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Membos of the Omaha Conunnnity Miaaon to Israel were welcomed home after arriving at Epplqr Airfield on Nov. 11. The delegation returned from a nine^ay Omaha Fed: eration/UJA tour of the Jewish bonelaiid Fictored ban left are: Gerald GnMS, Bert Lewis, Vema Hahn, Rnth Goldstein. Bernard Hahn, Art Goldstein, Al Feldman, Eleanor Feldman, Joseph Goldware and Leonard Lewis. Mission participants not pictured: Rosa Koopennan, Roland Lewis, Patty and Mike Sherman, Shbley and Mort Tractenbarg and Thereta Diamond.
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Editor's Note: Bert Lewis, chairman of the Women's Campaign, and Leonard Lewis, chairman of the MMI'S Cainqpo^n, recently led a United Jewish Appeal stndy mission to Israel. They teamed op as photojournalists to produce the following report. This is the first of tiiree parts. By Bert Lewis According to an explanation in the program, 'This UJA mission has been designed to introduce the participant to the people and the land of Israel and enhance understanding of the programs supported by the UJA." The mission began for a group of Omahans on Monday, Nov. 2, at JFK airport in New Yorlt. We gathered, one or two at a time, until all were present: Ruth and Art Goldstein, Ellie and Al Feldman, Vema and Barney Hahn, Shirley and Mort Tractenbarg, Patty and Mike Sherman, Roland Lewis, Joe Goldware, Jerry Gross, Theresa Diamond, Rosa Koopennan and the Lewises—Leonard and ma The flij^t, though tedioua, was relativdy uneventful, although I can never understa|id why people on that long El Al flight always behave a little like unruly children who can't sit still. By the time we had completed the 10-hour non-stop flight in Tel Aviv and heard the words, "Ladies and gentlemen, shalom and welcome to Israel," the 'mo«}d could only be described as jubilant. Wl)iat followed was nine days filled from 'ifiart to finish with experiences which ran '•f)i- r-r ^ ' ;•••-•"••• "•'
Celebratbn Dorothy Evnen of Lincoln will celebrate hMr^86th birthday and her Bat |: MitEvahafcLfaieofai'sTifanthlaiMSyn•gqgne on N«v. 27''28. An Oneg Shabbat inilfolknr the Friday evening service. A kiddush luncheon, spooaored by her children, Elaine and Everett Evnen and Mourine and Rabbi Stanley Kessler, will fdlow Shabbat services. Bilrs. Evnen has been active in the Lincok Jewish community for many years and has served as Tifereth Israd Sisterhood president and president of Hadassab. In addition, she has served on many committees in a number of capadtie?. Mrs. Evnen also has six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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Mr. Newman's philanthropy was acknowledged during both the Plenary session and the Endowment Council meeting at the Council of Jewish Federations' 1987 General Assembly which is taking place in Miami Beach, Fla., Nov. 18-22. The award recognizes Mr. Newman as "i philanthropic leader ... who has not only demonstrated a lifetime of commitment to Jewish needs, but who has also encouraged his children and grandchildren to do the same." A former vice-national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith's Society of Fellows, Mr. Newman received ADL's Torch of Liberty award in recognition of his "devoted leadership and servic&" Now 94 and "still vigorous on matters of importance to his community," Mr. NewFormal presentation of the award will be man has consistently supported the Founmade to Mr. Newman at the Federation's daticm, the Jewish Community Center and annual meeting on Jan. 10,1988. other institutions in the Jewish community. Jule M. Newman^ has been selected by the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation Board of Trustees to receive the 1987 Endowment Achievement Award. This award is presented annually to an inJole M. Newman dividual who, throu^ "leadership, vision and dedication, has been most instrumental in the successful growth of the Foundation's Endowment Fund."
the gamut ^m fascinating to highly emotions!. A apeakerat bicakfaAt therlMtinMfiiiifir was Knesset member Motta Gur, a former Colonel in thie Israeli Army. He spoke of the ongoing problems of his country with neighbor Jordan, and the Palestinians; of the need for constant negotiation and his belief that Israel's future would be in harmony with both. He explained the importance of demographics, how by the year 2000 they hope the population will be 4.6 million, and how despiarately the country needs to welcome new Jewish citizens; how the great mimber of Arab oittKtu threatens the balance of power. Wfll Israd be able to remain a truly Jewish state? In summary, Gur bcRtestly remarked that one of the truly djiyor concerns & the constant hostility between the secular and the ultra-rdigloas Jews of Israel and of the need for better understanding between the two. Following this briefing, Gur invited us to go and see for ourselves what life in Israel is like... and that's just what we did. One of the most memorable experiences of the entire mission occurred on that first day. Our group was taken to a Youth Aliyah Village. "This could be described as something like a boys/girls-town place, a combination of school and home for a very specially selected group of children. Americans might call them disadvantaged, the directM of the Village called them "unprivileged." The hard facts are simply these: kids who needed to be removed from unsuitable homes are given an opportunity to grow up in a wholesome environment, into selfreliant and well-adjusted adults, llie particular yillage we visited was in Herzliya and housed some 300 youngsters from age 11 to 45. We were told most of them arrived sadly below average scholastically as well as sedidly, but invariably make astonishing projgrass. Here, they are given a sound education and tldlls they'll need aa adults; here, they live, study and work in the healthy atmoq>here of a democratic youth community. We wars told pllinly, funding for such places comes from us since the villages are a UJA project. \ye were also told there are more children who need such help than there orb funds. On a personal note, I felt great pleasure in knowing that my dollars i <Continaed on Page 10)
By Joanie Jacobson Federation public affairs director Nelson Gordman, chairman of the Pacesetter Division, announced the names of 30 men who will serve on the Pacesetter Division Cabinet to raise major gifts for the 1988 Jewish Federation of Omaha Campaign. "Abmoflt all of these men have worked in • the division before," siU Mr. Gotd&iaii, "and they readily agreed to do it again tiiis year. They clearly understand that giving to the Federation and its agencies is giving to support Jewish cultural life in Omaha. They understand it and agree that it's everyone's obligation to help." The aanoal Pacesetter dhtiier of the Jewish FedeFOtkm of Omaha Men's Campaign win be MA Monday, Dec 14, at the Highland Cwutry aub at 6-.a0 p.m. Wolf Blitler, Washington bureau chief of The Jerusalem Post, will speak. Marshall Kushner is dinner chairmaiL "We had a workers' meeting on Nov. 12 and there was a great deal of enthusiasm
and optimism. Some terrific ideas were generated to enhance the campaign and I feel c(Hifident that we will be successful in 1988." Memb«s of the 1988 Pacesetter Division Cabinet include Jack B. Cohen, Harold Co<9erman, Mike Erman, Tom Fellman, David Friedland, Richard Glazer, Don Gatdman, Jeiiy Gcniman, Howard Kaalow andioaKitrtiiiiJUilii Alao inchided arti fitoword Kooper, Robert KuUy, Marshall Kushner, Marty Lehr, LaooBni Lewis, Chuck Monasee, Murray Newman, Harlan Noddle, Alan Nogg, Harioy Schroger and Phil Schrager. Stan Schrier, Gerald Simons, Dick Slosburg, Mort Tractenbarg, Norman Veitzer, An^ Weitz, Eugene Zwdback and Warren Zweiback oodfilete the Pacesetter Cabinet. "Tlieee men, like the hundreds of men and woman who vdunteer their time on behalf of the Federation, deserve our thanks and appreciation," concluded Mr. GordmaiL "If they're successful, we're all successful. I hope that their energy and their efforts will meet with generous response from the Omaha Jewish community."
