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Separated 47 Years, Brother and Sister Reunited When Art Exhibit Comes to Omaha by CAROL KATZMAN, Editor
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Leah Kosinovsky and her husband, Joseph, have been members of the Jewish community since 1980, when they followed Leah's cousin, Samuel Haykin, to Omaha, NE, a place not wellknown in the Soviet Union. For a moment, when Kosinovsky filled out the immigration forms for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, she thought about her step-brother, Abram Rabkin. Eleven years older, married and already working in Leningrad, Rabkin and his "little sister" haven't seen one another since 1954. "We were living in Bobruisk, about 60 miles from Minsk," she recalled. "Abram had already moved to Leningrad and I was about to start my university studies when my father died. I stayed In contact with my two aunts (one of whom is Haykin's mother) and my Uncle David, but the family just drifted apart. I lost contact with my stepmother and Abram." She did run into him once on Nevsky Prospect in Leningrad, He was with Ms wife, a painter in her own right, Maria Dobrin. Leah was a struggling student; it was a typical Russian winter day—bitter cold—and she had no gloves. "Maria insisted that I take her good wool gloves, handmade in Estonia," Kosinovsky said. "I always remembered how kind she was to me." Brother and sister promised to call each other, but they never did. All that will change on March 19, when the world-renowned artist and writer arrives here for a gala exhibit at the Bemis School of Art and the Jewish Community Center. Another former Soviet who arrived in the last wave of immigration from the PSU, Polina Karaeva, had heard from her sister, Tamara, in the former Soviet Union about a book about their hometown, Bobruisk. Not only had Rabkin written the book, but Tamara offered to track him down. (Continued on page 13)
Many of Abram Kabkln's paintings, similar to this one, will be on sale starting -with the opening on March 31 at the Bemis, and April 1 at the JCC. Rabkin's paintings have been exhibited in museozns in Russia and Belarus and in private collections in the U.S., Britain, France, Australia and IsraeL This photo is from Ms book on Bobruisk, funded by the Joint Distribution Committee.
Super Sunday 2001: An Odyssey in Jewish Generosity
Powell's Mideast Visit Appears t o Herald Shift
by PAM MONSKY, Federation Communications Director—-———— "What do you get when you bring together 20 vol- Bag N'Save Supermarkets, Bagel Bin, Baker's unteer callers, local businesses and more than Supermarkets, Bergman Jewelers, Brodkey 1,200 donors to the Jewish Federation of Omaha's Jewelers, Garbo's Salons, Get Mugged, Gordman's, Herman's Nut House, Hollywood Video, Ideal Pure Annual Campaign? Water, the Jewish The answer is one terrific Super Sunday. Super Sunday is the largest, single-day fundrais- Community Center, '" " ' er for the Jewish Federation of Omaha. This year, Julio's, Krispy Kreme . -' as in the past, volunteers from the Jewish commu- Donuts, Malibu Gal/ -"'-•-. nity gathered at Omaha Steaks' telemarketing leries, Mid-Continent • faculty and phoned more than 1,200 people, raising Bottlers, Montage, No Frills Supermarkets, . •••• some $40,0Q0 in the process! ' , Bob Kully, Co-chairman of the 2001 Annual Nobbies, Omaha ComCampaign, was amazed by the energy in the room pound, Omaha E-Gifts, Omaha World-Herald, as the callers began phoning donors. Praxair, Inc., River "It was an incredible sight," Kully said. "For City Star, Spirit many people, Super Sunday is their only person-toWorld, Nancy Rips, person contact with the Jewish Federation and and Zio's Pizza. these volunteer callers are so enthusiastic. . .they make a great impression on the people with whom they speak." Jan Perelman, Federation Executive Director, credits the hard work of the Super Sunday Committee for the event's success. "The leadership of Kim and Mark Schwartz as chairpeople of Super Sunday was key to this exciting and extraordinary day. Together with their committee, they energized our volunteers and made the entire day fun. Td also like to commend Omaha Steaks and the Simon family for donating their state-of-the-art telemarketing facility. Omaha Steaks' employees and beautiful surroundings make Super Sunday a real pleasure," said Perelman. The Jewish Federation of Omaha also credits the members of the 2001 Super Sunday Committee: Top photo: Gil Cohen laughs on t h e phone Kim and Mark Schwartz, Chairs, Gil Cohen, Victor with a donor at the 2001 Super Sunday held Epstein, Patty and Stephen Goldstein arid Deb and at Omaha Steaks. Bottom photo: Campaign Co-chair Bob Kully thanks volunteer callers Dan Marburg for their success. before they hit the phones for the Jewish Local businesses that donated goods or services Federation's largest, single-day fundraiser. to Super Sunday included: Alamar Uniform Co.,
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JERUSALEM fJTA)-If U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made anything clear during his visit this week to the Israel and the Palestinian-controlled city of Ramallah, it was that things have changed since President Clinton left office. First, there was the duration of his visit—one day—with Powell's meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders wedged in between-stop-offs in Egypt and Jordan. Second, there was the absence of U.S. proposals— a hallmark of the Clinton era—aimed at ending the more than five months of Israeli-Palestinian violence and forging a final peace accord. While Powell called on both sides to end the violence and return to negotiations—and pointedly told Israel to lift the economic sanctions it has imposed on the Palestinian Authority-he had little else to suggest to the two sides in his public comments other than that it is up to them to make the "hard decisions" that will enable them to return to the road of peace. Since President Bush took office in late January, U.S. officials have said that while they will continue to pursue Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, it is but one facet of their overall Middle East policy. Indeed, Powell's trip to the Middle East—his first since becoming the top U.S. diplomat-appeared to be less about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than getting Arab support for U.S. policies aimed at (Continued on page 16)
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AYLNE "LEE" WIGODSKY Lee Wigodsky died Feb. 24 at the age of 76. by Rabbi Myer S. Kripke <~—«~«~«»~-~**'-~-~™--r'*i~i" Services were held Feb. 26 at Temple Israel with burial at Temple Israel Cemetery. Parashat Teruma: Shabbat Zachor She was a charter member and first president of Attention, Music Lovers! By all means, carefully the Dental Group Managers Association, president avoid the cruel scam, pretending to offer Jewish of Better Halves (which became Mrs. Jaycees, a WUBMACE P R O B L E M S ? 2ACmuns music that, in essence, is a thorough, comprehengroup Wigodsky organized), president of the Clean;& Check sive definition and demonstration of "loud." Loud. Parent-Teacher Association for each of her four LOUD and eacophanous. children's schools and was the first president of Talk To A Serviceman FAMILY HEATING Both the vocal and tough instrumental "music" District 66's Talented and Gifted Program. FREE FURNACE ESTIMATE & COOLING were designed to help the anonymous contractor Active in the American Cancer Society since who evidently had been engaged to raise the roof a 1958, Wigodsky served on its board, chaired the few miles. nominating, residential and crusade committees, When Shlim Mazzel is the soloist (who needs to the Celebration of Hope event and was awarded add the sound of a pipe to the sound of Vesuvius?) the St. George Medal by the national society. forget the word "cantor," which means one who Survivors include her husband, Dr. Earl chants, not one who bellows. Wigodsky; son, Steven Wigodsky; daughters and This reviewer was not alone in these views; but sons-in-law, Cathy and Bill Christensen and Janey we were outnumbered by the masochists who and John Mason; son and daughter-in-law, Bruce returned in substantial numbers after the interand Jan Wigodsky; seven grandchildren; one greatmission. grandchild; brother, Harl Weiss; brother and sisIntermission! Usually, the intermission for a ter-in-law, Charles and Virginia Weiss; and brothAlison Lindhjem 7 p.m. concert would be, say 7:45 or 8 p.m., or 8:15 er-in-law and sister-in-law, Herman and JoAnn OWNER at the latest, not 8:45 p.m. But who has the right Wigodsky. Westridge Shopping Center* 132nd & W. Dodge Rd. 4 9 3 - 3 8 9 3 to intermish into the plans of the planners? Or to Memorials to Earl and Lee Wigodsky Fund, c/o the plans as altered and viel farbessert by the perthe American Cancer Society, or Temple Israel. formance of the performer? The public must acknowledge the effort by the MATTIMASSEY performer to translate two respectable languages Mishpucha in Arizona!! Matti Shore Massey died Feb. 21 at the age of 87 into what he called Yinglish (sic), That is the lanShe had lived in Havre de Grace, and WestminMoving to the Sunny Southwest? guage spoken by those who say De bold vuz stand| Winter homes, ASU housing, investment prop ster, MD. Memorial services will be March 11 at ing on de vinda (meaning window sill, silly). So I'll find just what you're looking for the Harford Jewish Center in Havre de Grace, Ml). explained, and properly ubergezetst, anyone could I've been in Arizona 20 yra., after leaving Omaha She was preceded in death by her husband, understand anything and everything, even, as they (However, it seems like only yesterday) Frank L. Massey. say, if it was a bit much. Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Keith Sheldon Babendure So lend me your ears. I promise to shield them WEST and Diane Massey of Westminster; (laughter and Multi-Million Dollar Producer from exposure to the concert. And in due time, I ISA son-in-law, Sherry and Dick Fletcher of Papillion; 8687 E Via De Ventura #110 will return them intact and functioning, and none grandchildren, Melissa and Jason Hagerty of - Scottsdale, AZ 85258 the worse for praising Ceasar. I have no economic Bellevue and Kate and Alex Arbuthnot of e:mail: Shelrltor@aol.com interest in your ears and will pay none on the loan. ms» Westminster; sister, Irene Picota of Brooklyn, NY; ' 1-602-740-4664 sister and brother-in-law, Molli and Ed Robbins of •Arizona Arizona Arizona Arizona °> California; sister-in-law, Ruth Keith Mnsac.y; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, George and CLIP & SAVE Delores Massey of Birmingham, AL, and Burton and Era Massey of Meridian, MS. by DEVRA BRAM " Memorials to Methodist Hospice, the Kidney Festivities at the Chabad House this Purim will Foundation, or charity of choice, include a mini-carnival (clown, face painting, a FRIDAY, MARCH 2 variety of crafts for the children, Purim games), Scholar-in-Residence Weekend, Rabbi Ellenson, JOSEPH POLACK and multi-media Megillah Reading, followed by a at Temple Israel Joseph Polack died at the age of 71. Services Middle Eastern buffet. The community is invited to were held Feb. 26 at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. share Purimania, Thursday, March 8, 6 pan., at SUNDAY, MARCH 4 c c Polack was a noted attorney in Omaha, specializL Third Grade Consecration, 10.sum., at Beth El <- the Ghabad House. Wear costumes and come ready ing in real estate and banking. He also served aa ' Israel Experience Grants Program, 1p.m. ' to "boo Haman." longtime member of the Board of Governors and a Cost is $6 per person or $18 per family. To Visions at the Playhouse supporter of Joslyn Art Museum, as well as on the reserve a space, please call Jennifer at Chabad, board of Friends of Art at the University of 330-1800. MONDAY, MARCH 5 s s Nebraska at Omaha. A YES Program, 10 a.m. A Survivors include his wife, Lenore; daughter, V Chabad House "Jewish Mysticism" Class, v E E Phyllis Polack of California; son and daughter-in7pan., atthe JCC law, James and Susan Polack of Omaha; and two grandsons, Max and Josh. TUESDAY, MARCH 6 Memorials to the Joslyn Art Museum. by DIANE AXLER BAUM ' ' —-— — BBYO Night, 6 pan, JFS Workshop "One Couple Two Faiths," Rabbi Michael Graetz, spiritual leader of a LARRY AXELROD 7 pan. Masorti (Conservative) synagogue in Israel, curLarry Axelrod, Advertising Manager of the FJA Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m., at the rently taking a sabbatical in his native Nebraska, Jewish Press, died at his home on Feb. 28 at the Friedel Commons will speak to the Omaha community on March 7, age of 73. See full obituary in next week's issue. 7:30 p.m., at Beth El Synagogue, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 In a stimulating presentation, he will explore the Grade 7-12 Religious School, 6 pan., theory of two Torahs, oral and written, from the at Temple Israel perspective of the ground-breaking 20th Century philosopher Emanuel Levinas. L L THURSDAY, MARCH 8 Rabbi Graetz said many of the exciting concepts I Adult Education, 10 a.m., at Temple Israel £ developed by Levinas grew directly from studying p Purim Dinner & Service, 6 p.m., the Talmud. Levinas, he added, has turned much a at Temple Israel & of the thinking world away from the abstract, and Megillah Reading and Ice Cream Social, toward the concrete, in dealing with "the great s I at Beth El A moral issues faced by all humans-as individuals v V and as members of societies." € •- •? A question-and-answer session to promote interAll events heid at the JCC unless otherwise Indicated. The active discussion will follow the presentation, /:*-. Jewish Press is not responsible for the accuracy of the events. To keep calendar accurate or for questions, call which is sponsored by the College of Jewish Marlene Hert at 334-6437. Learning of Jewish Educational and. Library The IDF placed concrete wall units along Services (JELS). exposed parts of the Tunnel Road that joins During his Sabbatical, Rabbi Graetz is giving a Jerusalem to Gush Etzion, where residents series of seminars for the Harris Center for Judaic had been protesting at the lack of security Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In along the road. Many times over the past addition, last weekend he served as scholar-in-rosi- months, Palestinians have directed fire from dence at Beth El Synagogue. More information is the village of Beit Jala, located above the tunPHARMACY & HOMECARE available from the JELS office, 334-6445. nel road near the southern exit, of Jerusalem. ' Photo % ISRANET. Citywde Delivery 7 Locations
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SiiliiiifillliMiii ^ii SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE This weekend, Dr. David Ellenson returns as Temple Israel's Scholar-in-Residence. His topic is "Liberal Judaism and Its Prayer Books." FRIDAY: Tot Shabbat, 7 p.m. A short service of song and prayer for toddlers through primary grades and their families. Come enjoy stories and songs with Rabbi Debbie Stiel and Patti Nogg.; Shabbat Service, 8 p.m. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel and Cantor Jennifer Blum will officiate. Scholar-inResidence Dr. David Ellenson will speak on "The Role of Modernity in the Reshaping of Jewish Worship: Why is Prayer So Difficult?" The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the Women of Reform Judaism. SATURDAY: Bagels and Bible, 0-10:15 IUU. Dr. David Ellenson will speak on "Nineteenth Century Reform Siddurim: What They Have to Teach Us"; Services, 10:30 a.m, Anna Olivia Clark, daughter of Mindy and Wayne Clark, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah. SUNDAY; 10 a.m. Bagel Brunch In Social Hall "Non-Orthodox Liturgy in America: What it Says About Us," PURIM BOX DINNER AND MEGHJLAH Thursday, March 8,0 p.m., bring your own Box Dinner (drinks provided) and create your own masks; 7 p.m., Purim spiel, costume parade, reading of Megillah. Make reservations by calling the Temple office, 556-6588. SITTER SERVICE Available for Shabbat services Friday evening and Saturday morning, aa well as Sunday mornings when there is Religious School. PICUBO mnko reservations through the Temple office. Cost is $2 per family. There are no facilities for infants. ADULT EDUCATION TUESDAY, March 6: Torah and Haftarah Trope, l!»ll:45 p,m. Cantor Jennifer Blum will teach the skills of chanting; Hasidism, 7*8:80 p.m., Professor Guy Matalon will focus on the major theme of Hasidism, the relationship between God and human beings, by focusing on various Hasidic texts. WEDNESDAY, March 7: Mtdrashah, 10 a.m, noon; The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning, 6:80-7:30 p.m. Rabbi Shlomo Levin wiM explore Jewish traditions and customs surrounding death, burial and mourning. THURSDAY, March 8: Adult Study with Rabbi Azriei, 10-11:30 a.m. Focus is on the writings of the Scholars-in-Iiesidence at Temple this year, FRIDAY, March 9: "Who's Afraid of the Dead Sea Scrolls?" 10-11:30 ajm, Israeli archeologist and UNO Professor Dr. Rami Arav will talk about the content of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the people who wrote them and the community where they were discovered. SHABBAT COMES TO YOU Cantor Jennifer Blum will lead a Shabbat Service Friday, March 9, 8:45 p.m., at Remington Heights. SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVIST TO SPEAK Friday, March #, 7;!IO p.m. "Challenging Fundamentalism: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes," will bo the topic when Bishop John Shelby Spong speaks during this Shabbat Service. Temple Israel, along with First Methodist Church and others, is sponsoring a weekend entitled, "Faith and Belief in the 21st Century." PURIM CARNIVAL Sunday, March 11, jtioon-2 p.m. There will be food, games and prizes. Tickets sold at; the door are good for both food and games. The Purim Carnival, sponsored by the Temple Israel Youth Group and the Women of Reform Judaism, in open to the entire community.
Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6:10 p.m. The West Minyan is at the home of Dennis and Susan Paley, 13014 Leavenw orth, at 6:10 p.m. SATURDAY: Shabbos services, 8:45 a.m., Insights into the Parsha class, 5:25 p.m.; Mincha, 5:55 p.m.j Havdalah, 6:59 p.m. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a,m, and 6:10 p.m. TUESDAY: Sisterhood Board Meeting, 10 a.m,, Talmud Class with Rabbi Kutner, immediately following services, 6:45 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.nu and 6:30 p.m. PURIM THURSDAY, Taania Esther: Past begins at 5:85 a.m., Morning Services, 7 a.m.; Mincha, 6:05 p.m.; Ma'ariv and Megillah Reading, 6:55 p.m. Following the Megillah Reading there will be a dairy dinner and ice cream social. FRIDAY, March 9i Morning Services, 6:80 sum,, Megillah reading, 7 a.m.; Late Megillah reading, 10:80 a.m.} following the Late Megillah reading, there will be a Purim Suedah (meal). Purim meals on Thursday and Friday are •free, Plea$e make a reservation with the Synagogue office, . . . . ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME SATURDAY: Sorvic.ua, 9 a.m,, l«d by Andruw Greenberg, Service* «r& held in fch& Herbert Goldston Chapel, followed by Kiddush. B'NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 'phone: 322-1705 tvmnil: cloejeb@aol.cpin FRIDAY; Services, 7s80 p«i«u Discussion topic will b© "How Accurate is Religious History?" Qneg and kiddush will follow.
Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services are conducteel by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantors Emil Berkovits and G. Michael Horwifcz. FRIDAY: Services, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:80 a.ra. Kiddush following; Daniel Felhnan will give the Devar Torah; Free sitter service, 10 a*nv, TSS {Torah and Siddur Skills) Program, 10 a,m.; K'tantan (K-3rd gradej 10:45 a.m.; Shabbat Story Time (pre-K and younger), 11 a.m.; Mishnah study session, 5:85 p.m., followed by Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah, 6:05 p.m. SUNDAY; Services, 9 a,m.', Torah Trope Class, 0:15-10 a.m.; Pexek Yomi, 10:15 am.; The group continues it's study of the Book of Psalms with leader Howard Epstein; Mask-making, noon,. WEDNESDAY? Adult B'nai Mitavah Class, 7:30 p.m. •WEEKDAYS: .Services, 6sS8 a.m, and 5:30 p.m. PURIM THURSDAY, March 8: Ma'ariv, 6:80.p.m.; Family Megillah reading and ice cream social, 7 p.m. FHDDAY, Marchto.Shaharit induding complete Megillah reading, 6slS aa».; Mk\cha/Mafariv, 0 p.m. SUNDAY, March 11, BILU. USY's. Purim Carnival, lltlS turn,. Don't miss it! SISTERHOOD BLOOD DRIVE ' Sunday, March 11,10 a.ra.-3p.m. at Beth El. For donor appcrintoente, call Kristy Leahy, 933-72M. CHABAD HOUSE • ul tile Win Idu u l r < li.ili.nl
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Aloxa JUHen Newman, daughter of Murray H. :• and Shan't1 Newman, will K.,, beeoinn a But Mitzvah 1'!'.Saturduy, March JO, at ; ii Temple Israel. d A seventh {jrad« distinguished honor studoutat Wostnide Middle School, Alexa enjoys urt, dance, and jazz band. She participak'B in clarinftt choir and play.s basketball. For litit* mitzvah project, »ho worktid on a billboard with oilier youth through the Btuuis Outer for Contemporary Art. Alcxu haH t\vt» brothers?, Michael and Nick, and a sintor, >J«unio. (rnwidparonts art' Ksthor K. Nt'wnuin, Jults M, Nowman and 1'c^iy Dflnuut. (iroat-tfrandiuothor in Sarah Meyer.
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Out- Fay It? Who is Bill Clinton kidding? When his op-ed piece appeared in Sunday's New York Times, he didn't just hint that the government of Israel and the Jewish community convinced him to pardon financier Marc Rich, he wrote that's why he did it! The Jewish community of Omaha certainly didn't lobby on Rich's behalf. Neither did the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. In fact, the current president of the Conference, Ron Lauder, got in trouble when he spoke at the rally in Jerusalem last month; Conference members were "outraged" that Lauder was there, even though he publicly stated he was speaking as a private citizen. If the Jewish community couldn't even agree on support for Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel, how in the world could anyone assume we would all want to persuade Clinton to pardon Rich? The behavior of some of our so-called leaders and government representatives from Israel, as noted by Joseph
Aaron on the next page, is shameful. To paraphrase the witty W.C. Fields, "We know what you are; we just don't know your price." Is that what we've become? If we have, we have a lot of soul-searching to do because Judaism is not based on quid-pro-quo, it's based on tzedakah— often wrongly translated as charity, but correctly meaning justice. And where's the justice in this pardon? Marc Rich has been living quite well, thank you very much, ensconced in his villa in Switzerland, while Jonathan Pollard has already served 15 years in a prison cell. . Yes, Pollard was convicted of treason, but he was given the harshest sentence for this crime since the days of Joe McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Affairs Committee (let's see what a recently charged FBI agent receives if and when he's convicted). No single Jew speaks for the whole community in the United States. It's a shame some people in high places forgot that concept—and Bill Clinton, of all people, should know better than to blame us for Ms troubles.
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Ten years ago Wednesday, Iraq's war for Kuwait popularity soared in Syria during the war and ended in total failure. Saddam Hussein was expected thereafter." Siege of Beirut, 1982: Arafat transformed a quickly to lose control of Iraq. But a decade later he remains very much in power. How did he manage this? humiliating retreat from Beirut into political victoTariq Aziz, one of Saddam's chief spokesmen, ry, emphasizing that the Israelis needed 88 days to hinted even before war broke out in January 1991 defeat him, far longer than it took them to defeat why his master had no worries. Middle Eastern other Arab forces. Today, those events are rememregimes, Aziz told Secretary of State James Baker, bered as a glorious victory. For example, Hamas have never "entered into a war with. Israel or the recounted "a few years later that the Palestinians in 1982 "humiliated" Israel and "broke its resolve." United States and lost politically." Though exaggerated (Arab leaders did pay a Middle Eastern leaders routinely absorb battleprice for losing to Israel in 1948-49), Aziz was basi- field defeats and even gain from them; seen in this cally right: military loss usually does not hurt a context, Saddam Hussein's career over the past Middle Eastern ruler. Instead, he denies disaster decade appears less exceptional. on the battlefield and flourishes politically. But what explains this surprising pattern? Consider some examples: Three aspects of Muslim life help account for it. Suez Crisis, 1956; Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser • Honor has monumental importance; maintainsuffered a humiliating military rout at the hands of ing it counts more than actually achieving somethe British, French, and Israelis but insisted on thing. Hussein Sumaida, an Iraqi exile, explains having won a victory. He was widely believed. As Saddam Hussein's motives in taking on most of the a result, this episode "strengthened him politically world in 1991: "Winning didn't matter. What matand morally," writes the University of Maryland's tered was putting on a good show and gaining the Shukri Abed, helping Abdel Nasser become the hearts and minds of the smoldering Arab world." dominant figure of Arab politics. Elie Salem, Lebanon's long-time foreign minister Six Day War, 1967: Catastrophic defeat at Israel's and a distinguished professor of politics, notes that hands prompted Abdel Nasser to offer his resignation Arab leaders who lose against Israel are "glorified but Egyptians responded with massive streets for their intents not their achievements." The cause demonstrations calling on him to stay in power (he matters more than the results. did). Syria's defense minister in 1967, Hafiz al-Asad, • Fatalism offers Muslim rulers a way to avoid went on to become president of his country. blame. It was all in the cards, what could we do? Battle of Karama, 1968: Yasir Arafat's Fatah As'ad Abu Ehalil of California State University lost its first major armed confrontation with the finds that in times of defeat, Arab leaders typically Israelis but claimed victory. General Aharon Yariv adopt an attitude that "people have no influence or of Israel conceded that "although it was a military effect whatever on their actions and deeds. It is only God who acts." Invoking "the inescapability of defeat for them, it was a moral victory." Yom Kippur War, 1973: Israeli forces may have destiny" absolves Arab regimes and armies from beaten the Egyptians and Syrians, but the latter responsibility. This pattern, he correctly notes, governments again portrayed the war as a great "has become typical to the point of predictability." triumph. "Although from a purely military point of • Conspiracy theories so dominate that every view, Asad had lost the war, he managed to turn confrontation with the West (including Israel) is his defeat into a victory in the eyes of many assumed to imply a Western intent to destroy the Syrians and other Arabs," notes Asad's biographer, rulers and conquer their countries. Egyptians, for Moshe Ma'oz, As a result, "Asad's prestige and example, widely believed the British and French govv
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ernments planned in 1956 to eliminate Gamal Abdel Nasser and occupy Egypt. When these devastating consequences failed to happen, his mere survival became tantamount to a famous victory. Defeating an enemy on the battlefield is not enough to win in the Middle East; the ruler and Ms regime must also be eliminated. The policy implications for Iraq are obvious. Daniel Pipes in director of the Philadelphiabased Middle East Forum.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Simply a hoi hakovod for your Mark Mietkiwicz's articles published as "People of the Byte" in the Jewish Press, ^which my wife and I receive (she grew up in Omaha). Although I thought myself a bit knowledgeable about Jewish and Israel oriented sites, had not heard of Green Screen News Library, and used it to access an article which I included in a note to the editor of the Jerusalem Post, Thanks! ' Glenn Richter New York City To the Editor: As the time approaches and final actions are being taken for a Holocaust Remembrance Day for the year 2001, I once again make my plea that all who died in the camps be remembered equally, A Jan. 28 article in the Omaha World-Herald explained that for the first time in history, the governments of England and Italy held country-wide remembrances for the victims. The story indicates that all victims were treated equally (in the ceremonies). I urge you to join me and others to form a Worldwide Holocaust Remembrance Day. The time has come. Send me your name, no money, to: WWHRD, PO Box 13412, Offutt Air Force Base, NE 68113. Art Epstein, Chairman Pro Tern
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March '2, 2001
by JOSEPH AARON, Editor, Chicago Jewish News
Marc Rich and one to the four Hasidic Jews in New York who cheated the government out of $40 million. How wonderful. Rich, of course, has gotten by far the most focus, right down to a congressional hearing and a criminal investigation. And it's not only Rich. It's his ex-wife Denise, the child of Holocaust survivors no less; and her friend and Bill's, Beth Dozoretz, another Jew; and Rich's partner, Pincus Green, another Jew. In some ways, even worse is the long list of prominent Jews and Jewish organizations that sent letters praising Rich and urging Clinton to pardon him. Starting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Oimert and Rabbi Yitz Greenberg and Edgar Bronfman and Abe. Foxmnn; prominent Jewish organizations, including some that are household words in the Jewish community. Indeed, in his New Yurk Tittivs oped piece explaining why he did what he did, President Clinton makes-; it very clear how much lie was influenced by all the urging he got from so many major Israeli political figures and so many leaders of the American and European Jewish communities. All for a man who is Mio biggest, income tax cheat in American history; who has renounced'his U.S. citizenship; and who traded with our enemy Iran while our citizens were being held hostage. That's the Jew all those lug Jews pul, in so many good words for. Considering how Jewish all this, how is it, that our major Jewish orgiv iti/.nUons and leaders have been so (jiriul., have done virtually nut lung to condemn Rich, or the efforts on his behalf, or those Jewish leaders-* who besmirched our good name siÂŤ a people and a community by using their big mum's to get, Kiel) his pardon. Normally, Jewish organizations send press releases Hying to nuiinient. on any and nil things. Yel, nary a peep. Ladies and gentlemen, our moral would be a "sluifitliili f'uhr tic tinyim,1' because if we did tilings Jews should leaders; we should all be ashamed. n't do, the repercussions could In1 dis- Ashamed lhiÂť was done in our name, astrous. They were just waiting for us that our leaders have done nothing to to misbehave and so we worked hard speak out, loudly and clearly against it. to make sure we didn't. We are supposed to stand for someThankfully, we don't have to think thing, we arc supposed to represent like that anymore, worry about that principles and values. And while it's anymore. Wo are a free, powerful peo- bad enough that Rich did what he ple with our own state. Shandahs did, was who he was, how Barak and don't jeopardize us in any way any- , Oimert and Greenberg and Bronfman more. Ivan Boesky, Jonathan Pollard, and all those Jewish organizations Michael Milken and Monica Lewin- could do what they did. sky showed us that. How could they support of Rich? Which, however, doesn't make the Did they not see how wrong what he concern about ahandah obsolete. Just did was and how bad endorsing him different. Wo still should be obsessed would look. By trying to help one with worry about shandah. Only this, Jew, they sully all Jews. And because time, for spiritual reasons. For the he was a big contributor to Jewish very important reason that we are causes, what they did gives credence here to show the world how people to the notion that Jews will do anyare to be, as outlined in the Torah, thing for money. which is not only at our core, but at We, as a community, have become so the core of Western civilization and focused on and so obsessed with fundat the core of Christianity and Islam. raising, have so elevated nwctwrs who And so it is not arrogance or chau- have nothing to recommend them vinism to believe thai, who we an 1 , except, their large checkbook.!;, that, what we do, matters. Which is why e.ven our most distinguished leaders Marc I'm HO concerned at, the moment. For somehow didn't, siee how odious Rich is, whal damage risuiii1, t.n hi:? our image ain't doing too good. The main iea;ion, of course, being defense would do, what, it. would say about us ami wbat, we care about one Marc Rich. Shame oil I hem. Shame on us. II, is a wv\ but true fad. that, of the Image iniiltern. Which is why the 177 pardon:- anil commutations Hill ('-Union issued, two have got I en more Man* Itirh affair isi turning into the attention than the (ithers one to mother uf all s/utn(I<ths.
