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From left are Irit Waldbaum, Shelly Fox, Rick Fox By Jill Belmont Women's Division publicity Women's Division publicity Participation in and commitment to the annu,al UJA/Federation Campaign was the topic of discussion at a campaign luncheon for division leaders and captains recently at the home of Zoe Riekes, 1993 Women's Campaign chairman. Speaker at the noon event was UJA volunteer Irit Waldbaum, a native Israeli who now hails from Denver. Ms. Waldbaum'8 involvement with United Jewish Appeal has included leading national missions, participating in solicitation training and serving on the Young Women's Leadership Cabinet. Becoming involved in Federation and contributing to the annual campaign allows women to experience the far-reaching impact of their donation, Ms. Waldtiaum said. , Campaigti dollars are responsible for "the joys of bringing the Soviets and Ethiopians to Israel and the joys of your own Jewish community," she said, jciting the Rose Blum|(in Jewish Home, the Bureau of Jewish Education and tt»e JCC's Child Development Center. "No one's going to Uke care of these things unless we do it," ^e said. Jewish philanthropy differs from giving to
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other charitable causes, By Barbara Chandler Ms. Waldbaum said, be- Federation public relations director cause of our emotional inHarlay Schrager and Howard Kooper, chairmen of vestment in the Jewish the Pacesetter Division for the 1993 UJA/Federation community's well-being. Campaign have assembled the largest campaign team "We have a history that ever—more than volunteers. These men will have a seinfluences our giving," ries of meetings during the next several weeks to plan she said, citing genera- for the campaign, culminating with a dinner on tions of family involve- November 22.Guest speaker at the event will be ment, hopes for our chil- Chicago attorney Richard. Wexler who currently serves dren's future and a as UJA Vice Chairman. variety of personal stories Discussing the issues of this year's campaign, Mr. and reasons. Kooper emphasized the importance of supporting Ms. Waldbaum also ex- Israel. pressed enthusiasm re"For Jews to survive, we need the security of knowing garding Israel's new gov- there is a sUte that is 100 percent Jewish. Absorption ernment. of the immigrante from Operation Exodus is a vital There ia an infcredibly step in securing the future of Israel. Their numbers and positive attitude in Israel their spirit will be the salvation of Israel. Since the election, be"We can feel optimistic about the new government in cause of the prospect of Israel.They are more attuned to creating a positive peace," she said. "With public relations profile for Israel than the previous new peace on the horizon, • leadership, but they won't give any more away." there will be new investMr. Schrager highlighted the quality of Jewish life ment in Israel, which will we eryoy in Omaha. mean more business, new "We have a wonderful Jewish community that needs jobs. to be mainuined and enhanced, especially for the el"Think of'how we bene- derly, the infirm and the disadvantaged. When we see fit from Israel's exis- .the care provided for our elderly by the Bureau for the tence," she said. Aging, or when we walk through the J.C.C. teeming Ms. Riekes agreed, with people of all ages involved in a variety of activiadding that, "The new ties, we cannot leave without being touched by the high governtnent is based on quality of programs and services being provided and consultation, not confron- yet pecognite the need for more. tation. Israel will never "We have a dedicated Uam of campaign volunteers give up its security, but and are conndent that everyone will do their very best there Is room U> negotiate, in this campaign." and that is very promising. . "This year's campaign theme is 'The promise i» one thing, the reality is everything.' Our dollars are our promise, what we Kimberly C. Moor*. bill that received final ap have in our Jewish com- 8tatMN«ws8ervtee proval in a 312- 106 vote munity and in Israel is WASHINGTON (JTA) by the House of the reality of those dol- — Ac the lOand Congraw Raprasentatlves and a lars," Ms. Riekes Mid. drew to a cloa*. lawmak- ' voioa voU by the SanaU. "Education la the goal ers adopted UgitUtlon liia bill providaa Israel of this campaign; educa- providing 910 billion In with guarantaaa for comtion about what the Fed- loan guarantees to help mercial loana of up to $2 eration and its agencies Israel abiorb inmisranU billion ovar aach of the are doing and education and another $381.6 mil- naxt Bva yaara. BI' needs in Is- lion to r«Mttl* rwftigwes in It also contain* $3 bilr.i uled. "We also lion ID U.S. aid to Uraal, UwUnitMiSUtM. want tiie women to know But Congreaa decidtd Including $1.3 billion in that everyone In this cam- not to take action thit economic asalitance and paign is important." tann on a bill that would $1.8 billion <» military "It Is so ImporUnt that have circumvented a 1960 aid. all women are counted," Supreme Court ruling That la tha (area Ms. Waldbaum said. 'We giving the government amount Uraal ha* rahave the power to change broad laaway to adopt apd eaivwl aanuaUy alMa the livM and w« alao have po- anforce lawi that may mid-1980*. and tha Buah litical power. have the affact of reatrict- admlntatratkon recently "We are just oiM Unto in Ing raUgloua pracUcaa. pla4«ad to malnuin that this chain, but we must Tha loan guarantaat laval of sacurity aaalamake sun that the chain were contained in a for- tani:* '" ">• fulurt coottnuea." aign aid appropriation*
The Women's Division of the 1993 UJA/Federation Campaign will hold its worker solicitation training sessions on Wednesday and Thursday at the home of Patty Nogg, 1205 North 128 Circle. Mrs. Nogg is the Education/Training chairwoman for this year's campaign. The sessions will fea^ ture guest speaker Heidi Damsky of Birmingham, Alabama, who is a member of the National UJA Women's Division Board and vice chairman of the United Jewish Appeal. Her past UJA involvement has'included serving on the Women's Young Leadership Cabinet, chairing a mission to Latin America, and helping to create "Morasha," a 1990 Poland/Israel Young Leadership Cabinet-sponsored mission. Ms. Damsky has been a pdrticipant/trainer for the National UJA Training Center since 1986. Campaign workers are encouraged to attend worker training, and may choose from three sessions: Wednesday, 7; 15 p.m. dessert and 7:30 p.m. program; Thursday, 9:15 am. coffee, 9:30 a.m. program; or Thursday 12:45 p.m <)»»'•'"•-» 1 n in progran\
Patty NoKK Make reservations by calling Jan Perelman, Women's Division director, at 334-8200, Ext. 274.
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During the ^ast of Yom Kippur, congregants of Temple Israel brought with them 4,628 pounds of canned and packaged foods to be donated to the Omaha Food Bank. The two-ton contribution is the largest single donation ever made by a church or synagogue in Omaha, said Chuck Raffens'perger, executive dir• ector of the food bank. The drive, called the High Holy Day HuniJier Project, was sponsored by the Temple Israel Social Action Committee, which on Rosh Hashanah distributed shopping bags marked with instructions to nil the bag with nonperishable foods and return full bags to tlie temple on Yom Kippur. "The idea was to share the food that people would otherwise hkva The legislation leaves eaten if it- weren't a fast discretion to the president day," said Barry Siff, who to suspend the loan pro- chairs the social action gram if he determines committee with his wife, that the "terms and condi- Judy. tions have been breache<l' "It was an opportunity The bill also includes for us to share with peo-* ^ language, originally intro- pie whoae fast is neither duced by the Senate, that voluntary nor symbolic, in calls on Arab League other words, people who countries to renounce are hungry,* he said. their boycott against Mr. Siff aaid tha driw. Urael and the so-called would continue next year secondary boycott of com- during the High Holy panies that do business Day*, news Mr. Raffenwith tha Jewish *tat«. •parger wa* plaasad to The provi*ion urge* Bush to ukc "more con- haar. "It'* great timing for us craU atapa" in ending tha bacauaa our atock* are boycott, Including aneouraglng American allie* to low at thi* tim* of year," enact law* prohibiting ha aaid. "We'v* Juat flnbuainaaa compania* fVoro lahad •'ummar, and tha achool food drive* aran't participating in it until Novarobar*
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Organizations lunch speaker will b© Clarence Billingsley, a candidate for the Nebraska State Board of Education. At 2 p.m., people attending the Minnesota trip Oct. 26 to29 should meet in the Adult Lounge to work ouTfinal details.
