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Wiesel set^pBendance record By Morris MaUoe (This article inelndes opinioii of the writer) I An estimated 1,400 Jewish men, women, and '• children — the largest attendance of a Jewish audience in Omaha's history — greeted Elie Wiesel, Jan. 20 at the Red Lion Hotel Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Omaha in conjunction with the 1994 UJA/Federation Campaign, the event also contributed to what was forecast as a record-setting fundraising effort on bdialf of the Jewish community. llie Omaha turnout appeared to fulfill Professor iWiesel's often-quoted statement that To be part of a community is the most urgent, historic obligation facing a Jew." The Nobel Peace Prize winner implored his audience to 'learn Jewish history with passion' to understand why giving to the Campaign is important "You should know why you give, why you are Jews..jJew8 link their destiny with other Jews... a Jew alone cannot be a Jew...he must Uve in a community.' Professor Wiesel reminded his audience that Jewish history began long before the State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948. Our history began four to five thousand years ago... *it makes me shiver knowing that our history is the longest in the world.* He said also that while Jewishness and Jewish causes should be a priority in one's life, being Jewish is not esduaive. One of the greatest lessons of histoiy, he said, is that Vhat happens to one people affects all peopleHe called upon Omaha Jewry to 'do as Jews' by helping others. Wherever people suffer, Jews should help, he said, adding that eveiy day children are being killed in many parts of the world and that vhatever is being done is not enou^. "We must help others.'
Thank you, Omaha! We want to thank donors who pledged their support to the 1994 UJA/Federation Campaign — in particular, those 1,400 who joined together on Jan. 20 for a truly great community event. It was with great pleasure that we brought you 'an evening with Elie Wiesel,' and we cannot adequately express the joy and pride we felt in that grand ballroom, filled to capacity with the Jewish people of Omahd. The warmth and sense of family that enveloped the entire evening will remain with all of us forever. Thank you to everyone who worked to make this event possible. Most of all, thank you, Omaha — the BEST of Jewish Communities!
Elie Wiesel (left) experiences reunion with long time Omaha friend Sam FMed. Harley Schrager, Campaign co-chairman with Howard Kooper, said the "largest gathering in Omaha's history befits Omaha's status as the best of Jewish communities.* He told the young people in the audience that their attendance would be 'one of the defining moments of your young life.* Jerry Slusky, Federation president, praised the community and the volunteers for the 10th consecutive increase in the (Campaign. He said the breaking of ground for the Dan and Esther Gordman educational Center in a few months would add further to the services available on the Jewish Community (Campus.
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The Jewish Federation of Omaha's Board of Directors unanimously approved a $5,000 donation for victims of the C!alifomia earthquake. The Federation had provided similar relief to victims of the Midwest flooding and the Florida hurricane. In addition, the Directors approved an allocation of $3,760 as its share of an $850,000 subvention to national Hillel.
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Anti-Semitism upward By Larry Yodelaon NEW YORK (JTA) — llie number of anti-Semitic assaults, threats and harassments in the United States reported to the Anti-Defamation League rose again last year, continuing an upward trend begun in 1985 that was interrupted only in 1992. The 1,079 incidents reported in 1993 are more than triple the 306 reported eight years earlier and the most since ADL began tabulating such events in 1980. But the year also saw the third strai|^t decline in the number of reported incidents of anti-Semitic vandalism and grafliU. They totaled 788, according to the 1993 Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents released by ADL this week. ADL explains these numbers as reflecting a greater vigilance toward anti-Semitic vandalism by Jews and the police, on the one hand, and a greater willingness fay anti-Semitaa to indulge their hatred in dayUghL • :^ "There'i been a dramitic increase in what we call in-your- face' anti-Semitism," said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman. "This is more fri^tening, more confrontational, more devastating, and in terms of the trauma to the individual, the family and the community afTscted, much more significant than a swastika on the building,* he said. At the same time, the 1,079 reported antiSemitic assaults and harauments, none of which involved fatality, is roughly the same as the number of American Jews killed in car accidents, auuminf flitalities are distributed evenly.
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Dr. Gerald Schroeder, author of "Genesis and The Big Bang,' and scientist and lecturer, will speak Sunday, Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m., at the JCC. The event is free and open to the public. An applied physicist and theologian. Dr. Schroeder argues that science and the Bible are not contradictory. According to his publisher, Bantam Books, 'cosmologists say the events of the billions of years that followed the Big Bang and the events described in the first six days of Cicnesis are identical realities described in vastly different terms." Sponsored by Beth IsraePSynagogue, event chairman Dr. Martin Schneiderman urges anyone who has ever grappled with the mysteries of man's origins to attend this event. 'We've let the science departments of both Creighton University and UNO know about Dr. Schroeder'* visit,' said Dr. Schneiderman. 'His book is making a big impact on the scientific community,' he added. For information, call Beth Israel Synagogue at 556-6288. Mark Belmont (left) president, AOL/CRC and Alexander Kosner, a "Schindler's List" survivor, greet members o f the Jewish coounaBity during • previewMonday. An estimated 500 attended.
