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Annual meeting recognizes leadership By Lywia Frank For the first time, Chtlfer Leadarship graduatea will be recognlxed at the Annual Meeting of tlie Jewish Pectavttkp nOthitha on June it. The 7:30 p.m. event will be hdd in the Jewiah Community Canter ilmalw 3%e "Challenge for Leaderali^" program was eetabliahed to train knowledgeable and skilled leaders for the Omaha Jewish community. During the past year, ipartkipants in the 1939^ program became acqohiiited with the purpoaes and functions of the •gndM of the Federatian. indnding woridng on Super Sui^y and serving "intendi^" on the variq|is ageodes and committees of the FederatioiL They w^ginwi iuaUuotion OB group dynamics, fandraising, budgeting and tiw proceas of allocatiag fmx^ » waO at laam-
ing about Jewish values and traditions, religion and public policy, world Jewry and how to deal with anti-Semitism. On June 10, program chairmen Steve and Bunny Rothenberg will present certificates of achievement to Mark and Cory Cheaen; A. Justin Cooper, Dennis and Pam DePorte; Stan and EOene Edelstein; Madene Fuller; •|-;veVr:;>4a*<'.*''--:'!v'.i^M,' 1 Bruce and Cindy Gold- ^B&<. '' o. * ^^^^^^A .* 4 ^^i^a%£S^\^^XM^ -^Bk ' berg; Ltwreoos and M'Lee Hasslinger; John and Sandy Ldir; Todd and Wendy Manvitz; Joe Meyers; Allen and Cindy Morris; Mark and VicU Sanfbrd; l/liA and Kris Scholman; Robin Spindler; Mark and Lori ^eet; and R. Thomas^id Ledie Venn. 'The next Challenge fw Leedershlp groiq> is schedYelsM Plaetoky aiid Viktoriya DoUa are aMi« the Bwseat arilvata to the Oauha Jewiah eonmoB^ uled to b^n trahiingin the fall of 1991. Thoae inipotod fat aa iafetnatiowd meeti^ with peraoMel SMI voioatem fatHB the Jewiah FethratioB of Omaha. See tc^fated in participating page 17. slieakl«oDtaetB|liaPa» ' -v tt»* j • ' ' Bar,8S44800.
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Beth Israermvites Omaha community to help honor Rabbi and Mrs. Nadoff By Lonada Frank prognosis is good. They A backochs in the ming feel this is due, in part, to oflMtohaagodthelifeof good doctors and to the a man and a cotigregatian. emotional aupport tiiey reOn Juno 4,1990, that ooo- ceived. "I had a lot of gregatiop ia honoring the moral support from the num who gave than 26 mugiogathiB and my famjWWB of dented sarvice. Qy, wiikh givsa you the enWhsoRabbi Isaac Na- couragoment to overdoff waot to the doctor come,'^aakl the rabbi, who last ininc oompUaiag of was hoq>italiaad foe twoa baaracha he wao ana- and-e-hilf mooths. ware of what tiw tinal diMrs. Nadoff aakl they agnoaiB wookl min. That alao received messages of dtagBosis was multiple prayars throui^ut the B—a fona Of bone warid from personal and profeasional contacts he said ho they've made. "The regtod and his body wards of service came has responded woU to badt in an unaxpectad and liMilliiiUJ "trrY "" ui¥Si wbdming way fma itr^sMrvotheooagraga- Hvsowa had touched." ahe tiMi adequately any k»g- said. RocalUag their entry ar,*' was the roaaoo he stepped down oa Nov. 1, iato Omaha, the rabbi after serving u rabbi of aakl, "Wo came to a warm BMh Israel Sj^nagogoe for aad frioidly and embracing coBgregatioa which 26 years. "It was not a difficult haa been demonatrated in decision," he said, "be- many waya over the cauae I am doee to the years." When the Nadoffs congregation and want moved here in 1966, one (Mr needs fnlffllad It was reason was l>ecause there the only right thing to do was a Jewish day school for their tliree diilidren and (or tham and for me." X>iiring the firet six another was the challenge numths of his illness he of revitalizing a congregawas very aick, totally in- tion. canadtatad. He is still unToday, their oldest able to •!#( himself phys- daughter, Julia, is a teachically or aAMooaUy. He er in Israel; their son, can no kofH' walk to the David, is an attorney in qmagogas OB Shabbat or Chicago; and daughter, Sharon, lives in Cleveland (hive a car. /However, he and his where she freelances in and Irtte. Jeanotta. said his ^mmunlcations
teachee Jewish studies. llw Nadoffs slso have 16 grandchildren and one on the way. The rabbi said, aside firom the pulpit and taaefahig the nhdameatals of Judaiam, his qncial te>phaaia waa personal dealings aad relationships with Aa eongragatiaB in time* of l4y and taithnee of sorrow. "In tho rabbinate or in public work there are always ups and downs, difficultiee and atumUing blocks. We war^ en't ezed^ But ovarall there has been gnat satisfaction and fulfillmaat from the work," Rabbi Nadoff said. "Judaiam is hare to st«y and u king as it's hfVa to stay, thero will alwaya be different aspocta and a atrong traditional (Orthodox) element," he added. His wife pointed out, "The younger familiee in the congregation, who are now taUng on the leadership responsibilities are very interested in living traditional Jewish lives." The rsbbi also said no rabbi can be succeeaful in (he rabbinate without a aupportive wife and praiisd his wife's involvemeat with the ocngngation and in the Jowish eommunity. Over the Cs Mrs. Nadoff has involved ia Siatir hood and congregational
activities, »M wdl as workhig for larad Bonds and the Federation Caaqiaign. She ia presently flia the board of the Federation Foundation Committee and pfoaklMt <rf the board of Livingston Flasa Apartmanto. Sha it also on the intematioaal Board of AMIT' "Oaoiaaottrafaiedtobe arabU'awilaorarabUao thSBSraoaal levoL RabUa m ttiiaed in Jowiah law liid education. One just doea srtiat ia aeoeeeary," Mrs. Nadoff aaid. Unlike a doctor who heals or a lawyer who whu a case. Rabbi Nadoff said a rabbi dooan't aeo imqtediate toaults. H« is hopeful thsra is some infhiMOS and impact he can take credit for, but he can't pohit to a peraon and ssy that'a hia work. "A rabbi's cUof tssk,' bs said, "is to promote Judaism among his people;' to inttiuify Jswish awsreness among his congregants and htaiMmmuaity, to pohit out the importance of and beauty of Jewish life and have it be reflective of their privau Uvea, and, if to any small dsgrae I was able to do that, that'a ths reward for being a rabbi. And I htye I did." As for tlie future, the Nadoffs said that after 2S
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yoara Omaha is hone and this is whsre they wiU stay. Thoy said they wiU try to aervs the community aa beat they can, whan called vpaa. "Our goal, aa ahrays, will be to serve," Mra. Nadoff aakL Meanwhile, aa be continues to regain hia strength. Rabbi Nadoff ia stiU called upon for Us oidnkms *nd advica aodis serving as a counsel as his congregation searches for a now rabbi. He is alao
ttMl laaae Nadoff k>okiag forward to rotatkr ing to hia liobby of the Jewieh-oriented woodworking which adoma thair hona. Tho coagrogation of Beth larael Synagogue ia inviting the cooummtty to help honor ths Nadoffs at a dianar OB Monday, Juno 4, at 6:30 p.m., in the Peony Park BaUroom. Tide eta are 126 a parson. For more information, call Beth larael Synagogue, 666-6288.
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Grandparents are Irene ;Mr. and Mra. Skip BMnstOck, Overland and Leo Kamisar, Omaha, p Km., annoance the and Rose and Don Hora, 14 birth of a son, Iowa City. Great-grandmother ia Balmont ROMUMrs. Cliff Kritta of Iowa f Orandparmta are Aante City. IJack Bafanont aodJoa :of Omaha, Maitl od Laity Fry of jreat-grandmother is Overland Park; Kan., anBalnunt. Jaaae has a aiatar. Carly, noance the Mqr 17 Urth <rf a aoB. Bryan Andrew. 2Vi. Thqr also have a aon, Pam and Steve Bkttcky, DanM. Grendpannts ars Jean Nashua, N.H., announce the May 9 birth of a aon, and Monis Breeel,of OmaJonathan Patridc They ha and Eteanar and MOton •te6 have a son, Benjamin rVy of SL Louia^Mo. Great-grandmother is Kyle. QrandpueBts are Peg Mary Krout of St. Louis, and Ray Lecxyiski, Dra- Mo. cot, Mass., snd Wanda and Al Bhitdqr of Omaha. Rabbi Leah WaU and Allen Wald Zcribnan of Sala Cynwyd, Pa., announce the May 6 birth of a son. Daniel Wald ZoUGrandparents are Bar^ bara and Martin Wakl of Merion, Pa., and Charles ZoUman of Philadelphia, Pa. Gieat-grand^MOftnts are Mfllie and Leon Frankd of Omaha Kim and Cliff Hora of Iowa City, Iowa, announce the May 9 birth of a son, Jason Daniel. They also have a son, Corey, 3.
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Gov. Orr meets a bat mitzvah i Aiyeli Aarial eaoorted Govanor Kay Orr on a tour of Tnpk laraellaat and the State'a first My was able te aee NPdU Goka read bom the Tank • bat eitavah kaaon fai the aaMta«y. Cantar HaroM FInatoae ia at left
Australia canvasses By Jerenqr Jonea SYDNEY, Anatralia (JTA) — The Australian government, fulfilling a parliamentary mandate and a commitment to the Jewish community, is canvassing the Asian and Pacific naticma to determine if they would su^iOTt a move to rescind tits 1975 U.N. resolution equating Zionism with radsm. Acting Prime Minister Paul Keating told the biennial conference of the Zionist Federation of Australia this week that "in reqxnse to the coooems of Jewish leaders, the govenunent is currently considering action which might be taken toward overturning the reeohition, and we are canvassing regional govemmrats for thdr views." The effort Is an outgrowth of the unanimous vote by both houses of Parliament in.1986 to resdpd the rttsoktion. OerS FIVE MONTHS JERUSALEM (JTA)Rabbi Moshe Levinger, militant leader of the Jewiah ssttlament movement in Hebron, waa sentencad by a Jerusalem District Court to fivs months in prison for negUgently cauaing the death of a Paleatinian Shopkeeper 18 monthaacD.
