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NCJW again donates $10,000 to Home tiCJV/ has been invaluable in its support of the Jewish elderly, both at the former Dr. Sher Home and now at the Roee Blumkin Jewish Honne,' said Mr. Lepp. He continued, "For decades, Mrs. Brodkey and Mrs. Friedman have been tireless in their dedication in shiBpherding this fund, and we are so appreciative of their efforts, as well as those of other volunteers on behalf of the Home.'
Judy Shulewitz injure^ in bus bombing By Morris MaUne
Bob Lepp, president of the Bureau For The Aging, received the second $10,000 check in the past two years from NCJW (National Council of Jewish Women) Omaha Section's Rose Blumkin Jewish Home tribute fiind. Vicki Sanford, local NCJW president, presented the check which will be used to help pay for a needed cellular phone system for the Home. Lois Friedman (Mrs. Lloyd) and Rae Brodkey ' have been long-time promoters of this fund, one of several administered by NCJW, as a way for people to honor and remember loved ones while helping the Blumkin Home acquire furnishing^ and equipment Since 1981, they have collected and turned over to the Bureau For The Aging more than $100,(X)0 for the nursing home. These monie* have been used toward the purchase of things sueh aa vans, large screen TVs, ceiling fans, patient lifts and a Home directory display.
The daughter of Rabbi Sherry Shulewitz was among the injured when a bomb exploded in a bus last Saturday in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood'of Ramat Eshkol. Rabbi Shulewitz led the Reconstructionist Congregation in Council Bluffs when she was a student rabbi in 1993. Her daughter, Judy, 19, from Jamison, PA, was taken to Shaarei Zedek hospital, her head, hands and knees cut by flying glass. In a news article in a Denver newspaper, forwarded to the Jewish Press by Mike Sahni, Ms. Shulewitz was quoted as saying that a lot of people fell on top of her and that she could see body parts "everywhere." Ms. Shulewitz was in the back of Bus No. 9 when Bus No. 26 pulled alongside. That is when the bomb exploded on Bus No. 26, the report stated. She was on her way to classes at Hebrew University when tha bombing took place. Her mother is with her.
Film, television discussion ^t Klutznick Symposium By the Symposium Committee 'Representations of Jews in American Fibn and Television,' is the topic for the Sunday evsfiing program of the Eighth IQutznick Symposium in the JCC theater Sunday, Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m. Yoram Lubling (Department of Philosophy, Elon College) and David Porush (Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) will make presentations and take questions from the audience. Films are a magical, metaphysical reality projected on a screen from which we are conspicuously absent. As such, the medium of film provides us witli a unique opportunity to present and evaluate ourselves and our world without actually risking involvement In our attempt to construct the image of the Jew in American films, we must be especially observant since the movie industry in America has been greatly influenced by Jewish individuals. From studios to movie theater ownership, from directors to actors and screen Writers, from musicians to song writers and others, the experiences of the new minority in America have been inevitably projected on the screen. Yoram LubUng focuses on the image of the Jew which emerged out of the American movie industry: from the early years of the silent movie and its. exaggerated stereotyping of the Jew, an image that today we consider anti-Semitic and highly offensive, to the Jewish 'Americanization' and the "melting pot' mentahty of the '308; from the examination of American anti-Semitism and the accusation that the 'Jewish' movie industry is pushing America into World War II by Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota; and Charles A Lindbergh in the '408 (Continued on page 10)
A Devar Torah (delivered recently at Beth El Synagogue) By Simon Mogilevsky Shabbat Shalom, brothers and siaters! Listening to what was read today, watching how it was delivered and performed and taking all that in a historical perspective beginning with the services performed in the biblical times, I would say that Jews are the people of the Book (we call it Torah) and the Temple (we call it now Synagogue). From the Torah we derive our beliefs and inspirations; under the auspices of the Synagogue we are united and become a community of brothers and sisters. The Torah is given to us in a form of an uninterrupted scroll where the end *... kol Israel. . .' and the beginning 'Bereshith...' is just a short jump .from one to another, and we do it once a year. The Synagogue is a place where we, as brothers and sisters, become children again and sit quietly and solemnly listening to the events of our ethnic past and the doctrine we should incorporate into our daily lives. Here, we are constantly reminded of the suffering 'of our ancestors in the land of Egypt and of the miraculous way they were brought out of there by Divine intervention. ^ Here, we are constantly reminded about the mitzvot that should guide us throughout our livee. In today's parshah, Va'Etchanan, God directs Moses' attention towards the rule* of eatablisbing a new life for a new generation of Jewf in the land which was given to them for their eternal poasea•ion. In the parshah, Moees reminded people of what happened in Horeb when God pronounced the Ten Commandments. Moset appealed to the people, - *I have taught you statutes and ordinances which the Lord, my God, commanded me. learn than, obeerve them, and do them; fbr this
is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of other people that... shall say: 'Surely this great nation is a nation of wise and understanding people.' In response, all the people of Israel reafBrmed it and in a remarkable unity and with a great determination pronounced the fundamental credo of the Jewish people '^h'ma Israel" (Hear, O Israel): Adonai is our God, Adonai is One." The great Jewish writer in Yiddish Sholom Aleichem once wrote a short story 'Fun Yarmarka' (From a Fair). The massage he conveyed in this story was that a fair is hke life; it is full of memorable events and vibrant emotions. Coming from the fair, sitting in a brichka
