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Callers raise record $56,707 during Super Sunday campaign By Jill Ktulmer Belmont Ftdentiaa public rdatkins cMociate Last Sunday's Super Sunday phone-a-thon proved to be a record breaker, raising $56,707 for the 1991 UJA/Federation Campaign, accordiog to the event's chsnnen Barry and Judy Sif& "Our original goal was (49,334, but it was obvious early on that we were going to have a great day," Mr. Siff said. "The reoponae from the community was tremendous—our total reflected a 31 percent Increase over 1990, and card for card we saw a 32 percent increase." He added that "our volunteers' enthusiasm was really the hij^ilil^ to me. We had famiWiw, teenagera and senior citizens pai^ tidpating, and ewryoue was sharing and supporting each other. It peraonified everything Judy md I wanted to happen." Over 80 volttateera made calls during the day, Mrs. Siff said, and "their sincerity, their caring, poettive attitudes were instrumental in making this foad^aisar snch a thrilUng Sheri Idalman, who led caller-training sessions prior to each shift, said, "I feel great about the day. Not only were the callers motivated, but the people on the otkv sod of Uw line had their hearts in the light place." A variety of tktors led

Sheri Idefanan, center, aaawara a queetioa Croai Caren Friedman, ML Kdly llchaner. right, is oa the phone. Both giria were voliuteerB for BBYO. many first-time callers to partlcQMte in the phone-athoa this year.

Iliey were very willing to give, many for the first time."

BBYO member Caren Friedman saki^ "helping out Was bnportwtt. to our youtli groigi. 'Di^ladantfoe haa done ao omch fdr ns and we wmted to give something back."

Another firat-time caller, Bitdor Grsenbergi said he participated bee^iiM. "a k»t <^ p«<»ie hamD't been CQotaeted, and Sopar Sunday iaagood vehkte to readb thnn."

Kelly Hchauer, also a BBYO member, agreed, and added that, "with the situatkio in Israd, I wsnted to try to get other people to help out." J<|li Epstein echoed thoee smtJBMwts, saying, "there is an urgent, immediate need of our auMMit in Israel IlMy aera us now more than evw, and maqy of the people I called responded to that jq^gi

Mdbtii Gordon to sp*alc Rabbi Yod Gordoa. a native of Green Bay, Wiac. will be coming to Omaha Feb. 22-24 for Beth El's Torah Weekend. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Rabbi Gordon continued his studies at The Jewish Theological Seminary of America which granted him both a master of arta degree in Hebrew Utaratura uid rabbinic ordination.

After graduation, already with many years experiMoe worUag in Jewish education, Rabbi Gordon moved to Loa Angalea where he aerved in various adminiatrativa poaitions at the Loa AngMee Hebrinr High School. In 1978 he returned to the MidWeat u the executive director of the Tahnud Torah of St. Paul,

RabU Yoai Gordon In 1990, Rabbi Gordon left Talmud Torah to devote full time tooonmiet' ing a Ph.D. in "aecond Ianguagea and cultures edu* oatlon" Torah Weekend programming faidudee talks by Rabbi Gordon on Fri> day night and Saturday morning during services and at a breakfast st 10 a.m. on Sunday. All programs are free and open to thepubUc.

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After participating in 14 Super Sundi^y events, Jewish Federation associate director Charlie Epstein sakl this year's effort was "the moat gratifying of aU. The SIffs, their committee and Sheri Idahnan did outstanding jobs, and all of our callers were refreshing, exciting and committed. We coukln't have done this without such marvelous dedication and community spirit."

Sturms donate $50,000 to eBtabllsIn "Immigrant Educational Fund" By Jni Kushner Belmont Federation pabUc relations aaaodate Through the generosity of Donald and Susan Sturm, many of Omaha's Russian Jews will soon have the opportunity to become re-trained in their fields of expertise. The Donald L. Sturm Foundation recently donated $50,000 to the Jewish Federation of Omaha to establish the "Mark and Sophie Sturm Immigrant Educational Fund," in memory of Donald Sturm's father and in honor of his mother. The fund will make available money to Jewish immigrants needing professional or vocational training to make their skills commensurate with American standards, according to Natalie Rubin, Jewish Family Service's Resettlement coordinate. Individuals who qualify will be eli^jilille for up to $6,000 to be used for tuition fe||fe, English latiguagf a^ teemik^l language courses, aa well as other re-training classes. Mr. Sturm explained that the fund was eetablished because "my wife and I felt that the people from Russia needed some transitiai into our capitalistic Mdety, just as my father would have been served by such a program Back then, many inunigrants got stuck in jobs for whidi they were overqualified and in many cases, a lot of their potential was wasted. "We're hoping that

Susan and Donald Storm through this fund, these new members of our community can utilize thdr education and realize their aspiratimis," he said. Mark and Sophie Sturm were bom in Austria and immigrated to the United States in 189S and 1922, respectively, Mr. Sturm said. His father died 30 years ago; his mother, 87, lives in Santa Monica, Calif. "My mother is interested in seeing that resettjad, Rusaians and all immigranta have tbeoiiMr tunity to achieve their potential," he said. "She waa extremefy pleaaed and proud that I would hcmor her and help other peqjtle. "I h(^ this fund will be ongoing and financially suppcnrted by members of our community who want to assure future Jewiah immigrants the opportunity to resume their professional livelihoods." The fund will be administered by a committee comprised of Mr. Sturm, Qkiria Kasbw and Martin Lehr. Their reqponsibilitiea will include sattiag

Sophie Sturm guidelinea for eligibility and allocating the money, Mrs. Kaslow said. She noted that among thofe who will benefit from the fund are doctors, computer programmers, economists, accountants andangbMcrs, alt of whom need to be re-certified or retrained using American technical tCTmiDology. The fund will be used in additkm to Jeirish Family Service's free ESL (English aa a Seeond Lanipiag^ program, whidt provides aighr wesirs cr 80 hoora of Engllah^ lessons, Mrs, Robfeaaid. "If we can provide additional English to these pecyle, that Would be a real plus." She added that "this fund is just wonderful We are very grateful to the Sturma for initiating this and canying it throogfa. Our raeettismsnt program focnaea oa familkw' immediate physkal resettlemeat, and this extra money is the frosting on the cake. "The fund is a godsend to help these people help themselvee.'

'It's A Wrap!' offers fun and excitement By Joanio Jaeobaon Fedaratioa pnbik: relatioaa directar "We worked hard and now it'a time to play hard," said Margo Rfekes, chairman of "It's A Wrapl-a fun-filled pat-onthe-back for workers in the Women's Division of the 1991 UJA/Federation Campaign." The event, marking the official clooe of the women's campaign, will be heU on Feb. 20, at the Jewish Commnnl^ Center bejhaning at 11:46 a.m., and is intended to honor every woman who worked on tlM campaign in any capacity,''Mn. Riakea said. "Whan I accepted the chafrmanahip, I decided from the beginning that this event would be fun, differHtt lad exciting, " Mrs.Riak«i«xpiida«l."It was navor going to be seri-

MaigoRiakee ous. We'd heard speakers throughout the year, but now it was time for the women to feel appreciated and have a great time. "There'll be prisea, games and a light and lovely lunch catered by Hap Abraham and JCC Catering-Boup and salad —elegant but simple. Along with a reprise of 'Wheel of Federation.' the

"Of courae, we wanted afternoon will faatore the ' 1st Annual GokfaB OoUa to keap axpensea at a ndniAwarda,' presented for mum." aha explained. •m««tng feata in fundrais- "The committee did not ing, and named, no less, want to put a drain on the for one of the most out- campaign budget for the standing Jewiah women fa> luncheon. The Federation is not in the antertainment larael's historyl "Of course, we've given buainaaa—it's in the buda new 'twist' to Golda- nees of raising doUara. "However, It'a imporshe's replaced the 'Oscsr' in Omaha—and with Rini tant we eome together," Gonahar as 'MC,' we're ex- she nonitotod. "-that'a cited shout revealing the what the Fedaratkm Is all winners in sll 12 categor- about. We are woman iri>o tea as well ss awarding have worked for the same door prizes throughout the cauae and can IM good about our aftorta. now, afternoon. "I have a terrific com- it'a time to cekrinta." Aaae Brodar and Jutae mittee," she continued. "Carole Greenberg has Kattmaa. co^hatrasa of done an ezoallsnt job hi the Women's Division, deeigning a very upbeat praised Mrs. Riekaa and invitatka and creating the all woman of the Omaha< actual'OoUa'itaelf. Other Jewiah wwmuwily for out- memben are bu«y making "TUa avant wu origicenterpieoea and securing wonderful priasa ht the (oontinued on paga 8) day.

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©HBffifiisi (Dir^aiaifissiOfi®!!!© NA'AMAT NA'AMAT will celebr^ 65 yean of achtefvemnt in the USA with • card party/aodal at the home of Mr. end Mra. Charlea Gusa, 1017 North 64 Street oo Feb. 17 at 2 p.in. Members may bring gueata and make up a table of their own players. Members are also aalnd to bring their own games— maj jongg sets, Rumiqy Q sets, cards for bridge or pan games, etc. Make arrangemaits with either Helen Manheimer at 666-7261 or Ina Levich at 334-7031.

im Party and Potlock schednled for Mar. 2, and a joint Seder dinner planned for Mar. 28 with the Metropolitan Oommunity ChiBth of Omaha. Miahpachat Chaverim will also consider sulmiittfaig ita membership application to the Worid Congreea of Gay and Lcabian Jewish Organixations, an hit«natk»al body of over 30 groups. For more information of the meeting or the organizatkms, Isave a measags at 291-6781.

