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Temple Israel Welcomes Cantor Wendy Shermet
Kofi Annan Visits Shevah School
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Wendy Shermet will be the new cantor at Temple Israel in early July. She will replace Cantor Jennifer Blum, who is returning to the Twin Cities where she will be cantor at "" » Mount Zion - " Congregation in St. Paul, MN. Cantor Shermet is a May, 2001, graduate of the School of Wendy Shermet Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. She also holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and a Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Music from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. Cantor Shermet worked as a soloist at Seattle and Los Angeles area synagogues for many years. She served as a teacher at two Seattle area synagogues where she taught Hebrew and music to children and conducted the children's choir. She also
served as a student cantor at HUC-JIR in Jerusalem and New York. From 1998 until aer investiture, she was the student cantor at Temple Sholom in Plainfield, NJ. In addition to her work in the field of Jewish music, Cantor Shermet has extensive performance experience in the secular world where she worked as a singer, actress, composer, arranger, pianist and music director. She has performed with the Los Angeles Opera Company, Opera Metropolitan de Caracas, Venezuela, Seattle Choral Company, Sante Fe Desert Chorale, the Washington Opera aftd Annapolis Opera, Maryland. She also performed at the Kennedy Center, Washington, B.C., at the Handel Festival. Cantor Shermet is the recipient of numerous honors and prizes, including the Rabbi Jack Stern and Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman Prize in Liturgy, the Cantor Andrew Edison Prize for Excellence in Reform Worship, and the Rocky Mountain Cantors' Association Prize for Excellence in Cantoriai Programs. Cantor Shermet is originally from Maryland and, although she and her family have lived all over the country, this will be their first experience in the Midwest. She and her husband, Leonard Burell, have a son, Samuel, age 7.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan paid Ms respects a t tiie memorial corner for the seven students from the school who were killed in the disco suicide bombing. Annan spent some time talking to the students as well as paying his, respects at the memorial comer set op to remember the slain students. Annan was in Israel for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to encourage fall compliance with the cease fire a g r e e m e n t b r o k e r e d by CIA Director George Tenet, Despite Arafafs statement that he will adhere to the cease fire, there are still daily incidents of Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets. Photo by ISRANET,
Jerusalem International Book Fair Judged a Huge Success by RABBi BERNARD SOLOMON RASKAS Five hundred publishers signed up to attend the 20th Biennial Jerusalem Book Fair, and all 500 came. They were joined by 150 publishers in Israel. They came from all over the world—from Japan and China to South America and Canada, almost every country in Europe, and a huge number of prestigious firms from America and England, such as HarperCollins, Penguin, and the university presses from Princeton, Yale, Nebraska and California, to name a few. They brought 100,000 books and multimedia packages, maps and related products. I was fortunate to represent Lemer Books of Minneapolis and shared a booth with Jerusalem Publishing House. The owner and founder, Sholomo (Yosh) Gafni, has scored huge successes with A History of Israel and the Holy Land, several single volumes that serve as a great reference for Judaism, and Encyclopedia of Before and After the Holocaust. Gafni taught me the technique of manning the booth and introduced me to many of the publishers, would-be authors, illustrators and technicians. Not only was it an exciting week, but we also sold many books from Lemer, particularly children's books. Because Yosh and I covered for each other, I had the opportunity to roam the exhibits and talk to publishers from all over the world. Publishers, writers, literary agents and members of the press from every conceivable culture conducted business in a bustling atmosphere, benefiting from a cultural experience and a personal touch. Booths ranged from Chasidim to Christianity, scholarly volumes, comic books, cookbooks and biographies. The high-tech section showed how to produce an entire e-book. I was particularly taken by a London firm called Facsimile Editions Limited, which produces facsimiles of great classical Jewish manuscripts. It is almost impossible to tell them from the originals. They include Hebrew Psalms from Parma, Italy (1280), a haggadah from Barcelona, Spain (1340), and Meah Berachot (100 Hebrew blessings printed in its original size, 1 5/8" by 1 3/8") from Corona, Spain, the original of which is in the Bodleian
