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Soviets said to be preparing far-reaching emigration reforms
Celebrating 100 The Rev. Arthur Gendler is celebrating his 100th birthday and his children are marlung the occasion with an open house for friends and relatives, Sunday, June 25, frooi 2-5 p.m., at 306 Heavenly Drive.
By Susan Birabaum NEW YORK (JTA) The Soviet Union is readying a far-reaching reform of its emigration laws that would permit Soviet citizens to travel and emigrate without going through the complicated channels currently necessary, according to a ranking official of the World Jewish Congress who recently saw a draft of the new legislation. This information was corroborated by New York City Councilman Noach Dear, who recently returned from the Soviet Union with a translation of the draft legislation. Dear has been visiting the Soviet Union regularly in the last few months as co-chairman of the Joint Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage. The legislation reportedly is in its final stage of preparation. The Soviets hope to have it ready by July, al-
though this is not definite. A uxajot change in Soviet emigration law could have a decisive influence on the willingness of American Jewish groups to consider a relaxation of trade sanctions against the Soviet Union. Jewish groups have said repeatedly, for instance, that they would contemplate a waiver of JacksonVanik Amendment sanctions if the Soviets codify long-promised emigration reforms. The amendment denies most-favored-nation trade benefits to the Soviet Union until it improves its record on emigration. A Jackson-Vanik waiver is expected to be a prime subject of discussion at the executive board meeting of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry in Washington. The new Soviet legislation is expected to relax existing
restrictions on emigration for those privy to "sitate secrets." 11 is also expected to eliminate the requirements that prospective emigrants obtain waivers of financial obligation from their parents and that they receive invitations from close relatives abroad. Short-term visits wo\)ld no longer require any invitation from abroad. And for long-term visits or emigration, invitations from any person, or even an institution, would be sufficient. The secrecy rule would be modified so that there woukl be a five-year Umit on the amount of time a prospective emigrant could be barred from leaving. An exception would allow certain governmental agencies and iadustries to bar those privy to state secrets from emigrating for up to seven years.
in the past, the state secrecy rule has been used to deny Soviet Jews permission to emigrate for a dozen years or more after they left jobs said to be classified. Under the new law, those refused permission to emigrate would have the right to appeal to an administrative cooomission of the Supreme Soviet, the legislative body that handles day-today policy matters. CORRECTION The name of Temple Is rael Religious School was inadvertently omitted in the article announcing permanent funding of the Special Needs l^rogram of the Bu reau of Jewish Education Parties signing the agreement to fund the program were Phillip U. Schrager. United Talmud Torah of Omaha and Temple Israel Religious Schools.
Soviet Jews who immigrated to raise funds Arabs end action to oust Israel
PARIS (JTA) - The Arab- states, bowing to Anierican pressure, have withdrawn a demand that Israel be expelled from the Internatioaal Telecommunications Union. The 179nation body, a United Nations agency, is meeting in Nicer FVance. Tb» reaolutwu, submitted by Saudi Arabia, Syria and
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Qatar last week, was the first in the organization's history seeking the ouster of a member state. But it was withdrawn before it could even be discussed. The Arab bloc, led by the Saudis, backed down Saturday afterthe United States requested it not to poiitkize a technical organization.
By Todd Winer CHICAGO (JTA) - The first wave of the Soviet Jewish emigrants, who arrived in the late 1970s, is lendiog a helping hand to the latest wave now arriving in the United States. It is happening here, where the settled Soviet emigrant community hosted a fund-raising event, sponsored by the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago, to help raise monies for programs of the k>cal Jeinsh federation, as
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well as the national Passage to Freedom campaign. And it is happening in New York, where some 3(X) guests raised $102,000 last week in the first fundraising event conducted entirely by Soviet emigrants for the New York UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. That event was a June 4 dinner in Brighton Beach, the section of Brooklyn where ntost Jews from the Soviet Union have settled New York and Chicago
rank first and second respectively in the Ust of cities that receive the largest number of Sovief Jewish emigres. There ar^ approximately 10,000 in the Chicago area, and 2,000 more are expected to be settled this year. Organizers of the Soviet Jewry campaign said the turnout of more than 250 participants at the Chicago event, which raised over $17,000 in one aftemooo, was a sign they are ready and willing to help bear the
financial burden and com muuity responsibility for continued Soviet Jewish resettlement and other projects here and in Israel. Felix Aisen. a cochairman of the event, said. "The message we are sending is that if you are coming to Chicago and hope to get the help of the Jewish community, you reahze that you make a commitment. "If you need help, the commnnity will provide it. (CoatiaiMd om Page 12)
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Stit4y Mtaainn, wrote tkt* r«Uewli« article with tk« bop* that her tsperieac* wiU inspire otW AiMricaa Jews t« viait UraeL By SopJkielUU I^^U began with a letter in a ^Hbi^ 19Sa issue of the Jew ^wPnea and culminated in my boarding El Al Flight 004 on Jan.8 to participate in two glorious months in Israel as a volunteer in the Jewish National Fund UNF) CioUbn Age Work and Study Missioa Twaoty-nina other Anwricana and I came to^athar as straogei^a and two months iatar. parted tu feriands, ' bound to^har through f^/inng an immaoaaly satia* {ying axpariance ia IsraaL W« were Mver attangars in ik» "aUw" Msaa of tb« word; even initiaUy, we •JMMtJl« coouoon bond; our
Jewiahnaaa, our love of Israel, and our desire to'serve. Our itinerary included three and a half weeka in Tel Aviv, (our days in Eilat, three and a hall weeks in JeruaalMD, and four days in the Qaiilae area. We traveled tba length and bre«dth of Israel in comlortablu Chen Toun busee, resided at good hotels (Tal Hotel in Tel Aviv. Eiiolt Tower in Jerusalem, Moriah in Eilat, Ayelet Hashaiiar Kibbutz Guest House in the Galilee)' itud ate delicious meals at the hotels. Our work in tb« foresta three mornings a week, though energetic, was aoMNig our favorite activities. The "Schneiders'.' pruned the bottom branches of the pine treee to eye-level para hauled the aevand branchea to thb «dga of tit» foreat. Joyoua alWuta of 'ricblappaca oaadad" rang out from time to time aa ^(^iiniiniuid oa Page 9^
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Commemorations mark (^©a^ Anne Frank's birthday RICHARD WINT|10UB By Andrew SIlow Carroll Services were held June 8 NEW YORK (JTA) at Beth El Synagogue for Busts The small, gray-haired woRichard Lewis Wintroub of man climbed the marble pulDallas, Texas. He was 62. 'army' pit and addressed the auSurvivors include wife,
Msi^M Sally Barenbaum and Bruce Meyers announce the May 28 birth of a daughter, Carolyn BarenbaumMeyers. The couple also has a son, Douglas. Grandparents are Rosie and fiernie Meyers of Onia ha and Bettie and Stanley Barenbaum of MinneapoUs. Great-grandparents are Ida (iussner of Miami, Fla., and Gert Devitt of St. Paul. Marlene and Hynian Sukiennik announce the May 25 birth uf a son, David Aaron. The couple also has a daughter, Brittany. Grandparents are Annie
and Jack Belmont and Ben Sukiennik and Taisa Stebens of Kansas City. Greatgrandmother is Mary Belmont. Dr. and Mrs. Jay J. Parsow aiuounce the May 30 birth of a son, Aaron David. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Warner Frohman. Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Sol Parsuw. Great-grandparents are Mrs. Mollje Parsowsky and Charles Ijberm'an.
