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-Diamond Jubilee Edition L 7920 1995 Editorial: By Morris Maline

1^1 am tru truly honored to be the editor of the Omaha Jewish Press at this point in its history. Seventy-five years have passed since a group of dedicated Jews established this newspaper to serve and promote the Jewish community. Three quarters of a century is a long period of time in the life of an individual and those who founded the paper are no longer with us, but their essence lives on in every word that appears on these pages, week after week, month after month, year after year, and hopefully, century after centu-

for a newspaper to publish. To the best of my knowledge, the Jewish Press has never missed a week of publication despite the many problems that a business of this nature encounters on a daily basis. Yet, the 75-years of Jewish activity preserved on these many thousands of pages, can be likened to a "blip* on the radar screen of thousands of years of Jewish civilization. One function of this newspaper often is overlooked while the staff and scores of volunteers heroically try to record life cycle events, community You will find their names on page 11 where we happenings, reaction to world-shaking events, and have reprinted the original front page of this news- the constant striving of Jews to improve the world. paper. What we often fail to recognize is that our weekly Please take the time to review the list and in output becomes part of the overall, worldwide your own way salute those who thought enough of Jewish experience. this Jewish community to establish a communicaOur contribution to Jewish life in Nebraska and tions vehicle to help advance Jewish life. Iowa is being duplicated by hundreds of other Seventy-five years may be a long time for an indi- Jewish publications throughout the world. vidual, but this spread of time also is a long time As we study Jewish history of biblical times,

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future generations will study Jewish history being documented today. As I exit this space and free your access to this issue, let me not forget to thank ray friends and colleagues, Mary Fellman, Oliver Pollak, and Maureen LaPour. ' Mrs. Fellman needs no introduction. She is a whirlwind of creativity and a past editor of the Jewish Press. Dr. Pollak, a history professor and attorney, is a past president of the Jewish Press. Mrs. LaPour is managing editor of the Jewish Press. This creative team deserves the credit for a labor of love, and this type of effort is typical of the activity that goes into the production of this paper. Now you can see why 1 derive so much pleasure in being the editor of the Omaha Jewish Press.

Join me in a toast: L'chajdm

'What a wonderful Hanukkah gift for us all!'

Taiitor's Note: It is with great pleasure that we bring you the following story concerning the Dorothy K. Kripke Children's Book Collection. I believe this to be a wonderful example of the material we provide to continue the fine tradition of this newspaper.

books were all accepted for publication without a single rejection slip. At one time, a publisher requested that Mrs. Kripke write a book about sex because such a book would sell in brisk numbers. He said his wife shied away from such a direct approach, instead coming up with: Let's Talk About Loving: Love, Sex, Marriage and Family. 'She asked me to contribute a male's view of the subject and this is the only book in which I played a part." He said also that he surprised his wife by sending one of her unpublished manuscripU to a publisher and found to his delight that it was accepted. This book, the 11th, is titled Let's Talk About the Sabbath and is scheduled for publication next September. All that remains, someone quipped, is for The Kripke family: To the left of Rabbi Myer S. and Dorothy K. Kripke are their aon, Saul, and daughter, Madeline F. someone to write a book called. Let's Talk Kripke. To their right are daughter and son-in-law Netta About Dorothy. Kripke Stem and Yossi Stem and their children, Gil and Tamiu-. Saul's wife, Margaret Gilbert Kripke was unable to attend because of academic commitments. Brandt to retire

By Morris Maline The dedication of the Dorothy K Kripke Children's Collection at the Omaha Jewish Federation Library took place Sunday at the Jewish Community Center. An estimated 200 friends of the Kripkes joined Rabbi Kripke, his wife Dorothy, and their children for reflection and celebration. Federation President Tom Fellman thanked the Kripke children for endowing the'Collection, calling it, *A valuable treasure." "What a wonderful Hanukkah gift to us all from the Kripke family," he said. He said the Kripkes have left their educational print on so many in Omaha, and that the Dorothy Kripke Collection will provide a valuable resource for teaching and sharing with future generations. He urged those attending to follow the Kripke family "footprints' and consider endowing some part of this Jewish community's legacy. 'Money is always io nhort supply, and as we rebuild our own infrastructure, endowmento will enable us to ensure bright and rich Jewish experience for so many generations to come. Nancy Rips, president of the Library, announced the establishment of the Dorothy S. Kripke Children's Book Fund by the Kripke children: Saul and Margaret Qilbert Kripke, Madeline F. Kripke and Yoiai and Nette Kripke Stern. Mi. Ript said, 'Now, we will have the fund* to

ensure the continued growth of our fine, comprehensive collection of Jewish literature for children. She also announced that a permanent display case would contain the works of Mrs. Kripke and took the opportuni ty to make the audience aware of the Children's Tile Wall now on display in the Library. Rabbi Kripke said he was 'elected* by his children to be their spokesman for the occa sion. With occasional clari flcation from a soft-spoken Mrs. Kripke, he described her initial interest in writing as an opportunity to prepare rhymes for their son, Saul. These rhymes grew into a collection which resulted in Rhymes to Play and Rhymes to Pray. He pointed out that her series of 'Let's Talk"

from Bluinkin Home Eugene Brandt, executive director of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, has announced his retirement, effective June, 1995. Bob Lepp, president of the Bureau for the Aging, has appointed Jerold Dann to head a search committee. "Gene's knowledge and long-time experience in the nursing home field has been invaluable to our nursing home residents, their families, and the Jewish community," said Mr. Lepp. In May, 1982, Mr.Brandt came to the then Dr. Philip Sher Home for a six-montli temporary supervisory position, having retired from his business activities. He was hired permanently and has overseen the transition from the retirement/ nursing home facility for 76 people on North 62nd Street to the 119bed Blumkin nursing home, part of the Jewish, communal campus on 132nd Street He and his wife plan to move to Arizona,

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Parashat Mikketz — Shabbat Hanukkah Joseph, Hanukkah, and Good Society

Changes at JAFI (The Jewish Agenby for Israel) The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israeli Government recently agreed on some changes in their responsibilities for various social service programs. WHAT CHANGES 1. The Jewish Agency transfers Youth Aliyah responsibility to the government in September 1996, which will save JAR $60 million a year. 2. The government now assumts all funding of Na'aleh 16, which brings teenagers from the former Soviet Union to Israel. JAFI continues to recruit participants for Youth Aliyah and Na'aleh 16. 3. JAFI assumes full responsibility for the Student Authority, which currently supports 11,000 student olim in Israeli institutions of higher education. Previously, the cost of the $45 million program was split between the government's Absorption Ministry and JAFI. THE NUMBERS JAFI received $201 million in funding from the I'JA campaign in 1994, $30 million less than in 1993; allocations by Federations to UJA are, on average, around 40%. Omaha's alloc;iiion in I99.'S, including Israel programming, was 40%. The estimated 1.4 million Jews who remain in the former Soviet Union continue to leave for Israel at the rate of .^.(KX) to 6,000 per month. Operation f-xo<lus funds have been exhausted and JAFI is funding this aliyah through its Annual Campaign allocations. CLIP t SAVE

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22 Russian Club, 10 a.m. MOVFTY Winter Conclave, through December 25 Temple Israel Chanukah Dinner/ Service, 6 p.m., Temple Israel TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26 Old Timers, 10:30 a.m. BBYO Night, 6:15 p.m. BBYO Winter Regional Convention, St. Louis, through Dec. 29 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27 Breadbreakers, Regency West, noon Hadassati "Ask the Doctor' Series— Dr. John Goldner, 7 p.m., TBA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28 Walk-In Drop-In, 10 a.m.

'Al events held at the JCC unless otherwise indicaled. The Jnrish Pnst is nolnspomiUe far»» accuracy of the itow «wnts. To kMp cil«n(Ur iccurili or (or qutstlont on irtlvltiM, etllUirlin«Hirt it 334-6437.

There is a subtle connection of idea between a word in our Sidrah and the famous lesson of our Haflarah, the Hailarah for Shabbat Hanukkah. When Joseph is hastily summoned before PharaOh to interpret the dreams that so troubled the monarch, he had opportunity to lay claim to skills and insights given to no one else in all the land of Egypt, indeed in whole, the whole of the region. Instead, he demurs, modestly, and says "Biladai..." "It is not in me." And he goes on to say that it is (jrod who has permitted Pharaoh to know what is about to happen. Earlier, when he was installed as m^or domo of Potiphar's household, and he resists the advance of Potiphar's wife, he told her that it would be an offense to his master, which she knew, but that it was also an offense against God. This was new to an Egyptian. No: Although this famous Joseph story is told Iwgely from a secular point of view—no alters, no cult, no prayers—Joseph twice reminds himself and those about him that he is a Hebrew: In the end, it is God who rules and God Who is the source both of wisdom and morality. Now to our Haftarah. It is widely understood that the first Hanukkah, when the Maccabees cleansed the Temple and began an eight-day celebration, in effect they were celebrating a delayed Sukkot, and that Hanukkah was a victory celebration in a Sukkot mode. Under their Greek rulers, it would have been impossible to have circumambulations (hakkofot) about the altar, but now, now everything was restored. The rabbis in later times were uneasy about Hanukkah as a victory festival. They were not enamored of the ill-fated Maccabean kingdorn which followed the victory. They saw little point in this increasingly religiously corrupt kingdom, which ignominiously fell under the rapacious rule of the Romans. Hence they chose as the Haftarah for this Shabbat of Hanukkah a Haftarah which quietly and unobtrusively, but powerfully, hammered home the point that political and military conquest may bring jubilation, celebration, demonstrations with parades of lulavim and fire parades, etc., etc., but it is neither power nor physical strength that matters: only the Spirit of the Lord. It is this subtle connection of idea — Hebrew, Jewish to the core — to which I call attention. The narrator of the Joseph story at two crucial points insisted that it is God Who stands solid as the source of the moral life for mankind. And in our Haftarah, the prophet's words, carefully chosen by the rabbis, became a clarion call to human understanding: There is no purpose to military victories and political achievements except to establish a godlike society, established on deeply felt religious values.

' The ARE Gro^up will exhibit their work in the Jewish Community Center Gallery Jan. 2 through Jan. 31, 1996.'Hours for viewing are: Monday through Thursdayl 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 1 to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 8:30 a.ip. to 7 p.m. The Group consists of six professional artists with a common interest and bond in art. Their art is diversified, including sculpture, watarcolor, acrylic, oil, print making, paper sculpture, monotypes and experimentation in many medias.

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Birth Andrea and Michael Siegel of Smithtown, N.Y., announce the Nov. 22 birth of a son, Tyler David. Grandparents are Sheryn and Arnold Joffe of Omaha and Anne and Steve Siegel of Hewlett Harbor, NY,

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The six members include Sally Dreyer, Dona Golden, Grace McMillan, Lourdee (XLeary, Oottie Seymour and Olliemae Sullivan. All six are memI>er8 of AsBociated Artists of Omaha. Ms. McMillan, Ms. Golden, Ms. Dreyer and Ms. Sejrmour are members of the Artists' Cooperative Gallery; Ms. Dreyer is also a member of Gallery 9, Lincoln; Ms. Sullivan is a member of the Passageway Gallery, and Ms. O'Leary is represented by the Miller Art Gallery. For more information, call Gloriann Levy, Jewish Cultural Arts Council director, 334-^03.

