Schulweis to Inaugurate Family Learning College ..COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha. Neb., Fri., October 10; 1980
Hebrew Classes To Commence Monday Adults wishing to learn enough Hebrew to follow and participate in synagogue services may do so In the Hebrew School for Adults which opens Oct. 13. Classes, sponsored by the College for Jewish Family Learning of the Jewish Cultural Arts Concil, will offer participants the opportunity to start at their own level with classes scheduled to suit their needs and schedules. "We are very fortunate to have trained professional teachers available to offer Hebrew classes at all levels for those in our community who wish to begin the learning process or advance their skills In Hebrew," said the Interim Committee chairmen Mary Fcllman and Steve Rickes. "These classes offer every Jewish person in the commu-. nlty the opportunity to learn to read the prayer book, the Haggadah. and perhaps even more advanced learning including grammar and conversation. Wo hope many, many men, women and high school and college students will take advantage of these courses. It's never too late to learn Hebrew!" In addition to the beginning, Intermediate and conversational courses that will be taught by Balya Brand, Marcia TaU, Waller Feldman, Miriam Orcn, and Dr. Lew Yager, a
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Announcement of Rabbi Harold Schulweis as inaugural speaker for the College for Jewish Family Learning has brought a number of favorable reactions from Omahans who have heard him previously at various national conventions or In his home synagogue of Valley Beth Shalom In Enclno, California and who look forward to hearing him again, according to the Interim Committee chairmen Mary Fcllman and Steve Rlekcs. "Rabbi Schulweis hasestabllshed a fine reputation for the creative and Innovative work he has done so successfully with the Chavura movement and the introduction of a new
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")9Qi9 This Is an example of conversational Hebrew as It will be taught In the classes. Hebrew Ulpan will be offered for those more advanced in their Hebrew who wish to develop skills of basic conversation and Hebrew grammar. Audio visual methods will be used for this more intensive course which will be taught by Mrs. Brand on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. It will be available on Monday and Wednesday afternoons upon request. (More complete details about all the classes arc available on Page 3 of this Issue of the Jewish Press.) Classes will be held t( there Is a minimum of six students.
A materials fee of $10 will be charged for the Ulpan and Conversational class students.
Credit Given . High School Students who attend the Omaha High School for Jewish Studies will be given credit for the HEBREW ULPAN or any conversational Hebrew classes they enroll in according to Stanley Mitchell, director of the school. Students are asked to check details with Mr. Mitchell.
NEW YORK (JTA) - Republican Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan said the United States should suspend Its financial contributions to the United Nations if the UN General Assembly voted to expel Israel. Reagan, on a campaign swing of New York amd Pennsylvania, made that remark to reporters two days after President Carter declared In New York that the expulsion of Israel would raise questions about the U.S. remaining in the world organization and one day after Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam urged the Generan Assembly to suspend Israel from membership: Reagan noted that under the UN Charter a member can be expelled or suspended only at the recommendation of the Security Council and, in that event, the U.S. should exercise its veto power. If this failed, "We should suspend our contributions to the United Nations and urge our friends to do the same until the rights of Israel are fully respected," Reagan said.
program ol para-professionals to Identify with and touch the lives of members of his congregation," said the chairmen. "He has much to tell us relative to the Jewish family and we hope many parents will attend with their teenage sons and daughters. "The choice of Rabbi Schulweis by the College planning committee of the Jewish Cul-' tural Arts Council was based on the desire to reach all ages In the Jewish community with a topic of mutual interest by an authority in that area." He will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 at the Jewish Community Center on "What alls the Jewish family and the erosion of the Jewish family system"
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and will follow his address with a question and answer period. A reception will be held in the gallery ol the Center lor those who wish to meet and speak with Rabbi Schulweis. Rabbi Kenneth Bromberg, president of the Rabbinical Council of Omaha, and a fellow student at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will introduce the guest speaker. Rabbi Schulweis, a former teacher of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, has served as a star faculty member ol the B'nai B'rith Institutes of Judaism for a number of years. He is a contributing editor to The Reconstructlonist magazine and other publications.