Around the 1400s, Maimonides' descendants moved to Aleppo, Syria, taking that Bible with them. In 1947, riots against Jews broke out in the Arab world, including Aleppo. Its synagogues and Torah scrolls were burned. It was assumed that the Codex was destroyed in the riots. However, the Jews had kept it in a box in a cave known as the Cave of Elijah. In 1958, a man brought it to Israel and presented it to the president, Ben-ZvL Twenty-five years ago, a Jerusalem publisher, Nahren Ben-Zvi, was asked to turn the Codex into a printed Hebrew Bible. Since many believe that every letter and word comes from God, he had to be extremely careful. Ben-Zvi used very sophisticated technical equipment, including computers, to create a new type face that captured the flavor of the old manuscript. Hebrew Book Week got off to a delayed start This year, he finally completed the massive project, this year. The annual book fair had its open- and the result is exquisite. ing delayed by several days due to the suicide A few months ago, the Speaker of the Knesset bombing in Tel Aviv which took 20 young announced that this edition of the Bible would be lives. This year, business was reported as used for swearing in Israel's future presidents. quite brisk. Israel still has one of the highest Copies of the new Bible," in various sizes, were first book readerships per capita of any country in made available at this Book Fair. the world despite cable and satellite televiThe report of the People of the Book International sion. Photo by ISRANET. Book Fair is that books are here to stay. Jerusalem Library at Oxford. still offers great culture and, despite all the trouAll of them are printed on vellum, bound in bling news, is safe. It, too, is here to stay. Rabbi Bernard S. Raskas is Rabbi Emeritus leather and lavishly illustrated in color. Contrary to myth, they demonstrate that Jewish art flour- of the Temple of Aaron, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of ished throughout the Middle Ages. The outstanding publication by all counts is Keter Religious Studies at Macalester College. He is Yerushalaim, by Crown of Jerusalem. It is based on author of the trilogy. Heart of Wisdom and th" the Aleppo Codex, which was commissioned in 910 recently published Seasons of the Mind. in Tiberias. It took two scribes (one was Aharon Ben-Asher) 10 years to complete. When it was fin!NS§DE: ished it was sent to Jerusalem with clear instructions on several of its front pages: "Holy to the Where Are They Now..™ Page 6 Lord. Do not sell, do not redeem." Later, the Crusaders took the Codex and sold it to
the Jewish community of Cairo. It is known that the great Jewish scholar Maimonides used it and pronounced it to be the most authoritative version of the Hebrew Bible.
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RAE (SCHUPACK) NATHAN Services for Rae Nathan were held in Larchmont, by RABBI MYERS. KRIPKE — —• NY. She died May 25 at the age of 52. Parashat Korah Survivors include her husband, Gib; daughter, An Israeli Siddur relates that the Rambam (12th Julia; son, Charlie; mother and father, Rose century) would begin his daily prayer aware of the enduring, all-embracing principle E=mc2, and raise Schupack of Omaha and the late Eli Schupack; sishis eyes to E=mc2 and nevertheless pray, "Our ters, Jan Schupack of Bonita Springs, FL, and Kim Schupack Farrow of Washington, D.C.; and a Father, compassionate Father, have pity for us!" I am reminded (have I mentioned this before?) of brother, Mark Schupack of Omaha. Memorials to Carleton College, One North an incident related by I.L. Peretz (great Yiddish College St., Northfield, MN 55057, or the writer, 20th century). An atheist asked his father, Department of Radiation Oncology, Columbia a tailor, "why do you continually pray to your God, Presbyterian Medical Center, 622 West 168th St., 'great God, mighty God, awesome God'?" If someone came to you and harangued you all day, "great New York, NY 10032. tailor, talented tailor, efficient tailor," wouldn't you FAYE J. SADOFSKY get sick of it? Services for Faye Sadofsky were held June 18. "Of course," the father replied, "And maybe God She died at the age of 63. gets tired of listening to me and all the others Survivors include sons and daughter-in-law, repeating those praises. But that is not the point. Rodney and Linda, Greg, all of Omaha, and Mark It's not for Him. He doesn't need my praise. It's for of Beatrice; five grandchildren; sisters and brothme. I have to do it." ers-in-law, Helen and Ambrose Greiner of Linn, And here we are, so well educated, so with-it, so MO, Rose and Gerald Frahm, Sharon and Sonny sophisticated, so know-it-all. That is exactly why Krajicek, and Dorothy and Joe Benak, all of we need it. When we bow before E=mc2, we Omaha; nieces and nephews. acknowledge that we know all about the universe, Memorials to the Martin Luther Home, 722 So. that is, all we can know about the universe. And 12th St., Beatrice, NE 68310. , yet we remain ignorant and unknowing. A friend of mine is engaged in global enterprises, SALLY MAYPER quite different from my puny enterprises. If we call Sally Mayper, formerly of Omaha, died June 11 mine m and his h, then h=m10. in San Diego. And yet, if we get away from the global and Survivors include her husband, Stanley; sons think in terms of the universe, it doesn't make and daughters-in-law, Jeffrey and Peggy Mayper much difference. Both m, acknowledgedly puny, and Alan and Barbara Mayper; grandchildren, and h, exponentially larger, are both magnificent. Brian and Theresa, Steven Mayper; one greatA preliminary prayer in our daily davening, granddaughter; brother-in-law, Leo Hill; sister-inwhich many of us regularly omit, puts u s in our law, Adele Hornstein. place: "What are we? What