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Laurie Nogg and Don Kaplan, co-chairmen of the second annual Omaha Jewish Youth Council Hootenanny have announced that the show will be singed '•like a two ring circus." Sheldon Turkel, stage manager of the production explained that the spotlight will alternate bad: and forth between the permanent stage in the Center Auditorium and the temporary stage which will be constructed in the northeast corner of the room. REHEARSAL SCHEDULES TICKET SALES After school rehearsal times have been scheduled by the Chnirmen for the participants. Any acts desiring more rehearsal time than what has been scheduled should contact the chairmen. Admission for the Hootcnannv is 50c. Tickets have been distributed to all Youth Council clubs, and preliminary reports indicate that the show will be a sell-out. Hie event is scheduled for Sunday. February 14. at 2 p.m. at the J.C.C. Advance ticket purchases are urged,
•bers of (he Jewish community lo a -(.j !M«iy " ' '* ..iceting of the Omaha Jewish Fedjo1 01 \v.o'.' ' • .jjued this week, Arthur II. Goldstein, Jewish Ft .gallon president announced. The Annual Meeting will be held Sunday evening, February 14, at 8 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. Entire rwninuniiy Served "The activities of the Jewish tion, I am eager that members Federation," Mr. Goldstein said, of our community attend this "concern themselves with the meeting, and hear reports on spiritual, physical and m o r a l c o m m u n i t y progress and welfare of the community. In achievements during 1904," Mr. one manner or another, they Goldstein added. reach practically every Jewish Election of Officers household, serving many needs Election of officers for 19G5 of our people, of all ages. will take place at this meeting "Our J e w i s h Federation is Nominations will be submitted also the instrument t h r o u g h by Jack W. Marer, chairman of which Omaha Jewry helps na- the nominations committee. tional Jewish agencies, overEdward D. Brodkey, general seas relief and rehabilitation chairman of the 19B-1 Philanthroprograms, and the rebuilding of pies Campaign will submit the Israel." final campaign report, and preUrges Attendance sent special awards to campaign "Because of the importance leadership. of the programs sponsored and Present officers are: Arthur directed by the Jewish Federa- H. Goldstein, president; Milton
fiddler on the Hoof' Wins Catholic Award
off this week in its first test. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Corp., which yielded to Arab threats in 19C2 and withdrew its agent from Israel, announced this week that it would reestablish a distribution agency in Israel and do business directly with that country instead of through third-party agents. The Goodyear announcement came only a few hours before Deputy Prime Minister Abba E. Eban confirmed in the Knesset the open secret that Israel had embarked on a fight-back policy and would deny Israel markets to companies cooperating with or yielding to the Arab boycott. This restriction will be affected by requiring Israeli importers to obtain "special approval" before making purchases from listed
The New York Board of Rabbis, composed of all three wings of Judaism, praised President Johnson this week for his war on poverty program and immigration proposals but expressed its "alarm" over provisions of his massive Federal education program which would prov'de aid to parochial and p r i v a t e schools. The Agudath Israel of America. ultra-Orthodox group, previously had welcomed the President's proposals. The Board of Rabbis declared that "the religious school clearly is established to serve the sectarian purposes of the sponsoring religious group. It is a violation of our understanding of the hallowed principle of church-state separation to require the state to support religion. Furthermore, we consider it ultimately harmful to our religious institutions to depend on state funds for the furtherance of their program." AID WELCOME In a letter to the New York Times, Joseph Kaminetsky, director of the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, criticized Jewish groups raising objection to Federal aid for parochial schools. He said there were 320 Jewish p a r o c h i a l schools in the country, with Washington, D.C.—The Nation- nearly 60,000 students, "vitally al Catholic Theater Conference concerned about such aid by the will present its 1!)R4 Religious Government that will be in conDrama Award to "Fiddler on sonance with the Constitution." the Roof." He said that "we see in PresiFiddler, a leading musical now dent Johnson's bill a masterful on Broadway, is based on Rus- move to aid all types of schools sian-Jewish folk tales, adapted —and we gladly look forward from Sholom Aleichem. writings. to such aid." The awards wilfbc presented UAHC PRESIDENT OPPOSED d u r i n g the National Catholic Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath. Theater Conference's a n n u a l president of the American Union meeting in New York. of Hebrew Congregations told a California convention group: 1 "Millions and ultimately bilGovernor and Mrs. Frank B. lions, will be poured into our Morrison will bo special guests parochial schools, thus deprivat the annual Sigma Alpha Mu ing our public schools of the tax Fraternity P a r e n t s and Sons dollars desperately needed for the fashioning of a good public Banquet. The S.A.M. Mothers Club is school system in this land. And in charge of arrangements for the aroma of federal funds will the dinner which will be held at ultimately tempt every religious the Sheraton-Fontenelle Hotel at group to develop elaborate netC p.m. on Sunday, February 14. works of parochial schools," In addition to an address by G o v e r n o r Morrison, the program will feature a review of Matzoh for Russia the highlights of the past footOrders for shipment of matzoh ball season at the University of from Israel to individual adNebraska by Mr Lyle Sit l e r , dresses in the Soviet Union are captain of the footall team. being accepted in Tel Aviv by Alumni interested in attending the Peltours Travel Agency, the the banquet should contact Mrs. Soviet a g e n c y for accepting Irving Forbes, 553-5085 or Mrs, packages abroad for delivery in Morton Soircf, 558-2170. the U.S.S.R.
