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Masorti bans driving to Shul on Shabba By David Landau
Dozens of preschoolers learned about Sukkot last week in a singalong led by Susie Drazen, Judaic music instructor at the Jewish Community Center's Child Development Center (CDC). Drazen brought a lulav and etrog to "•how and tell," and also explained why Jews build Sukkahs during the harvest holiday. Other adults pictured above are Dinah Raful, CDC director (center) and Belinda Collins, a CDC teacher, right.
Jews among winners of Nobel prizes By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) — tYofe^sor Rudolph Marcus of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has been named the , 1992 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. The Canadian-born Marcuit was apparently attending a meeting in Toronto and could not be immediately reached by his oflflce. However, he was lauded by colleagues as a 'brilliant theorist and a very nice man.' ProfMSor Samuel Epstein, a coliMgua and friend for four decades, described Marcus •• 'very Jewish," though more in the cultural than religious sense. Irving Bc'ii >seirac« wrtler on Nobel laurialt^^, aiiul he bnlioviia another of th> N<.i en"
standing of how the body regulates cellular activity. In recognizing the 69year-old Marcus for the $1.2 million chemistry prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited his 'contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems." It praised Marcus for finding "simple mathematical expressions for how the energy of a moleculsr system is affected by changiM in the structure of nwcting molectiles and their nearest, neighbors." M^arcus was awarded Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize two years ago and is widely known in the Uraeli scientific communi• lid Professor Harry snuther ooUeagu*. "1 think the Isrselis saw what was coming bv Wol'f
JERUSALEM (JTA) — In a departure from the longstanding policy of Conservative Judaism, the rabbis of Israel's affiliated Masorti movement have issued a religious ruling prohibiting travel to synagogue by car on Shabbat. The decision by the Halacha (Jewish Law) Committee of Israel's Rabbinical Assembly means that membeirs of Masorti synagogues, as the Conservative movement is known here, are prohibited from doing something that Conservative Jews everywhere else are permitted to do. Until the Halacha Committee's decision was published, the entire Conservative movement was governed by a 1950 ruling of the New York-based Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, which stated that automobile travel is allowed if the distance between home and synagogue is too far to walk.
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The 1950 ruling permits driving only to and from synagogue,, wit^iout stopping for any other purpose. The Israeli Halacha Committee, in its ruling, stated that many people hqve come to mistakenly believe that driving on Shabbat is permitted for any purpose. "In the State of Israel, no one works on the Sabbath. Every Israeli can open a siddur (prayerbook) and pray, and there is sure to be a synagogue in his locality,'' stated the Israeli decision. The question of whether rulings made by the New York-based law committee are binding on Israel's Conservative Jews, or whether the Masorti movement is free to come to its own conclusions has yet to be worked out, according to Rabbi Kassel Abelson, chairman of the New York committee. The (Conservative movement's law committee has no policy on it," he said in New York. "It has come up as an issue in principle
but not in fact before." The nature of the relationship is "being tslked through now, and with this psak (halachic ruling) will have to be discussed even further," he said. But he made clear that "the impact of the Masorti movement's psak is limited to the Masorti Jews of Israel." The three members of the Masorti Halscha Committee who issued the ruling included its chairman, Rabbi David Ckilinkin. According to the niling, driving is prohibited on Shabbat because igniting a fire, as when an engine is turned on, is a transgression specified in the Tprah itself And in case the car breaks down en route, the driver is likely to try to fix it and breach other prohibitions. In addition, according to the ruling, Talmudic sources say that leaving one's own city is forbidden on Shabbat. And the car's driver would be com-
pelled to take ale ^ wallet and money, ^ i is prohibited under ish law, as is buying < thing, including gasc , '.' The ruling also Siui-to that permission to drive to synagogue is likely to be interpreted by Masorti Jews as permission to drive anywhere on Shabbat, and that driving Can create stress and tension, which are not conducive to the Sabbath spirit. Praying in synagogue after driving there, the ruling concludes, is a mitzvah that comes from a transgression. The rabbinic decree was issued in response to a question submitted by a Masorti family in Petach Tikvah. They asked if they could drive since there is rto Masorti synagogue in their area and they feel uncomfortable in the local Orthodox synagogues, where men and women are treated unequally. (Contributing to this report wak JTA staff writfr Debra Nussbaum Cohen in New York.)
