Serving Council Bluits9 JSea Moines, WJncotn, Omaha Vol. I.XV1II—41
Publication Office 101 No. aoili SL Omaha. Neb. 08102. Phone 342-13GG
OMAHA, NEBRASKA,
Omaha . . . Morley Zipursky, chairman of the 1970 Omaha Jewish Philanthropies-United Jewish Appeal-Israel Emergency Fund campaigns, has announced pledges to-date totalling $1,009,499.58, the largest amount ever raised in an Omaha Campaign. • . "Early this year we set our : ;—: campaign goal at $1,200,000, crease in contributions being representing the 40 per cent in- asked of all Americans," Mr. ZIpursky said, "fiur figures todate indicate that many of our contributors have accepted this a d d i t i o nal responsibility. A number of cards, remain outJerusalem (JTA)—Israel an- standing," he said, "and we nounced that it was "freezing" hope that these pledges will be all development cooperation made, and the campaign comprograms with the government pleted, before the end, of the of Ceylon in response to the month." Iatter's decision to suspend dipMr. Zipursky noted the exlomatic relations - with Israel ceptional results In thp Worn-u-rrt+Htr-withdraws from alt" en's Division and the Youth DiArab territories occupied in the vision in tiie current campaign. June, 19G7 Six-Day War. "Our women raised from a The Israeli move will effect total of $83,681 in the 1969 camabout a half dozen Israeli expaign to $118,784 this year. The perts currently engaged in planning two regional settle- Youth Division, which last year ment projects in Ceylon. They raised $1,603, has nearly douwill be withdrawn, but Cey- bled that amount with a total lonese trainees now in Israel to-date of $3,054. It is this kind will not be asked to leave prior of giving that will enable us to to completion of their training reach our goal," he said.
Israel freezes' Ceylon Programs
according to schedule. The Israelis now in Ceylon' started their work six months ago and were supposed to remain thero for several years. The Foreign Ministry statement announcing the suspension said it,was t a k e n with "regret." The statement observed that Israel did not make Its technical development aid dependent upon the policies of the recipient countries. However, in a case where the country suspends diplomatic relations, Israel has no alternative. The statement noted that Israel did not react'when Ceylon took positions unfriendly to Israel in the past but these had always stopped short of breaking diplomatic relations.
Campaign History The first Philanthropies Campaign was held in Omaha in 1930. Under the chairmanship of Sam Beber, that initial effort resulted in campaign gifts totalling $43,823. In 1948, the year Israel was established, the campaign, under the chairmanship of Harry Trustin, reached an all-time high of $750,000. In 1967, the year of the 6 Day War, campaign gifts under the co • chairmanship of Maurice Gilmore and Harvey Ferer, totalled $973,265. The 1970 campaign now holds the _.r. e c o r d _ for the_largest amount raised in the 40. years of Omaha campaign history.
AJCommittee Entertains
1970 Jev/ish • Dm'tion
Cards
MEN Paceiattart
v . ..iropies-Israel Emergency Campaign Report: 6-16*70
REGULAR | 1970 $338,819.05
EMERGENCY 1969 I 1970
1969
Fund
TOTAL I 1970
$291,876.04 I (392,535.00 | $607,783.04
t
731,354.05
31,147.00 J
30,807.00
17,961.75
23.905.00
49,108.75 |
S4.7I2.00
229 |
32,768.00
33,460.50
12,697.00
23.257.84
45,465.00
56,718.34
77 |
9,197.50
9,802.50
3,917.50
7,012.50
13,115.00
16,815.00
9,305.00
12,212.00
3,477.00
9.035.50
12,782.00 |
21,247.50
1,881.00
I
1,881.00
92 |
Sanior Exac
Gannral Mon
1969
x
167 | $315,907.00
Initial Gift
Young Enoc
Second Class Postage Single Copy 15 Cents Paid at Omaha. Neb. Annual Rate S Dollar*
Fit! DAY, JUNE 19, 1970
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Misc. Emar.
17 I
WOMEN Initial Gift
35
17,660.00
'18,050.00
6,410.00
10.935.00
24,070.00
28,985.00
9,202.00
18.849.50
290
32,010.50
32,134.50
41,212.50
SO.984.O0
1324
16,085.25
18,154.25
4,431.20
15,485.20
20,516.45
33,639.45
Young Woman 137
2,083.50
2,502.00
799.50
2.674.00
2,883.00
-5,176.00
3,054.00
PaceieUers Spacial Gift
"KHSCELLANEOU! High School
355
276.80
1,008.50
1,326.50
2,045.50
1,603.30
University
103
58.30
354.55
41.55
599.19
99.85
953.74
500.00
740.00
500.00
1,240.00
1,000.00'
14
500.00 2,157.50 |
2,057.50
350.00
922.00
2,507.50
2,979.50
$509,637.23 | $822,386.39
$1,009,499.58
Men's Org.
