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Rabbi to conduct Rosh Hashanah services ByUnaymSavrnMrn Jawiah EqiOMat TllMprapUc Agwoy, lac) PHILADBLPHIAOoing to Sandi Arabia waaa't on hia aodal caien4^. Rabbi Benjamin Romar aald wiyly, but, as ebaplaia of the V& Arngr'a 7Mth Sujppoct BtttaUoD at Fort Stewart, Ga., it'a the Und of riak ooa talcaa wban one aigna onwith the military. "DuKa'a a certain ambivalanee, but I'm going to take care door gnjra," tlw Iteform rabbi said shortly before he left Aug. 29. "It'a not sometliing I planned, but I've got almoat 1,100 men and women—none are JewtMtr^ioiii I'm going with willing, there wiU k •lh("God »o war, but we have a reJpQMibilitx^to take care of aUJem in the military ' aO the people in nyr iMMr. 88, haa a, nnltary fin^ilain for aix yean—four yean aa a raawve chaplain and the paat two yaara on active duty. He hotds the rank of captain. From to 1988. he aervad a in North* NJ. aeconUng to
thePHitagon.7,7001 bers of the U.S. armed ioroee identify thenuelvea aa Jawiah, indudfaig 1,800 in the Army. Some of the 806.S00 liating "no religioua preference" also are preaomed to be Jewiah. Aa fior the 400 to 600 Jews estimated to be in Smdi Arabia ao far. Homer said he hopes to meet an tfaeir rsligioua needs, inchiding High Holy Day aarvioajk Aod when the shofar sonnda on Arabian soil, it's JikOy to be the first time since the days of Mohammed. "Itll be different, I'U tell you that," Homer said. "But that's the patch of sand well be on. There is something historic in the event." Aa Romer preparea to take his aon^ what historic place among the thousanda of U.S. trocns being deployed in the Persian Gulf, he is one of vary few Jawiah military chaplalna babg tappad tvatrvt in the region. In the estin^ata of Rabbi David Lapp, dlrsctor of chapiaiaej^ or the JWB's Jewiah Chaplains Council, there may be onhr three to fiva-inchxUng Ihoea a«rvfaig With the nearby Sixth Fleet and on thi aircraft carrier "USS Saratoga."
BjcJoCanroU If you want to ahop at a kosher meat market to October you might have to drive aa far aa Chicago. After aerving the Omaha araa/or ovw 28 yeara, the Nebraaka Koaher Meat Market will doae ita doors for the last time this month. Joe Bucheister and Dave Richtman, profKietors of the meat mtrket, have mixed feeling about retire ing. "If you don't like to do it you dim't stay in it fffl- ov«r 30 years," Mr. Richtman aald. The two men, brothers who survived the Holocauat in Poland, immigrated to the United SUtea in 1949. Two of seven brothers, they changed their namea so it would be eaaiar for them to leave Enrope. Mr. Richtman, who recently oriabrated hia 45th weddiag annivsraaiy with his wifb AiA^ wM nutnlsd in PolaBd. He fell hi love w&h Us future wife afanost and manjed tt(|«3r»Iat^. ^ Bucheistar made a trip to larael in 1961 to viait anotiwr broidier. He m«t a firiand of hia aiaee's and aoon he and thefriend, Freda, were married. Both men give their wives a lot of credit for their success in buMneas, saying th«y "worked hand in hand with us." The nieat nuuiwt moved to ita pnasnt kwation on Hamilton Street aftar the OTjginal building on 24th Straat waa burmd during tharrlotaof 1981. Now Mr. Buobiiater and Mr. Richtman go to work at 7 a.m. and doae at 4 p.m. Their buaiest days are Sunday and Thursday. But it hain't always bean that eaay. For a kng time the maat market fonctiooed as a nnall grooiry atore and aoU other items. It waa oftan 8 or 9 p.m. before the men could go home in the evenings and their wivee worked long hours too. Toproceaameat that is koaher, all the vfeina must firat barsnovad, than it Is allowed to soak \n water for eoe-half hour. Salt ia tben idaced on all sidae of the cut meat and left (or on* hour. The meat la thin waahed and packaged for sale. Chickens arrive at the meat market and an cut up and packaged on aita. Everything that afllvaa moat have a ipadidlkf on it to guarantat that ft la koahir. Koahir maat sold fa) nonkoahir stotna emmif be
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Joe Bndtsialsr mA iDnve RidbtaMai. piupiletMa, Nobnrta Koahir Bleat Market oonauiered koahsr if it at^ riven hi a froun package, is not unwrapped and aobi ^ still frosen, sccording to Mr. Richtnian. The men say a large partion of their hjniniinjCinntele is not Jewidi. biit people who an willing to pay the Udiar pricf becpaa irf Richtman, who were raised in a koah«- home, keep kosher in th^ own homer and do not eatout. "I haven't had evofja cup of coffee in a reataurant in over 40 yean, " Mr. Bucheister sakL They will eat at tlM synagogue at a Bar Mittvah or weddhig, but other than thoae oocaaioDa thqr only eat at home whan tbiy an 9^ the food ia koahsr. They both laugh whan aakad what they an going todo aftir they ntirs. "Go flahingi" they aaid in U9iaon. But whw tkty «e
to aell the business for Ume or four yean. "Nobodi' is intefe^ed. Nobody wants to w«ir that hard," said Mr. Richtman. Mr. BuchaiM* agreea, "It's a hard buainees." The buQdmg is sold so at Mr. Richtman's aaa is the monant the men an the only child who choae ooncenbrating on selling
talking more seriously about it, tb^ both have pUns to travel and visit grandchildren. AU thtir chOdren woe dfUghtad at tilo MWs of tiiO' retirement.
-ta gmin jthaJkoiiMK qiwt. wMwt wr^ ^.hy faolidsya aiJBl huilniai 'Ha km *«laBgfc- than tfarfr ftkMies wfll be ter hooae hi Chicago. 'Tbe Nebriska Koaher Meat Market currently geta its meat from him. It is ddivered overnight in lafilgeisted freight Uiies.
It haa been a long time since Mr. Bucheiater and Mr. Richtman arrived in Omaha and atarted attending nig^t school so they could learn Engiiah in preparation for their dtiaenaMp teat. Mr. Richtman said they needed to be able to anawar leOi 80 tb«y could become dtiaans. They have ban trying
for Mia, "at a vary hnr price." Mr. Bucheister summed it up very WelL "Everyone's so sad. We an sad too... It's the beginning and the end."
>0VAO explores attematlves The VAAD Hakashrut of Omaha is eqilcriag a variety of options to ensun the avdlabiUty of koaher meat in Omaha, Mary FeUman, chairman, has announosQ.
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