Serving Council Mlniis, Bes Moines, Mncoin, Omaha _
Vol. tXVlU—27
Publication Offlca 101 No. 20th St. Omaha, Neb, <?81Q2, Phone 342-1300
Omaha Women Urged To "Answer the Phone" Omaha . . . Telephone lines will be^jkept busy Sunday, March 15, by workers in the-Women's Division of the 1970 Jewish Philanthropies Campaign, who will stage a Telethon for six hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mmes. Louis Jess and George Kagan, co-chairmen of the Telethon, note that "this will be one of many methods to be used by the Women's Division in the effort to reach every. Jewish woman in the community on a person-topersoh basis." The Telethon effort will be aided by members of. the teen community who have volunteered to serve as messengers, picking up pledges and contributions.
Omaha Campaign Workers T o Hear Martin Agronshy Omaha . . . A special dinner for workers in the 1970 Omaha ' Jewish Philanthropies-UJA-Israel .' Emergency Fund Cam. paigns will be held Saturday evening, March 13, at 8:00 p.m. I at the Prom Town House. A 7 p.m. cocktail hour will precede the dinner. < Martin Agronsky, well-known television and radio commentator will bo the special guest speaker. Mr. Agronsky is a veteran correspondent and broadcast journalist. Before he joined ' CBS News as. anchor man on the CBS SATURDAY NEWS ' and News .Correspondent in * Washington, he had been with NBC and ABC. .... He received the Alfred I. Du• Eont.Award for his coverage. Martin Agrousky. of the Adolph Eichmann trial, and the George Foster Peabody Paul Alperson, chairman of Award for distinguished report- ' the dinner arrangements aning of eight successive political nounces a charge of $6.00 per conventions. Mr. Agronsky began his ca- couple will be payable at the reer as a reporter on the Pal- door, entine Post, Israel's English Mr. and Mrs. Morley Zipur-language daily. He-is:presently skyrl970Campaign Chairmehr with the W a s h i n g t o n Post- urge all campaign workers and Newsweek Television and Radio their husbands and wives to atNetwork. tend. •
B'nqi B'rith Head Fears New 'Sfiow Trials' of Soviet Jews • Washington (JTA)-The president of B'nai B'rith expressed "great anxiety" that the Soviet Union's "staged press conference" last week, in which 31 Jews '. denounced "Israel aggression," may be the forerunner of greater repressions and possible "show trials" of Soviet Jews who have applied for immigration to Israel or have protested anti-Jewish discriminations in their homeland.' "The unusual character and Intensity of the Soviet propa' ganda effort raises questions whether its ultimate purpose may be to use Jews as a scapegoat to deflect growing popular disapproval with the Soviet Union's Middle East policy," said Dr. William Wexler, president of B'nai B'rith. He said Soviet authorities. are also distressed by the nunv Bfv'5hJMi'ltUTiilv who have made the grievance1 of Soviet Jewry their cause. Dr. Wexler said that the "smokescreen nature" of the press conference held In. Moscow "wasjlemonstrated by the fact:thaf7 with a single exception, none of the 31 'Jewish leaders' 'who were obviously compelled to participate in it
has ever shown the slighest interest in Jewish affairs." Ho said it was "revealing" that the Kremlin "has suddenly discovered 'Jewish leaders' since there has not been a single central agency for Soviet Jews since the government disbanded J e w i s h anti-Fascist Committee in 1948."
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Omaha . . . Plans are under way for a community-wide Israel Independence Day Celebration to be held Sunday, May 10, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Memorial Park. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff, chairman of the Federation Israel Emergency Committee, has announced the appointment of Mrs. Jack Cohen and Alvin Ross as co-chairmen for the event. Noting that "tliis will be the first community-wide Israel Independence Day Celebration in Omaha in many.years," Rabbi Nadoff said, "The .outdoor setting of the celebration is a break from the traditional dinner affairs and will be conducive to more community-wide Involvement." : The chairmen indicated that tentative plans for the celebration will include a variety of activities and will involve the participation of all Jewish youth and adult organizations. Involvement of the non-Jewish community in the' celebration is also planned.
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Mrs. Jack Cohen and Alvin Ross, co-chairmen of the Israel Independence Day celebration, begin planning for the communitywide event to be held May 10.
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Des Moines — H u b e r t H. Humphrey will address the Inaugural Dinner of the Pace Setter" Division of the 1970 1 Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation Wednesday, April 8, at Johnny and Kay's Hyatt House. Pace Setters (contributors of: "$l'(J00 and over) Ts" tfie group formerly called Advance Gifts. ' Cocktail hour will be at 6:30 . p,m. and dinner will be served •. at 7:30 p.m. • ' Mr, Humphrey, former U.S. ' vice-president and presidential candidate, is presently professor of political science and international affairs at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and a professor In the social • Hubert II. Humphrey science program at the Unipro-Israel for many years, and versity of Minnesota. -•••••' He has spoken extensively he is on record for face-to-face on behalf of the United Jewish negotiations with the Arab states, and agreed and secure Appeal in many cities. Mr. Humphrey has visited- boundaries for Israel. Born in Wallace, S.D., Mr. Israel a number of times. His political commitment has been Humphrey was educated at
YITZHAK RABIN (left), Ambassador of Israel to the U.S.; Daniel P. Moynlhan (center), Counsellor to the President,'and Senator Alan Cranston of California will address the 1970 Biennial Convention of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB), to be held at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, B.C., from March 18 to 22. JWB is the National Association of Jewish Community Centers and YM and YWHAs and the U.S.'.govcrninent-accrcditcd agency for'scrvlng the rcllgious, morale and welfare needs of Jewish military personnel, their families and hospitalized yeferaus.
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Pompidou Pledges ' Continued Embargo New York (JTA) - French President Georges Pompidou told a television. news_ confer? _ _ _ ence here this week, at the end of his tumultuous offiical visit to the United States,, that the embargo on French jet warplanes to Israel "will -last aa long as the war does." He said that he was "satisfied" with ...: his American visit despite the many pro-Israel demonstrations staged in cities, both ' those he visited and many he did not. . President Nixon was so d i s \ turbed by the voluminous pro-V • tests that he at first telephoned I an apology to Pompidou and / . then followed this with an un- K expected flight to New York to attend a dinner for the French President. Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, scene of one of the largest,. protGsts,,,,said,,natb,Mig,,,ha,d. happened in Chicago to justify the Nixon apology. Daley said t h e demonstrators deserved praised for "the orderly manner in which they exercised their rights as citizens." Pompidou was critical of the Chicago police for allowing demonstrators to get close to . hint and his' group.1:' '•''•- \ - ! ' i ! ' *