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Marc Ricii3 Poor Jews CHICAGO--I love it when a store cashier gives me back more in change than I have coming. No, not because I walk away with extra dough, but because I always make a big point that I've been given too much and of giving it back. I do that because it's the right thing to do, yes, but also because I'm someone who wears a kipa all the time, 24/7, wherever I go, whatever I do. And so I consider myself a walking, talking advertisement for the Jewish people, Judaism and God, not necessarily in that order. Because of that kipa on my head, people know what I am, And so I try very hard to grab every opportunity that presents itself to convey a positive image of Jews. Tiiat my giving back 64 cents, will probably result in a cashier who not only makes a mental note about the honest Jew who did something most people wouldn't and did something that makes it a bit harder to buy the stereotype about Jews and money, but that she may very well .share that little anecdote with her co-workers. Which means my one little action can reverberate in all kinds of positive ways for the image of the Jewish people. And image is something that's very vital for Jews. For, like it or not, we are here to be a "light unto the nations," are the Chosen People, Meaning we are God's HinhaHaadora, his p.r. people., and how people see us, what people, think of us, matters. A lot. Uut it matters differently than it used to. Worrying about, our image used to be a very practical matter. No more. Today, it's more a spiritual out1. It used to be a practical matter because we used to be a very vuluont ble people. We were powerless, living in places at the pleasure off.be dietsi lor and so always a misstep away (him persecution, exile or worse. We used to be obsessed about mak ing sure none of us did anything Uiul,
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B'NAI B'JRITII BREADUREAKERS Beth Seldin Dotan, head of the Institute of Jewish Education, will speak at B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers on Wednesday, noon, according to Marty Ricks, Chairman. Please make reservations by calling the B'nai B'rith office at 334-6443, or send an email to epstein@jewishomaha.org. Breadbreakers meets every Wednesday at the Park Inn Regency, 107th and Pacific. Cost for lunch is $9; for beverage service only, $2. 39 FOREVER A Purim Potluck will be hosted by Thirty-nine Forever on Friday, March 9, beginning with services at 6 p.m. at Offutt AFB Chapel. For additional information call Claire Blass at 291-3390, or Jane Dreyfus at 291-4880. ' OMABA CENTER FOR TORAH LEARNING SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 5 p,m., Rabbi Shlomo Levin hosts a class on the weekly Torah portion at his home, 2001 N. 56th St. MONDAY, MARCH 5, 12-1 p.m. ,"Not Only for Lawyers" Lunch 'n Learn at Creighton University Law School, topic will be "When Can You Take the Law Into Your Own Hands?" Lunch from Bagel Bin available for $5. TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 7p.m., Beit Midrashis at Chabad. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, noon,. Lunch 'n Learn meets at the JCC Library. The topic will be the Holiday of Purim. Please bring a lunch. THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 10 a.m., Hadas Orbach hosts Torah Time for Tots at her home. Call her at 697-5531. , For more information, call Rabbi Levin, 551-1564. OMAHA CHAPTER OF HADASSAH Four queens of honor will be crowned at Hadassah's Purim Party on Wednesday, March 7,12:30 p.m., at Temple Israel. Sandy Kohll, Esther Wax, Georgia Ann Steinberg and Corinne Levin will be honored in a program that also includes Cantor Jennifer Blum in concert, a raffle and a dessert table. Hadassah members may come as guests, but should make reservations by calling 558-5813 or 345-0600. Those needing transportation may call Sandy Kohll at 391-5603.
fBlRlHl Gary J, and Debra R.M. Baker announce the Dec. 15, 2000, birth of their son, Luke Alan. Grandparents are Robert and Norma Malashock, Cindy Baker of Arizona and the late Gary Baker. Great-grandparents are Nina M. Svendsen, Pat Walker and Marge Baker of Arizona.
Amy and Jon Blumenthal announce the Jan, 18 birth of their son, Benjamin William. Grandparents are Enid and Bob Blumenthal of Omaha and Lynn and George Belden of Marietta, GA. Great-grandparents are Shirley and George Moats of Lincoln, Allyson a n d Chris Wilcszewski announce the Jan. 25 birth of their daughter, Brooke Elisabeth. She is named in memory of her maternal grandmother, Barbara Shapos Bradin, and her paternal grandfather, Edward Wilczewski. Grandparents are Kathy and Gene Wilczewski of Omaha and the late Dr. Bruce and Barbara Shapos Bradin. Great-grandparents are Jean Shapos of Amherst, NY, and Sylvia Bienstock of Lauderdale Lakes, FL.
ROD/SCHWARTZ Elana Susan Rod, daughter of former Omuhtuw Steve and Fran Rod of South Orange, NJ, and Seth Alan Schwartz, son of Arlene and Philip Schwartz of E a s t Windsor, NJ, announce their en- '•- . gagement. ,. • " ; •', _, : (Steve Rod was ; , . _ < " . . ; ' ' " "i Executive Director of j • / .a * • j the JCC of Omaha fj, '•Ait' from 1980-86 and \ ' , Executive Director of '» ' ' '' / j the Jewish Federation ; ' '- " ' '• ' , i of Omaha from 1986-88.)- "-.... -. •• -•• '• • The bride-to-be graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, with a degree in communications. She is the women's sportswear buyer for Polo/Ralph Lauren in New Jersey. She is the granddaughter of Thelma Schlesinger of Croton-on-Hudson, NY, and the late Mary and Arnold Rod. Her fiance graduated from Trenton State College in New Jersey with a degree in marketing. He earned his Masters in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and is currently the brand planning manager for Kraft Foods in Rye Brook, NY. He is the grandson of Flora Kroner of Manhattan and the late Karl Kroner and the late Reuben and Gertrude Schwartz. A September, 2001, wedding is planned in New Jersey.
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Beth El Sisterhood is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood Drive on Sunday, March 11,11 a«*n.-3 p.m. The drive is organized with the help of the American Red Cross. "Blood drives protect each and every member of the community," said Kristy Leahy, chairman of the event. "Cost of a single pint can be more than $100, so you're buying valuable insurance in exchange for one hour of your time. Giving blood is literally a gift of life to the person who needs it," she continued. "It is a real mitzvah to give part of yourself to benefit someone you may never even meet." People who are in general good health, age 17 or older and weigh at least 110 pounds, are eligible to donate blood. To schedule an appointment to donate thisifift of life, please call Leahy at 933- 7294.
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JFS-Prepares for Passover Tzedakah Project by JEWISH PRESS News Service —•
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Jewish Family Service is dedicated to helping families who face financial hardship. With Pesach soon approaching (the first Beder is April 7), JFS is once again preparing to purchase, pack and deliver holiday food and ritual items to Jewish families in need. Volunteers are needed for April 2-3 so that approximately 45 individuals and families can enjoy a traditional Passover seder, as well as eight days of kosher-for-Passover food. For those people or organizations looking for a way to help, this is a wonderful way to reach out as well as teach our children and grandchildren, according to Jennifer Meyerson, JFS staff, who organizes the annual project.
"This is a way to remind ourselves about the mitevah of tzedakah," she added, noting that many B'nai Mitzvah teens working on their Mitzvah Projects, as well as high school students looking to earn community service hours for graduation, have found this project to be an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life. Non-perishable kosher-for-Passover canned or boxed food or candy or Shabbat candles may be brought to the JFS office until April 2 (no matzah, please). Cash donations can be sent to JFS, too. For more information about volunteering or making donations, call Jennifer Meyerson at the JFS office, 330-2024.
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Creighton University President Rev. John P. Sehlegel, S.J., presented the Mary Lucrelia Award to Beth Katz last month. Katz, a recent graduate of Croighton University, is the daughter of Kvy Katz and David Katz.
