Omaha City Omaha—A resolution protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews was Introduced by Councilman John Ritums at a meeting of "the Omaha City Council held Tuesday, January 19, 1971. The resolution, .unanimously adopt-' ed by the Council, reads as follows: " RESOLVED: • WHEREAS, the recent perse• cution of innocent Jews in Soviet R u s s i a has resulted in death sentences or long terms •in concentration camps, which prison terms will result-in a slow dying process; and, WHEREAS, the said action of Soviet Russia has provoked sharp and sincere p r o t e s t s throughout the free world; and, ; WHEREAS, the citizens of • the free world have noticed for years the Soviets' carefully designed plan against the Jews and other minorities and persons in lands that Soviet Russia has forceably occupied and annexed to destroy their ethnic and religious heritage; and, WHEREAS, the same plan is taking place in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Es-
Omaha — Daniel Katzman, co-chairman of the New Center Building Committee, has announced the appointment _ of Charles iilonasee to head the New C e n t e r Planning Committee. Mr. Katzman noted that before work can begin on the proposed new Jewish Community Center, a careful study must ' be made to determine the various community needs to be served by the" Center. "It will be the responsibility of Mr. Monasce and his committee to hear suggestions and opinions from all segments of the community at large; to determine how the new Center can best serve the most people, and finallyi to present the findings and recommendations of his committee to the Building Committee," Mr. Katzman said. In accepting the appointment, Mr. Monasee said, "Since only ' every third generation gets a chance to plan and build such
tonia since the same were occupied by the Soviets in 1940; and, WHEREAS, in these dramatic days when Polish workers protested openly and started riots to gain freedom from their oppressors,' the freedom-loving people all over the world united behind them. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OMAHA: That the City Council of the City of Omaha join with Eugene A. Leahy, Mayor, and the citizens of Omaha- and protest the said actions taken by Soviet Russia. • That those Jews who were sentenced be allowed to go free and leave Soviet Russia along with all other Jews and others who so desire to leave Soviet Russia. That the Department of State and the United Nations and the free world take all steps necessary to'protect human rights and the prevention of genocide of Jews, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and other minori-
^._-. Charles Monasee a center, the New Center Planning Commtitee enjoys both a privilege and a very great responsibility. • "We-will make every effort to give every member of the community a c h a n c e to be heard as to what programs and services should be provided by the new Center.,We will further study what is being done in other Jewish Community Centers, and-try to determine the
ties, this being their responsibility. That we express our sympathy to the workers of Poland in their struggle against Communist tyranny, and we express our sincere respect for their heroism and bravery against the enormous Soviet regime, fighting with their bare hands
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physical requirements, operating costs and staff requirements for the programs we recommend." Sub-Committees Mr. Monasee announced the -appointment of six chairmen of sub-committees to study" the needs in specific areas. Mrs. Sidney Brooks will head the Pre-School and Children's Program Study Committee. Howard Kaslow will serve as chairman for the High School, .College and Young Adult Program Study Committee. Mrs. Morris C. Fellman will head the Older Adult Program Study Committee. Mrs. Daniel Katzman will serve as chairman of the Cul. tural/Arts Study Committee. * Irvln Yaffe will head the Health and Physical Education Program Study Committee. Stanley Slosburg will serve as chairman of the 'Community Use Study Committee. In addition to the sub-committee- chairmen, other mem-
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bers of the Planning Commit- nings for each sub-committee. tee include: Robert Bernstein, •In this way everyone will have Morley Zipursky, Norman Batt, an opportunity to make their Don Polsky and Mrs. Richard wishes known in every area of planning." • Killer. Community Participation Mr". Monasee indicated that Mr. Monasee said that' after appointments will be m a d e preliminary studies are made, soon for each sub-commiltee each sub-committee wHl hold and that the studies will be unan open meeting for the com- derway early next month. In munity at large to d i s c u s s addition to the committee members, members of the staff of ' plans. "We hope to get total com- the Jewish Community Center munity participation in the will be actively involved in the '.,.'' planning for our hew Center,'" study program. Sound Procedure said Mr. Monasee. "For this reason, the open meetings will Commenting on the establishbo scheduled on separate eve(Continued on Page 2) '
Meeting at Beth Israel to Probe Relevance of Jewish Education Omaha—A community-wide, meeting on the subject of "The Relevance of Jewish Education," will be held Sunday, January 31, at 7:30 p.m. at Beth Israel Synagogue. Guest speaker will be Dr. Zalman P . Ury, Head consultant of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Los Angeles, California. Dr. Ury will be in Omaha to participate in the Second Annual Teacher's Seminar to be held at Beth Israel'Synagogue •from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Seminar, co-sponsored by Beth El Synagogue, Beth Israel Synagogue, Temple Israel and the Omaha Jewish Federation, will be open to all congregational and lay teachers from. Omaha and neighboring communities. Born in Poland in 1924, Dr. Ury fled to Lithuania in 1939 after the. outbreak of World War II. He was arrested by the Soviets in 1941 and sent to a .Siberian concentration camp as a political.prisoner for several months; Follow the war, Dr. Ury came to the United. States and was ordained a rabbi by the dean of Beth Medrash Govhah : of.Aijierica, in Lakewood, New \ Jersey* He received his Bach\ elor 0\ 5 jSpience' ;degree j from I Washington; University I in; St.; , L^uisjt: a.. Master; .o,f,, Ar,&; dfc\
gree from Loyola-University in ' Los Angeles; the degree of Doctor of Education at the University of California at Los Angeles. , For the past 10 years Dr. Ury has been on the staff 'of' the Bureau of Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation, Council of Greater Los Angeles. He is the author of an impressive list of articles, books and curricular guides, and serves as lecturer in education, Judaica and ethnics at the West Coast Division of Yesluva University.
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Allon Charges Soviets With Official Anti-Semitic Policy New York (JTA) — Deputy -Prime Minister Yigal Allon of Israel accused the Soviet Union ^F"I!resorting""anew (6 the "despicable weapon of.official antiSemitism,1' while at the same time fomenting conflict in the Middle East. He declared that Russia is employing discrimination and oppression including secret trials and prison camps to "break the spirit" of Jews who'wish to emigrate to Israel. In the major address at the National Leadership Mobilization Conference of the Israel Bond Organization, Mr. Allon said that Israel "is waiting with open arms" to receive, the Jews from Russia and called upon men of the free world to "raise their voices loud and clear" in protest to demand for Jews in the USSR "the elementary human right of freedom to live in the country of t h e i r choice," .The Israeli leader observed that world-wide protest,
"unaccompanied by violence" had proved its effectiveness Mr. Allon made a hurried 48Bour trip to"the""Uhited^Slales" this weekend in order to meet with more than 350 Jewish leaders from the United States and Canada at the Commodore Hotel. The purpose of the conference was to plan an unprecedented campaign for the sale of $400 million in State of Israel Bonds this year to p r o v i d e greatly increased support for Israel's economic development.
Omaha Staff Tours Centers Omaha — Members of the Omaha J e w i s h Community Center ' staff returned today Yigal Allon from a five day study trip to Jewish Community Centers in 6 cities. . , •• . ' In preparation for the planning of the New Jewish Community Center in Omaha, the trip was geared to acquaint (Continued from Page 1) the staff members with the facilities, programs and slaff merit of the New Center Plandesigns employed' by other ning Committee, M o r t i m e r Jewish Centers: Greenberg, Executive Director Accompanied' b y : Mortimer of the Omaha Jewish FederaGreenberg, Executive Director tion, said, "This is the soundest of the Omaha Jewish Feder- way to determine the services ation, the staff visited Jewish to be provided by a new Jewish Community Centers in Minne- Community Center. A similar apolis, St. P a u l , Minnesota; process was used in the planColumbus, Ohio; Louisville, ning of the New Orleans Jew-! Kentucky; Houston,.Texas and ish Community Center and was St. Louis, Missouri. most successful." """ _ Participating in the study Mr. Greenberg s e r v e d as 1 trip were-Mrs. Louis Delman, Executive Director of the New Director of Activities for Youth Orleans J e w i s h Community and Older Adults; Charles Ar- Center prior to joining the nold,- director of the JCC Phys- Omaha. Federation last year. ical Education and Athletic While in New O r l e a n s Mr. Department; Sherman Poska, Greenberg was actively ihJewish.Community Center Pro- . volved in the planning and gram Director. building (Of the Center there.
