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Mission will cover Israel from Eilat to Golan By Barbara Chandler, Federation public relations director

Applications for Omaha's Shalom Community , Mission are beginning to come in to the Federation and excitement is building. The itinerary for this mission was custom designed by Jerry and Harriet Slusky, Shalom Mission Chairmen, Anne Broder, Federation Missions Chairman, and Jan Perelman, Missions Staff Director, and they promise a unique view of Israel that will make the mission a memorable experience for both first-time and returning participants. Other communities joining Omaha's mission are Flint, Michigan; Youngstown, phio; Toledo, Ohio, and Des Moines, Iowa. ' Cost for the mission is $1350 for first time participants with a $750 minimun gift to the 1995 UJA/Federation Campaign. Applications and more information are available by calling the Federation office, 334-8200, ext. 210. Application deadline is July 31. , The Shalom Mission Itinerary Monday, Oct. 3: After departing Omaha on Sunday, Oct. 2, and catching El Al Flight LY 018 out of New York's LaGuardia Airport, the participants of the Shalom Mission will begin their 10-day Israel experience at the southern tip of the country, on the shore of the Red Sea in the beautiful resort city of Eilat, After getting settled in their hotel rooms, participants will enjoy a welcome dinner during which they will meet and visit with olim from the former Soviet Union. The evening program will feature musical entertainment by the olim. Tuesday, Oct. 4: Jeeps will depart for Timna Park where participants will see copper mines, the Hidden Lake and Solomon's Pillars. Lunch will be hosted by Kibbutz

Grofit where Menachem Perlmutter will showcase some of Israel's high-tech agriculture. Following a visit to Eilat's Underwater Observatory, participants will have a chance to freshen up before departing on a special dinner cruise on the Red Sea. Wednesday, Oct. 5: Buses will drive along the Egyptian and Jordanian borders so that participants can study the security measures being taking by Israel, and then the group will travel north to ascend Mnsada, the first-century stronghold of the Jewish zealots. The aflernoon plans include a float in the Dead Sea and a hike to Ein Gedi, a beautiful nature preserve. In the late afternoon, the mission wilt proceed to Jerusalem, stopping atop Mt. Scopus to recite Shehecheyanu. Participants will enjoy an evening at their leisure in Jerusalem. Thursday, Oct. 6: At breakfast, Benyamin Netaniahu is scheduled to brief participants on the Likud Party's view of the peace process. The morning will then be spent at excavation sites in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City, including the Herodian Mansion and the Rabbinic Tunnel, an area of excavation along the Western Wall that includes archological relics of the Second Temple from the times of King David, King Solomon, Herod and many other Biblical figures. That aflernuon, partic'pants will literally "dig in" to a hands-on archological dig experience at Beit Guvrin. The evening plans include an authentic Roman dinner at the Cardo Culinaria. Note: Watch next week's issue for highlights of the rest of the mission including Yad Vashem, very special Shabbat plans, Beit Shean, the Golan Heights, Safed and morel

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This Rabbi runs for his life

By Sheryl K. Gutes Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe was a swift runner who counted his blessings — married to a wonderful and beautiful woman, the father of two adorable little girls, the admired spiritual leader of a vibrant congregation. In 1978, Rabbi Jaffe ran the New Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe York City marathon wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with his moniker, The Running Rabbi." As he crossed the Verrazano Narrows Bridge into Brooklyn, Hassidim were staring at him and exclaiming, 'that's a rabbi?" As he crossed the 59th Street Bridge into Manhattan, his wife, Judi, daughters, Rachel and Nina, and friends, Jim and Marcin Rudin, cheered him on. He made the V-sign for victory. In 1980, Hirshel Jaffe visited our American hostages in Iran, bringing them a sense of hope and spiritual comfort, In 1981, he went to the White House io help greet those freed Americans. Hirshel JafTe was in the prime of his life. The "Running Rabbi" felt indestructible. Little did he realize that he would soon have to run a different kind of race — a race for his life. By the spring of 1982, Rabbi JnfTo was alarmed by his rapidly diminishing stamina during his daily runs. Within a few weeks, he could not walk even a quarter of a block.

