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Edie Wolf closes the book on 26-year career at the Federation Library
Refugee relief continues in Kosovo
by Claudia Sherman
The Joint Distribution Committee, a recipient of funds from annual Federation Campaigns across the country has announced the continuation of non-sectarian activities including medical assistance, the distribution of supplies in refugee camps in Albania and Macedonia, the establishment of a "model" refugee camp in Elbasan, Albania and the development of programs in community health and vocational training. Attention is being paid to activities with immediate benefits as well as those which address longerterm needs. To date, the JDC Kosovo Relief Mailbox has collected more than $3.8 million. Donations should be sent to: JDC, 711 Third Avenue - 10th Floor, New York, NY, 10017. The memo line of the check and the outer envelope should be marked "Kosovo Relief." JDC has provided the following relief supplies and services in Albania and Macedonia: bedding and mattresses to over 23,000 refugees, repair of shelters in various camps, establishment of 100 children's libraries in various refugee camps, and recreational kits for children At the request of the International Rescue Committee, JDC Medical Director Dr; Rick Hodes is also helping to determine medical and healthrelated priorities and activities. . JDC's programs will provide basic health, recreational and vocational services to prevent disease and engage children and adults in productive activities. Many of these activities will also prepare them for repatriation. In each case, JDC's role will be to" provide technical-expertise (such as experts in trauma relief), participate in the management of the projects, conduct oversight activities, and provide financial resources. Even as the process of repatriation and resettlement begins much is unknown about the length of time that the refugees will require services and training in Albania and Macedonia. Therefore, activities will be implemented in stages and planning will be continuous to ensure the best use of resources. JDC continues to convert'and upgrade the first of two model refugee "camps" in the town of Elbasan
In April of this year, Edythe (Edie) Wolf completed her 26th year as. the director of the Jewish Federation Library in Omaha. On June 30, her last day in that position, she emphasized that she has "thoroughly enjoyed working for the Jewish community. It's a wonderful environment to work in." • Born and raised in Philadelphia, Wolf moved to Omaha in the fall of 1972 when her husband, Marty, accepted th exposition of academic dean and vice president of Iowa Western Community College. Edie Wolf earned her master's degree in library science from Columbia University and her undergraduate degree from Temple University in Philadelphia in social sciences. Prior to moving to Omaha, she worked at the Queensboro Public Library in New York as a librarian trainee and at Michigan State University as the acquisitions librarian. She had been looking for a part-time job in Omaha when Cantor Chaim Najman from Beth El Synagogue asked her if she knew that the Jewish Community Center was looking for a librarian. She was hired for the position in 1973 and worked 20 hours a week. The library was located on the third floor of the old Jewish Community Center, at 20th and Dodge Streets. "There were three little rooms, and books were in closets all over the place, piled to the ceiling," described Wolf. There was no card catalog and no call numbers on the books. About a year after Wolf became the library direc"*torV HierrJewish*eommunity Center movedtoits: present location at 132nd and Dodge Streets. The book collection has been cataloged and about 1,000 new books a year have been added to the collection. There were about 15,000 books when Wolf started. "Now there are about 36,000 books," she confirmed. "We developed programs such as the annual Jewish book fair, story hours for children, and book discussion groups," Wolf continued. Both the catalog and check out system are automated "thanks to the Livingston Foundation," she said. "We also have a very fine Holocaust collection." Reluctant to take credit for the improvements and depth and breadth of the collection, Wolf
Edythe Wolf, left, was honored Tuesday at a reception organized by past Library chairman Joyce Cohen, center, current chairman F r a n c e s Gottlieb, and past chairman Gloria Kaslow, (not pictured). said, "It was a wonderful collection to begin with." She attributes Paul Veret with planting the seeds that grew into one of the finest Jewish libraries in the country. "There's not another Judaica library in a Jewish community center that has as fine a collection—maybe in the whole country," Bhe indicated. Her biggest challenge was "to keep the whole thing going. It's not a big staff." The challenge remains, in her opinion, "to get more and more people to use the library. It's not being used to the extent it should be and could be."