Yad Vashem unveils community memorial
Viewed from above, the ish comn\unily in that reJERUSALEM (JTA) — For 10 years, architects, monument resembles the gion, with smaljer comhistorians and builders map of pre-World War II munities written on the NEW YORK (JTA) — have toiled to create a Europe. On ground level, aide. Gen. Mohamed Farah Holocaust mpnument that the towering walls form a In the courtyard desigAideed, chairman of the would both commemorate aeries of courtyards, one nated for Greece, for exSomali National Alliance, the dead and educate the for each country in which ample, the left side of the has accepted an offer .of living. Jews were persecuted. wall bears the name aid for starving and Just a few steps fnto' Thessaloniki (Salonika). Next week, the Yad homeless refugees from once the largest Jewish Israeli philanthropist Vashem memorial and the labyrinthine structure, the visitor is drawn community in that counmuseum will inaugurate Abie Nathan and said he welcomes humanitarian the result of their labor: into a stark world of stone try. Athens, which had a Liaaid from Israel and its the Valley of the De- and rock, with just a smaller Jewish popula touch of greenery 20 feet tion, is listed on the rigl non-governmental organi- stroyed Communities. Situated in a rocky above. The eye is immedi- aldng with other Gre< zations. Aideed also invited wooded area on Y«d Va- atdy drawn to the walls, towns and villages whi Nathan and representa- shem's Mount of Remem- etched in Hebrew and Jews perished. tives of his Voice of Peace brance, the huge monu- English with the names About 90 percent organization to visit So- liient commemorates the of 5,000 devastated cqm Greece's Jews died durii malia to discuss the es* Jewish.communities of munities. the Holocaust. tablishment of refugee Europe and North Africa Every wall bears the camps there. destroyed or damaged by name of the largest JewResponding to a letter ' from Nathan, Osroan thi»Nazia. "Some 20,000 Jewish Hassan Ali, adviser to the general, wrote that the communities in Europe "Somali National Alllancif) alone were destroyed has requested (the) Inter- alongside the 6 million," national community for explained Yitzhak Arad, help to contain and reha- chairman of Yad Vashem. Tom Fellinan and Phil Schrager, general cu-cii This valley will combilitate the displaced peomen of the 199.3 UJA/Federation Campaign, ple in So—••'••• "'id Israel memorate all the communounced that Ethiopian and East Euro)>< and til ;overn- nities in which ut least grants who have retiuttlvd in larael mental .-h" •"• 'TC 100 Jews celebrated JewOmaha on '^ ia(ia«il equ u- ish life, religion and culdinner T^ heartedly iit... ^.tr- . ture. licipate in this vital proThe valley symbolizes a By Susan Birnbaum
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Deaths came regional, director of City of Hope, and moved to Scottsdale in 1983. Mrs. Rosen was also an artist, writer and lecturer. She was .a thember of the Omaha Press Club. REBECCA FRIEDMAN
Services were held at Beth Israel Synagogue for Rebecca Friedman. She was 91. -Mrs. Friedman was preceded in death by her husband, Louis, and a son, Ike.
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Modern art paintings from the collection of Phil Schrager are the focus of Bn exhibit now open at the Fine Arts Building on the campus of the University of Nebraslia at Omaha. The show, called "Emerging New York Artists," highlights 13 paintings made by New York City artists between 19B1 and 1991. Mr. Schrager is pictured almve with one painting from the collection. Chairmen, captains and workers of the Men's Division of the Federation Campaign will view the exhibit Nov. 1. It's open to the public through Nov. 3
Noah Bee dies; JTA cartoonist ByTomTugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Noah Bee, longtime cartoonist for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and designer of the Jewish National Fund blue box and Israel's Tirst currency, died in Bethesda, Md. He was 76 years old and had been hospitalized with cancer. Bee lived in Encino, Calif. Burjal and shiva were to be held there. Bee had an intimate involvement with the Zion-, ist movement and the Jewish state from his
youthful days as a member of the Betar movement in Poland, as a citizen of Palestine and as an artist whose work was inextricably tied to the state of Israel. Bee chronicled Jewish history during some of its most tempestuous decades. In an interview earlier this year with JTA, he estimated he had created some 2,000 cartoons. But his contributions to the Jewish state went far beyond cartoons. In March of 1948, when Bee was living in New
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York; he received a puzzling phone call asking him to meet with Eliezer Hoflien; who was chairman of the Anglo-Palestine Bank (later Bank Leumi). The banker needed an artist to design a bond that the bank planned to float in the United States. A few months later, shortly after his daughter's birth. Bee received a congratulatory letter from his parents in the reborn ' Israel. Included in the envelope were two freshly minted Israeli pound notes, the Hrst official Jewish currency in 2,000 years. The design looked strangely familiar to Bee. It was the "bond" he had designed. Two years later, Bee was asked to do another design w)tich would also be of historical note. The familiar blue charity box, or pushke,. of the Jewish National Fund had been embellished from its beginning with a Magen David. Now that the Jewisli utale had been 'tablished. Mendel Fisher, longtime JNF executive director, decided that the blue box should display a map of Israel.
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Bette (Harris) Rosen, a native of Grand Island, graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs. She later became active in Hadassah and wi-ote and performed in many "Hadassah Spectaculars." She was also involved in B'nai B'rith Women. She founded a talent agency, Bette Rosen Enterprises. In 1960, she be-
By Michel Di Paz PARIS (JTA) — Four young supporters of a soccer club in Lyon have been arrested and charged with the desecration of the Jewish cemetery in that city last month. Of the four, two 20-year-olds and a minor were immediately jailed. Numerous gravestones in the old cemetery in the southeastern city were daubed with swastikas and graffiti such as "Heil Hitler," "Adolf Hitler our father" and "Adolf back to power" in the early morning hours of Sept. 13. The four told police in statements that they had gone out on a drinking spree in local bars. After an excessive number of beers, three of them climbed over the wall of the Jewish cemetery and desecrated some headstones, while the fourtli pasted a hostile slogan on the outside wall of the graveyard.
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EDITOR'S NOTE The following information was provided by the family of Bette Rosen, who died Sept. 25 in ScottsdaU, Ariz. This information was not available when the Jewish Press published an announcement earlier this month.
Survivors include a daughter, Dorothy, of Downey, Calif.; a son, Sol, of Omaha; sisters, Rose Blumkin, Ruth Lasher, and Ann Rosenblatt, all of Omaha; a brother, Meyer Gorelick of Los Angeles; nine grandchildren and 12 great-grand- children. Memorials may be made to the Rebecca Friedman Scholarship Fund, care of the Jewish Federation. ,
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T«ni|>l« Israel 7023 Cass Street Omaha, NE 68132 556-6636 FRIDAY: Shabbat evening-service 8; 15 p.m. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Fink and Cantor WebberGilat will officiate. Speaker will be Ellen Flesch whose topic will be "The Sephardim: A Rich Legacy of Art, Culture and Folklore." The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Judy and Jerry Marburg in honor of the upcoming marriage of Daniel Marburg and Debra Sohriber. SATURDAY: Shabbat morning service 11:15 a.m. Simcah B'Shabbat The congregation will study the Torah portion for the week.
TOT SHABBAT Friday, Oct.23, 7 p.m., a short service of song and prayer, followed by cookies and juice will be held for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners and their parents and grandparents.