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Michael L. Meyer, a native uf Omaha, was honored recently for his service and BKEADBKEAKERS leadership to conmiunity i-ilen Fineman, executive residents in Orange County, director of Jewish Family Calif. New members, joining the More than 400 attended a continuing directors of the Services, will be the guest Omaha Food Bank far 19«9- speaker at the June 21 diimer at which he received Breadbreakers luncheon, ac- the National Human Rela90. include KAbbi Aryeh Ai riel of Temple Israel. cording to Howard Epstein, tions .Award from the OrOfficers for the 19«9-90 B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers ange County Chapter of the Board include Betsy Baker chairman for the month of .American Jewish Committee. The Board of Advisors for June. Breadbreakers meets at Mr. Meyer, the managing the Outstanding Young W'omen of .America awards pro- noon every Wednesday at partner of the CP.A firm of gram have announced that iloward Johnson's, 72nd Kenneth Leventhal and Jill Kushner Behnont and and G rover. Cost is »6 per Company, Orange County Beth Friedman have been person; the conununity is in- office, was selected in recognition of his service as trusselected fur inclusion in the vited to attend. tee of tiie Wellness Commu19SS edition of OutstaadiBg nity which helps cancer Young Women uf America TZEDAKAH patients maintain normal The program recognizes lives, as a director of the the achievements and abilities of women between the Construction Industries .Alni ntU liance for the City of Hope ages of 21 and 36 and honand trustee for the Newport ors them for their outstandHarbor .Art Museum. ing civic and professional He currently serves as contributions to their compresident of the Board of munity, their states, as well Directors of the Jewish Fedas to their nation. eration Community Foundation. CLIP AND SAVE •
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FRIDAY, JUNE 16 Camp Staff Orientation, 9am ' Gary Shyken. Bar Miuvah, Beth Israel Rebecca Kubart. Bat Mitzvah. Beth El SATURDAY, :iUNE 17 Gary ShyKen, Bat Mitzvah, Beth Israel Rebecca Kubart. Bai Miuvah Belh El Jeretny Nichols. Bar Milzvah, Temple Israel MONDAY, JUNE 18 YES. 10 am Driver's Education, 4pm Bureau ol Jewish Education Board. 7 30 p m JCC Executive Board. 7pm TUESDAY,JUNE 20 Old Timers. 10 am Ofivet's Education. 4pm UTTO Board. 730 p m Betn El WEONESOAY, JUNE 21 B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers noon Howard Johnson s Driver's Education, 4 p m Beth El Board. 7 30 p m . Beth El THURSDAY, JUNE 22 Walk-in Dfop-ui. 10 30 am. Beth El Drivet's Education, 4 p.m JCAC FuU Council. 7:30 p m JwKlsh Vfw Vets, 7 aq p.i« , Post ^1 Briih Fi U«n s Ckib. dtQOM and baUQame S:30 p.in . Bsttv El
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dience in a soft Dutch accent. "1 was Anna Frank's playmate. " We used to meet after school in the big square in Amsterdam south. She was lively and popular and although we were the same age, she was already much more mature. While we were playing marbles, she was already smiling at boys. "I remember being taken to meet her mother at their apartment. Five years later, besides a railway track in Russia, after our liberation from Auschwitz, 1 introduced my mother to Mr. Frank. In 1953, Anna became my posthumous stepsister." Eva Scliloss told her simple survivors tale at a commemorative concert Monday at New York's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, on what wotild have been Aime Frank's 60th birthday. Frank died in the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Beisen in 1945, a month before British troops liberated the camp on April 15 and three months shy of bar 16th birthday. The diary she kept as her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic, saved by non-Jewish friends and released by her father Otto, has for -iO years pricked the conscience of the world. The concert, aiwosored by the American Friends of the .Anne Frank Center and the International Center for Holocaust Studies of ihe .Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, was one of the largest events being held this Week worldwide to mark the aimiversaiy. Other ceremonies included a lecture at the Hoi ocaust Resource Center in .Allentown, Pa., special broadcasts on pubUc television and art exhibits and discussioD groups at youth centers throughout Frank hut. West Germany, the city of Anne's birth. The ADL chose the occasion to rekMse s qiscisl Hol^ ocaust curricuhun (or secon dary school students, and Doubleday also used the event to pubhsh an unex purgated critical edition of the diary.
By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV, June 7 (JTA) — Indictments handed down in a military coUrt have cast light on a little known "popular army" estabUshed last year in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The army, which was broken up by Israeli authorities, was apparently directed and financed by Al Fatah's offir^ in Amman, Jordan. Fatah is the fighting arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization controlled by Yaair Arafat. The army's purported role was to replace the local Arab police, threaten strikebreakers and other Palestinians who cooperate with Israel, and integrate its activities with the Palestinian uprising, Ha'acetz reported. The newspaper said that between 40 and 60 activists are in custody, inchiding the top military and administrative leaders.
Davida; children, Susan Duitch, I>ori and Daniel; one granddaughter; mother, Mrs. Phineas Wintroub; sisters, Marilyn Fred and Bernice Premack. GLORIA SHERMAN Word has been received of the death of former Omahan Gloria Singer Sherman who died in Phoenix, June 7, of leukemia. Survivors include husband. Bill; daughters, Mrs. Barbara Guilliame and Saudi Sherman; and two grandchildren, ail of Phoenix. KRAFT AWARDS NEW YORK (JTA) -r The Conference of Jewish Communal Service has presented the Louis Kraft Awards to Mark Goldstein of St Louis. Mark Gurvis of Cleveland and Lauren Salzenstein of Chicago for their exceptional promise in Jewish communal service. :>.-v;y.:.r.^.;i^si.:^i.R^^J^^...^
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tifS. AUn B. bhulewiU SHULEWTIZWEISS Cindy R. Weiss and Alan B. ShulewiU were married June 4 in an evening ceremony at Temple Israel with Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Cantors Leo Fettman and H^oid Firestone officiating. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Normand Roffman. She was attended by her sister, Mrs. Gary Green. Additional attendants were sister of the bride, Edye Roffman, Karen Diamond, Nancy M. Robinson, and niece of the groom, Judy Shulewitz.. Martin Shulewitz of Jami|0i^ Pa., brother of the groom, acted as best man. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Shulewitji of Peoria, lU. Also attending were brother of the bride, Paul Roffman, Gary Green, Michael Giventer and nephew of the groom, Mark Shulewitz. Ushers were Steven Gottlieb and Gerald Jacobson. Can and Cory Green were flower girl and ring bearer.
SAFEESTEIN/CULLEN Omahans Stephanie Lynn Cullen and Mark David Saferstein were married May 28 at Harvey's Wedding Chapel in Lake Tahoe, Nev. Rabbi Myra Solfer performed the ceremony. A reception was held at Harvey's Lake Tahoe Resort. Honor attendants were Keren List of Omaha and Michael Oaten of Park City, Utah. The bride, a graduate of Kearney State College College, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Cullen of Annandale, Va. The bridegroom, a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, is employed by The Prudential Insurance Co. of America. He is the son of Mary Saferstein of Omaha and the late Jack M. Saferstein. The newlyweds will live in Omaha. BRUNKHORST/BECKER Lisa Jo Becker and Walter Brunkhorst were married June 4 in Omaha at Mount Vernon Gardens, which was followed by a family brunch at Maxim's. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Backer and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Turchen of Phoenix, Ariz and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Becker. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Brunkhorst of Jonesboro, Ark.
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> A r«cq>tioD at Temple la1 followed the ceremony. r WM held at the Red Lion Inn. The bride is with the pur[ departmant of First 1 Reswutea. The bridergroom is an oaaiatant vice prMident in the corporate tax daportment of Mutual of Omaha. After a honeymoon in the PocoDO Mountains and New York City, the couple will moke their home in Omaha.
By Hugh Oigei TEL AVIV IJTA) President Chaim Herzog has refused to commute the sentences of four Israeli Jews convicted of killing Arabs, Ha'aretz npfoteA. He rejected appeals to reduce the life smtences of three Jewish youths found guilty five years ago of the reprisal slaying of an Arab tmxi driver.
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Baker speech was no policy shift, Israeli and Jewish leaders agree By Mark Joffe SAN FRANCISCO (JtA) — Israeli and American Jewish leaders appear to have decided that Secretary of State James Baker's tough speech on the Middle Bast two weeks ago was not so bad after all. Seymour Reich, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, last week described the secretary of state's May 22 addrees to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as "basically a good speech." And Moshe Arad, Israel's ambassador to Washington, said the speech "signals there is no significant change in American policy toward Israel. There is no change in our relationship." Arad and Reich spoke at separate sessions of the American Jewish Press Association's annual convention. Their appraisal of Baker's address to AlPAC's annual policy conference contrasted sharply with the reactions of top Israeli officials in the days immediately following the speech. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir used the word "useless" to describe the address, and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens said Baker's remarks had undermined Israel's international campaign to promote a new peace initiative. But Arad urged a roomful of Jewish journalists not to "focus on the SO-second sound bites" used by the mainstream media to characterize the Baker pcdicy statement. He noted that the speech contained a number of positive elements, infJiiding an affirmation of tfaa U.S.-Israeli strategic relationship, s reiteration of the U.S. govemiiMBt'a opposition to on indtpMtdant Palestinian state and initial praise for the new Israeli peace plan. Neverthdess, Arad said, there are "important element* in Mr. Baker'a speech that we differ with." Chief awmwg theee oppeara to be the secretary's plea that Israelis give up their dream of a "Greater lareel"^a term that gener-
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ally refers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. "The fact is that no Israeli government since 1967, be it Labor or Likud, has moved unilaterally to annex these territories," Arad said. He said it was "historically inaccurate and thus unfair" to suggest that Israel hod taken control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with some "grandiose, imperialist" design of expanding the boundaries of modem Israel. Arad also made a point of saying that when differences arise between Israel and the United States, "they are best treated in discreet diplomacy, rather than in public debate." It is, in fact, the public articulation of U.S. policy in the Middle East, rather than the policy itself, that seems to have caught Israeli and American Jewish leaders off guard. Reich observed ia his remarks to the press group that in the weeks prior to Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir's visit to Washington, the Bush movem«it "was engaging in a pincer movement" to pressure Israel. First, the administration demanded that Shamir bring "new ideas" to Washington. Then, during Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's visit that immediately preceding Shamir's, Bush made a point of saying that the United States opposed Israel's "occupaticm" of the West Bank and Gaza Strip—a word that "caused discomfort to some of us," Reich said. Shamir's plan was warmly welcomed by the administration—and the American Jewish leadership—as something that was not juat "Camp David warmed over." Then, a few weeks later, came the Baker speech, which Reich described as "balanced," but also "cold" and sometimes "out of context." In the end, however, both Israeli and American Jew-
ish leaders point out that Washington and Jerusalem are in virtual agreement on the peace process: Both favor an end to the violence in the territories and elections there to bring about an interim period of Palestinian self-rule. Neither wants to see the creation of an independent state run by the Palestine Liberation Organization. There are some differences, but these are mainly tactical: The United States favors some sort of international supervision of the Palestinian elections, while Israel is prepared only to guarantee, in Arad'e words, that they will be "free, uninhibited, unhindered." The Bush adniinistration also believes that a dialogue with the PLO may help Advance the peace process, while Israeli leaders see such contacts as destructive. The only potential substantive difference is the question of the final status of the territories—an issue Israel maintains should not be discussed until a later date. Reich noted that the last Israeli government spoke He said his organization has with two voices on this matreceived updated informa- ter: one offering "land for tion from Jews who left Iran peace" and the other vowafter Khomeini's death. But ing to return "not one inch." he would not be specific. The current Israeli "We are monitoring the government has prided itsituation very closely. It's self on speaking with one time to be alert and to pray voice. But on this subject, that things will work out there has been no confavorably," Berger said. sensus.
