May 24, 2002

Federation Announces Leadership Awards

JSS Hires New Director

by CAROL KATZMAN, Editor

by PAM MONSKY, Federation Communications Director

Goldberg and Robinson Named Young Leaders

Teen Leader Awards to Javitch and Sternberg

David Goldberg and Kimberly Robinson will receive the Jewish Federation's Young Leadership Awards at the 99th Meeting of the Jewish Federation on Monday, June 3, 7:30 p.m., in the JCC Theater. Recipients of the prestigious Bruce Fellman and Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial Young Leadership Awards are selected from nominations from the Jewish community by a committee

The 2001 Jewish Teen Leadership Award winners are Rachel Javitch and Steve Sternberg. The awards will be presented at the Federation Annual Meeting on Monday, June 3, 7:30 p.m., in the JCC Theater. Award recipients are selected by an anonymous committee comprised of Jewish professionals and lay leaders. Professionals and lay leadership of Federation Centers of Excellence, Jewish

fr.A David Goldberg Kimberly Robinson of past Young Leadership Award winners. Winners are also provided with a stipend of up to $1500 to attend the UJC's General Assembly or Young Leadership Conference, and their names are engraved on a permanent plaque displayed in the corridor of the JCC. Goldberg, 38, is the recipient of the 2001 Bruce Fellman Memorial Young Leadership Award. This award, in memory of Bruce Fellman, son of Tom and Darlynn Fellman, is awarded annually to honor a young man who has demonstrated personal commitment, dedicated involvement and exemplary leadership qualities in rendering service to the Jewish and general community.

Goldberg was nominated for this award by Temple Israel. He has long been involved with many aspects of the Omaha Jewish community.

He has served in leadership positions in the Federation's Annual Campaign for many years and was a Division Leader for the Young Men's Division of the 2002 Campaign. Other Federation (Continued

Rachel Javitch Steven Sternberg organizations and synagogues nominate high school men and women who have exhibited outstanding leadership in B'nai B'rith Youth Organization (BBYO), or synagogue youth groups. Each recipient of the Jewish Teen Leadership Award will receive a $1,000 stipend to participate in his or her choice of a Jewish convention, conclave, summer camp or recognized Israel experience.

Javitch, 17, is a 2002 graduate of Westside High School, where she was a member of the National Honor Society, Jazz Band and Swing Choir, and played Varsity Tennis. She plans to attend the University of Wisconsin in the fall where she will study education. Rachel was nominated for this award by BBYO. Javitch's BBYO career is impressive, according to Rachel Blum, BBYO Director. Since joining the organization in 1998, Rachel has held many leadership positions, including Ediar BBG #710 Secretary, Vice-president, MIT Mom, Newspaper Writer, AIT/MIT Convention Coordinator, on page 11)

Michael Silverman, Vice-president of Operations at the Jewish Home for the Elderly in Fairfield, CT, has been named Executive Director of Jewish Senior Services, announced JSS President Joanie Bernstein. He is expected to arrive in Omaha in July, along with his wife, Mimi, two-year-old son, Adam, and infant son Jeremy Robert, born April 21. Robert Cox Michael Silverman will continue as Interim Director until Silverman's arrival.

A graduate of the State University of New York, Oneonta, NY, Silverman earned a degree in business administration and Master's in Public Administration from C.W. Post Long Island University. He is a licensed nursing home administrator in the State of Connecticut, a member of the American College of Health Care Executives, the American College of Health Care Administrators, and Connecticut Association of Not-for-Profit Providers for the Aged.

Silverman is also the recipient of the Herb Shore Young Executive Award, given recently at the Association of Jewish Aging Services.

In his nomination, Dennis Magid, President of the Jewish Home in Fairfield, noted, "In just a few short years, Michael has grown into a fine administrator and has displayed a caring and concern for the Jewish elderly that is unparalleled. He has committed his energies toward the enhancement of programs and services to benefit the elderly we serve through creative ideas, effective support and skilled coordination."

"Many facilities in the United States have been looking for new executives," Bernstein explained.

"Our board feels extremely fortunate to have one of the top candidates in the country coming to Omaha. The campus and the warmth of the Jewish community played a large role in Michael's acceptance of our offer."

Students and Faculty at Harvard, MIT Reject Call for Israel Divestment

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NEW YORK (JTA) - Israel supporters in Cambridge, MA, have hit,back hard in response to a small faculty campaign urging Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to divest from companies doing business in Israel.

Responding to a pro-divestment faculty petition that garnered nearly 120 signatures, 4,000 Harvard and MIT faculty, students and staff have signed a counter-petition calling the divestment effort "a one-sided attempt to delegitimize Israel."

Among the more famous anti-divestment signatories are Law Professors Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe, Near Eastern languages and civilizations Professor Shaye Cohen and Medical Professor Dr. Jerome Groopman.

The debate at Harvard and MIT comes amid a flurry of divestment campaigns at universities across the United States, including Princeton, the University of Michigan and the University of California system.

Modeled on successful efforts in the 1980s to get universities to divest their holdings in apartheid South Africa, the new campaigns often make explicit comparisons between Israel and South Africa.

For example, the Web site promoting the Princeton divestment petition-which has the support of 41 faculty members-features a quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu: "If I were to change the names, a "description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in South Africa.'1 A conference aimed at launching a national divestment effort was held in March in Berkeley, organized by a group called Students for Justice in Palestine. The divestment activists have not yet persuaded any university to consider divesting from companies operating in Israel or from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel.

However, Jewish groups say the campaign's real

goal is to demonize Israel.

The divestment effort at Harvard and MIT suffered setbacks with a May 8 editorial in the Harvard Crimson calling comparisons to South Africa "offensive, repugnant and detrimental to peace...This proposal for divestment once again makes Israel the victim of a double standard," the editorial says. "Israel is not the only nation that takes strong, and forceful action in times of war, yet it is consistently singled out for criticism."

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It is a matter of moderate interest that this is the longest Parasha in the Torah. This happens because the heads of the tribes brought gifts, elaborate gifts, to the Sanctuary when the Sanctuary was dedicated. These elaborate gifts, several verses each, are repeated word for word, for each of the 12 tribes, even though the gifts were identical. Hence, the length of the Sidra.

There is much more. There is a census of the Levites. There are discussions of purity and impurity, oaths, and much else. There is the ordeal of the Sota (a woman suspected of adultery). There is the institution of the Nazirite—hence the life of Samson, the Nazirite, as the Haftara. The Nazirite was to give himself to God's service for a period as short as 30 days or as long as life itself. Something of this kind continued in Christianity in the service of the monk in the monastery.

Perhaps the greatest passage in the Sidra is the three-fold priestly blessing, which must have been repeated billions of times in human history. It is a blessing used not only in Judaism, but in its daughter religions as well.

It has often been remarked that the words "and watch over thee" in the beginning of the blessing mean that someone who was blessed not only with personal well-being but also with wealth, must be guarded against using wealth selfishly and improperly. But we must be guarded against using the blessing itself as permission to use our powers and capabilities for ends not worthy of ourselves and the humanity of which we are a part.

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FRIDAY, MAY 24 C CDC Graduation Reception, 9 a.m. ^ "Shabbat Comes to You", 2 p.m., at Remington Heights P &

MONDAY, MAY 27 S YES Program, 10 a.m.

