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Federation honors volunteers at Jan. 12 annual meeting By Claudia Sherman Since 1979, the Jewish Federation of Omaha and its agencies have recognized the value of dedicated volunteers through their Volunteer of the Year Awards. The eight volunteers who will be honored at the Federation Annual Meeting on Sunday, Jan. 12 at the Jewish Community Center are representative of the hundredis of volunteers who give thousands of hours of time each year to the Omaha Jewish community. Nominated by the Jewish Community Center for serving relations spokesman for all the JCC's Health Services programs, Celia Blank "has been a dedicated volun1 teer for a number of years." Her articles appear in the "Jewish Presi" and the "JCC Centerpiece" and have kept \ JCC membei4 as well as the entire Jewish conimunity upI to-date on/nealth services programs and seiiflces. "CelijB^Blank has demonstrated a true spirit of volun; tarism, «>mmitment, and dedication in all that she undertakes irivhelping to promote the Jewish Community ; Center," s^id llene Klein, president of the JCC Boafd of directors. |. Lisa LewisV who is involved in a variety of community ' organizationB,\as been nominated by the ADL/CRC for the Volunteer ot\the Year Award. She has served on the ADL/CRC BoarcK^f Director8_for several years and has been co-chaimurn or ./CIRC Law jt/CRC Coinmittee for the past two years. Mrs. Lewis's other Jewish community activities include serving as chairman of the JCC Music Committee, working • on the Federiation Campaign as a captain, and participating ^ on the Yom Hashoah Committee last April. She is also a i; member of the National Council of Jewish Women and was I recently appointed to attend the NCJW Joint Program Inr Btitute in Washington, D.C. This conflererkce deals with leg' islation and federal laws regarding such issues as women's ^. and children's rights, and the rights of the elderly. I In addition to> her private law practice, Mrs. Lewis is also i involved in the Junior League of Omaha and serves as a \ Board member of the T\ieaday Muaical Conperjt Setiai. Serving on many Jev(>ish Fantiiy %ivice oomn^UM, I "Glen Fineman exhibited leaderahip qualities" and "imI presJwd both his peers and the professional staff with his ; ability to organize and administer" agency policies and pro' grams, said Rabbi Allan Gonsher, executive director of JFS. i Fineman has served as vice president of JFS, chairman of i the Adoption Committee, chairman of the Ad Hoc Liaison » Committee, as a JFS Board member, and as .& JFS Education Committee member. Fineman's professional expertise has also been utilized • .through his professional affiliations with the University of ^'Nebraska at Omaha School of Social Work. He has also I been involved on the local level of the National Association f. of Social Workers through his participation in programs, !'. conferences, and the ongoing evaluation of the School of I Social Work. With Creighton University for the last five and one half ; yearsi Fineman is a social wot'ker with Creighton Family i' Practice. Active with Beth EirSynagogue, 6ten Fineman' [ was nominated by Jewish Family Service as Volunteer of ' the Year. ' Laying aside his business concerns and personal life, Jerry Hoberman, president of Tires Inc., has on numerous , occasions come to the aid of the ADL/CRC as wrell as other • agencies. Recently, Hoberman spent weeks devoting countless hours to ensure the success of the ADL/CRC's Society I of Fellows reception honoring Judge Samuel Van Pelt who [ received the Torch of Liberty Award. Believing that Jews 'must recognize the accomplishments of non-Jews who ' choose to speak out against anti-Semitism, Hoberman I ^ranted to make sure Judge Van Pelt was appropriately j honored in the eyes of the entire Omaha community. Hoberman responds on ahort notice and with quality involvement, said Sheldon Kilger, executive director of the ADL/CRC, which nominated Hoberman for Volunteer of the Year. Morris Epstein, program vice president for the Young Eneigetic Seniors, has Mptnt countless hours on the telephone arf anging entertaining and informative programs for thisaocial gnMq> for more than ten yaan. He has Mciued a variety of talent includinc singers, dancerii choral groups, baitdt, musidans, and lacture* — two ' programs every week. E^pstcin ha* alao dctisionally assisted tha OlfhiiMra group and the Rose Blui^ikin Horn* in setting up their programs. "Having giwn fireety «f his time," aaid Eugene Brandt, naciitive di^ebtor of the Bureau M the Aging, Epstein "is .moat deaerving to be named Volunteer of the Year for the BurMU for the Aging." Nancy Greenberg has served on the Boards of Directora ofthe Jewish Federation of Omaha, Jewish Family Service, sarid Tsmpk laraei Siaterbood. She was a member of the "Roee Blunilin-Livingi!E»n*^la)!a Steering Odmmittee. Her service to the Roee Blumkin Jewish Home earned her the 198S Volunteer of the Year Award from the Bureau for the Aging.