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By early June, he was in the hospital for tests. A But the disease, the treatment, the accompanyhematologist gave him the grim news: "Rabbi Jaffe, ing pain and his already weakened body and spirit we are virtually certain that you have a rare form had plunged into a severe depression. He felt that of cancer — hairy cell leukemia." Summoning his his life, his emotions — indeed, his very being, were fighting spirit, his running spirit, he asked, "How totally and irreversibly out of control. long do people live with this disease?" The doctor His doctors worried about his will to live, that \\6 replied, "Six months, a year, five years." The Rabbi had given up hope. They stood at his bedside and countered, "I'll take the upper limit, doctor." said, "Rabbi Jaffe, we know you're having great difOne inescapable thought kept going through his ficulty, but there are other people here who need mind — "Why Me?" your help and your guidance. Maybe if you could His treatment began with a splenectomy, but the reach out to other patients, it will help you regain operation did not go as well as had been hoped. that fighting spirit. Hirshel, why don't you be a Complications and further surgeries caused him to rabbi?" become emaciated. That one simple challenge had a profound He could not conduct High Holy Day services impact on Hirshel Jaffe. ^H that fall. Sitting with his congregation at Yizkor on In the physical therapy room Rabbi Jaffe saw ^| Yom Kippur afternoon, as he listened to the names young man in a wheelchair. He had spinal cancer. of the deceased being read, he thought to himself, Grunting and grimacing, he was trying to lift him^_ "maybe next year they'll be reading my name." self from his wheelchair onto the parallel bars Th^| While the splenectomy had put Rabbi Jaffe into staff was cheering him on: "Come on, Jerry, you cnr^^ H brief period of remission, his condition continued do it." Finally, and with great effort, he lifted him to deteriorate. Chemotherapy was unsuccessful; self up, maybe an eighth of an inch Mr. Jaffe^ 95% of his bone morrow was malignant; he had thought, "Boy, that young man really has guts."• fevers of 105; he had contracted a rare form of And remembering what the doctors said, that he tuberculosis. Hirshel JafTe was dying. needed to get out of himself and minister to othe; Fighting for his life in the hospital, he was heart- people — that he needed to be a rabbi — he decide ened by the news that in Chicago seven patients to go see Jerry that night. with hairy-cell leukemia had responded well to the He wheeled himself into Jerry's room and saw then experimental drug interferon. Mr. Jaffe him lying in bed, shivering with fever. Jerry started prayed that he might be eligible for inclusion in the the conversation. "How you doing, fella? Did you study. His diagnosis did not fit the parameters of see your doctors today?" Rabbi Jaffe replied, in the experiment, but his doctors appealed to the despair, "I think they're ovoidin; me. They don't. Federal Drug Administration for an exception. want to tell me the bad news." "Just wait •} Following an angel of mercy flight to the University minute," Jerry said. "Aren't you a rabbi?" Hirthelj of Chicago Hospital, he learned permission had nodded. "Well," Jerry continued, "I don't know be«n granted. (Continued on page 2)

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WALTER FEroMAN Walter Feidman, a long-time educator at Beth El Synagogue and United Talmud Torah, died Tuesday at Methodist Hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 77. Graveside services took place Thursday at Beth Sally Jonisch, left, and her mother, Rose El Cemetery, Mr. Feidman is survived by his wife, Mildred; Marer, look at Mrs. Marer's ketuba now on display in the JCC gallery. The exhibit, spon- daughter, Sally Ann and son, Theodore. A native of Lithuania, Mr. Feidman played the sored by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, has more than 60 ketubas from violin in the Lithuanian Symphony orchestra, one Nebraska Jewish families and will be avail- time-performing in the Kremlin. He and his mother were brought to Omaha in able for viewing until July 8. The Nebraska 1952 under the sponsorship of the Jewish Jewish Historical Society is now collecting Federation of Omaha, and he continued his violin photographs and family memorabilia from members of the Visions group, YES and playing with the University of Omaha Symphony. Mr. Feidman also served Beth El Synagogue and Oldtimers for an exhibit "Visions of Yesterday" to open Oct. 8 in the JCC gallery. UTTO as an educator for more than 30 years. In Materials may be brought to the NJHS office addition, he taught Yiddish at various classes in the city. at the JCC throughout July and August. He was employed also by Nebraska Furniture Mart for 26 years. Rabbi Hirshel Jaffa Memorials may be made to the American Cancer (Continued firom page 1) much about your religion, but I heard somewhere Society or to Beth El Synagogue. that the Jewish people are a people of hope. Why don't you practice what you preach?" Hirshel was stunned by Jerry's comment and together they prayed. The irony of. this encounter RICHMAN/SPINNER brought him to a cross road, a transformation. He Elyza Kay Richman never asked God for a cure; he never asked for a and Jeff Spinner will be miracle. He asked only that God hold his hand, give married in July in him hope and keep him from falling into the abyss Lincoln. ofhis illness. Miss Richman, daughHe began to set small goals each day and ter of Harry and Arlene allowed himself to let God carry him over the rough Richman of Omaha, is a spots. And after his journey to the very edge of life. public health educator at Rabbi Hirshel Jaffe says he is running the ultimate the Nebr. Department of race — to life. L'chaim. Health. In the next two months, the fevers subsided and Mr. Spinner, son of some strength began to return. He was still very ill, Edward and Mildred but no longer saw himself as a victim, as a man whose life was out of control. He resolved to leave Rosenbaum, Southfield, Mich., is an assistant the hospital, and in thanks to God for his own life, professor of political scihe would encourage and help others who struggle ence at the University of Nebraska. with serious illness. This has become the guiding mitzvah of Hirshel KAVICH/ZETZMAN Jaffe's life. His illness has taught him about the Amee Kavich and Ted healing power of prayer. And his faith in God grew stronger. He also learned about the power of the •Zetzman will be married July 16 at the Red Lion mind over the body in coping with serious illness. Hotel. Hirshel Jaffe believes that his illness made him Miss Kavich, daughter a better rabbi. He believes he has survived for a of Larry and Andi special purpose, to help others in need. Kavich, is a CPA with All While still serving as rabbi of Temple Beth Jacob in Newburgh, N.Y., Hirshel Jaffe has devoted his Makes Office Equipment Co. She is a graduate of I life to counseling people. He speaks throughout the University of | country and oflen appears as a "Celebrity Against the Colorado Business Cancer." In 1988, President Reagan presented him School. the American Cancer Society's Award of Courage. Mr. Zetzman, son of Today, there is no longer any evidence of the disDiane Richards and John ease in his bone marrow. He is cancer free. His docZetzman, both of tors believe he has been cured. Indianapolis, graduated Rabhi Hirshel Jaffe hati co-authored Why Me? Why Anyone?, which chronicles hix ultimate victo- from California Slate University at North ridge. After a honeymoon to Greece, the couple will live ry over leukemia and his spiritual triumph over in Omaha. despair.

