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morning at Tanwte Israel at 10 ajn. with "Garden of £den, Myths or Reality." A native of CTiifadei^'a, Dr. Paul made aliy^ to I» rael after obtabdng degrees from Tsmple Uidversity, Gratz CoUege and tha Jewish lliedo^eal Seminary, aa well aa Ua Ph.D. in Oriaotal Studiee fixmi the UMveraity of Psnnayl' vania, . Currently chairman of the Bible department at Hebrew Univeraity, Dr. Itaul ia also editor of as K>
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Scholar, author and lecturer Rabbi Shalom Paul comes to Ouuiha in March to speak at aO three Omaha synagogues for Kallah weekend. The weekand's topic is "Bringhig the Bible Bsck to life" and wiU b^gin at Beth Israd Friday night, March 23, 8 p.m., with "Jemealem, Center of the Universe." Contindng on Saturday afternoon at Beth 19~at 4:90 p.nL, Dr. Paul focuaes "New Li^t on an Old Tak Oeneeia on Geneisia." He concludes Sunday
University in Montreal hi l964:waaordaicMdatthe aeminary in 1960 aad cmnpletedhisPh.D#Nliw<at Columbia UnivSitir in 1975. A teacher hi the adult education prograoi at Paric Avenue Synagogue in New York City, Rabbi Oillraan has aerved aa a Bcholar-in-reaidenca for adult education weekends in dtiee acrooa the eountry. He has poUahad aitenaivefy hi SafiaU of modem Jewiah phlloaophy. Arranged bv the Tifarallk laraslAiak Bdaeatioa Commlttaa, the weekend is co-sponaored by a grovp of patrons and flfentb larasl Glyaagogue.
Jewish singles plan national meeting iiere "A Shigularly Jewiah Agenda" wiU highlight the firat nationwide'*gnaa roots''Mqiinnoa for persons working with and for Jiwiah ijni^ hi Omaha Saturday, March 24, and Sunday, March 26, aooOfdmg to^ Maiy FeOman, editor and co-founder of The Cenaee; tor, a national pnblkatian to help Jewiah singles meet Jewiah shi|^ The conference will bfgin wtth dinner at 7;80 pjn. on Saturday tad vB eoWinM thwgkhmAunSMBdiff aiit laiMifliliiia, nel, editara of Mher Jewiah^ __ letters preeently involved hi eHorts to hsip Jewish singes meet Jewiah sfaigies. According to Mrs. Felfanaa, "This is the beginning of a Joint efnct to devekip a nationwUe dearinghouw and Jewiah sfaic^ directory-billboard to reach many thousanda of Jewish siogiee of all agee with parttMnt hiformation about activitiee, tr^ and wiskwdji hnportant to them." She faidicated that she haa heard from a number of aimilariy taitereeted ptrsona acroea tbe United SUtes shioe the idea waa first laaachod in December and looks forward to an aacdting exchange of ideas and information. "Perh^M atarting thia endeavor fimn the 'graaa roota'of the Jewish community of American fawtead of waiting for it to coma from the leadership of one national grganiution or another might be the most effertiva method we can use to help ltmi$k, aingiee meet each other and to counteract bitermarriage, Mra. FeUman addefi«" Sbglee who are bitereeted hi attandhig the sessions are a^ed to call or wriU Mrs. FeOmaa at 1-402-6617257, or write to her through The Conaector . P.O. Box 24311, Omaha, ffeb. 68124.
ble entries for the Ekiqrclopedia Jadaica. . In additton to lecturing in synagoguee and univeraitiea throughout the United S^Us, South America, Europe and Japan, Dr. Paul has, for the last 20 yesrs, served as sch(dar-in-residence for Ramah Camps in USY programs in Israel Kallah Weekend is sponsored by the Jewish Cultural ArtsCouncfl snd is sanxirted by the Morton A. Ridards EndowsMut Fund and the PhiDip and Esthar Khitmick Program in Jewish Studies. For information, call JCAC dh«:torBethSeUm DoCan at 834>«SOO, ezt 272,
Rabbi critielzed By Gil Sedaa 4BSUSALCM{JTAiFormer Sephardic Chief Rabbi OvadU Yoeef has run afoul of the ultraOrtMpx Eda fiduradit community ovecjdben to light thffliMMith r^Birtlts inJmdtkn. Yoaaf. leho hsads thaSeirfiardh: Council of Sagse. ruled reosntly that 20 miautee before sunset wsa ad^ple thaa. Hie haredi hiaist it BMut be 40 mfaiutee. Their Beth Din (leUgkms court) anaoBiKad thia week that it may condemn or even excommunicate the iH«8tigious Ssphardic rabbi, unleaa he reversee himsdf. According to halachafa. Sabbath cradlee must be ttt 18 minutee before sunset. But the longstanding tradition in Jeruaalem has been to light the eandlae 40 minutes before euneet. apparently beeaaas the city's high altitude might give the im|Heseioo that the Sebbathhegms later thMitdoas.
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College of Jewish Learning Institute continues to thrive Bjr Beth 8«ldia Dotaa JOC Cdtanl Arta dinctar Th* CoOcif* of Jsuvish ' LeurBiBc Committee of I the Jewish Cultural Arts Couadl is iqnvoachiiig its seoond semastar of the Jewish Stndiaa lastitata. FoOowing a waU-attended first aemaster, the Institute win begin FA. 12 and win nm for six consecutive Monday evenings at the Jewish Community Center. Tliilia who attended the six aeMoos oHered in the late Fan fbond a leaning expecieooe taught hy instructors of dtvwas, sehoiarijr backgrounds. Stu*• dtnta wan ttcitad about learning, and in turn, the inatmctors wwa maU^ vatad b)r stodant interest Mora than one partic^iant TO^M aaaid the wish of not miaaiBg any aasaiopa, as the topics ware stimuUting. Evan the night of Omaha'a fint anowCaO brought more than half of the enraOad atudcnts todass. For msQjr. the Institute baa baia an oiipactanity to atudy beyond a basic Hebrew School setting. One can oomewith or without prior knoidedge of a subject aoad feel he or she has an insight into that bit of inatructioo. The courses
range firom amaU group diacuarions to part lecture, part discossicm seesiona, (rfhring dhwsity of dass methodology. Overall, the Jewiah studies Inatitttte has proven to be a serious Jewish adult educatkm opportunity Mtra^ing a inix of peofiie from the community. It provideB a aetting for thoae searching for increaaed Jewish knowledge. HW couraea oSered tills semester fatdnde Christianity's Jewiah PiroUem, with Rabbi Myar Kr^ike: One Oradla, Two Religiona, witb Profaasor Manacham Mor Owth 7:808:20 pjn<k Out «l Egypt, with Rabbi Paul DrHMB. and Holocaust lluaogh Film, with Profaasor Rkbard A. Freund (both 8:80«IOp.m.| Partid^Mnts are weloaue to attend one or two dasoea far the $fi6 registratioB fee. The laatitute wfll ioodude with KaUah Weekend Mttdi 23-26. During this weekend. Dr. Shalom Paul. Prafeasor and Chairman of the Departanent of Bibie at tiia Hebrew Univar^ty wfll lecture at the three synagognea. KaUahWeakandandthe Jewish Studies iMtituto is supportad by the Morton A. Ridiards Endowment CUP ANOSAVE-
CALENDAR OF EVENTS FfVDAY. FEBRUARY 2 c Beth Israel Siatarfiood. Know Thy Neighbor iShabbat at Beth lanirt ' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3 iW Beth Israel Adult Shabbalon « Beth larael A -. -.*UM>AY^naMIUARY4 B'nat B'rtth Qirls Training Teat, 8:30 p.m. 0 College onege of Jewiah LearnkKTMeetinQ, Leamkig Meeting 7;d0 p.m. Temple lerael Caring Conmltlee, 7:30 p.m., TefflplelerMi Temple lenwi TUESDAY. FBBRUARY 6 Beth Israel Slatertiood Board, 9:30 a.m., Belhlarael Temple larael SMerhood Board, 9:30 a.m., Temple larael Bath B Wbmen't League Open Board, 9:30 a.m Hebrew Claaa, 10 a.m. JCC Board, 7:30 p.m. WB)NESOAY, F»miARY 7 JCAC Hebrew Ciaaaee, 7:30 p.m. Hebrew High. 7:30 p.m. Hadaeaah Study Group, 9:30 a.m.. LtvmgalooApla. THURBOAVrnBRUARY i BraWa Otaaa, 9 a.m.