F e d e r a t i o n Executive Director J a n Pcrelman, left, presented Edie Wolf with a crystal dreidel symbolizing her 26 years of service to the Jewish community. (Continued on page 2)
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USY-On-Wheels rolls through Omaha by Cheryl Lerner
Beth El Synagogue was host recently to 48 high melding of Jewish education and observance, the school teens from across the country participating personal experience of meeting people from across inUSY-On-Wheels. the country, and the thrill of seeing the historical ?-.'.> Sponsored by the United Synagogue of and exciting sights of North America, adds up to a Conservative Judaism, USY-On-Wheels is a 61/2- growing and learning experience which has been week bus tour of North America. Through the unique to USY since 1960. Wheels program, participants enrich and develop The "Wheelniks" and staff arrived in Omaha the their awareness and appreciation of Conservative evening of July 7. After conducting their evening Judaism. services, they enjoyed dinner at Beth El, followed "Wheelniks" observe Shabbat and kashrut, partic- by swimming and basketball at the JCC. Twenty ipate in daily prayers and take part in structured Beth El families provided home hospitality, the classes which follow a prescribed curriculum. This opportunity for visiting, laundry facilities and USY "Wheelniks" u n l o a d at B e t h El beds. Beth El member Susan Friedman was more than Synagogue after a day's drive from Chicago. anxious to provide home hospitality for the groupThe Wheelniks returned to Beth El the next she herself was a "Wheelnik" 21 years ago. "It was one of the most incredible summers of my life," she morning for services, breakfast and a tour of the said. "I was a high school student in New York and Synagogue by Rabbi Paul Drazen. At the JCC, they didn't know much of what existed west of were given a tour of the Nebraska Jewish Manhattan. I got to see the country and make Historical Society, led by Barbara Bresler. They then rolled downtown to the Old Market and lunch some long lasting friendships. "It's an amazing experience how it all comes at Heartland of America Park before heading back together, all intertwined, the Judaism, the travel, out west for a tour of SAC Museum., The Wheelniks said a fond farewell to Omaha Three USY -"wheelniks" enjoy some free time the people. When I go back east and see a bus from and headed on to Kearney to spend the night. The Academy Bus Lines, I still look for bus #52.1 at Homer's in the Old Market. Another highbus then rolled on toward Denver, their next destilight of their visit included a tour of SAC pulled out my scrapbopk from that summer of 1978 nation. and showed it to the kids who stayed here." museum.
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Sparks from the Word
Parashat Devarim by Rabbi Myer S. Kripke
ROSE MARKOVITZ Rose Markovitz, formerly of Omaha, died July 3 Enough to live for in Denver. She was 92. • I sometimes mourn the fact that so many, people She was preceded in death by her husband,"Abe, take vacations in July, and August that .too many and her brother, Sam Rosenstein. ~ misB the wonderful Sidrot in the Book of Devarim, Survivors include, daughter, and son-in-law,; Deuteronomy. Here the Torah rises to unusual elo- Deanne and David RaffeL of Great Neck, NY; quence in Moses' review of his leadership and his daughter, Sallie Siegal of Denver; son and daugh- ' teaching about the way of life that Israel has • ter-in-law, Michael and Diane Marks of Denver;• accepted. sisters, Sophie Freeman and Ruth Goodman of: _LOCKSMITII And there is, specifically, the arresting chapter of Denver; brother, Harry Rosenstein of Philadelphia; Isaiah that gives this Sabbath its special title, grandchildren, Marcee Raffel, Tod Siegel,'Darren Shabbat Hazon, the vision of Isaiah Siegel, Melissa and Jeffrey McDowell and David This Haftarah always precedes Tisha B'Av, when and Melissa Marks; great-granddaughter,; Full-Time Director we are reminded of the destruction of the two Adrienne McDowell. . •: , • ' • : of Youth Programs Temples. It is, as I say, arresting, because the lanMemorials to The Rose Blumkin Home or Rodef guage of Isaiah is so striking and commanding that Shalom, 450 S. Kearney, Denver, CO 80224. 1,050-member family Reform congregation with nearly 700 Religious School-age children. the reader cannot resist its power. It is a Great This position would include involvement in programming Indictment The faults of Judah are so glaring, in NEAL OSHEROFF . : for grades K-12, work within NFTY-Missouri Valley the prophet's words, that it is no wonder that the Services for Neal Osheroff were held July 5 in ' Region, as well as various teaching and staffing Lord has permitted great evils to come upon it. HuntingtonBeach, CA.Hewas44. •;•;•:, responsibilities. Experience with Youth Programming is a priority. Here a major theme of the book of Deuteronomy Survivors include his parents, Gene and Ellie and the prophetic literature, the doctrine of reward Osheroff of Huntington Beach; brother and. sisterResumes only: Temple Sinai, 3509 