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Major Gifts divisions name chairmen
Frorn Russia to Omaha Tired after joiiraeyiiig from tke Soviet Union to Rome to Omalu arriving at Eppley Air Field near nudniglit Monday, 20-year-«id Inaa Gumnitaky beams with pleaaure upon beiag met by her hosts, Leonard and Sliirley Goldstein, and by a ctiuple who had emigrated to Omaha earlier, Boris aad * Maya Tayter. Mrs. Goldstein met Inna's family during a recent trip to the Soviet Uaion and offered to care for her while the family contiaacd its ld-y«ar-efiort to emigrate.
By Joanie Jacofason Federatioo public relations director Leadership for the major gifts diviaioos of the 1990 UJA/Federation Campaign was announced by Robert Gordman, Murray H. Newman, Cheryl Cockier and Ann Goldstein, cfaairmoi of the men's and women's divisions respectively. Gerald Hoberman and Robert I. Kully have been named to lead the Pacesetter Division Icompriaed of men who contribute $5,000 or more to the Federation Campaign), and Joodi Veitxer will chair the Chai/Grand Gifts Division I women who make an individual gift of tl.DOO or more). "It's my personal feeling, there seems to be a sense of apathy within the campaign," Mr. Ho-
Temple scholar to discuss m issues of Outreach ": Temple Israel's Scholar-in-Residence series will bring Lydia Kukoff to Omaha S^t. 22 to 24. Mrs. Kukoff is director <rf the Union ol Amarican Hebrew CongragationsCentrai Conference of Rabbis Commisaioa on Reform Jewish Outreach. She is an author and a producer of Jewish videotapes and tbe •ward-winning film, "InfcannarriagK Wken Love Heats TnditiaB." Piw—i Id fmn ago, ike UAHC-CCAR Out Mck Commtflsinn creiaplenenta •C fw praport-canvsniMi sad ada guMtawa aad fw iatatiulk eouMMB panats nd ekiidraa. %. Kukalf wiU tOtk^ liiliiiiH^ is''Rslnrai Jaatisk
Lydia Kofcotf the Family, the Commuoity.' Sunday. Sept. 24, IQ aan., bnwieh. All diaciMaioM and events an opaa to the coauDuaity at w> charge. Mrs. Kukoff's appearanc« is funded by Puuiie Z. Davis, the PUI and Ttori SkrsiBff Pound*
Can the childrefl of Jewisb-Chhstian marriages be Jewish on Fnday night and Christian on Sunday morning? Are interfaith marriages a threat to tka AsMrican Jewish kfaatity? What has been the experiance of Jewisk rafugwa from the Holocaust in the United Statas? Has does Israel's "Law ol Return" affect the question, "¥nut is a Jew? * Tkeae and oihar issues will he expbrad by iatarnationally recognised scholars during the aecoad annual Creigkton University Klutanick Chair Symposium on
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Department, Santa Pe, Community Center, 333 N.M., is scheduled for 1 S. 132nd Street The next pan., Sunday, Sept. 24, day, starting at 9:30 at the Jewish Coounu- a.m., the symposium sasnity Canter. sioos will be heU in the The sirmposium ap^a Student Center BaOroont at 10 a.m-, Sunday, Sept. on the Creighton camp24, at Omaha 8 Jewiah us.
Klutznlcks happy to be coming home By Ifknia MaMae
WorU Jewishrlaader Ptuhp M. Khitankk and hia wife, Etlkel, ar» kappy to be coning "hi^n# " to Omaha. Mr. and Mrs. Khitznick will be here nest weekaid to attaod tha aacaad aanual aympoaium ol the Khitjakk Chair in Jawiah Civiliution. In a taiapkoae iatarviaw with Mr. Khitanick in C^ucago, ke aaid tkat ka aad his wife are looking farward to aeaiag iamily aad friends—"hapiiy to be eaniackaaia." He poialad ani Ikat ke u coBBinc aot aa a par lidpaat, hat aa aa iatamatad okaarvar. "I kaow naay of thoaa who mi be at tka synpoaiam aad I aak kiokiBC forward to kaariag what they hava taaay." Mr. Uataaick aaid akn that ke is -fuU ol "ThiaiaaataB aaawaftka fla daal taaica.
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Gcrald Hofacnwn berman commented. ''Certainly, the members of the Pacesettor Divi sion give goierously, but often, the correlation between a gift to the campaign and the people who are actually help^ is not made. It's unfortunate. It means all of us miss out on a tremendous sense of satisfaction, both as a community and as individual contributors. Our dollars provide a lot of good' for a lot of
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