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Annual Child Care Fair features special workshops By Jill Koshiwr Belmoat Child Cue Fair PnbUdty Coordinator Congressipan Peter HoaglaDd will be a featured workshop pteaenter at the 1990 CfaiU Care Fair on Aug. 12 and will address "Federal legislation affecting our famflies and children." according to Leslie Venn,, workdiop cocludnnan. , Mr. Hoag^d will lead the noon workshop entitled "Political issues involving our children," and will discuss the child care bill passed by Congress, the anti-drug education program and geno-al issues pertaining to men, women and their chfldien, Mrs. Vann said. She continued. "Hie curreot needs and concerns of parents and child care providers were the basis for the various workshop t<q>ic8 at this year's fair, aod the congressman's •jiwiwiw^iifa
Bidditg a gutornnder dl^mQ, apiooMv a|rint in h«r heart and singing a song she veotured to "the wide qimi spaces." ' Sound like an old cowboy movie? Well it's not. r Temple Israel has a new ' caotor. Cantor Karen Webber, who has lived ' most of hec lift back East, ^ «ithr«ll«d with the op' portaaitiMf in Omaha. Cantor WM>b«r grew up ^ in a ooogmgatkm whare r Owy had aduir. A cantor, bom Canada, waa fknni ki L for the High H«tr Days. ; She was not usad to hear ^ isg the oMtodiea faom a ; cantor. She aotpbinB. "the sound was not in my ' ears." ': • It wasn't until after she ;, Qaiahsd a degree in EngS Kah and drama/theater at r TMnity College in Haitr , ford, Coon., that ahe be[ cam« interested in can; torlal studies. During her I stadias at Trinity aiw triad ; her band at TV and radio broadcasting and even had ^ her own radio show on Sunday nftamoons called, "LuUalnr of Broadway." But after beariag a cantor on the Sabbath, aba became enchanted with the sound*. SabM iohn H«ddan, a former cantor, put her in touch with Cantor 3heri Blum in MassaShe was singing •fat Iran Hartigid so W«bb« ttlndsd a where Cantor ^ aervlce earvM atHditJngand I Bhua
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do I feel 80 guilty?— Children in day care," and Jessie Raamussen, MS, of the Meyw Children's Rehabilitation Institute, addressing "Child care for spedal needs children." In addition, the relatively Child Care Fair, which new concept of schocds in will be held from 11 a.m.-4 the day care business will p.m. at the Jewish Com- be the topic of a.panei dismunity Center, offers par- cussion by representatives ents an opportunity to of the Omaha, Westside, meet with a variety of Millard and Bellevue child care providers and school districts. learn about different types Carey Rice, workshop of day care available in co-chairman, noted the opOmaha. The event is co- portunity for people to sponsored by the National partk^Mte in "neat handsCouncil of Jewish Women- on activities that give the Omaha Section, WOWT- paiwts some concrete exTV,Chanod6andKKARr amples of fun tjhiiigs to Radio. do," during.the^sessions enUtled "Stimulate you Among the 13 woikahop child thngigh toys," and presenters will be Janet "Rainy-day activities." White Phelan, executive A chdoe of woikshops director of the Midwest ChUd Care Association will be offinrad at noon, 1, Who iW lead. "...So why 2 and 3 p.m. session is an important one because we as parents and adults need to be aware of the laws afCBcting our children and be able to voice our opinions about them."
Hadassah changing image to address '90s By Elena Nenman "Our new image and NEW YORK <JTA) - logo say 'look at me.' We Hadassah's new logo, a are not bogged down in three-tiered, asymmetrical tradition. We an tryiagto form with modem block create a new vitdity, a^ letters, is certainly a radi- new future for Hadassah," cal change from the classi- she said. cally linear lettering that JiU Herritbain from Mihas adorned the organiza- ami, iriw attended the sestion's stationery for over sions, is one example of 70 years. Hadassah's new genera. The change was no scd- tion. The 36-year-old dent. mother who huMa a partThe new logo, unveiled time job jomed Hadusah at the organisation's 76th ^nine years ago, becoming annual conventi(m here, is active in the young leadersymbolic of how the ship effort. largest Jewish, as well as "Before I j<dned Hadaslargest women's organiza- sah, I thought it was vaiy tion in the world is grandmotherly. Hadassah revamping its image for a meant to me having a fernnew generaticm of women. ily and being part of the establiahment. I felt I "We've been typ»«ast didn't fit the Hadaasah by the general Jewish picture," she said. "Now omnmunity as ftvJtwish we're getting past the imorganization for older age problem. wtunen," said Karen VaWe're a very profesnesky, natfenal chairman of conuwnicatiaMi'wfao is sionsl (H-ganization that facilitating Hadassah's benefits yOong women as mudh as they benefit.us." change in image.
