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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920
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Vol. LXIII No. 48 Omaha, Nebr.
Sec. Model to speak 7.S. Secretary of the Interior Donald plex across from the Washington Monu^i I Hodel will q>eak at the Sept. 27 "Night to • Ranember" state dinner highlighting the . Nebraska fund-raising campaign for i $1000,000 for the United SUtee Holocaust I Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. [The national goal is $100,000,000. \ AnnoonceuMnt of the acceptance by f Secretary Hodd fat this special occasion in r the Grand Hall of Ak-Sar-Ben Coliseum is ^ .being made this week in letters to I thousands of residents of the State of ^Nebra8ka by the fiv« co-chairmen, Drew ; Lewis, Alan Lozier, Paul C. Schorr, Phil ISchrager and Jan Stoney. In the letter the co-chairmen state that ' "The museum will be a gift from the United States to the world and we support and are I extremely proud of this effort on the part f of the state's business, industry, organized i labor, charitable foundations, dvic and service organizations and cooceriied citizens of I every walk of life." [ The land for the location of the museum [ was the gift of the Department of the In[ terior. The museum will be located on a site [ which is part of the historic Auditors Corn-
ment and facing the Jefferson Memorial. Located just off Independence Avenue between 14th and 16th Streets, S.W., the site is next to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and within walking distance of many of Washington's and the world's most prestigious museums including the Smithsonian Institution. Like the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Smithsonian, the proposed museum represents a partnership between government and private philanthropy. Under the United States Holocaust Memorial Council's enabling statute, all funds for major architectural planning, construction and equipping the museum must be raised exclusively from private, tax deductible contributions. While gifts of all sizes are being solicited, the conunittee is particularly seeking major gifts to assure that Nebraska will reach • its goal. Those who contribute up to $50,000 will receive permapent recognition for their participation by having their names inscribed (Continued on Page 2)
Fellman Scholarships The Bruce M. Felhnan Charitable Foundation Trust has awarded nine scholarship grants for the IWftOT school year, according to trustees Howard Kooper and Terri S<;hrager. Students, recdving the grants recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fellman, with tMr hosts from top left, are as follows: Deborah E. Cohen, Trinity Univerdty, San Antoaio; Todd A. Finkle, U.N.O.; Dan Rips, University of Colorado; David Spfannan, UniveNity of Kansas. Also from left, bottom portion of the photo, Dana Nogg, Colara«h> CdOege hi Colorado Springs; Caryn M. Sadofsky and Jennifer D. Fonnan. U^lvanity of Kansas; Natalie F. WetMtein, U.NX.; Lawrence P. WMmaa, Uidverdty of Nehraaka Sdiool of Medidne. The treat memorialiies Bruce FeDauo, a 1962 Westside Wgk School graduate who attended George Wasfabgton Univerdty and who died vhlie partidpating hi the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program.
Soviet-Israel talks By David Landan JERUSALEM (JTA) - The Soviet initiative to hold consular talks with Israel later this month has already generated intense speculation here in Israd and around the world. Many pundits purport to see in the Kremlin's move a sign that the Soviets believe there may be d^omatic movement in this region soon. Moscow, according to this theory, does not want to be left out of the action. The Soviets have effectively been excluded from Mideast peacemaking ever since the step-by-step diplomacy of then U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973-75, which fashioned from the Yom Kippur War standoff, the separation of forces agreements with Egypt and Syria and the. interim agreement with Egypt. The subsequent peace treaty process under the Carter Administration was also brought to fruition with the deliberate exclusion of the Russians.
