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Bond Judith Steel, internationally known singing artist, will appear at the Lincoln Dinner of State on Aug. 25 on behalf of State of Israel Bonds, as part of the annual festive Israel Bond drive in Lincoln. Born in Berlin, Ms. Steel as an infant embarked with her parents aboard the illfated "St. Louis," the ship which was refused asylum in Cuba and forced to return to Europe. Her parents eventually perished in the Holocaust but she was hidden through World War II by a French Catholic family and finally united with relatives in the.United States following the War. Ms. Steel was raised in America arid became an internationally recognized performer with a wide repertoire of contemporary and traditional folk songs in Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Ladino, Spanish and French. Her interest in Hebrew songs was kindled by a visit to Israel in 1974, on the occasion of her son's Bar Mitzvah, as well as by her early experience as a Holocaust survivor. Ms. Steel has performed at concert halls*, and resorts throughout the Eastern United States, has been a frequent guest on radio and has appeared in behalf of many wellknown Jewish organizations. Her vocal ability arid audience rapport have been much admired, by critics and listeners alike: ' •The Israel Bond Organization is a major source^ of ^development capital for Israel, haying provided over. $6.7.billion since its inception to help build every aspect of the

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Grants Committee sc By Jerold Rosen Federation Foundation Director Jewish organizations and institutions sponsoring programs designed for youth from the ages of preschool through college, and for Jewish young adults, may apply for funds from the Esther K. Newman and Carolyn Kully Newman Grants committee. The committee allocates funds from the Esther K. Newman Trust for programs designed to strengthen Jewish identity and values through education, religious, cultural, social, or recreational activities. Particular emphasis is placed upon new and innovative programming. In addition, funds are available from the Carolyn Kully Newman fund, which was designed to provide programs for Jewish chil-

dren of kindergarten age or younger, and their families. Distributions may also be made to purchase equipment, supplies and materials for such programs. Marvin Polikov, committee chairman, advises the deadline for submitting requests is August 16. Sponsoring groups are encouraged to participate financially or in-kind. In addition, it is hoped organizations will work together to provide programs that meet the needs of a cross-section of Jewish youths. Application forms have been mailed to all organizations and institutions working with Jewish youth. Additional forms and assistance in completing the forms can be obtained by contacting the writer at the Foundation office, 334-8200.

. 24 at JCC Judith Steel nation's .economy. Israel Bond proceeds, channelled through Israel's Development Budget, help to finance industrial and agricultural projects, the construction of highways and harbors, the expansion of communications and transport, the building of new towns and the development of new sources of energy. "The whole Lincoln community is invited to enjoy Ms. Steel," Bond Chairman Yale Gptsdiner said. "It will be a lovely evening and a wonderful honor to our good friends Eleanor and Max Neiden."

Sharon Cipperley, (right) president, National Council of Jewish Women, Omaha Section, presents a check from her organization to Toby Kagan, leader of the older adult programs for the Bureau of the Aging.

By Kevin Freeman NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of New York said it welcomed the suit filed against it by the" Jews for Jesus group as a means of exposing the activities of the missionary group. > "We welcome the suit as an effort to expose them and their tactics,", said Julius Berman, chairman of the JCRC task force on missionaries and cults. "We seek an honest disclosure of the organization." Jews for Jesus filed suit in State Supreme Court in Manhattan yesterday against the JCRC and several of its executive officers charging that the Jewish group had violated its civil rights by urging rabbis on Long Island to try to stop the missionaries from holding an interfaith seder last Passover. Berman, speaking at a news conference for the Jewish media at the offices of the JCRC, dismissed the suit as "a thinly veiled attempt to stifle our efforts for full disclosure to educate Jews and'non-Jews alike as to the true nature, intent and tactics of Jews for Jesus." He asserted that Jews for. Jesus "utilizes deceptive practices and distortion to ensnare unwary people and blurs the distinctions' between Christianity'and Judaism. Their activities lead to tensions between these two great faiths and undermines the integrity of both systems." I Nonetheless, a spokesperson for Jews for Jesus charged the JCRC, with violating their civil rights when it distributed the memorandum to Long Island rabbis, who, the spokesperson said, "intimidated some pastors" and local businessmen to prevent Jews for Jesus from gaining access to establishments in Nassau and Suffolk counties.

"Jewish Life Around the World", an exhibition of 50 photographs by world re; nowned photographer Arthur Leipzig, opened a t The Jewish Community Center Gallery on July 28 and will remain on view through August 24. Countries covered in this exhibition are Ethiopia, Hungary, India, Israel, Morocco, Rumania and Tunisia (the island of Djerba), Leipzig, whose works have appeared in many of the country's major museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, travelled 12 years throughout the world driven by a personal commitment to capture his subject. ' The purpose of this photo essay, according to the photographer, is to "explode false stereotypes and myths concerning the geographic distribution, class, economics and race" of the Jewish people, and to present Jews as a diverse people of many colorations in many lands and embracing many different cultures and customs. At the same time, the exhibit shows the ties that

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bind Jews together —"reli-' gion, ritual, commitment. A poTtion of Leipzig's work is also in the tradition of Roman Vishniac, the celebrated photographer who captured so many Eastern European Jewish communities before they perished in the Holocaust. Leipzig has photographed vibrant and thriving Jewish communities such as Israel and the United States, but, like Vishniac, he has photographed Jewish communities which are in decline or threatened with extinction . . . such as Romania, India, Ethiopia. "Jewish Life Around the World" consists of 50 orig-

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inal photographs selected from a showing of 150 exhibited at the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts in Roslyn, New York. The Museum show was made possible in part by a grant from National United Jewish Appeal, which supports a network of programs and services in aid of the Jewish communities pictured in this exhibit. This exhibit is part of the Omaha Arts West, the signature of the cultural and performing arts programming at the Jewish Community Center. For more information on this exhibit, please call Alan Potash at 334-8200.