Boole Fair announces events By Joanie Jacobson Federation pnblic relations director A variety of community events will be presented during the 1987 Omaha Jewish Book Fair, to be held Nov. 29-Dec 20 at &e Jewish Community Center, in celebraticm of National Jewish Book Month. "Book Fair '87 will kick off with our Annual Book Sale, beginning Sunday, Nov. 29 at 11 ajn.," announced Edie Wolf, Federation Librarian. "It will continue through Dec. 20 to include programs and lectures by three of this country's most distinguished Jewish authors. "This year, tof the first time, we wUl hav» video cassettes available for Chanukahgifli^ giving," she continued, "along with a delightful array of toys, puzzfass and games of Jewish interest." On Sunday, Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m., the community is invited to hear Dr. Ruth Gruber, author, foreign correspondent aodrsopected authority on Jewish reftigees and the Middle East. "Ruth Gruber ia • opellbindiag speaker," renaorked Mrs. Wolf. "She spokt at the Book Fair Women's Luncheon in 1979 and was so well received that the committee decided to ask her back. 'Rescue: The Exodus from Ethiopia' is the topic for discussion; a questiofi-and-answer session nfH fql-,. low. The lecture is free and open to tlie public and refreshments will be served."
llie Women's Luncheon, co-sponsored by all Jewish women's organizations in Omaha, wffl be beM on WedUesday, Dec. 9 at 12:00 noon, and feature guest speaker Susannah Heschel. Ms. Heschel, author and co-chair of tlk^ Commission on Womm's Equality of tlie'Ainerican Jewish ConMbin Philadelptta, irSl address the Is^^^iidaism and the Modern Jewish W<mm.'^ The cost of the Women'% Luncheon is $5.00 per person. Babysitting^will be available at reduced rates. "A Visit with Barbara Cohm," author of 20 hotAat of Jewish interest for chikh-m young adults, is planned for Sunday, _ (CtMajjfaned on P^IO)
HoHday tzedaka The Young Energetic Seniors (YES) gro(% qtohaorMI by the Bureau tot the Agta^^tfdiei^iKi to make the upcomlaii^l^i^|i*^iii||««i^ for the leas for^iA«oordii|(r i| INl^ Ddman, older adult wdricer, *QM fu l>«en donated to JewUh Family wmcia tor food and another $600 has been given to the needy in the gennral Omaha community. •.'!i,.''.ai(Ki^El;'S!Mr."
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d(Ea^itIhiS GORDON L. GROSS Services were held at Temple Israel on Nov. 13 for Gordon L. Gross, 74, a longtime Omaha resident and businessman. Interment was at Temple Israel Cemetery. Rabbi Stephan Barack officiated. Mr. Gross joined H. A. Wolf Insurance Co. in 1944 as manager and remained there until 1978, when he and longtime friend John D. Bush merged their business to form Gross-Bush Insurance Agency. A member of the Independent Insurance Agents Association, Mr. Gross received local and national awards which included advertising and distinguished service awards. He served as president of the Independent Insurance Agents Association of Omaha and'of Nebraska in 1965 and 1969, respectively. Mr. Gross was a member of Temple Israel, Downtown Omaha Optimist and Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Gross is survived by , his wife, Evelyn; daughters, Sandra Martin, Omaha, Franki Mclntyre, Fountain Valley, Calif, and Pam Coleman, Hartley, De; son, Bruce Allen, Sioux City, Iowa; brother, Gerald S. Gross, Omaha; sister, Sally (Mrs. Edward) Malashock, Omaha; 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brother S. Elmer- Gross.
RUTH BRANDT Services for Ruth Brandt, mother of Eugene Brandt, executive director of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, took place Nov. 18 in Greeley, Colo. Memorials may be sent to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. ISADORE BERNSTEIN Graveside services were held at Mt. Sinai Cemetery on Nov. 15 for Isadore Bernstein, 82. Mr. Bernstein worked at the Omaha World-Herald for 30 years and was employed at the World Insurance Co. coffee shop. He is survived by his wife, Anne; daughters, Eleanor (Mrs. Albert) Feldman, Tevee (Mrs. Bernard) Turkel; Sharon Cohen; brothers, Joe and David Bernstein of Omaha, Sam Bernstein of Pasadena, Calif.; sisters, Gladys Bernstein, Sally Waszgis, Resada, Calif., Lillian Sager, West Lake Village, Calif.; seven grandchildren.
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lemer announce the Nov. 6 birth of a son, Jon Andrew. The Lemers have two other children, Ali, 7, and Bradley, 4. Paternal grandparents are Mrs. Helen Frenkel and the late Joseph Lemer. Maternal grandparents are Mrs. Ruth Goldenberg and the late Arthur Hill.
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By Ruth Potash This week the Omaha Committee for Soviet Jewry suggests Omahans write to Sofia Aron, a 30-year-old typist who lives with her mother, Cecilia, also a refuseiiik. They both wish to be reunited with Sofia's father, who has lived in Israel since 1976. Officials have refused them permission on the grounds of "insufficient kinship" four times since
the initial application. They are presently applying for the fifth time. Letters should be sent to U. Trudovaya 63/6, Grizny 364021, USSR. ELECTED NEW ORLEANS (JTA| — Dr. Marshall Gottsegen has been elected president of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans, succeeding Donald Mintz.
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NCJW INSTITUTE Delegates from the Omaha Section, National Council of Jewish Women, at the NCJW Washington Institute Nov. 16-19 included Jane Brooks, state public affairs chairman; Bobbi Leibowitz, presidentelect; and Jan Schneiderman, national board member. "Exercising Your Power" was the theme of the advocacy-training conference. Participants met with
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The Shabbaton services will be conducted in a learning format .that will include an explanation of many of the prayers. For additional information call Cantor Fettman at 651-6609.
BETH EL WOMEN'S LEAGUE . Beth El Women's League will hold an open board meeting on Dec. 1,9:30 a.m. in the Beth El Youth Loimge. A bagel lunch and a Hanukkah craft workshop will follow. Reservations are required and may be made.with Nancy Skid, 334-1497.
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A community adult Shabbaton is being planned for Jan. 8 and 9 at the Boys Town Conference Center. The Shabbaton is open to the entire adult Jewish community, couples or singles, and wdll be led by Cantor Leo Fettmah of Beth Israel Synagogue. The $60 fee includes a semi-private room and four kosher meals beginning with Shabbat dinner on Jan. 8. Topics to be discussed will include: "Answers to questions Christians ask us," and "Bncoiuter God in
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Mae^la IlgMs) By Estelle Rosenberg Rabbi Ian Jacknis has represented Tifereth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish community at a number of recent functions: a dinner to celebrate the consecration of the new Greek Orthodox Church; 100th anniversary of the founding of the Lincoln Diocese of the Catholic Church; participated in a panel discussion, with Nancy Coren, on the Jewish response to conversion and our response to those who seek to convert us; led a workshop at the Lincoln Public School staff development day on the subject, "Being sensitive to the Jewish student."
Neighborhoods renewed Project Renewal's young residents step confidently and eagerly Into the future thanks to the 10 years of successful partnership between American and Israeli Jews to rebuild distressed neighborhoods in Israel. Social and recreational programs for children and adults have improved the quality of Ufe in all 66 Project Renewal neighborhoods thanks to the United Jewish Appeal/Federation Campaign, UM AM. Servk, Pkou, b, Rkh^ UIM.
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Search under way for tainted fish that have struck three in Israel By WUliam Saphire NEW YORK (JTA) American public health offit cials are trying to pin-point the source of tainted fish purchased here and believed responsible for three cases of food poisoning in Israel since the beginning of the month,, one of them fatal. Dr. Laurence Crowell, director of food inspection services of the New York State Department of Health in Albany, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that 3040 retail outlets have been ^sited in the past two weeks by inspectors of his department, the New York City Health Department and the Food and Drug Administration, a federal : agency.
Most of the retail outlets are in the Brighton Beach section of BrocUyn, a neighborhood heavily populated by Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union. American authorities were alerted by the Israel Ministry of Health after two cases of botulism were diagnosed in Jerusalem, the first in Israel in 17 years. The victims, both recent immigrants from the Soviet Union, were an 80-year-old woman, who died ft Shaare Zedek Hospitali^d her 40^ year-old daughter, who survived but is still hospitalized. Their poisoning was traced to smoked or dried whitefish sold in Brooklyn and brought to Israel, in her
Settfers demand resignation of IDF's soutliern commander By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA)-Jewish settlers in the Katif region of the Gaza Strip were sharply reprimanded by Chief of Staff Gen. Dan Shomron for calling for the resignation of the Israel Defense Force commander in the southern sector, Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai. Shomron chastised the settlers for what he called their "unfortunate expressions and criticism" of Mordechai. Tension between the settlers and the IDF developed
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luggage, by a recent visitor. A 17-year-old girl, admitted to a hospital in Ashkelon last week in serious condition, was also diagnosed as a victim of food poisoning who bad eaten dried whitefish brought from New York. Dr. Alma Avni, head of Health Ministry's depa|tment of public health, has warhed the Israeli public not to consume any canned or smoked fish, especially fish brought to Israd in personal luggage. She mentioned fish of the Kapuchinka, Rivatch or Verbola varieties which, she urged, should be taken to the nearest district health office for testing. FRIENDSHIP AWARD NEW YORK (JTA) Emunah Women of American has presented its Emunah Friendship Award to David Shein, vice president and North American general manager of El Al Israel Airlines.
NEW YORK (JTA) The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith filed a friend-of-the court brief recently asking a federal appeals court to uphold an injunction against a Saturday graduation exercise in order to accommodate a high school student's religious beliefs. The ADL brief was filed in the case of David Smith, a rabbi's son, who asked the North Babylon (N.Y.) Senior High School to change the Saturday date of its graduation exercise, scheduled for June 1988. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued the injunction and the North Babykin School Board appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The case was brought by Rabbi Richard N. Smith on his son's behalf. Meyer Eisenberg, chairman of ADL's legal affairs committee, said that by scheduling a graduation on Saturday the North Babylon School Board "unconstitutionally burdened" David Smith's right to freely practice his religion.
