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4th generation Kulakofsky leads Jewish Federation By Morris Maline As the newly elected president of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, Saranne Gitnick brings to the volun[ teer job more than her own [credentials of service to the Icommunity. [' She represents the fourth [generation of the Kulakofsky family to be in the ^leaidership roles of the Jewish community of Omaha. Her great grandfather, Michel Kulakofsky, was a trustee of the Jewish Com'munity Center built in the ; 1920s at 20th and Dodge Streets, and according to Jewish Press records, thousands attended his funeral in 1929. Her grandparents, Sadie and Harry Kulakofsky, continued the tradition of community activity with Harry [ leading the Federation as I president from 1953-55, and . Sadie being active in leaderi ship roles for a variety of organizations and Israel causes. And her parents too, Ethelyn and Loyal Kaplan, ' participated in Jewish community life with her father leading Beth El Synagogue in the late 1940s. Now, it's Mrs. Gitnick— after many years of service to the Jewish community in a variety of leadership ; roles—assuming the post of Federation president, the second woman to be so elected. In an interview recently, , Mrs. Gitnick recalled some

of the generational attitudes toward religion and tzedakah which had been passed on to the Kulakofsky children and grandchildren. "My grandmother was bright, capable, and she believed that "something can always be done." Mrs. Gitnick said this outlook on problems means that there are always many options and that all have to be explored to solve problems.

"My grandmother also had a saying which went something like this: 'We are debtors for what we have been given, and merely nodding the head does not row the boat' ". Mrs. Gitnick, one of 14 Kulakofsky grandchildren, said that religion and tzedakah were integral parts of their upbringing. She recalled that all of the (Continued on Page 11)

From left, Dr. Menachem Mor and his wife, Devorah, being congratulated by Philip M. and Ethel Klotznick during a Sunday reception at the Jewish Community Center.

Creighton inaugurates Klutznicks' Jewish Chair

Saranne Gitnick, a fourth-generation member of the Kulakofsky family and the newly elected president of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, points to a plaque in the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home—one of the reminders of her family's participation in the conuiunity. The plaque states that the Infirmary Wing of the Home was refurbished in honor of the lives of Sadie and Harry Kulakofsky by their children and the community.

Kitty Dukakis sees lierself as Jewish 'first iady' "My maternal grandmother was an orthodox Jew and she was largely responsible for the limited Jewish education I had as a youngster," Mrs. Dukakis said. "She would have me over for Shabbat dinner and we would attend synagogue together ... my parents were not affiliated religiously so this was pretty much the extent of my Jewish upbringing." She pointed out however, that she aqd her husband, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, are raising their children with knowledge and understanding of Kitty DukaUa two faiths: Judaism and 'is the United States Kitty Dukakis told the Jew- Gre^ Orthodox. "The children have pride ready for a Jewish first ish Press in a recent interin both backgrounds and view. lady? While campaigning for recognize each religion as a "I hope so because if my her husband in the Council rich and wholesome exhusband Michael receives Bluffs area, Mrs. Dukakis perience ...eacb of the the Democratic nomination commented on her Jewish three children has emerged for President and wins the background and lifestyle so 'With a strong ,individual general election, I am pre- that potential supporters personality with an enriched pared to be the first Jewish could have a better under- background." (Coffltbnied on Page 11) woman to have this honor," standing of her family.

"This is a truly unique arThe Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish rangement and testifies to Civilization is now a reality the extraordinary vision . and dedication to huat Creighton University. More than 200 from both manitarian and educational Creighton and the Jewish needs by Phil and Ethel Community of Omaha at- Klutznick." Praise for the vision of the tended the inaugural program at Creighton Monday, Klutznicks also was exand applauded the conferral tended during the JCC reof the Chair medallion on ception, the inaugural cereDr.^lenschem Mor of Hai- mony and the festivities fa, Israel, the first scholar to following by James E. Hoff, S.J., vice president. Univeroccupy the Chair. The inaugural ceremony sity Relations, Creighton, was one of several functions and Michael G. Morrison, arranged by Creigliton and S.J., president of Creighton. Saranne Gitnick, presithe Jewish Federation of Gmaha to celebrate the oc- dent of the Federation, credited former president casion. Paul Cohen, past presi- Mort Trachtenbarg and dent of the Federation, Steven Riekes with working pointed out at a Sunday out the details of the Chair reception in the Jewish with Creighton. . In his remarks, Mr. Klutz• Community Center that the $1 million gift endowing the nick, an international Chair will enable the Feder- statesman and counselor to ation to conduct programs several United States presiusing the talents of the dents, said that he learned Chair holder. The Jewish much while residing in OmaFederation will receive 10 ha and attending Creighton per cent of the distributed Law School. "I was taught to look at income under the arrangeboth sides of a controversy mant.

before making a decision, and this applies not only to law, but to human relations "as well." Mr. Klutznick, Dr. Mor and Rev. Hoff made separate references during the programs on their "dream" to see Creighton equipped with Chairs in Christian and Islamic Civilization "so that all three great religions" could share a common base for understanding and peace throughout the world. Mr. Klutznick said thkt his idea for a Chair in Jewish Civilization actually began some 20 years ago during a conversation with the president of Israel. "From that meeting came the idea for the International Center for Study of Jewish Civilization, and now there are some 1,000 such Chairs in theworld," Mr. Klutznick added. (The Jewish Press plans to publish Dr. Mor's inaugural lecture on Why Study Ancient History? in the Passover edition. Also, see editorial on page 4.)

Jewish Woman's Week Gov. Kay A. Orr has prodaimed the Wsak of the Jewish Woman, effective Febr. 28. In the proclamation, Gov. On dted Lubavitch Womu'a OrgaaisathM as being especially committed to projeeto which iocNase the awafeaess of women to their great Iiiiliiiiiiiilillllji illiiiiiaii ilMlhdar naUirn niitiii arr flir hanli fnr ntlnnit and mnral family and commnaity life. Pnwtoating in tht-vMremony are from left, Kari«ad Pam Kauvar, Gov. Oir holdbg EatleKfftnnan, Shani Katzman, MvrQjro Aienson aadhcr daughter, LcaOe. Acconifaig to Rabbi Mendel Kataaoaa, a lundHon is |)f{ng pianiied to commemorate the event, aad tafomtatioB ouy be obtaiaed from Ma. Araison at 89&0392. . H IJ-.'.'l. .<-!•

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SADIE K. RAVITZ Graveside services were held on Jan. 22 at Golden Hill Cemetery for former Om«han Sadie K. RaviU. 82. of Edina, Minn, fiabbi Isaac Nadoff officiated. Mrs. Ravitz and her husband, David, founded and operated Ravitz Furniture and Rental in Omaha for many years. They were lifelong members of Beth Israel Synagogue. Mrs. Ravitz was preceded in death by her husband. She is survived by her son, Lawrence Everett; one grandson; four step-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the Rose Blumkin Home. RUTH (SIS) TURNER Services were held at

Beth El Synagogue on Jan 24 for Ruth (SisI Turner, 79 Mrs. Turner is survived by a son, Jerry Turner, Los Angeles, Calif.; daughters. Kaye Turner, New York, NY and Judy Ginsburg, Dallas, Texas; brother. Lazar Kaplan, Omaha; five grandchildren. WILLIAM RADUZINER Graveside services were held at.Beth El Cemetery on Jan. 26 for former Omahan William Raduziner, 84, of HaUandale, Fla. Mr. JUduziner is survived by his wife, Freda; daughter, Doris (Mrs. Milton) Marks, Bedford, N.H.; son, Jerry Raduziner, Laguna Niguel, Calif.; sisters, Esther Singer, Omaha, and Bemice Silver, Los Angeles, Calif.; five grandchildren.