S. Glencoe, and punishment, has been expressed eloquently, in-law, Jeff and Faith Osheroff of Rancho Palos Denver, CO 80237, Attn: L. Cawelti; or FAX: and the reader cowers before the stark power of the Verdes, CA; and sister and brother-in-law, Kerry 303-759-2519. DEADLINE: August 1 tongue-lashing of the prophet. and Marty Hovenkotter of Redmond, WA Job description available upon request When one reads' the prophetic literature in gener-' Memorials to Jewish charity of choice. .. al, he sees how uncompromising the prophets were. Israel and Judah, unable to reach perfection or rise JEANBRESLOW even half-way to moral excellence, suffered vituWe would like+o invite Services for Jean Breslow were held July 13 at perative attacks by Amos, Isaiah (our Haftarah), Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Lincoln. She died July 12 •Hie en+ire Jewish communi+y+o a Jeremiah (the last two Haftarot), and others. No at the age of 91. Seudas Hoda'ah matter that Israel and Judah had risen far above Survivors include nieces, nephews, and three sisthe immoralities of their neighbors. For the ters-in-law. f o r our f crHner, prophets, that was not enough. Wickedness must A l l a n G o n s h e i wk>, wi-Hi -Hie help of G-d, be punished. has comple+ed lus Chemo/Raelia+ion Therapy. There is, of course, a serious theological problem: Edie Wolf retires what about the individual who is swept away in a Please join us a+ Srialo-sh Seudos (+he 3rd meal), (Continued from page 1) national calamity? Shabbos Ekev, July % 7 3 0 pjn. a+ Be+h Israel. "Edie will be missed very much because she brought And the larger theological problem:-does all of RSVPbyJuly23crr55?-Z767 this square with reality, with the facts of history, a mission to the Jewish Federation Library that exemplifies the Jewish tradition of learning," stated with the ways of the world? Josh, Ben a n d Zac Gonaher But we must recognize that both Biblical and Frances Gottlieb, President of the Library rabbinic teaching caution us nottounderstand the Committee. "Thatfs why we have such a magnificent . prophetic position as a view of the world. We live in library. Her influence will be felt in the future, CUP & SAVE a world that is, what it is. Wickedness does not nec- because she set a standard of excellence," she added. Planning to work approximately two mornings a essarily bring punishment and ruin; virtue does not necessarily bring reward, certainly not materi- week to ease the transition for her replacement, Harris Finkelstein, Wolf is also looking forward to al reward. The marvelous poetry of the prophets and then* playing golf more, knitting, having more time to consistent ethical stance have made them, quite read, going to the book discussion group as a member, and going to the pool. She will probably properly, teachers of morality for all time. FRIDAY, JULY 16 The doctrine of reward and punishment, echoed, remain on the library staff until December. "I Q Visions Membership Luncheon, 12:30 p.m., Q" for example, in Yigdal, has become standard reli- would like to do some traveling when I don't have L at Venice Inn L gious teaching. to be back by a certain date," she confessed. Married for 36 years, Edie and Marty have two "Peace of mind," however, "peace of soul," and a P P SATURDAY, JULY 17 children. Their son and daughter-in-law, Benjamin deeply satisfying sense of inner integrity-these are & Humash Class, 8:20 p.m., at Beth El & indeed the rewards of virtue. Torah and mitzvot, and Deborah, live in Houston and have one son, we may put it, lead to character. Perhaps that is Henry, who was born this past January. Daughter, S SUNDAY, JULY 18 all there is. But if that is all there is, it is enough, Jennifer, is living in Omaha this summer awaiting A JCC Swim Team Banquet, 5 p.m. • the birth of her second child in July. She is married enough to live for, enough to live by. V to U.S. Army Captain Rick Lear, who is stationed E MONDAY, JULY 19 in Germany. They have a son, Joshua, 4. YES Program, 9:30 a.m. "I've met wonderful people over the years (including) Federation staff and volunteers and the wonTUESDAY, JULY 20 derful people who come in to UBe the library. I've BESTT Committee Meeting, 7:30 p.m., For the fourth summer in a row, the SEED pro- had some very fine and devoted (library) presiat Beth El gram, a two-week Jewish learning experience, will dents," according to Wolf. "I've especially enjoyed WEDNESDAY, JULY 21 be offered to the community by Beth Israel working with Dorothy Kaplan, who's been the Beth El Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Synagogue, according to chairman Bob Oberman. assistant librarian for 20 years." at Beth El Among her contributions, Wolf said she develSEED runs from Sunday, July 25, through oped a good relationship with. t h e Jewish Wednesday, August 4. THURSDAY, JULY 22 Leaders for SEED include Simcha and Mimi Community Center and the Federation, created Walk-in Drop-in, 9:30 a.m. Sussman of New York and Chaim Zev; Grossman Friends of the Library (a group of about 200 famiLOVE Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., and Moshe Schwab of Chicago. Simcha