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NCJW donates $10,000 to Bureau for the Aging Debbie Friedman, president of tKe Omaha Section, NCJW, presents a $10,000 check to Bob Lepp, president, Bureau for the Aging, for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home Endowment Fund. The money is from the,NCJW Project Fund, which is used exclusively for the Home. Rae Brodkey and Lois Friedman are chairmen. For the past 40 years, NCJW-Omaha Section, has donated approximately $200,000 to the Philip Sher Home and Rose Blumkin Home, including one-andone-half vans, large televisions and two lifts. Anyone wishing to contribute, may call either of the chairmen. It is the hope that this gift will spark a campaign to promote more gifts to the Endowment Fund of the Home.
HIAS, Chicago Federation resettle Bosnians By EHzabeth Bernstein JUF News HICAGO (JTA) — Reacting to the protracted oodshed in the former Yugoslavia, the New Yorkased Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the ewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago have ttablished a program to resettle Bosnian Muslim »fugees in Chicago. Two of the Chicago federation's afTlliated agenes, the Jewish Family and Community Service nd Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center, are also aying key roles in the resettlement program. "Because both HIAS and the federation have a Ing history of involvement in refugee resettlement nd strong networks of local resettlement agencies, •e felt it incumbent upon us to take a l6ad in reseting these victims of this tragic war," said Edward 'ox, president of the Chicago federation. The federation has the prime contract with the late of Illinois to administer the state's program to
resettle refugees coming to Illinois. During the past decades, the federation has resettled tens of thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish newcomers from Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East, as well as 20,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union. Now, the new program will make the Chicago Jewish community the only one in the country that has organized resettlement efforts for a significant number of refugees from the war-torn former Yugoslavia. Chicago is a natural location for the new program, since the city has the largest Bosnian community in the country. To date, the HfAS=federation program has resettled 65 Bosnian refugees out of a total of 700 that will be brought to Chicago by the summer. An additional 150 refugees are scheduled to be resettled here in the near future.
J.FO. announces V.I.P. for H.R.D. By Barbara Chandler, Federation public relations director "V.I.P. —Volunteer Involvement and Placement the spur of the moment, we have positions for you. "There are jobs that can be done during the a new name for someevenings or on weekends. Some are on-going types ing that's actually been ound for generations — of positions; others are one-time activities. The following are just a few examples of jobs e Jewish neighborhood. I've been asked to fill. Jewish Family Service needs I's simply a great way someone to talk on the phone with newly arrived r Jewish people to get Russian families so they can practice their English. gether and develop They also need someone who can do odd jobs, fixing imething for the comthings around the house for those who are disabled unity," explained Zoe or elderly. ekes, chairman of the The Jewish Community Center needs school tderation's new Human break monitors, grant writers, photographers, score (source Development Dgram. ITie program is keepers, BBYO advisors. Child Development Zoe Riekes Center shoppers and much more. •igned to fill a need in e Federation family of agencies for more volunThe Bureau for the Aging needs someone to er involvement. Mrs. Riekes has spoken with the design flyers for programs, someone to help with Medicare forms, and people to help coordinate sem(ency directors about their volunteer needs. "Every agency is stretched to the limit in terms inars. The Library needs good storytellers, and somemanpower," she said. They have many, many »s that could be filled by volunteers, but recruit- one interested in learning how to use computers l, placing and training those volunteers requires could do computer input for them. "ADIVCRC would like someone to produce a set ditional manpower. 'That's where the V.I.P. program comes in. We of standardized letters to be sent in response to 11 serve as a type of volunteer employment requests for information. They need someone to ency for the agencies, matching volunteers with monitor school board meetings and would like to ency needs and providing whatever training and get some people involved in a textbook review prolow-up is necessary to make the experience satis- gram. "The Bureau of Jewish Education needs someone ng for the volunteers and helpful to the agento catalog resources and help with mailings and ».Mrs. Riekes already hat a long list of jobs that projects, and the Jewish Press needs help people to ed filling and is ready to begin interviewing vol- type stories into the computer and advertising telemarketers. iteers. "If you are interested in ona^iliese positions, or *We have jobs to fit nearly every time Khedule vd interest — everything from clerical tasks to would like to know what else is available, please let trdinsting events to reviewing videotapes to just us know. We want you to be part of our Jewish king on the phone. You don't have to be «vail- neighborhoodl" To becoms a V.I.P, volunteer, or for more inforle from 6 to 5, Monday through Friday to be a .P. Whether you have an hour a day, an hour a mation, please call the Federation office at 3348200, ext. 210. ek, an hour a month, or you just want to help on
"No More Lists" theme of memorial observance "No More Lists!" is the theme for theJfclo^^st Memorial Observance to be held Wedne^p?| Mffi\ 13, 7:30 p.m., in the East Senate ChamblK of the State Capitol in Lincoln. • • • UNL Chancellor Graham Spainer will speak, with remarks by Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson and Michael Johanns, mayor of Lincoln. Music will be provided by students from Irving Middle School with Paula Baack, choral director. Also, Gail Wishnow of the school will once again have selected readings from some of her poetry class on their feelings about the Holocaust. The event is co-sponsored by the office of the Governor, office of the mayor of Lincoln, Lincoln Jewish Federation, Community Relations Committee of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the Lincoln Interfaith Council. Donna Hersch is chairman of the Planning Committee. She said. The people of Nebraska are called upon to rededicate themselves to the principle of equal justice for all people and are asked to remain vigilant against all tyranny, recognizing that hatred and bigotry provide a breeding ground for tyranny to flourish." The program is free and open to the public.
'The Hunt for Adolf Elchmann' On May 11, 1960, at 8:05 p.m., a middle-aged man stepped off a bus in suburban Buenos Aires, was grabbed by the neck and bundled into a waiting car that took off and disappeared into the night. Twelve days later he surfaced — thousands of miles away in Israel — and made headlines that stunned the world. The man's name was Adolf Eichmann, the infambus Nazi war criminal known as the "Architect of the Final Solution," and his capture by Israeli intelligence agents marked the end of an exhaustive, 15year, worldwide manhunt unlike any this century had seen. Nearly 35 years later, top secret details of the hunt, kidnapping, and trial of Eichmann are revealed for the first time in The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann, a new documentary produced by Ron Frank and Dan Setton, premiering Friday, April 8, from 8 to 10 p.m., as part of Time Machine with Jack Perkins" on the A&E television network. The ^ program is narrated by actor Gregory Peck. iA Shot on location in Austria, Germany, Italy, Argentina, England and Israel. The documentary uses a mixture of techniques and dramatic reenactments to retrace the circuitous route Eichmann took following his escape from Germany after World War II and to bring to life the events surrounding his remarkable capture in Buenos Aires 15 years later. The program draws on a wealth of material from top secret Israeli intelligence files made available exclusively to the producers, including full transcripts of his interrogations by agents in Argentina, and features the first-hand accounts of intelligence agents and government officials who planned and executed the covert "Operation Eichmann." Among the startling facts revealed in the program are: How Eichmann was captured by the Americans following the war but escaped from a POW camp; how an organization with ties to the Vatican helped him escape to South America; how a blind Holocaust survivor put the Mossad on his trail; how his carefully planned kidnapping was nearly bungled; how Eichmann, drugged and disguised in an El Al crew uniform, was smuggled out of Buenos Aires on a diplomatic plane; how the Mossad attempted to capture his colleague, Josef Mengele, The Angel of Death' from Auschwitz; how Eichmann was put to death, the only time in Israel's history that the death penalty has been carrii'd out. 'y
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