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now By Lectio V/olfcaa Federation ctcff eccociate The Women's Division "Know Your Roots" MiGsion to New York, March 4-6, is six weeks away. Several women.have signed up for the Micflion, and Chairman Jeri Kaplan urges more womsn to do the same. In the j)ast two years, Women's Division haa sponsored (Missions to Washington, D.C. In Washington, the emphasis was on what Vi'omon could do for the-Jewish community hero and abroad from n political standpoint. Both missions were enjoyable, informative and educational, according to paot Washington participants. Tho "Know Your Roots" Mission to New York is a new concept, recently developed at National UJA headquarters, Other communities which have participated had •"glowing" repbrta. The focus'for the New York Mission will contor around tho history of the Jewish psoplp after they emigrated to the United States, and thd "roots" of their origins. Aa New York City is the center • of Jewish American life, and the city where
support many Jews from other lands had their first glimpse of the New World, "It is the perfect place to have this kind of mission," says Mrs. Kaplan.
By ^ill Kushner Fedoration volontear Sometimes having too many players on the field merits praise, not a penalty.
Mrs. Kaplan stressed the uniqueness of this Mission. "The Washington Missions were wonderful, but this year we wanted to try something new. Many women have visited New York before, but even those who have been there many times will not have seen the places, gone on the tours or had the experiences that we will have on this mission."
Such is the philosophy of "Super Sunday" coordinators Tom Micheloon, Dodi Redler and Gary Javitch, who are hoping to recruit a full field of volunteers for the second annual Federation phone-a-thon. Marking the kickoff of the 1984 Federation Campaign, the Super Sunday phone-athon will take place Feb. 19 in the offices of the Pacesetter Corp. and Richman Gordman.
Mrs. Kaplan calls tho itinerary "custom tailored" to tie in with the roots theme, and provides the best available tours/programs and speakers that can fit into two and a half days. Those women wishing to participate should contact Jeri Kaplan or Marcia Cohen as soon as possible. The cost of the mission is $300, which is all inclusive. This mission also requires a $1,000 donation to the 1984 Campaign or a 15 percent increase over 1983 gifts of $1,000 or more.
Leadership Development chairman Howard Epstein; announces the fourth national Young Leadership Conference, sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Cabinets, which will be held in Washington, D.C. from March 11-13, 1984, at the Washington Hilton.., The three-day, conference, which is expected to attract"300 young Jewish leaders from around the country, will focus on the critical issues facing world Jewry today.
For example, in Omaha fuitds will aid Jewish Family Service in helping families with financial difficulties. - In addition, local monies will bolster the scholarship programs, which reportedly experienced an $8,000 decrease in 1983. Nationally, funds will support the United Jewish Appeal, and in Israel, supplement the resettlement program and help immigrants.
how they can be effective in working for change, and how they can create and implement programs of importance in their local communities, he pointed out. The Young Leadership Cabinets of the United Jewish Appeal are composed of men and women between the ages of 25 arid 40 who are business and professional leaders from across the nation and who play a vital fund-raising and policy-making role within, their respective communities. These individuals will assume significant leadership positions locally, nationally and internationally in the years to come, Mr. Epstein said.
Conference participants will meet with major Presidential candidates and will receive briefings on domestic and foreign affairs by high-ranking members of the White Those interested may contact Mr. EpHouse staff and the State Department, . stein for more information. members of Congress, and-top representatives of the State of Israel, Mr. Epstein said.
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Sessions will include open discussions providing for an exchange of views with government officials and with other young leaders from around the world. For more than an hour, Hep. Hal Daub spolre with students at the Jewish Day School last week outlining the role of a congressman in the political process and the Democratic form of government. Ho answered questions on a variety of issues and promised that he would take the youngstera' greeting cards with him during his planned trip to the Soviet Union in November.
The theme for this year's conference is "Linking Destinies". Participants will examine relationships between the United States and Israel, and assess the significant problems which challenge them as present and future leaders of American and world Jewry, Mr. Epstein added. They will attend a program of plenary and workshop sessions to learn how national issues affect them on. a local level,
By Morris Moline The Jewish Community" Center campus will be the site of a monument marking ^he formation in Omaha of the international J youth organization, AZA.
Money raised will benefit Jewish communities locally, nationally and internationally, he added.
While the list of phone solicitors is growing, Mr. Javitch said around 100 callers are needed to contact 1,800 households. Each Super Sunday's co-chairmen have volunteer will participate in a half-hour: training session before beginning his or her stressed the importance of each individual •identifying with the overall Campaign one and one-half hour shift. theme, "Share the Vision — Give to Live." Those wishing to volunteer must register "We want people to give because they by Feb. 10 and may do so by calling Leslie Wolfson in the Federation office at 334- identify with local Jewish needs, and because they identify themselves a3 Jews, Mr. 8200. Javitch said. "By pledging, they make a Helping out with this year's phone-a- commitment for the survival of our Jewish thon are Ruth Erman, volunteer recruiter, community."
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Since the organization of the group in Omaha, the movement haa spread to B'nai B'rith participants worldwide.
The JCC board of directors has approved the B'nai B'rith plan in concept and has . recommended that the cornerstone of the The local AZA group has suggested that old JCC building be utilized in the proposed contributions be mailed to: AZA Monument monument design. -' ' • . ' Fund, C/Q Debra Polsky, Jewish Community: :. • -. •• •• ,-,; • j ' l i i - j :j . . •• ' : • . • ' : Center, 333 South 132nd Street, Omaha, AccbrdinEto: Dr. James Wax, BBYO N E . 6 8 1 5 4 . . • : •. .•.;•.; ••spokesman, BBYO chapters throughout the world will be asked for donations to further Information may be obtained from Alan the project. Widman, president of Cornbelt Region, v -f^Founded by Omahan Sam Beber, the Or* 402-397-503a '
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While Cantor Leo Fettman and wife, Annette, were presenting a program on "How to be a Jewish Mother and Grandmother", their daughter, Rachel, was presenting them with a new grandchild in Israel. The birth of their new granddaughter occurred while the program was being conducted for American Mizrachi Women, and a telephone call from the father, Dr. Chaim Heifetz brought the news.
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NEW YORK — The granting of New Power Technology of New York the right to market and develop a process for the generation of nuclear energy, developed in Israel, has been announced by Ramot, the commercial arm of Tel Aviv..Univereity. : A new light water nuclear reactor fueled by safe and abundant thorium has been invented by Dr. Alyin Radkows'ky, an Amer•ican-born scientist on.the faculty of Tel -^yiy.University. / .•.-•!'•
Dr. Radkowsky was the chief scientist under whose leadership the atomic submarine was developed, the announcement said. "Radkowsky's design is nonproliferative — a unique and important advantage over uranium-fueled plants because it can be established throughout the world without risk of stockpiling of atomic materials such as plutoniurri for development of nuclear weapons'.', explained Dr. Shmuel Einav, di(continued on page 2) .
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Marc Delman takes chuckle job again By Doreen Lerner Chairman CJFL The College of Jewish Family Learning, opening its winter semester on Monday, has announced that Marc Delman again will teach a course on 20th Century Jewish Humor at 7:308:30 p.m. Born and reared in Omaha, he attended the University of Missouri and American University where he received his B.A. He graduated from Oreighton Law School in 1980 and is currently the Deputy County Attorney. Wife, Mitzi, is a- French teacher at Arbor Heights. He is a founder of the Incest Network and is the author of two bills of legislation involving child molestation and the revamping of the incest laws. A collector of rare books and first editions, he is establishing a publishing firm,
Theater The Trouping Theater of Omaha Section, National Council of Jewish Women will perform Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. The performance was described as a special one suited for grandchildren of the residents.
the Evening Star Press, to publich works of science fiction and fantasy. As a follow up to Murray Horwitz's presentation of Sholom Aleichem on Saturday evening, Jan. 28, a course studying the works of Sholom Aleichem will be led by Muriel Herzog and Judy Timberg on Mondays from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Both were the instructors for the Fall literature class of the CJFL. Dr. Herzog holds a Ph.D. in English literature and theater from the University of Nebraska and a M.A. in Medieval English Literature from Columbia University. Based on her literary studies, Dr. Herzog will present Sholom Aleichem as a work of literature. Her experiences and interests in teaching and counseling in management are varied. She has 10 years of teaching experience at the University of Nebraska. She has been involved in private counseling in management and employee training and has conducted workshops in the training of Nebraska public school teachers and listening skills for Big Brothers -»• Big Sisters volunteers. She is currently a training specialist at InterNorth were she helpsemployees learn communication and basic manage1 ment skills.
