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Sol and Lee Jane Parsow will host party for Rose Blumkin Jewish Home patrons
Foi U.^ r^dst two years, Brian SifT (left) has attended Camp Rainbow as a counselor for termi: nally ill children firom 4 to 14 years of age. In this ^. photo, Brian is with lO-year-old Victor GrifTith, who has sickle-cell anemia. Coinddentally, Brian, an accompUshed cross-country runner, is the subject of a feature article on page 11. The article is titled, "A chip off the old ihoc."
Coming in September A four-part series of articles on American Jewish Life in 50 years. Author is Yosef I. Abramowitz, journalist, lecturer, consultant, and editor ot Jewish Family A Life, a parenting and lifestyles magasine.
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To show their appreciation to the donors who purchase patron dinner tickets for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home fundraiser, Sol and Lee Jane Parsow will host a cocktail party on Sept. 9 at the Regency Lake and Tennis Club. Comedian Shecky Greene, a friend 'of the Paivows, will be a guest at the party. He also will perform on stage at the Orpheum on Sunday night following the patron dinner at the O.P.P.D. Atrium. Patron tickets, according to the announcement, are $260 per person and these tickets include dinner at the Atrium and preferred seating for the show at the Orpheum. Tickets for the Shecky Greene show are $46, $36, and $26 each. All tickets and the patron dinner are partly tax deductible. Orpheum theater tickets are available at any Ticketmaster outlet, through the Omaha Civic Auditorium box ofBce, or by phone, 422-1212. Tickets also are available by sending a check, payable to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home and mailed to 'It's a LOVE Affair, c/o RBJH, 323 South 132nd St, Omaha, NE 68164. This first annual benefit for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home is being sponsored by L.O.V.E. (League Offering Volunteers to the Elderly). Mr. and Mrs. Parsow are being honored for their de^ad^jif suoport and volunteerine at the home.
Ten-jrear-old Samantha Oroaao, of Santa Barbara, CA, granddaaghter of Lorrie Bernatein (left) and Sheldon Bernstein, •bows her $5 allowance to Babe DobroCAy, a resident of the Rose Bluiakin Jewish Home. Samantha visits the Home whenever she comes to Omaha, and when she heard about the Home's need for money, she offered to donate her allowance. She told the Jewish Press that she loves to talk with the residents, play games with them, and keep them company. BIrs. Bernstein is one of the key fignrea in developing the fundraiser.
Partnership program changing UJA philanthropic style
^^ By Larry Yudelson NEW YORK (JTA) - ^ Israel is-no longer the needy cousin of the Diaeltora, ^%a a neWj:«la4|fcship baaed on mutuality continue to attract hundreds of millions of dollars annually in philanthropy? With Partnership 2000, the United Jewish Appeal is making a limited gamble that the answer will be yes. The program, launched last year, twins American communities and Israeli regions. Worlcing together, the Israeli and American partners will allocate roughly a sixth of the money sent to Israel by each American federation to help its matched Israeli locality. But in keeping with the emerging new IsraeliDiaspora relationship, and in marked distinction firom the Project Renewal program launched in the 1970s by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin, helping Israel's impoverished citizens is not the central goal of the UJA program. Instead, as the name indicates, it is about partnership. In Baltimore, which is matched with the central Galilee town of Karmiel and the surrounding region, the federation's Partnership 2000 committee has identified six areas of action. They include job creation and economic development; education; peer relationships between Israelis and Americans; regional cooperation between Karmiel and its rural neighbors; and promoting good relations between the area's 50,(XX> Jews and 160,000 Arabs. Social services also are a concern, but under the Partnership 2000 program they are treated differ•ntly from the Pngect Renewal experience. Iliese are not Pntject Renewal neighborhoods," paid Martin Waxman, who serves as a consultant io both the national UJA aitd the Baltimors federktion for the Partnership 2000 program. "Ilisse are largely sueoessfbl peopls." Reoognising that both Israali and American commonitiss have social problama, Waxman said, "We Blink ws can Isam from thair (social service] proIhssinnsls, and they can Isam from oun.*
Hs noted the potential ootential of exnortin? exporting Baltimore's Big Brother-Big Sister League to Israel and of looking to Karmiel's expertise for Baltimore's new domestic violence initiative. Waxman summed up the Partnership 2000 concept as "equal partners with both sides gaining and both sides gaining. No longer are the Diaspora partners simply the benefactor; we should be the beneficiary as well." Arik Raz, who as head of the Misgav Regional (^undl near Karmiel, is one of Baltimore's partners, agrees. "For the first time we see a place where we can help the Jewish community in the U.S., in programs where we build together," Raz said in a telephone interview from Baltimore, which he visited in July. Waxman said the Diaspora benefit would come through personal, family and community friendships created with the residents of the Karmiel region. Baltimore youth on Israel programs will spend time in Karmiel and Israeli youth will come to Baltimore, enhancing "the Jewish identity of our children for continuity,' he said. Reflecting the hope of a broad community wide partnership, Baltimore is involving heads of member agencies, such as Jewish Family and Children Services and the Jewish education bureau, in the process. So far, $600,000 has been allotted by the Jewish Agency for the Baltimore-Karmiel programs, reflecting the size of past Baltimore UJA campaigns. The actual spending decisions are made by a joint committee of the twinned Israeli snd American communities. More than s third was devoted to economic development programs, such as funding for business development centers and high- technology "incubators' designed to help flsdi^ing oamnMrdal concerns in Karmiel and the sumraoding ngion. A medical service program, aimed at turning Kannlal into a m^jor rsgional medical osntsr, was
allocatAH iflR 000 A program nrncrrnfn to fn help ha with the allocated $86,000. abaorpticn of elderly immigrants received $60,000. And $30,000 was allocated to bring kids from Pittsburgh and . Baltimore up to the region when they visit Israel. Another $15,000 was allocated to a Jewish-Arab youth choir. So far, the allocations process has followed along the lines of that in Project Renewal — the Diaspora partners participate with the steering committees of local ofifidals. Waxman hopes, however, that Partnership 2000 will incorporate programming suggested by the Diaspora partners as well. One idea that has come up: a program of e-mail communication between schoolchildren in both countries. In Detroit, similarly, the Partnership 2000 program has already involved parts of the community not usually affected by UJA programs. Detroit chose to twin with a nearby Galilee region that includes the towns of Upper Nazareth and Migdal Ha'emelL Tlie region can claim the title of Israel's automotive capital on the beisis of the country's sole Jeep assembly plant. But the regional leaders have not been on the forefront of the UJA and Israel Bonds lecture circuits. After an initial visit to Israel last year, Detroit's Partnership 2000 committee decided that its Israeli partners needed a crash course in American Jewry. The Detroit federation sponsored a weeklong, fact-finding tour of Michigan. The nine-member Isrseli delegation included three mayors and one regional council head. "They basically were taken on a mission," said Tova Eiorfman, difector of Partnership 2000 for the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. The first goal of the visit was " to spend time in our agencies and understand how federation functions,' Dorflnan said. After that came a focus on economic derelopmeQt and partnerships.