A Boy Scouts, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, MAY 28 Federation Executive Committee Meeting, 6 p.m.

BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

Talmud Class with Rabbi Kutner, 7 p.m., at Beth Israel , Federation Board Meeting, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 Congregational Annual Meeting, 7 p.m., at Temple Israel Chabad House Jewish Learning Institute, 7 p.m.

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THURSDAY, MAY 80 Adult Education, 9 a.m., at Temple Israel a Yiddish Group, 1 p.m. „ Friedel Jewish Academy Graduation, 7:30 p.m.

All events held at the JCC unless otherwise Indicated. The Jewish V Preaa la not responsible tor the accuracy oi events. To keep calE endar accurate or (or questions, call Mar lane Hert at 334-6437.

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In an historic show of unity and solidarity, representatives of the four religious streams of Judaism announced on Monday their endorsement of the S Israel Emergency Campaign of United Jewish A Communities, which has already raised more than V $125 million. From left: Richard Haimowitz, E President of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation; Brigadier General (Res.) Israel Shafir; Ambassador Yehuda Lancry, Permanent Representative of Israel to the UN; James S. Tisch, Chairman of UJC; Rabbi Eric Yoffie, P r e s i d e n t of t h e Union of American Hebrew Congregations; Harvey Blitz, President of the Union of Orthodox J e w i s h Congregations of America; a n d Temma Kingsley, National Vice-president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

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SHARON MONSKY Former Omahan Sharon Monsky died May 11 in Santa Barbara, CA, at the age of 48, after a long battle with scleroderma, an incurable disease of the connective tissue. Services were held May 13 with burial at the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

Monsky was a nationally-ranked figure skater and one of the youngest to have achieved the Senior Ladies Gold Medal Compulsory Skating Award. After receiving her MBA from Stanford, she was on the fast track at McKinsey and Company, a management consulting firm, until she was diagnosed in 1982 with this rare disease.

Using her business acumen, Monsky founded the Scleroderma Research Foundation. She helped raise $14 million for research for two centers, one in San Francisco and one in Baltimore, met with three Presidents—Reagan, Bush and Clinton, as well as First Lady Hillary Clinton~to advance her cause, and received numerous awards for her efforts, including the American Medical Association's International Health and Medical Film Award, the National Volunteer Advocacy Award from Research America and the America's Award, among others.

Monsky had a cameo role in the Bob Saget film, For Hope, which highlighted the effects of scleroderma, and was appointed to serve two four-year terms on the National Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health.

Survivors include her husband, Mark Scher; three children, Max, Samantha and Montana Scher of Santa Barbara; mother, Ramelle Ferer Monsky of Palm Springs, CA; sister, Robin Monsky of Chicago; and brother and sister-in-law, Henry and Pam Monsky of Omaha.

Memorials to the Scleroderma Research Foundation, 2320 Bath St., Suite 315, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

JOSEPH J. SHACHMAN Joseph J. Shachman died May 16 at the age 84.

Services were held May 19 at Beth El Synagogue with burial in Chicago.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Lillian.

Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, Bruce and Anne Shackman; daughter, Lynn Naman of Pittsburgh; grandchildren, William Shackman and Emily Michelson of New York, Susan Shackman of Chicago, Ben and Jeremy Naman, also of Pittsburgh; step-grandchildren, Kimberly, Kelly and Jonathon Broder; brother-inlaw and sister-in-law, Melvin and Ethel Herzog of Chicago.

Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, Jewish Federation of Omaha, or Beth El. JOSEPH LIMPRECHT United States Ambassador to Albania Joseph Limprecht died suddenly on May 19 at the age of 55. The former Omahan had been ambassador since Sept. 9, 1999; he had worked for the State Department since 1975, including a stint as deputy director of the Office of Israeli and Arab-Israeli Affairs. He is also remembered as Natan Sharansky's escort through the Brandenburg Gate from East to West Berlin, when Sharansky was released after serving nine years in the Soviet prison as a Jewish refusenik and dissident.

Survivors his wife, former Omahan Nancy Silverman Limprecht; mother, Marge Limprecht; mother-in-law, Lorraine Silverman; and brotherin-law and sister-in-law Jim and Susie Silverman.

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FRIDAY: Shabbat Comes to You, 2 p.m., Cantor Wendy Shermet and OTYG will lead a Shabbat service at the Blumkin Home; Shabbat Evening Service, 8 p.m. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Rabbi Debbie Stiel and Cantor Wendy Shermet will officiate.

Stephanie DePorte, Jewish Education student, will give the D'var Torah. The Oneg Shabbat is sponsored by Stephanie, Barry, Hannah and Noah Grossman in honor of their May celebrations.

SATURDAY: Bagels and Sacred Books, 9:30 a.m., in the Milder Center. Please join us as we continue our study of Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries: The S'hma and Its Blessings. Services in the Sanctuary, 10:30 a.m.

ADULT EDUCATION THURSDAY, May 30: Beyond Basic Hebrew, 9:15-10 a.m., Elyce Azriel is the instructor; Adult Study with Cantor Wendy Shermet, 10-11:30 ajn.

The focus is on "The Jewish Year Through Music" which will include Shabbat and holiday songs.

FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m. Oneg following services.

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Office hours: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-noon. Services conducted by Rabbi Howard Kutner.

FRIDAY: Kaballat Shabbat, 7 p.m. The West Minyan is at the home of Donald and Maggie Gerber.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 8:45 a.m., free babysitting, 10 a.m.; Junior Congregation, 10:30 a.m.; Mincha, 8:25 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:35 p.m.

SUNDAY: Morning services, 9 a.m.; Evening services, 8:30 p.m.

WEEKDAYS: Morning services, 7 a.m,; evening services, 8:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, May 28: Talmud class with Rabbi Kutner, 7 p.m.

Office Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. Services are conducted

by Rabbi Paul Drazen and Cantor Emil Berkovits.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat IArvit I'shabbat, 6 pan.

SATURDAY: P'sukei D'Zimrah, followed by Shabbat Shacharit, 9:30 a.m. Daniel Raznik, son of Jeanne and Jerry Raznick, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah; TSS (grades 3-7), 10 a.m.; KTantan (K3), 10:45 a.m.; Shabbat Story Time (pre-K & under), 11 a.m.; Kiddush sponsored by Danny's Grandparents, Rich arid Judy Stern.; Mishnah Class with Rabbi Drazen, 8:10 p.m.; MinhaMa'ariv and Havdalah services, 8:40 p.m., in the Chapel.

SUNDAY: Shaharit, 9 a.m.; Minha-Ma'ariv, 5:30 p.m. Mishnah Yomit, 10:15 a.m.

MONDAY, Memorial Day: Shaharit, 9 a.m.; Minha-Ma'ariv, 5:30 p.m.

ADULT EDUCATION WEDNESDAY, May 29: Adult B'nai Mitzvah Class, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Drazen teaches Jewish Thought; Cantor Berkovits teaches Hebrew.

COME ON OUT TO THE BALLGAME! Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman.

SUNDAY, J u n e 9: Kosher Tailgate Party at Unless otherwise noted, Monday-Friday, serRosenblatt Stadium, 11 a.m.., followed by Omaha vices at 7 a.m.