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Mayo Clinic Opens information center Immanuel Medical Center and Mayo Chnic, Rochester, Minn., have announced the launching <rf a two-year pilot project that placea a Mayo Information Center off the Immanuel hospital lobby. The inforinati(m center will provide patienta and referring physidsns with information about Mayo aervices and will arrange aiqwintments at all three Mayo clinic locations, Rochester, Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottadale, Ariz. I^avel and lodging information for the three locations will also be available. Information can be obtained in person or by calling 572-2111. ELECTED PRESIDENT NEW YORK (JTA) Samuel Eisenstat waa elected president of the America-Israel Friendship League,
Mel Epstein has been elected president of the Omaha chapto' of Chartered Property and Casu-' ahy Underwriters (CFCU). Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temple Israel will teadi two courses in Judaic studies during the Fall and Spring semesters at the University of NebraskaLincoln. The courses are two of 154 established throughout the United States, South America and Israel being underwritten by the Jewish Chautauqua Society.
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©sm^ji B'NAIB'EItH Mike Abramson was elected president of Hcny MoBsky Lodge B'nai. B'rith at a raottit i^eetiog. Prarident-ekct is Richard Diamond. Bob Biit, Marie Sanfod, Howard Shandell and St0ve ZaUdn are the vice preadtnts. Leo Sdnlts wa« elected treasurer; MV' rco Kaplan is the immediate past imnident; Qaiy Gerelidi and Gerald Mqyer are the warden and guardian. HADAS8AH On June 6 at 9:30 ajn. at the Livingston PIasa,the Hadassah Study Qroup will meet fm its last aession until fall. Rabbi Kriidce will review Dr. Harold Kushner's book Who Needa God?. Dr. Kiuhner is also the author of When. Bad
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Jewiah Women-Omaha Sectioo was raoeotly honored for its work in the support of the pro^hoice movemmt by the ProCholce Coalition of Nebraaka. At a Coalition dinner last month at Hi^^dand Gountiy Chib, NCJW was dted tot hwightaning commonity awarenees and serving as advocates for the movement, according to Anne Broder, NCJWs liaisoo to the Pn>Choice CoditioB. NCJW was responsible for sending four busloads of people to the pro<hoice raUy in Uncoln last November and has been active in cootactiagataU ae-
Joye Weee. left, and Judy Siff are the new ORT coprestdents. ORT Women's American ORT, Omaha chapter, has elected the following officers for 1990-91: Joye Wees and Judy Siff, copresidents; Sandi Fried, Sandy Gordon, Judy Pinkie, Marlene Sukiennik, vice presidenta; Bobbi Newman, recording secretary; Kris Schulman, corresponding secretary; DebWe Hoetyk, treasunr; Claudia Sherman, pariiamentarian. Officers win be installed at the Taste and 1U1 meetr
ing, June 18, 7-9 p.m., at the home of Bobbi Newman. The proceeds from the recent Bowlathon will be used for a sclMrfarship to be given to a student from Omaha Public Schools. The Bcholarship will be awarded the first part of June.
nators regarding the importance of womsn's reproductive rights, Ms. Brodor said. "The march was impor tant," she said. "It was important for our state to know that there are people in the pro<hoice movemeot who wiU take a stand an! make a statemmt" NCJW's selection as an award recipient marked the first time the CoaUtkn honored an organintioo rather than only individuals, Ms. Broder noted, adiUngthat, "J was 80 thiflM that NCJW was recognized for i^ efforts because the pro-choice movement is so important to us as an organization." Other honoreee at the April dhmer inchided the Reverand R. Baiijamin Garrison, Chuck Kunkel, Ruth Williams and Nebraska State $9i»tw E^ nieditQiibiav'.' ORT The dedsicm to move the U.N. Security Council meeting to Geneva in order to allow Yasir Arafat to speak has prompted Women's American ORT to remind members and Jews everywhere of their ability to vdce their concerns and proteets on this and other issiiee directiy to the White Houae. Comment Line, (202) 466-7689 is answered daily from 9 aim. to 6 pjn. EST. Mesaages may be left at two other numbers: (202) 647-9672 and (202) 6472372. HADASSAH Ann Margdin, Hadassah chairman for Jewish National Fund Blue Boxes, raninds those who haven't yet returned enve-
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Elected to board Nancy SUd, left, and Rbl Gonahor wwe elected to tiie Board (tf Midwest BraMh of Womsa'a Lsmoe for Cooacrvative Jwlaiam at l^iifag Coiifereaee, held reosatly in St Paol, Bffam. Mra. Skid wiO be [;r«gnuD chainua for the 1991 Spring Coafwance aadJMra. Goaahv wiB be Braneh meaiberah^ chabauB. Other ddegates rspreaeatliig Beth El Synagogue at this year's conferaace ware Dariene GalUti and Carole OresBbarg.
By David Kaator BONN (JTA) - Weat Germany'a preaident, Rtehaid V6n Weiaaadrar, journeyed back to his country's darkest past to pay tribute to the millions of Jews slain by the Nads in Poland during World War II. The German chief of state, on an official visit to Poland, laid a wreath at the memorial to the War saw Ghetto uprising and By Metroweet The opinion, written by conversed with Polish Jewish News Chief Circuit Judge Sam J. Jews, including Chief Ervin III, notes the exRabbi Mouuhem JoakoA North Carolina law emption "differentiates wicz and survivora of the exempting the "Holy Bibetween a Christian sacred death camps. ble" from sales tax has text and other publicaAt a visit to the former been ruled unconstitu- tions, both sacred and naaTreblinka death camp, tional by the Fourth U.S. sacred and Christian and where more than 800,000 Circuit Court of Appeals in non-Christian. This disJews perished, the presi- Richmond, Va. tinction farces the state to dent wrote in the visitor's book: "He c^ieos the dark The case was argued by discrinunate on the basis abyss and brings from it Brian L. Rubin, a Wash- of the contents of a book, the dark into tl» light," a ington, D.C., lawyer and text or other published quotation from the Book former New Jersey resi- w(vk, which is intolerabia of Job. dent, on behalf of a Rabbi undo- the First AmendWeiisacker was a aoMier JphnJS.'Friadman of Dui^ ment." 'The opinion also said the in the German arnqr when ham, N.C., and several it invaded Poland on Sept other plaintiffs, including tax violates the amend1, 1989. starting Workl a Hindu and a Hare ment's establishment War II. German corre- Krishna. spondents reported frtan Wsrsaw that he pennnally expressed the wteh to oommemorato the Jewiah victims of the Holocaust dur^ ing his Pdiah trip. N^ /' DISCOUNT Of OMAHA
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Perspective needed An Israeli male puts on an anqy uniform, steals in army assault rifle and than purposely shoots and kills seven Palestinians and wotmds 11 others. The dtiiens and government of Israel are joined by deont people everywhere in condemning thia senseless criOle and in expressing sorrow to the families of the sbdn victims; However, let us not forget that this act of viokace deariy is the work of a davnged individual and should not be interpreted as a government-sanctioned murder, nor as an act of a norqud Israeli against a h^dess Palestinian. Yet, much of the world appears to be in an uproar. The broadcast and print media (including the Omaha Woild-HaraU) banner the criminal act and perpetuate the ntyth that the Middle East problem centers on the treatment of helpless Paketiiiilans by the powerful Isradi amiy. The PLO pubik relations apparatus inmiediatdy propdled itsdf into Uflji gear and called fbrnot only world coodemnatian of Israel, but for protection of the Palestinians from the 'mutder-pnme' Israelis. What hypocrisy! While Uie uiunkrof aevoi famocent pec^le certainly is news and deserves coverage, perspective is needed. Hie protest and vitdefice of the Palestinians can be understood, but floly in the context of PIX) mcouragement and gneral Arab animoaity. One of the pointa that nnist be understood to make sense of the Middle Eaat tarmoQ is that big news only takes place when Mestinians die at tbe hands of Israelis. Whew is the broadcast madia and the Omaha WortdHerald %haa Palaatinians fiot the throats of Palestiniaoa who wait paaoe with IsraalT Whanls theoittciy fttn thaUnitedNatkmaand mOUoos of 'harnH'iibkiun' people when FLO terrorists murdsr innoont Israelis—with the whole-hearted approval and flnanrial sppport of govsmments. Unlike the crime perpetntsd by a madman under the infhience of some brainHilaarder, the ongoing murders of laraeUs undertaken by the PLO and other fanatics are planned, financed, and carried out iHth the cooperatioo and anthuiastic aqpport ol govemmental bodies. And a*kM4|pM (if hMleed. there are any) are small, and there ia no outcry et world condemnation. The United Natfans is aOent There seems to be a new Journalism at w<nk in the MkhUaEai*: Palaatinians killing laraalb ire not news... Israelis kiUing Pakstiniana are news—big news.
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A 38-year veteran social studies teacher at Burke High School is one of 45 teachers in the nation named today as the recipient of a Summer Fellowship in Israd and Pdand ^Ja^fpnaA to broaden knowledge (tf the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance. Michael Young, chairman of the Sodal Studies Department, will be enrolled in the intensive threeweek coarse in living and learning iMtween July 19-31. Thia will be the sixth year the program has been offered American secondary school teachers. The curriculum covers the background of the systematic deatruction of £umpeaa Jewry, as well as Jewish resistance to the Nazis, and explores the moral, political and historical implications of the Hdocaust.
mm in laraei and Poland, uould provide a tremendous opportutdty to Micshael and the oitire community." Young has taught the Holocaust for th^ Mst five years. He will hegk to develop new curriculutn baaed on his experiences.
Hesaki he ap|diad^or the fdlowph^ becauae he believes dia Hokwaust could happen again to Jews and/ or other people. "It is important for aU pwpia to understand how the Holocaust began and what can' be done to prevent it happening again."
