Former Soviet Citizen To Speak at Beth El O m a h a — Members of the Omaha Jewish community are urged to attend UIP al "off-the-record" urday, De<"at BP" .vj'fl'
Serving Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha Vol. I.XIX—11
OMAHA, NEB., FRIDAY, DEC.
1970
Sunday Meeting to Explain Youth Pilgrimage Program Omaha—Details of the Israel Youth Summer Pilgrimage Program for high school youth who are currently in the 10th or 11th grades, will be explained .at a special meeting Sunday, December 6, 1970 at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Israel. . The program was recently adopted by the boards of the Omaha J e w i s h Federation, Beth Israel Synagogue, Beth El Synagogue and Temple Israel.' The aim of the program is "to strengthen the Jewish identity of youth through a program of study, travel and work in Israel." Applications are now available at all synagogue offices and at the Jewish Community
Center. Applications must be submitted by December 20. S e l e c t e d participants will each receive a $250'grant from the Federation, in addition to a similar grant from the sponsoring synagogue to apply against a an estimated $1,190 cost for the 7 week pilgrimage Only a limited number of participants will be accepted. Full details of the program will be explained to interested students and their parents at the meeting Sunday at Temple Israel. Stanley Slosburg is chairman of the Israel Pilgrimage Committee, which is composed of representatives from the sponsoring synagogues and the Omaha Jewish Federation.
Je\ aY0^ -nuskcr a «oi*^ ° e S °^ B'nai B'rit. \«'\ ..cling will be devoted .^ the crisis of Soviet Jewry and will feature a former Soviet citizen who will present his first-hand account of what is happening to Jews in the Soviet Union. The speaker, a 35-year-old doctor, has been residing in Israel since August 1970. He was one of 39 signatories to the letter written to. the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs to criticize a press conference organized at the beginning of this yea"r by Soviet authorities. For security purposes, it has been, requested that his name not
be used • in press publicity. Beeauseof the nature of the doctor's visit, and the information he will present, only members of the Jewish Community have been invited to attend the Beth El meeting.
Early Deadline Due to the printer's holiday . schedule, early deadlines have been set for the last two issues of the year. Deadline for ads and copy for the December 24 issue will be Thursday, December 18. Deadline for ads and copy for the December 31 issue will be Thursday, December 24.
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CCAR President to Speak at Temple Israel
Omaha—The president of the Central Conference of Ameri-can Rabbis, Dr. Roland B. Gittelsohn, will be 'the' guest speaker at Temple Israel Sabbath Services, Friday, DecemABRAHAM JOSHUA - HESCHEL, one of the ber 4, at 8:15 p.m. His topic formost Jewish scholars of our times, will be "The Synagogue: Realwill receive B'nai B'rith's 1971 Jewish ity or Relic?" Heritage Award for 'Excellence in lewish The second speaker in Temliterature." Author of many major works ple Israel's Centennial Sabon lewish history, philosophy, mysticism bath Discussion Series, Dr. Omaha—Announcement has been made of plans for and religion during a 35-year literary special UJA Study Missions in Israel, open to interested career, including Ilia widely-acclaimed Gittelsohn has served as CCAB. members of the Omaha Jewish community. { two-part opus "Man Is Not Alone" and . president since 1969 and is rabThe missions, are designed to provide participants with "Cod in Search of Man," Dr. Hescncl will bi of Temple Israel in Boston. Rabbi Gittelsohn served "ori a complete view of Israel, including guided tours throughout be given the $1,000 literary prize at the country and meetings with leading Israeli officials. F i r s t , B'nai B'rith's adult Jewish education com- P r e s i d e n t Truman's Civil class, deluxe accommodations are provided at special Study mission meeting, Feb. 21, in New York. Rights Cbmmitlee, and on varDr. Roland GHtlesohn Mission reduced rates. The award, established in 1906, previously ious civic committees and commissions in Massachusetts. just published "The Meaning honored Lie Wiesel, Maurice Samuel, Saul Bellow, Salo. Baron and Isaac BabeL As chaplain' in ' the United of Judaism." Previously he auStates Naval service from-1943 thored "Little Lower Than The A two-week fact-finding mission for "women only is " to 1946, he delivered the dedi- Angels," "Man's Best Hopfe," planned for January 20,1970 through February 3,1971. Furcatory sermon at the Fifth Ma- "Fire In My Bones,"J a'nd ther information about the Women's Mission is available rine- Division Cemetery at Iwo "Consecrated Unto Me." from Mrs. Morley Zipursky, 556-1981. Jima. An Oneg Shabbat will follow A well-known author, he has thtTservice. Washington (JTA)—thirteen A 10-day mission for husbands and wives is scheduled major-J e w i s h organizations, for January 31, 1971 through February 