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Celebrating More Than 75 Years of Service VoI.LXXV

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Knesset..Mini bet Ybssi Beilin to speak at Major Gifts Dinner

Elkon and Grossman awarded United Way Volunteer off the Year by Pam Monsky Federation Communications Director

Wally Elkon

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by Pam Monsky, Federation Communications Director

Bob Eisenberg

Wally Elkon and Art Grossman will be honored as Volunteer of the Year at the 1998 United Way Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Luncheon on April 21 at noon at Ak-Sar-Ben Hall. Elkon was selected for his work with Visions, a senior group with over 340 members, in the Elderly category. Grossman was honored for his tireless work with Federation and other Jewish philanthropies, in the Religion category. He was also named the Federation's 1997 Humanitarian of the Year, the community's highest honor.

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Elkon Is Executive Chairman ofVisions, and has been 'instrumental in the growth of the group, as well as.continuing to develop the Mitzvah committee, leading the board-'and luncheon meetings, assisting at all. Visions functions and co-chairing the Cultural Committee with his wife, Jean. Grossman is the retired Regional Manager of Renfield Importers and currently-works as the Editor and Columnist for Beverage.Analyst, _a liquor industry magazine. He has served on virtually every Federation Center of Excellence board of directors, including the Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service' and Bureau for the Aging (now Jewish Senior Services). He continues to work on the Federation Annual Campaign as co-chairman of the Oldtimers Division. "I was. taught to do this—I'm Jewish," said Grossman. "The word in Hebrew is tzedakah and it doesn't mean charity; it means justice. It means that as Jews we even things out for everyone else. I'm very proud to, receive this honor from the United Way," he said; Elkon said, 1 am deeply honored to receive this award. But, my big award comes when I see the faces of the seniors who participate in a trip or a program that has been arranged by Visions. We are seniors having fun!"

Jari Scluieiderihan The 1998 UJA/Fptftratiou CampiSftjn will honor its major donors at a-ainncr featuring special guest speaker Yossi Beilin, the second most powerful man in the Israeli Knesset Labour Party. The dinner, to be held April 29 at Highland Country Club, recognizes the tremendous contributions made by members of the Mojor Gifts campaign divisions, which include: Pomegranate (a minimum gift of $1,800 to the Annual Campaign) and lion of Judah (a $5,000 minimum gift to the Annual Campaign) for the Women's Campaign Divisions; and Pacesetter ($6,000 minimum gift), Joshua's Circle ($10,000 minimum gift), Chai Circle ($18,000 minimum gift), King Solomon Circle ($25,000 minimum gift), and Prime Minister's Circle ($100,000 minimum gift) for the Men's Campaign Divisions. 1998 Pacesetter Chairmen Bob Eisenberg and Bob Newman said, "We:are proud to offer a speaker of this caliber to our major donors. We are all concerned and interested in the politics of Israel and the peace process, and we will be able to hear from the source at this event." 1998 Lion of Judah Chairpersons Maxine Kirshenbaum and Jan Schneiderman, and Pomegranate Chairperson Joan Kaiman are looking forward to the opportunity to learn more about

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the inner workings of Israeli politics. "Anytime that we, in the Diaspora, can gain insight into the diversity issue and the Middle East peace process, we welcome it. Dr. Beilin's remarks will be incredibly interesting," they said. Outspoken and widely quoted, Dr. Yoasi Beilin has held many positions in the Knesset, including Deputy Minister of Finance, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Economics and Planning, and Minister in the Prime Minister's office. He is currently a member of the Committee on the Status of Women, and the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. , During his career, Beilin has been a teacherresearcher at Tel-Aviv University, a journalist for Davar newspaper, Labour Party Spokesman, Government Secretary and Political Director General of Foreign Ministry. He resides in TelAviv with his wife and two children.. Dr. Beilin is known for his views on the Middle East peace process, pluralism, women's issues and US/Israel relations. He has written several books, including: Sons in the Shadow of Their Fathers, The Price of Unity, Hebrew Industry-Roots, IsraelForty Plus, Israel: A Concise Political History, and Touching Peace.

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Friedel Jewish Academy has tapped Michael L. | Linn to become school director. . Board Chairman Marty ; Shukert, announcing the , appointment, cited Linn ' as "an administrator ' with a proven track ' record and an experi' enced educator with a passion for Jewish learning, whose leadership will enable the Academy Michael Linn to reach every segment of

of our community." Linn will be in the principal's post as the 1998-99 school year gets underway. He is currently in transition into the job by observing day-to-day operations. He also is working on development, public relations and recruitment. Tin extremely excited about the opportunity to help Friedel fulfill its mission as a community school capable of meeting the educational needs both academic and Judaic - of every Jewish child in Omaha," Linn said. "I've worked for more than 10 years on many committees and boards, and I've become familiar (Continued on page 9)

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Enough of Dayenu End of Pesach, 5758 by Rabbi MyerS. Kripke

A younger colleague once called to my attention that we are unthinking when we chant Dayenu so blithely at the Seder. What do you mean that "it would have been enough" if the good Lord had done only this for us, or that, or the other? The truth is that all He did was not enough! Not only did he part the sea, etc., etc., but He did thus and so and thus and so. And it was still not enough. With all of that our ancient ancestors played the fool with the local gods of Canaan, generation after generation, century after century. With all of that our ancestors failed to produce a society fair enough, devoted to justice enough to please the prophets. .With all of that our ancestors (like ourselves) were shallow enough,to consider that the Lord could be appeased and would be pleased with ritualistic mumbo-jumbo and sacrifices, when in reality what He demanded was a society of decency and justice. So why do we keep saying Dayenu - "it is enough"? . It seems to me that we could answer our question thus: even if everything in the past was not enough, at least it directed us aright. For Jews, the decisive moment in history was the Exodus. Further, the decisive moment in the : history of mankind, not only of the Jews, was the Exodus. The Exodus, first of all, defined the essential nature of God. He is a God of liberation, One who cannot countenance subjection of one people to another or one person or another. Just as freedom, the demand for liberty is the very essence of Godhead, so freedom, liberty, is the very core of personhood. History has a new hold on humanness after the Exodus. History will never again be satisfied with absolute monarchies and totalitarian governments, although it suffered them for another 3000 years. Further, the Exodus created a people who may have failed to live by- its best lights, but r nonetheless, a peoplefthat had'ligftfr.1 A way of life and a way of looking at life, entirely unknown in the past, was placed before mankind by the Israelites and their children, the Jews,. There was a new goal for humanity,- a new-horizon, never before envisioned, a challenge of widening dimensions and deepening meaning. The most important baggage the slaves carried out of Egypt was weightless, the spiritual, moral, contemplative baggage that beckoned to their best minds. They were destined to be Jews. They were destined to lead mankind to a new and different level of human consciousness. They were the ancestors of prophets and poets and thinters."The moral goals of humanity were set high, too high to be reached, but not too high for human aspiration. Would it be enough with this or that? No. Never. Always more is needed, more. God's help is ever needed if we are to progress, if we are to achieve, if we are to aspire to a better world. Until the dawn of a better world, we must withhold our Dayenu except when we chant it merrily on Pesach.

