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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920
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Temple Israel selects rabbi to lead congregation
Fettmans honored at dinner Appnoiiiiatoiy 400 people attcadtd a diiMr Soday hoBoriBg Cantor Leo aad Auutto Fflttaum tor 13 yean of aerviee to Bath larad Syaagogm, "x^wMMg to daner eochalrman Monia Katki. The evaaiag lachided a aUt writtea and cHreeted by Elaiae Feldmaa aad Batta KoaleM. awl trOMtea and toaata to the FettauuM. Among the gaeata attoMllac were the Rev. EUubeth Beama of Uaited Methodiat Mioiatiiea, aad Mayw aod Mra. Waltar CaHagw. Pictured above from left: Cantor Leo Fettman, Annette Fettman, and dinner codiaimea Morria Katler, DoUy Kntler and Jack E. Cohen.
Cathy Kushner named to head Lincoln YWCA Cathy Koshner has been named as the new executive director of the Lincoln I^CA. She wiD aaoumeher 'podtioaia July. Ma. Kotkqer has worked ttonsively as a TWCA r.aerved five years ' oo the board of directora, and was board preaident m 1987-88. Her profeaaional ezpariaoee inctudaa work with non-profit orgaaixations, such aa the Homeataad Girl Scout Councfl, where she has served as memberahip servioaa unit manager for the paat 18 months. She has also worked in higher education, having held administrative poats with Soothaaat Community CoUage, the Univeraity <rf Mid-America, and SRI in its coopwativa rolationahip with DoaneCoUego-Luicotn. .From 1964 to 1987, aha and operated Lin-
A singlea miaaian to Israel, with an optional pto-misaioD to Poland, is being o^ teed tUt summer thrpugti tfardew^ Federation of Ottaha, PartidpanU wUl have the opportunity to meet with other Jewish aingiea from across the United States and aipkre larael together. The mission is scheduled for iviy 31 through Aug. 10 Cathy KnahMr and is open to Jewish sincoinland Carpet, She holds glea age 26-40. Appikations an MA in educatioo firom will be acceptable through Washington Univaraity. Juna 27. Ma. Kuahoer aaid ahe ia Poat miaaioo extanaions concerned about the in laraal or Europe can be YWCA'a role ia «tli«m«tmg arranged. For further infoi^ radam of all kinds, addhig, matioa about itinerary and "1 want the YWCA to coat, contact Elbe Pinner at strengthen ita traditkn to a the Federation office, 334phiralisticorganiiatidn, wai- 8200. coming and supporting poopie of all backi^ounda and eoovfetkiBa. Ov work with See the special tha Commitlao Agaisat RaFMier'f Diy Mdioii «iam ia a good aunipla of thadhactkm weiMMl lofa." starting on Page 5.
NCQJ Brotherhood Dinner 'to H^r author, educator ya Angolou, author. and laebuar. will ; at the Natkmii Oon» of ChrlaUMd and ;J«Bai,atthaaMaal lAwardDioMr. year macka tha 50th roftheMklaDds ofNGCJ. |lia. Aifilcn kaa made »than ltdappearaneea landBStworktaleviI and waa the sobjact of hourr int«rvinr fair BUI I on Pift H<r Wtof hm yontk. 1 rthoOsaadlM , waa Bwia iBlia a l|a*rTVi*«iallorCa& Wast
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Rabbi Aryeh Azriel was elected rabbi of Temple Israel at a congregational meeting last week. Rabbi Azriel comes to Omaha after serving Baltimore Hebrew Congregation as associate rabbi for five years. He succeeds Rabbi Stephan F. Barack who served the congregation for over four years. Rabbi Barack succeeded Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks, who retired in 1985 after aerving the congtegatioa for 3d years. A native of Israel, Rabbi Azriel ia a PhJ). candidate at Baltimore Hebrew Univeraity. He received the degree of master of arts in Hebrew letters and hia ordination as rabbi from Hebrew Uni<» College in Cincinnati in 1983.
Rabbi Aiyeh Aariel Rabbi Axrial also attended Tel Aviv University and holds a bachekK- of arts degree from Spertus Colb^ in Chicago. According to Mdvin Epstein, president of Temple Israel, Rabbi Azriel has wide experience in teaching
and innovative educaticmal projects as well as camp directing and has led sevo-al congregational trips to Israel. In addition. Rabbi Azriel was active in numerous community activities outside his congregation, was chaplain at several institutions and instructor at high schools in various' fields of Judaic studies. Rabbi Azriel, his wife, Elyce, and three-year-old draghter, Leora Ann, will be moving to Omaha in late June. Rabbi Brooks will serve w acting rabbi in the interim. "We are pleased to welcome Rabbi Azriel and his family to Omaha," said Mr. Epstein. "We look forward to a long and productive rolationahip."
Lincoln Federation leader sees ^marked increase' in pledges The Lincoln Jewish Welfare Federation ha» neai^ cownihted tU hud raiaing «ff«t lor the dursnt year, according to general chai^ man Max Neiden. The Women's SecUon, headed by Sonia BrMow, finiahed with a substantial increase over the previous drive. With 94 percent of the men's cards completed, an ioooase ia likewise assured. Mr. Naidan sakL Mr. Neidan has been assisted in the men's efiort by co-chairmen Rkhard Evnen and Bryan Miale. PreaUent of Neideo Iron and Metal Co., he has seruad M a board Boember, a truataa, and as a saoatary of Tifereth Israel Syaagogutk He haa aiao aarvad as prasUant of both Unoob City Lodge and Southweat RMrioi of B-bai B'rtth aa wm as the Uncofai Hebrew Mr. Neiden haM partici-
pated activdy in nearly «very Fedaratton annual campaign' and was campaign ehi&BDUi uttm yaart aga Mr. Miaie, representing the next generation of leadership, is a member of B'nai B'rith, a Federatkn board member, and served as co«hairman with Michael Keller, charged with secm^ ing financial backing for the recant Theodore B&d concert. Mr. Miale serves as general manager of the Misla Chevrolet and Importa Cot Mr. Evnen. alao a mmber of the next generation of Jewish leaderttiip, ia a membar of tha Fadiratkm board. He alao aervea on the Mayor's Film and Televiaion Committee, and ia a membar of the ttkoda of Sheldon FifaM and Uw AhMMi Aaaociation of tha LJaaoht I eartirahlii fitmirH^tt Mr. Evnsn ia praaUant of
tha Lincoln Poultry and^ EggCa In reviewing the 1968 campaign. Mr. Neidan aaid, "I thank my Bryan and Richard, and '. hapeithaabsenai and laaming azparieitce fa theae two Artura drive I era. Thia year'a effort _ suited in a marked increaa*" in fimda pledged; we hops future drivee will reflect even greater gaina."
