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ADL launches 'HateFilter' for internet use What do you do When your child about First Amendment issues. discovers a skinhead website on the "The information super highway is Internet? Until this week, parents cluttered wtth^Jjate,"Wolfson could buy 'blocking software' that observed.p would prevent access to sites containing key words, such as 'Nazi', 'white power', or, in the case, of deserve pornographic sites, the word 'sex' or crossing!; the name of any part of the human guard. r, body. "This softThe problem with this kind of soft- ware proware is that it also prevents legiti- vides an mate* research on topics such as answer." Larry \ World War II or scientific research R afu1 on issues such as breast cancer. of Bob Wolfson On Wednesday, the Anti dean Defamation League broke new Creighton Law School and immediate ground, when it introduced Hate past-president of the ADL, echoed Filter, a software parents can down- Wolfson's statement, "This software is load for free from the Internet (after not censorship; rather, it provides parseven days, the charge is $29.95 for ents an opportunity to educate and a three-month subscription and then explain on their own terms, using $29.95 annually). their values." HatePilter, a software,program According to the literature accompadeveloped in collaboration with nying the introduction of HateFilter, CyberPatrol, doesn't use keywords, the ADL's goal is one of education, not but it does maintain an ongoing and censorship. The software enables parupdated list of hate sites which, ents to use a simple password so that when blocked, cannot he accessed by they can view the prohibited site with children. When young people do • their child. In this way, parents can be attempt to. enter those 'forbidden'. - ,,a^part of their child's education and sites, they reach the ADL HateFilter evaluate the information found in sites instead. There, they'll receive back- such as those produced by the KKK or ground information on ADL's list of other groups spouting prejudice. hate groups and education on the "Ifs a great tool for parents, "added nature of hate. Ann Goldstein, president of the ADLAt a press conference on CRC, "and demonstrates just how ADL is on the cutting edge of technology." : Wednesday, Bob Wolfson, Executive Director of the Great Plains Region To access the new software, visit ADL's of the ADL-CRC, explained the website at www.adl.org and follow the rationale for the development of this instructions for installing HateFilter software and answered questions (and see their ad on page 16). •
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The crowd of 350 high school students and teachers had just settled back into their seats after watching a 20-minute video on tolerance, produced by the Anti-Defamation League for their annual Prejudice Elimination Workshop. The lights went up in the darkened theater at the Jewish Community Center and on stage stood...The Scary Guy. There was an audible gasp as this fearsome-looking man looked right into their eyes. The Scary Guy (that's his real name, legally changed in February) is covered in colorful tattooes over. 85% of his body; his earlobes, eyebrows and the bridge of his nose are all pierced as well. First impression from most people? "I wouldn't want to meet him in photo by Jen Gates a dark alley." The Scary Guy Yet his message is one of kindness, hope, courage and tolerance. The teenagers, to understand that they owner of two tattoo shops in Tucson, have a right to be loved, to express AZ, "just got sick of the name-calling themselves, to freedom, but to recogand slander" and told his wife, Julie, nize a different way of dealing with to pack his bags because he was anger and fear. "It took me years to figure that out," "going on the road for the rest of (his) The Scary Guy said in an interview. life to make a difference." Already, Scary, as he is affection- "And it culminated in an early mornately called by people who take the ing firebombing at one of my tattoo time to getto-knowhim, has spoken shops in Tuscon. "I stood there, watching theflames,and to more than 600,000 people, but this is the first appearance he has made realized there was nothing I could do." This moment of self-discovery brought for an ADL sponsored program. ' His biggest fear is not the reaction Scary to understand."what you give out he gets when he strolls into a room - is*what you get." Now his philosophy is itfs "What are you going to do when I "if I have, something you want, I will give it. If s about sharing," he said gently. leave?" " , : (Continued oncjiage 15) He wants people, especially
•U.S. urges Wye implementation after terror attack in Jerusalem by Naomi Segal.
. JERUSALEM (JTA) - U.S. officials have urged Israel and the Palestinian Authority to move ahead with the Wye agreement, despite a spate of terrorist attacks aimed at derailing the peace process. U.S. Secretary of State'Madeleine Albright telephoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat last Friday, after a suicide bombing at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market wounded at least 21 Israelis. The two suicide bombers were the only fatalities. She reportedly appealed to them not to let the enemies of peace derail implementation of the Wye
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accord, which calls for Israel to transfer 13 percent of the West Bank to the Palestinians in exchange for concrete actions against terrorism. The Israeli Cabinet, which was in session last Friday when the suicide bombers struck, immediately suspended its deliberations on the accord. ; The Cabinet later issued a statement that it would ratify the agreement only after the Palestinian Authority fulfills its security obligations under the accord. Just the same, Israeli Defense ^Minister Yitzhak Mordechai predicted the Cabinet would convene in the coming days to resume discussion of the agreement. At a weekend rally, Netanyahu announced that Israel would continue to build in Jerusalem, including Har Homa. The staj-t. of infrastructure . = work in March 1997 at Photoby Robert A. Cumins
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Parashat Chai-ya Sara We all know the story of the young rabbi whose first sermon, dealing with intermarriage, was less than a hit. "Rabbi," the president said, "We have many intermarried couples, this is not a good subject to discuss." His next sermon, the Kosher Eome, was met with a similar response. "Rabbi, most people don't observe those rules, you only succeed in making people feel uncomfortable." As you might imagine, his third sermon, the Sanctity of Shabbat, put the president over the edge. "Rabbi, why must you annoy people week after week! Why can't you just teach us about Judaism!" . ; Parshat Chaiya Sara is. perhaps one of the more underrated parshiot of the Genesis narrative schema. It lacks the force of Creation, the drama of the Flood or the anxiety-laden plot of the Binding of Isaac. But this underrated narrative teaches us about some of the fundamental obligations we have in caring for loved ones who have departed. When Abraham approaches the children of Chet he says "give me for possession a place that I may bury my dead from in front of me." (Gen 23:4). This verse from the Torah is the jumping off phrase for the 3rd chapter of Tractate Brachot. Me she mato mutal l'fanav~One whose dead lies in front of him, The Mishna continues, is exempt from reciting the Shma, praying the Amida, putting on Tefillin and all other positive commandments enumerated in the Torah. The earliest of our sages understood this is not a time for perfunctory rituals. Who among us could possibly pray at the time of such a loss? To do so would be a mockery. How, then, do we deal with the overwhelming sense of loss? By doing what all Jewish "people have done since time immemorial. Arrange for the proper care of the body, procure a plain pine box, and burial as soon as possible. ' . The period of Qnanut (after death but before the burial) puts the nearest of kin outside the norm of Jewish religious life. There is ho higher obligation then meeting the need of the burial, not for God and certainly not for man. It is, if you will,-a shared limbo. The body is no longer of this world its spirit having returned to God. The next of kin are removed from the world of religious obligation and need to return to God as well. The burial is closure, the body is at rest with its ancestors, and the family is rejoined to the communal body of the people of Israel. . What do we say about the people who are perpetually in a state of Gnanut? People, who have exempted themselves from the obligations of prayer and the performance of mitzvoth regardless of the health and well being of their near kin? For them, the death experience is not part of the ebb and flow of communal life. It is a pain that must be endured, often alone and inarticulate. No choreographed plan of mourning rituals and communal response. It is surgery without anesteisia, an open wound with out salve or balm; but it doesn't have to be. Judaism with its laws, traditions and rituals provide a guide to life and living. It is only within the context of a Jewish life that rituals of birth, death and burial make sense. If you've read something that makes feel uncomfortable, you've probably learned a valuable lesson in Judaism.
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ALFRED KOLASKY Services for Alfred Kolasky were held Nov. 10 with burial at Beth El Cemetery. He died Nov. 6 at the age of 81. He was preceded in death by his wife, Annette. Survivors include daughter and son-in-law, Diane and Steven Wein; son and daughter-in-law, Ron and Jennifer Kolasky; and three grandchildren, James, John and Amy Kolasky.
