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Bobbie Epstein to lead 1988-89 Women's Campaign Storm hits JCC campus High-Telodty winds aocompaaied by a sustained downpour uprooted trees and swept a ventilator cover froaa the roof of the Jewish Commnaity Center a couple of hundred feet caoafaig roof damage along the way during last Friday's Tornado. The danafa, daoodbed as extensive and widespcoad aloag the caiMpna, awaited inamanos iaapectioa to detsrmine a dollar alhonnt. In the abovie photo, Jeffrey Aizeabeig, executive director of the JCC, views the ventilator cover, accompanied by Michael ColBar, campBs manager. At left, children from the JCC day camp and connaelors take refuge during the storm bi a corridor off the gymnaainm. While the youngsters aang songs, some parentsunable to reach the JCC because of disrupted tdepbone serviee—came out into the storm to check on their children.
By Joanie Jacobson Fednation public relations director Saranne Gitnick, president of the Jasrisb Federation of Omaha, has announced the leaders of the 1988-89 Women's Federation Campaign. Bobbie Epstein has been • named chairman. Cheryl Cooper and Ann Goldstein will serve as co<;hairmen of the major fundraising effort. "The Jewish woman is a tramNtdous influance in the life of her family." comnentadMra. Epst«n. "She iw)i%-detenniMa Qu religious atmosphere in the home and inspires her family's commitment to the Jewish people. The goal of the 1988-89 campaign is to recognize that influence and encourage Omaha Jewish women to feel good about it. "The Federation holds us together," she explained. "Without the cultural, educational and social services provided by its agencies, we
British arms deal with Saudis triggers deep concern in Israel JERUSALEM (JTA) Israeli officials are deeply concerned over a miUtibiOioihdollar arms deal betwato Britain and Saudi Arabia. Tha deal, aatimatad to be worth batwwo 134 billion and $S6 UlUon, waa diaeoMad at a Cabiaat meatfor. Pramiar Yltchak Shamir praniaed a more axtnaiva. aacrat ravlair by the 104Mnbar Innar Cabinet. The high-technology weaponry that tha deal will put in Saudi handa la one oauaa of mxiaty. Another ia advaraanpaKuaakna in the United SUtaa. Tha activttiaa of tha Israel lobby ia. WaaUogUn are Uar weapona ayaito8au(llAraUa,thai» depriving American arms manufacturers of ' lucrative sales. The Iiraeli government iallUed a low-key statement I tha Cabinet mat aay'
By David Landau ing the anna sale would trainhig, said it was the best "not contribute to stability" warplane of ita kind for lowin the Middle East. level operations. Yosef Ben-Aharon, direcLaborite Ezer Weizman, a tor gaoaral of the Prime former Air Force comMiniatar's Office, said in a mander, called the plane a radio interview that Israel "flying piano." Both men learned of the Anglo-Saudi are fanner defenae miniaters deal only whoi it waa an- and now aarva aa minlatera nounced. He noted that it without portMie. was a foUow-up to arma OelanaeMfaiisterYiUiiak package contracts the Britiah aiffied with the Saudis Babhi. a military enart in hia own right, aaid the Tor inl»86. t nado was a auperb bomber, The lateat packige hichidea 50 Tornado fiighter but not BO good for intarappUnea-fai addition to 73 tlon. Rabin took sharp iaaua sold the Saudia earlier— with Anna for saying that docana of Hawk jet training aircraft. Black Hawk the BriUah anns deal with halioopters, mhuaweapars the Saudia should prompt and the conatrtction of two Iirael to reconsider Ita own Lavi jet filter project, air baaaa fay.firitiife ¥f which wu lerapped last ginaers in Saudi Arabia. year at Waahington's Inahh Twp aviaUon axnarta in t,..,^,. tv>(<suae oif Mcaasive tb^ Cabtet dashed during the meeting over the capiT liobin said Israel should biliUaa of the Tornado aircraft and whether it poaes a not pour its resources into ona aitomft whan II; ihouU threat to laraal. Moafae Arena of Lijnid, an be trying to develop or acaeronautical anginaer by quin a variety of aophiati-
cated weapona systems. But it waa WeiEnuon who expreaaed the worriea of many Israelis when he auggeated that it might have been countsrproductive far laratl to have pnaaiirad the U.S. Coogreas to prevant the aala of American arma to the Saudia. Ben-Aharon defended lareel's lobbying activities.1 He said an American-Saudi arma deal of aucfa p^>pa^ tiona would involva ongoing Bwioe, p(ditical commitment and aharing of military atratagiM, relationahipa larael doea not want to aee growing between Washlnirton and Sntidi Arabi Bui tieaguii aiiiTuniHlration offioiala view tha Britiah deal aa a blow to American diplomatic and economic influence in the Middle East, Britain will be replacing the United Statea as the Saudis' principal arms supplier.
