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Federation bestows honors at 84th annual meeting
More than 250 attended the Jewish Federation of Omaha's 84th annual meeting Sunday night at the Jewish Community Center and paid tribute to honorees who were recognized for a range of activities and accompUshmenU. In the photos from top left, Jnle Newman (left) is presented with the 1987 Endowment Achievement Award by Isadon M. Tretiak, a paait president ««1 Fedaratfofc^am Fried, a past president of tiM Society of Survivors, presents the Humanitarian of the Year Award to the Bev. ElizalA.th B. Beams, executive director of the United Methodist Ministries in Omaha and executive producer of Great Plains Media Ministry. Steve Zuber (left) and. Jodi
Jan. 24 reception to honor Klutznick Chair principals A reception honoring Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Klutznick and Dr. and Mrs. Menachem Mor will take place Jan. 24 at 4 p.m. in the Jewish Community Center. The receiption, sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Omaha and the Jewish Cultural Arts Council, is being held in connection with the formal inauguration of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University, in conjunction with the Jewish Federation of Omaha. ,. Dr. Mor #iU'fae installed as holder-.of the Philip and Ethel M. Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University the next day. He will deliver an inaugural lecture at 3 p.m. in the Rigge Science Building Lecture HalL The lecture will focus on ancient Jewish history and its relevance to the current situation in the Middle East. Former U.S. Secretary'of Commerce Klutznick, a 1930 graduate of the Creighton School of Law, will attend. The Chair was endowed by a $1 million gift from Mr. Klutznick and his wife. The funding agreement made it possible for the Jewish Community of Omaha to benefit from programs involving the holder of the I Chair.
Dr. Mor, recently appointed associate professor of history at Creighton, came to Omaha from the University of Haifa in Isroel. He was bom in Lodz. Poland, and emigrated to Israel in 1950. He earned a master's degree from the University of Haifa and Duke University in Durham, N.C., and a doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reservations for the reception may be made by calling 334-8200.
Invitation from Cece Cece Zorinsky has extended an invitation to this newspaper's readers to join her Monday, Jan. 25 at 10 a.m., in the Omaha Press Club. She said that at this time she officially will announce her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Second Congressional District. The appearance at the Omaha Press Club was said to be the first in a number of announcement-appearances to take place in the District during the day.
Greenberg present Jewish Teen Leadership Awards to Ken Polikov (second from left) and Allen Klopper. In photos from bottom left, are new Federation President Saranne Gitnick. In the center photo, PhilHp G. Schrager presents the Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial Young Leadership Award to Jody Malashock while at nght, Henry Grewiberg presknte the Justin Greenberg Memorial Young Leadership Award to her husband, Dr. Neal "Buzz" Malashock. Stories on the Malashocks and additional photos are on pages 3-4.
Sharp words from Shamir as tensions rise in Egypt By David Landau and Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA) - Premier Yitzhak Shamir has struck back at President Hosni Mubarak of Egj^t for his criticism of Israel's handling of disturbances in the administered territories and his charge that Israel violated the Camp David Accords when it annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The Prime Minister's Office noted in a sharp response Sunday that neither Jerusalem nor the Golan Heights were part of the 1978 Camp David agreements. And an angry Shamir took up the verbal battle directly before an audience here Monday. Shamir declared that Egypt was hypocritical in criticizing Israel for harsh measures because when Palestinians demonstrated on the Egyptian side of Rafah, the town bisected by the Israeli-Egyptian border. He said the Egyptian soldiers "didn't wait around ... they started shooting." He also contended that Mubarak was mistaken in calling for Israel to abrogate the Jerusalem and Golan moves. "That has nothing to do with Camp David," Shamir said. He noted that the Egyptians under the late President Anwar Sadat were prepared to negotiate over the Camp David
autonomy proposals after the controversial Jerusalem and Golan laws were passed. The Jerusalem Law declared that unitej Jerusalem was Israel's capital. The Golan Law applied Israeli law to the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War. Shamir's response came as concern was growing in Israeli circles over Egypt's increasingly strident criticism of the situation in the territories. Israeh correspondents in Cairo reported Monday that the mood there has worsened perceptibly in the last two days. One journalist noted that pro-government media are openly discussing the possibility of a rupture of diplomatic relations with Israel as Palestinian fatalities mount in the territories. Maariv reported, meanwhile, that Egypt for the first time officially announced the arrest of an Egyptian citizen accused of spying for Israel. The suspect, a teacher, allegedly transmitted intelligence of utmost importance to the Israeli military establishment. Maariv noted that until now, only opposition newspapers have reported the exposure of spy networks in Egypt working for Israel or the United States.