Belmont/Gendler implement new approach to fundraising

Fact: On Tfaoraday, Feb. 21, the mw of Diviakm 16 of the 1991 UJA/Federatton Campaign will pither to be recognised and hear featured speaker Vincent Lane, chainoan of the Chicago Housing Authority. Fact: Every man in Division 16 who made a contributkn to the 1991 Campaign, in any amount, is invited. Pact: According to division co-chairmen, Mark JWV POST #260 Belmont and Larry GendJWV Poet #260 will ler, the appearance of Mr. have a luncheon, 1 p.m., Lane is actually the culmiFeb. 10 at Olde Country nation of a new q>proach BREADBBEAKER8 Buffet, 144th and Weat to fundraising designed to Leon Polikov, B'nai Center Road. streamline tbs soUdtation B'rith Breadlwealurs chair process and still show an man for February, has anincreaae in doliars raised. nounced that John Bres"We decided to focus on km, Nebraska State Aoa direct mail campaign ditOT, will be the guest with an inontiva to give," qwaker at the Feb. 13 A. David Gddstdn has eiqilalned Mr. Belmont. luncheon. been elected preeident of "We had two overall goals: Breadbreakers meets the Omaha Downtown Ro- first, to increaae total every Wedneaday at nooo tary Chib Foundation. pledgee by five percent, at the Regency West Best and seoond, to achieve 100 Western. Coat for the WOMEN'S PBOGRAM percent partidpatian withluncheon ia 16; the comNEW YORK IJTA)- in our diviaion. munity may attend. "W<Hnen to Women." a "Lany and I agree that program to he^ Soviet our bi^eat success has MISHPACHAT wooMO immigratfatg to Is- been the conversion of CHAVE»IM rael adjust to their new en- men who have never given Miahpachat Chaverim vironnMot, hae been eetab- to tha campaign aa wdl as (A Family of Frianda), Ushed by the American ths partic^atian of othera Omaha'a gay/lesWan Jew> Jewish Joint Distribation who have not given in a iah organiiatkMi, ia hold- Ccnunittoe. the first such number of years," he said. ing a meeting^runch Fab. project undertaken by tike "We needed to try aome10. woridwide relief agmcy thhig new," aaid 1^. GenThe group will diecaas and the firat of ita Idnd ui dkr. "We agreiid tiut diita upcoming aecond Pw>- laraiaL rect mail would be a more expedient, leas intniaive CUP AND SAVE alternative. If it worked, it would save a lot of time and effort for both staff and volunteers. "We started very early, before the regular campaign officially began," raOAY. RmUARY • Know Thy MWAor SMrti, S p.m.. IMi Iml Mr. Belmont explained. "We sent one pre-camaATuwPAY, nEamiARY t "bmnlonnt" pvfonmncv palgn solicitation letter andanckMed an editorial tUNOAV, RMMMRY10 ttoa Newsweek Msgaaine written by Mr. Lane. 01Yfr(iSY-MVO.7:S0pjn. "After returning from a TiinplilnilMM'tCkk,10i.m. Black Leaderahip Miaaion MONOAV.mmMIIVII to Israel aponsored by the YES Group, 10 *jn. Anti-Defanution League C of X CMSIM. 7:30 p.ffl.

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of B'nai B'rith, Mr. Lane encouragea Black-American communities to lesm from the Jewish community eoqMrience and is a strong proponent of improved relations between the two groups. "Our letter stressed the voy thing that impreased Mr. Lane when he viaited a kibbnts." Mr. Belmont noted, "—the importance of evary individual in a Jewish community ia to give back to that ccmmnt nity. We enphaaised the eqrul importanoe of every individual and that every man deeerved to be thanked and to feelgood about his gift. "We fdt a letter wouM give people an opportunity to reflect, to read the editorial and, in their own mind and in their own time, search their conscience and make an appropriate contribution." he said " "Next we eant a fdlowup letter. We reminded the men we were bringing Mr. Lane to Omaha to qieak at an appreciation luncheon in thiiir honor and hoped this would be an added incentive to giva" "If it d^'t work, we wotddn't loae much," Mr. Gendler added. "We could alw^jrs job the regular aolidtiutlon prooeea and still finish on Urns." "The reaults were remarkable," Mr. Behnont reported. "FoUowing the two letters, we showed s 66 percent response and a

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DAVID W. REISS Services were held at Beth El Cemetery Feb. 3 for David W. Reiss age 78. Mr. Reies is survived by his wifs, Lorraine H.; sons, Joseidi of Coast Falls, Id., Robot of Omaha; daughters, Rochdle Drtdsra of Chicsgo, snd Lsiney (Mrs. Robert) Nacron of Miami; sister, Anne Baker, Rockville, Md.; six grsndchildren. The family suggests memorials to Beth El Synagogue Building Fund and the American Cancer Society.

Mark Behnont six percent increase in pledgee, card for card. "Phaae Three required the recruitment of only a handful of men to phone those in the division who did not respond by maiL "We're happy to retort that, to date, Diviaicm 16 shows a 93 percent response with now a seven percent increase in pledges." "Partic^tkui in the Fedwation <!bive ia really important." said Mr. Gendler. "There's a kit of woric that goee on and a lot of benefits for every Jewish person in this oomnumityi Jews have given back to their community for hundreda (rf yaara. and Mark and I feal vary good about the enthnaiastic rsqionse from the mn who represent our division.

Jews protest statement By David Kaator

BONN (JTAHThe Jewish community has sent a formal proteet to the interior minister concerning a broadcast on stateowned televiaion in which Zkmists ware maligned by neo-Nasis tndning to fight on the side of Saddam Huaaein. Heinz Galinald, chairman of the German Jewish community, charged in a letter aent Jan. 31 to Interior Minister Wcdfgang Schaeuhle that the broadcaat contained incitement to racial diacrimination and public slsnder of the State of Israel He urged the minister to use his influence to ban groups that recruit and train young men to fight for the Iraqi dictator against Germany's aUiee. Hie proteet waa directed against a aegment of the program caUed "Panorama," tdevised Jan. 30 on the atate-owned First ChannaL It ahowad neo-Nazis in training and interviewed young activiats who said the allied attacks on Iraq ware part of a Zioniat, imperialist plot against the Arab people.

Monsky brunch Henry Monsky Lodge B'nai B'rith is sponsoring a Bagela and Noah wit£ Con^essman Peter Hoagland on Feb. 17 at 10:30 a.m. at the Jewish Community CeaUr. Among the issues to be discussed are the Gulf (Crisis, Israel, Soviet Immigration, and other issuee of impMtance to our community. Thia program ia open to membars ^ B'nai B'rith, their *Mwfltf. and all inter eated members of the Jewish community. USA CAMPAIGN NEW YORK (JTA)Na'amat USA baa announced an emergency fund-raiatng program to help ita aiater organisation, Na'amat In«d.

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WIGODSKY/MASON Dr. and Mn. Earl Wigodsky announce the engagement of their dau^ter, Janey Lynn of Mimeapolis, Mhm., to John Bradley Masoiy son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mason of Oshkosh, Wise. A Dec. 29 wedding is planned at Mount Zion Tnnple in St Paul, li4inn.

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granddaughter of tiw late Hekn and Max Shapiro of Omaha, David Na^anaon of West Palm Beach, Fla., and the late Anne Nathanson. The brideelect is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania law school. She is an associate at Gremfield and Qiimides in Havotfccd, PflOB.

NATHANSONMAZO Harriet and Gordon Nathanaon of Rockville, Md, announce the engagement of thefi- daus^ter, Debra Nancy, to Daniel Paul Mazo, son of Joan and Robert Mazo of Eugene, Ore. The future bride is the

Hw future bridegroom is a graduate of the Univaraity of Virginia and the Unive^ sity 61 Pennsylvania law school He is an aasodate at Duane, Morris aitd Heckscher in Philadelphia. A June 23 wedding is planned at Congregation Har Shalom in Potonuu^ Md.

it's A WrapV offers (Continued from Page 1) nally going to be a final cabinet meeting," explained Mrs. Katzman. "Then Anne and I decided it should include the workera as well—that all women deserved to be thanked for our success. "Margo was named chairman, and with her creativity and ideas, the event took on a whole new focua of fun and humor. It is certainly a departure from the routine cabinet meeting, but it will do what we have tried to do throughout the entire campaign—to reach out in the community and include as many women aa possible in a positive way."

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PLO may have suffered fatal blow with assassination of two leaders By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA)Whoever was responaible for the assassination in Tunis of two top leaden of the Palestine Liberation Organization, may have struck a fatal bk>w at the PLO mainatream and set the stage for radicalization of the Palestinian nationalist movement, experts here beUeve. Defeoae Minister Moahe Arens denied any laraeli involvement in the act.

But Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip appeared convinced it was the work of the Mossed, Israel's aecret aorvice. Curfews were clamped on numy parts of the torritories to [He-empt violent reactions. The victims wereSalah Khalaf, the PLO's Na 2 leader, and Hail Abdul Hamid, the PLO security chief. Khalaf, popularly known as Abu Iy«l, was, after Yasir Arafat, aecond

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in command of Al Fatah, the PLO's largest faction. Abdul Hamid, known alao as Abu Hoi, commanded Vj^th't western front. Also slain was Fakhri a^ Omari, a chief aide to Khalaf. Some aourcea in Tunisia attributed the alayinga to the Libyan-backed Abu Nidal terrorist group, which they said had succeeded in infiltrating Fatah.

"I vtt wry, wry proud that, in a difficult year, Omaha Jewish women have said, 'Let's keep on going and give a little bit more,'" added Mrs. Broder. "W(nUng and nonworidng women have deiaonstrated they want to be counted as individuals when it comes to showing support for the Jewish community. "Our women have been there for this community, for Russian resettlement and fm laraeL I was really impressed with every divisioii, and particulariy with those women who worked on the campaign, who gave 'a little extra' for the sake of us all." CRT PRESIDENT Murray Kc^ppdman was elected president of the American CRT fedcratioD, the umbrella organization for aU ORT groups in the United States, at the organization's annual national conference on Jan. 20, 1991,

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Omaha in 1991 The Jewish community of Omaha throu^ ita Jewish Cimuquiuty Center has the honor of hostLig the 1991 Maccabi Youth Gamee. Young Jewish athletes from the Midwest and Western mgioos will be invited to participate and many of the youngsters' family membiBrs and coaches are expected to attend as wtSL The Games are affiliated with the Jewish Community enters' Association, Maccabi World Union, Maccabi North American, Maccabi Canada and the U.S. Committee ^Mrts for Israd. Wowl That's a powwrful support base. Last year (which aeems like yesttadayK a ddegation of Jewish athjetea from Omaha participated in the Detroit games and returned with glowing accounts of the axtraordinaiy event. The Detroit eaqwieace not only ottered an opportunity to demonstrate athletic achievement, but SIK) mt)vidisd the setting for the enhancement of friendships among Jewiah youths from many diverse locations. Whfle the 1990 games healed solidify a qxxting movement for Jewish teenagm, the 1991 games in Omaha will present an qmortunity for perpetuating and ezpanding friendshqis. According to Simdy Friedman and Sandra Kohll, Youth Maccabi c»cfaairnian, faivitations to participate are open to Omaha area Jewish youth who will be 12 years of age as of Aug.l, 1991, and not yet 17 years of age as of that date. Omaha has 75 spots to fill and the jdanned sports f(Hboys and girls include: basketball, swimming, tennis, golf, racquetball, softbaU, track and Add, table tennis and chess. For information on participation in the gaqaa, contact Mr. Friedman, Mrs. KoUl, or Chuck AmoU at the Jewish Community Center. It is interesting to note that Detroit recruited 800 volunteers to work the garnet so the opportunity exists here for adults and teenagers to participate in the noncompetitive aqMCta at the sports contests. Tlisre is room alao far participation by our area synagogues as waO as by numy of our Jewish organisations. ^Mdal Shabbat services and programs can be made available for tbe guest atUetea and their famOiss. and home hospitality can be utOiaed to wekome th* young" aters. This ia an cnportunity for Omaha to make the August games the plMS to be for fun, friendship and good, wholesome sportamanahip.