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Jews in Riga Hitby Terror Campaign •London (JTA)—A campaign of terror and i n t i m i d a t i o n against Jews in Riga, among them relatives of defendants in forthcoming trials, was reported by reliable Jewish sources. Two Riga Jews, Simon Jassul and Margarita Shpilberg, received identical anonymous letters stating, "Kikes, you continue to live. Hitler has not managed to finish you off." Mrs. Shpilberg is the wife of Arkady Shpilberg who is under arrest and awaiting trial in Riga. The l e t t e r threatened further, "AH of you are to be slaughtered. All of you go to Israel. You don't want to work. Go from here. We hate-you." Jassul and Mrs. Shpilberg went to the KGB, the Soviet secret police, but were refused help because the letters were anonymous, the sources said. According to the same sources two relatives of accused" Jews in Riga have been dismissed from .their jobs. They were identified as Dr. PinhasKhan-^ okh, brother of Leib Kanokh who is awaiting trial in Riga and Zanvil Zalmanson, whose sister Silva and brother Isak received stiff prison sentences in the Leningrad hijack trial last month. -
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only two months ago and will leave on Jan. 25. The other, Vitaly Svichinsky, will leave Jan. 23. A c c o r d i n g to the sources, they will depart with their families. " Israeli sources have placed at about 1000 the number of Soviet Jews who came, to Israel last year. Only a few of the exit visas have gone to activistsJews who have been openly agitating for their right to emigrate. The sources described Tsukerman as a physicist who became an expert of Soviet law and who has been challenging the Soviet regime in its own courts on isssucs like government censorship of p r i v a t e mail. He was also said to act
as a liaison between Jews who want to leave and Soviet dissidents, scientists and intellectuals, Jews and non-Jews among tiiem, who. have been chafing under official repression. The sources said that Tsukermau's departure would deprive the dissidents, who call themselves the Democratic Movement, of their most p o t e n t sources of legal a d v o c a c y against the Soviet bureaucracy. Some observers believe that by permitting the departure of activists who are also prominent members of the Jewishcommunity, Soviet authorities reason that they are getting rid of prime agitators and at the same time defusing the dissident movement.
Israel Jews Split On JDL Tactics
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Sharp differences of opinion have developed in Israel over the tactics of harassment and violence employed by Jewish militants against Soviet personnel and property in the United States and other countries. Such tactics were condemned by the Cabinet in an unprecedented resolution declaring that the government "vigorously opposes acts of terror" in the struggle for the rights of Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. Immediately after the resolution was made public it was According to reliable sources, Soviet authorities have given angrily denounced by militant nationalist circles here. Eight former Soviet Jews living in Israel sent cables to two prominent Jewish activists permission to go to Israel. One American Jewish leaders denouncing the condemnation of the of them, identified as Boris JDL and denying that the JDL's acts endangered Soviet Jews.. Tsukerman, applied for his visa The cables,' addressed to Dr. William AV Wexler,' president of B'nai B'rith and Rabbi Herschel Sehaeter, chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, said they were convinced that the JDL's "policy and activities are most effective." The group also attacked Israeli authorities for alleged softness in fighting the Soviet Union on the issue of Jewish rights. The wording of the cables implied that the signers believed Jerusalem (ZINS) — Televi- that further straining of relations between Washington and Mossion producers who converged cow would convince the Kremlin that it would be more expedient on the Wailing Wall to photo-/, to let Soviet Jews emigrate than to allow relations with the U.S. graph some 5,000 worshippers to deteriorate. congregated in prayer were met with protests, shouts and epithets of which the mildest NEWLY REMODELED were "Heathens, Nazis, out with your television. You are corrupting the morals of our Jewish girls, you lazy bums." The television crews not only suffered verbal abus<v but took some physical beatings at the CHINESE —CANTONESE hands of their unwilling subjects. .. AMERICAN FOOD This deep-seated anti-televi• Lunch-Dinner • Cocktail Lounge sion feeling among,the observant Jews of • .Jerusalem pro• Orders to Take Out voked a Beth-Din of the' Naturei Karta to excommunicate 6623 .CENTER FREE PARKING ' 553-9987 a Mea Shearirn J6W whoowned a television set. The Rabbinical Court (the Beth-Din) ruled that no person may-have any contact with the excommunicated one until he repents and removes, the television set OMAHA'S LEADING '. from his home. Kosher Meat Market & Delicatessen This interesting case, how551-5554 4415 Coming ever, would seem to have little or no impact on What is dther^ Open Sunday 8:00 A.M. fo 5:00 P.M. wise a veritable epidemic of television buying. Only 3 short - SUNDAY SPECIALS years ago, there were 40,000 Fresh Frozen television sets in use; now there are 350,000 despite the 5 to 1 M b . very high cost of the appliance. Average . . . . . L b . More than 50 per cent of all Israel families now have tele(Wing or Drumstick Missing) vision in their homes.
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New York (JTA)-Three So- "ments and leaders to speak up viet Jews who emigrated to Is- on behalf of Soviet Jewry." She rael in November told a press said that public opinion "really conference here this week that helps" and "has an influence "bombing is not the right meth- on Soviet policy" as shown by od to use in protesting against the results of the Leningrad the persecution of Jews in the trial. There is no way of knowSoviet Union." The three were among the 10 signers of the ing how many Soviet Jews want first collective appeal addressed to leave the USSR, Dr. Aisenby Moscow Jews to their fellow stadt said, "But if Jews knew Jews outside the Soviet Union that by applying for exit visas they would be allowed to leave, in September, 1969. many more would hand in apDr. Esther Aisenstadt, a former professor of'language in plications than have done so Moscow colleges; her husband up to now." She admitted that Leizer Napomnyasty, a Rus- "If I had-relatives in the USSR, sian-English interpreter: and I would not speak as freely as Mark (Mordecai) Elbaum, 25, I do now." Elbaum said the growing inall former Moscow residents, had come to the U.S. to lecture This year, when the Hadassah-Henrlelta Szold School of Nurs- throughout the country on being graduated its 1970 class, six scholarships were announced. half of the American Conference on Soviet Jewry. All six were funded by nurses or their families. One award was In response to questions, Dr. for the Best Nurse of the Year, one established a fund for nurses and their families in need, and the other scholarships Aisenstadt, speaking for herself and her husband, said "the provided for additional undergraduate, degree-granting, and New York (JTA)—The Manpost-graduate education. Here a pretty young member of the right way of protesting is to Hadassah School of Nursing, Class of 1970, announces endow- rouse world opinion, govern- hattan District Attorney's office, in an apparent move to ment for Nurses Library in memory of a classmate who died. impletnent Mayor John V. Lindsay's decision to "get tough" with the Jewish D e f e n s e League, has informed that organization that it is putting beOmaha—A program refore a grand jury four criminal lating to Soviet Jewry will cases involving the JDL or its be shown Sunday, January leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane. 24, at 3:15 p.m. on KETV, The cases involve anti-Soviet Channel 7. ' and anti-Arab incidents allegedJerusalem (JTA) — The Is- the UN emergency force from Coordinated by Mrs. Norly perpetrated by members of rael government has imposed the Gaza Strip and Sinai in the man Denenberg, the 45 minthe League during r e c e n t a news blackout on the prog- spring of 1967 at the request ute program, "Let My Peomonths. .> ' ress of the Jarring talks in or- of President Gamal Abdel Nasple Go" will include songs, New York Governor Nelson der not to prejudice their suc- ser was the direct cause of the poetry, drama and a panel Rockefeller assailed the harasscess by injudicious "leaks" to Six-Day War. The Israelis have discussion by youths and ment tactics of JDL as "counthe news media. said that they are not opposed adults in the community. ter-productive" and stated that Participants in the proIt was learned, however, that to Four Power guarantees of a they may result in realiation gram include: Mrs. Donald Egypt has turned down Israeli peace treaty, once one is against Russian Jews and reNogg, Harold Adler, Richproposals conveyed to Cairo by signed between Israel and her duce their chances to emigrate. neighbors but would not accept ard Fellman, Gary KintsJarring. According to reliable Kahane was arrested in New linger, Barbara Blank, Joel sources, President Anwar Sa- such guarantees as a siibstiStern, Nancy Milder, Elaine. York last week for failure to dat took issue-with Israel's ar- tue for a peace treaty. appear in court on Jan. 6 for Wintroub, April L o w d e r , gument that it cannot re'turn Meanwhile, Soviet-President arraignment on charges of disBob E i s e n b e r g , Nancy to the pre-June, 1967 borders Nikolai Podgorny pledged in orderly conduct and incitement Schwartz, Mark Sanford, for reasons of security. The Alexandria that the Soviet to riot during a demonstration Steve Denenberg, Debbie Egyptians reportedly told Jar- Union will replace Egypt's near the Soviet UN Mission last Denenberg and Joni Crounse ring that Israel could not ask "material losses" in the event month. On that occasion he was for more secure borders than of renewed warfare against freed on his own recognizance. her old ones if they are pa- Israel. Podgorny, who was in On the dates set for his court trolled by a joint United States- Egypt for the dedication of the appearance, he was in Israel. Soviet peacekeeping force that Soviet-built Aswan High Dam, He was picked up on a bench cannot be removed without the spoke to 5,000 cheering shipwarrant and brought by detecexpress consent of the United yard workers. tives to Police Headquarters Nations Security Council. President Sadat replied that for questioning. The JDL had Israel is opposed to a force Egypt "will be a faithful friend made up of the two superpow- because we can never forget ers or to any UN force, recall- your help In times of difficulty . ing that Thanl's withdrawal of and darkness."
