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For possible additional information or guidance on your use, please contact the contributing organization.", "page_count": 12, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "COMPOUND_PARENT_NO_VIEWER", "attachment": "57646.cpd", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "THE AMERICAN JEWISH W3RLD VOLUME 79 NO. 32 VOICE OF MINNESOTA JEWRY APRIL 19,1991 5IYAR COPY 500 Israel Independence Day Page 12 New West Bank settlement angers Washington, divides Israel By GIL SEDAN ^ JERUSALEM OTA) Moving clandestinely,but heavily protected by the Israel Defense Force, the Gush Emunim settlers movement on Monday night swiftly erected the beginnings of a new West Bank settlement called Revava. By this action, the settlers have accomplished far more than laying down infrastructure and setting up a collection of mobile homes. Their action could jeopardize relations with the U.S. and has already further polarized the nation over the delicate issue of peace with the Palestinians, dividing even the ruling Likud party. The move is being perceived as a deliberate affront to the U.S., which has repeatedly warned Israel that it considers the expansion of Jewish settlements in the administered territories to be an obstacle to peace. It brought a swift response from Washington, where White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters that \"\"this action, if verified, does not change the U.S. position on Israeli settlement activity. \"\"Settlements are an obstacle to peace and their continuation does not contribute to the development of a peace process, which we have all been looking for,\"\" Fitzwater said. MORE SETTLEMENTS Palestinians worked at a building site in the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Israel has launched a construction boom which could boost the Jewish settler population by 50 percent in two years. RNS Photo: Reuters. He said the U.S. ambassador to Israel, William Brown, has asked the Israeli government for clarification. Revava, approved by the government in 1982 but never built, was originally scheduled to be inaugurated this week on the 43rd anniversary of Israel's indepen- dence. Instead, the Gush Emunim saw to it that the settlement went up three days before Secretary of State James Baker was due in Jerusalem on his second visit in less than two weeks, aimed at continuing crucial talks on the peace Israel's leaders. process with Minnesotans try to get new Soviet immigrants involved in Jewish lifestyle By ADAM H. KATZ-STONE Staff Writer The assimilation process can be a delicate balancing act. Jewish communal agencies encourage immigrants to affiliate with the Jewish community, but they try to do so without intruding on the immigrants' newly-won freedom of choice. Soviet families coming to the Twin Cities tend to get their religious orientation from their host families. Recently, many shared the Passover meal with their hosts. They joined their hosts at synagogue to celebrate Hanuka, and to hear the Megilla read on Purim. Some Russian Jews, on the other hand, adapt to the less observant practices of the American Jews they encounter. Part 2 in a series Communal agencies responsible for resettlement find that there are limits to how hard they can push the New Americans, many of whom are reluctant to take part in Jewish life. Host families, for instance, are j encouraged but not required to bring their Russian guests to synagogue, according to Joan Bream, supervisor of resettlement and aging programs at Jewish Family Service in St. Paul. She could not say how many host families are observant. Jewish agencies generally do no t keep such statistics, nor are there formal religious requirements for host families. But Bream characterized host families as being generally concerned about perpetuating Jewish culture and passing it on to the new immigrants. While some are probably highly assimilated, it is likely that most do make some effort to involve immigrants in Jewish life, she said. There are flaws in the \"\"host family\"\" system, however. Sophia Greenberg, who came to the U.S. two years ago with her husband Yefem and daughter Alice, said that they only saw their host family for two weeks. Now she gets most of her Jewish information from her best friend Jackie Hirsh, who she met at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, where their children attend classes. \"\"She's like my 411,\"\" Greenberg said. \"\"Any questions that I have, I call her...I thank God that we met the people we did.\"\" Greenberg said that some Jewish Americans scorn the Soviet emigres for their lack of familiarity with Jewish practice. These people should be more understanding, she said, because \"\"it's not so simple, it takes time.\"\" \"\"It is hard to switch your life, to celebrate different holidays and do everything different,\"\" Greenberg said. But she insisted that for her family at least, \"\"it will come, because we are close to the Jewish community.\"\" While Greenberg is enthusiastic about Jewish learning, many New Americans find that their own attitudes are the principle hindrance to successful affiliation as Jews. For many Russians, religion has heavy negative connotations: an \"\"opiate of the masses\"\" to be scorned. Victor Kravchinsky, 9, a student at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, said that before coming to the U.S. his family visited a synagogue in Moscow two or three times, but that he didn't like it. 'There was nothing in there, just broken chairs. I just looked in there and that's it.\"\" Daniel Visnevetsky, 10, remembered that \"\"in school somebody told me, 'are you Jew or are you Russian?' I said 'jew.' Then they wouldn't talk to me.\"\" Rabbi Avraham Ettedgui, executive director of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah, explained that in Russia they had to be Jews because it was printed on their passports. He said that since Jewishness in Russia was \"\"a limitation, many AGush Emunim leader, Daniella Weiss, was even quoted as saying, 'This is a message to Baker.\"\" In Washington, Fitzwater said that when the secretary of state was in Israel last week, he told the Israelis \"\"that continued settlement activity would hinder progress toward agreement on other issues related to the peace process.\"\" The White House spokesman said at the start of his briefing that reports had been received that Gush Emunim brought trailers \"\"to a site in the occupied West Bank where no settlement existed before.\"\" The site is near the main highway crossing the Samaria region of the territory, northwest of Jerusalem. Gush Emunim seems to have been prompted in part by the challenge from left-wing parties, which have been urging a settlement freeze. About 20 activists from Mapam, the Citizens Rights Movement and the Center-Shinui Movement demonstrated at the site in opposition to the new settlement. They were hauled off by soldiers. Journalists were kept away by declaring the entire area a closed military zone. Although the army complained that the timing of the settlement was not coordinated with the military authorities, it cooperated fully. Best-selling author predicts Pollard release immigrantsare perplexed as to why, in a free society, they should choose to affiliate as Jews. And in order to understand the \"\"why\"\" of being Jewish, Ettedgui argued, they must first have some basic exposure to the \"\"what.\"\" In addition to the lack of familiarity with religious practices, and their learned negativism toward religion, many immigrants may shy away from religious affiliation out of necessity. They are more concerned with making a living than with spiritual activities. Despite these many adverse factors, interest in spiritual matters is still there, just waiting to be tapped. Rabbi Yaakov May, director of Torah Academy (a Jewish day school in Minneapolis), said that \"\"it takes a lot more than 70 years to undo the rich tradition of faith and belief\"\" harbored in the bosom of Russian Jews. The spirituality of their ancestors lingers in their veins, he said, even without a knowledge of the practices. \"\"One man recognized a prayer that was said at his mother's funeral when he was 11...I sang it and he immediately started crying, saying 'I remember that song,\"\"' recalled Susan Dworsky, who teaches English as a second language at the St. Paul Talmud Torah, and also teaches basic Judaism to Soviet adults at Beth Jacob Synagogue. Anna Hillman, a teacher at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, said that although most immigrants she knows are non-observant, she has seen a genuine interest in some to make at least an ostensible show of faith. To this end she knows of several teen-age boys who were circumcised upon their arrival in the U.S., because it was all the religious practice their parents knew. 'The ones who do come to me are passionate,\"\" Dworsky agreed. 'They want to be Jewish...They know they're Jewish and they're angry that they were deprived.\"\" See SOVIETS Page 3 AJW Staff Report Yossi Melman, co-author with Dan Raviv of a best-selling expose on Israeli intelligence, said that while he is \"\"no gambler,\"\" he would give good odds for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to receive executive clemency within a year. In an interview with AJW while in Minneapolis Melman said that Pollard, an American convicted of spying on the U.S. for Israel, was wrongly abandoned by the Israelis. \"\"Theypanicked.and sacrificed him on the altar of 'the greater interest,\"\"'Melman said. Fearing a public opinion backlash, Israel \"\"tried to dissociate itself with Pollard,\"\" when they should have apologized to the U.S. and bargained for his release. Melman, whose book \"\"Every Spy a Prince\"\" details four decades of ups and down within the various Israeli intelligence agencies, said that Pollard was cynically exploited by the U.S. government. \"\"I do not accept the surprise ex-pressedby people\"\" over the Pollard affair, Melman said. \"\"I call it hypocrisy.\"\" While relations between Israeli and U.S. security agencies were temporarily strained over the incident, Melman stated that no permanent damage resulted. Ultimately both sides understood that \"\"interests are stronger than sentiment,\"\" and since the Gulf war the level of information exchange between the two countries is higher than ever, he said. Melman believes the Gulf war represented a significant intelligence failure, and charges the U.S. and Israel with ignoring Saddam's military build-up until it was too late. He stated that one week before Saddam moved against Kuwait, Moshe Arens and the head of the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) visited Washington and warned the U.S. about the pending invasion. But by then, Melman said, it was too late to do anything about it. \"\"A myth has been created that intelligence (services) can solve all human problems,\"\" Melman explained. He argued that an intelligence service is only as good as the society it serves. Melman hearkens the development of Israeli society, and thus its intelligence services, to the human maturation process. Right now they are both in \"\"middle age,\"\" a stage marked by \"\"skepticism, cynicism and...materialism.\"\" Yossi Melman He noted, however, that most people in middle age at least start \"\"to lay the foundations for the next generation.\"\" \"\"I wish the Israeli intelligence, the Israeli leaders, could be more responsible and accountable to the future,\"\" Melman said. While the book has been criticized by some for exposing soft spots in Israel's intelligence armor long reputed to be impenetrable Melman insists that free access to such information is a basic tenet of democracy. He hopes his book, a best-seller in Israel as well as the U.S., will facilitate open discussion of the role of security forces in a democracy. In order to glean his information, much of which had never been exposed before, Melman conducted literally hundreds of interviews with former intelligence personnel. He benefitted from what he calls a \"\"spy syndrome.\"\" After a life of secrecy, Melman explained, a spy realizes \"\"that he has a great story to tell. And whatisthepointofhaving a story if you do not tell it?\"\" Inside the AJW Nuremberg prosecutors want Saddam accountable .............Page 3 A message from Israel's president ............Page 5 Local family maintains sports tradition ............Page 9 PAGE 2 AROUND THE WORLD Last Albanian Jews arrive in Israel By GIL SEDAN JERUSALEM OTA) The last 16 Jews from Albania arrived in Israel last week, completing the exodus of the minuscule Jewish community from what was the most isolated country in Europe. An El A1 flight from Rome brought the group, ending a semi-clandestine operation that had been under way since December. All of Albania's 300 Jews arenow believed to have left that Balkan country of 3.3 million, the last Stalinist enclave on the continent. Most of the small community came to Israel. The rest have gone to the U.S. to join family members there. Arnon Mantver, director general of the Jewish Agency's aliya department, recalled how the opera- tion started. Several months ago, the agency received information through Jewish organizations, especially the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, that the tiny Albanian Jewish community was interested in aliya. Mantver said the agency was anxious to get them out before the impending elections, which recently took place. There was apprehension that an unpredictable outcome at the polls might have made their departuremoredifficult. In fact, the Albanian government offered no obstacles and issued passports to the immigrants. Itsonly condition was that before a family departed, one member would travel to Rome or Athens to collect Israeli visas for the entire family. 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Expires April 27,1991. wm mm mm wm wm Israel airlifts emergency supplies to Kurdish refugees fleeing Iraq AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD KURDISH JEWS PROTEST IN ISRAEL Kurdisn Jews living m Israel demonstrated against the American refusal to halt the Iraqi killing of Kurds. The protest was held during U.S. Secretary of State .lamps Rakars recent visit to Israel. RNS Photo/Reuters. TEL AVIV QTA)An Israeli air force cargo plane on Tuesday morning delivered six tons of emergency supplies for Kurdish refugees to Turkey, to be distributed by the Turkish Red Crescent, that country's equivalent of the Red Cross. Aboard the Hercules transport plane on its way back to Israel was Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan, who spearheaded the Israeli drive to aid the Kurds. The shipment included blankets, tents, clothing and medical supplies, mainly antibiotics, forthe tens of thousands of refugees stranded without shelter or hygienic conditions in the mountainous border region between Turkey and northern Iraq. The plight of the Kurdish refugees has, as was anticipated, worsened dramatically in the last few days, with hundreds dying of exposure, dehydration and dysentery in their crowded and unsanitary conditions. The shipment was enabled by donations to Magen David Adorn, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, and the Association of Israelis of Kurdish Origin. Governor Carlson proclaims days of Holocaust remembrance Governor Arne Carlson this year proclaimed April 7-14 to be \"\"days of remembrance\"\" for the victims of the Holocaust. The proclamation stated that Minnesotans \"\"should remember the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the hope that such horrors are never repeated,\"\" and should \"\"continually rededicate themselves to the principle of equal justice for all people.\"\" The proclamation calls on the people of Minnesota to \"\"remain eternally vigilant against all tyranny, and recognize that bigotry provides a breeding ground for tyranny to flourish.\"\" Similar proclamations were issued by Mayors Don Fraser, Minneapolis, and James Scheibel, St. Paul. You have some powerful questions about Judaism. Isnt it about time you got some powerful answers? It's time for a rational, modem approach to a superrational, ancient religion, compiled and delivered by a team of scientists and Judaic scholars. WHAT: A one-day Discovery Seminar WHEN: Sunday, May 5,1991,9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Registration at 9:00 a.m.) WHERE: Minneapolis J.C.C. Auditorium COST: $40.00 - Incl. lunch, materials, snacks, coffee Scholarships available. Child care extra. \"\" To reserve (or for more information), call Liz at 926^4761 or Naomi at 925-9858 A project of the Torah Learning Center of Minnesota Welcome New Advertisers Marty Siegel/Edina Realty Landmark Theatre Corp. Pacer Center Tell them you saw it in The American Jewish World ------------^^199i Toyota to sell cars in Israel; ends compliance with Arab boycott By ALIZA MARCUS NEW YORK Motor Corp. has soon start selling cars ln j making it one of the first main' Japanese companies to come om publicly against the Arab-led eon nomic boycott of Israel. This is the most significant com pany to break with the boycott\"\" said William Rapfogel, execute director of the Institute of pubiic Affairs, the public policy arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Con gregations of America. \"\"We're very hopeful that the change in Toyota is a harbinger ol things to come ...\"\" he said. Over the past few years, Toyota had come under increasing pres sure from Jewish organizations to begin sales in Israel, including a letter-writing campaign by members of Orthodox Union. The letter-writing campaign also targeted 17 other Japanese companies accused of following the boycott, including Toshiba, Casio Hitachi, Aiwa, Nippon Steel, Nissan and Mazda, said Rapfogel. And many Jewish groups also contacted Toyota to express concern \"\"that we were in tacit compliance\"\" with the boycott, said Tim Andree, manager forexternalaffairs at Toyota's North American headquarters here. Although Toyota never admit-ted it adhered to the boycott of Is- A rael, it was one of numerous Japa-1 nesecompanies which foryears had refused to do business with the Jewish state. \"\"Our answer then, as it is now,is that we had to find the right partner and study the market, and that we don't jump into any market quickly,\"\" said Andree. The economic boycott of Israel, which was organized in 1951 by the 21 nations of the Arab League, not only prohibits companies from engaging in trade with Israel, butalso seeks to isolate companies that do business with the Jewish state, U.S. federal anti-boycott laws make it illegal for American companies to uphold the boycott or transfer information about a company's dealings with Israel. L.A. gospel group buys Israel Bond (JTA) Toyota announced it win LOS ANGELES (JTA) - Eric and Pearl Wright, pastors of a small black congregation in one of L.A. County's poorest sections, explained their purchase of a substantial denomination State of Israel Bond last week. \"\"It's really the duty of every Christian to befriend and support Israel, because the Bible tells us to do that,\"\" Eric Wright said on a visit to the Israel Bonds office. The Wrights, 60, natives of Texas, pooled the money their Gospel Light Fellowship congregation raised by choir concerts and barbecue dinners to buy a bond in the five-figure range. Corrections In the Paige Lindsay Abramson Bat Mitzva announcement (4-12- AJW) Melba Feldhakewashsted as residing in Montevideo, Uruguay-She lives in Montevideo, Minne sota. A phone number was inc1lf: ] ported in last week's AJ W. 0 ith information regarding mis g members of the Minneap rimud Torah Class of 1943 \"\"l3? 11 Joanne Savitt, 544-728 , ietz, 374-2825; or Florence Spir -,6-4108. LIGHT CANDLES 7:47 P.M. Next Week 7:58 P-M- APRIL 19,1991 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD PAGE 3 Nuremberg reunion urges trial of Hussein By mat edelson WASHINGTON From a roomful of those who made history, came the cry: act now, lest history repeat itself The survivors of the Nuremberg War Trials 125 men and women; prosecutors, interrogators and interpreters gathered in Washington, D.C. recently for a reunion marking the 45th anniversary of the trials. While their memories were of Hitler, their immediate thoughts centered on Saddam Hussein and how to make the Iraqi leader accountable for his crimes. A panel of 10 Nuremberg prosecutors concluded, in the form of a resolution, that \"\"the U.N., the United States and its coalition partners and all peace-loving nations\"\" should \"\"investigate, indict, prosecute and punish those Iraqi nationals who have engaged in aggressive war against Kuwait.\"\" These 10 angry men see the Gulf war as their last chance to establish the Nuremberg Charter as a permanent part of international law. Walter Brudno, prosecutor of Nazi Party Chief Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, explained that \"\"if we are going to be selective in applying the law of the Nuremberg Charter, then it ceases to be law. It becomes only a mechanism of politics...and we've accomplished nothing.\"\" Brudno and his colleagues understand the political ironies. A few short months ago, President George Bush said that Saddam Hussein would face \"\"swift retribution\"\" in the form of war crimes charges for acts of aggression and crimes against humanity, including the holding of human shields and abusing prisoners-of-war. But since the end of the war, the administration's stance has noticeably softened. In March a Bush spokesperson said the U.S. \"\"did not want to intervene in the internal affairs\"\" of Iraq despite allegations that Hussein was using combat helicopters against his own people in violation of the coalition's cease-fire agreement. The administration's message is clear to Henry King, who prosecuted the Nazis involved with slave laborat aircraft plants. To not prosecute, he argued, \"\"sends out a message that we don't have the courage of our convictions,\"\" and could influence other leaders to pursue policies of aggression. The panelist discussed the logis-tics of prosecuting Hussein. Charles Horsky, a counsel liaison at Nuremberg, worried about what type of international tribunal could be set up. Nuremberg had only four \"\"conquering\"\" countries to deal with, while the Persian Gulf coalition consisted of 17 nations. Horsky's solution? Work within the framework of the U.N. \"\"I'm told that there's no reason why the (U.N.) Security Council could not, in its wisdom, create a court,\"\" Horsky suggested. Such a court \"\"would permit reasonably easy negotiation...it brings in a world community rather than just the Western community, and it is entirely possible that the Western powers would share, to some extent, in the administration and consummation of a trial.\"\" Horsky acknowledged however that \"\"it would be diplomatically and politically impossible to try an existing head of state in absentia in an international court.\"\" The panel was in agreement as to Hussein's guilt on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Any act of aggression against one country by another is considered a war crime under the Nuremberg Charter. Crimes against humanity include \"\"acts of an aggressor against civilians, foreign or domestic,\"\" and can occur before the outbreak of an actual war. For example, Henry King explained that \"\"murders, torture, and other inhumane acts were carried out against civilians in Kuwait on political grounds.\"\" Walter Rockier, who successfully prosecuted German bankers for illegally seizing civilian property, outlined other crimes Hussein and his leaders allegedly committed. \"\"You cannot force an enemy prisoner of war to do anything to aid the conduct of his captors,\"\" Rockier said. \"\"It seems to be fairly clear that the Iraqis do not honor these principles. A POW cannot be exposed to humiliation. I would say putting a POW before a television camera and asking him to apologize for his existence may well be a form of humiliation.\"\" As with all legal proceedings, it is one thing to know someone is guilty, another thing altogether to prove it to the satisfaction of the court. Gathering evidence, especially if Hussein stays in Iraq, will prove difficult. Charles Horsky recalled that \"\"at Nuremberg, the victorious powers completely occupied Germany...Most of the evidence used at Nuremberg was German captured documents.\"\" A case which meets minimum legal requirements could be made against Saddam Hussein on the basis of what is already known. But the Nuremberg jurors said they would rather have a detailed trial and proof of liability against others besides Hussein. This would require evidence which, while Hussein still has control of Iraq, will probably not be available. All the panelists are in their 70s and 80s. For most, this reunion will provide the closing chapter on the lessons of Nuremberg. By the time the last speaker had his say, their common feeling was clear. Prosecutor Ben Ferencz concluded that issues of war crimes, in many respects, go far beyond the realm of Saddam Hussein. \"\"We've got to begin to think in planetary, in global terms, to begin to manage our own society so that all people can live in peace,\"\" he said. 'That is the challenge of Nuremberg and that is the challenge we face today.\"\" ** Mat Edelson is a contributing reporter to National Public Radio. Intact Scud missile to be displayed TEL AVIV (JTA) An intact Scud missile, one of the 39 fired at Israel by Iraq during the Gulf war, will be on display here alongside a U.S. Patriot missile during Independence Day celebrations this week. The Scud may be the one that scored a direct hit on an apartment building in the Tel Aviv area. The missile slammed through the roof and three floors of apartments and came to rest in a ground-floor shop but failed to explode. Though the building was badly damaged, there were no casualties. Area residents were in air raid shelters at the time. Hapoalim leading the bank pack JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel's largest financial institution, Bank Hapoalim, reported a significant rise in profits last year while Israel's other major banks all reported declines. Eitan Berglass, chair of the bank's board of directors, attributed its success to \"\"basic efficiency\"\" which apparently overcame the sluggish economy. In 1990, its 69th year of operations, Bank Hapoalim's net profit amounted to $76 million, a 46 percent increase over $52 million in 1989. In the same period, Bank Leumi's profit dropped by 59 percent. Israel Discount Bank's earnings were down by 21.3 percent and Mizrahi Bank's by 42 percent. Israel, Turkey discuss water problem JERUSALEM (JTA) Turkish President Turgut Ozal and Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres met this week in Amsterdam and discussed a proposal forTurkey to pipe water to the Middle East. They met at the fourth Global Panel conference, an international seminar. The project Ozal and Peres discussed calls for piping water, which is plentiful inTurkey, to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bankand Egypt. The two giant pipelines would take seven years to build, at an estimated maximum cost of $20 billion. French unions to teach Holocaust PARIS OTA) About 40 trade unions and humanitarian organizations here have launched a drive to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust. Scholarly meetings and books about the Holocaust do not achieve their aim, one of the organizers said, and revisionists who deny the existence of Nazi gas chambers have to be denounced. The initiative comes as a French court is about to try the former police chief of the wartime Vichy regime, Rene Bousquet, for crimes against humanity. No other airline can make this statement Local teachers fight negative attitudes SOVIETS (Continued from Page 1) In contrast to the last wave of immigrants, Ettedgui said, the Russians arriving today take a much more active interest in Jewish life. 'They are thirsty, they want to leam, they want to know,\"\" he said, and added that local agencies had also become more adept at responding to the spiritual needs of New Americans. Some immigrants initially shun Jewish culture in order to move more quickly into American mainstream society. While acknowledging that this has been a problem in the past, May described the new group of immigrants as \"\"temper->ng their American dream chase\"\" with a concern for preserving their Jewish heritage. Dworsky suggested that, for those who make the effort to get involved in Jewish life, affiliation actually makes the cul- tural transition easier. Judaism, she said, \"\"gives them a small, intimate community to plug into,\"\" which acts as a launching pad for their entry into general culture. She argued that most Soviet immigrants are not any more deficient in their level of religious knowledge than the current generation of American Jews, most of whose parents assimilated by choice. Even in Russia, many have parents and grandparents who remember that country's Jewish life, who try to perpetuate fragments of remembered custom, and who witnessed the Holocaust and the demise of Eastern European Jewry. Their cultural memory is modern, almost the same as Americans, Dworsky asserted. She said that too much is made of the Soviets' cultural disadvantages, and that she has high hopes for their successful integration into mainstream American Jewish life. SUNSET GABLES\"\" $284,900 FABULOUS 4 BR, TWO STORY, MSTR. BA, 2FPS 1ST FLR FAM. RM, 2 CAR GAR, COMPL. UPDATED Marty Siegel 944-7107 EdinaRealty GREETINGS and BEST WISHES The Airline of Israel. 174 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60601 (312)236-7264 1-800-223-6700 The Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund presents: NEAL KARLEN Minneapolis feature writer, reporter and author \"\"Penetrating Hidden Worlds: Getting the Impossible Interview\"\" Karlen is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and his work appears frequently in publications such as F,squire. Gentlemans Quarterly and The New Yorker. Beginning this May, hell be a regular columnist for Mpls/St. Paul, The evening also will include: The 1991 Young Leadership Award Presentation recognizing an outstanding high school senior of a Twin Cities U.S.Y. chapter SUNDAY, APRIL 28,1991 7:30 p.m. Adath Jeshurun Synagogue 3400 Dupont Avenue South Minneapolis ___________________________ The evening is free and open to the public. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD ApRIL 19, i99l Editorial/Opinion Time to renew our commitment This year especially, Israel Independence Day affords each of us the opportunity to re-examineour relationship to Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel, both as the spiritual hub of our faith and as a modem political entity. It hit us all in the gut when the Scuds fell on Tel Avivespecially during those first dark hours of uncertainty when it seemed as if everything might be lost. It is appropriate at this time of renewed \"\"stability\"\" to translate those powerful emotions into action. In our daily life, we can choose to speak in defense of Israel, our homeland. We can defy the pervasive media lies and declare to all who will hear that Israel is righteous, good, desiring only peace. The land, the people, cry only for peace a peace denied by belligerent neighbors. Further, we can lobby our legislators to act with Israel's interests in mind. The security and prosperity of Israel should be on the top of our political agenda, and we must consequently hold our representatives accountable to our priorities. We can seek creative ways to increase our financial support for our people's homeland. Still reeling from the economic blows delivered by the Gulf war, Israel desperately needs Western industry, Western creativity, Western investment if she is to remain an economically (and therefore a politically) viable entity. We should seize Yom Ha'atzmaut as a chance to revitalize our passionate devotion to Jewish survival, which history has shown can only be assured when our people have a secure, defensible land to call their own. That land is, has always been, and we pray shall always be Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel. A rabbi's sincere prayer to Allah Akhbar I know and fully realize it is not common and even less expected of a rabbi to ad d ress in a sincere prayer to the God of the Moslems. Allah Akhbar Allah is great was lately heard in many parts of the world. On the rooftops of Arab dwellings in Ramalla; in the poverty-stricken huts of Sidon; by a praying tyrant prostrating himself on the eve of the Gulf war; by a 16-year-old youngster in Tel Aviv stabbing an elderly Jewish woman; by frustrated masses in a forlorn and tragic Jordan the Allah Akhbar shout, or call it prayer, or voice of desperation, was heard. Before my eyes at this moment is a picture of a weeping Kurdish mother clutching to her breast a dead child and throwing herself into the grave prepared for her baby, a picture that was flashed on the TV screen for half the world to see. It presses on my conscience. What is one to do? Write a letter to Bush? So many have already written. Only a prayer is left to utter. By MARC H. TANENBAUM NEW YORK QTA)Israel's Independence Day, Y om Ha'atzmaut, is a time of important commemoration, but also one of special challenges. The challenges flow from the fallout of the Persian Gulf war and the emergent transformations in Middle East alliances. The heady sense of victory that followed thetriumph over Saddam Hussein's aggression seems diminished in the face of Hussein's continued survival and his ability to employ his war machine effectively against his own people. For Israel, does that mean a reduced but continued threat in the near future? Are the U.S. and its allies snatching defeat from a clear victory? Dothe new alliances being forged between the U.S. and the \"\"moderate\"\" Arab nations Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Gulf emirates, Egypt, and possibly even Syriabetoken a weakening of the strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel? The moves to pre-position substantial American weaponry in Arab coun- You pick up the morning paper weeks after the war has ended and you see the pictures of hungry, cold, thirsty masses marching to borders from villages where they lived, worked, and gave birth to offspring. They now march and march. Words that embraced my people two generations ago come back to haunt older people; Exodus, genocide, starvation, annihilation, torture,murderand ofcoursegas-sing, O my God, gassing again. What is one to do? Despair for humanity? Shout again, \"\"Stop the world, let me get off?\"\" Many brutal pictures came to us from the Holocaust culture. None of us shall ever forget the picture of an 8- year-old youngster with outstretched arms and a deadly fear in his eyes, as if turning to the world and shouting, give me life or death, but do not torture me. From the present tortuous days, I shall carry with me the picture of five healthy-looking Iraqi soldiers on their knees in the Arabian desert, tries cannot be good news for Israel. The peace process for resolving the Palestinian problem and bringingan end to thebelligerency against Israel on the part of the Arab states will need to go forward in Israel's long-term interests. But has an international pressure cooker now been created which would compromise Israel's security, and cast the Jewish state in the role of the sole \"\"enemy\"\" of Middle East peace? If none of these challenges existed today, Israel and world Jewry would be concentrating on the immigration of thousands of Soviet Jews as the central preoccupation of Jewish life. This host of major challenges will require a massive recommitment of Israeli and world Jewry to the historic, religious and moral meaning of Israel to Jewish existence and continuity. Yom Ha'atzmaut is a unique time to reflect on the ultimate meaningof Israel in Jewish historic experience which transcends all the present difficulties and challenges. Reviewing the desperate conditions of Jewry prior to the creation From Friday to Friday Rabbi Marc Liebhaber kissing the boots of an American soldier and begging; begging for water, life, mercy, compassion; kissing his hands; waiting for the verdict a bullet or a bottle of water. After the Holocaust, Jews dared to ask \"\"Where was God?\"\" The more daring knew the answer: \"\"God is dead.\"\" \"\"He has hidden his face!\"\" It would be the height of chutzpa of me,ajewish rabbi, toask \"\"Where is Allah?\"\" Allah Akhbar the God not of 12 million unarmed dispersed Jews, but Allah Akhbar who rules over hundreds of millions of Arabs settled in their own lands, with great oil resources at of Israel, Dr. Leo Pinsker, the Jewish doctor from Odessa, wrote in his classic \"\"Auto-Emancipation,\"\" that because of the Jews' statelessness and lack of power over their lives, \"\"the world beheld the Jewish people as the eerie figure of a corpse wandering among the living.\"\" This \"\"ghost-phenomenon of a wandering corpse\"\" among the nations inspired \"\"a ghost terror, Judeophobia.\"\" Israel's existence as a sovereign state has ended the ghostliness of the Jewish diaspora. It is the one sure haven whose gates are open to any Jew anywhere. Yom Ha'atzmaut reminds us that Israel's existence has transformed the role of Jews as victims of history and has invested the wholeof Jewry with the power of mastery over our fate and destiny. *** Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, for 30 years the director of the international relations department of the American Jewish Committee, is now a lecturer, writer and consultant. their disposal, armies equipped with the most modern military material undertook a gigantic project to destroy their lands and culture, eradicating their past and perpetuating refugee camps, hunger and misery, bringing about genocide, starvation and exodus. No, I am not about to ask \"\"Where is Allah?\"\" Or God forbid proclaim that \"\"Allah is dead.\"\" lhaveaprayer in my heart, a prayer to Allah; Dear Allah! Thou art Great! In thy name a descendant of thy prophet proclaimed a death sentence upon a man who dared to write a book with a few uncomplimentary words about your prophet. Khomeini is already dead, but Rushdie is forced to hide. Khomeini - who is revered by millions of thy worshippers, who sent to death hundreds of thousands of young men in a so-called defense of Allahwas attacked by another worshipper of yours, Saddam Hussein, who just murdered thousands of your worshippers in Kuwait and over one hundred thousand of his own people...and the end is not in sight. Where are you? Dear Allah! What happened to the Arab and Moslem pride? The Saudi Arabian kingdom, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars of oil riches with which Thou hast endowed them, had to appeal to the foreign infidels to come into the holy desert lands, to defend Arab against Arab, Moslem against Moslem...and the end is not in sight. Our common ancestor Ibrahim has taught us that any Jew is entitled to question his Almighty Master. Abraham asked God before His decision to destroy Sodom; \"\"Shall the Judge of the whole Universe do injustice?\"\" May 1 not address thee, Allah Akhbar, to bring the hundreds of millions of thy worshippers to their senses and use their wealth to settle the refugees from the camps in their lands; to give dignity and purpose to the Palestinian people; to erect schools; to build universities; to begin educating the forgotten people of Yasir Arafat; to bring about a time when Saudis and Kuwaitis will study in Jerusalem and Israelis shall work in Riyadh or Kuwait? As a rabbi I dream of a small Israel, an Israel at peace with its Arab brethren; an Israel that abandons false dreams of an empire, but dreams of building a national home with confidence in itself and in its people; an Israel that shall trade with its neighbors, study and teach in their schools and befriend the sons and daughters of its Arab neighbors. O Allah! Show to your adherents the futility of the Arab dream to erase Israel from the map. And may the time come when together we, Arab and Jew, shall dwell in peace in the historic lands of our ancestors. THE AMERICAN JEWISH W3RLD Voice of Minnesota Jewry since 1912 The American Jewish World is published every Friday by AJW Publishing Inc., 4509 Minnetonka Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Second class postage paid at Minneapolis, MN (ISSN 0002-9084) and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send add ress changes toT e American Jewish World, 4509 Minnetonka Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Rabbi Marc Liebhaber, Publisher and Senior Editor Marshall Hoffman, Managing Editor Administration Marilyn Goldman Account Executives Joan Goldstein Ruth Kaiser Dorothy Shaw Classifieds Murray Feldman Founders L.H. Frisch and Rabbi Samuel Deinard Thursday deadline eight days in advance for news stories and advertising ooWj^J manuscripts intended for publication are subject to editing. 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Religious leaders have their own agendas, quite proper for those religious people who follow their advice but often antithetical to others who do in a very long process that may eventually culminate in submerging old animosities. But if such animosities are somehow eventually to be ended, dealings between enemies must, at some point, begin. Rabbi Friedman says that \"\"the FLO'S... support of Iraq-shocked Israel's liberals.\"\" I imagine there exists somewhere in Israel a liberal who was shocked by such a thing, but, honestly now, rabbi, in view of all we know of past history, do you sincerely believe that the bulk of Israeli liberals were surprised to see Palestinians supporting any government who wanted to go to war with their avowed enemy? The norm is not all that shocking; indeed, the very reverse would be shocking. That his religious leader affected the political process in Israel is quite a correct observation; that he \"\"saved\"\" Israel is self-serving nonsense. not. It is proper, and desirable, that they advise their own flocks, but quite improper and undesirable for them to attempt to lead the affairs of a nation. So it was with some apprehension, though, unfortunately, no surprise, that I came across a recent article written by Rabbi Manis Friedman, explaining how his particular religious leader had \"\"saved\"\" Israel by interfering in their political process (\"\"What Bush, Israel and the world owe the Lubavitcher Rebbe,\"\" 3-29-91 AJW). It was sad for me to see Rabbi Friedman reduced to a PR flack, explaining away his leader's political interferences. That his religious leader affected the political process in Israel is quite a correct observation; that he \"\"saved\"\" Israel is self-serving nonsense. Rabbi Friedman has reinterpreted history in ways that most current journalists and historians would find unrecognizable, if not downright specious. He suggests that Shimon Peres believed that \"\"concessions to the PLO would make them Israel's allies...\"\" Come on, rabbi. Neither Peres nor any other Israeli I know of believes such drivel. Long-time enemies such as Israel and the PLO are not overnight, or even over a decade, converted into allies, as anyone with any sense understands. The long-range goal, I imagine, is for that to happen, but it is a dream, not a belief. Dealing with your enemy is only the first step For Yom Haatzmaut 5751 By ISMAR SCHORSCH Even as we celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Israel's birth, American Jews are challenged anew by that egregious affront to us allthe so-called \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" issue. Only the setting has changed. Word has it that when the leadership of the Jewish Agency meets this June in Jerusalem, it will decide to eliminate all funding for the religious streams. A few years ago that same leadership reluctantly agreed to a semblance of pluralism and equalitya small sum of money specifically restricted to projects in Israel carried out under Conservative, Reform, or Orthodox auspices. The measure was a response to the growing unease of American donors and was intended to offset slightly the untold sums earmarked for institutions on the Orthodox far right. But now, in the face of the vast needs of Soviet immigration, the agency is prepared to end the expenditure. As the agency leaders deliberate, I would hope they will recall an incident that occurred in Israel this Passover, an example of religious coercion that mocks the very meaning of the festival of freedom. The army hosted some 3,000 Soviet olim at military bases across the country for their first seder in Israel. At one installation where some 200 had assembled, the only Haggada available in Russian was the one produced by the Masorti Movement (Conservative)a beautifully designed edition of the traditional text with a Russian translation and commentary. The military chaplain who conducted the seder, however, deemed the Haggada to be unsuitable, compelling his Soviet Jewish guests to observe the ritual uncompre-hendingly. The scene is grotesquely sad: Haggadot willingly denied at a seder in Israel to Jews who fled a land where for decades Haggadot were hopelessly unobtainable. Their struggle to reach Israel was not crowned with a taste of religious freedom. Government officials still determine what is religiously acceptable. For Jews, God's house has but a single entrance. In addition to his painting of liberal peace Israelis as moronic idealists with no sense of history or real-politic a totally unfair and inaccurate portrayal Rabbi Friedman ignores some basic political realities himself. We might expect this from our politicians, but not our rabbis. The rabbi has set up a scenario whereby dull Israeli leaders give up the West Bank to Palestinians, who promptly (of course) use the land as a launching base for Iraqi missiles, thus opening Israel up to the horrors of chemical warfare. The poor dumb liberal leaders just trusted the Palestinians to be nice guys, I guess. In truth, as the rabbi must know, any that means any discussion of Palestinian self-determination always includes very stringent demilitarization guidelines, very carefully watched overby on-site Israeli army observers. Does the rabbi honestly think that the Israeli army and public would allow anything less? This setting up of strawmen, of unfair and untrue accusations, is the sort of thing I might expect from, say, Richard Nixon, but not from a widely respected rabbi. If I were Rabbi Friedman I'd be blushing very red indeed. *** Steven Kaplan is managing director of Minnesota's Journal of Law and Politics, which recently received the Gene O'Brien Excellence in Journalism Award. return of Who is a Jew Without benefit of a Haggada, some of the Soviet olim must surely have ended that evening wondering, \"\"Why is this seder night any different from seder nights in the Soviet Union?