GOARC names Joan Marcus to lead association ^ Joan K. Marcua has baa elected preaident of the Qraatar Omaha Aaaodation for Batarded Citiitoa (OOAJIQ^ Mra.. Marcus, a native Onkahan, has a«rvad OB the QOASC board of dlndota aiBM 1969. OwiBC that tiatk aha has varWtaiy haU the ppaitiona of (fret vice (nddeat, SHond vice prtaldnl and racordiag sea*-
•^ partnt of two dkS•tPMor PariL dran, ana • danduar with TUa yMT's NCCJ aMMal raUrdvUoo, Mrs. Bntksrtood Ward nciBi- kiMcua bacaae a GOARC eats an tha late Oataha laMBlw to 196e. Moror Band* SiaMm fad OQARC ia aa advocacy OrTlM Watar^irfcinilnrat. tttgttutiaa that a»lW«anilTofNiferaal^ Ifliptae about tka <><»a*al
tardatfam. halpa to develop enpkisnaMnt opportunities (or ane^ iwltvidiMis. and croatea programa that maft thak aaada and thoae of thiir fukOiea. GOARC. • maaber ^(MBcyofthaUBitadW^ of the Midlands, was iouodad ia 1961 sod ctt^ rantly has 326 meaabera. Mrs. Mar«HS Is tha first wosMH nwant and «ha In* Jasrtohaadtki Cwreat GOAIC pny graaia hiciails Pflat PMBtA a nvport jpraiy lar parsBta of wi«afcn««tdid diOdPMi Pr#Ht 11. a mU-nm with mmM rataittotlMK
• ofi by GOABC and teau tnm the Un. Marcua ia a board of tha Nahraaka lor Ratardad Citiasaa aad, laat year,
tion's state nominating committee. She alao haMb the Eastera Nabrashia Community Offka of Mental RaUrdatioa'a Soath-araa Parent Group and is a BMntbar ( thaENCORadviaaqrl I Her activitiea iaclv4 work with tha _ Chapter of the Amaricea Red C^oss. Sines 1964. shs has dona vohwtesr work with ths Sad Oross bkwd ssrvioasoalL Un. Marcua ia alaa a aaaabar af that or I's DiaMter AsBtTaam. Par tha paat two yeara. bean a Mrs. MarmsI haa ' MwkaraftkyO—J>>{ »OMte^rM
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National Conference of school children who will Jewish Women will co- reach adulthood early in the sponsor a one-day confer- next century. The conference is deence on June 16 in Lincoln. The conference topic will be signed to to acquaint Ne"Investing in the Good Life; The Role of Early Childhood braska policy makers and advocates with an overview Education." of the national scene as well According to Wendy Manvitz, conference publi- as information on several cist, "There is wide recogni- models in Midwestern tion within the business states. It is anticipated that community that the na- approximately 300 persons tion's economic stability will be invited to attend. will be threatened if educaThe cost of the conference tional development is not will be partially covered maximized for the one-in- through funding from the four disadvantaged pre- Center for Early Education and Development at the University of Minnesota
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Oliver Pollak will be the In addition, it was agreed guest speaker at the June Chuck Arnold, Jewish Community Center Health that the present system for 15 Breadbreakers hincheon. and Physical Education children's fitness testing Mr. Pollak, who is an attordirector, recently partici- does not accurately measure ney, a professor of history pated in the first JCC/JWB or track the most important at the University of Ne(Jewish Welfare Board) components of fitness. braska at Omaha, and a Youth Fitness Conference in The group concurred that founding member of the Ne New York. JCCs are effective in offer- braska Jewish Historical Over 30 H & PE educa- ing enjoyable fitness activi- Society, will bring us up to tors at the conference con- ties for children and can de- date on his research on the cluded that today's children velop and provide programs history of B-'nai B'rith in are not as physically fit as about good health and fit- Omaha. children in past years and ness for children. Breadbreakers meets at that physical education proHoward Johnson's, 72nd Also attending the confergrams do not provide suffiand Grover, at noon every cient programming for the ence were pediatric and or- Wednesday. Cost for lunch thopedic doctors. average child. is $6.
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HENRY MONSKY B'NAI B'RITH Henry Monsky Lodge of B'nai B'rith will sponsor an evening at Rosenblatt Stadium for the veterans at the Veterans Administration Medical Center. This year's evening at Rosenblatt will take place June 14, 7 p.m., when the Omaha Royals play Rochester.
Marti and Jim Harris announce the May 20 birth of a daughter, Leanne Gail. Grandparents are Maureen and Sid Rosenblatt and Janice and Shelly Harris. Great-grandparents are Ann and Aaron Epstein of Omaha, Rae and Joe Rosen of Shawnee Mission, Kans., and Anne and Ed Rosenblatt of San Luis Obispo, Calif. Great-great-grandfather is Abe Kaplan of Omaha.
Co-prcflident nominees Cathy Cliristensen, left, and Claudia Sherman, right, pose with their daughters, Jessica Ciuistenaen, standing, and Jill Sherman, seated.
OPJ to hold elections Women's American ORT will hold installation of officers on June 26, 2 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center. The following slate of officers has been nominated: Cathy Christensen and Claudia Sherman, co-presidents; vice presidents: Judi Finkle, education; Ricki Skog, special projects; Judy Siff, membership; Lynne Saltzman, JCC relations; Robbi Kudym, recording secretary; Marilyn Arenson, corresponding secretary;
Kathy Malashock, treasurer. Parliamentarian and past president is Carol Nathan. The installation will be part of ORT's 60th Birthday celebration, which will include a tree planting in honor of Israel's 40th birthday and ORT's 60th. A family picnic will be included in the aft^oon's activities. For additional information or to vcdunteer to assist with the the event, call Denise Ipock, 334-2961.
Beth and Gary Nachman announce the June 1 birth of a son, Martin Jacob. Grandparents are Marlene and Elliott Hechtman, and Mimi and Leonard Nachman of FRIDAY, JUNE 10 Bumsville, Minn. Beth El Second Shabbat Dinner, 6 p.m., Beth El Great-grandparents are MZ Yoshanah Freshman Weekend, 8 p.m. ^ Rebecca Wolf of Laguna SATURDAY,JUNE 11 , Hills, Calif., and Jeanette Andrew Rich Bar MItzvah, Beth El P Rosenbloom of St. Paul, Daniel Wisnosky Bar MItzvah, Temple Israel Minn. SUNDAY, JUNE 12 Artza Seminar, 5 p.m. Adult Nature Hike and Picnic, 2 p.m.. Fontenelle Forest MONDAY, JUNE 13 Friedel Academy Exec., 7:30 p.m.. Day School USY, Candidate Membership Training Parents' Swim Team Meeting, 7 p.m. Federatk>n Personnel Practices Committee, 7:30 p.m. YES, 10 a.m. TUESDAY,JUNE 14 Henry Monsky/B'nal B'rilh Group Will Sponsor the vets at a Royals Game \MEDNE80AY, JUNE 15 XC BulkUngs and Grounds Committee, 4 p.m. B'nai B'rtth BraadbrMiwrs, noon, Howardjohnson's Beth El Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m.. Beth El AZA 11 Concert, 6 p.m. THURSDAY, JUNE 1« Library Book Discussion. 1 p.m. Walk-in Drop-in, 10:30 a.m., Beth El Beth Israel Sisterhood Leadership Training,
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) - laneU Premier Yitzhak Shamir arrived in the United States fw a fiy«<lay visit oo June 6 to meet^iMth Jewish groups and addiMs • apecul aeasion of the U.N. GMMTSI Assembly on disv^ mament , NEW YORK (JTA)-Dr. Mtir H«ih ha« bMa alM^ttd chainnan of the board of directors of the Bank LMUDI Tniat Company of Ntw York.
Joditli Soltaman, right, chairman of Oatoway Rcgioa of B'nai B'rith Women. inatoUa Goldye Goldberg as ptvoident of the Omaha chapter of BBW.
BBW installs officers B'nai B'rith Women held its installation of officers recently at the Wedgewood Club. Bess Aronoff and Beveriy Franklin were event • choinneiL A procram by The Bell Ringers from South High School followed dinner. Elton Albin providod individual flower candy de«Mrta. Jwty Salttman of Englewood, Cota. prtddntolthe B'nai B'rith WomM Gateway Ragioo. wo* the inataUing offiew. Nowhr bwtaltod officars are: GoUlyt Goidbarg. praotdent; vka praaidnta: Sara Wtibon. tuadl roUng: rrto-
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SOPHIE LEVEY - Graveside services were held on June 2 at Mt. Sinai Cemetery in Sioux City, Iowa, for Sophie (Toots) Levey. 83. Mrs. Levey is survived by her husband. Joe J.; daughter, Shirley Rae Salkin of Dallas; two granddaughters. NATHAN NOVAK Services for Nathan Novak, who died Wednesday at his home at 3703 Mormon street, will take place today at U a.m. at B'nai Israel Synagogue, Council Bluffs. Survivors include his wife, Wanda; son, Bruce of Chicago; daughters, LeAnne Nathan of Buffalo Grove, III, and Nancy Lee of Englewood, Colo.; brothers, Ike. Julius and Sidney, of Omah« Art of Tempe, Ariz., Elmer of Tampa, Fla., and William of Denver; sisters, Ann Hemmingway and Sally Rosen of Omaha, and Miriam Mayer of Tucson; and two grandchildren. Mr. Novak, 56, a former board chairman of the Omaha Housing Authority and a principal in several business enterprises, most recently was employed as a stockbroker. MARILYN KAIMAN Graveside services for Marilyn (Mary Kay) Kaimon, 46, of 913 Fawn Parkway, were held Thursday at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. She was found dead in her home Wednesday. Survivors include hushed, Saul; son Bruce; daughter, Julie; and brother Donald Hoverman.
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Andy Rich Andy Rich, son of Bev and Lou Rkb, will become a Bar Mitzvah on June 11 at Beth El Synagogue. He will share this day with Michail Priven of the Soviet Union, whose Jewish heritage has heexk denied. Andy is a seventh-grade stodent at Beveridge Junkr High School. Andy has a brother, Jon. Grandparents ai« Choiiotte and Gene Rkh and the late Gertrude and Louis Weiaberg.
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_ treadwinnen Cafe and Bakery is celebratliig its one-year anniversary at its present location in Regency Court. On June 10, cuatomers will be served free champagne and birthday cake. When owner Beth Rips moved Breadwinners from Countryside Village to Regency, she expanded its capacity from 32 to 92, added a private party and meeting room and a beer and wine license. Breadwinners specializes ^ in "made from scratch" cooking for breakfasts, lunches, parties and catering, according to Ms. Rips. All baked good are made on the premises and she said she has added fruit- and nutfilled oat bran bread and muffins to accommodate the public's interest in cholesterol-lowering products.