YES and Oldtimers will attend the matinee performance of "O Pioneers" PRIME TIME ^ Prime Timers will meet at the Omaha Commufor dinner and a show at nity Playhouse on Nov. 8. the Firehouse Dinner An all-you-can-eat lunch Theatre at 6:30 p.m. Oct. will be served at the 22. The show is "Move Playhouse before the Over Mrs. Markham." show. The event costs Tickets are $21 for mem- $20, including round-trip bers or $24 for non-mem- transportation from the JCC. The bus leaves at .bers. The Prime Time Com- noon. For more informamittee will meet at 7:30 tion and to reserve a spot, p.m.Nov. 12attheJ.C.C. call Fanny Gummers Adult Services and (391-3997) by Oct. 23. Jewish Family Services AMIT WOMEN will host a self-esteem The Kalah Franklin workshop called "Taking Care of Me" at 7 p.m. on and Hatikvah chaptew of AMIT women will meet Nov. 10. Coat is $5. For more information jointly at 1 p.m. on Oct. call Aimee Kirby (334- 26 at the J.C.C. They will view a film, 8200, ext. 232). "Miracles, One by One," about AMIT Women's acYES Due to the holidays, the tivities in Israel. The Kalah Franklin YES meeting on Monday chapter has elected new is caAceled. officers: Sylvia Ross, president; Sarah Lewis, coWALK-IN DROP-IN Walk-In Drop-In will president; Sara Landsmeet at 10:30 a.m. on man, vice president; SoThursday at the J.C.C. for phie Schulman, treasurer; exercise class, bingo and and .Rose Fine, correregular brown bag. After- sponding secretary.
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FRIDAY, 0CT6BER IS Early Childhood Lunch and Learn, 1215 pm. , Belh El SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 Bar MiUvah, Ryan Lecher, 6:30 p m , Bath El BalMitivah, Emily Fine, 11 \5 am , Temple Israel UTTO Havadalah Social, grade 2 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 l*.E.P. dass, 10 am.. Temple Israel Jewish War Vets, 10 a.m. B'nai Israel Holiday An Workshop, 10 ajn. Artza meeting, 2 pm XCCTosadal 5 pm MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 JCC Closed all day - Shemipi Alteret Family Simchat Torah Service. 7 p m . Beth 11 TUESDAY. OCTOBER 20 JCC Closed all day - Simchal Torah Food lor thought, 11 am, Temple Israel Torah on Wheels. Noon NCJW General Meeting, 7 p m ' WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 Breadbraakars, Noon, Regency West TIQdS, Noon, Temple Israel Hadasaah, Noon, Livingston Plua XC Building* arx) Ground* meeting. 4 p m Path El Board, 7:30 pm . Bath Ei Cub Scout*, 7 p.m Hebrew High, 7 30 p.m. BeffnningConver*ational Hebrew, 7 pm B^gmning Hebrew, 7 p.m. AdvancedCbnvertational Hebrew, 6pm Siddur Hebrew, 6 p.m. THUMOAY, OCTOBIR 22 Wi*-»n Oop-in. 1030»m 8JE Board. 730 p m B'nai BTUti Women's Rainbow Smtmm, 11:30 p.m.
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Deaths MORRIS RUDERMAN Services were held at Golden Hill Cemetery last week for Morris Ruderman, who died Oct. 6 at the age of 72. Mr. Ruderman is survived by his wife, Reva; daughters Sheila Tomps and Genine Hanna of Omaha and Gail Shaw of Prairie Village, KS; sister, Eva Boguchwal of Omaha; brother Irvin of Ft. Lauderdale; and five grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Beth Israel Synagogue or the donor's choice.
B'nai Israel Synagogue v»rill hold its annual hay rack ride at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, to be followed by a potluck dinner and a Sukkah-decorating party. The hay rack ride, held annually at Green HUl Farm outeide Council Bluffs, is open to the entire Jewish community. Green Hill Farm is the home of Jerome and Freda Bleicher. After the ride, adults will help kids decorate a sukkah, and all participants will learn the special blesaings said in a sukkah. B'nai Isreal Music Director Marti Nerenstone will lead the group in Jewish and fold songs. A potluck dinner is planned. Kosher hot dogs will be served, and participanto should bring beverages, vegetables, fruit and desserts. For more information call Ellen Fennick (390-9062). For directions to Green Hill Farm, call the Bleichers (366-1244). TTie harvest-celebration day begins on Sunday with a Sukkot workshop for young children and their parents at 10 a.m. at the JCC. B'nai Israel religious school teacher Rebecca Bloom vvill discuss Sukkot and demonstrate holiday crafts. Children in pre-kindergarten through third grade are invited, along with their parents. To attend the workshop, reserve spota by calling the synagogue's voice mail (322-4705).
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JEWISH SINGLES The Jewish Singles Committee will meet at 1 p.m. on Oct. 18 at the JCC. Game Night will be at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24 at the Thomasville Apartments Clubhouse, 99th and Q sta. (This is a new location.) Cost is $3.50.
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SUSAN PONO Susan Brookstein Pong, a native of Omaha, died Wednesday in Massachusetts. She was 45. Mrs. Pong was preceded in death by her parents, Aaron and Sarah Brookstein of Omaha. Survivors include her husband, Norman and
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ZELLA A. ROSENBERG Zella H. Rosenberg, 82, widow of Hymen Rosenberg, a Lincoln attorny who died in 1985, died Oct. 9. Burial took place in Lincoln. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Earlier this year, Mrs. Rosenberg gave $100,000 to the UNL College of Arts and Sciences to establish the Hymen Rosenberg Profesorship in Judaic Studies. Memorials may be made to UNL, Tabitha Hospice Foundation or Nebraska Oddfellows Rebekah Low Vision Clinic.
Dr. Jonathan Sama, chairman of the Near EasteiTi and Judaic Studies departments at Brandeis University, will apeak on "The Genesis of Jews in the Americas, the Sephardic Experience" at Beth Israel Synagogue during services on Oct. 24. Dr. Same's will also serve as keynote speaker for the Fifth Annual Wutznick Symposium which begins Oct. 25 at Creighton University. He is the author of more than a dozen books and has By Gil Sedan lectured widely and contributed to many publications. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Residents of Israel who were Before coming to Brandeis, he was Professor of irvjured or whose property was damaged in Scud misAmerican Jevrish History and Director for the Center of the Study of the American Jewish Experience at sile attacks during the Persian Gulf War can now demand compensation from Iraq. Hebrew Union College's Jewish Institute. The claims will be submitted to the United Nations. Rabbi Mhrk UrkowiU said Dr. Same's lecture would Israel's Ministry of Justice published notices about be timely. 'As the quincentennial year of the commemoration of the procedure. The ministry haa set up a special unit expulsion of the Jews from Spain draws near, we have to handle the claims, to be submitted within the next two months. to remember how it all began for us here," he said. Meanwhile, with art eye toward future precautions, Beth larael President Bob Oberman said he was "delighted to have a scholar of such magnitude as Dr. the larael Defense Force's Home Front Command is to begin a trial distribution of new gas masks among Sama share his vast knowledge with us." some 800 families in various parts of the country on Oct. 21. Dear Ernie, Six pilot distribution centers will be opened, and the It finally paid off! reaulU of the trial studied to determine how to continAfter all the money you've spent supplying calenue throughout the entire country. dars of Ike Hebrew religious year to Omahans, for so
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many years, it finally paid off! No. I don't mean by increased business for IGo. I mean naming the new year for you! The new year is 5753. In the usual Hebrew Ihia is pronounced Tashnag. But we may as well pronounce it TashNOGG. In the Chinese year naming, there are years of the Tiger and the Lion and the whatever youcanthinkof ' Bui we're the only ones who have the >»>"'•"'•''"• W>TfJT Matal Tov! And hai>e a sweet year'
NEWS EDITOR WANTED The Jewish Press is seeking a journalist with computer experience \p be news editor. This is an opportunity for an individual wanting a career in Jewish journalism. Please call Morris Mallne at 334-8200 ext. 239.
