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Lincoln invites Omaha to Sivum celebration The Omaha Jewish community is invited to attend a weekend of activity at Tifereth Is'rael Synagogue, Sept. 11-13, marking the rededication of the congregation's Torahs. According to Harry Alien, general chairmaii, 'the activities include a ^'Shabbat evening service sSept. 11 at 8 p.m., led by Children of the congrega- Dr. E>ic Ray ^tion followed by an Oneg Shabbat. i On Shabbat morning at 9 a.m., there will 'be special readings followed by Kiddush luncheon and a lecture by Dr. Eric Ray on [the Hidden Meanings of the Torah. I Siyum morning wUl be from 9 a.m.-noon. |Following Shaharit services and a continenttal breakfast, the Sifrei Torah will be unI rolled in the social hall and Or. Ray will as> sist persons in writing their choaen verses. iSpecial Torah wOTkahops also will be held.
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E; Betty Pkdaky.a past pteaideBtof Tifareth i Israel Syna[gogue sisterrhooid, haa been I elected presii dent of the LinI'coln Jewish I Welfare Federa; tion. She is the 'firat woman to 1 serve in that Jeadership post,
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i, Mrs. Polsky haa been a member of the '.Jewish Welfare Board and haa beaded three [women's campaigns. She also has held varl ious siatwhood offices and has participated [as a member and board member of [Hadaaaah. I Mra. Polaky also ia a member of the Lintcoln Symphony Guild, the Lincok Art Asi sedation and the Law Wives Association.. She and her huaband, Hyman, a Lincoln lawyer, were Israel Bonda 1984 honoteea. tHiB Polakys have two children, Alan, a lawyer in Los Angeles, and Suaan, an advertising executive in Cleveland.
The concluding ceremony will take place Sept. 13 at 3 p.m., with a Torah processional, final writing of the scrolls and a creative service followed by a reception. Members of the reception committee include Barb Seglin, Gerry Schuchman, Eleanor Neiden, Annie Allen, Esther Rae Chesnen and Richard Evnen. The program committee includes Steve Seghn, Henry Misle, Nancy Coren, Eve Hoffman, Stuart Margoles and Rabbi Ian Jacknis.
Katz chapel Rabbi Alexander Katz, aenior ritual director of Beth El Synagogue, will be honored Friday night, Sept. 11, when the chapel at Beth El will be officially dedicated in his name and becomes the Rabbi Alexander Katz Chapel. The dedication service will begin at 6 p.m. in the Chapel and will be followed by a Shabbat family dinner in the Social HaU. The community may attend both the service and the dinner, and reservations may be made by calling Toby Kagan, 397-1037.
Kusbnef's tips on happiness By Ehmice Denenberg "People, in general, are not afraid of death, they are afraid that they have wasted their lives. I try to show them ways to cope with that fear," said Rabbi Harold S. Kushner. Rabbi Kushner, author and lecturer, will speak at Beth El Synagogue Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. In. a recent conversation, he said that much of people's frustrations in seddng "happiness and success" stems from allowing society rather than themselves to define happiness and success. "We see everyone around us aa rivals," Rabbi Kuahner aaid, adding "getting ahead means beating our friends and colleagues. I offer suggestions on how to feel successful in ways that don't defeat our asaociatea." Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life is the title of Rabbi Kushner's talk, which will be followed by a reception and book signing.
At tKe Lincofai Bond dinner, Andrew Goodman (left) preaenta Prime Minister awards to Rachel and Herb Gaba and Ruth and Irwin Goldenberg. Seated is United States Senator J. James Extm.
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Persian Gulf dramatizes Israel's link with U.S. By Morris Maline The "perilous" situation facing the United States in the Peraian Gulf dramatizes the vital link between this country and Israel, Senator J. James Exon said Sunday night in Lincoln. "Thank God we have a aolid ally i There „jll Offoow b^m^JB-jftBTOvide rminMl «nd advice to lif than the laraelia. Israel is our only true.friend in the region," Sen. Exon said at an Israel Bond dinner in Tifereth Israel Synagogue. More than $100,000 was raised. Sea Exon told the 12S attending that the United States has a legitimate role to play in the Peraian Gulf, but that "we should not be taken advantage of." . He said we ahould not have rushed in "foolheartedly" without the full support of our allies. He rebuked Saudi Arabia apedfically for not granting landing rif^ta to American aircraft, suggesting that it is "ludicrous" for the United States military to be there without air bases. "We should have told the Saudis that we were willing to help, but that we were not going to do it alone." Israel on the other hand haa always been there when we needed them and I suspect that the United States will always be there when they need us, Sen. Exon added. He thanked the group for investing in Israel through the purchase of Israel Bonds, adding that year after year Americans have attended such dinnera across the country '
and that thia t}^ of financial support has helped Israel survive in a hostile environment. In his opening remarks, Sen. Exon said he was sorry that Norman Krivoaha could not be there to introduce him. "I appointed him to a full time, lifetime job, and he ops andlaavasit.... iiowthat4>»'sree^'w<vking for a living, he has to leave town on business." Sen. Exon said that Norman and Helene Krivosha accompanied him on two trips to Israel and were highly influential in encouraging his support and underatanding of that country. He also singed out the late Eli ZaUdn and Bill Davidson, and Lincohiite Abe Novicoff as inspiring influfflices in behalf of Israel and Israel Bonds. Members of the Lincoln community honored at the event were Rachael and Herbert Gaba and Ruth and Irwin Goldenberg. Both couples were presented with the Prime Minister Award for their continuing financial support. Sophie Davidson was praised for her continuing effort. Also participating in the program were Yale Gotsdiner, general chairman; Albert Weiss, vice president, Tifereth Israel Synagogue; Marsha Plotkin, president. Congregation B'nai Jeshurun; Rabbi Ian Jacknis, Rick Katzman and Andrew Goodman, and Rabbi Debbi Pipe-Mazo. Murray Newman, Nebraaka state chairman for Israel Bonds, introduced Sen. Exon.
Delegate describes meeting with Pope as 'historic' By Edwin Eytan GANDOLFO (JTA) — An international Jewish ddegation met Tuesday for over one hour with Pope John PnjI II for what a member of the delegation described Is "a historic meeting which would have been inconceiva-^ Iple to previouB generatums." , ',. The Pontiff and the nine Jewish representatives discussed all the issues which have been troubUng Jewish communities throue^unit the world, including the Waldheim afniir, relations with Israel and recent revisionist trends in western Europe. ' Althoiigh the Pope did not respond directly to all the subjects, according to one of the participants. Rabbi Marc Panenbaum, he "listened carefully and patiently and tesponded in general terms." Pope Approves Three Dedaions : The Pope also aiqproved the three dedsions reached by NheddslEBtJaa in its meetings Tuesday momiilg with IgMttno CairdinalCasarali and during its negotiataona with dgh-ranUng church officials Monday, [fllhe dilNHration and the release of a Church declaration jiifpirining its stand on the Holocaust, its omidenmation ~ ravisicmist tendencies and tradng the roots of anti-<'
The Pope praised this decision and said he hoped it will have iinportant conaequences. The Pope also reminded the delegation that Tuesday, Sept. 1, was the 48th anniversary of Poland's invasion by Nazi Germany: "I know what a tragedy this meant. It is fitting we meet today." Providing for a mechaniam which would enable the Catholic Church and the Jewish community to keep in closer contact so as to prevent such "surprises" as the Pope's meeting' with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim, his invitation to Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasir Arafat and the canonization of Edith Stein. This mechanism will also provide for regular meetings between representatives of the Jewish community and the Vatican State Secretary. A<xess to the Pope "whenever the need arises" for ftirther frank discussions. Joint Recitation Of A Psabn The delegation had what some Jewish delegates described as "a strong conversation" on this subject earlier in the dt^ with Casardi The nine Jewish representatives and the Pope started their hiatoric meeting by reciting in turn, in H^rew and in Latin, a psalm ia front of an open £Uble. Both Jewish and Catholic spokesmen said this joint reading was nteant to'aymbolize their joint heritage. Aa
if to further stress the informal nature of the meeting, the Pope sat apart but on the same level with the other participants. The long-awaited meeting, which many hope will mark a turning point in the often tortuous relations between Jews and Roman CathoUcs, took place in the Pope's summer residence, a 17th-century palace 20 miles south of Rome. A Ceremonial Beginning The nine Jewish reprea^taUves and six highranking Catholic officials arrived tOgetho- aboard a cavalcade of Vatican limousines. The Syrias guards, in their yellow uniforms with blue and red stripes, raised their lances, a traditional gesture of welcome, and Vatican officials greeted them at the gate. The delegates were introduced into one of the Pope's private rooms on the fourth floor of the palace. The 15, nine Jews and six Catholics, sat in a semi-drde facing a throne from which the dais had been removed. Between the two lay an open Bible on a low table. EmotioB-LadeB Atmosphere The Pope, dressed in his usual white robes and a red akullcap, entcoed the room at exactiy noon. He moved alowly along the line of Jewish delegates shaking hands and greet(CoBtlnaed an Page 10)
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Sisterhood opens exhibit, art auction to community NCJW "How do you want to be perceived today?" will be the topic of National council of Jewish Women Omaha Section's first general meeting of 1987-88, noon, Sept. 15 at the home of Zo Riekes, 1335 North 129 Circle. Anne Fenner of Image Management Associates will discuss methods by which volunteers can appear more powerful and professional in their dealings with others and the community. A box lunch, provided by Breadwinners, will be served. Price of the lunch is $5.95 per person, payable at the door. Free babysitting for NCJW members' children will be available at the Jewish Community Center sitter service. Make lunch and baby sitting reservations by Sept. 9 with Bunny Rothenberg, 333-7240 or Diane Malashock. 333-2857. JNF BLUE BOXES Mrs. J. Milton Margolin and Mrs. Nathan Turner have announced that the Jewish National Fund envelopes have been sent. They ask recipients to return the envelopes and save a phone call.