are our lives? What our Memorials to your favorite charity, compassion, our righteousness, our victory, our strength, our might? Before You heroes are of no account and famous men as though they never Bagels and Bible— lived, sages as though without knowledge, wise Summer Topics — — — men as though without prudence, for the best of our accomplishments are mere chaos and the days by JEWISH PRESS News Service Bagels and Bible meets every Saturday morning of our lives are a' mere breath in Your sight. Furthermore, the advantage of being human over at 9:30 a.m. in the Milder Center at Temple Israel. During the month of July, we will study being animal is nil--for all is vanity." Lamentations and its lessons for today. During Does the prayer end in despair? No--for it leads August, the class will focuus on the Makzor in us-to understand that despite human insignifipreparation for the High Holy Days, cance, we are Jews, b'nai b'rit, of wonderful herThe community is invited to attend these sesitage and destiny. For after all is said of us, noth- • sions, which are led on alternating weeks by Rabbi ing deprives us of the duty and opportunity, Aryeh Azriel, Rabbi Debbie Stiel, Rabbinic Intern evening and morning to proclaim, "Hear O Danny Young'and Cantor Wendy Shermet. Israel..." In Your help, Lord, our status is raised and elevated, for it is we who attach holiness to Your Name. Beth El Installs Korah., like us, was sophisticated and learned. But he demanded recognition. Demanded. In prin- New Sisterhood Officers ciple he should have been recognized. But in a by O Z Z I E N O G G — ' "'•' practical society he became a negative influence The following officers were recently installed by and had to be expelled. Beth El Synagogue's Sisterhood: President: Lynne Shkolnik; Vice-president: M'Lee Hasslinger; Secretary: Caryn Rifkin; Treasurer: Amy Reynolds. QCTL/Cliabad The installation was .part of a celebratory dinner. Chairmen were Cindy Shulewitz and Julie Stein, Beit MldrasSi Program assisted by Lucille White, Larry Hasslinger, Caryn Ends With Barbeque Rifkin and Lynne Shkolnik. by RABBI SHLOMO LEVIN —
The OCTL/Chabad year-long Beit Midrash program will conclude Tuesday, June 26 at 7 p.m., with a barbeque dinner at the Chabad house. This will culminate a year of weekly Chavruta (one on one) study sessions at Chabad. Everyone is invited. "It's been a great year of learning," said Allan Gonsher,, OCTL President, and a regular particiin the Beit Midrash. "Even though people in ";\ pant the Beit Midrash are studying different topics, since we are all learning Tor ah, there is a feeling & of being together." The Beit Midrash consists of community memf bers studying classic Jewish texts such as the A V Talmud, weekly Torah portion, and others with a E partner for discussion, argument and analysis. OCTL staff Rabbi Shlomo Levin and Ariel Orbach also lead discussion groups and study as part of the program. The Beit Midrash will resume in late summer, and newcomers are welcome to join. Cost for dinner is $4/person. For more information and to reserve a place for the barbeque, call me at 5511564, or e-mail OCTL@jaovia.net. P .
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Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantors Emil Berkovits and G. Michael Horwifcz. FRIDAY: Services, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a,m. Ian and Maxwell Rothenberg, twin sons of Bunny and Steve Rothenberg, will become B'nai Mitzvah, Kiddush sponsored by their family; Mishnah study session with Rabbi Drazen, 8:25 p.m., followed by Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah, 8:55 p,m. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m, WEEKDAYS: Services, 0:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURAN in the Chapel. Join us every day for breakfast. • " SOUTH STREET TEMPLE ' FREE SITTER SERVICE • MCIISIK r ol ilu- Union of American IICIMOW Available every shabbat morning from lO.aiiuu.to" •.2061 S. 20th St., Lincoln, NE 08502-275)7 the conclusion of services. This program is funded by 435-8004 jewishm'bfaska.o the Early Childhood Development Committee and welcomes children ages 18 months-kindergarten. Services officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser. ADULT EDUCATION. FRIDAY: Sabbath Eve service, 7:45 p.m. Adult B'nai Mitssvah Class, Wednesday, SATURDAY: Torah Study, 10 a.m.-noon MONDAY: Adult Hebrew Study/Movies, 7 p.m, 7*80 p.m. Participants continue their studies with Rabbi Drazen, Caxxtor Berkovitz and Hazzan TUESDAY* Conversion class, 7-8.*30 p.m. Horwita. WEDNESDAY! AA Meeting, library, 7i80 p.m. Saturday, June 28$ Hazzan G, Michael and Heidi Horwitz wllL'be honored during Shabbat CHABAD HOUSE .morning services.. . . : • •. : . Sunday, June.24: Men's Club and, Haza'k; Brunch followed by a Golden Spikes baseball IH(>(» So. 120th St., Ornnhn, NK <*'' ' ' " " ' " game. Phoiu;: vtl'tO-lHOO E-MAIL-chabad@aol.coin 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, 7 p.m. West Minyan at the home of Leon and Dani Shrago, 805 S. 120 Ave., 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY: Shabbos services, 8:45 a.m.; Riddush is sponsored by Sisterhood; Mincha, 8:35 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:53 p.m. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m. and 8:45 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m. and 8:45 p.m.