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December 22,1995 , Jewish Press P^ I BETH EL SYNAGOGUE ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME 14506 California, Omaha, NE 68154 SATURDAY: 492-8550 ^rvices, 9 a.roj, led by Merle Potash and Albert Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. Friedman i^ the Goldsten Chapel. CandJeligfating 4:40 p.iii. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Members of the community are invited to join Services arej conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and residents for the service and the kiddush following. Memorial services are held on the last Saturday TEMPLE ISRAEL Cantor Emil Berkovits. of each month. 7023 Ca88 Street, Omaha, NE 68132 FRIDAY: 556-6S36 , Services start at 6 p.m. FRIDAY: i SATURDAY: Shabbat evening service, 7:30 p.m. Services at 9:30 a.ii. Kiddush following services. Rabbi A2riel and Cantor Contzius will officiate. Sitter service starts at 10 a.m. The Temple Tones and Kol Rina Choirs will particiTSS (Torah Siddur Skills) will meet at 10 a.m. pate. . 1 Shabbat story time, the first and third Saturday The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the atlla.m. Temple Sisterhood. ICtantan meets the second and fourth Saturday Sitter Service Sitter service is available each Shabbat evening atlla.m. Minha-Ma'ariv and Havdalah seh^ces, 4:45 p.m. service. Please make a reservation so we may plan SUNDAY: accordingly. There are no facilities for infants. Services start at 9 a.m. SATURDAY: WEEKDAYS: Shabbat morning service, 11:15 a.m. Services at 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Simcha B'shabbat--An alternative Torah Study MONDAY, Dec. 25: service will take place in the Chapel. The regular Services at 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Shabbat service will be held in the Sanctuary. Judaica Shop Bat Mitzvah Open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to Jennifer Gayle Friedman, daughter of Debbie and Scott Friedman, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah 2 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m. to noon; or by appoint- YES recently celebrated the Festival of ment. at the Shabbat morning service Saturday. Lights with students from the Friedel FRIDAY, Dec. 29: Jewish Academy. Cantor Erik Contzius sang Early worship service, 5:30 p.m. Rabbi Azriel and Hanukkah songs. B'NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Cantor Contzius will officiate using the Union Prayer Book. RECONSTRUCTIONIST CONGREGATION 618 Mynster St, Council BlulTs, Iowa 51503 BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 322-4705~Synagogue 1502 No. 52nd Street, Omaiia, NE 68104 697-1660~Rabbi Ehrenstein 656-6288 FRIDAY: Services are conducted by Cantor Leo Fettman. Shabbat services are held every Friday night at OfBce hours: 7:30 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Ehrenstein and lay leaders. Oneg Shabbat follows. Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. SUNDAY: FRIDAY: B'nai Israel participates in the River Cities Kabbalat Shabbat service at 4:45 p.m. Reconstructionist Religious School. Classes are SATURDAY: held every Sunday at the West Side Community Morning services are at 8:45 a.m. in the Education Center, 108th and Grover, from 10 a.m. Sanctuary and Goldstein Chapel. to noon. The community may attend. Jr. Congregation, 10:30 a.m. Call Rabbi Ehrenstein or Dr. Martin Rosenburg, Babysitting service provided by Sisterhood. director of education, for an appointment. Kiddush sponsored Sisterhood. Mincha at 4:45 p.m., followed by Shalosh Seudot, Ma'Ariv and Havdalah. B'NAI JESHURUN SUNDAY: 20th and South Streets Morning services at 9 a.m. Lincoln, NE 68502 Talmud Shiur with Rabbi Kaye at 10 a.m. 435-8004 Evening services at 4:40 p.m. Services are officiated by CaiitOr Michael WEEKDAYS: Services at 7 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. Weisser. PERSONALS FRIDAY: Lunch & Learn A worb of thanks to all my family and friends for the Wednesday at 11:45 a.m. with Rabbi Kaye at the Shabbat evening service at 7x15 p.m. kindness, thoughtfulness and concern during my home of Mike and Carol Katzman, 9151 Hamey. SATURDAY: recent illness. Your concern and prayers make me Practical Judaism Torah study and service at lO a.m. feel better every day. God bless you all. A class with Rabbi Kaye Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Helen Shukert SUNDAY: at the synagogue. Hebrew school, 9 a.m.; Religious school, 10 a.m. Thank you to my family and very good friends for Gemorah Class your cards, donations, good wishes and wonderful Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Rabbi and support during my recent hospitalization and recovMrs. David Kaye, 12237 Turner Cir., Bellevue. TIFERETH ISRAEL ery. Coolcboolc 3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502 Rose Rosenberg "Happiness is Still Good Food," available at the 423-8569 gift shop, or call Charlotte Kaplan at 551-5658. Services are conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Sisterhood Gift Shop Rosenbaum. Minyans on Mondays and Thursdays, 7:15 a.m. Sisterhood gift shop is open by appointment. Call FRIDAY: Leah Siegel at 666-5455. {//r^A PERSONALIZED Services start at 8 p.m. /J • Invilalions Oneg Shabbat hosted by Eve and Mel Hoffman. • Stationery SATURDAY: CHABAD HOUSE kit Sckdion of .Napkins Services, 9:30 a.m. 1322 So. 119th Street, Omaha, NE 68144 MI/UTMnZVAHINVIUnONS 697-1124 and Itldsd ItaM SATURDAY: BEYT SILU.OM Davening is at 9:30 a.m., followed by Kiddush. ByAppoinHrant Pto«M (402) 493-5780 RECONSTRUCTIONIST SYNAGOGUE SUNDAY: 1^0^ * Btondo St, iioctUi inikh B«n«on S>i«d» > Blmd Co.) P.O. Box 241130, Omaha, NE 68124 Davening is at 9:30 a.m. For information, contact Mike Salmi at 291-3469, Talmud Classes or Rabbi Ruth Ehrenstein at 697-1660. Talmud class, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Advanced FRIDAY: Talmud, 12 p.m. Thursday. Services at 7:30 p.m. at the Second Unitarian Chumash Class Church. Oneg Shabbat to follow. Chumash class for adults, 7 p.m. Tuesdays. SUNDAY: Yiddish No Religious School - winter break. "Hooked on Yiddish* lessons Wednesdays, 7 p.m. FRIDAY, Dec. 29; English At-home Shabbat. No services at Second Bob Elsenberg 'Think Jewish and speak English' classes on Unitarian Church. Jewish topics for new Americans, Tuesdays and SUNDAY, Dee. 31: Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. at Chabad House. No Religious School

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Editorial By Morris Maline

An unwelcome experience If you looked at my page one editorial, you should have gotten the impression that nothinjg stops the Jewish Press from publishing. You know how the expression goes: Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night...etc. Well, now you can add burglary in process! Yes, when I went home to lunch earlier this week, I quickly came to the realization that burglars were in the house. • , When I came to my senses and called 911, the intruders, who had gained entrance by smashing the front door, had escapediout the back door. While waiting for the police, I looked about the house and became physically agitated as I realized that the intruders had entered every room including the basement, had opened every drawer, had searched every closet, and had packaged a number of items to provide themselves with some easy money. Luckily, from a materialistic point of view, I inadvertently upset their timetable so they were forced to flee with only a fraction of their booty. So why am I telling you about this very personal ciime? Well, I would like you to know that if I had been more alert, taken more precautions, and used some common sense, I might have been more helpful to the police. The getaway car was in my driveway, but I didn't pay too much attention because I thought someone was visiting. However, my wife had told me earlier that she was going out to lunch. I should have listened more closely. At a minimum, I should have been concerned that dirt covered the car and that the license plate showed nothing other than IP I should have felt some insecurity when I noticed a small piece of wood on the front step, but I innocently computed reasonable explanations rather than contemplate criminal behavior. Profit by my inistakes. Pay attention to your surroundings.

Religious Zionists rally 1^ at site of Rabin killing I^PI By Naomi Segal ^•JERUSALEM (JTA) — Tens of thousands of Israelis attended a mass rally recently in support of religious Zionism at the same Tel Aviv square where Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was slain. The event was held to reaffirm the religious Zionist movement's goals in the wake of a backlash generated by the assassination of Rabin by a 25year-old religious law student after a Nov. 4 peace rally. National Religious Party leader Zevulun Hammer issued a call for national reconciliation without capitulation. "We will not fold up our flag," he said, "^ith the rest of the nation we will exam1 ine what can be fixed, but we will not give up our principles." Police estimated that 70,000 people took part in the rally. Organizers put the figure at 120,000. The crowd stood in heavy rain, as speaker after speaker took their turn on the stage. Israel's Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said the gathering was meant to "expel the darkness." Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, a member of the Likud, said bullets should neither bring down ' the government nor silence legitimate argument. "May we have good luck in our future battles for the Land of Israel and Jerusalem, its capital," he said. Throughout the week, members of a number of difTerent streams within the reUgious Zionist movement debated whether to come to the rally. Secretary general of the religious kibbutz movement said he attended, despite hesitations.

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By Hiury Allen Will the real Shimon Peres please stand up? It is a troubling question to many Isrjaelis. With' Rabin, you got what you saw. As is said in Yiddish—there were no chochmas (hidden agendas so to speak). Rabin was blunt to th^ point of insult, a careful person not given to snap judgements or grand theories. There were few subtleties about Rabin. But Shimon Peres is a different breed altogether. Rabin spent his life as a soldier — Peres as a politician; these different occupations produce very different world views as even Colin Powell found out in America. So people wonder about Peres. Is he the same person who was responsible for getting France to sell a nuclear reactor to Israel and okay the raid on Entebbe, which Rabin directed, or is he the behindthe-scenes manipulator who maneuvered to bring down the national unity government headed by Shamir, and failed at the attempt? Is he the Peres who negotiated with King Hussein secretly in Jordan without the permission of the prime minister at the time or is he the Peres who was crucial in the build-up of foreign arms supplies for the IDF? On how the m^ority of Israelis decide these questions may well hinge the possibility of a peace treaty with Syria. A treaty with Syria involves a huge gamble for Israel on many different levels. Water, strategic depth, relations with the rest of the Arab world, relations with the United States and, most importantly, some kind of national consensus in Israel—all will be affected in some way by how the negotiations with Syria proceed and how Peres is perceived. If he is thought of as Israel's Neville Chamberlain, too anxious to make a deal and not completely honest about the dangers of any deal, then Peres will not be able to sell it. But if he is able to shed an image of grandiose dreamer and behind-the- scenes schemer, he will be able to pull it off, most likely. At the moment, the tide is running his way and strongly. Labor is leading in the polls, Peres is personally leading Netanyahu, the handover of the main towns in the West Bank is going rather smoothly, so far, and the general mood is much less angry — post the assassination. But this is the Middle East and Peres does not have a deep well of public confidence. So despite the start of negotiations with the Syrians—nothing is yet a given.

Israel to cut grants for industry By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has decided to reduce grants for industrial investment. During the next two years, the government will cap government grants at 30 percent of the total investment. Now, the government issues grants of up to 38 percent of the total investment. The move follows a push by Finance Minister Avraham Shochat to reduce government grants for development projects in northern and central Israel. Trade Minister Michael Harish had strongly opposed the idea, saying that any reduction would result in a drop in foreign and local investment. Two weeks ago, the German automobile-giant, Volkswagen, threatened to pull out of a project to build a joint magnesium plant with the Dead Sea Works If the government scaled back its investment. As a result, no cuts were made. Prime Minister Shimon Peres had suggested that the grants be reduced to 30 percent over two years, instead of one year, as initially recommended by the finance minister.

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Jewish cemeteiy in Venice languishes in neglect By Ruth E. Gruber VENICE (JTA) — Nearly 180 years ago, when the great English poet Lord Byron lived here, he loved to go horseback riding on the Lido, the strip of island that protects the Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic Sea. With companions such as fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, he would rid^ through what Shelley described as a sandy, windswept wasteland. It was an especially haunting wasteland, however. "The spot where we usually rode," wrote Byron's friend, British Consul Richard Belgrave Hoppner, "was a Jewish cemetery whose walls had been pulled down and stones overturned by the French." The ancient Jewish Cemetery on the Venice Lido was founded in the 1380's, but by the time Byron was riding there, it had not been used for burials for half a century. Although the cemetery is one of the treasures of European Jewish heritage, it has languished in a virtually abandoned state for more than 200 years while the rest of the Lido was developed into an areia of homes, beach resorts, hotels and a big casino. Time, neglect and human destruction have taken their toll, and today alarm bells are going off about the cemetery's deteriorating condition. Venice's tiny Jewish community as well as international monuments preservation organizations such as Save Venice, Inc. and the World Monuments Fund are seeking sponsors for urgently needed repairs and conservation operations. In addition to restoration of tombstones, other needed repair work includes the drainage of swampy areas; regular clearing of weeds, bushes and undergrowth; and reconstruction of the wall. Recent surveys indicate that expenses for all needed work may total $300,000. "Unless we intervene, little will remain after only a few more years," according to the current issue of the Save Venice, Inc. newsletter. "This cemetery has had a tormented life," said Aldo Izzo, a Jewish retired sea captain who has devoted the past decade to looking after both the ancient cemetery and a newer Jewish cemetery nearby. For four centuries, the ancient cemetery served as the only burial ground for Venetian Jews. Funerals took place in convoys of gondolas that set sail from the ghetto, at the northern edge of Venice. Time and time again its area was decreased, its walls were torn down or its tombstones were uprooted in order to build fortifications along the Lido shore. The cemetery was finally abandoned about 1770, and the newer cemetery, which is still in use today, was opened several hundred yards away. In the 1920s, a large part of the cemetery was destroyed to construct a road along the shore. Tombstones were pulled up and laid on the ground or against the walls in the main cemetery area — and here they remain to this day.

Firebombing of shul averted IBy Agnes Bohm St (JTA) — Police thwarted the firebombing of the main synagogue here shortly before Shabbat, catching the man who apparently intended to throw a Molotov cocktail at the structure. The man, a Hungarian 4S-year-old who was not named, has not been charged with any crime. Apparently, his attempt to throw the Molotov cocktail, a tiottle filled with gasoline, wrapped with a rag or plugged with a wick and then ignited, was unsuccessful because police guarding the Dohany Street Synagogue saw him. The man, who was inside the courtyard of the synagogue at that point, tried to escape. He left behind his bag, in which police found other Molotov cocktails. After he was apprehended, he was interrogated at local police headquarters.

