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To Hole! Tryoufs Tryouts will be held Sunday, September 24, at 1 p.m. in the J(.v//i:;h Community Center Am1'toriuni for the cast of the .'.C.C. Studio Theater production of "The Diary of Anne Frank." Four performances of the play are planned for Pjcember 2, ;i and 4, with a mat' ice scheduled for December 3. Studio Theater directors, Ira Kaznick and Barbara Cluidatoff, invite all interested members ot the community to tryoiit for the cast which includes 5 girls, ages 12 to 20 and 5 boys, ages 13 to 20.
The Council Library and Nature Center, donated to the Kstlicr K. Newman Camp by the Omaha Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, was dedicated in ceremonies at the camp on'August 20. Pictured above, with campers and dedication guests, looking over materials and displays in the new facility, are NCJW reprewt'ativ''* .(li-fl In righl). Mines. Edward Rlalashock, Leo Eiscnstatt and Herbert Mclchcs.
Israel Plans Tax Reductions To Lure New Immigrants Jerusalem IJTAI—New immigrants to Israel would enjoy tax reductions, m o d e r i i t e p r i c e d housing accommodations, and free high school and college tuition under the terms of a bill to be submitted to the Israel Parliament when it convenes on October 13. • The concessions are part of a plan to encourage 20,000 immigrants to settle in Israel, chiefly from the more affluent countries. Avraham Cygel, head of the Jewish Agency's Department of Immigration and Absorption, said that details of the plan were worked out at the top level by a joint committee of the Government and the Jewish Agency and were- generally approved by the Immigration authorities. Exemptions The concessions in the new rneasure include an income tax exemption for married couples with two children of 1,500 Israeli pounds ($500) per month for the first year, In the second year, two-thirds of this sum would be tax free and in the third year, there would he an exemption of one-third. Further concessions would apply to prop-
erty tuxes and land registration fees, while taxes on cars would be the same as in the country from which the newcomers emigrated. House; would be provided on a rental basis, with the option of purchase after throe years' occupancy. It was estimated that 33,000 three-room apartments would be offered for rentals of 150 Israel pounds ($50) per month.
Bazaar Tick-Up' Chairmen Named Mrs. Maynard Greenberg and Mrs. Oscar Sutin will serve as co-chairmen of the Pick up Committee for the Federation of Jewish Womens Clubs booth at the Childrens Hospital Bazaar. Pick up and drop off services will both be available for handmade and new articles for sale at the October Kith event. Mrs. Al Fiedler, General Chairman for the Federation, noted, "Our booth is always one of the most popular at the Bazaar, and we expect Sally Greenberg and Ruth Sutin to be very busy picking up a wide variety of useful and unique gifts." Cash contributions are, as always, very welcome, and should be returned in the envelopes mailed to the community two weeks ago.
Issues vital to the people of the United States will be discussed and debated durin;; the T>n<\ Annual World Affairs Institute starting Wednesday, October 4, in the University of Omaha auditorium. All lectures start promptly at 8 p.m. i Co-sponsored by the Omaha Jewish Federation, the lecture series will probe such questions as: How reliable is the information on world affairs presented to us by the mass media? How will the United States be affected by the population explosion and world famine? How far should the United States involve itself in the turmoil of Asia? How far should the United States assume the roll of world policeman, political mentor and economic stabilizer? The following distinguished speakers will discuss these very serious questions. KDWARI) P. MORGAN: "The Mass Media in World Crises," October 4. DR. PHIMP HAUSEIt: "World Famine and the U.S.," October !!. JAMIOS ROBINSON and DAVID KEITH HARDY: Debate "Resolved: American Presence in Asia Is Necessary to Preserve World Peace," October 15. .KOSCOE DRUMMUND: "U.S.-Policeman and World Stabilizer?" October 19.
