THE JEWISH
Harry Golden to Speak at Israel Bond Banquet
Omaha—Author Harry Golden, one of America's most beloved humorists, will highlight •«-- — 'ute to Israel" banay, December 13, at Vuntry Club. «»}_oS t b y the Greater Serving Council Bluffs;, ..raittee for State of i0 •oiael Bonds, the 7 p.m. dinner Des Moines, Lincoln, Oma ** * will be preceded by a 6 p.m. Vol. LX1X—9 OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY,, NOV. 20, 1970 cocktail hour. The event is open to all who have or will purchase a minimum of $500 4n bonds in the 1970 campaign.
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Omahans Urge Protest Of Soviet "Show Trials'
Reservations at $5 per plate may be made with" the Israel Bond Office, 920 City National Bank Building in Omaha. Daniel Katzman, chairman. of the 1970 Israel Bond Campaign in Omaha, announced the banquet plans saying, "Israel is in need of our support for her economic growth. : Hundreds of Omahans have already agreed to loan Israel money by way of bond purchases. In fact, we are on our way to a record year for bond sales. "But many friends' of Israel have not as yet subscribed to bonded purchases in the current campaign," Mr. Katzman said. "To all those who have purchased, or intend to •• purchase a minimum of $500 in bonds in 1970, we extend an invitation to attend the dinner on December 13. It is our final opportunity in 1970 to demonstrate our financial willingness to participate in Israel's future." A prolific author of 13 bestselling bopks, Mr. Golden is among the regular syndicated columnists appearing the Jewish Press. All of his books, including his latest, "As Long As You're Healthy," are available in the Jewish Federation l i brary at the Jewish Community Center.
; Omaha—The plight of Soviet employment. Jews have been We urge you to use your inJewry_, a major concern of the subjected to house searches, fluence - to cause the United 1500 Jewish leaders attending have been arrested and de-States to vigorously protest the CJFWF Assembly in Kan- tained without formal charges these arrests and trials.and otherwise deprived of their Members of the Omaha delesas City last week, resulted in human rights only because of gation signing the telegram immediate action on the part their desire to be Jews. were: Rabbi Isaac Nadoff, of 16 Omahans attending the Now we learn of a show trial Mrs. Louis Jess, Harold Adler, 5 day meeting. to begin on November 20th of Steven Riekes, Messrs. and Telegrams signed by the31 Russian Jews on trumped Mmes. Elmer Gross, Morley Omahans were sent to Nebras-, up charges «f hijacking. The Zipursky, Mortimer Greenberg, ka congressmen, senators and world must be alerted to the C. M. Newman, Howard Kasthe newly elected Nebraska threat to these innocent lives. low and Robert Gerelick. representatives. A similar message was directed to the Omaha World-Herald. Harry"GoIden Text of the telegram, dated November 13, was as follows: We sixteen delegates from Des Moines—A 31-minutc "Service of Concern" will be toe Omaha Jewish Community held Sunday, November 22 at 12 noon on the front lawn of are among 1500 leaders attendTifereth Israel Synagogue, 924 Polk Blvd. in Des Moines, -lng the annual national GenIowa. The service is being sponsored by the Community Reeral Assembly of the Council lations Commission of the Des Moines Jewish Welfare Fedof Jewish Federations and Omaha'— Justin. M v Green- Bond Committee, will host a eration. ' Welfare Funds In Kansas City, berg and Mrs. Arthur (Fred- Cocktail Reception at the Missouri. Mose Waldinger, president of the Federation, explained die) Novak, Chairman of the Highland Country Club on that "this public gathering will protest the life and death Foremost among Issues conYoung Men's and Women's Di- Wednesday evening, December Show Trial of 31 young Russian Jewish men and women sidered is the plight of Soviet ..1,.:.;,. *. ' visions,:, of -the Omaha Israel 2, at 8:00,p.m. whose only crime is their desirejo practice Judaism and to Jewry. Jews In the Soviet Unemigrate to their homeland?' Special guest for the eveion are not permitted to mainSunday School classes will be dismissed at 11:30 a.m. tain Jewish educational, culning will be Sabi Shabtai. to allow parents and children to attend the service in family tural and communal • InstltuShabtai was born in Tel Aviv groups. "Des Moines solidarity with Russian Jewry will be ' tlons; study their history, lanin 1941. Following his military expressed by total participation of every Des Moines family guage and literature; or have member,'! said Mr. Waldinger. ., ' service, he attended the Weizformal bonds with Jewish com- The service will be conducted by members of the Des munities abroad. Israeli officialdom expressed 'mann Institute of Science, and Moines Rabbinate; members of the Christian Clergy and The number of Jews persorrow over the death of Pres- received his B.A. in Political