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Vol. LXVII No. 5 Omaha, Nabr.

I The future of Jewish Omaha

m Are we mortgaging our future? By Howard Bloom Executive director Jewish Federation of Omaha Editor's Note: This is the tliird in a series of articles outlining the financial crunch facing the Jewish community of Omaha over the next few years and explaihing what must be done to secure the continuing enjoyment of our Jewish programs and services. Since we have cdotinu» ously maintained that we need additional dollars to offset inflation but our campaign has been flat, how have we managed to sustain the quality of services that we have? Are we really on the verge of a crisis or is this constant reference to more dollars and increased giving just another fund-raising gimmick? Let's look at the facts— just the facts. Last year, in 1989, we balance'1 our budget in tlM follewiag nty*. FoKOMh we altared the way we calculate the Israel portion of our allocation. We reduced the allocation to Israel by about $89,000. Furthermore, we reduced by $60,000 what we ought to have allocated to special funds we maintain to provide upkeep for campus assets and equipment. This means we gambled. We gambled that we will not face any major

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Maimonides Society will hear Slepak

By Joanie Jacobson Federation public relations director capital equipment repairs cut much needed service, The first meeting of the and maintenance costs for we are only loading the rethe next year. This is bet- sponsibility for reatoring Maimonides Society of ting that we can get by in this service and repairing Omaha will be held on the short run with the and replacing our campus Sunday, Nov. 12, at the minimum and saddling fu- assets on to the backs of Jewish Community Centure generations with the our children. Is this really ter, 10 a.m. to noon. Feareal costs when they in- fair? Is it right to add to tured speakers will be Dr. the burden they will face? Alexander Slepak, origievitably crop up. What about 1988? How Don't good parents try to nally from Moscow, did we balance our budg- plan to reduce the burden USSR; and Dr. Leonard et? Well, one of the things for their children? Should Schultz, of Tucson, Ariz. we did was make use of the we be continuing to mort- A complimentary brunch prior years' surplus funds gage our children's future? will be served. Chairmen of the Sodety True, the endowment inin the amount of $176,000. These dollars were not in- come we have does provide are physidans Dr. Ronald vested for the future but ua with some relief in the CoofMr, Dr. GerakI Simons rather were spent to pay short nuL However, if we and Dr. Eugene Zwetback, entirely use up whatever and dentist. Dr. Norman for current expenses. It would not be an exag- interest income we receive, Sheldon. Named for the great geration to say that this we are not building for shortsighted approach has tomorrow. We are not rein- Jewish physician and not solved the problem of vesting to plan for tomor- scholar. Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon, the Maimonides row's enwrgcodea. balandng our budget. If we are to protect our Sodety, a national organiInatead, it has bdit into our communal budfet a coUactive conunonal fu- zation, wris establiahed in steady need for additkaal ture, we must realize that Omaha by the Jewiah Feddollars which have not, in the Federation Campaign eration to foster a sense of the main, been forthcom- must continue to be the common purpoee and coming in the form of in- paramount communal mitment among health OMaed campaign revenue. campaign if we are to care profeaaionals in the In onkr to baiaace our maintain organiied Jewish dty to work for the hettarbudfet when campaigaa lifeia Omaha. Ptaaaejon- ment of Jews everywhere. "We've organized to are flat, w^wt ktk with aidar tkto aa we move into the following three alter the 1990 Campaign year. heighten our Jewish When your volunteer awarenees," said Dr. Sinatives: Deithtt borrow from fund balances neces- worker calls with your mons. "So many of us simsary to maintain our as- card.ipleaae consider a ply do not understand the sets, 2) cut dollars to Is- 15% mctease in your gift needs of our Jewiah comrael, or 3) reduce local 80 we will no longer have munity, and we need to programming. These are to continue to mortgage take the time to find out." Dr. Kweiback explained the only options we have if our future and that of our that invitations were sent we resist increasing our children. We will then be gifts. If we continue to re- able to manage the excel- to Omaha Jewish health duce dollars for main- lence of services we have care professionals and tenance of our campus or as well as to plan for un- their spouses. "The response has been excelif we are forced finally to met future needs. lent," he reported. "We're offering a challenging program and chance to do something poaitive for our Jewish community. We k)ok forward to strong par-

Community honors newcomers with Nov. 5 welcome brunch

By Diane Axler Baum Newcomer Comathtee Manbar Newcomers who have larrived in Omaha within the past year are being invited to become acquainted and to iociaiize at a branch in thatr honor Nov. 5, 10 a-nu-BooB. at tha lUdgaflakl home of Peter and J«Dy^y Gordon. Hatting the "Wakoma to Onaha Branch" ia the Newcomtra Committee of the Jewiah Fodaratioa of Omaha chaired by Suaie Silvannaa "The committee has found that a hoBM aattiflg makaa for the moat comfortable and caaual evao^,' and I'm phaaad that our houae will ba the aite of this important function," said Mra. Gordoa "PMarandlarehMking forward to vi mmmttty larga group bM baewM o< tha It taftax

tUa tpring and auanMr Imn Si Louia aa part of the relocation of ConAgra'a troaan fooda division. In additioa to moktiag •achothar, nawcooMn will have an opportunity t6 sodaUM 1^ marnbars of tba conmiktaa. 'Many el our mambara settled b Omaha witUn to the past dacwia, and tkay aha added. Ajnosgotkara, twr"*'—' bow much it aMy Btw farnMai anived msmt to th«n to recaive

Dr. Alexander Slepak

the people's only link to Judaism," he said. "The mystery of our people is that they can't break ua." Dr. Slepak attended high school in Moscow, USSR; undergraduate school at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and graduate school at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. "Dr. Slepak is noted to be an intelligent and moving speaker," said Dr. Sheldon. "Hearing about his experisBces, the plight of his parents, life fw Jews in the Soviet Union, his coming to America to become a physidan—all of it sounds fascinating. It should be an exdting first program." Dr. Schultz is an acquaintance of Dr. Cooper. "Leonard was one of the founders of the Maimonidee Chaptw in Tucson," Dr. Cooper explained, "and is currently vice-preaident of the Midwest region of the Maimonides Sodety. He'U be able to provide some background and suggest possibihtiee for the future of the Society here in Omaha.

ticipation from the health care community." Dr. Slepak, whose famed, Russian parents became a symbol for freedom of Soviet Jews around the world, left Russia in 1977. He is currently serving hia residency in general medidne at Episcopal Hospital in New York City, and next year, will work in radiok)gy at Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia. In additkni to a career in medidne. Dr. Slepak has been invited by a number of reg^Bal and natiooid or ganizations to 8|>eak on sudi issues as Soviet Jewry, human rights and Soviet-American relations. "Soviet Jewry is a direct "Any Jewish, Omahathreat to our safety as area health care profesJews in America," he told sional and his or her an audience at the UJA/ spouse is welcome to atMidwest Women's Divitend the Nov. 12 meetsion Leadership Confering," added Dr. Cooper. ence in Chicago. "If you "We hope that anyone turn your eyes away from who did not receive an inus for even a moment, we vitation will contact the will cease to exiat. The Federation office and sadneas, the crime ia not nuke a reaarvation." the cnuity of the (^>preaFor infonnation, call sor, but the indifference of Charhe Bpatain. Federathe bystander. "VisiU to the Soviet Un- tion aaaociate director, ion by American Jews are 334-8200. Ext. 293.

