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Reagan pledges safety for Jewish survivors By David Friedman WASHINGTON, (JTA) - Thousands of fturvivors of the Holocaust and their children received B pledge from Prenident Reagan that their security would never again be in jeopardy cither in the United States or in Israel. The President, speaking to some 17,500 persons at the opening ceremony of the American fathering of, Jewish Holocaust Survivors, noted that Jews had recently celebrated Passover which marked the ancient ciwlufl from Egypt. "You lieor witness to a modern day ex(KIIIH from the darkness of unspeakable horror to the light of refuge of safe havens, the two most important being America and what noon became the Stole of Israel," Reagan n/iirL "An a man whose heart is with you ond as President of a people you arc now go much n part of, I promise you the security of your safe haven* hero and in Inroel. will never l>e compromised." His Mntcinfnt was received with thunderoiw applause throughout the large oval »hap«l Capitol Centre by the turvivor* and their children who came to Washington for the four-day Gathering from throughout the United State* and Canada. Reagan also expressed the "gratitude" of the U.S. to the turvivon "for choosing
America . . . for reminding us how important it in to remain true to our ideals as individual and as a nation." The President, accompanied by his wife, Nancy, received from Benjamin Meed, president of the Gathering, a Scroll of Remembrance to the American people signed by some 50,000 Holocaust survivors and their children. Meed, saying "we are here," in Yiddi&h, declared in English that the journey from Auschwitz to America and from the Warsaw Ghetto, of which the 40th anniversary of its uprising is also being marked at the Gathering, to Washington seems an "incredible distance." He noted that .18 years ago the U.S. Army under Gen. Owi^ht I). Eisenhower liberated Iluclienwnld. He said the survivors want to give "thanks to the Hundreds of thousands of young Americans who fought to liberate us and the thousands who gave their lives to crush Mitlerism." He [minted out that a major theme of the Gathering is to give tlifinkx to the U.S. for the new lives the survivors were able to build here. But Meed also said that there was a "bitter" time when the U.S. failed to take in persons fleeing Nazism and then during World War H it failed to bomb the death camps and the railroads leading to them. He (continued on page 3)
Yom Hashoah program By Both Fine A memorial service and program commemorating Yom Hn.ihonh will lie held on Sunday, April 24, ot 7:30 p.m., at Temple Israel. Alt members of the community are encouraged to attend.
Six candle* will represent the six million •lews who |(cmhcd. The following community members will be called on to light a candle: Rosa Newman, Esther Silver, Bella Eiscnberg, Paul Cohen, Joe Fischel, Leonard Polanski. Following the Kaddish, a slide-tape presentation prepared by Marty Shukert, chairperson of the Yom Hnnhonh Committee, will be shown in the social hall of Temple Israel. The show in entitled "My Own Force and Power The Holocaust as seen by it's Artists", and shows a chronological sequence of drawings, prints and paintings created by Holocaust victims as Jewish music plays in the background.
Rabbis Nadoff. Drazen, Brooks and Weinatein, along with Cantors Fcttman and Firestone will officiate at the service from the Gates of Prayer prayer book. Readings will reflect on our people's faith and strength as they faced the horrors of the Holocaust Aron Zciderman, president of the Society of the Holocaust Survivors, will givo a Yiddish presentation. The program is unique and promises to Sam Fried will apeak on A Personal be a moving experience at a time when all Jews ore remembering a dark period in our Message o f Faith. A candle lighting ceremony will be held: history.
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Members of the Yom Iia'atzmaut Planning Committee hold one of 35 flags to be displayed at tho Festival on Sunday, May 1 in honor of Israel's 35th Anniversary. From left: Esther Was, Linda Dunn, Ceil Blank, Wendi Weiner, Abe Gcndler, Pom Cohn, Marsha Frank, Debbie Friedman, Patty Nogg, and Caryn Rifkin. Not shown: Benson Lect, Suzie Drazen, Beth Ginsburg, Judy Robinson, Stan Mitchell, Ellen Albin, Meyer Green, Margie Gutnik, Julie Katzman, Speedy Zweiback, Roy Levine, Jody Malashock, Sharon Epstein, AndicGordman, Jayne Ituback, Steve Goldberg, Annette Fcttman, Shirley Lcct, Matt Cohen, Cheryl Kricafcld.
Full day's program Hails Israel's 35th By Linda Dunn The sights and sounds of Inrocl will come alive on Sunday, May 1 as members from every Jewish organization in Omaha participate in tho Yom Hn'atzmaut celebration. This event, commemorating Israel's 35th year of independence, is sponsored by the Omaha Jewish Cultural Arts Council. Day long festivities will begin at 9 a.m. at the Jewish Community Center with a flag raising ceremony by the Epstein/Morgan Post of Jewish War Veterans. The morning will be filled with children's activities, including a JCC Youth Run at the JCC and Lag B'Omer Games at Beth Israel West. A shuttle bus will bo available throughout the day to transport participants to various activities and to bring them from tho addit i o n a l p a r k i n g area at C o l u m b i a n Elementary School. Therefore, children participating in the 9:15 a.m. Fun Run can
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also participate in the Lag B'Omer Games nt 10 a.m. While students arc earning certificates and pins for taking port in Lag B'Omer games, parade entrants will begin to assemble for their journey from Beth Israel West to the JCC where tho main attractions will continue. Many participants in the Lag B'Omer games will march in the parade. Although the deadline to enter vehicles in the parade has passed, it is not too late to organize a walking group of friends or family members. Those wishing to march in the parade are asked to be at Beth Israel West at 11 a.m. to enter the lino of march. Many of Omaha's synagogue and BBYO youth groups will be sponsoring decorated vehicles in the pnrado. The Jewish Day School is planning a float which features, the Western Wall. B'nai, B'rith Monak^wiU (continued on page 7) (*r',"
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Liberator recalls stench and stink of Holocaust B y Morris Mallao "They etared and etared in dkbelisfoa we waited aroons the survivor* inhaling the stench end stink of the hastily improvised crematoria." ' Thla is how Norman Smith, of Albion, described April 28,1946, as he and bis fellow American ooldkre liberated Uw Landsberg concentration camp near Dachau. Mr. Smith madshia remarks during the Holocaust Commemoration program of the State of Nebraika at the Gov-
ernor's office in Lincoln April 13. Mon* than 60 persons attended the program, sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, tho Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'ritb, the Notional Conference of Christiana and Jews, tho* Nebraska Catholic Conference and the Society of the Survivors of the Holocaust. Mr, Smith said he noticed a little old man carrying a stick over his shoulder. There was a little kerchief at the end of the stick.
"Tho man was determined to leave the camp and I lost tight of him for a short time." Mr. Smith told the group that he walked among the corpses up to a perfect row of trees and there dotted around the trees were prone figures. T h e y had found a place to die," "We walked into the administration building and the inmates froze upon looking at us. They looked as though (continued oh page 2)
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Liberator describes Landsberg (continued from page 1) they were puppets easily controllable with a piece of string." He then said that upon walking out of the camp gate be again saw the little old man by the tide of the road "He too had found his place to die." Mr. Smith said that the ranks of liberators and survivors are growing thin and that soon there will be none left to tell the story. f "Our stories can be documented and left behind, but there's no way to convey the stench of the crematoria, the gtink of human contamination and the sounds of agony."
to it* ultimate extreme. It became a convenient technique to be applied against any group which maintained it* own identity or resisted the brutality of Nazism. The Nazis deliberately used tenor and brutality to maintain power. Once unleashed, brutality accepts no boundary lines. The records of Buchenwald concentration camp show that 10,000 Jewi were received there between Nov. 10-13, 193d. They were beaten and tortured while the Buchenwald loudspeakers repeated over and over. "Any Jew who want* to hang himself is asked to please put a piece of paper with his number in his mouth, *o that we may know who he is." No one demonstrated against these brutalities.
Others participating in the program were: Governor Robert Kerrey, Rev. James Dawson, pro-vicar general of the Lincoln Diocese; Aron Zeiderman, president, Society of Survivors of the Holocaust; Rabbi Myer Kripke, rabbi emeritus, Beth El; Cantor Emil Berkovita, Beth El, and the Rev. Donn Rosenoucr, president, Lincoln Clergy Association.
The Nazis soon developed harsher means for the p°'>cy of genocide, which they had officially adopted early in World War U. Under the direction of a special Nazi department beaded by Adolf Ekhmann. special chambers for ma»sexecution by gas were built Rudolf Hoes*, the commander of the concentration camp — Auschwitz, boasted: "We built our gas chambers to accomodate 2,000 people at a time." He added; "We knew when the people were dead becau&e their screaming stopped." Their bodies were cremated in vaj»t ovens: At Auschwitz.
Mr. Zeiderman presided over the candlelighting ceremony and those lighting candies were: Chief Justice Norman Krivosha. Attorney General Paul Douglas, Secretary of State Allen J. Beerman, Senator William Nichol, Miriam Bergerson, and Herb Schimeck. In accepting the Governor's proclamation of Remembrance, Sam Fried, delivered the following remarks in behalf of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. At, we remember the millions of innocent victims who perished during the Holocaust, let us never forget that the Holocaust waa the culmination of centuries jof bigotry, hatred, and festering anti-Semitism that finally reached its peak in the 20th century. To unleash these horrors of destruction, all it took was an unemployed handyman to join on obscure political party of u s members. Fifteen years later be became the undisputed ruler of the Nazi party and of a nation of 66 million people. Never before bad men killed each other and destroyed each other's homes with such wholesale rutMestness and ferocity. Nazism sprang up in what was considered a highly civilized society, among them professors, artists, and clergy. People who apparently were reared with religious ideals. The Nazis had a simple explanation for all domestic and international problems. Why did Germany lose World War I? Why was there wick-spread unemployment? Why was the tuberculosis rate high? All of the difficulties and failures of Germany were blamed on a conspiracy of the Jews. Often contradictions appeared, but the Nazis never felt any need to account for them. Jules Stretcher once told the medical officers of Germany: "The Jews have taught the Germans to amoke in order to destroy the German nation." No one ^challenged those fabricated He*. . ? ' The scapegoating technique was established end carried
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The process of brutalizaUon did not end with the mass murders themselves. Large quantities of soap were manufactured from the corpses of those murdered. The wife of one concentration camp commander bad lampshades made of human skin. At another camp, mattresses were made of human hair. At another, children were injected with tuberculosis germs and frozen to death in "medical experiments". One camp commander made beta on how long a human being could live hanging by his feet. This was perpetrated by a people that called themselves "civilized". They left a legacy of 25 million dead men, women, and children. All societies leave behind monuments which give future generations an indication of the character of the society. The monuments they left standing for all to see are the gas chambers of: Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, and others. These monument* must remain for eternity to remind us from generation to generation of man's capability for inhumanity to man. In our day many American families have, again experienced the struggles associated with hard times. We have seen the resurgence of pockets of bigotry in the United States and in this region.
