December 2, 1983

SERVING NEBRASKA, IOWA Vol. LXII No. 14

Omaha, Neb., Frf., December 2,1983

Trachtenbarg named Foundation chairman

1984 Chart of Local Services Budget

Mort Trachtenbarg was named as the Trustees of the Federation Foundation. "I first chairman of the newly formed Jewish recognize," he stated "that the bulk of the Federation Foun' work of the Foundation will be done by the dation by Paul working committees and I seek the input of Cohen, President the general community in filling these vital of the Jewish Fedroles. I would ask members of the commueration. nity to recommend to myself or Paul Cohen the names of qualified persons for the FounIn announcing dation's Committees." the appointment The committees of the Foundation will Cohen stated "I beconsist of an in vestment-committee which lieve Mort Trnchshould be composed of individuals skilled in tenbsrg has fund management, a professional advisory exceptional qualificommittee composed of skilled attorneys, cation* for this accountants, financial consultant* and inleaderahip position. surance specialists and a solicitation comHe has been a dedmittee composed of Individuals who can icated and commitsecure gifts and bequests. ted leader in the "I look forward to the challenge of setting Federation and in Mort Trachtenbarg ita agencies for many yean and brings a up our Federation's Foundation and am deep understanding of the purpose, scope privileged to have been asked to serve as ita first chairman", said Mr. Trachtenbarg. and needs of the, service* we provide. Mr. Trachtenbarg Indicated that his first "The future of the Jewish institutions of our task will be to assist the President in the community will be insured by the success •election of the 12 members of the Board of of the Foundation."

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approve Federation By Morrla Maline A $2,051,217 budget for 1984 has been approved by the Board of Directors of the JewJerl aad Mickey Kaplan, recipient* of the Iarael Bonda City of Peace Award, ish Federation of Omaha. are introduced by Harold Epstein, co-chairman. See editorial on page 4. Main components of the budget are $1,103,717 for local services and $877,450 for the United Jowiah Appeal, National and Overseas. Capital repairs and an allowance for Campaign shrinkage make up the balance. In presenting the budget to the November By Morris Maline Harold Epstein and Morton Glass served meeting of the Federation's Board of Di> Jews no longer can look to the Holocaust as co-chairmen of the Dinner and Mr. Ep- rectors, Don Greenberg, chairman, Budget for protection against anti-Sernitiim, Dr. stein presented the City of Peace Award to and Allocations Committee, said the William Korey told Omahans recently. the Kaplans. amount allocated is S286 lesa than the an: Or. Korey, director of B'rtai B'rith InterAlso receiving awards for their effort* in ticipated availability of funds and reprenational Council, spoke to more than 200 behalf of Israel were. Edward Belgrade, sents a balanced budget at the State of Israel Bonds Tribute Dinner Mnxine Kirshenbaum and Carol Goldberg. The total 1984 allocation is $163,998 more honoring Jeri and Mickey Kaplan. / Sales of nearly f 1.6 million were reported during the evening, including a million dollar note purchased by Omaha National

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than the amount budgeted for 1983. The budget breakdown of allocations for 1084 is as follows: Jewish Press, $46,016; Library, $82,958; Federation operations, $266,263-, Vaad, $9,171; Jewish Community Center, $256,870. Also, Bureau for Aging-Home, $121,760; Community Relations Committee, $79,642; Bureau of Jewish Education, $158,730; Jewish Family Service, $92,318. Non-local allocations include: United Jewish Appeal, $861,600; National & Overseas, $15,950. The revenue sources for 1984 include $1,724,477 from the Federation Campaign and the balance from investment and endowment income.

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Dr. Korey attributed the worldwide outbunt of anti-Semitism to the United Nations organization. "When the U.N. voted that Zloniem equals racism, they acted to deligitirnize the State of Israel," he eaid. Dr. Korey said that the nightmare vision of totalitarianism described by George Orwell has literally como true in the U.N. No less than 46 of the 68 sessions conducted by the U.N. were devoted to the condemnation of Iarael. All of tbeso.action*, Dr. Korey said, legitimized anti-Semitism. He pointed to the extect of thin anti-Semitic activity by disclosing that one of the documents found on Grenada refers to the expulsion of Zionism from the island — an Island, he Mid, where no Jews reside.

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Lyra Ann Monaaee

Suzie Singer

Bev Seldin

Women's Campaign to try new approaches By Leslie Wolfson Federation Staff Associate The 1984 Women's Campaign has de-

cided to try a new approach this year. They have scheduled two events in early December, a departure from the usual progression.

The first, the Chai/Grand Gift event for those women giving $1200 or above will be (continued on page 3)

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Israeli press By Gil Sedan American Jewry. The study was commisJERUSALEM (JTA) The Israeli press covers the sioned by the Institute on U.S. Jewish community American - Jewish - Israeli only superficially, according Relations of the American to Judith Eliiur of the He- Jewish C o m m i t t e e . It brew University Institute of counted the number of items on American Jewry Communications. Elizur recently completed appearing in the first weeks a study of coverage of the of January, April, July and U.S. Jewish scene by four October, 1082. leading Hebrew dailies and Of the Hebrew dailies, Yethe Israeli electronic media. diot Aharonot was first with She said that aa a result of 35 items mentioning Amerthe superficial coverage Is- ican Jewry, compared to 26 raeli leaders have little idea in Maariv, II in Haaretz and how their decisions affect only three in Davar. Most

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Next Year in Jerusalem!