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Ezunplea: Bush's embraos of Syria's Hafei Assad, with hia unrenouacad terroriam, even aa-he oatentatioualy avoided talaphnning Yitshak Shamir; the 'conNEW YORK-In the paat few weeka, George Buah cealment'of the American sokUers (and all Christian and haa given the United States a maatcrfy aiwl courageous Jewish symbola) last Saudi AraUanalfe offended; Amer^ preddency. He correctly identified the Iraqi threat to ica's verbal protest without taking substantive action immediate national self-interest—control of vital oil and as the Soviet Unkn moves to crush Baltic independence. destruction of American allies—as well aa the threat to All thia does is give the impression that he so much long-term national security—eventual chemical and needs allied approval that he will do anything or swalnuclear aasault low any national policy, however wrong, to keep the He skillfully steered between the urge to "go it akne" allies on board. and the t«n|*atkw to aflow the European natfcwa to buy Nowhere is this inner conflict of American policy more "peace" by appeaaement. He declined to evade respon- visible than in its treatment of Isrsel during the past sibOity tor action by offering the empty hope that sanc- six mcmths. Arab hostility to Israel was a given and not to be challenged—as if our Arab allies were doing us a tions would move Saddam Hussein. The United Statae is well on the way to winning the favor. Instead of afiSnning that svq)p(irt for democracy is the war. Yet, unless the fundamental aims of this war are bedrock of our policy and sUpolating that our armies upheld, there is a real danger of losing the peace. America's goal is larger than liberating Kuwait. It is must be able to call upon the reaources of ourmilitarily strangest ally, America prened a 'low profile' on larad. to achieve a post-cold-war world order with the promise of peace and security for sll nations. That promise At times, Amoica came close to treating Israel like a pariah. is based on two factors: From Jan. 16 to Jan. 20, the entire focus seemed to *11ie end of a bipolarized world in whkh each side supbe on keeping Israel frwn retaliating if it were attacked, ported dictatorship and aggression to protect its own leat the coalition be uad<me. But which allies were at interests. (The Soviet Union, being a dictatorship, riak of jumping ahip? Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which sinned far more grievously and frequently.) can only be aaved by American armiea? Egypt and Tur*Tbe emergence of democracies and decentralized > key, which are at peace with Israd and affirm its rij^t economies as people showed an overwhelming desire to to self-defense? Onfy Syria and thoae Paleatinians and live in freedom. Jordanians driven by blind hatred tot Israel would be A democracy's highest priority is to meet the interoffended. In any event, Syria has made clear that its nal challenge of making a better life for its dtiz^ns. limited contingenta will not fi^ in any atrategically lliere is no need to dis&act the population or deflect useful way. reaentment outwardly by nuUtaiy adventure. Therefore, From long historical ecqierience, we Jews have learned democracies are reltable peace partners. that treatment of the Jews is a litmus test of nations' If the collective will of the world .can punish and/or health. It is equally a highly accurate early warning of deter would-be aggressivs, peace can become the inter- soundness or sickness in pdicy. The weaknesa which this shid>by treatment of Israel national norm. As illegitimate force is interdicted, more and more democracies will emerge. revealed, combhwd with the deaperate, fawning EuroHw new structure can come into being only if dicta- pean attanqits at appeasement, may weU have convinced U«n understand that their use of force will be overrid- Saddam Husaein that he would get his way. If Amer den, by force if necessary. This was Saddam Huasein's ica feared to offend the Araba by mentioning Israel, miacakulation. He assumed that democracies treasure would it not be afraid of offending Arabs even mme by lifis so much and America's will was so weak that it bombing Iraq? If 80, then this weakness has already cost wodd jrield rather than go to war. very deariy in lives and war material, aa wdl aa in huBuah understood the trsgic truth of history. Without man anguish everywhere. The move to snpiily Israd with Patriot missOea must steadfast will to stop aggreaakm—even at the cost of lives now—there wiD be maity more wars and many more be more than an attempt to encourage it not to retalil^loatlatfr.-y ate. Sendtag in Amarican troopa to man the miasiiss car^ Unleaa Iraq is ndw 8trq>ped of ita extraordinary mili- ries tha overtone of open endvaea of Israel as an'iliy tary naourcea and ita chemical and nuclear machinoy and an end to the fear of Arab reaction. Arabs and Sodismantled, it wiU emerge from this war as a greater viets, even the Europeans, will deeply req>ect the digthreat. Yet the European and Arab nations that sought nity and integrity of thia gesture, e^edaUy if it is folto appeaae Hussein to the very end now urge a settle- lowed by furtlier acta of open oooperatioiL Unhappily, then are reporta of continuing hedtation to undertake ment that stops with the evacuation of Kuwait. such coordination. lliis first gesture should become an important turnAny agreement that allowa Hussein to escape with moat of hia military mifl^t (and poaaiUy with an im- ing point toward a firmer American policy. American poeed settkoient on Israd ss well) oonld turn his defeat military might is so great that it can aaauredly win any in the Gulf war into a triumph — war with Iraq. Combining power with a new iotegri^ and moral leadership can assure an American policy To avdd this danger. Bush must correct a central strong enough to win the peace worldwide. weakneaa of American poUcy: the impreeaion that he (Indng (Yitz) Greenberg is president of CLAL, the fears to make democracy and peace the decisive criteria National Jewiah Center for Learning and Leadenhip.) of policy.

E.G. approves aid to Israel By Yoaai Lenpkowics

BRUSSELS (JTA)-A German propoaal for financial aU to larael for the damage caused by Iraqi miaaile attacks waa approved in principle Monday by the 12 European Morris Maline Community foreign miniEditor-ln<%lef Judith MarbuTK, Managinn Editor Shenrl FModman, Busi- sters at their regular nsss Manager; gandy Gordon, Prodoction Asaistant; nMmthly meeting here. Gaorgs Sehapiro, Of&M Vohmtaer. larael waa praiaed for Salae R«arsMntativ«e:^arbara Frankel, Diane Bamn, the restraint it haa shown Daenia Mejrarson^ Dora Shafrsn and Rocky St«m. Bditnlali aivnaa UM vtowB o( UM wriUr aad an oot iwcaMarUy under provocation. rapnawtaUv* d Uw viawa of tba Jawiah Praat Boanl. UM Jawiah The miniatera inaiated, railM«tiai af Omaha or Oia Omaha Jawiah ConuDnalty aa a wfaob. however, that the grant to Th* i»mUh Pnm ta aot rwSMiBili (or tb* KMkralh ol my prodaet or ••ptet rifkU iro NMrvod aad adnrtialBa r«tM an avaa- larad ahould be balanced by an aid package for the DaadNsa hr aaira aifl adnrtiaiiw la TMf at • a.B., pnctiUm >—>»• Paleatinian populatkm in E. TharalaorthaJawiahradaratloaorOBaahalstolavolva the Israeli-administered F Jaw la ail Ming Jewish esMarasal aaada loMllr, aatloa- territoriea. al|y aadia laraeL They also indicated Agndaa of the Fsdaratiaa are: Community Ralations, Jew- greater European political iah Community Cantar, Jewish Educatioa, Jawiah Praaa, activiam bi the ragioa aftJewidh Family Sarvica, Libraiy and Bureau for tha Aging. er tha Paraian Gulf war has ended to resolve the n» nm nmm* mm h •ia||MM«S fmimmmmiiA. Arab-Isnali confUct. WgiMKailillllil wMa«(kMta.Nl.rainiWnR:tMrii Gacioaii Fonign MiniaMM k Ika JkaM Aw.»IMD 1HM MM. OmSM. W M1M, Ta^Mat tar Hans-Diatrlch Genachertaitiatadttoklaaof

financial akl to larael after he vidted the Jewiah atate last month and saw the missile damage at first hand. Hapropoaad a sum of $210 mflUon. Genscher told reporters after the ministere' meeting that no amount waa set. He said the European Commission would be sskad to mske a formal propoaal as part of a "balanced and symmetrical" paduga, taking bito account tha needs of the Palestinians. Apparently it was Franee wfaUb hidsted that any dd for larad must be balanced by dd for Pdeatiniana in the territories. The French foreign minister, Roland Dumas, described them aa auffdring under a atrict curfaw hnpoosd by larad docs the Gulf war braka oat. land partially relaxed -the corfaw on Tusadsy; ''

(S@(^fe©gg fe® (^® ©(olfift®g) To the Editor Jewiah Family Service is moat appreciative of the many donationa of furniture, houadiokl effacta, etc. it baa roodvad over thia paat year to hdp hi the efforts to resettle new Soviet emigres in Omaha. At thia point, we requeet you no longer Just drop things off in the building. Because of increased buluing security, please call our office (330-2034) to make arrangementa even if you plan to bring your donation yourself. Natalia RnUn Resettlameat worker Jewiah Family Sarvioe To the EditoR Thank you so much for highlighting me in Jo Carrall's article about manicures at the Blufflldn Home. However, credit must alM be given to my colleague and friend, Gerry Phillips, who has been volunteering at the Home in nuuiy capadtiea far kinger than I. In addition, the program itaelf waa begun at the Sher Home aevard yaan before I jotaed in at tha BhimUn. We must alao thank Sharon Conkm and Margaiat Caridldb, the hard-worUng BlumUn Home amployass who keep this program running amoothly. By the way, the handa in the photo bdong to my young aadatant, aevanth grader Jennie Biaanman, Who vohutaan when aha haa no achool on Thursdays. Tha other handa are reaident Lil Wdnatdn's. RhUOeaMhar

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Governors back Israel By David Frtedman WASHINGTON (JTA) —The nation's governors have expressed continuing support and concern for the people of Israel in the face of the ongoing threat of Iraqi missile sttacks against the Jewish state.

Jaa«f We««, right, makM • aelection for Friedel Jewish Academy's "Aftemoon of Healthy Snacka" daring a field trip to Baker's Supermarket, 72iid and Blondo, while clasamates Sfichal Ras, 1^ and Artyom Qsaer kmk on. The Undergarten-flrst grade dass lias undertaken many such motivational activities during tlw current unit on "Natritifm and Healthy Eating," made possible by a mini-grant from the Nebraska Department of Education.

Friedel grant takes class from counting to kashrut By Diane Baum Counting out change has no q>parent connection to writing a journal, Amwatmg nigni^ nr fjivting

the "OU" and "K" symtx^ on kosher padu^ied foods, but tlie Idndergarten/first-grade class at Friedel Jewish Academy is engrossed in a "Nutrition and Healthy Eating Unit" that combines these snd other activities.

The kindergart«i/first grade began by designing, denvating and stoddng the "Friedel Grocery Store," then opened for business to the second through sixth-graders.

The result, according to directw Jody K. Goldstein, is an exciting learning experience for the entire schod that demonstrates how the Academy integrates its gaunl and Jewish studiee into a fully rounded curricuhim.

Opottting the store has provided a background for teaching matcurial from several curriculum areas, including mathematics, sdeoce, language arts and Jewish holidays, Ms. Saunders said. "We have used this opportunity to explore healthy eating habits, the four food groups, cdns and thair warth« ditfarent measures, and the requirements of Kashrut," she added.

Developed \>y Lucille Saunders, head general studies teacher, the project was made poasibliB by a grsnt from the Offices of Child Nutrition and Chiki Development of the Nebraska Department of Education.

