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JFS sponsors College Night by Nancy Rampey-Binaimow
College Night provides an opportunity for collegebound seniors in high school and their parents to learn how to balance college life and remain connected to our Jewish heritage. This year, the Third Annual College Night, hosted by Jewish Family Service, is Tuesday, Feb. 1,6:30-8:30 p.m., in the Jewish Community Center auditorium. Co-sponsored by the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Beth El, Beth Israel, Beyt Shalom, Chabad of Nebraska and Temple Israel, the event also includes dinner. t-"' ' Individualized packets will be made available to high'school juniors and seniors, containing information1 about Hillel (the major Jewish organization on college and university campuses), sororities and fraternities and other Jewish connections within their college community. JFS requests that .the 1999.College Survey, mailed to juniors and seniors, be completed and returned to the JFS office; contacts with college campuses can then be made by JFS staff. The Fourth Annual College Night will take place on the first Wednesday of October, 2000, and College Night will continue to be scheduled on that date in the future. For more information or to RSVP, call the JFS office at 330-2024. • A related story on the new Princeton Review found on page 15 of this issue. The booiK coversl>56 colleges and universities in North America, and answers key questions about a school's Jewish culture, resources and other programs among the factors affecting students college decisions.
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Buffet and Greenberg Archbishop speaks speak to major donors
Panel to speak on Holocaust
out at Temple by Ellen Platt
Christian and Jewish perspectives on the Holocaust will be shared by Archbishop Elden CurtisB, Holocaust Survivor Bea Karp, Temple Israel's Rabbi Debbi Stiel, Creighton Professor Dr. Bryan LeBeau and Holocaust historian Dr. Ben Nachman, at Temple Israel this Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon. Though the Archbishop has spoken at Temple Israel previously, this is the first time he will be speaking on the subject of the Holocaust. (Bea Karp, a child hidden during World War II, was rescued by a Jewish group, not a group of nuns, as previously reported; the Jewish Press regrets the error). • Temple Israel's Outreach Committee and the Pearl Giventer, center, listens to a "stock tip" Hermene Zweiback Center for Lifelong Jewish from financier Warren Buffet, as Wall Street Learning will host "Beyond Schindler's List: The legend Alan "Ace" Greenberg laughs. Impact of the Holocaust—Lessons and Healing 50 Years Later," which is open to the entire community. ADL Director Bob Wolfson will serve as moderator. "It is important for our community to be able to participate in a dialogue on some of the issues regarding the Holocaust," said Wolfson. "What a wonderful opportunity to view our past from the unique perspectives of our panelists." "I am looking forward to this program as a time for holiest discussion," said Rabbi Stiel. "This will ha- s u c l ^ a n . ^ t t ^ i u n i t y ^ ^ ^ n ^ p j i ^ a b o u t the Holocaust from so many angles." Please join us for what promises to be an unforgettable and informative discussion. This program will be held in the Social Hall at Temple Israel. For information; call the Temple office, 556-6536.
Beth El premieres Isaacson's To Recreatethe World
Federation Foundation Director Marty Kicks, left, gladly accepts the wallet of Warren Buffet, who introduced Bear Stearns partner Ace Greenberg at the Pacesetter Luncheon.
Pacesetter Chairman Bob Kully, left, and Joe Kirshenbaum, right, enjoyed the afternoon with Buffet and Greenberg.
Kids' Super Sunday
Drawing a crowd of more than 350, Beth El Synagogue presented their own Millennium Chorus in the world-premiere of To Recreate the World. Above: Cantor Emil Berkovits solos with the chorus, which included members Francee Altaian, Pam Cohn (who also directed and played the piano), Amy and Anna Cotton and their mother, Marcy Cotton, Susie
Drazen, Pam Friedlander, Sheryl Friedman, Jessica and M'Lee Hasslinger, Esther Hellman, Heidi Horwitz, Dacia Jabenis, Shayna Kurland, Stephen Lercher, Patty Nogg, Lori Rabb, Eileen Reiner, Phyllis Silberstein, Eadie Tsabari, Phyllis Wasserman, Kathy Weiner, Barbara Widman and Sibby Wolfson. •• More photos on page 11.
The thifu iuuiuui iviuB Supci ouuiiuy is this Sunday, Jan. 30, at the JCC. Admission is free with donations from tzedakah boxes. Modeling the Y2K Super Sunday shirts are Rachel Reno, left, Alex Sloan, Carolyn Juster, Rachael Monsky and Sam Monsky.
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When teens work together by Courtney Rabb
Members of the Black/Jewish Teen Dialogue attended a service together in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Church of the Living God. The Teen Dialogue, which is based on the Black/Jewish Adult Dialogue, is an Omaha initiative which offers the opportunity for teenagers from the Jewish and Black communities to discuss world issues and how they, as individuals, can make a difference. Issues of prejudice and stereotypes were discussed at the latest meeting. The teens shared how each had experienced negative comments as a result of their ethnicity. They also discussed how they could put a halt to these comments. Ideas, such as serving as role models, asking peers not to make stereotypical comments, and suggesting the need for education about other cultures, were discussed. The group realized that becoming active in politics is also a vital part in creating positive change. After the meeting, the teens attended the service in honor of Dr. King. This joint service was created by Temple Israel and the Church of the Living God. Speakers included Brenda Council and Rabbi Aryeh Azriel. Michael Hellman, a member of the Teen Dialogue, commented on the experience, "I really enjoyed the program and the service. It was interesting hearing the different solutions that other cultures take to solve their personal and community problems." The end results was a day in which two groups of people united to discuss peace, issues of concern and positive changes for the future. FOR SALE BY OWNER Seville SubJAbbott, Kiewit, MNHS
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MAURICE STEINBERG Maurice M. Steinberg died Jan 18 at the age of 89. Services were held J a n . 19 at Beth El Cemetery. ; Dr. Steinberg, a retired urologist, was. a volunteer on staff at Creighton University and a pastpresident of the Metropolitan Omaha Medical Society. While chief of hospitalization and evacuation in t h e South Pacific in World War II, Steinberg's calculations for one million American casualties should the United States invade Japan in 1945 led to the dropping of the atomic bomb. Steinberg was also a past president of the Omaha Rose Society and a board member of the Omaha Botanical Society. Survivors include his wife, Dr. Muriel Frank Steinberg; sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. Tom Steinberg and Dr. Kim Margolis of St. Louis, MO, Dr. Jay and Shari Stein of Atlanta, GA; sister, Rosie Gross of Omaha; sister-in-law, Elaine Richards of Scottsdale, AZ; brother-in-law, Richard Frank of Washington, D.C.; and six grandchildren. Memorials to the Omaha Botanical Society. FRIEDAKOLM Frieda Kolm died J a n . 22 at the age of 93. Services were held Monday a t Golden Hill Cemetery. She was preceded in death by her husband, Martin Kolm. Her parents, Julius and Eugenia Reuter, were killed in the Holocaust. Survivors include sons, John of Omaha and Fred of Seattle, WA; grandchildren, Debra Stafford of Virginia, Robin Kolm of Tuscon and Todd Kolm of NJ; and three great-granddaughters. Memorials to Rose Blumkin Jewish Home or charity of choice.
