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,n _ - • By ESIen-Gordman . .In the early 19003, a mutual desire for equality'status, in America caused Blacks and Jews to join together to fight discrimination. This coalition reached the heights of success in the early 60s with the passage of important civil rights legislation. atpr., Jii "•passage of the Oiyil ;Righi coalition has been beset witlvtensions. This is tragic because there appears to be among them so little discussion of the differences and each appears to have so little understanding of the other's point of view." Sen. Bond spoke to 385 people at the Jewish Community Center last Saturday eve-
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Two major announcements affecting the futuregrowth and development of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society were made Oct. 16 preceding the 8 p.m. showing of the documentary film " W e s t of Hester Street" at the Jewish Community Center. The grant of on aggregate sum of $25,000 from the Carl Frohm Foundation was announced by Mary Fellman, NJHS president and Lou Lipp, director of the Foundation. The sum will be given to the Society over a five year period with annual payments of $5,000 to carry on the work of the Society. •-.'••'
L1c.7y Fell, it::, 'r.-Irc. Jowich KictorIn malting the presenta- tcr.1 Cosicty, iofrodcccj Lease Lips, trrctcs, Carl tion, Mr. Lipp, ono of three FroEua damnation. directors of tho Foundation, said that this history in the state of Nebraska, was the was the "l:ind of philanthropy Carl Frohm second major announcements The mucsum would have endorsed." He said the Foun- is the first project of the Nebraska Jewish dation grants are limited to local Jewish or- Historical Society of this magnitude and ganizations and projects. "What Carl will bs located in the walk-way between the wanted to do is strengthen Judaism in his Jewish Community Center and the Livadopted city," said Mr. Lipp. ingston Plaza.
ning. Hi3 talk was sponsored by the AntiDefamation League/Community Relations Committee and the Jewish Cultural Arts Announcment of the establishment of the Mr. Frohm first worked at the Paxton Council. The College of Jewish Learning and Gallagher Company upon coming to museum followed a request from the NJHS Committee led by Mitzi and Marc Delman Omaha and later started Union Packing to the JCC Executive Committee for such arranged the event. ' Company with his brother and Harold Sie- a location where exhibits may be shown and - Sen. Bond has been a member of the gal. The Union Packing Company eventu- memorabilia displayed, The JCC Executive Georgia Legislature since 1967. He gained ally became the largest independent Committee voted unanimously "and with : national;proininerice.in-1968 when he was ' packing house in Omaha. \ r enthusiasm" for the.creation of the museum • iht* first Blnclr ho'm'inaKjtl-for- Vice Presiaccordingto a letter received by Mary Felldent of the United States. Sen. Bond is a Also announced was a gift of 500 shares man, NJHS president, from Steven Rod, exfounding member of the National Commit- of Seldin Development Stock from Ruth ecutive director of the JCC. tee tofrtt«rSovietJewry and an active mem- Raskin for the work of the Nebraska Jewish ber of the Atlanta Black-Jewish Coalition. Historical Society. Three-display cases have been given by Sen. Bond said that there have always -Temple Israel Sisterhood for use in the mubeen small tensions in the relationships be- , The creation of a "Corridor of Nebraska seum which it is anticipated will open before (continued on page 2) Jewish History," the first museum of Jewish the end of the current year.
