the Jewish Family Life Education Committee, Jewish Family Service and the Department of Jewish Education.
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On remembering (continued from page 1) enough to say that these terrible things must not happen again. In all honesty and friendliness, and not in accusatory mood, together with certain Christian scholars I point out to Christian friends that there is a direct and inevitable chain of logical progression from the anti-Judaism of classic Christianity to the sometime* virulent anti-Semitism of fourth century Church Fathers to the psychopathology about Jew* in medieval European Christendom to the racially inspired anti-Semitism of modern times to the Nazi insanity and efficient murder system. If — as we like to say, all too blithely — these things are not to happen again, those Christian scholars must be listened to who demand that the Churches take positive steps to create a more honest image of Jews, a positive image within Christianity, and that these steps be consistent and continuous. In the second place, we must not flinch, in this nuclear age, from the realization that the Holocaust is proof positive that there are, alas, no limits to the cruelty and debasement of the human beast. Germany, the center of European culture, became, before our very eyes, the center of the perversion of human talent and the center of the corruption of the human spirit. It is folly to think that it is unthinkable that nuclear power, in all its horror, can be used by man against man. ft can. There are no limits — the Holocaust proves it — to the debasement of men . . . and the efforts men used to put into winning wars must now be used in effort to avoid Any future major war can obliterate mankind. There is a third thought. And it is this that brings us together this day and this week. And it is this that give us some hope — as Lincoln gave to the America of his time — that there can be belter days. Vfe remember. We remember the victims of the Nazi beast. We keep our faith with the dead, with those who do not even have a grave, but were consigned as smoke dust to the heavens. We are a generation of mourners. And being a mourner, whether Jew or non-Jew, is a sobering experience. The mourner does not hate mankind. He sanctifies life. He turns to the eradication of hatred. He is intolerant of hatred and belligerence. He will never touch the button for nuclear war; and he will demand absolute and total responsibility for those whose finger may be close to the button — for he, as mourner, cherishes the life God gave us. He will not destroy. His duty to the dead, his own family and the family of mankind, is to keep memory fresh. His duty is to glorify not death but life, not death but life. CUP AMD SAVE -
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Cal Kirshen, chairman, JCC award* program, announced that the annual Midget end Olympic Basketball league recognition program will be held Monday, April 25, at 7 p.m. in the Center's auditorium. He stated that in addition to recognizing the championship teams in each league, lie will also recognize each player and volunteer coach. Special awards will be presented to the 198.3 "Most Improved" and "Oututanding" athletes.
Learning at Loveland Mark Cohen (left) ton of Sheldon and Joyce Cohen, assisted by bis third grade teacher at Lovcland School, Bess Gould Nogg, describes the Pacsover Seder to bis classmates. Mrs. Nogg holds the maUa.
Nobel Peace Prize may be Wallenberg By Morris Maline Albert Einsteirf* dream of a Nobel Peace Prize to a Christian diplomat who saved the lives of some 100.000 Jews during World War II is gaining momentum. Lena Biorch-Kaplan, chairman, the Raoul Wallenberg Committee of the United Stales, delivered a message to the Jewish community of Omaha recently saying that she was optimistic over lobbying effort* of the U.S. based group. Ms. Biorch-Koplan con-
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Nobel Laureate, first nominated Wallenberg for the Peace Prize shortly after his exploit* to save Hungary's Jews became known. The nomination for the The delegation included Bella Eisenberg and her 1983 Nobel Priws for Peace eon, Bob; Sam and Magila was launched by H. Peter Fried; and Alan Katchen, Krosby, professor of hisdirector, ADL/CRC com- tory, State University of mittee of the Jewish Fed- New York in Albany. eration. Seconding the motion has The family of Mrs. Ei&cn- been a lilt of notables who berg's late husband was were encouraged to do go by among those saved by Mr. the Raoul Wallenberg ComWallenberg during his dip- mittee of the United Suite*. lomatic service in Hungary. Among these have been Dr. Einstein, himself a the/pllowinit: Simon Wiesen{jul\ ftiiE-fnnjcH Nazi liunie/t IJrcville Jftnner, a '!b(3BbCr«f the British Parliament; U.S. Senators Rudy Bosctmilz (R-MN), Dill Bradley (D-NJ). David Durenberger (R-MN), Clai-
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Among these awards to be p r e s e n t e d are: Harry Trustin Award (Outstanding Jewish Youth Club Basketball Player); J. J. Greenberg Memorial Award (Moat Improved 6lh and Clh Grader); J. J, Greenberg Memorial Award (Outstanding 7th, 8th, and 9th Grader); Samuel 8. Steinberg Award (Outstanding 5th and Clh Grader); Jack M. Saferstetn Award (Most Improved 7th, 8th, end Oth Grader); and the Leslie L. Durkenrosd Award (Outstanding JCC Adult Basketball Player).
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Sen. Grassley reports on Soviet Union (continued from page 1) present hi* passport. Upon discovering his true identity, hia employer attempted to rewind the job offer but was foiled because he had already signed government document*. That young man, like oil Russian Jew* wishing to escape their perpetual oppression, Men American political and diplomatic activism as his only hope. "What can you do for us?" the refuseniktt questioned repeatedly. "When can you get u out?" Despite Mich desperation, their faces reflected inner peace shaped by conviction and courage, sharply contracting with the faces of ordinary Russians on the street. Ryes vacant, such faces generally mirror the groynes* of lives stripped of individual righu and dignity and appear frozen with fear at the approach of a Westerner. Inspired by a shared determination and courage to defy a monstrous system, the refuseniks are convinced they are the only Russian* who are truly free. Hut their eyes also reflected the pain of those whose dreams have shriveled in the heat of increased Soviet-American tensions. Just three years ago, at the peak of detente, the Soviets appeased American SALT II proponents with a flood of 51,000 emigrants, fueling refusenik hopes for future liberation. But I hone hopes have since plunged oa the 1979 high of 5,000 monthly emigrants fell to a new low last month of only 137. Historically anti-Semitic, the Soviet system totally devalue* Russian Jew* — unless they can be u*cd as pawns to advance the Soviet cause. I returned to America con-
vinced that we must use the Soviets' own value system more effectively to purnue our commitment to freedom and human dignity. Hungry for U.S. grain, eager for cultural and scientific cxchnngeMhe Soviets too often win access to such benefits without any consideration of the (spiritual, physical, and psychological brutalizntion to which they subject their people. Appeals for "compassion" and "human rights," often rooted in Western naivete, are inevitably deflected off Kremlin minds hardened to the individual worth of its citizens. In my future work on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immig ation and Refugee Policy, I intend to continue to raise the emigration issue with Soviet and American officials. An proven in 1979, the Soviets will at times vastly liberalize emigration rights when they have a stoke in such policies. Attempts to coordinate activities with other Western countries, especially in the areas of technology and grain trade, should he encouraged. Additionally, the American business community should not be ignored in this area. Sensitizing those who deal directly with the Soviet government is perhaps now the best leverage we have. Sabre-rattling may not work with the Soviets. However, this country's firm commitment to oppressed Russian Jews, evidenced by tying their plight to the U.S.S.R.'s image around the world and to Soviet-American agreements, could revolutionize the destiny of thousands of Russians who ache for religious freedom. If we as Americans recoil from solidarity with millions of oppressed around the world, we must confront the truth
that we Bhnre blame for their xuffering, and that our waning willx may ultimately assure our own undoing. The oft-quoted warning of German theologian Martin Niemoeiler following his eight years of imprisonment in Nazi death camps has taken on d new meaning for me since my return from the U.S.S.R.: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up (R'cnuBc I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant." "And then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
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Happy birthday Israel In place of our regular editorial and in celebration of Israel's 35th anniversary, the Jewish Press surrenders this space to milestones in the history of a people. , Independence after 2,000 years of erile: B.C.E. 18th Century . . . Abraham, the first Hebrew. 16th Century . . . Jacob and his sons move to Egypt. 13tb Century... Joshua leads the Israelites back into the Holy Land after the Exodus from Egypt. 13th - 11th Century... Judges rule the Jewish People and the Land of Israel. 1020 - 930... The Monarchies of Kings Saul, David and Solomon. 930 . . . The Monarchy is divided into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. 721 . . . Assyrians conquer the Kingdom of Israel. 586 . . . Babylonians conquer the Kingdom of Judah. 536 - 515 . . . First return from Babylon. 457 - 424 . . . Second return. 333 . . . Alexander the Great conquers the Persian Empire and Judea. 168 . . . Revolt of the Maccabeans. 63 . . . Pompey captures Jerusalem. 37 . . . King Herod's reign of 41 years begins. C.E. 66 . . . Jewish revolt against the Romans. 70 . . . Jerusalem falls; Second Temple destroyed. 73 . . . Masada, the last fortress of the rebels. 135 . . . Bar Kochba leads rebellion. 161 . . . Unsuccessful Jewish revolt. 165 - 425 . . . The Patriarchs, or Presidents of the Sanhedrin, lead the Jewish community. 361 . . . Roman Emperor Julian promises to rebuild Temple, but dies in battle. 395 - 638 . . . Byzantine rule. * 636,.. Arabs invade the Land. 1072 -1099 . . . Seljuk rule. 1099 . . . Crusaders conquer Jerusalem. 1100 -1110 . . . Crusaders capture Haifa, Cacsarea. 1291 . . . Mameluke conquest; last Crusader Kingdom. ' '• 1517 . . . Ottoman conquest. 1530 • 1650 . . . Famous KabbalisU and writers flourish in Safed. 1554... Joseph Karo completes the Shulchan Aruch. 1566 . . . Tiberias rebuilt by Don Joseph NasL 1666 . . . Shabbatai Zevi declares himself Messiah. 1799 . . . Napoleon's invasion and retreat. . 1860 . . . First Jewish quarter outside the walls. 1870... Agricultural school founded at Mikve Israel. 1881 .. 1 Eliezer Ben Yehuda settles in the country. 1897 .. 1 World Zionist Organization established. 1909 . . . Founding of Degania, first kibbutz. 1917 . . . Balfour Declaration issued, supporting "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people". 1939 - 1945 . . . Six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe. 1947 . . . United Nations General Assembly adopts Partition Resolution calling for establishment of Arab and Jewish states in Palestine; irregular Arab forces begin to attack Jewish settlements throughout the country. 1948... State of Israel established. Invasion by Arab armies and Israel's War of Independence, terminated by armistice agreements with the Arabs.