Parashat Yitro No, this Sidrah does not include the Shema. It does include the Ten Commandments, however, and its Haftarah is the great sixth chapter of Isaiah, the revelation of God in the Sidrah echoed in the Haftarah by the revelation of God to his prophet. Before we come to the Ten Commandments, we are told that Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, joins the Israelites in the wilderness. He has heard of Israel's miraculous escape from Egypt, and now Mos.es fills in the story for him. Moses tells him not only details of the escape, but also details of the plagues visited on the Egyptians. And Jethro exclaims, "Now I know that the Lord is the greatest of all gods!" One of our medieval commentators points out that what excited the imagination of Jethro was that not only did the Lord do all these good things for the Hebrews, but He also was responsible for all the punishments of the Egyptians. To us, this seems natural enough. But to ancient pagans (and Jethro was not a Hebrew), the good was usually attributed to one god, and evils, punishments, to another. So sophisticated and powerful a people as the Persians developed a system of theological dualism. Among their many gods that identified to leaders, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, god of good and god of evil, respectively. At a single stroke, the problem of evil in the world is thus solved: there is an evil god to blame! Christianity's pitting the spiritual against the physical is a derivative on philosophical dualism of Watch Out For Shabbat returns Plato. It led, among other things, to classic and Beth El Synagogue's annual "Watch Out For medieval Christianity's view of marriage as essentially, a concession to appetite, a way to regulate Shabbat," an all-day program for the entire family, the evil of the physical. Personally, I have never is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 19. been able to be convinced that the stress on the The event will begin with Shabbat services at satan, the devil, is anything other than the contin- 9:30 a.m. in the main sanctuary, followed by a uation of ^he^ide.apf an extra, an antagonist god. " ••' New York-style kosher deli lunch. The afternoon wiii see the return of old favorites like the "Take The Shema insists on the oneness of God. And No Prisoners Sing Down" plus the introduction of the prayer-blessing immediately following the Call new study sessions and activities including the to Worship, the Barekhu, praises God who creates "Bible Treasure Hunt." Other details will be • light and darkness, established peace and creates announced in coming weeks. all things. Cost, including the deli lunch, is $5 for adults, $3 The thought even dawned on Jethro. And it has for kids K-12 and $1 for pre-schoolers. been aptly pointed out that the affirmation of the The program is sponsored by Beth El's Adult Shema denies not only Trinitarianism, but denies Education Committee, under the chairmanship of Persian dualism as well, together with all its Justin Cooper and Kim Novak. derivatives. The idea of monotheism, of one God,.who is the Beth El Sisterhood Shabbat tomorrow only Power, and thus also "creates woe" and Isaiah The entire community is invited to join tomorputs it, requires a strong theological stomach. But row, J a n . 29, as Beth El Synagogue observes any attempt to cure the distress of this theological Sisterhood Shabbat with a special service and stomach is worse than the distress. The cure has Kiddush Luncheon. Planned and led entirely by side-effects which destroy the luminous idea of the the women of Beth El, the service will include modoneness of God, Israel's watchword and its greatest ern interpretations of prayers and psalms, plus contribution to the spiritual life of mankind. sacred poetry written by contemporary Jewish women. Following the luncheon, Marti Rosen-Atherton, MS, LPC, will facilitate an inter-active session titled "Women at Sinai: Reaching the Heights Dr. Richard Freund will deliver a sermon,The While Staying Well Grounded." The program, including lunch and the interLife and Thought of Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks," at Shabbat evening services on F r i d a y , F e b . 4, active session, are offered at no charge. Seating reservations would be appreciated, however, and 8 p.m., at Temple Israel. This special service will honor the memory of the can be-made by calling the Beth El office at 492late Rabbi Brooks, who served as Senior Rabbi at 8550. Free sitter service is also available. Temple Israel from 1955 until his retirement in 1985, when he was named Rabbi Emeritus. A commemorative booklet, highlighting the writings of Rabbi Brooks along with comments by colleagues, Lessons of the Holocaust congregants and students, will be distributed at sponsored by Harris Center the service. University of Chicago History Professor Peter Formerly the Isaacson Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Novick will speak on "Lessons of the Holocaust," Dr. Freund is now Director of the Maurice on Thursday, Feb. 3, 7:30 p.m., in the auditoriGreenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the um of the Nebraska Union on the campus of the Greenberg Professor of History at the University of University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Novick is the author of The Holocaust in Hartford in Connecticut. • Dr. Freund will also give.the fourth in a series of American Life, The Resistance Versus Vichy, and Sunday morning lectures, "Five Medieval Figures That Noble Dream, winner of the American historiThey Forgot to Tell You About in Hebrew. School: cal Association prize for Book of the Year. from Rav Amram Gaon to the Alfasi," at'10 ajn. on For reservations for South Street Temple's Sunday,- F e b . 6, at Temple, sponsored by the Hermene Zweiback Center for Lifelong Jewish "Laugh, Love and Live Shabbat" retreat, call Audrie Berman at 474-8004 before Feb. 1. Learning.
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- 7023 Cass Street, Oaaaba,J^E 68132-2651 •'rL .\', } 556-6536" . ' V , / FRIDAY: Shabbat evening service, 8 p.m. Rabbi Debbie Stiel and Cantor Jennifer Blum will officiate. Rabbi Stiel will give the sermon. The Taxman family will read Torah. The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by Sandy and Jeffrey Passer in honor of the special birthday of Stanley Passer. SATURDAY: Bagels and Bible, 9:30-10:15 a.m.; Shabbat morning service, 10:30 aan. SITTER SERVICE Sitter Service is available each Friday evening, Saturday mornings for Bagels and Bible and the worship service, as well as Sunday mornings when there is Religious School. Cost is $2 per family. Please make a reservation at the Temple office. ADULT EDUCATION TUESDAY, Feb 1: "Mystical Places in the Heavens on Earth-Introduction to the Kabbalah," facilitated by Professor Guy Matalon, 7-8:30 p.m. THURSDAY, Feb. 3: Sisterhood Adult Education, i0-ll:80 aan. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel will teach "Scattered Among the Nations - Documents Affecting Jewish History - 49 to 2000 CE". FREDAY, Feb. 4: Jewish Spirituality, 9:30-11 a.m. Mimi Rogers will lead this group in readings, discussion, Jewish meditation and Jewish yoga. FRIDAY, Feb. 4: 7 pan., Tot Shabbat, a short service of song and prayer, will be held for toddlers through children in the primary grades and their families. Enjoy a story with Rabbi Debbie Stiel and songs with Patty Nogg. An Oneg, sponsored by Wendy and John Vann in honor of their daughter Cecilia's first birthday, will follow. Dr. Richard Freund, Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and Greenberg Professor of History at the University .. of Hartford, will return to speak a^^he, Shabbat service at 8 p.m., honoring the memory of Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks, Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel, 1952-1985, and Rabbi Emeritus until his death Jan. 5,1999. A special commemorative booklet will be available at the conclusion of the service. OUTREACH Saturday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m.--"Jews on ViewMovies & Havdalah" at the One Pacific Place Apartment Clubhouse. Wine and cheese will be served. Movie expert Dr. Stephen Skulsky will show how Jews have been represented on film throughout the years. Clips will be shown from The Chosen, The Magician of Lublin and others. Dr. Skulsky will use images that highlight both Jewish spiritual life and history in the movies. "These will reflect current issues surrounding Jewish identity" he said. t|25&,and Capehart, Omaha, NE 68113-5000 * - " ' • ••" 294^051 . ' 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.