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She is'the author of "Confessions of the NonTeaching Humanist", which appeared in the Nebraska Humanist, Spring, 1980, and has written several articles on Jewish family life for the Omaha J e w i s h Press. As a native of New York City, she has experienced firsthand settings and character prototypes that have been used by contemporary Jewish authors. Ms. Timberg is a graduate of Carletbn College in Minnesota and has a M.A. in communications from Iowa State University. As co-instructor of the Sholom Aleichem course, she will approach the study of Sholom Aleichem from a sociological and anthropological point of view. She has spent a-summer at Columbia University attending an intensive Yiddish literature and language class. As part of her training, she attended the Graduate School of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of an article on Jewish Women 'that has been reprinted in several Jewish student publications and in Jewish Radicalism. She hps served as an editor of peveral publishing companies and at present is the editor for the Department of Preventative and Stress Medicine at UNO. Due to advance reservations space is limited for the Jan. 28 performance of "An Evening of Sholom Aleichem". Call the JCC 3348200 to see if seats are still available. Reservations for the NoatalgicrBeli Dinner were due Wednesday, and only those people with reservations will be permitted into the dinner. Tickets for the performance are $2.50 for adults and $1.50 for srs/ students. The performance begins at 8:30.
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400,000 Jewish singles in New York city area NEW YORK (JTA) — A Riverdale Orthodox rabbi opened a conference here on serving Jewish singles with a "frightening" estimate that of the 1.7 million Jews in the New York area, some 400,000 are single, particularly when 6uch numbers are evaluated "in the content of the family orientation of Judaism." Rabbi Avraham Weiss added that synagogues and Jewish organizations "must find room for singles." He told the conference on "Serving Today's Jewish Singles Community," sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, that those Jewish institutions "have a great deal of responsibility for them." Nearly 100 rabbis, social workers, synagogue executives and other professionals attended the conference sponsored by the Federation Commission on Synagogue Relations, the Task Force on Jewish Singles and the Community Service subcommittee on singles. Weiss declared that "while the model for the majority of Jews is marriage, there is room for the non-married," asserting that singles "have the capacity to make a lasting contribution to Jewish life." Emphasizing that the term "singles" in-
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He asserted that singles and the Jewish community are "waiting for each other" to make contact but, he,said', organizations must make the first move. Weiss proposed, as one immediate step, that synagogues and organizations make it clear to singles that they will be involved in the decision-making process, adding that "in nine out of ten cases, there are few singles on synagogue or Jewish agency boards." He argued also that emphasis should be placed on "volunteerism" rather than on "social integration." He contended that volunteer work "often leads to the test kind of social relationships." Weiss said that when an individual is "involved in social action or a learning experience, that's when relationships develop." He urged integrating the single person into the larger Jewish community, citing congregational Shabbat get-togethers BB an activity that can involve single Jews.
Members of Cornbelt Region BBYO Executive Board recently participated in an Executive Board Overnight Training Session at the JCC. Pictured are Jeff Plotkin, Randy Greenberg, Marc Brodkey and Laurie Herman. •
(continued from page 1) rector general of Ramot. "The Israeli Government is very pleased with the designation of New Power Technology to assist us in the development of Dr. Radkowsky's progressive.work in the field1 of nuclear energy", declared Yitzhak Moda'i, Minister of Energy. He further stated "that this outstanding project would not only benefit Israel but all of mankind".
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cludes widowed and divorced persons, Weiss declared that loneliness is the "most serious problem facing the Jewish community." He added that Jewish religious law (halacha^is sensitive to it. "At the deepest moments of loneliness, Jewish law asks that we reach out."
Ramot indicated that Feldhamer Capital Corporation of New York is arranging the financing for New Power Technology. Under the agreement between the Ministry and Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities where the research has been conducted, New Power Technology has been assigned
exclusive rights to market the invention worldwide. New Power Technology has organized an advisory committee and board'of directors that includes: Prof. Edward Teller of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at the University of California, Prof. Hans Bethe, Nobel Laureate, of Cornell University, Prof. Eugene Wigner, Nobel Laureate, of Princeton University and Prof. Herbert Goldstein of Columbia University. In addition, Bernard Levine, vice chairman of the Board and founder of Verniton Corporation will be serving oh the Board. Development of the thorium reactor is being conducted by a group of Israeli scientists, under Dr. Radkowsky's direction, at Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Universities.
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By Israel E. Levine Director of Communications American Jewish ' 2 NEW YORK - Reform. Jewry's decision last cpring to give paternal descent equal weight with Maternal lineage in determining Jewish identity was defended here by u leading Reform leader. Rabbi Alexander Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, told an American Jewish Congress symposium (Jan. 11) that the", patrilineal decision attempts "to contain" the decline in Jewish numerical strength caused by the high rate of intermarriage ."and, if possible, to convert that loss into a gain." However, the patrilineal descent policy set forth lost March in a resolution passed by the Central Conference of American Rabbis — a Reform organization — was sharply criticized by another speaker at the oympooium, Rabbi Irving Greenborg, a well-known Orthodox rabbi who is president bf the National Jewish Resource Center. He said the Reform movement's decision to reverse tradition by giving partrilineal and matrilineal descent equal weight was a "triumph for ethics, feminism, sociology and-Americanism" but a "defeat for Halacha and the totality of the Jewish.-psei: ' Rabbi- Greenberg—called the patrilineal decision "a corruption, not a reform." He said it was "a move to dismiss the significance of biology" in determining Jewishness and to make Jcwishness "totally volitional." He termed it a "betrayal of ultimate Jewish values" and "enormously costly." Rabbi Greenberg noted that a study of mixed marriage families by Brooklyn College sociologist Egon Mayer suggested that when a parental act of conversion to Judaism takes place,
there is a 45 percent likelihood that a rnited marriage child will also intermarry — a percenters cbout equal to that for children in families where both parents arc Jewich by birth. But when tho non-Jewish spouoe in u mixed marriage does not convert, the likelihood that the children of cuch a union will intermarry jumps to 92 percent, Rabbi Greenberg said. He charged that a patrilineal descent rule reduces the incentive for conversion among non-Jewish mothers by .automatically granting Jewish status to their children through the Jewish spouse. A third participant in the symposium was Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive ' vice-president of the Rabbinical Assembly, a Conservative body. He acknowledged his personal support for the extension of Jewish identity on a patrilineal lasis but noted that his organization had defeated past efforts to introduce such a resolution. The reason, he noted, was Judaism's traditional "desp-caated repugnance to intermarriage" and the ensuing fear that intermarriages would bo encouraged by a patrilinsal rule. The symposium, which was held at AJCongres3' national headquarters, took place before en invited audience of pome 50 rabbin, biblical scholars and Jewish
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By Debra Polsky • existed throughout Jewish Despite subzero temper- ways, good tl^ngs to cat and history. "Quite the contrary, there was a time in Jewish atures, arctic 4winda and icy drink, and the cover charge life when the patrilineal roads that might even have i» $3.50 per person. Other singles news: et the principle was dominant, deterred Santa Claua, over when children were consid- 150 Jewish young adults ap- last committee meeting, ered Jewish primarily bs- peared Et Julio's West on members reported on their cause their fathers were Dec. 24 for an evening of various subcommittees. Jewish even though their music, munchies, spirits and There are exciting events mothers were not," he socializing. The conclusion being considered, including is: the Jewjsh singles of ski weekends, cruises and pointed out. He said that while Jew- Omaha know a good time other fun vacations, an eveishnjsss automatically has when they see it arid even ning at the theater, Friday been conferred through ge- the weather won't keep night Shabbut dinners, a coed volleyball league, and lots nealogy, under Reform Ju- them away! Following on the heels of more. daism's new guideline "geYou can keep abreast of nealogy is not enough." It our successful December specifies that Jewishness party, and in keeping with upcoming events by reading cannot only be presumed our blustery weather, Jew- this column in the Jewish but "must be expressed in ish Young Adults is offering Presa, and the monthly some concrete way through "The Big Chill" on Feb. 4. newsletter which will be an involvement in Jewish No, the movie of the same mailed to you. If you are not life and the willingness to name will not be shown. on our mailing list, or for share the fate of the Jewish Featured will be Motown some reason are not receivmusic, (danccable, accord- ing Jewish Young Adults inpeople." Rabbi Schindler said that ing to American Bandstand vitations, newsletters, etc., the patrilineal descent rul- standards), at the classy Re- contact Debra Polsky, 334ing does not alter Reform gency Tennis Club, from 8- 8200, or Tom Michelson, Judaism's opposition to in- 12 p.m. There will be, as al- 333-9460. termarriage, but merely recognizes the reality of such unions. "Just because we oppose intermarriage does not import that we therefore KssismsCi soups tab ds!!y - Droe&3 V3al TBsre. have to reject those who inits'.a us far IKE!) In our now csMiiics. termarry," he said. Such a 553-6774 51G9 Leevanivorth view sees Judaism as being "inclusive" rather than "exclusive," he added. "We .will remove the 'not wanted' signs from our synagogues." Rabbi Schindler also ar"The Professional Service People" gued that the patrilineal resolution does not attempt Residential • Commercial • New Construction to rule out the significance of biology in determining Clyde Miller Jewishness but attempts to 2336 Keystone Dr. 393-7117 include, the biology Of the father as well. "Why should the biology of the mother be more important than the biology of the father?" he asked.
