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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 Vol. UCVN No. 12, Omaha, Nabr.
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Omaha JCCto host 1991 Centers' Maccabi Youth Games Sandy Friednum and Sandra Kohll, Youth Maccabi co-chairmen, have announced that the Jewiah Conununity Center of Omaha will serve aa host to the Jewish Conununity Centora' Maocabi Youth Games to take place in Omaha in August of 1991. Jewish athletes, their coaches and families within the Midwest and Westem Regi<m will be invited to participate. The Games
are affiliated with the Jewish Community Centers' Association, Maccabi World Union, Maccabi North American, Maccabi Canada and the U.S. Committee Sports for Israel. Invitations to participate are opm to Omaha Jewish youth who will be 12 years of age as of Aug. 1, 1991, and not yet 17 years of age as of that date. Omaha has 76 spots to fill and the planned
aports for boys and girls include: basketball, swimming, tennis, gdf, racquetball, Softball, track and field, table tennis and For additional information on participating in these Games, contact Mr. Friedman or Mrs. Kohll, or Chuck Arnold at the Jewish Community Center, or fill out the coupon which appears elsewhere in this paper.
The Immigrant' set for JCC stage; seen as 'more positive than Avtilon' By Diane Banm The following article contalna opfadon. Mark Harelik's "The Immigrant," received enthusiastically in regional performances nationwide, has been scheduled by the "Theatre at the J" for a three-weekend engagement, Thursday, Feb. 7Saturday, Feb. 23. Set in tiie small town of Hamilton, Tezaa, "The Immigrant" tells the story of a young Jewish couple from Russia whose lives connect with the town's eetabliahed banker and his wife, who are Gmtilee. The drama opena in 1909 and spans more than four decades, focusing on the close, loving relationship the two couples share in apite of cultural and religious differences, according to Cheryl Kapell Lemer, JCC director of performing arts. "We're looking forward to brighteniBg the mid-
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Plaamn of the Doc. 16 aewoomcn gettogatlMr iBdade: seated from left, HoUie Fineaaaa,J«BiyG<)rdoa and chdrmaHMli»eflBaaHiigW;atan<Hi^thM> left. Debl^ aiaa, Carole Lainof and EUie Peanw, FaderatioB Womea'a DIvlalon director.
Newcomers invited to brunch to learn about community By M KwhMt Bolaont Fadmtioa pabUc wlatkas aaaariate A Sunday brunch for newoomen to the Omaha JeiMah oomsni]iity will be IHU oo Doe. 16, from 10 a.m. to noon at the home of LM and Jao Schnaidernun, 11206 Wlliam Plz., aooottUBC to avatit chair man MXoa HaaaUngar. The brunch, aponaorad by the Newcomera Com-
mittee of the Jewiah Fadcntkn of Omaha, will provide an opportwlty for thoae attanding to ooeet with rapreoaotativea from all thfoa sjntagoguee and bnnraa thraugh written infofiMtioo about the vari008 hinl Jewiah organisations, Mra. Haaalinger aaid. "When people are new to an area, they try to find a way to connect with
othera. We hope that the Jewiah oommanity will be a good fonnectlng point for them, whoa thay feel comfortable and feel wanted," she aaid. Programs and eventa planned by the Newcomera Committee are import tant, Mrs. Haaalinger noted, becauae, "the kqr to keeping the Jewiah ICoatfaiaad m Page 5>
aad^ work,: Mrs. Lamer aaid. "We, expect comparisooa between our prMuctioMmd Bany Levinaon'a fihn "Avalon." but I see the two aa vary diffaratt In hia remarkaWa film, Mr. Levinaoo, paying trilv ute to hia graadfotber, ctmoeatratea on ow tK-
Haakdl and Leah Harelik amud 1920. teadad^'-fiui|^(Uil$H|f:Uiv stoiy is brilliant andmov^ ingt it ia alao negative and disturbing, with its emphaais on family bieakdown aa an inevitable result of asaimilatioa." "Mark Haralik, alao h(»oring the mamory (rf hia gtmAhthm, ntlUcea the atage to create an hiti-
mto fi»tttm-oi:*ai» far dividiiala wbolM Msqaaintance developa aknrly and steadily faito a laating, emotionally>8ati8iying re"Hiabeautiltalplayi8,i« once, an aaamlnatfain of Jewiah roota, a poaitive (ContiMNd 0* Pago 5» '
Reservations still available for women's community luncheon Reotrvatkma are stOl being aooaptad for the Womeo'a Camminity Lundieon to be held at the Jewiah Community C«oter on Dec 5 at noon. The featured qieaker will be Eileen Blueatone Sherman, an author, playwiigfat, iyridat and tdeviaion writer. Her program indudee personal anec-
dotea about her carasr, dramatic readinga and monologuea, and songa from her muaicala. Her tfipk for the aftcmoao win be "Prom ChJUnn'a Books to Muaicala—An Anthor'a Carew." Luncheon nnm vationa may be made by calling the Federation library at 334-8200. There will be a 17.60 charge for the luncheon. Baby aittar
aervioeia available.
