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SERVMQ NEBRASKA AND K>WA SINCE 1920 Vol. UVU No. 24 Omalw, IM&r.
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Drama of Jewish resettlement unfolds By MoRia MaUiM Tears of joy aa famOiaa were reunited... Happy children singing Hebrew songs... Amaaement at American-elyte a^artmaats... Overwhdming gratitode to tbe Oiaalu Jewish community... This is the stuff of resettlement and po-haps explains why a score of vohinteers jdned Jew^ Family Sovioe Maff late Tuesday night and eiHy Wedaeoday monkg m wcloMninglS Jewiah leftigees from the Soviet Union to Ottaba. At 11:48 pjn.,Toeaday, a United Airlines flij^t from Chicago eeaed up to ths gate and an otbarwise cahn groiq> of greeters became somewhat SB^tAaf'J&vB. tlie Tayter family who had emigrated to Omaha in 1979 and who now are part of the Besettlament Committee of the Jewish Federation wondered whether thcry would reoognixe those they had not sera> for 11 years. "One of my relatives was a young boy, now he is a grown man with his own son," said Maya Tayter. Within mhiutes, re-unificaticm took place. A swarm of greeters engulfed those entering the tei^ minal; balloons ware given to the chQdrm and flowers to the women, but thne were bear hugs and kisses for alL A cameraman frmn Channel 7 draped the acene with the light from his camera nd tUs witter eagcrfy aoo^t out pfaofo opportiaiitiee to help tofi-tUt nderaodaticflhutratioii (rf similar hqipenings all over America. ' The only difficulty In an otherwise flawless eiqteiience was the traditioBal American dilemma of lost luggage. It took about ooe-half htmr to describe the 13 lost bags to the airihie agents. : And wonder cl wmukra, during tUa time of waiting, Rinata Zinkov, and Mazaim Zinkov, sevan-yearold cousins, delighted their new frinda witli »renditioo el Hebrew aongs th«y had learned in Itahr. Once the avaflable higgage was ooUacted and carried to a caravan of vefaidea, the 'parade' of refugees took to the niiMwept streets fer a 16 mbute ride to their new living qnaiters—fully fumiahad two^Mdroom units at Uw ViDagi Apaitmiiita, near 9(Hli and<G(nt« stnats. KrMlflook euy on paper, but iMctlioJB with heavy ba^ in a downpour of frening rain at 1 aja was no easy task. The abundaaee of vofamteera proved the vahie of having eoooih hrip to do the }ob. Soeb,fltttaa«riviBgf—iMat»ta pr>a«ated with keys 'to flMir aiMTtneota and thoMof «• lortunate enough to saaiJMfr (acee upon entering Mqterieoced an unforfsttaUsikht, ' lliaeUsn^woaMa put thair hands to ths aides of their faces ia epaa astooiahmsot at aeafaig Cf|j>«toeked rafrteratori and hoassiitld aapfliM in oUrioaka. The CUUMB ran to ths t^ and kint opsaipc Arawiaia to sun wltijt hiddit 'tisaeuiaa' had haw hftfa thwn. Aiirl the nan couldn't flad words to tttftmft their appndaOne of the newcomers, in rsply to a toait of waicome ;:, fajr OieiDo Rnaataa. ancBttya diMctar of JIawiik Famr MF BafweSk saM lanvgB-iB merprNiri > • i "We thank you and ths Jewiad conununitw Ur what ,:>ou have done for «4^^(^wiUi)o Mar haaUPbe war' thy of your support "and We wifl try to beeoma good tnsaobers of tha^aMakwi^uai^ u4 haipfifi sfd^Ii^ ^ ^aal. . To thia, the rssettlaoMat workers respQi|4*^ with ^ t'cifytoi ihw[>|Mii >ad apda pop M haetj paaead > proMM M an'iiq^Mtai|rtu party was under way. \ I Mt for home at 2 a.m. and while peering through ths raiadn^aa ovviadahialdi laaid t* niyMlt-I am ' infoitiiaiMtobataKtaftUagrBhkadviatitnrofraeet' y^tsn^hoir can (&a Miaf of lawMbrot^^ •ManMd to those wiH> aas aol ao MivilafBdT ^•rliaaa the aaswar will ba aiU-ftilfiUing with the ex arrival of ioarnan ratema liartft 7, tha forth^adtoMkaPltf^?!! arrhral of tte thna wtoMte hoMltaBy tha aiaajr additioaal Saviae Jaiia. Omaha PSlMMftl •flibrttgkoi
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