Volunteers who will visit homes to clear Blue Boxes are Jean Epstein, Fanny Ounmiers, Judy Josephson, Bert Lewis, Reva Oroch, Diane Rubin, Phyllis Schwartz, Mary Smith, Sally Wintroub, Sid Wintroub, Ann Margolin and Sis Turner. Only JNF monies for-' warded to the national Hadassah office will be credited toward the chapter JNF quota. Blue Boxes are available by calling Ann Margolin, 553-4668 or Sis Turner, 551-0640. WOMEN'S LEAGUE The bus tour of historic Jewish sites, scheduled for Sept. 8, has been cancelled.
Bond luncheon reservations
Reservations are being accepted for the Women's Cabinet of the State of Israel Bonds 1987 campaign luncheon and fashion show. In addition to a fur and jewelry style show, Alice Golembo, grandniece of the late Golda Meir, will make a brief presentation. The Sept. 9 luncheon will p^^"— Moles-Gophers ^"""^^ be held at Beth Israel Synagogue and will open with I Call the Professional I champagne at 11:30 a.m., s ^°' J lunch at noon. The cost is I Pest Control § $7. According to the announcement, the purchase I c> ATLAS I of Israel Bonds is encouraged but not required. P '•^p' Pest Control For further information, call I JL. 558-3094 the Israel Bonds office, 341-1177. • Mosquito •
Beth Israel Sisterhood will hold an art exhibit and auction in the Beth Israel social hall on Sept. 13. Ellen Albin, chairman of the event, has announced that the fund-raising event is open to the entire Jewish community. Mrs. Albin added that Sisterhood would be happy to have Jewish community members invite
non-Jewish friends and neighbors. Included in the exhibit/auction will be a variety of exclusive editions of original graphics, oils and watercolors, Mrs. Albin said. The art works may be viewed during the 6:30-7:30 p.m. reception. A piece of art will be given as a door prize. The auction will follow the reception.
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Ben Wiesman has been named region chairman for the Nov. 15-19 United Synagogue Biennial Convention at the Concord Hotel in Kiamesha, N.Y., according to an announcement by Alice Floro, president of the Central States-Provinces region of United Synagogue of America. The convention, with the .theDoe "One generation shall praise Your works to another," from Psalm 145, will launch the organization's 75th' anniversary year. Among the convention speakers will be Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; Natan Shcharansky. former Soviet refuaenik; and Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Holocaust survivor and psychosexual therapist.
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The Judaica Philatelic Journal, edited by Dr. Murray Frost, recently received awards from competitions at CAPEX (an international philatelic exhibition held in Toronto) and from the Cardinal Spellman Museum in Boslon. The quarterly journal is published by the Judaica Historical Philatelic Society. Help group to meet Suzie Rubin has announced that a meeting of her self-help group for those who are divorced will take place Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. in her home. For reservations, call 397-3476. SALEM, Mass. (JTA) The City Council has voted to rename a local hospital in memory of Dr. Israel Kaplan, a popular physician here for more than a half century and a founding trustee of The Shaughnessy Rehabilitation Hospital. That institution wOLlKnijjifL called The ShaughiiessyKaplan Rehabilitation Hospital.
Mother's Day Out, Noon Beth Israel Sisterhood, Regular Meeting, 12:30 p.nn., Beth Israel Beth El Women's League, Regular Meeting, 11:30 a.m., Beth El Temple Israel Sisterhood Luncheon, Noon, Temple Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) State Sen. Donald Halperin presented a New York State Legislative Resolution he sponsored in honor of the late Aristidea.^S-'^usa Mendes, ^Portuguese hero of the Holocaust, to de Sousa Mendes' son John Abranches at the Center for Holocaust Studies here. As Portugal's consul general in Bordeaux, France, during 1940, de Sousa MendM defied his government's orders and issued transit visas to 10,000 Jews fleeing through Spain to Portugal. Credited with saving more than 30,000 people, he was recognized as a "Righteous Gentile" by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Admonished by his government, he died in poverty and shame in 1954.
WEDNESDAY, September 9 Israel Bonds Women's Luncheon, Noon, Beth Israel Hebrew High, 7:30 p.m. B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers, Noon, Howard Johnson's B & P Educational Dinner Program, 5:30 p.m. . Jewish Studies, 7:30 p.m., Beth Israel Beth Israel Board of Commissipners, 7:30 p.m., Beth Israel Temple Israel Board of Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Temple
NEW YORK (JTA) - Irving Stone of Cleveland, a leading supporter of Jewish education, has received the Kes9«(r Shem Tov Award of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congr^ations of America.
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NEW YORK (JTA) B'nai B'rith International has presented its first Lily Edelman Award for Excellence in Continuing Jewish Education to Claude Lanzmann, creator of the Holocaust documentary film "Shoah." The late Edelman was national' director of B'nai B 'rith Adult Jewish Education Commission.
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THURSDAY, September 10 Braille Class, 9. a.m. NCJW Board Meeting, 9:30 a.m. Mother's Day Out, Noon Federation Budget & Allocations Meeting, 7:30 p-m, JCAC Full Council Meeting, 7:30 p.m. Walk-in Drop-in, 10:30 a.m., Beth El For qunuont on actlvHJes contact Javatl* Fanin M 334.<2(X) Ext. 271 The J«¥fi$h Prtfs is not reaponsibia for the etxurecy (ft the alMv« events.
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PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The Shorarim, the fraternal organization of this city's Jewish law enforcement personnel and firefighters, celebrated its 60th anniversary.
Ibairltlks Andrea and Jeff Scfawarck of Okoboji, Iowa, announce the Aug. 5 birth of twin sons, Austin Leonard and Alexander William.
Angeles and Harry Stoller of Coral Gables, Fla.
Maternal grandparents are Elajoie Stoller and the late Leonard Stoller of Okoboji. Paternal grandparents, are Mr. and Mrs. William Schwarck of Spencer, Iowa. Maternal great-grandparents are Jennie Cohn of Okoboji, formerly of Omaha; Bess Steinberg of Los
Suzy and Tom Goodman announce the Aug. 19 birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Hannah. Maternal grandparents are Cece Zorinsky and the late Senator Edward Zorinsky. Maternal great-grandmother is Sonia Zorinsky. Paternal grandparents are Harold Goodman and Doloris Brown and stepgrandfather Elliott Brown. Paternal great-grandparents are Dorothy and Earl Siegel.
Vanunu struggles at courthouse By Gil Sedan
JERUSALEM (JTA) A strug^e erupted Monday in front of Jerusalem District Court between former nuclear technician- Mordechai Vanunu, on trial for alleged espionage and treason, and police escorting him. The tussle arose when Vanunu tried to remove the motorcycle helmet which he has been forced to wear to keep him from communicating with the press. Upon en-
tering the court, and upon his departure, Vanunu tried to take off the helmet to yell something at the press. Polite guarding him prevented his doing so by force, and operated their sirens to drown out his voice. The trial of Vanunu, charged with leaking detailed plans of the Dimona nuclear facility to llie Times of London, began Sunday behind closed doors. If convicted, be faces life imprisonment
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PARKER^fEMANI Monica Sua«n Parker and Ben Nemani, both of Toronto, were married Sept. 3 in Toronto witb Rabbi Paul Sheldon officiating. A dinner reception followed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Parker of Omaha. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Frances Singer aad the late Aaron Singer of Chicago and Mrs. Clara Parker Novick and the late David Parker of Omaha, The-bridegroom is the son of Bracha Nemani and the late Nissam Nemani of Kfar Saba, Israel. The couple will reside in Toronto. FELDMAN/EICHEN Beth El Synagogue was the setting Aug. 30 for the wedding of Jodi Lynn Feldman and William Maurice -Eichen, both of San Frandsco. Rabbi Paul Drazen and Rabbi Myer Kripke officiated at the 5:30 p.m. ceremony which was followed by a dinner and dance at the Marriott Hotel. Lori Feldman of San Francisco was matron of honor for her sister. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Feldman. Mr. Feldman is a partner in the law firm of HarrisFeldman; Mrs. Fel^an is on the library staff of the College of Saint Mary. Also attending the bride were Louri Fellman of Dallas, Texas, Betsy BakerHeymen of Omaha, Lee Hermann of New York, and Ann Eichen of New York, sister of the bridegroom. The bridegroom is the son of Dr. Albert and the Honorable Naomi Eichen of Teaneck, NJ. Dr. Eichen is
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llVit classes dais at the .Fall^Bt Jewish sh Community Commun Center will begin on Sept. 13 with a family New Year's cardmaking workshop. Evy Katz, JCC visual arts associate, will lead the 2-4 p.m workshop. Participants will use printing and papercutting techniques to create handmade cards. The workshop cost per family is $12 for JCC members and $15 for non-members. In addition to the card workshop, the visual arts department will of,fer
a dentist and Mrs. Eichen is i New Jersey Superior Court Judge. James Flaum of New York acted as the bridegroom's best man. Also attending the bridegroom were Steve Tarnowsky of Playa Del Rey, CaUf., Jack Luks of Miami Beach, Fla., Mark Helder of St. Paul, Minn., and Eric Gold of Hackensack, NJ. The bride is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Iz Bernstein and David Feldman, all of Omaha.' Mr. ST. LOUIS (JTA)-WUEichen is the grandson of Claire Gerber of Philadel- liam Kahn, executive vice president of the Jewish Fedphia. After a honeymoon in Eu- eration of St. Louis, has rope, the couple will reside received the Bicentennial in San Francisco where the Medallion of Distinction bride is a fashion buyer for from the University of Macy's of California and her Pittsburgh, his alma mater, husband is a product mar- for his record of community keting manager for Zoran service. He formerly was exCorporation, a semi-con- ecutive vice president of the ductor company in Santa United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh. Clara, Calif.
classes for pre-primary level children, a children's sculpture studio, a "trash artist workshop," printmaking for teens and adults, adult ceramics and drawing. Contact Lois Wine or Evy Katz to register or for more information.