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.s One of the most interesting publications to reach the editor's desk is the Boycott Ebport, prepared by the American' Jewish Congress. This publication noted developments and trends affecting the Arab boycott and Arab influence in the United States. The current issue contains an interesting inconsistency reaching into the royal family of Saudi Arabia. The item of interest appears halfway through an article which discusses anti-Jewish discrimination resuiting from Saudi Arabia's hostility toward Jews. According,to the article, Jewish employees or applicants for employment are increasingly turning to the courts and administrative agencies to combat anti-Jewish discrimination. One of the actions involves physicians on the staff of the Baylor College of Medicine who charge that Baylor denied them lucrative assignments in Saudi Arabia because they are Jewish. Baylor reportedly has an agreement with King Faisal Hospital in Saudi Arabia under which ta?raaa of doctors on the Baylor faculty spend three moatlis at Riyadh teaching surgical techniques. Physicians can earn up to $100,000 for three months of service. In its reply, Baylor claimed that its action was justified by "legitimate business necessity and/or a bona fide occupational qualification." In effect, Baylor claimed that its discrimination was required by Saudi policies. • , During the trial, a Baylor official in charge pf the rotation program testified that he never tried toiind out whether the Saudis would deny visas to Jewish medical specialists. He said he assumed, after five visits to Saudi Arabia, that it would not issue such visas. However, and here's the strange part: Dr. Michael DeBakey, chancellor of the medical school, testified that he had sent two Jewish doctors from Baylor to treat the royal family, although neither was involved in the rotation programs that was the focus of the lawsuit. The only conclusion that one can draw is that when it comes to the health of the royal family, the best care in the world is sought. •••••.. And if the providers happen to be Jewish — then, the boycott can be broken.
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HAIFA —»We stopped for a few momenta on the Eide of sengers, darting in and out ca they Beck to make faster time. the main Tel Aviv-Hsffa highway and watched the passing Their daily income is measured in time. pardde — the various vehicles that went by at varying rates ! Bananas! Who ever BOW BO many banenaa no overloaded of speed. And it suddenly occurred to us that while eome onto one truck, all of them gtcen. Visitors can't undsrct&nd people scurry all over, the country, covering many hundreds why Israelis always buy green bsnenos. Soon day vre'il exof miles in an effort to capture aa much a3 possible of the plain. The nest broad-bsamsd vehicla tsejaa to iimto a spirit and the reality of the country, it is poaaible to achieve sloshing sound aa it passes, and indeed ctpikia of waiter the same end simply by perusing the constantly moving cplash out on the road from tuna to tima. TJIECS ere the phantasmagoria on the public highway. We watch the thun- • fish carriers, bearing their carp from pond to tha caparmarket, kept alive and fresh until they recjdi the ooncuaaera" dering('herd of care, and trucks . . . In the atrange and moving parade we find tourist buoes, bathtubs. Toward the end of the day bu£03 and trucks converted their occupants staring out the windows at us "natives". Sometimes they wave, and we wave back. There are trucks into passenger carriers resound with community cons, as loaded'with citrus in bulk, rejected for export, but bound children are taken home after a long day's outing. There for the factories, to be transformed into jams and mar- aro care with the identifying plate3 indicating "rented". The malades. Scores of oranges bounce out of the truck and roll driver stays in line, does not tail-gate, and docs not Bfjeed, He is obviously not an Israeli driver. And tha lady Usaids into the ditches. Traffic is slowed down by several long, low-slung military him scrutinizes the spread-out road map with come psrtank carriers, this time empty. Are they heading north, to plesity. Imagination is stimulated by tlia mysterious hoodsd remove their cargo from there, or heading south to get rebulks which roll by. Military secrets? Commercial caution? inforcements for shipment up there? Passenger cars, known colloquially as "privates", are in- Bravado smuggling? We climb back into our car and join tha throng. Perhaps terspersed among the commercial vehicles. There are lots of German Volkswagens and Opels, Japanese Subani3, others are observing us. The parade moves on in endlecs fascination. This too is French Renaults and Citroens, Italian Fiats, even an ocIsrael! casional Chevrolet or Dodge. • The.j-oar is provided by the inter-city buses. Egged is tyrant[of the highways. Long tank cars roll by, and we study them to ascertain if they carry milk, or oil or chemicals. The immense Zim containers, bound for Haifa, loom like monsters. What Israel products are they carrying to distant ports? Strangely out of place in this commercial promenade is the antiquated pick-up truck, carrying the humble personal-belongings of some family relocating in another city. May they find success in their new home. - We have the feeling we are being wretched ourselves. We are, by the frightened, beady eyes of hundreds of plump, caged turkeys, on their last trip they embellish the nation's larders. Not far behind is a farmer's lorry with three skinny, bony cows being taken to market. Surely, not for their meat! There is an occasional police car, identified by its telltale red license plates. He cruises at 89 kilometers per hour in a 90-kilometer zone. Traffic piles up behind him until someone dares pass him and sets the precedent for others to follow. Meanwhile, in true Israel fashion, the cars blink their headlights at automobiles advancing from the.oth.er direction, to warn them that "the enemy" is just behind. The'procession is endless. In mid-afternoon one sees numerous vans carrying tightly packed passengers — Arab labor bjeing taken from their employment-in Israel back to their homes in Judea and Samaria. Reliable figures place the number of such itinerant labor at close to 100,000 daily. 'A bit of excitement is lent by the inter-city jitneys, the sherutcabs, most of them Mercedes, each with seven pas-
$15,000 reward By Kevin Freeman was riding in a car on an exand Ben Gallob pressway, in the vicinity of NEW YORK (JTA) — A the school after having left total of $15,000 in reward the Manhattan upper West money has been offered by Side campus, and the killing New York City and a major of a woman in another car Jewish organization for in- that was travelling ahead of formation leading to the ap- the student's car. prehension of the person or The urgency related to persons responsible for a se- the incident was the anries of sniper attacks on * nouncement by Police ComYeshiva University stu- missioner Robert McGuire dents. that linked the shooting to The announcement of the three other prior shooting reward followed the wound- incidents last June of which ing of a Yeshiva University Yeshiva University students High School student who were the apparent targets.