TIFERETH ISRAEL Member of the United Synagogue, of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 423-8569 Services conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum. Minyan, Monday and Thursday, 7:15 aan. FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m. SATURDAY, TU B'SHEVAT: Services, 9:30 a.m. ADULT EDUCATION SUNDAYS: Jewish Thought & Philosophy/Rabbinics: Pirkei Avot with Rabbi Rosenbaum, 1010:55 a.m.; Jewish Practices and Observances: The Shabbat Seder (Jan. 23 & 30)-learn how to "make Shabbos," led by Nancy Coren; Tanach/Bible-Perek Yomi (A Daily Chapter), with Rabbi Rosenbaum, 11:05 a.m-noon.; WEDNESDAYS: Basic Judaism with Rabbi Rosenbaum, 7:15-9:15 pan.
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Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-noon. Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner. FRIDAY: Services, 5:20 p.m. SATURDAY: Shabbos services, 8:45 ajn.; Kiddush sponsored by Georgia Ann and Seymour Steinberg in honor of the anniversary of Seymour's bar mitzvah. "Insights into the Parsha," 4:25 p.m.; Mincha, 5:10 pan.; Havdalah, 6:20 pan. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.; Mincha, 5:25 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 aan.; Mincha, 5:25 pan, MONDAY, Jan 31: New Hebrew School program begins; Rabbi Kutner's "In the News" class, 7:30 p.m. Contact the office for more information. TUESDAY: Stories from the Tanach, taught by Rabbi Shlomo Levin, 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Ladies Lunch and Learn.led by Nadine Kutner, noon, at the JCC, discussion centered on women's issues. A Bagel Bin lunch is provided for $3, with reservations through the office; Talmud class on Tractate Bava Metzia with Rabbi Kutner, 7:30 p.m.
, Member of,United Synagogues* of Conservative Judaism , K 14506 California • ,. • Omaha, NE 68164-1980 492-8550 WEB-www.bethel-omaha.org Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantors Emil Berkovits and G. Michael Horwitz. FRIDAY: Services, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m., led by the women of Beth El, followed by Kiddush and a study session led by Marti Rosen Atherton; Sitter service, 10 am.; TSS, 10 am.; Ktantan, 10:45 aan,; Shabbat Story time, 11 a.m. Humash with Rashi study session, 4:55 p.m.; Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services, 5:25 pan. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.; Perek Yomi "Read a Chapter a Day" group, 10:15 aan. WEEKDAYS: Services, 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. ADULT B'NAI MITZVAH CLASS Classes will continue on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 7:30 pan. ALEF/ADULTIJFELONG EDUCATION The ALEF program for adults who want to study and celebrate Judaism will continue on Monday, Jan. 31, and run through Feb. 28.
B'NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 618 Mynster St., Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 Phone: 322-4705 E-MAIL: docjeb@aol.com FRD3AY: Services, 7:30 p.m. Discussion topic is "Can Israel absorb additional non-Jews?" An Oneg Shabbat, prepared by Peggy Deland and Sandra Kurland, follows.
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ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME FRIDAY: Special Kabbalat Shabbat services, 7 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m, led by Andrew Greenberg. Members of the community are welcome. All services followed by Kiddush. A memorial service is held on the last Shabbat of each month, in memory of residents who have died.
Beth El plans blood drive A mobile unit from the American Red Cross will be stationed in the Beth El Synagogue parking lot on Sunday, Feb. 13, from 9 a-m. to 1 p.m. • Individuals who are in general good health, age 17 or older and weigh at least 110 lbs. may be eligible to donate blood/Volunteers are also needed to serve beverages and snacks. For an appointment to donate blood or to volunteer, call Carole Lainof at 293-0321.
PERSONAL Thank you to all my relatives and friends for your thoughtfulness and all the attention shown me during my illness. Your cards,, calls, donations and food are very much appreciated. Again, thank you. Helen Shukert
FRIDAY: Special Kabbalat Shabbat services at the Rose Blumkin Home Chapel, 7 p.m. SUNDAY and TUESDAY: Religious School at the JCC. Rabbi Myer Kripke conducts our adult education class on Sunday, 12:30 p.m., at the JCC. Open to the community at no charge. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch and drink. NEXT FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat at the synagogue, 7:30 p.m. Trope class, 6:45 p.m.
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Editorial Teaching about the last century Now that the year 2000 is actually showing up on our checks and in publications, we do have to recognize that we're no longer living in the '90s. By this time next year, we really will be in the 21st century. So what happens to all the events which shaped our lives in the 20th century? The two world wars, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, the birth of the State of Israel will all seem like ancient history to our children and grandchildren. When we talk of Exodus 1947 and the illegal immigration of the Jews into what was then the land of Palestine, our youngsters may look wide-eyed and exclaim, "But grandma, that happened in the last century!" Educators, Israeli guides and American Jewish leaders all need to rethink the way last century's events will be portrayed and taught to young people and to first-time visitors to Israel. Black and white movie reels and unsophisticated dialog should be reviewed and updated. After all, children today are used to obtaining infor-
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mation from the Internet, using highspeed modems. Watching a film strip or an old newsreel will have about the same impact as viewing photos of the Civil War did for our generation. Every day, another Holocaust survivor dies; every day, one more soldier from World War II dies. Even those who smuggled guns into Palestine, raised funds for the fledgling state or fought in the 1948 War of Independence are disappearing from our ranks. Who will teach our grandchildren what it meant to run the blockade of Jerusalem and bring water and food to starving residents? Who will recount personal stories of rescuing Jews from the black holes of Europe's concentration camps? Who will extend an arm to show a small child numbers tattooed by Nazi soldiers? What is still fresh in the minds of those who lived through both the darkest periods of mankind's history and some of its brightest must be preserved. We must keep the memories alive...nowi before it is too late.
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Jewish organizations rethink Israel's security, selling Congress on Syria deal 'tough' by Paula Amann, News Editor, Washington Jewish Week
CHICAGO - With Israel and Syria blocking out the shape of peace to come, Jewish organizations are rethinking their assumptions. One bit of conventional wisdom that's facing change: Israel must control the Golan Heights. Having a buffer between northern Israel's kibbutzim and Syrian mortars was once thought vital. Lawmakers on missions to the Jewish state were routinely brought to the Golan to look down on the vulnerable Galilee. "When there was no peace, physical topography was all-important," explained American Jewish Congress executive director Phil Baum. "In a context of peace', matters take on a different perspective." Baum checked off several "surrogates" for geography that will likely be discussed between Israel and Syria. These include an early-warning system, redeployment of military forces, military-free zones and a third-party monitoring agency. "These substitutes are available to the negotiating parties," he said. "I'm hopeful they will be adopted." ' Not so easy, said Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs director of special programs Shoshana Bryen. She feels the reliability of a Syria deal depends as much on politics as on security. "Syria has a long history of behavior threatening not only to Israel, but to the U.S. and Lebanon drug-running, counterfeiting, and sponsoring terrorism," she said, noting that Syria also has border disputes with all of its neighbors. "We in JINSA don't see Syria becoming a less hostile country in the near future." Add to that current uncertainty over the ailing Hafez al-Assad's successor and the stability of a peace with Syria is thrown into more doubt. Bryen stressed that Barak is entitled to negotiate with his northeast neighbor, but the U.S. errs in equating Israel and Syria. "If we do business as if Syria and Israel are equal parties, we undermine the State Department's list of countries sponsoring terrorism," she said, adding that the U.S. should not force an agreement between the two.