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t raajAV.APna.22 Mothers Cof tea. 9:30 a m . Sisterhood Shabbat Dinner, Tempts Isrcsi, 6 3 0 p jn. SUJfflAY, APRIL 24 -' Newcomers Luncheon, 12 Noon Pam Cohen students piano recital, 2 pm. •;. -f- V• • Swim Team Reunion Party. 6:30 p m . Quo 56 Roii» Skating. SkatcUmd, 1:30 p/n. - vorri Hashoan Service. Tempte Israel. 7:30 p.m. MONDAY, APStL 25 Birriemary ft Jr. High Committee Meeting, 9:30 a m Older Adults. 10 a.m. Class with Margo RJekes. 4 pin. ~. Yoga Class, 1:15 pJn. CoBeoe of Jewish Family Learning Classes. 7:30 psn. „•••;•«', Israeli Dance, 7 p.m. "Beauty for eS Seasons," Adutt Services, 7 p.m. - ' MkJget & Ofymptc Awards Program. 7 p i n . „ , Jewish FamSjr Service Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m. f^-A "Jewish Famgy Life Education Seminar, 6 p.m. S£fftr..;,. . t l i s O A Y . APRIL 28 w '•• * ' , J C C Chess Club. 6 J O pjn. V Manjongg, 7 p m Senior Wgn Comrrttlfio Meeting, 7:30 pin. Federation Manor Board of Directors Mealing, 7 p.m. Federation Board Moating. 7.30 p.m. • * '*. Beard Meeting, Beth O. 7:45 pin. Ycm Ha'atonaut Planting Commirtoo Mtg., 7:30 p.m. . WEDNESDAY, APRB. 27 Advanced Ufesavtng, S p.m. Cat & Mouse, 6:30 p.m. '- • Conversational French 100.7:05 p.m. Basic PhcrtogrEpny, 7 p m Oupfcata Bridgo C4jb, 6:30 p m Bnai B'nth Breadbreakers. Howard Johnson. Noon Hadassan General Meeting, Beth Israel, Noon THURSDAY. APRIL 23 Refresher Bridge, 7 pin. JCAC Executive Committoo Meeting, 7:30 pin. LOVE Annual Volunteer Recognition Dinner. 6 JO? p.m. B'nal Both Women's Luncheon, New Tower. 12 Noon Older AduStProgram, Beth El, 10 a m Joint School Boa/d Meeting, Beth Israel, 7:30 pin. •Afl •vent* hew el fht JJCJC. unless ofhenrlso to&emaa.
I w a s there!!!! The people he was referring to were: Our mothers, Our fathers, Our sisters. And our brothers. Over one million small children, screaming while they were dying in their mothers arm}. Where was mankind? No protests. No aemostraiions. Not even tears] Just silence!!!
Just as in another land and in another time economic troubles were the excuse and occasion of scapegoating, discrimination, and bigotry which culminated in tho Holocaust. All of us today are challenged to remember that lesson of history. On this day of remembrance we must pledge to never again be silent and to be ever vigilant against all tyranny. So that history will judge us as people who are truly civilized.
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Chicago sculptor and jewelry designer Richard Bitterman will return t o Omaha on May 1 aa part of the Yom Ha'atztnaut — Israeli Independence Day Festival. Mr. Bitterman blends brass, copper, and steel to create objects of art for wearing and for the home. Each la a one-of-a-kind design fabricated and signed by the artist. A wide selection o f his work will be o n sale in a booth sponsored by the Art Committee of tho Jewish Community Center, which also sponsored Mr. Bitterman t w o y e a n a g o in a highly successful exhibit. Mr. Bit* terman will be at the booth from noon to five and six to eight p.m. to meet the public.
Anybody feel like looking way, way back? How about 1925, and what the Jewish Preu was talking about that year? For one thing, the Omaha Hadassah aent $800 to National Headquarters for the Medical Institute in Palestine. That was a lot of money in a timo when 127 bought a winter coat at Goldstein/Chapman. AZA chapter 12 was installed in Sioux City, and the Jewish Preu introduced a new service - a sports column syndicated by a national writer. Young folks were busy. The third annual YM&YWHA Vaudeville and Review show played one performance st the Brandeis Theatre. Scats cost 25*. 75*, $1.00 and 81.50. There were many clubs, among the usual we always mention were some like Hebrew Club Evrio and Auflebung Club. • ( Over 100 Talmud Torah children were scheduled to do three Purim ploys at the Brandeis Theatre, and the automobile companies were names like Oakland Motor Company at 2421 Farnam. You probably didn't even know there waa a car named the Oakland. There « u also Richardson Motors at 30th and Homey, which sold the Packard, and a place called Julien Chevrolet Company with a used car bargain like a 1922 Ford coupe for 8260. Dorecy'a Chicken Shock opened in the new location at 54th and Center. And these two ada about houses: modern 6 room house for sale. Four blocks north of the Blackstone, $7,750. And a rental: 6 rooms, all modern but beat, newly decorated and VARNISHED, 1548 North 20th. $25 per month. And ntso, 1025 was the year that Omaha Jewry decided they were going to have a Jewish Community Center. A headline on March 3 of that year eaid, "Community Center Must Be Built in 1925"... in fact, that became the slogan for the fund raising drive. A story about it mentioned that 200 workers would canvas for pledges and that the new officers would be Harry Lnpidus, Henry Monnky, Joe W. Wolf and Louis Kir&chraun. One short month later the headline read. "Contract Let For JCC." Contract was for $199,000, which did NOT include plumbing and wiring. And that's the way it waa, 58 years ago.
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Reagan pledges safety for Jewish survivors : • (continued from p*g« 1) . alM «tr«w«d that anti-Semitism continues now under the guise of anti-Zionism with Jcwi being attacked in Paris and Rome, Jew* being oppressed in the Soviet Union and Israel being "reviled" in the United Nation*. Reagan, in his address, also took note that there was a time when "how we and our friends acted" was "not favorable to our memory." Following the presentation of the Scroll, the audience joined the U.S. Navy Band in singing "God Bless America." While Reagan's speech implied a confirmation of U.S. support for Israel, Elie Wiesel, the writer and chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, appeared to criticize Administration pressure on Israel. Speaking after the President departed, Wiesel declared that "to remember" the Holocaust means "not to apply pressure on/ Israel." He colled such pressure "morally wrong" since Israel was the only place to take in Jews when the "world closed its gates" to Jews. "Israel is the only country in the world that is threatened militarily by its enemies and politically by its friends," he said. Dov Shilansky, a deputy minister repre-
senting the Israeli government, said that Israel now allows the Jewish people to "determine our future." He said that Israel seeks peace but it can have peace only if it "gives us Bcctfrity." Julius Herman, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, said that the Gathering was a "commitment to the safety and security of our brethren" in Israel "against all threats and all pressures from whatever source." While one of the themes of the Gathering was, according to Meed, to "express our close ties with Israel," its major purpose was to keep the remembrance of the Holocaust olive. Berman referred to this when he said: "'Tonight is dedicated to remembrance. We 'are assembled here to state to the world that we refuse to forget what occurred during those dark days, dark days of destruction and persecution, when virtually no country in the world lifted a finger to halt the mass destruction." Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the American Section of the World Jewish Congress, said, "To be spared implies the obligation of survivors to remember, never to forget."
How safe is your home? Do you know your neighbors on either side and behind your home? Could your "back door" neighbors give the police your address if they were concerned about your home's security? According to Sgt. Dailey of the Omaha Police Department Community Services Bureau, these aro only two of the questions one should be able to answer affirmatively in order to institute a positive "Neighborhood Watch" program.
Missing John David Gosch The Jewish Presa boa been asked to publish the following aa a public service message: John David Gosch, 13. B'7", 145 pound*, light brown hair, blue eye*, medium complexion, gap* between front teeth, last seen Sept. 5. 1982, believed abducted when starting his paper route In West Des Moines, Iowa. Information may be sent to this newspaper.
The Adult Services Department of the Jewish Community Center will p r e s e n t a program on "Neighborhood Watch" and home security on May 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Center. S p e a k e r s will include
Urge Protest PARIS ( J T A ) - A Christian organization, the international Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, has called for a mass demonstration in solidarity with the Soviet Union's oppressed Jews. The group plans to hold its meeting at- tho Soviet Embassy here.
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The plight of Soviet Jews was not neglected by speakers. Wiesel called for an "appeal so powerful na to break all indifference" toward Soviet Jewry, The long ceremony included tho lighting of six candles for the six million .lews killed
Omaha Police Chief Robert Wadmnn and Sgt. Dailey of the Omaha Police Department Community Services Bureau. , By Gil Sedan Information will be given JERUSALEM (JTA) on how to start a "Neighborhood Watch" program in A young Tel Aviv Univeryour neighborhood along sity archaeologist believes with tips for securing a he has found the oldest Hehome, particularly during brew reference to the name "of God in a treasure trove of vacations. coins, amulets and other anThe program is open to cient objects yielded by an the public and free of archaeological dig on a hill charge. Reservations arc re- facing Mt. Zion in Jeruquired by May 16 to Dcbra salem. Polsky, JCC Adult Services Gabriel Barkay, who condirector or the membership office at 334-8200. ,
NameofGod ducted the excavations three years ago, told a lecture audience at the Rockefeller Museum here that the nature of the discovery was unravelled only last month by a special technique applied in the laboratory of the Israel Museum. The objects under study were two pure silver Hebrew prayer scrolls dating from the seventh
century BCE. The texts were scratched with a aharp instrument and, according to Barkay, extremely difficult to read. One of them contained the Hebrew letters "yud" "hen" "vav" "heh" transliterated as Yaweh or Jehovah, the name of God which pious
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Reagan, in his address, discussed the stories of some individual survivors and of "righteous gentiles" who sought to help Jews as he has done in his two previous Holocaust addresses in 1981 and 1982. Tho loudest applause came when he mentioned Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who was imprisoned by the Soviet Union after he saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. "If those who took him from Budapest would win our trust let them start by giving us an accounting of Raoul Wallenberg," Reagan declared.
