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poBtofflce at Omaha. Nebraska, nnfler the Act of March 8, 1S79.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1922

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, A YEAR, $2.50.

all their varied activities. A modern The New Building. The new building should be such gymnasium and swimming pool, ft( as .to accomodiite all the Jews of large auditorium, meeting rooms of Omaha, young and old, together with (Continued on page 2)

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Although scheduled -officially to start on next Sunday, Dec S, the enthusiasm of workers at a meeting of at the Jewish Community Center Tooms Tuesday night was so great that they have refused to wait until Sunday, but pledged themselves to begin the campaign immediately. "'.".' •••••With more than $135,000 already pledged by 100 subscribers indications are that Omaha Jewry wjU-go-oyef the quota of $200,000 which was set by Mr. Morris JLeyy,; in malidng ^his contribution of $50,000 last June. Every worker has already subscribed, and has been "sold" on the Jewish pommunity Center- Building ^project. This fact alone" will give added force to the campaign.' In addition, a very attractive .jsrospecttEs* of the QOTte^haX^beenjniailedb;to evjiy, Jewish family in the ci^.fvMyr'd^&i§&7i''^r^'wd^^tow being done in rented quarters, and of the need for a building. Every^ JevHsh man, woman and child in Omaha will be eicpedted to subscribe. Every one will want to subscribe. The Jewish Community Center will be the institution of all Omaha Jewry, and-all Omaha Jewry must help in its erection.

they go? Should they spend their days with bad company and in the wrong-places? Think of the little boys that loiter in the streets when they could be up in the boys' gymnasium, or in the library, - reading books that would lead them into the right road, not to, well who knows. ' "And," she promises on behalf of the children, "if only this building is erected, the children of Omaha rwfll use it all the time."