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Fund ^ by the I%niip and Eatte Khitnkdc Pro' gram hi Jewish Studies. The OoUege of Jewish Learning Committee wouU also Uke to tiiank aU Omaha Jewish organicatiooa for theh' support in frsdiag Monday i^ts in order to make this Institute a sucoees. Alsolieing offered this semester is a thre»credlt coarse, "Introductioo to the OU Tevtamant," by Rabbi Myer Kriplca at Creigfaton University. Those interested in this course should contact the Unhwaity at 880-2601 for more infonnatkin. OUier credited counwe are being offered by Proitasor Maoacbem Mar at Crai^iton andPrafeaaor Rkhard Vrmad at UNO. For more information about theee coursea and the Jewiah Studiee Institute and KaUah Weekend, contact Beth Sddb Ootan at 334-8200, axt 272.
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RUTH KIRfflUiNBAUM Servicea wan hdd at Beth El Synagogue on Jan. ^ fm Ruth Kirshenbaum, 87. Intermeot was at Mt Sinai Cemetery. Mrs. Kirsbeabaum owned aud operated Louis Market fin- over 20 years until her retirement in 1966. She is survived by her dan^ter, Eunice (Mra. Norman) Denenberg. Omaha; brothers, Oscar Belaer, Los Aagdea, Marvin Bdiar, Omua; sister, Beulah'Mutterpaarl, Loa Angeles; three grandchfldran. ESTHBli BAUMSTBIN Sorvioaa. were hdd on Jan.«)bi9ltoUe,IU..for Either Baametala. Intermeot was at abakMa Memorid Caoietary hi SkoUa. Mra. Baumstein was preceded in death by her husband, Abraham. She ia survived by sons, Robert and Jonathan; brothw, Stanley Krinaky; three grandchildren. The family auggests menBotials to the Temple Isrsd Youth Fund.
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LONDON <JTA)-The Priiucees Road synagogue in Liverpod, arcBitecturally acclaimed as qp^ of the most beautifid in Europe but soioosly damaged by fire in 1979, Ifnay become a moeque. An energetic appeal raiaed the fnnda to restore the interior of the 116yeaisild building to its origind splendor, but an aging and dedining membership cannot be restored. Few Jews stiU live inthearea. The membership wiU meet Feb. 18 to dedde whether to accept an offer from the Moekm community for the building, which is fyr sale.
OBSERVE STRIKE THATCHER TO SPEAK JERUSALEM (JTA)Paleatinians observed a LONDON (JTA) ganerd itiika hi ^ Waat Ptinie Mldstcr Margaret Bank and Oaia Str^ the Hiaicher wiU addteee the first hdd to proteat the Board of Deputies (rf British Jews, the repreeantamainly from the Soviet tive body of British Jewry Union, into larad. next month.
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Saturday yvtoing at Beth El 3yn^K^gii». "ney were united in marriage by Rabbis Paul Onuen and Allan GooalMr and Cantor Emfl Bo-kovits. A reception and dance fdUowed theceremcmy. Jeanette Roeenbloom of St. Paul, Minn., was matron of honor for her granddaughter. The bridegroom's forotherinlaw, Alan M. Murow of Deerfidd, lU., served as best man. Paranta of the bride an Mr. and Mra. Leonard Nachman of BumsviUe. Mr. and Mra. Marie Potaah of Omaha are parents of tlie groom. lie newlyweda plan to honeymoon in E|^t. They win redde in JeruVS. STEADFAST GENEVA (JTA)-The United Sutea ^effl continue to oppoee efforta by the Pakatins Ubaratkm Organisation to gain adndaakm into spodaliaed agandsa of the United Natiana, the U.S. ambaaaedor to the UnMed Natkma bi Oeaeva, Morria Abram, made dear at a oawa conference hfire.
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JOHN ABRAHAM Services wero hekl on Feb. 1 at the Indepradent Farane Cemeteiy hi Siou;ic (Sty, Iowa, for Jdm Abraham, 94, <rf Omaha. Mr. Abraham was a mtoiber of Beth El Synagogue in Omaha and Shaan Zion Synagogue in Sioux City. He was s life msmber of the Al>u Bdcr Shrine hi Sioux City and of B'nal B'rith. Mr. Abraham ia survived by his son, Sydn^ of Omaha; daughtera, Hommoy Ranter, Doldtli, Minn., and Rae Epetdn of Sioux atyi ^it gnndcUldren mid aeven greatgrandchildren.
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of Ahbeimer's, Ms. BeO told members of Hadassah, people become undile to redogoiae their family membera. It is at this point that most people choose to put their rdatives in a nursing home, saying, "Mother doesn't know who we are imyway." C<»traiy to popular belief, Ms. Bdl said the Alzheimer's patient probaUy gets better when placed in a nurdng home. In the nursing home, the staff doee not expect too much from the patient. "We don't know them htSon so we don't grieve over what they ware in the past," Ms. Bell explained gbi said that moat familiea tiy to aasodate soais kind of meaning with what the pi^isnt is dobg. "People griev« over the loss of biiliiaiue that they remember in their lov^ ones." At the present time there is no treatment. She urged Hadsmsh members if thsy suqiected Alzheimer's in a family member to have teeting done to rale out qthflr illneesee. It may not be AkbaisMr's. It may be a treatable diseese that faaa the same syii^toma. Ms. BeO said, .*<If you think you have Alzheimer's you probably don't. Victims ore much less likaly-io s«y something or to tUnk sodRKK&tg'Is wrong with them." She pointed out that clinical depreesion has many of the same symptoms. She recommended a book entitled, "Understanding Difficult Behaviors" which ttaa be pur chased from Michigan Untversity, 416 King Hall, YpsOonti, MI 48197. The Hadassah-Hebrew Univeraitv Medkal Center in Jnusalem has recantty announced a Joiat venture with the Univenity of California School of Medicine in San Frandao to study Alzheimer's diseaae ac* ctwding to the "Hadoasoh NewB."
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Nancy Hoch will be the qieaker at the Fehruaiy i^nw^^fi^ according to Lee Polikov. B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers chairman for the month cif Fobruaiy. Mrs. Hoch i« a Uoiversity of Nebraska Regsnt Breadbreakers meets every Wednesday at noon at the Venke Inn. Cost for the luncheon is 16.
at 1 p.m. The program will feature Esther Ulster in "Yesterday Rememboed."
A babysitting cooperative is bebjf formed to meet the babysitting nee«ls of young Jewish fanuliJM. "Ydull know your children are baiiigeired Air by responsible Uhllts and onjoying other «hildren, whiU you take advantage of the points you earn baby^ting," said Beth Friedman, one of the founding members.
