SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 7 NiMn, 5752—Friday, April 10, 1892
Visits Poland By Hugh Orgel
Nate, Celia Grossman honored with fund
By Claudia Sherman, Foundation public relations director In December 1986, Nate and CeUa Grossman donated $6,000 to establish the Community Senior Endowment Fund to support programs or the purchase of equipment for the benefit of handicapped, inHe is expected to announce the opening of a. capacitated, or infirm Jewish aged residing in metromilitary attache's office at politan Omaha. the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw, the first in an When Mrs. Grossman Eastern European capital. died in 1991, she left $5,000 to the Rose BlumBarak will pay a cere- kin Home. The Grossmans' monial visit to the site of son, Harold, and their the Auschwitz death camp daughter, Shirley Caldwell in southeastern Poland. of Moscow, Idaho, have He will be joined there by now combined these two a delegation of young IDF financial gifts from their soldiers, children and parents into a single engrandchildren of former dowment fund in their parcamp victims, and surviv- ents' nanoes to benefit senors who are flying out ior citizens in the Omaha from Israel. Jewish community. The chief of staff will The Bureau for the Agmeet his Polish counterpart, observe a Polish air ing will have access to the force exercise and visit the income generated by this new endowment fund for naval base at Gdansk. Capital ezpenditiu^s as The visit to Poland by the Israeli general - coincided with the arrival in southern Lebanon of the first contingent of 80 Polish soldiers, the first B'nai Israel is providing contingent Poland has con- a brunch April 26 at, 9:30 tributed to the United Na- a.m., at its synagogue at tions Interim Force in Leb- 618 Mynater Street, Counanon. cil Bluffs, which will focus The Pdish, troops will on remembering the past r^lace the Swedish-de- and envisioning the future. Open to the conununity tachment, which the Swedish government has with- and free of charge, the purdrawn from the 5,800-mem pose of the brunch is twoher international peace- fold, according to congregation president Ellen keeping force. Femiick. "We are celebratBarak flew to Warsaw ing, the accomplishments after visiting both Ger- of those people who estabmany and Switzerland. lished and built the origiDuring a two-day atop in nal congregation, and Switzerland, he discusaed gathering more historical ongoing military coopera- background of thoae famition and military purchase Uee involved." agreements between the B'nai larael, which was two oounti^es with the founded in 1903, began as Swiaa army chief of staff an Orthodox Synagogue In Geneva. Barak and to serve the needs of the his Swiaa counterpart, Council Bluffs Jewish Heins Haeeler, who have community. known each other for 10 yeara, engaged in talks whkh Barak charactariaKi as "moat friendly." TEL AVIV (JTA)Israel's army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ehud Barak, has begun a four-day official visit to Poland, the first ever by an incumbent Israel Defense Force chief to an Eastern European country.
Hats Off to L.O.V.E. "Our HaU Off to Those Who Care" is the theme for the annaal L.O.V£. bwquft, honoring the volnnteers and the reaidenta of the Rose Blomkin Jewish Home on May 7 at the JCC. Chaitperaona for the evening are Sheila Roaen, Marti Snyder and Geqrge Schapiro. Mnaical entertainment will be provided by Tuffy Epstein. Cost for dinno- is $10^. Reservations may l>e made to Sharon Conlon by April 26. Pictured from left are: Elaine Feldman, Helen Shukert, George Shapiro, Marti Snyder and Edith Rogert. Not in photo are: Ann Belmont and Sheila Rosen.