PRIDE presents workshop for Omaha area youth The fourth annual PRIDE-Omaha 'iiouth Workshop on alcohol and drug prevention will take place Feb. 17 at the Jewish Community Center. Educational lectures and activities on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs will be presented to 260 Omaha-area

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sixth graders and their adult sponsors. Keynote speaker Jevon Thompson, a professional drummer for over 13 years, has experienced and witnessed many of the effects of drug abuse, according to Jan Joos, PRIDE executive director. Mr. Thompson will also give a special 7 p.m. presentation, "Parents are the Answer," for parents on Feb. 18 at Beve^idge Junior High. There is no charge for this session.

Kim Carrico, director of the Jewish Community Center Camp Chaverim, has announced staff openings for the 1988 camping sessions, JCC plans June 20-July 29. Regular and specialty counselors, as indoor games well as junior counselors, The Jewish Community are needed, Ms. Carrico said. She added that she is Center will hold its annual seeking college-age in- Tu B'Shevet Indoor Track dividuals who are enthusias- and Field Meet on Feb. 7, tic, creative and have.ex- 1:30-3:30 p.m., in the JCC perience working with chil- gym. The program is for dren, preferably in a camp boys and girls, kindergarten through sixth grade, and environment. Potential specialty coun- will include a plant-a-tree reselors should have talents in lay, obstacle course and nerf arts and crafts, music, football throw, among the activities. An award and a sports or camp crafts. Counselors will work souvenir T-shirt will be preclosely in developing and sented to each participant. Pre-registration is reimplementing activities and will attend a three^iay train- quired by Feb. 4; the fee is ing seminar prior to the $5 for the first child in a opening of camp, Ms. Car- family and $4 for each additional child. rico said.

Mr. and Mrs. Semiafin art pictured during a recent visit to the Jewish Commanity Center.

Orchestra features premier A Review By Madeleine Firestone The opening concert of the Omaha Chamber Orchestra series featured the premier performance of Lionel Semiatin's, "A Sweet Suite," a piece which he composed for his grandchildren. The composer was bom in 1917 in Dublin, Ireland, where his father was a cantor. After his family immigrated to the United States, Mr. Semiatin studied at Brooklyn College and Columbia University. After retiring as administrator of Temple Israel Center of White Plains, N.Y., Mr. Semiatin devoted himself full time to composing.

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The suite, which Mr. Semiatin calls a Suite for my grandchildren to remember me hy, is in four movements. The first movement, mainly for strings, is bright with contrasting sounds. The second movement has contrasting harmonies and solos by several instruments. A short waltz-like variation on the theme is included in the third movement and the finale is full of bouncing and melodic rhythms. The music is said to be an amalgam of sucji, composers as Gershwin, Stravinsky and Charles Ives and, I suspect, written a bit tongue in cheek, for fun and amusement. I found it light, easy to listen to and of an overall appeal on first hearing.

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JERUSALEM, Jan. 27 (JTA) - President Chaim lecture Herzog of Israel offered a resounding challenge this "Prime Time," a program week to American Jewish leaders who have criticized- of the Adult Services of the Israel's policy of beatings Jewish Community Center, and curfews to put down ri- will sponsor a lecture on 6ting in the administered Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m. at the JCC. Donald R. Connell, profesterritories. "The question that.l must sor of economics at the Uniask you is, what do you see versity of Nebraska-Omaha, as the alternative? .., If will discuss "Reviewing you criticize our methods of your investment strategy." achieving law and Order, as His talk will focus on investmany in Israel do, you ing wisely in the "prime should at least advise us time" of life in view of curwhat the alternative is," rent conditions in the financial world. Herzog stated. For additional information, call Helen Rifkin, /jewishPress^ 334-8200.

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ORT Ally Milder, who has been to the Soviet Union three times and is a former aide to Senator Tom Grassley (RIowa), will discuss the latest developments in the Soviet refusenik situation at the next meeting of the Omaha chapter of Women's American ORT. Her remarks will cover the effect of the Reagan-Gorbachev summit. The meeting will take place at 7:30 p.m.,'Feb. 1, at the home of Claudia Sherman, 12756 Nicolas Street. B'NAI B'RITH WOMEN The annual, B'nai B'rith Women of Omaha "Sweetheart Party" at the Rose Blumkin Home will take place Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. Maxine Noodell and Esther Wax will present a musical program following which tea will be served. Frieda Krizehnan is acting president for the month. Goldye Goldberg is event chairman. BBW's annual donor will take place in March, as will the annual garage sale. C,all Sara Wolfson, garage sale chairman, 391-8013, for pick-ups. OLDTIMERS The next meeting of the J.C. Oldtimers and Earlybirds will take place Feb.'2 at the Jewish Community Center. HADASSAH The Hadassah Bible study group will meet Feb. 3, 9:30 a.m., at the Livingston Plaza Apartments. Rabbi Myer Kripke will lead the discussion of a further study of the book of Job; BETHEL WOMEN'S LEAGUE Beth El Women's League will hold its donor luncheon on Feb. 9, 12:30 p.m.. at Beth El. A fashion show will be presented by Zoob's and the Daisy. Donor options, which include the cost of lunch, are $25 and $50. Non-members may attend for $6. Babysitting is available by reservation with the JCC sitter service at no charge for Women's League members. Luncheon and transporta-

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tion reservations may be mide by calling co-chairmen Judy Zucker. 330-3054 or Carol Parsow, 289-3211. Beth El Women's League Boardwill meet Feb. 1,9:30 a.m. in the youth lounge. CaU Nancy Skid 334-1497 if unable to attend. Beth El Women's League will sponsor a "hands-on" training session for members interested in learning how to prepare synagogue luncheons and dinners. The program will cover menu planning, ordering food in quantity, seating arrangements, etc. For additional information call Toby Kagan, 3971037 or Darlene Golbitz, 334-7862. MAMALOSHEN Mamaloshen will present Jill Pakmanl in a concert I of Jewish,I Hebrew and} American musical show I hits at the 21 p.m. meeting J«" Pakman on Feb. 7. Admission is 75 cents and the meeting is open to the community. Ms. Pakman is a member of the Strategic Air Command Band stationed at Offutt Air Force Base and performs regularly with a component of the band called "Nightwing." After receiving her bachelor of music degree from West Virginia University, Ms. Pakman taught music in the Trenton, N.J., public schools, was a Bar/Bat Mitzvah trainer for the Trenton synagogues and was music director at the Trenton JCC summer day camp. She has performed with the Delaware Valley Orchestra and with her father at night club singing engagements.