Omahans join in pro-choice rally on steps of Capitol in Lincoln

wakoma," said Mra. Silvannan. "AH of us are sincare in our dsaire to cootinua a poaitive, on-going relatkmr ahip with Jewiah indivtduala and familiOi new to OnMb*. In soma dtiaa. a panw baa (o grow up than to fsal at baa» hut tkat'anottruaofOMbn." "Newcomera enrich their ndopted dty," aba (Cintlw>iii on Page »» •KJSHff:FEM6!B?fi!l,D. •.-

"On Nov. 12, in Uncob, Washingtfo^ D.C., and in state capjUla throughout the country, an unprecedented number of Ameri- Cans will demonstrate their suppnrt for a woman's ri^bt to reproductive choice," said Anne Broder, National Council of Jewiah Womao's rwresentative to the ProChoice Coalition. "MobiUae for Women's Lives," the procboioe raly at 2 p.m. on the stapa of the Lincoln State Capitol waa organiaad on • national Wval foUowing the Supcame Court's ruling in Wabotar v. Raprodnctive Haakh Sirvicea. wbkh gave alate Malnkwaa tb* powar to remkk tbortioB righta. , AciuirdiuK to Mrs. Bro-

der, "In addition to protesting the Supreme Court's dedaion, we will ako be servin(^|)otKe to our elected npreasatattvea in Waahington and in the sUtabouaaa that the prochoico majority is nnitod in ite reaoive to kaap abor tion aafe and lagal lor tU wonso, ngvdisaa of their ~ financial drcumatancea." As Rabbi Aryak Aarial of Talqjila laraal said, "If wa aa 4«w« are not going our Capitol under tbaoannar of abortion ridbta, who is going toVMurch on our behalf nr OMT rights." Sixtaan-jmar-oM J««b Cooper wil be attMKiiNi tbi viltft bKauaa. aa kit aokl. "kisagwdwoyiM mo to aupsort the procboieaaw«Mnt.WhSbar vou baUeva that abor-

tion ia right or that abortion ia wrong, you can still be pnKhoice. No one has the right to make that private, religious choice for another person." "You can make your ^oice heard by joining ua at tha rally." sUted Mra. Broder. NatkNul Council of Jewish Woman ia promoting support by «rganUng bia tranaportntion toljncoln. AM<l«aibMH)oNMnn^ tioB eounon can be found on tha flyer sncbaod In thia i|aue of tbo J«w^b Toonls Israel StalarboodaWiB'^ Woman wdtbaAPUC|K;at«aU ancoiwgiag mamimn of tta mm—lly to be a "VoiM lur Cbiico" and aaot w tbo alapo gl tbe SuuiCnpitoL

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Hebrew grammar book appears in Chinese JERUSALEM (JTA)A Chinese scholar has just completed a Hebrew grammar book for Chinesespeaking students. Cho Chiang, who hieads the Institute for African and West Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Science, wrote to Ben-Zion Fischler, head of the World Zionist Organization's Hebrew Language Section, saying he was at the point of completing the grammar. Cho said he would soon be sending Fischler galleys for perusal and comments.

He wrote that his own study of the Hebrew language was handicapped by the lack of a ChineseHebrew grammar.

growing number of Soviet citizens, mainly Jews, coming to Israel on one-tothree-month visits, as well as new immigrants. Soviet authorities had indicated last year that potential traffic between the two countries did not warrant the operation of regular flights. But the experience of flights between Ben-Gurion Airport in Israel and Budapest and Romania has apparently made them change their minds now. The route presently used by Soviet tourists is via Cyprus, the Aeroflot destination closest to Israel.

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JOSEPH BELMONT Graveside services were held at Mt. Sinai Cemetery Oct. 20 for Joseph A. Belmont, 58. Survivors include wife, Florence; sons, Mark, Ben and Randy; mother, Mary; brother. Jack; sister, Eleanor (Mrs. Gene) Osheroff, of Huntington Beach, Calif., and four grandchildren. In lieu of traditional MAX GOLDSTEIN remembrances, the family Graveside services were suggests memorials to held at Beth El Cemetery L.O.V.E. at the Rose on Oct. 26 for former Oma- Blumkin Home. han Max Goldstein, 90, of Sherman Oaks, Calif. Mr. Goldstein is survived by his wife, Sarah; daughter. Rose (Mrs. JERUSALEM (JTA) Ross) Goldware of Endno, — The Knesset began its Calif.; four grandchildren winter session a festive saand five great-grandlute to the Hebrew lanchildren. guage. It was in honor of "Hebrew Language Year," which is being celebrated DISCUSS IMPASSE in all Israeli schools. WASHINGTON - Top "We don't fully appreciAmerican Jewish officials ate the miracle we have have met with Secretary of lived through—the revival State James Baker to dis- of our ancient language," cuss the current impasse Education Minister Yitin the Middle East peace zhak Navon told the process. Sources say Is- packed chamber. i^eli Prime Minister YitThe special session was zhak Shamir's scheduled attended by President meeting next month with Chaim Herzog, members President Bush could be of the Hebrew Language canceled if the deadlock is Academy and relatives of not broken. Eliezer Ben Yehuda. EDNA WHITEMAN Word has been received of the death in Reseda, Calif., of former Omahan Edna Whiteman, 76. Services and interment were in California Oct. 15. Mrs. Whiteman is survived by a daughter, Elaine (Mrs. Eddie) Kuklin of Reseda; two grandsons and two great-granddaughters.

The Chinese scholar's letter, written in flowing biblical Hebrew, explained that while Hebrew is taught at only two Chinese universities—Peking and Nanking—his book is intended to help Chinesespeaking students of Hebrew in such countries as Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States.

Agreement reached on direct Israel, Soviet Union flights By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Direct commercial flights between Tel Aviv and Moscow—operated.by the state-run El Al and Aeroflot airlines—are likely to begin early next year, under an agreement in principle reached in Moscow last week between directors of the two airlines. The service would begin with One flight a week operated by each of the airlines, increasing in frequency later as traffic warrants. Flight time will be about three-and-a-half hours and cost about $400. The El Al-Aeroflot flights would service the

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The perils of childhood Ten-month-old Martin Jacob Kaplan is seen ensconced in the bottom of the changing table at the Jewish Community Center's childcarc facility. How he got himself into this predicament was not quite dear, but after baaldng in all the attedtion for a while, he extricated himself easily. A second child immediately tried to clamber into the spot vacated by the intrepid Martin. Martin is the son of Howard Kaplan and Julie Frank.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Eisenberg of Lincoln announce the Oct. 20 birth of a son, Benjamin Jacob. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. George Eisenberg of Omaha, and Mr. Gene Seier of Grand Island. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Kwiatek of West Bloom-

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rPam Friedlander to chair L reception after concert Pam Friedlander has been named chairman of the Post Concert Reception which will take place on Nov. 11, immediately followiiig the Omaha Pops Symphony Concert featuring George Shearing. The affair will benefit the Nebraska Foundation for the Visually Handicapped and will take place in the new Orpheum lobby. Phil Sokolof will be presented with aji award recognizing his service to the blind and low vision children. Since the death of his wife, Ruth, who was a teacher and founder of a nursery school for visually handicapped children, Mr. Sokolof has provided funds for the annual Ruth Sokolof Christmas Shopping Spree held at the Westroads Shopping Center. The children are provided with money and a volunteer so they can buy gifts for members of thiir family. The Nebraska Foundation for the Visually Handicapped is an outgrowth of the Braille activities at Beth El Synagogue. Members of the foundation's board include Karen Javitch, Lorraine Silverman, Dr. Benton Kutler, Mickey Sturm and Bernice Wolfson. In the early 1960's,

Pam Friedlander when the need for a nursery school for eight blind youngsters became apparent. Rabbi Myer Kripke made the Beth El nursery school available two mornings a week. Ruth Sokolof and the late Ruth Katskee were the teachers. In order to provide a five-day pre-school program, the foundation was organized and received a $10,000 grant from the Epply Foundation to furnish a room at the J.P. Lord school. The school still exists and has served hundreds of visually handicapped children. Information regarding patron tickets and the reception is available from the event co-chairmen Nancy Greenberg, Mickey Sturm and Bemice Wolf-

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Beth El Women's League sponsors open houses Arnold J. Stem has been selected to assume one or more of the 390 appointments made by the Law Practice Management Section Chair, Luther J. Avery of San Francisco. Mr. Stem's major appointment is chair of the XY Write User Group. He is president, director and shareholder in the Omaha office of St«m, Swanson & Stickman, P.C. Mr. Stem will hold this position for one year, leading the section's efforts to implement projects ion the field, monitor pertinent legal developments and propose development of Association policy on relevant issues, as appropriate. liie Section, with nearly 22,000 members, is devoted to training lawyers and law firm administrators to provide legal services more efficiently and at a lower cost to clients. Barton "Bucky" Greenberg won three gold medals in the breaststroke (65-69 age bracket) in the recent Pan Pacific Games held in Indianapolis. Eleven-hundred swimmers from 19 countries competed in the Oct. 10-13 meet. Mr. Greenberg set two new world records in acquiring two of his gold medals bettering the 100-

meter breaststroke by 2.8 seconds, and the 200meter breaststrok; by 2 seconds. In the 50-meter breaststroke, he bettered the American record by .97 seconds. Mr. Greenberg, 65, has been awinuning competi-. tively since 1934. He has been a member of the Jewish Community Center for 35 years and was chairman of the swimming committee for 30 years.