for having given me an opportunity to reflect my stretch of life and to share with them some of my thoughts. . wise assessments, I would rather to do it later in my life when I mature a little bit more. There are many theories why the Jews, as an entity of people, have survived for so many years and have kept their ethnic and spiritual identities. I am promising you today I will not throw in a new theory of Jewish survival. I would rather dwell on the one of the most fascinating asftect of it - Jewish kinship - which stems from the Tenth Commandment we have read in today's parshah, and it also stems from the deep beliefs developed by the Jews throughout their history, such as tz'dakah, and gemlut hesed. First of all, a little bit of history of Russian Jews. Under the czars, ^nce the time of Catherine the Great, Jews were confined to live in the specially designated areas which mostly consisted of shtetlakh (small cities). It was Sholom Aleichem who so vividly captured the life there and who tried to bring hope and inject smiles into the misery of existence of the Jewish people who lived there. It was an another Jewish personality, the highly acclaimed artist. Marc Chagall who, in his surrealistic pictures, brought into the world of art the sweet charm and naive nostalgia of the life in thoae shtetlakh. After 1917, to the credit of the first Bolshevik (Rusdan bend wagon) and peaaing a serene land- rulers, the Jews were no longer required to live in scape, it is the time for a person of age to reflect the designated places. upon the stretch of his life and to make wise They moved in droves from shtetlakh to the Ug cities, where they joined the mainstream of the After living for 44 year* in Russia and 18 years in Russian intelligentsia and proletariat the United States, I, myself, feel that I am coming With a total ban on any religious activitiee, the from a fair. old and middle age generation of Jews, with the I thank this community of brothers and sisters (Continued on page 10)
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By Habbi Myer S. Kripke GERTRUDE SIMON Parashat Re'eh Services for Gertrude (Trudi) Siibon were held Kiryah Ne'emanah — The Faithful City Monday at Temple; Israel Cemetery. Although I have long agoi accepted a qualified She was preceded in death by her husband, view of tWe "Documentary Hypothesis" of the histo- Lester. ry of our Torah, I have never been totally satisfied Survivors include three sons, Alan, Frederick with any explanation of the term "the site which and Stephen, all of Qmaha; seven grandchildren; the Lord your God will choose to establish His and three great-grandchildren. name .. ." . Memorials may be made to Methodist Hospii*. If, indeed, Deuteronomy was ""written" or accepted about 620 or 600 B.C.E., how is it that the writer could use that term 400 years after that site was clearly the city of |Jerusalem and its Temple of Solomon? Yet the term occurs again and again and By Natalie Weinstein again in our Sidrah! Jewish Bulletin of Northern California The world Jewish community is about to celeSAN FRANCISCO(JTA) — Joan Edelstein brate the 3000th anniversary of David's establishment of the city as his religious, cultural and politi- Davenny arrived in Jerusalem in late July for what was supposed to be one of the best years of her life. cal capital. An accepted date is 10O4 B.C.E Since that time Jerusalem has had a'^hequered ^ '*«'='>" *' « Connecticut Jewish day school, she history. But it has never been without Jews, was taking a year's sabbatical on a prestigious felexcepting when the Romans expelled all Jews afler lowship to study at The Hebrew University's 70, for some decades, and again during the Melton Center for Education. The San Francisco native was finally near her Crusades when Christians expelled all Jews. For the last century-and-a-half, Jews have been parents and two of her sisters, all of whom had made aUyah years earlier. And Davennys 18-yearthe majority in the population of the city. In a letter to the United Nations in 1971, Abba old daughter, Maya, was scheduled to arrive in Eban wrote: "Jerusalem is for Israel the focal point September for a yearlong program in Israel. "Joan was extremely excited. It was her dream to of Jewish history: the symbol of ancient glory, of be in Israel for a year," Davennys brother-in-law, longing, of prayer, of modem renewal." It is good for Jews to remember this, aijd to be Amiel Malale, said from his home in Manhattan. prepared to say it when discussions arise as to the But on Monday morning, Davenny stepped onto a future of Jerusalem. This is the knotty problem bus heading to The Hebrew University to attend which will bring Arabs and Israelis to the nub of her second week of Hebrew ulpan classes. A suicide bomber stepped onto the same bus, and their relations when other knotty problems have Davenny became one of the five fatalities in the reached a stage of compromise. No Jewish party in Israel is willing to compro- explosion. She celebrated her 47th birthday just last week. mise on this one. Jerusalem is Israel's capital. Family and friends in the United States and Israel Period. recalled a energetic woman who loved teaching, Jerusalem is not "holy to three religions." Not in Judaism and the Jewish state. "She was very vivathe same sense. It is holy to Christianity only that cious and gregarious," her mother, Betty Edelstein, it was its birthplace and the home of its imputed said in a telephone interview from her Jerusalem founder. But its development was not there.. . home. It is holy to Islam, a distant third after Mecca 'She was full of life." For the past decade, and Medina. It is not — and never was — a destiDavenny had taught language arts and social studnation for Muslim pilgrimages. It has two famous ies to sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at Ezra mosques, to be ^MTC., on the Temple Mount. But Academy, a Conservative day school in Woodbridge, thai is about it. despite the curious, recently Conn., a suburb of New Haven. invented, propapandislic "history" of the city as a Rabbi Jesse Fink, vice principal of Ezra