Special Campaign Issue
re. SERVfWG NEBRASKA PS'D IOWA SEKCE 1920
Vol. LXIII No. 30
Omaha, Neb., Fri., April 12, 1985
By Sondra Rosenblatt to attend this event. Everyone in the community is welcome and if you have not previously done so, you will be given , Federation associate director Dinner, dancing, surprises — a special evening is being the opportunity to privately express your commitment to planned for the entire Omaha Jewish community at the the 1985 Campaign. Federation Men's Campaign dinner next Saturday at 7:45 "We also feel the evening is affordable, continued Msrs. p.m., in the Red Lion Inn, according to Tom Fellman and Fellman and Kooper. The cost is only $15 per person and Howard Kooper, Men's Campaign co-chairmen. dietary laws will be observed." "The response thus far for this event has been overA special highlight of the evening will be the premiere whelming and we encourage everyone who has not already done so to make theirreservations immediately, says Msrs. showing of a new video of our local community, emphasizing the services offered by our agencies: ADL/CRC, Bureau for Fellman and Kooper. "This is not just another fund-raising event. We are cel- Aging, Bureau of Jewish Education, Jewish Community ebrating the 1986 Federation Campaign and honoring the Center, Jewish Family Service, Jewish Federation Library, past and present trustees of the Livingston Foundation for and the Jewish Press. their continued substantial support for our Jewish com"We will be able to relax, enjoy, and dance to the marmunity. velous sounds of Chuck Pennington and his orchestra," ac"We areTiot asking for a minimum gift to the Campaign cording to the co-chairmen.
Reservations are being accepted on a first-come, firstserved basis, as seating ia limited. Your check to the Federation will ensure your confirmed reservation, they added. Mr. Fellman and Mr. Kooper emphasized that the na-' lional UJA Campaign theme this year is "Partners for Life." "We, the Omaha Jewish community, are all partners for life and all of our contributions make a difference, not only for the quality of Jewish life we have established for ourselves here in Omaha with our outstanding agencies and the services they offer, but also .with our link to Israel and overseas needs through our United Jewish Appeal contributions." Msrs. Fellman and Kooper personally invite our entire community to make the difference, to laugh a little, share a little, give a little and join them and their co-hosts April 20 for a most memorable .Men's Federation Campaign event.
oGorae By Ellen Gordman • Jewish Press Volunteer American citizens have been asking the wrong questions about United States foreign policy toward Israel: According to columnist George Will, the question is not "can the United States save Israel but the correct question is will Israel save the United States?" "The State of Israel is not just a Jewish state but the common heritage of the Western world and an assertion of civilization in a hostile environment. It is incumbent upon us to see that Israel prospers." Mr. Will, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, addressed, the.Pacesotters Dinner of the Men's Federation Campaign on April 4, One hundred and ten people attended the-event held at the.Highland Country Club. After Mr. Will's speech Joa Kirshenbaum and HarlanTModdle, Pacesetter Division chairmen, solicited pledges for the 1985 Campaign. A total of $498,000 in commitments were made by those men who were at the dinner. Card for card this is a 32 percent increase over the 1984 total of $376,800. Announcements were made of the renewal of two gifts totaling an additional $140,000. Mr. Will told the group that whenever he is given the opportunity to address Jewish gatherings he is pleased to explain what Israel means to someone who is not Jewish.-
He said that he recognizes Israel as the embodiment of values shared with the United States. The conservative columnist said that when he is accused of being a member of the Israel lobby he answers in the affirmative. "The Israel lobby is not an exclusive and restricted club. A lot of support for Israel today comes from Americans who consider themselves conservatives. They understand, that many of the values of Israel such as discipline, bravery, collective community spirit and the realism of the dangers of the world are conservative values." Mr. Will said that Israel will be the test of America's courage, and. health. He explained that support of Israel is not convenient and gets in the way of United States friendship with, the Arab world. "The phrase Arab world is a geographical not a political expression, and it is a fiction. There is more bloodshed and hatred between Arab nations than between any Arab nation and Israel." Israel has passed through a terrible fire in Lebanon thatconsumed much of the good feeling for Israel and the United Stafe3 according to. Mr. Will. "It strikes me as perverse that Americans should question the right of Israel to cross into Lebanon to secure the safety of its borders. Three years ago .the PLO was a widely respected diplomatic force; it no longer exists as a diplomatic force in the world. Why then is there extreme hostility toward Israel?"
