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Friedel announces plans for new Pre-K Program by Diane Axler Baum
Every spring, members of the Child Development Center's professional staff hear the concerns of parents trying to decide whether to send their children on to kindergarten. Typically, these are the children who have birthdays that fall between late summer and the October 15 cut-off. Starting in the coming school year, Friedel Jewish Academy plans to meet the important need of this group with a new program-a developmentally appropriate, academic.program for five-year-olds and almost five-year-olds, which will introduce kindergarten skills m a warn, Jewish environment Grant Glazer is one such student. He's a bright, personable child who spent three thoroughly successful years in the CDC Preschool, but his parents feel he's not quite ready for kindergarten. "We knew Grant met the age requirement and that he'd be ready for kindergarten academically, but in our hearts we felt he needed another year for his emotions to catch up," said his mother, Jennifer Glazer. - *"' ^ "We believe that children who develop a bit more maturity before starting kindergarten have an important edge all through school," she said. "For one thing, they're better prepared to face peer pres-. sure and academic pressure, especially later on (Continued on page 12)
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Federation Campaign surpasses goal by Pam Monsky, Federation Communications Director
The 1999 Annual Campaign of the Jewish persson relationships in the Western Galilee), and Federation of Omaha has achieved its fundraising social welfare issues such as immigration and goal, with pledges totaling $3,000,500, the most absorption. Elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union and other ever raised in the Balkan states are Omaha Jewish helped through relief 'comm u n i t y . efforts that bring Chairpersons for food, shelter and the Campaign medical attention to were Bob Eisenthose who are destiberg and Bob Newtute. man, General Campaign Chairs,., "All of us should be and Maxine Kjrproud of our accomshenbaum and Jan plishments," said S c h n e i d e r m a n . ^ k Newman, left, conJiaired the general campaign with F e d e r a t i o n W o m e n ' s Bob Eisenberg (not pictured); J a n Sohneiderman and President Howard Campaign Chairs. Maxine Kirshenbaum chaired the Women's Campaign. Kooper. "I am forever grateful to the Campaign Chairs, Division Joel Al person chaired the Pacesetter Campaign. More than 2,400 donors contributed to the effort, Leaders, workers and especially the donors; our making Omaha one of the highest per capita cam- community is just phenomenal." Federation Executive Director Jan Perelman paigns hi the country. Over 100 community members worked on the Campaign, calling donors and added, "This was an incredible campaign year. telling the story of Jewish needs locally, in Israel Between the JCC Campus Campaign and the and around the world. Money raised in Omaha Annual Federation Campaign, we raised $11.5 milsupports the local Centers of Excellence, scholar- lion dollars this year. The leadership of our Campaign Chairs is unsurpassed. I am so proud of ships, grants and Jewish programming. In Israel, funds help Partnership 2000 (a sister this community!" city arrangement to foster business and person-to- (More photos from the Annual Meeting on Page 10)
Storyteller andjuggler Izzi sky, a performer who c o m ~ bines two . unique talents tlli and juggling-will be the special guest at Temple : ^S' rael's family service next Friday evening, J u n e 18, at 7:30 p.m. For the past 20 years, Tooinsky has journeyedJ acrbsV America and the world to learn unique forms of jugglei-y and to collect many
uing education credits (CEUs) ^ d c a n also be taken as one nour °f credit at the College of St. Mary. For information on the festival, Perforlnances and credits, call 551-4532, or ™ s i t t h e teeval's website: www.storygalpre.coinl '' Tooinsky, a native Californian, has performed in Africa, Europe, Central America, the South Pacific and Aus-
legendary Tickets to sintales. He has gle events at been featured on numerous televi- the Nebraska Story-telling Festival sion shows, including ABC's Good are $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and Morning America, and has received grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. Specializing in tall tales, Hebrew myths and legends, Tooinsky is alsoappearing in Omaha as part of the annual Nebraska Storytelling Festival, June. 18-20, at the College of S t Mary, 1901 So. 72nd St. The annual festival also features The Bright Chicks: Ozzie Nogg, Rita PaBkowitz, Vicky Bainea and Peggy Reineke, aa well as recent high school graduate Anna Cotton,' daughter of Marcy arid Ira Cotton. The festival is approved for contin-
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students and $4 for children under 12. Workshops are priced from $35 to$99. Temple Israel's Family Service is geared for children and their parents and grandparents, but is open to everyone in the community. Children whose birthdays fall in the month of June and July will receive a special blessing. Temple Israel will alBo honor volunteers, install new officers and board members and recognize Ann Kibe! Schwarti at its annual dinner meet* ing. ibis Sunday at 6 pan. Outgoing President Larry Roffioan will be honored and the Kol Rina Choir will ting.