B'nai B'rith launches disaster relief for hurricane victims WASHINGTON--A Disaster Relief Fund has been activated by B'nai B'rith International to raise funds for non-sectarian aid to victims of Hurricane Mitch in Central America. It is estimated that more than 11,000 people have been killed and nearly a dozen villages totally destroyed. Checks should be earmarked for Hurricane Mitch and sent to: B'nai B'rith Center for Community Action, 1640 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20036-3278. For more information, contact the Center at 1202-857-6582 or e-mail: cca@bnaibrith.org
Ancient Egypt course to be offered at Creighton Among the topics to be included in Ancient Egypt: History, Society and Culture, a course being offered by Creighton University, are: Pyramids, Pharaohs, the Nile, strong women, International trade, Revolutionary Art. Specifically designed to complement the Joslyn Art Museum's upcoming exhibit "Searching for Ancient Egypt," the course, scheduled for spring 1999, will be held every Thursday evening, Jan. 14-April 29, from 6:30-9 p.m. During the month of April, the class will meet at the Joslyn, where students have direct access to the exhibit; until then, classes will meet on the Greighton campus.j Dr. Leonard Greenspoon, who holds the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton, will be the instructor. He also heads the Department of Classical- & Near Eastern Studies and has written widely on subjects relating to ancient history and religion. Dr. Greenspoon has also led tours throughout the Middle East, including Egypt. The course is formally listed as Classics 420 and History 420. To request a registration packet, contact Creighton University College at 280-2424. For more information, call Dr. Greenspoon at 280-
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Services 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. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat service, 4:50 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 8:45 a.m., Little People service, 10:15 a.m.; Jr. Congregation, 10:30 a.m. Babysitter service courtesy of Sisterhood; Kiddush luncheon sponsored by Georgia Ann and Seymour Steinberg in appreciation for all the help during Georgia Ann's recovery from injuries; Class with Rabbi Kutner, .4:10 p.m.; Mincha, 4:40 p.m., followed by Shalosh Seudot, Ma'ariv and Havdalah. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.; Mincha, 4:45 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m.; Mincha, 4:45 p.m. LADIES (only) LUNCH & LEARN Monday, 12:30-1:30 p.m., with Nadine Kutner at the JCC. OPPORTUNIHES FOR LEARNING Monday, Nov. 16: Mishna for Beginners, 7:30 p.m.; Learn to Chant Haftorah, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18: Chumash Class, 7:30 p.m. All classes taught by Rabbi Kutner at the synagogue. TlFEttETH ISRAEL , , Member of the United Synagogue - of Conservative Judaism 3219 Shwidan Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502 '"-; '- ' ' '423-8569- ' Services conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum. Minyan on Monday and Thursday at 7:15 a.m. FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m.; Bat Mitzvah of Anna Beth Hutkins-Oneg Shabbat hosted by her parents, Charla and Robert Hutkins. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m.; Bat Mitzvah of Anna Beth Hutkins-Kiddush and luncheon hosted by her parents. B'NAIISRAEC SYNAGOGUE ^ y Council Bluffs, Iowa SI503 Phone: 322-4705 E-MAIL} ddojeb2(^}uno.c6in FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m., followed by an Oneg Shabbat. Guest speaker will be Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, speaking about "What the next Millenium will hold for the Jews." The Oneg Shabbat is prepared by Peg Deland and Sandra Kurland.
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism - ' 14906 California, Omaha, NE 68154 '< . . , 4M-8SS0 ' ". Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. I Services are conducted by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits. / .. . FRTOAY: Services, 6 p.m. V^ Kids Kabbalat Shabbat for children ages 6 and under with their families, 7 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m.; new members will be welcomed; members of USY will participate in the service. Kiddush following services; Sitter service, 10 a.m.; TSS (Torah Study Skills) 10 a.m.; Shabbat Story Time (pre-kindergarten and under) 11 a.m.; K'tantan (kindergarten through 3rd grade) 10:45 a.m.; Humash with Rashi study session, 4:20 p.m. (1/2 hour before M/M); MinhaMa'ariv and Havdalah services; 4:50 p.m. SUNDAY: Services, 9 a.m.; Men's Club Breakfast, 10 aan.-Police Chief Donald Carey will speak about "Inside the Omaha Police Department. WEEKDAYS: Services, 6:55 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. COLLEGE BOUND PROGRAM All high school juniors and seniors are invited to participate in a community College Bound program, with dinner, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 6 p.m.
B'nai Mitzvah Kylie Zacharia, daughter of Terri and Dick Zacharia, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah .on Saturday, Nov. 14, at Temple Israel. A seventh grade honor student at Beveridge Middle School, her mitzvah project included volunteering at St. Vincent Depaul Shelter for the homeless. Kylie was selected to participate in the Duke University Talent Identification Program. She is a member of the Midnight Gold Singers at Beveridge and enjoys dancing, playing the piano, ice skating and basketball. Kylie has a sister, Jamie, and a brother, Brent. Grandparents are Tricklejtlilder of Omaha and the "late Edwin Milder and the late Sam and Minnette Zacharia.
Robert Nathan Ferer, son of William Avrum I Ferer and'Nancy Ellen [Summer Ferer of Fort Member of the Union I Lee, N.J., will celebrate jrewCongreRotCons this Bar Mitzvah on 2061S. 20th St., Lincoln, HE 68502-2707 , [Saturday, Nov. 21, at , . 435-8004 [Beth Israel Synagogue in: Services officiated by Cantor Michael Weisser. | Omaha. FRIDAY: Sabbath Eve service, 7:45 p.m. A seventh-grade student SATURDAY: Shabbat worship, 9:30 a.m.; jat Moriah School in EngTorah study, 10:30 a.m. jlewood, N.J., he enjoys SUNDAY: Hebrew School, 9 a.m.; Religious [computers, baseball, other School, 10 a.m. I sports and reading. WEDNESDAY: Adult Education, 7:30 p.m., A Grandparents are Sylvia Schneider Summer and Study in the Book of Amos: the Prophet of Justice.- Lee Summer and Frances (Kort) Ferer and the late THURSDAY: Choir rehearsal, 7:30 p.m. Meyer Ferer. ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE CLASSES Chabad 'Women of Worth' Alexander Technique classes at the Temple with Robe'rt Rickover will continue on Mondays, 7:80to hold challah bake-a-thon 9 p.m., through Dec. 7. Learn how to release The Chabad Women of Worth have scheduled a harmful tension from your body in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. Cost is $10 per class. No challah bake-a-thon on Tuesday, Nov. 17,1 p.m., at Chabad House. Lisa Epstein, chairman, said, previous experience is necessary. "If you have tried to bake challah and ended up To register, call Robert at 475-4433. with failures, don't despair. We will share a foolproof recipe and learn some easy braiding tech, Camp Weekend at Temple Israel niques as well." Nov. 13-15 She added, "We will also hold a recipe swap, so Parent Open House is Sunday, Nov. 15. Jerry be sure tolbring your favorite recipes for Kaye, Director of the Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Hanukkah donuts, latkes and other goodies." 'Institute, will speak. Call for times. Babysitting is available with advance reservations; call 330-1800. For more information, call Lisa at 496-9159. CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUN
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E d i t o r i a l The Passover issue already? The first snow has just fallen; it's not even Thanksgiving, but the Jewish'Press has already made a decision on its theme for the 1999 Patfsover. issue. With the creative help of the J P Committee, this newspaper will salute the seniors among us in "Through Golden Eyes." We're looking for stories about men and women who have stories to tell...about their arrival in Omaha, their youth, their contributions to the worlds of business, education, the arts, health, . synagogue and organizational life. Our seniors (and we're not counting when it comes to the number of . years!) have much to share with us. They've lived through a World War (some even two of them), a depression, the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. They've witnessed the Holocaust, as Jews in Europe, as
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witnesses, rescuers and as those waiting at home for messages from loved ones. They've heard David Ben-Gurion proclaim Israel as a State in 1948 and celebrated its 50th anniversary this year. They were friends of Henry Monsky, Sam Beber, Sadie Kulakofsky and Jules Newman. We want to. tell their stories...and you can help. Please call us or send us a note with the names and phone numbers of the seniors you feel should be featured in this special issue. As in the past, we probably won't be able to interview them all (and some will choose not to participate), but without your input, we're just guessing. There are some special people just waiting to share their stories. Watch them shine on March 26, 1999, "Through Golden Eyes."
