October 26, 2001

IIEWISH PRESS Vol. LXXXI

No. 7

Omaha, NE

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Exodus 40th Anniversary World Tour Premiers Nov. 15

Jewish Press Sponsors Annual fianufckah Coloring Contest by JEWISH PRESS News Service

by PAW yONSKY, Federation Communications Director

Once again, the J e w i s h P r e s s will feature a four-color reproduction of the winning entry in the annual Hanukkah coloring contest. The contest winner's a r t will be featured on the cover of the Hanukkah Gift Guide, Nov. 30. Children, ages 12 and under, can enter by submitting their original drawings to the J e w i s h P r e s s , 333 So. 132nd St., Omaha, NE 68154. Drawings should be no larger titan 81/2x11" and on white paper; markers may be used for additional color. The child's name, parentCs}' name, address, phone number, age and school should be included on a separate piece of paper. Drawings should not be folded! Deadline for entries is Nov. 12. In addition to having the winning entry published in color, the first three children who enter by Otto Preminger, chronicles the story will also receive gift certificates t o Border's of a young resistance leader who res- Bookstores. For more information, call the Press cues survivors from a British detention office at 334-6448. camp on Cyprus. Upon arrival in Haifa, the story then changes to the challenges of the early days of Israel's Israel Responds t o Assassination independence. This event i s a program of t h e Jewish Federation of Omaha and the Kripke Federation Library as part of Jewish Book Month. The Alan and Marcia Baer Foundation, Robert Eisenberg and Brandeis Art Cinemas are sponsors. A dessert reception will be served at intermission. Ti^ste for fee pansier of "T. was assigned to read Exodus as a punishment Exodus .are $5 for general admission. All students by my Sunday School teacher, Elinor Whitman. are free with a valid student ID. Tickets can be pur- Following the assassination of Cabinet She told me I wouldn't pass fifth grade unless I chased in advance by calling the Exodus Hot line at Minister Rahavam Ze'evi, all contacts with read the book over the summer. Despite my bad 334-6402. Palestinians have been put on hold and IDF attitude, I found myself engrossed by the time I Visit the Exodus page on the Federation website forces entered most of the West Bank cities started the second chapter!" Sherman recalled. at: www jewishomaha.org/exodus/exodusJitm. last weekend. Photo by ISBANET,

For the first time in 40 years, many Omahans will have the opportunity to see the epic film Exodus on the big screen since its release in 1961. The digitally-enhanced and remastered film will premiere at the Brandeis Art Cinemas for one show only, Thursday, Nov. 15 a t 7 p.m. In addition to t h e exclusive screening, t h e Commander of the ship Exodus, Yossi Harel, will be in attendance and speak to the audience before the film. Mark Sherman is Chairman for the Omaha premier of the "Exodus 40th Anniversary World Tour." He recalled how reading the book by Leon Uris sparked his life-long interest in history.

"At this moment in history, with all the turmoil here and especially in the Middle East, t h e r e release of Exodus i s a powerful reminder of why there is an Israel. Most people under the age of 45 have only seen the film on video. , . this is a rare opportunity to see Exodus on t h e big screen," he added. Mark S t e r n u m Starring Academy Award winning actor Paul Newman, this landmark film, directed

Livingston Foundation Endowment Honors Robert Kully by JEWISH PRESS. News Service

Humanitarian Award, have also In recognition of his being named been a guiding light for t h e "Humanitarian of the Year" last ; Trustees of t h e Livingston night by the Jewish Federation of Foundation. His leadership has Omaha, Robert I. Kully is being guided us in the management and honored by t h e Milton S. and Corinne N. Livingston Foundation stewardship of the Foundation's with the establishment of a permaassets," Newman explained, "and in nent endowment in his name. the selection of the most worthy recipients of its philanthropy. Kully was presented t h e Humanitarian award last night as During the 10 years Kully has part of t h e Federation's 2002 served as President of Livingston, Campaign event, featuring New it has given away more than five York Times columnist Thomas million dollars. In 1998, the founFriedman. The award is given dation celebrated its 50th anniverannually to an outstanding sary by making grants in excess of Bob Kully Omahan who has performed excepo n e million dollars. tional service for humanity, based on contributions "Despite all the funds it has donated for charitable, made to promote human welfare and advance social educational and religious purposes, the Trustees reform. have carefully managed its affairs, so that the Among his many civic and charitable activities, Bob Livingston Foundation will exist as a community Kully serves as President of t h e Livingston resource for many years to come," Newman added, „ Kully's service to the community includes a long Foundation. Following the presentation, Murray list of other activities as well. He has served on the Newman, Vice-president of t h e Livingston board of the Jewish Federation, has been Co-chairFoundation, announced the creation of the endowman of its annual campaign twice. He has also ment fund in Kully's name. The purpose of the served on t h e Budget and Allocations and endowment will be to fund a project selected by Kully Israel/Overseas committees and is currently on the which.furthers and promotes the mission of the boards of the Federation Foundation, Jewish Jewish Federation. The fund will be administered by Family Service and the Anti-Defamation League. the Jewish Federation Foundation. In addition, he participated in a fact-finding mis"Bob's extensive participation in and exposure to sion to Minsk and Israel in 1998 with the Jewish the many aspects of our Jewish community and to the community at large which have earned him the Agency for Israel.