On Nov. 7, from 10 a.m. League gift shop is setting to 1:30 p.m., four members the ceremonial table and of Beth El Women's all gift shop items will be League have invited mem- for sale. ben of the Jewish commu- • The home of Joye and nity to see their homes Steve Wees will celebrate "Dressed for the Holi- the High Holidays. To help set ttie mood, Geri days." 'The home of Jeannie and Epstein is dpening a Geri's Rick Gilinsky at 13004 Arts location for the day Charles Street in Bryn in the Wees home. Mawr will start the tour. Tickets may be purchased Geri's Arts will display Israeli and Judaic art. A at the door for $5. The Gilinsky home will portion of the art sale will feature a Hanukkah bou- be donated back to WoFormer Omahan Charles tique as well as traditional men's League. Barbara D. Peebler, Jr., chief ex- and contemporary decora- Giller from Geri's will be on hand to help in the ecutive officer, Bozell, dis- tions. selection of the pofect gift cussed significant areas of Pesach will be observed or to offer advice on art change in the advertising industry at the Oct. 24 at the home of Zoe and purchases for the home. A discount on custom Omaha Federation of Ad- Carl Riekes, where Rabbi vertising meeting at the Drazen's collection of framing will also be Haggadahs will be dis- offered to those who atMarriott. tend. During the past two played. For more information, Marcia and Steve Pityears, Peebler has been honored by B'nai B'rith as lor's home in Ridgefield is please call co-chairmen the Advertising Man of open in traditional Shab- Joye Wees at 498-0812, or bat style. Women's Beth Leeds at 333-5532. the Year.

Shamir praises Baker's efforts Howard Roaenberg WASHINGTON (JTA) — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir seems to be supporting U.S. efforts to establish an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, even though he rejects Secretary of State James Baker's specific proposals to bring it about, the State Department indicated.

"Secretary Baker received a letter from Prime Minister Shamir that applauds our efforts and encourages us to keep them up," Department spokeswoman Margaret Tutwiler said at a news briefing. The letter arrived after a week of scathing criticism by Shamir of mediation efforts by the United States, which he charged were

aimed at forcing Israel to negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization and get out of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. While Tutwiler did not divulge the contents of the letter, she said it "also dealt with how to get Palestinians and Israelis into a dialogue concerning elections."

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Questions and answers One of the most frequent questions I get called upon to answer in private conversations is: "Why do we hear so much bad news about Israel and nothing at all about the Arab nations?" The answer to the first part is simple. The answer to the second also is simple. Israel is a democracy, a unique oasis of expression in a vast desert of kingdoms, dictatorships and similar iron-fisted regimes. There are more media peciple per square mile in Israel than in most of the free countries of the world. And unfortunately, media people tend to concentrate on strife rather than accomplishments. Reporters write about turmoil and photographers shoot scenes of trouble (read bad news) because discord grabs the attention of the readership and the viewer. Thus, the miracle that is Israel—is virtually ignored by the non-Jewish press. Israel is a land of miracles, pest and present. In just a speck of time—41 years—Israel has produced startling advances in science, medicine, music, agriculture, education, defense—to name a few. And the world has benefited remarkably from what Israel has contributed to the advancement of mankind. It's almost taken for granted that whtai natural disasters occur anywhere in the world, the tiny state of Israel is right up there with the major powers in proving aid to the victims of tragedy. The people of Israel have transformed a wasteland of rocks and dirt to a thriving, bountiful homeland for persecuted Jews from all over the world without sacrific.ing the rights of non-Jewish residents. Enough about Israel. Lets talk about the accomplishments of the Arab world and their contributions to mankind: Oil, terrorism and war... Think about it... Killing, more killing, and oil... Oil, more oil, and oh yes, they certainly provide a lot of jobs in the world by constantly building and enhancing giant standing armies with the latest in tanks and planes. Perhaps, I'm not fair. So, when the Arab Symphony Orchestra comes to Omaha, let me know. I'll buy a ticket. Perhaps, I'm not fair. .Let them produce an orange, or a flower—I'd be happy to write about such feats.

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HAIFA — A large percent^ of the Israelis who went overseas this summer, this writer among them, found their way to the Nazi death camps on Europe. Tht emotions stirred by these places are overpowering, but I have no hesitation in recording that for me the most stirring impression was not the various horror exhibits, but the sight of many visiting Israeli youth, moat of them of high school age, as they toured the facilities, proudly, almost defiantly waving their very large and prominent blue and white flags of Israel. It was a demonstration of affirmation, as if to say: Despite what the Nazis did and tried to do, we have survived you, and we are here from a Uving Jewish State! I have no doubt that the young people themselves, despite the tears in the eyes of many, felt that way too. How caii one record cogently and coherently the flood of emotions and reactions, the flush of agitation mixed with fury and bitterness, of disbelief and depression, of grief and desolation at sight of these camps and their installations, in all their horror. I must content myself with the singling out individual features or aspects which have lingered in my memory. At Maidanek we stood on the spot where the trains disgorged their human freight, and the passengers were selected—some to the right, some to the left. We stood on that spot, aqd walked away, unimpeded. The sun shone brightly above us, just as it must have shone on those terrible days 45 and more years ago. A woman in our party stared at us with glazed eyes at the gas chamber, and refused to enter with the rest of us. "I was there once before," she shrieked, "in that very room. I am alive because on that day the gas supply gave out!" The striking statue on the camp grounds of a mother desperately holding her infant high above her head. In the gas chambers they thought the poison was coming from the ground, and she sought, mistakenly, to prolong the child's life a few moments longer. Unbelievable! The dissection table at Maidanek, where the bodies were slashed open before being fed into the furnaces, in search of valuables that might have been swallowed. Hideous! At Birkenau, when the crematoria could no longer keep up with their task of consuming dead bodies, the Nazis piled tens of thousands of corpses on huge pyres, outdoors, and scattered the remains. We walked along a whitened path. This was not sand, the guide explained, and he picked up a handful of the white substance, pointing out tiny fragments of human bones. We trod the path of ashes, and our throat choked. There were directional signs, so viaitors could find their way. The signs are in English, Polish, French and Russian. Startled, 1 copied the text of the English sign directing us to the crematoria and the pathway of ashes. It read: "Sight-seeing route'!! There is a pavement composed of four million stones, symbolizing the four milltion victims here, three-fourths of them Jews. There are memorial plaques in 20 tongues, including Hebrew and Yiddish. They all read the same: "Four million people suffered and died here at the hands of the Nazi guu-derers... "The official guide book available at Ai|tcb^itz records that "Four million pereons from all this countries under Nazi occupation perished" here. Later, at Theresienstadt, we look at the plaque along the river bank: "From this spot the Nazis had the ashes of 22,000 martyrs from the Terezin ghetto thrown in the Ohre River." A second plaque, at the edge of the water, referred to the "dead pHsoners." There were no Jews there—only people, or persons. Auschwitz gets from 60,000 to a million visitors a year, who come to stare at the huge accumulation of personal belongings left behind, at least, those still on hand when the Nazis fled-the room filled with thousands of pairs of children's shoes; the room filled with countless pairs of eyegUasea; the room filled with human* hair. At least once a day ambulaneea are called to treat visitors who have suffered emotional collapse. Yet some visitors ore critical-this is too much like a museum, with its exhibits. Everything is clean and sterile. The dead are gone; it is the living who recreate ion thair minds tbe madnaas of the past. llooksd at the taU, stark creaa srectad OD the grounds of tbe Catholic convent alongside the Auschwitz wall. Let it remain. Let it be regarded as an act of penance by the Church for all the evil that Chriataodom baa done to the Jewiah people through the ilgaa. Let the nuns remain, and let tham pray for the soula of the man who called thamaaivaa Chriatians and perpetrated the unspeakable atrociUea bare. Of this, too, we ahould be

the country's school children are systematically taken on tours of the death camps, so that they should know what the Germans did to "people." I asked a knowledgeable Pole: "Do the Poles hate the Germans?" His reply: "The older generation does, but not us young people. There are different Germans today. We don't hate the Germans because-we hate the Russians more!" Conspicuous in the guest books at the various places were the signatures and slogans in Hebrew, inscribed by Israeli. Repeatedly: "Never again!" "Am Yisrael Chai," "Remember!" "We are Here!" There are some German visitors, too. Some refuse to enter, claiming they couldn't bear to look. Young ones say: "This was done by the Nazis, not by us." And some, after looking at the pictures painted by the little children at Terezin, now on exhibition a the Jewish Museum in Prague, come out with tears in their eyes. A visit to the death camps is certainly not a pleasant experience, but it should be considered a necessary part of Jewish education, for young and old alike. Every Jew who can do do should visit there once—he will not want to return—but his life will never be the same.