would exist as a fragmented Jewish community with no way to meet our collective needs. How this community pwceives the Federation, its agencies and its campaign is as important to me as the dollars we raise. The woman who gives $10 from a fixed income is as important to me as the woman in the Chai/Grand Gifts division. "The Women's Campaign makes a Btatemmt'about all of UB," she noted. "It's a reflection of our commitment to sustaining Jewish life wherever Jews live. We need to feel good about Campaign^about \fiut we give and that we give. As busy as we are, as difficult as it is to make a living, we can always learn the qrt of givhig. "I feel a r^al responsibility to give this community as much as I have taken from it. Someone along the way did it for me, so there would be a community for my chikhea Now I have the privilege to'do what someone did for me." Cheryl Co(^>er praised the Federation as a working organization. "Your heart and emotions are always involved when you work for a Jewish organisation," she said, "but it's very reassuring for a volunteer to work for one that'a well-run. The Federation has a goo^and capable staff. It's an organind organization that benefit* everyone in the
Omaha Jewish community. "The main job of the Federation is to raise money," said Mrs. Cooper, "... all the agencies couldn't do it alone. I can't imagine not 8U{^x)rting the Campaign — it's an integral part of me. My hope is that we can interest more Jewish women, raise their awareness and strengthen our connection to each other." Ann Goldstein emphasized the need to get involved. "I made a choice to be Jewish and I feel good about that choice. In makingit," she contmued, "lundostood what came with it. It is the refqraaaiMIty of every Jew to support each other. You just do it. "I have a lot to learn and Bobbie Epstein will be a great teacher. She is a terrific woman, highly committed and a great role model.' She has shown it in the past, and continues to show it today. My hope is that Jewish women in Omaha will feel good about our work and enjoy what we have to offer.' "I'm very excited," commented Mrs. Gitnick. "These three women are dedicated, community leadera who reeognize that it takea volunteers to raise dollars to support progranu and services. I've watched them ova- the yeara and I know their work. I've always been impreased by what they were able to produce."
TISHA B'AV July 24 marka The Faat of Tiaha B'av. Hie tragic eventa of thla day as reeonM in Jewiah history are aa follows: The First Twqtki was deatroyad by the Babykmiana. Hie 8flcon4 'nppla waa deatrqyad by the Romana.: The fortraae of Bathar near Janiaalem waa deatroyad by tha Romana, and Bar Koohba'a revolt for UbifMtion waaeruahad. The City of Jeruaalem waa mad to tha grouiid and ploogfaad over. After tha Jawa left Egypt and did not want to go to tha Promiaed Land, G-d declarad that tha generation which had left Bgypt wavU paiiabii^ tha daeart during the 40 years' wanderinga, In 149S, hundreds of thousanda af Jews-the enthw Jewish population of Spaia-waf nllad and driven out of Spain.