During the unit Ms. Saunders' class took a field trip to Friedel's "business partner," the Baker's Supermarket at 72nd and Blondo. There they selected foods for "an afternoon of healthy

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snacks" which th^y prepared for the entire student body and parents on Jan. 24. Joye Wees, who accompanied her son, Josef, to Baker's, said that several Friedel families have been discusabg the nutritko iniottaation their children are bringing' home and have made adjustments in their own food sdections to eat more healthily. Next wedc Ms. Saimders will take her class to The Kosher Pickle mast market and eatery at 13167 West Center Road in Montdair Cento'. Maximo Shechet, a ritual slaughterer who opened The Kosher Pickle last month, will speak to the children about the procedures and techniques of kosher slauglitaring. According to Mr. Shechet, kosher UlUng is not only painless to t^ aninud. He said, "It is required that the blood be drawn out, thereby eliminating a carrier of disease, and that the animal's health be strictly supervised, which assures heidthy meat." To complete their unit, the students will chronicle their experiences in a jour nal and prepare a slide presentation to be shown to the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

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At a ceremony at the Israeli Embassy here, eight of the governors, four Democrats and four Republicans, presented Israeli Ambassador Zalman Shoval with a letter of support signed by all 60 governors. The letter was drafted by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a Republican, who drcidated it for signatures from his colleagues during the winter session of the National Governors Association here. The letter condemned the Iraqi missile attacks tm Israel's civilian pc^ulaticm and added: "We commend the way in which your government has handled the situation, as well as the exceptional restraint with which it has reacted to those horrendous attacks."

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I just got through counting. It's 200 st^M from the pop machine down the halls to the side entrance to the Eoae Blumldn Home. How many of you have taken the walk lately? I recratly watched some teenagers having conversations with residents in a nursing home, not the Blumkin Home, but one similar. I thmk the teens were surprised by how much they had in common with those so much older than themselves. It's not lilce they grew up on another planet, you know. Residents in the Blumkin Home get a lot of attention and special care but they also need that link to the outside world that maybe only you can provide. It's war time now. It's the first war you can remember, but it's certainly not the first war they remember. You could talk to them about your fears or anxieties about the war. Ask them how this war is different or what they did or felt during the previous wars. It will probably hdp you both feel better. Having a conversation with a resident at the Home doesn't have to take much of your time. A 16-minute visit could bring a bright spot to their lives and enlij^ten yours as well. I bet you spend at least 15 minute* juat hanging around the "J" once a week. If you are a Httla B^ and don't want to go akoe, take your buddy with you. Don't know anyone at the Blumkin Home? That's no problem. Just go to the nearest nurses' station aiul tell them you would like to visit with someone for a few minutes. They'll pcrint you in the rif^t direction. Faces and voices change over the years, so don't be put off ly appearances. Look your new fcteid in the eyes and introduce yourself. Talk about where you go to school, where you went to summer camp, or what your mother is going to fix for supper. But just talkl And ask questions and listen too! Where did yon grow iq>? Where does your family live? What books do you like to read? Remember, age doesn't count among friends and it's only 200 ste]^ bom the pop macUnelt

JNF offers tree planting for U.S. Armed Forces Elayne Susan KMn Elayne Susan Klein, daughter of Jackie and Bruce KMo, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah at Temple Israel on Saturday, Feb. 9. An eighth grade honor student at Peter Kiewit Middle School, Elayne plays the piano and also enjoys playing softbaU. Elayne and her brother, Josh, are the grandchildren of Ruth and Julian Klein of Omaha and Charlotte Frank of Kansaa City.

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NEW YORK WTAh-A new program to plant trees in Israrsl in honor of the U.S. servicemen and women serving in the Per sian Gulf has been announced by the Jewish National Fund.

women in the Armed Forces." said Ruth Popkin, JNF president "Another meaningful way to demonstrate love and recognition for our troops is by planting trees, universal symbds of life and hope."

The traea, coating (7 each, wQl be pisintad in American Independence Park located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The park was eetabliahed as a

A ootificate Witt be issued for each tree that is planted, sUting the names of both the donor and of the particular serviceman or woman being honored.

testimony to AmericanCertificates for trees Israel friendship during planted without a spedflc the U.S. bicentemiial year, individual request will be and was dedicated on July sent to the families of 4. 1976. troqis at random. AO ear "Many Americans are tificates will be sent to tying ribbons around trees Washington for distribufor the brave men and tion.

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SarvkasM 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Azriel, Cantor Webbo- and members of the Omaha Temple Youth Group wiU lead a creative service the theme of which Sabbsith Candlelighting for Friday, February 8, 5:31 p.m. is FMoajIUbbi Azriel will apeak on "Where Have An The Flowers Gone?" The Beth El Blumkin Home Beth Israel Oneg Shabbat will be FRIDAY: Rabbi Paul Drazen and FRIDAY: sponsored by Temple SisKabbalat Shij>bat servEvening service 7:30 Cantor Emil Berkovits terhood. wiU conduct the services. ice, 5:30 p.m. p.m. Sitter service is availaLate family service, 8 SATURDAY: FRIDAY: ble for the 8:15 p.m. Shab- p.m. Morning service 9 a-m. Services at 6 p.m. An bat evening service. Reser Cantor Leo Fettman and The residents and staff Oneg Shabbat wiU foUow vatioDs ate needed. Thwe the choir will conduct the of the Rose Blumkin SATURDAY: are no facilities for infants. services. Home invite the families, Morning service, 9:30 TOT SHABBAT volunteers and friends of a.m. Kiddush will follow. KNOW THY A tOuxt service of song Sitter service available the residents to sttend and prayer, followed by NEIGHBOR SABBATH services in the Herbert at 10 a.m. Sisterhood will sponsor cookies and juice will be Junior Congregation Goldstoi Chapel. Kiddush held at 7 p..m. for infants, "Know Thy Neighbor Sab- follows services on meets at 10:45 a.m. toddlers, pre-schoolers, bath" at the late Friday Shabbat. Minha-Ma'ariv services Idnder^gartners and their evening service. It is held at 5:40 p.m. parents and grandparents. each year during BrotherOffutt Air Base SUNDAY: hood month to give our Services at 9 a.m. and SATURDAY: Christian friends and FRIDAY: Services in the Capehart 5:30 p.m. Shabbat Morning Serv- neighbors an opportunity Chapel every Friday at 8 WEEKDAYS: ice, 11:16 a.m. to become more familiar p.m. An Oneg Shabbat folServices at 6:55 a.m. and with religious practices BAT MITZVAH lows the service. 5:30 p.m. and beliefs of Judaism. Elayae Susan Klein, SHABBAT FAMILY Council Bluffs daughter of Jackie and Cantor Fettman's sermon DINNER Brace Klaia, will cdebrate wUlbe, "Buikling Bridges B'nal Israel The Second Shabbat FaInstead of Walls." FoUowher Bat Mitzvah at the SERVICES: Shabbat Morning Service ing the service there will Services are held at 7:30 mily Dinner with Seder Tu be time for questions. on Saturday, Feb. 9. p.m. on the first and third Bishevat wiU be Feb. 8 folAn Oneg Shabbat recqh Fridays of the month and lowing services. Students in the fifth tion will follow. Co-chair- are open to the communiMEIi^SCLUB Feb. 10 at 10 a.m. Marc womoi are Elaine Freund ty. The synagogue is locat- grade wiU participate. Ddman, former assistant and Maiy Grossman. Ba- ed at 618 Mynster in LUNCH AND LEARN Dougjas County Attorney, bysitter service will be Council Bluffs. For more The Lunch and Leam will speak on "Chiki Sex- provided. information contact EUen series with Rabbi Drazen ual Abuse in Omaha: wiU meet on Feb. 13, noon, Fennick at 390-9062. SATURDAY: Myth and Reality." at Beth El. The focus will ELECTIONS Morning service 8:45 Mr. Delman helped be on medical/ethical quesCongregational meeting write sevaral laws on ^ikl a.m. tions based on Shema and elections will be held Rabbi Allan Gonsher abuse and rqiresented one at the synagogue on Feb. Magazin& of the witnesses in the and Canttv Leo Fettman BAR MITZVAH 11 at 7:30 p.m. Franklin Credit Union in- will lead the services. Michael Ruback, son of A Kiddush hmcbeao win veatigation. Llnooliv Jayna and Altan Raback. Lox and bagels will be be served, but reservawiU become a Bar Mitivah B'nal Jeshurun served. Non-Men's Club tiona are required. Adults on Friday evening, Feb. 16 FRIDAY: members ana asked to 84 and children 12. and Saturday mombg, 7:46 pjn. services. Both Uttle PMple's IS. Feb. 16. Services and Junior Con- SATUBDAY: ADULT EDUCATION Charter Rights Morning service and Feb. 18-Adult B'sai gragatioo wiU meet at 10 NEW YORK-El Al. Feb. 14-What Did a.m. Sisterhood wiU pro- Torah study, 10 a.m. the national airline of IsThey Knowl And Whan vide hmch for the children SUNDAY: Babysitter service pro10 a.m. Rdigious Schod rael, Jan. 23 inaugurated Did Tliay Know It. 9:30vklsd by the Sisterhood. 10 a.m. Brotherhood the first in a seriea of 20 10:90 I 10 a.m. meeting charter flij^ between Td Mincha 6:80 p.m. fol- ADULT EDUCATION Aviv and Moscow, departlowed by Ma-ulv and ing Wednesdays. El Al Feb. 12. 7:30 p.m. Havdalah Servfee. fli^t 6366 d^arted Tel SISTERHOOD PERSONALS Aviv carrying tourists, Feb. 13. 7:30 p.m. STUDY GROUP busineas people and IsraeStudy group irith Can- CHOIR li's visiting rdatives. To the many dear Rehearsal, Feb. 14,7:30 tor Fettman wiU be at 5 Israel's Transport Minfrisods and famfly who p.m. ister Moshe Katsav statshowed support and ed. "El Al hopea that these Lincoln broo^t cotorort at the SUNDAY: flights between Tel time of our bereaveMinyan at 9 a.m. TIfereth Israel charter Aviv and Moscow wiU lead ment for our late husFRIDAY: WEEKDAYS: to a permanent airlink beband, father and grandServices at 8 p.m. Daily services at 7 a.m. tween Israel and Russia." father, Norman, thank and 5 p.m. DEDICATION El Al is operating on a you for the maiQr cards, In honor of the dedica- normal schedule worldSISTERHOOD food, and contributkms Sisteriuxxl hmdieon is tion of the Siyum naque wide and ia presently the in his loving mamny. A services wiU be conducted only airUne operating Feb. 12 at 12:30 p.m. qMdal thanks to Rabbi by k>cal chapter of USY, in flints faito and out of Isand Mra. IsaM: Nadoff celebratioa of Internation- rsdilncJudhigtb and from SCHOLAR-IN. and Cantor and Mra. al USY Shabbat. the United Sutes. RESIDENCE Leo Fettman for thair Rabbi Avi Weiss wiU be SATURDAY: Support. 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Parashat Miahpathn-Parashat ShekaUm Peaah? Abewlyr How can that be? Passover gets only a passing nod, little more than that, in our Sidrah. Nonetheless, with the winter still upon us, with Tu Bishevat barely passed by, and with Purim yet to come, we are awakened to the fact that Pesah is not that far away: it is Shabbat Shekalim, the first of the four special Sabbaths that tell us to begin thinking of Pesah. AltliOugh Pesah regulations are not to be found in our Sidrah, the idea of a regulated life ia paramount in Mishpatim— which the new JPS translates as "rules." Here we must stop and ponder the genius of the redactor-editor who put our Torah together. Whether or not one accepts the widely-held hypothesis that our Torah is the result of fitting together four (or more) ancient documents about the beginnings of our people, it is apparent that profound judgments about human life are involved in the Exodus-Sinai stoiy and what follows. See what the Torah implies: In the firat place it sees God as the Great Liberator. He will not tolerate the enslavement of a people to an oppressor. His first attribute is His demand for freedom. Indeed, after the ChiUrea of larad reach Shiai. the First Commandment does not identify God as Creator of the universe, but as the liberator from the house of bondage, from the land of Egypt. Immediately following the Ten Commandments,