terest in Israel that is found among Soviet Jewish youth was • "part of the general feeling among Soviet youth for a free life." Soviet society had tried hard to assimilate the Jews, he said, "but we have always felt like strangers and this, has helped us in our approach to Israel and Judaism." As for the alleged plane hijacking plot, the subsequent trials, and the commutation of death sentences of two Jews, Dr. Aisenstadt was pessimistic. "At this time world opinion interfered and we have seen their results. (Now) it may mean a slow death instead of instantaneous death."
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no immediate comment on his arrest. ; Rabbi Kahane';was'.reloaded on $3,000 bail and accused the U.S. government of '^pulling out all the' stops'" to end-'the JDL's "efforts to save Russian Jews." Rabbi Kahane, unshaven and wearing a' yarmulka, turned up at JDL. headquarters for a press conference after his release. Rabbi Kahane said efforts to crack down on the JDL after its threats to haras's Soviet diplomats was "the start of a very real campaign to 1 top us," He said President Nixon's apology to the Soviet government for the JDL's activities showed that he has "bowed to Soviet pressure."'' ' Rabbi Kahane dismissed Jewish organizations that have condemned the JDL's roughneck: tactics as "the ones who have sat on their a p a t h y for 53 years.' 1 He said the label "dissident hoodlum Jews" was a "badge of honor.", < •• i ':•'.-
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Hedy Nathan and Marvin Shortly after I became ediKirke announce" tlieir engage- tor of the Jewish Press i^oc-r ment . . . Gary Kinstlinger cele- curred to me that if the paper brated his Bar Mitzvah . . . was to be a real vehicle for communication, special effort Robert Feinberg was named had to be made to include the chairman of the 1966 Philan- voices of the younger memthropies Campaign . . . Mr. and bers of the community. E v e r y o n e was concerned Mrs. Joseph Kirshenbaum announced the "birth of a son, about the generation gap, but little had been done to close it. Jeffrey Alan. The first step was to learn how our children were thinking. 10 YEARS AGO And so the "Teen Talk" colMr. and Mrs. H. Lee Gendumn was born. ler announced the birth of a The first Teen Talk editor daughter, Amy Sara. was Barbara Jess. For many weeks Barbara penned her 15 YEARS AGO views and the views of her Sally Step and Albert d a y - classmates on vairous subman announced their engage- jects. Within a short time, the ment . . . Carolyn Kutler and column was the most widely Ellie M. Ratner announced read feature in the paper. lheir engagement . . . Steven Writing a weekly column can Guss and Arnold Fellman cele- be very time consuming for a brated a joint Bar Mitzvah. busy high school student, how-
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The New JCC
.The announcement this week of a Planning Committee for the new Jewish Community Center brings us one step closer to "the realization of the long time dream of a new.Center building In Omaha. : ^ Chuck Monasee, chairman of the committee, notes the tre•jnpndous responsibility inherent in planning a facility to serve not only the .needs of the community' today, but also the anticipated " needs of the future. It is an awesome task, and should not fall on the shoulders of a few people. ~~~ t ••'•• -Mr. -Monasee.-his committee and subcommittees, will do the "preliminary studies to determine needs and feasible programs for the new JCC. A series of Town Hall meetings will then be 'Scheduled so that every member of the Jewish community have have the opportunity (o voice his desires as (o the programs and cervices to be included in the plans. It will serve no purpose after the building is built to voice criticisms of .what was done. The time to speak is NOW. When the TownJJall meetings are called, it will be the responsibility of every member of "the community to be present to hear and react to the finds of the committee. It will take the thinking and participation of all of us to build the kind of Center that can best serve all pur needs. We urge you to give careful thought in the coming weeks to what YOU would want included in the planning of the Center. We urge-jou to attend the Town Hall meetings with constructive sugcest&oS. This'will be YOUR Center and YOUR voice should be bean*. * '
A Column Without a Name! By MIKE RIPS •Recently I spoke with Mrs. Gerelick about renewing the oid "Teen T a l k " column. Should there be a place for young people to voice their views in the Jewish Press? It seems to me that the opinions and thoughts of youth are vitally important. Embodied within these thoughts is the future of our Jewish community and our attitudes toward the world. Given that thoughts and opinions determine actions; and that individual actions determine the direction of a communityr then the importance of what is to be said in this column is quite obvious. In the weeks to come this column will be devoted to the opinions of youth. High School students-will be invited to express their opinions on a mul-
'Fair Share' Method For Synagogue Dues ;;• By BEX GALLOB Judaism "maintains that each ': A leading Reform synagogue rising step in material posses-, administrator has challenged. sjon must be accompanied by both the workability and fair- a heightened sense of responness of the "Fair Share" sibility for the needs of the method of detemining dues for .community." synagogue membership. He reported that the proTh& approach, under which cedure followed in congregathe'member family makes air tions using ,the plan was to annual-assessment of its finan- send each .'member an inforcial ^resources from which it mational brochure with a sug•'. decides .what itsN dues should gested guide Tor fees and a be, has' been adopted in re- pledge card. In a typical table, cent years by a growing num- the proposed pledges ranged from $160-$200 a year in member of congregations. The criticism was made by bership dues for an annual in-, Irving Katz, administrator of come of up to $10,000. $500 a Temple Beth El of Detroit. He year .and up in dues for famidescribed the Fair Share plan, lies with incomes of more than as one leaving it to the con* J30,000. gregation member "to deterMr. Katz said he had made mine himself his annual mem- a number of surveys in "wealbership dues by means of self- thy suburban congregations" evaluation of his ability to using the plan, and had obcontribute." The plan, he said, tained other information which .was based on the premise that had left him with "misgivings"
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titude of subjects. Those wishing to editorialize on a particular subject will have the opportunity to do so. The Jewish Press is giving the youth of the community complete Jreedom to use this column as we see fit, providing we keep within the realm of good taste. Even the title of the column is left to our decision. What is your suggestion? I would also hope that in reading this column the reader will view what is said in a new light rather than.saying, "Ah, this is the same junk my kid says." Very possibly it is the same "junk" you hear from your kid, but why does lie say it and is there some justification for his thoughts? At best, this column might inspire parents to speak to children about the opinions expressed here, or even about their own opinions on the subject. The same "new light" in viewing this column applies to the teens as well. If a teen will not listen to what-a contemporary has to say at this point in his life, then I feel there is little lope for listening, toleration and cooperation in later life. • I sincerely hope that this column will prove intriguing and thought provoking. Those with ideas for the name of the column, for subjects to be discussed, and those interested in editing the column for a week are urged to contact me at 55W963.