Iranian Jews nuiy be worse off in aftermath of Khomeini's death NEW VORKUTA)-As bad as their situation was under the rule of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Jews of Iran may find themselves in even more precarious straits under his successor. That is the opinion of Rabbi Shlomo Bei^, director of the Near and Middle East Section of the Agudath Israel of America, who is considered an authority on Iran's Jewish community, which is said to number between 26,000 and 30.000. "While Khomeini was olive, the Jewish community encountered hardship and suffering, but the political atmosphere was relatively stable and they usually had a dear idea where they stood." Berger said. "Now, with various factions rivaling for control, the uncertainty in itself compounds the precariouaneee of the Jews'aituation. " Berfw, who heads Agudalb larael's woridwide oaoistanoe afforta for Jews in distnea, said hia office is besieged by telephone calls fram Iranian'!lews who aetUed in the United Sutes in recent years, seeking informatiOD about events in Iran.
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To the censor, with love
New Year theme Newspapers have life cycle events too. The Jewish Press of Omaha, for example, not only publishes a weekly edition, but also publishes several supplements and two maior holiday issues. One of the major issues, Passover,had as its subject matter babies bom in 1988 who no w are designated as the Class of 2001 — that is the year most will be bar or bat mitzvah. The Passover issue was received in splendid fashion by the readership and this great acceptance gave us the motivation to work on a most deserving theme for the New Year special. The working title is "Serving Our Country" and the content we will be seeking pertains to those men and women in our circulation area who served the United States of America during and since World War I. If you were a member of the Armed Forces (any branch), or the Merchant Marine, the National Cluard, the Coast Gtiard, or ifyou are in the service today, you are a likely candidate for this special publication. We hope to interview as many ofyoti'as possible with the expectation of gathering photos and data so that we can publish meaningful stories aboutyour service. We will try to answer the question so often asked of veterans by their children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. "What did you do during the war?" For our purposes, the specific war doesn't matter. Nor, does it matteir if you were in battle or in the kitchen — or for that matter pounding a typewriter. What you did was important and we want to record the activities of Omaha area men and women so that their paHicipation in the service of the United States will be a matter of historical record. Now, we invite all of you veterans to send us your name, address, telephone number, and a short message about your military service. Hurry up and wait will be the order of the day. We can't promise an immediate response, but eventually we'll get to all of those who respond. And our response will be on a first-in, flrst-out basis, 80 do let us hear from you as promptly as possible. It is time that the many veterans of this outstanding Jewish community are properly recognized in their very own newspapefi Gentlemen and ladies, it's time to take your memories out of mothballs and tell the kinderlach what you did during the war. Aching footnote: If you have questions or if you can't find a stamp, don't fade out of the picture — pick up the phone and call 334-8200 ext 239. I'll be there!
HAIFA — In time of war, every nation imposes a military censorship on the press and on the news to enstire that no information gets out which may possibly be useful to the enemy. Considering that there is still a very real threat to Israel, both from Arab states and from Arab terrorists, no one should quarrel with such censorship here. By and large, the foreign correspondents stationed in Israel understand and abide by the regulations, though occasionally some eager beaver reporter, anxious to make a name for himself, tries to smuggle out reports which have not been previously cleared. About 15 years ago, when Israel's relations with Egypt were still very tense, one reporter broadcast the news that an Israeli commando force had attacked Egyptian bases along the Gulf of Suez. The report was true, but at the time of the broadcast the Israeli commandos were still in acticm, and Egyptian headquarters got their first news of the event from this broadcast, thus endangering the success of the mission and the lives of the participants. In that particular case, the correspondent was expelled from Israel and none of his colleagues defended him. In other, more recent instances, there have been differences of opinion between the journalists and the censor, though the latter insists that only he is in a position to judge what has security significance and what not. Everything you always wanted to know about censorship in Israel, but never knew who to ask, is told in a wideranging article in the August issue of Israel Scene, a lively news magazine published by the World Zionist Organization. The article deals also with censorship of books, plays and films, but the part dealing with the press is perhaps most timely. Much has been made of recent censorship of the Arab press here. The domestic Jewish press is also censored, and the only factors involved in banning publication are those related to national security, or items which constitute provocative incitement to riot. It sometimes appears that the Arab papers go out of their way deliberately to publish anti-Isra^ items, just to see how far they can go with tiie censors. * J < / "*¥att!yac(mBaA'-Natan notes in the Israel Scene article: "Even 19 the East Jerusalem Arabic press, which is
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MIAMI (JTA) - The Public Broadcasting System has pulled from its national schedule a locallyproduced documentary about Miami teenagers who visited Poland and Israel in 1988, claiming its sponsorship by a local Jewish educational agency compromises its jourHaliBtic integrity. The Washington-based PBS, which previously committed itself to offsrijag the documentary to its affiliatee, claims that Miami* Csotral Agency for Jewish EducetioB, or CAJE, bed a vaeted iataeet in the frogrem because it tsrved as one 9f the show's pcoducsr* as well as a focus of the doeumaiitery itesU. A PBS oMdal also quee^ tiooed thepro-Isreil stance of theprognuB. The puhUo btoeikaeUng staUoa in Miami. WPBT2. howevw. did not Hrae with
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undoubtedly the most heavily censored, the most inflammatory anti-Israel statements can sometimes be found and the casual reader might find it difficult to believe that they are censored at all." The more responsible daily papers have reached agreement with the censors to police themselves. Delicate matters affecting national security are deliberately revealed to the Editor's Committee, and the latter, being made aware of the sensitive situation, are able to drop or tone down reports submitted by staff members. The agreement is of course based on a sense of patriotic loyalty by the editors. During the Arab street riots in Gaza, Judea and Samaria, some foreign correspondents have claimed that they were not afforded full freedom to report. Yet anyone who has seen television coverage of the riots can hardly believe that all those pictures did clear through Israel censorship. Comparable pictures are never seen from other Middle Eastem countries because there tight censorship is really in effect. The legal baais for government censorship is the Emergency Defense Regulations enacted by the British Mandatory Government in the 1940'8 and used at the time against Jewish and Arabk papers, llioee regulations are very broad in scope and give the censor power to ban anything which he deems "prejudicial to public safety or pubUc order." Conceivably they could be used in time of crisis to ban expression of certain political views. Hence there have been repeated calls for Israel to scrap the old British laws and enact a new censorship code designed to meet the contemporary situation. Yet little action has been taken in that direction. None of us who cover the Israel scene would wilfully reveal anything that might harm national security, yet occa-' sionally something slips into our stories, something which we have observed and in all innocence found worthy of reporting—that the censor ssks us to remove. We may not always understand his decision, but we yield to this better knowledge of what is or might be useful to an enemy's intelligence gathering team. I doubt that the caaor would have any objection to what I have written here, and as you see, it has been approved for publication.
Tie JewUi Press reserves the right to edit httert for namm oi length or coateat. To the Editor Comments made by a recent Omaha visitor, former USSR citizen Ilya 2ilobinaky, made our family happy that it is supporting the UJA/Federation Passage to Freedom Campaign. ZLobi^ky said that the new "openness" in soviet society baa snoouragsd bold anti^amite remarks by people who eariier woukl have been more furtive in this {arm of harassment. His information came from friends in the USSR and fnxn an attorney S<HI who visited Moscow in behalf of U.S. business clients. Zlobinsky also said that the new Jewish cultuie centers, re^^ened synagoguae, etc., in the USSR are providing to be unsatisfactory in practice. Thtre have been uneqiected limitations in the actual operationa of thsee facilities. Thus we see a continuing need to aki and inform Jewish raaidanta of the USSR and to assist those who are fortunate enough to escape this anti-Semitic nation. Soviet Jews need to be told the encouragbig truth about Israel, in contrast to the distorted view presented by Soviet TV and radio, and they need to be given material to sharpen their knowledge and appreciation of Judaism. We can be proud that the Omaha Committee for Soviet Jewry has been serving both causes for a number of years. With increased emigratum. the Passage to freedom campaign serves a special need in resettlemsnt financing. Ilie puMicatioo Jewiali World gives assursnce that funds will be used for rseettlement in Israel as well as in the United States and other countries, and to help desperate families stalled in the transit centers in Vienna and Italy. Should there be any misgivings, Morton Kimreich, president of the United Jewiah Appeal, has declared for the record that "Soviet Jewish emigrants must be encouraged to choose Israel" The USA is, of course, s sponsor of the Passage to freedom Campaign. (Our friend Zlobinsky ^t settled in Israel, but eventually moved to the United SUtes to give more assistance to his aging parents and a brother, reaiding in New Jersey, and to be neer the Zfebinsky's only son, who then wss studying law at Columbia. It is difficult to be critical of the deair* for family rsuniflcation.) Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Gsneral Richard Tbomburgh rtfnrtedly has promised that Immigration and Nsturalisatidn Ssrvke ag«ata will reotive saiaiUvity training toi inersasedisir empatlqr for the spedel praUsma ooaJkonting Soviet Jews. Paggy Tlshman. pieaklant of the New York UJ A-FedaraUoo, has stated what probably is the moat important concam: "Let's gat thsm out. Lif* is danfMOUs (or Jews in ths Soviet Unkm." Welly I
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Lincoln Tifereth Israel FRIDAY; Early Shabbat Services, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m. Torah study with the Rabbi, 5 p.m.
