Heads to Be Cited 7 Omaha . . . The Omaha Jew. • fsh Community will join American and World Jewry at its : 66th annual meeting of the .Omaha Jewish Federation, in reviewing the condition of Soviet Jewry. '. Th« theme of the meeting, •'Let My People Go," will de- plct the .condition of Soviet . Jewry,, urging that Jews from . Russia be permitted to leave bs they want to, S. E l m e r . Gross, President of the Federation explained. The dinner meeting will be 'held Sunday, April 19, at the . Highland Country Club at 6:30 p.m. Invitations to the meeting
have been issued to the entire Jewish community. Reservations at $5 per plate should be mailed to the Omaha Jewish Federation, 101 North 20th Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68102. Dr. Yorum Dinstein, Consulate General of Israel in New York, will be the guest speaker. Dr. Dinstein. is a recognized authority on the status of the 3,000,000 Jews in Russia. Campaign Leaders To. Be Honored Members of the 1969 Campaign leadership headed by Nick Newman, General Chairman, and Mrs. A. C. Fellman, Women's Division Chairman,
will be awarded appropriate recognition for their efforts and achievements in the 1969 Campaign. In addition to Mr. Newman and Mrs. Fellman, the 1969 Campaign leadership includes the following: "I returned from the Soviet Union disheartened and depressed. But what torments me most is not the Jews of Silence I met in Russia, but the Silence of Jews I live among today." —from The Jews of Silence by Elie Wiesel
Men's Division Leadership Jack B. Cohen, Jerry Gitnick, Leonard Goldstein, Joseph Kirshenbaum, Robert Kully, Stanford Lipsey, Robert Newman, Harlan Noddle, Joseph Polack, Morton Richards, Edward Rosen, Millard Rosenberg, Marlon Somberg, Ramon Somberg, Richard Wintroub, Eli Zalkin, Morley Zipursky. • Women's Division Leadership Mesdames: Edward E. Brodkey, Harold Cherniack, Robert Epstein, Manny Goldberg, Morris Grossman, Alice Heeger, Maurice Katzman, M a n f r e d Kreitstein, Abe Mozer, Sherman Neff, Morley Z i ^
•>' New Officers The Nomination Committee, consisting of Edward Z. Rosen, chairman, Louis Canar, Mrs. Sam Katzman, Daniel Katzman, Arthur H. Goldstein, and Orvel Milder, will submit the nominations of officers for the coming year. „__• The program of the meeting will include a brief general review of the year by Mr. Gross, and other reports. A special; Annual Meeting Year Book will be distributed which, deals with activities and achievements of the Federation departments.
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Mar Photos Israel Denies Charge AtVandals Soviet Exhibit of Torturing Prisoners
New York (JTA)—Five vandals defaced 28 pictures at a "USSR Photo 70" exhibit at the New York Cultural Center, acand that "even a slap on the Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel's Minister of Police denied that face is an unacceptable method cording to witnesses questioned torture is ever used in- interro- for which the interrogator is by the police. No motive has gating suspects or prisoners disciplined." been established and no susShlomo Hillel made his re- pects apprehended. The Jewish Defense League, marks on a radio interview following publication of a re- which advocates violent action port by Amnesty International against anti-Israel Interests in New York — The National in London claiming that it had the United States, said it has Jewish Welfare Board's Com- prima facie evidence of the "nothing but praise for those mission on Jewish Chaplaincy maltreatment of Arab prison- gallant persons who, seeing the has received an official com- ers under questioning in Israeli plight of Soviet-Jewry . . . took munication from • the director jails. The Amnesty report was those steps which they deemed of the Selective Service Sys- vigorously repudiated by the necessary to spotlight t h e plight... to a world that would tem announcing that all draft Israel Government. much rather forget about them. boards have been requested to The Amnesty r e p o r t conA spokesman for the Police give "favorable consideration, ceded . that all the evidence wherever" possible," to re- came from.the.prispne.rsthem-, Department said the exhibit -quests-of-registrants-of the selves but recommended_ an_ was on an upper floor and that -the-vandalsJiad_apEarently_ln_Independent c olm mission ~be-Jewish