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By Barbara Chandler, Federation communications director Addressing an audi young adults," he commentence of more than 275 ed. 'They asked some good people, Linda Scherzer questions and we were glad shared her experiences to have them participate in as a television journalist this community event." in the Middle East and Ms. Scherzer, who met ' provided insight into the with Rabin on many occaclimate in Israel sursions, spoke about the rounding Yitzhak rhetoric both in Israel and Rabin's assassination. in the United States conMs. Scherzer was the cerning the peace process. guest speaker at the 'Words can inspire, but 1996 UJA/Federation they can also incite. We Campaign Community can't let the voices of fanatiEvent at Highland cism and violence dictate From left: Bobbi Leibowitz, Linda Scherzer, Country Club Nov. 8. change." Tom Bernstein, General Tom Bernstein and Lisa Platt. Speaking about the feelCampaign co-chairman and Bobbi Leibowitz, ings of Israelis in the aftermath of the assassinaWomen's Campaign co-chairman, welcomed guests tion, she noted, Israel has lost its innocence, but and introduced Ms. Scherzer. Lisa Platt chaired the having leaders of more than 80 countries, including dessert reception preceding the program. U.S. Presidents, Secretaries of State and a large Tom Fellman, Federation president, was particu- Congressional delegation as well as leaders of Arab larly pleased to see the large turnout of students nations, gather in Jerusalem for the Israeli Prime and young adults. Among those in attendance were Minister's funeral was proof to the Israelis that students from Temple Israel's Confirmation class they are no longer alone. They are welcome in the and High School program, and UTTO's High School community of nations. That had to provide comfort of Jewish Studies as well as many members of to those who were there. Perspectives, the Federation-sponsored program for MB. Scherzer highlighted some of the accomplishyoung adults. ments of the peace process such as free travel "It was truly wonderful to see all these teens and (Continued on page 6)

CJF restructures annual General Assembly By Cynthia Mann NEW YORK (JTA) — Vexing problems surrounding fund raising, federal budget cuts, Jewish continuity and Israel-Diaspora relations will challenge more than 3,000 lay and professional leaders of Jewish federations and affiliated agencies when they converge on Boston this month for the 64th annual General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations. The gathering, from Nov. 15 to 17, comes as boston's federation celebrates its centennial and unfolds against a backdrop of extraordinary flux, ifiscal constraint and self-examination in North ^America's Jewish communal world. 'In many respects this is a time for real celebration of 100 years of terrific service by the federaition system to people whose lives have been changed as a result," said Martin Kraar, CJF executive vice president, the association of 189 local federations. That calls for "real contemplation about keeping that which works." But it is also a time to anticipate change, he said. "Vie enter the next 100 years with excitement about new paradigms, visions and opportunities to engage our constituencies, donors and [redpientsl of our services." It is also a time to moke 'our organizational cultures more relevant conceptually," Kraar said. Revitalizing the regular annual joint fund-raising campaigns of the United Jewish Appeal and federttions, which have been flat for the past few )«ara, clearly is a top agenda item. Community leaden, Kraar said, must 'reinforce ibe centrality of our annual campaign," which he sailed the linchpin" for community-building. And |hat means *we have to understand the needs of jonors," he said. Raising money more effectively and efTiciently is, n part, what is driving a proposed plan to merge he central Jewish fund-raising structures, includng the CJF, the UJA and the United Israel lal, which funnels money raised by tlte annual to the Jewish Agency for Israel. (Continued on page 10)

Israeli Court rules on Conservative, Reform conversions By Harry Allen JERUSALEM - In a 6-1 decision, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that conversions of individuals to Judaism by Conservative and Reform Movements in Israel must be recognized. This has long been the case with such conver sions performed outside of Israel, but this report edly is a groundbreaking rule with respect to con versions performed locally. The Orthodox rabbinate has reacted by calling an emergency meeting to determine who best to respond to what is considered to be a major breach of Orthodox religious monopoly in Israel. The ruling does not require recognition of Conservative and Reform converts for purposes of marriage and other personal status matters, but the Ministry of Interior must register such con verts as Jews. In other action, the Court required the Air Force to allow women to enter pilot training. Another decision arrogated to the Court the right to overturn laws passed by the Knesset. One should not conclude that the decision on conversions has eliminated discrimination against Conservative and Reform. Yet, in my opinion, this is one more point on the trend line which is slowly being drawn. From the ruling allowing women to serve on local rtligious councils, to the dictate to the government that Ck>n8ervative and Reform religious institutions must be provided with funds, to the opening up of religious instruction in the secular schools by non-Orthodox movements, to the present ruling and to what is expected to be a favor able ruling on Conservative conversions of adopt ed non-Jewish babies, the trend is njoving in an uninterrupted direction. In a week that was so painfully shattered by lawlessness, there also occurred under the process of civilized legal proceedings, miyor changes in Israeli society. (See related story on page 2)