Susan Perlman, information officer for Jews for Jesus, both faiths. Berman and other JCRC officials indicated that "the asserted in a telephone interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency yesterday that the organization has "no JCRC stjrongly supports the constitutional guarantees of arguments with the JCRC." But, she added, "When a group religious freedom for all." Malcolm Hoenlein, JCRC execof rabbis decides what the Jewish community should and utive director, said, however, that "they cannot pretend to shouldn't hear that is violating our civil rights. That is not be a Jewish organization. We demand that level of honesty only unethical but it is illegal." She added that the group and disclosure." does not seek a "financial windfall" but "minimum" monThe Jews for Jesus group was founded in 1973 and has etary damages. The suit seeks $100 in damages and reim- its headquarters in San Francisco. It has recently purchased bursement for attorney's fees and court costs. a seven story building in midtown Manhattan and engages The memorandum that the JCRC sent to a number of in the distribution of handbills in New York and other maLong Island rabbis warned that the Jews for Jesus was jor cities where it maintains offices. seeking a site to conduct a seder and service. "Please conThe fliers distributed by Jews for Jesus, according to tact your Christian colleagues," the memorandum said. JCRC officials, distort traditional beliefs. Seders conducted "Impress upon them how serious an affront these Hebrew by the group contain "Christological overtones," said the Christian groups are to the Jewish community." JCRC, citing the following examples; the three matzot on The memorandum also .urged the rabbinical leaders to the seder plate are said to represent the trinity, and the contact catering establishments in the area "and ask the broken afikomen, the crucified Jesus. cooperation of the management in not renting to these Furthermore, the JCRC charges that Jews for Jesus, "by groups." .. • , ^ virtue of sheer numbers, has taken over the Hillel at the The suit contends that the memorandum had "a re- University of Texas at El Paso, and in Miami, Florida, they straining, chilling and inhibiting effect" and was in viola- purchased a section of a Jewish cemetery — all in an attion of New York civil rights laws guaranteeing "the full tempt to gain credibility as legitimate members of the Jewand equal usage" of public places regardless of "race, creed, ish community. This is just the tip of the iceberg." color or national origin." Jews for Jesus did not hold its JCRC officials describe the missionary group as a well seder on Long Island, instead staging it in New Jersey. organized, professional operation with substantial funds, The beliefs and activities of Jews for Jesus and other so- estimated in the several millions of dollars.. Hoenlein called Hebrew Christian groups have fallen under criticism claimed that some support for Jews for Jesus comes, from by Jewish'and some Christian leaders, who assert that such fundamentalist Christian groups, although he did not specbeliefs negate the uniqueness and deny the legitimacy of ify which groups.

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — tent. Diaspora Jewry is shrinking He Baid the negative derapidly and by the year 2000 mographic trends in the will number only eight mil- diaspora go hand-in-hand lion compared to 9.7 million with what he called the "laJews who presently live out- mentable" state1 of Jewish side Israel, according to education abroad. A higii Minister of Labor and Wel- proportion of diaspora Jews fare Moshe Katzav. receive no meaningful JewBy 2025, the end of I he ish education at all, Katzav first quarter of the next cen- said, tury, there could be aa few "The crisis is much more as five million Jews left in urgent than people tend to the diaspora, Katzav realize. Whole communities warned in the course of an will disappear. What has address to the Zionist Gen- been preserved over centueral Council which ended u ries of suffering is in danger week-long meeting here Fri- of fading away. Every Jew in day. He said the forecast the world is duty-bound to was based on scientifically ask himself what his life's conducted studies by de- purpose is as a Jew," Katzav mographic experts at his said. ministry. His own prescription is The cause of the shrink- aliya. "Philanthropic conage will not be aliya to Israel tributions are no substitute but the erosion of Jewish for oliya," the Likud minpopulation by a low birth ister said. He sounded the rate, assimilation and inter- long familiar criticism of Zimarriage, Katzav said. He onist leaders in the diaspora stressed the contrasting de- who fail to heed their own mographics of diaspora preachings by not settling in Jewry and Israel. Today, Israel. The rising generation children under age 14 com- in Israel is not prepared to prise only 15 percent of accept the traditional posidiaspora Jews compared to tion of diaspora Zionist 30 percent of the Jewish lenders, he said. population in Israel. ProjOne of a long series of resected to the year 2000, the olutions adopted at the close difference will be 12 percent of the Zionist General to 26 percent respectively, Council meeting urged overhe said. sens Zionist leaders to set a Katzav, one of the personal example by immiyounger generation of lead- grating to Israel. Other resers in the Herut branch of olutions called for strengthLikud, noted, further that ening Zionist youth the Jewish population movements and the recruitabroad is aging rapidly ment of olim; a wide ranging while the opposite is true in program in Israel and overIsrael where births outnum- seas for the resumption of ber deaths and intermar- Jewish emigration from the riage is virtually non-exis- Soviet Union; and for action

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to reduce "drop outs" — Jews who decide to settle elsewhere than in Israel after leaving the USSR. The resolutions also called on the government to make aliya more attractive by alloting State lands to immigrants on which to build. They addressed the other side of the aliya coin — yerida — the emigration of Israelis to permanent residence abroad. The resolutions maintained that the drain of brains and manpower can be stemmed by offering appropriate housing and work facilities for Israelis, especially the young generation. The resolutions called for strengthening Zionist education abroad and recommended implementation of a decision.by the 29th World Zionist Congress to allocate, funds for this purpose to the Conservative and Reform movements in the interests of Jewish religious and cultural pluralism. Another major gathering of Israeli and overseas Jews, the annual General Assembly of the Jewish Agency, opened here today. President Chaim Herzog, just returned from a visit to his na^ tive Ireland, was on hand to greet the 600 delegates, observers and guests. The Assembly is the supreme body of the Jewish Agency. Half its members * are appointed by the World Zionist Organization, 30 percent by the United Jewish Appeal and 20 percent by the United Israel AppealKeren Hayesod. The Assembly will last through next Thursday and has on its agenda the Jewish Agency budget, rural settle-

ment, immigration and absorption, Youth Aliya, Project Renewal and Jewish education. The delegates will be ad-

Kibbitzing and blood pressure checking are part of the routine for participants in the walking club at the Jewish Community Center. The group meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 a.m. at the rear of the JCC. Seated from left are: Al Oruch, Dave Shukert, Vera Bernstein, Ida Halperin and Yale Halperin. Standing from left are Esther Bloom and Ida Forbes.

Unrealistic fear of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is believed to be a cause of the slight drop in blood donations nationwide. Some people may have the mistaken impression that giving blood can expose them to AIDS. : The Nebraska Medical Association aays there is no AIDS, risk associated with

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donating blood, because asked to voluntarily refrain .blood centers routinely use from donating blood. They sterile and disposable equip- include people with sympment. toms and signs of AIDS, The chance of acquiring such as severe night sweats, AIDS through a blood unexplained fever, unextransfusion, where you are pected weight loss and swolreceiving blood, is less len glands; sexually active than one in a mil- homo-sexual or bisexual lion . . . and this chance is men with multiple partners; decreasing because of the recent Haitian immigrants; screening process begun last; abusers of intravenous drugs; and sexual partners year. People at increased risk of of those at increased risk of developing AIDS have been AIDS.

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Tuesday, August 6: Old Timers 10 a.m. Beth Israel Sisterhood Bd. Mtg. 2nd BBYO Regional Rush (everybody)

Thursday, August 8: JCC Executive Comm. Mtg. 4 p.m. Dance Comm. Mtg. 7:30 p.m. Walk-in Drop-in Beth El 10 a.m. Ediar & AZA #1 Rush Music Comm. Mtg.'7:30 p.m.

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On behalf of the Shalom Omaha Newcomer Committee, we want to extend a personal invitation for you to join us at the Jewish federation's Summer Pootside Newcomer DinnertVThi's casual event will he a chance to meet some members of our community, as well as other newcomers. \)/e will also talk very briefly about some of the programs currently happening in Omaha.