SITTER SERVICE Sitter Service is available for the 8:15 p.m. Shabbat evening service. Please make a reservation 80 we may plan accordingly. There are no facilities for infants.
TWINTYSOMETHINQ Temple Israel's "twentysoraething" group of Jewish young people will meet Sunday, Oct. 25, 7 p.m. Recent Rnssian Jewish immigrants to Omaha, will discusa life in the former Soviet Union and their transition to America and its culture.- Following the discussion, everyone will go out to dinner (Dutch treat> at a restaurant. TOW Torah on Wheels (TOW) will be held Tuesday, Oct.27, from noon-l:15 p.m. at Broadmoor Development, 801 N. 96th Street. Reservations are required. Please phone the Temple office
Synagogue Activities
L'CHAIM Sunday. Oct. 25, 10:46 a.m., Tample Israel's widowed support group luM planiMd an outing at Mahoney State Park. Bring your own picnic lunch and meet In the Temple parking lot at 10.45 a.m. PIMM call Marcy OallD«r, 393-6" ike yourrMarvH' "\Hlog wUl b* cwKated in tha Mvnt of indamant weather ^DULT EDUCATION
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1602 No. 62nd Street Omaha, NE 68104 A66-6288 Office hours; MondayThursday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Mark Urkowitz and Cantor David Taub.
14506 California Omaha, NE 68164 492-8660 Office Hours: Monday through Thur8day-9 a.m.5 p.m. Friday-9 a.m.-4 p.m. Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits will conduct services.
FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat service at 6:10 p.m., family ' service at 8 p.m.' The Bat Mitzvah of Lauren Shane Paley, daughter of Dennis and Susan Paley, will be celebrated. The Oneg Shabbat following services, will be hosted by Mr. and Mrs, Paley. SATURDAY: Morning service, 8:45 a.m. in the Sanctuary and Goldstein Chapel. Jr. Congregation at 10 a.m. in the Recreation room. Sitter Service is provided by Sisterhood beginning at 10 a.m. Professor Jonathan Sarna, scholar-in-residence, will speak about 11 a.m. on The genesis of the Jews in the Americas, the Sephardic Experience." A Kiddush lunch, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Paley follows servicea. Class with Aabbi on this week's Torah portion follows Kiddush in the Goldstein Chapel. Talmud Class with Rabbi at 5:20 p.m. followed by Mincha at 6:10 p.m. Shales Seudos, Ma'ariv, and liavdalah conclude services. SUNDAY: Morning service, 9 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Morning service, 7 a.m. Evening service, 6:30 p.m. Each weekday evening between Mincha and Ma'ariv, we study Mishnayes. llie study sessions are led by Rabbi Urkowitz
FRIDAY: SeTvices at 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services at 9:30 a.m. Kiddush will follow. TSS (Torah Siddur Skills) begins at 10:15 a.m. . Sitter service at 10 a.m. Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services at 6:20 p.m. SUNDAY: Services at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
3219 Sheridan Blvd. Lincoln, NE 68602 423-8669 Minyans each Monday and Thursday at 7:15 a.m. FRIDAY: Services at 8 p.m. SATURDAY: Services at 9:30 a.m. Junior Congregation, 10:15 a.m.
Board meeting, Oct. 27 at 10 a.m., luncheon at 12:30 p.m.
JEWISH STUMBS Supplementary claMM in Jewish studies for students will continue each Wednesday at the JCC. Supper and Miahna studlea from 6 to 7:20 p.m. Instructor it Rabbi Urkowiu
BREAKFAST CLUB Sundays. th<> Brtmkfaat Clii' n unti
ing, brvakfasl, and Cbhumush and rashi at the synagogue. Instructor is Cantor Fettman
Tomcs Sundays, from 1 to 2 pin at the JCC. Topica of Interest for growing Young Jewi^t • ' Instructor
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B'nai Jeshurun 20th and South Streeto Lincoln, NE 68502 436-8004 FRIDAY: Sabbath evening service, 7:45 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning service and Torah study at 10 a.m. TUESDAY: Adult education at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY: Choir rehearsal, 7:30 p.m.
JUDAICA SHOP Tuesday through Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m.noon.
BAR MITZVAH Michael Uehling, son of Barbara and Fred Uehling, will become a Bar Mitzvah at MinhaMa'ariv services, Saturday, Oct.Sl.
LUNCH n' LEARN Lunch n' Learn with the Rabbi will continue on Thursday, Oct 29, noon at Beth El Synagogue.
AIDS PERSPECTIVE A series of programs presented by Noreen Halpern at Beth El will be held on Thursday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 2426. The programs are sponsored by Eleth El and the Esther K. Newman Fund.
EATINO FEELINGS Jewish Family Service and Beth El Synagogue will present "Eating Peelings," a four part worahop designed to address behavior and attitudes that lead to overeating. The sessions'will be held at Beth El, Tuesday evenings. 7-9 p.m. Oct 27, Nov. 3, 10 and 17. Fw information, call Allca Weiaa, 330-2024.
Births Tari and Gary Weias of Calabaaaa, CA. announce the birth of a daughter, Bronte Francaica, on Sept. 4. Qrandpeniita are Claira and Stan Kklnbarg of Loa Angelas, formerly of Omaha; PhylU Waisa of Citvi'laiul. OH, and Donnld W.I I.i... Vt-Kaa, N
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Blumkln Home SATURDAY: Services are held in the Goldsten Chapel at 9 a.m. Members of the community are invited to join residents for the service, as well as the kiddush following. Special memorial services are held on the fast Saturday of each month.
B'Ml Israel 618 Mynster Street CouhcU BluA, lA 51603 322^705 For information, call Ellen Fennick at 3909062, or leave a message on the synagogue answering machine, 322-4705. FRIDAY: Services at the Synagogue led by Marti Nerenstone. SUNDAY: Religious school 10 a.m. to noon.