Templetown award outrages two Jewish groups By Yitiliak Rabi Abraham Fozman, naNEW YORK (JTA) - tional director of the AntiTwo migar Jewish organiM- Defamatian League of B'nai tions protested the award- B'rith, and Rabbi A. James ing of the S369,000 Temple- Rudin, national interreliton Prize to Dr. Inamuliah gious affairs director of th» Khan, secretary general of ' American Jewish Committhe World Muslim Con- tee, both expressed outrage gress. They accused Khan and shock in aqiarate letand his organization of be- ters to Sir John Templeton, ing anti-Semitic and anti- who eetablished the price in Israel. 1972 to encourage progress The congress has ob- in religion. server status at the United In his letter, Foxman Nations and is financed by charged that the congrtae is Saudi Arabia. A proponent openly anti-Jewish and en^ of Moalem unity. Khan is dorses Holocaust revithe first Moslem to win the sionism, denial of the Nazi award. ^ . genodde against the Jews.
Gary L. Goldstein of Bahr Vermeer & Haecker, Architects, has been jiamed vice president and secretary. He is also manager of the Omaha office and chairman of strategic planning. The company has offices in Lincoln, Omaha and Los An-
Marshall Lewis has been named senior vice president of the investment firm of Blunt Ellis & Loewi Incorporated. * Mr. Lewis has been in the securities business for over 16 years, including 13 at Blunt Ellis & LoewL
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NCJW mini-grants Stndenta and teechcn at the FtaakMB Leaniiog Center are benefiting Cram the Natlmal C<wiicil of Jewlah Women's mini-gTant project. Two thirdipaNle students, above, act oot the story of King Arthur in one of the projects funded by NCJW, Omaha eectioa.
In addition, Fozman pointed out, the congress also questions Israel's right to exist. "An anti-Semitic organization like the World Muslim Congress should not receive an honor recognizing ita contribution to progress in religion," Foxman said. "To give the Templeton Prize to Dr. Khan is to tarnish that prise and to demean the achievements of worthy previous recipients, such as Mother Tereea and Alekaandor Solzhenitsyn." Rudin wrote Templeton that "Khan's anti-Israd and anti-Jewiah public record ahould have immediately disqualified him frt>m such prestigious prize—one tliat has in the past been awarded to true agents of ' reconciliation and mutual respect among the religicois of the world. Because of the noble and worthy purpose of the prize. Dr. Khan's selection is all the more dismaying/' Templeton is a Tennesseebom Wall Street investor who now Uves in the Bahamas. The New York Times quoted the 73-yearold Khan as saying, "Moslems will not rest until all of Palestine is vacated from the wrongful and illegal occupation by the Zi(»iist entity." But The Times noted that Khan has bem criticized by other Moslem groups for maintaining ties between the congress and the Jewish organizations.
Documents suggest Waldheini knew By Tamar Levy GENEVA (JTA) - Photographi of documents showing that Auatrian President Kurt Waldheim had to be aware of the dqMvtation of Jews to Nazi concentration camps as early as 1942 were pubUshed in the Zurich newspaper Sonntages-Zeitung. The documents, which come from the Yugoslavian war archives, also link Waldheim dfrectly with orders to execute Yugoslavian partisan fighters in Banja Luca village in 1942. In the same edition of the newspaper, Manfred Meeserschmitt charges that these documenta were suppressed when an international committee of historians named by the Austrian government pubUshed the results last January of its yeariong investigation of Waldheun's wai^ time activities.
findings, and now it ia juat put away in a drawer. It is a scandal," he said. Messcrachmitt said the commission intends to publish the full report on its own if the Austrian government fails to do so. The r^MHt, made public nearly six months ago, does not exonerate Waldheim's conduct But it found no evidence that he was directly involved in deportattoos, ezecuticms and atrodtiee committed by the Wehrmacht unit he served in as an intelligence officer. The report found, however, that Waldheim must have had knowledge of these occurrences. It criticized him for taking no stqis to stop them or even proteet • ItiankstoyoufcrALLOFUS
Messerschmitt was a West German member of CARL JARL the panel, which was headed by Swiss military historian LOCKSMITHS Hans-Rudolph Kuiz. The report was submitted to the Austrian government but only extracts were released to the pubUc. Mesaerschmitt, in an interview in the I Call the Professional I Swiss newspaper^ deplored \ for I the fact that the Vienna i Pest Control | government has failed so far to publish the full report ATLAS "We were promised by Pest Control the government that all our protocols will be made pub- I ^i&Di. 558-3094 lic We worked hard for oar ' Moiquito '
The Jewish Cultural Arts Council wishes to thank the following individuals aAd organizations (aiid their volunteers) who contributed to making Yom Ha'Atzmaut a smashing success!
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HAIFA — Violence and street fiots by Arabs against Israel are caused, it is said, by their opposition to Israel's occupation of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and by their desire for a state of their own in that area. If only the Israelis would withdraw from all occupied territories, blessed peace would descend on the Middle East. Some governments in the world, and even some Jews, subscribe to that view. The occupation is the curse. But what was the situation like before the Six-Day War, before Jordan's assault on Israel, and before the Israel Defense Forces repelled the Arab Legion and occupied the territories in question? From 1948 and until 1967, the tortuous and elongated border between Israel and its neighbors was annually the scene of dozens, scores, hundreds of Arab raids across the line. IsraeU men, women and children were killed indiscriminately, villages were attacked, houses blown up, civilians kidnaped in an unending Arab guerrilla warfare. What did they want then, before there was any occupation? Between May 19&0, when the Armistice lines were "guaranteed" by the Great Powers, and up to October 1953,421 Israelis were killed or wounded and there were 128 acts of sabotage involving explosives, as well as 866 armed attacks, many of which, fortunately did not end tragically. The situation continued to deteriorate thereafter. On Oct. 26, 1953, Abba Eban, with his inimitable eloquence, gave voice to Israel's cry: "The whole of Israel is a frontier imder constant siege. Anything which the Arab states can do to paralyze or disrupt our life is done with organized deliberation. We are b^ieged, blockaded, ambushed, shot at, undermined and abused. I am astonished less by the occasional breakdown of restraint and compassion which mark the vision of a liberal and merciful Israel, than I am amazed by our people's general record of restraint under unimaginable provocation day by day and night by night." In 1966, to take one typical year, there were 257 Israeli casualties along the frontier—75 dead, 179 wounded and three taken prisoners. Where did the terrorists come from? Egypt and Gaza were the source of 53 patent. Jordan, including the West Bank, 23 percent; Syria, 22 percent; and Lebanon, two percent. And all this was before the occupa-
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has . issued a report of a fact-finding mission to Israel, Jordan, Egypt and the West Bank. Excerpts bom the executive summary of that report are for your information as follows: The Palestinian uprising can be traced to many factors, some more immediate, some longer-term; social, economic and political forces all came into play. However, the fundamental cause of the "revolution of the stones" is unquestionably political: deep Palestinian :' frustration with the continued Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, with the lack of concern in the Arab world, and with the ineffectiveness of the PLO or any other external party to end the occupation ... The immediate effect of the uprising has been to make a negotiated settlement of the Palestinian problem more difficult to achieve. Violent clashes have hardened attitudes on both sides; each feels leas able or willing to make concessions to the other. Voices of conciliatian and compromise are losing ground. In Israel, the uprising has further polarized the polity between those who believe a solution to the Palestinian problem lies in territorial compromise, and those who do not. Until this cleavage is resolved, no Israeli government will likely be able to move forcefully on the peace process... For the Palestinians, the uprising is viewed as a great achjevement Their success in disrupting the status quo has had a radicalizing effect, making them less willing to compromise the minimum goal of an independent Palestinian state... Jordan's inflnence in the West Bank has been undermined by the uprising. In an environment dominated by the rhetoric of Palestinian nationalism. King Hussein is less able than ever to assume a leading role in resolving the Palestinian problem. At the same time, he and other moderate Arab leaders view the need for a settlement as more pressing... If it first appeared that the violence in the territories