1968
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lincoln, Nebraska
AidSc . Mrs. Maryann T o J b, acting caseworker for the Family Service department of the Omaha Jewish Federation, has announced that the agency will act as a central clearing house for three scholarship programs in the Omaha Jewish Community. The B'nai B'rith Dr. Abe Greenberg Foundation; The National Council of Jewish Women M a r i o n Sloler Scholarship Award; and The Louis Kntz Memorial Scholarship* Foundation have been awarding financial nid scholarships to students for several years. On April Tl, representatives of the three groups met and agreed that the Jewish Family
Service should act as a central intake and referral agency for ench of the scholarship'funds. A .student need now fill out only one application. The Family Service" Caseworker will interview the student arid refer him to the scholarship program or programs for which he is eligible. The autonomy ol each of (lie scholarship funds will in no way l)c diminished. In the past, funds from these three scholarships have assisted numerous students to pursue higher education. College, technical and vocational students interested in scholarship aid. are asked to contact the Jewish Family Service, .'llIM'ilili, extension \\\.
Bonn (JTA)—West Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party emerged from the BadenWurttemburg s t a t e elections with I).!! per cent of the total vote cast assuring it of 12 seats out of 120 in the next state Parliament. It was the most impressive display of electoral strength to date by the party whose extreme rightwing nationalism and frequent advocacy of Hitlerian tenets have caused widespread concern inside and outside of Germany. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kissinger expressed fear that the Badcn-Wui'Uemburg election results would damage West Germany's image abroad. Several hundred persons were reported to have demonstrated in front of the Baden-Wurttemburg Parliament in Stuttgart with placards proclaiming "10 per cent Nazi, our shame!" The NPD, which espouses such nationalistic causes as restoration of Germany's pre-war borders and the removal ol foreign troops from German soil, has been steadily gaining political strength in state elections. It has carefully avoided the appearance of overt anti-
Semitism. It polled lt.8 per cent of the vote in the Bremen elections last October, 7.9 per cent in Hesse, 7.-1 per cent in Bavaria, 0.9 per cent on the Khineland Palatinate, 5.8 per cent in Schleswig Ilolstein and 7 per cent in Lower Saxony. Sunday's election results are regarded with particular dismay because Wurttemburg-Baden, Germany's third largest state with a population of 5.5 million, is regarded as one of the most politically liberal areas in the nation. Political leaders said that a success there by the NPD would constitute a danger signal. A television commentator recalled last night that WurttemburgBaden gave the Nazi Party 10 per cent of its vote in 1!):)(), three years before Hitler took power. Israeli Reaction Jerusalem (JTA)—The Israeli press expressed serious concern over the results of the elections. Most papers called on the Government in Bonn to ban the NPD lest the Federal Republic succumb to Nazism as the Weimar Republic did a generation ago.
American Reaction New York (JTA)—The American Jewish Congress said that the election success of the neoNazi National Democratic Party in Baden-Wurttemburg "cannot be dismissed as routine or as reflecting merely the normal percentage of extremist sentiment that may be found in any electorate." Dr. Joachim Prinz, immediatep ast president of the Congress, said that the election results showed "a dangerous turn to the right among substantial segments of West German public opinion." Dr. Prinz noted that previous successes by the NPD in other German states had "occurred in regions long known to be vulnerable to rightist sentiments." But Sunday's victory, he said, "must be considered a clear defeat of those who had hoped that democracy at long last was taking root and becoming a viable way of life for the German people. It could could have happ e n e d in reputedly liberal Baden-Wurttemburg, then one can only surmise with apprehension the state of German opinion in other parts of the country."
A comprehensive net of services and programs to the aged of the Omaha Jewish Community is sponsored by the Ornqha Jewish Fcderaltion through its departments, H a r r y Sidman, Federation presMrs. Henry Appel will be the guest speaker nt the Knlali Frank- i d e n t , reported s'\ . *'*, lin Chapter Mizrachi Women's Donor Luncheon, Wednesday, May today in connec- .'# ' * \ 15, at 12:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. tion w i t h the j 1 Mrs. Appel recently returned from Israel with an interesting Se n i o r Citizens j .. - ', report about Israeli youth today. " Local women who have devoted many years to the success of Month, observed '*, * , ,^ j Mlzmchi will be 1honored at the Donor Luncheon. To enable all in- nationally d u r'—I—- / terested member ; of the community to attend a special admission the month of May. I " ' lias been arranged for non-members. "All d e p a r tth | m e n t s off the ',; Federation are i I j , active in provid- y-J — ing a variety of » arr .v s " I m a " services to the Jewish Senior Citizen," Mr. Sidman said.