By Mickey Gerefick ever, and so Teen Talk branched out; Soon a different editor was recruited each week. The column" .-ran that way for three years and was as popular .when it was discontinued as it was when it started. It has been nearly three years since-the last Teen Talk column. Not only do we now have a whole new generation of high school students, but we also have a whole new set of subjects. Some of you may remember the column on teen drinking that provoked so much discussion in the community. Tod^y the high school group would be discussing teen drug use instead. Four years ago our children were talking about drivein movies and inter-faith dating. Today the subjects would be restricted movies and interracial dating. Changes come quickly at the high school level. It was with this thought that I decided to reactivate a Teen Column,' the first of which appears this week. Typical of the changing times, even the old name for the column was no longer acceptable to the new prospective writers I spoke with. And so the column will run as "The Column Without a Name" until a new name is chosen. The ground rules for the column remain the same. The young people have complete freedom to use the space as they sec fit. There will be no direction from me as to what the subject matter should be, nor will their copy be edited. The success of a teen column depends upon this kind of freedom. Mike Rips has agreed to ".manage" the column. He will . assign the dates to those wishing to write the column. Suggestions for topics will be directed to him. I am hopeful that many teenagers will volunteer to help. The column is not limited to Omaha teens. Young people -from . Council Bluffs, Lincoln and Des Moires are also encouraged to participate. I must warn adult readers however, that once these teens get in the swing of things, they will. be expressing the most candid views on the most delicate subjects. We may not like cveryjhing they have to say, but that's part of the game. I'm delighted to h a v e the young people back in the paper again. I think you will be too. '
about the method. He declared that he felt that "in the vast majority of cases, members do not • give their "fair share," He remarked that "if the congregants of the. UAHC would really contribute 'Fair Chare' dues, each congregation would be able to declare a Chanukah dividend each l I I l i n i l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l ! l l l l l l l l l year." He reported that in one of the affluent congregations he had studied; he had compared the dues of each member with B 40 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK the suggested table of income Rabbi Israel Goldstein of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, New and giving. He asserted that he York, said nearly half of American Jewry "acknowledges no had found that "the vast ma- point of view, avows no sympathy and has no philosophy of Jewjority of members placed ish life," adding: "It is these unattached Jews who constitute themselves in the below-the- the real challenge and the real opportunity , . . They represent $25,000 a year income" cate- an inestimable potential power in Jewish life gone to waste." gory. He added that when he German National Socialists abandoned plans to expel all showed this schedule to that Jews, to ease food shortages, but proposed they lose citizenship congregation's board, he was rights anyway. ' •••',. told that "most of the .memThe Warsaw rabbinate ruled that a woman there could not bers were in the $25,000 a year marry a man in the U.S. by cablegram. and over bracket and they sim-. _ 1 0 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK: 1961 / ply were not giving their fair Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, former U.S. ambassador to Italy, share." / ,$aid Vice President Nixon might have been elected President if He contended also that while he had picked a Jewish running-mate. -. the brochures, on the Fair A Scarsdale, N. Y., club that had barred an Episcopalian beShare plan, stated that the cause his father was Jewish announced after protests that all retable was merely a guide and strictions were being dropped. , jiot;an attempt , . . . , to find out the • • For. the first time In UN history,,the Soviet Union took a deincome of a member, "the cold fensive posture regarding anti-Semitism,' denying thdt it existed tfatet• remain**Uiat thfensyna-" i n l h e U S S R . 1 • " ' • : " > < " > " " " ' " < i i ••• .."«.>'' gogue is prying into (he memThe New York Board of Rabbis urged the liberalization of the ber's personal affairs." state's divorce law beyond the sole ground of adultery.
This Week in History
Friday, Jan. 22, 1071
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Des Blolneg—Members'of the Jewish Welfare Federation are pictured at the annual meeting, lield Jan. 10 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Speaker
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HADASSAIl The Hadassah meeting which QUESTION: Why do Jewish women traditionally cover their was to be held January 13 has eyes before reeiUng (he blessing over the Sabbath candles? been rescheduled for February , ANSWER; This custom was actually, according to some opinion, introduced by the wife of one of the great rabbis. The reason 10, at 12:30 p.m. in the synagiven was that traditionally a blessing was recited before an act gogue social hall. Mmes. Ilaris done, Thus, the blessing ^hoiild really be recited before the ry Cherniss and Jake Siegel candles a r e lit. However, if this were to be done the blessing are luncheon co-chairmen. would, in cffect.be tantamount to the acceptance of the Sabbath Mrs. Ed Tepperman will on the part of the woman. Once the Sabbath has been accepted, give a Zionist Affairs report, ho fire can be lit and thus the candles would never be able to be and will also relate highlights lit after the blessing. It is for this reason, of course, that we light from the Regional meeting held the candles-before the blessing. Yet, the tradition of reciting a in Des Monies. Mrs. Ben Telpblessing before an act is still the proper thing to do. Thus, after ner will present the American lighting the candles the -woman of the house covers her eyes and Affairs report. only after the blessing does she look upon the candles. Thus, her a d of looking upon the candles is performed after the blessing, JOINT MEETING meaning in effect, that the blessing preceded some -act. A joint meeting of Hadassah;
Sisterhood and B'nai B'rith will be held Tuesday, February 23 at B'nai Israel Synagogue. Harold.Adler, regional director of' the Anti-Defamation League, will be the guest speaker. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. SERVICES Regular m o n t h l y Friday Night services were started January 15 at 8:15 p.m. Abe Katelman delivered the sermonette. Joe Katelman is president of the synagogue: Sam Sacks serves as religious chairman.
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Des Moines—-Members of the Campaign Cabinet for the 1971 All-in-One Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation are pictured above. Closest to camera is Mose Waldinger. Clockwise around the table are Gary Rubin, Dr. Louis Noun, Martin Waldinger, Phil Schneider, Marvin Mazie, Fred Lorber, David Bear, Dale Cowle, Sidney Rubin, Lewis Caspe, Robert Mannheinter, Lou Pomerantz, Marvin Pomcrantz (standing at podium),
Sandor Sherman, Gerald Engman, Roy Swarzman, Sidney Tabacb, Barry Pldgeon, Sam Winick, Dr. Glenn Purnell, Stanley Isaacson, Mrs. Stanley Isaacson and Sheldon Rabinowitz. The Cabinet met January 10 to consider the Campaign goal which will be recommended to the Board of Governors, to plan Campaign procedures, to set a calendar, and In general to review the 1971 Campaign.
Des Moines Notes SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES Members of the Des Moines community have been invited to share their time.and talents in service to others through the agencies of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Opportunities for service are available through the Jewish Community Center, Bureau of Jewish Education, Iowa Jewish Home,' Jewish Social Service, Community Relations Commission (especially problems of Soviet Jewry), Women's Feder~ ation, All-in-One Camapign and office help. Those interested should contact •the Federation, 244-3144. > ,
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1NTRA-FAITH TEA An Intra-Faith Tea for all .women :'ot > life 'Community and their guests will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2, at Beth El Jacob Synagogue. Mrs. Sidney Robinow, is program chairman. *•" '..' '. The play^'Twoin a Trap," will be* presented by Marion McKeever and Muriel Boggs, both" 'active participants in the Des Moines Community .Playhouse. The play deals with lack of communication and the way in which persons shut their ears and hearts to one another's problems. A, discussion perio'9 after the play will be led by Mrs. Arnold Leylne. Mrs., David Kaminsky js food chairman. Trie fea'is sponsored by the Women's'Division of the Jewish -Welfare Federation. Mrs. Irving A;,' Weingart is chairman of th'e -Women's Division. Presidents .2nd program chairmen of,'all Jewish Women's organizations in town will serve as hostesses. • .Groups and their presidents are:. Mesdamcs Arnold L e v i n e ^
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to. VOLLEYBALL dogs, 14-12, and Hawks over Volleyball groups at the Jew- Celtics, 16-10. ish Community Center have Standings in Junior League: been reassembled into a more Won Lost competitive league. The new Vikings 4 0 ' teams will play each Sunday Lakers ;.... 3 1 through April 18. Celtics : 3 1 2 2 Teams are as follows: Mike Bulldogs 1 3 Dobrin, captain; Al Lefkow, Cyclones .3 Don Rovner, Stan Engman, Hawks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gerald Levy, Sam Norman and Gary Zingcrman. Nat Koren, captain; Al Rovner, Jim Button, Lou Williams, Harold Pidgeon, Sam Rissicn, There will be no charge for Miss Karen Abrams Connie Zingerman and Bernie the tea. Waltman. " ^ \ V • • . Allan Stern, captain; Mel GiORT \ vant, Mike Kroloff, Ken SilverORT will*meet at 1 p.m. Monstein, Phil Levine, Ed Feintech day, Jan. 25, at the home of .and Alex Wieczner. Mrs. Glenn Purnell, 18 ThirtyLou Yazman, captain; Dave Des Moines—Mr. and Mrs. fourth St. • ••-••' Macy S. Abrams of Frontenac, Farber, Ken Sandier, Fred Lorber, Howard Grossman, David Dr. Gene Lucas, professor of biology at Drake University Mo., have announced the' en- Wieczner and Charles Kramer. and noted ecologist, will speak gagement of their ; daughter, on "Let's Make Our World a Karen Lynn, to Arnold Bruce FILM PRESENTATION -Thejsrael Philharmonic OrBetter Place.'^' Engman. Mr. Engman is the chestra film will be shown at Reservations may be made son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton C. 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, and w i t h Mesdames Hal Levin, Engman, 624 Glenview Drive, Sunday, Jan. 24, at the UniMatt Koren, or Purnell. Guests Des Moines.. , . tarian Church, Bell Avenue and . are welcome. Casady Drive, under sponsorThe bride-elect is a junior ship of the Jewish Community • • * majoring in art history at the Center. SYNAGOGUE DANCE University of Wisconsin. Mr. "Space Odyssey—5731" wili Engman is a senior in the BASKETBALL* be the theme of a synagogue' School of Industrial EngineerIn Center Senior League basdance to be held from 9 to J2 ing at the University of Wis- ketball play, the Majors dep.m. Saturday, rFeb. 13, at consin. feated the Stags, 38-25, and the Tifereth Israel Clubhouse. The A July 11 wedding is being Knicks beat the Warriors, 35community is jnvited. 24. Standings last week were: planned. ._-, ••.'•-•• v; •'• •'•:/' Des Moines — Jeff Farber, Won Lost The band will be tbeReflec-. son "of Mr. and Mrs. David Knicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 tions. Food and drinks will be GOOD SERVICE TO IOWA Majors 3 I Farber, will observe his Bar served.' '•'.' ". '.""•. Warriors '2 2 Mitzvah on'Saturday, Jan. 23, Mrs. Don B1 u m e n thai is Stags . . . : . . . . . . : . . . . 0 4 at 9:30 a.m. at Tifereth Israel chairman. Mrs. Zel Seldenfcld In Junior League play, the Synagogue. A Kiddish lunch5014 William, Omaha, Nefcr. and Mrs. Dennis Seidenfeld are Vikings downed the Lakers, con will be held. immediately Coll Collect—402-558-8495 food co-chairmen. Mrs. Law. 24-22, Cyclones defeated -Bull-. following services. rence Myers and Mrs. Alan Givant are in charge of decorations. Mrs. Timothy Urban is ALL THIS AND FREE PIE ALA MODE. TOO! chairman of ticket sales and reservations^ Reservations may on be made with N*s. Urban at 255-2458. Cost « |3 per person. B'Nai Jeshurun Sisterhood; David Biber, Children of Israel Sisterhood; Milton Mark, Iowa Jewish Home Guild; D a v i d Biber, Mizrachi Women; Sam Caspe, Pioneer Women; Donald Kneeter, ORT; Arthur Kagin, B'nai B'rith Women; Gary R u b i n , Brandeis University Women's Committee; Harold Weiner, II a d a s s a h; Harry Korn, B & P Hadassah; Barry Pidgeon, Tifereth Israel Women's League; Sam Vidis, Beth El Jacob Sisterhood. .