our own Sidrah, "Rules." offers a strengthening voice to the second of the Torah's implications. If fi«edom is the first, the second is Law. Indeed Freedom is defined by Law. It is Law that protects fi'eedom, first the Ten Commandments, then Mishpatim, Rules. Some of the mishpatime of our Sidrah are no longer applicable to our lives, irrelevant; some are obsolete; but some, whether they are revised for our more complicated 20th century life or not, are nothing leSs than thrilling in their moral sweep. Both out of kindness to animalu and in the general duty to love one's neighb<Mr, for examine, one must hdp even an unhked nei^ bor to raise an animal that has collapsed under a burden too heavy. There are many more, moral, enlightening, far-reaching in their scop^ distinguishing this Sidrah. We must admit that neither all Jewish individuals nor the ancient and modem Jewish states always abided by these regulations. But it is important to recognize the thrust of the Tonh narrative: Israel came into being to declare to mankind that Freedmn is an ewMtial value; and that Freedmn is attained by the eatabUslunent of Law. law designed to protect the rights and freedom of human beings. If the House of Israel has no other purpose in life, that would suffice. Fiwdom. Law. Rules... Exodus. Commandments. Mishpatim.

MEDAL WINNER NEW YORK (JTA)Rabbi Arthur Schneier was awarded the 1990 Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organitatkma.

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the audience at this time of travafl in the Mideast. Thank you so much, Becca and Sun. Welcome to Jane Mai^ goUs, wife of Stuart MargoUa, and certainly a wonderful addition to our community. While she is new to Lincohi, she brings with her a long list of accompHshmmits. She has a PhD in linguistics, apeciallaing in Inteccultural Communications, from PrinoetOD, among other

On Feb. 17, at 10 a.m., Tifereth Israel will host a brunch at the Synagogue, at which Dr. Richard Freund of the dq>artment of rdigion at UNO will speak. His topic will be "A Just War Theory in Judaism." Dr Freund is the author of articles on a variety of subjects and has a far reaching background. He wiU be teaching a course in Jewish Ethics at UNO during the spring of '91.

Budget shows no change in U.S. aid By Howard Rosmberg WASHINGTON (JTA) -President Bush's 1992 budget requeet indudee $3 bi)liiOi( in economic and i^tary aid for Israel, but no additional money for the extraordinary e^Muses the Jewish state has incurred as a result of the Persian Gulf war and the influx of Soviet immigrants. Then again, Israel has not formally aaked for new U.S. funds for either pui^ pose. The t3 billion, which consists of tl.8 milUoo in military aid and $1.2 billion in economic aid, was unveiled Monday in Bush's request to Congress for the 1992 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. The president was required to propose the $3 billion in aid to Israel, as weU as t2.a billiao in aid to Egypt, after Congress "earmarked" those and other levels of foreign aid, OS it has done in the past.

Israeli officials and proIsrael lobbyists reacted to the budget with little surprise. "There are no earthshaking differences or changes" con^»ared to the budget for the current fiscal year, said an Isradi Embassy official. Another constant in this year's budget is the ceiling of 60,000 Soviets who may enter the Unit^ Statee as refugees, if they are deemed to have demonstrated a "well-founded fear of persecution" in the Soviet Union. As has been U.S. practice in recent years, 40,000 of the 50,000 Soviets admitted as rdugees will be Jews, and ail will receive full government aid for initial resettlement costs. There is also $40 million in the budget to help Israel reeettle refugeee not going to the United States. This money is provided to the United Israel Appeal, which is the North American representative of the jewiah Agency for Israel.

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Swiss violate embargo GENEVA (JTA)-At least 11 Swiss firms have violated the arms embargo on Iraq, selling that country substances with which it could build chemicsl weapons, according to charges last week levded in tlw Swiss Senate. The charges reflect growing dissatisfaction with what is perceived by much of the public and the news media to be a proIraqi tilt by the government, which has tavoked Switieriand's traditional neutrality in the Persian Gulf war. The Foreign Ministry in particular has come under criticism. Two Swiss newspapers, Tribune de Geneve and Le Journal de I'EmpIoit, observed that Foreigii Minister Rene Felber exwdsed Swiss neutrality by closing its air space to allied aircraft At the same time, Felber, a Socialist not known to be friendly toward Israel, lias called for an inter national peace conference to settle all Middle East issues, which was one of Saddam Husaein's conditions to pull out^of Kuwait. Switzoiand Idse-is rumored to have given permission to Hussein's wife and three children to take refuge from the war somewhere near Geneva, though there has been no official confirmation.

Gulf forces receive cookies; IDF, USD to benefit too "I decided to create Operation Deswt Morale to hdp others send dessert to their k>ved ones in the Qulf and for me to send the same to Israeli soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and to U.S. forces at the USO in Haifa," says Gloria Goldman of Columbia, Md. "I like to do mitsvahs, and this is a double one. Inspired by reports in the media about aending letters and packages to American forces in the Gulf and spurred on by United Synagogue of America's project of sending shalach manot (Purim food gifts) to IDF sddiers, Ms. Goldman said she wanted to do her part to help, too. Thanks to her Golden Gmirmet Catering and Gift Baskets buainees, she knows food companies around the country and has contacted them to create Idts designed to boost the morale of troops stationed in the Middle East. Jewish chaplains stationed with U.S. troops in the Gulf region rq)ort that Jewish troq>8 have been coming from as far as three hours away to attend their Shabbat services. Since the troops love tp get mail, Ms. Goldman's gift idea would boost morale. The kits will be sent directly to the headquarters of the eight Jewish

'chaplains currently there, 'and the pn^ts to the USO in Haifa and to the IDF in IsrsflL After consulting with Debbie Davis, a ftikm basket operator in Lexingttm, Ky., who has been sending cooUe gift boxes to the U.S. forces since September, Ms. Goldman dedded to supply oooldes from the Golden Walnut Cookie Conqiany in Gunee, E The cooldes look like walnuts, have a nut CDling, withstand heat and oM, have a shelf Ufs of more then six months and are certified koaher by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. Ms. Goldman said she also creates a deluxe kit that adds Instant Wassail punch mix, which serves 20 cups, and freeze-dried Astronaut Ice Cream, distributed by Capitol Delights, Alexandria, Va. Ms. Goldman promises to include a persoiial letter written by one of her Adas Israel religious school students in each kit "It will give my students and their friends a chance to express our gratitude to the troops for fighting for freedom and for our coimtry," she said. "Plus there will be a note that reads: This gift is a salute to you from the people in the United States as part of Operation Desert Morale. Our thoughts and prayers are

with you, and we hope l(lr your safe and speedy return.' "I'm doing this as a service project from Golden Gourmet" Goldman explains, "It's not for any profit. Since I'm already in the business to pansier others with &)od and gifts, it seemed the only way for me to he^ my country. This way I am serving two countries, mine and Israel I wanted to do something hen, to moke a di^rence, and I feel confident these delicious gifts will do just that." To order an Operation Desert Mo-ale kit sent dir ectly to 8(Mne(me you know or to any service member on land or at sea in the Persian Gulf, call Goldman at 301-854-2422 or send her a check for $9.90 for cookies only or 118 for the dehixe kit to "Operation Desert Morale", c/o Golden Gourmet Catering and Gift Baskets, 5071 Beatrice Way, Columbia, MD 21044.

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Middle East goea from iiiadiii the^AoktuaSiyia daro to waaks, there are gntdul that their aoaled stUI relatives in the room faidudas a bathroom. Rachel told her mother Omaha area who talk to thdr famfity DBcodMra who that har husband went to have choaen to stay in Is- synagogue Saturday wea^ rael ing Us gas maak. Cantor Leo Fettman and Rachel pointa out to her Ua wife, Annette, have parenta that shebdievee two daughters in Jerusa- the people studying in the lem. Rachd Herfetz and yeshiva are ae important har husband, who is a den- in this war as an arm of tist, have lived there for the army. "They are an nine years. Aviva Schwab arm of the army, navy and her family left on a or air force, through aiz-manth sabbatical in Je- prayer," she says. rusalem OD Jan. 6. Mrs. Fettman says both Mrs. Fettman said that she and Cantor Fettman a network of family mem- are very proud of their bers and in-laws caOing Is- daughters. Mrs. Fettman rael keeps everyone in- told of one relative who fanned of how the famibee had convinced his daughare dojng. llie two sisters ter and grandchildren to luep in very close in touch come badi to the United also. Aviva can't always States. "We would never hear the sirens when th^ do that," she said. "Our go off, so Rachel calls to daughtera are mature and tell her when an alert has old enough to make their been sounded. own decisions." Although Jerusalem has Mrs. Fettman was upaet not yet been the target of when she heard the Ameriany miasilee. it is l«>cated can Embassy waa telling only 36 miles from Tel all Americana to leave IsAviv. At first Avivs Schwab was hesitant arcompany her husband, Joel, who is a rabbi, on the aabbatical to Israiel in Ught of the By GO Sedan threat of war. Thqr have JERUSALEM (JTA>two eons, Yooi, 11, and Israeli authorities anAmi, 13. The b^ys were apprehen- nounced Tuesday the sive, but as aoon as the phaaed lifting of curfews plane landed Ami aaid, impoaed en the West Bank "Thiaiswhcrelbeloog." and Gaza Strip since the The boys had only been Persian Giilf war began in school three daya when Jaa 17. the bombing started. But a tcRorist firebombSchool was.suqieoded for ing in East Jerusalem has a while, but the latest raJaad aecond thoughta word that the Fettmana about reopening the tertihave received is that the toriea to the free moveboys are now back in ment of Paleatlaiana to achooL and from larael proper. Becanae viaaa to Isrsel "Our main fear ia that are on|y iaaued for three Saddam Huaaein'a aupmontha. Rabbi Schwab portera will enter laraei went immediately to the and wfll heed hia caU to Embaaay to have their make terroriat activities viaaa changed ao the f am- againat Israelia," ssid Hy woaM be able to uUy Danqy Naveh, qnkeaman aiz BMnths. He found him- for Defenee Minister self walUng In a long bie. Moshe Arena. It saema qiHte a few people A gaaoline branb did ezwen not eager to leave la- tanaivt damage Monday rasL nli^t to the Britiah Ai^ Radiei, who ia espaeting waya office on a-Zahra a chfld at Paaaover, had Street in Eaat Janiaalem. aotoe trouble ooovindng Furniture and azpenaive har three-yearH>ld girl, equipment were damaged Broeka Tnqrdal, to put a and the windowa were gaa maak oo. Har broth- ~

was filling someone's teeth." Ida Zofirwill reptt^ts that her cousin, Hanna Sanmel who lives in Tel Aviv, a«ys, "We sxe all fine." Mrs. Zoorwill says that the telephone linee to Israel are ao jammed that even at 4:30 in the morning it is hard to get through. Beeides the initial telephone call after the first bombing, Mrs. Ssmuel has sent telegrama to reassure the family that all is wdL In order to keep our readera informed on friends and reUtivee in the Middle East we are interviewing members of our community who have had contact with their relatives. If you would like to share your family's converaatians with us, call the Jewish Proas at 334-8300, ext 237 and leave your name and telephone number.