The U.S. role as peace broker in the Mideast is not new. Neither is the idea of sacrificing land in the service of security. The Sinai desert also was deemed a strategic piece of real estate, said Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. This southern section of Israel became a key concession of the 1979 peace agreement with Egypt. "If the agreement [with Syria] is won, there will be a price to pay," says Hoenlein, adding that the presence of "a lot of generals at the table" gives him confidence in the quality of any deal to be reached. He anticipates a tough sell in Congress for any aid required to implement an agreement, given recent reluctance to fund the Wye accord between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet he sees such assistance as vital. "Any peace has to be a secure peace or we're back to the problems we had before," he said. American Israel Public Affairs Committee spokesperson Ken Bricker echoes Hoenlein's confidence in Israeli deal makers. "The prime minister [Barak] is the highest decorated veteran in Israeli history," said Bricker. "We trust the prime minister to understand what Israeli security needs are." How will his organization sell the agreement to Congress? Bricker said the strategy will depend on the outlines of the accord. However, on one score, AIPAC is adamant. Quoted in the Dec. 17 New York Times, the group's Executive Director, Howard Kohr, stressed the importance of a partnership between the U.S. president and national lawmakers. "Congress has to have some ownership of this issue," he said. "The administration cannot go it alone." Bricker accented the need for early consultation with lawmakers. He contrasted the relatively easy approval of the Chemical Weapons Conference with the recent defeat of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The difference, he contends, was in the length of cooperation between the White House and Congress. At the American Jewish Congress, director of government and international affairs Jason
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Isaacson aims to make security guarantees the core of his arguments to legislators and others. "It's our concern for Israel's security that will drive us as we talk with Congress and our own constituency...to make- sure any deal satisfactory to Israel has maximum support in our community and in the halls of Congress," he said. Thomas Smerling, director of the Israel Policy Forum's Washington Policy Center, is talking up the strategic benefits of a Syria deal. "Syria was head of the anti-Israel camp since Israel was born and [it has] carried the banner of Arab nationalism ever since," he said. "If Syria makes peace with Israel, and Lebanon will be part of the deal, that will complete the circle of peace with Israel's neighbors." Israel, he added, needs to reach an accord before Syria can arm with chemical weapons mid-range missiles able to reach any town in the Jewish state — and before Iran or Iraq have nuclear weapons. "Peace with Syria and Lebanon will bring in [its] wake relations with 10 other countries in the Gulf area: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, the six Gulf states," noted Smerling. "It would not end the Arab-Israeli conflict, but it would end the Arab-Israeli war." He also sees long-term advantages for the United States in a.Mideast circle of peace"that can isolate rogue states and extremist movements before they full arm themselves with weapons of mass destruction." Yet, peace could bring more than the absence of war and the reduction of terrorism. Isaacson cites a recent meeting with staff of the Middle East Desalination Research Center, run from Muscat, Oman, with international support. As it studies the production of fresh water from the sea, the center brings together scholars from both Oman and Israel. Regional hostilities, notes Isaacson, have served as a bar to greater regional cooperation. Thus, the center may presage other joint ventures --academic, economic and environmental — that could blossom in a new Mideast landscape of peace. ; JEWISH PRESS COMMITTEE Fred Tichauer, Vice-Chairman; Joanie Jacobson, Secretary; Howard Silber, Treasurer; Elyce Azriel; Jill Belmont; Jean Duitch; Penny Endelman; Kip Gordman; Gary Kudym; Steve Levinger; Linda Saltzman; George Schapiro; Steve Simon. Editorials express the view of the writer and are not necessarily representative of the views of the Jewish Press Committee, the Jewish Federation of Omaha or the Omaha Jewish Community as a whole. The Jewish Press reserves the right to edit letters and articles for space and content The Jewish Press is not responsible for the Kashruth of any product or establishment.
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Spirituality (whatever that means) is on the rise by Gary Rosenblatt, Editor, New York Jewish Week
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A than wealth. ; •-.;^BMW; -;v, recent USA Today I'CNNIGallup Poll Financial found that 30 percent of Americans But Jack Wertheimer, Provost and call themselves "spiritual but not reliServices Professor of American Jewish history gious," and while 54 percent say they at the Jewish Theological Seminary, are religious, 46 percent say they are says he is not convinced these new guided by their own views, not expressions of faith are coming from denominational teachings. younger people. And he is concerned A USA Today article notes that "for that the highly personal, me-centered many people, God has been detached forms of spiritual exploration reprefrom 'religion.' Where once a commusent a danger to Judaism's strength nity of believers shared a common community. vocabulary, many feel free to define "This emphasis on individual God by their own lights." expression challenges us to find ways So we have the leader of the Reform to give it form in a communal setmovement describing spirituality in ting," said Wertheimer, though Rabbi terms of performing mitzvot while a Epstein notes that the synagogue Hasidic leader says one need not should not be the only place for believe in God to be spiritual. prayer. He is encouraging people to Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President of the make the hamotzi prayer over bread Union of American Hebrew Congre- at least once a day, for example, "and gations, says he thinks of spirituality to think about it." in traditional Jewish terms.."A,Jew. So while spirituality means differhas a particular way to express it, ent things to different people, it does, through studying Torah, performing seem to focus on taking the personal mitzvot, engaging in tikkun olarri, and • - be it reflection, prayer, thanksgiving of course, through prayer." or study - and connecting it to someBut Rabbi Abraham Twerski,a thing beyond ourselves in a meaningwell-known psychiatrist and author, ful way. maintains that spirituality "is what That is why an increasing focus makes us human," as opposed to anishould be on making the synagogue a mals, including traits like the ability more lively and appealing place to to learn from the past, improve, make turn for worship and discussion. moral and ethical decisions and delay Rabbis Yoffie and Epstein made such gratification. . an appeal to their respective con./."Religion enters the picture," he stituencies at recent Reform and said, "when we reflect on the purpose Conservative national conferences. of existence, whether or not we Rabbi Yoffie spoke of a "Reform revbelieve in a God. One can be an athe- olution" to reinvigorate the prayer ist, and still be spiritual, if he is service through new music and more exploring these issues. But for a Jew, congregational participation. Rabbi we have the tradition of revelation at Epstein called for "re-engineering the Sinai and the belief that the universe synagogues" by transforming them was created for a purpose, given in from "centers" to "mentors," coaching the Torah." and inspiring men and women to Rabbi Jerome Epstein, President of become better Jews. the United Synagogue of ConservSimilarly, some Orthodox leaders ative Judaism, acknowledges that have spoken of lowering the conversa"spirituality i s a word we use a lot tion level and raising the concentrabut no one knows what it means." tion level of. services. He defined i t as closest to t h e In truth, the spirituality quest may Hebrew word ruchniyot, the realm of be another way of exploring our perthe spirit, and noted "we are com- sonal relationship with God in some manded to be holy, not spiritual. The indefinable but powerful way. A n d ~ | challenge~and our failure-is in mak- since we're still uncomfortable talking holiness more than rote behavior ing about God (we think it's too 2000 BMW 3 in doing mitzvot, observing Shabbat, Christian), we couch our feelings keeping kosher, etc. We have to make through more distant language, using these duties God-centered and mean- words like spirituality or religion. ingful." But whatever we call it. and For some, spirituality is expressed whether we seek solace in the synathrough music and song, and may gogue or in the privacy of home, many : explain the popularity of Carlebach- of us are looking for meaning in a style Friday-night prayer services in world that seems stressed-out and on the Orthodox community, with joyous over-drive-a way to tap into the holisinging and dancing, and the increas- ness we feel inside, and to feel a coning use of creative music in Conserv- nection to those around us, in heaven ative and Reform services as well. or on earth. One explanation for this renewed
