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Omaha, Neb., Fri., July 1,1M3

Visitor says Soviets lie about Wallenberg Editor's note: Federation public relations aide Ellen Gordman told the Jewish Preaa that a man passing through Omaha had served time with Swedish dip* lomat Raoul Wallenberg in a Soviet prison and could testify that Mr. Wallenberg was alive at the time the Russians were declaring him dead. Summer intern Namoi Mitchell was joined by free lance writer David Bittner in pursuing the story. By persevering, they came up with the story. However, during the hectic pursuit, a camera with the man's photo was misplaced, so his picture is not available.

Trying to break language barrier B y Naomi Mitchell and David Bittner On a tip that a man was in town who had known Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg in a Soviet prison, two J e w i s h Press reporter* Ml out to get the tstory. We found our mystery man, Israeli Abraham Kalinski, at a local motel. He wan engaged in a frantic search for hi* passport, which he found in a few minutes. In our broken Hebrew, we asked him to Gccompany us to Beth Israel Synagogue where we would interview him using Rabbi Isaac Nadoff a» an interpreter. Kaluuki was moat amenable to being interviewed for the local Jewish newspaper, he said, but we had heard wrong if we thought his Hebrew was adequate for such a purpose. He informed us that be was fluent In German, Russian, Polish, Yiddish and Swedish — but not Hebrew. We called Rabbi Nadoff and explained our predicament to him. He suggested we take Kdliruki to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kahn, native German Jews. But after several attempts to communicate with Kalinski through the Kahns, wo discovered they spoke different dialects of German and could not understand each other. Trying to locate someone who speaks Yiddish, we called Mas Bittner and Cantor Fettman but were unable to locate them. Kalinaki called a friend, Petra Joaquin, but the was not able to leave work to be our interpreter.

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Mrs. Kahn suggested we call Joe Buchcister at Nebraska Kosher. We called, and Mr. Bucheister and Kalinski had a high old time talking and laughing over the phone. The problem wa« that Mr. Bucheister's English would never qualify him as an interpreter.. Finally we drove Kalinaki bock to the motel. On the way we again tried to converse in Hebrew. He shared with us his observations of the country. He indicated that in Israel it never gets as hot as it was that day in Omaha. Didn't we have air-conditioned cars in this country Kalinski wanted to know? Our car had certainly "seen its bar mitivah," he said. (Actually, the car U only 12 years old.) According to our understanding of Kalinski, American life is hectic. In Israel on Shabbat and on Thursday and Friday afternoons, everyone takes "chofesb" (free time), but Americans are so obsessed with money they never seem to take time off from work, was our interpretation. Kelinski told us that he was divorced from his wife and was looking for another. Did we know of any nice, attractive women aged 40-45, h« asked? She did not have to be Jewish, he commented. In fact, be said, he has a weakness for "shiksehs." Soon we arrived at the motel and dropped off Kalinski, telling him we were sorry and thanking him for his time. Back at the J e w i s h Press office,-we again made an attempt to reach Mr. Bittner.

By David Bittner Finally we broke the language barrier. I got Kalinski together with my father, a native of Poland whose Yiddish is only Blightly rusty. Not only had we found our lingua franca, but the two men discovered they had been born in shtetls only 30 miles apart and spoke Yiddish with the same accent. As if to dispel any fears that our mystery visitor might not be on the up-and-up, my father discovered that his father and Kalinski had some mutual acquaintances from Kalinski's hometown of Lomza. As we questioned Kalinski, he unfolded a remarkable history. First of all, we learned what he was doing in Omaha. As part of his work as an antiSoviet publicist, Kalinski investigates the cases of persons like Raoul Wallenberg who are missing and presumed to be languishing in Soviet prisons. In Sweden, Kalinski had become friendly with a German woman whose daughter disappeared in Russia during the 1950s. The woman has another daughter who lives in Omaha. On his way to Los Angeles to keep a speaking engagement, Kalinaki stopped for a day here to visit her. Kalinski began the story of his own life by going back to his days in the Polish Army. I expressed surprise to learn that any Jews should have been in the army of a country which was so bitterly anti-Semitic. Kalinski explained that all doctors and university graduates were automatically inducted into the Polish Army at the time of the outbreak of World War II, and that Jews in these categories were for whatever reason treated no differently. Kulinaki in 1039 had just been awarded a university degree. Following its speedy defeat by the (5ermnn.i, said Kalinaki, the Polish Army retreated deep into Russia. Here, behind Hussion linen, Kalinxki find other Jewish soldiers were well out of the reach of the Germans. But the Russians had ways'of dealing with Jews, too, he Raid. Trouble began in Moscow, where.Kalinski became acquainted with an American

attache named Paul Dutco. Through Dutco, Kalinski thought he would try to get word to the West that the Russians were abandoning Jewish partisans in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to the Germans. He wanted to get word of the situation to U.S. Ambassador to Russia Avercll Harriman, and entrusted Dutco with a letter addressed to the Ambassador. Dutco turned out to be a double agent. He took Kalinski's letter straight to the KGB and Kalinski was arrested and jailed. The year was 1944. Altogether Kalinski spent 15 years, seven months and 17 days in Soviet prisons, much of the time in solitary confinement. (Years later, said Kalinski, the American government gave him $100,000 in compensation for having been informed on by one of its men.) In 1950, Kalinski was transferred to a prison near the Ural Mountains. It was here that he first heard of Wallenberg. In the cell next door to Kalinski was a Jewish writer named David Bernovsky who told Kalinski about the Swedish diplomat's efforts to save Hungarian Jewry. According to Bernovsky, Wallenberg was a "noble but naive idealist" who did not realize that to Stalin the only crime worse than spying for the West was saving Jews, and was still trying to figure out how he had run afoul of the law. Kalinski did not actually lay eyes on Wallenberg until 1953. In that year the KGB head, Beria, was the object of a coup, and the prison near tho Ural Mountains was evacuated and prepared for his underlings. Knlinski, Bcrnovoky and Wallenberg were transferred along with all the other inmatcH to a prison on the border between Russia nnd China. Here, through his cell window, said Kalinski, he could sec Wallenberg "trolling in the prison courtyard during exercise period. In 1054, this prison was flooded when a nearby dam broke, and the inmates were transferred to a prison only 180 miles from Moscow. The men were transported by rail, and Kalinski said he saw Wallenberg get off the train and back on at every rest stop (continued on page 2)

Analyst hits U.iSIC's anti-Israel campaign NEW YORK — A Heritage Foundation United Nations expert charged tho Arab states and their Third World and Ban ternbloc allies with engaging in a "systematic" campaign to discredit and isolate Israel in the United Nations, and said that despite U.S. opposition the situation' is growing worse each*yenr.