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Barbara Chandler has earned a Master of Arts This spring, adults in Greater Kandas City area degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. will have a chance to participate in an opportunity Ms. Chandler is the communications director for of a lifetime, according to an announcement. the Jewish Federation of Omaha. For the first time in its six-year history, the Mark Kazor, son of,Louie and Renee Kazor, "March of the Living," an educational tour that recently graduated from the University of takes part?icipant8 through Nazi concentration Nebraska at Omaha with a Bachelor of Science camps in Poland and then on to Israel during the degree in Broadcasting, and from Metro joyous celebration of its Independence Day, will be Community College with an Associate degree in open to adults. The trip is set for April 14-29, 1996. Applied Science for Commercial PhotographyThe annual trip is sponsored by March of the Video. Living International, the American Zionist Youth Stan Schrier was recently elected president of Foundation, B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Highland Country Club. He succeeds Dick Central Agencies for Jewish education, youth Zacharia. New officers are Jarold Kohll, vice pres- movements and other organizations. ident, and Tom Watts, secretary/treasurer. Barbara Devinki, who is coordmating the local New directors are Carol Padon, Midge Bowers adult delegation, had the opportunity to join her and Tom Watts. Also on the board are Joe daughter, Reggie Devinki, on the trip. During the Erman, Jerome Milder, Robert Blumenthal trip, she traveled on a bus with the adolescents, and Ned Kirklan. participating in their tour. The nationwide adult delegation that i^ invited to join this year will have Jordanian Ambassador separate accommodations and transportation. "I would encourage all types of people to go— hosts Jewish fund-raisier whether they're survivors who want to go back By Shawn Cohen, Washington Jewith Week WASHINGTON (JTA) — In another sign that with their children or grandchildren, educators, times have changed as a result of the Arab-Israeli historians, journalists, psychologists," she said. "I peace process, the Jordanian ambassador recently think people in all walks of life who have any interinvited a Jewish organization to hold a fund-raiser est at all in the past or as it may relate to their parat the Jordanian Embassy. However, a power out- ticular field would find this a fascinating trip," she age at the embassy forced organizers of the event added. for American ORT to change the venue to a nearby hotel. 'Technology overshadowed our hospitality," The two-week trip begins in Washington at the' said Fayez Tarawneh, the Jordanian ambassador. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It will "But in the spirit of partnership and friendship, include visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka we wanted to be here tonight to get acquainted and M^danek in addition to the Warsaw Ghetto with you," he added. About 100 people attended the Memorial, the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, fund-raiser. restored synagogues, the Jewish quarter in The event generated $55,000 for ORT projecte in Cracow, and many other sites. the United States, Israel and other countries. For information, call Alon Mor, BBYO director, at ORT supports a network of traditional and tech334-6404. nical schools worldwide.

Front row, from left; Beth Shyken, Andy Itkin, Gila Drazen and Dusty Nichols; second row: Steve Riekes, Gloria Kaslow and Stan Mitchell. The Tenth Annual Edward Zorinsky B'nai B'rith Bible Quiz was held recently at the JCC. Steve Riekes, chairmtm of the event, presented Andy Itkin, son of Phil and Marsha Itkin, the first-place trophy. He was awarded a $500 prize; Dusty Nichols, son of Barbara Nichols, won the $300 second-place scholarship; Beth Shyken, winner of the $200 third-place prize, is the daughter of Paul and Susie Shyken; fourth-place winner was Gila Drazen, daughter of Rabbi Paul and Susie Drazen. She will receive a $100 prize. All prize monies are to be used for college tuition or a trip to Israel.

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Maggie Koziol, a Millard High School junior whose many activities include three years' volunteering at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, was recently recognized for her achievements and received the following letter from Eugene Brandt, executive director of the Blumkin Home: Dear Maggie, The Bureau for the Aging board of directors commend you on winning the Horatio Alger Louis Feinstein Humanitarian Award. We congratulate you on this accomplishment and also, the exceptional article in the Omaha World-Herald. Your academic eicellence, hectic schedule, including sports, a job and participation in the school newspaper, plus volunteering, is admirable. With the dedication, effort and tirele.is energy you put forth toward attaining your goals and ideals, we are confident you will be successful in future endeatmrs. Your consideration for the happiness of others is appreciated. The Ro.'se Blumkin Jewish Home is fortunate and honored to have you in its volunteer program. We are alt very proud of you. This world is a better place because of people such as you whose ideals and actions improve the lives of others. Congratulations and best wishes.

YES No program for Monday. OLDTIMERS Oldtimers will meet Tuesday at the JCC. Earlybird discussioh group will start at 11 a.m. in room 10. Following lunch at noon, Thomas Lusby, an FBI agent, will speak. WALK-IN DROP-IN Walk-In Drop-In will meet Thursday at the JCC. Exercise with Larisa starts at 10 a.m., and bingo starts at 10:30, Bring a dairy sack lunch to eat at 11:45. At 12:15 p.m., the second half of the baseball musical "Damn Yankees" will be shown. BREADBREAKERS Dan Hansen, vice president at Merrill Lynch, will speak to B'nai B'rith Breadbreakers Wednesday at noon at Regency West Best Western, according to. Ron Gordon, chairman for December. Cost is $7.75 and the program is open to the community.

By ArtGroMman At the Oldtimers Dec. 12 meeting, for preciouB moments, time rolled back in its flight to years ago for this correapondent—to the year of my bar mitzvah at the Kapulier Shul, 24th & Nicholas Street. The episode began following lunch when we adjourned for a tour of the mini-reincarnation of the venerable shul which is crammed with so many vivid memories for those whose feunilies were members. , The restoration of the shul, the Gordman Center for Jewish Learning and the Riekes Museum are now an integral part of the "J's" campus. Mary Fellman, whose family was Kapulier members, served as our docent. She reached back in Memory Lane describing the shul's early dayp, its mqving to 31st & Cuming Street and, eventually, its discontinuation. Accumulation of the shul's artifacts, the reconstruction process and engineering of the undertaking was indeed a miracle. Generations to come will be able to visualize what synagogue life was like in the early days of this century. At the Barlybirds, telemarketing scams came in for justified criticism. The electronic predators seem to have an insatiable craving for preying on elderly folks. The FBI is investigating these telephone "boiler room" operations that drain $40 billion annually from deluded victims. At the general meeting lunch, Elliott Banner led in reciting the Motzi and Keith Peltz chanted the Bentchen. We stood in memoriam for Irving Charney, Kurt von Freiberg, Abe Klotz and Arthur Kulakofsky. Next meeting is Dec.26. Thomas Lusby, Federal Bureau of Investigation, will speak. Earlybirds discussion starts at 11 a.m.; lunch is served at noon.

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By Shana Novak, Jewith Preu in,tem Sjrracuse University My first semester of college is only days away from becoming history. Four months ago I wasn't sure if I'd be alive to te|l this storyl Something I am sure of, however, is that I have officially survived— and learned more from a single semester at Syracuse University than I did in years of high school. Keeping in mind that SU is a college of medium size in central upstate New York, here are some important lessons that I have learned... In college I have le|rned: -that Younkers is not just a local department store, -to' get lots of sleep before final exams... -to study before final exams! In college I have learned: that Upsjtate New York looks similar to Nebraska, cornfields and all; that not everyone in this country knows where Nebraska is; that not everyone in this country knows what Nebraska is. In college I have learned: that roominates are great. , . when they^e gone home for the weekend; that it is really o.k. to wear both straps of your back pack; that Philosophy is also known as "Confusion 101". In college I have learned: that "yad" "ca" are Bostonian for "yard" and "car;" that "caw-fee" is Long Island dialect for 'coffee;' that "where?" is an east coast term used when referring to Omaha, Nebraska. So besides learning that the east coast differs greatly from the Big 0, I have expanded my mind to amazing proportions. My International Relations class affects me when I see Bosnia on the news. My world Culture class affects me when I meet a foreign exchange student. My Art History class affects me when I visit museums. My writing class affects me. . . well you can answer that one. Everyday I use what I learn. However, one last thing that I have learned at Syracuse University was not taught in a class room. I learned that my Jewish community still cares about me. Two thousand miles couldn't stop the Temple Tidings, and the Jewish Press was always a welcome sight. I can learn as much as I want to about World Cultures and International Relations, but it is the support I feel from where I come from that inspires me to learn even more.

By Rev. Dr. Nomuua E. Leach Lincoln Interfaith Council's "Emergency Pood Pantries System' received a hoUday contribution in theiamount of $5,000 from MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger; MAZON is not just a foundation, ii is eiJtirely dependent on contributions received from American Jews who contribute 3% of the cost of their life-cycle celebrationel, respond to holiday appeals ^t Passover and Yom Kippur, or donate in honor, of or in memory of friends and family. In Lincoln,'both Congregation B'nai Jeshurun and Tifereth Israel Synagogue are active members of the Lincoln Interfaith Council, as is the Lincoln Jewish Federation and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rilh. In 1994, the Lincoln Interfaith Council's Pantries served 325,395 emergency meals to 15,495 individuals representing 3,229 households-at a foliar-cost value of $221,168.60 based upon a $.68 per meal Nebraska Food Stamp per meal average. The fact that there was an average of only 1.56 Pantry visits per household in 1994 gives evidence to the depth of the hunger problems in our community.

Baby-smuggling NEW YORK (JTA) — The blood-libel myth surfaced in Romania after police there held an Israeli and three Romanians accused of smuggling babies to Moldova and Israel, police said. A Romanian police spokesman identified the Israeli citizen as Mahmud Asadi, a Palestinian who converted to Judaism and claims to have been a personal secretary to slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, according to the World Jewish Congress. Resurrecting the centuries-old anti-Semitic Uood libel, the Bucharest weekly Baricada reported lost month that there was no chance of ever seeing the smuggled children alive because *as is well-known, Jewish matzah demands kosher, young Christian blood." But "as long as the Jewish mafia" involved in "collecting kosher blood" is protected by the Mossad,' the Israeli intelligence service, it is "unlikely" that -"roof oi the horrible deed can be produced, the weekly said.

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Bert's Eye View By Bert Lewis ' Can you believe it's almost time to take that last of loved ones. Ordinary events on ordinary days are mainly the page off the calendar? Is it really possible the entire 1995 has just slipped past while we were all material which fills the pages of my calendar. Looking back ,over the months, it's hard to believe doing our best to get from one day to the other? I took my working calendar (the one I use to note we're nearly ready for 1996. The pages don't reflect appointments of every nature) and turned back to the times of worry or sorrow, just the dates of ' January, when 1995 was young and unused. J went events. There's nothing on the calendar to mark the loss over every mo'nth, trying t6 figure out how they of a dear and cherished friend on an otherwise lovecould have flown ajfeady. I found nothing^hraordinary in the early part of ly June day. Just the date.... So they all slipped by, those days and weeks and the year. Just the usual notations of this meeting or that dentist appointment, this lunch with so- months. We all went about our own lives, working, playing, agonizing over this fear or that potential and-so and dinner with maybe the Chiam Yankels. disaster. Dreadful things were happening in variSymphony nights, a friend's birthday and one short ous parts of the world, or for that matter, right but delightful trip to the southwest sunshine while here at home. Somebody else's calendar reflected the wind and snow were active here. the daily courtroom activities in L.A., not mine. There were many wonderful days - some not so The highlight didn't come until spring, when we celebrated a family simchn with great joy and grat- wonderful. However, in the entire scheme of things, itude. My calendar has much of June filled with it was a pretty good year. The good days truly outnotes and xxxx-ed out days, which represented a numbered the other kind, and for that I'm incredibly grateful. The few major happenings will always family reunion and a trip. be remembered, no matter what year it is. Things settled down later, and we were back to On that note, I'll wish a fine new year to come for normal with a visitor or two from tin^e to time; the all of us. I'll hope for blessings of every kind, and meeting notes and reminders of commitments are for the good health with which to eiyoy them. For penciled in, some in red. Also in red are marks on you and yours and everyone you care aboutcertain dates which are birthdays or anniversaries Happy 1996.