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Deaths SADIE ENDELMAN BURTON Sadie Endelman Burton, formerly of Omaha, died March 29 in Menlow Park, CA. \ Survivors include" a son, Billy Burton; a daughter, Sandra, both of California; sister, Sylvia Schwartz; brother, Robert Endelman, both of Omaha; four grandchildren and-three great-grandchildren. • HENRY STERLING Henry Sterling, formerly of Omaha, died March 30 in Hawaii. Services were held April 5 in Sioux City, IA. He was 88 years old. . . Survivors include a daughter, Judith SterlingWilson of Honolulu; son, Dr. Alan Sterling of Akron, OH; sister, Sarah (Babe) Nogg of Omaha; four grandchildren; Rebecca Wilson and Dr. Borah Wilson of Hawaii, Gabriel Sterling and Davan Sterling of Akron. JEROMELCOHN Jerome I. Cohn died April 3 at the age of 74. Services were held at Temple-Israel'oh Aprir 5, with burial at Temple Israel Cemetery. > .. .-r, Cohn was a former vice-president of the Nebraska Furniture Mart and son-in-law of its founder, Rose Blumkih. He was a board member of the Joslyn Art Museum and the Nebraska Arts Council.' • •; • Survivors include his wife, Sylvia; daughter, Claudia Cohn Boehm of Omaha; sons, Barry-of Omaha and Howard of Sausalito, CA; and grandchildren, J.T., Allison, Andrew and Ashley Boehm of Omaha. ' Memorials to t h e University of Nebraska Medical Center or Joslyn Museum EDDIE KUKLIN Eddie Kuklin, formerly of Omaha, died April 4 in Riseda, CA. Services were held April 6 at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Survivors include his wife, Elaine; sons and daughters-in-law, Stephan and Amy Kuklin, Scott and Twila; two granddaughters, Heather and Leah; one great-granddaughter; sister and brotherin-law, Bettyand Bus Rubin of Omaha.' • • •; EVELYN SCHLOSSMAN Evelyn Schlossman died April 4 in Sun City, AZ. Services were held April 6 at Sunland Memorial Park. She is survived by her husband, Alvin, of Sun City, daughters Robin Asaki of Scottsdale, AZ, and Jenni Ferber of Omaha; son, Maury Schlossman of Houston; sister, Lenore Margolies of New York City, and six grandchildren. Memorials to Beth Emeth Congregation, Biblical Garden, 13702 W. Meeker Blvd., Sun City West, AZ, 85375. . HELEN SPEIER Helen Jacobson Speier died at the age of 81. Services were held April 14 at Temple Israel with burial at Beth El Cemetery. . ' . She was preceded in death by her sisters, Florence Selig and Bertha Weiritrob. She is survived by her husband, Millard; son and daughter-in-law, David and Nancy Jacobson, Omaha; son, Robert Jacobson of Fremont, CA; five grandchildren, Rachel, Sara, Ben, Justin and Daniel; sister, Edythe Oohn of Palm Springs, CA. Memorials to Temple Israel^Central High School" Building Improvement Fund or charity of choice.

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Yom HaShoah Holocaust Commemoration Wednesday, April 22,7 p.m. Temple Israel, 7023 Cass This-year's commemoration will Include a dramatic presentation of "Night Words" by Davlrf Roskles featuring .Omaha Jewish teens, rabbls>and cantors. It is directed by Max Sparber. Special Holocaust memorial candles will be distributed at the end of the program, which is sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council with funding from the Esther K. Newman Fund arid the Mort Richards Fund. The program Is free and open to the public; for more information, contact Gloriann Levy, 334-6403.

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Member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations 7023 Case Street, Omaha, NE 68132 FRIDAY: Early worship service, 5:30 pjn. Rabbi Stiel will officiate using the Union Prayer Book. Shabbat evening service, 7:30 pan. Eabbi Azrie] and Hazzan Contzius will officiate at this family service, along with the M'shor'rim and Temple Tones Choirs. The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Temple Sisterhood. SITTER SERVICE Sitter, service is available each Friday evening, Saturday mornings when there is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, and Sunday mornings when there is Religious School. Please make a reservation. Cost is $2 per family if reservations are made; drop-ins are $3 per family. No facilities for infants SATURDAY: Shabbat morning service, lOeSO turn. Simcha B'Shabbat-An informal Shabbat service that includes study and discussion of a variety of Jewish texts. The regular Shabbat service will be held in the Sanctuary. ••.-/,• • .••..';• SUNDAY: Morning Chapel Prayer service, 8:15 a m This service gives members of the congregation an additional opportunity to pray and recite Kaddish. : Men's Club and Adult Opportunities for Learning, 10. ajn. The Social Justice Committee will present a thought-provoking discussion led by guest panelist Rabbi. Murray Saltzman, Chairman of the National Federation of Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers. Topic is "Understanding African American/Jewish Relations in the "90s." Dr. Magda Peck will moderate. The event is 'open to the public at no charge. , ...'• ADULT EDUCATION WEDNESDAY, April 22: Adult B'nai Mitzvah class, 10 a.m. to noon. THURSDAY, April 2: Sisterhood Adult Education: 9:30-10.30 a.m., Hazzan Erik Contzius will teach "The World of Jewish Music." 10:30rll:30a.m., Rabbi Debbie Stiel will teach "Talmud for Beginners." 7:308:30 p.m., Beyond Midrash, led by Don Schwartz. "SHABBAT COMES TO YOU": Friday; April 24, 3:45 p.m.--Hazzan Contzius, along with the Temple Youth Group, will lead a Shabbat service at Livingston Plaza.

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CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN SOUTH STREET TEMPLE Member of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations 2061S. 20th Sfc, Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 435-8004 Services officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser. TUESDAY: Adult Education, 7:30 pjn. THURSDAY: Choir Practice, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY: Shabbat Hachinuch, 7i45 pan.; SATURDAY: Torah study, 10 a.m.; SUNDAY: Hebrew School, 9 a.m.; Religious School, 10 ajn.; Temple Youth Group (first and third Sundays), noon. SATURDAY, April 25: Temple auction at Ebenezer's, 32 & South Streets: cocktails, 6 p.m.; dinner, 6:30 p.m.; auction, 7:30 p.m.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner. Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. FRIDAY (Seventh Day of Pesach): Morning service, 8:45 a.m.; Mincha, 7:50 pjn. SATURDAY (Last Day of Pesach): Morning service, 8:45 ajn.; Yizkor, 10-.30 am.; Mincha, 7:45 pjn.; Havdalah, 8£2 pjn.; Chametz should not be used before 9:20 p.m. SUNDAY: Services at 9 ajn. and 7:55 pjn. WEEKDAYS: Services at 7 a.m. and 7:55 pjn. ADULT EDUCATION with Rabbi Kutner: Monday, 7:30 p.m., Introduction to the Talmud, using the first Tractate of the Talmud, Brachos, as its text; Synagogue Skills, 8:30 p.m.—Learn to chant the Haftorah with its traditional trope. WEDNESDAY, 7^0 pan.: "Yom Hashoah: Remembering the Holocaust."

,-r ,JU CHABAD HOUSE ''.'An Affiliate of the Worldwide , ~u Chabad-Lubavitch Movement 1800 So. 120th S t , Omaha, NE C8144 Phone:330-1800 E-MACL~chahad@aol.com SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m. Kiddush following services. SUNDAY: Services, 8:30 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Mitzvah Munchkins class, 10 a.m.-noon • THURSDAY: Talmud Class, noon.

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FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat services Friday nights at 7:30 pjn. at 3012 S. 119th St. in Omaha. SUNDAY: Religious School, 10 ajn. (all grades), at the Jewish Community Center. TUESDAY: Religious School, 4 p.m. (grades 4-8) attheJCC.

Alexander FiUer Kate, son of Amy and Bichard will celebrate his JBar Mitzvah on Saturday, pril 25, at Temple Israel. A seventh-grade honor iroll student at Westside School, he won itate Recognition in the Duke Talent Identifica^"Sj tion Program, He enjoys baseball, computers, the card game Magic, saxophone, reading, nature. For his mitzvah project, he volunteered at Neale Woods Nature Center doing small animal care. Alexander has a sister, Emily, and a brother, Max. Grandparents are Sophie and Harry Schulman of Omaha, the late Marshall Katz, Jay Filler of Wheaton, IL, and the late Anne Filler. Andrew Malashock, son of Diane and Larry Malashock, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, April 25, at Beth El Synagogue.. A seventh-grade honor student at Beveridge Middle School, he enjoys basketball, skateboarding and playing his guitar in the school's jazz band. Grandparents are ^ JLJL , « Donna and Donald Barna and Barbara and Stanley Maiashock, all of Omaha. Great-grandmother is Myrtle Fox of Miami Beach, FL.