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Teens on Torah Yitro ' By Nikld Paley Tonight (Friday) is Shabbos, Uiat special time that all of your worries and troubles from the week and your job dissolve into the candles you light, declaring Uiat the Queen hAs come. Three thousand years ago today, ^ashem commanded us^to observe the Sabbath and keep it holy. Are you doing that? Hashem told us to take time out to make this day distinctive; to rest and acknowledge our Creator; to distinguish this holy day from all other days. Are you doing that? That's nice, you say. Really, it's wonderful, but I absolutely CANNOT miss the party tonight, you reason. I would love to, but I have this huge project due Monday and tomorrow is the only time I have to work on it, you whine. Maybe the reason you don't have Shabbos is because you don't know how to. You feel the need and the want, but you just don't know how to act on it No need to fear! NCSYs Shabbos 101 is here! All you ever wanted to know about starting Shabbos in your home (but were afraid to ask your Rabbi) is all right here in three easy steps. First, haul out that old gorgeous candelabra your' grandmother gave you for your wedding and slap two candles in it. Light them and thank your Creator for commanding you to create such a beautiful li^t Or, take two Shabbos candles, bum the bottoms so that the wax starts to melt, stick them down on a piece of foil and light them. Using your imagination, you have just created your own silver antique candelabra. It doesn't matter what the light is in, all that matters is that you have made a distinction between the week and Shabbos. You have begun. Next, instead of sleeping in until noon (only to get up to vratch sports for the rest of the day or go shopping with your friends) why not take a nice little trip to your shul? See your friends whom you haven't seen since Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur! Listen to your Rabbi's sermon! Remember what he said and take it with you all day, even if after Kiddush you run to Westroads! It's always a good feeling when you cannot hear everyone else in the mall singing "Joy to the World" because you are thinking about how much better you feel now that you have completed the second easy step to making Shabbos in your home! Last, and most importantly, differentiate between your Shabbos and the rest of the week. Make Havdalah. Light the candle, smell the spices, taste the wine and sing Elianu Ha'navi. And hey! If you don't own a Havdalah candle, then hold four wicks together and produce your very own! Singing by the light of the candle, the beauty of Shabbos, for the announcer of the Messiah to come speedily in our days, is a beautiful and incredible thing! But you will never know unless you do it! Shabbos wasn't just for our grandparents in the old country. It wasn't just for Bubbe and Zaide on Friday nights. It was for all of us — even in Omaha, Neb. So do yourself a favor: light the candles, taste the wine, and experience the Shabbos that has been waiting for you for 3,000 years.
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Deaths ESTBERGORDMAN Services for Esther Gordman were held Monday at Beth El Synagogue. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dan Gordman, who died in December.^ Survivors include a daughter, Deborah Platt; two sons. Nelson and Jerry Gordman; a brother, Harry Richman; a sister. Pearl Giventer; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Mrs. (jordman's family owned and operated the Richman Gordman, Inc. department stores and the 1/2 Price Stores during the past five decades. Her father, Sam Richman, started a small retail clothing store in 1915. He later became business partners with Dan Gordman, who expanded the operation and introduced innovative approaches to the Omaha retailing market. The Gordmans had been active in the Omaha community, supporting organizations such as Beth Israel Synagogue and the Jewish Federation of Omaha. They provided most of the fimding for the federation to establish the Dan and Esther Gordman Ekiucational Center. Memorials may be made to the Dan and Esther Gordman Educational Center. THEODORE MAYER Services for TTieodore (Ted) Mayer of Bethesda, Md., formerly of Omaha, were held Jan. 24 in Rockvilte, Md. He was 73. Survivors include his wife, Laura; three daughters, Ellen Mayer and Sandra Mayer, both of Bethesda, and Ruth (Mrs. Don) Silverstein of Kensington, Md.; a sister, Charlotte (Mrs. Robert) Kopp of Silver Spring, Md.; one granddaughter and nieces and nephews. HELENKAFLAN Services for Helen Kaplan were held Tuesday at Temple Israel Cemetery. She was 76. Survivors include her husband, Irving; a son. Rick Eirenberg; a daughter, Fran Plotkin, and one grandson, all of Omaha; a sister, Louise Mason of Faribom, Ohio, and cousins, nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to charity of your choice. FANNY STEIN Services for Fanny Stein were held Tuesday at Golden Hill Cemetery. She was 98. She was preceded in death by her husband, Morris. Survivors include two sons, Arthur of Omaha and Cxerald of Los Angeles; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Beth Israel ^• Synagogue or the Rose Blumkin Home. JH PEARL (PAULLY) F. STEIN Word has been received here of the death of for- ^ mer Omahan Pearl (Paully) F. Stein in El Paso on fl Jan. 20. She was 83. V In addition to her husband, Ben, she is survived by a daughter, Phyllis Tromer of El Paso and a son, Terry of New Orleans, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. CORRECTION In the obituary for Clayton Block in last week's issue, his sister, Miriam Altman of Rochester, N.Y., was inadvertently ommitted. Also, his daughter, Carol Block, was incorrectly identified.