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by the Nazis by survivors, children of survivors and members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. The audience recited Kaddish and the El Mole Rachamin was chanted by Cantor Isaac 'Goodriend of Atlanta, Georgia, a member of the Holocaust Memorial Council. In other addresses, Berman said the Nazis not only tried to kill Jews but they "attempted to extinguish that glorious chain of tradition that we, the Jewish people, have maintained throughout the ages." He declared: "We are here this evening to give testimony that that diabolical scheme has not succeeded, and we commit ourselves that it will never succeed." Gideon Housner, chairman of the Council of Vnd Vashem in Jerusalem, said that the ceremonies of remembrance in Jerusalem and Washington forges a stronger common bond between the U.S. and Israel. He said remembering "is the really true monument to the victims and heroes of the Holocaust, stronger than any brick and mortar because it lives in the hearts of the people." One of the most poignant moments in the ceremony was the appearance of two persons who met when the U.S. Army liberated Buchenwold on April 11, 1945. One'was Rabbi Herechcl Schacter of The Bronx, N.Y., who as a chaplain in the U.S. Army, discovered a frightened seven-year-old boy hiding behind a pile of corpses as the U.S. troops walked into the camp. The other was that boy, Israel Lau, now Chief Rabbi of Netanya in Israel.
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Reagan also stressed this theme in his address. "We are here first and foremost to remember. These are the Days of Remembrance, Yom Ha-Shoah." He said that "good and decent people must not close their eyea to evil" and "must never remain silent and inactive in times of moral crisis." But he stressed "what we do tonight is not for us" but for the next generation.
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Yom Hashoah In recent days, Holocaust Commemoration services have been conducted in our nation's capital and in our state's capitol. A local service will be held Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Temple Israel. In past years, local services have been well attended by those who survived the death camps and their children. There has been a noticeable lack of attendance and attention on the part of the general com* munity. It's not that the general community of Jews doesn't care. The explanation seems to be a tendency to look upon these services as being the sole responsibility of the survivors and their children. What a terrible burden for us to put on them! The truth is that every living Jew is a survivor and that remembering the Holocaust is a responsibility of all mankind. We can't do much about the rest of the world, but we certainly can fulfill our responsibility in Omaha . . . Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Temple Israel.
HAIFA — The Spanish civil war of the 11)303 is still retailed as the military testing ground of the European powers on the eve of World War II. While the Spaniards were engaged in fighting their own internal battles, the two domestic adversaries were exploited by the superpowers, and the battlefields of Spain were transformed into proving grounds for the weapons, tactics end training that, wtre being prepared for the much greater conflagration yet to come. A review of events in the Middle East gives one the uneasy feeling of a similar situation, involving both East and West. The Soviet Union hud originally hoped to make Egypt its Middle East arsenal end practice firing range for new weapons, but tarns foiled in 1972 by Sadat'* sbrupt severance of hi* country's military dependency on Russia, and dismissal of the hordes of Russian "experts" who had begun to overrun his country. Deterred there, the Soviet Union has now based itself on Syria, end is learning valuable lessons. The ineffectiveness of the ground to air missites against Israel planes last year provided the Soviets with valuable experience. Far better for them that the
A growing concern The shocking reality of cults preying on Jewish college students across the country opened the eyes of many Omahnns recently. Amy Alperson, an Omaha girl who had attended the University of Michigan, told the community of her experience in a cult. She was accompanied to Omaha by Rabbi Yehuda Fine of New York City. Rabbi Fine not only provided the community with statistical information pointing to the horrendous problem, but also gave us a worrisome conclusion: Nobody seems to be doing very much to cope with the problem. It is most alarming for us to hear that while the major Jewish organizations are aware of the growing menace of cult activity, they are literally closing their eyes to the issue — perhaps hoping that inaction will halt the devastation of our youth. Margie and Paul Alperson, Amy's parents, have decided that some action is better than none and have taken steps to encourage financial support for Rabbi Fine's work. Many great programs have started in Omaha and hopefully their efforts will bloom into a national drive to help those entrapped by the new religious movements. The Alpersons may be reached at 333-1616.
Illogical The World-Herald's editorial entitled Settlements Block Peace contains a major flaw. It may be recalled that in 1967, after King Hussein had made his fatal mistake of attacking Israel, Israel immediately offered to negotiate a peace settlement There were then no settlements In the territories to provide an excuse for Jordan not joining each talks. , ' The question of settlements is an unfounded pretext designed to cover the basic refusal of Jordan and other Arab states to talk peace with Israel.
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lesson w o learned et Ute expense of Syrian plants, then of thsir own. It is no secret that Muammar Qadd&fi's Libya houses perhaps the biggest arsenal of all of Soviet weaponry, awaiting only the proper moment for it to be put to use and to the teat. The Americana have similar interests. Side events of the Iraq-Iran war have taught the Pentagon something about the weaknesses of their highly vaunted AWACS detector aircraft It is dear, too, that American tales of emu to Saudi-Arabia are gprestly in excess of what the Saudis are capable of using or even will be called upon to use. Tha great battle in Washington last year over the sale of the AWACS should be seen in that light, and as part of American global military strategy. Love of Israel, the Jewish vote, and support for a plucky little democracy nay not weigh ss heavily in justifying the massive anna supplies provided to Isrsel as elementary American self-interests. The achievements of the American F-l 6 planes, flown by Israelis against the Russian MIC 25'S, provided priceless Information under battle conditions, without risking the life of a single American pilot. The failure of the Russian T-72 tanks to perform as expected during tbe war in Lebanon was likewise a valuable intelligence nugget. Israel has shared some of its experiences with the Pentagon — but not ell. There Is much, much more that Woihlngton would like to team from Israel's experience, including tome of Israel's own technological innovations, but Jerusalem is determined to sell that information for a price. No final agreement has yet been signed for the deal as of this writing. Other countries are getting in on the big "demonstration". Some Arab states axe happy to accept from both tides, and both sides outdo themselves to be more liberal than the other. France, for example, is a supplier for Syria, Libya and Iraq — and the stockpiles grow. The U.S. has conducted joint military maneuvers with the armed forces of Egypt, Sudan, Somali and Oman. Well may the politics) scientists ask to what extent the arming of both sides in the Middle East contributes to acceleration of the tension. The side that feels itself stronger may attack its neighbors; or the other side, fearing attack, may be tempted into a massive pre-emptive strike. A new war breaks out, end our friends overseas watch with interest as their new and untried equipment is put to tbe test under bloody battle conditions — but not their blood. In Israel we like to feet that we are leading on independent existence, masters of our own fate, and making crucial decisions on the basis of our own best interests. Is it all an illusion, and are we but pawns on a much larger chessboard in which others plot the strategics and move the pieces in accordance with their own global concerns?
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But is it Palestine? The New York Times of Sunday, Mar. 13, carried a fullpage ad from the "Jordan ia Palestine Committee." Its message wot simple. In part it read: "Jordan occupies almost 77% of the original Palcslino Mandate. More than two-thirds of Jordan's citizens arc Palestinians. Half of Jordan's Prime Ministers since 1950 have been Palestinians.... It's no wonder that in 1077, Hussein said, "Tho two people ore actually one. That is a fact.'" The od ends with tho bold faced message: "Jordan is Arab Palestine." Not surprisingly, the name issue of tho Times includes another full-pogc nd This one conies from tho Arab Women's Council in Washington. Its message is diametrically opposed to tho first ad. "Does repeating a lie long enough make it the truth?" it a«ks. It then lists five "big lies." "Big Lie #1" addresses the issue of Jordan. "Israel and its professional supporters want you to believe that 'Jordan is Palestine.' Out it is not so. Jordan is Jordan and Palestine ia Palestine." It continues: "The Palestinians who are in Jordan are there because they were forced out of their homeland by Israel in 1948, in 1067, and evor since . . . . " It concludes: "Repeating a lie often enough does not make it the truth. Are you going to let Israel get away with it?" This is not an academic argument by any means. If it can be shown that Jordan is, in fact, a part of Palestine it
means that the partition of Palestine has already been nc-1 complishcd. It means that a Palestinian Arab state already coexists beside tho Jewish state of Israel. It suggests that talk of creating another Arab state on the West Bank and Gaza is nothing more than a call for the re-partition of Palcstino into three states - two Arab states and one tiny Jewish state. The controversy generated by this issue is indeed warranted by the dimensions of its implications. Nevertheless, the argument can bo simply resolved. All it takes is a look at the history books, at a few maps, and at tho writings of Arab leaders themselves. "Prior to its creation in 1921," writes historian Don Pcretz, "the concept of a State of Jordan existed in no ono's mind." It certainly did not exist in the minds of the League of Nations which awarded tho Palcstino mandate to Great Britain after World War I. The mandate included both the West and East Banks (i.e., all of present day Israel and all of present day Jordan). It was in 1922 that British colonial secretary Winston Churchill decided to divide Palestine along the Jordan river and award the eastern portion to Britain's ally, Abdullah. Eastern Palestine was dubbed Trnnsjordnn. Before 1922, tho mandate ond the Balfour Declaration (which had promised a Jewish National Home in 1917) applied to oil of Palestine including tho East Bank. King Hussein himself wrote in his 1962 autobiography
that "Palestine and Transjordan... were hardly considered separate countries. Transjordan being to the cast of the river Jordan, it formed, in a BeriBfl, the interior of Palestine." , - .; The 1922 partition limited tho areas of Palestine: open to Jewish settlement to 20% of its original territory. In 1948, when Judea and Samaria were seized by Jordan, the Arabs assumed control of 82.5% of the Palestine mandate's J territory. Tho Jews wero left with 17Vi%. " • The situation today remains much the same; Isrnoli administration of Judca and Samaria (generally referred to as the West Bank) has reduced the area of Arab sovereignty in Palestine to nothing less than 77% of the original mandate territory. The Palestinians who today make up d majority of Jordan's population are, in fact, living in Eastern Palestine. - i" •',- ; Moreover, the PLO concedes this in its own national charter: "Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit.'' Few would argue that this means that Jordan is illegitimate and should be replaced. Nor does it Buggest that Palestinian Arabs do not have rights - and particularly the right to full autonomy - on the West Bank. It does mean, however, that those who arguo that there ia no Palestinian homeland or that the Israelis-have usurped all of Palestine do not know what they are talking about, Facts are facts - and Jordan is eastern Palestino. ;
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Temple Israel SERVICES: Friday: 8:15 p.m. A 6:30 p.m. Congregation Sabbath Dinner will be held at Temple Israel. Following the dinner the 8:15 p.m. Sabbath Evening Services will be held with Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks, Rabbi Barry L. Weinstein and Cantor Harold I. Firestone officiating. Rabbi Brooks will speak on: America and Israel . . impressions front Washington • conversations. The Oneg Shabbat following services will be given by Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Fried in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Lisa Claire. Saturday: Morning services; 11 a.m. CLASSES Saturday, April 23, 9 a.m. Sunday, April 24,10 a.m., Confirmation class, April 27,4 p.m. ' Hebrew classes Daled. Monday, April 25, 4 and 5 p,m. Bet, Monday, April 25, 4 and 5 p.m. Aleph, Wednesday, April 27, 4 and 5 p.m. Oimmel, Thursday, April 28, 4 and 5 p.m. B'NOT MITZVAH Lisa Claire Fried. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Fried, will become a Bat Mitzvah Friday and Saturday, April 22 and 23. Angel Schrager, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Schrager. will become a Bat Mitzvah during Sabbath Services Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30.