Royals vs. Salt Lake. Sponsored by Men's Club SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m. and Beth El HAZAK. Cost is $10.50 including SUNDAY: Services, 8:30 a.m. lunch and ticket. Call Beth El for more details.

MONDAY: Women of Worth Lunch, 11:45-1 pan.

TUESDAY: Women of Worth Class, 9-.30-11 sum.

WEDNESDAY: JLI at the JCC, 7-8:30 p.m.

SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m., led by Alan Shulewitz in the RBJH Herbert Goldsten Chapel.

WSSSSKBSHBK6 Sarah Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of Debra and Mark Sherman, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 1, at Temple Israel.

A seventh-grade distinguished scholar at jj Westside Middle School, Sarah enjoys snowboarding and spending time with friends at camp. She dances competitively and plays tenor saxophone in Jazz Band.

For her Mitzvah Project, Sarah collected videos, books and games for the Child Saving Institute and also played bingo and spent time with the residents at the Blumkin Home.

Sarah has a brother, Ben. Grandparents are Annette and Herbert Lewis of Los Angeles, and Phyllis and Irvin Sherman of Rancho Mirage, CA.

Carolyn Barenbaum-Meyers, daughter of Sally Barenbaum and Bruce Meyers, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 1, at Beth El. A seventh grade honor student at Kiewit Middle School, Carolyn played the piano and flute but now enjoys horseback riding, emailing on the computer and being with friends.

For her Mitzvah Project, she has collected towels to donate to the Nebraska Humane Society.

Carolyn has a brother Douglas. Grandparents are Bettie and Stanley Barenbaum of Minneapolis and Roie and Bernie Meyers of Omaha.

JSS to Recognize Volunteers

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN -—• Temple Israel Communications Coordinator

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Sunday, J u n e 2 is the date selected for the Jewish Senior Services/Rose Blumkin Home Volunteer Recognition and League Offering Volunteers for the Elderly (L.O.V.E.) Installation.

The 11:30 a.m. brunch will be held in the Jewish Community Center Auditorium.

Chairman Lisa Epstein said that 300 invitations have been mailed. Family members of residents of the Home and members of the community are invited to attend to honor the volunteers.

"This is one way to show our appreciation to these dedicated volunteers who give so much time assisting the staff and residents of the Home," Epstein explained.

Cost of the brunch is $7.50. Residents of the Home and volunteers will be guests at no charge.

Call Lisa Epstein 496-9159, by May 27, to make reservations.

Services conducted by Rabbi Stanley M. Rosenbaum. Minyan on Monday & Thursday, 7:15 a.m.

FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m. B'nai Mitzvah of Casey and Molly Weiss, daughters of Cindy and Marlon Weiss.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9:30 a.m.

TUESDAY, May 28: Aleph Bet, 7:15 pan.

Services officiated by Rabbi Michael Weisser.

FRIDAY: Special Sabbath Eve service to recognize our Religious School teachers, 7:45 pan.

SATURDAY: Services, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m.-noon.

Ail are Welcome at Temple Outreach Shabbat —•

In celebration of the work of the Outreach Committee of Temple Israel, the entire community is invited to a special Outreach Shabbat service on Friday, May 31, 8 p.m. at Temple.

"The service will be sensitive to an Outreach audience, including the transliteration of all prayers," explained Lee Needelman, co-chairman with Jill Idelman of Temple's Outreach Committee.

The service will include "creative writings from the Outreach family and special music," Needelman said. She emphasized that everyone is welcome.

Outreach goals include welcoming people who are exploring Judaism as well as providing education and support for them. Outreach helps integrate new Jews-by-choice into the Jewish community and invites interfaith couples to take part in synagogue life as well as to study and learn about Judaism.

FRIDAY: Services, 7:30.p.m.

FRIDAY: All school Kabbalat Shabbat and Shavuot service, 7:30 p.m., at the synagogue.

PERSONAL We would like to thank all of our relatives and friends who have made contributions to various charities and for all of their supportive thoughts to speed my recovery, and best wishes during my illness. It is sincerely appreciated. . Yale and Ida Halperin

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One of the saddest stories to come out of Israel recently is the tragic death of Arkady Wieselman, an employee of the Park Hotel in Netanya.

He survived the Passover massacre only because he was in the hotel kitchen's walk-in freezer moments before the bomber blew himself up and killed 25 that night (another four died within the next few weeks and more than 125 were injured).

But Sunday, his luck didn't hold.

He was one of three people killed in Netanya's market when a Palestinian dressed as an Israeli soldier exploded a bomb, killing Wieselman and two women.

Wieselman's boss, Ami Hamamy, manager of the hotel, died from his injuries a few days after the Passover massacre. According to Rina Hamamy, Wieselman cared for the Hamamy family after the death of her husband, cooking, shopping and bringing comfort to them.

Wieselman, an emigre from the former Soviet Union, had worked at

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the Park Hotel for more than 10 years. He leaves behind a wife and two young children.

Now another family has been affected by the state-sponsored terrorism of Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, both closely aligned with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.

His words in the English press promise elections and reform; his speeches in Arabic remind his followers that the prophet Mohammed also made treaties and broke them.

Obviously, Arafat has no intention of following through with real negotiations for peace.

While families like the Hamamys and the Wieselmans face the loss of iheir husbands and fathers and their main breadwinners, the families of suicide-homicide bombers sing praises to their sons and brothers and receive payments from Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

The real tragedy here is that most of the world can't see a difference between these families.

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Welfare Program In Argentina Keeps Friendship Bonds Alive

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CORDOBA, Argentina, (JTA) - The friendship Sandra Werner and Monica Katz share is as resistant as iron. For the past eight years, they have shared routines, holidays and their children's education at the only Jewish school in the province of Cordoba.

Argentina's deep economic crisis has affected them in different ways: Five months ago, Werner began to receive aid from the Jewish community in Cordoba, while Katz has become a volunteer at a Jewish welfare network.

Their stories highlight the economic stresses Argentina's economic crisis has brought upon the country's 200,000 Jews.

Their fortunes began to diverge two years ago, after the computer business Werner's husband owned went bankrupt.

The two friends no longer shop together or go to the movies. Werner does not pass on her son's clothes to Katz's son.

Now it is Katz who sews clothes for Werner's children, and who invites Werner's family for dinner— up to three nights a week-because Werner doesn't have enough food. From her appearance, it's difficult to tell Werner's troubles.

Seated in a small office in the Israeli Union Center here, the 34year-old woman with blow-dried blonde hair looked stylish, wearing golden rings and necklaces. Her clear blue eyes matched her fashionable blue dress.

It was difficult to guess that her

family's income went from 4,000 pesos to just 800 a month-current estimates are that approximately 1,250 pesos a month are necessary to support a family of four- when her husband lost his job.

Werner's husband has spent the last two years depressed and under psychiatric treatment. Werner dismissed the servant and the gardener, left the private medical care system for a public one, took shopping, movies and restaurants out of the weekly schedule and even eliminated all food deliveries.

When her husband's business went bankrupt, "it swallowed all we had.

Now I see ourselves as of an impoverished middle class," Werner said.

"And I fear for the future."