Morri* Bpttoin Co%&itiUift^«irM'l8^ eration Campaign and chairman of the 1986 Women's Division, "Nancy's dedication and commitment to her community andthe Campaign" have already helped achieve a 23 percent increase in Women's Division totals for 1986, said Sondra Rosenblatt, associate director of the Jewish Federation which nominated Mrs. Greenberg for its Volunteer of the Year. For many years, Santa Cooper has served as chairman of the Israel Pilgrimage Committee of the Bureau of Jewish Education which has nominated her for its Volunteer of the Year. Aa chairman of the Israel Pilgrimage Committee, Mrs. Cooper has been responsible for encouraging numerous local Jewish high school students to benefit from the religious, cultural, and historical opportunities which Israel has to offer. Mrs. Oooper contacted potential pilgrims and publicized the program and its scholarship opportunities. She strengthened the general organization of the program on both the local and national levels, said Rabbi Jonathan Rosenbaum, executive director of the Bureau of Jewish Education.
- Mrs. CoaiW'iSgiifcNftil Hi:.OMaa&»;liiM|a^,^ tional Board of tMe Rainah Conumini^ Pilgrimage. After encouraging her own children, Jeff, Amy and Felicia, to go to Israel, they, in turn urged oUier youngsters to go, too. ^ As chairman of the Matza Bakery, the College of Jewish Learning, and the Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration, Doi«en Lerner has furnished leadership for programs that provided many formal as well as informal educational experiences for the Omaha Jewish community, aaid Ann Kibel Schwartz, director of the Jewish Cultural Arts Council, As chairman of these JCAC programs, Mrs. Lerner recruited volunteers, conducted numerous maetfi^ and delegated tasks which covered program and budget planning, publicity and public relations, schedule coordination, preparing facilities, and hosting-events. "Mrs. Lerner personally wrote educational and promotional materials such as news articles, workbooks, and brochures to complement the programs she directed. During the past year, despite ilhiess, she hag sened the JCAC as secretary. "She has been a source of inspiration and sound advice," wrote Mrs. Schwartz in nominating Mrs. Lerner as the JCAC Volunteer of the Year.
BariDie trial postponed By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) — The Supreme Court has postponed the trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie which had been scheduled to open Feb. 3. France's highest court announced on Dec. 20 the postponement of the trial after it overturned a lower court decision and after it ruled that the 73-yearold former Gestapo officer could be charged with crimes against French resistance fighters as well aa Crimea against Jewish civilians who he ordered deported to death camps. Legal experts said today that the trial could begin next March or ^ril,'at the earliest, after the upcoming legislative elections. Although the postponement is not linked to the elections, many bfliwe that the government wanted to avoid a possible political scandal during tha pre-election period. Barbie's lawyer, Jacques Verges, haa said that be intends to shed light on the betr^ral of France's wartime raaiatance leader, Jean Moulin, to the Naais. Vern* has implied that other rsaiitance leader* informed the Geatapo of Moulin'* whereabonts for political reasons. Some li^nch newspaper* predicted that Barbie wiD never be put on trial because of hi* poor health. The Naxi war criminal iaMnder treatment for §^ varie^(«f illnesses at the Monthic Priaon in Lyon where he ha* been detained *ince hi* expulsion from Bolivia in February, 1963. The Svqpteme Covrt leconaidered Barbie's case at the
request of a number of surviving resistance fighters. Barbie was formally charged by investigating Magistrate Christian Riss with crimes against humanity. A Ljmn^urt confirmed his indictment, ruling that the arrest, deportation and repression of the resistance fell under the -definition- of war crimes, which are covered in France by a statute of limitations. Under French law. Barbie could not be tried for such crime* more than 40 years after he committed them, the L^n court maintainedA Now.that the Supreme Court haa''nversed the lower court, the file will go back to the Public Proaecutor's Office in Paris which will interrogate Barbie pnoe again and prepare