\"\" Will they ever be attracted to a Judaism which deprives them of a traditional Haggada simply because it comes with the \"\"wrong\"\" imprimatur? This is a story about the dangers of acquiescing to religious extremism. As in the case of the original \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" battle, it has to do with power and not piety, with hegemony and not halacha. Unfortunately, the leadership of the Jewish Agency prefers to stay on the sidelines in this historic struggle. As the government in Israel, untroubled by the prospect of economic catastrophe, continues to funnel millions of shekalim in special grants to the religious parties for the purpose of religious absorption of Soviet olim, our own American Jewish leaders decided in February to cease funding all denominational projects for Soviet Jewish absorption. In June, we are now warned, these same leaders will terminate all funding to the religious streams. The sectarians in Israel must be celebrating. The fury briefly unfurled by the liberal sector of American Jewry over \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" has yet to be translated into informed, sustained political action. Nothing strains the fabric of Jewish unity today more than the corrupt and parochial religious establishment ensconced in Israel. While the creation of a Jewish state has been an incredible boon for Jews, it has turned out to be decidedly deleterious for Judaism. Given the paralysis of Israeli politics, the only way to challenge this religious monopoly is from abroad. American leadership must not sacrifice religous equality on the altar of political expediency. Ismar Schorsch is chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which serves as the spiritual center for Conservative Judaism worldwide. An Independence Day .message from Israel, jrffc ft'; H !*; i.'iv It By CHAIM HERZOG The 43rd anniversary of Israel's independence is being celebrated at the end of an extraordinary year. The word miracle has become almost commonplace among us. How better can one describe the frustration of Saddam Hussein's plan to burn, gas and devastate much of Israel, as he proclaimed he would and was equipped to do with his supply of non-conventional weapons? How better, too, can one speak of the Second Exodus the great wave of Jews streaming from the Soviet Union to Israel, with some 200,000 arriving in the last 12 months? Yet even miracles take their toll in grief, sacrifice and exertion. Before the brilliant operation of the American-led coalition forces brought Iraq to its knees, theScuds it launched had paralyzed tourism and other aspects of Israel's economy, destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, wounded hundreds of citizens. It was clear that Saddam Hussein hoped to provoke a military response by Israel, with a view to splitting the coalition forces. When the government of Israel refrained from reacting to the cynical maneuver, its policy of restraint won world-wide approval and respect, without diminishing universal conviction as to its deterrent capacity. The efforts of world Jewry.,.must be doubled and trebled in order to face up to the new realities created by the mass movement of the Russian Jewish community to Israel. We dare not fail. Inevitably, post-war efforts to institute a new order in this region will prove to be a difficult and drawn out process, in the course of which the state of Israel will be confronted by very grave challenges. Whoever believes that the Arab states can easily be brought together to reach agreements, ignores the realities of the Arab world a world tom by disputes and inner contradictions, as indeed the Arabs themselves are among the chief victims of murder by Arabs in the intifada here. There is a tendency to see the Arab-Israel situation as the central and most perilous | Letter to the Editor Letters should be relevant, brief and legible, preferably typed double spaced on one side of page. All letters become our property, are printed at our discretion and are subject to editing. Letters should be signed and include a return address and phone number. Are Jewish sensibilities blunted? As is horrifyingly evident, the Kurdish people in Iraq are experiencing a genocidal onslaught. We Jews have rightly insisted the world not forget the Holocaust. We have also repeatedly mentioned that one of the leading factors which allowed the Holocaust to happen was widespread indifference. Yet the Jewish community has not raised its voice to any extent in indignation and outrage over the plight of the Kurds. Do we American Jews live in such comfort that our sensibilities are blunted? Are we so insecure that we dare not tarnish a stunning military victory? Are we so parochial that others' suffering does not cause us concern? With Passover just ended have we already forgotten that we were slaves in Egypt? Peter M. Glick St. Paul conflict in the Middle East indeed, that is the view of the European Community. This view is wrong and it has indeed been proved incorrect many times, especially now in the light of the crisis and war in the Gulf. The Arab-Israel conflict is undoubtedly an important one and efforts must be made to achieve a solution. However, it is far less dangerous than Islamic fundamentalism which menaces not only the countries of this region but also the five Moslem republics of the Soviet Union with their 60 million inhabitants and perhaps countries in East Asia as well. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was not caused by the Israel-Arab conflict, nor was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the Iran-Iraq war and the dismemberment of Lebanon. It is not my intention now to enter into the details of the political arrangements we should like to see. Let us hope that Iraq's attacks on Israel and the restraint practiced by Israel have encouraged a new approach to Israel in some of the Arab countries. We would wish to be able to persuadeour neighbors to imitate the European model perhaps in a joint effort to establish a Middle East Common Market. Actually, almost limitless possibilities for our benefit and that of tne region as a whole are opened by the Russian immigration, which brings with it so many talents, so much knowledge and expertise. The contribution Russian aliya may make to Israel and this region is the external aspect of its significance. In the terms of Jewish history it denotes the rescue of threatened lives, the restoration of their people's heritage and their own identity to a large fraction of the once most creative Jewish community, forcibly cut off for over 70 years from its past and itself. The challenge of absorption is enormous in physical and psychological terms. In these unprecedented circumstances we have the amazing and indeed miraculous opportunity to give new directions to the future of our people and of Israel. Enormous effort and resources must be involved in the ad-equateabsorptionofhundredsof thousands, perhaps eventually as many as a million, Soviet Jews in addition to the remarkable Ethiopian aliya. What has already been done had to be the fruit of partnership between Israel and world Jewry which is reaching new dimensions in voluntary self-taxation. Great things have been accomplished in Israel, though we sadly admit to some failings and disturbing aspects. There is immediate need for tens of thousands of housing units and job opportunities. Increased employment depends, we know, on new industries, businesses, and research institutions: these will call for billions in investment capital still another challenge to the world Jewish community, as to Israel. It is essential that the world Jewish community respond to this challenge. Its response, however impressive, is still very inadequate. History will never forgive our generation if we fail to meet this great challenge. The efforts of world Jewry, as indeed the efforts of the people of Israel, must be doubled and trebled in order to face up to the new realities created by the mass movement of the Russian Jewish community to Israel. We dare not fail. It is the duty of every member of the Jewish community throughout the world to realize the weight of responsibility which rests on him or her. We must succeed and we will succeed, because I believe that world Jewry will yet rise to the occasion, lest future generations condemn us for not standing up to the test and so missing an extraordinary rendezvous with destiny. *** Chaim Herzog is the president of Israel. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APR|L19,1991 Forward is finalist in Pulitzer polling NEW YORK OTA) The Forward was one of three finalists for a 1991 Pulitzer Prize in the category of distinguished editorial writing, the 94-year-old Jewish newspaper, now an English-language weekly, reported after the --------------------------------- prizes were announced April 9. Harold Ostroff, the Forward chair who submitted the name of editor Seth Lipsky to the Pulitzer Prize Board for consideration, said the near miss itself was an honor. MONUMENTS AND MARKERS We Do Hebrew Lettering Designed & Lettered Locally in our Own Plant TWIN CITY MONUMENT CO. Contact Morrie Toretsky 4827 Minnetonka Blvd. St. Louis Park, Mn. 920-4738 John Phillips, Neil Gitlin 1133 University Ave. St. Paul, Mn. 646-1546 Update St. Paul Lucille and Burt Garr announce the engagement of their daughter Jodi Garr to Daniel Saltzman, son of Flory and Jack Saltzman of Panama. Jodi is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota w child psychology and works at the Children's Home Society in St. Paul. Dan is a recent graduate ot the University of Minnesota medical school and is in a surgical residency program at the U of M. An October wedding is planned. Shir Tikvah becomes partner in Mazon UPCOMING The 36th annual Interfaith Tea will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at Temple of Aaron. This year's theme is \"\"Interfaith: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.\"\" The keynote speaker is Rabbi Bernard Raskas, emeritus of Temple of Aaron, speaking on \"\"Can We Be Loyal to Our Faith and Yet Respectful of the Beliefs of Others?\"\" *** The St. Paul JCC Active Seniors will take part in a Shabbat dinner 6 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the St. Paul JCC. Open to JCC members. Call 698-0751 for information. *** Writing With Wisdom, a writing workshop for seniors, will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the St. Paul JCC. Workshop presentations will include writing memoirs, creating characters, keeping journals and others. Cost is $15. Call 292-3260 for details. St-** Dr. Richard Rudolph will talk about \"\"Nationalism's Revival: The Soviet Republics and Eastern Europe,\"\" 7:30 p.m. T uesday, April 30, at the JCC. Rudolph is a professor in the departments of history and Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Minnesota. To register by April 26 call 698-0751. *** The St. Paul chapter of Hadassah will hold its annual Youth Aliya meeting noon Wednesday, May 8 at Temple of Aaron, featuring The Best of Melody Minyon presenting their most popular songs. The program is preceded by a gourmet lunch comprised of dishes to be included inthe \"\"TasteofHadassah\"\" cookbook. Call Dolly Sunshine, 698-9403, for information and reservations. Shir Tikvah of St. Paul enrolled this month as a partner-congregation in Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. The new partnership brings to 660 the number of Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist and Reform congregations throughout the country that conduct appeals for Mazon during Passover and the High Holy days to help combat hunger. Founded five years ago, Mazon's concept is to ask Jewish families celebrating a joyous event a wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzva, birthday or anniversaryto add a self-imposed 3 percent tax to the cost of the function and contribute it to Mazon to help the fight against hunger. The funds raised are given to established agencies, irrespective of denomination, that feed poor people throughout the world. Parenting expert to speak STUDENTS HOLD MODEL SEDER Students from the St. Pau Talmud Torahs North Suburban Branch afternoon school listened a: executive director Rony Szleifer discussed the significance of thi Passover seder. Shown are (I to r) Joshua Oelker, Molly Lane Jennifer Raffe, Tara Francke and Joshua Rolnitzky. Tony Levine named triple-A winner Tony Levine has been named winner of the Academics, Arts and Athletics program. The Triple-A Award is co-spon-sored by the Minnesota State High School League and the American Automobile Association Clubs of Minnesota. The award is given annually to high school seniors with 3.5 or better grade-point averages who take part in League-sponsored athletic programs and fine arts activities such as theater or music. Tony, son of Marvin and Harriet Levine, isa senior at Highland Park Senior High. Robert and Ellenjoy Fields, Newton, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter Cathy Anne Fields to Steven Friedman, son of Sam and Susan Friedman, Baltimore, Md. Cathy received her bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and works for Gitano Corporation. She is the granddaughter of Rose Fields, Chestnut Hill, Mass, and the late Leonora Greenberg, St. Paul. Steven received his bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and works as a sales representative in the Boston area. He is the grandson of Estelle Danziger, of Margate, Fla. An October wedding is planned. *** Garr Saltzman UJFC DRESSES UP The Young Women's Division of the United Jewish Fund and Council will sponsor a program, Dressing for Career, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at the St. Paul JCC. The program will feature clothes and accessories for the work place and home. Refreshments will be served. For details call 690-1707. Shown are (standing, I to r) Esther Lerman, Joni Lipschultz Burg; (seated) Lisa Lane and Elaine Johnson. Adele Faber, internationally known author and parenting expert, will lead a conferenceon \"\"How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk,\"\" from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at the St. Paul JCC. Faber, with ElaineMazlish, wrote \"\"Liberated Parents/Liberated Children,\"\" which received the Christopher Award and was selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. The book describes the authors' experiences in 10 years of parent-guidance groups with the late child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott. Faber's second and third books have been among the top ten best sellers in the field of child care. The conference is designed for parents, teachers and other adults working with children. Fee is $8 per person or $12 per couple; a I BIRTH Henry and Susan Garelick, Newton, Mass., announce thebirth of their son Benjamin David, June 29. The grandparents are Robert and Ellenjoy Fields, Newton, and David and Judith Garelick, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Greatgrandmothers are Rose Fields, Chestnut Hill; Essie Spritzer, Montclair, N.J.; and the late Leonora Greenberg, St. Paul. check is your reservation. Conference registration begins at 12:30 p.m. Call 698-0751 for information. 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The Panim el Panim program brings Jewish high school students from across the nation to Washington for a uniquely Jewish introduction to how the government really works and how they can become more actively involved citizens. Panim el Panim is a program of The Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, an educational foundation sponsoring seminars on public policy and Jewish values. Aaron Kohen, Mara Levin, Nicole Perlman, Rachel Raviv, Charles Sherman and Ronit Siegel joined students from Connecticut. During their four days in Washington the students met with government officials, policy-makers and Jewish leaders to learn more about the policy debate on issues such as Israel, hunger and homelessness, church and state, and nuclear arms. The students heard from representatives of the Americans for Democratic Action, Freedom Alliance, Professional Coalition on Nuclear Arms, the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Luther Place Church, and Food ALFRED GOTTSCHALK T O SPEAK Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), will speak during Friday night services 8 p.m. April 26 at Temple Israel. HUC-JIR is the academic and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. Research and Action Council. Highlights of the program were a briefing at the Israeli Embassy by Warren Edelman, a model Knesset and representatives from Operation Exodus and the University Student Department of the American Zionist Youth Federation. Stuart Eizenstat, former domestic policy adviser to the Carter administration, gave the keynote address on \"\"Jews and the Political Process.\"\" The distinctive feature of Panim el Panim is not just that students meet with important people to discuss serious issues, but that they learn about Jewish sources in relation to these issues. 'The program has made me think in ways other than I normally would have,\"\" said Nicole Perlman. \"\"I valuethejewish leadership.\"\" The program is designed to show the relevance of traditional Jewish sources to world issues and to inspire a new generation of Jews to think about the future leadership roles in public affairs and Jewish community relations. \"\"I learned more about my country's government than all my years in school,\"\" said Rachel Raviv. \"\"It was like an application of all the concepts I have been studying in school. It was an education that can't compare with anything else.\"\" Bnai Emet Men to hold breakfast A special post-season Men's Club breakfast will be held following 9:30 a.m. services Sunday, April 21 at B'nai Emet Synagogue. It will be sponsored by Susan and Sol Awend, who will speak on \"\"Achieve Spirituality Decorate and Dedicate.\"\" Harlan Miller will preside. Middle East the focus of Adath program Stephen Feinstein and Michel Legall will be the featured speakers at a program entitled \"\"Nations of the Middle East Face the Future,\"\" tobeheld 7:30 p.m.Thursday, April 25 at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. This program is the opening session of a Middle East perspectives series at the synagogue. Feinstein, a frequent speaker and media resourceon the MiddleEast, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, specializing in the Middle East, Israel and the Holocaust. Legall is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Ottawa rabbi to be Kenesseth Israels scholar Rabbi Reuven Bulka, spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, Canada, will be the scholar-in-residence at Kenesseth Israel Congregation for the weekend of April 26-28. Bulka is the founder and editor of the Journal of Psychology and Judaism. Bulka will speak 9 p.m. Friday on \"\"Jewish Marriage Ethics,\"\" preceded by a 7:30 p.m. Shabbat meal. On Saturday afternoon there will be a Seuda Shlishit at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. Bulka will speak on 'The Psychology of Halacha in Marriage How Halacha Programs Specific Norms for Marriage That Enhance It.\"\" Following 7:45 p.m. Mincha, Bulka will deliver a sheur on 'The Sanctity of the Marital Union.\"\" Bulka will also deliver a lecture entitled \"\"Sex Ethics ajudaic Perspective\"\" 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28. All lectures will be held at Kenesseth Israel and are made possible by the Toby Mintz Memorial Fund. St. Paul rabbis to present symposium The St. Paul Board of Rabbis will present a symposium on 'The Meaning of Israel in Our Lives\"\" from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at Temple of Aaron in St. Paul. The program will include the topics: \"\"Love oflsrael inthejewish Tradition\"\" presented by Rabbis Morris Allen, Julie Gordon, Stacy Offner and Leonard Schoolman; \"\"Israel and the Palestinians: An Element of the Arab/Israeli Conflict\"\" presented by Prof. Richard Kagan, Hamline University; \"\"Personal Reflections on My Recent Six Months in Jerusalem\"\" presented by Rabbi Irvin Wise. There will bean open discussion and refreshments. Ad mission is free and reservations are requested at 698-8874. Psychiatrist to speak at Mt. Zion Interfaith Choral Festival set For the first time in the Twin Cities, the Greater Minneapolis, St. Paul Area, and Minnesota Councils of Churches will co-sponsor an Interfaith Choral Festival. It is their contribution to the \"\"World of Difference\"\" program. The concert will be held 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28 and will be hosted by the Basilica of Saint Mary, Hennepin and 16th St., in Minneapolis. Over 400 singers from choirs of different religious traditions will participate, including the combined choirs of six synagogues under the direction of Cantor Morton Kula of Adath Jeshurun. Tickets are $8 ($5 for seniors and students) and available at the Minnesota Church Center, 122 W. Franklin, Room 218, Minneapolis, MN 55404; and at the St. Paul Church Center, 1671 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, Concert at Temple of Aaron The Temple of Aaron Men's Club will present a musical concert 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the synagogue. The concert will feature talented young members of the synagogue's youth organization, including vocalists, a pianist and a violinist. Cost is$2.50. Tickets may be purchased at the synagogue office, 698-8874. Noted psychiatrist and author Prof. Brian L. Weiss will speak during 10:45 a.m. Saturday services, April 27, at Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul. Weiss' book \"\"Many Lives, Many Masters,\"\" published by Simon and Schuster, has stimulated renewed interest in past life therapy as a psychiatric technique. New Americans who have emi- grated to St. Paul from the Soviet Union will be welcomed at a special Shabbat service 8 p.m. Friday, April 19 at Mt. Zion Temple. Major portions of the service will be in Russian and will be read by New Americans. Musical portions of the worship will be rendered by the Senior Russian Choir of the St. Paul JCC. Q: IN PAIN? A: 541-1280 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE - Auto Injuries Work Injuries Sport Injuries Insurance Claims Family Health Care 1 CHAILAIVAkICHKUL DR. JO G. THEISEN DR. ARLEN J. UEBERMAN CHIROPRACTIC ORTHOPEDIST lieberman chiropractic HEALTH CENTER GOLDEN VALLEY SPORTS CLINIC WHIPLASH & TRAUMA CENTER OF MINNESOTA com PFDAR LAKE RD. ST. LOUIS PARK 55416 ST LOUIS PARK GOLDEN VALLEY MINNETONKA PLYMOUTH NEW HOPE-WAYZATA Synagogue Services MINNEAPOLIS ADATH JESHURUNFriday: 8 p.m. Rabbis Barry Cytron and Harold Kravitz, and Cantor Morton Kula. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Saturday: 9:30 a.m.; 7:15 p.m. Mincha. BAIS YISROEL Friday: 6:20 p.m.; 7:45 p.m. Rabbi Moshe Lieff. Saturday: 8:30 a.m.; 7:30 p.m. Mincha. BETSHALOM Friday:8p.m. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Rabbi Norman Cohen. Saturday: 10 a.m. BETH EL Friday: 5:45 p.m. Mincha/Maariv. Rabbis Kassel Abelson and Hayim Herring, and Cantor Neil Newman. Saturday: 8:40 a.m.; 5:45 p.m. Mincha/ Maariv. B'NAI EMET Friday: 6 p.m. Rabbi Howard Siegel and Cantor Shalom Markovits. Saturday: 8:45 a.m. HILLEL Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Rabbi Irvin Wise. KENESSETH ISRAEL Friday: 6:25 p.m. Rabbi Jerome Herzog. Saturday:9a.m.;7:45p.m. Mincha, followed by Talmud class and 8:46 p.m. Maariv. MAGEN DAVID SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION Friday: 6:25 p.m. Rabbi S.D. Bouskila. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 7:45 p.m. Mincha. SHAREI CHESED Friday: 7 p.m. Rabbi Barry Woolf. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 10:30 a.m. children's class; 7 p.m. Mincha. TEMPLE ISRAEL Friday: 8 p.m. Rabbis Joseph Black and Marcia Zimmerman, and Cantor Barry Abelson. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Guest speaker Rabbi Herman Schaalman, rabbi emeritus of Emanuel Congregation in Chicago: \"\"Israel in Its World.\"\" Saturday: 9:15 a.m.; 11:15 a.m. ST. PAUL ADATH ISRAEL Friday: 7:45 p.m. Rabbi Asher Zeilingold. Saturday: 9:30 a.m.; 7:40 p.m. Mincha, followed by Maariv. BETH JACOB Friday: 6 p.m. Rabbi Morris Allen. Saturday: 8:30 a.m. learner's minyan; 9 a.m. service. MOUNT ZION Friday:8p.m. Rabbis Leonard Schoolman and Cheryl Rosenstein. Yom Ha'atzmaut service and salute to New Soviet Americans. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Torah study; 10:45 a.m.; 5:45 p.m. Havdala. SHAARE SHALOM Friday: 8 p.m. with Lou Leichter and Die Kinder at the Leichter home, 909 Mendakota Court, Mendota Heights. SHIR TIKVAH Friday: 7:30 p.m. children's service; 8 p.m. service with Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration at the St. Paul JCC. Rabbi Stacy Offner. TEMPLE OF AARON Friday: 8 p.m. Mishpacha service. Rabbis Jonathan Ginsburg and Julie Gordon, and Cantor Mitchell Kowitz. Gordon sermon: \"\"Israel at 43.\"\" Saturday: 9:15 a.m.; 6 p.m. Mincha. ROCHESTER B'NAI ISRAEL Friday:8p.m. services. Rabbi David Freedman with songleader Renee Fellman. CHABAD-LUBAVITCH Friday: Sunset. Rabbi Dovid Greene. DULUTH ADAS ISRAEL Friday: 7:30 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 7:40 p.m. Mincha; 8:30 p.m. Maariv. TEMPLE ISRAEL Friday: 7:15 p.m. family service. Israel Independence Day observance. Rabbi Anthony Holz. Saturday: 10 a.m. LIGHT CANDLES 7:47 P.M. Lake Calhoun CoHelatifl Muni 24 FRIENDLY UNITS QUIET & CLEAN REASONABLE RATES FREE CABLE TV 4025 Hwy 7, Mpls. 612-926-6575 In St. Louis Park across from the Lincoln Del The Parents' Association of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School Invites you to attend COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL Tuesday, April 23,1991 7:30 p.m. Join Nachama Moskowitz, principal of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, for coffee and conversation. Questions will be answered relating to the school's educational program and philosophy, standardized testing, assessment, and other areas of interest, The program is being held at the school (4330 Cedar Lake Road: the JCC building). Call for additional information 374-5650. The Minneapolis Jewish Day School Teaching the mind Touching the heart ...Creating our Future Fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. A beneficiary of the Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service APRIL 19,1991 Update Minneapolis UPCOMING Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter is offering volunteer advocacy training6 to 9 p.m. April 23,25,30 and May 2 at Pillsbury House in Minneapolis. Training develops advocacy skills to provide service for battered women and their children. For information or to register call Vicki Katz, 827-6105. *** Dr. Edy Kaufman, director of the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew Univeristy, will speak on The Relevance of Democracy for Middle East Peace, 8 p.m. Sunday, April 21 at the Minneapolis JCC. *** Hadassah's Szold Study Group will hear Sybil Rubin review Chaim Potok's \"\"The Gift of Asher Lev,\"\" 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the home of Leslie Gardner, 9513 BriarCircle, Bloomington. Call544-5318 for details. *** Nilva Dansky Neff JWV Ladies Auxiliary 331 will meet 11 a.m. Sunday, April 21 for brunch at the St. Louis Park City Hall, 5005 Minnetonka Blvd. *** Herb Basser, professor of religion at the University of Toronto, will speak at the U of M 10 a.m. Thursday, April 25 in Nicholson Hall. *** Dale Carnegie graduate and top salesperson Rita Friedman will speak to the Corporate and Professional Organization (CPO) 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at the offices of Lurie, Besikof and Company. She will use interactive workshop techniques to discuss \"\"Using a Positive Attitude to Cope with Change.\"\" For directions call 593-2600. Talmud Torah The annual meeting of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9 at B'nai Emet Synagogue in conjunction with the 25th Annual Goldenberg Family Lecture. Dr. Alvin Schiff, chief executive officer of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, will speak on \"\"Rx for the Jewish Community: Keeping Our Heads Above Water.\"\" Call 935-0316 for details. Nominated for three year terms for directors-at-large are: Pearl Berdass, Gress Corwim, Cynthia Goldfine, Marvin Goldstein, Michael Hofkin, Howard Kauffman, Sharon Kieffer, Morris Kleiner, Shelly Kornblum, Rollye Rinkey, Joanne Savitt, Marjorie Shapiro, Sandy Striker. annual meeting Nominated for one year appointments are: Dr. Wendy Bach, Alan Frailich, Stephanie Hirshfeld, Andrea Kibort, Louise Kloner, Meryll Page, Ben Rischall, Dona Rodich, Renee Selnick, George Seitz, Artice Silverman, Marcy Strauss. The nominating committee was chaired by Rivel Greenberg and included Rita Cook, Charles Marks, George Seitz, Myron Striker, Dr. Joyce Warshawsky. The membership of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis consists of, among others, parents of Talmud Torah students, members of the Talmud Torah Association, and members in good standing of the Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service. B'NAI MITZVA Upcoming speakers Professor Edy Kaufman, former head of the Hebrew Universitys Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace, will speak on Peace The Mission of Hebrew University, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 21 at Oak Ridge Country Club. Fee is $10. The National Council of Jewish Women Central District Conference will be held April 25-28 at the Hotel Sofitel in Minneapolis. At a 7 p.m. dinner Saturday, April 27 NCJW National President Joan Bronk will address the delegates. JCC announces new campsite, teen trek The Minneapolis JCC has announced that construction is set to begin this month on its new Ackerberg Family Campsite, located on the grounds adjacent to the JCC building. The site will include an amphitheater, new activity shelters, an on-site camp office, a half-basketball court and a sand volleyball court. *** A new Teen Travel Trek program for kids entering grades 7-9 will comprise two four-week sessions, each including three weeks of day trips around theTwin Cities for those whom we love and remember individually designed and manufactured by Minneapolis Granite & Marble Co. 4400 Chicago Avenue 822-3135 T . Jeff Kivens 8:30-5:00 Weekdays Evenings by appointment and one week \"\"on the road.\"\" The first session's week-long trip is to St. Louis, and the second is to Chicago. *** The JCC will hold a dinner and parent information session 5:15 p.m. Sunday, April 28. The evening will include games and camp activities for the children during the information session. Camp Yomi, Camp Tarbut (for the arts), Camp Maccabi (for sports) Camp Migvan, and the new Teen Travel Trek will be discussed. The dinner is free. There is a $5 photo processing fee for all social announcements, which must be paid in advance. Dear Sir, Thanks for the visas! Hope they left you some bagels. If not, call... fijjfl New York Bakery kLStaKJafl atoQasJk. and Bagels 8128 Minnetonka Blvd. Mikhail Gorbachev St.Louis Park, MN Moscow 1 -612-933-3535 U.S.S.R. \"\"A Strictly Kosher Bakery\"\" Jason Alan Grais, son of Carol Beth and Jim Grais, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzva Saturday at Adathjeshurun Synagogue. Jason will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in his honor by his grandmothers Etheldoris Grais and Phyllis Diamond; greatgrandmother Sophie Diamond Goldberg; grandfathers, the late Arnold Grais andjames Diamond. Jason will share his Bar Mitzva with Yulav, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. Heather Witebsky, daughter of Judy and Stephen Witebsky, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday at Beth El Synagogue. Heather will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in her honor by her grandparents Sharon and Sherman Rackner,Judy andSheldon Witebsky, and great-grandmothers Sally Charney and Gertrude Lapides. Heather will share her Bat Mitzva with Anzhela Shalomova, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. Adam Jason Ross, son of Francie and Barry Ross, will be called to theTorah as a Bar Mitzva Saturday at Temple Israel. Adam will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in his honor by his grandparents, Connie and Paul Ross. Writer, reporter Karlen to speak Minneapolis-based feature writer, reporter and author Neal Karlen will speak on \"\"Getting the Impossible Interview,\"\" at the fifth annual Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund Program, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. Since becoming a reporter for Newsweek in 1982, Karlen has worked as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone; his work appears in Esquire, Gentlemen's Quarterly, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Washington Post. The Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund was established in 1986 in honor of Howie Stillman, who died of cancer at age 23. Ginna Schwartz, daughter of Jan and Alan Schwartz, Edina, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday at Bet Shalom Congregation. Ginna will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat. Ginna is the granddaughter of Lila Clarren and Selma Schwartz, and the late David Clarren and Dr. E. Robert Schwartz. She is the great-granddaughter of Pearl Reifel and the late Leo J. Reifel. Ginna will share her Bat Mitzva with Tatiana Taveyrozin, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. BIRTH Joshua and Susan Schneckand daughter Gabrielle announce the birth of their son and brother Jack Anthony Schneck on Jan. 25. Paternal grandparents are Marian Schneck and the late Dr. Jack I. Schneck. Maternal grandparents are Eugene and Antoinette Hunstiger. FINEST middle EASTERN FOODS\"\" Middle Eastern Cuisine Authentic fresh homemade food! Also, vegetarian dishes! Serving Wine and Beer DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL 11 a.m.-2p.m. Open 7 Days a Week! 1IAM-11PM 1518 Nicollet Ave. So., Mpls. 871-8883 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD The family that plays together... Ellie Covin finished this season The Covins (I to r): Heather, Dr. Neil and Ellie. at Robbinsdale Armstrong as captain of the tennis team. The 18-year-old senior was also all-conference. Sixteen-year-old Heather Covin was all-conference in tennis as a sophomore. Their father, Dr. Neil Covin, played varsity tennis at Minneapolis North and the University of Minnesota, and their mother, Ann Covin, ran marathons before her knees went bad. For Ellie, who has been playing since sixth grade, this was the third year on the varsity at Armstrong and her first as captain and number one singles player. \"\"I felt pressure because 1 was number one and everyone was really good,\"\" she said. During the school year, the elder Covin daughter keeps busy with tennis four times per week, Hebrew school at Talmud Torah, aerobics and jogging. During the summer she used to play softball and now umpires. In spite of this she still maintains a 3.5 GRA and has been accepted to both Syracuse and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She hopes to study communications or psychology. Heather Covin has also been playing tennis since sixth grade, in her first year at Armstrong she has already made the varsity team as a singles player and is holding her GPA to match at around 3.5. She keeps busy during the week with Hebrew school at Talmud Torah, softball, skiing and jogging \"\"when I have nothing better to do,\"\" she said. Series to feature films on Jewish interests The University Film Society's 9th Annual Rivertown International Film Festival will feature several films of special interest to Jewish groups. At. 9 p.m. Thursday, May 2 \"\"The Mission of Raoul Wallenberg\"\" (USSR, 1990) will be shown in the Bell Auditorium at the U of M. The film represents the first Soviet attempt to discover the true fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis. *** 'To Jerusalem\"\" (Austria, 1990) will show 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in the Nicholson Hall Auditorium. This documentary takes a journey along the road to Jerusalem. *** The story of a Jewish family in small-town 1930s Germany, \"\"All Jews Out\"\" will be shown 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in Nicholson Hall. *** \"\"Stupidity orCrime?\"\" (Sweden, 1990), by Jewish director Maj Wechselmann, probes the profiteers, collaborators and resi stance in Nazi-occupied Scandinavia. It will be shown 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 in Nicholson Hall. *** \"\"Europa, Europa\"\" tells the true story of a young German J ew who spends WWI1 disguised as a German soldier. It will be shown 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2 in the Bell Auditorium. For details call the 24-hour festival phone line, 627-4430. Dr. Covin, a periodontist, coached softball at the Chicago Junior Maccabea in 1988 and tennis at the 1990 Junior Maccabea in Detroit. He plays tennis with his daughters and while Ellie said \"\"we could never beat my dad,\"\" it almost seems a goal for the father. \"\"I'd like to see them beat me. I'd love it, \"\" said Dr. Covin. During the summer, Dr. Covin has coached softball for the last eight years, but thinks this may be his last year as it is the final year that one of his daughters will be a competitor. The family are members of both B'nai Emet and Temple Israel, and Ellierecently went to Israel on the Alexander Muss program, \"\"during the school year so 1 wouldn't miss the tennis tournaments during the summer,\"\" she said. Heather is hoping to go soon and their father is in favor of it. \"\"She (Ellie) did better in school after she came back,\"\" he said. As for the future, Heather is hoping to do well in school but also have fun. Ellie would rather do well in school and just play tennis for fun. As for Dr. Covin, he just hopes they stay active together. A Wallpaper Sale So Big, The Only Way To Get It Cheaper Is To Steal It. Buy a single roll of in-stock wallpaper at the Mfr. retail price and take home the double roll! Thru April 29 UEBEEMAN ^INTERIORS -5 Wallpaper & Window Fashions Roseville, 631-3520 1955 W. Co. Rd. B2 1 blk. W. of Rosedale Burnsville, 892-5558 1244 W. Co. Rd. 42 Next to Children's Palace Richfield, 861-6131 6433 Penn Ave. So. 2 Biles. So. of Crosstown Two Professional Positions Available at the JCC of Omaha Two excellent entry level positions are available for individuals who have a desire to work with Jewish youth. One posi tion is with children ages 5-12, working hands on in before/after school, vacation, and camping programs. The other position is with teenagers as director of the local BB YO program and with other teenage activities. We re looking forenthusiastic college graduates who have excellent talent in relating to both youth and adults. Beginning salary in the low 20s plus benefits. If either of these positions seems to be right for you, please send your resume to Jeffrey Aizenberg, Executive Director, JCC of Omaha, 333 S. 132nd Street., Omaha, NE 68154. PAGE 9 Water flows anew through Herodian conduit in Jerusalem NEW YORK (JTA) As a result of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem, water is once again flowing in a 2,000-year-old conduit built in the time of Herod the Great. The excavations were conducted at Ramat Hanadiv by the Hebrew JNF announces luncheon series The Jewish National Fund has announced its 1991 Lawyers Luncheon series, starting noon Wednesday, April 24 in the law offices of Leonard, Street and Deinard, 150 S. 5th St., Suite 300, Minneapolis. The speakerwill be Rabbi Morris Allen, of Beth Jacob Congregation. He is chair of the St. Paul United Jewish Appeal Soviet Jewry Resettlement Committee and holds a master's degree in social work. He will speak on \"\"Soviet Jews in America and Israel.\"\" There is no charge, but a kosher box lunch may be ordered for $5. RSVP by calling 938-6653. University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology. The 55-yard-long stone-lined conduit, dating from the Second Temple period, was discovered in well-preserved condition by an archaeological team headed by Dr. Yizhar Hirschfeld. Hidden under layers of mud and dirt and paved with stones typical of the Herodian era, the conduit has a channel about 8 inches wide. When in use it was supplied with fresh water from the nearby Ein Zur spring. According to Hirschfeld, as soon as the area was cleared and the conduit was revealed, water began flowing through it just as it had 2,000 years ago. Uncovering the conduit led to the discovery of a nearby tunnel from which the spring emerged. The archaeologists also uncovered a reservoir fed by the Herodian-era system. The stonewalled reservoir, measuring 36 by 39 feet and 6-1/2 feet deep, was found among the ruins of an ancient village. Jewish National Fund is the land. Q. What is the Jewish National Funds top land reclamation priority? A. The preparation of land for 70,000 housing sites for Soviet Jewish immigrants. Q. Great! How can I help? A. By contributing to the Operation Promised Land campaign today! Q. What is land reclamation? A. The development of land for housing. industry, agriculture and recreation. Q. Which agency is solely responsible for reclaiming Israels land? A. The Jewish National Fund. 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MICHAEL LYNNES TENNIS SHOP MIRACLE MILE SHOPPING CENTER. 5007 Excelsior Blvd. St. Louis Park, MN 55416 (612)926-1520 PAGE 10 Death Notices MINNEAPOLIS Fay Kleinfeld age 92. Wife of the late Herschel Kleinfeld. Mother of Irving Kleinfeld, Marian Schneck, Tamara Selden, Blossom Carlton, Naomi Lerner. Survived by 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Memorials preferred to Hadassah. Janet F. Kroll age 98, of San Francisco and formerly of Minneapolis, died April 9. Services were April 14. She was a journalist for 65 years, who worked for the Minneapolis Star and the American Jewish World as a columnist, writer of ShabbosSchmooz. Died of natural causes at the Jewish Home for the Aged in San Francisco. A native of Suvalki, Poland, she moved to Minneapolis when she was 10. After retiring she lived in Palo Alto, Calif, and moved to San Francisco last year. She graduated from the Univeristy of Minnesota in 1914. She went to France as a representative of the Jewish Welfare Board during WW1 and was a lifetime member of Hadassah. She was the wife of the late Victor Kroll. Survived by two daughters, Leona Vosburgh, St. Louis Park, and Sara Edelstein, of Palo Alto; son Lawrence, of San Francisco, and five grandchildren. Memorials preferred to the Jewish National Fund, 870 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102 for the Janet Kroll Memorial Garden. Newton D. Beugen age 79, of Minneapolis and Naples,Fla.,died Aprill3. Services were April 15 at Temple Israel with Rabbi Max Shapiro and Cantor Barry Abelson. He was the former owner of Latham Howers. Survived by wife Shirley; son and daughter-in-law Sheldon and Joan Beugen, Chicago; daughter and son-in-law Carol and David Schwartz, of Menlo Park, Calif.; grandchildren Sara Beugen; Peter and Thea Schwartz; many nieces and nephews. Memorials are preferred to the American Cancer Society or the donor's favorite charity. Arrangements Hodroff and Sons. Benjamin \"\"Ben\"\" Ryan age 69, of St. Louis Park, died April 8. Services were April 10 at United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery with Rabbi Howard Siegel. Preceded in death by his first wife Claire. Survived by wife Betty; children Steven M., Beth and Scott R.; step-children Douglas and Timothy Moore, and Terri Forsher; six grandchildren; sister Lena Berger; numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials are preferred to the donor's choice. Arrangements Hodroff and Sons. Labor leader Sol Chaikin dead at 73 NEW YORK (JTA) Sol Chaikin, a labor organizer who fought sweatshops, imports and dwindling union membership during a 50-year career devoted almost entirely to improving the lot of garment workers, died here of heart failure at the age of 73. New York State Gov. Mario Cuomo praised his advocacy of \"\"decency and fairness\"\" for all people and observed that Chaikin inspired him and many others \"\"to focus on dreams instead of dilemmas and on opportunity instead of obstacles.