had created an opportunity for a negotiating breakthrough in the peace process, the unabated continuation of hostiLties appears to have had the effect of making the conflict more intractable. Increasingly, Israel feels unable to negotiate until the uprising is brought under control, while the Palestinians see no need to negotiate—on the contrary, most believe they can reach the goal of an independent state only by continuing the uprising, while the most radical Palestinian element is intoxicated by the dream that more violence will lead to the eventual destruction of Israel itself. It is hard to predict how this deadlock will be broken, if at all. An important factor to coilsider is the "equation of pain"—which side can inflict and endure more pain. If Israel is able to subdue the uprising will the Palestinians become more realistic in their political demands, or will they only be further radicalized? Will the political and (]l(£tttt(sir@ to th<& (gdltorl psychological coats of the uprising and continued occupation move Israel to make political concessicms to the Palestinians, or will Israelis be convinced of the need to take The JmUk^naangervea the light to edit letttn for limharsher measures in dealing with the territories? MM at leagth or coateat. The ultimate answers to these questions will have great bearing on the future of the peace process and Amarican To the Editor diplomacy in the Middle East. My grest-gratt-grandfather first moved to Omaha before St. Louis. Attached is some basic infonnatioo that I've atraady eoBsctsd from family msmbars, rsMareh etc His name was Abraham Nathan (Avrahsm/Avnun Nochim) SfflMrmaiL He was married to MoOie (Malke) and (Foundad In 1920) had four ehOdrvn, two of whom may still bs in Omaha (or Oliver Pollak thsir daacwdantsh B«sm Finar's and Anna Ravits's Boardal Dncaora dsseandants. Bowl tiiwi*m: ahali Prtuck. vto* praMM; SoM MKkMn. kMHnr, BonAbriluun and MoiUs bagot Moaaa who begot Julie who nla Honitch Mcratvy. ja Kuataar BafenoM. HMil 8Un»y H. Bnxilia. FtontM marriad Joa Qua (Julie and Joe are nqriMnnta). llaUwdiad aiMs. Ptnny EmMiMn. RWivdF«Mn. Awon HoMyk. BHt Lml*. PWWa NMHiMn, Mwtlyn Prad. Judy 8W, Qkicte Wmnw. in St. Louis in 1911. Abraham N. Si&annan died in St Looiain 1908. Morris MaNne Although I'm not sure, I think' thajr cams to America' EdMor-MSiM around 1881-1887. Anna RaViU came to the the U.& in JudNhlMrtMig ShwylFftiAMn MwKtyFnM MHuglngEdHor OMo* Mvwgw/BoaMMIMr AdMrtiMg Coan«n«or 1887 at tha age ol about 12 aeocrding to the 1900 can«ia raport. Thajr war* apparratly or poaaibly bora ha Jvi Wayn* Dora atwfrwi Baiogoradka, Biiaaia. I'v« baM told that Fannia Silheraan Hartman (1881Tlw agncta o« •• Fada»a*on ara: JVMSh PTMS Cawiiiinaii nalaauin 1981) want to Undargvtan k Omaha (youngeat chiU of JMWI F«i«y Iwvlw JWHn CoflMnunMy Canfar Abraham and Maika). Omaha4>aaad namaa/daaoMidanU tppaar to be Carp, Qytran. aOharman. WUtnan. BaiAla. Graanfiaid—daaraiidawtf of Baaaia ^l^tnnm FfeHis. Ravits. Gandkr. KliBovaky, Cooper are dsaeandanta of San and AnnaSUbanuM.
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tion, when there was no alien Israeli force imposing its will and its "tyranny" on the Arab population. What was the tenor like in those days? Examples from the almost daily news give a good picture: Oct. 13,1963— a mother and two children murdered in their sleep at Moshav Yahud, just south of Petach Tikva. Tracks led across the nearby border to the West Bank village of Raktis. Dec 10,1953—a member of Kibbutz Eiq Shemer shot by infiltrators while walking near Karkur, in central Israel. Maach 17, 1954—Arab gunmen ambush and attack an Israel ius at Maaleh Akrabim, south of Beersheba, murdering 11, including women and children. June 30,1964—Jerusalem suddenly became a target of Jordanian fire when machine guns, stena, rifles, grenades and two-inch mortars opened up frgi;|i the Old City walL It continued for hours and was rq>eated sevo-al days later. Casualties: four dead and 27 wounded. Sept. 26, 1954-two villagers killed and two wounded near Aahkelon by an armed gang from the Gaza Strip. Even these do not tell the whde story, for there were hundreds of instances where our defense forces succeeded in foiling the attackers. And so it wmt, day after day, for years. On another occasion, as the Fedayen crossed the nearby borders to carry out their deadly missions, Eban declared: "I do not remember any moment since the Arab invasion of Israel in 1948, at which the hostility and lawlessness of the Arab governments were at so high a pitch over so wide a front." This went on for years. Freight trains were blown up, farmers murdered in their fields, soldiers ambushed and killed, childr^ attacked by snipers, mines laid, as gangs came across to bum, kill, steal and destroy. And how easy it was in those days, when the border between Israel and the West Bank was at some spots less than IS miles fiom the sea, and the whole of central Israel lay exposed to the marauders. What wss it they wsnted thm, before withdrawal was on the agenda? For the sake of peace, we are told, we should return the occupied lands and go back to the good M days priw to 1967. The "good M days" when every Israeli was within target distmce of hostile Arabs in tiie West Bank and Gaza, or within rifle shot of the Syrians looking down on the kibbutzim of the north from then" Golan heights. There are families in Israel today that mourn members who were killed at the archaeological lecture in Ramat Rachel, near Jerusalem, or the tractor driver from Maoz Haim in the Beth Shean valley, or the two soldiers i^bushed near the Ayalon Valley, or the woman killed while picking oUves. The list is tragically long. We repeat, Israel was not then an occupying power, but this did not deter the Arabs—the same who carried out Che mass pogrom in Hebron in 1929, who cut a bloody swath through the country in 1936-39, who sought to collaborate with Hitler—and in 1948 endeavored to strangle the infant state of Israel before its birth. If tha« is a generation now which did not live during those times, or has forgotten what the situation was then, they should be told. It may cause them to reconsider their simplistic solution—just withdraw. The situation certainly is not hopeless. Israel has survived far greater crises—and today we are stronger than ever before. The sotutkn to the Palestinian desire for a state of their own cannot and must not be at the expense of a secure Israel If we stand firm, without weak hearts, we can yet convince the worid of that. But first, we must root out doubts and the qdrit of defeatism in our own midst.
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Sabbath Candlelighting for Friday, June 10, 8:38 p.m. This week the Omaha Committee for Soviet Jewry Suggests Omahans write to Beth El Beth Israel Temple Israel Avraham Gutldn of MosSynagogue Synagogue SERVICES: cow. Friday: 7:30 p.m. SERVICES: Mr. Gutkin, now 70 years SERVICES: Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks Rabbi Paul Drazen and Friday: old, alone and ill, was a and Cantor Harold Firerespected senior lecturer Cantor Emil Berkovits stone will officiate. Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 will conduct the services. and professor of physics, p.m. The Oneg Shabbat folknown for his research in Friday: 6 p.m. lowing the service will be Saturday: the field of gas absorption. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Morning service, 8:46 Kiddush follo?nng serv- sponsored by Roberta and He applied for an exit visa ices. Mike Wisnosky in honor of a.m. In the absence of Cantor in 1982 in order to reunite Minha-Ma'ariv, 8:60 the Bar Mitzvah of their Fettman, the service will with his daughter and p.m. son, Daniel. be conducted by Aron Zeigrandchildren in Israel. So- Sunday: 9 a.m. and 6:30 Saturday: 11:16 a.m. derman. viet authorities refused his p.m. BAR MITZVAH A kiddush luncheon folrequest on the grounds that Weekdays: 6:66 a.m. and Daniel A. Wisnosky, son he or close family had been 6:30 p.m. of Roberta and Mike Wis- lows the service in honor involved in classified work. nosky, will become a Bar of the 60th wedding anB'NAI MITZVAH niversary of Ruth and Sol His family has protested Andraw Ridh, son of Mr. Mitzvah at Shabbat servthat he was never involved and Mrs. Louis Rich, will ices on Friday, June 10, Mezey. 'The kiddush luncheon will be sponsored by in classified work and do become a Bar Mitzvah on and Saturday, June 11. the couple's children, not, to this day, understand Friday evening, June 10, Georgia Anne and Seywhy he was turned down. Lincoln and Saturday morning, Steinberg and DebOmahans may write to June 11. B'nal Jeshurun mour bie and Michael Shukert. Nicole Lemer, daughter SERVICES: Mr. Gutkin at ul. Somskaya Class with the rabbi, 12/17, apt. 5, Moscow, of Dr. Gary Lemer, will be- Friday: 7:30 p.m. 7:46 p.m. come a Bat Mitzvah on RSFSR. USSR. Worship service Mincha, 8:30 p.m., folFriday evening, June 17, lowed by Shalosh S'eudos, and Saturday morning, Lincoln Ma-ariv and Havdalah. Offutt Air Base June 18. Tifereth Israel Sunday: SERVICES: MEN'S CLUB Morning Minyanaire Rabbi Howard Zyskind Men's Club Night at SERVICES: service, 9 a.m. conducts services in the Rosenblatt Stadium will Friday: Early Kabbalat Shabbat Weekdays: 7 a.m. and 8:30 Capehart Chapel every take place Jime 16. A Ball p.m. Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg FMc Supper will be served service, 6 p.m. Shabbat follows the at Beth El, foUowed by the Saturday: 9:30 a.m. SISTERHOOD Mondays and Thursdays: I service. baseball game. Beth Israel Sisterhood 7:16 a.m. will hold a Sundays: 9:30 a.m. Blumkln Home leadership training seminar on MIAMI (JTA)-Two re- able. There wore 64 inci- SERVICES: cent vandalism attacks on dents reported statewide in Friday: 7 p.m. June 16, synagogues in the Miami Florida last year. 9:30 a.m.Saturday: 9:30 8.m. area have increased the The residents and staff 2 p.m!, for In Miami Beach, Congrenumber of such anti-Semitic gation Beth Tfilah was hit of the Rose Blumkin all memZelinsky attacks in Florida for the May 2 by stone-throwing Home invite the families, bers. first four months of this vandals, who broke 11 win- volunteers and friends of Sisterhood president Beryear to 37. dows and damaged others. the residents to attend nice Crounse has named That number represents a Included in the damage was services in the Herbert Susie Shyken and Julee 100 percent increase com- a stained-glass Star of Gddateo Chapd. Kiddush Katzman to co-chair the pared to the same period David that hung over the bi- follows services on event. Lucille Zelinsky will last year. serve as facilitator. mah. The incident took Shabbat. The incidents in Florida place some time between There is no charge for are part of an increasing na- noon and 5 p.m. Council Bluffs the program. Lunch will be tional trend, according to The Jewish Tiibooe also served to all participants B'nal Israel Arthur Teitelhaum, South- reported that vandals and babyaitting will be em Area director of the armed with spray cans SERVICES: available. Call Mrs. ShyAnti-Defamation League of scrawled anti-Israel graffiti First and third Friday ken, 393-6816 or Mrs. B'nai B'rith. on two walls of Temi^ Zion each month, 7:80 pja. Katzman, 498-4360 by An Oneg Shabbat fol- June 13 for reservations. "There's no reason for the Israelite Center, recenUy, Jewish community to including "31 YR'a Ago lows the service. Mrs. Shyken noted that B'nai Israel Synagogue panic," Teitelhaum told The You Took The PLO's Miami Jewish Tribune, "but Landl" and 'Today you kill oHere services led by mem- Mrs. Zelinsky has outthese acts are a reminder to 14 YR old kids who throw bers of the congregation. standing qualifications in Volunteer Cantor Mandy this area and has orJews and Jewish institu- rocks!" ganized an excellent protions that there is every reaThe ADL is offering a Greene leads the •Inglnj gram. "We feel that this Everyone is invited to st;8on to be alert and make 11,000 reward for informatraining will better preproper security arrange- tion leading to the arrest tend. Parsons interested in car pare our membership for ments for synagogues and and conviction of the Jewish-owned property bo- offenders in the Beth Tfilah potds may call Scott Kot- productive roles in Sisterhood." zen, 402-663-3384! cause they are easy targets or Temple Zion cases. for anti-Semitism." FiguTM on the number of anti-Semitic acts naUooally FIRST SISTER TEAM NEW YORK (JTA) so far this year ars unavailElaine Zecher of Pittsburgh and 80 fallow students have two years to have executed By Edwin Eytaa been ordained as rabbis by Pt"F?nONALS at least sight of the Jewish PARIS (JTA) the Hebrew Union Collagevictims. liMlr dalms ooukl Jewish Institute of RiUi^ Delc«ates to the Int^ma-i not be verified. I just got home after Elaine snd RabU Deborah tional Confsienoe for the "We don't even know ' my Mcond stay in the Zecher of Westchester Re- Safeguard of Syrian Jews whether they are alive and, called tn Syrian Preahtait hospital, and I want to fonn Timpie in Scaredale if yea, under what condithank mj; friends and are the first slater team in Hafta Assad to aUow an aa- tions thsy arehaU." a memmy family for the timated 6.000 Jews wiw still rabbinical history. many oontributions in live in his cpuntry to «nn^ ber of one of the hootagae' famlUeasaid. my name and for all KAPLAN MEDAL grates Witnsesee and experts the cards and letters. NEW YORK UTA) The writers philoaophera 1 opened eadi one, and Chariee Lieber. head of the and BMBiMn M ParUament teetifying at theoonfsranoa you have my heartfelt Hebrew Publishing Com- attendtag the oonfamce saki that Syria's small Jewthanks for your enpany, has bean awanisd the alao ealad for the laUase of ish community, now cancancouragement Each Mordacai M. Kaplan Medal, 11 Lebanese Jews kid- tratad mainly fai Damascus, card brought the the higfaset honor bestowed napped in 1084 and 1M«. is suffering dlacriminatfaw needed lift Thanks by the Jewish Reeonatnic- The hceti^ai have not been and humlliatloB. Jews are also to Rabbi Draxen tloniat Foundation, lor "i^ heard frna eiaee their c«>- barrad from pobUe aarvlee and Rabbi NadofTand niflcant centributlans to the tora A tsmrist group catt- and univarslty atudlee, and Cantor Berkoviti for Re«aaatnMtknlal ing ita^ the Orgaaiiation ars froqusntty harassed by thair visiU. 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Parashat Shelah Lekha An encounter with the real world Much of the teaching of and North, then West, bethe Bible assumes a world fore they could enter? Further, before they enthat is ideal, where virtue is rewarded and wickedness is tered, again there had to be punished. a secret spying effort at The Biblical narrative Jericho. nonetheless proceeds to unIt is, alas, no different in fold in the real world. Teach- our real world in the twening is one thing; but the life tieth century. One takes it of men in the real world is for granted that our CIA, quite another. the Soviets' KGB, and evThus the Bible does not ery country's intelligence shrink from reality in its agents are active around the narrative jwrtions. There is globe. The details of Egypt's atdisobedience (Adam and Eve), murder (Cain and tack on Israel in 1967 were Abel), widespread disaster known in advance in Jerusa(the great Flood and Sodom lem, and Israel struck first. and Gomorrah), the tensions In 1988, when Israel struck and disappointments of against terrorists in Lebafamily life (Abraham and non, the terrorists were apSarah and Hagar and Ish- prised of the "surprise" atmael), sibling rivalry (Jacob tack in advance and were and Esau and many others), nowhere to be found. All of this does not surand human motivation that includes jealousy, ambition, prise us. But we look ruehatred, competition and fully at. the story of the much more—all of this be- spies in our Sidrah. Has this fore we leave GenesisI been the lot of mankind all In the rest of the Hu- these centuries? To distrust ,mash, and in iJie books that each other? To spy on each follow, nothing human fails other? To invade each to get att^tion. There are other's privacy and learn bravery and loyalty; there each other's cherished seare avarice and lust; there crets? are faithfulness and tri- - We have to strive for a umph; there are treachery- better world—but we must be prepared to encounter and despair. Our own Sidrah, if we the real world; and we must stop to think about it for a do both at the same time. moment, should surprise The Promised Land cannot and dismay us. If the Lord be 'reached excepting by Himself has led the Children idealists and optimists like of Israel out of Egypt to ac- Caleb and Joshua; but they quire the Promised Land, must recognize clearly the why should entry to it be so obstacles before them... And we too, no matter hand? Why did they have to send a scouting expedition what ambitions we may to spy out the land? And have, must reckon with the then the perilously long, cir- real world in which we per cuitous route to the East force find our lives eocircJed.
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Soviet Jewry leaders welcome rights emphasis : By David Friedman WASHINGTON (JTA)Leaders in the Soviet Jewry movement were pleased, but not surprised that President Reagan made human rights the center of his visit to Moscow for summit meetings with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. At the same time, no one was ready to predict that this would result in dramatic increases in the number of Soviet Jews allowed to emigrate from the USSR. "We live in h(^," said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewiah Organizations. Jerry Goodman, executive director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, streaaed that the Moscow summit is part of a continuing process that includes the four previous summits. "You don't get any immediate dramatic results," he said. Goodman said that especially since the Washington JWIPCEDY nwnUW CtNTER «• Look Good* &pm9*iy Low Cost. OMltyPflnilngtKtor* FiMnckUptMnry FM,
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this issue." Morey Schapira, former president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, also noted that not only did Reagan and Shultz give the Jewish community a commitment to stress the issue, but they "really care" about it. Schapira said that in addition, th« president Ipows the American people also support the effort for human rights. He noted that the INF agreement, which was ratified by the Senate contains an amendment approved by a voice vote urg ing the president "to stress the inherit link between respect for human rights and the achievement of lasting peace."