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By Matthew Dorf WASHINGTON (JTA) - The recent visit by a far-right Austrian politician known in Europe for praising Hitler's employment policies and posing for photos with neo-Nazis, sparked considerable controversy here. Jorg Haider, 42, the lender of the Austrian Freedom Party, said the main purpose for his weeklong visit was to solicit the support of over 200,000 Austrian citizens living in the United States who are eligible to vote in the Austrian elections.

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Simcha B'Shabbat - The congregation, together Kiddush spi nsored by Sisterhood. with the rabbis and cantor, will study the Torah Babysitting service provided by Sisterhood. portion for the week. Mincha is at 8:45 p.m. Shalosh Seudot, Ma'Ariv Summer Schedule and Havdalah conclude the services. July 1 through Sept. 3 — Shabbat evening serSUNDAY: vices will be at 7:30 p.m. Shabbat morning services Services at 9 a.m. and 8:45 p.m. will beat 10:15 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Sitter Service Services at 7 a.m. and 8:45 p.m. Sitter service is available each Shabbat evening service and the Saturday morning Shabbat service when there is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Please make a reservation. There are no facilities for infants. ^^^^ BETH EL SYNAGOGUE Book Sale ^H^P 14506 California Sisterhood's annual used book sale will be held ^K Omaha, NE 68154 at Temple Israel from Sunday, July 10, through ^r 492-8550 Wednesday, July 13. Hours are: Sunday, 12 to 6 Office Hours: Monday through Thursday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. p.m.; Monday and Tuesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Members of Senior NCSY gathered recentWednesday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. A preview will be ly for a farewell barbeque prior to leaving Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen held Sunday from .9 a.m. to noon. Cost is $10 and for conventions, camp and overseas experiincludes'a light brunch. ences. Nikki Paley (center) was elected and Cantor Emil Berkovits. Jewish Singles Summer Bash NCSY vice-president of social action at FRIDAY: Jewish singles will have a get-together Saturday, national convention. She leaves for Israel Services are at 6 p.m. July 9, 5 to 9 p.m., at the Bristol Square with Shifra Shrago for NCSY's Michlelet SATURDAY: Services are at 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following ser- Apartments, 3110 No. 97th St. There will be swim- program. Hannah Rennard will attend USY ming, dancing, snacks and conversation. For inforPilgrimage. Josh Gonsher travelled to the vices. mation, call Mike Milder at 341-9338, or Deborah Ukraine for JOLT, Jewish Overseas The Devar Torah will be given by An Riekes. Platt at 496-2699. • Leadership Training. The following will Sitter service starts at 10 a.m. attend NCSY camps in Baltimore and the Shabbat story time is the first and third Catskills: Ben Bryant, Ben and Zach Saturday at 11 a.m. TIFERETH ISRAEL Gonsher, Jeffrey and Melissa Katzman, Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services at 8:55 3219 Sheridan Blvd. Amanda Mack, David Shrago and Beth p.m. Lincoln, NE 68502 Shyken. Rebecca Wolfson will attend Weekly Torah study, an English discussion of 423-8569 BBYO's Perlman Camp. the Torah portion with modern commentaries, Services are officiated by Rabbi Elihu Milder. meets 30 minutes after services. Minyans every Monday and Thursday at 7:15 SUNDAY: a.m. Services are at 9 a.m. FRIDAY: WEEKDAYS: Light candles no later than 8:44 p.m. Services are at 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Services start at 8 p.m. The UTTO Board of Directors elected new offiMONDAY, July 4: 40th Anniversary Reunion cers for the 1994-95 year. They are: Services at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Guest Rabbi *" Dr. Bruce Gutnik, chairman; Dr. Peter Gordon, Judaica Shop Oneg Shabbat vice-chairman; Nancy Skid, treasurer; Sindie Open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 2 SATURDAY: Katskee, secretary. p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to noon; and by appointment. Services start at 9:30 