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Federation Group Approves Repairs At the June mectini: ot the Ex CCUtlvc Committee of the Fcdera tlon for Jewish Service, S. Elmer ' Gross, chairman of the building and maintenance committee, re ported on the surfacing of tin Parking area on the cast side o the Community Center building • A g'irfaco of asphalt will pcrrni tte Use of the area for parking •nd port of it for recreation pur posci. Upon completion of surfacing; the parking spaces will bo marked with white lines. TTio committee approved a resolution creating a Herman Aucr1 bach Memorial Fund to receive funds and items of historical value t o be added to tlie memorial cxJilbit now port of the Joslyn's permanent collection. The committee ct Mrs. Meyer Beber, Mrs. J. H Kulakohky and Rabbi Myor S Krlpke will continue to function to •elect objects for the memorial fund. Arthur A. Colin, chairman o( the committee for tho Dr. Plilllp Shcr Jewish Home,for tlie Aged, announced that the home has 45 residents and five vacant beds. Mr. Conn ami Mr. Gross reported on the condition of the home. At their rccommcndntlon, the sum of $1,600 was nllotted for painting »nd cement work needed to keep the bu!l.:lnfs In irpalr. The committee agreed to coIponsor the World Affairs Institute to be heir) at the University of Omaha some time in October. Jack W. Marcr, Federation president, presided. Members attend ing wore: David I-.'. Heber, Mrs. David Bnxikey, Mrs. Edward K. Brodkey, Arthur A. Cohn, Leo ELsonstntt, Leo Fox, Mrs. Mike Freeman, Dr. Abe Greenbcrg, S. Elmer Gross, Ben K. Kaslow, Louis Katz, Robert H. Koopcr, J. Harry Kulnkofsky, Mrs. J. Harry Kula kofsky, Ernest A. Nogg, F. Ralph Nogg, Sam S. Steinberg and Paul Verot.
College Grads June ' Lawrence P. Pollack, B, C— •Unlvenlty dntfebnuka, College of Agriculture • . Donald R- Sllvcrman, B. A.— University of Nebraska, College of Arts and Sciences. D a n n y L. Fogel, Gerald C. Krantz, Jerry S. Kniplnsky, Leonard Singer, Marvin .L. Steinberg and Howard D. Vnnn, B. S.—Unlvcraity of Nebraska, College of Business Administration. Fred Kohm, B. S.—University of - Omaha, College of Business Adsiilnlstrullon. Sol Louis Welnberg (with distinction In Economics) B. A. — University of Omaha, College of Arts ami Sciences. Marshall Norman Forbes and Manny Goldberg, B. S.—Creighton University, College of Pharmacy. Arthur E. Lefltz, B. A.—Crcighton University, School of Law. Sidney Lee Rubin nnd Paul Wesley Saltzman, M. p.—University 01 Nebraska, College of Medicine, Honors: The late Dr. Adolph Sachs — Alumni Achievement Citation — Crclghton University. Medical Kculdrncyi Abraham Edward Alpert, M. D. —In radiology, University of Nebraska, College of Medicine. DEFKN.SK: TKKATV AHKKD
Wnahlngton (WNS)—The Zionist Organlazllon of American concluded its fifty-eighth annual convention with the adoption of a resolution colling on the Government of the United States to exercise its Influence toward effectIng direct negotiations between Israel nnd the Arab states and to enter Into a defense treaty with Israel as a nienns of strengthening Middle Eastern stability.
