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NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCXETt Lincoln, Nebraska
JUL 1 6 1962
Vol. XI,—No. 45
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The twenty-third session of the Federation sponsored resident camp, Camp Jay-C-C, will close this weekend, Norman Batt, Committee C h a i r m a n, Stated. Batt described this season as an unqualified success in Hie respect of. professional programming and the fine work done with the children in campIng projects. A capacity enrollment and an all college counseling staff developed program:; that the community can be proud of, I3att said.
With the increasing recognization of our camp as the tip coeducational camp in our nrea, Batt reported, there is.no doubt in my mind that we will be recognized us one of the top Jewish camps in the country, what with the new camping site being readied for occupancy next season and the top staffs that we are attracting. A capacity enrollment is expected next season when the new Esther K. Newman Camp is to be opened.
Vienna (JTA)—The Joint Distribution Committee has set up an office' in Algeria to provide various welfare cervices to the needy Jews still remaining in Algeria, Charles Jordan, director general of. the JDC reported
here after a visit to the newly independent Moslem country. Stopping jn Vienna en route back to his Geneva offices, the JDC director said there was no Jewish communal structure left in Algeria and that only two "heroic" rabbis had remained to look after their flocks, He said it was still not known how many Jews were left after the mass exodus in the months preceding Algerian independence day on July 1. He cited estimates of 25,000 to 60,000 Jews still in Algeria of the original 125,000 Jews in that country when it was under French administration. He reported that more than 1,000 children had been provided transportation to France in the two weeks since the first JDC and United Hias Service representatives arrived in Algeria.
Fellman to K r e s s Senior Citizens Richard Fellman will be the featured speaker at the next Senior Citizen's meeting,.. Monday, July 10, at 12 noon at the Jewish Community Center. All members of the Golden Age Club planning to take the riverboat cruise on July 31, are asked to malce reservations by July 23-with either Mrs. S. Milton Margolin, Ben Klaiman or the Senior Citizen president, Joe Radinowski.
On the occasion of the visit of Israeli Air Cadets sin Omaha and Nebraska, July 21 - August 4, we present a "profile" of Israel's Youth Corps. • GADNA is an organization for .—^ • ~—~ boys and girls of 14 to 18 years are thus enabled to be absorbed of age, under the joint sponsor- easily into Israel's way of lifeship of the Ministry of EducaSome 20,000 boys and. girls tion and, Israel Defense Forces. are enrolled in GADNA, on a It aims to train young people for volunteer basis, They come from pioneering and defense, and fos- high schools, youth organizaters the study of specialized mil- tions, immigrant villages and itary trades. settlements. There are 140 units, GADNA is a unique organiza- which operate in high schools, tion providing civic and pre-mil- technical schools and agriculitary training for the youth of tural schools. There are speIsrael. Ita primary function is cialized branches of the GADan educational one, with special for air, sea, signals and emphasis.on training the youth ,NA marksmanship. for good citizenship .and ^devotion to their country.' Tho AIR GADNA learn to piWithin its ranks, children of lot light aircraft'and •gliders. the immigrants integrate with This, aids the -Air, Force in sethe native-born children, and lecting cadets Tor its jet pilot
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Philanthropies Drive a? $461,645.91 The 19()2 campaign record increases at every level, in every division . . . but final success depends on Total Community Support. I'lIILANTIUlOWICS SCOItBBOAUD As «£ July 10, 19G2 The following are current reports from divisions in tlie 13(52 Omaha Jewish Philanthropies Campaign: 19G2 Total Division To I);ilc Initial Gifts $ 376,544.00 Men's Division , 20,805.00 Women's Division 56,009.75 Business Women's Unit •. 3,451.00 Children's Division ' 1,539.25 High School Division 3,054.41 Organizations 1,122.50 Miscellaneous 1G0.00
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Five Israel Air Cadets, accompanied by a Squadron Comander of the Israel Air Force will be the guests of the Civil Air Patrol, Nebraska Wing, in Omaha and in Nebraska, from July 24 to August 4, CoL P. J. Stavfteak of Omaha, Commander of the Civil Air Patrol, Nebraska Wing, announced this week. These 0 Israelis are a part of the International Air Cadet Exchange which will bring teenage cadet groups from some 20 nations of the world to visit in the United States. These groups are hosted by different state Wings of the Civil Air Patrol.
The Israeli group was assigned to Nebraska this year. Exchange Program "The purpose of the exchange Is to foster international understanding, good will and fellowship .among the youth of the free world," Col. Stavneak explained. "The American CAP cadets and tlvir counterparts from the foreign countries are selected for their extraordinary leadership, character, academic achievement, and good citizenship merits. They are truly junior ambassadors. Many of today's aviation leaders are former participants of the International Air Cadet Exchange."