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e Evgeny Aisenberg of Kharkov, shown with his wife Marina, is the latest unofficial Hebrew teacher in Russia to be sentenced for the patently false charge of "anti-Soviet slander", according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The 33 year-old computer engineer was given 2 1/2 years.

tfckte Epstein & Leahy, 300 Tarzana in Tarzana, Calif., First Westside Bank Build- associated with American ing, 222 So. 72nd Street, an- Medical International. nounces the association of Mr. Kimmel will be reCynthia E. Epstein with the sponsible for the executive law firm. Ms. Epstein re- management of the facility, cently received a master of including its growth and laws in taxation degree from progress, the press release Boston University School of said. Law. , Mr. Kimmel has been associated with Sinai Hospital in Detroit, the University of Former Omahan Arnold Nebraska Hospital and N. Kimmel has been named Clinics -and the New York hospital executive director City Health and Hospital of the Medical Center of P Corporations.

By Nancy Pearlman Sharon's new assistant, Bert Benson, has been enjoying Sunday drives with residents, with a stop for ice cream. They went to visit Remington Heights with new volunteer Lucille Frohm for a tour and visit with Remington resident Lena Grossman. Lucille also helped with the Bunch to Lunch. Speaking of same, we want to thank the Caniglia family for being so gracious to that group. One Wednesday they had lunch at the Drawing Room in Millard, and the following week they enjoyed a repast at Mr. C's. Many thanks to George Schapiro and Herb Forbes who accompanied. The occasion also marked the 62nd anniversary of Ann and Lew Ellis, Bo Mr. Caniglia treated everyone to ice cream. To top the afternoon off, after the Bunch sang to the Ellises, they enjoyed a delicious poppy seed cake baked by pur volunteer Georgia Ostrow. There is a musician in residence at the JCC from , Israel, Dari Apotecker, who entertained the residents with her guitar and Jewish songs. Fitness week has taken on special proportions with the LOVE funded program '"Seniorcize". Coralee Bell, who is an expert on senior exercise, came and talked and demonstrated new exercises for wheel chair folks as well as ambulatory participants. They also watched films about health

before the class. Welcome back to Rachel Bleicher at Bingo. Jennie tjear has been over to help folks with Bingo on Mondays and to bring some residents to the Young Energetic Seniors. More lap robes have come in, thanks to Mrs. Rosenblatt, Reva Oruch and Ruth Ullman (all the way from Grand Rapids, Mich.) to add to our holiday boxes intended for Jewish patients in other nursing homes. We appreciate the help that Georgia Ostrow and Celia Blank have so faithDanny and Robbie Millimet fully given at meal times pouring coffee. They have Robbie and Danny Milli- He also plays golf and bowls more than done their share. met will each celebrate his and enjoys other sports. Celia is also planning to get Bar Mitzvah at Beth El Danny is twinning his Bar out another volunteer news- Synagogue on Aug. 9 and 10. Mitzvah with Leonid Gelfletter very soon, so watch The brothers are the sons of gat of the Ukrainian SSR. for it. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond MilRobbie, also an honor stuThanks to Ernie Pries- limet and grandsons of Sue dent, will be a ninth grade man for taking over the Millimet of Los Angeles and student at Millard North Tuesday Sing-a-long for me Mac Newmark of Delray High School. He plays, saxon the 16th. I went to meet Beach,'Fla. ophone in the school band my mother (Ruth Ullman) Danny, an honor'student, and enjoys sports, particuand niece who came to visit, will be an eighth grader at larly golf and bowling. Roband they both joined the Millard North Junior High bie is twinning his Bar Sing-a-long the following School where he plays the Mitzvah with Ilya Protoweek. We always welcome clarinet in the school band. pppov of Moscow. visitors to join us for a singCLEVELAND (JTA) EAST ORANGE, N.J. ing good time. Watch for a family eve- (JTA) — Rabbi Ellen Rabbi Frederick Eisenberg ning on Aug. 22. They are Lewis, formerly associate has been named rabbi of always a treat for the resi- rabbi of Temple Emanu-El Temple Israel of Greater of Dallas, has been named Cleveland, the city's newest dents and everyone else. The chorus group was de- rabbi of Temple Sinai of Reform congregation. lighted to see Shirley Summit, a major Reform TOLEDO, O. (JTA) — Schwartz back at the piano congregation. Sandra Berliner of Toledo, again after a long absence ordained at the Reconstucfollowing her husband's Cigarette.Connection heart surgery. We're glad to The American Cancer Society tionist Rabinical College in report that all is well with estimates that cigarette smok- June, has accepted the poIrv, and thanks to Leif Er- ing is responsible for more than sition of rabbi at Tifferes ickson's mother for filling in 75 percent of all lung cancer B'nai Israel in Warrington, Pa. on the 88.

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A number of reports from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency point to September as a time of decision for arms.sales to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Reagan Administration has stated that no decision will be made before next fall on requests by Jordan and Saudi Arabia to buy sophisticated American arms. "Both Jordan and Saudi Arabia have informed us of their current defense needs and these remain under review," State Department deputy spokesman Charles Redman said. Meanwhile, the House — in closed session — was presented with the Administration's Middle East arms transfer study which is expected to be the basis for U.S. arms sales to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The study reportedly includes a "threat analysis" of the danger posed to Israel by potential arms sales to Arab countries, and a similar examination of the threats to Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The threat to Jordan is mainly from Syria, and the threat to Saudi Arabia is from Iran and the Soviet Union. Just before the study was presented to the House, Rep. Tom Lantos (D. Calif.) issued a warning to Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. Rep. Lantos told Mr. Murphy that a Reagan Administration decision to sell sophisticated arms to Jordan and Saudi Arabia will result in a "total fiasco" for the Administration's current Mideast peace efforts. Lantos said he thought it was a poor time now to go ahead with the peace process because of all the problems Israel has, particularly its economic crisis. Proposing an arms sale to Jordan and Saudi Arabia ' will make matters worse. • "This will push our overstrained democratic ally (Israel) into a renewed arms race," he said. So we have on the one hand an obviously strained Israel which simply cannot afford to keep pace with the insatiable desires of neighboring Arab countries for sophisticated armament. This is a clear and present danger — free from doubt. And on the other hand, we are told that Jordan must defend itself against Syria and Saudi Arabia must defend herself against Iran and the Soviet Union. This is neither clear, nor a present danger, Iran is preoccupied with its war against Iraq, and the, Soviet Union has made neither overt or covert moves against Saudi Arabia. There is plenty of doubt on this point. "The United States' role should be directed toward bringing about peace between Israel and her neighbors. A strong peace in the region would offer the best defense against the aggressive moves whether they come from Syria, Iran, or the Soviet Union. Shalom is what is needed —. not Fl5s, not F16s, and not F20s. "