New Moon Group to host event OFFUTT 25th and Capehart, Omaha, NE 294-6051 Services conducted by Rabbi Ira Flax. Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m. 4:30 pjn.; Friday, 7:30a.m.-2 p.m.

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Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits. . •' -' FRIDAY ( S e v e n t h D a y ot Passover): Shaharit, 9rfJ0 a.m.; Minha-Ma'ariv, 6 pjn. SATURDAY ( E i g h t h D a y of Passover): Shaharit (Yizkor is said), 0:30 a.m. Kiddush following services; Sitter service, 10 ajju; TSS (Torah Siddur Skills), 10 a.m.; Shabbat Story Time, first and third Saturday, 11 aon; KTtantan, second and fourth Saturday, 11 ajn.; Minjia-Ma'ariv and Havdalah,. 7:55 pjn.; Passover ends no earlier than 8:30 pjn. SUNDAY: Services,9 a.m.; WEEKDAYS: Services, 6:55 a.m. and 5^0 p.m. LUNCH AND LEARN Adult Lunch and.Learn with Rabbi Drazen, Tuesday, April 21, noon, at Pastime's Restaurant, 76th & Cass. Call the office for reservations.

SHLQSHIM MEMORIAL SERVICE Please join us In loving tribute to Rabbi Yehoshua Zellg Katzman whose passing on the 18th of Adar left us all In shock and deeply pained

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Hiddush Levanah—the Omaha Jewish Women's New Moon Network will host a celebration in honor of the upcoming Hebrew month of Iyyar on Sunday, April 26, from 7-9 pjn., at the home of Eliane Freund, co-coordinator with Deirdre Evans, at 14929 Cuming St. Ms. Freund points out, "Through prayer, meditation, song and a panel discussion entitled Personal Reflections On Israel's 50th Birthday, participants will have an opportunity to celebrate this special.simchai; We are fortunate to share insights into Israel with three guest panelists with personal ties to Israel -Ellie Greenspoon, Eddie Tsabari and Orly Gilat." The event is co-sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council. For more information, call Ms. Freund at 4967118.

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Editorial

April 17,1998

Who will remember?

Each year, more of them die...the survivors, the witnesses to the most unspeakable crimes against humanity ever committed. When survivors die, the untold stories die with them; the Holocaust revisionists, those who insist the gas chambers were never used and 'only a handful of Jews* killed, gain a little more strength because there.are fewer of them to tell of this century's horrors. And each year, it seems that the crowd is a little smaller, a little older at the Jewish community's annual commemoration of the Holocaust, Yom HaShoah. What will it be this year? Will this community, so supportive of other events, be counted alongside those who actually survived? Will there be so many at Temple Israel on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. that the organizers run out of yahrzeit candles? Or will the seats remain empty? There are naysayers in the Jewish world who counter that Yom HaShoah was no greater tragedy than the Inquisition or the pogroms of Russia and insist that Tisha B'Av is the 'correct' time to mourn for all our Jewish martyrs. There is a difference, however...there are still survivors, alive and well, thank G-d, among us. And we owe them.

Our man Israeli women on the march by Carl Alpert in Israel

Israel's church-state crisis Focus on Issues by Gary Rosenblatt, Editor, New York Jewish Week

Haifa - Several decades ago, a nine are women; of 18 members of In small but significant ways, the on marriage, divorce and burial: Some Modern Orthodox leaders in woman lawyer who served as legal the Cabinet, there is but one woman. walls around Israel's longstanding representative of the employees of Among hundreds of city mayors and religious-secular "status quo" are Israel, sensitive to the reality that Bank Leumi, observed how few municipal council heads throughout beginning to crack, and the implica- most Israelis feel disenfranchised by a growing Orthodox fundamentalism, women held positions as bank man- the country, three are women; '; tions are profound. agers. She raised the matter with Leaders of the equal rights move"Status quo" is shorthand for the rire rethinking,the *status. quo:" Some Ernst Japhet, then managing director ment place part of the blame on the agreement between the founders of of these younger rabbis support the of the bank. •'•'• women themselves because of their the state and the religious parties Neeman committee proposal, which His reply: "Women bank managers? lack of initiative. Even if there is that allowed Israel.to have a secular calls for creating conversion'training -over my dead body!" affirmative action to expand opportu- government but yielded to the institutes taught by instructors from Japhet ended up in disgrace and, nities for women, this must not be Orthodox viewpoint on the Sabbath, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. . food laws, and ritual status such as ' In a related, significant developtoday, the head of Bank Leumi is a done at the expense of quality. highly competent woman, Galia Maor. • Women cannot afforfl ,-to. be^n marriage; dj^orce and burial. That ment, a-newvcovenant that wouldi The story was recalled last month mediocre, declared Rivka>"Mellerv ' agreement Has held for almost 50 replace the ''status quo" has been when the nation was swept by a series Olshitzky, new chairwoman of the year's as an uneasy but pragmatic drafted by a small group of leaders, of celebrations and events marking Israel Women's Network, "Th'ey truce, based on the principle of including Yossi Beilin of the Labor International Women's Day. But those have to be the best in everything establishing and maintaining one Party, Alex Lubotzky of the centrist form of religious practice, halacha, Third Way Parly and four rabbis from who thought that the great wave of theydo." • * "' . • '.'•• V Meimad, a liberal Orthodox movement feminist propaganda, marked by pubLocal elections are scheduled1 to or Jewish law, for a diverse society. lic meetings, special observance in the take place throughout the country in But as a result of the religious and that has just become a political party. • Knesset and major coverage in both November, and she urges women to political churning in recent months "'.Vi'Its authors note thsit "a special the printed and electronic media, .project their candidacies. over a controversial conversion bill urgency to finding solutions" came would thereafter die down; and mat- Still another area is in the stimula- in the Knesset, the larger issues of frbm the fact that large numbers of ters would revert to their" usual, have tion of public awareness and protest religious freedom and identity in new immigrants from the former been sadly mistaken. The battle for in the matter of violence against Israel have come to the fore. Secular Soviet Union are Israeli citizens but women's rights has continued with women. Statistics on such violence Israelis, who make up the majority not Jewish, and. that virtually all segvigor on a number of fronts. are truly disturbing. In 1997, 26 of the population, are not clamoring ments of society- are dissatisfied with For one thing, there is continued women in Israel were murdered by for Conservative and Reform the principle ofthe "status quo." effort to gain for women equality of their spouses, male friends or by sex Judaism in Israel. Indeed, most The document calls for doing away . opportunity in the country's armed attackers. Those were only the cases Israelis still maintain that the syna- with religious councils that now con- . forces, commensurate with their phys- which ended up in death. ' gpgue that they, choose not to attend trol much of religious life; allowing ical and .intellectual capabilities,.but In Jerusalem alone 3668 women is Orthodox, and the'number of con- couples who cannot have a Jewish free of prior prejudice. Persistent reported abuse, of whom 50% were gregants of liberal congregations marriage to register as legal couples,-, efforts had gained women the right to married. Many of them were hospi- remains tiny. and providing for civil burials. It also be enrolled in training courses for air talized. The tendency of the courts to. But the very public debate over advocates requiring "the study of force combat pilots, but so far no hand out lenient sentences has cer- the conversion bill, whose opposition Jewish tradition, including the Torah woman has successfully completed the tainly not served as a deterrent to was led by liberal American Jews, and Oral Law," in all state-funded course, though in the early days of the male violence or sex attacks. captured the attention of a growing schools; incorporating the religious, State at least one woman served as a On another front, Israeli women number of Israelis, most notably the court system into the justice ministry; pilot in combat zones. have been called upon to combat any lawmakers. Israelis were concerned . and allowing public transportation on; Now a petition has been filed with possible mood of despair in the face that passage of the bill in the Shabbat, though commerce'Would, be. the High Court of Justice by four of terrorism, and to set an example of Knesset would have led to an shut down, except for entertainment. women who demand that the Navy courage and determination. irreparable split between Israeli and The new covenant is being offered as accept their applications to be Women are on the march. This diaspora Jewry, and they a beginning of a long-overdue discusenrolled in a sailors' course. spirit of assertiveness should be a empathized with the Conservative sion that tries to grapple with accom-" . The role of women in political life is true challenge to the men in political, - and Reform movements' assertion modating Judaism and democracy in another target of the feminists. 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Israel awaits next U.S. move after Ross mission collapses by David Landau

