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L. Dennis Smith, right, President of the University of Nebraska, presents a medallion to Rabbi Myer S. Kripke. : Rabbi Myer S. and Dorothy Kripke were honored at a dinner on April 13 at the Happy Hollow Club for endowing the Myer and Dorothy Kripke Chair in Judaic Studies with the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Approximately 100 members of the Jewish communities of Omaha and Lincoln were invited by the University of Nebraska Foundation to pay tribute to the Kripkes. Established in 1992, the Harris Center for Judaic Studies' curriculum now offers 22 courses in subjects such astheXHolocaust, SeconcLTemple Judaism, American~Jewish Literature, Modern Israel, and Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy. Terry Fairfield, President of the University of Nebraska Foundation, introduced Jeanne Cahan, Director of the Center and one of the its 10 faculty members, who said hundreds of students enroll in the Harris Judaic Studies Center's'classes per semester. The majority of them are not Jewish, but she has been receiving an increasing number of inquiries from Jewish students from other states regarding the class offerings available at the Judaic Studies Center. According to Cahan, the Kripke Chair "will undoubtedly broaden the teaching and research capacities for the Harris Center," and she hopes "it will draw the Lincoln and Omaha communities closer together." L. Dennis Smith, President of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presented the Kripkes with a • (Continued on page 13)
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Gloria Kaslow to speak at community remembrance by Denise Baccus, Jewish Community Center Communications Director
This year's Yom HaShoah Commemoration, to be held at Beth El Synagogue, will feature keynote speaker Gloria Kaslow, who has been active in Holocaust education for the past 25 years. On Wednesday, May 3, 7 p.m., she will speak on the future.of Holocaust education as the number of survivors declines. In the past, the world has relied on these eye witnesses to keep the memory of this horrific event alive. As their numbers dwindle, it is imperative that their accounts are preserved and related from generation to generation. In addition to her address, services will include a solo by violinist Aviva Segall, Director of the Gloria Kaslow Omaha Youth Orchestra; readings and songs by the congregational rabbis and cantors and a candle Cultural Arts Council.
lighting ceremony that will include young people and some of the area survivors. For information, call Corey Kirshenbaum, Assistant Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center, at 334-6418, or Cantor Berkovits at Beth El Synagogue, 492-8550. This program is sponsored by the Jewish
Whitney Taxman named United Way Youth Volunteer by Carol Katzman "One million, five-hunIn order to reach her dred thousand pennies... goal by her senior year almost enough pennies at Westside High School to fill a swimming pool, (who nominated her for weighing more than one this prestigious award), • -full-grown, elephant,and, Taxman organized "The if stacked one on top of Centsatiohal Variety another, .they would Hour" at Westside in reach the sky. I plan to January. She even found collect all 4.4 tons of corporate sponsors and them." raised the additional funds needed to reach Whitney Taxman has her $15,000 goal. been on a mission to collect 1.5 million pennies The funds, which went in memory of the chilto Whitney's Pennies dren who died in the Foundation, a non-profit Holocaust. It began as charity, benefitted chilher Mitzvah Project for dren through the Elizaher Bat Mitzvah at beth Glaser Pediatric Temple Israel in 1993. Aids Foundation, Aiden On April 10, she was Whitney Taxman collected 1.5 million pennies O'Neil Foundation, recognized for her efforts tor each child who died in the Holocaust. Camp Rainbow, arid the when she was named Photo by Jen Gates. yfeizmann institute of Youth Volunteer of the Year in the Religion Science in Israel. Category at the annual United Way Volunteer Whitney is the daughter of Jeff and Sherry Taxman. Recognition Luncheon. She will graduate from Westside next month.
Community dedicates PennieZ Davis CDC
Left photo: Pennie Z. Davis cuts the ribbon marking the official opening to the new Child Development Center at the Jewish Community Center. He was assisted by his grandchildren, Lauren and Cameron Davis (on his
left), children of Henry and MaryKay Davis; middle photo: children of the CDC sang Hebrew and English songs for the more than 200 who gathered for the dedication. Right: Building Campaign Co-chairman Tom
Fellman presented the first Educator of the Year award to Nancy Carlson. The award was established by the family of the late Eileen Erman to.annually recognize a CDC teacher for excellence.
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Pesach demands freedom by Rabbi Stanley Rosenbaum, Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Lincoln
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SONIA SCHRAGER Sonia Schrager died april 6 at the age of 87. Services were held at Temple Israel Cemetery, on April7. ; . : Mrs. Schrager celebrated her 87th birthday with her sons and daughter and their families just a few days prior to her death. It was also the week her sons, Phil and Harley, were inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame. Survivors include her husband, Jack; sons and daughters-in-law, Phil and Terri Schrager and Harley and Beth Schrager, all of Omaha; daughter and son-in-law, Cherna and Gary Gitnick of Encino, CA; grandchildren: Jeff, Tim and Rick Schrager, Angel Goldman, Jack Schrager, Tony Schrager of Daytona, FL, Lois Schrager of Durham, NC, Kim Castaneda and Jill Steinberg, both of San Francisco; and nine great-grandchildren. Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. BEVERLY J. FRANKLIN Services for Beverly Franklin were held April 11 at Golden Hill Cemetery. She died April 9 at the age of 72. Franklin was a past-president of Hadassah, Beth Israel Sisterhood and B'nai B'rith Women (how Jewish Women International) and AMIT. She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold. Survivors include a daughter, Tiffany Franklin, son, Jason Franklin, both of Omaha; and brother and sister-in-law, Sydney and Margie Pessen. Memorials to charity of choice. .••,.-. ILYAM. LEVIT Services for Ilya M. Levit, a former Lt. Colonel in the Soviet Army for 29 years, were held April 14 at Temple Israel Cemetery. She was 87. Survivors include two sons, Vladimer Levit of Newport News, VA, and Vid Levit of Omaha; grandchildren, Tatyana Savina of Israel, Igor Levit of Russia, and Anna Levit of Omaha; and two great-grandchildren. MORRIS BECKER Services for Morris Becker were held April 16 at Mount Sinai Cemetery. He was 89. He was preceded in death by his wife, Bess. Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Marshall and Ginny Becker; grandchildren, Lisa • Brunkhorst and Jody and Gino Vinci; and two great-grandchildren. SIEGBERT SCHULMAN Services for former Omahan Siegbert Schulman were held April 18 at Beth El Memorial Park in Minneapolis. He was 79. He was preceded in death by his wife, Elinor. Survivors include daughters and sons-in-law, Nan and Tom Morris and Diane and Ben Landy; son and daughter-in-law, David and Peggy Schulman; son, Scott Schulman; grandchildren, Aaron, Adam, Rachael, Sarah, Bryon, Matthew and Jenna. Memorials to the STEP Program of the Jewish National Fund. !
JCC to celebrate Yom Ha'Atzmaut with culinary delights by Corey Kirshenbaum, JCC Assistant Director We will celebrate Israel's birthday here at the 'J* on Sunday, May 7, from 12:30-3 pan. Included will be both Israeli and American food, and fun programs and activities for children and adults. Admission is free and open to the community. One of the main attractions at Yom Ha'Atzmaut celebrations is always the food. "We like to have something for everyone," Lisa Shkolnick, Member Services Director, explained. "Having falafel, kosher hot dogs and sloppy joes gives both children and adults a choice of what to eat." Several organizations who have volunteered to sell food in the past are lining up again for this year's celebration. Aramark is selling falafel, hummus and sloppy joes; AMIT Women will once again sell kosher hot dogs; the Boy Scouts have all the pops covered: pop, popcorn and popsicles; and Yachad will sell potato chips. New to our culinary celebration is the JCC Maccabi Team, who will sell desserts. ~
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FRD3AY: Special Pesach Shabbat in the Home. Religious School: There will be no religious school April 23 and 25 during Pesach. Rabbi Myer Kripke's class on Sunday afternoons will resume following Pesach. FRIDAY, April 28: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 pan.
B'nai Mitzvah celebrate Services conducted by Rabbi Ira Flax. Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Friday, 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m.-
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Marsha Kleinberg, left, Carol Bloch, Shelly Fox, Danielle Gordman and Jenny Meyerson prepare packages for Jewish Family Service.