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HAIFA — The recent death in Montreal of Bernard M Bloomfield, at the age of 80, not only brought to a close an extraordinary chapter in the history of support for Israel, but also marked the beginning of a new chapter which may very well record achievements no less sensational. To the man in the street in Israel, the name of Bloomfield is almost automatically associated with the big soccer stadium in Jaffa which bears his name. It was constructed over 20 years ago, and more than half the money came from the Bloomfields. Additional funds were recently made available to add 5,000 more seats as well as new facilities for the teams and for the media. But the historian will ever associate the name of Bloomfield with that of the Lady Davis Fund, which in the past two decades has contributed to Israel the staggering sum of almost 50 million dollars — all this under the direction and supervision of Bernard Bloomfield, who headed the fund. • The story can be told briefly. Mortimer Davis, a Canadian Jew, who became president of the Imperial Tobacco Co., married a San Francisco girl, Henrietta Myers by name. When he was knighted by the throne for his services to the British Empire, she became Lady Davis. The couple were later divorced, but she retained her title and remained in Montreal. Bloomfield, and his late brother Louis, served as her advisers, and thanks to their wise counsel her private fortune was increased. Upon her death in 1963 the Bloomfields continued to execute her wishes, and made periodic grants, largely to health and education. Beneficiaries in Canada included St. Francis Xavier University, the AfroAsian Institute, the Montreal Jewish General Hospital and other causes, but the bulk of the allocations were made to Israel, There was a time when the late Pinhas Sapir, Minister of Finance, sought to persuade Bloomfield to transfer the entire fund to Israel where the government would see to it that it would be "well administered." Bloomfield refused, and the record speaks for itself. Besides the 50 million dollars which have been made available for construction of 17 Amal trade schools, for hospitals, university chairs, fellowships and vital buildings at the Technion, the Hebrew University, Bar I.Ian University and others, the Lady Davis Foundation has tripled its own capital value, thus increasing its potential for further major contributions. The new chapter begins as Bloomfield's widow, Mrs. Neri Bloomfield, assumes the post as president of the Foundation, heading a board of 15 Canadian Jews, as required in

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To the Editor: The Committee for Soviet Jewry is asking for your help in writing to refuseniks and dissidents in the Soviet Union. Letter writing sessions will be held every first and third Wednesday night at the JCC beginning Aug. 7, at 7:30. Help a less fortunate fellow Jew by giving an hour of your time each month. "*• . Ruth Potash

By M. J. Rosenberg Near East Report ' Mary McGrory, the syndicated columnist, writes that we now know what Shi'ite terrorists can "do to us. They kidnapped and murdered our people. They have blown up our embassy. In 1980, the Ayatollah Khomeini did as much as anybody to determine the outcome of our Presidential election and^the course of history." She asks if it is now appropriate to "find out what it is all about." Her conclusion is far from flattering to Shi'ite Moslems and will provide little comfort to those apologists who insist that if we could only "understand these people" terrorism would cease. McGrory noints out that Shi'ites have been oppressed through the ages. "They constitute barely a tenth of all Moslems, have been hounded and persecuted for centuries. According to a Polish writer named Ryszard Kapucinski, 'They live in memory of the centuries of pogroms against them, and so they close themselves off in ghettos, use signals only they understand, and devise conspirational forms of behavior.'" . .. McGrory notes that "Ayatollah Khomeini is their leader. His revolution in Iran, which to Western eyes brought in a dark time of>tyranny, backwardness, and isolation, is a shining triumph to the Shi'ites, who hope to repeat it in Lebanon." - - • - . . • McGrory goes on to quote some of the Shi'ite extremists' diatribes against the United States and Israel, and then she stops. "Understanding" may not be the answer. As she puts it." "There is of course a limit to understanding terrorists. You can read the history of Ireland and in a'single"chapter about Oliver Cromwell discover why hatred and bitterness have endured for so many centuries. But after a while, the Why, doesn't matter" (emphasis added). .;• \ She concludes that "we should... inform ourselves somewhat about the inflamming certainties of Islam', which con-

the by-lht.£>. Bloomfield on't told this writer that neither he nor his brother had much association with Zionist affairs until 1943, when lie met and married the much younger Neri Loewy, daughter of a well-known Rumanian Zionist family, who had settled in Canada. "She taught me the love of Zion," he told us, and the results were soon obvious. Neri Bloomfield has had a distinguished career of service of her own. She served as chairman of the UJA Women's Division in Montreal, as President of Canadian HadassahWizo, and more recently was elected President of the Canadian Zionist Federation. Under her leadership the Lady Davis Foundation will continue along the same path laid out in the past 20 years and more, providing major help for genuinely worth while projects in education and health in'Israel. Supplicants for help are numerous, but the criteria are rigid. When Mrs. Bloomfield was born in Bucharest, Nahum Sokolow was a house guest, and it waB he who suggested her Hebrew name, to indicate that a new light had come into the house. As head of the Lady Davis Foundation, with its ample funds and its generous programs, she today represents a new light in the area of major support for Israel, a task for which she is obviously well prepared.

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Dr. Raold Zelichonok, an unofficial Hebrew teacher in Leningrad, conducts a class shortly before his recent arrest, in a photo obtained by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry. The~"48 year-old electronics engineer was charged with "anti-Soviet slander". His .wife Galina, almost completely blind, now must fend for herself.

siders murder in the name of God a virtuous act and kidnapping of representatives of the 'Great Satin' an admirable occupation." McGrory is right. A history of oppref3ion is no excuse for oppressing. Jews, American blacks, and the Irish are just three of the hundreds of groups which have known as much oppression—and in some cases, much more—than Shi'ite Moslems. Nevertheless, they do not use their history as a justification for the murder and terrorizing of innocents. The Shiites have every right to a major share in the governing of Lebanon. But no one has the right .to seek political rights through the exercise of terrorism. It has been noted on many occasions that the Soviet Union seems almost immune to the plague of terrorism. Despite the presence of so many restless and angry minorities within its borders, there are few reports that any have attempted to gain their rights through violence. Of course, terror is less easily practiced in police states. Iraq and Syria seem fairly secure in much the way that Nazi Germany was basically free of crimes like rape, thievery, and murder (except of the officially-sanctibned kind). There is no excuse for terrorist attacks although it can easily be argued that resorting to terrorism does bring attention to the plight of those-who consider themselves oppressed. Soviet Jews are peaceful dissidents and suffer from media indifference because of it. In the June issue of Washington Journalism Review, three Moscow-based correspondents discuss how"they cover the Soviet Union. One, Nick Daniloff of U.S. News and World Report, says that he just ignores Soviet dissidents. "I don't consort with . them; The magazine considers them a passing phenomenon of little interest. In a political sense they don't have an influence— and they are perishing1." "* •' • ••.-•; It's hard to believe! that U.S. News considers the Soviet dissidents "a passing phenomenon of little interest." But if it does, it helps to explain why they rarely make the media splash that terrorists do.