a new indictment. In^iew of the htiMbsds of thousand* of documents which miut be exiaminMl and the intricate legal procedure this could take month*. Barbie, known aa "the butcher of.I^on," waa *«ntenc*d to death in abaentia in 1962 and again in 1964 by French military court* in Lyon for criioA* ai*in*t rwaktino* fighter*, liw death *eBtanc* axpiiwl with the atiitiirf* of Ibnitation*.' -• The Siqireme Court ruling was baaed on it> finding* that the lower court half no juiiadiction to dictingaiah between crimes against humanity and war crim**. The proaecutioB. which generally eqnea*** the govenunent'a-Tiew*, bad aaked the court to mrmle the lower tribanaL
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TILLIE WEINER The family suggests Services were held at the memorials to the Beth IsJewish Funeral Chapel on rael Synagogue Youth ProDec. 25 for Tillie (Markov- gram or the Villisca, lA Liitz) Weiner, 78, of Villisca, brary. lA.. Interment was at Golden Hill Certetery. ALBERT ABRAM8 Mrs. Weiner and hbr husServices were held on band operated a busim^ in Dec. 27 for former Omahan Villisca for 52 years be) Albert Abrsms, 76, ot Las their retirement. 'egas, NV. She is survived by her Survivors: daughter, Alehusband, Edward-, sons, A. cia Abrams; sisters. Bertha Richard and Howard M., Solig, Evelyn Shan^ and ' both of Omaha; sisters, Dorothy Abrams; brothers; Dora Rovitz, Birmingham, Bennie, William and Erwin AL and Libbie Barron of Abrams. Omaha; four granddaugh- ^ The family suggests ters. memorials to B'nai B'rith.
Pam Lifxoln accepts JCC position Pam Lincoln has accepted the position of Cultural Arts staff associate at the Jewish Community Center beginning Jan. 5, announced Thomas P. Neuman, assistant executive director. Ms. Lincoln recently received her BFA from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She has been a teacher in the Papillion School System for over 12 years prior to pursuing the
arts. Aa an artist, Ms. Lincoln has been recognized for work in marble, is a three time recipient of the Berta Mengedoht Hatz Memorial Award at UNO and her reeent art exhibitions. Most recently, she interned at the Joslyn Art Museum. Ms. Lincoln will replace Alan Potash, who is going to Israel to continue his studies.
Twinning' encouraged With the increased understanding of the difficulties faced by Russian Jews, Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrants frequently "twin" with a refusenik in the Soviet Union. Such wag the case Dec. 14 when Debra Polsky and Alan Potash celebrated the anniversaries of their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and "twinned" them with two refuseniks. Miss Polsky twinned with Irena Lebadeva and Mr. Potash with Misha Shl^.
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^Mir m^a^m^ In. n^iraell HAIFA — with the close of the year 1985 we once again take a good look at the predictions made a year ago by Israel's astrologers. Almost everyone reads the predictions with bated breath and curiosity, but few are those who preserve the s^argazers' forecasts, and check them at year's end with what actually transpired. The comparison is enlightening. ?"ir8t of all, let's not reject horoscopy. out of hand, for it is in a great Jewish tradition. Indeed, was not Father Abi'aham the first star-gazer? As told in Genesis 15:5, he heard God's commandment: "Look now toward heaven and count the stars, if thou be able to count them .. ." There followed i a great prediction regarding the future of the Jewish people. L During Talmudic times and the Middle agee. Jewish scholI ars were divided with regard to the practice of astrology. I In Israel, in our own time, astrology is seriously accepted i by, many respectable people. The publicity attendant upon hthe annual foretelling of events also serves as great public !. relations for the professional practitioners who command fancy fees for their advice in personal, political and business matters. ', This year it has proven difficult to compare predictions I with realization. The soothsayers have been caught at so [ many false auguries in the past that they have become wary I of preciseness in their prognostications. Many of them hedged. Some gave solemn expression to matters which were obvious. 'Those who dared once again to go out on a limb, usually fell off. Judge for yourself. Ilan Pecker, one of the leading practitioners of the art, was quite explicit last year about what 1985 held in store. This was the year in which Mubarak, Assad, Hussein, Arafat and the King of Saudia would all lose their lives. He was also confident that Israel's national unity compromise