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CandMlghUng for Friday, Get 16,6:22 p.m. By Rabbi Myer S. Knpke Office hours: MondayFOOD FOR officiate. Cantor WebberThursday, 8 a.m.-4:30 Bath El Synaaogua Shabbat Hol haMoed Sukkot THOUOHT Gilat will present a 14806 CalHomla p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. The next luncheon ses"Sermon in Song" entiOmaha, NB 68184 A remark of Moses Services are conducted tled: "My Jewish Life sion will be Tuesday, Oct. 492-8880 on the Nature of the Human Payche by Rabbi Mark Urkowitz 20, from 11:30 1 p.m. Line." The Oneg Shabbat Office Hours: Monday and Cantor David Taub. through Thursday - 9 will be sponsored by the Rabbi Fink will lead the FRIDAY: discussion. Temple will One might say that the Torah reading for this a.m.-5 p.m., Friday - 9 Sisterhood. provide the drinlcs - you Shabbat within Sukkot was chosen because of the brief Choi Hamoed Sukkot SATURDAY: a.m.-4 p.m. Shabbat morning ser- bring a Brown Bag mention of the three Pilgrimage Festivals toward the Kabbalat Shabbat serRabbi Paul Drazen and Lunch. end of the passage — where Sukkot is assigned a total vice at 6:20 p.m. Kiddush Cantor Emil Berkovits vice, 11:15 a.m. Simcha B'Shabbat - An of four words, under the name of the Festival of in the Succoh following will conduct the services. TIOQS alternative Torah Study Ingathering. services. Wednesday, Oct. 21, Service will take place in FRIDAY: SATURDAY: That may be. But much more interesting, and also the Chapel. Shabbat ser- Temple Israel Go Getters Services at 6 p.m. Morning service, 8:45 vice will be held in the will meet for lunch and a more in keeping with the theme of Repentance and SATURDAY: a.m. in the Sanctuary and speaker at noon. Make Forgiveness which dominates the fall Holy Days, is the Services at 9:30 a.m. - sanctuary. Goldstein Chapel. reservations with Mary passage when Moses asks for the Lord's presence withKiddush will follow ser- SUNDAY: Little People and Junior vices. Erev Simchat Torah . Lou Goodman, 553-6634, in Israel during the perilous trek through the wilderor Libby Kaplan, 551- ness. Congregation at 10 a.m. TSS (Torah Siddur service, 7:30 p.m'. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi 6202. Sitter service is provid- Skills) begins at 10:15 This is the passage which includes the Lord's own Fink and Cantor Webbered by Sisterhood begin- a.m. self-identification, the Thirteen Attributes of the diCONSECRATION Gilat will officiate at the Sitter service at 10 a.m. ning at 10 a.m. Consecration of new vine person and the divine character, which is repeatof There will be a "Lunch " Minha-Ma'ariv and Consecration Kindergarten children. A Religious School children ed again and again during the High Holy Days. in the Succoh" sponsored Havdalah services at 6:30 reception with food and will take place at the When the awesome words hiave been spoken to. by Sisterhood. Adults, p.m. 7:30 Erev Simchat dancing will follow. SUNDAY: Moses, he hastens to prostrate himself before the Lord, $4.50, children $3.50. Torah' service, Oct. 18. Services at 9 a.m. and MONDAY: Consecranta are: Alex and to offer a special plea. Advance reservations are 5:30 p.m. Simchat Torah morning service and Yizkor 11:15 Angalet, Julie Angalet, required. WEEKDAYS: "If 1 have gained Your favor, O Lord, pray let the Katie Andrews, Michael Lord go in our midst; even though this is is stiff necked Clasa with Rabbi on this Services at 6:55 a.m. a.m. Belmont, Jacob Bleicher, week's Torah portion fol- and 5:30 p.m. Rebecca Clark, Jacob people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us TOT SHABBAT JUDAICA SHOP: Open lows Kiddush in the Friday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m. A Finnicum, Naomi Fox, for Your own!" Tuesday through ThursGoldstein Chapel. short service of song and Angela Friedman, Jon The word translated (by JPS) "even though" is nothday, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Talmud Class with prayer, followed by cook- Gates, Keith Graul, Dan- ing more than the multi-use KI, most usually translatSunday, 10 a.m.-noon. Rabbi at 5:30 p.m. folies and juice will be held iel Gutman, Natlianiel ed "for, because, when." The commentators seize the lowed by Mincha at 6:20 for toddlers, preschoolers, Joseph, Megan Katelman, word and insist that here it means "even though, de-, BARMITZVAH p.m. Shale* Seudos, Ryan Lercher, son of kindergartners, their par- Jordon Kenik, Erica spite the fact that.." Even Rashi, iiormally not given to Langnas, Rachael Lang- grammatical remarks, points out that this is its meanMa'ariv, and Havdalah David Lercher and ents and grandparents. nas, Dustin Lepp, Adam conclude services. Minnie Abromowitch, will Linsky, Joel Passer, ing here. With Ibn Ezra and others it was expected — SITTER SERVICE SUNDAY, Hoshana Rabba become a Bar Mitzvah at Sitter service is avail- David Phillips, Cory but here even Rashi! Minha-Ma'ariv services, Shacharit, 8 a.m. able for the 8:15 Shabbat Rakes, Abigail Rowell, With this meaning, "even though this is a stiffSaturday, Oct. 17. CONCLUDING DAYS: evening service as well as Maxwell Samis, Cole necked people," Moses is making an astonishing reShemini Artzeret the 11:15 Shabbat morn- Schneider, Nigel Schneid- quest. Even though, he says, this is a stiff-necked peoSUKKOT Oct. 18: Candlelighting, Friday, Oct. 16, Minha- ing service; also for the er, Samantha Shrier, ple, who will continuously insult You by sinning 6:21 p.m.; Mincha, 6:20 Ma'ariv, 6 p.m. 7:30 Simchat Torah eve- Adam Skog and Jared against You, do please stay among us as we trudge p.m. ning service. Please make Waldbaum. Saturday, Oct. 17 through this perilous desert. For even when Israel ains Oct. 19: Morning serreservations. There are Morning, 9:30 a.m. — as people do — You will still forgive us! Tifarath Israel no facilities for infants. vice, 8:45 a.m.; Ylskor, Minha-Ma'ariv, 6:30 3210 Sharidan Blvd. We must not push too far in assessing the meaning 10:30 a.m.; Mincha, 6:15 p.m. Lincoln, HE 68502 BAT MITZVAH of Moses' plea. He is no psychologist in any modem Sunday, Oct. 18, Hoshp.m. 423-8869. Emily Beth Fine, sense. But there is an intuitive insight into the way ana Rabbah, 9 a.m. Simchat Torah Minyans each Monday people think and act. Moses is Ulking about his feldaughter of Sara and Shmini Atzeret/Simhat Oct. 19: Candlelighting, Robert Fine, will cele- and Thursday at 7:15 lows, ancient Israelites. But there is no difficulty in 7:23 p.m,; Ma'ariv and Torah a.m. Sunday evening, Oct. brate herseeing that this remark applies to all peoplie. Torah Procession, 7 p.m. Bat Mitzvah at the FRIDAY: 18, 6 p.m. Oct. 20: Morning serServices at 8 p.m. It is easy to define what is right,.whether according Monday, Oct. 19 - Morn- Shabbat morning service, Oneg Shabbat hosted to God's commandments or the laws of a particular sovice, 8:45 a.m.;^ Youth ing 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 17. by Barb and Steve Seglin. ciety — but it is quite another for people to do what is Service, 10 a.m. (Yizkor and dedication SATURDAY: B'NAI MITZVAH right. "Even though this is a stiff-necked people" apBring a can of food to of memoral plaques) Services at 9:30 a.m. , Adult B'nai Mitzvah ofSimhat Torah - Minhaplies to all people. the Sukkah for the n^edy. Junior CnnurfKation. fers an opportunity to exMa'ariv, 6:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: There are some zaddikim. There arc some superpa10:15 a.m. plore Jewish History, Hakafot, 7 p.m'. Wednesday, Thursday triots. TJiere are some rigidly laW'Sbiding people. But Bible, Liturgy, PhiloTuesday, Oct.20 and Friday; Morning serB'nal Jaahurun these are few in comparison with the rest 6f ue. sophy and Hebrew. Morning, 9:30 a.m. vice, 7 a.m. Evening seraoth and teuth Streeta Minha-Ma'ariv, 6:46 Classes on Tuesdays from That is why we must be constantly in a state of revice, 6:30 p.m. Lineoln, NE 68S02 7-9 p.m. will begin Oct. 13. p.m. pentance, sorrowfiil for our shortcomings. 438-8004 Each weekday evening Fee la $50. Call the office between Mincha and to register. SIMHAT TORAH FRIDAY; Ma'ariv, Rabbi Urkowiti A make your own sun Chabad Houaa B'nai Israai Sabbath evening aerP.B.P. leads studies in Miah- dae ice cream social will 1322 So. 119th Straat 618 Mynatar Straat Parallel Education for vice, 7:46 p.m. follow Simhat Torah sernayes. Omaha, NB 6B144 Council Blutta,U SI S03 SATURDAY: Parents will meet SunBoard of Comttiisaioners vice! on Monday, Oct. 19. 