Chabad House 1322 Sal 19th Street Omaha. NE 68144 6871124 SATURDAY: Davening at 9:30 a.m. with Kiddush following seiVicea. SUNDAY: Davening at 9:30 a.^. WEDNESDAY: Talmud claas, 9:30 a.m. Chumash for adults, 10:30 a.m. THURSDAY: Advanced Talmud at
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Parashat Bereshit Have you read the first sentence of the Bible? If you have looked at the new JPS translation of the Bible, you may haf'e noticed.that the first sentence runs for threis verses. This is quite different from the old JPS, which harks hack to the King James version, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The new translation ends the first sentence with the creation of light, by God's command. This translation, which aroused a lot of controversy at first, in essence goes back to Rashi. Rashi was that brilliant, intuitive and scholarly interpreter of the Bible, who lived in 11th century France. Aside from the translation itself, it is necessary for the reader to understand the startling significance of this very first sentence, and of the ideas that follow. What is important for us to understand is that the point of view of the Hebrew scriptures did not spring up in a vacuum. Hebrew religion, indeed, rose out of the common Middle Eastern culture. • Note the word "rose!" And the words "out of!" The ancient Middle Eastern culture posted many gods, who fought among themselves and fought a comn!ion enemy. The act of creation used flesh, bones, and bones of the defeated enemy as the stuff from which to make earth and mankind. The idea of the Hebrew Scriptures "rose out oP that background of ideas. By the time Genesis was written our ancestors kn.ew that there is but one God. He alone created heaven and earth. AU of that in the first sentence! In the same chapter we learn that He alone created mankind. The human enterprise reaches an entirely different level and aims at an entirely different goal when our ancestors wrote l,lieir Bible. It is our precious heritage. There is something further to be said, despite all that we have understood from this brief look at the Bible's stance on human Ufe. And that is that the Bible need not be considered the final word on any subject. We learned this from the literature of the rabbinic period. Rabbis of Mishnah, Tosefla, Talmud and Midrash showed great reverence for the Bible. But they understood that their life-situation was different from the times in which Bible law and Bible reUgion arose. With their ingenious methods of interpretation, the rabbis found it possible to keep the Bible ever meaningful, relevant and applicable. They refused to see it as a dead book. Through interpretation — Midrash ^ they kept it vital and iresh, a living guide. As we open the Torah once more for Shabbat Bereshit, we ponder on this marvelous truth: Here is an extraordinary collection of writings, the Hebrew Bible, with ideas that loving interpreters have kept constantly influential, a library for every age and every questing mind.
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Bat Mitzvah •^Lauren Shane Paley, daughter of Dennis and Susan Paley, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Oct. 23 at Beth Israel Synagogue. Lauren is a seventh grade honor student at Beveridge Jr. High. She is a member of the Beveridge Student Council and was selected female student of the month in September. She also plays flute in the achool jaxz band. Lauren is also president of Jr. NCSVt Kadimah chapter. Her hobbies aie reading, playing flute, art and dancing. Lauren has a brother, PbMlip, 17, and a aiaUr. Nikki. 16. She is the granddaughter of Evelyn Paley of Beverly Hills and the late Arthur Paley and Norman D. and Joan Ripe of Omaha.
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Personal: We would hke to thank our family and Mends for all the donations and cards during Irv's recenl hospltalization and^ recovery. Also to Rabbi Urkowlt2 and to Cantor Fettman. whose concern helped immeasurably May the New Year bring good health and good fortune to everyorw Ida and Irving Forbef
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Dentist facing charges on alleged war crimes By Marta Halpert VIENNA (JTA) — An Israeli doctor will testify at hearings here into the wartime activities In Yugoslavia of a wealthy 74-year-old Austrian dentist; Egon Sabukoschek was arrested at his villa In Oraz, southern Austria, on suspicion of rounding up 100, Belgrade Jowu for execution in the summer of 1041. He faces charges of murder and being an accessory to murder. Dr. Elizabeth Podkahiiner, of Jerusalem, told Austrian Television she knew the accused socially 61 years ago as a medical student in Belgrade. On July 27, 1941, she was shocked to see the man, whip in hand, directing a "selection" of Jews in the main city square. She said she knew dne of the men who had been rounded up and had pleaded for his life and for that of his son. Sabukoschuk told Podkaminer she would have to choose between the two. K,..i..^.... »._L .„„.„ •'.-ikaminer saki: "I decided In ;^ii/.i iiiuiii'i
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By Deborah Fellman Self-esteem lecturer Mary Kay Mueller will describe her program in a single-evening workshop at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 at the Jewish Community Center. The program costs $5 and is open to all adults in the Jewish cohimunity. According to Ms. Mueller, the program is geared to "highly-functioning people who are no longer in crisis and chaos." She said it is ideal for people who are "in transition," such as people who have changed careers, seen their youngest children off to college, or recently celebrated a milestone birthday. "The analogy 1 use is; The people who go to the gym to work out, are they the healthiest or the least healthy in society?.Th« people who go to church or synagogue to worship, are they the most spiritual or the least spiritual?" Ms. Mueller said. "This program is for people who are absolutely ready to quit blaming other people." People who attend the seminar may then decide to enroll in the eight-hour workshop "Taking Care of Me," offered by the Selfesteem Education Association (SEEA), a non-profit organization founded in
The promise is one thing... The reality is everything THE PROMISE to Israel: Promises, promises, promises. The promise of peace, the promise of freedom, the promise of a homeland, the promise of safety from anti-Semitism, the promise of prosperity, the promise of a bright future for the Jewish people. We made the promises to meet the needs. Now, it's time to take a look at the results—(he prornises have turned into realities.