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To tho Editor: Just a note to tell you'how much we enjoy the writings of Bert Lewis. Bert's column is the first thing we look for when we open the press. * When it is there it really brightens things, and when it is missing, it is a disappointment. We certainly hope Bert doesn't miss many weeks. ] William M. Cohen President, City Glass To the Editor: . ; On behalf of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, I am very pleased to express our grateful thanks for your glowing editorial in theVJan. 20 issue about the work of our young organization. We hope that everybody, young and old, will heed your words and take the time to see our exciting exhibit on the first hundred years of Jewish Organizational Life in Omaha, 1850-1950. We will even give guided tours to those who wish to call us at 334-8200, ett. 274, especially youth groups and classes in our Talmud/Ibrahs. The (pwnation of the Nebrasltn Jewish Historical Society less than one and one half years ago was greeted with much enthusiasrai We now have 400 chatter members, a small office, an endowment fund, part-time archivist and secretary, ana a wonderful, beginning collection of artifacts. For those who have not yet found the time to join us in this very important ;work, we urge'them to \yatch their mailbox for, a special Nebraska Jewish Historical Society flyer about membership. We need the same kind of support from every Nebraska Jewish family as we have received from the Jewish Press staff and so many others who care about preserving oiir local Jewish history. Mary Fellmon, president To the Editor: Regarding the Waldbaum article which appeared in the Jan..20 issue of the Jewish Press. My parents are wonderful people, geflerous to a fault. Despite this, they receive not give grandchildren as per last line of the article. By June 1984 they will have seven in seven years. Jerryy John -and I are taking credit, however...V . r Susan Waldbaum Hughgon Editor's Note: : The Jewish Press apologizes for the typographical error. The word which appeared as give should have a p p e a r e d a s five.••.'..
By Allan Gresns Federation executive vice president (This orUclo ccatafa cj!=ic=3 d efc» tnCo)
Remember the scene from "Pajama Game", where the union employees sing the song about their raise of 7VW an hour not buying a heck of a lot But compounding it by 40 hours times 52 weeks a year, it added up to a conaidsrable sum.
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The Omaha Jewish Community has approximately 6,500 persons of which about 5,000 can bs counted upon as contributors to thetjfederation Campaign (tha remainder being children or persons unable or unwilling to give a contribution). • Last year we raised $1,725,000 for local and overseas needs and expanded $2,000,000 to mest the most critical needs with the balance being mads up from investments and endowment income. Simplisticolly, the Omaha Federation Campaign ncedn to generate a quarter of a million dollars more to even begin to meet the needs that our leaders have determined are most important. While $250,000 sounds like an awesome sum, it breaks down to $50 per contributor more than they donated last year — less than $1 a week. If each of ua thinks hob easily we might save $1 a week more for Tzadaka this year than : last year and committed.oun;elvea to meeting the needs of our people as a priority, we would have no trouble achieving and exceeding our goal ot raising $1,850,000 in 1984. ' ' The task of saving $1 a week to give to the Campaign is different for each of us but'essential for all of us as an absolute minimum increase, on average, to provide for the needs'of Jewish people in Omaha, Israel and overseas. A pack of cigarettes, a couple of cups of coffee, three candy bars or evejiputting away the change when you utilize "cents off" coupons is all it would take. It's also important for everyone to realize that pledges do not have to be paid all at orice. They can be paid monthly, quarterly or however is easiest for our contributors. In addition, remember that contributions to Federation are deductible from your income tan even if you use the short forms (up to 25 percent of $300 or $75 in 1984) and you should take this into consideration when you're called upon to make an increased gift this year. , /
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Adjusting for choice By Irving Greenberg President; National Jewish Resource Center Everybody complains that there are too many Jewish organizations. I would contend that the Jewish community is overorganized to stave the problems of fifty years ago but underorganized to deal with the needs of the '80s. In particular, we are neither intellectually, emotionally nor institutionally adjusted to living in a culture with so high a level of freedom. American Jewr> is overorganized in the area of health. More than 95 percent of the budget for Jewish hospitals comes from government and third party payments. That part that is given by Jews would basically be taken over, were private Jewish givers to withdraw. The number of hospital beds in New York State is excessive. The state has put a temporary freeze on such construction. Yet the Jewish hospitals persist in proposing building programs which will come out of the available pool of Jewish philanthropic money. They are buying the right to build from a reluctant state government by taking on commitments to help weaker hospitals in the general community when the state wants increased help. Thus the state gets a freer ride on tax dollars and it grudgingly gives its agreement to building. But such help morally and financially should come from the general — not the Jewish — treasury. Similarly, there is significant duplication in Jewish defense activities. But the infrastructure of education, of networking, of outreach desperately needed to educate Jews . and link them to the community in this open society is too weak, too expensive to the individual, too inaccessible. This is the most mobile and open society of all time. The basic fact of life in the open society is choice. To be or not to be Jewish, to be married, to have children, to be involved in community — these are all perceived as options, not givens. . The popular and often abused term "life style" is widely used instead of the older term "ways of life" because most states of existence are perceived as coming out of voluntary decisions not out of biological or social necessity. Many times, people trivialize their commitments (easy divorce, abortion as birth control, disaffiliation when disappointed) because they confuse choice with fashions or fads. Since in the past, traditional values were presented as given by God or grounded in nature and necessity, the recognition of the right to choose is with lack of commitment. This intellectual confusion is in itself a symptom of unpreparedness to live in freedom. Freedom is the right to choose one's own fate and thereby to back obligation and necessity with inner volition and the . fullness, of one's own commitment. Freedom is often trifvializetlor turned into 'follow the crowd''when people are , not given the depth of education and personal awareness needed to be capable of making choices. A higher degree of maturity and insight is needed to make decisions, or "to be able to give one's self, despite knowing the full range of
evidence on both sides of the issue. Once that level of understanding is achieved, free' societies request and get a much higher level of loyalty and sacrifice than dictatorships would dare to ask ofclheir people. Because the Jewish community has not yet grasped the new situation, there are many missing institutions in the network needed to sustain freedom. In many cases, the absence of understanding leads to wrong policies to solve problems. ' Thanks to the growth and media projection of non-marital sex, alternate living arrangements, career' goals for women as well as men, hedonism, etc., marriage and family are perceived at best as options. There are longer periods of singleness; there is much more divorce and more single parent families. Family life is central to Judaism and to transmission of Jewish 'values; children are vital to Jewish survival. The community sort of knows this but has failed to invest in and create philosophies and value articulations to encourage family life (the Petchek center of the American Jewish Committee is just starting to develop this area). The community has failed to provide social networks and help for singles to meet each other. (This would be the equivalent to a modern 'shadchen' agency.) To its credit, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies has just accepted the recommendation of its Commission on Synagogue Relations and taken the first steps in this area. But every community needs such mechanisms, and individual families, synagogues, etc. should be aware and active in this area but for the most part, they are not. Services to single parent families ore weak. There is a" need for help, ranging from day care to lower (or subsidized) tuition in day schools, to summer camp experiences for the parent and children, to provide intensive Jewish 'learning and experience. Not only is little available but the community often makes single parents uncomfortable when they do show up. Instead of instructing two parent families to the significance of their choice, the community and its organizations sometimes set out to 'protect' the traditional family model by attacking or socially slighting singles and single parents. Yet in a society of choice, connecting these groups to the community and serving them, combined with nurturing the two parent family and its values, would give a higher yield — more maintaining of the traditional family as well as connecting the newer groups to Jewish life. Second marriage is very prevalent in the Jewish community precisely because family values are still strong. Help to' single parent families and post-divorce singles — including social introductions — could strengthen this tendency. But the awareness and institutions needed are missing. . Choice means education. A much higher level of knowl-
edge and experience is needed to choose being a Jew in a welcoming majority non-Jewish world. Day schools are the most effective schools in terms of higher level learning and emotional identification. Yet many Jews are barred from this option by the high cost of tuition. JRabbi Arthur Hertzberg long ago proposed free tuition for all, underwritten by the total Jewish community. Instead, the burden continues to fall on the parents who are discouraged by the high cost. Almost all of the Day Schools are available only in an Orthodox (often right-wing Orthodox) version. The Orthodox deserve great credit for their sacrifices to make this available. But there should be options in Conservative, Reform, pluralist, or cultural versions. This will take new organization and funding which the community has not yet undertaken. The vacuum means that only the most dedicated forms are available to the most persevering parents. But in an open society, more options will mean more 'clients' or users, i.e., more Jews. In fact, there will be a higher yield of more committed Jews at the right end of the spectrum when there are more options along the continuum but this is not yet understood. The missing organ.izations are exacting a heavy toll in Jewish survival. The same can be said of outreach. We are missing major needed links. We will need retreat centers for spiritually seeking Jews, for outreach to marginals, for recruiting Jews leadership. (The National Jewish Resource Center is finally creating American Jewry's second retreat center but we need one in every major city or region.) Most of the outreach in Jewish life is being done by Lubavitch, Baal Teshuvayeshivot, etc. Their work should be supported but the mainstream styles of Jewish'living should have a major increase of outreach since they are the most likely choice for Jews who are given a choice. Offering the alternatives of assimilation or very traditional living is less efficient and we lose many Jews. The final example is the area of arts and media. These are highly influential in impact on people's values and in reaching Jews who otherwise are out of^touch. Figures in those worlds are highly impactful role models for. other Jews. Yet there has been little outreach or nurturing of such groups. The National Foundation for Jewish Culture is the leader in this area but its funding has been limited and its programs in this area are relatively recent. More is needed. All this sounds like a staggering agenda of new agencies and institutions. But in the words of Ethics of the Fathers, "The day is short and there is much work but the reward is great ..." In ^an open society, if we reach and nurture all Jews, the levels of commitment, maturity and, creativity will soar. This could be one of the greatest com-' munities in Jewish history. It is getting there. New organization and consciousness will get us there faster and more comprehensively.