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"Of tho Security Council's 88 RnaeionB In a report released here at o luncheon last year, 46 were on topics related to Israel. boated by the American Jewish Congress, In the General Assembly, debates on tho Juliana Goran I'ilon also claims there has Middle East consumed nearly one-third of been n parallel, nnd equally successful, cam- the delegates' time and led to 44 resolutions. paign to give U.N. legitimacy to the Pal- The number of times the General Assembly estine Liberation Organization (PLO), an ^convened Emergency Special Sessions on the Middle East was no less than five — admitted terrorist organization. which is equal to all the Emergency Special Dr. Pilon, a refugee from Communist Ro- Sessions held in the U.N.'B first three decmnnia educated in the United States, and ades." a veteran U.N.-wateher,«ays the degree to (continued on page 2)

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vorced. (continued from page 1) Kalinski spends hi* time writing and lecalong the way. The Russians claim that Wallenberg turing around the world about the evils of And almost without exception, she says, these sessions portray Israel es the villein, Yet, Dr. Pilon «ay», the U.N. attack on died in 1 0 4 7 . Kellnski nays ho saw the communism and the menace the U.S.S.R. the Arab states and PLO as the victims. Israel goes beyond propaganda, "it ia re- man every day during most of his own poses to the free world. As my father/inflected in the very composition of the de- term until his release from prison io terpreter observed, Kelinski seems slightly Dr. Pilon Bays that Congress should hold cision-making bodies," she explains. For 1059. Not only did the Russians lie to the right of the John Birch Society on hearings to determine exactly how U.N. example, Israel is excluded from the Eco- about Wallenberg, said Kolinakl, but the subject. Kalinski attributes most termoney is Bp«nt supporting the PLO, and nomic Commission of Western Asia about himself and many other pris- rorist activity around the world, including that the U.S. should take whatever action (ECAVA). a blatant violation of U.N. rules. oners. Knlinski said that following hla the Pope's near-assassination two years IB necessary to prevent the PLO from ECWA is composed entirely of Arab states. arrest in 1044 his sister w a s informed ego, to the KGH nnd warns that the Rusby the Soviet government that Kal- sians are perfecting method* of chemical gaining further legitimacy at the upcoming The U.N. Educational, Cultural, and Sci- inski had died " h e r o i c a l l y " at the warfare and have large amounts of poisons U.N. International Conference on the Question of Palestine to be held in Paris in mid- entific Organization (UNESCO) passed a Battle of Smolensk. For yeans, said in Cuba. He is opjwsed to U.S.-Soviet trade August. That must certainly jnclude with- resolution in 1974 excluding only one state Kallnski, his Bister, who now lives in and accuses American farmers of bringing doom upon themselves and other Ameri— Israel — from full participation in Israel, actually Bald Kaddteh for him. holding fund* for the conference, Dr. Pilon UNESCO's regional activities, while the Kalinski laughed nnd so did we as he cans by carrying on their "greedy" grain says. Soviet Union was 'empowered' by that res- showed us the pocket-stee certificate he wan trade with the RuMiuns. At the same time, she suggests the U.S. olution for participation in two UNESCO given upon his release from prison. In RusHut Kalinski made it clear that when he should continue to protect Israel from un- regions. A number of other U.N. agencies sian it bears the word, "Rehabilitated." attacks Communism he is not indicting colfair attacks by U.N. agencies. In the case of also have undertaken campaigns flgninst IsIn 1975, Kalinski left Russia for Israel lectivism as it is practiced on the Israeli kibserious violations against Israel, the U.S. rael, Dr. Pilon says, including the World during a time of more liberal emigration butzim. The kibbutz system, he said, is true ' should drastically reduce its voluntary- con- Health Organization, the International policies. He left with his non-Jewish Rus- communism as it ideally should be practiced tributions, to these agencies, perhaps by as Labor Organization, the International Tele- sian wife, who accomplished conversion to and bears no relation to the "state capicommunications Union, the U.N. Relief and Judaism simply by declaring that she talism" of Russia. The present Russian much as one half of the present amount. Works Agency, and the Human Rights wished the word "Jew" to appear on her system differs from czarist imperialism only And finally, if U.N. attacks against Israel Commission, Soviet passport. The couple, who have an in that is more efficient in stamping out human rights, dignity and freedom, he said. continue, Dr. Pilon says the U.S. should II-year-old daughter, have since been diThe U.N. bloc-voting mechanism has also consider boycotting General Assembly discontributed enormously to the U.N. attack cussions on the Middle East. on Israel because most countries are bound From 1967 to 1972, Dr. Pilon points out, to support the policies of the blocs to which about two dozen resolutions on the Middle they belong. Yet. Dr. Pilon notes, "In what East, ail blatantly anti-Israeli, were adopted became a watershed, the Western bloc in in the General Assembly, with the Arabs 1973 increased the frequency with which trying to erode support for Israel. they abstained on resolutions attacking IsTruman Clnre will be • prominent lenders Iwth in ance of'Fiddler on the Roof rael, instead of backing Israel." leading key lenders from the government nnd business at Tel Aviv's famed Habima Between 1973 nnd 1978, more then 80 "The U.N.'s war ngainst the .lew* cannot Omaha-Lincoln area on the during the conference. We Theater". anti-Israeli resolutions were passed. "The .'1.1th Anniversary State of will be touring Jerusalem, crescendo intensified, until the number of continue without bringing to an end the Israel Bond International the Galilee as well as visThe dates for this exhope that the U.N. could provide a forum anti-kraeli.rcsolutions in the General AsConference. Mr. Clnre said, iting the high technology, citing conference are Aug. 8 for rational discussion nnd peaceful settlesembly alone reached 44 during 1982 alone. "there will be meetings with aircraft and other related through the 18. ReservaNone of these resolutions criticizes terrorist ment of conflict . . . The principal casually tions can IK' made by calling industries." attacks on Israel nor mentions the Aral) of the U.N.'s attack on Israel may well be Mr. Clnre continued, "a Ed Joseph. Regional Dithreat to Israel. Rather, there is a sustained the U.N. itself," the Heritage analyst congala reception by the new rector for the State of Israel effort to delcgitimizc the very idea of a cludes. President of Israel, Chnim Bonds, at home at 5720661 Herzog. is being planned at or by writing him at 0674 Pilot plan Pheasant Run Resort. Si. his home in JeruMlcm as Ames Avc., Omaha, NeCharles, III., will be the site well os a special perform- braska <i»i:!4. I/!» Angeles (JTAl - A of the 113th Convention of B'noi B'rith District C, Aug. crnnt of $-47,000 hns l>ecn 7-9. Herb Gnba, Lincoln, made to the Jewish Family Service of \AH Angeles for a member of the lkuid of Govpilot prcijtTt to help abiiM'd ernors' B'nai B'rith District a very nice bus driver Who By Rcvu Orucb Jewish women nud their 6, announced that "DeleThursday, June 1(5, wns a made our trip complete. The families. The funds were gates will be attending this provided by the Jewish Convention represent ing free picnic lunch day for us. trip amviMed of seeing a We hud corned href, bo- dinner show "Love is a Ci.jnmiinilv Foundation of eight mid-western staU's." ih<- Jewish FederationSpecial guest npeaker* are logna, nnd hiiliimi ttund- Time of Day", Shnwnce Council. Gerald Kraft, Indianapolis, wiches, bnked lienns, potato Town, Crown Center, The CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING Plaza nnd the William Ind., U'nni B'rith Interna- hiilml, pop, watermelon and or DO-IT-YOURSELF The new program •" »»' tional President; Con- birthday cake. We cele- Roekhill Nelson Art Instibntiertd Jewish women was cri-hfttnan John Porter of Il- brated Al Oruch'h IHth tute. Wednesday evening wn prompted by information linois: Stunrl Hnnkiifi, St. birthday. There were many wiw "Ain't Misbftiavin" nt that Jewish women an* not, Iyouis, Mo., B'nni B'rith Na- guests with us. Sully Venger the Starlight Theatre. I-nst ,-ih i>. widely believed, im- tioruil Chairman of Grass gave a very interesting talk but not least we all had to mune to domestic violence. Roots Action Network; on her (rip to Washington. we where Mollie was Inirn, Specialist j in Noodlowork George Spectre, Wash- D.C. She was so enthused lived and went to school, A and Shadowbox Framing ington, D.C., B'nni B'rith and enjoyed every minute of trip to Kansas City in not ©Photos eOils o W a t e r c o l o r s complete without thin lour.National Director of her trip. As UMJIII we had plenty to "GRAN"; Stephen Berish, ©or M e a n i n g f u l Junk Monday, June 20 we celHowton, Mass., Interna- ebrated Fathers' Day. We eat and drink on this trip. Thank you Toby, Ellen, tional Chairman of Fund hod I3f> people with us. Well Known Artists On Display, Raising and A. Abbot Gifts were distributed Io all Kiwi and Rosaline for taking Signed & Numbered Graphics. Prepare lor Oct. exam. over, while we were gone. Rosen, Chicago, Mid- the men present. Classes forming now. western Director of AntiFor Information call The trip to Kansas City Defamation League of B'nai 391-2333. wn» most enjoyable. We had B'rith. (continued from page 1)

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By BÂŤrt Lewis On June 21, the Bureau for the Aging began providing a hot meal service for resident* of Livingston Plaza. Letters were tent to all resident* describing the service, with instruction* regarding procedure for placing an order. Request* for meals must be made a day in advance to ensure availability. Seth Levy, assistant administrator of the Bureau, announced that each week a menu will be posted at Livingston, and meals will be delivered to the manager's office. The purchaser will pick up the meal arid take it to his or her apartment. Mr. Levy said that the nominal charge of $2.50 per meal was set to cover all costa incurred in preparation. Families of those Livingston residents who might tend to overlook this convenient service are asked to take special notice of the new program, Mr. Levy said. Meals will be available from Tuesday through Friday.

