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Rabbi Kushner to speak at Beth El by Michael A. Levine, Beth How Good Do We Have To Be? It is a question we may have asked ourselvea at oae time or another; it is also the title of the newest book hy worldfamous author Harold Kushner. Rabbi Kushner will speak about his books and other Judaic topics Monday evening, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., at Beth El Synagogue. Rabbi Kushner is the Rabbi Laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, MA, after having served that congregation for 24 years. He is best known as author of When Bad Things Happen To Good People, an international best-seller first published in 1981. The book has been translated into 12 languages and was recently selected by members of the Bookof-the-Month-Club as one of the ten most influential books of recent years. fie has also written When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, which was awarded the Christopher Medal for its "contribution to the exaltation of the human spirit." In 1996, Rabbi Kushner was honored by the Christophers as one of 50 people who have made ' the world a better place in the past 50 years. His more recent books include When Children Asi About God and Who Needs God. His 1993 book. To Life!, was also honored by the National Jewish Book Council. Rabbi Kushiier was bom in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Columbia University. He was ordained by the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1960 and awarded a doctoral degree in Bible by the
EI programming director seminary in 1972. He has | six honorary doctorates, I has studied at Hebrewl itniversity in Jerusalem, I and has taught at Clark I University, Worcester,! MA, and the Rabbinical I School of the Jewish I Theological Seminary,! and for four years was I the editor of Conservative | Judaism magazine. Rabbi Kushner is married tp the former I Suzette Estrada ofl Omaha. Mrs. Kushner'sj family attended Beth El Rabbi Kuahner Synagogue. The evening is sponsored by the Beth El Special Events and Adult Education committees. Tickets are $5 for adults, $3 for students/senior citizens, and are available at the Beth El Synagogue office or at the door that evening. A limited number of patron tickets are available and cost $100 (which includes two tickets and an autographed copy of Rabbi Kushner's latest book). Books will be available for sale and Rabbi Kushner will sign them following the program. A dessert reception will also follow the event. For more information, please call the Beth El Synagogue office at 492-8550.
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Open house at former Beth El The former Beth El Synagogue building at 49th and Famam Streets will be available for a special viewing by members of the Omaha Jewish community Sunday, Oct. 13, from 1 to 3 p.m. The 49th Avenue entrance (the stairs on the west side of the building) will be the access for the "Open House" which is being sponsored by the firm of Holland Basham Architects who purchased the buildjng earlier this year. , According to Tim Holland, company president and 'dreamer' of the potential reuse of the building, the original first floor sanctuary space has now been converted to multiple offices with m^'or changes in windows and alcoves. The area where the Ark and Bimah were located has been transformed into a library, conference room, and exhibit space. The former social hall, kitchen area, bridal room, youth lounge and Braille room are being converted into a health club and exercise room. In 214 months, the firm has remodeled 10,000 square feet, incorporating many of the original materials, including sconce lights, main space lights and wood detailing. Some of the synagogue flooring remains as well. , The Nebraska Jewish Historical Society is working with the new owners of the buildiu;; to create an historical remembrance of the original Beth El Synagogue. Additional plans for renovation and redesign will be completed in the coming year and will be open for viewing by the Jewish community.
JCAC's 'Class-0-Rama' to feature folk artist' Juan Sandoval, well-known New Mexican folk artist, will be one of the featured presenters at the Jewish Cultural Arts Councils Second Annual Class-O-Rama Sunday, Oct. 13, 7 to 9:30 p.m., at theJCC. Prior to the Class-O-Rama, Beth Israel ; Sisterhood will host a reception for Mr. Sandoval Saturday, Oct. 12, at the home of Joyce and Shelly Cohen, 8432 Hickory, at 8:15 p.m. Chairman is Annette Fettman. The JCAC is co-sponsor. As Mr. Sandoval's international reputetion as an artist grew, so did the discovery of his past. The artist stopped frequently at an Albuquerque Jewish deU, consistently ordering meat sandwiches, no cheese. When asked why, he replied, "My grandmother told me never to mix meat with milk." The deli's owner later gave Mr. Sandoval an article on the secret Crypto-Jews of New Mexico. Mr. Sandoval was subsequently visited by the ,late writer Paul Cowen and then by historian Stanley Hordes, both of whom had tracked him to .New Mexico. Together, they confirmed his Jewish lieritage. They discovered a cousin's gravestone with a Star Qf David on it, and the only one in the entire cemetery facing east. The final verification came when the artist confronted his 87-year-old mother, who replied, "Yes, we are Jews." Mr. Sandoval's Indian art has now been joined hy Jewish figures, including rabbis with Torah
"Standing Bubbe with pot," is a piece by Juan Sandoval, an artist showing at the JCC Oct. IS. scrolls and Bar and Bat Mitzvah boys and girls. No molds are used and each piece is one-of-a-kind. As
the artist continues to research his heritage, new works emerge, including a collection of immigrant Jews on New York's Lower East Side. ~ Mr. Sandoval's work has been purchased for the folk art collection in the Vatican, by Prince Rainier of Monaco, Steven Speilberg and President Reagan, as well as for the permanent collection of the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, NM, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. The Class-0-Raroa includes 11 mini-courses and a dessert buiTet as well as live Klezmer music with Tuffy's Band. Cost is $7 for adulte and $5 for Seniore/Students. For more information, call Gloriann Levy at 3346403. Babysitting is available by reservation only. "Most of Mr. Sandoval's works utilize the 'storyteller theme' made popular through the Cochite Pueblo clay figures. He draws comparisons of how the Native American culture was passed on by, word of mouth, much like Judaism," said Shirley Goodman, a member of the committee. "His interpretations tickle your funny bone. His works are just fun." For reservations for the Saturday night reception, call Joyce Cohen at 397-6262, Shirley Goodman at 554-1821, or Mrs. Levy at 334-6403. Gloriann Levy, JCAC Director, cuid SuMan Paley, Publicity Chairman for Beth Iirael Synagogue, contributed to thin article.