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JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Things are scenario in a conference call with WASHINGTON (JTA) - Amid the more on Jewish identity, continuity not as bad as they look, the Israeli American Jewish leaders. endless talk of the "disappearing" and education for the children. government said after an American No one in the Netanyahu govern- American Jew and the decline in "We believe that by building Jewish envoy's latest round of shuttle diplo- ment, not even the hardest-line min- 'support for both Israel and the identity and community ties here, peomacy failed to move the Israeli- isters who advised the premier to Jewish establishment, those still ple are more likely to support Jewish Palestinian peace process forward. reject out-of-hand Washington's pro- committed to the Jewish cause offer causes," said Joel Alperson of Omaha, It is "a dramatization" to speak of a posal, can regard with equanimity another voice. NE, who co-chairs the UJA Young crisis of confrontation in the U.S.- the prospect of America publicly turn."I come for the betterment of the Leadership Cabinet. Israel relationship, the prime minis- ing its .back on the peace process -- State of Israel and to network and • (Other Omahans attending the conter's, aide, Uzi Arad, said at the con- with all the loss of face for learn about how to help- more ference were:-Sheri and- Mike clusionrof U.S. Special Middle East Washington that this would mean.. Jewish causes," Ernest Kresch, a Abramson, Forrest Knitter, Jenny and Coordinator-Dennis Ross' shuttle, i A worse scenario still, from the 38-year-old doctor from Chat- Scott Meyerson, Susie Noddle and YJO There had indeed been differences of Netanyahu government's perspective, ~ tanooga, TN, said. Director Sharon Kirshehbaum.) opinion, Arad conceded, but the series is another response that is now under Kresch was one of 3,000 Jews Participants .came from across the of talks with'Ross had been "business- active consideration in the White between the ages of 25 and 45 who . religious spectrum. Many were curious like" and the Americans understood House, a public presentation of the flew in from as far away as about spiritual issues, judging by the Israel's security concerns. . American formula as a formal U.S. California, Texas and Georgia to number who crammed into sessions A senior Israeli policy-maker, brief- initiative. This would mean --unless attend last month's Young Lead- devoted to religion, God and spiritualiing reporters, sought to assure them there is a sudden change of heart in ership Conference of the United ty. But one of the most popular sesthat, despite the present impasse, . Jerusalem — thai the Clinton admin- Jewish Appeal here, making it the sions, attended by over 500, was a lecPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu istration would be knowingly court- largest turnout since its first one 22 ture by Esther Jungreis' on "Jewish was still moving the country toward a ing a confrontation with Israel. years ago. • and Single: Looking for Same to Share second further redeployment in the Netanyahu, who has spent several For three days, doctors, lawyers, Meaningful Life." WestBank. weeks attempting to prevent U.S. publishers, writers, bankers, and "People spend their whole lives planBehind the facade of business as officials from going public with their psychologists gathered together to ning their careers, but they think that usual, however, there was some trepi- proposal, was quoted as warning that talk spirituality (and mate-finding), relationship is just going to come to dation in Israeli government circles as such a move would result in the politics and Jewish philanthropy. them," said Marvin Epstein of to. how Washington would respond to "explosion" of the peace process. : During the last two decades, the California said referring to the charisRoss returning empty-handed from It would mean, moreover, that focus of the convention has changed matic speaker, author, and matchmakwhat had been widely advertised as a Washington is preparedito point an in an attempt to reflect the trends er, whose weekly sessions on the Upper last-ditch attempt to save the falter- accusatory finger at Jerusalem as the and issues of the day. This year's East Side of Manhattan draw some ing peace process. ; recalcitrant party -- since the attendees seemed to be looking for: 1,500 people. , • U.S. officials have expressed in Palestinian Authority has already connection to the Jewish communiThey cheered when .Vice-president Al recent, days the possibility that indicated its acceptance, albeit grudg- ty through finding, a Jewish spouse Gore, one of the event's keynote speakWashington, may decide to withdraw, ing, of the American terms while and/or through spiritual .develop- ers, announced that, there is no doubt altogether from the frustrating and Israel, continues to reject them> ment; and/or a connection to global there will soon be a Jewish president of unsuccessful Israeli-Palestinian medi7 The Labor Party called for the and local Jewish causes through the United States. ation effort. . Knesset, which recessed for the philanthropy. The focus of And hundreds stood and roared as he Secretary of State Madeleine Passover holiday, to reconvene for an American Jews is now. less on emer- finished his thought: "And she will be Albright delivered this apocalyptic; urgent debate on the situation. gency rescue, and anti-Semitism and great." .

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Tuf/y and his Group" The Israel 50-Yom Ha'Atzmaut Celebration on May 2 and 3 at the Jewish Community Center will feature a performance by "Mah Tovu" on Saturday May 2, following the 9:30 p.m. Havdallah service, and on Sunday, May 3, 3:30 p.m., for families. "Tuffy's Group" will perform from noon-l:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 3. "Mah Tovu" is the duo of guitarists/singers/songwriters Steve Brodsky of Denver and Josh Zweiback of Omaha, backed by their high-energy rock n' roll band. Their performances have gained an enthusiastic following across the country. Josh Zweiback is a Hebrew Union College rabbinical student, and Steve Brodsky is a former Denver camp and youth activities director. He is currently a part-time cantonal soloist. . "Mah Tovu" brings a diverse blend of styles from rock to reggae, soul to jazz, and folk to gospel.' They released their debut recording, "Jewish Rock 'n Roll Singer" in,1992, and a second, recording; is underway. Their contemporary Jewish music is more than entertainment; it also educates, informs andinspires. " Tuffys band has existed for more than 25 years. They have played at family celebrations from Brit Milan to Bar Mitzvahs and weddings. They have also played at Simchat Torah services at Temple Israel for the past six years. In addition, they have performed at Beth El Synagogue, the Jewish Community Center, and are booked for the summer of 1998 throughout the Midwest. The Group features Tuffy Epstein of Omaha.

Epstein, Noddle to chair '99 Lion of Judah Conference

Nostalgia Good TV and USWest TeleChoice will present Homework Helpers; Get.lt Done, Get It Right, a community outreach program designed to bring together post-49ers and 2nd-6th graders. Students should bring their homework to Oakview Mall on Tuesdays from 5-8 p.m., and Saturdays Sandy Epstein,(left), and Nancy Noddle will and Sundays from 1-5 p.m., from now until May 9. chair the 1999International'Lion of Judah

Conference for the Jewish Federation of Omaha from Sept. 13-15 in Washington, B.C. United Way of the Midlands Officers and This will he t h e fourth Lion of J u d a h Executive Committee members were elected Conference and t h e second international recently a t the annual meeting. Included is: Vice gathering of Jewish women leaders. Chair for Campaign-Jack Baker, Chairman and Celebrities expected for the closing plenary CEO of Baker's Supermarkets, Inc.; Ex-officio include Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Board Members appointed: CHAD Representative— Barbara Streisand, Barbara Walters and Elie Howard Shrier, President and General Manager, Weisel. The UJA Lion of Judah program repKPTM Fox 42 and KXVO Channel 15; elected to resents more than 7,000 women around the serve a one-year term as a new director, J e r r y , world, each of whom give at least $5,000 to Hoberman, President of Tires, Inc.; special recog- the Annual Campaign. For more information, nition of individuals for United Way of the contact Cindy Kaufman, Federation Women's Midlands seruic^-R&chel Slosburg, Central High Campaign Director, at 334-6427. School. |

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.'National Council of Jewish Women Y.E.S. Members will meet Monday at the JCC. English class starts at 10 a.m. Exercise and bingo both start at 10:30. Bring current event articles to share at the "Y.E.S. Talk" discussion group at 11. Following a hot kosher lunch, Shane Kotok will speak about her recent trip to Israel. For transportation, call 330-4272. Deadline: April 23, for the Winnavegas trip on April 30. Call Maggie Conti for reservations at 334-6521.