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Omaha teens find themselves in The Eye of the Storm' By Lynda J. Mirvish This article induiies opinion of the writer.
Human rights 'day' A consortium of individuals and organizations in Omaha has prepared Omaha's first public celebration of the signing of the Universal Proclamation of Human Rights. The group hopes to achieve, in Omaha, a higher awareness of the link between human rights and peace, and how human rights are guaranteed by the the United States Constitution. Mayor Bemie Simon will proclaim International Human Rights Day and that evening at 7:15 p.m., a program will take place in the Legislative Chambers of the Civic Center at 18th and Douglas Streets. Meanwhile, a delegation representing the Omaha Jewish community, will be in Washington Dec. 6 to join with an estimated 200,000 other Americans in a mobilization to the Summit. ' This day is being called Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews, and in truth, this day also will be recorded as a moment of history. How often does an individual have an opportunity to make a difference? Freedom Sunday is one such opportunity. The campaign to the summit will take place on the eve of General Secretary Gorbachev's first visit to the United States. A large and vigorous turnout will give him and the Russian people a message that needs no language interpreter. This demonstration will be America at its very best. Thousands and thousands of ordinary Americans will be there voluntarily at their own expense to appeal for human rights. During this time of exhilaration, however, let us not minimize human rights problems of a different nature—problems that are closer to home. By illustration, let me quote from a letter sent to the Jewish Press by a non-Jewish reader, " ..: You say the Jewish refuseniks have a plight. We (welfare mothers) have a pUght. Who will stand up for us? No one has placards for us. No newspaper gives us space... "I acknowledge and congratulate the Jewish people on the mountains they have moved, the history they have changed, the mercy they have given. I congratulate the Jewish people on their stand for human rights, when Christians who supposedly have the message of love and mercy let their own face the 'will of God.' " The woman talks about not having the bare necessities of food, clothing and shelter. So while we speak of international human rights and demonstrate in Washington—as we should—let us not minimize the needs, nor pay less attention to the plight of our Omaha neighbors.
"Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee O! don't you wish that you were me?" Robert Louis Stevenson As the keynote speaker at a workshop on Prejudice Elimination, Nov. 12 at the Jewish Community Center, Mary Harvey, executive director of the Girls Club of Omaha, set the stage of what was to be an intense sensitivity experience for workshop participants on the pervasiveness of bigotry, prejudice and racism in our society. Ms. Harvey told the audience of more than 220 high school students, teachers and facilitators that the Robert Louia Stevenson poem from his "Child's Garden of Verses" was typical of Anglo-Saxon literature of the 1890's, reinforcing the pattern of white supremacy that began in this country with the arrival of the first white settlers, and is still with us today. After leading the audience through a brief social history of how and why prejudice developed and still exists in the United States, Ms. Harvey concluded by demanding her listeners "chart a course out of the maze Of prejudice." "The workshop, which opened with an address by Omaha City Council President Fred Conley who read a city proclamation dedicating Nov. 12 as "Prejudice Elimination Day," continued with a student panel discussion moderated by Eddie Staton, director of the Omaha Human Relations Board. R^resentatives from different area schools and ethnic origins shared their perspective of the extent of prejudice in Omaha with the audience and invited the audience to participate. The students spoke of their personal experiences with racial or religious bigotry, classism and sexism and all agreed that this workshop was a starting point to. help them eliminate prejudice and discrimination from their own lives. The next event was presented by Jane Elliot, the originator of the now-famous Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes model of discrimination. Ms. Elliot created an "event" rather than a speech or a presentation by introducing herself as a bigot and a racist and saying to her audience "and so are all of you!" Ms. Elliot described how she came to develop her exercise in sensitizing people to discrimination and its effects in a third-grade Iowa classroom. By separating children into two groups determined by the color of their eyes, she was able to create in 15 nunutes a model of contemporary society. To illustrate her thesis, Ms. Elliot showed the award-winning film, "The Eye of the Storm," in which she conducted her "Blue Eyes:Brown Eyes" exercise before the camera. As she reached into the awareness of her audience, she made each person listening and watching the film evaluate his or her own attitudes towards every form of discrimination. The afternoon session of the workshop was devoted to small-group meetings with the facilitators where the students were able to explore their own experiences and feelings about the many forms of discrimination of which they had been made aware.
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The day's activities climaxed as the participants reassembled to report on and evaluate the result of the small group meetings. Each group, represented by a "secretary'''-, reported its conclusions. Although each group had a different way of summing up its discussions, the message was very similar from group to group. "Racism and prejudice_ are learned and can be unlearned. This workshop can be a beginning of the process for those who participated and a springboard to share these ideas with family, friends, schoolmates and teachers." Ms. Elliot, the moderator for this final session, challenged the young people, to "give up the myth of white supremacy." She told the audience that, "It is the job of a majority group to put a stop to discrimination. Start today." Thursday's Workshop was sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. The program's co-sponsors included numerous area school districts, community organizations and corporations.
Members of the Prejudice Elimination Workshopcommittee pictured from left are: Dr. Leon Dappen, Eddie Staton, ReNae Kehrberg and Pat Salerno.
ADL/CRC assistant director Barbara Frohman, left, is pictiued with Prejudice Elimination Workshop cochairmen Dr. Ivalyn Van Avery, Patricia Newman and Jill Kushner Belmont. Not pictured. Dr. Don Benning.
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By Morris Maline "Oh Great Spirit free me from judging a inan until I walk a mile in his moeeadna." Thia Sioux Indian prayer is one of the guiding forces utilized by a former school teacher in trying to eliiqinate prejudice. Another expression, this one borrowed from Jewiah belief she said, is that one can forgive someone for what he has done to you, but not for what he has done to others. The former teacher is
Jane Elliot who was catapulted to national prominence after originating the "Blue Eyes-Brown Eyes" exercise in the third grade at Riceville, Iowa, elementary school. Ms. Elliott was in Omaha Nov. 12 to participate in the Prejudice Elimination Workshop spionsored by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the Community Relations Committee of the Jewiah Federation of Omaha in the Jewish Community Center. In an interview tvith the
Jewish Press, Ms. Elliott 'said that she now works as a consultant to corporations and has found that the exercise she has denjonstrated with children works equally well with adults. "The results are so well known that on more than one occasion, white executives attended my sessions wearing brown colored contact lenses." She said the executives didn't want to go through the tratuna of being treated as blue-eyed. In her exercise with the third graders, Ms. Elliott told her brown-eyed students that they were better then blu&«yed children. The blue^yed children had to wear collars to identify themselves and they were not given privileges of any sort. The children quickly learned to behave toward one another as a microcosm of American society full of prejudice and ^scrimination, Ms. Elliott'said. Her schoolroom exercise was documented in the motion pkiture, The Eye of the
Storm, produced in the United States by the American Broadcasting Company and shown three times on nationwide television. The film also was shotra Nov. 12 to those attending the workshop. Ms. Elliott said that the key to eliminating discrimination and prejudice is in education and that conditions in the United States are getting worse rather than better. Cutbacks in Federal programs the past six years have taken their toll as have attitudes toward human rights, the role of the Supreme Court, and the strong opinicms compelling women to do what they are told with their bodies, are some of the reasons, she said. Ms. Elliott said the ultimate obscenity of the times is the attempt to rewrite history. A film made in 1985, titled Berlin, teaches that the Holocaust was the firebombing of Berlin by the Allies, she explained. (Continued on Page 6)
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Views and Reviews: Jacob Epstein, the embattled sculptor By Joseph Cohen Tulane University The crowning accomplishment of the 1987 summer-long celebration of London's Jewish East End was to me the • Whitechapel Art Gallery's exhibition of Jacob Epstein's sculpture and drawings. The assembled pieces, many of them renowned, whether modeled or carved, confirm and ' reconfirm the Jewish soilptor's virtuosity, attistic power and vision. That his talent was recogni2ed decades ago— 1980 marked the centenary of his birth—is hardly news. What sets this show off from any previous ones is the fact that now, nearly 20 years after Epstein's death, each of his works can be serenely contemplated, separated out from the storms of controversy, much' of it blatantly anti• Semitic, that surged through his entire career. His battles with the bigots and Philistines are well over; his art endures. Of course, Epstein invited much of the controversy. He took his burly, rough-hewn looks, his Bohemian lifestyle, his flamboyant manners, and his Hester Street crudity into hostile territory, London's' cultural establishment's ' preserves and he experienced at first hand that establishment's brutally snobbish disdain for foreigners, particularly Jews, and its contempt for artistic innovation. Settling there in 1906, after three years in Paris, where, even as an art student, he was described as "ce sauvage Americain," Epstein, already attracted to Indian, far Eastem, sub-Saharan and Mayan art, set out singlehandedly to modify and enlarge the European concept of beauty. That concept was Greco-Roman and Aryan; Epstein's intention was to universalize it. Hia enemies labeled it "Orientalism," meaning that it was Jewish and inferior. In the parlors and drawing-rooms of Mayfair and Ken, sington, Epstein was regarded as a kind of Ghengis Kahn, ; Attila the Hun barbarian come to mongrelize and enslave
the flower of British womanhood and to undermine British civilization. To make matters worse, Epstein, from his earliest days, seemed obsessed with sex, and this obsession was reflected in the explicit anatomical detail of his sculpture. When the first of the series of larger than life sculptures for the exterior of the British Medical Association Building in the Strand (Epstein's first important commission) were unveiled in 1907-08, visible to the public in the street below, it provoked howls of outrage and indignation, angry editorials from the press, and questions in the House of Commons. The controversy was major and, three decades later in 1937, the still controversial statues were mutilated. Over the course of Epstein's lifetime, he was involved in so much controversy that in various essays printed over the years his enemies trotted out every canard they could think of, charging on occasion that he was part of a Bolshevist conspiracy to destroy Christian civilization, and that he was a living example of the truth of the notorious "Protocols of Zion." Ironically, at the same time it was castigating him, British society could not get to his door fast enough to have its collective busts modeled. Fortunately, there were enough fair-minded critics and people of influence who came to his defense. With Epstein's battles over, and his place among the great sculptors of modem times assured, we are left today with the opportunity to reflect on upon the art he created and to experience the insights it gives us into the manifold dimensions of the human spirit. London's Jewish East End has become a part of history. That famous gastronomic kosher shrine, Bloom's Restaurant, must soon succumb to Tandoori cuisine. The Whitechapel Art Gallery, one hopes, will always be there. Yet, wherever an Epstein sculpture rests, a little bit of that turbulent, vital London Jewish history will live on.
