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Lincoln hosts state-wide Yom haShoah Holocaust Commemoration The State of Nebraska Holocaust Commemoration will be held this Sunday, April 18, 4 p.m., at the Capitol Rotunda. Governor Mike Johanns and Mayor Dale Young will present remarks, and Senator Chris Beutler is the sponsoring senator.

Dr. Geoffrey Giles of the University of Florida, a leading authority on the social and cultural history of Nazi Germany, is the featured speaker.

TheNortheast choir, under the direction of Charles Bowling, will sing several selections; winners of the Lincoln-Public Schools poetry contest on Holocaust Btudies will read their works.

In the solemn candlelighting ceremony, Burvivors of the Holocaust will light candles for the victims.

Lt Col. Paul Adams, a resident of Lincoln and veteran Tuskegee Airman, will light the candle for the Liberators; Lela Shanks, a community leader, will light the candle for the Righteous Rescuers, and Ivana Jelavic, a Croatian refugee from Bosnia, will light the candle of Hope.

Children enrolled in the religious schools of Tifereth Israel and B'nai Jeshuran are among those who, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the west steps of the State Capitol building, will read the nameB of those who perished in the Holocaust.

Members of the Lincoln B'nai B'rith, Lodge #377, will also participate.

The program is sponsored by The Lincoln Interfaith Council, Office of the Governor of Nebraska, Office of the Mayor of Lincoln, Jewish Federation of Lincoln, and the Community Relations Committee of the AntF-Defamatioh"' League. : The program, chaired by Marcia Kushner, is free and open to the public.

Reception to honor Dorothy Kripke

by Pam Monsky Federation Communications Director Children's author Dorothy Kripke will be honored at a reception on Sunday, May 2, 2 pan., at the Jewish Community Center Gallery. Mrs. Kripke will introduce her new book, Let's Talk About the Sabbath, the eleventh in her "Let's Talk About..." series of Jewish children's books.

The reception, which includes a book sale, is sponsored by the Jewish Federation Library.

For over 45 years, Mrs. Kripke has taught children and adults about the beauty of Judaism, its celebrations and life-cycle events. Her signature style draws readers in with simple yet meaningful descriptions of Jewish life. Let's Talk About, the Sabbath delves into one of Judaism's most beautiful and central concepts, providing young people with their own guide to the Sabbath.

Kripke was born in Highland Falls, N.Y. In 1936, she earned a Bachelor of Hebrew Letters degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and a Master's degree in English from Columbia University.

She has worked as a teacher in New York City, Racine, "WIj New London, JOT, and Omaha, where 'hei 1 'husband, Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, served a s longtime rabbi of Beth El Synagogue. She has also been a National Vice-president of the National Women's League and has served as a lecturer and consultant throughout the country.

Jewish groups mobilize to aid Kosovar refugees NEW YORK (JTA) - Jewish groups are taking an active role in aiding the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the war-torn province of Kosovo.

The Albanian Ambassador to the United Nations, Agim Nesho, recently met with the American . Jewish Joint Distribution Committee .to thank them for the efforts of the American Jewish community in helping the approximately 200,000 Kosovar refugees who are currently in Albania.

Tens of thousands more have settled in Macedonia.

As in past crises, several Jewish organizations are taking donations, and hundreds of contributions have already poured into the. JDC's offices in New York to help with the shelter, medical, food and clothing needs of the refugees, according to Steven Schwager, the group's Associate Executive Vice-president.

Jewish leaders have shown their support for the kosovar refugees with their words as well.

When t h e national director of the AntiDefamation League was asked to speak at an Albanian-sponsored rally last week opposing the Serbian policy of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, Abraham Poxman was more than happy to accept.

"As Jews, we certainly understand ethnic cleansing and hate crimes," said Foxman. "And as com-

plicated as the history is, one of the lessons of our history is not to be silent in the face of hatred."

About 300 people took part in the Albanian American Civic League-sponsored rally March 31 in front of the United Nations in New York. It is unclear how many Jews attended.

Martin Bresler, President of the American Jewish Committee's Belfer Center on American Pluralism, also spoke at the rally.

Jewish organizations collecting money for the refugees include: * The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at JDC Kosovo Mailbox, 711 Third Ave., 10th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10017; * The American Jewish World Service, Kosovar Relief Effort, 989 Avenue of the Americas, 10th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10018; * The B'nai B'rith Disaster Relief Fund, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 2003*6; and * UJA Federations of North America, c/o Kosovo Refugee Fund, 111 Eighth Ave., Suite H E , New York, N.Y. 10011.

In addition, some local federations are collecting money. Notes should be made on all checks that they are for Kosovo refugees, and checks to the UJA fund should be made out to the CJF Disaster Relief Fund.

Work progresses on JCC expansion The concrete walls are now in place, supported by the steel beams of the new JCC Sokolof .Health and F i t n e s s Center. The foundation has also been completed on the. n e w Child Development Center.

April 16,1999

Temple Israel Scholar-in-Residence 'looks to future'

by Carol Katzman

Author and teacher Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna, the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, will return to Omaha for his third speaking engagement from April 30 to May 2 at Temple Israel.

"I'm trying to explain what's 'American' about American Judaism and how it evolved," Prof.

Sarna said in a recent interview. "Without the historical perspective, it's not intelligible."

Sarna's topics revolve around the changing shape of American Jewry as he discusses "2000 and Beyond: Who Are We, Who Will We Be?" during: three • talks, underwritten" with grants from the Samuel and Ida Kaiman EndowDr. Jonathan Sarna ment Fund.

The Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat opens on Friday evening, April 30, 8 p.m., with "The Roots of American Jewry's Identity Problem."

"Judaism is both a religion and a peoplehood," Sarna added. "Israel will soon have more Jews than the United States; the Diaspora is shrinking; It may not seem like it is affecting American Jewish identity, but it does affect relationships."

"Intermarriage in America: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Challenges," is the second in the series and will take place Shabbat afternoon, Saturday, May 1, 5 p.m., in the San Souci Room of Swanson Towers, 8405 Indian Hills Drive.

Cheese and fruit will be served and Havdalah will complete the program.

•; ' " On Sunday, May 2, Sarna will concludei the Scholar-in-Residence weekend with "The Changing Face of American Jewry: Old Assumptions Confront New Realities" at 10 a.m., following a bagei brunch in the Temple's social hall.

"While intermarriage is the most obvious manifestation of the changing face of American Jewry, it is not confined solely to the Reform community," Sarna said. "Reform certainly has been the first to ask the questions, but outreach is now a word used by all communities in the Jewish world.

"A community that i$ aware of its challenges can face them," he stressed.

Dr. Sarna earned his doctorate from Yale university in 1979 after attending Merkaz HaRav Kook Yeshiva in Jerusalem and graduating from Boston Hebrew College and Brandeis University.

After teaching at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, the University of Cincinnati, Yale, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Brandeis invited Sarna back to assume the position of the Braun Professorship in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.