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Haifa—As we have often pointed out, some of the weekend for two in London. Only two new engimost interesting news items from Israel do not neers? The weekend is single. Solution for unemployment:. Because of the appear on the front pages of the local newspapers here. They may be tucked away at the bottom of lack of jobs in Kiryat Gat, a southern town, no less • the inside pages, or hidden somewhere in adver- than 10 candidates ran for mayor of the place. , tisements, but we have learned to watch for them, Only one got the job. A stolen car enterprise: An Israeli whose car had and present, herewith, a collection of what Israelis been stolen was savvy enough to know where to go on would call pi Wi*i stories. . Blue collar housing: The full-page ad for the the other side to retrieve the vehicle before it was Herzlia Marina described the project: "Israel's most chopped up for parts. Upon returning home, the next prestigious, most impressive residential project. . . morning he found a note: "Shalom! I'm the thief whowith every luxury and indulgence. . .exclusive took your car. I left a tape recorder on the back seat apartments. . .Roman style spa." Also ample space Would you please return it" Inquiry revealed that the for mooring of the yachts. What made the report item had been stolen from a house next door, and it was. truly unusual was the fact that one of the entrepre- restored to its rightful owner. neurs building it is Shikun Ovdim (Workers Innocent victims: Israel has to. date paid more Rousing). than 97 million shekels to Palestinians who sued Spirits mixed with spirit: A new pub and bar for damages on grounds they had been hurt by in Tel Aviv offers not only a full range of drinks, Israeli military action during the Intifada. with background music of rock and funk and jazz, In the interest of cats: New garbage bins but also opportunity at the same time to study tra- installed in Tel Aviv have heavy lids and are high, ditional Jewish texts. Patrons, between the ages of preventing stray cats from getting a meal. Actress 25 and 30, are guided in study of Talmud, Torah Sharon Cantor has called upon all her friends toand other religious sources. Mentors are provided keep the lids open in consideration of the cats who, by the Gesher organization, which seeks to bridge she notes, keep the rat population down. the gap between the religious and the secular. Women in the lead: Last year 57% of the Too realistic an actor: When Juliano Mer, 105,000 Israelis registered as students in the counplaying the role of Othello for the Haifa Theater, try's institutions of higher learning were women. These are real buddies: When 13-year-old gave Desdemona a vigorous and resounding slap, he was reprimanded. He explained that he was Amit Reback underwent chemotherapy treatment totally immersed in the role. But when Desdemona for his bone cancer he lost all his hair. He was was staggered and almost lost consciousness from grateful to his friends for their encouragement and his blow at a later performance, Mer was fired on support, but admitted that his baldness disturbed him. Whereupon all his friends, collectively, had the spot. Shortage of engineers in Israel: Any employ- their heads shaved as a mark of identification with ee of Elbit, a leading high tech company, who can him. The girls in his school class wanted to do the enlist three engineers into the employ of the com- same, but Amit's father put his foot down and prepany, will be rewarded with an all-expense paid vailed on them not to do so. Jeffrey J. Berger
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Nineteen years ago, when I was studying in a yeshiva in Jerusalem for the second half of my highschool senior year, the shuk at Mahane Yehuda also experienced a number of terrorist incidents. I never actually ventured into the shuk during my seven months in Israel in 1979-1 was too scared. I would often pass the shuk's main entrance on Yaffo Street (aboard a bus heading for the central bus station) and gaze with fear and admiration at the temerity of the masses of people who thronged the narrow passageways ofthe shuk. Unfortunately, the shuk has again become a target for terrorists. The day after we made aliyah at the . end of July 1997, a bomb went off in the shuk, and two week's ago there was another terrorist attack. I was informed about the attack by my lawyer, whose wife habj called "him to tell him the news'. My lawyer was with me because I was in the process of purchasing my first house in Israel (and yes, for just a split second I did think: what the hell am I doing here in this crazy country?). But unlike the 17-year-old who could not get up enough nerve to go to the shuk, I try to shop in the shuk whenever possible (I average about twice a month). I don't shop at the shuk to make an "inyour-face" kind of statement to the enemies of Israel. I shop there because the quality of the produce is fantastic and yet the prices are cheaper than those ofthe inferior competitors. Typically, as I enter the shuk, I am not thinking about terrorist bombs, but rather I am looking at whafs in season and at what price. For the highschooler I was, the shuk (since all my meals were provided for me by my school) was ultimately just a tourist attraction, and so I preferred safer places to spend my free time. .
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November 13,1998 Jewish Press, Omaha, NE.Eage 5 Apt Pupil director gives skinheads lesson in ideology by Norma Feingold, Jewish Bulletin of Northern California
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) - Skinheads stood on one Bide of the street and Holocaust survivors on the other. Police barricades kept them a safe distance apart as the verbal assaults gained momentum. Still, something was missing while shooting the protest scene from the new film Apt Pupil. The problem wasn't, with the Holocaust survivors who were serving as extras. Their emotions were real. "They were getting into it," director Bryan Singer said. "They made signs and were shouting." The real skinheads, on the other hand, apparently weren't well enough versed in spewing slogans of hate. "They were non-political skinheads," Singer said. "They're an interesting group. They love to dress up in the leather garb, but there's no references to Nazism or fascism." They didn't even know how to salute Third Reichstyle. So the boyish, 31-year-old director took matters into his own hands. Between takes, he coached them on the proper way-to say, "Sieg Heil." "They couldn't pronounce it right," he said, laughing, during a telephone interview from Los Angeles. "Here's me, this Jewish director, teaching them." Equally bizarre, said Singer, was "when I would say cut and the survivors and skinheads would cross the barrier to talk and joke with each other and have coffee together." Apt Pupil is the third film for Singer, who previewed the work during the summer at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance screening room in Los Angeles. He's best known for directing The Usual Suspects, which won two Academy Awards. Apt Pupil, set in the early 1980s, is based on the Stephen King novella of the same name. It's not a straightforward horror flick, The monster is not some chainsaw-wielding wacko with a really bad complexion, but a Nazi SS officer living out his taxpaying, solitary life under an assumed name and blotting out the past by drinking alcohol and watching marginal sitcoms. Evil lies dormant; until Kurt Dussander - a covertly sinister portrayal by British actor Sir Ian McKellen — is recognized by Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), an intelligent, seemingly normal 16-year-old who just happens to be obsessed with the Holocaust.
The cat-and-mouse games begin when Todd blackmails the war criminal into telling him all the gruesome details of what it was really like to torture and murder thousands of innocent Jews. The creepy, mutually manipulative relationship haunts Todd, but it also seduces his darkest side. He has frequent nightmares dominated by death-camp imagery. At the same time, his previously all-American temperament metamorphoses into the sociopathic. "Todd is like a very hollow vessel in search of something more," Singer said. "Only upon gaining power over a historically powerful character did he feel really powerful. "If Todd had a better education and was Jewish, he wouldn't have followed that road. I know I sure as hell I wouldn't." As a young boy in Princeton Junction, N.J., Singer's parents kept telling him about the six million Jews killed in World War II. The figure had little impact on Singer until an episode that occurred when he was eight years old. "I did a very stupid thing," he said. "I thought it would be fun to make a "Nazi armband, wear it to school and show my friends." He drew a swastika in crayon on construction paper and went into the kitchen to show it to his mother. "She was washing dishes, turned around and freaked out. "I didn't know how emotional, important and personal it was. It was a strong education," he said. "I had seen black-and-white pictures, but the bodies didn't look real." • He immediately removed the offending symbol and asked his mother why she was so upset. She told him about relatives who survived, as well as those who didn't. At first, Singer was "fascinated but overwhelmed" as he learned about the Holocaust. By the time he first read Apt Pupil at 19, the story resonated. He insisted he had no agenda in choosing to make the film, a provocative story but not an obvious blockbuster. "It's no Schindler's List," Singer said. "But in terms of the Jewish community, every time a reference to the Shoah is shown" in art, comedy or film of any genre it's a "good thing because it causes us to remember."