By AlisMi Kaplan NEW YORK (JTA) — Federal prosecutors have filed a motion in Boston asking a court to find that an accused war criminal admitted to taking part in destroying the Jewish population of Vilnius, Lithuania, during World War II. Prosecutors said the motion was filed because Aleksandras Lileikis, 88, who has lived for years in Norwood, Mass., has refused to answer government prosecutors' questions about his wartime activities, according to the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations. Lileikis, who has acknowledged that he was the former head of the Lithuanian security police — known as the Saugamas — in the Vilnius province, is accused of signing orders that sent at least 40,000 Jews to Nazi death camps. A.U.S. district judge ruled last month that Lileikis could not invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. '^e remain absolutely committed to a speedy resolution of the charges against Mr. Lileikis," said U.S. Attorney Donald Stem. *He should not be permitted to hide any longer behind a privilege which the court,, has now determined is inapplicable to him. '

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WA.SHINGTON (JTA) - In an effort to impede Iran's atU'nipted nuclear buildup, leading members of Congress, with the support of the Clinton ndniinistralion, have been seeking to send a blunt message to the international business community: Choose between trade with the United States or Iran. As Iran attempts to attract $7 billion in foreign investment to bolster its declining oil industry, the administration and Congress are working together to impose sanctions against foreign firms with substantial investments in Iran's energy sector. "A straight line links Iran's oil income and its ability to sponsor terrorism, build weapons of mass destruction and acquire sophisticated armaments," Peter Tamoff, undersecretary of state for political affairs, recently testified before the Senate Banking Committee. 'Any government or private company that helps Iran to expand its oil [sector] must accept that it is indirectly contributing to this menace," he said. Iran has desperately sought foreign capital to bail out its economy and to finance its nuclear program. Tehran hopes that foreign investment can make up for what the international community has denied in the areas of trade and credit. Earlier this year, when the American firm Conoco entered into a contract to develop an Iranian oil field, the Clinton administration issued an executive order banning such deals. A French company, Total SA, then picked up the project. ' Now, to discourage foreign companies such as Total from indirectly subsidizing Iran's nuclear development, the administration and Congress are seeking to cut off Iran's access to foreign capital. Last week, the Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved sanctions against any foreign company that has made an investment totaling $40 million or more that "contributes significantly and materially" to Iran's energy sector. The measure, which has strong bipartisan support, could pass the full Senate within weeks. In the House, Rep. Beivjamin Oilman (R-N.Y.), chairman of the International Relations Committee, introduced a similar bill that now has 61 eo-eponsoni. Under the Senate bill, iponiored by Sen. Alfonae tA. D'Amato (R-N.Y.), tanctioned firms could be denied access to financing sponsored by the ExportImport Bank of the United Sutm or to licenies for exporte to the United Statee.

The president could also prohibit mergers, acquisitions or takeovers involving U.S. companies that might provide Iran with cash, as well as limit funding from American banks to sanctioned firms, according to the measure. "If we are going to persuade the Iranian regime that its efforts to achieve nuclear status, its support for international terrorism and its horrendous human rights abuses" should all end, "we must end the funding with which they are paying for it all," D'Amato said in introducing the legislation before the banking committee, which he heads. Initially reluctant to approve broad sanctions, the White House agreed to support the Senate bill when D'Amato toned down an earlier call for a "trade embargo" against the companies. But some members of Congress, particularly in the House, appear intent on restoring broader sanctions. The prospect of sanctions does not sit well with some of America's closest allies, including Great Britain, France and Germany. They see the legislation as unwarranted interference in the activities of foreign companies. Moreover, some experja warn that sanctions could prompt European retaliation in the form of a trade war, Winning approval of the sanctions has been a miyor lobbying focus for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which views Iranian nuclear armament as no less than the most dangerous security threat on Israel's horizon. Indeed, Iran's nuclear potential remained an issue of great concern to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak'Rabin toward the end of his life. It would be tragic, Rabin had said, if a nuclear Iran emerged just as the prospect of a lasting peace became possible between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Prime Minister Shimon Peres and President Clinton discussed the issue of sanctions in Washington last week, agreeing to strengthen strategic cooperation against Iran. Speaking at a gathering of Jewish leaders on Capitol Hill, Per«e warned of the dangers of a *very strong and powerful and menacing fundaroentalistic movement run and organized by Iran," which "may get a hold of nuclear weapons." "Qod forbid, imagine that Hitler would have a nuclear bomb," Peres said. "I don't want to compare anything, but nuclear weapons in evil hands are a menace for us as Jews, and for free people all over the world." •:-tJ

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By Oliver B. Pollak, Professor of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Introduction The oldest English language Jewish newspaper is the Jewish Chronicle founded in London in 1841. U recently celebrated its 150th anniversary. Virtually all records from before 1941 had been destroyed by a direct hit from one of Hitler's bombs. The actual newspaper remains, a memorial to its own activity and existence, enough evidence to produce a 329-page book.l The newspaper is a community record and creates a communal atmosphere providing coverage of tlie various religious, social, cultural, economic and political activities. The Omaha Jewish Press reports and interprets local, national and international. When the Omaha Jewish Press celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1971 there were still first person eye witnesses including Morris Jacobs and Nathan E. Green. At this 75th anniversary, ho founders survive. The passage of time prompts new questions to be asked of the past. Over the past 10 years I have written for the Jewish Press, used it as historical evidence, served on its board of directors, and awaited its arrival every Friday. Newspapers treasure and protect their independence. First Amendment Freedom of the Press right.<! are balanced against the needs of the diverse local Jewish community and the Federation. Should the Press report the engagement and marriages of Jews and non-Jews? Should the Press permit advertisements that promote non-Kosher products. Everj'one wants to be on page one in the next issue. Allocation of space, placement and timing of release can be sensitive issues. Editorials may irritate constituents. Freedom thrives on the clash of differing priorities, personalities and styles. Yet, in times of crisis, the Press, Federation and religious community have a common goal. A weekly newspaper in a fastbreaking atmosphere is at a disadvantage. If the daily newspaper is covering the anti-Semitism or vandalism at Jewish institutions, Jewish Press coverage is redundant and stale by Friday. The press attempts 1(1 cover stories that the general press docs not.

and the organized Jewish community. The Federation paid the press for publishing its annual reports. The Press published the names of givers and amounts donated and has always been supportive of Federation fund raising campaigns and Jewish Community Center activities. The First anniversary editorial recounted that despite "almost universal anti-Semitism we have striven to bring to our readers in our own humble way the message of the dignity and the honor of Israel's heritage." News reports of the post war dis ruption in Europe, the termination of emigration to the United States, and anti-Semitism in Germany were a constant feature. On March 12, 1922, Irvin Stolmaster moved that the Jewish Press be sent to all Jewish citizens at the expense of the Federation,, Morris Levy, William Holzman; Harry Lapidus, Harry A. Wolf and Harry Malashock appropriated $200 to send Press subscriptions throughout the state. Annual subscription has risen steadily from the original $1.50 a year. Nathan E. Green succeeded Jacobs in May 1922 as manager. In April, 1925, the Jewish Press Publishing Company was officially dissolved though no change occurred in the masthead. Green remained manager until October 1927 when David Blacker took over the paper which he controlled unUl 1950. David Blacker announced to Jewish Press subscribers on Dec. 15, 1950, that constantly rising costs of running the newspaper and the difficulty in securing enough advertising to meet those costs "have made, it impossible for me to continue publishing the Jewish Press without more of a loss than I can afford." After 23 years of publishing the newspaper, one of his proudest achievements was the "New Year edition that was regarded by many as one of the most beautiful and inspiring in the nation." Blacker gave special thanks to Harry A. Wolf and his associates who voluntarily offered to run a schedule of advertising that materially reduced the loss during the last year. The Jewish Federation responding to a committee chaired'by Milton R. Abrahams, and including Independent newspaper and Harry B. Cohen, Hyman Ferer, David Goldstein, Federation organ Arthur H. Goldstein, Dr. A. Greenberg, Morris E. Between 1915 and 1925, at least 38 English lanJacobs, Mrs. J. H. Kulakofsky, Milton Livingston, guage Jewish newspapers were started to serve Mrs. Ernest Nogg and Samuel N. Wolf voted to American readers and communities. Two of those take over the publication of the press starting in papers appeared in Omaha. 1951. The committee reviewed.the costs of publicaThe Konecky brothers started the Jewish tion, sources of income, possible economies and Bulletin in 1916. It ceased publication in 1921. supeniision of publication and concluded that it Briefly, the Jewish Bulletin was outspoken, inevwas feasible for the Federation to assume these erent, muckraking and left of center. Its frank responsibilities. Three new committees were statement of unpleasant facts and opinions, and its formed: publication board, business management criticism of the "Jew Klux Klan," the Omaha committee and circulation committee. Jewish establishment, provoked the elders of the While advertising may not have gone up appreJewish community to found a quieter and prouder dably a smaller staff resulted in lower overheads. voice, the Jewish Pres8.2 It was reiterated 'that a really important task facSixteen men from the Jewish community, all ing the Press today, if it is to survive and continue businessmen, professionals and members of B'nai to serve the community, is the increase of its adverB'rith, active in the Jewish Welfare Federation tising revenue."4 filed Articles of Incorporation as the Jewish Press In early January, 1951, the Federation President, Publishing Company on December 4, 1920. Their Joe M. Rice, announced that Harry M. Cohen, long charter stated that 'all net profits or surplus, time Federation board member, and former presiwhich shall remain subject to distribution as divident of B'nai B'rith Henry Monsky Lodge would dends, shall, if not retained as surplus for use in head the over-all publication committee. Milton our expansion of the corporate enterprise, be utiAbrahams, who had been a college newspaper edilized in the discretion of the Board for some worthy tor at Creighton University, headed the editorial communal, philanthropic or charitable cause or committee. Sam Wolf became advertising commitpurpose.* The Jewish Press waf not founded to tee chairman and Sam G. Saltzman chaired the make money, but it needed income, subscribers and Council Bluffs Committee. The Federation planned advertisers, to stay open. to send the Jewish Presa "to every Jewish home The first issue appeared on Dec. 16, 1920, edited in Omaha for the next few weeks." by Morris E. Jacobs, a recent graduate of the The B'nai B'rith Messenger, published in Los University of Missouri School of Journalism. His Angeles, lamented the passing of the Jewiah reminiscences are found in MEJ. The Story of Press from independent ownership to Federation Morris E. Jacobs and his Years at Bozell and control. Jacoba.3 There was a close relntionship between the Press (Continued on page 18)

1. ROM Bluoikin and Harlan Noddle 2. Father Flanagan and Henry Monsky 3. Sylvia Ross 4. MoUie Delman 5. Erv Simon, Bob Silverman, Mel Bomfteln and Leon FrankeL 6. Janet Wintroub 7. Nick Newman 8. Howaid Kaslow Âť.RabU Isaac Nadotr laNatoNoM U. Sarah Epdein U. Ellie Ptonner 13. Harold Coopernuui 14. Frieda Erman

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1995 Remembering David Blacker By Mary Arbitman Fellmrji For as long as I can remember, the Jewish of three campaigns. He also served in many other Press has been a vital part of my life. Maybe it m^or leadership roles in the Jewish and nonv ' began in 1924 when my parents read about the Jewish communities. Sometimes he would come 1>ack to our office on ground breaking for the new JCC in the Press and took our family to it. Maybe it was when my moth- the fifth floor of the Brandeis "fheater Building er read in the Jewish Press about a Jewish Girl with great elation about the generosity of some Scout Troop being formed at the JCC and sent me donors. Other times he would weep over the lack of understanding and sharing of some families. to it by streetcar. For all these many years the Jewish Press According to his oldest daughter Jeanne 'he truly every Friday became my weekly connection, my believed he was his brother's keeper and that was informant, my link to the life of Jews in Omaha, how he lived his life". Print shop moves Nebraska, the U.S. and eventually Israel. And after graduating from the University of It was during those 1943-47 years that the Press Nebraska with a major in journalism I started moved from the small crowded print shop at 4504 writing many articles and columns about Sigma South 24th Street across from South High School to' Delta Tau sorority, Junior Hadassah, the YANCS a much larger and more efficient shop at 4808 So. service group, the men and women in World War 25th St. In that shop, his Sun Publishing Company also printed the South Omaha Sun, Dundee II, and other local activities. News, Benson Times and other fine weeklies. It Bepns work at Tress" With all my connections as a "contributor" I did was the Jewish Press though where his emotions Were involved, where he always hoped for a "good not really know David word" of approval of an issue or the expanded Blacker, publisher of enriched New Years issue from some of its readers. the Press, until the Each New Year issue was the result of numerous day I walked into his hours of labor and creativity. For many years, the office to apply for the large ads were designed by Bon Theodore, and they job of 'news editor." I were dramatic expressions of Jewish spiritual and said "Hello, Mr. historical feelings. Each ad was.written with Blacker^" and he said, "My father is Mr. warmth and drama by David Blacker and his ediBlacker; my name is tors and, frankly, we took tremendous pride in our Dave." eflbrts to express love of Judaism, its history and And so began a 4 1/2 its people. Those were the years when the Press carried year unusual, educamany editorials and the weekly 'Gems of the tional, enriching expeTalmud" by Dr. Philip Sher. Also columnists Boris rience that lasted long Smolar, Alfred Segal, Rabbi Samuel J. Fox after I left to marry appeared in each issue. Those were also the days Morris Fellman in David Blacker when stores like Carman's, Herzbergs, Goldstein1947. Dave took over publication of the Jewish Press Chapman's, Natelson's, Brandeis appeared in every in 1927, seven years after it was ofBdally begun by week's issues with large ads. Because of their supa committee of the Federation headed by Morris port and that of other local companies, the Jewish Jacobs. He started with Frank Ackerman as editor, Press was able to continue with a subscription rate followed by Leonard Nathan and Harry Mendelson, ofonly $2.50ayear. Now in its 75 years since the beginning of the who was also my mentor, my teacher. Jewish Press, with private and later Federation Complex personality While Dave was always the publisher, official ownership, after many men and women editors, business and advertising manager, he was also the columnists and contributors, the weekly "every spirit and the conscience of the weekly. He was a Friday" newspaper continues to be the link complex, dramatic personality raised ia poverty, between the Jewish people of Omaha and out state. successfully building security for his beloved family It continues the original dream of its founders and of wife Marie and three children Jeanne, Barbara its editors. Personally, I am grateful for the irreplaceable and Martin. His style did not include many compliments &nd opportunity of having been the first woman editor yet he became my energetic advisor, my master's and for the enrichment to my life by learning from degree in journalism. He was a self educated schol- David Blacker. He was a unique man. As I wrote at the time of his lx>o-early death in ar, having read every book in his extensive office and his home Jewish libraries. He was emotional, 1965 at the age of 63, 'No one who ever agreed or he was stoic. He cared tremendously for the well disagreed with him will ever forget his frankness, being, the growth, the Jewish life of this Omaha his clear thinking, his undaunted devotion, his Jewish community, and he spoke with passion to stubborn determination to fight for whatever cause he championed. friends and co-workers alike. No one who knew him as "boss" as he was to roe No one who heard his enchanted plea for the life and sustenance of the enslaved and desperate Jews will ever forget his perceptive, quick, inquisitive in Europe in the 1940's will ever forget his passion mind, his retentive memory, his self-taught volumias Jewish Philanthropies chairman. In those years nous vocabulary, his gratefulness at acceptance as he was the only chairman who served as the head a respectable human being."

