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VET SERVING NEBRASKA, IOWA Vol. LXII No. 42
Omaha, Neb., Fri., June 15, 1984
Carl Frohm Pavilion opens at Jewish Community Center
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Sharon Cipperley, (center photo) chairman of the Jewish Community Center's Day camping Committee, presents a giant key to attorney Louis E. Lipp, representing the Carl Frohm Foundation, to symbolize the completion and acceptance of the Carl Frohm Pavilion during dedication ceremonies Sunday. In photo at left, Mr. Lipp turns the symbolic key over to Howard Kaslow, president of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, who in turn gave operating responsibility to Hone Klein, president of the JCC. The Carl Frohm Foundation provided the funds to build the Pavilion.
A group of tennis-playing Israeli youngsters will put on an exhibition Friday, June 15 at 6:15 p.m. at the Highland Country Club. The exhibition will be preceded by a 6 p.m. reception and will end before Shabbat. The group is touring the United States in June for the benefit of the Israel Tennis Centers Association, n non-profit organization which provides free public tennis facilities, instruction, clothing, and equipment for the children of Israel. The local committee consists of Eunie Denenberg, Jim Farber, Marlene Hecht-
man, Bettie Muskin, Toma Ovici, Bud Slosburg, Ray Somberg, Mickey Sturm, and Irv Veitzer. According to the announcement, onlookers may dress casually and bring their children as observers. The performance will take place rain or shine. The Israeli participants will include boys aged nine and 12, and two 11-year-old girls. They will be accompanied by their coach, Ian Frohmen. The event is open to all, but only the Israeli children will be featured during the exhibition, the announcement stated.
GROSSINGER, N.Y. (JTA) — Cantors attending the annual convention of the Cantors Assembly, the association of Conservative cantors, were urged to prepare for changes in the Conservative movement which would give an equal role to women as rabbis and cantors.
emotional issues, but we can influence their direction best if we help to initiate changes rather than merely respond to them." Cantor Samuel Rosenbaum of Rochester, N.Y., the assembly's executive vice-president, said "we must cast aside emotional prejudices and learn to adjust to women rabbis as colleagues." On woman cantors, he said "we will be bound by whatever Halachic decision is made by.the (Jewish Theological) Seminary. The issue will soon arise. When it does, we must deal with it with understanding."
"Let us not fight these signs of growth in our movement," said Cantor Ivan Perlman of Providence, R.I., who was re-elected president of the Cantors Assembly. He told the 300 delegates that "They are admittedly
Dina Bloom's father, Ben Himelbloom came to Omaha in 1913 through Galveston. He was sent here because a baker was needed by an early Omaha business. Eventually he opened his own Himelbloom's Bakery at 1511 North 24th street. Other Jewish residents of the Omaha, Lincoln and Council Bluffs communities are members of families who came to the United States through the Galveston port of entry in the early 1900s. Their story will be seen in the film "West of Hester Street" that will be shown in Omaha for the first time on Wednesday, June 20'at the second annual meeting of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society. The meeting, open to the entire community, will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Jewish Community Center theater. A reception will follow the screening. In conjunction with the showing of the film, a display will be presented in the JCC Gallery of letters from the Industrial Removal Office to members of the Omaha Jewish community asking for their assistance in bringing immigrants to the Nebraska area. Many persons were assisted by relatives once they got to the states, others were assisted by the Omaha Jewish community. The IRO found jobs for these immigrants and helped to provide security for them as they come with their families to the midwest area of America, many of them without relatives, or friends. According to recent reviews ,of the documentary film by Allen Mondell and Cyn-
By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM (JTA) —.The Belz Hasidim will errect what they said will be the world's largest synagogue on 1.75 acres of land in Jerusalem. It will be built at a cost of $12 million, and when completed some time in 1987, will accommodate up to 4,500 worshippers.
The architect, Yizhak Blatt, who designed the edifice, said it would be a close replica of the Belz synagogue in Galicia which stood on a hilltop from 184.'! until it was destroyed during the Holocaust 100 years later.
Cornerstone ceremonies are expected to be attended by most of the 10,000 Belz Hasidic families living in Israel and 8,000 others who will be flown here for the occasion on 27 special flights by El Al.
Belz Hasidim who survived the Holocaust re-established their movement's center in Jerusalem where they are building a residential and education complex to be known as Kiryat Belz. The new synagogue will be its centerpiece.
By Hugh Orgel ... TEL AVIV (JTA) — A Haifa University archaeologist digging at Mt. Ebal in the northern Samaria district of the West Bank reported the discovery of a ritual sacrifice altar which conforms in size and shape to the altar prescribed by Moses.
stones, as ordained by the Torah. "I do not claim that this altar is the altar Joshua built, but I do claim that we have here a highly important ritual center," Zartal told reporters. "The indications this discovery gives fit in with the Biblical traditions."
According to the archaeologist, Adam Zartal, the altar, used for animal sacrifices, dates from the period of Israelite settlement of the 13th to 12th centuries BCE. It measures 28 by 21 feet and was made of unhewn
Zartal added: "It is the first time in archaeological research that an Israelite ritual, center has been uncovered with a full scale burnt offering altar that can teach us how our religion started."
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Jewish banana peddler travels miles on long, semideserted roads of Texas to make a living, (From the film West of Hester Street.) thia Salzman Mondell, the film interweaves migration into America that took place west the recreation of actual historical events of the Mississippi, far from the shore of New with the personal story of a Jewish peddler York and Ellis Island where so many Jews -who decides to settle in Texas and must ad- had entered previously. It traces the Galjust to a different way of life, far from a veston Movement, which developed when the U.S. government threatened to place familiar Yiddish culture. The Mondells tell the story of Jewish im- limitations on immigration and unbearably
crowded conditions prevailed on New York's Lower East Side. A new plan was needed to enable more Eastern European Jews to leave their homeland for America. Jewish leaders, including Wall Street banker Jacob H, Schiff, founder of the Galveston Movement, Israel Zangwill, a British playwright and novelist who headed the Jewish Territorial Organization, Morris Waldman, the manager of the Jewish Immigrants Information Bureau and David Bre'ssler,- a social worker with the Industrial Removal Office, met in Schiff's office to formulate a plan to encourage the predominantly Russian Jews — fleeing the pogroms of the early 1900s, to enter the United States through Galveston rather than through Ellis Island. They could settle in the western states where land and jobs were more plentiful. Ultimately, the new plan began with the first ship arriving in Galveston in 1907 with 1,500 Christians and 86 Jews aboard. By the time the movement was curtailed seven years later, 10,000 Jews had come through Galveston. The Mondells began researching the Galveston movement by reading the back copies of the Galveston newspapers. They also researched Galveston immigration at the American Jewish Historical Society,; the American Jewish Archives; The Barker Collection at the University of Texas where the papers and photographs of Rabbi Henry Cohen are. kept. .