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Governors Meeting Thursday To Honor Visitor.
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Mn. lien Sliu|tlrc>, mer-ull head nl the. WoniMTa Section of the 1058 Vhllantlirople* Appeal thl« » » k hold her flrnt ronferenre with lirr newly appointed co-chairmen, tliortly after their apimlntment. 1., 1<P It, arc M n . Hhsplro, und her nrnly named alo>», Mm. Alfred Frank, Mm. Abe V. Venger and Mrs. Herman Friedman. •
Young Adults Council To bhcuss Convenrion 'Die Young Adult* Council will meet Sunday at 1 :.'(0 p. m. at the JenWh* Community Center to <luCUU dim) plans (or Uie ejmcnllon week-end, for Omaha and out-oftown young adult*. Fvbniary 14-16.
Night Slimnastics " Class Started ;
An evening SllmmifUcs class for women opened Thursday from 7:30 p. m. to 8:30 p. m. at the Jewish Community Center. Registrations may lie made at the next session • or by phone, JA 1366. The class, limited to IS participant* will stress figure conditioning, exercise Information and will Include optional swimming.
Ort to Get $1,575,000 New York (JTAt'-'llw Joint Distribution Committee will grunt $1,37.1,000 to the World'CRT Union I/i 1038 fur locutional anil educational program* which the latter crmducta In Europe, North. AfriCH and Israel. The announcement, Issued jointly by the JDC and ORT, «uys that an agreement to this effect w u signed by the two organization*. Th* agreement Includes JDC financial assistance to ORT vocational training activities among the estimated 10,000 Jewish repatriates In Poland, the announcement emphasized. Another 10,000to 15,000jr«ws are expected to return t,o Poland from the USSR during tho course of 1950.
Dr. Abe Greenberg And Visitor To Be Honored Dr. Abe Greenberg. Omaha community leader and Dr, Louis Miller of Israel, will be cited by the Omaha chapter ot Hadassah, at a luncheon meeting, Thursday, January 30, at 12:30 p. m. at the Jewish Community Center. ' Inscription on Bell . Dr. Greenberg, Immediate past president of the Federation for. Jewish Service, will be honored for his more than 40 .'years of service to the community by the Inncriptlon of his name on tho Freedom Bell, a", bell to 1« executed in bronze and located on t Jit* grounds linking the new Medical Center near Jerusalem, Israel with Shlkun, a model town being liuilt. Mrs. A. D. Frank will present the citation to l)i) Circi'iiherg. Dr. Miller, Health Official Dr. Miller, p'.jiliMtmt and psychoanalyst, Is director of the I'lvslon of Community Health of the Hadassah Medical Organl/iitl'in In Israel and Is director of the Israel government's Division of Psychiatry and Mental Hecltli. lie will be Introduced at the inwlini; by Mrs. Robert Rosen, program chainnan, Dr. Miller will address the Omnha-!)nuglas County Medical Society at a reception to be given for
him Thursday, 8 p. m., at the ISIackstone hotel. The Oinpter Medical Committee Includes Mm*. Julius Stein, chairman, Max Shapiro, Ben Pcrclman, Keith Sanmlers and Charles Fredkin, Hcrmifit Aticrhach, David Hrodkry, A. P. Frank, J. H. Kulnkofsky, Meyer Itubln, I>co Wcltie nnd Sam Wolf.
Forum to View 'Social Life1 Dr. Joseph <1. Dunn, Professor of Kdiicatiou nt University of OinnliM. will address the Second I'nreril-Tecn Forum Series, on Wednesday, Fehiuaiy 5, »t S r, Dr. I)UIITI will rilscusi 'The S cinl Life of Om IVi'iis." Piuents who would r u e to submit a f|ii"stn>n to Di. Dunn, limy du so by submitting It in-writing to Saul Sllvcrman, Jewish Community Center Activities Director, before the date of the second Forum. It is not neceHKary to sign your name in order to send In the question. Parents of teens and proteeii are-invited to attend.
Center Schedules Girls' Dance Class Dancing iintnii'tion for tfiiide who >1 sirli will b -gin at tin1 .''"«•Uh Ciiinmuinly CenHr. Tu'1»ddy, January ^8, Irv Yaffc, Center Atiiletlc chairman, announced. The course will t(f conducted Tuesdjiys, Wcdnesdnyn ajid .Thursdays Irom 4:15 p, m. to 5:15 p jn. for 10 weeks.