Meanwhile, Katz, who knew of her friend's difficulties, began to help.

Last December, Katz became a volunteer for the Israeli Union Center at a welfare network that was developed during 2001 in 16 centers throughout Argentina. The network was created to help the impoverished Argentine Jewish community by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Tzedaka Jewish social service organization and the AMIA, one of Argentina's major Jewish institutions.

"For almost a month I kept thinking, how should I ask Sandra if she wouldn't mind turning into the center for help?" Katz said of Werner. "I knew how economically comfortable they were years ago, but I was also aware that during the past months they have had almost no food."

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One afternoon, she called Werner.

"It was over the phone that I asked her if she wouldn't mind becoming a recipient" of aid, Katz said. "I knew the value of the food vouchers the network could offer was the amount she used to spend on a carousel afternoon with her two children. But now she would use it to buy meat."

Located in the heart of Argentina and 450 miles away from Buenos Aires, the province of Cordoba is home to the country's second-largest Jewish population, with some 9,000 Jews out of a total provincial population of three million.

As part of the middle class, Jews in Cordoba were hard-hit.

At the province's Jewish school, General San Martin, 60 percent of the children are on some sort of scholarship this year. Some children left school because their parents are emigrating. Every year some 50 Jews used to leave Cordoba to move to Israel, but last year the number rose to 80.

This year, 160 Jews from Cordoba are expected to make aliyah, and another 160 are expected to leave Argentina for other countries.

It was last September that the JDC, Tzedaka and AMIA welfare network landed at the Israeli Union Center.

"We had to change the main focus of our work," said Claudio Epelman, the center's director. "Until 2001, our first goal as a Jewish institution was to sustain the school, the foundation for Jewish continuity. Now the social issue has become the priority in our agenda."

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A social assistance system coordinated by 12 women had been operating since 1982 in the 87-year-old institution, located in downtown Cordoba.

With the need for assistance growing, the 12 women became part of the new welfare network. With 150 volunteers, the networks helps about 200 Jewish families, a number that is increasing every week. In addition to food boxes and food vouchers that can be used at local supermarkets, the network includes 120 doctors who give free care.

The center also has a medical warehouse to provide beneficiaries with medicine and drugs.

Ileana Wisnivetzky, 28, the coordinator of the welfare network and a teacher at the local Jewish school, told JTA that recipients mainly come from the middle class. As a result, the center implemented the food voucher system.

"We thought food handouts would be too difficult for many to accept," Wisnivetzky said.

For many volunteers, the hardest part of the work is receiving people they already know from the local Jewish community who have been forced to seek assistance.

"I see people I know coming in, and I really don't know if they will offer help or ask for food," volunteer Monica Scheimberg said.

"Last week, a 66-year-old man told me he was so ashamed to ask for a free doctor's appointment," she said.

"He said what he wanted was to have a job to recover his dignity."

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JERUSALEM (JTA)-A suicide bombing this week in Netanya has only reinforced Israeli officials' skepticism regarding Yasser Arafat's call for reform in the Palestinian Authority.

Sunday's bombing in Netanya came days after Arafat delivered a speech before Palestinian legislators in which he vowed to make reforms.

The Palestinian Authority president also used the speech to denounce Palestinian terror attacks on Israeli civilians—a denunciation that apparently fell on deaf ears among some of his constituents.

Hours before the Netanya attack, Defense Minister Benjamin BenEliezer said at the weekly Cabinet meeting that Arafat's call for reforms was just another of his "tricks."

After the attack, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office said Israelis should not believe that Arafat's criticism of terrorism would result in a halt to such attacks. The attack has also prompted speculation of retaliation by the Israeli military.

Earlier this month, Israel planned and then called off a military operation in the Gaza Strip following a terror attack at a pool hall in Rishon le-Zion that killed 15 and left more than 60 injured. There have been numerous Palestinian terror attacks in Netanya.

One such attack, at a Passover seder in late March, prompted Israel to launch a massive anti-terror military operation in the West Bank.

At least three Israelis were killed and about 58 others injured in Sunday's suicide bombing. The bomber arrived at Netanya's open-air market in a taxi and was wearing an Israeli army uniform, reports said.

The attack came as security forces were on alert in central Israel after receiving information that a suicide bomber was preparing an attack, Israel Radio said.

Last week, Sharon set two preconditions for the resumption of negotiations with the Palestinian Authority: a halt to terror and reform in the Palestinian Authority. Sidelining Arafat from the diplomatic process is the chief reform that Sharon is seeking. At Sunday's Cabinet meeting, Ben-Eliezer said Arafat's call for reforms was insufficient, adding that it had to be backed up by deeds.

In a move that is likely to provide additional ammunition to those who question Arafat's sincerity, the Palestinian leader hinted in his May 15 speech to Palestinian legislators that he intends to rip up any peace

treaty he signs with Israel.

In the speech, Arafat made a reference in Arabic to the Hudibiyya Pact, an accord that Islamic tradition says was signed by the Prophet Mohammad. Two years after Mohammad signed the treaty with an enemy tribe, his military position improved-and he tore up the agreement and slaughtered tribe members.

It was widely reported that Arafat used the speech to call for unspecified reforms in the Palestinian Authority and to tell legislators, without mentioning a date, to prepare for new Palestinian elections. But according to the official Palestinian Authority translation of the speech, Arafat also said: "Let us remember the Hudibiyya Conciliation Accord out of our concern for the national and panArab interest of our people and nation, and out of our concern for strengthening international solidarity with your people and your cause."

Arafat also provided yet another reason for skepticism: After issuing the call last week for Palestinian elections, Arafat amended it over the weekend, saying there would be no elections until all Israeli troops withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. But perhaps the chief cause for skepticism among Israeli officials was Sunday's attack.

Both Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility, but Israeli security forces said the Popular Front's claim appeared more credible.

According to Israeli media reports, security officials believed Ahmed Sa'adat, the Popular Front leader who remains jailed in Jericho under British supervision, most likely masterminded the attack.

Several hours before the attack, which was believed to have been launched from the West Bank city of Tulkarm, Israeli security forces went on heightened alert for a possible attack in central Israel. However, Israel's police chief said there was no concrete warning that Netanya would be targeted. Despite the surprise blockades and other measures carried out as part of the alert, the terrorist managed to get into Netanya.

On Sunday, Vice-president Dick Cheney called on Arafat to crack down on terror, but added there were some terror groups over which Arafat has little or no control. However, Cheney warned that the Israeli-Palestinian peace process will not get "back on track until the violence ends."

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They were courteous of one another, and respectful of Papio Fun Park, during our visit. They waited patiently in line for the various activities and listened to the directions given them by the park staff. They took it upon themselves to conduct a Havdalah service before embarking on our journey to the park, and it appeared to us that they were polite

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The chapter advisors (volunteers) Caryn Rifkin and Scott Tatelman, along with Regional BBYO Director Rachel Blum, have done a very nice job in encouraging these students to rise to the occasion of planning activities for their youth-run organization.

The students have assumed this responsibility admirably, and are having a wonderful time in the process. How fortunate we are here to have Jewish youth who are providing good role models for those who will follow. We should be very proud.