The congregation quits the syngagoue. Outside — a grey, George Schaplro of Omaha recently provided the , rainy autumn day, the skies sheathed in lead. The streets Jewish Pret>» with a copy o f a letter he received from fill with crowds of subdued, humiliated Jewa. A silence that a cousin in Jerusalem. The letter was written by Dr. is punctuated by the creaking of doors, as the shops are Melr Shapiro upon being honored by the city of Jer- opened, and by the clatter of Cossacks' horses a* they patrol the city. usalem. The desecration of Yom Kippur, our holiest day. The day passed, the shops cloaed and the congregation Your E x c e l l e n c y t h e P r e s i d e n t , t h e Honorable Mayor of Jerusalem, distinguished guests, returned to the synagogue for the Ne-ilah ("Closing") I am grateful to the Mayor, Mr. Teddy Kollek, for the prayer. 1, too, returned. I returned from the cold and the honor conferred on me of addressing this audience on behalf dark of the streets to the light and warmth of the synagogue, of my colleagues and myself. Instead of a traditional address from the alien outside to my house of prayer. I would like, with your permission, to tell you of an event That Ne'ilah service is engraved in my memory. I have in my childhood which has a bearing on the present oc- never again experienced a prayer like that. Its emotional intensity rose, now and again, to ecstatic heights and the casion. I was not born in Jerusalem. Nor was I even raised in it. ecstasy readied its zenith with the final proclamation of I was 36 years old when I made my home in Jerusalem. Yet the "Next Year in Jerusalem"! It was not a proclamation. I considered myself a Jerusalemite from my early childhood. It was an outcry. It has rung in my ears these many years 1 was bom in Russia, in the Pale of Settlement, that is and, with the passing of the years, I have learned to define the area to which Jew* were restricted by the anti-Semitic ilIl was not an outcry of humiliation. On the contrary, it Czariat regime. The first World War broke out when I was six year* old. A garrison of Cossacks was stationed in our was an outcry of release from the humiliation of that day, city which was not far from the Austrian front. The Cos- an expression of rebellion against a cruel, alien world. sacks were the infamous cavalry troops of the Russian army. "Next Year in Jerusalem!" — an expression of the unThey were known for their atrocities Against Jewa, partic- shaken faith that the day of redemption would come. What ularly for the outrageous Chmielnicky massacres of the have we to do with the Cossacks? What have we to do with Jewish population of the Ukraine in the middle of the 17th a foreign, oppressive ruler? What have vie to do with a battle of Gog and Magog? These are not our concern. We belong century. The war broke out in August, just before the Days of to Jerusalem. In spirit we are already in Jerusalem. In body — next year. With Jerusalem we are strong. We shall not Awe. In our city, with a predominantly Jewish population, be overcome. all business, as a matter of course, came to a halt during these days of penitence. This association between Jerusalem and that crucial Apparently, the commander of the garrison had never event has been with me since my early childhood. I believe before found himself in a heavily Jewish-populated city. He' that ever since then I have been a Jerusalcmite. was astounded by the sudden cessation of commercial acThis is the story of my bond to Jerusalem. I am certain tivity and displeased by the fact that the Jews were allowing that each one, of my colleagues at this ceremony has hU themselves to order the city's life. The New Year passed own story of a unique bond to this city. without mishap, but on the Dsy of Atonement he issued In their name, and my own, I should like to expresa our an edict ordering the city to resume its "normal" state of gratitude and esteem to the Mayor and the City Council affairs. This is what I assume, retrospectively, by the events for having conferred upon us the title of "Yakir Yerushalayim" (Beloved of Jerusalem). For me this title has more that took place on Yom Kippur. What happened on that day was etched in my memory: significance than any title ever bestowed upon me. I was sitting in the synagogue next to my father, may he Melr Sbapira rest in peace, when suddenly the service was interrupted. Someone, standing on the podium In the midst of the hushed congregation, announced in a choked voice that the authorities had ordered the Jews to reopen all the stores and workshops in the city; the Rabbis had bowed to the decree and granted permission to the community to comply with i t It is not difficult to imagine the agony that gripped the congregation — pious Jews of Eastern Europe at the beginning of the century — who were being commanded to violate the sanctity of Yom Kippur. This U the agony that, looking back over the years, I recreated in my imagination. And this is what I remember

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Women's Campaign plans events • (continued bom page 1) on Dec, 6. The affair will be a luncheon at the Joslyn Art Museum. Chairing thU event a n Frances Batt and Lyra Ann Monasee. The event U entitled, "A New View of the Jotlyn", and will include, in addition to the luncheon, en exclusive tour of the museum by Jotlyn'i Curator of European Art, Hollister Sturgea. The tour will highlight those exhibits which hove Jewish content, Mr». Batt »ayi, "Thi» event will be a unique experience and will give us an opportunity to view JewUh art from a new perspective." Mia. Monaaee adds, "Every detail for the Joalyn affair was personally seen to by us. 1 know it will be wonderful." Only two daya after the Chai/Grand Gift event will be a Snowbird function on Dec. 8. The Snowbird category U comprised of those women who fly to Arizona, Florida and other warm climates for the winter. The Snowbird event Is a unique concept, developed by Women's Division Chairman Mar-

cia Cohen and her associate chairmen, Joannie Lehr and Nancy Noddle. Snowbird women have never before had an event of their own. ' Chairing the Snowbird committee is Bev Seldin, with Suzie Singer at her associate chairman. "I think it is a great idea to have an event especially for these women," said Ms. 8eldin. "Previously, Snowbirds have been overlooked because they weren't in Omaha during Campaign time." Mra. Singer added, "It is wrong to overlook these women because they are just as important to the campaign as anyone elte." The Snowbird event will be a luncheon at the home of Mrs. Lehr. Welly Provost, World-Herald columnist, and recipient of the Federation Humanitarian award, will speak. Mr. Provost has toured many times in the Soviet Union. If you are a Snowbird who has not received an invitation, please contact Mr. Seldin or Mrs. Singer.

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Sunshine Day C a m p . . . Editor's Note: Rath Wright Woodland, a teacher at Loveland elementary school, recalls the sights) and sounds of her younger daya a s a counselor at Sunshine Day Camp by reporting on a recent visit to the old campsite. By Ruth Wright Woodland YESTERDAY: 166th Street, a gravel country road traveled by farm vehicles and a yellow school bus packed now with excited, singing children. Bumping their way through a brightly painted gate welcoming them to Sunshine Day Camp, they head up the rutted road to a chorus of "We're Here Becauie We're Here". TODAY: A paved street on the ouukirts of Millard, a housing development, a local school, and a faded yellow gate cleverly hidden by ten years of weather and weeds. The rutted road has become a narrow path. Could this be Memory Lane? YESTERDAY: Children scramble out of the bua. Counselors, looking cheerfully energetic, herd the mob to the flagpole. Standing in a restless circle, they endure the sweet tones of Uncle Chuck who leads the singing: Announcements! Announcements! Anow-ounce-mcntu! What a horrible wny to die! What a horrible way to die! What a horrible wny to talk to death! What a horrible way to die! Announcements! Announcements! Anow-ounce-menta! "Today is "SMILE DAY". Let's begin. TODAY: The path wandere onto the site of the old stable before it ceases to be. A breeze rustles the expanse of drying grasses. Familiar trees mark the way through an area that has returned to nature so completely that it seems almost unrecognizeable. A tripod of tall weathered logs marks tlie entrance to the Sunshine Corral. The walls of the tack house, once barn red, now faded, lie in a heap nearly hidden from view by the prairie's return. Nearby are the remnants of a sign listing "Horse Sense Rules".

