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Vol. XU-No. 5
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Robert M. Feinberg, Omaha Philanthropies Chairman and Israel Bond leader, reported on the situation of the Jews in Warsaw and Paris 1n.a special communique, received by the Jewish Press this week. He and Mrs. Feinberg are representing the Jewish Federation of Omaha on the United Jewish Appeal Study Mission. The UJA is a major beneficiary of the local philanthropies. Mr. and Mrs. Feinberg left for Israel on Monday, October 22, after a four-day survey of the effect upon the French Jewish community of the thousands of newcomers, especially from Algiers, who have arrived in their country in late months. The Omalians expect to return home in November.
Mr. Feinberg said his unit included the first group of American leaders to visit post-war Poland whore the government was seeking to do all it could to aid the 30,000 surviving Jews in that country to rebuild their lives. Our team, he said, conferred with Jewish and Polish leaders in the Polish capital and visited e i t e s of the two Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz and Birkenau—where 3,000,000 Jews from various Nazi-occupied countries w e r e gassed and burned. Summarizing his impressions there, Mr. Feinberg wrote, "Everything you have read or seen in pictures about these camps is true, e'ven more 60."
"The Mayor of Warsaw told us," Mr. Feinberg declared, "that there was no anti-Jewish discrimination in the government, schools and state enterprises in Poland, a report confirmed by Warsaw Jewish leaders. Our committee stressed the continued interest of American Jewry in assisting the 30,000 Jewish survivors through the Joint Distribution Committee." "We reassured the Polish Jewish leaders," he said, "that American Jewry is concerned about the fate of their communities and that they were not isolated from the mainstream of life."
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France—200,000 Jewish Newcomers The 138 members of the United Jewish Appeal Study Mission were told in Paris on October 21 that the Joint Distribution Committee was spending one-third of its total budget on emergency measures to help the 200,000 Jewish newcomers from Algeria and elsewhere now in France, Omaha's Robert M. Feinberg indicated. "JDC is spending nearly $3,000,000 this year in France, where the Jewish population has increased from 300,000 to over half a million in the last few years. This gives France the fourth largest Jewish community in the world," he said. The tremendous influx of Jews in this country lias created a situation where existing Jewish community installations, welfare agencies, clinics, schools, synagogues and communities arc "swamped" in their efforts to integrate the newcomers. This has caused an increase of nearly $500,000 over JDC expenditures in the 27 countries in which it operated in l'OGlj Mr. Feinberg reported.
Roll of needlework Guild Ooniriliiilors All women in the community are called upon to make their contributions to the Needlework Guild, if they have not done so to date, Mrs. Joe J. Greenberg, Chairman of the Jewish Federation Agencies S e c t i o n of the Guild, said. In addition to those previously listed, the following have contributed through Friday; Mmes. Harry Altsuler, Sam Appleman, Morris Arkin, Joseph Bernstein, Paul Bernstein, Dave W. Bernstien, Sam S. Cohen, Seymour Cohn, Lawrence Epstein, Ruben Epstein, Sam E p s t e i n, John Faier, Max Falk, Harold P. Farber, Morris C. Fellman, Herman Friedman, Jolui B. Gidinsky, Yale Ginsburg, Paul M. Goldstein, Benjamin Gorelick, Joel Helfman, Leonard D. Herman, Morton Hiller, Sam HornStein. Mmes. Samuel S. Kaplan, Harold K a s i n, Dave Katz, Sam Kraft, Manuel Mackay, Sol Martin, Jacob Mendclson, Joe Meyer, Meyer Meyerson, Orvei A.. Milder, Jack Mirmelstein, Michael Morris, Max M. MoskoWitz, Isadore J. Plotkin, Louis Raduziner, Milton Sam Resnick, Eugene D. Rich, Morton Richards, Yale Richards, Samuel H. Rosenberg, Horace Rosenblum, Morris Rosenstcin. Mmes, C h a r l e s Schneider, M o r r i s M. Shapiro, Abraham Shrago, Beulah Shrago, Nathan Simon, Ray R. Simon, Leonard Skolnik, Louis Somberg, Marlon Sombcrg, Samuel Swartz, Sam Tretiak, Adolph Trost, Stewart Tully, Louis Whitebook, H. D. Wigodsky, Ernest B. Wfntroub, Louis Wintroub, Hymio Zorinsky and Miss Mildred Levy.
Delegates from the Central Stales region of the United Synagogue of America will gather in Omaha for their biennial convention, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, according to local chairman Yale Gotsdiner and regional chairman Joe Hornstcin. Sessions and workshops will be held at the Blackstone Hotel headquarters with social events taking place at Beth El Synagogue. Dr. Bernard Segal, executive director of the United Synagogue of America, will make the principal address at an open banquet for delegates and local congregation members, Sunday at 7 p. m. in the Beth El social hall following cocktail parties for the visitors. The synagogue choir, under the direction of Cantor Aaron Edgar, will present a musical program. Rabbi Myer S. Kripke will be toastmaster. Workshop discussions will center on "The Jewish Adolescent in a non-Jewish Environment", "What it means to be a Conservative Jew in the 19G0's," Adult and Jewish education, synagogue administration and email congregations. Cotnmlflco chairmen serving- with Mr. Gofsdlner aro Ernest Wlnlroub and Jack Grctn. tiospltallly; Rabbi Norman Mussman/ religious service:; Lou J C I J , hotel occonv mooallons and arrangements; Barton GrcentCTQ, registration, Jamei LIpsey. Stanford Llpioy anil Mrs. Morris C. Fellman, publlclty; Morley Zlpursky and Edward Rosen,
MM 8ron@r 80 Tall k\ Sr. Citizens Meol Rabbi Benjamin Grofiler of Beth I s r a e 1 Synagogue will speak to the S e n i o r Citizens Group at the Jewish Community Center on Monday, October 29. His topic will be "Highlights of My Trip to Israel." AU members of tho group are urged to attend this meeting.
traniportotlon; Mr?, Harry Fcrcnsteln, catering, wltii Mmes. William Alberts and Sam Dan assisting; Mrs. Ernest Prlesman, arrangements for Sunday cocktail parlies and Mrs, Nathan Turner, hostesses..