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Chief Rabbi more powerful than the President HAIFA — The election of two new Chief Rabbis in Israel ha* not attracted es much attention overseas as the election of Israel's new President, but the fact is that the Chief Rabbis have considerably more power end influence than the President. The very institution of a Chief Rabbi, ES a state functionary, seems strange to Jewi overseas. Furthermore, we have not one but two — one serving the Aahkenazi community, and the other the Sephsrdi. The office date* back to the time of the Ottoman Empire, when the government assured each of i u religious minorities full autonomy in matters of concern to them. The religious leader of the Jews was known as the Hahun (the wise one) and with the addition of the Turkish translation he became known as Haham Bcshi. * When the British mandate was established over Palestine after the First World War, the High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, wanted to assure the rights of the Christian and Moslem communities. He continued the tame principle of autonomy, and of course the Jews organized their religious affair* in parallel fashion. The supreme religious authority, created in 1921, became known en the Chief Rabbi. Each community is given jurisdiction and control over matters which in other countries fall under civil taw, such as marriage, divorce, alimony, burials, etc. Any attempt by Israel to change the system — for example, to strip the Moslem Shariah courts of their jurisdiction over these areas of religious concern to them, would cause the entire Moslem world to rise up in protest, and a revolution would probably break out at home. Much of the day-to-day administration of these matters is carried on by the Ministry of Religious Affairs, with which the Chief Rabbinate is associated. The Ministry han-
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To the Editor: (n accordance with our policy of promoting an enlightened electorate, we would tike to encourage your help in clarifying the May city council elections. Because of the newness of district elections in Omaha, we feel that there might be some confusion in the minds of many voters. You could do a great deal to dispel this confusion in using spot public service presentations that would: (1) encourage voting in districts 2,4, and 6 where candidates are running; (2) explain to voters in the remaining district* that there will be no voting in their districts and (3) provide other pertinent information about the city elections, such oa the fact that council members are elected for four year terms. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter. If we con be of any assistance, please let us know. Deanna M. Frisk President Verona Jerabck Voters Service Chair To the Editor: The B'nai B'rith Dr. Abe Greenberg Foundation was formed in 1964 by Henry Mons'ky Lodge #.354 in honor of the long and devoted services rendered by Dr. Abe Greenberg to B'nai B'rith both in. Omaha and on a regional, district, national and international level. Thin Organization was created to assist worthy, needed person* of the Jewish faith, whose parent or grandparent is a member in good standing of an Omaha B'nai B'rith I/Klge, to obtain an education in college. It is the oldest Jewish organization of its kind in the Omaha area. Since it* inception it has helped over two dozen Jewish Kludcnia obtain their goal of a degree in their chosen profession. We are a self nujtlaining, non-profit organization. Our only Hourcen of revenue come from the repayment of loans to former recipients and the generous donations of individuals and philanthropic foundations who share our desire
dies the concerns of ail religious groups in Israel, and assures the independence and autonomy of each. The concerns of the Jewish community are many, ranging from yeshivas to ksshrat supervision and to raikvehs, ritual bath*. In each local community ere religious councils, responsible to the Ministry in Jerusalem, end drawing their budget from it. Salaries of the rabbis, religious court judges, and the various officials and functionaries, are all paid from the budget of the Ministry. One of the most troublesome aspects of the whole institution is that while Israel recognizes tbo right* of Christians and Moslems.' Bahais and Karaites and Samaritans, them is no such recognition of any rights for Liberal or Conservative Judaism in sn establishment which is operated by and for Orthodox Jews. The issues involved are going to erupt into open conflict with increasing frequency. The Chief Rabbinate has two primary areas of operation. One is general supervision of most rabbinical functions in the country; the other Is the Supreme Religious Court, which e c u as a court of appeal from the many local rabbinical courts which handle divorce cases, and various disputes of religious concern. By new agreement, Ashkcnarj Chief Rabbi Av'raham Shapiro and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Mordechai Fliahu will divide their ten year term. One will serve for five years as Chief Rabbi and the other as Chief Justice of the Court; for the second five years they will reverse their rales. Among recent incumbents this hud been a matter for dispute. Headquarter* of the Chief Rabbinate is located in Hechal Shlomo, in Jerusalem, tt is sometimes jocularly referred to as the Datican, a play on the words Vatican and datl, the Hebrew word for "religious". The Chief Rabbis were elected by an electoral board consisting 'of 150 members, 80 of them rabbis and the remainder civic leaders at large. Most of the electors were chosen on the basis of political considerations, and the election campaign was not a very edifying spectacle. The office of the Chief Rabbi is modified by the character and personality of the man who occupies the post. To this day Chief Rabbi Avrnhnm Yitzhak Kook, who served in the Ashcruuic post from 1921 until his death in 1935, is regarded as the trading and dominant personality in the modern rabbinical history of the country. His administration was marked by courageous rulings which sought to interpret halacha, strict Jewish tradition, in terms of modern living. He was succeeded by Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevy Hcrzog, who came to the post after being Chief Rabbi of Ireland. Chnirn Hcrxog is his son. The next Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi was Shlomo Goren, who brought a certain flamboyancy to the position. He earned paratrooper win^*, and had a great sense of the dramatic, as evidenced by his blowing of the uhofnr atop Mount Sinai, among other exploits. The successive Sephardi occupants of the pout have been marked by their dignity and scholarship, but they were not as well known in the West. It is generally expected that under the administration of Chief Rabbis Shapiro and Eliahu, the Datican will enter a conservative period of strict interpretation of Jewish Law affording littls hope to Jews who do not subscribe to orthodoxy.
to help local Jewish youth. Those desiring to do so can contact Marvin Trcllcr, 1307 Marlx* Dr., Omaha, Ne. 68124. Tbose Jewish studenu who think they qualify for OASIStance from the Foundation should write to Marvin Kaplan, 13030 Heavenly Dr.. Omaha Nebraska G8I&4. B'nai B'rith Dr. Abo Greenberg Foundation To t h e Editor: Thirty-eight years after tho fall of Adolph Hitler students were naked to identify the Nnzi leader, the answers ranged from soccer player to television personality. The reason for the answers must be attributed to the feet that people have either forgotten or were never taught about the Holocaust. There is simply no justification for the answers! Perhopa we are failing in our efforts to uphold the last request of our six-million brethren trust we "remember". Those of us who survived the Holocaust shall never forget the pain and agony of the Hitler years. We live with tho daily painful memories of the death of our brethren as well as the memory of our own bitter experience. Our goal and commitment is to educate future generations so that all may remember the horrors of the recent post so that another Holocaust will never happen again. . We, the Society of Survivors of the Holocaust, ask tholj the entire Jewish community join us at this year's Yom Hashoah observance. We ask that you share in our dedication to educate end remember so that the phrnie "never again" may have greater meaning; for us all and that when questions arc asked about the Nazi nightmare the answers will be known. Those of us who attended the American Gathering, Jewish Holocaust Survivors, April 11-14, in Washington, D.C. show to thejvorld that we still remember and that when we soy "never again" wo sincerely mean never again. Aron Zeiderman Chairman. Society o f Survivors of the Holocaust
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I s r a e l ' s j u d g m e n t — a n d OUTS By Dr. Irving Greenherg Director, National Jewish Resource Center Justice and judgment are BO crucial to the ability of humans to function without going out of control and destroying the world that the Talmud declared that "a judge who gives a true and penetrating judgment becomes like a partner with God in Creation." (Shabbat 10A) The Kohrm Commission of Inquiry into the Sabra/Shatila majwacre has given true and penetrating judgment and thereby its members have become worthy partners and continuers of the great Zionist tradition which created the .Jewish state. In recent yearj, there has been a steady drumfire of reporu in the media that Israel is suffering from moral fatigue, that the Begin government is militarist and uncaring about Arab blood, that the Israelis have become the hired Bunslingers of the Western world., ,, : ,,, The Commission report, it* circumstances and findings, Kivcs the lie to all IIICM; claims and shows that Israel continue* to develop not a Utopian morality but a morally realistic ethic which guides and corrects the exercise of its power in the real world. The system worked. A brofldbased demand for accountability, worldwide Jewish reactions, and the interplay of coalition relationships brought an inquiry into being in the face of initial and fit rone remittance of a dominant Prime Minister and a powerful military hero Defense Minister. Despite the atmosphere of wartime and pressure not to lend color of credibility to the worldwide attempt to unjustly hlame Israel far the killing*, the Commission collected ail the evidence, reached up to the highest levels of government, and spared no one. One is struck by the contrast with the shameful United Statist Supreme Court decision induced by wartime psychology, upholding the unjust intern • ment of Japanese-Americans in World War II or with the initial wartime, post-Pearl Harbor American inquiry which carefully avoided reaching lieyond the local commanders in 8K*ctuirtji, blame.
