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Pacesetter breakfast to feature Father sues Klutznick symposium on assimilation Cfiarleston, S.C., chief of police school By Joanie Jacobson Federation public relationa director Reuben M. Greenberg, Chief of police of Charleston, S.C, will be the featured q>eaker at the Pacesetter breakfast to be held July 21 at the Highland Country Club from 7:30-8:45 a.m. Go'akl Hoberman and Robert Kully are coK;hainnen. Reuben is a handsome, ^tty, engaging sort of man, unassuming, straight-forward and unpretentious," said Howard Bloom, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. "He is a fount of wonderful stores and anecdotes from the vast array of his life experiences. " Mr. Greeoberg, who is black, Jewish and former undersheriff of the San Francisco County Sheriff's Department, has appeared 01^ bationah|eleviaion shows Induding ^ Minutes; Good MorauUil^ A^ierica; The Morton Downey Show; proa* Fire, Modern Maturity« mi-^ BJtoawL He baa tmi^ m Mv«ral nntver•ities and authored a number of police-related articlea !or publication.
Reuben Greenberg With a bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University, Mr. Greenberg went on to earn a master's degree in public administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in city planning also from the University of California, Berkeley. "I first heard Reuben speak at CJF's (Council of Jewish Federations) General Assembly in 1987, " recalled kf r. Bloom. As a result be was invited to Edmtmtoo (Canada) to speak to a small cities conference there. He was so well received, we invited him back
to address the Major Gifts Division of our Federation Campaign. "He's a community guy, ' Mr. Bkiom continued. "Reuboi serves on the Jewish Community Center Board of Direct<H^, is a trustee of his synagogue and strongly supports the Federation campaign in his cooununity. "He has been to Israel, as well as England, Jamaica, Pakistan and Australia to participate in or lecture for law enforcement programs, and serves on many advisory boards both local and national. He's been honored by both the professional and lay communities. "With a unique background, both personally and professionally, Reuben Greenberg is a man comntitted to Jewish community life and to Israel," concluded Mr. Bloom. "He is thoroughly delightful and will offer the men of our Pacesetter Division a truly memorable hour and 15 minutes." For further information, contact Howard Bloom at the Federation, 334-8200, Ext. 252.
Railroad car donated WASHINGTON (JTA) Polish railroad freight car ~ to transport Jews to !azi death camps during 'orld War II arrived by ihip in Baltimore. The Polish government agreed to donate the freight ', one of a handful of its id surviving, to the U.S. olocaust Memorial Musescheduled to open here 1992. The car transported an es-
timated 100 to 200 Jews daily on a 60-mile trip from Warsaw to the Treblinka concentration camp. The museum has not been able to find out how many trips the car actually made to the camp, where an estimated 750,000 Jews were gassed to death from July 1942 to November 1943. Usually 100 or more people were crowded into the windowleaa freight car, in
unsanitary conditions lacking proper bathroom facilities. Upon arriving at Treblinka, people often had to wait in the cars for hours because a ramp could not accommodate the entire train, estimated at 60 cars. "This Nazi cattle car is the antithesis of everything wonderful and beautiful," Harvey Meyerhoff, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, said.
By Elena Neuman NEW YORK (JTA) - A Rhode Island College professor has filed suit against a Providence middle school, claiming the recital of an invocation and benediction at his daughter's graduation ceremenony violated constitutional bans on prayer in public schools. TTie response to his action has ranged from administrative intransigence to antiSemitic threats. Daniel Weisman's activism on this issue began last month when he found out that a benediction would be performed at his daughter Deborah's June 20 graduation from Nathan Bishop Middle School. He recalled the benediction he had witnessed at his older daughter Merith's graduation, when a fimdamentalist Baptist preacher credited Jesus for the students' accomplishments. Weisman said he felt alienated by the prayer. "It was one of the few times in my life that I felt myself excluded as a Jew. It shows that we live in a Christian country and that people never question this anymore." When Weisman brought his concern to the attention of the school principal, Robert Lee, he was told that he needn't worry because this year a rabbi, from "your own faith," had been invited to deliver the opening prayers.
Weisman was offended by Lee's response. He said he felt that the issue was not a matter of religious preference, but rather of the mandated separation between church and state.
The second annual Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization Symposium will take place Sept. 24-26. The first day will be hosted by the Jewish Community Center and the second by Creighton University at the Student Center. According to Dr. Menachem Mor, holder of the Klutznick Chair at Creighton, the t(^ will be: Jewish AawmiUitinii, Aecattwailiia and AccomiBodatioii: Peat Traditions, Currait laanes
and Future Prospects. He said the Symposium, being held in collaboration with the Jewish Cultural Arts Council, is expected to attract 20 "outstanding scholars" who will confront the issue from different perspectives. Open to the public, the Symposium reflects the intent of Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick in establishing the Chair so that the Jewish community of Omaha woukl be a beneficiary.