By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke ©1988
Rabbi Regev at Temple sive Judaism) and Kibbutz Yahel. Rabbi Regev is a member of the National Board and of the Public Relations and Information Committee of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. A magna cum laude graduate of the Department of Law, Tel Aviv University, and a member of the Israeli Bar, Rabbi Regev served as assistant legal advisor to Gaza Strip and Sinai and military prosecutor of the IsraeU Navy. He holds the rank of major in reserve duty. As a former Eisendrath International Exchange Rabbi Regev program student. Rabbi Temple Israel has an- Regev was sponsored by nounced that Rabbi Uri Temple Solael, Canoga Regev who serves the Is- Park, Calif., in 196r Two raeli Reform movement in a years later, he represented variety of capacities will Reform youth at the World speak on religious plurahsm Union for Progressive Judain Israel during Friday ism Conference in Holland night services. and Germany. Rabbi Regev is chairperHe has lectured on Zison of the ARZA-sponsored onism and Judaism for the Israel Religious Action Cen- Zionist Council of Israel, ter; the coordinator of Israel Ministry of Information, programs and recruitment, and the Institutes for Hebrew Union College-Jew- Zionist-Jewish Education. ish Institute of Religion, JeRabbi and Mrs. Regev rusalem, and secretary of (Garri Grossman, formerly MARAM (CouncU of Pro- of Rochester, N.Y.) live in gressive Rabbis in Israel). Jerusalem where Mrs. He also advises Telem Grossman also works for Noar (^^th branch of Is- the Reform Movement in rael MoVTOient for Progres- the nursery school program.
PERSONALS Thank you, belpved family and friends, for your prayers, cards, charitable contributions, words of comfort, " .s, home-made delilacies and floral armmemrata during and foUowing my hoapitalizatioD. Bless you all. Love, Sarah L«wia I want to thank my family and frienda for their visita, cards and good wishes during roy racant hoapitalization. S^Mdal thanka to Cantor Fettman. MoaPaasMi
Beth El Synagogue
FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 p.m. Late Family Service, 8 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning service, 8:45 a.m. Mincha, 7:45 p.m. Shalos Seudos, 8:15 p.m. Ma-ariv and Havdalah, 9:15 p.m. BAR MITZVAH Gary Shyken, son of Susan and Dr. Paul Shyken, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Friday evening, June 16 at 8 p.m., and Saturday morning at 8:45 a.m. An Oneg Shabbat reception on Friday evening and a Kiddush luncheon on Saturday morning will follow services. Gary will symbolically share his Bar Mitzvah with Maksim Kuznetsov of the Soviet Union. Grandparents are Ilene and William Pachman and the late Gertrude Pachman, and Samuel Shyken and the late Bessie Shyken. SUNDAY: Morning Minyanaire service, 9 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 7 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits will conduct the services. FRIDAY: Services at 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning service, 9:30 a.m. Kiddush will follow services. Babysitting is available from 10 a.m. Shabbat Story Time for children ages 3-6 will meet in the Youth Lounge at 11 a.m. Evening services at 8:55 p.m. SUNDAY: Services at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. BNOT MITZVAH Rebecca Kubart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verdell Kubart, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Friday evening, June 16, and Saturday morning, June 17. Laura Senft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Senft, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Friday evening, June 23, and Saturday morning, June 24. MEN'S CLUB BASEBALL NIGHT Men's Club will sponsor a supper and baseball night Jime 22, starting at 5:30 p.m., at the synagogue. At 6:30 p.m., buses will take all to Rosenblatt Stadium.
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FRIDAY: Services at 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel and Cantor Harold Firestone will officiate. Pulpit guest Rabbi Uri Regev will speak on "Religious Pluralism in Israel—A Reality or a Dream." much of Temple Israel's The Oneg Shabbat folgrowth to the leadership of lowing services will be Rabbi Perhneter, 30, who sponsored by Sisterhood. became assistant in 1985 SATURDAY: and associate/acting rabbi Services at 11:15 a.m. in 1987. BAR MITZVAH Rabbi Perimeter graduJeremy Jake Nichols,, ated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University and son of Barbara A. Nichols, earned a master's degree will celebrate his Bar Mitzfrom Hebrew Union College- vah at Shabbat morning services on June 17. Jewish Institute of Religion ISRAEL TRIP in New York. PLANNED He is the son of Stanley Spend your next Chanuand Jan Perimeter, and his wife is Rabbi Rachel Hertz- kah exploring the people, the land and the ideas that man. The couple has an IImonth-old daughter, Jac- are Israel today. Share with your family and queline. friends the reality and promise that is Israel Diswhat Israel is and Violinist places cover what it means to you aa a By Yoeai Leaiykowicz Jew. BRUSSELS (JTA) Plans are underway for Erez Ofer, 24, from Tel a family trip to Israel for Aviv, placed fourth among Dec. 25,1989-Jan. 7,1990. 12 finalists in the presti- The tour will be led by gious Queen Elisabeth of Rabbi Aryeh and Elyce Belgium violin competition Azriel. here. Come to an information The final results were an- meeting to learn about the nounced late Saturday exciting itinerary June 19, night in the presence of the 7:30 p.m., at Temple IsBelgian queen. Soviet musi- rael. Call the office, 566cians won the gold and sil-. 6636. to R.S.V.P. var medala, and a Japineac vioUniat won the broue. Ofer played pieces by Council Bluffs Beethoven and Brahms durB'nal Israel ing his final performance FRIDAY: May 20. The competition is Servicea are held the usually seen aa an important springboard for young flrat and third Friday of each month, 7:30 p.m. virtuoai.
t Rex Perimeter named P head rabbi in Miami Rabbi Rex Perimeter, formerly of Omaha, has been promoted to head rabbi by Temple Israel of Greater Miami. He had been associate/acting rabbi the past two years. Henry E. Wolff, president of Temple Israel's Board of Trustees, was quoted in the Miami Jewish Tribune as saying that Rabbi Perlmeter's promotion to lead the 740-family congregation was unusual in that an associate usually is selected for a smaller congregation. Mr. Wolff attributed
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Parashat Naso Skepticism is healthful The Surgeon General has common in the ancient Setold us about this and that mitic world. We ought not being possibly (probably? to be surprised at it. certainly?) dangerous to our Without going into the health; and the powers-that- many Midrashic explanabe continued to tell us that tions, I think that we might this or that food, treated say that rehgion in general with this or that chemical, is tends to take itself too serialso potentially dangerous. ously: This is the truth. I think that religionists, Period. We have the (jruth. in general, must be Period. And here it is—even reminded regularly that cer- if it takes seventy-two tainty is dangerous to verses, instead of seven, to spiritual health, and that, on say a simple thing. the contrary, skepticism is Isn't this the trouble with healthful—not only sensible, the AyatoUah's selfbut healthful. righteous Islamic revoluOffhand one might see no tion? And with the funpossible connection between damentalist Christian, and the death of the unlamented with the "ultra-orthodox" (in most of the world) Jew? Each one tends Ayatollah, and, I'havdil, the quickly to reply, "But this astonishingly long listing in is the thith!" "This is God's our Sidrah of the gifts own word!" brought to the dedication Isn't this the fault behind ceremonies of the Taberna- the AyatoUah's death sencle of the Wilderness. tence on Rushdie, for daring The princes of the twelve to suggest, even in fiction, tribes brought identical that Islam may not have the gifts, gifts of various kinds, whole truth? so that the service of the The sharp-eyed rabbis of Tabernacle might be in- the Midrash noted that in stituted. If identical, why the long recitation of the does the text go through the gifts of the Princes of the saine list, faithfully and tribes, each Prince is called tediously, for so many "Nasi,"—Prince or Leader. verses, for the twelve days All except one, Nahshon of of the procession of gifts? Judah! But he was the first! Why not some brief state- And he was of the tribe of ment saying that the sec- Judah, from whom the Mesond, third, and all the rest siah was to be descended! through the twelfth were That is precisely why, the identical? Midrash has it: so that beProfessor Nahum Sama, ing first, and being of one of America's greatest Judah, he must be warned Bible scholars, has pointed against special pride. Thereout elsewhere that this kind fore he is not given his title. of writing, this kind of reHumility, and skepticism, peated listing, was not un- are good for your health.