The com finding of the Commission was that Israeli soldier* played no part in the killings nor was there any Israeli prior knowledge of the massacre. Nor did it find any deliberate sin of omission or looking away to allow the murderers to plan their deeds. Yet, the Commission assessed n significant level of indirect responsibility — failure to anticipate, failure to take special actions to control — on major Israeli figures. Showing its remarkably balanced moral judgment, it found that the decision to wndlhe Phalange into the camps was a legitimate exercise of judgment. It held that, had the responsible people taken strong steps to prevent harm coming to the civilian population, then this would have been no place to be critical of them, even if untoward and undesirable harm was done to civilians. Thus, the Commission indulged in no easy Monday morning quarterhacking ~ rather, it faulted those responsible, precisely for not making special efforts. In its finest and most Jewish moment, the Commission held Israeli official* to the higher standards of indirect responsibility on the grounds of historical Jewish memory and Huffering. " . . . The Jews in various lands of exile and also in the land of Israel when it was under foreign rule suffered greatly from pogroms... The Jewish public's stand has always been that the responsibility for such deeds falls not only on those who rioted and committed the atrocities hut also on those who were responsible for safety and public orderx who could have prevented the disturbances and did not fulfill their obligations in this respect." This finding in a true modern recapitulation of the Biblical model that Jcwg "were ulaves (on strangers) in thoilandilof,rJ5gyrrt," therefore, Jews oro charged to be more sensitive-M^ttie needs of the weak, the stranger, etc. Israel'n moral behavior must be judged in the arena of the real world where power is exercised. It should be compared not just to Syria's murderous tyrants who wiped out 15,000 in Hnrnn without batting an eyelash, or to Soviet Russia's using poison gas in Afghanistan, but to the best — the United States of America. In My Lai, a United States battalion actually committed the massacre. A Lieutenant was tried and convicted; no General was punished nor
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higher official dismissed. In Israel's case of indirect responsibility, the Prime Minister has been criticized, the Defense Minister forced out of his position, the Chief of Staff, Director of Military Intelligence and Divisional Commander in Beirut have been dismissed or their careers suspended. Israel has paid a heavy price to live up to this higher standard. A national hero, one of its most brilliant strat-' egintfs and generals ever, has been removed from his leadership post, thus depriving Israel of the use of one of its major military resources. Sharon has paid a heavy price as n lifetime of daring courage and extraordinary achievement has Iteen eclipsed by this blunder in treatment of outcast "M rangers'. Yet it ia precisely this model of accountability that is the nnd that a (rue moral doctrine and practice of tohar hanexhek —• purity of arms (purity of military action) — conlinuen to develop in Israel. This is the modern moral heritage — I would say, revelation — as to the use of power by the people of Israel to the world. Israel is a flesh-and-blood democracy. The resolution of the commission's recommendations is a classic expression of the ambiguities and lack of neatness which characterize real life political (situations, The governing party knew that the majority of the population and the bulk of its voters are |ieople who themselves or their parents came from Arab countries, who remember the sting of Arab oppression and believe that Arabs respect only the strong hand. Still, the government resisted the temptation to override the report with a demagogic appeal to Sharon's popularity, to solidarity in wartime, or to "what will the Gentiles say if we give them ammunition..." On the other hand, the leverage of controlling votes in a coalition ruling by a hare majority and the force of his pereonality have enabled Sharon to remain in the Government. Israel could have reaped more public relations credit had he departed entirely. The present resolution is not neat hut it captures to a "T" the mixture of feelings nnd motives, of responsibility and calculation, which shapes the situation. The marginolity of the issue to many voters, and the political cross-currents are all factored in. The punishments serve as a warning/deterrent for future accountability.
By Bert Lewis Can we talk? Crazy Joan Rivers asks that question, but Bhe doesn't mean it. She really means "will you listen?" Granted, she's a mashuganah, but her phrase makes me wonder about talking and listening. Most of us find ourselves in the role of listener from time to time, while somebody talks out a problem. Unburdens, so to epeak. And who doesn't feel better after "unloading". I suspect good listeners have many friends. Higher education has raised the knack of listening to a tine art — it's culled therapy. A therapist is, of course, a professional listener. And while that takes training, a glib talker xcems Irarn with the ability to hock a chinick. Not having made a scientific study, 1 can't soy whether there are more talkers or listeners, but I would guess the talkers outnumber the others. Happily, to be a good listener, one needn't be formally trained. Patience is required, and a selfless attitude towards others helps, but some indefinable quality separates those who can truly "hear out" another from those who can scarcely wait to say ''that's nothing. Let me tell you what happened to ME". It seems to me a listener should just listen. That might even be classified as a mitzvah! And while I don't mean to slight the trained professional who must deal with severe disturbances, a person who can say "this is eating my pupick out" to a sympathetic friend is often helped immediately, while the other way may take months. Surely making judgments which could alter a perRons life should be the task of a trained professional. But a distinction must be made between "vay is mcer" and "why is that member out to get me?" Anyone can qualify as a good listener . . . hear secrets, grievances, accusations and all kinds of medical symptoms. Just try to remember that advice is usually worth exactly what it costs. But an ear, when lent to somebody who desperately needs it, can be invaluable. And anyway, you've got two of them — you can spare one now and then.
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T«mple Israel SERVICES: Friday: 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Sidney Brooks, Rabbi Barry Weinstein and Cantor Harold Firestone will officiate at the services. Rabbi Brooks will speak on Reform and children of mixed marriage. The Oneg Shabbat following services will be sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Hal Seiner in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Beth Rosanne. Saturday: Morning services: 11 a.m. CLASSES Saturday, April 16, 9 a.m. Sunday, April 17, 10 a.m. HEBREW CLASSES Daled, Monday, April 18, 4 and S p.m. Bet, Monday, April 18, 4 and S p.m. Aleph, Wednesday, April 20, 4 and 5 p.m. Gimme!, Thursday, April 21, 4 and 5 p.m. Confirmation class, April 20, 4 p.m. B'NOT MITZVAH Beth Rosanne Seiner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hal Seiner, will become a Bat Mitzvah Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16. Liaa Claire Fried, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Marshall C. Fried, will become a Bat Mitzvah Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23.
A monument to the memory of Luis Diamond will be dedicated on Sunday, April 17 at 1:30 p.m. at Fisher Farm Cemetery. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff will officiate.