th<& edflttgr j f The editors reserve the right tu shorten letters for reasons • of length or content. ; To the Editor: Four years ago, a Scholarship Fund was set up to help Omaha youths with the cost of attending regional and national B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO) conventions. Since the fund's inception, it has distributed over r$4000 in grants and loans, allowing 45 youths to attend [ various BBYO conventions. In addition, the Fund has given $1500 to convention organizers to lower- the cost of at; tendance for all of the youths. >. On behalf of the Scholarship Fund and the youths as; sisted, I would like to thaink the two B'nai B'rith men's I lodges, Henry Monsky and Cornhusker B'nai B'rith, for f their ongoing commitment to the Scholarship Fund. Their I help allows for wider participation in the BBYO convenI tions, and plays an important role in keeping our Jewish youth programs alive. Don GreeiiberK BBYO Scholarship Fund Chairman
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government could not last, was doomed to collapse, and would be followed by new elections. This is because the planet Saturn is exercising its baneful influence, against which the government of Israel is helpless. On the other hand, he did succeed in predicting a major change in Israel's monetary system — as did most economists in the country. Readers who followed his advice bought heavily into oil stocks, for he was convinced that this was the year for a great oil strike in Israel. On the international front: he kt)ow that relations with Egypt would not improve, and might even worsen. His greatest competitor, Herzl Lipshitz, was more cautious, but with equal lack of success. The state of the economy did not worry him. He expected no great unemployment and only, a minor recession. Things will really pick up in 1985, he said, but who can wait that long? There would be terrible natural disasters elsewhere in the world, but not in Israel. The female clairvoyants had an active year. Miriam Tamir, who claims tp have foretold the visit of Sadat to Jerusalem, the war in Lebanon and. the killing of Bashir Jemayel, opened her 1985 forecast with assurances that Peres would prove to be a surprisingly good leader, would advance the cause of peace with Jordan, and would keep the national unity government together. On the other hand, she did not expect Modai to last long as Minister of Finance. Syria's Assad was supposed to have died before the end of the year, and both Arafat and Hussein were to be subjects of assassination attempts. Ruth Eli was not the only oneyi^Ko^linticipated a major military action by Israel, short ofwar, dunhg the year. The air strike against TXinisia could Ue marked u^is fulfillment. However, she predicted Modai'sl resignation,! a breakdown of the national unity government, and withdrawal of Dr. Burg from public life. She was ^courageous" m-aSserting that drastic measures would be tak^ to megt-the economic crisis here. Mifiam Binyamini was confident that American financial aid to Israel would be halted, a prominent national personality would die, aliyah would increase vastly, oil would be found, and earthquakes would strik^e Jerusalem and Safed. She was sure that Reagan would be succeeded. in the presidency during 1985, and his replacement would be less favorable to Israel. Danny Berman avoided any predictions involving per-
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sonalities because he had been burned too often in the pait • There is no precise information about the exact time of their birth, he said, and politicians sometimes falsify their birth dates just to throw astrologers off the track. One Jerusalem Kabbalist, poring into the Aohar, scored 100% accuracy in his prediction. He cautiously assertecL that during the year Israel would suffer no major natural' catastrophe. He was right! Unconsciously, all of us at one time or atibther call upon the aid of the stars. The word mazal, in Hebrew, means a sign of the zodiac, and every time we wish some one mazal toy, we are in effect expressiqig the hope that he will be favored by the stars.