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A family history compiled by Maraboll Forbe*, Irving Forbe* and Herbert Forbea The first Forbes to arrive in Omaha was Morris Forbes. Upon arriving, he located two cousins named Adler, Morris and his brother Abe who were in the bakery business. They formed a partnership, the Forbes-Adler Bakery on 24th and Clark. In 1920, Inadore Forbes brought his family to Omaha and accompanying them was o young woman named Lena Friedman. In 1021, their parent*, Mendel and Hrino Farbestein (Forbes) their daughter Gittle and sons Paul, Jack and Irving came to be with the rest of the family. They moved into a home at 2121 Burdette. Among their neighbors were Marks the butcher, Lazarcvitch, Nepomnick, Reese, Kuklin, Ramon, Feldman. The mansion of three bedrooms and one bath housed anywhere from sii to 10 people living in peace and harmony, sometimes! Isadorc Forties married Gertrude Goldhlatt Morris Forbes married Lena Friedman Gittle Forbes married Mike Cotton Jock Forties married Mary Cohen Paul Forbe* married Esther Budeftky Irving Forbes married Sonia Roitatein In 1921. Isadora and Mortis Forbes opened their first Iwkery on 24th and Miami. They touted a product called "Polly Parrot" bread which wholesaled for four cents a loaf and retailed for three for a dime. After school, Paul was the bread wrapper (using the Battle Creek Wrapping Machine). Morris was the manager and Isadora drove a truck (one of a fleet of four Model T*s>. Their father, Mendel drove a horse and wagon and delivered bread. Irving worked for Mayper Furniture Store; Jack for Nathan's grocery and later opened his own store on 24th and Maple. Gittle and Mike Colton opened a clothes store on 24th and Lake called Cotton's Dry Goods. One by one, the brothers left Omaha. Paul to Philadelphia; Jack and Morris to San Antonio, leaving Isadora, Irving and Gittle here with their parent* and families. The Forties Bakery continued in business until 1968. Irving opened Forbes Furniture in South Omaha in approximately 1937 and continued in business until the early 70s. Gittle and Mike Colton stayed in business until Mike's death in 1956. Paul worked in a deli and bakery in Philadelphia until the 1970s. Jack and Morris worked together in San Antonio in a bakery/deli. The six Forbes children produced 20 children. Those children, their children and their children's children, totaling better than 100 are in Omaha this weekend to enjoy the Second Forbes Family Reunion. The Omaha contingent consists of 30. Gittlo (Mrs. Isadora) Forbes, Sonia and Irv Forbes and families, Herb and Ruth Forbes and families, Irv and Ida Forbes and families, Marshall and Toby Forbes and families. The weekends festivities include a Friday evening dinner arranged by Irv and Ida Forbes, and Saturday â&#x20AC;˘evening dinner arranged by Deenie and Lorry Meyerson, Sunday morning brunch arranged by Irv and Sonia Forbes and Sunday evening banquet arranged by Marshall and Toby Forbes,

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The whole stay A newsman normally works under severe time pressure and therefore is unable to quickly provide all relevant facts in any one particular story. Facts usually emerge in a series of stories over a period of time and the reader may or may not recall the essence of a story as it unfolds. For example, let's go back to April 7,1979. On that day, the Society of Survivors held a dinner to honor a number of ex-servicemen from this area who participated in the liberation of the Nazi death camps during World War II. The event was magnificent. Hundreds of liberators and survivors met. The gratitude of the survivors was conveyed to the liberators with spoken words and firm handclasps. During the dinner, Sam Fried, then president of the Survivors, thanked Louis Blumkin for the friendship and assistance that he had provided This was a momentary tribute, quickly shrugged off by Mr. Blumkin. A Jewish Press photo was taken of Mr. Fried and Mr. Blumkin, but was not used in the coverage of the dinner. (See page 1) The years clicked by, and the incident passed from this writer's memory. It wasn't until just a short time ago that the incident came back into focus, and fact* fell into place just like a jig saw puzzle. The Federation Board of Directors, at a regular monthly meeting, approved a $5,000grant to the University of Nebraska to assist in the development of a Holocaust studies program. The directors were advised that the money had been donated to the Federation for that purpose. The donation had been made by the Society of Survivors in honor of Louis Blum kin. It seemed suddenly that a chain of events had been put into motion starting in 1979 and that the outcome was going to be a University project. The only missing element was the gratitude of the Survivors t o Mr. Blumkin. Why? Although Mr. Blumkin was an administrative officer in the field artillery and had been among the liberators of camps in Southern Germany, he was only 23 years old at the time. Why would the survivors single him out for special mention and why would a substantial gift be made in his honor? Discussions with the survivors explain. Mr. Blumkin, they said, was instrumental in providing employment to those burvivore who settled in Omaha. "He gave us a chance to work, a chance to reclaim our lives, a chance to be mensh." Furthermore, they added, jobs at the Nebraska Furniture Mart were made available not only to survivors, but also to Russian immigrant* and to nonJejwLsh immigrants as well. When asked for comment about providing jobs, Mr. Blumkin told the Jewish Press that the job opportunities were basically his mother's idea, that the immigrants were good workers, and that opportunities were extended not only for humanitarian reasons, but for good business reasons as well. Jewish people often soy that the finest thing one can say about a man is that he Is a mensh. They must have been thinking about Louis Blumkin.

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Haifa — There ere time* when a dote look back into recent history provides information which con help illuminate current problem*. Such a glimpse into the past, for example, reminded us how the British Government in 1922 divided Palestine into two pert*, the Larger of which by far was renamed Trarusjordan. Hussein's Kingdom of Jordan, therefore, ii Arab Palestine, the homeland which the Arabs a n entitled to. But today we look at another aspect of the problem — what happened to the Jewish side of the country, the remaining 25 percent in which the British Mandate promised the creation of a Jewish Homeland? A deliberately distorted picture has been created of Jewish immigrant* crowding into the small area, and pushing out the settled Arab population. , It is true that there was Jewish immigration into western Palestine, but nowadays who takes note of the fact that during that same period there was also a very large Arab immigration into Jewish Palestine from all the surrounding countries. Indeed, the economic progress fostered by Jewish industriousness created conditions which drew targe numbers of Arabs from Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. Far from outting the Arabs from the country, the Jews, by their presence, served as on economic magnet which attracted unemployed or homeless Arabs from the other lands, where conditions were in some cases desperate. The records of the British Government and of the Mandatory Government are filled with reports of the infiltration of Arabs from Transjordan, across an open border. In 1930 Sir John Hope Simpson urged that the entry of such im : migrants should be more strictly controlled The Annual Report of Britain's Department of Immigration in 1935 noted that Arabs from Syria and Lebanon enjoyed the "right of freedom of unrestricted passage across the frontier". The Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society reported that in the 8-month period April-November, 1934, over 20,000 Arabs from the Syrian Hauran region entered Palestine. It is elated that about 30 percent returned; nothing is said about the remaining 70 percent Mosl Jews who enured the country in the 1930s came from the *ca. Those who were "illegals" were apprehended and deported. The Arabs slipped across the border by night, and by far the larger number.were never seen by the authorities. Still, the Annual Report of the Government in 1935 recorded that in that year 293 Jews were deported fat immigration offenses, and 2152 non-Jews for the same reason. The volume of Arab infiltration' may be gauged from

