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Search Committee appointed for new executive director

p uonaioYale has been appointed to head a Search Committee for a new executive director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, according to Saranne Gitnick, president. ' Chosen by the Executive Committee'of the Feueration Board to serve with Mr. Vale are: Harvey Cooper, Mary Fellman, Carl Greenberg, Howard Kaslow, Joe Kirshenbaum, Don Klein, Say Lerner, Bert Lewis, [urray Newman, Marvin j^ftlikov and Mort Trachtenfciarg. '" "Steven Rod's recent tfesignation to.assume a new position with th^ Jewish

Donald Yale Welfare Board, the national association of Jewish Community Centers, leaves us with a very important place to fill," said Mr«. Gitnick. She explained that the Search Committee was

"carefully chosen to help in the very sensitive process of finding the right person. "We have people with campaign involvement. Federation leadership, personnel professionals, agency connections—in general a cross-section of people who have demonstrated a deep understanding and caring attitude in Federation work. "In addition," Mrs. Gitnick continued, "We have invited the director of personnel service at the Council of Jewish Federations to meet with us next week. We expect his expertise to provide us with guidance in setting up some parameters."

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Basketball commissioner to speak at stag April 13 David J. Stem, commissioner of the National Basketball Association, will speak at the 34th annual B'nai B'rith Charity Stag, April 13 at the Peony Park ballroom. Mr. Stern became the fourth NBA t»mmissioner in 1984, succeeding Larry O'Brien. He will discuss the world of professional sports. Mr. Stem graduated with honors frOm Rutgers University in 1963 and Columbia Law School in 1966. He then joined the law firm of Proskauer, Rose Goetz and Mendelsohn which represents the NBA. There he worked on a number of

and, in 1980, he became the executive vice president of legal and business affairs.

David J. Siwa NBA assignments including the Oscar Robertson AntiTrust Litigation Case. In 1978, Mr. Stem became the first general consul representing the NBA

Mr. Stem is a member of the board of trustees of Beth Israel Medical Center and chairman of the Eumual fund for the Rutgers University Foundation. He is also a member of the board of directors of TARGET, an anti-drug awareness program of the National Federation of State High School Associations. The maMer of ceremonies for the stag will again be Dave Blackwell, sports director at KLUB radio in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Chattanooga rabbi says lecture by Eban not kosher for Pesach ly Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) - A iReform synagogue's scheduling of a lecture by Israeli Knesset member Abba Eban, traditionally a popular draw on the Jewish lecture circuit, has angered pK>me members of the Chatttanooga. Term., Jewish community. But according to Orthodox Rabbi Michael Katz, the beef is not with the content of Eban's message, but the timing. Eban is scheduled to speak Thursday, ^pril 7, which is the seventh bight of Passover and thus fraditionally a "yontiff," or boly day. Rabbi Ken Kanter of the pah Congrejfation, the ure's sponsor, explained a telephone interview

that he would have preferred a different date but that April 7 was all that Eban's. representatives offered. "It was a choice between that night and not having hiid at all and ^ chose to have bim/' said Kanter. The lecture will be held in an auditorium at the University of Tennessee. According to Kanter, the auditorium can accommodate more people than Mizpah's 500-8eat sanctuary and the university will contribute a "substantial portion" of Eban's $11,000 lecture fee. But Katz, rabbi of Beth Sholom Congregation, said scheduling the former for- . eign minister on the holiday "turns wkat should have

been a statement of solidarity"—a speech by an Israeli leader—"into a demonstration of divisiveness." In letters he wrote to Kanter, the university, the Chattanooga Jewish Federation and three Israeli politicians, including Miniater of Religious Affairs Zevulun Hammer, Katt argues that Eban's apjjearanceat-^he university conflicts wiih Passover celebrations. He is calling on Chattanooga's Jews to boycott the lS:ture. "They (Mizpah) have the right to do something outrageous and I have a right to say something about it," Katz explained in a telephone interview. An original co-sponsor of the event, the Jewish Community Center of Chat-

tanooga, withdrew when, according to director Tom Neuman, it realized the event was scheduled on a holiday. ^ Approximately 2,000 Jews live in Chattanooga. F«ity familiea belong to Beth Sholom, 300 to Mizpah and 350 to B'nai Zion Synagogue, the Conservative synagbgue.

Rabbi Richard Schuhnan of B'nai Zion Synagogue said he will not discourage C(B>greganta from attending the Eban lecture, but would not Dublicize it or encourage attendance ^ther. Katz said he would not have urged a boycott had Mizpah planned to hold the

event in its own synagog But Mizpah's decision to ( public with the event fleets pciorly on the commiK^ nity." "Why else is Eban available on that night?" he aaked. "Because no other Jewish cgnummity would schedule him.

SCHOOL DEDICAtED CHAPLAIN HONORED JERUSALEM (JTA) BOSTON (JTA) - Rabbi According to Robert Alvin Liieberman, staff The first ORT junior high Siakiifi president of the chaplain of the Boston Vet- school in Jerusalem, the Chattanooga Jewish Feder- erans Administration Med- Beverly Minkoff Junior ation, there have been a few ical Center, has been named High School, was dedicated complaints about the lec- Chaplain of the Year by the last week by Women's ture but the federation U.S. Reserve Officers As- American ORT. The late planned no action. "If a Re- sociation. He has served for Minkoff was president of forin temple doesn't cele- the past four years as staff the CH-ganization. The school brate the holiday as strictly, chaplain of the 94th U.S. offers an experimental proit's up to them and not the Army Reserve Command at gram in advanced science federation's business," he Hanscom Air Force Base . and technology and has become a showcase school in near Boston. said. the ORT network.

'Jews are less religious than Protestants and Catholics' . By Gary A. ToUn, director Cohen Center for Modern Jewiah Stadlea BrwidcbUi Jews have become more and mor (like other Americans. float Jews dress like their fellow i leiicaoB, eat the same oods, live in the same neigHborh They go to the same chools and work in the same ofi Jews have also a(ioptk(j)e<rof the habits, both good nd bad, of the general society. A few differeocea remain. 0W8 vote differently, leaning mere to the Democrats, while thar white, milldlar«Uss Amsricans lean more toward Reublicans. Jews are more likely to be in white collar jobs ban other Americans. Jews have fewer children. Jews are also dlftarant in one area that ia iranicaily strikDg: Jews are much less raliglouB than Proteotante and Catholics. While other Americans are devetoptog stronger lee with orgu^izad Religion and religious beliefs, Jews sre reakhig their bonde. I The Qallup Organiwitlon has just rehaaed a msjor r*prt mtitled IM«loa in AiMrica. The study is mainly ^t Protestant* «d Catholics, but also includes a small ample of Jews. The religious profilt of Jews, espodal^ in botrast to Proteetanta and Catholica, is pretty grim. Siity^m* peromt a( Proteatanto aagr that reUflon is veiy imartant in their Uvee. as do 52 panapt of Citlwiies, hut ^ aOpsrcMit of Jews. At UM other Did of the spectrum