697-1124 322-4708 Morning aervice and Oct. 18, 10 a.m. et at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 21. Kindergarten children day, TorahatudyatlOa.m. The discussion topic will receive a miniature For information, call SATURDAY; will be "M and M's: Mem- TUESDAY: Torah scroll at aenrices. Davening at 9:30 a •AT MITZVAN Adult educaUon at 7:30 Ellen Pennick at 390ories, Mitsvot, and Mish9062, or leave a meaaage with Kiddush following Next Friday evening, p.m. pachah." LUNCH n' LBARN on the synagogue answer- services. THURSDAY: Oct. 23, we celebrate the Lunch n' Learn with SUNDAY; ing machine, 322-4706. Choir rehearsal, 7:30 Bat Mitivah of Lauren the Rabbi will continue ADULT EDUCATION Davening at 9:30 a.m, Oct. 22, "Jewish in p.m. ay, daughter of Danni* on Thursday, Oct. 22, WEDNESDAY: SUNDAY: Hollywood" led by Rabbi Susan Paley. The noon at Beth El. Talmud claas, 9:30 a.i Religious school 10 a.m. Blumkin Homa Airlel 9:30-10:30 em.)neK Shabbat following Chumash for adults, to noon. and The Matriarchs and trvioea will be hoit«d by AIDS PBRSraCTIVB 10:30 a.m. FRIDAY; Oct. 16 SATURDAY: A teriea of programs Their Legacy* led by THURSDAY: ham In honor of Lauren's Service and Simchat Servioea are held In the presented by Noreen Rabbi Fink 10:30-11:30 falmud^^^ Advanced Talmud 'Bat MlUvah. Golditfen Chapel at 9 a.m. Torah observance, 7:30 Halpern at Bath El will a.m. p.m. at the synago^e, led noon. Members of the combe held Oct. 22, 7:90 p.m. munity are Invited to join by MaKi Nerenetone and tCNOLAR FABRANOBN and Oct,24-a6. The proOffutt raaldenU for the aervlce, Marty Roaenberg. Scholar-lnrasldence Dr grama are aponiored by FIDDLERS Caaahart SUNbAY; Oct. 18 Tuffy Epstein's group aa wall at the kiddush fblRoaner will spaak at Beth El and the Esther K. IHt Holiday workshop on IMiMrMtM will once again enhance knrlng. a.m. on Oct. 24. Newman Fund. Omaha, NB6S123 Simchat Torah, 10 a.m. to Special memorial aerSimchat Torah Sunday at iBhabbat Choi Hamoed 7;30 p.m., but the "fid- vioaa ate held on the last noon at the JCC. Tampla Iwraal Tmtitr Ma'ariv and the FRIDAY, Oct.23 dlers" will begin playing Saturday of eadi mwith. 7023 Caaa Straat morning ••rvlccs. Service led by Marti FRIDAY: and leading a sing along MONDAY: Omaha. NB 88132 Sorvkea at 8 p.m. Flnt day Sukkot, 9 a.m. Nerenatone. at 7:16. BISTBRHOOD ^Mmlnl Atierel After the servio*. FRIDAY; Slatorhood board meetOct. 19 iip will play In Shabbat evening ser- T " • AtUiul Sti\ici's Morning senrlce, 9 a.m. ing Is at 10 a.m. Oct. 27, vice 8 in pm. Rabbi I hill. Ylskor -•'" '".to ; followed by luncheon at Airlel. r • - • tliisSh;il)l);U .,,1 12.90 p m. Cantor '
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Point of View—Can Federations survive? By Gary Rosenblatt Editor BalUmon JewUh Time* There's a quiet crisis taking place among Jewish federations around the country. It has to do with money, or the lack of it in these days of recession, but it goes far deeper. It's a crisis of personnel and leadership—a sense that there is a lack of professional and lay people of first-rate talent, knowledge and commitment to help the community focus on goals at a time of great change. And a sense that we as an American Jewish community are losing the threads that bind us together—through assimilation and indifference. These observations are based on conversations with professional and lay leaders of federations in various parts of the country. These talks were oflfthe-record, and if confronted for attribution, most of the men and women 1 spoke to would no doubt maintain that the great American Jewish enterprise of voluntary fund-raising and providing services for Jews at home, abroad and in Israel was going great guns. Indeed, they could point to the fact that American Jewry now raises over $1 billion a year in philanthropy and they could talk about a renaissance taking place among some Jews in terms of renewed spiritual commitment, education and involvement with Israel. But priyately, these leaders whose personalities, priorities and styles vary greatly, voice deep
concern about a Jewish community adrift. .They worry about a decreasing core of caring, committed Jews with a diminishing sense of common purpose. Most immediate are worries about dollars to fuel the federations and their constituent social service agencies. A community like Los Angeles, which recently slashed its budget by 17 percent, has had to cut staff and essential programming to stay afloat. When the second largest federation in the land is virtually bankrupt, the impact of such a radical cutback can be deep and widespread, and there may well be more Los Angeleses among federations today. Despite the dramatic special campaigns for the resettlement of Jews from Ethiopia and the former Soviet Union, the annual federation campaigns around the country in recent years have been sluggish. Many experts feel that the concept of centralized giving—the backbone of the federation philosophy—has peaked, and that we will see more designated giving in the future and the increasing growth of dozens of specialized Jewish philanthropies like the New Israel Fund, which supports liberal causes in Israel, and Mazon, which combats hunger. While federation executives disagree over whether it would be good or bad for the system to decentralize, they acknowledge that it is happening already and that, at the very least, it signals a need to re-think
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professional leaders have been fearful of confronting new models for federation. On a personal level, the top federation professionals talk of widespread burnout among themselves and their colleagues. Their jobs are filled with pressure from all sides of the community, with wealthy philanthropists to please, bureacracies to run, special interest groups to appease, and younger, unaffiliated Jews to at"Some have tract — at least suggested a theoretically. For while federation five-year execs talk about the need campaign." to expand the base of contributors, they acknowlSome have suggested a edge that they spend too five-year campaign to re- much time catering to the place the annual cam- requests of a relative paign. It would save on handful of top-level conthe manpower needed to tributors. Such pressure; and regear up for fund-raising each year and would sentment, takes its toll, allow professional staff to as does the psychological concentrate on non-givers awareness that the moand focus on more spe- ment they step down as federation exec they go cialized causes. But such decisions from the most powerful require bold, courageous person in the Jewish community to relative obsculeadership. Until now, both lay and rity.
how the Jewish community should operate as it approaches the 2l8t centuty. A case in point: the demand for funding at home has prompted federations to decrease the percentage of dollars sent to Israel. But the very concepts underlying federation—the annual campaign, the fe\w. deciding for the many, leadership training taking preference over Jewish education—need to be explored.
Salaries run high—the top execs of major city federations make between $100,000 and $200,000 a year, and more—but these men (there are no women at this level) are well aware of the large gap between their incomes and those of overworked, under-staffed mid-level federation professionals. Finally, there is great concern about the future survival of the Jewish community and the relative impotence of the federation to cope with the key issues of the day. Privately, federation leaders acknowledge that with its built-in systeni of consensus, federations are slow to act and are paralyzed by controversy. How can an organization based on the outdated slogan, "We Are One," take bold action regarding assimilation, lack of Jewish education, and a myriad of other problems, unless everyone involved is in agreement? This is especially true of religious issues like intermarriage, where federations hesitate to take a strong stand, either liberal or
traditional, or to take the bold step of underwriting the cost of Jewish education. The practical result is that key conflicts are ignored, or tabled, or addressed through bland resolutions and statements. To be effective in the future, federations will have to abandon the consensus concept, but to date that prospect is too frightening. Today, federations are doing an excellent job of raiding large sums of money from a small, elite group. (It is believed that more than 90 percent of charitable Jewish dollars come from less than 10 percent of the people.) But federations do not significantly engage the majority of American Jews or make the case for continuing the ptoud tradition of voluntary philanthropy for Jewish causes. No one is more aware than the executives that federations.are doing a far better job addressing "how" to raise funds than "why." And that's why they are so worried.
