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Phil Sokolof topples food Industry giants By Moitia Malliw Coconut and palm oils— the highly saturated fats in many cereals and snack products—will be diaqipearing from much of the American diet thanks to Omahan Phil Sokolof. Mr. Sokolof who founded Naticmal Heart Savers Asaodatioo to educate the American public to the dangcra of choleatarol announcad on the Today show last week that his new advertising campaign is worldng. For the past several weeks, Mr. Sokokif has been running full page advertisements in national publications. His ads—carrying the headline "The Poiaoaiag of Aaimlca"—are critical of American food processors for including palm oil and coconut oil in their products. "Tropical oila contain more saturated fat than lard. Food processors 'deceive' the Amaricaa consumer by claiming' theae products are choleatorol faaa. When they are ingested, they turn into chdeaterol in your body," Mr. Sokolof said. On the NBC television l^^gri Mr. Sokolof an-
PUl Sokolof « nouncad that Rakton Purina Co., General Milla, Inc., Quaker Oata Co., Borden Inc., and Pillsbury Co. are removing palm and coconut oils from their products. These companies follow a number of othtrs including Kellogg's, Sunshine Bi^ cults and Pepperidge Farms who have aniinnnred that tropicd t>ar-wiffbe withdrawn fdlowing the reformulatioo (A their products. Mr. Sokolof, a multi'mil-
terol in causing death from heart trouble. His latest advertising campaign—at first heraUed as "irresponsible" -by several of the companies cited in the ads—has proven to be hi^y successful, Mr. Sokolof told the Jewish Press. Since tlie ad campaign has begun, national broadcast anid print media have sought him out for inter views. His uppetmux on the Today shmr brought his campaign into the h<m>es of milliona of American constmiers. "I'm elated at the success of this campaign," Mr. Sokolof said, iddkgthat,"not only are hundreds of products being reformulated, but the national media has communicated our message to the American public and much needed cholesterol awareneas will result."
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Buffet buys Borshejm's; family stays as managers The aale of Borshaim's jeweky store to investor Warren Buffet haa been announced. Expected to be finalized hi March, the sale provides for 80 per cent of the businaaa to be aoU to Beriuhire Hathaway, Inc., Buffett's flagship entarpriae which ia now traded <HI the New York Stock Exchange. The remaining interest will atay within the family, and the family will contimia day-toHiay managaoMot of the atora. Tl)e aale price was Dot annoaaoad ipimsdiately. "We are abaotutaly delighted by Mr aaaodatkm with Warm," aakl Ika Friadmaa, Borahaim'a pnei' dant. who with hi« (athar, bou^ UM bnafaiaaa is 19M and guidad it to aaparat<"« atatus. , "With tUs MwpwtMTtUf, wvlnfc formad toanfe* into nlataniatioMal AtUmtm family wfll eoatima to Om hnihias the •Iwmhava. Wa^ WMl#yMira ftw' H udar ajr ethar UbaUfladby mm giiMlBi
tions as a multi-billionaire and a highly regarded investor, also is known for his loyalty to Omaha and for a down-to-earth atyle where transactions are cloaed with one page agreements, a handahaka, and aehack for mOHans of doCars. This type of u^iroach w^ displayed by Mr. Biifbt a Um years ago whan heparchaaed coDtraOinghitanMt in Nabraaka Furniture Mart. Bjpn)Mim's has captured natiatal attention by building a dipartment-eiiad at<*e araoMi what is Ifluiy the brgift family-ownad indsoaitet Jewelry and gift aalaetlon entity in the Unitad Statae. Aocording to the annooapmnt, the atora haa •ttrwtad aj<cka>ai dfaataia from wan iMqrDBd Omaha's piwrilaaana-
Alan, and hia aona-in-law, Donald Yale and Marvin Cohn, said the store carved out market ahare not so much with glitx and promotion, but more by word-ofmouth endoraements from satiafiad patrona. "Selection and preeentation are important," Mr. Friedman aaid, "but truat and vaioa have bean our key." And that, aakl Mr. Friedman, shnply will not changa with the aale. According to the annoQiKiaaMnt, nagotiationa wara oonpletad hi two alMrt maatinga without attomaw* and affountanta, and Mr. Buffet waa quoted u aayint,"rd rather have Ike's word than an auditor's certificate any day."
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Temple Israel inaugurates scholar-in-resldence program Professor Menacbem Kellner will speak Feb. 3, 4 and 6 pn "The Art of Jewish Living," ae Temple Israel's first scholar-inreeidenoe, a program funded by a grant from the Phil and Terri Scbrager Foundation. Professor Kellner, associate professor of Jewish thought at the Univeraity of Haifa, will apeak at Friday worahbp aervicee <» "Why Jews Don't Wo«y About Belief-Or Should We? " An Oneg Shabbat will foOom. On Saturday, a 8:30 p.m. lecture and itiemairion will be "The Critical Place of Self-Therapy in JudaismHandUng Free Will and Change with our imperfect nature." Havdalah services wiUlollow. Sunday at 10 a.m., ProfesBOr Kduer will speak on "The Dangers of Perfectkmism—Judijam, Ethics and
Professor Kellner, an American who made aliyah in 1960, racaivad hia bachelor of arta, aiaater of arta and doctorate dagreaa from Washington Univeraity in St. Louis. He was a lecturer at the College of William and Mary and an assistant profeaaor at the Univeraity of Virgfaiia. In addition to the topics Profeaaor he win discuss at Temple laMenacheai Kellner rael, Dr. KeUner has qxiJuo Law." Brunch will be extanaivaly on the political aituatkm in Israel, the ongoserved. The weekend of study is ing diahigua among the var^ open to the community at ioua branches of Judaism no charge. Rabbi Aiyeh Az- and the continuing legaty of rieC^aid, "Menachem Kell- Maimonidea. ner is known as an engaging "He has received plaudits and personable speaker. The for his wit and schcdarahip entire Jewish community and is a repeat qieaker at will be better off for having numerous synagogues and such a sensitive, educated centers throughout North and committed Jew aa Men- America and larael," aaid achem in our midst." Rabbi Azriel.