Robert Gordman named Grand Gifts chairman Leonard Lewis, chairman of the 1988 Men's Campaign of the Jewish federation of Omaha; announced this week that Robert Gordman will serve as chairman of the Grand Gifts Division. "Mt. Gordman has served the Federation in a variety of leadership capacities in the past few years," noted Mr. Lewis, "and I am deUghted that he was able to accept this important position within the Men's Campaign;" Mr. Gordman has served as a vice president of the Jewish Federation, chairman of its Budget and Allocations Committee and member of the Pacesetter Division Cabinet in the past several years. He was the 1986 recipient of the Justin Greenberg Memorial Young Leadership Award. Robert Eisenberg, Don Greenberg, Jerry Hoberman, Jay Lemer and Paul Epstein have been appointed by Mr. Gord-
man to serve on the Campaign Cabinet for the Grand Gifts Division. Mr. Epstein will also serve as chairman of a Grand Gifts Dinner scheduled for Feb.4; details for this "innovative dinner" will be announced. "I have been very pleased at the response I have received in asking men of the Jewish community to work with us in this important endeavor," said Mr. Gordman. At press time, the following men have accepted assignments as workers within the Grand Gifts Division for 1988: Mike Feldman, David Goldstein, Don Goldstein, Gary Ja\ • itch, Kevee Kirshenbaum, Stan Malashock, Marlon Soni berg, Al Ross, Al Bloch and Yale Richards. The entire group will meet on Jan.20 to discuss further.] plans.
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NELLIE MINKIN Nellie Kdel Minkin. who died Dec. 22 in California, is also survived by her husband, Sam. SOL LAGMAN Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. this morning at Golden Hill Cemetery for Sol Lagman, 92. Born in Russia, Mr. Lagman came to the United States in 1913. He served two-and-one-half years in the Army during World War I, reaching the rank of sergeant. He helped found the Jewish War Veterans of Nebraska, in which he served as commander, and was a member of the American Legion for 68 years. An Omaha grocer for 55 years, Mr. Lagman Closed his last store, Lagmani's Supermarket at 45th Street and Bedford Avenue, in 1971. He helped found the United A-G Co-Operative, Inc., a consortium of local independent grocers. Mr. Lagman is survived by a son, Jordan Lagman; daughters, Diana Hahn of San Diego, Calif., and Elaine Jabenis of Omaha; brother, Carl Lagman of Omaha; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
by a daughter. Temette (Mrs. Norman) Smeerin of Omaha; son, George Wright of Oklahoma City, Okla.; sister. Rose Fisher of Omaha; brother, Sol Brodkey of Omaha; four grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.
NCJW child center issues final report on 'Mothers-in-the-workplace' dent of Omaha about 70 years and had been in the hquor business. The family has suggested memorials to the Greater Omaha Association for Retarded Citizens.
By Jane Rips
Omaha study chairman This article includes opinion. At the 1988 Central District Conference in Omaha. April 20-24, National Council of Jewish Women will present "Challenge for Community Leadership," a program using the findings of the NCJW Center for the Child Mothers-in-the-workplace study. As a follow-up report to the survey of working conditions of pregnant women in which local companies were interviewed in 100
ANN LEHMAN Graveside services were held on Jan. 7 at Golden Hill HABRY J. FREED Services for Harry J. Cemetery for Ann Lehman. Mrs. Lehman was active Freed, a resident of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, in the senior citizen's activiwere conducted at Pleasant ties sponsored by the JewHill Cemetery Jan. 8 with ish Community Center and Rabbi Isaac Nadoff and served at the Beth Israel Cantor Leo Fettman Men's Club meetings. She was a member of Beth Isofficiating. Mr. Freed was a founder rael Synagogue and its Sisof Aleph Zadek Aleph youth terhood as well as Mizrachi organization in 1924 and Women. Mrs. Lehman is survived also a founder of the Credit Union at the Omaha World- by her son, Jerry; three Herald where had had been grandchildren and two employed for 35 yews. As a great-grandchildren. member of the Shriners Clown group, he entertained ROSE KELBERG By Bonnie Pawloski in many children's and senPAZOFF and Ruth Potash ior citizens programs. Word has been received in This week the Omaha Mr. Freed is survived by Omaha of the deat"h of Rose Committee for Soviet Jewry his daughter, Maxine Les- Kelberg Pazoff. Services suggests Omahans write to ser, of Boca Raton, Fla.; and interment took place in Andrey and Anne four grandchildren; nieces Los Angeles on Jan. 6. Brusovany, Orthodox Jews and nephews. Mrs. Pazoff is survived by who live in Moscow. They a son, Sidney; daughter, applied for exit visas to IsLouise Margolis, Los An- rael with their young sons, SAMUEL L. RIAFF Word has been received geles; sisters, Ethel and