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Urged to Enter Jewish Book Monfh Confesf Stuilfiilf; in (lit; lliird through eighth grade.'; of (he Oinnh.i lU-llitioas School;; HIT urged to enter the essay contest sponsored by the Jewish Federation Library in observance of Jewish Hook Month. "My Favorite Jewish Hook" is the subject (or the essays which must lie limited to ISO to 20(1 words. Frizes will be awarded for the three best essays and tlie winning essays vvii! !;c [)ri:i!";l ;n {»(• Jewiiii Fie*:;. Deadline- for entries is November 2f>. Entries may be submitted t» Itclipious Scliool teachers or to Mrs. Jifth Minear, liiirnrian at tlie Jewish Coiiiiiimiity Center I''ecleration Library.
Jerusalem UTAl—Abbu Ebati, Israel';! Foreign Minister, disagrees with tliose wlio view last week's new, Syrian-Egyptian Military treaty as a positive development that would contribute toward p e a c o on Israel's border with Syria. Evaluating tlie foreign affairs situation before a meeting oi the Cabinet here, Mr. Eban said that Syria's lcvfnl ucliuns in encouraging jmcl not halting terrorist raids into Israel were tlie
Sharp Decline in £shkol Popularity . Jerusalem ' (JTAj—hesults of a recent public opinion poll, disclosed this wck show that Premier Levi Eshkol's popularity lias slumped from an election eve peak in 1905 oi 53.5 per cent to currt-it low of 17 |)er cent. The'survey, conducted by Israel's largest advertising agency, polled'tlie views ol the same sample interviewed on election eve. Tlie respondents.were preceiled a second time with a list of names oi nine Israeli political personalities, and asked to name their choice for tlie Premiership. Other names included former Premier D a v i d Ben Gurion, Herut leader Menachem Bei^m, former Chief of Staff• Moshe Da van, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Finance Minister Finfras Sapir. R e s u l t s on their standings were not disclosed, but the findings were shown to the Premier. •.
iewlsli Applfcanfs Philadelphia (J't'A)-A leading . Philadelphia banker announced here this week that his bank, the largest.in the city, was actively looking for Jewish applicants who might eventually qualify for top positions. Addressing the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter oi the American Jewish Committee, John K. Bunting. Jr., executive vice-president of the First Pennsylvania . Banking and. Trust Company,' said that his firm was seeking to. eliminate "the subtle antiJewish atmosphere that the young Jewish trainee thinks he feels" in American commercial banks by bringing "a leading -Jewish'figure into the-power . struggle of our bank." .Tlie banker's announcement followed an American Jewish Committee report two months Sgo, charging that prejudice and dberi miration were virtually excluding qualified Jews frijirt • executive positimii in Hie nation's? leading c o m m e r c i a l
result of the internal situation inside Syria. (Ir;it| lias pledged support to Syria against Israel although no format jiact exists lirtivet'ii Syria and II;KJ. In n broadcast over Kailio Baghdad, Iraqi President Abdcl Rahman Arcf salt) Irai| would "rush (o the aid" of .Syria in event oi military action by Israel. The Ira(|i President said lie regarded Ir;u| as a ..member of (he military accord reached last week between Kgypt and Syria.) Mr. Eban also discussed with the Cabinet the results of last week's action in the United Nations Security Council, where only a Soviet veto prevented adoption of a resolution—approved !»y 10 of the Council's 15 members—linking Syria with tlitf terrorist raids. He called Israel's move in taking the issue to the Security Council "successful," resulting in important moral backing for Israel's accusations ugainst Syria.
Mark Sanford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sanford, has been named for the lead role in the J.C.C. Theatre Company- production of ''Oliver", Ira Haznick, director of the theater group, announced this week. Other leads in the LIoiit-1 Bart musical inculde Barbara Lichtw.xA as Old Saiiy; Joel Epstein as Mr. Sowerberry; Judy. Sloan as Mrs. Sowerberry; Saragait KaUman as Charlotte; Jim Weinstein as Noah Claypole; Gregg Loso as Fagin; Jim Roddy as
^fwmmM To--Boycott Threats
London (JTA)—Ford and General Motors dealers in Lebanoa were reported here this week to have warned the Lebanese Government that. a boycott against the auto firms would be more harmful to the Arabs than to Israel. ..- •. The warning was contained in a note to.the.Lebanese'-Government in which the dealers said that Ford and General Motors did not intend to establish assembly plants in Israel, Tlie dealers said that Israelis, had sought to import GM-and. Ford tractors and trucks in. uniisscmbled form to avoid the high Israeli tax on imports of assem-. . bled' vehicles, 1'liey added that if the two auto firms were boycotted in Arab countries, thousands of Lebanese nnd other Arab workers would lose their jobs. Tiie question of boycotting CM and Ford presumably will be on the agenda of MIL- Arab Boycott Conimittee meeting in Kuwait on November 13.