PERSONALS I wish to thank ea my relatives and friends (or their expressions of concern during my recent hospttaSzation and for their get wefl cards and donations. I especially want to thank Rabbi & Mrs. Nadoff and Cantor & Mrs Fettman for their prayers end kindness. Mrs. Clara Parker NOVJCSL
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Beth Israel SERVICES: Friday: Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat service ....6:45 p.m. Late Friday Night Family Services 8:15 p.m. An Oncg Shabbat follows the service, sponsored by Sisterhood. Baby-sitter service provided. Saturday: Morning service 8:45 a.m. A Kiddush follows the service. Jr. Congregation 10 a.m. Class with Rabbi 6 p.m. Mincha 7 p.m. Mincha is followed by Shalosh S'udot, Ma'ariv and Havdalah. Sunday: Morning Minyan 9 a.m. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 6:45 p.m. CONGREGATIONAL ELECTION DINNER The Annual Election dinner will be held on April 17 at 6 p.m. Reservations for the dinner at $8.50 per person and may be made through the Synagogue office. Report* on the year's activities will be given and election of new board members and officers will be held. Entertainment will follow the election. TALMUD TORAH NEWS On April 17 Religious School students will attend an assembly in honor of Yom Hashoah and Yom Ha'atzmout. Both of these programs will be under the direction of Cantor Fettman. Parents are invited to attend this assembly. Shabbat Torah Studies class will.not be held on April 16 thus enabling these students to attend the programs on April 17. The Beth Israel teaching staff will hold their neit meeting on April 17, at 11:45 a.m. in the Conference room. Cantor Fettman will take the students of Kitah Zayin to visit residents of the Livingston Apartments on April 15, 4-6 p.m. The »tu-
Please join us as our daughter Beth Rosanne becomes a Bat Mitzvah Saturday, April 16th, 11:00 a.m., Temple Israel. Luncheon following services. Noni and Hal Seiner
SERVICES: Friday: 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Paul Drawn, Cantor Emil Berkovits and the Beth E! Choir will conduct the services. An Oneg Shnbhat will follow, Saturday: Morning services 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Minha-roaariv 6:45 p.m. Utteoiii Sunday: 9 a.m. SISTERHOOD/ Rabbi Kenneth N. White SHABBAT DINNER will lead Friday night servSisterhood will sponsor a ices beginning at 8 p.m. congregational Shabbat Saturday morning serv- dinner on Friday, April 15, ices and study begin at 10:30 6:30 p.m. in the Social Hull. a.m. LUNCH AND LEARN Occasional children's The Lunch and Learn seservices begin at 7:30 p.m. ries with Rabbi Drazen will Please call the Temple resume on Thursday, April Office at 435-8004 for infor- 21, 12 noon at the synmation. agogue. Oneg Shabbat follows each Friday night service.
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Dr. and Mr*. Steven Grant LILLIAN 8LUTZKY Mr. and Mr». Edward Services for Lillian Gerber of Omaha announce SluUky, 75, who died April the marriage of their 6 after a long illness, were daughter Susan Rachel to conducted April 9 at Beth El Dr. Steven Grant of New Cemetery. York City. In addition to her brother, The bride attended Dr. Ben Slutzky, she U «ur- Hunter College in New vived by nieces and York, where she graduated nephews. Bummo cum laude and wm elected to Phi Beta Kappa, SHIRLEY BARISII in 1982 she graduated from MILLER the Benjamin N. Cordozo Services were held in School of Law of Yeshiva Palm Spring*. Calif, on University, where she reApril II for Shirley Barifih ceived the Eleanor ItooicMiller. Survivors: husband, Barney; daughter, Gay A&&octa(|Qii/ v .*•••.,. Kofpi, Yod Mordecai, IsDr. Grant attended Corrael; son. Rabbi Jay Miller, nell University, City College San Diego, Calif.; mother, of New York and Ml. Sinai Mrs. Max Barish; sister, School of Medicine. He wan I.OIK Barish; brother, a post -doctoral research Charles (Bud) Barish; nil of fellow in the Division of On-' I/)* Angdet; four grand- cology at the Ynle Univerchildren. sity School of Medicine. As an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, he i* currently The Jowtslt Press will engaged in leukemia republish free ads for high Hcarchond in a Special school and college stuFellow of the Leukemia Sodents looking for sumciety of America. He in al&o mer employment and one of the top ranked che&x for employers w h o plnyers in the United
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Dr. and Mrs. Maurice B. Schwartz have announced the engagement of their son, Dr. Meyer Paul, to Gayle Fanok of Atlanta, Gn. The future bridegroom graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., in 1078 with a BA degree in biology end anthropology. He received his doctor of medicine degree in 1982 from Creighton University in Omaha. He in a resident in orthopedic surgery et the Emory Univer-
city Hospital System in Atlanta. The bride-elect is originally from Pottstown, Pa. She graduated from Ripon College, Ripon, Wise, in 1080 with a BA degree in mathematics. She is project administrator of the audit division for the First Atlanta Corporation, a Georgia based multi-bank holding company engaged in banking and bank related activities. Grandparents are Mr. and Mr*. Abe Klopper of Omaha and Mrs. Hilda Schwartz of Cleorwatcr, Fla. An August wedding is planned, after which the, couple will live in Atlanta.
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BHEADBREAKERS John L. Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI, for Nebraska and Iowa will speak at the B'nai B'riih Breadbreakera luncheon on Wednesday, April 20, at noon at t h e Howard Johnson Motel. KALAIJ FRANKLIN MIZRAOII Cantor Harold Firestone of Temple Israel will present a musical program at Kalah Franklin Chapter on Wednesday, April 20, at Beth El Synagogue. The program of Israeli music will include a 'SingA-Long', Ruth Klopper, president has announced. Reservation* may be made by calling Fay Sekor 551-3049 or Ida Spector 330-4967. HADA8SAII BOARD MEETING The April 13 Hadassah Board meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. at the home of Doreen Lerner, 13006 Pacific. Co-hostesses are Corinne Levin and Sherry Fletcher. The meeting is open to all members. M1ZRACHI WOMEN HATIKVAII CHAPTER Halikvah Chapter of American Mterachi Women will meet on April 16,8 p.m., Beth Israel Recreation Room. Elly and Bob Gordman, participants in the second annual United Jewish Appeal President's Mission to Israel will report on the highlights of the trip. Coffee and dessert will be served for $2. Reservations may be made with Marion Strauss 558-2046; Cert Levey 397-6488; Charlotte Kaplan i>51-56!>8.
Recycled fathers Omaha resident Kathryn Weil Simon discusses the phenomenon of recycled father* with Yehuda Lev and host Gary Collins recently on "Hour Magazine", WOWT, channel 6, Yehuda Lev described how he started a second family well into his middle ago after his three older children had grown and left the nest, Ms. Simon added that many men in the 40 to 60 year range are beginning over again with second marriages and newborn babies.
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RAM BEBER AZA 100 By Marc Brodkey The executive board of Sam Holwr AZA regrets to announce the resignation of Alan Hrenlow as president. Vice president Eric Tatelman has assumed the duticH of president. The chapter will hold a special election to elect a new vice president. The rcKt of the executive hoard will remain the Home. The chapter would like to acknowledge Alan Breslow's presidency and wish him luck in the future. Ucbcr helped to entertain the Grand Aleph Godol, Adam I'etrovnky, during his recent visit to Omaha. The chapter sponsored an allcity cultural featuring a prosecuting attorney from the Douglas County Attorney's office. The Prosecution, as the cultural was titled, helped Pctrovsky get a taste of what Omaha BHYO does on Friday nights. Petrovsky was also presented with an admiralty in the Nebraska Navy signed by Governor Robert Kerrey. Hundred's participation was strong during the entire weekend. Regional Aleph Godol David Cohen evaluated the visit as successful. The Century Chapter finished the Youth Council Basketball season four weeks ago with fairly impressive records. In the past we've had. only one team which simply refused to win. This year Beber had two
teams. Our records: the A team 5-7 and the B team 39. Congratulations to both teams and a round of applause to our great coaches, Jay I/erner und Mike Zahm who stuck it out for another year. Next sport: Softball?! Three weeks ago our freshmen planned the annual Frenhman Weekend. A Friday night Shabbat Service followed a two hour talk on hypnotism by a psychologist. Dr. Norman Ilnnn performed hypnosis on member Richard Katskee to the fascination of a group of 30 or so BBYOers. Following the service, a cultural snack of tacos was served. The poor "spring" weather postponed our Saturday night activities which consisted of a Havdallah service at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home followed by a date party. The event is rescheduled for Saturday night, May 7. On Sunday morning we had a chapter sports tournament. Members played floor hockey, volleyball and basketball. A thank you goes to the J for the use of the gym. I should mention that dance tri-chairmen have been elected for our 28th Annual Sweetheart Dance to be held in October or November. They are Junior Marc Brodkey and Sophomores David Anderson and Eric Tatelman. Sophomores Robert Kantor and Richard Kntskee will serve as assistant dance chairmen.
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Charles A. Monasee and Thomas S. Nurnberger will be the recipients of the 19&3 Brotherhood -Award presented by the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ). The Brotherhood Award is presented annually to community leaders selected for their outstanding contributions to humanitarian and human relations activities. Mr. Monanee, president of Riekes Group, and Nurnberger, former executive vice president, American Telephone and Telegraph, will receive their awards May 25, at Peony Park according to Howard J. Kaslow, NCCJ presiding cochair. Richard D. McCormick is the general chairman for thin event. Commenting on their selection, Mr. Kaslow cited the wide range of civic activities that each has been involved with and their limitless energy in projects which have twnefitted the entire community. He noted that Mr. Nurnbergcr is an outstanding administrator with a strong personal commitment to education and community relations. He observed that a unique feature of Mr. Monasec's com-
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Mr. Monasee served as president of Hinky Dinky Supermarkets and American Community Stores Corporation prior to assuming hia present position with the Riekes Group. He is a past president of and continues to serve on the boards of Omaha Symphony Association, Joslyn Art Museum and the United Way of the Midlands.