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Americans back to Europe She pointed out that in where they were declared the film a few graves are sub-hiunan by the Pope and shown near the Berlin Wall, it wasn't until years later but that no mention was when Christianization took made of the miUions of Jews place that they were termed human." slaughtered by the Nazis. She said that, "We must One of the major problems with education today, leam to appreciate differshe added, ia that schools ences, we austtAoIve the teach "Euro-American His- language barrier, and we tory" under the guise of must make it possible for children to e^preciate each American History. "There is no comment other." made about the contribuMs. Elliott said that for tions to America from education to solve the probminority groups ... to the lems of prejudice, top-level contrary, Negroes are support must be given by treated as slaves, Indians as the Prraident and the Adsavages, and the Chinese aa ministration. aliens." "When John F. Kennedy She said this attitude said 'We will go to the goes back to 1942 when moon,' we did." Columbus "discovered" She pointed out that there America. is a growing acceptance of "He brought some native racist and sexist jokes ,and
a growing need for scapegoats. This comes aboui, she said, particularly in the Midwest, because of the downturn in the economy. There have been recent cross-burnings in Iowa and people are being "educated" that it's not wise to be different. Education, she said, can wipe out racism. "We can train a child to be a reader and a mathematician. If we can do that, we can teach a child to be a fully-functional, stable person... "What we're doing instead, she said, is teaching them how to be bigots."
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Buenos Aires synagogue bombed after arrest BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A bomb blew ofi the doors of a synagogue here, hours after the arrest in the province of Cordoba of accused Nazi war criminal Josef Schwanunberger, the World Jewish Congress reported. Police said there Were no injuries in the blast, which occurred at 7:05 a.m. at the synagogue in the old Jewish neighborhood of Once. In New York, the WJC said it was a Sephardic synagogue that had been hit. No or"ganization claimed responsibility; The DAIA, the representative body of Argentine Jewry, condemned the attack and its "strongly imtiSemitic characteristics." The early E|habbat blest shattered the synagogue's windows and wrecked . an awning. The'expIoaiOD could be heard throughoKt most of the downtown area. Argentine federal police arrested Schwanunberger at a
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ST. PAUL (JTA)-Rabbi Bernard Raskas of Temple of Aaron, an author and regular contributor to JTA, has received an Agus Award from the Rabbinical Assembly for "distinguished ... scholarship." The assembly is the association of Conservative rabbis. TORONTO (JTA) Maurice Benzacar of Toronto has been elected president of the Canadian Sephardic Federation, succeeding Leon Oziel of Toronto, who died last spring. A staff member of the Jewish Immigrant Aid Services, he came to Canada from Casablanca in 1957. TORONTO (JTA) Elinor Kaplan has been sworn in as minister of health in the Ontario provincial Cabinet led by Premier David Peterson of Labor. With ministers Chaviva Hosek and Monte Kwinter, that makes three Jewish members of the Cabinet.
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I don't know what date it is as you read this, but as I write, it's the last week in October. The leaves are changing color and looking gorgeous and I'm glad I live in this part of the country. In fact, recent visitors from California couldn't stop commenting on the beauty of the trees. It seems that while they love their palm trees and evergreen shrubs, they find the fall season io the midwest breathtaking. Me too. Even when it gets colder than I wish it would be, I'm forced to admit the coating of frost early in the morning has a special beauty. No artist could paint it any better than nature herself does. Of course, I must admit I don't miss the chore of getting rid of all of those gorg^eous leaves after they fall from the trees. I can still remember how we used to hope the wind wouldn't blow after we had the yard raked! I can also remember how my kids (when they were little) used to love waiting until there was a big pile of leaves and then jumping into it. And how bits and pieces of the debris would cling to their clothes and what a mess it all made, but kids are kids and it was okay. Our lifestyle has changed greatly since we no longer have the responsibihty of keeping the yard looking as nice as possible. I miss certain things about the house we lived in for such a long time, but the yard isn't one of them! Every once in a while, when I'm nearby, I drive past our old house to see how it looks. I did that not long ago and regretted it. For one thing, the people who now own it have painted it a fairly unattractive color. In addition, they have installed a gigantic basketball post. I mean, after all, years ago when my kids were small we put a hoop on the front of the garage. In was an inoffensive thing which was hardly noticed by others. In the house we went nuts from the thump, thump, thump, but it didn't look so terrible. This thing the hoop is mounted on is very obtrusive, very tall and stands out not like a sore thiunb, but more like a big shlob. I felt it just didn't belong there and had all I could do not to stop the car and go ring the bell to register a protest! I decided it all belonged in the "mind-yourawn-biisiness" category, but it did bother me. Probably because living in a house for more than 30 years makes a person feel they have some right, whether or not they actufJly do. So, that's my story; it began with how pretty the leaves are and ended with how "those people" are taking care of /ny house! I'll try to concentrate on something more importantlike how my former neighbors are taking care of their house!
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Temple Israel SERVICES: Friday: 8:15 p.m. A 6:30 p.m. Congregational Shabbat dinner will be followed by Shabbat services at which Rabbi Stephan Barack and Cantor Harold Firestone will officiate. The Oneg Shabbat following the service will be sponsored by Temple SisterhoodSaturday: 11:15 a.m. CLASSES Religious school—Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 a.m.; Sunday, Nov. 22, 10 a.m. Hebrew school—Ginunel and Daled, Monday, Nov. 23, 4 p.m.; Aleph, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 4 p.m.; Bet, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 4 p.m. BAT MITZVAH Traci Lyn Kutler, daughter of Sandy and Stuart Kutler, will become a Bat Mitzvah at Shabbat services on Friday, Nov. 27 and Saturday, Nov. 28. HANUKKAH GIFTS Sisterhood would like to send Temple college students a Hanukkah gift. Call the Temple office, 6566536, with your college student's address by Nov. 25.
Blumkin Home SERVICES: Friday: 7 p.m. Daily and Saturday: The residents and staff of the Rose Blumkin Home invite the families, volunteers and friends of the residents to attend services in the Herbert Goldsten Chapel. Kiddush follows services on Shabbat.
PERSONALS We wish to thank the family and friends of Rose Gentis Baum who expressed their sympathy in her behalf, particularly the caring staff of the Rose Blumkin Home. Peggy and Jay Chasen.
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SERVICES: Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits will conduct the services. Friday: 6 p.m. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Kiddush will follow services. Mincha-Ma'ariv, 4:45 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Weekdays: 6:56 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. THANKSGIVING Services on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 26, wUI be 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.. LUNCH AND LEARN The Lunch and Learn Series with the rabbi will continue on Dec. 3 at noon in the synagogue.