Synagog ue to bestow honor m dn African leader i Deamond M. Tutu, the ferred each year by tSF Anglican Archbishop of board of truatees of the Capetown, South Africa, Stq>han Wise Free Synawho received the Nobel gogue acting on the recomPeace Prize in 1984 for his mendation of its social ac"courageoua and fearless" tion committee. It ia given stand against apartheid, "for exceptional devotion to will accq>t the 26th annual the cause of individual freeGeorge Bniasel, Jr., Memodom and social justice, in rial Award of the Stephen the spirit of the Hebrew Wise Free Synagogue in prophote." Manhattan, Jan. 30. llie award waa establiahed to honor the memory In annoaocing the award of George Bruaaal, Jr., who and Biahop Tutu's accephad been vice preiifalant of tance of the aynagogue's inthe synagogue and chairvitation to receive it in parman of ita aodal action com* son. Rabbi Balfour Brickmittee. nar, spiritual leader of the ArcUbiahop Tutu Raiorm Jawiah congragati/m, aaid the hfarlr Tiansr haa oppoaad iaJuatica with a had been choaen "aa one more burning anger." ByHagbOrgel who baa oooaiatantly fought Biahop Tutu, the Nobel TEL AVIV (JTA) -" for tba aboMtka of apar^ Prize Committee saki, ia "a Ofek, Israel's first a) haid and for the entire a^- unifying aymbol for a)l aatalUte, re aterad the attrum of civil and human groups of freedom cam- moapbere and diafaitagrated righta for all paoplaa. paignera in Africa regard- 118 days after it was "To all of us, Biahop Tutu iiaa of tfaa danger to Ua own launched on Sept. 19. It had remained in orbit almoat is the paraoniflcation of the Ufa." The George Brvsaal, Jr., four timaa kmgar. than the spiritual maa who purauaa Justice with mercy and cour Memorial Award ia con- one-month life aipectaqcy. Ml," Babbi Bricfcasr aaid. Tlw award wiU be in the lorm of a ahofar, the traditkm^l ram's horn sounded onti^JawiHiNawYaaraBd uaad in anoant laraai to sound aa alarm in timae of dangar. It marka the flrat The Kallah wasfcand fsataing 0». Bon WoUaon ia baa time Biahop Tutu haa been and open to the miblk. Tko tefaadiila ia aa foOowa booarad by a Jawiah ralinUajr, J*. t7,8 p«. ffiooM inatitutlon, Rabbi Batb larail Syvagogua, 'Obaarviag Shabbat: What'a Brickaar aaid. tte maaabig lor Modara1 Ja Jawat" (oampUraantaiy babyait' ting) I n la^wnaa to tba praaanSatarday, Jan. ai, 8 pja. Utkitt. tfaa Nobel lamwate liatb Ei Synagogue. *'What'a Happaaiag to iha Jawwill dalivar an addraaa on iah FamilyT" imtftioa Uthmiap tba aiMKapartbaid ainigila. Tba ritB^lin wMaMay* (•Minr, Jan. Mt U ••*• iBf ArehbUhop Tnta^ NoTuple laraal, "RaUag a JMriah rtnily" Iworkahop and bagal bnaUaat). 1 ^^ bti FtaM Priaa dadana, la part: "Altboggfa ha baa ' anMdteBata,Boena
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Oliver Pollak compiles B'naiB'rith history By Lynda Frank Oliver Pollak, president, Jewish Press Board of Directors, probably knows this newspaper better than anyone around. During the last year he estimates he has read 3,500 issues of it. The result of that reading, and visits to the B'nai B 'rith office in Washington, D. C. is a 60-page booklet on the history of B'nai B'rith in Omaha which will be presented to all those attending the Henry Monsky Lodge centennial dinner Feb. 5. The booklet, which tells how Jews interacted in Omaha and responded to local, national and international events, includes profiles and anecdotes. According to Mr. Pollak the idea for writing this was brought up three or four years ago by Steve Riekes. While searching for someone to handle the project, Pollak, an attorney and history professor, acquired an interest and decided to do it himself. Written under the auapices of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society of which Mr. Pollak is a cofounder, the booklet traces the hiatory of B'nai B'rith in Omaha back to 1884 and includes, according to its author, "never-before-published photos." B'nai B'rith gave $5,000 to the NJHS to purchase a microfilm reader and also purchased release time from Mr. PoUak's UNO teaching duties to enable him to devote time to the project. And what did he find in his research? B'nai B'rith in Omaha "has been an agency for maintaining Jewish consciousness," Mr. Pollak said. "It's family. Qdneration after generation have been members." He said it was always the largest men's organization in Omaha and a training
ground for many prominent civic and business leaders. Al Abramson and Steve Riekes are co-chairmen for the Feb. 5 dinner at Peony Park. Cost is $26 per person and dietary laws will be observed. Reservations should be made by Feb. 1, either by calling the B'nai B'rith office, 334-8200, or maihng a check to the office at 333 S. 132nd St., Omaha 68154.
Summer camp The Bureau of Jewish Education announces that scholarship applications for Jewish summer residential camps and JCC day camps are now available for the summer of 1989. These scholarship funds are made possible through the Esther K. Newman Memorial Fund and Category IV of the David E. Beber Scholarsbip Fund. Deadlines are as follows: Residential Camps—April 3; JCC Camps-May 1. For information, contact Susan A. Drazen, Bureau of Jewish Education, 333 South 132 Street, Omaha, Neb. 68154, 334-8200, Ext. 246/210. CORRECTION Forrest Krutter received the Justin Greenberg Memorial Young Leadership Award at the annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Omaha last week. The annoifncement was incorrect in last week's paper.