Mr. Nurnberger's civic activities have expanded 'since his retirement from AT&T. He served as grand marshal for the first River City Round-up, and helped generate a city's enthusiasm for this idea. He sit* on the boards of director* for Bankers Life Company, Des Moines, Iowa, IntcrNorth, Inc., United Telecommunications and is a director and Additionally, Mr. Monchairman of Edison Sault asee sits on the Boards of Electric Company. He is a Directors of Creighton Uni- founding member ojf Boy'* versity, Nebraska Meth- Clubs' of Omaha and is a odist Hospital and the member of the Community Omaha Jewish Federation. Foundation Committee, He serves as Councillor, Omaha and Director Emeritus of Creighton University.
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Elie Wiesel lecture May 2 at Creighton Author, Blie Wiesel, will speak at a free public lecture May 2 at 8 p.m. at Brandeia Student Center on the Creighton U n i v e r s i t y campus. Mr. Wie&el'« appearance is uponsorcd by the AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith/Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation and Creighton University. Mr. W'icsel'g lecture topic will be "Sou!» on Fire: The Relevance of Hasidi.im to Contemporary Man." Born in Sighet, Hungary', Mr. Wie«el wo* a teenage survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Today he is a spokenman for the Jewish people.
His recent novel, "The T e s t a m e n t " (Summit Books), deals with the purge* of Jewish intellectuals under Stalin. In its French original version, "The Testament" won the 1930 Prix Livre-lnter and Prix, des Bibliothecairet in Paris. Mr. H'tewl's earlier books include "A Jew Today," "The Trial of God," (both Random Hou&e), the autobiographical "Night" and the novels "Dawn," "The Accident," "The Town Beyond the Wall," "The Gates of the Forest," "Beggar in Jerusalem," and "The
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the National Jewish Book Awards by the Jewish Book Council in 19G4 and 1973, the Jewish Heritage Award for Literature in 1966 and the !!>ftt Prix Medici* for "Beggar in Jerusalem." Currently an Andrew Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, Mr. Wiesel also hold* numerous honorary doctorates from various academic institutions. He serves currently as chairman of the United Stales Holocaust Memorial Council. Arrangements for Mr. Wicsel's appearance in Omaha were made through the B'nai B'rith International Lecture Bureau.
Sunday Health Fair at Center The Jewish Community Center will host the Health Fair of the Midlands for adults Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Fair i* sponsored by the American Red Crow and KMTV 3. According to the announcement, the following screening tests will be offered without charge: Blood pressure, height & weight, visual acuity, anemia, and glaucoma. An optional blood chemistry test will be offered for an $H fee. ThU te*t i» performed for diabetes, kidney disease, liver di&eose, cholesterol, triglyccridcs and thyroid, For thi* test, it is recommended that the applicnnt font for 10 hours before, taking only water, blnrk coffee or tea. Dr. James Wax, cochairman, Kaid information and Kign-up forms will IK available for Tay-Sacks testing. He imid these tests will IK- performed in n lucnl hofjiitul nnd there will IK- a Slfl fee COHEN TO SPEAK Paul Cohen, president of the. .levvinh Federation of Oiimhn, will »pf<ik in Den Moines. April l!l in behalf of the United .Jewish Appeal.
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Exactly one year ago, we routinely examined 1948, but since this Jewish Press is celebrating the year of Israel's birth, it eeems appropriate to have another look. Among the Bar and Bat Milzvah kids were Judith Bercovici, Phyllis Potash, Mike Ulcichcr. Z. Gordon Kips, Richard Fellman, Warren Zweiback and Robert Halt, There was a photo of the new S.A.M. house in Lincoln and the UOC had their 9th Annual Dinner at the JCC. And the Dr. Sher Home opened and marked the occasion with the forms! dedication. Lot* of excitement there, including the arrival of a wonderful new but. Harry Truttin beaded the 1948 Philanthropies Drive, with Mort Richards in charge of the Men's Division. The UJA announced the goal that year was $1 million, and of course with everything going on in Europe following the end of the war, it was sorely needed. Early that spring, headlines in the Jewish Press began to read like this: Dateline Tel Aviv — 13,000 Refugee Children Now in Youth Aliyah Institution in Palestine. It Is Hoped the Number Would Be 2-r>,000 By Year End. Or, Full Recognition Of Israel Urged. And, Israel Ready To Negotiate- With Arabs. In May, the headline wax Jewish State Of Israel Proclaimed! AIMI, Inrnel Face* Future With Confidence, And Weizmann Prenident of Provisional Government. Trumnn'fi Help In Eifiablishing Israel lauded. By .July. stories were captinned thin way. Britioh Troop* lA-avv Palestine After .'II Years of Mandate. Count IJcrnmlottc Proposes Arab* (Jet Neftev nnd .lews net Galilee. I-att-r. ZOA Reject* iiernadolti? Proposal, according to Aubrey S. Kvnn, Representative of Provisional Government of Ihrnfl at the UN. And thut's the way it was, when Israel became n mate. 'AU year* ago.
Camp committee seeks answers The Camp Committee for.. Camp Chaverim plans' to odd camper transportation and day care — *'provided there is sufficient response (o the quc-Mionntiirt1 mailed in March.' The questionnaire is designed to determine the need* and wants of camper* nnd their parents. To date,
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By Estelle Rosenberg T h e T i f e r e t h Israel Jewish Heritage Film Festival will be held April 24, at the Synagogue Social Hail. The film shown will be "A Night nt the Opera," starring the Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Kitty Cnrlisle and Allan Jones.
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The film series is for teenagers and adults only. Popcorn and drinks will l>e available, BO make plans for on enjoyable evening. The Spring Rummage Sale will be held at the South Street Temple April Tl from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
UJA Israel Special Fund: the needs The Galilee consists of 250,000 Bcres of potentially arable land. One third is Arab owned, one third is Jewish owned and one third which ia unused belongs to the state of Israel. Jewish settlements on this unused third are a high priority. Why are these children smiling? They are last year's winners of the Yom In the post five years, 65 Ha'aUmaut — Israeli Independence Day Poster Contest. Children grades kinnew settlements housing dergarten through sixth are Invited to enter. The April IS deadline has been 3,500 families were estabextended to Sunday, April 17 at 1 p.m. Entry fonns are available at the JCC lished in the Galilee at a front desk. This year's celebration on Sunday, May 1 Includes a parade, excost of more than $100 milhibitions, booths, food, games, entertainment and much more. The majority lion. of Omaha Jewish organizations are participating in the festivities, as well as The Jewish Agency Setrepresetotitiveaof the Lincoln, Council Bluffs, and other Jewish Communities tlement Department plans in the area. Children's names from left, Elana Rod, Steve Jacobs, Steve Wilto expand existing settleliams, Jennifer Chandler, Laura Senfl, Mindy Solomon, Amy Solomon, Anments and establish 10 new gela Yaffe, Stephanie Kruger, Andrew Altman, Andrla Covey, Nicole Lerner, ones to provide homes for Lisa Schulman, and Brent Zocharia. 2,400 additional families. The cost of establishing a To rally Vows exchanged single family on a settleSara G. B u f t o n and WASHINGTON - De- ment is $40,000. This inHonor Attendants were Steven B. Rosen were mar- Carolyn B. Elmnn of Ofiter- claring that Jews in the So- cludes housing ($27,000) ried March 12 at WootWdc ville, Mum., titter of the viet Union will not be'for- and r o a d s , a s well as Racquet Club in Weatwood, bride, and Kick Johnston of gotten, B'nni B'rith staged a bringing electricity, water, Kan». Parenu of the couple St. Louis, Mo. worldwide series of rallies gas and telephone service to ere Mr. and Mrs. Hilary A. and demonstrations March the new areas. The cost of i Bufton of Knnwm City, Mo., A reception at Woodside 15 to coincide with the settling a family on a farm and Mr. and Mm. Jerold I. Racquet Club honored the opening of the third World of eight acrcn is $70,000. Rouen. ncwlywcds, who live in Roc- Conference on Soviet Jewry It is projected that as a reInml Park, Kami. sult of the new MttlementR, in; Jerusalem.
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Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson announce the birth of n son, Daniel Willi/un on March IS. Grandparent* are Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wine of Scniudnlo. Ariz, and Mr. antl Mm, Runnel! Johniion of South Bend, I ml.
Consequence: Fewer Jewish families settled on the land means a Jewish minority in the Galilee and a weakened Israel. In addition, young couples unable to settle in the Galilee will return to overcrowded cities where little housing is available. Those who ore unable to find suitable employment may well leave Israel. Contributions to the Israel Special Fund will provide money for development of the Galilee.
Mazel Tov to Jim Wolf Jr., son of Jim and Elaine Wolf of Albion, Neb., and to his future bride Susie Kiefer on their marriage in Denver, Colorado, on April 16.
