SERVING NEBRASKA, IOWA Vol. LXII No. 48
Ofeha, Neb., Fri^ July 27,1984
Jean Ann Krupinsky Jean Ann Krupinsky will become a staff associate of the Federation beginning Aug. 1 announced Allan Greene, executive vicepresident of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. She succeeds Leslie Wolfson who resigned recently.
the director of the ADL/CRC for the past two years and acting director of that office for four months in the absence of a director. She has been involved in and initiated intcrgroup religious programs such as the Dana College/ADL Dialogue and haa served as spokesperson for the Jewish community on topics such as anti-Semitism, prejudice and the Holocaust.
As staff associate, Mrs. Krupinsky's duties will include staffing the. Women's Campaign,' Young Lead- • ership and ! ' Newcomer's Com-' • •— mittee and will Jean Ann Krajjiasky . serve as liaison to the United Way.
Mrs. Krupihcky was in tha retail business for 15 years. Shs haa served as cecretary of the tfowisli Prcc3 Board, an co-chairman of the Jewish Community Center Library Book Fair, and district leader of tha American Cancer Society. She has also earved as vice-president of tho Pnddock Community Club and tho Westaido High School Boosters. • ' • '. Mrs. Krupinsky and her husband, Jerry, are tho parents of two daughters.
By Morri:) Ka.ih.-a With most of the national election vote counted, Israel's future leadeiship remained a big question mark when this newspaper went to press. i Although news reports gave the Labor party a slight edge of about 45 seats in parliament compared to approximately 41 for Prime Minister Shamir's Likud party, whatever strength existed appeared to be with Likud. This is because the results suggested that fragmentation involving 15 political parties prompted Shamir to announce that Likud had the best chance of forming a coalition government. Likud apparently has more potential allies among the 13 smaller parties which also won seats in the Knesset. Israel's multi-party system and the shifting coalitions among different factions re-
V > ^J fleet the sji.cn-1 ni turc of the country's electoral process. Unlike the United States electoral system, in which the country is divided into numerous districts and the citizen votes for a local district representative to represent him in Congress, in Israel the entire country is regarded as one electoral district. Israelis vote for parties rather than individuals. Each party prepares its own nationwide slate of candidates, ranging in number from one to 120, depending upon the party's degree of optimism as to its success with the voters. Under a system of proportional representation, the numbsr of persons on the list who eventually gain seats in the Knesset reflects the relative strength of the party in proportion to the total number of votes cast for all the different lists.
Brig. Gen. Ychudah Halevy will bs the evy graduated Magna Cum Lauds from Bar guest speaker at a State of Israel Bond New Han University. Leadership reception Auj. 7, nt 8 p.m. at Currently, Gen. Halevy is ths president the home of Dr. and and chief executive officer of the worldwide Mrs. Barry KricsState of Israel Bond3 organization. As presfeld. ident of Israel Bonds, Gen. Halevy initiated Brig. Gen. HalOperation Meccabeo in 1982 and 1983, and evy was born in Operation Enterprise wliich brought IsraShanghai and elis to meet with leaders in the Jewish commoved to Israel in munities in North America. 1950. Since then he The New Leadership division of the State has served in every of Israel Bonds was set up to reach out to war from 1956. In young Jewish people within the local comthe Yom Kippur munities. These non-solicitation receptions War of 1973, he are a way for us to learn more about Israel served in the Sinai, and the middle East. and in the Six Day War of 1967 he was Anyone who is interested in attending with the elite Sevthis open discussion sponsored by the New Brig. Gen. enth Brigade, the Yehudah Halevy Leadership Division may call the Kricsfelds first unit to reach the Suez Canal. Gen. Hal- at 397-6611.
Yale Gotsdiner, general chairman State of Israel Bonds for the Lincoln community, announced that Jerry and Dorothy Grant will be the PatronHost Chairmen at the upcoming State of Israel Bonds Lincoln Dinner of State. In accepting this chairmanship, Mr. Grant said, "We take great pride in the role Lincoln has played over the years in assisting the State of Israel through our bond purchases." This year's Patron-Host meeting will be different from any other, and the Grants
said they hope all the hosts invited will be able to attend. Brig. General Yehudah Halevy, president and chief executive officer of the worldwide State of Israel ' Bonds organization, will be the guest speaker. Mr. Grant added, "\Vith such an op•• ' portunity to hear • •' . someone like-General Halevy, we, as Patron-Hosts, owe it to ourselves to attend this educational meeting. The Dorothy Grant meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m., Aug. 6 at our home, 3024 Boriacum Dr. If you have not responded yet, please call us at 423-3024."