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By Wendy Elliman i i UJA Press Serivce Ben-Zion Fischler opens a thick file of letters at random. "I not know your language. I not know Hebrew, 1 want learn. I not have money,," reads the first, written by a 16year-old Caribbean islander. Mr. Fischler turns the page to a letter in carefully printed Hebrew, with a photograph attached. It comes from a Romanian priest,'who teaches at a Romanian Catholic seminary. "Thank you for the material you sent," he writes. "It's very useful. This is a picture of the synagogue. I took my Hebrew students there for the exercise of translating all the Hebrew on the synagogue walls." The priest's letter is followed by a lengthy exchange between Mr. Fischler and a Soviet language professor from a remote area of Russia. "Dov is very interested in your letters," writes the professor. "We thought, at first, that Dov — which is Hebrew for 'bear' — was a code word for the KGB, the Soviet Secret Policy, and that the professor was giving ua a veiled warning," smiles Mr. Fischler. "But Dov turned out to be a young Jew, seeking contact with Israel. When his father died, he wrote asking us to have someone recite Kaddish. Now, he tells us, he's applied for a visa to Israel." There are two questions that Mr. Fischler never asks his correspondents. One is whether they are Jewish. The second is why they want to learn Hebrew. "If you're Jewish and you learn Hebrew — whether it's 500 words or 5,000 — you're linked with Jews all over the world," he says. "If you're not Jewish, learning Hebrew will give you a better understanding of Jews." Mr. Fischler, as director of the World Zionist Organization's Hebrew Language Division in the Department of. Education and Culture in the Diaspora operates what he describes as a clearing house for the Hebrew language. His division evaluates printed and audio-visual materials and keeps teachers, students and some 600 university Hebrew departments world-wide — from Ghana and Zaire to Costa Rica and Korea, and behind the Iron Curtain — in touch

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Ben-Zion Fischler, who speaks Hebrew, Yiddish, English, Spanish, German, Italian and Spanish as well as Ancient Egyptian, has played a role for 38 years in the revival and development of the Hebrew language. Mr. Fischler recognized before Israel became a State that revival of the language of Abraham would help coalesce the Jewish people in the national homeland.

By Janet Mendelsohn Moshe (WZPS) — Seventeen years have passed since Jerusalem has regained her crown as the ' unified capital of the Jewish State. Today, the uninitiated might have difficulty in finding the traces of the barbed wire and concrete barriers which divided Jerusalem so totally from 1948-67. • ' . - ' . In order to understand the bitterness of the battle as well as the excitement and pride at the city's reunification, the sites of Ammunition Hill and the Tourjeman Post are a must on any tourist's itinery. Thrilling in its swiftness, the battle for the liberation of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War was extremely intensive and difficult. Ammunition Hill, or in Hebrew, Givat Hatachmoshet, was Jordan's most fortified and heavily guarded position, in all of divided Jerusalem. The key to the Old City from the north, it was a strategic point that had to be taken by the Israelis. A reserve paratroop unit under the command of Col. Mordechai ('Motta') Gur was rushed into battle. Despite his long and active service, Col. Gur recalled that the battle was of a . kind he had never experienced, "neither in intensity nor in length . . . of trenches and time alike." The soldiers fought hand-to-hand climbing past one emplacement after another and progressing from bunker to bunker trying literally to wrest the position from the hands of the Jordanian enemy. Today a visitor to Ammunition Hill finds it hard to believe that this serene hillock claimed 36 Israeli lives. The site of the most difficult fighting in Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, Ammunition Hill was chosen, without hesitation, as the central memorial for all those that fell in the battle for the reunification of Jerusalem. Vosef Shani, Director of the Memorial Site and Museum, and father of one of the fallen soldiers, goes as far as to say that, "Jerusalem is said to be the center of the world, but for us this hill is its center." The central bunker, which today houses the Givat Hatachmoshet Memorial, once served as a storage area for Jordanian weapons and supplies, and the adjacent buildings were once stables for the Arab Legion's horses. On entering the reconstructed and refitted bunker one is met by insignias of the various Israeli units; The Central Command/Harel, Brigade, Jerusalem Brigade, Paratroopers and Air Force. Now photographs line the walls where cases of Jordanian ammunition were once stored,.and samples of weapons found in the battlefields are displayed. The room which once was used as the Arab Legion mess hall has been converted into an exhibition hall for the legacies of the fallen, where one can see pages from diaries, photographs and poignant letters from soldiers on the front — personal reminders of the boys and men that fought so bravely. A 12 minute color video film in 4 languages has recently been introduced to the museum. Centering on the role of Ammunition Hill in the Six-Day War, it uses mostly authentic and original material. Six separate rooms contain maps of the various battles during the Six-Day War, models displaying aspects of the War and a number of phonographs. Just before the exit stands a golden wall, upon which are inscribed-the names of all 183 heroes who fell in the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, whilst at the entrance a memorial plaque, dedicated to the memory of the 36 heroes reads, HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT WAS CRUEL AND BLOODY . . . LIBERATION OF THE OLD CITY WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THIS ' BATTLE. The Tourjeman Post is also dedicated to Jerusalem — its division and reunification. Opened in March-1983 near the former Mandalbaum Gate, once the front-line border crosspoint of the divided city, this war-scarred building has quite a story to tell. Although the building has been restored for display purposes, the ravages of war have been left for all to see. The Jerusalem Foundation undertook the restoration of the house and the creation of the exhibition through the generosity of the Van Holtzbrinck Family. The Tourjeman House was rebuilt at the beginning of the 1930's on land owned by Hassan Bey Tourjeman. During the War of Independence, and the years of Jerusalem's division (1948-1967), the, house was'iised aa an Israeli military post on the border with Jordan. With the city's reunification,, the Municipality of Jerusalem decided to restore the building and to show in it the story of Jerusalem's division, its reunification and its functions today as a single urban unit where Jews, Moslems and Christians live together. The exhibition, "Jerusalem - A Divided City Reunited," is portrayed through photographs, maps, historical documents and an audio-visual program, and they include historical developments leading up to Israel's Independence, the War of Independence, and -events in the history of Jerusalem since 1948. 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The Tourjeman Post, a museum dedicated to 'Jerusalem —\A Divided City Reunited'. Opened in March 1983 near the former Mandalbaum Gate, once the front-line border crosspoint of the divided city, the building has been restored for display purposes, although the ravages of war have been left for all to see. to-day life in Jerusalem of the 1980's., • Today, reunited in its splendor, Jerusalem beckons to the entire world. Its ancient hills and holy places of all religions have been protected, and the doota are open to all who v may wish to visit. . • As the prophet Zechariah taught: "The Lord will return unto Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth." Perhaps Jerusalemwill truly live up to its prophecies. • -

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Wendy Rice, daughter of Evvie and Don Rice, graduated in June from MC George School of Law in Sacramento, Calif. She was awarded membership in the Traynor Honorary Society. She plans to practice law in California.

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By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Leon Dulzin, chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency Executives, wants refugee status denied to Soviet Jews who emigrate from the USSR with Israeli visas but do not settle in Israel. He said that he has urged Premier Shimon Peres to raise the issue with President Reagan. Jews leaving the Soviet Union are admitted to the United States as refugees. Most of the so-called dropouts settle in the U.S. Dulzin discussed the matter at the weekly meeting of the WZO Executive after one member, Arye Zimuki, noted that out of 463 Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union between January and May, 1985, 312 chose not. to go to Israel, a drop out rate of 67.5 percent. Dulzin sasd he told Peres at a recent meeting that the drop-out phenomenon hurts Israel and is a painful insult. He said he wanted the Premier to take it up with Reagan because "Soviet Jewry is dear to us no less than weapons and money." Dulzin said he urged Peres also to ask Reagan to press Moscow to enter into a direct dialogue with Israel regarding Jewish emigration. Dulzin believes such talks could lead to direct flights between Moscow and Tel Aviv which would give the emigres no choice but Israel as their destination. Presently most Russian Jews stop over in Vienna or Rome where, if they choose, they are processed for admission to the U.S.