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(oi^aftSl© FEODORA KAHN Services were held on July 16 at Beth El Synagogue for Feodora (Feo) Kahn, 78. Interment was at Beth El Cemetery. Mrs. Kahn was preceded in death by her husband, Isidor. She is survived by a daughter. Dr. Dorothy (Dr. Norman) Resnick and three grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to the Isidor and Feo Kahn scholarship fund in care of Beth El Synagogue. HELEN GARBER HOCKENBERG Word has been received of the death in Palm Springs, Calif., of Helen Garber Hockenberg, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa. Funeral services were held in Des Moines on June 26. Mrs. Hockenberg is survived by daughter, Sandra
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63rd reunion The 1926 graduating class of Tech High School will hold its 63rd anniversary reunion on Aug. 6. A banquet luncheon will take place at the Best Western hotel. A spokesman for the reunion said the classes of 1924 and 1926 have also been invited. Anyone wishing to make reservations or who have memorabilia from those years may call Sylvia Ross, 663-1100, or Florence Young, 556-3801. BBYO AWARD WASHINGTON (JTA)Ira Lipman, leading Memphis businessman and national chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, has been awarded the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization's Sam Beber Distinguished Aleph Zadik Aleph Alumnus Award. Audrey Brooks, community leader and Milwaukee judge, has been awarded the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization's Anita Perlman Outstanding B'nai B'rith Girls Alumna Award.
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Kay Weinstein Kay Weinstein and Robyn Spindler, Publicity Committee co-chairmen for the Aug. 14 Child Care Fair, are having 25,000 brochures printed "to help boost awareness about the Fair throughout the city." According to Ms. Spindler, the brochures will be placed in area department and grocery stores. "In addition," said Ms. Spindler, "most of the small area newspapers, such as Ralston, Bellevue and Papillion, have agreed to run articles about the Fair." Ms. Weinstein said she has placed pubhc service announcements with the Omaha World-Herald and WOWT. WOWT is helping sponsor the Fair and has guaranteed publicity of the event both on television and radio, Ms. Weinstein said. Other members of the Publicity Committee are Wendy Manvitz, Sivi Roff-
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Robyn Spindler _ man, JUI Kushner-Belmont, Janet Klein and Janey Dann. The Corporate Sponsors Committee has the responsibility of increasing the visibility of the Fair on the corporate level and is chaired by Noelle Rips and Bobbi Leibowitz. Under their direction, committee members have contacted, by mail, the public relations and personnel directors of major corporations to explain the Fair and enlist their support in making the event successful. One hundred corporations were chosen for contact and they have been encouraged to disseminate information on the Child Care Fair to employees via news letters, press releases and flyers, according to Ms. Leibowitz.
"The committee is now in the process of follow-up calling to the corporate public relations and'personnel directors to determine if the companies have begun or plan to publicize the event." Members of the Corporate Sponsors Committee are Susie Landow, Nancy Godwin, Julie Diu-maskin and Sandy Fried. Ms. Rips said she believes that the Fair provides an opportunity for employers to support working parents. "Today, finding quality child care is an issue and, in
Bobbi Ldbowlta many cases, a problem that faces a greater portion of the work force than ever before," Ms. Rips said. "Since it has a real impact on an employee's productivity, we feel that employers will use this as an opportunity to show their commitment to helping their employees find a workable solutions."
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Mel Epstein has joined Preferred Physicians Insurance Co., a new Omahabased corporation offering medical professional liability insurance to selected physicians throughout the United States, as vice president of underwriting. Mr. Epstein had been with Imperial Casualty and Indenmity Co. of Omaha as vice president of underwriting. He is a chartered property and casualty underwriter. David. H- Gross and Donald A, Yale have been named to three-year terms on the Omaha Symphony board of directors. Also named were Joseph J. Adams, Patrick E. Brookhauser, M.D., Carol Dvorak, James C. Nelson, John P. Nelson and Robert M. Williams.
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Exhibit Omaha soilptor Riccardo Marchio and photographer Michael Newm^ will exhibit recent works at the Jewish Community Center Gallery, Aug. 7 to Sept. 8. A reception for the artists will be held Aug. 7 from 3-6 p.m.
B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers wiU hear Kathy Perez, in charge of public relations for Visiting Nurses Association, at the July 27 meeting. Breadbreakers meets every Wednesday at Howard Johnson's, 72nd and Grover. The cost of the buffet lunch is 16.
