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In Dan Ros$ing to open " joint scholar-in-residence program
Women's opening campaign event features 'Light the Candles...'
Danid Rosaiiig will be ttte first of thiae viaitiiig Jewiah scholara to be preseDted by the Jewish C^mnninity Center, Jewish Faderatiao of OIaBl^l and the Bureau of Jewish Education In the 1990-91 Jewish Scholar-In-Residence series. Mr. Roesinc will preaeot five study seaaions and : wfltkahops for the Jewiah community on Nov. 7 and » 9^at the Jewish Conununi-
By Jaa Pardmaa WoBsn'aDiviaiea PabKdty coalman "Lifl^t The Candles... Pass It On" will be the message of a musical and dramatic presentation sponsored by the Women's Dtviskmof the 1991 UJA/Federatioa Campaign. Tba original work, written and performed by over 30 women from the Omaha Jewiah coBununity, will be featured at a 0iia kkdcoff event on Nov. I, at 7:15 pjn. at the Jewiah Qommunity Center, 333 So.l32nd Street Hai^ riet Stosky ia production director. Women's Division cochairman Jules Katsman statee, "We are vety proud of Harriet and her cast (rf wdten and performers who have provided the impetua to bring together a ivogram such aa this oae. Ciitainly there are other conununitiee who ata taiaincuaraiMBWKi bntatraif oa yuii 'oee iWa UMt'Sf involveunit and espvkkaion of ciaative. talent "From the beginning, our intent was to show the powarfid influence of the Jewiah woman on her family and har coaununity," ahacoirfiniaa. "Sooftan, it ia the weanaa who inapjrsa
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Workdiop tofrfcs willindude: "The Flaee of Israel in Jewish l6eotilbf" focusing on the role of Israel in the development and deapaning of peraoaal identity. It will briefly look at the ro]e of lanMl traditionally in Jewiah identity and then will mainly focua on the diversa functions that Israel playa in contemporary identity, eg: prida, guilt, power, aasodatioiuuism, • ideals. This workstnpwfll o(llMti«isefo4 the larael dimanakm ol center of life and identity. "The Many Yokes of Jewish Identity" will fbcua on lepieaantatioiis of Jewiah kimllty in contemporary Jewish cultura. "The Identity TVlangie:
The Oiaq>ora, larael and the Natioos" will addreas the rdations between Israel, the Diaspora Ttnd "the Nations." Jewish identity todsy is constantly Mng formulated, challenged and reformnlated. This wockshop wiO focua on tfaa wnrs bi addch these sevaralTMattonshye inter act aa individnal Jews and Jewiah commnnltiee. both in larael and in the Dia^Mra, debate and stiugi^ with ccntamporaiy issues of Jewish idsntihr "Jerusalem—A City in Conflict" win look at case studies in JewiBh<%ri8tian-MosIem relations in Jerusalem. "State and.Religion in Israel" wfll surv^r the issues and chaUenfes ariaing out of the con^edtiea of the Jewish atate's ralation to, and provisiona ior, the raUgiMis life ol the miniwity ccnnmunities in InraaL Diniel Rossing is the 4irw*er of the IMitaOiBtar 'ftf/'CairlltiM JSncountaf^ with laraaL He complated his undergraduate stodiss ii) Uatory and Semitkatodisa at the University of Wiaoonain and did poe^g^aduate work in conmari^ve niO^on at the Univarsity of Chicsgo.
the College of Jewiah Studies and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and in oontempcrary Jewiah thou^tatOie Hebrew Univcraity, Prior to joining Melitc, he served for more than a decade aa director of the Department for Chriatian CommnnJtJHi in the larael Miniatty of Religioua Affairs. The Scholar-In-Residenee program ia offered to the en^ Jewish community "to awaken and deqiMn the sense of Jewish belonging, to motivata the pursuit of Jearish knowledge and to give expreasion to Jewish beliefs, practieee and valuee," a aprii^man aaid Two additional acholara wHl condnct werkahopa and study sessions in January and March of 1991. Thava i» no fee for theee wott^alwpa. AU wotkabop sasakmwittbaheklatthe Jewish Community Center, timee will be confirmed at a li^ date. This program is made possible thnin^ the generosity and stqiport of the C. M. "Nick" Newman Foundation. For more information call aithar Otry Bematein, Charlie Epstein or Susie Drszen at 3348200.