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Know Thy Neighbor Maggie Geribw (lift) and Marde Ostrow, ohdiairwaaMn, of "Know.lliy Nd^iixir Stybteth." diaeaaa plaw for the Beth Israel Synagogue service acfaednled tax Feb. 10 at 8 pjB. Ilila apedaT service is held each year dniing Brotherhood' Month to give non-Jewiab frieods aad neighbors an opportunity to become more familiar with the rdigious practices and beliefs of Judaism.
(naffl®®nm nflgass ) Meeting now off Estelle Rosenberg is convalescing from a leg fracture at Tabitha Nursing Home, 4720 Randolph Street, Lincpk. Neb. 68510. Until she can resume her Lino^ cohunn, please send Lincoln information directly to the Jewish Press, 333 South 132nd Street, Omaha, Neb. 68164. Please type, double-space copy and proofread for accuracy. In conjunction with tfNL's Sh^on Memorial Art Gallery, the Lincoln Jewish Welfare Federation will sponsor Hotel TermiDOS, a four-and-one-half hour movie dealing with the life, times and activities of Klaus Barbie and the reactioDB of others. There will be 13 showings as follows: Feb. 2—noon and 7 p.m.; Feb. 3—noon and 7 p.m.; Feb. 4—noon and 7 p.m.; Feb. 6—2:16 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Feb. 9—noon and 7 p.m.; Feb. 10—noon, and Feb. 11—noon and 7 p.m. Discount tickets will be available at the Synagogue and the Temple beginning Sunday.
By Suaan nmbaum NEW YORK (JTA) Jewish and Catholic leaders have called off a conference on anti-Semitism that was scheduled to take place in Zurich in February because there has been no definite commitment to remove a Carmelite convent from the site of the Auschwitz death camp. The conference, originally scheduled for Feb. 20-24, was contingent on a requeet made by the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations that the Auschwitz convent be removed to a site outside the camp before the meeting. Cardinal Johannes Willebranda, president of tbe^ Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with tlie Jews, sent a letter to IJCIC suggesting that if the conditions to remove the Carmelite convent are met, a conference could take place after Passover 1989. Jewish officials were wary when Willebrands failed to appear at a meeting in Paris on Dec. 20.
WOMEN'S AMERICAN ORT The Omaha Chapter-atLarge of Women's American ORT will bold its annual ORT Shabbat, Satuitlay, Febr. 4. Families wiU meet at Valentino's, 132nd and Center, at 6 p.m. for dutch treat dinner. Following dinner we will meet at Joye Wees' home, 12606 Lafayette Circle, for a Havdalah service and dessert. Pleaae RSVP for dinner or to bake to Wendy Manvitz, 333-7961, or Barb Ciller, 334-5746. HADA8SAH The Hadassah study group will meet on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 9:30 a.m., at the Livingston Plaza Apartments. Rabbi Myer S. Kripke will lead the discussitm and his topic will be "The Role of Women." The session is open to the public; coffee will be served.
BREADBREAKERS P. J. Morgan will be the guest speaker at the Feb. 1 Breadbreakers luncheon. The community is invited to att^id. Breadbreakers meets for lunch at Howard Johnsdn's, 72nd and Grover. Cost is $6. NCJW Citing the strong community service work done by the National Council of Jewish Women, Mayor Walt Calinger recently issued a proclamation recognizing January as "National Council of Jewish Women Month." Accepting the proclamation from the mayor at his Jan. 19 press conference were community services vice president Patricia Newman, Omaha Section president Bobbi Leibowitz and public relations vice president Jill Kuahner Belmont.
Cholesterol level The JCC will offer blood chemistry profile tests Feb. 6 as part of Es^po '89. The tests are as follows: SMAC-24, 112, glucoee, uric add, total bilirubin, cholesterol triglycerides, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium, total protein, albumin. EXECUTIVE fITNESS I, $20, includes SMAC-24, {dus coronary riak profile. CORONARY RISK PROFILE, $14, includes totalcholesterol, triglyceride, HDL, low-density lipoprotein and cholesterol ratio. Note: All persons taking blood chemistry screening
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Tikkun panelists 1)ack PLO talks By Andrew SUow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) - A conference of American Jewish progressives opened a vote on our $650 dmiaUon Sunday with a panel's strong support of the U.S. to Federation (passed). A welcome for Mort move to begin talks with the Friedlander, new member Palestine Liberation OrganiDave Wine and out of sick zation. The endorsement, shared bay Morrie Sax. Harry Schulman present- by the Palestinian speakers ed Rabbi Nadoff who on thepanel, was markedly opened with humor and different from the lukethen on a serious note dis- warm recqition given by the major American Jewish orcussed Israel's problems. Current conditions, rapid- ganizations to the U.S. deity of events, and our con- cision to reverse a 13-yearcam, unlike people who are (M ban on contacts with the unconcerned about the PLO. But according to confercountry of their origin. Ours is a deep-rooted bond. Ara- ence organizer Michael fat may be accepted world- Lemer, that is the point of wide, but his deputies say the conclave and his twothey won't go along with and-half-year-old magazine talks with Israel and vow to Tikkun, which is sponsoring kill the Arab leaders who the gathering. "We want to show any accord ?rith Is- say to the press and the rael One lost war and Israel world that the American Jewish leadership intergoes down the drain. viewed so often by the press does not speak for us," Lemer, who is Tikkun's editor, said at the opening sesBy Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - The sion of the conference. The second purpose, said championship Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team Lemer, is to "challenge ourscored a historical triumph selves," and to ask tough as they beat the CSKA Red questions of those on the Army champions on their left. Lerner's words were home court by a score of 9792. The contest was the first greeted with warm applause Israeli athletes have played by the more than 1,S()0 peoin the Soviet Union since ple who packed a ballroom the USSR severed diplomatic relations with Israel 21 years ago. The Israeli victory brought Maccabi a step Kay and Dale Weinstein closer to the European Cup announce the Jan. 21 birth Tournament finals. The of a son, Guy Kriss. The Russians are eliminated, couple also has two sons, even if they win their re- Lee and Ben. match with Maccabi in Tel Grandparents are Mary Aviv next March. and Bob Kriss and Shirley The outcome of the game and Herm Weinstein. created euphoria in Israel, where a large part of the David and Pamela Gross population glued itself to announce the Jan. 12 birth their radios and TVs to hear of a daughter, Julie Rae. -the live broadcast by Israeli Grandparents are Omasports commentators froih hans Allen and Esther Kahn the Moscow stadium, and Rose and the late Gary O. Gross. By Henry Stern
