SERVING NEBRASKA, Omaha, Neb., Fri., January 29.1982
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By Bert Lewis Women'* Campaign Everybody knows whet a slogan or a logo means...the telephone company says "reach out and touch someone". The soft drink people tell us "things go better with Coke", The women who tire in charge of the 1982 Omaha Women's Division Campaign hereby submit o carefully thought-out phrase, which they cxped to use in these pages often in the coming months • "The Sky Is The limit" arc the words, end they will usually be accompanied by a drawing of balloons. The worth were selected because they suggest reaching" upward...soaring high, attempting always greater heights. This briefly, is the plan for the campaign. The leaders expect to introduce innovative, original technique* this year, reaching for hitherto unknown heights, and the_ cnthusiasm is up, up, up. Like hot air balloons. Because the success of the campaign is of such
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i CAMPAIGN 5 W82! great importance, the loo Li used by the workers must be the very best available. Needless to isay, the only tools are words. Therefore. THE SKY IS THE LIMIT, five little words, but witrrV'tofty-" sentiment. And the balloons (o better Illustrate the sentiment. There it is • the official 1982. Women's Division Campaign slogan. Now you know our theme.
Chairmen named for major events Chairmen and dates of four major Jewish community events in the first half of 1982 were announced at the • January Jewish Cultural Arts Council meeting at the Jewish Community Center. Chairing the spring semester of the College for Jewiih Family Learning will be Linda Dunn and Hindy Ball who also served as chairmen of the recent fall semester. Mrs. Dunn announced the opening date of. Monday. March 15 for three weeks of classes preceding a two week break for the Passover holidays. Classes will resume on April 19 and run through the week of May 3. (An ad in this week's Jewish Press invites members of the community to submit suggestions for classes for the spring and next fall semesters.) Dr. and Mm. Gary Lcrncr will chair the second annual Matin Bakery which will be held at the Jewish Community Center the week beginning March 28. The bakery will again give children and adults an op- • port unity for a "hands on" experience in the making of m'dUst. It will be staffed by two Lubavitcher rabbis from St Haul, Mlnncsofo-Chabad house. Alvin Ross, who served as chairman of the Yom Zfkaron llashoab observance last year, will serve in that capacity for a second time. The community observance as a memorial to the six million victims of the Holocaust, is scheduled for Sunday, April 25. A planning meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 4 at Beth El synagogue at 7:30 p.m. and is open to any members of the community Who wish to participate. The 34th birthday of the state of Israel will be observed at community wide festivities headed by Sheila Pollkov and Patty Nogg. Dates set for the observance center around the May 0 week-end.
TEL AVIV, <JTA) Defense Minister Ariel Sharon ended his three-day visit to Egypt after signing 12 agreements with Egyptian Foreign Minister Kama) Hassan All covering several aspects of the continuing peace process between Israel and Egypt. Sharon was travelling home by way of the overland Sinalr r o u t e . The (Agreements, which Hassan Ali described as " a great achievement and a great success" covered postal and travel arrangements after Israel completes its withdrawal from Sinai next April i 26, charter flights, consular Discussing the anti-vandalism bill are from left, Alan Katchen, director, ADL-CRC Comestablishments, border mittee; Jim Crounie, fegtslaUve aide to Kate Senator Peter Hoagland, Senator Hoagland, crossings and other aspects and Sid Oaten, chairman, ADL-CRC. of normalization. The Egyptians also agreed to purchase certain installations and equipment Jspracl will leave behind when it evacuates Sinat. The only outstanding matter not resolved during Sharon's stay in Cairo was a By Morris Mnllne churches, synagogues, and worship where religious technical one involving the State Senator Peter cemeteries. V services are conducted; town of. Rafah which lies The bill calls for penalties "or a tomb, monument, astride the international Hoagland has introduced in boundary between Israel and the State Legislature an anti- ranging from Class I memorial, or marker in a misdemeanor for damage • cemetery, or any gate, door vandalism bill in behalf of Egypt. under S300 and Class IV fence, wall, post or railing, felony if the damage is enclosure for the protection greater than. $300. Sentences of a cemetery or mortuary, can go as high as a year in or any property in a jail and or a $1,000 fine. cemetery or mortuary, shall Senator Hoagland told the be guilty of . a • Class I Jewish Press that he plans to misdemeanor if the damage investigate the legality of is $300 or less and a Class IV V >*> . adding' parental respon- felony if the damage is sibility and liability to in- greater than.$300." cidents where juveniles arc Alan Katchen, director, responsible for such acts of ADL-CUC Committee of the vandalism. Jewish Federation of He also will seek to in- Omaha, said he expects to corporate portions of the testify for the bill during committee Anti-Defamation League's legislative "model religious vandalism hearings. statute" which would include He said ADL's "model" 'Jewish Community Centers. religious vandalism statute, Senator Hoagland said he drafted by the group's became aware of the need National Law Department, for the bill after Jim is one ADL response to the Crounsc, his legislative aide, growing problem of antishowed him a report on a Semitic vandalism. anti-desecration bill in"The primary rationale troduced into the California for our bill is the lack' of Legislature. legislative uniformity in This bill became law last dealing with religious vandalism," he said. year. Senator Hoagland's bill is He added that during as follows: 1981, eight states enacted "Any person who in'- legislation dealing with this Eli Biltner, ritual director, Beth Israel Synagogue, ullkbc tcntionally or recklessly problem, each addressing" available to non-Jewl»h friends and neighbor* of the commits acts of vandalism the matter from a different synagogue for questions and answers following "Know Thy to: a church, synagogue, perspective. Neighbor Sabbath" service. Feb. 12 at 8:15 p.m. One point building owned and occupied Sid Osten, chairman of of Interest may be the ner tamid (eternal light) slightly by a religious educational the ADL-CRC Committee, visible in the background. Thb bronze work is said to have institution, or other place met with Senator Hoagland left Spain with Jew* fleeing the Inquisition, ' primarily used as a place of last week to discuss the bill.
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