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Ike Friedman, shown here with his wife, Roz, announced a $50,000 moving," she heartily showed her approval. Seated next to Mrs. B gift SaiKUy to the Rose Blumldn Jewish Home in honor of his aunt, Is daughter, Frances Batt. Mrs. B and her family contributed Mrs. B. His pledge came during the groundbrealdng ceremony for $500,000 to expand the Home. Additional photos on pages 8-9. the addition to the Home and when he 8aid,"Let's get this tiling •^C301C-0C • -«LI\CCL^

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Livingston Foundation adds scholarships The Bureau of Jewish Education has received a second gift of $10,000 for "Livingston Scholarships" from the Milton S. and Corinne N. Livingston Foundation. The gift is to fund the scholarships for the year 1989. The Livingston Scholarships were first established on a trial basis by the Trustees of the Livingston Foundation in 1988, in direct reqxnae to an article in The Jewish Press outlining the need for scholarship funds. The original grant was made without a formal request to the Foundation Board, and was approved by the Trustees on their own initiative in hopes that other members of the community would follow suit in providing much needed scholarship funds. At that time, Jule Newman, president of the Foun-

dation, stated that if there about one-third of them. is a demonstrated ongoing "The demands placed need, the Trustees will con- upon our scholarship funds sider continuing these funds have C(mtinued to increase,'' for future years. "The 1989 said Mrs. Riekes. "Part of gift is in keeping mth that the reason can be attributed promise," said Mr. New- to rising costs of education, man. both formal and informal. Susan Drazen, director of "Part of the reason, howthe Bureau of Jewish Edu- ever, is also due to the fact cation, in acknowledging that more families are the generosity and support choosing to give their chilof the Livingston Founda- dren Jewish summer ezperition to meet the growing encee. need for scholarships, noted "We are very glad that so that for 1989, the Living- many Omaha families wish ston Scholarships will ben- their chiklren to have such efit five college students, 12 experiences during the sunkJewish summer campers, mer. As president of the Buand assist one Jewish high reau of Jewish Education, I school student on a study feel that the kind of help mission to Israel ] ,' \ provided by the Livingston According to Margo Foundation for youth of all Riekes, president of the Bu- ages is of paramount imporreau, the Financial Aid tance." Committae, whkh adminYale Richards, executive iatan tha funda, reoaivad an director of the Foundation, unprecadwited number of pointed out that the gift scholarship requests for from the Foundation ia not 1989, and couki fund only for an endowment Aud, and

both principal and interest are used to provide educational opportunities for young members of the community. Mr. Richards stated that the grant is in keeping with the Livingston Foundation's policy of trying to meet the "special needs" of the community when adequate funds are not available from other sources. "The Livingston Foundation Trustees have recognized that Jewish youth programs are underfinanced, and are hopeful that the leadership demonstrated by the Foundation wiU encourage other individuals and fanxiliee to provide additional funds." In addition to Mr. Newman, Trustees of the Livingston Foundation are vice preeident, Morton A. Rkhards; treasurer, Stanley J. Slosburg: secretary, Robert I. KuUy: and Murray H. Nawman.

Architect to present plans at Beth El meeting May 24 Howard KoofMr, chairman By Joaaie Jaeobeon Paderatioa pabUc of the Building Committea. relatioBi directar "Moa will pnaent drawtaoe Maurice N. "Moe" and nodal atntctma of tie Finagold, president of Not- praponddHifB andwpUB ter, Finagold and Alex- the concept behind tha ander, Inc. of Boatoo, chief arcUtacts for tha paw Beth "We hind tha fba to El Synagogue, will be the coma up with a v«y ianova' faatutad spaaker at Beth tiva, creativa and huKtioMl El's Annual Meeting, to be daaiiEn that would eocomheld 00 May 24 at 7:30 p.m. paaa tha raquirannnts tet "Ttiia ia an CHwrtuaity forth by tlw oMmniltaa," ha for the antii* coaigrtgation eiplainad "In nddftioD to to iMet Mr. Finagold end certain numbers vadficauadKatand, fir«t-luDd» tha lions, our numbtrone priprocMS that has bam foing ority was that tha daaign be on liiiM be WM hind in Da- warm. Mindly and inviting. caotbar of 1988," said The result is very distinc-

tive . unique in relationship to any other religiwis structure in our city. "Moa is a talmtad, caring Jewiah man who haa a sincere dcaire to m^ this an excellent project from beginning to and," said Mr. Koopir. 'Hailaaidhhbut opintea in a Dr. Riy OoUaMn, noatinatid for lynmogua piaaidmt and director of Phase II ol tha building program. outKna the procaaatn date. "Moa first cana V> tevv to daven with tha congregation on Shabbat. and to

meet with rapreseotative grouBs on Saturdiy night u4 Sunday. He abaorbad ouriaitingi He came to undiMtanrt who we wire and whira we wanted to go. "Ewy thna weeks, a Mbcannittia nut to react to the varioui itagia of db•iga.' cootimMd Dr. OoUstain. "Charlii Wilacam. nnaWMt of Wilacam, Birga * Awoclafai» lac. tha aasociated architacti in Omaha, abo attmdad tha "Tha large coatribution (CoaUnMd on P«««.

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0 SIFF/RICHARDS Penina Siff of Venice, Calif., and Bruce S. Richards of Santa Monica, Calif., have announced their engagement. The future bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Siff, of Worcester, Mass., and her fiance is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Yale Richards of Omaha. The bride-elect received a bachelor of science degree cum laude from North. eastern University in Boston. She is a certified public accountant with the firm of Gelfand, Rennert and Feldman, in Los Angeles. The future bridegroom is a graduate of Stanford University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in economics, and holds degrees of juris doctor and master of business administration from the University of California at Los Angeles! He is presently deputy general counsel and assistant vice president of Telecredit, Inc., in Los Angeles. The couple plans to be married October 29,1989, at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Worcester, Mass. JUSTICE BRENNAN NAMED NEW YORK (JTA) Justice William Brennan Jr.. associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has been named the 1989 recipient of Brandeis University's Louis Dembitz Brandeis Medal for Distinguished Legal Service.

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(Continued from Page 1) from the Feinberg family has inspired subsequent contributions and heightened the interest in the new synagogue," he said. "We want to move toward the final phases of design and fundraising soon after the Annual Meeting." Marty Shukert, newlyappointed associate of Wilscam, Birge and member of Beth El, explained the local firm will be involved with construction documents and construction supervision. "We're very pleased to participate with Moe Finegold in this project," said Mr. Shukert. "I've been a fan of theirs for a long time. They're one of the best architectural design firms in the nation, best-known for projects that are unique and well-suited to their specific client. "Moe has shown a very deep commitment and interest in Beth El. He has designed the quintessential synagogue - the best of the past and the best of the present. Among modern synagogues, the building is incomparable — truly a building we can be proud of, and one that people will come to Omah^ to see. "The Annual Meeting offers the congregatidn a chance to meet a great ar^ chitect and to hew bv• speak. His awareness and sensitivities to our needs will be very enlightening and interesting to anyone who attends." CLIP AND SAVE-

CALENDAR OF EVENTS SATURDAY. HAY 20 Susan Shackman. Bat Mitzvah, Beth El BBYO-Chajm Weizmann. Concern Night, 6pm Lyndi Passer, Bat Mitzvah. Temple Israel SUNDAY, MAY 21. Hachanah L'Yisrael Class. 3 p.m. UTTO Family Picnic. 12:30 p.m , Frphm Pavilion UTTO Pre-Kindergarten Program, Beth El UTTO Last Day ol Sunday Classes, Beth El Temple Israel Picnic, Temple Israel Jr B'nai Brilh Bowling League. 1:30 p.m , Cougar Lanes Halikvah/Amif Dinnei Meeting. 5 p.m., Belh Israel BBYO lrwUi:«tions, 6:30 p.m Temple Israel Congregational Dinner, 6:30 p m , Temple Israel MONDAY, MAY 22 YES, 10 am Modern Hebrew, 11 a.m. Jewish Family Service Board, 7:30 p m TUESDAY, MAY 23 Bnai B'rithyADL Anti-Semilism, 7 30 pm N«Uonal Council of Jewish Women Board Trajnino 7pm Old Timers, 10 am Siddur Hebrew. 11 am Bureau tor ^ng Board, noon Federation Soard. 7:30 p m WEDNESDAY. HAY 24 Dance R»cital. 7 p.m. National Council o( J«wi«h Women Board Training 9am Bnai B'rith Breadbraakers, noon, Howard Johnson's Kalah FranklirVAmil Meeting, noon. Bath El Confirmation Ctats. 6:30 p.m., Ttmi)le larael Belh El Annual Meeting and Reception (or Architect S:40j>.m., Beth El THUMOAV. HAV 2S Broila CISM. 9 am. XAC Exacuttve Board. 7:30 p.m. Dane* Recital. 7 p.m. Walk-m Orop-in. 10:30 a.m . Bath El Men's Cluo Lunch, noon, Beth El JawWi War Vats, 730 p.m , Po« #1 Religious School. «:30 p.m.. Temple ISCMI