as a group are drifting further away from their religion. No matter which way you looit, at it, a greater propor' tion of Jews are less'formally religious tbian Protestants and Catliolics. The Gallup poll shows that 72 percent of Protestants and 81 percent of Catholics hekmg to a church, comparM to 44 percent of Jews belonging to a temple or synagogue. The evidence from Jewish population studies around thecountry point to a great deal of exaggeration in Jews reporting their synagogue membership. If tliey go to services on the High Holy Dsys, or used to hekmg to a synagogue, or their piurenta beleagi people often s«x tliat they have a current membership. In fact, while Che 44 percent figure that the GaUup poll reports is very low, it may be really as low aa 33 percent or laea. While Jewa belong at far lees than half the rate of ProteetanU and CathoUcs, UM^ also sttend at about half tht rate. While 41 percent of the ProteetanU and 40 paroent of Catholics sttend church in a typical weak, the numher drops to 20 percent for Jews, Gallup ahows dafinitive^ that -the Jewiah level of rsUgioua involvement on the whole is vastly leee than Christian Americans.. Leee formal raUgioua behavior ia accompanied by low levels of ritual obaervance hi the home, little knowledge of Judaiam, and km lavela of vohmtsariam for Jewieh organizations. In a more aaaimilated SQda^, Jswe cannot remain through the oamoaie of naighhortiood, fHendfhinaqd family connactiaBe. Thoee ties are alMrmors tenuous lo^ than lh^j>—eogsnsisiieBifo. For yesse. Jews have been leee sd Oatholiee ssjr that rellgian ia not very important to religions than Proteetanta and Catholics, in the formal is«i. eoiVarvd to M peroeat of Jews. While there eaema sanss of obesrvanoe. Bat the ethnic tiee of family and nslgfaibaiiiWinsiresmniiirrnteetantseiidrafhnHrs Trrrs borhood etill hooded Jewe as a group. Jews coUM take

themselves and their religion for granted, and still be Jews. Today, some Jews are becoming more obeervSnt, snd more religiously involved. But they are a minwity; Tlie drift remains in the opposite direction. Judaism, if it is to survive today, must be more than an aging ethnk ^roup tied by old world memariee that become more dim with each passing generation. The less distinctive and vibrant Judaism becomes as a religion, the less attractiveneaa sod meaning it will have. Judaism can develop a self-perpetuating and self-fulfilling cycle of disintegration. The Gallup poll must concern us. The data are conats* tent ova- time. Some may delude themselvee into braving that being "just Jewish" or an "ethnic" Jew alone may satisfy their religkMa needa. Perhi^a such a way of life may do tor theni, but may not suffice for their children and grandchildren. Religion without substance cannot be auataining for long. How much reUgion is "enough?" Enough to make it distinctive, to provide a more and ethical framework for evenrday life, to pifMde eome q^Mtual atiuctura in our civfti It has to be enough to make it tangible and < ble. A six-year-old or sixteen-yeer-oid aniit be ablei tinguish Judaiam from other religious frameworka. Judaifmia not likely to itisapnear, but it ean become n>ot>.i meanlngleee, If aomeone calls himaelf Jewiah. but bahav in w^^ that are faidistinguialiahle from everyone alM^ wh doee it mean? Withdot the substance of aome ritual I. gogue till, education, phOanthraptc or ocginlsaitldttl t Judaiam etill has mnihlp'g to offer the nnt gwsnitioii, i the next onei Even if we still eall ouraelvee Jews, aothii ia what we will become.

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[Interior Ministry to register 2 as Jews the ministry was forced by By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA) - court order to register an The Interior Ministry American non-Orthodox changed its mind and convert, Shoshana Miller, in agreed during a Supreme 1986. The Interior Ministry iniCourt session to register three non-Orthodox con- tially expressed "grave verts to Judaism as Jews doubts" about registering within 14 days. As a result, people who have undergone the high court cancelled the non-Orthodox conversions. appeals of Gail Moscowitch, But at the court session this an American, and Claudia week, the director of the and Julia Varella, both of ministry's population regisBrazil, who had contested try, Yehoshua Kahana, said the ministrtli's refusal to reg- he would comply in view of the attorney general's ister them. At the same time, the Re- opinion. The legal battle is not ~ form movement in Israel announced its intention to sub- over, however. The Supreme mit for. registration the Court, acting on an appeal names of 20 more non- by the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, gave the Interior Orthodox converts. The turn-about occurred Ministry 60 days to show after Attorney General . cause why it would not reYosef Harish, who was to fuse to register non-Orthohave defended the Interior dox converts as Jewish. Justice Menahem Elon Ministry before the high court, stated that he could explained that in his view see no reason,to object to the court should not have althe registration of non- lowed the registration of the Orthodox converts. He three appellants "before we pointed out that the prece- have heard the arguments dent was established when of the Shas movement."

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CALEtJDAR OF EVENTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 MoVFTY SAW Conclave, Springfield, III., Feb. 19-21 Congregational Shabbat Dinner, 6 p.m., Beth Israel Congregational Dinner, 6:30 p.m., Temple Israel U.S.Y. Shul-in SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 U.S.Y. ShuNn NA'AMAT USA Social, 8 p.m. Ediar, BEG Events, 7 p.m. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 21 Jr. Kidability, 4- 7-Year Olds, 1 p.m. IJ.S.Y. ShuNn Artza Seminar, 5 p.m. Temple Israel Sisterhood Friendship Tea, 2 p.m., Temple Israel B'nai B'rith Jr. Bowling League. 1:30 p.m.. Cougar lanes MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22 YES. 10 a.m. ' Beginning Hebrew, 7 p.m. JFS Board, 7:30 p.m. M.Z. Yoshanah Program, 6 p.m. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 ADUCRC Regular Meeting, 11:45 a.m.. Temple Israel Siddur Class, 9:30 a.m. Bureau lor Aging Board, noon « QanMfobm special, 4 p.m. Federation Board, 7:30 p.m. A WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 I Intermediate Hebrew, 10 a.m. Beginning Hebrew, 11 a.m. Foundation Board, 4 p.m. Hebrew High, 7:30 p.m. Beth El Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Beth El THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Braille Class,.9 a.m. JCAC Full Council Meeting, TiSO p.m. Jewish War Vets, 7:30 p.m., Post |1 Walk-in Drofi-in, 10:30 a.m., Bath El For quMbona on acMwHui I* ^ nmacl JMraM F«mn M 334-«200 EXI. 271 riw JwMI fr«M • not trnponttm lot ttm accuracy ot tht abovm annta. *AJi avvnto IMM M *• J.C.C. ynlMS otfi«rwlM IndtcMsd.

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WOMEN*S LEAGUE On Mar. 8, Beth El Wonten's League will present "Pesach with Pizazz," a demonstration and sampling of Passover recipes. The cost will be $6.50, which will include the recipe booklet. Persons wishing to have a favorite Pesach recipe iiicluded in the booklet should send it as soon as possible to Darlene Golbitz, 3205 South 128 Avenue, Omaha, NE 68144.

the month, has announced that Ray Alvine, chairman of the Omaha iBuilding Board of Review, wjll speak at the Feb. 24 luncheon. The luncheon meeting, which takes place every Thursday at Howard Johnson's Restaurant on South 72nd Street, is $5 per person!