Omaha Center for Torah Learning hires first director by Carol katzman
Rabbi Shlomo Levin of Israel has accepted the] position of Rosh\ Kbllel, director the Omaha Centerfor Torah Learning, announced Allan1 Gonsher, OCTLf" President The " organization's mission is to provide Jewish education to the communi ty in
Educational Leadership. Rabbi Levin also has a B A in environmental studies from Bar-Dan University; where, he. won the David'Saf-1 ra prize for outstanding research on global warming in climatology. In addition, he will receive teacher certification from Sha'alvim Teachers
Rabbi Paul Drathe needs of the individual or group. zen of Beth El Synagogue said, "We're ; Rabbi Levin, a native of Chicago, looking forward to having more opportuand his French-born wife, Noa, and nities for'-study and hope be will bring their two children, Talia, 2172, and strength to the Jewish community." : Ya'akoy, a one-year-old, will arrive. As Rosh Kollel, Rabbi Levin will use in Omaha in early July.' his talents and experience as a Jewish "After nearly two years of plan-i educator available to the entire Jewish ning and raising funds, we are "-"Community. Ten individuals have delighted that Omaha's first kollel already requested one-on-one will soon be a reality," said Gonsher, chavrusa-Btyle learning time, accordnoting that the Jewish Community ing to Allan Gonsher. The OCTL will Center, Beth El, Beth Israel, also host group classes and one-time Temple Israel and the Friedel special events, including a community Jewish Academy have all begun Champagne and Dessert reception for planning programs with Rabbi the rabbi and bis family on Sunday, Levin. . • . . : . . • : . . Oct 17,7 p.m., at the JCC. * 1 "Rabbi Levin has studied with some Educated at Yesbivat Harnivtar in Efrat, Rabbi Levin received his of the best and brightest in Israel,' smichtt, or rabbinic ordination from Gonsher added, "including the staff at Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of the Shalom Hartman Institute and fl"» Efrat, and from the Chief Rabbinate Pardes institute of Jewish Studies.* of Israel. He also completed a oneBoth are noted for broad appeal to year course at.Machon Amiel in students of all denominations: Jerusalem in fundraising, manage- Orthodox, Conservative, Reconstrocments public speaking' and commu- tioniflt and Reform. nication, and a two-year course at the Sha'al Institute for Rabbinic
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MILTON C. BLOOM Milton C. Bloom, formerly of Omaha, died June 2 in Phoenix. Survivors include his wife, Esther, daughters and sons-in-law, Walt and Sheila Moravec of Phoenix, and Nancy and Larry Wintroub of Scottsdale; grandchildren, Ben Wintroub and Sara Wintroub of Scottsdale; brother, Harold.Bloom of Omaha; sister, Shirley Rosenzweig of Kirkland, WA; and nieces and nephews.. , < GORDON BERNSTEIN Gordon Bernstein of Los Angeles', formerly of Omaha,'died Saturday, May 29, at the age of 71. Burial was June 1 in Mount Sinai Memorial Park. SurvivorB include his -wife, Zeldah; son and daughter-in-law, Edward and Francine of Callabasis, CA; daughters, Sue Bernstein of Long Beach, CA, and Beth Bernstein of Santa Monica, CA; grandchildren, Joshua Bernstein and Jennifer Bernstein, both of Callabasis; and brother and sister-in-law, Sheldon and Lorrie Bernstein of Oceanside, CA, . , ' " ' • SHIRLEY FISHER Shirley Fisher died June 7 in Scottsdale, AZ, at the age of 77. Services were held June 8 at Beth Israel Cemetery in Omaha.' •. .Survivors include her husband, Mort of Scottsdale; four daughters, Carol Brodkey of Omaha; Roni Peterson, Barbara'Fisher.and'Molly Fisher-Foster, all of Scottsdale; seven grandchildren, Seth, Aaron and Matthew Peterson, Laura Brodkey,' Brittany Foster, all of Phoenix, and' Gail Brodkey and Steven Brodkey of Chicago; and s i s ^ ter, Muriel "Mickey* Greenberg of Scottsdale.