SERVICES: Friday: 8 p.m. In celebration of Jewish Bode Month, the rabbi will share a variety of new Jewish books. The Oneg Shabbat will be hosted by Charlotte and Floyd Kuklin. Saturday: 9 a.m. Junior Congregation, 10 a.m. Students of the Hebrew High School will lead the service. Sunday: Rosh Hodesh Kislev service, 9 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays: 7:15 a.m.
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SERVICES: First and third Friday each month 7:30 pjn. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service. B'nai Israel Synagogue offers services led by members of the congregation. Volunteer Cantor Mandy Greene leads the singing. Everyone is invited to attend. Persons interested in car pools may call Scott Kotzen, 402-653-3334.
SERVICES: Friday: Religious School Shabbat dinner, kindergarten through third grade, 6 p.m. Family services conducted by Rabbi Deborah Pipe-Mazo, 7:30 p.m. Birthday blessings. The Oneg Shabbat will be hosted by Patrice and Penny Berger. Saturday: Adult Hebrew Class, 9:30 a.m. Adult B'nai Mitzvah Class, 10 a.m. THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving ecumenical service, 10 a.m. at Grace Methodist Church.
Offutt Air Base SERVICES: Rabbi Howard Zyskind conducts services in the Capehart Chapel every Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service.
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MEMORIAL PLAQUES The following Memorial Plaques, which have been placed on the Memorial Boards during the past year, will be dedicated at a special service on Nov. 27: Brian Libemum. Edward Cohen, Joseph Weinberg, Oscar Diamond, Evelyn Buratein, Steven PoUkov, Edward Zoruuky, Fannie Ruderman, Louie Langer, Rebecca Beber, David Gorlidd, Esther Oorlicki. Mandel Poster, Jacob Crounaa, Sophia Fenr, Julhia Homstein, Eve Roth, Morris Bloom, Gerald Weielnum. May Kaiman, Bertha Lashinaky, Jack .^Ibeita, Hairy Step, Max Kaiman, Abraham Temin, Arthur Gerber, Rose Oruch, AnnaCrounse RiOin, Edward H. Morris, Sarah Bernstein, Max Harria, Jacob Kooperman, WOlam D. Bernstein, Rita Kattman, Louis Weiner, Anna Adler, Joseph Adler, Abraham Baum, Robert Goldstein, Frieda Suvalaky.
CHEVRA KAOISHA SABBATH Special recognition will be given to members of the Cbevra Kadisha at the Friday night service on Nov. 27. The members of the Chevra Kadisha perform an invaluable service in connection with the rites of the departed. The tradition of Judaism looks upon this as a most meritorious act. The members of the Chevra Kadisha are: Aron Zeiderman. chairman; Cantor Leo Fettman. Harry Sldman, Dik Weiner, Sam Shylcen, Norman Zevita, Dave Wine. Saul Libowski, Ban Heialer, Barry KricafeU, Stanley Gross. Maerle Potash, Maynard Tatleman, Paul Damewood, Bernard Weias, AUen Potash, Robert Eisenberg and Sol Weiner.
Women members of the Chevra Kadisha are: Charlotte Kaplan, chairman: Judy Cooper, Reva Ruderman, Annette Fettman, Leah Sirsf and Fran Rod. Other women who are members of the Chevra Kadisha choose to remain anonymous.
BAR MITZVAH Phillip Andrew Mulnick, son of Justin and Sheri Mulnick, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 28. Grandparents are Leona and Abe Klotz. A kiddush luncheon will follow the service.
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Parashat Toledot "Now there was a famine in the land" Both Abraham and his another that in the 20th censon, Isaac, according to the tury we still have not proBiblical account, had to take duced a humankind where drastic steps to preserve compassion and brothertheir households because of hood have overcome "natufamines. ral" human selfishness—to Abraham went down to make starvation impossible. Eg}rpt. Isaac went to PhilI am certainly for populaistia. (Note: archaeologists tion control. The capacity of tell us. that actual Phili- the good earth to feed does stines did not come into the not grow in geometric procoastal area of ancient Ca- portions, and apparently the naan till much later—and to human family does—unless some extent we have anach- it contains and restrains itronisms in the story.) self. Later, the Joseph-inBut that is only the pracEgypt story centers aroimd tical answer. Essentially the the h-equent famines in Ca- answer is moral. naan, so that now and again If one has expected that Canaanites and Hebrews the rabbis of the Midrash had to go down to Egypt for would have offered a moral food. answer, he is right. They And the story of Ruth' did. starts from a famine that For they include in their sent Naomi and her family discussion of hunger the to Moab from their home in startling mention of another Bethlehem. hunger—one that would in All this in the land "flow- our day, if not in ancient ing with milk and honey!" times, be strong enough to The Midrash is intrigued by produce the humankind our these stories of repeated fa- age calls for. mines and lists them all, a They turn lovingly to the list that includes several not prophet Amos, the first of named above. those wonderful eighth cenIn our day of a global tury visionaries, who saw a economy, of instant global better world and a mature communication, and of mankind: "A time is comtransportation facilities ing—declares my Lord that reach around the whole God—when I will send a earth, it is a major human famine upon the land; not a crime that famine threatens hunger for bread or a thirst the lives of whole popula- for water, but for hearing tions of people. the words of the Lord." It is me thing to assess the blaine for situations of Private researcher this kind — political callousseeking 1915 and ness, vagaries of the weather, rapacious and cruel na1916 Omaha Central tional leaders. It is quite High School graduates, information about Dorothy Myers and general informaCARL JARL tion about Central LOCKSMITHS High School. Contacts call 733-7541 7511 Doclqc • 393 7800 after 5 p.m.
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M emple Youth Group plans I spaghetti dinner fund-raiser A spaghetti dinner and all- male fashion show fundraiser will be sponsored by the Omaha Temple Israel Youth Group on Dec. 6 at 5:30 p.m. at Temple Isra*"!. A percentage of the money will go to Mazon—an organization that helps feed the hungry. The rest of the money will be used to set up a travel fund for the OTYGer's to help subsidize travel costs to conventions.
({ba^tt nmntl^^yalk] Trad Lyn Kutler, daughter of Sandy and Stuart Kutler, will become a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Israel on Friday, Nov. 27, and Saturday, Nov. 28. Traci is a seventh-grade student atM'estside Middle School where she is on the honor role. Her hobbies include swimming and running and she swims for the Omaha Westside Swim
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Traci will symbolically share her Bat Mitzvah with Elizaveta Sudarov of Leningrad, USSR. Trad has a sister, Allison. She is the granddaughter of
'Skinhead' arrested in Chicago By Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) - A 22-year-old Chicago man with links to at least two neo-Nazi groups was arraigned there and charged with breaking windows and -painting swastikas on the walls of a Jewish meat market, according to Chicago police. William G. Leinberger, who told police that he damaged the Jewish-owned business on Chicago's ncHth side during the night of Nov. 910, the 39th anniversary of Kristallnacht, is also a member of the Chicago-area "skinheads," youth gangs who preach violence against Jews, blacks and other minority groups, police said. DeThei
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spite Leinberger's arrest poJeffrey Aizenberg, executive director of the JCC, (left) lice are actively continuing accepts a check from the Old Timers presented by Art their investigation of the Groesman. The gift will be used to purchase a work of "Kristallnacht" vandalism, art. according to police Commander George Biseck. He said that damage inflicted on 11 Jewish- and Koreanowned businesses and three synagogues indicates that PhiUip A. Mulnick, son of more than one person was Sheri and Justin Mulnick, involved. "We applaud the swift will become a Bar Mitzvah and diligent police work at Beth Israel Synagogue which has led to the arrest," on Nov. 28. Phillip is Bn eighth grader said Michael Kotzin, executive director of the Greater at Beveridge Junior High Chicago Chapter of the School He enjoys baseball, Anti-Defamation League of basketball and bowling. Phillip will be twinning B'nai B'rith. According to an ADL re- his Bar Mitzvah with Dimiport issued in October, try Pyatetsky of Ukrainian, "Shaved for Battle: Skin- USSR, whose reUgious freeheads Target America's dom has been denied. Youth," the most active of ' Grandparents are Abe the white supremacist and Leona Klotz and the Phillip A. Mulnick "skinhead" CTpupp operate late Phil Muhiick. in the Chicago area and are distinguished by their shaved heads and punk rock clothing.