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WALK-IN, DROP-IN Y.E.S. Members will meet Monday in the auditorium of There will be no meeting on Thursday . the JCC. Exercise with Michelle Streif at 10:15 in VISIONS the auditorium. Try your luck at bingo with Eileen Omaha Community Playhouse presents The Remer at 10 a.m. Enchanted Cottage on Sunday, March 5, at Bring articles to share for "YES Talk", led by Art 2 p.m. Cost per person is $28, which includes Grossman, at 11. Following lunch at noon, come show, dinner, tax and gratuity. enjoy the Omaha International Folk Dancers. For If you have a membership to the Fonda-McGuire transportation, call 330-4272. series, dinner is $16. Dinner is catered by Brandeis Reminder: Membership Dues for the year 2000 Catering. are now due. Please mail your check for $2 to For reservations, mail form by Feb.14 to: Ethel Y.E.S., c/o Maggie Conti, 323 S. 132nd St., Omaha, Goldston, 10530 Pacific St., #104, Omaha, NE NE 68154. 68114. Make check payable to Jewish Senior Deadlines: Lunch Bunch to Jack and Mary's on Services. No refunds after deadline. Feb.10 is Feb. 3; Soup and Salad Day on Feb. 17 is Visions Board Meeting has been rescheduled for' Feb. 10; Bluffs Run Casino on Feb. 24 is Feb.17. Friday, Feb. 11,9:30 a.m., in the conference room Yiddish Storytelling on Feb. 14 is Feb. 7. of the Blumkin Home. Membership dues for the year 2000 are now due. Please mail your check and form to Visions for $5 HADASSAH Vocalist Marvin Parilman will entertain resi- per person to: c/o Selma Sadofsky, 7092 Charles dents of the Rose Blumkin Home with a program of St., Omaha, NE 68132. SENIORS well-known songs on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2 p.m., The Omaha Broadway Theater Season presents at the monthly Oneg Shabbat. The event is sponsored by the Omaha Chapter of Hadassah. Phantom of the Opera on Thursday, June 29, at Following the musical program in the Home's audi- the Orpheum. A senior, group rate is being offered torium, a tea will be held in the main dining room. for the matinee performance at 2 p.m. Main floor Members and friends who would like to assist are seating is $47.50 per person. Limited seats-first come, first served.. For reservations, call Maggie asked to come at 1:30 p.m. Conti, Adult Program Director, at 334-6521. Deadline for full payment is Feb. 18. Make check B'NAI B'RITH BREADBREAKERS payable to Jewish Senior Services and send check Leon Polikov, newly-appointed Sarpy County to Maggie Conti, 323 S. 132 St., Omaha, NE 68154 Attorney, will speak a t Breadbreakers on OMAHA CENTER FOR TORAH LEARNING Wednesday, according to Gary Javitch. Tuesday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m.: Stories from the Breadbreakers meets each Wednesday at noon at Tanach, hosted by Beth Israel. Pastimes Restaurant, 129th and Maple. Wednesday, Feb. 2, noon-1 p.m.: Lunch 'n Cost is $8.50; the program is open to the commu- Learn, hosted by Dani Shrago, 805 S. 120th St.; nity. bring a dairy lunch to eat together, followed by Torah study, "Tall Tales from the Talmud;" Al Ross Wanted: a few good geniuses hosts 'Modern spoken Hebrew' at his home, 676 No. 56th St., 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3 , 7 p.m.: Beth El hosts a class on Talmud, tractate Pesachim. Monday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.: "Women and the Siddur," a class for women only, starts at the home of Carol Katzman, 9151 Harney St. For information on OCTL programs, contact Rabbi Shlorad Levin, 551-1654.
Forbes Magazine featured former Omahan Dr. Gary Gitnick of Los Angeles in a story about his philanthropic efforts to raise scholarship funds for needy children. The Fulfillment Fund cleared a profit of $2.3 million last year to run the successful mentoring and scholarship program. A recent benefit at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel featured such celebrity's as Universal Studio's Edgar Bronfman, Jr., NewsCorp's Rupert Murdoch, DreamWorks Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Motown Records' Berry Gordy, along with Steve Martin, who emceed t h e benefit for more than 1000 patronB. Though Dr. Gitnick is a gastroenterologist by profession, he is devoted to his philanthropic efforts in helping innercity kids graduate from high school and attend college (for which the fund will provide, or obtain other scholarships for the teens). Evan Saltzman, a senior at Yeshiva University in New York City, was recently nominated for inclusion in "Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges." He is the son of Evan and Lynne Saltzman. ; • Original compositions by former Omahan Marty Epstein will be featured at five upcoming performances February and March in New York City and Boston. Epstein, Associate Professor of music theory and composition at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, MA, is the daughter of Helen and Tuffy Epstein. The premiere of "Twylle" will be performed by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra on Feb. 20 in the Sanders Theater in Boston.
Hadassah's AIGalgalim celebrates Tu B'Shevat by Sandy Kohll
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Leslie and Curt Myers of New York City announce the Jan. 17 birth of their son, Andrew Stephen. Grandparents are Kathryn and Stephen Simon of Omaha and Martha and Gerry Myers of New London, CT. Great-grandmother is Jean S. Weil of Cleveland. Melissa Weber and Jay Dandy, of Chicago announce the Oct. 15 birth of twins, Milo and Clara. The twins have twin brothers, Wyatt and Rafir, 3. Grandparents are Don and Marlene Dandy of Omaha and the late Dr. and Mrs. John J. Weber of NewYorkCity.
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Johnny Rosenblatt legacy lives on for JCC athletes by Claudia Sherman Foundation Public Relations Coordinator
"They called him Johnny. A good name for a baseball player," wrote Omaha World-Herald Columnist Michael Kelly in 1979 as he recalled the life and accomplishments of former Mayor Johnny Rosenblatt. But Rosenblatt was much more than a star on Omaha diamonds. Although he won local fame "by lashing line drives from the left-handed batter's box on Omaha ballfields," noted Kelly, Rosenblatt also served as "one of Omaha's most popular mayors" from 1954 to 1961. Prior to being elected mayor, Rosenblatt was a member of the City Council. The son of Jewish immigrants, Rosenblatt earned two letters at Technical High School before he graduated in 1926. An outfielder, he played at the old League Park at 15th and Vinton Streets and at most of the city's sandlot diamonds. He played in an exhibition game with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1927, the year Ruth hit 60 home runs. Rosenblatt "loved all sports and played basketball for Omaha University," mentioned Steve Rosenblatt, Johnny's son. "He got a baseball scholarship to the University of Iowa but never got to play because he had to come home and work to help support the family." At Roberts Dairy Co., Rosenblatt fulfilled dual roles as a player and a salesman. He became sales director in 1935. According to Steve, his father also played for Omaha Printing Company and professionally for the Omaha Packers, predecessor of the Omaha Cardinals. The Cardinals were later succeeded by the Omaha Royals, now the Golden Spikes, current residents of Rosenblatt Stadium. According to World-Herald files, a Municipal Sports Stadium Committee was formed in 1944. Rosenblatt was chairman of the committee. In January 1945, the City Council approved submitting to voters a $480,000 bond issue to cover construction costs of the stadium. Voters passed the issue by a three-to-one margin in April, 1945. Rosenblatt was "the, prime mover to winning voter approval," wrote Kelly. Grading began the next fall, but it would be three more years before the first pitch was thrown. Cost overruns forced the city to hold another bond election in 1948, in which an additional $290,000 was approved by a two-to-one margin, indicated World-Herald files. By the time the stadium was ready to host its first event on October 17, 1948, construction costs had risen to almost one million dollars. That first game at Municipal Stadium drew a crowd of more than 10,000. In 1950, Omaha hosted the College World Series for the first time The series was three years old by then. In a World-Herald article in June 1994, Jack DiesingSr., Chairman of the College World Series, said, "Ed Pettis, Morris Jacobs and Johnny Rosenblatt were the three who got the World Series here. They went down to the NCAA and made a pitch to them to have it in the new stadium." In 1964, the stadium was renamed Rosenblatt Stadium. Since those days, Rosenblatt has had a massive face lift. In 1987, 8,000 permanent grandstand seats, the construction of a view club including a restaurant and lounge, and a new press box were added. Prior to the 1992 College World Series, the 17,280-seat stadium saw more improvements including a new playing surface. An article in the Jewish Press, written shortly after Rosenblatt died, reported that he was known as "Mr. Omaha" and had won local and national recognition for numerous community and civic improvements he spearheaded. He was also awarded, a citation for meritorious service by the President's Committee for Employing the Physically Handicapped in 1958 and headed the 1961 Cancer Crusade.'.