According to Mr. Will, the answer is television. When the reality of war is televised it is difficult to maintain democratic support for it. This is true not because war is unjust but because "the reality of war is-very, testing to a democratic republic. Democracies have been reluctant to show the face of war. That is why Israel has been held up to villification," Mr. Will said. Mr. Will ended by saying that "the cause of Israel is the cause of every American but most especially the cause of the people in this room. The easy days of supportmg Israel are gone. Israel is a serious state with serious problems and implacable enemie3." "^ ' George Will haa written a regular column for NWswe^lr magazine since 1976. His newspaper column appears in more than 380 papers across the country. Mr. Will is a contributing analyst on the ABC evening news and appears regularly in "This Week With David Brinkley." He was born in Champaign, 111., and attended Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., Oxford and Princeton universities. Prior to entering journalism Mr. Will taught political philosophy at Michigan State University and the University of Toronto and served on the staff of a former United States Senator. He also was the Washington editor of the ' National Review, a leading conservative journal of ideas' and political commentary.
for-Yom HaShoafx By Jill Kuohner Belmont "There has been outstanding cooperation'from the total ADL-CRCasoiotantdirector religious community in Omaha," he said. "All of the major Omaha's first Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Ser- Christian denominations in our community are actively vice" will take place April 21, at 7:30 p.m. at First United participating in the preparation of this observance." Methodist Church, 7020 Special guest at the service will be the Rev. John T. PawCass.St. likowski, OSM, Ph.D, who will deliver the sermon. Rev. Pawlikowski is considered to be one of the world's leading This community-wide obtheologians in the area of Christian-Jewish relations. servance, which will serve as He is a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, a memorial to the six milto which he was appointed in 1980 by President Jimmy lion Jews and millions of Carter. He is also a member of organizations such as the other innocent victims murNational Council of Churches' Commission on Christiandered by the Nazis during Jewish Relations, the Catholic Theological Society and the Adolph Hitler's "final soluAcademic Council of the National Institute on the Holotion," is being co-sponsored \ . caust. \ by.the following: } \ "Rev. Pawlikowski has written and spoken eloquently on Baptist Pastors and Minthe subject of the Holocaust, and provides important inisters Conference; Catholic sight on this tragedy, especially for Christians," Mr. Filger Archdiocese of Omaha; said. Episcopal Diocese of NeIn addition to Rev. Pawlikowski, the service will be led braska; Metropolitan Luby various members of Omaha's clergy, and will include a theran Ministries; Rev. Pawlikowoki Presbytery of Missouri "River Valley; United Metropolitan special candlelighting ceremony. Capping off the Yom HaShoah observance will be a presMethodist Ministries; Serbian Orthodox Church; Unitarian Churches of Omaha; Rabbinical Council of Omaha; Com- entation by internationally-known Nazi hunter Beate munity Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Klarsfeld during a Holocaust Memorial service at Beth El Omaha; Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; and the Synagogue. The program is being co-sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council and the ADL/CRC. Jewish Cultural Arts Council. • . "The ADL believes that interreligious programming is an important programmatic thrust in improving underTransportation to Klarsfeld lecture standing between Christians and Jews," said Sheldon Filger, Plains States regional director of the ADL. The Jewish Cultural Arts Council is providing free "An Interfaith-Holocaust Remembrance Service, which bus service'from the Jewish Community Center to Beth involves the mainstream of the Christian community helps El Synagogue for the Yom HaShoah commemorative keep alive the memory of this cataclysm and emphasizes service and speech by Beate Klarsfeld on Monday, April Christian solidarity with the Jewish community at this time 22. The bus will depart the JCC promptly at 7 p.m. and of grief and remembrance," he said. return following the, program. Call Lois Wine at 334Carl Greenberg, ADL/CRC board chairman, expressed 8200 to reserve a seat/ Space is limited,, so riders are deep satisfaction regarding the overwhelming cooperation asked to' coll ho later than Friday, April 19 at 2 p.m. by numerous denominations in helping plan the service.
By Jill KuGhner Belmont Women's Campaign Volunteer Contemporary artist Jay Milder, who will be the guest of the Women's Federation Campaign "Gallery Gala," recently announced that a percentage of the sale of his paintings will be donated to help Ethiopian Jews how living in Israel. His artwork will be on display from April 16 to May 16 in the Jewish Community Center Gallery. Mr. Milder's last exhibition in Omaha took place in 1964, during a one-man show at Joslyn Art Museum. In addition to exhibitions throughout the world, he also gained exposure last year inN Architectural Digest in a photo spread of actress Dyan Cannon's home (one of Mr. Milder's painting hangs in Ms. Cannon's living room). "The work Mr. Milder will exhibit hasa Chagall-like presence," said Alan Potash, assistant director of the Cultural and Performing Arts Department. . Mr. Milder will be honored at a reception on April 17 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the JCC, hosted by the Jewish Community Center Art Committee. The community is invited to attend.
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