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on plea for Soviet Jewry A apedal service ii being pUnnari at Ten4>le lerael on Feb. 5 in conjunction with the Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry and ORT Sabbath. Among the Jewish women's organizations involved with the Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry are, in addition to ORT, Hadaasah, National Council of Jewish Women, B'nai B'rith Women, NA'AMAT USA, and syna-

gogue Sisttfhooda. The organizations rotate the responsibilities of being national convener for the Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry. As this year's convener, Women's American ORT is organizing events in 33 areas of the country, including Omaha. The ORT Sabbath service at Temple Israel is open to the entire Jewish community.

UN 'would lose effort' to halt mission closing pared by Carl August Fleischauer, also finds that the PLO would not have the legal ''standing" in the World Court to bring the case to trial. The U.S. Congress ordered the mission closed by March 21 The opinion also notes that any U.N. Secretariat case before the international tribunal at The Hague would be hampered considerably by a 1947 U.S. amendment to the U.N. Headquarters Treaty granting the U.S. president sweeping powers to prevent aliens from entering the United States. The conNAMED EX>ITOR SAVANNAH, Ga. (JTA) troversy boiled over Dec. — Midge Lasky Schildkraut 22, when President Reagan has been hired to succeed reluctantly signed into law, Paul Kulick as editor of the as part of the 1988 spending Savannah Jewish News, the appropriations bill, an tabloid published 10 times amendment ordering the annually by the Savannah mission closed by March 21. Jewish Federation. The new It was co-sponsored by editor has worked in jour- Sens. Charles Grassley (Rnalism for 25 years. Kulick", lowa) and Frank Lautenwho is retiring, was editor of berg (D-N.J.), and Reps. the federation newspaper Jack Kemp (R- N.Y.) and Dan Mica (D-Fla.). since 1975.

By Howard Rosenberg WASHINGTON (JTA) The United Nations under secretary-general for legal affairs has delivered an "eyes only" opinion to Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar arguing the international body would likely fail in the World Court should it try to stop the United States from closing the Palestine Liberation Organization's U.N. mission, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has learned. A well-placed source here said that the opinion, pre-

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Israel and PLO won't negotiate, spokesmen affirm By David Friedman WASHINGTON (JTA)Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, indicated Sunday he did not believe public opinion in the United States would turn against Israel despite the nightly television pictures of Israeli troops quelling demonstrators on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "I don't know what will happen in the long run, because I think the American people have a fair view of this," Netanyahu said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation." "You've had riots in your cities, by the way, with many, many more casualties, and many countries have had the same," he said. "And what a government has to do is first resort to the means necessary to restore tranquility. Without it you simply cannot govern and you cannot negotiate peace." Netanyahu, who appeared on the CBS program following intierviews with Yasir Arafat, chief of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Hanna Seniora, editor of the East Jerusalem, pro-PLO newspaper Al Fajr, reiterated Israel's rejection of any negotiations with the PLO. He gave two reasons for this: "The PLO is the terrorist organization of our time," and it seeks the "destruction" of Israel. Netanyahu said that the PLO wants Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip in order to use the territories for "the destruction of the State of Israel and, coincidentally, Jordan." "I don't think any

government in our circumstances would negotiate with pec^le who are committed to our destruction," the ambassador stressed. "What will we negotiate about? The method of our execution?" Arafat, who was interviewed from Baghdad, refused under repeated questioning to say that he recognizes Israel's right to exist. Instead he called for a U.N.-sponsored international conference with no preconditions except "self determination for the Palestinian people." The PLO leader also rejected the idea of any interim steps in the territories, such as autonomy. However, Seniora said he sees autonomy tm an interim step "that would lead eventually, after a couple of years, to negotiations between the State of Israel and the PLO, ending in a. Palestinian state emerging as a result of those negotiations." Seniora maintained that Arafat "is talking and speaking about a political negotiated settlement. The message should be clear to the Israeli people and to thie American public that the Palestinians want peace. They don't want to destroy the State of Israel." But Netanyahu charged that Seniora takes a less conciliatory position in his newspaper in Arabic. He said that while Seniora tried "to distance himself in tone" from Arafat in his interview on American television, "in the territory, in Arabic, he toes the PLO line." Netanyahu said that the violence on the West Bank and Gaza Strip is a result of "deliberate incitation by PLO (^jeratives, by the way, includLog Mr. Seniora's own paper in Arabic." Arafat denied the contention of some analysts the protest in the territories is a result of new leadership emerging among Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip which challenges his leadership. "The Palestinian people is one.unit, inside and outside the occupied territories, one leadership and one discipline and one resistance and

struggle," he said: Seniora also said that "self-determination means that each party, each people, should be allowed to choose their own leaders." He stressed that "the Palestinians have indicated their choice," which he said "is the PLO." Netanyahu noted that "any Palestinian Arab who wants to disengage from the PLO is threatened or intimidated or, indeed, murdered."

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Cantor Leo Pettman will speak in Norfolk, Neb., on Feb. 3 at Norfolk Catholic High School Ml 'The Jewish response to evil." He will also explain confession in Judaism. On Feb. 14, Cantor Fettman will address the members of the Norfolk St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church on "Judaism and Christianity, what is the difference?" The topic for the evening program will be "Remembering the Holocaust." Cantor Fettman recently spoke at both Bellevue College and the Clarkson School of Nursing on "The Jewish view of death and dying." Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks has been appointed to the Omaha Human Relation.s Board. His term will extend through 1990. He was also designated an Honorary Member of the Planned Parenthood of Omaha-Council Bluffs Board of Directors for life, after having served two terms on the board of directors and one term on the executive boafd, for a total of six years. •

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Wave of excitement There is a wave of excitement churning throughout the Jewish conamunity of Omhha and Creighton University. We now are partners sharing a common goal—making the most effective use of an eitraordinary gift provided by Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick. That gift to Creighton in the form of an endowed Chair in Jewish Civilization is a gift also to the Jewish conmiunity of Omaha and to people of good will everywhere. Mr. Klutznick is one of those rare individuals whose lifetime of local, national, and international achievements is perhaps unparalleled among living Americans. He is a man of peace who wants the world to argue with words, not weapons. He has established the Chair in Jewish Civilization to encourage learning and understanding, and he has made it possible for what is learned at the highest levels of academia to be made available to the masses. And now the new dream for Creighton. Wouldn't it be great if Creighton could attract Chairs in Christian and Islamic Civilizations so that three major religions could work toward understanding and peace? Creighton is ready, eager and willing to assume such a unique posture, and perhaps, some day the dream might hecome reality. But, for now, Creighton already has taken a giant step toward cooperating with the Jewish community. The University hosted a dinner Monday night for many of the people who will be working together to program the Chair's direction for the community-at-large. The University's kitchen and staff were supervised by the Vaad Hakashrut of Omaha, the kitchen was kashered so that a kosher meal could be served in elegant style to the guests. Wines from Israel complimented the meal. The dinner, in itself, was an opportunity for Jews to explain and for non-Jews to understand— an admirable first step in what promises to be a long and beneficial venture. P.S. Below this story and masthead appears a dedication notice offered by the Jewish Press. You will be reading more about this new feature in future issues.