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By Deborah Kalb WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres distanced himself this week from controversial remarks made by his deputy, Yoisi Beilin, who said recently that Israel does not need "charity" from Diaspora Jews. In a conference call Monday with members of the American Jewish press, Peres said of Beilin'a comments, "I don't share his view.' Deputy Foreign Minister Beilin'i remarks, made in fh>nt ofa gathering of the Women's International Zionist Organiution, caused a commotion both in Israel and the Diaspora. The remarks, and Perei's subeequent denial that he shares Beilin'i attitude, came at a time when the Israeli government is tiying to retain international Jewish support for iu policies in the Middle ^ East peace process. ^| Polls taken after last September's agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Oipiniuition indicated an axtremsly high level of Mipport amone American Jews for the accord. J
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Candlelifhtinff: S:17 pjn. BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 1S02 No. 52nd Street Omaha, NE 68104 6S64288 Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. , Services are conducted by Rabbi Joseph Friedman. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat service is at 5:15 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning services are at 8:45 a.m. in the Sanctuary and Goldstein Chapel. Babysitter service is provided by Sisterhood, who also sponsors this week's Kiddush. Study Talmud with Rabbi Friedman at 4:15 p.m. Mincha is at 5:15 p.m. Shalosh Seudot, Ma'ariv and Havdalah conclude the services. SUNDAY: Services are at 9 a.m. Breakfast and a study session follows in the Beit Ha Midrash with Rabbi Friedman and Rabbi Gonsher. Evening services are at 6:15 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 7 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. Sisterhood Sisterhood Social, Saturday, 7:30 p.m., "Italian Coffee House." Senior NOSY Regional Shabbaton The Seniors are in Memphis, Tenn., and will return Sunday night. Junior NOSY Regional Shabbaton The Omaha chapter of the Junior NCSY will sponsor the next Midwest Region Shabbaton, Feb. 4-6. A full Mechitza will be in the main Sanctuary for this event. Register now. ^^^K TEMPLE ISRAEL ^^^K 7023 Cass Street ^^^ Omaha, NE 68132 ^P 566-6536 ^ FRIDAY: Shabbat evening service is at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Fink and Cantor Karen Webber-Gilat will officiate. Rabbi Fink's topic will be "fountains and Mitzvot" The Oneg Shabbat is sponsored Temple Sisterhood. SATURDAY: Shabbat morning service is at 11:15 a.m. Sisterhood Sisterhood will host a lunch and program Tuesday, Feb. 8, 12:30 p.m. Dr. Jack Kasher, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will discuss facts and fiction regarding UFO's. For information and reservations, phone the Temple ofTice, 556-6536, by Feb. 4. Coat is $7 and guests are welcome. Bar Mitzvah Morgan Denny, daughter of Bettie and Patrick Denny, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah at the Shabbat morning service Saturday, Feb. 5. Sitter Service Sitter service is available each Shabbat evening service and the Saturday morning Shabbat service when there is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Please make a reservation so we may plan accordingly. There are no facilities for infants. "TOW" Torah on Wheels (TOW) will be held Tuesday from 12 to 1:16 p.rti. at Fraser, Stryker Law Firm, 500 Electric Bldg., 409 So. 17th St. Bob Freeman is the host. Reservations are required. Call the Temple office at 566-6536. pj:.p. Parallel Education for Parents will meet Sunday at 10 a.m. The discussion topic will be 'On haired, revenge and pride: What is proper and improper love of self?" ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME SATURDAY; Services are held in the Golditen Chapel at 9 a.m. Members of the community nre invited to join reiidanti for Uie service and the kiddush following. ' Special memorial tervicti are held on th( last Saturday of each month. flil"i^^"= tijsr' M
Office Hours: Monday through Thursday: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ' Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits. FRIDAY: Services are at 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Services are at 9:30 a.m. Kiddush foUovnng services. Sitter service starts at 10 a.m. TSS (Torah and Siddur Skills) meets at 10 a.m. Shabbat story time is the first and third Saturday at 11a.m. Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah services at 5:25 p.m. Weekly Torah study, an English discussion of the Torah portion with modern commentaries, meets 30 minutes after services. SUNDAY: Services are at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services are at 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Judaica Shop Open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m. to noon, and by appointment. Lunch 'n Learn Lunch 'n Learn with the Rabbi continues Thursday. Call the office on Wednesday to reserve your place. Adult Siddur Class Adult Siddur classes continue Monday from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Bar Mitzvah Eric Goodman, son of Arlene and Paul Cohen and Barbara and Robert Goodman, will become a Bar Mitzvah Friday evening and Saturday morning.
