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^hwartsmans Reunited Dtvld Sbwartaman (Ml) bttof mcttied here by the Jewish Federation of Omaha. Is reunited »ttb hto paraaU wd iMar rrom hU left are hU father, Boris, hU sister, Jana, David's wife, Falna and hit modMr. Roca David's daughter. Stella, two. prcMotad flowers to her grandmother at the airport \mfl wMk The Shwartsman family Is from Kelv, IUMU
Visitors Sound Shofar At Clarkson Hospital Jewish patients at Clarkson Hoapltal were treated to a Mowlnt of the shofar although Uiejr w«re hoapltal ited over R«h«a*hanah and Yom Klp^
Sukkot: The Festival Of Tabernacles NCWYORK-IMtlsaimiuMrsUonorSukftiK. lite Hehftrw MBiafttaFMitofTabanweta It to oriabralad M the ftr«t karwit dMiriia0*tag Md ctouMmoralM dM pwtod wtwn the l«MUiM wandHvd ta dM wIMvMM. SiMnt to «feMr»«d tui jMraOet.!
Nr Two oMi in tradtttauJ Or itodMi dnm vtottcd Uw Jew lah patlenta They iiad on Mack hats, beards, payeta and IxlUlt Payeta are long sidrtwrna with curia, and tiltiU to a short garment with frlngn. The men carried a small •hofar in (heir MU and in the spull of the holiday offered to sound the ram'i horn for (he
patients The two ww« Identified later as Shimon l^evine and Ben Yamin Nemon, both 24. wtw arc nwmben OIUK ^•'t^ vltdMrmovHMnt From Detroll, they are em played temporarily u ritual slaiitfitann at a kosher meat packing oprraliun in Sioux aty Mrs l^evinr iiiid the Jewish Press thai her husband and hi* friend consider themaelveti tradltionaJ Orthodox They came 10 Omaha to pray m Beth Urael .Synagogue be-
cause thr (Irlhudox synagogue with Aryeh and (ilia Vilenski in Sioux ('ity does not truly Tf>e men walked from Beth separate the men from the Israel to Oarkson Hospital women and rii.'idt' rnunds of the Jew She said the Sioux City syna i'' provide holiday gogue does not have enough gi' iHiaelnneed men for two minyons and thai Rabbi Myer Kripke who visthe mechitza (separation be ited one of ttte patients later in tween men and womeni Is InUie day said tfte l.ubavitrhers adequate Al Beth Israel, a would consider this activity a separate minyon is available great mitzvah in the library for men who desire to pray wllhout ff>e presMrt Irvine said Lubavltrbence of women ers also visit the hospitals on Rabbi Nemon wax given Purim In give out food and home hospitality over the holi wine .She said her family and day by Cantor and Mrs I.«a Rabbi Nemon would be re Pettman. the licvines stayed turning to Oetroit wxm
A Polish Jew Meets A Polish Catholic •7 Abraham H. Fooua Aanelito Nattnal Olraetw AtoMMknalka U^w«( B-MI Bnia It WM • day tn Ju^. rrom the MO* of JeruMlem, I was drtv ««lo tai OtvloB AUport, bound lor ROHM. II waa • trip I had made balare bui Mwr in iudi a curieiM •mottooal lUU My mM fttcuaed oo4 on Rome, the modem European capital I kaew. but tlH taparlal city of Tltut 'Hw plane I boarded became a lima eapnla lakkig me back to wltneH the Hebrew captlvM balai M In chaina by the triumphant Roman Legloni, the I of the Temple prefaoad in the hands of the conWaa IMS « pUghmafle to waep over bitter hisiary^ To redeem •y aariam bmteent Vivtd at the ImafH were, I realUed that I •at caawrwad aol wttli the ancient martyrs, but the haunting 0ioala of my own fmralkM. Jenwilam n'Rona, from my Eternal aty lo "theirs " No, no( "BihH" and "thdn " Mh cHlea played a role In ihe lives and hWaryot Jew and Jtadatom and In thai twee, Mb are part of aw. Jmaalwi p*« J««s lUi and tpMt and gtary, Rone I Je«i lo wnrtvt, daiplU ilavary and penecuUoa, M thai I ratm lo (raedum ••I I am a wrvtvor In a literal at well aa a ipirltttal tanie. I am a Mniw tl Ike (WocauM. ia««d la « Wnit by a devool PoIWi CaUHiic tmnaa who dUMfid nqr aama. datoaad I «aa IMT cWM, aad had me baptlatd. rerihe flr« lew yaan of my tUt. I dM aat kamr I wit a Jew, that my real paraoii warv In iwaidratliai campa and that most of my lamlly had been klUad bydHNaUt Near I vaa lo partldpato In a privau audtotoca win OH Papc gTMiiad la t imaU dritgaliga a( Amarteaat, Jawi aad PalMi CaiMicg. I waalooMt Uw jNraailfleailta «{ dw CMiUaa warid, Hto Iwlaam, PB^ Jmai Paid U, Nki am, 9t FBIMI Nfdi. IlknifM a( dM rait ftayad by dw CadMMe ClHrch la Utt pw-