Jim'EHmon, son of Kathy and Steve Simon, has received a Presidential Internship and is currently working in the White House personnel office. "A cooperative ia also a ORT Jim is a junior at Ameri- nice way to meet othor University in Jewish familiea with small Women's American. can children. We'll have a ORT will bold a mid-year Washington, D.C. chance to get to know each evaluation meeting on SbeVy Cohen announces other at a kidi-off coffee Feb. 13 at the Jewiah Community Center at 7:80 that "Hie TVavel Company, and we cap kMk forward to p.m. Board members, a fiill«irvioe travel ageoQr which includes anyone haa moved to a new locaREUNIFICATION holding an office, aboold tion at 7631 PiMrific Street. WEST BERLIN (JTA) attend. The meeting is The new telephone number — Jews in both East and is 897-W77. open to all members. West Germaigr erenow acA book. "Miriam's Tamtively in favor of reunificabourine," waa left at the NOT IN TERRITORIES tion, convinced it is iouniTEt AVrV (JTA( - nent snd that it will be in gift wrap booth. Call Caryn RifUn. 334-7216, to On^ 2 percent of all thair best intereots. This immigin^tswho have view was heard in interclaim yojor book. arrfvad in Israel during the B'NAI B'RITH WOMEN last five years live in the views conducted last weekend in East and Weet B'nai B'rith Women wOl West Bnik, Gaza Strip Beriin and amotig Jews host the annual "Sweet- and the Odan Heights, ebetrhsre in the two Gei> heart Day" at the Rose according to a rqxnt in manys. Bhimkin Home on Feb. 16 Ha'aretz. v
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David Siegel's day Mluy events of note take place on a <h^ basis within the Jewish commmii^'B ofganisatioaal stroctun. It is '- notpoeaiUefartheJewiiAPyMBtonportoiieUofthem. However, tfaJs past week I was privileKed to qieak on my recant trip to the Soviet Unioo to a group of men and women attendbig the Breadbreaktrs hincheon. Breadbreakers is a B'nai B'rith group which meets Wednssdeys at noon, aawntily at the Venice Inn. Ususl attendance is leas thiaaao, but that number sweBed by 50 percent last week because of the hoooree, David Siegd. MI. Siegel, past president of Comhosker I^odge and the first president of Henry M<»iaky Lodge <tbe k>dge created by the recent merger <rf two k)dgesT was attending hia last Breadhreakars'meeting before relocatiag to ; .Phoenix. 'In tribate to Mr. Siegel, Myron Kaplan and Steven Ridkes spdce eloqucmtly iJMUt how they first came in contact with Mi. Siegd and how impressed they were with his I^dership aUJity and his contributiens to the Jewish eommimity. In response, Mr. Siuiel pointed out that he looked \spou Uspartidpation u> Jewish organisational life as fulfilling-the responsibility of being Jewish. Cdnddentally, while thLiUng about this editorial, I S^aaoed at a cotumn written recent^ by Rabbi Lewis H. KamrasB. senior rabbi, Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cin-
No one, at this point, has any really accurate notion of the munbers of refugeee who are likely to leave either for larad or the U.S. Jewish leaders are not certain ifhether or how long Mr. GcniMchev's pcltiey of "perestroika" (restructuring) is to be continued. It is problematic, to say the lesst, whether Gorbachev's atteaq;>ta to niodemize the Soviet economy will be sncoeerfoL Jews everywhere remain concerned, about the cixisequebcee of these aztracrdinaiy new initiatives. In effect, we remain on the horns of a dilemma. If Gorbachev's reloras continue to uideash the latent nationalism of the Soviet nstionaBttos king jepreeeud by the hitWycentraUsed Soviet State, Jews stand to boon the reodving end of a deeply tagrained teaditian of crude political antiSemitiam. The njid growth of the fatenselysnt^Sen^ "Pamyat" (menwry) movement in Russia is amjrie evidence of the dangers possibly in stors given that we do not know the ultimate outcome of the continuation of poUdes set in motion by Mr. Gorliachev's rdormmovement. Equally serious for Jews mi^t be the sudden definitive removal fk Mr. Gorbachev and his evqiporters by means of the more traditianally repressive einnents wttUn tiie Communist epparat Should they be aucoessful in danfliag pereetkoiQu, then not <mly will Jewish emigratkm Ukdy be hahed, but once again, Jews might find themselvee being held reqionsible for a misoonoeived poliey of Uberalisaticm. Either alternative poaes real duigers fa- the Jewish population of the Soviet Unioa
Writing in Tbe lion, a pablieaUon of Alpha Epeilon These conditions pf uncertainty ooiqded with an Pi. Rabbi Wise sakk "... Centuries ago, our rabbinic aHMrent relaxation of Soviet iinmigratic«t.policy have ssges taught in these sinqile words a profound and stir- created oooditians which might provide the impetus for ring lesson for life: lerge acale minarity defections from Russia. Israeli Kd Israel a-rayveem leh baseh. AU of Israel, every gOvanmeot planners and Jewish Agency planiMns are - Jew, is responsible for one another." (Talmud Shavuot therefore antie^Mting a wholesale immigration of a very . 89a) ;4«rge nnmberof Jew*. Tills is joy no means a farfetdied EaM Wise added: poosifaility. SB owntbs UD, no one could have predicted "... To know that we are connected to others, that what has taken place in BerM, not to mention the reet , our welfare does coooem someone else, this is SBOttgfa of Eyrtpn Europe. Events are moving at an eitremely to revive the airfiit In tbstradition of Judajam. we Uvad rtpupeoe jAid we need to move qnidu^ hi order to keep with the understanding that if we aee another parson ahead of them. in distress, we wooki not'stand idly by iriiile a nei|^ A contingency plan haa bean prepared by the Jewiah bcr bleeda."I1ierefore, we bnnsd about responsibility, Agency and the government of larairi for tlw abeorption about earing for someone even if he wasn't our friend, of 100,000 new Russian olim hi Israsl from the Soviet but because he was a 'brother.'" Mr. Siegel has demonstrated his kxve of brotherhood in his dfligent psrtidpatkD as a B'nai B'rith leader and his friends at Braadbraakera wanted him to know that ; hia pieeence at the table will be missed TothaBdter f I can't think of a better feeling for Mr. Siegel to walk I write in reeponae to a remark in tbe Jan. 26 Jewiah b iway with than the thoocht that YOU will occupy his Pieaa artide on Super Sunday. I seat at the weekly iiiestiiige It was atatad that someone raftmed to raise hia pledge becauae of the cuts in senior dtisen programs. Sadiv, with eoBtinned thinUng such ta tUa, we will evantuaUy lose many axoalkot programs oonfaig out of our seven agendea. We can no kngsr progrvB withoat s thought (Foundwl m 1920) as to wiiece tbe money is coming from. Some adtvitiea (Miver B. Fdlak are "pey as you go;" but I would venture to asy, moat Preaklent. Jewish Press depend on tlM fensrosity of our «empsign doDats to su^ BoiBd of Directore vive. wile Prihick.»kepieetiiwt: Scott FHidWe have come to the time whan all of ua muat contHMsarer Booaia Honrick. eoerstary; JiU Kuahnar Mmt, RabU aUaey H. Brooks. Benakl Bodwig, tribute to Campaign aa gnaransly as we can-«ur JewRlehard PeUman, EUy OordnMn. Aaron Hoatyk. Carol iah communal Ufa dependa on it Your family andmine KitfmH. Jod^lMedioek, LgnMia Minrlah. MaAyo Piwi deasrvaiti Susanne Singer and Okria Wagnw. IleaeKldn Morris MaUne Editor-in-Cbief TotkafidKar Jndtth Marbuig. Manaaing Editor SiMnri Friedoian, BuaiThe IMl Louiaiana caas hi which a eecular court BMa Maniww, Jaaane SbMbat, Production Aaelataat; dadared Ifaeif unable to dicrae What oonstitstae Oitbo^ Oeorge Behaptra Office Vohmtaer. SalM BepraMoUtiveo: Barbara PrankaL Diana Baum. doK Jndaism. reviewed in lUy SinHa's wtl^b of January 6, ahotdd not be construed aa ovidam tiuit ndthar Daania Maj^irean. Dora flhafraa and Rocky Sterau Mltaritto«awwtlM»kwfl«UM>wf»»iiawotiiii.i»agl do Jawa themsalvea know what Orthodoiy ia and edut it is not. I The eourt's stataaHmt that "OithodoK. CosMrvative TiMt J(«Wi n«M h Mt iMvtaMbb br iia IMIM* i< ay |na«l w ra^MUMJjn^MMlvMiy|^. what ther •<y<trtgi<««wniMini»<iii •iiitiamn—«w* aaa
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thi liflHBiPHiPHHH^Hfae'eeaodat<dwMf1ifeii>ii>WiA*daM>w1edia«lbyaachofth«» And the dkKtnguishlng nark of what la known aa Orthodox Judaism Is utterly clsar U Is tka bsltsf that both the Writtaei and Ord Torah-indudlng the basla fior the authority of rabblnir bw-wsra Ood-givan at Bind sad are ataraally binding and Inmutabia RabM YHadMk BraadriM tMimlM tl PaMle Affdra Agndath larad tA AnMrira