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NCJW Donor EventTvesday Omaha—The annual Donor Dessert Luncheon of the Omaha Section, National Council of Jewish Women, will be held Tuesday, January 26, at 12:30 p.m. at the Brandeis Crossroads Auditorium. Proceeds from the donations will be used lo support C o u n c i l projects throughout the year.
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Highlights of the afternoon will include a fashion show by J.L. Brandeis, and selections from popular broadway musicals sung by "The Bell-Aires" from Bellevue High School. Reservations may bo made with the Donor chairmen, Mmes. Thomas Bernstein, Leo Eisenstalt and Al Fiedler. Sitter service will be available.
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HADASSAU CAREER WOMEN Career Women of Hadassah will meet Sunday, January 24, ; at 2 p.m. at the home of Miss Evelyn. Levy. : Mrs. Sam Katzman will review the books "Thy Daughter's Nakedness" by Myron Kaufman and "Herman Had Two Daughter^," by Z c 1 d a Popkin. A musical program will be led fcy Miss Julia Zu-" Jeer and Miss Myrtle Freeman, accompanied by Mrs. Maurice Karpen. HADASSAH Hadassah Supplies .will be highlighted at the luncheon meeting Wednesday, January 27, at 12:30 p.m. at the Crossroads A u d i t o r i u m . Mrs. Charles Kimmel is serving as Chairman. ' Mrs. Jack Cohen, program chairman, will .present the "We Speak for Judaism" -panel from Temple Israel, Panel members are Anne Yafie', John Goldman, Tom Taxman, Kathy Sperling and Betsy Cohn. They are the children of Messrs. jand Mmes. Irvin Yaffe, Richard Goldman, Sherman S p e r l i n g , Marvin Taxman and Julius Cohn. •.••:: Mrs. Leonard Friedcl is in charge. of arrangements. Reservations may be made with Mmes. Bennett E a d u z i n e r, Harry Sidman and Joe Lerrier. .
Omaha—Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Levin of Miami, Florida, announce the engagement of their daughter, Carol,, to Michael David Katzman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Katzman of .Omaha. The toride-elect and her fiance are students at Northwestern University where Mr. Katzman is affiliated with Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity. Both will graduate in March. An April 25th wedding is planned in Miami.
Garetz to Speak in Family Life Series
Omaha—The next meeting in be purchased through the the Family Life Education SeBond Club Plan. Mrs. Gilbert Aronoff will in- ries wiil be held Wednesday, troduce Mrs. N. H. Greenberg January 27, at 9:30 a.m. at the who will review Irwin Shaw's Center West, 12604*Pacific. book, "Rich Man Poor Man." Charles Garetz, a social Reservations may be made with Mmes.. Fay Sekar or Rob- group 'worker at the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute, will lead ert Kaiman. the discussion on "Between The chapter will host a Tea Party for residents of the Dr. Parents and Children." Mr. -Shcr Home, Sunday, January Garetz fs a graduate of the 24, at 1:30 p.m. A musical pro- University of Minnesota and gram will be presnted. Mrs. of the Minnesota School of SoBerta Stem is chairman of the cial Work. event, and urges all members The meeting is open to the to attend. public at no charge. Mothers of pre-school and school-age SENIOR CITIZENS children are urged to attend. Mrs. Hy Shrier will present The series is being co-spondramatic readings at the Sen- sored by the, Jewish Family ior Citizen luncheon meeting, Service and the Jewish ComMonday, January 25, at 12 munity Center. noon at the Jewish Community" Center. A fish luncheon will be served by members of the National Council of Jewish Women, co-sponsors of the Senior Citizens club. AH interested members of the community are invited to attend. Luncheon fees will be $1 for members; $1.25 for non-members. CORNHUSKER LODGE B'NAI B'RITH Gerald Meyer and Hyman Comisar will accompany a group of veterans to the Omaha Knights-Dallas Blackhawks hockey, game, Wednesday, January 27. The veterans will attend the game as guests of the lodge.
HENRY MONSKY CHAPTER B'NAI B'RITH WOMENThe regular monthly luncheon meeting' will be --held .Thursday, January 20, at 12:30 FUN FOR Y O U . . . ip.m. at the Fireside Restau- Funds for. Youth Aliyqh rant. BOWL WITH HADASSAH Mmes. Maurice Karpen and . MONDAY AFTERNOONS Abe Polikov will repo.rt on the luncheon and White Elephant AT THE ROSE BOWL sale which was held in conBeth Subt and Regulars Needed junction with Cornhusker Chap<o'Fill OuHhe Simon . . . ter at the Douglas County " Plccsc Cell Ann Cofcca r Court House. • ; ' . . . ' , 'Names will toft drawn at ran- ' ! . 333-0J60 dom for two •jjsrael; JBonds 4 to#
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Omaha—Mr. and Mrs. Norman D a v i d Rips have annouced the engagement of their daughter, Susan Lynn, lo Bruce Elliott Pasternak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pasternak of Alburquerque, New Mexico. The bride-elect is a' senior at the University of Colorado where she is affiliated with Sigma Delta Tau Sorority. Her fiance is also, a senior at the University of Colorado, a member of Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity, and a recently elected member of Phi Beta Kappa. An August w e d d i n g is planned at Temple Israel.
Mr. and Mm- Bill Peck 'of St. Louis, JWssouri announce the birth oya. son, Craig Adam, born January 12, 1971. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Phil Kutler of Omaha, Nebraska and Mr. and Mrs. Ben PeckVSt. Louis, Missouri. Great-grandmothers are Mrs. Walter Perlmutter, Omaha, Nebraska, Mrs. Herman Peck, St. Paul, Minnesota, Mrs. Frank Flood,' Madison, Wisconsin. Mrs. Peck is the former Barbara Kutler of Omaha, Neb'. Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Levitan announce the birth of a son, Michael Andrew, born January 12, 1971. They also have two daughters, Deborah and Jennifer. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Albert Garber, Omaha; and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Levitan* of Springfield, Illinois. Mrs.
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Rabbi Sidney II. Brooks will represent the Jewish Chautauqua Society as lecturer at Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska. February 3, 1971. Rabbi Brooks will speak on "My Life and Faith as an American Jew."