Larry Gendler, President of The Marilyn White Gendler Scholarship Foundation, presented the 2001 scholarship winners at the annual Caring And Concerned Educators banquet last month. Premier Motorcars of Omaha will move to its Teresa Cotton was awarded a $2500 scholarship, new location at 144th and Hillsdale Ave, south of and Frances Osugi and Bennetta Shannon were Oak View Mall, on June 1 and change its name to each awarded $500 scholarships. The foundation Mercedes-Benz of Omaha, announced General was founded in 1988 in memory of Gendler's late Manager Joe Beavers, who took over the car dealerwife, Marilyn (daughter of Joyce and Wyman ship Nov. 1, 2000. White) who taught at Lothrop School, Beavers, who was most recently general manager of a dealership in Koehester, MN, was involved with United Way and the Chamber of Commerce and hopes to become involved in the Omaha community as well. Occupational Lhcrnpitit. BovViui Phillips lms announced the opening of Home Access Solutions, a sorvice which assists in planning for residential uccossibility for people with varying disabilities. Phillips can also assess current, home situations prior to rpjuodolinfj, offer information about special products and (.'qiujmuuit, and make suggestions to help prevent falls in the hoino-n risk especially for fjoniors. For furthor information, call 291.-0514,
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Philip Roth, Novel about Bees5 Top Nominees for Book Awards by SIVAN RABINOWITZ
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NEW YORK (JTA) - The following books have been nominated for the 51st annual National Jewish Book Awards. The awards will be presented March 29 in New York. Most of the books are available in the Eripke Jewish Federation Library. FICTION Bad Jews, by Gerald Shapiro (Zoland Books) Bee Season, by Myla Goldberg (Doubleday) The Family Orchard, by Nomi Eve (Alfred A. Knopf) The Human Stain; by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin) NON-FICTION Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry, by Samuel G. Freedman (Simon & Schuster) Life on the Fringes, by Haviva Ner-David (JFL Publishing/Jewish Family & Life) One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman (Metropolitan Books) CHILDREN'S LITERATUKE Darkness over Denmark, by Ellen Levine (Holiday House) The Day the Rabbi Disappeared, by Howard Schwartz, illustrated by Monique Passicot (Viking) Fireflies in the Dark, by Susan Rubin (Holiday House) Torn Thread, by Anne Isaacs (Scholastic) AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR (Sandra Brand/Arik Weinstein Award) FalsePapers, by Robert Melson (University of Illinois Press) Motherland, by Fern Chapman (Viking) A Scholar's Odyssey, by Cyrus H. Gordon (Society of Biblical Literature) CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOK (Louis Posner Memorial Award) Gershon's Monster, by Eric A. Kimmel, iiJustrated by Jon J. MutJi (Scholastic) Moishe's Miracle, by Laura Krauss Melmed, illustrated by David Slonim (HarperCollins) A Thread of Kindness, by Leah Shollar, illustrated by Shoshana Mekibel (Hachai Publishers) HISTORY (Gerrard and Ella Herman Philanthropic Award) First Words, by Rosetta Loy (Metropolitan Books) The'Jewish Threat': Anti-Semitic Politics of'the U.S. Army, by Joseph Bendersky (Basic Books) One Palestine, Complete, by Tom Segev (Metropolitan Books)
EASTERN EUROPEAN STUDIES (Ronald Lauder Award) Languages of Community. The Jewish Experience in the Czech Lands, by Hillel J. Kieval (University of California Press) The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania, by Dou Levin (Yad Vashem/Berghahn Books) The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage, by Jeffrey Veidlinger (Indiana University Press) Rewriting the Jew: Assimilation Narratives in the Russian Empire, by Gabriella Safran (Stanford University Press) HOLOCAUST (Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award) The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, by Michael Phayer (Indiana University Press) The Guilt of Nations, by Elazar Barkan (W.W.Norton) Hitler's Austria, by Evan Burr Bukey (University of North Carolina Press) Troubled Memory, by Lawrence N. Powell (University of North Carolina Press) ISRAEL (Leon Jolson Award) The End of Days, by Gershon Gorenberg (The Free Press) From Herzl to Rabin, by Amnon Rubinstein (Holmes and Meier) Israelis and the Jewish Tradition, . by David Hartman (Yale University Press) . One Palestine, Complete, by Tom Segev (Metropolitan Books) JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS (Charles H. Revson Award) Christianity in Jewish Terms,Tikv& FrymerKensky, et al, eds, (Westview Press) In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith After the Holocaust, byEugeneL. Pognay (Viking) Under His Very Windows, by Susan Zuccotti (Yale University Press) SCHOLARSHIP The Artless Jew, by Kalman P. Bland (Princeton University Press) Jewish Enlightment in an English Key, by David B. Ruderman (Princeton University Press) Menstrual Purity, by Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Stanford University Press) The Modern Jewish Canon, by Ruth R. Wisse (The Free Press) (Continued on page 9)
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The Kripke Jewish Federation. Library's adult book discussion group will meet T h u r s d a y , March 15,1 p.m. Mimi Rogers will lead the discussion on Rodger i Kamenetz's book The j ^
Jew in the Lotus. The* book tells "the story of the movement of some Jews toward Buddhism over the past 20 years, the problems of Jewish * ( religious life today, and **'' the possibilities of Jewish i '.] renewal." The group meets in the £, , library. For more infor- J"\ mation, please call 334- * 6461.
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander by OLIVER POLLAK
Nathan Englander grew up in New York, graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and now calls Jerusalem home. This collection of nine short stories previously appeared in publications like The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, The stories are set in America, Israel and Russia. The Russian story h a s shades of Arthur Koestler's and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's disillusionment with Stalin's communism, Englander describes the illogic of a n episode of Stalin's purges. In particular, 27 likable Yiddish writers have been rounded up for alleged anti Soviet activities. Unbeknownst to them*-they are to be executed simultaneously. While they did not know what hit them, the several hours before their death has the merriment of a friendly writer's convention. Beyond the short story plots, Englander plants moral twists and turns, ethical wake up calls, and reveals the randomness of ugly fate awaiting hia subjects, his victims. Stories in this book can be read when you have as little as 15 minutes to Bpare. , This book can be found in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library.
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My favorite page at Virtual Jerusalem also has a great title: The Abridged Abbreviated on the block, go to gregger link at the Celebrate Annotated Scratch & Sniff Megilla, A Cuckoo with Joi Purim Site and click away: Condensation,www. vjfoolidays.com/purim/cook www.joi.org/celebrate/purim/. You will hear a oo.htm. This is a wonderful holiday story book genuine rattling noise but your computer may be a complete with hilarious sound effects. Just follow bit heavy to shlep to shul for megittah reading. If the story and every time you pass your computer^ cur- you want a grogger that's a bit more portable, try sor over a picture of a grogger, it will make the appro- your hand at building the one at Purim on the Net: priate sound effect. Hear the booing when Haman is www.holidays.net/purim/gragiyfer.html. Follow promoted to the King,s second in command; listen as the instructions and Purim night, take your homethe gallows are built to hang Mordechai; and cheer made gregger to shul for a spin. along when the Jews are saved. Your computer can help your kids brush up on The Cyber Purim Play is really two treats in one: some of the basic Purim vocabulary in Hebrew. www.shemayisrael.co.il/purim/purim_play/. And you won,t even need to install Hebrew fonts: It's a 16-page holiday coloring book which you can w w w . z i g z a g w o r l d . c o m / h e b r e w f o r m e / . print out. But it's accompanied by an audio play Zigzagworld has a lovely little game which lets you that tells the story of the holiday. Great for kids build a mask or crown on your desktop while teacha words in Hebrew: who .can't yet read. (You will need the free ing Shockwave plug-in to hear the site.) Be prepared to www.zigzagworld.com/mask/. (Please be patient. These games takes quite a while to stay a while. This is a large site that takes a load.) while to download. Also check out Aish HaTorah's coloring pages featuring the The Aish HaTorah site haa a large ubiquitous Monty selection of activities geared toward Kids and their Parents: Mermeltasheix: www.aish.com/holiwww.aish.com/holidays/puritn/, days/purim/coloringjpages.asp. Jewish Heroes is a series of three Over at Torah Tots - Purim Pun workshops designed to stimulate disand Games , there's a lot going on: cussion about heroes and heroines. www.torahtots.com/holidays/ And if you're a mom or dad who purim/purim.htm. You can solve doesn't mind letting your kids turn the secret message at Purim Letter your house upside-down for a bit of Link, look for hidden words at Purim fun and education, then take a look at Word Find and find out about Purim the detailed instructions for the Purim Around the World. And there are even Scavenger Hunt. By the time your kids two version* of the Purim Megilla Story, have scoured your house for the 15 clues, one in English and one in Yiddish: they will have learned a great deal about the www.torahtots.com/holidays/purim/purshpl.htm. Or you can watch - and listen to - a slide holiday - without evening realizing it. show on your screen tell you the story of Purim: D. Biskin has written a charming memoir about www.tzivos-hashem.org/yomtov/purim/slide- the day she and her daughters stumbled upon the show/siideshow.htm. It's corny - but effective. very best ingredient of all for their hamantashen; If you'd like to drop someone a line for Purim, you www.jewish-holiday.com/hamantash.html. can thanks to some colorful (and free) cyber-post"I suggested we use the traditional prune and cards. You can choose from a few at greetings.com: poppy fillings, but Rachel and Jessica crinkled up www.123greetings.com/events/purim/ or some their noses... I then hit on it, 'how about chocoanimated Purim postcards at the Care2 site: late?'... Hours later, piles of hamantashen were www.care2.com/sendycategories/Purim.. strewn around the kitchen, some sticky with filling My favorite postcard is geared toward adults, It that leaked out the sides, some slightly burned, mixes old and new and tells us that royal courts and others just funny looking. I felt a sense of haven,t changed much in a couple of thousand pride. My girls and I were actually doing a mitzvah years: www.cards4yoiii.com/jewish/purini/. The together. Our results certainly were not estheticalpostcard comes from Dry Bones creator Ya'acov ly or gastronomically perfect, but it came from the Kirschen (whose cartoons appear regularly in the heart... I now realize that the flavor of the fruit or Jewish Press) with this caption: "King Ahasueros type of jam filling is irrelevant. 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Now that I'm planning Purim, I have figured'out what it really accomplishes. You might think that it celebrates Jewish survival and gives everyone a good time, and that's true, but it is more than that: what Purim does is create an onslaught of hametz just before Passover. We have plenty of hametz to contend with even before Purim, but after Purim, we'll have fresh new piles of harnentashen, muffins, bagels, pretzels, breadsticks, doughnuts, cake, cookies and every other possible combination of flour, sugar and butter. My friends are usually so generous with their Shalach Manot baskets that I'm beginning to suspect a conspiracy among them all to send their hametz to my house. While one should never complain about an abundance of food, I am concerned about the looming onset of Passover. Meals that consume hametz will have to be part of the battle plan. I hope my family is ready for a constant diet of pasta, bread and cake. I realize, as I contemplate the Purim goodies, that we are already way beyond "Let them eat cake." We've worked our way up to "Make them eat cake." Even though I'm carrying on, I have to admit that the creativity of our local Shalach Manot baskets reached new and delightful heights last year. The halachic requirement for a Shalach Manot gift is that it includes items requiring two different brachot, or blessings, usually' a grain and a fruit. The small, but choice, gifts we received this year met that requirement and more. For instance, one family sent a plastic beach pail, complete with shovel, filled with goodies including
