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Attendees of the Tuesday, May 8, 7-9 p.m., open forum for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home will “walk” through the facility on a virtual tour that features a look inside the Special Care Unit dedicated to those with early to midstage dementia and Alzheimer’s. The computer-generated tour also offers colored renderings of fabrics and furnishings in all reconfigured resident rooms and common areas.The event -- part of the Blumkin Home New Beginning Community Campaign, led by Paul and Sandy Epstein and Richard and Joanie Jacobson, is at Ironwood Country Club and is free and open to all. Dessert will be served. A second open forum is scheduled for Wednesday, May 30, 7-9 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. Among the hosts and hostesses are Blumkin Home residents: Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, seated left, Sara Lohrman, Norm and Marge Lincoln, standing, and Dave Dvorkin.

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Three-year-old program building long-term connections to Israel by JACOB BERKMAN JERUSALEM (JTA) -Jared Baluvan is from Highland Park, N.J. Jared Blumenfeld is from Beverly Hills. Both are 18 and in Israel volunteering on an ambulance as part of Young Judaea’s Year Course in Israel. But while the $15,000 tuition for the nine-month program was no problem for the Blumenfeld family, Baluvan’s needed some help. Assisting families like the Baluvans was why the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli government started MASA, (an Israeli acronym) which offers grants of up to Girls from the Young Judaea Year Course Shalem program meet up with friends at a MASA $10,000 to Diaspora Jews event for American youth in Israel, back row: Naomi Mitchell, left, Estee Katcoff, Liat Tretin, aged 18 to 30 to participate Karen Gordon, Racheli Rubin, Katie Wolfson; front row: Esther Shatz, Avi Katzman, and Credit: Avi Katzman in long-terms programs in Deena Wolloch. MASA wants to use the experience to create future Israel. The program has helped bring some 7,800 participants to Israel this year from 50 countries. They par- Jewish leaders and show that Israel is no longer a state ticipate in programs ranging from Orthodox yeshivas to that just takes money from the Diaspora, but is an equal training seminars for secular Zionist youth movements. partner in building broader Jewish community. Assistance from MASA has opened up programs like The idea, MASA officials say, is that extended time in Israel and immersion in Israeli society is the best way to Livnot U’Lehibanot -- which combines volunteerism, build Jewish identity and form a connection to the learning and hiking -- to more people like Ben Pitt. Jewish state. Continued on page 2

Daughter of the “Enemy of the People” learns the secrets of her parents’ trials by MARY ETUS Special to the Jewish Press The year of 2007 will bring two anniversaries in the tumultuous history of Russia and, consequently, the world: the 1917 October Revolution and the 1937 Moscow Trials. These show-trials known in the West as the Great Purges, were campaigns orchestrated by Joseph Stalin to eliminate the remaining opposition, mainly Trotskyists, to the Soviet regime. To the stage of the 1936-38 Moscow Trials were brought high ranking officials: most of the People’s Commissars, Soviet ministers, the most important Soviet diplomats, the leaders of the Comintern, Communist International, the economic chiefs, the best leaders of the Red Army, the Heads of Soviet republics, the NKVD (named KGB in 1953). The defendants were accused of conspiring with the western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, to dismember the Soviet Union, to restore capitalism. Following the Moscow Trials, numerous smaller scale trials of lower level figures swept over the vast country. Stalin’s macabre plot against his own people yielded heavy losses. Between 1937 and 1939 from five to five and a half million people (alleged traitors, spies, saboteurs, subversive elements, socially dangerous elements, etc., collectively called enemies of the people) were arrested. Not less

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than a third of them had been shot, and many of the rest died in the camps, (Dmitry Volkogonov and Trotsky). Among those thousands persecuted in the Moscow Trials were the three members of Lydia Linde’s (maiden name Bychovskaya) family: her father, 51, and brother, 21, were sentenced to death and executed, while her mother, 44, got an eight-year term in Corrective Labor Camps. Lydia, then 10, survived. She survived WWII, the rough post-war years, the 11 years as a refusnick when she was denied permission to Lydia Linde, a Volunteer of the Year for the Kripke Library -emmigrate. Against all odds, pictured here in the Russian section, unveils the secrets and she and her husband, Eugene tragedies of her life in the former Soviet Union. Lydia Linde: I dare say, yes. My Linde, ended up in Omaha in 1990. Jewish Press: Lydia, 2007 marked a father’s personality was that of strong milestone event in your life -- your 80th integrity, dedication to principle. He was birthday in March. I also hope you remain one of the old guard. My elder brother the way we all know you -- the “Moscovite” Yuriy had definitely inherited his dad’s brand -- an intelligent, vivacious, definite- genes. Yuriy was an awfully bright young ly elegant, broad minded lady. It is due to man in his own right, but not as revoluyour fine taste in literature and certainly, tionary minded. Before 1937, our childthe financial contribution made by hood passed in an atmosphere of intellecLeonard and Shirley Goldstein, that we tuality and high culture, with lots of boast an amazing collection of Russian books and music; my father played the books. Speaking of a person’s traits, do you cello. Our home was often crowded with papa’s friends and colleagues. Then, one think they could be hereditary?

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fine day, everything went upside down... JP: Given the extraordinary fate of your family members, I’d attempt to write four part -- one to each of you. Will you be able to survive the “trial”? LL: I’ll try. THE FATHER JP: Lydia, I have a special birthday present for you. I did some research on the Internet and found an article titled “The Moscow Shootings” with your father’s name in it. It reads like this: “Bychovsky Naum Isaakovich, 1887, Smolensk, Jew, Menshevick: a member of the Russian Social-Democratic Party till 1923, Statistics Department Manager of the Central Scientific Research Institute for Water Transport.” Could you ever anticipate seeing your father’s name on the Internet after all those years? LL: Well, that Internet-- I always said it’s shocking. I just can’t imagine something like that could have happened. True, my father threw himself into politics from an early age and he was with the Menshevicks. I assume it goes back to 1903, when at their Second Party Congress, the Russian revolutionaries split into two parties: the Menshevicks,minority or the democratic fraction of Marxists socialists, and the Bolshevicks, the majority or Lenin’s followers. My father was only 17 then. I would say this photo of him (on page 18) belongs to that period. Continued on page 18

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Program building connections to Israel Continued from page 1 Pitt, 23, felt he needed time to figure out what he wanted to pursue after graduating from Brown University. He had been to Israel several times with his family and had gone on a birthright israel trip, but wanted to return after school to do something more productive. The Providence, R.I., native said the Old City of Safed, where he lives with 18 other Livnot volunteers, was just the place. He’s finding perspective in a town famous for Jewish mysticism, where a typical conversation “starts with talking about the weather, and in 10 minutes you’re talking about why we’re here.” By day Pitt and the other Safed-based volunteers work in local schools teaching English to elementary school students. In their free time they explore the country. MASA started in 2004 with 45 participating programs; since then another 120 have joined. In an effort to ensure diversity, it wants more programs that promote pluralism and build the non-Orthodox religious movements in Israel, and that focus on helping weaker, impoverished segments of society. Programs must meet a series of requirements, which include an emphasis on teaching Hebrew, and strengthening Jewish identity and Zionism, as well as involvement and volunteerism in Israeli society. Each program receives a stipend. Long-term study in Israel traditionally has been dominated by the Orthodox -- a pre-college year or two in an Israeli yeshiva is typical for graduates of American yeshiva high school students. Others, like 2006 Westside graduate Nate Joseph who is studying at Ohr Dovid in Jerusalem, choose a year in Israel post-high school because a public school experience doesn’t allow enough time for traditional chavrusastyle (one-on-one) learning. But MASA money has spurred the formation of some 40 new programs that draw from a vastly different pool of Jews, MASA spokesman Lior Shmueli said. The Rimon School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv and the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem both have started programs for overseas students. The Reform movement in Israel has developed or upgraded five programs. Such opportunities have drastically shifted the ratio of Orthodox to non-Orthodox students from overseas who spend a year in Israel after high school. Before 2004 it was estimated that approximately 2,000 Orthodox students studied in Israeli yeshivas, while there were about 2,000 non-Orthodox students in universities and gap-year programs. This year there are about 3,000 Orthodox students and 5,000 non-Orthodox students in long-term programs, Shmueli said. The number of Orthodox students receiving MASA money could continue to fall as MASA officials take a harder look at participating yeshivas to make sure they comply with the organization’s Zionist and participatory requirements. MASA also could help fill social needs in Israel. As the economy increasingly is privatized and the government

cuts welfare benefits, MASA participants will provide more than 200,000 days of community service in 400 fields this year -- like another 2006 Westside graduate Marty Nachman. In addition to rigorous college-level courses, Nachman worked on a kibbutz as part of his nine-month program with NATIV, the Conservative movement’s post-high school program in Israel. MASA also could provide an economic boon to communities where participants spend a year. Programs often need to rent apartments for their participants, sometimes in the lower-income neighborhoods they serve. In addition to the rent, there are taxes and water and electricity bills that are paid to local municipalities. It’s a big help, said Avi Noam Grenot, an Education Ministry official in Holon, which houses a Young Judaea group. Young Judaea, the youth movement of Hadassah, suggests that participants bring a minimum of $4,000 in spending money, and participants, especially the Americans, often come flush with cash, which they spend in local restaurants and markets, going skiing near Mt. Hermon or diving off the beaches of Eilat. Avi Katzman, a third 2006 Westside graduate in Israel for the year, has lived in apartments in Tel Aviv suburbs. She assisted students with English in a Bat Yam school and now volunteers with a Petach Tikvah fire station. But down time is often spent taking buses to shop on Tel Aviv’s hip Sheinkin Street or going out to eat with friends in other Israeli cities like Netanya and Haifa. “It’s easy to get around,” Katzman said, “especially since my conversational Hebrew has improved living in neighborhoods where little English is spoken.” While many participants say they are considering aliyah, that’s not MASA’s goal. MASA officials say they want participants to become leaders in their home Jewish communities as activists and later as philanthropists. Since MASA’s inception there has been debate about partnering with birthright israel, which since 1998 has sent more than 100,000 young Jews to Israel on free 10-day tours. MASA officials would like their program to be the official follow-up to birthright, but birthright officials have hedged on the issue. MASA’s funding also will change next year, which has some program directors anxious. Instead of granting up to $10,000 per participant based solely on need, MASA will provide $2,000 to every American undergraduate student and $4,500 to every American graduate student. The program will retain need-based scholarships of up to $10,000 for participants from the former Soviet Union and some other areas, and will have a $2.5 million fund for additional need-based scholarships to Americans, MASA CEO Elan Ezrahi said. “This is an exciting time,” Ezrahi said. “As Jews become more interested in social service, now they can come here to Israel and do it in a pluralistic but nationalistic way.” MASA, he said, “is the merger of two worlds.” Omahan Brandon Thomas agrees; he’ll be part of that group in Young Judaea’s Year Course for 2007-08. Jewish Press Editor Carol Katzman contributed to this article.

Pandemic Flu Preparedness workshop to be presented at Temple Israel by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Every winter, the United States suffers a seasonal flu that kills approximately 36,000 Americans and hospitalizes more than 200,000. If you get your flu shot every year, you’re probably not worried. But some health experts warn of a far more lethal kind of flu -- a pandemic flu that could kill more than one million Americans, hospitalize more than two million, cost our economy a staggering $70-$160 billion in lost productivity and direct medical expenses, and impact virtually every community. To learn more about pandemic flu, Steve Danon, a member of Temple Israel and director of risk control services at Marcotte Insurance Agency, has organized a workshop to be presented on Sunday, May 6, 10 a.m., Temple Israel. Danon has asked Keith Hansen, pandemic outreach coordinator at The Center for Bio Preparedness, and Dr. Adi Pour, director of the Douglas County Health Department, to join him at the twohour workshop. Hansen will talk about “What’s the REAL Threat?” and Dr. Pour will address “What About Us?” Danon will speak about “What Can We Do About It?” Public health authorities are concerned that the avian “bird flu” virus could mutate into a new strain of flu for which humans would have no immunity. The World Health Organization has warned that such a bird flu

pandemic could infect 25 to 30 percent of the world’s population. If a severe pandemic were to hit the United States, life as we know it could be seriously disrupted. Businesses and schools might have to shut down. Travel could be restricted. Essential government services including sanitation, water, power, and social services could be interrupted. The food supply could be affected. Public gatherings, including worship services, might have to be cancelled. “During any type of crisis, there are some things we cannot control,” said Danon. “By becoming informed and knowing what we can control, the opposite is usually the case. People become empowered. This is a factbased, informative seminar. People will learn what the potential threat is and what they as individuals and a community can do to prepare.” He also noted, “there will always be those who cry…the sky is falling, and we can’t do anything about it. The workshop will cover the potential impact and most importantly, what we as individuals and a community can do when this occurs. Quite simply, not doing anything is like driving your automobile without a seatbelt.” Danon said the entire Jewish community is welcome to attend the workshop which will be presented at congregations throughout Douglas County. In addition to the speakers, the American Red CrossHeartland Chapter will present information on “Home Preparedness.”

