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^ LOVE Affair update... Commentary by Bert Lewis '' Eight days and counting....after months and months of planning, thousands of phone calls, dozens of meetings, the weekend of the fund-raiser for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home is nearly here. The many people involved in this monumental first effort have done whatever necessary to ensure success. Soon, the fruits of this labor will be visible at the Home. Proceeds of the benefit were designated for the sp^fic project of refurnishing both dining rooms and the tea room. The tables and chairs presently in use are nearly 13 years old and have already been refinished once. Eugene Brandt, executive director of the Home, says ^t will be wonderful to have adjustable tables to better accommodate our many wheelchair residents.' When a wheelchair can fit easily under a table, the person in it can eat more comfortably. Those able to sit in a regular chair will find the new ones both pleasurable and attractive, according to Mr. Brandt. The tea room can stand some change from the standpoint of comfort as well as beauty. Mr. Brandt says *the uneven surface of the floor can be dangerous for folks walking with a cane or walker. I would like to replace it with a level, smooth material to improve the safety factor,' He also hopes, if funds are adequate, to "remove the decorative shingles from the wall and change the look completely.' Love Aifair co-chairmen Lorrie Bernstein and Florence Brody remind eveiyone this beautification project was the purpose of the benefit. Mrs. Bernstein says, 'Everyone who participated in this effort will feel good when they see the results.' Ms. Brody reminds anyone who needs to know, "It's not too late to get tickets for the Shecky Greene concertl' HE
Klutznick Symposium: The Second Day By the Symposium committee The second day of the Eighth Annual Klutznick Symposium will take place at the Creighton University Student Center, Monday, Sept. 18. The sessions and parking are firee Euid all are welcome. Presentations will consider visual images of the Jew, the Oberammergau Passion Play, how Greek and Latin authors pictured Jews, anti-Semitic caricatures, radical Islamism and the Jews, and images of Jews in Black-Jewish discourse. The 1 p.m. session will be devoted to representations of the Jew ii> American literature. Regine Rosenthal (Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario) will present Inventing the Other. The Wandering Jew in 19th Century American Literature. Rosenthal argues that the literary image of the Wandering Jew, a favorite topic in Western literature and an integral part of the popular culture, reflects society's deep ambivalence towards the Jew in nineteenth century America. Alienation bychoice the qualities of ironic separation required for living successfully in the margin of the dominant culture distinguish novelist Henry James's most complex characters and The Idea of the Jew in Henry James's Novels by Greg Zacharias (Creighton University). Zacharias explains why the idea of the Jew is so important to James's imagination and to his fiction. In Shifting Perspectives of the Jew in TwentiethCentury American Litsraturs, Lillian Kramer (Kanias State University) compares the literary portraits of Jews drawn by Qsntile and Jewish Amsrican writsrs. Kramer shows that gentile portraits are mostly shallow, emphasicing the phyaicality of the Jew and based on the Shylock paradigm. Jewish writers, in contrast, depict fully rounded characters raflecting the variety of Jewish . history and civilisation.