'Rescue, relief and reconstruction' mark UJA/Women's Campaign
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by Rabbi My«r a Kripke Shmini Atzer«t-Simhat i'orah Let's Poetpone It! I b»egin virith one question and end with two. The question at tiie l>eginning has to do with the recent eclipse of the moon. A child' knows that if it's raining, we can postpone a picnic to the next day or the next week. How do we explain to the small child that even if the skies are cloudy, we can't postpone the eclipse of the moon till the next night? It's great that the eclipse offered opportunities to whet the child's appetite for the sciences. I would not steer any youngster away from a natural inclination for the sciences. And yet I remember what I said when a brilliant all-around high school student and mathematics and science whiz went off to a southern university to major in literature: "Someone has to teach these scientists something about life." About life! That's what Ecclesiastes is about. We read this little gem of a book on Sukkot or Shmini Atzeret, read it liturgically. It's about life. Inife as we know it. No, not as the scientist knows it, with his scads of light years. CScads" is the scientific term, which I've just coined, for millions of billions of light years.) In such contexts human life doesn't make a particle of difference, not kids in a playground, not families in homes, not armies marching off to kill or be killed. 'The stars do not even yawn over us and our problems. Ecclesiastes is about life as we know it. He doesn't cotton to it very much. Try as much as you will, he notes wryly, huff and puff and join the gym and watch your diet and everything-and death cancels it all. Further, even during our brief years, where is justice? where is achievement? where is satisfaction? Even this: where does virtue get you? Facing it all squarely, Ecclesiastes recommends that we ought to eiyoy our work, we ought to ei;joy love and marriage, and. . .and. . .oh, yes, food and 'drink. Not painting the town red, but simple things of life, and in moderation. And that's it! That's it! That's all! Since you find'yourself alive, eiyoy it to the modest extent possible. He misses so much, like the beauties of nature, the love of humanity, the wonders of science, the joys of serving God (Whom he does not deny!) through caring for fellow humans, etc., etc. The rabbis, who once came to th6 melancholy co'nclusion that it would have been better if humankind had never been created, concluded their conclusion with the thought that so long as we have life, we are obligated to live it with serious moral responsibility. My two questions: Ecclesiastes apparently was a teacher in a 'Visdom school." What led him to such a glum view of life? (Did the School Board renew his contract?) And second, whal breadth of vision and what flexibility of opinion led the ancient rabbis at Yavneh charitably, tolerantly, to include this wonderful (this heretical!) little book in the Bible?
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THANK YOU! I want to express my appreciation to the friends, relatives and family who made a generous contribution to B'nai B'rith Youth Services in my honor. Ed A. Rosen
PERSONAL Our thanks to Rabbi Paul Drazen, the Bureau for the Aging, Chabad House, staff and residents of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, volunteers from LOVE and relatives and friends for their visits, letters, cards and contributions. Tbe family ol Frank Kelberg
'Al events held al the JCC unless olhetwise indicated. The Jiwlsh Pms s not tesponsUe he the icojiacy ol the above events. To Iwep calwMlar accuritt or (of quastloni on idivltlat, cdlMiilanaHert at 334-6437.
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PERSONAL Mark Lavy and hi* family would like to thank aver/one in the community who sent cards, well wishes, and made donations and phone calls during his recent stem cell transplant. Your k>ve and caring meant so much during a trying period for the Levy household. May you be blessed with a good, health-tilled new year.
EVELYN PERUMUTTBR GREEN Services were held in Los Angeles for Evelyn Perlmutter Green, formerly of Omaha, who died' on Sept. 26. ' 1 Survivors include her husband, Paul; two sons, Richard and Marshall, all of Los Angeles; a sister, Shirley Kirshenbaum of Omaha; a brother, Joe of Colorado Springs; and four grandchildren. BERNARD H. RASKIN Services for Bernard H. Raskin were held Sept. 27 at Temple Israel Cemetery. He was 81. Survivors include his wife, Ruth of Omaha; daughters, Andrea Booth of Hillsborough, CA, and Betsy Gullickson of Kentfield, CA; one grandson; one great-grandson; one granddaughter; and a sister, Doris Rosenberg of Chicago. Memorials to favorite charities. EDWIN MILDER Services for Edwin Milder of Omaha were held Oct. 2 at Golden Hill Cemetery; he was 76. Survivors include his wife, Bernice; two daughters, Terri Zacharia of Omaha and Debbie Milder of Arizona; sons, Jim of Iowa and Richard of Arizona; seven grandchildren; a sister, Phyllis Weinberg of Fremont; and a brother, Carl (Pete) Milder of Omaha. Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, Temple Israel or favorite charity. '
Barbara Chandler accepts position in Tuscon Howard Bloom, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, has announced that Barbara Chandler, Federation Assistant Director, and her husband, Allen, will be moving to Tucson, AZ, in November. Mr. Chandler, who works for ASARCO, Inc., has been transferred to their Tucson office and Mrs. Chandler has accepted a position as Women's Division Director for the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona. "It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with the professional staff, lay leadership and many volunteers at the Jewish Federation, as well as the synagogues and other community Jewish organizations," commented Mrs. Chandler. "Omaha's reputation as a solid, generous and impressive Jewish community is known throughout the country and I will always be very proud to say i started my career in Jewish communal work in Omaha," she continued. "Even though we will be miles apart, we will continue to have many opportunities to work together as we build strong Jewish communities in the U.S., Israel and around the world. Our home in Tucson will always be open to our Omaha friends."