li By Ruth Potash and Bonnie Pawloski The Omaha Committee for Soviet Jewry suggests Omahans write to Mark Shvarts and his family, who have been refused since 1980 for unknown reasons. Mark, age 38, is a tech-

i nician. He has a wife, Ludmilla, and a daughter, Irina. Irina will be 13 this year and will need a Westem Bat Mitzvah "twin." Omahans can write to this family at: UI. Pushkinskaya 59, Apt, 2, Odessa 270011, USSR, UKR. SSR.

To the Editor: The article in the Oct. 13 issue of the Jewiah Press, Letters to the Editor, from the members of the Temple Israel Outreach Committee needs to be replied to. To start with, their pramiaa ia all wrong. And to state that interfaith marriages are a "problem" has to be the understatement of the year. I've seen the figure of 50 to 60 percent in the Twin City area. But all that aside, wouldn't it be better to treat the disease rather than the symptom? ' Why is it that a Judaism that was powerful enough to withstand Inquisitions and Crusades and pogroms and Auschwitzes can't withstand the lure of assimila tion? Perhaps young Jews need a real reason for being Jewish. Tbe article alao statas that "given the dentographic and religious diversity in this country, this is not something we are going to "stop" unless we go back to the famed Jawiah ghettoa of the past.'' Did Maimonidea live in a ghetto? Parhapa we should apply th«/same lo^c to the drug problem, racial bigotry and anti-Semitiam. Ona more thing. What is a "Jew-byChoice?" Without fatting into Om "Who ia a Jew" iaaua. which is another can ot worma, tboaa who have convartad properly are Jawi. Pariod. That'a not simply my opinion, that's Torab Judaiam. Parhapa. inataad of trying to ratioiuliu a aituation that is indeed a diaaatar for the Jewiah people, some difficult queatioiu need to be aaked. and aome honeat anawara giveo. But that may be asking the pipblem to proHundreds of thousands of Polish dtixens are among vide the sohition. tboaa who vi^t tbsaa sitas, and wa are told that all of Paul Damewood S^E:^'^*"

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There is perhaps no current debate in the public sector with more emotional charge than the abortion debate, lliere ar« many places to get information concerning the arguments on all sides. Since Roe v. Wade, those who believe in reproductive freedom and choice have been a silent majority in this country. The Supreme Court in Webster v. Reproductive Health Service changed all that. The issue can be addressed on many levels—the horror of back alley abortions that injured, maimed and killed women who chose abortion, the centrality of individual rights set against some notion of states rights. But ADL has argued in its written briefs before the Supreme Court that these arguments miss a central point. These briefs argue the abortion issue involves deeply held religious beliefs and it is the subject of ongoing religious debate. They also argue that statutes which restrict a woman's right to choice on this issue violate the establishment clause of the Constitution by endorsing one religious theory of when life : begins. Finally, they argue that many of the statutes wluch attempt to restrict availability of abortion by the state or federal government impose an impermissable burden on a woman's free exercise of religion. Although those who believe that we should hold to the sanctity of life at conception use words such as "murder" and "Holocaust," the decision about when life begins is an essentially religious and personal decision. Considering the life of the woman or the potential life of a fetus is an essentially religious and personal question. We must look at these questions, each of us. The politics of the question are such that no longer can we remain without opinion. Voting may become a one issue exercise. There mqy not be universal agreement on this issue within any community. The realities of our world require us to become educated, thoughtful and able to discuss this and many other difficult topics. Ultimately, this debate centers on who decides religious questions. We must stand with those who fight to protect the choices of individuals. We must stand with those who are struggling themselves with these most disturbing and personal decisions. On Nov. 12, at the Capitol Building in Lincoh at 2 p.m., there will be a Mobilization for Women's Lives. The National Council of Jewish Women has organized buses to go. It is my hope that the Omaha conununity stands up to be counted. Do not assume someone else will do it. We must vocalize through action our commitment to these Constitutional ideals. Contact our office at 333-1303 for further transpor tation details.

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Newcomers have brunch (Continued from Page 1) added, "and everyone benefits from getting to know each other as soon as possible." Invitations to the bnmch were sent to all Jewish newcomers who have moved here within the past 12 months, but anyone who has not yet participated in a formal welcome sponsored by the Jewish Federation is invited. Each Omaha synagogue is expected to send a representative to the brunch and local organizations and institutions will provide informational brochures. No solicitation of funds will take place. According to Mrs. Silverman, last year's menu met with such enthusiasm that the committee will repeat the blintz casseroles^ mini-bagels with spreads, fruit trays, coffee cakes, orange juice, tea and coffee. Assisting Mrs. Silverman and Mrs. Gordon with preparations are Joyce Cohen, Beth Friedman, Debbie Friedman, Beth Leeds, Rocky Lewis, Linda Mann, Jeffrey Newman, Ilene Shandell, Judy Siff, Vicki Sanford and Judy Zucker. Further information is available by calling Ellie Penner at the Federation office, 334-8200, ext. 264.

Water from Turkey? By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel is considering importing sweet water from Turkey in huge plastic bags, in view of a possible fresh water shortage due to below normal precipitation in recent years. The unusual idea has been discussed by officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Israel Water Commission. An Israeli plastics factory would fabricate immense semi-flexible bags, nearly 800 feet long and shaped like the hull of a ship. They would be towed to Turkish ports, filled with potable water ^d towed>back to Israel in a regular ferry service. Since sweet water is lighter than salt water, the heavily laden bags would float at set. The estimated coat of the project is in the millions of doUars, but it would be Iwa expensive than thp construction of giant daealination units. The idea ia no more bizarre than one entArtained by Saudi Arabia some years ago to tow polar icebergs to Saudi ports and pump off theSvater as thay melted. COOPERATION JERUSALEM - Tel Aviv Univertlty and the Univertity of Leningrad signed an agrMmant of scIinUfic cooperation.

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Danish journalist, historian, and a member of Her Majesty Queen Margere the ll's Advisory Council; Carol Rittner, executive The conference is dedirector of the Elie Wiesel signed to explore the Foundation for Humanity; moral implications of this Franklin Sherman, direcexperience and will feature scholars from the United tor of the Institute for Jewish-Christian UnderStates and Denmark and standing at Muhlenberg members of the Jewish College; Knud Dyby, a community from around member of the danish Rethe world, the announcesistance; and Leo Goldment stated. Dana College was berger of New York founded by Danish pi- University. Major funding for the oneers and this conference conference is being is part ol an ongoing provided by the John D. celebra^n of this heriand Catherine T. McArtage. thur Foundation of Conference presenters Chicago. include Rabbi Bent MelFor information, contact chior, chief rabbi of Copen-' Dr. Delvin Button or Dr. hagen and a survivor of John Mark Nielsen at the rescue; Senator Paul Dana College, Blair, Nebr. Simon; Paul Hammerich, 68008, or 402-426-9000.