IIEVRAHBBG At the recent Winter Convention, Hevrali BBCr won the following awards: First place individual bowling, Carol Treller; first place team bowling; Ce Ce Greenberg, Carol Treller, April Deporte;' first place plus, Ce Ce GreenLincoln South I originality berg, second place District Street Temple \ Song, and the Sping Trophy for Rabbi Irvin Ehrlich will of- being the chapter with the ficiate at the Friday evening most spirit. Hevrah BBG has announced services, January 22, at 8 p.m. His sermon topic will be "Jew- ' Beau Candidates. They are: ish Defense League: Hoods or Howard Katzman, Mike Goodman. Spencer Brookstein, and Heroes?" Gordie Hoberman. Rabbi Ehrlich has announced On Saturday, January 23, a change in the worship serv- Hevrah will have a hockey ice which will begin this Fri- game party. Chairman is Marday. The Central Conference of lys Giventer. • American Rabbis has published four new Friday evening services which may replace the Union Prayer Book which has been in use since 1940. Paris (JTA)—Three hundred "The CCAR is giving us the opportunity to use and evalu- Jews of Egypt have arrived in ate these new services before France and been taken under they are printed in final form," the wing of the welfare service said Rabbi Ehrlich. "For the of the Fond Sociale Juif Unifie, first time we can examine pro- Uie major central Jewish composed liturgical changes and munal organization in France. then make our views known The refugees left Egypt with .before final d e c i s i o n s are travel documents delivered to Cairo authorities by the French made." '•' • consular officials there as part » • • of a diplomatic intervention on the Jews' behalf by the French Lincoln I Foreign Ministry.; ; . July it was reported that Tifereth Israel j theLast last 73 Jewish prisoners in SERVICES: Egypt and 36 non-prisoners had Rabbi Morton Waldman will been permitted to leave the officiate at the Friday evening country secretly with French services, January 22, at 8 p.m. passports. It was reported then Junior Congregation Services that 1,800 Jews had left Egypt will be held 10:45 a.m. Satur- since the Six-Day War three day, January 23. Kiddush will years earlier through the diplobe sponsored by Mrs. Robert matic intervention of French and Spanish governments. . Pitlor.
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Denenberg, has been appointed Commissioner of Insurance for the state of Pennsylvania. Dr. Denenberg is a professor of Insurance Law at the Wharton School of Finance. Among those attending the .inauguration festivities in Philadelphia this week were Dr. Denenberg's mother and brother, Mrs. David Denenberg and Norman Denenberg.
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Lincoln Liahts BAS MITZVAII Lynne Rae Gotsdincr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yale Gotsdiuer, will celebrate her Bas Mitzvah, Friday, January 29, Items for this column should be submitted to Mrs. Leo (Estelle) Rosenberg, 701 Mulder Drive, Lincoln, Nebraska. Phone, 489-5813.
College. Eileen will enter Columbia University Graduate School. Cherril Kusliner, University of Washington at St. Louis; Shelley Schaffer, University of Wisconsin at Madison. Shelley will continue her graduate studies at Wisconsin.
VISITOR Mrs. Floyd Grady of Houston. Texas, was a recent guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rubinow.
DE"~H Mrs. Libby Zager. a long, time resident of Lincoln, passed away January 10, 1971. Interment was at Mt. Carmei Cemetery. Survivors are: daiightjeii, Rose BIocli; son, Julius; both of Lincoln. Sisters, Mrs. E. Sawistak, Los Angeles; Mrs. Joseph Spiegal, Omaha; brother, Sam Soklyn, Los Angeles; 1 grandson.
BOWLING CLUB The South Street Temple 20/40 club will meet at the Plaza Bowl, Saturday. January 23. Following bowling there will be a chili dinner at the home of Roy Buff urn.
STUDENT ~~ Jeanne Chandler, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chandler, recently entered her freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin.
GRADUATES Among the mid-term university graduating students are Eileen Sommerhauser. University of. Nebraska. Teacher's
VISITOR Benila Belick of Toronto, Canada was a recent guest at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Krivosha and Mr. and Mrs. Dave Krivosha.
at 8 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. An Oneg Shabbat will follow the service.
American Zionist Federation Appoints Midwest Director New York, N.Yj-The appointment of Newlon Dale Hacker of Chicago, as Regional Director of the thirteen State Middle West office of the American Zionist Federation was announced this week by Rabbi Israel Miller, President of the American Zionist Federation. The Middle W e s t office, which will be located in Chicago at 220 South State Street, will serve the slates of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska. North Dakota. Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Mr. Hacker, who is a graduate of Loyola University and Uie John Marshall Law School, bas been a practicing attorney for fifteen years. He has long, been active in Zionist affairs. Founded by thirteen national Zionist organizations and ten Zionist youth groups,-the Zion-
Nettlon Dale Hacker 1st Federation seeks to consolidate the efforts of the existing Zionist 'constituency in such areas as public and communal affairs, education, youth .and Aliyah, and to invite the affiliation and participation of like* minded individuals and organizations in the community at large.
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Poverty Among Jews There is the mistaken opinion among many in this country that Jews are a welMo-do element; that not all of them may be rich—or even in the "upper middle class"—but that there is no poverty among them. Nothing is further from the (ruth. The number of Jews living on welfare and seeking aid from philanthropic agencies is q . u i t e substantial. It is. estimated to be about eight percent of the entire Jewish population. The number of Jewish aged living in poverty and in need of social and welfare services runs in many tens of thousands. In New York City alone there are about 100,000 needy J e w i s h aged outside of those living in homes for elderly p e r s o n s . There are also Jewish families which must receive aid in cash. More than 2,000 of such families were aided last year in the communities with a sum of $2,500,000. This philanthropic assistance Is supplemental to the aid which poor Jews are entitled from state and municipal institutions. While no specific data on the number of Jews dependent on communal and government welfare is available, this number is estimated to reach a half-a-million. Street Scenes It is sufficient to take a walk in the!popr sections of New York," Philadelphia, B o s t o n , Chicago and other cities with a large Jewish population to realize the extent of poverty existing among Jews. Even in Miami, to where wealthy Jews "escape • for the cold winter months and live in luxurVj one can find neighborhoods with very poor Jews in .need of philanthropic aid. They came to Miami for the climate, because of their poor health, but they hardly have an income to support themselves, except
those who live on social security. And even these must count every cent. The elderly are, of course, the majority among the Jewish poor. But there are also many who have not yet reached the age of 62, the minimum age for social security. A good many of them are former small store keepers and grocerymen who, having been ousted by the growing number of supermarkets, can no longer earn a living. It is hard for them to find employment because they are over'the age of 50, and they must wait until they are eligible for social security. In the meantime, whatever savings they had accumulated have evaporated. They find themselves compelled to resort to charity, especially when they have children to educate. They are not entitled yet to social security, so they are also not entitled to benefit from the Medicare health system. When ' sick, they must visit a private physician and this costs heavy m o n e y . The' physician prescribes a medicine, and this too is costly. Their help can come only from Jewish charitable institutions. Even among the elderly Jews who r e c e i v e social security benefits, the poverty is strongly felt, because the monthly checks they receive are hardly sufficient to meet their expenses for rent and food. The Jewish federations are trying to find some kind oNcmployment for the needy—whether they were ousted from work because of economic changes or because of their age. The federations maintain their own employment bureaus for this purpose, which do their best, but with results that are meager.
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Who Were the First-Hippies? TEL AVIV (?INS)-Credit (or blame) for having been the original home of the hippies usually boils down to a contest between two countries—the USA and England. Till now it has been moot which of the two nations is entitled to this dubious honor. According to the Israel weekly "Davar Hasnavuan," organ of the United Labor Party, the title should really go to Israel! According to their version of history, neither America nor the United Kingdom is the original home of the hippie philosophy, but rather the land of Israel. •-' The first hippies, says the magazine, were the pioneers of 50 years ago who Tebelled against their middle-class etablishment, wandered about unshod from place to place, spent their time dancing, and carried on in a manner characteristic of the modern-day hippies. Many Israelis were outraged by tlus theory and registered a vigorous protest against any attempt to equate the modern-day hippie with those self-sacrificing idealists who endured every discomfort in rebuilding a land that had been left desolate over the centuries.