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Editor's note: The Jewish Prets normally docs not publish unsigned letters to the editor. However, the following letter raise* an issue which may be of interest to the community and publication in being made with the expectation that additional comment will be forthcoming. To the Editor; It would ftecm to me that the recent Talmud Torah mercer between Beth El and Dcth Ifirael synagogues in, or fihould be, the first step toward a general merger of the two congregations. Neither synagogue is Orthodoi in composition, and there i» no distinguishable difference in the level of observance of the membership. To maintain two separate congregations with all of the attendant expense in a community -h:eh is shrinking and aging when there is, to borrow n phrase, not a "nickel1* worth of distinction" between the two (not to mention the generalized lack of interest in observance of too Jewish a way of life) is a luxury and indulgence which is ill-conceived in these present times. The benefits would seem to be a better attendance between the two memberships for minyana, Shabbal services, and the like. It might also serve to create a greater sense of communal feeling and effort among the remaining Jewish population of this city. T o the Editor: Our appreciation to you for the picture in last week's Press . . . A picture is worth a thousand words!! In this case, you pictured the arrival of the new 1400 gallon hot water holding tank (not "boiler," as stated in your caption) at the JCC. The tank will supplement our current system of generating instantaneous hot water for use at the JCC and the Rose Blumkin Home. Our JCC members have been most patient waiting for the arrival and installation of this tank. We are now in full operation and want to thank everyone concerned. Steven J. Rod Executive Director, J C C To the Editor: I am doing research for a master's thesis on the history of several Jewish agricultural communities that existed in Western Kansas in the early 1880s. I hope to complete the thesis at) noon as possible. The communities were in Ford, Finney, Clark, Comunchc, Hodgemon, Barber, and possibly Pratt counties, and were called Bcersheba, Montefiore, Lasker, Gilend, Hebron, Touro, Lceser and New Jerusalem. Many of the families in these communities were a&sigted by Jewish families in New York City, RocheMer, St. Louis,

the number apprehended. In i u Memorandum submitted to the Royal Commission in 1936, the Jewish Agency charged that the bloody riots in Jaffa that year were incited by those who had taken advantage of "the indiscriminate admission of Arabs from Transjordan and Syria." Official British report* in those dayi dealt with the subject again and again. It was noted that the movement was one way. As the Jewish Agency pointed out, there was no disposition on the part of Palestinian Arab* to leave; the considerable movement was from neighboring territories into Palestine. Thus, a comparison between the Census returns for 1922 and those for 1931 shows that in the nineyear interval the non-Jewish population of Palestine ros« by 27.9 percent There was nothing comparable in any of the neighboring territories, and it would be impossible to explain this growth from natural increase alone. Even more significant is the fact that the Arab population rose precisely in those areas where Jewish settlement was concentrated. CJZ. Jarvis, Governor of the Sinai from 1923 to 1936, could not resist adding an ironic comment to his report: 'This illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but aUo from Transjordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a cose out for the misery of the Arabs, if at the same time their compatriots from adjoining States could not be kept from going in to share that misery." While Jewish Palestine was attracting Arab immigration, the neighboring countries showed a reverse trend. A report published in Beirut in 1936 stated that between 1923 and 1931 Syria and Lebanon lhowed a gross emigration of 97,892 persons, as a result of difficult economic conditions. A final summary by Fred M. Gottheil in " T h e Palestinians", notes that between 1922 and 1931 Arab immigration accounted for 38.7 percent of the total increase of Arab settled population in those areas which later became the Stats of Israel. To put it in other words, despite the fact that the Arabs were given 76 percent of Palestine's land area as a homeland of their own, they persisted in immigrating into the Jewish 25 percent, drawn by economic development, employment and prosperity. And what is today called the Arab refugee problem, may be hwn instead as an historical reversion of an illegal immigration movement, with Jordan and Lebanon taking their share, and Syria coldly shutting its doors to the return of any Aro!>» at all.

J Philadelphia. Cincinnati, Kaniuu City and other cities. And when they left the communities in the late 1880* many moved to these cities nnd to other major cities throughout the country. I'm Iryinj! to locate the descendants of thene families. I'll appreciate corresponding with anyone who might have memories, photographs, information or record* of any of the communities or of the persons who resided in them. My telephone in 310-688-00(35, and my mailing address i» P. O. Hox 8509; Wichita, K». 67208. L. David Harris To the Editor: • A footnote to the June 17 lead article, "Soviet Rabbi llaps Omahan Jame* Glenn". Rabbi Pishman died of a heart attack the day before the article appeared in the New York Times. It's not inconceivable that the endless denunciations of Jewish activist* and Zionism, as well as the constant defense of Kremlin policy he hod to make, may well have pushed this poor man, unwillingly plucked out of a factory job a decade ago to be "chief rabbi" of Moscow, over the brink. Glenn Richter, National Coordinator Student Struggle for Soviet J e w r y

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In defense of modernity By Dr. Irving Greeoberg, director National Jewish Resource Center