Sussman lies who contribute financially to the library every at RBJH Conf. Room currently studies at Yeshiva Chaim Berlin; his year), fostered community support, and helped , wife studied in Israel. Grossman and Schwab are build up substantial endowments. FRIDAY, JULY 23 "However, I can't emphasize enough that it's students at the Telshe Yeshiva. Also on the faculty Russian Club, 10 a.m. is the newly-arrived rosh kollel of the Omaha been a pleasure," Edie Wolf stressed. "One of the best things Fve learned about being a librarian is Center for Torah Learning, Rabbi Shlomo Levin. All eventa held at the JCC unlaaa otherwlaa Indicated. The "The thrust of the SEED program is Torah learn- that you're constantly learning." She credits her Jtwtth Pnt* la notresponsiblefor the accuracy of the eventa. To keep calendar accurate or for quastlona, call Mariana Hart at ing on both an individual and group basis," career for giving h e r a Jewish education. 33W«7. Oberman said. Daytime or evening one-on-one "Whatever I have given, I've gotten back." .-:•.. A reception in her honor was held Tuesday in the chavrusa-style learning sessions may be arranged COMMERCIAL JCC Gallery, where she was presented with a crysby calling Allan Gonsher, 558-2767 or 330-4014. and A Shabbat dinner and lunch is open to the com- tal dreidel by Jan Perelman, Federation Executive RESIDENTIAL munity on Friday, July 30, and Saturday, July 31, Director. In addition to her own "thank you" speech at Beth Israel, said meals chairman Shirley to the 100 people gathered in her honor, Wolf was 8037 H Street Goodman. 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Can we prevent hate crimes? Next week, the United States Congress will begin debate on a federal Hate Crimes bill. With the recent arsons in Sacramento, the shootings in the Midwest, and the links to the World Church of the Creator, pressure is on the Senate to pass some form of this legislation giving federal authorities more power to impose stiffer penalties for these sorts of crimes. In addition to these heinous crimes, Nebraska's old nemesis, Gary "Gerhardt" Lauck, is back, this time trying to obtain a permit for a firearm. State authorities denied the permit on the grounds he is a convicted felon, but Lauck maintains the law he broke in Germany is hot a law in America, therefore...he should not be considered a criminal in the U.S. These last two months have proved to the skeptics that the Jewish community must still be on its guard against those who hate. For Bob Wolfson and the AntiDefamation League-Community
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Relations Committee, it means continuing their vigilance. Threats to life and property (threats which come via mail, telephone, e-mail and fax more often than we know) must be taken seriously. We in the Jewish community assumed we were immune to antiSemitism, after all, this is reminiscent of the "old country," pogroms and the Holocaust. We're not suggesting that another Holocaust is imminent, however, one only needs to look at Kosovo and the Sudan in our times, Cambodia and Nigeria in the not-to-distant past, to realize that hate still exists and targets are easy to find for hatemongers. It is appropriate, with Tisha b'Av this Thursday, to remember what hate causes. Sinat hinam, baseless hatred, caused the destruction of the Second Temple, one of a score of horrific events which fell on the 9th day of the Hebrew month of Av. To begin the painful process of eradicating hatred in our midst, we must start with one another.
Tisha b'Av: make a start by Erica Meyer Rauzin
What kind of religion sets aside a day for the express purpose of being unhappy? One with a memory, that's what kind. Tisha b'Av marks the destruction of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem. We are to ponder these tragedies and the resulting global dispersion of the Jewish people. This Hebrew date, the ninth of Av, (which, this year, falls on Thursday, June 22, starting at sundown) evokes other tragedies. It is said to be the date of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, a date linked to the start of World War I in Sarajevo, again a center of conflict, and the date of other sad events in our history. To me, it is impossible to consider tragic turning points in Jewish history without discussing the Holocaust. Perhaps Tisha b'Av can also help us confront, commemorate, honor, mourn and remember this relatively recent tragedy which continues to touch so many of us every day. The wonder is not that we mourn on Yom HaShoah, the modern day set aside to mark the Holocaust, or on Tisha b'Av, the ancient day of commemoration, but that we ever leave off mourning. . I am amazed to read commentators who complain that Jews have spoken too much of the Holocaust, that we dwell on our losses. How can a community which has built so much in this country and in Israel be accused of any such thing? We have both mourned and moved forward. But, as was the case in the days of the destruction of the Temples, ignorance about our people is a terrible enemy and provides potent fuel for hatred.