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Seven j/romiiK'iil members of our Membership in the Natlona Jewish community were named to Honor Society was awarded to the committees by Mayor John Kos following eraduatltiG tenters at enblatt whose job it is to chart Central High School: Eugene Du tlie growth of Omaha. lioff, Bernard Feldman, Marvin Mt'inben* of the Mayor's CityNew York (WNS)—Louis Lipsky, in a statement explainwide Planning Committee include Fercnstcin, R o b e r t Goldstein why lie und a number of other prominent Zionist* were David Mucker, Federation board Karen Kricsfeld, Gerald Marer, member; Kabul Sidney II. Iiroolcs Deanne Markovitz, Jack Oruch, ining the current convention of the Zionist Organization of of Temple Israel; Samuel W. Sara Pepper, Sheldon Hips, Mi- America, declared tlie move became imperative when the ZOA! Grcenberi;, Morris E. Jacobs, Fedadministration rejected a series of proposal wliosc objective it eration past president, and Jack chael Solzman, Robert Wintroub, W. Marcr, Federation president. Jerry Zlesman and Eugene Zwel- was to restore unity in the ZOA. Named to the advisory conunit- back. Mr.the Lipsky he had long felt that ZOA said was "losing It* sensa toe were Richard II. Hillcr" nnd Members of the class who reof direction, that it was being con. Kphraim L. Marks. fused as to its functions, that It ceived scholarship Include: Bernwas pursuing a purposeless existLou Sombcrg, member of the ard Feldman, Columbia Univerence; that it was avoiding through Federation Executive committee, sity; Stan Fellman, Mldand Col Marvin Parilman, who received fear the courageous tackling of a was elected vice-president of the lego and Ripon College; J a c k problem which was being created Board of Regents of the Unlvcr Oruch, University of Denver; Sara a Bachelor of Arts degree at Ye- for the Zionist movement as a shiva University Tuesday, will resity of Omaha. Mr. Somberc has whole by historic circumstances turn to his birthplace to teach at Pepper, Northwestern University; been a member of the board for M o r r i s Schrago, University of Beth El Talmud Torah. He to over which it had no control" and three years, that "it was taking up fragments Omaha Regents a n d Creighton the son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving of projects, trying to give them t, Milton Livingston, president of University; R o b e r t Wintroub, Parilman. uniqueness they did not possess, Announcement of Mr. ParilMajor Appliance Company, is one of the appointees named by Gov- Ripon College; and Kugene Zwei man's appointment was made by and was being lost in a maze of ernor Anderson to the newly cre- back, Cornell University and Uni- Sidney Hollls, chairman of the activities which did not add Up to Beth El school board, and Dr. Jo- a program, but helped to maintain ated Omnha Parking Authority. versity of Nebraska, alternate. seph Soshnik, chairman of the the facelessness of what was once Mr. Livingston is president of Chila creative Zionist organization." staff committee. drens Hospital and Temple Israel. Pointing out that in December He Is a past president of the FedRabbi Myer S, Kripke, spiritual eration for Jewish Service. leader of Beth El, said: "It,1s of 1&54 Dr. Nahum Goldmann, as leader of world Zionism, "after noteworthy that a native Omahan Is returning to his own city to many preliminary meetings sucserve after studying at a worthy ceeded in in bringing together Jewish institution. This points up leaders of the ZOA administration NKW YORK MAVOK the need to send out other prom- and leaders of the liberal Zionist Day Camp registration for the Tel Aviv (JTA)—New York's ising boys and girls In the field of groups to discuss the problems first period from June 27 to July Mayor Robert F. Wagner became Jewish education with the expec- with a view to the restoration, ot 8 has been closed. There are still the first recipient of an honorary tation that we will benefit direct- unity within ZOA ranks and at a few openings for the second pe- degree from Bar-Ilan University, ly by finding personnel for our preliminary to tho consideration ot riod from July 11 to July 22. The the American-sponsored Mlzrachi schools. We are very happy to a radically revised program, funcfee for the second period of two university which will open its doors welcome Mr. Parilman as a mem- tions and procedures." TUal as a weeks Is twenty-five dollars nnd to Its first (students this Fall. In consequence there Was meeting beincludes swimming, transportation, Jerusalem, later, he visited tlie He- ber of our staff." tween the liberal group and a sub^ crafts, lunch, snack, trip;], cook- brew University where president committee appointed by the ZOA outs, and insurance. Benjamin Mazar presented him executive committee. L i p sky's statement points out that the libDay Camp opens tills Monday with n copy of the famed Dead Sea at Peony Park. Campers will be Scrolls, which include the Book eral group submitted a number of of Isriah. picked up at four points; the Cenproposals which "raised a , possiter, Beth El, Beth Israel and TemTel Aviv (JTA)—Two hand gre- bility of some agreement, but as ple Israel at 9 a. m. and returned LONDON CONCLAVE nades were thrown through the the discussion continued o v e r to the game points at 4:30 p. m. London (WNS)—A wide pro- windows of a house near the Jor- many hours it became evident that Parents of children who arc reg- gram designed to bolster Jewish dan border Monday, but mirac- the ZOA leadership -was disinclined' istered for the first two weeks ore religious, cultural and education- ulously injured no one, it was an- to raise the Issues Involved at the urged to have their children at the al life In West European countries, nounced here.. Tlie grenades ex(Continued on Page 2.) proper pick