\"\" The New York-born union leader who graduated from City College and Brooklyn Law School headed the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1975 to 1986. When he became its president, ILGWU had 430,000 members but was fighting attrition because of non-union shops in the Southern states and low-wage factories in Asia, South America and Europe. Although Chaikin sought to raise public awareness of the loss of jobs to foreign competition, ILGWU membership was down to 220,000 when he retired. It currently has about 175,000 members. The once predominantly Jewish workforce long since gave way to other ethnic groups of more recent immigration. Largest bequest ever made to UJA NEW YORK (JTA) Philanthropist Lucy Goldschmidt Moses, who died in August at the age of 103, left S108 million to the New York UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and six of its agencies. David Sacks, president of UJA-Federation, said it was the \"\"largest bequest to date.\"\" The six UJA-Federation agencies that will benefit from Moses' largess are Montefiore, Mount Sinai and Beth Israel medical centers; the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; the Parker Jewish Geriatric Center; and the Associated YM-YWHA of Greater New York. Moses' will also called for the bequest of another $62 million to other institutions and charities, including Columbia, Yale and New York universities, the New York Public Library and the Central Park Conservancy. 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The Midrash tells the story of a peddler who went to the towns crying out, \"\"Who wants to buy the elixir of life?\"\" and drew huge crowds around him. Rabbi Jannai asked him to sell him some, and the peddler replied \"\"neither you nor people like you require what I have to sell.\"\" The rabbi pressed him and the peddler brought out a book of Psalms and showed him the verse (Psalm 34) which reads: \"\"Who is the man who desires life\"\" and immediately after is written \"\"Keep thy tongue from evil. . .\"\" Said Rabbi Jannai, \"\"All the days of my T Viavro roar! fnic; Torah Thought for the Week Rabbi Asher Zeilingoid Adath Israel Synagogue, St. Paul, Sponsor not understand it fully until this peddler came and made it clear to me.\"\" The peddler who went about peddling cures and remedies demonstrated to the people that keeping one's tongue from evil gossip is in itself a remedy which insures health and a happy life. People can avoid quarrels, hatreds and worry by always guarding the tongue. Before the coming of the peddler, Rabbi Jannai had interpreted the words, \"\"Who is the man who rlociroc Td(-ay~r\\ncr Fr\\ lifp in the world to come, meaning that he who would keep from evil gos sip on earth would receive his re ward in heaven. It had never occurred to him that it refers to a reward during life on earth f0r guarding one's tongue fr0m speaking evil is not only a good deed, but is also an aid to good health and longevity. Since evil gossip is considered a very serious transgression, it is not only forbidden to speak ill 0f a person, but our sages even warn us against spreading the praise of another, for fear that while extolling his virtues we may come to reveal his shortcomings. The sages say: \"\"Say not, 'Behold I am speaking gossip, but no one knows about it/ for G-d says, 1 stand near you, and record every word you utter/\"\" Let us always remember that every word we speak is eternal, and reaches into the highest places in Heaven to haunt us, or be a merit for us, forever. German director opens old wounds with The Nasty Girl ISEH-s* A MIRAMAX FILMS RELEASE < 1990 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MRAMAX EXCLUSIVE MINNEAPOLIS ENGAGEMENT Starts Friday, April 19 Two Weeks Only Ihennepin & LAKE .825-46441 Nightly: 5:00, 7:15, 9:30; Sat, Sun Mat: 3:00 Of course, said the director, as timeless as the tale of Rosmus is, it would have been even more meaningful had it been possible to tell it earlier. \"\"This film should have been made in 1945,\"\" so that those perpetrating the crimes of the Holocaust would have felt the film's impact directly, he believes. The son of prominent German actor/director Paul Verhoeven (not the same Paul Verhoeven who helmed \"\"Total Recall\"\"), the younger Verhoeven took a circuitous route to film-making. While he showed early interest in acting, turning professional at the age of 11, in later years Verhoeven veered away from the family business, hoping to establish his own career. He did that by studying medicine and becoming a doctor. However, the practicing physician couldn't cure himself of a fascination with film. \"\"Medicine was a marvelous profession,\"\" said Verhoeven of his seven-year practice that began in 1966. \"\"Ilearned more about direct- The Nasty Girl's star Lena Stolze and director Michael Verhoeven with Anna Elizabeth Rosmus, the real Nasty Girl. The film starts today at the Uptown Theater. By MICHAEL ELKIN The horrors of the Holocaust haunt many of those survivors whose psychic wounds have not had time to heal. But then, arguably, some wound s are never meant to close, to seal the past off from the present. Rather, they serve as painful reminders of a German society that nearly bludgeoned an entire people out of existence. Director Michael Verhoeven, a former physician, has put the German people under a microscope in 'The Nasty Girl/' his farcical and effective examination of a fictional German town that tried to cover up its Nazi history. In picking and pokingat the past, Verhoeven has reopened the wounds in a wicked way. He has applied humor as the balm in this story about a young girl whose high school essay about her town's shameful history causes mass hysteria among her neighbors. \"\"The Nasty Girl\"\" is playing at the Uptown Theater, April 19 through May 3. At 52, Verhoeven, who is not Jewish, has a history of concern about the Holocaust. Born in Munich during the war, he saw how Hitler's hate helped wreak destruction on his homeland. Verhoeven has made several films on the topic, most notably 'The White Rose\"\" in the 1980s. But that was in a different decade, long before the director attended a dinner and met Anna Rosmus, whose real-life storyabout her Bavarian town was to serve as inspiration for Verhoeven and net him a cache of critical honors and awards. Current events now position the film as a must-see for Germans whosenewfound freedom includes renewed interest in their past. 'The historical situation has helped the film a lot, said Verhoeven of the impact of German reunification. \"\"It has brought more interest to the topic.\"\" ing from medicine than 1 would in school.\"\" Indeed, medicine taught him patience in exam ining projects. It also taught him how to delve to the very soul of a problem in his search for a solution. \"\"In medicine, you get very close to people,\"\" he explained. \"\"You learn.\"\" The one-time doctor learned it was a good idea to prescribe humor for a film about the lingering legacy of the Holocaust. With The Nasty Girl,\"\" the laughs ease the pain somewhat. What Verhoeven learned about the Holocaust during his youth was not enough, he said. The fury unleashed by Adolf Hitler and Nazism had made littledent in German educational material: 'Teachers did not talk much about what happened.\"\" Verhoeven regrets his homeland's attempts to hide its history. \"\"We lost the opportunity,\"\" he said of his fellow Germans, \"\"to see what happened. We pushed it aside quickly. That still hurts.\"\" But the pain is assuaged by what Verhoeven is now doing for a living. Using the Holocaust as his films' frame of reference, Verhoeven directs the attention of world wide audiences to a time best not forgotten. \"\"I have no fears about a neo-Nazi movement in Germany today; it is so small,\"\" said the director. \"\"It is the people who are not interested in anything at all, those Germans who do not care, they are the people I worry about.\"\" Those Germans, said Verhoeven, can be molded too easily, and might have their opinions shaped to the whims of a dictator. ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR! ! exhilarating: -Tom Jacobs, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS naslygjrl A PROVOCATIVE COMEDY ABOUT SECRETS AND SURPRISES. A film by MICHAEL VWHOCVEN APRIL 19, 1991 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD PAGE 11 _________________________Classifieds_______________________________ Only $1.50 per line (about 6-7 words). Minimum order $9. Deadline is 12 p.m. Thursday, eight days before publication. Call 920-7000. 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to ? dinner. I am attractive, 5 4 . Call me. Box #36209 SJM, 29, professional, fun, intelligent and kind, interested in movies, sports, romance and wadis around the lakes., seeks non-smoking, 22-32 SJF with similar interests. Lets get together. Send note and phone to Box #36197 Widowed Jewish Male, late 50a, who is talk blond, educated and with e\"\"0arnmufel2y*^ carina desires amorous woman to be his pest S'an? companion All ages answered because I care. Box #36191 DJF, almost 40, light-hearted, yetsincere, artsy, yet practical, traditional yet making it in the 90s, selective, yet an incurable romantic. Im petite, attractive & love the out-of-doors. Im looking for an intelligent man who is emotionally and financially secure, who takes care of himself (I exercise regularly) who knows how to have fun and enjoys a loving relationship with a woman (hopefully me). Please send letter & phone number. Box #36198 SJM, nonobservant and unaffiliated. Smoke a lot & drink moderately but otherwise mostly moral & healthy. I'd like to meet attractive, childless 3040 y.o. woman, who is employed, independent, humorous, sensuous, healthy & under 150 lbs. Im 5\"\" 11\"\", 180 lbs., dark, almost handsome, politically liberal & small business owner. Love movies, comedy, fine dining & animals. Phone number & photo. Box #36204 DJF, late 40s, attractive & cheerful in need of a playmate. Enjoys walking outdoors, fishing in the warm weather, different ethnic foods, movies, music and board games. I would like to hear from a SJM with similar interests and a good sense of humor, who is educated, self supporting, sensual and an all around nice person. If you are this person, please hurry and answer. Spring is on the way and we dont want to miss a minute. Box #36195 DJM, 60year8,5' 111/2\"\", 175 lbs., not bad looking with everything working. Semi retired, faculty member Metropolitan State U., Management Department. Enjoys walking, loves music, theater, & all the arts. Most of all, I love home entertainment, warm, caring, very loving. Want to meet attractive, slim and emotionally secure SJF, 50 plus for a real-relationship. One who cares about people. I have something to offer to the right lady who MUST BE HONEST AND FOR REAL Box #36196 Vivacious, SJF, 28, seeks SJM, 27-36, to share the joys of life. I would like to meet someone who is willing to develop a relationship with heart and soul. My interests include music, movies, theatre, sports and finding out what the Twin Cities has to offer. If you want to meet an intelligent and beautiful woman with a warm personality and a dazzling smile, send me a note with your number. Box #36199 French speaking, SJF, 39, nice and young looking, slim, stylish, airline employee, wishes to meet a refinea gentleman. Willing to relocate. Please send descriptive letter. 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At my best, Im honest, straightforward, assertive, & fiercely loyal; at my worst I can be strong-willed and self-centered. Usually Im fun, friendly, sometimes slightly silly, witn interests from opera to country music, ballroom dancing to rock climbing. If youd like to start with friendship and be open to other options, let's talk. Box #36201 SJF, 38, seeks SJM (32-44) mate. . after some time, some fun!, a bit of hassle, a bunch of communication, & a getting to know of our individual and paralleling lives. Love living in the country, visiting the city, dancing, adventuring, reading, entrepreneuring, creative cooking, compromise & peace. My spirit & life have taken my own rich path. Please write about yours. Box #36194 SJM on my way up and don't want to get married yet. Successful, attractive, caring, compassionate, fun, diverse, and sometimes naughty. Jazz to pop. Filet minion to fast food. Champagne to soda. Ties to t-necks. Dancing to relaxing. You are 21 to 26, ambitious, goal oriented, trim, striking, looking for fun. Personality, and the will to be naughty once in a while are REQUIRED along with your picture and note. Box #36185 I am a SJF, 24, non-smoker, looking for a SJM 24-30 to become a new friend and to do fun things together like going to a sporting event, a movie or walk around the lake or just talk. If you are that SJM, dont waste another minute, time is precious. Box #36182 46 DJF is wondering: Are there men who have a strong personality & character, but yet know when to be vulnerable & understanding? We both know what it takes to be a friend, lover & confident. We are attractive & yet have the maturity to know that this also grows with getting to know each other. Humor, warmth & the ability to be totally natural & craziness are important Box #36187 Why I like my cousin (a 35 y.o SJF): She laughs a lot, lives in her body, cheers me up when Im sad. Shes smart and reads interesting books. Shes one of the people in my family who makes a Shabbat dinner warm and thoughtprovoking. Shed like to get marriedshe's ready for another bear in her cfen, and some cubs. So write to her. Box #36205 SJM, 33 years old, 5' 8\"\", 150 lbs. I enjoy movies, sports playing & watching, eating out & walks around the lakes. Looking for a girl who likes to stay in shape & must have a sense of humor. If you are between 28-38, please send me a note, photo & number. Box 36206 SJM, 29, nice looking, educated,5' 5\"\", hazel eyes, brown hair, enjoys swing music, flea markets, dining out, giving backrubs, seeks SJF, 20-32 who enjoys being pampered. Send note, phone & photo. Box #36208 DJF, 43, petite, non-smoker would like to meet a slim, non-smoking, SJM, 38-49 who approaches life with a positive attitude and a sense of humor. I enjoy movies, music, dancing, reading, lectures, good conversation, leisurely walks, and sharing with someone special. If you share my interests, please respond. Box #36184 Jewish widow, late 50s, who recently moved to Mpls. and would like to make the acquaintance of a SJM of about the same age (plus or minus a few years.) I enjoy walking, biking, fishing, traveling, sports, movies, plays, eating out & dancing. I am a warm, sensitive & very attractive lady & would like to meet someone who shares similar interests, who is open with his feelings, gentle & loving and non-smoker. Phone number and photograph appreciated. Box #36186 SJM, 29.1 want to enjoy the coming seasons & all the lakes, theaters, travel, food & music that life has to offer. I would like to enjoy these things & others with a non-smoking SJF. I promise to answer all written replies. Box #36207 Through an arrangement between the AJW and The Connector, a publication for Jewish Singles, all personal messages printed in the Matchmaker will also be included in the latest issue of The Connector free. Confidentiality will be maintained since only code numbers will be used. Mail received by The Connector for Matchmaker personal messages will be sent to AJW to be forwarded. The Connector may be obtained free at Brochins, The Old City Cafe, or Elijahs Cup or by sending $3.00 to Tne Connector, P.O. Box 24331, Omaha, NE 68124. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APRIL 19,1991 Israel Independence Day Two Israelis formulate a national survival plan His Jerusalem, indeed By SUSAN KLEINMAN NEW YORK (JTA) \"\"My Jerusalem: Twelve V^alks in the World's Holiest City,\"\" by Teddy Kollek and Shulamith Eisner; photographs by Richard Nowitz. New York: Summit Books, 1990.160 pages. $24.95. In the 4,000 years of Jerusalem's history, no man, religious group or government has been able to call the city its own without provoking controversy. MayorTeddy Kollek, though, is as much a part of Jerusalem as its hills, its ramparts and its holy places. And Jerusalem, as he proves very clearly in this new love letter cum guide book, is very much a part of Teddy Kollek. In \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" Kollek and co-author Shulamith Eisner, who has served as his assistant since 1965, share that love of Jerusalem and help inspire in their readers a familiarity with and a desire to learn more about - the world's most complicated, fascinating city. Ostensibly \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" is a series of walking tours guided by the mayor. And visitors or armchair travelers could, in theory, use the book in that way and set out, sunglasses and camera in hand, to follow the prescribed routes: from City Hall to the Western Wall; around the Temple Mount, the Ophel and the City of David; Damascus Gate and the Ramparts Walk; from Ticho House to Mea Shearim; downtown Jerusalem; and after exhausting his or her feet on the 99 circle bus tour. But while the tours it contains are well-outlined and the walking instructions seem easy enough to follow, the beauty of \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" just like that of the city it rhapsodizes really lies between the landmarks and the sights. As a sort of running commercial for his pet project, the Jerusalem Foundation, Kollek tells many stories about how private donors' assistance helped re-open city landmarks and restore precious sites. Some of these tales are rather interesting despite their echoing of the \"\"subtle\"\" fund-raising literature of which we all receive too much. Another running theme throughout Kollek's narrations is the need for greater religious tolerance in Jerusalem not only among the many religious groups that share the city, but between the religious and secular Jews, whose internal fighting frequently makes Jewish Books in Review headlines. Some of these stories are marred by Eisner's less-than-perfect prose style, but \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" is, overall, well written, and in the majority of instances Kollek'sownvoicedoes shine through with clarity and passion. There's only one Teddy Kollek, after all. And reading the engrossing storiesof thejerusalem he knows so well will help you know it a little better, and help you make it \"\"your\"\" Jerusalem, too. *** Susan Kleinman is a freelance writer based in New York. Jewish Books in Review is a joint project of thejewish Book Council (a nonprofit organization sponsored by the JCC Association of North America) and the JTA. AJW Staff Report Giora Belkin and Yitzhak Dekel, both in their early 50s, ha ve had the best and the worst of both worlds. They have lived in the U.S. for a combined total of 31 years, and before that lived a cumulative 70 years in Israel. Both served in the Israeli Defense Force, and return to Israel frequently. The two have come to believe that the solution to many of Israel's problems lies in combining the talents and resources of world Jewry toward a single goal. Their plan, \"\"Operation Ami: A Pragmatic Approach to Israel's Survival,\"\" proposes a process whereby American and other Western Jews could be encouraged to immigrate to Israel in large numbers 3 million by the year 2020. They believe such a mass migration would stimulate economic growth in Israel, as well as offset a hypothesized demographic crisis in which Israeli Arabs are projected to outnumber Jews in a few decades. As an incentive to immigration, the two men propose the establishment of \"\"American\"\" cities in Israel, one in the Galilee and one in the Negev. These cities will be granted some autonomy for 25 years; they will be funded, developed and managed by Americans, free of Israel's preponderant political and bureaucratic restraints. The plan calls for these cities eventually to be integrated into Israeli society. In addition, the authors foresee several smaller communities to be established in different parts of Israel, as well as neighborhoods to attract Canadian, Latin American, French or other diaspora Jews. Development of these cities, Belkin and Dekel explain, will be coordinated by the home communities from which these Jews come. The authors propose using the Project Renewal model, whereby American Jewish communities \"\"adopt\"\" Israeli towns or cities and fund improvements in those areas. The plan attempts to address in a comprehensive manner a range of ideological and pragmatic issues. Theauthors write in their proposal that the universal adoption of such a plan could relieve Israel from its sense of \"\"isolation, despair and demoralization,\"\" and infuse world Jewry with \"\"a new sense of constructive idealism and historical purpose and hope...\"\" Karmiel microcosm of the best of Israel HAIFA (JTA) In the early 1960s everyone knew the reason for the decision to establish a Jewish settlement on a large, vacant hillside in the Lower Galilee, facing the Arab towns of Majd el-Krum and Dir el-Assad. There were numerous other Arab villages in the area as well, and it was felt that a Jewish presence should be created there. None of the land was occupied, so there was no problem of ousting previous inhabitants, and the greater part of the area was owned by the government. Nevertheless, the Arabs objected, along with a small group of ultra-idealistic Jews. That was the birth of the city of Karmiel, whose population is now approaching 25,000. There were no old houses or huts, and everything was planned and created from thebeginning. Indeed, the network of roads and civic facilities were laid out for a city of 50,000, and Karmiel is inching its way to that figure because of its reputation as one of the best organized, most pleasant places to live in Israel. It is high on the want list of new immigrants from the Soviet Union and from Western countries as well. They are not the only ones. In 1977 a well-to-do Arab family bought a villa; soon others moved in, renting empty apartments, and today some 300 Arab families are among the happy residents of Karmiel. Call NATE at 544-0091 for all your ELECTRICAL NEEDS v0 Residential u0 Commercial 00 Industrial i0' Bonded u0 Licensed u0 Insured Free Estimates UfJ&JSjS electric No Job is too small _ The population also includes some 500 English-speaking households, and a liberal sprinkling of arrivals from Latin America, together with veteran Israelis. There are also some 500 Ethiopian Jews a total of 32 different national backgrounds, making this a true microcosm of Israel as a whole. When the city was founded not everybody was accepted, and applicants had to pass tests to ascertain their suitability. Today the doors are open to all and they come. More than 2,000 new apartments are already in an advanced stage of construction, and an additional 2,000 will be started shortly. A quick drive around the town provides a picture of the quality of life which makes the place so desirable. The planners thought big. There are no less than 57 parks, ranging from small corners to the large Yigal Allon gardens, locally known as Dinosaur Park because of the statue located there. 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Karmiel has attracted more than 70 industries, and would welcome more, but there is one basic qualification: only non-polluting plants are permitted, and so there is a heavy concentration of high-technology companies as well as service industries. Each neighborhood has its own basic shopping center, and in midtown there is a concentration of every store and service required, so that residents can satisfy all their needs here. Residents point with pride to a group of establishments known as felafel row. There is a side to life beyond the economic, however. A sports center has a soccer field, six tennis courts, a swimming pool. The conservatory of music has 350 pupils but a new conservatory building will soon be able to take up to 700 to meet the great demand. Only 10 percent of the population is Orthodox, and they have six synagogues, three of them Sephardi, and a Chabad House. A conservative congregation, catering to its members, makes all announcements in Hebrew, English and Spanish and they are considering adding Russian as necessary. A cultural center offers a full range of communal activities seven days a week. The city can be a magnet to outsiders as well. A few months ago its amphitheater and adjoining grounds were host to 100,000 people who attended a three-day music festival. For transient visitors there is a small, clean hotel. Independence Day not what it used to be By CATHRINE GERSON RAM AT GAN, Israel (JTA) Forty-three years of independence have brought about a change in the way Israelis feel about their country. Independence Day celebrations, which once consisted of all-night dancing, are now \"\"forced and have lost most of their spontaneity,\"\" according to 43-year-old Malka Regev. Regev, a teacher, was born in 1948, only a few months before Israel's Declaration of Independence. What she remembers most clearly in thinking back on the Independence Day celebrationsof her youth \"\"is dancing, dancing, and more dancing.\"\" \"\"I can't remember ever sleeping on Independence Day,\"\" she said, and described how she and her friends would meet in the center of town to dance through the night. \"\"Only when our legs started trembling and we were too dizzy and tired to continue did we stop. And not even then, at 4 or 5 in the mom- Only when our legs started trembling and we were too dizzy...did we stop. ing, did we go home to sleep.\"\" Sitting in her spacious Ramat Gan apartment, only a few yards away from Scud-damaged buildings, Regev compared the celebrations of her children with her own celebrations. \"\"While we activated ourselves, dancing to our own singing, the children today expect to be amused and entertained by others. They walk from place to place passively searching for the best performance but not really participating, while in the'60s and early'70s we created our own festivities.\"\" While acknowledging that the changes were to have been expected, Regev still thinks that \"\"it was better before.\"\" As a teen-ager in the Israeli Scouts movement, she remembers feeling that \"\"by dancing, I personally continued the tradition which began with the first independence festivities. We continued the spontaneous outbursts of dancing in the streets, just like the first night in 1948.\"\" Regev expressed some hope that the first Independence Day following the Persian Gulf war would bring with it some of the happiness and freedom she felt as a young girl on Independence Day.THE AMERICAN JEWISH W3RLD VOLUME 79 NO. 32 VOICE OF MINNESOTA JEWRY APRIL 19,1991 5IYAR COPY 500 Israel Independence Day Page 12 New West Bank settlement angers Washington, divides Israel By GIL SEDAN ^ JERUSALEM OTA) Moving clandestinely,but heavily protected by the Israel Defense Force, the Gush Emunim settlers movement on Monday night swiftly erected the beginnings of a new West Bank settlement called Revava. By this action, the settlers have accomplished far more than laying down infrastructure and setting up a collection of mobile homes. Their action could jeopardize relations with the U.S. and has already further polarized the nation over the delicate issue of peace with the Palestinians, dividing even the ruling Likud party. The move is being perceived as a deliberate affront to the U.S., which has repeatedly warned Israel that it considers the expansion of Jewish settlements in the administered territories to be an obstacle to peace. It brought a swift response from Washington, where White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters that \"\"this action, if verified, does not change the U.S. position on Israeli settlement activity. \"\"Settlements are an obstacle to peace and their continuation does not contribute to the development of a peace process, which we have all been looking for,\"\" Fitzwater said. MORE SETTLEMENTS Palestinians worked at a building site in the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Israel has launched a construction boom which could boost the Jewish settler population by 50 percent in two years. RNS Photo: Reuters. He said the U.S. ambassador to Israel, William Brown, has asked the Israeli government for clarification. Revava, approved by the government in 1982 but never built, was originally scheduled to be inaugurated this week on the 43rd anniversary of Israel's indepen- dence. Instead, the Gush Emunim saw to it that the settlement went up three days before Secretary of State James Baker was due in Jerusalem on his second visit in less than two weeks, aimed at continuing crucial talks on the peace Israel's leaders. process with Minnesotans try to get new Soviet immigrants involved in Jewish lifestyle By ADAM H. KATZ-STONE Staff Writer The assimilation process can be a delicate balancing act. Jewish communal agencies encourage immigrants to affiliate with the Jewish community, but they try to do so without intruding on the immigrants' newly-won freedom of choice. Soviet families coming to the Twin Cities tend to get their religious orientation from their host families. Recently, many shared the Passover meal with their hosts. They joined their hosts at synagogue to celebrate Hanuka, and to hear the Megilla read on Purim. Some Russian Jews, on the other hand, adapt to the less observant practices of the American Jews they encounter. Part 2 in a series Communal agencies responsible for resettlement find that there are limits to how hard they can push the New Americans, many of whom are reluctant to take part in Jewish life. Host families, for instance, are j encouraged but not required to bring their Russian guests to synagogue, according to Joan Bream, supervisor of resettlement and aging programs at Jewish Family Service in St. Paul. She could not say how many host families are observant. Jewish agencies generally do no t keep such statistics, nor are there formal religious requirements for host families. But Bream characterized host families as being generally concerned about perpetuating Jewish culture and passing it on to the new immigrants. While some are probably highly assimilated, it is likely that most do make some effort to involve immigrants in Jewish life, she said. There are flaws in the \"\"host family\"\" system, however. Sophia Greenberg, who came to the U.S. two years ago with her husband Yefem and daughter Alice, said that they only saw their host family for two weeks. Now she gets most of her Jewish information from her best friend Jackie Hirsh, who she met at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, where their children attend classes. \"\"She's like my 411,\"\" Greenberg said. \"\"Any questions that I have, I call her...I thank God that we met the people we did.\"\" Greenberg said that some Jewish Americans scorn the Soviet emigres for their lack of familiarity with Jewish practice. These people should be more understanding, she said, because \"\"it's not so simple, it takes time.\"\" \"\"It is hard to switch your life, to celebrate different holidays and do everything different,\"\" Greenberg said. But she insisted that for her family at least, \"\"it will come, because we are close to the Jewish community.\"\" While Greenberg is enthusiastic about Jewish learning, many New Americans find that their own attitudes are the principle hindrance to successful affiliation as Jews. For many Russians, religion has heavy negative connotations: an \"\"opiate of the masses\"\" to be scorned. Victor Kravchinsky, 9, a student at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, said that before coming to the U.S. his family visited a synagogue in Moscow two or three times, but that he didn't like it. 'There was nothing in there, just broken chairs. I just looked in there and that's it.\"\" Daniel Visnevetsky, 10, remembered that \"\"in school somebody told me, 'are you Jew or are you Russian?' I said 'jew.' Then they wouldn't talk to me.\"\" Rabbi Avraham Ettedgui, executive director of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah, explained that in Russia they had to be Jews because it was printed on their passports. He said that since Jewishness in Russia was \"\"a limitation, many AGush Emunim leader, Daniella Weiss, was even quoted as saying, 'This is a message to Baker.\"\" In Washington, Fitzwater said that when the secretary of state was in Israel last week, he told the Israelis \"\"that continued settlement activity would hinder progress toward agreement on other issues related to the peace process.\"\" The White House spokesman said at the start of his briefing that reports had been received that Gush Emunim brought trailers \"\"to a site in the occupied West Bank where no settlement existed before.\"\" The site is near the main highway crossing the Samaria region of the territory, northwest of Jerusalem. Gush Emunim seems to have been prompted in part by the challenge from left-wing parties, which have been urging a settlement freeze. About 20 activists from Mapam, the Citizens Rights Movement and the Center-Shinui Movement demonstrated at the site in opposition to the new settlement. They were hauled off by soldiers. Journalists were kept away by declaring the entire area a closed military zone. Although the army complained that the timing of the settlement was not coordinated with the military authorities, it cooperated fully. Best-selling author predicts Pollard release immigrantsare perplexed as to why, in a free society, they should choose to affiliate as Jews. And in order to understand the \"\"why\"\" of being Jewish, Ettedgui argued, they must first have some basic exposure to the \"\"what.\"\" In addition to the lack of familiarity with religious practices, and their learned negativism toward religion, many immigrants may shy away from religious affiliation out of necessity. They are more concerned with making a living than with spiritual activities. Despite these many adverse factors, interest in spiritual matters is still there, just waiting to be tapped. Rabbi Yaakov May, director of Torah Academy (a Jewish day school in Minneapolis), said that \"\"it takes a lot more than 70 years to undo the rich tradition of faith and belief\"\" harbored in the bosom of Russian Jews. The spirituality of their ancestors lingers in their veins, he said, even without a knowledge of the practices. \"\"One man recognized a prayer that was said at his mother's funeral when he was 11...I sang it and he immediately started crying, saying 'I remember that song,\"\"' recalled Susan Dworsky, who teaches English as a second language at the St. Paul Talmud Torah, and also teaches basic Judaism to Soviet adults at Beth Jacob Synagogue. Anna Hillman, a teacher at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, said that although most immigrants she knows are non-observant, she has seen a genuine interest in some to make at least an ostensible show of faith. To this end she knows of several teen-age boys who were circumcised upon their arrival in the U.S., because it was all the religious practice their parents knew. 'The ones who do come to me are passionate,\"\" Dworsky agreed. 'They want to be Jewish...They know they're Jewish and they're angry that they were deprived.\"\" See SOVIETS Page 3 AJW Staff Report Yossi Melman, co-author with Dan Raviv of a best-selling expose on Israeli intelligence, said that while he is \"\"no gambler,\"\" he would give good odds for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to receive executive clemency within a year. In an interview with AJW while in Minneapolis Melman said that Pollard, an American convicted of spying on the U.S. for Israel, was wrongly abandoned by the Israelis. \"\"Theypanicked.and sacrificed him on the altar of 'the greater interest,\"\"'Melman said. Fearing a public opinion backlash, Israel \"\"tried to dissociate itself with Pollard,\"\" when they should have apologized to the U.S. and bargained for his release. Melman, whose book \"\"Every Spy a Prince\"\" details four decades of ups and down within the various Israeli intelligence agencies, said that Pollard was cynically exploited by the U.S. government. \"\"I do not accept the surprise ex-pressedby people\"\" over the Pollard affair, Melman said. \"\"I call it hypocrisy.\"\" While relations between Israeli and U.S. security agencies were temporarily strained over the incident, Melman stated that no permanent damage resulted. Ultimately both sides understood that \"\"interests are stronger than sentiment,\"\" and since the Gulf war the level of information exchange between the two countries is higher than ever, he said. Melman believes the Gulf war represented a significant intelligence failure, and charges the U.S. and Israel with ignoring Saddam's military build-up until it was too late. He stated that one week before Saddam moved against Kuwait, Moshe Arens and the head of the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) visited Washington and warned the U.S. about the pending invasion. But by then, Melman said, it was too late to do anything about it. \"\"A myth has been created that intelligence (services) can solve all human problems,\"\" Melman explained. He argued that an intelligence service is only as good as the society it serves. Melman hearkens the development of Israeli society, and thus its intelligence services, to the human maturation process. Right now they are both in \"\"middle age,\"\" a stage marked by \"\"skepticism, cynicism and...materialism.\"\" Yossi Melman He noted, however, that most people in middle age at least start \"\"to lay the foundations for the next generation.\"\" \"\"I wish the Israeli intelligence, the Israeli leaders, could be more responsible and accountable to the future,\"\" Melman said. While the book has been criticized by some for exposing soft spots in Israel's intelligence armor long reputed to be impenetrable Melman insists that free access to such information is a basic tenet of democracy. He hopes his book, a best-seller in Israel as well as the U.S., will facilitate open discussion of the role of security forces in a democracy. In order to glean his information, much of which had never been exposed before, Melman conducted literally hundreds of interviews with former intelligence personnel. He benefitted from what he calls a \"\"spy syndrome.\"\" After a life of secrecy, Melman explained, a spy realizes \"\"that he has a great story to tell. And whatisthepointofhaving a story if you do not tell it?\"\" Inside the AJW Nuremberg prosecutors want Saddam accountable .............Page 3 A message from Israel's president ............Page 5 Local family maintains sports tradition ............Page 9 PAGE 2 AROUND THE WORLD Last Albanian Jews arrive in Israel By GIL SEDAN JERUSALEM OTA) The last 16 Jews from Albania arrived in Israel last week, completing the exodus of the minuscule Jewish community from what was the most isolated country in Europe. An El A1 flight from Rome brought the group, ending a semi-clandestine operation that had been under way since December. All of Albania's 300 Jews arenow believed to have left that Balkan country of 3.3 million, the last Stalinist enclave on the continent. Most of the small community came to Israel. The rest have gone to the U.S. to join family members there. Arnon Mantver, director general of the Jewish Agency's aliya department, recalled how the opera- tion started. Several months ago, the agency received information through Jewish organizations, especially the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, that the tiny Albanian Jewish community was interested in aliya. Mantver said the agency was anxious to get them out before the impending elections, which recently took place. There was apprehension that an unpredictable outcome at the polls might have made their departuremoredifficult. In fact, the Albanian government offered no obstacles and issued passports to the immigrants. Itsonly condition was that before a family departed, one member would travel to Rome or Athens to collect Israeli visas for the entire family. 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Expires April 27,1991. wm mm mm wm wm Israel airlifts emergency supplies to Kurdish refugees fleeing Iraq AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD KURDISH JEWS PROTEST IN ISRAEL Kurdisn Jews living m Israel demonstrated against the American refusal to halt the Iraqi killing of Kurds. The protest was held during U.S. Secretary of State .lamps Rakars recent visit to Israel. RNS Photo/Reuters. TEL AVIV QTA)An Israeli air force cargo plane on Tuesday morning delivered six tons of emergency supplies for Kurdish refugees to Turkey, to be distributed by the Turkish Red Crescent, that country's equivalent of the Red Cross. Aboard the Hercules transport plane on its way back to Israel was Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan, who spearheaded the Israeli drive to aid the Kurds. The shipment included blankets, tents, clothing and medical supplies, mainly antibiotics, forthe tens of thousands of refugees stranded without shelter or hygienic conditions in the mountainous border region between Turkey and northern Iraq. The plight of the Kurdish refugees has, as was anticipated, worsened dramatically in the last few days, with hundreds dying of exposure, dehydration and dysentery in their crowded and unsanitary conditions. The shipment was enabled by donations to Magen David Adorn, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, and the Association of Israelis of Kurdish Origin. Governor Carlson proclaims days of Holocaust remembrance Governor Arne Carlson this year proclaimed April 7-14 to be \"\"days of remembrance\"\" for the victims of the Holocaust. The proclamation stated that Minnesotans \"\"should remember the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the hope that such horrors are never repeated,\"\" and should \"\"continually rededicate themselves to the principle of equal justice for all people.\"\" The proclamation calls on the people of Minnesota to \"\"remain eternally vigilant against all tyranny, and recognize that bigotry provides a breeding ground for tyranny to flourish.\"\" Similar proclamations were issued by Mayors Don Fraser, Minneapolis, and James Scheibel, St. Paul. You have some powerful questions about Judaism. Isnt it about time you got some powerful answers? It's time for a rational, modem approach to a superrational, ancient religion, compiled and delivered by a team of scientists and Judaic scholars. WHAT: A one-day Discovery Seminar WHEN: Sunday, May 5,1991,9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Registration at 9:00 a.m.) WHERE: Minneapolis J.C.C. Auditorium COST: $40.00 - Incl. lunch, materials, snacks, coffee Scholarships available. Child care extra. \"\" To reserve (or for more information), call Liz at 926^4761 or Naomi at 925-9858 A project of the Torah Learning Center of Minnesota Welcome New Advertisers Marty Siegel/Edina Realty Landmark Theatre Corp. Pacer Center Tell them you saw it in The American Jewish World ------------^^199i Toyota to sell cars in Israel; ends compliance with Arab boycott By ALIZA MARCUS NEW YORK Motor Corp. has soon start selling cars ln j making it one of the first main' Japanese companies to come om publicly against the Arab-led eon nomic boycott of Israel. This is the most significant com pany to break with the boycott\"\" said William Rapfogel, execute director of the Institute of pubiic Affairs, the public policy arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Con gregations of America. \"\"We're very hopeful that the change in Toyota is a harbinger ol things to come ...\"\" he said. Over the past few years, Toyota had come under increasing pres sure from Jewish organizations to begin sales in Israel, including a letter-writing campaign by members of Orthodox Union. The letter-writing campaign also targeted 17 other Japanese companies accused of following the boycott, including Toshiba, Casio Hitachi, Aiwa, Nippon Steel, Nissan and Mazda, said Rapfogel. And many Jewish groups also contacted Toyota to express concern \"\"that we were in tacit compliance\"\" with the boycott, said Tim Andree, manager forexternalaffairs at Toyota's North American headquarters here. Although Toyota never admit-ted it adhered to the boycott of Is- A rael, it was one of numerous Japa-1 nesecompanies which foryears had refused to do business with the Jewish state. \"\"Our answer then, as it is now,is that we had to find the right partner and study the market, and that we don't jump into any market quickly,\"\" said Andree. The economic boycott of Israel, which was organized in 1951 by the 21 nations of the Arab League, not only prohibits companies from engaging in trade with Israel, butalso seeks to isolate companies that do business with the Jewish state, U.S. federal anti-boycott laws make it illegal for American companies to uphold the boycott or transfer information about a company's dealings with Israel. L.A. gospel group buys Israel Bond (JTA) Toyota announced it win LOS ANGELES (JTA) - Eric and Pearl Wright, pastors of a small black congregation in one of L.A. County's poorest sections, explained their purchase of a substantial denomination State of Israel Bond last week. \"\"It's really the duty of every Christian to befriend and support Israel, because the Bible tells us to do that,\"\" Eric Wright said on a visit to the Israel Bonds office. The Wrights, 60, natives of Texas, pooled the money their Gospel Light Fellowship congregation raised by choir concerts and barbecue dinners to buy a bond in the five-figure range. Corrections In the Paige Lindsay Abramson Bat Mitzva announcement (4-12- AJW) Melba Feldhakewashsted as residing in Montevideo, Uruguay-She lives in Montevideo, Minne sota. A phone number was inc1lf: ] ported in last week's AJ W. 0 ith information regarding mis g members of the Minneap rimud Torah Class of 1943 \"\"l3? 