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JCC Bowling By Bam Zweiback Standingi of Team* Lost Won Pioneer Clothing 7 2 Smith Motor Co. 7 2 4 State Coal Co. 4 6 Empire Cleaners 3 6 Cliquot Clubs 3 The Wardrobe 2 7 Individual high sincle: Harry Smith, 233. Individual high aeries: Ben Shapiro, 698. Team high single: Smith Motor, 934. Team high series: Smith Motor, 2,664.

JCC Sports (iÂť40) By Morrle Adier The Jewish Community Center men and women Pet. volleyball teams won their respective dty volleyball 778 league championships. The women: Mrs. Ed Lincoln, Mrs. H.E. Bennett, 778 566 Mrs. H.C. Dross, Mrs. F. A. Pardun, Mrs. Pederson, 376 Mrs. Irene Danielson, Mrs. O.A. Marsh, Mrs. 376 William Kaiman, Mrs. E.E. Sommers. The men: Leslie Burkenroad, A.H. Brodkey, Hy 222 Belman, C.B. Shoppe, Morris Franklin and L<e QroBtman.

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December, 1947

An Outgoing Editor Writes '30' ' By Mary Arbitman, Editor The person is rich and indeed fortunate who has the delightful opportunity of working with his community, its people young and old, its projects and its functions. Through this editorship, it has been my privilege to grow stronger in mind and thought through association with those who lead and those who work to make the Omaha Jewish community^ one of the finest in this country. To work with them has been a joy but an even greater degree of pleasure has come from the eagerness and the desires of those many representatives of every type of organization, from the ten year old enthusiasts of a youth group to the experienced chairman of the oldest organization in this community-all eager to cooperate in bringing their news before the Jewish community-all desirous of exerting their finest efforts in promoting their cause, whatever it might be. In the over-all picture of Jewish life, the past three years have seen many shifts, steps forward and a few backward. Progress made both locally and in the national and international Jewish scene has been fraught with heartaches and joys. There has been much hard work put into the saving of lives in Europe, the raising of funds, the fight for a homeland, the elevation of new leaders, the loss of some of our greatest men, the fight against rising gnti-Semitism, the building of new education centers, the concentration on the training of our young generation in the history, culture and language of their people, the development and the pride in a courageous body of men and women fighting openly in the defense of a country and a land they call home-these and many other phases of Jewish life have passed through the kaleidoscope of an editor's eye. For the opportunity of serving during these exciting years, your resigning editor is grateful; but for more than that, for in a greater sense, there has been the gratification and supreme satisfaction of working with one's own people, of discovering the richness and maturity of their thinking, the progress and high standards which they foster and demand in their community and civic lives-the humor and the hopefulness that prevails as a binding thread through all times of good and bad fortune, the progress and failures which our Jewish people have learned to face with serenity and courage.

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May 19,1944

Henry Monsky.. .Our Leader in Whom We Rejoice By Hairy Mendelson, Editor The re-election of Henry Monsky as president of the B'nai B'rith for a third term of three years comes as no surprise. In fact, we practically assumed that he would again head the organization with which his name has become inseparably associated, particularly in recent years. We can hardly conceive a man more capable, more experienced and more fit to bead the B'nai B'rith than oUr own Henry Monsky. We, of the Omaha Jewish community, who have known him, admired him and loved him as we have seen him grow with the years in vision, in deepening knowledge of and in poignant concern for eveiything that concemg Jews here and abroad, are no longer surprised at anything Monsky may do and accomplish in the field of Jewish leadership. For we have seen him give more and more of himself as he matured and grew in stature - giving much of his time, his effort, and creative powers to the welfare of his community and of his people. To say that we are intensely proud of Henry Monsky is to understate how we feel towards our leader and friend. With a tingle of pleasure, we still recall that it was he who was one of the dominant guiding spirits behind the creation of the American Jewish Conference. His plea for a common basis for United Action made at the opening session of the Conference on August 29,1943, comes back to us as strong as ever: "We have come together not to adopt or propagandize for one or another post-war plan; not to issue or publish manifestos or proclamations in reference to the important role of Palestine in any such plan; but rather to take such preliminary steps as will result in a course of action and precedure calculated to accomplish the single objective, devoutly to be desired, of some basis of agreement between the diverse and conflicting groups that constitute the American Jewish community..."

EDITORS Nathan E. Greene Frank Ackerman Leonard Nathan Harry Mendelson Mary Arbitman Leonard Boasberg

Samuel Fidman Harry Halpert Frances Klein Bernard Freiberg Mickey Gerelick Rich Pearl Morris Maline

Jan. 2,1970

A New Editorial Voice By Mrs. Robert Gerelick, Editor In unprecedented action, the board of the Omaha Jewish Federation this week adopted a Publication Policy for The Jewish Press which will permit the paper to voice independent editorial opinions, which may or may not reflect the views of the Federation Board. The adopted policy was proposed by Charles Monasee, chairman of the Jewish Press Committee. Mr. Monase^ explained that the regional expansion of the Jewish Press necessitated a Publication Policy independent of the Omaha Jewish Federation, Mr. Monasee further noted the importance of an editorial voice for any viable newspaper. "Discussion, even controversy, is a healthy ingredient of modern Jewish life," said Mr. Monasee. The Jewish Press must be free to stimulate thought, discussion and expression of diverse views through , its editorial columns." The adopted policy frees the Jewish Press from control by any one program, organization, movement, or point of view within Jewish life, and permits comment on all phases of that life. The Jewish Press Committee, and the editor are ; solely responsible for the editorial views to be . expressed by this newspaper. In this, our first free editorial stand, we commend , the Omaha Jewish Federation for its courageous . action to further the cause of a "Free Press* at a time when great pressure is being exerted to cur^ tail that freedom. I We are grateful for the confidence that has been shown us. We will strive for responsible, knowl, edgeable editorial comment on all matters pertinent to {i\f proRrt'HK of .Ii'wish lifp.

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By Leonard Boasberg, Editor One of the most ancient Jewish communities in the world has nearly gone out of existence as a result of'Operation Magic Carpet," which officially ended last week. Nearly 50,000 Yemenite Jews, who had always believed in Isaiah's prophecy that they^would return to Israel on the wings of an eagle, were airlifted to the new land of Israel in the 21-month historic modern exodus. These descendants, according to one legend, of the Jews sent by King Solomon to prospect for gold and silver, lived in incredible poverty in the backward country of Yemen. They arrived in Israel suffering from malnutrition and disease. Fifty-five percent had Oriental boils, 40 percent had malaria, 80 percent had trachoma. Jews were infidels in the Moslem state. They . paid special taxes, were not allowed to ride on horses and rode donkeys side-saddle only, had to build their houses lower than the lowest Arab house in a village. Jewish orphans were forcibly converted to Israel, and this is believed to be one origin of child marriages, since marriage would make an orphan no longer a child. To the Yemenite Jews, Israel is a fantastic new world, witli such incredible modern conveniences as beds and sheets, modern showers and lavatories, machinery and medicine, Today, only 6,600 remain in Israel reception camps. The rest, except for about 3,000 who have been unable to leave Yemen, are being absorbed in the new state's economy. With the arrival of the last two planes from Yemen last week, one of the most moving chapters in the drama of the ingathering of the exiles came to a close. r'll L-^r'jailTi:.-

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The Feast of Chanukah By Nathan E. Green, Editor The Feast of Chanukah, also known as the Feast of Dedication, and by other appropriate titles, occurs this year on December 16th, and will be observed in Jewish homes and in the House of God foi* eight days thereafter starting from the evening of December 14. This festival is a minor holiday and is reminiscent of the Maccabean victory in the battle for Israel's faith when the prophetic promise was verified: 'Not by night, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts." It recalls in particular the eventful year of 168 to 165 B.C.E., in Palestine. During that period, Antiochus Epiphanes, or 'the mad man," King of Syria, had resolved to quench the lamp of religious liberty and resorted to the crude tjrrannies of imperialists to compel all subject peoples to speak one language and worship according to a ritual approved by the appointed priests of his empire and their religious heads, who naturally followed the polytheistic liturgy of the Greeks, then in a state of decadence.... January, 1990

The historical record By Morris Maline, Editor Welcome to 1990. To many, the Holocaust represents the most terrible tragedy to befall the Jewish people. There is no parallel in history for comparison. Six million people perished because one or more of their grandparents were Jewish. This historical nightmare is -.veil documented. The testimony of survivors and liberators plus physical evidence from the camps, film-footage from Nazi photographers and detailed records of train movements and extermination techniques are enough to satisfy the most skeptical. However, there are those who claim to be skeptics, but who in reality are anti-Setnites, anti-Zionists, antiIsraelies who seem to spend every waking moment pushing the virulent nonsense that the Holocaust was a figment of Jewish imagination and deceit. As difficult as it may be to understand or accept, these historical revisionists are having a degree of success and their membership appears to be increasing. 1 jet me conclude this editorial forward with a comment made recently by Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, In speaking of the Holocaust, he asserted that every survivor has an obligation to teU his story so that a permanent record of this monumental tragedy will be available to shout the truth to future generations. With this in mind, let me announce that the Jewish Press of Omaha is starting to interview survivors and others who have direct knowledge of the Holocaust, We anticipate that these interviews will be presented in our 1990 Passover issue. This special issue then will be forwarded to the Holocaust Museum in Washington where it will be preserved and made available to future scholars, 1964

Shavuoth's Meaning Today By Harry Halpert, Editor The great sage, Maimonides, likened the counting of "Sephira" between the days of Passover to Shavuoth to the young man and woman counting expectantly the days before their marriage, Shavuoth is a joyous holiday. The synagogue is bedecked with green. The good Jewiah housewife in the days of old was certain to have the table amply supplied with 'blinties" and other "milchigs" for the holiday repast 'Milchigs" especially in the combination of milk and honey, symbolized to the Jew traditionally the best of everything. The land of Israel was described as a land of milk and honey and the Torah itself was also laid to provide spiritual nourishment in those terms. The decking of the aynagogues in green was reminiscent of the harvest. Shavuoth became identified as the festival of the Giving of the Law, but earlier it was essentially a harvest festival. For this reason, too, the reading of the Book of Ruth, with it« pictures of harvest time in ancient Israel became a synagogue ritual.,,