A class of 13 became B'nai Mitzvah recently at Beth El; front row: Darlene Golbitz, left, Amy Reynolds, Carole Lainof, Gary Lerner and Pam Gross; second row: Sheryl Friedman, Margaret Turetsky, Michael Marcovitz, Mary Rich and Ellene Edelstein; back row: Paul Sadofsky, Selma Sadofsky and Harry Weiner.
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1K1DAY. bhabbdt Cuiuea tu \uu, «J.45 pan. Ilabbi Aryeh Azriel will lead a Shabbat Service at Livingston; Shabbat evening service, 8 pan. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Debbie Stiel and Cantor Jennifer Blum will officiate. Rabbi Stiel will give the sermon. Kol Rina choir will participate. Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the Women of Reform Judaism. SATURDAY: Bagels and Bible, 9:30-10:15 ajn.; Shabbat morning service, 10:30 a.m. ADULT EDUCATION TUESDAY, April 25: Jewish Identity in Literature, 7-8:30 p.m. David Yudelson will examine short stories of Jewish writers. THURSDAY, April 27: Sisterhood Adult Education, 10-11:30 ajn. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel will teach "Scattered Amoung the Nations -Documents Affecting Jewish History-^49 to 2000 CE"; "Living with Illness", 7-8:30 p.m. Sally Kaplan, L.C.S/W., leads this group for people who are living with illness or those who love someone who lives with illness. SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE Friday, April 28-Sunday, April 30: Rabbi Joseph Telushkin will be the featured speaker at 8 p.m. services on Friday, 5 p.m. Havdallah on Saturday, and a 10 a.m. brunch on Sunday. For the full schedule, please see page 11 of this issue.
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Andrew Taylon, left, and Cleo RogersMarcovitz, announce the plague of frogs during Friedel's creative Passover play.
i Cameron (K.C.) Ruback, son of David and 1 Marcy Ruback, will fg'',',. ] become a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, April 29, at Temple Israel. A sixth grade honor student at Kiewit Middle School, he enjoys challenger baseball, tennis, bowling, all spectator i sports, cooking and visdeo I games. He is a Nebraska I Red Dawgs Junior Wheelchair Basketball team member. For his Mitzvah project, he has selected, assembled and donated toys to be used forPediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy at Meyer Rehabilitation Institute. K.C. has a brother, Joe. Grandparents are Dottie Rosenblum, Hubert Rosenblum, Paul Roback and the late Frances Ruback. Elizabeth Cody, the daughter of Penny and Michael Cox and James B. Cody, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, April 29, at Beth El Synagogue. A seventh-grade distinguished honor roll student at WEstside Middle School, she has been nationally recognized for I her high ACT score. She | snjoys reading and playing the French horn. For her mitzvah project, Elizabeth helped to promote www.thehungersite.com, a website aimed at eliminating worldwide hunger. She has four sisters: Catherine Cox, and Laura, Alison and Jennifer Cody. Grandparents are Bonnie Hines and John and Laura Cox. Great-grandparents are Richard and Billie Spiegal, Ruth and Spencer Taylor, and Hilbert Freuhwald. .
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Editorial
April 21,2000
Freedom "from" or freedom "for"
And a mitzvah can also be one of Spring heralds the season of renewal; the trees are budding, the the commandments where others flowers blooming; little bunnies are are needed, like creating a minyan of 10 to say prayers, or building a running through our gardens. It's no accident that Passover falls Beit Midrash, a house of study (a during the spring. After a long win- place the rabbis tell us to build ter (okay, so in Nebraska this year, before we build a sanctuary). winter wasn't its usual harsh attack Regardless of the mitzvah, peron our senses), we yearn for the fresh haps this spring, this season of breezes of spring. renewal and freedom, we should It's the time to clean out the think about adding one more mitzchametz in our homes and, with it, vah to our lives. the worn, old behaviors that keep Here's a suggested list of mitzvot; us from the real meaning of feel free to add your own: spring...and Passover: freedom. 1. Send a check to the FederFreedom is a funny thing. We ation's Hunger Relief Campaign. A usually think of it as the opposite of gift of $18 will pay for one food basresponsibility. After all, we're "free" ket for one month for one of our to do as we please, to think as we seniors in the former Soviet Union. want and to behave "as long as it A gift.of $180 will pay for 10 months of food baskets. doesn't hurt anyone else." 2. Volunteer for one hour a month But is that really freedom? Instead of thinking of "freedom at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home from" restrictions, what if we spoke and play cards with one of your of "freedom for" new ideas and ways mother's friends...or, . to behave? What if we actually took 3. Volunteer for one hour a month on responsibilities, instead of shirk- at the Child Development Center, ing them? Kidz Inn, or the Friedel Jewish Let's use our own Jewish tradition Academy, and read a book to a as an example. Every branch of group of eager youngsters. Judaism speaks of "performing 4. Pick up a Jewish book at the mitzvot." Now, a mitzvah, a com- Kripke Jewish Federation Library; mandment, can be something as learn something about your rich simple as dropping a coin in a Jewish heritage...and then, tzedakah box every morning, or 5. Enroll in one of a dozen classes more complex, like changing a offered by the synagogues, Jewish kitchen for Passover. Educational and Library Services or A mitzvah can also be something the Omaha Center for Torah very personal, just between you and Learning. God, like saying the Shema each Janis Joplin once said, "Freedom's night, or it can be more public, like just another word for nothing left to covering your head by choosing to lose." Maybe real freedom is the wear a kipa or a hat. freedom we find through mitzvot..
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Letters to the Editor To the Editor: They're baaaack! The little people at the seder table in the lobby of our JCC are always a welcome sight - the harbinger of spring and the pressing need to clean and cook. We are fortunate that Edith Rogert continues to share her mini-Seder table with us again. Todah rafebaJi, Edith. Stan Mitchell To the Editor: I have sent a letter to Archbishop Elden CurtisB (which follows) asking his help to find non-Jewish Holocaust survivors who now reside in the state of Nebraska. I implore (the community) to help the committee in Lincoln, chaired by Marcia Kushner, to discover all Holocaust survivors who reside here. As chairman pro-tern of the Committee for a World Wide Holocaust Remembrance Day, I ask for such help. Dr. Arthur G. Epstein, PhD Dear Archbishop Curtiss, On May 2, there will be a remembrance day for the survivors of the Holocaust in Lincoln. Attending, among others, will be the governor of Nebraska, the mayor of Lincoln and a state senator, who will be one of the speakers. It is my understanding from the chairman of the event, Marcia Kushner, that the occasion will be one of a non-sectarian nature. I implore you and your great office to distribute
information regarding the occasion in Lincoln. Archbishop, you and I are not the only ones who know the Jews were not the only ones who died in the camps. In a television release of His Holiness, Pope John Paul'IPs last trip to Poland, there was footage of him reciting a mass for Catholics who died in the camps. Isn't it time that others are blessed and remembered for their sacrifices? Although the total number of Jews who perished in the camps is more than the total number of all others, death is death and those souls deserve the remembrance of any and all caring people and their families. My father, an immigrant from Russia, and my mother, born in Omaha, always taught me that the poor and downtrodden and ignored must be remembered. As a Jew, I am finding fewer and fewer Jewish people who agree with me that all Holocaust survivors be remembered. Because of the teachings of my family, I come to ask for aid. After 50 years of mourning, the Jews of the world must admit they were not alone in their suffering. Thank you for any consideration you can give my request. Dr. Arthur G. Epstein, PhD Committee for a World Wide Holocaust Remembrance Day "Carrying the torch for non-Jewish Holocaust survivors" (Editor's note: a letter from Dr. Epstein was also sent to Gov. Johanns.)
