SERVING NEBRASKA, IOWA Vol. LXII No. IB
Omaha, Neb., Fri., December 30,1983
Family starts fund to honor Zalkins The Family of Allen and Monie Zalkin hove established an endowment fund in (heir memory with the Jewish Federation Foundation, it was announced by Mort Trachtenbarg, Chairman of the Federation Foundation. The primary purpose of the fund will be to benefit the Jewish Community Center preschool by providing furnishings and equipment needed in the program. The gifts for establishing the fund were made up in loving memory from contribution* from Mr. and Mr*. Sam Goodman of Omaha and from Mark, Susan, Sara and David Zalkin of Denver, Colorado. According to Mr. Trachtenbarg, "any individuals wishing to honor the memory of Allen and Monie Zalkin are encouraged to make a contribution made payable to the Jewish Federation of Omaha and designating the fund"
Women plan "Know Your Roots" Mission By Leslie Wolfson Federation Staff Associate T W J wlkto lacfuta «?i«i— «f Uw write?
If you are a first, second, or third generation American Jewish woman, it is probably difficult to envision your relative* stepping pff the boat at Ellis bland. That's where many of our Jewish roots began in America: New York City. Now Is your chance to explore your heritage, by participating in the Women's Division Campaign "Know Your Roots" mission to New York City, March 4-6.
On the Lower East Side Jewish merchants still hang their wares outside their stores, try to strike a deal with customers, and call from pushcarts at street corners. AH this is combined with the sights and sounds of New York City.
The focus of the three-day mission will revolve around the city which is still the world center of American Jewish activity. Included in the itinerary will be a visit to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and a luncheon with Joan Lovie, wife of Israeli Consul Genera! Naphtali Lovie.
A minimum gift is required for this mission: $1000 for the 1984 Campaign, or a 16% increase over the 1993 regular gift for those who gave $1000 or more. The cost for efcch woman will be between J3OO-$360 depending on airfare and when reservations are received. This cost will be all inclusive.
There will be private tours of the Crown Heights Lubovitch neighborhood and the Jewish Museum. Women on this mitsion will re-live the "immigrant experience"
All women interested in the "Know Your Roots" mission should contact Mission Chairman, Jeri Kaplan, or Women's Division Chairman, Marcia Cohen.
Anger in Israel
NJHS plans exhibit An exhibit of 100 years of Jewish organ-, iuitional life in Omaha has been prepared by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society in conjunction with the fiOth anniversary of the founding of the .Wish- Federation of Omaha. The exhibit, which has been prepared with material from the NJHS archives* nmj material from nteml>crs of the Omaha Jewish community, will run through the month of January in the JCC gallery and will be open to the public. Aim «» part of the anniversary celebration, the Jnn. 0 i»*ue of the J e w i s h Press will conlnin n ipe<"ifll wetiop on the Federation prepared by the NJIIS. The exhibit will be divided.into period* Iwginning with 1(150-187.0, when Temple Israel was founded; 1875-1900, when a number of orthodox rynagogucs nntl socinl find community service organizations were established; and 19001950, which saw the establishment and development of the Jewish Federation. A timeline of nationally significant events will accompany the exhibit to help put the local chronology into perspective.
through a multi-media presentation. An exclusive tour of the Lower East Side will reveal an "inside" look at many Jews who are still living aa the immigrants lived 60 yean ago.