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All articles gratefully accepted. Bring your articles or items to the Temple, or call: Rick Kohn at 435-3588 or 474-0230; Paula Freivogel at 489-7044; Becky Hanna at 475-0971. Volunteers are needed to help set up on Thursday night, April 21, pickup and sales help on Friday night.
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We were privileged to have Rose Kendall, David Nabity, -Steve Potter, and Chuck Dickey entertain iw. Their program was inspiring, and the Seniors enjoyed the musical program. Sharon Bradley and Cre&andos' were also good entertainment for us. Rabbi Jonathan Roaenbaum was with us on March 31, end gave an interesting talk. The Senior Singers will be performing for the O. E. A. Manor on April II. We are honored to be asked to perform for other groups. Our group is busy getting ready for Yom Ha'atunaut celebration. ( The trip to Chicago ori May 29 sounds fantastic. Mollie has some interesting places for us to visit. As always Mollie is a great tour
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ORTs blackjack plus Joye Wees (left) advertises a playing card video game and Caryn Rifkin shows a painting for a silent aactioa, two of tbe activities that await the adult community April 23 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the JCC. Sponsored by Women's American ORT. Tbe program offers a variety of casino games aod prizca donated by local merchants. Tickets are $1 at tbe door and information may be obtained from MA. Weea at 334-8393.
On April 20, Dan GreenHeld and Al Oruch will be honored guests et the City Wide Volunteers' Luncheon. We are proud to have two of our volunteers nominated for the Annual Recognition Luncheon.
Omahan Steve Priwman has been elected president of Printing Industries of tbe Midlands, a regional graphic arts trade association.
We want to thank Morrie Epstein for the programs he has arranged for us. It is good to have him back after his vacation in Florida. A big thanks to Dr. Milton Margolin for all his help with the programs, and wherever he is needed. I personally want to thank a lady who never is recognized. She is Fnya and always helps with the clean up crew. She is the first one at her table to Ret up and help clean the tables. Thanks I'ayn you are great.
The Curious Savage at the Firehouse Dinner Theatre is about a family named Savage and not about a group of cannibals . . . but on second thought, who knows? There is plenty of animalistic behavior on the part of the Savage children who commit their wealthy mother to an institution. But the mother, played "with superb finesie by Helen Dunlop, coyly fondles
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Greetings from the Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin on the occasion of Israel's 35th Independence Day Prom Jerusalem, our eternal and indivisible Capital, I tend my heartfelt greetings to the Jewish communities throughout the Diaspora on the occasion of the Thirty Fifth Anniversary of [tract's Independence. Yom Ha'atzmaut — the Independence Day of the Jewish State — is unique in the annals of mankind because it celebrates an unprecedented historical truth, namely, the return and self liberation of an ancient exiled, scattered; persecuted and ultimately almost devastate^ people back to the land of its birth after close to twenty centuries of homelesaness, defentelessnes* and Holocaust. This victory of life over death, justice over might, right over wrong, the few over the many, elevates Yom Ha'attmaut into a universal Jewish festival for all generations to come. In the year of freedom, which this independence day heralds, we will together pay homage to all those who, in the blackness of the night, kindled the torch which illuminated our path to national liberty and who have defended that liberty ever since. We recall the martyrs and the heroes, the partisans and the soldiers, who raised the flag of Jewish revolt against the Naii exterminators, fighting them, often hopelessly, inside the death camps and the ghettos. We commemorate this year the fortieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. We shall remember the fighters for the liberation of our land from foreign rule, the members of Hagartah, Irgun and Lehi. We shall pay tribute to all our sorts and daughters who continued the heroic fight to sustain our independence against aggression. And we shall salute the Israel Defence Forces, the army of the people of Israel, devoted and brave, dedicated to but one single purpose — the protection of our country and people and the advancement of peace with security. Between the last day of independence and this, the Israel Defence Forces were, once again, compelled to enter battle against a ruthless enemy of our nation — indeed of the Jewish people — who had built themselves an armed state within a stale in Lebanon and who had turned Beirut into a center of international terrorism. For seven bitter yean the citizens of Galilee had suffered horribly from the incursions, the atrocities and the shelling* of the ever growing terrorist aggression on our Northern border, equipped with some of the best weapons the Soviets and its satellites could provide, including the long range artillery and Katyusha rockets — and financed by th« pttro dollars of Arab states. The population of Galilee — every town, townlet, kibbutz and moshav — had become hostage to the murderous and indiscriminate attacks of the so called PLO. Their strength had reached a point that Nahariya and Kiryat Shmonah faced the threat of physical destruction. And so, Operation "Peace for Galilee" was launched. Israel did not "invade" Lebanon for we do not covet an inch of Lebanese territory. The Israel Defence Forces entered I*banon for the single objective to destroy those armed bands who, with the aid of the Syrian occupation forces, hod virtually ruled large areas of Lebanon and oppressed its people. The aggressors were ejected from Beirut and that Capital city was restored to its owners. The blessings of a new life of peace, serenity and security have been given U> the people of Galilee. And as at the outset so now, the one goal of policy of the Government of Israel is to live in good
peaceful relations with' our Northern neighbor, Lebanon, whose sovereignty and integrity we respect, and to ensure and guarantee that never again will the blood of the Galileans be shed. To the roll of honor of the wars of Israel in which the best of our sons sacrificed their lives so that Israel might live in security, we add the names of those who fell in Operation "Peace for Galilee". The Memory of them all •hall live oh forever. Despite the strains in the relations between Israel and Egypt, the treaty of peace between our two countries has withstood the test. We look forward to strengthening those relations, as befits tho spirit and letter of the treaty, through a progressive interchange of trade, culture and tourism between our two ancient people. We live in a region in which convulsion and turmoil per•ist, erupting in inter Arab confrontation and even in attritional warfare, as between Iraq and Iran. It is in this context that Israel presses ahead in its quest for peace with i u neighbors mindful always that without security no peace can ever prove lasting. This is the essence of the Camp David Accords. Had that not been its fundamental point of reference Israel would not have signed them. Let the world note this truth and let it register that it was in the context of this truth that we signed the peace,with Egypt. The sacrifices we made for the sake of that peace were great indeed, but we made them because, by the provisions of Camp David and by the stipulations of the peace treaty, Israel satisfied itself that its security remained intact. Now we wish to move ahead speedily to consummate the other part of the Camp David Accords, namely the negotiations on the full autonomy for the Palestinian Arab inhabitants in Judea, Samaria end the Gaza District. We want those negotiations renewed. There are proposals, pooitions and plans but there exists only one single document of on international character that in binding, and that is the Camp David agreement signed by Israel and Egypt and witnessed by the United States. Just as we remained true, to the date and the dot, to the one part of Camp David — the Peace Treaty with Egypt — so shall we remain true to (he other, at the heart of which lies the autonomy program. It* negotiation and realization is the key to the further
advancement of the process of peace to which Israel is firmly committed. Israel has remained faithful to its declaration of independence. We have built up the land and made it green. We have gained national vigor with each passing year. We have renewed our heritage in our ancient homeland. And we have brought home millions of our scattered sisters and brothers. ; This, above all, the great ingathering, the Aliyah, remains the ultimate mission of our generation. Let all those in the free world who perceive the greatness of this challenge come and join us in the furthjer upbuilding of our beautiful country and of our free arid democratic society. There are still vast numbers of our brethren who wish to join us, but are barred from doing so because of the hostile policies of their regimes, notably Syria, Ethiopia, Iran and the Soviet Union. There, in the Soviet Union, is the largest of all the Jewish communities which lives in a state of distress, after some years of emigration the doors of the USSR have again been slammed shut, as elsewhere, with unbelievable courage, the prisoners of Zion, the Refusniks and the activists for Aliyah keep alive this heroic Jewish movement to return to the historic homeland, Eretz Israel, their voice is heard and the response of the free world was given dramatic and loud expression at the Jerusalem World Conference on Soviet Jewry. That conference declared "Let My People Go". We, Israel, the whole Jewish people and men and women of goodwill everywhere, rededicfltc ourselves to the holy endeavor to bring home all of our fellow Jews who so wish from the Soviet Union and from every country where the torment persists. We shall succeed Israel, stable, strong and faithful ally of the free and democratic world, enters its thirty sixth year of freedom with the unflinching resolve to pursue its goals of peace while remaining ever vigilant in protecting its national righto and its vital security in Eretz Israel. By standing together in the performance of the momentous tasks of our generations, the justice of our cause shall surely win the day. Chag Sameach Menachem Begin
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Reflections oh love, war and tradition Amichai's love poems seem to say that the world, gets in the way, that time and events and perhaps life's natural allergy to happiness destroy Btrong ties; he writes in "A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention":
B y Yebudit Klrschen JERUSALEM —If there i» one poet who can be said to be the voice of Israel's middle generation, it is Yehuda Amichai. Born in Wurzburg, Germany, Amichai came to what w u then Palestine in 1937; he was 13 and the horror that w u to envelop Germany and all of Europe was flowing to it* crescendo.
