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NAT 4 December 13. 2000

Obituaries

Giseia Gresser chess champion

NEW YORK — Giseia Kahn Gresser, a women's chess.pioneer and nine-time national champion, d ied at the age of 94. She rose to the forefront of U.S. women's chess after a fellow passenger on a cruise gave her a book on playing the game. She entered

her first tournament in 1940 and four years later won her first U.S. Women's Chess championship. She retired from professional chess at age 82 and became the first woman inducted into the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.

Evelyn Helkind aided blind

NEW YORK — Evelyn Helkind, who with her husband endowed the Helkind Eye Institute of the Montefiore Medical Center and were founders of Yeshiva University's Medical School,

is being mourned. She was cochair of the recent benefit dinner of the Solomon Schechter High School and was an honorary life trustee of the Jewish Braille Institute.

Neale D. Katz, aided Falasha

NEW YORK —Neale D. Katz, director general of the United Jewish Appeal who played a role in the rescue of Ethiopian Jews, is being mourned. He made aliyah to

Israel with his wife and four children in 1972, leaving a successful law practice in Chicago. He was the treasurer of the World Conference of Jewish Communal Service.

Sidney C. Stone, succumbs at 93

READING, Mich. — Sidney C. Stone, a professor at Bowling Green State Univer sity for 32 years who taught writing, theater and speech died at the age of 93 of a

stroke. Previously he taught theater and speech at Iowa State University. Among his students had been Tim Conway and Eva Marie Saint.

How to win students, Friday night chicken PHILADELPHIA — On at least one university campus in America one Sabbath of the year is special — Shabbat for 1,000 — at the University of Pennsylvania. At 55 separate campus locations 1,300 Jewish students dine on chicken and participate in prayer sessions. The bill is absorbed by several prominent local Jews. Lee Gerson told the Jewish Exponent, "it's a winning formula. Everyone enjoys this. Most don't celebrate Shabbat regularly at school. Those who do — in my house, for example — do so separately, according to their individual custom. Now they have a reason to celebrate Shabbat with their friends and neighbors." , Holiday Greetings Chicago Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel Irving Kupdnet, Gen. Chairman • Rabbi Wm. Z. Novick, Executive Dir. 79 W. Monroe St.. • Chicago, Illinois 60603 ■ 641-5700

Buckingham Pavillion Mr. and Mrs. Stern 2625 W. Touhy Ave., Chicago, IL 973-5333 or 764-6850

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In recognition

Susan Osher Epstein Susan Osher Epstein has been elected president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Meyer L. Bodoff is assuming the position as executive vice president of the Los Vegas Jewish Federation. The State of Israel Bonds Corporation honored Robert H. and Anita Naftaly at its Tribute Dinner in Southfield, Mich. Arlene Barron has been promoted to executive director of the Jewish Community Center of New Orleans. The 90th birthday of Edward M. Unickel, past president of Congregation Emanu El of San Bernard!no, Ca., was celebrated at services this past Friday night. He is a past chairperson of the United Jewish Welfare Fund. Author and Prof. Todd Gitlin has been awarded the Harold U. Ribalow Prize of Hadassah Magazine for his novel, "Sacrifice".

Protestors bar Netanyahu talk BERKELY, Ca. — A speech by Benjamin Netanyahu was prevented at the Berkeley Community Theater here as hundreds of protesters shouted "Support the Palestinians, choose a side" and "No free speech for war criminals." Waving banners reading "Zionism equals Nazism" and "End U.S. Aid to Israel," the large crowd estimated by police as 500 broke through the police tape and massed in front of the chain-link gate leading to the campus. They engaged in dialogues and handed out leaflets while shouting slogans through bullhorns, leading to. police chaining the gate shut and preventing entry of protesters.

Netanyahu being seen as successor of Barak JERUSALEM — As Benjamin Netanyahu has thrown his hat into the ring to succeed Prime Minister Barak, and the current view is that he will be able to do so, the view now being discussed is what then will be the situation as far as peace with the PA. The uprisings which have been costing a number of Israeli lives are considered the best support for Netanyahu's victory. Meanwhile Mr. Arafat, taking note of the new development, stated that peace talks will stop until the elections have been held. The one problem, that the prime minister must be a member of the Knesset, will most likely be overcome as the Knesset will probably remove that obstacle. The hawkish Netanyahu is leading Barak in polls by a wide margin although he has not been involved in politics since he lost the last election. One solution would be for a new Knesset to be elected with Netanyahu one of the candidates. Barak, taking note of the situation, submitted his formal letter of resignation Sunday asserting that an election was the best way to renew his mandate. Netanyahu is described as hawkish and Barak as a moderate. The election is set for Feb. 6. Netanyahu's term as prime minister was from 1996 to 1999 and was marked by constant friction with the Palestinians but his tough policies now appeal to many Israelis who, looking at the current situation, feel that Barak's peace efforts have failed and Israel's security has been jeopardized. Answering questions Netanyahu gave no indication that his hard line attitude toward the Palestinians had changed. He criticized Barak's proposed concessions and said they would put Israel in range of Palestinian gunfire. He said he would lower Palestinian expectations and also lower those of Israel. Israel can achieve only a "cold peace" based on mutuality and security, he said, but that is "better than a hot war," he added. Meanwhile a U.S. led commission of inquiry met with Barak in hopes of reducing the violence and paving the way for a resumption of peace talks. Chairman former Sen. George Mitchell said both sides have promised to cooperate. Mitchell, .a Democrat from Maine brokered the 1998 peace accord in Northern Ireland. After meeting with Arafat the commission was to fly to Egypt and Jordan. An Israeli was killed and two others wounded, one seriously in attacks Friday by Arabs on a West Bank settlement. They were travelling in a van near Hebron enroute to Kiryat Arba. She was identified as Rina Didowvski, a teacher who lived near Hebron and was on her way to school at Kiryat Arba. Sermon of the week So You Think You are not Religious — Rabbi Edward Paul Cohn, Temple Sinai, New Orleans. Reform

Continued from page NAT 1 peace for Israel, the United States, and Israel's neighbors, and to undertake critical, constructive public dialogue on the most pressing issues facing Israeli society — including the status of Israeli Arab citizens and other minorities and other issues of inequality and discrimination in Israel today." Heading the effort of the Union will be Esther Lederman, who most recently served as assistant director of the Israel Policy Forum's Washington Policy Center. She will work closely with Leonard Fein, founder of Moment magazine, who recently stepped down as director of Reformm's Commission on Social Action. To formalize its program the Union will marshal its resources of more than 900 congregations to "engage American Jewry in the struggle for social justice and equal rights for all of Israel's citizens."