Mapam Youth Threaten Confrontation With JDL Tel Aviv (JTA) — Mapam toms of fascism in Israel which youth circles threatened to con- have emerged with the activifront Jewish Defense League ties of Rabbi Kahane's JDL." < members "in the streets" if The Mapam youth asserted the JD£ carries out its threat that the war against Arab terto engage in street warfare to rorism must be carried out by back its programs. the Israeli government through - The Mapam youth, at the its security arms. "A democrasame time, called on the gov- tic country cannot tolerate tho ernment to take all necessary activities of an organization or measures "to crush the symp- individuals who try to take the law into their own hands," they said, and warned the JDL that if they carry out Soviet Court Upholds leaders their threat to wage "battles in the streets" they will find Markman Sentence New York (JTA)--The Su- Mapam youth waiting. The JDL preme Court of the Soviet Rus- allegedly has threatened street sian Republic has upheld the warfare if the government consentence of Vladimir Markman tinues what they claim is a who was given a three-year program to persecute them. Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of prison term last Aug. for allegedly slandering the Soviet . the JDL, was released on $10,system, the National Confer- 000 bail and ordered not to ence on Soviet Jewry reported.' leave the country as police conThe NCSJ said the court act- tinued to investigate the JDL's ed'Friday. In a 20-minute ses- attempts to smuggle arms sion at which it was to consider abroad for a counter-terrorist Markman's appeal. But it did war against Arabs. Kahane emerged from jail not permit Markman to present his appeal and allowed no unshaven but smiling and told one to attend the session apart reporters that he would appeal from Markman's wife, Henri- the ban to travel abroad Which etta Kislna. Thd court, how- ho claimed was political. Ho ever,— did dismiss , a minor continued to advocate a councharge of "h o o 1 i g a n i s m " ter-terrorist war against Arabs abroad. against Markman.
Young Leadership Awards For Mr. and Mrs. Rabinowitz Des Moines—Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Rabinowitz are recipients of the annual Young Leadership Awards, to attend the General .Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (CJFWF) irt November. Mr. Rabinowitz.:was general -chairman of the 1972 All-In-Ono Campaign of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Mrs. Rabinowitz was chairman of the Women's Division in the same campaign. . Mr. Rabinowitz has served as treasurer of the Federation, as chairman of the Commission on Jewish Education, and as a member of the national
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endowment committee of the CJFWF. Ho is a member of the .National UJA Young Leadership Cabinet. A partner in the Des Moines office of Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, a national accounting firm. Mr. Rabinowilz is a member of the Des Moines City Council. Mrs. Rabinowitz Is a member of the Community Relations Commission of the Federation, a past president of Tifereth Israel Women's League and a former member of the Commission on Jewish Education.
Serving Council Muffs, Des /Homes, Lincoln, Omaha Vol. Ml—No. 6
OMAHA, NEB., FKI., OCT. IS, 1072
Omaha—Mrs. Barton Greenberg, former chairman of the Israeli Fashion show of I s r a e l Bonds, has been appointed General chairman for the 1972 Omaha Women's Division of the Israel Bond Campaign. Her appointment was announced this week by Mrs. Arthur Goldstein, president of the Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs. Mrs. Greenberg has been ac- tries as agriculture and airtive In the Women's Division of craft, road building and fas\ the Omaha Jewish Philan- hions, diamond cutting and thropies Cam p a i g n s. She electronics. And the miracle served as chairman of the 1971 that with all that has happened Newcomers Division and as in 25 years, Israel has never co-chairman for the 1972 work- defaulted on a loan payment. shops. She has also served on By buying Israel bonds, we the boards of Beth El Sister- can invest in a vory sound hood, Iladassah and the Oma- miracle." ha Section, National Council of Workers in the 1972 B o n d Jewish Women. Drive will meet at the home Commenting on the impor- of Mrs. Greenberg, Thursday, tance of the Israel Bond Cam- October 19. at 9:30 a.m. Any paign, Mrs. Greenberg said, women In the community who "We are being asked to invest would like to take an active -in a miracle. A, miracle that role in the 25th anniversary is growing economically as Israel Bond Campaign arc though there were no outside asked to come to thcWctlng pressures, while those pres- at- 2215 South 86 Avenue, or sures grow daily. A miracle of call Mrs. Greenberg at 393. growth in such diverse indus- 7240. Mrs. Barton Greenberg
New York (JTA)—Two Jewish leaders here and political circles in Israel described as "unfounded" reports that easing and eventual elimination of tho exit fees for educated Jews leaving the Soviet Union were imminent. Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of Interreligious Affairs for the American Jewish Committee, said that talks with ' officials in the Nixon administration and the State Department had convinced him there was no reason to believe the reports. Jerry Goodman, executive
director of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, said "We have no information of any significant shift in policy on emigration in general and fees in particular." Reports of progress on the exit fees are "exagerated and distorted," Goodman stated. These views were confirmed by Israeli political circles in Jerusalem who rejected rumors . that - Soviet authorities have eased up on the exorbitant visa fees. According to the circles, the rumors about the head tax were deliberately spread by Soviet authorities in re-
sponse to the negative reaction of world opinion. The objective was to mislead the public and weaken the protests, the circles said. ' 's Hope For Change Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, said that there might bo' "a reasonable hope" that the. Soviet government will change its position on the visa, tax. He said the hope stemmed from "the opposition to the tax by the American and other governments and their willingness to exercise their influence in this respect."
Rabbis Urge ~] Lettuce Boycott
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Des Moines — A dommunitywlde "Tribute to Lou Williams" will be held at 0 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19, at Temple B'Nal JeshWashington (JTA)—The Senate nas again postponed indefi- urun. nitely a vote on ratification of the genocide convention which has Mr. Williams recently retired been pending ever since the United Nations adopted it in the as director of the Jewish Comaftermath of the Nazi holocaust 25 years ago. The convention was munity Center. approved by the Foreign Relations Committee a year ago. The public is invited to the and .to >. the With the Senate scheduled to adjourn at the end of this week, Hprogram i VG m.ii «••« .w ,reception —, the prospects for a vote were killed when Majority-Leader Mike - following. There is no-charge. Mansfield (D Mont.) proposed a four-hour limit to debate on the Reservations may bo made measure.' Sen. Sam J. Irvin (D. N. C.) objected to the limitation with with the the Jewish' Jewish Community Community Center, 274-3467, or Archie Winand the vote was postponed. Two leading proponents of ratification, Sens. Jacob K. Javits ner, 276-4396. Fred Bhdower and, Mrs. Leo (R. N. Y.), nnd William Proxmire (D. Wise), expressed disappointment. Mansfield promised to try to get the Item on the cal- Pearlman are co-chairmen of 1 Elizabeth : •UfflUf Sylpha. »f pro-1 1
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Washington (JTA) - T h e Washington Board of Rabbis, representing many of the Re; form, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis in this area, have appealed to their congregants to boycott non-union iceberg lettuce in support of the organizing drive of the United Farm Workers Union. In a statement circulated to their congregations, the board urged support of the boycott until "the growers meet their workers and s i g n fair con; tracts." The union, under the leadership of Cesar Chavez, has charged that the large-lettuce farm owners have refused to sign contracts with the migrant ,'laborer's'/ ! , ; h i t h e r Jewish land Catholic;, organizations halve similarly 1 . urged, boycotts. J .•:. : ./