11 Joanne Savitt, 544-728 , ietz, 374-2825; or Florence Spir -,6-4108. LIGHT CANDLES 7:47 P.M. Next Week 7:58 P-M- APRIL 19,1991 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD PAGE 3 Nuremberg reunion urges trial of Hussein By mat edelson WASHINGTON From a roomful of those who made history, came the cry: act now, lest history repeat itself The survivors of the Nuremberg War Trials 125 men and women; prosecutors, interrogators and interpreters gathered in Washington, D.C. recently for a reunion marking the 45th anniversary of the trials. While their memories were of Hitler, their immediate thoughts centered on Saddam Hussein and how to make the Iraqi leader accountable for his crimes. A panel of 10 Nuremberg prosecutors concluded, in the form of a resolution, that \"\"the U.N., the United States and its coalition partners and all peace-loving nations\"\" should \"\"investigate, indict, prosecute and punish those Iraqi nationals who have engaged in aggressive war against Kuwait.\"\" These 10 angry men see the Gulf war as their last chance to establish the Nuremberg Charter as a permanent part of international law. Walter Brudno, prosecutor of Nazi Party Chief Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, explained that \"\"if we are going to be selective in applying the law of the Nuremberg Charter, then it ceases to be law. It becomes only a mechanism of politics...and we've accomplished nothing.\"\" Brudno and his colleagues understand the political ironies. A few short months ago, President George Bush said that Saddam Hussein would face \"\"swift retribution\"\" in the form of war crimes charges for acts of aggression and crimes against humanity, including the holding of human shields and abusing prisoners-of-war. But since the end of the war, the administration's stance has noticeably softened. In March a Bush spokesperson said the U.S. \"\"did not want to intervene in the internal affairs\"\" of Iraq despite allegations that Hussein was using combat helicopters against his own people in violation of the coalition's cease-fire agreement. The administration's message is clear to Henry King, who prosecuted the Nazis involved with slave laborat aircraft plants. To not prosecute, he argued, \"\"sends out a message that we don't have the courage of our convictions,\"\" and could influence other leaders to pursue policies of aggression. The panelist discussed the logis-tics of prosecuting Hussein. Charles Horsky, a counsel liaison at Nuremberg, worried about what type of international tribunal could be set up. Nuremberg had only four \"\"conquering\"\" countries to deal with, while the Persian Gulf coalition consisted of 17 nations. Horsky's solution? Work within the framework of the U.N. \"\"I'm told that there's no reason why the (U.N.) Security Council could not, in its wisdom, create a court,\"\" Horsky suggested. Such a court \"\"would permit reasonably easy negotiation...it brings in a world community rather than just the Western community, and it is entirely possible that the Western powers would share, to some extent, in the administration and consummation of a trial.\"\" Horsky acknowledged however that \"\"it would be diplomatically and politically impossible to try an existing head of state in absentia in an international court.\"\" The panel was in agreement as to Hussein's guilt on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Any act of aggression against one country by another is considered a war crime under the Nuremberg Charter. Crimes against humanity include \"\"acts of an aggressor against civilians, foreign or domestic,\"\" and can occur before the outbreak of an actual war. For example, Henry King explained that \"\"murders, torture, and other inhumane acts were carried out against civilians in Kuwait on political grounds.\"\" Walter Rockier, who successfully prosecuted German bankers for illegally seizing civilian property, outlined other crimes Hussein and his leaders allegedly committed. \"\"You cannot force an enemy prisoner of war to do anything to aid the conduct of his captors,\"\" Rockier said. \"\"It seems to be fairly clear that the Iraqis do not honor these principles. A POW cannot be exposed to humiliation. I would say putting a POW before a television camera and asking him to apologize for his existence may well be a form of humiliation.\"\" As with all legal proceedings, it is one thing to know someone is guilty, another thing altogether to prove it to the satisfaction of the court. Gathering evidence, especially if Hussein stays in Iraq, will prove difficult. Charles Horsky recalled that \"\"at Nuremberg, the victorious powers completely occupied Germany...Most of the evidence used at Nuremberg was German captured documents.\"\" A case which meets minimum legal requirements could be made against Saddam Hussein on the basis of what is already known. But the Nuremberg jurors said they would rather have a detailed trial and proof of liability against others besides Hussein. This would require evidence which, while Hussein still has control of Iraq, will probably not be available. All the panelists are in their 70s and 80s. For most, this reunion will provide the closing chapter on the lessons of Nuremberg. By the time the last speaker had his say, their common feeling was clear. Prosecutor Ben Ferencz concluded that issues of war crimes, in many respects, go far beyond the realm of Saddam Hussein. \"\"We've got to begin to think in planetary, in global terms, to begin to manage our own society so that all people can live in peace,\"\" he said. 'That is the challenge of Nuremberg and that is the challenge we face today.\"\" ** Mat Edelson is a contributing reporter to National Public Radio. Intact Scud missile to be displayed TEL AVIV (JTA) An intact Scud missile, one of the 39 fired at Israel by Iraq during the Gulf war, will be on display here alongside a U.S. Patriot missile during Independence Day celebrations this week. The Scud may be the one that scored a direct hit on an apartment building in the Tel Aviv area. The missile slammed through the roof and three floors of apartments and came to rest in a ground-floor shop but failed to explode. Though the building was badly damaged, there were no casualties. Area residents were in air raid shelters at the time. Hapoalim leading the bank pack JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel's largest financial institution, Bank Hapoalim, reported a significant rise in profits last year while Israel's other major banks all reported declines. Eitan Berglass, chair of the bank's board of directors, attributed its success to \"\"basic efficiency\"\" which apparently overcame the sluggish economy. In 1990, its 69th year of operations, Bank Hapoalim's net profit amounted to $76 million, a 46 percent increase over $52 million in 1989. In the same period, Bank Leumi's profit dropped by 59 percent. Israel Discount Bank's earnings were down by 21.3 percent and Mizrahi Bank's by 42 percent. Israel, Turkey discuss water problem JERUSALEM (JTA) Turkish President Turgut Ozal and Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres met this week in Amsterdam and discussed a proposal forTurkey to pipe water to the Middle East. They met at the fourth Global Panel conference, an international seminar. The project Ozal and Peres discussed calls for piping water, which is plentiful inTurkey, to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bankand Egypt. The two giant pipelines would take seven years to build, at an estimated maximum cost of $20 billion. French unions to teach Holocaust PARIS OTA) About 40 trade unions and humanitarian organizations here have launched a drive to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust. Scholarly meetings and books about the Holocaust do not achieve their aim, one of the organizers said, and revisionists who deny the existence of Nazi gas chambers have to be denounced. The initiative comes as a French court is about to try the former police chief of the wartime Vichy regime, Rene Bousquet, for crimes against humanity. No other airline can make this statement Local teachers fight negative attitudes SOVIETS (Continued from Page 1) In contrast to the last wave of immigrants, Ettedgui said, the Russians arriving today take a much more active interest in Jewish life. 'They are thirsty, they want to leam, they want to know,\"\" he said, and added that local agencies had also become more adept at responding to the spiritual needs of New Americans. Some immigrants initially shun Jewish culture in order to move more quickly into American mainstream society. While acknowledging that this has been a problem in the past, May described the new group of immigrants as \"\"temper->ng their American dream chase\"\" with a concern for preserving their Jewish heritage. Dworsky suggested that, for those who make the effort to get involved in Jewish life, affiliation actually makes the cul- tural transition easier. Judaism, she said, \"\"gives them a small, intimate community to plug into,\"\" which acts as a launching pad for their entry into general culture. She argued that most Soviet immigrants are not any more deficient in their level of religious knowledge than the current generation of American Jews, most of whose parents assimilated by choice. Even in Russia, many have parents and grandparents who remember that country's Jewish life, who try to perpetuate fragments of remembered custom, and who witnessed the Holocaust and the demise of Eastern European Jewry. Their cultural memory is modern, almost the same as Americans, Dworsky asserted. She said that too much is made of the Soviets' cultural disadvantages, and that she has high hopes for their successful integration into mainstream American Jewish life. 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Beginning this May, hell be a regular columnist for Mpls/St. Paul, The evening also will include: The 1991 Young Leadership Award Presentation recognizing an outstanding high school senior of a Twin Cities U.S.Y. chapter SUNDAY, APRIL 28,1991 7:30 p.m. Adath Jeshurun Synagogue 3400 Dupont Avenue South Minneapolis ___________________________ The evening is free and open to the public. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD ApRIL 19, i99l Editorial/Opinion Time to renew our commitment This year especially, Israel Independence Day affords each of us the opportunity to re-examineour relationship to Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel, both as the spiritual hub of our faith and as a modem political entity. It hit us all in the gut when the Scuds fell on Tel Avivespecially during those first dark hours of uncertainty when it seemed as if everything might be lost. It is appropriate at this time of renewed \"\"stability\"\" to translate those powerful emotions into action. In our daily life, we can choose to speak in defense of Israel, our homeland. We can defy the pervasive media lies and declare to all who will hear that Israel is righteous, good, desiring only peace. The land, the people, cry only for peace a peace denied by belligerent neighbors. Further, we can lobby our legislators to act with Israel's interests in mind. The security and prosperity of Israel should be on the top of our political agenda, and we must consequently hold our representatives accountable to our priorities. We can seek creative ways to increase our financial support for our people's homeland. Still reeling from the economic blows delivered by the Gulf war, Israel desperately needs Western industry, Western creativity, Western investment if she is to remain an economically (and therefore a politically) viable entity. We should seize Yom Ha'atzmaut as a chance to revitalize our passionate devotion to Jewish survival, which history has shown can only be assured when our people have a secure, defensible land to call their own. That land is, has always been, and we pray shall always be Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel. A rabbi's sincere prayer to Allah Akhbar I know and fully realize it is not common and even less expected of a rabbi to ad d ress in a sincere prayer to the God of the Moslems. Allah Akhbar Allah is great was lately heard in many parts of the world. On the rooftops of Arab dwellings in Ramalla; in the poverty-stricken huts of Sidon; by a praying tyrant prostrating himself on the eve of the Gulf war; by a 16-year-old youngster in Tel Aviv stabbing an elderly Jewish woman; by frustrated masses in a forlorn and tragic Jordan the Allah Akhbar shout, or call it prayer, or voice of desperation, was heard. Before my eyes at this moment is a picture of a weeping Kurdish mother clutching to her breast a dead child and throwing herself into the grave prepared for her baby, a picture that was flashed on the TV screen for half the world to see. It presses on my conscience. What is one to do? Write a letter to Bush? So many have already written. Only a prayer is left to utter. By MARC H. TANENBAUM NEW YORK QTA)Israel's Independence Day, Y om Ha'atzmaut, is a time of important commemoration, but also one of special challenges. The challenges flow from the fallout of the Persian Gulf war and the emergent transformations in Middle East alliances. The heady sense of victory that followed thetriumph over Saddam Hussein's aggression seems diminished in the face of Hussein's continued survival and his ability to employ his war machine effectively against his own people. For Israel, does that mean a reduced but continued threat in the near future? Are the U.S. and its allies snatching defeat from a clear victory? Dothe new alliances being forged between the U.S. and the \"\"moderate\"\" Arab nations Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Gulf emirates, Egypt, and possibly even Syriabetoken a weakening of the strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel? The moves to pre-position substantial American weaponry in Arab coun- You pick up the morning paper weeks after the war has ended and you see the pictures of hungry, cold, thirsty masses marching to borders from villages where they lived, worked, and gave birth to offspring. They now march and march. Words that embraced my people two generations ago come back to haunt older people; Exodus, genocide, starvation, annihilation, torture,murderand ofcoursegas-sing, O my God, gassing again. What is one to do? Despair for humanity? Shout again, \"\"Stop the world, let me get off?\"\" Many brutal pictures came to us from the Holocaust culture. None of us shall ever forget the picture of an 8- year-old youngster with outstretched arms and a deadly fear in his eyes, as if turning to the world and shouting, give me life or death, but do not torture me. From the present tortuous days, I shall carry with me the picture of five healthy-looking Iraqi soldiers on their knees in the Arabian desert, tries cannot be good news for Israel. The peace process for resolving the Palestinian problem and bringingan end to thebelligerency against Israel on the part of the Arab states will need to go forward in Israel's long-term interests. But has an international pressure cooker now been created which would compromise Israel's security, and cast the Jewish state in the role of the sole \"\"enemy\"\" of Middle East peace? If none of these challenges existed today, Israel and world Jewry would be concentrating on the immigration of thousands of Soviet Jews as the central preoccupation of Jewish life. This host of major challenges will require a massive recommitment of Israeli and world Jewry to the historic, religious and moral meaning of Israel to Jewish existence and continuity. Yom Ha'atzmaut is a unique time to reflect on the ultimate meaningof Israel in Jewish historic experience which transcends all the present difficulties and challenges. Reviewing the desperate conditions of Jewry prior to the creation From Friday to Friday Rabbi Marc Liebhaber kissing the boots of an American soldier and begging; begging for water, life, mercy, compassion; kissing his hands; waiting for the verdict a bullet or a bottle of water. After the Holocaust, Jews dared to ask \"\"Where was God?\"\" The more daring knew the answer: \"\"God is dead.\"\" \"\"He has hidden his face!\"\" It would be the height of chutzpa of me,ajewish rabbi, toask \"\"Where is Allah?\"\" Allah Akhbar the God not of 12 million unarmed dispersed Jews, but Allah Akhbar who rules over hundreds of millions of Arabs settled in their own lands, with great oil resources at of Israel, Dr. Leo Pinsker, the Jewish doctor from Odessa, wrote in his classic \"\"Auto-Emancipation,\"\" that because of the Jews' statelessness and lack of power over their lives, \"\"the world beheld the Jewish people as the eerie figure of a corpse wandering among the living.\"\" This \"\"ghost-phenomenon of a wandering corpse\"\" among the nations inspired \"\"a ghost terror, Judeophobia.\"\" Israel's existence as a sovereign state has ended the ghostliness of the Jewish diaspora. It is the one sure haven whose gates are open to any Jew anywhere. Yom Ha'atzmaut reminds us that Israel's existence has transformed the role of Jews as victims of history and has invested the wholeof Jewry with the power of mastery over our fate and destiny. *** Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, for 30 years the director of the international relations department of the American Jewish Committee, is now a lecturer, writer and consultant. their disposal, armies equipped with the most modern military material undertook a gigantic project to destroy their lands and culture, eradicating their past and perpetuating refugee camps, hunger and misery, bringing about genocide, starvation and exodus. No, I am not about to ask \"\"Where is Allah?\"\" Or God forbid proclaim that \"\"Allah is dead.\"\" lhaveaprayer in my heart, a prayer to Allah; Dear Allah! Thou art Great! In thy name a descendant of thy prophet proclaimed a death sentence upon a man who dared to write a book with a few uncomplimentary words about your prophet. Khomeini is already dead, but Rushdie is forced to hide. Khomeini - who is revered by millions of thy worshippers, who sent to death hundreds of thousands of young men in a so-called defense of Allahwas attacked by another worshipper of yours, Saddam Hussein, who just murdered thousands of your worshippers in Kuwait and over one hundred thousand of his own people...and the end is not in sight. Where are you? Dear Allah! What happened to the Arab and Moslem pride? The Saudi Arabian kingdom, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars of oil riches with which Thou hast endowed them, had to appeal to the foreign infidels to come into the holy desert lands, to defend Arab against Arab, Moslem against Moslem...and the end is not in sight. Our common ancestor Ibrahim has taught us that any Jew is entitled to question his Almighty Master. Abraham asked God before His decision to destroy Sodom; \"\"Shall the Judge of the whole Universe do injustice?\"\" May 1 not address thee, Allah Akhbar, to bring the hundreds of millions of thy worshippers to their senses and use their wealth to settle the refugees from the camps in their lands; to give dignity and purpose to the Palestinian people; to erect schools; to build universities; to begin educating the forgotten people of Yasir Arafat; to bring about a time when Saudis and Kuwaitis will study in Jerusalem and Israelis shall work in Riyadh or Kuwait? As a rabbi I dream of a small Israel, an Israel at peace with its Arab brethren; an Israel that abandons false dreams of an empire, but dreams of building a national home with confidence in itself and in its people; an Israel that shall trade with its neighbors, study and teach in their schools and befriend the sons and daughters of its Arab neighbors. O Allah! Show to your adherents the futility of the Arab dream to erase Israel from the map. And may the time come when together we, Arab and Jew, shall dwell in peace in the historic lands of our ancestors. THE AMERICAN JEWISH W3RLD Voice of Minnesota Jewry since 1912 The American Jewish World is published every Friday by AJW Publishing Inc., 4509 Minnetonka Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Second class postage paid at Minneapolis, MN (ISSN 0002-9084) and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send add ress changes toT e American Jewish World, 4509 Minnetonka Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Rabbi Marc Liebhaber, Publisher and Senior Editor Marshall Hoffman, Managing Editor Administration Marilyn Goldman Account Executives Joan Goldstein Ruth Kaiser Dorothy Shaw Classifieds Murray Feldman Founders L.H. Frisch and Rabbi Samuel Deinard Thursday deadline eight days in advance for news stories and advertising ooWj^J manuscripts intended for publication are subject to editing. 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Religious leaders have their own agendas, quite proper for those religious people who follow their advice but often antithetical to others who do in a very long process that may eventually culminate in submerging old animosities. But if such animosities are somehow eventually to be ended, dealings between enemies must, at some point, begin. Rabbi Friedman says that \"\"the FLO'S... support of Iraq-shocked Israel's liberals.\"\" I imagine there exists somewhere in Israel a liberal who was shocked by such a thing, but, honestly now, rabbi, in view of all we know of past history, do you sincerely believe that the bulk of Israeli liberals were surprised to see Palestinians supporting any government who wanted to go to war with their avowed enemy? The norm is not all that shocking; indeed, the very reverse would be shocking. That his religious leader affected the political process in Israel is quite a correct observation; that he \"\"saved\"\" Israel is self-serving nonsense. not. It is proper, and desirable, that they advise their own flocks, but quite improper and undesirable for them to attempt to lead the affairs of a nation. So it was with some apprehension, though, unfortunately, no surprise, that I came across a recent article written by Rabbi Manis Friedman, explaining how his particular religious leader had \"\"saved\"\" Israel by interfering in their political process (\"\"What Bush, Israel and the world owe the Lubavitcher Rebbe,\"\" 3-29-91 AJW). It was sad for me to see Rabbi Friedman reduced to a PR flack, explaining away his leader's political interferences. That his religious leader affected the political process in Israel is quite a correct observation; that he \"\"saved\"\" Israel is self-serving nonsense. Rabbi Friedman has reinterpreted history in ways that most current journalists and historians would find unrecognizable, if not downright specious. He suggests that Shimon Peres believed that \"\"concessions to the PLO would make them Israel's allies...\"\" Come on, rabbi. Neither Peres nor any other Israeli I know of believes such drivel. Long-time enemies such as Israel and the PLO are not overnight, or even over a decade, converted into allies, as anyone with any sense understands. The long-range goal, I imagine, is for that to happen, but it is a dream, not a belief. Dealing with your enemy is only the first step For Yom Haatzmaut 5751 By ISMAR SCHORSCH Even as we celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Israel's birth, American Jews are challenged anew by that egregious affront to us allthe so-called \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" issue. Only the setting has changed. Word has it that when the leadership of the Jewish Agency meets this June in Jerusalem, it will decide to eliminate all funding for the religious streams. A few years ago that same leadership reluctantly agreed to a semblance of pluralism and equalitya small sum of money specifically restricted to projects in Israel carried out under Conservative, Reform, or Orthodox auspices. The measure was a response to the growing unease of American donors and was intended to offset slightly the untold sums earmarked for institutions on the Orthodox far right. But now, in the face of the vast needs of Soviet immigration, the agency is prepared to end the expenditure. As the agency leaders deliberate, I would hope they will recall an incident that occurred in Israel this Passover, an example of religious coercion that mocks the very meaning of the festival of freedom. The army hosted some 3,000 Soviet olim at military bases across the country for their first seder in Israel. At one installation where some 200 had assembled, the only Haggada available in Russian was the one produced by the Masorti Movement (Conservative)a beautifully designed edition of the traditional text with a Russian translation and commentary. The military chaplain who conducted the seder, however, deemed the Haggada to be unsuitable, compelling his Soviet Jewish guests to observe the ritual uncompre-hendingly. The scene is grotesquely sad: Haggadot willingly denied at a seder in Israel to Jews who fled a land where for decades Haggadot were hopelessly unobtainable. Their struggle to reach Israel was not crowned with a taste of religious freedom. Government officials still determine what is religiously acceptable. For Jews, God's house has but a single entrance. In addition to his painting of liberal peace Israelis as moronic idealists with no sense of history or real-politic a totally unfair and inaccurate portrayal Rabbi Friedman ignores some basic political realities himself. We might expect this from our politicians, but not our rabbis. The rabbi has set up a scenario whereby dull Israeli leaders give up the West Bank to Palestinians, who promptly (of course) use the land as a launching base for Iraqi missiles, thus opening Israel up to the horrors of chemical warfare. The poor dumb liberal leaders just trusted the Palestinians to be nice guys, I guess. In truth, as the rabbi must know, any that means any discussion of Palestinian self-determination always includes very stringent demilitarization guidelines, very carefully watched overby on-site Israeli army observers. Does the rabbi honestly think that the Israeli army and public would allow anything less? This setting up of strawmen, of unfair and untrue accusations, is the sort of thing I might expect from, say, Richard Nixon, but not from a widely respected rabbi. If I were Rabbi Friedman I'd be blushing very red indeed. *** Steven Kaplan is managing director of Minnesota's Journal of Law and Politics, which recently received the Gene O'Brien Excellence in Journalism Award. return of Who is a Jew Without benefit of a Haggada, some of the Soviet olim must surely have ended that evening wondering, \"\"Why is this seder night any different from seder nights in the Soviet Union?\"\" Will they ever be attracted to a Judaism which deprives them of a traditional Haggada simply because it comes with the \"\"wrong\"\" imprimatur? This is a story about the dangers of acquiescing to religious extremism. As in the case of the original \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" battle, it has to do with power and not piety, with hegemony and not halacha. Unfortunately, the leadership of the Jewish Agency prefers to stay on the sidelines in this historic struggle. As the government in Israel, untroubled by the prospect of economic catastrophe, continues to funnel millions of shekalim in special grants to the religious parties for the purpose of religious absorption of Soviet olim, our own American Jewish leaders decided in February to cease funding all denominational projects for Soviet Jewish absorption. In June, we are now warned, these same leaders will terminate all funding to the religious streams. The sectarians in Israel must be celebrating. The fury briefly unfurled by the liberal sector of American Jewry over \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" has yet to be translated into informed, sustained political action. Nothing strains the fabric of Jewish unity today more than the corrupt and parochial religious establishment ensconced in Israel. While the creation of a Jewish state has been an incredible boon for Jews, it has turned out to be decidedly deleterious for Judaism. Given the paralysis of Israeli politics, the only way to challenge this religious monopoly is from abroad. American leadership must not sacrifice religous equality on the altar of political expediency. Ismar Schorsch is chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which serves as the spiritual center for Conservative Judaism worldwide. An Independence Day .message from Israel, jrffc ft'; H !*; i.'iv It By CHAIM HERZOG The 43rd anniversary of Israel's independence is being celebrated at the end of an extraordinary year. The word miracle has become almost commonplace among us. How better can one describe the frustration of Saddam Hussein's plan to burn, gas and devastate much of Israel, as he proclaimed he would and was equipped to do with his supply of non-conventional weapons? How better, too, can one speak of the Second Exodus the great wave of Jews streaming from the Soviet Union to Israel, with some 200,000 arriving in the last 12 months? Yet even miracles take their toll in grief, sacrifice and exertion. Before the brilliant operation of the American-led coalition forces brought Iraq to its knees, theScuds it launched had paralyzed tourism and other aspects of Israel's economy, destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, wounded hundreds of citizens. It was clear that Saddam Hussein hoped to provoke a military response by Israel, with a view to splitting the coalition forces. When the government of Israel refrained from reacting to the cynical maneuver, its policy of restraint won world-wide approval and respect, without diminishing universal conviction as to its deterrent capacity. The efforts of world Jewry.,.must be doubled and trebled in order to face up to the new realities created by the mass movement of the Russian Jewish community to Israel. We dare not fail. Inevitably, post-war efforts to institute a new order in this region will prove to be a difficult and drawn out process, in the course of which the state of Israel will be confronted by very grave challenges. Whoever believes that the Arab states can easily be brought together to reach agreements, ignores the realities of the Arab world a world tom by disputes and inner contradictions, as indeed the Arabs themselves are among the chief victims of murder by Arabs in the intifada here. There is a tendency to see the Arab-Israel situation as the central and most perilous | Letter to the Editor Letters should be relevant, brief and legible, preferably typed double spaced on one side of page. All letters become our property, are printed at our discretion and are subject to editing. Letters should be signed and include a return address and phone number. Are Jewish sensibilities blunted? As is horrifyingly evident, the Kurdish people in Iraq are experiencing a genocidal onslaught. We Jews have rightly insisted the world not forget the Holocaust. We have also repeatedly mentioned that one of the leading factors which allowed the Holocaust to happen was widespread indifference. Yet the Jewish community has not raised its voice to any extent in indignation and outrage over the plight of the Kurds. Do we American Jews live in such comfort that our sensibilities are blunted? Are we so insecure that we dare not tarnish a stunning military victory? Are we so parochial that others' suffering does not cause us concern? With Passover just ended have we already forgotten that we were slaves in Egypt? Peter M. Glick St. Paul conflict in the Middle East indeed, that is the view of the European Community. This view is wrong and it has indeed been proved incorrect many times, especially now in the light of the crisis and war in the Gulf. The Arab-Israel conflict is undoubtedly an important one and efforts must be made to achieve a solution. However, it is far less dangerous than Islamic fundamentalism which menaces not only the countries of this region but also the five Moslem republics of the Soviet Union with their 60 million inhabitants and perhaps countries in East Asia as well. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was not caused by the Israel-Arab conflict, nor was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the Iran-Iraq war and the dismemberment of Lebanon. It is not my intention now to enter into the details of the political arrangements we should like to see. Let us hope that Iraq's attacks on Israel and the restraint practiced by Israel have encouraged a new approach to Israel in some of the Arab countries. We would wish to be able to persuadeour neighbors to imitate the European model perhaps in a joint effort to establish a Middle East Common Market. Actually, almost limitless possibilities for our benefit and that of tne region as a whole are opened by the Russian immigration, which brings with it so many talents, so much knowledge and expertise. The contribution Russian aliya may make to Israel and this region is the external aspect of its significance. In the terms of Jewish history it denotes the rescue of threatened lives, the restoration of their people's heritage and their own identity to a large fraction of the once most creative Jewish community, forcibly cut off for over 70 years from its past and itself. The challenge of absorption is enormous in physical and psychological terms. In these unprecedented circumstances we have the amazing and indeed miraculous opportunity to give new directions to the future of our people and of Israel. Enormous effort and resources must be involved in the ad-equateabsorptionofhundredsof thousands, perhaps eventually as many as a million, Soviet Jews in addition to the remarkable Ethiopian aliya. What has already been done had to be the fruit of partnership between Israel and world Jewry which is reaching new dimensions in voluntary self-taxation. Great things have been accomplished in Israel, though we sadly admit to some failings and disturbing aspects. There is immediate need for tens of thousands of housing units and job opportunities. Increased employment depends, we know, on new industries, businesses, and research institutions: these will call for billions in investment capital still another challenge to the world Jewish community, as to Israel. It is essential that the world Jewish community respond to this challenge. Its response, however impressive, is still very inadequate. History will never forgive our generation if we fail to meet this great challenge. The efforts of world Jewry, as indeed the efforts of the people of Israel, must be doubled and trebled in order to face up to the new realities created by the mass movement of the Russian Jewish community to Israel. We dare not fail. It is the duty of every member of the Jewish community throughout the world to realize the weight of responsibility which rests on him or her. We must succeed and we will succeed, because I believe that world Jewry will yet rise to the occasion, lest future generations condemn us for not standing up to the test and so missing an extraordinary rendezvous with destiny. *** Chaim Herzog is the president of Israel. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APR|L19,1991 Forward is finalist in Pulitzer polling NEW YORK OTA) The Forward was one of three finalists for a 1991 Pulitzer Prize in the category of distinguished editorial writing, the 94-year-old Jewish newspaper, now an English-language weekly, reported after the --------------------------------- prizes were announced April 9. Harold Ostroff, the Forward chair who submitted the name of editor Seth Lipsky to the Pulitzer Prize Board for consideration, said the near miss itself was an honor. MONUMENTS AND MARKERS We Do Hebrew Lettering Designed & Lettered Locally in our Own Plant TWIN CITY MONUMENT CO. Contact Morrie Toretsky 4827 Minnetonka Blvd. St. Louis Park, Mn. 920-4738 John Phillips, Neil Gitlin 1133 University Ave. St. Paul, Mn. 646-1546 Update St. Paul Lucille and Burt Garr announce the engagement of their daughter Jodi Garr to Daniel Saltzman, son of Flory and Jack Saltzman of Panama. Jodi is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota w child psychology and works at the Children's Home Society in St. Paul. Dan is a recent graduate ot the University of Minnesota medical school and is in a surgical residency program at the U of M. An October wedding is planned. Shir Tikvah becomes partner in Mazon UPCOMING The 36th annual Interfaith Tea will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at Temple of Aaron. This year's theme is \"\"Interfaith: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.\"\" The keynote speaker is Rabbi Bernard Raskas, emeritus of Temple of Aaron, speaking on \"\"Can We Be Loyal to Our Faith and Yet Respectful of the Beliefs of Others?\"\" *** The St. Paul JCC Active Seniors will take part in a Shabbat dinner 6 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the St. Paul JCC. Open to JCC members. Call 698-0751 for information. *** Writing With Wisdom, a writing workshop for seniors, will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the St. Paul JCC. Workshop presentations will include writing memoirs, creating characters, keeping journals and others. Cost is $15. Call 292-3260 for details. St-** Dr. Richard Rudolph will talk about \"\"Nationalism's Revival: The Soviet Republics and Eastern Europe,\"\" 7:30 p.m. T uesday, April 30, at the JCC. Rudolph is a professor in the departments of history and Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Minnesota. To register by April 26 call 698-0751. *** The St. Paul chapter of Hadassah will hold its annual Youth Aliya meeting noon Wednesday, May 8 at Temple of Aaron, featuring The Best of Melody Minyon presenting their most popular songs. The program is preceded by a gourmet lunch comprised of dishes to be included inthe \"\"TasteofHadassah\"\" cookbook. Call Dolly Sunshine, 698-9403, for information and reservations. Shir Tikvah of St. Paul enrolled this month as a partner-congregation in Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. The new partnership brings to 660 the number of Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist and Reform congregations throughout the country that conduct appeals for Mazon during Passover and the High Holy days to help combat hunger. Founded five years ago, Mazon's concept is to ask Jewish families celebrating a joyous event a wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzva, birthday or anniversaryto add a self-imposed 3 percent tax to the cost of the function and contribute it to Mazon to help the fight against hunger. The funds raised are given to established agencies, irrespective of denomination, that feed poor people throughout the world. Parenting expert to speak STUDENTS HOLD MODEL SEDER Students from the St. Pau Talmud Torahs North Suburban Branch afternoon school listened a: executive director Rony Szleifer discussed the significance of thi Passover seder. Shown are (I to r) Joshua Oelker, Molly Lane Jennifer Raffe, Tara Francke and Joshua Rolnitzky. Tony Levine named triple-A winner Tony Levine has been named winner of the Academics, Arts and Athletics program. The Triple-A Award is co-spon-sored by the Minnesota State High School League and the American Automobile Association Clubs of Minnesota. The award is given annually to high school seniors with 3.5 or better grade-point averages who take part in League-sponsored athletic programs and fine arts activities such as theater or music. Tony, son of Marvin and Harriet Levine, isa senior at Highland Park Senior High. Robert and Ellenjoy Fields, Newton, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter Cathy Anne Fields to Steven Friedman, son of Sam and Susan Friedman, Baltimore, Md. Cathy received her bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and works for Gitano Corporation. She is the granddaughter of Rose Fields, Chestnut Hill, Mass, and the late Leonora Greenberg, St. Paul. Steven received his bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and works as a sales representative in the Boston area. He is the grandson of Estelle Danziger, of Margate, Fla. An October wedding is planned. *** Garr Saltzman UJFC DRESSES UP The Young Women's Division of the United Jewish Fund and Council will sponsor a program, Dressing for Career, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at the St. Paul JCC. The program will feature clothes and accessories for the work place and home. Refreshments will be served. For details call 690-1707. Shown are (standing, I to r) Esther Lerman, Joni Lipschultz Burg; (seated) Lisa Lane and Elaine Johnson. Adele Faber, internationally known author and parenting expert, will lead a conferenceon \"\"How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk,\"\" from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at the St. Paul JCC. Faber, with ElaineMazlish, wrote \"\"Liberated Parents/Liberated Children,\"\" which received the Christopher Award and was selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. The book describes the authors' experiences in 10 years of parent-guidance groups with the late child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott. Faber's second and third books have been among the top ten best sellers in the field of child care. The conference is designed for parents, teachers and other adults working with children. Fee is $8 per person or $12 per couple; a I BIRTH Henry and Susan Garelick, Newton, Mass., announce thebirth of their son Benjamin David, June 29. The grandparents are Robert and Ellenjoy Fields, Newton, and David and Judith Garelick, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Greatgrandmothers are Rose Fields, Chestnut Hill; Essie Spritzer, Montclair, N.J.; and the late Leonora Greenberg, St. Paul. check is your reservation. Conference registration begins at 12:30 p.m. Call 698-0751 for information. 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The Panim el Panim program brings Jewish high school students from across the nation to Washington for a uniquely Jewish introduction to how the government really works and how they can become more actively involved citizens. Panim el Panim is a program of The Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, an educational foundation sponsoring seminars on public policy and Jewish values. Aaron Kohen, Mara Levin, Nicole Perlman, Rachel Raviv, Charles Sherman and Ronit Siegel joined students from Connecticut. During their four days in Washington the students met with government officials, policy-makers and Jewish leaders to learn more about the policy debate on issues such as Israel, hunger and homelessness, church and state, and nuclear arms. The students heard from representatives of the Americans for Democratic Action, Freedom Alliance, Professional Coalition on Nuclear Arms, the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Luther Place Church, and Food ALFRED GOTTSCHALK T O SPEAK Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), will speak during Friday night services 8 p.m. April 26 at Temple Israel. HUC-JIR is the academic and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. Research and Action Council. Highlights of the program were a briefing at the Israeli Embassy by Warren Edelman, a model Knesset and representatives from Operation Exodus and the University Student Department of the American Zionist Youth Federation. Stuart Eizenstat, former domestic policy adviser to the Carter administration, gave the keynote address on \"\"Jews and the Political Process.\"\" The distinctive feature of Panim el Panim is not just that students meet with important people to discuss serious issues, but that they learn about Jewish sources in relation to these issues. 'The program has made me think in ways other than I normally would have,\"\" said Nicole Perlman. \"\"I valuethejewish leadership.\"\" The program is designed to show the relevance of traditional Jewish sources to world issues and to inspire a new generation of Jews to think about the future leadership roles in public affairs and Jewish community relations. \"\"I learned more about my country's government than all my years in school,\"\" said Rachel Raviv. \"\"It was like an application of all the concepts I have been studying in school. It was an education that can't compare with anything else.\"\" Bnai Emet Men to hold breakfast A special post-season Men's Club breakfast will be held following 9:30 a.m. services Sunday, April 21 at B'nai Emet Synagogue. It will be sponsored by Susan and Sol Awend, who will speak on \"\"Achieve Spirituality Decorate and Dedicate.\"\" Harlan Miller will preside. Middle East the focus of Adath program Stephen Feinstein and Michel Legall will be the featured speakers at a program entitled \"\"Nations of the Middle East Face the Future,\"\" tobeheld 7:30 p.m.Thursday, April 25 at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. This program is the opening session of a Middle East perspectives series at the synagogue. Feinstein, a frequent speaker and media resourceon the MiddleEast, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, specializing in the Middle East, Israel and the Holocaust. Legall is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Ottawa rabbi to be Kenesseth Israels scholar Rabbi Reuven Bulka, spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, Canada, will be the scholar-in-residence at Kenesseth Israel Congregation for the weekend of April 26-28. Bulka is the founder and editor of the Journal of Psychology and Judaism. Bulka will speak 9 p.m. Friday on \"\"Jewish Marriage Ethics,\"\" preceded by a 7:30 p.m. Shabbat meal. On Saturday afternoon there will be a Seuda Shlishit at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. Bulka will speak on 'The Psychology of Halacha in Marriage How Halacha Programs Specific Norms for Marriage That Enhance It.