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There wasn't even time to relax. The plane was late as usual. And Meir Rosenne, Israel's Ambassador, was due in the ballroom ^ Chicago's Hyatt Regency as the keynote speaker for a special Bonds dinner. Striding briskly into his hotel suite, he flopped his overnight bag onto the bed and instructed the security man to keep waiting guests in the otiter room aj> bay for a moment while te ifmoved his coat and made a few phone calls. Rosenneiis certainly not Israel's most flamboyant ambassador to Washington. But he may be one of the most qualified. The first time I met him was in 1978 in the cordoned off first class loft of an El Al 747. I Meir Rooenne was the only American reporter allowed to accompany Moshe Dayan, Ezer Weizmann and other Camp David negotiators flying from Jerusalem to Washington to break the deadlock. One oAwo legal advisors they were relying upon to draft the correct'language was Meir Rosenne, the Foreign Ministry's expert on international law. Over the AtGuitic he gave me a short education in international law. Indeed, Rosenne authored most of Israel's mtyor peace accords of recent years: the 1973 Kilometer 101 agreement, Israel's first peace step with Egypt; the first disengagement pact with Syria in 1974; and the 1975 memo of understanding with Henry Kissinger declaring the United States would not talk with the PLO until they recognized Israel's right to exist. Ultimately, Rosenne's deft phrasing of the Camp David accords structured a legally enforceable peace that has survived a gamut of Arab-Israeli traumas. In 1979, Rosenne became Ambassador to France, where he presided over difficult times when Paris' Jewish community was struck by terrorist bombs. He was appointed to the Washington po- ' sition in 1983.' /"S For most of Rosenne's tenureihen, life has been relatively smooth, which means routinely hectic. Hia work is balanced between his twin responsibilities: looking after Israel's relations with Washington, and Israel's relations with the American<Jewi8h community. Communicating with locales as distant as Jerusalem and Los Angeles, means a life that transcends time zones. For example, midnight to 2 a.m. is reserved for telephone calls to Israel. "Consequently 1 don't sleep much," says Rosenne, "never more than four to five hours per night." But Rosenne insiata he doesn't need more. "I'to used to it from njy student days
when I would work all day and study all n^ght." The Ambassador explains that "running ah Embassy" covers everything from physical repairs to overseeing the visits of dignitaries from Israel. "For example, on Prime Minister (Shimon] Peres' recent visitto the United States,, there were no problems," recalls tH* Ambassador. "In Washington, we had contacts with the White House, the State Department, Congress and the press. For each one of these domains, I have a different person who deals with it — but in the end it is my responsibility — absolutely." Things get tense when a major strain on American-Israeli relations occur, and indeed alarms went off when the Pollard spy case hit the news. "When I heard of it," says Roseene. "I was opening the Bonds campaign in Paris. I left immediately and rushed back. I took the next plane. My wife made the speech to the Bonds dinner." As busy as Rosenne is, he never fails to find time to'reach out to Jewish communities. Fluent in Yiddish and unlike many of his colleagues, ifoTasRatn^ of it, Rosenne has not forgotten bis roots inypJazi occupied^umania. As a boy, still wearing the yello^ star on his chest, his family escaped on one of the last l|oat»> to Palestine. Consequently, Rosenne possesses a fie>y understanding of the organic relationship between the hope of Jewish nationalism and the anguish of Jewish persecution. "If you represent Israel, you don't represent only the Jews that live in Israel today," he declares, "but you represent all the Jews that fought for a Jewish State, that died in the ghettos and did not see an Israeli flag. We have discovered that we can rely only on ourselves," he adds. "Had Israel existed 41 years ago, there wouldn't have been a Holocaust." This background creates Rosenne's willingness to reach out to Jewish communities and attend the endless redundant dinners and conferences that many Israeli-bom officials consider a detestable necessity. Rosenne is vehement on this issue: "If anyone thinks that meeting with the Jewish community, going to these dinners and so on . .. Ijs] a burden, I think that he should not serve ih the Israeli "diplomatic service." Rosenne clearly rejects the closet Israeli elitism against rich Jews, citftg this example: "Remember that 40 percent or 50 percent of the Ethiopian Jews went directly from the airport to the hospital fearing hepatitis. A rich Jew in Boston called me telling me that there is a vaccine against hepatitis discovered in this country and one dose is $100." The Bostonian declared he would donate thousands of dollars in vaccine and needed Rosenne's help in getting it on the very next flight to Israel. What makes the greatness of the Jew is that even wh?n he becomes rich, he doesn't forget where he comes from and that there are still Jews in need." Sduin BIM* i. thi autto- of lU naaiHw Afrm pir Aa f'nfiW 3$9ry mf Ih0 Btrt fart Bftmm i*« Tkir* Ktlek mtt JmtUk fmlmtim fl/atmabu). iriiuwr a( the CcrlSmilburiJitanl^thttttlimaictm a/Hi4aiKlncminaM for ail PulitMtr Prim. Hit vH^ktltimtUfailumntmmmMtitm.