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How's your memory? Are you one of those people who say "I can remember the dress I wore to the party So-andSo gave in 1947 but I don't remember what I ate for dinner last night.?" If you are, don't be alarmed—you have lots of company. I guess I qualify for that category. That is, I remember certain things from a long time ago. For example, 1 remember the names of ray teachers from kindergarten through eighth grade. I also can remember the names of many of the kids I went to school with during those years. Let me tell you a funny thing about memory—something that happened to me the other day. I was watching the local news on TV and noticed a segment of film taken during a City Planning Board meeting. It concerned the protest of a neighborhood group against some businessmen who wanted to build a commercial building m their area. I didn't catch the entire story but it looked like a case of tearing down existing houses. Old houses, true, but houses still in use as respectable residences. The reason it all caught my attention was because the neighborhood was the one where I grew up. It's changed greatly since I was a child, but only on one side of the street. The houses up for contention were on the opposite side, and many of my classmates lived on that side. Well, back to the Planning Board meeting. I saw a whitehaired man walk up to the microphone and say his piece and thought to myself "what a clean-cut old gentleman that must be." Then his name was mentioned as the spokesperson for the group and I almost fell off may chair. The name was very familiar—it was one of those people I had gone through grade school with! I couldn't believe it. First of all, he looked like an old man. Secondly, I was surprised to see he had never moved out of the old neighborhood. Then I started thinking, who needs all this? Why should I remember this guy's name? I haven't seen him since we graduated from the eighth grade together, and I don't plan to tell you how long ago that wasi But my memory was jogged and the old computer printed out a name from the past—and 1 mean, we're talking PAST! Crazy, no? The human memory. The experts tell us we store facts and information from the beginning and I understand that; I also understand how, after a while, the storage center must get crowded; fuller and fuller, so to speak. And I assume some of the stuff that goes hi later, as we get old^, doesn't stay in place as well. But my clears, to recall a name from well over 60 years ago (there, I've said it) is startling. The only thing that bothered me more was how old the man looked. Let's face it, he must be around my own age. So how come he looks like an old man? Does that mean if I showed up on the news and HE saw ME he'd think "I used to know that old lady.?" Well, I really don't think I want to get into that one. I have to go do somethmg else anyway. Let's see now—what was it?
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Buaines* Week for Youth, an annual program sponsored natipanlly by the American Collectors Association, will take place at Cieighton University July 24-30. The overriding purpose according to Nebraska's duector ^Ivan Lukring, is: "To present business as it is, how it operates, and to develop an awareness of career opportunities in business." Community business leaders participate in the program and explain their roles within the business system. The program is designed for high school juniors and seniors. For information contact Business Week for Youth, P.O. Box 84002, Lincoln, Neb. 68601, or call 402-436-6430.
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Human Rights Comparison: m Israel vs. Arab States Americans recognize that we share with Israel a fundamental commitment to democracy and human rights. Puzzlingly, however, the question of human rights in the Middle East often signifies a codeword for criticizing Israel, the region's only democracy. Mostly, this attention can be attributed to the Arab states themselves who have succeeded at the United Nations in portraying Israel as a human rights culprit. Now, a new eye-opening study published by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) details a record of serious human rights.violations in the Arab world which have largely been deflected by the Arab countries. The study is entitled, A Human Rights Comparison: Israel versus the Arab States. The need for the study, according to the author, Sara M. A verick, arose out of the way the Arabs have used the issue in an attempt to deligitimize Israel. For example, nearly 10 per cent of the resolutions passed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in 1987 were Israel-related; not.a single resolution addressed human rights violations by any Arab state. Yet, during the period, according to the study ... Saudi Arabia continued to mete out amputation as a form of criminal punishment; . There were renewed reports of slavery's revival in the Sudan; Syria was found to be practicing 35 different methods of torture against political prisoners; And Iraq's use of chemical weapons proceeded such that three months into 1988, in one attack, 5,000 Iraqi citizens were gassed to death. • According to the study, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt (which Americans generally think of as moderate countries) share many practices violat^ig human rights with states readily labeled radical like Syria, Libya, Iraq and Yemen. Also, the study sheds light on practices which the press has omitted from its general coverage. The study discloses that for "security reasons" Kuwait deported 27,000, including Palestinians, in 1986 alone in addition to the 15,000 deported in 1985. Yet, only Israel has been condemned for resorting to deportation of a small number of Palestinians as a measure of last resort in the aftermath of continuous riots and violence in the West Bank and Gaza. "This study is an effort to restore perspective to the issue of human rights in the Middle East by comparing Israel with the Arab states, the very nations that have led the campaign to discredit the Jewish state," said Thomas A. Dine, executive director of AIPAC.