DsraeS l®rads T Mrs. Jan Peerce, National Chairman of the Women's Division of the National Israel Bond Organization, will be the i;ue.st of honor at "The Year of Chai Tea" Thursflny, November 17 at 2 p.m. at Temple Israel. Sponsored by the Omaha Women's Division of Bonds for Israel, the event will serve us a women's division salute to Israel as it marks its eighteenth anniversary of independence. Mines. David Kat/.mun and M. F. Levenson are co-chairmen of the Omaha Women's Division for Israel Bonds. Mrs. J. Harry
Ooffitmlffee lamed far Brandeis U. Dinner Final plans are being made for tlie Brandeis University Dinner meeting to be held Tuesday, November 22, I'jfiG at the Highland Country Club. Cocktails at G::j(J p.m. will precede the 7 p.m. dinner. Robert M. Feinberg is chairman of the event, with Dr. Abe Greenberg and Milton S. Livingston serving as Honorary Chairmen. Members of the committee include Messrs. Alvin Abramson, Harold Cherniack, Pennie Z. Davis. Dr. Leon E. Fellman, Harvey D. 'Ferer, Maurice R. Gilmore. Norman L. Halm, Richard H. Hilter, J. Harry Kulakofsky. Stanley H. Knun, Joseph Lipton, Alfred S. Mayer, Ernest A. Kogg. Charles D. Feebler, Steven J. Riekes, Edward A. Rosen, Charles E. Hosenstock, Paul Veret, Alex Weinstein, Eli M. Zalkin and Warren S, Zweiback.
the Artful Dodger; Susan Gerber as Nancy, Milton Erman as Bill Sikes and Nancy Milder as Bet. Completing the lead roles are Ken Milder, Jay Novak, Barry Fleischl, Karen Wintroub, Slieliy Lewis, John Goldman, Betsy Cohn, Julie Bernstein, Robert Hopkins, Mark K l e i n . Larry Wintroub, Tim Scasteadt, Ann Reinglas, Mark Uolfman, Jody Rice, Marsha Fox and Kurt Rachwitz. : S e r v i n g in the workhouso scenes are Ken>- Milder, John Goldman, Rick i ojc, Alan. Friedman, Ronny Fellman, Bob Eisenberg, Paul Novak. Kathy Kirslienbaum, Kim Priesman.'Kathy Sperling', Sue Bernstein, Janie Goldman, Patty Livingston, Janet Zipursky and Kathy Lincoln. Additional cast members include Scott Singer, Jeff Parker, Stacy Parker, Diane Saferstein, . Helene -Wasserman,-Phyllis Polack,. Hhonda Saferstein, Lynn Friedel. Judy Libowski, Cindy Paul, Genine Ruderman, Airriee Scudder and Wendy Rice. Cast as Londoners in the musical are Nancy Ross, Vicki Katz, Sue Rubin, Jan. Lieberman, Jane Prohaska, Linda Hunter, Kathy Coolidge, Debbie Maurer, Linda Maurer, Joanie Field, Jackie Hammer, Lynn Gumra and Robert Hunter. . Frank. Novak, Cindy Paul and Stacy Parker are cast as London children. Jim WGinstein and Tom Lincoln will serve as understudies. . \ Four performances are planned for.the musical pnartuction. Parents ,are urged to^articipate nnd assist in' stage and set design, costuming, publicity and ticket pales.
Kulakolsky is Honorary Chair- Omaha from South America man. whore she lias accompanied lief Members of the Tea Commit- husband on tour. A frequent vistee and Hostesses include Mmes. itor lo Israel, Mrs, Peerce will Maurice Aresty, David Beber, report on a thorough survey shs A. C. Fc-Iiinnii, Ben Gershun, nmde there last summer as an Morris Grossman. Joseph Ciuss, Israel Bond delegate to te J j Sam Katzman, Isador Levinson, rusalem Leader's Confeience. Sam Meyerson, Julius Newman, N a t h a n Nogg, 'Aaron Rips, Charles Stern, Saul Suvnlsky, Herbert Weil, Harold Weinhoff, Samuel N. Wolf and Max V/olfson. Alice 1'eerce Mrs. Peercc, wife of the renowned Metropolitan Opera tenor, guides the elforts of tens oi thousands of American women volunteers in behalf of the Israel Bond drive. Mmes. Katzman and Levenson expressed their pleasure and gratification heralding Mrs. Peerce's visit to Omaha in a joint statement saying. "We are delighted that Alice Peerce will spark our annual Tea for Bonds. Knowing of her close kinship with Israel arid American Jewry, her visit with us should provc'stimulating and rewarding." Mrs. Peerce will come to Mrs. Jan I'ccrce
