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Leonid Hoykin who. arrived in Omaha from the Soviet Union in 1070 will become a bar mitzvah Aug. 31 at Beth loroel Synagogue. He is receiving instruction from Cantor Leo Fettirian (right). Leonid is the eon of Sam and Raisa Haykin and the grandson of David and Eva Hnykin and Michael Vcrebyevoky. His bar mitzvah ceremony will include symbolic twinning with Q11I of the Jewish youth who are not able to practice their religion in the Soviet" Union. '
By Lynne Appel-Polonski publicity chairman Israel Bonds With the desire to link two generations of people in stressing-thenced to bolster support for Israel, the Israeli Bond Committee has named the mother and daughter team of Maxim; Simons and Carol Parsow to co-chair , Maxine Simons this year's Israel Bond Luncheon and Fashion fillOW. The luncheon will bo held on Sept. 11 at noon at. the Jewish Community Center. Prior to the luncheon, a worker's committee, co-chaired by Ida Richards and Julee Katzman, will be contacting Jewish women in the community to ask for bond commitments). The purchase of a $500 bond or the . equivalent thereof is required in order to
na: giv by Simon By Kevin Freeman ~EEw~"YT3RK, (JTA) The State of California will provide the Simon ,Wiesenthal Center with some $5 million in state matching finds to aid in construction of a "museum of tolerance" on the grounds of the Yeshiva University in Los Angeles. Governor George Deukmejian signed Senate Bill 337, which provides the state funds, following approval July 18 -by both, the State Senate and Assembly. Deukmejian, according to his chief of staff, Steven Merksermer, supported the funding because he felt eynv pathy, for the suffering of the victims of the Holocaust and other tragedies.
The proposed funding for the museum triggered considerable discord within the Jewish community of California with the state offices of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the American Jewish Congress and the American Jewish Committee, among others, voicing strong opposition tothe legislation. Construction of the museum is expected to begin in tearly 1986. The total campaign for the museum is $35 million, according to Center officials. The Center has raised some $12 million from the private sector, and along with the $5 million from the state leaves the Center some $3 million short of the $20 million
needed for the "bricks and mortar!' aspects of the museum's construction. A cam: paign to raise a $15 million endowment for museum operations will soon begin, Center officials said. , Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the_ Wiesenthal Center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a telephone interview that the museum "will seek to explore the origins of hate and prejudice by utilizing the Holocaust as the watershed event of the 20th century." Construction, he said, is expected to take one year. It will be designed by Karl Katz, chief designer and planner for the Museum of the Diaspora at Tel Aviv University.
NEW YORK (JTA) - to others who may be qon- igrating with nine other ' O n e hundred and forty sidering the option of aliya. family members, and had American jews, from 12 We know that you will suc- flown in during the afternoon from San. Francisco, states, the largest group to ceed,in Israel." emigrate to Israel at one Earlier, at the check-in was observed dashing time since 1983, left from area, as skycap's streamed through the terminal to reJFK Airport on an El Al into the terminal bearing spond to a telephone page: flight: v v - \ .V.-': carts piled high with suit"It was my best friend • Twenty-five families;, in- cases and huge cartons, and calling from California," she cluding many-small chil- young children scrambled reported. " I t suddenly dren^ and 16 single young about playing with balloons dawned on her that she adults,-jammed the third given them as they entered won't see me for a long time floor lounge of the El Al ter- the terminal, some of their . . . she'll have to come to Is. V : minal to bid goodbye to parents and others ex- rael." David Miller, a journalist families "and friends and to pressed strong sentiments be briefed on what to expect concerning their impending from Houston, said: "I hope : . to use my professional skills upon their arrival in Israel. / aliya. Chaim.Shine, "director of Michael Brand, a busi- to counter anti-Israel attithe Israel Aliya Center, told nessman from- Queens, who tudes iniheimedia.'' the new immigrants, "We at is emigrating with 'his wife In commenting on the the Israel Aliya Center are. and three yoUng sons, ex- evening's' events, Shine . so proud of ali.df you. De- plained that the family is stated, "We at the Israel spite the'economic-Crisis, in .. following a religious injunc- Aliya Center view the deIsrael, you have chosen;to, ! tion ' in making, aliya and . parture of such a large group make aliya now. that they are also doing so of Olim as the beginning of '• And by your very num-, "for the children". . a.significant trend of inbers, you are an inspiration Olga Sanders, who is em- creased aliya."
attend the luncheon and style show, "Buying a bond is a way of giving to Israel without depleating your finances," said Mrs. Parsow. "It makes you feel good and it doesn't hurt you. But more importantly, if we don[tjielp Israel nobody else is going to."
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wonder how Israel bonds are used, Ed Joseph, regional director of the Israel Bond Office, said that a good deal of *"the money'is filtered into the high • technology industry. Carol Parsow "Since exports are giowing, that helps the economy of the country. Most industries in Israel today were somehow assisted by Israel Bond money." To assist Israel in this cause on a local level, the Israel Bond Committee "felt that (continued on page 2) ;'•-
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Hier said the museumwill be what he described S3 "an experiential museum';'where the viewer will be expected to do far more, than just be a passive visitor." The viewer "will be forced to confront the question of what is legitimate prejudice . . . and what makes one cross over from the legitimate prejudice to become a bigot," he said. • The bill signed by the Governor also requires that a community advisory committee be formed for the new museum and that the Legislature be briefed on construction progress. The bill was authored and introduced last February by State Senate President protem David Roberti, a Los
Angeles Democrat, and cosponsored by Assemblyman Richard Katz, a Democrat representing the San Fernando Valley. . Roberti and Katz praised the Governor for signing the legislation. Roberti said, "I am proud as the leader of the California Senate . . . to assist the creation of this new museum." He said some 10,000 Cal-. ifornia residents sent messages supporting the Senate bill, adding, "Their call for action was heard." Katz said, "We hoped that the slogan of never again will come to have meaning for all people." While Sens. Alan Cranston (D) and Pete Wilson (R) and Mayors Tom Brad-
ley of Los Angeles and Dianne Feinstein of JSaq," : Francisco supported the . funds for the museum, some. Jewish organizations opposed it, fearing a breakdown in the separation of church and state. The ADL, in a letter on behalf of its regional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Ana and San Diego, said that while they supported the idea of a museum to chronicle the Holocaust and other genocides of the 20th century, "the funds should be given to an appropriate public institution suGh as the University of California or the California or the California State University for this objective."
Ttlort Trachtonbarg (center), chairman of the Federation Foundation, holds a mezuzah.in preparation for affixing it to the doorpost of the Foundation's new 'home' at the Jewish Community Center.\Jerold,Rosen (left) executive director, affixed the mezuzah and Is Tretiak, a motnbor of the Board of Trustees, recited the blccoingb. Inside the mezuzah is n tiny, rolled-up paper or parchment on which is printed verses from Deuteronomy: The first sentence is Israel's.great, resounding watchword: "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One." -