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of Manhattan's Penta Hotel. His words also opened the way for open disagreement among the panelists. They included Edward Said, a literature professor at Columbia Univo^ity and a member of the Palestine National Council; Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a professor at Northwestern University who also sits on the PNC; Michael Walzer, a professor of social science at the Institute for Advance Study at Princeton and a co-editor of Dissent; and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, founding editor of Ms. magazine. Said, for instance, called on American Jewish intellectuals to become public "witnesses to the present" and testify about Israeli actions against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including shootings, the razing of houses and expulsions. "There has to be a recognition and acknowledgement for the injustice done to our people by yours, in your name," said Said. But in disagreeing Walzer said, "It is not necessary for the sake of peace that we accept your vision or you ours. We can live in peace without reciting each other's doctrine." Likewise, Lemer countered traditional Palestmian assessments that Israeli security concerns are the product of paranoia. "It is not paranoia when Jews hear over and over again in the Arab press, not of a two-state solution, but of a two-stage solution— with the second stage after statehood to be the liberation of the rest of PalesUne."
SCHLAIN/POLSKY late Robert Feinberg. Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Mr. MaUdn, aon of Mr. Schlain of West Bloomfield, and Mrs. Dov B. Malkin of Mich., announce the engage- Los Angeles, earned his unment of their daughter, Bar- dergraduate and graduate bara, to Alan Richard Pol- degrees from the University sky, both of Los Angeles. of California and is curMr. Polsky is the son of Mr. rently practicing law ia Los and Mrs. Hyman Polsky of Angeles. Lincoln. Miss Schlain earned her WEISS/SHULEWITZ undergraduate and law Mr and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. d^rees itom the University Normand Roffman anof Michigan at Ann Arbor. nounce the engagement of Her fiance earned his under- their daughter, Cindy R. graduate degree at Michi- Weiss, to Alan Shulewitz, gan State at East Lansing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Mich., and his law degree Shulewitz of Peoria, HI. from the University of NeMiss Weiss is with the braska at Lincoln. purchasing department of A May 28 wedding is First Data Resources. She planned in Detroit. attended the University of Missouri and the UniversiFEINBERG/MALKIN ty of Nebraska at Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley K. Her fiance is an assistant Feinberg announce the vice president in the corenagement of their daugh- porate tax departn[ient with ter, Robota Suzanne, to Ely Mutual of Omaha. He is a J. Malkin of Los Angeles. graduate of the University Miss Malkin earned her of Illinois. BFA degree from the UniA June 4 wedding is versity of Arizona and her planned at Temple Israel. Master's degree in social work from the University of Southern CaUfomia. She is coordinator and a licensed CARI lARI clinician for the Jewish Big Brothers in Los Angeles. She is the granddaughter of Frieda Feinberg and the
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Matt Goldberg, a newly elected officer of the Jewish youth group, NCSY, came into the office of the Jewish Press recently and asked if we would be interested in taking a photograph of his group for the newspaper. Wow! It's good that I was standing, because if I had been sitting I might have fallen from the chair. For-years, we have been trying—without great success— to attract younger readers to the Jewish Press. And all of sudden, one of that group comes into our office under his own power and actuaUy asks if we would be interested in publishing such a photo. Now that I've gotten over the shock, let me devote the rest of this column to the youngsters of the Omaha Jewish community. Yes, by all means, we are interested in your activities. We are more than interested. We will (as the expression goes) bend over backwards to work with you to get your messages into the paper. Although the purpose of the Jewish Press leads us into many areas of coverage, none is more important than coverage of the Omaha area's Jewish organizations. Certainly, youth groups are important Jewish organizations and we welcome coverage of your activities. Now that you know the door is open, use it. Appoint one member of your group to the position of publicity. One of the requirements for that position should be an ability to type and an urge for accuracy. • Your publicity representative should then either walk into the Jewish Press office for a get-acquainted visit, or call us on the phone to see how to proceed. We will ask the publicity representative to act in a timely and responsible manner to provide us with accurate information about the group's activities and we will offer advice on how to channel news and photos into the paper. There is nothing mysterious or frightening regarding working with your hometown paper. We're here to he^ and we welcome your participation. Thanjks for waking us up. Matt, and keep in touch. And to all of the other youth groups out there, you are doing a lot of things that your family, friends and neighbors would be thrilled to know about. So, it's up to you to start your publicity ball rolling. Let us hear from you.