Hadaasah has initiated a ^ three-part program in re-^ cent years to reach out -J to young, careor-iHriented i women. The Career Wooh en's Department, Young I«adershi^ Program uod Vanguard, a singes network, have all been launched in the last seven yeara to enlist new young talent to the cause. "We woke up one day and realized that young women didn't know a world without Israel, and weren't Qocidng to us because they di&'t know what we're about," Vanezky said. Founded in 1912 by' HouietU Srcki for "the pronwMcn ci Jewish institutions snd ent«n>rises in Paleatine and the United SUtes," Hadiaasab is famous for its maasivtt medr ical centen in Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, its aid to the diaadvantaged and its adoCfttiotf'^roKrams in Iarii||>
just 'tip of Iceberg' for ti^^risraers new Cantor liatSfned to her vf^e She liad a Tnwf~ style than Cantor WSUMT wiaheA to cultivate, but proved to be a||rMDt '^*^^' ration and mentor to the young woman. "I tUnk I'd like to do that," the future Cantor Webber said. And with that her chosen csreer began.
same family. They bring a love of humanity and Judaism." Inunediately sfter graduating from Trinity, Cantor Webber apeat the summo- at the Natknal Theatre for the Deaf in Connecticut. While there she learned to sign. She says that sign language enhances Ae coBsnmidca^ of the text She used asin exanqile if she deeoibes Eve as a beautiful woman she should then use sign language to enhance the ipeaning. "Singfaig brings words and movement together."
maqy choices are extended in Reform Judaism. "With Rabbi Azrid and myself, it's great-to have two different role inodels." Sl}6 describes the hardeat part of her job as finding time and space for her self. "Findincpaivl* to nurture me -> nttt time forme," is iliimrs dMBcult
To a younc woman thiakiof nboni being a cantor abn offers thia advkn, "Be yearaatf. Bapkxe thniaiHwgiofyoBrpoesibattiBa.OetanedMatk» that is not narrow. Be a full human being. CultiAlthough shedeecribee vate your passion for Jewher childhood as not ish music. Love what yen overly religious, she says do. Be a manscht" her "Jewish connectioa" Her family no loaaer stems from her high sdwol asks her the questions days at the Temple Youth they did in the beginning, Group she attended. She "Are you sure this just In New Jersey, she also has high praise for isn't a passing fsncy?" It donned a robe to particiCamp Kutx, New York, a dearly is the right career pate in services at Temple summer camp she at- for Cantor Webber as she Beth EL Here she learned tended during high school. stands before a congregato work with cdder adults She was able to return tion enhancing its Jewish in an impressive structhen last tummar as ths world. From a young ture conqiiute with stained drama dirsctor. teauigv who was r^aed to glaaa windows that dated When leading a congre- reach her full potential sa Cantor WeUMT fromtba'aOs. gatloa. wMiier in Mdg or a womtn shn is certainly in prayer. Cantor Webber an asset to ths Omaha paitmr with Rabbi Aariel Cantor Webber deOf the nine students in her class at the Reform scribes singing as only in Ufa eyd* evints snch as wears a spedal Kipah. It Jewish community. cantor eoUege, seven were "the tip of the iceberg" as marriage. She clt{S the. was crechstod for bar by a When ssked if she is nerw«aia.cAft4r grsduation far as the depth of her Job ssvsn traditkmal bkMings family friend who lives in most sleeted to stay in ths il conoamed. AduH ediAil- giVin during the marriage Tsl Aviv. The prayer vous about her new oonNew York ara*. "I wanted tlon Is high on hsr list of cenoiony as exanplee of sbawl, or talllt, which m^thtn, alM Is vary oonto explore." Cantor Welh priariUee, «* well as tSM^- bow music can brine Jews covers her ahoulderB w«s Nhnt as ahe anys, "You bar rspUee when asked to iag yeoafftters how to oiflre in contact with thair hand woven in Jeruaakm. always woadar what'a goAbout both she aaya, ing to happen whan yon bar dsdaion to move to ohsnt tiw l^nvh. Her pasCantor WabteMJivee, "tliey help me to pray. It are with a new group of Oawba. She had never tnra) dotiee will include peoplit Imt woraliip tana "Art and wonhi|^ art sib^ ia part of my uniform." been to the Midwaat and vidU to ths ill. '^'-'-nmindspaopleUiat car* of Haelf." She wfll net as an equal lings. They betcoc <b the wanted a challaags. During stodlee at Hebrew Union College for Cantors -which is in New York,Caatar Webber worked si various congregatkms. In New York state she led an informal group which had only recently formad a congregation. They rented space in a church to meet, pmy and listen to the sounds of her guitar.