Omaha Plans 'Concern for Soviet Jewry' Omaha — A city-wide rally, focusing on the plight of the condemned Jews in the Soviet Show Trials and on the cultural and religious deprivation, of the Soviet Jew generally, will be held Sunday, January
3rd at Beth Israel Synagogue 1502 N. 52. The 2:00 p.m. program will include a variety of activities for public participation. This "CONCERN FOR SOVIET JEWRY DAY" is one of the products of action on the
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part of the Jewish youth of Omaha. Leaders to Participate In addition to the three Omaha rabbis, participants at the rally will include Archbishop Daniel Sheehan, Dr.
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CJFWF Head to Speak at Des Moines Annual Meet Des Moines — The annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, 1971, at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Guest speaker will be Charle3 Zibbell, associate executive director of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. His topic is, "The Future of the Jewish Community." The local commissions of the
Federation will be presenting living demonstrations of their services.' The community is invited to take part in this opportunity to learn about Federation activities and to find out for themselves how their money is being spent. Awards Several persons will receive a w a r d s . They are: Morton Bookey, for services as Federation president in 1968 and 1969; Mel Shadur, for service as chairman-of the Iowa Jewish Homo in 1969-70; Gary Rubin and Mrs. Harlan Hockcnberg as chairmen of the All-in-One campaign for 1970, and Marvin Omaha—Shlomo Carlebach, Pomerantz, winner of the 1970 the famous "Singing Rabbi" Young Leadership Award. will give a performance for all Six persons will be elected to members of (be Jewish- com- the Board of Governors for three-year terms. A slate will be presented by the nominating : committee. Fred Lorber is chairman of the meeting. Guest Speaker Mr. Zibbell, the guest speaker, has special responsibilities .with the CJFWF in the areas of community planning, leadership development, Jewish education and college youth, and munity at 7:30 p.m. (his eve- coordination of national servning at Beth Israel Synagogue. ices. There is no charge for admis- : He has served Jewish comsion to llic program which is sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Committee.
Jerusalem (JTA)—Two Katusha rockets were fired at the Katamon quarter of Jerusalem in the first attack of its kind since the cease-fire went into effect last August. No casualties were reported but one residence in the wealthy quarter was damaged. One rocket landed about 50 yards from the residence of President Zalman Shazar but failed to explode. It was detonated safely by police. The second rocket exploded in the kitchen of a home where four women were, having coffee but nohe were injured. Police said the rockets appeared to have been fired from the'direction of Beit iJalla; ;a Christian Arab village oh-the outskirts of Jfer-1' usaJein.:-..'..:/;: ,f/: / - , , . ; 7 / ; .
will -V'j aV°^ ^cton to the;-; ov»\^ ,-jiunity of Omaha \ tftiP ally Sunday. Mr. LL«rence Pazol, representing the Omaha ADLrCRC, is co-ordinating the rally. Mr. Pazoi said, "It is time the entire Jewish Community wakes up,to the fact that the Soviet Jew is the only minority group in the Soviet Union denied the right to pursue his cultural, religious and social life." He also said that the fact that the major Christian religious leaders of Omaha and the Mayor Tecognizo the need "to help the Soyiet Jew, should be enough to awaken the Omaha Jewish Community. Guest Speaker Gary Kinstlinger, C e n t r a l High School senior and chairman of the event is the founder of the Midwest Struggle for Soviet Jewry. He will introduce the guest speaker, Dennis Prager. Mr.. Prager, who has traveled throughout the U n i t e d States and Canada speaking on
the Soviet Jew, traveled in tha Soviet Union in 1989. As a result of his talks with the Russian Jews he concludes, "They are the 'Jews of Silence' no longer, and they implore us to create 'shun' (noise) on their behalf. This is our moral obli'ation as men and as Jews." Mr. Prager is 22 years old and is a graduate student at the Russian and Middle East Institutes of Columbia University. Mass Attendance Urged' Mr. Pazol and Mr. Kinstlinger urged the entire Omaha Community to attend 4he rally en masse. Mr. Kinstlinger, who has heard Dennis Prager speak saidr "Because of his unique knowledge of Soviet Jewry and his ability to speak both Russian and English, Mr. Prager is an excel'ent authority 'to tell it like it is' without the.' fear of reprisals t» his family common to R u s s i a n immigrants or visitors." In addition to describing this" Ufa of the Soviet Jew, Mr. Prager will also inform the adult and student community of v Omaha as to how it can best help the Jews of the Soviet Union. : ., The Jewish Cultural Committee is underwriting the expenses for the guest speaker and all local youth groups and the three local synagogues are underwriting other expenses. •
15,000 March in LA. Rally for Soviet Jewry
Shlomo Carlebach In Omaha Tonight
Rockets Fired on Jerusalem Quarter
Ernest Smith, Mayor Eugene Lealiy, and a representative of the United Nations Association of Omaha. The Mayor met w i t h f I members of the c<>' his weekly *•• ri$®^\ and sign-• .^\p^v. prer
Charles Zibbell munal agencies in Los Angeles and Boston and has lectured at both the School of Social Work of the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. He was graduated from bolls Harvard University and Boston Hebrew College and holds an M.S. degree in social service from Boston University.