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Research on Jewish humor shows greater trust among Jews ByJoCamll A reeearch of Jewish humor for the last hundred yesrs baa ahown a growing truat among the Jewiah people. Dr. Jonathan Sarna has observed in his studies. Dr. Same, who ia holds the Braun professorship in American Jewish history at Brandeis University, spdte to audiences at the three Omaha synagogues. This year's Kallah we^end scholar, Dr. Sama's topica ranged from Russian inunigration and interfaith himior to strategiee for preserving the American Jew. Jewish humor is unique in America. Professor Sarna observed. He attributed this to the doee relationships Jews have with other religions. "Nowhere else in the world would someone begin a joke, 'A Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew...'," he said. Jolces are hmny only in their own time frame, Dr. Same aaid. "During the late 30'a and early 40's Americans told Hitler jokee that would not be considered funny at all now." He explained there is also a dear line between self critkasm, which is acoeptable in jokea, and self hatred, a aenaitive issue which is not acceptable. Groups, which Dr. Sat^ na deaoibed as "in" can ssy things smong themselves that are fumy, but if said by an outaider are omaidered degrading. An example of this, he sidd, is ths Blsck lingo used by Afriesn-Americans, but iif white groups were to use the same words it would be Gonaidered radam. "It is no accident that a

Dr. Jonathaa Sarna lot of comedians are either Jews, Blacks <a women," Dr. Ssma said. In making others laugh, it makee one feel avfieriar about oneself, he explained Intermarriage can be both poaitive and dangeroua to the future of the American Jew, but it cannot be ignored. Dr. Same aaid. Many people have cmverted to marry Jews but the big question according to Dr. Sarna is, "WOl they be lost in one generation?" "Will people who converted to marry Jewiah partners be able or willing to tell their children they must marry within the Jewish faith?" Dr. Sarna pointed out that the Jewish population ia concentrated k fewer areas thsn^ver before. "In the pre-Worid Wsr II era the sun never set on Jews," he eaid. "Now Jews are concentrated in America, Israel and the Soviet Union. Many people in the wprU have never met a Jew." The growing number of Moslems in the United Statee abould not be ignored, Dr. Sarna aaid.

"Soon we will not be able to refer to thia nation with the worda, 'Protestsnts, Catholics and Jews.' "Jews and Moalems have a lot in common. Moslems are no less interested in kosher food than Jews. They also share a concern of a overly Christian state and kaeping religion out of the public schoob." Jews are comfortable in America, Dr. Same explained, because many groups in this country have tasted the same hatred towards themselves that Jews have. He named Catholica, Blacks and Native Americans as only a few who have known what hatred ia all about. "But it ia important to remember," Dr. Same ssid," for Jews not to become oomplaiaant. Trouble begins when they're not paying attention."

Strong showing PARIS (JTA)-JeanMarie Le Pen's extreme right- wing Natkmal Front drew more than 26 parent of the vote in a parliamentary by-election in Lyon. Although it lost the Section, the party's strong showing in a major dty in aoutheaatern France aroused concern among many who consider the Natkmal Front racist and anti-Semitic. BECOMES OFFICIAL Jerusalem—Canadian Hadaaaah WIZO in C<mvention Assembled haa accepted the raeponaiUlity to aarve aa the raprsaentative of Hadaaaah International in Canada.

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A number of Jewish groups have been arriving regularly for meetings with Israeli leaders and tours of missile damage cites. A 42-member Hadassah delegatiao. led by Carmda Kalmanson, president of the women's Zicmist organization, wound up a four-day visit over the weekend. Hadaaaah held its midwinter bosrd meeting in Jerusalem instMd of Washington, where it had been scheduled originally. Kent Schiner, president of B'nai B'rith International, arrived in Israel ' after leading a B'nai B'rith delegation on a 17-day tour of Eastern European capitals. His visit here is to demonstrate solidarity and to review Israel's preparations to absorb large waves of immigrants.

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A delegation of nine By Tanur Levy public figrnvs fromCaecbGENEVA (JTA)-The oaknraUa arrived Sunday United States has warned on a adidarity visit. It in- the U.N. Human Rights cluded members of Pariia- Commission that it will ment, the chancellor of not support "one sided Prague University, the resolutions which single pre^idoit of the Writers out the policies of Israel in Association and several the occupied territories members of the clergy. and fan to call for equal reTheir trip was arranged straint by other parties in by the WZO's Foreign Re- respecting the personal lations Department at the ssfety and other human initiative (rf Kahnan Sulta- ri^ts of Israeli citizens." nik, a member of the WZO But Kenneth Blackwell, Executive. U.S. representative to the An intonational group commission, now holding of 30 rabbis from nearly a dozen countries was expected Monday on a visit organized by the WZO's Bureau for Spiritual Services. Among them are the chief rabbis of communiBy David Landau ties in Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, JERUSALEM (JTA)Britain, Austris, Italy, The flow oi high-techncjoSweden, Greece, Turkey gy defense equipment and South Africa. from Germany began last week, buoying the spirits of Israelis as they endured snother Scud missile attack fi?om Iraq.

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year-old Arab-Israeli conflict. It began on May 16, 1948, the day after Israel proclaimed its independence. Egyptian Spitfires attacked the Sde Dov airport in northern Tel Aviv. Tb^y deatroyed three light aircraft of tl^ infant Israeli sir force parked on the runways. Israel's War of Independence was its costliest in terms of lives kwt. By the time the armistice agreemente were signed in 1949, 6,074 IsraeU«4wd bean killed in the assault by the neighboring Arab states. The chief combatants on . the Arab side were Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Lebanon's attack was mainly verbal Of the Arab countries non-contiguous with Israel, Iraq sent the largest force, but it took litUs part in the fighting. laraal want to war again in 1956 aa an unofficial ally of Britain and France. They invaded Egypt in an attempt to retake the

Suez Canal, nationalized by President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The invasion wss aborted under pressure ihan the United SUtes, but not before tbe Israel Defense Force had captured the Sinai peninsula, at the coet of 173 laraeli lives. At the demand of President Dwigfat Eisenhower, Israel eventually withdrew fromSinaL But it recaptured the peninsula plus the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heij^ta in its preemptive war in June 1967.

More than 300 tons of equipment wss to be airlifted to larael overnight, a German q>okesman said. The materiel includes a sophisticated system that instantly detects and warns sgainst a nuclear, biological or chemical attack. In addition, Israel will be getting Patriot antimissile batteries from Ger^ many to supplement the U.S. Patriots deployed here earlier and Hawk snrfaoe-to-air mtssiles. The shipment is the first part of a defense package from Germaqy which loni media reports say will ap-

ccHoes cm top of 1166 million in humanitarian aid Chancdlor Helmut Kohl pledged eariier in the week to the Jewish state, which haa sustained casualties and extensive damage from the missile attacks despite its non-combatant statue in the Persian Gulf war. There has been no formal defense supply pipeline from Germany to Israel until now^

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Israelis well acquainted with war, having lost 13,000 in past battles TEL AVIV <JTA)Except for recently srrived immigrants and the very young, few Israelis have not experienced war. Israel's military cemeteries hold the graves of 13,053 men and women soldiers who died in defense of their countzy since the Jewish state became independent in 1948. The big question now is whether more namaa will be added to the roster of wsr dead. Theoretically, Israel is not involved in the war being waged by the U.S.-led coalition to force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. In fact, it has been the target of two SCUD missile attacks by Iraq in as many days and could be hit l^ more, poesibly carrying chemical warheads. Tbe clear purpose of Saddam Hussein is to draw Israel into the conflict, hoping to transform it from a war to reverse Iraqi aggreeaion to another eruption of tbe 43-

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Kancy lieberman-Cline By on Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA)- and Thomas Thon^eon Oermany's foreign minia- will,hold a clinic for the ter, Hans-Dietrich Oen- Jewish Cdmnwinity Center Bcher, in Israel on a visit All-StartaenwFeb. 10,6he called "moral not polit- 8 pjn., at the JOC gym, acical." received a tongue- cording to Chuck Arnold, laahing from his Isndi JCC Health Services supervisor. counterpart. This clinic wiU be open Foreign Minister David Levy, at a Joint news con- to the Midget baaketbaU ference with faia guest, ac- league players, Olympic cused Germaoy of supply- baaketball league playera, ing Iraq with both con- the JCC girls basketball ventional and chemical team and the JCC Senior Hi^ Bhie^tars. weaponry. Mrs. Lieberman-CUne, German aid to larael nill not change Germany's regarded by many as the responsibility tor Iraq's finest female basketball player the world has ever armament. Levy said. known, is a two-time Olympian and a member 'CARE PACKAGES' MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. of the 1976 Silver Medal (JTA)-The Union for winning team. She led Old Traditional Judaism is or- Dominion Univo^ty to ganising Jewish "care consecutive National Tipackages" to provide 8pi^ tles in 1979 and 1980. Mr. Thompson is a 1988 itual support for the thousands of Jewish service graduate of the University men and women partici- of Nebraska at Omaha pating in "Operation Des- where he played basketert Storm," the U.S.-Ied ball for four years and garnered All-Conference athwar against Iraq.

Nancy Lieberman-aine letk: and academic honors. Upon graduation, Mr. Thompson played professional basketball in Europe, before being a fourth round draft pick in the 1988 C.B.A. draft. SPOKESMAN PAT BOONE NEW YORK (JTA)Singer and bom-again Christian Pat Boone will become the spdcesman fw the Israeli Ministry of Tourism in order to encourage 60 million Evangelical Christians in America to visit Israel.

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Among the members of the Bhie Stars, from left, Sam Paaaer, the only sealer on the team; Matt Wolf, a leading soorer; and Eric Givncr who sooted the winni^ faMket.