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Youngest of Schindler’s List to share his inspiring story by BETH SELDIN DOTAN Director, Institute for Holocaust Education Leon Leyson, a retired industrial arts teacher and resident of Fullerton, California, will share his experiences as the youngest survivor of Oscar Schindler’s list during World War II on Sunday, May 6, 1 p.m., at Beth El Synagogue. Leyson, born in 1929, was the youngest of five children from Narewka, Poland. Following the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, the family moved into the Krakow Jewish Ghetto. After their harrowing experiences there, some of the family was reunited in Schindler’s factory. Leyson was small and had a difficult time reaching the handles on the factory machinery. He had to stand on an upside-down box in order to work. Schindler was fond of him, nicknaming him “little Leyson” and showing him many kindnesses. Most important of these kind acts was that which saved his life: including his name on the final list. Leyson’s two eldest brothers did not survive the war, but Leon, his parents and brother and sister were saved by Schindler. “My brothers, Howard and Ernie, and I decided that Leon Leyson would be our speaker for several reasons. Not only is he the youngest survivor, but he will speak about the extra kindness that Schindler bestowed upon ‘young Lenny’. Leyson speaks from his heart and does he have a tale to tell!” said Donna Kaiman. “This program has been important to me and to my family. Samuel and Ida Kaiman were parents with great values. They believed that their children should have a good secular education as well as an excellent Jewish education. It is a tribute to them and the program keeps their fond memory alive in our hearts and mind.” The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by The Samuel and Ida Kaiman Endowment Fund and the Institute for Holocaust Education. Questions about this program should be directed to the Institute for Holocaust Education, 333.1303.

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Two RBJH volunteers receive United Way awards by ANDREA BARTMAN for JSS/RBJH The 52nd Annual United Way of the Midlands Volunteer Recognition Luncheon took place downtown at the Doubletree Hotel last week, where two long time volunteers for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home were recognized for their outstanding service and Miles Remer their commitment to the residents of the RBJH and the United Way. Miles Remer and Bernie Altsuler were among the recipients of “Outstanding Volunteer” awards in various categories. They were in the company of a room full of exceptional people ranging in background from work at the Red Cross and Leukemia Society to various churches and Omaha area companies. Sally Ganem, Nebraska’s First Lady, was in attendance to provide the proclamation of National Volunteer Week. Among her comments, the First Lady noted that Nebraska is ranked number two in volunteerism among all 50 United States. Master of Ceremonies, Devon Patton, an anchor and reporter for Action 3 News, quoted President John F. Kennedy in his opening comments by saying, “We have the power, right now, to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world.” Remer and Altsuler represent this ideal and the theme celebrated at this year’s luncheon; “Inspire by Example!” They are both examples of the type of commitment and fun-loving attitude it takes to be a great volunteer. Remer was awarded the Outstanding Volunteer award in the Cultural category and Altsuler in the Elderly category. Jim Wax, last year’s winner of the Leota G. Norton Community Service Award, presented this year’s winner with the award. “The Jewish expression of being a “mensch” (meaning an honorable and decent person) hits home with Miles Remer in every way. Miles is an extremely valuable asset to Jewish Senior Services. “He is most deserving to

receive the award,” says Maggie Conti, Director of Activities and Outreach Programs for Jewish Senior Services. According to Conti, Remer is a three-term CoPresident of L.O.V.E. (League Offering Volunteers for the Elderly), an auxiliary organization at the RBJH. He chairs the presidency Bernie Altsuler with his wife, Eileen, and their duties include: running the monthly board meetings, organizing fund raising, attending the Jewish Senior Services Board meetings, personally attending and working at all functions such as the Israel Independence Day Celebration, the Bazaar at Beth El, and all L.O.V.E. sponsored parties. Miles is a Shabbat Service Leader for the Blumkin Home Residents on Saturday mornings. He also was a leader for the community Passover Seder which was held at the Jewish Community Center. Altsuler, according to Lois Wine, Director of Volunteer Services for the RBJH, is as handsome on the inside as he is on the outside. Everyone who knows him considers his friendship to be a gift. Says Wine, “Many of his friends no longer drive and Bernie becomes their chauffeur. He takes people out for dinner, to movies and to doctor’s appointments. He picks up individuals who want to volunteer but don’t have transportation.” According to Wine, Altsuler has volunteered to help with the RBJH weekly sing-along for the past 15 years. He’s the resident comedian, telling jokes every week that gain him applause, laughter and sometimes even groans! When the regular leader of the sing-along is absent, he willingly fills the opening. His amateur photography skills have chronicled many fun events at the Home and fill books that bring hours of pleasure to his friends who live there. As a member of the Lomir Redn Yiddish Group, Altsuler is doing his part to help preserve a language dear to his people’s history. He also helps in providing research and programming for the meetings.

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Jews from across the country respond to Virginia Tech tragedy by BEN HARRIS NEW YORK (JTA) -- Two days after her bucolic campus in the mountains of southwest Virginia became the focus of national attention, the Hillel director at Virginia Tech was still reeling. “Hectic” and “exhausting” were the words Sue Kurtz used to describe the aftermath of the April 16 shooting spree that claimed 32 lives, plus the gunman’s - the worst shooting rampage in modern American history. None of the university’s 1,400 Jewish students was believed to be among the dead -- but many Jewish students knew someone who died. Hillel president Rochelle Low was best friends with Caitlin Hammaren, 19, a sophomore from Westtown, N.Y. who was killed during a French class. Hammaren was a regular participant in Hillel events and was widely known to Jewish students. Kurtz was close with slain French instructor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak. An April 17th evening memorial service at the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center drew an overflow crowd that locals said dwarfed attendance on the High Holy Days. When the service finished, students walked to a campus-wide ceremony organized by the student government. Everyone lifted candles at the same time, and the Jewish students sang “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem. “It was unbelievable,” Kurtz said. “It was just so powerful.” In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy Kurtz was deluged with e-mails and phone calls, particularly from con-

Students take part in a vigil at Virginia Tech on April 17, 2007. Credit: Courtesy of Lindsay Katona cerned parents, some of whom could not umbrella organization of local Jewish fedreach the campus for several days or were erations, has provided a $10,000 emerleft unsettled by the way their children gency grant to the Virginia Tech Hillel. A sounded on the telephone. rabbi and two students from New York Though Kurtz says the counseling and University also traveled to Blacksburg to support provided by the university has help Kurtz cope with the demands of parbeen “amazing,” she plans to host com- ents and media. Hillel planned to dismunal dinners for Jewish students at least patch two professionals to the campus through the end of next week. The this week. national office of Hillel: The Foundation “The Jewish community has come for Jewish Campus Life is assisting with together,” Kurtz said. “It has been beaulogistics and financing. tiful.” Meanwhile, support from national On April 17, Yossel Kranz and Shlomo Jewish organizations has been pouring in. Mayer, the Chabad emissaries in The United Jewish Communities, the Richmond and Charlottesville, VA, head-

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Symphony flutist Maria Harding to join Cantor Wendy Shermet in concert by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Maria Harding, who has been principal flutist with the Omaha Symphony for eight years, will present a concert with Temple’s Cantor Wendy Shermet on Saturday, May 5, 7:30 p.m., at Temple Israel. Currently on leave from her permanent position with the Omaha S y m p h o n y, Harding lives in Kansas City with her husband Nestor Maria Harding Herszbaum who is playing his second season as principal flutist of the Kansas City Symphony. In between caring for their two young children, Uri, seven, and Mila, four, Harding is active as a soloist and a teacher. “I do love traveling to play in other cities,” she said, “and most of my work offers these past two years have been from out-of-town orchestras and touring companies.” She turns down many of the offers in order to spend most of her time with her children. Harding’s parents are both well trained amateur musicians. “Music was a big part of what I was exposed to as a young person,” she explained. “I chose the flute when I was a teenager, because it was different from what my parents played -- being a rebellious teen, after all! And it was the easiest to carry! I had a lot of other interests and couldn’t have a trombone weighing me down! “As a too-busy, too-distracted teenager, I found a very savvy and dedicated teacher, Margaret Redcay, in my hometown of Lubbock, Texas,” Harding mentioned. At 16, she left Texas to study at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She attended graduate school at the University of Cincinnati where she met her husband. “The same year we were married,” she said, “I won the audition for principal flutist of the Charleston (South Carolina) Symphony. A year later, in 1997, I was appointed principal in Omaha.”

According to Harding, “Omaha has a surprisingly strong orchestra for the size of the city. I think playing with the Omaha Symphony rivals that of even the very best orchestras with which I’ve performed.” During her eight seasons in Omaha, the orchestra featured her as a c o n c e r t o soloist in 16 concerts. Most of Harding’s teaching has been to private students of all ages and ability levels. “I love teaching when Cantor Wendy Shermet the students are really dedicated to improving. It doesn’t matter whether they plan to be career musicians or not.” She travels around the country two or three times a year to visit universities and conservatories to present recitals and master classes which are group classes for a few individuals who present an intense performance in front of their peers. “Teaching at this level is very satisfying, and it allows me to talk in greater musical detail than I do with most of my private students.” She added that, “Slowly, more concert opportunities are taking shape in Kansas City.” She plays once a month at Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community in Kansas City, for their group birthday celebrations. “What a privilege,” she said. Since 1997, Harding has performed regularly, about three times a year including during the High Holidays, at Temple Israel. But she and Cantor Shermet have never done a formal concert together. “I’m glad it’s finally taken shape even if it takes some extra mileage to make it happen!” Harding admitted. As for Cantor Shermet, she remarked, “I love making music with Maria” Among her awards, Harding won first place as a soloist in a major competition with the National Flute Association in 1989. Following the concert, there will be a wine and cheese reception. Tickets for this event are $12 in advance and $18 at the door. Patron tickets are $36 per person. Tickets can be purchased at Temple.

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Photos from top: Attendees at Lincoln’s Yom HaShoah explore the Walls of Remembrance and sculpture at Wyuka Cemetery; Lincoln’s Federation President Marcia Kushner, left, leads the annual commemoration at the rotunda at the State Capitol. (Lincoln photos courtesy of Gary Hochman.) Ann Kirshner, author of Sala’s Gift, speaks to survivor Rachel Rosenberg after the service at Temple Israel; Mary Sue Grossman helps survivor Esther Silver light one of the six memorial candles at the beginning of the Omaha commemoration; the following day, Kirshner signed books at the Kripke Library -- this one for Diane Baum. In Israel, traffic stops in Petach Tikva on April 16 as sirens sound; Israeli Prime Minister addresses dignataries April 15 at Yad Vashem. Credit: ISRANET

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Omaha, Lincoln and Israel commemorate the Holocaust

Photos from top left: Yale Gotsdiner, one of the organizers of the Holocaust Memorial Campaign, helps unveil the monument at Wyuka Cemtery in Lincoln on April 15; the stainless steel sculpture was designed by Toronto artist Morton Katz; in Omaha, author Ann Kirshner headlined the Yom HaShoah commemoration at Temple Israel; hidden child Bea Karp introduced Kirshner to the packed house; surivor Leelo Sommerhauser reads the inscriptions on the memorial sculpture in Lincoln; at Temple, students from Omaha area religious schools and churches listen with rapt attention as Kirshner describes her mother’s saga in a Polish work camp and reads from the diary she hid during the five years in slavery. Lincoln photos courtesy of Gary Hochman.