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From left, Abe Gendier, Earl Siegel, Sam Katzman and Fred Kotok were honored by the men of Henry Monsky Lodge, May 10, at a special B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers luncheon. Each has been a member of B'nai B'rith for 50 yeazB and have attained life membership status. B'NAI B'RITH charge for dinner. Racing Henry Monsky Lodge begins at 8 p.m. B'nai B'rith is sponsoring Call Steve Zalkin, 341its second annual "Evening 8790 or 397-9857, or Lois at Bluffs Run" June 3. Ac- Epstein at 334-8200 or 330cording td Steve Zalkin, 1134 for reservations. The Monsky vice president. lodge is limited to 50 reserCost for the evening is $3 vations, so RSVP by May and includes club house ad- 30. mission, reserved seating with T.V.. a racing form, a tip sheet and "lots of fun!" Gates open at 6:30 p.m. There will be an additional

Library hours Summer hours at the Jewish Federation Library will begin Saturday. May 27, and last through Saturday, August 26. The summer schedule is: Monday-Friday —8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday evening—7-9 p.m. Sunday—1-5 p.m. Saturday—Closed Regular operating hours will resume Aug. 27.

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By Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) Four Democratic members of the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations committees assured Jewish leaders here that Israel's $3 billion in yearly foreign aid remains secure. But they warned that budgetary pressures may build against the aid package in the nottooKiistant future. The solution, in what one of the four representatives acknowledged was an "intensely partisan" appeal, is to help the Democratic Party retain its majority within the House of Representatives.

Drs. Karen and Stephen Gould of San Diego, Calif., announce the March 15 birth of a son, Adam. The couple also have three other children, Alex, Jennifer and HUary. Paternal grandparents are Bess and Ralph Nogg and the late Leonard H. Gould.

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Survivors include daughters, Rita Novak and Elaine Krasne; son, Sheldon Krantz; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild; brothers Dave Krantz and Aaron Krantz. The family suggests memorials to Beth El Synagogue or the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. HILDEGARD KUKAWKA Word has been received of the death of Hildegard Kukawka, 65. Mrs. Kukawka is survived by her husband, Abram; daughter, Susan (Mrs. Ron) Wolfson of Los Angeles, Calif.; two grandchildren; brother, Fred Lieball, Berlin, Germany. The family suggests memorials to the Beth El Building Fund and Beth Israel Synagogue.

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ABRAHAM KRANTZ Services were held at Beth El Synagogue, May 12, for Abraham Krantz. He was 86. Burial was at Beth El Cemetery.

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BEN KAPLAN Graveside services were held May 16 at Fischer Farms Cemetery, B'Nai Abram Section, for Ben Kaplan. He was 75. Survivors include wife, Ruth; sons, Gerie, Omaha; Steve, Cleveland, Ohio; Marc, Santa Fe, N,M.; and Doiui, Las 'V'egas, Nev.; four grandchildren; two sisters, Rosalie Babendir of Omaha; Bess Bergman of Las Vegas; two brothers, Sanford and Morrie Kaplan, both of Los Angeles. The family suggestis memorials to your favorite charity.

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(feaftsMfis'^gilhJ BREADBREAKERS llichard Roth, Douglas County sheriff, will be the guest speaker at the May 24 Breadbreakers luncheon, announced Natan Schwalb, B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers president for May. Breadbreakers meets every Wednesday, at noon, at Howard Johnson's, 72nd and Grover. The community is invited; cost for lunch is $6.

JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE On June 5, 7:30 p.m., Honor Mogul, national vice president of the Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs, will brief JAC members and guests on issues of concern to women committed to the support of Israel. The meeting, which is open to all interested Jewish women, will be hosted by Zoe Riekes, 1335 No. 129th Circle. JAC is a network of American women dedicated to strengthening American support for the state of Israel. Membership contributions are used to aid the election of members of Congress who have demonstrated their support for larael. However, the Joint Action Committee vrill not

contribute to candidates who have been given significant campaign support by Radical Right political organizations. In the most recent election, JAC supported Sen. Bob Kerrey and Rep. Peter Hoagland in their bids for seats in the U.S. Congress, from Nebraska. For more information about the meeting or JAC, call Carol Katzman, 3979936; Margo Riekes, 3341185; or Zoe Riekes, 4937890. EPSTEIN MORGAN POST Epstein-Morgan Post No. 260 Jewish war Veterans of the USA will meet May 25, 7:30 p.m., at the American Legion Post No. 1 club. Memorial Day, May 29, observance will be held at 10 a.m., at Forest Law Memorial Park. JWV and all veterans organizations are expected to attend.

LIMITATIONS JERUSALEM (JTA) Plans to limit the number of Arab day laborers from the administered territories working in Israel are being considered as a means of curbing mounting violence against Israeh citizens.

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Lyndl Passer Lyndi Joanne Passer will become a Bat Mitzvah May 20 at Temple Israel. She is the daughter of Claire Passer and Jeffrey Passer. Lyndi is a seventh-grade honor student at Westside Middle School. She enjoys gymnastics, Softball, swimming, water-skiing, reading and shopping. Lyndi has four brothers, Sam, Jeremy, Joel and Aaron. Grandparents are Richard Gummers and the late Lottie Gununers, and Stanley Passer and the late Edith Passer. K-MART'S CHIEF HONORED NEW YORK (JTA) Joseph Antonini, K-Mart's chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer, received the American Friends of the Hebrew University's National Scopus Award. AMERICAN HERITAGE NEW YORK (JTA) Richard Heckert, former chairman and chief executive officer of the Du Pont Company, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith with its American Heritage award.

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ATHENS (JTA) - The office of the district attorney in Salonika began hearing testimony against Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner. Brunner is believed to be living in Syria since 1950, although Syria has repeatedly denied this and refused West German requests for Brunner's extradition. The hearings in Salonika will also be attended by the

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Sometimes it's difficult to solve a puzzle. One can try and try, but the pieces just don't §eem to fit and the answer seems to hang somewhere out there outof-reach. That's the way I felt during the L.O.V.E banquet last week at the Jewish Community Center. The tables were set beautifully with family photographs as the centerpieces, the room was decorated with colorful balloons and the wall decor again was oriented to the theme of the evening—family. Food and wine pleased the palate, creating the mood for music to end the evening and the melodies were supplied by Marty Shukert leading the Beth El Choir with Cantor Emit Berkovits as soloist. As the music echoed around the room, I looked at the faces of the residents of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home who were attending the dinner. They were serene, composed and absorbed by what was going on around them. What a wonderful evening, I said to myself, and how lucky I am to be here and see the love and enjoyment being shared by so many people. But, my thoughts didn't stop. The L.O.V.E. banquet stirred the wandering of my mind and the puzzle started to form. The evening before the dinner, I was among the 40 million watching War and Remembrance on television and as I looked at the faces of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home residents and their children and friends, I thought about what I had seen on the program. Although I tried to rid the scene from my consciousness, I couldn't. As the music of the evening continued, the obscene likeness of the gas chambers came back again and again. I saw again and again hundreds of Jews of all ages anguishing in the final throes of death. 1 am convinced that my mind will never escape that one scene. And I said to myself, here we are enjoying life and this wonderful experience of relating to the elderly and look what has been lost to the world with the devastation of Europe's Jews. The puzzle continues. A few days later, on Mother's Day to be exact, two celebrations took place at the Jewish Community Campus, a morning program to break ground for the addition to the Rose Blumikin Jewish Home and an afternoon and evening program to enjoy the 4l8t anniversary of the State of Israel. Several speakers at the morning program pointed out how fortunate the Omaha Jewish community is to have such a fine facility to care for the elderly. And much attention and praise was directed at Rose Blumkin herself, and her faniily. What a spunky lady! At the age of 95, she grabs a shovel and breaks ground and then proceeds to socialize with the hundreds of well-wishers. I had no way of knowing that my puzzle from the L.O.V.E. dinner would be solved that morning. Senator Bob Kerrey, the principal speaker at the groundbreaking ceremony, said that a measure of a community is how that society cares for its elderly, adding that by that yardstick Omaha certainly leads the way. So my puzzle is solved. There's not much we can do for those who no longer are with us, but we are doing what we can for those who are here now. The Jewish elderly in Omaha are being cared for in fine shape and the Omaha Jewish community can hold its head up proudly. And I can direct my rambling thoughts else where.

