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SERVtIG nctsHAaiuv AND KJWA SINCE 1920 Vol. LXIII No. 26 OfMlw, Nab.
3 Mar N. 574C FiMay, Mwoh 14,1986
Kallah Weekend schedule Professor Normar\ Stillman, scholar-in-residence Friday
Beth El Synagogue, 8 p.m., "To Be a Jew in Arab Lands." Saturday
Beth Israel Synagogue, 8 p.m., "Who's Who in the Moslem Middle East. a Profile of Islamic Leaders." Sunday
Temple Israel, 10 a.m., "What do the Arabs Want? '
Jewish scientist will visit UNL
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By Morria Maline A Jewish scientist from the Soviet Union will preMDt a pqier at UNL this month, but an eiplanation as to how he got out of Russia will have to await bis arrival. Anatoly M. Khazanov, of the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., was invited to attend the March 20-22 conference in Lincoln by Paul A. Olson, Foundation Professor of English and chairman, symposium committee. In a letter smuggled out of the Soviet Union through Finland, Professor Khazanov explained that being Jewish, he had applied to emigrtlte with his family many times since the beginning of 1980. As a consequence of this application, be was inhibited from any kind of scientific activities and investigations and his manuscripts were forbidden to be pidMiahed. Early in 1961,- be w|u ousted from hi* for, mer position at the Institute of Gthnography since his desire to emigrate was qualified as "the unpatriotic act incompatable with the ideology of a Soviet antbropologist." A spokesman for UNL said that Professor Khazanov's scientific writings were against Marxist views, and that at some point be was allowed to leave Russia to reside in IsraeL He now teaches at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The Lincoln conference has been cialled to learn how indigenous peoples handled ecosystems to prevent desertification. Professor Khazanov's paper, according to his earlier conununication with the University, is as follows: ''The pastoral nomads of the Eurasian steppes and their relationship to the environment." The University said that when Professor Olson received the smuggled letter through Professor Khazanov's associate in Finland,
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he asked Harry Allen what could be done to help. Mr. Allen suggested that contact be made with Shirley Goldstein who heads Omaha's Soviet Jewry Committee. "Whether Mrs. Goldstein's efforts were responsible for Professor Khazanov's. release is not known," the spokesman added. Meanwhile, in connection with the meeting of the Nordic Committees in Oslow, Norway, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 1986, Professor Khazanov paid a one-d«y visit to Stockholm on Sept 2, 198&. Professor Khazanov visited the Ethnographic Museum where he was welcomed by its head. Dr. UUa Wagner, and other Swedish colleagues within the field of social anthropology and was given the opportunity to discuss topics of common interest. During his stay at the Museum a press confer-' ence was given and Professor Khazanov was interviewed by the foremost Stockholdij newspapers. In the evening a reception was given in the home of Chief Rabbi Morton and Mrs. Judith Narrowe. Professor Khazanov who left the Soviet Union as late as July 1986, presented his views on today's situation for the Soviet Jewry and the audience got the opportimity of putting questions to him. Among the 35 persons present there were representatives from the Swedish Parliament, the free nonconformist churches, the Institution of Social Anthropology at the University of Stockholm, theCommittee for the Freedom of Science, the Committee Pro Justitia and the 'Committee for Soviet Jewry, Some of these persons had earUer visited Professor Khazanov in his Moscow home. Professor Khazanov plans to bold a preOi conference in Lincoln, March 20 at 10 a.m. in the Nebraska Center, 33rd and Hoi-
Newmans chair Super Sunday Nancy Greenberg, Women's Division Campaign chairman, and Tom Fellman and Howard Kooper, Men's Division Campaign cochairmen, have announced the appointment of Patricia and Jeff Newman as cochairmen of the 1986 Super Sunday event. Mrs. Newman chaired the Business and Professional Women's Division of the 1986 Campoign and Mr. Newman wan the co-chairoian of the Young Men's Division last year. Super Sundey will take place on April 13 this year. TTie PacePatricia and Jeff Newnuui setter Corporation has, once again, generously offered their facilities as "For the volunteers it is an opportunity the site for this important day. to meet and socialize with other Jews in the Omaha community while sharing time in an The Super Sunday Telethon, the concluding event of the 1986 Campaign, pro- activity that prpmotes the well being of the vides Jews in the Omaha area a final Jewish Community here and around the opportunity to share a financial gift with world. For the givers it is an opportunity to their Jewish community, both in Omaha financially support a multitude of Jewish agencies, all of which provide valuable asand around the world. sistance to Jews in need, wherever they The Newmans encourage community might be," said Mrs. Newman. "When your members to "get involved" either by saying phone rings, say "yes" to a couple of hours "yea" and spending part of this Sunday with on the phone, an initial gift, or an increased other commimity volunteers making tele- gift," said Mr. Newmah. "The 1986 Super phone calls or by spying "yes" and making Sunday 'Dslethon is an opportunity to get a financial gift to the 1986 Campaign when involved, to care and to feel good about the phone riiigs on April 13. yourself and your conununity," he added.