a.m. Other board members include: Tom Goodman, "Why Watch Reruns" Guest Rabbi Robert Kahn, Leslie Kay, Dr. Allan Kurland, Diane "Why Watch Reruns," a discussion based on the Kiddush lunccheon Malashock, Dr. Allen Morris and Hyma book The Culture of Disbelier by Stephen Carter, Mincha, Maariv Havdallah, 8:30 p.m. Sukiennik. continues Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., in the Community Slides of yesteryear, schmoozing, sweet desserts For information, call the office, 556-3770. Court. SUNDAY: Shacharit Service at 9:30 a.m., followed by a picnic at 11:30 a.m. The 40th Anniversary Gala at 6:30 p.m. PERSONAL RCHABAD HOUSE . »y special thanks and love to all of our 1322 So. 119th Street B'NAI JESHURUN 'Jear friends for their kind and caring mesOmaha, NE 68144 20th and South Streets sages during my recent hospitalization. 697-1124 Lincoln, NE 68502 Henry Appel IDAY: 436-8004 Davening is at 9:30 a.m., followed by Kiddush. Services are officiated by Cantor Michael SUNDAY: Weisser. 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First novel By Gary < Former Omahan Saragail Katzman Benjamin's dream came true. Holiday House, a major children's publishing company, recently printed her first novel. In addition, paperback rights were recently sold to Scholastic Books. "My Dog Ate It" is geared for kids 8 to 12 „ ., „ . years old. Saragail Beiyaimi. The story centers around a fifth grader named Danny who dreads graduating and leaving the safety and security of his school. He figures out a way to avoid middle school. He just won't do any homework, and hell flunk. His clever teacher, however, devises an interesting plan to solve Danny's problem with the aid of her talking dog. Since the animal can also become invisible, the story takes an interesting tack. "Kirkus Reviews," a prominent literary review magazine, gave Ms. Benjamin's tale a flattering critique by describing it as "a welcome addition to the light reading roster." Success on this project did not come easily, though, for the former Jewish Press teen column writer. Like all new authors, she was turned down many times. Undaunted, she enlisted the aid of another former Omahan, Marilyn Epstein Weintraub, to enter the book market. After 40 rejections. Holiday House accepted her work. "We were thrilled," she stated. "It is very difficult in this economic climate for a new writer to make a start." "Talks are underway for the sale of film and TV rights," Ms. Benjamin revealed.- She also has had discussioris with Nickelodeon, though nothing has been finalized. The 1971 Central High graduate earned a liberal arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she lives with her attorney husband and two sons. Josh, 8, and Aaron, 6, in New Rochelle, N.Y., where she works as a musician, writer and performer. Her parents, Daniel and Ruth Katzman, reside in Longboat Key, Fla. According to the assistant manager at the Bookhouse, "My Dog Ate It" is selliptj well. It is available there and at the Westroad's Waldenbooks for $14.95.

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^|i By Miriam Widman BERLIN (JTA) — Help wanted: Two rabbis needed in major metropolitan city, one for a Conservative synagogue, the other to coordinate youth programs. Salary well above average pay at American synagogues. Women need not apply. Professional requirements: Must speak German and be willing to live in Germany. The last requirement may well provide the Jewish community of Berlin with difficulties as it seeks a replacement for Rabbi Ernst Stein, who ran the Conservative Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue for the past 14 years'before retiring last month. In a recent interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jerzy Kanal, chairman of Berlin's Jewish community, expressed confidence that the community's board of directors would find two candidates to fill the openings by the end of the year. ^ But he admitted that it will be an uphill battle to find rabbis who speak German and want to move to the German capital. "Germany doesn't have the best image," Kanal said. "We receive lots of delegations from overseas, and there's hardly a delegation that doesn't ask us, "How can you live hcre'^ "

