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JTS to honor Kripkes

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Community celebrates Victory Day

Rabbi Myer and Dor thy Kripke will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary this Sunday at a

by PamMonsky champaign reception from 2-4 p.m. at the Jewish Federation Communications Director Community Center. ..-'!'

On behalf of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Carol Davidson and Rabbi Roy Rosenbaum will recognize the generosity of the Kripkes recent gift of $7 million. The funds will be used to restore a tower, burned in 1966,'"the year the Kripkes invested their savings with Omaha financier Warren Buffet.

"Dorothy and I are delighted to have had the opportunity to make this tower available again," said Rabbi Kripke. "It was always the landmark of the seminary for the years we were students there.

Now the space, 13 stories of it, will be classrooms, faculty offices and other uses again."

Rabbi.Davidson holds two positions at JTS-Director of Planned Giving and Coordinator'of Community Outreach. A native of Miami Beach, she started her career in music and holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in music from the Representing "Switch Day" at the Federation University of Miami.

After 10 years of working for the Hebrew Union Alex Raksin, left, Pavel Tsyrlin and Robert Annual Meeting are, from left: Lenora Mosenkis examine the displays of World War Lancaster, Barbara Gottlieb, Lois Wine, College and five years directing a gospel choir, II memorabilia.

Rabbi Davidson came to JTS as a Wexner Fellow Marilyn Mellen and Elyce Azriel. and rabbinical student. In was in her capacity as .

Nearly 200 men, women and children gathered "Switch Day," a project • that allowed the Rose Director of Planned Giving that she met Rabbi and together last month to commemorate Victory Day, Blumkin Jewish Home Christian employees to Mrs. Kripke. ...'....•' the official victory of the Allies over the Nazis in spend the holiday with their families by having Rabbi Rosenbaum, Vice-chancellor at JTS, was 1945. The Russian-language observance of the only volunteers from the Jewish community work at the previously the director of policy and development non-political, non-religious holiday in the former Home over the Christmas holiday, has been select- for AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. He\ Soviet Union (FSU) was attended by many from ed for the Jewish Federation of Omaha's 1997 has also served in the Federation field, heading the New American community here. • '., several departments of the-Jewiah Community- -v-Leah-Kosinovsky recalled memories from the . puttedby the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home,' Jewish Federation of Cleveland and then becoming the beginning of the war and life in evacuation.

Senior Services and the Temple Israel Caring Executive Director of the Richmond (VA) "German airborne troops landing in our orchard, Committee. .

• Federation, and the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. running on foot through the woods, heading East, The award will be presented June 24 at 7:30 p.m.

In addition to his rabbinic ordination, Rabbi cargo trains, bombings, hunger, returning to the at the Jewish Community Center during the annu- Rosenbaum is a political scientist with undergrad- ruins of our home in Bobruisk." al meeting of the Federation. ••'•••-:.'•.'•••'•"'.

Others shared their impressions of starting over uate and graduate degrees from the University of Barbara Gottlieb, Executive Director of the Chicago, where he was a Ford Foundation, Fellow.

(Continued on page 2) Home, came up with the idea to start "Switch Day." "This program accomplished three things," she said. "First, it brought the community into the Home, which improves the quality of life for the residents. Second, it educates the community as to what goes on in the Home. And last, it creates New York, New York — "The network of tunnels excellent staff morale, because we're respecting running parallel to the western retaining'wall of their holiday."

Jerusalem's Temple Mount are fast becoming one More than 100 volunteers were scheduled on of the most popular sites for tourists visiting Christmas Eve, and from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Israel's capital,", says Arie Sommer, Israel's Christmas Day. Blumkin Home staff and Temple Commissioner for Tourism in North America..

Within the tunnels are a variety of exhibits on Israel Caring Committee members trained the volJerusalem's history, including a computer "cave" unteersas they reported for_duty.

••',.. where children (and adults too) can learn about the Lois Wine, Director of Volunteer Services, said, 3,000^yearhistoryofthecity.

'-.-•• "This heartwarming project was overwhelmingly The tunnels were constructed as'a carrier for the received by the staff, residents and residents' famicity's'precious water supply more than two millenlies, 'Switch Day* brought deep gratitude from the nia ago, around 165BCB. It was during this same employees that were able to spend their holiday era that a series of events took place in Jerusalem with family members." and Judea culminating in the rededication. of the Mrs. Wine was impressed with how seriously the.

Templer'-an event commemorated by Jews today in volunteers took their assignments. "They worked the festival of Hanukkah. , long hours and completed their tasks with a smile," About a century later, the Temple was expanded sheadded. , and aggrandized by King Herod the Great, a proMarilyn Mellen, Chairman of the Temple Israel ject which included the building of the Temple platCaring Committee,! said, "It was so great to see the form's massive retaining walls. How much of the volunteers as they left; it was very rewarding. The . actual construction .was accomplished remains a residents were thrilled to have all that attention, mystery to modern engineers and academics, for and Elyce Azriel and I were on a perpetual high some of the wall's individual stone "bricks" weigh 'that entire day! I also want to commend Lettora as much as 40 and 50 tons; the weight of one of the Lancaster, Executive Assistant for Jewish Senior bricks is estimated to be 100 tons.

