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Odyssey of the mind award for Swanson
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A team of seven fifth-graders from District 66*8 Swanson Elementary School placed third out of 62 entries in the world finals of Odyssey of the Mind compittitioa at the University of Colorado recently. The team competed with more than 4^500 students from North America, Mexico, the Republic of CUoa and the Soviet Union in the international creatiye problem-solving competition. Swanson's students wrote and perfonned a fable, interpntfaig how certain nnrais cam* farto «xist«Bes and alMTwaoBded to a aiMmtaaeoua praUan. The yonngatan an bamltit, BriaJtlMatrfek, 'fjrbr Mjrm, Jim Simons, John Stalnaker, Lindsey Chalt, Dana Beavers end Jenny Javiteh. Each member received a bronze medal; the school received a trophy (too big for the trophy case). Coaches ore Jeanne Beavers and Judy Simons. Corporate sponsor is the IBM Corporation.
Time Magazine to apologize for Nazi-style ad in GB edition By David Winner London Jewish Cbroaicle LONDON (JTA) - Time Magazine is to publish an unprecedented full-page apology for running an "appalling taste" Nazi-style advertisement in its British edition last week. The ad, for a London slide show company, showed a Nazi podium backed by pink and pastel blue swastika flags. The caption read: "Poor use of-color can ruin your presentation. Using inappropriate colors can completely take the edge off an aggressive presentation." It promiaMi to show how "•pedal effects can Mcite a flagging audience" and "how symbols con be used to exfilain ideas." It added: . i*'We can't promise to get your name in the history bo(4u, but it should find its way Into a client's notebook." Appalled readers and Labor Parliament member Qraville Jonner proteated to tha company, the Hatton Oorden-baaed Presentation company, to Tlma Mogaiioe and the advartiaing agwcy, " ly and Laavea. annar aaki tha advartiaament waa in "appalling tattc," and that ha wai •hodcMl that tlma had pubUahad it but glMl they had
agreed to publish an apology"It looks like a Nazi advertisement," he said. "It's meant to be a joke, but it's the most disastrous form of huinor gone wrong that it's possible to conceive," he said. .
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dollars and grants from the Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial Fund and the B'nai Jacob Adas Yeshuron Fond, administered by the Foundation of the Federation. "It's important to do whatever we can to help these children grow up with Self-confidence and high self-esteem," said Mr. Schrager. "A program like this is motivating. These children are entitled to a meaningful Jewish education ... to feel good about themselves and their Jewish lives. "I'm sensitive to the needs of children," he added. "The younger we can get to them, the more likely they are to be successful at learning." Mrs. Riekes explained.
"When it became clear that the growing enrollment far exceeded our ability to permanently fund the Special Needs Program, we had to look for outside help. Jerry Rosen (Foundation director) and Susie Drazen (BJE director) first approached Phil about the possibility of his involvement." "I knew Phil had an interest in children and a desire to help people who really needed that help," said Mr. Rosen. "Being able to help other people is a privilege and a blessing," Mr. Schrager told the writer. "Look, I feel real lucky. I could have been a Jew bom in Russia or Africa, but instead, I was bom in Milwaukee, moved to Omaha, had a good education."
Soviets pay homage to Wallenberg By Edwin Eytan PARIS (JTA) - A Soviet diplomat and a state prosecutor hinted liere that Raoul Wallenberg probably died years ago at the orders of Lavrenti Beria, and they made it clev that their government now deeply regrets his fjite.