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To Discuss Aging On Oct. 18, 1978, President Carter signed legislation authorizing the White House Conference on Aging to be convened in 1981. Previous conferences were held in 1961 and 1971. The conference drew national attention to the growing number ol older Americans and to address key Issues of concern to this segment of society. Previous conferences have been effective In Identifying the needs of an aging population, thereby helping to formulate government programs to meet these needs. More than a single event, the idea is for a carefully planned series of activities, starting with local community forums in the fall of 1980 and moving through state conferences, regional hearings, special issue papers, and culminating with a national meeting in Washington D.C. In early December, 1981. Although a limited number of persons will be able to attend this final na-
tional meeting, everyone, young and old, can take an active part by becoming Involved in the activities beginning now on a local level, and which will continue throughout the coming months. ' On Oct. 14, the Old Timers Early Bird Discussion Group will hold the first of a series of forums in the Omaha Jewish community, which will concentrate on income, health, housing and other such concerns. The second fortim Is scheduled for the Older Adult Club, on Oct. 16, at Beth El Synagogue at 12:30 p.m. Seth Levy, social services director, Bureau for the Aging, will answer any questiions about this Conference on Aging. Contact him at 4517220, or write to him at 4BQ1 North 52 street, Omaha, Nebraska 68104. Mr. Levy has announced that details for an open Community Forum will be published at a later date.
Jews, Non-Jews March to Protest Synagogue Bombing in Paris By Edward Eytan PARIS (JTA> - Tens of thousands of Jews marched (or the third consecutive day to protest the bomb attack on a Paris synagogue Friday night in which three people were killed and 33 were Injured. It was the worst anti-Semitic attack since the end of the war and the first to have caused fatalities. It capped a series of anti-Semitic attacks last weekend for which a neoNazi group, the European National Fascists, claimed responsibility. Tens of thousands of nonJews, trade unionists, students and politicians representing the entire spectrum of France's political and social life, joined the Jewish demonstrators. The outpourIng .of solidarity and the unlversal rage over the attack prompted mflny observers to
note that the French Jewish community has never been as strong as it is now and the anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi groups as small and as isolated. President Valery Glscard d'Estaing has personally taken over the police investigation and Prime Minister Raymond Barrc and Interior Minister Christian Bonnet have ordered special units of France's riot police to guard all Jewish schools, synagogues and institutions. Police guards armed with machineguns are conducting an around-the-clock patrol near all Jewish institutions and In business areas, such as the textile center, where there arc large Jewish concentrations. Jewish defense groups, some belonging to the Jewish Defense Organization and some sclf-lmprovlscd, arc also
standing guard over Jewish schools, synagogues and other institutions throughout the country. Everywhere in Paris and in major French provincial cities young Jews, some carrying walkie-talkies and steel bars, are guarding institutions and enlirc city areas. They stop suspicious-looking cars and frisk passersby and motorists. Others say they plan to "seek revenge" for the synagogue bombing. Jewish anger Is so Intense that Jewish demonstrators yesterday tried to storm the Presidential residence, the Elysee Palace, and the Minister of Interior, and came close to clashing with French riot police. Tourists or passersby who seemed to conform to the image of neo-Nazis —• those with short-cropped hatr and wearing conservative dark suits — were harassed or
beaten up. Some were seen entire French Jewish leaderfleeing, with blood over their ship blamed the government, Glscard d'Estaing, Barre and faces. Simone Veil, president of Bonnet for Friday night's the European Parliament, tragedy. The government promised who was a former government minister, marched in one of Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan and the demonstrations. She was Baron Alain de Rothschild, surrounded by an angry crowd president of the Representawhich reproached her for tive Council of Jewish Organi"supporting the government." zations In France (CBIF) that 1 H took riot police close to 20 200 police cars and three full minutes to extricate her and companies of riot police — a her two companions, philoso- total of some 600 police — will pher Bernard Henri-Levy and henceforth be assigned to speartist Marek Halter, and es- cial security measures for the Jewish community. But the cort them to safety. All along the Champs Ely- Jewish community and many sec, in the Place d'Opera and government opposition leadIn the vicinity of the Presiden- ers feel, however, that these tial Palace, hundreds of dem- measures are too little and too onstrators waved Israeli nags late. The country seems to be In a throughout the day and late into the night, with people state of shock and there is a shouting "Israel shall live," nationwide demand for speedy and "Death to the Nazis." The and energetic action. demonstrators and almost the Representatives of all social
classes and political parties voiced support ol former Premler Michel D e b r e ' s statement: "No one can or will forget what took place tn Paris Friday night." Newspapers carried front page headlines. "Abominable," declared France-Solr. "The Assassins Are Among Us," thundered Quotidien de Paris. Two days after the bomb explosion, Riie Copernlc, where the Reform Rue Copernlc Temple Is located, looks as it tt had been the target of an air raid attack. Bujrned out cars litter the streets; buildings In a 100-meter area are wrecked, their windows shattered and their walls blackened by smoke. Local residents say that a day after the bombing they could still smell the stench ot smoke and burned bodies. The Reform synagogue, lo-