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OMAHA, NKBKASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBKR
M. RichardsHeads Plans For Israel Bond Dinner
Early Deadline
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Morton A. Richards, Dinner Chairman" for the Omaha Division State of Israel Bonds banquet honoring Robert M. Feinberg, urged thati reservations be made early for banquet on Sunday, December 8, at the Highland Country Club. Reserva• tions.may be made with the IsWeizmann AZA rael Bond Office, 920 City National Bank Building, 341-1177. Sweetheart Event --^Urging—the participation of - Chaim Weizmann AZA 1510 the Omaha ana Council Bluffs will hold its annual Sweetheart Jewish communities in the curDance Saturday, November 30, rent Israel Bond t h r i v e , Mr. from 8:30 p.m. to midnight, at Richards said, "It is vital that the New Tower Motel. the people of Israel know that Co-chairmen of the event, Jim we support their efforts to Bresel and Jay Shukert, have achieve a life of peace and tranannounced that the theme of the quility. Until that happens, crisis dance will be "Seven Wonders will remain a daily part of the of the World." Music will be lives of our fellow Jews in Isprovided by the Leslie Smith rael." Soul Band. Morton A. Richards ' Mr. Richards urged the purSix girls have been selected chase of Israel Bonds "at this local Jewish community, "the as ..candidates for the Sweet' time when they will do the most opportunity to. properly honor heart title, to succeed Karen good for Israel. Neither Israel's Mr. Feinberg who has unceas- Gould, the- current sweetheart. vigilence. nor our obligation, can ingly worked for and partici- The c a n d i d a t e s are: Barb be relaxed until peace becomes Blank, Gail Eisenstatt, Sharon a fact and not a dream," he said. pated in the continuing survival MBler, Jody Rice', Judy Sloan and'the growth of the State of • Mr, Richards noted that the and Kerry Tepperman. dinner honoring Robert Fein- Israel. It is fitting that this All members of the Jewish berg provides members .of the tribute to Mr. Feinberg's efforts community are invited to attend coincides with the 20th anniver- the dance. Tickets at $3 per cusary celebration of the State of pie, $2 for stags may be purIsrael-," Jie said. chased at the door.
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Vacation Trip For Children
The Jewish Community CenPictured above arc some of the Youth Council members who ter is planning a combination will participate in (he 28th annual Jewish Youth Council Thanksbus trip and outing for children giving Service, to .be held Wednesday, pjovembcr 27, at 8 p.m. in grades 1 through 6, for Friat Beth Israel Synagogue. Marline Flatowicz and Julie Frank day, November 29, are co-chairmen of the special service which will be attended by Children will meet at the. JCC. j Maurice Gilmore, general chairman of the li)B8 Greater. Omaha all interested members of the community, both youth and adult. at 9 a.m. and will bo''returned Israel Bond Drive, has announced the sales of $25,000 in Israel ' Pictured from left to right are: Joel Stern, Sharon Miller, Mito the JCC at 1 p.m. A Grey- Bonds to the U.S. National Bank, and $10,000 in Israel Bonds to chelc Rothkop, Marline Flatowicz, Bob Rifkin and Julie Frank. hound bus will take participants the Center Bank. . to the. K' and G Ranch in Iowa, Mr. Gilmore noted that the purchases of Israel Bonds by more for a hayrack ride and camp- than 550 banking institutions throughout the United States was a fire. Children will bring their concrete demonstration of the faith in the future of Israel reflected . own sack lunches; The JCC will by the American business community. "* .'provide the beverages."" - - • In thanking Edward LymanrPresident of- the -U.S. National - Members of the JCC Athletic Bank, and Ray Stanley, president of the Center Bank for their ac, Department staff will supervise tion in behalf of their institutions, Mr. Gilmore expressed the hope the activities. •that their purchases would serve ds encouragement for additional •investments in Israel-Bonds by other financial insttiutions in theiarea ." ".:..; •_.._.....•„_-_ ...... . •
Jewish Studies . Ohio University has added a Credit course in Jewish literature and tradition to its curriculum. Rabbi J o s e p h Polak, B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation diectpratOhio U.ris teaching" the live-credit course. Rabbi Polak also arranged .with tho school's administration; to make- kosher meals available, for observant students'as part' of their regular dormitory board, There are 1,000 Jewish students at Ohio University,