"I grew up in the Jewish Theological Seminary," Sarna noted (where his father, Dr. Nachum Sarna, was a noted and respected professor), taught at HUC for 11 years, and belong to a Modern Orthodox Synagogue near my home in suburban Boston, so I have had first-hand knowledge of all branches, from the inside out.

"Continuity is a debate between assimilation and revitalization," he added. "We'll have a clearer idea of which is the dominant trend in the next century.

After all, these issues were faced at the beginning of the 1900s by our grandparents and they were, through their actions, successful."

For more information, call Temple Israel, 556-6536.

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Deaths BARBARA WOLFE REPS Former Omahan Barbara Wolfe Rips died lastmonth in Palm Springs, CA, at the age of 59. ' She was preceded in death by her parents, Ida and William Wolfe. ,. . ,: Survivors include sons, David and Marty; daughter, Missy; two daughters-in-law; a son-in-law; three grandchildren, Aaron, Jessica and'William; and a brother, Robert Wolfe. ""•'.'.'•:[ Memorials to charity of choice.

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There is an old story of some friends who went to see a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. At the end, after several rounds of applause, and a stand593-9210 ing ovation, they noticed that one of their group •8425 "F" St. (across from Acura) re-established, 1898 ' was neither standing nor applauding. Apparently he was asleep! Not understanding how someone •" •' ABEROSENTHAL •- :-«•:.;:v;;.;: could sleep through so magnificent a performance Abe H.Rosenthal died:April 7 atthe'age of 100. of so. profound a drama, they: shook him, only to find that he was wide awake, hut in deep thought. Services were held April 11 'at•the^Bfebrew [QOL, ' ! ••••••'••• >••.' ' • The opening scene stirred his mind and.provoked a C e m e t e r y i n S e d a l i a , M O ; ' An Independent School Dedicated Specifically to stream of thought that had kept him involved He was preceded in death by•his wife; FannyeiL' Bright Students with Specialized Learning Needs throughout the performance. He had seen nothing Survivors include daughters anil sons^hvlaw, of the play. He was entranced; he was in a different Willis Ann and Alvin Ross of Omaha and Joan and ' LD/Dyslexia; Gifted; ADD/ADHD world, a world of his own.

Arthur Sherman of Wichita, KS; five grandchildren • Grades 1-9; COED; 6:1 Student Teacher Ratio • Individualized Educational Program - •' ."••'• ••_ A colleague of mine has pointed out that the and eight great-grandchildren.

• Success Oriented to Enhance Self-Esteem Memorials to charity of choice. ..-.,. ancient rabbis, involved in the serious endeavor to perfect Jewish religious law, allowed themselves, 832 North State St., P.O. Box 467, Elkhorn, NE 402-289-0899 DANIEL M. MELLER, M.D' in Midrash, to enter a different world, explore it, Case School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and seek out its beauties. Our two Sidrot involve Services for Daniel M. Miller, M.D., were held' them in serious, technical discussions of Jewish April 12 at Beth El Cemetery. He was 81. " law. But at the same time they can turn their Survivors include his wife, Harriet; sons, Dr; Neil attention in other directions. The Bible text opens Miller, Craig R. Miller and Dr. Alexander Miller; Back anil Neck Pain with the discussion of childbirth and legal, formal five grandchildren; and a sister, Louise Relief Center ritual obligations. But at least in part, the rabbis Abrahamson. turn into a direction that all of us can appreciate, In 1959, Dr. Miller and two other local doctors all of us who have ever marveled at the wonder of started the nation's first tumor board at the L'Chaim reproduction, the perfect little hands and feet of University of Nebraska Medical Center. The board's Dr. Marshall L. Jacobs the new baby, the finger nails and toenails, the creation marked the first time surgeons, radiology • Chiropractic hah-, the marvelous smoothness of the skin. If all oncologists and medical oncologists met to discuss • Muscular has gone well, parents and all others are stunned the care of cancer patients and become a model for Rehabilitation at the "miracle" of reproduction. The first chapter cancer patients'care throughout the nation.

• Acupuncture of Genesis describes the creation of living things, In the early 1970's, Dr. Miller helped Dr. Henry MASSAGE THERAPIST including humankind, each with its own seed in it.' Lynch, now internationally recognized for his ON STAFF The rabbinic discussion bursts forth in similar expertise in hereditary cancers, build one of the vein, but with emphasis on the Creator as artist world's first mobile cancer detection units.

Northwest Corner of 120th. &.Rjacifict: As a member of Omaha's Rotary Club, Dr. Miller (Tanhuma ad loc). A human artist can create; but Omaha, NE 778-1100 f his creation, sculpture or painting, cannot praise, often traveled to Central America to serve patients does not praise, the human artist. But God creates there, and along with other Rotary members, humans, and they rise to laud him, praise Him, began a program to transport patients from there CLIP & SAVE worship Him. A human artist needs all kinds of to care centers in the states. different materials, all kinds of different chemicals In 1992, he was named a fellow of the Board of to produce the colors he wants in his painting.. But Surgeons by the American Medical Association.

God creates man "from a single human drop," and Memorials to University of Nebraska Foundation,, FRIDAY, APREL16 man's complicated body appears, appears in perfec- in the name of Dan Miller.

Temple Israel NFTY Spring Conclave, tion. The rabbis even call attention to the peacock L 16th thru 18th with its "65 colors" as another example of the RUBIN RATNER I SATURDAY, APRIL 17 Creator's artistry.

Graveside services for Rubin Ratner were held P Humash with Rashi, 7:30 p.m., at Beth El The rabbis' own artistry; as my colleague put it, April 13 at Golden Hill Cemetery. He died at the •£?":r^ ; .,.;..: SUNDAY, APRIL18 ;,. V; ,.• lay in the sphere of human morality. Just as the age of 83.

-. -WohjetfsSymposium, lla.m.,at - thinker could not get past the opening scene of He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy.

Hamlet, so they could often not get past the openSurvivors include daughter and son-in-law, Judy A MONDAY, APREL 19 ing words of prayer. They tell of a davener who at and Larry Brookstein; son and daughter-in-law,. v YES Program, 9:30 a.m. noon hadn't finished his morning prayer, indeed Perry and Karen Ratner; grandchildren, Mark, E Boy Scouts, 7: 30 p.m. hadn't gotten past the preliminaries to the prelimi- Joel, Neal, Aaron, Daniel and Katherine; and sisTUESDAY, APREL 20 naries. He was stuck at Modeh ani— the words ter, Helen Schwartz of Omaha.