aecullan of my paopte. I thought of the silence and indllferenre tatives of the Polish American community had cwiperalively < ormoHefdwCattioUcworldtoHitJer's flnalsolulMn ' lablished thr Janust Kurczak Prize, an award lo he made armu I dwi^ o( dw manifold indifference to the aofuWhed cries ally In the author of a children's book exemplllying Dr (or halp from Uw Jews teaJod bahhid Uw waito of Uw Warsaw Korczak 's pnnclplea Ghettn. of dw campildly of tegmanU of Uw PoUtb population to We arrived in Rome The next day. Uie Malta Guards saluted Uw'•accoaipltohmHiU"of Treblinka and AuMhwftz us as we entered Ihe gales of The Vatican We were led through Why, then, thto tenae of anticipation, this inner desire to meet magnificent rooms, full of religious art and artifacts, to an antea Polish Pope'' Was it because I had survived Uie Holocaust chamber which looked out on St Peter's Square From there, we while a million and a hitif other Jewish children perslshed'* were escorted uito Uie Pope's library where, standing at the door, he greeted us warmly and individually He ttien proceeded My survival waa a miracle, but Uw instrument of that mira cle was Bronislawa KurpI, the Pollah Catholic woman who na- lo an elevated chair in the center of Uie library, our delegation ked her life lo save a human being To me. ihls Pope I was to flanking him on elltier side The purpose of our visit was explained Gifts were presented, visit repreaenied not Uw history of Uw CaUxWic Church, but the embodiment of my own survival I was |Din| lo meet another including a print of an ADL fUm, "Avenue of the Just." about Pole, is CaUwlic priest who had aiao ritfced penonal safety by gentiles who had risked Uwlr lives to save Jews: a leather-bound opposing Uw evils of Nazism in his native parish I looked for copy of "A Promise To Keep." a new book about Ihe history of ward lo espreasing my gratitude lor that part of Christianity anti-Semitism In America, and "Image Before My Eyes," the which had motivated Bronlslawa KurpI to act as she did story of a Polish Jewish family which perished during Uie Hoto-. But my emotions were mixed and tempered by the knowl- cauat edge that after the "liberation," my adoptive mother refuted to I stepped forward raium me to my parents and to Judaism and forced them lo IIU"Your Holiness," I said, "I wu bom In Baranowlcze, Pogala dw qutstion of custody land. I am a survivor of Uw Holocaust I am alive today because I waa pahwd by Uie Uwught Uiat posslMy hundreds of Jewish of the compassion and humanity of a Polish CaUiollc woman chttdraa. ptrtwpt Uwutawts, who had been saved by Chrittlans who risked her life to save ine from the Nazis I want to again exwsuld aavar ktww that Uwy were Jews I wondered if Uiey were press my Uunks to her through you I ask Uut you Mess her part of Uw UMTO^I of devout CaUwUcs who had lined Uie streeU soul " of Potnd to catch a gllmpae of Uw Pope I was going to nwM The Pontiff learned forward on his chair The audience had lormal purpose - lo honor Janusx Korc I continued 'I have Just come from Jerusalem, the reestablak, a bdlUant Poftob^lewlth educator and physician, a pleaeer lished capital of the Stale of Israel and world Jewry I bring you la Uw fMd of cWld wailan. Aldwugi he iBl#il bava arvhad, he M a gilt a toon-to4w Istutd l^adl PUgrlmt Medal expretaing had dHasB la ptrtoliln dw TNMlaka gat dianhan raOwr dun Uw concept of Yara*ai«y<m Ir HaMNMi, JcrutaMm Uw Holy ahMta Ikt arplMna la Ml durgi. City, and YtoroMEratiHakodaMi, Israel Uw Holy Land " TB htaar Ma awnwry and Mt Ideala. dw AnU-DefamaUoo The medallion has s llth ccntairy map, in which Jerusalem ! staff I have MTvad for 14 years, and 1 I Continued on Page 2)
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