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This month in Jewish history... April Dates in Jewish History from the Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition April 1938: The Mauthausen concentration camp, near Linz, was established shortly after the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich. According to camp records thought to be understated, 199,404 were interned at Mauthausen; 119,000 died. Of those who died -- as often due to work conditions and lack of food as to the gas chambers or killing fields -- 38,120 were Jews. April 1983: The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust

research and documentation center on the Holocaust period, and on Jewish resistance under Nazi rule in Europe. Survivors is held in Washington, DC, attracting 20,000 survivors and their families. April 2, 1947: Rudolf Hoess, the first commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, was sentenced to death in Warsaw and hung on a gallows adjacent to the sprawling camp’s main gas chamber. More than a million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945. April 5, 1945: Units from the American Fourth Armored Division of the Third Army were the first Americans to discover a camp with prisoners and corpses. Ohrdruf was a Buchenwald sub-camp, and of the 10,000 male slave inmates, many had been sent on death marches, shot in pits, or their corpses were stacked in the woods and burned. The Americans found the camp by accident -they did not set out to liberate camps, they happened upon them -- and found starved, frail bodies of hundreds of prisoners who had managed to survive, as well as the corpses. In Nordhausen, on April 11, the American Timberwolf Division found 3,000 corpses and 700 starving, ill, and war-wounded survivors who were slaves in the V-2 rocket factories.

Remembering the fallen

Israeli soldiers salute after placing flags on graves at the military cemetery on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem’s Old City, on Sunday, April 22, 2007, in a ceremony leading up to Memorial Day, which commemorates Israeli soldiers killed in war. Commemorations also took place at Israel’s 43 military cemeteries throughout the country, including official ceremonies at Har Herzl in Jerusalem. The Memorial Day commemorations precede Credit: Brian Hendler/JTA Yom Ha’Atzmaut.

April 12, 1951: The Israeli Knesset proclaims the 27th Day of Nisan as “Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day -a day of perpetual remembrance for the House of Israel.” (Yom HaShoah). Outside Israel, Holocaust Remembrance Day is usually celebrated on April 19, the day on which the Warsaw Ghetto uprising broke out according to the civil calendar. April 19, 1950: The Ghetto Fighters’ House (Beit Lohamei haGetta’ot), was established at kibbutz Lohamei haGetta’ot in Israel by a group of former ghetto fighters and partisans. The house serves as a memorial and

April 29, 1945: American soldiers liberated the Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria. Dachau was the first of SS-organized concentration camps, created to incarcerate “enemies of the regime,” trade unionists, and political opponents. Jews were a distinct minority of the prisoners at Dachau. Advancing on Dachau, American troops interrupted a death march of prisoners led by fleeing Nazis. Upon reaching the camp, they found 30 coal cars filled with bodies, all in an advanced state of decomposition. The Americans tried 40 of the concentration camp officials; 36 were sentenced to death. Of the other war criminals, 260 were sentenced to death, and 498 to imprisonment. April 1942: French psychiatrist Adelaïde Hautval, a Protestant, was arrested trying to cross the demarcation line separating the two zones of France without a permit. Awaiting her trial in Bourges prison, she vehemently protested the harsh treatment of Jewish prisoners who were incarcerated there. The reply she received was, “As you wish to defend them, you will follow their fate.” Sent to Auschwitz, and noted for her efforts to preserve the lives of other women prisoners there, she survived and was liberated in April 1945. In 1963, she was a key witness in London at the trial of Leon Uris vs. Wladyslaw Dering. Uris, in his book Exodus, had mentioned the experiments perpetrated by Dering and others on bodies of prisoners in Auschwitz, without the use of anesthesia; Dering had consequently sued Uris for libel. A witness for the defense, Hautval refuted Dering’s claim that it was futile to disobey orders in Auschwitz. Justice Lawton, in his summing up of the evidence to the jury, described Dr. Hautval as “perhaps one of the most impressive and courageous women who has ever given evidence in the courts of this country.” In 1965, Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, recognized Dr. Hautval with its highest honor, Righteous among the Nations.

THE CENTER FOR JEWISH EDUCATION, ON BEHALF OF THE OMAHA JEWISH COMMUNITY, IS PROUD TO RECOGNIZE THE EDUCATORS OF BETH EL SYNAGOGUE, BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE, CHABAD OF NEBRASKA, F RIEDEL JEWISH ACADEMY, PENNIE Z. DAVIS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER, AND TEMPLE ISRAEL.

Retired Educators Teaching Over 18 Years Cantor Leo Fettman Helen Manheimer Mindell Diamond Helen Epstein Shirley Goodman Stanley Mitchell Blanche Wise Daniel Christensen Eileen Clignett Joan Cooper Steve Danon Tuffy Epstein Jeff Ferber Glen Fineman Sue Gann

Educators Teaching 25 Years Dora Goldstrom Gloria Kaslow Doris Parker Margo Riekes Jeffrey Taxman

Educators Teaching 18 years Bettie Adams Elyce Azriel Denise Bennett Carole Greenberg Shani Katzman Marvin Parilman

Educators Teaching for Ten Years Donald Gerber Robin Hellwig Sara Juster Sindee Katskee Bella Nakhimovich Marti Nerenstone Patty Nogg Susan Paley

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WITH GRATITUDE AND DEEP RESPECT, WE EXPRESS OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN.

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Dr. Kricsfeld specializes in internal medicine and is in private practice in Council Bluffs with his father, Dr. Barry Kricsfeld. “He’ll have an outstanding presentation,” noted Katzman. “After his talk, he’ll be available to answer questions from the audience about women’s health and other health-related questions.” She added, “Our May luncheon is a great opportunity for everyone to get together before summer. And the luncheon isn’t only for Sisterhood members. All of our new ‘Misterhood’ members are invited, too.” The bagels and lox lunch costs $5. Please make your reservation with the office at 556.6288 or BethIsrael@ OrthodoxOmaha.org.

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Can we ever be stress free? by SANDRA HERZOG Let’s start with “What IS stress?” Most people do not even ask because we are so bombarded with stimuli. Two of the definitions I found were: 1) any constraining force on the body, 2) any experience that taxes an individual’s energy or well-being; stress may be physical, mental or emotional. That covers a lot ... we usually just think of stress as being mental or emotional. Of course, stress can be a positive force too, giving us motivation and focus. The problem occurs when the body accommodates the symptoms of stress by adjusting to them. A simple physical example is if you fracture your ankle and continue walking on it. You walk on it in a way as to alleviate the pain (possibly limping.) But now you enter into a new holding pattern and may cause a hip, shoulder or back misalignment. You have now

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The conference looked at the myriad of problems and challenges characterizing mixed cities in Israel, such as poverty, unemployment, housing, infrastructure, illegal building, education, pollution, crime and discrimination, and issued recommendations on how to work towards overcoming them. Approximately 20% of Israel’s citizens are Arabs. While the majority live in Arab communities, some 10% live in five historic mixed cities -- Akko, Haifa, Jaffa, Lod and Ramle. In these cities, the Arab minority ranges from between 9.3% of the overall population in Haifa to 34% in Jaffa. One of the more pressing problems of mixed cities is the socio-economic gap between their Arab and Jewish populations. Hilou, a life-long resident of Jaffa and the Knesset’s first Christian Arab woman MK, called on the government to change its policy toward mixed cities and on local government heads in mixed cities to act to correct the dismal situation of Arab minorities in their towns. “Mixed cities also reflect the potential we have for coexistence and cooperation,” she noted. “They can serve as a model for relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel and possess potential that has not been fulfilled. We have to change the situation and learn to utilize the human resources in these cities.” Participants in the annual co-existence walk crowd the nar- Another pressing problem row cobbled streets of Haifa’s multi-ethnic Wadi Nisnas is the lack of adequate physneighborhood. The walk is organized by the Beit Hagefen ical planning and developArab-Jewish Center. Photo courtesy of Israel Press Service. ment of infrastructure.

by BEN HARRIS year degrees to a fully NEW YORK (JTA) -accredited institution offerThe nomination of June ing six bachelor’s degrees, Walker to head the with applications in Conference of Presidents progress for two additional of Major American degrees. Jewish Organizations has In addition, under her placated some critics of leadership Hadassah recentthe organization but left ly received $75 million others wondering where toward the construction of she stands on key issues a $210 million inpatient facing Israel and the tower at its hospital in Ein Jewish people. Kerem, Jerusalem, and Walker, the national completed a $48 million June Walker president of Hadassah, emergency-medicine facility the Women’s Zionist Organization of in Jerusalem. America, was nominated April 16 to sucReached by phone during a fund-raisceed Harold Tanner as chairman of the ing trip to Detroit, Walker told JTA her Presidents Conference. The conference goal is to strengthen the ties between is an umbrella organization that aims to the membership and the conference, represent the consensus opinion of making the member organizations fuller American Jewry on Israel and other for- partners in conference proceedings and eign-policy issues and provide a unified making the conference more of a factor Jewish address with which to deal for in members’ activities. She identified risU.S. officials. ing anti-Semitism and maintaining a If confirmed as expected by the full robust U.S.-Israel alliance as the biggest membership at the next general meeting, challenges facing the organization. Walker will become only the second Malcolm Hoenlein, the conference’s woman to lead the conference. Shoshana executive vice chairman, noted that Cardin held the position in the early Walker has been involved in the 1990s. Walker’s two-year tenure would Presidents Conference for several years. begin June 1. “She is familiar both with the issues Walker, a longtime community activist and the challenges, and will work to from New Jersey, has filled a number of enhance the process of consensus buildpositions at Hadassah, including presi- ing to enable our community to respond dent, vice president, treasurer and to the very serious issues we are facing,” national chairman of the Hadassah Hoenlein said. College of Technology in Jerusalem. “I think it’s a choice that will be well During her tenure the school grew received,” said Abraham Foxman, from 600 to 2,000 students. It also national director of the Anti-Defamation changed from a college offering two- League.

by GAIL LICHTMAN (IPS) The physical and social conditions in Israel’s mixed Arab-Jewish cities constitute a powder keg in need of immediate attention. This was one of the main conclusions of a conference on “Mixed Cities: Setting Policy Guidelines for Multiculturalism and Equality in Israel,” which took place in February at the Knesset in Jerusalem. Organized by the Knesset Caucus for Mixed Cities, the conference was chaired by Member of the Knesset (MK) Nadia Hilou (Labor) and the Abraham Fund Initiatives, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting coexistence and equality between the Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel through advocacy, awareness campaigns and coexistence projects. Participants included MKs, representatives of NGOs and local governments, as well as residents of mixed cities.

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BERT’S EYE VIEW by BERT LEWIS After a good deal of soul searching, and no small number of birthdays, I’ve had to admit I’m what is called a senior citizen. And I’m not alone -- my friends and close acquaintances also fit that category. I thought about it a long time, trying to figure out exactly how this happened. I distinctly remember that before any other designation, I was a daughter. Maybe it’s more correct to say one of the first formal introductions in memory is my mother’s voice saying, “This is my little girl.” Ok, so first I was that little girl. Because I had loving aunts and uncles who were very kind about shlepping me around, in time I learned I was a niece. I’m sure you’ve got the picture, so it’s safe for me to go on to the day I became a bride. Or more correctly, a wife. Aha, now there’s an important title for somebody who hardly knew the stove from the refrigerator. A wife. I loved being introduced to new people because I never tired of hearing “this is my wife, Bert.” I guess I still enjoy hearing him (him being the only one licensed to say) my wife. Let me now explain how I found out there were still more titles available. When my first child was born, I was so busy trying to figure out the rules and regulations for being a parent, I didn’t worry about titles. When my kid wanted me, he knew all he had to do was yell and like magic, I appeared. I wish I could say I remember when he first started to talk, but I don’t recall. What is indelibly

etched in my faulty memory, is the thrill of hearing him say “mama” for the first time. Now we’re talking titles! When he got bigger, I became Mom, and that was mostly what remained. Mama, mommy, ma -- no matter what exact form of that word a baby uses, it’s very special. It’s so dear coming from the lips of a precious baby -even if it’s in the middle of the night. No matter how many babies follow that first one, it’s always special. Furthermore, being called Mom remains pleasurable until both kids and mom are old! Of course, there are still more beautiful terms we women acquire. The day one of our kids becomes a parent, we are officially a grandparent. Now, in case you don’t know, this is when this get serious. When that first little munchkin starts talking and you hear grandma, or nana or (my favorite) gwamma, well that’s the day you truly understand the definition of the word naches. And while I don’t want to get tiresome, let me add just one more title to the list. How about great-grandma? Well, to anyone reading this who knows what it feels like to be called by whatever name a grandchild chooses, congratulations. You’re one of the lucky people who experience that special pleasure. You get to carry around pictures and you get unlimited bragging rights -- but you’re also obligated to kvell over your friends’ pictures of their grandkids, too. Be fair -- their little ones are gorgeous. I laugh about all this, but it’s serious stuff. It’s my reward for getting to be a senior citizen and admitting it. It’s making it through good and bad and finding out there was a prize waiting: the next generation? Happy Mother’s Day! Bert Lewis can be reached at BertLewis39@aol.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Durham Western Heritage Museum is gearing up for this summer’s “Evening with the Smithsonian” speakers series. With two very unique and highly recommended speakers, the Durham is excited to host this summer’s Smithsonian scholars. The series opened with professional actor and writer Patrick Lee’s presentation, “Seven Reasons Why Revolutions Succeed.” On Tuesday, May 22, oral tradition storyteller and cowboy humorist Jim Garry will present, “The View from the South End of a Cow.” In his presentation, the world view of old time cowboys comes to life through tales of the folks who spread the cattle culture -- including some of their Western superstitions and beliefs. The lecture is open to the public with paid admission and is free to museum members. As seating is limited, reservations are required and can be made by calling Ashley at 444-5071. For more information about the Smithsonian, visit www.smithsonianassociatees. org. For more information on the Durham Western Heritage Museum and its exhibits, please visit us at www.dwhm.org. Omaha Children’s Museum has announced its grand reopening on April 28, 10 a.m. A special ceremony will take place for members at 9 a.m. The grand reopening celebrates the completion of the renovations funded by the $6.6 million Building on the Best capital campaign that began in 2003. Renovations to the museum’s permanent exhibits have been made progressively beginning in spring of 2006. On April 28, the early childhood area, Imagination Playground, will open as the final renovated permanent exhibit. The Magical Grand Reopening will feature live performances throughout the day, including shows by ventriloquist Sylvia Markson with her Magic Trunk, dance by Omaha Theater Ballet and the Freestyle Stompers. Children can make their own “Magical Gill” (the museum’s mascot) to take home and participate in science shows and science activities based on the PBS series, “FETCH!”