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By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) A large, eye-catching photo in a recent Los Angeles Times shows an unkempt, homeless man, eye closed and head resting on a pillow of crumpled newspapers. The accompanying headline calls out in inch-high letters, "Not All Jews Grow Up To Be Doctors." The unlikely sponsor of the half-page advertisement is the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, which has launched a brash and controversial media campaign for its United Jewish Fund that stands the traditional moneyraising appeal on its head. The series of eight ads reverses previous campaign pitches through three devices: The ads purposely play off unflattering Jewish stereotypes, they focus on local needs rather than those of Israel, and they are running—at a cost of $300,000—in general circu-

lation dallies and national magazines, rather than in Jewish weeklies. By conservative count, some 70 percent of the 650,000 Jews in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are unaffiliated with any Jewish organization or synagogue. "We've been trying for many years to reach unaffiliated. Jews and to get them involved in the community," George Caplan, the current federation president, told the LoB Angeles Jewish Journal "We hope to do an effective promotion, to be brash and attract attention." Ad man Gary Wexler said the campaign will target young professionals who are thought more likely to give to "Save the Whales" or gun control than to the United Jewish Appeal or Americaid Zionist Federation. From now through May, the ads will run in local dailies. The Wall Street

Journal, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated and U.S. News & World Report. Radio spots will be heard during Passover week on six stations, and 55 bus shelters will display outdoor signs.. Until quite recently, it was the conventional wisdom of federation officials that people gave to their fund-raising drives to support Israel, while professionals quietly piggybacked budgets for local needs onto the strong emotional support for the Jewish state. By sharp contrast, seven out of the eight ads in the current campaign stress such community priorities as the poor, the elderly, housing, child care and absorption of Soviet immigrants to Los Angeles. Even the one ad centering on support for Israel carries the somewhat ambivalent message "American Jews Are Divided Over Israel's Policies, Not Her Exis-

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tence." One controversial ad has been put on hold. It shows a battered and bruised woman with a wide-eyed child, over the caption "Not All Jewish Women Are Treated Like Princesses." Caplan, the federation president, said he would veto the ad "because the concept of the Jewish American princess is antiSemitic and offensive." Sharon Rice, one of the young advertising profes: sionals working with Wexler, said she still hopes that the "princess" ad will run. "The ads should be controversial," she said. "If they were merely nice, they'd be pabulum, they'd be ignored." SIGN AGREEMENT TEL AVIV (JTA) - The Soviet Baltic republic of Estonia has sigtied an agreement with Israel for an exchange of experts, beginning next year. •"•

to Israeli tactics designed to impoverish the territories. The economic problem, however, has more complicated roots. Some of the problems are the direct result of the intifada; some of the problems stem from the collapse of the Jordanian economy and some problems stem from the Israeli decision, taken as a result of the intifada, to start enforcing the tax laws in Judea, Samaria and Gaza after 20 years of looking the other way. First the intifada related decline: The West Bank and Gaza economies are tied very directly to both Israel and Jordan. As a result of the intifada West Bank exports to Israel have declined by over one third and purchases by Israelis and tourists directly from West Bankers have declined by even more. The second intifada related factor has been the decision of Israel to enforce property and automobile tax laws in the West Bank and Gaza. Over the past 20 years enforcement has been largely ignored —particularly property tax By Rabbi Mendel Katzman Tuesday, May 23, we will be celebrating LAG B'OMER, laws. Automobile tax collections have seen more enforceone of the most cherished holidays of the Jewish year. It ment since so many residents drive to Israel daily to work is a day dedicated to the love of G-d, love of the Torah, love and checking of licenses becomes more or less routine. The enforcement of property tax collections forced a large of our fellow Jews with concern, brotherhood and peace for number of West Bank and Gaza residents to convert savall mankind. The Uves of the great sages Rabbi Akiba and Rabbi Shi- ings to Israeli currency for payment. This had the effect mon Bar Yohai are both intertwined with Lag B'omer. Once of forcing down the value of the Jordanian dinar—the curduring the days of Sefirat Ha'omer (the seven weeks begin- rency of choice in the territories. These factors came into play at the time of a general colning the second day of Pesach and ending at Shavuot) a plague broke out amongst the 24,000 students of Rabbi lapse of the Jordanian economy to which the West Bank Akiba. He attributed this calamity to the disrespect and and Gaza are also closely tied, llieae unhappy events came lack of genuine concern that his students had for one on top of a previous sharp decline in employment of West Bank and Gaza residents in the oil-rich gulf states. In the another. On the 33rd day of the Omer (Lag B'omer) the plague lattra- case the result was both a drop in income and a return claimed no lives and became a joyous occasion to be of many skilled workers for whom there was no employment. 'This is no small factor by itself in the itifada. celebrated with friends. A final factor in the collapse of the West Bank and Gaza Rabbi Shimon'Blir' Yohai, a saintly scholar and one of the foremost disciplaa of Rabbi Akiba, spent many years economies was the rampant monetary speculation of West studying Torah in a cave in hiding from the Romuns. He Bank and Gsza mooQ' changers. Monoy changers are more is the author of the Zohar, the ancient book of Kabbalah or lees private bankers in the Arab world who deal exclusively in currency transactions. Aa the Jordanian currency on which thousands of others are based. Rabbi Shimonpaaaad away on Lag Bouer. Before his began to weaken tha money changers began frantically sellpassing be requ«at«d that his Yartzait be a day of giadneas ing Jordanian currency and buying Isradi shekels—further so that his death would not depreas his followers and dM«r depreesing the value of funds held by West Bankers and th«m from positive action. He wanted his Yartxait to be Oasans. All of these oanplicated inter-related factors have led Dr, a day which would stnnfthaB his people and help tham Hiaham Awortanl, the head of the Bcotxmka Depaitmsnt grow in goodnaaa and s|ttituaUty. His tomb is Maron in UM Uftpar Galilee. On Lag B'omer St Nablus University to conclude, "thars is a totu ooUapee tsna of thousand of Jews gathar In Msnin to pr«y nd stu4y hare. This ia not s recession—it ia the coilapae of our entire and be inqtired by his love (or Torah, G-d, and MUOW Jawa. economy." Doee this mean that economic hardaUp will end the Outaide of laraei Jewish people everywhan meet in parks and in the fields to demonstrate their love tot Torah and Intifada? Liksly not For the intifada is not dfaacted a^tainst israri alone, but also against the older gensration of the ahare ita message with the outside world. The Talmud rtiatee that aa the cause of our eiile was par- Arab world. IM generation leading the charge is not tially attributad to rootlaaa hate amonst our brethren, our primarily intereeted in aconomica, and tboae who are being reden^ttion will be through unconditional <for-iio-good- moet severely hurt by the economic collapse are not leadT , Ing Uie intifada. reaaoo) love of mankind. In the long haul what has happened demonst(«t«8 the I am grateful for having been raised in a community whare the spirit of unity prevails amongst people of all fragility of any indsfwndent StaU on the Weat Bank and races, creed and. color. Than the feeling of brotherhood is in Oaza. Whatever finally emerge* on a political level will felt is the air. I am also pleased to be raising my family depend in the final analysis on economic integration withlaraal and Jordan. While Saudi Arabia-that perpetual in a "heimlshe." doee-knit aiid warm cooununity. I would Uk« to extend an invitation to the entins com- source of manna in the Arab world-will no doubt bankmunity to join us at Boya Town on Lag B'omer where we roll a MW aUU for a time and while the PLO has reserves will be celebrating aa the Jewa do in Mann- with a bon- of upwards of tlO bilUoti — nsHhsr of thsae can aasur* acononilc rocovsry and parmaoant stability of the Wset Bank. fire, picnic singing and dancing. So In Uw tUal analyala while the territories may ultiMay we truly benefit from such a i»y of peace and brotherhood. Miy aU eftorta on behalf of Undnass and mately achieve sonw measure of political indapendenoe it goodnesa b« suoceeaful in braeL Omaha, and throughouth will be an Indepeadsnca aevsrely conatricted by scAtwrolc reelitlaa. the world. By Harry S. Allen "The most severe economic crisis since 1967 has hit the administered territories." So concludes the Israel Economist—a highly respected economic journal in Israel. 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Lincoln B'nai Jeshurun SERVICES: Friday: 7:30 p.m. Sunday: Final session of Religious School; no Hebrew today; no Pre-School Class loday; no adult education today. Tuesday: Adult Education, 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Tifereth Israel SERVICES: Friday: 8 p.m. Services will include Confirmation exercises of Buffy Breslow, Rebekkah Ehrlich, Corey Priesman and Neil Silberstein. Oneg Shabbat will follow services. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Jr. Congregation, 10 a.m. Torah Study with the rabbi, 5 p.m. CONGREGATIONAL ANNUAL MEETING The annual meeting will be held Sunday, May 2.1, at 1 p.m.