The Book Fair calendar of evanta inchidaa: the Bible Quiz conteat at 2 p.m. on Dec 2; the WonMi's Cflmnunity Loaefaeon at noon on Dec 5; Iit«ary Rowtd-Up, S p.m on Dec. 9; the Family Hanukkah from 12:30-2 p.m. on Doc 16. In addition, the Annual Book Sale runs through Dec 16.
Meeting with Pope to have pubiic, private agenda j Dcbra Nnaaboam Cohan NEW YORK (JTA)-Whao Jewiah leadm meet with Pope John Paul U next baak in Rome, the pubUc fo[Iba will be on adiicating iCathoUca around the world bboDt the Vatican's reviaed poajtfcmon Judaiam and the PutanofCathoUoJewlahdiMioguo. ' Privately, however, the mhfbu rafiraaentativoa of ibe Intamational Jewish (?ffimptt**« on IntemUgkna IConaulUtiona, or IJCIC, nian to raise rai« a number of
more delicate iaauee. One senaitive topk: wOl be the Vatican'a rduetanoe to eotabUah diphunatic relationa withlanaL Theiormal puipoae of the meMing betwosn Jewiah leaders and Vatican loadara ia to oonunemorate the 26th anniversary of Noetra Aetate, the Second Vatkan Council's dacUration of ita ralatlonahip to other reiigkna, includhig Judaiam. That documant helped pave the way to incroasad communication between
Jewish and Cathoik leaders, and ckiesr cooperation between the two faitha. But bsginntaig In 1987, that prograaa was intar niptad by a asriea of eontroversite, including the pope'a daeUon to meat with Auatrian Preaident Kurt WaMhelm. hia smbraos of PalaatiM libcretbn Organicatkm loadar Yaafr Arafat •nd the continuing ooeopation of a convent on the dte of the Auichwitx death camp by a group of Carmelite nune.
The start of construction on an interfaith pnorer center, where the nnna eventually will be relocated, has broui^ an «MI to neariy three yeara of tanae Catholic-Jewish ralatk^ The rift wsa^Mnally manded at a maJBBg of Cathotk and Jewiah laadsrs in Prague early iafaptsmb<r, whn Vatican npnoantativee put (drth a atatemsnt condemning antlSemitiam u a dn against God and humanity. The pope is aipactad to
andorae the Prague declaration personally at next week's meeting, according to Qan Stainbsrg, esacotiv* dirsetor of the Wflrid Jewisn Coopeea, one of six Jawlah groupe that make up IJCIC. The pope'a Imprimatnr Is considarad etpedal^y ifflpor tant if the daclaratko la to have any bnpact in Eaatan Europe, whai* (ko iaibmea of tha cfanrch ia great The public aeesiona of next wesk'a two^lay oMating wiU be devoted to reBistkina on Noatra Aalala
and statemanta of good wilL The osntral thamea will be the pronnilgatkn of the church's reviasd te«UiU|8 raganling Jowa and Judaiam, and their impact, partksdarly in Bastsm Europe. JawUh ipeaktra are to faichide Seyaoor Retch, cfaah^ man of IJCIC; lUbU Jack Benmorad. director of btanaUgkRia affaire for tha Synagogna Council of Anarica. M IJCIC eooaatuant; end Rabbi Blio Toaff, (CwHnaiJ en Pago U)
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