Bombs in the Shuk (Continued from page 4) Since I am now the cook for a family of seven, the shuk is an effective way for me to prpvide for my family. I have certain places that I buy certain tilings in Jerusalem, and the shuk is one of them. The fact is that a terrorist attack every year or so is not enough to throw me off of my routine. ,. . True, maybe if I obsessed about the possible danger I would act otherwise, but then again, if I obsessed about traffic accidents in Israel I would have even more reason to alter my behavior. The trip back home to Givat Ze'ev on Friday, however, was very emotional. I had just fulfilled what for some is a religious commandment, buying, a home in Israel (I even said a blessing as I handed over the check), and yet as I was walking to my car I saw a few dozen soldiers on alert as they made their way through the center of town. I listened to the special,reporting on the radio,', about the bombing. One report made my eyes so well-up with tears that I could hardly see, It was not that dramatic a statement in the broadcast. It was simply a report speaking about the injured and the condition of their injuries. But I pictured someone just minding their own business, going' to the shuk to do some Shabbat shopping, and then, haying to worry about the extent of their bodily injuries sustained from a bombing. ' ' It just seemed very sad and unfair. I was fortunate in that I managed to do my Bhuk shopping on Thursday of that week. The first business day after the bombing, I had business downtown so I parked in the shuk lot. There were emptyspaces in the lot, but Sunday is not a big shuk day anyway. •
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Y.E.S. Members will meet Monday at the JCC. English The musicians of the Omaha Symphony announce the publication of their cookbook, as a second language for new Americans starts at Overtures to Encores. Among those whose recipes 10 a.m. Bingo and exercise both start at 10:30 a.m. * are included in the cookbook is Willis Ann Ross, Bring articles to share for the "YES Talk" discussion group at 11 a.m. Following a hot kosher lunch flutist with the Omaha Symphony for 35 years. More than a collection of their favorite recipes, at noon, come enjoy musical entertainment by the this cookbook is illustrated with lighthearted pho- Bryan Mother Singers. For transportation, call * tographs of symphony musicians in the kitchen, 330-4272. and is laced with interesting tidbits about the WALK-IN, DROP-IN musicians' lives. Overtures to Encores reveals an added dimension Members will meet Thursday at the JCC. to the lives and personalities of the men and English Class starts at 10 a.m. Come exercise at 10:15 a.m. with new exercise instructor Sharon women on stage at the Omaha Symphony. The cookbook is priced at $10 ($9.43 plus sales Lewis. Bingo starts at 10:30 a.m. Bring a dairy tax). Books will be available in the lobby before sack lunch to eat at 11:30 a.m. At noon, come enjoy most Omaha Symphony concerts, as well as at sev- the movie Paulie in the Blumkin Home auditorieral retail locations (please call 551-7757 for um. Popcorn will be served. For transportation, call 330-4272 details), Ross' recipes include two kugels (one for meat VISIONS and one dairy), chili rellenos and lentil soup. Reminder: Visions Luncheon Meeting is Friday, "There are lots of vegetarian recipes in this fun cookbook," said Ross, "and lots of photos of Nov. 20,12:30 p.m., at Venice Inn. UNO Theatre presents All in the Timing by Symphony musicians." The name was the winning entry in a Name-the- David Ives in the Weber Fine Arts Building on Cookbook contest open to Omaha Symphony audi- Wednesday, Dec. 2, at 8 p.m. Cost is $4 per person. ences last spring. Musicians chose the winner from For reservations, send form to Maurice and Rosalie among more than 500 names submitted during Meiches, 5036 Parker, Omaha, NE 68104, by Nov. Masterworks, Chamber Orchestra and SuperPops 23. Make checks payable to Jewish Senior Services. concerts. Proceeds from the sale of the cookbook will beneBREADBREAKERS fit the Omaha Symphony Musicians' Organization. UNO History Professor Joel Gordon will speak at The purpose of OSMO is to pursue activities conducive to the general welfare and artistic well- Breadbreakers on Wednesday at noon at Highland Country Club. He will speak on the evolution of being of its members. Egyptian politics and society from the 1950s to present day in "Egypt, from Farouk to Mubarak." Cost is $7.75 per person and is open to the community.
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In the News Howard D. Vann has been named to a four-year term as a Trustee of the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, beginning July 1, 1999. Vann, who is chairman of the board 1 of Vann Realty, is one I of only 13 foundation trustees. The Rotary Foundation supervises and • allocates some $80 • million a year for [humanitarian and I educational projects. I The organization is I involved with the World Health Organization in PolioPlus, an international program which has immunized more than one billion children worldwide against polio. Vann, a member of the Omaha/Suburban Rotary Club, is a past Vice-president of Rotary International and has also served as Vice-president of the Mid-America Council of the Boy Scouts of America and President of the Nebraska Jaycees. He is Chairman-elect of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra.
Bergman Jewelers has announced the opening of the only retail boutique in Nebraska for Tiffany & Co. Located at its downtown store, 1408 Harney, the Tiffany boutique will include the renowned luxury retailer's signature silver and gold jewelry, timepieces, silver gifts, crystal and the designs of Paloma Picasso. According to Larry Gilinisky, president of Bergman Jewelers, Omaha is a highly desirable market for Tiffany. An opening reception is planned for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20 and 21, HADASSAH Jewish nurses will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at at the Orpheum Theatre and coincides with the 3205 S. 128 Circle, to hear Darlene Golbitz talk Omaha Symphony celebration of the centennial of about her recent participation in the Nurses the birth of composer George Gershwin. BergmaaJewelers, established, in 188.8,by.. Council Institute in New York City. .'. ;.••••• ... Golbitz is head of nursmg at the Rose Blumkin" Gilinsky's great-grandfather, Sol Bergman, has donated a sterling silver watch, valued at $1400, to Jewish Home. . The National Center for Nurses' Councils of be raffled at the Omaha Symphony reception. In Hadassah is the only national organization specifi-. addition, a percentage of the sales from the Tiffany, cally designed for the Jewish nurse in America. In boutique, from Nov. 21 through Dec. 24, will be June of 1990, the National Center for Nurses' donated to the symphony. Councils of Hadassah was formed to establish an Former Omahan Sally Fox has been re-elected international partnership with the Nursing Division of he Hadassah Medical Organization in for a seventh term in the Vermont State Jerusalem. Its mission is to meet the special edu- Legislature. She chaired the judiciary committee cational, social and professional concerns of Jewish and the appropriations committees; she was also nurses in the United States and Israel and to Under-speaker of the Vermont House of enhance and support the nursing profession in Representatives. both countries. > Fox and her husband, Michael Sirotkin, have two To expand your horizons, further your career, sons, Jacob and Jesse. She is the daughter of Dee and communicate with fellow nurses here and Fox of Omaha and the late Philip Fox. throughout the country, call Darlene Golbitz at 334-7862. .Six students in the Jewish community are among those recently inducted into the National Honor Society at Millard North High School. The honorees include: Michael Fineman, Michelle Hellman, Jennifer Lee, Courtney Rabb, Larry Radloff and Ryan Tichauer.
New exhibit in Jewish Community Center gallery by Gloriann Levy, Jewish Cultural Arts Council Director
From Nov. 29-Dec. 31, Daniel Christensen will exhibit his works of paper, wood, paint, concrete and plaster in a display at the JCC gallery. His themes are based on traditional and nontraditional Judaism, social awareness, Jewish political statements and gender. Christensen studied at the University of San Francisco, Parson's School of Design, the American Conservatory of Theatre-San Francisco. He currently teaches a Judaic Art class to high school students at Beth El Synagogue. Gallery Hours are: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.10 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 1-7 p.m.; Sunday, 8 a.m.-6:30 p.m. For more information, call me at 334-6403.