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MolBe Delman (left) older adult worker for the Bureau for the Aging's YES group, scans Ally Milder campaign literature in preparation for the candidate's appearance before the group Monday at the Jewish Conununity Center.

Ally Milder energized by visit to Russia "The Soviet Jewry issue was responsible for getting me involved with politics," Ally Milder told nearly 100 members of the Young Energetic Seniors group at the Jewish Community Center Monday. Ms. Milder, a candidate for the Republication nomination for Congress, said that she discovered what freedom really means when she accompanied Soviet Jewry chairman Shirley Goldstein to. Russia in 1976. She told the group that she prepared herself for a political career by working for Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley in Washington, serving ultimately as his chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee. She said that her ex-

perience on a wide range of the country's problems, has given her the necessary background to be a capable representative for the Second Congressional District. Ms. MUder identified U.S. relations with Israel as one of her m^jor concerns. She said her activities would be directed to "enhancing" the U.S. relationship with Israel by utilizing that nation to shore up NATO's southern flank. "It is short-sighted of us to rely solely with Greece and Turkey .. .Israel should be in partnership with other NATO allies," Ms. Milder added. She said also that she would work to protect Social, Security and improve medical care for the elderly.

By David'Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) - Electrified by the disclosure Sunday that prominent Russian-bom Israeli businessman Shabt?! Kalmanovitz was arrested last month as an alleged Soviet spy, Israelis eagerly sought more information about the man whose eventful career reportedly brought him into contact with the country's highest political and military figures. According to Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Kaunanovitz "was not the first spy for the Soviet Union caught in Israel" and may not be the last. The defense minister congratulated the security services for the arrest, which, he said, sends a message "to countries which are still in a state of war with Israel, such as Syria, Libya and other countries." Kalmanovitz, 42, who immigrated to Israel in the early 1970s, was taken into custody Dec. 23 for the 15-day period allowed under Israeli law. His detention was extended for

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Cece Zorinsky announces candidacy for Congress Cece Zorinsky officially announced her campaign for Congress Monday with appearances throughout the Second Congressional District and an evening rally with more than 1,000 supporters in Omaha. She said her campaign for the Democratic nomination can carry an important message to the people of Nebraska's Second District. This would be "a message of challenge to put our economic house in order... a message of change in direction, a return to our traditional values." She pointed out that her campaign will show that she is best able to accomplish the most for a struggling small business owner, to

help an elderly couple get their Social Security ... the question is who can do more for Nebraska in the Congress of the United States? "I believe I can, and that's why I'm nmning." Mrs. Zorinsky stressed the view that Nebraskans need to be prepared for a changing State in the 19908, and a changing America. "Sometimes that change will be subtle *, sometimes more pronounced, but we will always need confident, effective representation, the confidence to get the job done, and the effectiveness to get it done right." At the Monday night rally, Mrs. Zorinsky was introduced by former Omahan Skip Stephenson of television's "Real People."

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The Jewish Press reserves tbe right to edit letters for reason of length or content. To the Editor I appreciate the Humanitarian Award for many reasons. It allows me an opportunity to talk about Holocaust Remembrance with the people who have congratulated me and wished me well. It undergirds my responsibility to continue the efforts I've begun in the past linking Christians today with history. We all know the so^ralled "Christians" who particqwted in the well-designed death machine of the Third Reich betrayed their God, our God. Although I am abhorred by the past, I will not be confined to it. I will continue to act out my Christian discipleship by working for freedom and justke-elements essential to the Judeo Christian heritage. In freedom, God created all people to be who they are created to be. In that creation we recognize God as our substance and our essence. But we are a collective, as well and justice must be the fundamental element of our society. I believe justice is rooted in freedom. So I thank you for the honor and trust you have shared with me. I look forward to continue working together with th6 Jewish community on many projects and pledge a vigorous resistance to the prejudices and malevolences which negate freedom and justice. Rev. Elizabeth B. Beams

another 15 days by order of a Petech Tikva magistrate on Jan. 6. But Israelis knew nothing of this until Israel television reported Sunday that he had appeared in court that day. The court imposed a total blackout on the pohce investigation. The exact charges against Kalmanovitz and the circumstances of his arrest remain unknown. The news media are now delving into Kalmanovitz's varied and, in some cases, bizarre activities, which include diplomatic representation of Boputhatswana, one of the black "independent" states set up within the boundaries of the Republic of South Africa;. They are sifting through details of his relationship with Samuel Flatto-Sharon, the eccentric multimillionaire fugitive from French justice who served as a one-man Knesset faction from 1977 to 1981. During this tiine, Kahnanovitz served as his aide, a post that gave him the opportunity to mingle with Israeli poUticians of high rank. Newspapers are also tracking down former friends and associates of Kahnanovitz from an earlier time when he was employed by Israel's Labor Party. Former Labor Knesset members remember him well. Although he held a junior position in the party, he apparently had easy access to Premier Golda Meir; her close aide, Yisrael Galili; former Foreign Minister Yigal Alon; and other ranking government figures during the early 19708. According to Mathilda Ghez, a retired Knesset member who once headed the Labor Party's immigrant and absorption section, Kalmanovitz was introduced to the top leaders by the late Benny Maharshak, a party veteran. Kahnanovitz "was a 'ben-bayit' (constant and intimate guest) of everyone," she said. "I really liked him a lot. He was such a warm fellow and such a good organizer," Ghez told reporters. "He used to say his father had been imprisoned by the Soviets. He would boil with anger when he recalled that story." , Kahnanovitz is suspected of being a Soviet plant or "sleeper," the Israeli news media reported Monday, citing uimamed security sources. In the parlance of the spy world, a "sleeper" is an espionage agent who integrates himself into the political and social world of a target country and leads a model life for years until being "activated" by his handlers in a foreign capital. Al Hamishmar's military correspondent, Avi Benayahu, also suggested that Kalmanovitz may have been planted in Israel by the Soviets, who planned his integration into Israel society "down to the last detail."

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Two days of informal and fonnal inaugnration activities marlied the official beginning of tlie PUIip M. and Etiiel Klutznick Cliair in Jewisli Civilization at Creighton University. The fonnal ceremony on Monday took place at Creighton and, upper left, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Klutznick join with the deans, professors, students, and the public in observing the presentation of the Chair Medallion to Dr. Menachem Mor by Creighton President Michael G. Morrison, S.J. and the address by Dr. Mor. At a reception later, Mr.

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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, 5:25 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Weekdays: 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. LUNCH AND LEARN Lunch and Learn with the rabbi will continue Feb. 4, noon at Beth El. KALLAH WEEKEND Judge Jerome Hornblass, Kallah Weekend speaker, will be at Beth El Synagogue on Saturday, 8 p.m. telling tales from Jewish law and folklore. WOMEN'S LEAGUE Women's League Donor Luncheon will take place Febb. 9,12:30 p.m. Zoobs and The Daisy will present a fashion show. Reservations may be made with co-chairmen Judy Zucker or Carol Parsow.

