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Omahans to atferid UJA/OJF General Assembly in Jerusalem by Pam Monsky, Federation Communications Director
such a great group and having a wonderful experience. All .my life, I've none other. This year, been hearing about how it's in Jerusalem, in celeimportant Israel is to the bration of the State's Jewish people, and I 60th anniversary.. ; • want to experience it Representing Omaha . - • • • • firsthand!" at this annual meeting, The theme of this sponsored by United year's GA is "Many peoJewish Appeal and the ple, many roads, one Council of Jewish Fedheart." The four-day erations are: Joel Alpermeeting will kick off son, Pacesetter Division with a gala celebration of Chairman; Bob BelIsrael's 50 years of grade, 1998 Justin achievement, led by Greenberg Young LeadIsraeli and American ership Award winner; entertainers. Sara Juster, 1997 Lois Topics for discussions Jeanne Schrager Young -Natalia will center on the conLeadership Award winnections between Israeli ner; Forrest Krutter, and North American Jewish Federation ViceJews, seeing the propresident; and Mark grams and meeting the Sanford, Jewish Compeople that Omaha's munity Center P r e s i - O m a h a i s p a i r e d w i t h the W e s tern Galilee through dent the Midwest Consortium's Partnership 2000. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel allocation have been supporting, (those Both Alperson and Krutter will arrive in Marty Ricks, Foundation Director; and Bob funds are then forwarded to the UJA). Jerusalem from the Chazak_ YoungvLeadership_ Wolfsorlj-ADL-CRC Executive Director. Also on the_agenda will be the role of philanMission in Eastern Europe. In addition "to attending worKsKopsattheGA, thropy, the peace process, the future of .Professionals attending the GA are: Barbara Gottlieb, Jewish Senior Services Executive participants will also spend a day in the Western Israel/Diaspora relations, and Jewish identity and education. Director; Carol Katzman, Jewish Press Editor; Galilee, Omaha's Partnership 2000 region. The GA will close at the Knesset, Israel's parliaThis will be Bob Belgrade's first trip to Israel Julee Katzman, Federation Executive Assistant; ment, with Jewish leaders from around the world. and he noted he is "looking forward to going with Pam Monsky, Federation Communications Director; The UJA/CJF General
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Klutznick speakers present diverse visions of Israel by Leonard Greenspoon
This year's KJutznick Symposium, scheduled for Nov. 1-2, features more than a dozen speakers who will present a rich and varied portrait of the Land of Israel, from ancient to contemporary times. Coming from as far away as London, England, the presenters are all experts in their respective fields and experienced in conveying their ideas to the interested, general public. Beginning just after noon on Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Jewish Community Center, Professor Thomas Idinopulos of Miami University will explore how Israel was viewed by devout Christian millenarians who linked the restoration of the Jews to Israel with, the second coming of Jesus. No ivory tower thinkers, these Englishmen had a decisive influence on British policy when the English ruled the Holy Land after World War I. Idinopulos will be followed by Omaha's own Murray Frost, an internationally recognized expert on the stamps of Israel. Dr. Frostwill make use of his philatelic expertise to analyze images of Israel on its own stamps and the generally negative portrayal of Israel on stamps produced in Arab lands. Colin Shindler, a prolific writer and lecturer from London, England, leads off Sunday's second ses-. sion, which begins at 2 p.m. The title of his presentation,The View from the Right: Power, Politics, and Ideology from Jabotinsky to Netanyahu," gives a clear idea of the topics and ideas he will discuss. Shindler will make use of his extensive research on Israeli politics to help us better understand characteristic, beliefs and actions of important and still influential figures including Menachem Begin and Avraham Stern, in addition to the individuals mentioned in his title. • An expert on the religion and culture of classical
Islam, Brannon Wheeler from the University of Images of Israel from Without and Within." Washington will explore with us the ways in which UNO Professor Joel Gordon will look at how Muslim thinkers have understood key moments in Egyptian films portray Israel and Israelis in a prethe life of Abraham and the divine promises of sentation titled, "Israel in Egypt: Reel Images from inheritance that guided his life. Not surprisingly, across the Border." the Koran presents claims at variance with tradiOri Soltes, a popular Klutznick presenter from tional Jewish and Christian biblical interpretation. 1996 and 1997, will explore the diverse images The final session on Sunday, which begins at Israelis have of themselves in his presentation, 3:30 p.m., features presentations on two artists "Israeli Art as. Jewish Art; Israel Art as Political who were extremely influential in shaping images Art." Soltes recently stepped down as director of of Zionism, Zionists and the Zionist goal — Jews liv- the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. ing in the Land of Israel. A dessert reception follows these talks. Boston artist and art historian Elisabeth Keil, in her slide-illustrated lecture, presents the work of On Monday morning, the Klutznick Symposium E. M. Lilien, the creator of many popular images of shifts to Creightonj Zionism and its leader, Theodore Herzl. Lilien was University's Student [ also one of the founders of Bezalel, the Academy of Center. Beginning j Fine Arts and Crafts, that continues to function to 8:30 a.m., an additional this day in Jerusalem. * ~'I7>-'" T . . 