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Ray cast The cast for the upcoming JCC Theater and Omaha Arts West production of Catch Me If You Can is pictured left to right: Mark Peters, David Rosenberg, Barbee Davis and Marty Skomal. Not pictured but also in the cast are Stan Widman, John Doidge, and Liz Doherty. Catch Me If You Can replaces the cancelled production of Horowitz & Mrs. Washington. This show is set to Open Jan. 18 and run weekends through Feb. 2. For ticket information call Lois Wine at 334-8200.
Belzer, Kahn vows exchanged at Beth El Beth El Synagogue was the scene for the December 28, 1985 marriage of Viclii Jo Belzer, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Edward G. Belzer, of Prairie Village, Ks., to Robert Lindsey Kahn, son of MI;, and Mrs. Stewart K.
Kahn?^ Attending the bride as maid of honor was her sister, Susan Belzer, of Prairie Village. Bridesmaids were Susan Hoffman, of Overland Park, Ks., Robin Hollub of Leawood, Ks., Kori Belzer of Overland Park, Ks., and Nancy Steinberg, of Bncino, CA. Best man was Corey Kirshenbaum; groomsmen were brothers of the groom, . David M.^ahn, of Los An-, gelea, Ca., and Thomas H. Kahn, of Omaha, Michael Lustgarten. of Omaha and 'Michael Belzer, brother of the bride, of Prairie Village. Ushers were Richard Belzer
Mn. Robert Kahn of Overland Park, Joel Alexander, Jeffrey Clayman, Bennett Ginsberg, and Kenneth Kahn, all of Omaha. A dinner-dance reception at the Marriott Hotel followed the ceremony. After a belated honeymoon to Hawaii, the, couple will live in Omaha.
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Is it just this time of the year or does positively EVERYTHING revolve around food? Why is it 1 can't go anywhere without having somebody offer candy, cookies, nuts and the Uke? Where is it written that when I step into the beauty shop there must be a trty of forbidden goodies to tempt me? And never mind that old "they loolL.better than they actually taste". First you have to taste before you kiK>w whether that is, in fact, true. And alas, I often taste. It doesn't always work to tell myself it's mostly sugar aitd chemicals. Sometimes it works, but not alwsfys! And I do love all that kind of junk. That's the key word — JUNK. Why U it most edibles which would be properly classified as junk are so good? Magrbe it's part of that old cliche that said if it tasted ggpd it WBfi either fattening, immoral or illegal. I don't know. I only know that certain times of the caleiidar year there is more of all this stuff around than other times. I can prove it. For example, it's easier .to walk the straight and narrow (nutritionally speaking) during the summer months. After all, the spring holidays with the heavy, delicious foods have come and gone, and now everybody can find wonderful fresh fruit to nosh. And if you are reasonable and don't eat a half pound each of grapes and bing cherries, firuit is ok. For that matter, the taste of home grown cukes and tomatoes is so good I don't mind considering that category of food for snacking. There are not nearly so many excuses to pig out (oops, make that LAMB out) in the summertime. Also, there are more things to do during the warm weather. A person can be outside, puttering with this or that, or plqying golf or tennis or whatever it is all you jocks play. In the cold weather, I am more likely to be curled up reading, and isn't it a pleasant part of that scene to have something to nibble on while you find out who killed the butler? I guess I found myself really touching bottom recently, when I was busily working at my desk at home and was offered popcorn. I hate to admit it, but I found myself typing and reaching for the popcorn hardly missing a beat Of course I work at that same desk during warm weather too, but toaybe I'm in such a hurry to finish and get outside I don't noeh! Well, it's only a theory, and like most of my theories it probably won't hold water, but listen... what can you expect from somebody who loaes all control at the sight of a glazed donut? , , -1 / •
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SERVICES: Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits will conduct the services. Friday: 6 p.ny Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Kiddush follows services. Minha-Ma'ariv, 4:50 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Weekdaya: 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. LUNCH AND LEARN The Lunch and Learn Series'with the rabbi will continue on Thursday, Jan. 9, noon at the Uptown 11. BAR MITZVAH Daniel Fellman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fellman, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Friday evening, Jan. 3 and on Saturday morning, Jan. 4. MEN'S CLUB Men's Club will sponsor a breakfast following the morning service at 9 a.m. SHABBAT DINNEK Mishpacha will have the monthly Shabbat dinner on Friday, Jan. 10 following the early Shabbat services at 6 p.m.