t)an and Jacob, in Novemhere of the death of former Fran, Los Angelest Ida, ber 1985 but were refused Omahan Samuel L. Riaff, Omaha; Sarah, Pueblo, without a reason six month Jan. 12 in Fort Smith, Ark., Colo.; brothers, Louis, Den- later. where he has resided the ver, Colo, and Frank, Mr. Brusovany, a geOmaha; five grandchildren ophysicist, lost his job in past several years. TILLIE WRIGHT August 1985 because of his Graveside services will be ' Services took place" in a and one great-grandchild. desire to emigrate and is held this afternoon qt 1 p.m. veterans cemetery in Fort now doing menial work. He at Golden Hill Cemetery for Smith. Survivors are his wife, Lilis also a photographer. His Tillie Wright, 86. wife, a former teacher, Mrs. Wright was pre- lard; brothers, Mike and speaks Hebrew and French ceded in death by her hus- Jay. Mr. Riaff had been a resiband, Jay. She is survived Chabad Lubavitch of Mid but speaks very little EngAmerica has initiated a Ush. Their address is: ProfDial-a-Jewish-Stofy pro— CLIP AND SAVEgram. The program will al- soyuzaya 85/1, Apt. 36, low anyone in the Omaha Moscow 117279, RSFSR, area to call 334-7350 at any USSR. time except Shabbat or Jewish holidays and hear a three-minute recorded Jewish story. The stories are SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 taken from the Bibft, MidFederation Board Orientation, 10 a.m. Jr./Sr. High Ski Trip, 10 a.m. C rash and other traditiona] B'nai B'rith Jr. Bowling League, 1;30 p.m., L Jewish sources and are told Cougar Lanes I by a recording artist, HyMONDAY,JANUARY 18 P man Brown of the Mystery CRT General Meeting, 7:30 p.m. ^ Theater. A new story can be School Break Special, 10 a.m. M heard each week. YES. 10 a.m. D Dial-a-Jewish-Story has Yiddish Class, 7;30 p.m. Beginning Hebrew, 7 p.m. been available in other Driver's Education, 6 p.m. S metropolitan areas with a JCC Executive Committee, 7 p.m. * significant Jewish populaTUESDAY, JANUARY 19 £ tion, including New "York, Old Timers, 10 a.m. Miami, Los Angeles, ChicMom's Day Out, noon ago, for some time under the Driver's Education, 6 p.m. auspices of Tzivos Hashem, NCJW General Meeting, 9:30 a.m., Blumkin Home the international network of UTTO Board, 7:30 p.m., Beth Israel Hatikvah/AMIT Dinner Meeting, 6 p.m., Beth Israel youth clubs sponsored by WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 Chabad Lubavitch. It is Intermediate Hebrew, 10 a.m. now being made available in Beginning Hebrew, 11 a.m. the Omaha area. JCC Building and Grounds Committee, 4 p.m. For more information Driver's Education, 5 p.m. about the project call Yom Ha'Atzmaut Meeting, 7:30 p.m. 330-7400. Kalah Franklin/AMIT Regular Meeting, 9:30 a.m.,
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communities, including Omaha, as to maternity leave and tenefils, NCJW's Center for the Child has issued the final study, "Accommodating Pregnancy in the Workplace." The date reported was obtained from interviews with 2,620 working women during their third trimester of pregnancy and followed up four to seven months later with additional interviews. They were conducted by trained volunteers using standard protocol. The finding of the report clearly indicate that accommodating the needs and concerns of pregnant workers, produces tangible benefits to employers in the form of increased productivity and to individual workers in the form of higher levels of job satisfaction, and in many instances, higher earnings, since they retain the job longer. Moreover, the positive effects of accommodating pregnancy hold for both part-time and full-time workers, as well as workers in different occupational groups. Women workers now constitute 44 per cent of the labor force in the United States, or more than 50 million workers. In 1985, 1.7 million of these women became pregnant. More than 80 per cent of worlSng women will become pregnant at some time during their working lives. Until recently, employers did not worry about accom-
modating pregnant women in the workplace. Traditionally, most women dropped out of the labor force when they married or when they became pregnant. In the past two decades, women's economic role withifi the family and society have changed dramatically, In contrast to previous generations, most women work during pregnancy and return to the job before the infant's first birthday. It is a trend that reflects both economic necessities and fundamental changes in values and attitudes that promise to be long-lasting. What government agencies and employers should be and what they can afford to do is the subject of much debate in the media, state and federal legislattires, union halls and corporate board rooms. NCJW's role in this debate is to use research studies, like M others-in-the-workplace, to help institutions and agencies form cohesive public policy regarding issues that face working mothers, such as maternity leave, child care and the needs of families.