Los Angeles breaks ground for Holocaust By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA)Ground was broken for a Holocaust memorial here, to consist of six block granite pillars in a public park near the center of the predominantly Jewish Fairfax district. Each pillar will be topped by a lamp, which will be lit for 24 hours annually on Yoro Hashoah, the international day of Holocaust remeimbrance. They each will also carry a boa-telief, with acenes from the de-_ struction of European' Jewry. An additional 12 plaques will depict aspects of. the Nazi era from 1933 to 1946. "Since our families perished in the Holocaust, we wanted to have a place where we can moutn than^ and wa can almiys ramamber them,'* laid Dn. OMie>
By Joonie Jacobson Federation public relations director Marge Riekes, president of the Bureau of Jewish Education, announced that an agreement has been signed by Phillip G. Schrager and representatives of the Jewish Federation of Omaha and United Talmud Torah Religious Schools to share in the support of the Bureau's Special Needs Program through the 1993-94 school year. "This agreement represents a mutual cooperation between the Federation, the donor and the schools which benefit," said Mrs. Riekes. "It enables our community to have an ongoing special needs program without having to worry about funding from year to year. "Because of Phil Schrager's generosity and commitment to Jewish education, this progrram will remain available to those children who need it," The Special Needs Program was first established by BJE in 1981 to aid Jewish children with learning disabilities to obtain a Jewish education. Seed money was provided by the Esther K. Newman Memorial Fund with subsequent funding from Federation campaign
Schiro, a surrivor of Auschwita. "We wilnted to do it in a Bublic plaoD where everybody'iSan fh(u-e our sorrow wiUi uai*' j , Schim anil fellow survivors have |;wen trying to realize the project since 1960, but it waa only four years ago thtit the County of Los Angalpa made available thaaiteiln the Ppn Pacific Park. The county will also provide security and routine mainl«nance for the project. Two esta|>U«hed Holocaust centers in Los Angeles are cuirently raising funds for expansion dects: the Bimon WieeenCenter, ti3r oonatnictlon of ita Muaeuin of Toiaruioe, and the Martyrs Memorial of the Jewlih Federation Council, in a^ to move to
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In fact, the Soviet Union would like to "sanctify his memory," reporters here were told. The remarks were the first on record by Soviet officials that refer to the Swede who saved tens of thousands of Jews from Nazi extermination camps when he was attached to the Swedish legation in Budapest during the final years of World War II. The references to Wallenberg were made here by Ambassador Viktor Kasiilev, chief of the Soviet delegation to the 36-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe—also known as the Helsinki Conference—and Vladimir Andreyev, a member of the delegation. ' Andreyev, a deputy to the Soviet Union'a prosecutorgeneral, told a news conference, "We rasret deeply the death of this noble person but we know nothing more concerning his late,"
He said his office investigated Wallenberg's death and it "now is certain that he died in prison" in the immediate post-war years. "He was not the only such victim—many others died with him during those somber years," Andreyev added. Kashlev said the investigation into Wallenberg's death would continue. He promised that "should we learn something, we will moke the facts known at once." "We would like to know more details about how this man (Wallenbwg) died so that we coul^Enc^i his memory," thoHvieWoy said. Kashlev offered little hope to those who believe Wallenberg is alive. "The people teho destroyed Wallenberg also destroyed all the documents relating to him before being deetroyed in their turn," he said.
Observers here saw that as a direct, reference to former secret police chief Beria, who was killed in the power struggle that followed Stalin's death. It also seemed to observers that according to what Kashlev said, the Soviet government's most recent investigations confirmed Wallenberg's death. ' Wallenberg was arrested when the Red Aripy entered Budapest in January 1945 and not heard from since. Reports persist he is alive, though Soviet sources insist he died in Lubyanka prison over 40 years ago. During the first session on human rights at the conference, Kashlev said that exit visas would not be denied to any Soviet citizen who had not engaged in sensitive defense worii for more than five years. "This period would be the absolute limit for refusing viaat." he said
15 in France receive medal PARIS (JTA) - Three Catholic priaeta and a Protestant minister were ^ong 16 French redpienta of Yad Vashem's "Righteous Among Nationa" medal at f ceremony honoring hem—some poathumoueJy-HtiliePerieClty HaU.
Mayor Jacques Chirac, a former prime minister, invited hundreds of dlgnitariea to attend the oaremony in the preeence of laraal's ambaseador to F'ranoe, OvadiaSoffw. Chirac noted that the Yad VaatMm Foundation ia Je-
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rusalem perpetuatea the OMmory of Jews who died In the Holocaust and tha memory of non-Jaws who risked their Uvee to aave Jews.
One of them was the late Proteetant minister Marc Boagnerwaa.