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A living monument, designed to arouse the moral conscienco of the civilized w o r l d to tho tragic plight of Russian Jewry, lias been -dedicated i ; front a! Congregation Zichron Ephriam, located directly across the street from the Soviet Mission to tha United Nations. •> Tho bronze plaque bears tho f o l l o w i n g inscription (from Psalms 102:21) "Hear the Cry pt tho Oppressed"—Tho Jewish Community in the So* ict Union. Tho plaque will bo illuminated i :ontinuously to remind the thou;aiids of passersby of the suferlng and persecution to which 1)0 3 million Russian Jews are >elii({ subjected, :..-.. dvep 1,000 people, Jews and i Christians.from all walks of life, Wended tha dedication of tha ; ilaqua.
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Arthur Goldstein R. Abrahams, vice president; Harry Sidman, treasurer; and Elmer Gross, secretary.
'Fighting Back1 Arab Boycott Wo iixed iarriages Israel's new policy of fighting companies. Goodyear was in- In N.J. Jewish Paper back at the Arab boycott paid cluded -in the first of these lists prepared by the Ministry of Commerce. ISRAEL'S STRENGTH Mr. E b a n reminded Parliament that "I srael is not powerless." lie pointed out that Israel's purchases abroad equalled one-third of the total purchases of all the Arab countries combined and noted that Israel buys more of some products than all the Arab states. Israel thus has a considerable buying power to use as a weapon. But, Mr. Eban stressed, that was not all. "Neither are we alone," he declared. World public opinion and the economic power of the ten million Jews in the free world could and should be harnessed in the fight.
Israel Bond Purchases '§n ® Nutshell' Mr. Ephraim L. Marks, General Chairman of the Omaha Committee for State of Israel Bonds, is happy to announce the annual purchase of a State of Israel Bond by the Senior Citizens Club, sponsored by the Omaha Section, National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish Federation. Mr. Marks also expressed his appreciation of the Bond purchase from the Jewish Funeral Home.
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Shown dedicating a bronze piaque as a constant reminder of the plight of llirce million Soviet Jews arc (from left to right)! Myron Muiskoff, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Uie Con* grcgatton, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Rabbi Arthur. Schncier, Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Hon. Stanley Lowell, Chairman, New York City Commission on Human Rights.
The current Atlantic Monthly's Report on Israel appraised the economic situation of the country as follows: "Israel now produces 81 per cent of the goods which it consumes; 12 years ago it produced only 30 per cent. Israeli exports today cover over 50 per cent of the costs of imports; 12 years ago they covered only 14 per cent of those costs. The balance of payments deficit' is higher than it was 10 years ago; but the national income has multiplied threefold during that period. Foreign exchange reserves have grown to around $000 million and the total amount of Israeli currency in circulation is only around $240 million. The country's financial position is sound."
Highland Park, N. J. (JTA)— After a full discussion of the subject by various bodies of the Jewish community, a decision has been reached that the Jewish Journal, the Federation's official organ should not publish notices of a marriage where one partner is not Jewish. The issue arose recently when the daughter of a prominent Jewish family here married a non-Jew who did not convert to Judaism. The Journal submitted to the Rabbinical Advisory Committee a question as to whether it would be proper to print the notice of such a marriage in the Federation's newspaper. Tho Rabbinical Advisory Committee decided that such a notice does not belong in a Jewish communal newspaper. On the other hand, the committee felt there was no objection to announcing the marriage of a Jewish couple, even if it takes place beforo a secular authority, provided that mention is made of the secular official who performed the marriage. "The participation of a rabbi," ruled the committee, "is not a necessity to make a marriage valid according to Jewish law."
Israel Health Official, Or. iiller, in Omaha
Dr. Louis Miller, Director of the Mental Health Services of Israel, visited briefly in Omaha in the course of a official visit to the United States. Dr. Miller has been involved in the reorganization of the psychiatric and mental health services in Israel, especially in tha fields of community psychiatry, child mental health and children's hospitals. A m o n g the projects he has initiated Anti-Jewish Arabs major in Israel is a community organizational program for the The Anti-Defamation League of S'nai BVilh has charged that entire c o u n t r y , including the the United Arab Republic Em- training of community organizbassy in Washington was dis- ers for new immigrant and povtributing a violently anti-Jewish erty-stricken neighborhoods. pamphlet which quoted the spurBecause of his vast experiious "Protocols of the Elders ence in Israel dealing with tha of Zion," and charged that the problems of thousands of immiJewish religion condones "the grants of varied backgrounds murder of the non-Jew," and and die social adjustments in1 decrees that the Jew must "bury volved in integrating them into the non-Jew alive." The pamph- the country, Dr. Miller has been let, printed in English, was pre- invited by the United State Govpared for distribution in the ernment to act as consultant on English-speaking s e c t i o n s of the poverty p r o g r a m in this Africa. The ADL said the Arab country. He will assist in tho nations today were waging "the planning of future programs, 33 most malevolent international well as evaluating present proanti-Jewish campaign since the grams. While in Omaha, Dr. Miller Nazi years" despite their protestations that they,were anti-Israel lectured at the Nebraska B y and anti-Zionist, not anti-Jewish. chiatric Institute. ..