Kully also devotes a great deal of time to Temple Israel, where he has served on the Executive, Investment and Social Action committees. But his public service extends beyond the Jewish community. He serves on the Executive Committee of t h e Small Business Council of t h e Omaha Chamber of Commerce, the boards of Nebraskans for Research, and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He has been a delegate to t h e White House Conference on Small Business and Chairman of the Mayor's Committee on Small Business. Kully is an investment advisor with 6WR Investments, Inc. He and his wife, Connie, have four children and five grandchildren. The Livingston Foundation was founded in 1948; Corinne Livingston died in 1959 and her husband in 1968. In addition to Kully and Newman, current trustees include Stanley J . Slosburg, Gerald A. Hoberman and Suzanne Richards Singer. Dr. Patricia Newman will become the Foundation's newest trustee at its meeting in November. Yale Richards has served as Executive Director and legal counsel for 25 years.

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FIIOMiHE \^ORD Abraham and a New Level of Civilization by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE

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Parashat Lekh Lekha We are impressed whenever we encounter the remarkable civilizations of the ancient world. How did ancient Egyptians shape the huge stones to form perfect geometric shapes in making the pyramids? And how did they move those massive boulders into place, without the use of mechanical power? Their obvious knowledge of fulcrum and lever was astonishingly thorough. They may not have had academic awareness of the physics and geometry involved, but their practical grasp of the way to proceed was thorough. And yet... And yet, the Egyptians were infantile in their perception of the universe and its moral law, not excepting the great Akhenaton. He reached the primitive "monotheistic" idea that the sun rules the world. But this is too obvious, on the one hand, and on the other it leads to no instructions for humankind. It took the imagination and the insight of ancient Israel to direct mankind to the unprecedented recognition of a single source of. morality. As Israel digested its discovery, it interpreted it to mean that this source, which they called Adonai, revealed itself directly to man. God talked to man. In our Sidrah, Adonai directs Abraham to leave his family circle and proceed. . ,to where? Abraham is given no information about direction,'about destination, about what he is to encounter. "Lekh Lekha! Just go, and I will tell you where to go." No Egyptian could have accepted such a charge. Build, yes. Work, yes. Invest the lives of thousands of slaves in stone, yes. But go? Where? But more particularly, why? It was a new and different culture, a new and different civilization that lay before Abraham. He leaves a great culture behind him in Mesopotamia and follows his God's direction to Canaan, a land of different, and probably inferior, culture. But he left, abandoning his past and following the new adventure in life that beckoned to him, A totally new experience for mankind is here involved. We enter here a new level of life. We enter here a new understanding of life. We enter here a faltering search for man's purpose in living. It does not bother us to know that the Bible narrative is a human production, probably as late as c. 400 BCE. We are intrigued to know that our ancestors were as literarily masterful, as intellectually acute, and as morally profound as these narratives teach us. NOTICE Photos used in the Sept. 14 New Year's issue of the Jewish Press may be picked up at the Press office, M-F, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Questions? Call 334-6448.

Keynote Address Sunday, October 28, 2001 The Omaha Jewish Community Center, 7:30 p.m.

"Women of Valor: Posters and the Changing Representation of Jewish Women's History" Gail Twersky Reimer, Executive Director, Jewish Women's Archive

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AUDREY KRISHENBAUM Former Omahan Audrey Kbrshenbaum died Oct. 19 in Palm Springs, CA, at the age of 73. Services were held Oct. 24 at Beth El Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, Joe of Palm Springs; sons and daughters-in-law, Tom and Kate Kirshenbaum, Bill and Linda Kirshenbaum, and Dick and Kim Kirshenbaum, all of Omaha; grandchildren, Matt and Jennifer Kirshenbaum, Adam and Nikki Kirshenbaum, Brad and Anna Kirshenbaum and Morgan Marten; two greatgrandchildren; and sister, Marlene Hechtman of Sarasota, FL Memorials to charity of choice. MANDEL SIMON ServicesforManny Simon were held Oct. 2.3 at BHH/Fisher Farm Cemetery. He was 84. He was preceded in death by hiB son, Jeff. Survivors include his wife, Esther; eons and daughters-in-law, Michael and Sandy Simon and Mark and Rita Simon; and four grandchildren, David, Jonathan, Jason and Camille Simon, Memorials to Beth Israel Synagogue or the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home,