CJL lecture series to feature Dr. J^anCahan The College of Jewish Learning of the Jewish Cultural Arts Council will present Dr. Jean Cahan, professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Monday, Nov. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. Dr. Cahan will present a lecture on Jewish philosophy ^ and how it relates to Jewish identity. She will address Jewish philosophy after the] Holocaust and how we confront the problem of evil and I the nature of G-d. Dr. Jean Cahan Dr. Cahan was bom in Sydney, Australia, to parents of European origin who were survivors of the Holocaust She; was educated at McGill Univereity in Montreal and received her Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. She has been teaching in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln since 1988 and specializes in the philosophy of Spinoza. The lecture is bee and open to the public. For more information, contact Gloriann Levy, Jewish Cultural Arts director, at 334-6403.

Steering committee meets By Barbara Chandler Bw>!e;atlon communications dfarecttnr

Back row, from left: Jon Broder, Steve Levinger, Jenny Meyerson, Kip Gordman, Tom Vann, Super Sunday co-chairman. Front row, from left: Karen Kazor, Scott Meyerson, Trenton Magid, Super Sunday co-chairman, and Lori Rabb, Federation assistant director. Not pictured: Stacie Chesen, Bridget Gordman, Bonnie Levinger, Heidi and Scott Schneiderman, Kim and Jim Simon, and Brian Sift. The Super Sunday steering committee is recruiting volunteers for the Dec. 10 phonathon of the 1996 UJA/Federation Campaign. In addition to the annual phone calls to Super Sunday Division donors. Super Sunday will also be the wrap-up day for Project Warm-Up. Volunteers will make phone calls at Idelman Telemarketing from 9 to 11:30 a.m. or from 5 to 7:30 p.m. to ask donors for their Campaign pledges which help support the programs and services of the Jewish Federation and its seven agendei. Campaign doUan also help support social services in Israel and provide humanitarian assistance in 68 countries around the world. Members of synagogue youth groups and BBYO will be at the Jewish Community Center on Super Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon where they will sort, inventory and pack the coaU, haU, gloves and mitr tens that have been donated by the community for Project Wann-Up. The clothing will be shipped by the U.S. SUte Department in cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to those in need in the former Soviet Union. To volunteer, call Lori Rabb, Federation assistant director, at 334-6431.