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Federation to perpetuate t -and honor his memory. The" purpose of the fund is to, "support health and physi-1 cal education programs' including equipment for the disadvantaged and handicapped" as well as others who use the Jewish Community Center's athlet-' ic facilities. i According to Corey Kirshenbaum, Assistant Jewish Community Center Director, the fund was used at one time to subsidize the Center's Blue Star basketball program for high school players. Most recently, income from the Rosenblatt Fund is used to help subsidize opportunities for 13 to 16-year-olds to participate in the Maccabi Games, "a major athletic event in the United States" attended by more than 5,000 Jewish
athletes, said Kirshenbaum. Omaha participants each pay $650 to attend the Maccabi Games. The JCC subsidizes each player some $500. Marty Ricks, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation Foundation which administers the Rosenblatt Fund, added that he would like to see the fund grow to help support young Omahans' participation in future Maccabi Games. "I think Johnny Rosenblatt would be delighted to know that young Jewish athletes are competing in sports [while simultaneously strengthening their Jewish lidentity." Ricks added that [contributions can be made to the Rosenblatt Fund at any Itime and in any amount by contacting him at The Foundation office, 334-6440.
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JOLT class of 2000 begins sessions by Pam Monsky, Federation Communications Director
Jewish Omaha Leadership Training (JOLT) held its first session last week with Susie Drazen, who explained how • to give a D'var Torah, and guest speaker Avraham Infeld, who spoke about Jewish Identity. JOLT is chaired by Susie Norton. Steering committee
members are Susie Lehr, Patty Nogg and Scott Meyerson. Members for JOLT were nominated by synagogues, Jewish organizations and agencies and selected by Federation. JOLT is intended to provide skilled leaders for all segments of our Jewish community. Throughout its 10-month course, JOLT will focus on providing participants with personal, spiritual, communal and professional growth. At the end of the training, participants will be expected to continue to serve on committees and boards within the Jewish community. The Jewish community has a vested interest in making sure we have strong leadership for the future," said Norton. "We've spent a year developing this program and have selected the best that Omaha has to offer for this first Scott Meyerson, JOLT Steering class. While the investment by the Committee member, introduces Federation is large, the payoff for the guest speaker Avrahm Infeld at community will be even larger." JOLTs inaugural session. JOLTJncludes: Mike Abramson, H.irry Berman, Allysori Uradin-Wilczewski, Stacie Brodkey, Matt Fcrer, Shelly Fox, Maggie Gerber, Cindy Goldberg, Wendy Goldberg, Jay Gordman, Roxanne Kahn, Jeff Kirshenbaum, Tim Kushner, Susie Lehr, Bob Lepp, Scott Meyerson, Patty Nogg, Susie JOLT members introduced t h e m s e l v e s by Norton, Shelly Pichik, doing an exercise with a dollar, representing Steve Pitlor, Jane Rips, their c h a r a c t e r . Harry Berman (center) Kimberly Robinson, explained why he didn't use his, as Bob Lepp, Mark Sanford and Tim Susie Lehr and Jay Gordman listen. Zweiback.
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Musical world premiere draws 350+ to Beth El
The world premiere of Michael Isaacson's To Recreate the World was a benefit for Beth El Synagogue's Scholarship Fund. Above: Hazzan G. Michael Horwitz sang LTdiu NVan'nah with Eadie Tsabari and the chorus; middle row, left: Sibby Wolfson and Patty Nogg sang a duet; right: Jennifer Cooper, Sarah Edelstein, Jennifer Finkle, Rebecca Rennard and Brittany Sukiennik danced to choreography by Cheryl Lerner.
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Light Jewish Holiday Desserts by Penny Eisenberg (Morrow, $25) Reviewed by Lois Friedman
Try it, you'll like it, and you won't even know these desserta are low in fat and calories. More than 125 dessert recipes for the kosher or any kitchen, baker or non-baker. "Be mindful of your physical and spiritual health." Open to the pages of an overview of the Jewish holidays that covers the time of the year and the foods to eat. The dates of these 10 holidays through 2009/5769 are listed, too. "The Torah teaches us, indeed commands us, to celebrate our holidays with joyous feasting, to eat certain foods at certain times of the year, to honor our history and our God by eating symbolic foods." Each chapter for the holiday from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur through Shavuot, plus Shabbat, begins with an explanation of the celebration of the occasion and the symbolic foods for t h a t holiday. The recipes have nutritional notes, whether it is dairy or pareve and also-serve suggestions. Applesauce and baby food fruit purees have been used as a substitute for fat in some of the recipes, which also feature a brief introduction. The master recipes, ingredient and equipment lists are packed with helpful information, including brand names and addresses. For Shabbat, Hanukkah, Shavuot, Yom HaAtzma'ut or anytime, try this, you'll like it.