Court will hear school access case By Debra Nuasbaum Cohen NEW YORK (JTA) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that is certain to have important ramifications for the Jewish community. The case involves an evangelical church that sued the Onter Moriches School District, on New York's Long Island, for the right to show a movie with a Christian theme on school premises after school hours. Th^ church. Lamb's Chapel, argu6s that the school's refusal is a censorship of religious speech and violation of its constitutional right to the free exercise of religion. Hie church loet its suit in federal district court and on appeal, when the U.S; Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that a school building is not a generally open' public forum, so that excluding religious groups does not violate the Constitution. According to the legal directors of Jewish, organizations, many of .which have not yet decided their official position on the case, the Supreme Court is likely to iseue a ruling that will have MibeUotial Implications for the Jewish community. ' The two most Important Mpecta of the Lamb's Chapel case both could be detrimental to the Jewish ^unity's Interests, tare Stem, legal directur for the American Jewish CoogriM. If the court rules in favor of the evangelical group, It could lead to • situation whnre all rell
gious organizations claim the right to rent space at public schools, even if their aim is to target students with their mesMge. The case really centers on free-speech issues, rather than the churchstate issues, and whether a public school after teaching hours is a "limited'public forum," said Stem. The legal definition of a limited public forum includes the forum's right to limit the type of speech expressed within it, based on the speech's content. For example, all religious speech or political speech can be prohibited. So if the court decides that a public school, after school hours, is a limited public forum, it could have broed implications for other government-supported limited public fonims, such as public auditoriums, or even government-run newsletters and newspapers, said dtem. "There's a danger if you're going to allow government to start screening categories of speech, because it could be speech that we went to have heard," he said. "Which is the greater danger?" Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox group, however, is di '••''•• in favor of the 001 religious groups i» <KIU sionally" uae public school property for activities after school hours, according to Davi<l Zwiebel, the organisation's legal counsel. The court's decision will have "very, very broad spplicatipns in our commu
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Yeshivas often want Jo rent out public school space for their graduations, athletic recreation, Chanukah plays or rallies, he said. Or a synagogue, if it needed to use other space temporarily, mi^t want to rent out a school gymnasium. "All of these ought to be controlled by what the Supreme Court agrees in this case," he said. The Supreme Court also agreed to consider a case called Zobrest vs. Catalina Foothills School District, in which a deaf student at a Catholic school is claiming the right to a sign-language interpreter paid for by the school district.. Lower courts ruled that if the Arizona school district provided tlie student with an interpreter in parochial school, it would
create a "symbolic union'^ between church and state. The- case gives the Supreme Court a chance to reconsider its approach to the constitutional barriers between the government and religious expression. Hie court decided not to hear another case followed by Jewish groups, New York State School Boards Association vs. Sobol, which raised the question of whether mandated religious representation on a public school committee breaches the church- state barrier. A regulation requiring schools to include representatives of religious organizations on school AIDS advisory councils was upheld by the New York State Court of Appeals.
Letters to the editor To the Editor: The interviews in the Rosh Hashanah issue were in teresUng and highlighted many positive aspects oT Ut lives of the young adults of our community. In some in terviews, however, there were oominenta concernini marriage to non-Jews. Statementa were made indicatering that if one were to marry a non-Jew, then that per son could Just convert. 'Vhi* UMOM oonoema ma greatly. Conversion is an tensely personal decision. It is not done for somooni elie or because one is requested to convert; it is doni for oneeelf. For » > < to be genuine, the persoi must make • com' (lod. It is a true change)of^ the person. Anyone w ralon is essy or who thinks it can bv nothvr person, needs to examine their Juwuiii ruutu and remember value* of our hlth. ' 'lagetoro' ..Ip ni'
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When Bad Hurricanes Happen to Good People By Linda Brockman, siutt writer, Mtaml Tribune
Pictured from Teft are Sheri Abramson, Sandi Fried and Sandy Lehr. velt Universities; she also unique view of the AmerBy Jill Belmont lectures at, the Dawn ican political process and Women'! Division Publicity Schuman Institute for- Jewish issues." She added that while An event for young Jewish Learning, and Jewish singles and cou- serves as a political com- there will be no solicitaples featuring nationally mentator/producer for tion of funds during the evening, "1 want people to known speiaker Dr. Ellen. National Public Radio. Her topics of discussion come together and really Cannon is expected to draw more than 100 peo- during the dinner meet- hear why it's important to ple, according to Sandi ing will include "Amer- give to the Federation Fried, chairwoman of the ican Jewry Faping the and what the Federation 1993 UJA/Federation 1992 Election," and is all about." "All Jewish singles and Campaign's Young Wo- "Changing United States/ men's Division. The Oct- Israel Relations: Are We couples, ages 35 and ober 29 event, held at Prepared?," Ms. Fried under, are invited to attend," Ms. Fried said. LaStrada '72, 3125 South said. The evening will begin "Dr. Cannon is a dyna72 Street, is sponsored by the Women's Division of mic speaker with excep- at 6:30 p.m. with a cash the Jewish Federation of tional inaight into the bar; dinner will be served Omaha. Sandy and John Middle East conflict and at 7:00 p.m. Cost is $14 Lehr and Sheri and Mike the future of Israel," she per person and reservaAbramson are chairmen noted. "Her research tions may be made by studies on the Holocaust, October 19 to Jan Perelo£the events Dr. Cannon is a politi- politics and religion have man, Women's Division cal science professor at received national recogfii- director, at 334-8200, Ext. Northeastern and Roose- tion, and she will offer a 274.
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Don't blame God for the devastation Hurricane Andrew brought to Miami, said Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People: God created nature, but nature punishes both the deserving and the undeserving. "When God created the natural world, he made it beautiful, but he didn't give nature the ability that he gave to human beings the ability to khow right from wrong," said Kushner, who will visit South Florida next month. The same principle applies to tragedies such as plane craslxes, earthquakes and fatal diseases, he said. "Like any disaster, (the hurricane's destruction] was totally arbitrary." Kushner is rabbi laureate at Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., where he served for 24 years. His other books include When ' Children Ask About God; Who, Needs God? and When All You've Evpr Wanted Isn't Enough. His best-known book. When Bad Things Happen to Good People, was pub-
lished in 1981 and has been translated into 12 languages. Kushner watched hurricane Coverage on TV, and heard one victim rationalize the experience as a lesson from God. The woman, who had lost her home and most of her possessions to the hurricane, translated her tragedy as a sign to be less mateiialistic. Kushner disagreed. He believes that if a lesson comes from the ordeal, fine, but that God had no such intention. *rhe hurricane was not in God's lesson plan. And it isn't necessary to draw any conclusion from it. God did not give us the hurricane, but he did give us the courage, fortitude and commitment to rebuild and not to be discouraged." Kushner also heard the hurricane referred to as "an act of God." When bad things happen to good people, they ask why CJod is test' ing them. When family members die, they ask how God could do this. "The death of a good person is tragic," Kushner explained. "There ia no need to minimize that by trying
to rationalize the reason for death. If you make excuses for why a person died, it is emotionally dishonest. Then you are not facing up to the tragic dimension-of the loss." Wlien Kushner and his wife were caring for a sick child, he found friends and relatives trying to make sense of it as if the child's illness had some purpose or reason. "If you try to defend God rather than comfort human beings, you are making a mistake." Kushner contends that "God has limited power. Whatever happens, that won't suspend the laws of nature." He cited a passage in the Torah'which proves that nature doesnt follow justice: if a person stole a seed and planted it, it shouldn't grow. But it will, because nature i's morally blind, he said. Kushner will speak at Temple Israel of Greater Miami, in honor of the synagogue's 70th anniversary. He will present his original subject; What Will I Do with the Rest of my Life? about the benefits of maturity and long Ufe.
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Nearly 100 men, women and children participated in Beth Israel's first annual Tashllch picnic recently. In addition to "casting their sins upon the water" at Mahoney State Park, the picnickers played baseball, roller skated and lunched on barbecued hot dogs and hamburgers. From left, Dr. Lionel Wolberger introduces his daughter Roslyn to Rifka, daughter of Cantor David Taub.