They amputated your thighs off my hips. As far as I'm concerned they are all surgeons. All of them. They dismantled us each from the other. As far as I'm concerned They are all engineers. All of them.
When he was in hia early thirties Amichai established himself as one of the leaders of a group of new poets who rejected their predecessors' formality and with it, the automatic idealization of the land and the Jewish people. Questioning and introspection took their place: questions about history, about human relationships, about God, and most of all, about identity — aa a person and** a Jew.
Amicbai, who has traveled widely reading his poems and lecturing (he has been visiting poet at the University, of California at Berkeley), has published seven books of poetry, as well as a npvel, plays and short stories.
Attachment to Jerusalem Amichai was raised and educated in Jerusalem and still live* in this city of stone and light, with hia wife and three children. The poet, who taught.Hebrew literature at the Greenbcrg Institute here for more than twenty years and before that an municipal high schools, to a familiar figure to Jerusalemites; they often see Amichai, a man of medium height, brown eyes and casual appearance, exploring the city he has written no much about.
Much of his poetry has been published in English; the latest, a collection of his love poems, was put out by Harper and Row in 1982. He has worked with various translators, including Harold Schimmel, Assio Guttman, and the wellknown British poet, Ted Hughes. In 1982 he received the prestigious Israel Prize for Poetry.
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There i* hardly a corner of the New or Old City, or the surrounding hills and valleys, that Amichai has not discovered and considered in his poetry. And the aenM of continuity Amichai brings to his poems u perhaps strongest when he talks about Jerusalem: Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai with the wall o f the Old City o f Jerusalem in the background. (Photo: Joel Fishman)
Jerusalem is a place where all remember that they have forgotten something but they don't remember what. • And for the Mice of this remembering I wear my father's face on mine.
He pities schoolchildren — less. But adulta he pities not at all. He abandons them. And sometimes they have to crawl on all fours In the roasting sand T o reach the dressing station, And they are streaming with blood.
Aa a sergeant-major in the Israel Defense Forces Amichai sow enough of war for it to heavily mark his poems. Hovering always is the memory of those who did not survive, and the guilt of the survivor, as he writes in "Rain on a Battlefield": It rain* on my friends' faces, On my live friends' faces, Those who cover their heads with a blanket. And it rains on my dead friends'faces, Those who are covered by nothing.
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What has gone before are the generations of Jews — his ancestors in history, his grandparents and parents in Germany, his fallen comrades. Amichai's commitment to continue the chain remains.
Bittersweet love poems Amichai has also written extensively about the puzzling and contradictory ties between man and woman, which mix joy and pain. The joy is here in the present, but often is weighed down by memories — personal and historical — and the poet is always looking over his shoulder, counting the days of happiness left. He writes of one love:
In one of his most famous poems, which was set to music and became a popular Hebrew song, Amichai seems to wonder how the concepta of suffering and divine intention can coexist: God ha* pity on children in kindergartens,
In the middle of this century we turned to each other, I saw your body, throwing shade, waiting for me, and leather straps for a long journey already tightening across my chest. I spoke in praise of your mortal hips, You spoke in praiso of my passing face.
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His most recent poems reflect the sometimes bitter conclusions of a creative and thoughtful writer approaching his sixtieth year, but his dedication — to life, to his land, and to his people — that was always present in the earlier poems has not been forgotten. When he was 40 he contributed to me in small amounts, so that I would be built here in Jerusalem all at once, like a house of prayer or a charitable institution. That commits one. My name is the name of my contributors. That commits one.
wrote: All the generations that came before contributed to me in small amounts, so that I would be built here in Jerusalem all at once, like a house of prayer or a charitable institution. That commits one. My name is the name of my contributors. That commits one. What has gone, before arc the generations of Jews — his ancestors in history, his grandparents and parents in Germany, his fallen comrades. Amichai's commitment to continue the chain remains.
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On making Aliyah to Israel... By Ellen Gordman — Federation Staff For centuries, Palestine wan called the land of milk and honey. Jew* in the Diaspora looked to the time when Palestine would be the Jewish homeland. With the founding of the state of Israel in 1978, the dream came true.
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But Israel today is not the proverbial land of milk and honey. Surrounded by hostile enemies and beset by skyrocketing inflation, people find that life in Israel is hard. So why do young Americans pack up their bags and make Aliyah to Israel leaving behind them all the material comforts abundant in the United States? For many, it is the fulfillment of the Zionist dream to build a Jewish homeland. For Rachel and Chaim HeifcU, the move to Israel was made in the search of a religious atmosphere they could not find in the United Slates. "Zionism is a secular movement, but Judaism is not just a cultural experience," Raid Chaim. "For us, Israel has a more conducive atmosphere to allow us to live a religious life."
As a dentist, Chaim U fortunate that he can earn enough money working part -time to support his family. This allows him to study Tornh and other related subjects. •
Both Rachel and Chaim always wanted to live in Israel. Chaim, a native of Cleveland, made Aliyah to Israel with his family when he was in the eighth grade. Because of financial conditions, after three years bis family moved back to the United States. He returned to Israel and attended a yeshiva for two years before completing Dental School at Case Western Reserve.
Daily life in Israel is difficult compared to life in the United States. Apartments are expensive to buy. They come with only the walls and the floors. The kitchens have only a few cabinets, and the rest must be bought along with appliances. The rooms have no closets. Wardrobes must be used to store clothing and other possessions.
Rachel, the daughter of Annette and Leo Fettman, grew up in Chicago and Madison, Wisconsin, before moving to Omaha. She attended a seminary in Israel for one year before enrolling in computer programming school in New York.
Because of the cost of healing, apartments are kept very cold. In buildings with central heating for all the apartments, the heat may only be on four to five hours a night. To keep worm, small gas or electric heaters are used in the individual rooms.
which makes them more expensive.
According to Rachel, there is a definite need for both htuband and wife to work to make ends meet at the end of the month. Although she is not working now, she plans to return to work someday. She hod been a computer programmer for the government.
"If you have money, you can buy anything, but items that are imported coat twice as much. You can get convenience*, but it is good to learn how to live without them. Someday I am going to write a book called 101 Ways to Cook Zucchini and Eggplant," Rachel said.
When Chaim and Rachel married on June 25,1931, they had already decided to make Aliyab to Israel. Since their arrival in Israel, their family has been enlarged by the ad"We don't own a car," said Rachel, "so when I go shopdition of a son, Yosef, now six months old. Home for them ping I have to carry everything myself on the bus. I usually is an Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. pay the few extra shekels to have large amount* of groceries "I feel more at case in Israel. In America, I felt self- delivered. The choice of foods is much less. 1 just can't pick conscious," said Chaim. "Home is where you ore born, but up frozen fishsticks and make instant mashed potatoes for dinner." living in Israel is also home.
On the subject of American financial help to Israel both of the Heifclz were verypositivc. They Mid that the people who directly benefit from Americans' contributions are very thankful. They are recipients, themselves. As new Olim, or immigrants, thty received help with the cost of their tickets to Israel and a rent subsidy. All of these are in low interest loans from the Jewish Agency that will be forgiven if they become Israeli citizens after five yearn. When the baby was born, they were given a crib.
"Living in a religious neighborhood in Jerusalem is a different experience. The streets are closed on Shabbat. There are no distractions of the Christian holidays. We can celebrate the Jewish holidays and enjoy and understand what each holiday means."
Rachel and Chaim Heifetz have adjusted to life in Israel. They traded the cosy lifestyle of America for a harder existence in Iirael.For them, the reward is the opportunity to feel comfortable living as religious Jews.