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The residents of the Rose Blumkin Home have their own "A.M. News" show. Every Tuesday and Thursday morning after breakfast, Sharon Conlon reads the morning news to the folks. An interested group is eager to get the daily news direct from the Omaha World-Hejald, so if there are any earlybird volunteers out there', the Monday, Wednesday and Friday slots are open. Several residents attended the Nov. 1 meeting of Che Mamaloshen Society. The theme of "Remember 24th Street" brought back memories galore. Cantor Harold Firestone and his wife, Madeleine, accompanied by Nancy Pearlman, entertained the residents on Nov. 4. The Firestones' recitals are always delightful and greatly enjoyed. • The annual LOVE Fall Workshop and luncheon was well attended. It was gratifying to see new volunteers at this annual event. We are especially pleased to have Lois Appelbaum and Lois Endelman as new volunteers. Sara Harding, is back in the volunteer routine as a manicurist. Ardean Johnson is the new painting teacher. It's great to have you aU aboard. Veterans Day was observed at the Home by
honoring the resident veterans and the wives of veterans who live here. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff visited on Nov. 12 and, on the Shabbat of Nov. 14, members of Beth Israel Sisterhood came to the Home for a special Havdalah service. A large number of residents attended the 19th aimual Israel Chassidic Festival at the JCC on Nov. 17. We want to officially welcome I. W. Rosenblatt to the Home and wish Elsie Weaver and Agnes Cohn a happy birthday. By mistake, Sara Saltzman's name appeared in the last edition of this column as one of the residents who was honored by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society—correction—Sara is not a resident of the Home, but she was among the honorees. At the LOVE Steering Committee meeting. held Nov. 19, special plans were made for the annual Hanukkah party. This is always a •special event and we are looking forward to it. Hanukkah cards. Bat and Bar Mitzvah, Jewish sympathy cards and humorous, contemporary all-occasion cards are available at the Home's gift shop. Other gift items are also for sale. The gift shop in the Home is open daily except Saturday.
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San Francisco rabbis training volunteers for hospital visits By Danielle Lanier-Shelley Northern California Jewish Bulletin SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) - Responding to what it calls a "dire need" for additional chaplaincy services for Jewish hospital patients, the Northern California Board of Rabbis has begun to train volunteer parachaplains. The parachaplains will relieve some of the pressure on the many rabbis and cantors who now volunteer their services, according to Rabbi Malcolm Sparer, president of the board. Rabbinical chaplains often perform tasks such as arranging for kosher meals.
finding living places for families of patients from outside the area and acting as interpreters for Jews who don't speak English. "Parachaplains can do a lot of these things," explained Rabbi Sparer. However, they won't take over from rabbis and cantors in the offering of religious comfort to patients. Nor will they deal directly with doctors and hospital administrators, Rabbi Sparer said. Para-chaplains are particularly needed here, he said, because many local unaffiliated Jews have no rabbi and because the Bay Area has drawn patients from all over the world, including Israel.
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Fashion follows Jewish tradition By Rabbi Bernard S. Raakas ' By looking further into Jewish fashion history than the dress of the 18th century Polisk and Russian nobility adopted by some Orthodox Jews and Hasidim, an Israeli is creating a style which follows Jewish tradition. It takes the form of long, fluid, tunic-style shirts with ritual fringes on the comers. The new/old clothing was bom one Sunday at dawn when Reuven'Prager looked over the Temple Mount from the Tel Arza section in Jerusalem. Reflecting on the early history of the Jews, he tried to draw a mental picture of Jews in ' biblical times coming to pray. Not sure what they would have worn, he turned to study the passages in the Bible that pertained to dress. He then researched the Mishna and the writings of the historian Josephus for additional infomiation. Following that, he began to cut up bed sheets and clothes and started to stitch the material. What emerged was fascinating. To begin, it should be noted that what distinguished Jewish dress from that of non-Jews of that era were the "tzitzit" (fringes) \^om on the edges of the Jew's garment. This is based on the verse in Deuteronomy 22:12: "You shall make fringes on the four comers of the garment with which you cover yourself." Later they were fashioned so that the threads and knots equalled the Hebrew numerical value of 613, which is the exact number of biblical commandments. When the'Jews went into exile, they began to wear garments with rounded ends, particularly in Europe. A person not wearing a four-cornered garment is exempt from wearing tzitzit, and there were times during persecutions when it was prudent not to wear them. However, pious Jews, in order to fulfill this biblical commandment, wore a "tallit katan" (small four-cornered garment) under their shirts. In the classic biblical passage (Numbers 15:37-40) instructing Jews to wear the tzitzit, Jews are required to include ft cord or thread of blue ("techaylet"). The precise hue is no longer known. Some feel it is closer to purple and others contend it is near to crimson. Still others claim it resembles indigo. The Talmud informs us that the color was extracted from the chillazon, a snail found in the Mediterranean Sea between Tyre and Haifa. The exact formula for the dye has passed into history. • It probably can safely be said that it is a color between green and blue. This description carries a religious overtone. The explanation is found in the Jerusalem Talmud (Ber. 1:5,3a): "Techaylet resembles the sea, the sea resembles grass, and grass resembles the heavens." This follows the reason given in the Bible to wear the tzitzit, namely to remind one to keep God's commandm,en^s^j
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By Steve Feldman The color was discontinued in the early centuries. Some Jewish Exponent scholars contend simply that the formula for the dye was PHILADELPHIA (JTA) - A rabbinic court, mUngin lost in the exile. A modem investigator extracted 1.4 gram of purple dye from 12,000 such snails. He concluded that lieu of the Court of Common Pleas, has ordered a Philadelit was simply too expensive. Mordecaj Kaplan theorized phia synagogue to return a Torah to its donor or give him that the color was forbidden during the Roman era because another one worth at least $10,000. The decision by the five-rabbi "beth din," led by Rabbi it resembled the royal purple that only emperors and other members of the royal family and nobles were entitled to Marvin Goldman, is legally binding and stems from a request by donor Meyer Neff, now of Miami Beach. wear. The request had been repeatedly denied since 1976 by In 1888, Rabbi Gershon Leiner, the Haaidic rebbe of Radzin, proposed that the precept of techaylet be reintroduced. Rabbi Daniel Parker of Temple Zion and congregation offiHe concluded that the dye could be extracted from the cials. In fact, an attorney for the synagogue responded in 1983 octopus-like cuttlefish, which secretes a blue-black subthat since more than 25 years had passed since the loan, stance. It is based on this that Prager began to create garments the Torah was "considered by the synagogue an integral of square comers with fringes, including the blue cord. He part of its assets and its ritual" and should thus remain has produced more than 500 such garments in many de- there, according to the beth din's report. After many attempts to retrieve the Torah, Neff filed suit signs and materials. When he first wore these garments, he was considered in the court here in 1984. Both sides agreed in 1985 to allow a hippie. Often children walked after him and shouted: the beth din to rule, and the court agreed. Goldman said this case was not the first time a civil court "Avraham Avinu!" (Our father Abraham) or "Moshe judge has referred a case to a beth din. However, he said Rabenu!" (Moses our teacher). He almost landed in an Israeli Army jail after transform- "I don't think it's a normal process." The rabbi added that the case "should never have gone ing his standard-issue olive green shirt into a four-comered garment and attaching fringes. Prager's commander was to civil court. It should have gone to a rabbinical court a not swayed by the contention that instead of desecrating long time ago." However, Goldman didn't consider the case precedentaL the uniform, he actually was honoring it by saying a bless"1 cannot see this as opening a Pandora's box of people ing over it. Prager's line of clothing is called Begged Ivri (Hebrew wanting their Torahs back," he said. Neff, a retired chiropractor, showed the beth din a 1958 dress). He sells the pieces on Friday morning in a small mall on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem or by appointment in letter from the congregation thanking him for his loan of his home. They include everything from the standard the Torah. "At any time should you desire the return of "Joseph's Coat of Many Colors" style shirty which costs the Torah," it continued, "please contact us." Parker testified the congregation had only one Torah $30, to hand-woven, floor-length caftans for special occasions that sell for $275. He has even designed children's when he accepted the pulpit there fn 1961, and that, was given to another man, who had lent it. clothes in the biblical style. The beth din cited a 1976 letter from Parker to Neff's The clothes, however, are'only one of several projects Prager has- planned. He is interested in recreating the son Steven, saying "Temple Zion gladly recognized the "apirion," a palaquin or tent-like litter (portable couch) used generosity of your faniily in allowing the congregation to at weddings until it was abolished by the rabbis after the use your Torah for lo, these many yetu-s." The beth din concluded that the letter "reaffirms ownerdestruction of the Temple in the 70 C.E. The apirion, as described in the Mishna (Sotah 9:14), was ship of a specific Torah" to the elder Neff. 'The rabbis noted made of golden hangings. It was used to carry the bride there was no evidence the 'Torah was returned, but neither from the house of her father to that of her husband, where could they identify "a specific 'Neff Torah' of the extant , the wedding ceremony was performed. As the bride was Torah scrolls at Temple Zion." They said Temple Zion had not technically acquired the carried through the streets, crowds gathered and sang happy songs, applauded and paid her honor. Prager hopes Torah because it had no public sanctification or letter statto recreate that Jewish custom, marking Israel's return to ing it from the donor. The temple must also reimburse Neff $5,000 in legal fees, its ancient homeland. He also is working on a translation into English of the and both parties tnust pay $ 100 for the beth din's expenses. The rabbis criticized Parker as 'negligent' for not trying exhaustive three-volume work of the Radziner Rebbe on the techaylet blue dye. By this, he hopes to convince even to defuse the situation and Neff for neglecting his donation. the most observant to include a blue cord in the ritual fringes that are required on the tallit (prayer shawl). HONOLULU (JTA) - Uri Tadmore has been appointed The purpose of Prager, 29, a Jerusalemite who im- executive director of the Hawaii-Israel Chamber of Commigrated from Miami, is to provide an additional identifi- meite, succeeding Arik Agmon, who will serve as the chamcation with Jewish history. He has spent years studying ber's representative in Israel. the matter and has djrawn on Jewish classic texts, including the Kaballah. His belief in the importance of Jewish attire is based on a talmudic quote (Shabbat 23b) of Rav Huna: "The one who is careful with the observance of tzitzit will be blessed with beautiful garments."