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By Rabbi Ruth Ehrenstein ROSE FELLMAN MARER Guest columnis^ Services for Rose Fellman Marer were held Nov. The name of this week's portion ie Chaye Sarah, 12 at Beth El Cemetery. the life of Sarah. This is a week in which we must, She died Nov. 9 at the because of the events of less than two weeks ago, age of 91. Rabbi Paul consider life and what it meansi , ' Drazen and Rabbi Myer At the slaying of Prime Minister Rabin, the Chief Kripke officiated. Rabbinate Council of Israel sent a message to synaSurvivors include a gogues and Jewish educational institutions world daughter, Sally Jonisch wide. It said that at this time when an Israeli of Omaha; a son, Brad leader was istruck down by one of his own people, Marer of Los Angeles; Jews everywhere must stress our Torah's view of five grandchildren; flve sanctity of life. We must reojiind ourselves that our great-grandchildren; and Torah teaches us that each of us is made in God's nieces and nephews. ^ ^i,^, ,, .^ BK,^ image. Every individual carries the spark of the Memorials may be made to Beth El Synagogue or divine. the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. What matters though, is what we do with that spark. As we saw, one person used his spark to put Israeli court open$ the door out what Noa Ben Arzi, Rabin's granddaughter, called the "column of fire" in the "camp." We are for non-Orthodox conversions left with the memory of a hero turned warrior for By Naomi Segal peace. We are left with the legacy of one great JERUSALEM(JTA) — In a landmark ruling, man's use of his divine spark. Israel's Supreme Court has opened the door for In our Torah portion, we are also left with a legarecognition of Reform and Conservative conversions cy. While the portion begins with the words, "the performed in Israel. life of Snrah," these words are used to report her In a 6-1 decision issued recently, the court ruled death. What follows aaer her burial is the story of the adult Isaac. The life of Sarah, then, is the lega- that a person, who asks the Interior Ministry to be cy that she left behind. The meaning of her hfe is listed in a civil population registry as a Jew does not bound up in the meaning of the lives that follow require approval from the chief rabbinate, which her, only recognizes Orthodox conversions jn Israel. One could take this as a sexist remark, why However, the court did not explicitly recognize should a woman's legacy be her children? But the Reform conversions, saying that it would be up to same is true for both men and women. Our children the Knesset to pass the appropriate legislation. are one of our most important legacies. This was Passage of such legislation, leaders of the Reform made especially clear in Ms. Ben Artzi's remarks at movement said, would be difficult given the expectthe funeral. She spoke of the grandfather whom ed opposition by members of the religious parties. she loved dearly. Clearly, he had given his family Nonetheless, leaders of the Reform movement the gift of himself hailed the ruling as historic — while Orthodox But children that we raise ourselves are not our groups rejected it, "There is no way now that anjrone will be able to only legacy. TheVabbis teach us that the students of a teacher are in a spiritual sense their children. block the recognition of Reform and Conservative These students are given the gift of the teachings of conversions in Israel," Uri Regev, head of the that teacher, and in that way become their legacy. Reform movement's Israel Religious Action Center We have had a great teacher. A man who taught in Israel, told Israel Radio. us with the gift of his life. It is not only the examIsrael's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau ple of his courageous fight for peace that is moving. rejected the decision, saying that the Orthodox He, like the Isaac in this week's Torah portion, was establishment would never accept what he called not perfect. Newspapers have reported some dark "the fiction of Reform conversions." The court's decispots on Mr. Rabin's record. And yet, those marks sion was described as a "devastating blow to the make his accomplishments, the greatest of which JewishnesB of the 'Jewish state'" by Agudath Israel was his fight for Israel's security through peace, all of America, which represents fervently Orthodox Jews. the more impressive. (Continued on page 12) In the traditional Jewish prayer book, God is praised as the one who revives the dead, mccAaye matim. The Reconstructionist prayer book is one of the prayer books that has changed that language. HmPd^A PERSONALIZED The Reconstructionist prayer book instead praises J^^ (J -Invitations God who renews all life. However, as we mourn for A • Stationery a great leader, perhaps those who have changed /I kilMtdienef .Napkins the language can find meaning in the traditional ^ MI/UTMITZVAHINYITATJONS wording. Perhaps God is, indeed, the one who does and Itloled Itans rnechaye matim, who does mechaye, make live, hametim, the ones who have died. By AppointiranI Pl«as« (402) 493-5790 IZOIh ii Btoodo St. (LocaW ln»id» B«n»on Shad* & Blind Co.) Perhaps this does not need to be understx>od in a supernatural way, but in the sense that the divine spark of one who had died can be in some way transferred to us. May this time of mourning be a time in which the sparks of the late Prime Minister and Defense Minister, but more importantly, our teacher, A Jerry Kohll Company YiUhak ben Nehemiah, live within us and keep our camp aglow.