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Jews and Catholics Parasitat VaEthaunan By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke Our Sidrah and Haftarah over a few trees. There is no are thrilling. At least they understanding of the are to a religiously (sensitive trauma in the Jewish soul, Jew. They include Moses's deep and worldwide, that repathetic plea to be able to mains after the Holocaust, enter the Land of Israel, the quite aside from the lasting Ten Commandments re- effect, mental and1 physical, peated, the Shma-V'Ahavta, on the survivors, and quite and the gentle, soothing aside from the millions of words of comfort and prom- Jews murdered. . ise of the prophet of the ExAnd there is only the ile, that the Exile was in its most modest suggestion last days. that anything of this enormBut it apparently takes ity could have been the logthe background of Jewish ical conclusion, with perlife to be able to appreciate mission granted in advance, the "thrill" in Torah and to the continuing "Teaching Haftarah passages of this of Contempt" that was the Church's attitude to Jews kind. I have just been studying for so many centuries. an important paper issued All of this is regression, by a Vatican Commission in retreat from Nostra AeJune, after three.years of tate and the Guidelines. study and preparation. There is even worse. The I am deeply disappointed. earlier statements had more But not surprised. or less recognized the "right After Vatican II issued its of Judaism to exist" as a statements on the Church's proper religious interpretarelations and attitudes to tion of man and the uniother religions, including verse. Judaism, and after its 1975 The present "Notes" "Guidelines," there was back away from this: continued hope for better "Church and Judaism canunderstanding of Jews not then be seen as two paramong Catholics. The pres- allel ways of salvation, and ent paper (hold your the Church must witness to breath!), "Notes on the Cor- Christ as the redeemer, for rect Way to Present Jews all." "The Church . . . is . . . and Judaism in Preaching the all-embracing means of and Catechesis in the Ro- salvation." . man Catholic Church," uses Here, it seems to me, the much of the same language "Notes" flirt dangerously as the earlier documents — with the long-held and only but without effect on it- recently rejected view that self! "nulla sallus extra eccleIt calls for "objective siam," (there is no salvation teaching," but it really fails outside the church). miserably in this regard. For I have dealt with negait teaches about Judaism tives, since this column is so not from any point of view short. It must certainly be that Jews would have, but noted that there are many only from a point of view. positive, welcome ideas in that Catholics might have. the "Notes."'They merit It seems to value Jews and separate treatment. Judaism only as the people At the beginning I said who prepared for the com- that I was disappointed but ing of the Christ. ("How odd not surprised. Pope John of God to choose the Jews!") XXIII was a liberal. It was It fails to give more than he who brought the fresh air a moment's attention to the of "aggiorna'mento" to the State of Israel and what it Church. The Popes since his means to Jews — and warns time have been conservaagainst attaching any reli- tives. gious significance to Jewish John Paul II, despite his loyalties to Israel. enormous popularity as a Similarly, it passes by the . caring and compassionate Holocaust in a mere men- human being, is a conservtion, as though this were a ative among conservatives. thunderstorm that knocked He is closing the windows. MILWAUKEE (JTA) — Robert Friebert has been elected president of the Milwaukee Jewish Council, succeeding Stephen Chernof, who served the constitutional limit of two terms.

NEW YORK (JTA) Beverly Segal of Brooklyn has been elected to a oneyear term as president of Emunah Women of America, succeeding Charlotte Dachs of Great Neck, N.Y.

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by Jerold Rosen Endowment Director Jewish Federation of Omaha Last week's column focused attention on the steady growth of your Federation Foundation. Let's spend some time together exploring the use of some of these Foundation funds. The first step in understanding the process requires insight into the difference between Foundation dollars, and dollars generated as the end result of our annual campaign. There is a difference! Campaign funds are spent in their entirety supporting the activities of our agencies, satisfying our commitment to the United Jewish Appeal, and meeting our capital and reserve requirements. In short, principal is expended each year. When we discuss Foundation funds, it rarely means spending principal, but rather interest earned on principal. Remember, the principal sum remains in perpetuity. A good place to start for illustrative purposes would be 1984. Campaign funds raised during the year amounted to about 1.7 million, and were allocated for use during calendar 1985. Agency requests, capital and reserve considerations, and other obligations (U.J.A., etc.) totaled 2.1 million. Foundation income approximating $250,000 was allocated for use to help bridge the deficit. Campaign contributions these past few years have remained fairly level, while inflation has driven up the budgetary needs of our agencies. For the record, we have just answered one of the "whys" in "why a Foundation!" . • In addition to providing funds for our agencies, direct assistance from the Foundation.was available for college loans and grants. Twenty-nine applicants received a total of $20,250 for use during the upcoming college year. That's the good news! The bad news was the average award given amounted to $702, while the average need determined by the Financial Aid Committee and the request of the student was $2,038. In other words, we were only able to provide about one:third of what was actually needed. Financial assistance is the name of the game. We need your help! If you would like to know more about how you can participate, please call me at 334-8200, ext. 275, or call your professional! SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (JTA) — Susan Jacobson has been, elected president of the Jewish Federation of San Antonio.

Our group has completed the quota of lap robes for the L.O.V.E. program. The Y.E.S. Seniors made some beautiful 'robes and we thank them all.

Bella Stern of New York City was the guest of Sidi Marburg. We are always so happy to have Bella with us every summer. She always has a smiling face for us. A very exciting day was Linzie Rimmerman of Lawheld on July 18. Lucille rence, Kans. was our guest Whites' birthday was cele- and the Seniors were happy brated and it was quite a day to see her. for her. Lucy received many gifts and Al and I surprised her with a birthday cake. Bennie Meyersons' birthday was also celebrated at his table.

"OPEN HOUSE" AT SIMONS' Expected guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Simon are their daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren from Israel. Rabbi and Mrs. Barry Gold (she is the former Sally Simon), Dania, Chava, Natanel and Shlomo of Moshav Mevo Horon will arrive in Omaha August 6 for 12 days. During their Omaha stay, Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Fraenkel and Dr. and Mrs. Myron Rubnitz, all of Winnetka, Illinois, will come for a brief visit. Mrs. Fraenkel and Dr. Rubnitz are Mrs. Simon's sister and brother respec-

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Jacob Mirvish from Israel was the guest of Dr. Milton and Ann Margolin. The Seniors really enjoyed vis~ iting with him and it was an honor to have do t h e ' Benschen. Curly Ennis, one man band, was our program for the day. His music was very enjoyable. On July 22 Kathy Walker ' and Polly Alter were our honored guests. They both are great ladies and we all appreciate the hard work they do for us. Polly works at the Rose Blumkin Home and Kathy works at the Center.

WAYNE, N.J, (JTA) — Zorina Kosinovsky, a Philip Sarna has been elected to a third term as young concert pianist, perpresident of the Jewish Fed- formed for us and what a treat we had. Zorina is 13 eration of North Jersey.

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In the past, the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society hss used this space to ask for your help. The picture at left received an overwhelming response. According to Goldie Gendler Silverman, "The 'festive occasion' was Marilyn Kaplan's birthday, probably her fourteenth or fifteenth . . . It was held at the old Highland Club, when the club had headquarters on the second floor of a building on lGth South of Harney. Marilyn's birthday is in May, BO we were all decked out in cotton dresses with frilly little details that year, little bows and ruffles collars."