Salaries are less than they would be in America, and the inflation is much worse. Every three months, there is a cost of living increase, but it doesn't quite keep up. The government has just reduced the subsidy on milk and bread
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Water experts find ways to keep Israel's wells from running dry B y Bill Clark TEL AVIV — Water management was a key to the founding of civilization in the arid Holy Land. Each community organized itself around the limited water supply and made cooperative agreement* for the control and distribution of this precious fluid. At one well, the Bible tells us, Abraham and Abimelecb made en oath to deal honestly with each other in matters of water use and to require their children to do the same (Genesis 21:25-32). They named the site Beersheba, which means "Well of the Oath." The founding and growth of another city, Jerusalem, was intimately tied to the Spring of Gihon. Centuries later, the inhabitants of the Land of the Bible are "till preoccupied with the problem of managing water supplies for growing civilizations. Israelis, who currently use 05% of their water resources, have had to develop novel systemi for increasing the amounts of usable water. T h e first challenge water management experts at "Tflhnl" — Israel's water planning and research authority — had to face when statehood was declared in 1948 was the incongruity of a wet north, where the Sea of Galilee and Jordan River water sources are located, at a depth of 210 meters (689 feet) below sea level, and a dry south, where water users are situated at the level of 150 meters (492 feet) above sea level. They immediately mobilized modem technology to transport large quantities of water front the Sea of Galilee to the Ncgov Dwcrt via a national water carrier. This system j consists of huge pumping stations, 40 kilometers (25 miles) of open concrete canals, 8 kilometers (5 miles) of tunnels and 80 kilometers ( 5 0 miles) of 274-centimeter (103-inch) wide pipe, which today winds along a path connecting up with thousands of boreholes and wells along the way. Once the matter of transporting water to the arid south was solved, Israel's technologists had more time to deal with the preating problem of keeping pace with the country's growing water needs. One of the solutions has been the replenishment of underground water supplies by "catching" the run-off of heavy winter rainfall. Among several refilling methods in use is a series of large catch-basins at Skiktna, Hadera and NahsJ Dalia. These basins divert winter rainwater before it flows to the Mediterranean and water pumped from the Sea of Galilee before it (tows to the Dead Sea, and literally pump it into the aquifers to replace what was removed during the summer. In this way Israelis hope to avoid alarming situations most strikingly exemplified by the declining productivity of the great Ogalalla aquifer which irrigates North American wbcatfields from Saskatchewan to Texas. Refilling underground reservoirs also prevents land collapse; in Florida, for example, drained underground res-
ervoirs have caved in, •wallowing up homes and leaving craters 300 feet across. Recycling sewage The sewage produced by a population of more than three million people is another major water resource, says Tahal water expert Jehoshua Schwarz, explaining that Israel is building a large sewage treatment plant not far from Tel Aviv. . . • According to Schwarz, several modules will treat the waste water in stages — almost like a refining process — until it is "of a quality that meets drinking water standards," although the reclaimed sewage water will be used only in agriculture. An even richer source of water than sewage are the seas which bathe the shores of Israel. Schwarz notes that desalinization technology is progressing, and within the next two decades reclaimed seawater will be the main means of closing the expected gap in Israel's water budget. "Desalinization has to be made more efficient and less costly," Schwarz notes, "but good progress is being made in this direction." Israel is developing two types of desalinization: 1. The sarash (Hebrew initials for "multistage flash process"), in which seawater is used to cool electric generating stations — the resulting hot water evaporates and is condensed as distilled water. 2. The use of high-technology processes, such as the reverse-osmosis desalinization filter already in use at the Red Sea port of BilaU Incidentally, slightly salty water has proved to be beneficial for Israeli agriculture: many crops — from tomatoes to cotton — have been developed by Israeli agronomists to thrive on i t This discovery means less cost and time for desalinization of seawater for irrigation and opens the way for agricultural use of Israel's brackish groundwater, particularly that beneath the Negev Desert. Some of Israel's water conservation programs combine several approaches. For example, the Kishon project near Haifa merges the city's reclaimed sewage water with winter rainwater running down the Jezreel Valley and stores it for dry season irrigation. ' Coaxing t h e rain to fall Israelis have been seeding clouds for many years in efforts to increase rainfall, and they're the only ones who can point to proven increases in annual precipitation in seeded areas. Now they're working on a major weather manipulation which, according to Yitzhak Moda'i, Israel's Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, .will increase rainfall by 25%. Scientists involved in the project have learned that there is a direct correlation between warm water temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea in October and the amount of rainfall in Israel in the winter months that follow.. The pre-
Agricultural research take* place at Israel's Volcani Research Institute. Here drip irrigation pipes dramatically illustrate before and after effects.
New water aaving techniques make profitable agriculture possible at this settlement in Israel's Negev Desert. (Photo Richard Nowitz)
An Israeli scientist measures tho salinity of the water which accumulates at the Avdnt springs in the Negev Desert.
Water experts at Ben Gurion University's Desert Research Institute measure sub-surface moisture in the Negev Desert using a radio-active probe.
vailing westerly winds carry water vapor over the country, where cooler land temperatures cause condensation and precipitation. The researchers are studying the possibility of using giant pumps, for example, to bring colder water to the surface so that more of the ocean could be wanned — and thus, according to their hypothesis, increase rainfall in Israel. What sort of technology could be used to "stir" the ocean is still undecided, however, since scientists are still studying mathematical models to learn more about the relationship between ocean warmth and winter rainfall. Meanwhile, back in the Negev Desert, Prof. A rye Isar of Ben Gurion University is working on plans for a new Negev water carrier of the magnitude of the national water carrier winch serves the rest of the country. Prof. Isar estimates that approximately 70 billion cubic meters of brackish water lies under the Negev. The new carrier can make about 300 million cubic meters of this water available annually. Getting back to Biblical Israel, how did ancient civilizations manage to support sizable (but small by today's standards) populations in desert cities without all the benefits of cloud seeding, sewage recovery and desalinization? Researchers at the Desert Research Institute of Ben Gurion University have unearthed systems dating back to Solomon's reign. These early watering programs involved a scries of stone conduits which directed unabsorbed rainwater from hillsides into terraced farms and catchment basins. • In regions of the northern Negev, which normally can support little more than sparse grasses, ancieni irrigation practices are today back in service, bringing water to fields of luscious apricots and peaches, high hietds of pistachios, dates and almonds, and bountiful crops of wheat and barley.
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Sunpaintings of P. K. Hoenich By M. S. Kaplan The paintings of P. K. Hoenich cannot be hung from a nail. Their vivid colors contain no pigment. Although Hoenich never touches the canvas, the ethereal image* he renders dance before the viewer's eye. P. K. Hoenich paint* his pictures using sunbeams the way other artissts wjutf zc acrylics from a tube. Hoenich — who teaches experimental art at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology — fashions hi* paintings from sunlight in a two-step process using reflector* and color filters. Hay* from the Hun are twisted and curved by reflectors of various sizes and teiture*. Hoeniih has eiperimented with chromed copper, aluminum foil, laminated metal, even the crystal of his wrintwatch to draw his fantastic images. Then, he tints hia pictures with filters made from cellophane or colored gels. A* the gun moves across the «ky, the entire composition come* to life. Filament* of color coalesce into «j>ectral geometries; arcs and ovals undulate through prismatic spectra. Woven from light and hue, sunpaintings are an everchanging tapestry which dauJe the eye and provoke the imagination. i A Minpainttng can 1* projected onto any surface depending on the size of the reflector*, says Hoenich. Although Hoenich'ii (sunpaintings have covered the interior* of museum* in Jerusalem, Brussels, and Port*, he envisions that one day hi* swirling, kaleidoscopic pictures will decorate the exteriors of buildings and monuments. Row* of giant reflectors could be built to catch the tun as it moves across the sky making it possible to drape town square*, avenues, even the topa of mountains, in color* of shimmering iridescence. "If the reflectors and filters were permanently mounted," says Hoenich, "you would get a six-month program — from solstice to solstice — for the projection." Since the artist can calculate the exact position of the sun for every hour of every day, he could orchestrate all parts of the image's movements and changes. Today's artists are incorporating various technological mediums into their work, including electronics, chemistry, and mechanics. "Art," says Hoenich, "should develop in harmony with the philosophy, science and technology of its time." Sunpainting uses the sciences of astronomy and the physics of optics — the laws of reflection of refraction — to create its otherworldly images. To achieve the brilliant hues possible with eunpainting, the artist must also be familiar with the eubtractive properties of color. 'Technical universities should include the technology of art in their research and study," comment* Hoenich, who teaches courses in conjunction with Technion's Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning. "Teamwork between artists, engineers, and scientists should be encouraged." The inspiration for sunpainting came more than 20 years ago when Hoenich sat down at his desk to'compose a proposal for a research project. "The form lay before roe, white and untouched," relates Hoenich, "and through the open terrace door streamed a bundle of sunrays. There and then," he gays, came the idea of using sunlight for pictures
Pointing the Light Fantastic: Technion Professor P . K. Hoenich demonstrate* bU technique for sunpalnttog using hand-held reflectors and color gels. with predetermined changes, He then took his.revelation one step farther to use sunlight for a series of pictures where neither the picture nor the changes were predetermined An apparatus could be equipped with movable reflectors and color filters that would use sunlight but with the addition of a second court* of energy, such as wind or the movement of a hand. "If three or more reflectors move independently of each other," explains Hoenich, "They will never form the same combination twice. Their unified projection will change constantly and never repeat itself." These machines Hoenich dubbed 'robot painter*.'
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Visitors to museums and gallery* all over the world have delighted in creating sunpaintings with Hoenich'* robot painters. Participants interacting with the machines mixed color* and forms with the joy and ease of fingerpainting. They reported that the psychological effect of tunpainting was a new sense of creative play. "I wanted to give my pictures the fourth dimension — time," says Hoenich, "but 1 wanted my pictures to move in the fifth dimension, too — that of the spirit "No part of my research is patented," he adds, "I do not see myself as on inventor, but as an artist searching for a form of art that expresses our time."
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