Artza trip for teens Artza will sponsor a trip to Israel next sum- • mer for 25 Jewish high school students from Omaha. • The trip, sponsored by the Jewish Community Center, will be July 19 to August 9. Interested teens should attend meetings at 2 p.,m. on Oct. 18 - and at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 26, both at the JCC. Dana Erman, a senior at Burke High School, went on a previous Artza trip. She said she learned that in Israel, "TTie people
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A New York synagogue youth director will discuss AIDS awareness with Jewish youth and adult groups Oct. 22 to 26. The sessions are sponsored by Beth El Synagogue and the Esther K. Newman Fund. Lecturer Noreen Halpern, of Temple Beth El in Rochester, N.Y., also a field worker for United Synagogue Youth, has spoken on a variety of topics, including intermarriage, conversion, and AIDS. In 1991, she participated in a workshop at Cornell University called "Talking to Kids about AIDS." Ms. Halpern will present the following sessions at Beth El Synagogue: •7:30 p.m. Thursday. Oct. 20. for Beth El and USY teens; 10:15 a.m. Saturday. Oct. "24 for Beth El Youth grades 4 to 7; , -10 am: Sunday, Oct. 25. for Beth El members: ip.m. Sunday. Oct. 25 for parents of grades K to 3 students. She will speak to students at the Friedfl .I.wish Academy on Monday, Oct. 26.
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ergarten. He studied at the yeshiva through eighth grade before shifting into secular schools. At Cornell University, he studied physics and music and even achieved campus fame playing keyboards in a popular rock band. But his heart belongs to Judaism. "When I was 13 1 became very religious," he said. "Almost completely orthodox. 1 refused to go to my family's conservative shul and would walk a whole mile to the orthodox one." He said he feels drawn toward the "old-world" elements of Judaism, and ei\joys the Jewish music of older times. Mr. Wolberger's current job with the Bureau of Jewish Education is his first fuH-time teaching job. Before arriving here, he served as musical director at a yeshiva in Connecticut for six years, and he also taught Hebrew school there. Many of the melodies Mr. Wolberger uses to teach prayer were compiled onto tapes for him by old-time orthodox rabbis he met in Jerusalem
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Jewish traditionalist Lionel Wolberger hopes to teach students a love of Judaism. in 1990, when he and his wife, Karen, were living in Israel. Mr. Wolberger's own extended family includes many religious and knowledgeable Jews, he said. He has relatives in Mea Shearim, the ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. His maternal grandfather and an uncle were both rabbis there. "There are a lot of resources in my family," Mr. Wolberger said. "1 can visit my aunt in Jerusalem and ask, 'What kinds of songs did my
UCHAIM L'Chaim To Life, the widowed support group of Temple Israel, will hold a brown-bag picnic at Mahoney State Park>on Oct. 25. Carpools -will leave from the parking lot at Temple at 10:45 a.m. To reserve a spot or offer to drive, call Marcy Gallner (393-6775). The picnic will be canceled in the event of rain.
grandfather sing?' And she'll' sing them and play them for me," he said. Two months into his first living experience in the Midwest, Mr. Wolberger said he's enjoying the "quiet" and "slower pace," and said he and Karen are looking for a house for their family, which includes Roslyn, 10 months. Mr. Wolberger is also looking for other musicians who play Jewish music or even Klezmer, and who want to perform.
Bridesmaids were Julie Ablon of Chicago, Staci Kahn of St. Louis, Melanie Schenck of Phoenix, Lisa Edheimer of New York and Lori Edheimer of Cincinnati. The bride was graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is office manager at Bob Meyer and Associates. "The groom was graduated from Ohio State University and is an account executive at ATICO, Ltd. After a honeymoon to Paris end the Greek Islands, the newlyweds will live in Chicago. JOFFE/SIEQEL Andrea Joffe and Michael Siegel were married Oct. 10 at Beth El Synagogue. Rabbi Paul Drazen performed the ceremony. Andrea is the daughter of Arnold and Sheryn Joffe of'Omaha. Michael is the son of Stephen and Anne Siegel of New York. Andrea's sister, Suzanne, served as maid of honor. Michael's brother, Richard, served as best man. After a honeymoon in Hawaii, the couple will live in Massapequa, N.Y.
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Ruth and Yohanan Peltz not agree with Britain's tire treads tied with policy towards Palestine, string." "My own shoes were too Mr. Peltz said he served in the British Army because big for him. I got him a Hitler occupied Europe pair of British officer issue and threatened the lives of shoes." When Mr. Peltz was in Jews. "It was the least a per- the desert, several times son could do," Mr. Peltz he and other young officers said. "I had to fight. The met with a group of young British were the lesser women to dance. The future Mr. and Mrs. Peltz evil." At first he was a compa- were at the same party ny commander of a platoon once, but it wasn't until of Jewish soldiers. Later, four years later that they as a major, he, "Played met. He was taking her girl hide and seek with Rommel in the desert," Mr. friend out for a treat of strawberries and cream Peltz said. He served in Italy in and the girl friend asked 1942 and 1943. There he Mrs. Peltz to join them. Mr. Peltz says of his began to hear a few rijmors about what was hap- wife, "I asked if anyone pening to European Jews. wanted seconds. I didn't "It WEisn't until early 1945 really think anyone would when I met survivors of take me up on it Well, she Che camps that I realized took seconds. '1 figured if 1 had that what had been going on," much invested, I couldn't he said. According to Mr. Peltz, lose track of her." Mr. Peltz's career has he helped operate an illegal camp for Jewish been diverse since he left -refugees. "Many times it the service. As an engineer was with the help of he was plant manager for the Dead Sea Works. He British soldiers," he said. At one camp he found a built a conveyer belt at 15-year-old boy on the Zefa that carries potash to edge of starvation. "I asked' the railway 15 miles away. He moved his family to him what I could do for him and he said he wanted Australia when he went a pair of shoes. I looked at there to build a solar-enerhis feet. He wore pieces of gy system. "It is a beautiful country," he said, "but we couldn^ stay." One day the Pelties' daughter, Tamar, came home and said she was going to play the Virgin Mary in the Christmas play. Mr. Peltz quickly called the school principal. "Don't you know we're Jewish?" he asked. "Yes, but she's the only one who speaks Hebrew and comes from the right country," the principal replied. Mr. Peltz looked at his wife and said, "Let's go liome." The Peltxes now reside in Savyon, Israel. Mrs. Peltz Your Halloween Headquartefsll works with people planning for retirement and Mr. 120th & Dodge • 493-5110 Peltz ei\joys his grandchilHallow*«n fioui: dren. Their son, Avi Peltz, Mon-Sav. 9a«Tv 10pm. Son:11am-6pm is an engineer with Pi'tj»r Klewtt Company.
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Passover Pops possible with Omaha Symphony By Jo Carroll Bruce Hangen, artistic director and principal conductor of the Omaha Symphony sees a bright future for the Jewish community with . the Omaha Symphony. Mr. Hangen, who is in his ninth year with the Symphony, said in an interview there is a possibility of having a concert devoted entirely to Jewish music. "We have a Christmas concert each year," he said. "Why not a Passover Pops?" He said, presenting Jewish music sometimes presented a problem. "It is a challenge because most of the western European music was written in a Christian style. There are, however, products of the 20th Century that work quite Bruce Hangen nicely. Bernstein, Copeland and other lessor came a serieb' of chamber ing what not to do than what to do." knpwn artists' works are music at Temple Israel." He said he was pleased Mr. Hangen said the excellent." "Cantor Max Nealo- Temple atmosphere was that the Omaha Symvany is dynamite. It just right. "This was how phony, on it main concert would be nice to have him chamber music was made series, had been able to to be played. It is far stick to a, program of here." When the Symphony more intimate. The musi- Thursday and Saturdays played the Jewish related cians should almost know to accommodate the music of Ernst Bloch She- the people they are per- Jewish Comhiunity. Mr. Hangen initiated loma, Mr. Hangen said, forming for." Mr. Hangen also spoke the Magic Carpet pro"We brought in Yehuda Hanani, a cello player of wanting to do inter- gram for children which faith concerts and multi utilizes the Jewish Comfrom Baltimore. "Mr. Hanani and 1 had culture concerts, includ- munity Center as one of dinner afterwards with ing Native American and its sites. A program for Rabbi Azriel. We came up African American. "^Iiere school children it emphawith the idea of 'Close is never enough time," he sizes a hands on approach Encounters' which be- said. "It's more of decid- to learning about music.