\"\" Following 7:45 p.m. Mincha, Bulka will deliver a sheur on 'The Sanctity of the Marital Union.\"\" Bulka will also deliver a lecture entitled \"\"Sex Ethics ajudaic Perspective\"\" 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28. All lectures will be held at Kenesseth Israel and are made possible by the Toby Mintz Memorial Fund. St. Paul rabbis to present symposium The St. Paul Board of Rabbis will present a symposium on 'The Meaning of Israel in Our Lives\"\" from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at Temple of Aaron in St. Paul. The program will include the topics: \"\"Love oflsrael inthejewish Tradition\"\" presented by Rabbis Morris Allen, Julie Gordon, Stacy Offner and Leonard Schoolman; \"\"Israel and the Palestinians: An Element of the Arab/Israeli Conflict\"\" presented by Prof. Richard Kagan, Hamline University; \"\"Personal Reflections on My Recent Six Months in Jerusalem\"\" presented by Rabbi Irvin Wise. There will bean open discussion and refreshments. Ad mission is free and reservations are requested at 698-8874. Psychiatrist to speak at Mt. Zion Interfaith Choral Festival set For the first time in the Twin Cities, the Greater Minneapolis, St. Paul Area, and Minnesota Councils of Churches will co-sponsor an Interfaith Choral Festival. It is their contribution to the \"\"World of Difference\"\" program. The concert will be held 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28 and will be hosted by the Basilica of Saint Mary, Hennepin and 16th St., in Minneapolis. Over 400 singers from choirs of different religious traditions will participate, including the combined choirs of six synagogues under the direction of Cantor Morton Kula of Adath Jeshurun. Tickets are $8 ($5 for seniors and students) and available at the Minnesota Church Center, 122 W. Franklin, Room 218, Minneapolis, MN 55404; and at the St. Paul Church Center, 1671 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, Concert at Temple of Aaron The Temple of Aaron Men's Club will present a musical concert 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the synagogue. The concert will feature talented young members of the synagogue's youth organization, including vocalists, a pianist and a violinist. Cost is$2.50. Tickets may be purchased at the synagogue office, 698-8874. Noted psychiatrist and author Prof. Brian L. Weiss will speak during 10:45 a.m. Saturday services, April 27, at Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul. Weiss' book \"\"Many Lives, Many Masters,\"\" published by Simon and Schuster, has stimulated renewed interest in past life therapy as a psychiatric technique. New Americans who have emi- grated to St. Paul from the Soviet Union will be welcomed at a special Shabbat service 8 p.m. Friday, April 19 at Mt. Zion Temple. Major portions of the service will be in Russian and will be read by New Americans. Musical portions of the worship will be rendered by the Senior Russian Choir of the St. Paul JCC. Q: IN PAIN? A: 541-1280 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE - Auto Injuries Work Injuries Sport Injuries Insurance Claims Family Health Care 1 CHAILAIVAkICHKUL DR. JO G. THEISEN DR. ARLEN J. UEBERMAN CHIROPRACTIC ORTHOPEDIST lieberman chiropractic HEALTH CENTER GOLDEN VALLEY SPORTS CLINIC WHIPLASH & TRAUMA CENTER OF MINNESOTA com PFDAR LAKE RD. ST. LOUIS PARK 55416 ST LOUIS PARK GOLDEN VALLEY MINNETONKA PLYMOUTH NEW HOPE-WAYZATA Synagogue Services MINNEAPOLIS ADATH JESHURUNFriday: 8 p.m. Rabbis Barry Cytron and Harold Kravitz, and Cantor Morton Kula. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Saturday: 9:30 a.m.; 7:15 p.m. Mincha. BAIS YISROEL Friday: 6:20 p.m.; 7:45 p.m. Rabbi Moshe Lieff. Saturday: 8:30 a.m.; 7:30 p.m. Mincha. BETSHALOM Friday:8p.m. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Rabbi Norman Cohen. Saturday: 10 a.m. BETH EL Friday: 5:45 p.m. Mincha/Maariv. Rabbis Kassel Abelson and Hayim Herring, and Cantor Neil Newman. Saturday: 8:40 a.m.; 5:45 p.m. Mincha/ Maariv. B'NAI EMET Friday: 6 p.m. Rabbi Howard Siegel and Cantor Shalom Markovits. Saturday: 8:45 a.m. HILLEL Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Rabbi Irvin Wise. KENESSETH ISRAEL Friday: 6:25 p.m. Rabbi Jerome Herzog. Saturday:9a.m.;7:45p.m. Mincha, followed by Talmud class and 8:46 p.m. Maariv. MAGEN DAVID SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION Friday: 6:25 p.m. Rabbi S.D. Bouskila. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 7:45 p.m. Mincha. SHAREI CHESED Friday: 7 p.m. Rabbi Barry Woolf. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 10:30 a.m. children's class; 7 p.m. Mincha. TEMPLE ISRAEL Friday: 8 p.m. Rabbis Joseph Black and Marcia Zimmerman, and Cantor Barry Abelson. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Guest speaker Rabbi Herman Schaalman, rabbi emeritus of Emanuel Congregation in Chicago: \"\"Israel in Its World.\"\" Saturday: 9:15 a.m.; 11:15 a.m. ST. PAUL ADATH ISRAEL Friday: 7:45 p.m. Rabbi Asher Zeilingold. Saturday: 9:30 a.m.; 7:40 p.m. Mincha, followed by Maariv. BETH JACOB Friday: 6 p.m. Rabbi Morris Allen. Saturday: 8:30 a.m. learner's minyan; 9 a.m. service. MOUNT ZION Friday:8p.m. Rabbis Leonard Schoolman and Cheryl Rosenstein. Yom Ha'atzmaut service and salute to New Soviet Americans. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Torah study; 10:45 a.m.; 5:45 p.m. Havdala. SHAARE SHALOM Friday: 8 p.m. with Lou Leichter and Die Kinder at the Leichter home, 909 Mendakota Court, Mendota Heights. SHIR TIKVAH Friday: 7:30 p.m. children's service; 8 p.m. service with Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration at the St. Paul JCC. Rabbi Stacy Offner. TEMPLE OF AARON Friday: 8 p.m. Mishpacha service. Rabbis Jonathan Ginsburg and Julie Gordon, and Cantor Mitchell Kowitz. Gordon sermon: \"\"Israel at 43.\"\" Saturday: 9:15 a.m.; 6 p.m. Mincha. ROCHESTER B'NAI ISRAEL Friday:8p.m. services. Rabbi David Freedman with songleader Renee Fellman. CHABAD-LUBAVITCH Friday: Sunset. Rabbi Dovid Greene. DULUTH ADAS ISRAEL Friday: 7:30 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 7:40 p.m. Mincha; 8:30 p.m. Maariv. TEMPLE ISRAEL Friday: 7:15 p.m. family service. Israel Independence Day observance. Rabbi Anthony Holz. Saturday: 10 a.m. LIGHT CANDLES 7:47 P.M. Lake Calhoun CoHelatifl Muni 24 FRIENDLY UNITS QUIET & CLEAN REASONABLE RATES FREE CABLE TV 4025 Hwy 7, Mpls. 612-926-6575 In St. Louis Park across from the Lincoln Del The Parents' Association of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School Invites you to attend COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL Tuesday, April 23,1991 7:30 p.m. Join Nachama Moskowitz, principal of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, for coffee and conversation. Questions will be answered relating to the school's educational program and philosophy, standardized testing, assessment, and other areas of interest, The program is being held at the school (4330 Cedar Lake Road: the JCC building). Call for additional information 374-5650. The Minneapolis Jewish Day School Teaching the mind Touching the heart ...Creating our Future Fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. A beneficiary of the Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service APRIL 19,1991 Update Minneapolis UPCOMING Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter is offering volunteer advocacy training6 to 9 p.m. April 23,25,30 and May 2 at Pillsbury House in Minneapolis. Training develops advocacy skills to provide service for battered women and their children. For information or to register call Vicki Katz, 827-6105. *** Dr. Edy Kaufman, director of the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew Univeristy, will speak on The Relevance of Democracy for Middle East Peace, 8 p.m. Sunday, April 21 at the Minneapolis JCC. *** Hadassah's Szold Study Group will hear Sybil Rubin review Chaim Potok's \"\"The Gift of Asher Lev,\"\" 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the home of Leslie Gardner, 9513 BriarCircle, Bloomington. Call544-5318 for details. *** Nilva Dansky Neff JWV Ladies Auxiliary 331 will meet 11 a.m. Sunday, April 21 for brunch at the St. Louis Park City Hall, 5005 Minnetonka Blvd. *** Herb Basser, professor of religion at the University of Toronto, will speak at the U of M 10 a.m. Thursday, April 25 in Nicholson Hall. *** Dale Carnegie graduate and top salesperson Rita Friedman will speak to the Corporate and Professional Organization (CPO) 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at the offices of Lurie, Besikof and Company. She will use interactive workshop techniques to discuss \"\"Using a Positive Attitude to Cope with Change.\"\" For directions call 593-2600. Talmud Torah The annual meeting of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9 at B'nai Emet Synagogue in conjunction with the 25th Annual Goldenberg Family Lecture. Dr. Alvin Schiff, chief executive officer of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, will speak on \"\"Rx for the Jewish Community: Keeping Our Heads Above Water.\"\" Call 935-0316 for details. Nominated for three year terms for directors-at-large are: Pearl Berdass, Gress Corwim, Cynthia Goldfine, Marvin Goldstein, Michael Hofkin, Howard Kauffman, Sharon Kieffer, Morris Kleiner, Shelly Kornblum, Rollye Rinkey, Joanne Savitt, Marjorie Shapiro, Sandy Striker. annual meeting Nominated for one year appointments are: Dr. Wendy Bach, Alan Frailich, Stephanie Hirshfeld, Andrea Kibort, Louise Kloner, Meryll Page, Ben Rischall, Dona Rodich, Renee Selnick, George Seitz, Artice Silverman, Marcy Strauss. The nominating committee was chaired by Rivel Greenberg and included Rita Cook, Charles Marks, George Seitz, Myron Striker, Dr. Joyce Warshawsky. The membership of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis consists of, among others, parents of Talmud Torah students, members of the Talmud Torah Association, and members in good standing of the Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service. B'NAI MITZVA Upcoming speakers Professor Edy Kaufman, former head of the Hebrew Universitys Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace, will speak on Peace The Mission of Hebrew University, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 21 at Oak Ridge Country Club. Fee is $10. The National Council of Jewish Women Central District Conference will be held April 25-28 at the Hotel Sofitel in Minneapolis. At a 7 p.m. dinner Saturday, April 27 NCJW National President Joan Bronk will address the delegates. JCC announces new campsite, teen trek The Minneapolis JCC has announced that construction is set to begin this month on its new Ackerberg Family Campsite, located on the grounds adjacent to the JCC building. The site will include an amphitheater, new activity shelters, an on-site camp office, a half-basketball court and a sand volleyball court. *** A new Teen Travel Trek program for kids entering grades 7-9 will comprise two four-week sessions, each including three weeks of day trips around theTwin Cities for those whom we love and remember individually designed and manufactured by Minneapolis Granite & Marble Co. 4400 Chicago Avenue 822-3135 T . Jeff Kivens 8:30-5:00 Weekdays Evenings by appointment and one week \"\"on the road.\"\" The first session's week-long trip is to St. Louis, and the second is to Chicago. *** The JCC will hold a dinner and parent information session 5:15 p.m. Sunday, April 28. The evening will include games and camp activities for the children during the information session. Camp Yomi, Camp Tarbut (for the arts), Camp Maccabi (for sports) Camp Migvan, and the new Teen Travel Trek will be discussed. The dinner is free. There is a $5 photo processing fee for all social announcements, which must be paid in advance. Dear Sir, Thanks for the visas! Hope they left you some bagels. If not, call... fijjfl New York Bakery kLStaKJafl atoQasJk. and Bagels 8128 Minnetonka Blvd. Mikhail Gorbachev St.Louis Park, MN Moscow 1 -612-933-3535 U.S.S.R. \"\"A Strictly Kosher Bakery\"\" Jason Alan Grais, son of Carol Beth and Jim Grais, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzva Saturday at Adathjeshurun Synagogue. Jason will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in his honor by his grandmothers Etheldoris Grais and Phyllis Diamond; greatgrandmother Sophie Diamond Goldberg; grandfathers, the late Arnold Grais andjames Diamond. Jason will share his Bar Mitzva with Yulav, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. Heather Witebsky, daughter of Judy and Stephen Witebsky, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday at Beth El Synagogue. Heather will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in her honor by her grandparents Sharon and Sherman Rackner,Judy andSheldon Witebsky, and great-grandmothers Sally Charney and Gertrude Lapides. Heather will share her Bat Mitzva with Anzhela Shalomova, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. Adam Jason Ross, son of Francie and Barry Ross, will be called to theTorah as a Bar Mitzva Saturday at Temple Israel. Adam will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in his honor by his grandparents, Connie and Paul Ross. Writer, reporter Karlen to speak Minneapolis-based feature writer, reporter and author Neal Karlen will speak on \"\"Getting the Impossible Interview,\"\" at the fifth annual Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund Program, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. Since becoming a reporter for Newsweek in 1982, Karlen has worked as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone; his work appears in Esquire, Gentlemen's Quarterly, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Washington Post. The Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund was established in 1986 in honor of Howie Stillman, who died of cancer at age 23. Ginna Schwartz, daughter of Jan and Alan Schwartz, Edina, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday at Bet Shalom Congregation. Ginna will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat. Ginna is the granddaughter of Lila Clarren and Selma Schwartz, and the late David Clarren and Dr. E. Robert Schwartz. She is the great-granddaughter of Pearl Reifel and the late Leo J. Reifel. Ginna will share her Bat Mitzva with Tatiana Taveyrozin, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. BIRTH Joshua and Susan Schneckand daughter Gabrielle announce the birth of their son and brother Jack Anthony Schneck on Jan. 25. Paternal grandparents are Marian Schneck and the late Dr. Jack I. Schneck. Maternal grandparents are Eugene and Antoinette Hunstiger. FINEST middle EASTERN FOODS\"\" Middle Eastern Cuisine Authentic fresh homemade food! Also, vegetarian dishes! Serving Wine and Beer DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL 11 a.m.-2p.m. Open 7 Days a Week! 1IAM-11PM 1518 Nicollet Ave. So., Mpls. 871-8883 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD The family that plays together... Ellie Covin finished this season The Covins (I to r): Heather, Dr. Neil and Ellie. at Robbinsdale Armstrong as captain of the tennis team. The 18-year-old senior was also all-conference. Sixteen-year-old Heather Covin was all-conference in tennis as a sophomore. Their father, Dr. Neil Covin, played varsity tennis at Minneapolis North and the University of Minnesota, and their mother, Ann Covin, ran marathons before her knees went bad. For Ellie, who has been playing since sixth grade, this was the third year on the varsity at Armstrong and her first as captain and number one singles player. \"\"I felt pressure because 1 was number one and everyone was really good,\"\" she said. During the school year, the elder Covin daughter keeps busy with tennis four times per week, Hebrew school at Talmud Torah, aerobics and jogging. During the summer she used to play softball and now umpires. In spite of this she still maintains a 3.5 GRA and has been accepted to both Syracuse and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She hopes to study communications or psychology. Heather Covin has also been playing tennis since sixth grade, in her first year at Armstrong she has already made the varsity team as a singles player and is holding her GPA to match at around 3.5. She keeps busy during the week with Hebrew school at Talmud Torah, softball, skiing and jogging \"\"when I have nothing better to do,\"\" she said. Series to feature films on Jewish interests The University Film Society's 9th Annual Rivertown International Film Festival will feature several films of special interest to Jewish groups. At. 9 p.m. Thursday, May 2 \"\"The Mission of Raoul Wallenberg\"\" (USSR, 1990) will be shown in the Bell Auditorium at the U of M. The film represents the first Soviet attempt to discover the true fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis. *** 'To Jerusalem\"\" (Austria, 1990) will show 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in the Nicholson Hall Auditorium. This documentary takes a journey along the road to Jerusalem. *** The story of a Jewish family in small-town 1930s Germany, \"\"All Jews Out\"\" will be shown 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in Nicholson Hall. *** \"\"Stupidity orCrime?\"\" (Sweden, 1990), by Jewish director Maj Wechselmann, probes the profiteers, collaborators and resi stance in Nazi-occupied Scandinavia. It will be shown 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 in Nicholson Hall. *** \"\"Europa, Europa\"\" tells the true story of a young German J ew who spends WWI1 disguised as a German soldier. It will be shown 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2 in the Bell Auditorium. For details call the 24-hour festival phone line, 627-4430. Dr. Covin, a periodontist, coached softball at the Chicago Junior Maccabea in 1988 and tennis at the 1990 Junior Maccabea in Detroit. He plays tennis with his daughters and while Ellie said \"\"we could never beat my dad,\"\" it almost seems a goal for the father. \"\"I'd like to see them beat me. I'd love it, \"\" said Dr. Covin. During the summer, Dr. Covin has coached softball for the last eight years, but thinks this may be his last year as it is the final year that one of his daughters will be a competitor. The family are members of both B'nai Emet and Temple Israel, and Ellierecently went to Israel on the Alexander Muss program, \"\"during the school year so 1 wouldn't miss the tennis tournaments during the summer,\"\" she said. Heather is hoping to go soon and their father is in favor of it. \"\"She (Ellie) did better in school after she came back,\"\" he said. As for the future, Heather is hoping to do well in school but also have fun. Ellie would rather do well in school and just play tennis for fun. As for Dr. Covin, he just hopes they stay active together. A Wallpaper Sale So Big, The Only Way To Get It Cheaper Is To Steal It. Buy a single roll of in-stock wallpaper at the Mfr. retail price and take home the double roll! Thru April 29 UEBEEMAN ^INTERIORS -5 Wallpaper & Window Fashions Roseville, 631-3520 1955 W. Co. Rd. B2 1 blk. W. of Rosedale Burnsville, 892-5558 1244 W. Co. Rd. 42 Next to Children's Palace Richfield, 861-6131 6433 Penn Ave. So. 2 Biles. So. of Crosstown Two Professional Positions Available at the JCC of Omaha Two excellent entry level positions are available for individuals who have a desire to work with Jewish youth. One posi tion is with children ages 5-12, working hands on in before/after school, vacation, and camping programs. The other position is with teenagers as director of the local BB YO program and with other teenage activities. We re looking forenthusiastic college graduates who have excellent talent in relating to both youth and adults. Beginning salary in the low 20s plus benefits. If either of these positions seems to be right for you, please send your resume to Jeffrey Aizenberg, Executive Director, JCC of Omaha, 333 S. 132nd Street., Omaha, NE 68154. PAGE 9 Water flows anew through Herodian conduit in Jerusalem NEW YORK (JTA) As a result of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem, water is once again flowing in a 2,000-year-old conduit built in the time of Herod the Great. The excavations were conducted at Ramat Hanadiv by the Hebrew JNF announces luncheon series The Jewish National Fund has announced its 1991 Lawyers Luncheon series, starting noon Wednesday, April 24 in the law offices of Leonard, Street and Deinard, 150 S. 5th St., Suite 300, Minneapolis. The speakerwill be Rabbi Morris Allen, of Beth Jacob Congregation. He is chair of the St. Paul United Jewish Appeal Soviet Jewry Resettlement Committee and holds a master's degree in social work. He will speak on \"\"Soviet Jews in America and Israel.\"\" There is no charge, but a kosher box lunch may be ordered for $5. RSVP by calling 938-6653. University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology. The 55-yard-long stone-lined conduit, dating from the Second Temple period, was discovered in well-preserved condition by an archaeological team headed by Dr. Yizhar Hirschfeld. Hidden under layers of mud and dirt and paved with stones typical of the Herodian era, the conduit has a channel about 8 inches wide. When in use it was supplied with fresh water from the nearby Ein Zur spring. According to Hirschfeld, as soon as the area was cleared and the conduit was revealed, water began flowing through it just as it had 2,000 years ago. Uncovering the conduit led to the discovery of a nearby tunnel from which the spring emerged. The archaeologists also uncovered a reservoir fed by the Herodian-era system. The stonewalled reservoir, measuring 36 by 39 feet and 6-1/2 feet deep, was found among the ruins of an ancient village. Jewish National Fund is the land. Q. What is the Jewish National Funds top land reclamation priority? A. The preparation of land for 70,000 housing sites for Soviet Jewish immigrants. Q. Great! How can I help? A. By contributing to the Operation Promised Land campaign today! Q. What is land reclamation? A. The development of land for housing. industry, agriculture and recreation. Q. Which agency is solely responsible for reclaiming Israels land? A. The Jewish National Fund. 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MICHAEL LYNNES TENNIS SHOP MIRACLE MILE SHOPPING CENTER. 5007 Excelsior Blvd. St. Louis Park, MN 55416 (612)926-1520 PAGE 10 Death Notices MINNEAPOLIS Fay Kleinfeld age 92. Wife of the late Herschel Kleinfeld. Mother of Irving Kleinfeld, Marian Schneck, Tamara Selden, Blossom Carlton, Naomi Lerner. Survived by 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Memorials preferred to Hadassah. Janet F. Kroll age 98, of San Francisco and formerly of Minneapolis, died April 9. Services were April 14. She was a journalist for 65 years, who worked for the Minneapolis Star and the American Jewish World as a columnist, writer of ShabbosSchmooz. Died of natural causes at the Jewish Home for the Aged in San Francisco. A native of Suvalki, Poland, she moved to Minneapolis when she was 10. After retiring she lived in Palo Alto, Calif, and moved to San Francisco last year. She graduated from the Univeristy of Minnesota in 1914. She went to France as a representative of the Jewish Welfare Board during WW1 and was a lifetime member of Hadassah. She was the wife of the late Victor Kroll. Survived by two daughters, Leona Vosburgh, St. Louis Park, and Sara Edelstein, of Palo Alto; son Lawrence, of San Francisco, and five grandchildren. Memorials preferred to the Jewish National Fund, 870 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102 for the Janet Kroll Memorial Garden. Newton D. Beugen age 79, of Minneapolis and Naples,Fla.,died Aprill3. Services were April 15 at Temple Israel with Rabbi Max Shapiro and Cantor Barry Abelson. He was the former owner of Latham Howers. Survived by wife Shirley; son and daughter-in-law Sheldon and Joan Beugen, Chicago; daughter and son-in-law Carol and David Schwartz, of Menlo Park, Calif.; grandchildren Sara Beugen; Peter and Thea Schwartz; many nieces and nephews. Memorials are preferred to the American Cancer Society or the donor's favorite charity. Arrangements Hodroff and Sons. Benjamin \"\"Ben\"\" Ryan age 69, of St. Louis Park, died April 8. Services were April 10 at United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery with Rabbi Howard Siegel. Preceded in death by his first wife Claire. Survived by wife Betty; children Steven M., Beth and Scott R.; step-children Douglas and Timothy Moore, and Terri Forsher; six grandchildren; sister Lena Berger; numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials are preferred to the donor's choice. Arrangements Hodroff and Sons. Labor leader Sol Chaikin dead at 73 NEW YORK (JTA) Sol Chaikin, a labor organizer who fought sweatshops, imports and dwindling union membership during a 50-year career devoted almost entirely to improving the lot of garment workers, died here of heart failure at the age of 73. New York State Gov. Mario Cuomo praised his advocacy of \"\"decency and fairness\"\" for all people and observed that Chaikin inspired him and many others \"\"to focus on dreams instead of dilemmas and on opportunity instead of obstacles.\"\" The New York-born union leader who graduated from City College and Brooklyn Law School headed the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1975 to 1986. When he became its president, ILGWU had 430,000 members but was fighting attrition because of non-union shops in the Southern states and low-wage factories in Asia, South America and Europe. Although Chaikin sought to raise public awareness of the loss of jobs to foreign competition, ILGWU membership was down to 220,000 when he retired. It currently has about 175,000 members. The once predominantly Jewish workforce long since gave way to other ethnic groups of more recent immigration. Largest bequest ever made to UJA NEW YORK (JTA) Philanthropist Lucy Goldschmidt Moses, who died in August at the age of 103, left S108 million to the New York UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and six of its agencies. David Sacks, president of UJA-Federation, said it was the \"\"largest bequest to date.\"\" The six UJA-Federation agencies that will benefit from Moses' largess are Montefiore, Mount Sinai and Beth Israel medical centers; the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; the Parker Jewish Geriatric Center; and the Associated YM-YWHA of Greater New York. Moses' will also called for the bequest of another $62 million to other institutions and charities, including Columbia, Yale and New York universities, the New York Public Library and the Central Park Conservancy. 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The Midrash tells the story of a peddler who went to the towns crying out, \"\"Who wants to buy the elixir of life?\"\" and drew huge crowds around him. Rabbi Jannai asked him to sell him some, and the peddler replied \"\"neither you nor people like you require what I have to sell.\"\" The rabbi pressed him and the peddler brought out a book of Psalms and showed him the verse (Psalm 34) which reads: \"\"Who is the man who desires life\"\" and immediately after is written \"\"Keep thy tongue from evil. . .\"\" Said Rabbi Jannai, \"\"All the days of my T Viavro roar! fnic; Torah Thought for the Week Rabbi Asher Zeilingoid Adath Israel Synagogue, St. Paul, Sponsor not understand it fully until this peddler came and made it clear to me.\"\" The peddler who went about peddling cures and remedies demonstrated to the people that keeping one's tongue from evil gossip is in itself a remedy which insures health and a happy life. People can avoid quarrels, hatreds and worry by always guarding the tongue. Before the coming of the peddler, Rabbi Jannai had interpreted the words, \"\"Who is the man who rlociroc Td(-ay~r\\ncr Fr\\ lifp in the world to come, meaning that he who would keep from evil gos sip on earth would receive his re ward in heaven. It had never occurred to him that it refers to a reward during life on earth f0r guarding one's tongue fr0m speaking evil is not only a good deed, but is also an aid to good health and longevity. Since evil gossip is considered a very serious transgression, it is not only forbidden to speak ill 0f a person, but our sages even warn us against spreading the praise of another, for fear that while extolling his virtues we may come to reveal his shortcomings. The sages say: \"\"Say not, 'Behold I am speaking gossip, but no one knows about it/ for G-d says, 1 stand near you, and record every word you utter/\"\" Let us always remember that every word we speak is eternal, and reaches into the highest places in Heaven to haunt us, or be a merit for us, forever. German director opens old wounds with The Nasty Girl ISEH-s* A MIRAMAX FILMS RELEASE < 1990 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MRAMAX EXCLUSIVE MINNEAPOLIS ENGAGEMENT Starts Friday, April 19 Two Weeks Only Ihennepin & LAKE .825-46441 Nightly: 5:00, 7:15, 9:30; Sat, Sun Mat: 3:00 Of course, said the director, as timeless as the tale of Rosmus is, it would have been even more meaningful had it been possible to tell it earlier. \"\"This film should have been made in 1945,\"\" so that those perpetrating the crimes of the Holocaust would have felt the film's impact directly, he believes. The son of prominent German actor/director Paul Verhoeven (not the same Paul Verhoeven who helmed \"\"Total Recall\"\"), the younger Verhoeven took a circuitous route to film-making. While he showed early interest in acting, turning professional at the age of 11, in later years Verhoeven veered away from the family business, hoping to establish his own career. He did that by studying medicine and becoming a doctor. However, the practicing physician couldn't cure himself of a fascination with film. \"\"Medicine was a marvelous profession,\"\" said Verhoeven of his seven-year practice that began in 1966. \"\"Ilearned more about direct- The Nasty Girl's star Lena Stolze and director Michael Verhoeven with Anna Elizabeth Rosmus, the real Nasty Girl. The film starts today at the Uptown Theater. By MICHAEL ELKIN The horrors of the Holocaust haunt many of those survivors whose psychic wounds have not had time to heal. But then, arguably, some wound s are never meant to close, to seal the past off from the present. Rather, they serve as painful reminders of a German society that nearly bludgeoned an entire people out of existence. Director Michael Verhoeven, a former physician, has put the German people under a microscope in 'The Nasty Girl/' his farcical and effective examination of a fictional German town that tried to cover up its Nazi history. In picking and pokingat the past, Verhoeven has reopened the wounds in a wicked way. He has applied humor as the balm in this story about a young girl whose high school essay about her town's shameful history causes mass hysteria among her neighbors. \"\"The Nasty Girl\"\" is playing at the Uptown Theater, April 19 through May 3. At 52, Verhoeven, who is not Jewish, has a history of concern about the Holocaust. Born in Munich during the war, he saw how Hitler's hate helped wreak destruction on his homeland. Verhoeven has made several films on the topic, most notably 'The White Rose\"\" in the 1980s. But that was in a different decade, long before the director attended a dinner and met Anna Rosmus, whose real-life storyabout her Bavarian town was to serve as inspiration for Verhoeven and net him a cache of critical honors and awards. Current events now position the film as a must-see for Germans whosenewfound freedom includes renewed interest in their past. 'The historical situation has helped the film a lot, said Verhoeven of the impact of German reunification. \"\"It has brought more interest to the topic.\"\" ing from medicine than 1 would in school.\"\" Indeed, medicine taught him patience in exam ining projects. It also taught him how to delve to the very soul of a problem in his search for a solution. \"\"In medicine, you get very close to people,\"\" he explained. \"\"You learn.\"\" The one-time doctor learned it was a good idea to prescribe humor for a film about the lingering legacy of the Holocaust. With The Nasty Girl,\"\" the laughs ease the pain somewhat. What Verhoeven learned about the Holocaust during his youth was not enough, he said. The fury unleashed by Adolf Hitler and Nazism had made littledent in German educational material: 'Teachers did not talk much about what happened.\"\" Verhoeven regrets his homeland's attempts to hide its history. \"\"We lost the opportunity,\"\" he said of his fellow Germans, \"\"to see what happened. We pushed it aside quickly. That still hurts.\"\" But the pain is assuaged by what Verhoeven is now doing for a living. Using the Holocaust as his films' frame of reference, Verhoeven directs the attention of world wide audiences to a time best not forgotten. \"\"I have no fears about a neo-Nazi movement in Germany today; it is so small,\"\" said the director. \"\"It is the people who are not interested in anything at all, those Germans who do not care, they are the people I worry about.\"\" Those Germans, said Verhoeven, can be molded too easily, and might have their opinions shaped to the whims of a dictator. ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR! ! exhilarating: -Tom Jacobs, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS naslygjrl A PROVOCATIVE COMEDY ABOUT SECRETS AND SURPRISES. A film by MICHAEL VWHOCVEN APRIL 19, 1991 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD PAGE 11 _________________________Classifieds_______________________________ Only $1.50 per line (about 6-7 words). Minimum order $9. Deadline is 12 p.m. Thursday, eight days before publication. Call 920-7000. 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to ? dinner. I am attractive, 5 4 . Call me. Box #36209 SJM, 29, professional, fun, intelligent and kind, interested in movies, sports, romance and wadis around the lakes., seeks non-smoking, 22-32 SJF with similar interests. Lets get together. Send note and phone to Box #36197 Widowed Jewish Male, late 50a, who is talk blond, educated and with e\"\"0arnmufel2y*^ carina desires amorous woman to be his pest S'an? companion All ages answered because I care. Box #36191 DJF, almost 40, light-hearted, yetsincere, artsy, yet practical, traditional yet making it in the 90s, selective, yet an incurable romantic. Im petite, attractive & love the out-of-doors. Im looking for an intelligent man who is emotionally and financially secure, who takes care of himself (I exercise regularly) who knows how to have fun and enjoys a loving relationship with a woman (hopefully me). Please send letter & phone number. Box #36198 SJM, nonobservant and unaffiliated. Smoke a lot & drink moderately but otherwise mostly moral & healthy. I'd like to meet attractive, childless 3040 y.o. woman, who is employed, independent, humorous, sensuous, healthy & under 150 lbs. Im 5\"\" 11\"\", 180 lbs., dark, almost handsome, politically liberal & small business owner. Love movies, comedy, fine dining & animals. Phone number & photo. Box #36204 DJF, late 40s, attractive & cheerful in need of a playmate. Enjoys walking outdoors, fishing in the warm weather, different ethnic foods, movies, music and board games. I would like to hear from a SJM with similar interests and a good sense of humor, who is educated, self supporting, sensual and an all around nice person. If you are this person, please hurry and answer. Spring is on the way and we dont want to miss a minute. Box #36195 DJM, 60year8,5' 111/2\"\", 175 lbs., not bad looking with everything working. Semi retired, faculty member Metropolitan State U., Management Department. Enjoys walking, loves music, theater, & all the arts. Most of all, I love home entertainment, warm, caring, very loving. Want to meet attractive, slim and emotionally secure SJF, 50 plus for a real-relationship. One who cares about people. I have something to offer to the right lady who MUST BE HONEST AND FOR REAL Box #36196 Vivacious, SJF, 28, seeks SJM, 27-36, to share the joys of life. I would like to meet someone who is willing to develop a relationship with heart and soul. My interests include music, movies, theatre, sports and finding out what the Twin Cities has to offer. If you want to meet an intelligent and beautiful woman with a warm personality and a dazzling smile, send me a note with your number. Box #36199 French speaking, SJF, 39, nice and young looking, slim, stylish, airline employee, wishes to meet a refinea gentleman. Willing to relocate. Please send descriptive letter. 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At my best, Im honest, straightforward, assertive, & fiercely loyal; at my worst I can be strong-willed and self-centered. Usually Im fun, friendly, sometimes slightly silly, witn interests from opera to country music, ballroom dancing to rock climbing. If youd like to start with friendship and be open to other options, let's talk. Box #36201 SJF, 38, seeks SJM (32-44) mate. . after some time, some fun!, a bit of hassle, a bunch of communication, & a getting to know of our individual and paralleling lives. Love living in the country, visiting the city, dancing, adventuring, reading, entrepreneuring, creative cooking, compromise & peace. My spirit & life have taken my own rich path. Please write about yours. Box #36194 SJM on my way up and don't want to get married yet. Successful, attractive, caring, compassionate, fun, diverse, and sometimes naughty. Jazz to pop. Filet minion to fast food. Champagne to soda. Ties to t-necks. Dancing to relaxing. You are 21 to 26, ambitious, goal oriented, trim, striking, looking for fun. Personality, and the will to be naughty once in a while are REQUIRED along with your picture and note. Box #36185 I am a SJF, 24, non-smoker, looking for a SJM 24-30 to become a new friend and to do fun things together like going to a sporting event, a movie or walk around the lake or just talk. If you are that SJM, dont waste another minute, time is precious. Box #36182 46 DJF is wondering: Are there men who have a strong personality & character, but yet know when to be vulnerable & understanding? We both know what it takes to be a friend, lover & confident. We are attractive & yet have the maturity to know that this also grows with getting to know each other. Humor, warmth & the ability to be totally natural & craziness are important Box #36187 Why I like my cousin (a 35 y.o SJF): She laughs a lot, lives in her body, cheers me up when Im sad. Shes smart and reads interesting books. Shes one of the people in my family who makes a Shabbat dinner warm and thoughtprovoking. Shed like to get marriedshe's ready for another bear in her cfen, and some cubs. So write to her. Box #36205 SJM, 33 years old, 5' 8\"\", 150 lbs. I enjoy movies, sports playing & watching, eating out & walks around the lakes. Looking for a girl who likes to stay in shape & must have a sense of humor. If you are between 28-38, please send me a note, photo & number. Box 36206 SJM, 29, nice looking, educated,5' 5\"\", hazel eyes, brown hair, enjoys swing music, flea markets, dining out, giving backrubs, seeks SJF, 20-32 who enjoys being pampered. Send note, phone & photo. Box #36208 DJF, 43, petite, non-smoker would like to meet a slim, non-smoking, SJM, 38-49 who approaches life with a positive attitude and a sense of humor. I enjoy movies, music, dancing, reading, lectures, good conversation, leisurely walks, and sharing with someone special. If you share my interests, please respond. Box #36184 Jewish widow, late 50s, who recently moved to Mpls. and would like to make the acquaintance of a SJM of about the same age (plus or minus a few years.) I enjoy walking, biking, fishing, traveling, sports, movies, plays, eating out & dancing. I am a warm, sensitive & very attractive lady & would like to meet someone who shares similar interests, who is open with his feelings, gentle & loving and non-smoker. Phone number and photograph appreciated. Box #36186 SJM, 29.1 want to enjoy the coming seasons & all the lakes, theaters, travel, food & music that life has to offer. I would like to enjoy these things & others with a non-smoking SJF. I promise to answer all written replies. Box #36207 Through an arrangement between the AJW and The Connector, a publication for Jewish Singles, all personal messages printed in the Matchmaker will also be included in the latest issue of The Connector free. Confidentiality will be maintained since only code numbers will be used. Mail received by The Connector for Matchmaker personal messages will be sent to AJW to be forwarded. The Connector may be obtained free at Brochins, The Old City Cafe, or Elijahs Cup or by sending $3.00 to Tne Connector, P.O. Box 24331, Omaha, NE 68124. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APRIL 19,1991 Israel Independence Day Two Israelis formulate a national survival plan His Jerusalem, indeed By SUSAN KLEINMAN NEW YORK (JTA) \"\"My Jerusalem: Twelve V^alks in the World's Holiest City,\"\" by Teddy Kollek and Shulamith Eisner; photographs by Richard Nowitz. New York: Summit Books, 1990.160 pages. $24.95. In the 4,000 years of Jerusalem's history, no man, religious group or government has been able to call the city its own without provoking controversy. MayorTeddy Kollek, though, is as much a part of Jerusalem as its hills, its ramparts and its holy places. And Jerusalem, as he proves very clearly in this new love letter cum guide book, is very much a part of Teddy Kollek. In \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" Kollek and co-author Shulamith Eisner, who has served as his assistant since 1965, share that love of Jerusalem and help inspire in their readers a familiarity with and a desire to learn more about - the world's most complicated, fascinating city. Ostensibly \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" is a series of walking tours guided by the mayor. And visitors or armchair travelers could, in theory, use the book in that way and set out, sunglasses and camera in hand, to follow the prescribed routes: from City Hall to the Western Wall; around the Temple Mount, the Ophel and the City of David; Damascus Gate and the Ramparts Walk; from Ticho House to Mea Shearim; downtown Jerusalem; and after exhausting his or her feet on the 99 circle bus tour. But while the tours it contains are well-outlined and the walking instructions seem easy enough to follow, the beauty of \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" just like that of the city it rhapsodizes really lies between the landmarks and the sights. As a sort of running commercial for his pet project, the Jerusalem Foundation, Kollek tells many stories about how private donors' assistance helped re-open city landmarks and restore precious sites. Some of these tales are rather interesting despite their echoing of the \"\"subtle\"\" fund-raising literature of which we all receive too much. Another running theme throughout Kollek's narrations is the need for greater religious tolerance in Jerusalem not only among the many religious groups that share the city, but between the religious and secular Jews, whose internal fighting frequently makes Jewish Books in Review headlines. Some of these stories are marred by Eisner's less-than-perfect prose style, but \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" is, overall, well written, and in the majority of instances Kollek'sownvoicedoes shine through with clarity and passion. There's only one Teddy Kollek, after all. And reading the engrossing storiesof thejerusalem he knows so well will help you know it a little better, and help you make it \"\"your\"\" Jerusalem, too. *** Susan Kleinman is a freelance writer based in New York. Jewish Books in Review is a joint project of thejewish Book Council (a nonprofit organization sponsored by the JCC Association of North America) and the JTA. AJW Staff Report Giora Belkin and Yitzhak Dekel, both in their early 50s, ha ve had the best and the worst of both worlds. They have lived in the U.S. for a combined total of 31 years, and before that lived a cumulative 70 years in Israel. Both served in the Israeli Defense Force, and return to Israel frequently. The two have come to believe that the solution to many of Israel's problems lies in combining the talents and resources of world Jewry toward a single goal. Their plan, \"\"Operation Ami: A Pragmatic Approach to Israel's Survival,\"\" proposes a process whereby American and other Western Jews could be encouraged to immigrate to Israel in large numbers 3 million by the year 2020. They believe such a mass migration would stimulate economic growth in Israel, as well as offset a hypothesized demographic crisis in which Israeli Arabs are projected to outnumber Jews in a few decades. As an incentive to immigration, the two men propose the establishment of \"\"American\"\" cities in Israel, one in the Galilee and one in the Negev. These cities will be granted some autonomy for 25 years; they will be funded, developed and managed by Americans, free of Israel's preponderant political and bureaucratic restraints. The plan calls for these cities eventually to be integrated into Israeli society. In addition, the authors foresee several smaller communities to be established in different parts of Israel, as well as neighborhoods to attract Canadian, Latin American, French or other diaspora Jews. Development of these cities, Belkin and Dekel explain, will be coordinated by the home communities from which these Jews come. The authors propose using the Project Renewal model, whereby American Jewish communities \"\"adopt\"\" Israeli towns or cities and fund improvements in those areas. The plan attempts to address in a comprehensive manner a range of ideological and pragmatic issues. Theauthors write in their proposal that the universal adoption of such a plan could relieve Israel from its sense of \"\"isolation, despair and demoralization,\"\" and infuse world Jewry with \"\"a new sense of constructive idealism and historical purpose and hope...