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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)