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Passage to Freedom reality for Russian By Morria Maline Omaha's Soviet Jewry chairman Shirley Goldstein has returned from a twoweek trip to Russia and France with a surprise for Omaha's Jewish community. Mrs. Goldstein, co<hairman with her husband, Leonard, and Miriam Simon, in the current Passage to Freedom campaign, has arranged for a 20-ye«r-old Russian girl to proceed with her o?ra passage to freedom—she's coming to Omaha. Inna Gumnitsky, the daughter in a family which has been refused permission to emigrate for 10 years, now will reside with the Gddsteins and hopefully attend college here. Arrangements were made when the girl's parents advised Mrs. Goldstein that they still were unable to leave, but that they wanted their daughter to go to the United SUtes. Mrs. Goldstein had visited Moscow, Leningrad, and ViUna (Lithuania), along with Lynn Singer, ezacutive director of the Ixmg Island, N.Y. Committee for Soviet Jewry and a past president of the Union of Councib for Soviet Jewry. "We visited with about 100 Refuseniks in 17 different apartments on this trip and the impression I got was totally different than when I visited the Soviet Union more than 10 years ago," Mrs. Goldstein said.

Inna Gumnitsky She said that she and Mrs. Singer were met by Refuseniks at every airport, that she rode in private autos with Refuseniks, that they talked almost freely in hotels and that she was not searched coming and going. "None of this would have been possible 10 years ago," Mrs. Goldstein added. That's the good news, she said, adding that there is plenty of bad news too. The new openness has brought with it increased anti-Semitism showing up in the lack of opportunity for Jews to attend a university, obtain good jobs or decent apartments, she pointed out. And those planning to leave for Israel or the United States are "deeply concerned" over the lack of available money to provide housing and resettlement costs when they emigrate. "They are allowed to take only $100 per person when they leave and now they hear about the lack of housing in Israel, the unwillingof the United States to

accept them as refugees, and the inability of American Jews to raise enough money to help them emigrate." Mrs. Goldstein said that many Refuseniks now are afraid to apply for permission to leave. "There is a terrible fear of pogroms because of the growing anti-Semitism, and there is a terrible fear of not being able to leave because money is not available." Mrs. Goldstein said that she was so taken by the strong desire of Inna's parents for their daughter's well-being that she offered to house the girl until the parents could make their own way. "She'll be going through Vienna and ultimately arrive at our home where she will be most welcome," Mrs. Goldstein said. "I only wish that our Omaha 'Passage to Freedom' campaign was doing better so that we could provide more help to those aching to leave the Soviet Union," Mrs. Goldstein added.

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Federation falis short of '89 fundraising goal By Joanie Jacolwon Federation public relations director Saranne Gitnick, president of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, announced the close of the 1989 UJ A/Federation Campaign with a total of $2,250,000 raised, $150,000 short of its $2.4 million goal. "The community does not perceive the need," said Mrs. Gitnick. "Things have been so good for so long that it could take several years before we actually feel the lack of service. "The Federation has probably the best fundraising staff and core of volunteer manpower that we've had in a decade," said Mrs. Gitnick. "There are those who think the Federation is an overstaffed bureaucracy. Not true. The Federation is a well-managed, well-run, professional and effective social service business in the Omaha community." Jay Lemer and Donald Yale, vice presidents of the Federation and 1989 Men's Division chairmen, expresaed their faith in the community and hope for the future. "We have a good, vibrant and strong Jewish community," said Mr. Yale. "I think, however, it has gotten somewhat complacent and spoiled with regard to the excellent programs and services produced from a relatively painless fundraising campaign. "The years of complacency are over," he con-

tinued. "The needs won't get less, and even if they stay the same, it will cost more to provide them. We are seeing an increased demand for programs which is a good sign, but we, as a community, are going to have to respond to the challenge of paying for them. "We need to look forward rather than bemoan the past," said Mr. Yale. "We are at a new beginning with a new director and a new decade of Jewish community life. We need to work closely together in a positive and motivated manner for^ a much brighter future." Mr. Lemer noted that "probably the most important thing that happened in the '89 campaign was the setting up of a campaign infrastructure which will ensure the continuity and forward planning of future campaigns," he said. "For the first time in a long time, some very qualified people will have plenty of leadtime to run a well-planned and well-organixad campaign. "I'm obviously disappointed we didn't reach our goal of $2.4 million," he added. "It means difficult decisions during the budgeting process... but the budget is based on dollars raised by the campaign, and that's exactly what we will have available to spend. "I think we have an excellent Federation that does an exceUoit job in and for this community," he continued. "It's our responsibility as Federation leadership to

earn the confidence and generate excitement among people in this conununity so they respond in a fashion that will allow us to grow. "They're out there for us," said Mr. Lemer. "There's no question there are generous people in this community. We just need to tell them our story in a more personal and meaningful way." Mrs. Gitnick expressed praise for all three campaign chairmen. "I want to compliment Jay and Don and Bobbie Epstein, women's division chairman, for assuming the leadership at a critical time and developing a line of successors and, especially to Bobbie, for successfully implementing new concepts in the Women's Campaign. "These people worked closely with Howard Bloom, our executive director. In addition to being a fine professional, Howard is- a real fundraiser whose talents and ideas continue to be innovative in Omaha."

China visit cancelled NEW YORK (JTA) The American Jewish Committee has canceled plans to send a (telegation to China in September. It acted to protest the Chinese government's use of force against student activists in Beijing on June 3 and its subsequent repression of the movement.

Kulakofsky family celebrates 100 years in Omaha By Morris Maline They came from Kulakee, an estate in Lithuania, which was two miles from Tinkovitch, four miles from Kapoulia, between Minsk and Pinsk—to Omaha in 1889. And then the family of Michael and Golds Kulakofsky grew and grew. " One-hundred years later, Miriam Miller of Livermore, Calif., and Ethelyn Simon of Piedmont, Calif., first cousins, thought it might be fun for the family to get together for a reunion. They contacted 89 family units on their mailing list and 143 family membsrs indicatod they would b« willing to 00010 to Omaha to celebrate the Kulakofsky presence in this dty for 100 years. With Barbara Frankel and Saranne Gitnick making the arrangeownts in Omaha, the Kulakofsky clan gatherad h«r« last weahanrt in tbeir first reunion since 1927. Alan Kulakobky was in charge of games, Gary Katehnan made the maps and Ruth Nogg took care of tlW tr«aaury. Tbay came from both coasts and a total of 13 stataa with ona manbar, Lynns Millar, PhD. formerly of Livermon, arriving trom Saosgal, Afrka, whara sha now raaidaa. Wkh tha Maniott Hotel aa thair base, the far-fhing family joined five of the graadchildran, oina graatgranidchildren and nine great-great graadchildren who maka Omaha thair boma. Of 21 first couaina, 20 wtea ahle (oattand. Mrs. Simon, mothar of Saranna Gitnick, said that oral historiaa wouM bo takao ol tha oouaina and that thsaa histoniaa and tha tamiiy traa now on diaptay at the Jowish CoBununity Cantor would ba given to tha Nebraska Jewiah Hiatocical Sodaty.

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Kulakofsky family (Continued from Page 1) In connection with the reunion, the NJHS mounted an exhibit of the Kulakofaliy family in the Corridor of History at the JCC. Major functions of the reunion included a Shabbat dinner at the Highland Country Club with Sidney Kay of San Francisco serving as master of ceremonies; Leonard Kulakofsky of Chicago reciting the Kiddush; Esther Kunick of Cleveland Ughting the candles, and Eudice Brandt of New York, the oldest grandchild, saying the Hamotzi. On Shabbat morning, Joseph Kulakofsky of Pennsylvania read the Torah portion at Beth El Synagogue. A family picnic at Ebnwood Park was followed by a Saturday night dinner at Temple Israel where the 90th birthday of Helen (Honey) Kulakofsky was celebrated. Mrs. Simon, who provided most of the information for this story, said Honey is the oldest living member of the family. The youngest is Laura Rebecca Blum Smith of Boston, approximately eight months. At the Temple Israel dinner, Beth Kulakofsky Smith of Kansas City was the master of ceremonies; Mrs. Simon and Miriam Miller spoke on the history of the family. In celebration of Honey's birthday, the family made a contribution to Temple Israel to further the program of spe^ cial education for children. Honey's parents, Sol and Betsy Levy, were members of Temple's founding congregation. The final major function was a bus tour of Omaha with a stop at Fisher Farm Cemetery where I.«izer Gershon and Bashe Kulakofsky, parents of Michael Kulakofsky, are buried.

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Rick and Jeannie Gilinsky announce the May 18 birth of a son, Devon Jordan. The couple also have a daughter. Sari, 13, and two sons, Eryk, 8, and Cory, 3.

Stuart and Judy Shkolnick announce the June 15 birth of a daughter, Jordan Rose. The couple also has a son, Jacob Charles.