TZEDAKAH
Jewish Family Service is making plans to provide holiday meals for local families in need and is asking community members to donate kosher food for Rosh Hashanah. Food donations inay be placed in the Tzedakah Bin located in the lobby of the Jewish Community Center.
FANNIE MEDLOV Graveside services for Fannie Medlov, a resident of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, were conducted Sunday at Golden Hill Cemetery with Rabbi Isaac Nadoff and Cantor Leo Fettman officiating. She was 87. In addition to her husband, Noah, of Kansas City, Mrs. Medlov is survived by a daughter, Rae Coren of Omaha; a son, Hillel Medlov of Jerusalem, and eight grandchildren. Memorials may be given to a favorite charity. ROSEWEZELMAN Graveside services were held Sunday at Beth El Cemetery for Rose Wezelman, 75. Mrs. Wezelman is survived by a son, Stanley J.; brothers, William Skob^ of Omaha and Skip Skolnik of Toms River, NJ; sister, Ger-
trude Warkol of New York, NY; two grandchildren. SARA CUTLER Graveside services for Sara Cutler, 95, a reskknt of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, were conducted Wednesday at Memorial Park Cemetery, Waterloo, Neb., with Rabbi Sol Serber, of Sons of Jacobs Synagogue, Waterloo, officiating. Mrs. Cutler is survived by a brother, Meyer Marland, Chicago; six grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter.
] NEW YORK (JTA) Michael Scharf of New York and Ponte Vedra, Fla., has been elected president of the Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America, succeeding Joe Nakash of New York.
We Make House Calls. TedSeldin FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER CO-CHAIRMAN, DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE "All of us, in the past and present, are benefiting from the work of the Federation and its agencies. The professionally managed Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha provides the vehicle to secure these benefits for the future of the Omaha Jewish community. Gifts can be outright, given with a retained life estate or by a bequest under a will. For those considering a private foundation, utilizing the Federation Foundation will save legal and accounting expenses. Support the future of our Jewish community with confidence and personal satisfaction. Let's talk. Remember, 'we make house calls.' "
JCC exhibits collection Selected prints from the Jewish Community Center's permanent collection are on display in the JCC art gallery through Oct. 14. Many of the framed prints once hung in the old JCC building at 20th and Dodge Streets. Works by Jewish artists Elias Grossman, Saul Raskin, Saul Rabine, Marc Chagall and Abel Pann are included in the exhibit. Fifteen of the 26 prints are from a portfolio of lithographs by Lithuanian-bom artist Abel Pann. Pann, in his own words, "moved back to Judea long before Israel became Israel." He permanently settled there in 1920 and began illustrating the Bible. "The Five Books of Mbses" is a portfolio of 100 Utho^^phs.
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cr Harlan Noddle FOUNDATION BOARD MEMBER CO-CHAIRMAN, DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE "As long as there is support for the Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, this community will always be guaranteed that there will be a community. Just like any family, we have to be able to anticipate our needs and provide th.e funds to secure our future. The Foundation Is our insurance policy. It's our savings account. It allows us to maintain a tradition of Jewish excellence and look ahead with confidence and pride. Call for an appointment. Any member of the Foundation board will be glad to talk to you at your convenience. Remember, 'we make house calls.'"
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NEW 'YORK.(JTA) - A prominent reformist Soviet historian, who is rector of the Moscow State Institute Historical Archives, writes that Stalinist ideas still influence official Soviet history texts, thereby causing nihilism among Soviet students, according to press reports from Moscow. Yuri Afanasyev, writing in the Communist Youth League daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, urged Soviet study of Westem philosophers of history—including Arnold Toynbee, Benedetto Croce, Marc Bloch and Oswald Spengler—to put an end to "three generations of Soviet people (who) have Uved in a state of intellectual self-isolation." Afanasyev distinguished between the Soviet history learned from one's parents and the official versions that were published from the late 1920's on through the years of Stalin's reign. "Ideas and basic conceptions bom in these years still exist in today's textbooks and live in our historical science," Afanasyev writes.
By MftclieU Wairen A student at the University of Wisconsin, Mitchell Warren is a past president of the North Anaerican Federation of Temple Youth. Over the past three years I have found tremendous satisfaction in my work with the Reform Movement's Task Force on Youth Suicide. I have had the chance to work with experts in the field of suicide prevention and self-esteem building. Their professional dedication and commitment to the tragedy of youth suicide has influenced me greatly in my desire to do what I can. But even more powerful than these professional acquaintances has been the interacting with troubled youths themselves. During the past year many stories have surfaced in the media that recount individuals and groups of teenagers who have decided that the only alternative to a life of complications and disappointments was suicide. If they only knew that life does get better. One teenager who attempted suicide said, "No matter how bad things may seem, they will get better. Just hold on." Unfortunately, many yQung adults never hear this advice or, if they do, never believe it. I have worked very closely with one young woman from Cleveland. I met Betsy two years ago at the NFTY National Leadership Camp in New York. She was 16 then and had attempted suicide once. She did not believe that life would improve. Since then, she has attempted to take her life once more and has spent several months in a hospital. The hospital helped a great deal. Happily, Betsy just turned 18 and graduated from high school. I have not seen Betsy in two years, but we write and talk at least once a week. When we spoke in May she sounded wonderful; she was actually discussing her future plans. Previously, she felt she had no future. I am happy with this new attitude, but I worry. As she prepares for college, she is nervous and starting to get depressed. I was most worried last week when we spoke. She said something to me then that helped me to understand better the problem that she and coimtless others confront today. She said that she hoped for the day that she would have no problems. Unf^unately, that was not the optimism that we had sought to foster in Betsy over the past two years. I want Betsy to say with enthusiasm and energy, "I expect a life of joy and of sadness, a life filled with successes and with disappointments. And I feel that I can deal with those problems." I am afraid that many of our young pedple look forward to life without problems—and our society fosters that idea. Instead, we must concern ourselves with the task of teaching teenagers how to cope with the inevitable pain and problems that help make life complete. Coping skills, not false dreams of a carefree life, must be the foundation on which we build all types of education, formal and informal. Coping with disappointments and even tragic happenings is an essential part of living. Let Helen Keller teach us all: "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
From my vantage point as editor the past 10 years, I am comfortable in making an announcement as follo.ws.On Sept. 17, this newspaper will publish the most worthwhile story ever to reach my Omaha desk. This is a story of courage, and it is fitting that the story will appear in our Rosh Hashanah special issue. The theme of this issue relates to influences on one's life. A special section will be devoted to articles on the Con• stitution written by local attorneys, and a second section will present interviews with members of the area Jewish communities. The story that I am singling out for advance notice involves Patricia Newman, a highly visible member of the Jewish community. She is active in the Israel Bonds campaign, Hadassah, and Federation. By David Friedman In addition, she is superbly educated with a bachelor's WASHINGTON (JTA) - The United States has been degree in elementary education, a masters degree in educational psychology, a second masters in education and learn- challenged on its stated policy of neutrality since the start ing disabilities, and a doctorate degree in school psy- of the Iran-Iraq War, but now Washington is being put to a new test—is it the Persian or Arabian Gulf? chology. Mrs. Newman's story, written with great sensitivity and Historically , it has been called the Persian Gulf. Iran, compassion by her friend, Jill Kushner Belmont, is about as everybody knows, was formerly Persia. But there are an abused child. seven Arab countries bordering the Gulf and the Arabs Unfortunately, Mrs. Newman was that abused child. have long referred to the now troubled body of water as The story she tells is not the ail-American television the Arabian Gulf. stereotype of a happy child beaming to a loving mother who Some officials in the Pentagon have been tilting toward offers cookies and milk and tender affection. Or that of an adoring father who takes his children on picnics and ex- the Arab feelings of late and referring to the Arabian Gulf, presses interest and concern over their lives and problems. while-others continue to use the historic name. No, this is a story that usually is not told. When State Department spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley This is the type of a story that children tend to keep to was asked about this Tuesday, she replied that "in keepthemselves throughout their growth years and ultimately ing with our traditional stuffy image we stick with the Peris embedded in their adult memories never to be discussed sian Gulf." She noted that on occasion