To the Editor I have conducted research, on the cauae of Multiple Sclerosis (M.S.) for many years beginning when sevwal Michael Young members of my family became afflicted. Much of my survivors now living in the work has been done outside the Omaha area working State of Israel. with physicians who had large numbers of patients or Young was nominated with several physicians who have M.S. themselves. by the Anti-Defamation It has gradually become evident to me that our OmaLeague of B'nsi B'rith (Plains State Region) and ha Jewish Community has a ve^^ high rate of M.S. infecthe Community Relations tion in our young people. I would like to try to estabCommittee of the Jewish lish the exact cause of this infection and its source. This work is alao aimed at establishing a method of preventFederation of Omaha. ing and treating M.S. According to Gail VeitI would like to obtain as much information as possiYoung's itinerary will zer, chairperson of the Fel- ble on individual cases of M.S. that have occurred in include visits to former lowshq> Selection CoDUni^ members of our community at their rdatiyes. TUs disJewish historic sites and tee, Young's ability to ease's prevalence should be determine!] for our present concentration camps in conduct workshops and in- younger generation as well as thoee of previous generaPoland. In Israel the pro- servioes for other teachws tions that may have been afflicted. gram will be at two loca- was critical to his selecM.S. usually occurs in peopIe.b6tween 20-45 years of tions: Ghetto Fighters ticm. Young is active in the House and Study Center national, state and local age but the exposure to the causative infectious agent social studies organizais thought to occur many years l>efore actual symptoms of the Holocaust and Jeware first recognized. ish Resistance and Yad tions. Veitzv sak) "Michael's Vashem in Jerusalem. M.S. is more commonly found in women but men who superior teaching skills He will hear experts and hia interest in oihanc- get it are often much more seriously affected. This seems from the University of ing the Holocaust curricu- to be true in our community since many of the men inHaifa, the Hebrew Univer limwersinqMrtant. He is volved have died but most of the present cases seem to sity in Jerusalem and hdd in high eeteem by stu- be in women. other institutions of dsnts and peers alike. I would apinedate any information on M.S. patients higher learning, as well as Tbeae factors, combined teatimony of Holocaust with the outstanding pro- &t»n present and past generations in order to determine the prevalenee todi^ as conqwred to that of tliepast. All information will be kept confidential Please caU me at 668-1506 (evenings) or 326-0516 (days.) i Vincent MarahaU
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Editor's Note: The foUowiag editorial waa written by Any Zober, daughter of Bevarty and Robert Zober, for the Borfce High School newapapcr Burfca Beat Amy's editorial waa nanied "Beet Editorial" by the Cnighton Uaiveraity Department of Jonmaliam and Maaa Communication ia ha anaaal Byline Award competition. She waa one of 40 high achool Jonmalista recognized at a reception May 15. A teenager zooms down the street in her car kte one Friday night Glancing fai the rear^view mirror she notkas that a car ia foUowing her. Upon further obeervntion, she discovers the large red lights on top of the car. QukUy, ahe checka her speedometer and is relieved to find the is driving the ^eed limit. Just when she starta to rdax, the bright red lights of the police car start flashing; the scream of the sirens breaks the silence of the night. Another teenager has beoi picked up for being out after the city's curfew. Doee this story seem ridiculous? It shouldn't. The Omaha City Council is trying to pass a law that would inflict a 12 p.m. curfew on all people under 17. The supporters of this curfew have the right objective: thqr are trying to make Omahaa aafer dty in which to live. Their way of reaching this objective is the problem. The curfew puniahaa the teen^|«r« who aren't causing the problama. Many kids who (ttty out late don't cause any trouble. Parenta ahould b^ tFifli«*fag a curfew; it is not the city's responsibility. Tie^nrfpw will never affect thoee whom the law ia directad towarda. The aituation can be compared to the probtems with smoking in the bathrooms at school. Even though the Omaha Public School system has banned smoking for studenU during school, this policy is not enforceable. Proof of thia fact is in the strong odor of smoke in the school's bathrooms. In order to handle the smoking problem, the bathrooms are aimply locked many times during the day. In thia case, the non-smokers cannot use the bathrooms and therefore are punished becauae of those who amok*. Locking the bathroom is not the anawar; it ia sitniily a Wqr to hide the problem. The dty offidala of Omaha an doing the exact same thing by creating a curfew. The City Council is trying to create a law whkdi only hldeo b^iiad the real problem and puniahas those who don't deaerve it. Beyond the intent of the law. how does Omaha plan to enforce the propoeed curfew? The Omaha Poiioe Department haa bettM'thinga to do than chaae after teenagers whose only crime ia atayiag out past curfsw.
To the Editor Lately in different articles in the Jewish Press one could learn that all of us in the Jewish community will need to pay more to ke^ the existing different Jewish activities in Omaha, and on top of this, to pay even more to fill our part in the resettlkig of the Soviet Jews in Israel It is not going to be easy. Looking at the figures to be collected for the different needs sin^ily imi^y a mig'or increaae in our contributicm, but even that mig^t not be enouj^ We might need to make some difficult decisions and aet new priorities in bow to divide the money. Cutting existing programs can be painful ae mamr elderiy peoide found i^ien a number of their hot meals provided at the JCC were reduced due to budget prioritiea. Stoi^ing the development of new programs can bring stagnation that can badly effect the strength and future of our community. So what ia the aohition? How are we going to raiae more and divide it reqKmaibly between the different needa while giving thapayert a batter feeUng that their money sent to Israel wfil not drastieally effset theiiituie <rf tl^ community? ; A sisterhood relationahip between our Jewish commuUity and a community in laraat to ^im-ivay to approach the mattar. Recent aqierienoes «atbkr Jawiah oonuaunitlee in the United SUtea auch aa Mllwaokee. Chkago, Loa Angelas and others proved that this yeUtionaUp woilu vary wdl Mainly because it gives better understantUng ai^ control of what is bjng done with the money. The different programa that have been developed by two communitiee aa part of a relationahip were able to create a lot of excitement and more participation among adulta and youth in both mmmunltiaa. In this way, the donera receive a feeUng of being part of the aiatarhood relationship. The other community benefits fhun their help, while bviting Israelia to help the U.S. to put tofsther cultural, educational and aodal activities. I do hope that thia form of relationahip will be developed In our community soon and allow ua to take a more meaningful part in one of the moat aignificant eventa ia Jewish history when It is most needed.' '" -. • - AiniMJn Dotan
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Tht Unitwl Statw Oapartment of Jiutioe, Office of Special InviMtigations (OSI), again aaks for our assistanoe in locatmg Holocouat survivors who can provide information regarding the following matters: OSI is interested in locating peraoos who were inqiriaoned at th;» Kauen (KOWNO) Ghetto from Sq>tember 1948August 1944; at Stutthof from June-November, 1944; or at Qotenhafen (Gdynia) from October 1944-March 194S. OSI is seeking to locate these survivws in connection with the investigation of an alleged msmbo- of an SS guard company assigned to the canqis. Furthermore, OSI is currently investigating the activities of the Ukrainian Pdice (nltrainjfhi. Pdlzei) in Brezezany, Lwow, Podlugoe, Rawa Ruaka, Stanislawow, StiTJ and Wisniowdczyk and of the Bydorussian Police (weissruthenische Schutomannschaft) in Baranowicze, Koldyocewo, Myr, Nowogrodek, Sloiiim, Stdpce and Turzec (all places in pre-war Poland, now USSR) during World War 11. Replies may be addressed to dther Elliot Wdles, Director, ADL Task Force on Nazi War Criminals, 823 United Nations Plaza, N.Y. 10017, or EU Roeenbaum, Deputy Director, Office of ^Mcial Investigations, Criminal Division, 11th Floor, Bond Building, 1400 New York Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20630; (202)786-5006. nease note that we welcome both English and nonEnglish speaking survivors.
Elizabeth Jane K^lan, a student at Monroe Juniat High, will be honored for her, academic achievement at a statewide'ceremony on June 6 at the Ui^vwaity of Nebraska in Lincoln. ^T<he<racognition ceremony is sponsMed by the Duke University Talwt Identification Program (TIP).to salute the seventh graders from Nebraska
who qualified for TIP's 10th annual' Talent Search. All students invited to the ceremony have earned acores on the Schdastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the American College Testing Assessment (ACn cmnparable to coUege-bonnd high school seniors. Elizabeth is the daughter of Gary and Sally Kaplan of Omaha.
SHARANSKY SEES HOPE ROTTERDAM, Nether lands (JTA) — Soviet Jewry activist Natan Sharansky believes there is "no doubt that this year all refuaeniks can leave the Soviet Unioo."
BANQUET HALL OPENS A new. banquet facility, the Georgetowne Club, has opened in West Omaha. The facility is at 14110 Arbor street and is designed to accommodate various sizes of groups.
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Desecration of Jewish cemeteries reported in three European nations JTA Staff Rq^<Mrt PARIS (JTA)-An epidemk of cemetery daaecratioiia and anti-Semitic graffiti has restilted iii the arrests of 12 youths in France and Weat GermajKstnfiel sinco last week. i^besamt I same period, oemeteiQr vandals wen being hunted io Switzerland, Jews in Holland considered measures to protect their burial grounds, and a French teacher was suspended because he allowed his pupils to daub raciat graffiti on classroom walls. The destructive sprees, aimed entirely at Jews, seem to be a perverse reaction to the exceptionally brutal assault May 10 on the andent Jewiah cemetery in Carpentras, in southern France.
they were caught painting Bwastikaa and racist slogana on the walla of two high schools. Three young Skinheads were arnatedinr defacing a Catholic graveyard in Saint Herblin. near Nantes in westaa France, lltey admitted they intended the act to be blanMd on Jews. The shaven-headed youths, age 20 to 22, were describeid as sons of "well-known famiUes." Fiitarms and Nazi propaganda were found in tli^ homes. They smeared gravestones with slogans against extreme rightwing leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, widely regarded as an anti- Semite, and left inscriptions boasting that the Jewish community was responsible, such as "Carpentras Will be Avenged."
Two 19-yeai--old sold.iers, described as deserters, and a 19- year-old stuPolice arrested an 18dent were arrested in Nev- year-old high school stuers, in central France, after dent and a 24- year-old un-
employed man in Bethune, in ndrthem Franc^ fcKpabitiag swastikas and racist slogans on the Town HaUL The pair Waa'aentenced to perfonn 60 hours of social aervica and got a lectdre on World War II from the state prosecutor, who also mentioned the outrage at Carpentras. In West Germany, four youths, age 17 to 20 and alao de^bed as Skin-
heads, were arrested ^ deaecrating gfavea ati concentration camp i morial in Turkheim, in l__ Unterallgaeu region of Bavaria. They w«« to be for^ mally charged in youth court. The West German news media barely menticmed the incident, although it coincided with the wave of cemetery desecrationa reported across Burc^.