Women, of Valor Poster Series Available by JEWISH PRESS News Service

The Jewish Women's Archive has made available to Jewish schools around the country a unique resource: its Women of Valor posters. Focused on the achievements of notable American Jewish women, the series of 1(5 posters is accompanied.by resource guides for teachers and an extensive Internet exhibit on JWA's website: wwwjwa^org. "Jewish education has seen explosive growth in the last decade," said JWA Executive Director Gail Twersky Reimer, who will speak in Omaha, this Sunday, Oct. 28, 7 pan. at the JCC as part of the Klutznick Harris Symposium, Women and Judaism. "Too often, curricula have overlooked or omitted Jewish women from the telling of history, both sacred and secular. JWA's Women of Valor educational outreach program addresses that problem by telling the stories and detailing the accomplishments of remarkable Jewish women." Reimer suggested that the posters can be framed or laminated for display in schools or other Jewish institutions and used to initiate discussions, homework assignments and research projects. Schools may receive one set of the posters for free by contacting the JWA, (617) 232-2258 or by e-mail at: webmaster<gjwa.org.

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Take a Break If you're feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of news from the Middle East, bewildered about the effects of anthrax, or confused about what to expect in the future, take a break-go to the movies, enjoy a concert, make a reservation at your favorite restaurant, Gheck out either the Archeology Conference at the University of Nebraska at Omaha this weekend, or the Kiutznick-Harris Symposium Sunday and Monday. The UNO conference is entitled "Biblical Archeology for the 21st Century" and features scholars in this field (including former Omahan Dr. Richard Freund) as well as the premier of the documentary film, Return to the Cave of Letters, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., at the W.H. Thompson Alumni Center. Freund will return to Omaha at the end of November to speak with clergy from local churches and mosques. "Jews, Christians and Muslims in Trialogue" is the theme for a weekend at Temple Israel, Nov. 30-Dec. 2. "Women and Judaism" is the subject .for the 14th annual Kiutznick-Harris Symposium which, this year, offers lectures at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this Sunday and at

Creighton University on Monday. The keynote address is this Sunday, Oct. 28, 7:80 p.m., at the JCC, and features head of the Jewish Women's Archive, Gail Twersky Reimer. Unfortunately, the annual Women's Symposium, originally scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 4, had to be postponed. However, noted scholar and leader in Jewish education, Dr. Alice Shalvi, will come to Omaha next spring, at a date to be announced, said Steve Stiel, Executive Director of Jewish Family Service, coordinator of the annual event. At a date next spring, Dr. Shalvi, an articulate and passionate speaker, will talk about her experiences in education in Israel and her leadership in developing the Israel Women's Network, a leading women's volunteer organization which advocates for women and girls. She has championed such causes as equal opportunities for women in the workplace, education, the defense forces and health care. It doesn't stop here; Jewish Book Month opens with a talk from mystery writer Rachelle Krich on Wednesday, Nov. 7, noon, at the JCC. Omaha may be a small Jewish community, but there's no lack of things to do here!

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As horrifying as last month's attacks were, the hijacking of four airplanes on one day was not the unprecedented act it was made out to be by the press. In fact, it happened almost exactly 31 years ago. On Sept. 6, 1970, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked three jets (Swissair, TWA and Pan Am ) with more than 400 passengers on flights to New York. A fourth plane, an El Al flight, was also targeted, but Israeli security agents foiled the hijacking in midair and killed one of the two terrorists when they tried to storm the cockpit. On Sept. 9, a British BOAC jet was also hijacked by the PFLP.' The UN could not muster a condemnation of the hijackings. A Security Council Resolution only went so far as to express grave concern, and did not even bring the issue to a vote. This was in the days when ideological terrorism was more prominent than religious fanaticism and the hijackers were not interested in dying for the cause. Instead of flying their planes into buildings, they landed them on airfields (three in Jordan, one in Cairo). All four hijacked planes were blown up. on the ground-after passengers were taken off the planes--on Sept. 12, 1970.

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More than three dozen Americans were among the present day. the passengers who were then held hostage in The PFLP as an organization, and many of the Jordan as the terrorists attempted to blackmail the individual participants responsible for those hijackWestern governments and Israel to swap the ings still are alive and well, supported by Syria, the hostages for Palestinian terrorists held in their Palestinian Authority and others. In fact, Leila jails. On Sept. 14, after releasing all but 55 Khaled, the person who tried to hyack the El Al je,t, hostages, the terrorists said all American hostages was going to be admitted into the territories to would be treated as Israelis. attend the Palestine National Council meetings in A tense standoff ensued. Seven terrorists were 1996, but she still refused to disavow terrorism. ultimately set free by Britain, Germany and Today, she is said to live in Amman. Switzerland in exchange for the hostages. The The Administration has created the entirely false turning point, however, was when King Hussein impression that the terrorists, other than Osama decided this was the final insult in the Palestinian bin Laden, are unknown and impossible to find. campaign to take over his country and waged an It's simply not true. all-out war against Yasser Arafat and all the PLO We know precisely where many of them live and factions, ultimately driving them out of Jordan and train and who supports them. The perpetrators of into Lebanon. the 1970 hijackings are among them. We will know After the hyackings, shocked congressman called if Bush is serious about a war on terrorism if he for immediate and forceful action by the United goes after them. States and international community. They insisted Mitchell G, Bard is a foreign policy analyst on quick adoption of measures aimed at preventing in Maryland, His most recent book is The air piracy, punishing the perpetrators and recog- Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle East nizing the responsibility of nations that harbor Conflict. He is also the webmaster for the them. Virtually nothing was done and hijackings Jewish Virtual Library website: and other terrorist atrocities have continued up to www.JewishVirtualLibrary.org.