\"\" Karmiel microcosm of the best of Israel HAIFA (JTA) In the early 1960s everyone knew the reason for the decision to establish a Jewish settlement on a large, vacant hillside in the Lower Galilee, facing the Arab towns of Majd el-Krum and Dir el-Assad. There were numerous other Arab villages in the area as well, and it was felt that a Jewish presence should be created there. None of the land was occupied, so there was no problem of ousting previous inhabitants, and the greater part of the area was owned by the government. Nevertheless, the Arabs objected, along with a small group of ultra-idealistic Jews. That was the birth of the city of Karmiel, whose population is now approaching 25,000. There were no old houses or huts, and everything was planned and created from thebeginning. Indeed, the network of roads and civic facilities were laid out for a city of 50,000, and Karmiel is inching its way to that figure because of its reputation as one of the best organized, most pleasant places to live in Israel. It is high on the want list of new immigrants from the Soviet Union and from Western countries as well. They are not the only ones. In 1977 a well-to-do Arab family bought a villa; soon others moved in, renting empty apartments, and today some 300 Arab families are among the happy residents of Karmiel. Call NATE at 544-0091 for all your ELECTRICAL NEEDS v0 Residential u0 Commercial 00 Industrial i0' Bonded u0 Licensed u0 Insured Free Estimates UfJ&JSjS electric No Job is too small _ The population also includes some 500 English-speaking households, and a liberal sprinkling of arrivals from Latin America, together with veteran Israelis. There are also some 500 Ethiopian Jews a total of 32 different national backgrounds, making this a true microcosm of Israel as a whole. When the city was founded not everybody was accepted, and applicants had to pass tests to ascertain their suitability. Today the doors are open to all and they come. More than 2,000 new apartments are already in an advanced stage of construction, and an additional 2,000 will be started shortly. A quick drive around the town provides a picture of the quality of life which makes the place so desirable. The planners thought big. There are no less than 57 parks, ranging from small corners to the large Yigal Allon gardens, locally known as Dinosaur Park because of the statue located there. Homes are to a large extent built in neighborhood units, with access into cul-de-sacs, so that through traffic is avoided, and the central areas are open for children to romp KNOLLWOOD MALL DAIRY QUEEN Dairii Queen Call to order 938-9695 For Your Next Home Or Office Party Try A Delicious Dairy Queen Cake or Pie! 8332 Hwy. 7, St. LouisPark Israel marks 17,150 war dead with memorial holiday TEL AVIV OTA) - Israel has suffered 17,150 combat deaths and more than 56,000 wounded in battle since its War for Independence in 1948, the Defense Ministry has disclosed. And according to police officials, 66 Israelis were killed and 262 wounded within Israel's pre-1967 borders during the first two years of the intifada. The figures were released in connection with Yom Hazikaron, Israel's annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, which began Tuesday evening. around in without danger. Karmiel has attracted more than 70 industries, and would welcome more, but there is one basic qualification: only non-polluting plants are permitted, and so there is a heavy concentration of high-technology companies as well as service industries. Each neighborhood has its own basic shopping center, and in midtown there is a concentration of every store and service required, so that residents can satisfy all their needs here. Residents point with pride to a group of establishments known as felafel row. There is a side to life beyond the economic, however. A sports center has a soccer field, six tennis courts, a swimming pool. The conservatory of music has 350 pupils but a new conservatory building will soon be able to take up to 700 to meet the great demand. Only 10 percent of the population is Orthodox, and they have six synagogues, three of them Sephardi, and a Chabad House. A conservative congregation, catering to its members, makes all announcements in Hebrew, English and Spanish and they are considering adding Russian as necessary. A cultural center offers a full range of communal activities seven days a week. The city can be a magnet to outsiders as well. A few months ago its amphitheater and adjoining grounds were host to 100,000 people who attended a three-day music festival. For transient visitors there is a small, clean hotel. Independence Day not what it used to be By CATHRINE GERSON RAM AT GAN, Israel (JTA) Forty-three years of independence have brought about a change in the way Israelis feel about their country. Independence Day celebrations, which once consisted of all-night dancing, are now \"\"forced and have lost most of their spontaneity,\"\" according to 43-year-old Malka Regev. Regev, a teacher, was born in 1948, only a few months before Israel's Declaration of Independence. What she remembers most clearly in thinking back on the Independence Day celebrationsof her youth \"\"is dancing, dancing, and more dancing.\"\" \"\"I can't remember ever sleeping on Independence Day,\"\" she said, and described how she and her friends would meet in the center of town to dance through the night. \"\"Only when our legs started trembling and we were too dizzy and tired to continue did we stop. And not even then, at 4 or 5 in the mom- Only when our legs started trembling and we were too dizzy...did we stop. ing, did we go home to sleep.\"\" Sitting in her spacious Ramat Gan apartment, only a few yards away from Scud-damaged buildings, Regev compared the celebrations of her children with her own celebrations. \"\"While we activated ourselves, dancing to our own singing, the children today expect to be amused and entertained by others. They walk from place to place passively searching for the best performance but not really participating, while in the'60s and early'70s we created our own festivities.\"\" While acknowledging that the changes were to have been expected, Regev still thinks that \"\"it was better before.\"\" As a teen-ager in the Israeli Scouts movement, she remembers feeling that \"\"by dancing, I personally continued the tradition which began with the first independence festivities. We continued the spontaneous outbursts of dancing in the streets, just like the first night in 1948.\"\" Regev expressed some hope that the first Independence Day following the Persian Gulf war would bring with it some of the happiness and freedom she felt as a young girl on Independence Day.", "_version_": 1715615218809176064, "type": "Text", "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": true, "parent_id": "57645", "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57645", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/e709c4482475929ef995196689f751d93ba7dd50.png", "children": [ { "id": "p16022coll529:57633", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57633", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 1", "title_s": "Page 1", "title_t": "Page 1", "title_search": "Page 1", "title_sort": "page1", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77083" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 0, "attachment": "57634.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "THE AMERICAN JEWISH W3RLD VOLUME 79 NO. 32 VOICE OF MINNESOTA JEWRY APRIL 19,1991 5IYAR COPY 500 Israel Independence Day Page 12 New West Bank settlement angers Washington, divides Israel By GIL SEDAN ^ JERUSALEM OTA) Moving clandestinely,but heavily protected by the Israel Defense Force, the Gush Emunim settlers movement on Monday night swiftly erected the beginnings of a new West Bank settlement called Revava. By this action, the settlers have accomplished far more than laying down infrastructure and setting up a collection of mobile homes. Their action could jeopardize relations with the U.S. and has already further polarized the nation over the delicate issue of peace with the Palestinians, dividing even the ruling Likud party. The move is being perceived as a deliberate affront to the U.S., which has repeatedly warned Israel that it considers the expansion of Jewish settlements in the administered territories to be an obstacle to peace. It brought a swift response from Washington, where White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters that \"\"this action, if verified, does not change the U.S. position on Israeli settlement activity. \"\"Settlements are an obstacle to peace and their continuation does not contribute to the development of a peace process, which we have all been looking for,\"\" Fitzwater said. MORE SETTLEMENTS Palestinians worked at a building site in the Jewish settlement of Ariel in the West Bank. Israel has launched a construction boom which could boost the Jewish settler population by 50 percent in two years. RNS Photo: Reuters. He said the U.S. ambassador to Israel, William Brown, has asked the Israeli government for clarification. Revava, approved by the government in 1982 but never built, was originally scheduled to be inaugurated this week on the 43rd anniversary of Israel's indepen- dence. Instead, the Gush Emunim saw to it that the settlement went up three days before Secretary of State James Baker was due in Jerusalem on his second visit in less than two weeks, aimed at continuing crucial talks on the peace Israel's leaders. process with Minnesotans try to get new Soviet immigrants involved in Jewish lifestyle By ADAM H. KATZ-STONE Staff Writer The assimilation process can be a delicate balancing act. Jewish communal agencies encourage immigrants to affiliate with the Jewish community, but they try to do so without intruding on the immigrants' newly-won freedom of choice. Soviet families coming to the Twin Cities tend to get their religious orientation from their host families. Recently, many shared the Passover meal with their hosts. They joined their hosts at synagogue to celebrate Hanuka, and to hear the Megilla read on Purim. Some Russian Jews, on the other hand, adapt to the less observant practices of the American Jews they encounter. Part 2 in a series Communal agencies responsible for resettlement find that there are limits to how hard they can push the New Americans, many of whom are reluctant to take part in Jewish life. Host families, for instance, are j encouraged but not required to bring their Russian guests to synagogue, according to Joan Bream, supervisor of resettlement and aging programs at Jewish Family Service in St. Paul. She could not say how many host families are observant. Jewish agencies generally do no t keep such statistics, nor are there formal religious requirements for host families. But Bream characterized host families as being generally concerned about perpetuating Jewish culture and passing it on to the new immigrants. While some are probably highly assimilated, it is likely that most do make some effort to involve immigrants in Jewish life, she said. There are flaws in the \"\"host family\"\" system, however. Sophia Greenberg, who came to the U.S. two years ago with her husband Yefem and daughter Alice, said that they only saw their host family for two weeks. Now she gets most of her Jewish information from her best friend Jackie Hirsh, who she met at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, where their children attend classes. \"\"She's like my 411,\"\" Greenberg said. \"\"Any questions that I have, I call her...I thank God that we met the people we did.\"\" Greenberg said that some Jewish Americans scorn the Soviet emigres for their lack of familiarity with Jewish practice. These people should be more understanding, she said, because \"\"it's not so simple, it takes time.\"\" \"\"It is hard to switch your life, to celebrate different holidays and do everything different,\"\" Greenberg said. But she insisted that for her family at least, \"\"it will come, because we are close to the Jewish community.\"\" While Greenberg is enthusiastic about Jewish learning, many New Americans find that their own attitudes are the principle hindrance to successful affiliation as Jews. For many Russians, religion has heavy negative connotations: an \"\"opiate of the masses\"\" to be scorned. Victor Kravchinsky, 9, a student at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, said that before coming to the U.S. his family visited a synagogue in Moscow two or three times, but that he didn't like it. 'There was nothing in there, just broken chairs. I just looked in there and that's it.\"\" Daniel Visnevetsky, 10, remembered that \"\"in school somebody told me, 'are you Jew or are you Russian?' I said 'jew.' Then they wouldn't talk to me.\"\" Rabbi Avraham Ettedgui, executive director of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah, explained that in Russia they had to be Jews because it was printed on their passports. He said that since Jewishness in Russia was \"\"a limitation, many AGush Emunim leader, Daniella Weiss, was even quoted as saying, 'This is a message to Baker.\"\" In Washington, Fitzwater said that when the secretary of state was in Israel last week, he told the Israelis \"\"that continued settlement activity would hinder progress toward agreement on other issues related to the peace process.\"\" The White House spokesman said at the start of his briefing that reports had been received that Gush Emunim brought trailers \"\"to a site in the occupied West Bank where no settlement existed before.\"\" The site is near the main highway crossing the Samaria region of the territory, northwest of Jerusalem. Gush Emunim seems to have been prompted in part by the challenge from left-wing parties, which have been urging a settlement freeze. About 20 activists from Mapam, the Citizens Rights Movement and the Center-Shinui Movement demonstrated at the site in opposition to the new settlement. They were hauled off by soldiers. Journalists were kept away by declaring the entire area a closed military zone. Although the army complained that the timing of the settlement was not coordinated with the military authorities, it cooperated fully. Best-selling author predicts Pollard release immigrantsare perplexed as to why, in a free society, they should choose to affiliate as Jews. And in order to understand the \"\"why\"\" of being Jewish, Ettedgui argued, they must first have some basic exposure to the \"\"what.\"\" In addition to the lack of familiarity with religious practices, and their learned negativism toward religion, many immigrants may shy away from religious affiliation out of necessity. They are more concerned with making a living than with spiritual activities. Despite these many adverse factors, interest in spiritual matters is still there, just waiting to be tapped. Rabbi Yaakov May, director of Torah Academy (a Jewish day school in Minneapolis), said that \"\"it takes a lot more than 70 years to undo the rich tradition of faith and belief\"\" harbored in the bosom of Russian Jews. The spirituality of their ancestors lingers in their veins, he said, even without a knowledge of the practices. \"\"One man recognized a prayer that was said at his mother's funeral when he was 11...I sang it and he immediately started crying, saying 'I remember that song,\"\"' recalled Susan Dworsky, who teaches English as a second language at the St. Paul Talmud Torah, and also teaches basic Judaism to Soviet adults at Beth Jacob Synagogue. Anna Hillman, a teacher at the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, said that although most immigrants she knows are non-observant, she has seen a genuine interest in some to make at least an ostensible show of faith. To this end she knows of several teen-age boys who were circumcised upon their arrival in the U.S., because it was all the religious practice their parents knew. 'The ones who do come to me are passionate,\"\" Dworsky agreed. 'They want to be Jewish...They know they're Jewish and they're angry that they were deprived.\"\" See SOVIETS Page 3 AJW Staff Report Yossi Melman, co-author with Dan Raviv of a best-selling expose on Israeli intelligence, said that while he is \"\"no gambler,\"\" he would give good odds for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard to receive executive clemency within a year. In an interview with AJW while in Minneapolis Melman said that Pollard, an American convicted of spying on the U.S. for Israel, was wrongly abandoned by the Israelis. \"\"Theypanicked.and sacrificed him on the altar of 'the greater interest,\"\"'Melman said. Fearing a public opinion backlash, Israel \"\"tried to dissociate itself with Pollard,\"\" when they should have apologized to the U.S. and bargained for his release. Melman, whose book \"\"Every Spy a Prince\"\" details four decades of ups and down within the various Israeli intelligence agencies, said that Pollard was cynically exploited by the U.S. government. \"\"I do not accept the surprise ex-pressedby people\"\" over the Pollard affair, Melman said. \"\"I call it hypocrisy.\"\" While relations between Israeli and U.S. security agencies were temporarily strained over the incident, Melman stated that no permanent damage resulted. Ultimately both sides understood that \"\"interests are stronger than sentiment,\"\" and since the Gulf war the level of information exchange between the two countries is higher than ever, he said. Melman believes the Gulf war represented a significant intelligence failure, and charges the U.S. and Israel with ignoring Saddam's military build-up until it was too late. He stated that one week before Saddam moved against Kuwait, Moshe Arens and the head of the Mossad (the Israeli intelligence agency) visited Washington and warned the U.S. about the pending invasion. But by then, Melman said, it was too late to do anything about it. \"\"A myth has been created that intelligence (services) can solve all human problems,\"\" Melman explained. He argued that an intelligence service is only as good as the society it serves. Melman hearkens the development of Israeli society, and thus its intelligence services, to the human maturation process. Right now they are both in \"\"middle age,\"\" a stage marked by \"\"skepticism, cynicism and...materialism.\"\" Yossi Melman He noted, however, that most people in middle age at least start \"\"to lay the foundations for the next generation.\"\" \"\"I wish the Israeli intelligence, the Israeli leaders, could be more responsible and accountable to the future,\"\" Melman said. While the book has been criticized by some for exposing soft spots in Israel's intelligence armor long reputed to be impenetrable Melman insists that free access to such information is a basic tenet of democracy. He hopes his book, a best-seller in Israel as well as the U.S., will facilitate open discussion of the role of security forces in a democracy. In order to glean his information, much of which had never been exposed before, Melman conducted literally hundreds of interviews with former intelligence personnel. He benefitted from what he calls a \"\"spy syndrome.\"\" After a life of secrecy, Melman explained, a spy realizes \"\"that he has a great story to tell. And whatisthepointofhaving a story if you do not tell it?\"\" Inside the AJW Nuremberg prosecutors want Saddam accountable .............Page 3 A message from Israel's president ............Page 5 Local family maintains sports tradition ............Page 9", "_version_": 1710462452974485504, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57633", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/b8af565c9ec120e786550f624737113767e68dc0.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57634", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57634", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 2", "title_s": "Page 2", "title_t": "Page 2", "title_search": "Page 2", "title_sort": "page2", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77084" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 1, "attachment": "57635.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "PAGE 2 AROUND THE WORLD Last Albanian Jews arrive in Israel By GIL SEDAN JERUSALEM OTA) The last 16 Jews from Albania arrived in Israel last week, completing the exodus of the minuscule Jewish community from what was the most isolated country in Europe. An El A1 flight from Rome brought the group, ending a semi-clandestine operation that had been under way since December. All of Albania's 300 Jews arenow believed to have left that Balkan country of 3.3 million, the last Stalinist enclave on the continent. Most of the small community came to Israel. The rest have gone to the U.S. to join family members there. Arnon Mantver, director general of the Jewish Agency's aliya department, recalled how the opera- tion started. Several months ago, the agency received information through Jewish organizations, especially the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, that the tiny Albanian Jewish community was interested in aliya. Mantver said the agency was anxious to get them out before the impending elections, which recently took place. There was apprehension that an unpredictable outcome at the polls might have made their departuremoredifficult. In fact, the Albanian government offered no obstacles and issued passports to the immigrants. Itsonly condition was that before a family departed, one member would travel to Rome or Athens to collect Israeli visas for the entire family. JOAN RIVERS in a Benefit for PACER Center SATURDAY, MAY 4 Minneapolis Convention Center 6:30 Silent Auction, 8:30 Show The Connection 922-9000 PACER Center 827-2966 Plus your musical favorites from Sinatra to Streisand. KLBB (the \"\"MUSIC OF .mnn FREE $5.00 FREE SAVE UP TO 50% On regular retail for RESTAURANTS CAR CARE BINGO DRY CLEANING HOME REPAIR & IMPROVEMENT HAIR CARE HOTELS LAWN & GARDEN GIFT ITEMS VACATIONS FURNITURE and a lot more!! TUNE INTO THE GOOD TIME SUPER SAVER RADIO HOUR\"\" on lCLBB AM 1400 Mon. - Sat., 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. This coupon may be redeemed for an additional $5 OFF good time Super Saver Radio Hour purchases of $25 or more. Limit one coupon per purchase. Not valid with other coupons. Redeemable only at KLBB. Not redeemable for cash. Expires April 27,1991. wm mm mm wm wm Israel airlifts emergency supplies to Kurdish refugees fleeing Iraq AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD KURDISH JEWS PROTEST IN ISRAEL Kurdisn Jews living m Israel demonstrated against the American refusal to halt the Iraqi killing of Kurds. The protest was held during U.S. Secretary of State .lamps Rakars recent visit to Israel. RNS Photo/Reuters. TEL AVIV QTA)An Israeli air force cargo plane on Tuesday morning delivered six tons of emergency supplies for Kurdish refugees to Turkey, to be distributed by the Turkish Red Crescent, that country's equivalent of the Red Cross. Aboard the Hercules transport plane on its way back to Israel was Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan, who spearheaded the Israeli drive to aid the Kurds. The shipment included blankets, tents, clothing and medical supplies, mainly antibiotics, forthe tens of thousands of refugees stranded without shelter or hygienic conditions in the mountainous border region between Turkey and northern Iraq. The plight of the Kurdish refugees has, as was anticipated, worsened dramatically in the last few days, with hundreds dying of exposure, dehydration and dysentery in their crowded and unsanitary conditions. The shipment was enabled by donations to Magen David Adorn, Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross, and the Association of Israelis of Kurdish Origin. Governor Carlson proclaims days of Holocaust remembrance Governor Arne Carlson this year proclaimed April 7-14 to be \"\"days of remembrance\"\" for the victims of the Holocaust. The proclamation stated that Minnesotans \"\"should remember the atrocities committed by the Nazis in the hope that such horrors are never repeated,\"\" and should \"\"continually rededicate themselves to the principle of equal justice for all people.\"\" The proclamation calls on the people of Minnesota to \"\"remain eternally vigilant against all tyranny, and recognize that bigotry provides a breeding ground for tyranny to flourish.\"\" Similar proclamations were issued by Mayors Don Fraser, Minneapolis, and James Scheibel, St. Paul. You have some powerful questions about Judaism. Isnt it about time you got some powerful answers? It's time for a rational, modem approach to a superrational, ancient religion, compiled and delivered by a team of scientists and Judaic scholars. WHAT: A one-day Discovery Seminar WHEN: Sunday, May 5,1991,9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (Registration at 9:00 a.m.) WHERE: Minneapolis J.C.C. Auditorium COST: $40.00 - Incl. lunch, materials, snacks, coffee Scholarships available. Child care extra. \"\" To reserve (or for more information), call Liz at 926^4761 or Naomi at 925-9858 A project of the Torah Learning Center of Minnesota Welcome New Advertisers Marty Siegel/Edina Realty Landmark Theatre Corp. Pacer Center Tell them you saw it in The American Jewish World ------------^^199i Toyota to sell cars in Israel; ends compliance with Arab boycott By ALIZA MARCUS NEW YORK Motor Corp. has soon start selling cars ln j making it one of the first main' Japanese companies to come om publicly against the Arab-led eon nomic boycott of Israel. This is the most significant com pany to break with the boycott\"\" said William Rapfogel, execute director of the Institute of pubiic Affairs, the public policy arm of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Con gregations of America. \"\"We're very hopeful that the change in Toyota is a harbinger ol things to come ...\"\" he said. Over the past few years, Toyota had come under increasing pres sure from Jewish organizations to begin sales in Israel, including a letter-writing campaign by members of Orthodox Union. The letter-writing campaign also targeted 17 other Japanese companies accused of following the boycott, including Toshiba, Casio Hitachi, Aiwa, Nippon Steel, Nissan and Mazda, said Rapfogel. And many Jewish groups also contacted Toyota to express concern \"\"that we were in tacit compliance\"\" with the boycott, said Tim Andree, manager forexternalaffairs at Toyota's North American headquarters here. Although Toyota never admit-ted it adhered to the boycott of Is- A rael, it was one of numerous Japa-1 nesecompanies which foryears had refused to do business with the Jewish state. \"\"Our answer then, as it is now,is that we had to find the right partner and study the market, and that we don't jump into any market quickly,\"\" said Andree. The economic boycott of Israel, which was organized in 1951 by the 21 nations of the Arab League, not only prohibits companies from engaging in trade with Israel, butalso seeks to isolate companies that do business with the Jewish state, U.S. federal anti-boycott laws make it illegal for American companies to uphold the boycott or transfer information about a company's dealings with Israel. L.A. gospel group buys Israel Bond (JTA) Toyota announced it win LOS ANGELES (JTA) - Eric and Pearl Wright, pastors of a small black congregation in one of L.A. County's poorest sections, explained their purchase of a substantial denomination State of Israel Bond last week. \"\"It's really the duty of every Christian to befriend and support Israel, because the Bible tells us to do that,\"\" Eric Wright said on a visit to the Israel Bonds office. The Wrights, 60, natives of Texas, pooled the money their Gospel Light Fellowship congregation raised by choir concerts and barbecue dinners to buy a bond in the five-figure range. Corrections In the Paige Lindsay Abramson Bat Mitzva announcement (4-12- AJW) Melba Feldhakewashsted as residing in Montevideo, Uruguay-She lives in Montevideo, Minne sota. A phone number was inc1lf: ] ported in last week's AJ W. 0 ith information regarding mis g members of the Minneap rimud Torah Class of 1943 \"\"l3? 11 Joanne Savitt, 544-728 , ietz, 374-2825; or Florence Spir -,6-4108. LIGHT CANDLES 7:47 P.M. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 3", "title_s": "Page 3", "title_t": "Page 3", "title_search": "Page 3", "title_sort": "page3", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77085" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 2, "attachment": "57636.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "APRIL 19,1991 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD PAGE 3 Nuremberg reunion urges trial of Hussein By mat edelson WASHINGTON From a roomful of those who made history, came the cry: act now, lest history repeat itself The survivors of the Nuremberg War Trials 125 men and women; prosecutors, interrogators and interpreters gathered in Washington, D.C. recently for a reunion marking the 45th anniversary of the trials. While their memories were of Hitler, their immediate thoughts centered on Saddam Hussein and how to make the Iraqi leader accountable for his crimes. A panel of 10 Nuremberg prosecutors concluded, in the form of a resolution, that \"\"the U.N., the United States and its coalition partners and all peace-loving nations\"\" should \"\"investigate, indict, prosecute and punish those Iraqi nationals who have engaged in aggressive war against Kuwait.\"\" These 10 angry men see the Gulf war as their last chance to establish the Nuremberg Charter as a permanent part of international law. Walter Brudno, prosecutor of Nazi Party Chief Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, explained that \"\"if we are going to be selective in applying the law of the Nuremberg Charter, then it ceases to be law. It becomes only a mechanism of politics...and we've accomplished nothing.\"\" Brudno and his colleagues understand the political ironies. A few short months ago, President George Bush said that Saddam Hussein would face \"\"swift retribution\"\" in the form of war crimes charges for acts of aggression and crimes against humanity, including the holding of human shields and abusing prisoners-of-war. But since the end of the war, the administration's stance has noticeably softened. In March a Bush spokesperson said the U.S. \"\"did not want to intervene in the internal affairs\"\" of Iraq despite allegations that Hussein was using combat helicopters against his own people in violation of the coalition's cease-fire agreement. The administration's message is clear to Henry King, who prosecuted the Nazis involved with slave laborat aircraft plants. To not prosecute, he argued, \"\"sends out a message that we don't have the courage of our convictions,\"\" and could influence other leaders to pursue policies of aggression. The panelist discussed the logis-tics of prosecuting Hussein. Charles Horsky, a counsel liaison at Nuremberg, worried about what type of international tribunal could be set up. Nuremberg had only four \"\"conquering\"\" countries to deal with, while the Persian Gulf coalition consisted of 17 nations. Horsky's solution? Work within the framework of the U.N. \"\"I'm told that there's no reason why the (U.N.) Security Council could not, in its wisdom, create a court,\"\" Horsky suggested. Such a court \"\"would permit reasonably easy negotiation...it brings in a world community rather than just the Western community, and it is entirely possible that the Western powers would share, to some extent, in the administration and consummation of a trial.\"\" Horsky acknowledged however that \"\"it would be diplomatically and politically impossible to try an existing head of state in absentia in an international court.\"\" The panel was in agreement as to Hussein's guilt on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Any act of aggression against one country by another is considered a war crime under the Nuremberg Charter. Crimes against humanity include \"\"acts of an aggressor against civilians, foreign or domestic,\"\" and can occur before the outbreak of an actual war. For example, Henry King explained that \"\"murders, torture, and other inhumane acts were carried out against civilians in Kuwait on political grounds.\"\" Walter Rockier, who successfully prosecuted German bankers for illegally seizing civilian property, outlined other crimes Hussein and his leaders allegedly committed. \"\"You cannot force an enemy prisoner of war to do anything to aid the conduct of his captors,\"\" Rockier said. \"\"It seems to be fairly clear that the Iraqis do not honor these principles. A POW cannot be exposed to humiliation. I would say putting a POW before a television camera and asking him to apologize for his existence may well be a form of humiliation.\"\" As with all legal proceedings, it is one thing to know someone is guilty, another thing altogether to prove it to the satisfaction of the court. Gathering evidence, especially if Hussein stays in Iraq, will prove difficult. Charles Horsky recalled that \"\"at Nuremberg, the victorious powers completely occupied Germany...Most of the evidence used at Nuremberg was German captured documents.\"\" A case which meets minimum legal requirements could be made against Saddam Hussein on the basis of what is already known. But the Nuremberg jurors said they would rather have a detailed trial and proof of liability against others besides Hussein. This would require evidence which, while Hussein still has control of Iraq, will probably not be available. All the panelists are in their 70s and 80s. For most, this reunion will provide the closing chapter on the lessons of Nuremberg. By the time the last speaker had his say, their common feeling was clear. Prosecutor Ben Ferencz concluded that issues of war crimes, in many respects, go far beyond the realm of Saddam Hussein. \"\"We've got to begin to think in planetary, in global terms, to begin to manage our own society so that all people can live in peace,\"\" he said. 'That is the challenge of Nuremberg and that is the challenge we face today.\"\" ** Mat Edelson is a contributing reporter to National Public Radio. Intact Scud missile to be displayed TEL AVIV (JTA) An intact Scud missile, one of the 39 fired at Israel by Iraq during the Gulf war, will be on display here alongside a U.S. Patriot missile during Independence Day celebrations this week. The Scud may be the one that scored a direct hit on an apartment building in the Tel Aviv area. The missile slammed through the roof and three floors of apartments and came to rest in a ground-floor shop but failed to explode. Though the building was badly damaged, there were no casualties. Area residents were in air raid shelters at the time. Hapoalim leading the bank pack JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel's largest financial institution, Bank Hapoalim, reported a significant rise in profits last year while Israel's other major banks all reported declines. Eitan Berglass, chair of the bank's board of directors, attributed its success to \"\"basic efficiency\"\" which apparently overcame the sluggish economy. In 1990, its 69th year of operations, Bank Hapoalim's net profit amounted to $76 million, a 46 percent increase over $52 million in 1989. In the same period, Bank Leumi's profit dropped by 59 percent. Israel Discount Bank's earnings were down by 21.3 percent and Mizrahi Bank's by 42 percent. Israel, Turkey discuss water problem JERUSALEM (JTA) Turkish President Turgut Ozal and Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres met this week in Amsterdam and discussed a proposal forTurkey to pipe water to the Middle East. They met at the fourth Global Panel conference, an international seminar. The project Ozal and Peres discussed calls for piping water, which is plentiful inTurkey, to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bankand Egypt. The two giant pipelines would take seven years to build, at an estimated maximum cost of $20 billion. French unions to teach Holocaust PARIS OTA) About 40 trade unions and humanitarian organizations here have launched a drive to teach the younger generation about the Holocaust. Scholarly meetings and books about the Holocaust do not achieve their aim, one of the organizers said, and revisionists who deny the existence of Nazi gas chambers have to be denounced. The initiative comes as a French court is about to try the former police chief of the wartime Vichy regime, Rene Bousquet, for crimes against humanity. No other airline can make this statement Local teachers fight negative attitudes SOVIETS (Continued from Page 1) In contrast to the last wave of immigrants, Ettedgui said, the Russians arriving today take a much more active interest in Jewish life. 'They are thirsty, they want to leam, they want to know,\"\" he said, and added that local agencies had also become more adept at responding to the spiritual needs of New Americans. Some immigrants initially shun Jewish culture in order to move more quickly into American mainstream society. While acknowledging that this has been a problem in the past, May described the new group of immigrants as \"\"temper->ng their American dream chase\"\" with a concern for preserving their Jewish heritage. Dworsky suggested that, for those who make the effort to get involved in Jewish life, affiliation actually makes the cul- tural transition easier. Judaism, she said, \"\"gives them a small, intimate community to plug into,\"\" which acts as a launching pad for their entry into general culture. She argued that most Soviet immigrants are not any more deficient in their level of religious knowledge than the current generation of American Jews, most of whose parents assimilated by choice. Even in Russia, many have parents and grandparents who remember that country's Jewish life, who try to perpetuate fragments of remembered custom, and who witnessed the Holocaust and the demise of Eastern European Jewry. Their cultural memory is modern, almost the same as Americans, Dworsky asserted. She said that too much is made of the Soviets' cultural disadvantages, and that she has high hopes for their successful integration into mainstream American Jewish life. SUNSET GABLES\"\" $284,900 FABULOUS 4 BR, TWO STORY, MSTR. BA, 2FPS 1ST FLR FAM. RM, 2 CAR GAR, COMPL. UPDATED Marty Siegel 944-7107 EdinaRealty GREETINGS and BEST WISHES The Airline of Israel. 174 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60601 (312)236-7264 1-800-223-6700 The Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund presents: NEAL KARLEN Minneapolis feature writer, reporter and author \"\"Penetrating Hidden Worlds: Getting the Impossible Interview\"\" Karlen is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and his work appears frequently in publications such as F,squire. Gentlemans Quarterly and The New Yorker. Beginning this May, hell be a regular columnist for Mpls/St. Paul, The evening also will include: The 1991 Young Leadership Award Presentation recognizing an outstanding high school senior of a Twin Cities U.S.Y. chapter SUNDAY, APRIL 28,1991 7:30 p.m. Adath Jeshurun Synagogue 3400 Dupont Avenue South Minneapolis ___________________________ The evening is free and open to the public.", "_version_": 1710462452976582657, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57635", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/204360c06465b406cac94d456009d34fac109198.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57636", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57636", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 4", "title_s": "Page 4", "title_t": "Page 4", "title_search": "Page 4", "title_sort": "page4", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77086" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 3, "attachment": "57637.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD ApRIL 19, i99l Editorial/Opinion Time to renew our commitment This year especially, Israel Independence Day affords each of us the opportunity to re-examineour relationship to Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel, both as the spiritual hub of our faith and as a modem political entity. It hit us all in the gut when the Scuds fell on Tel Avivespecially during those first dark hours of uncertainty when it seemed as if everything might be lost. It is appropriate at this time of renewed \"\"stability\"\" to translate those powerful emotions into action. In our daily life, we can choose to speak in defense of Israel, our homeland. We can defy the pervasive media lies and declare to all who will hear that Israel is righteous, good, desiring only peace. The land, the people, cry only for peace a peace denied by belligerent neighbors. Further, we can lobby our legislators to act with Israel's interests in mind. The security and prosperity of Israel should be on the top of our political agenda, and we must consequently hold our representatives accountable to our priorities. We can seek creative ways to increase our financial support for our people's homeland. Still reeling from the economic blows delivered by the Gulf war, Israel desperately needs Western industry, Western creativity, Western investment if she is to remain an economically (and therefore a politically) viable entity. We should seize Yom Ha'atzmaut as a chance to revitalize our passionate devotion to Jewish survival, which history has shown can only be assured when our people have a secure, defensible land to call their own. That land is, has always been, and we pray shall always be Eretz Yisroel, the land of Israel. A rabbi's sincere prayer to Allah Akhbar I know and fully realize it is not common and even less expected of a rabbi to ad d ress in a sincere prayer to the God of the Moslems. Allah Akhbar Allah is great was lately heard in many parts of the world. On the rooftops of Arab dwellings in Ramalla; in the poverty-stricken huts of Sidon; by a praying tyrant prostrating himself on the eve of the Gulf war; by a 16-year-old youngster in Tel Aviv stabbing an elderly Jewish woman; by frustrated masses in a forlorn and tragic Jordan the Allah Akhbar shout, or call it prayer, or voice of desperation, was heard. Before my eyes at this moment is a picture of a weeping Kurdish mother clutching to her breast a dead child and throwing herself into the grave prepared for her baby, a picture that was flashed on the TV screen for half the world to see. It presses on my conscience. What is one to do? Write a letter to Bush? So many have already written. Only a prayer is left to utter. By MARC H. TANENBAUM NEW YORK QTA)Israel's Independence Day, Y om Ha'atzmaut, is a time of important commemoration, but also one of special challenges. The challenges flow from the fallout of the Persian Gulf war and the emergent transformations in Middle East alliances. The heady sense of victory that followed thetriumph over Saddam Hussein's aggression seems diminished in the face of Hussein's continued survival and his ability to employ his war machine effectively against his own people. For Israel, does that mean a reduced but continued threat in the near future? Are the U.S. and its allies snatching defeat from a clear victory? Dothe new alliances being forged between the U.S. and the \"\"moderate\"\" Arab nations Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Gulf emirates, Egypt, and possibly even Syriabetoken a weakening of the strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel? The moves to pre-position substantial American weaponry in Arab coun- You pick up the morning paper weeks after the war has ended and you see the pictures of hungry, cold, thirsty masses marching to borders from villages where they lived, worked, and gave birth to offspring. They now march and march. Words that embraced my people two generations ago come back to haunt older people; Exodus, genocide, starvation, annihilation, torture,murderand ofcoursegas-sing, O my God, gassing again. What is one to do? Despair for humanity? Shout again, \"\"Stop the world, let me get off?