During and since that period, successive Isradi governments have developed a hostile attitude to the very notion of Soviet involvement, and thus to an international peace conference. Indeed, it was only in the past year that the Israeli government under Premier Shimon Peres has somewhat revised that stance, and now official policy—at least that enunciated by Peres and Labor—favors intamatioiial accompaniment for future peace diplomacy. While the pundits speculate about the motives behind the latest Kremlin move, senior Isradi officials are cautious in their prognostications, preferring to await the results of the talks, scheduled for Halsinld on August 18 and 19. But Peres has made it dear that the Israeli side to the talks will raise the issue of Soviet Je?ny. This can be justified even in the context of strictly consular talks since some of the Soviet Jewish refuseniks (Continued on Page 5)
SHOAH in Omaha SHOAH, a work! rmowned 9Vi hour fihn on the history of the Hdocaust produced by Claude Lanzmann, will be shown in Omaha at the Jewish Community Center Sept. 7,10, and 14 and at the UNO Strauss Perfwning Arts C^ter on Sept. 12 and 13. SHOAH has been acdaimed by critka as one of the greatest dpcumenti^es la the history of the cmema. Due to the length of the film, SHOAH is shown in two parts; Part I at 12:30 p.m and Part II at 6:30 p.m. each day exc^t Wednesday when the showing of the parts will be reversed. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Jewish Community C^ter or at the door up to one hour before each screening. Admission is $8 for each part ($5 for students and senior dtizens) a- $15 for the entire film ($10 for students and seniors). The result of years of research, this 9Vi hour film is an ord history of the Holocaust that brings together a fuU range of witnesses and survivors. Ten year* in the making, using not a sin(^ frame of archival footage, SHOAH allows the victims, the popetrators, and the bystando^ to tell thdr stories. It is through thdr words that the imagination recreates the world described in these interviews — a way of getting at the truth that is far more shocking than the depiction of actual images. SHOAH is being presented by a consortium of Omaha community organizations Hiduding the Jewish Famity Service, Jewish (Xilturd Arts Council, Univerdty of Nebraska at Omaha and the Jewish Community Center, ADL Community Ralatknis Committee, B'nu B'rith Men, Comlwakw
and Monslty Lodges, Metropolitan Arts Council, New Cinema Cooperative, Nebraska Jewish Histocicd Society, Omaha Steaks Intcmatknal. ShddoD Film Theater and the United Catholic Sodd Services.
Cool seat Teacher Lori Stan takes a pooldde seat daring the Jewish t'ederation of Omaha party for newcomers Sapday at the home of Nancy and Shd i^pa. More than 30 newcomers wcr* wobaoMd to Omaha and the Omaha Jewish oaammnity by hosts and hoMeasaa aftUatad wMh the FcderatiaB's NewcaoMrs
Morocco's King Hassan puts his life at risk on Sept. 4,1984, and Dr. Ismad Hativ, head of the Facul^V By Carl Alpert ty of Idamic Studies at Gaza University, both conddered • Jewish Press Israd correspondent ' HAIFA — One of the most significant statements made collaborators with the Israelis, and more recently, Zaafer in connection with the Peres visit to Morocco recdved d-Masri, Mayor of Nablus, murdered by Arab terrorists ^almost no attention fitim press or commentators. It was on Maich 2,1966. The full list, w)^ mdudes also the name an observation by King Hassan to the effect that the pur- of Anwar Sadat, would cover many pages. There has been much talk about the wishes and loydties ' pose of the meetfatg was to clarity inuee, but definitely not ;to negotiate. Tlie King made it dear that he had no authori- of the Arabs who live m the Israd-administered territories. No one really knows what they think. They have been teristy to negotiate witi) laraeL ^ With that sentence the King took out an msurancepohcy rorized mto silence or assent. The shopkeepers, businessr on his life, for through the Uxag years of ArabJewish rda- men, teachers, village muktars or humble workers who at itions fa the MWdle East whoever negotiated with the Jews any time dared vdce an optimistic hope for peaceful coexistence with Israel, have long amce pud for that op; was doomed to daath. ; The long and bloody list begins with Jordan S.King Ab- timism with their lives. The lesson is not lost on the cowed dullah, assasdnatod fa 1951 because he hdd talks with survivors. There is a double lasson here whkh should not be lost f Israd's rulers-and extends through Dr. Issam SarUwi, [ killed by Arab extremiste fa Portagd iw 1«83 because he on those concerned. Arabs wUli motoate views, and there ! was conaWered to be going too far toward ranwocArawmt are such, have come to realize that they are fa affect com• with IsEaal. Abad at-Hndd Kiditah, nwycr of Rafiah, UUed . tnitting smdde if they even suggest GomptoniBe or negotia:.
tions with the IsraeUs. Hence the dear disdaimer by the King of Morocco. On the other hand, hard-headed Israelis, aha there are such, have come to realize that even if peace of a sorts is made with Yassar Arafat, at great cost to us, it will immediatdy be upset by temxist acts of Abu Moussa's Fatah rebels. And if they are perhaps brought around, George Habash and his Popular Front will declare war on both Israd and the Arab peac«naker8. Waiting fa Ifae to reject any and all comptomise with Israd are Ahmed Jibril and his cohorts. Naif Hwatme and his so-called Democratic Front, Abu Nidal and his wing of Fatah, the Syrian-sponaored Al-Sa'ikah and still the Ust is Img of radical, dissident and maverick Arab groups which are pledged to tlie eradication of Israd as a sUte, but bicker and brawl and butcher among themsdves with an inatekidty which fa advance dooms to fdhire any peace program subacribed to by one of the oompeting groups. :(CentiMied..on..P«ge S) ,. toa-VsWli&ilivJJ^/iS-iS;