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A Character Building Institution. In a letter to Morris Levy, wishing success to the movement, District Judge W. G. Sears says: „ "Froni my experience as Juvenile JUNIOR GIRLS' GYM CLASS. Judge I know how effective proper recreation for children is in reducing sable to a great degree in decreasing Center dub-rooms are in rented the extent of juvenile delinquency, the number of Jewish children-quarters on the third floor of the and I anticipate that wit&i' the in- appearing in Juvenile Court. Much Lyric Building, I9th'and Farnam Sts. creased facilities offered "by the Jew;- preventive work, however, still re-1 Prior "to December, 1921, t h e y ' ^ ish- Comnranity Center Bonding the .mains to be jdone,-*and your newjsisted of five rooms, which were used i 4 4 recreational "work of your community . •_•:.. .—• _;••. ~ .•-^v;^>-;-— building wOl be £he*:best" means•-•of --^foj--a~\^eTy l)f:pu^*ofe/"'T?fies¥ will be as efficient and as thorough rooms were. bare of furniture and' j doing it." as is your present relief -work. other facilities usually found in clubThe Present Quarters. ' 1 must state that your present rooms. . Yet, in. spite of their general limited facilities have been respon-1 The present Jewish Community unattractiveness, they rapidly became the social center for several hundred children and young,men and women. Vyity Omaha Needs a Jewish Com- a member of jtheYMHA Boy Scout Several adult organizations used what Troop, gives three ^reasons why the munity Center Building. was known as the "assembly room", No more forceful reasons could be Jews of Omaha should build a Jewwhicii was in reality a combination given as to the necessity for such ish Community Center Building. gymnasium, dance nail and lodgea structure in this city than those He says: room. TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF OMAHA:— "First, to^ralse the standards and stated by the boys and girls who The continuous and growing use of morals of the Jewish people. now attend the various activities at We are your boys and girls—and we are appealing these few. rooms necessitated the "Second, that your sons and daughthe YM & YWHA. to you to help us. acquisition of more ample quarters. ters may have a refined place to ''The Jewish boys of Omaha don't In December, 1921, three rooms adWe' are the members of the Y. M. & Y. W. H. A. watit to be bums and tramps", says spend their afternoons and evenings. joining those already occupied were groups listed helow. There is one thought in all our minds. Is&dore Weiner, 14.year old newsboy- "Third, that there may be a meetrented, and partially equipped. We want you to help to the limit of your ability to erect want to grow up to be good ing place for all the "children of However, it was soon found that a Jewish Community Center Building for us und for all Mien and good Jews. The people of Omaha, to be fitted into the world, these enlarged quarters were inthe Jewish children and young men and women in Omaha. Omdha must help them by building mentally, morally and physically." adequate. Under the stimulus which Twelve year old Annete Hurwitz, a Jewish Community Center." This they furnished, the activities of the The members of our various clubs range in age from lad is a member of the YMHA, Jrs. of the Fairies of Zion club, states YM & YWHA expanded rapidly. In 8 years to 25 years. There are more than 700 of us. We dub, composed of twenty newsboys that only by helping.the children can find in the Y. M. and Y. W. H. A. a place where we may a single year the membership of childOmaha be helped.;_ When asked to ifld carriers. ' ren and young men and women in meet with our friends and our acquaintances—a place Hyman 23er, aged 15, says, "I be- give her reasons why the Jews of these organizations has been tripled, where we may enjoy clean, wholesome recreation. long to the B'Nai BTtith Jrs. and this city should^ erect the building and is constantly growing. Adult Our club-rooms are used by us all the time. WhenI know from my own experience that her first thought was: • organisations used the new rooms in "You as a Jewish man of Omaha there is not enough room in the ever you may come to the rooms you will find some of us increasing numbers. Today, over 750 present dub-rooms for all the boys should help build up Omaha by givyoung people are' affiliated with the there-—the young ones during the afternoons, the older and girls of Omaha. To give to the ing part of your time to the chilYMHA and its- constituent groups, ones at night. The club-rooms are our playground—they fund for a Jewish Community Center dren." and 11 adult organizations use the jkeep us off the streets, and out of harmful places where Gertrude Wintroi b, 14-year-old Building means a step forward in we might be tempted to go—if we did not have the Y. M. club-rooms regularly. Jewish life in Omaha. It means a member of the Daughters of Zion & Y. W. H. A. Bare Rooms and a Promise. lasting satisfaction that, you cannot club, agrees wifh District Judge W. Elsewhere on this page is an appeal Now we ask you to think of the hundreds of Jewish get otherwise. It means that if this G. Sears, that th*e new building will signed by 30 clubs and classes of the children and young men and women who do not come to building is built it will put the Jew- do much to reduce Z the extent of YMHA urging the Jewish people of the club-rooms—because we haven't enough space for ish people on the same basis as the delinquency among _ Jewish children. Omaha to" erect a modern, thoroughly them. We want them all to join us—we think you owe it "Just stop" she admonishes the Gentiles." equipped Community Center. They to the boys and girls of this city to make it possible for men of Omaha, ^"and* think about the make the appeal not for themselves them to join us. many Jewish boys^. and girls of this The Spirit of Jewish Pride. alone, but for all the children in This spirit of Jewish pride runs city, who have .no-rial homes, but We need a building that belongs to the Jewish people Omaha. Persons who are familiar throughout the Reasons given by the just go to seek their pleasure in this of Omaha—and not just a few rooms that are rented for with the work now being carried on in children. David Forman, aged 14, wide, wide world.- Where should the club-rooms know that there is not them. We need a modern gymnasium and a swimming sufficient room for growth. No one, pool, we need an auditorium and many small club-rooms. however, knows this better than do We need a Jewish library. We need a common meeting the children- themselves, who conplace for all Jews. stantly use the building. The photoWe are growing slowly because we have very little graphs on this page give a small idea more room for growth". If you could only put yourselves of a few of the activities. in our places and could know how much the Y. M. & Y. The present gymnasium is such in W. H. A. means to us, you would not hesitate for one name only. It, is a bare room with, moment to provide a suitable building for the children t i e plaster off the walls, hardly large and the young people of this city. enough for 10 active boys. Yet hundreds of Jewish newsboys literally Senior Group—YM & YWHA Thursday Jr. Girls Gym Class spend all their leisure time time there, X. T. C. Club Tuesday Inter. Girls Gym Class eking out to the,fullest the little Ru-Na Club Thursday Jr. Sewing Class pleasure they derive from it. Jewish Yowoheas Club B'Nai Israel girls, too, ranging in age from 8 to Senior Girls Gym Class B'Nai Israel Jrs. 25, throng *the gymnasium. I t is the Senior Girls Sewing Class Sunday Story Telling Group nucleus around which much of the Dramatic Class Young Judea Seniors K-ereation work of the YMHA centers. Ukele Class • Young Judea Intermediates Omaha Jewry owes its young people Leaders Training Group Young Judea Juniors something more than bare rooms, and YMHA Jrs. Hatikvoh Girls a promise. For years the people of B'Nai B'Rith Jrs. Flowers of Zion this community have been p i t rising Cub-scouts, YMHA Fairies of Zion the younger generation adequate reTroop 62, YMHA Boy Scouts Herzl Girls creational facilities. The time to keep Wise Sunbeams LUlies of Zion that promise is now.- The opportunity Tuesday Jr., Girls Gym-Class Daughters of Zion is here. The cause is urgent and the

The Childrens Appeal!