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Omaha Symphony to salute Gershwin Gershwin wrote his first successful This year, orchestras around the world are celebrating the centenary Broadway show, La-La-Lucille\, in 1919, and by 1924, had • of George Gershwin's birth. become one of the more The Omaha Symphony will successful composers on also salute Gershwin, Broadway. He studied billed as America's greatest composition, took courses composer, with New York, in orchestration, and waitNew' York, on Nov. 20 and ed for his chance to do 21 a t " the Orpheum '•omething big for the symTheatre. phonic concert-hall. Bergman's Jewelers, Though he wrote a onenamed as Nebraska's only iact opera, 135th Street in official retailer of Tiffany & Co. jewelry and merchan- George Gershwin 1922, his big break came in dise, is holding a "Rhapsody Raffle," 1924 at age 25, with the stunning sucwith a $1,300 Tiffany watch as the cess of Rhapsody in Blue. After being Grand Prize. All Proceeds will bene- vaulted into international fame by the fit the Omaha Symphony Children's incredible popularity of Rhapsody, Music Fund. ' Gershwin divided his compositional Pfrie, with the purchase of any activities between writing music for . Tiffany item between Nov. 20 and the Broadway stage and Hollywood Dec. 24, Bergman's will donate a por- movies, and more serious works for tion of the proceeds to the. Omaha the concert-hall. Symphony (a ticket stub from New He was extraordinarily successful in York, New York is required). For both fields, with his "serious" endeavticket information, call the Omaha ors being capped by the magnificent Symphony at 342-3560. folk opera Porgy and Bess, written two Gershwin was born Jacob years before his death from a brain Gershwine, the second of four chil- tumor iri"1937. Conductor for the celebration is Hal dren in a family of Russian Jews whose name had originally been France, who began his fourth season Gershovitz. The Gershwines bought as Opera Omaha's Artistic Director a piano and hoisted it into their sec- and Principal Conductor with Arts On ond-story flat, so Jacob's older broth- The Green featuring the Omaha Symphony. er; Ira, could take piano lessons. To Ira's relief, George instantly Sylvia McNair, the Grammytook over. So George got the lessons Award American Soprano, will also and Ira.got to spend his time pursu- perform. She is a regular guest artist ing his first loves, literature and art. with the major opera houses and symAfter four years, at the age of 16, phony orchestras of Europe and North George dropped out of school to America. become a "Song Demonstrator" at Tickets for the performance are $15 the music-publishing house of for adults, $10 for students and Jerome H. Remick & Co., in New seniors, and are available from the York's Tin Pan Alley. - Omaha Symphony box office, 342-3560, Intent on becoming a songwriter, he or on the day of the show. Advance sold his first song in 1916 for the tickets are on sale now to members of princely sum of $1. He scored his first the JCC for $12 and $8 through JCC member services at 334-6426. major hit in 1918 with Swanee.
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Kapulier Torah from Omaha finds new home by Claudia Sherman, Foundation Public Relations Coordinator
When Sheryl Austin learned that the Kapulier Shul in Omaha closed in 1985 and the Congregation's Torahs were carried out of the sanctuary and taken to Beth Israel Synagogue for safekeeping, she wrote to Pennie Z. Davis, a trustee on the Board of the Jewish Federation Foundation. Austin had recently moved to the Omaha area from Reykajavik, Iceland, where she had been living with her (now former) husband who was stationed there with the U.S. Air Force. She was looking for a Torah for the tiny Jewish community at the northern end of the Atlantic Ocean. A new multi-faith chapel had been completed in 1984 in Reykajavik, but Austin, who was past president of the Jewish Sisterhood there, felt the chapel was incomplete. "We have the eternal light, and the holy ark," she wrote, "but we only had a child's printed Torah inside this, beautiful ark." She asked t h a t a Torah be donated to the Iceland Jewish community. The Navy chapel facility in Rehkajavik intended to make the Torah available throughout the island republic. She assured Davis t h a t Rabbi Victor Solomon, visiting rabbi for Iceland who was also a colonel in the Air-Force and had a congregation in New Jersey, would help transport the Torah from Omaha. Rabbi Solomon was willing to supervise its shipment, but he knew repairing its scroll and rendering it kosher would be expensive.
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According to an article in the Jewish Priesst Davis made a personal contribution to make possible the transfer of the Torah. It was sent to Rabbi Solomon in Teaneck, N.J. In 1988, J e r r y Rosen, the late endowment director of the Omaha Federation Foundation, kept in contact with Rabbi Solomon who wrote that "the Torah scroll is seriously damaged." Rabbi Solomon, who suffered a heart attack in 1989, continued to explore the possibility of repairing the Torah at a reasonable cost. Finally, after many letters between Rosen and Rabbi Solomon, it was decided "since there was-no stable military community" to whom to entrust the Torah, it would remain in Rabbi Solomon's home for the time being. In 1997, he received a phone call from Rabbi David Lapp of the JWB Jewish Chaplains Council who informed Rabbi Solomon t h a t a request for a Torah had been received from the Army Chaplains School in Fort Jackson, S.C. Rabbi Solomon said he received approval from the Omaha Jewish Federation and in July of last year, he turned over the Torah to Rabbi Lapp, who personally accompanied it to South Carolina from New Jersey. The Chapel at the Army Chaplains School not only pledged to "safeguard the Sefer Torah but use it on a regular basis." At last, the Sefer Torah from the Kapulier Shul has found a new home.
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Leaders (continued) Lawrence A Paula Albert Leon A Eleanor Alexander Dena Altman loel Alper5on Margie Alperson Bernie A Shirley Altsuler Harry A Ruth Altsuler Aryeh A Elyce Azriel Bruce A Jill Baron Donald A Diane Baum Dennis A Jeanne Beavers John A AngieBekins Mark A Jill Belmont Jay Benton Harry Berman A Bclh Cohen Jerry A Mary Berman Gerald A Lois Bernstien Harold A Millie Bernstein Terrance Bernstein Thomas A Mary Bernstein Michael Blalt ' ' ^ ' Albert A Jum Bloch Robert Lachowiez A Margaret Block Harold A Dma Bloom Florence Blumenthal Menasse Bohbot Melvin A Gencvieve Bornstcin Randal A Rhonda Brand Morris A Jean Brcsel Bess Brodkey Harold A Lucille Brodkey Peter A Carol Brodkey Ron A Beth Brodkey Sherman A Sandy Brodkey Peter Brodsky Jack A Florence Brody Sidney A Jane Brooks
Yale A Ida Richards Larry A Silvia Roffman Blaine A Judith Roffman Jerry Rosen In Memory of Jack M. Saferslem Mary Saferslem Rhonda Saferslem A Jeff Hansen Diane A Howard Shandcll Mark A Lynda Saferstein MarkAYIckiSanTord Mill A Rosaline Saylan Joel A Nancy Schlessinger and Bernard A June Schlessinger Les A Jan Schneiderman Stuart A Esther Simon Jerry A Judy Simons Howard A Judy Vann and Family " The Milton G Waldbaum Family Fndn. , Muni Waldbaum ''. John A Nalha Waldbaum ArnieAAnneWeilz Cm Zweiback Anonymous (8)
The Brown Family Jonathan A Debbi Brown Leigh-Anne Brown Lauren Brown Elliot A Dolores Brown Ronald Budwig A Susan Silver Sam A Elaine Bukengolls Esther Canar Louis A Eudice Canar Richard A Sandra Canfield Ken A Nancy Carlson Frederick A Molhno Cassman Truman A Rosemary Clare Gilbert Cohen Marc Cohen Paul A Arlene Cohen and Family Shelly A Joyce Cohen Leona Cohn NaomieCohn Steve A Linda Cohn Travis Cohn A Jennifer Dimartino David Cooper Harvey A Rose Cooper Ron A Cheryl Cooper A Family Samuel A Judy Cooper Jerold A Janey Dann Steven A Veronica Danon Art A Betsy Davidson David Davis Rose Davis Manuel A Karen Delgaiillo Steve Denenberg Dennis A Pamela DePorte Jack A Mindel Diamond Edward A Esther Dolgoff Paul A Susie Drazen Jack &. Jean Duilch Sun A Ellene Edelslein