Newman Grants Committee applications due by Claudia Sherman Foundation Public Relations Coordinator Members of the Esther K. Newman/Carolyn Kully Newman Grants Committee have scheduled their next bi-annual meeting for Tuesday, Nov. 12. They will review proposals requesting funds. Forms have been mailed to potential applicants. The deadline for submitting completed proposal requests to the Grants Committee is Oct. 26. "The Newman Grants Committee is interested in contributing to projects that provide programming for children, teenagers and young adults under the age of 23 who are not attending a college or university. Esther K. Newman Fund allocations are made to new and innovative programs designed to strengthen Jewish identity and values through educational, religious, cultural, social or recreational activities. Grants from the Carolyn Kully Newman Fund are intended to help support programs for families with children who are of kindergarten age or younger. Organizations that aubmit request* are encouraged to maximize in-kind contributions. Members of the Grants Committee include representatives from the Jewish Federation Board, the Budget and Allocations Committee, the Bureau of Jewish Education, the JewisA Community Center, Beth Israel and Beth El Synagogues, Temple Israel, Friedel Jewish Academy, B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, and The Federation Foundation. Myra Oberman is chairman. Both Newman funds are administered by The Foundation of the Jewish Federation. Applicants can call the office, 334-6440, for assistance.
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FRIDAY: EREV Simchat Torah Shabbat service, 7 p.m. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Stiel and Hazzan Contzius will officiate. New religious school students in ' kindergarten and first grade will be called tp the Bima for Consecration. The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the Temple Sisterhood. Sitter Service Sitter service is Available each Shabbat evening . service and the Saturday morning Shabbat service when there is a Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Please make a reservation. There are no facilities for infants. SATURDAV-SmCHAT TORAH: Yizkor: 11:15 a.m. SUNDAY: OUTREACH 'Vow do you handle outsider situations?" 10 a.m. to noon. This program will be led by Rabbi Stiel and counselors from the Jewish Family Service. They will provide helpful insights into uncomfortable and unfamiliar circumstances and also discuss some of the unique difficulties of and approaches to being an outsider coming to a Jewish environment. The program is open to the community.
Services are conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner. Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. FIUDAY: Hoshana Rabbah Morning service, 6:30 a.m.; Mincha, 6:46 p.m. Shiur with Rabbi Kutner on "The Laws of Shemini Atzeret," followed by Ma'ariv. SATURDAY: Shemini Atzeret Servicies, 8:46 a.m.; Yizkor, 10 a.m.; Jr. Congregation, 10:30 a.m.; Mincha, 6:45 p.m. Shiur with Rabbi Kutner on "The Joy of Simchas Torah," followed by Ma'ariv and Hakafos; Candlelighting: 7:41 p.m. An ice cream social will follow the Hakafos. SUNDAY: Simchas Torah Morning service, 8:46 a.m., luncheon following; Mincha, 6:45 p.m.; Havdalah, 7:39 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services at 7 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
Office Hours: Monday trough Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovita. FRIDAY: Shmini Atzeret , Minha-Ma'ariv, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: ' Services start at 9:30 a.m. fYizkor and Dedication of memorial Plaques); Sitter service starts at 10 a.m. TSS (Torah Siddur Skills) meeU at 10 a.m. Shabbat story time, first and third Saturday morning, 11 a.m. ICtantan, second and fourth Saturday at 11 a.m. Simchat Torah Minha-Ma'ariv, 6:50 p.m.; Hakafot, 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m.; Minha-Ma'ariv, 7 p.m. Men's Club Breakfast Men's Club will host a breakfast Sunday, Oct. 13, 10 a.m., with Gov. Ben Nelson, candidate for the U.S. Senate. Call the synagogue for reservations. WEEKDAYS: Services, 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
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Oct 8: Torah on Wheels (TOW) will be at noon to 1:16 p.m., at Zweiback Capital Management, 9292 W. Dodge Rd., Suite 103. Host is Tim Zweiback. Reservations are required. Call the Temple office at 556-6536. Adult Education Oct. 10: Sisterhood Adult Education, 9:3011 a.m. Rabbi Azriel will teach from the Pulitzer prize-winning book God, A Biography, by Jack Miles. "Beyond Midrash,' 7:30-8:30 p.m., led by Don Schwartz. "Shabbat Comes to You" Oct 11: Rabbi Stiel and the Temple Youth Group will lead a Shabbat service Friday, 3:45 p.m., at Livingston Plaza.
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TIFERETH ISRAEL Member of the Unltedf Synagogue of Conservativo Judaism 3S1» Sheridan Blvd., lineoln, NE 68508 Services are conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum. Minyans on Mondays and Thursdays, 7:16 a.m. FRIDAY: Hoshana Rabbah, 7:16 a.m.; Erev Shemini Atzeret service, 8 p.m. SATURDAY: Yizlcor Service Erev Simchat Torah service, 6:45 p.m. SUNDAY: Services start at 9:30 a.m. Mincha/Ma'ariv, 6:46 p.m.
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Services are conducted every Friday Shabbat Eve at 7:30 p.m. Sermonette presented by a guest speaker, fallowed by an Oneg Shabbat Kiddush. Services are led by congregants.
BEYT SHALOM An Affiliate of the Jewish Iteo(Mi«mietloi*i«t Federation P.O. BoxMllSO, Omaha, NI!!«8UMMU«> 768-MS8 FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m., at 3012 S. 119th St, Omaha Religious School: Contact Dr. Marty Rosenberg at 390-9062 for placement. Classes are held every Sunday at 10 a.m. at Westside Community Education Center, 108th and Grover. Rabbi Sachs will return Oct. 3-6. In addition to regular Friday services, there will be a Torah service/discussion Saturday, followed by a havdalah, potluck dairy-vegetarian dinner in the sukkah, and a Simchat Torah observance at the home of the Tuttle's Saturday evening.