U.S. On Arab Refugee Problem UNITED NATIONS N. Y. (JTA) —The United States called upon Israel to enact a "greatly expanded program" for returning ..Id., thel West Bank Arabs who were displaced by the '.Arab-Is-' rael war of 1967. Apnearing before the United Nation's Special Political Committee, the U.S. Ambassador J. Russell Wiggins
T H E FIRST PLANELOAD of rttua«t» from Czechoslovakia re. Celved » warm .welcome when they arrived at Kennedy Airport. Pictured above ar» the 24 men, woman, and children aboard who) Wera assisted In their migration and resettlement by United H l a i . Thess-new American!, consisting of" a symphony orchestra con* fluctor°f engineers; educators arid'university itudenti, will find fiomet In Newl York, Cleveland, Lo* Ano'let, and silver Spring, Wd. 8lnee ih» Invailon of the country on August 21, clo«« to 1,50O persons havo registered for migration aid with the Vienna offic*
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expressed the hope that Israel, "in advance of p e r m a n e n t peace," would make possible the return of "most of the persons displaced by the 1967 war." -Mr. Wiggins said that the June, 1967 war has resulted in some 175,000 UNRWA registered refugees fleeing their homes and camps. He said further that 350,000 persons were also displaced for the first time. Israel's Ambassador Y o s e f Tckoah told the committee that "had there been no Arab war of aggression in 1948, in defiance of the UN, there would have "Been rio_refupe; problem.- Had there been no continued Arab warfare against Israel ever since -1948,-the-refugee-problenvwouldhave been solved a long time ago, Had there been no Arab aggression in 1967, there would not have arisen the problem of persons displaced by.: the renewed hostilities. Had Arab warfare' ended with the cease-fire of June, 1967 and not continued unabated in the Jordan Valley," its population "would not have become the victims of renewed Arab aggression." . The Israeli e n v o y said the Arabs, "having caused the refugee problem," cannot now shirk :the responsibility for solving it by terminating the war and making: peace with Israel.'/ •. :; ,,
- wide Protests Hit Secret Trials in Poland
Paris (JTA) — MoriTthan a trials^ that the_ Warsaw regime_ thousand Frenchmen —• mem- Twill start shortly against ."Tew* bers of Parliament and former . ish stduehts arid faculty memCabinet ministers" among,them bers arrested last spring for —attended a rally.organized by allegedly, instigating the upristhe French Union of Eastern ing of Polish students, who deEuropean Jews, to .protest the . manded democratic reforms. .anti-Semitic measures of the Po' . London lish Government and the cul- .. Jewish and non-Jewish stutural and religious repression dents "in London began an" allof Soviet Jews. night silent vigil outside "the Po. The principal speaker, Gen. lish Embassy and the private Pierre Koenig, charged that the residence of the Polish AmbasSoviet and Polish Governments sador to protest the forthcom- . were "directing the anti-Semitic- ing trials. Similar demonstramovements" all over Eastern tions were held on university Europe. Salomon Friederich, campuses in London and in the speaking on behalf of the spon- provinces. They were organized soring group, declared that Hit- by the World Union of Jewish ler" and Stalin were "not dead Students who were joined by but" have, on the c o n t r a r y , .various non-Jewish s t u d e n t formed a new alliance." groups. - The rally coincided with the Israel ...... beginnings of world-wide stuIn Tel Aviv local students, dent protests against the secret joined the movement with the publication of protest state-" ments directe'd to the Warsaw d d h of anti-Semitism as a weapon in Poland's ' internal 'political Paris (JTA)—A new telephone • struggles and expressed concern cable link between Israel.and. over the safety of the surviving" Europe ^.was opened : officially ! J e w i s h c o m m u n i t y i n ' t h a t c o u n •-•• • • ••••••••'•'••here this week when the Israeli t r y ; in Buenos Aires Zionist stuAmbassador, W a l t e r Eytari, dents sent a letter to the Polish placed the first call. The multiaxial cable was laid Ambassador, Bernard Bogdanon the Mediterranean Sea bed ski, calling the planned trials by a French company. It re- "discriminatory." They wrote places the former wireless tele- that the fact that many of the phone connections which were students facing trial are Jewish often affected by atmospheric "indicates a form of discriminaconditions and is expected to tion inconsistent with the prinshorten the waiting period for ciples of justice and equality, communications and- improve- and tarnish the Socialist tradithe .quality, of reception. ^
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