JERUSALFJM (JTAJ - A meeting be- : the PLO, ns a counter to Syria's control of tween President Hosnl Mubarak of Egypt the PLO rebels under Col; Aou Mussa. In and Palestine Liberation Organization chief addition, these observers said, the welcome extended to Arafat serves Egypt well in its Yasir Arafat in Cairo has created bitter feelings in Israel. An official statement; issued ongoing efforts to rebuild, bridges to the *•"* ' • . i by the Foreign Ministry while the meeting Aral) world. in Cairo wns still progress, said: It was also noted that Foreign Minister "The reception accorded rn Cairo to the . Kamal Hassan AH of Egypt, in his meetings Research in the titi-M of Federation nnd yesterday with President Reagan and on synagogue history and youth organization!} head of the murderous PI/) is a severe blow wns prepared by Dnvici Dinner, Susan Drn- to the peuce process in the Middle Ka.it. The Tuesday with Secretary of State George Shtiltz in Washington, »nid that Egypt hnn txn and Hert l^ewi*. The N.I US plans to existence nnd activities <>f the !'!,() contrasought to convince the PIX) to give Jordan publish their paper* a* well us winning es- dict peace and jeopardize every attempt and the authority it feels necessary to enter the possibility to further it. The ultimate dissays during the coining yenr. peace negotiations. nppeantnee of this organization from the inFinancial support for the preparation of ternutionnl iwcnc is n prerequisite for the Ali indicated that a new opportunity exthe exhibit was nuuie possible liy a special odiieyeroent of stability and pence,in the istf^with the evacuation of Arnfot and his . contribution from Mort L. Hichnrd» arid a* region." forces from-Tripoli in northern Lebanon on grant from the National Foundation of JewTuesday. He said that this could increase Israeli sources Mid that Premier Yitzhak ish Culture — Newman Fund. Riven in •Shamir was extremely angry about the chanct'x thnt King Hussein of .Jordan and memory of Nick Newman by his family. the Palestinians would acrcpt Reagan's meet inc. Conferring with visiting Foreign "This first exhibit is the result of a tre- Minister Oiulio Andreotti of Italy, Shamir September, 1982 Mideast peace initiative. The Egyptian Foreign Minister argued that mendous effort on the part of many to bring recalled that Arafat and his men "danced Arafat continues to lie the, most popular to Omaha residents the story of community in the streets of Beirut" upon receiving the leader among the Palestinians. concern in many arena," «aid NJHS Presi- news of President Anwar Sadat's assassiArafat himself was quoted as saying dent Mary Fcllman, "We look forward to nation. Well placed Israeli observers Haw Cairo's shortly before embarking from Tripoli that many hundreds of people seeing this exhibit, which is the beginning of our per- warm reception of Arafat as an attempt by the time was now at hand for him to resume (continued on page 10) Egypt to win swny over the loyalist wing of manent archival collection."
Also on exhibit in the gallery will be memorabilia, Hcrapbooks and records) of early organization* and Omaha synagogues. The namftt of winners of the Morris C. Fcllman Memorial Fund Photo-Essay contest will be pooled at the exhibit,
UNL and UNO-to offer major Holocaust studies program A new course on the Holocaust involving internationally known scholars from throughout the United States will be offered at two campuses of the University of Nebraska. This was announced by on in intcrcampus committee devoted to establishing a permanent academic position on the Holocaust and modern Judaism. - The committee, chaired by Dr. Hans Iirisch, assistant to the president of the University, consists of Harry Allen, director of institutional research and planning at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Dr. Jonathan Rosenbaum, associate professor of Judaic Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha; nnd Dr. Ivan Volgycs, professor of Political Science, UNL. The committee has received funds from a number of sources including the Omaha Society of Survivors, the University of Nebraska Foundation, the Jewish Federation of Lincoln, and the Nebraska Committee on the Humanities. The course will deal with the spectrum of genocide concentrating