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Yom Hashoah highlights
Yom Hashoah commemoration programs took place in Omaha and Lincoln this week reaching record numbers of Nebraskans. Top photos, from left, show Cantor Leo Fettman holding a memorial tablet sculpted by his wife, Annette. The tablet serves as a remembrance in that Cantor Fettman does not know where his parents are buried. At right are the memorial candles for the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust. Bottom photos, from left, show Sarah Bauman lighting a candle during the Nebraska Holocaust commemoration at the State Capitol. Leading the ceremony, at right, is Yale Gotsdiner, assisted by Marcia Kushner, chairman. In the photo at right, Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel is seated next to Eli and Ann Modenstein. Prof. Wiesel and Mr. Modenstein survived Auschwitz. (Story on page 7)
Barbara Chandler appointed assistant director
Jewish Family Service to sponsor dialogue with rabbis
Howard Bloom, Federation executive director, announced that Barbara By Alice Weisa, tIFS therapist Chandler, newly appointed Federation assistant . For the past five years, Jewish Family Service director, will have stafT has sponsored a panel of local rabbis to discuss varresponsibility for a num- ious issues. This year, the offering is a discussion ber of Federation pro- with the rabbis entitled 'Dialogue with Our Rabbis grams and services. on Real Life Family Issues." The the event will be held Tuesday, April 30, R<^^^^^B Among these are P ^^^^1 UJA/Federation Men's 7:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center, where \ ^^^^^H General Campaign and the Omaha-area pulpit rabbis will discuss family ^^^^^H Super Sunday, Planning and social issues confronting today's Jewish famiJ^^^^^ and Evaluation including lies. Topics may include teen depression and suiarbara Chandler the current Strategic cide, drug and alcohol usage, interfaith dating and Planning Process, Maimonides and Cardoxo aflini- marriBge, domestic violence, divorce, Jewish identity groups. Campaign Software, Personnel ty issues and economic hardships . Featured speakers are, in alphabetical order, Practices, Va'ad Hakashnit, Omaha's delegation to the Council of Jewish Federations General Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temple Israel, Rabbi Paul Assembly, and supervision of support staff. In Draien of Beth El, Rabbi Ruth Ehrenslein of Beyt Shalom and B'nai Israel, and Cantor Leo Fettman addition, Ms. Chandler will oversee the marketing of Beth Israel. The above placet of worship are coactivities of the Federation. sponsoring the event. Ms. Chandler reroarked, "During the past five Facilitator for the open-ended discussion will be years as the Federation's Communications Director, I have learned a great deal about our Dr. Stephen Skulsky, a clinical psychologist and a Jewish community, and I have had the pleasure of member of Jewish Family Service's Jewish Family working with many dedicated, creative, enthusias- Life Education committee. The event is free and open to the public. Child tic volunteers and professionals. I look forward to care for ages 18 months through six years will bo my new responsibilities and opportunities with anticipation. I see great promise for our Jewish provided free of charge. Space is limited, and advanced registration for child care is required by community and I feel that there is not a more April 29. rewarding professional experience than to work For further information, or to make a child care hand in hand with the people of the Omaha Jewish reservation, call 390-2024. oommunity.* i- • •Aui;L-i--3tJM£ijai-a^^"_Kf:ii;i5;iM»4U' -•
Generation to generation: A Men's Campaign event Rabbi. Mitchell Wohlberg will be the guest speaker at a Men'sl Intergenerationall Evening sponsored by I the 1996 UJA/Federation | Campaign to be held | Tuesday, May 7, 7 p.m., at Highland Country] Club. Dessert will be ) served. There is no i charge, and reservations ' can be made by calling Rabbi Wohlberg the Federation office at 334-6430. Mike Platt and Tom Bernstein, 1996 Campaign co-chairmen, note that Rabbi Wohlberg is known as an entertaining, dynamic speaker who brings to Omaha's men a unique perspective on the Jewish connection between the generations. He and his wife have two sons, ages 23 and 26. "^hat do 1 and my children have in commonr asks Rabbi Wohlberg. 'They are the generation of MTV and computers. What do we share? The bottom line is, very little except Judaism." Rabbi Wohlberg is the rabbi of Beth Tfiloh Congregation, one of the largest congregations in Baltimore He has also had a great deal of experience working witli Jewish teens. He was the Director of Judaism Programs for B.B.Y.O.'s International Leadership Training Conforonrp in Starlight, PA, for 10 years. Rabbi Wohlberg is :ictive m the Bnltiinoro FedeiAioii and rftwn" natioiinl ,Ievi^sh organization c^net£lBciudmB..IsriHBonds and United Jewish Appeal, and the Kxerutive Onmmittpe of the Rabbinic CouncilorAaiericn. Mr. Platt and Mr. Bernstein added that the 1996 lUA/Federation Campaign Divisional chairmen will be recognized at this event.
Cece Zorinsky White buried at Beth El Cemetery By Morris Maline Cece Zorinsky White, often described by her first husband, the late U.S. Senator Edward Zorinsky, as his "secret weapon," was buried Wednesday at Beth El Cemetery. ,[. •: "W 'y-^ She died Monday at her Washington, D.C., home with her second husband, Lee White, at her side. He said cause of death was ovarian cancer. Mrs White was 65. In a 1987 Jewish Preaa article, Mrs. ' White was described „ „ , . ,„. ,^ as having a "trade- Cece Zorinsky White mark" of a platinum page-boy haircut and a warm smile... "but she is not just a pretty face. She is a woman of substance who truly cares about people and the environment. She is proud of being Jewish and has been active in the community.' The article was written in advance of her announcement to seek the Democratic nomination for the Second Congressional District in the House of Representatives. Her interest in politics goes back to 19S2 when she worked on the campaign of Adiai Stevenson. Although she failed to gain the nomination she continued her volunteer work in Washington, D.C. Sen. Zorinsky died suddenly in 1987 of a heart condition after performing at a show in the Omaha Press Club. She married Mr. White, an Omaha native, two years later. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her daughter, Suznn Goodman of Omaha; sons, JefBrey Zorinsky of Omaha and Barry Zorinsky of Houston; sister, Charlotte King of Denver; brother, Robert Rottman of Denver; and six grandchildren.
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