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Sitter service starts at 10 a.m. Shabbat evening service at 8:15 p.m. Services: Every Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the TSS (Torah Siddur Skills) will meet at 10 a.m. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Stiel' and Cantor Contzius Second Unitarian Church, 3012 So. 119th St., Shabbat story time, the first and third Saturday Omaha. Oneg Shabbat to follow. will officiate. Ron Bernstein, Scholar-ini Residence, will speak on "Is Reform Zionism at 11 a.m. Congregants are asked to bring items to donate to Ktantan meets the second and fourth Saturday Project Warm Up, the community-wide project to Possible? Mr. Bernstein immigrated to Israel and settled on Yaliel, the first Reform Kibbutz estab- at 11 a.m. provide warm coats, hats and mittens for Jews in Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services, 4:50 p.m. the former.Soviet Union. lished by the World Union for Progressive Judaism. SUNDAY: He will tell about the residents and the educationReligious School: Beyt Shalom co-sponsors the Services start at 9 a.m. al, economic, recreational and social life of Yahel. River Cities Reconstructionist Religious School. WEEKDAYS: The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Sandy Classes are held each Sunday at the West Side Services at 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.to. and Paul Epstein in honor of the Bar Mitzvah of Community Education Center, 108th and Grover, . THURSDAY: Thanksgiving their son, Cory. \ , from 10 a.m. to noon (use the rear parking lot). Services at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ' Sitter Service SATURDAY: Judaica Shop Sitter service is available each Shabbat evening Havdalah at the home of Ellen Fennick and Open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to Marty Rosenberg, 3516 S. 104th St., Omaha, startservice. Please make a reservation so we may plan 2 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m. to noon; or by appoint- ing at 6 p.m. Participants are asked to bring a accordingly. There are no facilities for infants. ment. SATURDAY: dairy-vegetarian dish for the potluck dinner. Bar Mitzvah Shabbat morning service at 11:15 a.m. FRIDAY, Nov. 24: Zachary Perelman; son of Sheldon and Jan Cory James Epstein, son of Sandy and Paul "Shabbat in the Home" weekend. All families are Epstein, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. Perelman, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday invited to celebrate a special home shabbat. No Simcha B'shabbat-An alternative Torah.study evening, Nov. 24, and Saturday morning, Nov. 25 synagogue seQrices this night. service, will take place in the Chapel. The regular SUNDAY, Nov. 26: $habbat service will be held in the Sanctuary. No Religious School SUNDAY: BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Pancake Breakfast-Temple Israel Sisterhood 1502 No. 52nd Street, Omaha, NE 68104 B'NAI JESHURUN will sponsor an all-you-can-eat family breakfast 656-6288 ' 20th and South Streets Services are conducted by Cantor Leo Fettman. with the "Pancake Person" from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Lincoln, NE 68502 Office hours: Cost is $4 for adults, and $3.50 for children 12 and 435-8004 Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; under. Services, are officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser. OutreacIi-10 a.m. to noon, "Holidays, Yours, Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. FRIDAY: FRIDAY:' Mine and Ours." This interfaith program provides Shabbat evening service at 7:45 p.m. Kabbalat Shabbat service at 4:40 p.m. participants a chance to discuss the upcoming holiSATURDAY: SATURDAY: day season and the December dilemma, and is open Torah study and service at 10 a.m. to the community. Morning services are at 8:45 a.m. in the SUNDAY: "Food For Thought" Sanctuary and Goldstein Chapel. Hebrew school, 9 a.m.; Religious school, 10 a.m. The next luncheon session will be Tuesday from Jr. Congregation, 10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rabbi Stiel will lead the disBabysitting service provided by Sisterhood. cussion. Bring a brown bag lunch and Temple will Kiddush sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shrago provide the drinks. in honor of the aufruff of their son, Michael. The Community Thanksgiving Service Zachary Ryan Perelman, son of Sheldon and bride-to-be is Ms. Leslie Sher. Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.-Temple's clergy, as well Mincha at 4:40 p.m., followed by Shalosh Seudot, Jan Perelman, will be as the clergy and choirs from neighborhood congrecalled to the Torah as a Ma'Ariv and Havdalah. gations, will lead an hour of choral singing and Bar Mitzvah Saturday SUNDAY: messages. A dessert reception will follow. morning, Nov. 25, at Services at 9 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. Beth El Synagogue. WEEKDAYS: A seventh grader Services at 7 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. CHABAD HOUSE honor student at Lunch & Learn 1322 So. 119th Street, Omaha, NE 68144 Wednesday, 11:45 a.m., with Rabbi Kaye, hosted Beveridge Junior High, 687-1124 by Drs. Romer and Lourdes Ocanto, 1114 S. 94th St he has participated in SATURDAY: Future Probe, placing Practical Judaism Davening is at 9:30 a.m., followed by Kiddush. A class with Rabbi David Kaye will be held third in citywide writing SUNDAY: Wednesdays, Nov. 22 and 29, 7:30 p.m., at the syn- composition in the 1995 Davening is at 9:30 a.m. competition and has been invited to participate in agogue. Talmud Classes the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Gemorah Class Talmud class, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Advanced Every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Rabbi He enjoys sports, particularly baseball, and played Talmud, 12 p.m. Thursday. and Mrs. and Mrs. David Kaye, 12237 Turner Cir., for the Omaha Suburban Select Team last season. Zachary visited Israel during'the stunmer of 1994 Chumash Class Bellevue. and has selected Neve Michael Youth Aliyah Chumash class for adults, 7 p.m. Tuesdays. Cookbook Yiddish "Happiness is Still Good Food," available at the Village for his tzedakah project. Zachary has a brother, Jason, and a sister, 'Hooked on Yiddish' lessons Wednesdays, 7 p.m. gift shop, or call Charlotte Kaplan at 551-5658. Rebecca. Sisterhood Gift Shop English Grandparents are Jack and Florence Brody, Sisterhood gift shop is open by appointment. Call "Think Jewish and speak English* classes on Harold Perehnan and the late Ruth Perelman. Leah Siegel at 556-5455. Jewish topics for new Americans, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. at Chabad House.