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In his denaturalization William Wolf's Letter to the Editor concerning the trial proceedings, Demjanjuk testified that the photo on the card of "Ivan the Terrible" in Jerusalem, is an outrageous disdid resemble him, and that the biographical information tortion of the Demjanjuk case. Wolf alleges lack of due on the,card is correct. process in two Western democracies—the United States Still, Wolf speculates that "the Soviets want to frame" and Israel. As one who observed the trial firsthand and has read the Jerusalem court's lengthy verdict, I believe the Demj anjuk. Well, according to the testimony of prominent American documents expert Dr. Antonio Cantu, the ink trial was fair. Let us take a look at the due process afforded John Dem- on the Tl-awniki card is authentic—and dates back to 1942. janjuk, the Cleveland autoworker convicted in Jerusalem In 1942, the Soviets had the war to worry about, and had of being "Ivan the Terrible," the brutal guard who oper- no motivation whatsoever to "frame" John Demjanjuk. ated the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in Moreover, Soviet evidence regarding Nazi war criminals Poland where 800,000 Jews were murdered between 1943 has never been foim4 to be fraudulent in any court and has been used in trials all over the world. and 1944. But the basic problem Mr. Wolf mysteriously fails to Demjanjuk entered this country fraudulently in the 19508. His denaturalization proceedings began in 1976 and address is that Demjanjuk has no alibi. When he entered he was extradited from the U.S. to Israel in 1986. Dem- the United States, he claimed that he had spent the war janjuk had two trials, denaturalization and deportation, and as a "fanner" in the Ukraine. But during the U.S. immigration proceedings, he shifted stories, admitting he had an extradition. These were followed by judicial appeal. During the denaturalization proceedings, the burden on fought in the war and was taken prisoner. But the POW the United States was to prove that Demjanjuk was Ivan camp where he claims to have been, "Chelm," did not exist by "clear and convincing" evidence. Notwithstanding between 1943 and 1944. Contrary to Wolf's bare statement that there is "ample Wolf's claims to the contrary, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared this standard to be the same as the high criminal evidence" supporting acquittal, Demjanjuk's alibi was not sl;andard "beyond a reasonable doubt." Similarly in Israel, supported by any evidence whatsoever. Demjanjuk's body where Demjanjuk's case was heard by a three-judge panel still shows remnants of the tattoo characteristic of SS (aa in any other murder case in Israel), the standard of proof guards. And not one defense witness testified that he knew Demjanjuk at Chelm. used was "beyond a reasonable doubt." Demjanjuk's shifting explanations were considered to be Now let us look at the evidence in the case. Both in the United States and in Israel, there were two types of evi- deliberate misrepresentations to the Jerusalem court. In dence identifying Demjanjuk as Ivan: documentary and its 450-page verdict, the court analyzed the evidence and eyewitness. Wolf alleges that more than 50 survivors of there was no reasonable doubt that Den\janjuk was Ivan. Though Israel has invoked the death penalty only once IVeblinka "failed to identify John Demjanjuk as Ivan." That is interesting, but impossible—only about 60 survived before, in the case of Adolf Eichmann, the panel ordered Treblinka. Fifty are not alive today. The eyewitnesses who the death sentence in this case—a statement by the Israeli did testify in the U.S. and Israeh proceedings identified court of its absolute certainty of Demjanjuk's identity and Demjanjiik as Ivan from a photo lineup in another pro- the absence of any mitigating circumstances. This sentence ceedbig—their identifications were spontaneous and im- will be appealed in December to the Israeli Supreme C!ourt. When the guilty verdict was rendered, Demjai^uk's origimediate. Moreover, one of tlie key eyewitnesses from Treblinka nal lead AuMrican attorney, Mark O'Connor, commented was a German nurse. Otto Horn. Horn's testimony iden- that Demjanjuk "couldn't have gotten a fairer trial" Yet, tifying Demjanjuk as Ivan from photos was vital—for Horn Demjanjuk's trial has triggered strong emotions in the Ukrainian community. Some have attacked the prosecution of a war criminal who happens to be Ukrainian, claim'' i 9E!5i»T/!'..nri*Jr ing this impugns the entire conununity. Yet, paradoxically, the message of the trial is the contrary one—it involved the careful determination of individual, not collective, "(^ responsibility for crimes against humanity. To judge Demjanjuk now is to say that when people are 1^degraded, tortured and victimized because of their race, nationality or religion, these crimes can neither be forgiven I UW» BWC or forgotten.