NEWSBOYS' CLU»

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Subscribers to the Jewish Community Center Building Fund Up To And v Including November 28th. Morris Levy $50,000.00 Ed. Abrahams 300.00 Louis Ackerman 500.00 A. B. Alpirn _ :™ 3,000.00 H. H,,A^srbS£h.-.. ._ • 500.OT -Efarry Bender .. 250.00 . los,. Bender • — ^ — - — ^ . .35IWK? Dave Blumenthal . 500.00 Sol Brodkey '. 1,D00.4K> . Arnold Browar . 250.00 Albert Calm 1,000.00 Loyal B . Coin 1,500.00 Samuel Conn 150.00 H a r r y Dworsky 150.00 N. P . Fell . 1,000.00 John Feldman 100.00 D. S. Finkenstein 500.00 E . Fleischman 100.00 Ella Fleischman 500.00 H a r r y G. Fleischman 300.00 D a v i d ' A . Freeman 100.00 J . J . Friedman 100.00 Max FromMn 100.00 I. Gluck „ 5,000.00 Morris L . Goldenberg 1,500.00 Abe Goldstein 750.00 H . Goldstein 750.00 J . Gordon 100.00 Dr. M. I. Gordon 500.00 Dr. A . Greenberg150.00 Joe and Dave Greenberg SOO.00 Wm. Grodinsky :_ 250.00 D. B . Gross 1,000.00 J . A . Gross 1,000.00 Louis Hiller 1,000.00 Morton Hiller 100.00 Max Holzmann 500.00 Wm. Holzman 5,000.00 Nathan Horn 1,000.00. J . J . Isaacson 250.00 Selwyn Jacobs .. 500.00 Abner Kaiman 150.00 Sam Kaplan 1,000.00 Carl C. Kalleman 150.00 Kirschbraun & Sons. _ 4,000.00 Louis Rneeter 100.00 A. I. Kulakofsky 150.00 J . H . Kulakofsky _ . — 1,000.00 Louis Kulakofsky _. 500.00 M. Kulakofsky .... 1,500.00 R. Kulakofsky 1,500.00

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H a r r y Lapidus 1,500.00 Leon Bros. 1,000.00 Max L e m e r 250.00 Dr. V. E . Levinel 250.00 Harris and Morris Levy_ 600.00 S. M. Levy „ 500.00 Qjask'-Iievinson'V. ;—- JUWKLDO Banl Levy, .--.-.. ' 500.00 ifalashock Jewelry ... „. 1,500.00 Margolin B r o s . ' 500.00 E . Meyer 1 _ ' 1,500.00 Morris Milder ." "... * 3,500:00 Henry Monsky. 1,000.00 Dr. N a t h a n Mushkin 25.00 J. L . Orldn 500.00 Julius Orkin _ 500.00 Wm. Preisman • 200.00 H a r r y Ractirnan S,00'0.00 J . B . Eobinson ..._ 1,000.00 Arthur Rosenblum 500.00 Isy and Leo Rosenthal—. 500.00 Max Rosenthal • 1,000.00 Harry Rubenstein 500.00 A. Saxe ~ 750.00 S. H. Schaefer 100.00 Dr. Philip Sher 1,000.00, Harry Silverman • 250.00 Simon Bros 2,000.00 J. J. Slosberg '. „ 2,000.00 Louis Sommer ~ 500.00 Max Sommer _ 750.00 Irwin Stalmaster 100,00 Martin Sugarman 500.00 Samuel Swartz 100.00 Ben Tatle : 200.00 Jlabbi Morris Taxon 200.00 A. Theodore ;..._'....„ 1,000.00 Weiner Bros. ..:...: 1,500.00 Jack Weinman 250.00 Sam Wertbeiiner „ 1,000.00 Harry Wilinsky 1,500.00 A. Joe and Sam Wolf. 1,500.00 Harry AVWolf 3,QO0.OO N. S. Yaffe.™! C3O.00 Harry B . Zimman 1,000.00 B'Nai Ami Club 300.00 Talmud Torah • and Sunday ScHool ..„ 500.00 Temple Israel Sunday School 500.00 Y. M. '& Y. W. H. A..... 500.00

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