Food for Thought, 11:30 a.m., ; • " : with which Jewish children are introduced to Memorials to charity of choice. at Temple Israel - -."•'•••;.; /. •; :~ . ° ,vprayer. Modeh ani - I acknowledge You (I thank Sisterhood Luncheon, 12:30 p.m., '•''.-'••'?; You...) But what is "I"? Who am I? Of what value STUABT L. LEFKOWITZ at Beth Israel . ^ ! v am I? Is my life of any purpose? And You! I shudGraveside services for Stuart Lefkowitz were GDC Committee Meeting, 7 P.m. ; v der that I dare approach You. . . These are the held April 14 at Fisher Farm Cemetery. He died DerechTorah, 7 p.m., at RBJH vj 1 kinds of thoughts that flood my mind when I begin April 12 at the age of 68.

Conference Room > . to pray. That is why I cannot get beyond the openSurvivors include sisters and brothers-in-law, BESTT Committee Meeting, 7:30 p.m., ; ing words, why at noon I haven't really gotten Joyce and Wyman White of Omaha and Betly and atBethEl V started, though I began at dawn.

Ben Shapiro of Sioux City; and nieces and Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., at Temple Israel, nephews.

It has been a commonplace for centuries, espeWEDNESDAY, APRIL 21 cially among non-Jews, to belittle rabbinic thinkJYG Dinner, 6 p.m., at Temple Israel ' ing, because of the total misconception EVELYN EPSTEIN SIMONS Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., at Beth El that the rabbis were fettered by law and its elaboEvelyn Epstein Simons, 83, of Overland Park, THURSDAY, APREL22 ration. To be sure, they were influenced by their KS, formerly of Omaha, died April 13. Graveside Walk-in Drop-in, 9:30 a.m. love of God's law, as they would have put it; and, to services were held April 15 at Mt, Carmel Sisterhood Adult Education, 10 a.m., be sure, they were far from bejng systematic Cemetery. • J at Temple Israel philosophers. But they did not miss the forest for Survivors include lier husband, Ben; daughter, NCJW Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m. the trees. They were awed by the miracle of life. Sue Miller of Prairie Village, KS; daughter and S L.O.V.E. Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., .

They were frustrated at the difference between son-in-law, Linda and Ted Gepford of Stillwell, KS; A at the RBJH Conference Room what humans should be and what indeed they son, Ronald G. Simons of Des Moines; son and were. Frustrated, but not rendered powerless.

All events held at the JCC unless otherwise indicated. The daughter-in-law, Dr. Stephen J. and Donna Simons Jewish Press is not responsible (or the accuracy of the events. ; They set out to describe the kind of human life of Kennesaw, GA; sister, Sylvia Greenberg of Sioux To keep calendar accurate or lor questions, call Marlene Her! at that would be acceptable to the Creator, a life of City; two grandchildren and four great-grandsons. .

334-6437. freedom and justice. The moral approach of Mrs. Simons was a member of Beth El Synagogue Judaism which they created atop the Biblical base and Beth Israel Synagogue, both in Omaha, has fortunately reached to all the world. It remains, Hadassah and National Council of Jewish Women. alas, for the moral approach to be activated. . Mrs. Simons was born in Omaha, where she lived until 1998.

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6ETH ELSYNAGOGUE Ortltoda* yfewist Congregations of America 1502 No. 52nd Sfc, Omflha, NE 68104 FRIDAY: Shabbat Family Service, 8 pan. Rabbi Debbie Stiel and Cantor Blum will officiate, along with members of the Omaha Temple Youth Group as Temple Israel welcomes NFTY Missouri Valley Conclave participants. The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Marvin and Sandra Kohll in honor of the Bat Mitzvah of Talia Eisenberg and by parents of our youth groupers, SATURDAY: Bagels and Bible: An informal opportunity to learn Torah with the rabbis, 9:3010:15 aum.; Shabbat service, l(h30 a.m.

•• Talia Florence Eisenberg, daughter of Robert .Eisenberg and Pam and Justin Kohll, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah at Saturday morning services. .;.'

SITTER SERVICE Sitter Service-is available Friday evening and Saturday.mornings when there is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Sunday mornings when there is Religious School. Cost is $2 per family with reservations.

Drop-ins, $3 per family. No facilities for infants.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT Tuesday, April 20: Cantor Blum will lead a discussion on current events from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bring a brown bag lunch; Temple will provide the drinks.

ADULT EDUCATION WEDNESDAY: Midrashah, 10 aan, - noon Thursday: Sisterhood adult education, Rabbi Stiel will teach "Biblical scholarship-What the . Scholars of our day have to say about the Bible," 10-11:30 a.m.; "Beginning Beyond Midrash, 6:507:40 p.m.; "Beyond Midrash," 7:50-8:45 p.m., led

by Don Schwartz.

TIFERETH ISRAEL Member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502 423-8569

Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat service, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY: Services, 8:45 a.m., Little People service, 10:15 aan.; Jr. Congregation, 10:30 a.m.

Kiddush sponsored by Sisterhood.

Rabbi's class, 7:10 pan.; Mincha, 7:40 p.m., followed by Ma'ariv and Havdalah.

• SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.; Beis Hamedrash, 9:45 aan.; Mincha, 7:55 p.m.

WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 aan* Mincha, 7:55 pan.

WEDNESDAY: Rabbi Kutner teaches Talmud Class at 6:55 p.m. at the synagogue.

CONGREGATION B'N Al JESHURAN ' ... ' '_ ,~,S0WSM. STREET TJMPLE ; ,' ,', ' , , Member of the TJatoa ' • • ' <ofAtttWicott Heb(«w Congregations 2061S, 20th S i , U n c o i l NB 68502-2707 435-8004 Services officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser.

FRIDAY: Sabbath Eve service, 7:45 p.m. .SATURDAY: Sabbath service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah study, 10:30 a.m.

SUNDAY: Hebrew School, 9 a.m.; Religious School, 10 a.m: THURSDAY! Ghbir rehearsal, 7:30 p.m.

BENEFIT DINNER AND AUCTION Saturday, May 1: The congregation will host its second annual benefit dinner and auction at Misty's Restaurant in the Edgewood Shopping Center. Cocktails are at 6 p.m.; dinner at 7 p.m.

The auction begins at 8 p.m. Committee members include Linda Emery, Dave Rosenbaum, Linda Ungvarsky and Amy Zlotsky.

BEYT SHALOM

An Affiliate of the Jewish Kcconstructionist Federation Services conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. P.O. Box 241130, Omaha, NE 68124-5130 Rosenbaum.

758-9233 http://come.to/beytshaloni/ Minyan on Monday and Thursday at 7:15 a.m.

FRIDAY: Tot Shabbat, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY: Family Service, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY: Learner's minyan, 9 a.m.; SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9:30 a.m.; Lunch and RELIGIOUS SCHOOL^ Classes.Sunday and Learn with Ophira Bahar and Henrietta Kamil, fol,,,; , . :;,,, v l ; lowing services, "Voyage to the End of the Tuesday at the JCG. SUNDAY: Rabbi Myer S. Kripke teaches,a.class Millennium."

•on megillot, 12:15 pan. s

CHABAD HOUSE.

