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Only Cash Can Do the .Job! "The good > intentions of last spring.when pledges w e r e made to (he 1971 Omaha Philanthropies Campaign m u s t now be converted into hard cash so that we can fulfill the obligations we incurred based on those gifts," Morlcy Zipursky, 1971 Philanthropies chairman, said this week. Zipursky. Indicated that the budgets to support United Jewish Appeal overseas programs; the national beneficiaries and the constituent agencies in Omaha are based upon the pledges made during the 1971 ' campaign. ''As we approach the end of thfe year, we urge all members of the community to complete .the payment of their pledges," ' «afd Mr. Zipursky. "The accu- mulated needs of tjie programs we support make it essential .that we obtain cash quickly," "he said.
A recent letter from Israel immediate casli the pledges on from Louis Pincus of the Jew- which we based our revised ish Agency highlights Israel's budget," said Mr. Pincus. crucial needs for cash. Mr. PinMr. Zipursky noted that cus writes: "When we convened at the Agency Assembly last June, we had to cut back on every single area of activity for 1971 because of lack of money. If the present slowness of cash flow continues, we will be confronted by an impossible situation whlch'will force us to decisions, that I dare not even contemplate in the light of the continuing flow of immigration, the continuing social needs particularly in housing and education, and the social tensions that the failure to meet these- needs must Inevitably engender. "I know the heart and mind of American Jewry. I know that you will be able to make clear to them how critically urgent it is to translate into
statements were sent recently to every Omaha contributor showing the balance due on each pledge. Those who do not
know the balance due on their pledges are urged to call Mrs. Widholm at 342-1366; to get the information. .• •
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Meir, Nixon Mum on Phantoms for Israel added: "You can be proud of the 73-year.-old Premier and your Israeli pilots . . . .they're Mr. Nixon last talked witli each about the best in the world." other in Washington), both Although Mrs. Meir came leaders appeared to be in an here to discuss a different kind unusually relaxed frame of :••••• • of aircraft with the President, m i n d . \ she politely exchanged small . Mrs. Meir and; Mr. Nixon talk about planes and pilots conferred alone—without aides and agreed that El Al Airlines —for two hours, after which indeed had safe* planes and ex- Presidential spokesman Ron Ziegler read a prepared statecellent pilots. Despite the considerable ten- ment in which he characterized sion between the U.S. and Is-" their meeting, He-said they rael since October, 1970, (when spent sonie time reviewing the
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Jfr TRUDE B. FELDMAN "White House Correspondent Planes—but, not those elu: sive Phantom jets—were tho ' subject of a chat between Richard Nixon and Golda Meir at , the White House last week. "Dldyou fly here on your own , plane?" The President asked the Israeli Prime Min, inister as* they posed for photographs in his Oval office. When Mrs, Meir replied in the affirmative, the President
Pace Setter Chairmen Named For Des Moines 72 Campaign "DeirMbines—Three* co-chairr men have been appointed to head .the Pace Setter Division of the 1972 AU-In-One Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation, according to Sheldon Rabinowitz, general chairman. They are Harlan Hockenberg, Marvin Pomerantz, and. Gary Rubin.. All-are active in com.murilty .affairs and all are past general chairmen of Federation Campaigns.' , Mr, Hockcnberg, a vice-pres-
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w o r l d situation, particularly the various diplomatic moves in which Mr. Nixon will soon be engaged. "On bilateral matters," he said "a useful and satisfactory discussion was held on the ways in which Israel's longterm n e e d s for'modernizing and maintaining the capacity of its defense forces in the context for our on-going policy of maintaining a military balance could be accomplished . . :" Z-legier declined to say whether one of the ways in which Israel's long-term needs could be accomplished would be to sell her more Phantom jet* nowt < • He also declined to comment
on whether Mr. Nixon and Mrs. Meir were in agreement by the end of their meeting on whether or not the military balance had been disrupted in recent weeks. As to whether his statement describing their conference was read and reviewed by Golda Meir before release, Ziegler said he was reading bis own comments based on a conversation with Mr. Nixon following the Nixon-Meir meeting , . , and-that he only spoke for the White House. Asked if Mr. fclixon gave any assurance to Mrs. .Meir that there will be no agreement reached with any other big (Continued'on page 5)
ident of "the Board bt Govcr-^ nors of the Federation, is the' immediate past chairman of Small'Citles for the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds.- He is a ; former memberof the Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal (UJA).-. Ho served as general chairman ot Uie .Campaign-in 1969 and has held other Campaign pOStS.