decades, the critique of modernity has led to an almost brought out the best in the tradition. Kahane himself is mindless sentimentality about Eastern Europe. (AH our 'corrupted' by modernity. He does not have the effrontery Let roe fint offer my credential* ei a critic. I was active grandfathers there were Rabbis/Fiddler on the Roof).) In to propose reviving slavery, yet that is the logic of his rein that generation that led the revolt against excessive the past fifteen years, I have seen the balance within Or- peated citations of The Tradition* unmediated by any Jewish commitment to modernity. We all understood that thodoxy awing to the right so that even at Yeshiva Uni- theory of how it operates in history. Far from restoring modernity wat connected with assimilation and attrition of versity, there is hardly a young Rosh Yeshiva who will authentic Judaism in his mockery of democracy, Kahane Jew* and Jewish values. affirm the validity of secular studies and college. In Israel, is glorifying an earlier culture's political views rather than In the fifties, I changed my name back from Irving to the same psychology has led some fringe groups to trot out the Torah's. Peversely, he wraps the flag of the Torah about Yitzchak (The Talmud tells: The Jews were liberated from pre-modem, hostile attitudes toward Goyim in the halacha himself as he proceeds to do that which is actually in conEgypt by merit of not changing their names... You never to argue for the right to brush aside Arab concerns and tradiction to the fundamental values of the tradition. heard of Abraham, Irving, and Jacob, did you?) I went to rights. The Torah's actual goal is perfection of the world — with Harvard University to get my Ph.D. because every redTwo incidents have crystallized my decision to write this every human being in the image of God.To achieve that blooded American Jewish boy dreamt of going to Harvard column, speaking out. Meir Kahane, who started his career goal and to show a model of how to get there, Judaism and and/or marrying a shiksa. After three years there, I wore with the same critique (Never Again/Let us assert the Jews have had to enter into every culture and work from my klpab publicly (the equivalent of Jews coming out of Jewish interest) has written in SHMA recently, mocking within to perfect it. Royalty/extirpating Amalak, partial the closet). And when I received my Ph.D., I insisted on those who see any liberal tendencies in Judaism as self- compromises with slavery, are all way stations on the road being called Rabbi because the glorification of the doctorate deceiving Hellenists. Kahane cites chapter and verse, in- to redemption — and not the ultimate purpose of the over the Rabbinate was a sign of pathological substitution cluding the tradition's call to annihilate Amalek — to prove Torah. In every culture, the challenge has been for Judaism of outside values for Jewish values. ("When Rabbis became that the Torah is neither liberal nor democratic nor hu- and Jews to sufficiently immerse themselves in the civilidoctors, Judaism became tick.") manist. The second incident is the latest in a running series zation to learn from it and perfect it without going so far In the early '60s, I lectured widely that the dangers of of battles between Satmar Haaidim and Lubavitcher. A as to lose their identity, their sense of self and their own excessive acceptance in America was leading to Jewish dis- group of Satmar attacked a Lubavitcher and slashed off values — and the ultimate goal. Some cultures brought out solution. The topic title: Jewish Success and Jewish Sur- parts of his beard because he dared to teach Lubavitch the best in Judaism; some brought out the worst; most vival in America: Mu»t We Choose Between Them? 1 views to a Satmar child. Many modern Jews who have de- brought out an admixture of qualities. published another article, entitled, "Jewish Survival and veloped an inferiority complex ("they (Hasidim) are auJews face the very same challenge in modern culture — the College Campus" in which I argued that the great thentic Jews, we are weak and tending to assimilate"; "they not to run away from this civilization but to perfect it and symbol of Jews making it in America — over 90% of Jews will survive, we will not") repeatedly express their shock to learn from it — without being swallowed up by it. I were getting higher education — was a major source of to me — Since the Hasidim are the true Jews, how can suspect that from the final vantage point Jews will some day judge that modernity was the worst host civilization — animilalton and that college was "a disaster area for Ju- they assault a Jew for teaching Torah? daism, Jewish loyalty, and Jewish identity." I argued that The truth is that it is modern culture that led us to focus except for all the others. Modern culture has made possible modern Jews were like the zombies of sci-fi movies. Zom- on the humanistic and universal ethical elements in the unprecedented wealth and science to support a new level bie* were humans taken over by foreign creatures — bodies Torah. It is modernity that 'corrupted' us with notions of of human dignity and health; a model of universal justice intact but brain controlled — so were Jews taken over by pluralism, respect for the views of others, and tolerance. and respect for pluralism to allow Jews and others to serve foreign ideas. My prescribed cure included a new primacy Much of morality in pre-modern culture was in-group mo- God out of freedom and choice; an extraordinary openness for Day School (mocking the fear of being separated which rality in which there were ethical obligations to one's own and creativity to stimulate an extra-ordinary range of spirprevented most Jews from supporting day schools) and ab- group, but cheating or silencing others was legitimate. itual and cultural development. This is no small set of conolition of Bar Mitzvahs. Those views led Gentiles to comfortably persecute and/or tributions. These influences have brought many wonderful In the late '60s, I helped organize the student revolt that abuse Jews and they evoked counterpart hostile and some- qualities in Judaism to the force again — and thank God sat in and demanded that Federations shift priorities from times unethical responses in Jews. (To be fair: if the gov- for that. non-sectarian institutions such as hospitals to Jewish ed- ernment discriminates and taxes Jews unfairly and will Jews have always been idol smashers and modernity deucation. Despite my involvement with civil rights and anti- some day, likely, expel Jews, then paying taxes is not really serves no less a treatment. Absolutizing this culture is the Vietnam efforts, I pushed for a new Jewish political priority ethical.) Modern culture brought all groups into contact way to dissolution. But the needed critique of modernism for Israel and Jewish self-interest in light of the Holocaust. with each other, made 'the other' parts of my ethical uni- should be tempered by an appreciation of the ways it has I argued that the Holocaust was made possible by modern verse and thereby unleashed a great deal of liberal and nurtured Judaism and Jewish life into one of the richest culture and its cancerous growth of power and excessive humanist views. I remain convinced that excessive mod- most varied outbursts of religious and cultural creativity of glorification of human authority. In a talk given before the ernity leads to assimilation; excessive liberalism leads to our history. Without this perspective, the wisdom of critRabbinical Assembly (published as "The End of Emanci- loss of values, excessive humanism leads to human idolatry icism of the excesses will be led into the foolishness of pation") I argued that the continuing dominance of modern and even holocaust. But that is the problem of excess. To misjudging the core. Classically, Jews have absorbed the values — symbolized by the continuing divisions between respond to Kahane, excessive Hellenism led to assimilation. essence and thrown away the shell of the contemporary Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform — should have been Moderate Hellenism led the Rabbis to develop the tradition culture. Kahane and the 'withdrawal-Jews' often seem ended long ago by the impact of the Holocaust and of reborn of learning, turning the Jewish people into the People of ready to absorb the shell and throw away the essence. Sad, Israel and that ell the modernizing movements in Jewry the Book and deepening both the individualism and myst- indeed, for it is this essence — a more global ethic — that gives humanity the dignity and the strength to perfect the must do teshava (repent) for their excessive modernity. ical tradition in Judaism. The time has come to offer a corrective. In the past two . By and Urge, the impact of modernity has upgraded and world into God's kingdom.

A letter to a Reform Jew By Rabbi Meir Kahano (Permission to reprint granted by the Jewish Press Brooklyn, N.Y.) My Dear Brother/Sister Jew, This letter is long overdue and for that I apologize. But its lateness is compensated for, I hope, by my love for you and for all those who describe themselves as "Reform Jews," a love that motivates the letter and that permeates its every word. In short, it would not have been written did I not care for you as my brother/sister. And, most important, it is written as a cry to you to help prevent the greatest of all tragedies: The permanent division of the Jewish people into two camps, separate and forever apart. And so, I beg you to have the pntienco and courage to read this letter fully, and think it over carefully. Let me preface my message by saying that I really do not want to refer to you as "Reform." ' I really believe that there is no such thing as a "Reform Jew" (can you really give me a positive definition of this, that goes beyond the anarchy of "a Jew who really decides for himself what "Jewish laws, customs or idiosyncracies he will observe?"). No, there are no Reform Jews, there are only Reform rabbis and temple; and that is the crux of my words to you. It is, one might argue, a personal choice that one makes when he decides to abandon the traditions of Judaism (that which you call "Orthodoxy," another word I abhor). The personal decision of a Jew to cease observing the Sabbath or eating kosher foods or adhering to the rituals of the commandments, is a source of great sorrow but it is, hopefully, not a national or, certainly, not a permanent tragedy. For on the one hand, this is a personal decision that in no way directly affects other Jews and on the other hand it is a thing that is reversible, that con be changed through personal decision to return to the ways of Torah. In a word, the desecration of the Sabbath this week, by an individual, can, hopefully, be turned into observance next weak and the damage repaired. And so, until a certain point in modern Jewish history, the growth of Reform was sad but not necessarily a national tragedy. But that has changed and, today, my brother/sister, Reform poses a national threat to the Jewish people and a permanent one that opens the door to the division of the Jewish people into two nations that will not be able to marry or Join together in the special unity of Judaism or Jewishness. . .. • And that, my brother/sister, is the greatest (in and crime that a Jew can ever commit.' Of course, you would never dream of such a horror and.

