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Operation Exodus, community honors fill annual meeting program
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ByJoCairaQ It ma that tp tliank vakuitMn and nflKt on a iiiif cwiiftil i^Tpf igw tb the wmatimMtiaK'ai tha.^ewjdi Faderaticn of Omidta. 1^ hi« ipwocatiao Jiabbi Paid OraiMt^iotMi firam Hillal^"l!ri am not fw myaoli^ who is bfr me?" He said itqae uadantands the mefoiing of the wot^ thsy capiiot d^y in lielping O^wi^ioa Exodos. "tiqm is the dma," he urged 'the audieoos. Noting that the Jawiah community in Omaha is made up of many dLCfarant orgaaiiaationB iand appKMidMs to Judaism, he •aid the rtreegth Iie& in thnr diffenoeea. Ha said these are "timea vfaao we need to be united" aiui work toother towards imtfUxl goala. "We matt tonifl^ as a onitod ooDununit|r in the celebration of wJkat we havedqne," he aUtid. If^iwara Bwon^ atocutiviliiiGrSctot qftte Jewish Pedcntion, spok* of the
"positive steps to relate our community to Isfad" that needed to be talcai. He made li^e%,k> everyone "ooi to a6M>t the onesided ioMa. inaiaa" of tlie news about current events fii Israel Mr. &l<M>;n further stated, "If w^ do not reach out to our brothers in Israel we are only operatJng on one Jung." ' In their 1990 can^Mign remain. CampaieB Chairmen Bob Goidnum, Murray Newman, Gheiyl Cooper and Ann Qotd^ein leportadthal the FMeratioo laiMd ahaMt t2.5 million for Sir inoisase over last year of 40.8 penant Tlie inpreaae WM the reaolt of carofal planning; tb»«tiUzatkm of new sdidtation techniquee and the lmi4enwntatian of a recognition program tor major contributors. Tom FeUman. giving a repot on Obtntim Exodns, said ha M he was the "luckiest man in Nortii America to be chainnan of
this effort." He reported ovnr one BOiUion dtdUrs has beaa ndaed^to hei^ settle Jam hnn&issia tn tsnul and the United Stataa. Over the QR|t two years aa sdditfanal SltS. may rdocatainOihaha Mr. Fellman introduced two seven-year-old Russian couains, Ranats and Mazhn Zinkov, who have beta hi Omaha only three months, Thsy each gave a short fliiiiei^ in Eni^iah, "This is what it's all about," Mr. Fdlman said, referring to Operation.Exodus. Jay Lemer, the newly elflctod president of the Fed*atioa toU the crowd Operation Exodus is, "evciything wshad hopad> for. We most total^ oofnmit ourselves. Wft mnat not fail" Among the new president's priorities are a needs aassasBMot and plan for ths comnwuity. He stated we need to fcaft^
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Bonny and Steve Rothenberg diaplay the award
E!z2L°L!fei!I''^i pwwtad to %i as MB ftmbisn otiha FedstatioB's P«4Mntlo* of Oakaha; M-i fTialim^p fas 13MUP anmoi. ^ eqitatkegavsl, symbol of hispifWafaaK
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Two Omaha youth join 'March for Living'
Ellis Island restored is the mafai iMiidiag of Ema biaatf vfaaN ailftna af baaiictaiits wars prou—itid ""*—""^if-iinri lad ftaiariaa The Is* ahata iaJMHut Ui nOB:
(ttoyaar.jMii-^ (M* year. JMM J>MS a«t«r Mosfk IfaUaa vUtad EUa LOand laat weak aad IMI talks atooot I dbaat Ma expartoaos la aa ediiarial oa IH«s 4.
"Never againi" This phrsse waa one nioot remembsrad aa 3000 youth frtxn 37 Goontries returned front "The Match of The Living." Originating hi Warsaw, Foimd and cooctudhig in laraeL the pro§rwn waMA*n>-^*aak jouroey through the pahi and triumphs of the Je<rish paoplaia the last 60 yesrs. The two local participants from Omaha, Becca Ooidstfin, daughter of Mr. and Mra. Donald Gddr stain, snd Sam I^BSser, son of Dr. Jeffrey Huesr and Clain Passer, were part of a 100-membar youth dalention HMd^orod by thf B'dai SVth Youth Organisation. ' Whik in Poland, ths youth cstracad the footsteps of thsir anoaators as
thsy walksd "Ths March of Death" bxnAuachwlta to BiriunaBu. This march took place on Yom Hashoah-Holocaust Ramamberanca Day, and eoneluded with a memorial service held oa a sit* that waa once a crematorium during the Holocauat. "For ma. viaiting the concaotration campa waa veiy hard emotkaially, but I thkik that it ia aomathing I needed to do," Mr. Paaaar aaid. The tr^ also induiM visits to Majdanek, Trablinka. the Warsaw Ohetto, sad various iltursl sad rsUgous IsndAfter (ma weak in Po huid, the youtha traveled to laraal where thay viaitwi Yad Vaaham-Tha Holocaust Memorial out-
aida of Jaruaalem. Tha Waatam WaB. Janiaalstn. Ttl Aviv, and many othar historical sites. "The warmth we raoaivad from the laraalis ma feel right at ' Miaa GoMstoia
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rapraasBlsd the achlav» meots of the Jewish pso^ pie, sad it was a walooma chsBfs from the snguish of Maad." The youth then prooasdsd to mom with Is* rael on Yom Hasikaron, Memorial O^y^^ th*y visited a number of munorials UfUUm Israeli eoldi_ .J«(.ThafQiMringday,t yooth ioinad the couiit in calemrtlBg Yom Ha'j ataiBaat-<-Iaraers Inde pawlHMBOay. (Casithiasd m Page «