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Vol. LXIV No. 48 Omaha, Nebr.
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Todd Finkle
Joshua Finkler
Marda Greene
Dana Nogg
Wendi Rosenblatt David Spizman
NataUe Weinstein
Stephanie Weinstein
Endowments provide scholarships to 14 students By Susan Drazen Director, Bureau of Jewish Education As the new academic year begins, scholarships from five endowment funds administered for the Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha by the Financial Aid Committee of the Bureau of Education have been awarded to 14 Omaha area college students. The Auth Sokolof Special Education Scholarship Fund was created and funded by Phil Sokolof to honor and perpetuate the memory of his wife, Ruth. Mrs. Sokolof, a volunteer and teacher at the J. P. Lord School, worked with the handicapped for many years. The fund, a living memorial to her efforts for the handicapped, benefits graduate students in the field of special education. Recipients of the Sokolof scholarships for the 1987-88 academic year are Marcia Greene and Dotua Greenberg, both emolled at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by Phillip G. Schrager in 1980 as a lasting tribute to his late wife. LAis Jeanne Schrager was
a community volunteer before her death in 1978. She was active in the Nebraska Arthritis Foundation and was president of the local Omaha chapter. She worked for VIDA, a social service organization designed to help juveniles in trouble. Mrs. Schrager was an active member of several Jewish women's organizations and served as a volunteer at Children's Hospital and as a Gray Lady at Clarkson Hospital. Eligibility for the Schrager scholarships is based on academic performance, involvement in extra-curricular activities, participation in Jewish programs and financial need. Recipients of the Schrager scholarships for the 1987-88 academic year are Danielle Epstein, University of Southern California; Joshua Finkle, Reed College; Kevin Saltzman, Harvard University; and Stephanie Weinstein, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The family and friends of Nancy and Don Greenberg established a scholarship fund in their name to recognize their leadership in the Jewish community. Endowed in 1983, the fund. benefits a Jewish resident of P^naha who is an undergraduate. Valeiy
Court compels graduation to accommodate Sabbath NEW YORK(JTA) - A federal court in New York has ruled that a Long Island School Board must reschedule its 1988 High School graduation so that a Sabbathobserving student can attend his high school graduation without violating his religious beliefs. The lawsuit was filed by the American Jewish Congress on behalf of 17 year-oldDavid Smith who alleged that the North Babylon School Board's decision to hold graduation exerciser on a Saturday violated Smith's First Amendment right to free exercise of religion. Smith, who will be a senior at North Babylon Senior High School this fall, is a Sabbath-observing Jew. His religious beliefs prevent him from attending secular events on a Saturday. Smith, with the help of his father. Rabbi Richard N. Smith, had requested that the School Board move the 1988 graduation to a day other than Saturday. When the North Babylon School Board unanimously refused Smith's request, the American Jewish Congress filed suit on Smith's behalf. In a 38i>age opinion issued Aug. 11, District Judge Jacob Mishler of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, ruled that in refusing Smith's request to move the graduation day, the North Babylon School Board placed "an unconstitutional burden" on Smith's "First Amandmmt ri^t to the free exerdae of his rdigioua bdiefs not to engage in sectdar activities on the Sabbath." The Court's opfaiion rejected all three of the main arguinents that the School Board raised in defense of its decision not to move the Saturday graduation. The Court ruled that because Smith's inability to attend a Saturday graduation is rooted in his religious belief, his request triggered the protection of the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause. Secondly, the Court ruled that graduation exercises were an "important benefit" that Smith would be deprived of if graduation
were held on a Saturday, and so the School Board's decision to hold a Saturday graduation imposed an "unconstitutional burden" on Smith's Free Exercise. Distinguishing a graduation from sporting events, dances and stage productions because it is "conducted as pairt of and as an extension of the education program," Judge Mishler reasoned that "the educational system itself instills a legitimate expectation in students that, if they fulfill all requirements, they will have the opportunity, along with their peers, to attend the event that marks the culmination of their academic effort and the recognition of their achievement." Finally, the Court held that the School Board did not prove that it had a "compelling interest" to justify retaining Saturday as a graduation day. Under current law, proof of a "compelling interest" would be sufficient to overcome a claimed burden on free exercise rights. The Court found that neither of the interests asserted by the School Board were "compelling." Smith's attorneys, Ronald A. Krauss and Amy Adelson, said they were "pleased that the Court's ruling will ensure that David will not have to miss his high school graduation." Krauss was formerly, and Adelson is currently National Staff Counsel for the American Jewish Congress' legal department, which specializes in First Amendment litigation. Krauss is currently an associate of Wolf, Block, Shorr and Solis-Cohen, a law firm in Philadelphia. Both attorneys said that they "were gratified that the Court accepted the American Jewish Congress' legal position that a school board cannot exercise power arbitrarily to run roughshod over a fundamental constitutional right, the right of free exercise of religion." Also assisting in the preparation of Smith's case were Lois Waldman and Marc Stem, CD-directors of the American Jewish Congress' Commission on Law and Social Action.