(Continued from page 1) Noa Levin is an experienced elementary teacher he should tear Kriah, the symbolicripping-ofgarwith an Israeli teaching certificate.She sp cializes ments Halachically mandated for occasions of in teaching art and holds a blue belt •« th two mourning or hearing calamitous news. black stripes in Tae Kwon Do. "There is a vast spectrum of observance and reli"Rabbi Levin's thoughtful responses to otir ques- gious outlook within the Jewish community, broadly tions, his openness to the community and is clear defined as Orthodox. Within this group, we must message when teaching made him our nun ber one emphatically emphasize all that we have in common, candidate," added Robert Oberman, a memb r of the which, when seen in perspective, dwarfs the limited the OCTL board. "We are excited about his arrival number of issues about which we bicker. There is . also no justification for the type of public disrespect and the enhancement of Jewish education here." Last month, Rabbi Levin spent several days and beratement about which Rabbi Schachter spoke meeting with the community's rabbis, yollmteers and which has become so common." . and leaders, professional staff from the Federation Rabbi Levin noted that his mission is to "make and Centers of Excellence, and the OCTL board Judaism and its values accessible to be used as and committees. tools for making decisions in everyday life." In response to questions about learning, t iaching For more information about OCTL, scheduling' and community, Rabbi Levin said, "Shiur.m (lec- and classes, contact Allan Gonsher at his office, tures) should demand effort from the participants 334-4014; or home, 658-2767. and engage people on an intellectual level. People should feel like they have encountered a n< w idea or have been enriched. ....•; "My preferred teaching style is to begin with a Harlem Globetrotters major question of outlook or understands g: (for at JCC example) 'What is the Bource of this Halacha (law)?' As we learn in detail, we ask, 'Ho v does thisfitinto the big question?' "In addition to many common values and practical concerns, we (Jews) also share a comm n heritage and destiny,* Rabbi Levin added. "W lie we should not compromise our beliefs or seek to blur the ideological differences between us, we n* ust do everything in out power to emphasize the bonds between UB and our commitment to the we] are of each other. Rabbi Levin continued his observations about Jewish community by relating a story about Rabbi Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva of Yishiva University, who visits American yeshiva st idents More than 100 boys and girls enjoyed a week in Israel each winter. learning basketball techniaues with the "A few years ago, someone asked him what he Harlem Globetrotters. This is the second year should do if he hears one talmid chachan (stu- of the program at the Jewish Community dent) publicly belittling another. He replied that Center, according to Coach Bob Franzese.
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BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE MambwttttbeUnkmof Orthodox J«wbh CongragaUona of America
7023 Cow Street Omaha, NE 68132-8661 586*586
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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: "Shabbat Comes to You," 3:45 p.m. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat service at 7 p.m. Rabbi Stiel and OTYG will lead a Shabbat Service SATURDAY: Services, 8:45 aan.; Little People at Remington; Shabbat service, 8 p.m. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Stiel and Cantor Blum will officiate. service, 10:15 am..; Jr. Congregation, 1030 a m . Kiddush sponsored by Sisterhood. Rabbi Azriel will speak. Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Annette and Jack Moshman in honor Rabbi's class, 8:05 p.m.; Mincha, 8:35 p.m., folof the Bat Mitzvah of their granddaughter, Rebecca lowed by Ma'ariv and Havdalah at 9:49 pan. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.; Beis Hamedrash, Moshman. SATURDAY: Bagels and Bible: An opportunity 9:45 ajn.; Mincha, 8:45 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 auiM Mincha, 8:45 pan. to learn Torah with the rabbis, 9:30-10:15 a.m.; WEDNESDAY: Rabbi Kutner teaches Talmud Shabbat service, 10&0 aja.; Rebecca Mosbman Class at 7:45 pan. at the synagogue. will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. SITTER SERVICE Sitter Service is available Friday evening, BEYT SHALOM Saturday mornings for Bagels and Bible and the . •> AoAJffllatcofthe , worship service. Cost is $2 per family. Please make < , ^owJ8hRee<»>8truc«onl«tFcdor««ott . ' a reservation through the Temple office so we may P . © . B o x 2 4 1 1 3 0 , v . . . ; plan accordingly. ADULT EDUCATION THURSDAY: Sisterhood Adult Education: Rabbi Stiel will teach "A Look at Myths, Rituals FIUDAY: Shabbat in the home. and Symbols: Their Role In Our Religion," 10-1130 Religious School is over for the semester. a.m.; "Beginning Beyond Midrash, 6:50-7:40 p.m.; 'Beyond Midrash," 7:50-8:45 p.m., led by Don However, pre-registrations are being accepted at 758-9233. Schwartz. FRIDAY, J u n e 18: Kabbalat Shabbat, "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, J u n e 15, 11:30 a.m-.l p.m. Rabbi SATURDAY, J u n e 19: Inga Konfisakhar, Stiel will lead a discussion on current events. daughter of Marina and Leo Konfisakhar, will celeBring a brown bag lunch; Temple will provide the brate her Bat Mitzvah at 9:30 aan. drinks.
1866SO. 120th S t , wha,NB6814+.l& Phone: 330-1800 AJL™ch WEBSITE; www.cha Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. FRIDAY: Services, 9-.30 ajn. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m., followed by Kiddush; Mincha/Ma'ariv, 6:30 p.m., followed by Havdalah. WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma'ariv, 7:30 pan.