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To the Editor: Maybe I was the last to know, since I came on it quite by accident, but did you know t h a t Cox Channel 4 carries live television from Israel every morning from 8:45 a.m. to approximately 9:30 a.m.? This is a great opportunity to hone your Hebrew. And there's a lot in English with Hebrew subtitles! Rabbi Myer S. Kripke To the Editor: I am a young Jewish American, interested in preserving our rich history and working towards my master's degree in journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. I am working on a video documentary of Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954-68. Anyone who was involved in the movement (going South, writing letters, funding, synagogue or social organizations) and/or physical documentation (letters, newsreels, magazine or newspaper articles, radio recordings, etc.) would be appreciated for my documentary. I will be travelling this spring and summer around the country to interview participants or those with information. Please write or e-mail me if • you are interested in being interviewed or can provide leads, information or physical documentation. Thankyou. Elizabeth Zitron 1402 Court St., Apt. A Columbia, MO 65201 1-573-441-8279 zitrone@missouri.edu JEWISH PRESS COMMITTEE Fred Tichauer, Vice-Chairman; Joanie Jacobson, Secretary; Howard Silber, Treasurer; Elyce Azriel; Jill Belmont; Jean Duitch; Penny Endelman; Kip Gordman; Gary Kudym; Steve Levinger; Linda Saltzman; George Schapiro; Steve Simon. Editorials express the view of the writer and are not necessarily representative of the views of the Jewish Press Committee, the Jewish Federation of Omaha or the Omaha Jewish Community as a whole. The Jewish Press reserves the right to edit letters and articles for space and content. The Jewish Press is not responsible for the Kashruth of any product or establishment.
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Exodus revisited many of the harsh provisions of the j 1996 immigration legislation (known as the IIRIRA (the Illegal Immigra-" tion Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act), which punished asylum seekers. It would limit the "expedited removal" system, whereby immigration officials can deport asylum seekers as they see fit, and identify greater categories of potential refugees who are exempt from this system. It would also provide greater protection for asylum seekers during the inspection and credible fear processes; enhance judicial review; and clarify the credible fear standard and the right of the Attorney General to parole detained asylum seekers. In short, it restores due process back into our asylum system. These measures would be a strong step in the right direction and would send a message to the world that the U.S. remains a bastion of refuge and a leader in international human rights. As Jews, we have a unique understanding of what it means to have to flee our homes. By necessity, we've had to be mobile. Sometimes, with very little warning, we've had to leave everything familiar behind, without even enough time to wait for our bread to rise. Given our history, we are singularly poised to help steer the fight in ensuring that America remains the safe haven for the oppressed, as intended by our country's founders. As we sit down to our Seder meals and read from our Haggadot, let us not forget the lesson of Avodim Ha'yinnu (when we were slaves...). Let us take the lead and push for the type of fairness contained in the Refugee Protection Act.
Journal ejntry Passports and the Pope by Teddy Weinberger from Israel A lot of the Israeli media attention on Pope John Paul II's visit to Israel had to do with the Holocaust. "Would he or wouldn't he" was the speculation in the days leading up to the Pope's visit to Yad VaShem: would the Pope apologize for Pius XII's silcnceduringthe Holocaust? I wasn't particularly disappointed that he didn't mention Pius XII when he visited Israel's Holocaust Memorial Museum. As far as Jews are concerned, the real test for Catholics will lie in how they respond to any future catastrophe facing the Jewish people. The Pope stressed the Church's commitment to work at combating evil wherever it rears its head. This is the universalistic lesson of the Holocaust: it was a crime against humanity, and all human beings have a stake in learning from it in order to prevent and fight future occurrences of evil in the world. There is also a particularistic Zionist response to the Holocaust--a strong State of Israel. With such a state, never again can a Jew become state-less, never again will there be a lack of refuge for a persecuted Jew. The physical proof of all this is an Israeli passport. By coincidence, the day before the Pope arrived in Israel, I went with the kids to apply for our Israeli passports. I tried to impress upon them the significance of the moment, but they were more interested in bugging me about when they were going to travel out of the country and use their passports. Still, I appreciated the weightiness of the event as I watched each
sign their passport application. When my passport arrived.a few days later, I must admit I was a little taken aback to read, under "nationality," the word "Israeli." I don't feel so Israeli yet (will I ever?), but I now have a "passport valid for all countries" that proclaims my Israeliness quite clearly. The Pope's visit was exciting in terms of the tens of thousands of pilgrims and the 2,000-strong press corps that came to Israel. The Pope himself impressed people with his honest spirituality; a rabbi friend of mine remarked that "the Pope is the holiest person we've had around here for a long time." But I sense a lost opportunity in the Pope's visit. Here was a Pope coming not in the spirit of Christian triumphalism but in the spirit of religious brotherhood. I don't think Jews here were willing to consider just what exactly this might mean. This was a chance for Jews to really think about what it means that Christians consider Abraham and Sarah, and Isaac and Rebecca as their foreparents. This was also a chance for Jews to wonder, since they worship one God and Christians worship one God, whether, in fact, Jews and Christians worship the same One God. On the other hand, the Pope's visit did prompt me to phone a few of my Catholic friends in the States for some friendly conversation. I can thank the Pope for that. Maybe other quiet interreligious dialogues were also stimulated. Im yirtzeh Hashem; Inshallah; God willing.
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This month, Jewish families around the country will honor the Passover holiday marking our exodus from Egypt. They will retell the story of the Jews fleeing persecution and will celebrate our deliverance to freedom and safety. Today, stories of the oppressed fleeing peril are as real now as they were 3,000 years ago. • The borders have changed and the people are known as asylum seekers. They come to America from all over the world seeking shelter and safe haven. And like the slaves escaping Pharaoh, they bring what they can carry. Sometimes their papers are in order, often they are not, as it is difficult to get authorized documents from the very governments they are fleeing. Often* too, they arrive traumatized, afraid to fully tell their stories. Unfortunately, however, when they arrive here they are often treated like criminals. Some are turned back. Those "lucky" enough to pass the preliminary review conducted by immigration inspectors are often shackled at the airports and sent to detention facilities where they languish for months (sometimes years), until their cases can make their way through the asylum process. For a country which stands as a beacon of hope for the persecuted, we can do better. In Congress right now, a bill known as the Refugee Protection Act waits for action. It has bi-partisan support and has been endorsed by numerous non-governmental agencies, including HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. If passed, the bill would correct
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Premier Motors held a groundbreaking ceremony earlier this month for a new $4.5 million Mercedes-Benz sales facility east of 144th Street on Allison Kohll, daughter of Omahans Jerry and 'V Street. The 29,000-square-foot facility is expectGail Kohll, met the President of Chile in Santiago ed to be completed in the fall of 2000, announced recently while accompanying a group from B'nai General Manager Steve Yancey. B'rith of Chile. (The president's term has since Present at the groundbreaking were J e r r y expired) Slusky of Gross & Welch; Trenton Magid, Kohll works for the United Nations in Chile and President of the World Group; Larry Kavich, meets with social service agencies and businesses President and CEO of All Makes Office Equipment to assist groups with solving the social ills of the Company; Omaha Mayor Hal Daub; and Cliff Herd country. Her paper, outlining recommendations in of the Omaha City Council, among others. this area, was approved and she will be implementing projects shortly. Hastings College announced that sophomore Kohll is a graduate of Wellesley college. She Shayna Flatowicz was a semi-finalist in prose earned her master's in law and diplomacy from the interpretation at the recent American Forensics Fletcher School at Tufts University in Medfor, MA. Association, National Individual Events Tournament at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The Kylie Zacharia, daughter of Dick and Terri team placed third overall. Zacharia, and M a r i s s a E p s t e i n , daughter of Shayna is the daughter of Frank and Cheryl Harriet and Ron Epstein, were among the 20 stu- Flatowicz. dents representing Beveridge Middle School honored at the Rotary Club of Omaha's 73rd annual Honor Roll Luncheon last month. CORRECTIONS Representing Kiewit Middle School was Bradley The name and address was inadvertantly omitAbramson, son of Sherri and Mike Abramson. ted from the Jewish Federation's Hunger Relief ad Students are selected based on leadership, charac- on page 41 of the Passover issue. The ad is being ter, scholarship and presence. [reprinted on page 16 of this issue. In the same issue (April 14, 2000), on page 22," Helene Grimaud, a French pianist, will be the Donna Kaiman Gilbert was misidentified as featured soloist at the Tuesday Musical concert on Donna Kaiman Spencer; her husband is Spencer Tuesday, April 25, 8 p.m., at Joslyn Art Museum's Gilbert. Witherspoon Hall. For ticket information, call 551The Jewish Press regrets the errors. 2234 or 551-4805. Allison Kohll recently met with (then) president of Chile.