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B'nai Mitzvah Jeffrey Russell Baum, son of Diane and Donald Baum, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah Oct. 11 and 12 at Beth El Synagogue. An honor student at Beveridge Middle School, he was selected • to participate in the ^ Duke Talent Identi H fication Program. His H interests include com- ^| puters, photography and vocal music. In addition, he performed for two years with the Omaha Public Schools' Mini Singers and currently sings in the Beveridge Swing Choir. He is also a member of the debate team. Jeff has a brother, Michael Sigmond. Grandparents are Helen and Milton Baum of Sacramento, CA; Reba Axler of Philadelphia and the late Paul Axler. Nathan Adam Bordy, son of Joseph and Linda Bordy of Columbus, NE, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzvah Saturday, Oct. 12, at Temple Israel. An eighth-grade student at Columbus Middle School, he enjoys baseball, basketball, golf, sports, card collecting, TV sports and video and computer games. In addition, for the last three years he has been an honor carrier for the Columbus Telegram, and a First-ClMS Boy Scout in Troop 113. Grandparents are the late Louis and Janet Batt Bordy and the late Leonard and Pauline Decker. Katie Tobin, daughter of Marty Link and Robert Tobin, wil become a Bat Mitzvah Oct. 11 at Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Lincoln. An eighth-grade student at Park Middle School, she enjoys volleyball, mathematics and science. Katie has two sisters, Molly and 2!oe. Grandparents are Dala R. and Psggy '. Revenna, NE, Maigaret TlBbin of Oswego, IL, and the late Dr. Waltar W. Tobin.
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Arafat: no statesman yet Benjamin Netanyahu's government completed the 1.5 meter excavation needed to open an exit from a 2,200 year old Hasmonean tunnel on to the Via Dolorosa. Workmen finished' at night and the tunnel was opened quietly with no fanfare. The result? The Palestinians rioted and, in the end, ,44 of them and 11 Israelis died. And the Western press and many of their governments condemhed, not the Palestinians, but the Israelis. The tunnel has been under excavation, on and off, since 1968. Members of this community'B Women's Mission visited this tunnel last October. In some places, it is only 3 meters wide. Without an exit, visitors were forced to retrace their st«p8, running directly into tourists going in the opposite direc- i tion. The tunnel is not under the Temple Mount; it runs outside the one remaining wall from the Second Temple, from the plaza in front of the Kotel (Western Wall), north now to'the Via Dolorosa. According to an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, "the pretext for relaunchirtg the intifada was a flimsy one, though it was accepted uncritically by much of the Western press." And A.M. Rosenthal, columnist for the M'ui York Times, wrote "Are the condemnors saying Israel had no right to open a second gate to a tunnel in its own capital? Are they saying the gate was somehow an affront to Islam? I think they are and it is disgusting hypocrisy; when Jordan occupied Jerusalem for the '20 years until Israel retook it in 1967, Jews were barred, not offered entry gates. Their synagogues were demolished and their gravesites used as latrines." Now, however, there are peace accords between Israel and Jordan and Israel and the Palestinians. 1 This week Arafat and Netanyahu meet in Washing^n, DC. As the holiday of Sukkot ends, let us pray that God's sukkat shalom, shelter of peace, protects them and that opening the gates of tourists attractions lead to the gates of peace.
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Israel's "Loyal" Opposition HAIFA- Israel's Labor Party is going through dif• ficult times. The post election atmosphere in party circles is marked by a bitter and vindictive struggle seeking to allocate the blame for the defeat. Shimon Peres, having emerged as loser in five elections, refuses to give up, and insists, at the age of 73, on holding on to the reins of leadership. .Ample younger candidates in the wings have made no secret of their ambitions to succeed him. ' It became clear from the outset that Labor does not know how to take its defeat graciously. Following the posting of the election results, the party rushed to the courts demanding that the balloting be declared invalid on the grounds of various allegations of fraud! The courts threw it out and inferred that charges were flimsy and ridiculous. Yasser Arafat and the PLO could have had no better spokesman than Labor Party leaders who ganged up on Netanyahu, warning him that his policies could lead to violent Arab reaction thus giving a suggestive hint to Arabs who hardly need such advice. In short, everything possible is being done to handicap and sabotage Netanyahu's leadership, by fair means and foul, in both economic and Arabrelated issues. And there are many elements outside the country, not necessarily friendly to Israel, who will be happy to cooperate.