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} prepare for printing. Other NCJW volunteers who worked on the project include Ann Moshman, Cheryl Cooper, Suzan Crabb, Mitzi Delman, Jan Fisher, Esther Meiches, • Roie Meyers, Vicki Perimeter and Marlene Sukiennik.. Cipperley is Director .of Guidance at Central High School. She said, "Students have made use of the R.A.F.T. booklet for years. The kids know that they can look to it for help. We can't keep enough copies around." The quote on the front page says, Life's currents can sometimes become overwhelming. JR.A.F.T. is a booklet designed to help you stay afloat when life feels rocky. If you think you're going to sink, grab a RA.F.T. To obtain copies of R.A.F.T., or for information, call 334-8430.

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Panel discussion to focus on race relations Temple Israel's Committee for Social Justice will present its third panel discussion on Understanding African-American/Jewish Relations in the 90s on Sunday, April 19, at 10 a.m. Rabbi Murray Saltzman, chairman of the National Federation of Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers, will be one of the guests panelists. Magda Peck, ScD, will serve as moderator. „ . Rabbi Saltzman Berved as senior rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation until his retirement last June. His career in- the rabbinate spanned 40 years and during that time he was involved with local, state and national organiza-. tions concerned with human and civil rights. Dr. Peck is an associate professor in the department of pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she also serves as associate chairperson for community health. She is co-chairperson of Temple Israel's Black/Jewish Dialogue.

"In my campaign for governor, you will hear me speak often of less government and lower taxes. While other candidates will talk about less government and lower: taxes, I bring you a proven track record that shows it can be done," said Mike Johanna, Mayor of Lincoln and Republican gubernatorial candidate. Johanna addressed a group of 15 at a recent, meeting, of B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers. He went on to say.that he had grown up on a dairy farm in Nebraska and joked that, after his youth on the dairy farm, everything else in life has seemed Mr and Mrs. Martin Alan Rips of Los Angeles pretty easy. He graduated from announce the March 11 arrival of their son, Creighton Law William Sinatra. Grandparents are Barbara Wolf Rips of School in 1974, and _ Cathedral City, CA, Sheldon and Nancy Rips of became a clerk fort"*-, Omaha, Tea Barks of Lakan Heath, England, and the Nebraska Supreme Court. _... _ . •«.*..••• the late Gilbert Earl Barks. _. : ; In the late 1970s, M l k e Johanns, left, talks * Wendy and Jerry Ferrill of Scbttsdale, AZ, announce the March 14 birth of their son, Jacob during the deinsti- with Maury Katzman. tutionalization the mental retarded from the Ryan. They are also parents of Jordan Scott, 4. Grandparents are Freddie and Art Novak of Beatrice State Developmental Center, Johanns was Lincoln and Barbara and Jerry Ferrill of Tuscon, asked to serve as the chairperson of the Human AZ. Great-grandmother is Ida Bennett of and Legal Rights Committee for the Lancaster Office, of Mental Retardation. When he realized Memphis, TN. Jennifer and Jon Novak of Lincoln announce that he disagreed with the philosophy of some of the March 21 birth of their son, Jack Bennett. They the Lancaster County Commissioners, he decided t o r u n f o ro f f i c e , a n d b e c o m e a C o u n t y . C o m m i s also have a daughter, Madison Nicole, 4. r . • ' • • • • • . ••• :ii\ ' •••.:•.: .;•: •:-••,.• The baby was named for his maternal great- s i o n e r . • This was the beginning of his political career, . grandfather, Jack A. Bennett. Johanns became Mayor of Lincoln in 1991,-and is Grandparents are Freddie and Art Novak of : Lincoln and Robbie and Roger Stafford of now in his second term. Carrollton, TX. Great-grandmother is Ida Bennett i Asmayor; heihas maintained an "Open Door" policy. He believes citizens should have access to of Memphis,.TN.r elected officials-without regard to political party, or campaign contributions. If he is elected governor, Visions' hosts membership event he says he will make time to meet with citizens. As Mayor of Lincoln, he has preached the philosophy that government can do more with less, advocating for spending lids as a way of disciplining at ?. r ? ' the state level; X^ " • * -i V ' The issues of government spending, taxes and economic developmenVcannot be addressed sepai .-; rately, according to Johanns. They are elements of ,.' , \ '*•-•$ - , • his single, coordinated plan for the future. He said, "When I talk about government, taxes and spending, these aren't things I hope to do, want to do, or should do; they're things I have done." On the issue of.taxes, Johanns believes that taxes here are too high and said that our state is in need Moi'e than 80 "Visionaires" were treated to of a fundamental restructuring of state government the work of artist Steve Roberts at last in order to lpw^r taxes controlled by the state. • "We need to attract new workers td.fillthe jobs' month's luncheon meeting. Roberts won the commission to paint the murals in the State that we have created," he added. "In our long-term Capitol in Lincoln and spoke about this pro- future, it will be impossible to growipyr economy ject during a slide presentation. Enjoying the unless,we can make Nebraska the most citizen-: event were, Executive Chairman Wally Elkon, friendly tax environment in our region." But Johanns thinks that state government must left, Ann and Steve Roberts, and Vera Lewis, luncheon committee co-chair (along with play a financial role in supporting educational opportunities for all students in Nebraska. He said, Harry Alloy, not pictured). "Our teachers should be valued'and secure in their personal safety and the safety of their students in the classroom." •....•.. Johanns cites state patrol funding as his first priority for funding among agencies and limiting funds from welfare for able-bodied citizens who are capable of working. He advocates for a 24-month transition period for these people to come off of welfare. However, he does not advocate cutting to people who are not able to work; those with disabilities would not be penalized because of tax cuts. With regard to the campaign, Johanns said, "We're a short time away from a decision by the citizens of Nebraska. After November, it's not going to be about who ran the most 30-second spots. -,.. "It's going to be about one person with the background and character to lead our state for the next fouryears." . . .'.' ' . . • . '

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"Embracing the Future" is the theme of this year's JCC Biennial Conference being held in Houston, TX, from May 13-17. Four delegates from Omaha: Mark Sanford, JCC President Elect; Gary Epstein; JCC Vice-president; Corey Kirshenbaum, JCC Assistant Executive Director; and I will join more than 1,000 Jewish lay and professional leaders from Jewish Community Centers throughout North America. . : The theme iB particularly appropriate for the Omaha 'J1 this year, given the exciting capital and program improvements projected over the next several-years. Special institutes, workshops and seminars will engage JCC leaders in preparing for rapid changes that'are affecting all Jewish organizations as they approach the 21st century. Special keynote speakers include Rabbi Irwin J. Kula, President of the National Jewish Center of Learning and Leadership; Dr. Shulamit Reinharz, Professor of Sociology at Brandeis University who is the founding Director of the International Institute of Jewish Women; and Professor Steve M. Cohen, who teaches at the Melton Centre for Jewish Education at Hebrew University. He specializes in the study of contemporary American Jews, focusing on such issues as intermarriage, Jewish identity, Jewish education and IsraelDiaspora Relations. , .".'•-•' Israel's 50th anniversary will be highlighted with a performance by Israel-born, Bronx-Braised singer and songwriter Noa (Achinoam Nini). Her unique Israeli-American music blends pop, rock, jazz, oriental and classical influences culled from her Middle Eastern heritage,1 American upbringing and iElraelf'hame'.Her'CDs, with'her collaborator: Gil Dorj-have'rea'che'd':gold) status in Isrfiel 'and have received outstanding'reviews around the globe. Mark Sanford will participate in a program designed for future leadership of JCCs. Entitled "The Next Generation of JCC Leadership," this one-day seminar gives a select group of young leaders' theS opportunity'to meet each other and deal with major leadership issues in an intense format. The Omaha JCC will also receive special recognition for excellence in several areas of programming and communications.