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Bath El Syfiagogue ibU Paul OnMo and Dtor Emil Barkovitt willeonduct the sarvioeB. FEIDAY: ' Scrvfoea at 8:16 p.in. An Oneg Shd>bat wiU aervioaa. A apaaker from tha Fadtratiaa will taU about 0|Mratkn ExSXltTBDAY: iloraing service, 9:30 mak Kklduah will follow airvioes. Sitter service availaUe at 10 turn. Mincha-Ma'ariv services, 8:40 pjn. SUNDAY: Services at 9 a.in. and 5:30 p.in. MEMORIAL DAY: Monday servicea, 9:00 a.in. and 6:30 a.m. SHAVUOT Tueaday evening. May 29, 8:16 p.m. -Wednaaday, 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.ni. Thursday, 9:30 a.m., Yizkor and dedication of memorial plaques, 8:60 pjn. B'NAI MITZVAH ^ncol« Paky, dau^ter of Snaan and Dennia Paley, will becooM a Bat Iffitsvah on Friday evening. May 26, and Saturday mqrdng. May 28. Beth Silbctatain. eon of Blarfc awl Pbyflia Silbarstafai, win become a Bar MitaVah on Friday e««niflc June 1, and Satar> iag morning, June 2. MEsrriNfl The annual meeting of Bath El Synagogue will take place June 3, 7:30 pjn. Tha agenda will include the election of ottccrs, a vote on qnoval of faitarim financing lor the naif bufld^ and ptaaentatien of three apecial awaida. Congregatioo Preaident Raymond Qoldataia has urged all congregation mambera to attend as a quorum is needed to tranaa£t the evning'a busineas. ANNUAL
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FRIDAY: lUbbalitfShabbatSer%^ ice, 7 p.m. Late Family Service, 8 p.m. Temple Israel Council Bluffs The Oneg Shabbat reB'nal Israel ception will be aerved in FRroAY: the Sodal Hall fbUowing Services at 8:16 p.m. SERVICES: aervice, boated by SisterRabbi Aniel and Cantor Services are hekl (m the' hood. firat and third Fridays of Firestone will firaiduct the During the summer the nxmth and are opm to service. Rabbi Azriel will months, Friday evening speak on "As Reform servicea will be at 7 pjn. in the community. The syna- Jews are we Real Jews?" gogue is located at 614 the G<dd8tein ChapeL The Oneg Shabbat will Mynster in Councfl Bluffs. be sponsored by Susie and For more information, SATURDAY: Morning service, 8:46 contact Linda Sadofoky at Marvin Cohn in honor of 345-3188, or Brent Bkum, the Bat Mitavah of their a.m. daughter, Nikld. Mincha will be followed 346-9654. by Ma-ariv, Shaloah SeuHEBREW CLASS SFTTER SERVJICE dos and Havdalah. Adult Hebrew daaaes Sitter service Is availaSbaloab Seudos will be are held on Wednesday ble for the 8:16 p.m. Shabhosted by Mr. and Mrs. nij^ts at 7 p.m. Contact bat Evening Service as Marvin Polikov in com- NIarti Nerenstone at 323- well as the 11:15 Shabbat memoration of the Yahr- 9604 for details. Morning Service. There zdt of Steven Polikov. The community may at- are no bdUties for infants. tend all B'nai Israel acdvi- Please make reservations SUNDAY: tiea and services. Ms. so we may plan accordMInyan, 9 a.m. Stiefel is available M«y 31- ing. WEEKDAYS: June 3 to meet with indiSATURDAY: Minyan at 7 a.m. and viduala and familiea dn^ Shabbat Morning Serv8:30 pjn. ing her unscheduled time. ice, 11:16 a.m. To make an appointMEMORIAL DAY Monday, May 28, mom- ment, contact her in PhUaB'NOT MrrZVAH de^hia at <215) 84»«107, ing asrvieea, 9 ajn. Nikld Cohn. daofl^ter of or via Brent or Rebecca Snaie and Blarria Cohn, SHAVUOT BkMMn. 346-9664. will celebrate her Bat On T^ieaday, May 29. Mitzvah at Shabbat mornfoBowingtheffln'aiiv aervLincoln ing service on May 26. ka. a Tikon lail Shavuot, a Baehal Leah Krieger, leandng aeaaion, wQl be" TIfanrth IMB^I dauf^ter of Stanley and held: The prOgrani will be FRIDAY:' * t/*' A^ela Krieger, will celeled by Cantor Fattipan. Eariy Sarvioee, 6 p.m. brate her Bat Mitavah at Members of the congrega- SATURDAY: the Shabbat mombig servtion wiO participate in the Servicea, 9:80 a.m. ice on June 2. evaot A vaiiefy of timely WEEKDAYS: and intanating aobjecta of Mi^yana eaeh Monday SHAVUOT Jewiah intertat will be the and Thuraday at 7:15 aja Tueaday servicee, 8 p.m. topica for tha night. Wednesday service and SHAVUOT Refreahmenta during Taeaday, May 29,9 p.m. Yizkw, 11:16 a.m. the evening are being proWednesday, May 30, vided by the Beth Israel CONFIRMATION 9:30 a.m. Ssterhood. Confirmation aervice Thuraday, May 31,9:30 Taeaday. Blay 29 will be hdd on the Festival a.m., Ylskor Services Evening Servicea, 8:30 of Shavuot, May 29,8 p.m. OONFIIUfATION p.m. Following the service, Confirmation will be Tikun kU Shavuot, 9:30 the parents of the confirheU at Shavoot Servicee p.m. for Biaa Cohan, daughter mands will host a recepWedneadey, Blay 30 of Dr.aad Mia. Oaaald Co- tion in honor of their chilMomhig Servkee, 8:45 ban, and Jamie Piieamaa, dren. p.m. dauj^ter of Mr. and Mra. Mincha Ma'aiiv Service, Hariaa Prieaman. Lincoln 8:30 pjn. B'nal Jeshurun Thuraday, May 31 Blumkln Home Morning Services, 8:46 FRIDAY: FRIDAY: a.ni. Sabbath evening aervEvening service, 7 p.m. ice, 7:46 pjn. Yixkor Memorial Service, 11.-0O a.m. SATURDAY BARMrrZVAH Mkha/Ma'ariv Service, Morning servica, 9 a.m. Joah Vavra will become 8:30 p.m. Theremdanta and ataff a Bar Mitsvah at the Friof the Rose Blumkin day evening service. Home invite the famfliaa, ChabadofNefacMka vohmtaasa and friends of SATURDAY: Sabbath morning aervraaidanta to attend part time help tha ice, Torah study, 10 a.m. aervicea in the Herbert acbt aeentartal SHAVUOT Goklaten Chapel. Evening services, 7:45 Cidl 303-5807 Kidduah fbOows aervioee p.m. on Shabbat. Morning services, 10
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We invite you to join us as our daufi^t^ Rachel becomes a Bat Mitzvah at Temple Israel Saturday, Jime 2 at 11:16 a.m.
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Paraahat Benddbar Aatf«earitlam-a eontinnlag plagae It was a hundred yaara tempted once more to | after tha French Ravohi- son the atmoaphera Ur" tion. with its cry of Lib- France. In addition to erty. Equality, Fraternity, smaller, but frightening, that the whole of France incidents, a Jewnft cemewas rocked by the cry. tery was vandalized and Death to the Jewal desecrated in the most Tbefunous—or shall we repulsive manner. say infamous—Dreyfus But this time the French Affair gave the lie to the people rose in maas prohope for liberty, Equality, teat and anger and shame. Fraternity in France. The Huge demonstraticms of French people were not solidarity with the Jewish capable of reaching their community have followed. professed goals. The President of France An evil plot, tiunqied up himself participated. by anti-Semitic French High-ranking chtrtrhmen army officers against a have joined in the demfmJewish colleague, brought strations. And—hear the French people to a thisl—even Muslim relifrenzy of hatred. Charac- gious leaders have joined teristically, the hatred was in the expreasion of directed not only against solidarity with the French Captain Dreyfus, w^ was Jewish community. accused of treason, but One does not want to againat all the Jews in make too much of this. France: "Death to the Therqmlsive character of Jews." grave-deaecratipn was Tlie pben(HDeni» of anti- partly reaponaible for the Semitism recurring in so outpouring of sentiment virulent a manner in—of againat tms sick manifesall {daces!—France, shook tation of overt anti-SemiTheodore Herzl's very tism. soul—and the Zioniat Nonetheless, becmise of movement was bom, b(»n ' the shoddng reversion of in dmpuT of the poesibil- coBteinitorary sodetiee to ity of Jews ever living in antl-Semitisni, particupeace in Christian landa.. laify in eastern Europe, Christian landa, he rea- Jawa ar* grateful for any soned, were so steaped cul- ezixreasion of public fedtiB-aB* ;Rnd nUiifipoAy in ing i«afaM£Jia^eididflfai. anti-Senitlam that on thia Who knows? Perhsps Eupoint they could never be ropeans can become cividviliaed. lized after all? It ia now a hundred Anti-Semitism, in its years atill later. Le Pen rise and fall, is a good and his right wing ex- barometer of the level of tremists, anti-Semitic, culture and civilizaanti-alien, faadst, haveat- tion.. .
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Seth Silbantela Seth SOberatain will become a Bar Mitzvah June 2 at Beth El Synagogue. He is tha SOB of Phyllis and Mark SObarstein. He h«8 one farathar, NaiL Orandpannta are UlUan George Lerman and the late Sophie and Nathan Silberstein. Seth ia a seventh-grade honor atudent at Peter Kiewit Middle School where he plays druma for tha achool band. He la alao a meifiber of the Swing Choir and Barber Shop Octet! abging group at school and a member of the youth choir at Beth El. He enjoys acting, bowling, swfmming and gymnastic*. • Seth will symtMlfealiy: sh^re tbis day witb Boriit Abramor, USSR.
Bachel Krieger Rachel Krieger, daughter of Angela ud Stanley KriagBr, wffl baooma Bat MItavah on Saturday morning, June 2, at 11:16 a.i|>. at Temple laraaL An hoeor student at Weetaide Middk School. Rachel's interacts include piano, oboe and dance. Rachel baa three sistera, Ste|>hanie 19, a aophomore at Brandeis University, Sarah, 16, and Jeaaica, 10. They are the granddaughters of David and Ethel Krieger of Freeport, N.Y.. and Veronica and Bob Hiltan of Shenandoah, Iowa.