David Tejiitcr, Consul of the Htatr of Israel for tb« Middle West, will addreM the memltrrs of tho Board of tlovernors of the Jewish Federation, Thursday evening, January 30, at X o'clock, at the JPWIPIII Community Center, Itolx'rt II. KiHipdr, Federation I'renldent, unnouneed. . To Klert Fi>f> Flte members will IH< elected to thn Feileratlon Executive .Coninilttro at this meeting, In accordance with the ennstltutloo of the Federation. A list of nominee* will IHI submitted by the Nomination Cornmlttee, consisting: of Natliun l» fioffi chairman: Iudore Chapnmn and Harry Sldmun. / Noted HpfaVrr 'Mr. Tesher, the Israeli ConsulGeneral for the Midwest y/Uh offices In Chicago, was Director of the Information '-Division of the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs, prigr to his appointment as Coimil-Cipncral in 19."i7. 'Hie Information Division which lie directed was responsible for .icquaintlng the nations of the world with the nature of Israel's problem's nnd difficulties, and also make them familiar with the'ere-' alive woik In Israel. Mr. Tcsher, therefore. Is a wellInformed'speaker and will be In a position to bring an outstanding report to the members of tho Board of Governors.
Youth Officers Plan Conclave
A ballet olaju will t>e scheduled on Trldays If sufficient requests are recohed. Registrations may be mad« at th* opening sosslon by Tin first annual Intercity Club •nntacting the 'Center, Fee for the Officer's Conclave will be held on em.'"* course will be (10, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Febuary 14-15 and 16. It Is being sponsored by the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Youth Council. Invitation* are being extended to all officers of high school youth clubs In Sioux City, Des Monies, Lincoln and Omaha, Including the synagogue groups, and to the executive board and representatives ot the Omaha Jewish Youth Council. Highlights, of the wcakend will 1M a Saturday evening house party tor all attending the Conclave and a luncheon seminar meeting wjth Professor Ben Solomon of. New York University, New York City, as guest speaker. Fee for the weekend is 11.00. Officers Of Omaha club* are urged to register in the Youth Council'office us soon as possible.
Rabbi A. Kaiman To Be Installed -
Religious Revival Denied .by Rabbi Ilabbl Arnold Kaiman Rabbi "Arnold Kaiman, former Oinahau. will l>e formally Installed as Kabbl of Temple Beth Kit Colorado SpriiiKS and Temple F-monuel, Pueblo, Colo., at a Joint consieRatlonal dinner Sunday, January i'fitli in tin" Coloiado S;inngs Temple nodal hull. He In the *•.:> of Mr. and Mrs. William Kaiman who will attend the ceremony. Rabbi Kaiman, who has been spiritual leader of tho two coni;r<'K»tlons since- last September will bfl Installed by Rnbbi Sidney Hrooks of Omaha's Temple Israel,
Washington (WNSi—The current religious r e v t v a l among American Jews is more illusory than real, according to Ilabbl Morris Adler of Congregation Shaare Zcilfk in Detroit, Michigan.
Athletic Committee To Meet Thursday The! Center's Athletic com mlttea will hold iUi regular monthly meeting Thursday, January .10, at 12:15 p. m. at the Jewish Community Center. Cumlng programs us. well «% an evaluation of present activities are scheduled for consideration.
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Blacker Heads Israel Project \ David Blacker, prominent Jew* Ish community and ('Mr leader, bun accepted the chairmanship of tbe Omaha Committee fur Israel'* Tenth Anniversary, Jtobert II. Kdoper, Jewish Federation presl* d«nt, announced this week. Mr. Blacker Hill head a special Federation committee which will plan and direct a concentrated over-all community observance of Israel's Anniversary, •f»fMOM<M>»>i the Jcwlth Federation. The mlttee will also promote and coordinate various activities held in Omaha throughout the Annlver-. sary Year, commencing April M, 195H, and ending May 1959. "David Blacker has given many years of distinguished service to the community and to Israel. H* served a« Philanthropies Campaign chairman three times, and also headed Israel Bond Campaigns. He has been active in movements and activities in which Israel is concerned, I am sure 'Nat k-nder his dynamic and imaginative leader, .ship, Omaha Jewry and 'ne entire community will observ* the »ig« njflcanl anniversary 'A Israel in a, most fitting and dramatic manner," Mr, Kooper slid. Involved In the planning of the year's program -will be reprojen"tattvej of all Jewish organizations, of Omaha.
Institute to Be Held at Center Professor Ben Solomon, Editor of Youth Leaders Digest and faculty member of New York University, New York City, will conduct a city-wide Leadership Training Institute at the Jewish Commun. ily Center, February, 16-17 and ip. The Institute will be sponsored by the Jewish Community Center, the local BBYO Advisory Committee and several religious agencies. Subjects will bo discussed In the interest of volunteer, professional, board undcxecutlve loaders. Leaders, officers, advisors and executives of Jewish groups, will meet with Prof. Solomon at a dinner, Sunday, February 16. Registration for admission to the Institute may be made by calling the Center Activities office, JA riGfi. 7.IONI8TS TO MKET ' ON MARCH Jerusalem (JTA)—The World Zionist Actions Commitee, supreme Zionist body between congresses, will meet In Jerusalem March 18-19. ' - •