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Temple Israel Puts Social Justice at the Forefront
Services conducted by Rubin Mendel Kalzmrm. MONDAY-FIUDAY; Sarvktw, 7 tt.m, FRIDAY? Shabbat in the Home • . • : SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m. Religious School is finished for the semester. MONDAY: Summer Camp starts; Fundamentals Classes resume in late summer; please call for more of Jewish Thought; and Practice at the JCC, 7information. 8:30 p.m. by ELYCE AZRIEL, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TUESDAY: Summer Camp; thus Modrash, Middle/High School Director B'NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 7 p.m. Temple Israel's incoming I2th-grade class has 018 Mynstei-St., Council Bluffs.lA WED., THURS., FRIDAY: Summer Camp, been accepted to participate in the "L'Taken; A 51503-0700 Teen Social Justice Program." The event, sponPhone: 322-4705 e'-mail: docjt'b@aol.eoin OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE sored by the Reform movements Religious Action 25th a n d C a p e h a i t, O m a h a , N'K 08.1.13-5000 Center (RAG), IB an intensive four-day kallah in FRIDAY: Services, 7:80 p.m. Discussion topic 294-(><>!> I will be "Do the Jews really need a New Temple in Washington, D.C, from April 12-15, 2002. Jerusalem?" Oneg Shabbat and kiddush will folFocusing on'Jewish values and social justice, FRIDAY; Services, 7:80 p.nv low. Lobbyists, national leaders and special interest group leaders will speak to and with the students. TIFERETH ISRAEL ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME Issues will range from AIDS to women's rights, IMemlK'i' of the Unitod Synagogue from Israel to environmental and economic justice. SATURDAY: Services, 9 a,m,» led by Andrew oi' CoiistTvative Judaism Greenberg. 3219 Sheridan'Blvd., Lincoln, NE 08502-523« All services are followed by Kiddush. A memori423-8509 al, in memory of residents who have died during Services conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum. the month, is held on the last sabbath of each Minyan, B'NAI MITZVAH Monday & Thursday, 7:15 sum. month. FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m. Joshua Bleicher, son of Jorx and Helen (Ellie) SATURDAY:.Services, 9:30 a.m. Bleicher, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, June 30, at Temple Israel. A seventh-grade honor student at Brownell Talbot, Joshua ia a Duke Talent Search participant and is on the math team. He enjoys playing soccer, piano and tromIbone For his Mitzvah project, he worked at Wings of Hope, a cancer support group. Joshua has a brother, Jacob, Grandparents are Jerome and Freda Bleicher, Brian Jackson and the late Rate Greenwood.
2001 Adult B'riai Mitzvah Class at Temple Israel
The 2001 Adult B'nai Mitzvah class at Temple Israel includes, back rowt prom left", Shane Cohia, Stacie Bleicher, Gretchen Easier, Lynn, Salzinger, Nancy Jaeobsot*, Kay . middle row: Maria Neesman, Lyune Kathy Hirshmau, Juanita Davidson, i r i s
Ricks, Jordana Cl«v:or; front row: Rabbi Debbie Stiel, David Kaplan, Kim Schwartz, Magda Peck, Saudy Lehr, Elinor Mataloa (Hebrew Teacher), Jeannette Gaudreau, Katherine Finnegan, Rabbi Aryeh Aajxiel aiad Cantor Jenuufer Blum.
PERSONAL Thank you to my family and dear friends for making my 80th birthday a day to remember. You have all been most generous with your good wishes. Nate Shukert
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The Real Story About "Settlements" Since Yasser Arafat refused to accept Israel's offer of 95% of the West Bank and a shared Jerusalem nearly a year ago at t h e Camp David talks, t h e Palestinian propaganda machine has spewed forth vitriol about "Jewish settlements." So, once and for all, let's set the record straight. The PA isn't just talking about disputed land in , the West Bank and Gaza, they're including "settlements" like Netanya, Ra'anana, Kafir Saba, Nes Tziona, Herzliya, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Ein Karem, and Givat Shaul, to name a few. In fact, land on which "settlements" exist in Gaza and the West Bank (more properly known in Jewish terms as Judea and Samaria), were acquired legally—either purchased from absentee Arab landlords or transferred from stateowned land from the days of the Ottoman Empire or British Mandate, or in the case of Kfar Darom, for example, reverted back to the 1920s deed held by the original Jewish owners after Israel recaptured the Gaza Strip in the Six-Day War, June of 1967. Apparently, the PA's position on "settlements" includes nearly all of land within the 1948 borders of the State of Israel as ratified by -Jfte United Nations in 1948! Arafat himself has actually admitted (in a meeting with representatives from six so-called settlements in 1996) that not one Arab was displaced, according to the Israel Resource News Agency. We're the ones who have deceived ourselves, because the PA has long since claimed their intent to retrieve lands which they say were appropriat-
ed in 1948. Supporters of the Peace Process just never wanted to believe that those lands include suburbs of Tel Aviv and Haifa! The most left-leaning politicians and leaders are beginning to admit that Israel may not have a partner in Arafat and the whole Peace Process is really a sham. Even Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the CCAR, the rabbis of the Reform movement, has publicly called the PA "to be one of the most • stupid, murderous, and bloodthirsty national liberation movements in all of human history," according to Seth lipsky's op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal. . It seems we have come full circle. We can finally admit we were wrong about Oslo, wrong about the Peace Process, wrong about Arafat's ability to change, and wrong to think that the PA would ever be satisfied with anything less than total expulsion of the Jews. Anyone w a n t to t a l k about Rabbi Meir Kanhane's proposal to transfer Palestinian Arabs to Arab lands? The more things change...the more they stay the same. In 1945, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver/head of the Reform movement, no less, joined with former U.S. President Herbert Hoover in advancing the idea of a population transfer to move Palestinian Arabs to Iraq, as Jews were moved to Israel, as reported by Lipsky in the WJS. Ironically, three years later, some 750,000 Jews were expelled from Arab lands (and never compensated) and resettled in the new state of Israel, while Arab leaders allowed Palestinians to languish in refugee camps for more than 50 years.
