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Vol. LXIX No. 51 Omaha
22 Aw, 5752 Friday.
UJA breaks re with Rabin's Ir
Fruits of friendship
Members of the AME Bethel Church and Temple Israel joined together to harvest a garden they planted months ago at 24th and Franklin. Upper left, Barry Siff, left, shows a green pepper to Jabari Conver, held by his father, Capt. Errol Conver. Bottom left, the Rev. Lee King (left) and Rabbi Aryeh Azriel show the garden's scarecrow and at right, Cornelius Morgan and Judy Siff pick egg plants.
Beth El's $300,000 used for mortgage The $300,000 Congregation Beth El received last week for the sale of its old building has been used to reduce the mortgage on its new building. Sanford Friedman, congregation president, said the mortgage, on the new property now is less than $100,000 and that this figure is better than what had been prqjected. Mr. Friedman said also that althou^ a "significant dumber of pledges" have not yet been forthcoming, Beth E!I is in a *very sound financial condition.* He explained that the congregation has started a baaed budgeting'system whi£h will allow expand-. BMvices fVmded by the annual budfst ^&e e pointed out that qiuch overhead has been eliminated with the sale of the old fiwility to Opera/Omaha and thkt a balanced budget is in process for this fiscal ysar beginning last Aug. 1. The goal of the congregation is to operate on a nnancially rusponsible basis without dipping into andowmsnt funds' for operations. *HaUi« Ftnsman, our vice president ii> charge of programming, is boming up with all sorts of crsative actiyitiss making it possible for us to expand opportunities for participation,' Mr. Friedman added.
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U.N. asks Israel to join forces By Gil Sedan and Hugh Orgel JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has been asked to send military personnel to Croatia and Bosnia-; Herzegovina to serve in U.N. peacekeeping forces. It is the first time the international body has ever asked Israel to send its military oh an international peacekeeping mission, although such forces have often been sent to this region to monitor Israeli-Arab ceasefires. Senior Foreign Ministry ofiBdals met to discuss the legal and defense implications of the request before replying to the U.N. appeal. A letter was sent to all U.N. missions on Aug. 3 asking for their participation in the 15,000-strong U.N. Prot^tion Force, which is operating in the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Bosnis-Henegovina, according to the IsraeU Mission at the United Nations in New York. But this is the first tipte the Jewish state was specifically invited to join other U.N.'m«m)Mr nations in contributing personnel to a peaoelraaping effort
By Larry Yudelson NEW YORK (JTA)— In what may be an early vote of confidence by American Jews for Israel's new Labor government, the United Jewish Appeal says it raised more money at a dinner with Yitzhak Rabin than at any other campaign event in its history. Participants at the meeting with the Israeli prime minister pledged a total of $67.3 million to the continuing Operation ^xoduB campaign to finance the immigration and absorption of Jews from Ethiopia, the former Soviet Union and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. A UJA spokesman refused to say how many people attended the event, citing fears that anti-Semitism would be stimulated if it was known just how many fewer than a hundred Jews it took to raise $67.3 million. Both the co-chairmen of the event, Charles Bronfman, CO- chairman of the Seagram Co., and Leslie Wexner, founder and president of The Limited chain of c|othing stores, are billionaires. The new pledges repre=sent the second phase of the Operation Exodus campaign, which had been opened in early 1990 with a similar high-level fund-raising event, which brought in $66.1 milUon. At that time. Operation Exodus was conceived as a three-year, $430 million campaign to bring in the roughly 200,000 Soviet > immigrants then being expected.
• The target has now grown to $1 billion, reflecting in part the unexpected cost of the mass airlift of more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews, the arrival of more than 400,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union and the expectation that as many 600,000 are still to come. The pledges read off in the presence of Rabin brought the total raised by Operation Elxodus pa0t the $800 million mark. More than half of that, $435 million, has been received as cash. Earlier, a meeting between the prime minister and 40 top leaders of the State of Israel Bonds campaign enabled that organization to trot out its own set of encouraging figures. . The Bonds organization told Rabin that worldwide sales for this year have 80 far passed $750 million, or roughly the amount brought in during all of 1989.
Dr. Spanier will speak Or. Graham Spanier, chancellor of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will speak at the B'nai B'rith Bread-breakers luncheon on Aug. 27, at noon at the Regency Best Western. According to Howard Kutler, August chairman, Breadbreakers will meet on Thursday, instead of the normal Wednesday meeting, and reservations are required. For information, call the B'nai B'rith office at 334-8300.
'Rh olarshlps awarded The Bnioa M. FkUman ChsuritaUe Foundatk* Tniat hM awarded scholarships to 13 Omaha area collage students for the 1993-93 school year, announced Howard M. Kooper, trust4M. Tha BniM M. FkUmon Charitabia FoundaUon Trust was cTMtad by Tooi and Darijmn FUtanan in mamoiy <#ttMirsMi,BiiiMM. FMtaMii. HrtiatawMp tmifkm^ for 199S>M inchide: Andrew AHffl|u>, University of Nebnaka at Lincoln; Derek Altman, University of ITwMs; Adam Bassingar, Univaraiky of Nabraaka at LbMln; Andna Goodman, Unlvanity of Kansas; Uaa Goodman, University of Kansas; Melissa Kirke, University of Kansas: Mlchasl Kirke, Craighton Uniwai^. Alao, bina Kogan, Brandaia Univarslty; Rag-ina Lawald, University of Indian "^alttman. Bewdoin College; Rachel Stui, varsity of Nabraaka at Omaha; and Alex Dobtn, Creighton Unlvwaity
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