Senator Jackson Scores Embargo on Jets for Israel
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NEW YORK (JTA)-Sen.- Henry M. Jackson charged that President Nixon is risking'"what little stability remains in the Middle East" by diminishing Israel's defense capability through an arbitrary embargo on Phantom jets. The administration's Vone-sided restraint" on Israel, at,.a time when Egypt is receiving a steady flow of Soviet arms, has created a "dangerous illusion" among President Anwar Sadat and other Arab leaders "that with the passage of time their prospects for a victory over Israel will increase," the Washington Democrat said. f In remarks prepared for delivery at the annual dinner of the Zionist Organization of America, Jackson declared that by withholding Phantom jets to Israel since last July, "the administration has closed its eyes to the dangerous impairment^ Israel's mafgin of safety." The Senator said it is imperative for Israel to maintain control of the air over the Sinai peninsula in order to prevent Egypt from invading across the Suez Canal.
Serving Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha Vol. LI—No. 14
OMAHA, NEB., FIU., DKC. 17, 1971
The reform rabbi, who came tbcrhood, and I could mention time expenditure and the splintto Des, Moines - 4& years ago numerous others? ering of efforts of the organizasaid, "As I look around me, I "You will argue, and rightly tions which all vie for funds see people (including myself) so, that all of our organizations from the same source.—from all' scurrying to meetings. And I are contributing to w o. r t'h y of us. hear people say: 'I- hate the causes. But do we need the "If the organizations received meetings . . . what a sheer thousands of time-consuming funds from Federation, men waste of time-... I never have meetings and the competitive time for myself and my' dear fund raisers to accomplish our ones.' It is my theory," the goals for national or overseas rabbi continued, "that we often philanthropic requirements? run, run, run from one com"This is my solution. The ormittee to another because we fear the profound requirements ganizations may want to have of love'or of being alone and two meetings a year called " F r i e n d s of H a d a s s a h , " facing ourselves." . "Friends of ORT," "Friends of Declaring that his suggestion Zionism," etc. The meetings . ' ^ Omaha—The closing session were "not intended to be pan- will bo devoted exclusively to of the series of four "Telelecaceas or final answers," Rabbi the- philanthropic endeavor of tures" which have been preGoldburg proposed some ideas the organization. I believe that • sented by Brandeis University for reshaping the Jewish com- all such .organizations in Des in conjunction with the Jewish munity of the .future. Moines ought to request a yearOrganizations Cultural Comittce of Omaha ly meeting w i t h the budget will take place on Monday, committee of Federation and at "I first speak to the twenty or Pec. 20 at 8 p.m. at Beth Israel ah open meeting request allocathirty Jewish organizations in Synagogue. Admission is free. our community," he said. "The tions to the hospitals and other The series has been well athour has come for us to eval- worthy enterprises sponsored - tendedtoythe Omaha communuate what the organizations by the organizations. ity. According to StevenHiefas, represent and to t e r m i n a t e "With a little more per famChairman of the Jewish Culturthem if they no longer fulfill ily given to Federation, we al Committee, this first venture a purpose in pur lives,"., -__ would easily have the addition". tytJLJ!JSQJronlc Jectur.es, h a s I "Do We require organizations',', al -10 or 20 thousand dollars. '"teen most successful and the whose primary reason for exis- This would preclude the comj i n i t i a l difficulties with tho tence is to sponsor sports fig- petitive and" numerous fund Dr. Mchael Fishbane Rabbi Jay Goldburg equipment have been rectified. ures, prize nights, installation raisers; the r duplication, the The speaker for this Monday phone communications will be dinners, ersatz brotherhood and and women would have more evening will be Dr. Michael moderated by Mortimer Green- gimmicks for membership and time to offer their children, Fishbane, assistant professor of s t a t u s ? Do we need B'nai more time for literature and cNear Eastern and Judaic Stu- berg of tho Jewish Federation B'rith, ORT, Hadassah, Zionthe development of interperdies at Brandeis. His subject of Omaha. ist organizations, Temple Brosonal relations," he said. t Holiday printing schedules will be "On Reading a Biblical Dr. Fishbane is a graduate of Youth necessitate early deadlines Text." Following the "telelec- Brandeis University and is a Calling the youth of his com/\ for the next two weeks. All ' • ture, a question and answer former' instructor and teaching munity "a reflection of • our copy must be In the Jewish -' -»e»slon by long-distance tele'- fellow there.. One .of the youngPress office by 10 a.m. Mon- adult community," Rabbi Golder scholars in the field, Dr. day, December 20 and Mon- burg lamented the structure of Fishbane has contributed many youth groups which fostered di-" la prep o r a t i o n for Dr. articles to such journals as the day, December 27. . (Continued on page 12) Flshbane's l e c t u r e : "On Vestus Testamentum and the Omaha—The regular DecemReading a Biblical Text," of Biblical Literature, ber meeting of the Executive participants arc a s k e d to Journal and irf the author of six articles Committee of the Omaha Jewr&d Genesis, Chapters 25 to to bo published in the forth-; ish Federation will be h e l d '35.coming Encyclopedia Judaica.; Thursday, Dec. 23, at 7:30 p. m. at the JCC West, 12604 Pacific. • :.•.•. The board will consider recommendations of the AllocaDes Moines—Gary S, Rubin member of the National Countion and Budget Committee, was named . N a ti o n a 1 Vice- cil of the Joint Distribution'1 concerning the disposition of chairman of the United Jewish Committee . and is active in funds raised in'the 1971 Philan- Appeal Youth Leadership Cabi- Temple Tifereth Israel in Des thropies Campaign. I net at the Annual Conference Moines. . Other items on the agenda of the UJA jn New York last He is Director of Marketing include consideration of the. week....: ; . for Hockenberg Rubin Com-•* ^UNITED NATIONS r(JTA)^-The chairman of the Chinese; will Center Statement of > The Young Leadership Cabi- pany and a member of the Nadelegation, Chiao Kuan-hut, delivered a brief but blistering speech proposed and Principles and net was organized in 1963 to tional Food Brokers Associto the General Assembly Dec. 8 in which,he demanded total Is- Objectives several com m 111 e e appoint- give.guidance raeli withdrawal from Arab lands; and condemned American sup- ments. direction to atioh. •., •••::.' " 13,000 men fromand port of Israel's "undisguised fascist aggression." 25-40 who are potential leaders in their own Chiao also declared that it was "sheer.nonsense'?.for the communities. •Arabs not to "wage armed struggle to resist Israeli aggression," explaining: "It is absolutely just and entirely proper for the Through missions to Israel, Palestinian and other Arab peoples, who are victims of aggresseminars, retreats and national =-sion, to bo=compeUed~b=take #up=arms"t<riiesist=aggres3ionrre"afia 'regional conferences, Mr. cover their lost territories and restore, then; right to national Rubin will work with Mr. Donexistence." The Chinese, said i Chiao, maintain a "principled . Omaha—Ah informal get- ald H. Benjamin, of Maple. stand" that is "firm and unshakeable namely that they "firmly wood, New Jersey, the new together of college students Young Leadership Chairman, support their (the Palestinians') just struggles and giveJhem home for the winter vacaand Mr. Michael A. Pelavin of assistance within the limits of our capability." > tion period is planned for Tho delegate from Peking contended that "We are not op- Tuesday, Dec. 21, from 8-to 'Flint, Michigan, the other ViceChairman,, directing a cabinet " posed to the Jewish people or the people of Israel, but we,are 12 p:m. at the F o x Run . of 192 men from different secfirmly opposed to the Zionist policies of expansion and aggres- Apartment Club House, 70th tions of the United States. sion." He condemned UN resolutions '?which in effect encouraged and Grover Streets. :...:'. -.aggression and shielded the Israeli Zionists in the name of 'mainMr. Rubin has s e r v e d as 'Refreshments, music and taining peace,'" and did so "without distinguishing between the Chairman of the .Des Moines "just talking" are planned 1 aggressors and the victims of aggression." for the evening. All college Jewish W e l f a r e Federation Turning to Washington's policy, Chiao complained that "While students arc invited to at- Campaign and Israel .Emergtalking much about peace, tho IT.S. i s doing Its utmost to arm tend. No reservations are, ency Fund in addition lo being a past President of the Jewish " ' Israel;" and this constitutes'"a naked support to aggression and necessary. Community Center. He is a . Gary Rubin . , ,a new.prpvdcatlon.to lha Palestinian,and other Arab people." * Des Moines—As s a il i n g the structure of the American Jewish community which has its members "always flitting here and there" to meetings and more meetings, Rabbi Jay Goldburg of Temple B'nai Jeshurun offered s o m e innovative and controversial proposals "to reshape our Jewish community."
In a sermon delivered to members of bis congregation, Rabbi G o l d b u r g declared, something Is drastically wrong. Our lives hatfe become so encumbered with joyless work, lnano comittees w i t h banal agendas and the quest for triviality that we have become the hollow people."
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