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Different Cultures: Can the Gap be Bridged?
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Haifa-Realistic observers of the Middle East situation have come to the pessimistic conclusion that for the foreseeable future no solution is in sight because the two parties are operating on entirely different planes, No matter what words appear to mean to one side, they have a different meaning to the other. Furthermore, the two peoples exist in different worlds and with different standards. Israel, with all its faults and weaknesses, is a democratic country, with Western standards of civilization, morality and integrity. The Islamists of the Middle East are moved by a mentality, an outlook on life, which is on an entirely different plane. For one extreme example of what this means, look at what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan. Given the opportunity, they would do the same in other lands as well. But even in other countries in the area, that peculiar other-worldly Islamic mentality prevails in a manner that is incomprehensible to the Western mind. By way of illustration: Not long ago The Jerusalem Times, an independent Arab weekly, dared reveal details of what i t termed "Honor Crimes; The Unwritten Law." Here in Israel, in recent weeks and months, we
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armed struggle against the Jews. It has nothing to do with Israel. Anti-Jewish is a principle. Islam is not just a religion. It is a culture, a civilization, with a rich and glorious past, but in modern times it appears to have degenerated, and has taken on a negative image. The truth means nothing. How shocking to hear an Arafat top aide tell a television audience, with a straight face, that it all started when the Jews attacked the Arabs in 1948! A promise is not a promise and a pledge is not a pledge. Whoever takes seriously Arafat's latest, carefully worded expression of opposition to terrorism, must be reminded of the series of similar statements he has made in the past. Perhaps the most famous was the document bearing his signature, addressed to Prime Minister Rabin in 1998, in which he solemnly stated: "The PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements and personnel in order to assure their compliance." We know what ensued in the following eight years. I have no doubt that there are millions of followers of Islam in the U.S. and elsewhere who disavow these medieval standards, but in the Middle East the extremists have the upper hand.
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The Palestinian Lie the Israeli Left Was Willing to Buy by JAN WILLEM VAN DER HOEVEN, Director • International Christian Zionist Center
The dictum propagated by nearly every spokesperson for the Palestinian Arab cause that there cannot be peace or a cessation of violence unless the Israeli occupation of Arab territories ceases, is a lie. And it is a pity that this lie has been commandeered and proclaimed by most of Israel's left-wing politicians; it hardly enhances respect for their intellectual prowess or depth. If all it boiled down to was the relinquishing of territories occupied by Israel in the self-defensive war in June 1967, why was there no peace with the Arabs or the Palestinians before Israel entered and conquered these areas? And if it was just a matter of giving Arafat 100 percent of the presently occupied territories, including full control of all the Old City of Jerusalem as he demands, why did the Palestinians and the Arab states not accept this solution when the United Nations proposed partition plan gave them the chance to establish their own Palestinian State on all this territory and more? They rejected the partition plan because, as they still desire today the Hamas, Hizballah, Egyptians and Syrians, and all factions of the P.L.O. they want all, not part of, Palestine! How is it possible that, until today, the Israeli left remains intellectually or emotionally unwilling to come to terms with this basic reality? Is it in point of fact because they are unwilling to succumb to a reality that contradicts all their fiercely held opinions? What cerebral dishonesty from people who claim to be the rational intellectual guides of our day! And then there are those who still dare argue against this basic premise by saying that this wish of the Arab nations and Palestinian people has changed since the peace process. They now really want only all the West Bank (100%) and East Jerusalem and than there will be peace. Permit mo to quota aoine of their HpokesperaonH, nnd not the soU'-deluclcd Israeli intellectuals who like those inLelloctual Jews in Europe always thought they knew beller ua they constantly belittled the wrilhiRH mid statements of Hitler mid his cronies. Lot me replay the following atoitemonta nuulo by Uio Arab and Palestinian leadership themselves aomo of them long tiftor the paaco process had begun. On Sept. l.'J, 1995, thn same day the peace agreement ceremony was hold in Washington D.C., Yussor Arafat, apoke on Jordan Television: "SJnco we cannot defeat Ifiraol in wur we do this in singes. We take uny and every territory thnt wo can of Palestine, ami establish sovereignty there, and we use it as n springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel." In mid-1998, after the Oslo ugreenient was signed, Arafat's Fatah placed its constitution on its Internet website. One of