BBko's Zimmerman at Lincoln dinner Special entertainment for the March 30 event in Lincoln will be provided by Mickey Freeman. Mr. Freeman is best known for his role as Private Zimmerman in the Serigeant Bilko television seriea. A native New Yorker, he is also known for his versatility a* a writer for the TV
series, McHales Navy and for his work in TV commercials. Mr. Freeman is appearing throjugh\lie auspices of the United Jewish Appeal. "We are pleased to have Mickey Freeman with us, and hope everyone will join us for the dinner. Be sure to make your reservations now so you won't miss this unusual evening," reminds Marsha Plotkin, Campaign chairman. The dinner will be at the Legionnaire Club. Invitations have been sent to all members of the Lincoln Jewish community. If you have not received yours, call Marsha Plotkin, 466-9516, for details.
Catholic-Jewish dialogue "must expand focus'
NEW YORK, N.Y. — CathoUc-Jewish dialogue liiust move beyond a narrowly theological focus and engagedifficult matters such as the ce.itrality of Israel for Jews and Judaism, and obtaining the Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel. This was the assessment stiared by two of America's preeminent pioneers in Catholic-Jewish dialogue, the Rev. Edward Flannery, former Exeoitive Secretary ef the National Conference of Catholic Bishops' Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations, and Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, Vice President of the World Jewish Congress, who addressed a workshop on "Catholic-Jewish Relations: 20 Yean After NoiUUi AeUte," held at New York's WaidorfAstoria Hotel during the National Jewish Conumuuty R»lationa Adviaoiy CouacU'a annual Plenaiy Seaaion. HM NiCRAG ia the iiatioiial coordin«tin| bo4y for the Gekl of iewfab cotainiiiity lelattona, coDspiiaed of U national and 113 local Jewish community relations agencies. NJCRAC's Plenary Session is held each winter to assist its nemher ofsnciss ib define moor issues fscing the American Jewish conumuiity during th^ coming year, and to plan goals and strategies for. nationsl and local action. RsfiBrring to coatsovsnor generated last year when the VsUcan published a doeument for pastoral leadstt ind religious tM^rs eiititled"'Notes on the Cone«t Wsj^to PMsent Jews end Judaism in Preaching and CotedwSis ita the Roman Catholic Church,'' Fr. Flauteiy adviaM his audience that the "Notea" oa^t not to be used as a measure of progress — or the lack of it — in CathoUc-Jewiah dialogue. "It is a statement that is meant tot eluddatiog a
number of theological pointa, and doesn't deal with the entire Catholic-Jawiah enterprise, which ronsista of more then theologieal eschange." Fr. Flanneiy suggested that in order to make progress, dialogue must take into account the historii::al and humanitarian perqiectives through which Jews understand the Holocaust, the State of Israel, and anti-Zioniam aa a cover for anti-Semitism. Psgnng tribute to Rev. Flannery's and the American Catholic Church's contributions to Catholic-Jewish dia-, logue, Rabbi Arthur Hertdwrg aaserted that the key to major advances in understanding among the two faiths in securing the Vatican's diplomatic recognition of Israel. ' Hertd>erg, speaking ip what he acknowledged were blunt terma, stated that Jewish laadtrs in the intsrrsligious dialogue "liave had H all wrong whan t^ bslisve w* are the prime bensfidaries of the dialogus because ths Vatican has denounced anti-Semitisni. "The truth of the matter," he declared, "ia that the Vatican needs dialogus more than we do, bscauss from it the Vsticsn regains crsdibility it lost as a reault of ita inaction in behalf of the Jews during World War IL The Vatican needs Jewish legitimisation — and sonw of our Jewish ecumenists \mn bkea sailing it cbssp." HntdMig' went on to score the Vatican for refusing to estsod diplomatic racognkion to Israel "The Vhtican eiplsins its refossl on the grounds that, as a matter of principle, it does net recognise statss whose borders are unstable. That is strictly nonsenss. West Germany doesn't recognise its border with East Gennany as
permanent, so that's not a stable border. But,' nonetheless, tiie Vatican maintains diplomatic relations with West Germany. "My point is elementary," Hertzberg continued. "The matter of diplomatic recognition — or the lack of it — is a matter o( legitimation. And he who does not legitiinate Israel delegitimates Israel" Asked to comment, Fr. Plsnneiy reqranded that, in his view, the Vatican's concern about stable borders was "an outmoded concept" and oug^t to be droi^ed. He noted that he had made this point to Vatican ofGcials a number of times during official visits to Rome. Flanneiy went on to observe that achieving such recognition thiou^ interreligious dialogue channels was, at brat, difficult due to the Vatican's structure. In the wahs of reforms wrought by the Second Vatican Oouneii, the Church waa no longer organised along atrictly hienuchieal lines. Thus, wbenleoders engaged £> Cotiiolie'^Jewish dialogue bring up tbs question of t^louttic recognitioq, it is referred to that part of the Vatican's bureaucracy that deals with dislogue with vsrious Ctiths, not the office dealing witli matters of state. "We are dealing with a bureaucracy. I don't have to explain what that means. It doesn't mean, however, that we should not continue to raise the issue throuj^ those chsnnels that are open and most receptive to us." Rabbi Hertzberg cendoded bis remarks by reiterating that his concern about the importance of Vatican recognition of Israel was directed toward the Vatiosa^