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Israel to open Arab universities [ByDavMLudiia ndOaSedn JERUSALEM (JTA)I««al announced a dadatoD in prindpb to reopan tha Arab imhranitiaa ia the Waat Bank that tha aathoritiea ahnt down as tnmble apots when the intifada began 29 moatha Sbond Gonn. coordinator of covenuMDt affaire in the adminiatend territories, eaid the first university would be reoIMoad "within d^ya or a very hiw weeka." He did not say which of the aiz universities in the tmiUf-
riee it would be, but taidicated that if cooditioos were aatiafactory, the other five wooU be opaned shortly afterward. That wouU be op to the Paleetinian popolatioD, Goreo said. He aOuded to the recent rtepaoing of hifl^ adioob in the tarritoriee, which were doeed at the peak of the Prileetildan imriaing becttiae of violdtt demonstrations. There waa a deUberata dedsian on thepart of the Palestinian population that once reopaoed, the high schools would remain quiet, Gam said.
Islamic leader's trial opens In Gaza court By GO Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA)Tlie first trial of a major intifada activist ojpened with the reading of charges against Sheik Ahmed Yaasin of Gaza, founder and leader of the lalamic -fundamentalist Hamas movement. Hamaa haa emerged as the major rival ot the PalestinB Liberatioo Organizatian for the loj^dties of Paleetiniana in the Weat Bank and. particuloly, the Qau Sti^ It ia M*^ sidoed more ideologically miUtant and leaa witting to
cotnpromiae than the PLO; Yassin, who is confined to a wiieelchair, was defiant and spoke freely to reporters while being roUad into the makeshift courtroom. He heaped scorn on the Israeli plan for Palestinian elections in the tenitoriee and rejected charges that he was respansible for Hamas vioknce. He admitted, through counsel, that he ftmned Hamas and is a member, but he iasiated it is his duty "to fight ths foreeaof the oeeapin"
MjeetPLO PARIS(JTA)-AhighranUng Paleatine Liberation OrganlsatiOB delegation met last week with en aide to President Francois Mitterrand and Fdr«lgn Ministry officials at the Elysee Palace, i According to the Paleetiniana, their diseussloo focused on the larg»«eide immigration of Soviet Jews to Isrsel. They alao discussed the Arab summit meeting scheduled for Baghdad at the end of the montlu The PLO delegation waa recdved by Loic Hennekine, diplomatic adviser to Mitterrand, and two direc-. tors of the Foreign Ministry. It was headed by Hakam Balaoui, the PLO rq>resentative in Tuniaia commission in charge of PLO relations with France.
'Let Freedom Ring' Maiflyn TIpp (Mt) and Edith Rogert. nhehdfMa of NA'AMAT USA'a qMtwd adaation hmduoB annooBoe that reawatfaH for the Jnae 3,11SA. indwaa «t thliRageM7 Marriott may be made by calling 571-9017 or 4W4M32 by May 27. HoMieea wiU be Shiriey Goldetaia awl Mblam Simon, «H!hairaM dt the Jewiah Federation'e Soviet Jewry Coudttee, who have been aethre In aeenfM fiteedom for Soviet Jewa dnoe (he mOa.
Effort needed to teach youth By Naomi Godfrey n, Nf» Tti* JhwUk Wmk
NEW YORK (JTA) Scholars and experts at a recent conference ngned that it will require an allencompassing approadi to instill in today's youth the moral values that gave Christians the moral courage to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. "We have an obligation to our children, who really see society without heroes and id^^," said Bob<frt Goonkind, chairperson of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith's Jewish Foundation for Christian Rescuera. "We would like to see the reecuer, in a sense, live beyond his life and become
immortal as a leeson in moral courage and altruism. The experience of the rescuers is an unbelievably unique experience of horoism in the 20th century," Goodkind said. NAMBD PRESIDENT NEW YORK «JTA) Miriam Klein ShaiHTo was named president of the Union for IVaditioad Conceeding Horace bier.
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Posthumous award possible ByHaghOrgel TEL AVIV (JTA) Elie Cohen, a Mossed agent executed in Damascus in 1966, may become the first Isradi to be posthumously awarded honra-ary military rank. Acting Deienae Mtaiiatar Yitshak Shamh: and Chief
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Stova GIMUMB, from Kaans aty, examines a book Generieve Kramer, Denver, looka at the Galloy of Jewin the Jewiah Federation Ubraiy. iablfistocy.
ShiUoa and Marda KoshncT, iiacofai, find pbotoa of Ua relativita'bnaittcoaM in the HaO of Biatory.
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William Novak, hnmorist, entcrtaina at the American Jewiah Historical Sodety Sanday evening.
Panel discussion covers life after the Holocaust When be arrived, he aaid one of the first thinga he Life aftar the Holocaust saw was the scrh>t written was tha toiric of a paaal led over tlte arched gate. It fay ^hoda Lawin during She said a military leadread, "My Country Rij^t the waekeod of American er raqxnded to pleas for GHie was liberated from a or Wrong." It was years Jewish Historical Sodaty he^ with the following td- concentration camp by before he learned that the Conveotion activitias. Dr. egram, "We're not run- Russisn Boldienk of whom ' phrase was really AmeriLswln has authorad a book ning a nursery. We're in she still has firnd memo- can in origin and was that contains oral hiatoriea charge and we want them ries. taken com^etdy out of from 44 survivors and 14 to know it." context. "Learning a language b libarators. Dr. Lewin quoted from not easy," Mrs. Onith told As he watched Jews "It's not my book." she the audience. ^'You are told the audieoce. "1 come General Patton's diary in regreaaing into childhood march to their death in the to the information second which he wrote, "Others again. In some wave you crematorium, all he couU believe that the DP is a huthink of was, "Tho I pass hand. man being which is not have to start your life all through the vaDey of the over again. It's not easy. "Anne Frsnk and I true, particularly of the shadow of death I will fear would be the same age," Jewa." "I don't know what I no evjl." From that pofait Dr. Lewin added. She The Jews had lived like would have been," she on he was determined thst reminded the audience snimais for so long they said. She was speaking his life "will be guided by that peace means more couldn't respond to free- about her experiences be- truth and love." than the absence of hoatUdom. Dr. Lewin said. As cause she believes "that itiea. Ann Schwartz, the edthey began to recover, be- by reaching out we may McaUonal director at Temprevent something else tween August 1948 snd Dr. Lawin told of tha ple larad, took the podium from hsppening." August 1962,330,000 seteignditions tltat the Jaws next She was bom in a DP had to live in after World tled in the United SUtee, camp and is the child of Impriapned because he many having to take meniWar II ha4 inded in Euwas a mmaber of the resis- survivors. Her parents al jobs. rope. "Th« aiilitary was tance in Norway, Rddar were both from Poland. biuy with ttiair ofwn pr«bLucy Smith, herself a Dittman, a nonvlew, was lams. The Displaoad Par- survivor of the Holocaust, the next speaker. In eloShe told the audience sons (DP) canters ware a was the first of the panel quent speech he described that because her parenta moss. A barracks that to speak. She sak) she first a forest in Qermany the had survived the Holoshould havkh(WSKiS.OOO, learoed that ahe was Jew- way it looked before the caust she thought they housed 10,000. Jewish pao- ish at theage of five when Nazis cut it down to make were lar^ than life whni ^ were hDoaad iHth bon- the Nazi's woukl not allow room for a death camp. she waa growing'up. She By JoCamll
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her to kttend sChoai She became very withdrawn and soms even thought she was mentally ntarded.
rarely brought her everyday problems to her'parents because she thouigifat they had been through enoofl^ She regrets this now. "My being here is a total miracle,' Mrs. Schwartz said. "The odds sre so incredible," she continued as she paased snapshots of her eariy daya with her parenta around the room. Because ahe was spared, Mrs. SchwarU fdt, "It Was my duty not to waste my Hfe. I bad to do something "IMciaL " She has idways woriced closdy within the Jewish community. Her parents hsd moods that were mixed with humor and bitterness depending on the day, she explained. Her father told her happy stories sbout what happened before the Nazis came. When they came to the United States they followed a cousin to Memphis. Mrs. Schwartz laughed aa ahe said that «!t)iough the cousin had OBI]^ been in Memphis six months longer than Ker
family, he was always known as the expert on everything. Mrs. Schwartz said ahe believes fcT tiw future to not repeat a tragedy like the Holocaust, "Each human being has to value themsdves." Steven Gottlieb, anotlier child of survivors, explained how his parents were siile to eecape Europe in the kte '80s. Missing extended family waa one of the hardeet things ior Dora Shefren, anotoir child of aurvivors, to deal with. She, too, was bom in a DP camp. An uncle was teat to Sioux City snd her family was able to follow him. She had a very friendly neighbor as she grew up who acted like a grandmother to her. "I fed the pain that my parents feel," Mrs. Shefren said. "I have an obligation to be here." The sudience sat very quietly ss thi talks by the survivors ran over the allotted time for the program. Afterwards a huge round of applause was given the speakwsi
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Jewish settiement of Midwest topic of AJHS iuhcheon program By Jo Carroll The settlemant of the Midwoat by Jewa was the topic of aaviaral talks given on Saturday afternoon after a hincheon at Beth Israel Synagogue. The lundmm was part of the progr^ of the ooavention of the American Jewish Hiatorical Society being held in Omaha this past weekend. LeeShaiWeiasbMdi,the first qteaker at the podium for the afternoon said, "The dramatic growth of the Jewiah population of the United States in the early 20th century is without a doubt the most important theme in American Jewish history." He furnished the audience with statistics to show how midwestern towns had grown from 1878-1927. Mr. Weissbach thought that more attention should be given in history research to smaller American Jewish communities. Insight into how Ne-
braska was settled by Jews during the early part of the 20th century was given by Carol Gendler. Her information was taken directly from documents coDoeming the Industrial Removal Organixation (IRQ) whkh was located at the American Jewish Society.