NA'AMAT USA Dr. and Mrs. Steven Tipp will host the Feb. 20 NA'AMAT USA social/culPOST #260 tural, 7:30 p.m., at their Epstein Morgan Post home, 330 South 96 Street. 1260 Jewish War Veterans This will be a "chocolate of America will meet Feb. party" with hostess Mari- Debbie Josephson, left, and Debbie Friedman, right, with 26, 7:3&p.m., in the Ameri- lyn Tipp, assisted by her the "mystery killer." can Legion Post No. 1 Club. daughter, Amy, demonPOT LUCK DINNER the cost of $6 per person .will Coffee.and rolls will be strating the making and By Marilyn Warren be "Chef" Ajon Farber's served after the meeting. designing of chocolate canTemple Sisterhood pablidty "Famous Round of Beef" dies. A "murder" will be com- and Sandy Nog^ and Noni BREADBREAKERS In addition to the chocoBob Hurwitz, B'nai B'rith late demonstration, there mitted at Temple Israel on Seiner will make the "FaBreadbreakers president for will be an "open auction." Saturday evening, Feb. 27. mous Potato Casserole," Debbie Josephson, chair- salad and rolls. Members are asked to bring Each person is asked to a plant or food from a tree, man, Debbie Friedman, vice etc., to be auctioned off in chairman, Phyllis Roffman, bring a pot luck dish to honor oi Tu B'Shevat. The advisor, have announced serve four; couples should meeting is open to spouses that the special event for bring eiiough to serve eight. Dr. and Mrs. Philip Rich the annual Sisterhood- Guests may attend; if you and guests. announce the Jan. 30 birth Reservations may be Men's Club Pot Luck Din- are bringing a guest you are of a son, Jason Elliott. They ner will be a "Mystery Evehave two other sons, Adam made with Helen Manheim- ning" written especially for asked to bring four additional servings per guest. er, 556-7251. and Brandon. Temple Israel by Nancy Mc- Participants are asked to NA'AMAT will sponsor a Grandparents are Mr. and-— Cauley who has authored Mrs. Gene Rich anc) Dr. and children's Purim costume several mystery programs use the following pot luck assignments: A-G, dessert; parade and sing-along at the Mrs. Haskell Morris.. Rose Blumkin H6me on in the Omaha area, includ-" H-Q, appetizers; R-Z, side ing a n\ystery trip on the dishes. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Heff- Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. Fremont Dinner Train. The Reservations are necesMOM'S AND TOT'S ner of Boca Raton, Fla., anauthor will pre-select some sary and must be made witii The schedule for the nounce the Jan. 16 birth of who will be attending that the Temple office, 566-6636, twin boys, Brian and Evan. NA'AMAT USA Mom's evening to be the victim, the by Feb. 24. Grandpar«its are Mr. and and Tot's program for murderer and assorted ac- JIR SPEEDY PfllNTINB CEHTER^H Mrs. Helfner and Mr. and February and March has cessories to the crime. Only WemitoYouiavSlir 0rs. Sol Stiss of Miami, been announced. On Feb. 26, 10 a.m.. Kris the author will know the LooltGood* Sp^^efy' Fla. Great-grandparents are identities of all involved, as Fast, LowCosl. .Elsa and Edward Kahn of Shulman, 671-2452, will well as who, what, when, host the group at her home, Quality Printing & More Omaha. where and why. 9608 Bedford. FfM Pick Up S MiveDr Omaha Temple Youth Edith Rogert, 671-3017, FOR SERVt^ CALL" Group will assist in this evewill host the group at the Mark SlltMrstsIn or ning which begins with hors Carl Tlchauer Children's Museum, 661 d'oeuvres in the Milder Cen3706S. 132n(l 330-5050 South 18 Street, 10 a.m. on ter at 6:30 p.m. Included in Mar. 8. At 10 a.m. on Mar. 24, Ardene Solomon, 333-6617, By Snsan Bimbanm will host the meeting at 216 NEW YORK (JTA)-So- South 123 Street. viet Jewish emigration in ' For additional informaJanuary dropped almost 20 tion or to make reserva'IF WE DIDN'T CATER TO KIDS, percent from the December tions, call Mrs. Rogert, figures, and Soviet Jewry 671-3017. WE WOULD LOSE officials are worried that the SOCIETY OF HALF OF OUR decline and other indicators SURVIVORS ^ DESSERT BUSINESS " augur more difficult times The Society of Survivors for refuseniks. win meet Feb. 21, 7:30 p.m., According to the National at Beth Israel Synagogue. Conference on Soviet Jewry, A board meeting will pre722 Jews left the Soviet Un- cede the general meeting at ion in January, compared to 7 p.m. 899 Jews who emigrated in December. The January figures indicate the third 1 Coll Ihe Proleislonal ccnsecutive monthly drop in lor emigration since November. Pest Control "It is obvious that there fy ATLAS has befen a post-summit . \j Pest Control tightening of emigration raatrictkna," the NCSJ said BBS-3094 in a statement on the deOld Ma »ioppWB Cenwir liyh a DodB» <e«-; qlinei "We aiTe eapMiaUy caacenMd' tha( thoM lacking firat-dagree ralaUvM in Israel are now incraulBgly being refused permiaaiao to emigrate. We reiterate our damand that tha Sovtot Union amend its emigration policy if it is to be counted among the civiliied nations of the world." Last weak, the NCSJ relaaaed • letter to its chairman, Morrii Abram, from Preatdent Reagan in whkh the president pledged to "continue to pteea the human rights queation," acknowledging' that "there has not yet been a meeting ioi4i-a-8«f«i« ni-auo i of mlnda on the crucial issue OiMlU. HtfefMlw HI37 'of human rights."

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JULIUS GERELICK Word has been received of the Feb. 9 death in Los Angeles, Calif., of Julius Gerelick, 88, of Beverly Hills, Calif. Mr. Gerelick worked as a film distributor in several midwestern cities during the 1930s and 1940s. Survivors: wife, Hurt; daughters, June Meyers of Los Angeles and Lois Raphael of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;

. Singles group to meet Sunday The Jewish Singles Perspectives group will meet on Feb. 21, 4 p.m., at Royalwood-on-the-Green Clubhouse. Wine and cheese will be served and Rabbi Allan Gonsher will discuss "Being single and Jewish: what the kid in me wants to do." • The former director of Omaha's Jewish Family Service, Rabbi Gonsh^ received his training as a child therapist at the Princeton Child Guidance Center in Princeton, N.J. He is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. For information and reaervations call Helen Rifkin, 334-8200.