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. To the Editor We are so neededl We are needed in the State of Israel where the plea isi "Where are the Americans?." The tour buses are from many countrise—many gentile people—but the groups of American Jews are pitihilly scarce. If to have visited Israel-go back if you can—go now and see the magnificent changes—the new excavations—the new memorials—the new building all over the country— the new Klbbutaim—the new library in YoseftaL If you have never been to Israel—Dfw't Wait! Israel is celebrating a birthday and needs us to celebrate with bur. It is beautiiul—i^ is safe^it is exciting—it will touch you To the Editor: We want to inform our frianda that tha name of the and never let gol The people of Israel wfll wafeoms you with Livingston Plau Tenants AaeoelaUon has been changed open anna-and you will never be the SUM again. to the Livingston Plaxa Priaodahip Chib. FranFalk We would greaUy appreciate any initiative the Omaha FonnerOmahan Jewish conununity would take to get more involved in tha activitiae of oUr memlxnhip and help oa to change Living- Tv the Editer. The comments by Kitty Dukakis that appeared in the ston PUM from a mere apartment Duilding into a home, Jewloh Press on Jtdy 6 was too hidicrous to comment on, where people would k>ve t<) live and enjoy Uving. Joachim H. Boia, president but at any rate I feel (iwipsBed to. It's certain that her "more foiinal identificotioo with her Jewish roots" begins To the Editor and ends withlox sndbscals. Laat week a woman came to tha Nebraska Jewish Histor What she is implying to the article is that men and kal Society office end handed me three rolla of paper. She women who do not ian^ ckMaly with their Jewish roots aaid she found them hiddsa in an article she'had purchased sbouU marry "outaide tbe laith" 80 thagr conidsB^ DMce bom Goodwill InduatiiM. in Onuhft. dflsoly with thsii Jewisb roots. A* ia» the eriftidiiB she The three documeota stem to belong to the same fantily menttons that she woukl be a bod role model if her husnamed Sigall or SeegalL band is slated, she is a bad role modil new; and will be One of the documents is a Ketubah (a marriage oartifi- lo much more so if her husband Is sleeted and she is at his j caU> bet«e«B Lewia Saegal and Bather SatinoO, dated aids as he UghU the annual "Hanukkah bush." S^ will be I April 26, 1887, Manchester, England the darling of all the gentiliaed assimihtionists. The second document is a birth certificate of Hyman No matter how she tries to ratkmalize it, the bottom line Sagall. bom to Esther and Lewis Sigall on Dec. 7, 1809, Is that intsnaoBiafe boa ben wrong for 3,000 years end in Choetham District in lluchsetar County. is still wrong and is a direct threat to the Jowish people. The third docunasnt Is an esgagenlsat contract (Tnaim), PaalDoiaewoid
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By Haviva Krasner Editor's Note: ical genealogy containing effort to educate the public, The Omaha Jewish Press important information the National Foundation for carried the announcement about the health history of Jewish Genetic Diseases of the exhibit on June 3. The your ancestors. Inc., distributes an inform- Jewish TelegTMpbic Agency This data can be used in ative pamphlet describing gathered additional informany ways. For example, seven diseases affecting mation and filed the followknowing that a certain ill- Ashkenazi Jews. The foun- ing story: ness "nms in the family" dation raises funds to disBy Haviva Kraaner taa guide you to good seminate information and NEW YORK (JTA) preventive health care. sponsor medical research, Late Nebraska Jewish comGenetic diseases devel- symposia and publications. munity leader Henry oped as a result of historical For a free copy of the Monsky has emerged as the and geographical circum- pamphlet and for informa- once "anonymous" donor stances. When a conunudity tion on the activities of the who helped Father Edward has been isolated over a NFJGD, write to 250 Park Flanagan get his famed [>eriod of time and there is Avenue #1000, New York, Boys Town, a home for consanguinity—a pattern of NY 10017. abused, abandoned and marriage among close relaneglected children, off its AWARDED TITLE tives, such as first cousins financial feet. JERUSALEM (JTA) or uncle and niece—it is not That revelation is one of unusual for genetic condi- Ralph Goldman, executive many in a study of the two tions and diseases to de- vice president of the Ameri- men being conducted jointly velop. In general, all people can Jewish Joint Distribu- by Boys Town and the Necarry eight to 10 genes for tion Committee, was award- braska Jewish Historical possible diseases, but they ed the title of Amit Yerush- Society