on the Tfflirderuf European Jewry between 1939 and 1945, The courses in Omaha and Lincoln will be conducted by Professors Rosenbaum and Volgyes, respectively. Each course includes the fallowing topics and speakers: I/16-I/18/&1 — Genocide: Definitions and Sources — The Nature of the Study. I/23-l/2/> — An Overview of Mass Murder From Ancient Times to the Armenian Massacre. Speaker — Farouk Huakjian, a specialist on the Armenian Massacre of 191G and a Fellow of the Middle Eastern Studies (Tenter in Fresno, California, J/.'tO-2/l - The History of Anti-Semitism. S|>enkcr Byron L. Sherwin. David C. Hcrson Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Mysticism, Kpcrtus College of Judaica, Chi-
4/10-4/18 — The Murderers Among UB. Speaker — Peter cago. 2/6-2/8 — Nazism: History, Ideology, and the Use of Black, Member of the U.S. Department of Justice division Anti-Semitism. Speaker — Samuel L. Sharp, University overseeing deportation of former Nazis and author of a study of the actions of the Nazi leader Ernst KaltenbrunProfessor Emeritus. American University. ! 2/13-2/15 — Annihilation: The Physical Destruction of ner, to be published by Princeton University. • 4/23-4/25 — Other Genocides: The Gypsies, Uganda, Jews and Gypsies. Speaker — Randolph Braham, Director of the Holocaust Study Center of the Graduate School of Cambodia/ Speaker — Marlene Sway, specialist in history of the gypsies during the Holocaust and instructor at Chico the City University of New York. 2/20-2/22 — While Six Million Died — Quietude in the State University. Church, Apathy in America, Malevolent Neglect in Britain. 4/2.1-4/25 — The Recent Past — Cambodia and Uganda Speaker — John F. Morley, Professor of history of Seton — and trie Present: Lebanon and Afghanistan. Panel: ProHall University and author of Vatican Diplomacy and fessors Peter Cheng, Louis Picnrd, and El Eid, UNL, and the J e w s During the Holocaust: 1 9 3 9 - 1 9 1 5 . ThornawGouticrre, Director of the Center for International 2/27^2/29 — How They Coped: The Social Aspects of Studies/UNp. Ghetto Life. A panel of local survivors. 4/:?0jV2 — Tho Future of a Nightmare: Con it Happen 3/5-3/7 — The Psychology of Murder. Speaker — Erich Again^ And Here? Gnldhagcn, Fellow of the Russian Research Center, HarEach courae will consist of presentations by speakers, vard University and instructor of Harvard's core course on lectures by permanent instructors and analyses by students : the Hotocaustrr ~ '~ : "engaged in'diRCusSiohs with both. 3/12-3/1.4 — Resistance: A Primer — 1) Jewish ResistBoth courses, Political Science 398 at UNL, and Religion" ance; 2) Non-Jewish Resistance: The Danes, the Dutch. 350 ajl UNO, will be available to^hc general public. For Speakers — Local Jewish Resistance fightcro and Andrzoj those who wish to simply hear the lectures, it will be posKorbonnki, Professor of Political Science at UCLA nnd for- sible to audit the course at a fee equal to naif tho normal mer member of tho Polish Resistance, tuition. ' ri/19-,'1/21 — Genocide mid EafrteTn-Europc. Speaker — Those wishing to j-egister for the course for grades, credit/ George Kanki, occupant of flii^chnir in Hungarian studies no credit, or an nuditon, may register at the University of at Indiana University mid (.pccifilist on Eastern Europe. Nebraska nt Omaha Jan. 11-13. • 4 / 2 1 / 4 -- The Visual Record: Night and Fog (o film) Further information concerning registration \B available 4/9-1/H "• Non-German Genocide: Ukrainians, Poles, by calling the UNO Registrar's office at 554-2314, InforKefiihluiice Fighters and Others. Speaker — Joseph Held, mation concerning registration at the University of NeProfessor of history and Dean of the University College, braska-Lincoln can he secured by calling the Admissions Office at 472-3GO4 or the Registration office nt 472-3G35. Hinder University nt Crimden.
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Agency annual reports and biographical information on nominee? "(ot office are included in this issue in preparation for tho upcoming annual meeting of tho Jewish Federation of Omaha. The meeting takes place Jan. 8 with a 12:30 p.m. luncheon and a 1:30 p.m. business, W s i o n , bothlat.the Jewish Comroumty^Center.r!, . i ; , ^ », .< r •-, . i. • -T ,„•' . - .• f