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^Ty Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) The Central Conference of American Rabbis, the rabbinical body of Reform Judaism, issued a statement recently saying it "dq>lores" the Israedi policy of beating Palestinian Arabs as a method of controlling unrest in the administered territories. The statement, passed by the CCAR executive board by a vote of 17-3 and released by Rabbi Eugene Lipman, the group's president, says, "The policy of deliberate beatings ordered by Defense Minister (Yitzhak) Rabin in the territories" is "beyond the bounds of Jewish values." ^

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brother, William Gerelick, La Jolla, Calif.; sisters, Faye Gerelick and Anne Cohn, both of Omaha; five grandchildren. MERE BLINDER Word has been received of the death, after a long illness, of Mere Blinder of Chicago, 111. Survivors: Hilda ( Mrs. Zisa) Sobel of Tel Aviv, Israel, formerly of Omaha; brother, Abraham Herzberg, Israel. BARBARA PESSEN Word has been received of the death of Barbara Pessen of Creve Coeur, Mo. Mrs., Pessen is survived by her husband, Sydney, a former Omahan; parents, Libby and Mike Poizner, Overland Park, Kans. ELSIE WEVER Graveside services were held Feb. 16 at Golden Hill Cemetery for Elsie Wever, 76. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff and Cantor Leo Fettman officiated. MsB. Wever is survived by a sister, Bertha Kolnick.

Soviet Jewry By Bonnie Pawlosid • and Ruth Potaali^ This week the OmaM Committee for Soviet Jewry suggests that Omahans write to Vitaly Nikolaevich Efimov, a 46-year-old refusenik, a nuclear physicist who has been unable to find work in his field since first applying for an exit visa in 1980. Mr. Efimov wishes to join his daughter in the United States but has been refused on the basis of "insufficient kinship." Her grandparents are elderly and do not wish to leave the Soviet Union and the Soviets have used this as a reason to keep her father there, his daughter asserts in a letter to President Reagan. Omahans may write to Mr. Efimov at Ul, Krupskoy 9/103, G. Gatchina, Leningradskaya Oblast 188360, USSR.

Woman's Week group plans raffle to support program

a little lamb' Her name is Joni ( not Mary), but Ms. Marshall owns the baby lamb being petted by Daniel Morris and Cookie Rubin, some of the children at the Child Care Service at the Jewish Community Center who had an opportunity to visit with the playmate recently.

American-born artist wins $5,000 Israeli art prize Paraela Levy's Hebrew is an Israeli artist under the fluent, but her native Iowa age of 40; Ms. Levy is 39. accent still comes through. Bom in Fairfield, Iowa, The American-bom artist and a graduate of the Unicame to Israel 12 years ago versity of Northern Iowa in with her sabra husband, Cedar Falls, Ms. Levy studwhom she met while he was ied drawing, prints and studying in the United woodcuts, ceramics and States. She recently cele- photography. Later, she brated her first major worked in an art gallery in achievement as a painter— New Mexico where she "fell the Jacques Ghana prize for in love with Southwestem a young Israeli artist, a Indian jewelry and Indian$6,000 award presented by style painting." the Tel Aviv Museum of Today she acknowledges Art. the debt she owes to photogMs. Levy said she is raphy. "There's nothing delighted with the recogni.- more realistic than a' tion (and the cash) that straightforward photocomes with the Ghana . graph," she said, "and I preaward, endowed by the fam- fer to do my initial sketchily of the late British art ing with a camera, not a dealer. The prize is given to pencil."

A raffle has been planned in conjunction with the Week of the Jewish Woman, according to chairman Marilyn Arenson. The raffle proceeds will be used to cover the expenses the group has incurred, including the keynote speaker Molly Resnick, Mrs. Arenson said, adding tllat any remaining money will go towards next year's event. The prizes to be raffled are: a 100 percent Oriental hand-woven rug donated by the Nebraska Furniture Mart; a lead crystal bowl donated by Borsheims; a framed Konny print do-

nated by Eisenberg Gallery. Ilie items will be on periodic display at the Jewish Community Center until Feb. 29. The drawing will take place at the March 1 Woman's Week luncheon to be held at Erin Court. Reservations for the $6.50 luncheon may be made by calling Carol Parsow, 289-3211.

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Rebbetzin Schneerson dies The presence of a Lubavitcher family in Omaha the past several months has given the community an opportunity to appreciate a branch of Judaism somewhat di^erent f(ft' this region of the country. Thus, when I heard that the wife' of the Lubavitcher Rebbi had died and that an estimated 16,000 had attended her funeral in New York, I thought that perhaps some insight on the Lubavitcher Movement could be gained and passed on to the readers of this colunm. -^ Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson had been married to Rabbi Menachem MJSehnCerson for 60 years. She died Feb. 10 at the age of 56. Omaha's Lubavitcher Rabbi Mendel Katzman said that wheri his phone range at 3. a.m. on Wednesday, he could not have anticipated worse news. "A fellow colleague from Charlotte, N.C., called to say what he couldn't bring his lips to utter." Calls continued coming from Australia, New York and "Igrael, and thousands arranged to fly into New York fqr the funeral. Rabbi Katzman was one of the mourners attendin] Upon his return, he penned the following remembrance: "... I remember with how much excitement and awe I was filled, wlien as a yoimg child I was 'trea^'—taken along by ali'aimt to deliver flowers to the Rebbetzin before Shavuot. "I can almost feel as 1 did then, when I recall how she opened the door and welcomed us in and how she thanked us for thinking of her. In the very simple, unassuming manner of this great woman,'there were many lessons that Ilearned—and many that I am still learning. "The grace and compassion of her motherly countenance will forever be with me.. I cherish these memories, as they are rare and invaluable, and consider myself extremely privileged to have met with the greatest-woman of our generation." I -^ • information provided by Lubavitch News Service states that the Rebbetzin was bom in Babinovitch near the Russiaricity ofXubavitch. During World War I, she and her family fled Lubavitch and settled in Rostov, moving to Leningrad in 1924. .Three years later, her father was arrested by the N.K.V.D. for his efforts in strengthening Judaism uhder the Stalinist regime. She was instrumental, in bringing about his release. V Before leaving Russia, she was engaged to marry the present Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. The wedNUng took place in Warsaw in 1928. ' \The couple resided in Berlin until the Nazi regime took power and then escaped to Paris and when the Geilnans •occupied France, they fled to Nice. In-1941, the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin arrived in the United States and took up residence in New York. Upon the death of her father. Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, in 1950, her husband, the Rebbe, assumed the position of leader'of'the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement. . Lubavitch^ews Service said she was an exceptionally brilliant and erudite woman whose regal bearing, gentle sense of humor, compassion, consideration and sensitivity endeared her to all. "^-^ And Rabbi Katzman added that she totally and selflesaly committed herself td^the Rebbe's Campaigns and projects aqd humbly disclaimed any honor or recognition for her noble deeds.