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Birthright Israel announces spring trips As I write this, it's spring vacation for school kids from kindergarten to college age. This doesn't affect me anymore, but I remember when it did; my four, like all kids, thought they had been let out of prison, even if only for a little while. And if, by chance and by calendar, the vacation coincided with Passover, well better yet! I don't remember that we did a lot of exciting things, but I do recall trips to the library, to Crossroads (one of the early malls), drop-offs to friends houses and other such simple means of entertainment. Some families took advantage of the time off and maybe packed up the clan for a trip someplace, but we didn't. Today, many youngsters of college and/or high school age plan spring vacation to include a skiing trip or a visit to a warm climate where water sports and sandy beaches make an inviting place to play. In fact, there are specific communities close to oceans which have had so many kids arrive for fun in the sun, they plan accordingly for the crowds. . The police departments of such places know they must keep an eye on the visitors who might, just - might, cause the kind of commotion and rowdiness that usually accompanies too much beer! I assume such places have very mixed feelings about the appearance of spring revelers-on the one hand, tourism is good for the economy and, on the other hand, unruly kids can make a town feel like it was turned upside-down. Something different seems to be going on with the younger set, however. Travel at vacation time is the operative phrase, but let me tell you what goes on in some of the east coast cities where bargain air fares are readily available when kids are out of school. My 13-year-old granddaughter, who lives in New York City, tells me many of her schoolmates will be taking trips to such places as Prance, Italy, Puerto Rico and even Israel for this year's spring break. She's been invited to accompany a close friend and her mother to Holland for a w e e k . :
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peers, will be conducted by the following trip organizers: B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, Canada Israel Experience, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, Isralight Institute, Kesher/UAHC, Livnot U'Lehibanot, National Conference of Synagogue Youth and Shorashim.* "We want to reach as many Jewish young adults and college students as possible," said Papo. "As long as we can continue to send our youth to Israel, we will build strong Jewish communities around the country with young leaders for years to come. The Birthright Israel gift is intended for all Jewish young adults and we are most pleased to have as participants a group of Jewish deaf students from the Rochester Institute of Technology-National Technical Institute for the Deaf participating this spring." Created by philanthropists Charles R. Bronfman and Michael H. Steinhardt, Birthright Israel is the most extensive philanthropic Jewish outreach program ever to target Jewish young adults. Birthright Israel's mission is to present lifelong Jewish values to Jewish young adults worldwide through a first peer group trip to Israel. The Birthright Israel gift is made possible through a $210 million partnership from a group of prominent philanthropists, local Jewish Federations, and the people of Israel through their government. For more information on future trips and to learn more about the Birthright Israel gift, participants can call the toll-free number at 1-888-99-ISRAEL or visit the website at www.israelexperience.org.
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To many of us midwesterners this sounds like extravagant over indulgence, but if you understand that a round-trip ticket from NYC to Amsterdam can cost less than it costs us to fly from Omaha to Los Angeles and back, well, you see what I mean? I don't know how prevalent this practice is in areas which don't boast of international airports, but I'm always astonished when I read how reasonably a person can fly from New York to London, for example. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise then that folks decide to bop off to Rome for a long weekend when the kids are out of school anyway! Actually, maybe it shouldn't be a surprise, but to me, it still is. In my unsophisticated childhood, vacation meant time to ride bikes, roller skate on the sidewalk, play hopscotch, get in my mom's way when she was. busy, and fight with my brother. What else was there to do? Oh yes, go to a friend's house and bother her mother for awhile. . .; You'll notice I used the word unsophisticatedthat's just what it was, It wasn't better, or healthier or anything else. It was a different time in the world for everyone. I don't even think about the fact that this same 13-year-old had been to countless foreign countries before the age of 5. Countries I didn't get to go to until I was, well never mind how old I was. Let's just say I was a mature adult! That's all I have to say on the topic of spring vacation in the year 2000. I'm not being critical, just noting some great differences between "then and now." I'll look forward to Julia's e-mail when she returns from Holland, because she writes in a very interesting and mature style. Besides, I want to hear all about Amsterdam—I've never been there.
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New York, NY-Birthright Israel announced today that it will conduct a second wave of trips to Israel this spring for over 1,750 Jewish college students and young adults from North America who have never been to Israel. The spring trips are following in the footsteps of the successful inaugural Birthright Israel winter launch. The Birthright Israel gift provides the opportunity for young Jews between the ages of 18 and 26 who have never been on an educational peer program to visit Israel and strengthen their Jewish Identity. Last winter, over 5000 Jewish young professionals and college students spent 10 days in Israel learning about their heritage and experiencing modern Israel. "After the successful first round of Birthright Israel trips, we decided to go ahead with a spring program primarily to accommodate students who were still on the waiting list from the winter," said Michael Papo, Executive Vice-president of Birthright Israel North America. "It has been found that Jewish youth who visit Israel at a young age are more likely to form a bond to the Jewish community-and that is the powerful covenant we are dedicated to forging." Birthright Israel will again work with various established trip providers to organize the programs, which will take place in May, June and July. The Birthright Israel gift covers round-trip airfare from designated cities and ten days of programming in Israel. The trips, which include interaction between trip participants and their Israeli
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The joint recipients of the second annual Abe Baker Award are best friends and coworkers Carolyn Olsufka and Claudine Simons, who have provided exemplary customer service to bakery customers at the 132nd and Center Baker Square location for 12 years and 11 years, respectively, Claudine began working for the Baker Square store bakery in 1988 and enjoyed her new job so much she persuaded her friend Carolyn to join her the following year. The two women have distinguished themselves ever since by invariably providing their customers with personal attention and genuine caring. Sometimes called "the dynamic duo" by their coworkers, Carolyn and Claudine are known to Baker Square customers simply as "the bakery ladies" and to their very youngest customers, they are "the cookie ladies." "We love our customers. We know our regulars by first name," Carolyn said. "We even know their birthdays." •'We'll see a regular come into the store and have their order ready at the counter," Claudine said. "Customer service is number one, absolutely." Congratulations, Claudine and Carolyn! You are most deserving of this very special recognition. •The annual Abe Baker Award For Customer Service Excellence was created in 1999 to keep Abe Baker's passion for customer service'excellence alive and well at Baker's. The annual award recognizes associates who truly deliver premier customer service in the manner of Abe Baker. Abe was widely known for his legendary commitment to customer service. Baker's Supermarkets has thrived over the years by always remembering and following Abe's favorite expressions: "The customer signs our paycheck,' and "We are really in the people business, we just happen.to sell groceries." ' : .
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It's time to submit nominees for the JCC Athletic Wall of Fame and names of young athletes for Outstanding Jewish High School Athletes. Deadline for nomination is May 1. The JCC Wall of Fame commemorates exceptional Jewish athletes from the Omaha community. JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES . From the Golden Age of the Broadway Musical The plaques contain engraved photos of the athlete Comedy, come enjoy The Music Man in Overland and a listing of his/her athletic accomplishments. Park, KS, at the New Theater Restaurant on In addition to having a plaque placed on the Wall, Wednesday, July 26. Cost of $74 includes round- the athlete will receive a framed certificate of trip coach transportation, show, lunch, stop at a induction, be mentioned in the Jewish Press and winery on the way home, juice and muffin, prizes Centerpiece, and honored at the June meeting of and tour escort. Depart from the Jewish the JCC Board of Directors. To be considered for nomination into the Wall of Community Center at 8 a.m. and return approximately at 7:45 p.m. Space is limited. For reserva- Fame, the candidate must be Jewish and have tions or information, call Maggie at 334-6521. played a varsity sport for a university or high school or won a championship. They must also Deadline is April 29. have devoted at least three years of service toward the betterment of the community. WALK-IN, DROP-IN The Outstanding Jewish High School Athletes There will no meeting Thursday due to Passover. Award is presented to all Jewish high school athletes who have earned a varsity letter in their RUSSIAN CLUB Members will meet Friday, April 28, at the JCC. respective sport. Recipients will also receive a Come exercise at 10 a.m.; lunch will be served at plaque, their receipt of the award will be recog11 am. in the auditorium. At 11:30 , we are off on nized in the Jewish Press and Centerpiece, and a day trip to the Western Historic Trails Center in they will be honored at the June meeting of the JCC Board of Directors. Council Bluffs. To nominate a person for either award, contact Mike Noble, Health and Fitness Supervisor, at 334-6422, or pick up a form a t the Member Y.E.S. Mystery Trip Services desk.