the goals of the constitution is worded us follows: "The complete liberation of Palestine and eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural existence." On his 70th birthday in 1999, Arafat told his many well-wishers [ICEJ News Service, Aug. 6, 1999]: "Allah willing, we will continue with our struggle, our Jihad.... and once again enter the city of Jerusalem as the Muslims did for the first time." Peisal al-HuBseini, Arafat's minister for Jerusalem, said publicly in November, 1994 [Bulletin of the Jerusalem Institute for Western Defence, Bulletin 2, June, 19941: "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war... we have become the most, dangerous enemy that Israel has. We shall not rest... until we destroy Israel." And just recently, while on a visit; to Beirut, Feisal al-Husseini, said [MEMRI, March 22, 2001]: "The current Intifada ... must not be stopped until it reaches full Palestinian independence... We will continue to aspire to the strategic goal, namely, to Palestine from the river to the sea. Whatever we get now cannot make us forget this supreme truth." Abdul Malik Dahamshe, an Israeli Arab Knesset member, had the gall to say at a solidarity visit in Damascus, Syria [David Makovsky, Jerusalem Post, Jan.24, 1995]: "Palestine and Syria are one homeland. The Aral) people will win by the sword; the victory will be won by the Jihad of the Arab ,
world." Another Arab MK, Abdul Darawshe said [Jerusalem Institute of Western Defence, Bulletin 3, Aug.15, 1997]: "There is no difference between one Palestinian and another. We are all Palestinians and we are all Syrian Arabs. ... I swear on Allah that you will return to Palestine..." If even Israeli Arabs, who have lived under the flag and sovereignty of Israel for many years, are willing to thus express themselves, then what peace is possible with these Palestinians who nearly all dream of the day when Palestine in its entirety will be theirs, converted to a Muslim Palestinian State? So to did Israeli Knesset Member Azmi Bishara dare say in March 1999 [ICEJ News, March 26, 1999]: "The Jewish nation was a fiction with no right to exist." Another Hamas leader, Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, said [Jerusalem Post, May 25, 1997]: "Islam does not permit giving up one inch of Palestine and states that Palestine belongs to the Muslims, belongs to the Palestinian people, not to the Jews. Bartering land is not liberation and is not permissible in Islam." Hamas Sheik Ahmed Yasain told a news conference in 1998 [ICEJ News Service, May 27, 1998]: "The first quarter of the next century will witness the elimination of the Zionist entity and the establishment of the Palestinian state over the whole of Palestine. The strong will not remain strong forever and the weak will not remain weak forever. Things change," Writing in the July 19, 1982 issue of Al-Ahmr, the organ of the Egyptian Liberal Party, Egyptian national Dr. Yahya al-Rakhaw, summed it up well; "We thus find ourselves face to face with the essence of a problem which has recently donned the gown of religion and concentrated itself on a piece of land. In this confrontation we cannot help but see before us the figure of that great man Hitler, may Allah hove mercy on him, who WHS the wisest of those who uuulr.uu.Uid Uiia prublum... and wuu, out of compassion for humanity, tried to exterminate every Jow, but despaired of curing this cancerous growth on the body of mankind. And now they virtually confirm the accuracy of bin intuition." Neither Egypt, Syria, Jordan nor any other Muslim State is on record as having demanded from Arafat or the PLO a public and full cancellation of the ultimate aim of nearly all radical Muslims the dissolution of the Jewish State and its replacement with u Muslim Palestinian Arab State. This, then, is their goal; and for this they are willing to go along if need be in phases, even through the so-called peace process till Palestine shall be theirs. It has nothing to do with Israel's present occupation of the West Bank. It has to do with Israel's existence as a State. If that, is removed there will be peace! These statements are eye openers for those who •still possess the intellectual honesty and objectivity to wish that their eyes would be opened. Not only did the far-reaching concessions of 97 percent of all occupied territories that Ehud Barak's government was willing to give show the intransigence of the Palestinian and Arab people, it also showed the willful optimism of most of the Israeli left who had always assured us that peace would come from such surrenders. Kve.n with 100 percent, surrender of all occupied territories, there would still be the Palestinian red line backed by all the Muslim world: The right of return for all Palestinian refugees lo their homes and lands within the green line. To have peace with the Arabs and Palestinians we need to commit suicide and offer all of Palestine in return for pence. Israel's left may have unwittingly been correct, but not exactly in the way they put it: there will never be real peace with (he Palestinian Arabs until there will be a cessation of occupation of all Arab lands and in their minds all Arab lands include Haifa, Jaffa and the Galileo. YPS, Arafat expressed it well in the name of nearly all Arabs when once he said, "For us peace means the destruction of Israel." This certainly would not \w rxaetly the peace of the brave, but, rather the pence of the grave!