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Newman Grants Committee accepting requests to fund new and innovative programs including its special or unique features; an agency's abiUty to carry out the purposes and goals of the program or service; and the cost-benefit considera.The Esther K. Newman/Carolyn Kully Newman tions of a program. Grants Committee will be accepting grant applicaSponsoring organizations are encouraged to partions from Jewish organizations and institutions ticipate financially or in-kind, Mrs. Oberman through Friday, Oct. 6. i noted, adding that she hopes organizations will The Newman Grants Committee is interested in work together to provide programming that meets contributing to projects that provide programming the needs of a croes-aection of Jewish youth. for children, teenagers, and young adults under the The Grants Committee, responsible for the alloage of 23 who are not attending a college or univer- cation of monies from both funds, is comprised of sity, according to Committee Chairperson Myra representatives hvm the Jewish Federation Board, the Budget and Allocations Committee, the Bureau Oberman. Both Newman memorial funds are administered of Jewish Education, the Jewish Community by The Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Center, Beth Israel, and Beth El Synagogues, Temple Israel, Friedel Jewish Academy, B'nai Omaha. Funds from the Esther K. Newman Fund are B'rlth Youth Organization, and The Federation allocated to programs designed to strengthen Foundation. Applications will be accepted through Oct 6 only Jewish identity and values through educational, religious, cultural, social, or recreational activities, from those requests that meev the Newman Committee's guidelines and criteria. 'Pleasp Mrs. Oberman said. She added that the committee is particularly become familiar with the particular requirements interested in new and innovative programming, not of the Grants Committee to determine if a prqject qualifies under our prerequisites,* specified Mrs. on-going projects. Grants from the Carolyn Kully Newman Fund Oberman. The committee will meet on Oct. 24 to determine benefit programs for famiUes with children who are awards. Application forms are available at The of kindergarten age or younger. Funds may also be allocated to purchase equip- Foundation office. Endowment Director Sheldon A. Bernstein may ment and material needed for these projects. Among the criteria for selecting grant recipients be reached at 334-6440 to answer questions in are the value of a program to the community. regard to completing the forms. By Claudia Sherman Foundation public relations director
Israel orders closure of Palestinian agencies By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal has issued an order to close down three Palestinian institutions in eastern Jerusalem believed to have illegal ties to the Palestinian Authority. The closure orders were served Monday on the Palestinian Broadcasting Authority, the Palestinian Health Council and the Palestinian Statistics Center. Israel has been concerned that the Palestinian Authority has been attempting to establish in eastern Jerusalem the de facto capital of a future Palestinian state. Under the terms of the self-rule accord, the Palestinian Authority must restrict its activities to those areas under its control — currenUy the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho. Negotiations on the final status of Jerusalem are slated to begin in May 1996. Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Authority, denounced the closure orders as a violation of the peace accord. "It's completely against the agreement,' he told reporters in Gaza. "Especially that
those three centers are very old centers, from even before our Palestinian Authority and our arrival here in Gaza." Senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Faisal Husseini said a regional meeting on tourism being held in Cairo had been suspended because of the closiu-e order. Husseihi said the peace process "cannot continue or be concluded under this atmosphere, which is imposed by Israel and which strengthens the Israeli right wing." The Israeli closure order came in the wake of rising tensions over Palestinian activities at Orient House, the PLO's de facto headquarters in eastern Jerusalem. . Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert recentiy threatened to shut down Orient House, saying that it was zoned for a hotel and demanding that the owners apply for rezoning license. The Palestinians have refused. Husseini has said any attempt to shut down Orient House would bring the peace process to a halt
UJA offers Israel missions to interfalth couples By Micbele Chabin JERUSALEM (JTA) After years of stinjggling with the issue of intermarriage, the United Jewish Appeal has begun to offer Israel Experience missions to interfalth couples. The first mission, which traveled to Israel last month, offered a unique blend of Jewish and Christian sites snd aaperiences. Unlike other UJA missions, which concentrate on Jewish history snd culture, the 'intermarrieds" tour included visits to such Christian sites as the Mount of Beatitudes, Nazareth and Bethlehem, as well as places of Jewish interest. A year in the planning, the tailor-made pilot trip attracted eight couples in their 20s and 30B. Few, if any, had ever visited Israel. By all accounts, the decision to accommodate intermarried couples within the framework of the UJA represents a bold step for the fund-raising
organization. Although the UJA haa long accepted non-Jews wishing to tour Israel with their Jewish spouses, it has been loath to ofTer missions specifically for intermarried couples. The reason: Such an action might have suggested that the UJA and, by association, the Jewish community as a whole was giving intermarriage its official stamp of approval, according to UJA oflldals. The dedsion to cater now to intermarried couples 'was based on the high rate of assimilation and intermarriage in the Jewish community," UJA National Chairman Richard Pearlstone said in an interview. It laemed like the appropriate time to reach out, to help intermarried couples feel mors• MHUcomfortable in the Jewish community,' he said
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