Academy, •Muslim litily place. said Davenny had a special talent for ^YQrking«itli Only to Jews :s J<'ru.s,Tlem the Zion nf Zionism, youths. the capital city of its ancestors who lived in the "She had not only an enthuSiasiii, but she had an land, the holy place where the Bible was created ability to relate to children at the most miserable and given to the House of Israel and mankind, the age for them," Fink said. focus of attention for millenia of prayer and hope In the evenings, she also taught classes at and inspiration. Makom, a religious-education program for teenOnly to Jews is Jerusalem Kirvah Ne'emanah. agers and New Haven's equivalent of an afterthe Faithful City. school Hebrew high school. "She was dynamic, totally energized for any subject. But her specific love was for Israel," Fink said. Four years ago, she began taking eighth-graders on a two-week trip to Israel. Fink said Davenny hoped that the trip would "sow seeds of love of Israel" in her students. The trip worked so well that it was later expanded to three weeks. Davenny WES' no stranger to Israel. She had lived on a kibbutz for a year in the 1970s and had visited the Jewish state at least two dozen times. Friends and relatives also said Davenny supported the peace process. Sharon Kaufman, one of her closest friends since childhood, said Davenny "had a very sophisticated and in-depth knowledge of the Israeli scene," but that she was also 'devastated by all the horrific incidents." 'Ultimately, like everyone, she was optimistic," said Kaufman, who lives in San Anselmo, Calif. Sounding weary, Betty Edelstein said her daughter was "strongly in favor" of the peace process. "She felt it was the right way to go." Karen Sokolof Javitch and James Conant recently won the 1994-95 Theatre Ai^ Guild Davenny made her final trip to San Francisco last award for outstanding new script for their summer to visit Pauline Edelstein, her grsndmothmusical "Lovel at the CafeP It was'also nomi- er and s longtime Jewish community activist who nated for three other T.A.G. awards. The died at age 96 last September. musical made its debut in Omaha in February Pauline Edelstein, a Zionist, was alarmed when and ran for an extended period of seven ever she heard about terrorist attscks in Israel. weeks. 'She would always go into a complete panic until she found out for sure none of her relatives were involved," Beth Sholom's Rabbi Alan Lew said. 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BETH EL SYNAGOGUE 14006 California, Omaha, NE 68154 492-8550 Office Hours: Monday through Thursday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits. FRIDAY: Services start at 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services at 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. Sitter service starts at 10 a.m. Shabbat story time, the first and third Saturday at 11 a.m. Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services, 8 p.m. SUNDAY: Services start at 9 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 6:56 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Judaica Shop Open Tuesday through Thursday, U a.m. to 2 p.m., or by appointment. B'naiMitzvah Aaron Rich, son of Joel and Mary Rich, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday evening and Saturday morning. David Epstein, son of Judy and Steven Epstein, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday evening, Sept. 1. and Saturday morning, Sept 2.
BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 1502 No. 52nd Street, Omaha, NE 68104 5564288 Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Joseph Friedman. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning services are at 8:45 a.m. in the Sanctuary and Goldstein Chapel. Babysitting service provided by Sisterhood. Super ShabboB--For children of all ages, 9:30 a.m. ICiddush sponsored by the children of Paula and Roman, Amster in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. 8 TIFERETH ISRAEL 3219 Siieridan Blvd. Luncheon sponsored by Sylvia Ross in honor of Lincoln, NE 68502 the engagement of her granddaughter, Charlotte 423-8569 Ross, to Matthew Katz. srvices are conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Mincha at 7:45 p.m., followed by Shalosh Seudot, Ma'Ariv and Havdalah. ibaum. ...inyans on Mondays and Thursdays at 7:15 SUNDAY: ,a.m. Services at 9 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. FRIDAY: WEEKDAYS: Services start at 8 p.m. Services at 7 a.m. and 7:46 p.m. SATURDAY: Practical Judaiam Services start at 9:30 a.m. A class with Rabbi David Kaye will be held Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Kaye, 12237 Turner Cir. ' Cookbook KBTJAIJESHURUN 'Happiness is Still Good Food,' available at the 20th and South Streets gift shop, or call Charlotte Kaplan at 551-6668. Lincoln, NE 68002 Sisterhood Gift Shop 435-8004 Sisterhood gift shop is open by appointment. Call Y i~>crvices are ofHciated by Cantor Michael Leah Siegel at 556-5455. Weis^er. FRIDAY: tniAl ISRAEL Shabbat evening service at 7;30 p.m. SATURDAY: The RECON8TRUCTIONI8T Torah study and service at 10 a.m. CONGREGATION SUNDAY: 087-1600 Hebrew school, 9 a.m.; Religious school, 10 a.m. Services are led by Rabbi Ruth Ehrenstein and congregants. NOTE: Services on the first and third Fridays of ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME each month are held in Omaha. All other Friday BATURDAYi night services are held in Council Blufls. Servieee, led by Maximo Shechet, will be held in For information on any activities, call 697-1660. he Qoldsten Chapel at 9 ajn. FRIDAY: Members of the community are invited to join Shabbat service, 7:30 p.m., B'nai Israel East. residents for the service and the kiddush following. SATURDAY: Special memorial services are held on the last 6 p.m.-Study lession: 'Making the High iturday of each month. Holidays Meaningful for Familiee and Individuals;' 6 p.m.-Potluck 7:30 pjn.-Havdalah. All held at the BomsteinOFFXJTT Capehart Chapel Loughrin home, 4911 California St SSth Street and Capehart FRIDAY, Sept li Omaha, I4B 68US Family service, B'nai Israel West 2044061 SATURDAY, Sept. 2: Shabbat morning service at Rabbi Ehrenstein's FBIDAYi home. For information, call 697-1660. ServioM start at 8 p.m.