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Hopes of working families by Paul Wellstone
NEW YORK (JTA) - As Americans and Jews, we view this November election as a watershed event, the political gateway to the 21st century. In the domestic arena, the stakes for our community are high. We face a choice between tlie continuation of a welfare system that traps millions in a generational cycle of poverty and despair and an economy that rewards initiative and merit. We face a choice between tolerating as inevitable the growing epidemic of criminal violence and making a determined effort to make our streets as safe as they were when we were young. It is a choice between group rights and quotas and individual rights and merit in jobs and government contracts. i It is a choice between the New Age values of Hollywood and the steadfast values of family and synagogue. It is a choice between more of the Clinton-Gore incumbency and the future envisioned by Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. Bob Dole and Jack Kemp are committed to unleashing the productivity of America through a 15 percent tax cut. This tax relief will be financed, in part, through increased economic growth and through cutting our bloated federal budget. The Washington pundits all say that cutting your taxes will explode the deficit. Bob Dole has always been a deficit hawk. We can pay for this tax cut by cutting just six cents out of every dollar. Surely we can find six cents of waste. In contrast, candidate Clinton in 1991 promised a middle-class tax cut and reneged on that commitment within a week of taking office. Instead, he gave us higher taxes. Americans should not have to enter the next century with fears about unsafe streets and a growing drug epidemic, but if we continue with the current policy, we will. So far, the Clinton drug program has been a resounding failure, with the rate of drug abuse among teenagers doubling since 1992. LSD use is at its highest since the government began gathering data in 1975. Yet President Clinton has reduced the budget for drug interdiction some 37 percent since taking office. In the last 10 yeau^, the Supreme Court has finally made explicit its opposition to the use of racial (Continued on page 6)
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Democrats have compiled an impressive record of achievement during the four years of the Clinton-Gore administration. On issues ranging from the economic security of working families, to fiscal responsibility which has led to a healthy economy, to putting cops on the' street to reduce crime. President Clinton and Democrats in Congress have pursued sound policies that put the interest of middle-class Americans ahead of narrow special interests. By restoring responsibility to federal government spending and promoting economic growth. Democrats have cut the deficits which mushroomed during the Reagan-Bush years. At the same time, we reduced taxes for millions of working Americans. And we have beat back the worst of the extreme, slash-and-burn approach of the Gingrich Congress, which has attempted to target cuts in programs benefltting the poor, the young and the elderly in order to pay for giveaways to the wealthy. Without the vote of a single Republican, his first budget started us on the path to deficit reduction, a path studiously avoided by his predecessors. We have cut the deficit from $290 billion in 1992 to $116 billion by the end of 1996. That has sent a positive signal to financial markets and paved the way for increased business investment, the easing of interest rates, lower unemployment and rising stock prices. We currently have the lowest combined rates of unemployment, inflation and home mortgages in 28 years. Since 1992, nearly 10 million jobs have been created-half of them for good-paying positions. More Americans are working, and their workplace is more family-friendly thanks to legislation requiring family and medical leave. Clinton and Democrats in Congress pushed through legislation to prohibit felons from purchasing handguns, to ban assault weapons and to preserve student loans for college. We expanded the earned income tax credit for low-income workers and raised the minimum wage. We refused to agree to Republican demands to cut health care for America's elderly, gut environmental protection programs, or reduce student loans (Continued on page 6)
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(Continued from page 4) and ethnic quotas under the guise of affirmative action. The court has struck down racially motivated electoral districts in Shaw vs. Hunt and Bush vs. Vera, and it has outlawed the use of racial and ethnic numerical quotas in government contracting programs in Aderand. Jewish tradition tells us that wise men try to stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, taking the wisdom of the past and encapsulating it into a vision for the future. Bob Dole and Jack Kemp recognize that our future will not be secure if the values of family and synagogue do not endure into the next century. As we move closer to the 21st century, we need a leadership team with the character and moral vision to lead us into that future-Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. Marthall J. Breger, Profeaaor of Law at the Catholic University of America, waa Pretident Retigan't liaiton with the Jewith community and terved as solicitor of the Department of Labor. He is co-chairman of the Jewish Policy Center, a Washingtonbased conservative policy think tank.
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Intermountain Jewith Newt f DENVER (JTA) - The archives of the University of Colorado have recently announced the commencement of the International Soviet Jewry Video Interview Project. This five-year effort will document the U.S.based rescue movement aimed at liberating Soviet Jews, the political and social dynamics of rescue, and Soviet Jewish resettlement. The International Soviet Jewry Video Interview Project will conduct video and audio taped interviews of dissidents, prisoners-of-conscience, refuseniks, activists and farmer Soviet ofScials. Interviews will be conducted in the United States, Israel, France, England, Russia, Belarus, .Ukraine and other locations. In addition , the project will collect correspondence, genealogical information, photographs and personal papers. P^BT
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Mark and Jill Belmont at Beit She'an archeological excavation site. rockets, the older man said that he was going to fire them up the hill (at the kibbutz). When Mr. Ginsburg said, "you can't do that-you might kill my children!" the man replied, "give me $250 and I'll shoot them over there" (pointing in the opposite direction, into Lebanon). At one point, gunfire erupted several miles away in a Lebanese village. There we stood, seeing the Lebanese border in the distance to our left; to our right, the Israeli border. Listening to stories about the courageous members of this community and knowing the potential danger on the other side of the nearby barbed-wire fence, gave us an understanding and appreciation not possible to obtain from watching CNN. Another highlight was our visit with Holocaust educator Rachel Korazim at Yad Vashem. Ms. Korazim was eloquent and passionate as she spoke of the importance to look past tlie symbolic number "six million," and remember that each person had a name, a family, a home, fashion and food preferences, favorite vacation spots, books, friends--a life before the striped uniforms and shaved heads. We all know the number, she said; now we need to take the time to learn the names. She told us to always remember that the images of Holocaust victims we've always seen came from Nazi cameras. We never saw pictures of the Jews' spirit, their resolve to survive; only propaganda photos which promoted Hitler's wish to depict Jews as dirty, desperate and less than human. Do not forget Her powerful words touched us and we will never forget them. Seeing Jerusalem for the first time was another highlight (so many highlights!) for us and was a vision hard to describe. Standing on Mount Scopus, overlooidng this magnificent city with all its beauty, its scars, its history and its future, was beyond breathtakingT beyond words. We sang "Yerushaliyim SheF Zahav" as we entered the city, and hearing that song now takes me back there... and I love being there. Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco? Well, we left ours a little farther away, and as soon as we can, we hope to visit again. Until then, we hope and pray that the keeper of our hearts will survive, thrive, and welcome us as a strong, secure Israel when we return someday with our own children.