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U.S. vs Israel: If It Comes to Jewish Brother Against Brother by JACK ENGELHARD . . .. -"'"" M-, We are militarily underway against our enemy and its name is Radical Islamic Terrorism, personified by Osama Bin Laden. Notice our war (unfolding by the hour) as it parallels Israel's war. Our enemies, who slaughter 7,000 innocents in a 15minute attack upon New York and Washington, call U.S. terrorists as we move forward to defend ourselves. Sound familiar? Israel reacts against an outrage of terrorism and is immediately accused of aggression - aggression and provocation. For defending itself. It's illogical, it's insane, it's topsy turvy, but that's how the terrorist mind works. We can hit you but you can't hit back. Orwell saw it; coming. The Big Lie. But even as loyal Arab Americans suffer unjustly from racial stereotyping, another big lie is in the works, its most recent origin dating to that verbal flareup between Israel and the United States, or more precisely between Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush, namely when Sharon said Israel will not become the sacrificial offering to appease Arab moderates in the name of "coalition," (Can Sharon really be blamed for his undiplomatic outburst as AGAIN the world is silent to Jewish suffering?) What is this new, or rather old, big lie that keeps bubbling to the surface? This is that slander that questions Jewish American patriotism. Slyly, mischievously, as "subtly as the snake," the question of "dual loyalty" is stirred up by opportunistic provocateurs who view any tiff between the United States and Israel as a moment to sock it to tho Jews. Mainly upon the radio airwaves and within tho Internet world, this is the question: What would you do - you being Jewish - if (God forbid) war broke out between the United States and Israel? Whose side would you fight for? The question itself is an insult, as it is meant to be, but let me answer it in one word: AMERICA! Is this a knock against Israel? You bet it isn't. We love Israel. We worry day and night about Israel, We pray daily, sometimes three times a day, for its safety and well-being, But first and foremost we are Americans. Oh it hurts, just the thought of it, and surely the anti-Semites rejoice at this Sophie's Choice. Would it be like our Civil War? Brother against brother? Yes, yes it would. But the Talmud was clear and precise when it declared, The Law of the Land la the Law. Our land is America. Our law in American law. Therefore, without doubt, without; hesitation, yes, American Jews would take up arms even against Israel. The very question of Jewish loyalty, as I've said, is an insult. It alunderfl the thousands of JCWH who died defending America from the very beginning. "By the gathering of official statistics* writes American war veteran Robert Richter, "it was shown that Jews served in every war up through WWII in numbers far above the ratio compared to their population." Briefly, for this limited space, lliehter's research shows the following: "During the Civil War, upwards of 8,400 Jews fought, for tho Union and over .3,000 fourth I, for the Confederacy. Of a population of l«»a than 150,000 J«JWH iu tlu- U.S., .some

eight percent served, in comparison to four percent of the general population. Nine generals, 664 other officers, and one chaplain served with the Union Army. Seven Jewish soldiers personally received the Medal of Honor from President Lincoln. "In the War with Spain, the first volunteer was a Jew and the first casualty was a Jew, During World War One there were over two hundred thousand Jews in the Armed Forces. This represented about four percent of the service population while Jews accounted for only two and a half percent of the general population. Four Jewish service men were recipients of the Medal of Honor. "During World War Two, the total Jewish population was about 4.6 million out of 135 million Americans. Some 550,000 Jews served in the Armed Forces. While only three point three percent of the population, they represented some four and a quarter percent of the military. This is amazing, when only ten percent of the entire U.S. population was active in the Armed Forces. Over 6,200 Jews received decorations and citations. "Approximately 150,000 Jewish personnel served during the Korean War and about 130,000 Jews served with honor in Vietnam.1* If you're still with me, I bring all that up to head off, in my own small way, the scapegoating that I know is coming, and why-oh-why does it so often, these days, come from the Left? If they so favor civil and human righto, how in the name of heaven enn they find so many flaws against democratic Israel, while they give free passes to the 22 harsh dictatorships that surround the Jewish State? So... Boo to those who nix terrorism against us, but okay terrorism against Israel.. Boo to those who forget that tho Palestinian Arabs flatly declined to peacefully share the land of Israel, and resorted back to terrorism to ethnically cleanse Israel of Jews, Boo to the Arab nations thut find this moment so convenient to put the squeeze on Israel, Boo to any American leader who capitulates to that shakedown. Boo to those who equate Israeli defensive retaliation with Arab terrorism On another note, did anyone catch MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield when she interviewed the top mullah of Islamabad? Ms. Banfield was required to remain on her knees as she asked hor questions to the risen mullah, who hovered proudly over her submissiveness, The symbolism of that scene of Western Democracy on its knees before Radical Isliim - was not only alarming, but downright disgusting •• far more obscene than whatever Miss Monica did for Mr, Clinton. I wonder, when wu BOO ail these religious people on TV, be they mullahs or reverends, can we be sure they've been certified? Here in our own country we've got all these spiritual leaders who call themselves Reverend •- but are they really? What theological seminaries did they attend and did they ever receive graduation diplomas I mean legitimate diplomas ua opposed to those you buy mail order for $250. Two wuch American "Ruverendw" come to mind, f do not haw to nam« thorn. Same {foes' for men who call thorn