7 T " ' six speakers continue to explore the variety and .Lilien's near contemrichness that accompany porary, Herman Struck, I visions of Israel. is the 'Subject ofProfessor Michael Berk-1 Archaeologist Rami' owitz's talk. Berkowitz, | Arav will begin the day' who recently took an with a fascinating dis-j academic position at j cussion of the complex *** University College, Loninteraction between ide- don; presents Struck as j ology and archaeology'—:> •" ---•j~ —','Bami Arov an individual who that has existed for over uniquely blended Orthoseven decades in Israel. He will illustrate the dox Judaism with great I changing nature of this intense relationship by artistic talent, Zionism, f looking at selected sites and archaeologists, espeand the empathy of a cially Yigael Yadin. Archaeological sites are among' Elisabeth Keil free-thinker. Struck's the most frequently visited and photographed desworks will be amply illustrated through slides. tinations for tourists to Israel, especially for The Symposium continues on Sunday evening at American Jews on missions. 7 p.m. Two keynote speakers'are featured in a program titled "Visions/Versions: Contemporary (Continued on page 12)
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What is Man? by Rabbi MyerS.Krpke
Parashat Bereshit Recently, I was discussing with a class in Bible some of the ultimate questions humans have about life. I mentioned to them that I had" recently started an article, only partly tongue in cheek, with the announcement that I have been in the rabbinate more than six decades (since 1937!), and I'm still trying to find the meaning of life. We turned to the Eighth Psalm, with its searching, though petulant, query, "What is Man?" The impossible and impassible impediment is the fact of death. Does not death cancel everything one tries to do in life? Is it not true, as Ecclesiastes maintains, that in death the great is no greater than the less great. Job declares that in Sheol (where the dead "live"), all are equal. It is natural that Genesis, in its opening chapters, discusses the questions, although obliquely. Mankind is clearly subject to death, therefore not divine. Nearly divine, the Eighth Psalm has it, but not divine. The Midrash (Genesis Rabbah, 8, 9-11) tells the charming tale that the angels, on seeing.man, began to worship him. But the Lord caused man to fall asleep-and the angels instantly knew better! If mankind must sleep, if men and women must die, it is obvious that humans, though like divine, are also like animals. Human beings are superior animals. The rabbinic discussion goes on to note that humans share the qualities both of divine creatures and of the animal kingdom. The divine qualities are that humans stand erect, that they speak and see, and have native intelligence. Without saying so, that rabbis are suggesting to us that there are human beings to eat and sleep and live like other animals. But to be human, one must also use one's intelligence. But if one can read but doesn't read, if one can think but doesn't think, if one can study but doesn't study—in what way does'he differ from other animals? That is a thought that should bother us all, as.we open our Book, to read it again...and again...and again.
DOROTHY G: RINGLE Graveside services for Dorothy Ringle were held Oct. 7 at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Survivors include a niece, Barbara Black of Los Angeles; a nephew, Jerry Rosinsky of Omaha; and great-nieces and nephews. Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home or charity of choice. ELLAN F. ROSEN THURMOND Elian P. Thurmond died in Tuscon, AZ, at the age of 47. Services were held Oct. 11 a t Beth El Cemetery. She was preceded in death by her father, Jerold I. Rosen. . Survivors include a daughter, Shannon Malone of San Diego; mother, Sheila Rosen of Omaha; brother and sister-in-law, Steven and Sara Rosen of Fairway, KS. Memorials to the Federation Foundation, Jewish Federation of Omaha or Beth El Synagogue. DR. HASKELL MORRIS Graveside services for Dr. Haskell Morris were held Oct. 4 at Golden Hill Cemetery. He was 78. Survivors include his wife, Beverly; son and. daughter-in-law, Dr. Allen and Cindy Morris of Omaha; daughters and son-in-law, Diane and Dr. Phillip Rich, also of Omaha; Rosalind of Chicago and Stephanie of San Francisco; sister, Esther (Bobbe) Schwartz of Seattle; eight grandchildren; cousins; and nieces and nephews. He was a president of Beth Israel Synagogue. Memorials to American Diabetes Assoc, or Haskell Morris, M.D. Memorial Scholarship Fund, c/o University of Nebraska Foundation, 8612 W. Dodge Rd., Omaha, NE 68114. BERNICE GENDLER Graveside services for Bernice Gendler were held. Oct. 14 at Golden Hill Cemetery. She was 77. Survivors include her husband, Norman; daughters and sons-in-law, Shari and Nick Brady of Hawthorne Woods, IL, and Arlene and Jim Endebrock of Elkhorn, NE; grandchildren, Cameron, Jessica and Andrea Brady, and Jillian, Abigail and Tyler Endebrock; and nieces and nephews. Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home or favorite charity • ROCHELLE DROLSON Services for Rochelle Drolson of Chicago were held Oct. 9 in Chicago. She died at the age of 55. Survivors include sons, Blake Lane and Derek, both of Chicago; mother, Lorraine Reiss of Omaha; brothers, Joe Reiss of Post Falls, ID, and Robert Reiss of Omaha; sister, Elaine Nacron of Miami. Memorials to the American Cancer Society.