aa revealing for the entire women's commnnity as it has been for me personally. "It'a been wonderful to share in the input of womoi aasodated with this project aa well as be creative myseU," she continues. "Our efforts have resulted in a program filled with music dimoe, song, stcriee. dialogua, thought and even a smOa or two. Add in a multilevel aet HaaiietShtfky and Kate Sehradar as muher family to obaarve. to sical director and we prolearn and to know the joy miae a veiy intereatiag, inof being Jewiah... who formative and entertaininatalls in others a sense of ing evaning." Mrs. Shuky wasysked Jewiah pride and Jewish to direct the project laat mWt "We muat be extremely A^ "TU firat official proud of that infhianoe ov- meeting was hi^ in Msy." er the oenturiaa and proud- she atj^sina '/A group of ly continue to make a Jaw- women was aasembled iah way of life and 'pass it based on their individual knoiriedga and commit<m."' Mrs. Shisky, Mrs. KaU- ment to the Jewiah comman and her co«hairman, munity as waD sa thair Aaae Broder, agree that atuUty Umrita. The topic tlie Nov. 8 event presents for diacuaaion waa the 'power and iaflnanrw at the nity for Omaha Jewfeh Jei^ah woman on her fewoman to gather. "Whan miiy and her community.' we first envisioosd this We had no trouUe eikithig kind of jwogram, I never a reqwnae—it was aacy to realiied the magnitude of get carried away with the talent that exists among anbjaet matter. "The women were than Jewish woman in this community," says Mrs. Slus- asked to eqiraBS their per-• hy. "lUs program will be (CoBtimMd on P^ S)
JNF honors Senator Bob Kerrey with Tree of Life award By JoCamll Reverend Jim Lyons said in a speech Mondur ni|^ honoring Senator J. Robert Kerrey that Mark Twain would certainly be surprised if he could see Israel today. ,., Jtav. Lyona, founder and Institute for Jewiah and Cbsiatian Studies, waa BpeaJdng at $ Jewiah Na* ttonal rod dfamer where Senator Kerrey was given the IVee of of life award.
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Hav^ Lyons w»s referring t« a book written by Mafh>.X«ain called "The Dangarous Land;" Mr. Twain wrote about vast waat«iimds in Israel that pouktaavar ba made livable. ' Mr. Twaiuouki bo proven wrong, m the ton of the century, the JNF started to work on the land in Israal. Thair paopis drained the ewampe and tlllad the land. "Today they have planted a hundnMl milUon treee," said Rev. Lyon* "People who want there rekchsd out to ons another", he said. JMMM of the scarcity
Seaater Kerrey's •tal«r, Jesee RaaoMMee*. accepts the Senator's Tiae of LUa award firom Harlaa Noddle of water in Israel, Rav. Lyons told how be frequent^ ly watered Ua own lawn in Michigan wfthant a oecond thooght, whUa a drop of watar In larasi la preckM8."AlMr4Npaofrain IBL Imsl. JMkii a. tlOMc.
hssakLHaadviaed b-avalera to go akag the Waet Bank and eee how the Artbe have tObd the eoil (ha aoBa as thebr Jewiah neighbors. "All psopb reach out to halo one iiark Twain
would be ania»d at all that haa been dona." Rev. Lyona raiUadad the aodlaawa why Israel eslsU. "In 1938 no country wauU open ita doora to raMgssa. Ia 1980 Hitlar jokad that ba wouU give
Jews first daas psssage to any country who wouU acospt them. Nobody did." In 1090, Gerataoy haa taken in 37,000 lefugeee, Greece, 18,000, moet of whom are Russian Jafwa, but in tiny larasi numbers will reach over 100,000 for the yeer. "Israel haa to build 7,000 houaing units and bring in what Mneeded tofsadthiiai raftliwa." Rev. LyoM aakL "P^ple come becanse thoy wouU rather face fkwedom than death." Rev. Lyona emphasised all the different types of religions and racee that are blending together in Israel. He compared it to a movie that fee tuiad Oragory Hlnaa and Baryahnikov, "White KnighU." Baryahnikov, of course, is the marvakwa ballet danoer from Russis. end Gregory Hlhoa, the Mack tap daaoar from the United Statae. "Th«i dU not aay Bty dSBoa la tetter than your daoea, but my dance is dUhrwt than your danoa," Rav. Lyona sakLHaanoooratadtheae liatanlag "to danes your own danoe but with the appraetatitn "t othar
He urged thoae who had not been to Israel to make the joumay. "Pleass go and take off you shoee and aocka. As you walk the land apeaka to you. It spaaka in Engnah, French, Hebrew, a whole range ot languagea. It taUs you all inhabitants can Uve ia Ha cfa>eed this speech toviting the daada paopto do to apeak for thsaaffalvaa. "And ladiee mi fWtleoMn, lat'a danoa tMrittHr." AeospUBg tholhas of Life Award for San. Kar ray, who waa unabb to attaad becauae of commitmania in Washington, waa hia aiatar, Jaaee RaaiDnulen. She read from a lattar written by Sen. Kerrey, in which he Hid, "Tha JeW' ish Natknfi Fund creetea first the vlakma. and then • the reaUtlae." He saM h# was pisaaad that bog after his tims ons trsa to larasi' win grow to his namsi "Trass are a aymbol of tion. Your award to ose l^vaa me renewed epirit Progreaa atarta with eanie> tUng an amaB «d quiet ae