selves mullahs. Are they really? Or is tor covering the Middle East and it enough to have a long beard in is a farmer American volunteer in order to have an American reporter Israeli Special Forces. His latest on her knees? work is the pout-Holocaust memoir Escape from Mount Moriah: Jock Engelhard's UA View of the Memoirs of A Refugee Child's Absurd" op ed column is pub' Triumph (ComteQ Publishing). lished weekly in the Jewish Times He can be reached at of South Jersey. Engelhard in a JackEn0eIhard@OomteQcom.com farmer radio and newspaper edi-

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El Al's first female pilot, First Officer Merav Schwartz, 83, recently completed her first commercial flight for Israel's airline, firom Tel Aviv to Nairobi, Kenya. Schwartz was accepted to El Al's world renowned flight school in April, 2000, after having successfully served in the Israeli Air Force, as have all El A! pilots. After more than a year of training, Schwartz was assigned to El Al's Boeing 737 fleet, used for regional destinations in the Mediterranean as well as throughout Europe. Her future goal is to be assigned to the jumbo jets.

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The Claims Process The Commission will Investigate all the claims which are filed. In that process, the Commission will have access to historical Information from French public archives and banks, including lists of over 56,000 war-time account holders whose accounts were blocked under anti-Semitic German or Vichy laws. The Commission will also consider any evftfence provided by a cTafmarit. '"' " """ *• If, after investigating a claim, the Commission recommends compensation In a specific amount, that sum will be paid promptly by the administrator of the escrow fund and the Caisse des D6pdts el Consignations from a renewable US $50,000,000 escrow fund, established by the Banks. If the historical information available to the Commission confirms a claimant's account(s) and account balance(s) and there is no evidence of restitution on such account(s), the Commission is endeavoring to make awards as rapidly as possible following filing ol the claim. Deductions will be made only for prior, proven restitution, relating to a specific account. There will be no deduction In the case of compensation or restitution of non-bank assets. Under the Agreement, the Banks also have established a US $22,500,000 fund (the "Fund"), which will be used to make payments to claimants who may have had a bank account but whose names (or the names of their relatives) do not appear on any historical list and who otherwise do not have other evidence supporting their claim. If you believe you have such a claim, the Commission wili accept an affidavit in support of your claim. The Commission will refer the names and applications of claimants having no other evidence of any account to the Fund. The Fund will make initial payments of US$1,500 to such claimant within 30 days after referral by the Commission. A second payment of up lo US$1,500 may be made by the Fund after July 18,2002, subject to the amount remaining, if any, in the Fund. TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A PAYMENT FROM THE FUND, YOU MUST FILE A CLAIM WITH THE COMMISSION BY JULY 18,2002. The French Government has also established a Foundation for Memory ol the Shoah. The Foundation's initial funding will be approximately US$375,000,000, including approximately US$100,000,000 transferred by the banks. The Foundation will distribute funds to organizations Inside and outside France, including those that aid elderly or needy Holocaust survivors, and their families. W h i c h Banks a r e C o v e r e d b y t h e A g r e e m e n t The Agreement applies to claims against all banks doing business in France during Work) War II. This includes non-French banks that operated in France through branches or subsidiaries, such as predecessor banks of The Chase Manhattan Bank. As to Barclays Bank and J.P. Morgan & Co., separate settlements have been concluded and are described below. These settlements cover all bank accounts at those banks and their predecessors during World War II. H o w Do I P a r t i c i p a t e The Commission will investigate claims in the order they are received, but will, however, give priority lo claims by the aged, those in precarious financial circumstances, those in difficult social situations, and to those subject to referral to the Fund. To obtain information or an application form, you may write to: The Commission for Compensation of Victims of Spoliation, 1 rue de la Manutention, 75116 Paris, France. You may also call 00.800.2000.4000 (toll-free international numbei) or 1.866.254.3770 (toll-free from USA). ( This a paid advertisement)