OFFUTAIR FORCE BASE 2Sth and Capehart Omaha, NE 68U3-5000 294-6051 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.
SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m., led by Harold Gottlieb. Kiddush following services. '
TIFERETH ISRAEL Member of the Hnttad Synagogue of Conservative Judaism ; 3219 Sheridan Blvd. Lincoln, NE 68502-5286 423-8569 Services conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum. Minyan on Monday and Thursday at 7:15 a.m. FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m.
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE, Member of United Synagogues of Conservative dufotan 14508 California Omaha, NE 68154-1980 4024850 WEB-httpV/omahafreenetorg/bcthel 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 Berkovita. FRIDAY: Services, 6 pan. Sam Edelstein, son of Ellene and Stanley Edelstein, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday evening and Saturday morning. SATURDAY: Services, &30 nan.; Kiddush following; Sitter service, 10 a.m.; Shabbat Story Time (pre-kindergarten and under) 11 a-m.; K'tantan (kindergarten through 3rd grade) 10:45 a.m.; Humash with Rashi study session, 8:20 p.m. (1/2 hour before M/M); Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services, &50 pan. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 6:55 a.m. & 5:30 pan.
J o e l R o b e r t LeMaistre, son of John and I Deanne LeMaistre, will 1 celebrate his Bar MitzIvah on Saturday, June 119, at Beth El Syna| gogue. A seventh-grade stuIdent at Morton Middle I School, he enjoys readling, computer games and | riding his bike. In addi^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J t i o n , he participated in »»""' l v g ^ ^ ^ ^ B l ! | t h e Duke University
I ' . {SHHBKIlTalent Search, Bebate, Band and Cross Country, and attended the Friedel Jewish Academy. i For his mitzvah project, he will volunteer at the Sienna St. Francis House. : Joel has three brothers, Daniel, Thomas and Matthew. Grandparents are David and Phyllis Hoffman of Omaha. Great-grandfather is John Hoffman of St. Paul, MN.
Alexander Samuel Bloom, son of Rebecca and IBrent Bloom, will celeB'NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Ibrate his Bar Mitzvah on 618MynstarSt I Friday evening, June 18, Council Bluffs, Iowa 51503-0766 l a t B'nai Israel SynaPhone:322-4705 gogue in Council Bluffs, R-MAIL: docjeb@aol.com land Saturday morning, | June 19, atTmp\el8rae\. FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m. Oneg Shabbat, An eighth-grade stuprepared by Peggy Deland and Sandra Kurland, Ident at Lewis & Clark will follow. SMiddle School, he was j named to the honor roll jand was selected as New York counselors "Trailblazer of the to enhance Camp Gan Israel Month." Albo, lie has been selected to participate in Chana and Rivkah Halberstam will join the staff the Elementary Technology Workshop at North of Camp Gan Israel for this season, announced High School for the last three years. He enjoys baBShani Katzman of Chabad's Camp. "We are very ketball and playing the trumpet. excited that these young women agreed to bring For his mitzvah project, he volunteered each their talents to our local community," she said. week at the Temple Israel Religious School. Alex has a brother, Eli, 11. Chana has directed summer camps throughout Grandparents are Harold and' Dina Bloom and the world, including Capetown, South Africa, Frankfort, Germany, and Anchorage, Alaska. She Jerome and Freda Bleicher. teaches grades 1-3 in the New York area. Rivkah has been involved with kids and camps in New york, Michigan and California, and specializes in singing, Israeli dancing and art. Please join us Camp Gan is a specialty camp devoted to cultito celebrate the vating and boosting Jewish pride and identity. The 70th Anniversary Frank L. Clciulla, Jr. theme they have chosen is "A Picture Perfect of Summer"~making the world a more picturesque Dr. Milton and Ann 60 Yeara Experience place by being the best kids can be. Margolin With Jewish Camp will run from June 28 through July 9. Sunday, June 27 Lettering and Memorials Swimming, regular sports, cooking, art and field 1-4p.cn. in the JCC auditorium trips will be part of the daily schedule. 1439 So. 13th Hotted by their chlldnn and 4 For more information,' call Elizabeth at the tpouftt, grandchildren and 4 341-2452 Chabad House, 330-1800. gntl-fmndchlldnn. ,
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The current Jewish Press Constitutional Committee just took on their role for the 19992000 year. However, like other committees, they will review current policy, set years ago, and updated every so often by the leadership at the time. For example, in 1997, the committee expanded the Birth Announcement policy to allow
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Barak banking on little-known rabbi by Gary Rosenblatt, Editor and Publisher, New York Jewish Week