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Statistics about Israeli victims of terror are reported with tragic regularity. But there are other elements we don't hear nearly as much about: details about the remarkable lives that have been cut short, how families who are trying to cope with their grief and what their communities are doing to help.

Today, the stories behind the statistics and background about the Israeli organizations that are helping victims of terror.

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs maintains a list where it chronicles the lives and deaths of all the victims of terrorism since September 2000: www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp7MFA HOikyO. As of this writing the list has 493 names. One of them belongs to Rina Didovsky.

On Dec. 8, 2000, Rina Didovsky, 39, was a passenger in a van en route to Kiryat Arba when when a car full of gunmen sprayed the van with bullets.

The mother of six died in the attack.

According to the Ministry website, "Didovsky's husband, Haim, runs a

settler news agency called Hakol Mehashetakh ('"Voice from the Field') and he was the first to inform journalists of the incident. Only later did he discover he had reported the death of his wife.

Friday afternoon, thousands lined the Jerusalem streets through which Rina Didovsky's funeral procession passed. She was buried in Jerusalem's Har Hamenuhot cemetery": www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?

MFAHOikvO. On June 1 of last year, 21 people were killed near the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium. The DolfinDisko website has photos and biographies of the victims-most of them teenage immigrants from Russia—along with a poem in their memory.

Here's an excerpt: "The warm sea breeze of that first June night A natural excitement in the lines and groups waiting to enter Hi Yulia. Good to see you Yan. How are you Simona Welcome Uri. Where is Marianna What is it Irena. Never mind Dani Night Maria":

www.doffindisko.com.

The Terror Victims Association fulfills a critical role. According to its website, "Unlike the military, where families of injured or killed soldiers are visited on a regular basis by the unit's social workers to keep a connection between the unit and the families, there is no real framework set up by the government to deal with the families of terror victims."

Through a network of volunteers, including volunteer social workers, families of the victims are helped to cope with their tragedies. The Association also lobbies the Israeli government and has launched legal battles against the perpetrators of terror: www.terrorvictims.com/.

Similarly, an American organization called Stop Terror has launched several cases on behalf of U.S. citizens who were killed or injured while in Israel. You can read court documents from three of their cases on their website: www.stopterror.org/ Iawsuits.html.

Natal, the Israel Trauma Center for

Victims of Terror and War, is a nonprofit organization that provides trauma therapy and counselling. The Center explains that victims of terror have specific needs that differ victims of other types of trauma such as road accidents, domestic violence and rape.

Natal works with anyone suffering from direct or indirect emotional stress as a result of the prevailing Israeli-Arab conflict, regardless of whether any official body has actually recognized them as victims: www.natal.org.il/eng/ site_map.html.

If you have a Hebrew font installed on your computer, you can visit the Natal's remarkable discussion forum.

There are hundreds of entries where victims of terror talk candidly about the pain, loss, futility and anger that they are feeling. But above all, after you spend a bit of time at this website, you begin to feel the sense of community and support that the Natal organization is able to foster: http://forums.nana.co.il/forum.asp ?id=1988.

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Bituach Leumi, the National Insurance Institute of Israel, has just created a site that lists civilian victims of terror dating back to the establishment of the State of Israel. This Hebrew-only website allows you to search the database by decade, location of the attack and by hometown of the victim: www.gal-ed.tio.il/leiimi/search.asp.

Friends and relatives are invited to submit to submit reminiscences and other biographical information to be added to the historical record: www.gal-ed.co.il/leumi/connect.html.

Elsewhere on the site, you will find a photograph of the memorial to civilian victims of terror at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem: www.galed.co.il/leumi/andarta.html.

The town of Efrat has lost three of its residents to terror. Efrat's Rabbi Shlomo Riskin writes that survivors have a responsibility to those who have died. "We must live our lives for the sake of ideals that are beyond those of each individual—like the nation of Israel, the Torah of Israel, and the land of Israel-in order to give meaning to our lives and to bear witness that Esther, Baruch and Sara did not die in vain since they did not live in vain.": www.vulcana.eom/memorial/english.htmL Mark Mietkiewicz writes, lectures and teaches about the Internet. He can be reached at Mghwa37@rogers.com.

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Y.E.S. No meeting on Monday due to Memorial Day. WALK-IN, DBOP-IN Members will meet T h u r s d a y at the JCC. Exercise and bingo will begin at 10 sum. Lunch at the JGC Bagel Bin will begin at 11:30 a.m. At noon, join us for the movie Serendipity in the Blumkin Home auditorium. Popcorn will be served.

For transportation call Maggie Conti at 334-6521.

YIDDISH GROUP Lotnir Redn Yiddish: Let Us Speak Yiddish Group will meet on Thursday from 1-3 p.m. at the JCC. Call Anne Skolkin for information, 343-1638.

VISIONS Baseball and Bar-B-Q on Thursday, June 6.

Cost of $12.50 includes dinner buffet at the Stadium View Club at 6 p.m, and the game at 7:05 p.m. Seating is limited. Send reservations to: Harry Alloy, 11317 Harney Plaza Circle, Omaha, NE 68154.

Joslyn Art Museum tour with docent of "Andrew Wyeth's Helga Pictures: An Intimate Study" on Tuesday, June 25. Cost is $3.50 per person; free for Joslyn members. Dine at 12:15 p.m. at Joslyn's Le Cafe Durham (buffet is on your own).. Tour begins at 1:30 p.m. Send reservations to: Marilyn Fried, 2821 So. 76 Ave., Omaha, NE 86124.

B'NAI B'KITH BREADBREAKEKS Howard Halperin will speak on Wednesday, May 29, noon, at Park Inn Regency, according to Howard Kutler, Chairman. Halperin is Executive Director of the Wellness Council of the Midlands.

Cost for lunch, $9; for beverage service only, $2.

OMAHA CENTER FOR TORAH LEARNING Join Allan Gonsher at Lunch'n Learn on Wednesday, May 29, noon, in the Kripke Federation Library. Bring a sack lunch and discuss the week's Torah portion.

Save the date! Rabbi Aryeh and Shari Blum will arrive in Omaha in late June. OCTL will host an Open House, Sunday, June 30, 1-4 p.m. at their home, 1313 No. 58 St. For more information about OCTL programs, call Allan Gonsher, 330-4014.

May 24, 2002

Former Assistant Director Barbara Chandler of the Jewish Federation of Omaha was honored as the "Community Professional of the Year" at the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona in Tuscon. Chandler is Director of Women's Division there.

Former Omahan Dr. Guinter Kahn received an honorary doctorate at the University of Nebraska Medical Center recently. A practicing dermatologist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, FL, Dr. Kahn was honored for his scientific advances, including the use of Minoxidil as a hair growth stimulant. Dr. Kahn also is recognized speaker on the role of German doctors during the Holocaust.

Courtney Rabb has been named Director of Student Events for Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, for the 2002-03 academic year. A sophomore, Courtney is currently Assistant Director of Special Events.

Beajamim Rabb was recently elected Vice-president of Social Action/Kkun 01am for the Beth El Chapter of USY in West Hartford, CT. They are the children of former Omahans Steve and Lori Rabb.

The Omaha Public Library has kicked off its Summer Reading Club and needs volunteers, ages 14 and older, to assist. For information about training sessions, contact your local library.

by ELYCE AZRIEL, Director Temple Israel Middle/High School—~»

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Shayley has a brother, Rylan Scott, 2 1/2.