Omaha agent. Above all, it was important that the newly arrived Jewa to NeIntaka not beocmie charity caaea. Many of those who had been brought to Omaha were pleased with their new living conditicms and wanted relatives and friends to joto them. They wrote directly to the IRO agency to New York. DM foUowing «re quotee from letters lira. Gendler ioduded to the text of har apaeeh:
Included in theee papers are many intareating letters "from immigrants themaalvea, from Omaha Jewa aeeiring help to brinfing friends and family, and "I aak you to be so kind from potential employers." Acceding to figures and send to me my brothobtained by Mrs. Gendler, er. I wlU find woric for him, more than 2,000 Jews were and do auch a great deed." resettled in Nebraska m "Pleaae aend Morris Lefthis way. kowitz, a cousto of mine. An IRQ agent in Omaha Thia office that sent Sam Goldman ahould send him. would correspond with an IRO agent to the east who I will take him at my was trying to move Jews house and you will have no out of crowded situations trouble. He ia a shoe to which they were unem- maker and is going to ployed. Usually before a work for me." family, or wage earner "I^t August I have left could be sent to Nebraska, New York, come to Omaemployment must have ha, found work here. I bean ftxmd for them by the have a mother and sister
to N.Y. City aad wouldlike to bring them pyw here. My sister ia a flurlur and a sorter to a luindty. She is also a shirt-waist makw. I can find work for her here. Would you help me bring them hwa" Accordtog to Mrs. Gendler, to 1907 the Pwt of Galvaatwi opoied up and the IRO there wanted to send immigrants to Omaha. A few ware sent, but employment for immigrants in Omaha was acaroe at that time and not many newoomera could be aorommodated. However, she stated, "In 1907, the lincoto community agreed to participate to the Oalveston plan by taktog two famiUea and four single men every two months." The agency to Lincoto waa staiffed by women. Several small towns to Nebrasks, such as Hastings, Creigfaton, Caldwell and Fremont took a mtoor part to thia reaettlement prograoL Mrs. Oendler's talk was
informative, filled with toteresttog qubtea am) tosi^ aa to how many Jews arrived to Omaha. J. Sanford Rikoon explained the role that the Jewuh AgriculturaUsts' Aid Society, baaed to Chicago, played to the aettUng of farma to the late 19th and early 20th centuriee. It waa a viable sooroa to bringing Jewiah asttlan to the Midweet, who were willing to try their luck at farming. The Sodety wanted to remove the Jewiah family from the eaatem ghetto and make it possible for them to have a home of their own. According to Mr. Rikoon the Sodety ,was confident that the peddler or tailor would have no problems earning a living aa a farmer. Mr. Rikoon stated that between 1888 and 1908, 430 farms in the Midwest were aettled by Jews with a total of 1,674 people. The state that was chosen the most was North Dakota where 40 percent of all the new farmers choae to live.
The Sodety to Chicago wanted the new faimira to homestead the land rather than have them buy improved land. Thqr thought that when the Jews aaw the soil betog impravsd by their own efforts it would ensure many happy years on the farm. Mr. RUioon toU hia audimee that such was not the cate. Moat of those who came to try their hand at farming ataysd laaa than 10 years, many leaving aftar only two or three yeara. Moat of the people aent to the Midweat to farm were from Ruaato aad had no farming experience. Most of the would-be farmers were given loana, averaging about tSOO per family. The money waa loaned at 3 or 4 percent with up to 10 years to pay it back. Most did not atay on the farm that long. But there were aaecees storiee among thoaa who came over this way. Some were able to turn to other business opportunities and achieved success to other areas.
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MatgoBidna strenghten their positive identity as Jews. "Attitudes about Jewish educatkn are far better now for several reasons. One, it is now more aooeptaUe to be openly Jewish in society; two, parents value thdr childrai's Jewish education and see its inq>ortance in their lives; and three, UTTO has become a red school in every sense of the word. It is run just like a real school, and the Idds know that they are ei^ected to behave m a certain way. When children are truly learning something, they are willing to cooperate." In addition to her commitment at the Talmud Torah levd, Mrs. Riekes
has alao been actively hivolved with the UTTO Hi^ School of Jetwish Studies. "Beth El and Beth Israd had combined their High School programs before the school became UTTO. The (Hvgram was good, but it laclrad a cohesiveoesa and a spark to draw kids to it," Mrs. Riekes explained "Enrollment was really down. About four years ago, I became the chairman of the High School committee, and together we came up with some really creative curriculum ideas to entice the kids to want to be there*. "We have made a conscientious effort to have a school which offers courses practicd to things which touch the kids' lives. For example, we are currently teaching a course oo human snudity. We had a course on Jewish and American law compared. We invented the Merit Schnlamhip Pro-
gram,^wiilch is baaed on a oominltnMnt and a desire to go bejroad what is requmd "rhe $500 scholarship is baaed on involvemnit and effort, not on ability. "These ideas all start with one person, but without a process they are meaningless. The success of all these programs is due to a good administration, an extraordinarily supportive UTTO Board, incraased Federatirm support for Jewish education in generd, and to grants from many generous foundations to bdp get many of the programs started. We have many people in Omaha crmimitted to creating the finest kind of Jewish education for our children. Omaha can be proud that We are competing in thb fonfroot of Jewish educatiaB oo a nationd levaL" Mrs. Riekes is married to Omaha attorney and Je^rish activist Steven J. Riekes.
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Conservative rabbis urge I^turn to sunset service Fl^ tliim Nraouui KIAMESHA LAKE. N.Y. (JTA) - After four deeadflB of conducting mid-«vening Kabbalat Skabbat aavicn, Caaawvative rabbis recommeiuM a return to the traditknal sunset service preceding Shabbat dinner. Over 600 rabbis meeting at the Concord Hotel here voted.in favor of a resohition to "re^xamine the effectiveness of thdr Sabbath eve programs with the possible goal of evolving wwahip services closer to the traditional time of simset." The vote took place during the largest gathering ever of the Rabbinical Assembly, Conservative Judaism's 1,300member central body of rabUs. The change in the Ume of Friday evening Services is intended to shtft the observance of the Sabbath from the synagogue to the home.
"The late Friday service is clearly dying," said Rabbi Nefl Oilman, associate professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. "Younger families are interested in a revitalized Sabbath participation with parents, children, grandparents and friends, especially in the home." With services in the past occurring between 8 and 9 p.m., families would have to hresk away from their Shabbat dinnw early to get to shul in time. "We haven't had late Friday night services for years," said Rabbi David Nelson of Beth Shalom synagogue in Oak Paric, Mich. "People just didn't show up." Conservative raUbis have actually found that when they canceled the late Friday service, attendance at Saturday morning services improved.
Jail term PARIS (JTA)-The editor of a periodical dedicated to the idea that the Holocaust was a hoax was sentenced here last^week to three months in ivison. Alain Guionnet, 36, was found guilty of "indtemrat to discrimination, to racial hatred, facial violence and racial defamatjm." ~ne was described as
given to "obsessive" and "delirious diatribes" agaidJst the Jews. Ovionnet was charged sepwately on three counts and was sentenced to three months for each count. He was also fined a total of 76,000 francs (about $13,600) in damages and interest, to be paid to Jewish groups and organizatiotia that combat racism.
JCC stacks up awards By Margo Riekes At its Biennial oonventioD, April 26-29, in Washington, D.C., the orgajtization known for nearly 76 years as JWB changed its name to Jewish Community Centers Association of North America. The nante change, stimulated in part by what was called "Century 2"-the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Jewish Community Center niovement, dating from a meeting of "Y" rqnresaitatives in Cincinnati in 1890— acknowledged the organization's historic link with Jewish Community Centors and signaled its clear mandate to lead the JCC movement into its second century of service to the North American Jewish community. Tltis convention offered an opportunity for all JCC's in North America .to' moil^ share informaUon,' learn from each other mid to begin planning for the next century. The Biennial is a conference presented primarily by lay people for lay peopte, aO of whom volunteer thdr tim^ and energy to a movement that is dedicated to the cause of Jewish continuity. Almost one-third of the participants were directly involved in presenting, chairing or serving as resources for the more
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Lawyer depicts Jews as 'dangerous enemy' ByBtnKmifhtM TORONTO (JTA) - A Canadian UI^ITW depleted Jews as a "daagarous enany" in wartime Hungaiy and claimed the hardships they endured as slave laborers in a Nazinm brickyard were no worse than the discomfort experienced by people whose vacation goes sour. Those and similar obser vations were made by defense attorney Douglas Christie, in the course of his three-day summation to a jury of five men and seven women hearing the case of Imre Finta. Finta, 77, was an officer in the Nazi-controlled Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie, responsible for the Jewish ghetto in Szeged, a city in southern Hungary. He has been tried on eight
counts, including theft of personal property, Udnappteg, manslaughter aiid fbrdbly confimng 8,617 Jews deported from Sagged in 1944 Two sturvivors from Israel, Meir Schweiger and Mordechai Schnitzer, told of being confined to boxcars for days. According to Christie, the Hungarian officials did not wish to put Jews in boxcars, but how else were the Jews to be tranqiwrted and where else were they to be smt, he aaked? The deportations were justified, he said, because Jews were considered an "internal security threat" They were believed to be linked to Communism and in sympathy with the Red Army, which was advancing on Hungary.