Services, for all her'.hard work! She really went After the destruction of the Temple in the year above and beyond the call of duty."

70, one of the only, sections of the walls remaining Programs winning Honorable Mention Ever since access to Jerusalem's ancient standing became a pilgrimage site for Jews. The Connhunity Service Awards are the "Hanukkati Western Wall Tunnel was eased last fall by main Western Wall Tunnel is entered adjacent to Concert dedicated in memory of Marilyn Pred," the opening of an exit into the Via Dolorosa, the Western Wall and continues north to the Via submitted by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council; the site has fast become one of Israel's most Dolorosa-revered by Christians as the route taken and the "Wall of Synagogue History" located in the frequented tourist sites. Above: a section by Jesus to the crucifixion-in a neighborhood of Henry and Dorothy Riekes Museum, submitted by reveals part of a preserved column dating the walled Old City known since medieval times as the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society. the "Muslim Quarter." ' • from Herod's Temple. -

Western Wall tunnel becoming one of Jerusalem's most visited attractions

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June 13,1997

Life for children in the FSU

by Debbie Snyder, Joint Distribution Committee

A staff member reads a book at the JDC-supported Jewish Children's Home in Odessa, an orphanage and school for abused and abandoned kids ages 6-15.

Yuri,* 10, and Bella, 7, lived with their grandmother and mother in a one-room basement apartment in Odessa. The children were witness to a stream of abuse and neglect. Their single mother, a known drug addict, often sold drugs in the apartment and beat both the grandmother and the children. The grandmother died, leaving the children unprotected. When a neighbor heard the children ' crying, she found them barely dressed and very hungry; they had been left alone, unsupervised, for two days.

Yuri and Bella were lucky. They were accepted to the Odessa Jewish Children's Home, which is run

by Ohr Sameach with support from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

Although they bear hidden scars from their past, they, and the other 47 Jewish children in the surrogate Home, now have a warm, safe and loving environment in which to grown and learn.

Activities of the JDC are funded by the regular campaigns of the United Jewish Appeal and Federations throughout the United States.

'Names have been changed for privacy and protection.

CUP & SAVE

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FRIDAY, JUNE 13 p Russian Club, 9:30 a.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 &Beth Israel Youth Shabbos, at Beth Israel ®' MONDAY, JUNE 16 V YES Meeting, 9:30 a.m.

E Boy Scouts/Cub Scouts, 6 p.m. .

TUESDAY, JUNE 17 Foundation Board Meeting, 4 p:m., RBJH Conference Room BBYO Night, 6 p.m. , Temple Israel "Food for Thought," 11:30 a.m., at Temple Israel Temple Israel Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., at Temple Israel .

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 Breadbreakers, noon, Highland Country Club Beth El Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., at Beth El NJHS Board Meeting, 7:15 p.m. .

THURSDAY, JUNE 19 C Walk-in Drop-in, 9:30 a.m.

L Library Book Discussion Group, 1p.m. ' Temple Israel Sisterhood Adult Education, 9:30 a.m., at Temple & Beth El Merit Scholarship Advisors Meeting, S 7 p.m., at Beth El A V E

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by Rabbi Myer S. Kripke

Some years ago, a young, attractive woman, a member of an important committee of the Jewish Federation, was picked up for shoplifting at a local store. She was arrested, finger-printed - the whole wroks.

Her rabbi was out of town. She called me. I happened to know the owner-manager of the store, and after much to-do, the store dropped the charges.

The police were offended: "Why do you bother us and take up our time if you're not going to prefer charges? If you continue to do things like this, we won't bother to come when you call!"

I don't know what happened after that. The young woman moved away. I heard no more.

Perhaps her rabbi did.

I thought of this incident in connection with the Midrash for our Sidrah. For various reasons it is the longest Midrashic section for all the Sidrot of the Book of BeMidbar. The Midrashic teacher is ' astounded at the complaints our ancestors voiced about the Manna: In Egypt we had cucumbers and leeks and all sorts of food, all for free! But here, nothing but Manna, day after day, Shabbat or weekday, every meal, every day.

But the legend had it that the Manna tasted like anything the eater wanted, any kind of meat or fowl, any kind of fruit or vegetable, anything at all!

So the Midrash concludes that our ancestors were simply looking for a pretense to get rid of Moses and return to Egypt. To Egypt! To leeks and cucumbers-and to slavery!

Needless to say, the Midrash was talking about us and to us too. We, too, find ourselves yearning to return to Egypt, to our worse, not our better selves.

Like it or not, one of the burdens of being human is the glorious human attribute of free will. No one forces us to be saints. We can choose! We can choose to do only the good, and we can choose to do as much evil as we wish. Rabbinic tradition, as most of us know, says that we are endowed with a yetzer tov and a yetzer ra, an inclination to do well, and an inclination to do evil.

As husbands and wives, as fathers and mothers, as sons and, daughters, as friends and relatives, as people in a thousand situations we are obliged to make choiices. We can hurt or give comfort. We can be honest or untruthful. We can reach to the sublime or sink to the destructive or hateful.