Denounces Israel By Yoeai Lempkowlts STRASBOURG, France (JTAI - The European Par liament in Strasbourg denounced acts of violence by the Israeli army in the administered territories and Israel's "refusal of all mediation efforts and of a fair solution to the Mideast conflict by the international community." In a reabiutian adopted by a short minority (30 in favor, 82 against), but in the abaenoa of moat of its 618 munbera, the Evropaan ComBiunlty's assambly aimulUnaoualy denouacad tamrlst attwdts by Palar tinian organizations or othara igaLut dvil Israeli targats. Tba rssohiUoaftkd tablMl by the Waat German Socialist Klaue Hansch with tha support of the SodaUat, Communist and acologist political |{roupa.
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By Lynda Frank Mary Bernstein teaches her students how to write. This, the Omaha Central High School English teacher said, may be among the reasons she was recently chosen as one of 15 teachers to receive the Alice Buffett Outstanding Teacher Award. "My students can write a letter," she said. Although the original nomination was made by Central High School Principal G.E. MoUer, former students also wrote letters recommending her fw the award, Mrs. Bernstein said. She added that 400 teachers from the Omaha Public Scbocd District were nominated for the award, which was started this year by Warren bufiett to honor his aunt. Alice Buffett was an Omaha Public School District teacher. In one of the letters, a former student described Mrs. Bernstein as "dedicated, enthusiastic and ene^ getic." The letter also told of the hours Mrs. Bernstein keeps and her openness with students. Mrs. Bernstein said vhe gets to school each morning by 5:30 a.m and works each day until 4 p.m. Evenings are spent grading papers at
Marlene Bemsteb home. On Saturday morning, she comes in to do filing. She has also coached the school's academic decathlon team for four out of the last five years. What makes Mrs. Bernstein's story unusual is, although she had wanted to be a teacher since she was six years old, she didn't enter college until the youngest of her four children began kindergarten. "I graduated fi-om Central in 1959, married the next fall and didn't start college until 1964," she said. Mrs. Bernstein was graduated magna cum laude from Omaha University, receiving a bachelor of arts with a teaching certificate, the same year her second oldest child graduated from Central.
(^ Mg^cofla MglkteJ By Eatdle RoaeiJierg The South Street Tanjple Sisterhood reoganizational meeting was held recently. Officers elected were: Judy McKeighan, preaklent; Bai^ bara Strausa, vi^ president; Lois Eisenberg, recording secretaty: Rita BabUta, corresponding secretary; Laurie 'Tavlin, treasurer/financial secretary. A copy of "Suggested Bylaws of Temple Sisterhood" was passed out in. preparation for discussion and reoHnmendations at the next meeting to be held June 14,7 p.m. Babyaitting will b9 avialble at $1 per chikL As preaident of Sisterhood, Mra. McKeighan will attoid District 30 Convention in Kanaas City. Oct. 1315. A aeccad delegate will be selected at the June 14
tic Finalist representing Lincoln East High School. He also qualified for AilAmerican honors on the parallel bars. In addition, he woo first' place in the Lincohi City Diving competition for the eighth time and was in the Region V Junior Olympic Diving Competition. He was chosen for "Kids Can Do" TV special and was a gymnast in the motion picture, "I'm In Control." Tifereth Israel Sisterhood has two new board members: Charlotte Kuklin will be circle coordinator and Helen Misle will welcome and encourage new membara.
Mrs. Bernstein said many of her friends couldn't understand why she wanted to work as a teacher. They thought she should be going to Hadassah meetings and playing Mah Jongg. She began her career teaching science at Monroe Junior High School when her youngest waa in junior high and her eldest was at Stanford University. However, "I had always wanted to teach at Central because my husband and I both graduated from there, my four children graduated from there and I did my student teaching there," Mrs. Bernstein said. When she graduated from college she said she "^ould never walk into a university again." But when she finally got a position at Central, she was given honors classes in American Literature and didn't feel comfortable, so she went back to school to obtain her master's degree. It took two years but, "It wasn't that hard, so I decided to go for my Ph.D." Two years ago, Mrs. Bernstein stayed with her son in California and spent six weeks doing research at UCLA for her thesis. She is currently in the process of writing it. Mrs. Bernstein says she loves teaching and has good rapport with her students. "I respect them all, whether they are in honors classes or regular classes," she said. Each of the BuffettAward winners received a check for $10,000 and Mrs. Bernstein said. "The money idea was brilliant. People judge success by money and it gives the award clout." Since her children are grown and she is almost finished with her own studies,, Mrs. Bernstein said she is using part of the money to help send her daughter to Israel this summer and is buying a white neon whale for the back of her classroom. "1 teach Moby IHdk," she explained. As for the remainder, "I'll probably use the money to pay my library fines..."
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By Ronnie Brockman We have been dealing, in previous articles, with issues on suicide—warning signs, intervention and what you as parents and teens should know. Unfortunately, we miss some of our young people. We do not intervene quickly enough or we tried, but there were stronger forces within the person to die. However difficult the normal bereavement process, suicide adds many layers of complexity and heartache. The death, as in an accidental one, is probably unexpected and thereby increases the shock. In addition, survivors of suicide are likely to feel a tremendous amount of guilt, anger and shame. Anger is to be expected in any case of untimely death. The anger which these mourners feel, however, is more likely to be directed at the one who has died and who seems to have caused the family'such anguish in a willful—not accidental—way. Guilt, moreover, is heightened. The merciless thoughts of "if only I had ..." are more persistent and self-blame all the more real. Not only do they feel guilty for contributBy GUver B. PoUak ing to the death, but they may also live with a suspicious University of Nebraska at sense that their friends, the comimiuity, or even other rela- Omaha tives also blame them. Breitman, Richard and Guilt may lead to isolation, then exacerbated by a sense Kraut, Alan M., American that "no one has ever been through anything this bad; no Refugee Policy and Euroone can understand my pain." Sadly, feelings like this make pean Jewry, 1933-1945, survivors of suicide particularly vulnerable to suicide them- Bloomington and Indiselves. anapolis: Indiana univa«ty By survivors of suicide, I mean those who have lost a Press, 1987, 310 pp. loved one or friend to suicide! These survivors include parThese two American ents, siblings, friends, etc. Often these people need help in University historians have dealing with their emotions, as well as the stigma of sui- provided what, to date, cide. They need to find some meaning in life, discover some stands as the most readable reason to continue and to escape from isolation. of the growing literature on For some, turning to their religion does not provide the America's response to the support needed in such a crisis. Omaha, as in other cities, Holocaust Historians of the has organizations that provide the emotional support Holocaust have a legitimate needed to help those suffering from losses such as the death obsession with a difficult of a child or loved one. question which defies the Because everyone deals with crisis differently, Judaism rules of simple logic. also tries to provide support for the survivor and/or The question is, "Why did mourner. Although Judaism does not condone suicide, Americans not do what is those who commit suicide are considered as not having bem right, moral and ethical with capable of understanding their own actions. According to regard to the victims of Rabbi Sholom Rivkin, head of the Orthodox Movement in Nazi oppression and thereSt. Louis, "Classical Judaism considers the taking of a by reduce the toll of?" The human life, even one's own life, a grievous sin against God. problem is that it is difficult We creatures do not own any life, not even our own. Life enough what did happen in belongs to God (see Ezekiel 18:4) Who gives it, and Who, history, let alone what did alone, may take it. Thus, no human being may take any not happen. How do hist(»ihuman life, not even his own. ans explicate the non-exist"Yet Jewish tradition, and its religious-legal system, ence of action. • halacha, compassionately recognizes and seeks justifiable At the center of the conextenuating circumstances for Mie who has, ab-eady, taken troversy is four-term Presihis life. Thus, we may often assume that the one who com- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, mitted suicide was not, at the time of his suicide, entirely the Washington Bureaurational in what he did, that he was under the pressure of cracy, and public opinion. some physical or psychological pain, and that, therefore, Breitman's earlier work on the act was not with full aforethought, thus mitigating the 20th-century Germany and fault involved." Kraut's research on tum-ofThe official Reform position is as follows: "One is con- the-oentury American imsidered a suicide only when there is absolute OBrtainty that migration ^story combine the individual premeditated and committed the act with as excellent credentials for a clear mind, not troubled by some fear or worry which this book. might beset him for the moment and cauae him temporarThey have produced one ily to lose his mind. In the absence of Mch certain evidence, of the few single-volume he is given the benefit of the doubt. Whenever poMibte we studies that covers both the should try to spare the surviving relative* the disgrace pre-war and wartime periwhich would come to them by having tbtir relative