ORGANIZATIONS WALK-IN - DROP-IN For those members going to the Joslyn Art Museum to see the exhibit on the Impressionists on Thursday, please meet at the JCC at 9:45 a.m. For information, call Maggie Conti at 334.6521. LOMIR REDN YIDDISH Come to the Yiddish meeting at the JCC on Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. If you have any Yiddish books you would like to donate, please call Anne Skolkin at 343.1638. VISIONS Reminders: For those members going to Kansas City to view the Dead Sea Scrolls on Monday, April 30, please be at the JCC by 8:15 a.m. Vision Board Meeting is May 4, 9:30 a.m., at the JCC. Join us on a docent-led tour at Joslyn Art Museum on Tuesday, May 8, 10:45 a.m., of the celebrated Impressionists Exhibit. The cost is $15 to non-members. The cost to current members of Joslyn is $11. Send reservations to Doris Alloy, 11317 Harney Plaza Circle, Omaha, NE 68154. For questions, call Sissy Silber at 292.8062. Luncheon Meeting is Friday, May 18,12:30 p.m. at the Caniglia’s Venice Inn. The Cost is $10 per person. Members will be entertained by a preview of Peter Pan by the Omaha Community Playhouse performers, along with the Musical Director, Jim Boggess. Send reservations to Tootie Simon, 8725 Izard St, Omaha, NE 68114 by May 11. For questions, call Harry Alloy at 697.8709. Chanticleer Community Theater presents The King and I on Sunday, May 20, 2 p.m. Dinner following the show at the Pizza King in Council Bluffs. Cost is $28.50 and includes transportation, theater ticket, dinner, tax and tips. Depart from the JCC at 12:45 p.m. and return by 7 p.m. Send reservations to Ethel Goldston, 1108 N. 92 Plaza #101 by May 7. Omaha, NE 68114. For questions, call Rose Pitlor at 558.5144. Make all checks payable to Visions. B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS Dr. Richard Shugrue, will speak at Breadbreakers on Wednesday, May 2, noon, at Regency Lodge, according to Gary Javitch, chairman. This frequent guest speaker will be retiring from Creighton and will be moving to Colorado. He will receive the B'nai B'rith Community Service Award and will reflect on politics and life as a law professor. All men and women in the community are invited to attend. Cost is $12 for a complete lunch and $3 for beverage service only. JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES The Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra presents “Creatures of the Forest” on Wednesday, May 2, 7 p.m., at the JCC. There is no admission fee. Works on the program are inspired by the sounds of the forest, including Debussy’s “Afternoon of the Faun” and Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf”narrated by Dr. Melissa Berke, chairman of UNO’s Music Department. Dr. Christopher Stanichar, Director of Orchestral Activities at UNO conducts this program that also includes the American premiere of Barry Ford’s “Essay No. 2.” He is a faculty member of UNO’s Music Department.

Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra, the official orchestra of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is open to both students and community members. It is one of the most venerable and well-respected community orchestras in Omaha with a history dating back to its founding in the 1920s. This performance is sponsored by the Noddle family in memory of Edith Noddle. For information, call Maggie Conti at 334.6521.

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Daughter of the “Enemy of the People” Continued from page 1 I also remember my mother telling us that dad was once jailed as a revolutionary in tsarist Russia and again as a Menshevick in Soviet Russia somewhere in the early 1920s. This time they exiled him along with a group of his fellowMenshevicks to the town of Ufa in the Urals… The authorities made it clear for the accused: it’s either to leave the ranks of the Menshevicks once and for all and follow the Bolshevicks’ path or to remain imprisoned. JP: Any other recollections of your father? LL: Just a few. In one incident, in 1947, my professor at the Moscow Institute of Mines, on seeing my name in the class journal, exclaimed: “Are you the daughter of the famous Menshevick Bychovsky?” Also, at our home we kept a pamphlet written by my father. It dealt with the new principles of the Social Security system in Russia, I believe. The pamphlet actually belonged to the Museum of the Revolution, but my mother somehow managed to get it. During those troubled years, it disappeared, though. JP: Lydia, I got in touch with the Museum of the Revolution in Moscow. It appears they have in their book archives four pamphlets by your father with titles that sound so prehistoric now: The Fight for Land, 1908, The Insurance Office, Popular Talks On Social Insurance, 1924, A Woman Worker and the Social Security, 1926, and A Leaflet to Workers and Office Employees in the Insurance Office, 1926. LL: It’s absolutely unbelievable…But once again, books don’t disappear. I imagine they could send me a photocopy, couldn’t they?

JP: I did ask for it but they seem to be busy at present and will send it over later in the year... Meanwhile, let’s focus on some fascinating points. Your father published his first booklet at the age of 21 in 1908, long before the 1917 Revolution. And, as it’s indicated in the above cited Internet article, his last job before the 1937 arrest was that of a Research Institute Depar tment Manager. Any idea of his other posts? LL: Not much. After the 1917 Revolution he worked for the Party in Vitebsk, Belarus, then around 1925 they transferred him to Moscow. When asked, my mother would tell us that dad held some high positions in the Party hierarchy system, but later in his life he would be appointed only to some administrative posts.

JP: Was your family’s life in Moscow different from the rank and file? LL: It depends. In 1920s-30s the living standards in Russia left much to be desired, to say the least. We had just enough money to get by. The four of us lived in Merzlyakovsky Alley, Bld. 13, apt. 10 -- a building mostly populated with Party functionaries, middle class people, and intelligentsia, the white collar workers. It was the so-called komunalka, a com-

Left: Lydia’s father, Bychovsky Naum Isaakovich; below, a spravka, 1956 document noting that he had been “rehabilitated,” according to USSR officials.

munal type house, holding eight rooms on every floor -- one family per one room, situated along a hallway with a common kitchen. Somehow, our family occupied two rooms. JP: Then came the notorious 1937.

LL: The 1937 arrest didn’t fall on my father like a bolt from the blue. Many of his Party colleagues had been already in the NKVD cells. As it was customary with NKVD operational style, they would snatch their victims at night. So was the case with my dad. Three months later, on Feb. 8, 1938, he was sentenced to death on accusations of anti-Soviet subversive -- terrorist activities and executed on the same day. I still keep all the spravkas, documents, I could get from the authorities. JP: What else did the future have in store for you? LL: For many years to come, the NKVD operatives kept us in the dark. When addressed, they would give us the usual answer: “Ten years in prison without the right to correspond.” Then, in 1938, my mother was arrested, in 1940, my brother. In 1955, my parents were fully rehabilitated, exonerated, for lack of evidence. But the place of my father’s and brother’s burial is still off limits. JP: Lydia, it’s not any longer. Another Internet article issued by the Russian Memorial Society, lists your father and brother as buried in “Kommunarka,” the Moscow suburban NKVD sovchoz, farm, where they gunned down anywhere from 10,000 to 14,000 victims associated with the Moscow Trials. LL: Oh, really… If only I could get there now… But I’ll first call my cousins in Moscow to tell them the news. Continued on page 19

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Daughter of the “Enemy of the People” Continued from page 18 THE MOTHER Military Board of the USSR Supreme Court, Feb. 15, 1989 In response to your inquiry I inform you that HollenderBychovskaya Sofia Moiseevna, born 1894, was sentenced on April 9, 1938 to an eight-year term in Corrective Labor Camps as a relative of the Motherland’s traitor by a Special Deliberation Board attached to NKVD USSR. On Sept. 24, 1955, by decision of the Military Board of the USSR Supreme Court the case of HollenderBychovskaya Sofia Moiseevna was dropped for lack of evidence. The Military Board does not possess any information of further whereabouts of Hollender-Bychovskaya S.M. It may be possible that the information that is of interest to you is available at the USSR KGB where the case of HollenderBychovskay S.M. was forwarded to in October 1955.” Head of the Secretariate for the USSR Supreme Court Military Board Signature: A. Nikonov JP: Lydia, your mother’s life looks to me like that of Greek tragedy proportions. Her fortune turned from good to bad, from punishment by the higher forces to pardoning. It embraced death, exile, labor camps, Lydia’s parents in 1915: Bychovsky humiliation. Can you Naum Isaakovich and Hollender look back on the dra- Bychovskaya Sofia Moiseevn. matic events and comment them now? LL: I guess you want me to act as the Greek chorus, a narrator… So, the Hollenders were strict Orthodox Jews from a Belarus province with a strong sense of family. My mother, obviously capable, received a good education which allowed her to get into medical school in Vitebsk which wasn’t a small feat at that time. JP: How did she meet her future husband, the revolutionary? LL: As luck would have it, they came from the same area and their families knew each other. School sweethearts, as they call it today. So their marriage came as something expected to happen. JP: Was she proud of her children? A.: The fact that my older brother Yuriy followed her steps and chose the medical profession shows how close they were… I was just a young kid at that time. JP: Being the wife of a politician, did she share his views? LL: I would say yes… She was definitely pro-Soviet before 1937 but never spoke of politics since. JP: Then came 1937… LL: Well, my mother was sentenced on charges of being “a relative of the Motherland traitor” -- such “crimes” amounted to eight years in Corrective Labor Camps. At first, she found herself in a place called Akmolinsk, in the Kazachstan area, a remote region in the south-west of the Asian part of Russia, bordering on China. It was sort of a raspredelitelnii, transit camp center, and she spent two years there doing different odd jobs. To add to the surreal scene, she met in the female section of the camp many famous women who were either accused as being “traitors” themselves or were the wives of the “traitors.” Among them stood out Natalia Satz, the Artistic Director of the then Moscow Children Theatre. JP: What other turns did your mother’s life take? LL: In 1940 they transferred my mother to an Archangelsk camp, and that was real hell. Archangelsk is located in the very North of Russia, on the White Sea. The area is known for its timber exploitation and that is what the prisoners were doing in severe climate. Such camps were often little more than a regular concentration camp. Thank God, this time they allowed my mother to work as a doctor. But even this position was like walking on thin ice. Every now and then the camp commanders would find a pretext to accuse the doctor of something like “negligence of duties”… One such negligence stemmed from prisoners freezing to death by dozens at night in their threadbare barracks... But she was lucky not to get any additional term for that… So, her mere existence balanced there between life and death, and it dragged on this way until 1946, when her eight-year

term expired and she was at last free. JP: You mean free to go to Moscow to her children? LL: No way. Moscow didn’t accept former political prisoners. They had to live outside of Moscow, in the socalled “101 kilometer zone” away from the city’s boundaries. Besides, she was still bearing the “relative of the traitor” label. JP: So, what did your mother do with her life at that point? LL: For almost nine years, from 1946 to 1955, she lived by herself and worked as a doctor in the town of Rzhev, Kalinin province, which falls into this category. And this is where I first saw her after all those years of separation. JP: I know that you eventually reunited. How was it? LL: In 1955 my mother’s case was dropped, she was cleared, and could technically return to Moscow. The usual hardships followed her there, too -- no place to live, no money, no anything. Life had to be started all over again. Things took a better turn when she was granted a pension. But she could never recover from all the blows that befell her since 1937. She died in Moscow in 1972. JP: Was she already aware of Yuriy’s fate?