Sabbath CancMghting for Friday, Aprf 22, 6:53 p.m. SERVICES: Friday: Mincha and Kabbalat Shabbat service 7 p.m. Late Friday Night Family Services 8:15 p.m. Cantor Fettman will present the first of two talks on the Holocaust Memorial Gathering held in Washington, D.C., the week of April 1. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service, sponsored by Sisterhood. Baby-sitter service provided. , Saturday: Morning service 8:45 a.m.
SERVICES: " Friday: 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Paul Drazen, will conduct the services. An Oneg Shabbat will follow. Saturday: Morning services 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Minha 6:15 p.m. followed by Seudat, Shilishit, Maariv and Havdallah. Sunday: 9 a.m. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. LUNCH AND LEARN The Lunch and Learn eerie* with Rabbi Drawn will resume on Thursday, April. 23, noon at the synagogue.
The Kiddush following the service will be sponsored by Alvin and Willis Ross and Jean Epstein in honor of Rachel Karpen, who is visiting from Israel. Jr. Congregation 10 a.m.
REGIONAL YOUTH COMMISSION MEETING Emtza Region Youth Commission Advisor Weekend and Annual Meeting will be held in Omaha on April 22-24.
Lunch for Jr. Congregants 11:30 a.m. Shabbat Torah Mudies — noon. Clans with Rabbi C:15 p.m. Mincha 7 p.m.
MEN'S CLUB SHABBAT Members of Men's Club will conduct the services on Shabbat morning, April 30.
Mincha is followed by Shnlosh S'udot. Ma'oriv and Havdalah.
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Grandparents are Mrs. Sally Schcin of Sherman Oaks, Calif, end Jennie Epstein of Omaha.
Ruth Eggera and Mark Epstein Mr. and Mrs. William Eggets of Leyittown, NY announce the engagement of their daughter, Ruth, to Mark Epstein, son of former Omahans Ira and Noddy
Shelley Lynne Spcrry and Michael Steven Frott will be married May 21 at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Lincoln. Miss Sperry, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Leonard Sperry of Lincoln, and Mr. Frost, eon of Dr. and Mrs. Murray Frost of Omaha, are students at Use University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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SERVICES: Saturday: 9 a.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. Services arc conducted by Sam Sacks.
SERVICES: Saturday: 8:45 a.m. Sunday: 8 a.m.
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SERVICES: Services ore conducted in the Capehnrt Chapel every Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service. Service* are conducted byMajor Theodore Stoinman.
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SERVICES: Friday: 7 p.m. Dally and Saturday: The residents and staff of the Rose Blumkin Home invite the families, volunteers and friends of the residents to attend services in the Herbert Goldsten synagogue. Kiddush following services on Shabbat.
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Rabb! Kenneth N. White will lead Friday n,ight services beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday morning services end study begin at 10:30 a.m. Occasional children's service* begin at 7:30 p.m. Please call the Temple Office at 435-8004 for information. Oneg Shabbat .follows each Friday night service.
Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Oawne Bear daughter of Myron and Barbara Bear of Den Moines will become Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, April 30. Grandmother is Jennie Bear.
Epstein of Encino, Calif. The future groom is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Crux and is en elementary school
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The Bat Mitzvah of Andrea Levy scheduled for May 6-7 at Beth El will be twinned with Lorissa Avner of the Soviet Union.
seventh grade. Her parents are Werner and Linda and her grandparents are Martha Levy and the late Leopold Levy, and Ann Friedman and the late Dr. Arthur Friedman, all of Omaha. I/oriissa's family has been refused permission to leave .the Soviet Union since 1976. Letters and cards may be sent to her at Zolozhskaya 30, Apt. 33, Kiev, SSR, USSR.
Andrea attends Millard North Junior High School where she enjoys social studies, mathematics, dance, and tennis. She also takes ballet lessons, collects stamps, sews and swims. She earned the student of the week designation in the
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By Nancy Pearlman Some of the best fun for the r e s i d e n t s at t h e Blumkin Home comes when the Humane Society makes their monthly visit, and April 8 they came with two puppies and a six Week old rabbit Everyone just loved them, and Bess Bernstein tried to freshen up one of the puppies with a spritz of her Charlie cologne. The Bunch for Lunch stowed away quite n few pancakes at the Pancake House April 6 . . . always a favorite- place. Get well greetings to Harry Monovitz, Cclia Wolfson, Sara Gelbart, and Mary Bclmont, and welcome back to Belle Shrngo and Jenny Finkel. Lighting the candles on their birthday cakes this month will be Marie Dloogoff, Helen Papier, Ben Garelick, Anna Cohn and Edith Graetz. Patty, the Blumkin Home Gal Friday, celebrated her wedding all over again at the Home on April 10. A special wedding tea in her honor was held at 3. She wore her wedding dress and was accompanied by her new husband and her in-laws. All the residents were invited to sign her wedding book.
for at 7 Sharon took Faye Abrahams, Benny Mcyernon. Dora Astor, Helen Papier, Sylvan Block, Ruthie Polish, and Francis and Morris Goldberg over to the JCC to see the film "Ticket to Heaven". Sylvan Block seems to be one of the busier resident* at the Home, He has been traveling around town singing with the Older Adult Choral Group, tlio only resident to have that honor, and he loves entertaining. Sneaking a look at the entertainment for the LOVE banquet to be held April 28, we find another wonderful original show planned featuring the BLOOMIN* BLUMKIN SINGERS doing Shinderella Berkowitz and the Fairy LOVE Mother . . . it's gonna be great so don't ruins it. Afterwords at 4, Karin took several residents to hear the Sweet Adelines at the JCC. Those enjoying the wonderful singing wore Faye Abrahams, Sylvan Block, Anna Cohn, Millie Fogel. Lottie Kaplan, Jerry Maltz, Benny Meyerson, Lottie Mokofeky, Helen Papier and Ruthie and Sophie Potish. There was still more activity on that busy Sunday,
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sage by the Consul General of Israel to the Midwest, Emanuel Zippori.
The Love Bus and the Bagel Bin Truck will Join the parade and the Jewish Preti will be represented by Morris Maline on a motorcycle. V.I.pj to ride in the parade include peveral State Senators, local mayors, and president* of Jewish organizations. A special guest will be Golda Mcir as presented by Mollie Delman. A group representing the Lincoln Jewish Federation is expected to participate.
-Consul General Zippori was born in Cleveland, Ohio and has spent the major portion of his life in the Chicago area. In his college years, Consul Zippori was active in the Student Zionist Organization, founded the Intercollegiate Zionist Federation of America, and represented the Chicago youth organizations on the Zionists Actions Committee. This involvement prior to brad's Independence, culminated in Consul Zippori's "Aliyoh" to Israel in 1948. Me has since served in the Israel Defence Forces and in numerous positions in the Israel Foreign Service. Consul Zippori will address the community from the outdoor tpainstage at 2:30 p.m.
Theae are just tome of the many entrants to the Yorn Ha'aUmaut parade which the community is invited to view along the route from Beth Israel West, west along Pacific, north along 132nd at., and ending at the JCC parking lot at approximately noon. Upon entering the grounds of the JCC, community members will be treated to eight hours of live entertainment, as well a* ethnic food*, exhibits, activities, raffle*, a pre-school flag parade, and a special mes-
Details of the day's activities are listed in a brochure included in this issue of the Jewish Press. Additional copies are available at the JCC, Anyone wishing to volunteer to help for. a fow hours on May 1 should call 334-8200 Ex. 232.
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B'NAIB'RITH WOMEN being sold by B'nai B'rith Women, a great value for INSTALLATION On April 28, noon, at the the money according to N(ew Tower, 78th and Dodge Florence Schnieder. Constreets, B'nai B'rith Women tact her for additional inof Omaha will install the formation. 1983-84 officers. Installed will.be: presiJWV POST 2 8 0 dent, Hedy Kirke; programEpstein-Morgan Post No. ming vice president, Simmy 260 Jewish War Veterans of Siege); financial secretary, the USA wilj have i t s Marge Levy; membership monthly meeting April 28, vice president, Juice 7:30 p.m. at the American Katzmsn; corresponding Legion Post No. 1 Ciub. secretary, Judi Lerner, recording secretary, Goldye National POW-MIA RecGoldberg; treasurer, Cheryl ognition Day program was Kirke; counselor, Marion held at the Veterans AdminStrauss; regional represent- istration Medical Center ative, Esther Wax. "April 9. Senator Edward Zorinsky and Representative Babe Aronoff and Beverly Hal Daub both remarked Franklin have planned the about the difficulty in obinstallation program. Reser- taining information pervations must be made by taining to POW-MIA perApril 25. For reservations sons'. Lloyd Kilmer, a twocall: Florence Schnieder 397-6920; Babe Aronoff year POW, commented on 333-4R8C; Bev Franklin 334- the poor communication of his status as a POW. Also, 7305. Ms. Kay Bosiljovoc. wife of The Pleasure Poc Book is a MIA person, WGnts definite information about her husband. Post Commander Donald Strauss and wife Dorothy, Sr. Vice Comm. Sol Mann, It Lewis, and Jennie Bear attended the affair. Post 260 VAVS representative, Iz IiCwis, presented the entertainment. PIONEER WOMEN SPIRITUAL ADOPTION DINNER "Share In A Child's Future" is the theme of Shoshana Chapter, Pioneer Women's Spiritual Adoption Dinner which will be
BBYO sponsors creative service On April 8 Cornbett Region AZA and DBG sponsored a creative service and cultural program for (he members of B'nai B'rith Men and Women. In the picture on the left, Shirley Goldstein, chairman of the Soviet Jewry Committee, talks
Sweetheart candidates named by Mother Chapter By Brian Yampolsky The Mama's of AZA 1 have been very busy the past few weeks. First, AZA 1 has elected Sweetheart candidates for the Sweetheart Dance in August. The candidates arc: 15-year-old Susie Noddle, a sophomore at Wcstside High; 15-yearold Heidi Meycrson. a freshman at Arbor Hcightn Junior High; 10-year-old Tippi Mflgid, a sophomore at Westside High. Julie Horwich, a senior at Burke High is the Honorary Sweetheart. AZA 1 congratulates all of the candidates. AZA 1 is looking forward
about the plight of Jews try ing to leave the Soviet Union. In the picture on tbe right ore some of the BBYO membersr and adults who attended the event. CENTEH STAGE Omaha's Center Stage Theatre will be performing "Ain't Misbehavin' at a special benefit performance at the Orphcum Theatre on May 6 , 8 p.m.
to the Freshman Weekend, April 29-May 1 and Founder's Day Dinner on May I at the Venice Inn. The time for Softball is coming nearer and this season AZA 1 will be Percy repeats call playing in the River City Softball League. This is WASHINGTON - Sengoing to be a challenging ator Charles H. Percy (Rand hopefully very suc- III.) has asked the Internacessful season for AZA 1. tional Committee of the Red Cross to consider acting Club Notes Rhonda K r i v o s h a , soon on an Israeli Governdaughter of Chief Justice ment suggestion which Norman and Helene Kri- could afford recognition — vosha, of Lincoln, has been and greater legal protection elected to Phi Beta Kappa — to Israel's Mogcn David at Washington University Adorn emergency medical service. in St. Louis.