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ices' Farm Crisis Program; lower left, the Kolot Choir opens the program; Murray H. Newman presents 1987 Campaign Awards to Joan Lehr, Bert and Leonard Lewis, and at right are Rabbi Isaac Nadof f who offered the D'var Torah; Bev Fellman, chairman of the annual meeting, and Steven Rod, who presented his report at executive director of the Federation.
State Supreme Court judge to speak at Kallah weekend . Judge Jerome Homblass, the Kallah Weekend 1988 speaker, says, "I would like to be an example." He wants, he says, to be an example for the Orthodox Jewish community in which he lives and an example for the legal community in which he works. Kallah Weekend 1988 wiU take place Jan. 29-31 and will feature Judge Homblass, a New York State Supreme Court judge. The Kallah Weekend is sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council in cooperation with Omaha synagogues anid their sisterhoods. All the programs of the weekend are free and open to the etitire Jewish community. Judge Homblass believes that oiir Jewishness must impact on everything we do in our personal, family and professional lives, Sara Jaffe, Jewish Cultural Arts director said in announcing the Kallah Weekend speaker. She said he has "held leading positions in the government and the community and has often taken unpopular but strongly ethical and religious positio;i8 on complex issues." Judge Homblass will speak.at Beth Israel Synagogue's Friday evening service, 8 p.m. on Jan. 29. His topic, "An encounter between the Talmud and the American Constitution," will examine the Jewish roots of the Constitution and the similarities and differences between American and Jewish law in areas such as capital punishment, selfincrimination and the rights and responsibilities of judges and witnesses. At 8 p.m. on Saturday at Beth El Synagogue, the community may spend "an evening with a judge, cantor, and humorist" as Judge Homblass tells tales from Jewish law and folklore, sings songs and tells jokes and stories.
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Dr. Neal "Buzz" Malashock, 34, was nominated for this year's Justin Greenberg Memorial Young Leadership Award by the Executive Committee of the Jewish Community Center and the board of Jewish Family Service. Dr. Malashock was praised for his "devotion and .commitment to both the Jewish Family Service Agency and developing a strong, viable Jewish community." Calling Dr Malashock a "hands-on" volunteer, the JCC Executive Committee said "his' enthusiasm for direct-service programming is contagious and always helps motivate others who get involved in projects. He's a role model for both children and adults." Dr. Malashock, who is a 1988 Federation Campaign divisional leader, has served in that capacity three other times. He has been a Board member of Jewish Family Service since 1985 and is currently Publicity/Public Relations Committee chairman and chairman of the Nominating Committee. He serves on the Board of the Jewish Federation of Omaha and has been a Nebraska Jewish Historical Society Board member for four years, serving as Financing and Planning vice president and on the Long-Range Planning and Nominating Committees. At the JCC, Dr. Malashock has servpd on, the Adult Services, Miller Film Series and Special Projects committees; has coached flag football for ages 6-7 and currently coaches Little Dribblers basketball.
Dr. Malashock, who plans to attend the UJA leadership Conference next March in Washington, DC, attended the 1986 JWB Biennial in Toronto, the 1986 American Jewish Historical Society National convention in Denver and has participated in the Leadershipo Development program for the Jewish Federation, as well as serving on the Steering committee of the 198384 Leadership Development program. Last year, he was chairman of the Steering committee for the Midwest Young Leadership retreat in Lake Okoboji, Iowa. Secretary/treasurer for the Eastern Nebraska Optometric Society, Dr. Malashock also is a member of the Nebraska Optometric Association and has served on the Legal-legislative committee and the Third Party Care committee. "For his past leadership in the Jewish community, his present leadership and the training of future leaders," said Federation President Saranne Gitnick, "Dr. Malashock was chosen as this year's Justin Greenberg Memorial Young Leadership Award winner."