Yaacov Sharett, famous war hero and son of an internationally known Israeli statesman, who holds a distinguished tecord of his own as a young diplomat in foreign service, will be guest of honor and speaker, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Kulakofsky on Tuesday, October ,')0 at 8 p.m., John Rosenblatt, Israel Bond Campaign Chairman, said. Fought widt Palnmrli Born in Tel Aviv in 1927, Yaacov Sharett joined—at the age of 16—the Haganah and later, the Palrnach, the Jewish "shock troops" of Palestine before the State of Israel was established. In 1944, at the age of seventeen, and at the height of World War II, he enlisted in the British
CAP Official for Aeronautics Class Louis Cutler, local architect and Civil Air Patrol official, will instruct the Teen Aeronautics Class being sponsored by the Jewish Community Center, as part of its Youth activities program. Classes will be conducted on five consecutive Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., beginning November 14 and ending on December 12. The sessions will provide a fund of information for the teenager interested in aviation. The series will include trips to the central control tower at Eppley Airfield and to a radar station in addition to valuable instruction and class room lectures by Mr. Cutler, a registered pilot. A small registration fee of $2.50 will be charged for the series.
Morris C. Fellman, synagogue president and Mrs. Albert Rimmerman, sisterhood president, are serving on the advisory committee. In conjunction with the conference there will be a full-day session of the Midwest Region Arrangements are being made by Rabbi Joseph Wiesenberg and Harry Gottesman of Minneapolis and Mrs. Morris C. FellA distinguished faculty has been selected to lead the semiman. Reservations for the Sunday nar topics in the Center series night dinner may be made with of programs designed to anaand explore facets of modthe Sisterhood chairman, or the lyze ern living, Harry Sidman, the synagogue office. Center's -Activities Committee Chairman, stated.
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Yciacov Shared Army's Jewish B r i g a d e and fought the Germans in Egypt, Italy, Belgium and Holland. He returned home in 1946 to rejoin the Palmach, serving with distinction during Israel's War of Independence. He took part in the capture of Beersheba and in the final "mop-up," which routed the Egyptian Army. 11 Towns Founded Overnight He helped establish Kibbutz Hatserim in the Negev, in the famousl94G operation in which eleven towns were founded simultaneously during one night, defying British r e s t r i c t i o n s against Jewish settlements. Mr. Sharett began his government career in the Prime Minister's office in 1950; later he rose to the position of First Secretary of the Israel Embassy in Moscow. In 19G1, the Soviet government declared him "an undesirable person" on trumpedup charges of espionage, and expelled him from the country. The speaker's father, Moshe Sharett served Israel, both as F o r e i g n Minister and Prime Minister and is now Executive Chairman of the Jewish Agency.
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Everyone in the community is invited to shop at the Childrens Memorial Hospital Bazaar during its one-day operation, Monday from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. at the Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel, Mrs. Arthur Goldstein, chairman in charge of the booth for the Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs, said, today. Mrs. Goldstein, her co-chairmen, Mmes. M. A. Richards and Alfred Sophir and a score of volunteers, have been preparing for the booth for many months, collecting merchandise, arranging for a staff and taking care of the many responsibilities required for such a project. Beautiful handmade i t e m s and numerous handy articles, will be available, Mrs. Goldstein declared. She urged everyone to shop early and said there will be merchandise to suit the tastes of oil members of the family.
On Common The University of Omaha's Institute on World Affairs will feature Leonard B. Tennyson, Director of the European Communi t y Information Service in Washington, D. C, on Wednesday, October 31 at 8:15 p.m. in the school auditorium. Mr. Tern, whose career has included the roles of a writer „ a n d newspaper Tennyson correspondent, will s p e a k on "The European Common Market." Members of the community are urged to attend the lecture by Ernest A. Nogg, president of the Jewish Federation of Oma. ha, a co-sponsor of the series.
The fall adult education se? ries, part of an over-all program of recreational and educational activities, features short term evening seminars discussing enlightening topics. A different lecturer discusses a new aspect of the subject treated each week. Topics of the seminars are "Modern Schools of Psychiatry," Tuesdays; "Hypnosis-Aspects and Applications," Thursdays; "Mental Illness in the Family and Community," Wednesdays, while the two seminar series, "Mental Growth and Development," and "Advanced Stocks and Bonds" are to be presented on a day to be announced. Registration for the seminars, accepted by couples or individually, or for other Center activities may be made by calling the Center's Activities Department, 342-1366. KBON Radio 1490 Presents MESSAGE OF ISRAEL Sunday, Oct. 28,10 P.M. Speaker: Rabbi Eugene J. Llpman Temple Sinai Washington, D. C. Topic: "A Tale of Ten Cities" -