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ent, to be sure, but spiritual Parashat Mishpatirn, By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke and legitimate. | When anyone resigns One of the toughest of from a club or organization, these cliches and one that Sabbath Candiellghting for Friday, January 27, 5:15 p.m. he casts about for excuses, clings hardest to life is the for self-justification. Some- "An eye for an eye, a tooth times the excuses hide the for a tooth," contrasted with real reasons. the love of Christianity, EotOa Ec p The same is true in1 more "turn the other cheek," for SERVICES: SERVICES: SERVICES: serious life-choices, such as example. Friday: 7 p.m. Friday: changing political parties. "An eye for an eye" is a Daily and Saturday: Mincha and Kabbalat Friday: 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks, The residents and stuff of One who switches must legal term that appears in Shabbat services 5:15 p.m. Late Friday Night Family Rabbi Stephan F. Barack the Rose Blumkin Home in- fight, fight against the real our Sidrah. As Dr.. Hertz and Cantor Harold I. Fire- vite the families, volunteers or imagined shortcomings points out in his commenservices 8:15 p.m. tary, philosophers and his.. The Oneg Shabbat fol- stone will officiate. Rabbi and friends of the residents of the rejected party. We should not be sur- torians of law recognize the lowing services will be spon- Barack will deliver a Shab- to attend services in the bat message. Herbert Goldsten Syn- prised to find the same syn- term as a limitation on sored by Sisterhood. The Oneg Shabbat fol- agogue. Kiddush following drome, the need for justifi- vengeance, a huge step forSaturday: cation, when one changes ward in human jurisprudMorning service 8:45 a.m. lowing services will be given services on Shabbat. religious faith. Usually the ence: no more than an eye The D'var Torah will be by Ann and Harvey Pickel one who changes is gentle vfor an eye." The punishpresented by Dr. Ira, Pril- in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Davids about his criticism, if any, of ment must fit the crime, not uck. United Ta Saturday: his former faith. (There is serve as a tool of vengeance. Jr. Congregation 10-a.m. the famous Irish bull about And all within a judicial A kiddush follows in the Morning Services 11 a.m. CLASSES The UTTO has resched- the man who moved to Lon- system. social hall. R e l i g i o u s School — uled its Seder Tu Bishevat don and found it advanta-But even the casual Class with the rabbi 4:30 Saturday, Jan. 28 — 9 for Feb. 5, 5:30 p.m. at Beth geous to belong to the ma- reader needs no appeal to lep.m. a.m., Sunday, Jan. 29 — 10 El Synagogue. jority religion. He wrote gal historians and philosoMincha 5:15 p.m. The Seder Tu Bishevat is home: "I have abandoned phers of law. It is simple Mincha is followed by a.m. Shalosh S'udot, Ma'ariv and H e b r e w School — modeled after the Passover the errors of the Church of enough to see how the legal Aleph, Monday, Jan. 30 Seder and concentrates on Rome and adopted those of formula is used: it is used in Havdalah. — 4 and b p.m.; Gimmel, trees, nature, ecology. Tu the Church of England.") a general context on injuries Sunday: On the other hand, one and the damages assessed, a Morning Minyanaire serv- Monday, Jan. 30 — 4 and 5 Bishevat, also known as the p.m.; Bet, Wednesday, Feb. New Year of Trees and Jew- who changes his faith is context that is ignored only ices 9 a.m. SERVICES: Breakfast and "Exploring 1 — 4 and 5 p.m.; Daled, ish Arbor Day, is observed sometimes vicious, as Jews at the price of intellectual First and third Friday of Jewish Ideas" with the rabbi Thursday, Feb. 2 — 4 and 5 on the 15th day of the know from a rueful contem- honesty. p.m. month of Shevat. plation of Jewish history, It became a commonplace the month: 7:30 p.m. An follows the service. BAR MITZVAH •The Seder will highlight peppered with a list of for- in traditional Christianity i Oneg Shabbat follows the Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 5:15 David Pickel, son of original poems and readings mer Jews who, indeed, vi- of one kind of Isolate a Biblservice. p.m. Harvey and Ann Pickel, by students in grade 5 who ciously slandered Judaism. ical verse here or another become a Bar Mitzvah have prepared narrative and It may be said, fairly, that there and pull it out of con© © o o o o o o o o O O O O O O O O O will during Shabbat Services singing portions of the early Christianity exhibited text. This was done with our O Friday and Saturday, Jan. Seder, under the direction of the same syndrome. It char- verse, "an eye for an eye." ! SAMS. : o 27 and 28. teachers Margo Riekes, acterized Judaism — now But intellectual honesty o Walter Feidman and abandoned and rejected — requires looking at the conBlanche Wise and Cantors as spiritually blind, ethi- text, to see in what sense the SERVICES: Emil Berkovits and Leo cally insensitive, and mater- legal term is used. One has A growth-oriented 65-year-old industrial o Services are conducted in Fettman. ialistic, a tool of the devil. It to go back only a few verses © and institutional products firm seeks an o the Capehart Chapel every During the Seder partic- went so far as to penetrate individual capable of earning in excess of © at 8 p.m. An Oneg ipants will taste several dif- the mind of God arid dis- to find what we would callo Friday the beginning of a paraShabbat follows the service. (30,000 per year for a selected opening in © ferent varieties of nuts, cover that He too had re- graph or" the beginning "of o the local area. We need sales people fruits and wine and will jected Jews and Judaism. the subject. o capable of rapid.growth so we can conThe "true Israel" is no,w The subject is injury, rehave a dairy meal. o tinue to expand at our fast pace. Our Reservations must be Christianity. sponsibility, and compeno Friday:" 8 p.m. success is the result of giving each Sales made February 1, by calling By tendentious choice of sation. Compensation, not Representative the opportunity to reach the school office (553-3221). passages, it contrasted the mutilation. It becomes clear o Cost is $4.00 per adult and harshness of the "Old"' Tes- immediately that the text is full potential. Also available are excellent o $2.00 for pre-Bar/Bat-Mitz- tament with the sweetness talking about personal infringe benefits and formal field training. o vah children. and love of the "New" Tes- jury. And when the court — No overnight travel. o SERVICES: tament. Fifth graders include: note: the court — has deFor a personal and confidential interview • Q Derek Altman, Tanya This picture of contrast termined responsibility, the Friday: 8 p.m. call: Beckerman, Kevin Binia- came down in traditional responsible person is liable o Oneg Shabbat Victor Mashbein mow* Robyn Fox, Melissa Christianity. As late as to compensation for mediSaturday: o Monday & Tuesday after 9:00 a.m. Kirke, Troy Meyerson, Ja- World War II (!) the Jewish cal expenses, pain, and o Services 9 a.m. son Rosenberg, Aaron Wax, Welfare Board protested to loss of earning capacity 402-S97-9005 o Sherri Zucker, also", Beth its Catholic colleagues on during physical incapacity. MANTEK 6 Bailen, Andrew Bessinger, the Chaplaincy Board and And if there has been per©1981 Minlek. 