In the thousand situations that we face regularly, weekly, daily, minute by minute, we often know what is right and do what is wrong. We could be headed to the Holy Land; yet we are tempted to turn back to Egypt, • The Midrash, reading the text about the Manna, identified a common human failing. We are shocked at the behavior of our ancestors. But too often we fail to notice that our behavior is painfully like theirs.

MARIAN (SADIE) NEWMAN Services for Sadie Newman were held June 8 at PleasantyHill Cemetery. She died June 6.

Survivors include a niece, Wendy Sofio; and • great-nieces and nephews.

Memorials to charity of your choice.

RUTHMEZEY Services for Ruth Mezey were held June 5 at Golden Hill Cemetery. She died June 4. .

She was preceded in death by her husband, Solomon.

Survivors include daughter and son-in-law, Georgia Ann and Seymour Steinberg; daughter, Deborah Mezey Shukert; a brother, Robert Rofiman, all of Omaha; and two grandchildren.

Memorials to Beth Israel Synagogue.

RITANOVAK Services for Rita Novak were held June 10.

Complete obituary will appear in next week's edition.

Victory Day celebration (Continued from page 1)

What's new in the cyber-stacks?

Jewish Guides to the Internet in the Jewish Federation Library

Yelizveta and Boris May enjoy dancing to melodies from the 1940s. . ',.:::

Judaism on the Web, by Irving Green, covers five major areas: The Jewish World, The Jewish twice, once after the end of World War II and again Year, Culture, Intellectual Life and Current Issues. in America.

Discover three-dimensional "virtual" synagogues, . "In starting a new life, we accept a new language, genealogy resources. Kosher recipes, Jewish a new style of clothes, a new culture," said Faina comics, Yiddish culture, holiday calendars and Puterman, ""Nevertheless, we neither want nor are able to allow ourselves to forget our traditions and Israel Web sites in this user friendly guide.

The Jewish Guide to the Internet, by Diane favorite holidays."

Lydia Linde expressed her concerns that nativeRomm, is a comprehensive volume of Jewish' born Americans would not understand what sources on the internet.

This guide is not a "how to" guide, but rather a Victory Day meant to Jews from the FSU. "The next day I met Barbara Gottlieb (Executive "where is" guide for readers that are fairly comfortable traveling the internet. . Director of Jewish Senior Services) and Margaret The Guide to the Jewish Internet, by Michael Conti (Adult Program Director)," linde said. "I was Levin, includes software for'an electronic guide to amazed at how Barbara understood exactly and the internet. Every movement of Judaism and that her feelings were so close to ours."

Upcoming events of the Resettlement Committee aspect of Jewish life is represented in this rich include summer meetings on June 10 and Aug. 7, 7 resource. p.m. in the Older Adult Lounge at the JCC, and Russian Club activities on June 27 at 9 a.m. Buses THANKYOU! To all those who caught our "withering" error on will leave for a day trip and picnic to Mahoney the front page of last week's paper, thank you. State Park at 10 a.m. There is a charge of $3 per Since both'wit Aer and whither are both correct person. Make reservations by calling 697-9169. spellings, our spell-check program didn't catch our mistake; neither did we.

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(Rita Paskpwitz, Resettlement Coordinator, contributed to this article.)

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FRIDAY: Shabbat service, 8:15 p.m.

Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.

Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner.

Rabbi Azriel and Hazzan Contzius will officiate.

Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Dr. Ron Wolfson, Director of; the Whizin Institute to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Services are conducted by .Rab'bi Paul Drazen for Jewish Family Life in Los Angeles, and princiand Cantor Emil Berkovits.

FRTOAY: pal investigator of Synagogue 2000, will speak. His FRIDAY: Services, 6 pan. * Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 7 p.m.

1 topic will be "Building Our Tents:-The Synagogue BARMITZVAH SATURDAY: of the Future."

Matthew Uehling, son of Barbara and Fred Services start at 8:45 a.m.; Jr. Congregation, ' The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Rose 10:30 a.m., Kiddish in honor of Youth Shabbos; Uehling, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday Rosen, Ruth Luttbeg and Nancy and Don Pirkei Avos class with Rabbi Kutner, 8:10 p.m. at evening and Saturday morning.

Greenberg in honor of the Bar'Mitzvah of Aaron the synagogue; Mincha, 8:40 p.m., followed by SATURDAY: Services, 9:3p'a.m.

Wolfson.

Shalosh Seudot, Ma'ariv and Havdalah.

Sitter service, 10 a.m.

Sitter Service SUNDAY: Shabbat Story Time-first and third Saturday at Sitter service is available each Shabbat evening 11a.m. ... ,, Morning service, 9 a.m.; Mincha, 8:45 p.m. service and the Saturday morning Shabbat service K'tantan-second and fourth Saturday at llajn..

WEEKDAYS: when there, is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Please make a Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services, 8:55 p.m.

Services at 7 a.m. and 8:45 p.m. reservation. There are no facilities for infants.

SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat service, 11:15 am.

WEEKDAYS: Services, 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

Aaron Wolfson will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah.

Simcha B'Shabbat-an informal Shabbat service that includes study and discussion of a variety of Jewish texts. The regular Shabbat service will be TIFERETH ISRAEL held in the sanctuary.