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”I love my mother as the trees love water and sunshine – she helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights.“ –Adabella Radici LL: That’s another tragedy. Brother and sister, Yuriy and Lydia, in 1940. THE BROTHER Military Board of the USSR Supreme Court, Feb.15, 1989 “… Bychovsky Yuriy Naumovich, born 1920, was sentenced to execution by shooting on charges by the Military Board of the USSR Supreme Court dated July 6, 1941. Bychovsky Y.N. was accused of alleged participation in a counter-revolutionary organization. The sentence was carried out on July 27, 1941. On Sept. 29, 1988, Bychovsky Y.N. was posthumously exonerated for lack of evidence. The burial place of Bychovsky Y.N. is unknown due to the fact that in those years the burial places of the accused were not indicated. Head of the Secretariate of the USSR Supreme Court Military Board Signature: A.Nikonov JP: Lydia, I suggest we reconstruct your brother’s portrait as a young man using the bits of information that we have. LL: Right. When I went to school at age eight, Yuriy was already 15. I could immediately sense his reputation as a star there… The teachers and students regarded me as a “sister of Yuriy Bychovsky” and not for what I was. JP: What singled him out? LL: His bright personality and lust for knowledge. He was well read, particularly in history, philosophy, and the sciences. Spoke German, learned French. Like his father, he had a taste for music. Fond of chess, conversation, debate. JP: Did he have an independent mind? A liberal outlook that might lead to his arrest at 20? LL: Pretty much. When a student at the Second Moscow medical school, Yuriy would spend time with friends, mostly young intellectuals. It was far more likely that they discussed politics, among other things, at their gatherings. Besides, he wasn’t the only “son of a traitor,” there were other guys with the same label in his company, too. JP: What about this “counter-revolutionary organization” he was accused of? LL: Pure fiction. He was cleared for that allegation years later. We strongly believe there might have been a secret NKVD informer among his group of friends. That wouldn’t be news, because at that time the NKVD turned the whole country into a land of informers. It was a society that looked straight out of George Orwell’s book 1984: “They watched everybody all the time...” Continued fon page 20

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Continued from page 19 you succeed to enter the Mines Institute first and then to transfer to the Economics JP: How did his arrest come along? LL: I remember it perfectly well, as if it Institute? I mean young people like you were yesterday. His arrest happened on were not welcome at higher educational March 18, 1940, which is exactly my schools, were they? LL: Sure. The general practice of 13th birthday… All my relatives – a couple of cousins, aunts, uncles came to see NKVD would be to pass lists of “tainted” me. Yuriy acted as host for us. The names to different institutions. Sometimes it just didn’t work out, as in NKVD men grabbed him later in the my case. Actually, I learned the art to night… JP: And that was when you saw him last? conceal my background. But once again LL: Yes. It looks like they kept inter- you’d better not play with fire. It was rogating him for more than a year; he was only after Stalin’s death in 1953 and later executed only on July 6, 1941. in 1956 when the first signs of JP: Did your mother know about Yuriy’s Khrushchev political ottepel, the thaw, fate? LL: No. My relatives decided not to tell her the truth. My cousin would send her letters in Yuriy’s handwriting. When WWII broke in June 1941, we let her know that Yuriy volunteered to join the Soviet Army to serve in a medical unit. We later lied to her that Yuriy was listed as missing. When she returned to Moscow in 1955, first thing she asked for was his Army missing spravka. Eventually, she learned the horrible truth, but never said a word. JP: Lydia, when I saw all these old-looking pictures of Yuriy in your apartment I could feel you never actually parted with him. Lydia as a young woman in Moscow in 1949. LL: Never. His life was like the path of a falling star -- beautiful began to emerge in the country and the but short…It still shines on me. rehabilitation process was already on its THE DAUGHTER way. JP: Lydia, with posters like “Death to JP: True enough, luck was on your side. the Traitors!”, “Crush the Trotskyist You graduated from the Economics Vermin!” floating in the streets, one had to Institute, were employed at the important have the guts to carry on. What was it like GOSSTROI (State Construction Planto live in Russia branded the “daughter of ning Organization), married Eugene enemy of the people”? Linde, PhD, holding a position of LL: Well, let me think… Being just 10, Laboratory Manager for the Construction I was absolutely perplexed. Suddenly, it Scientific Research Institute. Life seemed to was like living in an anti-Wonderland beam at you at last and you could enjoy the with dreadful things happening all the privileges of living in a metropolis. time, with parents disappearing at night Then in 1979 you decided to emmigrate. and days spent in deadly fear… I tried to How come? shrug it off and let things unfold by their LL: We knew everything that was own, but I couldn’t… Yuriy’s arrest was going on around us; we knew our people the last straw that crushed me. I drew were in terrible trouble. We left because into myself and became tough tough of two things: the government policies and anti-Semitism. Despite the fact that I tough. JP: The scene is exactly from Osip held high positions, I was forced to lie by Mandelstam’s 1930 poem “Leningrad”: the government. Life was terrible -- not “…and the whole night long I wait for the wonderful as the government made it out dear guests to come stirring the irons of the to be. Even I had to stand six hours outdoor chains...” Incidentally, do you remem- side a store just to buy shoes. It was a long-awaited decision, a deciber being hazed at school? And did the attitude of the school staff change towards the sion gained through years of suffering. The agonizing memories of my family’s “children of the traitors”? LL: The truth is, Yuriy and I were not fate were constantly haunting me. We couldn’t breathe. The government the only children of repressed families in our school. There were many others didn’t need us -- they hated us. But they because the kids came from the same wouldn’t let us go. neighborhood, nearly the same backJP: Lydia, I know already that this ground -- the intelligentsia families. So “parting” period with the regime lasted 11 the students would pretend as if nothing years. What did it mean to be votkaze, in was going on. What concerns the school the state of denial? LL: Basically it means you are “put on staff, they remained as liberal and supportive as they were before, standing firm hold”… It also means you trade your to prevent any hazing. By the way, my professional job for any blue collar one. school of that time is realistically por- Your telephone line might be bugged. trayed in Arkadiy Vaksberg’s book, A Life You are being shadowed to trace your Western connections, and what not. With in Life. JP: It’s a well known fact that the Party time you become kind of an outcast, an and its NKVD operatives imposed certain untouchable, even for your former secret restrictions on the families of the friends… “traitors”… In this connection, how did Continued on page 21 EARLY DEADLINE NOTICE The Jewish Press office will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, May 23-24, for the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. The deadline for the May 25 issue is Wednesday, May 16.

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Continued from page 20 JP: No sooner had the 11 years gone, than you landed in Omaha, Nebraska. A.: When votkaze, Eugene and I would be part of different gatherings of Moscow dissidents and refusnicks. At that time our confrontation with the regime was being closely watched in the West and a stream of political activists would fly over to Moscow to help out, to be in the k n o w . Now, time was on our side. We lived Lydia’s father plays the cello in 1937. up to the famed Gorbachev’s perestroika, the restructuring, in the late 80s, when the former refusnicks would be allowed to immigrate. It was at one such meeting that we met Shirley Goldstein, an activist in the Soviet Jewry movement. Thanks to her immediate intervention we found ourselves in this town. JP: And then lived happily ever after? LL: Definitely, yes. And now, Mary, let me ask you just one question. Why did you make up your mind to plunge into all this? JP: Lydia, I didn’t expect that question at all. Let’s say, it is my way to honor the Bychovsky family who happened to live at the wrong place at the wrong time and fought for the wrong ideas. And thank you for the interview. Postscript: Since these dark times, the terms “enemy of the people,” “10 years without the right to correspond,” “eight years as a relative of the Motherland’s traitor” have become proverbial. Sept. 5, 2008, will bring another notorious anniversary: exactly 90 years ago Lenin signed the Sovnarkom, Council of People’s Commissars, decree “On Red Terror.”

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Community celebrates Israel’s 59th

Thunderstorms didn’t stop the steady flow of people to the JCC on Sunday to celebrate Israel’s 59th anniversary of independence and shop at the Jewish Arts Festival, chaired by Gady Tene, above left; Kansas City purse maker Diane Ravis, center, greets friends Sandy Epstein, right, and her daughter, Kari; Noa Kipnis gets her face painted in the gym where the JCC had inflatables and games for the kids; judges for the B’nai B’rith trivia contest include Lois Epstein,

Stan Mitchell, Prof. Leonard Greenspoon and Steve Riekes; winners were Sandy Kohll’s Chabad team of Dani Eisenstein, left, Phil and Nancy Wolf (Kohll, Liza Eisenstein and Marsha Kleinberg, not pictured); second place was the BESTT team of Dennis Paley, Helen Epstein, Eyov Lailari, Daniel Christensen and Susan Paley; third place was the Beth El team of Aveva Shukert, seated, Harry Weiner, Natan Schwalb; standing: Amnon Dotan, Iris Varkony, Dick Fellman

and Ben Shapiro; military cemetery of Givat Shaul following Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday (Credit: ISRANET); Betty and Ben Shapiro of Sioux City, IA, visit their son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Sherry Shapiro; Zach Helm helps kids with games in the gym; Jordana Kurtzman and her kids enjoy the variety of food from Bagel Bin, Julio’s, El Basha and Zio’s sold at tents outside; Aly Friedman was the youngest vendor to sell her handmade jewelry.

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Controversy about Israeli entry at Eurovision contest

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by MARK MIETKIEWICZ Since it first began in 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest has been responsible for bringing quite a few tunes to the world stage. A few have been memorable, others forgettable, and many, kitschy. But almost all have been non-controversial. That wasn’t the case this year with the official entry from Israel. Today, let’s look at Eurovision and Israel’s “Push the Button” (Kaftor Adom). On May 10, the Israeli group Teapacks will be on stage in Helsinki at the Eurovision semi-final hoping to impress international viewers and do well enough to make it to the Saturday night finals. But their appearance at the semi-final wasn’t a sure thing. Sung in Hebrew, English and French, and mixing folk, rap, rock and chutzpah, Teapacks’ “Push the Button” is a thinly veiled allusion to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s not so thinly veiled threats against the Jewish state: The world is full of terror If someone makes an error He’s gonna blow us up to biddy biddy kingdom come There are some crazy rulers they hide and try to fool us With demonic, technologic willingness to harm They’re gonna push the button, push the button Push the bu- push the bu- push the button. [http://www.diggiloo.net/?2007il] Those lyrics didn’t please the European Broadcasting Union which opposes entries that carry “political propaganda.” Teapacks countered that their song “does not refer to countries, continents, names of people and may, just like any other text, be subjectively interpreted in many different ways and angles.” [http://tinyurl.com/ 3cpflw] Eurovision organizers deliberated whether to allow “Push the Button” at the competition. In the end, the song survived the scrutiny and was pronounced “generally appropriate.” [http://tinyurl.com/23gyek] The group behind the song, Teapacks (pronounced “Teep-ex”), was formed in 1998 by lead singer Kobi Oz, bassist Gal Pereman and several other musicians from

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Epstein, left, and Betty Kozlen inquire about various pieces at the booth of artist Smadar Livne; BBG advisers Annie Rifkin, left, and Anne Muskin sell “Nebraksa” t-shirts; Gloria Kaslow, left, and Marti Rosen-Atherton admire the jewelry at one of the 25 booths of the Jewish Arts Festival.

the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Since then, the band has released seven albums and has sold over 300,000 copies. [http://www.teapacks.com/] Ironically, the Euro-vision controversy has meant a comeback for the band. Gal Pereman even thanked the Finnish official who sparked the controversy. “The flowers are on the way,” Pereman promised. [http://tinyurl.com/2ljseo] Speaking of political controversy, in 2000, the Israeli pop group PingPong lost its backing from the Israeli Broadcasting Authority when it waved Syrian flags during a rehearsal of Sameyakh in Jerusalem. That gesture was apparently the band’s bid to promote peace between the countries. PingPong had to pay its own way to compete in Stockholm where it closed its act by waving Syrian and Israeli flags before millions of viewers. PingPong placed 22nd. [http://tinyurl.com/2uxd2t] Actually, Israel has done quite admirably at Eurovision with three wins since it began competing in 1973. [http://eurovil.iba.org.il/] You can watch these memorable performances online: “A-Ba-Ni-Bi” 1st place, 1978, Izhar Cohen & Alphabeta [http:// tinyurl.com/2lwl7y]; “Hallelujah” first place, 1979, Gali Atari & Milk and Honey [http://tinyurl.com/ 39olah]; “Hora” second place, 1982, Avi Toledano [http://tinyurl.com/32ooxv]; “Chai” second place, 1983. Ofra Haza [http://tinyurl.com/36ps5h]; “Diva” first place, 1998, Dana International [http://tinyurl.com/2srphh]; “Hasheket Shenish’ar” 4th place, 2005, Shiri Maimon [http://tinyurl.com/ 2pbt6b] You watch all Israeli entries as well as some entries from other countries. Go to this link [http://tinyurl.com/2mh6en], hover your mouse over “Media Clips” and then click on “EurovIL”. (You can even listen to winners Abba for “Waterloo,” Sweden 1974, and Céline Dion for “Ne partez pas sans moi,” Switzerland 1988.) As for Teapacks, their fate is in the hands of viewers from three dozen countries who will be tuning on May 10 and voting for entries to go to the Saturday night finals. For his part, Kobi Oz is clearly thankful that he and his group are getting the chance to appear. “We just want to go to Finland because of the duty free.” [http://tin yurl.com/2qpcpq] Mark Mietkiewicz is a Toronto-based Internet producer who writes, lectures and teaches about the Jewish Internet. He can be reached at highway@rogers.com.