Union in a pedod of three fiscal years beginning with 1890^1.'This does not take into consideration the 60,000 per year who are likely to be accepted by the U.S. government. The government of Israel and the Jewish Ageni^ are addng Diasiiora communitiee to contribute $600 million ddlars toward the funding of programs necessary to sbsorb the eiqtected immigrants. The UJA or U.S.^ Federations will be expected to raise aiq;>roximately $360 million with the remaining ^UH) mUlicHi to come fr«mi the iton U.S. federated o^^^tiaa in Canada, South Africa, Australia and Euro|iB. The tenor of most of the meetings and sessions at the last Ocnersl Assembly of tbe Coimcil of Jewish Federations dealing with tUs mtniumentd undortaking wss not without critidsiii of the Israeli government nor without some messure of acrimony. However, the overwhelming reqMnse of moot ddefpitee preeented a commem purpose in desiring to genwate a woriuble jdan which would get'on with the job of resettlement Locd leaders find themsdves on the horns of a dilemma: they fed a certain understandable ralnctanoe to repeatedly go to the same ptople again and again to ask for emergency funds; tbqr also fed the justifiable obligation to do everything possible to redeem those of our fdkiw Jews who opt for a lifs of finedom. As hard as it may be, the nationd Federation leadership beBevee it must do whatever is necessary to sse that ss many psople ss posdble sre reeettled, idiether fai the U.S. or fai Israel, wfaUe the window of opportunity remains open. Over the next few months, American Federations win be called up(m to diMuss how best to meist the needs of this selected masdve influx of immigrants. Locd Pederatioos and can^aign cd>inets will be discussing some of the following criticd issuss: A. Suuld there bs a sinc^year canqMign with a posdble five-year pay out? B. Shoidd there be a two-line campaign? C. How wiU we allocate the dcunestic and the Israd portion of the dollars rsised? D. When shouU the new campaign begin? It seems pretty dear to all of us ^at we are going to be faced with the anguish of institutiond triage. How this frmd-rsising will bnpact our locd |m>gramming or on tbe reeourcee of an aheady strained Jewidt Agency is snyone's gusss. Furthermors, how this fund-raising will impact on the needs of the recently arrived EtUol^ans in Israd or those young people who are helped by the Agency's Youth Afiyah reddentid schMs is ilso very much sn unlmown. It is fair to say, however, that the current levels of Soviet immigration have not yet cultured the ooDeetive imagination of the free communitiea of the Diaspora. Perhaps if truly masdve numbers of Jews are rdeeaed, maybe the momentum will build, and not to draw to a doee a paralld to the maadve diefectioqa of Germans from ths Esst, the North American Jewish commonitjss win rscogpiie that we are faced with a challenge and <q>portunity of truly qnc proportitais. Right now, the incressed but stiU rdatively amaU numbvs of Russian immigrants have not redly galvanixed the entire Jewiah community to action. It is difficult to i»edkt what might happen if we are faced with an open door policy and truly masdve migrations of Jews. HM next year will lik^ afford us the opportunity tofind out
By Rabbi Foster E. Kawalar, Major, U8AF It seema to be time agdn for the flap and hoopla to fly awond about the abortion iesos. I a^ators and witnessss are agatotaUdng. with tears in their eyes, about nrardsriag innocent cfaildreD, while othace pntest, with tears in tMt syee, about tbe frurt that this is not the case at alL It'a easy to gst kwt bi dl of the amotionsllam that aooompaidee tUa Issue, but tiiare ia an under^ lybig iaaue that we Jewa aometimae k>ee eight of. Judaiam is most dsfinitdy aot "pr»chaios"l For that matter, It isn't nartioolarly "pc»liis" dtiMk, Havhig add that 1st me quslify. Ws srs not "pro^ choice" hi ths way the n(o«lioiee advoeates advactise it Under Jewiah law, abortioM performed fori other than to aave the npthar'e life are oenddeied tamord and illagaL Uafte the Christian conospt, however, ths crime k not ooaddirad "nnnlnr" but "daetiufr Uon of aeed." Even so, abortions for "coovenieoos" 9t tat sex sslsetion are atffl stiietly out of the queetioo. We are not "pro-Ufs" according to ths wav It is advei^ Used either. We hsve ths utmost respsct for ths fsUts ss "pr»4Us"-rseaffdsing the poteatid of what Uut Uls may aooompliah after it is bsB»~«4 aa sudi it dsssrv* the utmoet attention to kaap It viable. However, in| mfdkal, Ufe-or^eath ariele. when It comee to a i bdiarean aa unbent (stua akd ita mothsr, the n takes priority tvary aingb time. A fatua la not a I (CoaU.*e«M^;^.C;
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iHholic-Jewish paper on Hdlocdtist says Vatican condoned Nazi regime By Tom Tngand LOS ANGEI4S (JTA) — The Vatican may have tacitly condoned the stoingthening of the Nazi regime and Med to aid its Jewish victiniB, according to an unixreoedcoted document refeaaed by Catholic and Jewish leaders in Southern California^ T^ document, the first of it» kind to explore the CatMic Church's role as an unwittteg accomplice in, Adolf Hitlor's consolidation of power, will be sent to the Vatican, the Natitnal Ccmferenoe of Cath(dic Biahope in Washington, and to 3,000 CatU)lic
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schools, seminaries and across the U.S. "This is in my opinion unique and is pioneering and ground-breaking," Rabbi A. Jameis Rudin, nationil director of interreligious a%^ for the American Jewish Committee, told the I.OS Angeles TIUMK The fivepage Statement wasidrafted by the CatholiciJewi^ Reqiect Life Committee, consisting of 23 Southern Cslifocnia religious and education leaders. It was rdeaaed Friday at a news omfer^ encehi Anahwim, Califs LeacUng oMDibers of the
(Coatteoed ben Page 4) bsing untfl it is bom. Jewish law definea that moment as when at least the forehead of the baby emerges, or when a nu^or percentage of the body has emerged. Indesd, thati|^we.cireuaidseab«9(«Btlie«ighth day after his Urtiu the baby is stiU considend as a "fetus" for SO days after the birth. Hie doctrine that life begins at CQDoeption is a whdly Christian one—and predmninanUy Catholic at that. Their problem revolves aroond when the "feius" is eoodowed with a "sooL" Judaism beUevee that the soul is indeatcuetifale by the hand of man. Cooaeqnently, even if you hbid the beUef that the soul is attacbsd to the fetus at oedoeption, there ia no proUem if the fetus needs to be tsnninated for a reason valid under Jewish law. Iblaet. if Jews are to be really froeted by abortion legisljftian, they would be more correct to protest the provisiaa oi the Missouri law that the Supreme Court refused to rule on—the statemmt that life famine at ceoceptkn—a blatant^ Cathdic concept In fact, some intarasting things are beginningto happen in that state. A VHW"^ female convict haa sued for raleaae, aince hsr "hmo^ent djd" ia hsing iWapsHyiayriaeBed. A eaor victed drug <iMdv i* appealing his conviction on the grounds thathis pircota forced him to uae heroin when he waa "just a <Md." Ridfculoua? Not the way the law ia wordedl You can readily aee that mixing ral^gioa and goveramant can main more trouble than oor e^wttled legislators realize. Of oourae, to make sweeping statements on halacha ia always a dangaroos thing to do, aapeciaQy in tUs case, lodsed. what dose "endaogering the life of a mothar" really mean? Ia a 14-year«ld realiy codangarad by har pregnancy, or is it just her reputation? What about the I3-yeer-old rape victim? Is psychological dimage aBOOgfa to "endanger the life of the mother"? What if the unborn is ronflnned to be a Tay Sacha victim? AH of theea are queatioDS that have variooa legal implleetiona in Jewish law and muat be handled eeea 1^ caae. Anyone who is faced with theee dedaiona ahoold consult a competent rabbL But you aee, that is Just the poiatl As Jews we can make thsae cboieeel We can go to the "Ruv" or the "Bet Dhi" and get advice or judi^Mnt accordfaig to our Jewiah baliefe—not according to what the CathoUcs say or the Luthsraas s^. or eivta what the govanMMDt says— at least for now. If you want t9 take a stand on the abortion iaaue, don't do it on aome raadnn pramiael Do i( to keep the govatnnMnt out of our bedroaae and (lluv* dil) out of our synagogues and templesi Do it fbr the separation of "Chmch" and State! For our aaka. how evefi do eematUagl Nothing ia going to happen for utf all if we don't write or call our sUtoaDdisderal legiala-
committee are Rabbi Alfred Wdf and M<msignor Roysle Vadaldn, both veteran leaders in CatholicJewish rdations here. Relations between Jews and Catholics in Southern California have kmg been c(»sidered as a model for the rest of the country. Vadaldn said thft while many Catholic-Jewish committeiBS in the U.S. have discussed the Holocaust, the current statement; is the first to be published and distributed to educators. Psrishee acroes the country wiU next decide whether to incorporate the material into their sdwol curricula. Titted'Tbe Hdocaust: At the Edge of Comprehenidon," the document is baaed on historical evidence, rather than church sources. A section on "Complicity and Righteous Actkm" suggests that the Vatican tacitly aided Hitler, immediately upon his assumntien of power, by signmg with him the 1933 Coocqrdat Osteujhly, the Concordat i»t>tected the diorch's rii^ts under the Nazi regittie, with the presnmptkn that the Vatican would not protest the growth of Oerinan nati<malism under Hitler. Hitler immediately ignored the Coneordat's protective dauaes, paving his way to the aaaumptiaa of total dictatorial power, says the statement "In Ugfat of Uiis, we are now fne to ask whether the comproUiisee made by the Vatkan with the Nazb did not, in the long run, do more harm than good," the statement condudea. "It wonkl be mialeading to suggest that the Roman Catholic Church dklowtry^ thing hi ita power to come to the aid of the Jews," it saya. Another part of the statemastpoiate eu^ that "in the face of the yvwing threata againat the Jews, all too few Chriatian graiqM raised tbsir voices to protest. Msay Christiana doeed thak ears to the Jews in their darkest hour."