Mary Kay Mueller 1989 by Ms. Mueller and several other people. Ms. Mueller said her programs teach people to use "awareness, acceptance, accurate assessment and actualization" to recognize and change their behavior patterns. She said she developed her thk>ries aiid program because she needed them in her own life, she said. Before 1989, Ms. Mueller had already completed a four-week program at a shelter for victims of domestic violence, undergone six months of counseling and attended meetings of various 12-step groups. She said she was then "beyond blaming a;id complaining" and "wanted more." For more information or to register, call Aimee Kirby at the JCC (3348200 ext. 232). The workshop is spon-. sored by the JCC's Adult Services division and Jewish Family Services.
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The reality of Youth Aliyah Most of the 280 Ethiopian Jewish children at the Hofim Youth Aliyah village are survivors of loss, hunger and violence. It's difficult to find an Ethiopian child who did not lose a relative en route to Israel. Some of the girls were raped as they trekked across Africa. Others were miirdered. Many of the boys were-beaten and robbed. The goal of the Youth Aliyah, which is funded by the Jewish Agency through your donations to the UJA/Federation Campaign, is to help immigrant children become Israelis while making them proud of their Ethiopian heritage. Like 14-year-old Gina Maledel, the children have learned
official China International Travel Service in Tel Aviv. Talking to travel correspondents here, he said that several Investors in Israel and elsewhere had expressed an interest-in establishing a kosher restaurant in Bevjing, to serve not only observant Israelis now beginning to visit China but also the needs of the many Jews worldwide traveling to China. Shen expects some 5,500 Israelis will visit his country this year, traveling on the new El Al direct fiight and the parallel service to begin next year by Air China . Other Israelis and Jews ure expected to arrive on • other airlines coming from elsewhere. Shen, warned that it would be difficult, even for experienced travelers, to visit China on their own, not only because of
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By David Kantor BONN (JTA) — Some 100,000 Jews from the republics of the former Soviet Union have applied for German asylum in the past two years and between 7,000 and 10,000 have already arrived here, according to an Interior Ministry official. The vice interior minister, Eduard Lintner, made the comment during a debate in the Bundestag which was initiated by Bundnis 90, a left-wing group of former East German dissidents. Leaders of that group, as well as members of the successor group'to the East German Communist Party, demanded free entry for any Jew who wishes to immigrate to Germany.
YES The next YES meeting will be Oct. 26. Bingo, "YES Talk" and English class begin.at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be served at 12 p.m., to be followed by a video on'Amit. For transportation, call 3304272. WALK-IN/DROP-IN Exercise class and bingo at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 29 will be followed by brown-bag lunch and a film on Jewish humor. On Nov. 5, Walk-In drop-In will meet at Beth El. Exercise class is at 10:30 a.m. followed by a lecture dn '^Preserving Your Personal Autonomy" at 11 a.m. and hot lunch at 12 p.m. Following lunch, local celebrity Fat Persaud of Channel 6 News will speak. Lunch costs $4. Reseirve a spo.t by calling Toby Kagan (397-1037). For transportation or more information call Amy Potash (330-4272.)
Peace tent ..By Michele Chabin MOSHAV ELI AL, Israel (JTA) — Over the years, thousands of Israeli soldiers have pitched their tents on the barren hills of the Golan Heights, ready to deflect an attack by Syria. ' Now a group of Jewish women from the area have set up a "peace tent" to demonstrate their desire for peaceful relations with their Arab neighbors. Overlooking the Syrian village of Ibanid, the tent was the brainchild of the Women's Forum, a non-partisan group comprised of localtesidents, both religious and secular. Two weeks ago, 75 women and their children gathered at Moshav Eli Al, near the Syrian border, to pitch the tent. One of the pariicipants, megaphone in hand, addressed the crowd in Hebrew and Arabic, as brightly colored balloons and a flock of doves were sent over the border. < Since then, the women have been posted at the tent on a rotating basis.
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ALVIN ROSENFELD DIES JERUSALEM (JTA) — Alvin Rosenfeld, a former NBC bureau chief in Jerusalem who covered nearly all Israel's wars since the birth of the Jewish state, died in Wa&hington on Oct. 10 of cancer. He waa 73.
Super-donor Yale Trustin donates his tenth gallon of blood to the American Red Cross to help publicize the. annual Temple Israel Bloodmobile drive, which will be from i to 7 pjn. on Nov. 3. The drive coincides with election day because "We can fdlflU our civic duty to vote and our Jewish duty to perform a mitzvah" on the same day, said Barbara Taxman, who chairs the drive with her husband, Marvin. The drive will be at Temple Israel, but all members of th^ Jewish community are urged to donate blood. For further information or to reserve a time, call556«»6.
Film festival held In Madrid By Judith Lew NLUIRID (JTA) — The Jewish Fihn Festival, a tradition begun in 1981 in San Francisco and mounted in Moscow in 1990, was held in Madrid to coincide with commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. Janis Pktkin and Deborah Kaufman, the festival's directors, brought 24 films from nine different countries, roost made by independent filmmakers and never been screened in Spain. Films featured on the opening day were an Argentine-West German co-production, *La Amiga" by Jeanine Meerapfel, the Gennan "Fear Not, Jacob" from Romanian director Radu Gabrea; and "Joshua Then and Now" from Canadian director Ted Kotcheff, based on the Mordechai Richler story All three ahowings were sold out. During tlie weekWng festival, directors and producers of the films were available to answer questions from the audience. Plotkin said these ftlnts could raise Spaniards' level of knowledge about Jews and Judaism and erase many iitereotypes Spaniards hold about Jews
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Singles Game Night is set for Oct.24 at 8 p.m. at the Thomasville Apartments Clubhouse at 99th & Q Streets, not at the Vanderbilt as previously announced. The cost is $3.50 per person. Jewiah Family Services and JCC Adult Services will present Mary Kay Mueller's seminar Taking Care of Me" Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the JCC. Cost is $5 per person. The Singles group is planning an excursion to Bluffs Run on Nov. 14.
