Halpern to Lecture On Ttaii-Semitism Omaha—The second in the series of ""Telelectures" presented by Brandeis University ;• in conjunction with the Jewish Cultural Committee will be Jiejd on Monday, December 6 at 8 p.m. at Beth Israel Syna. gogue, 1502 N. 52nd St., Omaha. Admission is free. About one hundred people attended (be first lecture in the series in which a video-tape of a lecture by Dr. Nahum Glatzer on "Buber and Rosensweig; Their Relevance for Today" was shown. After the twenty minute talk, question and answer .session between "' the Omaha audience and Dr., Glatzer was made possible by Dr. Ben Halpern telephone communication. Dr. Sidney H. Brooks, who moderPrior to going to Brandeis, ated the question and answer Dr, Halpern was national secsession, noted that tho telelec- retary of Hechalutz Organiza• ture was truly a "first'-in tion; English secretary of: tho • Omaha Adult Jewish Educa^ Jewish National Fund; retipn. search associate for the Amer' vThe .speaker for this Monday ican Jewish Committee; editor evening will be Dr. Ben Hal- for the World .Jewish Congress pern Who will lecture on '"the • and' Institute of Jewish AfNature of Anti-Semitism." Harold Adler will be the modera- fairs; editor of "Jewish Frontier"; department director of tor. . ' Dr. Halpern is professor of the Jewish Agency for Israel Near Eastern and Judaic Stu- and a research associate at the -J 'dies at';Bra"ndeis University Harvard Center for Middle and received his Ph.D. degree East Studies, a post still held. • from Harvard University. He is He has published several book3 - a member of Phi 'Beta Kappa and assays and is currently and a graduate of the Hebrew making a comprehensive study of Israeli society. Teachers College.
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Omaha Women to Observe Omaha—Mrs. Morton Richards," President of the Omaha^ Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs, announced that the Federation will sponsor an interfaith gathering of Omaha women in observance of World Human Rights Day on December 15, at 1 p.m., at Temple Israel, 7023CassSt. '"., _. Nine --national ^organizations representing American Jewish women will sponsor activities in cities throughout the United States this month to urge full religious and cultural freedom for Soviet Jews and the right to emigrate to Israel. Jn their p r o t e s t , which marks the beginning of Human Rights Week at the United Nations' on December 6, the Jewish women will be joined by religious, civic and government "leaders of all faUJis seeking relief on humanitarian grounds for Jews imprisoned in the U.S.S.R. "It is hoped that this year's program 'The Ethnocide of a People by the Soviet Union,' will be the beginning of a yearly program where women of all faiths may join with other women's groups throughout the nation' in observance of World Human Rights Day," said Mrs. Sidney Brooks and Mrs. Phil ' Grad, co-chairmen of the Omaha program.
Schrayer to meet with DM Campaign Cabinet Des Moines — Robert Max * Schrayer, associate chairman of the Young Leadership DM-, sion of the United Jewish Ap-'" peal, will address tho Campaign-Cabinet of the Jewish Welfare Federation on Sunday, Dec. 5. The group will meet I for brunch at 10 a.m. at John• ny and Kay's.
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-Also at that meeting the Cabinet will set goals for the 1972 All-in-One Campaign. Members, of the Cabinet are Sheldon- Rabinowitz, General < Chairman of the Campaign and , Marvin Pomerantz, Gary Ru, bin, Harlan Hockenberg, Shep Hockenberg, Charles ~Ducbeh, . Richard Levitt, Isador Robln, son, Sidney Rubin, Lester "Bookey, Roy L. Swarzman, Jay Barmish, Abe D. dayman, Edward Glazer, Morton Bookey, Mose Waldinger, Robert Mann.heimer, Louis Nussbaum, Boni B. Dniker, Jack Brody, Jerome Wolf, M. O. Kahn, Ellis Levitt, Marvin' Winick; Mrs. Morris Mandelbaum, Jr.y Mar:ty Waldinger, Stan -Engman, .Milton Engman, Phil SchneiJ, der, Steve Blank, Mrs. Sheldon Rabinowitz, BenSchwartz.Ron Daniels, William Friedman, Jr., and Mrs. Sidney Rbbinow. Mr. Scbrayer is a vice-presi-
- Guest Speaker' RobertF. Leonard, prosecut-: ing attorney of Flint, Michigan, Robert Schrayer ., will be the guest speaker, Mr. dent of Associated Agencies, Leonard, a Catholic,-recently Inc., a Chicago insurance agen- returned from the Soviet Union cy. ; He •• is currently on the where he, on behalf of the Naboard of, directors of the Jew- tional District Attorneys Assoish Family and .Community ciation, investigated allegations Servjeo and the Jewish Fed- of the mistreatment and relieration of Metropolitan Chica- gious persecutions- of Soviet' go, and-on the board of Trus- Jews by Soviet officials. Siftcetees of the?College of Jewish the Soviet government would; not permit any government or; Studies. V He has held several posts on person the authority to invesli-the Young Leadership Cabinet gatethe allegations officially, and has been active in Jewish Leonard entered the country, affairs in Chicago. ^ • ostensibly as a tourist with the direct commission of the NDAA to determine the official basis for the arrest of Jews in Lenin-, grad, Riga, Moscow and Kishi-'
