Lincoln Federation Plans Annual Meeting
THE JEWISH PRESS
Lincoln — Neal Katz, prom- rent information on the emildent Chicago attorney, will ad- gration of Jews from Russia • dress the annual meeting of the into Israel and other countries. s Lincoln Jewish Welfare FedMembers to the Board of Dieration, Sunday, April 16. The rectors will be elected at the 8 p.m. meeting at the Radisson meeting. A complete financial Cornhusker Hotel will be pre- report of all m o n e y received ceded by a dinner at 7 p.m. and disbursed during the year Serving Council Bluffs, Mr. Katz is a member of the will be given. Yale Gotsdiner, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha Board of Directors of-the Chi- chairman of the current Federcago Jewish Welfare Federa- ation campaign will present a tion; and serves as the NationVoL M—No. SO OMAHA,- NEB., FBI., APIIIL 7, 1978 -«al Vice-Chalrman of the Young progress report. Leadership Cabinet of the UnitFederation Service ed Jewish Appeal., Mr. Katz The annual joint Religious visited Russia and Israel last November and will bring cur- Service sponsored by the Federation will be held Friday, April 14, at 8 p.m. at the South Street Temple, 20th and South Street. Omaha :— Protestant and witli our Christian neighbors Services will be conducted by Omaha — LOVE, League Catholic clergymen from Oma- some of the content of Jewish Offering Volunteers for the student Rabbi Stephen Fisch ha and surrounding areas are tradition which might not otherElderly, will hold an Ori- , of the South Street Temple. The meeting at Temple Israel to- wise be available to them." sermon will be delivered by entation session for new and With the theme of the InstiRabbi Morton Waldman of Con- day "to share 'new trends of prospective workers Suntute "Study is a Form of Prayg r c g a t i o n Tifereth Israel. thought" in religion. day, April 1G at 11 a.m. at The occasion is the Institute er," the opening lecture by Dr. There will be no religious servthe Dr. Philip Sher Home ices "at Tifereth Israel on the on Judaism for Christian Sandmel will be on "Judaism in Auditorium, 4801 N. 52nd St. Clergy, an annual event spon- the Greek Dispersion: Some evening of April 14. sored by Temple Israel for the P o s s i b l e Clues to Paul's last 32 years. More than 300 Thoughts." His afternoon subclergymen of all denomina- ject will be "Judaism and E a r l y Christianity: Overlap tions aro.participating. Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks will and Difference." General dispreside at the all-day session cussions will follow. at which Dr. Samuel Sandmel For 30 years the Institute on of the Hebrew Union College-' Judaism for Christian Clergy Jewish Institute of Religion of was a project of the CongreCincinnati, wiU be the guest gation of Temple Israel. It is Omaha—All members of the Cantor Aaron Edgar, Cantor lecturer. Dr. Sandmel, widely- now endowed by the family Omaha Community'are urged Elchanan Gclberg and Cantor known author, scholar, and lec- and friends of Charles ^Rosento attend the city-wide Annual Manfred Kutner. Mr. Aron Zei- turer, is professor of Bible and stock in his memory. "At the Public Memorial Service' to be derman, representing the Far- Hellenistic literature and a spe- time of his death, June 30,1967, Charles Rosenstock was a held this year at Beth El Syna- band and the Arbeitcr Ring will cialist in New Testament. Explaining the intent of the Trustee of Temple Israel and gogue, Tuesday, April 11 at 8 speak on "After the Third De- Institute, Rabbi Brooks said, was a lifelong and active memDr. Samuel Sandrael p.m. struction." Mr. CM. Newman, "It is solely the desire to share ber of the Congregation. "Yom ha Shoah" (Day of De- President, will speak for the struction) is observed internationally on the 27th day of Ni- 'Jewish Federation of Omaha. san each year with memorial Rabbi Barry Weinstein of Temservices. The days was chosen ple Israel will deliver the main to commemorate the destruc- address. tion of the Warsaw Ghetto. Six survivors of the Warsaw Participating In the service Ghetto will light one candle will' be Rabbi Myer Kripke, each in , a special ceremony, Rabbi Sidney Brooks, Rabbi Is- each candle