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Letters to the Editor By Morris Maline

Left tiim madness i We all have heard the expression: 'An accident waiting to happen.' Well, now you are going \o hear it again! Making a left turn while exiting the Jewish Community Campus parking lot is not only an accident waiting to happen, ifb highly ha2aTdous to one's continuing existence on this planet. To refresh your memory... Your vehicle stops before entering 132nd street. You would like to make a lefl turn. So, you signal and wait. And wait, and wait, and wait... A seemingly endless stream of traffic approaches from the left, one vehicle practically touching another. No free space, no room to cut in. Ah, the traffic on the left stops. Now you can go. Ooops, you look to the right and a seemingly endless stream of traffic approaches. No free space, no room to cut in. Time passes. Again, the traffic on the left clears. And just as you are about to make a safe left turn, a .vehicle comes up on your right to make a right turn on 132nd street. This vehicle blocks your vision. So, you have to wait for this vehicle to make a right turn and then, you start from scratch. This intersection and its lack of control represents a traffic hazard and something must be done to provide for all those who utilize the Campus facilities. According to Mike Collier, Campus engineer, the city plans to widen the road next year and at the same time install underground wiring for the eventual installation of a sensor-driven traffic sig^nal. Whether the widening of the road will improve safety remains to be seen. And the timing for installation of a traffic signal has not been set. The timing most likely could be advanced if someone could come up with $50-60,000, the anticipated cost of the signal light. How much is a life worth? I'd hate for any of us to find out.

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To the Editor: , I am writing this'letter to tell of a wonderful organization that does tremendous good for those who are diagnosed as terminal. The group is called Hospice. It is made up of doctors, nurses, nursesaids, and many volunteers etc.. Their purpose is to make life easier and less painful for those who wish to stop "heit)ic medical treatment" and to be allowed to die at home, in dignity, with their family around them. I was diagnosed as having teipminal stomach cancer about 2 years ago. Six months later I had internal bleeding, loss of appetite, loss of weight (35 lbs.) and a weakness that forced me to bed. When I was first informed of my problem, I was given several optioiisf by my four doctors. Radiation, chemo-ther^y, or an operation. After examining the chances of any real cure (at 82) I decided against each of them, and my doctors agreed. At my last visit to my doctor, he and I decided that I would no longer use his services, would take no more blood transfusions and would eliminate most of the pills. This was when my doctor brought in Hospice. (Nov. 30,1993). The following is what Hospice did for me. Nurses came every other day to take my vital signs and make me as comfortable as possible. They gave me bed-baths, furnished a commode next to my bed, a wheel-chair, a walker, and the few pills that I continued to take. They gave counseling to me and especially to my wife (Sertrude. They also made available volunteers who would sit with me so my wife could get out of the.house to shop or have her hair done, etc.. But most of all they became an extended family. They cared, they were concerned, they went out of their way to make me comfortable and my wife more at ease. The results. My health has improved greatly. I have returned the commode, wheel-chair, walker, and now take showers instead of bed-baths. My wife is able to leave me alone for hours without a sitter. My appetite has returned and I have gained back ten pounds and I again get blood every three weeks. I no longer think of my impending death, but now focus on my quality of life. I now feel that I will be around for a long time. I hope to be the longest living Hospice patient and they promised not to desert me. Aside from being very weak I feel great and I credit Hospice for my well-being. Hospice is the greatest! Norm Komey

To the Editon , The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is tragic, saddening and despicable. Violence and murder are anathema to our Torah's teachings, as they are to all civilized people. The moral leaderel^p of the world must not tire in its efforts ,to eliminate fanaticism and extremismof any kind. ' The Rebbe has taught us that tragedy, G-d forbid, must be countered by positive and constructive efforts. The Jewish people, Eind all men and women of goodwill, should pause to reflect upon the sanctity of human life, and the importance of mutual love and respect. Let us actively embrace tangible and meaningful acts of goodness and kindness towards one another, an let us seek to overcome and heal the fissures that bring disunity and chaos to the world. Our condolences to Mrs. Rabin and family, and to all our brothers and sisters in the Holy Land who have suffered so much and so deeply from acts of violence and m,urder. As always, we pray for peace—true and enduring peace—in Israel and in the entire world. Rabbi Mendel Katzman To the Editor: "Rabbis Praise Pope" (10/20) issue reports on a brief meeting Pope John Paul II conducted with Jewish representatives during his recent visit to New York City. What bears mention is that, unfortunately, none in the Jewish group chose to urge the Pope to order the Cathohc Church that has occupied the SS commandant's building in Birkenau, Auschwitz's killing grounds, to decamp. Three years ago, John Paul realized that the Carmelite nuns' refusal to leave the convent at Auschwitz was an offense to the death camp's 1.1 million Jewish martyrs, and directed them to leave. We should expect the same regarding the very building from which the Nazis' daily orders for extermination emanated. Glenn Richter Media Liason