Blumkin Home SERVICES: Friday: 7 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m. The residents and staff of the Rose Blumkin Home invite the families, volunteers and friends of the residents to attend services in the Herbert Goldsten Chapel. Kiddush follows services on Shabbat.

Offutt Air Base SERVICES; Rabbi Howard Zyakind conducts services in the Capehart Chapel every Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service.

Council Bluffs B'nai Israel SERVICES: Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. Edythe Wolf, director of the Jewish Federation Library, and Dr. Martin wolf, vice president of instruction at Iowa Western Community College, will speak on the Federation Library and its services.

Temple Israel SERVICES: Friday: 8:15 p.m. Members of the eighth and ninth grade will conduct the service along with Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Cantor Harold Firestone and Marcia Greene. The students will share commentary on the topics they have studied over the past year. The Oneg Shabbat following services will be sponsored by parents of the students and Temple Israel .Sisterhood. Saturday: 11:15 a.m. BNAI MITZVAH Lyndi Joanne Passer, daughter of Claire Passer and Dr. Jeffrey Passer, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah at the Shabbat morning service on May 20. Daniel Jay Wigodsky, son of Patsy and Steven Wigodsky, will cel^ajt^^ his Bar Mitzvah at Shabbat morning service on May 27. FAMILY PICNIC The newly formed Parents Association will sponsor a Religious School Family Picnic, Sunday, May 21. Activities will begin with an' Honors Assembly at U a.m. Following the assembly, everyone will go outside for a picnic and outdoor games. There will be many intergenerational activities for the whole "Mishpacha." All are welcome. ANNUAL DINNER MEETING , The 118th Annual Meeting of Temple Israel will be held at a Congregational Dinner Sunday, May M, at 6 p.m., Outgoing President Mel Epstein will be honored at this event as will congregants over age 80. Guest speaker will be The Honorable J. Robert Kerrey.

PERSONALS The family of D«vid HoberoMm thank their fri«ndfi and rolativea for the cards, donations and well wishes in honor of Dave's 80th birthday.

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SERVICES: Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits will conduct the services. Friday: 6 p.m. Saturday: Morning service, 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Babysitting is available from 10 a.m. Junior Congregation, 11 a.m. Special Shabbat Time for children ages three to six will meet in the Youth Lounge at 11 a.m. Minha-Ma'ariv, 8:35 p.m. Sunday: 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. JUNIOR CONGREGATION Junior Congregation awards will be given to the children for attendance aiha participation at services on May 20. ANNUAL MEETING The Aiwual Meeting of Beth El Synagogue will be May 24, 7:30 p.m. Plans and model of the new synagogue will be shown, and election of the members to the Board of Trustees will be held. B'NAI MITZVAH Susan Shackman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Shackman, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Friday evening, May 19, and Saturday morning. May 20. Andrew Ruback, son of Mr. and Mrs. Altan Ruback, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Friday evening. May 26, and Saturday morning. May 27. Onie Taabari, son of Mr. and Mrs. E!itan Tsabari, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Monday morning, May 29, at 9 a.m.

SERVICES: Friday: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 p.m. Late Family Seryjce, 8 . p.m. Oneg Shabbat will follow services in the Social Hall,, courtesy of Sisterhood: Saturday: Morning service, 8:45 a.m. Kiddush will follow service in the Social Hall. Class with the rabbi, 7:45 p.m. Mincha, 8:30 p.m. Mincha will be followed by Ma'ariv, Shalosh Seudos and Havdalah. Shalous Seudos will be sponsored by Edward and Elsa Kahn in observance of the Yahrzeit of Michael Kahn'. GOLDSTEIN AWARDS End of the year Goldstein Awards will be presented at Saturday morning services, May 20, to those earning these awards for attending Sabbath Youth Services. Awards will be

B'NAI MITZVAH Kena and Eddie Boilen invite their friends to the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter. Heather, which will be held on Friday evening, May 26, 8 p.m.. and to the Bar Mitztion and non-fiction, cookvah of their son, Michael, on books, textouoks, educa- Saturday, May 27, 7:30 p.m. tional handbooks and work-' Grandparents are Mrs. books, materials for Radio Mildred Zuvett and Mr. Talking Books, a calendar Louis Ash from Winnipeg, and pages for the Jewish Canada. An Oneg Shabbat Braille Institute in New reception and a Shalous York. Seudos reception will followTwo new transcribers, ing each of the services. Cynthia Rice and Dorothy Lidberg, have been certified DOCUMENTARY as Braille transcribers by CRITICIZED the Library of Cungrusa, Na BONN (JTA) - A 90tional' Library Service (or minute documentary, on the Blind. Kathy Jessen achieved Eva Braun, companion to additional cWtification, with Adolf Hitler, drew sharp one of the highest scores criticism before and after it known in the Nemeth Code was televised on the prifor Mathematics and Sci- vately owned choimel, SAT1. "Critics said the film, ''" VViesjnan said. focuaing on the Fuhrer's domestic life, was cakulated MtETS WITH to ahow him and hi« intiMINISTER mates as "just normal AMSTERDAM (JTA) - paople." Foreign Minister Hans von den Broek met recently with the PalMiUne Uberation Or Attend Services ganiMtion repreaeotative in this Shabbat The Hague.

Braille transcribers finish year of productive work Members of Omaha Volunteer Braille Services have completed assignments since June 1988, according to Anna Wiesman, chair man. "Many hundreds of hours of tranacribirsg and proofreading are represented," Mrs. Wiesman said, "and all the work was very well i^onc and greatly appreciated by the recipients.' Dorothy Botkin, Dorib Cohn, Gail Oinsburg, Kuthy Jeasen and Anna Wiesman completed work on a variety of materials including fie-

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presented to: Joahuu, Benjo min and Zachary Uonsher. David mid Michael Kricsfeldi Jacob Kau man. .loahua. Noah, Jacob and Robeltah Priluck, Shlfra, David and Sharon Shraj^o, Joey, Hache] and Bertha Shyken, Gary, Both and Jeffrey Shyken, Evan and Scott SaJtzmun. Amy, Alan and David Tipp. .Steven Tumps, Simone and ArielJa Milner and Benjamin Oorber.

PLOTKIN AWARDS End of the year Plotkin Awards for excellence in alLendance at UTTO Religious School classes will be presented to the following: Britin OurmAakin, Jonatluui Linn. Derek Paaaer, Noah and Joehua Priluck. Bertha Shyken, Joseph and .Tuatin SpiegaJ, Jareroy and Matthew Chaoen. MariBsa Ipock, Andrew Shefran. Jeffrey. Benjamin and Andrew NaLhan, Jennifer and Laura Kifkin, Jeremy and Michael Ivers, David and Shifra Shrago, .leffrny, Beth and Gary Shyken, Joel Brooksteln. Lindaay aud Joshua Parilman, Heather and Michael Bailen. Matthew Ooldbarg. Amy 'npp, Juahua. Benjamin and Zachary Oonahor. Evan and Scott Saltzman, Jacob Katxman. Jona than MUa«r.

Teacher needed Teacher needed foi BuMBU of Jewish Education Special Needs program, Must be available to work Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and weekends, up to eight hours weekly. Should possess strong Jewish background, knowledge of Hebrew and degree in SPED. Please send resume to Susan A. Drazen, Bureau of Jewish Education, 333 S. 132nd Street. Omaha, NG 68154. ANNOUNCEMENT WELCOMED WASHINGTON (J TA) American Jewish groups have welcomed President' Bush's oiuouncement of conditions the Soviet Union would have to meet before a waiver of U.S. trade sanctlons agoiiut that country could b« cowidered.