SERVICES: Friday: Kabbalat Shabbat, 5:15 p.m. Late family service, 8 p.m. Judge Jerome Hornblass, \he community scholar-in-residence this weekend, will give the first of three presentations. His topic will be "An encounter between the Talmud and the American Constitution." ' An Oneg Shabbat will follow the service. Satturday: Morning service, 8:45 a.m. • The kiddush following the service will be sponsored by Mrs. Albert Newman in memory of Meyer Wolfe Tatle. Class with the rabbi, 4:30 p.m. Mincha, 5:15 p.m., followed by Shalosh.S'eudos, Ma-ariv and Havdalah. Sunday: Morning Minyanaire service, 9 a.m. The weekly breakfast and "Exploring Jewish Ideas" with the rabbi will be canceled to enable everyone to attend the presentation by Judge Homblass at Temple Israel at 10 a.m. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. SISTERHOOD BOARD The Beth Israel Sisterhood Board will meet on Feb. 2,9:30 a.m. in the Social HaU. CONCERT A concert by Sherwood Coffin will be presented on Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Coffin is one of America's foremost artists in the world of popular Jewish music and has performed across the United States and Canada. Tickets will be available at the synagogue office or at the door.

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By Bonnie Pawloski and Ruth Potash This week the Omaha Conunittee for Soviet Jewry suggests that Omahans write to Semion Chudnovsky, a 38-year-old refuseI wish to thank all my nik in Vinnitsa. He was thoughtful friends who trained to be a metallurgist. so kindly made donaFor nearly five years he has tions for my recovery, been trying to emigrate to Major financial institution Is planning sent rae their good Israel in order to be reimited to add representatives to specialize in wishes, and visited me with his aunt. eittier Ijusiness or personal financial during my recent hosAuthorities have denied planning Individual selected will receive 3 years' formal traininQ administered by pitalization. Sincerely, him permission on the a professional management staff; '" grounds of insufficient kinEli Bittner availability of a complete financial proship. His case exemplifies ducts portfolio; fringe benefits and inThe family of Ann Lehcome between $30,000 and $50,000 how the Soviets have disman wishes to express during training, and unlimited ttiereafter. torted the spirit and subtheir gratitude and apApplicant should have background in stance of .the Helsinki Acbusiness or sales and be a higtr adiiever. preciation to Rabbi Applicants must also possess excellent cord of 1975. Whereas the Nadoff, Canor Fettcommunicatioii skills and intelligence to original intent was to affirm man, the Beth Israel learn and apply complex kteas and con . the basic right of emigration cepts dealing witti taxes, investments staff and all our faniily as well as expedite family rereal estate and insurance. Submit con and friends for their (idential resume or kitter to: unions, the Soviets quickly wonderful contribuFINANCIAL PLANNER started to interpret the Actions, cards and caring 11506 Nicholu cord as allowing reunificaduring our loss. Omaha, Nab. 68154 tion in the cases only of first degree relatives—parents, children, brothers and sisters. His aunt wrote from Israel saying she and her The Jewish Press is seeking bids for cousin (Semion's mother computer equipment as follows: (Please who died in 1955 at the age list individual prices and total one-source of 34) were the only mempackage price as weL) bers of their family to sur* AT compatible computer with two 5V*" flopvive the Holocaust. pies (one may be external) and a 20-Meg hard disk Interested Omahans may along with 640K RAM and a monochrome moniwrite to Mr. Chudnovsky, at tor. Computer should be comparable to Zenith Vinnitsa, Ukrainian SSR, Z-248. Our purchase may consist of up to three USSR. units. * One external 1200 baud modem for above Circumcision By computer j ,, , i. •.One dot matrix pruiter and cable for above computer n noio bnyti * One Macintosh SE computer with 20-Meg EXPERT MOHEL hard drive * One Macintosh compatible laser printer (need Certified by Supervisor of ^H^W'a o>>nmn >y not be Postscript driven) Governmental Commission in * Additional monitor (full page display) for Charge of Mohelim of Israel Macintosh * SrviBg Uinn—ola and •mrounding ilal— Also, please provide additional charges, if anv, for delivery, installation, one-year warranty and local service. We are requesting delivery in February. Forinfor1962 8AUNDEH8 AVE. ST. PAUl. MN 55118 (812) 899-2347 tai^n, caU Morris Maline at 334-8200, ext. 239.

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Parashat B'Shallah, Shabbat Shirah A plea to composerH The great poem in our Sidrah, offering thanks and praise to God for the triumph at the Sea of Reeds, gives the name Shabbat Shirah (Sabbath of Song) to this week's Parashah. 1 turn to the subject of synagogue melodies. Within the next one or two decades—no more!—there ought to be a full-scale revamping of the melodies we use for prayers in our services. I do not mean traditional chants. 1 mean the additional melodies and tunes that individual cantors and other composers have set to some of our prayers. Very many of them are totally unsuitable. Here is a prayer that reads, in translation: "We declare Your greatness. Lord, through all generations, hallow Your holiness to all eternity." It affirms our acceptance of the majesty of God. Should it be sung to "Row.row, row your boat," or some similar ditty? But that is precisely what we have in a frequently heard "I'dor, vador, I'dor vador, I'dor vador, I'dor vador..." Here is another: "He spread out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. His glorious abode is in the highest heaven, His mighty dominion in the loftiest heights..." Can this, should this be sung to a frivolous ditty? Yet in synagogues of all stripes, throughout the country, we hear the familiar "Sheh-Hu noteh shamayim v'yosed aretz, u-moshav y'karo..." Should we permit the melody and the rhythm to trivialize the prayer? Should we not insist that the music reflect the grandeur and majesty of the text of the prayer? Now, in the second place, quite aside from the inappropriate melodies and SIR SPEEDY PBINnNQ CENTER!

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By Bert Lewis By Mike Silverman How long has it been since you and I had a discussion about the things that happen to a car? Seems like ages to me—but I have a hunch we're going to catch up. The extreme cold seems to affect my little Japanese darling. I don't know why, but I have the feeling she'd rather live in Palm Springs or some place like that. For one thing, her tires seem to want to rid themselves of some of the air they carry. Don't ask me why the cold does that, but I'm sure there's a direct connection. Well, besides that, it was one of those five below mornings (with a wind chill of 25 below) when I was minding my own business, driving along on my way to keep an appointment. Everything seemed fine—the heater was keeping my feet plenty cozy and I even had my gloves off, it was so warm inside. Suddenly, I began to hear a funny sound. Kind of a flop, flop, flop like you hear when there's a helicopter directly overhead. Only it wasn't a helicopter. It was that godawful noise a tire makes when it's flat and being driven on. Now I thought about it a few seconds. Should I do the normal, intelligent thing and stop? Then I have to get out of the car and try to find somebody to answer the door and let'me call Triple A or someone. But will anybody let me in? And how far will I have to go before they do? And how long do I want to be out in that cold anyway? Well, the answers to all of those questions seem obvious, especially the last one. I don't want to be out at all, in which case what do I do? 1 realized I was going to do something which was both sensible and awful. And I did. I drove on that lousy thing until I got to the first service station around. 1 pulled in and suffered the kind of embarrassment one suffers when gas jockeys take one look and shake their heads. I advised the guys I already knew I had made spaghetti out of my tire and furthermore I didn't care and never mind all that, could they put my spare on? I also advised them I required no comments, just tire changing. I must have snarled, because in the time it took for me to call my appointment and say I'd be late, the tire was changed and I was back in business. Then I dreaded what I'd tell my roommate about driving eight blocks on a flat tire. As it turned out, I didn't need to worry. First of all, that's not the kind of thing he gets excited about. Secondly, it was the same day he connected with a brick wall and lost by a nose, so he really didn't care too much. His comment was, "Isn't that the same tire that was losing air?. Well, it's not going to lose any more!" I don't know what happened to it. I presume someone gave it a decent burial. I only know I have a new tire and tend to practically take the temperature of all four every day before I drive any place. The entire experience has made me very paranoid. What it's done to the car I don't know, but I can hardly wait for warm weather.