You may also contact: - t h e Simon Wiesenthal Center in The United States at 1.800.900.9036, or In France at 33.(0)1.47.23.76.37; -the Consell RepnSsentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF) 3133.(0)1.42.17.11.11; -the Fonda Social Juil umftt (FSJU) at 33.(0)1.42.17.10.10; or the K p I M » e 3 < 0 ) f 3 5 3 4 Information Is also available on the Internet site of the C.f.V.S. (WMrw.clvs.gouy.fr) in French and English-arid soon in Hebrew. From the www.ctvs.gouv,fr Internet site, you may download and print the application (Including the questionnaire and forms for powers of attorney and proxies), which you may duty submit to the Commission by mall or fax (33.(0)1.56.62.85.73). You may also send your application (ora copy) to: -The Simon Wiesenthal Center, 64 Avenue Marceau, 75008 Paris, France; •-the CRIF, 39 rue Broca, 75005 Paris, France; -the FSJU, 39 rue Broca, 75005 Paris. France; -or the European Jewish Congress, 76 Avenue des Champs Elyse"es,75008 Paris, France, -• all of which organizations can assist you, at your request, in the application proceedings. To be eligible for payments from the Fund, claims must be received no later than July 18,2002. You may meet with representatives of the Commission in France or at contact centers at many French embassies and consulates around the world. You may also request that a representative to which you have given a power of attorney, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center or the other organizations named above, meet with representatives of the Commission on your behalf. Barclays Bank a n d J.P. M o r g a n & Co. Class A c t i o n S e t t l e m e n t s Separate settlements have been concluded with two other banks that operated in France during World War II: Barclays Bank and J.P. Morgan & Co. These settlements are different from the Agreement described above. First, for Barclays Bank and J.P. Morgan only, the United States District Couit in the Bodner and Benisti cases has certified a worldwide settlement class, such that these settlements wili bind all persons who do not exclude themselves by following the procedures in the mailed notice for these settlements. Second, these settlements make available to claimants separate funds established by these banks to satisfy claims. II you believe that you or your family had any kind of bank account with Barclays Bank, or J.P. Morgan & Co. or their predecessors, in France during World War II, you may obtain information on these separate settlements. You may also obtain information on the deadlines for filing objections or exclusion requests, and the claims filing deadline by telephoning 1.800.714.3304 (in the United States), 04»00.9t4.842 (in France) or 1.800.93,00.011 (in Israel), or by consulting the Internet sites: www.barcl8ysfrenchclaims.org and www.jpm0rganfrenchclaims.0r9, or by writing to the Barclays/J.P. Morgan Settlement Administrator at P.O. Box 9260, Garden CKy, N w York 11530. If you do not know the name of the French bank with which you or your family may have had an account, please contact the Commission at the address listed above.

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October 26, 2001

BERTSEYE VIEW by ART GROSSMAN

by BERT LEWIS

The main topic at the last meeting of the Early 1 usually reserve this space for light, humorous (I try to explain and help them understand this horhope) bits and pieces about things which are not rific event of terrorism. Even if many workplaces Bird group was America's war on terrorism and very serious, but given the events of the past have provided counselors for employees to talk to, the newest £sor£s--anthrax. For clarification: how month, that's getting harder to do. Especially when the burden is too much to keep inside. Even do people get the deadline germ? If breathed into when, like many of you, I have family members if the air in my child's New York apartment still the lungs, or eaten, or if it lands on a scratch, or stinks of the smoke from the smoldering ruins. . . other broken skin. very close to those scenes of unspeakable tragedy. lit is not contagious. People do not spread the more than a month later. One of my kids lives in the shadow of what was bacteria to others. Can it be treated? Yes, a variety •I can only wonder and feel profound sympathy the World Trade Center. She watched, with indeof antibiotics are extremely effective for skin for the thousands of people who will never again scribable horror, as the two towers collapsed. She was one of the many New Yorkers who walked see a loved one who went off to work one morning, anthrax. What are the symptoms? A painless blishome to her apartment in downtown Manhattan, and is now gone forever. Or the folks who dropped ter, red around the edges. A day or two later, it and was greeted with armed National Guardsmen, off a dear one at the airport expecting to see them becomes a black open sore, which dries to leave a posted all over the neighborhood, demanding to see again in a day or two or three, but that won't hap- black scab and falls off after a week or two. Your odds of NOT contracting anthrax are identification before allowing her to enter the area. pen. Those air passengers will not return from greater than that of winning Powerball. So quit I have another family representative in Florida, their flight. The politicians and the statesmen and the world worrying about opening your mail. much too close to places where any piece of mail Also discussed: Americans, age 100 or older, which looks suspicious might contain a deadly leaders and the religious leaders of the free world number 50,000 plus, a 35% increase during the have an enormous task before them. They are virus. past decade. Maybe we seniors kvetch a bit more charged with the responsibility of bringing a large If I knew of a place in these United States which than we did in our youth, but you are still here! group of criminals to justice. If we're fortunate, and I thought might be 100% safe from the evil-doers of Our luncheon speaker was Janice Gilmore, a the world, I'd wish I could gather all my kids if our leaders are up to their task, they will succolumnist in the World-Herald. A former Omaha together in that place. Unfortunately, I don't know ceed. that such a haven exists. And if I did, then what? There have been many evils in our world since Public Schools principal, she passed on words of We have to go on with our lives, even though the beginning of recorded history, but we must wisdom on how to make life more pleasant. "Everyone has a gift that helps others through we're fearful of what might yet be in store for us. remember they didn't last forever.. Neither will this. With the best of every possible life," she said, "Use it." We watch and listen to every known expert who Shalom. reports what we hope is correct information; we resource, the hunted will be found and made to read every word written by nationally syndicated answer for their crimes. And this too, shall pass. columnists; we discuss and voice our opinions to our friends and, yet, nobody knows exactly what to expect or what we can do, or most frightening of all, what's going to happen? by CLAUDIA SHERMAN, Temple Israel Communications Coordinator" We're not accustomed to this kind of shreck. Why Even little kids need a stress-free, environment been a participant in the class, is the Torah Tots would we be? Nothing of such magnitude has ever sometimes—a place where they can sing, make teacher. occurred in this country. We're here, in our free, crafts, enjoy snacks and snuggle up with their parDeb Marburg, who enrolled in Torah Tots with democratic land, because somebody among our ents for a story. her son, Solomon, said the class "was a great way elders decided he could no longer live in a country For almost 10 years, Temple Israel has offered to reinforce a lot of the traditions that we have in where he couldn't openly practice his religion or Torah Tots, a unique program for families to share our homo, and we met other kids and other parvoice an opinion without fear of harm. And which "quality time" with their toddlers, 18-months to ents. It was a great way to spend a Friday morning one of us never at one time said, "This is a free four years old. "Torah Tots is a chance to learn and with your toddler." country!" 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Home Lands: Portraits of the New Jewish Diaspora

