November 26, 1971

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Sadat Voices War Threats Jerusalem (JTA)—Foreign tlement." Sadat exhorted the 'No Comment' mation from Cairo of Sadat's Department sources said that. Minister Abba Eban c a l l e d soldiers to "fight ferociously to U. S. State D e p a r t m e n t threats in advance^ of their, de- Israel's request for Phantoms President Anwar Sadat's speech prove to the world that we are spokesman Charles Bray de- livery. Asked if his silence on continues "under study and reto Egyptian troops a combina- a fighting people." clined to comment on President Sadat's speeches meant that the view" despite Sadat's appeartion of ."military threats and Eban said that while Israel Sadat's bellicose speeches to State Department was not tak- ance with his troops and the arpolitical extortion". ing Sadat's threats seriously, rival of up to 10 Soviet TU-16 will not be intimidated, it must Egyptian forces. Addressing Egyptian troops take Sadat at his word. By re- Bray also re/used to discuss B r a y responded: "No com-aircraft capable of firing airalong the Suez Canal this week, fusing genuine peace and in- whether the U.S. received infor- ment." to-surface missiles. Sadat said, "I have come to sisting on threats, Sadat can tell you that the battle is at bring nothing but disaster on hand." He said he had made.a his nation and region, Eban decision to fight Israel because said. "It is time to stop the there "is no longer any hope bombast and begin free and 'whatsoever of a peaceful set- •fair negotiations," the Israeli Foreign Minister said. He reiterated his country's standing offer to negotiate an honorable interim accord over the Suez Canal or an overall settlement negotiated by both Omaha—Since Sept. 12, 1971, sides, under the auspices of a new facility has been avail- United Nations mediator Gunable at the Dr. Philip Sher nar Jarring in which each side Home for the Aged. A fully can present its solution without equipped dental clinic is "now ultimatums or prior conditions. operational and in full use at Serving Council Bluffs, the Home. Des Moines, Lincoln* Omaha • T h e clinic has been made possible by a gift from Dr. and Mrs. Albert Rimmerman in LI—No. 11 OMAHA, NEB., F I B , NOV. 20, 1071 New York (JTA)—The top memory of their parents, Harleadership of. A m e r i c a n ry and Esther Rimmerman and Jewry will gather In WashDavid nnd Faye Leinson. ington Nov. 29 and., 30 for Dr. Rimmerman personally a national,policy meeting to supervised the installation of determine a future course of ? ! the dental apparatus which inaction in view of Egyptian cludes a dental chair, full denPresident Anwar S a d a t ' s tal unit and X-ray equipment. new threat of immediate Omaha—The first in a serids the Milton. S. and Corrine N. He also attended to the redecwar with Israel and the curoration of the room and held a of unique^ "Telelectiires" will Livingston Foundation. There rent U.S. State Department reception and briefing session be presented by Brandeis Uni-. is no admission charge. policies w h i c h encourage at the Home in September for For this first program, Dr. anti-Israel extremities in versity in conjunction .with the all Omaha Jewish dentists to in- Arab countries. Jewish Cultural Committee at Nahiim N. Glatzer will speak troduce them to the new facilThe meeting has teen 8 p.m. Monday, November 29 on "Buber and Rosensweig; ity. called, by the Conference of at Beth Israel Synagogue, 1502 Their Relevance for Today". -The dental clinic is open to Rabbi Sidney Brooks will act Presidents of Major AmerNo. 52nd Street, Omaha. residents of the home for use ican Jewish Organizations. as moderator. the Telelecture Series comby their personal dentists. Dr. Glatzer is the Lane Proprises four videotape lectures fessor of Jewish History and to bo presented on - four suc- Social Ethics at Brandeis Unicessive Monday evenings. Fol- versity. H6~Ts\the author of lowing eacfi videotape lecture, more than sixty) books and arthe speakers, who are among tides in the field of, Jewish histhe country's foremost Judaic toryand literature. scholars, will be available for , • a-special:amplified telephone' A graduate of .the University Dr. Nahum N. Glatzer question and answer session of Frankfurt am Main, Dr. Glatzer succeeded Martin Bubetween Omaha and Brandeis'. •Washington (JTA) — Israeli to obtain additional Phantoms ber in the