NEW YORK - So it turns out that the Israeli electorate is still deeply divided, only more about religion than about peace and security. That is Ehud Barak's dilemma as he seeks to form a broad coalition. But his salvation may come from a littleknown voice within his own One Israel ranks with the potential to bridge the dangerous religious-secular gap. Barak appointed Rabbi Michael Melchior, a leader of the moderate Orthodox movement Meimad and partner in Barak's One Israel party, to the four-man team that will negotiate with parties seeking to join the coalition. The surprise move - top party men like Yossi Beilin and Avraham Burg had been expected to be included - signals Barak's appreciation of the vital role Meimad can play in healing Israel's religious tensions. "Barak sees us as the bridge," Tzvi Wolff, a former American who is director of diaspora relations for Meimad, told me from Jerusalem. It's a wise move on Barak's part because the recent national elections found that the parties at the two extremes of the religion front - the fervently religious and anti-religious - did disturbingly well. Meretz, the far left party that typifies post-Zionism, and Tommy Lapid's new Shinui (Change) party, whose sole focus was to lash out at the ultra-Orthodox, came away with 19 seats in the 120-seat Knesset. But Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party that values religious law over secular law and has led: the campaign against the Supreme Court, increased its representation from 10 to 17 seats, making it the third most powerful party in Israel. In a sense the political left and the religious right fed off each other in the campaign leading up to the election, convincing voters of the dangers of the Other. The conviction for fraud in April of Aryeh Deri, the powerful and charismatic leader of Shas, was a rallying point for his supporters, who see him as the martyred victim of a godless society, a Sephardi religious threat to the Ashkenazi secular elite. At the same time, Meretz and Shinui appealed tq,.thqae Israelis who have become increasingly angry and frightened by the demographic and political growth of the ultra-Orthodox.
The "black hats," as they are called, are seen as a drain on society because many, with their large families and lack of secular education, live on the dole and refuse to send their sons into the army. It is this divide over Israeli society and its values that Barak must address in putting together a coalition with a sufficiently broad representation to advance the peace process while narrowing the religious-secular gap. He will have a hard tune solving Israel's greatest internal and external problems: if he takes in Meretz and Shinui; supporters of the Oslo Accords, they say they would refuse to join a coalition with Shas. Indeed, a priority of the far-left camp is to severely reduce government funding for religious education and housing. And if he takes in Shas, which is dovish on the peace front, the party presumably would demand the maintenance of education and housing subsidies as well as keeping the status quo on the Orthodox monopoly on matters of personal status, such as marriage, divorce, burial and conversion. If Barak goes another route and seeks to take in Likud, his weakened, secular rightist rival whose representation in the Knesset plummeted to 19 seats, he will have a difficult time moving quickly on the peace front. If there is a way out of this dilemma it may well be through Meimad's approach. Founded on the principle that Jewish values and democratic rights are not mutually exclusive, Meimad supports the Oslo process and.seeks to reform the religious status quo. It helped draft a covenant on religion and state last year that would promote Jewish education and culture while removing the element of religious coercion in people's personal lives. The document, drafted by a small group of leaders, including YoBsi Beilin of One Israel, Alex Lubotzky, then of the Third Way party, and four rabbis from Meimad, calls for doing away with religious councils that now control much of religious life; allowing couples who cannot have a Jewish marriage to register as legal couples; and providing for civil burials. It also advocates the study "of Jewish tradition" in all state-funded Bchools; incor-. porating the religious court system into the justice
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ministry; creating an authority to promote Jewish education and culture; and allowing public transportation on the Sabbath, though commerce would be shut down, except for entertainment. The covenant will be taken seriously now that Meimad is part of One Israel, and Wolff said that the Sephardi chief rabbi has encouraged religious parties to study the document. "As a result of the elections there is a great opportunity to temper religious extremism," said Wolff, who added that Meimad seeks to provide "a new model of what a religious Jew is - not the public's image of someone who is intolerant." He said thai Barak's approach will be to Bet standards for joining the coalition and that he will not allow "unreasonable and disproportionate demands." Only after a compatible coalition is in place, he said, would Barak approach religious parties like Shas. Meimad is hoping for the Education ministry, with Avi Ravitsky, a Hebrew University professor, as its minister. In the meantime, though, Barak's inclusion of Rabbi Melchior in his inner team is a heartening sign of the prime minister-elect's recognition of the key role moderate Orthodox voices can play in promoting a synthesis between Judaism and democracy.