Dan and Mary Beth Meiches announce the June j2 birth of a son, Adam Samuel. They also have a daughter, Sarah Anne, 2. Grandparents are Maurice and Rosalie Meiches and

Grandparents are Renee and Morris Handleman and Lois and Rodney Shkolnick. Great-grandmother is Ethel Reuben Greenblatt. CLIP AND SAVE •

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FRIDAY, JUNE 23 Laura Senft, Bat MItzvah, Beth El SATURDAY,JUNE 24 Laura Senft, Bat Mluvah, Beth El SUNDAY, JUNE 25 Prime Time Picnic, 4 p.m. MONDAY, JUNE 26 YES. 10 am Driver's Education, 4 p.m. JFS Board. 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY.JUNE 27 Bureau tor Aging Board, noon Driver's Education, 4 p.m. Federation Board, 7:30 p.m WEDNESDAY,JUNE 2S Hadassah Board. 9:30 am. B'nai B'rith Breadbreakwrs, noon. Howard Johruon't Driver's Education, 4 p.m THURSDAY, JUNE 2« Walk-in Drop-in, 10:30 a.m., Bath El Foundation Board. 4 p.m. , Final Driver's Education, 4 p.m

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BREADBREAKERS Lee Polikov, chief deputy in the Sarpy County sheriff's department, will speak on contraband in jail at the June 28 Breadbreakers meeting, according to Howard Epstein, Breadbreakers chairman for the month of June. Mr. Polikov's talk includes a slide show. Breadbreakers meets every Wednesday, noon, at Howard Johnson's, 72nd and GrOver, Cost for buffet lunch is $6; the community is invited.

HADASSAH The Hadassah Bargain Box will hold a clearance sale next to its store at 2913 Leavenworth in July, according to Corinne LeviB, coordinator. Volunteers are needed to help staff, mark, unpack and display clothing. Household items, clothing and any other new or clean used items are needed. Items may be brought to the store or call Corinne Levin, 391-6090; EUen Albin, 493-4331; or Carole Widman, 397-1498 for pickup.

By David Kantor BONN (JTA) - Israel's peace initiative is receiving a favorable, though cautious, reaction in'European capitals, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arena said here. Arena, who is here to discuss Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's plan for elections of Palestinian representatives in the administered territories, said the Europeans "are interested in hearing us, and they do display a sympathetic attitude."

The history of Jerusalem from inside a garrison By David Landau (Copyright 1989, Jewish TvJ«gtMphJc Agency. Inc.)

JERUSALEM - Remnants of a Roman flight of . stairs uncovered recently in the moat outside David's Tower in Jerusalem indicate that King Herod's Palace was probably at that site. Until then, little evidence had been found to substantiate Josephus' contemporary account. That stairway will soon be incorporated into the capital's new museum of the history of Jerusalem at the David's Tower-Citadel complex, adjacent to the Old City's Jaffa Gate. Opened in April, the museum spans 3,000 years of Jerusalem's history, dating back from the earliest reference to the Canaanite "ursalim" on the I4th century BCE Tel el-Amarna tablet. Each period of the city's story is housed in a separate room—the medieval halls of the Ottoman Garrison at the Citadel. And through the well-written concise texts and easily visible time charts, the visitor gets a clear feeling of the chronological sequence of Jerusalem's builders and invaders, expulsions and returns. In fact, clarity is the catchword for the museum's multimedia exhibits planned by a team headed by James Gardner, rL»«igiiar of the Diaspora Museum at Tel Aviv University. There are dioramas and videos, a hologram, lifeaiiod medals and tiny repicas but almost no authentic matarial Jerusatsm's Israel and Rothschild museums are bursting with archeoiogical artifact, whereas thisimussm aims to show lifs u it was during each stags fl the city's dsvslopmsat. The clothes and weapons of the tiny fifurss in the diorama of Sennacherib's sbortivf stags of Jsnisalsm in th4 ssvsnth sntury BCE wsrs painstakingly baasd on Assyrian rsliefs of the period, while ths diorama of ths grand Hsrodian stair«sy leading to ths Second Tsaapls cTosaly follows Ptoliaspr Binyamin Masar's sxcavstioos mads aftsr ths 19«7 war. TVsrs is sowisthing lot every visitor to this ouiMiun—from schoolchildrsa who ilritcht in the vivid dfarsmas, to tourisU

unfamiliar with the city's history. Even history buffs can learn from the details of the models and maps. Some of the exhibits employ clever visual tricks to illustrate the city's complicated history. A model of a Moslem seminary is transformed into a crusader convent and back again as two demure nuns slide onstage replacing a group of students of Islam, while the crescent moon over the building changes into a cross. The central feature in the early Islamic room, situated in the Ottoman mosque whose minaret graces the Old City's skyline, is a model of the golden-domed Dome of the Rock as it was when it was built in the seventh century. Moslem visitors are surprised to see that the walls were originally covered in gold and green mosaics. Today's blue tiles were only af-

fixed in the sixteenth century. The full two-hour tour of the museum, accompanied if one wants by a dramatic taped guide, takes in the exhibition halls, a climb to the top of Herod's Phasael Tower for a spectacular view over the Old City, and a walk along the Citadel's crenelated walls.

f1©^felh JENNIE EPSTEIN Graveside services for Jennie Epstein were held Tuesday at Fisher Farm Cemetery. She is survived by sons, Ira, Arnold and Allen (Tuffy); daughter, Gloria Hyman; brother, Gary Koester nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren.

Rabbi dies By GU Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA) Some 40,000 mourners attended the funeral here last week of Rabbi Yiuhak Yaacov Weiss, doyen of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community. Weiss, who died at the age of 88, presided over the Beth Din (religious court) of the ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit. Bom in Galicia, Poland, Weiss headed several yeshivot in that country before moving to Hungary, where he served as rabbi in the town of Grossvardin. Weiss immigrated to Israel 19 years ago from Manchester, England, where he had served as the city's rabbi.

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High school graduates look ahead to college By Keri Saltiman With a flip of mortarboards, much "Pomp and Circumstance," laughs, tears and memories, the high school graduates of 1989 are looking anxiously toward the future. "It was the best feeling receiving my diploma, knowing that 13 years of school were behind me," Burke graduate Barbie Feldman said. Feldman, in addition to Burke graduates Scott Muskin, Keri Saltzman and David Schwalb, graduated among the class' top 25 scholars as determined by grade point averages. Mu^dn received further recognition being named class salutatorian. These four students along with David Leibowitz and Rachel Shkohuck were recipients of various scholarships. Westside High School, Millard North High School and Central High School also graduated several scholarship winners. Westside'8 scholarship recipients included Alison KuUer, Suzanne Lipsey and Jonathan Silver.

Leaders killed By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - The conunander of a military unit of the pro-Syrian Palestine Liberation Front and two of his top aides were killed in the Israeli air force raid on terrorist bases near Beirut, Lebanese sources reported. The sources said the PLF chief, Khaled Mustafa Abdel Salim, and his lioitenants were in two camouflaged : buildings flattened by bombs. The buildings were used as air raid shelto^. The targets were located eight miles southeast of Beirut in territory controlled by Walid Jumblatt's Druse militia.

Millard North recipients were Dan Greenhill, Rob Millimet and Lisa Shulman. Central scholarahip recipients included Reggie Rennard. All graduates have now turned their focus towards future plans at various col" 1 can't wait for college," Feldman said. Millard North graduate Noah PoUak agreed with Feldman, commenting,"l am excited about the future." Graduates from each high School and their respective colleges follow. Burke High: Jeffrey Abramson, unable to contact; David Blatt, Indiana: Barbara Feldman, University of California at San Diego; Matt Goldberg, Creighton; Susan Gurwitch, University of Florida; Keri Juro, unable to contact; Kan Katskee, unable to contact; Laurence Kirshenbaum. University of Arizona; David Leibowitz, University of Arizona; Michael Levitan, Kansas University: Scott Muskin, Grinnell; Kenneth Polikov, Kansas University; Jennifer Rubin, UNL; Keri Saltzman, Bowdoin College; David Schwalb, Boston University; Trudi Seber, Columbia College; Rachel Shkolnick, Kansas Unive^ sity; Lisa Wisnia, UNL; David Yudelson, unable to contact; Jamie Zacharia, University of Arizona; Jeff Zacharia, Northern Arizona University. Westside High: Michelle Jaeger, Brandeis; Suzanne Joffe, Indiana; Lori Kooper, Pine Manner; Vadim Krasovitsky. University of Colorado at Boulder, Stephanie Krieger, Brandeis: Alison Kutler, Tufts: Suzanne Lipsey, unable to contact; Jonathan Silver, University of Pennsylvania: Alynne Solotorovsky, Kearney State: Tim Veitzer, Tulane.

Millard North High: Amy Cohen, unable to contact; Jon Blumenthal, unable to contact: Jon Fischer, UNO; Dan GreenhUl, Drake; Sharon Grunkin, unable to contact; Felicia Kirke, Northwest Missouri State: Rob Millimet, Michigan; Noah PoUak, Kansas University; Jason Rosenblatt, unable to be contacted: Lisa Shulman, Bradley. Central High: Seth Kotok, Wisconsin at Madison; Joanna Kosowski, Wisconsin at Madison: Alan Mor, Creighton; Reggie Rennard, Wisconsin at Madison. Editor's note: Those students not able to be contacted by the writer or identified in the story, are invited to send their names and college destinations directly to the Jewish Preea for inclusion in a follow-up story.

PLO abandons bid, wins cooperation By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - The Palestine Liberation Organization and its supporters were reported to have abandoned their bid for full membership of the "Palestinian state" in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. They will settle instead for a promise of future close cooperation between UNESCO and "Palestine," diplomatic sources here said. Omar Messallah, the PLO observer at UNESCO, claimed that "the principle" of admission "has been accepted, but a matter of timing and opportunity forces us to postpone the debate." The reported compromise reached here appears to end the PLO's recent campaign for admission, with full sovereign rights, into several U.N, agencies.