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^JERUSALEM (JTA) - Leaders of Israel's two major political parties Expressed enthusiasm for a new American peace proposal that would speedily come to grips with the turest in the administered territories. Details of the plan were disclosed by Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of the LaborJ'arty, who said he was pleased by the "tight scheduling and burning belief" in the initiative demonstrated by the American policymakers. Premier Yitzhak Shanur, leader of the Likud bloc, expressed more cautious support for the American plap, which envisages some form of autonomy—referred to as "interim arrangements"—for the territories "within a few weeks." According to Shamir, the plan is the best way to "protect" Israel's presence in the West Bank and Qaza Strip and to ensure the future of Jewish settlements thiBpeT" But all indications are that Shamir will have a tough trnie ' selling the plan to militant settlers, adready at a high pitch of anger, over events in the territories and the latest terrorist act-^ firebombing that severely burned a settler from Beit-El, Dov Kalmanovich. Shamir's task will not be made easier by the fiercely negative reaction the plan already has received from two Likud hardliners. Commerce and Induistry Minister Ariel Sharon and Housing Minister David Levy", both potential rivals of Shamir for leadership of the bloc's Herut wing. Nor have key Arab players shown much support for the U.S. effort. Several elements already have been flatly rejected by Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The^American initiative, as described by Peres, seems to be an amalgam of past proposals, but with a new timetable.-The plan envisages a shortened interim period—four years of autonomy instead of five set by the 1978 Camp David formula—and an earlier start to negotiations to de-

termine the final status of the territories. Camp David provided that the negotiations begin no later than the third year after the autonomy program is in place. The Americans are now speaking of "two to three months." There are signs the American plan was cobbled together to accommodate the differing points of view within Israel &nd the Arab camp. Coming as it does after a long period of dormancy in Washington with respect to the Arab-Israeli conflict, it appears to reflect a sudden alarm in the Unit«d States over the continued deterioration of the situation in the ad.mitiistered territories. According to Peres, the interim autonomy arrangements in the territories would be put in place "within a few weeks," to be followed by convening of an "international conference or opening within two or thre« months." Negotiations would follow to work out a permanent arrangement for the administered territories. Peres has long been advocating an international conference as a lead-in for direct negotiations between Israel and a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, with the possible participation of other Arab countries. This has been fiercely opposed by Shamir, who insists on the Camp David formiila of negotiations for Palestinian autonomy between Israel and Egypt, with Jordan entering the talks at some later stage^ In Paris, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reiterated his opposition to a peace conference limited to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. "It is very important that Syria would participate in such a conference," he said. Teres said in an army radio interview that he is "riot doctrinaire" about an international conference. "I want to see progress toward peace," he said. The foreign minister said he welcomes the Americans diplomatic agenda, even if it involves a compressed timetable.

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Why was state in Palestine would not end up being tossed about like that word, meaning treasure, used as a description of a peo- a ball between its powerful neighbors. He noted that, "Even ple? Way SegtftiA instead of chosen or special? Many rea- after it has become a Jewish State, then will all still keep sons have been offered. • ~^ an eye on it, and each power will try to influence its policy One comment dealt specifically with the word Segulah. in a direction Tavorable to itself." That has a strangely The commentary related it to the word Scgole, the three prophetic ring to it, doesn't it? pointed vowel in Hebrew. The suggestion was made that i Yet, the Jewish state, would need to be imlike any other because of the connection, the Jewish people must demon- country. In.1917, after the release of the Balfour declarastrate three characteristics. They are to be: merciful, bash- tion which stated that Jews should have a national home, ful and doers of righteous acts. If we are not involved in Ahad Ha'am noted that the Jewish state to be founded these kinds of activities, our people is ^t doing God's will must give consideration for the rights of the Palestinian as it should. Arabs currently living there. The first and last categories, merciful and doers of rightWhen taken together, the two interpretations of the sine<}UB acts, are obvious. Our actions should reflect those gle word should give us reason to stop and think a bit about qualities, just as do God's actions. The second trait, bash- what's happening now in Israel. To qualify, let me note I fulness, is more difficult to quantify. It must mean that know full well that I don't live there and that the effects we as a nation should try oiu- best to avoid the limelight. of the activities of the Palestinian Arabs do not effect 9>y We should do the good acts of the other two categories, everyday life. Yet, I am disturbed by what I see and what and do them quietly, without drawing undo attention to 1 hear emanating from Israel, the country jn the land of ourselves. We are to act properly for the sake of doing rig^t, holiness. ' "^ not for attention. There is no doubt that the media in this country has done Another commentator madei reference not only to the to dramatize the situation in Israel. The events play perword Segulah, but to thereat of tha seqtence in which God fectly into the hands of television news editors. What is says: "the entire land is mine." The area of land often presented is the most shocking and disturbing of pictures. referred to as Palestine is not a regular place, just as the The scenes are glimpses of hate and destruction. What we people of Israel is not a regular people. 'The land, what is see are soldiers being brutalized by the brutalization of a on that land, has to be different from any other place on civilian population.. Certainly there are terrorists, but how Israsl is dealing with them brings back pictures seen during the British Msndate of Pslestine. Britiah soldiers brutalizing PalesThe Jewish Preaa naervet the tight to edit letttn for rem- tinian Jews was as much a part of the newsreels.in 1946 and 1947 as are the horrible pictures of Gasa and the West too of length or coattat. Bank today. It hurts me to see those pictures on the air. To the Editor It hurts me to see the army and government pf Isrsel proWe are writing to you to respond to the Feb. 6 latter to moting such activities. It hurts me there are so few in Israel the editor on parenU at JCCi>aaketbaU games. who Say we must do more to stop the situation before it As chairmeo of the H A PE Committee, the Youth Sports gets worse. Committee and as |Mu«nta, we are very proud of the qualAre we, are the laraelis, scting as merdftilly as they ity Of the youth pioKranu at the JCC. These programs not couM? Have th«y gooe the extra step needed to try to sotv«u| only teach our chfldrHi new athletic skills by qualified *H the difficulties qulstly? Csn we honestly ssy thst ws havtiP & PE staff and provide opportunities for our children to besn acting as God's treasured people shtJuld set? make new frienda, but these programs strengthen family There is no question that ths goings on have prevented ivented relatiolUUiie. / us from being bsshful..That is becauae of the naturesofthi^ of t To us, thsre ia nothing'nioi|e rewarding than conning to democracy and thsfrsodomof thaprsss in Israel iWh >«rhivS the JCC OB Sunday and saeiik over 100 children playing we can no longar rstrsat into aaonyndty, but, st least. \ ast.wH haslistbdl, doing gymnastirs, imd also seeing thoir paronts should not be in a positioo of qMstioning every set, of 1 ofwodH chairing for them. The J's programs do emphasixe the dsring of ths right steps hsve been taken, of not kno aowin^^ "family," and wo encourage all parents to come see their if enough has been done. children partidpato at the JCC. It was suggsatad aome 70 years ago and often since, thst Ws do agree that all parenta need to demonatrate very the righu of the Arabs who llvS in ths land must bs conposittve attititdaa toirard thoir children at youth aporta pro- sidered. There (s no essy sohition. no mst*ir whrt. Whs grama. Unfortunately, Mrs. Lund has seen one or two par- ia clear ia that Palsstlnian Arabs will not jMt go away I enta who, through their anthusiasm for tha^ child, did not that ths Arab countries ars taking no rsqMnsibUity fo pramots podtiys edmrasnts. Ws balisvs that this is ths sx- tham. But the time has coma, more than coma, for aom coptkn snd not tgrplesl of moirt psr«nts. movamaiiL Msy it oona eood ao we can aay. proudly, I We look forward to seeing you at tha JCC as wo all sup- the Jowlah sUta la truly Uvtag up to the role it was giv port the youth programs. before rscsiving ths Tan Commandments, of being Ood's Carol SMI Ira Kathaa treasured] ^LsanrscMi"