Member of the United Synagogue "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" of Conservative Judaism Tuesday, June 17, 11:30 a.m.-l p.m. -Hazzan 3219 Sheridan Blvd.

A special kiddush will be held at Beth Israel Contzius will lead the discussion. Bring a brown Lincoln, NE 68502 Synagogue Saturday, June 21, honoring Howard bag lunch; Temple will provide the drinks.

423-8569 Bloom, his wife, Laura, and sons, Aryeh and ADULT EDUCATION Raffi.

June 19--Sisterhood Adult Education, 9:30Services are conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Bloom, Executive Director of the Jewish 10:30 a.m., Hazzan Erik Contzius will continue to Rosenbaum.

Federation of Omaha, is being recognized for his lead a study of the Old Union Prayer Book and the Minyans on Mondays and Thursdays, 7:15 a.m. many years of service. new Gates of Prayer, as well as other liturgical FRIDAY: The family will move to New Haven, CT, where publications. 10^0-11:30 a.m., Rabbi Debbie Stiel Services, 8 p.m.

Bloom will be the Executive Director of the will delve into Reform Responsa on a wide range of Oneg Shabbat hosted by Brenda Friedman and Jewish Federation of New Haven. issues. family.

7:30-8:30 p.m., "Beyond Midrash," led by Don SATURDAY: Schwartz. .

Services, 9:30 a.m.

"SHABBAT COMES TO YOU"

by Beth Shyken Friday, June 20, 3:45 p.m.--Rabbi.Azriel and th'e'Temple Youth Group will leadTa Shabbat ser"Hit it boys!" is the common signal Rabbi vice at Remington Heights.

Howard Kutner of Beth Israel Synagogue gives to the young boys to begin Adon 01am in conclusion CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN BEYT SHALOM of the Shabbat morning service.

• SOUTH STREET TEMPLE An. Affiliate of the According to Rabbi Kutner, youth participation Member of the Union Jewish Rceonstmetionist Federation is important. Beth Israel Synagogue is putting the -' of American Hebrew Congregations P.O. Box 241130, youth in charge. Shabbat morning services on Omaha, NE 68124-5130 2061 S. 20th St. June 14 will be conducted entirely by the youth.

758-9233 Torah readers are Ben Gonsher, Jacob Katzman Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 http://omahnfreenet.org/beyt6lial. and Jeff Katzman; Scott Saltzman will act as Gabai. The Haftorah will be chanted by- Gary Services officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser.

FRIDAY: Shyken, and five D'vrai Torah are being given; .TUESDAY: Adult Education, 7:30 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat services, 7:30 p.m., at the synTiffany Eisenman, Rachel Eshelman, Jeff THURSDAY: Choir practice, 7:30 p.m. agogue.

Katzman, Michael Kriscfield and Annelise Ocanto FREDAY: Shabbat services at 7:45 p.m.

SUNDAY: will share their thoughts with the congregation.

SATURDAY: Torah study and service, 10 a.m.

Religious School is taking pre-registration for the Zac Gonsher will lead Shachrais, and Jacob next term, which starts around Labor Day. Katzman will do Mussaf.

Contact Dr. Marty Rosenberg at 390-9062 for d \ feltit was important for young people to take placement. over the entire service one Shabbos a year; giving Check the Bety Shalom information line at 758them a feeling of participation in conducting syna9233 for last minute schedule changes. gogue services," Rabbi Kutner said. "We hope this will spark a continued interest and inspire active HOME participation in synagogue life in the future."

FRIDAY: Nancy and Sheldon Rips will lead services at FRIDAY: 7 p.m.

Services, 7:30 p.m. The discussion topic is "How SATURDAY: Does the Age of Enlightenment Relate to the Exciting opportunity for.individual to coordinate non Services, led by Steve Riekes, start at 9 aan. ritual activities at 1300-family Conservative synagogue Members of the community are invited to join Tenets of Judaism?" serving greater Kansas City with active membership, residents for services and Kiddish. outstanding rabbinic and educational staff, committed lay

Beth Israel to host kiddush in honor of Howard Bloom and family

Youth Shabbos at Beth Israel

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OFFUTT 25th and Capehart ' : Omaha, NE 294^051, FRffiAY: Services, 8 p.m.

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WEDNESDAYS: Talmud classes, 9:30 a.m.; "Hooked on Yiddish" lessons, 7 p.m.

THURSDAYS: Advanced Talmud, noon

MEMORIAL A dedication will be held Sunday, June 22, 11:30 a.m., at Golden Hills Cemetery for Julius Katzman. Rabbi Kutner will officiate.

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Editorial

June 13,1997

A joyful show of unity

More than 300 people gathered Sunday evening at Beth Israel Synagogue for a rousing concert of "Three Cantors and a Rabbi."

Representing the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Synagogues of Omaha, Cantor Emil Berkovits of Beth El Synagogue made the point that this was a concert "of unity." Leo Pettman, cantor emeritus of Beth Israel, echoed his sentir ments, and Hazzan Erik Contzius of Temple Israel announced that the cantors would like to continue this tradition.