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We're Helping to Build the Community! Building Fund and have allowed their names to be published. Innovators (continued) ^ Fred A Barb Uehling * Steve Goodman Harold Goodman Rob, Debbie A Isabel Goodman Sydney A Betsy Goodman Barbara Gottlieb Saul A Esther Graetz Lonnie A Dianne Graul Andrew A Carol Greenberg Barton (Bucky) A Caryl Greenberg ,' Henry A Shirley Greenberg • Arthur A' Deborah Greene ' Gary A Sherri Green Bud A Rosalie Greenspan George A KathrynGrieb Jerry A'Pearl Gross The Ethel Grossman Family In memory oJMoc Grossman uShaxon A David Behrend Bernie A Marge Grossman The Grossman Family , An Grossman Ronald Grossman Larry A Linda Grossman Arlene Gilles. Roberta Grossman Paul A Joy Grossman and Meyer A Frances Coren Bruce A Margie Gutnik Harry A Judy Hall .YaleAIdaHaiperin Bobbi Halstein Marc A Andrea Hamburg' David A Bette Harldn .. Louis A Eva Heisler Joel A Esther Hellman Larry A Retha Herman Leo Hill David A Phyllis Hoffman Adelc Hornstein . Louis A Lillian Hurwilz Philip A Maisha Ilkin "' Jon Lance A Daaa Jabenis Mark Jacobson Richard A Joanie Jacobson Ed A Anne Joseph Harvey Josin Serin A Sara Juster Toby Kagan . ' Guinter Kahn Marcel A Use Kahn Robert A Roxanne Kahn Jerome A Sylvia Kaiman • >. Paul Kaiman . * ' Gary A Sally Kaplan Lazar A Bernice Kaplan - . Myron Kaplan ' .' Robert Kaplan Suzanne Kaplan Beatrice Karp FrankieASandyKasin Sanford A Renee Kasner ' Charles (Skip) A MerryLee Katzman Rick A Juice Katzman and Mike A Carol Katzman Mendel A Shani Katzman Maury A Madeline Katzman Leonard A Cindy Kaufman Larry A Leann Kelberg Peyman Kharazi • Corey Kirshenbaum A Marcy Noodell Jeff A Sharon Kirshenbaum Max A Shirley Kirshenbaum Don A Ilene Klein Harry A Janet Klein
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Harvey A Marcia Lipsman Michael A Margarita Lizinsky Steven A Tlielma Lustgarten Bernard A Carolyn Magid /Trenton Magid laity & Diane Malashock Neal A Jody Malashock Robert A Norma Malashock Harold A Linda Mann ' Myron A Harriet Marko Milton A Doris Raduziner Marks Milton A Ann Margolin Mark A Julie Martin John A Kathy McGauvran Thomas A Margo Meehan Maurice A Rosalie Meiches GennadiyANelliMenkov Gerald Meyer . Bernie A Roie Meyers Bruce Meyers A Sally Barenbaum Joseph A Tina Meyers Leo A Helen Meyerson Scott A Jenny Meyerson Adrienne Milder Jerry & Fran Milder _ Mike A Ducky Milder Pete * Rhoda Milder and Larry-A Georgine Koom Michael A Lori Miller Sidney A Lynda Mirvish Sun AEvie Mitchell Semyon Mogilevsky Charles A Lyre Monasee , Henry A Pam Monsky Igor A Anna Mosenkis Gordon A Ann Moihman Allan A Janie Murow Bruce A Mary Beth Muikin
Innovators (continued) Stuart A BelUe Muskin Jeaneite Nadoff Leonid A Bella Nakhimbvich Bob A Betsy Nelson Jeanette Nepomnick Steven A Maria Nessman Barbara Nichols Ban A Jordana Nissen Allan Noddle Irving A Marian Nogg Leo A Babe Nogg Ruth Nogg Mike A Susie Norton Linda Novak Robert A Donna Olesh Michael A Barbara O'Malley The Ostrow Family Fred A Sandy Ostrow Nadine Osirow Elite A Paul Militzer Gary A Marcic Osuow , Dennis A Susan Paley Charles, Margo, Jay, A Aaron Parsow Gary Paskar Claire Passer Sandra Passer Scott A Kristi Pavel Wayne A Santa Penka Harold A Rose Perclman Jason, Rebecca A Zachary Pcrelman Willard A Shirley Peslal Eric & Julie Phillips James A Geraldine Phillips • Michael & Shelly Pichik Michael A Del Pisci Grace Plotkin Marv A Sheila Polikov Olncr A Karen Pollak Joseph & Bluma Polonski Larry A Dinah Roful Leonid A Inna Raksin Neal A Nancy Rauhauscr Gerald A Jeanne Raznick Steve A Dodi Redler Lorraine Reiss David Rice Don Rice Mrs Norman Rice Lou A Bev Rich Harry A Arlene Richman Marly A Iris Ricks Gary A Caryn Rifkin The Doug Riley Family FoundaUon Sheldon & Nancy Rips Andrew A Kimberly Robinson Michael A Tammy Rochman Stuart Rochman Jonathan A Stacey Rockman Normand A Phyllis Roffman Mimi Rogers A Michael Marcovitz Bill A Margo Rosen Michael Rosenbaum Jacob A Rose Rosenberg Monroe A Helen Rosenberg Charney A Jerry Rosinsky Alvin A Willis Ross Edith Ross Lee A Peggy Ross Bess Rothcnberg Steve A Bunny Roihenberg Betty Rubin Elliot A Belly Rubin Reva Ruderman ' Michael & Lynn Salmi E n d A Lynne Saltzman
Innovators (continued) Belty Sanford George A Julia Schapiro Andrew A Wendy Scherer Bea Scluinmel Abe A Annette Schloff Ed A Carol Schneider Pjck A Laura Schrager Hairy A Sophie Sclmlman Maurice A Phyllis Schwartz JeffSchweid George A Miriam Shafer Howard A Diane Shandell Norm A Suzy Sheldon Marc A Claudia Sherman Mark A Debra Sherman and Michael A Patty Slicrman Rose Sherman Dave A Phoebe Shkolmck Rodney A Lois Shkolmck Michael Shrier A Suzanne Bchr Paul A Susann Shykcn Barry A Judy SifT Jeff A Mary Silver David A Jams Silvciberg James A Susan Silverman Ervin A Miriam Simon Mickey A Toolie Simon Suzanne Richards Singer David A Ann Sjalin Sieve A Nancy Skid Norm A Shirlee Smeerin Barry A Frances Snyder Morton A Helen Soiref The Sophir Family Ramon A Susan Somberg Can Sommer Al A Shirley Sorkin
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Jerry Rambo to speak on 'autumn wines' at Art Auction
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Jerry Rambo active bidding on Saturday, Nov. 21, at Beth ElSynagogue, when State of the Art, Ltd. presents one of its art auctions. Auctioning will start at 8 p.m., immediately following the preview scheduled for 7 to 8 p.m. Jerry Rambo will highlight the preview-reception with suggestions on "Alternative Wines for Autumn Entertaining." Rambo's expertise, and the whites and lighter reds selected for the occasion, are compliments of Nebraska Wine and Spirits. Enhancing the wine tasting will be hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and an array of desserts, Courtesy of Bag 'n Save, Bakers Supermarkets, and No Frills Supermarkets. - The preview-reception will also include a briefing on art selection and auction procedures by a representative of Tennessee-based State of the Art, recognized nationwide for its prized collection, said Beth Friedman, chairman of Beth El's Art Auction Committee. Rambo. a sales manager in the wine division of Nebraska Wine and Spirits, travels often to the wine-producing regions of the world, most recently the Rioja vicinity of Spain and the wine country of France. Last year he visited Southern California to.
augment his education on domestic wines. A member of the American Society of Wine Educators and Les Amis du Vin, he conducts wine selection seminars throughout Nebraska, teaches courses on wine appreciation, and is actively involved with the major wine tasting groupsin Omaha. His wine tasting will concentrate on four domestic choices: • Muller-Thurgau (Sokol Blosser Winery, Oregon), a versatile white ; • Gerwurtztraminer (Geyser Peak Winery, Sonoma Valley, CA), created from the White Riesling 100 years ago; • Z Gris, ( Zaca Mesa Winery, Santa Barbara County, CA), a version of the dry rose wines of the Rhone and Provence, France; • Pinot Noir, (Lorane Valley Winery,, a division of King Estate, Oregon), excellent in combination with fowl and fish. The auction will offer works from such celebrated artists as Boulanger, Dali, Lautrec, Max, Miro, Nieman, Rockwell, and Vasarely in addition to the renowned artists of Jewish themes, including Agam, Chagall, Ebgi, Ben Avram, and Tarkay. Beth Friedman, chairman of the Art Auction Committee, invites requests'for particular artists by calling her at 334-7539, or contacting Cheryl Lerner, Beth El programming director, at 4928550. . . Friedman noted that this auction represents a wide range of styles and media: watercolors, oils, etchings, serigraphs, lithographs, sculpture and animation cells. Most of the pieces are in the $50 to $500 range. For any purchase over $500, six-month interestfreefinancingis available through State of the Art, based in Nashville, TN. There will be a 'second chance' non-auction sale at Beth El on Sunday, Nov. 22, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Admission is $10 per person. Those who purchase tickets in advance receive a double bonus: a $10 voucher toward the purchase of art and a free raffle ticket for a framed print, valued at $300. Purchase of admission or raffle tickets and additional information is available from Beth El or by calling the office at 492-8550.