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Soldiers' children will attend camp PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Eighteen children whose fathers died serving in the Israeli Air Force are receiving a special gift this summer. The children will be spending four weeks in a Reform Jewish camp and a week sightseeing, as part of a project sponsored by the Joseph and Betty Harlam UAHC Camp Institute in Kunkletown, Pa., and the Israeli Air Force's Office of Bereaved Families. Nine girls and nine boys will participate, age 12 and 13. The Israeli air force^will provide the round-trip air transportation. Funds for camp and the sightseeing tour were collected from Camp Harlam families and area religious schools. "It's a double mitzvah, a

unique opportunity for these Isratji children—most of whom are unaffiliated with any synagogue—to get closer to Judaism and make new friends," said Lt. Colonel David Levine, head of the Office of Bereaved Families. The children will visit Philadelphia, Washington, New York and Hershey Park, Pa., accompanied by American youngsters the same age. "We hope this special camp experience will last these children a lifetime— that they will return to Israel with a myriad of memories and a long list of new friends," said Arie Gluck, director of Camp Harlam. He said that this summer's program may be the Hrst in a series of annual such visits.

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Reform rabbi urges religious pluralism By Morris Maline

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A serious question An editor of a Jewish newspaper frequently finds himself (or herself) on the defensive. The editor is called upon — practically with every issue — to justify the content of the publication. In most cases, the answer is simple and easy to come up with. We editors just say that we use arbitrary judgment in determining what is news and how much space the material should occupy. On rare occasions, the question persists even though the Simple answer is readily available. Such an occasion occurred just a week or so ago. A reader asked me to explain why so much space in the Omaha Jewish Press is devoted to the Holocaust, to anti-Semitic incidents and to trouble in Israel. There is no problem in explaining our judgment on antiSemitic incidents and trouble in Israel. These subjects are bf primary interest to news-gatherers and the wire service we subscribe to normally inputs this type of story into the computers. We, in turn, select from this coverage and try to provide ourreaders with news and information of interest. Publishing news and information about the Holocaust is Ibmewhat different. The issue becomes more complex when the editor realizes that the reader who brought up the lubject has personal knowledge of the effects of the Holo:aust and is well-educated in Jewish studies. My immediate reply to the reader had more to do with how ;he news and information reaches us rather than the guts >f the subject. In retrospect, I believe the reader asked me whether the mbject of the Holocaust should be minimized and the benefits of being Jewish maximized. In the days following the discussion with the reader, I paid more than normal attention to the material flowing into my iffice, comparing in my mind, how the flow differs from firhat cfune across my desk five or 10 years ago. There is no doubt, no hesitation in saying that information ibout the Holocaust has increased geometrically. Not a day passes without some new information coming on ine. Either an ex-Nazi is found or brought to justice, a new E' )ok is in the book store, or a University has set up a olocaust studies program. Then, there are tha memorials knd the museums — a constant flow. Information and interest in the Holocaust is expanding, lot decUning. There is a danger of apathy arid its up to the information iroviders to keep the Holocaust alive in our publications, rhe very fact that the reader questioned the volume of our pntent can be interpreted as saying that we are in the nstream of Jewish publications.

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World Jewry must concern itself with religious pluralism in Israel, a Reform rabbi asserted here last week. "There is a paradox in Israel today with notions of religious freedom and democracy on one hand while both Reform and Conservative Jews do not enjoy recognition on the other," said Rabbi Uri Regev. Rabbi Regev, director of Israel programs at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem, chairman of the Religious Action Center, and vice chairman of the Israel Council of Progressive Rabbis, visited Omaha last week to speak at Temple Israel. In an interview, Rabbi Regev said this paradox should be of concern to the general population in Israel because many suffer as a result of Orthodoxy's control over Jewish matters. He pointed out that 15,000 Ethiopian Jews in Israel cannot marry unless they undergo conversion, that the whole issue on the status of women places them in a second-class category, and that there is no alternative to Orthodox burial in Israel are some examples. Rabbi Regev added that while 80 per cent of the Israeli population is secular, they are not given a voice in Jewish matters. He said the Orthodox exert pressure to limit archaeological digs and autopsies, obtain millions of dollars from the government for education and limit access by Israelis to alternatives in religious practice. A Lt. Col. in the reserves. Rabbi Regev also charged that Yeshiva students who numbered 400 a year several years ago now number 20,000 and that the vast majority of the group are more interested in staying out of the army than in studying Torah. Another facet to this multi-faceted problem, said Rabbi Regev, is the role of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Israeli politics. He said the Lubavitchers are in the forefront pushing the

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As a society, we have all been forced by the complexities of life to be involved and concerned with a relatively narrow scope of issues. Our concerns for issues in our own community take up much of our time and energies. Between home, work and volunteer activities time has become a preciously guarded commodity. But sometimes events happen around us that force us to confront them. In the past days, violence on the streets of Omaha has become a mem conunon tragedy. Now, a fouryear-old innocent has been seriously injured while playing. These events may seem distant, in another reality far from our own. But they are around the comer, down the block. The effects are in our schools, among our children. The ravages of fear may be more acute in certain neighborhoods, but the lack of a safe community places us all under a shadow so large that we can't pretend it is absent. It is not a time for timidity. As citizens of the broader community, we must continue to participate in helping to shape solutions to problems. In tha face of these great challenges, fewer in the Jewish community are bothering to register to vote, fewer are participating in grass-roots political activism. These trends are dangerous. Jewish voices are heard because we have been committed to the best that partidpatcry democracy has to offer. We cannot, must not, abandon this tradition Join in your own way in the commitment to address difficult issues and participate in the shaping of a new day.

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Passage to Freedom By SUrley aad Buddy Goldstein ud MirUm Simon As our PASSAGE TO FREEDOM campaign draws to a close, we want to acknowledge those who have helped in this effort. The committee consisted of Jack E. Cohen, Bob Eisenberg, Irv Gendler, Carol Katzmsn, Gloria Kaslow, Leo Meyerson, Syd Osten, Susan Paley, Sol Parsow, Stuart Simon and Ernie Wintroub. With their help the drive to date has raised over (70,000. Our k>cal goU is $100,000. and we hope that goal will still be realized. We are truly grateful to the many people who contributed so g«ieroasly to aid in the resettlement of those Soviet Jews who are fortunate enough to obtain exit vises sod build new lives in the United States and Israel At the same time we know there are many more in :Our Jewish conununity who have neglected sending thair donations. And though our one-moath cash fmpaign will be coodudsd at the and ol June, it is not too late to partkt|>ate in tUs undertaking. Checks should be m«de out to PASSAGE TO FREEDOM, and sent to 333 South 132 Street, Omaha. NE. 68164.

Rabbi Aryeh Azriel (left) welcomes Rabbi Uri Regev to Temple Israel. The rabbis were students at Tel Aviv University at the same time.

changes in the Law of Return to exclude Reform and Conservative converts. "They are the leading spokesmen on illegitimacy for the Reform Movement," he added. According to Rabbi Regev, in the recent Israeli elections, Lubavitchers went door-ttMioor trying to solicit votes for the ultra-Orthodox and anti-Zionist Agudah Party. "They promised long life, male children, prosperity and the Rebbi's personal intervention if they would cast their vote for Agudah." Rabbi Regev said that Reform is conducting a "massive" outreach program with 11 community workers spread throughout the country offering programs with Jewish content, providing alternatives beyond the synagogue for Israelis. "It's unfortunate but there is a lack of willingness on the part of Conservatives to join with the Reform movement in anything but a limited way, " said Rabbi Regev. He said there is a Midrash quotation that speaks about people on a boat and one individual who starts to bore a hole under his seat. Others on the boat rush to him in fear and ask why he is boring a hole. The individual responds: "It's under my seat, what concern is it of you?" They, in turn, respond: "You might be boring the bole under your seat, but if the boat sinks, we sink with you. The lesson here, said Rabbi Regev, is that one cannot divorce the Jewish reality of the State of Israel with world Jewry.

The Jewish Press reserves the right to edit letters for reaaoa ol length or coateot. To the Editor The Junior League of Omaha is currently accepting project proposals from June 15 to August 1 from not-for-profit Omaha agencies. Requests can be made for volunteer and financial assistance for the program year May 1990-May 1991. The project should further the purpose of the Junior Leagye. Project proposals should address and advocate for the league's position statements on children, women, aging, arts and historic preservation, energy/environment, domestic violence, downtown advocacy, health, voluntarism and education. Project applications may be obtained by writing the Junior League of Omaha, 11915 Pierce Plaza, Omaha, NE 68144, Attn: Project Development. Deadline is August 1. Maureen Croochley Penny Parker Co-chairmen, Project Development To the Editor This is in regard to the interesting stories about Ruth by Rabbi Katzmao and Rabbi Kripke in the June 9 Jewish Praas. The story of Ruth has legal and archaeological implications that date back about 1000 years prior to the Biblical account. Both ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical law permitted tovirat|Ubrother-in-law| marriage. If a man died, a male r«i«Uve could marry the widow claiming the eeUta of the deceased as a dowry. The story of Ruth is one of many niimptos cited by archaaologisU, that the laraetitea lived in andant Maaofiotamia, prior to migrating to Canaan. (S. A. Thompson; The Bible and Archaeology). Uanj Lobsl SeiawM Writw Acta«.U8A To the Editor: The Tech High Class of 1»86 is having its Mth rwinioi^' on Aug. 16. Th« noon banquat will be bald at the Best West^ em iUgncy Wast, 90» So. 107 Ave. For iaformatioa or rassrvations, pltanc call FlorwKw Young. 666-3801. or Sylvia Ross. 663-1100.