Gesundheit! by Shane Kotok, Jewish Senior Services
Torah comes with healing on its wings. Modern medicine promises hope and cures. Sometimes miracles appear or they are hidden from us. In either case, we require a spiritual prescription that brings understanding. Rabbi Eric Weiss, an innovator in the Jewish healing movement, turns to ancient Jewish wisdom combined with modern therapy in his presentation, Gesundheit The Chicken Soup of Jewish Spiritual Care. He will speak on Thursday, Oct. 29, at noon, in the JCC auditorium.. Rabbi Weiss is associated with Ruach Ami (Spirit of My People); a ' S a n Francisco Bay area healing center, where he assists Jews seeking prayers and guidance as they face such traumas as chronic pain, chemotherapy, miscarriages, illnesses and losses. . "The Jewish healing: movement helps us find strength when medical treatments for our bodies challenge our spirit," said Rabbi Weiss.
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Barbara Gottlieb, Executive Director of Jewish Senior Services added, "The Jewish healing movement and Rabbi Weiss', appearance in Omaha offer our community an opportunity to further learn about our God and the ability to lead a more spiritual life." "The quest for spirituality and the search for answers to the puzzling questions about pain and suffering are not limited to any one time in life or to any specific age group," noted Todd Ephraim, Jewish family Service executive director. The program, sponsored by Jewish Senior Services, Jewish Family Service, Beth El, Temple Israel, Beth Israel and Beyt Shalom, is open to the entire community. A brown bag lunch with soup included, (of course!), is available for $6. Reservations must be made for the lunch and the program ait J S S a t 330-4272 by Oct. 28. Transportation is available for $3 through JSS. For information, call 334-6529.
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Alarissa Daylc Epstein, daughter of Harriet and "~]Ronald Epstein, will eel-; ebrate her Bat Mitzvah ' on Saturday, Oct. 24, at : Beth El Synagogue; A seventh-grade honor" \ "* * student at Beveridge t,Middle School, she paf\ s '*^ licipates in tennis, soft/ '^ .hall, piano and dance,; ^and was selected tq-par^ in the Duke Talent; Identification program. She enjoys writing poetry and stories and spending time with friends. Marissa has a sister, Brittany. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Wald of Houston, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Epstein of Omaha and the late Donna Epstein. '".,
Megan Jodis, daughter of Susan Jodis and Tom Jodis, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Satur* " ' day, Oct. 24, at Temple ,' ... Israel. ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME A seventh-grade honor SATURDAY: Shabbat service, 9 a.m., led by roll student at Peter - Kiewit Middle School, FRIDAY: Special Tot Shabbat Simchat Torah Rabbi Maximo Shechet. she enjoys horseback ridcelebration, 7 p.m. tonight Next Friday: Special ing and golf, and has Kabbalat Shabbat led by the religious school, Temple Israel to offer won many awards for 7:30 pan. horseback riding. Jewish healing service SUNDAY: Religious school, 10 a.m. , at the' For her mitzvah proJCC; grades 6-8, 9 a.m.; grades 4-8, Tuesday, ject, Megan is collecting hats for.cancer patients. with Rabbi Weiss 4 p.m. • • • • • . • " Megan has a brother, Matthew.. . A Jewish healing and renewal service is about Rabbi Myer Kripke will hold the third session of Grandparents are Betty Singer, Richard Singer, creating a space in which people can begin the his class, "An Introduction' to the Hebrew . ;!,' -, Scriptures,*' 12:15 pan., at the JCC. This six-week process of finding wholeness, according to Elyce and the late Edwin and Marie Jodie. Great-grandparents are Nathan & Mjnnie: ; class will run through Nov. 15, and is open to the Azriel, director of Temple Israel's High School. . '"'"'" i "It does it by feeding, nurturing and.restoring Manilow and Max and Rae Singer. public. (No class on Nov. 8). hope. The service helps people,feel the presence of God and of the community in their lives," she DEDICATION said. A memorial for Judah'L.A/VbTfsoh Rabbi Aryeh Azriel and Cantor Jennifer Blum, on Sunday, Oct. 25,10,Qtm^ at along with guest Rabbi Eric Weiss, will lead this Cemetery. Rabbi•Myar&jtfripWwill otftoi&tai. srit ' moving service on T h u r s d a y , Oct. 29, 7:30 pan., at Temple Israel. " "Our lives are lived in relationship-relatiohPERSONAL : . :.,.*_.„ ^ Services officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser. sbip to others and to God. None of us can do the To my dear family and friends: I wish Icoujd^thanR i FRIDAY: Sabbath Eve service, 7:45 pan. of healing ourselves alone," Azriel added. each of you individually for the cards, letters, gifts i SATURDAY: Shabbat worship, 9:30 a.m.; work "We need the presence of others. We know we Torah study, 10:30 aan. and contributions for my 90th birthday. :T.hejj • are not alone in our struggles. The presence of meant so much to me. :^r^S: SUNDAY: Hebrew School, 9 a.m.; Religious the community around us in prayer, reminds us School, 10 a.m. Dr. J. Milton Margolin j that we all feel struggle, we all have challenges WEDNESDAY: Adult Education, 7:30 p.m. and we are all in need of some kind of healing." THURSDAY: Choir rehearsal, 7:30 p.m.