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New Recreation Team *;•; refocuses goals lived in St. Louis for After almost 16 several years, where years, Sharon Conshe worked in a. nursing Ion has resigned as home as an activities Director of the Therassistant. ' apeutic Recreation Department. In her Cathy Carroll is the place, three individnewest member of the uals will work toteam. She has had expegether as the new rience with being a staff and improved Recvolunteer coordinator reation Team. for a group of seniors who needed transportaAnne Joseph has tion, meal preparation been with the faciliand friendly visitors. ty for the past three years. She brings a These three women strong sense of the are planning programs community with her that will meet the needs and is presently of all the residents, Vice-chairperson of From left: Cathy Carroll, i n c l u d i n g t h e breakfasts fer Ambrose and the Activity Direc- Je""M Jennifer and md m e a , g g e r v e d i n , tors Network. She Anne Joseph. tearoom. Outside trips was awarded her activities coordina- and visiting entertainers are two tor certificate from Iowa Western components of the monthly calendar. Community College. In the planning stages are games She also has a degree from such as 'Jeopardy'!, 'Name that Incarnate Word College in San Tune' and *Who Said That.' Antonio. The team agreed that without volJennifer Ambrose is currently a unteers the recreation programs part time student at UNO, majoring would not be of the high quality they in gerontology. She and her husband are now.
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A real 'dummy' participated in Temple Israel is proud to utilize Temple Israel's Family service Mark's talents during Family serrecently! Yes, that's exactly what vices and Tot Shabbat programs. His happened when Nosher and his part- presentations will be coordinated ner, Mark Levy, a local Jewish edu- with Temple Israel's on-going educacator and ventriloquist, gave a tional programs. Ventriloquism and its related art, thought-provoking presentation to puppeteerover 250 con-. ing, are litgregants ont tle used in some of the; Jewish eduproblems o cation, but how parents they are utiand children lized by over . divide and 1,000 Chrisfulfill respontian clergy sibilities in and laypeo-' their homes. pie in this There were country to laughs, [effectively chuckles and commu'ni. nods of recognition as theM a r k "«ate their w i t I o n e o f bia human a n d Levy » friends' relates tor e j j g j0 u s almost-hu-childrenthrouehventriloiluisnibeliefs. Everyone is invited to future man team modeled a strained relationship over this issue. Members of monthly Tot Shabbat and Family the congregation had the opportunity services to meet Levy and his puppet to talk to Nosher about his responsi- friends, including Nosher, Dr. bilities and how Levy should commu- Heckle, Zeke the Prophet and Moosaf the Cow. nicate them to his friend. For more information about these During the oneg, there were handouts with discussions and appropri- programs, call Temple Israel at 556ate statements from rabbinic sources. 6536. United Way of the Midlands
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I was turned onto this book by a radio interview with the author who said his novel contained the story of a "Shabbos goy," and that among the most illustrious who have filled that position are Mario Cuomo, Elvis Presley, and Colin Powell. This story isset in 1947. Twelve year old Michael D«vffi'sTatner is buried in Belgium. Michael lives with his mother Kate in a rough neighborhood that includes the run down shul of Rabbi Judah Hirsch a Holocaust survivor from Prague. Michael, an alter boy, becomes the Shabbos goy and a relationship grows between the two as they explore each others history, Michael's dead father : and the Rabbi's dead wife. Michael tutors the Rabbi in English and learns Yiddish, as well as the meaning behind the Latin taught in rote fashion at his Catholic School. This is. more than Catholic Irish and Jewish mutuality. The year 1947 is also the year that Branch Rickey brought Jackie Robinson up from the minors to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Rabbi's English is spiced with Red Barber's, "catbird seat," and the seeming incongruity of loving "dem bums." Jackie Robinson's entry into the big leagues, and warding of insults and threats, as the first Black major leaguer, becomes a metaphor-for being an American, as well as an immigrant, or ethnic or racial minority. The book has violence that will pain the reader. Frankie MoCarthy and the Falcons terrorize Jews, blacks and squealers. The pathos may bring tears to your eyes as a Jewish candy store owner, Michael, his mother, and the Rabbi are set upon by the gang. The World War Two veterans in the neighborhood, including Father Heaney, come to the aid of the synagogue and scrub the swastikas and graffiti from the walls. But they cannot mend broken bones or an imbalance' that appears to favor evil over good. Rescue comes from a Golem. You heard it right, a Golem, the construction of superhuman from clay. When the Golem is asked why he did not act against Hitler and the Nazis, he replied that he acted and failed. In 1947 New York, his action brings relief by setting righteousness above the mean, ugly and mindless hatred against Jews and Blacks. ' This book is available in paperback and at the Jewish Federation Library.
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In case your vacation plans don't include salt air, sea breezes, warm temperatures and a taste of the tropics, how about a sensational dinner featuring, recipes reflecting the diverse cultural mix of Miami? Ingredients typical of Carribean and Latin cooking are easily found in most supermarkets and ethnic groceries. A guide is provided with helpful tips on selection, storage, uses and preparation of the fruits and vegetables used in this Miami mix. Scattered throughout the book are detailed tips/techniques for specific skills or foods. Chapter and recipe introductions give insights to the food, history and Miami lore. Flavor-packed, tangy, spicy* bold-tasting, festive-looking, chilispiked are words used to describe many recipes, ' 150 everyday and holiday recipes with Miami's unique cultural fusion, or "New World Cuisine", are included. The chapters are appetizers, soups, salads, main courses, side dishes, salsas, desserts and menus. Paella, "escovitch" (pickled fish), jerk-barbecued ribs, "fritas"v(Cuban style hamburgers), "serviche" (seafood marinated in citrus juice) meld with stone crabs and Keylime pie in the combinations of elements from disparate cuisines. The basic form is one recipe to a page, ingredient list in order used and well written instructions with planned ahead, variations, notes to clarify and suggest details, and what-to-serve-with-them suggestions. You don't have to be a tourist headed for the
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Each year, the Omaha Jewish Community and Creighton University bring in young scholars, some still in graduate school, and senior scholars, leading figures in the academic world, for the annual Klutznick Symposium. They bring their ideas, interact with other presenters and the audience, and they learn about our Omaha Jewish community. Omaha continues to build on its reputation as a center of Jewish hospitality and learning. This year's theme, Israel at SO years, took on the appearance of an art museum. There were several presentations of Palestine and Israel's visual image in postage stamps, Herzl as Zionist icon, tourist photographs and post cards. We look forward to the publication, with illustrations, of the volume containing these papers. Next year's conference is already in the planning stages, scheduled for Oct. 10-11,1999.