SERVICES: Friday: Mincha and Kabbalat •Shabbat 4:45 p.m. Late Family Service 8 p.m. The late family service is followed by an Oneg Shabbat sponsored by Sisterhood.
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PM-ukat Sh'mot For what doea it profit a propiiet? In some smaller congreShould these passages gations either the rabbi or then not be read, chanted, the hazzan must regularly, declaimed, at an emotional weeli after week, chant the high? Haftarah, since no one else All of this is occasioned, can. Or, with God's special although it might be almost blessing, one or two laymen any other week, by the Hafcan join the list. tarah of our opening Sidrah In other, larger congre- of Sh'mot, Exodus. Here the Ashkenazic and gations, there are always some who can chant the Sephardic traditions differ Haftar^, either with prep- from each other, the one choosing Isaiah and the lataratipii or at sight. ter Jeremiah for the weekly 1 send my kudos, if one prophetic lesson. may essay a Greek bravo, to Whichever one is chosen, those who chant the Haftarah, arid even more, to the passages are dramatic in those who can creditably the extreme. How much chant some verses or the they lose if chanted simply whole of the weekly Torah like telephone numbers! When I had church Sidrah. But I wish that more of groups visiting our Sabbath Eve services, it would often those who chant the Hafbe my practice, time pertarah — especially with mitting, to answer questions some days or weeks of notice after the service, and then beforehand, would study the show them aiSefer Torah. passage out thoroughly. There would always be unThis would require some usual appreciation of the knowledge of the prophet's perseverance of Jews in time, personality, and mesmaintaining the practice of sage, and more particularly, ' hand-inditing parchment a careful understanding of scrolls, and then, for Tqrahthe meaning of the words in reading purposes, chanting the prophetic passage that only from a proper scroll makes up the Haftarah. from the Bimah. Thus it could be hoped And in order to give some that the Haftarah would not semblance of the way the be simply the chanting of Torah is chanted, I would nonsense syllables accord- take a passage from the ing to a set of musical no,^ weekly portion, and with a tationa, but rather a finger from one hand on the chanted message of a English translation and a prophet of Israel. fmger from the other on the Our Haftarot are usually Hebrew, in order to pick up (if not always) passages of the trope, I would chant the dramatic and emotionally English according to the tense instruction, or warn- trope of the Hebrew. One ing, or comfort, or indict- could never fail to hear the ment — depending on the added dramatic effect when time and place and situation the English words were of the prophet involved. chanted! Even when the Haftarah is Carry this back now to narrative, from the Neviim the Haftarah! What does it Riahonim, i.e., the histor- profit a prophet if no one ical books, the chosen read- really chants his words in ing is dften dramatic and the spirit in which he spoke written at an emotional them, if no one really hears high: him?