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Beth El installation at dinner dance Beth El Synagogue will hold an Installation of Officers Dance June 25 from 7-10 p.m. in the social hall, according to co^hairmen Joye Wees and Carole Widman. Dessert will be served and music will be provided by Tuffy's Group. Ray Goldstein will be installed as president for
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Laura Allison Senft will become a Bat Mitzvah Friday evening June 23, and Saturday, June 24, at Beth El Synagogue. She is the daughter of Steven and Marsha Senft. Laura, an honor student, will enter the eighth grade at Millard Central Middle School this fall. Her interests include writing for the yearbook, reading, shopping and talking on the phone. She has a sister, Julie, and a brother, Daniel. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. David Swerdlow of Sepulveda, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Senft of Sherman Oaks, Calif.
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Grandson barred By Hugh Oigel TEL AVIV (JTA) David Axelrod, a 28-yearold grandson of the late Communist leader Leon Trotsky and a Kach party activist living in Hebron, has been barred by military order from the Cave of Machpela outside Hebron and other Arab centers. Married, with two children, Axeb'od has clashed ,with Israeli soldiers in the past, having called a soldier a "kapo" in one incident. The Cave of Machpela, the Patriarchs' Tomb on the outsldrts of Hebron, is a shrine sacred to both Jews and Moslems where both worship, < though not together. It h<u frequently been the scene of claobee between l<^ cal Arabs and Jewish tailitants. Axelrod baa been forbid^ to enter the place, or an^r other Arab center in town. He said Sunday be had not yet received the order and would "spit on it" when he did.
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Adam Yale and Brent Zacharia were chosen by Beveridge Junior High School to be Rotary Honor Roll Boys. The objective of the Rotary Honor Roll is to recognize the outstanding achievement on the part of eighth grade boys in the areas of leadership, character, scholarship and appearance. They were honored by the Rotary at a luncheon at Peony Park. OTYG By Amy Perbneter OTYG heU their elections May 6. It wasn't only a night for us to choose a new board, it was also a night for us to say our last farewell to the seniors and to receive our superlatives. We started out with a picnic and then moved right into elections. Big congratulations are in order to the new board: Robyn Epstein, president; Jennifer Goldberg, first vice president; Tiffani Sherman, second vice president; Sarah Krieger, rehgious vice president; Stacie Katelman. secretary and Kikki Epstein, treasurer. On the appointed board is Andy Wigodsky, Temple
liaison; Sam Passer, city liaison and Amy Perimeter, editor/historian. After elections, we moved to Keri Saltzman's house where we had a beautiful Havdalah service at which the outgoing seniors were honored. On June 12 we had our first rush of the year. We went to the airport. Central Park and the Old Market where we did something for every letter of the alphabet. Then we went back to the Epstein's for an awesome overnight. The night was exciting and eventfuL A.Z.A. II By Phil Mulnick On Saturday, June 3. Mother Chapter A.Z.A. |1 held it's aimual caucus for sweetheart candidates. After long discussion, Rikki Epsiein, Becca Goldstein, Tema Moss, Debbie Schneider and Karen Schwalb were elected as sweetheart candidates. Wendy Sheldon was also elected as A.Z.A. ^il's honorary sweetheart. The announcement of who willt1)e the sweetheart will be made at A.Z.A. H's Sweetheart Dance this fall. Good luck to all candidates.
General seeks relief By Hugh Orgel Lately he has been conTEL AVIV (JTA) - The fronted by the anti-Arab Israel Defense Force general vigilante tactics of militant in command of the West Jewish settlers in the terriBank has asked to be tory, who have harassed relieved of his post, effective and abused IDF personnel this summer. trying to restrain them. Maj. Gen. Amram MitzThe general told Rabin oa, commander of the cen- and IDF Chief of Staff Dan Gary Shykeo tral sector, made the re- Shomron that he would like Gary Simon Shyken will. quest to Defense Minister to take off a year for study become a Bar Mitzvah on Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin has and to travel abroad this Friday evening, June 16, not yet responded, but is ex- summer. and Saturday morning, pected to accede to the reMitzna, a soft-spoken June 17, at Beth Israel Synquest. man who is widely respected agogue. He is the son of Mitzna has been responsi- inside and outside Israel, Susie and Paul Shyken. ble for dealing with the reportedly turned down an Gary is a seventh-grade Palestinian uprising in the orier from Rabin and Shomhonor student at Westside West Bank since it began ron ot a senior poet on the Middle School. He enjoys nearly 18 months ago. IDF general staff. computer programming, model rocketery and building radio controlled models. ASK FOR... He also enjoys swimming, boating and bicycling. Gary will be symbolically sharing his Bar Mitzvah MUL fr MILLION DOLLAR CARBER SALES OVER EIGHT YEARS SWERIENCE with Maksim Kuznetsov of the Soviet Union whose religious freedom has been denied. He has a sister, Beth, and nsAL uwmoM CO. a brother, Jeff. 11313 Davanport Res. 393-59S4 Grandparents are Sam Omaha, NE 68154 aus. 330-3500 Shyken and the late Bess Shyken, and Bill and Ilene Pachman and the late Gertrude Pacbman.
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The makings of a Jewish childhood By Rabbi Dov Aharaoi (Copftight l<m. Jtmith TaittrmrUc Afmej. ImcJ LOS ANGELES—I do a fair amount of speaking around ihe city, allowing me to engage with Jews of (dl stripes and colors. Without a doubt, the single greatest concern overwhelming so many in our greater Los Angeles community is the fear that our children will leave the fold. The macrocosmic debate ovei "Who Is a Jew" really erupted because of microcosmic realities: assimilation, intermarriage and alienation are felt in every Jewish neighborhood. Yet, whenever I am asked. "Rabbi, what would you do if one of your children brought home a non-Jew?" I feel strangely unshaken by the question. My audiences are always incredulous. "Oh, come now, ftabbi. Surely you don't believe that your children are impervious to what's going on in the world'?" 1 try to explain that none of us can know what the future holds in store. And, yes. anything is possible. And. ao, I prefer not to discuss the question on a personal level. But. if my questioner absolutely must know what 1 think vis-a-vis my child, then my answer is; 1 am not worried. My community, simply put, does not have an intermarriage problem. We do not have a double-file waiting line to apply for pre-marriage conversions. For every rule, of course, there are exceptions. But they are rare and few. How does my community do it? Why don't we fear that one of our children might bring home a non-Jew? I'd like Co share our common experience because our system works pretty well. First of all, it is so important, from day one, to make a child's Jewish experiences into fun and vice versa. I am forever baffled by the parents who choose 'Vom Kippur as the one day all year to bring the kid to shuL I absolutely cannot figure it out. .'Xs a young boy, and even later than that, I always disliked Yom Kippur services. They were so boring. They lingered on forever, with no light at the end of the tunneL I could not stand the droning cantors—they were all the same—who felt compelled to turn "Kol Nidrei" into "A .Night at the Opera " when 1 was hoping for "A Day at the Races " (i.e.. speedier). Whenever we seemed to be making progress, moving closer to that ever-elusive page 1.000 in the aiahzor. the
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cantor would get into one of those repetition tantrums in which he would sing the same line over and over again, interlacing bold baritones with an occasional falsetto. It was awful. It is cruel and inhuman to expose a child to 'Vom Kippur services without giving a child the chance to experience Simchat Torah, too. As kids, we used to sneak up behind grumpy old geezers who growled at us during the rest of the year and we'd tie their tallit string together. Looking back, I realize that our actions may not have been spiritual, but we had a great time. Shul was fun. Simchat Torah also meant lots and lots of dancing, including every child's favorite dance: being hoisted on Daddy's shoulders. Purim was even more special. We would come to synagogue in costumes, and we'd have the grogger Inoisemakerl with which to drown out Haman's name. For us as kids, there was Uttle philosophy or metaphor in the process. We simply enjoyed ourselves making a controlled ruckus. The megillah reader would tr>- every possible tactic to get past Haman's name without alerting us—he'd whisper it or read it fast or say it simultaneously with a sneezebut we would follow every word in the text ever so carefully to make sure we got in all our shots. I remember the two older men who came to synagogue one Purim, one with a pot and the other with a soup ladle. At Hainan's name, the guy with the ladle would strike the other guy's pot. At one point, the man with the pot wasn't paying attention, and the man with the Ladle wasn't watching carefully, and all I remember is the yell as the pot man clutched his head where the ladle had landed. A Jewish child needs these memories to fkah out the totality of the childhood Jewish experience. We all shed a tear when we see stories of homeless children, growing up in deprivation. We shoukl feel some of that anguish over Jewish children who are denied a House of Assembly (synagogue) and its warm roof over their heads during the days of their youth. The synagogue, of course, is not only fun and games. There should be prayer—first in a quasi-formal kiddiee minyan. and in later years, in a teen service or seated alongside Mom or Dad. There should also be Torah learning. Jewish children do not only need the House of Assembly, but also the House of the Book Ischooi). How can we contemplate rearing Jewish children today, in our overwhelmingly non-Jewish society, without a thorough, rich and all-encompasaing Jewish education? Let's define our terms. Hebrew school, as an afterthought to the full-day program in public school, is not thorough. It is not rich. It is not all-^mcumpassing. It is a joke. Those who create Hebrew schools are trying to salvage what Uttle they can. knowing that those attending will otherwise get nothing. The principals and directors and teachers who run Hebrew schools are good, sincere, devoted people. In fact. som« of the children who attend Hebrew school take the classes seriously and actually do learn something, though not much. But. as a concept in Jewish education. Hebrew school is a colossal disaster. In today's society, the slogan might as well be: 'D«y School or Bust.' The Day School puts children into a Jewish eavirooment. Their secular classes are affected by that tnvironaMOt. Their friends emerge ftota that oivironmeot. Their spare time and weekends are colored and flavored by that experience. Jewish children need to attend all-day Jewish schools. And hare is the "kicker "They have to attend such schools through 12th grade. im«jmn taking a boy or girl out of school after eighth grade. Have they learnad enough math? Sciance? Liter*turn? History? Tha quaetioos need no answer. ChiUren have not learned aoough about Judaism. Twelve grades is Che minimum education a Jewixih child needs to know who he or she is—and to know what kinds of values and what ]iiwuiu of fxiuati^ are important. I know the responsas. "Well. Rabbi. I prefer to give my child a choice. 1 don't want to shove religion down his throat." How noble! Give cfaildten a choice, and thay would rather not go to public school nthar. Give vbUikta a choice.