"'-*: An ATEfiliate of the Worldwide >! •'.1"' Chibad-LUb&vileh Movement , 1866 So. 120th St,> Omaha, NE 68144 Phonet 330-1800 lS-)MAIUchabad@aol.<iom WEBSITE: www.chabad.ccntere^coim/omiuifl , Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. ; FRIDAY: Services, ,9:30 a.m.

SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m., followed by Kiddush; ,Mincha-Ma'ariv, 6:30 p.m., followed by Haydalah.

WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/ Ma'ariv, 7:30 p.m.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Ira Flax.

Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.4:30 p.m.;,Friday, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

,. B'NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE , etSMynsterSt., Council Bluffs, Iowa 51503 ''*' VFh<32^*705 "' "" E-MAIL:docjeb2<g!juno,com FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m.; Sandy Kurland's mother, Josephine Simes, will describe her experience visiting synagogues and services in foreign lands.

Oneg Shabbat follows services.

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m. led by Mark Levy.

Kiddush following services.

Counting of the Omer offered at Chabad House Rabbi Mendel Katzman will offer a three-session text-based class on "The counting of the Omer" according to the teachings of Kabbalah/Chassidism. It is a Jewish guide to self-improvement based on the study of the Sephirot. The class, open to men and women, will be held on Tuesdays, April 20 and 27 and May 11, 7-8:30 p.m., at the Chabad House, 1866 So. 120th St. Serfirnt HaOmer, or the counting of the Omer, is the. name.given to the 49 days leading up to the Shavuot and the receiving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. The text for the class will be "A Spiritual Guide to the Counting of the Omer" by Rabbi Simon Jacobson, author of Toward of Meaningful life' For more information, call Elizabeth at 330-1800.

Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism 14506 California, Omaha, HE 68154 492-8550 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: Services, 6 pan.; Kate Josephson, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Friday evening and Saturday morning. '~ < ....

SATURDAY: Services, 9-.30 asn* Kiddush following; D'var Torah given by Michael Fineman; TSS (Torah Study Skills) 10 aan.; Sitter service, 10 aan^ Shabbat Story Time (pre-kindergarten and under) 11 aan^ ICtantan (kindergarten through 3rd grade) 10:45 a-m.; Humash with Rashi study session, 7:30 p.m. (1/2 hour before M/M); Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.

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

B'nai Mitzvah J i l l Elysc Canfield, daughter of Rick and Sandy Canfield, will[ ¥« become a Bat Mitzvah onf Saturday, April 24, at' Beth El Synagogue.

A seventh-grade honor roll student at Beveridge,, .Middle School, she was ' chosen to participate in } . the Duke University/ Talent Identification program. She enjoys acting,] writing and computers.

Jill has a brother, Daniel, 9.

Grandparents are Faye Gendler and the late Irving Gendler and LeRoy Canfield and the late Anne Canfield.

Amy Blanche Bresel; daughter of Marge and Jim Bresel, will cele-' brate her Bat Miztvahp on Saturday, April 24, Temple Israel. .

A seventh-grade honor pi1**'' roll student a t Science C e n t e r * " y ' won' a' Presid.en|ialLf '• Award Jp.r/Actfdtenfic** . Excellence, was' a" first- u place finalist,in .the!

Science Fair* and WasS chosen as a participant* in the Duke University Talent Identification program. She also received an NSMO award in piano.

She enjoys playing flute and piano, drawing, camping at OSRUI, reading and computers.

For her mitzvah project, she made five cotfon quilts for residents of the Rose Blumkin Home. ' Amy has two brothers, Michael and David.

Grandparents are Myra and Leo Sivin and Jean and Morris Bresel, all of Omaha.

Great-grandmother is the late Blanche Kaplan.

Talia Eisenberg, daughter of Robert Eisenberg and Pamela and J u s t i n P Kohll, will celebrate her I Bat Mitzvah on Sat-[ urday, April 17, a t | Temple Israel A seventh-grade honor I student at Westsidel Middle School, she en-1 joys snowboarding, mu-1 sic, travelling and shop-1 ping. She volunteered at I the Martin Luther Home j ^ for the developmentally challenged as her Mitzvah Project.

Talia has two brothers, Zev and Noah.

Grandparents are Bella Eisenberg and the late Erwin Eisenberg, Dwight and Gerry Kuster and Marvin and Sandra Kohll.

• Great-grandparents are Jennette Kuster, Leona Cohn and the late Mala Schlachet.

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History repeats At first glance, the photographs and video coming out of war-torn Serbia and Kosovo seem like an eerie reminder of World War II—boxcars filled with women wearing kerchiefs, gaunt men and wideeyed children—bombed shells of homes and stores oxcarts filled to overflowing with meager possessions. Yet this is 1999, not 1939. Or is it?

For all the technical, medical and scientific advances of the last half of the 20th -century, human nature has remained the same. Angry rhetoric sounds as nasty over the Internet as it does over radio waves, and those who delighted in torturing 'the other' 60 years ago share the same look on their faces as the perpetrators today.

It's a sad commentary on the human race that we can't seem to change. True, the Balkans have a long and bitter history of Christian against Muslim, Serb against Croat, and Albanian against them both. But an angry past does not atftolve the world and allow nations to watch with indifference.

Had the United State's acting decisively in World War II, perhaps we would not be holding Holocaust Commemorations today. By showing Milosivec that America will listen to the cries of the suffering and react strongly and swiftly, he might understand that the world has learned from history.

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ROME (JTA) - A former leader of the Yugoslav time in the Jewish community offices, or at home.

Jewish.community plays tennis with a group of Our flat is on the. 11th floor. The problem is that we •Mendsltwoitimes a weekin!Belgrade,,,->n K -,.<, j-i.i.i live far from .the.community so we have problems [nrJtehefaj they; play aowi UiBjmeft wear, bull's-eye, tar- jgettjjig th^e'j.' ^ e r e i s no fuel to buy now."

The NATO attack triggered sjiocfe, 'surprise and igeta^pitfnedito theii>,'bapks.triaiBymbal<,wQr,njby •SiUgoslstv citizens protestuig,NATO bombs. .-, . ,-• :. anger,, as well as dismay and disruption. It also trig;!,Last week they had to cut short a game because gered a sense of common fate against an outside enemy. of an air raid siren, but despite the bombing, the "NATO united the Serbs for the first time since games "will probably go on," he quipped by e-mail, 1815," said one Jewish man. "as long as the tennis courts are intact—or as long The Yugoslav media - tightly controlled by the as we are intact," state - present the war as a struggle by tiny Serbia This man, like most people contacted for this to maintain its sovereignty in the face of a Nazistory, asked that his name not be used. He added: style onslaught by the greatest power on earth. The "I still feel that this is surreal. I still cannot believe Serbian atrocities in Kosovo are not mentioned, all this is happening. I suppose people in Beirut, and the plight of the Kosovar refugees, if menSarajevo and perhaps Vietnam, for that matter, felt tioned at all, is presented as the result of the NATO bombing campaign and attacks on Serb the same way."