of course, you are not to blame. Not you but your leaders, those who are your rabbis and lay guides — they are the ones who stand poised on the brink of national murder. And only you can stop them. For the Reform rabbinate has gone beyond the destruction those personal commandments that could be repaired by tcahuva, penitence. They have entered the Holy of Holies, the area of national life and endangered the very existence of a Jewish people that is one and indivisible. ' It began with their tampering with the laws of marriage and divorce and their opening the doors to illegitimacy and baatardry. Their decisions to marry civilly divorced Jews, previously wed but who had not obtained the halachic get (divorce) that is mandatory, opened the doors to "marriages" by women who were still married in the eyes of Judaism to their former spouses, and worse, the creation of a generation of mamzcrim, illegitimate children unable to marry other Jews. Only an incredibly brave presumption of Reform weddings as invalid because of the lack of proper witnesses, saved us from wholesale catastrophe until now, But Reform leaders continued their chipping away at the sanctuary of Jewish unity. Adopted children, children of Gentile mothers, were passed off as Jewish by the temple rabbis to well-meaning and hungry Jewish couples. And so, today, who knows how many Gentiles, adopted by Jewish parents, walk in our midst with both they and their parents, AND US, sincerely believing that they are Jewish? The Reform rabbis who — for their own psychological reasons — needed to divest themselves of Sinai, had begun the process of bringing the mountain crashing down upon you. Upon us. / And on it went, the juggernaut of national destruction. As the cancer of intermarriage — created in such great measure by tho Reform rabbis and their interfaith and melting pot crusades, spiced by the pepper of vapid and empty religious "education" conceived in Bar Mitzvah and buried in ostentatious fraud — spread, the rabbis rubbed our wound in vinegar by healing them with the bandaid of "conversion." Thanks to the emptiness of the "Judaism" they had experienced in their Reform and Conservative temples, young Jews by the hundreds of thousands threw off their albatross (as they saw it) of Judaism and happily chased Gentiles as future partners in marriage.

At first, the Jewish parents were horrified. (The irony is exquisitely heartbreaking. The same parents who had broken with traditional Judaism that, alone, might have saved their childrerujhrough Jewish knowledge and pride; the same parents who had thrust their children into the melting pot of Reform Judaism, interfaith services and the public school, now were heartbroken over the results of their folly: Their children marrying Gentiles. Did we really expect anything else ...) But as the stubborn children refused to give up their beloved Gentile, the desperate parents snatched at the last straw, the broken reed of "conversion," It mattered little to them that a "conversion" by a Gentile made merely to soothe the tired conscience of the future Jewish mother or father-in-law was a travesty. The main thing was to be able to face the neighbors, family, friends and conscience with the fait acompli of a "Jewish" son/daughter-in-law . . . And so, the Reform rabbis were faced with increasing demands for "conversion!)." Of course, many of these rabbis never insisted upon them. Many Reform rabbis were prepared to perform an intermarriage without requiring a conversion. (In the name of universal brotherhood and humanism). But others, with a modicum of Jewish conscience still clinging to them, refused that and demanded "conversion." The halachic insistence that a Gentile who sought to become Jewish must agree to abide by that Jewish halacha, woo, of course, not relevant since the rabbis themselves did not recognize the binding character of halacha. And no, the great mass conversion began, a mockery of the "convert", of the families, and, of Judaism, itself. Many tens of thousands of Gentiles now became "Jews" and the first step had been taken to that most horrifying of dangers — a split in the Jewish people. Many Jews, both Orthodox and traditional, could no longer be sure of the authenticity of the Jewishness of the young man or woman their child had mot. The first calls arose for the establishment of a sefer yuchsin, a documented genealogy that would have inscribed in it only those Jews who were clearly Jewish. The Reform rabbinate had set into motion the first step in the division of the Jewish people. And now the next step has been taken and we are but moments before the midnight of Jewish collapse. My fellow brother/sister, it is important that you know that your Reform rabbinate has now "ruled" that the child of a Gentile mother and Jewish father is Jewish, (continued on page 8)

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Robbi Kolnick, daughter A N N E STEINBERG Anne Steinberg, a native of Mr. and Mrs. Martin of Omaha, died June 12 at Kolnick and Gary Kudym, her residence, 122 South son of Mr. and Mr*. Fred Ft Kudym were married 60th Avenue. Burial took place June 13 Sunday, June 28. at Beth El Cemetery with Grandparents ot the Rabbi Paul Drazen and groom are Mr. and Mrs. Cantor Erail Berkoviu of- Fred T. Kudym of Mesa, ficiating. Ariz. • 24 Hour Answering Serves She is survived by a son, Rabbi Issac Nadoff and • Free Blood Pmuro Check < • Free Pmenpmn M v s r y Marvin, of Encino, CA; a Cantor Leo Fettman officidaughter, Phyllis Ether, of ated the S p.m. ceremony at owe* m e n mn u« Prairie Village, Kan&ot; six Beth Israel Synagogue. grandchildren; sisters, Ida A reception was held at Mon -Fn 9-7 334-734} Sat 9-3 Stein, Rose Roffman and the New Tower immediately 13072 Arbor &#t 10-2 Toby Kflgan, all of Omaha. following the ceremony. The bride graduated from Creighton University with a Your Wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzvah - the degree in social work. She is employed as director of somost important days in your life. On cial services at the Rose Video Tape they wilt last forever. Blumkin Home for the

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Judi Hoffman, daughter of Rabbi and Mr*. Sydney Hoffman of Albuquerque, N.M., and Joe Goodman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alan Goodman of Omaha w e n married June 26 at Beth El Synagogue. Officiating at the evening ceremony were Rabbi Drazen end Rabbi Hoffman. Maid of honor for the bride was her sister, Sally Hoffman of Albuquerque. Bridesmaids included Patti Goodman, sister ot the groom, Susie Zeckel of Indianapolis, Ind. and Julie BergofSkokie.nl. Best man for the groom was Mike Sterling of Dallas, Tex. Groomsmen included Daniel Hoffman of Chicago, brother of the bride, Mike Engler of St. Louis Park, Mn. and Joel Rubin ot Omaha. Following the ceremony was a dinner and dance held at the Offutt Officer'* Club. After a trip to Carme) and San Francisco the couple will make their home in Portland, Ore. where the groom U a software engineer with Tektronix.

Aged The groom is a graduate of University of Nebraska at Omaha and holds a degree in business administration. He is a management trainee for Brandei*. Matron of honor was Debbie Baack of Omaha. Bridesmaids were Kiki Settxer of Omaha and Vicki Nemzoffof New York. Best man was Stuart Kolnick of Omaha. Groomsmen were Ron S u n s h i n e of Denver, Co. and Barry Epstein of Omaha. Ushers were Don Kudym of Boston, Mass., John Vela and Mike Baumer of Omaha. After returning from a honeymoon, the couple will live in Omaha.

In honor of Ida Potash's 80th birthday, her children cordially invite family and friends to a Kfddush following services at Beth El Synagogue Saturday morning, July 2, 1983.

Beth Israel picnic Beth Israel Synagogue will hold an Independe n c e Day P i c n i c on Sunday, July 3 on the synagogue grounds. Activities art planned for the entire family including games, conteata, and Israeli music and d a n c i n g . Games are

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Inr and Zelda Stalmaster view the pUques oa U» Tree of Life daring the ROM Blomkln Jewish Rome open BOOM proffram last Sunday. They are assisted by Eugene Brandt (left) Home administrator, and Jerry Milder, president, Bureau of the Aging.

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Millie Fogel (left), assisted by Mary Wine, models the opron she made. Many of the residents' craft projects were available for sale during the program.

Anne EUis (left) and her sister, Betty Thompson, rest comfortably under a portrait of the Home's benefactor, Rose Blumkin.