Eligible athletes to compete for Maccabi Games selection Sandra Kohll, Omaha Jewish Community Center chairman of the North American Maccabi Youth ' Games Committee, has announced the Omaha Jewish teenage athletes who are eligible to participate in the Aug. 18-25 games in Chicago.

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Plans for final trial dates and procedures will be announced, Mrs. Kohll said. Other Jewish athletes interested in participating may contact Chuck Arnold, 334-8200, Ext. 222. The games are expected to involve 10,000 people, Mrs. Kohll. said, including Chicago volunteers, local bousing families and the 3,000 young athletes from the United States and Canada. In addition to the athletic events, a full schedule of social, cultural and commimity events is being organized for the week of the games, climaxed on the closing day with a run in honor of the 11 Israeli athletes slain in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Serving with Mrs. Kohll on the Maccabi Games cominittee are: Budget and finance—Don Yale, Justin Kohll, Andy Robinson, John Lehr, Dick Zacharia and Steve Skid; Eligibility and trials-Tom Law, Chuck Arnold, Toma Ovici, Justin Kohll, Jim Fuxa, Roy Katskee; Publicity-Mark Trustin, Sandy Lehr, Julee Katzman; Artistic—Terri Zacharia, Nancy Skid, Marilyn Ginsburg, Lynn Rubin, GaU Kohll.

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A leaf from a 600-year-old Mahzor (traditional Jewish prayer-book), one of 56 manoscripts that make np "A Visual Testimony: Judaica from the Vatican Library." The historic exhibition, just opened at the Center for the Fine Arts here, is made up of illuminated and richly decorated Jewish manuscripts from the Vatican Library's collection. Never publicly shown before, the Judaica exhibition will travel to major U.S. cities over the next two years.. The materials were brought to the United States by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, central body of Reform Judaism in the U.S. and Canada, as part of its program to foster positive Catholic-Jewish relations.

Project Renewal expands to aid Israeli cities, Arabs By Marlene Goldman NEW YORK (JTA) The services designed to further Jewish Federations of Los neighborhood integration. In addition, Tel Aviv has Angeles and New York have embarked on projects to approved 2 million shekels help fund and design the im- ($1.3 million) for the conprovement of Israeli munic- struction and renovation of ipalities with significant roads, sidewalks, utilities, parks and housing. Lay Arab populations. These plans by the two leaders of the federation arlargest federations are the gued for the project by first within Project Renew- stressing that Arabs were al—the diaspora-Israeli Israeli citizens and by pointpartnership that has im- ing out the opportunity to proved 86 poor neighbor- move "a tangible step" tohoods within Israel—to tar- ward positive Arab-Jewish get areas with thousands of co-existence, according to Arabs. The plans also com- Saul Andron, director of mence the second phase of operations of special projProject Renewal, according ects for the Los Angeles fedto Barry Judehnan, United eration. Early press reports Jewish Appeal national director of Project Renewal. sparked sporadic letters In this second phase, Is- criticizing support of a comraeli municipalities enter as munity with a large Arab partners with the twinning minority population, but diaspora community, creat- Andron noted that "since ing urban renewal, rather they are citizens like anyone than the neighborhood else, they should be eligible renewal of phase one. Only to benefit." A similar project was unNew York and Los Angeles so far have finished phase dertaken in June by the one and can afford the sec- UJA-Federation of New York. It approved a $15 milond phase. The Jewish Federation lion campaign to improve Council of Los Angeles has the Israel municipalities recently approved its $10 Lod and Ramie, where million project for the about 16,000 of the 80,000 southern Tel Aviv area inhabitants are Arab. Upgrading education, soknown as Ajami-Lev Yafo. Ajami is predominantly cial services and job placeArab and Lev Yafo is ment for both Jews and mixed, but Arabs comprise Arabs is planned, according about 40 percent of the to Bobi Klotz, chairperson 12,500 residents of the area. of the Lod-Ramle project. The program hopes to Explaining the rationale for fund two conununity educa- the program, she noted that tion centers, one each in the helping only the Jewish resiArab and Jewish sections, dents' standard of living educational scholarships, would not change the comcommunity centers, cultural plexion of the towns and facilities and development would not encourage the of a system of conununity Jews to stay.

Editor's Note: Mike Silverman is a member of the Jewish Press Journalism Club which is open to all Jewish teenagers in grades 9-12. The other night I was thinking, while watching television, that January must be one of the worst television months. Half the shows are repeats, the specials are dull, most of the movies are reruns and, by this time in the month, all of January's cable movies are growing old. Sherri Zucker has found the solution to all of this. She says she "really doesn't watch TV—because 1 can find better things to do with my time than stare at a TV set." Sooaetimes I really don't blame her. One thing that is kind of irritating about TV is how they blow everything out of proportion. Remember Al Capone's vault with Geraldo Rivera? The network made it sound like it was going to find a million dollars, jewels, and "Something Wonderful." All that was found after blowing the safe open with dynamite was an empty beer bottle. Another example of TV exaggerations is during Super Bowl week. The sportscasters make it sound like it will be The Game of the Century and it ends up being a 30-point rout. Staying on TV's downside, Chad Polikov told me his least favorite show is . "Alf" because "it's stupid." . Sherri used the same idea in describing "Dallas." I think the dumbest show is "The Charmings" (try to watch it without gagging). I 'm also getting rather tired of the Cosby show, but that's okay. Among the better shows is "Family Ties," according to Chad. He likes it "cause Michael J. Fox is pretty funny."

My favorite shows are "MacOyver, " "Perfect Strangers" and "Night Court " 1 like "MacGyver " because of the adventure and 1 think the other two ar^ pretty funny. Since I like sports so much, I watch a lot of televised sporting events and sometimes the announcers really are exasperating. They'll be babbling about some dumb story concerning a quarterback's wife's uncle's son while a big fight is going on, or, in baseball, they'll show an instant r^lay of a bad call ten times instead of showing the man- . ager erupting at the umpire. Or how about being forced to read lips during a player's interview because, dear oh dear, we might hear a bad word. Then there are the commercials. You have to watch them unless you like PBS and you can't even escape them on cable. The really irksome corunercials are for cars. You might be watching a quiet movie and suddwly Bonzai Bob's used car conunercial comes on, blaring 20 times louder than the movie. Then there are the commercials showing how good the car handles at high speeds as it twists between groups of scientists. At the bottom of the screen it says, "Don't do this" (as if this is what you were planning to do with your new carl). What about the commercials that describe the ultimate luxury found in a Yugo car, when no one on earth buys a Yugo for luxury. WeU, that's it! I have to go watch my nightly dose of TV and also think about a subject for my next column. In my last column, the last sentence should have read, "It really was a fun trip, but best of all it wasn't 30 below in CaUfomia."