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Jewish Community Center annual report 1985 waa a very successful year for JCC programi and services, both for the JCC membership and the Omaha Jewish community;^! large. A staff re^diuiization enabled the Center to more efficiently serv^fis membership by concentrating all of the staff into one of the three departments: Health Services, Cultural Arts Services, and Group Services. Coordinating the work of Health Services is newly appointed director of Health Services, Linda J. Cohen. Working with H & PE Director Chuck Arnold and Aquatics Director Lee Ann Jones, Linda looks forward to developing a wide cadre of enhanced and new programs for 1986 in Health Club, Aquatics and Health and Physical Education. Emphasis has been particularly keen on additional programs for women, and in Chuck Arnold's very successful "Young at Heart" programs for those members of the Jewish community 55 years and older. The purpose of the program is for adults of this age to come together in a social f' atmosphere for a variety of activities. Under the excellent leadership of Cultural Arts Director . Ann Kibel Schwartz, the Jewish Community Center in• augurated Omaha Arts West, a dazzling array of nationally , prominent performers in dance, music, theater, and gallery . art and film; in addition to a variety of artists^and perl formances from our local area. All under one roof in west [Omaha, "Omaha Arts West" makes your Jewish Commur~riTly Center fh« central acldress for the'arts in Southwest f Omaha. Dance Director Liz Doherty and TheatejJDirector y Marty Skomal are integral components of OAWs success. The newest member of our staff, Pam JJncoln, replaces Assistant Cultural Arts Director Alan Pcnfih, who has left for a Jewish studies program in Israel. In order to coordinate the work of all the group service departments, (E^rly Childhood, Children, Youth, Young Adult and AjiOlTTr^r staff reorganization created the position of Director of Sroup Services. Marlen Frost, who has served as Early Chjldhood Director for six yeah, assumed the additionaljpe^ponBibility of Group Services Director. The consoMdation of these departments under one roof of "group s^fvices" will enable us to be more creative in our long-range planning and developing of programs for our members Qf all ages. Youth Director, Jodi Raven Epstein, and BBYO/Adult Services Director,. Debra Polsky will be intimately involved in enhancing our Group Services program. Assistant Director Tohi Neuman has worked closely with the staff throughout the summer and fall in order to adequately plan for 1986. The Jewish Community Center Board was pleased to hold a dues increase to a minimum of 3% for 1986, and adopted a balanced 1986 budget with 5% less support from the Jewish Federation than in 1986. The understanding and cooperation of the membership and community-at-large has been most appreciated in these difficult financial times. The more than 20O committee and Board members who volunteer thousands of hours each year to "make'the JCC go" will begin 1986 with a special orientation program on January 20 ... learning more about the JCC and volunteerism is integral to succeeding in building a strong JCC program ... in 1986, your Omaha JCC has the professional staff-volunteer-layman team for winning. We hope to "See you at the 'J'." Ilene Klein President Steven J. Rod Executive Director
lncx)ming JCC officers t>Iorman M. Sheldon will be taking over the presidency of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Center from outgoing President Ilene Klein. Sheldon has served on the Board of Directors of the Bureau for the Aging and Jewish Family Service. He has been an officer in B'nai B'rith and chairman of the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization. In addition, he'Vas secretary of Temple Israel Men's Club. Nornwii Sheldon Currently, Sheldon is a member of the Personnel Practices Committee and the Audit Committee of the Jewish Federation. He is also Budget and Planning vice president of the JCC. "I'm looking forward to two years, of continued cooperation between the Center and Federation Boards," Sheldon said, "and an expansion of the Center programs to fulflll the community's needs in a cost effective manner." By profession, Sheldon is a dentist and owns Horizon Dental Center. He. and his wife Suzy ,have two daughters: Wendy wito is 13 and Lisa, 11.
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Moms and Tots Lisa (Mrs. Mark) S«nal and Edith (Mrs. Roger) Rogert display the new local Na'amat USA logo which Mrs. Senal deaigned. Na'amat sponsors the Omaha Moms and Tots program. The schedule for January and February is: Jan. 16, 1 p.m., Maureen Strain, I30I3 Emiline St., 896-2462; Jan. /^1>10 a.m., Lisa Senal, 13606 Cedar, 334-7320; Feb. 12, 10 a.m., Harriet Plumb, 613 N. 72 Ave., 390-2668; Feb. 18, 10 a.m., Ros Ulmer, 1223 N. 66 St., 568-6584. MAMALOSHEN SOCIETY The Mamaloshen Society will be celebrating its firstyear anniversary at a party on Jan. 5 at 2 p.m. sharp at the JCG. "Many nice things have been planned, so please plan to come early enough so all the registrations (signing in) will be completed by 2 p.m. which will enable us to start our meeting on time," said Helen Schwartz.
Come with your birthday 'maises' un mere vellen farbreingen in Yiddishkeit un frailichkeit. Mamaloshen greeters will be Nate Berg, Sylvia Davis, Charles Guss, Toni Kutcher, Pauline and Morey Landman, Dorothy Parilman, Sally Venger and Helen Schwartz. Birthday cake hostesses will be Ida Berg, Lillian Guss and Nell Rubinow.
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