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Reviewed by AARON LEIBEL, Washington Jewish Week, Arts Editor.

WASHINGTON - This book provides a fascinating, well-written glimpse into Jewish renewal in seven Diaspora communities. As such, it is a pleasure to read. But it is also a plea for a different relationship between the Diaspora and Israel. Here, I have some serious reservations. First to the Diaspora communities. Author Larry Tye, a Boston Globe reporter, begins with the Jewish community of Dusseldorf, Germany, 6,000 souls many from the former Soviet Union living "in the land of [Nazi] murderers," Ironically, Germany is home to the fastest growing Jewish community in the world, Tye notes. Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, a city of 1.3 million people and a Jewish population estimated at anywhere from 10,000 to 75,000, is the second stop on this world tour. There shouldn't be any Jews'in this area, Tye explains, after followers of Cossack Bohdan Khmelnytsky in the 17th century and of Adolf Hitler in the 20th so gleefully murdered Jews; the Soviets discriminated against them and encouraged them to abandon their heritage; and so many Jews left for Israel, Germany and the United States after the Soviet Union disintegrated and the gates were opened. But Jews remain, and, of course, there is a local joke to celebrate that. "When the last Jew leaves this city, 2000 Jews will BOO him off," says

Alexandr Abramovitch Fridkis, a community lay leader. Other communities explored include Buenos Aires, where the bomb that wrecked the Argentine Israelite Mutual Aid Association (AMIA), killing 86 people, led to a Jewish spiritual rebirth; Dublin, whose tiny community is dwindling as young Jews intermarry or emigrate; Paris, where an influx of Sephardi Jews from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria helped force French Jews into innovative solutions to the usual Jewish problems of assimilation and gaps between traditional and less observant, Ashkenazim and Sephardim; and Atlanta, where the Jewish population is booming but less observant than other American Jewish communities. The most interesting account of a Diaspora city is, not surprisingly, Tye's own Boston. Hare, the author chronicles the fascinating journey of his family. His maternal greatgrandfather understood that the fertile religious climate, of Lithuania, which had produced eight generations of rabbis in the family, could not be replicated in Boston; his paternal great-grandfather danced along the steerage deck on his way to the goldeneh medina until passengers on the first-class deck threw coins, enabling the young, man to buy MB first banana and eat it after he figured out that the fruit first must be peeled. Prom his observation of these cities

and elsewhere Tye concludes that "the diaspora is here to stay" and that after 2000 years, "Jews can finally say they have new homes." In other words, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's statement, when he was newly elected, calling on Jews to make aliyah is "outmoded." Tye calls for a new relationship between Israel and the Diaspora based on wa partnership of equals." To say that massive aliyah from the West is not in the cards in the immediate future is simply stating the obvious. But to view the Diaspora as perfectly acceptable and equal in the Jewish world to Israel as Tye does, is an affront tn countless generations of our ancestors who, when they prayed, "Next year in Jerusalem," meant precisely thnt.. That was much more than j"unt a prayor. The promise of a return to crvtz Yisracl iw one of the most enduring lih'tuonl.B of .Judaism. And the dre:mi of that return has helped Jews persist throughout tho ugcH. More imporl.nnt dospitts tho bawie truth of Tyo'« description of inimmdorslandiiiRs botwoon Diaspora and IHI'MOH Jt>wH his proscription would inevitably Uuid to a schinm between LhoHo two groups ijuud dia«at«r for both. I propose a different partnership. Israelis should never disparage Diaspora JCWB who choose not to make aliyah but tmy, "When you're ready, the door will be open.*