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Linn to head FJA (Continued with all of our congregational rabbis and a wide range of leaders and organizations spanning this wonderful, diverse Jewish community. I believe the knowledge I have gained, and the respect I have earned, will assist me in steering the Academy so that it, too, will span our community." Linn said he also looks forward to working in the area of Jewish adult education, a new responsibility of the Friedel principal now that the Academy is part of Jewish Education and Library Services (JELS). Susan Drazen, director of JELS, said, "I am extremely pleased that Michael linn is undertaking this important position as we formally add Friedel to the educational services provided by JELS. I've had the honor of working with Michael on numerous occasions, and I consider him a competent, caring professional whose achievements have made him nothing less than a community resource." Linn succeeds Rabbi Gavriel Herzig, who is leaving the post of headmaster to pursue other professional opportunities. Prior to the Friedel appointment, linn administered two community-based rehabilitation facilities that serve adult clients with developmental disabilities, Martin Luther Homes, Inc., in Omaha, and the Vocational Development Center, Inc., in Council Bluffs.

from page 1) Before entering the administrative field, he was an educator in New York and later in the Millard Public Schools. He has had experience as a teacher of speech improvement, a trainer .of teachers, and a speech and language therapist. Linn earned a Professional Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from C.W. Post College, Green vale, N.Y. He holds a Master of Arts in Speech Pathology from Post, and a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Pathology & English Literature from Long Island University. Linn and his wife, Patricia, are the parents of Jonathan, 15, and Sarah, 12. They are members of Beth El Synagogue, where Linn is a vice-president and member of the Talmud Torah Board. He was president of the Men's Club from 1994-96. Linn has served as an active volunteer in the Jewish and general communities. His current memberships include the Jewish Federation's Strategic Planning Committee, the Israel 50 Committee, and the steering committee of the Renaissance Faire of the Midlands board, of which he is a past chair. He was a member of the Friedel' Board for four years. He also served on the former Bureau of Jewish Education as chairman of the Special Needs Committee, vice president, and president In 1991, the BJE honored him as its Volunteer of the Year.

Reknowned author Rabbi Lawrence Kushner to speak at Temple Israel Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, MA, will make four presenta r dons during his, visit as Temple Israel's Scholar-in Residence April 24-26. r , ... ,, Lecturer, author of nine books and numerous articles. Rabbi Kushner uses the vehicle of stories to convey his message to both adults and kids. "Stories are the most painless, effective way of communicating I know," he has stated. •••••-.•• Rabbi Kushner originated the concept of havurot, family fellowship groups, has conducted over 75

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UNO sponsors The Legacy of the Holocaust Two major Holocaust experts will be among the dozens of speakers during a three-day conference on the "Meaning of the Holocaust in Today's World", sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha. • . Author David S. Wyman and Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig will be featured on Thursday, April 23, at noon at the Jewish Community Center. Atourof the Scrolls of Fire exhibit in the gallery will be part of the event. David Wyman is author of the The Abandonment of the Jews - America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 and spoke in Omaha after its publication in 1985. He is the Josiah Dubois Professor of History, emeritus, from the University of Massachusetts and edited the 13-volume document collection America and the Holocaust. • Rabbi Rosenzvieg is the founder and Executive Vice-president of the Holocaust Memorial Center in Michigan, the first freestanding Holocaust museum in the United States. Born in Poland, he is one of only two members of his family to have survived the Holocaust. In 1966, Rosenzvieg was inducted into the International Hall of Fame. The conference also features'films by Abraham Ravett, performances, poetry readings and workshops at the Peter Kiewit Conference Center, 1313 Farnam. For information about the .conference of the noon luncheon, contact the. College of Continuing Studies, UNO, 595-2309. •

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'Scrolls of Fire' is the name of an exhibition which is housed at the Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora in Tel Aviv, Israel. The full exhibition consists of S3 paintings by Israeli artist Dan Reisinger, with written text by Abba Kbvener describing Jewish martyrdom and the heroism of the people of Israel from the time of the destruction of the Temple to the present day. The exhibit at the Jewish Community Center Gallery will include 20 selected signed and numbered serigraphs from the 19th and 20th Century. The Holocaust and i t s aftermath are a major theme in the selected works. The serigraphs are limited and are for sale. The exhibition has been donated to the Bethsaida Excavations Project at UNO in order to raise funds for student and faculty trips to Israel for archaeological research. All proceeds will be. split between the Jewish Community Center Gallery and the UNO Bethsaida Excavation Project. A full exhibition of all 53 Scrolls of Fire will begin in May at the UNO Weber Fine Arts Building. For more information, call 554-2902. There will be a special tour and explanation of the Scrolls of Fire Exhibit on Thursday, April 23, in* the J e w i s h Community Center Gallery a t 1:30 p.m. with Dr. Richard Freund, Chairman of .the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the CORRECTIONS /University of Nebraska at Omaha. The tour is free and open to the public. , • • • ', Several errors in last week's Passover edition of Please call Gloriann Levy, 334-6403, for more the Jewish Press were noted by alert readers: on information. page 21, David Christensen was incorrectly identiPhotos from the Passover issue of the Jewish Press may be picked up in our offices, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Photos from other issues, including the New Year's issue are also on file in the Press office.

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Jewish Roots inPpland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories, by Miriam Weiner; published by the Routes to Boots Foundation, Inc. (Secaucus, NJ) and YTVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York) 1907. Every family has roots in the past, and many an extended family has a least one blossoming genealogist digging around the family tree. That's the one who pops upon the phone with questions, or maybe some startling answers, about family connections emerging as paper trails are traced. For Jewish families, one preeminent guiding hand for eager but perplexed ancestor seekers, with her articles, lectures and customized tours, is Miriam Weiner of Secaucus, NJ, arid, for the past four years", also of Mogilev Podo^skiy, in Ukraine. • The non-profit Routes to Roots Foundation which she established has recently co-published, with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a definitive vol'time on Jewish Roots in Poland, subtitled "Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories." The foundation's mission is to raise funds for research and publish subsequent books, already in progress, covering other regions in eastern Europe. Weinernotes on both the'jacket and cover page that the work was accomplished "in cooperation with the Polish State Archives," not only to attest to the authenticity'of its database, but to acknowledge what she describes as the '...participation far exceed(ing) what I could have hoped for..." Among the other repositories included are the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and the archives at the Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. Indeed, the memory of the Holocaust is entwined in the book This large and elegant volume, with the rich gloss of its pages, its 500 photographs, old and new, histories of town after town, and specially drawn maps to be used by travelers, would grace any coffee table. But its real beauty is in its own tables: the indexed and coded archival holdings for would-be geneologists. This book is available in the Federation Library.

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The Triumphant Spirit created and photographed by Nick Del Calzo, written by Renee Rockford. WASHINGTON (Cox News Service) - Their bare forearms, tattooed with the consecutive numbers 111834 and 111835, identify them as Holocaust survivors. There faces, staring boldly out of the photograph,- identify them as survivors who triumphed. Their photo is on the cover of a b o o k a bout Hoi o cva u s t survivors, nearly all Jewish, self-published by," a nonJew. I t ' s ^ * 2 ..-, a book ^ e s o Starr, left, and his'brother, m ' a b o u t ^ * ' Gold, both of Denver. people in their 70s and 80s, yet it's aimed at toda/s youth. The product of five year's work, The Triumphant Spirit by Denver photojournalist Nick Del Calzo tells the story of 92 Holocaust survivors in 78 photographs. Among them are leaders in the arts, theater, business and politics. Each portrait is presented as a photograph and a facing page of type recounting the subject's struggles through the Holocaust and into prominence in the United States. This is a Holocaust book with a difference. There are no pictures Of frightened Jews being herded by stern-faced German soldiers. Instead, Del Calzo focused on a handful of survivors who made a name for themselves in their new country. This book jsjayailable in the Federation.Library.