TO GiVE YOU THE U3CAU R U RESULTS COMWRiNS 'HUM/W Rkitfl? UNDER ISRAEL TO THE

This show of cooperation is a welcome change from the national news of disharmony among Judaism's different movements. Beth Israel's Rabbi Howard Kutner, the singing rabbi of the quartet, encouraged-those gathered to "work towards common goals."

Omahans do have common goals and through our Jewish Federation, the Centers of Excellence and all our synagogues, those goals are accomplished year after year.

While fighting among the movements may continue at the national level, here in Omaha, at least, our spiritual leaders not only talk to one another, they "sing" one another's praises!

UIA levels the playing field The United Israel Appeal (the international organization of which-the UJA is part) announced last Friday that it will allocate an additional $1 million to non-Orthodox institutions in Israel as part of its 1997-98 Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) budget proposal. That amount will increase to $2.5 million , for the 1998-99 budget.

• I That's welcome news for those who want to see a j pluralistic Israel. Donors to UJA/Federation campaigns have expressed their concerns about the ' allocations to Reform and Conservative institu- ' tions in Israel; this shows that the Jewish leaders , of the international organizations are listening.

The $1 million is in addition to the $2 million-plus already allocated by JAFI for non-Orthodox institutions each year and will increase as other federation's, such as Omaha's $11,000, add their own funds to these totals.

With the additional .dollars, the World Union for Progressive Judaism and Masorti (the Reform and Conservative movements in Israel) will now have the opportunity to find out whether Israelis really are interested in these American-style forms of Judaism.

Commentary

Why is this not news?

Commentary

by Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League

Israeli bulldozers arrive suddenly, ready to work.

Protesters, screaming and crying, surround them.

Those who attempt to prevent the operation are removed by Israeli police and soldiers, some say violently. Six are injured in the fracas, including children, and 18 are arrested.

Regular readers of American newspapers and viewers of TV news would assume that the above description is of Palestinian protests over the recent Israeli building project in Jerusalem, Har Homa. It is not.

This incident, virtually unreported by the American media, occurred at the Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, near Nablus. Israeli troops demolished three buildings the government said were built months ago without permits. Just a week earlier, amid similar protests, police and soldiers removed two illegally-constructed trailer homes in Mitzpeh Yericho, a settlement outside Jericho.'

Almost uniformly and since his election one year ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been portrayed by the American media as an idealogue bent on halting the peace process, expanding Israeli settlements and blatantly disregarding Palestinian concerns.

The Prime Minister's decision to commence building at Har Homa was presented as confirmation of these sinister designs. News reports, editorials and op-eds decried Israeli "settlement building" in "Arab East Jerusalem."

Now let's take the incident at Yitzhar. The story is certainly compelling, with the right media-loving

BBYO makes an impact on teens

Recently, the 'Mother Chapter,' AZA#1, held a farewell cookout and sleepover for our graduating seniors. The program recognized the seniors for their help and participation within their past four years in the chapter. This was a particularly meaningful event because this year's senior class has been extremely active, with strong ties to AZA. The event was held in a wooded area near the , Elkhorn River, supervised by four adults. There was a bonfire, a cookout, and, of course, a few spirited games of Ultimate Frisbee.

At 11 p.m., about 30 members gathered around the fire to listen to the seniors tell about their lives' in AZA. This gave the graduates the opportunity to thank their friends for their support, but, more importantly, it gave the newly-pledged

by Travis Lewis, AZA#1 Aleph Godol

incoming freshmen a chance to hear how much A2A #1 has meant to their peers and what it can mean to them.

I had just returned from visiting some BBYO friends in St. Louis, when I heard some impressions being circulated in the community t h a t BBYO is a bad influence on teens and that the organization does not encourage the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and drug usage.

When I heard these complaints about BBYO, it hit me extremely hard because of the wonderful time I have had with my BBYO friends. How could people say such things about an organization that means so much to me and had become such a major part of my life?

This overnight, then, came at a particularly

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visuals, complete with bulldozers, soldiers, crying men, women and children being dragged from the homes. Moreover, here was a story that should have been politically interesting to media.

In the face of conventional wisdom, at Yitzhar, and earlier at Mitzpeh Yericho, Prime Minister Netanyahu took detemmined action to stop illegal settlement activity. This decision took into account the sensitivities of neighboring Palestinians. It infuriated settler leaders and other Israelis sympathetic to the settler movement — a constituency politically important to Netanyahu. Throughout my professional career I have been a staunch defender of democratic ideals, including freedom of the press. To be sure, there are reporters, columnists, editorial writers, and ever perhaps entire news organizations that consistently demonstrate an anti-Israel bias. But I have strongly disagreed with those who insist that the American media uniformly treat Israel with a double standard.

However, I do have to question the judgment of many working journalists when it comes to the current situation in Israel. Simply, why are Israeli events and government decisions that may somehow contradict the all-too-common and simplistic impressions often left unreported? l a m not saying that Har Homa, reported accurately and fairly, is not a good news story. I'm just saying it is not the only story. As Israel and the Palestinians attempt to put the peace process back on track, American media need to cover these developments in all'their complexities .

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opportune time. The answer to this question-was reinforced when the seniors gave their lives.'