and they would rather be playing ball outside than practicing the piano inside. Give children a choice, and they would rather be at the movies than at ballet class. We encourage our children to take an extra-cxirricular art or music class because we want to "broaden their horizons." The child is not expected to be a conductor of the philharmonic. We simply want to expose the child to culture. In high school, children are encouraged to study biology or chemistry or physics despite the fact that they may pursue the social sciences later. We like to expose the children during their learning years. We owe them no less than a full, mature exposure to Judaism, if for no other reason than to broaden their horizons. A child's mind is a wonderful thing. It absorbs much in first grade and even more in eighth grade. And even more in 12th grade. Children will have their free choice. They will be going to the spiritual hinterlands for college. They will be far removed from their rabbis. The skeptics and the ideological secularists will have their turn at your child's mind I promise. Even as television snipes away at their spirituality and morality. . Indeed, by denying a Jewish child access to a full and rich Jewish education, we are ultimately denying our children the freedom Co choose Judaism. Like synagogue Ufe. a Jewish education offers more than the formal purpose. There are special friendships and memories. Day school often leads to Jewish summer camp and to winter camp seminars. Here are rooted the friendships which will last a lifetime. Maybe this is why my community is spared not only intermarriage and assimilation but also the scourge of driigs and alcohol abuse and teen pregnancies. We aren't perfect, and we recognize the need to confront our humanity. Jewish schooling is a helpful tool Finally, we try to make our homes somewhat reflective of the values being taught in school. The kitchen is kosher. Shabbat is celebrated Shalach manot (baskets of goodies) are distributed in eostiime on Purim. The house b turned inside out for Passover Although we have surely been touched by the outside world's divorce mania, our famiUes tend to hold together quite well, and Shabbat allows us that special opportunity for parent-child intimacy. These are the critical elements which underUe my community's calm in the face of the calamity around us. We are deeply concerned for the Jewish people. But. for ourselves, we do not lose sleep over whom the kids will bring home. After 12 years of yeshiva day school education, punctuated by solid Jewish ramping, reinforced by warm and funGUed meoiaries of synagpgue life and Shabbat with the family, our kids will come home with a Jewish mate. Yours can, too. Dov Aharoni is rabbi at Beit Hamidrash in Woodland HiUs, Calif. This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal
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Senate approval By Howard Roaeabcrg WASHINGTON (JTA)The Senate has approved a $75 millian appropriation to help bring an additional 18.500 Soviet refngeea to the United States this fiscal year. The sum at money, adopted by the hiD Senate as part of a package approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, is identical to a Bupplwiimitai appropriation approved May 24 by the Honae of Represoitatives.
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Behind the headlines: What is the appropriate Jewish response to the Rushdie affair? By Andrew SUow CarroU NEW YORK (JTA) - Major Jewish organizationg, so often at the forefront of struggiee for human rights and freedom of expresaion, have had only a muted reaction so far to the predicament of British writer Salman Rushdie An exception has been the World Jewish Congress, whose American section said laat week that it "deplores and is dismayed" by Iranian leader AyatoUah Khomeini's death threat against the Indian-bom novelist. The American Jewish Congress aiao reacted strongly, in a statement released here last week. It said, "The outrageous and barbarous threats against the life of Salman Rushdie demand condemnation and public denunciation from every part of the civilized worid." AJCorigreas called on the U.S. government and the United Nations "not only to register woridwide revulsion over these abominable threats, but to recommend appropriate concerted action to prevent them from being carried out," Khomeini and his followers believe Rushdie's book, "The Satanic Verses, " blasphemes Islam by caricaturing the prophet Mohammed. Individual Jewish writers, either in interviews with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency or as part of writers' organizations, have also deplored the death threat and the reluctance of major bookstore chains to stock the novel. Asked in those interviews whether Jews might also be angered by a book that mocks their beliefs or hi.stflry, many of the writers agreed but said there are ways of expressing anger short of death threats or book burnings. Unfortunately, they said, an odious anti-Semitic tract is the price to be paid for the principle of freedom of expression. The WJC statement called on all governments to treat death threats against Rushdie as terrorism. "More than any other religion, Jews can sympathize with the pain of devout Muslims by what they see as a distortion and caricature of their fundamental beliefs and flrac' tices," it said. "Yet our experience has also taught us that the proper response to such perceived distortion or defamation is dialogue and education, not violence and assassination." The statement waa signed by Rabbi Wolfe Keiman, chairman of the organization's American Section. Keiman was also a signator, along with Rabbi Marshall Meyer of Manhattan's Temple B'nai Jeshurun, of a similar statement released by the Temple of Understanding, a New Yorkbased int^aitt) organization. Keiman said he was surprised by the lack of a greater Jewish response to the Rushdie affair, although he said he understood the hesitation. "I imagine part of it may be concern of further weakening relations between Iran and Israel, and endangering the lives of Jews in Iran. " he said. "It's a delicate question we weigh ail the time." But Keiman s«iggested the affair may offer to supporters of Israel an opportunity as well. "It's important that when Jews are being characterized as oppressors and the Muslims as victims, there is this dramatic exemplar of why Israel must be careful living in a region that does not recognize pluralism." Putting it more strongly was Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, former director of interreligious affairs for the Amaican Jewish Committee. Tanenbaum, who writes a cohunn dia-
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"The difference is no one would put a price on the writer's head and call for his execution," he said. If his own publisher came out with a reprint of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zkm," "I would not like it," said Nissenson, "but I'd be damned before I'd call for its suppression." Potok, who took part in a rally In support of Rushdie in Philadelphia last week, said he has lobbied in the past against textbooks that have distorted Jewish history. But he called those efforts "scceptable maneuvering," versus threats on an author's life. Potok noted that "The Protocols" have been reprinted around the world, including Arab countries, and the Jewish response has been to avoid an "overwhelming fuss" and create interest in the book that was not there before. Anne Roiphe, who has written a novel on the newly Orthodox and essays on the implications of the Holocaust, said that while Judaism maintains a "fundamentalist branch,"" namely the ultra-Orthodox, "the Jewish world has also become thoroughly saturated with the Enlightenment.'" But the Rushdie affair sounds a warning, she said. "I look Rushdie raised Roth's case this week when he submitat the ayatoUah and see a potential endpoint if our own funted, from his hiding place in England, a review of Roth's damentalists are not checked by the rest of us." memoirs, "The Facts " In response, Roth wrote in the LonExecution for blasphemy has its roots in the Hebrew don Observer that "of course, the tiny turbulence that I Bible. In Leviticus 24:14, the Lord commands Moses, saystirred up is hardly comparable" to death threats against ing "He that blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall Rushdie. surely be put to death." In Jewish law, blasphemy is limited However, said Roth, he was glad Rushdie found "some to words reviling God and does not extend to attacks on strength in reading about my own apprenticeship in the religious institutions or customs. Modem history records no example of a Jew being put unforeseen consequences of art." What responsibility does an artist have to avoid offend- to death by other Jews for blasphemy. Even history's most ing the sensibilities of a group? Has Rushdie only himself famous Jewish heretic, philosopher Baruch Spinoza, was to blame for words he knew were potentially offensive to merely, albeit humiiiatingly, banned by the Jewish community of Amsterdam, in 1656. The official decree called Moslems? Chaim Potok, the novelist and rabbi, said that, as an art- on God to "destroy him and cast him out from all the tribes ist, his own sense of responsibility "is limited to my own of Israel." In 1772, the Vilna Gaon, Elijah Ben Solomon Zalman, vision of the truth " and; he added, "my willingness to pay the price of that vision. If Rushdie didn't know what he placed in "herem," or excommunication, the "dangerous"' new Hasidic movement and ordered tlie works of the movewas doing, he was either naive or stupid." But the point is not Rushdie's actions, said Potok end ment!s founder, the Baal Shem Tov, publicly burned in the streets. other writers, but Khomeini's. In modem times, the Yiddish writer Sholom Asch was Hugh Nissenson, whose most recent book is "The Elephant and My Jewish Problem," a collection of *hort sto- reviled by some Hasidic groups in the '20s and '308 for his ries and journal entries, said certainly there are subjects, portrayal of their movement and sympathetic treatment of early Christianity. that would make the Jewish community furious.