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All things good come to an end. And for this writer, my OT/Y.E.S. presidency came to termination at our pre-Passover meeting. Actually, I stepped down two months prior to the real term of office date. Reason being: I had a hospital date with my marvelous medical mechanics and then on to the Blumkin Home for rehab. How nice things turned out that at my final session at the podium I had the high honor of introducing Mayor Hal Daub, who related projects accomplished and others endeavored during his administration. Responding to queries regarding the federal cenMembers enjoyed a beautiful Spring day sus, he senses some folks dislike parts that appear going over to Council Bluffs to visit the Lied to be intrusive, but the information is important, Western Historic Trails Center. Members At the Early Bird talk session, we continued disreceived an orientation of the trails north fol- cussing the furor over 6-year-old Cuban refugee lowing the Lewis and Clark Trail, and the Elian Gonzales. Will he be returned to his father in Oregon, Mormon and California trails. From Cuba, or be permitted to remain in the U.S.? left: Ilene Pachman, Evelyn Finkelstein, 1 circulated a brochure sent to me by my son in Dorothy Strauss, Minette Katz, Eileen Reiner, New York. One of his patients visited the Ohel Millie Altaian, Anne Rosenblatt, Mollie Kurtz, Moishe Synagogue in Shanghai, built by the Helen Kelly, Bonnie Nicholson, Betty Kelberg, Ashkanazi Jewish community in 1927. Betty Femer, Evelyn Nelson, Marvin Gerber, Following "Kristallnacht" in Germany, large numAnn Margolin, B e t t e S t a l l i n g s , I s a b e l l e bers of Jews fled to Shanghai to escape the genocide. Johnson, Betty Alvis, Milton Margolin and Many activities took place at Ohel Moishe. Sonya Mulnick. No longer utilized as a synagogue, arrangements to transform it into the Jewish Refugee Memorial PLEASE... Hall of Shanghai are underway. ; We paused in memorium for Sonia Schrager, TELL OUR ADVERTISERS Gertrude Kurtzman, Ralph F. Colton, Dr. Mayer YOU SAW IT Moskovitz and Beverly Franklin. IN THE JEWISH PRESS Shalom.
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Greenes Support 'dignified and pleasant'life for Blumkin Home residents by Claudia Sherman Foundation Public Relations Coordinator
Arthur and Deborah Greene want.the elderly Jewish population of Omaha to have "a dignified and pleasant" life. "Since the beginning, we have been.very interested in supporting the Blumkin Home and its residents," said Mrs. Greene. In December, the Greenes created an endowment fund with The Foundation of the Jewish Federation "to support programs, activities and construction projects for the benefit of the Blumkin Home." Initially, they hope the fund will be used to partially fund an outdoor wheelchair access garden. "Once again, another dedicated family from Omaha decides to leave a legacy to their Jewish community," acknowledged Marty Ricks, Executive Director of The Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. "Arthur and Deborah are kind, generous and sensitive, and I am so pleased I was able to meet them for the first time and help them design a fund." "The Deborah and Arthur M. Greene.Endowment Fund perpetuates the Greenes' financial commitment to the Blumkin Home that they've been supporting since it was completed in 1982," indicated Ricks. The Foundation of the Jewish Federation will administer the new endowment. "We have talked about giving the Blumkin Home a sum of money," said Mrs. Greene, so they would be able to use it "whenever they need it." The endowment fund fulfills this intention. Barbara Gottlieb, Director of Jewish Senior Services, noted that, "Outside of the fact that the Greenes have given us their daughter as our talented Board President, they continue to remember the Jewish elderly with yearly unrestricted endowment fund gifts. This money will help secure the future of Jewish Senior Services. We are deeply indebted to them for their generosity and foresight." Originally from Omaha, Arthur Greene spent most of his life here except for some of his medical training and for a five-year stint in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He was a flight surgeon during the war years. Deborah Greene was born in New York City. She met Arthur in the Panama Canal Zone in 1941, and they were married there in 1942. After the war, the couple returned to Omaha where they have lived ever since. Arthur practiced internal medicine and retired in 1976 after nearly 50 years "as a dedicated doctor," according to his wife. "Omaha has been good to us. It's a wonderful place to live and to practice medicine," the Greenes agreed. Silvia (Sivi) Roffman, the Greenes' daughter, and her husband, Dr. Larry Roffman, live in Omaha. Larry Greene, Deborah and Arthur's son,, lives in Seattle, WA, with his wife, Shana. Two more generations of the Greene family include three granddaughters, one grandson and three great-grandchildren. . 'Members of Temple Israel since 1945, Deborah and Arthur have seen the congregation evolve over the years. They both said they "enjoy the warm, family atmosphere" that they believe is characteristic of Temple's congregation today. In addition to their financial support of the Blumkin Home, Deborah Greene has been a volunteer at the Blumkin Home and Arthur served on the Blumkin Home Board of Directors. "The Omaha Jewish community should be very proud of the Rose Blumkin Home," noted Mrs. Greene. She also said, "We are so fortunate to have an exceptional director, Barbara Gottlieb." The Greenes also praised the entire staff and "a devoted Board of Directors" who see that the Home "is the best it can be." "Harry and Elizabeth Rubenstein, our uncle and aunt, lived there for seven years," Mrs. Greene continued. "We were always impressed with the wonderful care they received. Some of our friends have retired to the Home and those who are well enough to participate in the many programs like bingo, crafts, singalongs, lectures, the library, and other activities have enjoyed themselves immensely." She went on to say that "those residents who need care are made to feel special by the nursing staff. Arthur and I will continue to take an active interest in promoting the Home's continued success."