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By Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK - A recently published survey of the leaders of Reform Jewry has some good news and some bad news for the movement. The study finds that the leaders are more religiously committed than their parents are. But among the troubling questions posed by the survey is; Will those leaders be able to transfer that commitment to the next generation? According to the study, conducted by the Research Task Force on the Future of Reform Judaism and released last month, Reform congregational leaders are more committed than their parents to Jewish study and practice in nearly every category—from attending synagogue to lighting .Shabbat candles to attending adult education classes— with the exception of keeping kosher. Yet, Reform officials are concerned that the study finds the leaders are socializing with too few Jews and do not feel sufficient concern about their children dating non-Jews. Although a majority of the 2,000 leaders surveyed said they opposed intermarriage, 83 percent answered that they either permitted, did not forbid, or expressed no opposition to interdating. Only four percent of the respondents said they do not permit their children to date non-Jews. In addition, the leaders were split nearly evenly, 46 percent con and 45 percent pro, on whether a rabbi shoiild officiate at a mixed marriage. "The trend seems to be a welcome involvement in synagogue life and observance. But there is a lack of real concern about interdating and a tendency not to see intermarriage as a real threat to Jewish survival," said Rabbi Sanford Seltzer, the director of research of the Union of American Hebrew Cengregations, the Reform congregational organization, and a co-author of the study. Those surveyed were all delegates to the UAHC's 1985 biennial convention. The study, "Leaders of Reform Judaism: A Study of Jewish Identity, Religious Practices and Beliefs, and Marriage Patterns," was the initial project of the Research Task Force. Leaders of the UAHC, the Central Conference of, American Rabbis, and the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion established the task force in 1984 to study intermarriage. The respondents ranged in age from 21 to 60 and older. Sixty percent were female, 40 percent were male. Chosen by congregations or Sisterhoods to represent them at the convention, they are not representative of the rank and file of the Reform movement, according to Rabbi Mark Winer, senior rabbi of the Jewish Community Center of White Plains. N.Y., and director of the Research Task Force. Among the findings: Eighty-three percent of the respondents attended synagogue services at least once a month, more than double the frequency of attendance of their parents. A majority attended Jewish adult education classes or lectures at least several times a year and attended meetings of,or performed organizational functions for, their synagogues at least once a month. Asked to evaluate their own and their children's Jewish activities, the survey participants cited experiences in Israel as the most important, positive element in Jewish education. Jewish summer camp and youth group membership were second and third, ahead of supplementary religious school. Lay leaders were split 46 percent in favor and 45 percent against on the statement "a rabbi should officiate only if the prospective bride and groom are both Jewish (either by birth or conversion)." Meanwhile, rabbis, cantors and religious professionals, who were removed from the research population for the question, opposed rabbinic officiation in mixed marriages by three to one. Almost one-third of the married children of the respondents in the survey were married to non-Jews. That figure represents a ten-fold increase in the rate of intermarriage

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in a single generation, based on a comparison with findings in an earlier, more limited study 20 years ago. Thirty-five percent of intermarried leaders and roughly 48 percent each of converts and their Jewish-born spouses say that either "all" or "almost all " of their best friends are Jews, compared to 71 percent of the in-married. The evidence indicates that "the Jewish identity of converts to Judaism is far less associational than that of bom Jews," and the trend among leaders is toward "an individualistic and non-associational Jewish identity in the future," said the study. Reform officials were variously reassured and shocked hy the findings on the leaders' religious commitment. Rabbi Alexander Schindler. president of the UAHC, said the changes were reflected at the most recent UAHC biennial, held Oct. 26-Nov. 3 in Chicago. There, said Schindler, delegates flocked to religious services and workshops on Torah study, prayer and spirituality, "I think people hav# a hunger for the holy, " explained Schindler. "There is not fhe eventual demise of the American Jewish community as predicted. Quite the contrary. The core is heating up and radiating in ever widening circles." Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, also spoke of "a real stirring in terms of commitment, emotion and religious lifestyle." but said he was not surprised by the leaders' comparative leniency on intermarriage. "The intermarriage phenomenon is splitting the Jewish world," said Gottschalk. "The dilemma is attraction or repulsion. By repulsing the couple, possibly you stop them from marrydng in the first place. Or by welcoming the couple, you have at least entertained the possibility that the non-Jewish partner will convert." . Gottschalk said the study indicates a need for what he calls "midway houses," or efforts made by a congregation to integrate an inter-married couple into synagogue life. The study also indicated, he said, that there is a tendency in second marriages for born Jews to marry non-Jews. He called for intense singles programming to "help those remarrying find mates." Another area of concern shared by a number of officials interviewed was the decline in so-called "associational" ties between Jews. Said study co-author Seltzer; "It's great to attend synagogue, light candles. It's wonderful. But to do that and not number many Jewish friends, not live in neighborhoods with other Jews, and become only minimally involved in Jewish communal issues, sends dangerous signals. It puts a face on the Jewish community that is quite questionable." ' Said Gottschalk: "We have never been able to substitute fh^tism for peoplehood. That is not a Jewish response." With data from the "Leaders of Reform Judaismi".in hand, the Reform movement will create new approaches and progTEuns. For instance, said Seltzer, findings on the importance of Israel and camping as educational experiences will encourage educators to devise programs that are more experiential than intellectual. But those involved in the study warn that it is no substitute for a.comprehensive national study of Reform Jews. Winer and Seltzer say such a study is in the planiung stages. Still, said Seltzer, the present study represents "the most honest attempt to canvas any group of Jews and ask them these kinds of questions."

Move afoot to establish moderate Orttiodox party JERUSALEM (JTA) Foreign Minister Shimon Peres is encouraging the establishment of a. new, moderate religious party to enter the 1988 Knesset elections and, if successful, join in coalition with Labor. Two Orthodox Knesset meihbers of the Labor Party, Rabbi Menachem HaCohen and Aharon Nahmias, have already announced plans to form such a party. But Peres hopes to induce other prominent Orthodox figures to join them and possibly lead the new faction, because HaCohen and Nahmias are not considered NEW DIRECTOR NEW YORK (JTA)-Tehila Elpem of New York has been appointed executive director of Na'amat USA, succeeding the retiring Shoshonna Ebstein of New York. Elpem has served as etecutive director of Women's American ORT-New York State.

to have sufficient influence alone to woo religious moderates from other parties. So far the search has not been successful. HaCohen is a former military chaplain and aide to former Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren. He has served several terms in the Knesset and is chief rabbi of the moshav movement. Nahmias is a former mayor of Safed. Their plans were welcomed by the ultra-Orthodox politicians of the Shas and Agudat Yisrael parties in the belief that the National Religious Party would be further weakened. The NRP, which has veered further toward the right since the retirement of its veteran leader, Yosef Burg, still attracts religious moderates. Shas and the Aguda believe the projected new faction would attract the moderates away from the: NRP, without affecting their own constituencies.