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Yugoslav Jews welcome peace, face daunting job of reconstruction
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) — wnen xecniei Bar Chaim, the Paris-based Yugoslavia program director for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, checked his e-mail last week he found an emotionladen message from a Yugoslav correspondent. "Peac-c-e-e!" the message said. The Yugoslav "Parliament accepted! I am so-o-o happy there is peace!' " . The prospect of a halt to NATO's air war against Serbia came as welcome news to Yugoslavia's 3,500 Jews, who throughout the NATO campaign have shared the same fears, hardships and concerns as their Serbian neighbors. . "I am desperate, hopeless, and very, very tired," Belgrade Jewish community activist Misa David told the 600 delegates to the General Assembly of the European Council of Jewish Communities, held in Nice at the end of last month, just days before the Yugoslav Parliament accepted NATO's terms. David, and Aca Singer, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia, were given special permission by Yugoslav military authorities to. attend the meeting, where they issued an appeal for an end to the bombing. "The people in Yugoslavia, including 3,500 Jews, suffer twice—from [President Slobodan] Milosevic's regime, and from the NATO bombing," David told the gathering. • With peace finally near, Jews now share fears for the future in a country whose infrastructure has been pulverized, whose economy has been shattered, and whose social and political order is in turmoil. "As a Jewish community, we are trying to prepare a program for the future," David said in an interview. "But we will need help from all Jewish organizations. After the war, there will be an economic catastrophe. "Factories have been destroyed. We need Bocial help for the elderly and for young people. And for middle-aged people, finding jobs will be-apriority."
Yugoslavia "is a country that is totally disorganized and in nuns," another Belgrade Jewish comJERUSALEM (JTA) - Israelis disappointed 35 munity member told JTA by e-mail. years ago when the government barred the Beatles Bar Chaim said the JDC is already planning what from performing here had an opportunity to gain action to take if and when peace is finally estab- some closure last week. lished. The scope of what is needed is enormous, he Sir George Martin, the legendary record producsaid, and it was not yet clear if economic sanctions er who discovered the Beatles, conducted the would be lifted. . Israel Philharmonic in tributes to the "Fab Four" "We are already engaged in raising funds for reha- last weekend in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. bilitating the Jewish communities in Yugoslavia," he The collaboration with the Israel Philharmonic said. A first priority, Bar Chaim added, would be to was the first stop on an international tour in which help the Yugoslav Jews currently being hosted in Sir George will conduct well-known orchestras in Budapest to return home. renditions of Beatles songs. Thanks to a contingency agreement between Sir George^aid he was unaware of the objections Yugoslav and Hungarian Jewish leaders, made raised by the government in 1964, when the months before the bombing began, as many as 500 Beatles were designated persona nan grata out of Jews, most of them elderly people, women and chil- concern their music would corrupt the country's dren, were able to leaye Yugoslavia for neighboring youth. ' . Hungary. About 200 of these people went on to "The government today is different than the one Israel. • then," he said diplomatically. ' ' ' ^ Other JDC priorities include: " The idea for the concert tour grew out of Sir'.'* emergency cash relief for the elderly, who include George's last studio work,' In My Life, which ' as many as 800 destitute Holocaust survivors; brought together such stars as Celine Dion-, G61die:iI * new shipments of medicine to replenish the phar-. 'HawpAndSobittWiniams: H a p A n d ' S b i t t W i n i 1 ' ' W 1 ;;: >.;^--.n-i macy in Belgrade, which was set up long before;the- 11 "*. More" recently, h&'has focused on dbroposinif, " conflict and was maintained with the help of World 'orche'str'aiihg, lecturing and philanthropic work; Jewish Relief; • "I've been making records, producing records now * refurbishment of the kitchen in the Belgrade com: for nearly 50 years,, and this time I stopped munity and the possible opening of soup kitchens in " because it's a young man's business, and I didn't the Belgrade and Novi Sad communities; and ... want to go on doing things I didn't think that I'm * expanded non-sectarian medical aid, to supple. ment medicines already provided for the sick and as good at doing as I used to be," he said. Some of Israel's top musical artists will be wounded in the Pristina Hospital and for autistic appearing alongside the Israel Philharmonic in the chUdren in Belgrade! 1 • two scheduled performances.:. ; •'• *> "'» :•,'•••»!? "Also to be looked at in the days ahead," Bar Chaim Their enthusiasm1^about the 'project'and1 the'-1 said, "is the resumption of peacetime Jewish life." opportunity to work with Sir George was palpable:'-r Throughput the NATO campaign, Yugoslav "The amazing thing about the songs is that they Jewry's strong central organization helped sustain a evoke pictures'of our youth,"singer Yehudit Ravitz semblance of normality for Jews in Belgrade; which said during a rehearsal. is home to two-thirds of the country's Jews.
