Pledges Top $13 Million For JCC Building Fund Serving Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha Vol. M—No. 47
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IBeiJi El §ymagcigiie p Three New Staff I f embers Omaha—Beth El Synagogue has announced the appointment as of August 1 of three new staff members, Rabbi Kenneth M. Tarlow, Rabbi Louis Grossingcr and Cantor Chaim Najman. Rabbi Louis Grossinger, who will serve as Assistant to tho Rabbi, was born In Hungary where he received bis basic education. Prior to migrating to Canada in 1951, Rabbi Grossinger, 48, studied also In France. He is a graduate of the Toronto Hebrew Teachers' Seminary and was - granted Sinlcha in 1906. Rabbi Grossinger has served Canadian communities as spiritual leader, Ba'al T'filah, Ba'al K'riah, and Hebrew teacher. United States residents for the last two years, Rabbi Grossinger, his wife, Edith, and their daughters Leona, 14, and Miriam, 11, come to Omaha from B'nai Zion Congregation, Farreli, Pennsylvania. "" Rabbi MyerS. Kripke is the Spiritual leader of the Congregation and Cantor Aaron I. Edgar and Mr. Alexander Katz Will remain as Emeritus members of the Beth El Staff.
Rabbi Kenneth M. TnrlowPennsylvania, with responsibility for the suburban branch in Radnor. Rabbi Tarlow and his wife, Leah, have two daughters, Elisha Miriam, 3, and Rachel Jaclyh; 16 months. Mrs. Tarlow, a graduate of Barnard College, attended the Teachers' Institute of the Seminary, and has spent several summers at Camp Raman specializing in dance. Cantor Chaim Najman, 35, a native New Yorker received his Judaic and general education at Yeshiva University and his musical education at Ycshlva's Cantorlal Institute and at Columbia University, from which" ho received a graduate degree
in . music education. Cantor Najman was a member of the music faculty of Yeshiva University, and has served congregations on the east coast as choir director and cantor. Since 1958 Cantor Najman has been music consultant for the Board of Jewish Education of Metropolitan Chicago. He has conducted the Halevl Choral Society and served as cantor for Congregations Ner Tamid and Beth Shalom of Rogers Park. Cantor Najman is married to the former Sherrell Reisraan of New York, a graduate of Stern College and Yeshiva University. Their chaldren are Yehuda, 8, Hindy 5, and Dina, 3]
Cantor Cbaim Najman
Omaha — Pledges totaling $1,385,000 have been made thus far to the Building Fund of (he new Omaha Jewish C o m m u n i t y Center. Announcement of the pledges • was made this week by Murray Newman, chairman of the Building Campaign, In his initial campaign report.
taling $1,108,000. "The generous offer of the Livingston Foundation to, m a t c h each dollar pledged in the community with an additional 25 cents accounts for $277,000, making the total $1,385,000 as of August 1. That's a very exciting start, and we are hopeful that the same kind of generous support will conMr.' .Newman said that the tinue t h r o u g hout the camfirst -results "are exciting and paign," Newman said. encouraging. Most people recHundreds of volunteers have ognize the needs for a new Cen- been recruited by the chairmen ter," he said. "They are enthu- of the six building fund cam* siastic about the plans for the paign divisions. "The campaign' new Center and are responding workers are just beginning to generously to the Building make their calls and every ef» . Fund Campaign. There is every fort will be made to reach ev«. indication t h a t the goal of ery Jewish family' in the com* $3,200,000 will be.met quickly munity," Mr. Newman said. and that we will be able to pro- "Our goal beyond the dollar ceed with the plans for our goal is to make this Everyone's Center, which includes particinew Center." - "• Newman explained that the pation by everyone in the buildfirst report covered 25-gifts to- ing fund campaign." ', •;,;;. t
Oopcicify Group Expected for Older Adult Tour fo Israel i Omaha—A recent story in the Jewish Press about the "Silver Anniversary Israel Adventure" has res'ulted in • much excitement in the community and dozens of phone calls to Mollie Delman, Older Adult Director at the Jewish Community Cen-' ter. Sons and daughters have called to find out details for their parents. Some trips are being given by children to their parents as gifts. Adults calling for details have also asked that the tour_ brochure be sent to friends but of the city. Long distance calls have come from Lincoln, Sioux City, Des Moines as w^ll as Omaha and Council Bluffs. It is anticipated that the 32 person-maximum for the tour will soon be reached. All reservations must be made now accompanied by a $100 deposit as well as a doctor's letter stating "limitations',' for the tour member. Full payment of $1,150 must be made by September 1,