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By Allison Kaplan NEW YORK (JTA) Jewish day-care centers, synagogues and a chapter of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith in Arizona were targets of potential bombings by a teenage member of the Arizona White Battalion Slunheads. In January, acting on a tip from local police, the Federal Bureau of Investigations searched the Phoenix home of 17-year-old Michael Bloom, who had been suspended from high school in November for distributing white-supremacist literature. "We seized an assortment of weapons and the components of over 30 pipe bombs," FBI director William Sessions said at a luncheon session of ADL's 76th annual meeting. "We also discovered a map of the area, with drdee drawn around over 30 poitential targets—including ^Hispanic churches, black benefit organizations, the Anti-Defamation League of;fioe, Jewiah synagogues and Jewish day-care centers,'' he .said. Joel Breshin, ADL regional director in Arizona, said in a telephone interview that the FBI informed him in January that his office

Shekel devalued By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA)-The Bank of Israel announced a !b.5 percent devaluation of the shekel, following a 1 percent devaluation just a week ago. The shekel now stands at 1.9527 to the dollar. ' The economic community was relieved, meanwhile, by a somewhat lower-than-expected inflation rate for May. The Central Bureau of Statistics announced that the consumer price index rose by 0.9 pwcent last month.

had been among Bloom's targets, but that the FBI had not yet taken action against Bloom. "I've been asking them ever since," said Breshin. "The answer I received from the FBI was that they were considering what action to take and that they would turn their case over to the county." Breshin said that Phoenix police had decided not to wait for the federal government to act and filed a complaint with the Maricope County Attorney's Office. The county attorney, he said, was considering conspiracy charges against Bloom. Breshin said that in addition to the pipe bombs, the FBI found brass knuckles, a mace with eight blades, two shotguns, a rifle and a

Miami Beach hotel to help sink yacht By Linda Brockman ne Miuai Jewish Ttibuae MIAMI (JTA) - A wellknown Miami Beach hotel has donated up to $10,000 to prevent a bungled ceremony commemorating the 1939 "Voyage of the Damned" from creating further waves. The Fcmtainebleau Hilton Hotel will contribute the sum to hoist and re-sink the S.S. Ostwind, Adolf Hitka-'s private yacht, which was ceremonially sunk in the wrong place during a June 4 ceremony here. The sinldng of the dilapidated craft was part of a ceremony marking the 50th amiiversary of the S.S. St. Louis, which was denied entry into Cuba and the United SUtes in 1939. Because no country accepted the boatload of 937 Jewish refugees, 75 percent of the

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roll of fuse cord in Bloom's home. He also bad white-supremacist literature stored there. Breshin said Bloom is still living in the Phoenix area, and while he seems to have broken with the Skinheads movement, he is still believed to be active in a neoNazi group. In the past year, there have been a rash of unexplained desecrations of synagogues and Jewish communal institutions in the Phoenix area, said Breshin. FBI director Sessions would not comment specifically on the Arizona case, but in his address to the ADL, he said the FBI had a "keen interest" in the activities of the Skinheads, because of the increasing number of violent racial incidents perpetrated by them.

passengers died in concentration camps. The event's organizing committee intended to dump the yacht's hull in 250 feet of water, where it would become an artificial reef. But the yacht was accidentally sunk in 30 feet of water, where it is damaging a living reef and endangering ships. The hull lies in an area where ships anchor, according to Ben Mostkoff, coordinator of the artificial reef program for the Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management. After the error was discovered, a barrage of blaming ensued. No one wanted to take responsibility. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over federal waters, maintained that Miami Beach City Commissioner Abe Resmck, who organized the event, should take responsibility. Leo Salom, general manager of the Fontainebleau, said that when Stephen Muss, the hotel's principal owner, heard of Resnick'a plight, he decided to lend a hand. "We are working with Resnick to make this symbolic act a happy one," Salom said. "Stephen Muss decided it was important as a community effort to help in the removal"

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British manufacturer admits complying with Arab boycott By Simon Rocker London Jewiah Chronicle LONDON (JTA) - British Aerospace, the United Kingdom's largest military contractor and exporter of manufactured goods, has admitted compliance with the Arab boycott of Israel. The admission came after an embarrassing mistake in which the company accidentally submitted a boycott request to an American supplier. The company's media relations manager, Allan Piper, told the Jewish Chronicle that, in the past, the firm had guaranteed Arab clients that no part of

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any ordered aircraft had been made in Israel. "Certeun Middle East countries insist on a clause in the contract certifying that none of the materials used in an aircraft is of Israeli orig^ or has any connection with Israel," he said. "It is not something we would put in an order for any components from America, because of its antiboycott ruling. We would do 80 if we were buying from a U.K. source," he said. In December, the company's military aircraft division, placed an order wwih a mere $330 with Machine Components Corp. in New York state for six toggle switches used on the joy stick pilots use to steer British Aerospace's Tornado jet fighter. Under the heading "Relations With Israel," the order sought a guarantee from the supplier that none of the parts was made in Israel, made by an Israeli company outside Israel or transported by an Israeli carrier. American companies can be fined for bowing to boycott requests and must report them to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Machine Components

Corp. notified the U.S. Buthotities of the British demand. Piper said the boycott clause on the order was a mistake, "because the young lady used the wrong form." British Aerospace, he said, apologized to the New York firm, submitted a fresh order and, as far as he knew, received the consignment of toggle switches. The switches could be used on Tornado aircraft bound for Saudi Arabia, which has purchased 16 billion worth of the planes from British Aerospace. But Piper said the Saudis had not insisted on any boycott compliance clause in the contract. Asked whether it is right for a major British company to con^dy with the boycott. Piper replied: "It's a difficult question. You have a customer and naturally you try to conform to his wishes. On occasions, political things come into it as well." A spokesman for the British Department of Trade and Industry said it advised British companies about the existence of the Arab boycott, but left it to them to decide for themselves whether to comply, based on their own commercial judgment.

By Howard Rosenberg WASHINGTON (JTA) The Senate has confirmed John Kelly to be assistant secretary of state for Neat Eastern and South Asian affairs. President Bush, meanwhile, announced that Richard Schifter would continue as assistant secretary of state for human rights and humanitarian affairs, retaining the post he has held since late 1985, when he succeeded Elliott Abrams. SHEAR DELIQHT BEAUTY SALOM Kelly, who was confirmed by voice vote June 14, be1505 South 119th Street gan work immediately, co550-2920 chairing a U.S.-Soviet meeting of Middle East experts haircuts $10.00 Color here. He co-chaired the (andup) meeting with Dennis Ross, H y\ who heads the department's r' ^ Perms $39.50 Styling $9.00 policy-planning staff and Ask for EVA or CAROl and receive 20% off who in May led a State I Department delegation to on your first visit iwith this coupon. Israel, Egypt and Jordan. Leading the Soviet side was Vladimir Polyakov, who heads the Soviet Foreign Ministry's Middle East department. State Department spokeswoman Margaret Tut?viler said recently she would have nothing to report about the meeting. Meanwhile, a letter signed by more than 230 members of the House of Representatives was sent to Baker. Similar to one sent a week before by 95 senators, the Pka^H- call letter calls on the secretary Howard Weiner or to show full support for Is; 4MS DOOOE STMXT A.Rich»rd(Dik)Wfiner OHAHA. NE ••112 rael's proposal for Palestinian elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

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Lincoln B'nai Jeshurun FRIDAY: Sabbath Evening Services, 7:30 p.m. ADULT EDUCATION Thursday, 7:30 p.ml CHOIR REHEARSAL Choir rehearsal will be held Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Lincoln Tifereth Israel FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m. Oneg Shabbat in honor of the Bar Mitzvah. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m. Kiddush luncheon in honor of the Bar Mitzvah. Torah study with the Rabbi immediately following lunch. BAR MITZVAH Daniel Zachary Berchenko, son of Cathy Kushner and David Lindholm, and Joseph Berchenko and DeAnn Hughee, will become a Bat Mit&vah Friday evening, Juife 23. and Saturday inoniing, June 24.

Council Bluffs B'nai Israel FRIDAY: Services are held the first and third Friday of each month, 7:30 p.m.

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Temple Israel FRIDAY: Services at 8:15 p.m. Cantor Harold Firestone, together with congregants, EUy Bleicher, Berta Meyers, Madeleine Firestone and Jeffre^ Taxman, will conduct the service. Catitor Firestone will give a sermon in song "Sound of the Silver Trumpets." The Oneg Shabbat following services will be sponsored by Sisterhood. SATURDAY: Services at 11:15 a.m.