concerned community leadership. mitted to emigrate is tragicalident de Gaulle, who prior to . Science in 1966, from North"The lives of 31 people are at stake, and ultimately, the ly minimal. They are not.althe Six-Day War was a staunch fate of three million Soviet Jews," said Roy Swarzman, lowed to reunite themselves friend of the Jewish State. chairman of the Community Relations Commission. "The with their'families In other Soviet Union is sensitive to massive public opinion. The fuIn, a message to President countries. Jews'- seeking t o ture of Soviet Jewry is in our hands. We cannot again be Pompidou, President Shazar emigrate arc harassed and in; the Jews of silence," said Mr. Swarzman. voiced "my most sincere contimidated, and cut off from dolences" on the passing of "one of the greatest statesmen of our century." For us he will forever remain the eternal symbol of the. resistance of civilized man to the barbaric oppression of the Nazi hordes. The people of Israel will never forget his actions and his work on the threshold of our nation\, Kansas City,' Mo. (JTA) — just been escalated into some- million," to take over "the en- al Independence." 'Max M. Fisher of Detroit, pres- thing far more awesome and ' tire burden of Israel's welfare Premier Golda Meir wrote to fident of the Council of Jewish threatening. Israel's people are; . - c o s t s . " •:•:-•' • • • • • . . • French Premier Jacques Cha• Federations and Welfare Funds, :n0w directly confronted by the : ...Black-Jewish. Relations • ban-Delmas that "Israel and 'declared:that the three basic might and power of the Soviet ' -Mr;^Fisher/said the second I her people will aways cherish commitments required of Am- Union." He said the answer of : obligation was not only the obli- the memory of the illustrious erican Jewry are to the; people American Jewry to'that new) gation of every American citi- Isoldler, who . restored to the Sabl Shabtai • of Israel, to the American fu- perU'was to respond to Israel's zen but also that "the,Ameri- •: French people its honor and ture and to American Jewish call upon American Jews to can Jewish community has spe- .liberty in the struggle against western University. He then, •.:•••:••;• raise an "unprecedented $400 cial obligations here as well." the Nazi tyranny." . joined the Staff of the Consu; youth. . Specifically,' he told the dele-: Former Israeli Premier Da- late General of Israel in-Chi• Speaking at the banquet sesgates, the issue before Ameri- vid Ben-Gurion said that Gen. cago, as Consul for Press and sion of the 39th General Ascan Jew is that of the Ameri- de Gaulle was never an ene- Information. During his 2 sembly of the CJFWF, Mr. can Negro. He said American my of Israel" and that "all the years in that post he earned Fisher declared that the AmcrJews had reacted with "shock" Jewish press very much ex- an M.A. in International Relaican Jewish response in the and dismay" to the fact that aggerated his supposed Tfostili"truly fateful year" pf 1971 tion's from the University of "the extreme radical element ty to Israel andtoJews." could mark "the shape, theChicago. He is now completing of black America has openly direction and the character of After the Six-Day War, Gen. .his Ph.D. in, Political Science, a d o p t e d anti-Semitism." He . the decade ahead," and that, • de Gaulle caused much bitterstressed, however, that "re* ness 'in Jewish cricles with a at the University of Cjiicagp. "we must now surpass what wesponsiblo . black leaders want have done by many times,; if Shabtai is i» recbgni|eid ex* ' - comment: about ''domineering no; part of any; anti-Semitism, i ;JewJ3;;'^he general,; as PresK pert r on Middle-Easte'ifr and ' we are to maintain our goals, * '>} they speak against it and they to continue our progress and to African iAffairs,; and; has; been • 'dent> pf| France, subsequently 1 fightjt."; :-.l-..i*i(i ••"] ' see our best hopes,fulfilled,' . susp_ended the deal for 50 Mir- teaching thes$ subjects; jjit ..the , Declaring that what was "at Because the use of anti-Semi- ' age; jeU jfoii iyhich IsraelJia'd University of Chicago,' p^Paul, stake is nothing more, or less tism is a device to "altack: de- already i paid j&jO million and •..University,;- Indiana Uniyersity,, than the actual survival of Is- ' mopracy itself,"he sa!id,!Ambri • thejj imposed!a complete em-' and:Columbia College. At,the,; 1 Tael's people arid Israel itself, '> lean Jews must find answers bargo on'arms to I S r a e l . ' same time he has been direct^' A> i n „ the Detroit Jewish!leader said tie$ of the,Amef- .1 ' ( , , , ,• i • to hato/ ''not just to pijotectj.tjhe plqmacy since then ; that ithe, issue- between toael ^ ^ F ^ d t i (AmferictJsi-Jewish ^POslUonribut •!;i on Sari ariUIsraelVoJand' its Arab ('neighbors "has > (Continued on Page 8)^; ;,.; • . on; the Chicagojarea campuses.. ;i, . u ^ y shec
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