MARTIN/LEVY Former Omaha television weatherman Charlie Martin has resumed using his family name of Levy. Mr. Martin (Levy) wan in Omaha last week to help' Cox Cable launch the Weather Channel in the Omaha system. He told the group attending the program that he had promised his father to use the family name when and if he ever went national. My name on the national station is now Charlie Levy, he said.
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Endclmnn announce the March 30 birth of a son, Anthony Drew. The Endelrnans also have a daughter, Jamie, 6.
held on May 22 at Beth El Synagogue. Mrs. Glen (Hollie) Fineman and Mrs. Jerry (Sindie), Katskee, chairpersons, are planning cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. The program will feature Mrs. Lisa Senal, operatic soprano accompanied on the piano by Jay Atwood. Mrs. Phil (Rosalie) Grad, former Omahan who reorganized the new Pioneer Women/Na'amat Club in Omaha, will be our guest speaker. Mrs. Grad is a National Board Member serving on the Midwest Speakers Bureau, and has just returned from visiting in Israelforseveral months. Both the officers and the members of the Omaha Chapter will be most grateful to the entire Jewish community for" their support in spiritually adopting o homeless Israeli child for a year or a portion thereof. Mrs. Steven Tipp, president, said at the kick-off luncheon for this big annual fund-raising event, "We are all aware of Israel's rampant inflation pluH the burden of a huge military budget, so whatever support is given through our Chapter will be deeply appreciated." Reservations may be made with either Hollie Fineman at 493-4951 or Sindie Kntskce at 493-6724. NCJW RESCHEDULES The Executive Committee meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women has been rescheduled. The meeting will be held April 28 at 9:30 a.m. at the home of President Connie Slutsky, 710 S. 130th St.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Bob Endelman and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Krasne. Great-grandmother is Mrs. Edith Segall. Joan and Ben Rischall of Minneapolis, Minn., announce the March 28 birth of a son, Aaron Scott. The Rischalls also have a son, Reuben Michael, 2. Grandparents are Sylvia and Leon Summer and Morey and Ruth Rischall of St. Paul, Minn. Greatgrandmother is Mrs. Ruth Ballon of Miami Beach, Fla.
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By Estelle Rosenberg Would you like to have your name engraved on a leaf at the Lincoln Community Playhouse? For a $30 minimum donation, the donor's name will be engraved on a brass leaf sculpture donated by Mrs. Regina Simon of Lincoln for the entrance to the Children'* Theater. For more information, call L e n e t t e Nelson Schwinn or Rod McCullough at the Playhouse, 402-489-9608.
coin, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mungavin, Minneapolis, Minn. Greatgrandmothers are Mrs. Dorothy Kushner, Lincoln, Mr». Frances Marylander, Colorado Springs, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Kirk Bowers announce the birth of a daughter, Deanna Rachel, born March 23. They have a eon, Aaron. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Stan Arenson, and Mrs. John Bowers all of Lincoln. Mrs. Anna Arenson of Waterloo, Iowa is the great grandmother.
The monthly meeting of the Lincoln Chapter of Hadassah will be held April 20 Eli Modenstein and In the Tifereth Israel Social daughter, Susan, of New Hall, at 12:30. Mrs. Nancy York City, attended the cerCoren is in charge of the emonies held in Washprogram for Jewish Educa- ington, D.C., the first Amertion Month. Her topic: ican Gathering of Jewish "Discovery the Act of Re- Holocaust Survivors held in deeming Captive of the So- the Washington Sports viet Jews and Jews in Ar- Center..Second generation abic Countries." children of the survivors Refreshments will be also registered for the gathserved preceeding the ering, April 10-17. meeting. Mrs. Reba Kuklin, president will preside. The South Street Temple Sabbath Worship Services The Lincoln Judea will be held April 22,8 p.m. meeting will be held April 24 They will be honoring new at 2 p.m. at the Briar Park members. An Oncg Shabbat Bowling for a great and fun will follow services, hosted party. by Suzanne and Steve Kalish. Don't forgf t to attend the MEDICAL CENTER big guper "Something for The National Ladies Everyone Auction" to be Auxiliary, Jewish War Vetheld at the Tifcrcth Israel erans of the United States Synagogue, April 24, 7 p.m. has presented a $50,000 doThere will be a silent auc- nation to the Chain) Sheha tion at 7 p.m. and a live auc- Medical Center in Tel tion at 8 p.m. Also there will Hashomcr Israel, according be a wine and cheese hour. to national president JeItems may be dropped at anettc L. Shapiro. the Synagogue 1-3 p.m. on April 24. New member Chairman of this big Planned Parenthood of event are Barb Seglin and Omaha-Council Bluffs Elayne Chiat. hosted more than 200 agency supporters, friends Mr. and Mrs. Martin and honored guests at its Kunhner announce the 48th Annual Meeting, April birth of twin girls. Heather 18 at the Red Lion Inn. and Amber, bom April 10. The dinner meeting, Grandparents are Mr. and which begins at 7 p.m., Mm. Gerold Kushner, Lin- featured presentation of annual Volunteer Awards, installation of new PPOCB Board President Thomas J. Walsh, and introduction of new executive committee members including E l i n o r e A. Penner. Jewish Press job bank The Jow.it: Prtnj w9 puttai free ads for high tchod end coBego students looking for Bummor employment end for employers who have jptn ov&tabtg.
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Lisa Claire Fried will become a Bat Mitzw.liun .Saturday morning, April 23, et Temple Israel. Lisa is a seventh grade honor-roll «ud*nt at Beveridge Junior High School where her favorite subjects are science and literature. She plays the violin in the Beveridge Orchestra and Is a member of her school's chess club, the elterschoolsingers and tfasdebate team. At recent debate meeting* the haa won blua ribbons. In her spare time lisa enjoys reeding, creative writing, bicycle-riding, swimming and summer camp in Colorado. Lisa has a brother. Dank), nine.
JDC resumes By Boris S molar
Trucks with Passover articles were rolling this time through the Sinai desert bringing JDC transports for distribution to the Jewish population which consists mostly of eldetly The Camp David pact reached between Egypt and Israel people. The link between American Jewry and the Jewish under the influence of the U.S. government may still lack community in Egypt has thus been fully restored. clarity in tome points, however there is no doubt that the There are today about 380 Jews in Egypt out of a total accord was in a way instrumental in the restoration by the of about 80,000 who lived there before the outbreak of the Egyptian authorities of the right of the American Jewish Arab war against Israel. About half of them reside now in Joint Distribution Committee to resume its relief activity Cairo and the other half in Alexandria. for the email number of Jews still residing in Egypt. By 1051. the Jewish population was still 45,000, of whom The JOC has not been permitted to function in Egypt tome 22,000 lived in Cairo and about 20,000 in Alexandria. since the outbreak of the Arab war against Israel in 1948. The remainder resided in Port Said and In Tanto. In that However, it continued to provide assistance to the poor and year the atmosphere of hostility against the Jews reached elderly Jews there chanelling its relief through the Inter- a very high point. There were anti-Jewish riots in Cairo, a national Red Cross in Cairo. Following the Egyptian-Israeli bomb was thrown tit the Old Synagogue in Alexandria, mass agreement at Camp David, the JDC began negotiations arrests of Jews have taken place under various pretexts. with Egypt to secure resumption of its relief directly to the Jewish properties were confiscated. There was no other Jewish community. The negotiations — conducted thipugh choice for the Jews but to leave the country. Only tho old the Egyptian Ambassador in Washington — were suc- and helpless remained. Many left for the United States, cessful. JDC president Henry Teub and executive vice pres- Canada, France and other European countries; about ident Ralph Goldman then visited Cairo where they were 20,000 of the others found their way to Israel. cordially received. AID IN LEBANON A JDC staff has been working since then with leaders of There are today about 300 Jews still living in Lebanon. the Jewish community in Egypt on the development of a According to the Lebanese government census of 1052 there full range of relief services. One of the result* was that the were 5,920 Lebanese snd 1.041 foreign Jews in the country, Jews in Egypt celebrated Passover this year with matzot among them French, Greek, Persian and Algerian naand other Passover food received directly from the JDC. tionals. With approximately 3,000 Jews from Syria — who described themselves as "tourists" — the number of Jews in Lebanon totaled about 10,000. JDC emergency relief activities in south Lebanon for By Bert Lewis Some time ago I used this space and my imagination to Moslem and Christian Arabs — which started after the offer some suggestions to Israel's film industry . . . some- liberation of the area from PLO terrorism — are now thing to give their economy a little boost. I haven't heard drawing to o close. The total value of the JDC emergency from them, but that's okay. I've got another idea to share. action is estimated at about $2 million of which 3400,000 Remembering that tourism is among the most important was received in cash from special donors and $100,000 como sources of revenue, and also remembering that the only from the JDC'B 1S82 operating budget. An estimated $1.5 thing tourists ever complain about is the food, I wonder million was donated in goods and materials. JDC has received donations of agricultural and farm tools why they don't latch on to one of OUR great money-makers: fast food franchises. They could easily translate eomo of through the good offices of the Brothers Brother Foundaour smart operations into suitable Israeli versions. For ex- tion in Pittsburg, which have been distributed to Moslem ample: the invitation to the "Golden Arches" could become and Christian schools throughout south Lebanon. It also "Come to the Brass Mezuzah." Not for hamburger* - maybe received several shipments of Pharmaceuticals which have corned beef or pastrami sandwiches on wonderful bread. been sent to the UNRWA medical clinics In Sidon. It deOr maybe a takeoff on that roast beef sandwich place livered about 2,000 tons of cement to the Palestinian refthat uses a cowboy hat in their logo . . . make that "The ugee camps in south Lebanon enabling the reconstruction Yarmulke" and serve hamisha stuff, like brisket and kasha and repair of 2,000 damaged homes. About 2,500 heating with varnuhkes. No? Well, how about "Kairtzer KevceV stoves were distributed in the cold winter weeks — in conGefilte Fish"... it works for Long John Silver, BO why not junction with UNRWA — to families in the «ame camps. see what it does for a short Jew! Its operations were welcomed by the Lebaneso authorities There are many possibilities - can't you just tee the main and approved by the Israeli military in the area. In Syria, where 13,000 Jews lived in 1947 — a year before street in Tel Aviv, populated with theso kinds of eateries? I could imagtno a Jewish Runza Hut. It might be "The the outbreak of the Arab war agninst Israel — there are KnUh Hoiie." And why not a takeoff on Taco Grande? today about 4,500 Jews, 80 percent of whom are concentrated in Damascus and some 800 live in Aleppo. A few The "Groyscr Knadle"? Maybe somebody could entice a retired general from the dozen of families live in Kamishle. The JDC has been Israeli army to start something like the Colonel did here. helping the Jewish communities there for over 30 years but Can't you see a sign that says, 'The General's Haifa Fried it was not until 1977 that two JDC staff members were permitted to visit the country and assess the needs of the Grcbcnes" . . . original or crilpy recipe. . In a nutshell, I think Israel needs all the help she can Jews there at first hand. Most of the funds the JDC spends get, and I consider it my duty to offer suggestions. So here in Syria go for Jewish education programs. Other programs you are, Menachem. You always say American support is are medical care and welfare monthly cosh relief to about vital..'. consider my help your support! Use it gezunderhcit. 200 family units in Damascus, Akppo and Kamithle. (EdUor-lB-cfakf ratriie*, J.7VA.) (Copyright 1083, JewUh Tt!fSr«{>hk Aetacy. lee.)