Blue Stars win over Lancers More that 260 specta- the game's excitement Ux» watched the Jewish with his colorful commenCommunity Center's high tary. High school freshschool basketball team, man Eric Givner scored the Blue Stars, edge out a the winning basket for the one-point victory over the Blue Stars while juniors • Omaha Lanoara, the city's Adam Kirsbenbaum and nrofaaaiiaial hockey team Matt Wolf led the acoring Feb. 8 in the JCC gym. with 12 and 11 poinU, respectively. The final acore John Knicely, KETV was 48-47. sports director, added to The Silks, cheerleaders

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U.S.-Soviet statement on Mideast appears not to auger policy shift By Dinrld FuMtaua WASHINGTON (JTA) -A joint U.S.-Soviet pledge to vigorously "promote Arab-Itraeli peace" in the aftannath of the Ptnian Ootf oriais initially raiaed conceni that the Buah admhustratioo might be abandoning its steadfast opposition to Unkage betw«o the two conflicts. But Israeli officials,. Amttican Jewish leaders and Middle East analysts now seem to be persuaded by the adminMratioa's conteotkm that the joint stateoMnt issued by Secretary of State James Balrar and Soviet Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertns^ represents DO change in U.S. poUcy. The statement is being seen more as a means of keqring the Soviet Unioo behind the affied campaign

against Iraq than design- Jewiah Organisatkns, aaki ing a new path for the Mid- that the oommnnitjoe represents "no change in dle East peace process. In Jerusalem, Prime American policy and Minister Yitshak Shamir breaks no new ground." was initiaQy reported to be CanUnsaki she hsd been irritated by the joint state- "told emphatically" by adment, which was issued at ministration offidals that the end of talks at the "there would be no State Department between unilateral steps taken by Baker and his new Soviet the administrati<» affectcoonterpart. ing lorael without prior But £Uuunir appeared to consultation with Jerube annoyed more by the sslon." fact that Israd was not State Depsttmmt spokesconsulted in advance about a statement that "con- woman Margaret IHrtwikr census directly" thsn by said Israeli Ambassador Zalmon Shovol was read its content Foreign Minister David the statement over the telLevy, oa the other hand, ephone shortly sfter it was said "there is nothing in issued. Hie purpoee of the the statement whkh needs to worry us." statement was to show And in New York, Sho- there is "no gap between shonn Coidin, chairman of tlM United States and the the Contereoce of Ptesi- Soviet Union cooceming deots of M^or American the Gulf," she oqilained.

Radios shipped to Israei to help arriving Soviets NEW YORK (JTA)The Agadath Israel of America's Committee for Soviet Jewry has sent 5,000 transistor radios to Israel along with 20,000 batteries to make sure that newly arrived Soviet immigranta hove aooees to the latest n«fW8 during the current national emergency. The consignment put aboard an El Al plane on Jan. 24 was underwritten by a philanthrcyic couple, Yochai and Aviva Schneider, princ^als in the Malibu-Israel Co. Thqr ofCsrsd their help to the Soviet Jewry committee after heor^ reports that one woman had

died during the first Scud miaejle attack on Israel because she did not use her gas mask properly. Tlw Schneiders reasoned that if arriving Soviet Jews are issoed transistor rodioe together with their gss masks and documeote at the sdrport, they win immedistely be able to hear broadcast news and instructions, including the use of gas mssks. Those directives ore aired in several languages, including Russisn. PRESIDENT NEW YORK (JTA)Murray Koppdman haa been named preaident of the American ORT Federation.

Center defaced By OoiyPogiow VANCOUVER. British Colombia (JTA)-The Jewiah Community Center in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was spray^Minted last week with swastikas and "white power" symbols. The Jewish community is annoyed but for frotn alarmed. "It's a ahame." said Walter Gumrich, a community spokeemsn, "because the stone is made of ssndstone and it will be vary hard to get it off." He diamissnd ss "sheer speculation" the idea "that this is related to the Gulf war. That's getting us into the realm of fear," Gunuich warned.

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Neither f^r of attack nor nerves deter ollmfrom coming to Israel By Charles Hofteen andHoghOigel JERUSALEM (JTA)Neitber the sorties of strafing bombera in the nearby Persian Gulf nor the relatively high levd of military alert in Israel have deterred hundreds of new immigrants from si^ riving in Israel Throughout the firet day of general alert, some 900 olim arrived at BenGurion Airport aboard four El Al JeU. The new Israelis, most of them from the Soviet Uni<m but also some from Ethiopia, stepped off planes snd were issusd gas masks skng with thdr teodot oldt, or immigration cartificatee. Quickly tutored m the quickest method of putting on tlie strange facial protective devices, the olim were then bused to hotels in the area, which hod become ahnoet totally vscsnt OS most tourists and even some m^or Diaspora Jewish leaders avoided Isrod in fear of war. Most of the arriving immigrants said they had already learned that war had begun hi the Gulf while th^ were stQl hi Europe. Still they came. Whatever risks they mi^^t encounter in their new homelsnd were apparently outweighed by their deehe to leave their countries of origin. In New York. Zshnan Shovel, Israel's ambassador to ths United States, told s hastily convened meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish OrgonizatiiMss "The good news is that Soviet emigration did not let up even one hour or one day." Arrsngemente ore being msde to keep immigrants in Eastern European tron-

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Survivors and genealogists linl(ed by computer During the opening session of the annual Jewish Genealogy seminar, it was announced that names of convention attendees would be read so they could participate in a "matching" project between Holocaust survivors and genealogists researching their ancestral towns Or shtetls. The room suddenly became quiet as each genealogist waited with antic^tion for thcdr name to be called. A short time later, these peofie met with me for orientation to the special project that for some would become an unexpected and exciting link to their ancestral roots in Europe. With the destruction of so many Jewish communities and localities during the Holocaust, it is virtually impossible, in many cases, to obtain first-hand accounts of Jewish life in many eastern European cities and villages. A meeting with Holocaust survivors from those towns represented a imique opportunity to learn about the localities from someone who once lived there and perhaps even knew of the genealogists's family in the old country. The next ni^t, just prior to my seminar on "Holocaust Sources for the Family Historian," Evan StoDwch, of Pompton Lakes, N. J., came running into the lecture hall, flushed with excitement and hardly able to speak. She had made tdephcme contact with Solomon and Mina Kalter, survivors from Leugsk, Poland, where Evan's family had once lived. The Kalters were eager to share information and recognised her family name immediately. They had known the Stolbach family well and started describing the circumstances to her. Although I was due to start my presentation within minutes, I introduced Evan to Isadore Hollander, newlydected president of the Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Philadelphia, who had come to the program with his wife, so they could more fully understand the seriousness of purpose and dedication of these family historians. The Hollanders were equally excited to see such quick results of the matching project which they encouraged and supported. After the program, Anni Hollander picked up a book entitled "Reglirter of Jewish Survivors from Poland," and was overcome with emotion when she found her name. According to Mr. Hollander, "What you are doing is good... but for me it is 40 years too late." Back to Evan, during her initial telephone conversation with the Kalters, it was agreed they would meet the next day at the Kalters' nearby jewelry shop. They suggested she bring a tape recorder with her so they could share their memories of life in Lezajsk as they remembered it. Things were moving very quickly for Evan, who was overjoyed at the thou^t of meeting here "landismen." The perfect ending to this story would have been for Evan to discover a family relationship with the Kalters, but, unfortunately, it did not happen. However, a friendship was formed during that firat meeting with all parties dedicated to continued contact. Why is this important? For the Holocaust survivor dedicated to "not letting the world forget," it is an opportunity to describe Jewish life as it once was, when they were growing up, in places where the genealogist can never go, in many cases. For Evan, Lesajsk became a real place rather than just another name on the map. Her family had lived there and the Kalters were able to

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By Dvrid Laadra JERUSALEM (JTAlllw first Shabbat of the Middle Bast warfroysd a novel one for fsrael's strictly Orthodox community. Coming in the immediate aftermath of two SCUD missile attacks on Israel from Iraq, pious Jews were not only permitted but encouraged by their rabbis and other halachic authorities to listen to their radios. It is the handiest source of news and the moat important means by whkh the authorities can communicate with the public during the national emer gency. Actually, the situation does not pose much of a dilemma to the observant, Orthodox sources in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on Sunday. Whatever involves "pikuach nefesh"—the mitzvah of saving or protecting life—automatically takes priority over Sabbath observance and indeed over all other religious restrictions. The Chief Rabbinate and the various Orthodox rabbis, with very few excq>tions, had no qualms about counseling believers to keep their raiUos on during Shabbat. lite Israel Brosdcasting Authority provided a special "Orthodox band" It

offers news every two hours bat no entertainment or muMeal interludes in between. A random sampling among Orthodox Jews, however, found that many kept th^ radios tuned to regular service, which intersperses its news flashee and analysee with entertainment. Although Israel Radio and the army radio combined their staffs to provide the 24-hour coverage of events, many of the (h^ thodoz were tuned to the BBC OT Voice of America, whkdi being "goyiah" were halachically IMS problematic than Jewish broadcasting on the Sabbath. Another halachic ruling delivered by rabbis in light of the spedal aituation allowed people to start their Shabbat or weekday meab in their dining rooms and say Grace later in their "sesled rooms" if an sirrsid warning intervened. But a proUtan developed with gas maaks. Unless they fit tightly, they offer .poor protection against chemical agents. Very few strictly Orthodox males have cut off their beards to accommodate them, even though soms rabbis have ruled they m«y in the drcumstancae.

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Next meeUns is Feb. 12, at which time the guest speaker will be Julia Haiper who represents the Hoiuing Authority. On Feb. 26. Dr. Rkhard Freimd win address us. Come hear thnse fine speakers who are brought to us through the efforts of Doc Margolin. Because of ddayed postal delivery, you will have read your stringer's Jan. 15 report in the Fd>. 1 issue of the Jewish Press. Art Grossman moderated the Jan. 29 earlyUrds .and quoted from various press releases regarding the Gulf War. He dwelt on the history of the Ottoman Empire and how Jews survived during those hundreds of years under those rulers. Whan Abraham came to the Ur of the Chaldees in Biblical tames, that region was in present day Iraq. Not left out of the discussion was how oar Arab "allies" win dump us and cODontrate on Israel's destruction, given any excuse. Onward to MoUie's deli fm a deiidous meal, with thanks to her and her jolly gang of guys and doUs. We hope RosaUe Epstejn win come bade to us the next time around.

BIKEL GETS AWARD NEW YORK (JTAITheodore Bikel received the Jacob Bums Award for the Advancement of Ethics Tlirough Art at the B'naiB'rithHiUei Foundations' Profesaiaoal Conference.

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By Mare tt. TaMabaun (Copyright 199L Jewiah "Teleipaplilc Agsacy, lacl NEW YORK-When the Messiah comes, according to the Talmud, all Jewish holidays will be repealed, except for Purim and Hanukkah (Jerusalem Tahnud, Ta'anit 2). The reasons given for that prediction is that Hanukkah took place in Palestine, and had a transforming infhience on later Jewish spiritual and military dsvdopment. Purim symbolizes the Jewish confrontation with evil in every century and in practicaUy every society in which Jews Uyed. Purim is thus a celebration of the Jewiah wiU to survive and prevail. The moral assursnce that Purim providea for prevailing over Hamans and thur murderous designs against Jews is nee^tod more in the year of Saddam Hussein than at any time since the Nazi H^ocaust. The launching of Scud miMilM into Israel's majot population centers of Tel Aviv and Haifa is the first time such maasive onalaugfats against civilian areas has talun place since the founding of IsraeL Hussein's sadistic rhetoric against Israel reads like an updated version of Haman's advice In King Ahasuerua (436-464 BCE): "If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed."