Astor is the recipient of the Greenberg Scholarship for the 1987-88 academic year and will be attending UNL. Founded to provide grants for graduate education to worthy students from the Jewish community of Omaha, a fund was dedicated to the memory of Sandra L. Feldman. Ms. Feldman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University and studied at the University of Vienna, Harvard University and the business school of the UNO. Ms. Feldman's family established this fund to perpetuate her memory and achievements. Todd Finkle, attending the University of Wisconsin, and Diane Berger, Creighton University, are the Sandra Feldman scholars for 1987-88. Five college students have been designated Beatrice and Nate H. Sherman scholars for 1987-88. Founded by the Nate H. Sherman Foundation to provide annual scholarships for qualified college students, this fund is named in memory of this Omaha couple to recognize their generosity to Omaha and other cities. This year's Sherman scholars are: Edi EisenschM*, Peru State College; Dana Nogg, Colorado Col-
lege; Wendi Rosenblatt, University of Arkansas; David Spizman, University of Kansas; and Natalie Weinstein, UNL. The Bureau of Jewish Education ad^ ministers eight scholarships and loan programs for the Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. These programs cover many areas of Jewish education from informal camping programs to graduate school. It administers funds for preschool scholarships through the Carolyn KuUy Newman Fund, college loans through the David Beber Scholarship Fund and the B'nai B'rith Dr. Abe Greenberg/Henry Monsky Lodge Endowment Fund. Israel pilgrimages, youth programs and day school scholarships are funded through the Esther K. Newman Fund. Anyone wishing to contribute to existing scholarship and loan funds or to endow new funds to provide monies for needs which have not yet been addressed should contact the endowment director of the Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, 333 South 132nd Street, Omaha, Nebr. 68154, (402) 334-8200.
UTTO high school initiates merit scholarship program The United Tahnud Torah of Omaha High iSchooI of Jewish Studies has announced the launching of a merit scholarship program. According to the annoimcement, the incentive program will be available to Beth El Synagogue and Beth Israel Synagogue students who are enrolled in the high school program this year. It is designed to reward students who choose to develop their own base of Jewish knowledge beyond the framework of the formal Wednesday evening program, Stanley Mitchell, U1T0 director of ediication, told the Jewish Press. First-year funding will be provided by Beth El Synagogue through the Henry and Dorothy Riekes Beth El Endowment Fund. The $500 scholarship is available to anyone completing the program, Mr. Mitchell said. The program has three categories of required activities: attendance in a youth group, at synagogue and at the High School of Jewish Studies; volunteer work; cultival and creative activities. Scholarships will be awarded on an annual basis, with payment made upon gradu-
Beth El honors Rabbi, Susan Rabbi Paul and Susan Drazen will be honored by Beth El Synagogue, Saturday, Sept. 5, on the occasion of their 10th wedding anniversary. According to the Mishpacha committee, the couple will be fet^ at a Kiddiish following Shabbat morning services. Members of the congregation and friends of the Drazens in the community are being invited. The Drazens were married on Sept. 4, 1977. The couple has two children, Gila and Yoni.
ation from public high school for continuing education at an accredited institution of higher learning or for an approved trip to Israel. Each year a student participates in the program, that student can earn $500, or up to $2,000 during the high school years. Students may sign up at any time during the acacdemic year, as long as the requirements are completed before the beginning of the next school year, Mr. Mitchell said. Brochures are available in the UTTO office, 556-3770. The program will be explained in detail to all students the first evening of class on Sept. 9 at the JCC. Committee members who created the program include: Margo Riekes, High School Conunittee chairman; Mr. Mitchell, Shirley Banner, Rabbi Paul Drazen, Gloria Kaslow, Cheryl Kricsfeld, Carole Lainof, Roy Levine, Rabbi Isaac Nadoff, Karen PoUak, Steven Riekes, Nancy Skid, Sondra Topper.
Rabbi Kushner here Sept. 17 Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, author of several best-sellers, and ^^ spiritual leader of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., will speak at Beth El Synagogue Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Kushner is mar^ ried to the former Suzette Estrada of Omaha. He has been rabbi of Temple Israel in Natick since 1966. A reception in Beth El social hall will follow his lecture on Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life. Copies of his books will be available for sale and for autographing during the reception. Proceeds from the evening will be used to benefit educational and out-reach programs at Beth El Synagogue. For information and tickets, call the synagogue office;' 663-3221.
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Susan Fellman reports m on trip to Berlin Editor's note: Susan Fellman, a senior at Brandeis University recently visited Berlin on a youth bridge program sponsored by the Berlin Parliament in celebration of the city's 750th anniversary. This is part two of her report.
shavejj heads) roam the streets in leather jackets with big swastikas emblazoned on the backs, looking to provoke trouble. Personally, our German Jewish friends said, they feared physical abuse to the point of not wearing kipot at all unless among only Jews. This swastika-bearing By Susan Fellman youth movement has Some of the members of evolved in Germany bethe Berlin Zionist youth cause of the educational sysgroup are religious, as were tem. The Holocaust is not a handful of our Jewish taught in their history American group, and classes. So, the younger wanted to wear publicly the generations have grown up kipot and tzitzit that Ameri- not understanding their cans can. As they explained, country's past, not knowing they are frightened to wear the heinous crimes committhe religious garments be- ted in the name of the Third cause of still-existing ten- Refch of Germany by a tysion and dislilce of Jews. rannical dictator named HitThey warned the Americans ler. As far as they know. not to wear Icipot without Hitler was a man who lived another hat covering in the in the '30s and '40s, was restreets, as some rebellious bellious and angry; his symGerman youth called "skin- bol for the Nazi party is heads" (because of their (Continued on Page 3)
Registration open Registration is open for Jewish Community Center dance classes in pre-ballet/creative movement, adult ballet, ballet, modern dance, jazz and tap. Cheryl Kapell, JCC dance director, said classes are filling quickly. She is seen above, center, instructing Nicole Lemer, left, with Julie Gutnick, right, looking on.