By Jan and Les Excitement emanated through the air in the El Al Terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York as 122 NCJW women and men from Sections across the country embarked Nov. 9 for a 12-day whirlwind trip to Israel. And this excitement continued as we criss-crossed Israel from Tel Aviv to Haifa and to Jerusalem. Sightseeing was interspersed with visits to several of the projects of the NCJW Research Institute for. Innovation in Education at Hebrew University. We began our trip with a visit to Ashdod to see "Children Tutoring Children"—a project that pairs a sixth grader a,pd a "slow-learning" second grader in a one-on-one setting using materials developed by the Research Institute. This is a fantastic program because it not only improves the skills of the "slow" children but also lets the older children give' of themselves in a caring and nurturing way. We learned that many individuals working together can produce miracles. We saw the miracles of culturally and socially deprived youngsters as their mothers leam to enrich the lives of their children and better prepare them for formal schooling. The HIPPY and HATAF programs prepare interested mothers working to absorb the tools that can improve their children's lives. Integration and respect for minority rights have always been concerns for NCJW and so they are concerns for the Research Institute. Through the "Rules of the Game" project which pairs Israeli and Arab teenagers—a basis for a pluralistic democracy is being established in Israel We visited the high school of the Arab Village, Dabbiriya, where this program is being used. At a kibbutz near tlie Jordanian border, we were introduced to a number of young people who had gone through the rehabilitation program—MANOF—another project of the Research Institute. MANOF works to rehabilitate the street boys and girls of Israel—those who had aU heea given up by the system. This program will be enhtmced with its new centralized campus at Yad Natan, north of Haifa. We visited the Ship-A-Box Mifal in the Jerusalem area where we observed the results of Sections throughout the United States who send toys, games and clothes which are dispersed to schools throughout Israel We celebrated 20 years of association between the National Council of Jewish Women and the Research Institute with a luncheon at the Institute. Many of the presenters made us realize that the NCJW Research Institute is the glory of the Hebrew University School of Education. Professors Seymour Fox and Zev Klein said that it is inconceivable that the Ministry of Education would conceive of any innovative project without consulting the Institute. We were honored to attend a reception at the home of Israeli President Chaim Herzog. President Herzog welcomed us to Israel and congratulated NCJW on their support of the Research Institute's activities which help underprivileged Israel citizens, both Jew and Arab. Dinners were highlighted with speakers of great promi-
Schneidennan nence who gave us insights into the political life of Israel. Professor Shlomo Avineri of Hebrew University's political science department reminded ua that the current debate is about the nature of the State of Israel. We were told by Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, that the most important issue facing Israel is security—a security that will always be tenuous if there is an adjacent state dominated by "the PLO, which is not a political organization that dabbles in terrorism, but a terrorist organization that dabbles in politics." As a women's organization, we are concerned with women's rights and constitutional rights. Yael Oayan Sion, p most vocal member of the Labor Party and daughter of Moshe Dayan, told us that women's rights may be cut to pieces and that freedom, democracy and social progress are in danger. And we were dismayed to leam during a women's issues fonmi that women are effectively excluded from the political arena. We must help our Israel counterparts leam to cooperate and coordinate with each other so that the Knesset will have greater female representation. Our gala closing banquet was held in the Chagall Hall of the Knesset. Here seated between the walls adorned with more of the great art of Marc Chagall, we joined together to celebrate the success of Summit V. We were first treated to a surprise, off-the-cuff presentation of the current status of the negotiations then going on to form a government by Israel's foreign minister and chairman of the Labor Party, Shimon Peres. We heard, as well from a high ranking member of the Israel government, Yitzhak Navon, deputy prime minister and minister of education and culture. Not only did Mr. Peres extol the value of NCJW and its Research Institute but so did Mr. Navon in his role as education minister and friend to NCJW. We saw so much—from the Golan Heights to the Dead Sea—from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. We cried at Yad Vashem—we argued Israeli politics—we overate of Israel's abundant fruits and vegetables—we drank coffee and tea with Jews and Arabs—with the well-to-do and the disadvantaged. We traveled many miles in 12 days. We partied—we absorbed—we did not sleep much. But we came to a conclusion. We have a unique connection to the State of Israel—we know that in the lands of Israel "... there are two seaa, both filled with the same good waters of the River Jordan. .The sea of Galilee receives from the Jordan. For every drop that flows into it, another drop flows out. The giving and receiving go in equal measure. The other sea hoards its income jealously. It will not be tempted into any generous impulse. Every drop it gets, it keeps. The sea of Galilee gives and lives. Th^ other sea gives nothing. It is called the Dead Sea. "There are two seas in the land of Israel. There are two kinds of people in this world." As Jews, we need not to be like the Dead Sea, but like the sea of Galilee—giving and receiving in equal measure.
Hofeteff© ft® ftSi© ©(SSftoff Talking Book Bowlathon, Kay Weinstein, publicity; Judy Siff, coordination with the religious school support and technical assistance from Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Brooks, Nancy Epstein. Pam DePorte and Evi Zysman. To the Editor The real heroes are you in the Jewish community, who On behalf of the Tikun 01am (Repairing the World) committee of Temple Israel, I wish to thank all of the gener- through your kindness, generosity, caring an^ living by the ous and caring people who participated in our many way of Tzedakeh, are making this world a better place to projects in the past few months. Hundreds of members of live. Thank you all and God bless you. Diane S.Zipay Temple and many Jewish volunteers from other congregaChairperson. Tikun Olam Committee mittee tions gave time, effort, donations and services to make Temple lara lara^ other's lives more fulfilling. During the holiday season 100 coats were cleaned and To the Editor: distributed to school children, 32 foster children received The current controversy over the construction of atchen^H c a very special surprise on Christmas morning, over 260 ical plant in Libya is n^t an isolated example of threats I eate^l m«aU were delivered to the homebound and ektirly, money the survival of Israel. was raised for Radio Talking Book and some Omahana were In the early 1960s, Egypt embarked on a program of