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NEW YORK (JTA)--The umbrella of North American federations is set to unveil a multipronged, $4 million solidarity campaign titled "Israel NOW--and Forever." The United Jewish Communities project—which should receive final approval by late July—combines various advocacy, education and fund-raising activities and will last until winter, said Gail Hyman, UJC's Vice-president for marketing and public affairs. "We understand there's a great desire for a national program," Hyman said. "We have a responsibility to listen to our community and to offer the kind of program that will resonate from coast to coast, And unfortunately, that takes a little time. But now we have the support and we're ready to act." The first step will be this weekend's "Solidarity Shabbat" of UJC leadership in Jerusalem, where they will meet with Israeli leaders and hammer out final details of the campaign. Among the other campaign highlights; • Heavy promotion of solidarity missions to Israel. • Advocacy- and media-training for campus and community activists, in conjunction with local HULels and Jewish community relations councils, "to train their leadership to become strong advocates on behalf of Israel," Hyman said. • A fund-raising initiative to assist all Israeli families directly affected during the violence by death, injury, property destruction, psychological damage, • A "media tour" that will take Israeli spokesmen and U.S. Middle East experts-scholars, journalists and other opinion-Bhapers-into key communities across North America to moot with local media. • A major mission to Israel, called "Journey to Solidarity I," to bo held Sept;. 9-.1.4. • Production of one million lojiflotn, to bo distributed HwpL 17 in nil «ynugogu«rt during Ho all Huahunah, to remind JCWH of the ncwd for solidarity. • A Solidarity Shabbat ou Sept. 22-23 that will reach out to synagogues, churches and univ«rfiity campuses to Bhow that "support for Israel extends beyond tho Jewish community," Hyman .said. • A major outdoor rally in New York Sept. 23, with a concurrent rally possibly in Los Angelas. New York was chosen not because of its huge Jewish community but because it is Americn's "media capital."
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ENlERlilNMENT An Allowance is Not a Bribe, and Other Helpful Hints for Raising Responsible Jewish Children,
Adele and Charles Slutzky recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. Salute to another 2001 graduate. Benjamin A. Friedman recently graduated from Westside High From left: Karen Sokolof Javitch, Stan School. He is the son Widman, Judy Farber, Chuck Pennington and of Steven M. and Elaine Jabenis. £ Gail Friedman. Surprise 2001! a musical by Karen Sokolof Benjamin is unde- Javitch, will be shown at the JCC on June 21, cided on his plans 7:30 p.m. (call 572-2350); June 23, 8 pan. (call 572for the fall. 3010); and June 24 at 2 and 7 p.m. (call 572-3010). Proceeds will benefit the Alzheimer's Assoc. and Prevent Blindness. Director is Melissa Jarecke; Musical Director: Chuck Pennington; Choreographer: Judy Farber.
Estie (right) and Alexandra Manchik, daughters of Anita and Lyle Manchik of Grand Island, have graduated summa cum laude (highest honors) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with double majors in environmental protection policy and communications. They were chosen for membership in Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key and Lambda Pi Eta honary societies and received highest awards for their honors theses. The twins plan to attend the University of California-Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) in the fall of 2002 to study environmental law.
BIRTH Dan a n d Dara Kedlcr of Atlanta, GA, announce the June 12 birth of their son, Mason CoU,
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Allan Gonsher's signposts are faith, family and years of professional experience. His belief in God, a Torah-based life, practicing the commandments of mitzvot, especially observing the Sabbath ritual of the family meal and tzedakah, tinkling coins into the pushke (charity box), provide his foundation. He applied this timeless formula to raising, with his wife Rini, three sons. His professional experiences as the founder of Kids, Inc., a counseling agency for families and children up to the age of 13, add a wider context for the problems of parenting and growing up. This "Jewish Journey" gives guidance for communications between parents directed toward and listening to children. Parents should teach by Shirley Neary example, and that example should come from being is a studio art committed Jews. Patience, firmness and consistenquiltmaker living cy, treating children as individuals in an ageand working in appropriate manner will bring order to what might Omaha. Art quilts otherwise become chaotic and detrimental. are works of art Shabbat, friendship with children having differcreated for expresent values, summer camp, offensive language, Bar sion and exhibiMitzvah, sibling rivalry, divorce and death are a tion. sampling of the topics covered. Neary will exChildren take their parents as role models, yet hibit her art also naturally rebel against their parents. quilts at the JCC Children process information from the world from July 3-30. around them. Allan Gonsher prays that a Jewish You can also see parent will be guided by the precepts of Jewish her *J. Do," (picfaith to assist youngsters in their passage from tured) entitled "Warming the Global Spirit," at I childhood to adolescence. N. 129th St. One example comes from the book's title, An Allowance is Not a Bribe. Parents give an allowance WRJ and SNAP! Productions, join for a box as an unconditional act of love, no strings attached. supper and two performances of the play Mother, The allowance teaches the responsible use of money. Tree, Cat on Thursday, July 12, 7 p.m., and An allowance is not earned by doing chores, nor subSunday, July 15, at 6 p.m. tracted from for bad behavior. Chores around the The evening is hosted by Deanna and Larry house, helping set the table, cleaning up for Shabbat, G-ilinsky, Nancy and Don Greenberg, Joanie and are the child's responsibilities for helping run the Marty Lehr, Nancy and Harlan Noddle and household. Bad behavior is punished by being sent to Barbara and Mike Platt. one's room, going to bed early, or limiting TV. Limited seating is available for $25 per person. If you are planning to have children, if you Send reservations and check to WRJ, c/o Joanie have youngsters, if you want to compare your Lehr, 9725 Nottingham Dr., Omaha, NE 68114, or parenting experiences against the Gonsher famcall her at 393-5350. ily, or if you are a grandparent, the examples in this book will provide insight into the dynamics of a Jewish family.