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October 16,1098
Just one Shabbos
being invited to different homes each week, fed delicious meals and stimulated with insightful conversation. As best-selling author Thomas Cahil has stated in his Gifts of the Jews, "The world can thank the Jews for weekends." It's not about restrictions, about what you can't do-it's about having an "island in time" as noted theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel described it. It is having a 25-hour period, called Shabbat, to relax us " '""We'tfhW the effects Shabbat has on and give us respite from the demands people-there's a sense of relaxation, of the work week, yet stimulate us to "t>f knowing that the world of school, learn and study and delve into our "'business, academia and organization- rich heritage. "aT'obligations can be left outside the If we could give ourselves-and our families-one Shabbat, just one, imagd6bK . . '"'^families who "do" Shabbat enjoy ine how it could change our lives and ;;: tfie'satisfaction of having dinner with the lives of our children (we might their children, knowing they won't be even learn something from them)! We could do it—right here in ' 'rtinning off to sports practice, meetdings'or dance classes. The Omaha Omaha. And then the Moshiach "Jewish singles group has the joy of would have to come here first! Tradition has it that the Moshiach (the Messiah) will come when all Jews in the world observe just one Shabbat. Just one - imagine - every Jewish home filled with the smells of fresh challah, simmering chicken soup and sweet'kugel. Imagine candles being ' lit1 m'every Jewish: home'and every child being blessed by his or her par'!;e'fit;svilifiaIgine families and friends, ii'-'yoices'raised in song and ^pMyer?'riot in arguments and divi-
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Will the real Yasser please stand up? by Rabbi David Eliezrie That's the central question plaguing the 'on, again, off-again' talks between the Palestinian , Authority and Israel. Last week saw another example of this recurring question. As Arafat met in Washington with Netanyahu and Clinton, the head of his elite Preventive Security Force told the PLO official paper Al Hayat about some of the more recent enlistees in this police force. Some 25 members of Hamas, many wanted for terrorist activity, have joined this crack group. The PLO was motivated to enlist them because Israeli Security is looking for them! According to the force commander Muhammad Dyalan, "We made a historic national decision to protect them" The week of the Washington meeting, attacks continued as before, with violence emanating from PLO controlled areas. On Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, grenades thrown at soldiers and civilians wounded 14 in Hebron. A day earlier, a woman was shot. During the prior week there was a bomb at Hebrew University, adjacent to the dorms that house hundreds of American students. In all of these cases, the terrorists hightailed back to PLO controlled areas, never to be heard from again. Who should catch the terrorists: the Hamas bombers who are now part of the PLO Security Police? When Osama Ben Ladin sends terrorists to bomb American embassies, we respond with missile attacks. When Hamas members join the PLO police, we respond with silence, afraid to come to grips with that this is not what Oslo promised. The United States has so much invested in the
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Oslo process that it can't see a better way to proceed. Living on hope instead of reality, American policy makers are pushing Israel to give up more land. They argue that eventually the PLO will act out of its own self-interest and live in peace with Israel. The argument defies logic. Israel was doing much better before Oslo. Since the signing of the accords, the number of Israelis killed by terrorism has gone up 300%. There were as many Israelis killed in the last five years as in the. prior 15. Today, instead of a neutered PLO sitting in Tunis, Arafat's army of 50,000 heavily armed men patrol just 20 miles from the Knesset with a promise to make Jerusalem their capital. Giving Arafat more land will not bring peace. It will \ only give him more ground to stage further attacks. The new members of his police force are but one of the examples on the list of Arafat's, two sides: his recent description of suicide bombers as 'great martyrs', his protection of more than a dozen murderers wanted for killing Americans, or his PLO summer camps which teach children to use arms to fight the Jihad to liberate their homeland. Clinton, with all his domestic prpblems, needs a lift before the upcoming election to show that he is still a president who can play on the world stage. Israel doesn't have to relinquish its security for Clinton's sake; its interest must be its. own citizens, not the American elections. As long as terrorists are joining Arafat's armed forces and he refuses to change the PLO Covenant, calling for the destruction of Israel, the Oslo accords are worthless. ' • David Eliezrie is a rabbi in Yorba Linda, CA, and president of the Rabbinical Council of Orange County.