Wear kippah and tallis, Reform rabbi tells congregants By Ben Kayfetz TORONTO (JTA) Rabbi Dov Marmur of Holy Blossom Temple (Reform) has urged his congregants to wear skullcaps and prayer shawls as a sign of communal loyalty. That goes for both men and women, he said, as part of "Reform's anti-sexist tradition. If we are serious about being at one with the Jewish people," he continued, "it must manifest itself not only in fund-raising and political support, but also in symbolic action." Possibly trying to nip potential objections in the bud, he contended that Reform Jews "no longer have the need to appear different from Orthodox Judaism^ nor do we have the need to
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Gerald Gross and Joseph Goldirare at Mount Scopus. (Continued from Page I) lend support to such vitkl work. Those are the facts. Then there are the kids. A number were selected to be our hosts as well as guides. They sat with us at lunch and we found that they were like kids everywhere, only perhaps a bit more openly curious. They asked about us, where we were from, our names, what we do, etc. One youngster, when told £ woman was a "volunteer" wanted to know, "Then where do you get your money?" When they heard some members of our group were from Denver, an immediate association was made with a television series set in Denver—and from then on we heard a lot of, "Do you know Alexis? I very much love Alexis!" They were serious too, seeming to long for some one-on-one attention—wanting to talk of a parent, of home, of family. We fell in love with them and would have gladly given a token of affection. We were told beforehand, however, to refrain from giving them money or any gift. They don't want the kids to "use" visitors or to learn to mooch. They want them to be menschen. The Youth Aliyah Villages come under the UJA heading of Project Renewal, and another fascinating example of this program was shown to us in a community called Lod, Because we Omahans were matched with the Denver contingent, we accidentally shared an emotionally charged experience. The Denverites had spent the last five years engaged in generating funds for the improvement of Lod. The neighborhood was originally in a state of disrepair and generally slum-like. The residents, a mixture of people from all backgrounds and religions, . had little and didn't take care of what they did have. In the course of the renewal exer-
cise, enough money was raised (in Denverl to renovate, clean up, plant, furnish and generally rehabilitate the area. The culmination of the project was the dedication of a new building, the Denver Lod Jewish Community Center. Our busload (from Denver and Omaha) arrived in Lod at the appointed time and was greeted like royalty by the entire neighborhood, the mayor and every dignitary available. We were toasted, there were speeches, there were replies to the speeches, there was translations, but most of all, there was a spirit of joy and naches. An added dimension to this and to the entire trip was the presence of the mayor of Denver, who happens not to be Jewish. Early on, he learned to wear the kippah and seemed immersed in every part of the day. He listened ctirefully, took copious notes and seemed to kvell with the rest of us. We were told there were such projects all over Israel, each funded by an American community who had contracted to "adopt" a sister conununity. On our tour of Lod, seeing just what Denver had accomplished, we felt their pride and pleasure. It was not hard to wish we could take some of the credit! Part of this celebration included "home hospitality." That meant that each of us was expected to visit in the home of one of those residents—and it was an exceUent way to know the people better. This was only one of many such "people to people" arrangements. After two full and exhilarating days, we left Tel Aviv and headed north. One interesting stop was at an air base where we heard the obligatory briefing from one of the high ranking officers. He told us about their planes and the base and the personnel, but naturally there was much he couldn't talk about. They did some demonstrations for us and proudly showed the well known F16 and F4. They answered questions and took us on a tour of what they called their "workshop." It was a maintenance garage and we saw the planes within reach. My own reaction to that entire visit was to note the extreme youth of most of the men and the temptation to call them boys was great. For those of us who are parents, there was the unspoken realization that Israeli kids serve in the military. Period. No choice, no philosophical arguments (though some religious convictions preclude service), no discussion. Israeli kids serve. A cold, hard fact for an American to take away with him. (To be continued next week.)
Book Fair events include Rutii Gruber (Continued from Page 1) Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. Students m grades 1 through 4 and their parents are invited to attend this slide/story presentation. "Barbara Cohen is the award-winning author of 'Carp in the Bathtub,' 'Thank you, Jackie Robinson,' 'King of the Seventh Grade' and 'People Like Us,' to name a few," explained Mrs. Wolf. "Her work ranges from picture books to serious teenage novels and she's an experienced teacher and lecturer." Pre-school through kindergarten children are invited to attend a "Story/Sing-along" with Debbie Greenblatt on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 2 p.m. A Family Chanukah Party will conclude "An Afternoon for Children," cosponsored by the JCC Early Childhood and
Children's Departments. The Second Annual Bible Quiz, sponsored by the Comhusker Lodge of B'nai B'rith, is also scheduled for Sunday, Dec. 13. Contestants in grades 9-12 will compete for cash prizes applied toward college education or a trip to Israel. The event begins at 2 p.m. and spectators are welcome. "The purpose of the Book Fair is to provide the Omaha community with the largest selection of books of Jewish interest compiled in one place at one time," concluded Mrs. Wolf. "We hope to educate people about good Jewish literature and inspire them to add to their own Jewish home libraries. "Book Fair is a time for Jewish families to share in the Iqve of learning... together."
Vessel seized By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - The Israeli navy seized a suspicious-looking vessel sailing off the coast and found that it belonged to Al Fatah and was carrying a crew made up of members of the group, which is the Palestine Liberation Organization's principal terrorist unit. An Israel Defense Force spokesman said the vessel and its crew were brought to an Israeli port, where the crew was detained for investigation. The 250-ton ship, named "Nadija," was fljong the Honduras flag.
Dutch Nazi dies AMSTERDAM(JTA) Pieter Menten, a Dutch Nazi collaborator convicted of complicity in the murders of Jews and others in the Polish village of Podhorodze while serving the SS in July 1941, died Nov.l4 in a nursing home at the age of 88. He is said to have been in poor health and senile for 'some time.^ The Memen case -captured international attention because he had managed to evade full justice after World War II and his arrest many years later came about only by chance.
No open trial By David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) The Jerusalem district court ruled after a brief hearing recently that accused spy Mordechai Vanunu may not conduct his defense in open session. The 33-year-old former technician at the Dimona nuclear facility has been charged with giving the Sunday Times of London, data on Israel's alleged nuclear weapons capability and photographs of the Dimona plant. His trial, which began last August, has been held in closed court, a restriction vigorously protested by the accused, his family and supporters. The trial was adjourned 10 weeks ago after Judge Zvi Tal, one of the panel of three judges hearing the case, suffered a heart attack. It is scheduled to resume Dec. 1. The court also ruled that Vanunu's defense counsel will not be permitted to call top Israeli political figures to the witness stand to testify about the country's nuclear policy.
town . near Nuremberg, where 1,100 NPD delegates and guests were meeting in a hall rented from the local municipality. Some demonstrators hurled stones at the delegates and tried to block their entry into the hall. One delegate was hospitalized for minor injuries. The protest was organized by trade unions, left-wing politual organizations and Jewish
groups. Such demonstrations have occurred at every major meeting of the NPD during the last four years. The extreme right-wing party, which reached its zenith in the late 1970s when it managed to elect candidates to several state parliaments, has been on the decline and presently is not represented on the state or federal levels.