Swiss bishops assert anti-Semitism crime By Debra Nnsafaanm Cohen NEW YORK (JTA)Switzerland's Conference of Catholic Bishops and representatives of the country's Jewish conununity have signed a joint declaration condemning anti-Semitism as "a crime against God and humanity." The statement is Switzerland's implementation of the 1990 Prague declaration, according to Michael Kohn, president of the Swiss Jewish conununity, and is meant to mark increased understanding between Jews and Catholics • on the 600th anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Spain. The Prague declaration wu issued in September 1990 by repreaentatives of the Vatican and the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations, the Jewish partmr in interfaith dialogue. It statea that antiSraaitiam ia a ain, and that ooDoete maaauna nwflt be taken to combat it. The nine-page Swias declaration states that "through miagukied preaching and catechiima, the Church contributed to the craatkw of the dUniate that allowed the murderers of the Nad regime to out their Crimea St Jewtf." Joint declaration also straaaaa the central rpla of laraat la Judaism and •mpbialiiee that the country a legitimacy la bnaed not ooty on the Bi-
ble and tradition, but also on international law. The policies of Israel's government are open to criticism, like those of any other country, but Christians must acc^t Israel's right to exist, the statement says. Archbishop Joseph Candolfi, chairman of the Swiss Bishops Confermc^, said that the joint declaration also aims at the general problem of racism and xenophobia when it says that "current .racism against Turks, Tamils and black Africans is a dreadful continuation of earlier hatred against Jews."
Students' Seder A Passover Seder for students and singles is being planned by Dr. Richard Freund, Dn-ector of the Jewish Students Organization at University of Nebraska-Omaha. The Seder will be held April 14, at 7 p.m., at the University Religious Center on the comer of Happy HoUow Blvd. wa/i Dodge streets. The Seder is free and open to all who wish to attend. For information, call Dr. Freund at 554-3349, or Aimee Kirby, 334-8200. This program is partially funded by Henry Monsky Lodge B'Nai B'ritb.
Moslems apologize By Henriette Boaa AMSTERDAM (JTA)The umbrella organltatioa of Moalema from Morocco and Suriname has apologized to the Dutch Jewish community for a March 27 demonatratton in whkh SOO'MoeianM marched on the laraeli Embaaay in The Hague. Crying "Death to Israel." they cjtfried portraits of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran. The offaniaation aaid the demonstrators by no meana repreeent tiM 460,000 Moalema now living in HoUawL Suriname, in South Amer ica, la former Dutch OuiThe insUgatera of the demonstration are believed to be TurUah fun-
damentaliats who two yeara ago staged a rally in The Hague against Salman Rushdie, the Indianbom Britiah author put under death sentence by Iran for alliaedly blaspheming lalam in his book "The Satanic Viraea."
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well as new or ongoing projects serving the elderly in the community and at the Rose Blumkin Home, explained Gene Brandt, director, Bureau for the Aging. The funds will be administered by The Foundation of the Jewish Federation. "My parents spent their last years in the Blumkin Home, and we have a soft spot in our hearts for those people who are still living, there," said Harold Grossman. ID a conversation from Miami, Fla., Mr. Grossman paid tribute to his parents who were lifelong residents of Lancoln until they moved into the Blumkin Home in 1985. Duriug the initial fundraising drive for the Blumkin Home, the senior Grossmans donated all their Israel > Bonds to the drive and even covered the cost of cashing the bonds, Harold said, "My parents were charitable in every direction."
B'nai Israel plans reunion
Barak toU the Jewiah Telegraphic Agency be had raoaivad aaaurancae that the §wtai army will continue to buy anna th>m the laraeli arms industry and that cuts the Swias Miniatry of Defanae will have to nuke shortly will not affect ordars from larael. (JTA carreapoadwt Tamer Levy la Qaaeva contributed to tUa nport.)
It has continued to serve this function ever since, but began to draw new members in the 1980s, reemerging as a small, dynamic, liberal congregation. Recently the congregation affiliated with Judaism's Reconstructionist moveme^it, and is currently the only congregation of this type in this area of the Midwest. Reconatructionism emphasizes involvement with tradition in the light of contemporary experience, and fits B'nai Israel both today' and in ita future plans. For information call Ellen Fennick at 390-9062 (eveninga).
Spain boosts accord granting Jews' status
By Jadltli Lew MADRID IJTA)-The Spanish government has given a mi^or boost to a hiatoric accord that would grant the 12,000-nianiber Jewish community of Spain a status aimoet khotkal to that of the R»' man Cathoik Church. The aooord, whkh waa drawn up two yeara ago
and signed a few days before the 500th anniversary of the edict expelling Spain's Jewa, waa approved by the governOMOt'e Council of MiniBtara. Two oU^r agreements, with the SOO.OOO-atrooa Moalm coauBuaity and the couBtry'* SM,000 Protaatluta, wwe reviewed at tbeaaaie time.
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