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Federation Silver Circle donors will be honored at a deasert reception following the Saturday, Oct. 12 performance of From Generation to Oeneration, an original play by karen Javitch and Elaine Jabenis. Silver Circle donors are those individuals who have donated to the UJA/Federation Campaign '; for 26 years or more. Howard Bloom, Federation Executive Director, said, "Silver Circle is about generations and that's what the play focuses on. It is particularly appropriate that we honor our ' Silver Circle donors at this event." Karen Javitch, co-author of the play remarked, Elaine (Jabenis) and I are very proud to have ' this special group of people at this performance of From Generation to Generation. The Silver CiKle donors have shown their dedication to the Jevmh ; community in Omaha, and it is fitting that we pay : special tribute to them at the performance." For more information, or for reservations for Silver Circle members, please call 334-6431.
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Following the performance of From Generation to Gpneration at the JCC Sunday, Get 20, the cast and crew of NCJWs recent centennial celebration will meet in the auditorium. Families of cast members are invited; cost for the cast party is $5 for adults; children are free. From Generation to Generation tickets for cast members of A Sentimental Journey are $5. Dessert will be served. DeadUne for reservations is Oct. 10. Checks
New York's Too Jewish? comes to Jewish Museum San Francisco Continuing its tradition of exhibitions that question and explore issues of contemporary American Jewish identity, The Jewish Museum San Francisco recently opened the West Coast premiere of Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities. It continues through Jan. 5, 1997. On a limited nationwide tour. Too Jewish?-curated by Norman L. Kleeblatt of The Jewish Museum in New York, where it originally premiered-explores how the new ethnic consciousness of the past decade has had a profound effect on many Jewish artists. An array of lectures, seminars and performances on Jewish identity and popular culture are planned.
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Proceeds from an art auction will help maintain the architectural integrity of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun's '70-year-old building which is listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. The event, which will take place Monday, Oct. 7, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at the Temple, will be produced by the Perry Berns Gallery of Dallas, Texas. It will include original oils, watercolors, graphics and prints, custom framed and guaranteed by written certificate. The items will be auctioned starting at low bids.
'Presenting Patricia Polacco' Patricia Polacco, author and illustrator, will speak at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln, Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 6:45 p.m. She will share her literature and art. Ms. Polacco is wellknown for several stories about Jewish topics: Tikvah Means Hope, I Mrs. Katz and Tush, and the Keeping Quilt. Patricia Polacco Preceding the event will be a dessert reception. Following the presentation, copies of her books will be sold for autographing. "Presenting Patricia Polacco" is sponsored by the Lincoln Jewish Federation, Lincoln Public Schools, and Lee Booksellers through a Library Power Grant.
Is there a teena^ science whiz in your family? If so, he or she has until Nov. 1 to apply for entry in the 1997 "Olympiyeda"-the highly-popular international science contest for boys and girls to be held in Israel next year. The competition, sponsored by the Israel National Museum of Science in Haifa, was formerly restricted to Israelis but is now also open to youngsters in North America and England. Twenty teens who score highest on a series of exams will be selected from among the North American and British applicants to receive allexpense-paid, three-week stays in Israel next summer, according to Dr. Zvi Dori professor of chemistry at Technion--The Israel Institute of Technology, who is the founder and director of the Museum and of the annual competition. Olympiyeda-known as "Olympics of the Mind"was created to promote youthful interest in science and to encourage youngsters to pursue careers in science and technology, it was noted by Judith R. Golub, Director of the American Friends of the Israel National Museum of Science. Until two years ago, entry to the contest was Umited to Israeli students, "We are determined to expand it each ye)|^^ it can become a truly international event thanBU kindle interest in science among Jewish youth^berally while reinforcing their sense of Jewish identity," Ms. Golub explains. Three Stage Competition Ninth and tenth graders from North America and England who enter are given a multiple choice general science examination. The top-scorers qualify for a second-stage multiple choice exam to test their knowledge and understanding of a particular science subject to be designated by the Olympiyeda ofHcials. Study materials are provided by the Israel Natiotial Museum of Science. The subject for the 1997 Olympiyeda is "Light." Next July, the top 20 scorers among the American, Canadian and English entrants will be sent to Israel to attend a weeklong summer science camp, where they will join Israeh high scorers in a science and technology workshop, meet with Israel's leading scientists and tour important historic, cultural and religious sites. At the end of August, when the summer camp closes, from six to eight students will be selectedf from among all the contestants to participate in the competition's finals, which are nationally televified in Israel. Both the Israel National Museum of Science and the Olympiyeda are funded primarily by private donations, although subsidies are also provided by the Israeli government. The Olympiyeda is a joint project of the Museum, the Jewish Agency, Israel's Ministry of Education and Culture and the Wcizmann Institute of Science, as well as Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Israeli Ministry of Science and the City of Haifa. American and Canadian atudenlt can obtain additional information about the Olympiyeda and application form* by writing or phoning Judith Golub, Executive Director, American Friend* of the I$rael National Muteum of Science, 511 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10017; telephone (212) 578-17S6.
