THE JEWISH Serving Council Bluffs, Des Moinest Lincoln, Omaha Vol. M—No. 8
OMAHA, ,NEB., ,FRI., NOV. 6, 1071
Mayor Leahy Proclaims 'Soviet Jewry W f c 1 O m a h a — A Proclamation designating October 29-November 5 as/'Sovlet Jewry Week." la Omaha, was issued by Mayor Eugene Leahy, to coincide with the Omaha visit of the Soviet Jewry Freedom Bus. The complete text of the Proclamation follows this story. Two young S o v i e t . J e w i s h activists and 3 American Jewish Youth leaders visited in Omaha last weekend and;spoke, a t a community-wide meeting. Saturday evening at Temple Israel. Members of the Freedom Bus which Is traveling across the country to muster support for the liberation of the S o v i e t Jews, the young people told their Omaha audience, "One generation after one-third of our jpeople were v i c t i m s of g e n o c i d e under Hitler, onefourth of the Jewish people are
now threatened by cthniclde in the Soviet Union." Relating her experiences in the Soviet Union prior to emi- r grating to Israel 3 months ago, 25 year old Tsipora Wolf said, "there is no hope- for Soviet Jews except emigration to Israel." Miss Wolf noted the imp o r t a n c e of the increasing •numbers of young Soviet Jewish activitists. "It's impossible to jail all of them, and some of them are being permitted to leave,'1 she said. She also noted the importance of American support of emigration rights for Soviet Jews. "Russia Is, very sensitive to world public opinion, you must make your voices heard," she said. Those; attending the Saturday e v e n i n g meeting'were asked to sign a "Let My People Go' Manifesto, urging the releaso of Soviet Jews who wish to emigrate to Israel. One
•WHEREAS, the Jews in the Soviet Union have been subject to a campaign of harassment by the Soviet authorities and have had many of their synagogues forcefully closed; and — WHEREAS, the Jews of the Soviet Union have been deprived of any opportunity to give religious education to their children, and have been deprived of facilities for - the training of rabbis; and WHEREAS, the Jews of the Soviet Union have been subject .to unjust harassment, arrest and persecution, and have •' been allowed few opportunities to relate to other Jewish communities; and ' WHEREAS, the Jews of the Soviet Union have been deprived of the opportunity to emigrate to the State of Israel, and have been allowed little opportunity to develop Yiddish language and culture; • NOW, THEREFORE, I, Eugene A. Leahy, Mayor of the ' City of Omaha, Nebraska, do hereby proclaim October 29-November 5,1971 to be SOVIET JEWRY WEEK in the City of Omaha, and call upon all citizens of this community to join in protest against this tragic situation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Omaha to be affixed this 29tfcday of October, 1971. EUGENE A. LEAHY _ " ; _ Mayor
of the objectives of the freedom Bus tour is~to collect a half-million signatures to the petition-which will-be presented' to officials in Washington.
EliZalkin Continues Israel Bond Leadership Omaha—E. Robert Newman, General Chairman of the Omaha Israel Bond Committee, has a n n o u n ced the "Continuing * leadership role" of/.Eli Zalkin as his Associate Chairman in the 1971 bond drive. ' Mr. ^Zalkin headed the 1969 Israel Bond campaign as General . Chairman and during his leadership new record highs,in sales were attained. Mr. Newman said, "Mr. Zalkin will be taking up the Bond leadership reins in a critical time for Israel. Foremost, among' Israel's needs is solid financial backing, through investment capital provided by Bonds to enable Israel to cope with such problem^ as housing and unemployment needs of the, new immigrants and the equally pressing needs of expanding industry and trade/' ~ . Mr. Zalkin, an'active member of the Jewish-community for many years, was president
EH Zalkin of the Henry Monsky Lodge of B'nai B'rith. He serves on the Board of the" Jewish Federation and Beth El Synagogue and has been an active participant in many philanthropic en- • deavors here.