Department spokesopenly and certainly not to be publicized in a community men simply say "the Gulf." newspaper. This type of story will be appearing in the Omaha JewOakley added that the Department has a geographer who ish Press. decides on usage based on international custom. , Why? Why would a prominent member of the Jewish community disclose such private information is the question most of us would ask. The writer answers the question with her opening line: "Patricia Newman has made, children her life." Tbe Jewish Press reserves the right to edit letters tor rea• Mrs. Newman hopes that by telling her story publicly, son of length or content. the issue of child abuse will attain a higher priority on the To the Editor: agenda of public concerns. I am pleased to bring to the attention of the Jewish comI hope she is correct. I hope that the readership will recognize the courage that it took for Mrs. Newman to tell her munity the fifth anniversary celebration of the Nebraska story, and that the Jewish community will respond with Jewish Historical Society and its unprecedented celebration the night of Oct. 12, of Four Score Plus Recognition the tenderness and affection she so richly deserves. By Andrew B. Adier As editor, I am proud to be part of a community which awards. These awards will be presented to those Jewilpnembers The Atlanta Jewish Times has such fine people in leadership roles. CarroUton, Ga. (JTA) — The42th annual conference for Her rise from a tormented childhdod to a leader of the of Omaha, Lincohi, Council Bluffs and other locations who Jewish community is a case study in the ability of a hu- are over 80 years of age and have given service to our Jew- the Coalition for Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE) ish community during their lifetime. will be remembered for administrators and teachers becomman being to overcome unbelievable beginnings. Nominations for those awards may be made by any fam- ing enlightened pupils at West Georgia Cdlege here Aug. Her courage is something we can all applaud, and her success in overcoming monstrous problems is now available ily or organization ^mber, or anyone whoknews of a per- .23-27. son deserving to berecognized. To nominate an individual The conference attracted more than 1,650 Jewish edufor all of us to share. , just list the person's name, a few of that person's Jewish cators from the United States, Canada, Israel and 13 other involvements and activities with synagogues, Jewish countries who participated in upwards of 600 teaming sesorganizations, Jewish Federation, Jewish Community Cen- sions that focused on diverse subjects such as Talmud, curter, etc. We will then be in touch with that individual to rent events, Jewish mysticism, computers, creative arts obtain a photo which will be placed on exhibit in our mini- and teaching Hebrew. museum, the Corridor of Jewish History, at the JCC from Along with the coalition, this year's CAJE conference ^^H^ (Founded in 1920) Oct. 10 through December, 1987. was co-sposored by the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish Educa^^^^ Suzanne Singer We owe so much to these persons who have given and tion, and assisted by a grant from the Atlanta Jewish Fed^^^H . President. Jewish Press shared so much in our conmiunity to help perpetuate our eration. The educators reflected every shade of the Jewish ^•' Board ot Directors activities and organizations. Don't put it off, sit right down theological spectrum, from Orthodox to secular Jews; and Board rpembers: Oliver Pollak, vice president; Bert Lewis, treasurer; Susan Budwig. secretary; Jill Kushner Belmont, Penny Endelman, Rictiard Fellman, and send your nomination to the NebraskaJewish Histor- every level of educator; from Sunday school teachers to Scott Friedman, Bonnie Horwich, Aaron Hosiyk, Rosalie Melches, Patricia ical Society, 333 South 132 Street, Omaha, NE 68154. We heads of Jewish studies departments at major universities, Newman, Sheila Priluck, Judy SIN. of the NJHS are so excited about this gala event and the directors of boards of Jewish education, noted rabbis, schoMorris Maline . ' people we will be honoring. 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To the Editor Beth Israel Synagogue would like to clarify an item that appeared in the Jewish Community Center calendar for 1988-5748. While the Beth Israel Synagogue maintains a strictly kosher kitchen, it is available only for food served here on the premises. Our limited facilities do not allow us to do any outside catering. We want to make that cle^ to avoid any misunderstanding by the community. _Beraice Crounse, president Beth Israel Sisterhood CORRECTION The review by Oliver B. Pollak of Tillle Oteen in the Aug. 7 issue of the Jewish Press mistakenly stated that Tillie Olsen was the daughter of Samuel and Ida Beber. She is one of six children bora to Sam and Ida Leraer.
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LONIH>N (JTA) - Peter Shidloff, a Jewish refugee who helped to found the world's longest surviving string ensemble, has died at aged 65. Shidloff, viola player in the Amadeus quartet, came to Britain from Austria in 1938 when he was 16 years old. With tbe outbreak of war he was, like many Gerixian and Austrian Jews, confined in an internment camp as an enemy alien. There he met fellow refugee violinists, Norbert Bainin and Sigmund Nissel, and in 1948, with English cellist Martin Lovett, they founded the Amadeus Qar^ tet in honor of their great hero Mozart. They were recognized as the leading quartet in Europe, and admired throughout the worid. With Shidloff's death the quartet will How be disbanded.
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Regal Award Morocco's ambtMador to the U.S., M'hanud Bargach, admires gold and enamel star emblematic of the Oida§am Alaooite—tlie order of tiie royal dynasty df Morocco— that he has Just presented to Uliaiie Shalom, a leader of the U.S. 8iq>hardic Jewish comnmiity, at a recent lonchem in his Washington home. The award was granted by King Hassan II, ^Mse photognqth is on walL Mrs. Shalom was named a Commander of the order, the first Jewish woman to be so honored. A natiye of Casablanca, who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 20, Mrs. Shalom told the 150 gveata at the cftemony that 300,000 Jews owed their lives to Hassan's father, Kiag Mduunmed V, who refused demands from Germany and Vidby France that he anrreader the Jews of his eonntiy for transport to Nazi death eampa. Proclaiming her "triple sOegiance" to the U.S., Mwoeco and Israel, Mrs. Shalom asked: "How much more can one owe than one's life?" Mrs. Kialom is U.S. vice presideiit of the World Aasembly of Moaroccan Jews and a former president of the American Sephardi Federation.
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By Joanie Jaeobaon Federatioa pabHc relations dhector Milce and Patty Sherman ing of Judaism to get lost in Jews have a responsibility are going on the Omaha the shuffle of everyday life. to maintain continuity. Community Mission to Is- It's easy to take it for Wliether we give tinoe or rael, Nov. 2-11. They're go- granted. Mike and 1 just money, we can do it in small ing, not necessarily to redis- want to make ourselves ways, within our lifestyle, as cover their heritage or to be more appreciative as in- mwal people. better Jews or to see a land dividuals and continue it "I'm looking forward to where the desert blooms through our cliildren. We meeting other American green, but because of per- want to have a good feeling Jews. I'm interested in the sonal reasons. They hav; al- within our own family. differences between Refwm ways wanted to go and "If we don't build a and Orthodox Jews in Isthey've always wanted to go strong base as we grow rael. I don't think I would together. older, we are going to have ever want to be an IsraeU, '"Hus community missioo problems. Omaha is so but if things got bad here, is a chance for Patty and me lucky to have a strong Jew- I'd want to know I could go to see things we wouldh't lie ish community. If we don't there." "It was my father able to see on our own," said cultivate ttiat, it would l>e who first encouraged this Mike. "They do everything really sad. trip," Milce noted. "My en'"Hie mission is a great tire family has been to for you." deal If you are able to make "The meeting at Leonard the initial contributicm to Israel—some have been and Bert Lewis' stressed the the Federation Campaign, twice. It's Jewish history I'm Jewish. I'm looking 'people' aspect," said Patty. the trip is very reasonaUe. and forward to it." "We will have lots of in- We would love it if more "Our children want to dividual c(Hitact with tlie Is- young people would go, but raelis. We'll eat in their no one should pass up this go," added Patty. "Right homes. The itinerary is well- opportunity. You get so now, David wants to have rounded and there's free much more for your liis Bar Mitzvah there. Who knows?..." time too. I have always memey." For information on the known a concept about Is"We wanted to go on an rael but now I will Imow the organized trip rather than Omaha Community Mission reality of the country. We do it on our own," Mike ex- to Israel, call Steven J. Rod are both excited to learn." plained. "We have been to or Sondra Topper, 334-8200. "I have Russian relatives Canada and countries in there," added Milce. "I first Vfesbam Europe, but this is met them in the States and different. We wouldn't we are hoping to see them imow where to start." on the trip." "I'm not the most reli'It will be good to ez- gious or observant Jewish poifflice Israel" said Patty. woman I IQIOW," Patty com"It's so easy for the mean- mented, "but I do believe all
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (JTA) - Gov. Bob Martinez has presented a proclamation to leaders 6f the Jewish Federation of Greater Fort Lauderdale declaring a yearlong celebration of the federation's 20th anniversary. LIMA (JTA) — David Ben-Gurion Forest has been inaugurated in the Peruvian city of del Cuzco. Attending the ceremony—held under the auspices of the national government—was Israeli Ambassador to Pehi, David Tourgueman. This is the centennial year of the birth of BenGurion, Israel's founding Premier.