Egyptian arrives on peace mission By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA) A senior Egyptian official arrived here on a two^lay peace mission. But his visit appeared to be more of a goodwill gesture than a substantive diplomatic initiative. Dr. Butroe Ghali, Egypt's minister of state for foreign affairs, was greeted at BenGurion Airport by Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arena, who urged his guest to convince his government to support Israel's new peace plan. Ghali arrived with a message from Egyptian President Hoani Mubarak apprising Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of the outcome of the recent Arab League summit meeting in Casablanca, Morocco, which rejected the Israeli peace initiative. But the Egyptian president pointed out in the meesage that it was the first Arab summit meeting ever tA endorse U.N. Security Councfl Resoiutians 242 sad 338, which implidUy recognize Icael's right to exist behind secure borders.
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Casualties By Hagh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - The Egged bus cooperative reported that 3S7 people have been hurt in 3,136 attacks on its pMMnfV buaea aince the PalestJnJaa uprising began in the administered terrHories 18 months ago. But there have been no fatalities. Egged said 42 of its buses were damaged. Bus windows have been reinforced with wire mesh (o decrease the poaaibiiity of injury from flying objects. Egged, which prsdates the state by many years, provides interurban and local bus swvices thtougfaout Israel, eouept tn the Tel Aviv area, where the Dan bus cooperstive holds the IraneUas.
By AUison Kaplan NEW YORK (JTA) The U.S. veto of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israel "shows once again that the U.S. and Israel are allies," a spokesman for Israel's U.N. mission said this week. The spokesman, Barukh Biaak, said he was not surprised that the other 14 msmbera of the Security Councfl all voted in favor of the resolution or by the statement's strong language. "The United Nations is not a healthy environment for Israel," Binah sakL The Secarity Councfl raaohition harshly condemned Israel for actions "which violate the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territory." The 14-
1 vote took place at a Security Council session requested by Sudan on behalf of the Arab League. Thomas Pickering, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the United States vetoed the resolution because it was "unbalanced." He said the statement made no mention of "serious acts of violence" by Palestinians.
ACHIEVEMENT NEW YORK (JTA) Rabbi Dr. Sol Roth, reUgUNs leader of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue and adjunct professor of philosophy at Yeshivs University, was honored by the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary for lifetime achievement.
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By EUxabetli H.Tape production, to be supported There's a lot of laughter financially by the mansion's to be found these days on owner, the somewhat the Mainstage of the Omaha flustered Elsa Von GrosCommunity Playhouse. senknueten (Ree Davis). Margolin. Pros Sam Rosen- Their current producThe hidden agenda of the stein thanked the servers tion,"The Musical Comedy gathering, however, turns among whom Reva Oruch Murders of 1940," afta- get- out to be quite differentdeserves kudos for her ting off to a slightly slow several members of this monthly report on YES ac- start, generates one laugh group had earlier been intivities. after another in its rollick- volved with a stage producSam read the list of June ing second act. tion where several young birthday boys and reported The play's title sets the performers had been mura donation to the Mitzvah tone for this black comedy, dered. By reuniting these inbox by Betty and Sig Schul- with its intermingling of the dividuals, Ms. Von man for Bess Borden to get words "musical comedy" Grossenknueten-with the well and for Esther Hart. with "murders." Further, earnest assistance of SerHe introduced Irv Forbes' its opening moments pres- geant Michael Kelly (Dan guests, Bob Batt of Austin ent a murder committed in Kramer) hopes to apprehend and Manny Switko of a highly comedic style, the responsible party. Florida. Norm Wohlner said alerting the audience that that Sol Weiner and Moe any sense of social or politiSENATOR HONORED Pessen are hospitalized. Art cal responsibility must be NEW YORK (JTA) presented guest speaker left at the theater's door. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (DBoris Tayter, from Russia Having done so, prepare for Conn.) was honored at the and now an Omahan, along an uproarious expedition Yeshiva University comwith his wife, Maya, and through a maze of odd mencement tvith an honortwo sons. characters, .secret pas- ary doctorate in humane letters. Boris is an electrical en- sages—and death. gineer with the Kellogg Co., Set in an archetypical isoand his wife is a dietician. lated manaicm-to be sure in Freel Party Room He spoke about how Stalin the middle of a mammoth Ideal for Bar Mitzvahs. handled the "Jewish prob- blizzard—the majority of buiinesa meetings and lem" ala Hitler by deporting the play's participants have aporta groupa. Jews to death in Siberia. He gathered—supposedly—to ThsScsrsnrd said there is a movement prepare for a new Broadway 496-8865 afoot to change the status of Russian Jewish emigres from refugees to regular imAn Evening of Enchantment migrants.
By Henry Stern
Next meeting, June 20. At the last session, moderator Art Grossman's subjects were the Chinese uprisings, Polish elections, the Soviet elected assembly, the power struggle in Iran, House Speaker Wright's problems, the Franklin Credit Uion, a possible local lottery, gang battles and the murder of a former Omaha woman. Lots of opinions from the regulars and from Ed Weiner who commutes from Villisca. He is CEO at Dundee Realty where your stringer is a broker. Art. visited a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong who stated that he and others will be leaving since China will be taking over. Counselor Lou Lipp offered a report of the various French Republics of the past century, and from Art the news that a former Russian weightlifter condemned the KGB while yet in Russia. Onward to our favorite cafe with Motzi by Ed Kahn, benschen by Doc
Jewisli humor conference By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - The Third International Conference on Jewish Humor will be held at Tel Aviv University here next week—but the participants will not be telling jokes or talking about the intifada, the main topic of conversation in Israel these days.
the Jews started leaving Eastern Europe at the end of the last century, the "schlemiels" (the foots) went to the U.S. and the "chutzpaniks" (the gutsy ones) went to Israel. The fools continued to invent and trade Jewish jokes in the "goldena medina," while the hard-headed idealists put their chutzpah to work clawing out the Jewish state. But in the process, they became so serious, 80 guarded and so self-important that they sacrifioMl one of the very best Jewish traits—humor.
Noting that politics remains the focus of any conversation in Israel these days, Avner Ziv, a psychology professor at the university, said that "there is life outside of politics. In fact, one of the original things about the conference is that there will not be one word about the intifada."
But now, the intifada, though not a subject for discussion at the humor conferSam Girgus, of the Uni- ence, may bring back humor versity of Oregon, wUl be to the Israelis, Professor Ziv lecturing on "Philip Roth . believes. and Woody Allen: Freudian "We always convinced Poetics and the Humor of . the Opp-essed," while Paulo ourselves that we were the Santarcangell of Italy's bes^, the strongest, the University of Turin will talk smartest. Now we're having about "Fundamental Fea- some doubts. When you tures of Jewish Humor in have doubts, and things ar« not what they seem to be, Time and Space." that's where humor begins," Ziv pointed out that when he says.
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Haggadah stolen from Poland rector David Feldman has By Allison Kaplan NEW YORK (JTA) - A said that the anonymous valuable French medieval owner of the Haggadah had Haggadah set to be auc- supplied his auction house tioned in Geneva next week with documentation of legal was stolen several years ago ownership. Hiat called that from Poland, Judaica ex- documentation "pure utter nonsense." perts say. The Wolf Haggadah is The Jewish Historical Institute of Warsaw, which named for a 19th century last possessed the Wolf German collector who doHaggadah, has alerted the nated the Haggadah to Berpolice, the Polish Ministry lin's Jewish community. It of Religious Affairs and the is beheved that the HagPolish Foreign Ministry gadah waq confiscated by that the item is being auc- the Nazis, and somehow tioned in Switzerland, said ended up in Poland after Rabbi Philip Hiat, who has Worid War II. Hiat said the Haggadah been in contact with the institute. Hiat is assistant to was offered for sale two the president of the Union years ago in England, but of American Hebrew Con- the prospective buyer gregations, the congrega- changed her mind after tional arm of Reform Ju- hearing it was stolen. Experts say the Hagdaism. gadah dates to the 14th cenThe Wolf Haggadah, val- tury. It is handwritten on ued at a half million dollars, parchment and contains according to its pre-sale es- rich color and gold illustratimate, is expected to be the tions. highlight of a June 19 auc"It is a very rare object, tion conducted by Habsburg Feldman Co., the first and very valuable," said Schmelzer, major auction of Judaica Menahem held in Geneva. But Hiat is professor of medieval Hecalling on Habsburg Feld- brew hterature at the Jewman to facilitate the return ish Theological Seminary. of the Haggadah to War- "My concern is that this saw. "It should be returned fine piece should become acto where it was stolen cessible to the public and should be preserved." from," Hiat said. The most recent conIn 1982, he organized the troversy over Judaica took showing of the Wolf Hag- place in 1984, when Sothegadah, along with other by's in New York sold a Judaica, in a 1982 exhibit number of medieval Jewish that traveled to three U.S. books previously believed to cities. be lost during the Holocalist. The exhibit, called "Fragments of Greatness RedisThe books, which were covered," was displayed in smuggled to the United New York's Jewish Muse- States in 1940, were eventuum before being taken to ally turned over to Jewish Baltimore and Los Angeles. museums in Israel, Europe Habsburg managing di- and the United States. I
By Lucille Zelinsky
In apprciation of the Rose Blumkin Nursing Staff, Barbara and Warner Frohman catered a luncheon for the employees in honor of National Nurses Day. That was a lovely way of saying "thank you" for all the "tender laving care" that, is extended to the residents by the staff. On May 7, children from Beth Israel synagogue entertained with songs. On May 9, the Mount View Community Chorus performed and later in the month the Dana Stone Church of the Cross Bell Choir gave a concert for the residents and the International Folk dancers came out to give a dance performance. The residents had a wonderful evening at the L.O.V.E. Banquet May 11.. The food was delicious, the program enjoyable and the decorations were outstanding. It was a truly gala affair. Charles Guss, Yale Halperin, Lucille Brodkey and Sidney Speigelman were awarded certificates of appreciation for their many hours of devotion to their volunteer assignments. Mother's Day was a teal treat. In the morning residents attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the addition to the Home. Later in the afternoon L.O.V.E. volunteers provided a special Mother's Day tea. John Qulnn entertained. Cantor Berkovits, Rabbi Katzman and Rabbi Azriel made
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visits during May. The Annual Musical Mini Concerts will begin June 18. Everyone is welcome to come and hear these outstanding musicians. Performing June 18—Robert Glaser Trio; July 16Morrie Egger Quartet; August 13—Gulizia Brothers Trio; August 20—Meloday Malec; Sept. 10-Tuffy Epstein Quartet. All concerts begin at 1:30 p.m. May birthday celebrants are Celia Cherniss, Chuck Liberman, Anita Wintroub, S. W. Rosenblatt, Fannie Stein, Louis Albert, Edith Segal, Henia Schneider, Pauline Widman and Bertha Shiff. We're happy to welcome Betty Chesler, Fannie Chasen and Mae Finkel. The Gift Shop is open every day from 1 to 4 p.m., except Saturday. Volunteers who are salespersons are: Molly Franklin, Charlotte Slutzky, Ethel Goldston, Ida Zoorwill, Adele Mandell, Ruth Maline, Miriam Meyerson. Phyllis Bittner, Bemice Horwich, Rachael Bleicher, Sheila Rosen, Fred and Dorothy Kotok, Lucille Frohm and Melba Meyer. During the summer months, the residents like to get out for short walks or just visit in the court yards. Accompanying residents on these outings is a good way to start volunteering. Call Sharon Conlon, 330-4272. As little as an hour a week will get the job done.