Muskie Sees Jarring Talks As "Form1 for Compromise Washington (JTA) — Sen. Edmund Muskie said that in the course of a three-and-ahalf hour conversation with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, i,-: "I couldn't get the ultimate intentions of the Soviet Union" With regard to the Middle East. The Maine Democrat returned from a visit abroad that took him to Israel, Egypt, West Germany and the Soviet Union. Asked if he supported current U.S. policy in the Mideast, Muskie" repfleoLf ''ksfl understand it, now, 'our policy is to build on. the /Jarring 'talks, I do support that." He continued, '.'dificult as it is to achieve a meaninful beginning, that is all we can hope to achieve." He said that "Israel feels passionately about secure bord e r s and Egypt feels passion-
ately about the recovery of territory." There is a need for some sort of compromise and the Jarring talks are a "form" for that, he said. The Senator said that the situation of Soviet Jews came up in his talks with Kosygin but he would not discuss the Soviet Premier'^ remarks oh the subject because their conversation was confidential. He said the Russians would never admit that there is any discrimination against Jews in the Soviet Union. He said the pressure of world opinion was a major factor in bringing about the commutation of two death sentences in Leningrad last month, although .the Russians will deny it.
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Jewish Sponsored Center Aids Disturbed Children New York (JTA) - A day treatment program for schoolclu'ldren aged six to 13 who need a therapeutic environ-. ment has been started at the Pleasantville Cottage School, a residential treatment c e n t e r operated by the Jewish Child Care Association of New York. Combining special education and therapy, the p r o g r a m draws on the resources of the Cottage School and of the Union Free School District No. 4 in Mount Pleasant. The free school is a special public school serving youngsters who live in the Cottage School. The Westchester Community Mental Health Board and the JCAA are joint sponsors. Jacog L. Trobe, JCAA executive director, described the program as an innovative one, "designed for educable children who may now be in mental hospitals or treatment centers, but who could return home if appropriate treatment and educational, recreational and supportive services for child and'family were available." lie added that the program also had been p l a n n e d for children "who might otherwise require hospitalization, who have difficulty functioning in regular schools and whose personal, family and social adjustment is precarious." Dr. David Biser. a specialist in the area, has been named clinical director of the new pro-
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Dallas (JTA) — The impact of the current recession on Mental Institution Jerusalem (JTA) ^- Israel Jewish professionals here has$105 million from a rec- brought 47 -applications for job Inmate Released earned ord influx of 437,0w tourists in placements from July through New York (JTA) — Grische 1970 despite a tense political last October to the Jewish VoFeigin of Riga, who was re- situation, aerial hijackings by cational Counseling Service, an - portedly taken by force from terrorists and a serious cholera increase of 300 per cent over li'.s home last Dec. 18 and outbreak in Jerusalem last fall. the same period last year, acplaced in a mental institution, Minister of Tourism Moshe cording to Allen Krause, JVCS apparently because of his pub- Kol said this week that the executive director. He also lic protests against the Soviet number of tourists was seven said the applications representUnion's anti-Jewish policies, percent greater than in 1969 and ed a 200 per cent jump over was released Thursday, accord- the income from tourism 18 the figure for the previous foiir ing to highly reliable sources. percent higher. He said it did months. He reported that secretaries, Feigin, who held ^he rank of not include $50 million spent on major in the S o v i e t armed fares on El Al, the Israeli na- journalists, salesmen and other professionals "whose jobs forces during World War II, re- tional airline. seemed secure a year ago," turned to Soviet officials last According to Kol, 46 perceni were coming to the agency af-' spring the decorations he had of last year's tourist traffic been awarded for his wartime originated in the United States ter they had exhausted other service. He returned the awards and Canada: Tourism from the areas of help after losing their -/t.., along with a letter explaining U S. rose by 13 percent com- jobs. He added that many of 1 ; them were the sole support of his reasons. The letter was pub- • pared to 1969. their families and that "a prolished in the Chicago Tribune The Tourism Ministry said longed period of unemploylast May 7. that 40 percent of last year's ment wreaks havoc with their It was reported last December that an ambulance arrived tourists were non-Jews, more families." at Feigin's home from which than half of them Christian pilseveral male nurses emerged. grims. The average income per They forced the former officer tourist was put at $214 com- ROYALWOOD ESTATES into the ambulance which took pared to $199 in 1969. him to "Psychiatric Hospital West Center Road at 129th Street. Just a, few homo files left in this 15." He reportedly was told that ® BOOKS © prestige West Omaha area. Prices "normal people do not return from |ust $6,000 to $8,400. Walk All You Noed to Know Soviet medals." There was no to new Callin Grade School and Is Our Phono Number formal announcement about his Bevcridge Jr. High. Call for plat ' 'incarceration and s i m i l a r l y and protective tovenintf informa342-3144 tion. none about his release.. Charge It a t . . . The future is that time when you'll wish you'd done what what you aren't doing now.
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gram, wliich has a capacity of tegrated, multl-f a c e t e d apIB boys and girls. The program proach," positive results "may operates on a five-day a week be achieved for many severely basis from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. troubled cluldren for whom tha Children from northern West- alternative might have been chester and the Hudson !j>hore family separation and hospitaltdistricts are eligible. Psychiat- zation." He called the new prory, psychology, social work and gram "a promising approach special education are included to resolving serious problems in the treatment p r o g r a m , while helping the child at home which includes family consul- in the community." tation and casework. Dr. Biser explained that the program involved "a team ap- Board of Rabbis proach combining the efforts of teacher and mental health spe- Denounces JDL cialist. The classroom and aftNew York (JTA)—The New er-school activities group are York Board of R a b b i s depart of the learning and healing nounced the Jewish Defense process:" He added that In the League as a group which has project, "we work together, "greatly harmed the cause of sharing* insights and special Jewry" by "its resort io harasscompetence, seeing the child , ment and violence." as a whole and involving his The Board said the Soviet family in helping him." In this Union was "guilty of cruel perrespect, he reported, the pro- secution and unjust denial of gram differs from "the tradi- rights in respect to its Jewish tional piecemeal treatment ap- population" but' that the JDL. proach in which a t r o u b l e d "has enabled the tyrant to aschild attends a guidance clinic, sume the pose of the victim" his parents may consult a men- and that it had given Soviet tal health clinic on their own, leaders "additional fuel to stoko and the teacher functions in- the fires of their bigotry and an excuse to besmirch the name of dependently." Under these circumstances, the Jewish people' and Zionhe asserted, "the therapist does ism." not see the ful picture of classThe Board declared that (ho room behavior—a vital area for JDL "has no official connection the schoolchild—the classroom with the Zionist movement, that teacher gets no help from the it contradicts the ideals-of our therapist's insight and the par- religious heritage and that it ents get only fragmented guid- represents only a tiny, misguid- , ance." He expressed the view cd minority of the Jewish com-: that through the program's "in- munity."
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'Mordeeai Speaks Out Q. Why do you think you were permitted to leave? A. I cannot search for logic of the Pharoahs. The actions that I took, the way I fought, differ in no way from the actions of my friends who are still there. • Q. How have Russian Jews organized themselves in order to retain their Jewishness? A, There are some Jews who would like to dissolve into the mass of Russians and to get rid of the burden of Jewishness, not to stand out and therefore not to be the object of abuse. There is another group of Jews who feel themselves to be' Jews and who retain their Jewishness. But they remember Iher Stalin period very vividly. In public they don't express their J e w i s h n e s s . These Jews are passive Jews and they are not capable of protesting. They can't even take advantage of the changes in Russian society. There. is another group of Jews -who want to remain Jews, who want to define their human righl to be Jews. These are the Jews who are fighting for the right to go to Israel, who protest' the violation of their rights. The enlyK future they see is in Israel, not in the Soviet Union. It is interesting that the most active fighters in this group are children of the most completely assimilated families. Q. What is the role of the synagogue in the Soviet Jewry struggle? A. It is mostly the old peo-
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Judaism in Israel Tel Aviv (ZINS)—In a public opinion poll conducted by the "Institute for Public Opinion Research", 52% of the Israel population welcome the growth of Reform and Conservative Judaism in Israel. Only 26% of those questioned were categorically opposed, while 10.8% of those surveyed confessed they never heard of these denominations. Most significant was the fact that of all $hose •who claimed to be "religious," 31% favor the growth of Reform and Conservative Judaism. Only two years ago, in a similar poll, only 40% of those interviewed favored a free hand for the non-Orthodox movements, and an equal number —40%—had no knowledge of them. Military Paris Paris <JTA)--IsraeI is'quietly receiving military spare parts from France, although the embargo laid down by the late President Charles de Gaulle is still in effect, according to the French, weekly Nouvelle Observateur. The magazine cited this report as further evidence that Franco-Israeli relations have improved considerably in the last few months. It said that spare parts were being sent to Tel Ayjv "discreetly, just as they were before
ple who come regularly to the synagogue. But they do not open their mouths. There is an atmosphere of fear always in the synagogue. Young people come to the synagogue mostly on holidays, especially Simchat Torah and Pesach, because the synagogue, is the only place Jews can meet other Jews. Many of my friends became believing Jews through their study of Hebrew and of Judaism. We see in the Torah a description of the heroic history of our people. This heroism we lack living in the galut of Russia. Q. How do you view the recent arrest and trial of Jews in the Soviet Union?,, A. In my view, the purpose of the trial is to return the Jews to a state of silence, to make tiiem stop handing in applications to go to Israel and to be quiet again. I would like to point out thai this tactic has already failed, because the number of protests has increased greatly since the arrests. Q. In your opinion, have demonstrations been effective? A. Yes, demonstrations are effective. One proof is the fact that only 34 have been arrested whereas hundreds are active. It is world opinion that has prevented a campaign of terror and reprisals against Jews in general. The fact that several dozen of my friends and I have been able to leave the SoViet Union is also the result of the pressure of world public opinion.