They told of their experience gaining leadership skills, self-confidence and meeting Jewish teens outside of their synagogue. Not one senior mentioned any involvement in drug or alcohol use. No matter what anyone else says, every active member in BBYO, including me, knows how special it i B .

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carl Aipen What is happening to JNF HAIFA-Not long ago, the real estate .section of the reputable daily Haaretz carried the following headline: "The Keren Kayemet Lelsrael" (Jewish National Fund) receives about a billion shekels a year from sale of its lands through the Israel Lands Administration (the Minhal)..."

The item set off a red light. We all know that the JNF is supposed to have acquired its land as the property of the Jewish people, in perpetuity. How can it be selling its land?

In the meantime, the press has carried numerous stories of kibbutzim and moshavim, presumably located on JNF land, that are making huge profits by selling off parts of their land to private contractors for construction of residential and industrial buildings.

A typical case was that of Kibbutz Glil Yam which made some of its land available to contractors who paid the kibbutz $250 million. Kibbutz Usha struck a 750 million shekel deal for building of 1500 housing units on its land, and still holds "surplus" land available for another 5600 units!

Kibbutz Bet Hashitta arranged for construction of 230 private cottages on its land, for an income of $27.5 million. What's going on?

With creation of the State, it became obvious that there would be duplication in administration of land owned by the government on the one hand, and land owned by the JNF on the other. And so in 1961, the two parties reached agreement whereby

all these publjcly owned lands would be placed in the hands of the Israel Lands Administration, known as the Minhal. It is interesting to note that Reservations some 92% of the territory of Israel is publicly For owned-75% by the government and about 17% by the JNF. The Minhal is governed by a Board of 24 Lunch and members, half of whom are designated by the JNF. Dinner Because of the shortage of privately-owned land, ROCKBROOK the Minhal periodically advertises that various of VILLAGE its land holdings are available for private use.

108th & Center Interested parties bid large sums for the rights to 391-2585 the land, on which they build homes or industries.

The Minhal "leases" its land to private persons or companies for periods which at this stage can be extended over 196 years. At JNF insistence, this is divided into four periods of 49 years each, with only Mcukfyieik minimal payments to be made at time of renewal. Income from such leasing put over 660 million shekels in the coffers of the JNF last year. Income of the JNF from contributions at home and abroad during the same period amounted to about 100 million shekels. In addition to its regular program of afforestation, environmental projects, water reservoirs, agricultural and tourism infrastructure, the JNF is budgeting more that 26 million shekels for acquisition from non-Jews of additional land in and around Jerusalem, in the Galilee and elesewhere 50th & "L" Street Omaha, NE Jewish settlement requires broadening.

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Being a real estate agent in Israel can be a in Haifa or an apartment in Rechovot, and the arm deathly experience. Sell your condo to a Jew and of PLO justice will reach out to you. Open a tourist you might find yourself dead, as did Mahmoud Ali tunnel in Jerusalem and you have armed conJamhour recently. He was killed as part of a policy frontation with PLO Paramilitary Police. Start a announced by the Palestinian Justice Ministry. housing development in land owned by Jews for Any Arab involved brokering the sale of real estate decades and you get bus bombing in Tel Aviv. Now if you sell a house to a Jew you will find yourself to a Jew will receive capital punishment.

There is no question that the new policy has put with a bullet in the head.

The killing of the real estate brokers is another a damper on real estate sales in Israel and the areas of the West Bank under Palestinian control. wake-up call that both the U.S. and Israel need to The body count has reached three, and some 10 take seriously. As long as Arafat can smile at the others are being held by the Palestinian Authority. cameras as his henchman knock off innocent civilJambour; • an Israeli 'Arab" who 'lived in; Jerusalem, ians, nothing will change;' The State Department, didn't have a trial. He was found murdered on a with so much invested in Oslo, has tried to sweet road in an area under Israeli control. Israel's talk Arafat, but he doesn't take them seriously. He Minister of Internal Security stated that there is has been getting away with murder for decades, no question that Arafat gave the order to have why should things be different now?

There is something we in the United States can Jambour killed.

Another realtor, Assad Rajibi was lucky. He-was do. The American taxpayer is propping up the kidnapped from his home in Jerusalem and was on Palestinian Authority. Benjamin Gillman, the way to PLO controlled Ramalah. Israeli Police Chairman of the House International Relations gave chase and freed Rajibi and arrested six armed Committee, and Jesse Helms, his Senate equal, are men who are members of the Palestinian Police considering cutting off American aid because of Arafat's newest mode of capital punishment. It's Force.

This new policy of the PLO is not only if you hap- time for action; American citizens don't have to be pen to make a great deal in Jehin or Hebron. The partners with terror, we need to urge Gillman and PLO has announced that makes no difference if the Helms to shut the flow of funds now. house in the area under their sovereignty or in David Eliezrie is a rabbi in Yorba Linda, CA. Israel. Sell a lot in Tel Aviv to a Jew, a townhouse He writes regularly on the Middle East.

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Bring articles to share at the "YES Talk" diBcussion group at 11 a.m. Following lunch at noon, Dr. Freund will speak on his recent archeological findings in Israel. For transportation, call 330-4272.