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Andrew Jacob Yale, son of Janis and Donald Yale, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah Saturday, Sept 2, at Temple Israel. A seventh-grade student at Beveridge Junior High School, he enjoys math, science, basketball and baseball. He also enjoys long-distance rufining. Andrew has three brothers, Adam, Alex and Jason, and a sister, Laura. Grandparents are Roz Friedman of Omaha and the late Ike Friedman, and the late Charles and Eleanor Yale of Denver. Lindsay Blair Goldberf, daughter of Sherry Josin Goldberg, formerly of Omaha, and Ken Goldberg of Dallas, Texas, will become a Bat Mitzvah Saturday, Sept. 2, at Temple Emanu-EI in Dallas. An honor student at Parkhill Junior High in Dallas, she is active in gymnastics, volleyball, basketball and photography. Lindsay has a brother, Richard, and a sister, Jenny. Grandparents are Ben and Emma Josin of Omaha and Bob and Lois Goldberg of Dallas. Beqjamin Fabrikant, son if Ilya and Marina Fabrilcant, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday, Sept. 1, and Saturday, Sept 2, at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in Lincoln. A seventh-grade student at Irving Middle School in Lincoln, he enjoys playing violin and listening to classical music. He is an avid chess player and won second place at the Cornhusker State Games in 1994, and has participated in several national tournaments around the United States. He also eiuoys languages (especially French), and Aikido and soccer. Benjamin has twin siitert, Maya and Iva, 9. Grandparents are Sara (Sonya) Fabrikant of Cherry Hill, NJ., and the late Sheina and Leivik Soirkin, Frida Kagan, and loeif Fabriluuit
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Letter froiff Israel Allen The collapse of^^itjbs^anic expectations is a sbat' tering, alienating experience. The apostasy of Shabbtai Zvi, the false messiah of Eastern European Jewry so devastated classical Jewish faith that it spawned hassidisn^ — the earlyday of Shlomo Carlbach song and dance and jo)rfiil community kind of Jewishness ratheir than the stolid intellectualism of Lithuanian practice. The messianic expectations revolving around the Lubavich rebbe caused considerable disorientation within that community when Rabbi Schneerson died. In Israel, it was the victory in the Six Day War that was seen in messianic terms by many religious Zionists. As Israel gained control of places like Jericho, Hebron, Shilo, Beit El, these bibUcal places suddenly held divine promise of a "greater Israel' stretching from the nver to the sea. Menachem Begin, while not a religious person, none-the-lesB capitalized on these sentiments to begin a settlement drive on the West Bank to enhance what he beUeved were the security needs of Israel. But despite rehgious fervor, despite enormous governmental investment, despite very cheap housing, only 140,000 Jews moved to the territories and 72% of these live on 10% of the West Bank land. As a result, there are 4.3 million Jews today between the river and the sea, and just over 2.0 million Arabs. Within Israel, there are over 4.0 million Jews and under 1.0 million Arabs. Should Israel choose to retain the West Bank, we will become either (a) a bi-national not a Jevrish state or (b) a South Africa practicing apartheid to keep from becoming so. It is this basic reality which has motivated the whole notion of territorial compromise and which has caused the collapse of messianic dreams of controlling all of Israel. The whole concept of'greater Israel' died with Oslo and was buried with the Taba accords. No matter who wins the next election, this fact will not be altered. The Shas party, the largest of the religious parties supports the concept of negotiating with the PLO and territorial compromise even though it is no longer a part of the coalition. David Levy, one time Likud foreign minister, is starting a new party which will honor the agreements. The Third way, a middle of the road group consisting largely of retired generals, is opposed to Rabin but favors its own version of territorial concession, and even within Likud, there are voices of compromise. As the day of final decision nears, the disintegration of the messianic dream has channeled the disappointment and frustration of those holding that fading dream into more and more violent confrontation with the government. But the battle is over and wiser heads should now start the healing process. As the great Irish poet, Yeats, wrote of the Irish rebellion 80 years ago, "you may throw your sticks and stones, but Irelandl not be free." Despite all of the protests, the dream of "Greater Israel" is over.
To the Editor. The letters to the editor concerning my column "Sparks From the Word," by Rabbi Kaye and Rabbi Saffran (Aug. 18) were unnecessary, since their position had been fully expressed earlier. This makes it unnecessary for me to reply at any length. The issue is squarely drawn: Is Torah, Jewish doctrine and practice, of divine origin—or not? Was Torah, Biblical and rabbinic, the Truth proclaimed by a supernatural God at Sinai—or not? Pro forma, rabbinic Judaism, over the centuries, answered Yes. Pro formk it maintained that all the changes, additions, expansions, deletions, and cancellations produced by rabbinic thinking were already given at Sinai, divinely given. When Emancipation, however, finally allowed Among the articles I am reading in preparing for Jews to confront the modern world (centuries, to be our New Year's issue is a holiday message written sure, later than the rest of Western civilization), a by Rabbi Doniel Z. Kramer entitled, " A Year of large mtyority of Jews insisted on entering moderr Miracles and Wonders." nity. The title refers to the fact that the Hebrew letIn my view, Judsusm is much too beautiful, too ters signifying the coming year -- Tav, Shin, Nun, rewarding, too important for us and for Vav -- are the initials of a prayer: "Tehay Shnat humankind, to be lefl to those who cling to a way of Nisim Ve'nifla'ot," "May it be a year of miracles and thinking that denies and defies Jewish history, wonders." _ . , ,. • i and, as well, the history of Judaism. Fortunately, For me and my wife, Ruth, the year of miracles and wonders already has begun - we have a grand- most orthodox Jews do not share that way of thinking. : daughter, Robin Elise Maline. Nor do I. I consider it objectionable because it is This eight-pound, four-ounce sweet-looking child ' entered our family on Aug. 7 in Washington, D.C., obtuse, obscurantist, obsolete, frozen, rigid and and automatically thrust me into that enchanted '• untenable. Rabbi