\"\" Many brutal pictures came to us from the Holocaust culture. None of us shall ever forget the picture of an 8- year-old youngster with outstretched arms and a deadly fear in his eyes, as if turning to the world and shouting, give me life or death, but do not torture me. From the present tortuous days, I shall carry with me the picture of five healthy-looking Iraqi soldiers on their knees in the Arabian desert, tries cannot be good news for Israel. The peace process for resolving the Palestinian problem and bringingan end to thebelligerency against Israel on the part of the Arab states will need to go forward in Israel's long-term interests. But has an international pressure cooker now been created which would compromise Israel's security, and cast the Jewish state in the role of the sole \"\"enemy\"\" of Middle East peace? If none of these challenges existed today, Israel and world Jewry would be concentrating on the immigration of thousands of Soviet Jews as the central preoccupation of Jewish life. This host of major challenges will require a massive recommitment of Israeli and world Jewry to the historic, religious and moral meaning of Israel to Jewish existence and continuity. Yom Ha'atzmaut is a unique time to reflect on the ultimate meaningof Israel in Jewish historic experience which transcends all the present difficulties and challenges. Reviewing the desperate conditions of Jewry prior to the creation From Friday to Friday Rabbi Marc Liebhaber kissing the boots of an American soldier and begging; begging for water, life, mercy, compassion; kissing his hands; waiting for the verdict a bullet or a bottle of water. After the Holocaust, Jews dared to ask \"\"Where was God?\"\" The more daring knew the answer: \"\"God is dead.\"\" \"\"He has hidden his face!\"\" It would be the height of chutzpa of me,ajewish rabbi, toask \"\"Where is Allah?\"\" Allah Akhbar the God not of 12 million unarmed dispersed Jews, but Allah Akhbar who rules over hundreds of millions of Arabs settled in their own lands, with great oil resources at of Israel, Dr. Leo Pinsker, the Jewish doctor from Odessa, wrote in his classic \"\"Auto-Emancipation,\"\" that because of the Jews' statelessness and lack of power over their lives, \"\"the world beheld the Jewish people as the eerie figure of a corpse wandering among the living.\"\" This \"\"ghost-phenomenon of a wandering corpse\"\" among the nations inspired \"\"a ghost terror, Judeophobia.\"\" Israel's existence as a sovereign state has ended the ghostliness of the Jewish diaspora. It is the one sure haven whose gates are open to any Jew anywhere. Yom Ha'atzmaut reminds us that Israel's existence has transformed the role of Jews as victims of history and has invested the wholeof Jewry with the power of mastery over our fate and destiny. *** Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, for 30 years the director of the international relations department of the American Jewish Committee, is now a lecturer, writer and consultant. their disposal, armies equipped with the most modern military material undertook a gigantic project to destroy their lands and culture, eradicating their past and perpetuating refugee camps, hunger and misery, bringing about genocide, starvation and exodus. No, I am not about to ask \"\"Where is Allah?\"\" Or God forbid proclaim that \"\"Allah is dead.\"\" lhaveaprayer in my heart, a prayer to Allah; Dear Allah! Thou art Great! In thy name a descendant of thy prophet proclaimed a death sentence upon a man who dared to write a book with a few uncomplimentary words about your prophet. Khomeini is already dead, but Rushdie is forced to hide. Khomeini - who is revered by millions of thy worshippers, who sent to death hundreds of thousands of young men in a so-called defense of Allahwas attacked by another worshipper of yours, Saddam Hussein, who just murdered thousands of your worshippers in Kuwait and over one hundred thousand of his own people...and the end is not in sight. Where are you? Dear Allah! What happened to the Arab and Moslem pride? The Saudi Arabian kingdom, after spending hundreds of billions of dollars of oil riches with which Thou hast endowed them, had to appeal to the foreign infidels to come into the holy desert lands, to defend Arab against Arab, Moslem against Moslem...and the end is not in sight. Our common ancestor Ibrahim has taught us that any Jew is entitled to question his Almighty Master. Abraham asked God before His decision to destroy Sodom; \"\"Shall the Judge of the whole Universe do injustice?\"\" May 1 not address thee, Allah Akhbar, to bring the hundreds of millions of thy worshippers to their senses and use their wealth to settle the refugees from the camps in their lands; to give dignity and purpose to the Palestinian people; to erect schools; to build universities; to begin educating the forgotten people of Yasir Arafat; to bring about a time when Saudis and Kuwaitis will study in Jerusalem and Israelis shall work in Riyadh or Kuwait? As a rabbi I dream of a small Israel, an Israel at peace with its Arab brethren; an Israel that abandons false dreams of an empire, but dreams of building a national home with confidence in itself and in its people; an Israel that shall trade with its neighbors, study and teach in their schools and befriend the sons and daughters of its Arab neighbors. O Allah! Show to your adherents the futility of the Arab dream to erase Israel from the map. And may the time come when together we, Arab and Jew, shall dwell in peace in the historic lands of our ancestors. THE AMERICAN JEWISH W3RLD Voice of Minnesota Jewry since 1912 The American Jewish World is published every Friday by AJW Publishing Inc., 4509 Minnetonka Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Second class postage paid at Minneapolis, MN (ISSN 0002-9084) and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send add ress changes toT e American Jewish World, 4509 Minnetonka Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Rabbi Marc Liebhaber, Publisher and Senior Editor Marshall Hoffman, Managing Editor Administration Marilyn Goldman Account Executives Joan Goldstein Ruth Kaiser Dorothy Shaw Classifieds Murray Feldman Founders L.H. Frisch and Rabbi Samuel Deinard Thursday deadline eight days in advance for news stories and advertising ooWj^J manuscripts intended for publication are subject to editing. 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Katz-Stone Desktop Publisher Patricia Gille Editor Emeritus Norman Gold Yom Haatzmaut 1991 A time of special challenges", "_version_": 1710462452978679808, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57636", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/67f7c59aefaf995adc3559ee5b2d7b5ddafc0a41.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57637", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57637", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 5", "title_s": "Page 5", "title_t": "Page 5", "title_search": "Page 5", "title_sort": "page5", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77087" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 4, "attachment": "57638.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APRIL 19, 1991 PAGE 5 Reinterpreting history Rabbi Friedman style By STEVEN KAPLAN I would have thought that the concept of religious leaders running secular states had been thoroughly discredited in our time. From Pope Pius' refusal to condemn Adolf Hitler to the more contemporary example of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the history of religious leaders interfering in a nation's political affairs has been pretty clearly disastrous. In general, the more \"\"fundamentally\"\" oriented thereligious leader, the moredisastrous the effect on a nation's affairs. Religious leaders have their own agendas, quite proper for those religious people who follow their advice but often antithetical to others who do in a very long process that may eventually culminate in submerging old animosities. But if such animosities are somehow eventually to be ended, dealings between enemies must, at some point, begin. Rabbi Friedman says that \"\"the FLO'S... support of Iraq-shocked Israel's liberals.\"\" I imagine there exists somewhere in Israel a liberal who was shocked by such a thing, but, honestly now, rabbi, in view of all we know of past history, do you sincerely believe that the bulk of Israeli liberals were surprised to see Palestinians supporting any government who wanted to go to war with their avowed enemy? The norm is not all that shocking; indeed, the very reverse would be shocking. That his religious leader affected the political process in Israel is quite a correct observation; that he \"\"saved\"\" Israel is self-serving nonsense. not. It is proper, and desirable, that they advise their own flocks, but quite improper and undesirable for them to attempt to lead the affairs of a nation. So it was with some apprehension, though, unfortunately, no surprise, that I came across a recent article written by Rabbi Manis Friedman, explaining how his particular religious leader had \"\"saved\"\" Israel by interfering in their political process (\"\"What Bush, Israel and the world owe the Lubavitcher Rebbe,\"\" 3-29-91 AJW). It was sad for me to see Rabbi Friedman reduced to a PR flack, explaining away his leader's political interferences. That his religious leader affected the political process in Israel is quite a correct observation; that he \"\"saved\"\" Israel is self-serving nonsense. Rabbi Friedman has reinterpreted history in ways that most current journalists and historians would find unrecognizable, if not downright specious. He suggests that Shimon Peres believed that \"\"concessions to the PLO would make them Israel's allies...\"\" Come on, rabbi. Neither Peres nor any other Israeli I know of believes such drivel. Long-time enemies such as Israel and the PLO are not overnight, or even over a decade, converted into allies, as anyone with any sense understands. The long-range goal, I imagine, is for that to happen, but it is a dream, not a belief. Dealing with your enemy is only the first step For Yom Haatzmaut 5751 By ISMAR SCHORSCH Even as we celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Israel's birth, American Jews are challenged anew by that egregious affront to us allthe so-called \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" issue. Only the setting has changed. Word has it that when the leadership of the Jewish Agency meets this June in Jerusalem, it will decide to eliminate all funding for the religious streams. A few years ago that same leadership reluctantly agreed to a semblance of pluralism and equalitya small sum of money specifically restricted to projects in Israel carried out under Conservative, Reform, or Orthodox auspices. The measure was a response to the growing unease of American donors and was intended to offset slightly the untold sums earmarked for institutions on the Orthodox far right. But now, in the face of the vast needs of Soviet immigration, the agency is prepared to end the expenditure. As the agency leaders deliberate, I would hope they will recall an incident that occurred in Israel this Passover, an example of religious coercion that mocks the very meaning of the festival of freedom. The army hosted some 3,000 Soviet olim at military bases across the country for their first seder in Israel. At one installation where some 200 had assembled, the only Haggada available in Russian was the one produced by the Masorti Movement (Conservative)a beautifully designed edition of the traditional text with a Russian translation and commentary. The military chaplain who conducted the seder, however, deemed the Haggada to be unsuitable, compelling his Soviet Jewish guests to observe the ritual uncompre-hendingly. The scene is grotesquely sad: Haggadot willingly denied at a seder in Israel to Jews who fled a land where for decades Haggadot were hopelessly unobtainable. Their struggle to reach Israel was not crowned with a taste of religious freedom. Government officials still determine what is religiously acceptable. For Jews, God's house has but a single entrance. In addition to his painting of liberal peace Israelis as moronic idealists with no sense of history or real-politic a totally unfair and inaccurate portrayal Rabbi Friedman ignores some basic political realities himself. We might expect this from our politicians, but not our rabbis. The rabbi has set up a scenario whereby dull Israeli leaders give up the West Bank to Palestinians, who promptly (of course) use the land as a launching base for Iraqi missiles, thus opening Israel up to the horrors of chemical warfare. The poor dumb liberal leaders just trusted the Palestinians to be nice guys, I guess. In truth, as the rabbi must know, any that means any discussion of Palestinian self-determination always includes very stringent demilitarization guidelines, very carefully watched overby on-site Israeli army observers. Does the rabbi honestly think that the Israeli army and public would allow anything less? This setting up of strawmen, of unfair and untrue accusations, is the sort of thing I might expect from, say, Richard Nixon, but not from a widely respected rabbi. If I were Rabbi Friedman I'd be blushing very red indeed. *** Steven Kaplan is managing director of Minnesota's Journal of Law and Politics, which recently received the Gene O'Brien Excellence in Journalism Award. return of Who is a Jew Without benefit of a Haggada, some of the Soviet olim must surely have ended that evening wondering, \"\"Why is this seder night any different from seder nights in the Soviet Union?\"\" Will they ever be attracted to a Judaism which deprives them of a traditional Haggada simply because it comes with the \"\"wrong\"\" imprimatur? This is a story about the dangers of acquiescing to religious extremism. As in the case of the original \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" battle, it has to do with power and not piety, with hegemony and not halacha. Unfortunately, the leadership of the Jewish Agency prefers to stay on the sidelines in this historic struggle. As the government in Israel, untroubled by the prospect of economic catastrophe, continues to funnel millions of shekalim in special grants to the religious parties for the purpose of religious absorption of Soviet olim, our own American Jewish leaders decided in February to cease funding all denominational projects for Soviet Jewish absorption. In June, we are now warned, these same leaders will terminate all funding to the religious streams. The sectarians in Israel must be celebrating. The fury briefly unfurled by the liberal sector of American Jewry over \"\"Who is a Jew\"\" has yet to be translated into informed, sustained political action. Nothing strains the fabric of Jewish unity today more than the corrupt and parochial religious establishment ensconced in Israel. While the creation of a Jewish state has been an incredible boon for Jews, it has turned out to be decidedly deleterious for Judaism. Given the paralysis of Israeli politics, the only way to challenge this religious monopoly is from abroad. American leadership must not sacrifice religous equality on the altar of political expediency. Ismar Schorsch is chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which serves as the spiritual center for Conservative Judaism worldwide. An Independence Day .message from Israel, jrffc ft'; H !*; i.'iv It By CHAIM HERZOG The 43rd anniversary of Israel's independence is being celebrated at the end of an extraordinary year. The word miracle has become almost commonplace among us. How better can one describe the frustration of Saddam Hussein's plan to burn, gas and devastate much of Israel, as he proclaimed he would and was equipped to do with his supply of non-conventional weapons? How better, too, can one speak of the Second Exodus the great wave of Jews streaming from the Soviet Union to Israel, with some 200,000 arriving in the last 12 months? Yet even miracles take their toll in grief, sacrifice and exertion. Before the brilliant operation of the American-led coalition forces brought Iraq to its knees, theScuds it launched had paralyzed tourism and other aspects of Israel's economy, destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, wounded hundreds of citizens. It was clear that Saddam Hussein hoped to provoke a military response by Israel, with a view to splitting the coalition forces. When the government of Israel refrained from reacting to the cynical maneuver, its policy of restraint won world-wide approval and respect, without diminishing universal conviction as to its deterrent capacity. The efforts of world Jewry.,.must be doubled and trebled in order to face up to the new realities created by the mass movement of the Russian Jewish community to Israel. We dare not fail. Inevitably, post-war efforts to institute a new order in this region will prove to be a difficult and drawn out process, in the course of which the state of Israel will be confronted by very grave challenges. Whoever believes that the Arab states can easily be brought together to reach agreements, ignores the realities of the Arab world a world tom by disputes and inner contradictions, as indeed the Arabs themselves are among the chief victims of murder by Arabs in the intifada here. There is a tendency to see the Arab-Israel situation as the central and most perilous | Letter to the Editor Letters should be relevant, brief and legible, preferably typed double spaced on one side of page. All letters become our property, are printed at our discretion and are subject to editing. Letters should be signed and include a return address and phone number. Are Jewish sensibilities blunted? As is horrifyingly evident, the Kurdish people in Iraq are experiencing a genocidal onslaught. We Jews have rightly insisted the world not forget the Holocaust. We have also repeatedly mentioned that one of the leading factors which allowed the Holocaust to happen was widespread indifference. Yet the Jewish community has not raised its voice to any extent in indignation and outrage over the plight of the Kurds. Do we American Jews live in such comfort that our sensibilities are blunted? Are we so insecure that we dare not tarnish a stunning military victory? Are we so parochial that others' suffering does not cause us concern? With Passover just ended have we already forgotten that we were slaves in Egypt? Peter M. Glick St. Paul conflict in the Middle East indeed, that is the view of the European Community. This view is wrong and it has indeed been proved incorrect many times, especially now in the light of the crisis and war in the Gulf. The Arab-Israel conflict is undoubtedly an important one and efforts must be made to achieve a solution. However, it is far less dangerous than Islamic fundamentalism which menaces not only the countries of this region but also the five Moslem republics of the Soviet Union with their 60 million inhabitants and perhaps countries in East Asia as well. The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was not caused by the Israel-Arab conflict, nor was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the Iran-Iraq war and the dismemberment of Lebanon. It is not my intention now to enter into the details of the political arrangements we should like to see. Let us hope that Iraq's attacks on Israel and the restraint practiced by Israel have encouraged a new approach to Israel in some of the Arab countries. We would wish to be able to persuadeour neighbors to imitate the European model perhaps in a joint effort to establish a Middle East Common Market. Actually, almost limitless possibilities for our benefit and that of tne region as a whole are opened by the Russian immigration, which brings with it so many talents, so much knowledge and expertise. The contribution Russian aliya may make to Israel and this region is the external aspect of its significance. In the terms of Jewish history it denotes the rescue of threatened lives, the restoration of their people's heritage and their own identity to a large fraction of the once most creative Jewish community, forcibly cut off for over 70 years from its past and itself. The challenge of absorption is enormous in physical and psychological terms. In these unprecedented circumstances we have the amazing and indeed miraculous opportunity to give new directions to the future of our people and of Israel. Enormous effort and resources must be involved in the ad-equateabsorptionofhundredsof thousands, perhaps eventually as many as a million, Soviet Jews in addition to the remarkable Ethiopian aliya. What has already been done had to be the fruit of partnership between Israel and world Jewry which is reaching new dimensions in voluntary self-taxation. Great things have been accomplished in Israel, though we sadly admit to some failings and disturbing aspects. There is immediate need for tens of thousands of housing units and job opportunities. Increased employment depends, we know, on new industries, businesses, and research institutions: these will call for billions in investment capital still another challenge to the world Jewish community, as to Israel. It is essential that the world Jewish community respond to this challenge. Its response, however impressive, is still very inadequate. History will never forgive our generation if we fail to meet this great challenge. The efforts of world Jewry, as indeed the efforts of the people of Israel, must be doubled and trebled in order to face up to the new realities created by the mass movement of the Russian Jewish community to Israel. We dare not fail. It is the duty of every member of the Jewish community throughout the world to realize the weight of responsibility which rests on him or her. We must succeed and we will succeed, because I believe that world Jewry will yet rise to the occasion, lest future generations condemn us for not standing up to the test and so missing an extraordinary rendezvous with destiny. *** Chaim Herzog is the president of Israel.", "_version_": 1710462452979728384, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57637", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/007a45f52d430b7298c0df9986661a8f979fde59.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57638", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57638", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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Harold Ostroff, the Forward chair who submitted the name of editor Seth Lipsky to the Pulitzer Prize Board for consideration, said the near miss itself was an honor. MONUMENTS AND MARKERS We Do Hebrew Lettering Designed & Lettered Locally in our Own Plant TWIN CITY MONUMENT CO. Contact Morrie Toretsky 4827 Minnetonka Blvd. St. Louis Park, Mn. 920-4738 John Phillips, Neil Gitlin 1133 University Ave. St. Paul, Mn. 646-1546 Update St. Paul Lucille and Burt Garr announce the engagement of their daughter Jodi Garr to Daniel Saltzman, son of Flory and Jack Saltzman of Panama. Jodi is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota w child psychology and works at the Children's Home Society in St. Paul. Dan is a recent graduate ot the University of Minnesota medical school and is in a surgical residency program at the U of M. An October wedding is planned. Shir Tikvah becomes partner in Mazon UPCOMING The 36th annual Interfaith Tea will be held 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at Temple of Aaron. This year's theme is \"\"Interfaith: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.\"\" The keynote speaker is Rabbi Bernard Raskas, emeritus of Temple of Aaron, speaking on \"\"Can We Be Loyal to Our Faith and Yet Respectful of the Beliefs of Others?\"\" *** The St. Paul JCC Active Seniors will take part in a Shabbat dinner 6 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the St. Paul JCC. Open to JCC members. Call 698-0751 for information. *** Writing With Wisdom, a writing workshop for seniors, will take place 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, April 26 at the St. Paul JCC. Workshop presentations will include writing memoirs, creating characters, keeping journals and others. Cost is $15. Call 292-3260 for details. St-** Dr. Richard Rudolph will talk about \"\"Nationalism's Revival: The Soviet Republics and Eastern Europe,\"\" 7:30 p.m. T uesday, April 30, at the JCC. Rudolph is a professor in the departments of history and Russian and Eastern European studies at the University of Minnesota. To register by April 26 call 698-0751. *** The St. Paul chapter of Hadassah will hold its annual Youth Aliya meeting noon Wednesday, May 8 at Temple of Aaron, featuring The Best of Melody Minyon presenting their most popular songs. The program is preceded by a gourmet lunch comprised of dishes to be included inthe \"\"TasteofHadassah\"\" cookbook. Call Dolly Sunshine, 698-9403, for information and reservations. Shir Tikvah of St. Paul enrolled this month as a partner-congregation in Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger. The new partnership brings to 660 the number of Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist and Reform congregations throughout the country that conduct appeals for Mazon during Passover and the High Holy days to help combat hunger. Founded five years ago, Mazon's concept is to ask Jewish families celebrating a joyous event a wedding, Bar or Bat Mitzva, birthday or anniversaryto add a self-imposed 3 percent tax to the cost of the function and contribute it to Mazon to help the fight against hunger. The funds raised are given to established agencies, irrespective of denomination, that feed poor people throughout the world. Parenting expert to speak STUDENTS HOLD MODEL SEDER Students from the St. Pau Talmud Torahs North Suburban Branch afternoon school listened a: executive director Rony Szleifer discussed the significance of thi Passover seder. Shown are (I to r) Joshua Oelker, Molly Lane Jennifer Raffe, Tara Francke and Joshua Rolnitzky. Tony Levine named triple-A winner Tony Levine has been named winner of the Academics, Arts and Athletics program. The Triple-A Award is co-spon-sored by the Minnesota State High School League and the American Automobile Association Clubs of Minnesota. The award is given annually to high school seniors with 3.5 or better grade-point averages who take part in League-sponsored athletic programs and fine arts activities such as theater or music. Tony, son of Marvin and Harriet Levine, isa senior at Highland Park Senior High. Robert and Ellenjoy Fields, Newton, Mass., announce the engagement of their daughter Cathy Anne Fields to Steven Friedman, son of Sam and Susan Friedman, Baltimore, Md. Cathy received her bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and works for Gitano Corporation. She is the granddaughter of Rose Fields, Chestnut Hill, Mass, and the late Leonora Greenberg, St. Paul. Steven received his bachelor of science degree from Syracuse University and works as a sales representative in the Boston area. He is the grandson of Estelle Danziger, of Margate, Fla. An October wedding is planned. *** Garr Saltzman UJFC DRESSES UP The Young Women's Division of the United Jewish Fund and Council will sponsor a program, Dressing for Career, 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at the St. Paul JCC. The program will feature clothes and accessories for the work place and home. Refreshments will be served. For details call 690-1707. Shown are (standing, I to r) Esther Lerman, Joni Lipschultz Burg; (seated) Lisa Lane and Elaine Johnson. Adele Faber, internationally known author and parenting expert, will lead a conferenceon \"\"How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk,\"\" from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at the St. Paul JCC. Faber, with ElaineMazlish, wrote \"\"Liberated Parents/Liberated Children,\"\" which received the Christopher Award and was selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. The book describes the authors' experiences in 10 years of parent-guidance groups with the late child psychologist Dr. Haim Ginott. Faber's second and third books have been among the top ten best sellers in the field of child care. The conference is designed for parents, teachers and other adults working with children. Fee is $8 per person or $12 per couple; a I BIRTH Henry and Susan Garelick, Newton, Mass., announce thebirth of their son Benjamin David, June 29. The grandparents are Robert and Ellenjoy Fields, Newton, and David and Judith Garelick, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Greatgrandmothers are Rose Fields, Chestnut Hill; Essie Spritzer, Montclair, N.J.; and the late Leonora Greenberg, St. Paul. check is your reservation. Conference registration begins at 12:30 p.m. Call 698-0751 for information. Adele Faber ENGAGEMENTS Fields Friedman ^^^ORNIA CLOSET COMPANY Free In-Home Consultation Serving Entire Metro Area Established 1978 Life Time Guarantee. _ Call 688-8855 A CALIFORNIA CLOSET A Simple Solution For All Your Storage Problems 1991 California Closet Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Each franchise independently owned and operated. STAIR CLIMBERS ROWING MACHINES REBOUNDERS We Sell, Rent & Specialize In MOTORIZED TREADMILLS Largest Selection in Twin Cities 651 S. Snelling St. Paul 699-9355 FINANCING AVAILABLE Deadline for all material is noon Thursday, eight days prior to publication.", "_version_": 1710462452981825536, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57638", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/809d474e5e5e2a5a000cd3772cf7a209a6bdd569.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57639", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57639", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. 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The Panim el Panim program brings Jewish high school students from across the nation to Washington for a uniquely Jewish introduction to how the government really works and how they can become more actively involved citizens. Panim el Panim is a program of The Washington Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values, an educational foundation sponsoring seminars on public policy and Jewish values. Aaron Kohen, Mara Levin, Nicole Perlman, Rachel Raviv, Charles Sherman and Ronit Siegel joined students from Connecticut. During their four days in Washington the students met with government officials, policy-makers and Jewish leaders to learn more about the policy debate on issues such as Israel, hunger and homelessness, church and state, and nuclear arms. The students heard from representatives of the Americans for Democratic Action, Freedom Alliance, Professional Coalition on Nuclear Arms, the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Luther Place Church, and Food ALFRED GOTTSCHALK T O SPEAK Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), will speak during Friday night services 8 p.m. April 26 at Temple Israel. HUC-JIR is the academic and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. Research and Action Council. Highlights of the program were a briefing at the Israeli Embassy by Warren Edelman, a model Knesset and representatives from Operation Exodus and the University Student Department of the American Zionist Youth Federation. Stuart Eizenstat, former domestic policy adviser to the Carter administration, gave the keynote address on \"\"Jews and the Political Process.\"\" The distinctive feature of Panim el Panim is not just that students meet with important people to discuss serious issues, but that they learn about Jewish sources in relation to these issues. 'The program has made me think in ways other than I normally would have,\"\" said Nicole Perlman. \"\"I valuethejewish leadership.\"\" The program is designed to show the relevance of traditional Jewish sources to world issues and to inspire a new generation of Jews to think about the future leadership roles in public affairs and Jewish community relations. \"\"I learned more about my country's government than all my years in school,\"\" said Rachel Raviv. \"\"It was like an application of all the concepts I have been studying in school. It was an education that can't compare with anything else.\"\" Bnai Emet Men to hold breakfast A special post-season Men's Club breakfast will be held following 9:30 a.m. services Sunday, April 21 at B'nai Emet Synagogue. It will be sponsored by Susan and Sol Awend, who will speak on \"\"Achieve Spirituality Decorate and Dedicate.\"\" Harlan Miller will preside. Middle East the focus of Adath program Stephen Feinstein and Michel Legall will be the featured speakers at a program entitled \"\"Nations of the Middle East Face the Future,\"\" tobeheld 7:30 p.m.Thursday, April 25 at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. This program is the opening session of a Middle East perspectives series at the synagogue. Feinstein, a frequent speaker and media resourceon the MiddleEast, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, specializing in the Middle East, Israel and the Holocaust. Legall is an associate professor of Middle Eastern history at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Ottawa rabbi to be Kenesseth Israels scholar Rabbi Reuven Bulka, spiritual leader of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, Canada, will be the scholar-in-residence at Kenesseth Israel Congregation for the weekend of April 26-28. Bulka is the founder and editor of the Journal of Psychology and Judaism. Bulka will speak 9 p.m. Friday on \"\"Jewish Marriage Ethics,\"\" preceded by a 7:30 p.m. Shabbat meal. On Saturday afternoon there will be a Seuda Shlishit at 6 p.m. At 7 p.m. Bulka will speak on 'The Psychology of Halacha in Marriage How Halacha Programs Specific Norms for Marriage That Enhance It.\"\" Following 7:45 p.m. Mincha, Bulka will deliver a sheur on 'The Sanctity of the Marital Union.\"\" Bulka will also deliver a lecture entitled \"\"Sex Ethics ajudaic Perspective\"\" 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28. All lectures will be held at Kenesseth Israel and are made possible by the Toby Mintz Memorial Fund. St. Paul rabbis to present symposium The St. Paul Board of Rabbis will present a symposium on 'The Meaning of Israel in Our Lives\"\" from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 25 at Temple of Aaron in St. Paul. The program will include the topics: \"\"Love oflsrael inthejewish Tradition\"\" presented by Rabbis Morris Allen, Julie Gordon, Stacy Offner and Leonard Schoolman; \"\"Israel and the Palestinians: An Element of the Arab/Israeli Conflict\"\" presented by Prof. Richard Kagan, Hamline University; \"\"Personal Reflections on My Recent Six Months in Jerusalem\"\" presented by Rabbi Irvin Wise. There will bean open discussion and refreshments. Ad mission is free and reservations are requested at 698-8874. Psychiatrist to speak at Mt. Zion Interfaith Choral Festival set For the first time in the Twin Cities, the Greater Minneapolis, St. Paul Area, and Minnesota Councils of Churches will co-sponsor an Interfaith Choral Festival. It is their contribution to the \"\"World of Difference\"\" program. The concert will be held 7 p.m. Sunday, April 28 and will be hosted by the Basilica of Saint Mary, Hennepin and 16th St., in Minneapolis. Over 400 singers from choirs of different religious traditions will participate, including the combined choirs of six synagogues under the direction of Cantor Morton Kula of Adath Jeshurun. Tickets are $8 ($5 for seniors and students) and available at the Minnesota Church Center, 122 W. Franklin, Room 218, Minneapolis, MN 55404; and at the St. Paul Church Center, 1671 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, Concert at Temple of Aaron The Temple of Aaron Men's Club will present a musical concert 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the synagogue. The concert will feature talented young members of the synagogue's youth organization, including vocalists, a pianist and a violinist. Cost is$2.50. Tickets may be purchased at the synagogue office, 698-8874. Noted psychiatrist and author Prof. Brian L. Weiss will speak during 10:45 a.m. Saturday services, April 27, at Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul. Weiss' book \"\"Many Lives, Many Masters,\"\" published by Simon and Schuster, has stimulated renewed interest in past life therapy as a psychiatric technique. New Americans who have emi- grated to St. Paul from the Soviet Union will be welcomed at a special Shabbat service 8 p.m. Friday, April 19 at Mt. Zion Temple. Major portions of the service will be in Russian and will be read by New Americans. Musical portions of the worship will be rendered by the Senior Russian Choir of the St. Paul JCC. Q: IN PAIN? A: 541-1280 24 HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE - Auto Injuries Work Injuries Sport Injuries Insurance Claims Family Health Care 1 CHAILAIVAkICHKUL DR. JO G. THEISEN DR. ARLEN J. UEBERMAN CHIROPRACTIC ORTHOPEDIST lieberman chiropractic HEALTH CENTER GOLDEN VALLEY SPORTS CLINIC WHIPLASH & TRAUMA CENTER OF MINNESOTA com PFDAR LAKE RD. ST. LOUIS PARK 55416 ST LOUIS PARK GOLDEN VALLEY MINNETONKA PLYMOUTH NEW HOPE-WAYZATA Synagogue Services MINNEAPOLIS ADATH JESHURUNFriday: 8 p.m. Rabbis Barry Cytron and Harold Kravitz, and Cantor Morton Kula. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Saturday: 9:30 a.m.; 7:15 p.m. Mincha. BAIS YISROEL Friday: 6:20 p.m.; 7:45 p.m. Rabbi Moshe Lieff. Saturday: 8:30 a.m.; 7:30 p.m. Mincha. BETSHALOM Friday:8p.m. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Rabbi Norman Cohen. Saturday: 10 a.m. BETH EL Friday: 5:45 p.m. Mincha/Maariv. Rabbis Kassel Abelson and Hayim Herring, and Cantor Neil Newman. Saturday: 8:40 a.m.; 5:45 p.m. Mincha/ Maariv. B'NAI EMET Friday: 6 p.m. Rabbi Howard Siegel and Cantor Shalom Markovits. Saturday: 8:45 a.m. HILLEL Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Rabbi Irvin Wise. KENESSETH ISRAEL Friday: 6:25 p.m. Rabbi Jerome Herzog. Saturday:9a.m.;7:45p.m. Mincha, followed by Talmud class and 8:46 p.m. Maariv. MAGEN DAVID SEPHARDIC CONGREGATION Friday: 6:25 p.m. Rabbi S.D. Bouskila. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 7:45 p.m. Mincha. SHAREI CHESED Friday: 7 p.m. Rabbi Barry Woolf. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 10:30 a.m. children's class; 7 p.m. Mincha. TEMPLE ISRAEL Friday: 8 p.m. Rabbis Joseph Black and Marcia Zimmerman, and Cantor Barry Abelson. Yom Ha'atzmaut celebrated. Guest speaker Rabbi Herman Schaalman, rabbi emeritus of Emanuel Congregation in Chicago: \"\"Israel in Its World.\"\" Saturday: 9:15 a.m.; 11:15 a.m. ST. PAUL ADATH ISRAEL Friday: 7:45 p.m. Rabbi Asher Zeilingold. Saturday: 9:30 a.m.; 7:40 p.m. Mincha, followed by Maariv. BETH JACOB Friday: 6 p.m. Rabbi Morris Allen. Saturday: 8:30 a.m. learner's minyan; 9 a.m. service. MOUNT ZION Friday:8p.m. Rabbis Leonard Schoolman and Cheryl Rosenstein. Yom Ha'atzmaut service and salute to New Soviet Americans. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Torah study; 10:45 a.m.; 5:45 p.m. Havdala. SHAARE SHALOM Friday: 8 p.m. with Lou Leichter and Die Kinder at the Leichter home, 909 Mendakota Court, Mendota Heights. SHIR TIKVAH Friday: 7:30 p.m. children's service; 8 p.m. service with Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration at the St. Paul JCC. Rabbi Stacy Offner. TEMPLE OF AARON Friday: 8 p.m. Mishpacha service. Rabbis Jonathan Ginsburg and Julie Gordon, and Cantor Mitchell Kowitz. Gordon sermon: \"\"Israel at 43.\"\" Saturday: 9:15 a.m.; 6 p.m. Mincha. ROCHESTER B'NAI ISRAEL Friday:8p.m. services. Rabbi David Freedman with songleader Renee Fellman. CHABAD-LUBAVITCH Friday: Sunset. Rabbi Dovid Greene. DULUTH ADAS ISRAEL Friday: 7:30 p.m. Saturday: 9 a.m.; 7:40 p.m. Mincha; 8:30 p.m. Maariv. TEMPLE ISRAEL Friday: 7:15 p.m. family service. Israel Independence Day observance. Rabbi Anthony Holz. Saturday: 10 a.m. LIGHT CANDLES 7:47 P.M. Lake Calhoun CoHelatifl Muni 24 FRIENDLY UNITS QUIET & CLEAN REASONABLE RATES FREE CABLE TV 4025 Hwy 7, Mpls. 612-926-6575 In St. Louis Park across from the Lincoln Del The Parents' Association of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School Invites you to attend COFFEE WITH THE PRINCIPAL Tuesday, April 23,1991 7:30 p.m. Join Nachama Moskowitz, principal of the Minneapolis Jewish Day School, for coffee and conversation. Questions will be answered relating to the school's educational program and philosophy, standardized testing, assessment, and other areas of interest, The program is being held at the school (4330 Cedar Lake Road: the JCC building). Call for additional information 374-5650. The Minneapolis Jewish Day School Teaching the mind Touching the heart ...Creating our Future Fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. 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Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew Univeristy, will speak on The Relevance of Democracy for Middle East Peace, 8 p.m. Sunday, April 21 at the Minneapolis JCC. *** Hadassah's Szold Study Group will hear Sybil Rubin review Chaim Potok's \"\"The Gift of Asher Lev,\"\" 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 24 at the home of Leslie Gardner, 9513 BriarCircle, Bloomington. Call544-5318 for details. *** Nilva Dansky Neff JWV Ladies Auxiliary 331 will meet 11 a.m. Sunday, April 21 for brunch at the St. Louis Park City Hall, 5005 Minnetonka Blvd. *** Herb Basser, professor of religion at the University of Toronto, will speak at the U of M 10 a.m. Thursday, April 25 in Nicholson Hall. *** Dale Carnegie graduate and top salesperson Rita Friedman will speak to the Corporate and Professional Organization (CPO) 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at the offices of Lurie, Besikof and Company. She will use interactive workshop techniques to discuss \"\"Using a Positive Attitude to Cope with Change.\"\" For directions call 593-2600. Talmud Torah The annual meeting of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9 at B'nai Emet Synagogue in conjunction with the 25th Annual Goldenberg Family Lecture. Dr. Alvin Schiff, chief executive officer of the Board of Jewish Education of Greater New York, will speak on \"\"Rx for the Jewish Community: Keeping Our Heads Above Water.\"\" Call 935-0316 for details. Nominated for three year terms for directors-at-large are: Pearl Berdass, Gress Corwim, Cynthia Goldfine, Marvin Goldstein, Michael Hofkin, Howard Kauffman, Sharon Kieffer, Morris Kleiner, Shelly Kornblum, Rollye Rinkey, Joanne Savitt, Marjorie Shapiro, Sandy Striker. annual meeting Nominated for one year appointments are: Dr. Wendy Bach, Alan Frailich, Stephanie Hirshfeld, Andrea Kibort, Louise Kloner, Meryll Page, Ben Rischall, Dona Rodich, Renee Selnick, George Seitz, Artice Silverman, Marcy Strauss. The nominating committee was chaired by Rivel Greenberg and included Rita Cook, Charles Marks, George Seitz, Myron Striker, Dr. Joyce Warshawsky. The membership of the Talmud Torah of Minneapolis consists of, among others, parents of Talmud Torah students, members of the Talmud Torah Association, and members in good standing of the Minneapolis Federation for Jewish Service. B'NAI MITZVA Upcoming speakers Professor Edy Kaufman, former head of the Hebrew Universitys Truman Center for the Advancement of Peace, will speak on Peace The Mission of Hebrew University, 10:30 a.m. Sunday, April 21 at Oak Ridge Country Club. Fee is $10. The National Council of Jewish Women Central District Conference will be held April 25-28 at the Hotel Sofitel in Minneapolis. At a 7 p.m. dinner Saturday, April 27 NCJW National President Joan Bronk will address the delegates. JCC announces new campsite, teen trek The Minneapolis JCC has announced that construction is set to begin this month on its new Ackerberg Family Campsite, located on the grounds adjacent to the JCC building. The site will include an amphitheater, new activity shelters, an on-site camp office, a half-basketball court and a sand volleyball court. *** A new Teen Travel Trek program for kids entering grades 7-9 will comprise two four-week sessions, each including three weeks of day trips around theTwin Cities for those whom we love and remember individually designed and manufactured by Minneapolis Granite & Marble Co. 4400 Chicago Avenue 822-3135 T . Jeff Kivens 8:30-5:00 Weekdays Evenings by appointment and one week \"\"on the road.\"\" The first session's week-long trip is to St. Louis, and the second is to Chicago. *** The JCC will hold a dinner and parent information session 5:15 p.m. Sunday, April 28. The evening will include games and camp activities for the children during the information session. Camp Yomi, Camp Tarbut (for the arts), Camp Maccabi (for sports) Camp Migvan, and the new Teen Travel Trek will be discussed. The dinner is free. There is a $5 photo processing fee for all social announcements, which must be paid in advance. Dear Sir, Thanks for the visas! Hope they left you some bagels. If not, call... fijjfl New York Bakery kLStaKJafl atoQasJk. and Bagels 8128 Minnetonka Blvd. Mikhail Gorbachev St.Louis Park, MN Moscow 1 -612-933-3535 U.S.S.R. \"\"A Strictly Kosher Bakery\"\" Jason Alan Grais, son of Carol Beth and Jim Grais, will be called to the Torah as a Bar Mitzva Saturday at Adathjeshurun Synagogue. Jason will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in his honor by his grandmothers Etheldoris Grais and Phyllis Diamond; greatgrandmother Sophie Diamond Goldberg; grandfathers, the late Arnold Grais andjames Diamond. Jason will share his Bar Mitzva with Yulav, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. Heather Witebsky, daughter of Judy and Stephen Witebsky, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday at Beth El Synagogue. Heather will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in her honor by her grandparents Sharon and Sherman Rackner,Judy andSheldon Witebsky, and great-grandmothers Sally Charney and Gertrude Lapides. Heather will share her Bat Mitzva with Anzhela Shalomova, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. Adam Jason Ross, son of Francie and Barry Ross, will be called to theTorah as a Bar Mitzva Saturday at Temple Israel. Adam will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat given in his honor by his grandparents, Connie and Paul Ross. Writer, reporter Karlen to speak Minneapolis-based feature writer, reporter and author Neal Karlen will speak on \"\"Getting the Impossible Interview,\"\" at the fifth annual Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund Program, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Adath Jeshurun Synagogue. Since becoming a reporter for Newsweek in 1982, Karlen has worked as a contributing editor at Rolling Stone; his work appears in Esquire, Gentlemen's Quarterly, The New Yorker, The New York Times and Washington Post. The Howie Stillman Young Leadership Fund was established in 1986 in honor of Howie Stillman, who died of cancer at age 23. Ginna Schwartz, daughter of Jan and Alan Schwartz, Edina, will be called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzva Saturday at Bet Shalom Congregation. Ginna will also participate in Friday evening services, followed by an Oneg Shabbat. Ginna is the granddaughter of Lila Clarren and Selma Schwartz, and the late David Clarren and Dr. E. Robert Schwartz. She is the great-granddaughter of Pearl Reifel and the late Leo J. Reifel. Ginna will share her Bat Mitzva with Tatiana Taveyrozin, who has been denied religious freedom in the Soviet Union. BIRTH Joshua and Susan Schneckand daughter Gabrielle announce the birth of their son and brother Jack Anthony Schneck on Jan. 25. Paternal grandparents are Marian Schneck and the late Dr. Jack I. Schneck. Maternal grandparents are Eugene and Antoinette Hunstiger. FINEST middle EASTERN FOODS\"\" Middle Eastern Cuisine Authentic fresh homemade food! Also, vegetarian dishes! Serving Wine and Beer DAILY LUNCH SPECIAL 11 a.m.