By Rabbi Myer S. Kripke I Parashat Pinehas Religion Requiifes Ritual - If Not One System, Then Another. Near the end of our Sidrah, the sacrificial system's lists of offerings for the Sabbath, the New Moon days, and the various festivals of the >i;ar are reviewed in detail. In the course of Torah readings for the year, we read these lists this Shabbat, and we repeat them at appropriate times during the year. I see no reason to omit these readings in traditional synagogue life. Torah is Torah. But Siddurim, prayer books, are different. And I think we ought to omit references of the sacrifices of the ancient Temple from our Siddurim. They are not conducive to prayer. Thus, when Siddur Sim Shalom appeared, a Siddur written for the Conservative Movement and widely used in Conservative Synagogues, I wrote a review of the Siddur that was published in Conservative Judaism, the official periodical of the conservative rabbis of the world. In the midst of abundant praise for the Siddur, I objected to the inclusion of traditional and nontraditional passages about the sacrificial system. I placed myself on one side of a controversy about sacrifices in the Conservative Movement: Should the ancient sacrificial system be referred to at all in worship? I know one congregation where a donor would have supplied reprints of my article, at considerable cost, if the Board would send them out in a congregational mailing. The Board refused. Was iton the other side of this controversy? Or was there

another reason? Would this have been implying too much theological savvy to that congregation's Board of Directors? Was it not enough to say that Conservative Judaism, an official publication, had niade my article public? To come back: Sacrifice was a necessary ritual in its time. It was almost loniversal, and we are proud that in Israel, many pagan elements were removed. The system "made holy" the consumption of meat. It expressed gratitude to God. Even the prophets, those exquisitely sensitive moralists, did not object to sacrifices as such; they objected strenuously to the danger that people - common folk would think that God was worshiped by sacrifice, when in truth He wanted morality. But the age of sacrifice has passed, long, long ago! Those deeply committed and gifted religionists, the Pharisees, had already accepted the substitution of prayer and study for sacrifice. When the Temple was destroyed (70 C.E.), they moved smoothly to the adoption of a systematized prayer service. They produced a skeleton Siddur, which developed into the traditional and non-traditional Siddurim used in Jewry today. Sacrifice continued only in the Sacrifice of the Mass in Christianity, with a new, and quite different, and thoroughly un-Jewish understanding of sacrifice. To repeat: My point of view is that we must certainly read the pertinent passages in the annual cycle of Torah readings. The Bible is the Bible. But unlike traditionalists in the Orthodox and Conservative Movements, I find no value in repeating Biblical mention of sacrifice in the Siddur As worship, it does nothing for me.

Deployment of U.S. troops a possibility By Sam Skolnik Washington Jewish Week The issue of the possible deployment of United States troops on the Golan Heights has caused a political-sandstorm in recent weeks. Israeli Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich and other supporters of the peace process have entered the fray on one side against a loose coalition of right-of center American Jewish and Christian groups and former Israeli Likud Party government officials on the other. Opponents of the possible stationing of U.S. troops in any capacity on the Golan Heights — the strategically important Syrian plateau that Israel has controlled since the 1967 Six-Day War — have pressed the issue in recent weeks, most pointedly with a sensational advertisement in the New York Times. At the top of the ad a picture showed the body of a U.S. serviceman being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, as bystanders cheered. The opponents of U.S. troops on the Golan, ranging from the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) to the Christians' Israel Public Action Campaign (CIPAC), have blanketed Capitol Hill. Backing them have been two Israelis — one of whom served as former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's chief-of-stafi", the other a previous chief congressional liaison at the embassy. In response, through a series of phone calls and meetings, Israeli embassy officials — including Ambassador Rabinovich — scolded Americans involved in this effort. Among those called on the carpet, sources said, were Richard Hell man, president of CIPAC, and Morris J. Amitay, treasurer of the Washington PAC, a pro-Israel political action committee. liellmnn said that while he and embassy officials "have had discussions on these matters," he was not at liberty to discuss the specifics. Amitay did