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Temple Gives First Social Justice Award by SHARON BRODKEY
At Temple Israel's recent Annual Meeting, Vic and Daniel Gutman received Temple Israel's first Social Justice Award. Action and Justice are a family affair in the Gutman household. Following in his father's footsteps, Daniel Gutman founded Temple's youth auxiliary of the Social Justice Committee. He began by leading a charge against the Defense of Marriage Act, Constitutional Amendment 416. He recruited an impressive number of youth to participate in the "human chain" along Dodge street before last November's elections. Now, young people from our Synagogue's Middle and High School, The Youth Social Justice Club plans, educates and executes ongoing activities to repair the world. Working with Bob Wolfson of the ADL and Patrick MacNamara of the City's Hate Crimes Project, the Temple Youth Social Justice Club has adopted this as one of their primary areas of activism. Daniel comes by his activist tendencies rightly. From the Hunger Banquet to the Hate Crimes Project, his father, Vic, continues to donate much of his time and company's resources to educate and enrich the quality of life in the community. He sits on agency boards and consults non-profit organizations dedicated to building bridges of understanding and healing. Together, Vic and Daniel are a powerful example of the impact parents have on teaching and shaping our children's Jewish values and the influence individuals and families have when we put these teachings to practice. •y
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June 22,2001
Continued Palestinian Attacks Prompt Israelis to Question Truce
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fay NAOMI SEGAL —— : — JERUSALEM (JTA>~Faced with continued casualties^ Hie Israeli public is growing increasingly frustrated with a UJx-brokered cease-fire flbat went into effect last week. On Monday, Palestiaiaa gwxmen. killed two IsraeS settlers in separate attacks on West Bank roads. Danny Yehuda was killed and a teen-age settler was lightly wounded in a drive-by shooting near the West Baafc city of Nablus. Yehuda, 37, was married and the father of tliree young children. Doron Eisserman was killed later in the day as he was driving in a cGiwoy of cars. Eyewitnesses said a gunman took up a position en a hilltop overlooking the gate to the settlement of Einav and fired on cars entering the settlement. Zisserraaa, a 38-year-old father of four, was shot in the head and neck. Efforts to resuscitate Mm Failed. Hie attack took place as the funeral for Yehuda "was being held. Officials from Palestinian Authority P r e s i d e n t Yasser Arafat's F a t a h Party claimed responsibility for both attacks. The officials said members of the group's militia would continue attacking Israelis, arguing that the U.S.-brokered deal applies only to those areas under sole Palestinian control-not to Israeli settlements and surrounding areas. The Palestinian public likewise saw its death toil increase after the ceasefire, which began June IS. Palestinian officials said Israeli soldiers were responsible for the shoot-
ing ,deaih'. Sunday-night of a 12-yearold P a l e s t i n i a n boy a t t h e Khan Ynnis refugee camp in t h e Gaza Strip. Israel said the soldiers shot a t Palestinians trying to scale a fence into a Jewish settlement. On T a e s d a y , a 16-year-old P a l e s t i n i a n died of wounds he received i s clashes with Israeli troops over the weekend. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened h i s top security officials Tuesday to discuss the continuing Palestinian attacks. After the meeting, Israeli officials warned t h a t they will reconsider iheir commitment to a U-S.-brofcered cease-fire if the Palestinian Authority does not damp down on violence. *Tne cease-fire is not working," said R a ' a n a n Gissiu, a spokesman for Sharon, Israel ''can't go on like this. People are getting killed." Arafat said Tuesday his people are not- to blame for the violence that has threatened the cease-fire. "We do not commit acts of •violence," Arafat- said during a visit to Madrid. "The violence today is committed by the settlers." In.recent days, there have been numerous Palestinian attacks on Israeli t a r g e t s , including mortar attacks on Gaza settlements and numerous shooting incidents in the West Bank. On Monday, a terrorist bombing was averted in Haifa when two police volunteers discovered three bombs bidden i n a motorcycle parked outside an all-night drugstore.
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