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WASHINGTON - Kristallnacht. It was a harbinger of things to come in Germany and the rest of . Europe but at the time - Nov. 9, 1938 - the "Night of Broken Glass" was portrayed by the National Socialist Party as out-of-control riotous acts by thugs retaliating for the death of a low-level German diplomat, Ernst vom Rath, in Paris on Nov. 7 at the hands of a young Jewish man. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) opened an exhibition on Nov. 10, the Russian environmentalist 60th anniversary of the pogroms that made the faces double jeopardy threat front page of The New York Times. Curated by Steven Luckert, Ph.D., curator of the museum's by Lindsey Paige Taxman permanent exhibition, the exhibit lays out the significance of the violent night that saw thousands of All evidence and charges that the FSB (formerly Jewish businesses and homes ransacked and syna- the KGB) compiled for the fabricated espionage gogues in major German cities burned. case against environmentalist Alexander Nikitin There had been "episodes of violence" against were thrown out by Judge Sergei Golets after only Jews in Germany starting in 1933, when Adolf three hours of deliberation last week. Hitler came to power. But those had been sporadic. "Although this should be considered to be a total Kristallnacht was done "on a nationwide basis," defeat for the FSB, the procurator general, and the said Luckert, and was carried out in large cities prosecutors, it is not a complete victory for Nikitin like Berlin, Vienna, Austria and Regensberg and as he faces double jeopardy because the judge sent small cities as well. the case back for further investigation and possibly "Within a short amount of time [overnight], thou- a second trial, under the Russian legal system, and sands of businesses, homes and synagogues were continued restraining Nikitin from leaving St. destroyed," said Luckert. This was all done, he Petersburg," stated The Union of Councils for said, "in an organized manner" by the local SA - Soviet Jews (UCSJ) national director Micah (Storm Troopers), SS (a paramilitary organization Naftalin. under the control of the Reichsfuehrer) and party UCSJ has been active in this Case since February leaders, as well as Hitler Youth in big and small 1996 in defense of human rights in a grass-roots cities. Local fire departments and police organiza- effort. tions participated in the violence, some by ignoring "That security officials can so brazenly flout funcalls for help from the victims. damental human rights and pursue their campaign . The pogroms coincided with the 15th anniversary- of intimidation against innocent citizens has not of Hitler's unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the only given the international human rights commuGerman government in 1923. On the Hebrew calen- nity cause for concern over Russia's political future dar, it coincided with the 16th of Cheshvan, which but particularly for the Jewish community who are marks the beginning of Noah's flood. confronting rising anti-Semitism and fascism," proProm photos taken by German photographers claimed UCSJ President Yosef I. Abramowitz. and others, "we can see how buildings [that were In the first post-Soviet political trial, Alexander Jewish-owned] were singled out for destruction. ... Nikitin faced a 20-year prison term on charges of The targeting of Jewish properties was clear" said espionage and divulging state secrets, which stem Luckert. Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, from his work for the Norwegian Bellona through his propaganda machine, incited Germans Foundation on a report exposing nuclear contamito violence. nation caused by Russia's Northern Fleet. The trial Synagogues were the first targets as they repre- started on Oct. 20 in St. Petersburg after the FSB sented a visible reminder of the Jewish presence. had investigated the case for nearly three years. The Jewish communities of cities where synagogues Nikitin has always asserted his innocence, since all had been destroyed were told to pay for the cleanup information used in the report had been taken from open sources. and demolition of the remaining structures.
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by Carol Katzrhah
He's a native Omahan, former P a s t recipients of the award owner and publisher of the Sun include Lawrence S. Rockefeller Newspapers and former chairman of -and Prances S. Reese; Lipsey is. the Jewish Press. Stan Lipsey, reconly the third honoree. ognized in Omaha for his talents, gen"I'm honored to be in the same erosity and community involvement, company as a member of the has now been honored in Buffalo as Rockefeller family," Lipsey said well. with a smile. "But I've really tried' Last month, the state of New York to be the ^behind-the-scenes' mover acknowledged the work of the pubon this project;" lisher and president of the Buffalo Some $3 million has already been* News, Stan Lipsey, with the prestiraised toward the $23 million targious 1998 Governor's Parks and get with a completion date in 2001. Preservation Award. The goal of preservationists is to; In a letter from Senator Daniel create a compelling reason to visit Patrick Moynihan to Governor George the city and become one of the M E. Pataki, the senator noted that he ff^-.—fy*j*". • • I W M ^ M M P - — • • —imiiiww «crown j e w e i s in Buffalo's strong and Lipsey "share a special devotion F«ends and family of StanXipsey, center, gathered to share with the mcollection „ , , „ _ f l l T O , wonders." ,,„_!, l l o i f . ^ nf of„architectural and recognition of the genius of A special moment at the ceremoKrom America's greatest architect, Frank A i i TI • JI J T i n 1 J KT i- n y included recognition of Lipsi Lloyd Wright. After viewing the dreary Ka*» of LaJoUa cousin, Arnold Friedlander, LaJoUa; grandson, Noah * • ,8011 vr i, th A • ) ' ™an, on uie. condition of (one of the Wright homes James Lipsey Harkin, San Rafael, CA; friend, Judi Hojnacki, Buffalo; era™Pataki presented I dais in Buffalo), Stan needed no prodding. Lipsey; son, Dan Lipsey, San Rafael; grandson, Jesse Harkin, San Rafael; "Here's the governor of the state He accepted a leadership role in son-in-law, John Harkin, and daughter, Janet Lipsey, both of San Rafael. of New York talking about restoraputting together the Martin House Restoration Corporation, moved to Buffalo in 1980 in a manage- tion of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Buffalo, and Committee (and) raised the money...to secure the ment position. Three years later, he took over as my grandson will return to San Rafael with my entire complex. Because of Stan Lipsey, the (site) publisher and president of the News. daughter, son-in-law and their younger son to a Under Lipsey/s leadership, the Sun Newspaper community which, also boasts of Wright homes!" will become the nation's premiere Frank Lloyd became the first weekly to win a coveted Pulitzer Lipsey observed«.."The big kick about the evening, Wright treasure and destination." Buffalo boasts the second largest number of Prize for investigative reporting. He was also voted however, was having my family there." Wright-designed homes after Chicago. When the first "Volunteer of the Year" by the J e w i s h Gov. Pataki mentioned several other projects in Lipsey learned of the disrepair into which the Press, for his many years of guiding and building which Lipsey has been involved besides the Show Darwin. D. Martin house had fallen, he approached ^the.community's weekly paper. House. The Buffalo News took over Kids Day after Learning from his Omaha experience, Lipsey took its competitor, The Courier-Express, closed; Lipsey Robert Wilmers of the M&T Bank Corporation and Robert Rich, Jr., of Rich Products to join with the the Show House idea and established the Buffalo also helped restored the services of Roswell Park Decorator Show House with the Junior League. Cancer Institute^ind established the Tralfamadore Buffalo News in purchasing the home. The Martin home was the first of five by Wright Since its inception, the Show House has restored Jazz Institute to save the famous Buffalo jazz club. to be built in Buffalo. After acquiring the home, the nine homes and raised some $1.5 million which has In addition, he helped establish the Strategic Air group was donated to the Martin House funded 10 projects. Command Museum, here in Omaha. That project Restoration Corporation. The entire complex, "As the publisher of a newspaper, you have to included the restoration of some 33 aircraft, 12 including pergola, conservatory and garage/stable, champion the community," noted Lipsey in a recent missiles and construction of the $24 million, will be rebuilt as Wright's only six-building Prairie interview. "Buffalo was hit hard in the economic 330,000 square-foot museum. • House commission. recession in the 1980s; these restoration projects (Editor's note) Information for this article was Lipsey, whose Sun Publications was purchased are a way of improving the psychological depres- provided, in part, by the Buffalo News, Governor by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway sion as well as countering the economic one." Pataki's office and Sen. Moynihan's office.)
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at www.adl.prg Your child can learn anti-Semitism, racism and terrorism right in the comfort of your own home.,On the Internet, the KICK is calling for an American of, by and for whites only. Neo-Nazi skinheads are advocating a "holy war" against their enemies. Holocaust deniers are claiming "no execution gas chambers existed in any camp." That's why we've created Anti-Defamation League HateFilter. It's a software product parents can install on home computers to prevent children from gaining access to World Wide Web sites that advocate hatred, bigotry and violence. ADL HateFilter is unique because it doesn't just block sites, it offers kids the opportunity to link directly to the ADL site to get information about the nature of hate and the people and organizations who promote it. •.'. Check www.adl.org for more information on how to get ADL HateFilter. Because you don't want bigots teaching your children. •
For more information, please contact
Lisa Shkolnick, BBYO/Senior High Director at 334-6404.
Anti-Defamation League, 333 So. 132nd St., Omaha, NE 68154
www.adl.org