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Grossman, recently re- pitals visiting Jewish paturned from a visit with his tients, and welcomed former son, second in command at Omahan, Abe Hermanson, the American Embassy in in from the Coast. Norm Copenhagen. Art related asked us to stand in memory how life is there and for- for Harry Goldstrom, told warded reports from his son, us that Max Luesehuetz is and they are very informa- out of surgery and back tive. It ain't safe anywhere, home, Herb Wintroub is back home and out of sick fellows. Your reporter has first bay, Morris Klein is at hand feelings, since my son Methodist, and Max Greenand his wife just returned field is at St. Joe. Dave Dvorkin gave us a from Russia, after having brought gifts to the refusen- report, and V.P. Gerald preicks and dissidents and in- sented guest speaker, Dr. terviewing them. The kids I ,Lee Simmons, Jr., director could have been brought in of the Henry Doorly Zoo. Dr. Simmons came to us by the secret police for questioning, and who knows from Ohio in 1960, and became the director here in what else. Into the Plaza Suite for a 1970. He has a remarkable nice pareve luncheon, Motzi long list of awards and pubby Art Grossman, Benschen lications, and is responsible by Keith Poltz, outgoing for making our zoo one of the best in the U.S. JWV commander. He gave us a very humorMollie announced an August trip to K. C, and in- ous report on the antics of troduced to us new member, and problems with the OrStan Gerber. Welcome, angs, known as Fu Manchu and Briggs. One is rather Stan. Pres. Norm thanked the gentle, the other a problem servers and cleanup crews child. Both seem to be Houfor their efforts, reminded dini escape artists. us of the Mitzvah Box, Also, he described workurged those who missed the ing with elephants, erecting earlybirds to come and en- concrete trees, special enjoy an informative gather- closures, and how zoo ating, welcomed back Marv tendants have to show who's Treller, asked for volunteers boss. They are trying to proto assist Kriy Ferer in mak- tect endangered species. It ing the rounds of the hos- was a delightful experience.

IS WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (JTA) — An expert on Irving Berlin, the world-famous 97-year-old composer of popular melodies, has asserted that many Jews who wonder about Berlin's Jewishness may never have heard of some less familiar works among his 1,200 published compositions. The expert, Sol Kellerman, told the Palm Beach Jewish World that Berlin had written songs with such titles as "Yiddisha Eyes," "Yiddisha Nightingale," "Yiddisha Professor," and"Goodbye Becky Cohen." Kellerman arranged an Irving Berlin sheet music exhibit displayed recently at the Palm Springs Library in California. Kellerman discussed the songs with Christian themes, three of which are among Berlin's most famous songs — "God Bless America," which is considered by many Americans as a kind of unofficial national • anthem, and "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade."

Kellerman said "God Bless America" was written during World War I as a finale for "Yip, Yip, Yaphank" but that Berlin put it aside then because he was afraid critics would accuse him of flag-waving. Kellerman told the Jewish weekly that Berlin "may have been sensitive to this charge because he was a Jew." Kellerman said Berlin was one of the few Jews "who used to be welcome in Palm Beach in the old "days:" But, Kellerman added, Berlin must have been sensitive to anti-Senv itism because,though he enjoyed his stay in Palm Beach, he wrote in 1956 to Groucho Marx that "there are some songs I would be tempted to pay you not to do." !••

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T h e "Free-Throw Shooting Basketball" booth will offer a chance to test shooting skills while competing for prizes. Bob Hanson, head basketball coach for the UNO Mavericks along with Tom Mitchell, assistant basketball coach for the UNO Mavericks will be on hand. In addition, Creighton University's new head basketball coach Tony Barone will share his expertise. If golfing is your sport, you'll want to come to our golfing booth and meet the PGA Pro from Highland Country' Club Steve Shanahan. . ' Bows and arrows and rods and reels for the archery and spin-casting booths will be furnished by Woods and Water. Sonny Fiala, instructor-National Archery Association; Doug Fiala, Junior Olympic Archery Olympian and Mike Crow, instructor, National Archery Association will be on hand from Woods and Waters to answer questions and demonstrate their equipment. Outdoor sports representative Rod Regal will join them. '•_..'• Additional carnival booths will provide a variety of activities. Lunch and refreshments will be available and parking will be in the main front parking lot.

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By Stanley C. Feuerberg, a former Lincolnite and now living in Rutland, Vermont has joined Vermont Electric Power Co. as vic< uresident. Mr. Feuerberg vil! be respqnsible for the operations, treasury and maintenance departments and for administrative coordination. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska College of Engineering and Technology and a law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law. Mr. Feuerberg has been general courrsel to the We'st. em Area Power Administra: ^.tion of the United States Department of Energy, manager of rates and contracts services of the Nebraska Municipal Power Pool and electrical engineer with Olsson Associates of Lincoln, Neb. Following Shabbat services on Aug. 3 at the Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Finkelstein will host a Kiddush and luncheon honoring Mr. and Mrs. Marion Graetz on their 50th anniversary. The entire congregation and friends are invited to attend.

T|fcreth Ibri-cl Sisterhood is preparing to print its calendar for the coming year (5746 — 1985-86.). Take this opportunity to place a greeting for the new year in a calendar. Checks may be made out 'to Tifereth Israel Sisterhood. Greetings are $7 each, calendar only, $4. Additional greetings at ($6) may be listed for out-oftown relatives and friends'. Mail your checks to greeting chairman Sylvia Singer, 4631 Claire Ave. Apt. 20, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68516. Mrs. Rose Feuerberg recently visited with her family Dr. and Mrs. Harry Feuerberg and grandchildren,-Jason, Sarah and Jpseph all of Las Cruces, New Mexico. NEW YORK (JTA) Rabbi Jacob Friedman of Ocean, N.J., has been elected president of the American Association of Rabbis. ROCHESTER, N.Y. (JTA) — Elliott Landsman has been elected president of the Jewish Community Federation of Rochester. He succeeds Irving Ruderman, who completed his second term as president.

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Jan and Jeffrey Farber • announce the July 9 birth of a daughter, Jessica Erin. Grandparents are Marilyn and Arthur Schwartz of Grand Rapids, Mich, and Ann and David Farber. of Des Moines. la. Greatgrandmother is Sara Rimmerman of Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs Frank Comisar.announce the birth of

their second child. Andrea Jill, on July 3. They also have a son, Marshall Scot, Grandparents are Mrs. Edith Comisar and the late Alvin Comisar, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Horwich, and the late Marshall Zalkin. Greatgrandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Remer of Longview, Texas,, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Herr.