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Mr. Pomerantz was general chairman of the 1971 Federa-tion Campaign. He is a member of the board of governors of- the' Federation and was recipient of the 'Federation's Young Leadership, Award in 1970. He is a past chairman of the Commission on Jewish Social Service, and is TIOW serving as president of Tifereth Israel Synagogue. ' Mr. Rubin is national vicechairman of the West Central Region of the UJA' Young Leadership Cabinet. He is a
Marvin Pomerantz member of the National Council of the Joint Distribution Committee and also of tho Commission on Equal Opportunity of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council. He was general chairman of the Federation's 1970 Campaign and is a past president of the Jewish "Community Center.
Women's Rally ;for Human Rights Day
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\ •' Omaha—An interfalth meeting,1 in observance of World Hu• man,Rlghts\Day will1 be hfcld December 15 at 1 p.m. at Temple s Israel, 7023 CasSj. ~ .'Robert F. Leonard, prosecuting attorney of Flint, Mich., will speak on the topic "The Ethnocide of a People by the Soviet Un' Ion." Leonard, a Cathojlc, was-sent to the Soviet Union by the -- -Natipnal District Attorneys Association to investigate the allcga' ' Uon of mistreatment and religious persecution of Soviet Jews by UHTU.S.S.R.
The program is sponsored by- the Omaha Federation of Jewish Women's Club in co-operation with the Omaha Jewish Com. »unity Relations Committee.,, h, .. , - ' ? Mrs. Phil Grad and Mrs.; Sidney, Brooks, co-phairmen, urge. ,0iat alliconconcdiwomertiin the community join {this expression ad human rights. , „ , , m . ' 1 | 1 1 ' , i 1 , : ' . 1 t j ; , , , , . >r ;,
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Golda Meir confers with President Nixon in his oval office at the White House. - ;
Israel Bond Dinner-Concert • Tlhis Susidhy at Beth Israel ] Omaha—E. Robert Newman, general chairman of the Omaha Israel Bond Committee, has announced that reservations are still being accepted for the Israel Tribute Dinner-Concert to be held this Sunday evening at Beth Israel Synagogue. Highlight of tho dinner will be the concert presented by Neham'a LiFschitz, "the beautiful voice of silent Soviet Jewry." Cocktails at 6 p.m. willprecede the 7 p.m. dinner. This week in New York Nehema Lifshitz made' an impassioned plea to America's United Nation's Ambassador George Busli for help in getting her sister and members of her sister's family but of the Soviet Union. Miss Lifshitz, who emigrated to Israel in 1969, joined a delegation of the Leadership Conference of National-Jewish Women's Organizations that visited Bush at U.S. UN Mission headquarters" to ask him to raise the issue of rights for Soviet Jews before the . world body. — - : Admission to the dinner-concert is by the minimum purchase of $500 in Israel Bonds for the 1971 campaign. The event will mark tho closing phase of the 1971 Greater Omaha Bond Cam: paign, which bond leaders indicate will "exceed all previous sales ; records in the city."1 .'..',• • -1 Last minute reservations may bewmade by calling the Bond _ • Off ice,. 34JUU7.7, orr Friday ;>or 6n Saturday'and early Sunday, by , calling 553-0565 or 553-489G. ' . '• , ,