To the Editor: The House of Representatives made a terrible mistake in provisions it has passed this year that seek to restrict a woman's right to a safe and legal abortion, both in the United States and overseas. I have kept my peace so far this year, but measures approved by the House of Representatives recently, particularly yesterday, that would restrict access to safe and legal abortions, are most unfortunate and misguided. We Uve in a nation of rich diversity. Our population of some 260 million includes people from virtually every culture and religious group in the world. The question of when life begins is essentially a To the Editon Ben Mulnick was a nice man. His gentle ways religious and cultural issue over which there is vast disagreement. and friendly manner captured the hearts of all of Imposing a particular view shared by some upon us who stopped to say hello as we wandered down the rest of us who do not agree would be a terrible the halls of the Rose Blumkin Home. mistake. In the end, it j^ a form of religious intoler"Keep on tryin-that's the name of the game," he ance. It divides, not unifies, our country. It underwould say every time we saw him. He was a resimines principles that have worked so well for us in dent of the home for 25 years, by his count. the past: a tolerance for the beliefs of others, an Those of us who knew him will feel a deep sense appreciation of different points of view, and a willof loss as we pass his room and the hallways he ingness to 'live and let live.' frequented. We will miss his warm smile. All who The Congress should instead focus on the most knew him grew to appreciate the inner strength important issues affecting our country's future: that kept him going for so many years. balancing the federal budget in a fair way by abanGoodbye, Benny. You may not be at the Home doning the misguided tax cut, providing excellent any more, but fond memories of you will linger in educational opportunities for our young people, the hearts of your many friends and the staff of the and creating quality, high-paying jobs for working Rose Blumkin Home forever. families. Joanle Bemitein Peter Hoagtand

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By Sergio Kieman BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The president of the Israeli Ambassador Itzhak Aviran was similarly Argentine Supreme Court has excused himself critical two days later, saying that not much has from the investigation of the 1992 car bombing of been done to investigate the case." One Argentine the Israeli Embassy here that left 29 dead and official called Aviran's criticism "without precedent more than 100 injured. for an ambassador." Justice Ricardo Levene, 82, stepped down from the case in the wake of criticism from the Israeli Similar criticisms have also been waged by the ambassador and from the leader of the Argentine local Jewish leadership and by Jewish officials Jewish community about the slow pace of the abroad over what they charge is the equally slow investigation. pace of the Argentine legal system's investigation On Nov. 1, Ruben Bercya, president of the Jewish of the July 18, 1994, bombing of the AMIA buildBy Bemie Mosow umbrella organization DAIA, called the investiga- ing, the Jewish community's headquarters here. tion "fossilized," adding that there were "no That attack left 87 dead and at least 300 wounded. On Sunday, Nov. 12, the Lincoln community-at- arrests, no evidence gathered." Ber^a called on The Argentine government has so far failed to large joined the Jewish community to honor Levene to remove himself from the case. name anyone as a perpetrator of either bombing. Yitzhak Rabin. Tifereth Israel Synagogue opened its doors to all who would join in to commemorate the soldier of peace. Although his death was Onyx Vanity Tops, Shower Panels, Cabin«ts & Faucets brought about by an assassin, this wanton act of violence has engendered a world-wide desire for a ^ HOME IMPflOVEMENTS AND REPAIRS cessation of hostilities in Israel. The speakers for the tribute spanned the breadth PALACE BATH & of Lincoln. Legal, philosophical, political, religiousSHOWER all were represented and spoke eloquently of the BEN D.LWIN impact the life of Yitzhak Rabin had on the world. 4l>M31-750S 2010 MAVniR S. X 8810 T'StTMt'Omilia. NE 681Z7 The phases of his life; those of pioneer, soldier 1'«00-42fl-3053 OMAHA, NE 68144 334-7761 and politician were eclipsed by his identity as a family man, Jew and visionary. Certainly he will be missed, but hopefully this tragedy will expedite an everlasting peace in Israel KEEP YOUR and the world. Rabbi Laibl Wolf of Australia, founder and director of The Institute for Jewish Development, will run a kosher, vegetarian, four-day retreat at The Abbey in Lake Geneva, Wise, Dec. 22-25. The event is for families as well as singles. Childcare is available. For information, call Anita at 1800-211-5981 or 708-329-0632. FAX 708-675-0224.