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Beth Israel Synagogue FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 5:30 p.m. CONGREGATIONAL SHABBAT DINNER The first congregational Shabbat dinner of the new yearwillbeheldOct. 27,at 6:15 p.m. It will be preceded by a Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 5:30 p.m. New synagogue members will be guests of the congregation at this dinner. Reservations may be made through the synagogue office. SATURDAY: Morning service. 8:45 a.m. Kiddush will follow in the social hall. Mincha will be followed by Ma-ariv, Shalos Seudos and the Havdalah Service. Sitter service is provided on Saturday mornings through the courtesy of Sisterhood. SUNDAY: Minyanaire Service, 9 a.m. BAR/BAT MITZVAH CLUB The Bar and Bat Mitzvah Club will meet with Cantor Leo Fettman from 9-9:30 a.m., Oct. 29, in the Youth Lounge. WEEKDAYS Services at 7 a,m. and 5

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Beth El Synagogue Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits will conduct the services. FRIDAY: Family Shabbat Dinner. 6 p.m. Services, 8:15 p.m. Oneg Shabbat following services. SATURDAY: Morning service, 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Babysitting is available from 10 a.m. Junior Congregation, 11 a.m. Minha-Ma'ariv, 6:10 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. LUNCH AND LEARN Lunch and Learn series with the Rabbi will continue on Nov. 2, noon, at the synagogue. The topic is Rabbinic Exegesis on the weekly reading. (Midrash, on Parshat HaShavuah).

Temple Israel FRIDAY: Services at 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel and Caiitor Harold I. Firestone will officiate. Special guest scholar Rabbi Sam Joseph will speak on "The Jewish Family: Can We Make It To The 21st Century?" The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Atme and Arnold Weitz in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of their son, Andy. SATURDAY: Shabbat morning service, 11:15 a.m. SITTER SERVICE Sitter service is available for the Shabbat evening service and the Shabbat morning service. There are, however, no facilities for infants. Reservations are necessary. BAR MITZVAH Andy Weitz, son of Anne and Arnold Weitz, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah at Shabbat morning services on Oct. 28. ADULT EDUCATION Tuesday, Oct. 31. Introduction to Judaism, 7:30-10 p.m.

Lincoln Tifereth Israel FRIDAY: Services at 8 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m.

Recent holidays buoyed Jerusalem tourism By David Landau

JERUSALEM (JTA) The Sukkot-Simchat Torah holiday appears to have been the moat successful for Jerusalem in the nearly t«(o years since the Pale^inian uprising began. Although tourism figures and hotel occupancy rates for the holiday period arc not yet available, there is a strong feeling in the hotel business and among shopkeepers

We would be honored to have you join us as our daughter, LlmOf becomes a Bat Mitxvah on SatitrdayiNovember 4, 9:30a.m. Beth El Synagogue. Luncheon following services. Sumam omd $tev« Slhmr

Council Bluffs B'nal Israel FRIDAY, NOV. 3 Children-oriented family service at 7:30 p.m. Oneg Shabbat follows service. Everyone welcome. FRIDAY, NOV. 17 Services, 7:30 p.m. Leading services will be Rabbi Sharon Stiefel. Oneg Shabbat follows services. SATURDAY, NOV. 18 Havdalah ServiceDairy Potluck followed by a dicussion on "Introduction to Reconstructionism" with Rabbi Sharon Stiefel, 5:30 p.m. at the synagogue. For information, call Brent Bloom, 342-2833 days; or 345-9654, evenings.

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FRIDAY: Evening service, 7 p.m. SATURDAY Morning service, 9 a.m. The residents and staff Offutt Air Base of the Rose BluraJiin Home invite the families, FRIDAY: volunteers and friends of Services in the Capehart the residents to attend Chapel every Friday at 8 services in the Herbert p.m. An Oneg Shabbat folGoldsten Chapel. Kiddush lows the service. 'follows services on Shabbat

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Restoring ties By Ruth E. Gruber ROME (JTA) - The leader of Poland's first non-Communist government since World War II has affirmed here that Poland will re-establish diplomatic relations with Israel, though he could not say exactly when. Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, on his first trip abroad since taking office, told a news conference that such a move was definitely expected. "1 cannot give you a precise date, but we're on the way," he said. Poland severed diplomatic ties with Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Last year, the two countries established interest sections in Warsaw and Tel Aviv respectively, the bwest level of formal contact.

Parashat Bereshit Geology and Theology You may take it for of freewill, as mankind granted that there was a has? Because of the combicommon theme, wall to nation of mankind's freewall—coast to coast, in will and our instinctual haAmerican Jewish pulpits treds, our aggressiveness, on Shemini Atzeret at Yiz- cupidity, and lust for kor time. power, will we forever Sukkot was technically mourn. "0 Absalom, my over, but not colloquially, son Absalom, Absalom, not popularly. my son, my son?" David The shattering trage- lost Absalom because of dies, Hurricane Hugo and what mankind is. But does Earthquake California Nature, Nature itself, so were in everyone's mind, beautiful, so majestic, especially the latter. Now scoff at human life? Or is the skhakh ("covering," a it entirely mindless and word from which our amoral? Mindless and dewords "sukkah" and structive? "Sukkot" are derived) beThe questions are endcame a symbol for these less and disconcerting. If disasters. "The Sukkah is meant we have been taught that to remind us," so the ser- by definition God is allmon goes, "and the only powerful, and at the same partial protection, repeat, time, all-good, why does the only partial protection He permit the kinds of of the skhakh is meant to tragedies of Fall, 1989? If remind us that life is trag- He is also all-knowing and ically vulnerable, etc., all-good, why didn't He etc." You may finish the warn us more specifically, sermon yourself. In the time and place, even the course of time 1 have used hour, of where Nature the theme more than a few would act up? times, and so has every Our theology is rabbi. challenged by disasters, But now, against the man-made and Naturebackdrop of our Sidrah, made. I find no adequate Bereshit, where we read of answers, only copouts, to the creation of the world, the problems that confront {)nd God's ordering of the us. forces of Nature, even It is wonderful to read more discomforting our Sidrah, Bereshit, and thoughts fill our minds. If to sense the faith of our God set order into Nature, ancestors that God is good day and night and spring- and loving. The world time and harvest (as it is comes into being because put in the Noah story), a good God wills it. should He have left the It may be that we can go great geological faults that threaten man's great- no farther. God is the good est building achievements, in the world. and, even more to the But He (or She, or It) is point, life its^? And if the limited in power. Human faults in the earth were life is precarious—even there, could He not have though it is good for us to neutralized them, made know (or "believe"! that them innocent? And the there is a Great Good in hurricane? The tidal wave? the world we inhabit. The tornado? Should we put a capital HELP WANTED "N," as I have, on Nature? EARN MONEY typiiiK at Or is. it only nature, a home. »30,000/yMir income small "n," fully under potaotial. RefuodabU Fee God's cootrol? - t2&. DetaiJa, (I) 806Does Nature have a kind 4D7.6O00, Kx\. a-691«. ~

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Friedel sponsors scout group Girl Scout Group 812 meets every first and third ^Tuesday at the Fri^ Jewish Academy. The group consists of girls, of all ages up to sixth grade, so within the group is Daisy, Brownie and Junior Troops. The sixth grade girls bridged to Cadettes this fall. The Group has been in existence for almost a year and in that time the girls have earned many badges

in different area. The girls take field trips and are presently working on several environmental projects in preparation for the celebration of Earth day in April. Most of the older girls are involved in working for their Jewish Badge. Any girl who would like to join a troop dedicated to Jewish tradition may attend the meetings of Group 812.

• JCC Blue-Star team plans season's games The 1989-90 JCC Senior High Blue-Star Varsity Basketball team is maUng plans to play area private schools and other city league teams. Cliff Owens, former Millard South freshman coach, under Larry Ribble for six years, and head girl's varsity coach at Bellevue Christian High School, will coach the Blue-Stars announced Chuck Arnold, Health Services supervisor. Mr. Arnold said the Blue-Star program is designed for the more competitive teen who is a

highly skilled basketball player. The team represents the JCC in a travel program against other Jewish Community Centers. For the past two years, the team participated in the Miami JCC Invitational Tournament. The varsity team is selected through tryouts. The first tryout will be held Nov. 6,7-8:30 pm., in the JCC Gymnasium. All Center members in 9th12th grades may try out. For further information, call Chuck Arnold, 3348200, extension 222.