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liberty, though, is perhaps not so Bi^ple a matter. Plain Talk By Al Segal How many millions of tear-filled eyes have read Youth's Army-Navy CommlttM-J.C.C. LET THEM BE HEARD and clung to the words and have beheld t|ie splenBy Mary Arbitman "We have our Quislings, too, it seems," a Chicago Purim, Shalach Mones, and hamentaBhen will dor of the Grand Lady and have taken forever unto gentleman writes. "I refer to the group of Reform long be BBBociated in the minds of more than 100 them the promise that she gave them .... . rabbis who have organized against Jewish national Servicemen with being stationed in Omaha and aspiration^. We stand on the threshold of a legally attending the Puiiim supper-dance Sunday in the recognized Jewish state in Palestine and these men 1945 ^Center auditoriuni. , work to thwart the victory." Gems of the Bible and Talmud It was a gay and festive (^casion with.',. .a grand I print this excerpt from my correspondent's let,march to pair off partners for one dance. . .six piece By Dr. Phil Sher ter because it reflects a deplorable state of mind soldier orchestra from Fort Crook. . .Purim gifts for BIBLE that is rather prevalent among us. There are ladies each Serviceman from the pupils of the City The full soul loatheth a honeycomb, but to the and gentlemen who (as if there already were a Talmud Torah. . .lucky No. 100 winning a long dis- hungry eoul every bitter thing is sweet. Prov. 27, 7. tance call home way down to Greenville, Texas As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a Jewish state) are hot with a fierce patriotism and who burn against dissidents with a furious anger (pronounced Grainvil by a true Texan). . .thick man that wandereth from his place. Prov. 27, 8. slices of beef roast, browned potatoes, "kasha," comOintment and perfume rejoice the heart, so doth such as, given political power, often lets itself out bination salad. . .'taglach" and hamentashen for the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. in firing squads.. . . dessert.. .a truly traditional Purim dinner with our Prov. 27,9, sincerest thanks for it going to the women of the Thine own friend and they father's friend forsake 1944 With Khaki and Blue ;B'nai B'rith Auxiliary under the presidency of Mrs. not. Prov. 27, 10. By Mary Arbitman iJoe Goldware! TALMUD As we go to press with our first "after-D-Day" ediOur Rabbis were taught: A man must at all times 1947 be yielding like a reed and not unbending like a tion, may we express a wish for the boys in the Youth's Corner of News cedar tree. It once happened that Rabbi Elaber Ben midst of the turmoil. . .that the day of their safe By Martin Faier Simon went from G'dor where his teacher lived, return to their loved ones be not far distanced . . . Sunday afternoon the Youth Council will prese^nt and as he was leisurely riding he greatly rejoiced that their missions be successful. . .and that the its annual style show, 'Along the Party Line," in the and felt proud because of the knowledge he had peace that follows be long-lived. SMATTERING OF NEWS. . .Lt. Hany Goldstein Center auditorium at 2:00 p.m. learned (from his master). jOn the way he met a left last week after a short leave in Omaha for his The girls will model everything from pEyamas to man who was horribly ugly. "Peace unto thee, my formals~the newest styles will feature the pro- teacher," said the latter to Rabbi Elazer, to which station in Oregon . . . Pvt. Louis Katz and Lt. ^jgram. Rabbi Elazer did not respond but merely rejoined: Sheldon Bernstein are both stationed at the same Thelma Goldstein and Myrna Ferer, co-chairmen "Good fro nothing, are all the people of the town as spot. . . New bars adorn the shoulders of Lt. of the event, have announced that the plans for the homely as thou art?" "That I know not," replied the Norman Rosenthal, who was last week commisfashion review are complete-it's bound to be a ter- man, "but it would be well that thou should go to sioned at Pagus, Texas . . . Second Lt. Jerry Milder rific show. the architect who formed me and say to him: "How is another one of the boys over in England with a unit of the Ninth troop carrier command. . . Stuart Elaine Mendelson has been elected by the senior ugly is this vessel thou hast made." .... Simon came home Thursday heavier on the shoulclass at Central High School to be one of the ders because of his bars received at graduation princesses at the All-Girls' Party, the Christmas exercises nt Fort Benning. . , . Ball. 1940 Sonya Pradell has been elected president of the Between You and Me 1971 junior girls. She will also march at the Christmas By Boris Smolar Sidelines Ball, Dec. 12. Political Notes By Mickey Gerelick It is very possible that American Zionist groups When Dr. Abraham Joshua Herschel comes to 1970 will not appear before the Anglo-American Inquiry town, one would expect a complete report in the ADL Notes (Committee on Palestine when the latter opens its By Harold Adler, Regional ADL Director hearings in Washington on January 7, . . At the local Jewish Press. Before Dr. Herschel came to Omaha, I planned to A documented study has been published by the present moment there is a good deal of bargaining "cover" his lecture and provide that complete Anti-Defamation League dealing with the treat- going oh behind the scenes between leading ment of minorities in text-books. The study found American Zionists and the Inquiry Committee. . report. Dr. Herschel came to Omaha Wednesday. I "covthat inaccuracy, omission and half-truths still .The hearings in Washington are expected to last ered" his lecture at Beth Israel Synagogue. I tell mark the treatment of American minorities in ten days, and the American Zionist Emergency social study textbooks. Council is insisting that sufficient time be given by you quite frankly, there's no way I can report it. I think the 400 people who shared that magic The study examined 45 of the nation's widely the Committee to Zionist spokesmen..... evening with me will agree that we weren't an 'used junior and senior high school social studies Washington Sidelights texts and fails to find a single one which presents President Truman's order to admit 3,900 dis- audience at a lecture; we were participants in a 'a reasonably complete and undistorted picture of placed persons monthly into the United States rare religious experience. I had read a number of Dr. Herschel's books and American Jews, Negroes and other minorities. under the existing quota regulations will not be of It was found that 'a significant number of texts such great benent to displaced Jews as many was prepared to hear a brilUant lecture. I did. I was familiar with Dr. Herschel's reputation as a published today continue to present a principally believe. . .The order specifies that the visas are to white, Protestant, Anglo-Saxon view of America be issued to the displaced persons on the bAsis of philosopher and theologian and I was prepared to be inspired. 1 was. past and present." the countries of origin... I was not prepared, however, for the warmth, the In comparison to similar ADL study of textbooks humor, the love, the complete aura of Godliness ten years ago, "some genuine, but uneven improvethat was part of every word, every gesture, every ment" was found. 1967 expression of this extraordinary man... .

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1952

'The New Colossus'

By Samuel Fidman, EUlitor Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame. With conquering limbs astride from land to land. Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torah, whose flame Is the imprisoned lighting, and her name Mother of Exiles, from her beacon-hand Glows world wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame. "Keep ancient lands, your storied pompi* cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired,'your poor. Your huddled masaes yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuM of your teeming ihore. Send these, the homelefli, t«mpeat-toat to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" TheM tingling words, written by Emma Lazarus, (ompriM the world cherished mesiage inKribed on R tablet within the main entrance of the pedaetal pn which the Goddess atands-oflicially it is named The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, but It better known simply ai The Statue of Liberty,

By Michael Sellz The purpose of Kashrut is often misunderstood. 1961 Bar Mitzvah It's not entirely a hygienic or health measure, By Leonard Bonsberg although this is part of the purpose. However, the There was an important Bar Mitzvah here a few essential value lies in another field. Kashrut is conweeks ago, but it passed quickly. Paul Veret, cerned with the well-being of the soul as well as in Executive Director of the Omaha Jewish the healtli of the body. The third theme of Kashrut Federation, celebrated his 13th "birthday" of comis one of hamaneness. munity service here. We think the words of Joe M. I've asked a few opinions to the question, "What Rice, in his president's report at the recent annual is the purpose of Kashrut in Judaism?" meeting of the Federation, bear repeating as a fitJoel Epstein, senior ting tribute to Mr. Veret. Said Mr. Rice: 'There is a distinction to be made between the "And now, just a word about the iron man behind myth of health, and the basic ideas of holiness. the curtain. I wonder how many of you really Kashrut definitely makes these ideas holy. We appreciate this man Paul Veret. He is truly on iron must realize the divinity of life, as a gift from G-d.' man. Judy Hahn, sophomore "His supreme devotion to the community, his "For myself, I enjoy the traditional practices of readiness to serve under trying and difFicult cirPassover, but it's not really necessary to follow the cumstances, his patience, his grasp and underlaws of Kashrut. However, I do believe in the absti- standing of our community and its problems, have nence of pork for symbolic reasons." been of tremendous help to me in my service as Karen Gotsdiner, senior president of the Federation. "Kashrut is necessary to sanctify G-d's name. I 'Paul is a perfectionist, and our community find that the health aspect is only a small factor should feet highly gratified that we have such a involved. The basic idea is that Judaism speaks fine and conscientous executive directing our against unnecessary killing, and, if it is necessary, affoirs."... it should be done with a minimum of pain. !liKiS«BLljH!«:ji:'

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December 16, I960

Federation Buys Site for Camp

Jewish Community Honors 70 High School Graduates

Longtime Dream Now a Reality The purchase of a 182-acre tract of land for a permanent camp site was announced by Harry Trustin, Jewish Federation president. The land is located in Cass County, near Louisville, Nebraska, in the area where Camp Jay-C-C first opened 22 years ago. "We believe that we have the finest camping area in Nebraska," Ernest A. Nogg, chairman of the Camp Site Committee and Federation first vicepresident, reported. "The land is scenic rolling and heavily wooded and is ideal from every viewpoint. It meets the strictest requirements for camp sites, and is truly wonderful ground. 'The camp site is between two existing camps. On the west it adjoins the Lincoln YMCA camp; on the east, il is next to Camp Harriet Harding. The Platte River is on the north. This offers a wonderful opportunity for a cooperative development of one of the finest camping areas in the United Slates," Mr. Nogg stressed. Will Serve Entire Community "At long last we have a site of our own, which we will use for the benefit of the entire Jewish community," Norman Batt, Chairman of Camp Jay-C-C said. 'This is a perfect site for our Children's Camp; in addition, the size of the camp site will permit us to develop special areas for Golden Agers, Young Adults, and Family Camping."

More than seventy Omaha and Council Bluffs Jewish high school graduates will be honored at the annual Baccalaureate service sponsored by the Omaha Jewish Federation on Thursday, May 31, at Temple Israel. This special service is being held in cooperation with the synagogues of the city for the graduates, their parents and friends. Rabbi Lou H. Silberman of Temple Israel will conduct the services. Principal address will be given by Rabbi Israel Mowshowfiz and Rabbi David A. Goldstein will participate in the services. Speaking for graduates will be Jeanne Blacker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Blacker, and Irvin Gendler, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Gendler. Both are students at Central High School and are members of National Honor Society. Dr. Phillip Sher, chairman of the Omaha Jewish Education Bureau, will extend greetings from the community at large. A reception will be held in the Vestry rooms of the Temple following the services with members of the Terape Israel Sisterhood in charge.

October 16,1970

Rabin to Visit Nebrasita Omaha-Announcement was made this week of plans for a two-day visit to Omaha and Lincoln by His Excellence, Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's Ambassador to the United States. Ambassador Rabin will arrive in Omaha Wednesday, November 4, and will be the guest speaker that day at the Public'Affairs Luncheon of The Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Reservations for the 12 noon luncheon at the Omaha Hilton Hotel may be made with the Chamber of Commerce, 341-1234. Lincoln Activitiea Ambassador Rabin will be the guest of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Thursday, November 5. The Ambassador will present a m^jor address under the auspices of tlie Nebraska Higher Education Television Commission, co-aponsored by the Convocation* Committee of the Lincoln campus.

April 13,1951

Ferer Elected Federation President

July 2,1970

JCC at 20th & Dodge sold Omaha. . .The'Jewish Community Center at 20th and Dodge hJas been sold to Northwestern Bell Telephone Company by the Jewish Federation of Omaha, Inc. , The sale includes the Jewish Community Center Building and parking lots north and east of the Center. The property occupies five-eighths of a block east of 20th Street between Dodge Street and Capitol Avenue. Northwestern Bell will take possession between July, 1972, and July, 1973. Howard P. Doerr, vice president and Nebraska general manager for Northwestern Bell, said that the telephone company had no definite plans for the site at this time. Elm^r Gross, President of the Jewish Federation, said that the Center plans to stay in the building until completion of new facilities within the next three years. The Federation has purchased a new site of 10plus acres at 96th Street, directly east of the Westroads Shopping Center. Nick Newman served as Chairman of the Center building sales committee. Byron Reed Company represented Northwestern Bell. H.A. Wolf Company represented the Jewish Federation in the transaction at no consideration. The Jewish Community Center was built in 1925. Throughout its 45 years, the building served the needs of both the Jewish and the general community. During World War II, the building was a service center for servicemen stationed in Omaha. It was also used by a number of civic groups in the city. The purchase of the 96th Street site was made possible through the initiative of the late Milton Livingston, and completed through the Milton and Corinne S. Livingston Foundation.

January 11,1980

Beth El Honors Rabbi Alex Katz On Shabbat Shira, Feb. 2, on the 70lh anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah in Lithuania, Rabbi Alex Katz will observe his second Bar Mitzvah this time at Beth El. To mark this unique occasion, and, at the same time, recognize Rabbi Katz's 35 years of continuous and devoted service to Beth El, a specially commissioned Sefer Torah will be presented to Beth El Synagogue in Rabbi Katz's name.

A special fund for particular ritual needs of the Hyman Ferer was unanimously elected president synagogue will also be established at Beth El. of the Jewish Federation at the Federation's 48th Since it is considered a mitzvah for every Jew to annual meeting Wednesday night at the JCC. participate in the writing of a Sefer Torah, Rabbi The former first vice-president replaces Joe M. Katz's second Bar Mitzvah gives all congregants Rice, who was presented with a plaque for his ser- the rare opportunity to be part of this beautiful vices to the community during the past two years. Jewish tradition by contributing to the completion Presentation was made by Milton Livingston, presand purchase of this special Torah, the announceident of the Federation in 1947 and 1948. ment stated. Other Federation officers for 1951-53 are: This Sefer Torah will be dedicated on Sunday First vice-president, J. Harry Kulakofsky, succeeding Mr. Ferer; second vice-president, Louis morning, Jan. 27, in the ceremony of Slyyum haSomberg, succeeding Mr. Kulakofsky; treasurer. Torah. At this ceremony, unprecedented at Beth El, a Jack W. Marer, succeeding Mr. Somberg; and secretary. Dr. Abe Greenberg, succeeding Nathan scribe will complete the actual handwriting of the Torah, incorporating the letters of Rabbi Katz's Nogg. Mortgage Burned name in the final paragraph of the Hebrew text Re-elected honorary president was Dr. Philip and also on the rollers of the Torah. Sher, who presided over the burning of the Jewish In addition, other letters, words and sentenci Community Center building morteage, a highlight will be inscribed in the name of those who havi of the annual meeting. helped in the purchase of this Torah. Mrs. Harry Wolf was elected honorary vice-presiArrHngementa for all the Bar Mitzvah feBtivities dent. A Federation resolution in honor of her late are being made by the Beth El Ritual Committee. husband was read by J. Harry Kulakofsky Donations am being encouraged.