Porashat Behar Where human rights begin At a conference in Paris employed (he is called a late this month, the nations "slave" in the text!), so that of the world will try further his human rights ore not to advance the cause of hu- violated. man rights, so hopefully Now that was ancient sodescribed and prescribed at ciety. The first human right Helsinki, and elaborated was connected with land, and defined at Vienna. The with the earth. And our text conferees might well ponder carefully reminds us that our Sidrah. the earth belongs to no man, Take ecology, for exam- but to God Himself. ple, the Sabbatical Year, inOur society as a whole is stituted in our Sidrah, may dependent on land and agribe cited as one of the first culture even now. Our nahuman efforts at saving the tional economy and the world we live in, an effort world economy recognize directed at conservation of that human rights begin the ecology. The land itself with the abolition of hunger. must not be exhausted. And, lamentably, hunger But the issue of human still, in 1989, is a prime rights is confronted head-on problem for the world's in our Sidrah. With its insti- governments. Arable land, tution of the Jubilee Year, agriculture, food—then our text may justifiably be other human rights. That is cited as one of the first hu- the chain of civilization. man statements of human For an individual, howrights. ever, in our industrialized We who live in cities have society,human rights begin lost toiich with a datum of with the right to a job,to human society. In the an- some meaningful expression cient world, with a predomi- of the desire to work, to nantly agricultural econ- earn, to provide for a family, omy, everyone knew it auto- in short to live. matically: possession of Other human rights conland was the key to life,to tinue after that. The right to survival To be without land live where one pleases ownership was to be ex- (which includes the right to cluded from the economy. emigrate), the right to learn, Being no economist, I to live within a particular recannot say whether the ar- ligion and a particular culrangements for the return of ture, the right to speak land to original family own- freely and to think freely, ership every fifty years, no are among the rights that matter how often it changed we think of as "human hands in the interim, were rights." The American Conpractically feasible or not. stitution's Bill of Rights inBut it is clear that this was cludes others. a noble effort to prevent the How sobering it is to realcreation of a landless class ize that rights legislated in in society, a class totally de- ancient Israel's Torah are pendent on the landed and still denied in substantial the affluent. portions of the globe. How Further, the law provided sobering, and how sad! for careful regulation of conOur eyes should watch ditions under which a land- the Paris conference careless tenant farmer might be fully!

Temple Israel holds first adult B'not Mitzvah service Temple Israel's first Adult B'not Mitzvah service will be at the 8:15 p.m. Shabbat Evening servige on Friday, May 26. B'not Mitzvah are Helen Bleicher, Beverly Gilinsky, Phyllis Glazur, Judi Goldstem, Berta Meyers, Claire Passer, Silvia Roffmau, Rosalie Soltzman and Hermeme Zweiback. The class, taught by Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Cantor Harold Firestone and Riui

Gonsher, has met regularly since Fall, 1988. The curriculmn has included the studies of Hebrew, Torah, midraah. Prophets, Judges and^^^ histofy. ^H Following the service an Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the B'not Mitzvah. The DSJit B'nai Mitzvah doss will begin in Fall, 1989. Dates and information will be announced in late sum-

Israel assails report By Toi^iar Levy GENEVA (JTA) - A report on health conditions in th^ West Bonk and Gaza Strip, which' Israeha^s is

biosec), was circulwed to the delegates from 166 countries attending the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly here. The asaembly is the governing bo4y of the World Heath Organiootioo, the report will be used by the Arab st*bm u the bosia for

a resolution condemning Israel, which the U.N. agency will be asked to odopl. The report was prepared by three doctors, from Romania, Indonesia and Seoegol. who ware recruited by the Arab bloc. Israel refused to let them visit the territories, claiming they were prejudiced. loroel hoe not cooperated since 1986 with medical teams sent to niamtne conditions in the tarritoriea for

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"Try to Remember" is the theme of a spring program to be presented by the students and faculty of the Friedel Jewish Academy on May 30, 6:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center theater. The school, at 12604 Pacific, has been in operation since August, 1981, and the program is a nostalgic musical trip back through those years. With songs and dialogue, the children will recall lessons, playtime, and

the celebration of the Jewish holidays, a Friedel Academy spokesman said. The program will also be a special tribute to the school's first graduates who have been at the Academy since its doors opened seven years ago. The public may attend "to enjoy a musical trip down memory lane featuring both Hebrew and English songs performed by an enthusiastic group of young children."

USY USY held its annual final • banquet May 7. Larry Moldo gave details of all community ventures USYers have been involved in; Scott Muskin presented a mezuzah and cap to Joe Ginsberg for all his efforts as adult coordinator of the Kinnus this past Thanksgivinjc, and Felicia Coopei presented the 1989 Jack Molad Ruach Award to Andrew Altman. The following officers were installed: Bill Shackman, president; Derek Altman, vice presideiit, programming; Allison Kohll, vice president, membership and Tikkum 01am; Karen Schwalb, vice president, correspondence; Andy Altman, vice president for religion, education, culture and social actiun; Gail Brodkey. senior representative; Andy Bessinger, junior representative and Angel DePorte, sophomore representative. Bill Sharlrman presented

his ideas for the coming year including the continued efforts to involve everyone in planning and of the institution of a Big Brother/Big Sister connection between USYers and the HaRoeemers (Beth El's 7th and 8th grade group). The need for USY to raise funds for the new Beth El building was discussed.

JCC offers two new camps for mcoming third graders

Amy Beth Greenberg, daughter of Pam Greenberg and the late Justin Greenberg, recently graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-Columbia Amy received her degree from the School of Journalism with an emphasis in advertising. She was also inducted into Kappa Tau Alpha honorary society. She is currently working at an advertising agency in St. Louis.

Corey Kirshenbaum, Jewish Community Center youth director, announced that the JCC Youth Department has initialed two new camp programs for third grade boys and girls. The first is 1^ sports camp that will consist of special activities including all kinds of sports. Sports camp participants will also have the opportunity to help the younger campers with their sports skills. In addition, there will be special field trips and overnights at Platte River State Park.

Science to come alive at JCC camp STARLAB, a portable planetarium developed by scientists and educators from MIT and Harvard, is coming to all four overnight sessions of Camp Chaverim this summer and promises to be an unforgettable experience according to Corey Kirshenbaum, JCC youth director. "We're very excited about tuning on the curiousity of our campers and allowing them to take a trip to the stars without leaving the safety and security of the JCC campus," ftates Mr. Kirshenbaum. "We believe STARLAB will enhance the early Jewish camping experience for children in kindergarten through third grade, and we are grateful to the Carolyn Kully Newman Foundation for the funding of this program," concluded Mr. Kirshenbaum.

The second camp is an arts camp in whiph campers will develop a camp newspaper, work on more difficult projects for this grade level and make challahs for the entire camp. "These are just a few of the many activities planned, ' Mr. Kirshenbaum said. Mr. Kirshenbaum said that both camps will also enjoy instructional swim and free swim as well as participate in Camp Chaverim's entire camp color wars. -' For more information, contact Corey Kirshenbaum at 334-8200.

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By Howard Rosenberg WASHINGTON (JTA) The State Department welcomed West Germany's arrest of a chemical executive accused of helping Libya build a poison gas plant. The executive, Jurgen Hjppenstiel-Imhausen of Imhausen-Chemie, was arrested "on suspicion of violating West Germanexport laws," The New York Times reported. The Times quoted West Germany's prosecutor in the case, Holger Preisendanz, as saying he "is strongly suspected of having played a si^ficant personal role'' in planning and building the Libyan plant in the detert town of Robta. Hippeus tiel-1 mhausen, who is the first person arrested on charges of helping

construct the plant, has denied any involvement with the facility. The Times reported. State Department deputy spokesman Richard Bouch er called the arrest "further indication that the West Germaii govermueut is serious about ending the involvement of German firms in chemical weapons proliferation."