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Who loses when radicals win? When the University of California-Santa Cruz, and other colleges and universities, sponsor conferences or host speakers who are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers ... the concept of free speech and the tradition of learning the truth lose; and college students lose, too. When Jordanian newspapers show hateful cartoons of Israeli Prime Minister Olmert holding a glass filled with blood and labeled “Palestine” alongside President George Bush holding a second glass of blood, labeled “Iraq” or publishes Holocaust-denying articles by Muwaffaq Muhaddin, a pro-Syrian journalist, and others of his ilk ... the Jordanian people lose. When, according to IMRA (Independent Media Review and Analysis), “Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Kassem, said in a April 15 interview with the Iranian Arabic language TV station ‘al Qawthar’, that suicide bombings, terrorist attacks and even artillery barrages against Israeli civilians all receive prior approval from the Ayatollahs in Teheran” ... the Lebanese people lose. When the head of Hamas’ political bureau Khaled Mishaal accuse on al Qassam radio, “the U.S.A. and the Zionist occupation of seeking hard to push the Palestinian people into a civil war” ... the Palestinian people lose. When Israeli Arab youths assault Jews, threaten them with bullying words and actions, both Israeli Jews and Arabs lose, as does the concept of peace between neighbors. Conversely, when Israelis uproot Arabowned olive trees or stone Arabs as they tend

the sheep in their fields, it has the same effect -- a losing situation for Arabs and Jews. When Iranian mullahs demand that women of that country wear tighter hijabs (scarves), looser abayas (robes) and longer pants under their burkahs ... when Palestinian leaders announce that it is perfectly acceptable to kidnap more Israeli soldiers because they know Israel will eventually trade each of them for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ... when Hod HaSharon officials won’t let a Reform rabbi speak during Yom HaZikaron (when his own son was killed in 1993) ... we all lose. Losing is not acceptable. It strengthens the enemies of peace and decency and morality. It gives succor to the proponents of hatred and racism and antiSemitism. It props up little bullies like looney Iranian President Ahmadinejad and his Hamas henchman Nasrallah, based in Lebanon but aiming at Israel. And even within the Jewish community, shouting down people with whom we don’t agree is not the way to resolve disputes. Last week, as we were observing Yom HaShoah (Holocaust memorial day), Israeli Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu made remarks to a radio

station there saying the Holocaust was God’s response to the liberalization of European Jewry, according to JTA. That’s reprehensible! The only way to make bullies stop is to stand up to them. Armed with facts -- and with weapons if necessary, the world can make the bullies back down when we show strength. And that means strength of purpose and determination, as well as guns and ammo. Enough we say, enough. It’s too loud -- and getting louder. Eventually, like the protagonist in the film Network, the world “won’t take it anymore.” G-d help us when that happens.

BEHIND THE H EADLINES by DANIEL PIPES “What moderate Muslims?” is the near-inevitable retort to my stating that radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam the solution. Where are the anti-Islamists’ demonstrations against terror, their combating of Islamists, their reassessments of Islamic law? Moderate Muslims do exist, I reply. Admittedly, they do not constitute a movement but represent mere wisps in the face of the Islamist onslaught. This means, I argue, that the U.S. government and other powerful institutions should give priority to locating, meeting with, funding, forwarding, empowering, and celebrating those brave Muslims who, at personal risk, stand up and confront the totalitarians. A just-published study from the RAND Corporation, “Building Moderate Muslim Networks,” methodically takes up and thinks through this concept. Angel Rabasa, Cheryl Benard, Lowell H. Schwartz, and Peter Sickle grapple intelligently with the innovative issue of helping moderate Muslims to grow and prosper. They start with the argument that “structural reasons play a large part” in the rise of radical and dogmatic interpretations of Islam in recent years -- one of those reasons being the Saudi government’s generous funding over the last three decades for the export of the Wahhabi version of Islam. Saudi efforts have promoted “the growth of religious extremism throughout the Muslim world,” permitting the Islamists to develop powerful intellectual, political, and other networks. “This asymmetry in organization and resources explains why radicals, a small minority in almost all Muslim countries, have influence disproportionate to their numbers.”

The U.S. government has a disastrously poor record in this regard, with an embarrassing history of twin delusions: either thinking Islamists are moderates or hoping to win them over. Reviewing American efforts to fight Islamism, the authors find these lacking, at least with regard to strengthening moderates. Washington, they find, “does not have a consistent view on who the moderates are, where the opportunities for building networks among them lie, and how best to build the networks.” They are only too right. The U.S. government has a disastrously poor record in this regard, with an embarrassing history of twin delusions: either thinking Islamists are moderates or hoping to win them over. Such government figures as FBI director Robert S. Mueller III, State Department undersecretary Karen Hughes, and National Endowment for Democracy head Carl Gershman wrong-headedly insist on consorting with the enemy.

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Bolstering moderate Muslims The study posits a key role for Western countries here: “moderates will not be able to successfully challenge radicals until the playing field is leveled, which the West can help accomplish by promoting the creation of moderate Muslim networks.” Does this sound familiar? It resembles the late 1940s, when Sovietbacked organizations threatened Europe. The four authors provide a helpful potted history of American network-building in the early Cold War years, in part to show that such an effort can succeed against a totalitarian enemy, in part to glean ideas for use at present. (One example: “a left hook to the Kremlin is the best blow,” implying that Muslims can most effectively batter Islamism.)

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Instead, the RAND study promotes four partners: secularists, liberal Muslims, moderate traditionalists, and some Sufis. It particularly emphasizes the “emerging transnational network of laicist and secularist individuals, groups, and movements,” and correctly urges cooperation with these neglected friends. In contrast, the study proposes de-emphasizing the Middle East, and particularly the Arab world. Because this area “offers less fertile ground for moderate network and institution building than other regions of the Muslim world,” it wants Western governments to focus on Muslims in Southeast Asia, the Balkans, and in the Western diaspora, and to help make available their ideas in Arabic. This novel stratagem defies a centuries’ old pattern of influence emanating from the Middle East, but it is well worth a try. Even the generally hard-headed RAND study sometimes lets down its guard. Dismayingly, the quartet refrains from condemning Washington for dialoguing with lawful Islamists even as it cautiously endorses European governments treating some Islamists as partners. It mistakenly characterizes the U.S.-based “Progressive Muslim Union” as promoting secular Islam, when it was really another Islamist organization, but with a hip tone. (No other Islamists dared host a feature called “Sex and the Umma.”) Building Moderate Muslim Networks is not the final word on its subject but it marks a major step toward the systematic reconfiguring of how to implement Washington’s policy to combat Islamism. The study’s meaty contents, clear analysis, and bold recommendations usefully move the debate forward, offering precisely the in-depth strategizing Westerners urgently need. Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, resumes his weekly column after teaching on “Islam and Politics” at Pepperdine University the past semester. He can be reached at: www.DanielPipes.org.

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For Israel, time to give substance to a national security strategy

FOCUS ON ISSUES by GIDI GRINSTEIN TEL AVIV (JTA) -- Celebrations of Israel’s 59th year of independence may be overshadowed by the Winograd Commissions’ interim report on the political and military leadership’s conduct during the Second Lebanon War last summer. Personal conclusions notwithstanding, the report will expose an ill-structured government that is institutionally unfit to deal with Israel’s national security challenges. But that’s only part of the national security story of our 59th year. In two other areas Israel has experienced painful disappointments recently. In Gaza, we don’t win, in spite of our absolute military superiority. In addition, the “Convergence Plan” for unilateral withdrawal from the West Bank was abandoned although it was the Olmert government’s political flagship. Put together, these three events should be a source of serious concern. A national security strategy involves leveraging a nation’s resources toward securing its existence, security and prosperity. Don’t Google ‘Israel’s national security strategy’ because you won’t find it. No official publication exists; the outlook has not been comprehensively formulated or articulated. Nonetheless, this strategy shapes and impacts countless statements, decisions and actions at all levels of Israeli government, and drives

huge financial undertakings. Some of its key principles are obvious to anyone who observes Israel -- for example, maintaining military superiority over Israel’s neighbors, nurturing the country’s special relationship with the United States and preserving a state that is predominantly Jewish demographically. In fact, the main points of the strategy are mostly shared by Israeli leaders on the left and the right and serve as an anchor for their policies, hence generating relative consistency in national politics. However, faced with permanent adversity and exceptional regional volatility, tenets of our national security strategy are challenged and sometimes rendered irrelevant at a pace that’s unparalleled elsewhere. This means Israel is required to constantly revisit and update its political and military approach. The Second Lebanon War showed that Israel’s primary national security challenges are gravitating from the “harder” security-military sphere to “softer” areas of diplomacy, politics, legitimacy and international law. Continuous military friction along our borders notwithstanding, the logic of the Resistance Network -- those groups in Israel, the region and around the world that deny Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state -- is primarily political. This network wishes for Israel’s implosion through processes similar to those that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union and apartheid-era South Africa. This logic of implosion is not yet a strategy, but it’s more than just a bubbling idea. It’s articulated most promi-

nently by figures such as Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad. Their approach has three legs. First, use terrorism and guerilla warfare to undermine any breakthrough toward securing and consolidating Israel’s existence as a Jewish and democratic state. Second, work to undermine the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while promoting an alternative “one-state solution” that’s tantamount to the abolition of Israel as a Jewish state. Third, challenge Jews’ fundamental right to selfdetermination and question the legitimacy of Israel’s Jewishness. To date, they have been effective. The Oslo peace process of the 1990s has been derailed, and the unilateralist approach blocked. Israel, the West and Arab moderates have been left with no credible and viable political framework. Israel’s path to ending its control over the Palestinian population and securing its Jewishness seems lost. Hence, while Israel perceives terrorism to have been contained at a level that doesn’taffect citizens’ daily existence, our enemies have leveraged terrorism into a strategic tool with potentially existential implications for us. Furthermore, the vision of Israel’s implosion impacts our enemies’ approach toward the Palestinian issue. Some of them believe Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank may actually be a blessing in disguise if it accelerates Israel’s collapse. That’s partly the reason why there is no effective pressure on Israel to withdraw. One implication for Israel is that there is asymmetry between the emerging threats

and our response, which places our national security at a strategic inferiority. Our chief adversaries’ organizing logic is primarily political, while Israel’s response is primarily military. Hence, the tools we use to secure acceptance and legitimacy for our Jewishness and democracy have proven less effective than the tools that the Resistance Network uses to undermine us. The Winograd Commission may lead to structural reforms of profound significance. Some 40 other military commissions looked into other aspects of the Second Lebanon War, and conclusions have been reached and implemented. The Israel Defense Forces is training, gearing up and getting ready for the next round. But it’s not enough. The combination of the Second Lebanon War, the disappointment in Gaza and the cancellation of the “Convergence Plan” is more than a red light. No commission has been established to look at the substance of our national security strategy and to question the basic allocation of resources between military and diplomacy, and within them. Such a reassessment could lead to the conclusion that instead of another infantry battalion, we need 100 new diplomats and experts in international law. If most of the public debate in coming months focuses on personal findings, conclusions and recommendations, Israel may miss the point. Our national security strategy must be revisited. Our 60th year should be one of substance. Gidi Grinstein is founder and president of the Reut Institute (www.reut-institute.org), which works to provide strategic decision-support services to the government of Israel.