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Furjds earmarked fbr winter woes The Federal Emergency r'khow we've already looked ct 1934, but this time I Management Agency has thought we wight take a different approach. For instance, given Nebraska $100,000 to there was En article hi the Jewish Press in January of be distributed for food and that year .titled Humc-nily Served by Jewish Savants, tub housing, according to Jean title: The.Contributions of American Jews to the (steady Ann Krupinsky, liEsislant to . the director, ADL/CRC. progress of scientific knowledge dm ing the past year. . Mrs..Krupincky, the repAnd on the editorial pajjo, we wore told: Jewish people can take pride in selection of Jlepty Morganthau Jr. ca resentative of the Jewish Secretary of Treasury. He is not the fiict'Juw to oerve in Federation of Omaha, met such a lofty capacity. One Oscar Strauss wao Secretary of with a panel of 12 in Lincoln Commerce and Labor in Theodore Roosevelt'o cabinet was Jan. 16 to discuss the disfirst- Another story in that section of the Press advised that tribution of the funds. The Omaha area will reJews world over muot reckon with anti-Semitic feelings . . . approximately This little item interested rne: a gesture of understanding ceive and good will was found in the announcement that the Dutch government ordered ko3her meat served to the Jewish unemployed instead of the tinned nqq-kosher meat, as, previously ordered. By Rove ©reel* •There was also a story called A Word Portrait of Dr. A very pleasant afternoon Chaim Weizmann, Chairman of the Central Committeefor was enjoyed by all on Jan. Settlement of German Jews in Palestine. Of course there wa3 horns town news — cuch as a large 12. Our speaker wa3 Rabbi ad telling that Nicholas Mavrikes, boy violin genius whose Brooks and we all were so left hand was insured for one million dollar, wps to appear pleased with the program. A in concert at the Fontenelle Ballroom. The 16-year-old was very delicious chicken lunch was served by all our capaacclaimed by music critics world over, unquote. . Once before we heir ; i!:at waa the year mixed swimming ble volunteers. Thanks to Sally Venger started at the JCC. Did I tell you Al Oruch was the infor taking over the Study . etructor at the natatoriura? (Like that word?) In March of that year, Rabbi David Goldstein chose to Group while Anne Katzman speak on the subject What Enabled the Jewish People To is spending the winter Survive. One wonders if in decades to follow the rabbi had months in Florida. The attendance has been very good any further thoughts on the subject. Binstein & Lipman announced new cash and carry prices for this group end it is so . . . flankin for 8$ per pound, rolled smoked meat 40$. And interesting for all.who atthe Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol burned their mortgage. Ma- tend. Millie Zavett has presided zoltov. Also mazeltov to the Krantz family . . . Howard was over the meetings for Meyer born. And that's the way it was, 50 years ago. Green. Meyer is vacationing in Texas and Mexico. The •Ralston High School Swing Choir entertained on Jan. NEW YORK — The site statutory authority." American Jewish CommitThe proposed revision, 16. These young people were tee and the Anti-Defama- according to the joint state- very good and the music was tion League of B'nai B'rith ment, would deprive the enjoyed by all. Plans are underway for a have called on the U.S. Of- public of full and fair presfice of Budget and Manage- entation on issues of general 10 day trip to New Orleans with Mollie. The date is ment to rescind a ruling concern and importance, March- 20 and5 Mollie has " ^ g y ^ d d 1 maintained, would impose t it will have a chilling 'stfriie ' wbhddrful' 'Aide'' trips planned. We will be the - serious restrictions on the effect by creating an atmosrights of non-profit organi- phere of confusion and mis- guests of Rabbi Weinstein's zations to participate in the trust. Non-profit organiza- Temple in Baton Rouge. public policy arena." tions may hesitate to The trip includes stops in exercise their right to be Tennessee, Mississippi, The new ruling, a revision heard on issues that affect' Oklahoma and Texas. Many of a former circular, .the orthem, and those they serve of us are looking forward to ganizations stated, was "vague, imprecise and confus- because they fear violating ing," and "would disallow, a regulation not clearly defor purposes of federal reim- fined." The organizations' statebursement, certain public policy activities currently, ment was submitted by Jefconsidered legitimate and frey P. Sinensky, Director of appropriate." It would make ADL's Legal Affairs Deunallowable the costs asso- partment, and Samuel Raciated with certain lobbying binove, AJC's Legal Director. and related activities.
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this trip. We wish all of our Seniors who are off to the warmer climate a very enjoyable vacation. Some are off to San Diego, Phoenix, Scottsdale and Florida. A big thank you to Lillian Duenser for her volunteer work.
Meyerson Distributing, wholesale distributors of consumer electronics and appliances, will move its warehouse and offices to the John Deere Building, 912 Howard Street.
By EstelSe Kosesberg' The Lincoln Chapter of Hadassah welcomes a new member to join the chapter, she is Patty Plotnick, end she resides at 6120 Randolph.
dassah project. She will be in touch with all members who have signed up and will be arranging for convenient meeting times. It is not too late to eiyu up so just call Shirley Grant, at 483-5260.
Shirley Grollman will be teaching bridge for the Ha-
Jeffrey and Betty Mellen announce the birth of a son, David Benjamin, bom Jan. 10. Tfiey also have a daughter, Erinn. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Julius Misle, and Mrs. Marilyn Mellen of Omaha. Great-grandmother, Mrs. Ben Misle, of Lincoln.
to start JoAnn Furary, volunteer coordinator, has announced that Family Advocate Training begins Feb. 20 at the Child Saving Institute, 115 So. 46th Street. "This program matches volunteers from the community with families who need a support or friend who cares about them. By providing parents with a positive relationship, the Family Advocate will help them gain the confidence to trust another person and accept themselves as worthwhile individuals."
Please note for your calendar the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood meeting originally scheduled for Feb. 7 has been changed to Feb. 14.
Council Dluffs Q'epJ loirael Synagogue seeks donations of Union "Prayer Book for Jewish Worship Part t and Part 2. Please leave at JCC reception; desk. • ' •
Bobbi Leibowitz has recently become a licensed Sales Associate with CBS Real Estate Company. She is located at the Boardwalk office — 1243 South 119 Street.
Worship services will be held at the South Street Temple, Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. Social Action speaker Norman Francis, Lancaster County Civil Defense. Following services Ones Shabbat hostess ia Ilse Rosenberg.