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The Omaha Chapter of Hadaasab will feature fashions from the Bargain Box, the Hadassah second hand clothing and merchandise shop, at their luncheon, April 27 at Beth Israel Synagogue at noon. Program chairmen ore Juleo Katzmon aad Sherry Kohn. Items will be modeled by tome of the Bargaio Box volunteers aad other Hfldaosab members and their children along with some male models. They include: Edith Abrarna.Mlrnl Cutler, Dorothy Draper, Debbi Fcldman, Annette Prank, Dan Greenfield, Leah Kupfer, Margie Levy, Ann Margolin, Betty Sanford, Helen Stephen. Linda TederBJOB, Jill Kobe, Missy Kirke, Susan Ifelfeld, and Rebecca Wolfson. An original narration will be accompanying the chow. Cost of the luncheon is 94 with a box of clothes or items for the Bargain Box; $S withoat a donation. Sitter service will be provided. Residents of the Rote Blumkin Borne or the Livingston Manor who need transportation may call Don at 330-3095. For reservations call the following by April 24: Wendy Maavitz 3337901, Rose Newman 4984)115, Rose Roffman 051-2766, Gloria Venn 334-0563, Marian Wine 001*1003, or Ilermene Zwelback 397-3006. To help the Rabbinical Council of Omaha feed the needy, guests may donate noa-perUhflbl© foods. In the photo, from left are Betty Sanford, Margie Levy and Jill Kohn. ,
Lehnian-Caipeiiter vows exchanged bride plus five other attendants. The bride's gown was sheer white organza with on over-lay of Vcnise luce with need pearls and sequins forming the fitted bodice and trimming the swectheart neckline. A champagne brunch was held in the Grand Ballroom of the Red Lion Inn. Tho couple will live in Scott«da!o, Arizona. Mrs. James Carpenter Cindy Lehman of Scottsdale, Ariz, became the bride of James Carpenter of Phoenix, Ariz, in a 12:30 ceremony at Beth Israel Synogogi/e in Omaha on March 13. The bride, the daughter of Mr. and Mm. Jerry Lehman is a graduate of the University of Arizona. She was attended by Dcnise Lehman matron of honor, sister-inlaw of the bride and five attendants. The bridegroom is the eon of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carpenter. He is a graduate of University of Nebraska. He was attended by Howard Lehman, brother of the
Piano and vocal students of Pamela Cohn will present their annual spring recital April 24, 2 p.m. in tho Jewish Community Center theater. Participants include: Brendo Greene, Maxine Noodell, Anne Brodcr, Kim Broder, Dori Kcffatos, Wendy Novicoff, Amy Zuber, Andce FricdJnnder, .Jamie Zacharia, Krlstl Caniglin and Chandra Pctrezclko. The recital is free and open to the public. A reception will follow immediately in the Older Adult lounge.
OLD TIMERS REVIEW By Henry Stern You will be reading about the April 12 meeting in the issue of the 22nd, and because of the Passover holiday, the April 19 meeting will be in the April 29th issue, and .this is probably the only meetings every week for some time. Regular schedule after this. Art Grossman chaired the April 12 earlybirds, and the discussion centered around the depression of the 1930s, which we all remember. About 15,000,000 unemployed, and the differing entailed by it. Art recalled 10$ a doten eggs, 2< hogs, farm foreclosures, and what 5 bucks would buy in a store. Doc. Margolin recalled receiving produce and poultry in exchange for hit services over in Iowa. We were reminded of Gen. McArthur's troops e v i c t i n g the B o n u s Marchers in Washington, and Townaend's plan for $200 a month for the over 60s, the forerunner of Social Security. I remember the Elder Rockefeller telling the country that "My son and I are buying common stocks," in order to bolster the market. Right after that Cities Service fell to a buck and a half and General Motors to 5 bucks. President Hoover, in one of his campaign speeches on radio, told us what the Republican Party had in store for us. That they did. Poignant memories. To luncheon served up by Molly and gals, and a quick cleanup by Bogie and crew and volunteers. Motzi was by Doc. Margolin, and B e n s c h e n by Hatry Schulman. President Katz made tho following announcements: a welcome to visitor*! for the Lawrence Grossman ad-
Iress; new members, Harry Greenberg e n d Joe Rothkop; new life member Nate Oimple; a reminder to wear your nameplfltes and return the yarmelkes, a Passover card from former guest speaker, Terry Moore; Rube Ratner's guest, Harry Cohn, and Ben Simon's guest, his brother, Syd, from San Diego, (it snowed here next day). Welcomed back Art Goldstein, Joe Zwciback, Nate Cooper, and Harold Knsin. Our Sunshine Committeeman, the Duke, told us that George Greenblatt is hospitalized and that yours truly is back from the hospital. V.P. 8am Ban introduced our guest epeaker, Lawrence Grossman, Art's son. Larry just returned from foreign service duty in El Salvador, and what he saw and reported to us gave us food for thought. The Jewuh Preaa will have a detailed report on his address to us. Me kown dcharget veren down there. Suffice that this column gives you a rundown on his service background. From Central High and UNL, ho was commissioned as a foreign service officer in '69, following which he learned the Viet Nam language and left for Viet Nam. He was Vice Consul in Argentina, State Dopt. Adm. Officer in Washington, D.C., then on to Iceland. Brr. Thence with the U.S. Mission for NATO in Belgium. Then to the American Embassy in El Salvador, about which he spoke today. Believo it, it is no place for theifaint hearted, Security in tight. But the Pross will give us n resume, and tell us what it was all about. As soon as Larry learns Danish, it's on to Copenhagen. Need we say more about this man?
WJC names "spotlight" A study released by the World Jewish Congress nnmc« a Washington-based weekly — Spotlight — an "among the foremost of today's anti-Semitic periodicals." The periodical claims a paid circulation of 333,334 and offers a strange blend of consumer information mixed with overtly antiSemitic articles, the WJC Mid. The report on the periodical, published by the WJC research arm, the Institute of Jewish AffaitB, notes that Spotlight is
published by "an extreme American r i g h t - w i n g group," tho Liberty Lobby. The report's author, C.C. Aronsfold, a senior institute research officer, also says the publication is closely linked with and frequently publicizes the Institute for Historical Review, whose main purpose IB denying facts of the Holocaust.
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U.S. seeks stability By Morris Mallne El Salvador's location is the big reason for America's interest in that country, Lawrence Grossman, told an Omaha audience last week. Mr. Grossman, a foreign service officer who has juBt left El Salvador after 18 months of service, spoke to the Old Timers group at the JCC. He said El Salvador is closer to Washington, D.C. than California; it's close to the Panama Canal and to the Caribbean Sea. "One can walk from El Salvador to the United States," Mr. Grossman said, explaining that the efforts of the U.S. are twofold: "To stabilize the country and to nurture democracy."
Mr. Grossman, who also Berved with the Diplomatic Corps in Vietnam, said that any comparison of the scope of conflict would conclude that El Salvador.is not another Vietnam. • His outlook for the future would be for a political solution and not a military solution. He said that a Peace Commission offering HW nesty and seeking a slow acceptance of human rights offers the beBt opportunity for peace. ' "• Mr. Grossman,, whose next assignment is Denmark, negated the idea of a domino theory in Central America "citing the individual differences of the countries there and the stability of Mexico in particular.
Summer tour WASHINGTON - The B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, which has provided an opportunity over the last 30 years for more than 5,000 American Jewish teenagers to learn first-hand about Israel, will expand its summer tour program this year to include a Bible tour.
Trail Boss The second annual River City Roundup will be held Sept. 21-Oct. 2, Thomas Nurnborger, grand marshal, has announced. Also announced was Sam Greenberg, retired co-owner of Philips Department Store, as a Trail Boss.