Yona Bogale dead WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 (JTA) - Yona Bogale, the Ethiopian Jewish scholar and leader, died in Israel last week, it was reported here by the American Association for Ethiopian Jews. He was 79 years old. Those who witnessed the funeral in the Givat Shaul Cemetery in Jerusalem described it as an "incredible" scene. Busloads of Ethiopian Jews followed the body as it was transported from Bogale's home in Petach Tikvah to Jerusalem where he had requested to be buried. About 4,000 mourners came to pay their respects to the great patriarch of the Ethiopian Jews. Among them were the Speaker of the Knesset, Shlomo Hillel, who delivered one of the main eulogies. Another one was delivered by Prisoner of Zion Gedallah Uria, who survived terrible torture from the Ethiopian secret police for continuing to teach Hebrew and Jewish subjects against the government's wishes.
Day School rejects boy halachically By Henriette Boas AMSTERDAM (JTA) - A Jewish Day school here has refused to admit a 13-year old boy because his mother is not halachically Jewish. The board of the Jewish Maimonides Lyceum, the only Jewish secondary school in Amsterdam has stated it will not admit Aram Bruckner for the upcoming school year deSpite his parents' desire to give the boy a Jewish education. The school denied Bruckner admission last year also. The boy's father, Robert Bruckner, said he will present his son for admission despite the board's statement. He has already initiated legal proceedings to force his son's admission.
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ATLANTA (JTA) Denise Robinowitz has been elected the first woman president of the 83-year-old Shearith Israel synagogue here. CHICAGO (JTA) - The Spertus College of Judaica has imveiled a new center on its campus here, the Joseph Cardinal Bemardin Center for the Study of Eastern European Jewry. The center will be home to institutes for advanced Jewish study and the Christian-Jewish experience and will highlight the remnants of that civilization saved during World War II by churchmen, private individuals and governments. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (JTA) — Vivian Lansky, a university alumni director here, has been appointed executive director of the Fort Wayne Jewish Federation,
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HARRIS SIRINSKY Services were held for Harris Sirinsky of Chicago on Aug. 18. Survivors: wife, Shirley; sons, Larry and Howard Sirinsky; brother, Koby Sirinsky, all of Chicago; sisters, Ann Ellis and Betty Thompson, both of Omaha; two grandsons. JULIUS HORNSTEIN Graveside services were held on Aug. 21 at Golden Hill Cemetery for Julius Homstein, 72. Mr. Homstein is survived by his wife, Bessie; son, Larry Homstein; brothers, Joe and Marvin Homstein; sisters, Helen Mason and Dorothy Strauss; two grandsons. MAXWELL M. ROSENBLATT Graveside services were held Aug. 23 at the Jewish Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa, for former Omahan Maxwell M. Rosenblatt, 77. Mr. Rosenblatt is survived by his wife, Etta; sons, Jerry Rosenblatt of Omaha and Michael Rosenblatt of Santa Ana, Calif.; three grandsons. The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association or your favorite charity. EDITH L. KRANTi Services were held at Beth El Synagogue on Aug. 23 for Edith L. Krantz, 83. Mrs. Krantz is survived by her husband, Abe; daughters, Rita (Mrs. Harold) Novak of Omaha and Elaine (Mrs. Robert)
Krasne of El Paso, Texas; son, Sheldon Krantz of San Diego, Calif.; nine grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to Beth El Synagogue or the Rose Blumkin Home. ROSE OBUCH Graveside services were held on Aug. 24 at Golden Hill Cemetery for Rose Oruch, 92. Survivors: sons, Albert Onich and Harold Oruch; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. JOSEPH WEINBERG Graveside services were held at Golden Hill Cemetery on Aug. 23 for Joseph Weinberg. Survivors: mother, Mrs. Sam Weinberg; sisters, Doris (Mrs. E.A.) Nachman of Springfield, Mo.; brother, Sol Weinberg, of Downey, CaUf. BEULAH SHRAGO Graveside services for Beulah Shrago, of Portland, Ore., formerly of Omaha, took place Thursday at Mt. Sinai Cemetery. She is survived by a son and four grandchildren. JAMES M. ROTHENBERG Services for Jfatnes M. Rothenberg, 56, were conducted Thursday at Beth El Synagogue. Burial was in Beth El Cemetery. In addition to his wife, Regina, Mr. Rothenberg is sur-. vived by daughter, Lois Schneider, Omaha; sons, Steve and Jack of Qmaha, and Joseph of Cleveland, and three granddaughters.