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Federations in command as merger nears by Julia Goldman
NEW YORK (JTA) - As 1998 winds to a close, the leaders of the United Jewish Appeal and local Jewish federations are gearing up to complete the overhaul of American Jewry's central fund-raising establishment. This month, an outside facilitator began meeting with top professionals at UJA' and the Council of Jewish Federations to keep their merger from idling on the way to a self-imposed year-end deadline. , . . When it emerges after nearly a decade of conceptual planning, the new entity - born of the union of UJA, CJP and the United Israel Appeal - will have a single chief professional.officer and a unified organizational structure. • • It will also have a new system of governance that puts federations squarely in the driver's seat of North America's primary Jewish charity, which raises over $1 billion a year for Jewish needs, both nationally and overseas. "I think itfs appropriate that the federations control the system," Dr. Conrad Giles of Detroit, CJFs president, (and past-president of the Midwest Region, of which Omaha is part) said in an interview. "It is their system. They are paying for it, and whatever sense of loss of control they have had in the past is regrettable." That sense, he explained, grew out of a perception that the national organizations, although supported by local federations, were not responding to the communities' needs. As a result, an increasing number of federations began to demand a louder voice and a greater share in deciding how funds would be allocated here and in Europe and Israel. Last month in Washington, a three-day quarterly . (Continued on page 5)
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Israel optimistic it will conclude redeployment deal by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA) - It is hard to imagine that Israeli and Palestinian leaders, having agreed to attend this week's summit in Maryland, will walk out without producing an agreement. If either Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat remain stubborn over details and refuse to reach a long-delayed agreement, the problems they will be creating for President Clinton may well be reciprocated. To be sure, Clinton is wounded because of his own domestic problems. But he is not so weak that he would not exact a price on whoever thwarts his drive for a much-needed foreign policy success.
The outlook in Jerusalem, therefore, h that thin time the moment of truth is finally at hand, at leant in terms of the further Israeli redeploy' ment from the West Bank. With the size of the pullback - 13 percent - no longer in dispute, the negotiators, who were slated to begin meeting yesterday, will be focusing on the security aspects of their evolving accord. The goodwill hopefully being fostered in the relative seclusion of the summit site — the Wye Plantation in eastern Maryland — may help restore at least a modicum of confidence between Israelis and Palestinians. • . , '. Whether the agreement they are expected to reach will be carried out smoothly is less likely, in the eyes of many observers, given the many pitfalls and setbacks that can arise during its three-month implementation period. If this optimistic scenario regarding the Wye summit does not pan out, then Netanyahu's purpose - as made very clear during the run-up period ,io the meeting by his aides -iwill be to convince
(Continued from page 4) ' meeting of the UJA- CJF-UIA partnership, .which currently is being called the UJA Federations of American opinion that Arafat is the culprit, that North America, yielded a basic outline for operahis recalcitrance is the cause of the dashed hopes. tions. It gives federations a majority voice in the The prime minister's stern comments last Friday, partnership's governing bodies. • ,, ,, in the wake of a fatal stabbing of a female soldier in T m convinced that with the ownership of the new the Jordan Valley, was a foretaste of the media blitz organization," Giles said, federations^wiil .also he is poised to unleash - against the Palestinians' accept the responsibility pf making certaiij'tliat, the inability to fight terror - if the talks fail. system does its best for all of its members.",, ^ ] j p , "This brutal slaying only demonstrates the need Still to be resolved are several potential | sticking for us to stand firm on the issues we are indeed points. The structure and function of committees will standing firm on," Netanyahu said. reflect issues, such as the need for a Jewish renaisWith a special sense for political timing, sance committee to address concerns about education Netanyahu combined his statement of outrage over and continuity or a committee to oversee, ^nd,secure ( the killing with a formal announcement that Ariel funding for national social service, agencies/, '".;'.'