Rome's chief rabbi calls on pope to condemn anti-Semitism By Ruth E. Gniber ROME (JTA) - The chief rabbi of Rome. Elio Toaff, has critici:»d Pope John Paul 11 for failing to apeak out against anti-Semitism at a time when anti-Semitic threats, graffiti and, in a few cases, violence are spreading here and in other major Italian cities. Toaff, whose remarks appeared in the newspaper La Repubblica, also lashed out against the Italian news media for their coverage of Israeli soldiers battling Palestinian rioters in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He claimed it was biased against Israel end largely responsible for inflaming anti-Semitic passions in Italy in recent weeks. Toaff said he himself has received hate mail. "We hoped that the pope would have said a word to restore peace and justice, but it didn't happen," the chief rabbi said. A resurgence of anti-Jewish sentiment has alarmed the Jewish community. Graffiti have appeared in Rome, Milan and Bologna with such slogans as "Israelis kill Palestinians—Jews will pay"or "Dirty Jew, we will kick you out." Five youths were arrested last week for putting up posters here reading "Zionist assassins free Palestine." They admitted membership in the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. Earlier in the week, three Jews trying to remove swastikas spray-painted on the entrance to their stores were jostled by youngsters who spit at them and shouted "filthy assassins." Police are now guarding synagogues, Jewish schools and the Israeli Embassy here and have stepped up vigilance at the borders to prevent the entry of suspected anti-Israel terrorists. Toaff said the hate mail he has received since the disturbances began in the Israeli-occupied territories last month "all have the same motif. They say we (Jews) are coresponsible for what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and for this they will kill us and send us to extermination camps." According to Toaff, this crude anti-Semitism is a direct outcome of media coverage of clashes in the administered territories. He charged that the news was presented in "inappropriate, ideological, preconceived language." Specifically, he said, "I saw with my own eyes television reports based day after day on the sane pictures, the most bloody ones. However, I saw no mention of deaths on the Israeli side, not even that 30-year-old woman with a 4-yearold child, who died in her car because of a Molotov cocktail." He was referring to an Israeli woman from Alfei Menashe in the West Bank who was burned to death with her child when the family car was fire-bombed last spring. ELECTED CHAIRMAN to Jewish prisoners and WASHINGTON (JTA) Martin Hochberg of Michi- their families. He succeeds Rick Ross of Phoenix as gan City, Ind., has been leader of the organization elected chairman of the In- founded in 1986 at the first ternational Coalition for National Conference on Jewish Prisoner Services, Service to Jews in Prisons, which coordinates and aids convened by B'nai B'rith Inpeople providing assistance ternational.

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Dukakis interview (Continued from Page I) Mrs. Dukakis said that it wasn't until she visited Israel in 1976 that she "rediscovered" her Jewish heritage. She has since been active in Hadassah, the Presidential Holocaust Commission, the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, and a variety of groups supportive of Israel and human rights. For the past 20 years, the Dukakis' have celebrated Passover with the same three families, and, according to Mrs. Dukakis, the tradition will continue in the White House when and if she becomes the first Jewish first lady in the history of the United States.

Wolf Prize JERUSALEM (JTA) Professor Roger Penrose of Oxford and Professor Stephen Hawking of Cambridge have been awarded this year's Wolf Prize for Physics, for their work in the fields of relativity and cosmology. The two British Scientists, both world ftunous physicists, will share the $100,000 award for their "brilliant development of the theory of general relativity, in which they have, shown the necessity for cosmological singularities" and "have elucidated the physics of black holes." The Wolf Foundation makes six annual awards for the sciences and the arts. This year, for the first time, Israeli scientists won the Wolf Prize for Chemistry.

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Canadian government under fire for admitting Palestinian terrorist By Michael So|omon January 1987 and now lives MONTREAL (JTA) - with his wife and three chilThe Canadian government dren in Brantford, Ontario, faces potentially embarrassIssa Muhammad was coning questions in Parliament this week on why a con- victed in Greece for the 1968 victed Palestinian terrorist, bombing of an Israeli airwhose background allegedly liner at Athens airport, in was known to the authori- which one man was killed. ties, managed to enter In 1970, a Greek court senCanada on an immigrant tenced him to 17 years and visa a year ago and was five months in prispn for given permanent resident manslaughter, arson, illegal possession of firearms and status. According to a report in explosives, and obstructing the Toronto Globe and Mail, air navigation. But he was Mahmoud Muhammad Issa released a year later in a Muhammad, 46, received hostage exchange and the visa from the Canadian deported to Lebanon. The Globe and Mail said Consulate in Madrid in

War criminial Artukovic dies in Yugoslav prison By Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) Aiidrija Artukovic, the former Croatian interior minister convicted of murdering 700,000 Jews, Croats, Serbs and Gypsies during World. War II, died Saturday in a prison hospital in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. Artukovic, 89, was deported there from the United States two years ago, after a 36-year battle with U.S. and Yugoslav authorities. The Yugoslavian news agency Tanjug said Artukovic died of "an illness," but did not elaborate. Artukovic was already in frail health in 1986, when U.S. marshalls spirited him from his home in Seal Beach, Calif,, to stand trial in Yugoslavia for war crimes that earned him the nicknames "Butcher of the Balkans" and "Hinunler of Croatia." Heinrich Hinunler headed Germany's Gestapo and SS extermination units during World War II. The Yugoslav court sentenced Artukovic to the firing squad, but the sentence had been postponed indefinitely because of hjs poor health. Artukovic was

the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States following the establishment of the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations in 1979. As a high-ranking official of the fascist Ustashi regime, established as a Nazi puppet state between 1941 to 1945, Artukovic was responsible for the operation of the concentration camps in Croatia. APPOINTED MONTREAL (JTA) Yechiel Glustein has been appointed director of the Quebec Region of B'nai B'rith Canada. He will continue part-time as director of education and youth at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Westmount, Quebec. FREE STUDY NEW YORK (JTA) Wayne Stoker, a dairy farmer from Munrisville in upstate New York, has begun one month of free agricultural study provided by the Vokani C«B»ter in Bet Dagan, Israel, near Tel Aviv,

it has documents which show that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's screening system failed to identify Issa Muhammad as a member of the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine when he applied for his visa in Madrid. By the time his identity was confirmed, he was aboard a plane bound for Canada. Although immigration officials in Canada were alerted by the Canadian Embassy in Madrid to intercept him when he landed in BAR/BAT MITZVAHS CONFIRMATION GRADUATION BDtTHDATS REUNIONS

Toronto, Issa Muhammad managed to slip through, the Globe and Mail said. According to the documents the newspaper says it has in its possession, government officials fear that if Issa Muhammad is deported to an "unfriendly country," paiticularly Israel, "Palestinian terrorists may be tempted to take Canadian hostages abroad." If he is deported to an Arab country, the Israelis might try to seize or assassinate him, the documents say.

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