New York (JTA) — Growing American Jewish women ara numbers of American Jewish subject to "extreme anguish and women are suffering hardships frustration." Dr. Fisher noted that-growing as a result of disabilities of women in Jewish religious law assimilation into American Ufa concerning remarriage and di- had brought growing divorca vorce, according to Dr. William rates among Jews, He a\so as» Snlem Fisher of New York, a serted that the problem was rabbi who is an authority on compounded by growing intermatrimony and divorce. He is marriage among members at a practicing attorney special- different movements of Judaism. He stated that the disabiling in divorce law, Dr. Fisher reported this week ities affect all Jewish women, to the board of directors of the not just the Orthodox, since % National Council : of Jewish Jewish woman desiring to reWomen that since Jewish re- .marry an Orthodox Jew must ligious courts in the United have a Get from her pieMovs States have no civil power, and marriage. The result may ba therefore cannot compel a Jew "sorrow and a -breakdown o£ < to give a religious divorce (Getl Jewish life," he said. Citing cases where the Get was used as a wropon to obtain unfair alimony or custody provisions ift civii divorce agreements, Dr. Fisher explained there was no possible relieE frop\ U. S. civil courta which insist that "separation of Mrs. Joe J. Greenberg, Chair- church and state" forbids acman of the Jewish Federation tion by them, among other reaAgencies Section of the Needle- sons, in such situations. Dr. work Guild, called upon the Fisher commended the NCJW women of the •community' "to for on rabbinical authormake their contributions to the itiescalling o£ the- world to meet to Needlework Guild as soon as c o n s i d e r reinterpretation of possible." Jewish Religious Law on the In addition to those previously status of women. listed, the following conrtibutions have- been received this week.
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Mmes. Morrii Abramson, Morrli Adlcr, FraaK Jock Allicrts, Sam Aopieman, Hymtfi Gelmrm, Jack uclinont, Sarn Sermon, Shetdon Bcrn*telrt, Afco H. Bro'Jkey, Kdward D, BrotJkevj Leonard ChurnHs, Frank Coficfi, MicHoel Cohen, Som Cohen, Gerald Coll". NctUo Cohn, Nalfi Cooper, Harulil Coopermoti, ha^are EtcvJlti, JacK C E[>tleici, Ruben Epstein, WUIU M. Epstein. /Wax Folk. David II. Fcrlll, Stanley Ff.k, Jack Fox, Oavfl W, Fronlt, Harold ft HtinkUn, Jacob Freflner, Vcshto C. FreOf) r, Horm0H Frledlontler, SirincY Goliibern. P«*)t PA. Go'dtfeill, f/.orri) Gurtion, Abraham GrecnlicrQi Dav|d Greenberdf JOB J Gfcenhcro, f»«ul Grossmoft> Fred Halm, Nninan J. Horwlcll, Georoe Kaqon, irvln C. Kalinan, Jacotl Koplan, Slanley Kafclmnn, Alex Kalz. Julius Kotimnn, Jack Knulmcm. Ra-io Ko"0Cky. Davkf L. Kranlz, Mo^ps Krosnij, Sorn Kuklln, CrirJ Logman. Morrl* Luyoy, Irvln C. Levin, Abe MorciJ3. Jack .W. Mtfrclv Myron Marko, Jacob M"ndelsan, Meyer Moyerwii, Hymle Milder, ouioiwlh Ndvelpft, Jack Newman, Jults M, Howrnoo, Tiioodoro A. Newman. • . Mmes. Iwtlore 1; Plolkln, Davfcl Polar,)l, V;)lllam Roduitncr, Aaron Hips, Edwin Roccnblalt, Jennie Roscnblall/ *laracc Rosenljitim, Sam I. Rotheiit'erQ, Harry SolUmars, Harry Schulfrion, Harry seflall, ocn Shprman, gory Sherman, Irvln Sherman, Sam Shllf. Max Sliraao, Jncob 5hyl-on, Bcrnur'rsicgicr, Bon D, Silver, Bi-n Sluliky, RuBln Smccrln. Harry smllli, Morion Som. berfli Wax sommer, Alfred Sopl»r, Jean SoB/inlN* Satn J, Stelnbern, Undorc M. Trctlak. Adolnji Trosl, Nolrian Turner, Mourleu Uile«, Albert J, welnboro, Leon WJnlroub, Alan Wallsim/ Seymoui- Zool), Som Zwei.
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Hncil Lecture 'in Omefha U. Series
The final lecture in the curTent World At { a i r s Institute series will be held Thursday, November 17 at 8:15 p.m. at the University oC Omaha. Dr. Hillis Lory will discuss "Red China—New World Power in Old Asia." Dr. Lory has served the State Department in the far East and the Soviet U n i o n for 20 years, knowing many o£ the key political and military figures. He has written authoritatively on Asiaibr the New. York Times and othrr lead* ing publications, aijd his "Ja* pan's Military Masters" was a Book-Of-The-Mfonth selection and • on the Department oS DefensQ , official reading list. Tickets for the final loctura ore available at the J i s h Community center.