in Omaha. Their inare unaware of it unless a alayim—Guardian of Jerus- vestigation will culminate alem—in a ceremony at the next year in an exhibit entiparticular disease strikes. Many genetic disorders City Hall of Jerusalem. tled "Two Men Who are found to a greater extent Mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Cared." among members of certain Kollek. who awarded the ti"It's a unique joint effort ethnic groups than the tle, said it was done in between Catholics and general population. For- recognition of Goldman's Jews, representing the tunately, most genetic dis- activities in the fields of unique relationship between eases are extremely rare. education, culture and com- these two men," said Mary However, there are a few munity welfare. Fellman, director and cothat occur in high frequency' founder of the Historical SoVEGETARIANS to be of concern, and there Aug. 28-The 3rd Annual ciety. are inexpensive and effecFlanagan, who died in tive tests to determine Jewish Vegetarism Confer- 1948 at the age of 62, ence, Ansche Chesed Synawhether you are a carrier. founded Boys Town, which As part of its continuing gogue, New York City, N,Y. was then exclusively for
boys, in 1917. The home was opened to girls about ten years ago. Monsky. who was 57 when he died in 1947, held the positions of president of B'nai B'rith International, honorary national chairman of Unitied Jewish Appeal and United Palestine Appeal, and director of the Joint Distribution Committee, among other communal positions. According to Joan Flinspach, manager of the Boys Town Hall of History, Monsky gave Flanagan the $90 he needed for Boys Town's first month's rent. Later, Monsky became the lawyer and good friend of both Flanagan and Boys Town. He became a member of the board of directors in 1929, and spoke at Boys Town's commencement exercises and silver anniversary celebration in 1942. Reciprocating Monsky's acts of friendship, Flanagan spoke at two B'nai B'rith dinners, one in 1938 and one in 1945 in tribute to Monsky. Then, in 1946, President Harry Truman appointed them both to the National Conference on Prevention
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No matter what the season of the year, the Torah readings and the assigned Haftarot are always moving, impressive, instructive, elevating, beautiful, provocative, or at least one or more of tliose adjectives and others in a long list. But I admit freely that the season we are now in is my favorite for these readings. Taking the Haftarot first, see how we are confronted. as all humankind is. by the terrible indictment in Hazon. the first chapter of Isaiah, our present Haftarah. No prosecuting attorney can match the deadly dignity and noble indignation of the prophet's shat' tering appraisal of his country's false religiosity masquerading a real corrupLincoln tion. But the Haftarot that folB'nai Jeshurun low, from here till Rosh SERVICES: Hashanah, are the most tenFriday: 7:30 p.m. der and loving promises of Worship service forgiveness and compassion, ecstatic, joyous, that Lincoln literature has produced. The ' Tifereth Israel Deutero-Isaiab who was SERVICES: their author was a lyric poet Friday: 8 p.m. unmatched in the Bible, and Saturday: 9:30 a.m. perhaps in all the long cenMondays and Tbnrsdays: turies of mankind's scratch7:16 a.m. ing pen to paper. Centuries Sundays: 9:30 a.m. later and continents away and life-situations totally alTISHA B'AV Tisha B'Av services will tered, we cannot read these be held Saturday, July 23, passages without soaring in 9:30 p.m., and Sunday. spirit. Few artists in any medium leave reader and July 24. 10 a.m. hearer or viewer with comBlumkin Home parable effect. So short a word about the SERVICES: Haftarot is hardly respectFriday: 7 p.m. able, and certainly not Saturday: 9 a.m. The residents and staff enough. But a word too of the Rose Blumkin about the Torah reading beHome invite the families, fore us. We open the last of volimteers and friends of the five books of Torah to the residents to attend read the Parashah Oevarim. services in the Herbert The book is sometimes conGoldsten ChapeL Kiddush sidered to be the first of a follows services on 'Deuteronomistic History,' Shabbat. SERVICES: Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emit Berkovits will conduct the services. Friday: 6 p.m. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Minha-Ma'ariv services, 8:45 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. arid 5:30 p.m. Weekdays: 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. LATE SERVICE There will be no late service on Friday, July 29. Services will be at 6 p.m. TISHA BAV Saturday. July 23, 8:45 p.m. Sunday. July 24, 9 a.m. Minha, 1 p.m. Ma'ariv, 5:30 p.m.