NATO's ongoing air war against Yugoslav forces by the Kosovo Liberation Army.

Yugoslav Jews ~ who throughout the series of President Slobodan Milosevic's campaign against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo has placed Yugoslavia's Balkan wars in the 1990s steered clear of taking ;8,Q00Jews, most of whom live in Belgrade, in much any official political position - f o r the most part ^ ^ J C crisis as tttBtifaceduby their fellow, COUIK. have closed ranks with the rest of the country in protesting the NATO campaign. j r.vYugpalayiaisiJews: areswellrintegratedinto,main-, v:!rhis:was expressed publicly in a March 28 appeal jstfeant Society, and"they'Bhare the same concerns, issued by the Federation of Jewish Communities of frustrations and fears-as well as the same black Yugoslavia to halt the attack. "The bombing hurts humor—experienced by their fellow citizens as they all Yugoslav citizens including Jews, as we also are citizens of Yugoslavia," it said. try to carry on their daily lives.

Individual Jews - such as the tennis player — "Our worries are the same, and our troubles, too," said one Belgrade Jewish man, communicating, protest symbolically by wearing a "target" or by like most, by e-mail. "Food is still sufficient, so is dancing and singing at the anti-NATO open-air water and electric power. Once that becomes concerts held at noon daily in downtown Belgrade. scarce, we shall be in trouble."

One young woman reported by e-mail last week Reported another man, a Jew from Sarajevo who, that she had wanted to join other residents of along with 200 others, found refuge in Belgrade Belgrade in a vigil as voluntary human shields on seven years ago during the Bosnian war and the city's bridges, but was too scared to do so. remained in the Serbian capital: "Where I live in "There wasn't any bombing in Belgrade last Belgrade, you can hear explosions and see lights night, but my mother was awake all night listening from the rockets and bombs. In the suburbs, the for airplanes," she wrote. "We stayed in our beds. situation is worse. The rockets fall even on civil- We are too cowardly to go on the bridge at night ians, and some of our friends spend all the time in - and I am not proud of that." the bunkers."

One member of the Jewish community, Avram Said a community member who survived World Izrael, has become a well-known public figure durWar II and the bombing of Belgrade by the Nazis in ing the crisis. Izrael is the spokesman for 1941 and the Allies in 1943: "I hate shelters and do Belgrade's Monitoring and Early Warning Center, not have the feeling that my wife and I are endan- a civil defense office that informs the public of gered, so we do not go to shelters. We spend our imminent attacks. In this capacity, he appears regTHE JEWISH PRESS (Founded in 1920)

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'Secular conversions' proposed :

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JERUSALEM (JTA) - Labor Knesset member Yossi Beilin has touched off a fresh storm in the religious-secular debate with a controversial pro; posal for "secular conversions." .':,: .-. . .

Beilin details the idea in hislatest book, The Death of the American Uncle" an examination of IsraelDiaspora relations on the eve of the 21st century.

Beilin, who raised a storm several years ago when he declared that Israel was no longer dependent on financial: contributions from world Jewry, outlines in his book a new structure for IsraeliDiaspora relations, r. .

In addition to .calling for civil marriage in Israel, he proposes "secular conversions" to help guarantee Jewish continuity. . '. . . ' In an interview with the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Beilin expressed concern over the shrinking size of the Jewish population in the Diaspora amid continuing intermarriage and assimilation. He said secular conversions would attract some non-Jewish mates of Jews who want to join the Jewish people but are unwilling to undergo a religious conversion.

Deputy Housing Minister Meir Porush, of the United Torah Judaism bloc, denounced Beilin's proposal as "dangerous and irresponsible."

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The unfinished Exodus: Russian Jewry faces old challenges anew

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by Denis C. Braham, Howard E. Sachs, and Yosef I. Abramowitz

"Soviet Jews? Haven't they all left already, or aren't they living in a free and open Society if they're still there?"

We had hoped themodern-day Exodus, the liberation and redemption of Jews in the former Soviet Union; might be over with the' demise of Communism and the massive aliyah to Israel and emigration to the United States. For.the one million-plus Jews remaining, new opportunities presented themselves for professional advancement, cultural participation, and religious freedom.

But, as we celebrated -Passover, our festival of redemption, that redemption is far from complete for the Jews of Russia, Ukraine, and the other 13 republics that once constituted the Soviet Union. It is Russia, the largest and dominant state, that gives greatest cause for alarm.

Beyond the economic hardship facing all Russians, anti-Semitism has been increasing in both | word and deed. Communist and nationalist politicians: who .control the Duma (Russian parliament) make statements calling for death to Jews and blaming Jews for Russia's problems. Many of their followers across Russia have formed local groups to vandalize Jewish institutions and threaten their Jewish'neighbors. ' •'.•-••;••<-••.

- - A: leading-Communist' P a r t y m e m b e r !of the Duma, General Albert Makashov, has regularly and publicly blamed Jews for Russia's misfortunes, leading chants: of ^Death to the Yida!" and, in late February, proclaiming, "We will be anti-Semites and must be victorious!" The head of the Duma Security Committee has accused Jews of genocide against Russians and complains that too many Jews are in powerful positions .-..;• : ,The leader of Russia's Communist Party'and a likely presidential candidate, Gennady Zyuganov, has. declined to condemn those types of statements and even endorses them himself. In a recent letter to Russia's Justice Ministry, he echoed the senti-

ments of his colleagues and compared Zionism to with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Congressional action has been consistent and clear.

-1 •..'• " -., , ' • ,; ••_'. ; :; Every statement that, goes unquestioned only Letters with long lists of signers and resolutions with many co-sponsors have been sent to the fuels the fires of hatred. ;; Russian National Unity, a virulently anti-Semitic Administration and the Russian government in paramilitary movement, now has chapters in 25 response to anti-Semitism in the Duma and across Russia. Jewish organizations regularly testify on Russian regions and boasts 50,000 members.

During the funeral in St. Petersburg of slain Russian anti-Semitism in Senate" and House hearhuman rights activist Galina Staroyoitova last ings. Members of Congress and the Administration, November, the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds from President Clinton anc),Vice-president Gore to marched in Moscow in support of General Secretary of State Albright on down, share Jewish Makashov. The governor of Krasnodar has warned concerns and bring them to the table in every meetof a "Jewish-Masonic conspiracy" afoot. Jews near ing with Russian officials, Indeed, these humanNovgorod have been threatened with "fires of rights issues are integrated into the substantive agenda of U.S.-Russian bilateral relations.

Inquisition."

- ••"•-•'• While Congress and the Administration are unitLast month, the only synagogue in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk was viciously vandalized, the ed in their genuine concern for the survival and interior largely destroyed, Torah scrolls and sid- welfare of Russian Jewry, their efforts are only sucdurim cast on the floor, in the very place where cessful when backed by community support.