Resettlement workers Members ol the Sfawx (Mr, Iowa, Jewleh eoonnnity met with members of the Om^a Jewish cuaamunUyewaertMa weak to jJbceaareaeHfcsnent of 8eiiia|Ji»wa. SkNH 01^ pfaaa to iseettls about 11 tamffiee fa the next several months. The greup waa eoaaaeled by SUiley QeMatsiB, chainua otOauha'a Soviet Jewry ooanplttee; Mm Tater and Baaa KraaofitdQr of the QaiiAa Reeettlaaicat comaalttee; CHaa fla—en. execathre director <rf Jewiah Faarfly Servte^ JUtbert WolfBOB, executive Aector of ADIX)IIC, and Gall Raadknaa. reprssenfiBgRcp; Peter
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JPRIDAY: ServioM at 8:15 p-m. Rabbi Paul Drazen and RabU Aieriel and Cantor Cantor Emil Berkovita Firertooe will aCEdata. idn conduct the services. Thxi Oneg Sliabbat itiO. FRIDAY: be aponsOnd by Temple Servioes at 6 p.m. SisttrlMwd. SATURDAY: Morning service, 9:30 SitTER SERVICE Sitter service i» availaKiddush will be given by ble for the Shabbat ev» ning 8ervic& There are nd Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ginsfacilities for infants. berg. Babysitting is available Reservations are necessary. from 10 a;m. Junior Congregatidn, 11 SATURDAY: a.m. Sbabhat Morning ServShsbbat Story Time, 11 ice, 11:16 a^D. Simeah B'SBiabbat-llie K'tantan j^ogram wilt coiigregation, togetl^er meet at 11 a.m. with Rabbi Aaid. wiU Minha-Ma'ariv aervices •ta^ ihe Torah portion at 6:80 p.m. for the mtik. SUNDAY: Services at 9 a-m. and INTR(H>UCnON 5:30 p.m. TO JUDAISM TUs ooune fior Jews, WEEKDAYS: Services at 6:66 ajn. and noiHlews and individnals comid<rii>g converaiea to 6:80 pjn. Judaiam 1H11 begin on Moadqr, March 26, rather LUNCH AMD LEARN nii Londi aiid Lpm aethw the Feb. 12 date ries with die ndifai will oonprevknaly annooooed. FtviB&nnatiaa, can th» tiane on FM>. 8, noon, at tiie^^agogue. ADtA^T EDUCATICm JEWISH T^Maday.FakS MUSIC M<»nH QodV Angry Men: The Cantor JBariuvfta' an^ pmiheta-9:80-l(h30 aun. tha Bath El Oidr win pai^ IlkB Five 9crolls-10*.S0- tioi^att in the Shabbat Itae a.m. meralngsehdoeonFeb. 10 Prayerbook Hebrew— in oeMratioo of Jewish 11:30 ajn.-12:80 p.m. Music Month. Julia Zaket will be honored.
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WOMEN'S IJBAGUE FRIDAY: Women's League will Evening service, 7 p.m. have sn open bond meeting on Feb,<, 9:30 ajn., at SATURDAY Mordbig service, 9 ajn. the Jewish Community The nsidenta and staff Center. of the Rose Blomkin SHABBAT DINNER Ilome invite the families, TUBI8HVAT vtionteers and friends at ATHiBishvatasderwiB ths reaidants ta attend swicaa in ths Herbert beheldonFeb.»fbDowiiig OddsteaChiqisLKiddush the 6 p.m. aervice. Ramr follows services an Shab- vtOam tnay be sent to JoyaWeaa. bat. Men'a Club Breakfast wlUbeh«ldonF«b.llfoiAttend Services lowing fflomlng aervioes. thb Shabbat The qieaker win be a Aectective from the Youth VioUnoe Division of the Police Department iNALS The family of EdHh R. <egaU wishes to thank »ll their friends and .relativsa for the many kindnesses sbown foilowing their recwt loes. Your thoughtfulnesa waa da^jiiy anprsdated. Special thanka to Cafr lor Fettnanaad BSUi Israel Synagogas.
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Lincoln B'nal Jeshurun FRIDAY: SiiiiHith eve service, 7;45p4n. SUNDAY: Hebrew, 9 a.m.; Religioua Schocd, 10 a.m.; Preschool, 10:45 a.m.
Lincoln Tiftireth Israel FRIDAY: Services begin at 8 p.m. The Oneg Shabbat win be hosted by Betty and JeCfMeOen and Rhode and Harlan Pi'isanian. SATURDAY: Servieee, 9:80 a.m. WEEKDAYS; Minyana each Monday and Thursday at 7:30 a.m.
Offutt Air Base FRIDAY: Servioea in the Capduut Chapei every Friday at 8 nja Aa Due Shabbat follows tha att^ioe.
Couhf^ bluffs B'nal Israel Sirvibes are open to the cenminity.' The synagqmeja located at 618 MylMtrinCoaneflBfai^ FUDAY.Fabff Shaton IStieM win lead the ssrvioe at 7:80 paa An Oneg Shabbat wiU foUow SATURDAY. Feb. 10 Sharon Stiefal WiU laed a Tu Biahvat aeder at 6:80 pjn.
SUNDAY. Feb. 11 General congregational meeting indodfaig dsetion of ofljosrs, 10:80 a.m., at the synagogos. For information, caU Brent Bhxmi, days, 3422833; avteiags, 846-9654. NEO-NAZI RELEASED BONN (JTA) - Ma» frsd Roadsr, a niiO<* "•o* Nad activist since 1960, will bs released from prison on Feb. 16 after strviag sight years of s 13year aentence.
Temple offers musical service Temple IsraeTa. '^Sermm ia Song" wiU be preaantad at Shabbat evening ssrvicsa on Feb. Sat 8:16 p.m. Cantor and Madeietoa Firastaas will aiag aeva^l songs with tbs tests trim ths "Song of Songs," a aeriaa of knra noeos which is oont8ini<d In the first of the fi th» BAle Acoordiag Co tradltioa. King Sokmon waa the au- Hetfman end nershnn thor of this love postry lUacalsy. which is alao lalatprsted RabU Arveh Azrial wU as dsaciAiac tbs BjrnboUe Intnduee tna musle and Israel the atutin « m-
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FRffiAY: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 6:30 p.m. Late Family Service, 8 p.m. Sisterhood wiU sponsor "Know Thy Nei^bor" Sabbath which is hdd each year during Brotherhood Month. This aerviM is in-, tended to give oar Christian friends snd nsi^hbors an opportunity to become more familiar with Jewish rdigious practices and beUefs. Fonowing the service there wiU be a questionand-anawer period. Maggie Oerber and Elaine Freund are c&chairmen for the aervice. BabysittiU- service wfll be provided through cotirtlNQr of Sistwfaood. Hie Onsg Shabbat reOMtidn foUowfaig services wfll be hosted t^r Sisterhood. SATURDAY: Morning service, 8:46 A Kidduah, in obeervance of the yahneit of Meyar Tttla, heated by Mrs. Albsrt Newman, will foUow fn the aodal haU. Jr. Coogragation for aU Beth laraal Tahnud Tteah studsnU Witt be held on Feb. 3, 10 a.m., in the Goidataia Chapel under the diraetkm of Rabbi Allan Ooaahsr. The "Little People's Service," under the directi<m of ^lijriay Goodmsn. wutneet in tb Reerei^km Room at 10 aja Thia ia fcr children kindergarten through tha seeond grade. atter aervlcs ia avattabis thnmgb courteay of Siatarhood. Mincha, 6:30 p.m. Mincha witt be foUowed by Ma^riv, Shakw Seudos sndHavdalah service. SUNDAY: v . Minyan, 9 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Minyan at 7 a.m. and 6:80 p.m UP8HEAREN The "Tenh Laam and Play" group far tbta meato on Feb. 11. 10:80-11:80 a.m. Parenta and tota are welcome to eommemorate the"UpabaaM)"ofArieh BkMM. eon of Howard and Laiura Bloom. Each adult participant WiU be invited to take a anip at Ariah'a first hair cut as hs turns thrss years of aga. Special ref^eehmnta are being provkled by the Bloom family. A apedal Tu B'Shvat program ia planned as" wad. HAR«AT MITXVAH CLUB The Bar/Bst Mitavsh Qub wii mast with Cantor f attmaa on Feb. 4, MklO a,m.. In the youth lounge. SISmwOOD BOARD The Siatarhood Board waiU meet at 9:30 ajs. on Feb. 6 in the aodal haU. ADULT BAIAAT MITZVAH GUlB Cantor Fsttmaa'a Adult Sar/Bat Mitasah oiaai «a mset on Fsb. 7 st 1 p.m.