dedarad ods, and thus provide cona suicide." tinuity generally lacking in In general, ail denominations of Judaism have a liberal the literature. perspective on suicide. The act of miicide is coodemiied as Th«y podt four main ara violation of the dignity of man as tli* kaovdnee* at life guments to explain Amerigiven by God. But it is difficult to make a death fit legal ca's low-key policy. Amerirequirements which would make it qual^ as a suidde in ca's pre-existing immigrahalakic terms. tion laws war* rastiictive. Rabbi Jim Beonett froin Congregatiao Shaaie Emeth in The SUU Department was St. Louis, also servee as a member of tlw Union of Ameri- committed to a narrow incan Hebrew Coofragattals (UAHC) Task Force on Youth terpretatkm of its functions suicide. Aemrding to Rabbi Bennett, we most look at tliia and to the protection of issue not from the end result, soidda, but from what we American intaiests alone. can provide for our teenager* in growiag to beeome a Afflsriean pubUc ofiUan opstrong, young adult He feeis we Jews, with our youth pooed Immigration, anwgroups, religioua eciKnl* and family, help to buiU one's ealf daOr (hiring a dspnaaloa identity and self-estaem. •no* it piQnii**d to iiicnaH Judaism views with conoem the raeent apkiimle of youth th* unampleraMnt pr^>hnr sukjde. In an att«ai|>t to revns thia tnad, those who work and po**d the apict*^ ot with young peoiite uae our r*equro*s to teach and h*ip our "Vluty to beoonM a puhUe youth, parents, snd famibs* of sttlcki**. W* ssek to hnpart charge." to our youth s recognition of the uniiyinMes a< one's own Furthamora, iiMri^Hits life—including one s own—Is tantamount to saving the may be fifth cdttmiata worU. Bsrviog the iatsrwto ol attimbtOmvecmmamim. 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tant to accept the inherent political risks of humanitarian measures urged on him by the Secretary of Labor Franoes Perkins, and representative of American Jewish organizations. The State Department official, Breckenridge Long, who has previously been labeled an anti-Semite, is recharacterized as a paranoid concerned about his own career. This does not change the deletorious impact of his restrictionist policy. FDR could count on Jewish votes at the polls whether or not be employed executive power to save Jewish lives. This is a study in bureaucracy and bureaucrats. The red tape associated with validating the reports of the Final Solution and the Nazi Death camps is incredible. The tortuous explanations of why the military could not divert resources to bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz, and the death camp itself are a cover-up. This book is well documented, an obvious labor of meticulous attention to detail and verification of fact to explain actual policy in the face of what should have been the policy. It also recorgnizes that governments do things in wartime, like the removal of Japanese Americans bom the west coast to prisoner-of-war camps, that with the passage of time receive the condemnation they deserve. America's role in the Holocaust was more an error of omission than commission. This book can be read by scholar and stodsnt aUk* for ita coverage of the period 1933-1946, and for the traqsceadent moral iaauea it addrosses.
tthc JWV bivoMac By Henry Stem JWV Epstein-Morgan Poet 1260 will meet June 22 at Legion Post §1. At the last meeting. Chaplain Doc. Margolin offered the Pledge of Allegiance and prayers. Commander Sam Rosenstein held roll call and welcomed Julie From and Mannie Delgado. We welcomed Merle Potioah as a new member. Efforts are continuing to obtain a Congressional Medal of Honor for Tibor Rubin. We received a note from Michelle Kelley, national director of communications for JWV, to study issues in the forthcoming presidential election. Marg Keel, chief of volunteer services at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, requested nominations for those making special efforts and asked for attendance at the Annual Recognition Ceremony. Congratulations were offered fw the recent JWV program at the V.A. Jill Pachman from New Jersey was accompanied by bet fa-
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A favorite old expression we used to hear was "only in America." It meant to convey the thought that no matter how outlandish, or how impossible, or how far-fetched, in America it could happen. I find myself often thinking the same thing about California. Don't misunderstand—some of my nearest and dearest arA (and have been for many years) residents of that golden state. But you must admit, we read and hear about events that couldn't occur any place else. Whether it's because of the climate or some other reasons, most Califomians seem to be much more "laid back" than the rest of us. I mean they take things a lot more calmly—they don't seem so inclined to get their feathers ruffled as fast as maybe easterners. Maybe it's because the film industry has contributed to the appearance of a nevei^never land; there's so much make believe and artificiality. I really have never studied the subject—I've only observed these attitudes. Years ago, before the entire country adopted a more casual dress code, when we still "dressed" to go out to dinner or the theater, Califomians were doing such things without being far-pootzed. The men gave up neckties a long time ago ago and I think probably inaugurated the open-coUar look in shirts. Alright, you say. So what? Who cares? You're right, of course. What started the entire train of thought was a little article I read in the paper the other day. It was a news story about two men hurt in a highway accident in Los Angeles. It seems the mishap occurred when they were driving and saw a naked woman on the road. The story didn't specifically tell how they got hurt but it seemed reasonable to imagine they were distracted enough to have an accident. Next paragraph explained that an ambulance was called, the men tended to and in the interim, the naked woman (who had been covered up and placed in the emergency vehicle) sped away in the ambulance. She was later stopped and arrested: I forgot the charge. Anyway, that was a ridiculous story. And after I read it I thought "only in California." Possibly, that's unfair. (In fact, the more I think about some of the incredible sights 1' ve seen on the sidewalks of New York, the more I realize I may just be giving California something it doesn't deserve.) At least I should say other places ^Sare some of the idiosyncrasies. But I still think there is a special feeling, a special attitude that applies more to CaUfomians than anyone else. But let's give credit where it's due—let's not forget there are marvelous universities and synagogues and museums and heaven know what else on the plus side, in addition to natural beauty in the form of mountains and oceans. No, it's not just the subject of jokes. California is a wonderful state with many attribute, so don't take offense. But I Bsk you, a naked woman on the highway driving off in a stolen ambulance. Where else?
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In search of Judah P. Benjamin By Joaeph Cohen Eh Evans has a lot of ctiriosity. Not enough to loll a cat, but enough to bag one—a big one. The cat be has bagged had about nine lives, all of them filled with enigma. For the past nine years, Evans, a chronicler of Southern Jewish life in The Providentials, has been in pursuit of the most elusive Southern Jew in American history, Judah P. Benjamin, known as "the Brains of the Confederacy." What Evans found out would fill a book. Indeed, it has filled a book. His superbly written biography Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate (The Free Press of MacMillan, $24.96) has not only just appeared but it has quickly gone into three printings. Up to now, Benjamin has always been something of an embarrassment to the American Jewish community. One of the first Jews ever to be admitted to Yale University, he left under a cloud of suspicion. Moving to New Orleans, he did not avoid, but also did not seek, any contact with its Jews. He married a Roman Catholic daughter of the Creole aristocracy and kept the marriage intact despite a lifetime of abuse and humiliation from a wife who choee to live apart from him, engaging in what was apparently an extensive string of scandalous adulteries. No nice Jewish girl for himi No Yiddishkeit. He built Belle Chasse, a showplace in its plantation setting where he kept many slaves. A Jew with slaves can hardly be countenanced in any era. It was no wonder he has been an embarrassment. What did he feel, what did he think? What was in his private heart? The absence of answers to these questions has led to the creation of an enigmatic legeaA fueleid by speculation. Iliere were other questions as well I6ng left unanswered by the fact that Benjamin meticulously destroyed his personal papers. Self assured, confident, brilliant, possessed of a
Yeshiva to open in Soviet Union JERUSALEM (JTA) The first Jewish rabbinical school in the Soviet Union in 60 years will open soon, a leading Israeli rabbi sAid this week. Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, a renowned expert on Judaism, told a press conference here that the Soviet Union has agreed in principle to reverse its policy and allow the opening of the Jewish religious training institute in Moscow under the direction of Steinsaltz. Steinsaltz said the agreement was negotiated with Yevgeny P. Velikov, a vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The new rabbinical school would "be a place for educating a new generation of rabbis in Russia," he said.
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The institute is to be part of a broader agreement between Soviet and Western scholars, Steinsaltz said, which will include collaboration on studying vast amounts of Jewish books, docxunents and manuscripts in private and public collections in the Soviet Union. He saki he hopes the project would be set up within a year. "Part of the team of scholars will extend thair sbay in the Soviet Union in order to form the basis of an institution to train a new generation of Soviet Jewish scholars and religious leaders," Steinsaltz said. He added that the institute may be connected with the Univer sity of Moscow.
