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M Tammus. STitf'nMty, July 13, II
ravestones overturned at two Jewish cemeteries
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GravestoMaat Teovle Israel CenMterjr and adyoUng Pleasant Hill C«aM9tci7 at 42ad and BadJekatareetawwa toppled laatwsikendfai a eenflnaingcydey vandalisuL An eotfanated 40 or more grayestooea wera apealed dmifaig tUa recent attack, the tUrd sack vandaBam taUng pliee in the peat 90 daya, aooontag to Laser Kaplan, ltd Tanvle land's Cessatery comadtt^. In the photo at left, a atone
approzfaaately fhre feet high and weighing aeveral hnndred pajpKb was pnahed off ita pedleataL The rfte is the grave of MOton and (Wne Livli««(aa whoae phOantfaropk fondation oontbnee benefitting the itimiA Coamind^ of OaaahSr In the iriioto at light, gravestones were toppled one after ttie other at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
Ttousdnds turn out for dedication HolMaust Memorial in Budapest
Ogera/Omaha to premiere fir$t Britten Mmd winner
NEW YORK IJTA)^Tlw 8trMt8.of central Bochpest wore fiQed SunAxy with mm than 10,000 people who gatbrndto witness the iinveOing of the first govemnentsponsdHnad memorial in Eaatem Europe dedicated exdosively to Jewish mar-
tyrs of the Hoiocau:!; A prtftwaiop <d people, including the iweaident and prime minister of Hungary, as wdl as the mayor of Budapest, filed into the courtyard of a ^axa at the intersection of WesaelM^i and Bumbach Streets, a few steps from the famous Dohaiqr Synagogue;
Bequest of $25,000 given to Foundation ^Morris MaUM A borne improvenNiat saleaman "wiio was proud cf txtng Jefwiah" qiparently was the driving foroe behind a $26,000 baqtMt made recently to the Jewish Federation's FounTlw beqnatt, in the form of an unrestricted endowUMBft fm, was made to tiw Foondatloa following the death ia 1M9 of llvth L. Seka. Mrs. Seka who ww not Jewish was ourried to Sam R. Saka who pnoadsdhsr in death. Mr. Seka had bean aa a home improvement salwiman by Mickr' employad lin HoBW InpnwvBMBt Co. Joe Quaa, fonnar owner ol Micklin Home Improvement Ca, tdd the JnHak PMa that Mr. Seka always dsitadad Jawiah causes althoogb he was oat active in the Jawiah community. ^i "I ranambar oaa time he came into my office and plunkad down a aisdble chock to help buUd the Roae BlumUn Jewish Horns... he considered the Home to be wonderful, aontsthing for wfakh the Jewish community ooold be proud." Mr. Ouas addad that Mr-Saka waa well Uksd in the I ihi community, that ha waa BMMd o( being a aalaaman and that ha waa proud of b«ing J«wii& "I'm sure that Mrs. Seka iraa influenced in mak* big tha bequest by tbs fact that her husband cared dsaply about tha Jawiah people," Mr. Quaa added. Mr. and Mrs. Ssfcawan preceded in death by their aoB, Ronald. HnlllllUlIM
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rbere, wl^re the entrance to the Budapest Ghetto once stood, some 6,000 Jaws wa« buried during the war in a mass grsva Nowngranite-andsteel mnnumwt by Hungarian sculptor Imre Varga roaricB the site and commemorates the 600,000 Hungarian Jews who died hi the Hokicaust. On Sunday, thnmgs of psoi^s, many wearing h^xit, stood bdore the memorial and Ht candlea in remembrance of the dead. They aaid Kaddish, recited thsEl Moleh Rachamim. and aang tha Hungarian and Israeli national
Opera/Omaha will pneent the Ain«l<MV(«mMm of the reeaatqr aiawunfrd 9rltten Awntd-wliuung "Qdim" at its FslI Feetiyal ia September. Sfitish compossr John Caaken, wboM winning w«rk debuted at London's AhBMida Theatre in June liH9, wu preeentad with the first Britten Prize for Composition at the Aldeborgb Peetival in England last month. The libretto for "Golem." Casken's first opera, ia baaed on the Jtaw
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cult power of th» Kabbalah, faahiooed a wirrior of day apd brought it to life to ivotect hia vdligK Rejected and modud by the villagers, thadomsy otttcaat eventually becomes impossible tooontrot and tha ontcoma ia inevitahiy tragic. "'Qolun' ia a riveting opera of unusual dramatic powar, written hi a coatemporary idiom that ia nevertheless lyrical and listenible," said Mary Robort,
one of the moot talked alieai young British directQil,^Kaith Wsmer, we wU at^jp^Goiem' as provocativa theater in a very experimentol way." "Golem" will be preaartad at Omaha'a WithH>^ tfotn Concert HaU on Ssfit 16, 81 and 23. Opera/Omaha's Fall Fantival alao wfll indoda th9 U.9. premiere of Doniattti'a "Maria Paditla" and "Stoanger Here MyHif."
The ceremony "wat powerful, moving, emotional and, wfaOe tragic, in some way npUfting," Elan Steinberg, avecutive director of the Worid Jewish Congreas, aaid in a talaphone mtarview from Budapest, whera he attended the ceremony. So many thousands of paopi* Wiied oat for the event, said Steinberg, that the crowd spilled into adjoining streets and loudspeaker syatama had to be instaUad. Hungarian President Arpad Ooncx and Prime Minister Jozaef Antall addreased the crowd, proclaiming their soUdarity with the Jewiah people. BONN (JTAl-llM East German dty of Roatnok ftnioved the name of Addf Hitlar from iU list of honorary dtitani
TUrty-nve NiiiiKti Air NatloMi gnaid dvfl iMJaiirglaiadsd earta a KC-W• Juty 7 and ftow t* IMSL Tht angineere win traia far twa wMka with tha Israal Ak Fareo. They «M lean ekant repalrlag haUli daanagad raanrays i , Tk^ are srhadnlsd (• retain Jaly U. ' iii::..iii.'i»iinni.tiiiiimiiiiiiimitiinui.iiu