warmer and had food due to the efforta of the TUwi Olam building rockets with a range of 350 miles and the capability of striking every city in Israel projects. German anginesrs and scieotists irwin/jfpg Quuiy Nazis''' The projects could never have been afcompllshiid without the generosity of the partidpanta in these projscts. The were glvso large sskrlee and bonuaee tor deogning shallsi itociee wen touching. The vohmteers wito became involved motors and guidance systems. It is eetimated that enough found Uu giving as rewarding as the joy of those reoeiv-. parts were ordered to manufacture 900 rockets. ing. An axsmple of the joy brought to the heaixe of many Theee rockete were to be kMtded'wtth nerve gaa, germ^H is the following letter sent to Rsbbi AzrieL and deadly radioactive wastes, and wen ooBsUsred a tnrai^l "Todey ws wish to send a note of thsnks eepedally on to the survival of Isrsei. (Michiuil Bar-Sohar; Spiee in th^ bftkalf of our fostar chM In mid-December I reodved a tele- Promised Land; Page 2861 phone call bom Susan Rainish who told me about Temple According to Pr^aaor Wslt« Binder of Berne Univer laraal's community service project to be^ make a group sity in Swit«erko4 Bgypt was r^lertlpg enough Cobalt of foet«r children's holidays really special Susan and hsr 60 to contaminate the whole of laraal"... with s conce^H husband than made arrangemeote to deliver gifts to s vsry trstion of 60 timse the fsnetkally. tolersbie maximui^| surprised and dalichted little girl As difficult as this may doee." (Richard Deacon, The larMU Secret service, Fsg^ ^ be for soms to understand, b^ore entsring social service 166). care, thia nine-year-old child had never rsceived a gift in Fortunately .not a single rocket had a succeeaful flighl^ her lifetime. Soda! service workers have tokl us she feels Either tJie eheil exphiM, or the weUed eeama failed^H the happieet dsy of her UM wae the d^ ehe entered foster hold, or the guidance system dki not func^oa. ^^ care, we believe the participsnl'iaiiaart^sitd' in tU* V^i' Presufoabiy. Uiis ayerslioo had bwn ioQIUatad by the ect hsve impreesed this Uttle child veiy deeply. We thank Moesad and the rockete were rendered oon-fuoctional. you aleo for everyone'e eftorte. It was hsartwaiTiilng." Finally, in 1964. with the support of the U.a Oove A spsdsl thank you to all the committee members for ment, the Qennaa sdentisU were pressur4d into < their hard work spd support. Susan Rainjsh, Christmas their activitiea in Egypt. joys for foster care girls and boys; Qindy Schneider and Harry Lois Friedman. Meals CO Wheels; Csthy Christensen, MUD SdeaoeWfi heat fund drive and poeteroonteat; Peony End^BHWi Rsdlo ACRSSI The Jewish Press reserves the right to edit letters for reaSOD of length or coateat.
The National Conference of Synagogue Youth (NCSY) has elected new officers, from left, as follows: Gary Shyken, presidenti Shifra Shrago, vice president. Matt Goldberg, secretary, and Rachel Shyken, treasurer. The youth group is open to those in grades six through eight from all synagogues and prospective memben may conUct Matt at 397-7814.
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Millionaire health crusader poorer but says consumers richer Bjr Scott SoBow ated Prtm irrfter story is being reprinted with the penniesion of The Associated Pnas. OMAHA, Neb. - A multimillionaire is 12 million poorer, but he's convinced American consumers are richer as the remit of his one-man quest to rid food of highly saturated tropical cms he calls poiaoa "It's a story of the little guy against the gisnt and the giuit is backing down," said Omaha businessman Phil Sokolof, who spends almost all his time on his anticholeaterol campaign. The ae-year-okl Sokolof poured $2 million into nationwide newspaper advertising in an effort to persuade the public to stop buying foods high in saturated fat because of tropical oils, chiefly coconut oil and palm oil Saturated fats increase blood cholesterol levels, which can lead to heart attacks. .' Sokolof has claimed victory over four mejor food processors—Kellogg's, Sunshine Biscuits, Pepperidge Fanu and Keebler. Keebler became the latest corporate trophy head in S<^olof's health crusade when its president announced Wednesday (Jan. 4, 1989) that all tropical oil, lard and beef fat would be removed from Keebler products. "I think it's great for the American public that thousands of lives will be extended because there are now four mtgor companies that are reformulating literally hundreds of products to eliminate tropical oils," he said. Sokolof, who blames high
choleeterol for a naw-t|ital my first ad, isn't it?'' he heart attack he suffarad 22 a^ted. His favoriU eiampte year* afo, aakl be is hanved is Kellogg's and its Crackto be refsred to by hvalth lin' Oat Bran cereal news writer* ay "Amwica's "To start with, they (KelNo. 1 chai««t«o) fighter." logg's corporate otticers) "I tUnk I got that UUe said I was irresponsible. because it is vacant There They said I waa practicing is no Ralph Nadv of the quackery. Then two weeks cholesterw world," he i«id. later they called and aaked His ad fjmpaign targets to take them out of the ads foods that are U^ in Mtu- becauae they were going to rated fata, yet portriyed as take tropical oila out of the healthful through such label cereal," he said. claims as "no cholfSsterol," Sokokif's biggest single"k)w salt," "non-dairy" and day expenditure was "made with 100 percent $140,000 to place full-page vegetable shortening." ads in the Wall Street Jour"You can say it has no nal and USA Today. choleeterol, but if you eat He also advertised in the palm oil and coconut oil, they turn into choleeterol in- New Y«rk Timee ajod New side your body," Sokolof York Post, but some newspapers, including the said. "Almost everyone has Waahington Poet, objected known that fatty meats and to the Ursa "poison" and re... most dairy products are fused to run the ads. high in cholesterol and satuHis initial advertising rated fat. But they didn't bUtz in November singled know about coconut oil and out Kellogg's CrackUn' Oat palm oil Hopefully th^ do Bran, Swishine's Hydrox now." cookies, Pepperidge Farm's Keebler President Thom- Cjoklfish crackers, Keehler's as Garvin told the Washing- Club crackers, Nabisco's ton Poet that the change in Triscuit aackers, Procter & his company's food for- Gamble's Crisco shortening mulas had no connection and three non-dairy coffee with Sokolof's campaign. creamers—Coffee Swirl He accused Sokolof of sen- from Kraft, Carnation's Coffeemate and Borden's sationalizing the issue. Brian Dobson, a spokes- Creamora. "There is still a long way man for Sunshine Biscuits, made similar comments when he announced last month that Sunshine would eliminate palm oil and palm By Unjih Orgel kernel from its cookie and cracker products. TEL AVIV (JTA) - IsSokolof, however, said he rael Aircraft Industries and was confident his full-page the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. ads warning of the "poison- in the United States have ing of America" helped put joined forces to produce the public pressure on the cor- Arrow, an Israeli-designed poraticms to respond to con- anti-misaile "^iowilft sumers' concerns. The Israeli company re"It's pretty coincidental ceived a $158 million grant that four of the majors did from the United States last that within two months of year to develop the weapon.