Beth Israel Synagogue

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning service, 8:45 a.m. In the absence of Cantor Leo Fettman, the pulpit message will be delivered by Rick Katzman. The kiddush, which follows the service in the Social Hall, will be sponsored by Mrs. Albert Newman in observance of the Yahrzeit of Albert Newman. Mincha, 8:30 p.m. Mincha will be followed Blumkin Home by Ma-ariv, Shalosh Seudos and Havdalah. FRIDAY: Shalosh Seudos will be Evening service, 7 p.m. sponsored by Mr. and SATURDAY Mrs. Ben Heisler in' obMorning service, 9 a.m. servance of the Yahrzeits The residents and staff of Sonia Kuznit and Isaof the Rose Blumkin dore Heisler. Home invite the families, SUNDAY: volunteers and friends of Morning Minyanaire the residents to attend services in the Herbert service, 9 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Goldsten Chapel. Kiddush Services at 7 a.m. and follows services ort 8:30 p.m. Shabbat.

New radio show hosted by Israeli By Sara Juster The Omaha Jewish Community is in for a treat when 'A Taste of Home" preDiers on Sunday, July 2 on ilWR, 89,7 FM. The weeky radio show, which will air in Sundays from 11 a. m. to loon, will be hosted by naive Israeli Ronen Gilat. "A Taste of Home" will eature the music of Israel rom classical works perormed by the Israel Philuirmonic Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra 0 the latest folk/rock hits )y performers such as ShloDo Artzi and Gali Atari. Gilat, originally from KibUtz, Negba, served in the srael Defense Forces and tudied at Tel Aviv Univerity before coming to the fnited States. He has lived 1 Omaha for the last four Vars and serves as a projCt director for Industrial •abel Corporation. "A Taste of Home" was heated from Gilat's desire 1 educate the Omaha Jewfa community about the test Ivaaii music. "By the )t," he said, "I mean the •t decade or IS years. In town like Omaha, people fwi't familiar enough with » changes that have hapmad during the last few W* in Israel—that inudes political, econwnic, Kial and musical langes." Gilat uplained that pM>-

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Paraahat B'haalot'k&a The burdens of leadership Our Sidrah includes many for death! Complaints have different subjects. One of obviously been so steady them is the complaint of the and so unreasonable that he people to Moses that they has reached a breaking are beyond enduring any point. He can bear it no longer the boredom of their longer. He had taken up the life, unsettled, seemingly Lord's work under duress. without goal, and seemingly He had not sought it. Now with no end in sight. it had become so bitterly More specifically, they burdensome that he wanted complain that they are tired out, out at any cost, our of this manna, this stuff now, out completely. One is reminded of Jere- ' they have been given miraculously; but enough is miah's laments, centuries enough. "In Egypt, we had later, when he too, perforce meat and fish, and a wide a prophet, finds himself variety of vegetables. And hated and shimned. Is this what God's duties lead to? all for nothing too!" Further, one is reminded Obviously, looking back, they exaggerated. "Foor necessarily of the career in nothing" meant that all history of the people of Isthey had to do was break rael. If being the Lord's wittheir backs in arduous man- ness and a "Ught to the naual labor for the Pharaoh. tions" brings in its wake And the table fare of the exile and hatred and conslaves could not have been tempt and expulsion and and all that exciting—except in confiscation retrospect to bolster their massacre—and it doesi— complaint about the manna, then why do we continue? the menu of the wilderness. As Tevye put it, "Why don't You choose someone Moses is taken aback by else for a while?" all of this, and deeply disHere we are up against couraged. "Are all these one of theology's most people biologically my chil- knotty problems. Life in andren? Why am I responsible other world—whether only a for them? And where, in this cop-out or a reality—is no steaming wilderness, am I moral answer. For the needto get meat and fish for this less suffering in this world multitude? If this is what I is not compensated by it. have to do, what do You The toughest answer is want from me. Lord? Better that we shall have to live in You should kill me off than our integrity, come what that 1 should continue in may. "The righteous shall this misery!" live in his faithfulness," as The reader is shocked at a deeply troubled prophet this plea of Moses—a plea put it, long long ago.

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. 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. BAT MITZVAH Laura Senft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Senft, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Friday evening, June 23, and Saturday morning, June 24. INSTALLATION PARTY Installation of officers of the Board of Trustees and dessert dance will be held June 25, 7 p.m., at Beth El.

Offutt Air Base FRIDAY: Services in the Capehart Chapel every Friday at 8 p.m. An Oneg Shabbat follows the service.

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Ronen Gilat of Israel to boat new radio show oo KIWR. pie will hetu' meUow songs Philharmonic, Israel Sinand light rock on the show. fonietta, and a wide variety "There will be older songs, of Israeli musicians. but I will have some kind of The first program, which memory connected to the will air on Sunday, July 2, song. Maybe something from 11 a.m. to noon, inthat \ heard in my childhood cludes songs by Arik Einwhich related to a specific stein, Shalom Hanoch, Gali event. Atari, Dorit Reuveni, Shlo"Listeners won't hear mo Artzi, Chava Alberstein, hard rock, h^avy metal or Danny Robas, Vehudit RavHava Nagiia. They'll pretty itz, Matti Caspi and Aric much hear what's going on Sinai. in Israel right now and is ac"A Taste of Home" is cepted by a wide variety of produced in cooperation people." with the Jewish Cultural Because the program will Arts Council. For more inair pn KIWR, "The Claasi formation, contact the cal Station," classical music writer at 334-8200. or will also be haard. Works by KIWR at 325-3264. ilsraaU'compoaara Tsvi Avni. Joseph Kamiaaki. Paul B«n Haim and others will be To Your Health! psrionnad by the Israel

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Please Join us at services Saturday morning. July 1 at Beth El Synagogue to help us celebrate our 60th wedding anntuersary. .Kiddush luncheon JoUowing services. Dr. Jfilton and Ann Mcayolin

By Yossi Lempkowicz BRUSSELS (JTA)-Belgian Jews and non-Jews are maintaining a weekly vigil here to remind the Catholic Church of its failure to keep a pledge to relocate a Carmelite convent off the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp. Epch Wednesday afternoon, the protesters gather silently outside the residence of the papal nuncio, the Vatican's representative in Belgium, and wave banners demanding that the Church honor its promise. The agreement to relocate the nuns was signed by four European cardinals with world Jewish leaders in Geneva on Feb. 22,1987. It stipulated that the convent would be moved within two years. The nuns have ao far refused to leave and the Church seams incapable of influandnc thsm. The Jewish community, msanwhile, has axtsnded the devdline to July 22. IIM European Union of Jewiah Students sont a massage to Pops John Paul II last wssk raminding him that "There are only 50 days left" to have ths nuns removed from the grounds of Auschwitz.

MAZEL TOV The Grandchildren of Arthur Gendler are proud and honored to wish our Zadie a Happy 100th Birthday.

3 saved in mikvah JERUSALEM (JTA) Three Orthodox Jewish children who had lost consciousness and almost drowned while immersed in a mikvah were saved by a last-minute rescue effort on the part of hospital staff and volunteers of the Magen David Adom, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross. The incident occurred on the seventh day of Passover, when the father of an Orthodox Jewish family sent three of his sons, ages 8,10 and 12, to bathe in the ritual bath. When they did not return, he sent an older son to find them. The older son returned and toU his father that the mikvah appeared dosed. The father-himaelf a Magen David Adom voluntssr-forced his wsy into ths mikvah. whan hs found his three sons lying unconscious and apparently drowQsd. Ha bsgan mouth to mouth rssuadUUoB and sent ths older son for help. Two more volunteers

from the neighborhood soon arrived, as well as a Mobile Intensive Care Unit, which took them all to Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. That evening, doctors at Shaare Zedek decided that the boys needed to go to the Israeli navy's decompression chambers in Haifa. Two MDA ambulances took them to Haifa and after 24 hours of treatment there, they were pronounced recovered and released. ORDER OF AUSTRALIA NEW YORK (JTA)-Isi Leibler, vice preskient of the World Jewish Congress and head of the Australian Jewish Community, has been appointed an officer in the general diviakm of the Order of Australia.

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'Temptation' may be shown By GU Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA| The High Court of Justice ruled that the controversial J988 film "The Last Temptation of Christ" may be shown in Israel. The court thereby reversed the govarnment censor, who baimed the fihn from Israeli screens on grounds that it was offensive to Christians. ^ "The Last Temptation of Christ," a Universal Pictures film, was directed by Martin Scorsese and based Dn a novel by the late Greek jwriter Nikos Kazantzakis. '. By depicting the "human lide" of Jesus, including his sexuality, the film offended some Christians, though it ivas praised by others. : It enraged the religious ight in America. Although Scorsese and Kazantzakis (rere Roman and Greek Catholics respectively, the Ury of American fundamenAlists was manifested in ^oss anti-Semitism. Their targets were Lew Vasserman, chairman of MCA, an entertainment conglomerate that owns Universal Pictures, and Ither MCA officials who are (ewish. The Israeli censor's ban, rhich was supported by iltra-Orthodox Jews in Isriael, may have been inluenced by the reactions of iight-wing Christians in the Jnited States, many of hem enthusiastic supXirters of Israel. The High Court decided ifter seeing the film that inly "an extreme, brutal ind deep insult can justify 1 violation of the freedom of izpression."