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The residents and staff of the Rose Blumkin , Sabbath Candlellghting for. Friday, Sept. 4, 7:34 p.m. Home invite the families, volunteers and friends of B'NAI MITZVAH Beth El Temple Israel the residents to attend Marci Levine, daughter services in the Herbert SERVICES: Synagogue of Teddy and Roy Levine, Goldsten Chapel. Kiddush Friday: 7:30 p.m. SERVICES: will celebrate her Bat follows services on Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks Mitzvah on Friday, Sept. Rabbi Paul Drazen and Shabbat. and Cantor Harold Fire- 4 at 8 p.m. The Oneg Shab- Cantor Emil Berkovits stone will officiate. bat reception following the will conduct the services. The Oneg Shaibbat fol- service will be sponsored Friday: 6 p.m. KANSAS CITY (JTA) - lowing the service will be by the parents of the Bat Saturday: 9:30 a.m. • Steve Rose, president and sponsored by Janis and Mitzvah. Kiddush will follow sovco-publisher of Sun Publica- Donald Yale in honor of Mark Brookstein, son of ices. tions, which publishes the Bar Mitzvah of their Judy and Larry BrookMincha-Ma'ariv, 6:40 among other newspapers son, Adam. stein, will become a Bar p.m. The Kansas City Jewish Saturday: 11:15 a.m. Mitzvah Saturday ftiom- Sunday: 9 a.m. and 5:30' Chronicle and The Atlanta BNAI MITZVAH p.m. ing, Sept. 12. Jewish Times, has been Adam Yale, son of Janis Weekdays: 6:65 a.m. and SISTERHOOD elected president of Subur- and Donald Yale, will be5:30 p.m. The first Sisterhood ban Newspapers of Ameri- come a Bar Mitzvah at KIDDUSH luncheon of the new year ca. Shabbat services on Fri- will be held 12:30 p.m., After Shabbat morning day, Sept. 4, and Satur- Sept. 8, in the social hall. services a Kiddush will be day, Sept. 5. A program and business given by Mishpecha in PERSONALS Sarah Joy Kohll, daugh- meeting will follow the honor of Rabbi and Mrs. ter of Sandra and Marvin luncheon. Paul Drazen in celebration Words cannot exKohll, will become a Bat of their 10th anniversary. ADULT CLASS press my appreciation Mitzvah at Shabbat servSHABBAT DINNER Cantor Fettman's adult to my family and ices on Friday, Sept. 11, Mishpacha will sponsor studies class will be held friends for their kindand Saturday, Sept. 12. Sept. §, 7:30 p.m., in the the monthly Shabbat dinness during my recent Beth Israel cantor's conference room. ner on Friday, Sept. 11, hospitalization. I will following services. BOARD MEETING Synagogue always remember RabCHAPEL DEDICATION The Board of Commisbi Nadoff and all the SERVICES: Services on. Friday, sioners will meet Sept. 9, cards, contributions Friday: Sept. 11, 6 p.m., will be 7:30 p.m. and flowers, and espeKabbalat Shabbat 7 held in the chapel at which cially your concern and p.m. time the chapel will be thoughtfulness. My sinCouncil Bluffs dedicated in the name of Saturday: cere thanks. Rabbi Alex Katz. B'nai Israel Morning service, 8:45 a.m. Shirley Passer A Kiddush will follow in SERVICES: Lincoln B'nai the Social Hall. First and third Friday Class with the rabbi, 6:45 each month, 7:30 p.m. Jeshurun p.m. An Oneg Shabbat folSERVICES: Mincha, 7:15 p.m. Featured in USA Today! lows the service. Mincha will be followed B'nai Israel Synagogue Friday: 8 p.m. Personalized Worship services will be by Shfdosh S'eudot, Ma'offers services led by memboarding ariv and Havda|ah. bers of the congregation. conducted by Marsha without Sunday: cages for Volunteer Cantor Mandy Plotkin. Morning Minyanaire serv- Greene leads the singing. the pet ice 9 a.m. you love. Lincoln Tifereth Everyone is invited to atWeekdays: 7 a.m. and 7:15 tend. For info & brochure Israel p.m. Persons interested in the 449-0494 or 292-9574 SERVICES: LABOR DAY synagogue or in car pools Sherry Serrano Rabbi Michael Graetz of Morning service on Labor may call Scott Kotzen 402Owner-Operator Congregation Magen Day, 9 a.m. 553-3334. Avraham in Omer, Israel will speak at the Friday evening and Saturday morning services. Friday: 8 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays: 7:15 a.m.
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Tlk(£ Word By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke Parashat Ki Teze The beginnings of women's lib It would be forcing the here. Nor, for that matter, is truth to say that the the process of freeing wowomen's lib movement be- men completed in the later gins with our Sidrah. But, Talmudic and poat-Talmudon the other hand, it would ic halakhah. Problems for not be far away from the women abound in traditruth to suggest that our tional Jewish law—from Parashah ought to be stud- their lesser rights in matters ied if women's lib were the of divorce and inheritance, for example, to their lesser subject before us. We are in that section of rights in Jewish religious Deuteronomy that lists the practice. Some of these problems laws by which the Israelites were to be governed in the have been addressed serinew land, according to the ously, and, by stretching or text. There are various opin- ignoring halakhah, have ions about the origin of been solved in some Jewish these laws, including the circles. But, on the whole, opinion that these laws and rabbinic courts and rabbinic practices of ancient Israel decisors in Orthodox Judadate, in their present form, ism have been loathe to from the last decades of the recognize women as equal human beings. The wonder7th century BCE. Whatever their origin and ful beginning in -Deudate, reading Deuteronomy teronomy has been allowed throws back for us ancient to be a promise, only that; barriers to civiliza^on. We and at a point the hoped-for realize that we are in a new equality of women was era of civilization, and a gi- frozen. Deuteronomy—an ancient ant step, forward has been taken. For one thing, Deu- text—still exhibits some teronomy introduces the signs of ancient, primitive concept of humanity in practice and attitude. Taljurisprudence, a concept mudic and post-Talmudic that was not fully accepted halakhah gloriously made in western civil^ation for some changes. But halaklong, long centuries. In Eng- hah ipaeU has remained lish law (and remember how primitive in practice and atapprovingly we speak of titude in some respects. It British common law!), down remains, therefore, to push to the 19th century a young- the rabbinic courts, to give ster could be hanged for them no rest, to hound them indeed, to find remedies stealing a handkerchief. And, continuing, Deu- within the halakhah to teronomy introduces to recognize the equality of civilization a new view of Women and to free women in marriage. Here no longer is Jewish life. I do not believe in onemarriage limited to a man's right, through conquest or issue politics or in one-issue piu-chase, to possess exclu- Judaism. But this is one sive rights to a woman. problem that will not go Here begins the concept of away. Advancing solutions a relationship that is holy, in Jewish life would be a major contribution of Judaism sacred and mutual It will not do to say that to the women's lib movethe process is completed ment worldwide.
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Please come and share our happiness and Joy at the Bat Mitzvah of our daughter Sarah Joy on Saturday, the twelfth of September, 1987, at 11:15 In the morning. Temple Israel, rrlday night at 7:30 p.m. She will symbolically share this-day with Dlna" Lukatsky of Moscow, U.S.S.R., whose religious freedom has been denied. Luncheon honoring Sarah following services. Sandra and Marvin Kohll
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The end of summer is almost here—signaling the start of another school year. Many students will be starting new schools, some right here in Omaha, some in the Midwest and others far from home. These students are college bound and, for the most part, are excited for this new chapter of their lives to begin. Robin Hoberman will be a freshman at Tufts University in Boston this fall. Julie Hackel will be starting at the University of Kansas and Dave Kenyon is going to the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Julie said she choose KU because "it has a really good program in interior design. I also have friends who will be attending KU, but that is not the reason I chose to go there." "I had tochoose between Tufts and Penn State," Robin said. "I chose Tufts because Greek life is not a very big deal, it is a smaller school, and it is close to a big city but not in one, which is what I wanted. Also, the people I talked to who go to Tufta really like it." Dave said he chose to go to UNO because he "wanted to get used to college life before going to a bigger state college. By going to UNO, I will have my parents on my back bugging me to study." While they may not be efcited about starting classes, they are, in general, excited 'about starting a new school and are looking forward to the social life college will offer. Robin said, "I can't wait to go to school. I have reached a point where the social life in Omaha is no longer satisfying. I am ready to get away from home and be independent." . "I'm not excited about starting school because I'm not ready to go back to school. However, I am excited for the social life," Dave said. Each new college student has various reasons for choosing the college he or she will attend and hopefully will be happy with the choice. Good luck to all of you who will be attending college. Have a great year!
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Mark Brookstein Mark Brookstein, son of Judy and Larry Brookstein, will become a Bar Mitzvah at Beth Israel Synagogue on Saturday morning, Sept. 12. Mark will be sharing his Bat Mitzvah with Boris Gitlin of Leningrad, USSR, whose family has been denied the practice of their religion. Mark is an eighth-grade honors student at Millard North Junior High and is a member of the wrestling team. He enjoys reading, comic books, biking and doing things with his friends and family. . Mark has one brother, Joel. He is the grandson of Dorothy and Rubin Ratner and Faye Brookstein and the late Irv Brookstein. NEW YOJRK (JTA) "One feoplB, Many Voices," a National Public Radio series on Jewish music produced by the National' Foundation for Jewish culture, has won the Arts and Humanities award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and top honors for Arts and Humani^ in the Ohio State awards. MIAMI (J-TA) - Gerald Kogan, a former Dade County Circuit judge, has begun serving as a member of the Florida State Supreme Court. Appointed by Gov. Bob Martinez, Kogan is the second Jewish member of the court.
Sarah Kohll Sarah Joy Kohll, daughter of Sandra and Marvin Kohll,' will become a Bat Mitzvah on Sept. 12 at Temple Israel. Sarah is in seventh grade at Westside Middle School. She enjoys swimming, piano, tennis, art, ballet and jazz.
' FALLOW-YEAR WHEAT KERNEL OF DEBATE By Hugh Orgel fallow according to biblical TEL AVIV (JTA) - The injunction. Cabinet grappled with a Wheat for domestic connew controversy that has split Orthodox and secular sumption will be imported, Jews and threatens to di- at a cost of tens of-millions vide the religious establish- of dollars to the Treasury, under an arrangement ment. At issue is the planned ex- agreed to by. Minister of port of much of Israel's Commerce and Industry bumper wheat crop to ac- Ariel Sharon. But the mat-conunodate Orthodox Jews ter has gone beyond the imwho will not use flour made port of wheat to the broader from wheat grown on Jew- issue of whether Orthodox , ish'owned land during Jews can force their beliefs "shmita"—every seventh and practices on the rest of year when the land must lie the society.
^Jk Marci Levine Marci Rachel Levine. daughter of Teddy and Roy Levine, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Friday, Sept. 4, 8 p.m., at Beth Israel Synagogue. An eighth-grade student at Millard North Junior High School, Marci enjoys babysitting, swifnming, shopping and talking on the phone. Marci will be sharing this Bat Mitzvah with Alexandra Uttengenden of Kiev, USSR, whose reh'gious freedom has been denied. Marci is the granddaughter of Hannah and Harold Levine of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Edith {tnd Jack Bufferd of Brideport, Conn, and Boca Ratoii, Fla.