Deadline is June 16 for reservations and payment to see Vaudeville Omaha on June 22 at the Grande Olde Players Theater. Call Margaret at 334-6521 for reservations. Make check payable to Jewish Senior Services.

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WALK-IN, DROP-IN Members will meet Thursday at the JCC. Exercise and English class both start at 10 a.m.; bingo starts at 10:30 a.m. Bring a dairy sack lunch to eat at 11:30 a. m. At noon, come enjoy the movie "Jerry Maguire" in the Blumkin Home auditorium.

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JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES A limited number of tickets are available at a group rate for the Itzhak Perlman, concert Saturday, Sept. 13, 8 p.m., at the Orpheum Theatre. Cost for seniors is $34 for ticket on main floor, section B; and $38 for ticket and transportation from the JCC. First Come, First Served.

Make check payable to Jewish Senior Services.

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BROOKS/WRIGHT Rabbi Sidney and Jane H. Brooks announce the engagement of their daughter, Miriam, to Philip Andrew Wright, son of the late George C. and Josephine G. Wright.

Ms. Brooks is the Assistant to the Executive Officer of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa.

Mr. Wright is Technical Analyst for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's Central Artery Project. He is a graduate of Western New England College. ' A June 29 wedding is planned at Beth El Temple Center in Bebnont, MA. The couple plan to live in Cambridge, MA.

Brittany Epstein, daughter of Ron and Harriet Epstein; was one in a group who recently received first place in district and state competitions for their History Day display on "Pompei and Herculaneum." They will return for the second time to the National History Day competition in Washington, D.C., representing Burke High School and the state of Nebraska. . . . . . , ' "In the Market," a photographic exhibit by Howard K. Marcus, is now open at the Antiquarium Galleries, 1215 Harney St. in downtown Omaha. The exhibition is the first ever for the photographer/writer, who has been taking pictures since 1970. The exhibit, a series of black-andwhite images of and near Omaha's Old Market District, will continue through July 2.

Images in the show will be offered for sale (framed or unframed) in a variety of sizes.

Oscar Belzer, DDS'28, a cousin of Eunie Denenberg, remembers the horrors of a pogrom in Chan, the tiny Russian Shtetl of his boyhood.

"Because of one soldier's compassion 'he is altogether too small, too young*-they spared my life."

The family fled the chaos of the Ukraine and, in 1921, landed at Ellis.Island. • •,-..: . . . , . . . . , Oscar wanted to be a dentist and was elated when he was welcomed by Creighton University.

For almost 25 years, he practiced in the Medical Arts Building in downtown Omaha. He married Ruth Frisch and they had a son, Jerry. Oscar's patients called him "the singing dentist" because he often treated them to musical renditions along with their fillings.

His son, a 1957 graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical School, was a pathologist in the Los Angeles area. Jerry inherited his father's attitude toward the importance of education, and, before his death in 1996, he demonstrated his belief by a profound philanthropic decision.

He established the Jerome J . Belzer Chair in Pathology at UCLA, where he did his residency, and, at Creighton University he committed $1 million to create the Dr. Oscar S. Belzer Endowed Chair in Dentistry. The chair will be inaugerated on Sept. 2; It is one of three endowed chairs that the University will inaugerate in 1997-bringing to 17 the number of endowed chairs at Creighton.

Kelly and Dan Somberg of Overland Park, KN, announce the May 19 birth of their daughter, Lindsay Eleanor. They also have a son, Zachary, 2.

Grandparents are Suzanne Richards Singer and Ramon and Susan Somberg of Omaha and Wiley and Kay Murphy of Tucson.

Great-grandparents are Mrs. Louis Somberg of Omaha, Morton and Vivian Richards of Laguna Hills, CA, and Woodrow and Mary Jarvis of Tucson. .

Julie and Dan Faryniarz of London, England, announce the May 3 birth of their son, Robert Stanley. The family also includes Andrew, 4, and Kate, 1.

Grandparents are Connie and Bob Kully of Omaha and Maureen and Stan Faryniarz of Fair Haven, VT.

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Jewish singles can. sign up to "Feel the Beat.. .in The Nebraska Jewish Historical Society is work- the Heart of America" at the sixth Midwest ing with Milt Heinrich, a renowned sculptor and Regional Jewish Singles Conference in Kansas instructor of art at Dana College in Blair, to create City. The event, sponsored by Temple B'nai . a permanent exhibit for the entry wall to the Jehudah and the Midwest Council Union of Henry and Dorothy Riekes Museum in the American Hebrew Congregations, will be held Aug. Gordman Center.

29-Sept. 1. ' , Plans are for the installation and dedication of The weekend will include: A '60s theme evening the sculptural relief mural in the fall of 1997. featuring dinner, entertainment and dance music Members of the Kirshenbaum family who have by "Liverpool and the Beatles;" interactive workendowed this mural, in memory of their parents, shops that will help build new relationships; an are Joe and Audrey Kirshenbaum, Joe and Maxine evening of traditional Jazz for which Kansas City Kirshenbaum, and Kevee and Myrna Kirshen- is famous; a casino party; varieties of spirituality baum. including Jewish Renewal worship; golf tournaThe mural will depict the history and transitions ment; tour Kansas City; shopping at the outlet of Jewish contributions to business and enterprise mall; attend Kansas City's annual "Spirit Festival," in Nebraska from the early 1870's through today. and more.

