7 Named to Federation Board Omaha—Five new members to appoint a committee to Jn- dations from the Bureau for the ported on the activities of that ers in the public schools oir were elected to the Executive vestigate other sites for .the future was the appointment of committee. Highlights included Jewish holidays. Board of the Omaha Jewish new Jewish Community Center. a Director for the Bureau of the Soviet Jewry Rally, the Mr. Rosen recommended conFederation at the B o a r d of Mr. Newman explained that Jewish Education and the pos- meeting on Amendment 12; the tinued efforts in education on Governors meeting, Wednes- there is some question as to sibility of expanding Jewish Israel Pilgrimage for Christian the isues of Israel and Soviet day, March 31, at the Jewish whether the present site will be Education through a communi- Clergy; the development of an Jewry, as well as greater inCommunity Center. Urban Housing Rehabilitation volvement in the problems of large enough to facilitate the ty Jewish High School. Edward Rosen, chairman of Program, and efforts to geturban Omaha and integration Twelve nominations w e r e many activities projected for the ADL-CRC Committee re- personal leave for Jewish teach- of the public schools. - ;.,: tnade from the floor for the the new Center. live seats on the board. Those Charles Monasee, chairman elected were: Alvin Abramson, Milton Abrahams, Mrs. Morris of the new JCC Study CommitC. Fellman, Harlan Noddle and tee, reported on the progress of the study which involves some EliZalkin. people. Monasee explained Other nominees were Henry 200 that the thinking of the entire Appel, Norman Halin, Frank community necessary if the Goldberg, Mrs. Arthur Gold- new Center is is to serve all the stein, Martin Lehr, Mike Her- needs of all segments of the man and Mrs. Sheldon Lincoln. community. Appointment's Reports The three remaining seats on Steve Riekes, chairman of the board will be filled by appointments of the Federation the Jewish Cultural Committee, president, CM. Newman. Mr. reported that some 2,500 people ' N e w m a n announced two of have been exposed to the prothose appointments. They are: grams of the Cultural CommitHoward Hochstcr, a junior at tee this year. He urged comServing Council Bluffsr Westside High School and Carl plete commitment and partici,.Cohn, a Creighton University pation on the part of FederaDes Moines, Lincoln, Omaha Law student. Mr. N e w m a n tion leadership to the Cultural noted that this is the first time program in the future in order VoL LXIX—28 OMAHA, NEB., FBI., - APRIL 2, 1971 the youth of the community that the quality of adult Jewish have been represented on the education might be improved. Federation board. He indiicatIn the absence of Morris Felled his desire to involve more man, chairman of the Bureau young people in the work of the of Jewish Education, Mrs. FellFederation. . man read the report from tho - Mr. Newman also announced bureau. Highlights of the year the appointment of Joe Upton included the instigation of an and Jack Cohen to head the Israel Pilgrimage for 21 high Federation Budget Committee. school students this year; a Teacher's Institute and a speNcwJCC In other action taken by the cial committee studying the Board of Governors, Mr. New- possibility of a J e w i s h Day Tel Aviv (JTA)—The largest envied the doves who can fly subsequently filed again, but man was given the authority School. Among the recommen- group of Soviet Jews ever to freely wherever they wish, and has received no reply.-Another arrive in Israel landed at Lyd- I was closed in the cage. Now 20 or so Ukrainian Jews, they said, recently applied for emida Airport March 25 in a spe- I am free again.' Chaim Spivakowskl, a Khar- gration in order to live with cial El Al jet. Western newsmen at the airport estimated kov economist, said the Jews then- brethren in Israel but not yet received replies, their number at 150. The prev- of that city had never believed have On the positive side, the Kiev Omaha—In a report to the pledges to-date of $647,998. ious record, 6et a few weeks they would be able to leave the Soviet Union. "It w a s a arrivals said, some 40 Kiev Board of Governors of the The s a m e cards produced ago, was an estimated 100. dream," he said. "Several peo- Jews were invited to the Inter* Omaha Jewish'Federation, $341,089 last year. ior Ministry and advised their Morley Zipursky, chairman'of Zipursky noted that 'the The » new , „ contingent - • , included « „ , ple - did send in applications but applications had been apthe 1971 Jewish Philanthropies Youth Campaign which showed Jews frbm