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Florida Klansman declares boycott of kosher food By Michael Kellman NEW YORK (JTA) The Ku Klux Klan branch of Central Florida is organizing a boycott of a local snack food company that produces kosher products, accordmg to Arthur Teitelbaum, director of the Florida regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B nth. The organizer of the boy-

Students protest By Cathrine Gerson JERUSALEM (JTA) The World Union of Jewish Students has protested in strong terms against the "indiscriminate use of force by the Chinese government" on students in Beijing. WtlJS, which has , 200,000 members in 40 countries, announced that it sent the protest to Chinese embassies all over the world. According to various sources, as many as 7,000 students may have been killed on June 3, when the Chinese leadership sent troops and tanks to disperse students demonstratiiig for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The Chinese government maintains only 300 people were killed, most of them soldiers. The WUJS statement said the organization "condemns in the strongest terms the use of indiscriminate force by the Chinese government and military against unarmed Chinese students and others calling for democracy." HOME APPLIANCE SERVICE

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cott, Tony Baatanzio, is a convicted felon who established his own Klan and appointed himself grand dragon without the consent of any other members of the. Klan. He is, therefore, not even accepted by other Klansmea However, Bastanzio's talent is media manipulation. He released a statement to the press stating that people should boycott Tom's Foods, a local snack fpod company which has a kosher label, because the kosher labeling raises the cost and gives more money to the Jews. According to Teitelbaum, manufacturers claim that the kosher label actually, in some cases, lowers the cost

m®fe©@ Michael Bloch, son of Steven and Carol Block, has graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. Michael will attend the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He was a 1985 graduate of Omaha Westside High School. Steven Marer, son of Allen and Allison Marer of Palo Alto, Calif., and grandson of Omahans Jack and Anita Marer, graduated from Princeton University, cum laude. He will attend the University of CaliforniaDavis, School of Medicine.

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of production by giving the product a wider circulation. The boycott is not expected to be observed by many people. The last rally which Bastanzio organized only attracted six people. However, the ADL sees the possibility of a future problem with Bastanzio's activities. He has recently begun to recruit Skinhead youths into his organization and this has alarmed both the ADL and the local police, who are keeping a close eye on him, according to Teitel-baum.

Move by world labor body seen as blow to PLO's U.N. standing By Tamor Levy GENEVA (JTA) - Pinchas Eliav, Israel's ambassador to U.N. European headquarters here, believes the Palestine Liberation Organization's standing at the United Nations has just suffered a severe blow. "The legend that the PLO

Survivor sentenced By Cathrine Gerson JERUSALEM (JTA) The Jerusalem District Court sentenced Yisrael Yehezkeli, a 71-year-oId Holocaust survivor, to five years in jail, with two years suspended, for throwing acid in the face of the Israeli lawyer representing convicted war crinunal John (Ivan the Te^ rible) Demjonjuk.YehezkeU was convicted March 13 of aggravated assault for tossing the acid at chief defense attorney Yoram Sheftel, severely injxiring hb eye. The court also ordered Yehezkeli to pay Sheftel $6,000 (the biU of the Boston ophthalmologist who operated on his eye), plus $5,300 compensation for his suffering. After the sentencing, Yehezkeli said he felt no regret for his attack, expressing his astonishment that a Jew could defend a Nazi. Yehezkeli, who said he would appeal, could have received a 20-year sentence.

By Susan Bimbaum NEW YORK (JTA) The director of the Solomon Mikhoels Jewish cultural center in Moscow has apologized to the World Jewish Congress official who complained about mistreatment of a visiting Israeli scholar. Mikhail Gluz sent a letter to WJC vice president Isi Leibler explaining he had not meant to ostracize or inconvenience Profeasor Yaacov Roi, whose lecture at the center was almost.canceled. Gluz wrote, "I earnestly request to apologize to Yaacov Roi with this letter," adding that the center is ready to invite Roi "any time NAMED DIRECTOR which suits him to give • NEW YORK (JTA) course of lectures in the Mikhoels Center." ' Rabbi Joel Meyers of Gluz said the problem Washington has been arose because the center named executive director of "h»anwd about his (Roi't) in- the Robhioical Assembly. tefation at the last moaient'i He succeeds Rabbi Wolfe Kelman. notice." Roommate needed to •hare in houoe expenses. Mole or Female. For infornutioa call Ron Beber 493-6689. Leave measage.

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always gets its way at the United Nations is now shattered, " Eliav told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He was referring to the annual conference of the International Labor Organization here, where an Arabsponsored resolution condemning Israel for the alleged mistreatment of Palestinian workers was relegated to third place in the sequence of debate. The first two items, the environment and the international debt, are expected to take up the remaining

two weeks of the ILO conference, which closes on June 23. There is little chance that the Palestinian workers issue will reach the floor before then, ILO officials say. Eliav said this development indicates that the U.N. agency is fed up with politicization and that the Palestinian issue is passe. He noted that the United States helped Israel in this affair and that the Eastern bloc, led by the Soviet Union, did not press for debate on the Arab resolution.

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NEW YORK - The recent appeal by Pope John Paul II to the Israeli government to help prevent "the destruction with which I.«banon is being threatened" is a dramatic sign of the desperation that the Vatican feels over the plight of that decimated country, once the center of the Arab Christian presence in the Middle East. It is also a statement of the actual, de facto ongoing relationship between the Holy See and the sovereign State of Israel. I am still convinced—and this papal act underscores it—that once peace is established among Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, full diplomatic relations will follow among the Vatican, Israel and Jordan. Cardinal John O'Connor's recent visit to Lebanon, following full consultation with the pope and the Vatican, unfortunately became caught up in controversy as a result of an apparent contradiction in two primary objectives in Vatican foreign policy. Since the days of Pope Leo I (44(M61 C.E.), the Vatican has had a primary obligation to defend the interests of the Church and the security of Christians in the world. During the Middle Ages, the Vatican in-

herited the mantle of the Roman Empire and became a major instrument of arbitration between nations. Arbitration necessitated a posture of impartiality, if not neutrality. But Maronite Catholics in Lebanon and many Christians of conscience—particularly in the Western world—have b^n deeply upset that Lebanese Christians have been abandoned by the Western and Christian world to mayhem and massacre by Syria and extremist Moslems. I see Cardinal O'Coiuior's visit as a quiet, legitimate effort to signal Maronite Catholics that the Vatican and the Catholic world indeed care about their survival The pope's appeal to Israeli President Chaim Herzog, while couched in the language of impartiality, is a plea to help save the Christian remnant in Lebanon from total genocide. Herzog's response was sensitive and caring. He expressed Israel's horror over the current wave of Syrian bombardment of the Lebanese Christian population, and Israel's interest in helping establish "the stability, unity and independence of Lebanon." If this diplomatic pattern continues, Israel may yet help the Vatican save what is left of the Christian community in Lebanon.

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Frank diary authenticated By Andrew Silow Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) - A team of historians and forensic scientists working for the Dutch govemnient have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the diary of Anne Frank was indeed the work of the young author. The first fully authenticated version of Anne Frank's diary in English was published last week by Doubleday, on what would have been the Dutch girl's 60th birthday. The authenticated edition actually presents three diaries: two written by Frank during the two years her family spent in hiding in Amsterdam, and the most famous version, as edited by her father, Otto, after the

The Doubleday edition reveals that Anne rewrote her diary beginning in 1944, two years after her first entry, with an eye toward posterity and the heightened sensitivity of a much more mature writer. The new volume also restores portions of the diary omitted either by Anne, her father or the original Dutch publisher. Many of the passages are either unflattering to members of Anne's family or recount her sexual awakening. David Bamouw and Gerald van der Stroom, researchers at the Nether- First to complete foil seven years at Friedel Jewish Academy received congratulatioiui from guest speaker Dr. lands State Institute for Oliver Pollack, and diploma presenter Mordy Schwartz. War Documentation, spent Graduates are, from left, Joshua Gonaher, Jeremy Nichols five years editing "The Di- and Ehran Saltzman. ary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition." It appeared in a Dutch edition in isee.

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JDC reopens office BUDAPEST (JTA) The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee announced here that it has reopened a permanent office : in Hungary. The office began operating when the JDC received permission from Prime Minister Bruno Straub, who is president of the Council of Ministers. The office will alilow the agency, the overseas relief arm of the American Jewish community, to manage first-hand the variety of

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The first three students completing seven years at the Friedel Jewish Academy received their diplomas June 7, at the Jewish Community center. Receiving their diplomas were Jeremy Nichols, son of Barbara Nichols and Dennis Nichols; Evan Saltzman, son of Errol Saltzman and Lynne Saltzman; and Joshua Gousher, son of Rabbi Allan Gonsher and Rini Gonsher. Dr. Oliver PoUak, the main speaker for the occasion, congratulated the boys and reminded them of how fortunate they were to com-

Cancer fund NEW YORK (JTA) The Israel Cancer Research Fund, in an effort to combat the "brain drain" from Israel, is awarding a total of $1.7 million to 75 cancer researchers working at established Israeli institutions. Twenty Career Development Awards, , worth $137,500 over a period of five years, will be used by new researchers to establish themselves as independent scientists pursuing mature research projects.

plete their beginning school years in the same setting. Presenting the diplomas was Mordy Schwartz who graduated from the Academy after completing the fourth, fifth and sixth grades in the school. Each of the graduates expressed his feelings in a speech directed to the families, relatives, friends and faculty. Joshua .Gonsher mentioned many special aspects of the school. He emphasized, "At the Academy I received more attention than I might have in a larger school." Special memories of all his teachers were recalled by Evan Saltzman, who added, "I am sure going to miss the Friedel Jewish Academy." Friendships were featured in Jeremy Nichols' speech and he said, "I look to the future secure in the knowledge that the friendships I've made at the Friedel Jewish Academy will remain strong forever."

