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Firial week for Project Warm-Up By Barbara Chandler, Federation conunimications director
Activity is buildbers of the Super Sunday Division ing for the 1996 UJA/Federation from 9 to 11:30 Campaign's Super a.m. and from 6 Sunday Dec.10. to 8:30 p.m. on ;While dozens of Dec. 10. volunteers call Idelman members of the Telemarketing has once again Super Sunday Division to ask for dohated its facilitheir Campaign ties for the phona-thon and Sheri pledgies, others Idelman and .will be sorting and Barry Siff will packing coats, conduct training hats, gloves and .mittens collected sessions for the 'during Project volunteer callers. Warm-Up for disThe entire comtribution to those Tom Vann (left) and Trenton Magid urge people to add to munity has come in need in the for- the growing pUes of coats for Project Warm-Up. together for mer Soviet Union. Project Warm-Up this year. Volunteers will be at Donations for Project Warm-Up can still be the J.C.C. on Super Sunday to sort, inventory and ' dropped off at the J.C.C. or the synagogues this pack Project Warm-Up donations. Clothing will be week and at the J.C.C. on Sunday morning, shipped to the Former Soviet Union by the U.S. Dec. 10 firom 9 a.m. to noon. The coats, hats, Department of State in cooperation with the gloves and mittens should be clean and in "like American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. new" condition; no tears, broken zippers or missing 'It's great to see the strong response from our community for this worthwhile project. We urge buttons. 'Super Sunday is the largest single fund-raising everyone to clean their closets one jnore time and event of the UJA/Ffederation Sustaining bring in those coats!" said Trenton Magid, Super Campaign," said Lori Rabb, Federation assistant Sunday Co-chairman. Tom Vann, added, "As Co-chairman of Super director. "There are about 1,800 donors in the division, Sunday, I am happy to see the enormous response many of whom have already made their pledges by and look forward to a successful event on Dec. 10. mail. The contributions of the Super Sunday Please answer your phones on Super Sunday. It's a Division are very important to Omaha's Annual mitzvah to give generously to this humanitarian Campaign, which supports Jewish life in Omaha, cause." For more information about Super Sunday, call in Israel and in 58 countries eu'ound the world." About 60 volunteers will be making calls to mem- Lori Rabb at the Federation office, 334-6431.
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The College of Jewish Learning of the Jewish Cultural Arts Council will present Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard, who will lecture on "A Jewish Psychology of Sexuality' Monday, Dec. 4, 7.30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center.Rabbi Blanchard is a Senior Teaching Fellow at CLAL—The National Center for Learning and Leadership. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from St. Louis University, his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Washington University (St. Louis), and his Rabbinic Ordination Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard from St. Louis Rabbinical College. Rabbi Blanchard, has been a Professor of Philosophy, the Director of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, a Hillel director, and a practicing psychologist. He taught at Washington, Northwestern and Loyola Universities, as well as at the Drisha Institute for Women and the Jewish Theological Seminary Lehrhaus. He has taught and lectured for the Wexner Heritage Foundation and has appeared on several television programs, including the Oprah Winfrey Show. In addition to his articles on philosophy and Jewish texts. Rabbi Blanchard's stories and parables have been widely anthologized. His most recent publication is 'Joining Heaven and Earth: Maimonides on the Laws of Visiting the Sick' (published as a monograph by the Jewish Healing Center). CLAL is an independent North American-based organization dedicated to preparing Jewish leaders to respond to the challenges of a new era in Jewish History. The lecture is free and open to the public. For information, call Gloriann Levy, Jewish Cultural Arts Council director, at 334-6403.
Omaha authors to highlight Book Fair
Yale Gotsdiner elected president
The Lincoln Interfaith Council recently held its annual meeting, and new officers and board members were elected. Yale Gotsdiner of Tifereth Israel Synagogue has been named president. The Lincoln Interfaith Council continues to serve as a model for ecumenical and interfaith cooperation, according to the Yale Gotsdiner announcement. As in the past two years, international visitors hosted by the Mayor's Committee on International Friendship requested an opportunity to visit leader* from the Council to learn how it conducts interreligious affairs in the community lo that they might take this information back to their countries for pouible replication, the announcement stated. The new Misiion Statement adopted by the Council Board in March, 1996, statet: The Lincoln Interfaith Council is an attociation of religious organiiationi which seek to enrich tha greater Lincoln community by promoting understanding in our diveraity and Mrving justice in our unity.*
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CJL lecture series to feature Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard
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By Diane Axler Baum, Book Fair publicist Two Omaha authors whose work has received nation-wide attention will highlight meyor events in the 1996 Jewish Book Fair, according to Nancy Rips, chairman of the board of the Jewish Federation Library. Robert Eisenberg, author of "Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground," will keynote the Book Fair's annual community luncheon Wednesday, Dec. 6, at noon, at the Jewish Community Center. Dr. Richard Freund, co-editor with Rami Arav of "Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea From left; Joanne Freeman, Jean Ann of Galilee," will present a slide lecture on "Digging Krupinsky and Bob Eisenberg. up the Past,' Sunday, Dec. 10, 1 p.m., also at tlie Jewish men's organizations took an active role JCC. Dr. Freund is Professor of Judaic Studies at the alongside the women's organizations this year in University of Nebraska at Omaha and Director of co-sponsoring the event "We have every expectathe university's Bethsaida Excavations Project. tion of a record-breaking turnout of men and women eager to hear our own Bob Eisenberg," The project was featured last summer on CBS Mrs. Krupinsky said. News and CNN, and next spring a TV documenMr. Eisenberg, educated at Columbia and tary on the excavations will air across the country. Harvard Universities, is an Omaha native who Dr. Freund said his new book is the first in a pro- now resides here. His decision to study the relijected four-volume collection which marks one of gious and cultural experiences of Hasidic and the only times that an active excavation has pro- Orthodox Jews world-wide led him on a two-year duced its findings while the site is still being exca- adventure that embraced communities as dose a* vated. The book includes his chapter on The St. Paul and aa far away as the Ukraine—and tA Search for Bathtaida in Rabbinic Literature. other groups in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Belgium, In announcing Robert Eisenberg as community and Poland, luncheon speaker, co-chairmen Jean Ann Mrs. Freeman said Mr. BiMnberg't book wu Krupinsky and Joanne Freeman said Omaha'i (Continued on page 4)