July 5, 1991

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leth El moves to new synagogue on Sunday Morning activities C«igrigiii(» B«th El will nMyve to ita amr miugogiw Sunder and UM moniing activitiM an u JEolklnri: At 9 un., a moniing Mrvke win take {dace at the old bttfldiof OB 49th atiwt At10 aja., thfeTtanb ScnB procaaaiaB wiO take place «mteide the did huHding with mamben of the coognca-

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At 11 t.m., a motorcade will proceed to the new synagogue at 14606 CaUfbrnia, off 144th and Dodge. At 11:30 a.iiL, the motorcade is sdhednled to arrive at the new building. Then, a procesaiaB will tdsa place at the new building followed by the comerstoqe nnveSing, the lii^ting of the Ner Tamid. and a Minha sarvkiL Refireehmnta and an opportunity to tour the new building will follow. Hie Jewish ooinmuDity has been invited to partkpate in the Cettivities.

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OmiiNM ntieet "Sheriff of the Ntm^' By Carol KataoHm ) stands more than six feet tall, packs a pistol and • talks like fLCOBaWnatioo of Rambo and ccmedisn Robert ! KWo. tUgkaal Oviliaa Secmity OtBotr Mike Ginsberg, ;^l>ett«r known aa the "Oieclfi ol the North." enthralled ythe M Omaha UJA Community Mission partjdpants vWith his ftories about lib at Miagav Am, the northern^BMMt UbbutK in laraeL ~ Aniving under aegis of Youth AUyah as a tou^ 14yearold iiom BrooUyn, Qinsberg has lived at the Ub^iMti for 19 of Ida 22 year* m lansL Miagav Am was (vfouadadin IMS sad the name meana "people at the tt<9." OM look at GinMnrg and Zoe Riekee said, "He's |«he kid ol guy I woohl want guarding OQr home in ^sradt". "Zionism is not a dirty word.'' said Ginsberg, standing against a backdrop of Lebanese villages from the logout post at Misgav Am, "Thisis my kind of Zk>nism; Ihdng up here is my Ideal." Asked about the safety of the region, Oinaberg replied, "If you sat 10 milee from bete and were reading -a newspiqier, I'd know which one." E v«y day, dvilian and Israeli Defense Force personnel patrol the eecority aone above Israel's northern border, 30 miles as the crow flies from the coast to Mount .Hermoo, the intsrssction between Lebaaoo. Syria and 'IsrasL In addition to patrols, larasi uses sn srray of high-tech systems Ginsberg was reluctant to diacloee. The aoDS WM created hi the aftermath of the 1962 Psaos fai tha Galilee ^mpalgn, krftlatad after preeame from northern kibbotdm under oowtant attack by rockets land tanteiats baaed in oovlfeani LiebanoD. \ DlMpmtbaoontrovarsya|^raandhigttatwar,Olna; ^^erg pflM«d o«t that' 'Jii ^ past nine yeara. not ena fidd hM eat in a bootb 4MMr and no one has been klOed lb «terrorist attack from Uie north." r The aiaa to whlA Ofaiaberg referred when he spoke % the MlsakJn paftidpaata was peaceful until 1970. [After the Black SsptainbsrmiaaaaBa by the Jordanian 'araqr. thousands of Palasttalaaafled Jordan and aettled (In the vflbges of Southern Lsbanoo. [ "Lsbanon to not Jordan," sakl Ginsberg, "King Hue:aein waa rfib to keep the Paleatinians on a ahort leaab, ibut in LebaaoB. there'a no one holding the leash," [ TIM cleaAiqt of PtO eeOs in thoae viUagee left a Vacuum aftw tJha war and It «as qolddy filled by fac" Moae of Shl'ita Moo^ma. fawludfaig the notorioua HezpboUah, captors of AmHiean hostages in Lebenon. I "The SoBUi sod dtttrtlan villagers are more afraid of bie HMdMllab than they ar« of Israel," aaki Olaaberg. ^ "The FLO inffltrat«d yiOages and said to the Siil'ite

majority, "why are you living under the thtlmb of the between the Weatem B^nd and the Middle Eastern one. Sumii Moslems and Christisn ndnority?'" "The driver of the lead track in our convoy spotted "When yon mske only 630 tb 960 a month." aaM a Idd. maybe 12.13 years old. pointing a roclut at ua," Otauberg with «ilrave of his hand, "and you'ra^lfered sakl Ginsberg. "Hie driver heaitMed; he didn't want to >2fiO to Uuneh a Riatoaha rocket at an laraali kibbutz, shoot that Ud. His heaitatkm COM us the livee of three what to you think a Shl'ite vlllagar wiU dof" men in the first trudc 'ilmoe in tha Miaaion group with Unoeolars or cam"Our second driver dUb't baritate; he shot era with aoonB boaee looked down the hiD behind Gins"We constantly make the misteke of aawiming that berg into the Lebaneee villages. Though the houses we're all playing by the earn* ralee," continued Gmawesmed well-buQt and some even palaTisI, Ginsberg berg, "but I lavnad the hard wagr that when you deal pointed oat that none had running water and efectxidty with terrorista, you hit hard, bacaoae if thqr get up was genarated only six boors a my. again, thay 11 kill you." ' When Steve RMcee aaked how the viOagers earned AoMricans Isarned that lift is cheap te the Middle their living, Ginsberg replied, "The Bakka valley baa Beat iriisa UMgr watched taiaviaioii awwa raporta of chilthe biggest hashish farms in the world, and they're run dren being used as mine sweepera during the Irm-Iraq by Syrian Presidmt Assad's brotharl ; war. Ofanberg taoee that mentality da£^. "Whm you're short of cash, aatftia la. you «m^ give "We learned ikom informara that a certain vUlagar'a up a billion dollar business to be nioet" cer waa packed with dynamite and we aaked liim to oome During his tour of duty in Lebanon. Ginsberg wit- out and start the car. neesed an incident that illustrated the diflsranoee (CoatianedenPsgeT)

Zoe Rlekee Oeftl and Shwroa Koopar expnas aasotMa slarsd by Ossaha/UJA ] the inival of SovlH Jews at Bea OkMoa Ainort hi larael.

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