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relations By Boris Smolar August is usually a quiet month in Jewish communal activities. It is a vacation month. Not this August — when the campaign for the election of a President of the United States is approaching its culmination point. In other years, the months before going to the polls to vote for the President were relatively quiet for Jewish voters. Each voter knew well in advance for whom he would vote. The Democratic Party received its traditional majority of Jewish votes. The Republican Party was inching higher in Jewish votes with each Presidential election.
In the elections this year things are different. The anti-Jewish tone injected by Rev. Jesse Jackson into the election campaign put Jewish voters more on the alert. They saw danger for the American Jewish community if Jackson, with his intensified anti-Jewish statements, was named by the Democratic national convention a candi• date for President, for which he aspired, or even for Vice President. Experience in the last decades has shown that a Vice President could become President quite unexpectedly. This was the case with Harry Truman, when, as Vice President, he stepped into the Presidency when Roosevelt suddenly died. This was also the case with
By Bon Gollob NEW YORK <JTA) - A gift of $1.2 million shares of a major publicly-owned cor/ poration, the Premier Industrial Corp., \;.. valued at $42 million whon the gift was arranged in March, has bssn made by the Mandol family of Cleveland to the Mandsl Associated .Foundations. . . . This contribution was described by Q forU, niar Cleveland Jowiah Federation official, '• Henry Zuckor, ea "tho largeatlifotima pbih Ianthropic gift in ttie historyofCleveland." '. • Tho Pfsmtor Industrial Corp was founded and developed by the Mandsjn. Its stock in traded on tho Now "York Stock exchange.
The donors to the Foundations are Morton and Barbara Mandel, Joseph and Florence Mandel, and Jack and Lilyan Mandel. Each couple set up a Supporting Foundation to which the stock was given. Each supporting foundation is chartered by the State of Ohio. Zucker said such Foundations are a relatively new type of philanthropic agency. Zucksr, executive vico president emeritus of tho Cleveland Jewish Federation and vice president of the Endowment Development Committee of tho Council of Jewish Federations, said in telephone interviews with • (continued on page, 2)
(EdltorAn-chltt emeritus, J.T.A.) (Copyright 1984, Jewish TWegrapMc Affeney, Inc.
Lyndon Johnson when President Kennedy was assasinated. Walter Mondale did not, however, chose Jackson as his running mate for Vice President. Mondale preferred to chose Geraldine Ferraro — the first woman in American history to be named for the post of Vice President. Many Jews, even among those indifferent to politics, felt happy about it. Some of the Jewish voters who never went to the polls to cast their ballots will go this November. • , The influence which Jackson now has among Blacks will probably gradually evaporate during the four years of the MondaleFerraro term, if they are elected in November. It is a well-known fact that Jackson does not enjoy the support of many leaders in the Black community, and that Black Mayors and officials were against his Presidential bid. A New York Times-CBS poll conducted among registered voters established that only 29 percent, of all registered adult Blacks interviewed said they supported Jackson; 49 percent said they supported Mondale, even though they voted for JackBon in the primaries. New leaders will emerge in the Black community during the next four years who will hardly tolerate Jackson's methods and domination. The Times-CBS poll shows that only 64 percent of all Blacks think Jackson's campaign has helped Blacks. , Between now and the November election, feverish activities are planned by Jewish organizations and Jewish community councils throughout the country to strengthen Black-Jewish relations.
Reports from some cities to the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (NJCRAC) indicate that support within the Black communities for Jackson is not necessarily synonymous with support for positions that would be disturbing to the Jewish community. In Berkley, for instance, seven Black precincts, all'of which voted for Jackson in the primaries also voiced op- ' position to some of his views. From Philadelphia, it was reported that the assumption that support for Jackson constitutes a litmus test on how blacks feel about Jewish interests is not born out by facts there. Similar reports from other cities also indicated that the Black communities there are not monolithic. The fact was best illustrated at the Democratic convention in San Francisco where there were more Black Mondale delegates than Jackson delegates. The policy of national Jewish organizations is therefore to continue to keep a critical eye on Jackson's statements and at the same time make appropriate overtures to the Black community between now and November elections on issues of mutual concern. The NJCRAC will attempt to arrange national forums to be addressed by the Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates. It intends also to hold a "summit meeting" between key Black and Jewish leaders after the election. The weeks ahead ' "<: will be devoted to increased Jewish planning for constructive joint Black^Tewish initiatives. The leadership role played by major Black and Jewish organizations will figure prominently in future relations between the two groups.