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COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb.. Fri., October 30,1981
Putting final touches on a new membership campaign for the Jewish Community Center are from left, Steven Rod, executive director; Jay Lerner, president; and Dory Gerber, secretary.
JCC spec/a/ offer seeksnew members
Thin photo of Robert and Freda Keinberg was taken in 1975 in Israel.
Family gift honors Robert By Bert Lewis
"I've always felt blessed in the way of life I've been able to lead, and I fee! strongly about sharing it. Since these are my people, and I am one of them, I feel privileged to give". Those words were spoken by the late Robert M. Fcinberg, in Israel in June, 1875. In his memory, his wife, Freda, together with her son and daughter-in-law Stanley and Claire, daughter and son-in-law Mona and Sol Crandell and their children, have made a $100,000 gift to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. The north nursing
wing of the new home will be Omaha with bis family in known as the Feinberg 1949, and began a career Memorial Wing. which would bring him to the As spokesperson for the position of chairman of the family, Mona Crandell board of Pepsi-Cola - of stated "we feel this is a Omaha. A long way from the fitting memorial for Dad. He humble start as the child of always worked hard at struggling immigrant gettings things done, and we parents. His business sucknow he would want to cesses are well known, and participate in the Blumkin his lifelong personal Home project. Mother feels philosophy of sharing his our gift is two fold: First, it blessings was evidenced in enables us to honor the his tireless efforts for the memory of Dad, and benefit of others. He and secondly, we're doing what Freda always believed in he himself would do...we're lending as much of themhelping the community build selves as possible to every a fine new structure for our community agency that aged." looked to them for help. At one time, Bob FeinThe man who is being (Continued on Page 2) memorialized came to
By Morris Maline The Jewish Community Center is off and running with a new membership campaign. Designed to attract additional members of the Jewish community to the
Center, the campaign offers a special package of services. According to Jay R. Lerner, JCC president, and Lois Finkel, chairman, membership committee,
Rabbi Laderman speaks, Wow. 1 Rabbi Manuel Latierman will speak at Beth Israel Synagogue, on Sunday Nov. 1, at 7:45, on "The Identity Crisis of Every Jew." His presentation is open to the public. "Many have a problem of identity, as individuals and as Jews. We live in a predominantly Christian society and often our Jewish background is in sharp conflict with our envirenment. Resolving the conflict is not always without confusion and difficulty," explained Rabbi Isaac Nadoff. Rabbi Laderman brings to this question the knlowledge and experience of close to 50 years of rab-
Rabbi Laderman binical work. He served his one and only congregation, Congregation Hebrew Educational Alliance, in Denver, since his ordination in 1932 and is recognized as one of Denver's leading citizens, both by the Jewish and the general community.
new Jewish members will receive a $350 package of membership services for $275 if they join by Dec. 1. The offer is outlined in a letter now being mailed to all members of the Jewish Community who are not at present members of the JCC. Those not receiving the letter may obtain a copy and more information by contacting Steven Rod, executive director, 334-8200. Mr, Lerner and Mrs. Finkel said that along with the letter, they enclosed the 1981 Fall Brochure offered by the JCC. The brochure describes the range of activities provided for family members from preschool through adults. "The JCC's Board of Directors concluded that this was an opportune time to introduce members of the Jewish Community to the JCC, it was said. To provide an incentive for joining before Dec. 1, the Center is offering an extended membership package for the price of 12 months (Continued on Page 2)
Wayne college conducts Holocaust program Eckstein pointed out, and then went on to discuss the Holocaust in terms of a double theme: universal implications of the Holocaust to mankind, and Jewish implications of the Holocaust particularly relevant to Jewry. Discussing the Holocaust's message to Jews, Eckstein began by reaching back through Jewish history for parallels between the Nazi slaughter of the Jews and other major events in the saga of Israel. First of all, Eckstein said, the Holocaust must be treated reverently. "Just as Moses walked on holy ground as he approached the burning bush, so must Jews approach the topic of the Holocaust with awe, reverence, and even numbness," said Eckstein. • Martyrdom
By David Bittner An estimated 1,800 Wayne State College students and high school students from the surrounding area attended a recent "Holocaust Revisited" program at Wayne State College in Wayne, Neb. The program, sponsored by the college's Public Affairs ' Institute in conjunction with the Omaha Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, included the showing of a 1945 National Archives film on the horrors of Nazi concentration camps; an address by Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein of the Chicago ADL; talks by Omahans Sam and Magda Fried, both survivors of concentration camps; and personal accounts of the liberation of the camps by Rev. Norbert Johnson of the First Covenant Church of Omaha and Midlands Magazine editor, Hollis Limprecht. After the 50-minute film, Rabbi Eckstein, a recognized historian of the Holocaust, addressed the audience. The first observation that Eckstein had to make concerned the film. Eckstein told the audience that the film did not go far enough. "You didn't see two million Jewish children die," he said. "You didn't see parents parting with
Sam and Magda Fried their children forever. You got an historical idea of the Holocaust, but you didn't see the pain, the suffering, the agony." Only once was the word "Jew" mentioned in the film,
Eckstein went on to say that the Jews went to their deaths in the dignified spirit of Masada, dying to sanctify God's name, but called this a style of martyrdom which would have to be modified if the Jews, particularly in the state of Israel, are to survive further trials. At the same time he warned against turning this completely around into . (Continued on Page 7)