the Cherbourg Affair." The "Cherbourg Affair" occurred on Christmas Day, 1989, when five unarmed gunboats built.for Israel in France but under embargo, were spirited away from Cherbourgjty Israeli crews. • » .' The incident aroused the French governmpnt's anger and reportedly led to a tightening of the arms embargo against Israel which had been in effect since the June, 1967 Arab-Israeli war. But Israeli circles here claimed that the embargo on spare parts was enforced even before the gunboats left Cherbourg. They had no comment on the report that spare parts were now being delivered to Israel.' \ Travel Boycott Urged New York (JTA)—Betar, a militant Zionist youth group, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency this Week that it was urging American travel agents to boycott travel to Russia. Betar spokesman Kenneth Arfa said the group was preparing a mass mailing to 900 travel agencies in the New York area and eventually to travel agencies all over the country asking them to refrain from booking travel to Russia in protest against the current mistreatment of Russian Jews. He said the travel afents who joined the boycott would be asked to give their clients the reason for it.
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Center Sports By Charles Arnold For Mure Informallou Call the Athletic Office 312-13GG
VARSITY BASKETBALL MIDGET CAGERS Vess Beverage suffered their Midget league basketballers first defeat of the year at the will again be taking to the hands of Parsows Men's Wear, court, Tuesday night; February 54 to 50. A balanced scoring 9, during halftime of the UNO attack by Parsows put this ex- Basketball-game. Special pracciting game . into overtime. tices will be held starting SunTom Kirshenbaum hit a key day, January 24, at 1:00 p.m. bucket in the overtime to seal The following boysj are schedthe victory. John Love and uled to participate:;^ ^ Dan Katskee combined for 22 Ben Belmont. Steve Parsow, of the teams points. Harold Mann led Vess with 17 points. Kevin Scudder, Bruce BelTretiaks blasted Wolf Bros. grade, Steve Molad, John 58 to.39 in the second contest Stern, Mark Saferstein, Bruce of the night. Balanced scor- Marko, Randy Belmont,' Todd ing by Barry Zoob, Don Fied- Finkle. ler, and Sandy Friedman produced 10. 12, and 12 points re- YOUTH COUNCIL spectively which put the game " B " LEAGUE out of reach early in the secChaim Weizmann used 31 ond half. Bob Handlcman points by Bruce Richards, 25 paced Wolf Bros, with 15 of them in the first half, to points. roll past AZA 1 50 to 28. Ron Al'Muskin paced Greenberg Feldman had 18 points to pace Insurance past Dean's Cam- AZA 1. Dave Walker helped era 60 to. .57 with 18 points. ' Richards with 10 points and •RoyJKatskee kept Dean's Cam- many offensive rebounds. era in the game with 20 points. USY defeated Rayim on a Mark' Rimmerman aided the forfeit. winners with strong board play Standings to Date and also hit for 15 points. W. L, Standings to Date Chaim Weizmann 5 0 2 3 VessBev.Cq. 5 1 AZA 1 Parsows ..'.,.,... 5 1 Rayim 2 3 Dean's • ..4 2 USY . . . . ; . . . . . . . 1 4 Tretiaks 2 4 Wolf Bros 1 5 Greenberg Ins 1 5 YOUTH COUNCIL "A" LEAGUE Scoring Leaders to Date In the first encounter of the Harold Mann 116 Dan Katskee '.. 90 e v e n i n g , Chaim Weizmann Tom^Kirshenbaum •.. 82 blasted ,AZA 100 96-50. WeizEd Belgrade ...; 72 mann's tenacious press helped David Katz 69 them pull away from an 8-8 Al Muskin 69 deadlock. Bob Haiidleman 68 Mark Belmont and Alan Bill • Ginsburg 67 Greenberg combined for 49 Roy Katskee ; 67 points for the Weizmann team. John Love 67 Howard Katzman led AZA ,100 with 17 points. MIDGET LEAGUE The second game of the BASKETBALL night saw AZA X thwart RaySunday, January 24 im's try for a comback 59-46. l:45-^Mutuals vs. Preds AZA 1 was led by Mike Staen2:30—First Mid-America vs. berg's 24 points while Rayim I-Go-Van. was led by Buzz Malashock's 22 points. OLYMPIC LEAGUE BASKETBALL* PHYSICAL FITNESS 'Sunday, January 24 3: So—May/air vs. Lynn RobA new program is now being erts. /."..'.. offered to all boys 13 years of . 4:15—Mastercraft vs. Milder age and up. This special class will be held on Monday, WedOil.;. . nesday, and Friday afternoons JUNIOR BOYS at the Center's weight room SPORTS CLUB from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. The Junior Boys Sports Club Pat Herron will conduct the is now in full swing. .Teams are being chosen for an exciting class. This program is not the o r d i n a r y weightlifting proWddy-basketball league. ' AH interested third and fourth gram, but will stress cardiograde boys are urged to sign vascular fitness, an area very up now for the league. Regis- important in today's world. All boys interested in partration may be made by calling the JCC .Athletic Depart- ticipating can register by calling the Center's Athletic Dept. ment, 342-1366: (342-1366) or by coming down on any of the scheduled days. A participant need not attend all three days of workouts. The class is free to those holding a Center membership. Fee for non-members is ?10 per month. •
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Monday afternoons, the -MISSY PROGRAM is dedicated to girls in Kindergarten through second grade, and Wednesday afternoons are for girls in the third and fourth grades. At present, there are 29 girls participating in Cheerleading Drill and Pom Pom Team Motions. The girls will be able to use these valuable skills because many of them will be chosen to be cheerleaders for the IddyBiddy Basketball and Olympic Basketball games. If your child is not taking part in this program, enroll, now by calling Vicki Lucas, 342-1360, Extension 2G, or the A t h l e t i c Department of the JCC.
NER TAMID GIHLS—Front row: Rhonda Saferstein, Lynne Berenson, Anne Ilerenson: Back row: Sherry Josin, N a n c y Greenberg and Eddie Fishcl. •
There are 10 girls enrolled in the "Charm Course" which is offered to girls in grades 5-8. Classes are held Sunday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at Center West. Topics for dis•cussion include clothes coordination, hair care, speech and conduct. ' The 1971 Dolphins (Swimming Team) meets every Monday and Wednesday night from 7:30 to 8:30 at the Jewish Community Center pool. Swimmers of all ages and ability are needed tor future swimming meets. Those interested are asked to contact the JCC Athletic Department for further information. -
The finals of the GYC Olympic Point Volleyball Competition-took place Sunday, January 17 at the JCC Gym. This second event of the GYC Agenda saw Ner Tamid defeat Hevrah in the best two out of three series. In the championship •game, Ner T a m i d defeated Ediar to capture first place. HEVRAH GIRLS—Front row: Bobby. Freeman. Second row: Heyrah won second place and Cccc Greenberg, April Dcporte, Carol Trcller. Third row: DebEdiar finished in third place. by Bernstein, Linda Gomberg and Pam Greenberg.' Two trophies were presented a f t e r the completion of the Ediar-Ner Tamid game. Trophies will be presented for basketball, golf and tennis. OLYMPIC POINT STANDINGS Heyrah — 8 points — (5 for • Bowling and 3 for Volleyball) Ner Tamid—6 points (1 for bowling and 5 for Volleyball) Ediar—4 points (3 points for bowling and 1 for Volleyball). The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants dpne, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. HELEN A, BERNSTEIN 393-9111
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