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The Purim Story as Potboiler: Jewish Girl Meets Non-Jewish Boy by KERRY M. OLITZKY
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NEW YORK (JTA) - It sounds like an everyday story: A beautiful young Jewish woman marries a rich and powerful non-Jewish man. She's raised in an acculturated upper-class household, where the "religion" of power and influence is of greater importance than the religion of her ancestors, Synagogue attendance and Jewish education are not priorities. So when our heroine meets a non-Jew who can give her everything she wants, and more, they marry. Eventually she comes to identify with her people and, luckily for all of us, her husband also throws in his lot with the Jews at a crucial moment in history. The Purim narrative is rarely seen through the priBin of a successful intorfaith marriage, yet clearly the holiday we celebrate is baaed on the relationship between a Jewish woman and a non-Jewish man. Esther married Ahashuerus, the king of Persia. Because of her "beauty," she was chosen to become queen - or, more accurately, Harem Girl No. 1. Like the other aduit-themed components of the story, the various marital aspects of Purim are swept under the rug to create a kinder, gentler holiday we can share with our children. Ignored are the thinly veiled sexual innuendos, the horrendous slaughter of Hainan's relatives, and any difficult questions about an intermarriage gone right. Instead, we are left with Queen Esther beauty pageants for young girls ~ which some may say perpetuate the objectifieafcion of women - and synagogue youth carnivals that really have tittlf to do with Purim. Throughout the agon, rabbis have avoided the difficult <(U«HUOHH, uiHUtud making
oven occurred. Others say that use of her Peraian niunft, Esther - rather than her Hebrew name, IIudnHHiih - proves that the girl wati complicit in Morricchai's complex plan for Jewish survival. There are oven those who have figured out how Esther supposedly was fastidious about keeping kosher while living in the palace and taking part in the king's parties-)! None are willing to admit that, were it not for an interfaith marriage that worked, the Jews of ancient Persia might all have been destroyed. Perhaps the rabbis are afraid that such an admission would amount to implied acquiescence with those who choose to intermarry today - as if an ancient historical precedent affects the decisions individuals make about love, life, and Jewish continuity in today's secular society. The Purim story is.timeless. That is its strength. But this timelesenesB is 'not a result of a lachrymose approach to Jewish history, in which we see enemies rise up against uja time and again, regardless of where we live, Rather, it is Esther's relationship to Ahashuerus that catapults the story through the portals of Jewish history, Esther and Mordecai were heroes, but'so was Ahashuerus. The Purim story shows that in the face of Jewish destruction ~- whether it comes from the outside, as in ancient Persia, or from inside the American Jewish community - intermarriage has the potential to help us rather than destroy us, if we are willing to bring the intermarried into our Jewish family and invite them to cast, their lot with our
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• A U.S. white supremacist group sued an Idaho motel for denying its members a room to hold a meeting. The 11th Hour Remnant Messenger group is suing the motel claiming the motel committed civil rights violations when it denied a space to members of its group and the Aryan Nations last November.
• Israel and the Palestinians are both accountable for the violence in the region that erupted in September, the U.S. State Department said. In its annual report on human rights, the State Department sharply criticized Israel for "excessive force" that led to the deaths of 13 Israeli Arabs in October riots, and for its use of live ammunition and rubber-coated steel bullets in conflicts with the Palestinians. The report also criticized Palestinians for killing several Israeli soldiers and for arbitrary arrests and detention of prisoners.
•A tax reform proposal to impose property and sales taxes on nonprofit groups in Minnesota would force Jewish community institutions to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, according to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. The JCRC is encouraging people to write to lawmakers to oppose the governor's plan, saying it could force the reduction or elimination of social service programs.
• Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah will meet with President Bush in Washington in April, according to the White House. Mubarak is slated to meet with Bush on April 2, Abdullah on April 10. The announcements came after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Mubarak and Abdullah during his trip to the Middle East this week.
• A Palestinian woman accused of using the Internet to lure Israeli teen-ager Ofir Rahum to his death admitted to planning to kidnap him, but said she did not intend to kill him. Israel Radio reported that Amana Mona told investigators she had communicated with several Israelis who had expressed anti-Palestinian sentiments. As a result, she said, she decided to kidnap one of them to send a message to the world about the deaths of young Palestinians in the ongoing violence. On Sunday, the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot published a photograph of Rahum's headstone, in the shape of a computer terminal, which his family said symbolized the importance it played in the teen's life,
• A Jewish settler was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Ramallah as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was holding talks with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city. In Sunday's incident, Palestinian gunmen opened fire from a,passing car, • Israel should draw one million more Jewish hitting the Israeli's car with dozens of bullets. immigrants over the next 10 yeara, with the goal that a majority of the world's Jews will live in the • The Jewish Council for Public Affairs opened Jewish state by 2020, Prime Minister-elect Ariel its annual conference as more than 1,000 activists Sharon told a delegation from the United Jewish met Sunday in Washington to focus on support for Communities. The bulk of these immigrants should Israel and discuss domestic issues facing the come from ^communities in distress," such as the American Jewish community. Stuart Eizenstat, former Soviet Union, Argentina and South Africa, who served as President Clinton's point man on said UJC President and CEO Steven Hoknder, who Holocaust issues, will be hononed by the umbrella was part of the delegation. organization "of 123 local groups and 13 national In an hour-long nino'tinpf, Rhiiron pledged doae organizations for his commitment to social justice ties with the Diaspora, Solender Riiicl Sharon laid efforts. out three conditions before pence talks can resume: Palestinian Authority President Yaaaer Arafat • Iraq already possesses nuclear weapons, must make an "unequivocal public declaration" to according to the Sunday Times of London, which stop violence, the Palestinian Authority must take cited an Iraqi defector who worked on Saddam concrete stops against incitement, and Israel and Hussein's missile program. 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Hillary Rodham Clinton in last year's race for Throughout the West Bank, Palestinian shopkeep- a U.S. Senate seat in New York. ers heeded demands by militant groups and closed their shops early to protest Powell's visit. • Jewish and Latino leaders are scheduled to hold a summit next month to discuss a plan to • Holocaust victims and their families in California increase ties between the two groups. Both commuwon an important legal victory with an appeals court nities plan to declare support for one another on ruling upholding the constitutionality of the state's issues such as foreign affairs, education, public Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act. The decision image and economic development at the summit, overturned a lower court ruling that the relief act which is sponsored by B'nai B'rith International violated federal statutes. Passed by the California and Latino groups. legislature in 1999, the act requires insurance companies to make full disclosure of policies issued in • The U.N. high commissioner for human rights Europe between 1920 and 1945. criticized Iran last week for what the Simon Wiesenthal Center said was a deliberate effort to • Latvian police arrested several members of a bar a Jewish representative from a conference on Russian-based illegal extremist group for armed racism that Iran hosted. Mary Robinson, whom robbery, according to the Union of Councils for Israel views as an unfairly harsh critic, "expressed Soviet Jews. In addition to arresting members of her dismay at the 'procedural and technical' diffithe Russian National Unity organization, police culties'" that prevented the center, as well as the also seized arms and ammunition. The incidents B'ahai International Community, from attending prompted speculation that the group is escalating the meeting in Tehran. its activities in Latvia. • A controversial Jewish radio personality will be • One of the two teen-age suspects in last honored by a national Orthodox group on March 4. month's murder of two Dartmouth College profes- Her condemnations of homosexuality have earned sors had literature related to neo-Nazism, white Laura Schlessinger, popularly known as "Dr. supremacy and Holocaust denial in his home, but Laura," the criticism of the Anti-Defamation authorities refused to discuss a motive for the League and other groups, and led her to be dropped crime. The day the German-born professors were from a recent conference on Jewish medical ethics. killed was Holocaust Remembrance Day in Officials with the National Council for Young Israel Germany. 