Grandparents are Sheila and Marvin Polikov of Omaha and Sheila and Steve Walowitz of Northbrook, IL. Great-grandparents are Ethel Goldston of Omaha, and the late Seymour Goldston, the late ADL Director Bob Wolfson spoke to about 150 Bernice and Abe Polikov, Manya Vogel and the students and parents at Temple Israel, as late Rudy Vogel, and Elaine and Sydney Walowitz part of a panel on Mideast Awareness. of Northbrook, IL.

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Introducing the panel was Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, who also lead the group of some 150 in "Oseh Shalom." The panel included: Prof. Larry Raful of Creighton University Law School, giving an overview of the Israeli wars and territories; Bob Wolfson, ADL Executive Director, speaking on anti-Semitism, then and now; Patrick McNamara from the Omaha Hate Crimes Project, talking about resolving conflict and moving forward; Stephanie DePorte, a college student's eyewitness account; and Carol Katzman, Editor of the Jewish Press, on what to watch in the media and how to understand it.

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Sanford (Sandy) Cipinko, distinguished trial lawyer, left Omaha in 1972 when he graduated from Central High School. Recently, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association nominated Cipinko for "Trial Lawyer of the Year."

The son of Marion dayman and the late Allan Cipinko attended Washington Grade School. When he was four-and-a-half, his father died and left his mother alone to raise her family. When Sandy was 10, Marion married Harry Abramson who, according to Sandy, was "a great dad-never a stepfather!"

According to Omaha attorney David L. Herzog, "Harry took a shine to Sandy and cultured, guided and mentored him. He knew that Sandy was made out of gold. Ill never forget going to a football game when Sandy played football for Central High and there was Harry, sitting on a folding chair with all of the other fathers, with Sandy's number on a plaque around his neck. Proud as could be!"

Herzog added, "There are thousands of lawyers in California, and for a kid like Sandy to come up from such humble beginnings, is truly wonderful.

He learned tenacity, honesty, determination, hard work and diligence from Harry. Sandy learned all of the morals of our Jewish tradition from him."

Sandy lettered in varsity football his sophomore, junior and senior years. During his junior year, his liver and kidney were lacerated when he tried to intervene in a racial fight to save a football player, but he recovered and continued to play football as a starting defensive end. He fondly remembers playing football with Larry Goldstrom, also a starter.

He was a member of Rayim, a high school Jewish boys fraternity, and recalls a surprise 18th birthday party given for him by Jan Lieberman. Other memories of Omaha include playing basketball at the old JCC on 20th and Dodge with Mark Sanford, Steve Nepomnick and their coach, Billy Ginsberg.

He recalls playing Iddy Biddy Basketball with Mike Muskin, the late Jay Parsow and brothers of both boys.

"I was on an all-star team that traveled to Sioux City. We went up and back on a bus. After the games, we bowled and ate salami sandwiches!" he laughed.

Cipinko is grateful to his mother for always keeping him busy.

"My then brother-in-law, Dave Herzog, my sister Linda, and my parents always came to all of my football games," he recalled, "and my mother always came to my games in junior high—as well as basketball every Sunday at the 'J\"

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Jewish camps and sacrificed to make sure he had He got lucky because his roommate was Omahan what he needed.

Mark Belmont, who always went to the library and "She saw to it that I had the same things as the taught him good study habits. (On the other-hand, well-off Jewish kids and she made sure that I went Sandy taught Belmont how to party!) Sandy was a | political science major, aad to Hebrew school • „<* I received a scholarship after the and had a Bar Mitzvah. She was a • first year because of "study good mother who ,; habit coaching!" had to raise her "¥\ -'i Cipinko earned straight A's kids by herself until in college and was always on she remarried. She the Dean's list. As a junior, he always told me you was inducted into Phi Kappa shouldn't quit tryPhi; he was a Phi Beta Kappa ing until your eyes when he graduated—magna are closed!" cum laude.

He has fond memHe graduated from Hastings ories of La Casa's Law School and has been pracpizza, which he ticing as a trial lawyer in San *• says is still better Francisco for 22 years. His than anything in small office, with two other Italy. He rememattorneys and several support bers Camp Esther staff members, has won cases K. Newman and in the California Appellate some of his friends, courts as well as the CaliforHowie Cohn, Barry nia Supreme Court.

Cohn, Stevie BlumSandy Cipinko The nomination by the San kin and his older brother, Irv. Later, Sandy, Mindy Francisco Trial Lawyers Association came as a surMarantz and Kenny Freshman formed a riding prise to Sandy. He believes it came from two jury club; they worked at the stables and taught other trials in June of 2001. The offer for a settlement in kids how to ride. It continued throughout their the first case was $75,000 and he negotiated $1,200,000. The second case offered $15,000 and he teenage years.

In addition to being influenced by Herzog, Sandy settled for $2,025,000~the largest award for a soconsiders Kenny Freshman one of his mentors. called soft tissue neck injury in the country!

Sandy is married to Lisa Lukianoff, a graduate "Kenny told me that if I wanted to change things from the inside, which is what I do, I needed to go school student working on her master's degree in to law school and become a lawyer and change the psychology. They met in 1995 during a race from establishment," he explained. "He told me rioting the bottom of a 2750 foot high mountain in Marin wouldn't help the little guy. When we try to take County. They were married three years ago on big money from the big guys and give it to the little Mount Tamalpias. Sandy is a marathon runner guys, justice is achieved. Then, the big guys think who has run one "ultra" race (greater than 26 miles) and is training for more. twice about hurting the little guys again!"

He credits Dave Herzog for his desire to become a With the help of social security, due to his father's death, Sandy went to Arizona State trial lawyer.

"Dave is a fellow fighter for justice and a fantasUniversity. He went there because he "could thaw out from the Nebraska winters" and because it was tic role model who always gives me great advice."

He added that Herzog has been there for him inexpensive.

"I had some Bar Mitzvah money and the social throughout the years and has been like a father to security funds," Cipinko noted. "My mother tried to him.

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May 24, 2002

Temple's Annual Meeting to Honor Rabbi Stiel and Award Recipients

SRO Crowd Bids Farewell to Brazens

by JEWISH PRESS News Service

Nearly 600 people celebrated the Drazens' 20 years in Omaha at Beth El Sunday. Left: Beth El Past-president Mike Abramson introduced Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temple Israel, who, along with Rabbi Howard Kutner of Beth Israel noted Rabbi Paul Drazen's many accomplishments. Below: Yoni, Gila, Susie and Paul Drazen enjoyed tearful as well as joyful moments during the evening; Cantor Emil Berokovitz led the Drazen Del-Tones in song.

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator •

Temple Israel will celebrate 131 es. Leslie Slutzky also serves on the years of existence at its annual meet- Religious School Committee. "If someing on Wednesday, May 29, 7 p.m. thing needs to be done, they do it," "The entire congregation is invited to mentioned Joan Cooper, Religious this celebration of us!" remarked School Coordinator at Temple.

Rabbi Aryeh Azriel.