Preheat oven to 325°, with a rack in ALMOND BUNDT CAKE This moist pound cake is terrific the middle of the oven. Spray-grease with coffee, for breakfast, or for a and flour a 12-cup Bundt or fluted late-night snack. It travels well, and tube pan, preferably nonstick. is best when made one day ahead or Sift together flour, baking soda and frozen. Makes 20 to 24 servings. salt. Set aside. Place butter and cream cheese in a 22/3 cups (280 grams) sifted cake large mixer bowl. Beat on medium speed until creamy: Beat in the sugar flour, lightly sprinkled into a little at a time and continue to beat measuring cup for 2 minutes. 1 teaspoon baking soda In another bowl, whisk together the 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, egg and egg whites. On medium at room temperature speed, beat the eggs into the butter mixture, a little at a time. Beat on 2 ounces lowfat cream cheese, medium-high until the mixture is (preferably Philadelphia 1/3 Less Fat,) at room temperature smooth, thick and fluffy, about 5 min. In another bowl, mix together the 1 cup sugar buttermilk, almond extract, Amaretto 1 large egg, at room temperature and baby food. On low, in 3 additions, 2 large egg whites, alternately beat (or stir) in the flour at room temperature and buttermilk mixtures, mixing only 1 cup buttermilk, until no flour is visible. , at room temperature Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until a 1/2 teaspoon pure almond extract tester inserted into the center of the 2 tablespoons Amaretto liqueur, or water cake comes out with no moist crumbs attached. Remove from the oven and 1/4 cup pear baby food, at room temperature (less than 3 oz) set the pan on a cooling rack. •-,•' Using a fine skewer, poke holes into Almond Sugar Glaze 1 teaspoon pure almond extract, the cake every 1/2 inch, going as deep divided into the cake as the skewer will allow. 5 tablespoons water To make theglaze, stir 112 teaspoon 12/3 cups powdered sugar, of the almond extract and the water into 1 cup of the powdered sugar, sifted, divided 1 tablespoon sliced almonds, until smooth. Pour 113 cup of this mixture over the warm cake. toasted at 350°F until aromatic Cover the remaining glaze and set (about 5 minutes)
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aside. Allow the cake to cool for 20 minutes. Invert to remove the cake from the pan. Poke holes over the entire cake. Brush the remaining glaze over the cake. Let dry. . Whisk together the remaining 2/3 cup powdered sugar, 112 teaspoon almond extract, and enough water to make a very thick, but flowing, glaze (2 to 2112 teaspoons water). Drizzle this over the cake. Crush almonds and sprinkle onto the wet glaze. When the glaze has set, wrap the cake in foil, being careful to leave a little headroom so that you don't damage the glaze. For best results, let the cake mellow overnight. If freezing, freeze after the cake has been glazed the first time. Defrost, in foil, overnight, and then add the thicker glaze.
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Mystery Book Notes; Unsolicited, Unbound, Unprintable, Untitled by Julie WallinKaewert by Oliver B. Pollak
Gerald Wade recently interviewed biblio-mystery writer Julie Kaewert for the Omaha World-Herald. The story intrigued me and within two weeks, my wife and I had read all four of her books. While I am not a mystery book fan, the combination of booklore, London and international intrigue more than held my attention. Karen read 'til 1:30 a.m., and even came home for lunch to read. Association copies, colophons, dingbats, and other specialized book lingo are woven into her stories like other mystery authors define and embed legal terms like subpoena duces tecum, chain of custody, nolo contendere, into the fabric of the legal thriller. Alex Plumtree, after the mysterious death of his parents, inherits the sev-
eral-generations-old Press. Publishing turns out to be a murderous business in the welter of massive kidnap-' ping and child Belling, anti-monarchy, anti-Common Market and anti-Iraq plots. . Julie Wallin comes to her unique style of biblio-mystery from Dartmouth and Harvard and several: years in the publishing industry. She' now lives in Colorado and, I am told,: she will be at the Mystery Book conference in Omaha in July. .-."••.Unsolicited (1994) is out of print but is available at the Omaha Public Library, and may be reprinted in the near future; the other three volumes, published by Bantam Books in the late '90s, are available at your local bookstore for the inconsiderable sum of $5.95 each.
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Exodus 1947- The Ship That Launched a Nation by Ruth Gruber, New York Times Books, 1999, $25. Reviewed by Aaron Leibel, Arts Editor, Washington Jewish Week
WASHINGTON - This book retells the story of the Exodus ship - immortalized in a novel by Leon Uris and converted into a movie — that was an important marker in the struggle for the resurrection of the Jewish state. It was also a milestone in the decline of Britain as a great power, Ruth Gruber explains in this powerful book. Gruber's association with Jewish refugees began in 1944, when, as special assistant to Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, she was sent on a secret mission to Europe to accompany 1,000 Jewish refugees from Hitler's Europe to the United States. On the trip home, she got to know the refugees. "The bonding with the refugees became the defining moment of my life. I knew from then on that mylife would inextricably bound with refugees, with rescue and survival." Two years later, as a reporter for the New York Post, she accompanied the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, the panel set up by British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as a sop to U.S. President Harry Truman, who had complained to Bevin about the conditions in the D.P. (displaced persons) camps housing Holocaust survivors. Most of the refugees were adamant about their desire to get to Palestine. When Gruber asked one woman where else she wovdd want to go if she couldn't get to Palestine, the woman answered, "The crematoriums.'' In 1947, Gruber became the New York Herald Tribune correspondent with the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine set up after the British informed the United Nations that it could no longer rule Palestine. While she was in Jerusalem with that committee, she learned that a refugee ship named the Exodus 1947 was trying to run the British blockade of Palestine. She rushed to Haifa to cover the story. The British forces at that port city were appar-
British tugs. She had a single tall black funnel. Fore and aft, the blue-and-white flag of Zion flew from her masts.... "The voices of thousands of people floated to us on the quay. They were singing "Hatikvah," the Hebrew hymn of hope [which became Israel's national anthem].... "The ship looked like a matchbox that had been splintered by a nutcracker. In the torn square hole, as big as an open, blitzed barn, we could see a muddle of bedding, possessions, plumbing, broken pipes, overflowing toilets, half-naked men, women looking for children. Cabins were bashed in; railings were ripped off; the lifesaving rafts were dangling at crazy angles." The Exodus refugees were put on ships, supposedly bound for Cyprus. Gruber goes there to continue her reporting and describes the appalling conditions under which the 20,000 Jewish adults and 2,000 children, previously brought there by the British, lived. "Cyprus was a 20th century purgatory, a hell cirThe ship, Exodus 1947, came in slowly, a bro- cumscribed by two walls of barbed wire whose ken river boat, pulled into place by British architecture had come out of Dachau and tugs. Photo from Gruber's original book, Treblinka, a hell in which privacy was'unknown." Exodus 1947. But the British had an even more horrible fate in ently very nervous. store for the 4,500 Jewish refugees who had been "Tanks, trucks, jeeps, military police, secret transferred from the Exodus to three British ships. police, the constabulatory, CID (Criminal The refugees, now prisoners aboard three British Investigation Department) men and about five ships living in cages below deck, were taken back to hundred gunners from the artillery branch of the Europe - to Port-de-Bouc, a French Mediterranean 6th Airborne Division filled the waterfront," she port. The French, under British pressure, demandrecalled. "MPs checked us constantly at barbed- ed that they disembark; they refused — despite the wire checking posts." . • • . horrendous heat, unbelievable overcrowding and The gritty reporter made it through the obstacle inhuman conditions in which they lived. After a course and got to the harbor in time to witness - month, the refugees faced the choice of disembarkand photograph - the ship's entrance. ing at the French port or being shipped back to the Her reporter's eyes caught the following Scene: one destination they feared the most — Germany. "The enemy [the Exodus 1947] came in slowly, a They chose Germany. .. black shabby, broken steamer, pulled into place by (Continued on page 14)
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ment SKELCY/SAYLAN Jacki and Steve Saylan announce His fiancee's the engagement of their son, Scott earned ai Andrew, to Andrea Leah Skelcy, Bachelor ofl daughter of Gerry and Jean Skelcy of Science de-l Tryon, NC. gree in nurs-l The groom-to-be received a Bachelor ing from the! of Science degree in marketing and Medical Uni-g ofl management from Indiana Univer- versity sity, where he was a member of Alpha South Carol-I Sigma Phi fraternity. He is currently ina. She is a! a security consultant with ADT pediatric in-i tensive caret Security Services in Chicago. He is the grandson of Edythe nurse at Lutheran General Hospital Friedman of St. Louis and the late in Chicago. Arthur Friedman, and Rosalie and A July 29, 2000, wedding is Milton Saylan of Palm Springs, CA planned in South Carolina.