B'NAI ISRAEL 618 Mynster Street Council Bluffs, Iowa 61603 322-4705 Rabbi Sheryl Shulewitz is the spiritual leader. For information on any synagogue activities, call 322-4705. FRIDAY: Services at 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Shulewitz will conduct the Tu B'Shevat Seder. Each household is asked to bring a dessert made with fruit or nuts for the Oneg. SATURDAY: Torah study service at the synagogue, 11 a.m. Rabbi Shulewitz's course on "Exploring Jewish Values from a Reconstructionist perspective" continues at the home of Deana and Mike Liddy, 9820 Spring St, Omaha, at 6 p.m. A potluck dinner and Havdalah follows at 6:30 p.m. SUNDAY: Religious School, Westside Community Education Center, from 10 a.m. to noon. Rabbi Search Committee at 10:30 a.m. FRIDAY, Feb. 4: Services are at 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY. Feb. 6: No Religious School. Reconstructionist Kallah, Madison, Wis.
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Lincoln, NE 68502 423-8569 Services are officiated by Rabbi Elihu Milder. FRIDAY: Light candles no later than 5:13 p.m. Services are at 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Sisterhood Shabbat dinner. Services are at 9:30 a.m. B'NAI JESHURUN 20th and South Streets Lincoln, NE 68502 435-8004 Services are officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser. FRIDAY: Shabbat evening service at 7:45 p.m. SATURDAY: Torah study and service at 10:30 a.m. SUNDAY: Hebrew school at 9 a.m.; Religious school at 10 a.m. TUESDAY: Adult education classes at 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY: Choir practice at 7:30 p.m. OFFUTT Capehart Chapel 25th Street and Capehart Omaha, NE 68123 294-6051 FRIDAY: Services start at 8 p.m.
IsraelA/atican dialogue Archbishop Daniel Sheehan and Rabbi Myer S. Kripke will be seen in dialogue on the Israel/Vatican Accord Sunday, Jan. 30 at 8 p.m. on Channel 21. The program will repeat Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 8 p.m.
Human rights in Jewish Law Zeev Falk, professor-emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, will speak Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7;30 p.m. in the Great Plains Room (205) of the Love Library, University of Nebraska t Lincoln. Sponsored by the Harris Center for Judaic Studies, the second annual Norman and Helene Krivosha lecture will be on Human Rights in Jewish Law in Israel. A dessert Kiddush in honor of Professor Falk will take place Feb. 5 following Shabbat services at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The dessert is sponsored by Jane and gtuart Margolis. The community may attend.
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be legislated. Not in secular law at least. How then can it be implanted into our socie<!y? At the end of our century and the entry into the next, this remains a towering problem for religionists, educators, sociologists, and' other professionals. The problem might be called "The Art of Parenting," and no marriage should take place without serious consideration of its social implications. To return to the Fifth Commandment. It may be helpful to see what the word "Honor" is translated from. The Hebrew verb is "kaBED." It is an intensive form of a word which means, basically, to have weight, to be hard. Pharaoh's heart, for example, was hard. A burden might be too heavy. Such are the uses of the word in its simplest form. In its simplest form it begins to acquire, also, the meaning of "honor." As it is used in the Fifth Commandment, it means that one must give weight, thus recognize the importance, of parents. Parents stand, for the child, in place of God, and the child must learn to recognize, if parenting is good, that the parent's view is law while the child is small and is "of weight" as the child grows in personal responsibility. The word does not mean that the parent's view is forever law. It does mean that the parent's opinion and person are to be forever considered, to be respected, to be given weight in one's own decision; and, shall we add, the parent is to be "loved." If all these considerations, stated so briefly, are to be noted on one word on one Commandment, do they not prove the necessity of Midrash (interpretation) and halakhah (legal limits)?