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Cantor and wife lead Beth ElIsrael tour By Doris Rotin&ky Cantor and Mri. Emit Berkovits recently escorted Beth Eft annual two week tour to Israel. In all, sixteen people made the mid-April pilgrimage. The itinerary was planned by the cantor who was making hit third trip. It was the Tint tour for a majority of the group, so the traditional highlights of historical interest were planned including five days in Jerusalem. "Going to Israel is not like going to Hawaii," the cantor said. "It is not a vacation. The first thing we tell all the people going to aews Israel is that it is travel, hisThree Omaha Jewish torical site* — It is ftoul women have been appointed nearching and heart to the 1,983 United Way warming." Cantor Herkoviu and his Campaign Cabinet. They are Mrs. Jay Cherniack, wife, Lili, last visited Israel chairman of the founda- in 1978. She had lived there tions division; Sylvia as a young child for nine Wagner, chairman of the yeor« hefore moving to government division and Canada. Her father Mill Mary Schimmet Bernstein, lives in Israel as do the canchairman of the individual tor'» parents and tome of his cousin* whose husbands gifts division. This year's United Way were currently serving in of the Midlands will offi- Lebanon. Seeing many of the tame cially kick-off on Sept. 16 and will run through the end sites and areas they had visof the first week of No- ited in 197H, they talked vember. Proceeds from this about the changes. "I was very surprised campaign will provide a network of human service* for when we visited the (Jolan," the people of the metropol- Mrs. Bcrkovits said. "It i* all green. In 1978 it was all itan area. The Epstein-Morgan POM 260 of the Jewish War Veteran* of Omaha has awarded «ix $200 scholar' ships to graduating high school seniors. Begun in 1969, the Post haa given out 144 scholarships totalling $28,800. Recipients of the 1983 scholarships include: Patricia Bumes and Andrea Kaplan (Central); Sheila Strong (North); Lori Kellogg (South); Sharon Radcliff (Tech); Ryan Mann (Thomas Jefferson).

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charred and burned and the bunkers, you could spot them. I didn't recognize it now. Our bus driver lives in a beautiful new settlement there. He was in the unit that defended the Golan. He has a little boy, and he named his son Golan." Wherever they went, they found the people they talked to happy and warm and never a complaint. One taxi driver'* remark* were typical. Mm. Berkovits, who speak* Hebrew fluently, talked to him one night and found him "so pro-Begin. He thought the war in Lebanon was the best thing they could have done. Whatever Sharon and Begin decide they will go along with it. And he was of army age." One memorable side tour happened unexpectedly. Their guide in Neiareth (suggested taking them to a small local holocaust museum, similar to the larger Yad va-Shcm but more personalized and net on the regular tourist's lint "It is run by the local people there, who are holocaust survivors," the cantor said. "It was very emotiQnal. Our guide wa» a survivor. They have picture* and memento* and original book* from the camps. It is not on commercialized as the other one is. Everything i* in Hebrew."

Tour participant* were: front row, from left Cantor Berkovits, Ix LewU, Vcra LcwU (Beth tarael) Grace Lebowkb, ROM Perenxtein, Sara Dansky. Back row: Art Adler, Ben Lebowlcb, 8l» Adler, Gerald Meyer, Gary Gerclick. Lill Berkovits, Ann Wolfcon, ily and Sylvia decker (of Akron, Ohio) Bill Wolfson.

"They neolited that the leaving every morning. kibbutz was outgrowing it* Nothing is wasted. They reu«cfulne*s in growing, let* cycle everything." •ay, oranges" the cantor "And their wheat is not a «aid. "They don't export or- fine wheat, it's more angrs anymore. They grow 'coarse." Mr«. Berkovits them only for local use. wiid. "So they export their Mr*. Berkoviu lived on a They found it doesn't pay wheat to Italy to mix with kibbutz when she waft when Morocco can do it the fine wheat which make* young. One of the biggwt cheaper." a better pruta." change* she and the cantor It was springtime in Israel Mrs. Berkovits added, found wa» how much more and they found the countryaffluent they are now with "So they found something tide and field* very beauchange* in what they pro- el*e. Instead of orange* they tiful, full of yellow, purple duce and their entrance into now grow avocodoes for ex- and red flower*. "Going the computer age. It ii (till port to the European rnar- back to the time Lilt lived very hard work, but now keta. They can export them there," the cantor said, "1 they enjoy television, fami- to Europe cheaper than the would say 95 percent of it lies own one or more cars United States can." was wilderness. There were and each kibbutz member "Businesswisc, they do small settlements then. gets a holiday in Europe very well," the cantor said. Now you see to much less every year. There are no "For instance, they export shortages of food or necess- tulips to Holland on a daily wilderness. For instance, the area around Jerusalem. ities. basis with fresh tulips Suddenly, n few years later, that city baa expanded all around with huge apartJ.F. BLOOM & COMPANY ment buildings built on top 4431 N. 208) 2701 N. «0tt of nothing but rocks, miles 4S1-C0OO 3334K2 and miles of them." Omtlij. Netmia "This time when we drove Ovw 10O yean eipcrenco out toward Jerusalem," ., y*4fi JtwfJt memorial and ,"X Hebrew lettering Mrs. Berkoviti said, "on every mountain was a settlement or a city where Builders of there was nothing. They Fine Memorials

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had Mid nothing could grow there." The tour did not include any village on the West Bank "because at this time they ere not happy with the situation," the Cantor said. "Our 'guide suggested we could go, but it would be better if we didn't. We did visit the A tab markets in Bethlehem, but there they want your dollars, and they expect tourist*. One fellow there wanted to buy my belt and my hat. I was offered up to $45, but I couldn't part with them." "Also, in 1978, you could see a distinct difference between the West Bank and the lerocli side," Mrs. Berkoviu said. "One side was green, the other was dry. You don't see that anymore. The Arabs have learned from the luraclies, and their side of the road is green. And you see truckloads, one after the other, going from the West Bank to the Jordan side to sell the Arabs their produce." The only thing that they both agreed had not improved in Israel wns the telephone service. "It just doesn't have any priority yet," the cantor said.