Rabbi Brooks to Receive Degree Nov. 12 Omaha—The honorary degree of Doctor ;of Divinity will be presented to Rabbi Sidney HBrooks at" Sabbath services, Nov. 12, 1971,-at 8:15 p.m.. at Temple Israel." • The degree was conferred on Rabbi Brooks in June, 1971, by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute" of" Religion. As Rabbi Brooks was unable to attend the ceremony in Cincinnati, the college presented his award in abstentia. Arrangements have now been made by Dr. Alfred Gottschal, president of HUC-JIR;to have the degree presented to Rabbi Brooks in Omaha.' Rabbi Kenneth David Rose- man, Dean of the Cincinnati Campus of HUC-JIR will make the presentation, and will de-
Arabs Voice Hope lo Oust Israel From Off
Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks '
Rabbi Kenneth D. Roscman , liver the Sabbath evening sermon. His s u b j e c t will be: "Training Reform Rabbis for Tomorrow."
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Oberlin College, Rabbi Roseman received his BHL and MHL degrees with honors' from HUC-JIR where he won numerous honors for his scholarship, His articles on education and research have been published and are used as reference material by students.
Rabbi Roseman is a 1966 New York (ZINS:UN)-Arab graduate of HUC-JIR yvhere he : spokesmen now openly speak now serves as Dean and as asof their hope, nourished by the sistant professor of American precedent-shattering expulsion'' Jewish History. A graduate of of Taiwan from the UN, that Israel will be the next target for expulsion from the world bodyl _^_According to reporters j:lose to tfiiTArab^scene,their ,case will be predicted on the premise that, if such a radical action , was taken against Formosa, which has never committed any New York (JTA)—The Stu- The demonstrators urged conaggression, it would follow that dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry sumers not to purchase MonIsrael "which has attacked and announced it would conduct "a sieur Henri products until the appropriated Arab lands, and selective economic boycott of is guilty of "aggression, must be selected Russian products." firm drops its trade with the •;•,• ejected from the UN." The announcement followed a U S S R . • The Arabs have made it quite demonstration by the : SSJ in clear that' they expect to mount front of Macy's and Gimbels to a determined attack on Israel protest the stores' 'selling pf in order to bring the question Russian vodka. of Israel's expulsion from the Thirty members of the SSSJ UN to a G e n e r a T Assembly demonstrated for more than v o t e . - ;.::'•:• ' .•;•"•• - ..'.'•' •'.'•' two-and-a-half hours. They car-. . Jerusalem (JTA) — Israel ried picket signs reading "Imhas informed the United port Russian Jews, not Russian States through diplomatic channels thatitwiirnpjt parJ ; Vodka^and ^'Soviet Vodka,~ No; Soviet Jews, Yes."! Leafticipate further in talks on Omaha—The Omaha Synagogue Council, representing the lets, distributed by the -demon-' an interim Suez agreement three major congregations in the city, has joined many other re, . . . • . strators, declared: "There can-;, as long as the U.S. continues ligious bodies in opposition to H. J . Res. 191, now pending in tho Amsterdam (JTA) -r Mem-."-not be business as usual as to withhold the Phantom House of Representatives. Tho Council also voiced oppositionV'to beVs' of all Dutch-parties rep- long as 'Jewish lives are -at . jets Israel has asked for. other similar proposals for constituUonal amendments td author- resented in Parliament, except- stake." '-'•'- .••'.• Washington Iras been told ize nondenominational prayer in public buildings. Glenn Rlchter,. SSSJ nationthe Communists, sent a cable that Israel cannot continue In their resolution adopted this week, the Omaha Synagogue to the Cabinet demanding that al coordinator, said the demonnegotiating w h i l e she is . Council said in part, "We express the long-standing official posi- the Netherlands should act on • stration was the first in a seaware that the balance of ries of selective economic boytions of the nation's religious faiths which affirm the adequacy behalf of Syrian Jews. power in the area is undercotts. Richter noted'that the The, cable stated .that the of the First Amendment to protect religious interests and to engoing "a change through So1 sure religious rights. We therefore respectfully petition the Con- Jews ;of:Syria, should; b^ial- ; Russian vodka sold by Macy's viet supplies of war magress of the United States to preserve the religion clauses of tbo lowed to leave that 'coimtry, or!; and Gimbels was imported by terial ' .td [ ^gyj?'.' Including First Amendment intact and to oppose any and all prayer amend-" atlastsbe; sate-tiym'Xpilwe ;ari^)i 3 ; incuts'(o the Constitution." '•' . , ' • • < - . ' ' .persecirtionSi'?' t ^ '.>*•.••' '•>•, • '^ \i
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