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nSsi®(o)Em HS/^Ibfti By Estelle Rosenberg Daniel Zachary Berchenko will become Bar Mitzvah at Tifereth Israel Synagogue June 23-24. He has just completed seventh grade at Pound Junior High School in Lincoln. His interests include role-playing games, rock music and in-

Daniel Berchenko creasing his Ninetndo profi; ciency. Daniel is the son and step'son of Cathy Kushner and David Lindholm and Joseph Berchenko and DeAnn Hughes. He is the grandson of Sheldon and Marcia Kushner of Lincoln and Jack and Elizabeth Ber-

cheinko of Atlanta, Ga. He is the great-grandson of Dorothy Kushner of Lincoln and Ed and Vera Tepperraan of Omaha. He has a sister, Sara Lindhobn, age three. Lincoln Chapter of Hadassah is having a garage sale June 25, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., in the Tifereth Israel parking lot. I Please bring saleable items to the synagogue between 7-9 a.m. that Sunday morning. Nili Twersky is in charge, with Leelo Sommerhauser taking care of advertising and Dahlia Morgensterm responsible for volunteers. Lea Weiss, Hadassah membership chairman, announced that Dr. Kathryn Eppel is the newest member. Mindy Mozer has been awarded the J. Hyde Sweet Memorial scholarship through the University of Nebraska-Lincohi College of Journalism. This scholarship will be

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eral C. Everett Koop typified the public support the magazine received for its stand, according to Hadassah. Tobacco companies accounted for about 20 percent of the magazine's advertising revenue in 1986. But new advertisers have restored the income lost from tobacco, according to advertising director Robert Kinney, and advertising income has increased 20 percent since the same period a year ago.

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By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - The Carmelite convent built at Auschwitz may soon be relocated, an action that would remove both a troubling symbol from the site of the former death camp By David Kantor and an obstacle in the path BONN (JTA) - DiscipUof smoother Catholic-Jewish nary proceedings were inrelations. itiated against a West BerThe convent will be relo- lin judge who destroyed a cated to a site some 550 plaque commemorating yards away from the former draft resisters during the camp perimeter, a chief Nazi era who died for their Catholic official involved in beliefs. trying to resolve the dilemEgbert Weiss last week ma reportedly has informed ruined a plaque dedicated to a Jewish leader here. the victims of the ReichTheo Klein, who headed skriegsgericht, a special the Jewish delegation that Nazi court that sent to their negotiated the original deaths some 600 youths agreement to move the con- who refused to be drafted to vent, said he was promised military service. Weiss said in a letter from Cardinal Al- his act was a spontaneous bert Decourtray of Lyon outbreak of anger, accordthat the move would take ing to Detlev Achhamer, a place before July 22, a dead- spokesman for the justice line suggested by the cardi- authorities in West Berlin. nal earlier this year. The judge apparently was "The cardinals have hon- upset because many of the ored their pledge," said victims were "simply Klein, who is immediate deserters," said Achhamer. past president of CRIF, the Council of Jewish Institutions in France.

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By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - Isradi officials here said they were "more or less satisfied" that efforts to have a "state of Palestine" admitted to the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization have suffered a major setback, even though a prolonged legal and diplomatic battle seems likely. UNESCO's 51-member executive council announced, after studying a proposal by seven Ai^b and

African nations, that it would place a request for "Palestine's" admission on the agenda of UNESCO's General Conference. The General Conference, the agency's equivalent of the U.N. General Assembly, will convene in October.

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Blacl( rap singer fired Israel expresses hope over anti-Semitic remarl(s for better relations over 76 record distribution By Allison Kaplan

NEW YORK (JTA) - A member of the popular rap group Public Enemy has been fired after making antiSemitic remarks in a newspaper interview. •The member, Professor Griff, was removed fit>m the group "because of his reIsraeli officials promptly marks and beliefs," said pointed out that the Execu- Russell Simmons, president tive Council made no refer- of Def Jam Records, Public ence to a "state of Pales- Enemy's record company. tine," only to "Palestine," a Griff told The Washingnon-existent entity. ton TImea last month that he believed "the Jews were wicked," and that he could prove it. PARIS (JTA) - A Likud "They (the Jews) have a member and a Labor memhistory of killing black ber of the Knesset will atmen," Griff, who is black, By GU Sedan tend a meeting in StrasJERUSALEM (JTA) - said in The Times interview, bourg, France, where officials of the Palestine Libei^ An offer of jobs convinced adding, "the Jews can come ation Organization will be about 100 Soviet Jewish against me. They can send emigrants waiting for U.S. the IRS after me. present. Uzi Landau of Likud and visas in Italy to come to Is- They can send their faggot Shevah Weiss of the Labor rael instead, the Jewish little hit men. I mean, that Party were invited to a two- Agency for Israel reported. dpn't move me. Listen, they It said seven of them are have a history of doing day conference under the auspices of the Council of already in the country and this." "He (Griff) is a stone-cold Europe's political commis- 18 more were due to arrive racist," said Leo Cohen, this week from Rome. The sion. It will be attended by rest were expected to arrive chief operating officer of Rush, a management comKhaled al-Hassan, a top ad- shortly. Their change of plans was pany. "He's dangerous with viser to PLO leader Yasir the first tangible result of a those opinions, but he Arafat. joint project by the Israel doesn't speak for Public Manufacturers Association Enemy." Cohen said that Griff was and the Jewish Agency's Department of Immigration fired by the other group members, who "do not asand Absorption. pire to anti-Semitic feelings." Griff backed up his comments in The Times interBy Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Un- view with references to clasemployment in Israel rose sic anti-Semitic texts which to 8.3 percent of the work promote the idea of a worldforce during the first quar- wide Jewish conspiracy, inter of this year, a 46 percent cluding Henry Ford's "The than just increase over the same peri- International Jew." Griff said he obtained his od in 1988, the Central BuBed and Breakfast reau of Statistics reported. knowledge of Jewish history A very special pUcs for The biu«au said an aver- from the Nation of Islam's your receptions, meetingti, age of 124,000 people were historical research departdinners, both private and looking for work in the ment. buaineas. Griff, like the other memthree-month period ending ... all in the elegance bers of Public Enemy, beand grandeur of Omaha's March 31. bygone days. More have joined the longs to the Nation of Isranks of the unemployed in lam, the movement founded recent weeks, because large by Louis Farrakhan, who employers are dismissing has been criticized for his 140 North 39th Street workers with the onset of an anti-Semitic remarks. Omaha, NE 68131 "The Jews have their economic recession. hands right around (President) Bush's throat," Griff said in the May 22 interview. "He won't make the wrong move. Yoii understand what I 'm saying? The Jews have a grip on America." Canttvu'.w Cui\inv Copies of the newspaper LUNCH & DINNER article quickly passed Wc accept All MaOor Credit Cards. through tbB hands of Je?n8h Also Owcks leaders, and were reprinted Sh:R\'INC YOUR hUORin: in other newspapers. CCKKTMIS Mordachai Levy, head of 6455 CENTER, OMAHA the Jewiah Defense OrganiMON. THRU SAT. Hl.hMTY Oh tRht. 11 AM TO 10:30 PM ^i^^HB HRKIM, zation, said he had copied SUNDAY - HOLIDAYS ^*—^^ ACTOSS tBOM the Washington 'HmM in12 N(K)N TO 9:30 PM ^^IHBB A«-SA«-iEN terview and had mailed it to CUKED TUESDAYS

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By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel's official reaction to the death of Ayatolloh Ruhdlah Khomeini was an expression of hope that relations between Israel and Iran will improve. Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader and main political force since the overthrow of the Shah 10 years ago, died Saturday at the age of 89. A Shiite Moslem re^ous extremist, he was a bitter foe of the Western world and all its ways, but his most savage hatred seemed to be reserved for Israel. The Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that "Israel can only hope that the future leadership of Iran will adopt a more positive position on the issue of human rights and its attitudes toward the Western world and Israel." Prime Minister Yitzhak

Shamir's media adviser, Avi Pazner, said he hoped that Khomeini's successor would adopt "a more moderate line, more in keeping with the friendship that existed between the Iranian and Jewish people." Education Minister Yitzhak Navon said that he believes the death of the ayatoUah was a gift from heaven. "I think that the element that is vehemently anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, anti-everything was taken up from us to heaven. This may introduce a chance of changes. I am afraid it can't be worse than it was." Uri Lubrani, Israel's former ambassador to Teheran, and now Israel's coordinator for Lebanon, said in a radio interview that Israel must look for ways to talk with the post-Khomeini . leadership.

Quayle urges Israel to halt settlements By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Vice President Dan Quayle, in his first interview with an Israeli newspaper, made clear that Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank seriously troubles the Bush administration. He strongly urged Israel to end it. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with Jerusalem Post Washington correspondent Wolf Blitzer were pubUshed last week with the full interview scheduled for next week. The excerpts, headlined "Don't Even Talk About New West Bank Settlements," quoted Quayle as saying that Israeli leaders have told him that the an-

nouncement of new settlements did not necessarily mean they would actually be built. "These announcements of new settlements are politicMly problematic, even if they don't go through," the vice president said. "It's the aimouncement of th6m" that counts, Quayle said. "What it does is that it's just a very political problem." It is "something that I wish there was a sensitivity about," he added. He repeatedly stressed his strong support for Israel Blitzer reported that Quayle's aides told him that the vice president appealed for an end to settlement activity in private meetings.