-2p.m. Open 7 Days a Week! 1IAM-11PM 1518 Nicollet Ave. So., Mpls. 871-8883", "_version_": 1710462452984971265, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57640", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/8af56028f910f654b6b8f0b9a3d45a751de71234.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57641", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57641", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 9", "title_s": "Page 9", "title_t": "Page 9", "title_search": "Page 9", "title_sort": "page9", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77091" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 8, "attachment": "57642.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD The family that plays together... Ellie Covin finished this season The Covins (I to r): Heather, Dr. Neil and Ellie. at Robbinsdale Armstrong as captain of the tennis team. The 18-year-old senior was also all-conference. Sixteen-year-old Heather Covin was all-conference in tennis as a sophomore. Their father, Dr. Neil Covin, played varsity tennis at Minneapolis North and the University of Minnesota, and their mother, Ann Covin, ran marathons before her knees went bad. For Ellie, who has been playing since sixth grade, this was the third year on the varsity at Armstrong and her first as captain and number one singles player. \"\"I felt pressure because 1 was number one and everyone was really good,\"\" she said. During the school year, the elder Covin daughter keeps busy with tennis four times per week, Hebrew school at Talmud Torah, aerobics and jogging. During the summer she used to play softball and now umpires. In spite of this she still maintains a 3.5 GRA and has been accepted to both Syracuse and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She hopes to study communications or psychology. Heather Covin has also been playing tennis since sixth grade, in her first year at Armstrong she has already made the varsity team as a singles player and is holding her GPA to match at around 3.5. She keeps busy during the week with Hebrew school at Talmud Torah, softball, skiing and jogging \"\"when I have nothing better to do,\"\" she said. Series to feature films on Jewish interests The University Film Society's 9th Annual Rivertown International Film Festival will feature several films of special interest to Jewish groups. At. 9 p.m. Thursday, May 2 \"\"The Mission of Raoul Wallenberg\"\" (USSR, 1990) will be shown in the Bell Auditorium at the U of M. The film represents the first Soviet attempt to discover the true fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis. *** 'To Jerusalem\"\" (Austria, 1990) will show 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 24 in the Nicholson Hall Auditorium. This documentary takes a journey along the road to Jerusalem. *** The story of a Jewish family in small-town 1930s Germany, \"\"All Jews Out\"\" will be shown 9 p.m. Wednesday, May 1 in Nicholson Hall. *** \"\"Stupidity orCrime?\"\" (Sweden, 1990), by Jewish director Maj Wechselmann, probes the profiteers, collaborators and resi stance in Nazi-occupied Scandinavia. It will be shown 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 in Nicholson Hall. *** \"\"Europa, Europa\"\" tells the true story of a young German J ew who spends WWI1 disguised as a German soldier. It will be shown 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2 in the Bell Auditorium. For details call the 24-hour festival phone line, 627-4430. Dr. Covin, a periodontist, coached softball at the Chicago Junior Maccabea in 1988 and tennis at the 1990 Junior Maccabea in Detroit. He plays tennis with his daughters and while Ellie said \"\"we could never beat my dad,\"\" it almost seems a goal for the father. \"\"I'd like to see them beat me. I'd love it, \"\" said Dr. Covin. During the summer, Dr. Covin has coached softball for the last eight years, but thinks this may be his last year as it is the final year that one of his daughters will be a competitor. The family are members of both B'nai Emet and Temple Israel, and Ellierecently went to Israel on the Alexander Muss program, \"\"during the school year so 1 wouldn't miss the tennis tournaments during the summer,\"\" she said. Heather is hoping to go soon and their father is in favor of it. \"\"She (Ellie) did better in school after she came back,\"\" he said. As for the future, Heather is hoping to do well in school but also have fun. Ellie would rather do well in school and just play tennis for fun. As for Dr. Covin, he just hopes they stay active together. A Wallpaper Sale So Big, The Only Way To Get It Cheaper Is To Steal It. Buy a single roll of in-stock wallpaper at the Mfr. retail price and take home the double roll! Thru April 29 UEBEEMAN ^INTERIORS -5 Wallpaper & Window Fashions Roseville, 631-3520 1955 W. Co. Rd. B2 1 blk. W. of Rosedale Burnsville, 892-5558 1244 W. Co. Rd. 42 Next to Children's Palace Richfield, 861-6131 6433 Penn Ave. So. 2 Biles. So. of Crosstown Two Professional Positions Available at the JCC of Omaha Two excellent entry level positions are available for individuals who have a desire to work with Jewish youth. One posi tion is with children ages 5-12, working hands on in before/after school, vacation, and camping programs. The other position is with teenagers as director of the local BB YO program and with other teenage activities. We re looking forenthusiastic college graduates who have excellent talent in relating to both youth and adults. Beginning salary in the low 20s plus benefits. If either of these positions seems to be right for you, please send your resume to Jeffrey Aizenberg, Executive Director, JCC of Omaha, 333 S. 132nd Street., Omaha, NE 68154. PAGE 9 Water flows anew through Herodian conduit in Jerusalem NEW YORK (JTA) As a result of archaeological excavations in Jerusalem, water is once again flowing in a 2,000-year-old conduit built in the time of Herod the Great. The excavations were conducted at Ramat Hanadiv by the Hebrew JNF announces luncheon series The Jewish National Fund has announced its 1991 Lawyers Luncheon series, starting noon Wednesday, April 24 in the law offices of Leonard, Street and Deinard, 150 S. 5th St., Suite 300, Minneapolis. The speakerwill be Rabbi Morris Allen, of Beth Jacob Congregation. He is chair of the St. Paul United Jewish Appeal Soviet Jewry Resettlement Committee and holds a master's degree in social work. He will speak on \"\"Soviet Jews in America and Israel.\"\" There is no charge, but a kosher box lunch may be ordered for $5. RSVP by calling 938-6653. University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology. The 55-yard-long stone-lined conduit, dating from the Second Temple period, was discovered in well-preserved condition by an archaeological team headed by Dr. Yizhar Hirschfeld. Hidden under layers of mud and dirt and paved with stones typical of the Herodian era, the conduit has a channel about 8 inches wide. When in use it was supplied with fresh water from the nearby Ein Zur spring. According to Hirschfeld, as soon as the area was cleared and the conduit was revealed, water began flowing through it just as it had 2,000 years ago. Uncovering the conduit led to the discovery of a nearby tunnel from which the spring emerged. The archaeologists also uncovered a reservoir fed by the Herodian-era system. The stonewalled reservoir, measuring 36 by 39 feet and 6-1/2 feet deep, was found among the ruins of an ancient village. Jewish National Fund is the land. Q. What is the Jewish National Funds top land reclamation priority? A. The preparation of land for 70,000 housing sites for Soviet Jewish immigrants. Q. Great! How can I help? A. By contributing to the Operation Promised Land campaign today! Q. What is land reclamation? A. The development of land for housing. industry, agriculture and recreation. Q. Which agency is solely responsible for reclaiming Israels land? A. The Jewish National Fund. Help us fulfill the promise! PERATION PROMISED LAND THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND For more information: 938-6653 TENNIS Largest selection of tennis apparel in the Twin Cities Over 200 warm-ups... Over 750 ladies' skirts... Over 250 mens shirts... Over 250 styles of t-shirts... Over 230 mens shorts... PLUS MUCH MORE!!! 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MICHAEL LYNNES TENNIS SHOP MIRACLE MILE SHOPPING CENTER. 5007 Excelsior Blvd. St. Louis Park, MN 55416 (612)926-1520", "_version_": 1710462452986019840, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57641", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/54825a7d462d730428e3adb77d666a207d8d034d.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57642", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57642", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 10", "title_s": "Page 10", "title_t": "Page 10", "title_search": "Page 10", "title_sort": "page10", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77092" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 9, "attachment": "57643.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "PAGE 10 Death Notices MINNEAPOLIS Fay Kleinfeld age 92. Wife of the late Herschel Kleinfeld. Mother of Irving Kleinfeld, Marian Schneck, Tamara Selden, Blossom Carlton, Naomi Lerner. Survived by 15 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Memorials preferred to Hadassah. Janet F. Kroll age 98, of San Francisco and formerly of Minneapolis, died April 9. Services were April 14. She was a journalist for 65 years, who worked for the Minneapolis Star and the American Jewish World as a columnist, writer of ShabbosSchmooz. Died of natural causes at the Jewish Home for the Aged in San Francisco. A native of Suvalki, Poland, she moved to Minneapolis when she was 10. After retiring she lived in Palo Alto, Calif, and moved to San Francisco last year. She graduated from the Univeristy of Minnesota in 1914. She went to France as a representative of the Jewish Welfare Board during WW1 and was a lifetime member of Hadassah. She was the wife of the late Victor Kroll. Survived by two daughters, Leona Vosburgh, St. Louis Park, and Sara Edelstein, of Palo Alto; son Lawrence, of San Francisco, and five grandchildren. Memorials preferred to the Jewish National Fund, 870 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102 for the Janet Kroll Memorial Garden. Newton D. Beugen age 79, of Minneapolis and Naples,Fla.,died Aprill3. Services were April 15 at Temple Israel with Rabbi Max Shapiro and Cantor Barry Abelson. He was the former owner of Latham Howers. Survived by wife Shirley; son and daughter-in-law Sheldon and Joan Beugen, Chicago; daughter and son-in-law Carol and David Schwartz, of Menlo Park, Calif.; grandchildren Sara Beugen; Peter and Thea Schwartz; many nieces and nephews. Memorials are preferred to the American Cancer Society or the donor's favorite charity. Arrangements Hodroff and Sons. Benjamin \"\"Ben\"\" Ryan age 69, of St. Louis Park, died April 8. Services were April 10 at United Hebrew Brotherhood Cemetery with Rabbi Howard Siegel. Preceded in death by his first wife Claire. Survived by wife Betty; children Steven M., Beth and Scott R.; step-children Douglas and Timothy Moore, and Terri Forsher; six grandchildren; sister Lena Berger; numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials are preferred to the donor's choice. Arrangements Hodroff and Sons. Labor leader Sol Chaikin dead at 73 NEW YORK (JTA) Sol Chaikin, a labor organizer who fought sweatshops, imports and dwindling union membership during a 50-year career devoted almost entirely to improving the lot of garment workers, died here of heart failure at the age of 73. New York State Gov. Mario Cuomo praised his advocacy of \"\"decency and fairness\"\" for all people and observed that Chaikin inspired him and many others \"\"to focus on dreams instead of dilemmas and on opportunity instead of obstacles.\"\" The New York-born union leader who graduated from City College and Brooklyn Law School headed the International Ladies Garment Workers Union from 1975 to 1986. When he became its president, ILGWU had 430,000 members but was fighting attrition because of non-union shops in the Southern states and low-wage factories in Asia, South America and Europe. Although Chaikin sought to raise public awareness of the loss of jobs to foreign competition, ILGWU membership was down to 220,000 when he retired. It currently has about 175,000 members. The once predominantly Jewish workforce long since gave way to other ethnic groups of more recent immigration. Largest bequest ever made to UJA NEW YORK (JTA) Philanthropist Lucy Goldschmidt Moses, who died in August at the age of 103, left S108 million to the New York UJA-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and six of its agencies. David Sacks, president of UJA-Federation, said it was the \"\"largest bequest to date.\"\" The six UJA-Federation agencies that will benefit from Moses' largess are Montefiore, Mount Sinai and Beth Israel medical centers; the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services; the Parker Jewish Geriatric Center; and the Associated YM-YWHA of Greater New York. Moses' will also called for the bequest of another $62 million to other institutions and charities, including Columbia, Yale and New York universities, the New York Public Library and the Central Park Conservancy. Hodroff and sons FUNERAL CHAPELS Minneapoli Chapel 126 East Franklin 871-1234 St. Paul Chapel 671 South Snelling 698-8311 Member Jewish Funeral Directors of America Dignity and service need not be expensive. 30 Years Experience in the Jewish Funeral Traditions (15 years with Chevra Kevod) Strict Adherence to all Jewish Customs Affordable Service with Attention to all your Needs John L. Abramson 929-7876 827-5838 5600 Excelsior Blvd. SLP. 5500 Stevens Ave. So. Mpls. AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APRIL 19 Everv word reaches to Heaven *.. .... the world to come, mean In theTorah reading of this week (Tazria-Matzora) we learn the laws pertaining to the metzora the leper. Oursagesnotethantheword Hametzora (the leper) also reads HeMotziRa (one who spreads evil reports about others) and they explain that this plague of leprosy would come as a punishment for evil gossip. The Midrash tells the story of a peddler who went to the towns crying out, \"\"Who wants to buy the elixir of life?\"\" and drew huge crowds around him. Rabbi Jannai asked him to sell him some, and the peddler replied \"\"neither you nor people like you require what I have to sell.\"\" The rabbi pressed him and the peddler brought out a book of Psalms and showed him the verse (Psalm 34) which reads: \"\"Who is the man who desires life\"\" and immediately after is written \"\"Keep thy tongue from evil. . .\"\" Said Rabbi Jannai, \"\"All the days of my T Viavro roar! fnic; Torah Thought for the Week Rabbi Asher Zeilingoid Adath Israel Synagogue, St. Paul, Sponsor not understand it fully until this peddler came and made it clear to me.\"\" The peddler who went about peddling cures and remedies demonstrated to the people that keeping one's tongue from evil gossip is in itself a remedy which insures health and a happy life. People can avoid quarrels, hatreds and worry by always guarding the tongue. Before the coming of the peddler, Rabbi Jannai had interpreted the words, \"\"Who is the man who rlociroc Td(-ay~r\\ncr Fr\\ lifp in the world to come, meaning that he who would keep from evil gos sip on earth would receive his re ward in heaven. It had never occurred to him that it refers to a reward during life on earth f0r guarding one's tongue fr0m speaking evil is not only a good deed, but is also an aid to good health and longevity. Since evil gossip is considered a very serious transgression, it is not only forbidden to speak ill 0f a person, but our sages even warn us against spreading the praise of another, for fear that while extolling his virtues we may come to reveal his shortcomings. The sages say: \"\"Say not, 'Behold I am speaking gossip, but no one knows about it/ for G-d says, 1 stand near you, and record every word you utter/\"\" Let us always remember that every word we speak is eternal, and reaches into the highest places in Heaven to haunt us, or be a merit for us, forever. German director opens old wounds with The Nasty Girl ISEH-s* A MIRAMAX FILMS RELEASE < 1990 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MRAMAX EXCLUSIVE MINNEAPOLIS ENGAGEMENT Starts Friday, April 19 Two Weeks Only Ihennepin & LAKE .825-46441 Nightly: 5:00, 7:15, 9:30; Sat, Sun Mat: 3:00 Of course, said the director, as timeless as the tale of Rosmus is, it would have been even more meaningful had it been possible to tell it earlier. \"\"This film should have been made in 1945,\"\" so that those perpetrating the crimes of the Holocaust would have felt the film's impact directly, he believes. The son of prominent German actor/director Paul Verhoeven (not the same Paul Verhoeven who helmed \"\"Total Recall\"\"), the younger Verhoeven took a circuitous route to film-making. While he showed early interest in acting, turning professional at the age of 11, in later years Verhoeven veered away from the family business, hoping to establish his own career. He did that by studying medicine and becoming a doctor. However, the practicing physician couldn't cure himself of a fascination with film. \"\"Medicine was a marvelous profession,\"\" said Verhoeven of his seven-year practice that began in 1966. \"\"Ilearned more about direct- The Nasty Girl's star Lena Stolze and director Michael Verhoeven with Anna Elizabeth Rosmus, the real Nasty Girl. The film starts today at the Uptown Theater. By MICHAEL ELKIN The horrors of the Holocaust haunt many of those survivors whose psychic wounds have not had time to heal. But then, arguably, some wound s are never meant to close, to seal the past off from the present. Rather, they serve as painful reminders of a German society that nearly bludgeoned an entire people out of existence. Director Michael Verhoeven, a former physician, has put the German people under a microscope in 'The Nasty Girl/' his farcical and effective examination of a fictional German town that tried to cover up its Nazi history. In picking and pokingat the past, Verhoeven has reopened the wounds in a wicked way. He has applied humor as the balm in this story about a young girl whose high school essay about her town's shameful history causes mass hysteria among her neighbors. \"\"The Nasty Girl\"\" is playing at the Uptown Theater, April 19 through May 3. At 52, Verhoeven, who is not Jewish, has a history of concern about the Holocaust. Born in Munich during the war, he saw how Hitler's hate helped wreak destruction on his homeland. Verhoeven has made several films on the topic, most notably 'The White Rose\"\" in the 1980s. But that was in a different decade, long before the director attended a dinner and met Anna Rosmus, whose real-life storyabout her Bavarian town was to serve as inspiration for Verhoeven and net him a cache of critical honors and awards. Current events now position the film as a must-see for Germans whosenewfound freedom includes renewed interest in their past. 'The historical situation has helped the film a lot, said Verhoeven of the impact of German reunification. \"\"It has brought more interest to the topic.\"\" ing from medicine than 1 would in school.\"\" Indeed, medicine taught him patience in exam ining projects. It also taught him how to delve to the very soul of a problem in his search for a solution. \"\"In medicine, you get very close to people,\"\" he explained. \"\"You learn.\"\" The one-time doctor learned it was a good idea to prescribe humor for a film about the lingering legacy of the Holocaust. With The Nasty Girl,\"\" the laughs ease the pain somewhat. What Verhoeven learned about the Holocaust during his youth was not enough, he said. The fury unleashed by Adolf Hitler and Nazism had made littledent in German educational material: 'Teachers did not talk much about what happened.\"\" Verhoeven regrets his homeland's attempts to hide its history. \"\"We lost the opportunity,\"\" he said of his fellow Germans, \"\"to see what happened. We pushed it aside quickly. That still hurts.\"\" But the pain is assuaged by what Verhoeven is now doing for a living. Using the Holocaust as his films' frame of reference, Verhoeven directs the attention of world wide audiences to a time best not forgotten. \"\"I have no fears about a neo-Nazi movement in Germany today; it is so small,\"\" said the director. \"\"It is the people who are not interested in anything at all, those Germans who do not care, they are the people I worry about.\"\" Those Germans, said Verhoeven, can be molded too easily, and might have their opinions shaped to the whims of a dictator. ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR! ! exhilarating: -Tom Jacobs, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS naslygjrl A PROVOCATIVE COMEDY ABOUT SECRETS AND SURPRISES. 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Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 11", "title_s": "Page 11", "title_t": "Page 11", "title_search": "Page 11", "title_sort": "page11", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77093" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 10, "attachment": "57644.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "APRIL 19, 1991 AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD PAGE 11 _________________________Classifieds_______________________________ Only $1.50 per line (about 6-7 words). Minimum order $9. Deadline is 12 p.m. Thursday, eight days before publication. Call 920-7000. 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Full time and Part time opportunities in : Day Schools Talmud Torahs * Synagogue Schools * Pre- Schools Youth Work And More Register with the JEWISH SCHOOL TEACHER REGISTRY at the Jewish Resource Center of the Minneapolis Talmud Torah Call (612) 935-0316 for an application Teachers needed Talmud Torah, St Paul, afternoon school. Judaica, Bible, good Hebrew an advantage. Must be experienced. Excellent pay. Send resume to Rony Szleifer, 636 S. Mississippi River Blvd, St Paul, Mn. 55116. JOBS IN KUWAIT CONSTRUCTION, TELEPHONE REPAIR, CLEAN UP, OIL REFINERY, ROAD REBUILDING Call 1 - 206 -736- 7000 EXT. 6191W3 REGIONAL YOUTH DIRECTOR United Synagogue seeks applicants for the position of Regional Youth Director. Position is 3/4 time and involves some travel in the Midwest and Canada. Applicant should have Judaic background ana youth work experience. Send resumes to: Sara nee Newman, Executive Director, United Synagogue of America, 4820 Minnetonka Blvd., Suite #301, Mpls., Mn. 55416 ST. 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to ? dinner. I am attractive, 5 4 . Call me. Box #36209 SJM, 29, professional, fun, intelligent and kind, interested in movies, sports, romance and wadis around the lakes., seeks non-smoking, 22-32 SJF with similar interests. Lets get together. Send note and phone to Box #36197 Widowed Jewish Male, late 50a, who is talk blond, educated and with e\"\"0arnmufel2y*^ carina desires amorous woman to be his pest S'an? companion All ages answered because I care. Box #36191 DJF, almost 40, light-hearted, yetsincere, artsy, yet practical, traditional yet making it in the 90s, selective, yet an incurable romantic. Im petite, attractive & love the out-of-doors. Im looking for an intelligent man who is emotionally and financially secure, who takes care of himself (I exercise regularly) who knows how to have fun and enjoys a loving relationship with a woman (hopefully me). Please send letter & phone number. Box #36198 SJM, nonobservant and unaffiliated. Smoke a lot & drink moderately but otherwise mostly moral & healthy. I'd like to meet attractive, childless 3040 y.o. woman, who is employed, independent, humorous, sensuous, healthy & under 150 lbs. Im 5\"\" 11\"\", 180 lbs., dark, almost handsome, politically liberal & small business owner. Love movies, comedy, fine dining & animals. Phone number & photo. Box #36204 DJF, late 40s, attractive & cheerful in need of a playmate. Enjoys walking outdoors, fishing in the warm weather, different ethnic foods, movies, music and board games. I would like to hear from a SJM with similar interests and a good sense of humor, who is educated, self supporting, sensual and an all around nice person. If you are this person, please hurry and answer. Spring is on the way and we dont want to miss a minute. Box #36195 DJM, 60year8,5' 111/2\"\", 175 lbs., not bad looking with everything working. Semi retired, faculty member Metropolitan State U., Management Department. Enjoys walking, loves music, theater, & all the arts. Most of all, I love home entertainment, warm, caring, very loving. Want to meet attractive, slim and emotionally secure SJF, 50 plus for a real-relationship. One who cares about people. I have something to offer to the right lady who MUST BE HONEST AND FOR REAL Box #36196 Vivacious, SJF, 28, seeks SJM, 27-36, to share the joys of life. I would like to meet someone who is willing to develop a relationship with heart and soul. My interests include music, movies, theatre, sports and finding out what the Twin Cities has to offer. If you want to meet an intelligent and beautiful woman with a warm personality and a dazzling smile, send me a note with your number. Box #36199 French speaking, SJF, 39, nice and young looking, slim, stylish, airline employee, wishes to meet a refinea gentleman. Willing to relocate. Please send descriptive letter. Box #36190 SJM, 32, looking for SJF 28-34.1 enjoy movies, walks around the lakes, dancing, quiet evenings at home & sports. If you enjoy some of the same things I do, drop a line ana lets get together. Phone number & photo appreciated. Box #36189 FUN! Thats what this summer will provide for both of us if you answer this ad! Im a SJM, 30 years young (5 8\"\" 155) looking for a close friendship with a SJF between the ages of 2430 who like myself is kind, caring, has a good sense of humor and loves people! If baseball games, movies, fishing, walks by the lakes, drinking, dancing and more.. .seems like fun to you, then spring into action and answer this ad now. Photo optional, but appreciated. Box #36203 More than the sum of the parts (tho the parts aint bad!), this raven-haired mid-30s professional woman would like to meet mid-30 to mid-40s man whos good at what he does. Non-smoker. Im bright, articulate, and well-packaged. At my best, Im honest, straightforward, assertive, & fiercely loyal; at my worst I can be strong-willed and self-centered. Usually Im fun, friendly, sometimes slightly silly, witn interests from opera to country music, ballroom dancing to rock climbing. If youd like to start with friendship and be open to other options, let's talk. Box #36201 SJF, 38, seeks SJM (32-44) mate. . after some time, some fun!, a bit of hassle, a bunch of communication, & a getting to know of our individual and paralleling lives. Love living in the country, visiting the city, dancing, adventuring, reading, entrepreneuring, creative cooking, compromise & peace. My spirit & life have taken my own rich path. Please write about yours. Box #36194 SJM on my way up and don't want to get married yet. Successful, attractive, caring, compassionate, fun, diverse, and sometimes naughty. Jazz to pop. Filet minion to fast food. Champagne to soda. Ties to t-necks. Dancing to relaxing. You are 21 to 26, ambitious, goal oriented, trim, striking, looking for fun. Personality, and the will to be naughty once in a while are REQUIRED along with your picture and note. Box #36185 I am a SJF, 24, non-smoker, looking for a SJM 24-30 to become a new friend and to do fun things together like going to a sporting event, a movie or walk around the lake or just talk. If you are that SJM, dont waste another minute, time is precious. Box #36182 46 DJF is wondering: Are there men who have a strong personality & character, but yet know when to be vulnerable & understanding? We both know what it takes to be a friend, lover & confident. We are attractive & yet have the maturity to know that this also grows with getting to know each other. Humor, warmth & the ability to be totally natural & craziness are important Box #36187 Why I like my cousin (a 35 y.o SJF): She laughs a lot, lives in her body, cheers me up when Im sad. Shes smart and reads interesting books. Shes one of the people in my family who makes a Shabbat dinner warm and thoughtprovoking. Shed like to get marriedshe's ready for another bear in her cfen, and some cubs. So write to her. Box #36205 SJM, 33 years old, 5' 8\"\", 150 lbs. I enjoy movies, sports playing & watching, eating out & walks around the lakes. Looking for a girl who likes to stay in shape & must have a sense of humor. If you are between 28-38, please send me a note, photo & number. Box 36206 SJM, 29, nice looking, educated,5' 5\"\", hazel eyes, brown hair, enjoys swing music, flea markets, dining out, giving backrubs, seeks SJF, 20-32 who enjoys being pampered. Send note, phone & photo. Box #36208 DJF, 43, petite, non-smoker would like to meet a slim, non-smoking, SJM, 38-49 who approaches life with a positive attitude and a sense of humor. I enjoy movies, music, dancing, reading, lectures, good conversation, leisurely walks, and sharing with someone special. If you share my interests, please respond. Box #36184 Jewish widow, late 50s, who recently moved to Mpls. and would like to make the acquaintance of a SJM of about the same age (plus or minus a few years.) I enjoy walking, biking, fishing, traveling, sports, movies, plays, eating out & dancing. I am a warm, sensitive & very attractive lady & would like to meet someone who shares similar interests, who is open with his feelings, gentle & loving and non-smoker. Phone number and photograph appreciated. Box #36186 SJM, 29.1 want to enjoy the coming seasons & all the lakes, theaters, travel, food & music that life has to offer. I would like to enjoy these things & others with a non-smoking SJF. I promise to answer all written replies. Box #36207 Through an arrangement between the AJW and The Connector, a publication for Jewish Singles, all personal messages printed in the Matchmaker will also be included in the latest issue of The Connector free. Confidentiality will be maintained since only code numbers will be used. Mail received by The Connector for Matchmaker personal messages will be sent to AJW to be forwarded. The Connector may be obtained free at Brochins, The Old City Cafe, or Elijahs Cup or by sending $3.00 to Tne Connector, P.O. Box 24331, Omaha, NE 68124.", "_version_": 1710462452692418560, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57643", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/3a6b07559a8808f7b2663320f7fc8665c9e7c741.png" }, { "id": "p16022coll529:57644", "object": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57644", "set_spec": "p16022coll529", "collection_name": "The American Jewish World", "collection_name_s": "The American Jewish World", "collection_description": "The American Jewish World, founded in Minneapolis and dating back to 1912, covers decades of local, national, and international news events as they related to the local Jewish communities. Founded by Rabbi Samuel Deinard as a way to unify Eastern European and German Jews in Minnesota, the newspaper ran weekly until 2009 when it shifted to biweekly and, finally, monthly in 2019.\n\nInterested in helping us preserve this history? Help us digitize 90 volumes of the American Jewish World, covering 1915 to 2007. Learn more about giving at: http://c-fund.us/oua.", "title": "Page 12", "title_s": "Page 12", "title_t": "Page 12", "title_search": "Page 12", "title_sort": "page12", "dls_identifier": [ "umj77094" ], "page_count": 0, "record_type": "secondary", "parent_id": "57645", "first_viewer_type": "image", "viewer_type": "image", "child_index": 11, "attachment": "57645.jp2", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-05-29T00:00:00Z", "transcription": "AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD APRIL 19,1991 Israel Independence Day Two Israelis formulate a national survival plan His Jerusalem, indeed By SUSAN KLEINMAN NEW YORK (JTA) \"\"My Jerusalem: Twelve V^alks in the World's Holiest City,\"\" by Teddy Kollek and Shulamith Eisner; photographs by Richard Nowitz. New York: Summit Books, 1990.160 pages. $24.95. In the 4,000 years of Jerusalem's history, no man, religious group or government has been able to call the city its own without provoking controversy. MayorTeddy Kollek, though, is as much a part of Jerusalem as its hills, its ramparts and its holy places. And Jerusalem, as he proves very clearly in this new love letter cum guide book, is very much a part of Teddy Kollek. In \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" Kollek and co-author Shulamith Eisner, who has served as his assistant since 1965, share that love of Jerusalem and help inspire in their readers a familiarity with and a desire to learn more about - the world's most complicated, fascinating city. Ostensibly \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" is a series of walking tours guided by the mayor. And visitors or armchair travelers could, in theory, use the book in that way and set out, sunglasses and camera in hand, to follow the prescribed routes: from City Hall to the Western Wall; around the Temple Mount, the Ophel and the City of David; Damascus Gate and the Ramparts Walk; from Ticho House to Mea Shearim; downtown Jerusalem; and after exhausting his or her feet on the 99 circle bus tour. But while the tours it contains are well-outlined and the walking instructions seem easy enough to follow, the beauty of \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" just like that of the city it rhapsodizes really lies between the landmarks and the sights. As a sort of running commercial for his pet project, the Jerusalem Foundation, Kollek tells many stories about how private donors' assistance helped re-open city landmarks and restore precious sites. Some of these tales are rather interesting despite their echoing of the \"\"subtle\"\" fund-raising literature of which we all receive too much. Another running theme throughout Kollek's narrations is the need for greater religious tolerance in Jerusalem not only among the many religious groups that share the city, but between the religious and secular Jews, whose internal fighting frequently makes Jewish Books in Review headlines. Some of these stories are marred by Eisner's less-than-perfect prose style, but \"\"My Jerusalem\"\" is, overall, well written, and in the majority of instances Kollek'sownvoicedoes shine through with clarity and passion. There's only one Teddy Kollek, after all. And reading the engrossing storiesof thejerusalem he knows so well will help you know it a little better, and help you make it \"\"your\"\" Jerusalem, too. *** Susan Kleinman is a freelance writer based in New York. Jewish Books in Review is a joint project of thejewish Book Council (a nonprofit organization sponsored by the JCC Association of North America) and the JTA. AJW Staff Report Giora Belkin and Yitzhak Dekel, both in their early 50s, ha ve had the best and the worst of both worlds. They have lived in the U.S. for a combined total of 31 years, and before that lived a cumulative 70 years in Israel. Both served in the Israeli Defense Force, and return to Israel frequently. The two have come to believe that the solution to many of Israel's problems lies in combining the talents and resources of world Jewry toward a single goal. Their plan, \"\"Operation Ami: A Pragmatic Approach to Israel's Survival,\"\" proposes a process whereby American and other Western Jews could be encouraged to immigrate to Israel in large numbers 3 million by the year 2020. They believe such a mass migration would stimulate economic growth in Israel, as well as offset a hypothesized demographic crisis in which Israeli Arabs are projected to outnumber Jews in a few decades. As an incentive to immigration, the two men propose the establishment of \"\"American\"\" cities in Israel, one in the Galilee and one in the Negev. These cities will be granted some autonomy for 25 years; they will be funded, developed and managed by Americans, free of Israel's preponderant political and bureaucratic restraints. The plan calls for these cities eventually to be integrated into Israeli society. In addition, the authors foresee several smaller communities to be established in different parts of Israel, as well as neighborhoods to attract Canadian, Latin American, French or other diaspora Jews. Development of these cities, Belkin and Dekel explain, will be coordinated by the home communities from which these Jews come. The authors propose using the Project Renewal model, whereby American Jewish communities \"\"adopt\"\" Israeli towns or cities and fund improvements in those areas. The plan attempts to address in a comprehensive manner a range of ideological and pragmatic issues. Theauthors write in their proposal that the universal adoption of such a plan could relieve Israel from its sense of \"\"isolation, despair and demoralization,\"\" and infuse world Jewry with \"\"a new sense of constructive idealism and historical purpose and hope...\"\" Karmiel microcosm of the best of Israel HAIFA (JTA) In the early 1960s everyone knew the reason for the decision to establish a Jewish settlement on a large, vacant hillside in the Lower Galilee, facing the Arab towns of Majd el-Krum and Dir el-Assad. There were numerous other Arab villages in the area as well, and it was felt that a Jewish presence should be created there. None of the land was occupied, so there was no problem of ousting previous inhabitants, and the greater part of the area was owned by the government. Nevertheless, the Arabs objected, along with a small group of ultra-idealistic Jews. That was the birth of the city of Karmiel, whose population is now approaching 25,000. There were no old houses or huts, and everything was planned and created from thebeginning. Indeed, the network of roads and civic facilities were laid out for a city of 50,000, and Karmiel is inching its way to that figure because of its reputation as one of the best organized, most pleasant places to live in Israel. It is high on the want list of new immigrants from the Soviet Union and from Western countries as well. They are not the only ones. In 1977 a well-to-do Arab family bought a villa; soon others moved in, renting empty apartments, and today some 300 Arab families are among the happy residents of Karmiel. Call NATE at 544-0091 for all your ELECTRICAL NEEDS v0 Residential u0 Commercial 00 Industrial i0' Bonded u0 Licensed u0 Insured Free Estimates UfJ&JSjS electric No Job is too small _ The population also includes some 500 English-speaking households, and a liberal sprinkling of arrivals from Latin America, together with veteran Israelis. There are also some 500 Ethiopian Jews a total of 32 different national backgrounds, making this a true microcosm of Israel as a whole. When the city was founded not everybody was accepted, and applicants had to pass tests to ascertain their suitability. Today the doors are open to all and they come. More than 2,000 new apartments are already in an advanced stage of construction, and an additional 2,000 will be started shortly. A quick drive around the town provides a picture of the quality of life which makes the place so desirable. The planners thought big. There are no less than 57 parks, ranging from small corners to the large Yigal Allon gardens, locally known as Dinosaur Park because of the statue located there. Homes are to a large extent built in neighborhood units, with access into cul-de-sacs, so that through traffic is avoided, and the central areas are open for children to romp KNOLLWOOD MALL DAIRY QUEEN Dairii Queen Call to order 938-9695 For Your Next Home Or Office Party Try A Delicious Dairy Queen Cake or Pie! 8332 Hwy. 7, St. LouisPark Israel marks 17,150 war dead with memorial holiday TEL AVIV OTA) - Israel has suffered 17,150 combat deaths and more than 56,000 wounded in battle since its War for Independence in 1948, the Defense Ministry has disclosed. And according to police officials, 66 Israelis were killed and 262 wounded within Israel's pre-1967 borders during the first two years of the intifada. The figures were released in connection with Yom Hazikaron, Israel's annual Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, which began Tuesday evening. around in without danger. Karmiel has attracted more than 70 industries, and would welcome more, but there is one basic qualification: only non-polluting plants are permitted, and so there is a heavy concentration of high-technology companies as well as service industries. Each neighborhood has its own basic shopping center, and in midtown there is a concentration of every store and service required, so that residents can satisfy all their needs here. Residents point with pride to a group of establishments known as felafel row. There is a side to life beyond the economic, however. A sports center has a soccer field, six tennis courts, a swimming pool. The conservatory of music has 350 pupils but a new conservatory building will soon be able to take up to 700 to meet the great demand. Only 10 percent of the population is Orthodox, and they have six synagogues, three of them Sephardi, and a Chabad House. A conservative congregation, catering to its members, makes all announcements in Hebrew, English and Spanish and they are considering adding Russian as necessary. A cultural center offers a full range of communal activities seven days a week. The city can be a magnet to outsiders as well. A few months ago its amphitheater and adjoining grounds were host to 100,000 people who attended a three-day music festival. For transient visitors there is a small, clean hotel. Independence Day not what it used to be By CATHRINE GERSON RAM AT GAN, Israel (JTA) Forty-three years of independence have brought about a change in the way Israelis feel about their country. Independence Day celebrations, which once consisted of all-night dancing, are now \"\"forced and have lost most of their spontaneity,\"\" according to 43-year-old Malka Regev. Regev, a teacher, was born in 1948, only a few months before Israel's Declaration of Independence. What she remembers most clearly in thinking back on the Independence Day celebrationsof her youth \"\"is dancing, dancing, and more dancing.\"\" \"\"I can't remember ever sleeping on Independence Day,\"\" she said, and described how she and her friends would meet in the center of town to dance through the night. \"\"Only when our legs started trembling and we were too dizzy and tired to continue did we stop. And not even then, at 4 or 5 in the mom- Only when our legs started trembling and we were too dizzy...did we stop. ing, did we go home to sleep.\"\" Sitting in her spacious Ramat Gan apartment, only a few yards away from Scud-damaged buildings, Regev compared the celebrations of her children with her own celebrations. \"\"While we activated ourselves, dancing to our own singing, the children today expect to be amused and entertained by others. They walk from place to place passively searching for the best performance but not really participating, while in the'60s and early'70s we created our own festivities.\"\" While acknowledging that the changes were to have been expected, Regev still thinks that \"\"it was better before.\"\" As a teen-ager in the Israeli Scouts movement, she remembers feeling that \"\"by dancing, I personally continued the tradition which began with the first independence festivities. We continued the spontaneous outbursts of dancing in the streets, just like the first night in 1948.\"\" Regev expressed some hope that the first Independence Day following the Persian Gulf war would bring with it some of the happiness and freedom she felt as a young girl on Independence Day.", "_version_": 1710462452695564288, "type": null, "collection": "p16022coll529", "is_compound": false, "thumb_url": "https://cdm16022.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/p16022coll529/id/57644", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/39d4668a8be790e44c1f678753e5ed183b4b7fcc.png" } ] }