10, 1971. Further insupported by the Baptist Joint formation about the Coiiple'3 Mission is available from -Committee—on Public—AffairsMortimer Greenberg, 342-1366.and the (Protestant) General Commission on Chaplains and Armed Forces Personnel, have asked the United States Circuit Cour^of Appeals here to . New York (JTA)—There are • been a member of tffeUniver, sity" City Synagogue. " "" prohibit compulsory chapel at- a¥esrfmated~l0,'M6"'bTack Jews He said the black Jewish W a s h i n g t o n (JTA)-Two nine Soviet Jews, has been tendance at the military acad- in New York, constituting the largest black Jewish commun- community in the United States thousand persons attended a postponed to Dec. 15. emies. dated back to shortly after the ity in the United States, ac- Civil war, when a black conSeymour Wolfe, president of mass meeting this week on beThey charge that the requirecording to James H. Benjamin, half of Soviet Jewry. National the Jewish Community Council ment is unconstitutional and an gregation was established in leaders of the three major and co-chairman of the meet- "archaic vestige inconsistent" a black Jew who has been ap- Virginia. Prior to.that time, ho faiths and leading figures on ing, said: -"This is a. Jewish with American traditions of re- pointed executive director of said, black Jews were found in nearly every state but mostly the political, labor, civic and case. These people are on trial ligious freedom," The Defense Haalzad Harishon, a multi-ra- in the slave states. He added for their convictions. These cial Jewish organization. The Department replied that "the civil rights scenes participated. people are being persecuted as views of the academies must organization of which Morde- that, most of the American The event, sponsored by the Jews were descendants Jews, and their only desire is prevail unless the courts find chai Joseph is president, was black of slaves brought from western American Jewish Conference not to subvert the Soviet sys- their policies to be constitutionset up in 1964 to promote bet- Africa. . on Soviet Jewry and the Jew- tem but to leave it." ally prohibited." ' . ter understanding b e t w e e n Benjamin said his goal in hi3 i s h Community Council of black and white Jews. new post was to seek to make Greater-Washington, was hefd Mr. Benjamin said that there "the total Jewish experience in the Washington National are nine black Jewish congre- meaningful to every segment of Cathedral. , gations in 'New York City. He the Jewish "community, espe- ~" said there were 4,000 black daily its youth." He said that Rabbi Richard Hirsch, direcJews in Chicago, the second "in this day and age, it is imtor of religious action for the Omaha —During the recent Omaha Jewish Federation"'with * largest black community in perative that both black arid Union of American Hebrew Congregations and cpj-chairman Assembly of the .CPFWF, fi- ..a request for $700 towards a this country. A native New white Jews recognize that they' Yorker, Mr. Benjamin is a need each other." He also ex- ' of the meeting, noted that 33 nancial and programmatic .sup- $100,000_ Emergency fund. young Soviet Jews have been port was urged for the AmeriS. Elmer Gross, president of graduate of the School of Jew- pressed the view that it'was held incommunicado for five can Jewish Conference on So- the Omaha Jewish Federation, ish Studies of the Jewish The- important that white Jews recmonths and "face the immi*. viet Jewry whose efforts are polled the.members of the ex- .ological Seminary, the,'Con- . ognize the existence of black , nent prospect "of show trials devoted to aiding R u s s i a n ecutive board by 'mail asking servative school. A resident of Jews "and give them the kind and severe punishment." Rab- Jews. All national Jewish or- . support for the request. Unani- Philadelphia for the past five of assistance, they traditionally bi Hirsch added: "This is an ganizations are cooperating in mous approval by the board ' years; he also attended' Com- have given their own kind." issue of the denial of human this effort;. . - was .given, :and a check for • munity College and' Temple Otherwise, he declared "thd rights. Their only crime is that Recently, R a b b I Herschel $700 was ' senti to American - University there. He ••••' yfras a i Jewish community will forever -' they want to live as Jews or be Schacter, chairman/: of:•.<the (Jewish Conference on'Soviet ! •member oPithe'Jewis!v>Com- •:be;-branded a racially'segre* of •/ gated religious c o m nvttnity, allowed to leave the Soviet Un- •American: Jewish't Conference f Jewry from the Omaha rjewishu imntityji-Relations .Councilion." The first show trial of on Soviet Jewry, w i r e d the r F e d e r a t i o n . 1 . •- ;.•••••••-.,-•••* ^ • u ••• ; ' Philadelphia" where he ! > had : both here and abroad, i •'••'• rt;
Heritage Award
Special Israel Tours
For Women Only
For Couples Only
Compulsory Chapel Attendance Protested
2,000 Aft end Mms Meeting On Btehalf®f Soviet Jewry
Omaha Federation Contributes to Emergency Fund for Soviet Jewery
I.Y. Black Jews Number 10.000