representing one - Paris (JTA)—Egypt's for- ment, with all its furnishings. said he believed there were aac Nadoff, Rabbi Barry Wein- million of the victims of the mer, and last, Chief Rabbi, He is now living in a small ho- still between 4S0 and 500 Jews steln, Rabbi Morris' Amster, Nazi Holocaust. Haim D.ouek, is in Paris after tel room in Montmarte. • in Egypt. leaving Cairo secretly March Concerning the future of There were 80,000 Jews hi 14. Egypt's Jews, Rabbi Douek Cairo before Israel's War of In an interview with the Jew- said, "nobody will replace me Independence in 1948, and 2509 ish Telegraphic Agency here in Egypt," and that the Alex- left- when the Six-Day War Rabbi Douek, 68, termed his andria J e w i s h community broke out in 1967. Since then would "probably disappear" some 1500 Jews have been exescape 'a miracle." New York—Norman L. Hahn, Rabbi Douek refused to give "Without a spiritual leader. He . pelled or left voluntarily. of Omaha, president and chairdetails about how he was alman of the Board of AGC Inlowed to leave Cairo. Very litdustries, Inc., will serve as tle is known about internationchairman of the Planning Comal efforts making his departure mittee for the American Jewpossible, but Jewish circles Omaha—Omaha BBYO. is sponsoring a "Walk for Israel" on' ish Committee's 66th annual here said they believed both , meeting, to be held May 4-7 at the International Red Cross April 23, as part of a District Six BBYO project. All cities in the( the Americana Hotel in New and the French Consulate in District will be sponsoring "Walks" on the same day. York. • Nancy Greenberg and Tom Goodman are serving as chairParis had helped. _, Rabbi Douek revealed how in men for the Omaha walk. >' Mr. Hahn and the 45-member June 1967 he had been comThe entire community is invited to participate. Walkers will committee of AJC leaders from pelled to misinform journalists' get sponsors to pay them for each mile walked. The money raised. all parts of the United States of the New York Times and of I s I n 11 ij t M i l l it H I i I will be responsible for the planthe French-Tunisian weekly ning and programming of the "Jeune Afrique." four-day event, at which an attendance of more than 1,000 is At that time Rabbi Douek expected, had told the journalists that no Norman L. Hahn Jews had been arbitrarily arA long-time resident of OmaHe has served the Omaha rested in Egypt during and afha, Mr. Hahn is an active participant in the civic and Jewish -Jewish Federation as a mem- ter the Six-Day War. Later, he stated some Jews had been arlife of the community. ber of its Budget Committee. rested ^"for security reasons A former chairman of Oma- From 1965 to 196B, he was and in order to protect them." ha's Human Relations Board, chairman of the Federation's An inspector of the Interior Mr. Halin is currently a mem- Youth Activities Committee. Ministry had been present at ber of the Board of Directors of his meeting with the journalthe Urban League of NebrasA leader in the American ists, Rabbi Douek said. He had ka; vice president of the Urban Jewish Committee for many coached him before the meetHousing Foundation; a member years, Mr. Hahn is a member ing and during the interview of the Omaha Jewish Communsat behind the journalists and ity Relations Committee; and of the organization's Board of directed the Chief Rabbi's anGovernors and National Execua past chairman of various swers "with discreet hand sigcommittees of the Red Cross; tive Council. He also serves on nals," the rabbi said. Omaha Community Chest and its National Foreign Affairs Rabbi Douek, who arrived in Chamber of Commerce. He was Commission, Community ServParis with his daughters and a co-founder of the B'nai B'rith -Cornhusker Lodge in Omaha, ices' Committee, Committee on eldest son, carrying only one , , , v , ( . and served as its president dur- O r g a n i z a t i o n and Jewish .small suitcase o{ clothes. Ho Tom GdOdinau and Wa'ricy Greenberg, co-chalrnien"of the Oma-^ •Communal Affairs Commission, Jeft behind to/Cairo Jus apatt.....haJJBYO.'!WalkIor.IsraeI.'.'u....vi,.<,.(..,. Ing 1931-52. , .; i . . HM,.>.. .
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