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Kavich photography featured at gallery Photography by Larry Kavich will be featured at the Photographers' Gallery, Inc., 4831 Dodge Street. June 24 through July 21. The exhibit includes a collection of urban portraiture taken in New York City that, says Mr. Kavich, "captures the essence of life on the street as I saw it. I'm interested in the element of spontaneity—that instant «f catching a person unaware or a scene when it's happening." A photographer for 25 years, his work has appeared in brochures for The Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha and the Jewish Commtmity Center. His first public exhibit

was at the Adam Whitney Gallery in Countryside Village last October, and recently, he photographed Chip Davis and the Mannheim Steamroller during the Yellowstone Concert at the Omaha Civic Auditorium. Mr. Kavich is president of All Makes Office Equipment Co.

Cameraman shot By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA) An Israeli cameraman for ABC News, Shlomo Franko, was injured in the eye by a rubber bullet during a skirmish between Israel Defense Force soldiers and Palestinian youths.

By Susan Birnbaum NEW YORK (JTA) West German President Richard von Weizsacker called on Western democracies to "put to the test" agreements signed by the Soviet Union and its satellite nations. The treaties protect religious believers and communities against "civil, political, economic, social and cultural discrimination." Von Weizsacker spoke at a luncheon where he received the annual award of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, an ecumenical group of Christian and Jewish clergy and lay leaders that works for religious freedom and human rights throughout the world. Von Weizsacker was also honored in the evening, when he was presented with the American Jewish Committee's American Liberties Medallion, for his contribution to German-American Jewish understanding. He praised AJCommittee for its work in promoting an "honest though not easy dialogue between Jewish Americans and Germans," and noted that GermanIsraeli relations have developed into a "close-knit political, economic, cultural and intellectual fabric." Addressing the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, von Weizsacker cited the Concluding Document of the

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe—the Helsinki Commission— which called for "the protection of minorities and freedom of movement." It is now the turn of Westem democracies to respond, he said. "We must take in those who are allowed to leave their countries. We cannot demand human rights for these people and then refuse to help them."

Philharmonic to play in USSR By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV, June 20 (JTA) - The internationally renowned Israel Philharmonic Orchestra will perform for the first time in the Soviet Union next year, it was announced here. The IPO will give several concerts in Moscow and Leningrad in the autumn of 1990, under an agreement just reached between the IPO and the official Soviet concert and cultural management center in Moscow. IPO sources said the concert programs would definitely include Israeli works. RABBI SASSO ELECTED LANCASTER, Pa. (JTA) — Rabbi Sandy Sasso of Philadelphia was elected president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.

Burt Lancaster speaks about Leon Klinghoffer By Rlith E. Gruber ROME (JTA) - Burt Lancaster, the American actor who plays Leon Klinghoffer in a film about the Achille Lauro hijacking, told reporters here how he researched the role. "An actor, when ..interpreting a specific role, must construct within himself, in his imagination, the character and attitudes of the person he is playing," Lancaster said. "For me, it was a challenge to interpret Leon Klinghoffer." Lancaster spoke at Rome's Cinecitta studios, where the SIO million madefpr-television movie is being completed. He said he read, observed and, most important,.questioned the daughters of the late Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound American Jew who was shot to death and thrown overboard by one of the terrorists who seized the Italian cruise ship nearly four years ago. "I even consulted an orthopedist," said Lancaster, indicating that he wanted to learn how best to portray a man who had suffered a crippling stroke. The movie is an international production, financed jointly by a state-run Italian television channel, French television, a West German film company and the Trib-

une Network of the United States. Much of the filming was done aboard the Achille Lauro, an indestructible vessel since she was completed as the Dutch Willem Roos just before the Nazi invasion of Holland 49 years ago. She is still commanded by the same captain and has much the same crew that was aboard on Oct. 7,1985, when terrorists took over the ship, then at anchor in Egyptian waters. According to film director Alberto Negrin, some of the crew broke down in tears when they relived the experience for the cameras. In addition to Lancaster, the film stars Eva Marie Saint and Dominique Sanda.

Profits up NEW YORK (JTA) - El Al Israel Airlines reported its third consecutive net annual profit, totaling $18.8 million for fiscal 1988, despite initial projections of a loss due to a 20 percent decline in tourism. El Al carried 1.5 million passengers in fiscal '88, a decrease of 9 percent from fiscal 1987, and its on-time performance reached 89 percent.

*JUChaim...To Life The Jewish Federation of Omaha extends its

THANKS to all Division Leaders, Captains and Workers of the 1989 U] A/Federation Campaign. These people have gradously served their Omaha Jew^ish community:

Men's Division Al Abramson Mike Abramson Alt Adler Jeff Aizenberg KenBassik Joe BchnonI MarkBdmont Gary Bernstein Gerald Benolein Tom Bonslein ludoie Bogdanoff Spencer Brookstein Jon Brown Rich Canfleld Shelly Cohen CaryColldt Justin Cooper Ron Cooper Don Dandy Jerry Dann Leonard DePorle Richard Diamond

Sun Edelstein Scott Eiserunan Randy Endelman Bob Epstein Howard Epstein Paul Epstein Ron Epstein Steve Epstein Mike Ennan Tom Fellman Irving Forbes Albert Fox Andy Fox Bob Freeman MarshaU Fried David Friedland Bruce Friedlander Howard Friedman Uoyd Friedman Sandy Friedman Scott Friedman

Sol Friednun MikeCallner Donald Gerber Larry Cilinsky Beniiett Cinsburg Bill Ginsburg Bob Cinsburg Max Civot DickGUzer Pete Godwin Sherman Gotbitz DonGoklstein Ray Goldsldn Larry Gotdstroai BobCdMoian Jerry Qidman Nelson Cordman Ron Gordon Gary Green Barton Gieenberg Carl Greenberg

Martin Katz Maurice Katz Mike Katzman RickKalzman Larry Kelberg CalKirahen Joe Kirshenbaum Kevee Kirshenbaum Tom Kirshenbaum Jerry Kohll Sam Kohn Howard Kooper Norman Komey Barry Kricsleld Jerry Krupinaky BobKully Marshall Kushner Ben Kutler Marty Lehr John Lehr Jay Lemer

Don Greenberg Art Grossman Charles Guss Bruce Gutnik YaleHalperin Jerry Hoberman Bruoe Harwich Aaron Hostyk PhOIlkin David Jaoobson Richard Jacobson Tom Jaeger Gary Javitch Larry Josephson Harvey Josin Marcel Kahn Stewart Kahn Gary Kaplan Howard Kapilan Myron Kaplan Sam Kaplan Howard Kaslow

Irving Levich Leonard Lewis Marahall Lewis Buzz Malaahock Larry Malashock Robert Malashock Sol Mann ToddManvitz Sonny Marko Brtxx Meyers Jon Meyers OtuckMonasee Ira Nathan Bob Newman Murray Newnun HarUn Noddle Jay Noddle Alan Nogg Steve Nogg Gary Ostrow Gary Parilman

MUton Parker JodPaHon Steve Penner JcffPUtt Marvin PoUkov OUverPoUak Rubin Ratner Steve Redler Gene Rich Phil Rich Yale Richards Steve Ridies BeoRlfkin GaryRifkin Andy Robinson PaulRoaen WUUam Rosen Sam Rosenstein Alvin Ross Steve Rothcnberg Steve Saylan

George Schaplro Harley Schrager Stan Schrier Nathan Schwalb Maurice Schwartz TedSeldin Norman Sheldon Mike Sherman JimShneider Martin Shukert PaulShyken Sam Shyken Barry Siff Steve Silver Alan Simon Fred Simon Steve Simon Ron Simons Mark Singer David Slosburg DickSkraburg

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Stanley Slosburg Jeff Smedlund Hetuy Stern AlanStoUer Maynard Tatelman Carl Tlchauer Mort Trachtenbarg Howard Vann Norm Vdlzer John Waldbaum Jerry Wasserman Richard Weil] ^tan Widman David Winlroub Leon Winlroub Martin Wolf Donald Yale Harokl Zalrin Richard Zachaha Steve Zaikin Barry Zoob Eugene Zwdback „

Women's Division Charlotte Adler EUenAlUn Evelyn Alpeiln Margie AJpeison Ruth Allsuler Sally Baienbaum Sandra Bdgrade Shittey Btfinan Joui BoMtein BeaaBrodkey RacBtodkcy Judy Brodaky DcbUBhwrn SuMnBudwig ArlcDeCoiien Marda Cohen Rulh Cohen

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Fanny Cununers Marlenc Hcchtman Adde Homstdn, Nancy HomaMn Judy Josephsan I^I^Kagan Benilci Kaplan Carol Kalxman Julc« Kalzman AndlKavidi Kale Kirdianbaurn MaxiiM Klnhcnbaum DeneKMn LoiaKneeter Dcria Koom AngtoKitogif

Jane Kulakohky LealieKuUy Toni Kulcher SuaieUndow Barbara Ladiinaky BethLaoh Joan Lehr BobULdbowi^ Bert Lewis Uaa Lewis MargcUneoln Thafana Uatgarten Diane Malaahock Jody Malaahock Lbida Marm JoMarHn Rosalie Mdches

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