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Message from the Director By Alan E. Steinweis, Director of Judaic Studies It has now been almost five years since the University of Nebraska Board of Regents officially approved the creation of the Judaic Studies program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I think that we all have reason to be proud about what has been accomplished since then. And when I say "we" I am referring to the many stakeholders, both on and off campus, who have contributed to the program's success: students, faculty, university administrators, staff, donors, the University Foundation, and members of the community. It has been a real team effort. Our curriculum now includes well over 20 courses in the departments of History, Classics, English, Modem Languages, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. We are expanding our Modern Hebrew sequence from a Continued page 4

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Announcements Medicine and the Holocaust 22 April 1998,7:30 p.m. Great Plains Art Gallery, Lovelibraiy UnhrereHy of Nebraska-Lincoln Henry Friedlander, Brooklyn College, will speak on medicine and ethics under the Nazi regime. He is the author of a prizewinning book on The Origins of the Nazi Genocide, which deals with the murder of the disabled by the Nazis.

Integrating the Holocaust into Advanced Placement Courses In early June 1998 several hundred history professors and high school teachers will gather at the University of NebraskaLincoln in order to evaluate thousands of European History Advanced Placement exams from all over the United States. (The exam is taken by high-achieving high school seniors, and those who do well on the exam receive some college credit.) Together with the History Department and the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, NJ, the Harris Center will sponsor an evening workshop on "Integrating the Holocaust into the Advanced Placement Course" for the exam graders. This event will enable us to have a direct impact on a large number of history and social studies educators.

Faculty Profiles Alan Steinweis, History, published "The Library of the YTVO Institute for Jewish Research as a Source for Materials on Modern German Antisemitism, National Socialism, and the Holocaust," in the Newsletter of the German Studies Association, and was commissioned to write one of the articles on the Holocaust that will appear in a major study of German-American relations to be published by the German Historical Institute, Washington. In connection with that project he participated in a colloquium sponsored by the Volkswagen Program in Postwar German History at the German Historical Institute. He also had accepted for publication an essay titled "Reflections on the Holocaust from Nebraska," to appear in "The Americanization of the Holocaust" (Johns Hopkins University Press). He was a commentator for a panel on Victor Klemperer, at the annual meeting of the German Studies Association in Washington, and also served as coordinator of Interdisciplinary panels for that meeting. He was the keynote speaker at the Holocaust commemoration for the state of Utah, delivering a lecture at the University of Utah in addition to an address in the Rotunda of the state capital in Salt Lake City. He was appointed to the editorial board of Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies; of the Archives Committee of the Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association; and to the Board of Directors of the new Center for German Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Brian Horowitz, Modem Languages, spent the academic year 1996-1997 in St. Petersburg, Russia through an International Research and Exchange Board Grant. He has also been awarded various other grants, including one from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Hebrew University in Israel. He has recently published or had accepted for publication numerous articles and reviews, notably: "A Paradigmatic Relationship: Lev Shestov on William James", in a volume forthcoming from Stanford University Press; "Lev Shestov's Construction of Athens and Jerusalem", forthcoming in Poetics Today; and "Jewish Identity in Russian Culture: The Case of M.O. Gershenzon" in The Nationalities Papers, Fall 1998. Sidnie White Crawford, Classics. Since taking up the position of Chair of Classics in August 1997 Sidnie White Crawford has participated in numerous professional and scholarly activities. In addition to carrying out duties as Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (Jerusalem) at meetings in New York City and Napa Valley, California, she chaired a session of the 10th Annual Klutznick Symposium at Creighton University, Omaha and another session on Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible at the . Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in San Francisco. She also delivered three conference papers in November 1997: "Rewritten Bible Texts as Pseudepigraphs" at the SBL meeting in San Francisco; "Archaeology and the Rewritten Bible Texts from Qumran", ASOR Annual Meeting, Napa Valley; and "The Rewritten Bible at Qumran" at Princeton Theological Seminary, as part of Biblical Theology and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Jubilee Celebration. Gerry Shapiro, English. In 1997 Shapiro won a Distinguished Teaching Award, partly in connection with his popular course in Jewish American Fiction. He was also awarded a Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council for his fiction, and a Pushcart Prize for his story "The Twelve Plagues", which was published in The Missouri Review in 1996. This story was reprinted in The Pushcart Prize XXII: Best of the Small Presses, 1998. Two other stories also appeared in the Fall of 1997.

"Rosenthal Unbound", in a special issue of Witness devoted to "Religion in America"; and "The Feigenbaum Foundation" in The Indiana Review. Shapiro also edited an anthology called American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories which is to be published by the University of Nebraska Press in the Fall of 1998. This is expected to be a very significant publication which will add to the national recognition which both Shapiro and the University of Nebraska Press have already received. Jean Cahan, Philosophy and Political Science, gave a talk on Jewish themes in the work of Mark Rothko at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery in April 1997. Her talk was part of an evening sponsored jointly by the Jewish Federation of Lincoln, the Nebraska Art Association and the Harris Center. She also lectured on the Holocaust at a conference on "The Power of Diversity" organized by Irving Middle School in Lincoln. In June 1997 Cahan participated in the Spring meeting of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy in New York City and is organizing the Spring 1998 meeting which will be held at UNL with the support of the Harris Center. Last December she gave a paper, "On Evading the Lure of Immanence" at the annual meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies in Boston and her paper "Rosenzweig's Dialectic of Defiance and Critique of Islam" will be published in The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy in 1998. Stephen Burnett, History and Classics, gave two papers at major conferences last year. "Christian Printers of Judaica in Early Modem Germany: Ambrosius Froben of Basel (1578-1584) and the Hebrew Press of Hanau (1609-1630)" was given at the Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem, and following this he spoke at the Ninth International Congress for Luther Research in Heidelberg. The title of this paper was "The Significance of Biblical Languages at the University of Wittenberg". Burnett also began teaching Biblical Hebrew at the University, and the class already has a very large enrollment. Jeff Spinner-Halev, Political Science, received an Arts and Sciences College Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1997 and was chosen professor of the month by the Mortar Board in September 1997. He has recently finished a book-length manuscript entitled "Surviving Diversity: Religion, Community and Morality" and has chapters on religion, citizenship and diversity coming out in two different edited volumes, both published by Oxford University Press. Alan TomWns, Psychology, who teaches about anti-semitism as part of his psychology course that examines prejudice and discrimination, has started to work in collaboration with Dr. Ron Shapira, a member of the Faculty of Law at Tel-Aviv University. They are working on a project examining how ancient rabbis adapted to, or refused to adapt to, new scientific information in their ongoing interpretations and applications of Jewish law; they want to use this historical assessment to inform our understanding about modern practices in law when faced with new scientific information. This past fall Professor Shapira visited UNL as part of a two-month visit to the US. (Shapira was a visiting professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York.) While at Nebraska, Dr. Shapira gave a presentation regarding rabbinical attention to legal reasoning in the years after the dispersion of the Jews from Israel (post 70 CE). In addition, Dr. Shapira and his wife, Keren Shapira-Ettinger, a former prosecutor in the Israeli Judge Advocate General Corps, and now a doctoral student in law and philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, spoke to faculty and students about the use of scientific evidence in modern Israeli law and practice. Ophira Bahar, Modem Languages, attended a conference on Hebrew language and literature at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles and will be present at a similar congress at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York in June of this year. Plans are in the works to provide permanent course numbers for all three levels of Modern Hebrew. â&#x20AC;˘

Harris Center :v\r Receives Gifts : >r We are pleased to announce two generous recent gifts to the Harris Center, Yale Gotsdiner and â&#x20AC;˘ his family, of Lincoln, have endowed an undergraduate scholarship for students enrolled in Judaic Studies courses. The scholarship will be known as the Leona and Joe Gotsdiner Scholarship as a living memorial to Yale's parents. Henry and Esther Misle, also of Lincoln, have made a generous gift that will support special educational and public programs of the Harris Center. We are grateful for the generosity of these distinguished Nebraskans!