Voices of children, now grown, seem to tease in the wind. YESTERDAY: The day grow* hotter. The sun's rays are reflected from the sand around "the lake." Campers are boating, swimming in the pool, creating and chaosing in the art tent, trotting their horses around the ring and down the road, practicing skits, chasing butterflies, playing games on mowed meadows, hiking, planning and preparing projects with their counselors (now beginning to look somewhat worn), and generally having their quota of summer fun. The lunch tent provides needed shade. Children gulp their "bug juice" and devour their lunches as Uncle Chuck prepares to measure the biggest SMILES in camp. TODAY: No lunch tent, no swimming pool, not even a lake. Where there was sand, thistles are growing, where then was lake water, milkweed has appeared. Young trees have moved in, there are remnants of cat tails, and a scar on the hillside where a stairway had been. YESTERDAY: Sunburned campers climb back on the bus, toting art projects and other souvenirs of the day. Uncle Chuck hollers good bye and reminds them all that tomorrow is a "special day." Every day is special at Sunshine Day Camp. Kids cheer, counselors smile wearily, and the bus departs to strains of "Gee Mom." They soy that Uncle Chuck is mighty mighty fine. He looks like a gorilla and acts like Frankenstein*. Oh, I don't want no more of Sunshine Camp! Gee, Mom, I wanna go But they won't let me go Gee, Mom, I wanna go home! TODAY: Autumn breezes, autumn colors, Indian summer at Sunshine Day Camp. Where there was once an active* children's center there Unow & quiet place of tall tree*, undisturbed grasses, and a hilltop view of blue skies over suburban Omaha. Nature has taken back her own. *;

Israel'* Medal of Valor was awarded to all participants in the world Assembly to commemorate Jewish resistance and combat daring World War II. Shown above on the left if the logo of (he World Assembly represented by (wo Jewish soldier*. On (he right are (he emblem of (he state of Israel, the menorab, and Israel's 35th anniversary logo representing the thetno of the Year of Jewish Heroism and Valor. The World Assembly la (he culminating event of the Year of Jewish Heroism and Valor. Also appearing with (he (wo governmental logon are the Initials of tbo Hebrew word, "halcv," which means heart. The Initials stand for the words "fighting and resisting the Nazis." Visit planned PARIS (JTA) - Former President Valery Giscard D'Estaing will visit Israel, it was announced. Giscard, who had declined to visit Israel during his seven year incumbency is due in Jerusalem Dec. 28, accompanied by his wife, for a 10-day visit Land* bishops HOUSTON, Tex. (JTA) —The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has been honored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the association of Reform synagogues, for "normal leadership in rousing the conscience of Amertea to the menace of the nuclear arms race."

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HAIFA — Many Israelis take astrology seriously, and bornness. .On a global basis, Israel's expatriate Uri Geller also had the forecasts for the future based on horoscopes are often factor* to be considered when business or personal affairs some predictions for the year 1883. He foresaw Reagan's are being planned. A review of the forecasts in recent years withdrawing from the Presidency because of illness before shows a fair degree of successful prediction*, including a the end of 1983, with Vice President Bush succeeding him. couple of bulls eyes. At the end of December, 1982, the Ayatollah Khomeini would die before the end of the year, aatrologiiU studied their graphs, charted the heavenly and in November a devastating earthquake would destroy movement* of the planets, and pinpointed the zodiac signs parts of southern California. of public personalities. They then went on public record If the "experts" can get away with these predictions, why with their predictions for the year 1983. can't I try my own hand, and wftbout reference to Mars, We never accept blindly their own reports of success. A Jupiter, Venus or Uranus. Personally, I am a Taurus. Oracle Alpert proclaims that in 1984 there will be a viyear ago we carefully snipped from the papers the various prophecies and now that 1883 reaches its close we compare olent confrontation between secularists and religious extremists in Israel; economic conditions will improve, despite the prognostications with what actually happened. It has been a catastrophic year for the soothsayers. Here! a wave of strikes called by the Histadrut against the govLipthiu, the most distinguished forecaster of them all, ernment; a major technological breakthrough by Israeli scimanaged to produce a mixed record. Last year he foresaw entists will make headlines everywhere; t h e n will be a the war in Lebanon and told us that the Reagan Plan was marked upturn in immigration to Israel from the free West; not worth the paper it was written on. To be sure he also no Israeli will win a Nobel Prize this year; Yitzhak Navon predicted the assassinstion of Hussein, with Arafat's taking will not take over the leadership of the Labor Party, comover Jordan. All that was in 1982. What did be foresee for mercial television will be on the verge of making its debut here. 1983? Just check me next year! Contrary to general expectations, he said, this would be a good year for Israel's economy. Despite inflation, good tiroes would continue. As we now know, be could not have been more wrong. Lipshitz also saw national elections being held in 1983, with the Likud emerging as winner. This year would see the political collapse of Shimon Peres. Well, there were no national elections. Dan Talmor, another popular crystal gazer, also found elections in the stars this year. He and LipsbiU apparently looked at the same stars. Talmor warned that war would break out in the north in September or October. As for Menachem Begin, he would get through 1983 without any problems, but after March of 1934 his health would begin to deteriorate and he would resign from the premiership. Reality came quicker than Talmor had anticipated. Still in the political field, be saw Yitzhak Rabin ousting Peres from leadership of the Labor Party, but then falling victim to health problems himself, with YiUhak Navon taking over the leadership. Danny Harmon erred in his predictions on Begin in the other direction. He declared that Begin's health would cause him to resign in March of this year. This was to be followed by national elections in May or June. Ariel Sharon's popularity would increase enormously. Economic conditions would get even better during the summer. If the BJtrologiita invested in the Tel Aviv stock exchange on the basis of their own predictions they must all be broke by now. Yehudit Gabai expected open conflict between Egypt and Israel this year, based on Mubarak's extremism and stub-

His own drummer B y M. J . Rosenberg Near East Report "It may not be unprecedented, but it is certainly weird," was the way one observer of the Reagan Administration's Israel policy put it. He was referring to the clear split between Secretary of State George Shulu and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger over the issue of strategic cooperation with Israel. "It was one thing when it was just an internal Cabinet battle between Shulu, Weinberger and their Departments. But now the President has spoken — on Shulu'* side — and Weinberger is still fighting."