Parashat Yitro What Does "Honor" Mean? The Ten Commandments dominate our Sidrah. One might pursue the difference in meaning between "commandments," by which they are more or less universally known, and "dibrot," which the Hebrew uses. Dibrot means words, or utterances, or sayings, or pronouncements. But I turn to (another interest. The Fifth Commandment is Honor Your Father and Your Mother. But a host of quesiions about the extent of "Honor" immediately intrude on our thinking. Honor always? In every circumstance? Suppose they are not worthy of honor? Perhaps, then, something like "stick with," "support," or the like. Or, how far does Honor extend? Obey? Rabbinic Judaism warned that obeying was limited to the legal and moral. If the parent demands something illegal — like violating Shabbat — one was, obliged not to obey. Or does it mean total economic support in every instance, say at the cost of supporting one's children? Or denying them education? How is one duty to be weighed against another? In our present society we are deeply concerned with the apparent breakdown of family values and the integrity of the family unit. We think that it is responsible for the increase in crime, juvenile delinquency and juvenile crime, sexual immorality, children without resident fathers, and a host of other social problems which prove too knotty to solve. Obviously the Fifth Commandment could be, would be, should be of immense help. But it cannot
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Federation Community event features Elie Wiesel By Carol Katznian
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; a time for war and a time for peace, and the time for peace has come." These meaningful words from Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, were stated by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the historic signing of the peace accord between Israel and the PLO. As these words, heard on tonight's opening video, echo in our minds, I am reminded of the men and women who brought us to this day, not just campaign chairmen and Federation presidents, but our bubbes and zaydes. Not all of them are famous, few of them are mentioned in books, but one way or another, they had an impact on our lives. One such woman is Chaya Spinrad. She was bom in Poland, some 30 years before the first synagogue was founded in Omaha. She survived the loss of her mother in a raging blizzard, the pogroms of Eastern Europe, and saying goodbye to her daughter who left for the Goldene Medina, America. Chaya lived through World War I and the Great Depression, finally succumbing to the fatal shot by a German soldier during a Nazi death march. She was 94 years old and she was the woman for whom I am named. She was my great-grandmother. And this spring, her great-great-granddaughter, my daughter, Melissa, will travel back with 5,000 teenagers on the March of the Living to the land of Chaya's life and death to walk the road Chaya may have traveled. And, then, from the land that still stnells like death, those teenagers will fly to a land that resonates with the life force of seventh-generation sabres and newly arrived Russians and Ethiopians. She will see, flrst hand, the miracles that we, you and I, have helped create in the State of Israel. She will carry the memories of Chaya in her heart and add to that the visions of deserts blooming with the fruit of kibbutzim and high-tech indus-
To the Editor; There are a few men and women who quietly, devotedly, and without any recognition whatsoever, carry on the burdens of our Jewish community. Among them are those who serve as members of the Financial Aid Com<fnittee of the Bureau of Jewish Education. This committee awards scholarships and loans to Jewish families in need for a variety of educational experiences, including preschool, day school, summer camp, institutes, conventions, seminars, study missions to Israel, college and graduate studies. Because absolute confidentiality must be maintained, no one but other committee members is allowed to know the names of members of the Financial Aid Committee. Hence, those who serve must perform their difficult, but important, task in complete anonymity. One of these persons was the late Lucille Zelinsky. She served on the Financial Aid Committee for many years. She brought a wealth of experience because of her association with the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the social work and other activities she performed in the Jewish community. She had wonderful insights and a touch of humor. She will be very missed. Although she could not be honored for this work in her lifetime, we take this opportunity to honor her now. May her memory be for a blessing. Steven J. Riekes, chairman Financial Aid Committee To the Editor: What an evening! To say that last Thursday night's community event "with Professor Elie Wiesel was memorable is an understatement! I know this community will be talking about this for years and that other communities are sure to copy us, but it would not have happened without the support and generosity of this wonderful community. There are a few special people who should be thanked publicly: the entire staff of the Jewish Federation, Howard Bloom, Lori Rabb, Jan Perelman and Barb Chandler, as well as the support staff, especially Kathy Walker and Joan Pecarroro. In addition, I'd like to thank my co-chairmen, Howard Kooper and Harley Schrager, for their originality and dedicated follow-through and generosity in underwriting this event, along with their wives, Sharon and Beth, and Tom and Darlynn Fellman, Steve and Sheri Idelman and Phil and Terri Schrager. Omaha truly is "The Best of Jewish Communities!" Carol Katzman 1994 Women's Division Chairman
tries. She will place her hand on the Kotel, the Western Wall, maybe on the same place where Rabbi Akiba placed his hand, and feel the power of our 6,000-year history in her soul. Women, though not always mentioned by name, have always played a critical role in our Jewish heritage. In times past, whether in a pushke, or in a plan agreed upon with her husband, the Jewish woman accepted her obligation as an individual in her own right to help her fellow Jews. Jewish women have always set the example for giving. Through her involvement comes the education of the family and, in many cases, a woman has profound influence on the men in her life. Now, women make gifts in their own name. Last year, Women's Division across the nation raised more than $130,000,000! That's no longer plus giving, that's life giving, giving that makes a difference. There is a saying we all use as congratulations, To the Editor: Mazal Tov, good luck. But I prefer to use the words The evening with Elie Wiesel was an excellent Yasher Koach, go in strength. event. What was remarkable was the mixture of To the women of Women's Division, past, present Jews in Omaha, regardless of their status. Rich and and future, and to the men who have supported our poor, young and old, the learned and those who goals: I wish you L'Chaim and Yasher Kochachem. know less, all denominations were represented. It was a moving experience to see the Jewish Editor's Note: community come together in time of need. Elie The above talk by Carol Katzman was preWiesel shows us from personal experience that no sented by Mrs. Katzman before the introducmatter who suffers, we all have the responsibility tion of Professor Wiesel. Next week, we plan to help. Every community has its groups but needs to publish the remarks made by Harley no boundaries. Schrager. We all should come together to help one another and therefore become more human. Miriam Gross: Elected by CHAD Among those elected as officers of the Combined Health Agencies Drive during a recent meeting at the Omahs Country Club are: Sheri Idelman, Mike Shrier, and Deenie Meyerson.