Fahey Speaks Democnitic view preMnted to TBS Representatives of the Democratic Party met with members of the Young Energetic Seniors (YES) to present their positions on issues concerning the Presidential elections. John Fahey, Douglas County chairnian of the Democratic Party, told YES members that the Clinton Gore ticket supported loan guarantees in Israel. "We do not think loans to Israel should be mixed with other poli'.ical aspects, such as housing on the West Bank." AfTordsble medical care is of prime importance, Mr. Fahey said. The cost of medical cnre hae tripled in 12 years. Gov. Clinton will find some way to deal with it." He pointed out that the state of the economy is on everyone's minds, both voong and old.
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Mitzvah Garden: Before and After
Restore ties relations with Israel, which were severed ^)y the Sandinistas in 1979, WASHINGTON (JTA) of symbolic importance. — With toasts of "L'chay"Nearly 50 years ago, im" and "Saiud," Israel Israel was created after and Nicaragua re-estab- much civil strife. We in lished full diplomatic re- Nicaragua are trying to lations when the coun- create a democratic socitries' ambassadors here ety after much civil signed an agreement end- strife," Palacio said. ing years of non-recogni"We will look to Israel tion undei' Nicaragua's for strong democratic valSandinista regime. ues because it is only "Democracy is not just through democracy that an expression of an idea we can heal the wounds of in Israel, it is a fact of Nicaragua." life," Israeli Ambassador The Central American Zalman Shoval said dur- country is the 25th nation . ing a brief ceremony at to establish diplomatic rethe Israeli Embassy here. lations with Israel in the "As long as Israel is last two year,8. Russia, surrounded by non-Jemo- China and India have all cratic countries, peace" recognized Israel since will not be a complete 1990. According to the Israeli guaranteed matter," he Embassy, Guyana is the said. Nicaraguan Ambass- only other Latin Amerador Ernesto Palacio ican country with no forcalled the restoration of malities with Israel.
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students in Temple Israel's religious school planted a garden last spring and harvested it last month. Produce raised in the garden was donated to organizations that help feed hungry people in Omaha. Pictured at left are Teacher Marlen Frost and her second-graders planting secids. At right, student EmUy Caulfield picks ears of com fW>m a stalk.
Israel without headlines AIFA — The headlines don't always tell the [• whole story. There's another Israel as well, an Israel of human interest, of anecdotes, of the unusual and the unexpected. Even trivia can reflect an important aide of life in the country. For example: Rabbinical Success. Rabbi Yitzhak Kadoori, 100-year old Kabbalist and head of a Jeruoalem yeshiva, flew to Eilat to use his Kabbalistic; powers to avert an earthquake there. He was g^ven a tumultuous welcome at Eilat airport. The earthquake did not take place. . Mama's Cooking-too. A Jerusalem monthly lists
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Sukkot: the journey and the destination and exclusion, if not de- grounds that the Jewish rampant. Then the outstruction, of others. The role as the wandering, sider iq repressed; the one political, cruel form is the prophetic people will be who differs is demeaned. The best corrective to totalitarian society. Dic- lost. But Sukkot's message pathological rootedness is tatorships, self-protectively, restrict people's travel contradicts this either/or. the ability to move. abroad and stop outsiders This holiday is also Chag People who travel discovfrom coming in contact Ha-Asif — the harvest er the variety of the world with their own citizens, holiday. The central ritu- and learn the limits of lest new ideas undermine al act is to wave four eiach land is culture. The fruits in gratitude for the critic and the prophet the. status quo. To be a Jew one must productivity of the land. shake the establishment be an outsider, one who ' Sukkot — like the bik- and restore justice. But mobility can turn moves". The first Jew, kurim (first fruit) offering Abraham, was instructed — is a celebration not into rootlessness. A "go forth from your land, only of the Exodus but drifter has no time for your birthplace, your fa- that "I am come into the family or attachments. ther's house..." (Genesis land which the Lord The outsider may become 12,1). The Jews' ability to promised our fathers to the relentless critic. travel everywhere en- give us" (Deuteronomy, When dissatisfaction turns into anger, hatred abled them to recognize 28,3). In fact, when the of the status quo blots out the one universal God who was not futed in one Israelites entered Israel, the value of being at place. They overthrew the each family was given a home. Their goal is to idols of space and freed piece of land as family in- clear the way for a better religion from the bonds of heritance to insure its wold but revolutionaries one place or one tribe. dignity and indepen- often stop at the destrucThey opened access to dence. If the family strug- tion stage — because they God and dignity to every gled and lost its land, no longer know how to apkind of person, every- then every fiftieth year, it preciate and participate was made whole — "in in what is. where. Ideally, people should Moving enabled Jewry this jubilee'year, every to survive. Everywhere man shall return to his combine need for roots they went, Jew^s served as family holding" (Leviti- with the ability to move. innovators. As cultural cus, 25,13). Reaching for a Society is healthiest when .intermediaries, they symbol that all will be critics appreciate what is brought Greek culture well with the world, the good about the society — and Arabic mathematics prophet predicted that in while the rulers listen to to Christian Europe. As the messianic age every the prophets. Sometimes business pioneers, they man will "sit ... under his leaving home is heroic; linked the Far East to the vine and under his fig sometimes, staying home The , tree" in contentment and is heroic. West. Abraham was told "go In modern times, as safety (Micah 4,4). So which is it? Which forth from your land ... to Max Weber pointed out, New Expanded Hours deracinated Jews have gives freedom and dignity a land that I will show Monday through Friday been cultural revolution- — landedness or mobili- you." We journey to free10a:m. to 9 p.m. aries — Spinoza, Marx, ty? Which is the spiritual- dom — which consists of Saturday Freud. Freed of excessive ly preferred role — the the right to be at home. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. intellectual investment in critical outsider or the ap- And whatever mode we Sunday the conventional wisdom, preciative insider? The are in — settling or wanNoon to 5 p.m. they used their outsider Jewish ariswer is both; it dering — how we do it is Regency Court 392-2877 status to give them a dif- all depends on where and crudal. Embrace the contradicferent perspective. Their how. With healthy rooted- tions of existence, learn resultant insights liberated and/or transformed the ness, people become at- from the insider and the tached to a place linked to outsider, let them fructify world. Therefore, people like their distinctive memo- each other. Critique and the late Leslie Fiedler, ar- ries. Neighborhoods relativize; thereby learn gued that the essence of whose inhabitants feel to properly treasure both Jewishness and the only rooted have less crime what is and what could legitimate Jewish role is and more mutual help. be. The journey and the to be the rootless outsider Public spaces and projects destination, the given and whose prophetic critique . are overrun with crime the yet to be discovered — shakes the status quo and and social pathology that is the Jewish'way liberates people. In this when they lose their qual- which we celebrate on view, Jews who join ity of being someone's SukVn* Class** ars Conservative movements, turf. starting right now. (lr\nng yufinitir^ id But ther^ is also pathoor uphold the status quo, Call 402-348-3596 have lost their soul. logical rootedness. Ex- prtiident of CLAL - The George Steiner, the bril- cessive attachment National Jewiih Center liant and influential breeds Idolatry. People for Learning and LeadJewish intellectual, will stop at nothing to ership and author of The opposes Zionism and pie possess the land; greed, Jewiih Way' (New York: State of Israel on the tribalism, racism become Summit book»).
ly Irving Greenberg The holiday of Sukkot is a classic expression of the holistic, inclusive, non-dichotomized Jewish embrace of life's contradictories. Sukkot yokes together mobility and rootedness, insider and outsider status. Sukkot celebrates the journey to freedom, the 40-year trek to the Promised Land of the Jewish people. The sukkah represents the portable booths that Jews perfoi-ce lived in during this long march. On Sukkot, one must move out of the yearround permanent house and live in the mobile home.-Sukkot critiques the fixed and the rooted. The fixed represents the conventionality of the homogenized society, the imperviousness to change of that which is established. The provincialism of those who have never been beyond the borders of the small town or the ghetto is notorious. The religious evil form of excessive fixedness is idolatry — the gods of space. Absolutizing local deities leads to tribalism
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Emily Fine Emily Beth Fine will become a Bat Mitzvah on Oct. 17 at Temple Israel. She is the daughter of Sara and Robert Fine. Emily is a seventh grader taking honors classes at Beveridge Junior High School. She enjoys sports, including basketball, Softball, soccer and tennis. She plays on the school soccer team. Her other interests are reading and babysitting. Emily has a younger sister, Allison. Grandparents are Esther and Lester Waxman.