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By RIan Jasephton ^—^ t dont want to call It the best summer at my life. I made many friends I will have for a lifetime, and I also learned about tfie diversity and limitless potential of Judaism when explored to the fullest depths. Well, I guess It was the best summer of my life. When I emt)ari<ed on my four-week excursion to Starlight, PA, I had no Idea it would change my life the way K did. The program I attended there was Kallah, a BBYO international summer program with a focus on exploring Judaism. I have to admit, I was a bit apprehensive at first, even a little scared. I can rememt>er lying in my bed the first night thinking how I
Alan (left), and Jaff Shykan at Kallah. couklnl bluff my way through this four weeks. I was going to fiave to dive in, head first. No more wading in the shalk)w end. Thar was a metaphor lor how I felt atXMl Kallah. I don't swim. The thing I enjoyed most was the vast amount of knowledge atisortied there. We usually had about five classes a day, with topics from the Holocaust to Torah Study. The Hok)caust class was taught by a profesisor from Lafayette College. It was unlike any class IVe attended either at school or Temple. In Torah Study, we
read and analyzed passages until <HB discovered several different interprelatk>ns of everything. There were also classes on aonism, Jewish Calendar and Jewish Rituals. Every participant could take two elective courses. I chose Conversational (Hebrew and Music. The music class was great - there were two of us who played guitar, a guy on bass, and three trumpet players. The other IS kkls sang songs like Gershwin's It Aini Necessarily So, and tfie rest were Jewish songs all in Hebrew. The most interesting class was taught by a Reconslructionist rabbi who tokj us an amazing true story. He and his family were traveling, and his son had to have emergency surgery for cancer in a strange hospital in a strange city. Due to a series of miracles, his son survived, against all odds. I fell better after that class. It restored my faith in good things happening. Another class, taught by the same latb't, asked the questkxi, 'If you only had a short time to live, what would you do?' Some of the kids sakj they woukj talk to relatives they hadnt talked to in a while, to tell them they loved them and didn't forget about them. There were actually kids who dkj go and call their grandparents or other relatives right after the class. But there was more to Kallah than just the classes. The atmosphere is what made it truly unk]ue. I suppose it had something to do with living communally in tfie mountains for a month with 150 other people. Also, ifs a lot easier to learn when you don't have the pressure of scho()l, and you're learning things you chose to learn. I changed a tat this summer. When I think about it, I really can't explain how. I just know it changed me.
On'August 11,1 headed to St. Louis, MO, for tfie Maccal>i Youth Games, a mini-Olympics for Jewish kWs, ages 13-16, from all over ttie world. I went to compete in tennis. I have t>een playing for seven years. For 1996, I will tie ranked second in Netxaska for girls 14 and under singles, and first for girls 14 and under dout)les. I arrived in St. Louis expecting to play a couple of matches until I met
Julia someone who coukl defeat me. Little dkl I know, I was in for a big surprise. Even though I was not seeded, I played my hardest, won lour matcfies and ended up in the finals. The final match was played on a big stadium court with dozens of people watching. I ended up winning the Silver Medal, k>sing 7-6, 6-4 to a girl from Mexco. The Maccabi Games dktnl just help
my tennis. It helped me understand tfiere are a great many young Jewish athletes just like me. Over 1,500 from the United States, Israel, Mexico, Canada, and even Australia competed. I didn't realize how many people there Were until the Opening Ceremonies. I was squished In ttie stadium tunnel with every other athlete. Some of the delegations had over 100 athletes. Compared to Omaha's eight, that was a k>t. I met a k>t of new people from the United States that ni^t. I never got'much of a chance to Interact with kkls from other countries until our visH to Six Rags Amusement Park. On the way, the Omaha delegation was put on a bus with the 53 Mexk»n athletes. I sat with a tennis player from Mexico and learned a lot at>out how things in Mexk;o differed from the U.S. One of the most fun things to do was to trade pins. Every athlete was given pins with the name of their delegation. I collected pins from Mexico, Canada, Israel and many states in the U.S. After pins, people were trading T-shirts, hats, and even warm-up outlils. I was fortunate to trade a jacket for a Mexican sombrero. It was a good trade, but hard to bring tuck on the plane. ^t the Maccabi Games, I met a k}t of people, gained a k)t of knowledge, and even got a Silver Medal. I plan to compete next year in Kansas City. I hope more kids will deckle to compete from Omaha and from all around the worki. JuHa to a frashman at Burka, a mtmbar ol OTYO. HZ Yoshanth and Tampit braaL
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OEWISHFAMILTSraiVICE -_ JFS and all Omaha-area Jewish youth groups are co-sponsoring "Common Sense Parenting," be^nning Monday, Oct. 28, and running fdr six consecutive weeks. The program, facilitated by Kevin Orr, is designed for parents of children of all ages and teaches skills for relationship-building, positive ' communicationB and ways to der^l conflicts. Cost is $26, which includes the manual. For more information or to register, call JFS at 330-2024. BUREAU OF JEWISH EDUCATION Kibbitz, kvell and coffee, a time for parents with special needs children, begins Wednesday, Oct. 23, 7:30-9:30 p.m., in the JCC Conference Room. Sponsored by the Phil and Terri Shrager Special Needs Program ef the BJE, the new program will be coordinated by Beth Friedman. Light ^freshments will be served. Reservations can be made by calling Mrs. Friedman at 334-7539, or Susie Drazen at the BJE, 334-6445. JEWISH SINGLES Young Jewish Omaha, Jewish Family Service and Omaha-area congregations will sponsor a planning meeting on Monday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m., for the purpose of forming a group or groups for singles. If interested in planning singles events, call Sharon Kirshenbaum, YJO Coordinator, at the Jewish Federation, 334-6485. BREADBREAKERS Dana Altman, head basketball coach at Creighton University, will b6 the guest speaker Wednesday, Oct. 10, accprding to Adam Jacobs, chairman for the month of October. Breadbreakers meets every Wednesday at noon at Highland Country Club and is open to the community. Cost is $7.75.
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BIttfis Andrea Rothman Stoler and Robert Stoler announce the Aug. 1 birth of a daughter, Danielle Miri, in Boston, MA. Grtmdparents are Hava and Irving Rothman of Houston, TX, and Bonnie Stoler and Bairy Stoler of Louisville, KY. Great-grandparents are Selma and Nathan Bernstien of Lincoln; Ida and the late Max Rothman of Pittsburgh, PA; Irvin and Betty 2^gart i' and Florence Stoler, all of Louisville, and the late I Max Stoler. Larry and Kirsten Budwig of Omaha announce the Sept. 17 birth of their daughter, Hannah Moorea. They also have a daughter, Brianne. Grandparents are Susan Rothholz, Ron Budwig and Dorothy and Vem Cornish, all of Omaha. Debbie and Steve Katzman of Lakewood, CO, announce the Sept. 17 birth of sons, Jaco6 Spencer, Philip Samuel and Bryan Nathaniel. The triplets have an older brother, Steve, Jr. Grandparents are Joan Kunesch of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Priscilla and Fred Kunesch of Shermans Dale, PA, and Sylvia and Maynard Katzman of Omaha. Great-grandfathers are Leonard Gilbert, Venice, FL, and Fred Kunesch of Milford, CT.