chair of Jewish Re- Eastern'and Judaic Studies Desources confirmed that Israeli nor to participate in the Gen- This innovative educational ligious H i s t o r y and Ethics partment and has been a visitprogram has been made possiPremier Golda Meir will meet eral Assembly debate on the ble by a Special Grant from there. Prior to going to Bran- ing Lecturer at the University Middle Cast. deis in 1950, he taught at Ye- of California. with President Nixon and Secshiva University. Since 1954, Further programs scheduled retary" of State William P. RogDr. Glatzer has been an edi- are: December 6, Professor ers early next month to discuss torial advisor to S c h o e k e n Ben Halpern on "The Nature the general position of Israel in Books,Inc. He is.a_member of of Anti-Semitism"; December the tense Middle East. The the Jewish. Publication Society 13, Professor Alexander Alt' sources said that the Soviet and a Director; of the Leo'mann on "Aspects of Hasidic Union was determined to raise a Guggenheim Fellowship, Dr. Doctrine" and December 20, the Middle East issue in the Baeck Institute. A recipient of -Asst^Prpfessor Michael Fish-summit conference b e t w e e n Glatzer is a former chairman bane, ."On Reading a Biblical Nixon and Soviet leaders in of Brandeis University's Near Text." - Moscow next May. In light of these reported developments, t o g e t h e r with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's threats to engage in war to recover the Sinai and admission by State Department sources that the American initiative' for an agreement1 between' Israel and Egypt is stalled, the sources said that Israeli'authorities considered it • NEW YORK (JTA)-Chie£ Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin of Mosessential that an exchange of cow—the Russian capitals only rabbi for 500,000 Jews during tho viflws take place on the highest past three years—died there Nov. 17 at the age of 77. He leaves level between the US and Ishis wife, three grown daughters, and ,15, grandchildren. Reports rael. . v from Moscow gave conflicting causes of death. Some attributed They staid that even if no Imit to pneumonia, others to cancer of the prostate. . mediate decisions arc taken by A tall, bearded man with an,imposing presence, Rabbi Levin (he US' government, Israel was a controversial figure because dfliis defense of Soviet policy must have an opportunity to toward Jews and his' anti-Zionist statements. communicate to Nixon Us poRabbi Levin was backed by Orthodox; groups who stressed litical and security requirethat he was under constant surveillance by Soviet agents. Tha_ ments. Such a meeting, the Orthodox saw him as a "heroic figure* who.had managed to main^" sources stated, Is of importance tain some semblance of Jewish life—such as synagogue activities to Israel even if Mrs. Meir reand matzoh-baking—in his officially atheistic country. They also turns to Israel "empty-handsaw him as a tragic figure who had to say publicly what he—• ed." They stressed that the with his deep religious convictions—did not really believe. main purpose of the visit is not '•; :. Successor.,. The question of Rabbi Levin's successor remained uncertain. Therp are no more/than lOpracticinglrabbis left in the Soviet —Pholoi b/ Skdcnt S ruoglo (or Sovlol Jewry Union, it is estimated, and only two1 of them are in the European Photos recently smuggled from the USSR show: (top, left) Val- portion of the country—Rabbi ChaimLubanov of Leningrad, who Omaha — The Orientation ery?Kukuy of Sverdlovsk, sentenced to three years; (right) Dr. is 91, and Rabbi Israel Schwartzblatt of Odessa, who is in his session for volunteers to Boris Azernlkov of Leningrad, sentenced to 3% years; (bottom, lato 50s, Rabbi Lubanov's concern for'his congregants has gained LOVE will be held on-Wedleft) Alexander Gorbach of Kharkov, fined 400 rubles; (right); ,.h|m, a reputation as "a saint," but he has become enfeebled and nesday, December. 1, at 7:30 Shimon Grillus 0f,Halzan, sentenced to,five years. Each had isolated from the Jewish community because of the congregants*. • p.m. at the Dr. Philip Sher expressed a fcrvant desire to live in Israel and had applied to. fear of reprisals.' Rabbi Schwartzblatt-ousted,G.I. Mizraclu; at. Home for the lAged. ,.„«,: „« nj«.™ *«- t,o;«« i s one source put it, "too Jewish." • leave. _MI />a • , , n . , ( , £ . l N i J

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