Elaborate itineraries and programs have been arranged by the Kebraslra Wing oi the Civil Air Patrol, which will enable the Israeli Air Cadet groups to learn and understand American life and institutions, the way of life of the American people, and become familiar with Omaha and the State of Nebraska. Group of Six The Israel Cadet Group which •will .visit Nebraska includes the following: Major Simon Ash, Squadron Commander, Israel Air Force, escort. Yairy Solomon, 16, of Lod. •Radian Alexander, 16, oS Jerusalem. Kahana Dan, 17, of Netanya. Alon Nahman, 17, ot Jerusalem. Yigal Ophir, 18, of Givalayim.
Radio Station KBON 1490, effective on July 15 and continuing throughout August, will feature on Sundays at 10 p.m. a repeat of a seven part series, on "Great Controversies in Judaism," in coperation with the adult Jewish Education Department of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Chaim Essorg is the director. The series will present in alternate roles as moderator, Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, Professor of Education, Hebrew Union
College, Jewish Institute ol Religion, New York school, and Erwin L. Herman, Union of American Hebrew Congregations' Director of Regional Activities. The moderators and a guest panel composed of Miss Eleanor Schwartz, Theodore Broido, and Robert Garvey, all members of the executive staff of the Union of American Hebrew (Continued on Page 2.)
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The next edition of the Jewish Press will be issued Friday, August 31 in accordance with the summer publication schedule. In the interest of members of the community who annually extend Rosh Hashanah. greetings through the special pages in the holiday issue of the Jewish Press, a coupon and suggestions are made available on another page. Holiday greetings through the Jewish Press has long been a tradition for families and organizations jn the area. Everyone , is urged to fill the coupon, clip and.mail it to the Jewish Press. The greeting pages will, have an early closing deadline.
Tuesday, August 28 is the date selected by women of Bikur Cholim for their eighth annual August fund raising dessert luncheon and card party at 12:30 p.m. at the Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel. For many years, the organization has used its funds for the care of the needy, sick and senior citizens in the community and nearby areas. Refreshments and gifts are distributed at the state mental hospital at Lincoln, during monthly visits of Bikur Cholim members. Mental hospital patients at Beatrice, also, are recipients of gvits STOTO the women during the year. The popularity of the beauty and barber shop at the Dr. Philip Shcr Jewish Home for the Aged is another example of the efforts of the Bikur Cholim ladies, Mrs. JaVe Wine,.their president pointed out, in discussing the party. Mrs. Wine announced that the entire board membership will make up the committee in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Harry Sidman in c h a r g e of donor solicitations, urges all friends and members of the group, to mark the August 28 date on their calendars. She said general admission is $1 and donor, $5.
normal activities continue at urThe GADNA has two special ban high schools. In times of publications of their own- "Beemergency these youths serve mahane Gadna"' (In Gadna Camp), which appears forthWithin the framework of civil nightly, and a wall-newspaper, courses and considerably cuts defense organizations as run- "Beohalei Gadna" (In the Tents of Gadna) for their clubroom ners, signallers, etc. down waste in training pilots. Newly-established countries in bulletin boards. NAVAL GADNA climaxes its Africa GADNA is a contraction o! and Asia have been training with a course from greatly interested jn the GAD- two Hebrew words GDUD Which the graduates go straight NA program. They have been NOAR, which means YOUTfH into NCO's jobs on joining the sending youth organizers into BATALUON or Corps. Navy- GADNA stresses pioneer- Israel for six-month courses, unIn existence long before the ing and agriculture, and on its der GADNA auspices, to learn War of Independence, GADNA four farms, thousands of young- the principles and operation of trained all the signallers for the sters learn to live and work the this youth corps. Upon return- HAGANAH and a GADNA unit land. ing to their native lands, they distinguished itself in Jerusalem The GADNA activities include organize similar units, for their • by stopping the advance of the marksmanship courses and con- own youth. Jordan Legion. After the Wa.r» tests, cross-country .hikes, ralGADNA maintains a lOOmem- GADNA youth built a road to lies. Independence Day celebra- ber Symphony Orchestra,-which Ein Gedi, aided immigrants^ and tions, Bible contests and- sum- gives a series of. public, concerts .fortified bordet setfenerfts— mer camps. , throughout the country. An un- particularly during 1956-1957 Special 'activities are conduct- usual recording containing its when more than. 4,600 GADNA ed .with the iitimigrant and best, performances, entitled. IS- members helped to fortify froo• villages against- repeated working youth < in "development RAEL, was recently issued by mier > areas" and.pupil.? of vocational the IIKD ARZr RECORD COM- FEDAYEEN (infiltrator) -*ttacks. 'and agricultural schools, while PANY of Israel.
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