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'Finally, I'm going away to school!' by Eimiee Denenberg
^ 1946, if you had a widowed mom, were an only child, and to triple the tsorea (troubles), were a girl, you did not go away to ooUege. But, 60 years later, thanks to a supportive husband, plus an offbeat approach to living, here you are, on a flight to England, heading for the Oxford Institute for Yiddish Studies. Finally, I'm going away to school! The Institute, now two years old, aims 'to preserve the Yiddish language, Uterature and scholarship through teaching, publishing and research." Its faculty is attached to Oxford University and its colleges and guest lectiirers are drawn from univer'sities world-wide. The offices are in Golden Cross Court, where Shakepeare's Hamlet debuted about 400 years ago. Its now a courtyard ringed with shops and outdoor cafes. Here, we assembled for evening programs. Classes were held in nearby Taylorian Institute, a dignified edifice with high ceilings, wood paneling and two proper English hall porters. The 1996 summer program, from July 15-Aug. 9, had an enrollment of 67 students, 29 from the U.S. The rest came from Germany, Poland, Finland, Israel, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France, England, Lithuania and Canada. To be among such a diverse group of people was the beginning of a 'high' that has yet to leave me. In every class, as we introduced ourselves, I sparked the most startled response. Heads turned, eyes widened. 'Omaha? Where's Omaha?* No one blinked at Kouvola, Finland or Katowice, Poland, but at Omaha. So much for the 'global village.' I arrived with no preconceptions, a good thing, because the surprises began during our welcoming reception. About a dozen of the student body were non-Jews, including Colleen, an African-American, over whose fluency in Yiddish I drooled. We ranged in age from college undergrads to octogenarians. Of the Jews, some were religious, some not; only a few were shomer Shabbat (Sabbath observers). Why did we come? The students' answers were as diverse as their addresses. Claudia, a German minister, knows Hebrew from her theology training and now needs a Yiddish teaching certificate for her new job in a Jewish
when?" I came to study the language my family spoke and read and wrote and to be embraced by Yiddishkeit (Jewishness). A couple of Omaha notes: Leon Janis, a retired psychiatrist, teaches in the Anchorage, AK, Chabad House and hopes to start a Yiddish class in a community college. His friend is David Gbldberg, an Argentinian psychiatrist, who practiced in Omaha in the 1980B. Merle Spiegel, now of Connecticut, lived in Omaha in the '60B when her husband, Arthur, was the ADL Direcitor. She recalls living near 42nd and Dodge (the Benbow?), the late Paul Veret and noted that Rabbi Kripke officiated at her son's bris. Housing for the Institute is in dorms on campus at Lincoln or Jesus College and though I found the combo of Yiddish studies at Jesus College intriguing, I chose option #3, a private room in one of the properties owned by the colleges. At 47 Walton Crescent, a three-story townhouse with a neighborly kehtzele (kitty), my four housemates and I shared a large, fully-equipped kitchen and living-dining room, two showers and two loos (I learned British, too). Each private bedroom had its own sink, but no phone and no TV. The garden,! however, bloomed with roses and daisies to perfume the wash which I hung outside for the first time in 20 years. My housemates were Roberta, a paramedic from New York; Aviva, an adorable Columbia junior; Miriam, an Israeli-born environmentalist now living in Santa Monica; and a Polish woman from Cracow who spoke Yiddish and smoked a pipe. We called her Anka with the lyulka (pipe). Anka and I were on the top floor, three flights of stairs, four or five times a day. Who needed a gym? Classes were divided among beginners, advanced beginners and advanced, with most students in the highest level. It took me three trial-and-error days to settle in to where I felt I belonged-first steps in Yiddish literature, including beginning grammar, and advanced beginners' level for Conversation and for Writing. Our classes were small and ensured speedy progress, but oh, those tantalizing advanced lectures: Women in Yiddish Literature, History and Sociology of Yiddish, Modem Yiddish Poetry, Soviet Yiddish Literature, Creative Yiddish Writing, ...all in the same day! • (To be continued next week)
Dov Kats, teacher and author, spoke to Eunice Denenberg, left, and fellow student Batia Ascher, from London, in one of the library claMrooms at Oxford University. school in Berlin. Velvel from California and Berel from Middlesex, England, my 80-something buddies, could only converse. They wanted to learn to read and write. Jared, of the shaved head and cars full of hardware, came "to learn more of our culture and history." Luba came with her boyfriend. She's 72. 'V'lie had such an awakening here," she said. "My heart fills when I hear the language. Now I want to learn as much as I can.' "My mission is to read my zayde's (grandfather's) letters," said Batia of London, describing a box of mail she has saved for 30 y^ars. About eight students from Ohio State worked for credit towards their linguistics degrees. Why Yiddish? Why not? It's a fun language with a body of great literature, and, once you've mastered the alphabet, the same as Hebrew, it's an easy language. The spelling is mainly phonetic. English, on the other hand, is difBcult to spell, as in 'you,' 'threw,' 'through,' 'woo,' and 'rue.' Farshteyst (understand)? And why did I come to Oxford? Well, the ad I saw in the Jewish Forward newspaper was seductive: "Oxford, a beautiful spot near the Cotswolds; Yiddish, and an interesting regimen of study; opportunities to explore London; people from the world over." Yes; it seemed to have my name on it,' and, as my husband, and the sage Hillel, said, *If not now.
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