By Lynda Frank The Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial Young Leadership Award was presented to Jody Malaschock, according to Federation President Saranne Gitnick, because "Jody has provided continual leadership to our community, has been cm excellent role model for others and has dedicated herself to the causes of the Jewish community." The 34-year-old mother of two was nominated by the Jewish Conununity Center Executive,Committee for her "commitment to the Jewish community as well as to the community at targe." The committee cited Mrs. Malashock for recruiting new members to the JCC and for being a "oneperson Welcome Wagon to new Jewish families in Omaha." Mrs.Malashock is cochairman of the Jewish Feeration of Omaha 'Young Adult Leadership Development program and serves on the 1988 Women's Campaign Cabinet. During the past year she was a member of the Planning and Evaluation Committee and vice chairman of District Con-
vention (or the National Council of Jewish Women, Omaha section, and is currently serving as a cochairman for the 1988 NCJW district convention. She also is vice president and chairman of the Patron membership Campaign at the JCC, where she has been chairman of the Film committee, the Yom Ha'atzmut poster chairman and publicity chairman, Early Childhood chairman and a member of the Nominating and Newcomers committees. Mrs. Malashock also is a member of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, Beth El Women's League and Hadassah. For NCJW, she has been Oral History Marketing chairman. Luncheon Reservations coordinator, corresponding secretary and Labels Unlimited staffing chairman. In Hadassah, she has been a representative to the Jewish Cultural Arts Council and donor chairman. Mrs. Malashock also has served the general Omaha community, working with United Way, Clarkson Hospital and the Designer Show House. She holds memberships in the Junior League of Omaha, ORT, Children's Museum Guild and the Nebraska Optometric Association Auxiliary.
Just when we thought television reruns were over, the broadcast cameras are grinding away again. This time the attention is being directed not to Lebanon, but to Gaza in Israel and to a lesser extent the West Bank. This is the Lebanon television syndrome all over again. The cameras automatically point to scenes which turn the Israelis into oppressors and show the little children and women of the refugee camps as victims. This is news? Yes, it is news, but without background "or comprehensive information, who can understand what is going on? • A current ADL report on the Gaza Strip is helpful. Let me share some of the background with you. , The violence that has shaken Israel in recent weeks brought with it a wave of critical press commentary on the governments administration of and the security methods it employs on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Preoccupation with current television and print coverage leaves little room for attention to the historical tragedy that defined Gaza long before Israel won the territory in 1967. Gaza has never bfeen anything but occupied territory. Ruled first by the Ottoman Empire for several hundred years, then by Britain and Egypt before Israel, Gaza has been long referred to as the forgotten ox unwanted territory. Largely ignored by Britain during the mandate, the Strip later festered in crowded misery throughout Egypt's 19-year rule. IF i wiN ^ (tma^ With no Arab government willing U) negotiate the area's OHJMif future or care for its refugees, the Gaza problem has lain WOMAN PRESIDENT solely in the hands of its Israeli inheritors. TORONTO (JTA) - VicWhile Israel has done more than any previous occupier toria University, a school to improve the quality of life in the area, all the world's associated with the United Church of Canada and afhospitals, vocational schools, autos and telephones cannot filiated with the University calm Gazan political frustrations. of Toronto, has appointed For that, the solution remains unchanged: only Arab Eva Kushner as its presirecognition and willingness to negotiate with Israel can dent, the first Jewish wosolve the continuing tragedy of Gaza. man named to such a post in As Gaza's most recent administrator, Israel has done Canada. more to improve life for its residents than any of its —Ben Ksyfetz predecessors. What is missing for Gazans now as in the past, is hope for an independent political future. Israel has repeatedly stated its willingness to enter talks and negotiate the future of the territories. But, in the 20 years since the Six-Day-War, no Arab state has responded in kind. Egypt, moreover, virtually abandoned Gaza during Camp The Jewish Press reserves the right to edit letters for reaThe nursing staff, beginning with Cheryl Samson, must David and has no interest in regaining control of the area. son of length or content. be angels that God sent to the Blumkin Home in the form Jordan's attention has largely been focused on the West To the Editor: of human beings. The residents are spoken to and treated as if they were Hank and it has expressed little interest in helping the I wasn't able to attend the special Board meeting at which appropriation of money for the Washington rally on perfectly normal. Strip's troubled population by negotiating Gaza's fate. Last but not least are the LOVE volunteers who give so behalf of Soviet Jews .was discussed. I was teaching a high Thus the current impasse. The Arab world still refuses to accept the existence of school course that night in the UTTO on Soviet Jewry. much of themselves to make others happy. 