Klutznick scholar to speak at Temple In addition to the international festivities saluting the discovery of America, 1992 also marks the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. As Columbus' ships left the ports of Spain in route to the New World, they crossed paths with yet another fleet — Jews forced into exile by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. This quincentennial is a year of commemoration of those who perished, as well as a celebration of the surviving heritage ,that' flourishes today around the w6rld. Ellen Flesch will speak at Temple Israel on Oct. 23 at the 8:15 worship service on "The Sephardim: A Rich Legacy of Art, Culture and Folklore." A slide presentation will serve as a window on the Sephardic experience, bringing to life the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry, the old Jewish neighborhoods and surviving synagogues of Spain. She will also focus on the unique customs and cultural traditions of the Sephardic Jews. Ms. Flesch will be a speaker at the fifth annual Klutinlck Symposium.
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Welcome new members To welcome new congregants, Temple Israel's Caring Committee now delivers gifts of challah, wine and Shabbat candles to new members. l^e committee this month also delivered Rosh Hashana-packages of apple chips, honey and honeycake to 13 newly-settled Jewish families and 197 senior citizens in residential care facilities.
Pictured above at left is new member Mildred Wine, pictured with her welcome gift. At right, Sally Zipursky and Carol Rofftnan prepare Rosh Hashana gifts to b(e delivered. The Caring Committee also sponsored a Shabbat service at Remington Heights Oct 9. The service was conducted by Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Fink, Cantor Webber-GUat and the Temple Youth Group.
Flanagan's Dream - a review Broadway composer Barry Keating wrote the History was portrayed music and lyrics for the and possibly also made story of Father Flanthis month when the mu- agan's dream of creating sical, 'Flanagan's a home for boys. As Omahans, we viewDream," premiered at ers are hooked from the ' Boys Town Music Hall. The play was written as beginning by such rousa master's thesis by ing ensemble numbers as Edwin "Hersh" Rosasky. "Omaha, 1917" and The Big O on the Mo" and references to the Milder family donating a piano and a Jewish resident Wc have nannies lo liVe named Joe, who recites at home with your chilthe bracha before the dren as well as your meal. Talented Nicholas older adults, or nannies available to go along on Fuller, who plays Joe, your holiday. House and also leads the cast in pel sitting also available. singing "Every Day is Hanukkah" during the For References "Every Day is Call Mrs. Swain song Christmas." 397-4556 Though the play is set in 1917, the problems it depicts — homelessness, fiCatft Believe IVt^ abused and neglected children, organized crime, women's rights and priests' chastity — still j COME TRY j exist today. The show does not I OUR I preach. Rather, it uses I COOLTOPPERl I puns, comedy and a variety of musie and dance I 7B12 W. Oodfll Rll. I styles to tell the story of I 393-USO I Boys Town. Appearing in the show are an Irish jig, the can-can, ballads, a barbershop quartet, and even a lullaby. The crowd (.Atir/Kirti • 7i\i/i/;i/ loved the dancing of Chicago Townsley. i!Uti/mfr. \e/i> ./(/till/ Playing a most believI. '^i/i/c. fittc/t-1 . (l able Father Flanagan, actor John Morrissey raQinnoMadoni diates holiness. His bal11020 Prairie Brook Kd lad "Help Me God" is esV).V6<i<.l pecially poignant. ProRockbronk CoMrr feisional stage actress TalrfcUnni Delaney Drlicoll shows CMtulttlliMii AniiUMc her wide range of talent By Lynda Frank
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in the role of Clara, a prostitute who loves Father Flanagan. The entire cast was creditable and the songs and music flowed together well. Some of the livelier numbers, however, were so fast-paced that it was hard to catch every great phrase. This was most evident in "The Sisters' Song,"-which tells the story of Father Flanagan's early life. The "Godspeir-like finale leaves the audience in an uplifted mood and imparts the message, "The power to change the worW is yours." Rodasky and Keating have combined their talents to create a show that, in this time of family-values talk, certainly merits a Broadway run, which is precisely the writers' dream. The play runs at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow. Tickets are $15 and are available at Hy-Vee stores.
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Bob Devaney will speak to B'nal B'rith
By Bert Lewis
Henry Motisky Lodge B'nai B'rith is involved in a community-wide membership campaign and will sponsor a kick-off on Oct. 28 at Scorecard, 636 N. 114. According to Ed Joseph, membership chairman, dinner will be served at the 6:30 p.m. event. Bob Devaney, athletic director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will speak. Coach Devaney's career has spanned more than seven decades. At Nebraska, he has received numerous honors including coach of the year recognition from the Touchdown Club of Washington, the Football Writers Association of America, the Walter Camp Football Association, and by the Helms United Savings Corporation. Prospective members—men and women—are invited to be guests of the lodge as well as all B'nai B'rith members. There is no charge for the evening. For information, call Mr. Joseph, at 498-2845 or Uie B'nai B'rith office.
There probably ian't a holiday memory we haven't shared in this space, but at this time on the Jewish calendar I can't resist talking about Zada's sukkah. It was a proper sukkah, attached to the house just like it was "supposed" to be. Zada always had a helper of some sort, a big guy who could lift and schlep and climb; Zada was a short Uttle Jew and climbing ladders wasn't in HIS job description. Anyway, there would be certain preparations such as acquiring the exactly specified materials, assembling everything at the job site, a lot of pointing and gesturing and voila! A sukkah would appear. For my brother and I, who were the only little kids in the family at the time Tm recalling, it was magic. Here was this great enclosure, complete with a table and chairs, and this was where Zada would take his meals during the holiday. We always begged and pleaded to be allowed to "eat with Zada", and there was always a problem. Usually it was the weather, because no matter how beautiful it had been prior to Sukkot, rain and cold would suddenly appear. And my mom was strict about where HER kids should be when it came to inclement weather. In those by-gone days we didn't decorate as we do today...I don't remember decorative fruit and vegatables hanging artistically from those (seemingly) high branches. I just remember Zada, sitting at that old wooden table, his cheeks pink and hie mood festive as he ate. I remember keeping him company (in my coat) and refusing to admit to feeling cold. Thinking about it all now, I wish I could remember more. The bits and pieces are fragments of precious memories. Among those dear recollections is one I know I'll keep forever. It has to do with the lulav and etrog and the ritual which was part of Sukkot. My dear father, blessed be his memory, always had his own specially ordered lulav and etrog (we called it an essrig back then), and he used them daily. No matter how grown up 1 got, he'd call the and say "come on over and bench." I was a grandmother already when one time, not many years ago, as we began the ritual I reminded him I couldn't read the Hebrew. He handed me the etrog and lulav, stood very close so he could coVer each of my hands with one of his own, and spoke the words so I could repeat them. Long after I've forgotten many other things, I'll remember Dad and 1, benching together. I wouldn't trade thatmemory for all the riches in the
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Top left: Sheldon Kushner places a record on a Victrola in the lobby of the Jewish Community Center. It is part of an exhibit entitled Memories of Jewish North 24th Street. The exhibit is sponeored by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society. Top right: Josh Simon, son of Steven and Marsh Simon ^ and Rachael Gordon, daughter of Bruce and Sandy Gordon, enjoy wicker play things from the display in the Jewish Community Center enti: tied Memories of Jewish 24th Street. The exhibit, sponsored by the Jewish Nebraska Historical Society, will be on view until Oct. 30. Uottom right: Nate Shukert finds the spot on the pew where he used to sit as a child. Pews from Beth Hamedrosh and Adas Yeshurun Synagogues are on display in the Jewish Community Center until October 30. They are part of an exihibit by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society entitled Memories of Jewish 24th Street. Bottom left: A Ford truck donated by Carl Jarl is on display in the lobby of the Jewish Community Center until Oct. 30. The truck is part of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society exhibit entitled Memories of Jewish 24th Street.
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