By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke ©1900 Faraahat Bo The ptopbatit and the world of politics The nxval life is not lived in a vacuum. We live in a real world of nei^iborhoods and nations and peoples. We live in a worid of kings and pariiaments and pditics. Our world is profoundly afiected by climate and crops and aidmal huabandry, by oonumerce and industry snd transportation. If aU of thia is truism after truism for us, we should not be surprised to note that dmHar facts fseed the prophets of our Bible. EssentiaUy they were teachers of morslity, who demsndedrli^teaasness. especially social righteousness, aa thaiiub of religioas truth. -^ Our current ffidrot center about the prqmration of the Exodua, the redemption of the Children of Israd from Egyptian bondage. The Tea plagues and the punishment of ancient Egypt ate the subjsct matter of Vaera and Bo, laat week's Sidrah and oura. It is not to be wondered 1^ then, that the Utorgists chose Haftarot with relevant themea. Laat weak, faaesuse of Roeh Hodsidi,^: apsdal Haftarab waaxtW'x' But the aaalgaad Hiftarah, from Fsekiel, ptomiaed the defeat of Egypt before invincible fccoas of Nsbuchadnaasar of BAy Ionia (6th century BCE). Our own Haftarah, through the eyes of Jeremiah, EasUd's (ddar contemporary, lepsata ths same theme. If ths prophets were prsaihsis of mohdity, why this intsrest in geomilitary matters? Tbs point ws have mads is that morality ia not lived in a
vacuum. The prophets had to consider the world situation in which little Judah Uved and fought—and hoped to survive. Their iiitoest in Egypt was natural t6 their task as teachers. They lived in a real world. It may be that they were influenced partly by the deapobdency that over^ took aU of Judah when King Josiah's reign was forcibly aided. He had been an ideal king. He was a religious reformer snd poUtical activist. He tried to throw <^ the yoke of Assyrian dominance,' but in 609 he hMt his Ufe to the Egyptians. Th^y had invaded-Jodah hi an effort-^tddch Ibflsd only a bit latsr—to give support to tiis Assyrisns against the Bsbyfcmiana. It Waa the beginning of the end for Jndak; aiid Jeremiah andEsekialaawlfcaatha beghming of the edlapse of Egypt aa well Ifthersiaiipoio*4aaU of thia it has to do with Uw very nature of prMtaecy. It iri stiU taken ^My by acHBe bvera of tlia.Bfiils that the prophete oooU— and did—foretell (Jbe fatore. 4 ^ That was not their purpose. Torspeat: the prepheta were teachers of monlity. llieir attention waa focuaed both on Individuala and society within Israel and Judah; but their attention rsacbsd unceasin|^ and unsparing to aU the nationa roundabout, Egypt included. Could the Pharoah be sparsd who boasted. "The Nils is mine snd I havs created it for myaelfIT "He could not. Egypt was slsted for destruction.
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By Joanie Jacobaon On Saturday moming, Feb. 10. Beth El Synagogue will pay tribute to Julia Zuker, a woman who^ for over 40 years, has given her time and talenta to singing in the Beth El Choir. In honor of Miss Zukar. the choir will join in a presentation of a unique iSbabbat moming service. "The tribute to Julia is part of a two-fold celebration," explained Cantor Berkovite. "First, in fiirther recognition of Be4Ji El's 60tb anniversary ahd second, to mark the beginning of Jewish Music Mooth. A Kiddush will fdlow the service and the entire c(Mnmunity is invited to attoid. "We've new had Satm>day moming choir participation," he added. "We'U be singing music by compoeera from the earibr 19th century to modem times. And it's not just the choir who will be singing, llie service has been deaigned so that eveiyme can jdn in." Cantor Berkovite had hic^ praiae for Misa Zcdur. "The choir has been Number One for Julia," he commented. "She has ^en unselfishly of herself tm ovn four decadea, and her dflidlcation is- to be admmcL "WUto the choir is not paid a salary, each member does receive 'gas money' at the end of tne year. When Julia retired from hw job with Dick Walter Attractions, she continued to sing with the choir. However, she has nevo- accepted 'gas numey' since lur retirement." Miaa Zuker said she was Butpriaad by the tribute. "I didat «q>ect it. I always said I cUdn't want to be hooored, but now that it's happening, I think it's a wooderAil thing. I do fisel hooored, "All of my friends and family think it's great, too," she continued, 'nbey're very ezdtad. The other choir members toU me I deeerved to be recogniied because I'm so consctootious. I go to all the rehearsals. I've alwaya gone to rdwaraala, avsn in the worat kind of weather. I'm dedicated because I love it. "When 1 first moved to Omaha, Elinore Whitman
JuHa Zuker recommended me to Cantor Edgar. He called and asked if I wanted to sing in the chdr. When I was just a young, working girl, Cantor Edgar would (bive us kids hotne at night from aehearaaL There was a car full of ua, and I lived out oixth at the time, He was a great man; I learned a tot from him." Miss Zuker explained that ahe studied voSoe with Mary M^mchoff hen in Onudui and with an opera singer bi Chicago during the eic^t years she lived thwe. "I also sang at Tempto Israel with some of my friends," she said. "I've made many friends among other choir members. We've eung with some thrilling guest soloiste and had some wonderful memories ovsr the years. I can remember singiiig with Cantor Edgar at Witherspoon HaO in the Joalyn Art Mnaeuifa in catobraticD of Bath El's 25th Anniversary. "I've gotten a lot of compliments over the years," she explained. "Sbiging in the choir has given me a lot of confidence. It's made me feel good. I especially enjoy •inging aoloa. "When Cantor Berkovite told me I waa going to be honored at a Saturday morning sarvica, I naked if I had to make a speech. 'Just show up,' be toU me. I wiU. I'm tooUng forward to it"
Beth Efclu BIshevat Seder ^ By Joaoto Jacobaon In coijiinctlon with the Faniily Sbabbat Dbiner program held on theaecond Friday of every month, Beth E) Synagogue will hold a modified Tu Biahevat SedW on Feb. 9, immediately following the 6 p.m. Shabbat service. According to Rabbi Paul Drazen^ the Seder Tu Bishevat is a custom which was popularized by the mystics in the middle ages. It is based on the Passover Seder and incorporates readings and aongs abdut trees and nature.. "We will have four cups of wine, frttite and a ddicious dinner menu as well," Rabbi Drazen said. Patty Nogg, event chairman, announced the menu will conaist of a tossed green aatod, "Luqr'a Famous Chicken," new potatoes, a hot fruit compote and brownwB for deesCTt A qtedal invitation was aent to all fifth grade atudente and their tenilies, encouraging the stadente to partidpato in the program. "We would like every fifth grade stodentto lead a portioa of the Seder,"
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JGC theater auditions "Theatre at the J" will hold auditions for the musical "Jacques Brel is Alive and Weil and Living in Paris" on Feb. 11, from noon until 1 p.m., and 5:45-7 p.m. Auditims will be held in the theater at the Jewish Community Center. Four siiigers are needed; two women and two men. Rdiearsals begin the seccod week (rf March and the shoiw will run throughout Aitiato Scbecca noon, left, Evjt Kate Hid Mvy Jo Hondag wffl exhibit their woricB April. Andy Stevenson in the JCC Art Gallery Peb. 2-28. wtil be directing and the muaic director win be Kate Schrader. Those auditioning shouU prepare a song and bring sheet music. An accompaniat will be proThree local Omaha toRebecca has had exten- for ti» past 16 years. vkled. tists, Rebecca Bloomr sive teaching eiqierienoe For more information, Evy has served as chairMary Jo Homhig ud Evy and has woriied with the man of the JCC Art Com- call Andy Stevmson at Kats will ahow their wodc JCC sommar can^e. She mittee and has worked as "Theatre at the J," in the Jewish Commuiiity enjoys working with chil- the director of Visual Arts. 834-8200. Center Art GaDary Feb. 2- dteo. as tliey are nnin- She has also taaght art '"Ibeatre at the J" is 28. Ao opening and reoq;>- hihited and own a ueativo dasses and wockshops at supported, in part, by the tion wiUtake place Sun- freedom in