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By Estelle Rosenberg Owen Henry Nieberg, son of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Nieberg, has graduated simima cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a major in finance.

largest fuel company By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - The government has sold its 76 percent interest in the Paz fuel oil group to an Australian-based investments conglomerate. • The $96 million deal was the biggest to date in the government's program to sell its industrial assets to private investors. Finance MiHister Moshe Nissim said the proceeds would be used to reduce the natipnal debt, not to expand the budget. He signed the deal in Jerusalem with Australian millionaire Jack Lieberman, who said, "We see this as the£rst in a series of investments in Israel." Lieberman, who is Jewish, heads the JGL ihvestment group, which has holdings in food products, textiles and real estate worldwide.

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Lee Epstein, daughter ot Marilyn Epstein and Charl^ Epstein of Boca Raton, Fla. Rose Cohn of Phoenix, Ariz, died Jan. U. Interment was in Phoenix. Survivors: daughter, Eleanor Neiden, Lincoln; son, Murray* Phoenix; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The Young at Heart will hold a luncheon meeting on Feb. 24, 11:45 a.m., at th^ Knolle Country Club. The Countesses and Noblemen, The South Street Temple a singing group from Southeast High School, will enter- thanks the following memtain. Bingo will follow the bers for their efforts in January: Jim Gessfor and meeting. . Sarah Bumstein will chair Becky Hanna for conductDean Frankel, left, a trustee of the Carl Frohm Memothe meeting and Faye lin- ing worship services; Brian rial Foundation, stressed the Frohm Foundation's dediger is reservation chairman. and Karen Schur and John cation to Omaha Jewish youth as he recently presented The Tifereth Israel Con- and Beatty Breach for sponSara Jaffa, Jewish Community Center cultural arts gregation is invited to a soring an Oneg Shabbat; director, with a substantial contribution towards two Feb. 19 Oneg Shabbat hon- Karen Grossman and Gaby community programs. With this contribution the Frohin oring Norma Johns, a de- Berger for assisting Rabbi Foundation is enabling four teens to participate in voted custodian, for her Pipe-Mazo with Friday Artza: The Omaha Teeb Trip to Israel, and Is helping many years of service. Mar- night services; Jerrold and underwrite the cost of the Jewish Cultural Arts Councia and Sheldon Kushner Dorothy Kohn and Gary cil's Yom Ha'atzmaut 40th anniversary salute to Israel ^ill host the Oneg Shabbat. and Kathy Weiss for enterMay 14 and 15. Artza chaiiman Margo Riekes said, "It's taining the rabbi; Allen and wonderful to see how a conunnnlty can band together Norman Krivosha has Michelle Schreiber for a gift to make worthwhile programs possible, llie Carl Frohm been appointed coK:hairman of eight books dedicated to Memorial Foundation shoold be commended for underof the United Synagogue of the memory of deceased rel^jHuiding the importance of youth in our community." J America's Committee on atives. Synagogue Standards, a CELEBRATES lOOTH key area of concern to the PITTSBURGH iJTA)future of the Conservative Sadie Spiegel celebrated her Movement. 100th birthday Jan. 11. The The Tifereth Israel Con- Hungarian-born woman gregation wishes mazel t6v came to New York in 1904, concern that the sale could, to Mr. and Mrs. GeraldChe- and moved here with her By.Howai^ Rosenbejig WASHINGTON (JTA)- reduce the qualitative. su- sin on the marriage of their husband Harry, now deThe Reagan admiiustration periority Israel's air force son, Marie Elliott, to Corv ceased, in 1917. is considering a possible has over bordering Arab $14-million sale of Side- stdtes. The administration's prowinder missiles to Jordan, a well-placed Capitol Hill posed arms sales to Jordan in 1986 and 1986, which source said. Fi •: M'' ily iit Younkers C; i A Pentagon spokesman Congress blocked, contained Has Moved declined to comment on the 300 Sidewinders. Those prospect, except to confirm packages, which were valVISIT OUR NEW LOCATION that Congress has not been ued at between S1.5 billion notifi^ officially of such and $1.9 billion, also in1020 South 74tli Plaza cluded 40 F-20 or F-16 adplans. vanced fighter planes; 12 The missiles, which the 391-6884 source termed the "most- mobile Hawk surface-to-air advanced" air-to-air missiles missile batteries; 108 Stingto date that the United er shoulder-fired surface-toStates has made available- air missiles; and 32 Bradley for foreign governments to Fighting Vehicles. buy, would be deployed from eight Tornado fighter FII^ANCIAL bombers that Jordan is in PLANNER the process of buying from M4ar IKancW JntMulon li ptanUng Great Britain. to add tifKiMfiMvM \o qMcMa In A congressional source tilhif bwlun or p«ianil Ikian '' plwmng. IndhMutI salacM wi KcHvt confirmed that the Reagan 3 yam' tormii tnMng ulniMttind by administration has begun 1 prolNilonal nunagtmnt itatl: consulting Congress on the mliibllty of • cofflfMi (liunclal proissue. The source expressed. duct! portfoto; trtnga twwlia and In-

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SERVICES: Friday: 8:16 p.m. SERVICES: A Congregational Shab- Friday: ' bat Dinner will take place Kabbalat Shabbat, 5:30 at 6:30 p^m. Rabbi Ste- p.m. phen Barack and Cantor Late famUy service, 8 Harold Firestone will offi- p.m. ' ^ ciate at the service which An Oneg SlSbbat sponfollows. sored by Sisterhood will The Oneg Shabbat fol- follow the service. lowing the service will be A congregational dinner sponsored by Temple Sis- •'- will take place at 6 p.m. terhood. Julee Katzman and Teddy Saturday: 11:16 a.m. Levine are in charge of dinCLASSES ner arrangelnents. Religious school—SaturFollowing dinner, memday, Feb. 20, 9 a.m.; Sun- bers of the Board of Comday, Feb. 21, 10 a.m. missioners will conduct Hebrew school—Gitnmel the 8' p.m. service. Rick and Daled, Monday, Feb. Katzman and Marvin 22, 4 p.m.; Aleph, Tues- Parilman are in charge of day, Feb. 23, 4 p.m.; Bet, planning and coordinating Wednesday, Feb. 24, 4 the service. p.m. Saturday: Confirmation—Feb. 24, Morning service, 8:45 6:30 p.m. a.m. SISTERHOOD A kiddush will follow Sisterhood is seeking the service. cast members for its May Little People's Service, 10 musical production. If 10 a.m. in the Idndo-garten you would like to partici- room, led by Shirley pate call Marilyn Warren, Goodman. 334-1618. Youth services will take place at 10 a.m. in the Goldstein Chapel, led by Leon and Danita Shrago. Lunch will be served to all participants in the youth services. The conflict between free- participants an opportunity Class with the rabbi, 5 donvof speech and the levels to discuss the principle of p.m. of censorship in today's freedom of speech, guaranMincha, 5:46 p.m., folAmerican society will be the teed by the First Amend- lowed by Shalosh S'eudos, topic of several Issues ment and the belief of many Ma-ariv and Havdalah. Omaha forums held Feb. 29- people that certain forms of Sunday: expression are injurious to Mar. 3. Morning Minyanaire The forums, titled "Free- the public welfare and servic«t>9 a:m., followed by dom of Speech: Where to should be restricted." breakfast and "Exploring Additional information on Jewish Ideas" with the Draw the Line," are sponsored by the Leadership the Issues Omaha forums rabbi. Omaha Alumnae Associa- may be obtained from Mrs. Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 6:45 tion and are free and open to Goldstein, 391-1050. p.m. the public. According to Issues Omaha chairman Ann Goldstein, the forums on freedom of expression will "give