.,.'. , 7 Sharon, champion of the hard-line camp, was to be Moreover, a recommendation endorsed by the appointed foreign minister and would be accompa- committee drafting the plans for the new entity nying him to the summit. centers around one of the merger's most divisive The appointment is seen as a masterstroke issues: collective responsibility — the degree^to designed to sow division and discomfort among the which federations should be obligated to contribute political right, which has been breathing fire and at set levels to nationally determined fund-raising brimstone in advance of the summit. priorities. ,;,„. .,;„,)} Ministers from the National Religious Parly, along The drafting committee's report proposes, that comwith hard-line KnesBet members from the Land of munities voluntarily commit to maintain current,jewels Israel bloc, have been threatening to bring down the of overseas allocations for the next two years to provfde government if Netanyahu makes unwarranted conces- security for agencies administering funds abroad, sions. But these threats ring hollow against Sharon's namely the American Jewish Joint Distribution apparent resolve that the present government is here Committee and the Jewish Agency for Israel.: to stay - with him as a central pillarof i t Significantly, the drafting committee's report repIn what appears as another attempt to defuse the resents "an effort rising up by those, who wiihwirthe right, Netanyahu last week designated the West organization" rather than a; "tx)p-dbwn effort," UJA Bank settlement of Ariel as a city. At an Oct. 9 cer- President Richard Wexler of Chicago said.•' - . r emony in Ariel, Netanyahu sought to soothe the Under the new system, the centralizefcf'e'ntity settler community with a vow to continue expand- would be governed by: a delegate assembly '6f huning existing Jewish settlements. dreds of representatives from federatio'Hs&'hd "We are building and will continue to build," he national beneficiary agencies, such as the Jewish said, adding that the city of Ariel would "be part of Community Centers of North America'slncl'the Israel in any final-status agreement in the future." - National Foundation for Jewish, Culture; */fc6ard;of In the days before Wye, Netanyahu seemed confidenf trustees with between 100 and 120 members) the that he had taken the steps needed to shore himself up majority of whom would be nominated directly by against any possible threats from the political right and from federations; and a 20-person executive Adding to the prime minister's confidence is the committee composed of officers, major standing comclear signal emanating from the Labor leadership mittee chairs; representative federation pre's'ideitts that, if an agreement is signed at Wye, Labor will and the five chairs of the consolidated UJA-CtJF make up for any defections in the coalition ranks regional offices (in Chicago, Los Angeles, Atlanta, ' when' the'^agreement Bergen County, NJ, and DeertieldBeach, FL:)!".1 ".' comes up for Knesset approval.
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As part of the the annual Rabbi Sidney Brooks Lecture on Oct. 21,7 pan., an exclusive showing of the Dead Sea Scrolls video will be shown. The event will be at the Peter Kiewit Conference Center, 1313 Farnam, featuring Dr. Sidnie White Crawford, Chair of the Classics Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her lecture is entitled "My Work with the Dead Sea Scrolls." Dr. Crawford received her Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University. Before coming to UNL in 1996, Dr. Crawford taught at Albright College, St. Olaf College, and Harvard Divinity. She is a renowned Dead Sea Scroll scholar whose numerous publications include Has Every Book of the Bible Been Found Among the Dead Sea Scrolls? and Three Fragments from Qumran Cave 4 and their Relationship to the Temple Scroll, as well as the forthcoming, Has the Book of Esther been found at Qumran? Her lecture will be followed by the exclusive showing of the video, "The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Shrine of the Book: Past and Future," produced by UNO-Television. It was filmed in 1997 on location in Israel and features action shots at Qumran, Masada, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea caves. For more information, call Wendi Chiarbos at UNO Bethsaida Excavations Project at 554-2902.
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League of Women Voters arid NCJW present candidates'forum
Era the Jerry Hoberman was honored with the 199S North Council Golden Spike Award for Tire's Inc.'s involvement in the North Omaha community. Hoberman, a member of the United Way of the Midlands Board of Directors, is president of Tires' Inc., recently sold to Minneapolis-based Tires Plus.