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By Michelle Lee, Jewish Pre»s intern (Continued from page 1) Millaid North High l^chool between,Israel and Jordan and stated, "Arafat has As the food-filled Thanksgiving days fast ' begun to take responsibility for the destiny of his approach, those planning Omaha Kinnus (a United people." She stressed that economic development Synagogue Youth regional convention) have a lot for the Palestinians is the key to controlling viomore than 25-Ib. raw turkeys on their minds. lence and terrorism. "They have to believe that Shortly afler arrival and opening activities, more something has changed in their lives that is worth than 400 participants will travel to the JCC, for the protecting." one and only "EMTZA (Midwest region) Final Four Asked if she trusts the Arabs, Ms. Scherzer Tournament" and a social action project involving' responded, 1 have spent seven years in refugee the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. camps in Gaza and the West Bank, in Damascus Braving the Nebraska cold the next morning, and in Lebanon. I have talked to enough they will journey to the awafd-winning Henry • Palestinians to know their yearning for lost land Doorly Zoo. and homes is passed from generation to generation. Shabbat, the day of rest, is the opportune time to I asked people on the streets of Damascus if they relax with new and old friends. Programming after could envision Israelis shopping in their stores, eatsundown Friday includes a traditional USY ing in their cafes, flying the Israeli flag in their Shabbos dinner and some great Sichot (discussion city, and the answer was "yes" if the land is turned While visiting the Federation campus, Ms. groups). Havdalah will be held in Central Park Scherzer took a few moments to visit with over to them. This is an issue of myth and culture Mall. UTTO students. and pride for them. Going along with "Break on Through," the theme "Do I trust the Arabs? I trust the strength of of the weekend, participants will spend an evening Israel. I trust that agreements that have been at Woodystock for Final Banquet. made can be verified, but most of all, I trust that After almost two hours of "peace and music," the the past has not worked." famed Saturday night program will take place, folMs. Scherzer called Rabin and Peres "the perfect lowed by approximately five and one-half hours of working team." Peres wa^; the poet, the visiongry, Sumo wrestling, human bowling, and winning big and Rabiu was the realist, the strategist. Rabin prizes at the Tikun 01am FUNd-raising robm. knew the risks of the peace process and, she noted, The three USY chairmen, Jeff Shapiro, Allison often identified more with the views of the Likud Gutnik and Michelle Lee; Scott Littky, adult chairparty than with some in his own Labor party. She man; Michael Levine, youth director; and dozens of suggested that the challenge for Peres will be to USY'ers and parents on conunittees have been busy adopt some of Rabin's pragmatism. shaping Kinnus for more than a year. In terms of what the American Jewish communiSoon, all of their hard work will pay off in an ty can do for Israel, Ms. Scherzer said, "Continue incredible four-day Jewish experience. your support and involvement financially and spiriI am one of the chairmen, and, despite fireaking tually. Let them know you share their pain. Write, More than 275 people attended the. out whenever some kind unsuspecting soul reminds UJA/Federation Campaign Community event call, go to Israel." me of exactly how close Kinnus is, I'm really looking forward to it. Seeing one of my biggest time commitments culminate in over 400 people having the time of their lives, will be incredible. It's you. It's me. It's all of us.

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By Shana Novak, Jewiak Prem intern Syracuse University Nov. 4 was your typical Syracuse University Saturday. The big football game was on television and the first snow of the season was piling up outside. On Syracuse game day, if you're invited to a frat party AND a freshman at the same time, you're supposed to be pretty cool— so my friends and I headed for an unforgettable aflemobn at the Zeta Beta Tau firatemity house. I had no idea how unforgettable it would turn out to be. The game started and the emotion of the room grew hot In this football game, yards gained went synonymous with window-cracking screams and cheers. The room was alive— because no one knew who had died. Ten minutes into the third quarter, a special report broke into game coverage. As solemn words rolled off the announcer's tongue, 60 Jewish heads dropped. The words echoed throughout the silent frat house living room. . . "Itzak Rabin has been shot and killed." One sentence had affected 60 people in 10 sec onds. Game-day spirits drifted into the chilling outside snow squalls. Eyes turned to glass, smiles faded away. ZBT is a predominantly Jewish fraternity, and I must say that hearing of a legendary peace maker's death in a room of 60 Jewish college students was a very powerful feeling. Hopes of a Syracuse win on the football field had turned into wonders for Israel's future— and every single person in the room could feel what the other was thinking. We were all Jewish and all shocked. In a couple of minutes, the football game came back on—but spirit most definitely did not. Syracuse was losing their game now, and Israel had just lost its chance of peace. The dreaded question slowly drifted across the somber room... Why? Today, so many people wish they could answer that (Juestion. The answer may never be found, but one thing I can clearly tell you is that hearing of Rabin's death amongst so many of my Jewish peers made me realize that Jews everywhere— ZBTs', CEOs', or PHDs', are also very worried about the future of our Promised Land, Israel.