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Israeli play captivates British By Helena Ftusfeder When leading Israeli ploywrfght Joshua Sobol sat down Mys.r S Kri,>Le, is entitled "Philo&opLcro and Poets: in the sutamer of 181 to write the ploy The Jewish Soul', he could not have foreseen the controversy (and eucccss) What, 0 What is God?" which the play would stir. BEEABBREAKER8 The play, which portrays the life of Otto Weiningcr, a Alvin Abrarason will tpsak to B'naifi'rith Bread- 20th century Viennese philosopher and psychologist, lias breakers, Wednesday at P'been performed more tlist 140 thnea in Israel over the past noon in Howard Johnson's year, and was enthusiastically received at the recent Edinrestaurant. He will diccu8s burgh Festival in fjkoiland. It was the uprise of anti-Semitism in Europa in 1931 his recent trip to Israel and Egypt. The public may at- which prompted Joshua Sobol to re-read Weininger's writings. At first, Sobol wanted to write a play about antitend. Semitism hut he soon realized that he was not so interested SOCIETY OF in Qnti-SDmitiam as in what it lias done to the Jew. Then suavrvoas he took a closer look at Otto Weininger. The Society of Survivors In 1S03, with his head full of twisted theories about will hold elections Jan. 29,7 women, Jews and Judaism, 23-year old Otto Weininger p.m. at tho home of Bella found an empty room in Vienna which he rented for the Eisenberg, 675 Dillon Drive. sole purpose of committing suicide. Sobol's 'Jewish Soul' No flyers were sent. Mem- focuses on this last night of Wcininger. bers are asked to attend this With the growing threat of anti-Semitism in Vienna at important meeting. the turn of the century, people felt they were up against NEW YORK (JTA) — the choice of either converting to Christianity, or become Dr. Barry Greene of Short Zionists and emigrating to Palestine. The other alternative Hills, N.J. has been elected was, of course, to go on living as if nothing had happened. But Otto Weininger waa unable and unwilling to comchairman of the JWB Commission of Jewish Chap- promise. He was aware of the rampant anti-Semitism and laincy, succeeding Rabbi decided to convert to Christianity, but his troubles were far Herschel Schacter of Yesh- from over. Sobol explained in an interview in hia Tel Aviv iva University of New York. home: "After converting, he (Weininger) found out that nothing changed for him — he couldn't get rid of his Jewish identity". And it is this fact that he is unable to come to termsvvjth. R. GORDON REAL ESTATE However, the other mainly 2-dimsnsionul characters in Complete Real Estate Service the play come to terms with their Jevviohness, or like Weininger's girlfriend, Clara, and hia friend Berger, become infcONALD GORDON volved in Zionism. They see the way to salvation os being in the land of Palestine. B u s : 571-7CS3 SSS5No.S3rdStreat The young genius Otto Weininger eses the world in black and white. For him, everything was divided into two categories: masculine and feminine. As outlined in his book 'Sex and Character' he believed that oil positive, creative character traits were masculine end all negative, chaotic character traits were feminine. ) April is 7@® LATE It becomes only too clear in the course of his thesis, in his conversations with Freud, and in his exchanges with Consultation — Minimum Charge his feminine double in the play (who flits in and out of the mirrored walls), that he hated woman and that for him, $17.50 per Hour Jews were even worse. He shouts in rage: "Women and Jews TRA — "The Right Answer" are zeroes: But at"leastwomen believe in menjjewa don't'
EPSTEIN-! MKG AN POST 2G0 The Epstein-Morgan Post No. 260 Jewish War Veterans of UIB USA will sponsor their monthly live entertainment show at the VA Medical Center, on the 12th floor, Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. On Feb. 14, Post 2G0 JV/V will participate in the Annual Salute to Hospitalized Veterans at tks Omaha VA Medical Center. The celebration is open house from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the public is invited to visit the facility, to greet some of the patients, and show that we care. Tours, entertainment, and food will be the order of the day, according to Iz Lewis, Post 260 VAVS'representatives. HADASSAH The Hadassah Study Group will meet on Feb. 1, at 9:30 a.m. at the Livingston Plaza. The lecture and discussion, led by Rabbi
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(Yclioshua) Sobol, Haifa p l a y w r i g h t whose play ' T h e Jowioli Soul' w a s widely acclaimed at t h e prestigiouo Edinburgh Festival. This w a s t h e first t i m e a n Israeli play w a s selected to b e performed a t tlie Edinburgh Festival. . WZPS photo. the real controversy of the 'Jewish Soul' lies. The play became controversial in Israel because of a brothel scene which was eventually passed by the Film and Theater Censorship Board. Here and there one found a critic complaining that this play about Jewish self-hatred was all Israel needed in fostering its impage abroad. One syndicated col-* umnist called the play 'Packaged anti-Semitism on stage' and thought "The Merchant of Venice ia a mild and innocent pastoral compared to the vicious anti-Semitism of 'A Jewish Soul'". (Cari Alpert's Israel Scene.) In general,however, Israelis;wer§,proud to see the work of one of its.-.
o ^ ^ I i ^ | w ^ ^ | ^ ^ ^ e ° ^ r i c a l groups win international acclaim. Sobol was praised for writing a good play on S • theme both interesting and controversial —and it w a s ^ healthy sign 35 years after statehood that Israelis were prepared to deal with the Jewish question iri the past without fear of accusation or self accusation. Sobol recalled the discussions between people in the audiences: "Some felt that Weininger was ah exception — a story of the distorted Jew. They said, Thank God, we got rid of this sick mentality'. Others got into the discussions about the conflict between Judaism and Zionism". They obviously felt there was something of value, something to be, learnt from the whole production. It also becomes clear that guilt and self-hatred are feelings which all human beings can relate to. •>• ' John Clifford of the Scotsman who described the 'Jewish Soul' as "intellectually enthralling and very deeply moving"-, confirmed this when he wrote that "those of us who are Gentiles inherit a long and terrible tradition of misogyny, and anti-Semitism — we are not strangers to selfhatred, and guilt", i '• Now that the" play has been playing in London, it looks as if the talented playwright'Joshua Sobol may have found the spark to open a dialogue between Jews and non-Jew. One thing is certain — that if Israel's image is to be improved,' Sobol and his actors are making a unique contribution towards'promoting the goal. Those who shun controversy may shun 'Jewish Soul* but critics and lovers of the stage alike have shown that this is the stuff of good drama and as such it brings credit to the Israeli theater.
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DnnccBcape, with the (support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Omaha Modern Dance Collective, will perform two concerts of original choreography at the Jewish Community Center, on Feb. 4, 8 p.m., and Feb. 5, 2:30 p.m. This will be the company's second concert ceason in Omaha since it was established in 1082. The company will perform dance works which ucs the combined techniques of ballet, modern dance, and jazz. The program, conoioting of seven dance works, will include five new pieces and two older works which have previously been performed in Omaha. Choreography by company members Liz Doherty, director of the Jewish Community Center's dance program, Dalienne'Majors, Mary Martin, and Bill Wagner will be featured. Dancers include Ms. Doherty, Ms. Majors, Ms. Martin, and Mr. Wagner, with Ceacy Cook, Lynne Nevin, Nancy StoyRoberts, and Steve S wirczek. Ticket prices for the JCC concerts will be $5 for the general public, $3.50 for JCC and Omaha Modern Dance Collective members, and 01.75 for senior citizens. For further information and reservations, contact Liz Doherty, Jewish Community Center, 334-8200.