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By Michael KeUman NEW YORK (JTA) The New York state Department of Agriculture and Markets has warned consumers about some 50 cans of octopus accidentally labeled as Season-brand, kosher for Passover Portuguese sardines. According to Gilbert Epstein, vice president of I. Epstein and Sons, the importers of the fish, the mistake was made in the labeling, not in the packaging. Apparently, a company in Portugal that labels different cans of fish accidentally put the Season labels on some cans of octopus that were in the factory to be labeled. Epstein said the nonkosher merchandise "was purchased by the packager for domestic use" in Portugal, and that "there is no packing of non-kosher fish on the premises." The company had known that the cannery did not pack any non-kosher fish, but it did not realize that there were cans of octopus going through the factory for labeling. Rabbi Yechezkel Zweig. a rabbinic coordinator at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the organization which gives the seal of kashrut to Season sardines, said that "generally we wo,j4d not allow a non-kosher product in a kosher plant even if it was akeady canned ... we need to see if we can make an exception in this case. "

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Feminist predicts orthodox women ordination By Ben GaUob ICopyrigkt 1969. Jewiti Teiegrmphic Agency, lad

NEW YORK - A New York feminist, generally considered a leader in the struggle for equality for women in the American Orthodox community, is convinced that ordination of women as Orthodox rabbis IS inevitable. "I think it will happen within the next two decades, perhaps during my lifetime," Blu Greenberg, of New York's Riverdale section, said in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Greenberg lectures widely on the status of Women in the Orthodox community and participates with women from other denominations in discussions about the role of women in Judaism. "Most likely it will happen in stages," she said, elaborating on her prediction. "The first being ordination, followed by women with the title 'rabbi' serving as teachers and rebbes in yeshivot, women as poskim (religious arbiters), or women serving as rabbis of women prayer groups. "The last phase of acceptance will be of acceptance as congregational rabbis, and that will take a long time, but, eventually, I think that, too, will fall into place," Greenberg is the wife of Rabbi Irving Greenberg, whose long battle for unity among the Jewish religious denominations led to the creation of CLAL, the Manhattan-based National Jewish Cento* for Learning and Leadership. In the CLAL programs, lay and rabbinic repreaentatives of the four denominations meet regularly for noholds-barred dialogue on the issues that have created widespread schisms in the

Jewish religious world. Blu Greenberg has edited a book, "On Women and Judaism." which has been published both in hardcover and paperback editions. In discussing existing barriers to ordination of women as Orthodox rabbis, she said three positive forces are operating to make her prediction come true. These are the "explosion" of learning of sacred texts by Orthodox women; the "powerful models " of woman rabbis in the liberal denominations; and the growing process of "redefinition within the Orthodox Jewish community of women'.s roles on conununal life." During the past two decades, Greenberg said. Orthodox women have been studying Talmud intensively. There are now institutes for study of sacred lore by women. Girls now study Talmud in yeshivot.

just as boys do, whether or not the classes are separated. Greenberg quoted one young Orthodox woman she^ had met, a student, scholar and young mother, who told her, "1 am going to spend the next 10 years quietly learning, so that when the community is ready for me, I will be ready for the community." Greenberg estimated that between the United States and Israel, at least 50 women are becoming scholars of Jewish law, and that she personally knows "perhaps a dozen such women." Throughout the interview, Greenberg did not seek to minimize the strength of the codes and customs barring women from the Orthodox rabbinate. But she said she felt that the three forces she had described as having a positive impact were growing steadily.

Greenberg discussed the arguments of the maledominated Orthodox community against ordination of women. First, it is not part of the tradition. Second, how can a woman be a rabbi i( she cannot be a member of a minyan? And third, if a woman's ritual impurity during menstruation affects her role as a congregant, how much more will it affect her as a rabbi? Regarding the problems of menstruation, Greenberg said a woman rabbi would not transmit ritual impurity to the Torah, or to a place, or to her pulpit, or to other Jews simply by being on a bimah. She noted that among the basic requirements for holding a pulpit are that the rabbinical candidate must be personally observant, and meet the highest standards of piety, standards which Orthodox women obviously could meet.

Worcester seeks butcher NEW YORK (JTA) The Jewish community of Worcester, Mass., recalling its long history and sense of community pride, has rallied around the cause of attracting a kosher butcher to this northeastern city, which once boasted as many as eight or nine. Residents who now wish to maintain kashnit in their homes must either drive to Boston or its surrounding areas for their meat or else organize coop deliveries, according to a report in The Jewiali f hroaicle-Leader. The problem with the latter technique lies in the enormous financial outlay and freezer space required and the impoesibtlity of individual selection. Community leaders have organized a petition drive, in an attempt to gather .3,000 signatures from the

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Next meeting is May 23. After a month's absence due to Pesach, the early birds met May 9 with Herb Maches, former insurance executive, as moderator. Mentioned was that day's election for Mayor and councilmen (new Mayor P.J. Morgan!. Herb continued the topic of the last meeting—crime and punishment (sounds like a TV re-run). He quoted from a Philadelphia columnist "excessive punishment is not a deterrent and does not reduce crime." He also quoted from a Baltimore columnist and the well regarded George Will. The subject switched to the income tax movement, which was a poUtical ploy; before the government was financed by tariffs. Norm Korney, quoting George Will, "the government is undertaxed." and from the president, "a 15 pwcent capital gains tax and an increase in the gas tax." The subject then switched to gun control and our laws compared to England's laws. Barrister Lou Lipp offered expert opinion on the legal aspects of different aspects on gun control. Harry Schulman questioned why the VaiAez oil spill resulted in a 30 percent increase in gas prices at the pump and made increased millions for the oil companies. On to lunch with Motzi by violinist Abe Roeenthal and Benschm by Keith Peltz. We stood in memoriam for Mel Plotkin. Bill Wolfson is a new life member and we welcomed Herb Wintroub.

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We applauded and sang for the May birthday boys. Members of the Jewish War Veterans were asked to attend the flag raising, May 14 at the Jewish Community Center, and Old Timers were reminded not to miss "Songs in Blue and White," sponsored by the Mort Richards Endowment Fund, which is being presented as part of the Yom Ha'Atzmaut programming May 14. Marty Shukert, former city planning director and current Beth El choir director, was the guest speaker. He gave us a run-down on the beginnings of synagogues and temples, their architecture and how and where they were built, their differences, how they were sold, where the bimas were placed, how they blended into surrounding buildings, why they faced east, and many more logistics. He also showed beautiful slides of magnificent synagogues and temples around the world and, in Omaha, the 18th and Chicago Shul. the one on 25th and Seward, both the old and new Temple Israel, Beth El and Beth Israel. Marty, son of Nate and Doris Shukert, graduated from Central High, has degrees from Yale and Berkeley and teaches at UNO. His artwork is currently on display at the iCC.

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The month of May has always been an important one in our family. Within a few days we celebrate a birthday, an anniversary and Mother's Day. Gift giving occasions in this country, as everybody knows. When our kids were little they used to bemoan the fact that they couldn't amass enough savings from their allowances to cover everything— I think 1 remember complaints about the size of the allowances having something to do with the problem. Nevertheless, the way we mark these events is the same way you do—with gifts. Thai's what 1 wanted to cover here, the choices people make when it comes to buying something for somebody else. In our house, between my roommate and I, that subject has changed greatly through the last four decades plus. When we started our Lives together, he wasn't an expert on what (or how) to buy something for me. 1 remember impersonal objects such as a popcorn popper (he thought it was a great idea! I or a really nice pen—it wasn't that 1 couldn't use these things—1 just hated getting them as presents. But we learn as we mature, especially if we're smart and want to avoid long faces and sulking. The gift selections have changed so drastically 1 can hardly believe it myself. Let me try to explain: we moved from impersonal items to those called "a little something special," like maybe a piece of jewelry. That category was a great improvement, but we had to get through a time when my gift-giver learned it was far better to say to me "please go pick out what you'd like." True, that took the surprise out of the gift, but it guaranteed better results. Not that it was always jewelry. One year, when 1 was very enthusiastic about the yard and bushes and trees, 1 asked for (and received) an electric hedge clipper. And as I recall, it was personalized with my initials! 1 loved it. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, my boyfriend has really done a fabulous job through the years, and I have some lovely things which I enjoy for both their beauty and for recalling the special occasion I received each of them. Now, after all this time, I think we're reached a new high in unusual selections. It was my choice and I petitioned for it long before the anniversary—you could even say I judged for it several times (at least). Finally, he gave in and granted my gift wish for this year. Promise not to laugh? Well, what I wanted and what I got its a piece of exercise equipment on which I hope to remind my legs they have inuscles. This thing simulates stair climbing and has a fancy computer read-out (which I can't read out or ID) to tell me all kinds of stuff. Why don't I just climb ordinary stairs? This is more convenient and I can do it no matter how I'm dressed or undressed. There's just one problem left. Owning the machine isn't enough. Now 1 have to develop the discipline to use it faithfully and properly. I'm trying, and I'm breathing hard and I'm working on my cardiovascular system—and I'm shvitzing! Maybe 1 should have opted for another little chatchkeh to wear after all. I 'U let you know.