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United Jewish Appeal dinner in New York on Saturday evening, D e c 11. Among those attending will be CM. Newman, Mr. and Mrs. Morlcy Zipursky of Oinalia.Des Moines representatives •* tlons. V • "---••• .\ •/'• .. •• at the meetings will include Mrs. Meir arrived in the Unit- , Sidney Rubin, Harlan Hocken--'.' ed States-this -week arid- her berg, Gary Rubin; Slieldon Ra-' 1 visit will Include private pxeet-, .liluowitz and Saudor Shernlan. ' ,\ I ilngs, wi(h: Secrethry of Sjato ; Mrs. Melr will also address a ,'.-. | William Rogeps, iand President • jdinner of the Israel) Bond. Or-1 ganizatipri sch,eduleo for / Sim-1 ( f i M|8. Meir will; j*ijrij9(^;:^ii.;;;{ji>?Vii';i|;;iVJt' Premier Golda Meier of' Is-' *J rael will confer with American 'r Jewish* leaders Monday, Dec. 6, at a meeting of the Confer. -, ence of ^Presidents • of Major U, American J e w i s h Organlza-
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Gplda Meir on TV This Sunday Israel's Prime Minister, Golda Meir, will be interviewed on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" Sunday, December 5,i?7i,_: _ „ : : _ . ; : The program will be aired at 11:30 a.m.' • on KMTV Channel ; 3 in .Omaha anil
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Mr. Leonard was recently chosen by Life Magazine as one of the ten most admired men in the United States and has twice been chosen as the outstanding prosecutor in the State of Michigan by the Michigan Prosecuting Attorney Association. Mr.: Leonard's record in the law enforcement areap is outstanding and inn o v a t i v e. Among his accomplishments ^re: Originator of the Metropolitan Police Organization; or-" ganized the Rumor Control Center; established the : first prosecutors' (Consumer Protection Comission in the, nation and established the Genessee County Citizens' Probation Authority. ""'•'.
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Omaha —Nehama LifschitzT. petition for artists, and she the leading Jewish singer in the won first place. From then on, Soviet Union before she moved she began, singing in Yiddish, to Israel in March, 1989, will covering the length and breadth highlight the.annual Bonds for of Russia. She gave 80 conIsrael Dinner and Concert, Sun- certs in that one year. Then in day; Dec, 12, at 6" p.m., at the Kiev, her journey ended. • , Beth Israel Synagogue. • She brought with her a song Reservations. for the-Dinner about Babi-Yar, composed by and Concert, may be made by a Soviet Jewish poet, describcontacting the Israel Bond Of- ing a mother standing in Babifice, 920 City National Bank Yar singing a lullaby, rememBuilding, Omaha, Neb., or by. bering a great Jewish communcalling 341-1177. ity which was destroyed' in It is Impossible-to'-separate . Babi-Yar. No one applauded her the three stories in the life of song. The audience .wept, beNehama Lifschitz—the personal came upset, and she could not story, the artistic story and the continue. Nehama L i f s c h i t z national story. .•-'-. .^ found herself once more in lier The Nazis invaded iri 1941 and native Kovno-^-silenced—not al< the Lifschitz family fled Lithu- lowed to siug anymore. ania to the Russian border. .'•There followed years of agThoreafter, the family reached onized silence, not only for NeTashkent and father Yehuda hama, but for all Soviet Jewry. b e g a n his medical practice The' move to Israel in 1939 there. was a forty-year-dream come In 1946, the family returned • true, arid the voice of Nehama to Lithuania. "We came back Lifschitz can n o w be heard . to walk on graves. We collect- again. ed bones for mass burial. We lived under the burden of a terrible sense of guilt that we had survived YfMn others bad not," Nehama recalls. 'Nehama came into,the chorus-of the Lithuania Philharmonic Orchestra, and speedily became a brilliant soloist. The first solo recitals of Nehama in .those days, reflected a wide range of arias, but, not one work, in Yiddish:'" concerts, in 1956, an older Jewish actor who had performed in the Jewish Theatre of Vilna urged-Miss Lifschitz to sing in Yiddish., In; .March, 1957, she appeared iti, her first Yiddish performance. '.. •-, "> . • V 'ii't 1958, she sang in Yiddish,, ,latthe,Mospflw,.
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