The American Jewish community has always General Makashov is considering a run for governor.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin and some other been indispensable as a constituency for unambiguhigh-level officials have spoken out against anti- ous and unflinching American response to anti-Semitism. But Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov,, Semitism, whether it occurs in Metairie, Louisiana, who controls the government and retains influence or Borovichi, Russia. We should be sending a in the Duma, has yet to do so openly, forcefully and strong message that the language of hatred and for a Russian audience. No investigation of anti- genocide is unacceptable to the international community. Given the economic crisis and upcoming Semitic crimes has yet to produce an arrest. . .

Most Russians today are not anti-Semitic and Russian elections for Duma and President, Russia's resist such appeals to popular dissatisfaction. But, anti-Semites have never had a better incentive for \ in too many cases, official silence or inaction send a scapegoating their Jewish neighbors'.

For the Jews leaving Egypt, who celebrated the loud and obvious signal of implicit support. Official discrimination has already begun against non- first Passover, freedom and redemption were dis; Jewish denominations, with a group of Jehovah's tinct experiences. The JewB'.-in'<Russia>inaytlive>free 1 Witnesses how' on 'trial in Moscow u£3re£ Russia's today,' b u t 'their'<f eHgiaub' freri tagei aradJphy'iifcal safety muBtatillibe-eafeguarded.iAs-iAmerican new Religions Law. '',' " ' -•;-"•• ; • ' " • "• • and-we- share.; the This1 law, enacted in 1997, provides a basisfor Jews, we enjoy the Opportunity 1 blocking the necessary registration of Roman obligation to intensify advocacy oh their behalf, Catholic churches and pre-Brezhnev era syna- within our community, to our representatives in gogues, and is now being actively imposed against Washington, and to the government and people of Protestant churches apparently seen as competitive Russia. fascism.

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Y.E.S. Members will meet Monday at the JCC. English as a second language for new Americans starts at 10 a.m. Come exercise with Michelle Streif at 10:15 a.m. in the adult lounge. Or try your luck at bingo with Eileen Reiner at 10:30 a.m. Bring articles to share for the "YES Talk" discussion group at 11 a.m. Following lunch at noon, David Storm from Lifeline will speak. For transportation, call 3304272.

Deadline is April 22 for the day trip to the Joslyn Art Museum to see the exhibit Searching for Ancient Egypt on April 29. : : WALK-IN DROP-IN There will be no Walk-In Drop-In due to the trip to Winnavegas Casino. For those members going, please meet at the JCC by 8:15 a.m. For transportation to the JCC, call Maggie at 334-6521.

Cindy and Bruce Goldberg announce the April 5 birth of their son, Max Franklin. They, are also the parents of two sons, Adam, 8, and Scott, 7.

Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Manny Goldberg and Mr. and Mrs, Martin Lehr, all of Omaha.

John and Kathy McGauvran announce the March 23 birth of their son, William Spencer, named in memory of his great-grandfathers,'Eli Zalkin and Irving Mann. ; Grandparents are Harold and Linda Mann of Omaha and Ronald and Sally McGauvran of Clinton, IA. ' : : " V ' ' ; ": '""•"•' •"' '"'-'^ ' Great-grandmothers are Dorothea McGauvran of • Clinton and the late Sara Zalkin and Ada Mann. .'".'?

Dana and John Wintroub of Littleton, CO, announce the Feb. 23 birth' of their son, 'John : Gregory.

Grandparents are Janet and Ernie Wintroub of Omaha and Louise and Elmer Gregory of Dallas.

RUSSIAN CLUB Members will meet Friday, April 23, at the JCC. Dr. Bruce Sobel and Debbie Cohn-Sobel of Exercise starts at 10 a.m.; lunch will be served at Scottsdale, AZ, announce the March 12 birth of 10:45. At 11:15, a day trip is planned to see Everest their daughter, Whitney Lindsey. at the IMAX. Cost is $5.50, which includes admisGrandparents are Soralee and Jerry Cohn of sion and transportation. For reservations, call Omaha and Rose and Norman Sobel of Scottsdale.

Lydia at 687-9169.

Recently, AZA #1 hosted its semi-annual installations. Aleph Andrew Shefren and Aleph Robbie Epstein lead the ceremony and de-installed the current board members: Andrew Shefren, president; Robbie Epstein, yice-president; Andrew Finkle, freshman advisor; JTohy Eridfelmt>ri/i£e»er6tary; David Saylan, treasurer; aap,dBrfan Durraanskin, religious and community service leader. The new board consists of: Rbbbic Epstein, president; Brian Durmanskin, vice-president; Jay Kulakofsky, freshman advisor; Brad Lerner, secretary; Shane Kohan, treasurer; and Steve Sternberg, religious and community service leader. Once the new board was installed, everyone was treated to a dinner sponsored

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BREADBREAKERS Starting Wednesday, April 21, Breadbreakers will meet at noon at Pastimes, 129th and West Maple. Dr. Douglas Ramos of Aesthetic Surgical Images will discuss plastic surgery and hair transplants. Cost is $8.50 and the program is open to the community. ; .

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Jennifer and Jeff dayman of Denver, CO, • announce the March 13 birth of their son, John Anton. They are also the parents of a daughter, Cassie, 9, and a son, Abe, 7.

Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Richard Zaporowski and Sally dayman, all of Omaha, and the late Albert dayman.

Daniel and Sayaka Rochman currently of Falls Church, VA, announce the March 23 birth of their son, David Akira. They are also the parents of two sons, Andy and Tommy. They will be residents of Bangkok, Thailand, in July.

Grandparents are Jack and Marcia Cohen and Dick Rochman of Omaha and Akiko Aoki of Tokyo, Japan, and the late Toshio Aoki. .

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I don't know whether this should be a letter KIRSHENBAUM/CIRCO Adam Kirshenbaum, son of Tom and Kate directed to the State of Nebraska, or to whatever agency regulates the sale of alcohol, or maybe to Kirshenbaum of Omaha, the grocers in the area who also sell such beverand Nikki Circo, daughages. A. recent experience makes me wonder if I ter of Roger and Vicki should do more than just tell the story and wait for Sorenson and Tom Circo the hysterical laughter. Let me tell you about it. of Omaha, will be marIt was a few hours before seder time and I had ried Aug., 7 at t h e made one last run to the nearest super market for Embassy Suites in one last forgotten item; While there I looked over Omaha. the selection of available wine and added a couple The bride-elect is a of bottles (which I knew I didn't really need) to my teacher with Omaha purchases.'

Public Schools. She gradOk, that's that, now hurry up and get back home uated from the Universito the kitchen, I thought. I was lucky enough to ty of Nebraska-Lincoln find a check-out counter that wasn't busy and and is pursuing h e r transferred my stuff to the moving surface, to be Master's degree a t the scanned.