By Gil Kezwer TORONTO (JTA) - The first denaturalization hearing against a Nazi war criminal in Canada, which ended in federal court in Vancouver on Tuesday, could lead to the defendant losing his Canadian citizenship if the court decides he lied about his past to obtain it. The hearing against Jacob Luitjens, 70, a convicted Dutch Nazi collaborator, began last September 26. Scheduled for 11 days, it continued intermittently for more than seven months. Fifty witnesses were heard, more than 200 doctmients were received and a commission of inquiry traveled twice to Holland to take testimony from witnesses too old or ill to come to Canada. If Luitjens' citizenship is revoked by the court,deportation proceedings would be initiated. Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall would then have to decide whether Luitjens is sent to Paraguay, where he lived for 13 years before coming to Canada in 1961, or to another country. COLONEL REPRIMANDED JERUSALEM (JTA) An Israel Defense Force colonel in the West Bank has been severely reprimanded for brutality toward Arab villagers and will soon be relieved of his duties, it was announced here.

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To fight bill By Andrew SUow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) The American Jewish Congress has vowed to fight an ameodment adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives that requires schools receiving federal funds to allow voluntary prayer. The amendment is unnecessary and unconstitutional, AJCongress charges. The amendment was attached at the last minute to the Carl Perkins Vocational Education Act, passed late on the night of May 9 by a vote of 269-135, with 30 abstentions. It was proposed by Rep. William Oannemeyer (R-Calif.) late into the

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PERES WELCOMED ROME (JTA) - Shimon Peres received an especially warm welcome Sunday at the Italian Republican Party's convention in Rimini, a aeaaide resort on the Adriatic. The Israeli ^•' nance minister and Labor Party leader made clear that his purpose is to muster support for Israel's peace initiative, which aims for Palestinian self-rule.

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High court hears religous symbols case ornaments, the nativity scene had a secular, seaWASHINGTON (JTA)- sonal purpose, rather than a The Supreme Court heard purely religious one. oral arguments to decide This time around, the nawhether religious symbols, tivity scene is in the Alincluding a menorah, dis- legheny County Courtplayed in two Pittsburgh house. But unlike the Lynch government buildings vio- case, the presence of late the constitutional prin- Christmas trees and ciple of separation of church menorahs on public propand state. erty is also being The case, Chabad and challenged. County of Allegheny and There is a <t5-foot-high City of Pittsburgh vs. Christmas tree with an 18American Civil Liberties foot-high menorah on the Union et al., pits the Lu- second floor of Pittsburgh's bavitch Hasidic movement City-County Building, against several major Jew- iawiwn as City HalL The meish organizations. norah is owiud by Chabad. The case may test the The U.S. Court of Appeab limits of the court's 1984 de- for the Third Circuit ruled cision, in Lynch vs. Don- that both the Pittsburgh nelly, to uphold a Paw- displays were unconstitutucket, R.I., nativity seme tionaL erected in a private park A key focus in the oral arnear City HalL In that case, . guments was differences bethe court rejected the argu- tween the Rhode Island and ment that the scene violated Pittsburgh nativity disthe First Amendment's so- plays. called Establishment Roelyn Litman. lawyer for Clause. the ACLU, said the PittsIt states that "Congress burgh nativity scene had a should make no law respect- religious Latin phrase on it, ing an establishment of re- whereas theRhode Island ligion, or prohibiting the one simply said "Happy free exercise thereof." Holidays." In malring its ruling, the In addition, the Rhode Iscourt argued that because land display, but not Pittsthe Rhode Island display in- burgh's, featured candy cluded reindeer and other canes, she said, making it By Howard Ilo«enb«rg

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less likely that the intenticn was to convey a "religious message." Justice John Paul Stevens noted that the Rhode Island display had two plastic reindeer, while the Pittsburgh display did not have any. But Justice Antooin Scalia questioned whether the poinsettias, plants with scarlet petal-like leaves, in the Pittsburgh scene were not unlike candy canes. Peter Buscemi, lawyer for the county and city, argued that the Lynch majority opinion did not attach any m^or significance to the preaeDce of secular elemmts in the nativity scene display. Also, he said this case is different from previous ones, where mammoth-size

crosses were found io violate^^the Establishment Clause because of the "dominance of the symbol." Litman countered that the Rhode Island scene was in a private park near City Hall, while the one in Pittsburgh was in a courthouse. She also said that the Christmas tree and menorah were in Pittsburgh's City Hall, which she called "government headquarters." Litman said the line in question is where religion is not being "accommodated" but "promoted" by government. Such symbols send a "prohibitive message" to non-adherents to those religions that they are "outsiders to the political community," Litman said. The majority of U.S Jews

oppose the presence of a menorah on public property, Litman asserted. Chief Justice William Rehnquist then noted that Chabad is a Jewish group in favor of displaying the menorah on public property. But Litman argued that throughout history, governments have displayed religious symbols to foster bigotry aiKl intolerance toward others. She quoted a law clerk who works in Che courthouse in Pittsburgh as saying the scene reminded him of persecution of Jews during the Middle Ages. Scalia said he could not understand how the religious symbols constitute government endorsement of rehgiiui if both Jewish and Christian symbols are there.

Jews, CIA, accused of defaming premier By Jean Cohea ATHENSUTA) - A newspaper in Greece that has made a career out of anti-Semitism and antiZiooiam is now accusing the Jews, the CIA and the leader of the Greek opposition of plotting to defame embattled Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in order to bring down his Socialist government. The daily morning paper Dimokratikos Logos (Democratic Word) has done so in a reference to the cover story of the European issue of Time magazine, in which Papandreou is accused by Greek fugitive George Koskotas of receiving large bribes. According to the Greek paper, opposition leader Kostas Mitsotakis "chscuosed with the powerful U.S. Jewish k>bby the plot to bring down the government of Andreas Papandreou." The Coitrai Board of Jewish CommunitieB in Gr«ac8 convofld in an amar gency aaaaoa OB th« owtter. OimokratikM Logoa and its siatar publkakiMi, Avriani (Tomorrow's Paper), have long printed antiJ«wish and anti-Israel stories. A Greek government spokaamon. Sotiris Kostapoulos, asked to comaMoMn the Ttme story, said, 'W*

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have stated in the past that the plot against the prime minister of the country is being directed by foreign and local centers. We have no intention to add any clarification to the above statement. • Papandreou plans CO sue Time over the "despicable" article, the Greek government said. Koekotas, who is now in prison in Salem, Mass., and fighting extradition to Greece, is the former owner of the Bank of Crete and of a press empire that cdlapoed in August wbM> it was found he was embezzling funds. The affair created GreeM's InsSMt politkal-ecaManeai acaidil ever. There have been rumors in Greece since the scandal broke that high offidab were involved in the alfair. The scandal, subject of daily parhamentary and judidal

inquiries, is so explosive that the entire Greek pnaa. with Che exception of Dimokratikos Logos and Avriani. have called on the government to resign. Defamation of Papandreou is not new. He has been the subject of Greek media scorn for Che last few years, much of iC because of his appearance in public with a young mistress. The Greek papers also have focused on che embarrassmenC Papandreou's affair has caused his American-bom wife, Margaret. They are now in the process of a divorce.

Litman responded that the display "totally ignoree" Moslems, Hindus, Buddhists and other AsianAmerican religionists. In his summation, Buscemi said govomnoit rejection of religious symbols would represent "caUous indifference" Co religion, not intended by the Establishment Clause. He argued that the menorah has a secular purpose, because Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri issued a proclamation saying how the festive lighCs help preserve "the name of liberty and our legacy of freedom." Nathan Lewin. lawyer for Chabad, said the menorah has an "appropriate educational effect" on Che public. While conceding that it has some religious significance, he stressed it also instructs citizens of faiths other than Christianity, thereby showing that non-Christian faiths are treated welt. The National Jewish Commission on Law and Public Affairs filed a friendof-che-coun brief in favor of Che displays. Jewish groups that filed amicus briefs opposing the displays are the .AntiDefamation League of B'nai B'rith, the American Jewish Committee and Che American Jewish Congress, which filed its brief also on behalf of Che National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council—an umbrella group of 11 national organizations and more than 100 local community relations councils.