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Susan Fellman visits Berlin
Evening of affection History will record the reception for Rabbi Myer S. and Dorothy Kripke at Beth El Synagogue last Sunday night as one of the greatest outpourings of affection ever provided to a rabbi and rebbitzen in Omaha. The long line of well-wishers stretched from the western perimeter of the synagogue all the way to the eastern end of the building where Rabbi and Mrs. Kripke greeted hundreds and hundreds of their friends. Estimates of the numbers who gathered to congratulate the Kripkes on the occasion of his 50 years in the rabbinate and their 60 years of marriage ranged from 700 to 800. The line of people moved slowly. Those toward the end of the line waited from one to two hours to have a brief few words with the honorees. In the group were not only members of the Beth El Congregation, but friends of the Kripkes from outside the Synagogue family. Priests, ministers, physicians, lawyers, the elderly and the young—all with a common purpose: To offer congratulations to an Omaha couple whose impact stretches way beyond the geographic borders of this city. Rabbi Kripke is a sought-after scholar, lecturer, rabbi who has traveled and taught in many places after assuming rabbi emeritus status at Beth El. Dorothy Kripke is a well-known author whose books have brought joy, pleasure and education to countless readers across this nation. Over the past 10 years, I have had the distinct honor to visit with Rabbi Kripke not only on formal occasions, but diuing brief, precious moments when he brings his weekly column into the Jewish Press office. Always in a rush, he nevertheless takes the time to ask about my health and to comment on the issues of the day. When he first started writing his column, I had grand expectations of demonstrating my editorial prowess and I examined his material microscopically to find errors so that I could challenge his words and thoughts. I always failed. Whenever I checked, be it in the dictionary or encydbpe' dia„he invariably was correct. It became almost a game. I would 8ay,"Rabbi, I almost got you, but again you won." I can't think of a better man to lose to. The Kripkes surely rank among one of the most impressive man and wife teams that I have ever met, and the many hundreds of their friends who turned out for the Champagne Reception siu-ely must agree. Mazel tov Rabbi and Dorothy. May you both rejoice in good health to 120!
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(Continued from Page 2) merely a symbol of anarchy to them, not murder and devastation as we know it. There is a widespread loss of memory about the Holocaust in Germany. It happened, they admit, but they were really not responsible. It is always someone dse who committed the crimes, someone else who could have stopped the madness but didn't, someone else who was in a position to help, someone else. We asked people we met what they were doing during the war, and got the same two answers over and over: "I didn't know anything about it, or of course I would have done something," and "I was out of the country on a holiday at the time." It is impossible that people didn't know what was happening. The Holocaust was being run from right in their midst. The house where the infamous Wannsee Conference was held (where Himmler and Hitler decided in 1939 to begin the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, or mass genocide) is on the shores of a lake in a gorgeous residential neighborhood in Berlin. It is now being used as a student dormitory, and I wonder, do the students know the history of the house? How can they live there? Certainly, the school operating the dormitory must know what happened in that house. How could they even think of housing students there? I saw the house while we were on a boat ride on lake Wannsee. I didn't know which one it was, and asked a German to point it out. He didn't know, he had never heard of the Wannsee Conference. Another Jewish American knew and pointed in the direction. One thing about the Holocaust that the Germans remember well is the German resistance to Hitler. There are numerous monuments dedicated to those who opposed the Nazis. The building where six of Hitler's top men plotted a military coup to kill him is now a museum to their heroism. The border pattern on the wood floor in the museum is, whether purposely or coincidentally, an intertwining swastika. The hanging block where those six were executed is now on display; wreaths are laid daily for the resistance. But not a word anywhere
about how feeble the German resistance to Hitler actually was. The pressure to conform to the wishes and demands of the Third Reich was enormous during the war, and very few were strong enough to resist. Real resistance to the Nazis came from the Jewish ghettos: Warsaw, Vilna, Lodz; decent resistance came from France, Holland, and Sweden. German Resistance was basically nonexistant. But German nationalistic pride continues to cloud reality, and their "heroes" are honored everywhere. It was amazing, frustrating, and infuriating how so few Germans knew about the Holocaust, and how those who did know tried so hard to forget. Yet the yoimg German Jews continue to develop their Jewish identities, fearful as they are of being identified publicly as Jews. Most hope to move to Israel. The synagogues in West Berlin are where the youth groups meet. Services are held as well, just as in American synagogues. The Jewish community has its choice of attending Reform, Conservative, or Orthodox synagogues, just as in American synagogues. Different than American synagogues, though, is the physical placement of the synagogues. Berlin's S}rnagogues are built in covui;yards of other buildings, allowing them a protective "wall" in case of attack. Preventive measures are taken against another Kristallnacht, such as having armed guards positioned at every synagogue entrance with metal detectors (just like the kind at airports) at all times. The rubble heaps and scarred buildings from Kristallnacht have long been cleaned up, and the most visible reminder in the western half of the city is the arch remaining over the doorway of the Judische Gemeinde, or Jewish Community Center. It used to be the arched entrance to Germany's largest synagogue, but is the sole surviving part of the structure, now gracing the entrance to a modern brick and stucco building. It struck me as strange how West Berlin, the free half of the city, covered up all evidence of the Holocaust. East Berlin, in contrast, did a good job of leaving dedications as remind-