New Speaker a friend of Israel
By David Friedman WASHINGTON (JTA) Rep. Thomas Foley IDWash.), who was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, is considered a good friend of Israel and supporter of issues of concern to the Jewish community. Foley was named by the House to replacM Rep. Jim Wright (D-Texu), who resigned as speaker after being charged with ethics violations. The 60-year-old congressman from Spokane was majority leader during the little more than two years Wright was speaker. He is highly respected by both Democrats and Republicans and is known as a conciliator and consensus-builder. "We are pleased that he has been elected as speaker of the House," said Jess Hordes, director of the Washington office ot the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. "He has always been open to the Jewish community. He's been supportive of issues of concern to us." David Harris, Waahiiigtoo representative of the American Jewish CommlttM, olio aaid that Fol0y was "a welcoiM choice." "Baaical|y the man is a bimd," Hwria said. "He haa hma then on many of the iaaota of concern to the
American Jewish community, including Israel and Soviet Jewry." Sammie Moshenberg, Washington representative of the National Council of Jewish Women, said Foley has been "generally supportive of a lot of our issues." She expressed the ho|ie that he would move the House forward oo the many domeetic issuee that need attention, such as child care and help for low-income pec^ and the elderly. Foley, who is considered a protege of the late Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Waah.), has been a strong supporter of Israel since he first came to the House in 1966. He has supported all foreign-aid legislation and has worked to build coahtions in support of the aid packages. He has also voted against acroes-tbe-board cuts in foreign aid. Foley has opposed every arms sale to Arab states hostile tolarael, including the 1981 salee of AW ACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia. In 1985, he cosponsored a resohition to disapprove an arms sale to Jordan; in 1986, he cosponsored a resolution disapproving a sale of misBlles to the Saudis. InlW7,wh«thel adminiatration I sale to the Saudis that 1.600 Maverick
surface-to-air missiles, Foley co-sponsored a resolution disapproving the sale. When the sale was reintroduced, Foley was among House members who wrote a letter to President Reagan that helped persuade the administration to remove the missiles from the sole. Foley has also co-sponsored resolutions upholding Israel's rights in the United Nations, supported measures aimed against the Arab economic boycott of Israel, voted for resolutions to have the United States move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and supported the U.S.Israel free trade agreement. He did not sponsor the resolution to close the Palestine Liberation Organization's information office in Washington. He was the prime sponsor of t,he House joint resolution congratulating Israel on its 40th anniversary. After the Palestinian uprising began in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Foley said that it was "misplaced" to blame Israel for it. "It is laraal which has sought peace," he said. Born in March 6, received his law degrees versity of
Spokane on 1929. Foley bachelor's and from the UniWaahinKton.
Soviet Jews (Continued from Page 1) But it also means that if others need help, you'll provide it too, whether it is someone coming from the Soviet Union or elderly people here in Chicago." The Chicago fed^-ation estimates that about onefourth of Soviet Jews residing in Chicago, including somo who resettled only in the post year, contribute to the Jewish United Fund campaign, and many hold leadership positions in the community. That experience is not shared by many other American cities with large populations of Soviet Jewish emigrants. Chicago is widely regarded as having made a pioneering outreach effort to its Soviet Jewish community. At the Brighton Beach fund-raiser, Sofia Garber, who left Odessa in 1975, called on the UJA-Federation to create a "Soviet emigre divisioa" She, and her co-master of ceremoniee, Pavel Margulies, spoke of the help Soviet emigres to Israel and the United States receive from UJA-Federation beneficiaries. They pointed out that many of the donations pledged at the fund-raiser were contributions earmarked for the Passage to Freedom drive.
By Bert Lewis
This column was originally planned as a special Father's Day card to my Dad. Instead, it must be about him instead of to him. What shall I tell you about him? That he was a man who believed completely thot "everything is in the hands of God." That he felt he had on obligation to help his fellow man, that his devotion to his wife of 69 years was boundless and endless? That his love for his children and grandchildren was profound and for his great-grandchildren there was an extra measure? Or should I tell you how interested he always was in what was happening in the world? That one of the highlights of a trip to New York was a visit to the United Nations and to the Stock Exchange—that he watched with great interest how things went in the Knesset as w^ as in the Congress of the United States or the City Hall in Omaha. The City Hall and the Court House were places he frequented often through all his years in business in downtown Omaha. Many will remember seeing him walk at a brisk pace from his business at 20th and Famam to these public buildings, but I wonder how many knew it often took longer than it should have because of the number of times he had to stop to talk to all who greeted him with a "Hi, Jake, what's going on?" He knew everyone and everyone knew him. This was natural since he had been a car dealer for probably better than 65 years. He knew folks in many walks of Ufe, since his interests were varied. Among his activities in the Jewish community was his great effort to keep the little Kupulier shul active and alive. He served as its president and good will ambassador and did everything from watching the condition of the building to making sure of a minyan. He worked tirelessly to keep the shul open, but when it was time to close the doors, he was unashEuqed of the tears in his eyes. My Dad seldom used the word "tzedaka" but h^ certainly practiced it. The pushkas in the house were numerous and full and those who visited the city as agents of this yesheva or that knew he was good for a contribution. The requests which came in the mail were attended to also; and a few ' years ago he established the Jake and Mary Wine Endowment, a foundation intended to provide for any who truly needed help here in our Jewish community. He would be so pleased to see how many contributions have already been made, in his memory, to that foundation. I cannot recount stories of my dad without mentioning the great pride he felt in his Masonic affiliation. He was involved, enthusiastic and loyal to his lodge. Obviously, his accomplishments within the organization were many because he was awarded the highest honor, the 33rd degree. He was smart enough to realize his connection with this group broadened hie thinking about the non-Jewish community and taught him a great deal about human relationships. He enjoyed the friendship of many of his lodge brothers and treasured some that were special. In addition to being a friend to many, a loving husband, father and grandfather, he was a devoted son and brother. He was, to his late mother, her confidante, her friend, her first bom. He, with his siblings, cared for her in every sense of the word. For his father he also played many ports. He and my Mother shared their home, their lives and their love with him. My Dad took core of everything from traffic violations to tax statements; from a new suit for yomtov to an honored place at the table and complete def^irence with the kiddish cup. My Dad believed in the sanctity of the ten com.mandments and observed each one. Especially the fifth. There are so many things I could say about my Dad 1 could fill all the pages of this paper, but that isn't necessary. If you knew him, you knew he was really a nice man. A decent person, an honeat dtizan with integrity, a mensch. He had a tremendous sense of humor, was a great storyteller and in his younger days, loved the practical joke. He was, as many have told me in the past week, a great guy. I already knew that. Circumstances often cause strange things to happen. In his last few weeks, I spent a lot of time alone with Dad. The reasons for this were bad but the results were good. I had always felt I had a loving relationship with him, but in those many hours when nobody else was around, we managed to log some really quality time. We hod conversations we had never had before. I'm grateful for those times. They are my own personal keepsakes. I know how lucky I was to have had my Dad until now. So few of my contemporaries are so privileged. Only knowing how he hated depending on others, how he hated not being completely "in control." how he hated being unable to do aa he plaaaad whan he plaaasd—only knowing all this helps me accept his absence from my Ufc. That it was, in his words "ba short" that he not endure any more indigniMy Dad, Jake Wine, died on Monday, June 6, qi without warning, without a sound. With dignity. I'U miss him terribly. • -E »
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