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Frieda Krizelman, By Bert Lewis > president of the Omaha ^^1 Before the arrival of a houseguest recently, I got Chapter of B'nai B'rith busy and cleared off the top of my desk; this was Women, was recently necessary because the desk in question happens to appointed to serve on the be in the guest room. Actually, it wasn't really nec- board of directors of the I .essary since the guest was my brother and he Gateway Region of BBW. already knows I'm not too neat, but the rules are She will represent mem"straighten up before company comes." bers in Omaha as well as Now that we have that settled, 1 can go on to the help generate programs ' point of the story -- all the stuff I found littering up and projects to fulfill the my work space. I always, always find at least one mission of B'nai B'rith „ . . . ' Frieda Krizelman set of meeting minutes which I'm responsible for Women. taking and transcribing. Generally, there are two The Gateway Regional Board also assists chapsets, since I'm very paranoid about throwing away ters within its 10-state jurisdiction in fulfilling such things. I live in fear that I'll discard my notes development goals in fund-raising and memberbefore they get turned into properly typed docu- ship. ments. B'nai B'rith Women, a non-profit Jewish That's never happened, but you never know . . . women's service organization with 75,000 members after all, there's a first time for everything. in North America, is committed to enhancing the Anyway, in my effort to produce a clean desk, I got effectiveness of Jewish women; promoting the emomy nerve up and threw out the old notes. I trust all tional well-being of children and youth, and will be well. strengthening the Jewish community. The centerBehind the yellow pad (there's ALWAYS a yellow piece project of the organization is the BBW pad around) I found a photograph. Now let's face it Children's Home in Israel, a world-renowned resi-- who can put a picture aside without looking at it? dential treatment center for severely emotionally Certainly not I! And this one happens to be the disturbed children located on threecampuses in group shot taken at a Central High reunion last Jerusalem and associated with the Yale University summer. A special reunion marking 50 years since Child Study Center. graduation. BBW also supports the B'nai B'rith Youth Since there were a lot of people in the photo, Organization, the Anti-Defamation League, and each face was just a tiny bit larger than the head of Hillel on college campuses. BBWs Arab-Israeli proa pin, so a careful scrutiny took a while. It wasn't ject on the campus of Hebrew University has long until I had gone over it twice that I remembered I fostered dialogue between Arab and Jewish stuwas directly behind a lady with a very large hair- dents. In the U.S., BBW and ADL recently introdo. Well, I wasn't really behind her so much as the duced campus conferences to address college prejufact that she moved just as the photographer dice and bigotry. snapped. The organization also helps assess local commuSo there you are ... a picture in which niy pres- nity needs and develops projects to fulfill them. ence is a complete secret. Never mind. I put it away Mrs. Krizelman will serve a two-year term on so it won't aggravate me the next time I run across the 25-woman board, along with members from the darn thing. Kansas City, St. Louis, Denver, Wichita, Tulsa, and What else did I find? I found my new pencil St. Joseph. sharpener with which I've reduced every pencil in For information, call 391-0661. the house to a two-inch stub - but what a point they each have! I alio ran across my Yiddish Dictionary in Transliteration. I forgot I even owned it, so 1 was Kylie Zacharia, daughter of Terri and Dick especially pleased to find it. It's a wonderful little Zacharia, and Rachel Shukert, daughter of Aveva volume, which, I might add, it should be. It was and Marty Shukert, will be appearing in the sumpriced way too high but I convinced myself it was mer production of "The King and I," directed by worth it. You never know when you're going to need Dan Hayes, theater director at the JCC. the Yiddish word for something, right? Or for that All performances are held at Ralston High matter, to confirm an iffy definition. School July 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 16. By the way, according to one authority, the For tickets and information, call the box office at Yiddish word for "toe" is "foosfinger." Don't you love 339-5867. it? It's my favorite. Besides an assortment of odd envelopes that Alan S. 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Chabad of Nebraska h!as announced the Aug. 22 opening of a full preschool program for 3 and 4 year In last week's issue, the Saturday schedjile for olds. The school will provide a stimulating environthe Farewell Weekend at Shaare Zion should'have ment that is warm, loving and supportive of each child's own learning priorities, according to Shani read: Saturday, July 30 - Morning services at 9 Katzman, director of the program. "Every child wants a listening ear. Every child a.m.; closing banquet following. has much to tell and contribute," explained Mrs. The Jewish Press regrets the omission. Katzman. 'To focus on the essence of what a child is communicating, is to do what excellent teaching has always done — inspire, respond, motivate, and set the stage for the student to think." ' The staff wrill focus on cultivating the creativity and resources that are the gifts of every child. The curriculum will address all areas of a child's development: socio-emotional, cognitive and physical. CLOSED FOR VACATION! The curriculum provides the framework for dealing with practice situations, helping the children learn how to interact with materials, peers and REOPEN JULY 26TH! adults. The class routine will revolve around circle time and a variety of activity centers wfith specific objectives for each. The program will integrate its Judaic program WINE within the general curriculum to provide for a BEER healthy, wholesome, Jewish experience. Classes will meet Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. Parents may choose between a two-, DINEIN three- or five-day program. TO-GO For information on tuition, schedule arid scholarships or to receive a handbook, call Mrs. Katzman at 697-1124.

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Births Dr. and Mrs. Joel Schlessinger announce the June 11 birth of a son, Daniel Isaac. They also have a daughter, Claire, 3. Grandparents are Bernard and June Schlessinger of Omaha and Maurice and Bernice Gordon of St. Louis, Mo. Rabbis Dan Fink and Laura Rappaport announce the June 26 birth of a daughter, Rosa Rappaport Fink. Grandparents are Donald and Sydell Rappaport of Succasunna, N.J., Rabbi Arnold Fink of Alexandria, Va., and Karen Fink of Pittsboro, N.C.

