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Vol. LXX No^iyoimln
Federation names Schrager Humanitarian of 1993
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Philanthropist Phillip G. Schrager will be honored aa Humanitarian of the Year at the Jewish Federation of Omaha's annual meeting at the JCC thea^r on June 13 at 7:30 p.m. Through two foundations, Mr. Schrager has contributed to education, youth groups, literacy and organizations in Omaha's Jewish community since 1988. The Phillip G. and Terri L. Schrager Foundation has funded, among ather projects, the Bureau of Jewish Education's learning disabilities program, special education fund and college scholarships; the JCC's ARTZA trip to Israel, the Klutznick/Creighton Symposium; B'nai B'rith; education on Soviet resettlement; and BBYO. The Lois Jeanne Memorial Fund has funded-schol: arships through the Bureau o( Jewish Education; the bureau's programs on special needs and learning disabilities; and the Jewish Federation of Omaha's Young Leadership Award, among other projects. Mr. Schrager, who served as general chairman of the UJA/Federation campaign this year, is former vice president of the Federation Board's ejcecutive committee. In 1992, he served as diairman of the Pacesetter Division of the United Jewish Appeal's Federation Campaign. He is also chairman of the botut] and chief executive officer at Pacesetter Corp.
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th St. at Community Playhouse FVesh oil the heek of wlnitlng the Jewlah Federation of Omaha's Conumuiity Service award for. iU North 24th Street exhibit, the fhsbnuka Jewish lUatortcal Society took its show on the road — this tilne to the Omaha Conununiiy Playhouae where fhe exldbit win be on display during the run of Fiddler on the Roof." At left is Mary Fellman, a founder of tlie NJHS and at ri|^t, Susan Sihrer. atchlvlst . '
Reform Jews urge right to marriage
Polish anti-Semitism sfe/7 by fiim crew
NASHVILLE — The Union of American Hebrew Congregations, central body of Reform Judaism, urged that the government of Israel "remove the barriers" Uiat deny an estimated 160,000.immigrants the right to marry in Israel. The UAHC, headed by Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, is composed of 856 Reform synagogues in the United States and Canada,with a membership of 1.3 million. In a resolution, the UAHC's policy-making board of trustees — holding its semi-annual meeting in the Vanderbilt Plaza'Hotel — said: "In Israel individuals can be married as Jews only if they can prove they are descended from a Jewish mother or if they have undergone Orthodox conversion. "There are an estimated 160,000 Soviet and Ethiopian immigrants who cannot provide such proof, aa well as many 'Jews-by-choice' who have found their way to Judaism through conversion performed by nonOrthodox rabbis. "All of these immigrants are denied access to religious marriage to another Jew, and there is no civil maniage in Israel to which they can turn. Thus, they must undergo unwanted Orthodox conversion or leave the countt7 to be married civilly." In Its resolution, the UAHC called on the Jewish Agency, which is responsible for bringing immigrants to Israel, to take action through its chairman by urging the Israeli government and Knesset (parliament) "to resohra problems of psnonal status faced by tbs new immigrants and removs the barriers that deny them to raamags raarriags m in larael.' aooassI lo israei.
By Tom Tugend LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The cast and crew of "Schindler's List," the Steven Spielberg film about the German businessman who saved more than a thousand Jews in Poland during the Holocaust, have been shocked by the overt anti-Semitism they have encountered while on location in Krakow. In an article in the Los Angeles Times, journalist David Gritten reports tha^ one of the cast's Israeli actors was approached at a hotel bar by an elderly Polish man and asked if he was Jewish. When answered yes, the old man insultingly drew his flnger across his throat, then pulled his fist up behind his neck to indicate a noose. , British actor Ben Kingsley, who stood nearby, leaped at the man, and a scufTle ensued. "We've seen anti-Semitism at firsthand, and it fills me with despair," said Kingsley afterward. In another incident, actor Ralph Fiennes, dressed for his role in an SS uniform, was approached by a woman. "She told me in Polish that the Germans were wonderful people and that they didn't kill anyone who didn't deserve it," he said. The crew was also shaken b^ a wdman who started walking across the set during shooting and was gently stopped by crew members. "Who cares about the (expletive) Jews?" she shouted. Some Poles confiected with the film have been deeply disturlMd by the incidents. Cinenatographer Janusz Kaminski, who immigrated to the United States in 1980, said flatly that he now dislikes his native country, uy, which wnicn he m Ihinlcs "hss an inferiority complex.'
Omahan flies military planes
Omaha native David Cohsn, a pitot in the United States Air Fofte, helped dellvsr food and msdidns to Samalla this spring. His rola was to bring gatoliBe to airtMrns ptaaas alraady en rmto to AMca. *We make wm any military plans that needs gu grtsH.'saldCaptCabsn. 97, a gradusU of Borke Higli Mwol and Boston IWNkaMar. AM«r4lBg to Oapt. GahM, liilltary planes Ita^catly load up on
gasoline in the air. 'It's much nors eftlcisnt to rsftialoa the way than to land,* ha said. Iliat fhrwi us global rsaeb, so we can put airplanes snywbsre in the world any time ws want* A Ijiilsal rdhaltog missioa woold be «B fly above
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eed, Calif., and Enid, Okla. None of thsas oaaununltlss lias a larga Jewish ooaunknity, Capt Cohen said. Through the military. Capt Cobsa and his wife, Theresa, a flight attaodant, have ealebrated Jiewish hoUdaya with 'aems of the amallest Jewlab papalatioM in the wona, aaaawi *W« ha4 Paaaovar laat ria
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