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The hext gathering will be Nov. 24. At the earlybirds on Nov. 10, president Sam Rosenstein presented our new vice president Harry Schulman. He also introduced Fred Kotok from Ft. Dodge who, with his wife, has moved to Omaha. Their son, David, is a reporter for the WorldHoold, and his wife, Shane, works at the Blumkin Home. Doc. Margolin presented a slide show about AIDS and other ailments. We learned about viruses and antibodies. Art Grossman's son, a doctor in New York, has been active in researching the causes and cures for AIDS. Thanks to Mollie and her gals for the luncheon service. Motzi was by Bemie
Weiss and Benscben by Charlie Fellman. We helped Charlie celebrate his birthday with a cake. The list of November birthdays was read. Sunshine chairman Norm Wohlner reported that George Lerman and Max Platt are out of the hospital, George at Montclair and Max at home. Secretary Dave Dvorkin announced that new member Fred Kotok is our 110th life member. He welcomed back Morrie Kutler and read a letter from Dave Slobodisky, which included his dues. Norm Komey presented guest speaker Jim Suttle, Omaha public works director. Mr. Suttle discussed the department's budget and its responsibilities.
Journalists form world network among Jewish journalists. It will also work closely with the information department' of the World Zionist Organization and with the World Union of Jewish Journalists and World Union of Jewish Students. The WZO information department announced at the same time the establishment of a satellite news network to enable the WZO to update Jewish newspapers on events of Jewish and Zionist interest. Attending the four-Jday conference were some 100 Israeli journalists and 160 of their colleagues from 30 diaspora countries. Its focus was "The Jewish Media in the Electronic Age."
By David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) A new organization aimed at providing closer links among Jewish journalists all over the world has been established here. The founding of the International Jewish Media Association was announced at the end of the second International .Conference on Jewish Media held at theVan Leer Institute in Jerusalem recently. Founding chairman of the new body is Robert Cohn of St. Louis, president of the American Jewish Press Association, The organization will organize conferences and promote professional contacts and the exchange of articles and commentary colunms * NEW YORK (JTA) The American Jewish Congress has presented its 1987 Louise Waterman Wise Award to author Charlotte Ford of New York. NEW YORK (JTA) Warren Zev Harvey, senior lecturer in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has been named to the Andrew N. and Rose Miller Chair in the History of Zionism and Modem Israel at Yeshiva University here.
LITERARY AWARD TORONTO (JTA( - The Toronto Jewish Cultural Council has presented this year's Joseph Tanenbaum Literary Award to Rabbi Reuveii Bulka of Ottawa. His best-known work is "The (k>ming Cataclysm," a discussion of the OrthodoxReform rift and the future of Jewry.
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hamir to meet with Reagan Israel said to be negotiating • /^ • j with Amal for airman's release Community Calendar following GA address By David Friedman WASHINGTON (JTA) Israel Premier Yitzhak Shamir is going to meet with President Reagan at the White House. Shamir, who arrived here Thursday night from Miami where he addressed the annual General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations, will go from the White House to the State Department for a luncheon meeting with Secretary of State George Shultz. The two official meetings will be followed by an address sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The Israeli premier, who has asked to meet with a cross section of the Washington Jewish community, is also scheduled to speak at B'nai Israel Congregation in Rockville, Md. The event is sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Washington and the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington. When Shamir ar-
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CJF selects young adults NEW YORK (JTA) TTie Council of Jewish Federations has selected 11 Jewish young adults from North America to participate in its Federation Executive Recruitment and Education Program, which provides scholarships for training and offers ongoing career guidance and placements services to individuals with executive potential within Jewish federations.
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By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel is reported to be negotiating a prisonel- exchange to secure the release of an Israel air force navigator held captive by Amal, the mainstream Shiite militia, since his plane was shot down over Lebanon in midOctober 1986. Yediot Achronot quoted a report in the Abu Dhabi newspaper Al Ittihad saying that the negotiations are. being conducted through Britain and other Western countries. The paper said that sources in Amal reported that Israel is prepared to free a significant number of prisoners, but Amal is insisting on the release of 810 Palestinians and Lebanese incarcerated by Israel for security offenses. The navigator, who has never been identified by name, was one of two Israeli flyra-s who bailed out of their Phantom jet. The pilot of the jet evaded capture and was rescued by an Israeli air force helicopter. But on Oct. 21,1986, Amal leader Nabih Berri confirmed in Beirut that the navigator was in the hands of his militia. Earlier, Israeli military sources had discounted claims that he was a prisoner of Amal. Israel, in fact, denied the Phantom was shot down, saying it crashlanded because of mechanical difficulties. On Feb. 9, 1987, Premier Yitzhak Shamir told reporters that Israel would do its utmost to secure the release of the flyer "alive and well," but refused to comment on reports that Berri had proposed a prisoner swap. Israel's official policy has been never to negotiate with terrorist organizations for the release of hostages. But there have been prisoner exchanges over the years.
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Israeli art exhibit at 'J' The Jewish Community Center Visual Arts Department, in cooperation with Collector's Corner of St Louis, will present an exhibition and sale of Israeli art Dec. 5-20 in the JCC gallery. The collection showcases unique works of noted Israeli artists, offering a complete selection of oils, wate^ colors, lithographs, serigraphs, sculpture, tapestries, ceramics and enamels. The exhibit is open to the community.
Bronze cherub This 3,000-year-old bronze cherub from Cyprus is one of the highlights of the exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum titled, "Treasures of the Bible Lands," from the collection of the noted expert Elie Borowski. The exhibition, one of the most comprehensive on the subject ever mounted, will be on display through Janu&ry, 1988.
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•IP By David Friedman F^WASHINGTON (JTA) - Any negotiations between Israel and the Arab countries must include the issue of the some 800,000 Jeivs who were forced to leave the Arab countries after Israel was established, an Israeli diplomat stressed. "Their immense suffering and deprivation, their sacrifices and tragedies, must be at the center of negotiations," Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, told the third international conference of the World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC).
Some 300 Jewish leaders from North and South America, Europe and Israel attended the three-day conference which began Monday night at the Omni Shoreham Hotel here.The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is coordinator of the conference. WOJAC was founded in 1975 to press the claim of Jews who were forced to leave Arab countries and whose plight had not received the attention given to Arabs who left at the establishment of the Jewish State, chiefly at the urging of the Arab countries.
By Morris Maline Getting superstar Marvin Hamlisch on the telephone is no easy task. I wanted to talk with him to find out a little something that I could use in a story announcing his appearance this weekend with the Omaha Symphony at the Orphe um. When our call reached his New York residence, an answering machine replied something like, "You've reached my residence and now you can leave a mesPlay to premier sage when you hear the marvelous little beep," and then By Henrietta Boaz AMSTERDAM (JTA) - there was a chime sounding A controversial play by the ding-a-ding preceding his late Rainer Werner Fass- words: "Here's the beep." The interview went swiftbinder in which one of the major characters is known ly with Mr. Hamlisch anas "The Rich Jew," will swering questions about have its European premier family, Judaism, career, and in Rotterdam Nov. 18 and for all of you patient will then tour other Dutch ladies—no, marriage is not cities, but not Amsterdam, on the iinmediate agenda of Charges of anti-Semitism the 43-year-old composer. He did recall being in have dogged the play, which is titled "Garbage, the City Omaha "a long time ago" and Death." Its premier at and he may have visited the Frankfurt's Kammerspiel Dr. Sher Jewish nursing theater Oct. 31, 1985, was home at that time at the becanceled after about 30 hest of his cousin, former members of the local Jewish home director Ben Laub, community occupied the but he couldn't recall the instage and held up banners cident easily. He said that both of his to the audience that read "Subsidized Anti-Semi- parents are committed Jews and that he performs benetism." fits for a variety of Jewish ANNIVERSARY causes and organizations. SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. "I was Bar Mitzvahed, (JTA) - The Jewish Family confirmed, and I make a Service here celebrated its point of not performing on 75th anniversary with an Rosh Hashanah or Yom historical review and fun at Kippur." a dinner dance. Mr. Hamlisch said that he
Marvin Hamlisch composed the music for the new motion picture, "Three Men and A Baby," which is to be released for the Thanksgiving holiday. He pointed out that his ideas for compositions are pretty much built into the motion picture or play that he works with, but that it takes plenty of "perspiration" before the project is finished. I then suggested that a local cantor was into composing with a computer-instrument and asked whether this type of activity threatened the existence of established composers. "No threat, I use computers myself," he replied. And then came the question of possible marriage. And then came his an8wer:"No, nothing doing." When Mr. Hamlisch performs with the symphony this weekend, he may invite the audience to suggest titles for which he then composes songs on the spot. My suggestion would be: The Ding-A-Ding Answer^ ing Machine.
These men comprise the 1988 Pacesetter Division Cabinet They are hard at wori< raising major gifts for the annual Federation Campaign to benefit the entire Omaha Jewish community and Israel. NELSON CORDMAN, CHAIRMAN Jack B.Cohen MikeErman David Friedland
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