ers of the past. A large, ornate synagogue in East Berlin is fenced off today, with charred marks all over the facade, heaps of rubble, and trees and vines starting to grow from inside out the windows. It was burned on Kristallnacht, then bombed later in the war. But it remains in its state of destruction, testimony to the horrors of the past. A plaque on the front of the builc&ng reads, in translation: "This synagogue is 100 years old and was set to flames by the Nazis on the 9th of November, 1938, during Kristallnacht. It was destroyed by a bombing attack in 1943 during the second World War, 19391945. The forefront of this house of God shall for all time remain a place for remembrance and of warning. Never forget it. The directorate of the Jewish community of greater Berlin, September, 1966." East Berlin also lays claim to another monument to Jews killed, which lies in a park not many blocks from the synagogue. A plaque was erected to attest to the millions of lives lost, and a sculpture of a group of emaciated humans stands overlooking the plaque. Why does East Berlin make an effort to remember the Holocaust when West Berlin does all possible to forget? Maybe because communism opposed Hitler, while free society fell victim to him, but the irony is a painful one. Reminders of the Holocaust are present in Berlin's free society, but are noticeable only to those who choose to see. Antique shops are filled with Jewish objects confiscated during the Holocaust. Kiddush cups, Shabbat candlesticks, Haimukiot, and silver platters with Hebrew engravings abound. These objects posed another conflict: do I, as a Jew, buy the objects because I know of their significance when another customer may not? Or do I leave them in the shop, because I don't want to give money to people who are making a profit from Jewish lives lost? I knew, just by looking, that the candlesticks had probably been passed from mother to daughter for generations before the family was rounded up and sent to their deaths. Lack of spending money solved my inunediate problem, but not the dilemma. After the two-week tour of Berlin ended, the group The Jewish Press resertea the right to edit lettws tor rea- went home to the United States, but I remained in •on ot length or content. Europe to do a bit of travelTo the Editor: ing on my own. I visited On the whole, I find the Jewish Press very informative Dachau for a day, and my and invahiable. What disturbs me however, is that when impression of the camp fell it comes to local affairs, the Jewish Press perpetuates many perfectly into place with ray Jewish stereotypes. overall impression of GerIf one did not know better, one would very easily get the many. impression that all of Omaha's Jews are: rich, of European An adequate reminder of descent, own mega-businesses or are professionals. The the death camp is an ugly, paper is looking more and more like a society paper or a glaring thing, and Germany "who's who" of Omaha's very wealthy Jews. does its best to avoid ugliThe Jewish Press, albeit not intentionally, seems to ness. The buildings have ignore Omaha's "other" Jewish community: that of moder- been torn down and reate and low income families who proudly share the com- placed with more aesthetimitment to Jewish needs and values, but who cannot cally pleasing flowerbeds. A always express that commitment monetarily. museum is open to the pubPlease don't alienate us! There is certainly more to tell lic, free of admission, showabout Jewish life in Omaha than who attended what black ing and telling what haptie function. pened in the camp. The Jeannot Tttuitou museum is not as dedicated
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to the thousands of Jews killed as I had hoped, but Jewish genocide is mentioned and illustrated more than anywhere else. The rest of the camp infuriated me. The landscaped flowerbeds are not adequate representations of the buildings where prisoners were kept thousands to the bunker, worked, fed (sometimes), experimented upon, tortured, and killed. A small structure was built to remember the Jews who were at Dachau, but it is tucked in the far back, right comer of the camp, barely visible. Signs in the Crematorium building claini that the ovens were never used. The town of Dachau is a suburb of the thriving city of Munich. It is a small, clean, and prosperous town. The camp is located in the center of town, surrounded by residential areas and small farms. The camp itself is approximately the size of two square city blocks. With such a location, how can the residents claim they didn't know what was happening? Screams, gunshots, ^ tmd loudspeakers would all W be audible for blocks outside the camp. The sight of smoke from the chimneys and stench from the bodies would have been clearly evident. The truth is that all of those signs were ignored by local residents. Unless, of course, the entire town of Dachau was "on a holiday" during the six years of the war. A pleasant contrast to the attitude toward Jews in. Germany was the tolerance of Jews in Antwerp, Belgium, another city I visited. Antwerp has a Jewish population of approximately 12,000, in' an overall city that seemed about the same size as Omaha (I'm not sure of the population statistic.) Antwerp is one of the few European cities left with a vibrant Jewish community, at the heart of which is a large Hassidic population. Many of the Jews in the city are working with the city's diamond businesses, importing rough stones from Israel and South Africa, and exporting poUshed gems to the whole world. Up and down the streets of the diamond district are jewelry stores, banks, restaurants, groceries and delis all operated by Hassidic Jews. Passersby can look through the windows of the shops to see clerks and businessmen alike in the traditional black garb, beards, hats, and payess (sidebum-locks). Hebrew is spoken, along with Yiddish, to complement the official languages of Flemish and French. (Which was great for me because my Hebrew is good and my French and Flemish are laughable.) It was good to feel "among" the population rather than outside it. It was wonderful to speak Hebrew while shopping for my groceries. But best of all, it was good to see that Hitler's goal is nowhere near accomplishment. Jews in Europe continue to live and prosper, despite sometimes hostile environments. We will sur-
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SERVICES: SERVICES: Rabbi Paul Drazen and Friday: 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Stephen F. BaCantor Emil Berkovits will conduct the services. rack and Cantor Harold Firestone will officiate. Friday: 8:15 p.m. An Oneg Shabbat will Rabbi Barack will continue his short talks on the follow. theme, "The varieties of Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Kiddush will follow serv- Jewish experience." Saturday: 11:15 a.m. ices. A luncheon to welcome BAR MITZVAH home campers will be held. Adam Yale, son of Janis Mincha-Ma'ariv 7:55 p.m. and Donald Yale, will celSunday: 9 a.m. and 5:30 ebrate his Bar Mitzvah at p.m. Shabbat services on FriWeekdays: 6:55 a.m. and day, Sept. 4, and Satur5:30 p.m. day, Sept. 5. WOMEN'S LEAGUE Women's League will Council Bluffs have a bus tour of historiB'nai Israel cal Jewish sites of Omaha on Sept. 8. Mary Fellman SERVICES: will be the narrator. Lunch First and third Friday will be served afterwards. each month 7:30 p.m. An Oneg Shabbat follows the USY USY is selling apples service. B'nai Israel Synagogue and honey for the High Holidays. The cost is $4 offers services led by memfor the first order and bers of the congregation. $3.50 for additional orders. Volunteer Cantor Major To order call Larry Moldo Mandy Greene leads the singing. Everyone is invited at the S3aiagogue. to attend. KIDDUSH Persons interested in the A Kiddush will be given on Sept. 5 by Mishpacha in synagogue or in carpools honor of Rabbi and Mrs. may call Scott Kotzen Paul Drazen in celebration 402-553-3334. of their 10th anniversary.