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I just pat the phone down after a long-distance call lasting more than an hour. It wasn't anything too unusual, because this particular child of mine and I can't seem to get it all said in less time. All of which is neither here nor there, except for this: lately, when I've talked to my gang (all long distance) I'm "down" for hours after. Not because of anything terrible, but because I seem to more and more notice all the distance betw^n us. Of course, I resent having 11-month-old munchkin so far away. I wish I could see her new residence and I wish I could see all the changes happening at her auntie's house. I wish I could pop in with this or that I picked up for those new homes. 1 wish I could see what the latest is at the munchkin's uncle's house. Wishes—oh, for a magic wand to make them come true. More and more I'm reminded of how it used to be when kids got married. They married somebody you knew, the machatunim they brought you were people you had known since the "old days." The kids moved into some place not too far away and if Mom was anywhere near typical, she made dinner on Friday night for the entire bunch. She complained and the kids muttered about "command performances," but what a nice time it was for everybody. The kids grew up knowing their grandparents from hugs and kisses, not as voices on a long distance telephone or a package from the mailman. Oh, but those were sweet times. I know one shouldn't envy, but I look at people whose kids are grown and living here as the luckiest of parents. I hope they know how lucky 'they are—no mom Whose married daughter lives across town can understand how it feels to wish she could take het to lunch. It's so easy when they're close by. Among our friends are people who were born and raised and lived all their lives in Florence. When their eldest married, she and her husband bought their first home in Millard. I thought my friend would die—' 'they 're so far away. The only point to that story is that distance, like everything else, is relative. Nevertheless, if your relatives are a great distance away, it's tough sometimes. All of which probably sounds like time to make plane reservations. After all, if a grandchild is to properly celebrate a first birthday, her grandparents ought to be present. - I'll tell you about it when we get back from New York.
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By E^Btelle Rosenberg Rabbi Michael Graetz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Graetz of Lincoln, will speak at the Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 4 and 5. Rabbi Graetz of Congregation Magen Avraham will share a mini-High Holiday seminar, with emphasis on learning together, with the
Unique program NEW YORK (JTAI - A unique program to bring together Israelis and Arabs working in health care, social services and job training in their respective countries is exfiected to b^gin next June at the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. The program is subject to official review and approval at the October meeting of the Brandeis Board of Trustees. However, Dr. Evelyn Handler, president of Brandeis—which is located in Waltham, Mass.— said that "it was important that we move forward this month, and that is why we are making the announcement before the event."
Scientists meet TEL AVIV (JTA) Some scientists from around the world are presently in Israel attending the 22nd triennial conference of the International Scientific Rfidio Union (URSI). The foreign participants include the Deputy Minister of Commmunicatios of the People Republic of China and top radio scientists from the Soviet Union, In- • dia, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary.
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The next meeting will be held Sept. 17, a little early due to Rosh Hashanah. We met Aug. 27 at Legion Headquarters. Gerald Bemstien, president of the J.C. Oldtimers, was welcomed. Commander Sam Rosenstein would like your lists of descendants of JWV members which he will forward ta National. Gene Brandt, Rose Blumkin Home director, is asking for volunteers to lead Shabbat services there. "Fiddler on the Roof will be produced at the Jewish Commimity Center in November. Sam Rosenstein also announced that there was. a thank you note from Frankie Kelberg and that Yale Halperin and Merle Potash are in the hospital. We stood in memoriam for Julius Homstein.
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"Magic Mike" Segd of Toronto will serve a fourday reaidency at the Jewish Community Center, Sept. 12-16. The residency ha^ been nuule possible through grants from the Esther K. Newman and Carolyn Kully Newman memorial funds. The residency schedule includes a Popcorn Playhouse, magic workshops for children and adults, a "Magic and Pizza" party for Club 87, special JCC Preschool performances and a party for Jewish young adidts. "Magic Mike" will give his premier performance in the U.S. at the Sept. 13 Popcorn Playhouse which will be preceded by a hot dog dinner at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner and show are $12 per family (JCC members); individual ticket and non-member ticket information may be obtained by calling Kim Carrico at the JCC, 334-8200.
Chabad telethon Rabbi Mendel Katzman has announced that Cox Cable will cany L'Chaim Telethon Sept. 13 starting at 9 p.m., and lasting about six hours. The Telethon will be hosted by Jan Murray and proceeds will be used for Chabad drug rehabiliation in the Los Angeles area. Rabbi Katzman said the program will be on Channel 20 or Channel 22.
In two workshops, each limited to 20 participants and costing $2.50, "Magic Mike" will teach simple magic tricks. The Sept. 13 workshop, 1-2 p.m., is for second to fourth graders. A workshop for fifth and sixth graders will be held Sept. 14, 4:30-5:30 p.m. A special free workshop for educators and other interested adults will be held Sept. 13, 3-4 p.m. Mr. Segal will demonstrate simple tricks and illusions which can be used to highlight Jewish traditions, blessings and stories in the classroom and home. Participants are asked to bring a story or idea which they would like to see illustrated through magic, V A Club 87 pizza party at Valentino's for JCC seventh and eighth-grade members will also feature the magician. The cost for the evening at Valentino's, 132nd and Center, is $3.50 per person. Twenty-three-year-old Mike Segal has taught special workshops for the Ontario Public School and the Toronto Jewish Community Centers. He has performed for conventions and festivals in Canada and Europe and entertained at nightclubs in Toronto. He also runs Toronto's "Magic Unlimited Theatre Productions" with John Rotstein. Prior registration is required for all Mr. Segal's residency programs. Call Ms. Carrico at the JCC for additional information.
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Advertising campaign urges Vatican to establish relations By Margie Olster NEW YORK (JTA) - The Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles stepped up its campaign this wedi: to persuade the Vatican to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel by taking out full-page advertisements in major national and intemationeJ newspapers. The ads which appeared in the bteniational Herald Tribune, The New York Times and Loe Angeles Ilmea on Monday and Tuesday note that 250,000 Americans have signed a petition calling upon Pope John Paul 11 to reverse Vatican policy and establish full diplomatic relations with Israel. The ads coincided with a top level meeting of Jewish leaders and Vatican officials, including the Pope, on Monday and Tuesday. But the Wiesenthal Center has also increased efforts on this front in anticipation of the Pope's visit to America beginning next week. The Vatican's absence of diplomatic relations was one of four central topics raised by Jewish leaders at their meetings in Rome this week. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, said, "Not since the days of Pope John XXIII's historic Vatican II Council's message of reconciliation has there been a higher level of expectation by world Jewry in connection with our relationship with the Vatican." While noting that the Pope has been a victim of Nazism and has spoken out against anti-Semitism, Hier said, "Thiia is also the Pope who met with Yasir Arafat and Kurt Waldheim and who, in 1988, and will meet with Waldheim again in Vienna." Hier also noted the inconsistency of the Vatican's relations with dictatorships like Fidel Castro's Cuba, Agosto Pinochet's Chile, Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran and "scores of other military juntas" while virtually singling out Israel as a country not worthy of such ties.
"It is time, then, to also focus on symptoms that made possible Pope John Paul 11's stepping to the front of the line to rehabilitate Kurt Waldheim, and what makes possible a return visit with Waldheim next June," Hier said. "It is, in our view, in large measure due to the long silence with which the Vatican has treated the Jewish people, a long silence w}uch was deadly during the Holocaust years, and which continues through the Vatican's refusal to accept the reality of Jewish renewal."
Adds 20,000 students TEL AVIV (JTA)- Some 1.4million school childrenabout one out of every three Israelis—returned to the classrooms Tuesday at the end of the summer vacation. The figure of 1.37 million students was some 20,000 more than at the start of the school year last year. University students begin their academic year in October. The Education Ministry reported fewer than usual problems with the start of the school year this year. Teachers decided not to implement a threatened strike Monday night, saying that sufficient progress had been made in salary negotiations to allow them to start work on time. Schools in the Arab sector, with some 200,000 pupils, will open Wednesday in a demonstrative move against the shortage of classrooms. Education Minister Yitzhak Navon explained his Ministry had not been Me to keep up with a great increase in the number of Arab pupils which, he said, was mainly due to greater acceptance on the part of Arab fathers of education for their daughters. Schools in Beth Shean, situated in the hot Jordan valley at the southern end of Lake Tiberias, did not open Tuesday in protest against the Ministry's failure to install air conditioners in classrooms, as promised.
Canada castigated By Michael Solomoo OTTAWA, (JTA) - Alti Rddat th« Oxford historian who conducted the principal research for the Deschenes Commission report on Nazi war mminals in Canada, castigated the Canadian government for censoring her S60-page report "far beyond what meant the preservation of secrecy for the security of Canada." The government released the heavily censored version of the Rodal report Thursday. She told the JTA. "I did not expect such a heavy censoring of my report with whole pages and sections being expurgated." She accused the Ministry of Justice and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of excessive censorship. The Rodal report revealed that Canadian officials admitted Nazi war criminals as late as 1983. It also charged that U.S. intelligence operatives withheld information about Nazi war criminals and misled Canadian officials in attempts to push refugees into Canada immediately following World War II.