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'Men of Vision'to highlight NJHS annual meeting The gallery opening of the Father Flanagan and Henry Monsky "Men of Vision" Exhibit will highlight the seventh annual meeting of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society on Jiu>e 6, according to Mary Fellman. The "Corridor of Jewish History" museum opening of "Kulakofsky FamilyCentral Market" Reunion exhibit will also take place that evening before the business meeting and reception which will be held in the Center auditorium. The evening will begin in the gallery at 7:30 p.m. with an opportunity also to see an historical view of early Omaha, on loan by Kutak Rock Campbell and the Western Heritage Museum. The "Men of Vision" exhibit was prepared by a committee from Boys Town and the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society. The two

men met somfe time around 1914 when Flanagan was a young assistant pastor and Monsky had earned a law degree from Creighton University. According to historical findings, Monsky lent Flanagan $90 so he could pay the first month's rent on a house in downtown Omaha and for many years the identity of the donor was kept a secret. Monsky served as a board member and attorney for Father Flanagan's Boys Home and was Flanagan's personal attorney. "Henry has never failed us—never once was he too busy to help Boys Town," Father Flanagan once said. The exhibit of the Kulakofsky family, who first emigrated to the United Sutes in 1889, is being compiled through the efforts of grandchildren, great-grand-

Firehouse to open 'Broadway Bound'

The Firehouse Theatre ' Time Magazine called will open Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" "the •Broadway Bound " May best American play of the 24, bringing back Rick Se- 19to's" Michael Kuchwara gall as Eugene Morris Jer- in the New York Port writes ome in the newest Firehouse " 'Broadway Bound' may production of the trilogy be Simon's most personal that depicts various stages play yet... it ends with a in the playwright's life. beginning, the start of Mr. Segall received rave Simon's life as a writer. It reviews in his previous por- paves the way for 'Come trayals of Eugene la name Blow Your Horn.' Simon's chosen by Simon because of Tirst play, and everything its 'blaiidae3s"V as a 13- else written by America's year-old growing up in a most successful playfamily atmosphere in wright ' ' Brighton Beach Memoirs.' The Broadway awardproduced by the Firehouse in 1986, and later as an winning role of Kate. aspiring writer while in Eogcne'i Mama, will be Army boot camp in "Biloxi played in Omaha by Janie Blues. ' produced by the Paris. Other Firehouse Firehouse in 1988. Now it is favorites will be Wiley Harsix years later, in 1949. as ker as Ben. Eugene's grandthe 23-year-old Eugene re- father Jerry Longe. as his __tums to the same Brightoo brother Stan; Pat Kiea as each house in Brook)3na Blanche. Kate's sister, and I dreams of bccooiing a Sherman Mooahan as his father. playwright.

children and other relatives of the Mk:hael Kulakofskys. In addition, photographs, newspaper articles and items about Central Market, the family business on 16th and Hamey streets for many years, will be on display. Persons who have been nominated to serve on the board next year include Bobbie Epstein, Ilene Klein, Margo Riwen, Bemie Joni.sch and Sally Malashock. Continuing board members are Louise Abrahamson, Sheldon Kushner, Esther Canar and Miriam Simon. Lois Friedman will serve her second year as president, with Oliver PoUak nominated as presidentelect and Shirley Berman, vice president of membership. Other officers include Leonard Goldstein, Rocky Stern, Jerry Freeman, Audrey Cohen, Rita Novak. Saranne Gitnick, ez-officio, served as chairman of the nominating committee. Museum curator is Lois Milder, executive director is Mary Fellman.

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President Herzog's message on Israel's Independence Day JERUSALEM (JTA) Following is the text of Israeli President Chaim Herzog's message to Diaspora Jewry on the occasion of Yom Ha'atzmaut .5749: To our friends, near and far, shalom! Though it cannot be in untroubled tranquillity that we mark the 41 at anniversary of the establishment of Israel, it is still with a distinct measure of gratificatioii. In this first year of the state's fifth decade, there have been achievementa to note: scientific, technological, cultural advances; promising economic reappraisal; the relatively smooth functioning of a unity government set up as the result of a democratic process that can be parallelled only in a small minority of the world's nations. Israel's relations with countries of the Eastern Bloc and Africa have expanded, as have contacts with the Soviet Union itself. Peaceful coexistence with Egypt continues, despite problems that must be carefully overcome. There is genuine initial movement towards peace. For the concept of peace with Israel and thus acknowledgment of its existence, are today accepted as self-understood in much of the Arab wnrW. This, we believe, must lead towards eventual negotiation and conciliation. For a year and a baU. however, in Judea, Samaria and Gaza we have been facing what amounts to a more sophistkated form of the at-

tack on Israel's existence that has gone on throughout its life. We deeply regret the bloodshed on both sides as, like any self-respecting society, we strive to maintain law and order. We have had to overcome repeated onslaughts in the past and are confident that we will overcome the present wave as well, different as the circumstances may be. We in Israel do not wish to rule another people, but there are differences of opinion as to how to achieve peace. As a free and democratic society, we are engaged in an open debate on this central issue. The Arab societies facing and around us are inhibited from expressing their opinions freely— for they know that such expression would lead to murderous attack and assassination. Without the emergence of a sober, fearless Paleatinian leadership, the way to fruitful negotiations is dosed. And it is hard to understand how continued terrorism goes hand in hand with public protestations of a desire for peace. It is against deterioration into a new edition of Beirut that we are fighting—and against the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalism, which has now amazingly succeeded in inlhienring the literary worid; the book publishers and book distributors of great, free societies, which proclaim their devotion to freedom of expression. These external threats and problems are all too pressing, but our chief and

U.S. will raise refugee quota Bj Howard WASHINGTON UTA) The Bosh administratioa is expected to anooonea that it will raise the refuge* quota to allow 19.000 additiopal Soviet emigrants to sntar the United States in the next four moaths. the J«wiah Tdcgr^Mc AfaafT has This would raise the rcfug(« quou (or this fiscal jresr to 43,500. meeting tha anticiptfad Bow ol aa many as 40,000 SoviaUews to the Uoitsd Suiaa this fiscal rear, widefc mdt Si^t. 30. TYi* ovmwhttaiat aaahm c49o9kinbitfmm«Jmf». AceoidiBf to • Jaatiea Coowili b* offidaOy ii^ (armsd of tka Bora wh«i AttorMjr.Gmaral Dick Thembargft if acktdDiad to loftha

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most difficult task is the struggle for public opinion, for the minds of Jewish communities and the democratic world. It is a struggle against the unbalanced and perilously shallow picture of our situation presented by the media. As a democratic sodety, Israel pays for not hiding facta h-om the observers representing newspapers, radio and television. They manage to assure world coversge to a child throwing a stone in an Arab village, while the normal life going on in hundreds of other villages is ignored as are largescale fateful confrontations in this area. Surely, there is much relevance in the flight from Beirut of thousands upon thousands of Lebanese searching safety in the Israel-controlled security zone in southern Lebanon! We have not yet become fully aware of the power of the media, extending as it does to the point where even leaders of the greatest nations pubUdy proclaim their political condusions to be based on this or that television program. In this situation, Jews must take the offensive, in order to shift the focus back to the real issues in the Middle East. Do the Palestinians want war or peace, and if they want peace, why do so many follow a path of violence, terrorism and war? To fight succaaafully for the minds of Jews and the worid, w« must ratom to the bask nature of Ztoniam and Israel—too oftenforgotten in the press of daily evenU and demands. We must reoMinber again the roots of the Jewish relationship to Israel that go back thousands of years; tha mirade of the rebirth that has taken place in the laat few fnaratioos; the fact that Israel ia not to be aeao aa a amaO territory contaatadby two nationaljiMabutuiiitiillyowtaiU idantity to oar aacaator* wfaoae Book of Booka gave it« otnordiaary sfaritoal rola ia tha history of bumaaitjr. For Jaws aad tha Jewiah spirit th«e eao b* no sufaatitnU for IMIMI. tha land whkh has smarfsd from obscurity and desolation thnogb tha labor and k>ve aod aaad of the Jewiah naoiila. Hwathi^iBtannaofhiaHwal tory aad tha basic tratha of oar pao^'a Ufa, w« wffl be aUf not oiity to deal with the cMhaaaa flf tha tine bat to (» forward with our lofniD-

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