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From Pale to Pampa. A Socle] History of the Jew* A new era in dinner show a great deal of expertise and of Buenos Aires. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1982, entertainment is now in the opening night audience 165 pages. Reviewed by Oliver B. Pollak, place ut the Upstairs Dinner ate it up. Vice President, Nebraska Jewish Historical Society. Theatre. This is one of those great Many of the Jews who left Eastern Europe at the turn As the great showman shows that parents may P.T., Barnum might have want to offer their children. of the century went to South America. In 1895 there were said, "Never in the history Special matinee produc- about 7500 Jews in Argentina. Today there ere over 350,000, of show business has so tions are available, but don't 75 percent of whom live in the capital, Buenos Aires. The much talent graced such a wait for "Tomorrow", be- Jews of Argentina may have the same roots as Jews in the cause a good seat will en- United States, however, their political incorporation and tiny stage." This fabricated reference, hance enjoyment of the the security they enjoy ia strikingly different. Argentina's conservative and reactionary political estabof course, refers to the cur- show. (M.M.) lishment was affronted by the influx Eastern European, rent production of Annie pro-socialist laborers. The Russian pogrom was considered nnd the only reason for this "child's play" in comparison to "Tragic Week" in 1919 when typographical hype is to enover 700 Jews were killed and 4,000 injured in Buenos Aires. courage theatergoers not to The more recent violation of the rights of the Zionist newsmiss this production. paper editor Jacobo Timerman is not a novel occurance. Happi Holmes as orphan Sherrill Milnes, acPolitical repression was matched by limited occupational Annie, John Morrisey as claimed as "the all-Ameriand residential mobility. The Jewish community compenDaddy Warbucks, Beth can singing Superstar" and Asbjornson as Grace, "the world's foremost oper- sated for the lack of opportunity by its "quest for comVickey Sayles as Miss Han- atic baritone", will be guest munity" which provided a wide variety of Jewish social nigan, Donald-Brian John- artist Sunday, Feb. 12, at 2 agencies for immigrants and the poor. Pre-1945 probate records indicate that only a few Jews son as Rooster and Seymour p.m. in the Tuesday Musical owned property. A firm Jewish middle and upper class apGoldston as F.D.R. were su- Concert Series presented at peared after 1945, during the Peron year's, as a result of his perb. Omaha's Joslyn Art Mu- industrialization policies. Jewish mobility patterns began Many others in the large seum. to approximate the pattern in the United States. Simulcast handled their roles with Some tickets for the con- taneously Jewish affiliation declined. A 1966 survey recert will be available at the vealed that of 90,000 Jewish youths between 10 and 25 door at $18.50 for adults, years, only 38 percent were affiliated with Jewish instituPHILADELPHIA (JTA) $12.50 for students. Or, a tions. The book is available in the Federation Library. — Charles Conston has special "package" combines been elected president of the Milnes program with United L1t;a the Jewish Exponent," the the final concert of the of the Midlands Jewish Times and Inside Tuesday Musical season — Magazine, succeeding Irvin pianist Rudolph Serkin on Borowaky.who was elected May 2 at 8 p.m. at Joslyn — chairman of the board of the at $35 for adults, $24.50 for publications. students. Sweet & Sour Peris Almond Chicken
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January 27,1984
Huddling in the d_rl:, the mob v,(:its for the command . . . 1, 2, 3 — NOW!! SurprL'.! Another poor innocent guy has just been awakened at 6 am to the faces of 25 girls crowding in his room, telling him that he has just been made a Beau candidate for BBG. i Last Saturday night Ediar BBG and M.Z. Yoshanah BBG held their annual caucus for Beau. Caucus has always been a tradition in BBG that starts at midnight on a bleak day in January, and ends officially eround 8 am the nest day, but doesn't really end until the dance in late May. "Caucus takes a long time, but it's worth it," Marci Blatt, a Burke sophomore, said. Marci is a Beau Dance chairman for Ediar BBG. "We start it late at night because it makes it more of a secret, and everything we say at caucus stays more confidential," Marci said. Although caucus is strictly confidential, Marci said that the secret is sometime3 let out, and people get hurt because of it. .On the other side of tho picture is the newly chosen Beau candidate. o t was definitely a shock," Steve Berman, Central junior, said. Steve was nominated as a candidate for Ediar BBG. "The first thing you think of ia why are 20 or 30 people waking you up at an ungodly hour of the morning," Steve said. Dan Redler, a sophomore at Westside, is a candidate for M.Z. Yoshanah BBG. "When you are dead tired and someone yells WAKE UP and you can't even register faces, you don't know what's going on — you're just stunned," Dan said. Dan said he liked being awakened and he hopes the tradition of waking up the candidates will continue. "Now I know how the girk felt when we did it to them after our caucus," Dan said. The new candidates are as follows: Ediar BBG — Mark Rosenblum, sophomore at Westside; Steve Berman, junior at Central; Eric Tatelman, junior at Burke; and Honorary Alan Widman, senior at Westside. M.Z. Yoshanah — Rich Rosenblatt, sophomore at Burke; Dan Redler, sophomore at Westside; Bob Goldberg, sophomore at Burke; and Honorary Randy Gree'nberg, senior at Burke. Dance chairmen incl&de: Tracy Muskin and Marci Blatt, Ediar BBG; Jennifer Katelman and Wendi Rosenblatt, M.Z. Yoshanah BBG; and Susie Fellman, Cornbelt Regional Beau Dance Chairman. Now that caucus is over, the pressure is relieved and the candidates have until final caucus in May to try to win the title of Beau.
LILLIAN KAHN \ Graveside services were held on Jan. 20 at Temple Israel Cemetery for former Omahan Lillian Kahn of Tulsa, Okla. ^Mrs. Kahn is survived by . a daughter, Mrs. Doris Altman of Tulsa; two grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren. ROY C. FELTMAN Services were held on Jan. 19 at John A. Gentleman Westside Chapel for Roy C. Feltman, 85. Interment was at Temple Israel Cemetery. Mr. Feltman was chairman of the board of Capitol Liquors, Inc. Mr. Feltman is survived by his wife, Barbara J.; daughter, Lana Rey Felt-
When my phone rang the other night I answered to hear my five-year-old grandchild chirp excitedly "Gwandnsa you're 'vited to come to my Echool, see my kinnygarden, see me wead and have lunch with me. And we're having chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy. At 11 o'clock." Of coursie, on the appointed day I went, accompanied by her Mom. It wns delightful. All the "gwandma's and gwandpn's and some parents were there, each receiving hand made name Uljsj8 and seated next to their child. On a kindergarten chejsgjjt. The kind that send your knee3 under your chin. But my little girl was beside me, reading with the other kids, from a story on the board. Yes, reading. And those pitzalach also know their numbers and how to print and I don't know what all. Amazing. Though the teacher looked like a kid herself, as I watched and listened I was impressed with her. Seemed to really know what she was doing, this young woman entrusted with all those minds. I concluded she'd do well with my little girl. At lunchtima, with my hostess holding my hand, we headed for the cafeteria. The tray was outfitted with the promised chicken, mashed potatoes and also jcllo, peas and milk. Because we were company, we were allowed to eat in the library. My kid tied into lunch, interrupting herself only long enough to mind somebody else's business. She ate her favorites, left the peas and somehow got my potatoes transferred to her plate. All the while babbling, happily about anything and everything, pointing out friends and teachers.
Cantor and Mrs. Leo Fettman announce the birth of a granddaughter, Chava, to their daughter, Rachel and son-in-law, Chaim Heifetz, in Israel, Jan. 18. The couple also has a son, Yosef. Mrs. Fannie Chunovic is the maternal great grandmother, and the paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Morty Heifetz, of Cleveland.
This little munchkin entered ichool only .a few months ago, but she's completely at home in her newwp/Jd* She walks confidently down the halls, to this place ancf that, as though she owned the building. She tells-me about going to gym class end jumping on "ebout 100 mattressea . . . it was neet"! She elso confided ehe "forgot to wear her gym shoes," but it was ok. When lunch" and the visit wes over, we kitcc-d goodbye and I left, understanding more end more about nachcs and kvelling. I ctrongly recommend accepting cuch an invitation. It's a wonderful feeling to elmre a grandchild's tehool experience. Very different from the times your own kids announced "you're ouppoeed to come to school tomorrow". That wosoften an effort. This was pure, unedultered joy! Thank you, Masha. I had a wonderful time.
Mltigst and OHynrpc results In the first Midget league game of the day it was Midwest Foods beating" Business Printing 38-15. Mitch Olson led all scorerswith 16 pts. for Midwest FoodB.
In the Olympic league Vann Realty defeated Belgrade Co. 46-42. Vann Realty was led by Scott Bream with 26 pts. Scott Woodford had 26 pta. for Belgrade. In the second game In the second game of the (^race-Mayer-Joffe-Kully afternoon City Glasa beat and Grossman defeated I- Youngtov/n 48-41. City Go-Van 25-23. David Mas- Glass was led by Jeff Robchino and Tom Hellisgo erta with 26 pts.; Jeff Ernst were the leading scorers for had 11 pto. and Chuck Katz Grace-Mayer with 11 and 10 had 10 pts. For Youngtown pto. respectively. David Skid it was Scott Muskin with 13 was the leading scorer for I- pts. and Jeff Huston with 10 Go-Van with 14 pts. pts.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Armin Friedman, principal of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach, New York, has been elected president of the Educators Council of America.
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