The Man in the Moon is really a rabbi By Heib GeduU (Copyright 1989, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) CLEVELAND - Travel the length and breadth of Israel in search of a major town or geographic feature named a^r a famous rabbi and you search in vain. Oh. you might find a couple of small moshavim like Beit Meir, named after Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin), the great Mizrachi leader, or Beit Gamliel named for Rabbi GamUel II, head of the ancient Sanhedrin at Yavne. If you really want to find a major geographical feature named after a rabbi, however, you have to travel at least 221,000 miles away from Israel—to the moon. There^ visible in the southeastern quadrant of a 6-dayold mpon (six days after the new moon), is a large crater about 45 miles in diameter and 12,000 feet de^, named Rabbi Levi By Earth standards, Rabbi Levi is huge: It is ahnost three times as wide as the Grand Canyon at its widest point and more than twice as deep. As moon craters go, howr ever. Rabbi Levi is just a medium-sized also-ran with some craters such as Bail-

B'nai B'rith life members Seven Henry Monsky Lodge members were accorded Life Membership status and were honored at a recent B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers luncheon. Each has been a B'noi B'rith member for over 50 years. From left are: Jack G. Epstein, Art Adier, Sam Shyken, Art Goldstein and Abe Faier. Not pictured: Max and Milton Moskovitz.

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puhUshed as « separate test. Rabbi Levi was also the first recorded developer of the camera obscure, a progenitor of photography, and the inventor of the Jacobs staff, a navigational tool that was used extensively by 16th-century sailors. Some 300 years after his death. Rabbi Levi was honored for his astronomical work by a Jesuit priest, Giovanni Riccoh, who in 1651 published one of the first major maps of the moon's features, naming them after renowned scientists, astronomers and philosophers. Many of the names were changed over the years, and their final designation was estabhshed by the International Astronomical Union, which approves additions as

new lunar features are identified. The major additions took place after 1969, when the Russian sateUite Luna 3 took the first pictures of the far side of the moon, revealing hundreds of unnamed features. Rabbi Levi is not the only Jewish-named crater on the moon. There are at teast a dozen others on the near side and perhaps 20 on the far side, includkg a smaller crater named after an even greater Talmudic scholar, but a lesser astronomer, the Ibn Ezra. But that's another tale... Herb Geduld is a freelance writer for the Cleveland Jewiah News, where this article was first pubUahed.

Women use exercise facilities at JCC Women are making use of the Jewish Conuuunity Center's 'Universally Fit" Fitness Center for fitness and exercise as well as a pleasant visit with each other while exercising, according to Health Services supervisor Chuck Arnold. Jessica Pantano sakl she likes to work out at the Center because she enjoys the environment, working out and likes the excellent equipment and attractiveness of the ibom. Judy Epstein says, "The facilities are always open at convduent hours, it is very clean and very well

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER S Federation Executive Committee, 4:30 p.m. B'nai B rith Breadbreakers, noon. Venice Inn i Temple Israel Executive Board, 6 p.m Temple Israel Temple Israel Board, 7:30 p.m., j Temple Israel , CRT General Meeting, 7:30 p.m |S TNUflSDAY, NOVEMBER 9 ! Braille Class, 9 am B'nai B'rith Women's Meeting, 7:30 p n Federation Budget & Allocations Meeting 7:30 p.m. | WaU(-ln Drop-in, 10:30 am, Beth El ' Temple Israel Sisterhood Adult EducatK)^^ Classes, 930 am . Temple Israel NCJW Executive Board. 11:30 a m ' Adult Bar MiUvah Class. 115 p m i Temple Israel ( Temple Israel Leadership Devek)pmei 7:30 p.m.. Temple Israel FRIOAV, NOVEMBER 10 , Millard Madness, 10 am. Composer in Residence, Bonia Shur. Temple Israel OTYG Western Conclave SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Paula McCreight, Bat Mitzvah. Beth E Jennifer Hoberman. Bat Mitzvah, Temp^ Israel SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Red Cross Babysitting Class, 1 p.m Youth HeaUi k Fitness Fair, ii a.m. H Mamaloshen Society, 2 p.m. Religious SchooVPEP, 1Q a.tn.. Temple Israel MZ and Ediar Program, noon AZA #1 Proglam, 1 p.m Jr B'nai B'nth Bowling. 130 p.m , Cougar Lanes MONDAY. NOVEMBER 13 YES, 10 a.m. Cottega of Jewish Learning, 7:30 p.m TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 Beginning Hebrew, 10 «.m Siddur Hebrew, 11 ara Weliness Lecture, 7:30 p.m. XAC FuU Council Meeting, 7:30 p m. Beth Israel Donor Luncheon, 1230 pi^ Beth luMl Temple Israel luncheon and Program. 12:30 p.m., Temple Israel Fnedel Je^tsh Academy Annual Boao^ 730 p.itt, at the school IntoOKlucUGm to Judaiaro, 7 30 p m

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Computers free Israel from blood dependence TEL AVIV-Through the use of donated computer hardware and software, Magen David Adom iMDAHlarael's Red Cross—has been afforded access to the nation's first database for locating donors of rare blood types in Israel.. Until establishment of the database, MDA, which supplies 85 percent of the blood needs of all of Israel's hospitals and 100 percent of the blood requirements of the Israel Defense Forces, had been forced to turn to donors ^ho could be located through the computerized database of the American Red Cross, whenever such rare blood was needed. Dr. Robert L. Sadoff, president of the American Red Magen David for Israel, MD.A's sole support in the U.S.. eiplain^i the

importance of the new computer system for saving lives in Israel. According to Dr. Sadoff, "While the general public is aware of the antigens that determine the main blood types: 0, A, B, AB and Rh(-), there are some 20 additional antigens found in human red blood cells. MDA is at times called upon to supply hospitals with rare blood units, in which one or more of these antigens is absent, for patients who have developed antibodies to those antigens. The computerized system will make it possible to ascertain if a prospective donor for the rare blood needed can be found in Israel. Oftentintes, that ability to get blood quickly—within Israel—will make the difference in saving a life."

Women interviewed Sixty women from around.the country representing all walks of life were aaked to define their Judaism in American society. The common thread, running through the collection of interviews and photographs, replaces any stereotypical definition of a Jewish American woman with a plethora of new ideas and creative points of view, according to a spokesman for the Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia, which recently published The Invisible Thread: Portraits of Jewish American Women.

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The holiday season has been beautiful and enjoyable for the residents this year. The community has helped make it a "sweet" beginning for the New Year. The congregation in the Goldsten chapel in the Home overflowed capacity as residents from the Livingston Plaza Apartments, family members and LOVE volunteers joined the residents in participating in the services. Rabbi Myer Kripke and Don Schwartz conducted the services. Each table in the dining room had a centerpiece provided by LOVE. In addition, each resident at the Home received a vase of holiday flowers through the courtesy of the Mishpacha Committee of Beth El and Baker's Supermarkets. A total of 191 vases were presented to residents in all the area nursing homes and retirement homes. The Rose Blumkin residents also received fruit.s and treats from Temple Israel's Caring Committee. This group also extended its gifts to Jewish residents in other nursing and retirement homes. Again Ike and Roz Friedman sent individual fruit baskets to each resident. A very special thanks to all for their kind and generous gifts of joy for the new year. Special entertainment this month was provided

by the Grey Eagle Band, Jim Johnson, and the Offutt Airs. The Alison Kohl Teen Group came to help bake goodies. As they have in the past, the B'nai B'rith men erected and decorated the sukkah in the courtyard. Bonnie and Harold VVeinstein brought several small decorative pumpkins. Ashley Milieus, an exchange studeut at Duschene Academy, used the pumpkins with fall flora to make beautiful fall centerpieces. Rabbis Aryeh Azriel and Sidney Brooks spoke to the residents recently. During October, birthdays were celebrated by David Weiss, Rose Katzman, Bess Bernstein, Lottie Fogel and Mae Ostrow. New residents are Maurice Newman, Irving Schneiderman, Maurice Sachs and Ruth Klopper. Freida ELewitz is a temporary resident. The respective committees have finalized plans for the LOVE Fall Workshop and Luncheon which will take place Dec. 5, and the Pan Tournament scheduled for Dec 10. Lucille Frohm and Phyllis Bittner are accepting reservations for the workshop. It's not too early to make reservations for the Pan Tournament; send a $20 donation to Helen Shukert, c/o the Rose Blumkin Home, 333 South 132 Street, Omaha, NE 68154.