Two major women's organizations will again present candidates for the Nebraska Unicameral in a Legislative District Forum, Thursday, Oct. 22, at 7:80 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. The National Council of Jewish Women, Omaha Section, and the League of Women Voters of Greater Omaha, have joined together in an effort to encourage citizens to participate in the upcoming Nov. 3 elections. According to Jill Belmont, coordinator for NCJW, all candidates from Districts 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 20 have been invited.. The following candidates will be attending the forum to present their views: Paul Anderson, Pam Brown, Deb Suttle, Nancy Thompson, and Kim Potter. Candidates Kermit Brashear, Patrick Bourne, Paul Thomsen, Pam Redfield, Linda Richards, Richard Aleala and Jim Jensen have declined the invitation. In addition to the forum, the two organizations will again publish a candidates' questionairre, in the Oct 30 issue of the Jewish Press. For more information, contact Pat Galusha, President, LWV, 572-0279 or 344-3701.
Good Morning America, ABC's morning news show on KETV, Channel 7, will feature six University of Illinois students, including Omahan Jeff Shapiro, in a round table discussion of college life on Friday, Oct. 23, 7-9 a.m. Shapiro, the son of Larry and Sherry Shapiro, is a sophomore and member of student government. Lincolnite Allan Kenyon, former Dale Carnegie area manager and owner of Seminars and Training Systems, has opened a practice as a personal performance coach, a new form of consulting. Kenyon is a member of the International Coach Federation and the Coaches Training Institute and can be reached at1-800-269-6288.
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Volunteer helps Russian revival by Karen Sander
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For Israel, 5758 was a year of division and disappointment by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The year just closed can resentments-that other acid that eats at Israel's hardly be described as a particularly good one for social foundations and that many Israelis had Israel, even by the most optimistic of observers. hoped was disappearing. On the other hand, 5758 cannot be depicted as an The backdrop was a worsening economic situa especially bad year—even by the Netanyahu gov- tion, with more than 200,000 people on the unemernment's most virulent critics. ployment rolls by year's end. Hardest hit, as always, It was not a year of war, and even the perennial were the development towns and the down-and-out scourge of terrorism was less devastating than in urban suburbs-the homes of Sephardi families, who previous years. Just the same, this was the year in carry the scars of failed absorption for decades and which Israel marked its jubilee. And despite what generations. Comments made during the summer by one might have expected on the 50th anniversary of a leading Labor Party figure, Ori Orr, brought the Israel's birth, there is a sense of letdown in the air, controversy back into the headlines. of disappointment in the national mood. Orr claimed that Moroccan Israelis were less Even though the government spent some $40 mil- "Israeli" than others and less inclined to logical realion on the jubilee celebrations, the anniversary soning. This, he explained, was the cause of that comevents failed to recreate that spirit of dancing in munity's refusal to embrace the Labor Party, despite the streets, of transcendent national purpose and party leader Ehud Barak's attempt last October to unity, that accompanied the creation of the state apologize on behalf of Labor's past generations for the five decades ago. wrongs that Sephardi immigrants may have suffered Perhaps the strongest indicator that Israeli soci- during their absorption into Israeli society during the ety was not in a celebratory mood came on early years of the Jewish state. Independence Day, on what should have been the The turmoil caused by Orr's impolitic statements high point of the jubilee year. A lavish pageant has yet to subside—and despite some observers' mounted in late April at a Jerusalem stadium, with hopes, it is still years from healing. U.S. Vice-president Al Gore present as the guest of Not surprisingly, evaluations of the year just honor, was beset by behind-the-scenes strife that passed differ depending on one's political ideology. seeped onto the stage, spoiled some of the perforFor political doves, 5758 was a year of inactivity, mances and triggered weeks of nationwide con- a wasted year in which the peace process proceeded frontations between, secular and Orthodox Israelis. nowhere, in which negotiations with other Arab The confrontations centered on a scheduled per- partners were non-existent-and in which, as a formance by the Batsheva Dance Company in result, Israel's relations with the United States and which the dancers planned to strip down to their much of the world declined. underwear during a song based on the Passover Now, the doves add, with the end of the five-year Haggadah. interim period prescribed by the Oslo accords just Leaders of the haredi, or fervently Orthodox, com- months away, peace with the Palestinians seems munity objected, calling the performance immod- hopelessly off track and bereft of even a modicum of est. A compromise was struck under which the mutual trust and good will. dancers were to wear tights-but the troupe finally The doves warn of an explosion of frustration and canceled its performance, saying it had been sub- violence in the Palestinian territories that could jected to undue political