UNL chancellor to speak at Temple Brotherhood service Dr. John K. Yost, vice chancellor of research and dean of graduate studies at the University of NebraskaLincoln, will deliver the Shabbat sermon at Temple Israel on July 14 at the 7:30 p.m. service. The Midwest Region of the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, whose annual convention is being held in Omaha July 14-16. chose Dr. Yoat as their guest speaker because of his noted efforts in the recent establishment of the Av R. Bondarin Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska, Hal Seiner, Midwest Region president, tokl the Jewish Press. The sermon topic, "Future Jetvish Christian Rdations—New Bonds of Community," will be in keeping with the theme of the weekend convention, "Striving for Harmony." The Chair is being funded by the Jewish Chautauqua Society, which is qxwsored by the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, an ttffiliate of the Union of
Dr. John K. Vest American Hebrew Congregations. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temple Israel will be the rabbinic lecturer on the UNL campus. Dr. Yost earned his bachelor's degree in history with the highest honors from Washington State University, holds a master's in histoo' from Stanford University, and a master of divinity in church history from Harvard. He received a Ph.D. from Duke University and has done post-doctoral research at Cambridge. The Shabbat swvioe and sermon will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat sponsored by Temple Brotherhood.
Will a new Palestine become like Lebanon? By Howani Bloom Exeeative dbecter, Jewiak fsdwtloa ef Omaha
ing partner and ultimately the crsation of a ahortensd rump of a state. What will this maanT In my view, a full-acale rebsarsal of what thia ia likely Yitabsk Shamir, in H>ite of his reputation as a stiff- to mean is being played out.aoit door in Lebanon. man, has oome up with a oonpraniae political plan Every day, thnnaawdso* Syrian skelb are faUwg on Labthe rawtlutioB of the key politieal ptobiem of the anaae Christian naigbborhoodi. Tbe ^yiisBB aad thsir prozUnitaias. iso«refni«|piaggi'esenis Arabekillkigothsr Arahe—and Predictably, this overture has aaoa DOwlMrs. It does sig- tbe world i«niakia«erily silent. ify, however, that Shamir has fioaUy tectftmi iriiat he No Weetam or Third WorU or Sovist Nation which is DCS rejected. The lareali natitimel unity govammsnt has DOW preesuHng Israel to dutch a viper to ita boeom ia roposed the nsgotiatlon of a traneitinnal stage of aelf-iuls moved to act. »be ioUowed by DSCoMatiaBe witbout pteoonditioM for There are, at thia time, approximately 2.3 million PalesIs uitbDato diepoiitiMi of t*^ territories: Judos, Samsna tiniana living in S^nria. Jordan, Lebanon and other Arab idOasa. states. About 800,000 of them have been maintained as HM Likud was forced tfi olftr this package in spite of political pwrns in crowded rrfugeecampe for over 40 years • iKt that the PU) baa rqoctsd it. diiwf it axdudca diract by thsirfilknrArabbDato. In every other histanoe of a proUPtJ^tkws with the PLO. wma though the PLO vym- tracted territariol diaputa thia century, refugsse from one ItUMTS couM still be elsctadL Tbo Labour Pwty. too, bM aids haws bosn resettled by the other Greece and Turkey Mdapbskiiidtbsplaa In ssasnos, tbe wtire oantar qtsc- have exchanged populationa, aq have India and Pakiatao. un gl tko larasH poUtkal system, in both key political and Roland and Germany, to name a few. Only the Arab logps — Labour and Likud — has bought it, albeit with coontrias have prstered to maintain these squalid refugee Mrvatkms, in ordar to (St out from undsr the parsisteat camp* en their territoriee rather than raeettle thsir PalWlafa ci intransicanos. Let the Pslsetinians and tbsir tinian oo-ieligionista adirs appear intransicmt for acbaofs, at Issst in tbe Does it not sesm likely that these wretched individuals rest. wM dsmnnd entry to a new|y cieotad PsbwrtBian state snd It shouM be dear that wUls tho faitifadi psniats, prs» could thsy bs rtAissdT Those peoaio have no tioe to the n wm mouat on the IsrMH fowwMnent. whstbsr Mr. West Bsnk snd Gasa. They ar« niUy the daoosadants of coatrols it w not, to secept the PLO as a nsfotiat- poopio who fled from what is now Israel proper. -MTfi^rm-mirw litnr irrirreaBOT
The rulers of thia new stata will not be adoloacsnt rock throwers, sort of an Arab verakw of the 19608 radical students appearing on U.S. campuses during the Vietnam War, but rather hardened fanatical anti-Iaraeli and antiJewish guerrillas. It will not take long before they begin the much publicized next stage in the mmpletn dismambarment of laraeL The Galilee and the Triangle wiU be next, foUowed by tbe ultimate destruction of the Jewish state. This staged war of expanaion will be financed by Syria, Iraq and Libya, not to mention the so caUed "modsrato" Arab states. After sll, these sre countrise rec«nt|y possessed of kwg-range missiles snd chstnical warfare planta which they bave afa?eady teetod against thsir own domse tic populatioos. How much easisr to use these fri^tfiil wespons, by means of their proxies, against the Jewish/Zionist enanty. Will the world really care? The historical record doesn't seem to be particular^ reassuring. Qiancss srs prstty slim, in my view, and these dunces are not very tikety to be taken by the broad central rnneenmin of Israeli politics. The question rsmsins, will American Jews add thsir weight to ths side of the squation wbich will force Mr. Shamir's hand to give in to unacceptable riaks; or, will it add to that side of the equation wbich is rsprsasntsd by the majority of Israelis who will have to live with the fateful outcome of either choiceT