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By Josef Klansky owners. PRAGUE (JTA) — Jewish community leaders in Jewish leaders here have long complained that the Czech Republic are protesting recently drafted Klaus' party, the Civic Democratic Party, has legislation to return confiscated Jewish property, ignored their calls for the return of Jewish property saying the measures do not go far enough. seized by Nazi Germany and by Czechoslovakia's On Jan. 13, Czech Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus postwar Communist governments. announced that legislation had been drafted calling Existing Czech laws cover only the period followfor the return of all functioning synagogues and all ing the 1948 Communist takeover of 17924 Dodge Street Jewish cemeteries to the country's dwindling Czechoslovakia. 391-1881 Jewish community. According to the latest draft legislation, which 13463 W. Center But the Federation of Jewish Communities here still has to be approved by Parliament, non-func330-1444 has charged that the draft legislation is not satis- tioning synagogues held by churches, non-governfactory and that there is a substantial amount'Of mental organizations and private persons would property still to be returned to its original Jewish not be returned to the Jewish community.
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"Communal leaders should stress the values of marrying Jews W^ (Continued trova Jan^l ) I To Help prevent intermarriage, communal leaders should stress the value and beauty of marrying other Jews, and "stack the deck" to increase the chances for in-marriage by giving children a substantive Jewish education and enrollin^g them in colleges with sizeable numbers of Jewish students. If such effbrts at prevention fail, says Bayme, b|0th the community and the family of the Jewish partner considering marriage should encourage conversion. In fact, Bayme notes, Mayer's 1987 study on •"Conversion Among the Intermarried," commissioned by the AJCommittee, shows that non-Jewish spouses show a greater willingness to embrace Judaism when surrounded by loving, caring Jews who want to ensure the Jewishness of their :new home and who aren't afraid to ask their partners to convert. Finally, as the third and Hnal option, should the cpuple decide to intermarry, Bayme advocates outreach. But even then, he maintains, outreach "must be targeted to those mixed marrieds who are interested in leading a Jewish life." Why? Because, says Bayme, not all intermarrieds are candidates for conversion. Some, he said, "will always prefer to take a walk." Unless programs and rabbis specifically target couples who have shown some active interest in Judaism, Bayme maintains, the danger exists that the message of outreach will overwhelm the imperative of in-marriage. In fact, he says, that signal is already flashing. The most recent figures from the NJPS data which put conversion at about 4 percent are "almost negligible," and constitute a "community defeat." In response, Mayer insists that he is not encouraging intermarriage. He says, "I fiave no objection to anyone opposing intermarriage of Jews, or synagogues advocating in-marriage, or the organized Jewish community: My concern is, what do you do when you fail?" Splitting hairs? Is such debate on how best to respond to inter-
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'Wines Around the World' Temple Israel's Men's Club will host "Wines around the World," Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m. The event is at Spirit World, 11420 Davenport St., and includes dinner and wine tasting. Cost is $19 per person and the entire community may attend. For reservations, call the Temple office.