Los Angeles (JTA) — More than 15,000 demonstrators marched in downtown Los Angeles to protest" the arrest and trial of Soviet Jews. The demonstration, the candlelight walk for Soviet Jews, witnessed the largest crowd to ever partici-' pate in a Soviet Jewry rally outside of New York, according to observers. Councilman Thomas Bradley, a black City Councilman told the rally, "We must remember the six million Jews who were sent to the gas ovens 30 years ago. By the same token-We must never let it happen again." The crowd repeatedly chant-
ed "let the Jews go" as 'their voices echoed throughout the streets of downtown Los Angeles. The demonstrators all carried candies. A menorah was lit in celebration of tha eight days of Chanukah. Each candle was dedicated to a Soviet Jewish political prisoner. Police were forced to closo off the area surrounding City Hall in order to accommodate the u n p r e c e dented crowd. There was no violence. The demonstration was called in order to maximize public pressure against the Soviet Union in r e g a r d to the Leningrad trials.
AJCommittee's Israel Office Initiates Jewish-Arab Meeting
Kosygiu DemcirtcSs that Israel from Territories
> LONDON (JTA)—Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin demanded that Israel withdraw from the occupied Arab territories as stipulated by the Security Council's Resolution 242 of Nov. 22, 1967. But Kosygin stopped short of endorsing Egypt's demand that Israel submit a withdrawal time-table In, advance of peace talks as a condition for extending the present cease-fire. Kosygin spoke at a luncheon in Moscow, honoring a visiting Egyptian delegation headed by Vice President Aly Sabry ana numbering among its members Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad ^and Minister of War Mohammed Fawzi. The Soviet leader warned "Israeli extremists" to be "under no illusion" that "they will gain concessions from agreeing to a peaceful settlement in the Mideast. He warned that nobody was , beggining Israel for "peace at any price." His remarks were less vehement than those of Sabry who seemed to reflect growing Egyptian bitterness over the present : Mideast stalemate. In Washington, State Department spokesman Eobert J. McCloskey said the U.S. "would bo satisfied" if Israel returned to the Jarring peace talks by Jan. 5, the date on which United Nations Secretary General U Thant is scheduled to report to the Security Council on the progress of Mideastpeace moves. • McCloskey indicated that the government is certain that Israel will agree to resume the talks'shortly. He declined however to ; be drawn Into a warning that further; delay by'Israel, would jeo-'•] .pardize the current cease-fire,...', .v ;,-.' T ;.'•> ;,-:\< , :
A public meeting to discuss social relations between Israel's Jews nnd Arabs, held in Jerusalem recently, was Initialed by the Israel Office of (ho American Jewish Committee as part, of AJC'a broadlyrbascd program to improve Jewish-Arab understanding:* Panelists seen above, "who spoko before a mixed audience of 30O Christians, Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem's press building, wcra (1 to r): Jack Cohen, HIM Foundation director; Omar Othman, Muslim Arab who is principal of the Abu-GosUlschool system; Harry Rosen," social worker and consultant (o the Jewish Agency, chairman; M. Bernard Rcsnlkoff, director of AJC's Israel Office* ,vho acted as moderator; Samlr SaUcaly, Christian Arab front Nazareth, who is a probation officer in East Jerusalem; and Ernest Stock, director of Brandm UnirenlM* Jacob Watt Institute i a J e r u s a t o n ,
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