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quest. Rather, we seek to provide support and encouragement for their religious growth." The congregation's past president, James Cummins said, "Many of our members have a concept of God. But no specific or particular God concept is imposed on any member out of respect for the individual and that individual's efforts to tie expression to his or her deeply held religious beliefs. "All of our liturgy seeks to be compatible with our philosophy and to protect each member's personal religious journey." Reform Judaism traditionally has accepted belief in a personal God, explained Melvin Merians, chair of the UAHC board. "People's search for God has always been welcome in Reform Judaism," said Merians. "As a result, many Reform Jews feel very strongly about their own different interpretation of God. But the fact that Judaism, and Reform Judaism has always been God-centered has been reaffirmed by this debate." In this way, the debate, though difficult, may actually have led to greater cohesion within the movement, rather than opening it up for division, according to participants. A few days before the debate Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College, said he "could live with it," if the congregation were admitted to the union. "We don't believe in pariahs," Gottschalk said. "We don't like to exclude Jews. We've lost too many already." Still, he expressed some discomfort with the idea of opening the movement up to a congregation that "says we will not say the Shema when Jews have died for the right to say it." No one in the debate, however, "questioned whether they (Beth Adam members) were Jews or a part of the Jewish community," Yoffie said. Rather, the focus was on the role of congregations as opposed to individuals.

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Reform rejects 'humanistic' congregation By Caren Benjamin Washington Jewish Week WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a decision that its leaders see as simply a reaffirmation of long-standing beliefs, the Reform movement voted overwhelmingly not to admit as a member a congregation that calls itself "humanistic" and deletes all references to God in its services. Beth Adam, a small, 14-year-old congregation in Cincinnati applied for membership in the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella group of the Reform movement, in 1991. The following year, the UAHC's Midwest regional New Congregations Committee and the Midwest regional board discussed the application and decided against admitting Beth Adam. The matter then went tb the group's national board, which met in Washington over the weekend for its semi-annual session. The final vote, 115 against admittance, 13 for and 4 abstentions, did not come as much of a surprise to Rabbi Eric Yoffie, vice president of the 860congregation UAHC. Yoffie had expected the vote to be closer, but he also thought the congregation would "make a better case, show greater flexibility to their approach." The congregation's presentation before the board, Yoffie explained, made a case for its having a "questioning" or skeptical approach. That is not, however, what it sounded like to him. Instead, he said, the presentation made them sound like they were "a kind of Orthodoxy." Rather than questioning the nature of God, congregation members "systematically reject" all notions of God and "then said you could question it," Yoffie said. The clincher for him was a story presented by the congregation in which a 13-year-old girl wanted to say the Shema —Judaism's touchstone prayer of Ciod's oneness — at her bat mitzvah and was talked out of it after discussion with the rabbi. "Their starting point is not a questioning but a fundamental rejection of God," Yoffie said. Speaking in favor of the application, Beth Adam's Rabbi Robert Barr said that "Beth Adam does not seek to stifie its members in their religious

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Der Tog, member of the Poale Zion, merchant or poultry fanner, as seldom as possible a synagogue attender. ' ~~A Jewish atheist," the journalist, lecturer and social scientist Leonard Fein has said, "is a person who knows what the God he doesn't believe in requires of him." Fein might have been describing Donen, who wrote in an essay for YIVO, "I don't believe in prayer or ritual," yet while a member of the Lions Club in Rye, N.Y., "if they served bacon or ham, I would get something different, because I would not eat chazer (pig)." Nor would he send his daughters to a synagogue school. Much more attractive to him was a Workmen's Circle "shul," where his offspring could learn Yiddish rather than the Hebrew prayer services. Rye's Lions didn't care that Donen wouldn't eat chazer. They elected him president of the club. He also was a member of the American Legion and the YMCA and served as an air-raid warden. As were so many small-town American Jews, he was a super-patriot, grateful for the freedom this nation had provided for him. None of that lessened, however, his strong sense of Jewish identity. He was an activist for the Zionist Organization of America, contributed enthusiastically to the United Jewish Appeal and bought Israel Bonds. As early as 1952, writing his biographical update at YIVO's invitation, he declared: "People have finally come to the conclusion that something must be done to prevent our children from being fully assimilated." That was his rationale for helping a group who launched a Reform Jewish congregation in Rye and,