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Henry Monsky Lodge membership 'nite' have been announced by Ed Joseph, chairman. Al Abramson, Mike Abramson, Bob Birt, Bruce Brodkey, Penny Cody, Sheldon Cohen, Richard Diamond, Howard Epstein, Steve Epstein, 'Tom Goodman, Ron Gordon and Bonnie Hines. Also, Rich Juro, Myron Kaplan, Larry Kelberg, Howard Kutler, Doc Margolin, Steve RiekeB, Denis Roberts, Ed R^sen, Len Schultz, Natan Schwalb, Howard Shandell, Rachel Shapiro and Ira Trachtenbarg. The event will be held at the Scorecard at 6:30 p.m. There is no cost for the evening, and the cohnmunity may attend, the announcement stated.
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By Irving Greenberg JERUSALEM (JTA) — Question: la the holiday of Simchat Torah (Rejoicing with the Torah) observed in the wrong season? The holy day, which came into being as a holiday in tlie llth-12th century C.E., celebrates the Torah (Five Books of Moses) and, by implication, the broader Torah (the total body of instruction which makes up the Jewish tradition). Wlien the Jews brought together practices glorifying the Torah — taking out the scrolls, parading : them, dancing with them — to make a new holiday, • why did they not connect it to Shavuot which is the birthday of the covenant, the day on which the Jews bound themselves to the Torah forever? Answer: In contrast to the ancient Israeli triennial cycle, Babylonian Jewry divided the Torah (Five Books of Moses) into 54 portions and read them over the course of one year. When Babylonian Jews flnished reading the Torah, they wanted to mark
the occasion with rejoicing and celebration. Logically, the conclusion and the celebration would come at the end of the year, just before Rosh Hashanah. But there was not much room for adding a major celebration then ^- and maybe the mood of awe and fear of judgment did not go well with delirious dancing and singing. Also, a tradition devel oped to read the Torah portion containing the covenant blessings and curses (Ki Tavo, Deuteronomy 26: 1-29) just before the New Year-Ten Days of Penitence period. Correspondingly, the weekly readings were so apportioned that the covenant blessings and cursesfound in Leviticus (26: 3-46) would be read annually just before Shavuot. The Torah reading, in effect, was giving advance hotice of the rewards and punishments for being Jewish and warning that life and death lay in the choice. Tills portion evoked • solemnity; it set the proper mood for being on trial for one's life between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. However, the
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the completion of a whole cycle. But eight represents seven plus one; which means that one cycle has been completed and a new cycle has begun. The newborn male has begun the cycle of his own life on the eighth day. Therefore, he can enter into the community of the Jewish people. Seven times seven years, the Jewish people lived with flawed, compromised social realities through a cycle of poverty, indentiired servitude, borrowing and selling off family lands (see Levil-. icus, chapter 25 and Deuteronomy, chapter 15). But in the 50th year (seven times seven, plus one), i.e., the Jubilee year .- a new cycle was begun. Primordial perfection was restored. Slaves went free. Every family received back its ancestral land. All Jews started.over again independent, equal and free. Passover also inaugurates a series of seven times seven steps (seven weeks or 49 days) which complete a cycle from'bxodus/political liberation to covenanL^spiritual libera tion. Shavuot occurs (ni Uit50th day (seven times seven, plus one). The Sinai covenant is the beginning of the cycle of Jewish existence as a free people with a constitution apd a mission — tikk\in olam. The Sukkot holiday contains seven days plus one. The eighth day (Shemini Atzeret) is considered a distinctive holiday in its own right but it also crowns'and completes the Sukkot holiday — much as Shavuot (although remnved'seven times seven dayslcrowns and completes Passover This parallel suggests that Shemini Atzeret can be compared tn Shavuot and is an appropriate day to reiolce with the Torah ^iiiichat Tiiruh, ilie lit IsrHel celebrate (he t»> ' the annual 1 .,ig cycle They iiniiieilialxly bring nut nnother Torah and lading Uie booK
reaching of the last portions of Deuteronomy took two or three weeks more — which made Sukkot the natural holiday to be associated with the completion celebration. Still, a deeper symbolic language may account for the connection of Simchat Torah to the eighth day holiday (Shemini Atzeret) that follows Sukkot. Tlie numbers seven and eight appear widely in Jewish tradition and tiiey have a distinct symbolic meaning. Seven represents completion — and perfection. When the Torah describes God's flawless creation, it signals that' excellence literarily by dividing creation into seven stages (days). The seventh day, Shabbat, crowns the pro: cess and corppletes it as God savors the fullness of perfection. Passover, the celebration of the Ebcodus liberation event which is the core of the Torah, is a seven-day holiday; the first and seventh day are especially sanctifled (no work is performed). Similarly, the Hebrew slave worked six days only. On the seventh day his freedom was restored; like his masters, he was set free from work. The Hebrew slave could be indentured for six years In the seventh year, he went free. Tlius the world was restored to its social per^ fection, which equals freedom, -Eight is also a highly positive symbolic number. Eight represents seven plus one; if youwill, perfection plus. For seven days, the newborn male child lives separal'ely from his mother's body and establishes the vitality and durability of his individual life. Then on the eighth day he enters the transgenerational covenant of Abraham — i.e., into the community of the J(^ i . <v«, A nfwiv born gtiaV »i .i and grows wi>' er Only "(Wmi Uie viKtilh day on (afler (•"mplcting iU cycle of a ^ ii be accepted a^ before the Ijord" liieviii c\is 'Ja 191 IhUB begins a-new cycle What is the difTeretice between seven and eight? , of atutiying, living — and Both mark peifection — ffOolcing — with the
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Torah. What day could be more appropriate for celebrating the Torah than the day of seven plus one — Shemini Atzeret? So tlie Jewish people created Simchat ToY-ah and attached it to the eighth day. They ther.eby testified that the body of received Torah was whole but the cycle of created and applied Torah was only beginning! P.S. Only in Israel is Simchat Torah on the eighth day. In Diaspora, Simchat Torah is on day seven plus one plus one — but that is another story! (Innng (iri-enherfi is president of CLAL The National Jewish Center for learning and Ijeadership and author of "The •Jewish Way" (New York: Summit Books).