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Mr. Kirshenbaum is a third-year law student at "You're kidding, right?" Clerk: "I need to see some the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he ID ma'am." Me: "Listen, dear, I'm really in a hurry and don't have time for jokes." Clerk: "Ma'am, I graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He is the grandson of Betty Femmer and the late have to ask for ID--I could lose my job!" Me: "I'm old enough to be your Grandma." Clerk: "Ma'am', Don Femmer and Joe and Audrey Kirshenbaum. please. I need to see your ID." Still not believing my ears, I showed her my driver's license, complete with my birth date, which proved I am indeed old enough to be the clerk's grandma. She thanked me and continued her part of the transaction. I didn't stop shaking my head in disbelief for the next hour. When I repeated this story to a friend (who howled) she wondered what would have happened had I tried to buy cigarettes too. Good question, but we'll never, know the answer since I haven't done that for more than 30

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World Group, LLC, Commercial Real: Estate Services, announces Tucker B. Magid has been named a principal and specialist in development.

He most recently served as senior viceTpresident of development for Prime Group Realty Trust, a Chicago-based REIT listed on the New York Stock Exchange. During the past nine years, Magid developed more than one-and-one-half million square feet of office and industrial properties and business parks. .

Jewish'Civilization at Creighton University, will lecture on "Tut, Tombs and Treasures: Ancient Egypt in Popular Culture" at the Joslyn Museum, Sunday, April 18, 2 p.m. The presentation, which will include slides and popular "artifacts", is open to the general public and free with regular museum admission. Greenspoon's lecture is in conjunction with the "Searching for Ancient Egypt" exhibit currently on display at Joslyn. For more information, ca.il280-2304.

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Life Is Beautifulchild breaks 50-year silence Stewart Ain, Staff Writer, The NY Jewish Week

NEW YORK -- Joseph Schleifstein, a self-confessed foreign film buff, read a review of Life is Beautiful in January and then went to the Paris Theater on 58th Street to see it.

The Italian film, a fable that two weeks ago won three Oscars, is about a Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust hidden by his father in a Nazi concentration camp.

"In all honesty, I saw the parallels immediately," he said. "Trust me, I related to the movie. It brought back a lot of memories ... in terms of being hidden in Buchenwald with my father and him . being protective of me.

"Also the behavior of the child—he did not cry, and I Was the same way. I also thought I looked like the kid in the movie, and we were the same age.... I had a little tear in my eye when I saw it."

Schleifstein, 58, was located by The JewishWeek, which last week used archival records from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to describe the remarkable similarities between his ' childhood-the details of which he has kept secret from even his own children-and that of the fictional boy in the film. : ' "I liked the movie," said Schleifstein, who lives on the Upper EasVSide and took an early retirement . two,years ago, after working 25 years at AT&T. "But it was a qoiriedy and what happened was definitely not, a comedy?" V, ;-.','>,.',,.' v . !."..' . ^chleifstein, now an' Internet stock; trader who looks.remarkably like Tie did jii a'photograph taken 5Q.years.ago, has "a! quick'sense of humor,'which he dis'played. during an interview at the offices of The Jewish Week. . . "just say I'm charming and witty," he joked., Schleifstein said he r e c a l l s ' a r r i v i n g at Buchenwald and being placed in his father's clothing sack to avoid being taken away by the Nazis, along with the other children and the elderly (they were later murdered). The JDC records show that Schleifstein and his parents, Israel and Esther, arrived in Buchenwald in Eastern Germany in 1943, when Schleifstein was 2 years old. ' (Schleifstein's younger brother, Benjamin of Flatbush—he was born in Brooklyn in 1950-said he remembers his mother telling him that his father had screamed at her in Yiddish: "I'm taking the kid, Tm taking the kid." Noting that his father died

in 1956, Benjamin Schleifstein said he viewed his father "as a real hero. When I read in the newspaper what he did-he had to be somebody special.")

Schleifstein said he vaguely remembers being smuggled into the camp and initially hidden by his father. But eventually, he said, the Nazi guards learned of his presence and used him to take roll call in the morning.

"I remember saluting them," he said. "I became the Germans' mascot and would say, 'All prisoners accounted for.'... I guess they didn't feel a need to kill me."

And besides, he said, the Nazis considered his father, a harness and saddle maker, invaluable.

"Why kill me and spoil a good worker," he said.

"They needed my father."

But when there were formal inspections by visiting Nazi officials, he said he was hidden.

Schleifstein said he also has memories-"bits and pieces"—of hiding in the three ghettos to which his parents were moved after his birth in the Sandomiez ghetto south of Warsaw.

"Time doesn't mean anything to a kid," he said. "I remember being put in cellars and hidden in the dark. To this day, I can't be in the dark. For years, I had terrible nightmares and a fear of death. . . I remember being very fearful. In a recurring nightmare, a big boot was coming down on me, about to squish tae. I'd wake up screaming at night." •• • < Schileifsteih and his, father remained in Buchenwald until Geri. George Patton and the U.S. Army liberated the camp on April 12,1945. .

Schleifstein's mother had been separated from them when they arrived and worked at theBergenthe German town of;DdcTiau. i Leon Levy of Brooklyn, who called The Jewish Week after reading last week's story, said he also lived in Dachau after the war and that Israel Schleifstein was a member of the Jewish committee there and "helped me get an apartment."

Another Brooklyn resident, Dora Lass, said she too remembered the elder Schleifstein when she lived after the war in Dachau. She said her husband, Chaim, was in Buchenwald with him and told her how the elder Schleifstein had smuggled, his son into the camp.

"He said the people in the camp made sure the boy had plenty of food," she said. "He said the boy was quiet and gave them no problems. He was a smart little boy."

Schleifstein said he also remembers seeing other children in the camp, although none as young as he was.

The book Hitler's Death Camps by Konnilyn G. Feig, pointed out that there was a boys choir at Buchenwald. And it said that in the final weeks of the war, a 4-year-old boy, Stefan Jerzy Zweig, was smuggled into the camp in his father's rucksack.

During inspections, the boy was gagged and tucked beneath the floorboards. Zweig later immigrated to Israel and in 1964 was an all-star player on the Israeli national handball team.

In 1948, Schleifstein said he and his family immigrated to the United States, moving into the Brooklyn home of Schleifstein's uncle, Julius Schweitzman. Schleifstein's mother died two years ago.

But before immigrating, Schleifstein said he remembered posing in 1947 in Dachau for a picture in his prison uniform.

"My father wanted me to put it on but I didn't want to," he recalled. "I was crying. I didn't want to be on display." .. , ;i After the war, Schleifstein, who.is divorced, did not discuss the war years, even keeping it a secret from his two children, Karen, who now has two children and lives in Marlboro, N.J., and Ira of Englishtown, N.J. ....•..'

"The perception of people who went through the Holocaust was-that-tiiey-were^amaged-^stuff," he explained. "Look what they looked like. A lot looked like walK^SgpsReletons, smelled badly am I were sick.Taidri'twaTit'tJiat stigma."