up points before the to check the growing Incidence of ploded In a room in which three bin Is scheduled to arrive. Coun- inter-marriage and conversions adults and two small girls were selors will be aislgned to each and to increase vigilance against sleeping in a house at Neve Yapoint to assist the campers on and the revival of overt anti-Semitism, mln, near Kfar Saba. off the busses and to make the was adopted here at the concludAn army spokesman also rebus trip more pleasant with sing- ing session of the five-day Coning and games. sultative Conference of Jewish Or- vealed that all telephone lines and the water pipeline to Kissuflm, an Asbtiry Park, N. J. (JTA)—The' Each child should bring with ;nnizatlons. ' Israel settlement near the Gnza ordination of women as rabbis, a him every day, including tlie first strip border, were severed by ln- departure from Jewish tradition, day, a bathing suit and a towel, .SOUTH AFKIC'A iltrators from Egyptian territory. was propose 1 hxrfe by Dr. Bwmett plainly marked with the camper's Capetown (WNS)—Daniel F. Kissufim is located some two R. Brickncr, of Cleveland, in his name. If the weather permits Mnlan, former Premier, told a miles from the frontier. presidential address, which opened campers will swim every day. Jewish delegation he received at MaJ. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, United the 66th annual convention of the Parents having any questions his home in adjacent Stellcnbosch Nations truce cWcf, Monday Central Conference ot American concerning day camp are urged to that "there is no such thing as a ilamed large concentrations of Rabbis. coll • Oie Day Camp Director at Jewish question in South Africa." Arab refugees in the Gaza strip Adoption of the recommendaThe delegation eamo t& present for the current tension along the tion, which surprised most of the JA 13G5. Malan with a certificate of his Israel-Egyptian border. He de- 400 rabbis attending the four-day Inscription in the Jewish Nation- plored broadcasts nnd newspaper gathering, would constitute a comll Fund's Golden Book. articles on either side which in- plete innovation In Jewish pracSunday Radio Dr. Mnlan said Jews had made cited toward violence or favored tice, even for Reform or Liberal New series presented by Jew- "remarkable contributions" to the solution of the present situation Judaism which the conference ish War Veterans will be welfare of the country and have through force. He said that he represents. Rabbi Brickncr assert- ' broadcast over KBON from C been "a powerful influence" for hougbt that the friction was ed, however, that nothing In Re'mutual respect nnd goodwill fun- caused chiefly by marauding from form prohibits the acceptance of to 6:30 p. m. (See story.) damental to the national unity" Arab territory and maneuvers by his plan. Itabbl Roland B. Gittclsohn of South Africa. Israel forces close to the borders. The rabbi did not ask immediate action on his plan. He asked of Temple Israel, Boston, Mass., that a committee be appointed {o will discuss "Finding God in UJA Support Pledged report at the next convention. But an Iron Lung," on the Message he did not disguise his general apNew York (JTA) — Increased of Israel program over KOIL proval of the Iden, asserting that • upport for the United Jewish Apfrom 9:30 to 10 a. m. This will women "have a. special spiritual bo the last Message of Israel peal was pledged here Sunday at Tlie June edition of Architec- fitness to be rabbis, and I believe program to be heard over KOI I. the annual meeting of the UJA as the station will no longer Council of Jewish Organizations, tural Record in its religious build- that many women would be at« attended by more than 2,000 dele- Ings section carries n item about traded to this calling." carry ABC programs.
Native Omahan To Teach at B. E.
Center Day Camp Opens Monday
Global Report
Frontier Flareups On Israel Borders
Reform Proposes Women as Rabbis
Architectural Lauds Beth Israel
"Operation Hebrew" the story of Hebrew language integration in Israel will bo hcurd over ICFAI) from 11:30 a. m. to 12 noon. This program in the E'crnfll Light series which comes from the Columbia Broadcasting System will be the first program of the series to be carried over KFAB. All future Eternal Light programs will Dc hc^rd over KFAB, which Is now affiliated with Columbia.
gates. William I t o s o n W n l d , general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, who was the principal speaker at the gathering, called for *'un« remitting effort behind tho 1955 UJA campaign" In order to help the people of Israel, and save Jewish lives In other countries. Ho hniled the opening of tho new Yarkln-Ncgov pipellno In Israel as "a great engineering miracle" that will mako productive 70,000 wore acres of land in Israel and enable that many more families to settle there.
Beth Israel Synagogue. In the article the synagogue design Is described as part of o "great effort, uniquely American In form »nd Bplrit, to establish a conscious and creative synagoguo for our country." In 1953 tho synagogue was nwarded tho medal of the Kansas City Chapter of AIA. Isadora Goldstein, who headed the building committee, commented "it Is a credit to the Omaha Jewish community that the money raised came not only from Beth Israel members but from many
In advancing his yropos&l, Uab« bl Brickncr cited similar move* by "many Protestant denotnina* tlons." He said "the Harvard Unt« versity Theological School wtt\ now ordain wojncn, and the Gen* oral Assembly of tho Presbyterian Church just recently broke a 16T« year-old trauitlon by voting t* ordain women as ministers." Another reason for the novel idea which the speaker mentioned] was tho current scarcity of rabbte, as reported by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. lndU