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Murray Greenfield explained the history of the prison at Attlit, Israel, to the participants of the family Mission. A native of New York, he joined other Jewish Servicemen after WWII to help the fledgling state of Israel. Attlit housed Holocaust survivors who were captured entering Israel illegally; the Haganah rescued some 250 of them and they later fought in Israel's war of Independence. The people were forcibly taken off pictures of the mangled Exodus in the ships at Hamburg and put into Haifa port and of the wounded, D.P. camps, from which most bleeding passengers leaving the ship escaped, helped by Palmach volun- especially tugged at the world's conteers, and finally got to Palestine. science. The story is simply, but forcefully, The poignant stories those pictures told, in the best tradition of journal- and words told helped to convince a ism. It is written by an excellent war-weary world 50 years ago of the reporter who understood the value of urgent need to solve problems of the two of the most valuable weapons in refugees. Today, these wonderful a reporter's arsenal: perseverance snapshots help remind us of a trauand keen observation. matic, but heroic, period in the histoShe also knew the power of pic- ry of the Jewish people. tures. The photos she took and sent This book is an updated and back to her paper with her articles revised version of the work originally speak for themselves. In the faces of published in 1948. After all those the people, the world saw their mis- years, it retains its power. ery and the feeling of hopelessness The original book is available that enveloped many of them. The Jewish Federation Library.
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Inch by inch, row by row, 'gonna' make our playground grow.. by Ali Lerner
I am currently a 19-year-old sopho- 1999 when a group of dedicated stumore attending American University dents decided to take action in the in Washington, D.C., and feel com- DC community. The playground pelled to tell you site was donated about a project to the students by that is taking place the DC Departon my campus. ment of Parks and It is about Recreation. This Tikkun Olam (resite is located in pairing the world), the southeastern Tzedakah (giving fringes of Washto charity), and ington, DC; it is Gemullit Hasadim the perfect place (acts of loving for our project. kindness). It is called: Project It is a large Playground 2000. empty field locatThe students of ed between an eleAmerican Univermentary school sity are actively and a junior high proceeding to school. build a playground The site is next in a financially to the public pool disadvantaged site in the area. and across the street from a housing I have been brought up in the development. There are currently no Omaha Jewish community and playgrounds in the area. exposed to a value system rooted in The site is in a region with one of Tikkun Olam, Tzedakah an&Mitzvot. the lowest income per capita in From the time I can remember, I, Washington, DC.More than 66% of along with all my peers, were taught the students served by the schools are to give, give, give. Give whatever you from single-parent households and a can: time, money, energy, clothing high percentage are from homes with and more. low family incomes. It was demonstrated at the synaIn fact, over 72% of the middle gogues with food drives on Yom school students qualify for free or Kippur, clothing drives on Han- subsidized school lunches. ukkah, at the JCC with Super The students of American UniversSunday to help the Federation, and ity are actively raising over $50,000 the charity drives put on by the youth to pay for the cost of the playground. groups. The children in this commuProject Playground will commence on nity have remarkable examples from National Youth Service Day, April 15. which to learn. These values have The students, faculty, staff and shaped my life and I try to live by realizing all of my blessings and then members of the community will build by performing the mitzvot to enhance the playground on this day; the intent is to have the campus come together my every day. and build the entire structure in only This community has given me a one day. The students have also set great deal, but most importantly, it up relations with the schools to form has given me an example to live by. a tutoring program. Students want to Growing up, I have watched as my build bonds with children as well as parents and grandparents selflessly the physical playground itself. gave of themselves. I have watched as One particular Greek organization, a community of people came together religious group, or club on campus and reached out to those in need. This community is one in a million. does not sponsor this project, rather, Though it may be small in numbers, the people involved are just active students who are determined to make each person makes a difference. I am also an active member on this a difference. 'campus, and I want to tell you that I This Omaha Jewish community has am not alone in the mindset of devot- enriched my life in numerous ways; ing our efforts for the common good. you have given me a value system. So many of my peers take an active Now that I have left the "so-called role in 'Tikkun Olam. Maybe we are nest," I wanted you know that the idealistic college students, but we lessons learned are being put into know we can make a difference and action, not just by me, but by thouhelp repair the world one step at a sands of other college students time. We have learned by example, around the world. • from our communities and peers, that If you are interested to learn more if you put your mind to it, you can about the project or would like to accomplish it, and we will. ,-. donate to this cause, you can contact Last year alone, it is estimated that meat: out of an undergraduate population of more than 5000, some 3,175 Ali Lerner American University students com- Anderson Hall, Rm 565 mitted more than 60,000 hours of American University community service. And those are 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW just the hours that went recorded! Washington, DC 20016 Project Playground has become a campus-wide initiative with many oriAL7692a@american.edu . diverse groups and individuals collaborating to raise money, support and Thank you for setting an example provide services. by which to live. The project began in the summer of Together we can change the world!
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"The righteous showeth mercy and giveth. " Psalms 37:21
Morton A. Richards 1909-2000 On'December 12,1977, Morton A. Richards had the foresight to establish one of the first endowment funds with the Jewish Federation of Omaha. He set an example for the entire community. We will always remember his generosity and goodness. In the words of the Kaddish prayer, Mort Richards will "live on earth in the acts of goodness (he) performed and in the hearts of those who cherish (his) memory." He leaves this world-and especially our community--a better place for having been part of it. A founding member of the original Endowment Fund Board of Directors, the precursor of today's Jewish Federation Foundation, Mr. Richards also served on the Boards of Beth El Synagogue, the National • '» '£$ Conference of Christians and Jews (now the National • *'.' t Conference for Community and Justice), Israel Bonds,, and was active for more than 30 years with the Jewish Federation as well as many other civic, S' organizations. I His thoughtful and generous legacy, the Morton A.'
Richards Endowment Fund, has been and will [ continue to "promote, enrich and advance Judaism! and Jewish culture, religion, education, andi \ ., i £ // - - _ j .,/-*£ benevolent service in Omaha" and provide funds; « ~"*Ilt'L./j£"***?-' annually for The Federation to aid in "Judaic and charitable purposes and responsibilities with regard to the welfare of the Jewish people of Omaha, Israel and throughout the world." In addition, Mr. Richards left a new endowment, upon I his death, from his charitable remainder trust "to I foster and promote the various youth programs sponsored or conducted from time to time by the Jewish Federation or its agencies." "Giving generously of both his time and money was an essential part of his life," said Mr. Richards' daughter, Suzanne Singer. "He also felt the responsibility to encourage others to do the same. This extended to both his peers and his family. Gifts to his grandchildren would often include a note expressing not only his love for them but his hope that they would remember the Jewish tradition of tzedakah and share their gifts in their own way." Reflecting the feelings of all of Mr. Richards' grandchildren, Howard Freedman recently wrote his grandfather, "The values we have learned from you are ones that have been expressed not only in words but in deeds-generosity, compassion, love of family, love of Israel and the Jewish people, and concern about the less privileged in the community. For us, these values and the memories of being with you will be your greatest legacy."
"May the beauty of (his) life abide among us as a loving benediction."
JanPerelman Federation Executive Director _ Jewish Federation of Omaha (402)334-6433
The Jewish Federation of Omaha
Martin Ricks Endowment Director Jewish Federation Foundation (402) 334-6440
of the Jewish Federation of Omaha