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VoL LXX No. 43 OmaJw
Saga of Operation Exodus continues lew arrivals in Omaha
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3y From left, Arkadiy Ginzburg, Petr Ginzburg, Emanuil Drutman, Grigory Ginzburg, Olga Sitnyakovskaya, Marksina Levit, Larisa Ginzburg. In finont, Igor Ginzburg. Emanuil and Olga are parents of Larisa and are among the new arrivals.
From left, Olga Borovsky, Anna Mogilevskaya, Rakhil Mezhanskaya, Alexandra Borovsky, Nataly Borovsky -- a four generation family now reunited. Photos of the Dalev and Purer families were not immediately available.
New arrivals in Israel
The Magic Carpet n rescue of Yemenite Jews is being carried out by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Conunittee followed by their care in Israel through the Jewish Agency. Rescue operations are funded by the UJA/Federation annual campaign. At left, a Yemenite woman who immigrated to Israel three months ago was reunited last week with her children and grandchildren. In center photo, two Yemenite boys play ouUide the Oshiyot Absorption Center with a young Ethiopian who also lives there. At right, having compeltcd the immigration process, a Yemenite Jew examines his Israeli Identity card at an absorption center near Rehovot. (Israel photos by U,M IVcss Service/Jack Vainunska; Omaha photos by Jo Carroll.)
Stuart Eizenstat plans kosher kitchen for American embassy in Brussels By Linda Bayer, Washington Jewish Week Stuart Eizenstat hss had political titles, like director of domestic policy for President Jimmy Carter. Academic titles, such as professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. And Jewish communal titles, Including president of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington . Aut until recently, he hnid no diplomatic appellation. The Senate remedied that situation. Now he can be addressed as Ambassador Eiienstat. Confirmed as U.S. envoy to the Buropenn Community (E.G.), he and wife Pran will be movinR to Drusisls, Belgium "nfler the High Holidays," Biienstat said.
There the couple plans to establish, at private expense, the first entirely kosher U.S. embassy in American history. During confirmation hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, Eisenstat began by speakinf of his heritage. He recalled hii grandparents, who escaped from a town near Mints in Russia and from Lithuania: "They arrived to seek personal and religious freedom as Jews ... and to raise their children firee fV^m religious opprewion .... This great and good country permitted them to (Veely practice Judaism, t« earn a livelihood, and to instill in their families the values of tolerance, fair play, concern foe the disadvantaged, and the loveof fVesdom they brought with them...."
Eisenstat testified that "no other country in world history has given our minority community the full and complete opportunity to participate in every aspect of its economic, cultural, social and political life. "Among my earliest memories are the regular visits with my grandparents which to this day evoke images of the Europe they left, with its Jewish humor and culture, the Yiddish language and newspapers, the religious customs and traditions." Eiienstat) 50, has been employed in all three bronches of the federal government, hos taught a course on the American presidency for 10 years at Harvard, and is a partner in the law firm of Powell, Ooldstein, Praxar and Murphy. J