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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Word that Israel would soon return to the bargaining table with Syria has elicited a barrage of criticism from Israel's opposition parties. Opposition leaders, charging that the government of Prime Minister Shimon Peres was rushing into the negotiations, submitted a series of no-confidence motions against the government. Likud leader Bei\)aniin Netanyahu focused his criticism on the potential Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights. During his visit to Washington, Peres reportedly signaled his willingness to cede the Golan Heights, captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, to Syria. "We will certainly do all we can to prevent the government from carrying out its intention to hand over the Golan," Netanyahu told Israel Radio. In another interview, Netanyahu said an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan could 'open a future war." Netanyahu rejected reports that both sides had agreed to return to the bargaining table without any preconditions. 'My information is that Mr. Peres has passed on to Syria a full Israeli wilhngness to accept Syrian sovereignty over the entire Golan Heights," he told Israel Radio. Knesset member Eliezer Sandberg of the Tsomet Party called for early elections. The leadership of the Golan Residents Council asked for an immediate meeting with Peres to discuss the latest developments. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher officially announced the resumption of Israeli-Syrian negotiations at a news conference with Peres on Saturday night in Jerusalem. Christopher, who made the announcement after two days of talks in the Israeli and Syrian capitals, pledged that the United States would stand "shoulder to shoulder" with Israel as it seeks peace with Syria. Peres told the gathering of reporters that Israel would move "as fast as we can" in the negotiations with Syria. Peres described the talkB,.which were broken off six months ago in a dispute over future security arrangements on the Golan, as "a new beginning^ in the long-fruitless discussions with Damascus.

Christopher reiterated the United States' commitment to the peace process, adding that if asked to do so, the United States would try to come up with proposals to help bridge differences between the two sides. The announcement of the talks' resumption comes amid a widesit>read belief that Israel and Syria are closer than ever to reaching an agreement. , A senior U.S. ofBcial traveUng with Christopher reportedly said the two sides were speaking with more openness and with a willingness to tackle a broader range of issues than before the Nov. 4 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The talks are scheduled to begin Dec. 27 for three days at a site near Washington, recess for a week and then resume for another three days during the first week in January. After that, Christopher told reporters, he will return to the Middle East in mid-January for another round of talks with Peres and Syrian President Hafez Assad. Under a new framework for the talks, the negotiating teams were expected to address a number of issues simultaneously. Israeli sources said the first round of talks would deal with procedural issues; working groups would begin more subsUmtive work in the second round, tackling such issues as security arrangements, borders, water rights and economic cooperation. Foreign Minister Ehud Barak, who met with Christopher, said the new format would prevent talks'from breaking down over any single issue. "We are launching a very important and significant process," Barak later told reporters. 'It is a first step in a long journey." The Israel team will reportedly include Israeli Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich, Foreign Ministry Director General Uri Savir, Gens. Uzi Dayan and Danny Yatom and possibly the Foreign Ministry's legal adviser, Yoel Singer. The Syrian team was expected to include the country's ambassador to the United States, Walid Muallem, along with other officials.

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By Leonard Nathan, Editor If ever a people could stand and look with utmost scorn and contempt at their persecutors, it is the Jews of Warsaw, who are today bidden to enter the first enclosed ghetto in modem times. As in the centuries past, walls have been built to isolate the Jews. After a decade of seeing the revival of all the marks of humiliation, the idea of a ghetto ceases to be terrifying. ' A ghetto wall is meaningless-except to mark with shame the people who build it. The Nazis, in their mad zeal to persecute, forget one thing-that the survival of the Jew has not been dependent on physical freedom. For a thousand years, if not longer, the Jews of Europe hved out their existence behind protecting walls. Not until the first quarter of the Nineteenth century were the last imprisoning gates torn from their andent hinges. If ghetto walls and ghetto gates were to accomplish any purpose, they would have centuries ago. Rather than sympathizing with the Warsaw Jews, we consider them fortunate in being removed from the repulsive creatures around them. What have the Jews of Poland, filled with religious ecstasy, in common with those officious minions sent out from Berlin? What have the Jews of Warsaw in common with the scum of the gutter who make up the leadership of the Nazi party?...

The fifth annual Mother and Daughter Banquet of the Jewish Community Center was held May 19, at the Jewish Community Center-1935.

Seventy-five years of the Omaha Jewish Press By Oliver PoUalc (Continued firom page 12) They feared the newspaper would become nothThe Communal Record-Social, ing more than a mouthpiece for the upper crust of Educational and Political the community, the house organ of the federation. The Press is indispensable for the record of life The editor Leonard Boasberg recoiled at these pre- cycle events: Engagements, marriages, births, bar dictions and said the "concept of a free press, which and bat mitzvahs, confirmations, reports of illness is in turn based on a fundamental principle of and recovery, and obituaries. Judaism: the search for truth" was not threatened When travel was a greater undertaking, taking in Omaha. as much as half a day to travel between Omaha Boasberg would continue to write the editorials/ and Lincoln in the 1920s, the press was filled with unless otherwise indicated. He invited criticism, announcements of visitors' departures from "and if you're too lazy to write, call me up prefer- Fremont, Lincoln, Des Moines, Kansas City, ably by Monday at the latest, and I'll write down Chicago and the east and west coast. your ideas, give myself hell, submit it to you for Omaha has a rich legacy of diverse Jewish orgayour corrections and approval, put a big headline nizations. Their activities are plotted with remarkon it and sign your name.'S able accuracy. At different times the Press was the Just as Commentary sponsored by the American communal news for Sioux City, Des Moines, Jewish Committee did not dictate editorial policy, Lincoln and Council Bluffs.? so the Jewish Press, sponsored by the Federation, The press fosters Jewish education announcing continued as an active hybrid voice. According to forthcoming activities and reminding readers of the some Jewish journalists, the first commandment is annual festival. Visiting performers, theatrical "Thou Shalt Not Wash Thy Dirty Linen in Pubhc," groups, musicians, Rabbis, Cantors, authors, politifor it is 'a shandeh far di goyim, a scandal in the cal personalities, promote>and strengthen the eyes of the Gentiles.' Jewish cultural heritage. The press balances the journalist instinct to , Jewish celebrities visit Omaha on their circuit uncover with the communal instinct to avoid unfa- across the country. Chaim Weizmann graced our vorable publicity,6 city in 1923. Golda Myer made several visits to The Press is not a house organ but a free and Omaha in the 1930'B leaving a flourishing Goldie independent newspaper with special consideration Myerson Club in her wake. Elder statesman Abba given to Federation business. An example of news- Eban spoke at the Red Lion Hotel in 1995. How paper independence concerned the issue of Rabbi many remember when 35-year-old Aubrey Eban membership on Federation committees and the visited Omaha in 1950; The Jewish Press does. absence of Rabbis from certain committees. In 1970, it was formally announced that the (1) David Cesarani, The Jewish Chronicle and Press could take a position independent of the Anglo-Jewry, 1841- 1991 (Cambridge: Cambridge Federation. The Omaha World-Herald twice University Press, 1994). noted that independence. (2) See Oliver B. Pollak, 'The Jewish Preu: October 31,1970 August 2,1961 Captive or Critic? Nebraska Jewish Journalism, 1916-1921," Western States Jewish History 27, Ar>inrt'12' The Jewish Kederslion of The Jewish Pree. hue cditori Omaha's weekly newspaper, October 1944, 39-52. ally oppoaed Amendment 12, ihe Jewish Press, has ur^ed (3) Omaha: Bozell & Jacobs International Inc., whKh -»«M allow alau. aid U, ,„„, ^ ^ ^.^^^ ^^^^ familiea with atudenU in non- , . , 7^ raunuimin•! 1978. public achools °' "'alistion in its dealinfs (4) "Press goes under new editorship," JP July 6, The Press, published in *'"' ""• Palestine LjberaUon 1951, p. 1. Omaha, said in Its Friday edi- OrBaniialion. lion, The Principle ofsepara "'' •• time for Israel Prime (5) Leonard Boasberg, 'No Sad Song for The lion of church and stale is vital Minister Menachem B«(in to Jewish Press, Please," JP Jan 5,1961, p. 6. to the freedom we enjoy as rethink his policy of retalia(6) Gary Rosenblatt, "The Dilemma of America's Americana. Since Amendment tion atalnat PLO terrorlaU ' Jewish Weekly Press," Jewish Digest, February ]^Z^^^ 'r..T* "•.•?'""• the paper aald in an editorial, compromiae that pnnciple, we. 1978, p. 48-66. . oppoae (ila) paaaaie.* (7) The Iowa Jewlah New* was published courUty ofHittorical Socitty ofDousUu County weekly in Des Moines fh>m 1932 to 1962.

^ Head of Jewish Museum yearns for an 'active' institution II

By Huth E. Orub«r

PRAGUE (JTA) — The head of Prague's Jewish Museum has ambitious plans to make the institution an international focal point for Jewish scholarship. One of the ways museum Director Leo Pavlat iplans to do this is by setting up a i^ewish study and ,,educational center, he said in a recent interview in his ofSce. I 'Up until; now, I see the museum as having been a bit passive," he said. *It was a display of objects that could be seen. I would like it to be more active." "We need to find how to present the museum as something important, not just for us Czech Jews, but for all Jews," he said. "And not just as a r memorial to the victims of the Holocaust — but something that speaks of Jewish civilization." When he describes his goals, Pavlat, who was a dissident writer during the Communist era, appears to be chomping at the bit to get his projects I under way. He said he envisages the center, which will be located in a building recently returned to the Jewish community by the government, as serving scholars, tourists and locals. The center will offer classes, lectures and Jewish cultural evento as well as programs to teach the non-Jewish public about Judaism and Jewish heritege, Pavlat said. Pavlat also said he plans to computerize museum archives and documentation; modernize and enrich permanent museum exhibits to make them more meaningful; and instell a needed security system to safeguard both visitors and the priceless museum collections. To accomplish these goals Pavlat has to confront : what for both the museum and the Czech Republic is a new phenomenon — fund-raising. Among planned efforts to raise several hundred thousand dollars will be the establishment of a 'Friends of the Museum" association, a newsletter and an , expanded museum shop. The Prague Jewish Museum is generally considered to have the richest Judaica collection in Europe. Part of this collection toured the United States in the 1980s as 'The Precious Legacy." The museum owes most of its treasures to the Nazis: During the destruction of more than 150 Jewish communities in what is now the Czech Republic, the Nazis looted synagogues, homes, libraries and study houses and brought tens of thousands of ritual items and personal belongings to Prague. There, they intended to create a "museum to an extinct race." After the war, the Communist regime took over the museum, its collections, the Old Jewish Cemetery and the half-dozen surviving synagogues in Prague's historic Jewish quarter. The institution was run as the Stete Jewish Museum until it was returned to Jewish community ownership in 1994.

Far-rigiit's election scores By Marta S. Halpert VIENNA(JTA) — Austria's Jewish community breathed a sigh of reUef at the recent election setback for Jorg Haider, the country's far-right political leader. "We are satisfied for the time being," said Paul Grosz, president of the Austrian Jewish Communities. There is a clear sense of relief, he added, that *at the moment, the danger of destabilizing the Austrian democracy'' seems to have been avoided. But he expressed concern that if "worst comes to worst," Haider's Freedom Party may yet be part of a governing coalition that could emerge after the •lectiona. In strong voter turnout — some 83 percent of Auftria'a 6.7 million eligible voters cast their ballots — 38.3 percent of the voter* agreed that the Social Democratic Party, headed by Chancellor Frani Vranitxky, should continue with ita poUde*. By contrast, Haider's right-wing, anti-immigrant Freedom Party won sUghtly more than 22 percent of the vote — a slight decline from the 1994 elections, reaulting in the loss of one Parliament Mat for the party. Haider could atill hold 41 seats in the Parliament out of a total of 183, but he still lost between 3 percent and 4 percent of hii previous votes.