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Steve and Denise Berenson of Denver announce the Oct. 3 birth of a daughter, Caitlyn Elizabeth. Grandparents are Harry and Barbara Berenson and Catherine Gamerl, all of Omaha. Great-grandmother is Sophia Karas of St. Petersburg, Fla.

Howard Bloom, Federation executive direc- (from left) Howard Bloom, Joe Goldstein, tor, begins the campus tour for Campaign Justin Cooper, Jeff Platt, Lori Rabb, volunteers in the main entrance area of the Federation assistant director, and Howard JCC. (from left) Howard Bloom, Shel Borden. Perelman, Howard Epstein, Rob Goodman, Myron Kaplan and Bucky Greenberg. The Men's Divisions of the 1996 UJA/Federation Campaign has completed a series of briefings that included tours of the Federation campus. The tours provided campaign volunteers with a first-hand look at where the local Omaha dollars are spent to support the work of the Federation and its seven agencies which serve the Jewish community. Tom Bernstein, 1996 General Campaign co-chairman, commented, "I think everyone was enlightened and the briefings went very well. We encourage the campaign volunteers to bring donors to the campus and take them,on the same tour." Howard Bloom, who led the tours, added, "Individual by individual we are building our community. These briefings help us create a human chain from the individuals to donors to the commu-

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after all, in this small country, everyone's 'neighbor' had been taken away. He was laid back, part of everyone's lives, a touchable, reachable leader. Amongst the incredible response of many of the world's nations' leaders, Itzhak was, in addition to a world figure, a man who believed in making everyone's lives in Israel a little bit easier throu^ his devotion to the country and its peace. A song has been played again and again between responses to Israeli citizens' comments on the the radio. It's words say, *I don't have another country, this is the only one I have.' There are those who question whether Rabin's death by an extremist Jew destroys all that they have been raised to believe. But it seems that the dream of peace planted by Itzhak Rabin and his team of believers will far outweigh the inbalanced upset of the Jewish nation. There is energy generating. There is strength in bringing the dream to fruition. When I look out to the round hills of the Golan Heights every morning and every evening from here in the Galilee, I know I will always sense the power that Mr. Rabin created from his lifetime of devotion and passion of a Jewish homeland in the land of Israel. Shalom, Beth

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"By enabling the recognition of conversions in Israel by Reform rabbis, the Supreme Court ruling represents a giant step forward toward the ultimate import to the Holy Land of the 'religious pluralism' syndrome which has wreaked havoc in the United States," Agudah's president. Rabbi Ntoshe Sherer, said in a statement. i The organization's international body, Agudath Israel World Organization, recently launched a campaign aimed at combating efforts by Uberal Jewish groups to attain religious pluralism in Israel. The Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative movements are all involved in an effort to erode the Orthodox monopoly on religious affairs in Israel as well as Orthodox control over personal-status issues such as marriage, divorce and burial.

(from left) Marty Lelir, Joe Kirshenbaum, and Tom Bernstein and Milte Platt, General Campaign co-chairmen.

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Members of the Pacestetter Division Campaign Team met Oct. 24 and 25. Pacesetter Division Cochainnen Paul Epstein and Steve Simon presented information on fund-raising trends and discussed some of the programs and services that agencies would like to develop with increased Campaign ; funds. They also discussed some innovations in the area of donor recognition. "We cannot say 'thank you' too often to those who support our community, and it is important to rec-

ognize people who have been the pillars of our Jewish community for so many years," remarked Mr. Epstein. Mr. Simon added, "If we have increases over last year's Campaign, there are many new programs that can possibly be funded within our comunituy. Some of the programs we're looking at address the needs of teens and children with social development problems or who are mentally challenged. These types of programs that especially affect our youth are so important because that is our future."

The Supreme Court's decision came as a result of a petition brought by Hava Goldstein, a Brazilian immigrant who underwent a Reform conversion after marrying an Israeli. 'The Interior Ministry refused her request to register her as a Jew, citing an ordinance that requires anyone who wishes to be registered as a Jew to first receive approval from the rabbinate. The high court ruled that the ministry's reason for refusing Goldstein's request was invalid, because the ordinance applies only to matters of personal status, such as marriage and divorce. It does not apply to dvil issues, such as how a person is listed in the population registry, the court said. Former court president Meir Shamgar wrote in his fflEuority opinion: *It is possible that a man could be considered Jewish for the salce of one law, but not be considered Jewish for the sake of another law." He added that the court was asked to consider only whether the state's reason for rejecting the request was wrong, not whether Reform conversions are valid. Therefore, Shamgar wrote, the court could not state that a Reform conversion enabled Goldstein to be registered as a. Jew.

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