My teacher about Holocaust is my mother, who escaped Germany as a young teenager. She lost her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, her school friends, her home, her financial security, her country, her youth, and—because of the lack of medical care for Jewish children in Germany in the late 1930's when she had scarlet fever—the hearing in her left ear. If I fail to evoke in myself a spirit of loss on Tisha b'Av for the sake of the lost Temples, I can think of the great-grandparents I never knew, of the family demolished, of my grandfather, whose name I carry. He was changed from a vigorous department store owner to a stricken, ailing clerk. He died of a heart attack at age 55, an immigrant in South Carolina. My mother says he never recovered from the news that his mother had perished in Theresienstadt, after he had scraped and borrowed to send her money to buy an apartment in Germany's so-called "model Jewish community." My mother's experiences are not unusual, would that they were. She is unusual only in that she survived, and her parents and sister survived. Because of her, I know about righteous gentiles. The movie's Oscar Schindler was not the first one I ever heard of, because mother told me about Frau Duhng. She was the Christian cleaning lady who worked for my grandparents. One day shortly after Kristalnacht, the Gestapo came to my grandparents' home seeking Jews.
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Frau Duhng was the only adult present. My blond blue-eyed mother and her brunette, browneyed sister, then adolescent girls, were also home. Frau Duhng calmly introduced them as her own daughters in so matter-a-fact a way that the Nazis believed her and left. I am here to mark Tisha b'Av, and to live a full life, and to raise Jewish children, only because of her. On Tisha b'Av, we are charged to reach deep, to feel the loss of the Temple, to be moved by ancient history and to grieve. But perhaps we can also try to use this cathartic, healing, thoughtful day of study and fasting to fulfill a parallel duty: to learn about the Holocaust and to teach our children.' Instead of wishing each other an "easy fast," perhaps we need to taste the bitterness afresh and not evade it. This is hard with kids, even older ones, because the subject is so frightening and horrific, but the older your children are/the more crucial it is to teach them. We cannot just send our children to the movies to learn their own history. While Rwanda and Kosovo and Haiti challenge us to act because they prove to us that genocide is not only a scourge of the past, while deniers and haters flourish, we cannot grieve enough; we can only fail to turn grief into action. :' We cannot help enough. We cannot learn enough. We cannot teach enough. But we can start.
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To victims of Nazi persecution and their heirs who may have claims against Swiss Banks or other Swiss entities relating to the Holocaust: Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion U.S. dollars to settle legal claims relating to tbe World War II era conduct of Swiss banks, Swiss businesses, and the Swiss government ("Swiss Entities'). The United States District Court for tbe Eastern District of New York (the "Coutf) will bold a bearing on November 29, 1999, to decide whether tbe Settlement should be given final approval Note that you may be included even if you did not have a Swiss bank account, and that this Settlement is different from the Swiss Humanitarian Fund
All Settlement Classes include heirs and successors of me persons and entities described above. Even if you're not sure whether you are a member of one of the Settlement Classes, you should request a Mailed Notice and Initial Questionnaire. For example, if you performed slave labor, you may not know whether revenue or proceeds of that labor were deposited with Swiss Entities; you may still be a Settlement Class member.
. How and When Claims will be Paid No claims process or Plan of Allocation has yet been established. The Mailed Notice explains how you can make suggestions. To receive further notice of a claims process, and ensure that you are able to file a claim, you must either mail a request for such notice to the address below, or complete and return the Initial Questionnaire attached to the Mailed Notice.
Who Is Affected by tbe Settlement You are affected by the Settlement if you fit into one of the following five Settlement Classes. Four Classes consist o f Victims or Targets of Nazi Persecution" (any individual, business or group persecuted or targeted for persecution by the Nazi Regime or its agents, because they were or were believed to be Jewish, Romani, Jehovah's Witness, homosexual, or physically or mentally disabled or handicapped), AND who:
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If you do not wish to participate in or be bound by the Settlement, you must exclude yourself by writing a letter so indicating, to the address given in the Mailed Notice, by 1. Had assets on deposit with any Swiss October 22,1999. If you do not, you will be bank, investment fund, or other custo- barred from prosecuting any legal action against Swiss Entities relating to the settled dian, prior to May 9,1945,: OR; R disputes. If you exclude yourself, you will 2. May have claims against Swiss Entities/ NOT be able to claim a portion of the Fund. relating to assets looted or taken by the Nazi Regime11, OR / ; How to Comment or Object 3. Performed slave labor for entities that may have deposited the revenues pr proceeds of that labor with or transacted that profit through Swiss Entities, OR
4. Unsuccessfully sought entry into Switzerland to avoid Nazi persecution, or after gaining entry, were mistreated, and may have related claims against any Swiss Entity. The fifth Settlement Class includes any individual, whether or not a Victim or Target of Nazi Persecution, who performed slave labor in a work site, wherever located; owned or controlled by a Swiss Entity.
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