Departmental Programs Specifically, Federation departments s e r v e the Jewish aged through the following activities, Mr. Sidman said. Dr. Philip Slier Jewish Home and Clieriiiali-Cluipmaii Pavilion provides a complete program of care for the aged, including boarding, nursing and convalescent care, as well as occupational and recreational therapy for its residents. The Bikur Cholim Society contributes through its special medical aid program offered to the aged at the Home, and also the occupational therapy activities, including the operation of the Home beauty salon. Special help for recreational activities at the Home is provided by the Omaha Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. In addition,
all women's organizations in the community, under the Federation of J e w i s h Women's Clubs, sponsor special days and holiday parties. Jewish Community' Center is active through the conduct of its Golden Age Club and the Senior Citizens' Lounge in providing excellent facilities for senior citizens' activities. This phase of the program is co-sponsored with the Omaha Section of the National Council for Jewish Women. The Senior Splashers Program is the only year-round swimming activity in Omaha for the aged, open to the entire community. Some 80 senior citizens, from 05 and on, swim twice weekly under the sup'er(Continued on Page 3)
ii intruders Tel Aviv (JTAJ—Israeli forces, supported by helicopter-borne paratroopers," killed V.\ heavily armed El Fatah marauders in a short, fierce battle in the barren hills north of Jericho this week. Three Israeli soldiers were reported to have been hit in the battle, according to an account given by another soldier to newsmen on the scene. The action brought to 1!) the number of El Fatah saboteurs killed by Israeli forces since last Thursday night. A military spokesman announced today that two Israeli soldiers were wounded when Egyptian forces opened fire from the west bank of the Suez
Canal. (Lt. Gen. Odd Bull, chief of tiie United Nations cease-fire observer corps in the MiddleEast, reported to the Security Council that Israel had "breached" the cease fire several times that day in the Suez Canal area. He alleged that in each case Israeli troops had opened fire.) Jordanian troops, shot twice against Israeli units in the Heisan and Jordan valleys. The fire was returned but no casualties were r e p o r t e d . A military spokesman said the Jordanians first fired at an Israeli patrol in the Beisan area and shortly afterwards fired on Israeli units near the Damiyah Bridge.
Mizrachs Donor Event May 15
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Dayan Warns Jordan Against 'War Terror'
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Pictured above The Beth Zizrnchl in Jerusalem, (he first project to be established by American Mlzracbi Women in 1932. It was also (he first vocational high school for girls to be established in Israel The Btadent body of some 550 girls is comprised largely of children, of immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East. It is a comprehensive school, providing academic* technical and vocational training.
Tel Aviv (JTA)—Defense Minister Moshe Dayan has warned Jordan that if it continued to wage "a war of terror" against Israel, the war would pass,to Jordanian soil and be decided there. Speaking at a meeting of the regional council at Samakli, attended by representatives of settlements in the Israeli-side of the Jordan Valley, Gen. Dayan emphasized that Israel would not accept a cease-fire agreement that was not applied to terrorist activities and under which terrorist organizations were permitted to wage war on Israel's side of the cease-firo line. This "unilateral right" is not for the Arabs alone, he warned. "If Jordan wants to become the sword of the Arab countries and if Jordan tries to do what Egypt stopped doing after it evacuated residents of cities and towns nlong tho Suez Canal, then Jordan would also have to pay for It," Gen. Dayan declared, He warned that the entire Jordan Volley would become a battlefield.
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New York, N.Y.—Isaac Baalievis Singer receives AHa-InJudalum Award. Tha renown Yiddish novelist waa honored on April 8th for hia VSIastcrly story telling... which constitute! A unlquo contribution to Jewish literature." Hr. Singer becomes the first recipient of this award which will be bestowed annually to nh American ond an Israoli. Mrs. David Levitt, President of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, h presenting tha award which if sponsored by the Union of Ameitcati Hebrew Congregations.