B'NAI B'RITH CONVENTION Frank Goldberg, Omaha, member of the Board of Governors, announced the dates of Aug. 18-20 for the 114th Convention of B'nai B'rith. The Convention will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Ann Arbor, Mich. Marvin.K. Bailin of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, member of the Board of Governors of B'nai B'rith International, will be honored at a special luncheon during the Convention in recognition of his ten years of consecutive service since his installation as District president in 1975. Delegates from Nebraska, North and South Dakota, • Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois will assemble to hear the Inter*— national President of B'nai B'rith, Gerald Kraft, of Indianapolis, Indiana. Sheldon Lerner, Omaha, president of the Southwest Regional Council said, "Michael Brooks, Director B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at Ann Afbor, will report on the 'Happenings in Hillel'." Hugh J. Schwartzberg of Chicago will be installed as the District's new president for 1986* and 1987. CORNHUSKEIt B'NAI B'RITH "A new generation has taken over the leadership of Cornhusker Lodge B'nai

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MOMS AND TOTS Pioneer Women/Na'amat's Moms and Tots will be having a back-to-school "pool and splash" party on Aug. 21 at noon at the Maple Village Swim and Tennis Club, 3645 Maptewqod Blvd. Make reservations -with. Moms and Tots chairpercons Xisa Serial, Sue Fredricks or Edith Rogerti Stacy Rogert, daughter of Edith and Roger Rogert, shows the organization's new logo. B'rith, and I am most proud of this exciting development," said Steve Rieltes, a Trustee. . David t . Siegel, 27, was elected president at a lodge meeting on July 23. Mr. Siegel has been involved in a number of B'nai B'rith activ;*,ieri, including being the captain of its softball team. Mr. Siegel is an attorney engaged in the private practice of law in Omaha, and is a graduate of the Creighton . Law School. He is married to Nanci Siegel. Also elected at the meeting were the following officers: Myron Kaplan, vice president; Mark Gould, vice president; Mike Abramson, vice president;' Dennis Paley, secretary; Len

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I've decided that it's just as well I'm not a famous person. This is after reading a book review telling the story of three women about my age, and their friendship, which has managed to survive a lifetime (at least up until now!), •• ' Joe Nakasli (left), founder and chairman of the board of Jordache Enterprises, is congratulated on his election as president of the Boys Town J e r usalem Society by Rabbi Moshe Linchner, dean of Boys Town's eight-school education center. The Society governs the daily operations of Boys Town, which has provided a comprehensive academic, religious and technical education to more than 4,000 economically disadvantaged Israeli youths since its founding in 1948.

The book was written by the son of one, and he apparently has left nothing to the imagination. All started life as the daughters of well known folks and went on to marry extremely famous men. Ok. That's understandable. What 1 think too bad is simply the fact that with all this notoriety, there is no privacy. Now when something wonderful happens, it's lovely to see the simcha written up in the local paper. But on the other hand, when something awful occurs (and God knows it happens!), then you don't necessarily care to announce it to the world at large.

the New England Conservatory and a master of music degree from Juilliard. In addition to performing in solo and chamber music concerts, Mr. Hirtz is a staff composer, arranger and keyboard player for the Sun Group, a music company in New York which produces film scores and jingles. His instructors have included Russell Sherman, Jerome Lowenthal and William Masselos. The public is cordially invited to attend the recital, which will be followed by a reception at the Performing Arts Center.

Karen Kushner and William Hirtz, both of New York City, will present a piano recital, Aug. 15 at 8 p.m. at the UNO Performing Arts Center. The program will include selections by Mozart, Brahms; Chopin, Liszt and Poulenc. Ms. Kushner, a former Omahan, received a bachelor of music degree from Northwestern University and a master of music from the Juilliard School. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at New York University, and has studied with such teachers as Adele Marcus, William Masselos and Herbert Stessin. Ms. Kushner was recently selected through nationwide auditions, to perform in the 1985 Ravinia Piano Master Classes in Chicago, taught by Misifa'Dichter, Leon Fleisher and Menahem Pressler. She is the daughter of Barbara and Marshall Kushner. Mr. Hirtz, a native of Pittsburgh, received a bachelor of music degree from

' Lef me" try to state my case a little more clearly. When I was a youngster just discovering newspapers, I was fascinated reading about Gloria Vanderbilt. She and I were contemporaries, and it seemed that her photo was in the paper constantly. Naturally, reading about somebody in my A series of reading and The five books include age group became even more interesting all the time. It's book discussion groups is Bless Me, Ultima by Ru- true I loved seeing how beautifully she was dressed, but I planned at the Omaha Pub- dolfo Anaya on the Hispanic was sad that her folks were divorced and she was the one East or West lic Library to examine the culture of America's south- the family was fighting over. SPRINGFIELD, Mass! There's a Tropics meaning of our ethnic her- west; Go Tell It on the Then there was the person who really got my attention (JTA) — Jay Loevy has close to you! itage. "Being Ethnic, Be- . Mountain by James Bold. . . how could you NOT notice somebody named Oona? And been elected president of coming American: Strug- win on the black culture of the Springfield Jewish Fed2737 So. 90 gles, Successes, Symbols" Harlem; An Orphan in her father was a world famous playwright yet! She was con- eration, succeeding Belle stantly in the news, but the day she married the symphony (1 blk. So. of Center) begins Sept. 10 at Swanson History by Paul Cowan on Rosen. 391-1155 Library and Sept. 11 at the his Jewish heritage; The conductor old enough to be her Zada, I thought she had Open 10 a.m. Mon.-Sat. W. Dale Clark Library. The Way to Rainy Mountain lost her mind altogether. DETROIT (JTA) — Mi5 p.m. Sunday series runs every other week by N. Scott Momaday on The third one was married first to a writer then to an . chael E. Berke has been for five sessions at each li- the history of the Kiowa In- actor, and this one is the mother of the young man who named executive director 631 No. Saddle brary through Nov. 6. dians; and Woman War- decided to put it all in a book. and chief administrative ofCreek Rd. Programs will be held on rior by Maxine Kong ficer of the Jewish Welfare 556-8862 Tuesday evenings at Swan- Kingston on the ChineseWell I don't know how any of them feel about it, but if Federation of Detroit, acOpen 6 a.m. Mon.-Sat. son, beginning at'7, and re- American in San Francisco. he was MY kid, I'd disown him! Such private goings on cording to Joel D. Tauber, 8 a.m. Sun. peated on Wednesday Funding for the series was don't belong in a book — they should be left for rainy days Federation president. mornings at W. Dale Clark, granted to the Nebraska Li- when there isn't anything else interesting to talk about. I beginning at 9:30. brary Association through don't know what the author's mother has to say about it ,•' Participants will read and the sponsorship of the all, and I don't care. discuss five books related to American Library AssociaI do feel secure in the knowledge that while those women ethnic groups in America. tion from the National EnThe conflict of ethnic heri- dowment of the Humani- were all over my newspapers, I was .quietly growing up, tage and modern life styles ties. Omaha bookstores are arguing with my folks, trying to get through school and a will be examined, with em- supporting the project with- war and finally, getting married and having a family. All of phasis on the ethnic groups supplies of the books. Each which has been of little interest to anybody but us. And portrayed and the heritage of the branches of the none of them better get any ideas about publishing family of the participants. Each Omaha Public Library will secrets either! session will have a presen- have copies of the books. tation by a scholar and The programs will be free small group discussions led and open to the public. For by volunteers. This format more information call was developed in New Eng- Swanson Library 444-4852 land and used successfully or W. Dale Clark Library Nightly Specluls Daily Dinner Special $2 off in other states. , 444-4800. Tublc Side Cooking Cantonese Cuisine Fresh Fish J& LUNCH & DINNER Cuesur Sulud

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