Diaspora Jews should not say, "Never," when asked about aliyah, but rather "Not yet." Nor, in light of the persistence of anti-Semitism in different regimes and in different eras, should Diaspora Jews including those living in the United States be so cocksure that anti-Jewish feelings won't make a comeback. Here, we need look no farther than the author's own family, which changed its name from the Jewishsounding Tikotsky to the ethnically neutral Tye some 75 years ago to protect family members from American anti-Semitism, Admittedly, it is difficult to envision a return to widespread anti-Semitism in the pluralistic United States of the 21st century. But my crystal ball is permanently cloudy, and, don't forget, the Jewish community in pre-1933 Germany was almost, as assimilated and self-confident as today's American Jews. ICw-ii if then; in no return to largescale anli St'initiam, Judaism's othur vexing problem, nHHimilttlion, shows no aitfUB of going away. Thorp continue to be only two possible courses of action for anyone wanting to counter nstumtlaLion and maximize tho probabilities that his/her grandchildren will count themselves part of the Jewish people: become Orthodox Jews or make aliyah. This book is available at the Kripke Jewish Federation Library.

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Temple Service to Honor Rabin

House Party Offers Opportunity for Jewish Understanding, ielaxation

by LINDA SALTZMAN i — : by CLAUDIA SHERMAN, ever, Rubin adds. Need to relax but don't know how? Temple Israel Communications Coordinator The fifth house party sponsored by the Jewish "Nowadays, when you're in Even as we, as Americans, try to restore ourFederation Women's Campaign might provide the fear, is the time to meditate selves to a state of normalcy in the wake of the answer. and release the fear,* she _ Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States, we "Introducing Jewish Meditation," presented by said. Suzy Rubin, is Tuesday, Nov. 13, 10 a.m. and Interested participants should contact Sally remember tlie late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak 7 p.m., at Rubin's studio, 11823 Mason Plaza. Zipursky at 445-0802 for Rabin, assassinated six years ago on Nov. 4 in Tel Hostesses for the party are Anne Cohen and Sandy reservations and information. Aviv. In celebration of Rabin's life and vision, Kutier. Zipursky can also be reached Temple Israel will combine this with its Shabbat by e-mail at saHy@cfaom&- service on Friday, Nov. 2 , 8 pan. Rubin, who has been teaching mediation for about 40 years, says Jewish meditation is a way for ha.com. Seven years before the attack on the World Trade participants to become more connected to the Torah Left Omaha rebbitsin told Center and Pentagon, almost to the day, Rabin and Jewish prayers, their own stories of what said in a speech in Washington, B.C., "We have it means to be a Jewish come from an anguished and grieving land." He "By studying Jewish meditation, Pve felt closer to matriarch at the last was talking about the state of Israel then, the Jewish faith and better understood what the A military man for 27 years asA Chief of Staff of House Party. Among them prayers meant," she said. the Israel Defense Forces from 1964-SS who led was Nadine KutnerMeditation also helps people become more Israel to victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, Babha is relaxed and connected to best remembered for his work on £be Oslo Peace themselves and their Accords between Israel and the Palestinians. Along needs. with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, Rabin was "These days, we're too awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994. In October busy to relax," she said. of that year, he signed the peace treaty between "If you have a question Israel and Jordan. and keep on talking, you'll As Rabin completed his final speech ia 1995, he never get an answer." was fatally shot by a Jewish extremist opposed to Meditation, she says, efforts to achieve peace. provides a way for people Temple Israel's Rabbi BebM Stiel will lead fee to find results through service, dedicated to Rabin's memory and legacy of deep relaxation. Rubin peace. In this current time of turmoil, Sabin's messaid she will teach party ^ sage of finding a peaceful solution between Israel participants how to relax •'• their brains and calm "Me? A M a t r i a r c h ? " t h e last and hostess of the event, Audi and t h e Palestinians will be commemorated. their minds. House P a r t y , a t t r a c t e d a big Kavich; her daughter-in-law, Cantor Wendy Sfaenaet will lead the congregation The need to relax is crowd, including; P a t t y Nogg, Nanci Kavich; and Women's Co- in songs of peace. important now more than 2002 Women's Campaign Co- chair Joanie Jacobson. chair; Amee Zetzman; her mother

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