their art work- ths JCC as wdl as at the N^raska Arts Coundl, Mary Jo Homing will be Omaha day, Feb. 11, book 24 p.m. Children's the Jewish Community HMM artists come to- diqilayia^ works in &bric Museum. Center and the Jewish gether for the first time to and mixed medik OrigiMoot recently, Evy has Federation of Omaha. display a diverse array of nally from Minneapolis, been designing, hanckraftIdonkstoyou. WOTICS. Mary Jo is best known as ing and marketing original twoftaRebeecii Bloom was a weaver. She spent time costume jeweliy and handfarAl4.pFUS raiaed in Onialu and in ru- at the Jewiah Conmnmity psinted dothing for her AIM ral west oentnil Iowa. Her center in 1886 as artist-in- business, Swinks, Inc. interest in preacoUday en- leeidant. At Uiat time she (Swink is an archaic Britvironmental iasues is evi- designed and worked with ish work mesning to labor, dent-in bar WQilt. She finds vohmtaers to create the tdl or sweat or to rush fbrthere is a Med toedacat« inqmariv« tapestry wfaidt ward). Her designs are people about global and hangs over the south available kically in gallet^ world problems; thiu her stairs at the JCC. ies snd boutkiues. work exhibits a socioMary Jo continues to The artwork Evy dispolitical cons^oosness. study art forms and is plays In (Us show is an expresently taking courses pkratioa of Jewiah foOE in imUpWiiig at the4J[niv«r art themes. Though ^sbe sity ^ Nebraska at Lin- continues to crsate repWe have nanniwa to coln. Hie works kidaded resentational wnk, most live at home with in the show use a oomUna; of theee pieces are abyour children as well tion of frteies and a vari- stract 1-609-888-8886, Ezt. as your oldar adnlta Bk4W2. llieFebrusry art show ety of materials. or nannies availaUe Evy Katz is the third proBoiaes to be an interestto go along oo your artist to display her works ing expression of thrse diin the February show. She yerse artists. Tbe axhibit . FerEefwWicy has Uvad and worked in wiO remain in the JCC Art lall Mrs. Swain Omaha as a freelance art- Gallery througiiout the tet and.grm>hic deaigner the month of F^mary. 493-2770
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Jim Hendiy, Crei^ton Blu«jay Baseball coach, and the &cighton Bhujay baseball players will pa^ ticipate in the Jewish Comnmni^ Center's AllAnMTican Hot Dog Dinner and Basebsll dinkThis annual dimier and clink cfiera is "a fun way for boysand giria to leain and farther develop thdr baseball sldDs," aoMRUng to Chodc Amdd. All Qenter membere in kindergarten through sixth grades may attod the program on Feb. Id, 68 p.m. The program will begin in the JCC Auditorium with ahot dog dhmer with the BhMjays snd tfien proceed to the gymnadum far a baseball program coordinated by Jim Hendry. HW coet for the cUnk is te for ths first child in the
The first time someone knocked on nqr door end asked for something to eat it was ahnoet 80 yMrs ago ip a small town in Kansas. Ill never forget ms free. I had given money for.fbod baskets to tiw poor, but I had never eeeo a hungiy face. Today at the entrance to the public buikUngs, houses of worah^) and even grocery stores, sit Una wattfatg for sooMone to dspodt ens of food fir people who are hungry. I wish we didn't have to do it I wish there weren't hungry people. But there are and they ate here in OmiJiau Recently, agroup of Jewish teenagers went one stq> further than depodting the can of food in ita proper plaoa, They went to area shelters that feed the homolessofOmaha. JimHwidry Just getting to ths shelters waa an expirJencok Moot family and 95 for each adwen in anas iriisra the teenagers who walk throofiji the ditkmal chOd in the aame doors of ths Jewish Community Center don't normally family. All interested pargo. ents and children are TTie teenagers were surprised by the daanBnese of the askad to register no later shelters where the food was served. "Tiy Jdaoe was well than Feb. 16. kqit, scrubbed and dean," one giri told me. For ftuthar infoiffatkn, One teen was touched by a little girl of about four caO Chodt Amdd at 834years old who raoainded him of his sister. Others were 8200, ext 222. amaied that aome of the people who came to the shelter to eat k>oked a lot like thdr next door nd^^ibor. Yee, some were grubby and one man made a pass at some of the girls. The JCC Youth Sporfo 7 p.m. But their experiences, though positive, were not program and the Senior Raffle tickets can be always pleasant. "I f^ uncomfntabla. I fdt like I was invading thdr Hi(^Bhi»StarBadntbalI purchased at the the team arehokUagarkflfe to Hadth SarvicM Dvvtprivacy," said one teen. It made most of the teenagers reflect im their own raise funds to siqiport pro- mdrt and from the Bluehome lUe. "I really take tUngs for granted^" one grams. HM drawing for an Star jdayers. This rsCDe observed. Another said, "When we don't have milk in -authentk Boelon Celtics was made posdUe by tiie the house, it'a because someone fwgot to stop and boy antognqthed badcetball MMTtirity of the Omaha some. These people don't have milk because they can't wiD be hdd on Mardi 5 at Racers. bmrany." QM Umugai: said the long tabks where peopk ate "nnaiiided me of caoq;>." Aiu^her giri noticed the transportatkm for all who came to eat waa, "their feet." One waa oooQemsd about a man who came to the aheir tet toeat "Wh<i« doeti he sleep or where doea be go when he leaves here?" Oqe Between Te^ said there ahould be more publicity about how the homeleee in Omaha live. "Peode ahouU know that there are famiUeo who can't get a job that paya enoo^ for them to live in a home. The people are not laxy. The opportunitiee are just not there for them." Every )^ I talked to wanted to go back to the ranted to be more faivolved and axpreeeedconlumgry and homeleee in Omaha. Chokxei Entree; [ notkse that neither the yooth group iriiieh wnt SouporStJmd; shelters or the kids I talked to were kientified. ! the first things that impraesed me about Judar SattDrlnkADemert fwasm 12th century readfaig from MaimonMea. This »M5 PINNERS »^ PINNERS selection sws one of the hif^Me^ forms of charity is givxp.snuK faig without Istttng someone know who you sm "nis conPEnucsarobo cept is too often forgotten todsy. *Y ORBBKrALCMCnM •UCOMEDCAITWI SAUKMrCTTVCM NAILS BY SUE SMonaauDCMcaDi CARL JARl.
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whom there an few marriageable Jewish men availabte." "Inthbvecytraditiooal culture, if a woman to not married Iqr an aarily age, it can bectHne a real stigma that jeopardtoes her chanoeeofevermanying," the letter stated. Jewish women in Syrto have 8 difficult time finding husbands because many young men have ]Qed ^rria. Women ^re more fearful about trying to eecape, out of fear of being cau^t and raped. The lawmakers also asked Bush to make an "immediate, humanitarian appeal" to Syrian President Hafss Aaaad to release three Jews wlw are in prison. Each td the three, Jack'Lato, Selim Soued and Eli Soued "has already served mote than the usual six to 12 months
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for their alleged offensee," they wrote. An administration official aild Laik) has beni in jaa dnce July 1983 and haa a term of two or three years, for allegedly trying to eeoape from Syria. Ilie Soueds have been in jail aince December 1987. Untfl Novnnber, Syrto did not aUow relatives of the Soued brothers to visit them, the official said, lliey have been detained for two years without a trial, on the grounds of having visited IsraeL Under Syrian law, viaiting Israel to iUegaL Meet Jews leave Syria either by illegally cnMsing tbs border or by legally taking a trip abroad md not returning, the official said.
Rising anti-Semitism driving Jews out of Soviet Union, say activists By Susan Bfanbanm NEW YORK (JTA) Rising antl-Semitiam and ethnic strife are rapidly driving Jews out of tb» Soviet Union, according to Michael Chlenov and Natan Sharansky, Chlenov, co-preeident of the Va'ad, tlie federation of Soviet Jewish communities fooiktod in Moscow last month, made hto oboervar tkm during two di^ of meetings here of the World Jewish Congress. Chlenov and oo-presideot Samuel ZOberg of Riga were the first Soviet Jews ever to attend executive committee meetings oftheWJC.
