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6 Sivan, 5746 Frktoy. Juna 13,1986
Beth Israel plans farewell dinner
Mayor praises trio Mayor Mike Boyle presents certificates of appreciation to (from left) Toby Kagan, Mary Fellman and Mollie DelnwD last weeic at Beth El Synagogae for tlie trio's efforts in l>ehalf of the elderly and for their success in making Omaha a better place to live. The presentation took place at the Thnrsday Walk-In Drop-In lunch meeting. Nearly 100 older adults attended.
A. G. Edwards assists Bonds .]oe Kirahenbaum, Nebraska State Chairman for Israel Bonds, announced that the local office of A. (>. Edwards has agreed to be the custodian for those purchaBin^tsrael Bonds for IRA's. This agreement, he said, is for the Ibdividual Variable Kate Bond which can be purchased in $2jU00 amounts for an IRA. The rate on this bond changes every six months and currently is paying VM. The Bond has a 10 year maturity, but can be cashed In after three years or if the IRA is
dissolved prior to the three yearsyMr. Kirshenbaum added. • Roger Rogoft ci6Ai G^ Edwards i» theaaleitexecutive who will be handling these accounts, however, one must contact the Israel Bond office first. Over $7.3 billion has been sold in Israel Bonds since 1951 to help build Israel's economy. 1 For more information, call the Israel Bond office at 341-1177.
As an expression or gratitude to Rabbi •lonathan Rosenbaum and his family for "their invaluable contributions" to the community, Beth Israel Synagogue will host a farewell dinner on July 11 at 7 p.m. Rabbi Rosenbaum has completed 10 years of service to the Jewish and general community of Omaha. He has now been invited to establish and to head a program of Jewish 'studies at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn. He and his family will be leaving Omaha to assume his new duties in early August. "Rabbi Rosenbaum has contributed greatly to the qtiality of Jewish life in our community. He wUA b^ sorely missed and hiB'departure from OmaK^ Will leave a great void in many circles," said Manny Goldberg, Beth Israel president. The dinner will be pieceeded by Shabbat evening services at 6:30 p.m., and friends and colleagues of Rabbi and Mrs. Rosenbaum and their sons are invited to join in honoring them, Mr. Goldberg said. Cost of the dinner is $10 for adults and $.S for children under 13. Reservations, accompanied by a check, should be sent to
Rabbi Rosenbaum Beth tftael Synagogue, 11)02 No. 52 St., Omaha«Ne. 68104. Diniier chairmen are Jiilee Katzman, Cheryl Kirke and 'Teddy Levine.
New Rapoport sculpture By Margie Olster Jewish lUafiaphic AcBOCy. Inc.
About seven years ago, then Israeli Premier Menachem B^gii), and the late
Sadat cbtntnissiojiied Nathan Rapoport to sculpt a bronze symbol of the C/amp David Accord. After Sadat's assassination, years of waiting and a new sponsor'adonation.lhe 75-yearold artist unyeiled the massive bronze sculpture, "Brotherhood of Man," in New York on June 1. Rapoport, an internationally acclaimed sculptor, summed up his career in one sentence at the unveiling: ''Forty years I was itics of that country are "politics of mod- striving with all my heart eration." to express our pain and He said that the tendency now is for sorrow through the meextremists to see the world politically in dium of brbnze and stone." black and white, an absence of gray. "Brotherhood of Man," "Gray is the color of freedom", Mr. Fell- a depiction of two brothers embracing in a wheat field, man added. Mr. Fellman said the Jewish voter in the would have stood on the IsUnited States is "unique" in that two-thirds raeli-Egyptian border as of the Jewish population voted for Mondale envisioned by Sadat and against Reagan in the last presidential elec- Begin. But after Sadat's assassination in October tion. "The blacks and the Jews were the only 1981, the project Iqst momajor ethnic groups to support Mondale... mentum and fizzled out. But today the statue the blacks voted for their economic inter-. ests, the Jews voted against their own eco- stands temporarily in Dag Hammarskjold nomic interests." Plaza facing the United Nations in New He said the reason for this is the early York. In three months, "Brotherhood of teachings of Jews and their values of loving Man" will make the trip to its final destitheir neighbors, willingness to help others nation at the Magen David Adom National and opting for community interest above ii»- Blood Service Center in Ramat Gan. dividual interest. The rebirth of Rapoport's latest project Mr. Fellman said that Christian funda- came when philanthropist and American' mentalism is stirring in a wiiy that didn't Red Magen David Adom for Israel exist in the elections of the past couple of (ARMDI) national chairman Joseph Handecades. dleman bought and commissioned the He pointed out that if they are given the statue for the new bloodbank, financed paropportunity they will implement things that tially by ARMDI. only have been talked about in the Reagan Rapoport said he chose the theme of brotherhood as a symbol of sharing, comMr. Fellman also predicted that Nebraska passion and love. An inscription on the will attract "a lot of money" and many fa- Statue's base tells the s^ry in Rapoport's mous faces because of the two female can- words: "Long, long ago, on the site of old Jerudidates in the governor's race. He said that President Rsagan and all salem, the Holy City, there lived two brothRepublicans running for president in 1988 ers. They were farmers and they tilled the will visit Nebraska to help boost Republican land which they had inherited from their chances of gaining their first woman gov- father. The older was unmarried and U^ ernor. alone. The younger was married and lived
Fellman advises Jews 'to avoid extremists j^P By Morris Maline ^^^ Attorney Richard M. Fellman has some advice for Jewish voters in connection with, the 1986 elections. "Search for the middle, look for moderates," he advised, more than 100 members and guests of the Old Timers club meeting at Beth El Synagogue Tuesday. Mr. Fellman, a former Democratic candidate for Congress in the Se<,'ond Qongressional District, said that he Hlchard Fellman was concerned over the trend of extremism becoming mainstream in America politics. In' Nebraska, for example, he pointed to the emergence of fundamentalist Christians dominating the Republican county cpnven' tions in Lincoln and Omaha. • He said that in Michigan a few weeks ago both Vice President George Bush and Congressman Jack Kemp lost out to television evangelist Pat Robertson who preaches a system of right wing fundamentalism. Mr. Fellman said the Democrats have their own version in the form of Jesse Jackson who recently challenged Congressman Peter Rodino, "a long-time civil rights leader from Newark, N.J.," on, of all things, civil lights. Mr.'Fellman said that Jew* historically are secure in a country only when the pol-
Brotherhood of Man with his wife and four children. "The brothers loved each other and did not want to divide the fields between them. Both ploughed, planted and harvested the crop together. After they cut the wheat, they shared equally in the produce of the earth." The story goes on to say that the older brother worried that his brother had the responsibiUty of a family and he did not. He concluded his brother should get a greater share of the harvest. At midnight, he would bring a pile of wheat sheaves to his brother's field. At the saine time, the younger brother, worried that his older brother would grow old and have no children to care for him, began to bring piles of wlieat from his side of the field to his brother's field. This went on for several nights. "But on the third night when each brother was carrying a pile of sheoves to the other, thsy mat at the top of the hill. Sud- \ denly they understood. Overcome, they (continued on page 2)