According to Dr. Dov Peretz Elkins, BBYO international program director, participants will follow up their intensive study of the Bible with visits to sites mentioned in various passages of the Scriptures. The cost of the six-week tour is $2290 per person, ' with $300 grants available to participants of the Bible and language groups. The deadline for registration is June 1. For applications or'additional information,, write to Israel Summer institute, BBYO. 1040 Rhode1 Island Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 or phono (202) 857-G633. ' &-' :
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Jewish Community Services assisted byUnited Way By Ellen Gordman Federation Staff Bach year three departments of the Jewish Federation of Omaha receive financial assistance from United Way of the Midlands. Jewish Community Services is the name given to the consolidation of the Bureau for the Aging, Jewish Family Service and the Jewish Community Center for United Way allocation purposes. In 1383, Jewish Community Services will receive $116,036 for recreational, educational and social services for the Jewish community frorn United Way. The question can be asked: why does United Way fund thirty-eight sectarian health and social services agencies that provide services to a specific segment of the population? The answer is that United Way is committed to helping community organizations that serve a crosssection of the population in the Omaha-Council Bluff* •area. Among recipients are Camp Fire Girls, United Methodist Community Center and the Indian-ChicahtfHcalth Center. "United Way provides a network of fund raising efforts to help volunteer agencies," said Mitchel Orlik, director of Budget and Planning and the Federation's representative to United Way. "We are a sectarian agency, but by the same token, we feel a responsibility to provide crucial services which would otherwise be unavailable to people in southwest Omaha. This is particularly true for Jewish Family Service, which is the only mental health agency west of 90th Street." According to Allan Consher, director of Jewish Family Service, money from the United Way has allowed expansion of Jewish Family Service to better serve the Jewish community. "We are committed to helping the Jewish community in both the preventive and treatment areas," Rabbi Gonshcr said. "We have been able to expand our family life education classes, our counseling services and emergency aid." """With additional money we have been able to add a third therapist who works
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Book review: The Theatre of the Holocaust Ed. by Robert Skloot (Univereity of Wisconsin Press, 333 pages, $10.05) Reviewed by Harry James Cargas Perhaps the most neglected genre of Holocaust writing is dramatic literature. Many readers would be hard pressed to name any such plays beyond "The Diary of Anne Frank" and perhaps the controversial work about Pope Pius XII, "The Deputy." That is why this collection of four very powerful dramas is on excellent contribution to the worlds of art and psychology. Robert Skloot's limited introductory survey of existing plays adds to the value of the volume. "Resort 76" by Shimon Wincellberg is hard-hitting, inspiring, filled with a constant barrage of nearly black humor — all in superb balance. It is basically the story of bow ghetto Jews suffer, survive and perish under the Nazis. The author espouses the philosophy that "he who eaves one life is counted as though he bad saved en entire world," Illustrated movingly by a couple which decides not to abort a pregnancy even under such terrible conditions, "Resort 76" is one of
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the best efforts of Holocaust writing I know. Mordechai Rumkowski, head of the Lodz Ghetto Jewish Council, is the focus of 'Throne of Straw" by Harold and Edith Lieberman. Betrayal of Jew by Jew may be seen cs the unsettling theme of this play. No conclusions an drawn except to warn the members of the audience not to be too smug in assuming how properly they would act under similar circumstances. The most unusual technique in this anthology is implemented by George Tobori in "The Cannibals," in which characters are faced with the alternative of starvation or cannibalism. The work is surreal as characters die, then live again, as sons symbolically assume their dead fathers' identities, and es the audience nearly becomes a participant in the play. Charlotte Delbo, author of the very excruciating memoir None of Us Will Retard, Contributes "Who Will Carry the World?" to this anthology. Many survivors consider themselves to be messengers from ths dead and this is what Delbo requires of them — whoever will survive the moment of terror must transmit the experience to future generations. Delbo herself does this very effectively here. In feet, this entire collection acts as a message to us from survivors. This book can be read as drama, psychology, philosophy, history, literature — it is a success on all counts. The Theatre of the Holocaust is available at the Jewish Federation Library.
By Babbl Meir Kafesae (fepriaiad rro» Ito Awfa* Pwra, Brooklyn, N.Y.)
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ORT tribute Arthur J. Goldberg, Former Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, will receive the first American ORT Federation Golda Meir Award, in recognition of his life-time dedication to the Jewish people and the cous* of social justice, at the ORT Tribute to Justice Goldberg to be held May 1 at the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D.C., announced Robert R. Nathan and Daniel M. Lyons, dinner chairmen. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan will make the presentation.
It was conceived in fear of the gentile and born in the desecration of ths name of G-d. It has succeeded, in one fell swoop, in dealing a blow to the Defense Forces of Israel that no Arab army could have ever accomplished It has given hope to the enemies of Israel and the Jewish people, it has weakened the Jewish people and state in a disastrous manner. The Kahan Commission's report is the fruit of Hellenism and gentilization, the insecurity blanket that the Exile has succeeded in covering the Jewish people with. Who can recount the tragedies within the tragedy! The Arabs rejoice and the western "allies", from Washington to Bonn, praise Israel's "courage" and "morality" in a hypocricy that barely conceals their gleeful hope that this terrible body blow is a mortal one for the Jewish state. The Jewish "leaders" in ' the United States and the western world, croak their comments to the gleeful eyes of the Jew-hating news media. The Chief Kabbi of Britain (G-d save the Jewish subjects of the Queen!) relates how the commission has freed him from bis terrible pain at being a Jew for the past few months. The leader of the
BBYO President's message Editor's Note: The following is reprinted from The Shofar, tbo official publication or the B'nai D'rllh Youth Organization, Adam G. Petrovsky visited Omaha recently. My Brothers: In 1924, o man named Sam Bcbcr had a dream. He knew that the Jewish people must continue to exist, and so he know that our future was in the hands of our youth. And so, in the small town of Omaha, Nebraska, Sam Bcber and fifteen daring young men signed their allegiance to a creed and a symbol of Jewish youth in America. On that famous day of May 3,1924, the Alcph Zadik Aleph was born, and with it came its creed, the seven cardinal principles: Judaism, Charity, Conduct, Patriotism, Purity, Fraternity, and Filial Love. They made the Aleph Zadik Aleph rich with traditions, with a secret handshake, a special symbol to gain entrance into a meeting, and a special meaning to their very lives. This is the organization which we ore all o part of today. Andjthe seven cardinal principles that Sam Bcbcr created 69 years ago arc preserved to this day. We ore (in order of over ten thousand, and we stand tall in the ranks of history. We ore not like any other youth group. We have goals that were set down by our founders and those goals an still very important in our communities today. l( Is with these words that we roust go forth and bring back those traditions and principles that we have slowly lost through the course of time. It is with these ideas that we must take heed of Sam Bcbcr, and create the "ideal" chapter unity. Sam Bcbcr did not crcoU a region, nor did ha create a council; Sam Bcbcr created a chapter, where young men could feel free to explore their own goals and to live and grow with a small group of young men. He created those principles which are no longer present in all of our chapters. We must all go back to our chapters and create a fivefold program. Not for the cole purpose of doing it, but in order to strive toward the goals that we have lived with for 59 years. Each chapter must exhibit a solid base of fraternity and with fraternity, each chapter must solidify their programming, membership, and spirit, therefore qualifying you for the Henry Monaky Award at the end of this pro-, gromming year. YOU ALL MUST PUSH TOWARD THE PAST! And as Sam Beber states In hia founding message: "The extent to which you participate In the activities in AZA will be the measure of your reword." " Up Yon Men, A3am O, Petnm&y Grand Alepb Godol
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Conference of Presidents babbles over bow this will make it "easitr" to explain brae) to the goyim. Schindler continues his prattle and the American Jewish Committee, freed for the moment from the embarrassment of a commission of its own to study its sickening role in the real Holocaust, adds its "Amen" to the tragedy. Tragedies within the tragedy, without number. The Left speaks of "morality". One almost chokes on the black humor. The ones who turned over members of the Irgun end Sternista to the British; the ones who fired on the Irgun ship Altalena and killed Jews; the ones who, deliberately, tipped away Judaism from Scphardi immigrants to Israel; the ones who were the Kastnerites during the Holocaust — they speak of "morality". Tragedies within the tragedy, without number. The Prime Minister rails victim to his own sad actions. The entire commission was a needless and unnecessary thing that the Israeli government could have avoided with one simple act: The truth. Had the Prime Minister risen on the very first day of the massacre and laid: "The PLO, having broken its word, left behind terrorists. We intend to uproot all of them and do not intend to lose our men. We are sending in the Christians because tbe life of one Jewish soldier is more precious than that of all the Arabs. That is the truth; we knew the risks to the Moslem 'Palestinians' and were not prepared to suffer Jewish losses to protect our enemy." Had Begin said that and had he concluded with: "And so, since that ii the entire story, there is not the slightest need for a commission," how different thlnga would have been! But instead, the government — the one who bends the knee to no one but G-d, collapsed before American pressure and the American Jewish leadership. Tho result is the crisis of today. How different it would have been if we acted as Jews! If we had understood that the "Palestinians", a people dedicated to wiping out the Jewish state, and massacring Jews, are the enemy of the G-d of Israel. That their's is the law of a Midion, one of the seven notions of Canaan. That their fate was only partial payment for their massacre of Jews from 1020 until this day. That the massacre in Sabra and Shotila was not dono by the Jews, and was not even really done by the Christians. It waa the vengeance of the G-d of Israel. We understand nothing. Tbe "Orthodox" Chief Rabbi or Britain join* the Reform ScbJndJcr in desecrating G-d's name and calling it holy. Tbe Kahan Commission fatally weakens Jem and peoplo praise it We an mad. We pluck desecration from aonctificaUon. One final .note. I remember Kahan well, He was the judgewho refuted to release me from my arrest administrative detention.
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A sadder but wiser Jewish By Or. Irving Greenberg Dtiwctor, Nitlaaal Jvwfafc Ronsrc* Ctslwr When the fallout from the Lebanon war end Beirut massacre finally clean, the Jewish people will emerge sadder but wiser. The sadness stems from the realization that since we are inescapably back in the realm of hUlory with our own state, we too are subject to the flaws and failures of actual history. For nineteen hundred years, Jews had no state. Their political fate was in the hands of others. Jews lacked the politico-military power to shape their own destiny. One result was a great deal of Jewish suffering. The other side of that coin was that Jews did not persecute others. We ended up mistakenly believing that Jews could do no wrong. In our minds, Jewish powerlesaneaa was transposed into an intrinsic Jewish incapacity to harm or hurt.
would enter into a peace treaty and move Syria away. Unless outside powers (including the U.S.) undo its effects, the plan may yet work and widen the area of peace. One may disagree with Begin's Lebanon judgement but it was well within the range of legitimate policy decision. Begin was authorized to make policy decisions by democratic choice of the people of Israel, but the cost has been high. The sadness of the Jewish people after the Lebanese War is intensified by the realization of the severe damage to Israel's political standing which this policy has caused, especially in the United States. The media coverage of the war has damaged the clear public perception of Israel as the sinncd-againBt party. Moreover, Begin and Sharon have proven to be not as adept at defining the extent and fine tuning the usage of power. Israel stayed within the limits of morality and wisdom in most of the fighting but the heavy day of shelling Beirut on August 11 appeared to many to be excessive. Begin himself finally determined to stop it but not before respect for Israel was hurt.
disabuse ourselves of the untrue, morally self-flattering notion that Jews cannot do wrong. Jews are capable of committing moral misjudgement and even future deliberate evil. But forewarned is forearmed. Our policy processes are now wiser. In the future, there will be an established procedure for inquiry and for holding accountable. This means that better structures of moral behavior are in place in Israel. The past months, American Jcwa have learned that they can stand by Israel even when the media portray it in highly negative fashion. We do not need a fantasy perfection to appreciate the flesh and blood goodness of Israel with all its flaws. We note that it took years in America to overcome the obstacles to a Watergate inquiry. In Israel, it took a week to push through a Beirut inquiry.