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SERVICES: Friday; 8 p.m. ADULT EDUCATION Sunday, 11 a.m. Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. WOMEN'S PLEA FOR SOVIET JEWRY Congregation B'nai Jeahurun will join communities throughout the country in spealdng out on behalf of human rights of Jews in the USSR, when the 18th Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry is held Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m.
Lincoln Tifereth Israel SERVICES: Friday: 6 p.m. Saturday: 9:30 a.m Jr. Congregation, 10:30 a.m. Torah Atudy with the rabbi, 5 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays: 7:15 a.m. Sunday: 10 a.m.
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Sabbath Candlelighting for Friday, January 27,5:15 p.m.
Beth El Synagogue SERVICES: Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Bierkovits will conduct the services. Friday: 6 p.m. Saturday: Morning service, 9:30 a.m. Kiddush will follow services. Babysitting is available from 10 a.m. Junior Congregation, 11 a.m. Minha-Ma'ariv, 5:20 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. and 5:30 Weekdays: 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. LUNCH AND LEABN Lunch and Learn will omtinue Thursday, Jan. 26, noon. The current topic is "After Life."
KALLAH WEEKEND On Saturday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m.. Dr. Ron Wolfson will speak at Beth El. His topic will be "What's Happening to the Jewish Family?" A reception will follow. Offirtt Air Base SHABBAT DINNER SERVICES: The monthly second FriRabbi Howard Zyskind day dinner wUl take place conducts services in the Feb. 10, following 6 p.m. Capehart Chapel every services. Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg Reservations are due by Shabbat followa the Feb. 10. service.
Council Bluffs ' B'nai Israel SERVICES: First and third Friday ^Hk Members of congrega^Bian B'nai Israel invite you to join us Jan. 20 for Shabbat services. 7:30 p.m.. and an evHting of storytelling about our immigrant ancestors as they came to this country to make a better life. An Oneg Shabbat follows For more information, call EUo) Fe&nick, 3909062. '%
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Nazi sought By Susan Biralianm NEW YORK (JTAI - A Dutchman currently being sought in Argentina for Nazi war crimes is now reported by Interpoi to have died in Switzerland 16 years ago. Interpoi, the international po&e force, has said that Beraardus Andriaa Ripliagm ified in Gsoeva in 1973. Interpol's report waa made to Dutch authorities, which had ranieated the extraditioa oi Ripbafen in ordar to •tawl trial far his wartime
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Brochos for breakfast By MarleM GeidaMH NEW YORK (JTAI Kids will soon be able to qiell out brachot with their Alpha-Bits and fill their Honeycombs with morning prayer. The Post Cereal Division of General Foods Corp. plane before the end of January to fortify their eareals with "Brodioe for Braakfaat," an «ichti>age activify book das^nad to teach brachot uaiag poaiea, ridtflaa, quiziea md other ThaactM^ Imit wffl not be fooad on tha bottooi of the bai, howaw. TIH primer, wUeh alao faKJadaa a faficalar brachot chart. wiD be diitrjbotad ia Hafarvw schook yaaUvot aad other The thfuat of the book was to coma up with a suppiaamt to the sdBfatwn PPOCflM* ttpMBMCl
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yov labor soothsayer, the necromancer, the cloudgazer, the hepatoscopiat. All of this leads to the sharp comment of a medieval Jewish scholar and stateamah, who asked us to take canful note (rf wording (in our Sklrah) of the Fourth Commandment: "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD your God... " The implication he saw here was that the days of the work-week were days blessed by God and were all good. Woik could be accomplished on any and all of them. Forget, he advises, the superstitious advice of cloudgazers and astrologiata, who say that this day or that day is not auspkaous because the clouds or the stars are not right. How good it is to have a Ibthrtti^my Jewish scholar fully aware of the emptinees of pseudo-sciencesi He may have been exiled from Spain (He wasi); but he did not need the R^enaiasance to awaken him from the Dark Agee... To complete the thought, however, note the charming superstition among Jews that Monday is not a good day for new ventures, and Tuesday and Friday are especially good days. If you don't know why, read careful the first chapter of Genesis and see when "The LORD saw that it was good...