Slansky figure dies NEW YORK, (JTA) - Eugen Loebl, one of the Jewish officials in post-war Czechoslovakia who was arrested and tried in the infamous Slansky trial in 1952, died here last week after a heart attack. He was 80 years old. A former First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister, he was one of 14 people,! 1 of them Jews, forced to confess to treason and espionage during the 1952 trial. Loebl and two codefendants were sentenced to life imprisonment. The rest were hanged. After serving 11 years, he was released and named director of the Czechoslovak State Bank in Bratislava in 1963. He immigrated to the United States in 1968 and became a State Department consultant and a teacher. He taught economics and political science at Vassar College in upstate New York from 1969 until he retired in 1976. LUBAVITCH ANTI-DRUG PROGRAM EXPANDS TO NEW JERSEY TEANECK, NJ (JTA) - New Jersey is the sixth state to be the site of Project PRIDE, a Lubavitch-sponsored drug abuse preventioii and education program. PRIDE is an acronym for Prevention Resources: Information and Drug Education. The program will provide an informational exhibit to be displayed in banks, shopping centers, schools and community centers. Touring displays will be accompanied by a substance-abuse counselor. In addition, the program will provide services through Chabad houses including a lending library of video tapes op drug abuse and referrals to .local resovrQfra^.Eiich qgnter will have a mental health specialist on the premiiies. OAKLAND. Calif. (JTA) — Amy Stemberg has been elected president of the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay, succeeding Herbert Friedman.
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Yitzak Santis assumes new post in Arizona
Nidde Haggart
Scotti Thralls
Morgan Keen Hecht
Federation offers program k on stress to B & P women The Women's Business and Professional Division of the Jewish Federation of Omaha has announced the second program for 1987 geared to the lifestyle of the Jewish working woman. "Women and Stress—The Balancing Act" will be presented at the Higfiland Country Club on Wednesday, Sept. 16,1987. Cocktails will begin at 5:30 p.m., dinner and program at 6 p.m. Featured will be Nickie Haggart, A.C.S.W.; Scotti Thralls, A.C.S.W., and Morgan Keen Hecht, A.C.S.W,, clinical social workers in private practice at Family Enrichment, 8610 Cass Street in Omaha. "All three are experienced and respected clinicians, trainers and educators," ex^ plained Patricia Newman, program chaii-man and co-chairman of the Federation's B & P Division. "The panel will offer women supportive strategies to cope with stressstress that can result from the multiple demands of work, family, social and community needs. Discussion wjll follow their brief presentations. "A goal of the division is. to offer a support netwra-k to Jewish professional women. We want to communicate that they are
Yitzak Santis, director of the AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'nth/Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha has resigned He will assume the directorship of the Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Gntta Phoenix at the end of September, announced E. Robert Newman, president of ADL/CRC. In Omaha, the ADL/CRC is a joint operation of the national ADL and the k)cal Jewish Federation. The director is an employee of ADL. The announcement included the following statement by Mr. Newman: "While only in Omaha a short while, Yitzak was very active in our local community. Among his accomplishments was the organization of the Interfaith Holocaust memorial service io May, 1986. Later that year, he was successful in stopping an at-
valuable, contributing, necessary members of the Omaha Jewish community and that because they are rapidly growing in numbers, their needs are significant. / "This is not a fund-raising event," emphasized Ms. Newman. "Jewish working women have expressed a desire to know each other. They want to talk, learn, socialize and make a Jewish connection. For this reason, B & P programs offer appealing and relevant topics at convenient times." "The turnout has been great," added Barbara Simon, co-chairman of the division. "We are happy that the response has been By David Landau what we thought it would be. We're what JERUSALEM (JTA)Omaha Jewish working women have been Likud Minister-Withoutlooking for—stimulation and connection. Portfolio Moshe Arens "Our hope is that through a more vital (Herut) handed his resignaWomen's Business and Professional Divi- tion to Premier Yitzhak sion, we can develop stronger ties to the Shamir Wednesday night Federation—something working women after a Likud ministerial don't always have the time but most ' caucus on the Lavi issue. definitely have the desire to do." Even though the Likud The cost of the dinner is $12.00. Those Ministers resolved to wanting t^ attend should respond by Sept. "fight" last Sunday's Cabi9. For reservations, contact Sondra Topper net decision scrapping the at the Jewish Federation of Omaha, 3348200, Ext. 223,
tenq>t by William Carry of Cohunbus, VM^^ to idaoe an ad in the student newspopo- at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The ad denied the reality of the Holocaust. "Yitzak also organized the successful fund-raisiug dinner which honored Union Pacific's post presi<^t John C. Keoefick. He also has been active in the organization of the upcoming Prejudice Elimination Workshop to be held Nov. 12. "I am certain that the work that he has carried forth from past administrations and has set into motion with the current leadership will be continued. At present, no stqts have been taken to secure a successor. "On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to thank Yitzak for his sincere efforts and earnest applications of his energies and long hours of hard work. We wish him great success and continued advancement in his career."
Arens submits resignation to protest Lavi decision Lavi project Arens went ahead with his threatened resignation. He is understood to believe that the Likud Minister's resolution was largely declarative and would not in fact lead to a re-vote in the Cabinet. Labor Ministers, meanwhile, meeting separately, came out firmly against any attempt to procure a Cabinet re-vote. Labor sources
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Mayor, Mollie, Me Deqrfte Us annonncement earlier in the day of recorring cancer, Mayor Bemie Simon kept Us speaUng engagement"with the Old Timers at the Jewish Commimity Center Monday and took the opportiuity to wish a happy birthday to older adult worker Mdlie Dehnoa aad Jiro^ Press editer Mcwris Maliiie. Mayor Simon is in the. middle.
Liv Ullman questions (( mysteriously" cut scene -By Michael Solomon MONTREAL(JTA)-At a press conference Sunday at the 11th World Film Festival here, Norwegian ac' tress Liv UUman, who plays a character named "Ida" loosely based on Soviet refusenik Ida Nudel in an Italian production, "Farewell to Moscow," said that what she calls a "pivotal" scene was mysteriously cut from the film, which was not the one she was promised to be shown. The film's producer, Enrico Roseo,^ pleaded inqocent to the charge and dissociated himself from the
clipped version. In Italy, the film was shown in a fuller version. There, Ullman won a Donatelli Award for Best Actress for the role. Ullman said she told the producer she would not promote the film if it were not the complete version, and he reportedly promised her the Montreal version would not be cut. . (However, observers pointed out that it is cominon to cut films for the North American market, and that Roseo's disclaimer of responsibility might possibly have b^n a publicity stunt to.attract media at-
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POOR SPORTSMANSHIP COPENHAGEN (JTA) The eighth Gymnastrada, the first international sport event in which both Israeli and Palestinian teams are participating, was marred by the intrusion of Middle. East politics at its opening in Heming, Denmark. A police guard was ordered for the 41 Israeli gymnasts and folkdancers after &ey were cursed and spat upon by the Palestinian team outside the Heming stadium. The Palestinians were also forbidden, by order of the Danish Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry, to display the Palestinian flag. Teams from 25 countries are participating in the Gymnastrada.
By Yitriiak Rabi UNITEir> NATIO^IS (JTA)—Former Prisoner of Conscience Natan Sharansky began a three-week private U.S. campaign on behalf of Soviet Jews by saying Wednesday that "the oppression of Jews remains a firm policy of the , Soviet Union." Sharansky told a news conference Wednesday from steps named in his honor opposite the UN that Soviet domestic liberalization is a "sleeping pill aimed at squelching the Soviet Jewry issue." Sharansky told the JTA that during his visit he will meet with American Jewish leaders to warn against complacency in the face of the Soviet liberalization known as "glasnost." He has warned in recent months that the principle goal of Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost campaign is to lull the West into believing that Jews have the same rights as others in the USSR. He further contended that the Gorbachev regime makes occasional gestures
Rabbi Barack in hospital Rabbi Stephan Barack of Temple Israel reportedly was making normal progress at Clarkson Hospital where he unde> went triple bypass surgery Monday. A spokesperson said that normal recovery is anticipated, but that no visitors are being allowed at this time.
of good will by freeing prominent Jewish dissidents, but that the denial of emigrations rights for Jews remains unchanged. About 700-800 have emigrated per month in 1987. Sharansky, who arrived from his Jerusalem home with his wife Avital and their nine-month-old daughter Rachel, said that his stop in Washing^ton, D.C„ would include meetings with State Department officials and members of Congress. He said he would stress to them the impbrtance of continuing the pressure on the Soviet Union to open the gates for Soviet Jews.
said the party would resist any such effort by insisting that the issue go to the Inner Cabinet—where, with Likud's Moshe Nissim, Minister of Finance, voting against the plane, the Lavi would once again be defeated. , Nissim did not attend the Likud ministerial caucus Wednesday evening at Shamir's home—a clear indication of the strains between himself and his colleagues, all of whom voted against Sunday's Cabinet decision. Sources close to Nissim repeated Wednesday that he would instantly resign his post if the Prime Minister sought to put pressure eon him to change his position on the Lavi. Nissim himself has refused to address in public the possibility of his being pressured, or even dismisseid, by Shamir. But he has continued spiritedly to defend his stance against the Lavi project, on both economic and defenserelated grounds.