Sharanaky made hto remarks to a patted audience at the McOiU The official called Syr- Unit^mity Law Schod in ia's hifndling of the Montreal, where a lactufeSoueds' case "most ship has been estabUshed in hto name in I'eooffiition troubleeome."
AJCongress condemns attacic on Gov. Cuomo NEW YORK -Henry Sfegman. executive dirfetor of the American Jewish Congrees, described the attack on New York Oovenor Mario Cuomo by Bishop Austin Vauglm as "so pntrageooa... as to damand spedal oondenmation." Btohop Vaughn conqiared Governor Cuomo's position on abortion to a German soldier who aimparted Hitler's genodde. Mr. Siegman's statement fdlows: Democracy rests ultimately on the ability of citizens to engage each other in civil discourse about issues large and small. The ramariu of Bishop Austin Vaughn, compar ing New York Ooveroor Mario Cuomo to a Nazi soldier who "aupportad the German governmani's right to murder alx mOUon innocent Jews." becanae of the Oovemor'a views on abortkm, marks a new kiw In pubik debate.
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Bishop Vaughn's oommmtto so outrageous and ao outakto the bounds of legitimate ezprseaton as to tion. Hto gmttiitous rsfei^ ences to the Htrfocaust, and hto odipua compariaon of the inoraDy wrendiing d^Hite over iuwrtidn with the Nazto' cafcuhited exterminatian df Jewa do not advance public understanding 6f the diffarences on alxvtion; on the amtraiy, by equating the Oomnor's position to Naxiam, they serve to preclude rational diaconrae and debase public discussion.
to hto contributions to human rights. Sharansky, who spent nine years in prisons and labor camps befcnv he was alkmed to go to Israel in 1986, makes no secret hto abidbig hatred of the So* viet system. The only positive result of glasnost, Sharansky said, to that the antiSemitism that surfaced with the new openness "wiQ lead to an en>dus of 600,000 to 1 million Jews to Israel" ^ Qilenov, who would also like to see Soviet Jews .transplanted to Israel, sees anti-Semitism as a "boiling pot that hasn't yet eiqploded" but still "may eqdode." Tin long•qiected ezodns of Soviet Jewry "has trufy started^" he said, as a result of "panic and hysteria.'^ Tens of thoosalids of Jews are now leaving the
Soviet Union, but it "to an aUyah whidi to mainly driven by fear, frustration and hate, rather than the desire to be reunited with the Jewish people," Chlenov said. There are "a lot of those who rentoined true toYiddtohkeit,"hesaid.bat"an even IdggeT'nunjier who don't know anything about Judaiam." Chlmov said the Va'ad Intends to prepare Jewa not only for alfyah but for absorption in Israel aa well, and that the new or^ ganisation will "try to work together with the State of Israel" to create a "siddur mukdam," a committee to prepare emipes. It will be <me of sevieral groiqw formed to deal with pi easing Jewish proMema, indttding the devefepment of orgai^zed Jewish life in the Soviet Union, antiSemitism and reunification with wortd Jewry.
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[Israeli actress lectures ofiShoah By Hogh Orgal TEL AVIV (JTA) - Qflii Almagor, om of land's I iMding aetresaM, aeenu gaoerally to have •uooeecM.in raiaing the ooaadoanMu of yoang Egyptians about Uw Holocauat Almagor, the dnigfater ofa Rebkuut muvivor, lectured in Cairo reoeoti^ at the invitatian of the laradi Academic Ontar than. . The eeoter, eataUlahed in 1982 to facflitata reaearch by Egyptians studying Habreir aiid Jewish^elated aubjecta. faaturea weddy kcturea by laraelia. Almagor apoke in Hebreir. For most of her audience of about 60 Egyptian univeraity atudcota, it waa their firat eqxwure to the efliaeta of t^ Hoibcauat on theamr* ^ viVon, thdr children and on laraelia in general She uaed as the centeqiiece "The Summer of Aviya," an autobiographical movie in which ahe atarred and directed. It deals with a giil'a relationahip with her mother, who ia mentally acarted by the Holocauat. Almagor eolained that in 1961, the period dqticted in the movie, Sre were tiying'to bidld the atate and a new Bfie and did not want the dust of the Holocaust to ding to what we wen crepitiBg," But bitar, laraelia became mon open about discussing the Holocaust Kw wrote snd later fifansd her stoiy in the spirit ct that opennees, she said. Jerusalem Post oomspoodent Ban Lgmfiald reported fran Cairo that Ahnagor'a fibn and appearance wen warmly racdved by moet of her audience. He quoted Yahya Said, a atudent of Hebrew at Cako Univenity. who aaid aba had "only read a little Ut about the Holocaust befon sadng the ffim. Now I see that we reaUy must study the Holocaust to understand who the laradia are." But an Egyptian jounialiat in the widienee suggested that Israelis' pnoocujpation with the Holocaust cauaee them to abuse the PaIe8tinian8.,3}o mike pwce^ lii»i they should distance 1 Hdocanst. Almagdr responds to such viewa by noting that her father waa murdered by an Arab asaailant just befain she was bom. "We can decide whom to forgive, but remembering the paat ia an obligation," she atreaaed.
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Did yoD ever pidiiq;> a piece of pqwr with sooHbody's handwriting on it, auch aa a lettw or amesaage or mono and find it was impossibte to read? You know the Idnd... we used to say it looked like a dddnn had been scratching around, not like writing^ When it comae to kn^iand, I don't haye much room to talk. I've b^ typing for mon yeara than even I can bdieve, and with dam good reeson. I can write a line or two; then it an goes to illegible. SQ the printed word ' haa aavad me. But aoinetimea a peraon miut use a pencil and just plain write. That's what I'm thinUng about today. Some of nqr work haa to do with tranafentag the numben of houra aodiebody has worked frnn his records to mine.11tat's when the trouble beg^ Not always, but sometimae. it's funny. Like the guy wtftstanda at leest 6 feet 4 inches hi his sodu and writes in such a teeny, tiny hand I dmoet need a magnifying gjaas. I tUik thi^'s pretty amnahig. Or the guy who wdu like alinebadker for the Green Bay Packan and who writta with a clear, dean, afanoet ddkwt^ hand! Igueae incoogru* oua is the word, not amusing. Then an those who hardy manage to make the numben legihie, then I have to figun out who they are becauae the namee could paaa for some SlavaUan language which doean'tuaevowela. ..Imeanthat'awhat they leek like. Then there an the fdka who write plainly eomi^ but not in the correct plaoee, ao they use arrows and other aymbob to indicate their meaning. I don't know how many centuries ago the pencil waa reined as a neeeeaary tool, but then are many who still act aa thou^ it was only yeaterday. And I'm aure schoi^%till idace emphasis on the fanportance of learning to wrltanicdy as well aa legibly. I know they begin by *M»rMng our kids to print, then go on (when the youngsters have achieved a little more maturity and coordination) to cursive. Or as you and I coll it, "longhand." I also know that from eoily in the hiatory of formal achooling in this country,' childreo were given special inatruction in the art of writing. I can still remember the i>T«mpl4>« of all the lettara in the alphabet, both capitd and small version, strung acroaa the top of the blackboard of every dassroom from firat grade through eighth. It isn't as though everybody doeen't have an equd opportunity to learn how to write—it's just that some of us learn better than others. Thoee who were taught in a foreign country may have a few quirks and the rest of us don't, but for the most part, we all should be able to manage writing. Even the aouthpaws in our midat. Often as not, a lefthanded peraon writes hi a very ver tical foshioo, rather then slanted. I went all through grade achod with one kid who waa left-handed and atill recall hia frustration with each new daoa and different teecher.
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Badi then we were already awan that such kida shouki be aUowed to use whicbsv« hand was most coofortaUe, but once hi a while sons old btddie from another era would insist that the chiU "try to drift correctly." And poor Jomoe would suffir til she let up. So what's to worry? We all hove somatUog to use that printa, don't we? And even toddler4 an tiught to uae the computer 80 maybe longhand win eooaday become obeolete. Maybe not. In the meantime, I'll type everything and try to remembsr to eompUmeot everybody I know who writee plainly and niedy—if I know anybody likeUMtl
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In the past couple of months, Jewish Family Service has helped members of our community to bring their family members out of the Soviet Union to Join them them here In Omaha. Several more families are scheduled to arrive soon. We need your help to welcome these new families...
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