Book about Barbie PARIS (JTA) - "The Barbie Trial: Agence France-Presse Tells the Story" is the title of the first book ever to be written by the French wire service Agency France Presse (AFP). Published by Hachette, the book retraces the entire trial of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie which took place between May 11 and July 4. Summaries of the 37 sessions, the testimonies of surviving concentration camp prisoners and ail the evidence presented in the trial are included in the 272-page book. AFP president JeanLouis Guillaud explained the reason for this first in this company's history: "It is so that the awakened memory does not fall asleep again that we have put together this book," he said.
JERUSALEM. Aug. 24 (JTA) - Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has come out in support of Washington's restoring Rumania's Most Favored Nation status of which it was recently deprived by the U.S. Congress because of American concern over human rights violations in Rumania. Shamir, who paid an official visit to Bucharest last week, told visiting U.S. Sen. John Breaux (D.La.) that he wished the Jews in the Soviet Union received the same treatment as the Hungarian minority in Rumania.
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Porashat Shofetim The rabbis, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution It was just about this there any supervision? How time of year, 200 years ago, may they be removed from that the 55 men who had office? gathered in Philadelphia to The Torah leaves us with "revise the Articles of Con- none of the detail. It refederation" struggled mained for Talmudic Judathrough the give-and-take of ism to labor through all compromise and produced these questions and arrive the Constitution of the at "by-laws." United States. By Sept. 17, These columns have a final draft was approved; pointed out more than once by December the process of that the rabbis were asratification was begun signed no power by the To(Delaware was the first), and rah itself. Indeed they are by June 1788 the Constitu- not mentioned; they were tion had become official, not even thought of! with the required nine It is only later, in poststates having ratified Biblical times, that the it... Four years later, 1791, rabbis ascended to power. a Bill of Rights was added. They did so by assuming it, The men who drafted and simply taking religious approved our Constitution leadership away from the knew nothing of electricity, priests. It was a significant motor cars, airplanes, a na- end far-reaching religious tion from ocean to ocean, revolution. television—and a million As it were, the rabbis said other things. How then that the Torah means what could 'their document have they said it means! lasted through these 200 Americans who at this years? It lasted because, as point are celebrating the Chief Justice Charles Evans 200th anniversary of the Hughes was later to say, Constitution, and at the "The Constitution is what same time watching with inthe judges say it is." Ponder tensive interest the debates that! over the "fitness" of the This same process, in fact, new appointee to the Suwas old hat to Jews. preme Court, must recogOur sidrah opens with a nize that the Constitution wonderful passage: "You does not interpret itself: it is shall appoint magistrates interpreted by judges. and officials for your tribes And Jews who love Torah in all the settlements that must recognize that Torah the Lord your God is giving differs from generation, you, and they shall govern from time to time and from the people with due jus- circumstance to circumtice ... Justice, justice shall stance. you pursue." In short, there is a strong Wonderful, exciting, assumption that wellinspiring—yes. But who established tradition is shadi appoint the magis- right. But new circumstance trates? How many? How may call for new interpretalong should they serve? Is tion. '
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Rene Mitchell writes about Ramah Pilgrimage By Rene Mitchell I was privileged to participate in the Ramah Community Pilgrimage to Israel, based out of Kansas City. On June 28,1 met up with the Kansas City conununity group which consisted of people from Kansas City, t)es Moines and Tulsa. We flew to New York where we met other groups from Washington, D.C., and Virginia and independents from across the east coast. After arriving in Israel, we traveled to our base in Jerusalem where we studied about the history of the Jews. We saw important historical sites including David's City, the Southern Wall, and the Western Wall. After a week in Jerusalem, we went up north to the Galilee. On the way we stopped at Kibbutz Hanaton, a Conservative kibbutz, for two days. We helped by clearing a field for planting. We stayed in the north for a week where we visited Arab and Jewish villages and learned about strategic Golan Heights area. We then had a special two-night program at the Bedouin Camel Tours. We slept in Bedouin tents and rode camels. We also swam in the Dead Sea, which was unlike any water I had swam in before. During the stay with the Bedouins, we climbed Massada and viewed the impressive sunrise. An unusual and interesting experience was a day-long simulation game at the Hebrew University. The group was split into Arab countries, the United States and Israel, and had to achieve certain goals. From this game we learned how hard it is to maintain peace in the Middle East. Next was an archaeological dig at Ein Yael in which we found bones and pottery. After this we took a four-day trip to the Negev. In Eilat we 9wam in the Red Sea and attempted to snorkel. Back to Jerusalem for the final week. We visited the Knesset and Yad Vashem. Yad Vashem was quite moving, as it brought together all of the knowledge of the Holocaust that I was taught in Hebrew School. We also had a chance to plant trees in Jerusalem. We left Israel after six weeks of learning and fun. I want to thank the Jewish Federation and Beth El Synagogue for the funds and support of the trip. I hope this support continues so other teenagers have the opportunity to spend the summer in Israel.