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of strategic cooperation on common military and political goals." Smith quotes a senior aide to Prime Minister Shamir who says that this "is one of those moments when Washington and Jerusalem see eye to eye on a whole range of questions.'' Well, not quite. The President may be pushing enhanced relations with Israel but his Secretary of Defense most certainly is not Last Friday, Weinberger pooh-poohed the whole idea of strategic cooperation when he said that reports on a new agreement with Israel "puzzle m e . . . We've had strategic cooperation with Israel" since 1948. He foreWeinberger's determination to obstruct the emerging sees "no change" In that relationship. policy of strategic cooperation with Israel is no subterraWeinberger appears not to understand what the whole nean struggle visible only to Washington insiders. It is rather a battle being fought in newspaper columns and on concept of strategic cooperation is alt about It is not merely television interview shows. Weinberger is at odds with the a continuation of US. military aid to Israel. It involves the. President over this issue and is doing nothing to camouflage coordination of policy, of intelligence gathering, of common military exercises — and actual actions, if necessary, to it. deter aggression by America's and Israel's common eneOn Saturday, Oct. 29, President Reagan approved a new mies. Strategic cooperation will benefit both nations which Notional Security Directive which calls for closer strategic is why the President and other key Administration figures cooperation with Israel in Lebanon and throughout the are pushing it. Weinberger's view is. at variance with the Middle Bast The recent visit to Israel of Undersecretary facts. It is as if he has never sat in on a meeting — or read of State for Political Affairs Lawrence Bagleburger was de- a memo — in which two-way strategic cooperation was dissigned, in part, to flesh out the emerging Reagan policy. -•- cussed. "• Press reports indicate that U.8. and Israeli views are — But this not the only area in which the Secretary of in the words of N e w York Times correspondent Terrenes Defense chooses to stand outside the Administration's conSmith — "more in concert than they have been in a year • sensus on a key issue. On a related matter — the U.S. and a half, and diplomats of both countries are talking again response to Syrian aggression — the Weinberger view appears far from those of his Reagan Administration colleagues. On Sunday) Nov. 14, President Reagan's national security advisor, Robert C. McParlane, warned Damascus that the VS. will respond if Syrian gunners continued shooting at VS. aircraft over Lebanon. "The United States has made dear recently in other contexts . . . that we take very as/nously threats to American lives," McParlane said. He ' added that Syria should take a "sober view" of America's commitment to Lebanon. But, even on this matter, Weinberger chose a different approach. He said that Syrian attacks on U.S. planes are not "unusual or surprising." According to the Washington Post, he also "played down any idea of any imminent retaliation" against those responsible for the attack on the Marine headquarters in Beirut This was just additional evidence that when it comes to the Middle East, the Secretary of Defense is marching to the beat of his own drummer.

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Book explores major period in recent Jewish history Redemption of the Unwanted From the Liberation Of the Death Camps To the Founding of Israel Dy Afaram L. Sschar (St. Martin's Marok, N.Y., 3 3 4 pagcf, $10.05) Reviewed B y Alfred Fleishman Afaram Leon Sachar haa written a new book. In the opinion of thli reviewer, this could very well be hU most important. It brings Jewish history "up to date" and it carries each reader through o vivid, accurate history of our time* . . . times which some of us have lived at first hand. Abe Sachar writes clearly, in depth . . . and interestingly. These are important to the reading of history. His History of the Jewt, now in i u 38th printing since its first edition in 1938, is still a landmark in the annals of Jewish life. While Dr. Sachar's History of the Jew should be in every home and library, his new Redemption of the Unwonted is an imperative companion. Both are necessary to understand whnt has preceded us . . . why we are what we are today . . . and why Iarael is what it is today. If Israel and the Jewish people are a "bone in the throat of the world," Dr. Sachar's book help* to explain why. Zalmon Grinbcrg net the Rlago for us when he talked to our group in November 1945, in Munich: "A few hundred thousands of us remain who experienced the hell of the Nazi concentration camps. We have lost loved ones, health, home* and wealth. We eipccud positive action condemning the murder of our people, yet nothing has happened. "Month* after our liberation, we are still living in camps, in a political vacuum. We have become objects of study. Commissions are to decide what to to happen to us. "We are stateless and, homeless. That which the crematoria of Europe could

not swallow, has become stuck in the throat of international politics. "This is the balance sheet of European Jewry. We are neither Poles nor Lithuanians nor Latvians. We are Jews, descendants of those who 2,000 years ago were driven out of their country, the country of their fathers, ErcU Israel, and who now want to return there. "And this seems to many leading statesmen of great and mighty empires illogical and questionable. And those circles seem to believe that it is right for us to again contribute our share to the reconstruction of Europe. We are t o build Europe anew, so that Europe after a while can build new crematoria for us. NO! "Give us, at last, a small place under God's sun. This place can only be in the land from which we began our long suffering exile. Enroll ua in the family of nations." The words now ring out and become alive through every page of Redemption of the Unwanted by Abram Leon Sachar. The new book helps to explain aome of the present day psyche of the Jewish people and of Israel. Hopes, goals, aims, ambitions, determination not to die, all arise from the flames of the bake ovens and the fumea of the gas chambers. But Snchar'e book does not dwell on the horrors. His is a history of the people

who let it happen. Names, dates, places. It's about a world in which it did happen . . . and the players in the game who stood by while it happened. There has been no lack of books, articles, plays, movies, tv productions, etc., about the Holocaust or the period that followed. None are so thoroughly documented with hitherto much unpublished material and information as Redemption of the Unwanted. Many books are written with a "message," a point to make . . . lessons to be teamed . . . charges against a cruel world... etc. Fingers have been pointed in an effort to name the guilty in many of the documents up until now. But, Dr. Sachar has adopted a different approach and this is one of the reasons his book is a must, no matter how many others have been read or published. Sachar believes that there it a much more effective message to be delivered by allowing the reader to judge for him or herself. He relies on understatements, rather than bitterness or accusations. He presents the facts and does it in ouch a way that the reader who picks up this important contemporary document will not put it down until the last page has been explored. Sachar's account leaves ua with hope — hope for mankind — hope for the future of the world. After what

we have experienced in the lifetime of many of us, we need that hope! Sachar is not just talking about the lives of the remnants of Israel, but the lives of each of u s . . . and not just Jews! We all need to be reminded as Redemption of the Unwanted does of the "determined refusal of every Allied government to open the doors of ita land for more than token quotas of Jews was a traumatic shock for those who remained alive after the war ended If the people in the death camps had not clung to the dream of redemption in the free world, they would have loat all will to go on. Some of the western leaders, if we are to judge by their statements and actions, may have hoped in their hearts that there would be just such a failure of nerve to eliminate the Jews as a tormenting problem in the postwar world." Tho "image" of the Jews has, indeed, been transformed by the lives of the "unwanted." Dr. Sachar quotes former prime miniBter of England, Harold Macmillan, who describes what was left of tho proud communities of Western Europe. He hoped that Britain's future would be more like Israel's. Here is how he describes the people: "They had what any great people need — resolution, courage, determination, pride. These are what really count in men and nations." The Unwanted had it!

To which Dr. Sachar adds, "Macmillan was among the first of postwar statesmen to recognize the miracle of the "redemption of the unwanted." To those Jews who are proud of their status as Jews, knowing what they really are all about is important. Sachar's account of the "unwanted" fortifies our notions of what sort of stock we arise from. To those Jews who would like to forget the whole thing, including the fact that they are Jews . . . they will find that the world won't really let them forget. But what they glean from

Redemption of the Unwanted will give them something very important to think about. As one who lived with displaced persons in Germany for three months, who witnessed the birth of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and sat with their leaders for weeks and who attended the first wedding in the D.P. camps, and whose goddaughter in Israel is the product of that union, I read Dr. Sachar's book with both tears, chills and excitement. There were many marriages following liberation, but the joy of such fulfillment was always sobered by the fear that the children will pay for the yearn of abuse. My "family" in Israel proves that out of that "abuse" has come a new people . . . indeed, "redeemed from the unwanted to new. life and new contri-

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butions to make for all of us." Having been intimately connected with that period of our history, it would be only natural that 1 would find some minor differences with Dr. Sachar's accounts. He leaves out any mention of the American Jewish Conference and its leaders at the time, Henry Monsky and I.L. Kenen, nor the result of the first study by representatives of the American Jewish Conference, the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Labor Committee mentioned. My own report, made to the conference as a result of that three month's study, has been sent to Dr. Sachar. So far as I hove been able to determine, all of those who participated with me in that study are now dead . . . and obviously every book haa to draw the line somewhere.