Women's Org. TOTALS:
$469,156.35 | -$499,862.35
$353,230.04
Conversion Issue Won .by.. Orthodox Tel Aviv, (JTA)—I s r a e I' s Orthodox religious- establishment scored an unexpected victory when an American-born woman who was converted to Judaism by a Reform rabbi here, underwent a second conversion according to Orthodox rites. Mrs. Helen Zeidmann . also signed papers withdrawing her petition to the Israel Supremo Court to be registered as Jewish, something the Min-' istry of Interior refused to allow because the Israeli-, rabbinate doe3 not recognize nonOrthodox rabbis.
MRS, EUMNER WYMAN of Stamford, Conn, ii that rare American phenomenon, ft ' temple president. New head ot the 500-famUy-Templo Sinai, It was obvious that Mrs. •he 1* a graduate attornoy, a Zeidmann acted under the most former Captain In the Women'* severe personal pressure fro.m Army Corp«, the wlfo of a - prominont advertising executive,- -the highestechelons of government. President Zalman Shazar . and the mother of two sons, Mrs, Wyman it not the first made two appeals to her to •'first la.dy" of a Reform undergo Orthodox conversion, temple, A congregation in tho one by telephone call which she Greater Philadelphia area has rejected and another conveyed one, and temples in Baltimore to her at her home by a deleand Larchmont, N.Y. -are gation consisting of—Labor among those who havo had them. Spiritual leader of ths Party Knesset member Itzhak Stamford Reform Tcmplo u and other prominent personRabbi Samuel M. Silver. alities. The foreign-born woman who married an Israeli in a civil ceremony abroad three years ago and is now an Israeli citizen, yielded and the second conversion was performed in Tel Aviv (JTA)—Seven black the presence of three Orthodox American community leaders rabbis, presided over by the are in-Israel'for a seven-week Israeli chief military chaplain, look at irrigation methods, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, The latter technology and other aspects reportedly took charge of the matter at tho request, of Preof Israeli communal life. •> mier Golda Meir,
threatened, demanded new legislation but the Labor Part/ refused to sponsor a new law. It was considered a foregone conclusion that the Supremo Court would render a decision in favor of Mrs. Zeidmann and under thoso circumstances tha NRP politicians were underorders from the Chief Rabbi* nate to leave the cabinet.
FIRST PRESIDENT
Black American Leaders in Israel
Preparing to welcome 45 Mexican Jewish teenagers who will tWt, the United States this summer, members of the Hospitality Committee of the New York and Westcbester Chapten of the American Jewish Committee coordinate plans for housing the youngsters t»ilh American families in the New York area. The young tourists, Under the ausplcles of the Camp on Wheels of the Beth Israel Communlfy Center of Meiico City, will spend four days In New York on a month-long trip during which they will visit major cities In j r« !hn lj rNh jl ry. N 1 el jJy or ii1di l i« Ju >t JIr U 1 ^4m^cir M i c n! M i . iiJh! Un i ip x iar tourist centers such as the United Nations and Lincoln Center, Will Include visits to historic synagogues, Jewish Institutions of learning, the Jewish Museum and the 92 Street YMHA. Committee planners nbove nre (I to r) Mrs. Ruth L, Robinson, New York; Mrs. Donald M. I.andb, While Plains; Mrs. Daniel S. Sta* k N York; andMrs. Jay S. Baumann, Itye. __• . •
Elected .this past week as tha first president of the newly,, formed American Zionist Fed*' (ration was Rabbi Israel Miller, noted rabbi and Zionist leader. Sponsored by Histadrut, they The Zeidmann case became Rabbi Miller, who Is Assistant t o | aro studying the applicability a major issue here last month the President of Ycshlva Unlreiw elty In New York, will suWe the) of Israeli methods to their own when tho States Attorney re- 700,000-mcmber Federation for fused to contest the plantiff's communities in Louisiana, Ala- petition to the Supreme Court. the next two years as the or* bama, Mississippi, Tennessee Conversions to Judaism by Re- ganlzation which speaks anb! and Georgia, where they aro form or Convervativo rabbis acts on behalf of the unified active in tho all-black "Southern; aro not-specifically ruled out Zionist movement la the U.S. by tho Law of Return as Rabbi Miller was elected at the Cooperative Development Proamended by the Knesset last American Zionist Federation'* gram. A similar group made a March. The Orthodox establish- founding convention at tb* three-week study tour last . ment, fearful that its exclu- Sheraton Hotel, In Ehfladelpluj, ; eivity In thesa, matters was . Pa, ' year. .