Moscow, Kiev, Riga never received replies. Now p r o v e d . " -•- - - : •••• • campaign, noted that the $ T outstanding results iair^ar/*7^'^"^^^'tI™^"»'^ttot--sfliUB-pea^-dM-lwelv« long time, Kharkov. million goal will bo met if the is on tho way to an even better ' — " — *"•"-'— Feivush Zlotkin of Riga said permits there will be, no doubt, initial response is any indica campaign this year, He reportThe newly arrived Riga Jews' a large wave of applications his 46-year-old sister, Assia Letion. . ed that at a meeting of work- included m e c h a n i c , Mendel from Kharkov Jews who wish vin, was arrested a few months "We are one third of the ers and captains in the Youth Klclnstein, who on touching to come to Israel." Spivakow- ago with other Jews, all chargV way through the current division, 49 pledges were made ground recited a Yiddish poem ski added, however, that, the ed with "subversive actions""—p campaign and we are 00 per for a total of $1,305. "Our kids of his recalling his waiting for secret police- have increased studying Hebrew and singing cent ahead of last year," he are really showing us the this day: "And it did come at their activities in. the Kharkov Hebrew songs. His sister was said. Mr. Zipursky reported way," said Mr. Zipursky. : last. For 2)000 years have I Jewish community, searching later released, Zlotkin said, but the homes of emigration ap- has to report for daily inter* . plicants and confiscating He- rogation at the police station, where she is pressured to name brew books and pamphlets. The Kiev arrivals sajd a other "subversives" or "be pu^ young Jew named Leonid Po- into a mental asylum." ZloUdtt lashinsky had filed for emigra- said there were some indica* tion and for cancellation of his tions his sister might be useq citizenship but was recruited as a witness against her fellow -Jews. •' ' '. '.'' ' -1 ( Into the Army. They said' he
THE JEWISH PRESS
150 Soviet Jews Arrive in Israel
90 Percent Increases Shown In Omaha Campaign to Date
Prominent Personalities Answer Zionist "Roll Call"
Controversial Show Renewed by CBS-TV
6TANDINO UP TO BK COUNTED—Recount* Ina that anti-Zionism la fait becoming • code* word for antl-Semltlsm and sntl-lsraellsm, promlnsnt American Jewa hava responded to ths million member roll call of the) Amerloaa' •Zionist Federation by Jolnltia aa membera at larg«. (topi I. to r.) Dp, Abraham J« sHosehel, theologian): Isaao.- .Bashevls • Singer, -author). Arthur J. Goldberg 'former Suprem* Court Jua. tits and diplomat; *nd Richard Tuoker, opera star, (bottom row, I. to r.) Ello Wlesei; writer)
Dr. Halm Gfnott, child psychologist; Herman Wouk,- author) and Chalm Gross, sculptor.. Rabbi larael Miller, preaident of tha American ZIonlit Federation, said that "It la moat en« oouraglng that many Amerloan Jewa In. thla time of peril for laraet, reeognUIng tha need ,for Jewish solidarity, have made the decision :,to stand up and ba counted for all tha positive valu«a In Jewish Ufeii.Thia1 Is thelfjanswer to the attsoka on Zionism and th* security of •
New York (JTA)-"A1I in the Family," the comedy series about an American bigot, which has been under fire by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, was renewed for the 1971-72 season by CBS-TV last week. John Cowden, CBS-TV's vice president for information services, said that 183 of the chain's 195 station affiliates were carrying the series—an "overwhelming" total that represents "one of the highest" levels of acceptance among CBS-TV "shows. In addition, he noted, a "majority" of critics and viewers have' indicated approval of the program. "All in the Family," which premiered in January, centers on Archie Bunker, (played by Carroll O'Cohnor) .a blue-col-Jar .worker; who4spews, racial ; his
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episode, Archie excoriated a Jewish woman for alledgedly ramming his car ("They're all the same, them people!"), then' sought a Jewish lawyer to represent him because "they'rd smarter and shrewder." Arnold Forster,' g e n e r a l ' counsel to the ADL, considers the series a "reinforcement'' of stereotypes, and Whitney JJl. Young Jr., the late executive director of the National Urban League, had described the show as similar to "Amos V Andy." . Norman Lear, co-producer and story consultant for "All in the Family," said that the program seeks first to entertain and second to cause viewers to reconsider their own prejudices. The show's' supporters have included»the critics'- of lh<> frewYofk #imes!aftl' 'Hffli TV 'Gufde1;'kWd.it is a1 personal , favorite, of CBS-TV; president 'ftoberfu.7lW6dd.' *•• 'l ' r I'-:?r''"'