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Mhtsra*. SERVICES: Friday: Mincba and Kabbalat Shabbat 4:45 p.m. Late Friday Night Family 8:15 p.m. Ail Beth Israel first grade United Talmud Torah student* trill be presented with a Hanukkah Menorab as a gift from the Congregation. The presentation will be made by the president, Robert Oberman. These students include: Danielle Chasen, Joshua Gonsher, Michael Ivers, Marianne Lintzman, Nicole Paley, Stacy Rogert, Evan Saltimsn, Jason Shrier, Joey Shyken and Sara Weiner. Oneg Shabbat — Following the service, en Oneg Shabbat reception will be sponsored by the children of Art and Bernice Gerber in celebration of their 35th wedding anniversary. Saturday: Morning service 8:45 tits. The O'Var Torah will be delivered by Perry Ratner. A Kiddush follows the service in the Social Hall. Jr. Congregation 10 a.m. A Shabbot Lunch follows the service, sponsored by Sisterhood Class with the rabbi 4 p.m. Mincha 4:45 p.m. Mincha is followed by Shalotb S'udot, Ma'ariv and Havdalah. Sunday: Morning service 9 a.m. Breakfast and "Exploring Jewish Ideas" with the rabbi follows the service. HANUKKAH DINNER The annual Hanukkah Dinner will be held on Sunday evening, at 5:30 p.m. Linda Dunn and Lynn Weiner are the chairpersons of the evening. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 4:45 pjn. BAR MITZVAH The Bar Mitzvah of Jason Sterenbcrg will be held at the Mincha Service on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 10 at 4:30 p.m.

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Temple Israel SERVICES: Friday: &15 p.m. Temple Israel's Annual Hanukkah Congregational Dinner will be held at 6 p.m. in the Social HalL Shabbat Evening Services will be held at 7:30 p.m. with Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks and Cantor Harold I. Firestone officiating. Rabbi Brooks will delivery a Story Sermonette on Family of Menoraha. Saturday: Morning Services 11 a.m. The major portion of the liturgy will be conducted by students in the sixth grade of Temple Israel Religious School, taught by Patti Kirshenbaum and Bjon Farber. CLASSES Religious School: Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. Hebrew School: Aleph — Monday, Dec. 5, 4 and 5 p.m.; Gimmel— Monday, Dec. 5, 4 and 5 p.m.; Bet, Wednesday, Dec. 7,4 and 6 p.m.; Dated, Thursday, Dec. 8, 4 and 5 p.m. BAR MITZVAH Michael Andrew Levltan, son of Cliff and Barbara L e v i t a n , will celebrate his Bat Mitzvah during the Shabbat Services Friday and Saturday, Dec. 9 and 10. SISTERHOOD GIFT SHOP The gift shop will be open regular Sunday hours and also Temple office hours.

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Paraahat MikeU By Rabbi MyerS. Krlpke You may think it strange that a column appearing on the second day of Hanukkah should be about the calendar, and not about Hanukkah. Well, everyone will hear a lot about Hanukkah; and perhaps I have nothing new to add. But then, why the calendar? Why not mattot or lulav — or something else equally irrelevant to Hanukkah? I will explain later the calendar is indeed relevant Most Jews don't know even the simplest facts about our religious calendar. (Here's some consolation: ask your Christian friends how the date of Easter is set. Sometimes even ministers will not know. You can dazzle them by saying, offhand, that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.) Here are the simplest facts. Our religious calendar is a lunar-solar calendar. That is, it is a calendar with months that follow the cycle* of the moon, and with a built-in adjustment to make up for the fact that 12 lunar month* come out about 11 days short of the solar year of 365+ days. Thus our months, alternating, have 30 days or 29, to handle the problem that the moon itself orbit* the earth in 29-and-a-fracUon days. Since 12 such months come short of 365 days by about 11, the adjustment U made of adding a whole extra month of 30 days at regular intervals, the 3rd, 6th, 8th, Uth, Hth, 17th. and 19th years in every 19-year cycle. (Thus 6744, our present year, is the Cth year in a cycle, and therefore a leap

SERVICES: SERVICES: Friday: 7 p.m. Friday: 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Paul Drazen, Can- Dally and Saturday: The residents and staff of tor Emil Berkovits and the Beth El Choir will conduct the Row Blumkin Home invite the families, volunteers the services. An Oneg Sbabbat will fol- and friends of the resident* low services. A report will be to attend services in the given on the United Syn- Herbert Goldsten Synagogue. Kiddush following agogue Convention. services on 8babbat Saturday: Services at 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Youth Congregation services at 11 a.m. Minba, Se'udah Shlisbit, Friday: 8 p.m. Saturday morning Torah Maariv 3:50 p.m Sunday: Services at 9 a.m. Study begins at 10 ajn. and 6:30 p.m. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 5:30 Uncoln p.m. Tffereth Israel SISTERHOOD SERVICES: BOARD MEETING Sisterhood Board will Friday: 8 p.m. meet on Dec. 6 at 9:30 a.m. Oneg Sbabbat Saturday: in the Youth Lounge. Services 9 a.m. LUNCH AND LEARN Monday and Tuesday: WITH THE RABBI Lunch and Learn with the 7:15 a.m. rabbi will be held on Dec 8, noon • 1:30 at the Conant New schools Hotel. The World ORT Union MEN'S CLUB Central Board meeting, held BREAKFAST recently in London, reMen's Club will hold a solved that ORT will open breakfast on Sunday morn- an ORT International ing immediately following Technical High School in the minyan which begins at Israel's Region 2000 devel10 a.m. opment area at Carmiet, will FRIDAY EVENING, open a new technical instiDEC. 0 tute in Los Angeles and will At the Shabbat evening expand the ORT Technical services neit week, Bill High school in Marseilles, Wiesman will talk about his France, announced Alvin L. trip to Israel this past sum- Gray, American ORT Fedmer. eration President SISTERHOOD HANUKKAH DINNER . United Talmud Sisterhood will bold its Torch of Omaha annual Hanukkah Dinner on Sunday. Dec. 4, at 5:30 By Judy Binlamow ence. Tentative plans call p.m. The Shabbaton held the for another Shabbaton for Council Bluffs weekend of Nov. 11 for the the Stb/6th graders to be, fifth and sixth-grade stu- held sometime in the B'nal Israel dents was a wonderful suc- Spring. SERVICES: cess! Thanks to Cantor and Friday: A Shabbaton for the sevHanukkah party 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Fettman, as well as enth and eighth-graders will preceding 7:30 Shabbat Alan Potaih, for their time, be held the weekend of Dec. concern and patience'. 2 in Des Motnes. services. Everyone truly enjoyed this Saturday: 9 a.m. A Havdalah Program excellent learning experi- Schedule has been set up by Sunday: 9 a.m. Cantor Fettman. Fifth grade is Dec, 3, seventh grade is Dec. 10 and sixth grade is Jan. 14. Both Beth El and Beth Israel will present Menorahs to their first grade (student* during Hanukkah services.