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Nationwide Jewish singles cruise offered From August 4-11, the St. Louis Jewish Community Center, in conjunction with Brentwood Travel, is sponsoring a nationwide cruise for Jewish Singles to Alaska. They will sail on Celebrity Cruise Line's M/S Mercury. The eight-day trip departs from Seward (port city for Anchorage) on Friday, August 4, then stops to view Hubbard Glacier, and winds down the coast of Alaska through the Inside Passage before ending back in Vancouver on Friday, August 11. Ports of call include Juneau, Skagway, Sitka and Ketchikan. The cruise package includes seven nights accommodations in choice of stateroom on the Mercury; all meals and snacks throughout the day including late night buffet; twenty-four hour room service; all taxes; all tips and gratuities; two cocktail parties just for the group; welcome aboard get-acquainted evening; specially arranged sightseeing tours in various ports, and programs exclusively for the group. Roundtrip airfare to Anchorage and return from Vancouver and airport transfers are available from most major cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Mercury offers daily activities including aer-
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-visiting his grandmother Karen and I spent for the first time in Berspring break in London. lin in the 1990s. In 1939, We prowled museums relations between old and bookstores and went • buddies, a Jewish shoe to theatres, all with a store owner and Gentile Jewish agenda. architect, were sundered The British Library as the Gentile joined the displayed five 14th-cenSS, Impoverishment, tury Passover illuminatstarvation, rape and suied manuscripts, the Golden Haggadah, the . cide follow. Barcelona Haggadah, Attempts are made to and the Sister Haggadah [ i get part of the Jewish from Spain, as well as? family out of Germany, the Hebrew Prayer-Book and the mother-aunt sucfor Pentecost from south- The Golden Haggadah was probably written ceeds in sending her son e m Germany and the in Barcelona, Spain, around 1820. on the Kindertransport Italian Hebrew Prayer book. The Library bookstore to England, but not her two nephews. But she was selling five different Haggadot, ranging from maintains the fiction for 50 years that the nephews escaped. She wrote herself letters from the $28to$122. On our first night, we saw Copenhagen by nephews to demonstrate they had made it out. The Michael Frayn, which has been playing for several truth was otherwise, as she saw her nephews killed years at the Duchess Theatre. It is an actual con- in Berlin. There was hardly a dry eye in the house. People once complained about English weather versation between two Nobel Prize physicists, and and the food. For two years running, our spring the inner voice of conscience. Niels Bohr, a Dane and half Jewish, developed break has been climactically pleasant, gustatorily quantum theory of atomic structure; Werner outstanding. We made our pilgrimage to Golders Green, a Jewish Heisenberg, in charge of Hitler's atomic-bomb project, pioneered the uncertainty principle. Heisenberg .neighborhood, and found a remarkable turnover in visits Bohr and his wife during the war and discuss- storefronts. Blooms and Dizzengoff Cafe are still es the implications of atomic research on military there. Bagels have arrived in London through the weapons. The scientists had known each other for long reach of American entrepreneur-ship. many years. The meeting took place in a shroud of We visited a friend, a master baker from mystery; Frayn's attempt to fill in the discussion Lawrence, KS, who is the baking manager at a dwells on the ethics and political use of science. growing chain of restaurants called Bagel Street. Karen window shopped at Selfridges on Oxford We were lucky to get the last two tickets to attend Station by Jonathan Lichtenstein, which Street and found its food court rivaled Harrods. It played for one week in t h e . small Soho included a large kosher section across from the Theatre+Writers' Centre. Again, there was an Lebanese section. actual conversation between the players, and the The Jewish Museum has moved and we did not' rumination of unspoken conscience. make it to the new location, but will do so on our . The setting is Berlin in 1939, remembered and next trip. recreated on the occasion of an English grandson
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The Neurology Chief Mental Health Director of the USAP Hospital at Offutt Air Force Base will team up with Offutt's Jewish Chaplain to present the third study session in a series on the Ten Commandments, this Monday, April 2 4 , 7:80 pan., at the JCC. Michael S. Jaffee, M.D., a neurologist and psychiatrist, and Rabbi Ira Flax, both Majors in the military, will lead an exploration of the Fourth Commandment, "Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy." The program, which is free and open to the public, will conclude with refreshments. "Never has the Fourth Commandment been as important as in our times," said Rabbi Shlomo Levin, Director of the omaha Center for Torah Learning, who served as a presenter in the first session of the series. "We have technology that enables us to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he continued. "We need the Sabbath more than ever, to break our routines, take time for ourselves and our families and enhance our personal and spiritual lives." The series is sponsored by the College of Jewish Learning of Jewish Educational and Library Services (JELS). Teaming rabbis with lay persons is aimed at offering different approaches and a wider perspective to each of the commandments under study, said Steven Riekes, chairman of the College of Jewish Learning.
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Rabbi Joseph Telushkin to visit Temple Israel by Joan K. Marcus
On April 28, 29 and 30, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Spiritual leader of the Synagogue of the Performing Arts i n Los Angeles, will be a "Scholar-inResidence" at Temple Israel. He is a noted scholar, lecturer, spiritual leader and author. Rabbi Telushkin is a former Director of Education at the famed Brandeis-Bardin Institute in Southern California and is being brought to Temple through a grant from t h e Samuel and I d a Kaiman Memorial Fund. He was ordained at Yeshiva University and pursued graduate studies i n Jewish history a t Columbia University. His latest project is how to unite the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements. During the weekend, he will speak about "The Jewish War: The Battle to Keep the Jewish People One and How it Can be Won." Donna Kaiman Gilbert says that Rabbi Telushkin was chosen by her and her brother, Omahan Howard Kaiman, because of their connection to Camp Brandeis in the Simi Valley in California, Howard attended the camp during the first year it Rabbi Joseph Telushkin was opened by Shlomo Bardin. ness, directness and approval, I often speak my In later years, Mrs. Gilbert and her husband, Dr. mind, uttering unkind, thoughtless words. So, Spencer Gilbert, attended the House of the Book at every year before Yom Kippur, I call family memthe Brandeis-Bardin Institute and they have grown bers and close friends, asking their forgiveness, to know Rabbi Telushkin very well. Mrs. Gilbert hoping that I won't allow my tongue to spin out of says, "Our parents believed our Jewish education control during the coming year. But it inevitably was more priceless than diamonds and rubies and does!" they made it possible for my brothers, Howard and Since Judaism has a term for unkind ways with Ernie, and myself to attend Jewish camps where words: lashon hara, which literally means "bad lanwe could learn and study Hebrew and Judaism; guage" or "bad tongue," Rabbi Telushkin has writthat is why we want to share the wit and wisdom of ten a book for talkaholics who want to reform. It is people like Rabbi Telushkin with the entire com- called "Words That Hurt, Words That Heal." The munity." book says that, throughout history, rumors and lies Rabbi Telushkin is so well known a t t h e probably have caused as much misery as war. Synagogue of the Performing Arts that his monthly In his book, he speaks about how easily it is for services draw between 700 and 1000 people. Many conversations to drift in negative directions. He members are active in the entertainment industry says that whenever you find yourself involved in an and they find the services inspiring and uplifting. innocuous conversation about someone, but negaAccording to the Rabbi, "In the pursuit of clever- tive comments begin to be made, remember Oliver
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LAHMORE/COOPER sity. She is currently a third-year medical student at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. She is the granddaughter of Pauline Schneider of Kenesaw, NE, and the late Erwin Schneider, and Doyle Larmore of Omaha and the late Elaine Larmore. Her fiance' received his B.A. degree from California University at San Diego and is also a third-year medical student at the University of NebrasEmily Ann Larmore, daughter of ka College of Medicine. Joel and Sharon Larmore of Elkhorn, His grandparents are Fran and and Joshua Milder Cooper, son of Ron Jerry Milder of Omaha and Faye and Cheryl Cooper of Omaha, have Cooper of Davenport, IA, and the late announced their engagement. Ben Cooper The bride-to-be received her B.A. A June 24 wedding is planned at degree from Northwestern Univer- the Joslyn Art Museum. SHAPIRO/GOLDBERG Suzanne Dawn Shapiro, daughter of Lorie and Howard Shapiro of Park Ridge, IL, and Matthew Jason Goldberg, son of Carol and Manny Goldberg of Omaha, have announced their engagement. The bride-to-be graduated from the University of Iowa in Iowa City with a degree in journalism. She is a real estate broker with Baird and Warner in Chicago. Her fiance' also graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's dent at Kent Law School in Chicago. An August, 2001,wedding is degree in business administration. He is currently a second-year law stu- planned in Chicago.
Birth Penny and Michael Cox Omaha and John'and Laura-Cox of announce the Jan. 8 birth of their Norfolk, NE. daughter, Catherine Josephine. Catherine has a sister, Elizabeth Cody, 13. Grandparents are Bonnie Hines of
Great-grandparents are Richard land Billie Spiegal and Ruth and Spencer Taylor of Omaha, and Hilbert Fruehwald, also of Norfolk.
ABRAMSONArUIAANA Michelle Ann Abramson and Herbert Tuiaana were married March 26 at the Gold Coast Hotel in Las Vegas. Rabbi Richard Schachet of Valley Outreach Synagogue in Henderson, NV, officiated. A luncheon followed the ceremony. The bride, daughter of Marvin and Gail Abramson (former residents of Omaha who now live in Henderson, NV), is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She is sales coordinator for United Metro Materials. The groom, son of Osoosa Tuiaana and the late Tapu Tuiaana, is a graduate of Long Medical Institute in Phoenix. He is the head veterinary technician for Amherst Plaza Animal Clinic. A delayed honeymoon will be taken in Hawaii.
GELFAND/WILDSTEIN Linda Gelfand and Samuel Tobias Wildstein were married April 2 at the Rabbinical Seminary of America in Forest Hills, NY. Rabbi Abraham Ginzberg and Rabbi Kasriel Kastel officiated. A reception followed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Ruth Skolnik of Omaha and the late Jack Gelfand. The groom is the son of the late Frances and Jacob Wildstein. The couple will make their home in Scarsdale, NY.