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'ELECTED PRESIDENT BALTIMORE (JTA) Hilary Buff of Anaheim, Calif., has been elected president of United Synagogue Youth, the Conservative Jewish youth organization. She succeeds Charles Savenor of Waltham, Mass.

I would like to thank all of my relatives' and friends who helped me celebrate my 90th birthday and the 77th anniversary of my bar mitzvah. Your presence during this happy occasion wiU always be remembered. Thanks too for your many cards, flower/I and donations on m^ behalf. Edward Kahn

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RECEIVES PRIZE WASHINGTON (JTA) Professor Hans Jonas, who fled his native Germany in 1933 for Palestine, has received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Thb philosopher, who teaches at the New School for Social Research, New York, received the award here from German Minister for Foreign Affairs Hans Dietrich Genscher.

By Rainhard Engel VIENNA (JTA)-An international commission of historians has found "no proof" that Kurt Waldheim committed war crimes, according to the 200-page report it submitted to Chancellor Franz Vranitzky here Monday night But the Austrian president was far from an innocent bystander when he served as a lieutenant in the German army occupying the Balkans in World War II, according to several

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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, 5:50 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. 26, noon at Beth El. TORAH WEEKEND Beth El's second Torah Weekend will take place Feb. 26-28 and will feature former Nebraska Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Krivosha. All sessions are open to the community. CONSECRATION The third grade consecration ceremony will take place Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. at Beth Israel.

SERVICES: Friday: 7 p.m. Daily and Saturday: The residents and staff of the Rose Blumkin Home invite the families,' volunteers and friends of the residents to attend services in the Herbert Goldsten Chapel. Kiddush follows services on Shabbat.

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Seventh and eighth graders from T||tnpl« Israel Religioua School and United Talmud Torah of Omaha will participate in an intercity Shabbaton Feb. 26-28. In Guthrie Center, Iowa. They will Join with studenU from Des Moinea, Sioux City and Lincoln. The pronil co^ponaoradby the (u for Jewifh'Living, Dee Moinee, and the Bureau of Jewish education,' Omaha.

members of the panel who commented on the text of the report before it was made public. The historians' report originally was scheduled to be released Monday, but some news reports late in the day said the Austrian Foreign Ministry suppressed the report at the last minute. The ministry obtained an advance summary of the document on Sunday. The report was later released, but only after the historians reportedly complied with a demand from the Foreign Mhilatry to excise references to the Austrian praaideat's "moral. guUt." According to the news reports, Waldheim himself was briefed about the contenta of both the original and the reviaad nporta prior to the final vwaioa'a release. The commiaaloo waa set up by the Austrian government last year to examine Waldhaim's wartime record in light of chargac that be I was unpUcated in the dspor^ tatk» of Oraak Jaws and othan Ad in atrodties oommitted against Yugoslav civlliani and resistance fighters.

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Parashat Terumah "... whose spirit made him willing ..." "^ Back in the forties, when it is probably the best couthe UJA was just beginning ple of biliioA dollars a years to reach the understianding the United States expends, of American Jews, the allo- in terms of what it gets for cation for a certain city was its money. being discussed. We spend about 40 times One wealthy (but not too Israel's allocation in westgenerousi) leader siad that em Europe. We spend about their allocation was un- 15 times as much in the Far reachable; to him it seemed East. (Note: Japan spends like "irrelevant telephone about one .percent of its . numbers. gross national product on The state chairman, from • defense—and Israel spends another city, admonished on its defense about 26 perhim, "You could easily af- cent of its GNP!) ford to give what you would What do we get in return have to under this alloca- from Israel? The best tion!" Imowledge we have of So"Maybe," he replied, "if I viet weaponry, which, alas, had your money!" has been encountered by Is"Mr. X," the state chair- rael again and again. How man answered, "You don't many bill^|&is this worth? need my money. You need Furth^^Bael regularly my heart." supplies^^Rnited States In our parashah, the peo- with information about the ple are asked to bring all Soviets from its own very manner of precious things, superior intelligence precious metals and semi- sources. How many billions precious stones, furs and is this worth?fabrics, and fine woods and And Israel alone, in all thjT^ many other things. The piu'- sea of the Soviets' Arab pose was to build a sanctu- clients, keeps the Soviets efary so that the Lord's pres- fectively out of control of ence among them might be Middle East oil. How many evident. billions is this worth? We are told that the peoIn our Torah reading ple brought their gifts in schedule, we are soon to re- such profusion that Moses peat the special reading of had to command them to lest week, the Parashat stop. They brought because Shekalim, about the unitheir "spirit made them form half-shekel assessment willing." for each fighting man in the In our day we still collect wilderness Israelite commufor various causes from nity. Today we deal with no those whose spirit makes paltry sums, but with bilthem willing. Lons. But for natioiud purposes, It is important to know for running a government that the United States is and specifically for defense, getting back from a grateful taxation takes the place of Israel many, many times volunteerism. the worth of its military and There are those in Ameri- economic aid. can life who keep sniping at the allocations to Israel from U.S. foreign aid, from American'tax dollars. Monument Co. The fact is that this budget should come from FraRkLCielNllaJr. Our defense allocations, And

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UNO dancfe concert to feature husband and wife from New York Carol Mezzacappa and Craig Gabrian, a husband and wife team from New York, will be featured at the University of NebraskaOmaha's Moving Company concert, Feb. 27 and 28, 8 p.m. and 4 p.m., respec: tively. The concert will take place in UNO's University Theater and will oombine 10 members of the Moving Company and four to six

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aa: 's ),^^ sBQsaidlQffSmg© N Editor's Note: Mike Silverman is a member of the Jewish Press Joomalism Club which is open to aUJewish teenagers in grades 9-12. What's the one sound you hear more often than any otho'? It's not your parents' nagging nor is it a boring lecture at school It's music, listened to while studying, on the way to school, or relaxing. Radio is really popular, but there's one thing I don't understand—some people lik« KGOR but dislike Sweet 98 or vice versa. However, both stations play the same music. Loyalty, I guess. And both of them say they play 12 in a row— commercials,'that is! One of the bad things about radio is that you don't know what kind of earwrecking song might be on a station when you turn the dial. You might get (yecch) easy listening or (ugh) jazz, or, God forbid, country-

Mitterrand endorses plan PARIS (JTA) - President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt continued to lobby for his Middle East peace proposals, including an international conference, at a luncheon meeting ?nth President Francois Mitterrand here. Mubarak, who just completed an official visit to Washington, said he totally opposed the idea of a confe^ ence limited to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. "It is very important that Syria would participate in such a conference," he^said. Mubarak has called for a ELECTED PRESIDENT WESTON, Mass. (JTA) — Herbert Rosedale of Chappaqua, N.Y., has been elected president of the American Family Foimdation, headquartered here. The foundation studies the effects of cults on members, their families ° and associates.