Some items NJHS is seeking: matchbooks, pens, To receive registration materials, call Annette pencils, cups, keychains, etc. with logos or company Fish, Program Director at Temple B'nai Jehudah names; business stationery, cards, letters, at 816-363-1050, ext 129, or fax your name and envelopes, brochures, advertisements, posters, mailing address to 816-363-8610. shopping bags and boxes. Other printed paper promotional materials are also needed.

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Of course, those of us. who have been old enough to vote for quite a while know this goes back to prewall to wall carpet days; days when often a rug was on the floor of the living room and dining room. A big rug...maybe nine feet by twelve feet and not every household had an electric vacuum cleaner. Ok, now you get the idea.

Another little known term is a "sprinkling bottle." That's something going back to the days when most everything we washed was subsequently ironed. Days before stuff wasn't treated with chemicals to keep from wrinkling. In those days, we used something like a coke bottle with a perforated top which dampened the clothes to be ironed.

Eventually, plastic bottles were available to be filled with water then capped with the sprinkler top. I had one for years and when it fell apart, I found it was impossible to replace.

Does anyone remember when this time of year meant you shopped for a "spring coat?" I think they're obsolete too, with the advent of the'zip-out lining. The. light weight, just right coat no matter what the.weather, is now (and has-been for some years) the zip-out lining raincoat._I don't know..I kind of miss the spring coat.

Of course, somebody always mentions carbon paper when speaking of obsolete language. Hardly anyone remembers when learning office skills included the proper way to put carbon paper between two or more sheets—and turning it the right way! Office skills reminds me that I'm glad not to hear about or need to use typewriter.ribbons. I can still remember the joy of the first cartridge-type ribbon which was dropped into place without getting filthy hands. Not having to handle an inky ribbon was real progress!

The term "library card" surely doesn't mean the same as it once did, since automation took over in that area. That's too bad though-I remember how nice it was to have the librarian stamp in the date with that skinny little stamp while she visited with you about the book. It was more personal than all that electronic scanning we get today.

It's true that certain words and phrases really are obsolete these days, but if you pay close attention, you might notice they've been replaced by many new ones.

Most have to do with our computer world, but still they infiltrate ordinary language. All of this doesn't matter a lot-it simply represents an observation on my part. I'm a word nut, and admit it freely. Word games and crossword puzzles have always been of interest to me, among other things.

And somebody who writes particularly .well always gets my attention and praise.

I've been known to continue reading a book that was so beautifully written, I ignored the fact that I hated the subject matter. As I said, I'm a word nut.

That's why I notice the absence of various words in our language. Not because it's of significant importance—it's just a matter of curiosity to me.

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If may be the final atrocity of the Holocaust .police to turn fleeing For many survivors of Jews away into the the Holocaust and their hands of the Gestapo. families, their only ties The film contains into the past are locked in depth accounts of surthe vaults of Switzvivors who continue a erland. Since the end of struggle against the World War II, many have obduracy of the Swiss tried in vain to collect banks and explores the assets deposited in Swiss major scandal surroundbanks before the war, ing the truth of Switzermost were turned away land's recent past. empty-handed. But as new information about "The documentary the Swiss relationship to chronicles a compelling, Nazi Germany is reemotional, and historic vealed, how will it blemchapter on Switzerland, ish Switzerland's longWorld War II, and the held reputation of neuHolocaust," says producer trality? Will Holocaust Christopher Olgiatd. "The survivprsAfinally receive film makes clear that in a adequate reparations for subject area where 'never decades of injustice? forget' has been a continuing theme, there are In Nazi Gold, airing Tuesday, June 17, _ some things that are just 9 p.m., on PBS (check Charles Sonabend,, whose family escaped to being remembered for the local listings), FRONT- Switzerland only to be turned back by police g^j. y m e » LINE examines the into the arms of the Gestapo, is pictured with TMs 8 t o r y w h i c h b over 60 years ag0 is now Swiss role in supporting his parents and sister in 1033.

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Nazi Gold examines the class-action suit filed at the U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn, N.Y. A claimant in the suit describes how bis father's gold teeth were pulled out while he watched: gold that would be sent to Berlin, melted into ingots and probably shipped to Swiss banks. "They took us into the shower rooms....They pulled out his crowns from his mouth," he tells FRONTLINE. "They just had a pair of pliers and...like if you tie down a horse, this is the way they pulled it out."

Charles Sonabend, the son of a wealthy Jewish businessman, was smuggled with his family into Switzerland, where they thought they'd be safe.

Charles's father, Simon, had told his son that they had money in a Swiss bank account. When the Sonabends checked in with Swiss police, they were immediately arrested and returned to the Nazis.

Charles escaped, but his parents were murdered.

After the war, Charles was told by Swiss bankers that his father's account didn't exist. Last year, the police report surfaced that confirmed there was an account—an account which Simon Sonabend had revealed to Swiss police as proof that he was able to support his family. Despite the report, the bankers continued to deny the existence of the account.

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