Myer S. Kripke I world of 'grandfatherhood.' Now, 1 know why grandparents kvell when they To the Editor. show photos and talk of the accomplishments of I address this urgent letter to all who have an their grandchildren. I am one of this select group interest in preserving B'nai Israel Synagogue in and already I can attest to the child's charm, intellect,,strength, and ability to hypnotize her grand- (Council Bluffs. It is apparent that some of our members wish to father into gratifying her every whim. abandon the 'Little Synagogue Off Broadway" and Scores of friends and readers (moat of whom are grandparents) share this kinship with me because move to another site in Omaha. This is partly due Ruth and 1 have received numerous mazel tovs to the burden of maintaining an old building with its numerous problems and a desire to locate closer 1 from many parts of the country. to their own habitations. One in particular intrigued me. This is not a hostile separation. We wish those ! A letter from former Omahan Marilyn Warren, now a resident of St. Louis, provided me with an who choose to abandon our fold and seek another update of her one-year-old grandson, Luke, who is God speed. However, those of us who feel a great affinity for B'nai Israel with its many memories coming to visit from Johannesburg. Her beautiful letter is filled with loving detail and happier days, wish to exert an all-out effort to about her own experiences, and I easily can trans- maintain its integrity as the only. Jewish place of . • pose her happiness and delight to what is in store worship in Southwest Iowa! If you are of a like-mind and wish to join our for me. She closes with a great comment that my chil- group in Council Bluffs, please contact Allan Kurland, our secretary pro tem, at 323-8885, or call dren should read: "... I, the grandparent with one year's experience, me at 366-1244 and put your shoulder to the wheel! Jerome E. Bleicher, MD. will leave the two of you with probably the most Council Bluffs, Iowa intelligent and truest words you will ever hear as grandparents - nobody can bring up children as well as their grandparents can!" And while I have Marilyn's attention, let me suggest that she take a look at Robin's sweet face and Envoy had aided exodus of Ethiopian Jews think ahead 20 or so years. known as Operation Solomon. Erasure, 63, was By Matthew Dorf ...Robin Elise Warren - that doesn't sound too WASHINGTON(JTA) — Fleeing a civil war and one of three U.S. diplomats who died outside bad at all! Sarajevo last Saturday, when the armored vehicle . Anything can happen when we talk of miracles hoping to make their way to Israel, 20,000 Jews arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, five years ago the three were traveling in skidded off a mountain and wonders. road and exploded. And as Rabbi Kramer concludes his message: with no place to Uve and Uttle to eat. Frasure, the deputy assistant secretary of state Robert Erasure, then deputy chief of mission at "May our hopes and prayers during the forthcomwho served as special American envoy to the forthe U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia, hopped on a truck ing Holy Days be fulfilled. May we and the entire House of Israel witness the spreading of the taber- and helped embassy staffers unload tents and high mer Yugoslavia, was killed as he tried to bring his peacemaking skills to the Balkan conflict. nacle of peace over Jerusalem and the entire protein food rations for a makeshift refugee canp. He later helped bring about the agreement with Back in May 1990, at the height of the Ethiopian world." _ . This is my lasting wish for Robin, Luke, and all the Ethiopian government that enabled the 1991 dvil war, 20,000 Jews fled the Gondar Province. dramatic secret airUft of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Jews praised Frasure for his efforts. the grandchildren and grandparents of the world.
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What's new — and on view at the Federation Library By Edythe Wolf, director While the Messiah Tarries by Melvin Jules Bukiet. Nine short stories make up this unusual iollection of Jewish tales by a master storyteller. Fhe title comes firom Maimonides' Thirteen principles: "I believe. . .in the coming of the Messiah, ven though he may tarry, 1 await him." Bukiet plores in great depth the predicaments of Jews in erica while the Messiah tarries. The Racist Mind: Portraits of American Nedazis and Klansmen by Raphael S. Ezekiel. zekiel offers some solid sociological and psychological insights into the character of contemporary l^erican hate groups and their members. '. The 6 Messiahs by Mark Frost. In the first book >f the series. The List of 7, Arthur Conan Doyle poet the enigmatic Jack Sparks, a secret agent of lorts who inspired him to create the immortal Sherlock Holmes. Now, 10 years after his presumed )eath, a greatly changed Sparks reappears — just in time to save Doyle from assassins during a Iteamship crossing of the Atlantic. Readers should Ippredate the wry contemporary touches that spice IP this classical-style, slam-bang adventure. \ Circling Eden by Carol Magun. When Rebecca Sarrison leaves her Yalie boyfiriend behind in 1973 » spend her junior year abroad in Jerusalem, she invisions Israel partly as an all-green biblical Sden, partly as an idealistic, egalitarian Utopia. Inevitable disappointments and misunderstandngs, and her gradual awakening to modem Israeli realities and a new sense of self, form the subItance of this debut novel. Sasha's Trick by David Rosenbaum. This is a •upercharged suspense story that penetrates the leadliest and fastest growing new criminal syndilate on the international scene: the Russian Ifafiya. It's a tale of a fabulous cache of art twice dundered, first by the Nazis, then by the conquerng Red Army. Sasha goes on a breathtaking jdysaey through a frighteningly transfigured poetr lold war world. Emma Lasarua in Her World: Life and Letters by Bette Roth Young. A biography and elected letters of this literary great, included over AQ newly-discovered letters to her daughter and uny literary grsata of her time. Read in her own rords her impressions of the great American and European personalities of the time: Louisa May dcott, Oscar Wilde, Eliubeth Barrett Browning nd others. The Jewish War by Tova Reich. This is the Itory of Yehudi HaCioel (formerly Jerry Goldberg of he Bronx), the fiery and charismatic king of an Btreme Zionist sect. This book is a stunning Boount of the struggle between political realities pd historical vision, between the hope for peace Bd a fiene commitment to sacred, eternal truth.