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Brother and Sister Reunited (Continued from page 1) * • "» ". "..n „•• After months, and a wrong number, the long-separated siblings finally spoke. "There was a lot of crying on the first phone call," Kosinovsky said. "Abram asked 'How could you disappear from my life?'" The two have a lot to discover about one another. After all, the Kosinovskys have worked, raised their children here, volunteered in Omaha. A civil engineer who earned his degree in the former Soviet Union, Joseph Kosinovsky has worked as a professional engineer for Thompson, Dreesson and Dorner for years. Leah started out with Control Data as a chemical engineer and later did financial planning and interpreting. Their son, Greg, who obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Illinois, lives and works in Silicon Valley; he's married and has a 5l/2-year-old daughter, Hannah. Zarina Kosinovsky received her MBA from the University of Chicago and works as an investment banker for Bear Stearns in New York City. Their lives are a far cry from their lives in communist-run Minsk in 1980. All the while Rabkin has been documenting their hometown of Bobruisk and creating museum-quality paintings. Rabkin started his education in the arts in the Club of the Pioneer Art Studio in Bobruisk. By 1941, he had been accepted to the Mark Chagall school of Art in Vitebsk; five days later World War II started. He survived the war with his mother and sister and ended up in the village of Upen, where he worked on a collective farm. After his service in the Red Army and the end of the war in 1945, Rabkin. graduated from the Middle Art School at Repin's Institute and later transferred to the Serov School of Art. Married in 1949 to Maria Dobrin, the couple has one daughter, journalist and poet Olga Rabkin, who lives in St. Petersburg (the former Leningrad). By 1967, Rabkin was awarded membership in the Association of Artists of the USSR; he has participated in more than 60 exhibitions in the former Soviet Union and his paintings can be found in private collections in the United States, England,
Australia and Israel. After realizing her brother was not only alive and well, but actually a well-known painter and author, .Kosinovsky told Soviet Jewry activist Shirley Goldstein the good news. "Shirley fell in love with Abram's paintings," Kosinovsky said. "And she immediately told me we have to 'bring him here,' Had this occurred before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Goldstein is convinced the two would not have been reunited and, of course, the art exhibit would never have taken place. "You convince him to come," Goldstein told Kosinovsky, "We'll do the rest." Enlisting the help of a committee which included Eunie Denenberg, the women raised financial or inkind support from Shirley and Leonard Goldstein, Tom and Darlynn Fellman, Eve and Fred Simon, the Slosburg family, Clark Creative Group, the Bamhart Press, Steve Nogg, Nebraska Wine and Liquor, the Marcia and Alan Baer Foundation, and the Ike and Roz Friedman Foundation. Their biggest hurdle was transporting the large works of art to Omaha and the paperwork from customs. All the other details, from the gala opening event at the Bemis School of Art followed by the afternoon event at the Jewish Community Center, fell into place, according to Eunie Denenberg. "Leah's had a crash course in the American point of view!" Denenberg added. "She's getting involved in the fun of putting this all together - she's moved from Dostoevsky to Disney world! "Everyone has responded to my enthusiasm," she added, "People are so excited about this exhibit.** And so, on Saturday, March 81, 7:30-10 p.m., the Omaha Symphony String Quartet will play at the BemiB as Rabkin's works are displayed in a major exhibition in the United States for the first time. The next afternoon, Sunday, April 1,14 p.m., a Klezmer group will play as additional pieces are unveiled at the JCC. In addition, the Omaha Symphony is donating
Top row, left; Z a r i n a Kosinovsky, New York C i t y , a n d ' J o s e p h a n d L e a h Koeintovsky, Omaha; bottom, I n n a a n d Qveg Kosinovsky .and daughter, Hannah, Sunnyvale, CA* 180 free tickets to members of Omaha's Russian community for the April 14 concert, called "Victor's Russia," during which time some of Rabkin's paintings will be exhibited at the Qrpheum. For tickets, call Inna Zevakiaa, 691-8312. "My husband and I, my family, we're all looking forward to this day," Kosinovsky explained about her feelings during t h e last two years of this search, "There really aren't words to describe this."
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A Special Trip to Kiev by ALAN POTASH
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(Editor's note: Former Omahan Alan Potash, son of Ruth and Merle Potash, was the Assistant Director of Cultural Arts at the Jewish Community Center here; he is now Director of the Hillel. Association at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where he lives with his wife, Amy, the former Older Adult Director at the Blumkin Home, and their twin sons.) I opened up the Jewish Press recently and noticed that the Federation is planning a Mission to Kiev and Israel. This past winter break, I spent 10 days in the Ukraine with eight college students from Illinois and eight from Kiev. In addition, as a Hillel Director, I had the pleasure of being a part of the birthright israel experience, taking 96 students from the University of Illinois to Israel for 10 days. The primary goal for our winter trip to Kiev was to partner with Hillel students from Kiev and pro- Inside the Hesed Kievvide Hanukkah celebrations for the elderly and years, will have a similar appeal to it that Prague youth, has had in the past 5-10 years. Kiev and the Ukraine in general are filled with ,Por the past seven years, the Hillel at Hebrew University has been involved with a Passover pro- famous Jewish memories. Approximately 80% of ject in the Former Soviet Union, working with the the Russian immigrant population from the turn of Hillel students in the FSU leading community-wide the century came from the Ukraine. In Kiev, one can find memorials to Golda Meir Pesach seders, small seders for the elderly and home seders for the homebound. The Hillels of and Shalom Aleichem and the victims of Babi Yar Illinois have participated in similar Pesach projects (there are two memorials, one put up by the Jewish and, this year, we decided to try Hanukkah instead community and the other by the Soviets. Make sure (it is easier to maintain basic Jewish observances you go to the Jewish one). Other famous individuals you might come across are Janusz Korchak (you during Hanukkah). We started with an orientation and a tour in will also see a memorial to him in Israel at Yad Kiev, (To the Mission participants: Kiev will be Va'shem) and Joseph Trumpeldor. Today, Kiev is growing Jewishly with the support ' beautiful in the springtime!) Most of my expectaof the Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish tions of Kiev were wrong. I had no idea how interAgency, Solomon University, Ghabad, Hillel and esting and how European (by looks and style not in the Sunflower Center and a host of other groups. culture or food) it would be. On a religious level, there are two synagogues The two days that the Mission will have in Kiev will be a tease, I imagine that most will want to worth visiting: the main synagogue of the commureturn in the future. I feel that Kiev, in the next 10 nity in lower Kiev, built in .1916, headed by Rabbi
Warm house in Letychiv. Bleich. The other one is near the center of town. It was converted from a synagogue to the national puppet theater and then recently back to a synagogue. The Jewish highlight in Kiev, in my opinion, is the Hesed community centers for the elderly. They are not residential centers but community centers. They provide medical assistance, meals, classes, physical therapy and home visits to those who are not able to leave their homes. There are Hesed houses all over the Former Soviet Union. They perform a service that is badly needed. It is estimated that the majority of the Jewish population in the Ukraine are the elderly, surviving on pensions around $12-$ 15 a month. Our work in the Ukraine consisted of leading Hanukkah celebrations for the elderly. All of our contacts came from the local Hesed centers. The Hanukkah celebrations took place in three formats: home visits, warm houses and community celebrations.
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warm house is like a from, Voloehisk and Kupel. mini-Hesed and the hos£Neither of the villages exists as eBses are responsible for they did 100 years ago but one of making sure peoples basic the cemeteries was still there (I needs are being met and will write another story about if they need extra care this experience). they are in contact with For the second year in a row the closest Hesed (in birthright Israel has funded a free some cases 2-3 hours trip to Israel for college students. away). Through Hillel: The Foundation The warm houses are a for Jewish Campus Life, 3200 stuvital link to helping the dents went to Israel, not on a solielderly and youth still in darity mission but on a 10-day the shtetl. Life in the Jewish journey. shtetls is not always easy; Naturally, with the situation in most do not have indoor Israel being tense many students plumbing (they use out and parents were very concerned houses and open wells). about traveling to Israel. The warm houses were Through discussions with the sometimes filled with up U.S. State Department, the :VJ|||I to 20 people. The hostess Ministry of Education in Israel * vSgPSI p r e p a r e d delicious food (the agency that is responsible (the Hesed supplies the for school field trips in Israel) warm houses with essen- both Hillel and birthright Israel tial foods and medicines determined that Israel was safe-A h o m e vihit e o n s i s t r - d of I h e foi I he community!) •-.Indent^ t a l k i n g w i t h Hie pxihon anditwas. Tim last venue was the commuof t h e h o m o vi-jits w u o loi Prior to the trip, we spent one p e i ' o n ) expliiiniiif 1 I ho s t o r y nity celebrations for up to 180 countless hours on the phone of I l a i u i l . k u h , h f j l i l n i f j t h e people, of all oges, usually held in with parents explaining1 the situM e n m n h , U M I I U I I J ; iitmiit flic .i local community center, Heaed, ation and sharing with them the i n d i v i d u a l a n d <onciu.ii'd w i t h oi synagogue. There were other security precautions that were u i f i u i ' (i lie r n . i u u i l v of ( h e <-oin in unity celebra tions orgabeing made, The students had a ui/i il by Chabad (a thriving force e l d e r l y e o n i m e n l e d llt.u tlu'ii phenomenal experience. in Jewish life in the FSU). c h i l d r e n moved lo I ^ i . n l " i Our trip covered Israel from About an hour from Medzibosh, A i u e i ) c : i mitl a i t ' W i i L i m i ; for wliem the Baal Shem Tov (the Eilat in the south to the llieni to bihiK t h e m over). T l u ; u e x l v e n u e w e r e w . u m Beshl) is buried and where Reb Northern border with Syria and h o u s e s , p e o p l e ' s h o m e s , u s u a l l y N.'uhman was born, I located the everything inbetween. .-. •• If you don't get a chancetogo in sinull shtetl', ivilln/jea) w h e i e villages that my grandparents t l i e r e a r e {-.(.ill ii few J e w u . Tin* (Ida and David Potash) came this year, plan for the future!