faith for -postpone-• "'cause"oT1lh'e"-"SeHous"¥ature''"' 1. filtrated.,the ..center by .means other than the front entrance, ments of physical examination of the charges. where possessions must be or induction into the Armed The Israel Foreign Ministry checked. Forces during Passover. issued a statement accusing Jewish registrants scheduled Amnesty International of alfor physical examination or in- lowing itself to be used as a duction immediately prior to vehicle for atrocity propaganor during the holiday are also da emanating from the Arab given the right to request de- states and their supporters. ferment until after Passover. Mr. Hillel said that torture is Requests for such deferment against the moral standards Omaha—More than 150 high should be made directly to lo- and professional ethics of Is- school Jewish youths attended raeli investigators. •_: cal draft boards. the kiek-Qtt of the Youth Div i s i o n Philanthropies campaign at Temple Israel last Sunday evening. In an unprecedented expression of dollar commitment, the young people signed pledge • Omaha—A luncheon honoring Omaha's Jewish Women who' cards totaling $1,700 — double have answered Israel's plea for survival by their contributions the amount raised in the 1969 to the 1970 Philanthropies Campaign, will be held Monday, May 4 at 12:30 p.m. at Peony Park Ballroom. Youth campaign. An Honor Roll, listing the names of Omaha women who have Bennett Greenspan and Ann Berenson, co-chairmen of the pledged a minimum contribution of $18 to the campaign, will be Youth Division, expressed their distributed at the luncheon. The Honor Roll will be dedicated to ; . ^1J ; satisfaction with the initial re- Golda Meir, Prime Minister, of Israel. Mrs. Morley Zipursky, chairman of the Women's Division, sponse. "At long last," they said, "kids are thinking and noted that "it is fitting that our Honor Roll be dedicated to Mrs. acting responsibly and offering Meir, the number one Jewish woman in the world. We cannot more than the token $1 pledges,. match her efforts or her contributions to her. country and her that had become a pattern in people, but through this Honor Roll we will be showing the~suJF~~ port of Omaha Jewish women for what she is doing." i the Youth Division." Invitations to the special luncheon were mailed to all Jewish The chairmen noted that the women in the community this week. To attend the luncheon and pledges collected Sunday eve- to be listed on the Honor Roll, a woman must pledge a minimum ' MRS. FAYE SCIIENK, National President of Hadassah, shakes ning represented an average of $18 to the 1970 campaign. bands with United States Ambassador to Israel Wain or th Bar* bour, at the dedication of three new wings to the Hadassah- of $10 per student. ' Mrs. Zipursky stressed that deadline for listing on the Honor Those who were not present Roll will be April 15. Women who have not been contacted for Hebrew University Medical Center In Jerusalem, which were Sunday will be contacted per- their pledges are urged to call Mrs. Zipursky, any of the cambuilt with a grant of $1 million from the Agency for Internatlonsonally within the next few paign chairmen, or Donna Zoubck at the JCC, 342-1366, before ", ol Development of the United States Government. The new weeks. "We hope to reach April 15 so that their names may be included on the Honor Roll.; • buildings comprise (he Depariment of Public IfeaKh and Social every Jewish teen in the comMedicine, an addition to the Henrietta Szold School of Nursing Mrs. Arthur Kulakofsky is in charge of luncheon arrange; and a Physicians' Residence for overseas doctors who are :. munity,— and • showr by- our - ments,^ Reservations; at $3 per plate ;.may be made with ;Mmes. ' '. spending tbelr sabbatical leaves~Worldn£ at Hadassah,-Adi-- pledges that -we'/care enoughs Thdmas Betnsteinof'Richard'Glazer. NReservatiorf:cards.shouId|; to make make contributions -1that's be 'returned; to ithtf 'Jewish Community Center, 101 North 20UU* ? 4 j - bas»ador,Barbour and Mrs. Schcnkarfe standing at the entrance 1 **:*;-* -,i TM,. itptbe-Piyglciani'Itesldence. ., ' ; ,. ••••> count,?', the t chairmentsaidUM!i15treet,s0maha;iNeb. ,! 68102/;before April'27>,
Passover Deferments For Jewish Draftees
Teen Gifts Show Mariced Increases
To Golda-With Love
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