Jewish Family Service to present family series By Alice A. WeiM Jewish Family Service' will present a three-part series addressing different aspects of familyi life. The 'Focus on the Family' series will consist of informal, one-evening presentations by the agency's clinical staff. These presentations wiiU be firee of charge as part of the Family Life Education programs. The schedule for the first series is as follows: Tuesday, Sept. 5 - 'How to CWt Your Child to Listen Without Hitting, Screaming or Bribing." Presenter: Glen Fineman, L.M.H.P., C.M.S.W., executive director, Jewish Family Service. Tuesday, Sept. 12 - "How to Talk So Your Spouse Will Listen: Improving Communication in Marriage." Presenter: Alice A. Weiss, L.M.H.P., C.M.S.W., therapist. ^ Tuesday, Sept. 19 - "Divorced Kids: Helping Your Child Cope with Divorce." Presenter: Cindy Ridgway, L.M.H.P., C.M.S.W., therapist. All programs will start at 7:30 p.m. in the adult loungeof the JCC . Telephone registration is requested. You may sign up for one, two, or all three programs. For more information, or to register, call 3302024.
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Bhimkin Home auditorium. Popcorn will be served. ittjf was carrying one of those contraptions used Transportation is available. fo^fransporting an infant, had her purse hanging from her shoulder and waited politely to be seated. VISIONS September membership luncheon will be held She was approached, and led to a nice table for two; Friday, Sept. 15, 12:30 p.m., at Caniglia's Venice she parked the infant carrier (with a sleeping baby) Inn. Susie Drazen will review the book "No on one of the two chairs and seated herself in the Ordinary Time; Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; other. I didn't stare, but did look over now and then and The Home Front in World War II." Cost is $6.50 per person. Mail reservation form by Sept. 8 to soon realized she was not expecting anyone else to Helen Rifkin, 9302 Bemis Plaza, #2, Omaha, NE join her. She was served a really nice lunch, which 68114. she ate with obvious pleasure, taking her tiihe and Visions trip to Topeka, Kan., to see the exhibit clearly a^ relaxed as my friends and I were. Treasures of the Czars Wednesday, Nov. 1, is on a So what's my point? Well, think about it. If I had first come, first served basis. Cost is $40 and seen this in the coffee shop at the super market, I includes motorcoach transportation, admission to wouldn't have paid much attention. It's not at all museum and coffee and donuts. Send reservation unusual to see a young mother with a baby (or form with payment to Betty Sanford, 9205 Western kid(s) of any age) stop for a quick bite to eat while Ave., #127, Omaha, NE 68114. shopping. Most of them actually manage to finish Visions will celebrate Sukkot at Grampa's Farm lunch before the kid fusses and they leave. in Blair Sunday, Oct. 8. A fun evening is planned To see a nicely dressed, relaxed woman with an with farm activities and a bar-b-que with all the infant enter a fine restaurant and treat herself to a trimmings. The all-inclusive cost is $22 per pel^on. lovely lunch, alone, is a little rare however. \ Motorcoach transportation will leave the JCC at Wouldn't you agree? 2:30 p.m. and return at approximately 8:30 p.m. I kept wondering about her. Did she dp this Mail reservation form with full payment to Betty often? Was she just unable to bring herself to eat Sanford, 9205 Western Ave., #127, Omaha, NE one more solitary lunch in her own kitchen? Was it 68114. her birthday and she decided she deserved to treat Theatre at the "J" presents "Book of Truth, Book herself? Was somebody supposed to meet her who of Lies," by Jewish solo performing artist Ahce Eve didn't show tip? Was she the wife of one of the wait ers, perhaps? Cohen Saturday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m. Mail reservation form with full payment by Sept. I thought of a dozen different possibiUtes but of 7 to Margaret ConU, 323 So. 132nd St., Omaha, NE course I have no idea what the real answer was. 68154. When she was finished, she paid her bill, gathered up her still sleeping baby and left. The entire scene BREADBREAKERS Dr. Richard Freund will speak to B'nai B'rith served to remind me how much I admire today's Breadbreakers Wednesday at noon at Regency young people. When I was at home with infants to care for, it West Best Western, according to Bob Birt, chairwouldn't have entered my mind to dress and go out man for August. Dr. Freund, professor jof Philosophy and Religion for a nice lunch, with the kid. But that was a very at UNO, is involved in the Bethsaida Dig, and will different time—we shouldn't try to make compargive an update of his summer in Israel at the site of isons. I admire that woman....I hope she lunches that the Dig. way often. Way to go, girl! Cost is $7.50 and the public may attend. 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Israel, Eritrea sign medical pact By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel and Eritrea have signed a medical cooperation agreement under which Israel will provide the East African nation with medical equipment and expertise. Israeli Health Minister Ephraim Sneh pigned the agreement last week during a visit to the country, which was formerly a part of Ethiopia. Sneh also presented Eritrea with two incubators valued at $76,000 apiece. A delegation of Israeli pediatricians and ophthalmologists will|' soon start training Eritrean physicians, according to a statement issued by the Health Ministry. Israel, which will also launch a program to help train Eritrean nurses, is also planning to help establish an intensive care unit there. cAuauiM*wMEMui»ioomMOTfcwiu>ni(nwfii AWWMc MmmcADrnMammM
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government Approval, we were able to maintain aome cultural Jewish outlets, such as Yiddish ne\^8paper "Emeth" (truth). I remember, my grandfather was subscribing for it. Ironically, this title Was identical to the title of the oflicial newspaper of the communist pa'rty "Pravda" which also ineans truth. Then, it was monthly magazine "Heimland" (homeland) and the Jewish theater in Moscow. It is there, in the final days of its existence, in earlier 50th, the great Jewish actor Solomon Michoels stretched his big talerlt from the folk play "Gershele Ostropoler" to Shakespeare's 'King Lear". The end of World War II, establishing the state of Israel, so called trial of physicians, all of them Jews, except one, was a beginning of deterioration of the conditions for Russian Jews. From that time on their self consciousness was on the rise. Back then, when we were cut ofiF from our religious heritage, we were united under the intangible but vibrant banners of the ethnic kinship. This kinship