Toby Fellman makes sure there are In addition to the election of officers ushers, people to recite the Torah and and trustees, Rabbi Debbie Stiel, who candle blessings, and Kiddush at is leaving her position as associate Shabbat services. She also volunrabbi at Temple after eight years, will teered to teach a cooking class elecbe honored at a dessert and cham- tive in the Middle/High School at pagne reception.

Temple and was co-chairman of Mike Walts, president of the con- Mitzvah Day this year. "All kids are gregation, encourages everyone to her kids," said Elyce Azriel, Director attend "to say good by to our beloved of the Middle/High School.

Rabbi Stiel, who" he added, "we are Hilde Gottlieb has poured coffee at glad is staying in Omaha as a mem- Friday night Onegs for countless ber of our congregation." Rabbi Stiel years at Temple. She helps at the will start a new position at the Friendship Tea sponsored by Women Jewish Community Center with the of Reform Judaism and at the Pennie Z. Davis Child Development Ministers Institute. "She is a role Center as a Jewish educator. model for everyone who knows her," Rabbi Stiel said that "it has really said Dorothy Spizman, Temple's been an incredible honor to be a rabbi Executive Director. of Temple Israel. I feel blessed to In addition to the presidential awards, have been part of such an amazingly the recipient of this year's Social Justice caring and top-notch staff." She said Award, Evie Zysman, nominated by the she has learned much from many peo- congregation-at-large, will be honored. ple and relishes "all the experiences Recently honored by the Salvation we have shared."

Army for her countless years of service Also to be honored at the annual to the community, Zysman was instrumeeting are the recipients of three mental in bringing Head Start program presidential awards. Leslie and Jeff to Nebraska. She has been a leader in Slutzky, Toby Pellman, and Hilde the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Gottlieb will be recognized for their Choice and dedicated herself to voter outstanding volunteer efforts on registration and education over the years. behalf of Temple.

The Slutzkys have volunteered in Reservations to attend the annual the Religious School office and class- meeting are not required.

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It was publicize as a Mother's Day Party in preliminary announcements, but in actuality it combined and honored Father's Day as well.

After all, mothers and fathers take two to tango. About 100 were in attendance for the installation of newly elected officers for 2002-04: President Ilene Pachman, Vice-president Norman Zevitz, Recording Secretary Millie Altaian, Treasurer Gerald Meyer, Membership Dues Frieda Krizelman.

Chairmen include: Joan Marshall, Programs; Kay Ferer, Telephone/Hospital Report; Reva Oruch and Julie Schapiro, Contributions; Dan Greenfield, Maitre 'd; Charlotte Kaplan,

Historian; Sally Venger, Hospitality; Art Grossman, Adviser and Reporter.

Eileen Remer recognized past board members and Shane Kotok honored Millie Altaian for her dedicated volunteer endeavors.

Entertainment was provided by Robyn Lensch, whose golden voice has been heard by more than 50 nursing homes, assisted living facilities and retirement centers. She struck an emotional chord with her rendition of "My Yiddische Mama."

The Early Bird discussion centered on the havoc the Middle East eruption is doing to Israel's economy.

We paused in reverent respect in memory of Millie Wine and Martin J. Kimmel.

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(Continued from page 1) . — - — a activities include service to the tion donors under age 45 who make an Federation Board of Directors and a annual gift of $1000 or more, and is founding member of Young Jewish President of the Executive Committee Omaha (YJO). He has also held a overseeing the Pennie Z. Davis Child position on the board of the Kripke Development Center, Housing CoFederation Library.

Chair for the JCC Maccabi Games and Goldberg is also actively involved a JCC board member. with Temple Israel. He serves on the Her past Federation activities Temple Israel Adult Education include graduation from Jewish Committee, is a substitute teacher for Omaha Leadership Training (JOLT) the religious school, as well as class, attendance at the UJC Communications Director for the Women's Midwest Campaign ConferTuesday night Young Jewish Men's ence, Pomegranate Division (donors Bowling League. Perhaps his most making an annual gift of over $1,800 selfless volunteer act is with the to the Campaign), Co-chair of the Chevrah Kaddishe, Omaha's Jewish 1999 Ben Gurion Society event, Coburial society. chair of the 1999 Women's Campaign Temple's Rabbi Aryeh Azriel said of Luncheon, Co-chair of the 1996 and Goldberg, "David's participation in 1997 Young Women's Division Rethe Chevrah Kaddishe exemplifies his treats and Chairman of the Young dedication to our Jewish community. Women's Campaign Division in 1992 David is never looking for a personal and '93. In 1999, she was awarded reward in his role as a volunteer. He the Spirit of Federation Award, along genuinely seeks to create situations with Wendy Goldberg, for their work in Omaha and at Temple Israel for in bringing the new CDC to fruition. children and adults, on the Library Robinson's other Jewish community Board and even at Tuesday Night involvements include serving on the Bowling, to learn about and from the Board of Temple Israel, and as an Jewish experience and teachings of active member of Temple Israel's the Torah. David's interest, excite- Women of Reform Judaism. In the ment and pride in Jewish life make past, she has taught kindergarten at him a distinguished leader."

Temple's religious school and chaired David, son of Manny and Carol Temple's Purim Carnival.

Goldberg, and his wife, Wendy, a Sharon Kirshenbaum, Federation recipient of the Lois Jeanne Schrager Young Leadership Director, said, Memorial Young Leadership Award "Kimberly is an exemplary role model in 2000, have three children-Joe, 12; for leadership in our community. She Molly, 10; and Sophie, 7. not only agrees to volunteer whenever Kimberly Robinson is this year's needed, she initiates opportunities. She Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial is solely responsible for adding three Young Leadership Award winner. new members to the Women's Ben This award was established in 1980 Gurion Society at a time when fundraisto honor a young woman who has ing was down. Kimberly has a tremendemonstrated personal commitment, dous energy, which serves her well in dedicated involvement and exemplary her many activities. The Jewish leadership qualities in service to the Federation is so sure of her ability as a Jewish and general community. leader, that we nominated her for the Robinson, 36, was nominated for this UJC's National Young Leadership award by the Jewish Federation.

Cabinet, a group of the best young leadRobinson is a veteran volunteer for ers from across the country." the Federation and its Centers of Kimberly and her husband, Excellence. She served as the first Andrew, have three children, Brenna, Chairman for the Women's Ben Gurion 10; Sydney, 8; and Brett, 4.

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(Continued from page 1) • — — — Cornbelt Council Beau Dance Committee and Cornbelt Council MIT Mom. Currently, she is the Cornbelt Council (Omaha) President and serves on the Ediar Spirit Committee.

Throughout her term as Cornbelt Council BBG N'Siah, or President, Rachel has taken on major responsibilities and has demonstrated her organizational and motivational skills, as well as her dedication to BBYO. She has the unique ability to follow through on her many projects and always includes an evaluation of her own success and failures. She is often in the position of holding leadership training weekends, which allows newly-elected chapter officials to learn from seasoned leadership.

Rachel Blum said of Rachel's leadership abilities, "She is a firm believer in community service projects and practically single-handedly recruited over 30 BBYG members to participate in a shopping spree for visually impaired children over the past winter holiday season. Rachel has made an incredible impact on the local BBYO council. Members have learned from her, they admire her, and they will remember her for years to come."

