SERVING NEBRASKA AND fOWA SINCE 1320
Vol. LXII1 No. 31
Omaha, Net*., Fri., April 19,1985
Young men boost By Sondra Rosenblatt Federation associate director Jeff Newman and Michael Abramson, cochairmen of the Young Men's Division of the 1985 Men's Federation Campaign hosted a luncheon for 14 workers in their division recently. This dynamic group responded to Jeffs remarks by signing pledge cards showing a 400 percent increaso over lest year's giving.
.
L \\.,l.^j\J(_JL'- idLj
Nearly 400 rcsirvction.; Irvo bsen receivedforthe community dinner-dance" scheduled for Saturday at 7:45 p.m. in the Red Lion Inn, Sondra Rosenblatt, associate director, Jewish Federation, has announced. . She pointed out that last minute reservations can bs made by calling her at the Federation office, 334-8200.
"We have set the pace," added Mike Abramson, Young Men's co-chairman, "let us encourage the rest of this division to respond as enthusiastically." "The enthusiasm of this group of young men was overwhelming," said Tom Fellman, chairman of the 1985 Men's Federation Campaign, who also attended the luncheon. "They know that the future of the community will be dependent upon them and their dedication and commitment in years to come." Jeff Newman's remarks at the luncheon confirmed this as he said to the group, "Our community and its services can no longer be taken for granted as a luxury, one that we can use when the need strikes us." '. , "It is time that we start bscoming reoponaiblo for planning and providing for the necessities that will bs required for our future generations' needo arid security. We are ^'o, Chs!o, Jan«asry 31,1904 Beat© Klarcfold, hu*iter of Nazi v/er criminals now becoming the leaders that future genis led army CLScin police after demonstrating for tho expulsion of Walter erations will depend upon, just as our par- I t a u f f , f o r m eby r S . S .o f f i c i a l . •• • •, • •' • • > .• ents became the leaders for us."
:;j;;_^ V-.jU •Sk^^f^O]
ByVicGutman . JC AC. Volunteer "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land" will be the theme of this year's Yom „ Ha'atzmaut Festival at the Jewish Community Center in Omaha on April 28. The annual festival will celebrate the 37th anniversary of Israel's existence as a sovereign nation. "We chosethe passage as our theme for the festival'because it is a quotation from the bible appropriate to a celebration of Israeli independence and is inscribed on the
"] /, -'
Liberty Bell which is a symbol of American Freedom," said Art Grossman. He and Doreen Lemer are co-chairmen of the Yom Ha'atzmaut Festival, which is sponsored annually by the Jewish Cultural Arts Council. A special bell ringing ceremony featuring the participation of 37 representatives of local government and Jewish community organizations will open the festivities at 12:30.p.mi-. * Actress and comedienne Arleen Sorkin will be featured in the Jewish Community (continued on page 3)
By Denny Greanberg JCAC Volunteer "Courage, conviction, decency, justice and self-sacrifice." These are the words that «orne,to.mind,when one hears the name B^ate Klarsfelil.;. to Israeland to the Jewish people,. Mrp. -KlarGfald.is a "women pf valor—a title that has no peer in the Jewish tradition." With these words, Golda Meir summed up the admiration of tens of thousands of persons, adults and youth alike, throughout the. world for this impassioned, committed, daring one-woman crusade to hunt down Nazi criminals and bring them to justice in the courts of law in Germany and France. Beate Klarsfeld, along with her husband, Serge, has spent almost the last 20 years of her life hunting down Nazi war criminals. She will bring her special message to the Omaha Community on Monday, April 22, at a Community-wide Yom HaShoah Commemorative Service at Beth El Synagogue at 7:30 p.m. Free, round trip transportation to.Beth El Synagogue is available from the JCC. Call 334-8200 today to reserve a seat, as Beating is limited. The bus will depart from the JCC promptly at 7 p.m. Tlus observance is the second part in a two-program interdenominational commemoration of the Holocaust. On Sunday evening, April 21, Reverend John T. Paw-
likowski, Professor of Social Ethics at the Catholic. Theological Union, will speak at an interfaith Holocaust Remembrance service at the First United Methodist Church. These programs arq' sponsored by the Jewisli Cultural-Arts CSumilUss and'bythe Community Relations Committee pf the. Anti-Defamation League.. / Mrs. Klarsfeld was born a Christian in 1939 in Berlin and. was a child during the Nazi period. She learned about Nazism and the horror its leaders perpetuated against the Jewish people only after her arrival in Paris in 1960, and her subsequent marriage in 1963 to Serge Klarsfeld, a Jew, whose father had been a member of the French resistance and who died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Mrs. Klarsfeld's plunge into active public life .began.in November of 1968, when she mounted a West Berlin podium and delivered "the slap heard around the world" to the face of Kurt-George Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany. With this public slap, at the price of her own arrest and prison sentence; Beate Klarsfeld thus focused world attention on the Nazi leaders past and on his involvement in Nazi crimes. This attack on Kiesinger was only one of a series of dramatic coups that had made Beate Klarsfeld a world renowned figure (continued on pago 2)
::'4s^-^^feU -::
iward By Jules Katzman guished themselves in community and civic BBW Volunteer works. Mrs. Waldbaum will be honored at a luncheon on May 4, in conjunction with The Gateway Re- ; " the 1985 B'nai B'rith Women Gateway Region of B'nai B'rith • gional Conference. Women h a s an- ; Mrs,.Waldbaum has long been known for nounced the selec- j , extensive volunteer work in- the Jewish tion of Mirrii : community and the Omaha community at Waldbaum as the ~ . large; and has served on a state level in a 1985 recipient of 1 number" of areas including State President the organization's of the League of Women Voters and on the Life Enrichment Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Award. This honor Committee, known as the "Sunshine Comis bestowed anmission" for which she served as the first nually to women chairman in 1977. She is employed partfrom the midwest ,„,•,« time by the University of Nebraska at who have displayed Minri. Waldbaum : (continued on page 3) outstanding leadership qualities and distin-
Recognizing the 60 years of achievement of Pioneer Women Na'amat, Mayor Mike Boyle proclaimed April 14 through May 14 as'Spiritual Adoption month. Receiving the proclamation in the mayor's office are three life members of Pioneer Women: Helen Schwartz; daughter, Dani Shrago, and granddaughter, Shifra Shrago.