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nflm©(o)Ilm aM&ft© daughter, Michele; sisters, By Estelle Rosenberg The Tifereth Israel Syna- Dorothy Anderson, Philagogue Board of Directors in- delphia, Patricia Donsalski, vited the congregation to a Seattle; father, Thomas, reception to bid farewell to .Morton, Pa. The family suggests meRabbi Ian and Suri Jacknis morials to the American recently. Cancer Society. The Tifereth Israel Day Tifereth Israel preschool Camp will continue through July 29.9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at day care facib'ty, Lincoln's only such Jewish facility, the synagogue. The camp is designed for has vacancies for the fall sechildren three to seven mester. For additional inforyears of agfi. Call Debbie, mation or to enroll children 489-0127, for additional in- three to five years of age call Sandy Keller. 488-3967 . formation. Thomas Townsend, 54, died July 6. Interment was at Ml. Carmel with Rabbi Ian Jacknis officiating. Mr. Townsend was inventory control manager at Wick's Alumni Center, I University of Nebraska. He was an Air Force veteran and a menlber of the Southeast Laryneclomy Club. Survivors: wife, Janel; sons, Mark and Barry;
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The Young at Heart luncheon meeting will take placeJuly27, 11:45 a.m.,at the Knolls Country Club. Marj Hansen from Premium Travel Agency will talk about interesting places to see on vacation and will show slides. On Aug. 7, the group is going to Tarkio, Mo., to attend a production of "Gypsy" at the Mule Bam Theater. A buffet supper will be served following the play. The cost is $15 per person, which includes the bus ride, play and supper. For reservations call LaReine Abrams, 474-4076, or Faye Unger, 489-2882. Leelo Sommerhauser, who is known in Lincoln for helping and visiting the sick, had the opportunity to be of assistance recently when two young tourists from Germany, Roland Dressier and Harold Klug, were involved in an automobile accident near Aurora, Neb. Mr. Dressier was brought to Lincoln General's Trauma Center to determine the extent of neck injuries. Mrs. Sonunerhauser was called in to serve as interpreter.
By David LjMUiau and GilScdu JERUSALEM (JTA) Premier Yitxhak Shamir refused to confide to the Cabinet the contents of a message he received from President Nicolae Ceausescu of Romania. His silence on the matter raised speculation that the message was a proposal for peace talks from the Palestine Liberation Organization, It was conveyed privately to Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres by Ceausescu's personal envoy, Konstantin Metea. Responding to queries from other ministers.Shamir said he was not at liberty to divulge information because the Romanian president had asked that the message be treated discreetly. Israeli sources said it was an offer for direct peace talks from the Palestine Liberation Organization, aimed at an autonomy-style interim arrangement in. the administered territories.
The sources said both ministers rejected it, Shamir politely but emphatically. Peres was reported to have said that Israel will talk to the inhabitants of
the territories but would not negotiate with "terror organizations." The sources said that Ceausescu, having recently hosted PLO chief Yasir Arafat in Bucharest,
wanted to assure Shamir and Peree that the PLO was ready for talks with Israel on interim atraogements before an international peace conference.
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