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year.) This makes it possible to keep pesah, for example, in the spring and Rosh haShanah in the fall, so that they do cot keep moving from one season to another. In other words, this adjusts the lunar calendar to the solar. (The Muslim calendar makes no such adjustment. Therefore their holy month of Ramadan, for example, moves from one season to another because of the 11day lunar year shortfall.) But we have another problem: Rosh haShtnah cannot fall on Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday — to avoid having Yom Kippur on Friday or Sunday and to solve one other minor religious problem. The flexibility needed for this is attained by making two months variable: they can be 29-30 (normal), or 29-29 or 30-30. So, right after the fall holidays, Heshvan and Kislev are adjusted to prevent next Rosh haShanah from falling on the wrong day of the week. And now the relevance of the calendar to Hanukkah! Hanukkah comes on the 26th day of Kislev. When is the 6th light of Hanukkah? It can be either the 30th of KUlev (in yean when Kislev has 30 days) or the 1st of Tevet So — if you have a birthday or observe, perhaps, a Yahrxeit near the end of Hanukkah — judge it by the calendar, not by the number of Hanukkah candles! A word to the wise... Consult your Rabbi!

To renew ties By David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) Liberia has decided to renew its diplomatic relations with Israel, it was announced in Monrovia, the nation's capital. Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir expressed Israel's warm gratification at this development and expressed the hope that many other African states would follow Liberia's example. Liberia is the second state — after Zaire last May — to renew ties with Israel. Most African countries severed diplomatic relations at the time of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Following the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and Israel's withdrawal from Sinai, there has been a discernible movement among many African states in the direction of restoring full relations with Israel. .

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By D r . Irving Grcenberg President, National J e w i s h Resource Center In the United States today, then it a buildup of antiSemitism. History repeat* itself — but not always in the Mine format. The danger here is not that anti-Semitism may come to power. In American popular opinion, antiSemitism continues to decline. Therefore, the new danger of anti-Semitism will not be stopped by increased generalized drives against anti-Semitism. The clear and present danger is the growth of specialized neo-Nazi-type or other violent groups. In West Hartford, Connecticut, there were four arson fires in synagogues and the rabbi's home. At Yeshiva University in New York, there have been several automatic rifle fire attacks on students. In Bloomington, Indiana, Nazi graffiti am) arson of the community center/synagogue occurred but the news has been kept down at FBI suggestions. God knows what other situations have been kept quiet for fear of publicity generating more activity. I believe that these are individual phenomena, not the

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product of one genera] conspiracy. Some of these actions He had his congressman contact the FBI. The FBI wrote will prove to be the work of deranged people and not of back that it is "not currently investigating the Nationalist organized anti-Semitea. But with the current climate of Socialist White People's Party" and that "we do not conopinion (criticism of Israel, social unrest, posse comitatus, duct investigations merely because a group espouses disetc.) and the widespread access to guns in America, a suc- sident views." cessful bloody armed attack on a Jewish organization or This could be an acceptable answer if we were only dealgathering is a tragedy waiting to happen. Such an attack ing with views. In fact, violence is spreading; arms are could be a double disaster in that it would break the circle being gathered. We face the danger that aa in Prance, when of security and peace which has kept foreign and anti-Jew- the outburst of anti-Semitic rightwing violence came, the ish terrorism out of the United States and could unleash police were unprepared. It was discovered that police had armed violence all over the U.S. infiltrated only the left wing terrorists. Two steps are needed urgently: a major tightening of seJews must pressure the government to step up infiltration curity and alertness by all American Jewish organizations of the right, violent groups — before it is too late. Action and synagogues — local as well as national — and pressure after the fact may mean that the evil genie of anti-Semitic on the American government and the FBI to investigate violence is out of the bottle, never to be returned. A perand infiltrate these violent groups. manent deterioration of Jewish condition in America could A friend of mine stumbled upon a meeting in the Rad- be the tragic result. isson Hotel in Scottadale, Arizona during the week of June Such actions invite repetition and imitation. Once airline 14-21, in which members of an American Express tour group hijacking succeeded a few times in America, it spread among of over 126 people from Germany called the "Frankfurter- 'crazies,' ideologically motivated and dissident groups alike. Stuermer Chapter" met with representatives of the Na- The result has been a permanent reduction in the standard tionalist Socialist White People's (American Nazi) Party. of safety, convenience and humaneness in travel and the burden of increased security policing in airports. Focused, effective high priority action now may still avert such a development in Jewish institutional life in America. The lesson of the Holocaust applies here is not that another Holocaust looms in America. The lesson is that turning points are best prevented beforehand rather than reacted to afterwards. Concentrated political/administraORT BOWL-A-THON most unique style — Denise tive action by the Jewish community is needed now. Here Women's American ORT Ipock. ia where increased Jewish political power should be exerHATIKVAH CHAPTER would like to thank its sponcised domestically. . MIZRACHI WOMEN sors for their annual BowlA-Thon that was held on Hatikvah Chapter of October 29,1983. The event American Mizrnchi Women 1 was very successful in rais- will hold a dinner meeting ing monies for the Earning on Dec. 11 at 6 p.m. in the Power Improvement Course clubhouse at 11123 CottonPrograms of ORT. Some in- wood Plaza, 108th and Madividual awards were given ple Street (across from Al& Country Store out that evening. They are bertsons). Reservations are as following: High Ladies being taken by: Gert Levey, This coupon good for Game — Caryn Rifkin; 397-6488; Charlotte KapHigh Men's Game — Gary lan, 651-5658; or Marion 15% off anything Rifkin; Low Ladies Game — Stratus, 558-2646. A Hanin our store. P a t s y W i g o d s k y ; Low ukkah gift auction will be Men's Game — Ron Ipock; held; also a country store Most Improved Bowler of with items handmade by 2504 S. 132nd Court 334-0890 the Evening — Patsy Wi- members. ' godaky; Bowler with the