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BEHIND THE HEADLINES by DAVID BEDEIN Bureau Chief, Israel Resource News Agency President, Center for Near East Policy Research Beit Agron International Press Center A little more than two years ago, Jewish organizations throughout the United States organized a fundraising campaign to help members of Israel’s Arab community, which makes up more than one million Israeli citizens out of a total population of seven million. The response was overwhelming, as U.S. Jews rallied to the aid of Israeli Arabs. Unfortunately, in offering their support, these Americans paid little attention to the actual leadership of Israeli Arabs, which has turned against the state of Israel from within. Until this week when he resigned -- in Cairo, the Knesset included one member who verbally and openly supports Israel’s annihilation and cheers on terrorist groups like Hezbollah. This outspokenly anti-Israel activist is Arab parliamentarian Azmi Bishara. Bishara’s history of agitation against his home country is a matter of historical record. During the autumn of 2000, for instance, riots broke out in every Arab community in northern Israel except for one, the Israeli Arab city of Shefaram. Bishara’s contribution was to urge Arab youth to continue their rioting, using whatever means necessary. Shefaram Mayor Ursan Yassin was one Arab leader who rejected Bishara’s incendiary instructions. On the first night of the riots, he stood up to a group of masked men who wanted to desecrate the city’s ancient synagogue. “I told the hooligans that I recognized them, and that if they wanted to continue, they would have to get past me,” Yassin would recall in an interview. Last summer, Bishara stuck again. As Israel retaliated against Hezbollah’s relentless provocations, Bishara led

delegations of Israeli Arab members of the Knesset to Lebanon to express his full support for the terrorist group -- this at a time when Hezbollah was launching over 4,000 missiles into Israel, an attack that ultimately resulted in the deaths of 52 Israeli civilians; 24 of those killed were Israeli Arabs. Earlier, in a speech in the Knesset in June of 2000, Bishara had high praise for Hezbollah: “Hezbollah is a courageous national force that has taught Israel a lesson,” he declared. “It became the vanguard of the Arab world with a willingness to sacrifice for the sake of the goal.” Bishara’s betrayal during last summer’s war prompted the Israeli government to launch an investigation of Bishara for allegations of treason. Earlier this month, Bishara announced that he would resign from his Knesset post following what he branded “persecution” against him. There isn’t another country in the world where members of Parliament openly support terrorist organizations whose purpose is to destroy that same country those parliamentarians represent. Even Britain’s George Galloway, who at times praises radical Islamic organizations, looks like a moderate next to Israeli fifth columnists like Bishara. Whatever else may be said about him, Galloway at least does not support the destruction of Britain. What makes Bishara’s case even more unusual is that he should be, by law, ineligible to hold office in Israel: It is illegal for any Knesset member to reject the existence of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. It is illegal, too, to support a terrorist organization. Yet Bishara makes no secret of his rejection of Israel. “I am not opposed to all of Israel becoming Palestine. The Israelis immigrated to us, not we to them,” he informed an Austrian weekly in October of 2000. More recently, in December of 2005, Bishara proclaimed: “Israel is the greatest robbery of the 20th century. Give us back Palestine and take your democracy. We, the Arabs, aren’t interested.”

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In this context, it should be unsurprising that in 1999 and 2003 Bishara was disqualified by the Knesset’s Central Elections Committee from seeking office. However, Israel’s benevolent High Court of Justice decided to interpret the law in a way that somehow allowed Bishara to run for office. In response, a Likud member of Knesset, Gilad Erdan, has announced plans to initiate a bill that would prevent any member of the Knesset from serving as long as he does not recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Erdan’s bill would obligate all Arab members of the Knesset to state, once and for all, that they recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, or surrender the right to hold political office. Some have gone further. Another member of the Knesset, National Religious Party Chairman Zvulun Orlev, submitted a bill that bars a person who visits an enemy country from running for a seat in the Knesset. Few in Israeli politics are sad to see the back of Bishara. Israeli opposition chairman Binyamin Netanyahu said during a visit to northern Israel: “Bishara has contributed greatly to destabilizing relations between Arabs and Jews, and if he has decided to leave, it will only benefit us all.” Former Israel education minister Limor Livnat, who accompanied Netanyahu, added that Israel must still grapple with its restive Arab population: “They received the protection of democracy, and are now claiming to be persecuted. There are Arab [parliamentarians] who abuse their immunity and endanger the state,” she said. “We will have to ask ourselves many questions.” The Olmert administration, which includes Israel’s first Arab member of the government, Rayed Majadle, has remained silent on the Bishara affair. This reporter asked Israeli government minister Majadle to comment. Majadle responded by saying that he does not believe that any Israeli Arab leader would turn his back on the state of Israel. He would not comment on the Bishara affair, however.

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B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE FRIDAY: Services followed by Oneg, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, May 11: Services followed by Oneg, 7:30 p.m. with Dr. David Gradwohl, Professor Emeritus, Iowa State University will eplore Intra-group Diversity in American Cemeteries, “The Grandee vs. Our Crowd. “The community is invited.

BETH EL SYNAGOGUE FRIDAY: Musical Kabbalat Shabbat service, 6 p.m.; BESTT third graders will participate in the service. SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE WEEKEND: Dr. Jonathan Rosenbaum, president of Gratz College, who will offer presentations surrounding “The Irony of Acceptance: Living Jewishly in Today’s World.” Following Friday night services, his Shabbat dinner topic will be: “Back to the Future: Acceptance, Assimilation and Anti-Semitism in Contemporary America;” during Saturday morning services, “Subverting Scholarship: The Politics of Biblical Studies in the Contemporary World;” and during Kiddush luncheon, “JewishChristian Dialogue: How Far Should (or Can) It Go?” For information, contact Margie Gutnik in the office. SATURDAY: Morning services, 9:30 a.m.; Junior Congregation (3-7), 10 a.m.; K’tantan (K-2), 10:45 a.m.; Kiddush is sponsored by Beth El; Mincha/ Ma’ariv, 8:10 p.m. W E E K D AY S E R V I C E S : Sundays, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.; weekdays 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. SUNDAY: Bible Discussion Group; Living Hebrew; and “The Weekly Parasha: It’s All About Me?!”, all at 10 a.m.; “Jewish Pot Pourri,” 11 a.m.; Torah Trope crash course, 11:15 a.m. THURSDAYS, noon: Rabbi Levin leads Getting More Out of Prayer: Insights into the Siddur; “Bible Translation for Jews,” Mini-course led by Prof. Leonard Greenspoon, 7-8 p.m. BESTT MEETING: Sunday, 10 a.m., for all seventh graders and their parents, to discuss high school recruitment. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Relationship Empowerment for Students, Educators and Parents, Community Through Theatre): Group will perform a play dealing with the issue of bullying, for grades 5-7, on Sunday, 11 a.m. BOOKS GALORE: Kripke Library Director Gary Katz will introduce Jewish books to primary grades during BESTT classes on Sunday. HAZAK DELI DINNER: Sunday, 5:30-7:30 p.m. ABBA, EEMA & ME: Play group for children from birth to three, and their parents on Wednesday, 9:30-11 a.m. For information, contact Margie Gutnik in the office. SATURDAY TOT SHABBAT & LUNCH: Saturday, May 5, 11:15 a.m.-noon, led by

“Miss Patty” Nogg. Lunch will follow: $5 for adults; free for children six and younger. For information or to RSVP for lunch, contact Margie at programming@bethelomaha.org or call the office. MOTHERS CIRCLE: Group for non-Jewish mothers raising continues Jewish children, Tuesday, May 8, 7 p.m. and is open to the community, free of charge. Babysitting is available. For more information, contact Judy Rubin at 498.0904, or eddir@bethel-omaha.org.

BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fri., 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Gross. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m. Free babysitting, 9:30 a.m.; Children’s Classes, 9:45 a.m. with Torah Parade; Kiddush is sponsored by Jane Cohen, Michael, Karen, Lily and Jack Cohen, Toba Cohen-Dunning, Eric and Eleanor Dunning in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Jack Cohen; Mincha, 7:45 p.m. followed by Suedat Shlishit with Gemara class; Havdalah, 9:04 p.m. SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; “Reading the Rambam” class, 9:45 a.m.; The Beth Israel Mission to Israel departs; Mincha, 8:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Ma’ariv, 8:30 p.m. MONDAY: Hebrew Reading Crash Course, level 2, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY: Women of the Torah class, 9:30 a.m.; Advanced Parsha Study, 7:30 p.m.

BEYT SHALOM FRIDAY: Shabbat in the Home.

CHABAD HOUSE Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m. FRIDAY: Service, 7 a.m. SATURDAY: Maamar class, 9 a.m.; Service, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush luncheon follows the service. SUNDAY: Service, 8:30 a.m.; Living Torah, 9:30 a.m., 20minute video broadcast; Mishpacha Mornings, 10:15 a.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m. MONDAY: Maamar Kabbalistic Insights for Women, 12:15 p.m.; Halacha, 7 p.m. TUESDAY: W.O.W. Prayer Circle Tehillim & More, 9 a.m.; Parshah Roundup: Weekly Torah Portion Class, 7 p.m. Kabbalah WEDNESDAY: Circle, 7 p.m. All events and programs are open to the entire community.

CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN Services conducted by Rabbi Ilan Emanuel. FRIDAY: Shabbat Evening Service, 7:45 p.m. the South Street Temple led by Rabbi Emanuel, Rabbi Royi Shaffin, Jaine Evnen Merliss, and Sarah

Kelen. Marcia Kushner will be honored for her years of service to the Jewish Federation of Lincoln. An Oneg Shabbat will follow, sponsored by the board members SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. all led by Rabbi Emanuel. SUNDAY: LJCS Grades 2-7, 9:30 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; K-1, 9:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. at B’nai Jeshurun; Hallah High, 10 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; Lincoln Jewish Federation Campaign Kickoff, noon, at Tifereth Israel, featuring lunch, music, crafts, and poetry. Zion Uness, will speak about his experience immigrating to Israel as part of the Operation Moses airlift; Simchat Bat of Margaret Mae Gordon, daughter of Tracy and Randy Gordon, 3 p.m. with reception following. WEDNESDAY: Hebrew class (grades 2-7), 4-6 p.m. at Tifereth Israel. Make your reservations for the Prayer Mayor’s Interfaith Breakfast, Thursday, May 3, 7:30 a.m. at Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P St. SRSVP to Jean for $15 per person.

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TEMPLE ISRAEL FRIDAY: Shabbat Service/ Shabbat Shalom, 6 p.m. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Rabbi Eric Linder and Cantor Wendy Shermet will lead the service. SATURDAY: Sparks Beneath the Surface, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m. Cameron Davis, son of Mary Kay Davis and Henry Davis, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. SUNDAY: Teacher Learning Coffee, 9 a.m.; Grade One Parent Meeting, 10 a.m.; Religious School (K-6), 10 a.m.-noon.; Cradle Roll, 10:30 a.m.; Club 56 Picnic and a Mitzvah, noon Picnic lunch for $5, on the lawn. Don’t forget items for the Youth Emergency Fund; Global Days for Darfur III: Rally to Save Darfur, noon, also on the lawn at Temple. TUESDAY: Adult B’nai Mitzvah, 6:30–8 p.m.; Made in America with Bette Evans, 7 p.m. Creighton Professor Bette Evans will address how the American experience affects the various religions practiced in this country. Fee: $18, non-members $25. WEDNESDAY: Grades 3-6, 46 p.m.; All School Dinner, 6 p.m.; Family School, 6-8 p.m.; Grades 711, 6-8 p.m.; Confirmation/ Graduation Rehearshal, 6:45 p.m. THURSDAY: “Adult Study with the Clergy & Lunch” with Artist-in-Residence Noa Baum, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. RSVP to Temple, 556.6536, to make reservations for lunch at no charge; Torah on

Wheels, noon at Krieger and Krieger Law Offices, 9290 West Dodge Road. Contact Temple to make a reservation. Cost is $6. WRJ-O DONOR TEA: Friday, May 4, 1-2 p.m. Storytelling with Noa Baum, “Marvelous Maidens, Incredible Crones -- Stories of Women Wise and Bold.” Send your RSVP to Temple by April 27. TOT SHABBAT AND DINNER: Friday, May 4, 6 p.m. Rabbi Azriel will lead the service. Contact Temple to make a reservation. Cost is $5 for adults and children at no charge. CANTOR WENDY SHERMET AND FLUTIST MARIA HARDING IN CONCERT: Saturday, May 5, 7:30 p.m. (See page 5 for full story.)