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Expioring 'Past Lives' may be excellent therapy
The American experience
By Boaz Dvir,
order to complete its "misYet for him, being pracsion." That is the first tical means being spiritual. part of reincarnation in For Weiss, reincarnaBOCA RATON — The. Jewish tenns. tion is not only a belief, old saying, "You only The. second paht is si'm- but a daily reality. He have one life to live," may pler, but much more en-' uses it to help cure people be the greatest lie ever compassing and promis- of a variety of physical told, according to Dr. ing. Judaism teaches that and psychological sympBrian Weiss. the Messiah's arrival will toms. In Through Time Author of Through lead to the reincarnation Into Healing, he describes Time Into Healing, Weiss of all Jewish souls. dozens of professional claims that a person not When asked why Jew- cases that included healonly lives more than one ish ^ouls, happy to be in ing patients of a variety life, but is also able to re- heaven, would rejoice at of physical and psychologmember, through hypno- the idea of retaking phys- ical, symptoms through sis, details about past ical form on earth, Lie- past-life regression. " identities, places, and berman said, "Because "My first priority is to events. that's the final phase of help people," Weiss said. This process iu called the basis of all of creation. Everyone has a mispast-life regression thera- When the Messiali comes, sion, Weiss said. He dispy, said Weiss, who is for- even the body will have covered his while treating mer chainnan of the psy- no limits; It will be ^n a patient he calls "CathA documentary filin to be aired at 8 p.m. on Nov. 11 on PBS tells the chiatry departinent at even greater spiritual up- erine" at Mount Sinai. story of heroic African-American batallions that helped liberate Mount Sinai Medical lift (than being in heavA Yale Medical School Buchenwald, Dachau and Lambach concentration camps. Camp survivor Center on Miami Beach. en)." graduate and an estabBenjamin Bender (left photo, center) is pictured with veterans E.G. Furthermore, rememMost people either have lished biological psychiaMcConnell (left) and l^onard "Smitty" Smith (also in photo at right), bering details from past no knowledge or com- trist who had published who helped free him from Buchenwald. The film is narrated by actor lives can vastly improve pletely misunderstand 40 professional articles at «el Washington. present physical and psy- Judaism's greatest vision, this point, Weiss was a chological conditions, ac- Lieberman said. self-professed closed-' cording to Weiss, who "There are a lot of mis- minded, obsessive, conspoke at Liberties Fine conceptions, The Messiah servative scientist. When Catherine startmore finnly into the orbit By Alexander lesser The presentation of the Etooks and Music in Boca that most people are of the world Jewish com- liturgical oratorio was ac- Raton, about his two waiting for will never ed describing details from her past lives and started MOSCOW (JTA) — Bel munity. companied by drawings books, including his first come," Lieberman said. "People expect him to to show dramatic imKaufman, granddaughter Kaufinan, author of the and poems by children of bestseller, Manjr Lives, come and fix everything. provements in her lingerof writer Sholom Aleichem 19608 novel "Up the the Nazi concentration Many Masters. and an author in her own Down Staircase," told the camp, which were collected . Sound like science,fic- That's nonsense." He add- ing physical and psychoright, made her Moscow 'story of a Czechoslovak into a book, "I Never Saw' tion? Actually, it is closer ed that the world after logical conditions, Weiss debut recently narrating concentration camp as Another Butterfly." Jews to Jewis)) tradition than die Messiah's arrival will opened his eyes. be something else altoAfter spending months a Jewish oratorio about rendered by British com- flocked to the Great Hall of to science fiction. Genuine science fiction gether. with Catherine and going the Holocaust. poser Ronald Senator in the Moscow Conservatoiy While it is impossible in through no less than 86 The event was a fund- "Holocaust Requiem: to he{^ Kaufinan and the buffs give no serious reraiser for a Jewish chari- Kaddish for Theresien- Moscow Philharmonic spect and consideration, this present physical previous lifetimes, Weiss ty, moving Moscow even stadt." under the direction of New for such topics as reincar- state to fully understand became a believer. His Yorker conductor Joel nation because they view Judaism's greatest vision, mission was to tell the them as less science than Jews are encouraged to , world about reincarnation Spiegelman. The audience roared its fiction, according to Mit- rejoice while trying to im- and to cure patients with past-life regression ther- . approval of Kaufman, chell Rubenstein, cofoun- agine it,' Lieberman said. Reincarnation will have spy who iis 80- something and der of the Sci-Fi Channel. GIFT GUIDE "Real purists don't be- a m^jor role in the realPast-life regression a living link to the lost lieve in reincarnation and ization of tliis vision. ' therapy only works,for 40 Russian-Jewish past. Matkc yiiur "prt-sonls'' known in llu' Weiss, a Miami Beach percent of his patients. Sholotn Aleichem was in UFOs," said Rubenannual Jewish Preu Hannukkah Gift Guide. stein, a Boca Raton resi- resident, pointed out that But when it does, it works born Sholom Rabinowitz You'll have holiday sales all wrapped up! in Ukraine in 1859 and ident. He added that while Ireincarnation has always like a miracle, quickly wrote first in Russian and he does not consider him- had a special place in healing symptoms that ISSUE DATE: DEC 11 SPACE RESERVATIOHS: NOV. S have found no cure elseHebrew. From 1883 until self a science fiction buff, Jewish mysticism. li served as a motivat- where, he said. his deatli in 1916 in New he also doesn't believe inTo re»orvi" ad spAcv call your sail's n-pii-st'Dlalivt' ur ing spiritual and intellecFurthermore, according York, he wrote more Uian reincarnation. StK-ryl Fncdmaa 1M-S200, vul 234 "Personafly, I'm skepti- tual force until the 19th to Weiss, neither the pa40 volumes of novels, stories, plays and memoirs cal about it," he said. Century, when, wishing tient nor the practicing in Yiddish. He is most Orthodox Jews, on the to assimilate into the psychologist needs to beWINE renowned for his stories other hand, consider rein- European "Enlighten- lieve in reincarnation to ment'-', the Jews became make past-life regression BEER aixiul Tevye the milkman, carnation a fact of life. According to Rabbi less mystical and more therapy work. which became the basis for "Fiddler on the Roof." Aron Lieberman of the practical, Weias said. 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Yachad picks apples
EC improves ties
By Jo Carroll
Let my people go ... to the Marlins game, that is. God may have hardened Pharoah's heart, but an outcry from South Florida Jews seems to have changed the Florida Marlins' announced schedule. As a result, Jewish Marlins fans will not have to miss the opening game against the Los Angeles Dodgers next year when the team plays on the afternoon of April 5 erev Passover. A spokesman for the Marlins said that although the schedule is still not definite, the game will probably be played j/i the afternoon, before the holiday begins, instead of in the evening, as previously announced.