The 17-day tour will include 15 full days in Israel with'suf-. ficientjime allowed each day for leisure and personal activities, Two days will also, bo spent in Lucerne, Switzerland on the return trip, enabling tour members to relax .anil visit the Jewish sites in that city. • : : Present plans call. for .the " group to depart Omaha on Monday, October 16, by United Air Lines, and fly from Chicago .the same day to Lod International Airport in Israel via Swissair. Departure from Is* rael will be on October 31 by El Al to Zurich. The group will, leave Zurich on November 2 by Swissair for Chicago and return to Omaha on the same day-
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Persons interested in joining the group, or wishing more information are asked to contact Mollie Delman, 342-1366, or Mrs. Morris C. Fellman, Older A d u l t Committee Chairman, 551-7257. <,
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You PlanJCC Programs? By Suzi Somberg • into areas such as cultural arts, Jews entered this category and trated by another experience *' ; O m a ha — While campaign Jewish programs and commun- it sparked such an interest in Mr. Tabachnick had. workers press on toward tho ity affairs. The chairmen of Judaism among those people Before coming to Omaha, he goal of making the new Omaha these groups formed the Teen- that the Jewish teenagers in- worked in a-small Center that Jewish Community Center a re- Age Board; they also recruited volved b e g a n , visiting art existed solely to serve some ality, the JCC professional staff their peers with like interests classes, explaining thejr reli- 800 elderly people who remainis working toward creating vi- to serve on their committees. ed in a deteriorated area that (Editor's note- A similiar ef- gion and its traditions. ' able programs that will fill the had once been a thriving combuilding with meaningful acti- fort was made In Omaha dur- Involvement like that is not munity of 50,000 Jews. fU<&U>r£,M<*t*4.W _ ing the study process for the limited to, just teens, but en-, For Passover, the Center vities. • - . • : • • Rabbi Louis Grossinger As Omaha well knows, a suc- new Jewish Community Cen- compases all ages and interest 'planned to hold a mock Seder ' Rabbi Kenneth M. Tarlow cessful Center program cannot ter; Teenagers served in large groups in the community^ ae- -and-invited-a-few-of-the-elderly_was born In 1942 and received be carried on'wHhoutTfunc- - ntimbers~on tho "Youth" study -cordingto MrrTabachnTcIcr ~ to participate in the planning The importance of listening— sessions. Two hours were spent Ills early education in cast coast tlonal base of operation. At the committee, and their recomSchools. He was graduated with same time, the finest facilities mendations were given careful really listening—in identifying hashing over the details of the honors In sociology from Co- would be a hollow shell If peo- consideration. in the planning the needs of people was illus- Seder and dividing up the relumbia U n i v e r s i t y and was ple were not drawn to active for the new Center. It has also sponsibility. " •••:': elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He participation in the programs. been recommended that a comWhen plans..were formulated, is a graduate of 'the Teachers' How do you go about creat- mittee of teens be given signi-" the meeting was recessed and Institute of the Jewish Theo-> ing a program that will be rele- ficant responsibility for the dethe staff assumed everyone logical Seminary with a BHL" vant to the needs of the Omaha velopment of programs in tho was satisfied, but as they were degree and was granted the de- Jewish community? new .Center.) leaving, "an elderly man was gree of Master of Hebrew, LitAccording to Hy Tabachnlck, With staff guidance, the heard tomumble-''A mock Se« erature In 1968. Ordained by the new directpr.oLthe Omaha. .teenagers created-imaginative der is fine, but I still have no -the Jewish Theological Semi-' Jewish Community Center, two programs that attracted the place to go the first night of nary in 1970 he Is a member of. primary tools to employ are in- young people of thd. communiPassover.", '.,... the Rabinlcal Assembly, volvement and listening. ty. One particularly successful A quick investigation re* . . For an example of commun- activity was an-art competition Rabbi Tarlow has tought all vealcd he was not alon.o Tho [levels of religious school as ity involvement, Mr; Tabach- that was open to teenagers original plans w e r e scrapped I well as college and adult Jew- nick drew upon Ills past Cen- throughout the city. and, instead, n real Seder was i s h studies and spent ten years ter experience. Ho described a To keep Jewish Identity inheld tho first night of Passover. situation was diswhere it was |in various capacities at Camps volved in the competition, they Here you can see that the >' ^ h . Hei occupied a full-time covered that what teenagers; \ decided that one category could Center planning rwould, have -,jf — T _ . ,.„„.. r...r.r..„..„,.... really \ wanted, were activity-• j ibej;Of'any.media, but that it, missed tho boat;i;It.;had"per> t 'M ly served'!as associate Rabjbl,'-I-', centeredgrbups.i;'•'.:';~- , \\ "• must develop; a Jewish theme. wanmw^ rp^^^iA • •DiM~AX\Mi\^i-,|;jjjjntotestst'iIwere calegorizedX '•HyTabatbnltt !'•"''.!! 16 !lhbir '.'surprise,