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Stiss, Heffner wed Rebecca Paye S t i s s , daughter of Sol B. and Therese Stisa of Miami, FL and Adam Gordon Heffner, son of Hy an.d A l i c e Stolman of Hollywood, FL were married May 29 at Temple Zion Synagogue in Miami. Surah Sties, sitter of the bride was maid of honor. Matron of honor was Jann Ernest. Bridesmaids were Abby Brown, sister of the MiM Cutler and groom, Betsy Stiss, SteMr. Barocaa WINTROtJB/RUSKIN phanie Hefflier mid Lori PeMr. and Mrs. Richard trosnntra. CUTLER/BAROCA8 Mr, and Mrs. Edward Cu- Wintrouh announce the enAndrew Heffner, brother ller announce the engage- gagement of their daughter, of the groom, was best man ment and forthcoming marLori Ellen, to Sheldon and Borry Brown, Steven riage of their daughter, Ku&kin, ton of Mr. and Mrs. Ncckman, Richard PeHelenc Kuth, to Jon Jay Samuel lluskiti of Lao Harocat, ion of Mr. and Vegas. Mrs. David Barociu. The wedding will !>e held The wedding is planned at Temple Beth Israel in for July 31 ot Temple San Diego on Aug. 21. Kmnnuelin Denver. Ms. Wintroub is a liM*. Cutler, a Denver na- censed clinical social worker tive, graduated from the with a master's degree in soBy Morris Malinc University of Colorado with cial work. She in currently A lampoon of the Jewish a U.S. in mining. She In the practicing in San Diego. Press hit the mails last granddaughter of Mm. Mr. Wintroub i» an agent Sarah 1-oup and the late for the All State Insurance weekend and caused a flurry of excitement in certain (segHnrry Kippcn of Denver Company in San Diego, ments of the Jewish comand of Mr. and Mm. Louis The parent* of the bridemunity of Omaha. Cutler of Omaha, to-be are former Omnhona Called T h e J e w i s h Mr. Bdrocan graduated now residing in Pittsburgh. S u p P R E S S , the sevenpage mimeo took on politicians, member* of the clergy, Federation leadergiven a little farewell. EDIAR ship and agencies, and orBy Su»le Kirsbenbaum MZ YOSIIANA ganizations. On May 22 Ediar BBC. By Melissa Epstein Although the publisher #710 held election* of new M.7.. has l>cen busy! busy! was not identified, some officers. The new officers busy! mi|x.'r-«leuthing by the originclude president, Dana First, flections were held. inal J e w i s h P r e s s ultiNojfg; vice p r e s i d e n t , The new Ixmrtl is: n'siah, mately brought forth an adWendy Novicoff; secretary. Wendy R'wnhlntl; s'ganit, mission of authorship. Susie Kirnhenluium; treasHeidi Meyerison; mozkirahs, urer, Debbie Fcllmnn: mil The search for the writers moms. Barb KainUh. Bnrb recording — Danielle Ep- was not too difficult since a stein, corresponding — Shkolnick. and Jill Plait; clue wrw published in the Susan Tucker; gizbarit, itcrapbook editor, Marci 'newspaper'. Julie Wax; editor/historian,' Watt; and mndrachn, Susie There was a headline Fellmmi. The new'officer* Melissa Epstein; mit moms, "M.D. Chnwrd" with the folAndrea J o f f e , Ll»n of I'Minr were installed on (lordman, Debbie Cohn; lowing copy: •fun? 0 at (he horn? of Darta "It wits learned by the rnadr.'ichii, Cindy Lchr, Nogg. We wiy tlinnk you t« Jewish SUPPRESS timt» Wendy Rosenblatt. Mm. Nogg for her hospiprominent local gynecolotality! Congratulations to nil of gist wad run out of town reOn Mny '2»th the BBC. them. cently. His name has been M.Z.'s Beou Dance wns ch/ipton held their annual withheld pending notificaHeou Dnrire. The dnnre was nl.HO held. Congratulations tion of his patients." to Lynn I'olonski, M.Z.V a real RUCCCHK. ('oiigrrttulrtA call to the residence of lion* to our new Beau, new Ucau. Dr. Alnn Jacobs wns nnBrian YtttiipoUky! I'Innh fur the new rusher* j>we reel by bis wife, Pam. Coming up MHUI is n Hush Itnve already begun. June 27 She admitted to some of party for all incoming is the Parent Rimhee the effort, but gave most of freshmen. The Hunh will l>e meeting at 7:30 at the JCC. the credit to her husband. held on July 1) with Edinr The first rush party hns The Jacobs' left Omaha and AZA | l « 0 member*; On been scheduled for July 7. shortly thereafter to take up J u l y 10th a M o t h e r / Dinner's at (i and then to residence in St. I/>uis where Daughter brunch will be The Dreamy High Slides. Dr. Jacobs will hove a facheld and Kdinr's only I-ookinc forward to peeing ulty position at Washington senior, !/>ri Blntt, will be you there. University's medical school. Before leaving, however, Dr. Jacobs told the Jewish Press that ho had experience in satirical writing in from Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the owner/ operator of Colfax Music Center in Denver and coaches the East-Manual lacrosse team. He it the grandson of Mrs. Esther Barocas and the late Halph David Barocas of Brooklyn and of the Inte Mr. and Mrs. Max Fleishman.

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By Julie Weiner recording secretary. It looks like Kadimah Several awards were reNCSY is back in the news ceived by Kadimah memagain. Since we haven't bers: Tracy Bernstein and been "around" for awhile, Charlotte Ross for Meritolet me tell you what we're all rious Service; Julie Weiner about. for Leadership; Karen Wax NCSY stands for Na- received a number of tional Conference of Syn- awards, Torah Dedication, a agogue Youth. Our home- National Torah Fund base in town is Beth Israel Scholarship, and the, Synagogue. Our chapter Wendy Weiner, and Dave board consists of: president, Salier were nominated for Karen Was; vice president membership in the Reuven of organization, Laura Fishrnnn Honor Society. Lashinsky; vice president of Last year's nominee*, Harry programming, Julie Weiner; Herman, Mark Marshall, secretary, Charlotte Ross; and Brent Wine were intreasurer, Jason Franklin; ducted into the society. financial secretary, Gwen And last but not least, Obertnan. Wendy Weiner received one Kadimah just attended of the highest honors of the Regional Summer Conven- evening, Midwest Region's tion at Camp Moshavn in NCSYer of the Year. She Wildrose, Wise., from June also received, at the Na16-20. Kadimah had the op- tional Convention, a $5,000 portunity of hosting it. scholarship to Touro ColSummer Convention was lege in New York City. fabulous! We have several events We also had Regional coming up this summer, so Elections, and two members watch your mail. of Omaha Kadimah were * * * elected to the board, Tracy Prof. Leo Sachs, reBernstein was elected as vice president of organiza- nowned Weizmann Instition, and Julie Weiner was tute cancer researcher, said elected as the new regional upon returning from China several months ago, that the young biologists he lectured to there "remind me of the pioneers I met when I first came to Israel in t h e 1950V The Jewish Press will • • • publish froaedJ for Ngh People can find out in school andcoSege studGttts looking (or sunv three minutes flat if they mer employment and for have mercury poisoning — employers who have which can lead to blindness, retardation, even death — when their doctors use a new testing kit developed at Israel'* noted Weizmann Institute of Science.

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Editor's note: Jannn Sbwartsrnan arrived in Omaha in 1970 after leaving the Soviet Union with her parents, Rosa and Boris. She now is a eopboroore at Notre Dame and has undertaken a summer project to brlsg Jetvtth Press readers up to date with those Russian Jews who have settled in Omaha la the past several years. When my family came to Omaha in October of 1979, we met a young couple who was also from Russia. Lev and Nora Shekhtman settled in Omaha in April of that year. They liked Omaha but they missed their relatives who stayed in Russia. Nora was especially sad because her parents' remained in Odessa. Besides having problems adjusting to their new home, they had problems with the employment. Since neither Lev nor Nora knew any English when they- came to Omaha, they encountered many problems trying to find a job. Nora, a well-experienced bookkeeper, had to accept a job at Food City Bakery as a baker because nobody would hire a person with the language problem. Lev was a little bit luckier. His first job was in a field of his speciality. He was hired by All Makes Equipment Co. as a typewriter mechanic. However, Lev also had problems working there mainly because of the language barrier. Lev and Nora realized that the language was their major problem. They also realized that something needed to be done. The couple decided to take tome English classes at UNO. Attending UNO certainly helped: their language improved fast. Since the couple was not satisfied with their jobs, they decided to seek better ones. After a while Lev was able to find a better job at Business Product System Center as a (elected typewriter mechanic. Nora, on the other hand, who still had some problems with the language, had a hard time trying to find a better one. Nobody was willing to give her a chance being afraid that she would not understand people. However, Manny Goldberg, the owner of Keystone Medicine Chest, was willing to give her a chance and hired her aa a bookkeeper, even though she still had some problems with the language. Sha was very grateful for being given that chance and proved to be capable of doing the job. She has been working there for 2V4 year*. The couple's only child Vlad, 9, is a fifth grader at Adam* Public School He is an outstanding student. When Vlad is not at school, be enjoys riding the bicycle, attends the karate school and reads quite a lot. Many people supported the Shckhtroans throughout the hard times, among them Joyce and Sheldon Cohen. In 1979 the Cohens volunteered to take care of the newly arrived couple, and they have been friends ever since. The Cohens always helped and always had a good advice for Nora and Lev. This year the two couples celebrated the fourth anniversary of their meeting. Even though the family experienced sotno rather bard times, they never despaired and always remained optimistic. Their optimism was rewarded. Lev and Nora are employed and enjoy their jobs. They have many friends, and they are well adjusted now. They feel secure. As a matter of fact, Nora is expecting a baby. Vlad hopes he will soon have a baby sister. But whoever it is, I am sure it will IK a welcome new addition!

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