pressure. destroy the last vestiges of the accords. Perhaps laughable in other countries, the dispute Government critics also cite the slowdown in seemed to dredge up all the unresolved tension and Israel's economy as evidence of Netanyahu's misanger that still gnaw at the solidarity of Israeli guided domestic priorities and of the international society-and that stand in such stark contrast' to community's negative reaction to'the withering the country's material achievements in its relative- peace process. ly short existence. • The government's supporters, on the other hand, Indeed, religious-secular tensions seemed more have a far more positive end-of-year assessment. bitter and prevalent in Israel at its 50th anniver- In their view, Netanyahu has succeeded in delivsary than at any previous period. Things were said ering on his electoral pledges: He remains commitand written this past year-on both sides of the ted to Oslo-but is determined to negotiate more divide-that would have been unthinkable, or at slowly and more cautiously than the previous,' any rate unprintable, only a few short years ago. Labor-led government. The reduction in terrorist Certainly they would have been unutterable in the activity, they say, is tangible evidence that the preearly period of the state, when, despite all the rancor mier's tough line is paying off. and deep ideological differences that also existed They hold similar views about the economic front. then, there was an overarching awareness that The slowdown is hard on certain sectors, they admit, Israel itself seemed to exist only by the grace of God. but it is under control. The government's underlying One aspect of the worsening conflict is Israel's policies are healthy and will lead to real growth. continued, failure, indeed refusal, to accept the plu- Above all, they add, inflation has been curbed to just ralistic stance that American Jews consider a nat- 4 percent annually-giving investors at home and abroad a sense of confidence and security. ural expression of democracy and of Judaism. An interdenominational commission headed by And so, it seems, 5768 was either a bad year or a the minister of finance, Ya'acov Ne'eman, produced not-that-bad year for Israelis, depending on their a blueprint for compromise-at least on the issue of individual political, religious and ethnic perspectives. . non-Orthodox conversions performed in Israel. But even this compromise was effectively blocked and shelved during the year by what each side in the divide said was the other's obstinacy. 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Klutznick speakers present diverse views (Continued from page 1) Rebekah Sobel of Temple University has interviewed participants in recent missions and carefully examined the photographs they took, in order to illustrate the wide range of images these tourists bring home with them. Sobel's discussion of these ; topics.y/ill begin at 9:30 a.m. ' Photographs of and from Israel are nothing new, as Burke'Long from Bowdoin Collage points out in his presentation, "Parlor Tours of the Holy Land," at 10:30 a.m.
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"A Land Flowing with Milk and Honey" is anf expression found almost two dozen times in the Hebrew Bible. However, as observed by UNO1 Professor Richard Freund, that same' expression is largely absent from post-biblical Jewish writers, including the rabbis. Audience members who Richard Freund attend Freund's lectures, which begins at 2:30 p.m., will discover "What happened to the Milk and Honey?" As always, Freund's answers will be lively and thought-provoking. All of the events of the Klutznick Symposium are free and open to the general public. For further details, please call 280-2303 or 280-2304, or e-mail: Qgrn@creighton.edu. The full program of the Symposium and additional information are available at the Klutznick Symposium website: http://mockingbird.creigh ton.edu/english/worldlit/wldoc6/events/ klutznick.htm
examples of the ways in which visitors have preserved images of the Holy Land for themselves and for those to whom their postcards were sent. Her talk will begin at 12:30 p.m. Literary images of Israel also have a place in this Klutznick Symposium. Creighton University Professor of German, Elizabeth Snyder, will look at the poetry of two German-speaking Jewish writers, Nelly Sachs and Else Lasker-Schuller. Both of these women knew first hand of the trauma of pre-Nazi Germany, and they intended their Burke Long Rebekah Sobel poetry to serve as testimony dedicated to the memLong will concentrate on a set of photographs, ory of Holocaust victims. But that was not all, since Dr. Leonard Greenspoon is the Klutznick produced and distributed by Christian clergymen ' both viewed Israel as the locale for the transforma- Chair in Jewish'Civilization at Creighton in the 1910s, that were meant to take viewers on a ; tion and redemption of the Jewish people. University. stay-at-home "tour" of contemporary Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire. As Long demonstrates, these images were not neutral, but were formulated in accordance with clear ideological and cultural goals. Long will not only use slides, but will also provide original stereoscopic images that reproduce the 3-D effect experienced by their original viewers. After a break for lunch, Fay Grajower, an artist who lives and works in Boston, will present another popular medium for portraying the Land of Israel~the postcard. She has examined more than a century's worth of postcards to uncover significant
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