marriage a matter of splitting hairs? Both Mayer and Bayme admit that the forces at work that lead to intermarriagre cannot be stopped. Both advocate outreach, albeit as different priorities. Why make such a fuss about what, to the untrained eye of the outsider, seems a difference in strategic nuance? Money. And plenty of it. Ii{ a world where Jewish communal priorities come with price tags, the stakes are high. To date, for example, the Reform movement's UAHC spends nearly 8 percent of its $50-million budget on outreach programs. And while that may pay for the lion's share of the more thtm 500 programs around the country, the rest are supported directly or indirectly by Jewish federations. Any new efforts will be competing for space on increasingly tight Jewish communal budgets^ Pumping money into' such programs makes sense if outreach is a top priority. But if outreach is the third priority—after prevention and conversion— might not the money now devoted to outreach to the intermarried be better spent on reaching unaffiliated Jews, on Jewish education, or on other programs to enhance Jewish identity and increase the chances that Jews date and marry other Jews? And in the wake of the new thrust toward finding ways of ensuring Jewish continuity—an agenda that is already attracting the fmancial and organizational clout of federation leaders across the country—millions of dollars are at stake. Moreover, because intermarriage remains the hot-button issue of the day, and because many Jewish leaders are either intermarried themselves or otherwise.experience interfaith marriages in their own families, the issue threatens to sweep away more pressing communal problems. For policy planners, the issue may come down to this: Should the Jewish community devote its scarce resources on reaching Jews before they marry, or should it pump resources into the families who have intermarried? Jacob Ukeles, in a paper published by the AJCommitee last year, submitted that while out-
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Shabbat campout Boy Scout Troop 218 attended the annual winter Shabbat campout near Fontenelle Forest. Upon arriving at Camp Wakonda, they built a fire inside the cabin and began preparing the Shabbat meal. They also designed Shabbat candle holders using an aluminum foil tube and foil. Drs. Mark Pilley and Andrew Robertson, assistant Scoutmasters, led the troop on a day hike through the woods to nearby Fontenelle Forest, where they saw several wild animals and identified signs of other animals and their tracks. Joel Rich and Dick Lerner joined the group the following day for a hike and sledding. Scouts learnM that the buddy system is more than just a requirement for rank advancement when Adam Nichols had a sledding mishap and his buddy, Aaron Rich, went for help. They then had a lesson in basic first aid, treating Adam's bruised arm. Some of the Scouts earned the totin' chip and firem'n chit.They also worked on the astronomy . merit badge, camping merit badge, orienteering and wilderness survival. ^'
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reach to intermarried couples should be on the communal agenda, "such efforts should have very low priority for limited identity-building dollars." In his paper, entitled "Does Outreach Justify Investment? Alternative! to Outreach," Ukeles, president of Ukeles Associates and an adjunct professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, challenges one piece of prevailing wisdom. Rather than trying to reach out to couples where such identity may not already be present, he said, "I believe it is more important to send a 13-yearold who has completed supplementary school and attended a Jewish-sponsored day camp to Israel for intensive travel and study than it is to hire outreach workers to work with intermarried couples." Nor will these and other questions be brushed aside any time soon. As debates on the Jewish continuity agenda heat up—"Jewish continuity" being a code word for Jewish survival in the face of growing rates of intermarriage—priorities will continue to come under scrutiny. As the CJFs Commission on Jewish Continuity and the recently opened Jewish continuity "desk" at New York's UJA- Federation begin to examine what programs best enhance and preserve Jewish identity, the arguments over outreach can be expected to become more intense. In fact, at the upcoming CJF General Assembly in Montreal next week, Mayer is expected to release the results of a questionnaire he sent to large givers in the UJA/Federation network. The overarching queiy: "Should outreach be a priority for philanthropic dollars?" A similar question that was posed by Brandeis University sociologist Gary Tobin in a survey published in 1991 for the United Jewish Appeal revealed that although outreach is a priority for UJA/Federation allocations, donors remain skeptical about earmarking large sums for the effort without examining what the results would be. (Continued on page 11 )
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Israeli skater to compete Misha Shmerkin, a 23-year-old champion figure skater from Odessa, will represent Israel in its first appearance at a Winter Olympic Games, starting Feb. 12 in Lillehammer, Norway. Shmerkin immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union in 1991 with the help of the United Jewish Appeal's Operation Exodus Campaign.
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(Continued £roin page 10) Nor are the Bayme/Mayer sides of the intermarriage debate being aired in a vacuum. After Bayme presented his position in an address delivered in 1991 at the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly convention, the movement adopted much of Bayme's approach. Since that tinie, with some variations, the movement, the second largest Jewish denomination in the country, has adopted a similar strategy of prevention, conversion and outreach. Mayer's ideas, on the other hand, have been adopted in almost wholesale form by the Reform movement. Des Moines attorney David Bellin, former chairman of the Reform movement's Outreach Commission, is heading the conversion campaign for which Schindler wants to raise $5 million. He is also the president of the Jewish Outreach Institute, a think-tank created and directed by sociologist Mayer. Challenging Mayer's claim that outreach either is or should become a driving force on the communal agenda are signs that even where its primacy reigns supreme, problems persist. Even the Reform movement, which has vigorously sought to strike a balance between "rejecting intermarriage, but not the intermarried," has seen the consequences of stressing too much of one over the other. Echoing thoughts first aired by Schindler at the UAHC's biennial convention two years ago. Rabbi Steven Fuchs, a Reform rabbi from Nashville, argued in Sh'ma magazine that the very success of outreach to interfaith couples makes it difficult to convey the movement's opposition to intermarriage in the first place. •"Our movement has been phenomenally successful in accepting the intermarried and integrating them into our congregations," he wrote. "That success, though, does make it more difllicult to discourage interfaith marriage.' There are hints that the Reform movement recognizes this difTiculty, even in the UAHC's most recent decision to broaden the mandate for conversion to the general public.