American Jewish organizations learned that they could A revolution took place when the state of Israel was credmagree with Israel publicly without being judgemental or ated. Israel represented the Jewish commitment to assume weakening their support for its security and society. Funpower. In truth, we had no choice. The Holocaust (showed draising for Israel has gone up in responne to this emergency that Jews must develop an army, and a homeland of guaryet the federation leadership is now recognizing that there anteed haven — or they would die. Look et Iran's current ~ must be more two-way communication between American Unfortunately, the Beirut massacre has further clouded treatment of its Bhai population or Iraq's treatment of its Jews and Israel. There is new support for increased policy the perception of the war and the significance of the Begin Kurds and you will have eome sense of what the fate of the analysis capability in the Jewish community and an end to Oriental Jews would have been if they had not come to policy — leading so good a friend of Israel as Senator Alan the "Papa knows best" relationship with the Israeli govCranston to ask whether the Begin government had sub- ernment. The result can only be a more mature Jewry wiser Israel after 194a stituted "naked force" for "a balanced policy." The answer in policy, wider In moral realism and recognition of its falThe exercise of power inevitably has some immoral aide is: no — but the damage to Israel's standing implicit in tho libility. Eccleaiostea wrote: "Out of increased knowledge effects. The decision to take power was a decision to give very question is done. comes increased pain." (Ecclesiastes Ch. 1,18). Maybe the up innocence and martyrdom — which now could lead only Since Israel is a live state, the slippage can be addressed. Bibloof this era will write of Beirut: "Out of increased pain to death — in eichonge for existence, creation — and guilt. •> Overcoming it is a major agenda for world Jewry. Tho shift come increased wisdom." Intuitively, Jews believed that they could control the evil to a more realistic policy and nuanced picture of Israel was and that the good would outweigh the bad. necessary. In rebuilding support, Jews must fight against Helping The Jewish people was sheltered from the full ethical holding Israel to a double standard, i.e., a higher standard implictioni of this decision by the accidents of history. In that no one can live up to. On the other hand, the shift Australia its first 30 years of existence, Israel's wan were fought on could have come slowly and a great residue of the good will WASHINGTON - On its soil or in the Sinai deeert and Golan Heights with hardly stemming from the old idealization of Israel could have a civilian in eight. Isrsel was visibly threatened and at- been mainained. By a combination of poor media presence, the heels of its drive to ease tacked so that its wars were perceived as pure self-defense overextension of power, and bad judgement in using the the plight of U.S. flood and against genocide rather than the expression of the new Phalangists, Begin and Sharon have come close to squan- tornado victims in January, Jewish condition of etatccraft and military power. A con- dering a great asset — the traditional image of Israel's ide- B'nai B'rith International and B'nai B'rith District 21 tinuing, almost unreal, aura of idealism and good will sur- alism and moral superiority. That trovo of moral capital (Australia) have opened a rounded the Jewish state, especially when it was viewed was assembled over millcnia of suffering. Even allowing for campaign for the relief of through the prism of the Holocaust. It was as if this country the unfairness of the media, it is still poor policy to spend victims of tho busbfires that An Exciting Dining could fight a war in which there would he no destruction that much moral respect in a few months. Of course, Israel's recently swept across the or civilian casualties. Experience In An military success has bought time and greater freedom of southern coast of Australia. Intimate Atmosphere Announcing the camIt was only a matter of time before the new reality would diplomatic action to create peace options. become visible. David ben Gurion cane close to revealing One consolation is that in this crisis, the Jewish people paign, Dr. Daniel Thursz, for Lunch or Dinner is learning the lessons of being back in history. The tre- B'nai B'rith executive vice i it in the Suez campaign of 1956 by fighting a war that was ' the extension of statecraft, i.e., preemptive rather than di- mendous surge in Jewish political action in the United president, said that $1,000 Select From a Wldo rectly initiated by the other side. However, that Sinai War States is an expression of the new insight. As tho lessons had been contributed from Variety ot Authentic came after on extended period of fedayeen harassment and sink in, Jews are becoming more intelligent and more re- the organization's continMandarin end Szechuan Egyptian threats and France and England got mixed up in sponsible, morally speaking. Wo now understand that no. gency fund and more than Cuisine end Spec/a/tfas. the middle, to the Issues of war and power were not fully one can-remain totally innocent so that we must simulta- $2,600 from members in thought through. neously take responsibility and build in policy checks. We Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra within the first 8315 Oak Street "The Lebanon war changed all that, A lot of the bad press two days of the drive in Aus(TANGIER WAY) and even criticism of Menachem Begin by some Jews is tralia. Additional sums are CALL FOR , not became his policies are right or wrong but because they expected from lodges and RESERVATIONS forced us to face the issue of the shift from powerlessness individual members as the 307-1903 to power. To go from innocence and self-righteousness to campaign expands. moral ambiguity and guilt even in a good cause is a devastating eiperience. Even while wo are proud of Israel's restraint and sacrifice to minimize civilian losses, we feel the unavoidable pain of the Lebanese and Palestinians. In Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon, the Jewish state has found leaders who, more than their predecessors, are reedy to use military force as an instrument of government policy to change the political realities of tho Middle East. They believe that this will create new opportunities for peace. After all, Sadat openly said that he came to Jerusalem because he realized that with a hardliner like Begin in power, peace was both more possible and now the only realistic policy. The Lebanese invasion was a bold stroke to smash the PLO, generate a government for Lebanon that
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Israeli Greens onthe inarch By Nechemia Meyers Thousands of Israeli f5rwn» met recently at Almiigor on the banks of the •Jordan to protest plans for a hydroelectric project which would eliminate the lost free-flowing t>tr?tch of that famous river.
cerned. "While all of u» arc in love with the natural beauty of the Sinai Peninsula, that doesn't mean," Alon adds, "that all of us opposed r e t u r n i n g it to Kgypt."
It is no ea&y matter safeguarding flora, fauna and They argue that the pro- beauty spots in a densely duction of 100 megawatts of populated country like Iselectricity — mode possible rael, which, within its 1967 by the fact that the Jordan • borders, has a population of Fun, prizes and games at the Little/Big Dribbler* awards ceremony recently drops in the Almagor area 2()0 people per square kiloat the JCC — In left photo, families join in the Dragon's Tail and at right, from o height orSO'tnctcra meter aa compared to 30 per Sandy Kasin and Dr. Phil Itkin pass out awards. (Photos by Jeff West). above sea level to one of 200 square kilometer in the United States, three in meters below sea level — does not justify destroying Canada and 2.5 in Australia. one of Israel's most precious Moreover, the Jews of Israel beauty spots, particularly came back to their ancient hi rue the installation would homeland without a real unsupply lew than 1 percent of derstanding of nature beJoel I. Rich of Meetings cause for almost 2,000 years the country's power need*. Plus, De» Moines, has bemont of them had been V i o l i n i s t Shlorao come associated with Travel Israeli Green*, unlike living in urban areas. Mintz will appear & Promotions, Ltd., o Dc* their (icmun counterparts, with the Nebraska Moines based company that are not organized into a But thanks to the efforts S i n f o n i a , Thomas spccalizes in developing single political party, but of men like Araria Alon, Briccetti, Music Dicustom incentive and epe- ore scattered acroM the en- thousands upon thousands rector, on April 30, at cinl group travel for com- tire spectrum of Israeli pol- of Israelis have become en7 p.m. in the Joslyn panies, associations and itics. "This in ns it nhould thusiastic member* of the Art MuHcum. The Singroups, as an operations lx%" uiys Azaria Aton, who Nature Protection Society, fonia, the core musiconsultant. He has had him long given a popular bastion of the Green*, and cians from the Symmore than 12 yenr*' expeweekly radio talk on nature tens of thounjind*" more have phony, will perform rience in operating meetand is now Chief Editor of learned to appreciate the Mozart'» Overture to ing, conventions and ina new 12-volume encyclo- beauty of nature. This was "Lncio S i l l a " . and centive travel programs. pedia on "The Flora and evident during Passover will join Mr. Mitz and senior citizens with Mozart's Violin end may be purchased Fauna of Israel." Alon tays week when every second T«l The Milder Kostitch GalConcerto No. 4 and from the Symphony that people who arc con- Avivian and Jermalemite lery will exhibit the nculpProkofiev's Violin office, 3 1 0 Aquila turt- and drawings of Altino cerned about protecting na- seemed to be out in the Concerto No. 2. Rus- Court or at Brandeia Carey. April 16-May 30 ture and the environment countryside admiring the sian-born Israeli don't necewKirily have the wildflowers (which were from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Ticket Outlets. Shlomo Mintz pername viewpoint, for ex- particularly profuite this Tickets may also be Former Omahan Barry (5. forms on the eve of ample, on abortions or year thanks l>oth to conserp u r c h a s e d at t h e Koiman has become a Omaha's celebration higher education, and t o vation efforts nnd to heavy Joslyn Museum after partner of the Los Angteles of Israel's Independlaw firm of l^ewit, D'Amato, there is no reason why they winter rains). ence Day. Tickets for 6 p.m. on Saturday. should form a party. The nature lovers, who This concert is supHrisbois & Hisgaard. Mr. the April 30 concert He also poinU out that have already succeeded in ported in part by the Kaimsn, his wife Toni and are $9 for adults and nature-lovers are sharply saving several endangered Arts their two children, Sarah $ 3 . 5 0 for students N e b r a s k a species of animals and Council. and (Jeffrey, reside in North- divided even where territorial questions are con- plants in central Israel, arc ridge, Calif.
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