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poaitiv« image of himself, one not lacking in ego, what, we wonder, did he have to hide. What was he running from. Finding the answers was the task Evans set for himself. It was conqdicated. The public record was easily come by: all of Benjamin's speeches as a United States senator are extant aa are scnne of tlie reminiscences of those who knew him—no doubt the t>e8t account survives in a long letter written by Varina Howell Davis, Jefferson Davis' wife, a remarkable woman who was devoted to Benjamin—but even the constant stream of letters he wrote to his inconstant wife living in Paris have disappeared. To make matters worse, the documents accumulated by Benjamin's first biographer, the Tulane historian Pierce Butler, went up in flames when Butler's country home burned. Like Butler, whose biography of Benjamin was publislwd in 1907, Robert D. Meade, Benjamin's second biographer in 1943, was not Jewish and neither of those biatorian* made any effort to understand Benjamin as a Jew. Now for the first time, a sensitive, perceptive Jewish writer, with a style tliat ia articulate, engaging and charming, with a command of history and knowledge of public life has produced what is already regarded as a definitive life story. It answers many of the questions and resolves most of the enigmas—some will probably always be there. Benjamin, "the dark prince" as Stephen Vincent Benet called him in John Brown's Body, emerges as a Jew after all, not a traditional one but certainly one in whom the American Jewish community can take pride. He was reared in an enlij^tened Jewish home. His father was one of the original founders of American Reform Judaism and when young Benjamin went off to Yale, he took his prayerbook with him. His treatment of his slaves was humane and he was among the first to urge their emancipation, to the extent that he enlarged upon his full cup of enemies in the South when he already had plenty in the North. As fw his leaving no personal records, Evans convincingly 1»'^>^^i"^ that Benjamin, as astute as he was, clearly underatood that he would be made into history's scapegoat, by the South for its loss in the war and by the North as a renegade Southerner who, so it was widely believed, was involved in the oonqiiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. To preclude that poeaibility, Benjamin obliterated his image wherever he coukL The story is intriguing and fascinating. Evans' recapturing of it ia nothing leaa than spectacular. He has given Judah P. Benjamin back to the Jews. That, in itself, is a substantial accompliahnwnt. But even more importantly, Evans' has reatored Benjamin to his significant place in American hiatory.
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Tennis champ Based on her performance in a recent State Endorsement Tennis Tournament, Lisa Coren, age 11, has been endorsed by the Missouri Valley Tennis Association to play in championship tournaments this summer. Only four 12-and-under girb were endorsed in Nebraska. Lisa, daughter of Fran and Mick Coren, will be in sixth grade next year.
The Bureau of Jewish education has successfully recruited and hired three full-time community teachers for the 1988-89 school year.
Freidel Academy holds games Freidel Jewish Academy teachn Nancy Meshke prepares to start the fifth-grade relay races at the Academy's "Maccabi Games" held this week. At the starting line are Daniel Rosenberg, left, and Jeffrey Katzman.
BBW announces program of 10 summer movies B'nai B'rith Women is sponsoring its 14th annual summer movie program for children in conjunction with Indian Hills 4 and Orchard 4 theaters. The movies will be shown from June 15Aug. 18, 9:30 a.m., on Wednesdays at Indian Hills 4 and on Thursdays at Orchard 4 . Season tickets for the 10 programs are available for $6.50; tickets purchased at the box office will be $2.50 each.
©g)®!?!^© ®M(oi gai^©©© By Chuck Arnold Much of what we call aging is not caused by the wear of activity but by lack of use. We assume that physical effort wears down the body. Rather, the body is rejuvenated b^ being worked harder. Physiologically, the effects of aging and disuse are indistinguishable. This is why it is so easy to attribute physical decline to growing old. However, the 60year-oid who says, "I can't do what 1 did at 30," is often using age as an excuse. For fully-trained exercisers, the loss of physical condition and strength is only 12-16 percent from age 21 to 60. The best way to keep the body young is to work it. First, regular exercise mildly stresses the heart so this oil-important muscle growi bigger and stronger. It pumps more blood with each beat, which allows it to alow down and relax on routine activitias. The heart fuBCtians more effidontly wlun we regularly woric it hvder. Activitiea tudi aa walking . bicycUng, swimming and running are eicelt tftnbk (heoft-hiog) ontoureiaa. Second, lyatematic waifht-reeiatance to bone itheloyinf down I and othir itroeI OompoMnta tlMt make tba boooa i^ow atnwfir, " " •
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Youth Leadership, and served as president of the National Honor Society. She is currently Sweetheart of AZA HINeil Silberstein Mr. and Mrs. Mark Silberstein, has earned the Presidential Academic Fitness Award in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. He is a ninth-grade graduate of Pound Junior High School in Lincoki, Neb. The award was presented during an honors convocation. In order to qualify for the award, Neil had to maintain a B-f average for the past five semesters. Lisa Shulman, daughter of Barbara and Hershel Shulman, was one of four students chosen from her class to receive the Most Representative Student Award. She was also accepted to attend the Nebraska Scholars' Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this summer. Lisa also received an award for Outstanding Accomplishment and Excelleoce in Social Studies. She is a junior at Millard North High School.
Israel's missile shield part of 'Star Wars' By Howard Rosenberg the Pentagon has been dragWASHINGTON (JTA) - ging its feet and has not The United States and Is- spent any of the money, a rael are negotiating a new Copitfd Hill source said. Memorandum of UnderThe 1989 Defense Autho^ standing (MOU) under the ization Bill, not yet in "Star Ware" program to • its final form, contains further develop a missile $60 million for the program that would shield Israeli cit- in the Senate version, and ies against Soviet SS-21 $75 million in the House missiles in Syria.
version. Israel's involvement In the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) began in 1986, following an invitation by then-Secretory of Defense Caspar Weinberger to NATO allies, larael, Australia, Japan and South Korea. The first U.S.-IsraeU MOU
on SDI was signed in May 1986, which led to an $11.6 million contract with the U.S. government to conduct research on electrical and chemical propulsion, shortwave chemical- lasers and theater defense architecture, according to last month's SDI report.
Edward Gnehm, dq>uty assistant secretary of defense for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, told two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees lost week that the United Statsa is moving "expeditiously" to sign an agrtamant to demonstrate the Anow ontitactical ballistic missile (ATOM) eorrsBtly in the research and development stage in Israel The misoile is a few years away from ds|tlojraisat Onehm said be worked on the MOU the weak of May 2 whoa he was in TsiAviv.lt would follow a MOU aignod lost D*cmnbsr nndsr whkh the U.S. Aimjr sgrsod to jointly develop Isroal's Arrow ATBM. That agreaniant aet a ooataharing forBBuia lor the Anrow, with the United States pa^finf 80 paroont of ths wspiiii'soost sad Israel
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AZA §1 job of leading our chapter. AZA §1 recently held^ He he^ied make our chapter chapter elections. The new what it is now—one of the officers are: Bert Cohen, strongest, most active chappresident; Alan Kricsfeld, ters in the region. vice president; Scott SayIan, secretary; Dan FeUman, Edye Hoffman, daughter treasurer. Two freshman representatives were elect- of Phyllis and Normand ed, Josh Cooper and Danny Hoffman and a graduating Culley. Sweetheart Dance senior from Brownell-Talchairmen are An Riekes, bot, was the recipient of the Bert Cohen and Mike Lisbeth Cherniak award Rosenblatt; the Sweetheart which is preseiited to the Dance has been tentatively senior girl with the highest academic average. scheduled for Sept. 3. BBYO's Spring Regional Other honors which Edye Convention was held in Ex-; received were the Schrager celsior Springs, Mo. Mem- Scholarship, Sherman Schobers who attended were Ari larship, Bradley University Riekes, Bert Cohen, Alan Special Scholar, Drake UniKricsfeld, Mike Rosenblatt, versity Presidential FreshDavid Skid and Scott Say- man Scholarship, Drake Ian. Founders Academic SchoAZA §1 received the larship, American UniverChapter of the Year Award sity Scholar, University of for the Mid-America Region Denver Honors Scholarship, which includes Omaha, Des University of Denver PreMoines, Kansas City, Co- Professional Scholarship, lumbia and St. Louis. This Carnegie-Mellon Traditional award was received for al- Scholarship, and Washingmost doubling our member- ton University Scholarship. ship fixim 23 to 45 members, Edye will attend Bradley raising chapter participation 50 percent, and dou- University in Peoria, 111. bling our monthly proShe also received the grams. DAR Good Citizen's Congratulations to Ari Award, which is given to Riekes for being elected one student in the city dissecretary-treasurer for the pla3ring outstanding leaderregion, and also to Kenny ship. She represented Polikov for being elected Brownell-Talbot at the Freeregional saigon (vice presi- dom Foundation in Valley dent) and for being named Forge, Pa., in her junior an honorary member of our year, received an Optimist chapter. Club award, was chosen as Ari Riekes, last term's a semi-finalist for the president, did an excellent Greater Omaha Council on
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