Peres unveils 10-point pian for new approacli to Syria tailcs By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime Minister Shiiiion Under a new framework for the talks, the negotiPeres has unveiled a 10-point plan that will serve ating teams will address a broad number of issues as the framework for the renewed negotiations simulteneously, rather than focus first on security between Israel and Syria, which are scheduled to arrangements, which the late Prime Minister begin soon. Peres also denied reports that he had Yitzhak Rabin had stressed. Peres'told a meeting of submitted any documents or maps that outlined the Knesset Foreign Affair^' and Defense the scope of etn Israeli withdrawal fi-om the Golan Committee that despite the changed structure, he Heights to the Syrians or Americans. had shifted the approach, but not the positions^ At a meeting of the Labor Party caucus, Peres adopted by Rabin. outlined the 10-point plan as follows: Peres was quoted as saying that he had spoken to * No preconditions will be set by either side. Rabin about the need to open up the telks, if the * The aims of the telks, and not their manner, are impasse was to be overcome. "The security talks importent. Peres said he would have preferred to had run aground," Peres was also quoted as saying. have renewed the talks with a summit between "I did not hide my opinion from Rabin that we himself and Syrian President Hafez Assad, but it ought to try a different direction." was not essential. The talks are scheduled to begin Dec. 27 for three * The content of the negotiations would influence days at a site near Washington, recess for a week their length and results. and then resume for another three days during the * A differentiation was drawn between issues first week in January. After that, Christopher told that are points of contention and those that require reporters, he will return to the Middle East in midresolution. Peres said the border was a point of con- January for another round of telks with Peres and tention, while security arrangements and water Assad. The Israeli team is expected to include issues required resolution. Israel Foreign Ministry Director General Uri Savir, * Negotiations are to be conducted on all subjects. Gens. Uzi Dayan and Danny Yatom, Foreign * A peace accord between Syria and Israel would Ministry legal adviser Yoel Zinger and Finance be an opportunity to end war in the region. Ministry Director General David Brodet. The • Ways should be sought to turn the Golan Syrian team was expected to include the country's Heights into a center for economic cooperation, and ambassador to the United Stetes, Walid Muallem, not military buildup. along with other officials. • The United States would be called on to play a Political sources said the Israeli delegation central role. already had a number of position papers on the ele* Quiet on Israel's border with Lebanon is a goal. ments of an agreement with Syria that address • Negotiations will be less formal and more prac- issues of economic cooperation, including regional tical. U.S. Secretary of Stete Warren Christopher development projecte. The Israeli daily Ha'aretz officially announced the resumption of Israeli- reported that despite the freeze in telks since June, Syrian negotiation^ at a news conference with the army's strategic planning branch had continPeres on Saturday night in Jerusalem. ued work on security issues. Christopher, who made the announcement after two days of telks in the Israeli and Syrian capitels, pledged that the United States would stand shoulder to shoulder" with Israel as it seeks peace with Syria. Peres told the gathering of reporters that Israel would move "as fast as we can" in the negotiations with Syria. Peres described the telks, which were broken off six months ago in a dispute over future security arrangements on the Golan, as "a new beginning" in the long-fruitless discussions with Damascus. Christopher reiterated the United States' commitment to the peace process, adding that if asked to do so, the United States would try to come up with proposals to help bridge differences between the two sides. Likud Party head Benjamin Netenyahu, leading the criticism of the announced resumption of Israeli-Syrian talks, rejected reports that both sides had agreed to return to the bargaining teble ,^ Happy Holidays without any preconditions. "My information is that Mr. Peres has passed on to Syria a full Israeli willI ^S^ Special New Year's Eve Menu ingness to accept Syrian sovereignty over the entire \ ^r\ Featuring Regional Golan Heights," he told Israel Radio. r^ I Cuisines Of India BERGMAN'S PAINTING » DECORATING imwtor / ularlor painira. wooitvoik nMtHna, tnunmnt, wallPapw ramovd, ikywal rapalr. CM EMbnalM, IntunnM, 20 yan upwlom, nl»r«ncm.

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By Joseph Kopel BRUSSELS (JTA) — The European Parliamemt has called Central and Eastern European countries 'to restore to their rightful owners all properties seized by the Nazis during World War II and by Comnninist regimes in the postwar years. The resolution adopted last week by the legislative body of the European Union came only days after the Executive Commission, the union's executive arm, issued its first-ever communique on racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism, calling for a Europe-wide united front against racial hatred.

By Naomi Segal i JERUSALEM (JTA) — The head of Israel's domestic intelligence service and six other senior security ofTicialEf have been warned that they may be held responsible for the security lapses that led to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The seven received the warnings in letters sent by the Shamgar commission of inquiry, the government-appointed: three-member panel investigating the assassination. In the past, officials who received letters of warning from a commission of inquiry were ultimately held responsible, said Moshe Negbi, Israel Radio's legal commentator. The Shamgar commission has the authority to recommend that the officials be fired and prevented from being given senior posts in the future. The letters were sent a day before the opening of the trial of Yigal Amir, the 25-year-old law student who confessed to shooting Rabin after a Nov. 4 peace rally in Tel Aviv. The head of the intelligence service — known as the General Security Service or Shin Bet) — was warned that he could be held responsible if the commission found that he had failed to make sure his agency was prepared to deal with an attempt by Jewish extremists to assassinate the prime minister, in light of information the service had obtained, Israel Radio reported.

By Jeremy Jones' SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -^ In response to a recent pariianfentary review of its human rights record, Australia has affirmed its condemnation of Holocaust denial. "The Australian government continues to condemn the thesis which denies the exisitence or extent of the Holocaust committed by the Nazis during World War 11," said the response to the parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade's "Review of Australia's Efforts to Promote and Protect Human Rights." 'The government will continue to guard against this aspect of contemporary European racism gaining adherence in Australia." The committee had made 63 recommendations, most of which were accepted by the government. Other recommendations relating to the Australian Jewish population included the need for: * additional' anti-racism legislation; *' regular human rights reporting from abroad; • the investigation of Iraq's human rights performance; * and the monitoring of anti-Semitism in the former Soviet Union. Diane Shteinman, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, said the Jewish group was "intimately involved" in formally submitting its ideas to the government. "We are particularly grateful when recommendations which we advocated and supported have now been accepted by the federal government," she said, adding that "human rights are important to all Australians."

The European Parliament's resolution, adopted Oec. 14 in a vote of 87-67 with three abstentions, is an appeal to the European governments to act quickly on the restitution issue. The appeal may have added weight with those governments because they are eager to join the European Union, said sources with the European Parliament. In September, at a conference sponsored by the World Jewish Congress held at the European Parliament's headquarters in Brussels, WJC ^President Edgar Bronfman urged the European sUnion to follow the lead of the United States and ^support the WJC campaign to recover Jewish property in Eastern and Central Europe. Along with Jewish property rights, the parliamentary resolution addressed the rights of churches, many of which are on property that was seized by Communist authorities. Tlio communique said the "right to equal treatment and freedom from discrimination is one of the core principles inspiring" all European Union "policies, and the rise of racist and xenophobic attitudes clearly runs counter to this." The communique was accompanied by a proposal to the E.U.Council of Ministers to designate 1997 as the "European Year Against Racism."

Israel releases details on spies By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel has made it public that three men are jailed in Ashkelon for spying for Syria. In a closed-door sessiouj the High Court of Justice has heard arguments protesting the severity of their sentences. Those arguments were later rejected. The men were arrested 2 years ago, Israel Radio reported. Two of the men were identified as Tawfik Haider and Kassem Muhammed Farez, both Syrians. The name and nationality of the third man was not released. Haider was sentenced by a Nazareth court to six years in prison; Farez to 5 and the third man to eight.

Wife of settler leader convicted By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — Miriam Levinger, wife of Jewish settler leader Rabbi Moshe Levinger, has been convicted here of attacking a police officer in Hebron two years ago.Earlier, when Miriam Levinger refused to appear in court, police forcibly removed her from her home in Hebron. Earlier this month, Moshe Levinger was found guilty of causing a violent disturbance in the Hebron market four years ago, destroying Arab property and firing his gun.

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Man accused of war crimes smeared by KGB, lawyer says By Gil Kezwer TORONTO (JTA) — The lawyer for an Ontario pensioner accused of war crimes has argued that it appeared as though his client was the victim of a KGB smear campaign. Johann Dueck, 76, was targeted by the paranoid Stalinist regime after World War II, lawyer Don Bayne told a Canadian federal judge. Bayne said being "against the Soviets" made one "a Nazi collaborator." In May, the Justice Department initiated denaturalization proceedings against Dueck, a retired mechanic, accusing him of taking part in the killing of Jews and other civilians as a member of the Selidovka district police in German-occupied Ukraine from 1941 to 1943. The documents allege that Dueck had concealed this information from Canadian immigration ofRcials, thereby obtaining citizenship by 'false representation or fraud." But Dueck's lawyer said he only recently learned that Canadian authorities came to suspect Dueck based on information suppUed by the former Soviet Union in 1980. Bayne asked the court to order the release of all documents relating to the Soviet information and the subsequent Canadian investigation. If stripped of his Canadian citizenship, Dueck faces a deportation hearing. In 1995, the Justice Department initiated proceedings against several Canadians accused of war crimes.

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Ax attaclclceeping security forces busy By Naomi Segal JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian threw an ax at a Jewish teen-age girl recently in Hebron, slightly wounding her in t^e hea^. The girl, identified as 'Tirza Daniel, was released alter being treated on the spot. The assailant fled the scene, and security forces closed off the area. A number of suspects were detained. Following the attack, Jewish residents from the Hebron area caused disturbances in the market. Some were detained on suspicion of trying to attack Arabs, Israel Radio reported. Jewish settlers also called on Israel to crack down on violence. In addition, two elderly Jews were stabbed outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Meanwhile, the head of the Israeli army's central command issued orders to 12 Jewish settlers from the Nablus area, restricting their movement. The settlers, all of whom study at the religious seminary at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, were ordered to remain in the settlement Yizhar, where they live, and to register daily with police. The orders were signed after the army received information that the 12 settlers could cause disturbances if allowed in the area of the yeshiva in Nablus, the Israel Defense Force spokesman's ofHce said. Nablus has been under Palestinian self-rule. But the students set up a temporary yeshiva outside the Nablus dty limits, Israel Television reported. In another development, Israeli and Palestinian security forces in Kalkilya began joint patrols in the area, after the recent IDF redeployment from the West Bank town. The mayor of Kalkilya sent a letter to the council head of the nearby settlement Alfe Menashe, saying that he hoped that the two communities could develop peaceful and neighborly relations. The council head had cabled a congratulatory message to the Palestinian mayor.

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By Cynthia Mann NEW YORK (JTA) — The American Jewish Committee this MOSCOW (JTA) — The Cuniniunist weekend became the first Jewish Party's powerful electoral showing group to pay an official visit to recently has generated strong feelKuwait, said David Harris, ings of uncertainty among Russia's AJCommittee's executive director. Jews abouttheir country's future. Harris and Jason Isaacson, AJCommittee's director of internaWlii'ii the returns from the parliational affairs, met with Foreign Minister Sheik Sabah al-Ahmad almentary elections first came in, voices of alarm were sounded within Sabah who expressed Kuwait's supRussia's Jewish community, estimatport for the Middle East peace ed at between 500,000 to 2 million process and its wish that internationpeople. al sanctions against neighboring Iraq remain in place. Early returns gave the Communist 'They don't want to see a witherParty the lead with some 22 percent ing of the international consensus of the vote and the ultranationalist against Iraq," said Harris in an interparty of Vladimir Zhirinovsky second view from Jerusalem. • place with about 11 percent. The Kuwaitis' top three foreign policies concerns are "Iraq, Iraq, Iraq," Even before the final results were he said. in, however, a more moderate, albeit Harris said the Kuwaiti visit built cautious note was sounded by upon a meeting in New York two : Russian Jews, most of whom had months ago between the organization supported democratically oriented and al-Sabah, and other meetings in candidates. the United States prior to that with other Kuwaiti leaders. "We were not For instance, Michael Chlenov, starting from ground zero," said chairman of the Va'ad, the Jewish Harris. Confederation of Russia, spoke of the "We are an organization that had possibility that Russian Jews would strongly supported the American panic and seek to emigrate as soon as response to the Iraqi invasion of possible. Kuwait in 1990," and had credibility But later he said that "in spite of in Kuwaiti eyes by "recognizing a the seeming victory of the central issue in Kuwaiti history — [ Communists, the balance of power" Iraqi aggression." During the meeting with al-Sabali, in the incoming Parliament "will be almost the same as now." Voicing n he said, "we made it clear a very common concern for the future, how- important part of our mission was to ever, he added, "We still have reason make a small contribution to the to be worried before the June 1996 peace process and help develop Israel's bilateral relations with counpresidential elections." tries in the region." Kuwait has no Although the power of the lower relations with Israel. For his part, al-Sabah "made clear house of Parliament, or Duma, is limited, Sunday's elections are being Kuwait's support for the peace viewed an an important barometer of process and his desire for it to sucthe political climate in advonce of the ceed." Harris said the Iraqi aggression and the Israeli policy of restraint presidential elections. By Lev Krichevsky

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