Roles Restructured In November 1997 the Harris Center welcomed Paula Hyman, the Lucy Moses Professor of Jewish History and Director of Judaic Studies at Yale University. Professor Hyman delivered the annual Henry Wald lecture on the topic of "Reconstructing Jewish Womanhood." Professor Hyman is the author of several books, and is the coeditor of the recently published landmark Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Her lecture featured an analysis of the transformation of the public roles of Jewish women in Europe and America since the middle of the 19th century. Professor Hyman also conducted a seminar on her research for students and faculty of the Women's Studies Program.

Bergen Guest Lectures Professor Doris Bergen of the University of Notre Dame was a guest of the Harris Center in September 1997. Author of a path-breaking book on the so-called German-Christian movement in Nazi Germany, Professor Bergen delivered a guest lecture to 75 students in the History of the Holocaust class. She examined religion as a factor that motivated not only perpetrators of the Holocaust, but Christian rescuers of Jews as well.

grows Significantly tHiimigh Team Effort Director continuedfrom front page two-year to a three-year sequence, and Biblical Hebrew is experiencing an explosion in enrollments. The Department of Classics has hired as its new Chairperson Professor Sidnie White Crawford, an expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism, who will be offering an array of new courses on the Hebrew Bible and pre-Rabbinic Judaism. The History Department now offers a three-course sequence covering the full expanse of Jewish history. Faculty in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures are contributing courses on German-Jewish relations and on East European Jewish literature. Most of our classes have strong enrollments, and several must turn students away. Two of our faculty colleagues, Gerald Shapiro (English) and Jeff Spinner (Political Science) have recently won prestigious college teaching awards. Judaic Studies faculty will play a significant role in a new university teaching initiatives in the areas of International Studies and Human Rights.

While the university provides the basic resources for the program (e.g., faculty salaries, office space, a part-time secretary), supportfrom the community enables us to aspire to excellence. Judaic Studies at Nebraska has also established a solid national reputation. Our faculty have strong publication records, are frequent participants at national and international conferences, and receive prestigious fellowships and grants. The program has helped make possible high-profile national publications, such as the widely-acclaimed Jewish Writing Issue of Prairie Schooner (edited by our colleague Hilda Raz), and the quarterly journal Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, which is now published by the University of Nebraska Press.

In May we will hold a workshop for history professors from around the country on how to integrate the Holocaust into their teaching. And in June we will host the prestigious biannual national conference of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy, for which scholars from all over the United States and Canada will travel to Lincoln. Our successes have been the result of a partnership between the university and the community. While the university provides the basic resources for the program (e.g., faculty salaries, office space, a part-time secretary), support from the community enables us to aspire to excellence. Among other things, gifts from the community have made possible student scholarships, named professorships, guest lectureships, a Jewish film festival, literary readings, grants to support publications, and book purchases for the library. We are proud of what we have built so far, but we have a long way to go before we will be satisfied. The University is doing its partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now we need YOUR help!!! â&#x20AC;˘

Conference report continuedfrom front page established museum traces the history of Frankfurt's Jewish community from its origins to the Holocaust and afterward. Frankfurt still boasts the largest Jewish community in Germany. The newer museum displays the foundations of some houses which once formed part of the old Jewish quarter with a fine exhibit explaining their significance. I also had the chance to spend a morning in Worms, the second city of German Jewry during the Middle Ages. It contains the oldest standing synagogue in Germany (destroyed during Kristallnacht, but rebuilt since), a medieval ritual bath, the oldest Jewish cemetery in Germany, and Raschi Haus, a fine Jewish museum. Worms was one of the places where Rabbi Solomon B. Isaac (Rashi) studied, and the study room (Beit ha-Midrash) that was built onto the synagogue was named in his honor. Quite apart from the opportunity to see these important monuments of Europe's Jewish past for myself, the slides

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that I took or purchased there and in Frankfurt and the materials that I purchased in both cities will benefit my Jewish history students, since they too will be able to share in my experience. My travels this past summer are indicative of the diverse experiences of Jews throughout their long rich history. I had the good fortune to see the remains of biblical and Second Temple Jerusalem, as well as remains from the Roman, Crusader, Mameluk, and Turkish periods of occupation. Yet I also visited libraries and research institutes at the Hebrew University campuses of Mount Scopus and Givat Ram, two of the proudest monuments of the Jewish state. I followed the path of medieval Jewish history through the old Jewish quarters of Frankfurt and Worms, and viewed the somber monuments to Holocaust victims at Yad va-Shem in Jerusalem. How could anyone not be'moved by the Jewish past? H

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Annual Holocaust Commemoration The Harris Center continued its tradition of working in concert with the Lincoln Interfaith Council in planning the annual official State of Nebraska Holocaust Commemoration in the State Capitol Rotunda. On Yom HaShoahin May 1997 our guest speaker was Professor Bruce Pauley of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The event was even more special

than usual because Professor Pauley is a native of Lincoln and a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Nebraska. The author of several books, he is best known for his award-winning study of anti-Semitism in modern Austria. His address dealt with how various countries in Europe have come to terms with their roles in the Holocaust since

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Guest Professor Examines Jesus from Jewish Perspective Professor Susannah Heschel, holder of the Silver Chair in Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, delivered the annual Norman and Helene Krivosha lecture in April 1997. Her presentation on "Jewish Views of Jesus" drew an audience of more than 150. Professor Heschel, a religion scholar specializing in Jewish-Christian relations in modern Germany, focused on how Jewish theologians like Abraham Geiger interpreted the Jewishness of Jesus, sometimes provoking anti-Semitic responses from German Protestant theologians. Professor Heschel has also done pioneering work in Jewish gender studies, and during her visit to Lincoln held a seminar for faculty and students of the Women's Studies Program. •

English Department Cosponsors Four Readings The Harris Center for Judaic Studies cosponsored four readings by visiting writers in 1997. The readings were arranged by Gerald Shapiro of the English Department and the visitors were: poet Robin Becker, Associate Professor at Perm State and author of All-American Girl; essayist Philip Lopate, editor of The Art of The Personal Essay and distinguished

professor at Hofstra University; fictionwriter Sharon Solwitz, whose collection of stories, Blood and Milk, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award; and bestselling novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, author of Anya, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction. All four of these readings attracted capacity crowds. • .

Bestselling Author, Activist Speaks on Social Justice In September 1997 we were honored to host a visit by bestselling author and activist Jonathan Kozol. The author of Amazing Grace, Savage Inequalities, and many other books, Kozol is one of America's leading experts on urban poverty and its impact on education. Kozol visited Nebraska under the auspices of the Schlesinger Professorship for Social Justice, which has been endowed by Elaine and Jim Wolf of Albion. In fact, the suggestion for Kozol's visit had come from Jim Wolf. Soon after the publication of Amazing Grace a couple of years ago, Jim saw Kozol interviewed on the PBS MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and Kozol mentioned that his own Jewishness was a major driving force in his work. So we invited Kozol to speak about the connections between his own understanding of Jewishness and his concept of "social justice." And what a"special event Kozol's lecture proved to be! A diverse audience of over 800 people attended. Kozol kept his audience riveted for almost two full hours. The event fulfilled a key component of the Harris Center's mission: to promote understanding of Jewish traditions among non-Jews on campus and in the community. During his stay in Lincoln, Kozol also met with Lincoln Public School teachers and administrators at a symposium at the Elliott school organized by Professor Miles Bryant of Teachers College. •

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