By Joseph Kopel BRUSSELS (JTA) — The European Community is strengthening its cooperation with Israel as several years of strained ties yield to shared views on Middle East peace efforts. Come sundown, Jewish The president of the E.C.'s executive commission fans can trade game prosaid the change in the climate of relations between grams for haggadot, baseIsrael and the 12- nation body is "indisputabler" follow- ball caps for yarmulkes, , tag the elections which brought Israel's Labor Party to popcorn and peanuts for Iwwer in June. matzah and charoset, and Jacques Delors spoke at a joint news conference with baseballs for matzah Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Perea after the two balls. met in the Belgian capital. Peres also held discussions No game time had ever with Belgian Foreign Minister Willy Claes. Delors said the EC. would "update" iU 1975 free been set for the opener, trade and cooperation agreement with Israel after fail- said Chuck Pool, Marlins ure tb ratify new protocols during the previous Likud- media relations director, led government of Viuhak Shamir. The EC. had fre- however it was originally quent criticisms of the previous government's policy in assumed that most games would be played in the the administered territories. , But Delors niled out for Uie time being Israeli mem- evening to avoid tlu' bership in the European Economic Era, a large market Florida sun. to be created in 1993 between the 12 EC. member Although the time of states and the seven member states of the European day of the game is negoFree Trade Association. However, Delors called for an tiable, the April 6 date "ad hoc" solution to help Israel. was not. Pool said. "Israel is a particular cass. It is a post-industrial soWhen the tentative ciety with a high level of development in research and tedinology. But it is also in the midat of a Middle East home schedule was announced earlier this with a difficult economic situation. We have to find an month Florida Jews proad hoc solution for Israel," he said. Peres used the conference to underline the impof • tested. tance of a European role in the multilateral talks on Kabbi Solomon Schiff, Middle East regional issues. He spoke of sharing par executive vice prbsident of ttcipation with Washmgton, with the United Slates the Kabbinical Associaplaying a lehtral role in Middle East bilateral talks tion of (ireater Miami, and Europe holdint; sway in the mullination discus ,wrote a k'tter alerting team owner II. Wayne •ionslliuzenga to the tune conflict. He received no return response, but after calling the IA-HIM'U niArkt-t ing director, .Schil) learn cd that ll^e Jewish fans EHvelopes. AHMOMMCCw«Mt». CcrMflcAtc*. would be accommodated PIACC CArtx. S«tti»i5« of rro«c. & Voeirvi "I tltink it is wonderful," flIAAY AMV fTYlW -H'L.elLiL uaUL>\ i Rabbi Burnhard Presler, past president of the H0WC-tf9f-72W - Office-HO-ll«?i) North Broward Board of Rabbis, said of the afternoon game plan. "It shows ArAMILYTRADITIOM we live In a special coun••>c(v/ii>a Des Moines bincc IVW' try where ptmplc respect •jeiVinflOmSh* Since 19B6 each other even though . Jews make up only two percent of the population It shows a great sansltivi IM5T0IVSMTC Vy."
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Patients and victims
Miami Marlins cliange time for Passover By Linda Brockman, staff writer, Miami Jewish Tribune
Beth Israel's Yachad group harvested newyear apples at an orchard near Council Bluffs this month. Proudly displaying their apples are Yachad members Marilyn Zevitz, center, and Jeff Steinberg, right. Coordinator Leslie Epstein is at left Yachad, a branch of National Conference of Synagogue Youth, offers activities for developmentally-disabled teens and adults. The group's next activity is an evening of movies and popcorn at 7:90 p.m. Nov. 1 at the JCC. For more information,^,call Beth Israe] Synagogue (656-6288).
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Participating in a memory walk are Marjorie Kirshenbaum and Lynn Medford. The local Alzheimer's Association can provide volunteers to help relieve caretakers in the family, she added. Alzheimer's, which is a disease, not an aging process, can strike anyone. Mrs. Kirshenbaum said, "If you don't know someone how who has Alzheimer's, yoii will." Mrs. Kirshenbaum said some families think they
are the only ones who can give their family member the best care. "Giving up care can, sometimes be hard to handle," she said. "You can love and respect someone without being the one who does it all." The Alzheimer's Association's motto is "Someone to stand by you." For information call 444-6672.
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