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Do certain sounds make you think of certain things? I mean like the sound of rain on the windows always makes me want to curl up with a book and just enjoy my sditude. This time of year there's a sound that really strikes a nerve... it's the noise made when somebody walks through dry leaves. I'll tell you right now that always makes me think of Halloween. Why should there be a connection? Simply because for many years, when our kids were Uttle and Halloween was an important event in their Uves, the night for the "trick or treat" business was always liberally carpeted with dry leaves. You see, in our front yard there were two large maple trees and an over-grown something called a smoke tree. By the end of October, the leaves had turned gorgeous colors, fallen from the trees and were all over the place, waiting for a rake. Nothing unique about that, except the connection (in my mind) to Halloween has to do with the way kids cutting across the yard from the neighbors to one side of us to the neighbors on the other side, always shuffled their feet through the leaves and could be heard even before they got to our door. It was a sound which was a signal: just get settled in a chair, pick up the evening paper again to try to find what you had been reading when crunch, crunch, crunch—another goblin was on the way to the door. Get up again, put the paper down, pick up the large bowl of candy from the top of the TV (by the door) and pretend to be frightened by a costumed little kid who shrieks "trick or treat." There were so many kids and so many interruptions that I used to schedule diimer a little earlier than usual on that night. This was so our kids could be finished and ready to go before the doorbell got started. There are other things that come to mind too. Suddenly, as I reminisce, I'm reminded that the dog used to go nuts because the doorbell had always caused her to bark. We learned that if we allowed her to stay with us.||^ barking made us crazy and scared some of the chil^ta. If we banished her to the basement she still barked, but somehow it was worse. Whatever, there was no solution except to wait until nine o'clock when I arbitrarily called time,! and turned off the porch light. Everybody understood that signal: Halloween is over for this year. Go Home.

On Oct. 1, over 150 parents, students and teachers came together at Temple Israel for a Fall Holiday Festival, sponsored by the Parents' Association of Temple Israel Laid out like a Persian market, a variety of booths offered learning experiences about Roah Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Simchat Torah. A "Sweet Tooth Booth" provided honey cakes for a sweet new year. At the "I'm Sorry" booth, participants wrote apologies on postcards to be loailed to anyone they had offended. Good wishes for the coming year were designed and attached to a "Rosh Hashanah Wishing Wall." Booths for flag making. "In the Yad on the Torah," carmel apples and Hebrew calligraphy were all featured for Simchat ToraL Students decorated a child-sized sukkah and tried to blow a shofar. According to Claire Passer, chairman of the Parents' Association, "The success of the day is owed to all the wonderful volunteers who helped to create appealing activities for all ages." Members of the Parents' Association steering committee are Susie Cohn, Judy Gallner, Phyllis Newman, Deborah Brown, Jonathan Brown, Kay Weinstein and Dan Egger mayer. Adult volunteers Sandy

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By Howard Rosenberg Well, this fall marks six years since we moved out of our house into a high-rise building where no kids can WASHINGTON (JTA) trick or treat. In a way I miss it, but I didn't know that — Jews in prison may find until a few nights ago. We were sitting in a friends liv- it easier to have their reliing room with the patio doors open. It was a mild night, gious needs met if the but a little wind was blowing and the leaves were rustl- House of Representatives ing around Any minute I expected to hear a doorbell agrees to a measure aland to find a little goblin or ghost character waiting to ready adopted by the yell "trick or treat." Senate. Maybe I'll go knock on a neighbor's door and try it on an adult level. I'll let you know if it works.

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"To theih I want to exBy Rath E. Graber ROME (JTA) - Pope press my profound solidarJohn Paul 11 made a force- ity, assuring them that the ful appeal for a Palestinian pope continues to make homeland Sunday, in an his own their legitimate readdress to 30,000 people quest to live in peace in assembled in St. Peter's their homeland, respecting the right of every other Square. Although it was not the people to enjoy the necesfirst time the pontiff has sary security and transupported Palestinian quility.' aspirations, the speech The Pope called on all was one of his stnmgest parties to strive to put an expreeaions of sympathy end to the suffering of the for their plight and solidar Palestinians as soon as possible, and to "actively ity with their cause. "From the Holy Land seek peace and harmony come invocations for help for that land which is holy Kindergartener Adam and solidarity from the ia- to millions of believersWaldbaum shows off habitanta of Gaza and the Christians, Jews and Mossome Hebrew calligraphy West Bank," the pope lems." written on parduneat pa- declared per with a quill made from "They are the cries of an a turkey feather. entire people, which today REPORTS DENIED Israel is denying reports Lowe, Sheila Garsombke, is particularly tested and Robin Freeman and Mary which feels weaker, after that it is pressuring Beth Muskin also helped. decades of conflict with American Jewish organiStudents in grades five another people linked to zaticms to take a stand through seven who volun- that same earth by its own against the establishment teered to run booths were: history and its own faith. in the United States of a "It is not possible to be memorial day for the vicLee Weinstein, Elissa Brown, Jenna Lowe, Rach- indifferoit to these invoca- tims of the Turkish masel Roberts, Allison Eggers, tions and the daily grief of sacre of Armenians 70 Marci Brookstein, Karen these people," the pope years ago. Kazor, Leigh-Ann Brown, said. Toni DelgadiUo, Deborah Givner, Jennifer Javitch, Alan DePorte, Julie Eggermayer, Brian Siff and Z JOHN STERH INVITES YOU TO C James Meyers. f TRY HIS EXPERT SERVICE ^ ? The Parents' Association is planning a Public W OH Chang*, FUtw, Lube. School Teachers Shabbat im lnduites:*li|)lDSqts.ofoU«LubricatB (4A QA 9 ctnssis'Heptacaoilfiltef 9l*r>9l/ to be held Dec. 15. Religious School students will ^ Fuel hijection Tun*-Dp. invite their public school ir lndudes:«P1uos.ei«aniiiiKio(s,ct»ekluel „^,j_^ ,^, F pc«s«m«RBp&«if(Jifdeliv«:wir«s,rotof, cnw+o^ i»5' Jg teachers to an open house fSg, 7 PCVv^.PCVMtK'Pkisadiustments ^B'l OA F to be followed by a Friday ^ •SM-rwintM.OOOmiltMraity. 90I>9V^ night Shabbat service.

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Earthquake damage to buildings minor By Allison Kaplan NEW YORK (JTA) Synagogues and other Jewish institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area sustained relatively minor damage as a result of the major earthquake that rocked the area Oct. 17, initial reports indicate. Structural engineers examined synagogues and Jewish communal institutions in the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose areas Wednesday to determine if congregants and staff members could enter safely. Even those buildin'gs located in badly struck areas David Bressle gets a "hands-on" Jewish musical experience with Cantor Harold I. Firestone as Sarah Schul- escaped relatively unscathed, although they man looks on. sustained some cracking from the quake, which measured 6.9 on the Richter scale. "Several synagogues indicated a little bit of plasThe new semester of ter falling from the ceilThis session is intended ings, bookcases strewing Temple Israel's Parent/Toddler classes will be- to provide an enjoyable books," said Doug Kahn, gin on Thursday, Nov. 2, way for the children to director of the Jewish Sunday, Nov. 5, and Mon- learn about all kinds of Community Relations candle lights: Shabbat, Council of San Francisco, day, Nov. 6. A special tot Havdalah Havdalah, Hanukkah, the Peninsula. Marin and services is being held on etc., Ann Kibel Schwartz, Sonoma Counties. Temple director of educaNov. 18, 4-5 p.m. Reached by telephone, Parents and toddlers tion, said. Kahn said that in addition Tot programs and Par- to the synagogues, Jewish may participate in a Tot Shabbat Club meeting oh ent/Toddler classes are federation buildings in Nov. 15, 7-7:45 p.m. The open to all members of the both San Francisco and theme of this meeting will Jewish community. For Oakland had only superfibe the "Lights of more information, call the cial damage. Temple Sinai, Temple office, 556-6536. Judaism." which is located near where the highway collapsed, had a stained glass window broken during the

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Lisa Silver Lisa Silver, daughter of Steve and Susan Silver, will become a Bat Mitzvah Nov. 4 at Beth El Synagogue. Lisa is a seventh grader at Westside Middle School. Her hobbies are gymnastics, playing the piano and the flute, and talking on the telephone. She has a brother, Jonathan, 18, and a sister, Jennifer, 15. Lisa is the granddaughter of Charlotte Slutzky and the late Dr. Ben Slutzky and Bobette Gilbert of Escondido, Calif., and the late Robert Silver. Sharing symbolically in Lisa's Bat Mitzvah is Larisa Koenova of Tashkent, U.S.S.R.