Rachel's parents are Karen Javitch and Gary Javitch. Her grandparents are Phil Sokolof and the' late Ruth Sokolof and the late Robert and Millie Javitch.

Jewish Teen Leadership Award winner Steve Stejnberg, 18, was nominated by Omaha Temple Youth Group (OTYG). A recent honors graduate of Millard West High School, Steve was an officer in the

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Student Council. He will attend the University of Missouri-Columbia in the fall.

Steve has been active in OTYG since his freshman year. His leadership positions include Junior Youth Group Liaison, OTYG Secretary, Religious and Cultural Vice-president and his current position as President.

As President, he works with all board members as they fulfill their responsibilities, helps plan programs, write evaluations and regularly recruits new members.

He was instrumental in planning the Western Fall Conclave, hosted by Temple Israel this year, as well as the annual Spaghetti Dinner and Auction, which raised $15,000 for Camp Rainbow and youth group programming. He was also in charge of a portion of Temple Israel's Purim Carnival, assigning booth positions and managing the 25 volunteer youths who worked at the games.

Stephanie Grossman, Temple Israel's Youth Director, said, "Steve has added a positive and invigorating note each year he has been a member of OTYG. The youth group is so important to him that he chose last year not to run for a regional board • position, but to run for OTYG President. He felt that we needed him more that the region did.

"Few youth will choose a path that may give them less prestige. His passion and unflagging effort will be missed, but he is leaving a youth group that is stronger because of his contributions."

Steve's parents are Walter and Mary Sternberg; his grandmother is Shirley Karp of St. Louis.

Get an insider's view on the Middle East crisis and how to respond effectively from Bob Wolfson, Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League, on Tuesday, May 28, noon, in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library.

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May 24, 2002

Friedel Jewish Academy Plans Annual Graduation Program

Jewish Cooking Guru Joan Nathan Coming to Kiutznick-Harris Symposium

by DIANE AXLER BAUM

by ADRIAN KOESTERS, Creighton University •

Friedel Jewish Academy's 14th aanual Graduation Program will take place Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m., in the theater of the Jewish Community Center, This year's graduates are Arielle Levine, Rachel Reno, Andrew Tay-lon and •C "* Elina Yurikov.

Among the pro- \ V" 1 gram highlights Gathered on the deck of Friedel Jewish Academy will be their group are the 2002 graduates: Andrew Taylon, left, skit entitled "Memories of Friedel," Elina Yurikov, Rachel Reno and Arielle Levine.

Under the baton of Tuny Epstein, and their brief remarks on ways the student instrumentalists will perform Academy has influenced their learn"Havah Nagilah" and "The Friedel ing in both Jewish studies and generKlezmer," a piece Epstein composed al academics. In return, the faculty and staff will sing this year's "Ode to for the Academy.

Lori Viken, FJA's administrative the Graduates" with original lyrics assistant, will join graduate Arielle paying tribute to the Class of 2002.

Also on the program will be the Levine in a flute duet. Cheryl Lerner annual Year End Slide Show, always will guide students in performing a "show-stopper," according to three Israeli dances, and Patty Nogg Carolyn Novicoff, Director of Jewish will lead them in singing English and Educational and Library Services Hebrew selections.

Following the program, a dessert (JELS). reception sponsored by the ParentThe majority of the slides will capture important moments of the 2001- Teacher Association will take place in 02 school year, but a few will provide the JCC auditorium.

Teacher Denise Bennett called the a glimpse of the graduates as they have grown and developed over all 2002 graduates "an amazing group."

She has "become attached to all of their years at FJA. them," she said, adding that she will Dance, song, and music performed by truly miss "the unbelievable, consisgroups of students from the entire stutently good quality of their work." dent body will round out the program.

Jewish Cooking in America is the title of Joan Nathan's new show for PBS, airing this month. Those who watch will get a first taste of the real thing, since Nathan is coming to Omaha to deliver the keynote address at the 15th annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, "Food and Judaism."

The symposium will be held on Oct. 27-28, at the Omaha Jewish Community Center and Creighton University.

For more information, call the Klutznick office at 280-2303.

Joan Nathan, author of many books, including the one on which the PBS series is based, is well known in the "food world."

"Ms. Nathan was suggested as a dynamic and engaging speaker who would be great as our keynote," said Leonard Greenspoon, holder of the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University.

The keynote address is titled, "From Beans to Bagels: A Social History of Jewish Food in America."

In talking about her new show, Nathan said her interest goes beyond food. "I'm interested in good food, but I'm most interested in people, in what's the link to our past, and how we connect with other communities."

Sixteen other scholars will contribute diverse topics to the symposium events.

Greenspoon said when food was suggested as a topic, "I had little idea there was this wealth of cultural and historical information about Jewish food generally, not just limited to the expected topics of kashrut and traditional recipes.

"There's nationwide and even international enthusiasm for study of all aspects of food and Judaism," he added. "We have an exciting slate of outstanding presentations, ranging from sushi, kugel and kreplach to cookbooks, vegetarians and mystics."

The scholars presenting papers at the Klutznick Symposium this fall include: • Ruth Abusch-Magder, Yale University "Kashrut: Women as Gatekeepers of Jewish Identity."

• Eran I. Argov, Oxford University, "A Carnivorous God? The Transfor-

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mation of Paschal Food Rituals in Rabbinic and Patristic Thought"; 9 S. Daniel Breslauer, University of Kansas, Lawrence, "The Vegetarian Alternative: Biblical Adumbrations, Modern Reverberations."

• Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Wheaton College, MA, "Does God Care What We Eat?" • Cara De Silva, New York, NY: "In Memory's Kitchen: Reflections on Recently Discovered Forms of Holocaust Literature."

• Maria Diemling, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Garlic in Jewish-Christian Polemical Discourse in Early Modern Ashkenaz."

• Marcie Cohen Ferris, George Washington University. "Matzah Ball Gumbo, Gasper Goo Gefilte Fish, and Big Momma's Kreplach: Exploring Southern Jewish Foodways."

• Joel Hecker, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: "The Blessing in the Belly: MysticaLMeals in Medieval Kabbalah."

• Eve Jochnowitz, New York University: "Smoked Salmon Sushi and Sturgeon Stomachs: The Russian Jewish Foodscapes of New York."

9 Jenna Weissman Joselit, Princeton University: "Jewish in Dishes: Food, Faith, and Community in Modern America."

9 David Kraemer, Jewish Theological Seminary of America: "Separating the Dishes."

• Allan Nadler, Drew University: "Kugel! The Sanctification of East European Jewish Ethnic Foods at the Hasidic Tish."

• Alice Nakhimovsky, Colgate University: "Public Holidays and Private Foods: The Fugitive World of Russian-Jewish Cooking."

• Oliver B. Pollak, University of Nebraska at Omaha: "What I Learned About Local History From Reading 17 Jewish Cookbooks Published in Nebraska."

• Gary A. Rendsberg, Cornell University: "The Vegetarian Ideal in the Bible."

• Brannon Wheeler, University of Washington: "Food of the Book or Food of Israel? Israelite and Jewish Food Laws in the Muslim Exegesis of Quran 9:30."

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Most surprising is that Omaha may have published the first Jewish Charity Cookbook in the United States.

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