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!)hristensen faces barrage of B'nai B'rith questions By Morris Maline Jon Christensen faced a barrage of questions froili }5 B'nai B'rith members and guests during a Breadbreaker's meeting Wednesday at the Regency West Best Western. The Republican candidate for tongress from the Second Congressional District, after a 10-minute introductory statement in which he said his candidacy is based on lower taxes, fewer regulations and fis:al responsibility, answered questions on abortion, foreign aid, health care, prayer in schools, and whether the United,States is a Christian nation. Mr. Christensen said that school choice, or vouchers, is favored by most people who respond to polls 3n the subject, and that he favors such a system. He iaid also that since one cannot find a public prayer ;hat will fit all students, he favors a moment of silence, adding that he will leave decisions of this lature up to the local school board. He pointed out that his appearance .before his Shurch in a campaign commercial should not be nterpreted as his being a Christian candidate. 'Mine is an inclusive campaign, attracting all relifions, or none." On a woman's right to abortion, he said that while ie is pro-life, he is in favor of abortion to save the life »f the mother. "We must look at all alternatives, such is adoption, tc^help mothers." Mr. Christensen said he is a strong proponent for lid to Israel and for those cases where aid keeps or lelps a democracy to move forward in promoting a narket economy. • One question asked his opinion on whether the [Jnited States is a Christian country as many letters io the Omaha World-Herald public pulse assert. • "I believe we should teach all possible theories, not ust evolution, and that education should be under peal control." He added that he was unaware of differences in the ethics of Judaism and Christianity so hat he couldn't answer the question fully. Mr. Christensen said also that he is concerned ibout health care, but that turning the problem over » the federal government is not the answer. "We ihould look to private sector solutions to correct laws in the system, he said, explaining that market ffiented reforms might include making public the >ricing of hospitals, and making it possible for insurince companies to pool risks so that portability of llnesses would not be a problem. In his opening statement, Mr. Christensen said hat Rep. Peter Hoagland's references to him as bazaar, extremist and radical" are attempts to ittack and destroy an opponent who is doing well in he polls. Mr. Christensen described himself as a small busitessman who is tired of taxes and burdensome reguations, that he is not a professional politician. Runaway spending and excessive taxation are ankrupting this nation," he said, adding that he is ery similar in belief to former President Reagan nd that those who like the former president will ke him as well.

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Denmark's Queen is 'overwhelmed' by letters ^ on 50th anniversary of Danish rescue of Jew^ Submitted by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Even royalty can be overwhelmed at times and that is what happened when 15,139 Jewish children in the United States and Canada wrote thank-you letters to the Queen of Denmark to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the rescue of Danish Jews from the Queen Margrethe II

from a concentration camp with her sister after witnessing the death of their mother and fled to Denmark, where they were hidden and protected by Danes. How the Jews were rescued: The story of the historic rescue begins in 1943, just before the Jewish high holidays, when George Duckwitz, a German military attache in occupied Denmark, learned of a Nazi order to ship all Danish Jews to concentration camps. He tipped off a Danish ofTicial who alerted the Jewish community. Nazis. (Pholo b) Blgmor Mydl,kovl Like Duckwitz, the German army commander in In a letter to the Union of American Hebrew Denmark, General Hermann von Hannecken, also Congregations (UAHC), Queen Margrethe II -- opposed Berlin's policy. granddaughter of King Christian X, ,the monarch He ordered his troops not to take part in the who led the massive rescue effort - wrote that she roundup of Jews, forcing the Gestapo to do the job was "deeply moved" to receive the thousands of let- themselves. ters from youngsters of Reform Jewish congregaThe Danes hastily organized an underground tions in North America. She said the letters would network to ferry their Jewish fellow-citizens to be deposited in the Danish Resistance Museum in Sweden across the Sund waterway. Copenhagen. Virtually all of Denmark ;-- schools, hospitals, "It has been quite overwhelming to be allowed in churches, police, the fishing fleets and ordinary citithis manner to share the thoughts and feelings of zens led by King Christian X - took part in the all these children at being told what happened in effort, which succeeded in rescuing Denmark's this country so many years ago," the Queen wrote entire Jewish population of 8,000, except for some to Evely Laser Shlensky, chairman of the 500 who failed to heed the warning to leave and Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concenwhich distributed historical materials about the tration camp. These, too, were released after 18 rescue to the 850 Reform synagogues that make up months, due to unremitting pressure by the Danes. the UAHC. Among the Danish Jewish children who were Queen Margrethe II noted that the 5pth anniver- rescued was Leif Donde, who is now Denmark's sary of the rescue operation, which took place in consul-general in New York. He has received more October, 1943, had been commemorated in than 15,000 thank-you letters on behalf of the Denmark as well as abroad, "but nowhere more Queen at a ceremony at the Union of American widely than among the Jewish communities in Jewish Congregations earlier this year. North America." He noted that "the Danes, in general, do not The idea for the letter-writing campaign was think back on the event as representing any outsuggested by Judith Meisel of Santa Barbara, standing national achievement or heroic act, but Calif, who, as a Lithuanian-Jewish child, escaped simply as an act of common decency."

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