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Carrie Roitstein, currently in her third year of i a four-year program at the Illinois College of Optometry (ICO), recently received her Bachelor of Vision Science degree. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign. In I May, 2000, she will earn I her Doctor of Optometry. At a recent honors cerI emony, Carrie was I named Officer of the Year by the ICO Student Association, elected Membership Liaison to the Contact Lens Society and inducted into the Gold Key International Optometric Honor Society, which is made up of the top 10% of the class. She also serves in the ICO Student Government In addition, she was the recipient of an America's Best Scholarship for an eBsay she prepared comparing Edward Degas' artistic talent, hampered by visual deterioration, to an Optometrist's exam ' geared more toward challenging patients. Carrie, the daughter of Debbie and Lloyd Roitstein, i s a member of Beth El Synagogue. She is the granddaughter of Dr. Morris and Ann Roitstein.
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Volunteers honored at Federation's Annual Meeting
Photos, from fc/fc-Howard Kaslow, a previous recipient of the Humanitarian Award, presents the 1998 award to bis wife, Gloria. Annual Meeting chairman Mark Sanford sanff the community's praise to Joanie Jacobson. Maggie Gerber presented the first-ever Chesed Award to Charlotte KaplanTFederation President Howard Kooper thanked the community, donors, volunteers and staff for a successful year.
Mark Sanford lightened up the evening by singing three songs, Left: Philanthropists, volunteers and leaders Shirley and Buddy Goldstein were honored with the Foundation Award. Right: Cantor Including a parody, "Let's All Go to the JCC." Emil Berkovits led those gathered in Hatikva; Rabbi Ira Flax, not pictured, gave th^peningDVarTorah.
left: Wendy Goldberg was presented with the Spirit of Federation Award, along with Kimberly Robinson (middle), by Bobbie Epstein; rights The Lois Jeanne Shrager Young Leadership Award went to Kim Noddle. Not pictured, Tim Zweiback earned the Justin Greenberg Young Leadership Award.
rin Lovine, left, Edith Rogert and Justin Cooper were among those honored as Volunteers of the Year. Also honored were: Shelly Fox, Steve Lovinger, Eileen Renter, Jan Schneiderman, Mnxine Kirsbenbaum, Elliott Banner, Joyce Cohen, Frances Gottlieb, Marcia and Steve Pitlor, and Patty and Steve Nogg. Teen Leaders were Morgan Denny and Melissa Shapiro. The Community Service Award went to Beth Cohen and Harry Berman for the Purim Celebration.
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Were you around the Jewish Community Center •' coaching services"in'communication skills, team in 1974, when it'was newly opened? Did you hap- building, conflict management, leadership developpen to know the Director of the Cultural and ment, change management, behavioral styles and Intimate gatherings Performing Arts Department? By any chance do time management." Mark teaches programs at the to large corporate you remember his name? Civil Service college of Singapore's Institute of entertaining Maybe, way back then, you had some connection Public Administration and Management, where he •with the choir at Beth El Synagogue. I refer to the travels three times yearly.' Complete time when it was under the direction of the late In addition to all of this, he has somehow found Party Cantor Aaron Edgar. Did you know the kid who time for a family and a life away frpln this exciting .' Linda Herzog later became director of that choir? The young man; career. He married Susan Flaxer in 1973, and they 5131 Leavenwortbwho became so involved with Jewish choral music arfrthe pr/?ud parents of Sara Ann Zalkin, ?3, a Ism i 558-3202 ^ that he went on to distinguish himself in that field- student iat the University of California'-Hastings' Law did you know him? ' ' '. ' H H H ^ H School, San Francisco; By now you must have DaVid Marshall Zalkin, 19, guessed I refer to Mark W. a student at Brandeis Zalkin; a boy who came out 1318 So.72nclSt. University; and Mara Allyn of the Omaha Jewish com393-6811 Zalkin, 16, a junior at Readers M munity, a member of a fam-. 1013Farnam Cherry Creek High School Are rU ily still well known in this 346-2161 in Denver. '•." city. Of course you rememIncluding 7 Mark makes it a point to Leaders O ber him, but wait a minute Express Locations say "I am so proud of my , . . have you seen him latewife, Susan. After raising a ly? Not likely, since he took family, she returned to leave of Omaha nearly 25 graduate school, enrolling apjBJBJBJBJaJBJBjaJaJBJBJBJBJHJB-JBJgJCUg L a t the U years ago. ;; V of Denver's Mark prepared himself for Graduate School of Social a busy career right from the Work. She recently earned start. A 1967 graduate of an MSW degree in gerontolCentral High School, this bgy and hopes to work for a Greek Beer & Wine Greek Specials Daily son of the late Allen and Jawiah nfcnnv in the Dine In/Carry Out Homemade Pastries Monie Zalkin went on to Denver Jewish community." We Cater Tool . Parly Room Northwestern University, So, that's what's going on Full Service Bar where he earned a with former Omahan Mark Mon.