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Beth El to host Rabbi Gillman at Torah weekend Feb. 24-26 An interaationally known Jewish philosopher, Rabbi Neil Gilhnan, will speak at a Torah Weekend, Feb. 2426, at Beth El Synagogue. Rabbi Gillman's work has focused on the theology of Conservative Judaism and modern approaches to Jewish ritual. "He is one of the few theologians in the world who call make theology understandable and accessible to anyone. Rabbi Giilman is not what you might expect a philosopher to be," said
Rabbi Paul Drazen of Beth El. Reached at his office in New York, Rabbi Gillman stressed that people should be encouraged to come up with their own ideas of the-' ology. "My assumption is that everybody does theology. For instance, everyone wonders if there is a God and what happens after death. Unfortunately, many people feel that what they think is not important. Everyone's thoughts are legitimate since there is no
definite to theological questions," said Rabbi Giilman. The first topic, "Revelation: Did God speak? If not, then what?" will be presented during services, Friday, Feb. 24 at 8:15 p.m. Other topics will be discussed during services Saturday morning and at a breakfast at 10 a.m. Sunday. All lectures are free and open to the community. For additional information, call Beth El Synagogue, 5533221.
He's ready for concessions ithout violence, Rabin says : By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM IJTA) Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seeking to distance himself from the defiant stance of a Padestiniah activist and the harsh rhetoric of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said he was "now ready for conc«8aions" but warned Palestinians that violence wUl get them nowhere. The defense minister spoke Monday to an audieoce of teachers in Tel Aviv, even while rioting continued in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and spread
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to East Jerusalem. Rabin challenged the "false prophets" who claim the Palestinian uprising could be ended in a week or two if tougher measures are taken. "I. who for years believed in a territorial comprookise, am now ready for concessions," he said. But he warned that "giving m to violence" would invite only more aggression. Directing his remarks to Palestinians, Rabin said, "You want to solve the conflict, you. can only do so through oegotiatioQS. But if you don't want, and you beheve that you will achieve
anything by violence, that you will scare us away by force—forget it." Rabin said in his speech that it would take a combination of political wisdom and military force to overcome the intifada, or uprising, and it won't be done in a di^. "And 1 challenge those who said they could end the intifada in a week or a fortnight—we saw how they eradicated terrorism from Lebanon." Rabin declared. "Hiere is no war which ends all wars. Only false prophets have such solutions."
Klutznick tells dinner guests future depends on security
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Speaker to return to Omaha for Yom HaShoah program Former Justice DepartThe book was subsement attorney and author quently turned into a madeJohn Loftus wiU be the fea- for-television movie. Mr. tured speaker for the aimual Loftus' appearance in Omaremembrance of the Holo- ha is being made possible caust, Yom HaShoah, on through a generous grant May 2. from Joe and Audrey KirMr. Loftus recently spoke shenbaum, and has been arin Omaha at the Pacesetter ranged through the B'nai Dinner for the Men's Divi- B'rith Lecture Bureau. 3M>n of the Jewish FederaPreceding the evening's tion. He is the author of speaker wiU be a short me"The Belarus File," which morial service written by recounts his experience Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temtracking down former Nazis ple Israel and featuring the Uving in the United States. Jewish Community Center
Kolot Children's Choir and the Junior Choir of Temple Israel Six candles wiU be lit in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Temple Israel will be the host synagogue for this year's Yom HaShoah observance on May 2 at 7:30 p.m. For more information about this and other JCAC programs, call Sara Juster, JCAC director, 334-8200.
Vanik now supports waiving amendment he co-authored
By Lynda Frank Warm memories presented throughout the evening took the chill off the mote than 260 people who braved the cold and snow to attend laat Sunday's B'nai B'rith "C«M>ration of More than Oaa Hundred Years of Servicd in Omaha." Deviating from his orepared text, keynote speuar Philip 14. Klutznick, hoiMrary pnwinwit of B'nai B'rith Intacnational, said he found intolarable "the (houcht that there is a Jewish future without the security ... of the Jewiah state. Tbay'ie » LMparabla." He afokft 00 cootributioos the B'nai B'rith Lodges m Omaha have made to the and iatanatiooaUy fttHlfcFtfMrtiftftft TMKV* HMty Manaky. focmatioa of a The foBBtt iBtarnatioBal I'nai B'rith pnaUaot «1 that local activiCiBa I paopla interasted but .gfwlucb B'nai laaadK. n gl lh» Jewish "Than ia no (utui« J«wa of tha wgrU I tlM aKUfifey and ai^
Members of the Yom HaShoah Committee met recently to plan for the service and program. They are: front row, from left, Cantor Leo Fettman, Society of Survivors; Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Temple Israel; Carol Katzman. Yom HaShoah chairman; back row, from left, Debbie Hostyk, Jewish Cultural Arts Council chairman: Ann Kibel Schwartz, Temple Israel educational director. Not pictured is Sara Juster, JCC Cultural Arts Director.
By Andrew SUow Cairall NEW YORK UTA) Former Representative Charfee Vanik has added his voice to those urging a waiver of iUi U.S.-Soviet trwia raatrictioiia tbat bear hia aama, in a recant coovaraation with the imwUk Talagiafhic Agawy, Vanik racammiwckd that Amaricaa buainaaamen "place their aunxart haUnd" an 18OMwth waivar M the 1974 JacksoorVauk amandBMnt. The amawteiBnt ia the most punitive of a number of U.S. laws linking Soviet •ooigratiaa to ita trade with U.S. bwaiiiaaina Vanik's raOMuaaadbkiip. which he extwbd to tha Jlawioh commuaiky, ia kirtkar iadicatiaa that loac^ma oilica of the Soviat UaioB an rmdff to ackaowiadc* big inynwain its
only 914 were allowed out. 'The Board of Governors of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry passed a reaotutioa sayiag the cooler^ ence will continue its process of "lookiitg toward a new policy in the near future if emigration, and the chmate in which it functions.
State Dept. report charges increased rights violations By David friedmaa WASHINGTON UTA) la the hwrshast ciiticiam of Israel's >•»»><<«»•£ of the PaiaatiDian tiiwiiiiBg sisca it began m Danidkar 1907, the State Dapartmaot has charged larael with "a sob-i stantial iDCreaae in huaM* rights violation " during 1968. In its annual report. 'Oraatey Sapoata a* Hit>a Riaetkaa,"
Laat year, aadrly 19.000 J«w« wan altowad to iaava the Sovi«t Uaioo, aad dagc, kha Slate I 30,009 to «,1MW «« ••- atao akowa pastad to ba bt out thia year, ta 1966^ by coBttaat.
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are sustained." A decisioa to waive Jackson-Vanik would have to come from President Bush. Last month his administratjoa said they would require a "strong copaaaaua" of support among the public before they would co such a waiver.
"Th« Israeli govemmant has ragardad the upriamg aa a new phaaa of tka 40'y«ar war agamat Israel awi aa a threat to tk* sacurity of the states" Iha rapatt said "The Israeli Dafjaaaa Foccea. ibjr iMipiaa mduar riot cootnii, laapaaoad » a gaaniMr whkk lad t» a aubstaotiat iBcraasa ia htuaan righta vinlatiwa " Tlia baa raaiitlad !• a* "auaaanca aaa af IBK* «• try lot dari»kha<