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Ships of our ancestors Editor's Note: Miriam Weiner, who lives in SecaucuB, NJ, is a certified genealogist specializing io Jewish genealogy and Holocaust research. She will be the guest speaker at the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society fifth anniversary celebration Oct. 12. Her column is being presented to the Jewish Press by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society and will appear monthly. You may write to Miriam Weiner, c/o Genealogy, Omaha Jewish Press, 333 S. 132 St.. Omaha, NE 68154. Not long ago, I discovered the thrill of locating photos of the ships which brought my ancestors, along with millions of others, to these shores. In front of me were the actual pictures of the ship on which my forebears walked the decks, spent hours sharing what they had heard from others and finally experienced the joy of arrival at their destination. During the great pilgrimage by sea that our ancestors made to this country to seek a new life for themselves and for those who followed, they experienced many sleepless nights, afraid of the new life ahead, and yet fearful of the one they left behind. Many of us have listen to older relatives describe these long voyages where they suffered from sickness, poor sanitary conditions and little food. To the generations that followed, the immigration . experience of our ancestors was hard to fathom. We heard about it,j we saw documents and passenger records; however, the fact still remains that "a picture is worth a thousand words." Not long ago, as a surprise for Father's Day, I had an 8X10 black and white photo ft-amed with the inscription: "Molly Ochs Zuckerman, Hamburg to Philadelphia, March 25, 19ia, SS Prinz Oscar" and presented it to my father. It is not often that tears come to his eyes, but that photo reminded him of the stories his mother told of her long trip from the village of Sudilkov in the Ukraine,
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SEVILLE, Spain-Every Friday night—rain or shine—Simoi; Hassan Benasayaq walks from his apartment here to open the sytiagogue housed in a rented flat at 10 Peral Street. He doesn't miss a Sabbath. As his son Moises put it, "Someone may need the synagogue." It is the lone synagogue for the city's 70 Jews, in marked contrast to 600 years ago, when there were 23 sygagsgues for the thousands of Jews who lived in the Jewish Quarter, whose remnants we see today. We assume that Jews come to Spain after the de-
with four small children, to her new home in St. Louis where her husband awaited her, having arrived three years earlier. The nostalgia of the past, sooner or later, infects most of us, more so as we get older. Ancestors are very special people. Because of conditions which they could no longer bear, they sought and found a new country where they made new lives for themselves and those who followed. The most important and perilous part of their journey was over the Atlantic ocean where each voyage was an epic in itself.
Miriam Weiner Once I obtained photos of the ships which brought my grandparents to these shores, my curiosity extended to the vessels themselves. These photos represent a visual confirmation and a tangible portrayal of the long journey to an uhknown future. When I obtained a photo of the SS Celtic (Liverpool to New York), Dec. 19,1912, I was fascinated to read the ship description which included these facts: "First steamship to exceed 20,000 tons. Maiden voyage: July 26, 1901 from Liyerpool to New York. Went aground in a dense fog at entrance to Queenstown Harbor, Dec. 10, 1928, and became a total loss. Dismantled by shipbreakers in 1933, as she was a danger to navigation. Note: these liners were noted for theiKsteadiness in bad weatherltl (emphasis added). We are fortunate that there are societies and museums dedicated to the preservation of the history of ships which house extensive libraries and photo col-
lections. For a fee, it is possible to obtain data on your ancestor's ship and a photo. One of the largest collections is located at: Steamship Historical Society of America, University of Baltimore Library, 1420 Maryland Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201. They will advise you of the extent of their holdings and the cost of reproduction of photos and historical material. A friend recently introduced me to "postcard shows" and while browsing at a large one held annually in New York City, I found many postcards of ships. One which captured my attention was of the SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm which included a foldout set of smaller photos depicting the interior of the ship: the cafe, promenade deck,3tateroom, dining rooms and staircase.
Restored Roman street Typical of the discovery and restoration of Jerusalem's historic past is the Cardo, a restored Roman street through the city's center .The street leads into an undergronnd area which is now lined with liuary shops and stores.
Failed Connecticut Jewish farmers became good citizens, exhibit recalls
community comprising GerBy Andrew Muchin WATERBURY, Conn. man immigrants and weal(JTA) - The 50 tum-of-the- thy Russian farmers. century black and white The new arrivals took up photos reveal Jewish farmers raising chickens, dairy farming and later raising chickens, sometimes on I have since located ad- reading the Yiddish press, farms bought for them by vertisements for the ship- hosting summer boarders or the de Hirsch Fund. For ping lines, menus, old posing stiffly in their best help they relied on the Yidsteamship tickets, and other clothes. The hard-working im- dish and English newsletter memorabilia from those Jewish Fanner published by trips. My collection includes migrant Jewish farmers of the Jewish Agricultural and Colchester in eastern Concopies of several "PassenIndustrial Aid Society of gier-Liste" printed by the necticut looked like their pi- Ijlew York. A March, 1917, oneer counterparts in PalesHamburg-Amerika Line edition included detailed aclisting names of passengers tine. But doomed by counting by a successful inexperience and rocky soil, and crew along with availapoultry farmer. ble services sUch as meals, the Connecticut farmers were agricultural failures. baggage, smo^g, storage But most fanners needed of valuables, medical faciliSo.begins the story told in to supplement their inties, library and barber the historical photo exhibit comes. Many took in sumshop. "The Colchester Jews, 1880- mer boarders, and from Although there are many 1930," developed by Mar- 1910-25 summer tourism fine sources for ship photos sha Lotstein, director Of the doubled Colchester's popuand their history, you can Jewish Historical Society, lation to 2,000. They and b^in with Passenger Linns West Hartford, Conn., with others took odd jobs and of the Worid Since 1893 by help from Colchester Jews. sometimes steady work at Nicholas T. Cairis, (Bonanza The exhibit, funded by the local factories. Books, New York, 1979) Connecticut Humanities By the i920'8, many which provides a nostalgic Center, is on a statewide farmers sold out, seeking tour, now in the Mattatauck look at 211 ships and their work in urban areas. Those histories. See also Pas- Museum here. who remained in Colchester senger Ships of the World: Beginning in 1894, 'the involved themselves in civic Past and Present by Eu- Baron de Hirsch Fund resetwork and sent their children gene W. Smith (George H. tled some of the Jewish imto the town's schools. At Dean Company, Boston, migrants to New York in least two Jews gained politMA, 1978) which lists over Colchester, as it did ical prominence: Ruby Co3,000 vessels and their his- throughout the nation. Colhen as a Justice of the Peace tories from 1840 to 1977. It chester was chosen for its in 1930 and a state legislaincluded over 200 photo- proximity to farms for sale tor for 37 years thereafter; graphs covering all the ma- because of the area's ecoand Benjamin Neleber as a jor style classifications as nomic decline, its abundant state legislator in 1930. well as the unusual, some rubber and brass factories reproduced from rare muse- and the nearby Hartford The Jews built Ahavath um collections. Both books Jewish community, accord- Achim synagogue, a simple include an alphabetical in- ing to Lotstein. The im- building that resembled a dex for easy reference. migrants joined a Jewish country church with a Seph-
ardic-style interior, as the pulpit was separated from the Torah ark. Most of the immigrants' progeny have left for Connecticut's cities. "The day of the small chicken farmer is gone," Lotstein said, noting that about 200 Jewish families, mostly elderly, comprise "the dying Jewish community" in Colchester. She said they form two congregations, only one of which, the Conservative Ahavath Achim, has a building. The community's population is 7,800. In conjunction with Lotstein's project are the oral histories recorded .by about 25 Colchester Jews. Interviewer-Christine Bailey wrote a play from them, Lotstein said, performed by a senior citizen theater troop at the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center.
NEW YORK (JTA)-Edward Robin of Los Angeles has' been appointed chair* man of the newly formed Strategic Assessment Task Force of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry. The task force "will assess strategic assumptions which guide the Jewish community and, more specifically, the NCSJ's constituency," according to conference president Morris Abram.
Seville's rich Jewish history By Ben Frank IC<nrrigIil 1187, JewUh TelagrapUc
struction of the First Temple more than 2,000 years ago. We know that they lived here during the time of the Visigoths, and we r^ad that when the Moors captured this city in 712, they placed its defense in the hands of a Jewish guard because the Jews had welcomed the Arab invaders. The Jews prospered in the following centuries, in Spain's "Golden Age." Today in the Santa Cruz section you can stroll through the labyrinth of whitewashed homes and realize how comfortable the Jews lived. That is, until June 4,
1391 when rioters sacked the Jewish quarter and killed many Jews. The Jewish community never recovered. A century later came the expulsion of Jews from Spain, and Seville became a port of embarkation for the Jews of western Andalusia. Most left for North Africa. But history has a way of twisting and turning. Today, most of the Jews of Spain are Moroccan. In Seville, they have a sjmagogue, hold a large Passover Seder and celebrate the other holidays as best they can, teach thiair children Hebrew and utilize a Jewish cemeteiy. They face the
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common Jewish problems of assimilation, intermarriage and a lack of Jewish knowledge and education. ' But they arfen't isolated. They* belong to the National Federation of Spanish Jewish Communities and visit the Jewish community in nearby Malaga. And it's only an hour's flight to Madrid, home to about 4,500 Jews. Most have visited Israel. Many, like Hassan, have relatives in Israel. Moreover, with Israel and Spain extending diplomatic recognition to each other early last y«ar, there ia an Isratti EmbawQr to provide Mae-
mation and speakers. Seville is the inythical home of Don Juan, Carmen and Figaro, the spiritual hotn6 of flamenco and^ullfights, the Alcazar, a Cathedral and more. Jewish history is wrapped up in all ot this. In the cathedral, the Jews of Seville presented a symbolic key to Fernando III when be conquered the dty from the Moors in 1248. The key is still located in the cathedral treasury. Fernando's silver tomb, which rests in the cathedral, has an epitaph written in Latin, Arabic and Hebrew. For the traveler interested hi Jewish heritage,
Spain's fourth largest city offers much: the Santa Maria la Blanca church, once a synagogue—the Plaza de Santa Cruz; the Arco de la Ju4eria (the Jews' Arch); the streets with Jewish names—Calle de Cal (Street of the Congregation), Calle de Cal Major (Street of the Large Congregation) and Calle de los Tintes (Street of the Dyers)—as well a Juderia Vieja (Old Jewish Quarter). The Moors loved this dty. "If one were to ask for bird's milk in Seville, he would be able to get it," goes one of thieir proverbs.