Community alert ~By Bonnie Pawloski and Ruth Potash This week we suggest that letters be written to Alexander Gagkeyev, Karetni Ryad 5/10 Apt. 187, Moscow, USSR 103006. In 1978, Alexander applied for an exit visa for his family: wife, Nataly; daughter, Katerina, 13; and now daughter, Elizaveta, six. An architect, Alexander was one of the creators of
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Employees top U.W. pledges The employees of the Jewish Federation of Omaha have increased their pledges to United Way of the Midlands by 31 percent, Jerold Rosen, staff coordinator, has announced. According to Mr. Rosen, 100.percent of the employees have pledged to the current campaign. He said that while most organizations strive to reach 100 percent participation, it is not always possible to achieve. "Our people recognize that United Way funds some of our activity and that it is only right for all of us to do our share," Mr. Rosen said. WASHINGTON (JTA) The Catholic Press Association has declared "Life in a Jewish Family," by Edith Stein, the beatified Jewish convert to Catholicism, the best spirituality book of 1986.
_.._..UBREAKERS Mike Abramson, copresident for the September Breadbreakers luncheons, has announced that Coach Daimy Nee will speak at the Sept. 2 luncheon. Coach Nee is the head basketball coach at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Breadbreakers is held every Wednesday at noon at Howard Johnson's, 72nd and Grover. The luncheon is open to the community and costs $5 per person. SOCIETY OP SURVIVORS Members of the Society of Survivors will meet for a barbecue on Aug. 30, 3:30 p.m^, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rosenberg, 926 S. 85th Street. Chairman is Rachel Rosenberg. She is being assisted by Bluma Polanski. HADASSAH Hadassah members will conduct an Oneg Shabbat, 2 p.m. on Aug. 29, at the Koae Blumkin Home. The Hadassah board will meet on Sept. 2, 9:30 a.m., at the Livingston Plaza. MAMALOSHEN Because of the High Holidays and many calendar conflicts in September, Mamaloshen will hold its first meeting of the year on Oct. 4, the day following Yom Kippur, 2 p.m., room 10 at the Jewish Community Center. Mamaloshen will continue to meeton the first Sunday of each month.
Libii^ry resumes regular hours The Jewish Federation Library will resume regular hours on Aug. 29. The schedule is: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.in.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
High School of Jewish studies announces fall class schedule Fall classes for the United of Jewish Studies at the Talmud Torah of Omaha University of Nebraska at will begin Wednesday, Sept. Omaha and is the Federa9, 7:30 p.m., at the Jewish tion's scholar-in-residence. Community Center. Courses In this class, students will being taught this semester have a chance to discuss are: Our Jewish Commu- their ideas and interpretanity, Soviet Jewry, and tions of famous ethical Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei thoughts. Avot). An ice cream social at "Our Jewish Commu- 7 p.m. will precede the first nity," coordinated by Son- class. dra Topper, assistant director of the Jewish Federation, will offer students an ) opportunity to learn about the Jewish Federation and its agencies through direct involvement. There will be simulated committee meetings, budget preparation and presentation, during which students can gain knowledge of how the Omaha Jewish community operates. The course on Soviet Jewry, led by Shirley Goldstein, will focus on the plight of Soviet Jews, the Adam Yale political questions involved, Charles Adam Yale, son effect of Glasnost, etc. The ethics course will be of Janis and Donald Yale, taught by Dr. Rochelle will become a Bar Mitzvah Millen, who holds the chair at Temple Israel on Sept. 5. Adam is a seventh-grade student at Beveridge Junior High School. He enjoys math and all sports, especially tennis and basketball. Jim Crounse, an associate He has three brothers, Alexwith Crounse and Lee, ad- ander, Andrew and Jason, vertising, public relations, and a sister, Laura. Adam is the grandson of government affairs, has been appointed North- Roz and Ike Friedman and eastern Field Coordinator the late Eleanor and Charles by the Democratic Congres- Yale. His great-grandsional Campaign Commit- parents are Rebecca and tee. He will be running all Louis Friedman. Democratic House races in the Northeast.
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^dis^d'® ia®wS It was great reading the beautiful new calendar book sent out last week by the Jewish Community Center and to see information about the Jewish community that will undoubtedly be helpful to all of our long-time residents and especially newcomers. However, there must be a clarification for you of the information about the hotels where kosher food is available. Kosher catering is only available at those hotels and other locations upon advance planning and the kashering (making kosher) of their kitchens. Kosher food is not available by "just going in and ordering a kosher meal." The only restaurant in town which will serve a kosher meal upon request.. . sandwich, salad, possibly soup—is the Bagel Bin Deli. Kosher meals of course are always served at the Jewish Community Center, which also is under the supervision of a mashgiach, but those are served only upon prior arrangements. Incidentally, as long as the canteen is open at the JCC swimming pool you may order delicious kosher hamburgers and hot dogs there. This service will end with the closing of the outdoor pool. For those of you who have heard about or tried Entenmann's baked goods and were never able to purchase them in Omaha, this news is good, Entenmaim's is now available at No Frills, World of Food, Hinky Dinky, Food City, Albertsons, Cubs and possibly other markets in town. Their products carry the 0-U symbol and the D for dairy. Entemann's is a bakery company founded in 1898 and bakes its products in Bay Shore, N.Y., Miami, Chicago, and Montebello, CA. ' There are some new cookies in town that have also been seen at some of the above named stores by the name of Sun Valley Cookies in the two-pound package of sandwich cremes, chocolate, vanilla and the combination and some one-pound animal cookies packages. Some are dairy, some are pareve, but all carry the 0-U mark for kosher supervision.