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By Bert Lewis ! suppose what I'm about to write will serve to further perpetuate the Jewish Mother Myth, but! cyn't restrain myself. Something ha* reminded me of cay own introduction to the birds and bees story. I was about five, and I remember my brother waking me one morning with the exciting news "there are baby kittens in the basement!" There were, indeed, kittens. When I asked my mother where they came from, she looked at me with her calm expression and answered "I don't know. Somebody must have left a basement window open." Which was at least partly true; because our cat was a house cat, meaning she wasn't EVER allowed to go outside. Except that once. In any event, this was my first biology lesson. An old friend sends us into hysteric* with the story of her horror at looking outside and seeing two dogs behaving, well, frivolously. She mentioned it to her elderly mother, worrying that her small children would notice. Bobie had an instant answer, "dose the drapes". Dayenu. Just today I heard about one darling mom who went to the library and came home with a book for her daughter. The first two il-

lustrations were of animals . . . both genders. None of my male friends can match those stories told to the girl*- Most answer "I learned about it in the street, like any good redblooded American kid". However, one report* the closest he came to hearing the fact* of life was when he reached dating age and heard the words "be careful". Meaningfully said! When you get right down to the basics, I suppose all of that nonsense was a reflection of those times — more innocent times than our young people know today. And some of that innocence could be translated to pure ignorance, which wasn't particularly good. But never mind the philosophy . . . I still giggle when I remember the kittens. Even though it's only been a few months since my not quite five year old grandchild explained how she watched her cat "have babies". She described the entire business. In more detail than I really needed, and closed the subject with the comment "it was really neat". So be it. But 1 still kind of like the idea of the open basement window!

Memorial BONN (JTA) - More than 10,000 persons, including leading West Laurie and Loren Kabb of German political figures Chicago announce the Nov. and academicians, Nazi vic21 birth of a son, Jonathon tims and groups and indiDaniel. viduals from Israel, the Grandparents are Mr. United States and other and Mrs. Norman Smeerin countries arc urging the and Mr. and Mrs. Jerome City of Hamburg to preserve Kabb or Cleveland, Ohio. the former concentration Maternal great grandpar- camp at Ncuengamme as a ent* are Tillie Wright and memorial and warning to Ida Smeerin. future generations.

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Hadassah Study Group plans third session .The third session in the Hadassah Study Group series, Reflection in Many Ages, with Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, will be held on Dec. 7, 9:30 p.m., in Livingston Manor. The ttriea is designed to introduce us to Jewish thinkers of various ages, varying conditions, and differing temperaments and interests. After the first two sections, on writers whose books were in some ways like Biblical books but which were not included in the Bible, our attention turns to what is probably the most significant period in Jewish intellectual and religious history — the period of the rabbis. The rabbis of Talmud and Midnuh had serious tasks before them, tasks that included building a Judaism that was survivable and "portable," a Judaism that loved the land of Israel but could survive away from it,

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B y Estelle Rosenberg The South Temple Hanukkah Dinner will be held Dec. 3 at the Temple. The holiday menu will be blini, latkes and applesauce, etc. An autographed Nebraska Universary football will be raffled. There will also be a gift exchange, everyone should bring a gift. The fee is $4 adults and $2 for children. Please send checks to Julie Grossbart 3910 Stockwell, 68506.

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As we tend to look for variety in our daily fare, I am sure you will find that this eggplant-spaghetti dish offers somewhat of a tasty change (torn the ordinary. Serve it with cold tomato juice as an appetizer, and accompanied by a cucumber salad with hot garlic bread. x h to VJ cup corn oil 1 1b. eggplant, cut into 'A-lnch cubes 1 chopped green pepper V4 cup chopped green onion 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 ib. stewed tomatoes 1 8-oz. can tomato paste •A cup dry red wine 1 Up. oregano 1 Up. sugar 1 Ib. thin spaghetti grated mozarella cheese Meat oil in a large pan. Brown all the vegetables in oil for about 10-15 minutes. Stir in stowed tomatoes, tomato paste, wine and spices. Cover and simmer, stirring often, for about 40 minutes. Serve over hot drained spaghetti. Sprinkle cheese on top. Serves 6.

Unusual meeting A get-together in Omaha recently offered a memorable occasion for Sam and Shirley Don, of Philadelphia (left), Omahan Ben Joflio (center) and Sam and Gtuslo Zwelback, also of Omaha. Mr. Don, a survivor of the Holocaust, Is Mr. Zwclback's cousin. They bad no knowledge of each other until Mr. ZwcSback's nieces discovered the relationship. Mrs. Don, also a Holocaust survivor, found that she and Mr. Joain had been incarcerated in the same camp near Danzig. Mrs. Don and Mr. Jotln were unaware of this coincidence until their Omaha meeting.

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Hanukkah's helping hand Isrecli-made robots are being developed to polish diamonds, weld steel, plate jewelry, handle cargo, and pick fruit. They can also be used to lend a hand in lighting Hanukkah candles as shown in this demonstration by the Robotic Laboratory of the Tecbnlon-Israel Institute of Technology. Tech' nion's mechanical arm la able to handle objects half the diameter of a human hair and will assist the manufacture of electronic components, medical Instruments, and the production of plastics and metals. "Robots will enable Israeli Industries to step up output tremendously," says Prof. Ario Lavle, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Industry and Trade. So far, no mention has been made about robots being programmed to spin dreidels.

Beth Israel Synagogue will host the National Conference on Synagogue Youth Conclave, Dec. 23-26, announced Julie Wcincr, president of Kadimah. Ms. Weincr said 100 to . 150 members will attend from St. Louis, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Des Moines, Wichita, Minneapolis and Canada. The last event hosted by Beth Israel was the Leadership Training Seminar in 1982. For information on hous-

ing or other activities, call Ms. Weiner st 551-4247. Other committee members are Laura Loshintky, Ellen Klopper and Mike Levin. Advioor is Lori Stan. • • • The B'nai B'rith International Hillel Foundations, which provide religious, cultural, educational and social programs to some 300,000 students and faculty members on more than 400 college campuses, is the largest employer of rabbis in the world, with 110 on staff.

Lincoln B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 377 will hold their meeting, Dec. 4, 10 a.m. at the Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The program will feature Professor John Braeman who will speak on "The Jewa, The Right and the Left." Professor Braeman is a professor of history at the University-Nebraska. A continental breakfast will be served. Bring a prospective new member with you. If you wish to help on Dec. 26 with "Meals on Wheels" or other public service jobs, pleSBe call Max Neiden at: 476-3306 (office) 488-0131 (home).

Coren, program chairman will present a film. "One Hundred Two Mature," by Harry Leiberraan. Luncheon chairmen for the event are Sylvia and Ann Modenstein, with the assistance of their committee. Ruth Burke, president, will preside over the business meeting. The Hadassah Board will meet Jan. 13, 10:30 a.m. in the Tifereth Israel Lounge. The Tifereth Israel Congregation Board will meet at 8 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The South Street Temple Board of Trustees will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Temple.