Haman is long dead, but Bert Lewis his pathological anti-Jewish hatred lives on in the brutal mind of Iraq's laTwenty-nine cents. Not very much money these days. test Nsbuchadneazar. The key message in the In fact, it's hard to think of some examples of what Purim observsnce for us twenty-nine cents will actually buy. Maybe one bunch of radishss, when they're on sale m perhaps what I today is to repUcate the retpoBBe of Mordechai and Iqitdly remember as a nickel candy bar. That costs around a quarter or BO, doesn't it? I know it doesn't cost Esther to the thrests fivecaotsi against the security of Persian Jewry. Their total So what'a the big deal about that particular figure— commitment and sacrifi- twenty-nhie cents? Mostly it's about the fact that to cial interventions on the send a first dsss pieoe of mail, such as a letter, from highest levels resulted in one point to another in this country, it now costs twentythe saving of the majority nine cents. I stq>pose I should confess that I've never of Persian and otho- Jew- thought it should be as much as a quarter, never mind ish communities. four cents more. It has to do with the fact of age and memory—I Purim 1991 is a critical remember very clearly when a stamp cost three cents. time for American and world Jewry to do no less That's right, I said three (3) pennies. Depending on your for our brothers and sis- age, that mi^t seem to b« an imposaible charge, but ters in Israel. Like some trust me. It did, many moons ago, cost only three cents 200 other Purims which to send a letter. And while I'm into confeesians, I can acknowledged the source alaotdl you that when the big deal of Air Mail became of the threat in their a reality, it cost somq>lace around seven cents, which names, this year bopefuUy I guess at the time seemed like a lot. Of course, thoae were the days when it really was an win justify the deaignatian of "the Saddam Purim." exciting thing to think of bags of mail being loaded on cdebrating the Jewish vic- an airplane and flown with great q>eed all the way across tory over yet another hor- the country. Still, seven cents was a lot to spend on a letter, for heavens sake! rible tyrant. Maybe it isn't just the fact that it used to be so cheap (Rabbi Marc H. Tanen- and it's now so costly to send a letter. What bothers baum, fonner internation- most of us, I'm sure, is the fact that the quality of the al rdationa director of the mail service has become so inferior. The most comnun American Jewish Commit- "filler" to find between stories of any newspaper is the tee, is a past chairman of blurb that tells how it took X number of days to get a the International Jewish piece of mail ttom one part of the same city to another Committee on Interreli- part. gious Consultations.) Well, that's my story kids. A stamp that now costs twenty-nine cents. I consider it a travesty—at the very least an injustice! And besides, it means that now when ISRAEL BOND I buy stamps in quantity, I have to really figure careCHAOOIAN Michaei Siegal of Cleve- fuUy. At a quarter eadi, it waa eaay eoouj^ to know that land, a buainessinan and twenty stamps cost $5. Now it's a whcde m«e(ll«t' with Jewish communal leader, odd numbers—I hate odd numbers. I'm sure it ww't make any difference to whoever it has been elected National Campaign Chairman of is who decides on the price of a stamp, but I feel better, having eiq>ressed my opinion. Evwybody who agrees State of Israd Bonds. with me raise your hand. I knew it.

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By David Kaator BONNUTAlAKmdish leader hi exDe haa demanded that Oannany pay mOlions of mariu in reparationa for hdping Iraq produce the poiaon gas it used against its KuT" dish population. Sami Abdul Rahman saki hi Hamburg last week that "the Bonn government ahould pay us compensation, ezKtIy as it dM to the Jews who were gassed in World War II." Rahman said his people knew exactly who in Germany made available the equipment to produce chemical and biological weapons in Iraq. He said at least 50,000 Kurds are dead or missmg

aa a result of gaa attacks by ths rsghns of Iraqi Ptesklnt Saddam HuiMin. But untfl BOW, "not a shi^ penqy " from Oar many haa reached the huodreda of thouaands of Kurdish refugees who eecqMd the deadly attacks. "Just nice words won't help us," said Rahman, a former Iraqi miniater who went underground in 1974 after a Bat^idad court sentenced him to death for treason.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) —IsraeU Ambassador Zalman Shovel has labeled as a "canard" news reports that Israel has aakad the United Statea for 813 billion hi additional aid. Israeli Finance Mhiiater Yitzhak Moda'lwas said to have asked for that amount over five years dutiog a msetbig in Israel with visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of SUte Lawrence Eagleburger. SpeaUng to reporters at the National Presa Qub here, Shoval explained that what IsraeU officials did waa to outline to Eaj^eburger the coets of the Persian Gulf war and of absorbing tens of thousands of Soviet Jewish immigrants. The war has coat Israel about 83.2 Ullion from loet tourism, increased oil

prices and increased costs for military preparations,' such as the aroimd-thedock manning of laraeli fighter planes, Shoval said. He said this figure does not hichide the cost of the damage from the Iraqi missile attacka on Israel

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'Rabbroltes prophecy: war heralds Messiah ByQartkWtOatt OrtkaNatONmCUifonrfa J««fih Ballada Staff The FBrdaa Golf war will and hy Purim and Uw Meaaiah will cotat aoon 'afUr. Hioaepndictiaaa, made laat week by a Labavitchcr rabU, iqidato a fancaat by Jewiah acbolan 1^00 yean ago of the preeeotday war between Iraq and U^.-aIlied (oicee. According to Rabbi Mania Friedman, even though Iraqi misdle attadu on Tel Aviv and Haifa have killed four and injurad neaiiy 200, the Lubavitcb movement continues to believe God is protecting Israel from Saddam Hussein—and tlw world is witnessing a miracle. ' "The rebbe in Brooklyn was very confident that the Jews going to [fight in] the Persian Gulf need not take along a Megittah," the book traditinnaTly read onPurim, Friedman said, refening to Lubavitefaer Chief RJabbi Menachem Schneeraon.

Friedman, author of iDooai't AsyoBe Blaah Anyaen? and boat of his own syndicated televi•km tiSk abow from his home state of Minnesota, mapped oat the prophecy to three radio JouniaUsts, a photognqpher and one newspqier reporter laat week in the headquarters of Chabad of Sao Franciaoo. Ancient scholars predated that the king of Persia (in this case, Saddam Hunejn, who haa become that "king" because he has lorded over the Persian Gulf, according to Friedman) wodd go to war with an Arab king—in this case, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. Retdling the pn^hecy last Friday afternoon, Friedman said the scholars further, divined that the Arab king wouki enlist the he^ of a world superpower—the United Statee, of oourae—and then global combat wouki ensue. If the conqMrison is folkiwed to the letter, the war soon will devastate the

world and. hi the prooeaa, aooordhig to FMeihnan, rkl the worid of ita evil ideologies. At the condusioa of the great war, "aU the nations of the worid wiU pank, and tremble, and be thrown hito confusion." "plf»»f^ Friedman. "Israel wiU panic and (Jews] will say. Where should we go, where ihoold we go?"' The Mesaiah soon will follow—sometime after late February, when Pmim falls—redeeming humans forever. Before that happens, thooj^, the Jewish people must endure another assault when the "descendants of Ishmail"—Arabs —wage war on land, in the sea, and in a large dty. That city, according to Friedman, is Jerusalem. But Jews there need not worry because God will spare Jerusalem from destruction, the way he is protecting Tel Aviv from Scud missiles, Friedman said. "Rockets are landing in Tel Aviv and 80 few pe^e

are being hart. Miraculoualy, the rocketo landed between ^Mttmsnt buiUbiga, in empty parking lota, between gas linee." That miracle also extends to the American Patriot miaailea the United Statee has pUtced mside Israel to protect it from incoming Iraqi Scuds, he said. "I woaM say the miracle is that America is doing our fitting for us in Israel." Again, the miracles are part of the prophecy. So Jews in Israel and the diaspora need not worry the gulf war will bring death and destruction to the Jewish state, he said. "God says to us, do not be afraid, you have nothing to be afraid of. The time of your redemption has come. Unlike the first redemption, the exodus from Egypt, which was fdlowed by further exiles, this redemption w^ be for ever."

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New book claims Bonn knew of gas By David Kantor BONN (JTAh-A book scheduled to be puMiahed here this week daboa that the Boon government was fuUy aware of the help Ger man indostry waa giving Iraq to manufacture poison gas while angrily denying allegations to that effect frtra sevsral sources, including the U.S. admio' istrati(». Ihe book, "EjqMXters of Death," was liritten by two German journalists, Hans Leyendecker and Richard Rickehnann. They allege that the BND, the former West German counterespionage service, hired as an informer, a man, Peter Leifer, who was illegally exporting raw materialB to Iraq for the production of chemical weapons. Leifer was identified as one of three managers of WET, a Hamburg-based company which traded with Iraq. He has been in custody since August, when inter national pressure forced Bonn to get serious about the prosecution of individuals idw were providing Iraq with the substances, machinery and know-how to produce poison gas.

AccordiBg to the authors, the BND hired Leifer in igw, at wfakJi time the authoritiea already had files about hia illegal Ktivttiea. He woAed for the Munichbased spy agency f«»aboat two years. Two other WET executives he^wd Leifer gather and deliver data required by the BND, the bode says. They continued to work for the BND after the prosecution in Darmstadt opened an official investigation into their illegal business. In 1987, President Richard von Weizsacker of the Federal Republic and For-, eign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher intervened with Iraq to pardon another WET executive, Nazar al-Kadhi, who was in* volved in espionage with Leifer. Al-Kadhi, who had been under an Iraq death sentence for espionage, was expelled to Germany. During this period, frequent allegations that West German firms were helping Iraq produce chemical weapons were denounced by Bonn offidals as part of an "anti-German campaign."

Confident In U.S. role "JERUSALEM (JTA|' A significant number of Israelis bdieve the United Statee could act as Middle East peace broker after the Persian Gulf war is over, according to a recent telephone polL Arnerican initiative in this war has apparentiy bolstered Israeli confidence. While 76 percent of the respondents said they had always trusted the United States to some degree, 33 percent said the Gulf crisis has led them to "trust the Americans more" aa future mediators. The poll also ahowed that 97 percent at laraalia believe die United States is cnwmitted to larael'a aecurlty, 68 percent saying

"strtxic^y committed" and 29 percent "somewhat committed." Only 3 percent thought the American commitment was low or negligible. The poll was ccmducted for the Anti-Defamation League of B'naiB'rith during the period of Jan. 28 to 30. Commenting on the results, Harry Wall, director of ADL's Israel office, said, "The sharp rise hi confidence of the United States expressed by Isrselis in this pdl can only be the result of the greaUy enhanced close working relationahip between the United Statea and Israel that haa come about sines the first Iraqi Scud attack on Israel."

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