NEIGHBORHOOD MINYAN FRIDAY: Minyan, 7 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m.

TIFERETH ISRAEL Services conducted by Rabbi Royi Shaffin. and Minyan, MONDAY THURSDAY, 9 a.m. FRIDAY: Federation Community Shabbat Services, 7:45 p.m. at South Street Temple. SATURDAY: Weekly Parashah class, 8:30 a.m.; Morning service, 9:30 a.m. followed by Shabbat lunch and Talmud class. SUNDAY: LJCS Grades 2-7, 9:30 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; K-1, 9:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. at South Street Temple; Hallah High, 10 a.m.-noon at Israel; Federation Tifereth Campaign Kickoff Family Event, 12-2 p.m. The theme is Jewish Arts. There will also be craft activities, readings of poems by Lincoln students and music by Kurt, Zach, and Avi Knecht. WEDNESDAY: Men’s Lunch Group meets at the Knolls, 12:30 p.m. Call Yale Gotsdiner at 423.7066; Hebrew class (grades 27), 4-6 p.m. at Tifereth .

TREE OF LIFE CENTER Services conducted by Rabbi Rabbi Michael Weisser. FRIDAYS: Sabbath Experience, 7:30 p.m. Havdalah: SATURDAYS: Rites of Separation, 6:30 p.m.; following Havdalah Drumming Meditation until 8 p.m.; following Drumming Social Time until 10 p.m. Sitting/Silent MONDAYS: Meditation, 6 p.m.; Teachings/ Discussion, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAYS: Sitting/ Silent Meditation, 6 p.m.; 8 Weeks to Mindfulness Class, 7:30 p.m.

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The ancient priesthood

SPARKS FROM THE WORD by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Parashat Emor With all the adverse publicity that Roman Catholic priests are being bombarded with these days, it is at least interesting to have a word about priesthood in ancient and contemporary Judaism. Our Sidra deals with the duties and privileges of the ancient priesthood. To begin with, the priests were reminded that they are the descendants of Aaron, the brother of Moses, and that this involves them with direct religious leadership of the people. At this point, we remind ourselves that the duties of the Kohanim in our day have been reduced to rather near zero, and are taken more in good humor than in religious seriousness.

Prometheus it was who brought down fire from heaven for the use of mankind. We do not claim descent from him, but the passage suggests that we are descendants of Aaron and Moses, who accepted grave responsibilities from the Lord -- directly! It was our ancestors who recognized the one God among the many nongods who were worshiped by the peoples among whom they lived. Our ancestors chose and the generations of Jews that followed also chose the contumely of their contemporaries rather than give up their integrity. At least in our times, it has been recognized that the worship of the one God was right from the beginning. It is true that there are still some who disdain us and let us know about it. It is certainly a troubled world. But we are closer to a mature humankind and we must devote ourselves to strengthening that quest for maturity. We are the Kohanim (priests) of the world. (Editor’s note: this column was originally published in the April 26, 2002, issue of the Jewish Press.)

• Preliminary results in the French presidential elections pointed to a May 6 runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy -- a candidate favored by many French Jews -and Segolene Royal. Exit polls indicated that Sarkozy, the UMP Party candidate, garnered 29 percent to 30 percent of the vote. Royal, the Socialist candidate, received 25 percent to 26 percent. They were the top two vote-getters in a field of 10 that included the Centre Party’s Francois Bayrou, who had 18.5 percent; and extreme right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen, 11 percent. Voter turnout was higher than France has seen in 50 years -- 87 percent of the country’s 44.5 million eligible voters cast ballots. Many French Jews are seen as backing Sarkozy, known as an American-style law-and-order politician, for his hard line against Muslim unrest in France, including anti-Semitic attacks. Royal drew fire from the community for meeting with Hezbollah lawmakers in Beirut during a Mideast tour in December. “I would like to say to all the French people who are afraid of the future that I will protect them against violence and delinquency,” Sarkozy told supporters in Paris after the early results were announced.

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• Boris Yeltsin, the former Russian president whose years in power saw a mass emigration of Jews and the renaissance of Jewish life in the former Soviet Union, died Monday at age 76. While it was Yeltsin’s predecessor, Mikhail Gorbachev, who opened the gates for Soviet Jews and paved the way for the fall of the Iron Curtain, Yeltsin continued to open up the country. Yeltsin spoke out against anti-Semitism and generally was seen as friendly to the Jewish community. Under Yeltsin, Russia’s relations with Israel improved and Russia became active in the Middle East peace process. “Yeltsin was an important figure” for the Jewish community, said Mark Levin, executive director of NCSJ, a group that works on behalf of Jews in the former Soviet Union. “His opening of the country allowed for the development of Jewish communities throughout Russia. His willingness to create a more open, democratic country certainly had an impact on the Jewish community.” • Israeli military investigators identified the remains of a soldier killed in fighting nearly 60 years ago. The body of Mordechai Franko, a Palmach fighter who died trying to break the Arab siege on Jerusalem during the 1948 War of Independence, was found in a burial plot near Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim, just west of Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported Monday. Franko will be reinterred with full military honors next week. • Forbes magazine included Israeli pharmaceutical firm Teva on its ranking of 130 “global superstars.” Ynet reported Monday that the Forbes shortlist, a lead-up to its annual “Global 2,000” ranking, is based on a combination of the firms’ sales, profits, assets and market value. In 2006, Teva registered $8.41 billion in sales, $55 million in profits, $20.47 billion in assets and a market value of $26.91 billion. CORRECTION In the March 30 Passover issue of the Jewish Press, Joe Rice was mistakenly identified as Harold Farber in a photo on page 11.

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DEATH KATE FERER Kate Ferer died at the age of 95. Services were held April 25 at Beth El Cemetery. A longtime community volunteer, she was a Division Leader for the Women’s Campaign’s seniors and was honored as Volunteer of the Year by Methodist Volunteer Partners, the United Way, Jewish Senior Services, and by Nebraska’s First Lady in 1999.

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JTA NEWS BRIEFS • Britain’s Holocaust Educational Trust and the American Jewish Committee refuted reports that the British government would scrap Holocaust education for fear of offending Muslim students. Following a story in several British newspapers on a recent U.K. government report entitled “Teaching Emotive and Controversial History,” the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote to British Education Secretary Alan Johnson that it was “horrified” to learn of a reluctance by British teachers to educate children about the Holocaust because of political correctness. Since then, the Holocaust Educational Trust in London has refuted the idea that the government would remove Holocaust education from the curriculum. “We want to make it clear that our understanding is the Holocaust is and will continue to be on the national curriculum and therefore continue to be taught in all U.K. schools,” the trust said in a statement. The American Jewish Committee is circulating the trust’s statement.

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She was preceded in death by husbands, Louis Kuklin, David Katz and Nate Ferer; and son, Paul Richard Kuklin. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Arlene and Milton Moskovitz; sisters, Dora Kaiman of Sioux City, IA, and Esther Kaplan of Glenview, IL; many grandchildren and great-grand children. Memorials to Temple Israel or the Blumkin Home.

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Rabbi Kripke among the honorees for community organization’s humanitarian awards, chaired by Todd and Betiana Simon by ROSALEE A. ROBERTS The Conference for Inclusive Communities, formerly NCCJ of the Midlands, has announced that Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, rabbi emeritus of Beth El Synagogue, is among the honorees of the 2007 Humanitarian Dinner, scheduled for Thursday, Rabbi Myer Kripke May 31, at the Holiday Inn Central, 72nd and Grover. In addition, Todd and Betiana Simon are the chairmen for the event. “Since 1955, our organization has recognized individuals and groups for their courage to make a positive difference in our community, and for their dedication to the ideals of inclusion, respect and justice for all people,” said Barb Angelillo, Executive Director for the Conference for Inclusive Communities (CFIC). George and the late Karen Rozmarin and Michael and Lin Simmonds will receive Humanitarian Awards. Senator Brad Ashford, Rabbi Myer S. Kripke and Sergeant Teresa B. Negron each will receive the Otto Swanson Spirit of Service Award. Todd Simon, a fifth generation owner and Senior Vice President of Omaha Steaks, oversees all consumer sales and marketing. He is a member of the Omaha Community Foundation and the United Way of the Midlands and is President of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. He also is a member of the Executive Board of the Nebraska Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and a past member of the Jewish Family Service and R.E.S.P.E.C.T. boards. His wife, Betiana Simon, a native of Argentina, holds a bachelors degree in Secondary Education in Foreign Languages and is continuing her studies at Creighton University. She is on the board of Film Steams and volunteers raising funds for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. The couple are directors of the Simon Foundation which provides advice and finan-

cial support to arts and human care organizations. Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1914, Rabbi Myer S. Kripke graduated from New York University magna cum laude in 1933. He earned Todd and Betiana Simon a masters from Columbia University in 1937, the same year he was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From 1946-76, Rabbi Kripke was the spiritual leader of Beth El; from 1976-90, was an adjunct Associate Professor of Theology at Creighton University. He has toured various cities as a lecturer and speaker. Since 1980, he has written a commentary on the weekly Torah portion for the Jewish Press. Rabbi Kripke’s life-long commitment to the mission of strengthening interfaith relationships, mutual respect and understanding between Christians and Jews and other faiths led him, and his late wife Dorothy, to endow Creighton University with the Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society. In 2000, Rabbi Kripke was awarded Creighton’s Doctor of Human Letters. George Rozmarin is a Partner in the Fraser Stryker Law Firm in Omaha. He has been recognized for his accomplishments in the field of labor relations and employment law and was the first attorney in this region elected a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He worked for years to help strengthen and build the NCCJ of the Midlands chapter. His wife, Karen, who died in 2002, was a dedicated educator. She taught business classes in York, Nebraska and at Louis Central High School in Council Bluffs. Karen also was recognized by Catholic Charities for her work as a facilitator for the abused women support group at the Catholic Charities Shelter and at the

Omaha Campus for Hope Addiction Recovery Center. Michael Simmonds, along with his wife Lin, owns Simmonds Restaurant Management Inc., which operates over 75 Burger King, Taco John’s and Jimmy John’s restaurants and employs over 2,500 people. Simmonds serves on the boards of the Salvation Army, Special Olympics Nebraska, Junior Achievement of the Midlands, Methodist Hospital Foundation, Bellevue University, Sacred Heart School, Boy Scouts and Merrymakers. Lin Simmonds, a former elementary school teacher in Huntsville, AL, has served on the boards of the Arthritis Foundation; the Omaha Community Playhouse; Family Services and the Sacred Heart School -- CUES. Senator Brad Ashford, a native Omahan, has held several key positions, including: the Omaha Housing Authority as both a director and chairman, a judge on the Commission of Industrial Relations, a found member of the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority. He is a member of the Salvation Army Advisory board, the Nebraska and Minnesota Bar Associations, Nebraska Bar Foundation, and the Omaha Suburban Rotary. Ashford was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 1986, 1990 and again in 2006. Sergeant Teresa Negron became a member of the Omaha Police Department in 1992 as an officer in the Uniformed Patrol Bureau patrolling the South Omaha and downtown areas. She was promoted to Sergeant, assigned to the Southeast Precinct and became the Sergeant in charge of the Public Information Office. Negron shares her experience as a police officer, her passion for justice, and concern for grieving families and victims of violence and abuse with various groups including students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha on women in law enforcement, and at the Police Chaplain’s Conference on issues related to crime scenes. Angelillo adds, “this year’s dinner attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear the stories and celebrate the lives of some extraordinary people.” For information and to purchase tickets, call 402.391.4460.

Global Days for Darfur III Rally to

Save Darfur On the lawn of Temple Israel 7023 Cass Street Sunday, April 29th 12:00pm

On April 29, 2007 – the fourth anniversary of the crisis – groups and organizations throughout the US and around the world will be highlighting the need for the UN/AU peacekeeping force. Despite the presence of the African Union Mission in Darfur (AMIS), the security situation has been dramatically deteriorating.The third Global Day for Darfur presents an opportunity to place focused pressure on US policy makers, the United Nations, Government of Sudan and the international community concerning the full implementation of the three-phased UN/AU peacekeeping force to Darfur.

Please join us to show your support! This event has been sponsored by:

SAVE DARFUR COALITION

Save Darfur Coalition 2120 L Street NW, Suite 600 Washington, DC 20037 www.savedarfur.org