1 have learned to appreciate and love all in the Home who Because of the Board's decision, I and a half dozen high Israel. Blame rests with the Arabs and the world powers who schoolers from that class were.able to participate in a once- have helped make life a little more comfortable for those less fortunate. ina-lifetime event. can influence the Arabs—not with the Lsraelis. We must always remember that "there but for the grace We teach that we are our brother's keeper; we teach tzedakah; we leach social action we teach the concept of "tikun of God ... " Dr. Maurice S^chs olam"—working to perfect the world. But it is a rare opportunity that we can come together with 250,000 of our felthe Editor: low Jews to act on vhat we teach and learn. We thank the ToYour (Founded In 1920) article of Dec. 18 on Mrs. B and her family's donaFederation for giving our children the best lesson of all. Oliver Pollak Gloria Kaslow tion of $500,000 shows that there is only one Mrs. B. For Preiideni. Jewish Pfess her and the family's generosity the community is certainly Board of Direclors grateful. To the Editor: Boafd members: Sheila Priluck, vice president; Scon F''«""?,"'''«^"'»''^^ nie Horw,ch, secretary; Jill Kushner Belmonl, Rabbi Sidney H. BrooKs. Rona d May I, personally, give Mrs. B an extra plaudit—an I want to thank the Federation Board so much for makBudwig Penny Endelman.Riehard Fellman, Aaron Hostyk, Bert Lewis, Patricia ing it possible for me to attend the march for Soviet Jewry honor bestowed on her whicn she has earned and so richly Newman. Marilyn Fred. Judy SiH. Gloria Wagner. deserves. on Dec. 6. Morris Maline My mother knew her family for many years and she told There was an indescribable aura of being part of so many Edilor-in-Chiel me that Mrs. B's father was a pious Jew who taught Hepeople, united for such an important cause. Mandy Frost Sheryl Friedman Judith Marburg I felt linked to generations and generations of Jews who brew in a sort of cheder. They were a large family and poor. Office Manager/Bookkeeper Advertising Coordinator Managing Editor had to fight to be able to hold on to the traditions and They had-so little but both the parents felt that tzedakah Sales Representatives Jan Wayne was an important part of their lives. 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Israel's aid to U.S. By Lynda Frank Addressing the Beth El Men's Club Sunday, Peter Hoagland, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress, said "Israel's security is synonymous with U.S. security" and called the $1.8 billion the U.S. spent on foreign aid to Israel for defense in fiscal years 1987 and 1988 "a drop in the bucket to the strategic return we are getting. "We can count on one
Peter Hoagland •hand the countries in this world the U.S. is as closely tied to as Israel. They are one of bur closest and finest allies." Former State Sen. Hoagland pointed out that even with aid from the U.S., Israel bears most of the costs for its protection and survival. "In 1982, Israel devoted 25% of its Gross national Product to defense compared to the U.S. expenditure of 6.4%; As of two years ago, aid to Israel was equal to 1% of the U.S. defense budget. That is less than 3% of the U.S. expenditure on NATO and our European allies and only a small portion of what we spend to defend East Asia." The 46-year-old attorney said the United States has a moral commitment to preserve Israel's independence because it is an important strategic outpost from a
military standpoint and in propagating our system of democracy and our AngloAmerican values in that part of the world. "The current conflict in Israel illustrates the crucial impertance of rejuvenating the peace negotiation process in that part of the world," Mr. Hoagland told the 20 club members. Regarding recent United Nations actions, Mr. Hoagland said he would not have voted for the censure of Israel but would have recommended a veto of the resolution because he doesn't believe Israel should take all the blame for the incidents. He called the complexity of the problems over the West Bank and Gaza Strip "mind-boggling" and said they must be solved one at a time. "It will take hard work and patience." He also warned the audience that because of Israel's freedom of press, what is reported may be blown out of perspective, much like the reporting of the Vietnam War. Mr. Hoagland also noted that he had worked closely with the Jewish community while he was in the Nebraska Legislature from 1977-86. He sponsored the Synagogue Vandalism Bill which was finally passed in 1983. He also worked on bills dealing with curbing paramilitary activities in the state and with the ADL, on an ethnic discrimination bill. Mr.Hoagland praised the 60 Omahans who marched on Washington in support of Soviet Jewry and human rights. He said he was "proud of the principles of equality, integrity, intelligence, and sensitivity the Omaha Jewish community has always represented regarding global affairs, especially Israel,"
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Workers train Eighty-five women participated in the two training sessions offered by the Women's Federation Campaign last week in the Jewish Community Center. In the top photo, Judy Robins, of Denver, representing the United Jewish Appeal', discusses the training program with Bert Lewis, Women's Campaign chairman, and Steven Rod, executive director of the Federation. In the bottom photo, from left, Toby Kagan, Carol Katzman, and Jane Brooks, practice some of the tactics suggested by Ms. Robins in a role-playing demonstration for the morning group.