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some new faces in its building this week. The freshman and sophomore classes of ndghboring St. Rose Academy resumed their studies in the synagogue, after their own building suffered extensive earthquake damage. "I think in times of crisis such as this, all of us, whatever religion or race, should be reaching out to one another. That's been the spirit of the Quake of '89. Sherith Israel is pleased that we can help our neighbors immediately," said Rabbi Martin Weiner, whose board ok'd the temporary housing arrangement with no hesitation. All through the community, the simple question asked repeatedly since last the earthquake has been: "Where were you?" The answers to that question ranged from the hairraising to the amusing. Lucie Ramsey, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater East Bay, was heading eastbound on Interstate 580 toward IntersUte 80 and the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, her regular route toward her Mill Valley home. She heard a deafening noise and began to see chunks of concrete falling in front of ha '80 Volkswagen Vanagan. Behind her, all she could see was gray smoke. It was only later that she reaUzed it was from cavein of the Cypress overpass of the Nimitz Highway, otherwise known as Highway 880. As chunks of cement fell on cara around her, she be-

gan praying. "My prayer was 'God, either Idll me or keep me alive, but please don't crush me in my car.'' Miractilously, she made itthrough. Rabbi Gary Greenebaum was standing in line in an upper deck concession stand at Candlestick Park before the start of the Bay Area Worid Series when the earth began rumbling. At first he thought too many people were reveling at the 'Stick.' Then he realized it wasn't just the concrete floor he felt shaking, but the entire ballpark. He said an eerie silence feel over the crowd, which moments before had been joyous, cacophonous. "I was grateful when it ended," said the executive director of the Northern California Hillel Council. "What ran through my mind was that I couldn't beUeve this was how I was going to die." Greenebaum, who was in Orange County in February 1971 when a large quake hit the Los Angeles area, said that "when it stopped, I thanked God I was alive— and that all the other people in the stadium were, too." On a lighter note. Consul General of Israel Harry Kney-Tal's biggest complaint was that be had gotten almost no sleep for four days after the quake. But it waan't because of the minor damage .sustained by the building, which houses the Israel Consulate. He was kept awake because his office was deluged with calls from anxkna people in Israel

who wanted his office to connect them with relatives and friends living in the area temporarily, or on vacation here. "The media played up the destruction angle and people in.Israel believed that all of the Bay Area was destroyed," he said. "This dominated the news for three or four days, until Saturday morning. 1 was flooded with calls from the radio, TV and newspapers, all asking the same questions." It was so draining that the consulate reacted to advertising to notify Israelis living in the Bay Area of the concern back home. The ad in the abbreviated Sunday Chronicle-Examiner said: "We kindly request that you make contact with your family and friends in Israel." Added Kney-Tal in an interview: "Or we'll not get any sleep here."

Arab youths can't go home JERUSALEM (JTA) Three Israeli Arab youths who immigrated to Libya several months ago want to come home but are having trouble because their passports were confiscated by the Libyan authorities. The three young men are IHeaently stranded in Cyprus. Mayor Moehe Paet2 (A Ramla promiaed* their families he wouki try to cut through red tape to help them, Hadashot reported.

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Dalai Lama here after 1st confab with Jews By Tanur^ttffmaii JVirttn CaUonlt JtwU> Balkdi,

The Dalai Lama, whose historic meeting with leading American Jewish scholars in New Jersey recently was coordinated by two Bay Area Jews, ia coming to San Francisco this week. The 55-year-old spiritual and temporal Tibetan leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize, arrived in Los Angeles Saturday to attend a three-day conference sponsored by the East-West Foundation for intercultural dialogue. He is scheduled to teach for two days at San Jose State; then will head for San Francisco. "Tibetans are at a crucial stage in their history," explained Dr. Marc Lieberman, who, with Michael Sautman, arranged the first formal meeting ever held between Jews and Tibetan Buddhists. "They're trying to survive the first generation of exile—just like the Jews when the Temple was destroyed and we reUed on the wisdom and genius of a small number of rabbis who took the shattered remnants of a Templebased Judaism and were able to fashion a vehicle for 2,000 years of exile." Tibetans have been in exile since 1959, when the Chinese invaded and occupied their country, he noted. According to Sautman, another factor that piqued the Dalai Lama's interest in Jews was a S100,000 grant from the New Yorkbased American Jewish World Service to Tibetan settlements in India and Nepal.

Associate professor of ophthalmology and codirector of the glaucoma service of the PacificPresbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco, Lieberman observed that while the Dalai Lama previously had engaged in many interfaith dialogues, the New Jersey mini-conference was his first session with Jews. Lieberman explained that he and Sautman were asked to set it up because "Mike had the Tibetan contacts and I had the Jewish ones." As West Coast coordinator of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, the Berkeley resident has worked extensively with Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal. Lieberman, meanwhile, has taught at Stanford Uni-

versity, where he met Professor Arnold Eisen, who co-chairs the Jewish studies department there. With the help of Eisen and Professor Moshe Waldoks, president of the National Jewish Broadcasting Corp., they worked out a Ust of thinkers who they believed would represent a broad spectrum of Jewish scholarship and would be open to dialogue. The three-hour meeting in Washington, N.J., which included representatives of Judaism's four major branches, covered the topics of interest to the Dalai Lama but the exchange benefitted everyone, according to Blu Greenberg. Greenberg, the author of On Women and Judaism and a respected lecturer on feminism and Orthodoxy,

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described him as "a very special person, very accessible, very joyous and very, very intelligent. He's very open minded and searching for answers. I expected someone so revered to establish a distance. He didn't do that at all; he's a lovely person." She reported that the wideranging discussion, which was extended from two hours to three, included "theology and liturgy and history, sacred texts and the Jewish family and community and the experience of exile." The Dalai Lama was shown an assortment of Jewish religious objects, including a Torah scroll, a tallit (prayer shawl), tefillin (phylactories), a shofar and a traditional Sabbath table. Hfe "walked out with '

a taUis around his neck and a shofar on his belt," Lieberman recalled with a grin. Lieberman noted that Rabbi Joseph Glaser, executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, inadvertently performed a traditional Tibetan greetingthe offering of a white scarf—when he presented His Hohness with the small prayer shawl.

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That assistance, the largest non-govemment grant the 130,000 refugees had received, made the leader realize that Jews share an interest with Buddhists in helping others, he said. In addition, Lieberman pointed out that many Jewish people have embraced Buddhism, he and Sautman among them. The two integrated their Jewish identities with Buddhist practice and teachings, and insist that fUm combination involves conflict.

spoke of the need for the Jewish people and the state of Israel to cultivate friendship with peoples everywhere —"even friends who are in exile or who are, at the moment, relatively powerless." She also observed that contact with other religions "deepens your own connection and commitment and identity with your own tradition," and "you get insights as a result of the comparison." Greenberg added that her husband, Rabbi Irving ("Yitz") Greenberg, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership (CLAL) and author of The Jewish Way, had spoken of the importance of reaching out to someone in need. As for the Dalai Lama himself, Blu Greenberg

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