But in recentyears, Schleifstein said he has begun to come to terms with what happened. He said he returned to Germany for the first time last year and harbors no bitterness.

"I think that hate destroys the hater," he said. "I think that what the Germans did was awful. But you have to go on and you can't let it taint the next generation. i "Looking to the future means forgiveness."

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Jewish Family Service has announced that a sixclass parenting class will be offered on April 28, May 5,12,19, 26, and June 2.

The class will be based on the best selling book How To Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Your Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. It will be co-taught by Dr. Stacie SpiesMatz and myself.

A how-to approach on communication skills, the class will teach parents how to enhance their relationship with their children. Also, it uses innovative ways to solve such common problems as: how to listen to, and understand, your child's concerns; how to have cooperation in your family—without nagging; how you and your child can deal with feelings; how to find alternatives to punishment; and how to help your child attain a positive self-image.

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Michael Jordan's mom visits Israel

Delores Jordan, mother of basketball living legend Michael Jordan, recently visited Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem as part, of a t.wo-yveek tour of Israel. Mrs. Jordany selectedi as Shaare Zedek's "MVP" is h d l d i the -hospital's presto ^ ^ M ^ | ^ ^ | g 'humanitarian a ward; However, before accepting the honor, Mrs. Jordan wanted to visit the hospital and see first-hand the live-saving work the hospital performs. Mrs. Jordan made a,special effort to spend time in the Raoul Wallenberg Pediatric Day Hospital, a special facility for children.

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The Sabbath comes to bless the week one day in every seven To bless us with its holiness A tiny taste of heaven.

Dorothy K. Kripke's eleventh and newest book in the "Lefs Talk About" series centers on the Jewish Sabbath, its history, traditions and applications for present-day Jewish families. The book is filled with beautiful, simple language and enhanced with the lovely illustrations of Stacy Crosslund and Joy NelkinWeider.

It is an appropriate book for children (and adults) of any age, as it is organized well for reading with and to children, but is equally manageable for older children to read independently.

Although a work of nonfiction, the book is replete with interesting examples of imagination and opportunities for creative visualization and imagery.

In Let's Talk About the Sabbath, Kripke first introduces her readers to the Sabbath, Queen of all days. She then leads them through the weekly preparations for the Sabbath, shares with them the traditions behind the candles and the wine, guides them through the Oneg and completes Havdalah with them.

The book is complete with historical knowledge, balanced with practical and different possibilities for families choosing their own special Sabbath traditions and memories. Delightfully, the book shares visions of Sabbath angels and the lovely idea that, on this special day, each member of every family is to be treated and cherished as if they were royalty!

Kripke's words tell us that the Sabbath is as important today, as ever, in history. The Sabbath is a unique part of Jewish life, one that serves as a common thread to unite Jews around the world and throughout history. • The work clearly reflects her Jewish tradition and thought as she emphasizes the need for productive and happy work to be balanced with a time for rest, praying, thinking and spending-time with family and friends. This may be one of the book's greatest gifts to members of a society where all too often it appears that there is far too little opportunity to rest, contemplate, pray and enjoy simply "being."

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A Beth Israel Sisterhood luncheon meeting will be held Tuesday, May 4,12:30 p.m., in the synagogue social hall and features Cantor Leo Pettman, who will sign copies of his book SHOAH: Journey from the Ashes.

In 1944, Cantor's entire family was torn from their home in Nyiradony, Hungary, confined in a ghetto, later shipped via boxcar to Auschwitz where mosi pf his family were murdered. He worked in the Auschwitz crematorium arid then sent to the "Angel of Death" (Dr. Josef Mengele) for medical experimentation, Subsequently shuttled from one labor camp, to another, faisely accused of a crime in one of these camps, led to the gallows by Nazi SS officers; the rope broke and he.fell to the ground still alive. .

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•, . :, He returned to his hometown, however there was nothing for him to remain, so he sojourned through Hungary, several Canadian cities where he obtained his rabbinical and cantonal certifications; then to Gary, Indiana, where he and Annette mar" ried and finally came to Beth Israel with their three youngest children in 1974.

Within a short time of accepting his varied Cantorial duties, he started upon a most important mission in his life: telling the true story of the Holocaust to anyone who would listen He frankly admits he spent years thinking about writing SHOAH and four years doing it, with his helpmate, Annette creating all the illustrations.

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Telpner is best known for his involvement in community service organizations. He served as past president of the Pottaw.attamie County Bar Association and was a six-year member of the board, of .governors of the Iowa State Bar Association. In 1970, he started his own law firm of Telpner Peterson Smith and Ruesch.

He received his law degree from Creighton University in 1952 and has been a member of the Iowa Supreme Court Commissions on Continuing Legal Education. He was an organizer of the Council Bluffs Human Rights Commission and the Council Bluffs Legal Aid Services to the poor. ' Telpner also served on the volunteer board of the Iowa Western Community College and has been a tutor for the adult learning center, where he taught English to people who never learned to read.

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neurologist, is credited with being Are you—or a family member—one of over 40 million Americans sufferlargely responsible for bringing ing from Dyslexia and related about a dramatic change in Learning, Attention Deficit and America's perception of Dyslexia, Phobic Disorders? Are you or loved ADD, anxiety phobias as well as ones "smart, but feeling dumb?" its victims.

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• While each of the camp programs are unique, they all offer the opportunity for children to grow and develop physically, intellectually and emotionally in programs emphasizing Jewish culture and values. All of the campers will also spend time each week with the Shaliach, or Israeli Counselor, in addition to enjoying sports activities, art, nature and swimming. All day camps are open to JCC Members only.

The Jewish Community Center's full-day day camps are accredited by the American Camping Association. ACA accreditation assures parents that JCC camps have met the highest standards in the camping industry in the areas of program, safety, personnel, facility and administration.

For information on any of these summer camp programs, contact me at 334-6409.

Staff positions are available for all camps.

Clintons celebrate legacy of Rabin Last month, Lea Rabin, right, and her daughter, Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, left, presented the first Shalom Chaver Award for International L e a d e r s h i p to President Bill Clinton and First LadyHilary Rodham Clinton, center. The Award, which celebrates the legacy of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, was created to honor individuals for their commitment to peace in the Middle East'and around the world.

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"You don't plant trees just for yourself.

You plant trees for the future."

Luanne Coziahr, OPPD Forester

"We spend a lot of time going out and trying to help people make correct choices for their landscape and for the power lines, too; it's a fun part of my job.

And we have a tree planting sponsorship program that allows us to get trees planted for the right reasons, in the right places. That's real important to us.

"People plant trees for shade and beauty, lots of very important reasons. If everybody would plant their trees far enough away from power lines or plant things that stay small near power lines^ve would be happy."

For more information on tree planting, or help in selecting the right tree to plant, call OPPD's • ; Customer Care Services at 536-4131 or, outside';.'•.,. the metropolitan area, call toll-free 1-800-648-2658, then select 6 on the menu. ^ •

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