Nobel physicist dies By Yitzhak Rabi NEW YORK (JTA) Isidor Isaac Rabi, a Nobel Laureate physicist, died here Monday at the age of 89 after a long iUness. Rabi won the Nobel Prize in 1944 for his work on magnetic properties of atoms, molecules and atomic nuclei. His discoveries were instrumental in the development of the atomic clock, the laser and diagnostic scanning of the human body by nuclear magnetic resonance. Rabi was born to an Orthodox Jewish family on RE-ELECTED NEW YORK (JTA)-Dr. Jane Evans of New RocheUe, N.Y., has been reelected to a two-year term as president of the Jewish Braille Institute of America, which provides resources to the blind and visually impaired. r^-^— Moles -Gophets I
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Since it's my habit to share funny experiences with you, I've got one I think you might find amusing. 1 guess it all goes back to being a native of this town,—of knowing many people and knowing some of them for a very long time. But let me illustrate. I walked into a synagogue the other day, for the express purpose of buying something in the gift shop. I made my way to the office, where I encountered a woman I ve known more years than we're going to talk about here. She works in that office and greeted me warmly, asking what she could do for me. I told her and we proceeded to the right place where she helped me select the item I wanted. Fine. We went back to the office, I paid for the item and she handed me a receipt which I promptly stuffed into my purse. Also fine. A couple of days later I was digging around in my purse hunting for something I couldn't find, when I happened to spot the receipt. 1 couldn't remember what it was for so I read it carefully. That's where the fun of living in your old home town comes in. The little form was neatly made out to "Bert Wine" and I got hysterical. I almost went to the phone and called the lady to give her the business-to explain that for the past 42 years the name has been Lewis, not Wine. Then I decided to let her know by this means instead. And in addition to that, it made me think about a few other things. For example, I get a big kick out of watching my daughters experience the same things 1 used to way back when I was their age. We often compare notes and giggle about this or that. But suddenly I realized this kind of thing could never happen to them, and for a simple reason. They both retained their owtf names when they married. This just couldn't occur, just as they won't ever know the frustration of waiting more than an hour for potatoes to bake. That went out of style with the microwave oven,' along with many other inconveniences. While I didn't do it very long, I can recall the the discomfort of hanging wet clothes outside on a line. (Actually, I did that for a really short time before I owned an electric dryer.) While one of my girls may have hung laundry outside once or twice, you can bet the entire procedure is an anachronism to the average young person. Like shorthand. My daughters won't ever make use of something as valuable as shorthand, as I did. I really got a.lot of use from that skill, but today's generation doesn't seem to need it. They have machines and computers and God knows what else. And t'hey have, many of them, their own names. I know some people have a hard time accepting that, but I think it's okay. After all, why shouldn't a girl keep her own riame? In some cultures, the male assumes her name when they marry. While I'm not suggesting we go that far, I understand today's thinking. It kind of goes along with choices and options kids enjoy today. And you know what? I 'm all for choices.
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Capehart Chapel .every The service is followed Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg by breakfast and "ExplorWOMEN'S LEAGUE Shabbat follows the ing Jewish Ideas" with the SHABBAT service. Women's League memrabbi. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and bers will lead services and Council Bluffs sponsor the kiddush on 5 p.m. B'nai Israel Jan. 16. BAR MITZVAH Andrew David Nathan, SERVICES: First and third Friday son of Carol and Ira Naeach month 7:30 p.m. than, will become a Bar An Oneg Shabbat fol- Mitzvah on Friday evening, Jan. 15 and Saturlo\vs the service. B'nai Israel Synagogue day morning, Jan., 16. offers services led by mem- Grandparents are Reva Twenly-five individuals Sabbath observant. The bers of the congregation. and Paul Nathan and entering their final year in scheduling of free time is inVolunteer Cantor Mandy Rhoda and Ben Blatt. high school are eligible for tended to reflect the atti(ireene leads the singing. The parents of the Bar the second annual Edgar M. tudes, concerns and pracEveryone is invited to at- Mitzvah will sponsor the Bronfman Youth Fellow- tices of observant and Friday night Oneg Shab- ships in Israel. The fuUy- non-observant views. 