Indeed, in the same address in which he advocated outreach to the "unchurched," Schindler admitted that the success of the outreach movement "has raised some thorny issues for synagogues. Since so many interfaith couples join our congregations, defining the role of the new-Jew in the Temple has become a critically pressing need." Citing the'fact that 90 percent of Reform synagogues allow non-Jews to be members and 62 percent grant them full voting rights, Schindler said: "Boiuidaries need to be drawn. [TJhere will be no incentive to embrace Judaism if both Jew and nonJew have the same entitlement." And, he warned, "such a blurring of distinctions will lead to the attenuation of our faith." Nor is the debate confined to the Reform move^ ment. At last year's annual convention of B'nai B'rith, one of the largest Jewish organizations in the country, more than an hour of heated debates erupted over a proposal to admit non-Jewish spouses as members. Amidst changing perceptions regarding the primacy of outreach on the communal agenda, built-in resistance to Bayme's emphasis on prevention persists. Perhaps that is because despite his stress on the importance of in-marriage, few rabbis or communal leaders can resist railing agunst intermarriage in semi-apocalyptic terms—hardly an invitation to learn more about Judaism. . For Rabbi Rachel Cowan—who with her late husband Paul Cowan co-authored the seminal 1987 book on intermarriage. Mixed Blessings—it is the negative imagery that Jews are exposed to first, often to the exclusion of all others. "Children growing up in the Jewish community know that they should not intermarry— they've been taught that very well," she said in a recent interview with Tikkun magazine. "But too often they don't know why they should remain Jews." Cowan, who converted to Judaism and often counsels interfaith couples, added: "By focusing on the problem as being intermarriage, however, the organized Jewish community misses the fact that
Jews prominent in ANC list for elections By Suzanne Belling JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) — Four Jews are among the top 50 names on the African National Congress' slate of candidates for South Africa's first non-racial elections in April. Several other Jews are listed among the ANC's top 200. The ANC, led by President Nelson Mandela, is the first political party to announce its list of candidates for the country's Parliament The party's list was published in the national media. Joe Slovo, chairman of the South African
Communist Party, a longtime ally of the ANC, holds the No. 4 slot in the party list The only candidates to receive a greater number of votes for party candidate were Mandela: Cyril Ramaphosa, ANC secretary- general; and Thabo Mbeki, ANC chairman. Ramaphosa and Mbeki are rivals to eventually succeed Mandela as president of the ANC and probably of the country. The flamboyant Ronnie Kasrils, former chief of intelligence of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto weSizwe and
formerly one of the country's "most-wanted" people during the anti-apartheid struggle, received the eighthhighest number of votes. Raymond Suttner, who was detained in South African prisons for many years for his anti-apartheid activities, is at No. 30, and ANC spokesperson Gill Marcus holds position No. 47. Slovo, Kasrils and Marcus, all former exiles, returned to South Africa after the ban on the ANC was lifted in 1990. Polls indicate that the ANC is likely to win over 120 seats.
tlie deeper problem is not being able to transmit to the next generation what is exciting about Judaism." That may explain why successful "prevention" strategies and projects—for example, says Bajmie, sending children to colleges or universities with larger enrollments of Jewish, students—tend to be overlooked. A recent study by Brandeis University sociolbgist Sylvia Barak-Fishman pointed to a close correlation between high levels of Jewish education and more intensive Jewish affiliation, together with lower rates of intermarriage. Among those aged 2544, only 20 percent of those who had six or more years of day school education intermarried, compared with 70 percent of those who had no Jewish education at all who married outside the faith. For the Orthodox, those figures are nothing new. In a recent review of graduates from Ramaz Day School in Manhattan, only 6 percent reported their spouse had come from a non-Jewish home. Yet even in those cases, half of that number had converted to Judaism, thus making the in-marriage rate 97 percent. Nevertheless loud alarm bells are also ringing within the Orthodox community. According to the NJPS, prior to 1965, the number of Orthodox Jews who intermarried was just under 5 percent. After 1985, this figure rose to 25 percent While those figures are still lower than that of Reform Jews, whose intermarriage rate jumped from 12 to 65 percent during the identical period, they are a vivid demonstration that even Orthodox Jews are susceptible to tlxe same sociological forces propelling the national intermarriage spiral up to 52 percent Such figures may explain, why, for example, the Orthodox Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) announced the formation of a commission on intermarriage at its annual convention last summer. It will undoubtedly stress the virtues of in-marriage, combined with ongoing educational "inreach" efforts, while seeking ways to maintain ties with those who may marry out.
Collaborator to be tried By Michel Di Paz PARIS (JTA) — French wartime collaborator 'Paul Touvier will go on trial for crimes against humanity on March 17 in the Versailles Court of Justice. Tbuvier, 79, was the
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