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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 Vol. LXtX No. 44 Omaha, Nebr.
2 Tammuz, 5752—Friday, July 3,1992
Why I'm Proud to be an American By Jennifer Rifkin, age 11 tor's note: Miss Rifkin's essay placed first in the Millord American Legion Atuuliary Unit 374 AmericanIsm Essay contest through the Millard Public Schools, Srades three-five. Her prize was a $50 US Savings Bond, he essay is as follows: What can 1 do? ; How can I help America and all fifty marvelous States? ' Why .should I be proud to be an American? • Well, for one thing, I can take advantage of our excellent educational systems so that I will be learned and p^hen I'm older educate the world. I can use my knowledge to be anything that I want to be. I can stretch my rights to the limit. I can speak out ;o the people with freedom of speech. I can write the .ruth without fear of arrest, with freedom of the press. : can practice my religion freely because I have the right «. And all because I 'm free. I could become a business woman or a fanner. If I beUme a farmer, I could plow the rich earth and. along vith all the other fanners, I could help feed the whole world, stock up all our resources and ship them off to Lithuania and Russia. Then Etll the world would have (ood and no one would be starving. But we can't do that; we can't just give things away.' Ve still have to solve this problem. All of these things make up America, and if all the leople work together, we can get so much more done Jian when we're alone. We make up the armed forces hat our grandpas, uncles, and cousins were in that Bght Dr our country, and defend our country and k^ep it safe %« people of America farm our land and build our cit . 'They are the people that are telling the world to keep lur environment clean and beautiful. , All these people make up our government. The govemDent is so important becaus*" they art' ihosen by the-peoile to be our leaders, to guide us through I ha good and he bad. Through it all they hold their heads high and tever give up. People from all over the world look up 0 uur leaders and plead for help from them. ' That bringb an to the people all over the world. Some irould give anything for our freedom and some,'though \i limes, woiUd try to take it away from us. But we ould die to preserve our freedom. Just like when atrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death!" The word freedom is like the ringing of bells in my acs. Knowing that we have freedom makes gray akieS lue. All these things «re what makes nw very proud p be an American. But cherish your freedom h(<cause Dmeday it may be gone.
New Americans help resettle relatives Omaha's Jewish comlunity will (oUow in tha Dotatcps of mu\y other >aunupitie« Kroaa the Initad States in asking \u new Soviet emigre* to •Ip with reoetUfMOKit axlee for their familiee, lid NaUlie Rubia reset ement coordlnstor (or pwiah Fsinity Service. Ji fat Onahs and ksa pin the fonmr Soviet with whom they > be reunited will be to underwrite i>ine of the coat jetUiuhv*.' Mr:teUted St s recent JKS k Reaction among th* ) repreeented st the eting wsa gsf)«vr>«tK i>n(, resigned a<
ssid Bert Lewis, volunteer coordinstor. Seversl (smiiies have slreedy come forward to begin asking neeeeeery airsngements. Mra.~ Lewis noted JFS executive director Glen Finemsn remarked that limited community reeouwee far teeetthment in additton to diminishing funds have made this policy eyeential. "Omaha is one ol the last communities to enact such s lyatem." Mr. Pineman said. Omaha has absorbed 62 iividuals since laat Oclutier 1, with 46 pending (or this (lacal year. Laat year the number was M and 63 inl»«9-90. Mrs Rubtn and Mr<i Ijivtin were asaistad by tranatator Okaana 2her»gi
UJA/Federation Campaign aids Sarajevo youngsters These youngsters from Sar^evo, who just arrived in Israel, said they were tired but looking forward to continuing school in krael. The Jewish Agency, funded by the UJA/Federation Annual Campaign, arranged their special flight and is placing the Yugoslavian children in Youth Aliyah schools.
Court lets stand separation rules By Cynthia Mann Ststea News Service WASHINGTON (JTAI —The Supreme Court has decided to let stand a host of lower court rulings that uphold the constitutional separation of church and state. The news Monday drew cautious initial praisb from the major Jewish defense groups, especially in light of the court's major ruling last week in a Rhode Island case that strengthened the ban on prayer in public school.' "Overall it appears the court is willing to let stand important lower court decisions maintaining the wall o( separation and therefore religious lib erty," said Mark Pelavin; Washington representative at the American Jewish Congrees. Stevan Freeman, legal director o( the AntiOefamation League, said he welcomed the newa. "It's a very encouraging dev^oiMDeBt far those who are caaosroid with churchstate separation." Freeman eaid that the Lee vs. Weisman caae ki Rhode Island aeemed to indicate the court would make a distinction between public Khoola and other arenas. But he said now it appeared that may not be the cast* For Ku'harU KoUin. direr'- ••' •••> •"'•I a((u
Jewish Committee, "it's always a matter of conjecture why the court agrees to let stand a group of cases." "Given the I^ee vs. Weisman case, we could conjecture the court wants to let the smoke clear and let the lower courts figure out the implications of that decision," he said. "It could also mean the court is so split, it didn't see the point of ruling on church state cases at this time/' Among other cases, the Supreme Court left intact: * A ruling that a Denver public school principal acted properly in ordering a fifth-grade teacher to remove a Bible from hia desk and two religious books from the dasa library. *A ruling that barred celebrating a itoman Catholic mass lb s dty park in the Chicago suburb of Crestwood as part of an Italian (esUvaL *A ruling that barred two Chkago auburfae, Zion and Rolling Meadows, from using a cioaa and other rehgioua symbols on their city aeals. . *A ruling that upheld the University ol Ala bama'a warning issued to s profeseor to stop telling bis atudents sbout his Christian beliefs. In a departur* f""" i*"tenor o( many o I (*•--
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Rescue under way of Moldovan Jews By Gil Sedan Moldova'^ Jews hold approved family reunion apJERUSALEM UTAIplications, enabling them Jewish officials in Odessa to make aliyah rapidly if and Kishinev are organizthey choose. ing a rescue operation of Jews from thebattle zones , But after an upsurge in of Moldova, where fight- fighting last week that left ing between ethnic Rus- some 400 people dead,. sians and pro-Rumanian Moldova has been relaMoldovans.has escalated. tively quiet in the last few days. Representatives of the Jewish Agency for Israel In Tiraspol, the Jewish and the American Jewish Agency has set up a supJoint Distribution Com- port center for Jews who mittee are organizing the wish to leave. Several operation, which involves buses were already disthe transfer of Jews from patched to transport th^ Trana- Dniester region evacuees. of Moldova to-the capital The Jewish Agency also of Kishinev or to Odasaa, ia in touch with Ukrainian in neighboring Ukraine. authorities to enable the Ethnic Russians in Jews to cross the border Trant-Doiastar have se- from Moldova - into the ceded from- Moldova, Ukraine and define their which is ethnically Roma- status as relugeea, thereby nian and may ruioin that enabling them to receive country assistance and to prepare Four hundnxl Jews have for their inunigration to already been evacuated Israel from the rt'y Odessa. 100 and several faouluta lu uk Agency ExecutiNt, Kiev, the Ukrainian cap- aaid that he expected the ital. (ormatioD of a oni govwmSome 170 of thoee taken ment in Israel to increase to Odseea raportediy have tbe number o( immigraaia expreased their deah^ to (torn the republics of inunigrate to Israel. former Soviet Union. Of the estimated 40,000 But lllMinlkMr-i iif Lkit to 50,000 Jews living in uniat Moldova, some 13.000 live Natai. .... in the battle areaa o( migration would Tjriisiwil »nd Bendery cres""' "••"' .'*"• • 70 percent ut inent