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I think it's too bad we don't hear more, involved. A very special thanks from us is due to Jim Tardy, Jim brushed with beaten egg before baking. but I'm tickled at the groups formed for the express purFinnegan and Jim Gleason from Creighton who went more Poppy seed filling pose of speaking and enjoying the language. That's what than that "extra mile" in working' with our Vaad (Homemade, or buy Solo mixes—watch for those that are keeps it alive, of course, usage. Hakashrut and with our mashgiach Annette Fettman. The dairy.) Recently, I saw a nice woman I've known for years. She fact that the dinner and the reception preceding it were 1 pound poppy seed asked me a question and for some reason I can't explain, kosher became a topic for discussion at_the tables where I'/i cups honey I answered her entirely in Yiddish. She looked at me, got kosher wine, and-champagne were also served; it. really, 1 egg a soft and sweet expression on her face and said, "Oh, but turned into an educational experience for the non-Jews who 1 cup sugar it's good to hear that again." But don't hb misled. Yiddish were present. I'/t cups raisins And now that we have discovered that a kitchen capa' Bring poppy seed to boil and drain well. Spread in shal- doesn't always evoke nostalgia. Sometimes it just jars the ble of serving 800 persons can be kashered at Creighton, low pan and dry thoroughly. Put through fine grinder. Mix memory and the smUe button, as it did not long ago at my let me reiterate to all our Jewish organizations as well as with the rest of the ingredients. Keep covered in the re- house. individuals planning Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, weddings or other frigerator and use as needed. We had entertained a number of people and as one cousimchas, that the Vaad Hakashrut is willing and able to ple prepared to leave, the husband began a polite YEAST HAMANTASHEN work with you in planning your event. We can make avail- 2 cakes fresh yeast "gooidnight-and-thanks" speech. Again, without thinking able kosher meat or milk dishes and silverware, provide a 1/4 cup lukewarm water about it, I said to him, "du gaist?" And he rewarded me mashgiach for kashering the kitchen (at certain already 1V> teaspoons salt with the biggest grin and replied, "meer gain." 1 naturally designated places). Call me at 551-7257 or Sandy Topper, 1/2 cup sugar wished them to "foor gezunterheit." A small moment in 334-8200, and we will be happy to work with you.. the eveiing, -but jt had a special quality for me. 'M 1/2 cup melted shortening 1 cup water, or water in which peeled potatoes have been As yoil might be able to see, I enjoy Yiddish. I have, howAs we approach the exciting-and fun-filled Purim holicooked. ever, discovered something that bothers me a little. It's day with all of its megillot readings, carnivals and costumed 5 cups sifted flour (approx.l what I call Yiddish baby talk. Let me try to illustrate what children' and adults, we bring you a few delicious sweet 3 eggs, beaten I mean: the lovely braided egg bread that we know as "chalrecipes including Hamantashen. Enjoy—and share with egg yolk for glaze ^ lah" has turned into "holly" for many people. Don't ask someone who might not have the joy of a freshly baked Soften yeast in lukewarm water. Add salt, sugar and me how it came about, but I hear it often. Hamantash. shortening to water or potato water. Add 2 cups flour; beat PURIM TAIGLACH It also bothers me when I hear someone refer to the blessthoroughly. Add yeast and eggs, mixing well. Add the 6 eggs remaining floi^ to make a soft dough. Knead on a lightly ing for bread as "the motzi." For crying out loud, it's a 3 tablespoons oil floiu'ed board until shiny. Place in a lightly greased bowl, brocha, not a Spanish dance (which is what "motzi" sounds 1 tablespoon sugar cover with a tea towel and let stand in a warm place imtil like to me!). i/2 cup raisins -> • • the dough has doubled in bulk. Punch down the dough and ' A good friend, who is not illiterate in English, makes for 1 teaspoon baking powder "*t6rn it over. Cover with a tea towel. Chill in the refrigera- holiday dinners her special "halkies." I can't remember pinch of salt tor overnight. Divide the dough into balls the size of a small whether those are knaydlach or what, but they sound like 3 to 4 cups flour apple. Roll out to round 1/4-inch thick. Place a tablespoon baby talk anyway. And if I remember correctly, she also 1/2 cup chopped nuts of filling in center of each round. Bring three sides of cir- refers to more than one blintz as "blintzies." Come now, Beat eggs well. Add oil, sugar, baking powder, salt and cle together to form a triangle. Let stand at room temperflour. Mix well until dough is almost the consistency of a ature until doubled in bulk. Brush tops with an egg yolk why not "blintzES?" noodle dough, soft but not sticky. Let rest a while. Cut off diluted with 1 tablespoon water. Place very far aplart on Of course, some Yiddish baby talk is not only okay it's a piece and fill with raisins and nuts. Roll small piece with greased baking sheets.. Bake at 350 degrees until golden really legitimate. A tiny hand is certainly a "hentaleh"—nopalm of hands about VA inches long. Tie in knot. When all brown, about 35 minutes. Makes 15 very large Haman- body would argue about that. Or how about (you should laiglach are made, boil in syrup. excuse me ia tushie. And a sweet little head isn't a "kop"— tashen. Syrup for taiglach it's a "keppeleh." But that's different. We're referring to APPOINTED DIRECTOR 2 cups sugar babies and parts of babies, not groWn-up stuff. 1 pound honey Come to think of it, maybe I'm being too hard on m^c WASHINGTON (JTA) - tion funds research on 1/4 cup water Karen Cohen has been ap- Gaucher's Disease, a genet- friend with the "halkies." She comes from another area; Bring to boil in very large pot. Place taiglach in boiling pointed executive director ic disorder caused bywi en- maybe that's some of the "regional differences" we'Ve syrup and boil, covered, on low heat 30-45 minutes, stir- of JM National Gaucher zyme deficiency that-affects talked about earlier. I'll tall you what. For the sake of ring occasionally to prevent sticking. Taiglach are done Foundation, headquartered mainly people of Ash- friendship, (and peace) I'll give her the benefit 6f the doubt. when they are golden brown and float in a glass of cold here. kenazic Jewish descent. She But the next time I speak to her mother, I'm gonna find water. 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