took roots, especially on thei personal level. In'a very fragmented web of city living and with a fear of organizing a community based on the religious ground, the Jews organized instead an ethnic life around a family nucleus. The elders in such nuclei became kind of patriarchs. They were the only holders of Jewish traditions, such as tracking Jewish holidays, but they stopped short to attach any meaningful ritual and spiritual significance to them. A remarkable outcome of such a living situation combined with the under-the-surface brewing antiSemitism lead to the realization that the Jews were not an integrated part of the Soviet society. They looked more like black flocks in a white herd of the seemingly identical comrades who were frantically building conununism. In those days, if you met a Jew, you felt an instant sympathy and trust in him or her. After the Six Day War, in 1967, the Soviet Union became 100% hostile to the Jewish State. A government sponsored campaign against Zionism was understood by an ordinary Russian as a campaign to discredit Jews as loyal citizens. The Jewish self-consciousness started to grow at an exponential rate. For Some, it reached its culmination by the time of the Yom Kippur War, in 1973. It was also a time when we started feeling the work of our brothers and sisters from abroad, especially in the United States. We felt that much of their efforts were channeled into the Nixon/Kissinger global policy of engagement. This policy helped to pry, for the Russian Jews only, the previously tightly closed door, just a crack. i And, finally, some of us ended up here, in the United States. With a stunning amazement we looked at different Jews in a different place. From the beginning, we were surrounded by a tender care. We were amazed how our newly found brothers and sisters operated in a true way of tz'dakah and gem 'lut hesed. They prepared our new dwelling, prepared in every detail, so that we could get a sense of a decent living in this country. It was not a welfare which nowadays everybody has harsh words for. It was a family help. We understood that we had to work hard to get from there to here and establish ourselves as valid and respectable members of a larger, nationwide community of the citizens of this great country. We were also amazed at an another aspect of Jewish life in the United. States, namely the religious aspect of it. Soon, we learned that different synagoguea performed services differently. For the former citizens of the atheistic paradise, it was quite a difficult task to comprehend all the theological and rabbinical subtleties of such a friendly separation. Probably, it was an universal quest for fivedom and a personal preference which made the selection of the available options less dramatic. Then, we came to the realization that it was (lod and His Commandments, and it was the Jewish
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brotherhood that were the core of the social and spiritual identities of the overwhelming mEvJority of the Jews in this coimtry. That is what matters. I have lived in this country in different places, i and I have belonged to different synagogues, all of which happened to be Conservative. Usually, on Friday night or Saturday morning the synagogues were filled with brothers and sisters. First, my mom and I, and then my wife and I, were among them. We felt we were part of the family and we knew the family was with us. We are fortunate to have been a part of the Beth El synagogue family the last five years, and we are happy to be with our brothers and sisters here. This new building, with its architectural design, brings an additional meaning to our worship. It is in the small chapel, in the early morning hours, the first rays of sun light the ark with its sacred scroll, and then, in the eternally predetermined pace, they move from one comer to another. It is here, in the main sapctuary, the arched beams resemble the Tent of Meetings of our ancestors. It is here, high above, the beams are converged and united a single unit, just one step closer to the heaven... And it is here, dowil on the ground, we are sitting together united in a spirit of brother- ', hood and love to our God (Eloheinu) . It is our place.
Klutznick Symposium (Continued from page 1) to the House Un-American Activities Committee of the '50s; from the radicalism of the sixties and the celebration of ethnic differences to the introspective and psychoanalytical works of Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Paul Mazursky and Woody Allen in the'70s,'80s and'SOs. The contemporary introspective period, L^ibling contends, projects an internally wounded Jewish image. It is the post-Holocaust American'Jew, suspicious yet confident, worldly yet traditionally grounded. Despite the acceptance of Jewish life as part of the American experience, the element of social alienation.is still a mcuor aspect of the contemporary im age of the Jew. It seems that despite a century long attempt to either integrate into the general American character or celebrate their Jewish uniqueness, the Jew still looks at the American experience as one that is not his/her own. He/she remains on the "outside looking in" in the contemporary image of the Jew. David Porush uses clips from the popular TV series Northern Exposure to explore some of the humor and pain involved in the challenges of assimilation facing most Jewish communities today. Like most good art, the series had a knack for striking to the heart of important questions, in this case, whether Jewish culture can survive in a Christian context. Northern Exposure is a popular and relatively sophisticated comedy television series that often concerns the challenges faced by a New York Jew as he struggles to come to term with the American frontier culture of Cicely, Alaska. In one of the episodes that Porush uses, Dr. Joel Fleishman suddenly desires to say the mourning prajrer for his departed uncle, and the townspeople try to help him by assembling the ritually prescribed minimum of ten Jewish males (a minyan). The episode exemplifies, through its complex and deeply reveaUng ambiguities, what Sander Oilman (in his book The Jew's Body") has shown are the paradoxes inherent in the assimilation of Jews to the larger American culture. The episode also rehearses and brings to the surface deep themes of anti-Semitism as they are expressed, umetimes unconsciously, by American gentiles and «ewi alike. In particular, it challenges ui to assess the real divide between Judaism and what Harold Bloom has characterized as 'The American Religion," a divide which in this episode, Fleishman crosses in • very striking manner. The program is firee and open to the public everyone is welcome. A dessert buffet follows the program.