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Enroll your child in the most wonderful camp experience of a lifetime: Camp Gan Israel is the ideal place for a summer full of fun, excitement and special activities for boys and girlB ages 5-12. A half-day Kiddie Camp has been added this year for ages 3 and 4. Our counselors are uniquely qualified to live and nurture the individual neshama, and are looking forward to welcoming returning campers and meeting new ones. Your child's day will be packed full of activities. Funshops will be featured, where campers will engage in different kinds of learning experiences with professionals. Campers
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Rabbi Telushkin (Continued from page 11) Rabbi Telushkin will speak on Friday, April 28, at 8 p.m. services. His topic will be "The Battle to Keep the Jewish People One and How it Can Be Won." On Saturday, April 29, at 5 p.m, he will speak on "The 21st Century: An Ethical VisionOne Day At a Time." A Havdalah service and fruit and cheese reception will follow his presentation. On Sunday, April 30, at 10 a.m., he will speak about "Humor—A Uniting Force For All People." His lecture will be based on his book, Jewish Humor: What the Best Jewish Jokes Say About the Jews. Author Lany Gelbart says, "I_ don't know if Jews are really the chosen people, but I think Joseph Telushkin's book makes a strong argument that we are the funniest!" The weekend will be made possible through a grant from the Kaiman Memorial Fund. All events are open to the public at no charge.
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Rabbi Kripke (Continued from page 1) medallion. Smith said the Kripke gift "makes it possible to hire top-notch faculty" for the Judaic Studies Center. In praising the Kripkes, Smith observed that they symbolize how to make "a living by what we get" and make "a life by what we give." Rabbi Kripke said that he and his wife, Dorothy, are delighted to share their' funds in many different ways. He added that he is "immensely impressed" with the Harris Center for Judaic Studies including its faculty and administration. •"Dorothy and I wanted very much to increase the power of the Harris Center to bring Jewish civilization to the faculty and students of the University of Nebraska. In general, Americans know not enough of Jewish culture. This gives opportunity for the general population to know something of the culture on which Western civilization is founded." Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, who attended the inauguration of the Harris Judaic Studies Center, also spoke at the dinner in honor of the Kripkes. Emphasizing the "rich relationship" between Jews and books, Rabbi Schorsch also commented on the "fulfillment" of the Center's goals and its "well roundRabbi Schorsch ed" curriculum. He went on to explain how Jews moved from the sacred space of the Temple after it was destroyed to sacred books and described how that transformation resulted in Judaism becoming "universal, less vulnerable and democratic." "For Jews," said Rabbi Schorsch, "the book became virtual reality. To read is to live," he stated. "To recite passages is to rebuild the Temple." Norman and Bernice Harris, native Omahans who have lived in San Diego since 1965, also attended the dinner in Omaha. Norman Harris remarked that "the Kripke gift, to the Harris Center at UNL is most significant in furthering the aims and purposes of the Center. These are to teach the truth and eternal values reflected in Jewish history and culture and their influence on the world these last few millennia." He added that "when taught in the academic setting, these (aims and purposes) contribute to harmony and understanding among diverse societal elements and help eliminate false myths, historic prejudice and fear. The Kripke's generosity, along with others who have helped, will allow UNL to proceed toward its goal of offering one of the finest and most comprehensive Judaic studies programs in the nation.
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New book aims for unprecedented scope by Sid Singer, JUFNews
CHICAGO-Louis Weber noticed new people moving into Chicago's West Side in the mid-1940s. A young boy, he didn't know too much about them, other than that they were quiet and kept to themselves. And that they had numbers tattooed on their arms. Half a century later, Weber, the son of Polish Jews, knows plenty about them. CEO of Publications International in Lincolnwood, Weber is paying tribute to those Holocaust survivors and the six million victims with the publication of The Holocaust Chronicle. The book takes readers through 1933-1946 with more than 700 pages of text, photographs, maps, human stories, and a timeline of specific events that accompanies virtually every page. According to The Holocaust Chronicle editor, David Hogan, the work is Weber's personal project, but has a larger goal in mind: ensuring that future generations have access to the truth about the Holocaust. "We wish to spread the truth about the Holocaust to as many people as possible," Hogan said. To that end, the book was published as a not-forprofit venture, the first such endeavor in Publications International's 33-year history. Copies
have already been donated to schools, synagogues, and organizations across the country, and can be ordered in groups of six for as little as $100. The publishers wanted the book to be accessible not only in price, but in comprehension. It was written by a team of six academics, "yet avoids the murky convolution that characterizes so much academic writing," said Hogan. "Prose in The Holocaust Chronicle is lively and engaging, and will be meaningful to readers from middle-school age through college and beyond." The chapters, laid out by year, contain a brief write-up of the major events of that year, followed by dozens of pages filled with drawings, photographs-many taken by the Nazis themselves-and sidebars short enough for quick comprehension, yet detailed enough to provide a lasting image. Together, they present, as Hogan puts it, "a book of faces": the faces of those who suffered, those who committed the crimes, and those who stood by. . The oversized book is available at the Kripke Jewish Federation Library. The publishers have also established an accompanying Web site, www.holocaustchronicle.org
Harris' award six scholarships for cancer research by Claudia Sherman
While they were in Omaha to honor Rabbi Myer seen a family member or friend who has experiand Dorothy Kripke at a dinner last week for enced it or been affected by it," Norman Harris endowing a chair with the Norman and Bernice said. Harris Center for Judaic Studies, the Harris' also Dr. Ken Cowan, Director of the Eppley Research attended a luncheon at the University of Nebraska Institute, also attended the luncheon. Medical Center (UNMC) that afternoon to honor six Eppley Research Institute student scholarship recipients. These awards were established by the Harris' in 1999 through the University of Nebraska Foundation of which they are trustees. Student recipients were selected by the deans of the colleges involved in cancer research at UNMC. The students are: Djuana Harvell, pathology/microbiology; Ryan Darling, pharmacology; Ming-Shyue Lee, biochemistry/molecular biology; Michelle Van Lith, pathology/microbiology; Kim McDermott, biochemistry/molecular biology; and Lance Johnson, pathology/microbiology. Both survivors of cancer, the Harris' motive in endowing these scholarships is "to find the causes and cures for cancer which ought to be a priority Norman Harris, left, and his wife, Bernice, for everyone who has ever had the disease or has congratulate Rabbi Kripke.
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Trial gives scholar tools to teach Holocaust history by Douglas Davis
LONDON (JTA)-The day before she emerged victorious from a libel lawsuit against a Holocaust denier, Passover preparations occupied Deborah Lipstadt's mind. She had just arrived back in London from her home in Atlanta, where she had spent 10 days cleaning for Passover and preparing for the annual influx of family for her second seder. "Here we are on the eve of Pesach, and what is Pesach all about: To teach your children," she said last week. That, in essence, is how the Holocaust scholar perceives the significance of the legal ordeal she has endured. Borrowing from the Haggadah, which will be used in millions of Jewish homes next week to retell the story of the Exodus from Egypt, Lipstadt declared that "if, in the future, I can use this experience to teach and to write more history, then, in the spirit of the approaching holiday, dayeinu—it will be enough for me." The day after she made that declaration in an interview with JTA, a British judge ruled that David Irving, who claims the Nazis did not use gas chambers to exterminate Jews and that , Hitler had no plan for genocide, failed to prove his reputation had been damaged by Lipstadt and her publisher in a book that branded him a Holocaust denier. "I see this not only as a personal victory, but also as a victory for all those who speak out against hate and prejudice," Lipstadt said after the verdict was read. While she had set out in her book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, to demolish Holocaust revisionism, Lipstadt said she was not looking for a fight. "But once it came within the parameters of my life there was only one way I knew how to respond-and that was to fight back," she said in the JTA interview.