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French ask Syria to extradite Nazi By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - France has aaked Syria for the extradition of Alois Brunner, one of the last major Nazi war criminala known to be alive. The Frmch ambassador to Syria, Alain Grenier, presoited the formal request to the Syrian authoriUee in Damascus on Dec. 27, Nazi-himt«a' Serge Klarafeld diacloeed here. Syria haa stubbornly denied for years any knowledge of Brunner's whereabouts, contrary to all evidence, inchkttng an inter view Brunner gave to a Chicago Tribune reporter in Damascus last year. Now France is exerting the full force of its iU^Wmftie weight to bring Ua tojn^ tice, Klarafeld said. *% TIM French estradi tun requeet is based on new documents Klarsfeld filed with the Ministry of Justice in 1987. The new file chiirgee Brunner with crimes against humanity, wluch according to French law, are not covwed by the statute of limitations, aa are war Crimea. Klarafeld used a similar complaint to obtain the trial and 1986 conviction of Klaua Barbie, the "Butcher of LjKHi" who ia now atrviog
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A letter from Mary Editor's note: ' Maiy Fellman, a leader in the Omaha Jewish oommunity, was invited to write to us reportiDgr on her current visit to Israel. Her first letter follows: The roses are still blooming, the daffodils and jonquils are just bursting into their full glory and it is good to be back in Jerusalem! The joyous and warm family bar mitzvah last week of Annie and Harry Allen's grandson, Ninuod (son of Miriam Allen and Avrum Kluskal, was a vivid reminder of the early days of oiu- family at the Kapulier synagogue on 24th and Nicholas with the women sitting upstairs and..the "shammus" shouting "shecket" (quiet). An unexpected guest at the service was Cantor Gabriel Berkovits and his lovely wife, parents of Beth El's Cantor Emil, who came to join us from their home in Ramat Gan. The congregation leaders were happy to have him there and asked him to lead the Musaf service. This first week in Israel has been one of viewing the many changes since even two years ago—tremendous building and re-gentrification of neighborhoods, 70,000 more cars on the road each year and they are all on the same roads we are it seems, higher prices on food and clothing and many new restaurants including Chinese, vegetarian and Moroccan. A short visit with each, Alan Potash and Jonathan Duitch so far, and both look very well. There is much talk about the economy and devaluation of the shekel, effects of this on education, the poor, medical care, etc. We attended & lecture Monday night on "How Modem Are The Haredim" (ultra-orthodoi Jews), by Professor Sam Heilman from the Hebrew University. Excellent discussion and presentation. More later about the relationships and non-relationships between the various Jewish elements. Trying to see places I have never seen before. One was in the Jewish Quarter where we stopped to enjoy the beauty of the Old Vishuv C!ourt (Court of the Jewish Community) which has been reconstructed as a special museum showing the life of the Jewish community of the Old City from the middle of the 19th century until World War I. Supposedly the Ari, Rabbi Itzak ben Shlomo Luria Ashkenazi, one of the great kabbalists, was bom in one of the ground floor rooms on this complex in 1634. See this gem of a museum on your next visit and also the other one seldom seen by tourists in Rishon Le-Zion, the city next to Jaffa. It is built over the first well dug there, financed by Baron Edmond de Rothschild who the community appealed to in their need for water. It was also in Rishon Le-Zion in an adjoining section that we learned that the world's first national Hebrew school was opened there in l88€ with Eliezer Ben Yehudah's innovations for using the Hebrew language as the spoken tongue being tried out. Supposedly the poem written by Naphtali Herz Imber in 1886 called "Tikvatenu" was first sung in this colony and became today "Hatikvah," Israel's national anthem. The visit to the Carmel Wine factory showed another instance of Rothschild's generosity in the assistance he gave in bringing in wine cellers and experts from France to help in the begiiming of wine processing. The new shopping mall "Canyion" la as big as a canyon and full of wonderful new stores and restaurants, ultramodem and a beautiful new kosher meat market is fully stocked with a vast variety of elegantly presented meats, salads and many Jewish famous delicacies. On a comer on Ben Yehuda etreet a new very large
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By Andrew 8Uow CarroU NEW YORK (JTA) The Jewish Agency for Israel announced its plans to deal with the coats ol a huge increase in the number of Jews being allowed out of the Soviet Union. The program, outlined in a document unanimously adopted aftw a two-day meeting of its Executive here, calls for improvementa in housing and services for new immigrants to Israel. The document also suggested that the improvementa, to coat an estimated $100 million, would be funded in part through a special campaign undertaken hy the United Jewish Appeal and Ita international counteipart, the Keren Hayeaod. The program doea not, however, tacUe what ia to American Jewish communities the more dire issue: how to pay for the resettlement of the 90 percent of Soviet emigres who choose to live in the United States rather than Israel. Instead, the Executive announced that it has been requested to take part in a working team to "establish a mechaniam" for meeting the increaaing costs of Soviet reoettlement in the United States. Agencies that deal with the resettlement of Soviet Jewa eatinukte that if 30,000 Soviet Jews arrive in the United States during 1980, as projected, the cost to American Jewish communities could be as high as $140 million. Simcha Dinits, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive, made it clear at a news confarence announcing
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the program that "the Jewish Agency was not established in wder to aaaist the absorption of Jews in Milwaukee, Chicago or Detroitr." He also acknowledged that it is up to the individuBl Jewish fedo^ ations across North America to determine how much of locally raised money will be allocated to Israeli needs and how much will go to local resettlement efforts. In days prior to the meeting. Jewish Agency offidals expreased anxiety that the federationa wouU begin cutting back their allocations to the United Jewish Appeal, in favor of local Soviet Jewry resettlement. Money funneled from the UJA to the Jewiah Agency Bccounta for two-thinla of the agency's $400 milUon budget. Even without farther cutbacks, the Jewish Agency could ifaca a budgetary shortfall this year of over $4Q million, Dinits explahied at the news confarence. He said the shortfall is partly the reeult of reductiona in federation allocations over the past several yeara and an increase in the proportion of UJA money being allocated for international resettlement purposes, llie major recipienU of those allocations are the American Jewiah Joint Distribution Conunittee and the New York Aaaodationfor New Americana. Also taking part in the news conference was Mendel Kaplan, chairman of the Jewiah Agency Board of Govemora. He atreaaed that the Jewiah Agency does not want to see the needa of those reaettUng ha the Diaspora "to be met by resources that were to come to larael."
Instead, he said the team being fonned to address the problem would explore other ways to meet those needs. The Executive's suggestions include finding ways to reduce the federations' cost* of resettlement, that federationa dip into endowment funds or other capital funds, and that help to arriving Soviet Jews be offered in the form of loans, and not granta. Jerry Levinrad, director
of refugee resettlement programs at the Council of Jewish Federations, said that federations across North America are already looking into all of those possibilitiee. Levinrad aaid they are also exploriqg a "separate-line campaign' to run in addition to the annual UJAfederation campaign. At the news conference, Kaplan did not rule out a sqiarate-Une campaign.
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