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Parashat VaEra The prophet as interpreter It may seem strange to see into the future and an turn to a discussion of nounce it. We still use the prophecy for this Sidrah. words "prophet" and Before us is the exciting and "prophecy " in that sense, at dramatic account of the be- least colloquially. In our day, however, a ginning of the redemption of the Hebrew slaves; and the prophet of the Bible is seen obstinate Pharaoh sees his in a different perspective. people suffering seven of the He is, to be sure, someone plagues of this great narra- who speaks with the assurtive. With all this before us, ance that he has God's comand with the theological mission to do so. Bu^his foproblems that abound in the cus is not on the future. His narrative—why turn to focus is the Ufe surrounding him, and he overflows with prophecy? warning or with the comThere is a reason. As most of us know, in ad- forting promise, depending dition to the Torah reading on the circumstances of his each Shabbat (and Holy time. He is, thus, a spokesDay), there is also a "Hafta-. man for God. He is a rah," a "concluding" read- "mouthpiece," not so much ing, taken from the Proph- a foreteller as a forthteller, etic section of the Bible, the as one writer has aptly put "nun" for "Neviim it. Moses is considered in (Prophets)" of our "TaNaKH." Thus the reading Jewish tradition to be the this week, e.g., is from the first and greatest of the 28th and ?9th chapters of prophets. Nonetheless, Ezekiel, where the prophet when he complains, in our sees (in his mind's eye or Sidrah, that he cannot unfrom reports that reached dertake to speak to the him in Babylonia?) that . Pharaoh since he is not eloNebuchnezzar, destroyer of quent, the Lord tells him to Judah, also was about to de- relay to Aaron what the stroy Egypt, the other "su- Lord tells him, and Aaron perpower" of the time. The will be your "prophet connection of subject-mat- (navi)." To the words "forthtelter between Sidrah and the Haftarah is obvious. Now ler," "mouthpiece," and Ezekiel (author of our Haf- "spokesman," now add antarah) is one of the three ma- other; interpreter. Indeed the Targun (the Aramaic jor prophets of our Bible. What so we mean when translation of the Torah we say "Prophet" or when that appears in standard we use the Hebrew word Humashim) translates the word "navi" at this point: "Navi?" Through the centuries, "m'tur-g'ma-nakh," your inJews and Christians terpreter. What is prophecy? It is a thought of the prophets as visionaries who were given human interpretation of special powers by God to what the prophet passionately knew to be God's will.
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By Mike Silvennan Editor's Note: Mike Silvennan is a member of the Jewish Press Journalism Club which is open to all Jewish teenagers in grades 9-12. I had the opportunity to escape the frigid Omaha winter and go to southern California over winter vacation. I would like to share some of my experiences with you as we try to forget about -50 degree windchills and ice storms. • The night before we left, the excitement was unbearable. I slept perhaps a couple of hours and around 2 a.m. I gave up trying to sleep and listened to the radio until the rest of my family woke up. Our flight had a five-hour layover in Phoenix and we visited some friends of my parents. My first impressions of the Southwest were of the numerous palm trees, orange and grapefruit plants, and giant cactus growing everywhere. Also, no matter where we were, mountains were always visible. We didn't get to San Diego until about 3 p.m. and we left its horrible airport (renowned for awful parking and huge crowds) and proceeded to my aunt and uncle's home. What a house! It had a spectacular mountaintop view, pool and Jacuzzi, security system, ultramodern interior with unusual pieces of furniture and stereo big screen TVs. We stayed in San Diego for about four days during which time we saw Sea World, the beaches, the zoo and a unique shopping center called Horton Plaza. We also went on an expedition to Tijuana, Mexico, which is smoggier than Los Angeles. Little kids kept running up to us and babbling in Spanish, trying to sell us stuff.
Storekeepers would chase us ^own trying to get us into their stores, which all sold the same three items, leather goods, jewelry and shawls. One could bargain down to almost 1/3 U.S. price though. After all that, we drove through breathtaking mountains to get to a little town called Borrego Springs, which was so tiny it didn't have any twostoried buildings or stoplights. This was in the middle of a desert valley with giant mountains all around. The floor of the valley was covered with little bushes and cactus. We did nothing here but relax before going to Disneyland and Universal Studios. Before I go further, I must talk about the weather. The first two days in San Diego it was warm, clear, sunny and in the 70's. After that it got down to the 50's and stayed there for the rest of the trip as California was haviiig its coldest winter in 30 years. The day we left San Diego it snowed there. However, after coming back to Omaha, 50 degrees looks awfully good! Disneyland was neat, although we spent an hour in liiie for for every 10 nunutes on a ride; and Universal Studios was great—we were attacked by King Kong and captured by a starship, among other things. We even.had a flood—but this was no special effect! A cloudburst trapped us in a gift shop by creating a footdeep pond at the entrance. We left California on Jan. 2 after spending New Year's at my grandparents watching bowl games. It was really a fun trip but best of all, it was 30 below in California. Think warm! P.S. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!
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