Omaha Plans Education Conference, Soviet Solidarity Program, April 30 Omaha — Professor Irving Halperin of San Francisco State College will be a featured speaker at two important events in Omaha on Sunday, April 30. He will speak at the conference on Continuing Adult Jewish Education which will be held at Beth Israel Synagogue starting at 9 a.m. Under the chairmanship' of Mrs, Phil Grad, the conference is sponsored by the Omaha Jewish .Cultural Committee. Professor Halperin will also •peak at a community-wide meeting on Sunday night, April M a t > p.m. at Beth Israel, participating in a Day of National Solidarity for Soviet Jews,
Solidarity . Day has been Called for by the Plenum o£ Uie National Conference on Soviet Jewry and it is expected that it will be observed by communities across the country., The special Omaha program is being planned by tfie Jewish Community Relations Committee in cooperation with the Jewish Cultural Committee. Recognized as a world authority on Holocaust literature, Professor Halperin is presently Professor of English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State College. He formerly taught at the Universities of Illinois (Chicago) and Northwestern.
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'Walk for Israel' to be Held in Omaha Sunday
Omaha—A proclamation deThe following route will bo claring Sunday, April 23 as used: Starting at 8:30 a.m. at the '•Walk For Israel" Day was signed this week by Nebraska JCC at 20th and Dodge, walk participants will go west on Governor J. J. Exon. Dodge to 48th Street, south to Commemorating Israel's 24th ,' Beth El Synagogue for a brief, anniversary, a 24 mile walk is rest; back to Dodge, west to Board of the United Israel Applanned by the B'nai B'rith 52nd Street, north to Beth Ispeal, Inc., Feinberg is also a Youth' Organizations. Partici- rael Synagogue. member of the National Board pants in the walk will be spon- , Following a brief stop at Beth of Governors and Area Chairsored by interested members of Israel the walkers will proced man of the Israel Bonds Organthe community willing to pay west on Western Avenue to 69th ization, j for each mile walked. All pro- Street and south to Temple Isceeds will be contributed to the rael. Following the Temple Mr. Feinberg has involved Israel Emergency Fund Cam- check stop, they will proceed himself with numerous philanpaign. thropic activities, local and nasouth on 72nd Street to Pacific; tional—Jewish and non-Jewish. Nancy jGreenberg and Tom west on Pacific to Westslde He serves on the VoarAs of the Goodman, co-chairmen of the High School, then west on PaNational Conference of Chrisevent, are urging adults as well cific to Center West at 12604 tians and Jews and is an active Professor Irving Halperin as teens to participate either Pacific where lunch will be leader in the local Big Brothas walkers or sponsors. Those served, courtesy of Eli Schuers activities. interested in serving as spon- pack. . sors are asked to call Mollie • After lunch, the return walk Feinberg has been a member „ Delman at 342-1366. . will follow a route east to 96th The day 18ffg walk will be Street, north to Dodge Street; broken by scheduled rest stops east to Swanson Library; east and check points. Those unable to 72nd and Dodge; north to to participate for the entire Temple; east on Dodge to 49th day are invited to join the walk and Beth El; east on Dodge to Des Moines--Jewish youth of at any convenient point. the downtown JCC. ,, Des Moines will take part in a walk for Israel on Sunday, April 23. The walk will begin at the State Capitol Building at 8:30 a.m., will proceed around the city and return to the Cap-, WHEREAS, the State of IsNOW THEREFORE, I. J. itol grounds. Lunch and snacks rael was founded twenty-four James Exon,. Governor of the will be provided along the way. years ago. State of Nebraska, do hereby •' Walkers will get pledges per WHEREAS, the B'nai B'rith mile from b u s i n e s s firms, Youth Organization is sponsor- proclaim Sunday, April 23, -; friends and n e i g h b o r s . The ing a walk for Israel on Sun- 1972 as walk will be 24 miles long. Par- day, April 23, 1972; WALK FOR ISRAEL DAY ticipants may walk all or part WHEREAS, B'nai B'rith and to be observed by all citizens of the way. Each mile they B'nai B'rith Youth Organiza- in our State of Nebraska in walk will help a Jewish family tion as well as all Americans paying tribute to the people of ~ Robert Feinberg from the1 Soviet Union to immi- have .continually upheld the the State of Israel, and thus grate to Israel. of the UJA Study Missions to convictions of free-loving peo- encourage them in their constant struggle to'keep their Adults may make pledges to ple throughout the world; Israel and Europe since 1960 and with Mrs. Feinberg has . youth marchers, and.also are WHEREAS, as an expression freedom and national independtraveled nine UJA study mis- invited to take part in the walk • of physical and financial sup- ence. sion trips to Israel. ' if they Wish. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I port and concern for the citiThe walk is sponsored by zens of the State of Israel, have hereunto set my hand and Further information about the May 10 dinner honoring BBYO.. Information and pledge B'nai B'rith Youth Organiza- caused the Official Seal of the Robert M. Feinberg, is avail- sheets, may be obtained from tion is sponsoring a peaceful State of Nebraska to be affixed Keith Jaben and Maureen Gur-_ march to carry forth their sup- this 19th date of April, 1972. able by calling 342-1366. n e r , :..'., ......• ,.'•.. . J, James Exon, Governor port;-
Hebrew University t o Honor Feinberg Omaha—Robert M. Feinberg, prominent Omaha civic and . communal leader will be honored at a Tribute Dinner on * Wednesday, May 10 at the Hilton Hotel. * The Society of the Founders of the American Friends of the Hebrew University will confer Upon Feinberg the Honorary Fellowship of the Hebrew University for his outstanding contributions and achievements to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. • Throughout his life Mr. Fein- berg has identified himself with the cause of Jewish reset• tlement in Israel and in particular with Israel's efforts in the cause of immigration, absorpt i o n and the furtherance of higher education. Mr. Feinberg was honored ', for his efforts December, 19C8 by the'State of Israel Bonds. He serves as Omaha's chair• man of the American Friends of the Hebrew University and is a National member of its' • board. He has been a member of the board of the Omaha Jewish Federation and formerly served as general chairman of the annual Omaha Jewish Philanthropies campaign. An active leader in many philanthropic and civic endeavors, Feinberg is currently a member of the United Jewish Appeal National Campaign Cabinet. He also serves the UJA as a member of the National Cash Campaign Committee, the National Resolutions Committee and the Midwest Leadership Institute Committee. ' A trustee of the National
Professor Halperin has traveled widely; on a Fulbright Teaching Grant to India, 195354, and a Fulbright Lectureship in American Literature to Western Germany In 1963-64. The following- year he went to Israel on a sabbatical where he did his research at the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem on holocaust literature. Professor Halperin, who has published many articles in scholarly and popular journals is a participant in the National Conferences on Soviet Jewry and Professors for Peace in the Middle East. He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Congress in San Francisco,
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Harlan Hockenherg to Serve On Jewish Life Institute Board and Welfare Funds, will subvent experimental projects on the local level in all areas of Jewish living. Mr. Hockenberg was one of 60 men and women selected from among 400 persons recommended by c o m m u n i ties throughout the United States and Canada. He was appointed by Max Fisher, president of the CJFWF. • The Institute, with a three? yearbudget of $2,250,000, is being funded by the more than 200 Jewish federations and welfare funds around the country. The office of ttje Institute will, be in Boston,'Mass.;:The je^xec-; utlve director will' be- Rabbi r r Leon A; Jick, ,who has been V ' - ^ ' ^ ^ - - - ,,. . «.--r-r™- " "" r """ — given a'leave of absence from Watching Governor Eton sign 'ftrael Walk' Proclamation, standing (from left) - hispostatDrandeisUruversity... Nancy Grcciwerg,MolUeDelman,Jen7.Novak and Tom Goodman.---- -
Des Moines—Harlan Hockenberg has been appointed to the board of trustees of the newly formed Institute for Jewish Life. The Institute, created by the Council of Jewish Federations
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