During World War II, 31,280 members of B'nai B'rith served in the U.S. armed forces. Of that number, 653 were killed in action or died in line of duty; 448 were cited for bravery on the battlefield. • • • Abraham Lincoln was first promoted for the Republican presidential nomiThe Annual Torah Fund nation by B'nai B'rith memLuncheon of Tifereth Israel ber Abraham Jonas of Sisterhood will be held Dec. Quincy, 111. Jonas served 7, 12:15 p.m. in the Syn- with Lincoln in the Illinois agogue social hall. Nancy' state legislature.

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Students exxrvinced Toronto — Two high the students that the Hoischool ttudents from Eck- ocautt had never occurred. villa, Alberta, say that after Katrine Milaney and a two-week trip to Germany (or a first-hand look at the Garry Tink, both 16 years remnants of the Holocaust, old, returned to Calgary, Althey are convinced of the berta, from the trip sponhorrors Jews endured sored by- Calgary busiduring World War II, de- nessman Jack Downey. Hs spite efforts by a teacher in taid he became alarmed Eckville to convince one of when be learned that Eckville teacher Jamea Keegttra wat instructing student* that the mat* extermination of Jews during the war vra* a highly exaggerated story — part of an International Jewish conspiracy. Keegttra is alto the mayor of Eckville.

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Herzog slaps Soviets; urges U.S. toughness b y Murray Zttckoff ATLANTA, Ga. (JTA) - President Chaim Henog of Israel hinted strongly in a major speech here that America's policy of standing tough against Sovttt and Cuban activity in-central America deserve* the support of the Jewish people. But he stopped just short of explicitly endorsing the Reagan Administration's current policy as the official Israeli position. Nevertheless his address here to 3,000 delegates at the 62nd General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations was seen by many a* an effort to bring into humony the foreign policies of Israel and the United States and m i also viewed as a speech uncharacteristic of a President of Israel who usually delivers ceremonial and non-political addresses to American Jewish audiences. In a tough, no-nonsense, sledgehammer attack on the Soviet Union and ita allies and surrogates in the Middle East, primarily Syria, Herzog told the Jewish communal leaders from the United State* and Canada that, "what you have been experiencing in your own vicinity is not new to us. Already, in 1974, we faced Cuban armored brigades on the Golan Height*, not to mention the inevitable North Korean and North Vietnamese elements." In 1974 Israel also faced Soviet missiles on the Golan Heights in the hands of the Syrian*, Herzog recalled, and today the Damascus regime "is backed, armed and trained by the Soviet Union, with some 7,000 Soviet military advisers in its armed forcea. It baa one of the fottett growing armies in the world in addition to being host, on ita own soil, to Soviet combat force* and a concentration of Soviet-manned missiles which threaten not only Israel and Jordan but also the Sixth Fleet in the Eastern Levant" Herzog stressed that Israel has "no illusion whatsoever about the purpose of these forcea here or elsewhere and we, in the midst of all our national debate* on many issue*, have no debate whatsoever, a* to the real purpose of these force* and how to stand up to them. I think It it about time, too, that we as Jews realized the nature of these force* and that we should finally call a spade a spade." The real purpose of these force*, the Israeli President declared, is "to kill Jew* and to create the condition* for a new Holocaust 1 would ask my fellow Jew* to remember this when they view the activities of these evil forces in the world, wherever they might be, and react to efforts to neutralize them." Behind all the forces of evil, "u everywhere, including in your own hemisphere, not so far from here, loom* the ominous Soviet presence, pouring in the weapons of death, sabotage, of terror, of hatred and of subversion," Herzog said. "Our bitter experience baa been that this purveyor of death will stop at nothing as long a* it feel* that it can get away with i t It is not for us to tender evidence to others. We are only a small nation, fighting for our existence. What we can do is to apply the lesson that we have learned from bitter experience, namely that there can be no buck or compromise with these force* of evil," Henog noted that for a long time Israel has been accused of being intransigent for refusing to compromise with terror. "Now that the United States and France have also had to moke a painful and tragic sacrifice (in the terrorist bombing attack on their armed forces in Lebanon last month), perhaps aome of those in the world who were so ready with criticism in the past will begin to understand the nature of the enemy wo have faced alone for yean and to appreciate our motivation," the Israeli President said.

to sustained applause. Discussing the situation of world Jewry, Herzog said the Jewish people is under attack on two fronts and that attack ha* "assumed sinister dimensions." One is the open Soviet-inspired attack which found it* full expression in the November, 1975 United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Zionism as a form of racism.. "The other arm of the attack which, In my view, is the toon serious and the mate sinister, because it is so much more subtle, is the process of disinformation in the West, which creates the atmosphere in which the more brutal political and physical antiSemitic attacks can be mounted with comparative impunity," Herzog declared He noted that when in recent yean terrorists attacked Jewish installations in Western Europe, killing and wounding innocent passereby, "the Jewish world, indeed the whole world, awoke to a realization that the cruel and malignant malady of antiSemitism had spread wider and had penetrated deeper than had previously been credited." The gravity of the situation is intensified, Herzog said, because "these evil element* which brought on t h e Holocaust and brought the world to the most terrifying war that mankind has known, did not raise their heads" as long as the Holocaust and the destruction of Europe 40 yean ago was a "real memory." But now that the Holocaust and the war "have receded from the memory of much of mankind, ever in those countries which w e n destroyed and decimated by the advancing Nazi armies; now thai the bulk of the youth of the world knows nothing about the Holocaust — the scene U set for the forces of evil which brought this Holocaust on the world, to raise their heads," Henog said. Parallel to "the onslaught of the antiSemitic coalition of fascists, left-wing?™, Communists and Arabs to which we a n witness, is the process of disinformation afoot in the free world, which is misleading the world not only about Israel and our conflict and distorting Israel's image, but is presenting developments in the Middle East to the world in such a manner as to give rise to gross errors and false political evaluations on the issues of the most vital importance to the security of the free world," Herzog charged. This process of disinformation, in which the media plays a role, has resulted in an image which Israel's alleged intransigence is seen as endangering the peace of the world, and at the same time the terrorist activities of the PLO are endorsed as liberation movement octivities/'Herzog said. What Israel does, therefore, whether successfully rescuing hostages in Entebbe, or engaging in activities which a n unpopular in the world, such as the war in Lebanon, "inevitably reflect, in their turn, on the Jewish population" positively or negatively, the Israel chief of state said. "This place* a very heavy responsibility on us in Israel, and hence, in my view we cannot and d a n not ignore the effects of our actions and policies on world Jewry." This statement was greeted by applause. Herzog pointed out that "it is tnie that certain aspects of Israeli society, as they come to expression today, a n not always best calculated to arouse the enthusiasm of world Jewry . . . but while many of these aspect* of Israeli society o n overemphasized, the very impressive positive aspects of our society an frequently ignored." Herzog called upon world Jewry to be aware of new challenges "and act in order to strengthen the future of the Jewish people both'hen and in Israel."

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