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ers around the world—"Jews and non-Jews, people I know and people I don't, scholars and non-scholars, taxi drivers and hotel concierges, wanting to do things for me, wanting to be there, to help me." But most moving and most touching, she said, was "the recognition by so many people—again, Jews and non-Jews-that while I was the person on the front line this was not my struggle alone; that it really was a struggle for truth, for memory, for doing the right thing." Her contempt for Irving was boundless: "He is a liar and he is a bully," she said almost matter of factly. "To manipulate the historical record in such a contemptuous fashion and to take what appeared to me to be such glee in making fun of survivors-that was debilitating. But the effect was to make me even more convinced I was doing the right thing." Did she now regret anything in the book? "Yes," she replied. "I regret that I didn't know then what I know now, because then I would have been much more severe in what I wrote about Irving." With the benefit of hindsight, would she have written the book at all? • "Without a doubt," she said emphatically, stressing each syllable. "To say I wouldn't have written it would be to give succor to scoundrels." But even as her ordeal was ending, she warned: "The nightmare is not over. There, is no end to the battle against racism; anti-Semitism and fascism." The trial has transformed Lipstadt-the-academic into Lipstadt-the-celebrity. But she will not be cashing in on her new status. Lipstadt's dream is to return to Emory University in Atlanta, which has stood by her steadfastly, and pick up where she left off before the start of the legal proceedings. "I hope," she said, "that I can use this experience in what I do professionally~in what I do best and what my life has been all about: To teach, to teach, to teach."
LONDON (JTA)-For much of the past five years, Deborah Lipstadt, an American Holocaust scholar, and David Irving, a British Holocaust denier, have been locked in a grotesque legal embrace. That close encounter finally ended last week, exactly three months after the start of a libel trial in which Irving accused Lipstadt and her publisher of ruining his career by labeling him a Holocaust denier. Addressing a packed High Court in London, Justice Charles Gray ruled that Lipstadt had proved the central charges she had leveled against Irving in her 1994 book, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. The judge also exonerated her publisher, Penguin Books. The verdict against Irving was significant because of his former status as a serious historian, said Omer Bartov, a History Professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Irving was long highly regarded for his treasure trove of documents on Hitler and other Nazi officials, he said. Bartov added that it was important to expose people like Irving, "who has been published by respectable publishers and been cited by scholars like me. But in recent years, he'd become more extreme and associated himself with neo-Nazi circles." Michael Berenbaum, Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at Clark University in Massachusetts, also said it is important for the court to help set professional standards for historians. "Instead of going down into the gutter with Irving, we elevated the question into what is the obligation of a historian to interpret evidence and translate material. And Irving was found wanting," said Berenbaum, a former Director of Research at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. "In a way, Holocaust denial has been defeated over and over and over again," he added. "A Holocaust museum is built in Washington. Sixty-five million people watch Schindlers List. The German president apologizes to Israel. (Continued on page 15) •
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-Irving Verdict... (Continued from page 14) Then what can you say about these guys who Jewish groups from all political and religious say the Holocaust never happened? They're a viewpoints universally praised the ruling. .fringe movement of charlatans." "Irving tried to manipulate the British legal sysDaniel Jonah Goldhagen, an associate at the tem in order to put the victims murdered in the gas Center for European Studies a t Harvard and chambers on trial," said the Simon Wiesenthal i author of the controversial best-seller Hitler's Center in a statement. "Instead, the net result is Willing Executioners, said the verdict sent-a clear that he will be relegated to the garbage heap of his- : message about how to view Holocaust deniers like tory's haters." !E E Irving. In court for the verdict, lipstadt and Irving were . The verdict "should go out as a message" to in a state of active confrontation and conflict - as everyone "that the people who deny the Holocaust they were for each of the 32 days that the trial last- B are engaging in fraud." ed. But at no point did they either lock eyes or Judge Gray-the quintessence of British correct- exchange words. ness, courtesy and understatement-did not mince While welcoming the verdict, some observers are words when he declared last week that Irving was sorry that the trial ever took place. indeed, as Lipstadt had charged, "an active "The facts of the Holocaust are the facts," said Holocaust denier." Sara Bloomfield, Director of the U.S. Holocaust The judge also called Irving "anti-Semitic and Memorial Museum. "We didn't need a trial to prove racist," saying he h a s "portrayed Hitler in an that the Holocaust happened." unwarranted favorable light." She described Irving as a "pretty frivolous and Referring to living's political activities, the judge mean-spirited individual seeking a lot of public said, "the content of his speeches and interviews often attention" and bemoaned the fact that Lipstadt display a distinctly pro-Nazi and anti-Jewish bias. "had to take months out of her life and her scholar"He makes surprising and often unfounded asser- ly work" to deal with Irving's lawsuit. tions about the Nazi regime which tend to exonerFor his part, Bartov of Rutgers University admitate the Nazis for the appalling atrocities they ted that he hadn't closely followed the Irving trial. inflicted on the Jews. "Personally, I'm rather ambivalent about the "The picture of Irving that emerges revealed him to whole public debate about Holocaust denial," he be a right-wing pro-Nazi polemicist," the judge said. said. "It's a rather marginal phenomenon, and Gray found that "for the most part, the falsifica- most of the people who use this rhetoric are martion of the historical record was deliberate. ginal people. "Irving was motivated by a desire to present "Arguments that there were no gas chambers at events in a manner consistent with his own ideo- Auschwitz are for cranks. It's as if someone said, 1 logical beliefs, even if that involved distortion and am Napoleon.' It's somewhat bizarre to have to manipulation of historical evidence." debate it. It places cranks in the center of a public - He ruled that Lipstadt had failed to prove some debate, rather than where they belong, which is at of her claims about Irving, including that he has a the margins." self-portrait of Hitler above his desk. Even with the verdict against Irving, the assault But he added that the unproved charges would not on historical truth is far from over. have "any material effect on Irving's reputation." A greater threat than Holocaust deniers are Irving, who lives in a $1.5 million apartment in mainstream, nationalist leaders in Europe, said London's smart Mayfair district, but says he has no Randolph Braham, Director of the Rosenthal other assets, now faces a bill for legal costs esti- Institute for Holocaust Studies at the City mated at some $5 million. University of New York. Pelted with eggs as he entered the court building, "They are respectable, believable leaders who Irving also faces public humiliation and bankrupt- don't deny the Holocaust, but distort it or denigrate cy. After the verdict was announced, Irving said he it to cleanse a particular history," said Braham, an would not be silenced. expert on Hungarian and Romanian Jewry. "I will still continue to write what I find to be The threat from such leaders should not be true history. I can't be intimidated," Irving told underestimated, he added. Sky television. "As George Orwell said, Those who control the Lipstadt said after the verdict was read that present control the past; those who control the past although she regrets that Holocaust survivors control the future.'" . attending the trial were forced to endure Irving's fJTA staff writers Peter Ephross and taunts, "I see thiB not only as a personal victory, Michael J. Jordan in New York also conbut also as a victory for all those who speak out tributed to this report.) against hate and prejudice.
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Cantor Jennifer Blum If you're thinking about another way to celebrate Mother's Day, join Cantor Jennifer Blum and friends for a special concert on Sunday, May 14, 3 p.m., in the Temple Israel sanctuary. In addition to Cantor Blum arid pianist Julie Sandene, Cantor Barry Abelson of Temple Israel in Minneapolis will be featured. Cantor Abelson has been cantor at Cantor Blum's "home" congregation for 15 years. He attended the Hartt College of Music at the University of Hartford where he performed in opera and concert. Upon completing his studies at Hartt, Abelson performed at the Temple University
Cantor Barry Abelson Summer Music Festival, followed by a national tour with the Boris Goldovsky Opera Company. He received his investiture as a Cantor at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion School of Sacred Music. Prior to joining Temple Israel, he was at Temple Emanu-El in Montreal, one of the leading congregations in Canada. The Mother's Day concert will feature solos and duets in a variety of musical idioms, including Songs of Celebration, Broadway to Bima, and Songs in Honor of Mothers. A dessert reception will follow. The concert is free and open to the entire community.
Top photo: Halm Cohen, Deputy Chairman of the Jewish National Fund; Itzhak Elishive, Director General of JNF; and Peiro Abbina, President of JNF in Italy, present Pope John Paul II with an olive tree sapling at the Mass at Korazim last month during the papal visit to Israel. Photograph by Chaim Azulai
Bottom photo: Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, right, President of the Vatican's 2000th Grand Jubilee Committee, unveiled a monument at the Pope John Paul II JNF Forest, dedicated in honor of the papal visit to Israel, as a symbol of peace and fraternity among religions. ';•. Photograph by Chaim AzuUL
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