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Assimilation, declining nund>ers and anti-Semitism are still major problems of world Jewry, in spite of their relative selfassurance and prosperity, according to experta who spoke at a recent H^rew University intemationaiacademic conference. The conference, titled "A New Jewish Worid? Continuity and Change, 1939«9," WBB attended by scholars from Israel and abroad, and was sponsored by the university's laatitute of Contemporary Jewry uid the Orgai^zati<Hi Department of the World Zionist Organizatioo. The institute's Professor Sergio DellaPergola presented figures showing that the Jewish world is ODO'fifth smaller than 60 years ago, down to about 18 mUlioD from 16.6 million in 1939. Jews are more prosperous, he said, and coaoentrated in fewer parts of the world, with the bulk now residing in
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AJHS holds national convention in Omaha By io CMMU i^The AnMricu Jewi*b ISodatyhaldiU 19W Nattooal CoofanDoe fai Omaha Mtgr 17 thnwgli 31. Almost 70 ddagataa from IS atataa attcodad. Maqy locala pcnoa who baloof to tha Nabraaka Historical Society also joinadtham. Tha ooofHanca was held at thaManiott Hotel with fonAions at Bath El Synagogue, Beth Israel Synagogue and Tonple Israel. The group waa also given a bus tour of the dty and a reception at the Jewish Community Center. With functions during the day and lectures at night the Society had a full acbedule. On Friday evening, I%ilip Grant oMsted tlw Society, which had gathered at Beth El Synagogue for services and dinner, insight as to why Preaident Kennedy appointed Arthur J. Goldberg Secretwy of Labor. Dr. Grant implied that Goldberg's association with labo' organizaticms was a prime
factor in hia q>pQiBtmeot. Baaidaa the labor taanection Dr. Grant atatad twoothsi' paaaoa aa to why Arthur Goldbarg was chosen: "Ooldbarg'a g»ographie IdentificatiaD with tha popokNU atate of Qlinoia and OoliBMrg's itmish haritaga." On Saturday evening, two bright yeUow school bttsee unloaded the ooofer enoe partidpatas in front of the Jewiah Community Ceoter in time for a Havdalah servioa The aervice, which was led by Rabbi Aiyeb Aaiel, todc place in a dimly lit room just off the main corridcn-. Pei^e from Omaha and those from out of town blended their voices together im a lovdy evening service. After the service, Maiy Fellman, founding presidant of the Nebraska jewiah Historical Society, invited everyone to inspect the photographs on the walls, tha Hall of Hiatory. the Oallenr of Jewiah Hiatory and the library, a
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aourca of pride for the community. Tba viaitora were alao invitad t& partake of tbe deaaart buffet that had been set up ia tha hallway. Bamia Wax. ditaetor of tha Amerkwi Jewiah Historical Society, commsDted that tha Nabraaka Society waa one of the beat in the oountiy. Tlie admir«tk» that waa heard as the people viewed the exhibita seemed to bear out this statement Some photographs on the walla, which had been recently added to the collection by Dottie Roeenblum and Ophira Bahar, . depicted the hiatory of busineea in Lincoln diuing the eaily part of tUa century. Othera ahowad aodal groupa and family gathering in the early 20th century. On Sunday evening, William Novak, known for ghoat writing books for such persona aa Nancy Reagan and Tip O'Neal, proidded the Sodety with a humorbua inaight into the hiatory of Jewiah humor. He told the audience that Jewish humor is alive and walL "It is a myth that it died. It coukln't be more alive." Hia BTplanstion of what Jewiah humor is was atated aa, "What no gentile can understand and . every Jew naa already heard." It is laughter through tears and how we cope, he aaid. Jewiah humor is more popular than ever, he atatad. His speech was filled with jokes that he had read as a child, heard from other people or that he had written himself.
Criticism ottPope could trigger Catiiotic backlash, CHrdinal v\mrns By AlUsaa Kaplan NEW YORK WTA) Frequent and atridont critidam of Pops John Paul II by Jewa might result in an anti-Jawiah backlaah in the Cathoik coounuait/, the ardMahop of New York warned a Jewiah audience here. "Yon muat understand the backlaah if the pone ia attadnd and attadtad «id attacked," Cardinal John O'Connor aaU at the Mth annual dhuMTof tha Amer ican Jewiah Committaa. "Catholics, even many who are dissident to a de-
Soviet anti-Semitism By Yoaai Lenpkowlcs BRUSSELS, May 17 (JTA) — Anti-Semitiam in the Soviet Union affecta only a small part of the population, Moacow's Rabbi Adoli^ Ouyevitch toM more than 100 rabbis from 17 countriea at a three^iay meeting here. The biennial Confsrence of European Rabbis brou^t together rabbis from Western and Eastern Europe aa wdl as a large delegation from the United SUtes. Tbey discussed resurgent antiSemitism, the physical and qnritual weU-bdng of Soviet Jewa, and religiooa Jtfwry'B rdations with the European C<MDununi^. Tlie ttmitetmice, chaired by Lord Immanuei Jakobovits, outgoing chief rabbi of Britain and the Commonwealth, was held at B.C. headquarters under strict security.
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gTM, have a deep rooted nawapaper column for feuigr to the pope, aa you hsipiag a graiv of Ortho< have to JawiatuMaa and to dox Jewa aoqidre a buildlaraaL" ha axiriainad. ing in tha Christian Quar "Ifia 1 to attack la- tar of Jaruaidem'a Old raal, instantly I am at- City. tacked by maiqr baeauae of "Ilie cardinal called the the deep, deep loydtiea. move into the building That'a a two-way atreet during Baater weak "obThat's the way we are acane" and aakl the Israeli about the pope," the govsmmant'a financing of prominent Catholic prdale the pnijact was "nprehensaid. siUe." His cohimn. pubO'Connor attetidad the Ushad Mqr 11 in the weekdinner to receive AJCom- ly CUMfe New York, wss mittee's Isaiah Intarrdi- critidxed by American gious Award for hia work Jewish leaders and by Jein Cathdic-Jewish rela- ruaalem Mayor Teddy tiona. It was presented to KoUek, who wrote O'Conhim lees than a weak after nor a letter aaying lie was he sharply attacked tha Is- "deeply and peraonally raeli government in a offended."
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^® @^© '^®W ^7 Bert I/ewis Ai^ yon one of thoee people who often say, "Wait,let me write ihat down beiore I foiget it"? I certainly am-I find it's better to do that than depend on memory, shice somehow, memory isn't qoite as <kpendable as it used tob». Anyway, I am a person who jots down little things sudi as ph«>e numbers, appointments, grocery items— you know what I mean. If you wen to look around at any ofthe phones in my house, chances are pretty good you'd find acraps of paper with numbers or names or such infinmatioo as "be sure to call so-and-so re tix for din tg." Now its true I'm the only one who needs to know what that means, but that's ok. I'm the only one who needs to know. And evm the cryptic little abbreviatians on nqr calendar are underwood by nobody else. Also ok—I put them there, I know what they mean, llie little square pieces of paper which have stidc-um on the back are frequently found stuck to sny available space near my Idteben phtme. Theee are reserved for only really inqxntant informaticm, such as a flight number and arrival time of a plane I plan to meet These particularly annoy my roommate, who is deinitdy neater than I am and doesn't consider <<""g<<"g yeJlow bits of paper a necessary part of our decor.
Joaathan livney On May 16, at PJ.'s reetaurant in Lincoln, about (0 women of the Big Gifto division of the Uncoht Jewish Federation were both entertained and enlightened by Jonathan Livney, an laraeli attwney. Having explained all this you might understand my Mr. Livney servee as ccnfiisMn the otlwr day When I found (betweeiEi the pages president of the military of my address book) a note with a name and phone numcoitrt for the Weet Bankber. In fact, it was two difierant names and numbers, Judea and Samaria in Is- neitlwr of which meant a thing to me. I studied them rael. carefully, thought hard, and whin I couldn't make either Prom his vantage point one ring a bdl in my memoty, I was ready to throw than as a sahra and as a lawyer away. TVy were ahnoat in the wastebadcet whan I realhe spoke of the many prob- ized I couldn't poiirihiy discard them without knowing lems and challenges this who or what thay were aboot wave of Soviet immigrants poaaa for Israel Tliis is the I aat down with that stupid piece of paper and kwked largest waveof settlers to long and hard at it. Suddenly it dawned on me that it come to the state of Israel wasn't even my handwriting. So whose waa it? Not my since its beginning in fella, not that of a nice lady who cleans for us and 1948. He spoke with ez- answen the phone for me if I'm not there, and not mine. cit^ment of the back- More studying,- more Kratching, butAone of it brou^ i^tMnds of many of the any answers. In fact, even the area codes weren't olim and encouraged all familiar. the listeners to help the Wdi it isn't as thou^ I would eventually have called UJA. by infTfiaaing their pledges to help meet the Scotland Yard to aolve it I'm too cheap for that. Betremendous coets that Is- sides, it injured my pride to have to admit to anybody rael will have to meet the that I had this dumb little piece of paper with unknown names. new arrivals. You know the Yiddiah enression "komm mitt tsuris"? It means somettiihg fike fiaallyt, and that's what I experienced whan di^a later, komm mitt tsuris, I knew that my own dmightw had written the note a By Taniar Levy few wedu ago when she waa here on a visit She had GENEVAO (JTA) - called her office, in ianotter area code, and took down Tbt Nbetine liberation meesages she wanted to acknowledge. I guess I didn't Organization and its sup- recognize her writing because she wasn't feeling wdl at porters suffered an over- the time she wrote her numbers and was semi-reclining. whelming rebuff at this Anyway, it was Paasover at the time end reclining wss year's seeskm of the Worid pfffectly mtpropriatel Health Assembly. After all of this, it ocpnred to me that a person ou|^t Not only was the PLO's requeet for membersh^ in to sign such notes, or at leaat initial them to save for the Worid Health Organi- future mysteries. On the other hand, if I were to initial sation indefinitely moth- my own meesagee, I can just see myself puzzling over balled, but a resolution why those letters were there. Never mind. critidaing Israel for neglecting the health needs of the Palestinians in the Wert Bank and Gasa Strip waa scarcely a ali|^ and WM Uie ahortaet xmdtotkm the mafarance ever knMT.
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Some of the Jewish chlldrai who urivad recmtly fmn the Soviet UBIOII enjoy tlie •mcnitko of the •portmeat conplez whfle their pareate particteote ia n ialcrmttioBal meetiiig spouored by the Jewish Federati<m of Onalis ia tlie clnlihoase.
WUIe Charlie Eprtaia. aetias Soviet Jewish RaoottlMBOit CoocdiBator, provides fatfonaatfaMi to the JVpmiauteiy 40 ia atteodaMX, Aaaa k arrival who spoi^ Eagiiah, traaalatsd iata Roaalaa.
,a BMOUMr of the Board of Ditocton of Jewish Family 8cnle% vldeotapaa the aieeting for a docnmoatary she is piepar fa^E «• h«w the Jhwiah eommoaity of Omaha is TcaettliBg Soviet Jews as part ol Operatioa Exodus.
Jewiah Family Sewiea. the Fedaratioa Moacy with the priaisiy rsspnasldmj far reasttlsmsa*, pravidsd ths asweeners with baaie tafonutka ahoirt iriurt ia avaOahie to them from either the Federal gmeraiaeat or ths Jewiah eoaunoaity.