Take-out kosher New York IJTA) — The first kosher take-out restaurant in the Soviet Union will be opened on the grounds of the Chorale Synagogue in Moscow next month, it was announced here by Rabbi Arthur Schneier of New York, president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation. Schneier said approval for the kosher food service had been given by Konstantin Kharchev, chairperson of the Council of Religious Affairs, USSR Council of Ministers. At a recent meeting with Kharchev in Moscow at which they discussed plans for the new facility, Schneier said, it was agreed that the take-out restaurant would be estabhshed as an interim step prior to the opening of a fullfledged kosher restaurant.
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Na'amat USA Edith Rogert, left, and Jean Marshall, right, are greeted by Gloria Elbing, Na'amat USA's national president, at the organization's biennial convention held in August at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
Women plan Sept. 9 Israel Bond luncheon Alice Golembo, actress and grandniece of the late Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir, will make a short presentation at Beth Israel Synagogue on Sept. 9 on behalf of Ke Women's Cabinet of the State of Israel Bonds. According to Julee Katzman, chairman of the luncheon and fashion show, "We have a spectacular array of furs from Kneeter Fur and beautiful jewehy from Borsheim's that will be modeled by women from our conmjunity." Mrs. Katzman said that this year the function is open to all women in the Jewish community and "it is encouraged but not mandatory to buy Israel Bonds." The luncheon will begin with champagne at 11:30 a.m. Reservations are needed by Sept. 2, according to luncheon co-chairmen Lisa Epstein and Joyce Cohen. The cost of the luncheon is $7. For additional information, call the Israel Bonds office at 341-1177. Mrs. Golembo was a member of the original Broadway cast of the play, "Golda," and aided playwright William Gibson with his research on that play. The granddaughter of Shana Korngold, Golda Meir's older sister, she lived with Mrs, Meir in the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem for a year. Mrs. Golembo has also had a number of roles on the stage, in films and on television in both the United States and Israel, the Jewish Press was told.
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912 S. 72 St 912S.72St, 390-9550 Next to Neb. Furniture Mart
For Lunch
1215 South 119th St. 334-2744
346-4422 (In Lincoln. 467-1108)
Orders must be placed by 9/17
Don't Forgetl Place your Holiday Bread orders early. Call 334-2744
We will close at 3 p.m. Wednesday, September 23 and reopen at 7 a.m. Saturday, September 26 All of our baked goods are certified Kosher. In Mon. 7-rK)on; Tues.-Sat. 7-5; Sun. 7-2 ,,f ^^P
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For Dinner • Homemade Pasta •Grilled, Sauteed, Poached Fish, Chicken, Steaks •Homemade Desserts Private Room Perfect for Meetings or Parties BUONNAROTI'Sl Park Drive
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Join Us For Dinner! • Pasta Specialties • Veal, Beef, Chicken and Seafood Entrees • Excellent Desserts 6 p.m. -10 p.m. Monday through Saturday
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• Homemade Soup & Bread Sticks • Grilled Chicken & Fish • Variety Fresh Salads
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Breakfast - Lunch - Take Out Serving Monday - Saturday, 6:30 a.m.—4 p.m. Sundays 6:30 a.m.—2 p.m. 76th&Cas8 391-0480
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Serving (ine Mandarin, Szechwan and Hunan dishes
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NEW LOCATION - Two Doors East
CARL JARL 7511 Dodge • 391-5700
12017 Pacific • 334-1138
Just the other day 1 heard a weather forecaster say there were only four more weekends of summer. I couldn't believe him—or to be more exact, I didn't want to think he was right. How could that be, I thought. Summer just began, didn't it? Wasn't it only a few short weeks ago we made our Memorial Day picnic plans? Didn't we just do the 4th of July? How is it possible everyone^ is already talking about Labor Day and the kids going back to school? Well don't look at me for answers. I only know one thing for sure ... time flies if you're having fun or even if you aren't. But let me ask you something; was it always like this or is it a recent problem? Of course 1 remember how fast our vacation from school seemed to fly. When September was approaching, not many children would admit they were getting bored with planning "what should we do today." And the ones who openly claimed they were glad school would soon start were thought of as "little goody-goody." Their peers thought they were weird. It's ok. We all remember that stuff, don't we? The question today is how did we let the season get away so quickly? Were you on some great vacation during the last few months? Did you take a marvelous trip and see wondrous things? Did you plant yourself next to the ocean {or a pool) and soak up the sun, ignoring the fact that it was aging your skin? Did you drive through magnificent scenery and give thanks for just being alive? Did you maybe visit dear friends or loved ones when ybu could take your time and enjoy l>eing together? Did you at least browse through some place known to be the chatchka capital of the state and bring home some little worthless souvenir worth a fraction of what you paid for it? You didn't do ANY of those things? Me either, but darned if I know where the heck the time went! I only know I'm looking forward to collecting our grandkids for a couple of days with us, before they start back to school. I know I'm already up to my ears in fall projects, and the calendar has copious dates reserved for this and that, all the way to the end of the year. My dear zada was right. At the age of 90 he was heard to remark this is a kartza veldt, by which he meant: the days hurry away unbelievably fast. So that must be where summer has gone. Away.
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