Tic Members of the Omaha Jewish Community may obtain frea tickets for admission to the World Affairs Lectures at the University of Omaha, Tickets may be picked up at the Jewish Community Center or be requested to be sent by mail. One ticket admits two persons to the entire lecture series. The following order blank should be completed and returned promptly. World Affairs Institute Jewish Federation 101 North 20th St. Oinnlin, Nebraska (iSIOIJ Please reserve tickets for me for the 22nd Annual Institute of World Affairs to be hold at I he University of Omaha. (Kach ticket admits 2 persons for the entire series.) ( ) I will pick up the tickets at I lie Jewish Community Center. ( )I would like to have the tickets mailed to me. Name { Address
"Current Threats (o the American Jewish Community" will ba discussed by Alexander Miller in his keynote address at the Plains Stales ADL' banquet meeting on September 23 at the Holiday Inn. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the increase of anti-Semitism following the Middle East war and growing racial tensions in the United States. — " All-members of the commu- the ADL office, 341-3575. nity are invited to attend the Omahans serving on the bandinner meeting and meet Mr. quet committee as hosts includo Miller, the National Community Al Crounse, Leo Eisonslnlt, Dr. Service Director of ADL, A no- Leon Fellman, Richard Tollman, host cocktail party ot 6:30 p.m. .Robert F e i n b e r g , Dr. Abo will precede the'dinner at 7:30 Greenberg, Bennet Hornstein, p.m. Dinner reservations at C. M. Newman, Millard Rosen$5.30 per person includes tax berg, Edward Rosen and Ernest and tip and may be made with Wintroub.
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Conference Tel Aviv (JTA)—Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said this week that as long as there was no possibility of arriving at a peaceful settlement with the Arab countries, the only way for Israel to establish a demarcation line was to keep the "natural frontiers" of the Suez Canal with Egypt and the Jordan River with Jordan. The Premier made his statement while visiting the east by Israel. A general solution of bank of the Suez Canal during a the refugee problem, he said, helicopter visit to Israeli units would be possible only on a rein the occupied Sinai Peninsula gional basis, with the cooperaand the canal area. Standing on tion of the Arab states. the canal bank, looking across to Egyptian positions, Mr. Eshkol said Israel's reply to the Arab conference in Khartoum, which took a series of stands of opposition to any negotiations with Israel, was that "we are New York—The National here." Jewish W e l f a r e Board's (JWB) Commission on JewForeign Minister Abba Eban ish Chaplaincy has been oftold a press conference in Jeruficially advised by the Sesalem this week that the posilective Service commission tion taken by the Arab leaders that all draft boards have at their Khartoum conference," been asked to give "favorwhich he summarized as no recable consideration, whenever ognition of Israel, no negotiapossible" to requests from tions and no peace, emphasized, Jewish registrants for postIsrael's need and right to mainponement of their physical tain her present positions. He examination or induction into said Israel's evacuation in 1057 the Armed Forces during the of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai coming Jewish High Holy Peninsula had been a "tragic Days. error" and he affirmed that Israel would not repeat this misBulletin No. Bl applies to take. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur Refugees and Sukkot. Since all the He also said that Israel's Holy Days commence at sunideas and proposals for an indown of the day previous to terim solution of the problem these dates, Bulletin No, 81 of the Arab refugees from the states that "normally, the 1048 war will be disclosed to registrant's physical examinthe United Nations General Asation or induction should be sembly when the refugee quespostponed to a date followtion is discussed. Theso proposing the religious holiday Inals, ho said, would concern the volved." i refugees now in territories held
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Jerusalem (JTA)—Main guidelines for the Israel delegation to the forthcoming sessions of the United Nations General Assembly were being formulated this week in line with policy decisions confirmed by the Israel Cabinet. The major policy decision was a reaffirmation of the Israeli stand on negotiations with the Arabs adopted by the Cabinet last month. Tho Cabinet ruled then that "direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states must take place with the aim of signing peace treaties. As long as there is no peace, Israel will maintain in its entirety, tho situation laid down in the cease-fire arrangements that followed the repulsion of aggression by the Israeli forces." The decision firmly ruled out any third-party mediation in which the third party—the United Nations or interested states—would sit-in on Arab-Israeli talks or seek to mediate between the two sides. . . .' ' Arab Refugees The Israeli Cabinet was reliably reported nlso to have formulated new instructions on the return of Arab refugees to the Israeli-held west bank area. While nci official information was
forthcoming na to the nature of these instructions, it was generally understood that the Israel delegation to the United Nations General Assembly would be authorized to announce that additional numbers of Arab refugees would be permitted to return to the west bank. Reminder to Ministers The Israeli Ministers were forcefully reminded that only the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister were authorized to make pub. lie declarations on the future of the territories occupied by Israel in the Six-Day War. Prime Minister Lovi Eshkql reaffirmed this condition at the Cabinet meeting after Foreign Minister Abba S. Eban referred to statements on this issue by members of the Cabinet and said they had no right to make "personal" statements on matters of policy. The discussion wns precipitated by publication in the London Sunday Observer of an interview with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan who speculated on the possibility that Jordan might regain sovereignty over the west bank area Gut that the area remain under Israeli aid to Jordan in the supply of water and electric power. >