Orgaaiaad by hay pvaoaael ia the Jewiah Federatioa, the meetiag last week wss the first fai a aeriea of lamloas desigaed to saswer qaestioas sad hasp the new srrivals laforaMd. AaMag those attea^ wvs Glea FlaeaMB, ezeeative director, Jewish Fsadly Service; Shhrtay OoMstda, co«hsinnaa of the Soviet Jewry Cooualttee; Tom FaOaum, cfcainaaa of the Operation Exodns; Cerey Klrsheabanm, JCC youth diraetor who wUi supsnise the children st summer camp, and s nnmber of vohw-
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AhekattketpteUdariottk»J»wUkr*tr. In tfa» Mtamn of 1968, ahart(y aftar the Six Day War, WBipaat UuM WMka travaliiigiii laraaL Our viait waa toppM off (Btarally) with a cUnu) iq> Mt Sinii, an adventure I nmoodMr iritfa qMcial darity. particulariy at thia aeaaoa of Shavuot—Z'Man Matu Torahte3mu. The aeaaan ol the giving of our Torah. We rode to Mt. Sinai on a Littlafned-Bua-'Hu^CouId, hncUng throu^ the doaot into the Mitla Pasa, around the dnmd carcaaaes of Egyptian tanka. For aevcral daya WB ooBtinued aoutii, bouncing paat wadia and oaaea, over vaat, baek-of-theBMOO temdn until finally, down in tha dqitha of the deeett, we hunbered up to the gates of St. Catherine's Mooastety. The mooaatery waa built aoraetime in the Rve-hundreda by Juatinian. It is a aquat, square fortreaa of
Canadian Je^B alarmed MONTREAL (JTA) The deeecration of a Jewish centeteiy near Quebec City last week, the second sudi act in the province in six weeks, has raised demands for swift measures by the authorities to bring the cuIjHits to justice. The lateet target waa a cemetery in Ste. Foy, a Qu^MC suburb, where 31 gravestones were overturned. They were spraypainted with swastikas and "ZOG," an acronym
for "Zkniat Occupation Government." The acronym is uaed by rabidly anti-Semitic, white-VDpnanadst graiqse such as the Aryan Nations, which has bean active in the northwestern United States and CauMla. Some of tlie graves desecrated date back to 1862. The Canadian Jewish Congress' Quebec Region and the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada reacted with "disbelief" at the desecration.
granite blodn that boasts, in ita front yard, a acruffy almib said to be the original BumiAg Bush. In the monastery's backyard is a mountain that the Bedouin call Jebal Mussa—Mountain of Moses. We call it Mt Sinai. The monastery (s tended by a handful of Oreak Orthodox monka. "IVy fed us sunw, gave us cats to sleep on and woke us promptly at tnree a.m., the scheduled departure time for pilgrims aatting out to climb Mt. fflnaL We, and our Bedouin guidee, were due to arrive at the summit at sunriae. Now, fai aO honesty, no one knows the true k>cation of Mt. Sinai. Unlike the Mitla Pass, where abandoned tanka are verifiable witneasaa to history, Jebal Muasa preeenta no evidence that anything earth-ahaking ever hi^ipenedon ita craggy heighta. It ia not littered with pieoeo of the amaahed Ten Commandments. The Plain of er-Raha that stxvtdHa for miles at the foot of Uie mountain is not piled with chunks (rf the Ooldan Calf . But Jebal Mussa at sunrise waa, at least to me, poeitivety atcggaring and as mai^ aa it geta. I could imagine the mountain awathed in smoke, vibrating with the blare of trumpeta and quaking with the voice of God. I could see Uie Children of lerael huddled in its looming shadow—yawning, nibUng the sleqi from their eyes—shivering with anticipation. Spdlboundl (Had the long days under the desert sun fried my brain? Had the second-tiand smoke from the Bedouins' funny cigarettes altered my perception of reality? No way.) Mt. Sinai was somewhere, right? And as far as I was concerned, tliis was the place. This was where my ancestors had stood. Here t3xy sealed the Covenant, s^d yes to the Ten Commandmenta and accq>ted the Tonih. No doubt about it. By noon, we had stumbled down from Jebal Mussa. Before we got bade <m the bus I took another look at the shrub in the
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monastery's front yard. It aeemed lesa scruffy, somehow, and there was a glow about it. Honestly.
Nachman of Bratalav wrote, "Better a superstitious baiiavar than a rational noa-lAliaver." Amen to that, answers she who has seen tike Bundng Bush. And stood withoertointy on the top of Mt. Smai. The laraelitaa triio gatWed at the foot of Mt Sinai (wbaravet that is) were BupaistiUons beBevera. toa liny raalind that aomething was happenfaig on the mountain but thay weren't sura what it waa. Uka children, they felt no need to intallectualise. They simfdy felt And so, th^y accepted the Torah without knowing what their acceptance signified. They realized, intuitively, that even things not fully understood can be full of meaning. What a great leaMttl If w« apply it to our observance of Shavuot (and to all things Jewish, for that matter), then Mt. Sinai can be wherever wa want it to be. Even in our own backyard.*
Sullivan praises Jews for resettlement work NEW YORK (JTA) Health and Htiman Services Secretary Louis Sullivan praised the Jewish community's efforts to resettle Soiviet Jews in the United States, as he officially announced a federal grant of over $40 millicm to the Council of Jewish Federations. "nte money, provided under the Vduntary Agency Matching Grant i»cogram, matches funds to nonprofit agmdes that provide support services to refugeee.
after they enter the United States. Another 32,000 are entering the country in 1990 with their costa ahared between the federal government and the federations. "Working with the private sector has inherent advantages," said Sidlivan. "We always need your expertise, insight and compaaaionate commitment. Hie matching grant concept also allows for greater flexibility than possible in the public sector, to tailw programs to particular ethnic needs."
Sullivan said tlie grant, which includes funds for CJF is preeently lobbyresettlement in both 1989 and 1990, was "the largest ing the administration to matching grant award admit 40,000 fully funded that the Office of Refugee Soviet Jewish refugees in Resettlement has ever 1991. Sullivan told the Telegraphic made to a private resettle- Jewiah Agency that the request ment agency." "was under review." The Cabinet official had apedal praise for the fedAddressing leaders of eration system's willing- Jewish organisations May ness this year to carry the 16, Sullivan aaid he found financial burden of re- hia recent trip to larael "a settUng 8,000 Soviet Jew- profouDd, enlij^iteniag exiah rvftigees with no fed- perience" and reaffirmed eral fundUng, covering tlw his commitment to dose fuU costs of tranqMTta- scientific cooperation betion, medical costs and tween the U.S. and the reaettlement for two yeara Jewiah atate. H0MEtm.lMCE
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preaideat-eiect of the Jawiah Feckntioa of Oauiha, apoK thab reoMi ratwa from a adaaiaa to the Soviet Uaioa and laraal; attaatkai foeaaaa oa a Jewtah aua viaitfaW feaa the Soviet UaloB at a parlor aaetiiW held at the home of Aaa ami DoMld Goldatcin: Mr. FeOaua aad gaeota Hates doaely to eoauneata made dariag the parior meetiag (rfhoat faadly, Shirlqr and Leonard Goldateia. F^om bottom left: Mr. LerMT aukaa hk opaidag reaMriu at the home of Jaaia awl DOMU Yale, and lewia a Uveijr diaeoaaiaa at the home of MoOiae and Frederick Caaeaum; Mr. Fdtanan anawera qaaatioaa Crom goeete at the bom« of ShMejr and BOTaaid Altsolar. For parlor nmetlag infotmatioa, contact Charlie E^teia, aaeodate director of the Federatitm, 3348200, Ext. 223.
Key Eichmann aide being shielded by Syria WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nazi maaa murderar ^ois Bniner, Adolph EJchmann'a diief executiontr, ia living under the protectioD of tlie Syrian govamment, according to a Reader'a Digaat maga-
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ChabadofNebraslcawlll offer a "Shavuot Alive" {vogram May 29 at 7 p.m. at 640 S. 124th Ave. According to the an< nouncement, legal talk, medical ethics and philoq>hical priadplee (in the UghtoftorahiwiUbetbe mbjecta of discuaaion. Preaentationa will be made by AI Feldman, Jon Levin, Morris Maline and Anna Metrik, a recent arrival from the Soviet Union. Refreehments will be served and Uddush will be made during intermission. The community may attend. Reaervations may be made 1^ calling 330-7400.
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. the Lag B'Oaiar "IHddiah'Ute" flyfaig ajqwrfeaee, qtoaChabad al Nebraaka at B«yB Towa, Mv 18> «n aoveial Soviet JewB who iaOBMhaRabU Mendel Kataaaaedd the aewanivala4Htddy bow to eajoy koahcr hot dogs with tbe triaualaga.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) OPERATION EXODUS BEATS SOVIET UNION The long-heralded exhibiHALFWAY NEW YORK (JTAl The Operation Exodus campaign for the resettlement of Soviet Jews in Israel has passed the halfway mark, as tbe United Jewish Appeal announced Monday that $247 million has been raiaed toward the campaign's 1420 million goal.
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TEL AVIV (JTA)-l8- tion of Jewish cultural and rad's national soccer team religious treasures from beat the Soviet Union's Czechoelovakia opened at teem 3-2, before 46,000 the Israel Muaeum and spectators in a friendly in- will continue untfl August. ternational match at RaIt is a direct consemat Can Stadium last quence of the November week. It was the first time 1989 bloodless revolution the two teams had met that ended 40 years of since 1966, when the Rus- Communist rule in Prague aiana trouBoed the Uraelia and led to the re-estabUsh-
ment of full diplomatic relations with Israel "For many years, we tried to bring an exhibition to Israel, but our government always stopped ua," Dr. Vladhnir Sadak, head of the Czech State Jewish Museum of Prague, told the Jewiah Telegraphic Agency at' the gala opening. He said he hoped for closer cooperation between his 40-member staff and the Israel Museum.
Open forum to follow May 26 *Body Leaks' An open forum will follow the May 26 performance of "Body Leaks" at the Omaha Magic Tlieatre. Paiticmating in the forum will be Nelson Pbtter, philoeophy. University of Nebraska-Omaha (UNO); Don Warman, history, Dana College; Sr. Mary Jude Graham, phikMophyMSi^ ion, Creigfaton University; Michael Skau, En^iah, UNO; and Jerry Ceder-
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