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Powell's Visit to Middle East (Continued from page 1) ————».— »•-«»——»—. senior U.S. official containing Iraq. told Reuters. Powell's regional The difficulty of tour included a stop putting an end to in Kuwait to attend Israeli-Palestinian celebrations markviolence was undering the 10th anscored by several niversary of the end incidents during of the Gulf War. Powell's visit. During meetings with Arab leaders As Powell was this week. Powell Powell, left, meets Sharon. urging the two Phot0 discussed the need to *ISRANETkeep sanctions against Iraq in place- to stop the cycle of violence, two first imposed in the wake of the war- Israeli settlers were wounded in sepain order to deal with the threat posed rate shooting attacks in the West Bank. The commander of Israeli by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. In fact, during a joint news confer- forces in the area said it is possible ence with Prime Minister-elect Ariel the two attacks were linked. After meeting Sunday in Ramallah Sharon on Sunday, Powell stressed with Palestinian Authority President that Saddam had to be restrained. Citing German intelligence reports Yasser Arafat, Powell called on Israel that Baghdad might have nuclear to lift the economic "siege" it had weapons in three years, Powell said, imposed on the areas under "We have to make sure that we do Palestinian control since violence everything we can to contain" Saddam. erupted last September. Later Sunday, Israel announced that As Powell arrived in Syria for talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, it was taking a step aimed at implea state-run Syrian newspaper sharply menting at least a part of Powell's criticized the emphasis on Iraq. A requests: The Israeli army lifted roadfront-page editorial accused Powell of blocks it had set up last week that had ignoring the killing of Palestinians by divided the Gaza Strip into two. Israeli forces. For his part, Arafat used Ms joint During their meeting, Powell and news conference with Powell to call Assad discussed the peace process, on the United States to enBure that sanctions against Iraq and the oil it Israel pick up negotiations from imports from Iraq through a pipeline where they left off under outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Barak. to the Mediterranean. The United States believes that Earlier in the day, after meeting Syria, which is seeking a seat on the with Powell, Sharon outlined his own U.N. Security Council next year, will demand, "One thing should be clear: halt the imports, thereby complying Israel will not negotiate under preswith U.N. sanctions against Iraq, a sure of terror and violence."
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Scott Littky, Beth El Synagogue's Education Director (BESTT), recently returned from the Midwest CAJE Experience 2001. The weekend conference, sponsored by the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, was held last month in Chicago and left Littky feeling "enriched and inspired." "Being with so many educators from the Midwest was a meaningful and stimulating learning experience for me," Littky said. "We heard from master teachers and were introduced to some of the most innovative and effective Jewish resources available. "The workshops presented new methodologies that really work," he added. "I'm anxious to implement them here—at Beth El's Talmud Torali-so our BESTT kids can benefit from the texts and technologies that CAJE has to offer." While at the CAJE Conference, Littky also spent time with Dr. Betsy Kate, the North American Director of the Florence Melton Adult MiniSchool. "I attended Betsy's workshop on
parent-child relationships in the Talmud," Littky continued. "She took the mitzvah of honoring one's father and mother all the way from ancient days to the contemporary issue of how older children relate to aging parents. In that context, of course, she spoke about her father-in-law, Rabbi Alex Katz, who was a part of Beth El for so many years," he noted. "That Omaha connection made her presentation even more meaningful to me." According to Carolyn Novicoff, Executive Director of Jewish Education and Library Services (JELS), Dr, Katz will be in Omaha on March 18 to discuss details for establishing the Melton School in Omaha. During her visit, she will also lead a training session for all pre-kindergarten through grade 12 teachers of Hebrew language and Judaic studies in Omaha and Lincoln. For more information about Kate's visit, contact Novicoff at the JELS office, 384-6660. For information about BESTT, call Scott Littky at Beth El, 492-8S60.
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OTC Searches for 1000 People Sent to America as Chi Idren to Escape Nazis by JEWISH PRESS News Service
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In lieu of a serious topic this month, I thought I would share the multitude of not only National Health Observances but other days that are recognized by organizations around the world. As I was researching the information and looking for a topic to highlight that included a mental health component, I was struck with the feeling of how easily one could get overwhelmed trying to keep up with the expectation of knowing the politically correct (PC) day, week or month to celebrate. Let me share the following list and see how you feel. March 1: Bosnia & Herzegovina Day, National Pig Day, and St. David's Day; March 2: Texas Independence Day; March 3: Bulgaria Day and Morocco Day; March 4: Gen. Pulaski's Birthday; March 4-10: S ave Your Vision Week; March 5-9: National School Breakfast Week; March 5: Eid-al-Adha; March 6: Dentist's Day, Ghana Day, and Michelangelo's Birthday; March 7: No Smoking Day in the UK; March 8: International Women's Day; March 9: Full Moon Day, Holi, Panic Day, Purim, and Employee Recognition Day; March 11-17: Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week; March. 12: Birthday of Girl Scouting and Mauritius Day; March 12-18: Brain Awareness Week; March 14: March Madness Begins and Pi Day; March 15: Udes Of March and Incredible Kid Day; March 16: St. Urho's Day; March 17: Campfire Founder's Day, Ireland Day, and St. Patrick's Day; March 18: Start of Crochet Week and National Quilting Day; March 18-24: National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week; March 20: Great American Jlteat Out, Ostara, St. Joseph's Day, Spring Begins, Tunisia Day; March 21: Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach, Baha'l New Year, Namibia Day and Nauroze (Persian);
Family Service——.— March 21-28: National Poison Prevention Week; March 22: Match Day; March 23: Make Your Own Holiday, Pakistan Day, and American Diabetes Alert; March 24: World Tuberculosis Day and Kuan Yin's Birthday; March 25: Feast of the Annunciation, Greece Day and Mother's Day in the UK; March 26: Bangladesh Day and Muharram; March 30: Doctor's Day. March is also: National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, National Nutrition Month , Red Cross Month, Social Worker's Month, Women's History Month, Mental Retardation Awareness Month, National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month, National Eye Donor Month, National Kidney Month, and finally, Workplace Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month. By now you are either thanking me for making you aware of a day, week or monthly celebration that you could bestow upon someone you care about or you're saying to yourself this is ridiculous and "too much information." Remember: This is only one month of the year; May has the greatest number of recognized days. And for me, thank goodness May is National Mental Health Month. If you know of any others that I have missed, please accept my apology and feel free to e-mail me letting me know what day, week or monthly observance was missed and other observances of which you are aware. If you wish to stay informed, politically speaking, you may find additional observances on the following web sites: www.bluemountam.com or www.health.gov. Have a Happy March-I don't think anyone has claimed that yet.
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If you ask, "What's brewing at Beth El this Passover?" the answer, most likely, will be "Coffee!" Scott Littky, the synagogue's Director of Education, has announced the arrival of Beth El Special Blend Coffee—a kosher for Passover product that will serve as an innovative fundraiser for BESTT-the synagogue's Talmud Torah. "Yes, we drink four cups of wine at the Seder," said Littky, "but people drink many more than four
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NEW YORK (JTA)-For years, the phone calls would come from people identifying themselves as advertising sellers for the Jewish World News. They would take orders, at exorbitant rates, for a newspaper that essentially didn't exist. For years Robert Cohn, Editor-in-chief of The St. Louis Jewish Light, would console fellow editors of legitimate American Jewish weekly newspapers whose readers and advertisers were being defrauded. "Don't be discouraged," he would say. "One of these days well get justice.' That day came last week. More than a decade after the latest-and largestJewish newspaper scam began, its architect received a five-year prison sentence for fraud in federal court in East St. Louis, IL, a St. Louis suburb. Scott Rose, 37, who had previous convictions for burglary and selling marijuana, also was ordered to pay up to $2.5 million in reparations, the amount the government said he bilked advertisers. 1 feel very much like we landed the great white shark," said Cohn, who said he was "intimately" involved in the government's prosecution of Rose and his associates. The verdict was "far beyond my wildest dreams." Cohn, chairman of the American Jewish Press Association's committee on ethics and professional standards, says representatives of the Jewish World News, using Jewish-sounding names, would call prospective advertisers and offer ad space in the paper, which printed only a small number of copies, distributed mainly to the ad buyers. Its ads and news stories were photocopied from other Jewish publications. I t was embarrassing. It gave the whole Jewish press a black eye," Cohn said. The ad sellers would often vaguely identify themselves as working for "the Jewish paper in town" and solicit ads for an upcoming, unnamed holiday.
Often, Cohn said, they would imply that anyone declining to buy an ad was anti-Semitic, The tactics are "false, misleading, coercive, and now itfs been confirmed that they were illegal,** he said. Such scams for some 60 years have operated, or are still running, in Florida, New Jersey, California and Brooklyn. The one based near St. Louis."was one of the largest," Cohn said. Rose solicited ads not only in the bi-state Greater St. Louis area in both Illinois and Missouri, but also all across t h e nation between 1391 a n i February ,2000. An estimated 5,000 clients fell victim to the fraud, having been bilked out. of more than $2.5 million (including some in Nebraska), Rose, a former school board member from Fairview Heights, IL, a St. Louis suburb, pleaded guilty of mail fraud in August. He said Ms mother is Jewish, but his religious beliefs were not disclosed in court proceedings. Rose was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William Beatty in East St. Louis, who rejected Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Goldsmith's recommendations for a lesser sentence and gave Rose the maximum prison term for mail fraud. "Because of the magnitude, as I said earlier not just in terms of money but in terms of the number of victims, I feel that to do anything other than to sentence the defendant to the maximum term would be to completely ignore the seriousness in this," Beatty said. Before his sentence was read, Rose said, "I have nobody to blame but myself. I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I'm sorry.*' Victims of Rose's scam have up to 20 years to collect restitution for funds they may have paid for advertisements in his publications. Persons with, such claims can access the Web a t usdoj.gov/usao/as or call 1-618-628-3700.
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