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From left: Noel Ginsburg, Irit Waldbaum and Trenton Magid Mr. Ginsburg, also a former UJA Young Leadership Cabinet member, serves on the Denver Federation Board of Directors, is chairman of their Strategic Planning Committee and is a Fellow of the Wexner Heritage Foundation. He also volunteers his time to work with inner city children who are at risk. . Mr. Ginsburg led a discussion that covered a wide range of views about Diaspora Jews' responsibility to support Israel and about the role of young adults as future leaders. He noted that desp'ite Israel's remarkable economic growth and military ability, it is still '& small country when faced with a united Arab threat and so, continues to need U.S. miUtary backing. ' Mr. Ginsburg stressed the importance of firsthand Israel experiences for children and adults. He strongly emphasized the value of Jewish education and told Perspectives members to "invest in the soul of what it means to be Jewish." When Mr. Ginsburg was asked how he blends his Jewish leadership role with his community leadership role, his response was, "To give back is just part of our Jewish culture and history. I am proud to identify myself as a Jew helping in my community" Perspectives' next meeting will be Oct. 19. Eric Fingerhut, former U.S. Congressional Representative from Ohio who was defeated in the 1994 election, will lead the group in a discussion on "Shaping Public Policy." Additional information will be mailed to Perspectives members and featured in upcoming Jewish Press articles.
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: NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (JTA) — For the fu^t time n months, a truck filled with humanitarian aid las arrived in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, rhe truck, belonging to the Bosnian Jewish comiiunity relief organization La Benevolencya, trav>led in the middle of a moonless night without leadlights, over Mount Igman. "It's stupidity but the only way — that's the life lere," said Ja'acov Finci, president of La }enevolencija. Since the war began in Bosnia three years ago, ja Benevolenc^a has been instrumental in orgatizing convoys to take Jews and non-Jews to safer ireas outside of the besieged capital, and in bringng food, medicine and other relief supplies to the lews and non-Jews who remain in Sarajevo. Iluch of the aid has been provided by the American fewish Joint Distribution Committee. The supplies of food and medicine were ready to )e sent into Sarajevo more than two months ago. Jut because roads are mined, no traffic was lllowed to pass through. The high risk of traveling ni the mountain road into Sarcgevo was brought to ight again over the weekend when three American liplomats were killed when their car skidded off he muddy road and exploded. The president of the Jewish community of iosnia, Ivan Ceresi\jes, sent a message of condo•nce to President Clinton in the aftermath of hose deaths.,In his message, sent via the World fewish Congress, Ceresi\jes said he prayed 'these luman lessee should be the last ones in this crazy knd brutal merry-go-round."
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Marriage KLEINMANA¥OLF Deborah Ann Kleinman and Benjamin ?an Wolf .^ —^ ^ wei;e married Au^. 12 at Temple El Emeth in ' Youngatown, Ohio. The bride, daughier of Howard and Linda Sniderman of Youngatown, is a special education teaQher with the Houston, Texas, public schools. She has a master's degree in special education firom Ohio State University. The groom, son of Martin and Edythe Wolf of Omaha, has a management position with the Taco Bell Corporation. He has an MBA from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Rabbi Debbie and Steve Stiel and Bea Marc L. Brodkey of Omaha was best man. Sommer. Jennifer and Rick Lear, sister and brother-in-law of the groom, and Michael Sniderman, brother of the bride, were among members of the wedding party. The newlyweds reside in Spring, Texas.
PNJHS offers tours of Jewish Omaha Tours of Jewish Omaha are now being scheduled by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society for the remainder of 1995 and 1996. , The two-hour tour focuses on the history of Jewish Omaha and includes such historical sites as former synagogues, cemeteries and old and new Jewish landmark buildings, t For information or to schedule a tour, call Sharon From HtU Bea Sommer, Marilyn Mellen, Kirshenbaum at 334-6442. chairman of the Caring Committee, and Barbara Taxman, chairman of the event.
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By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Yitzhak ' Rabin has vowed to continue the negobations with the Palestinians despite the latek terror attack. 'The time has come' to distinguish between Palestinians who are the enemies of peace, and, those who seek a negotiated agreement, to distinguish who are the murderers among the Palestinians," Rabin said in remarks to the Israeli public just hours after- B suicide bomb ripped through two commuter bu^es in Jen^salem. At least five people were killed, including an Aperican woman, and more than 100 were injured in Monday's attack, which came one day after Israel reopened the Gaza Strip, which had been dosed for 10 days after Israel received intelligence reports that fundamentalist terrorists were planning a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. Israel reimposed a closure on Gaza, as well as on the West Bank, shortly after Monda/s bombing. Although Rabin did not waver in his resolve to continue the talks, he temporarily suspended the negotiations. Among the opposition, however, leaders called for an abrupt end to the talks. And within hours of the bombing, demonstrators were out on the streets, both in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel, sharply attacking the Rabin government's peace policies. Monday's attack drew sharp words of criticism from Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat. In a speech at Al-Azhar University in Gaza City, Arafat lashed out at Iran for funding the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, which claimed responsibility for the latest attack. "Your money, your bombs and your oil have not regained an inch of our land for us," Arafat said, addressing Iran. "I will cut the hand of anyone who takes orders from parties outside the Palestinian arena or anyone who receives external financing, be it from Iran or others," Arafat said. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres applauded Arafat's stance, saying that the Palestinians "know that terror is aimed against them, not only against us, that if there is something that can stop the Palestinian hopes and destiny, it is Palestinian terror."
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