NEW YORK 7- Jewish circulated in 1980 by the high school students' have National Center of Educamuch higher educational tion and Statistics, which and career goals than their sampled a total of 58,270 non-Jewish peers, according sophomores and seniors, to a study released by the -1,072 of them identified as American Jewish Commit- Jews. tee's William Petschek NaAccording to the Zill-Petional Jewish Family-Centerson report, more than ter.'. •-'• twice as many Jewish stuAnd while they share dents had at least one partheir peers' social values ent who graduated from colan.H^economic interests, lege, and nearly threeJewish students were found quarters of Jewish families to be the least religious ofOll had annual incomes of groups, according to the $25,000 or more, compared study, with 22 percent say- with 50 percent of non-miing they have no religious nority white peers. involvement '.at-alL. The data was reflected in The report, titled "Amer- the attitudes of parents reican Jewish High School garding their children's fuStudents — A. National ture schooling. Ninety-one Profile" and written by so- percent of Jewish fathers, ciologist James L. Peterson for example, wanted their and psychologist Nicholas. children to attend college Zill of Washington, D.C., is immediately after high the first national ourvey school, the students said, compiled on Jewish high compared to 60 percent of school: students, according' fathers of non-Jewish white . to Yehuda Rocsnman,direc- youths. ..-. tor of the William Petcchek The attitudes of thei parCenter. "The study jvad undertaken," oaid Mr. Itocsn- ents had a bearing on the , man, "to find out the impact wishes of the teenagers of the family onTJewisli stu- themselves, accordingto the dent's decisions concerning authors, with 83 percent of marriage, raising families, Jewish students stating amand college, graduate and bitions to pursue cdllegfefeducations, compared with 50 professionalgoolsV' 1 ..;*'.; . percent of the overall stuThe study 'isAbused oijfia dent population. • ; • ; •• comparison of findingo 4eriyjd from a questionnaire i; .The 32-percent, spread
i. was mirrored in the students' plans to pursue postcollege studies, with 50 percent of Jewish students, versus 18 percent of their nonJewish peers, saying they wanted to attend graduate school. In all areas of academic achievement, Jewish students scored significantly higher than their counterparts. Japanese-American students were the only group who scored as high as Jews, and in math testing scored a percentage point higher.
with others," as opposed to 30 percent of the national sample. With religious involvement, 50 percent of Jewish students rated themselves "low" and 22 percent answered "none." Catholics and Protestants, on the other hand, rated themselves low, 30 and 36 percent respectively. Only 7 percent of Catholics and 9 percent of Protestants used "none" to describe their religious involvement, the study showed.
As with most students, All students gave identi- Jews said they wanted to get cal ranking to a list of social married and have children, and economic values in the but surprisingly, Jews, more survey, though the percent- than any other group, indiages varied between Jews cated their desire to have and non-Jews. The students ' three or more children. set "being successful in "However," the authors work" at the top of their concerns, "friendships" sec- point out, "since most Jewond, "having steady work" ish students planned to conthird, "marriage" fourth tinue their education beand: "having children" .sev- yond the college level, to enth. " ,. , pursue professional careers and to begin forming famiTwo of the largest differ- lies at a relatively advanced ences between Jewish and age, it seems likely that non-Jewish high schoolers many would have fewer chilwere revealed in answers re- dren than they intended. lating to self-esteem and Re- The:net result may well be ligious involvement. Fdrty- a continuation of the presfiye'porcent of Jewioh stu- ent pattern of family size, dents agreed with the state- with Jevvo haying somewhat ment, "I am, a, person of smaller-families than worth on'ian equal -plane o t h e r s : " / ; ' •'•;}•• •
The United States and Israel have begun'multi-year cooperative research projects in oil shale and coal conversion — the first joint efforts to emerge from a December, 1983 pledge of cooperation by Energy Secretary Don Hodel and Yitzhak Moda'i, then Israel's. Minister of Energy and Infrastructure. Details of the projects — which provide for specific activities under the framework of an "umbrella" agreement signed by the two countries in June, 1984 — were finalized by U.S. and Israeli technical officials last month in Jerusalem. There projects will study various aspects of oil shale and one will explore a low-temperature, low-pressure method for changing coal into alternative fuels. • "These agreements reflect the shared commitment to cooperate in scientific and technical exploration that exists between our two countries," said Secretary Hodel. "The same spirit of cooperation was evident during my visit with Minister Moda'i in December, and I am pleased to see that it has continued through subsequent negotiations between our two nations." "In particular," Hodel said, "the agreements signed within the last few days will permit the U.S. to share in the creative oil shale research already underway in Israel and to apply the knowledge we learn to both the oil shales and, potentially, the high sulfur bituminous coals we have in abundance in this country." The framework of the agreements was developed when Hodel toured several Israeli energy facilities in December, 1983 and subsequently hosted a visit by Minister Moda'i to Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New. York, in July. Moda'i is now the Israeli Minister of Finance. Under the agreements, several research institutions in Israel will conduct projects in conceit with similar activities underway in U.S. laboratories. Should all of the projects continue for the full duration, the U.S.'funding share could total about $620,000., Thelsraeli projects will ba ovefossn by the Ministry of Energyand Infrastructure while the Department of Energy will coordinate U.S. participation.