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Vol. UX No. 18 Omaha
7 SHEVAT. 5753 Friday, January 29,1993
Scholar weekend at Beth El on Feb. 12 Rabbi Elliot Dorff of the University of Judaism will speak on Jewish law, prayer and Conservative Judaism at a scholar-inresidence weekend at Beth El Synagogue Feb. 12 through 14. The annual scholar seminar, called the Dr. Leon Fellman Scholar-in-Residence Weekend, was previously known as Torah Weekend. Endowed by Dr. Fellman's four children, the weekend was renamed in his honor. Rabbi Dorff will speak following Shabbat services at 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 12 and at 11:15 a.m. on Feb. 13. He will also
LeonFeliman speak at 10 a.m. on Feb. 14. All lectures are at Beth El. The author of five books and 60 articles, Rabbi Dorff serves on the Conservative Movement's Committee on Jewish
Cantor's Concert
Tambourine in hand, Betty Marx cuts loose at a Blumkin Home slngalong. For more singalong photos, see page 8.
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Kosher alert
Soft-serve ice cream at the Dairy Queen restaurant at 114th and Dodge streets is temporarily not kosher, due to a mix-up in suppliers, said Rabbi Mark Urkowitz. He said kosher ice cream would be available again when the current supply is gone. No other products at the restaurant are supervised, he said.
Beth El Synagogue presents the 12th annual fiindraising Cantor's Concert on Feb. 21 at the synagogue. Cantor Emil Berkovits will perform old and new Jewish songs. Also performing will be the Beth El choir, several students and Stan Widman and Ozzie Nogg, who . will each sing duets with the cantor. In some of his previous concerts, Cantor Berkovits has performed music by American Jewish composera and has replicated Hasidic Friday-evening services. At one concert he performed with his brother, also a cantor. Tickets are $10 and are on sale at the synagogue.
Law and Standards, a group of rabbis who discuss problems in modern American society as they affect Judaism. He also teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles and Irvine and at the University of Southem California. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1970. According to Nancy Rips, daughter of Dr. Fellman, the scholar weekend is an appropriate way to honor her father. "He would have been
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HI World-traveling teen returns to visit Omaha y Deborah Fellmajn
Most 18-year-old honors students move tlirectly from high school to dormitories, Greek houses ^ and lecture courses. But Becco Goldstein, who WHS el<>cted international president of B'nai B'riUi Girls (BBGl at the , organization's annual convention in August, lives by a different sched'.ul«. , Thi» weak, sh«'i in Seattle, where she'll nieet with-leaders of local BBG chapters and attend their events. Soon, she'll go on to British Columbia, Oalifornia, France and Israel, where she'll meet! with still more BBOs. Her rhission these days ' la to promote BBO. She ' helps chapters plan pro-
grams, recruit members, and raaolve eonflicta. "It's bean an amailng experience," she said. 'I've learned so much thia year and 1 always have something exciting coming up to look forward to,"
Ms. Goldstein returns i« Omaha about every three weaka. Recently,
members of B'nai B'rith's Henry Monsky Codge caught her when she was in town and invited her to a Breadbreakers luncheon, where' they gave her a plaque along with their best Wishes. This is the greatest thing we could hope for," said Howard Kutler, president of the lodge. "We're very impressed. We hope
she continues on with B'nai Brith. Maybe we' s'll be i gh that ^ lucky enough someday she will win the Labelle A. Kala Young Lead*
ership Award," he said, referring to a prlie awardad annually by B'nai P'rith to young people In the organisation. Recent reclpienta of the award Include Omahan Mlka Abmmnon, Ms. OoldsUIn, a 19M
graduate of Westilde High SalMol wk* will
t of BBG, Ma. UoMsteln has met famous p«oplc>, InehKUm former Prealdent Ci«org« Buah.
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enroll next fall at Northwestern University, has already committed herself to the organisation by signing on as a member of the k)dge. The youngeat nwrnber of the lodge, her memberthlp alao nudgea the female roambarahip to 10, of a
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there for all three lectures and, with a twinkle in his eye, he wo.uld have been one of the first to ask the speaker a question," she said. Dr. Fellman, a dentist known as "Doc," died in 1989 at the age of 80. He was active in B'nai B'rith and owned a large library, including many Judaic books. He also led study groups and lectures in the Jewish community of his winter home in Florida. Other children of Dr. Fellman are Tom and Dick, both of Omaha, and Jane Pickus, of Highland Park, 111.
Supporting B'nai B'rith la part of har BBO phUoaophy, Ms. Ootdataln aald.
'I think It should be pushed more that BBYO members should get involved with B'nai B'riih,* she aatd. 8h« said she sr-'' -sle oounlarpart tarnbarg, Orpna nippn Oadol of
AZA) are now working on plans to create BBYO vol-
unteer corps to help on B'nai B'rith community servica evenla. She told members of the lodge that they should feel free to call on membrr- "f 'ifneha's four Bl lers to work on •rwnui logether.
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