-Thurs-11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Frl.-Sal.. 11 a.ia-10 p.m. Bachelors Degree in 1971 Zalkin. Although he's been T 1 8 and a Masters in 1972. At a Denver citizen for some t i m e > h e f o n d | Yeshiva University, he y recalls his earned an MSW degree From leffc Sara, Mara, Mark, Susan, and JC C/Federatipn- connecfrom the Wurzweiler School David Zalkin. tions, mentioning people of Social Work in 1980. such as Norman Batt, This is a busy young man, with a firm Jewish Chuck Monasee, Steve Riekes, Ozzie Nogg, Edie AN • EXCEPTIONAL • RESTAURANT foundation which he says was probably formed at Wolf, Mary Fellman, Eunice Denenberg and so Beth El Synagogue. He tells about it so well in his. many others. Of course, he recalls the first person Join Us For Lunch & Dinner own words, let me quote him exactly: "I sang in the he hired as an instructor in the art program of the • Excellent Salads and Entrees choir under the direction of Cantor Edgar, who Cultural Arts Department was "a young lady LUNCH DINNER .•instilled,a love of Jewjsh choral muaic that I relish named Jan Perunan, the present Executive Director 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. ..to this day." He says he became involved with of the Omaha Jewish Federation." OPEN SUNDAYS teaching Jewish music while a student at The Zalkina maintain connection with family and 12129 W. Center Road in Westwood Square/330-3320 Northwestern, as a result of the Cantor's influence." friends still here in Omaha, including nieces and He goes on to say, "Over the years, I have free- nephews, cousins and aunts and uncles. Of the surlanced as a part-time cantor at various synagogues viving siblings, his sister, Letha Pitlor, and her husand temples." Again, he credits the encouragement band live in Lincoln; another sister, Retha Lansky, of Cantor Edgar for his formal study of cantonal is in San Diego. • music with Cantor Allen Michelson in Los' Angeles Mark doesn't leave the subject of Omaha without and Cantor Martin Goldstein in Denver. He says, "I mentioning "some memorable people in the commudaven for my congregation, Beth Ha Medrash nity:" Rabbi and Mrs, Myer Kripke, Cantor Aaron Hagadol in Denver, -when the cantor is away." Edgar, Walter Feidman, Rabbi Mussman, Rabbi Denver? Yes, that's where the kid from the choir DeKoven, Rabbi Alex Katz, Lucille White and Jack lives now, via a circuitous route. He left Omaha in Molad at Beth El, and Rabbi Aryeh Azriel at 1976 to become Director of Adult Education and Temple Israel. Sadly, too few remain. CARRY OUT AVAILABLE Cultural Arts at the Denver JCC. 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Jewish women exhibit quilts at JCC
In conjunction with a major quilt show in Omaha, women (and one man!) in the Jewish community are exhibiting their hand-made quilts at the Jewish Community Center this month. Quilts range Crom 50-year-old bed-size quilts to wall-hangings and clothing. Sandy Passer chaired the exhibit, which was hung last week with assistance firom Marge Bresel, Sandee Friedman, Shirley Goodman and Barbara Morrison Bresler.
New Pre-K program (Continued firom page 1)
Grant Glazer and his mother, Jennifer (left), take a tour of Friedel Jewish Academy with teacher Diana Zcman. When the GlazerB shared their concerns with Linda Novak, Director of the CDC, she met with Friedel's Director Michael Linn, and Karin Levine, who chairs Friedel'B Curriculum Committee. They agreed that by working together with the CDC, Friedel could meet the need faced by Grant and others in his situation. Novak and the CDC Committee strongly support the plan. "We firmly believe there's a need in this community for a program aimed at children who are eligible to attend kindergarten by virtue of reaching their fifth birthday on or before October 15, but whose parents-for whatever reason-have chosen not to send them to kindergarten quite yet," • Novak said. "We are thrilled that the Academy, has decided to move ahead." The curriculum-based program will include socialization and academic skills spanning all the subjects of general studies, in addition to Hebrew language and. Jewish traditions and holidays. This promises a challenging, enriching year of "almost kindergarten," enhanced by individualized learning within a nurturing environment built on Jewish values, Irvine said. A grant from" the Esther K. Newman/Carolyn Kully Newman Grants Committee is enabling Friedel to review, develop and purchase appropriate curriculum and materials. " Sevsral weeks ago, Grant spent a morning at Friedel in Diana Zeman's kindergarten-first grade class, where the teacher and mother saw that he •fitrightin." ! The kids welcomed him," his mother recalled. . "He came away telling me he loved the kids, the teacher and the school, and he hoped he'd be able to go to school there next year." Linn urged parents considering Friedel to call as soon as possible, so that classroom planning can begin for the coming year. ', For additional information, ( T to arrange for a tour of the school, please call 384-0617.
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