Israel Aliyah Official Will Speak In Omaha Omaha — Mr. Yaacov Patt, Regional Director of the Israel Aliyah Center in Chicago, will be one of the featured speakers at the "YOU—and Israel" Day on Sunday, November 5 at Beth El Synagogue, starting at 1:30 p.m. Mr. Patt, form e r l y Chief Pensions Officer and Deputy Director at the Rehabilitation Department" of the Yaacov Patt Israel Ministry of" Defense, has been at his present position with the Israel Aliyah Center for the Midwest since September, 1970. The Center serves as an Information and Guidance Center for people who are interested in living in Israel and helps process those persons who desire to become Olim. Workshops at the first "YOU —and Israel" Day to be held in Omaha will have as moderators Dr. Maurice Schwartz, Mrs. Sidney Mirvish, Mr. Donald Nogg and Joel Cassman. Mrs. Jack Dnitch is .serving as chairman of the day planned
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in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of Israel committee and the Midwest Zionist Federation. Workshop topics include Investments and Business Opportunities, Youth and Service, So You Want to Live in Israel and Travel in Israel. The sessions are open to all members of the community as well as members of the Jewish communities of Sioux City, Lincoln, Council Bluffs and Des Moines.
Mrs. Milton Margolin Named Honor Recipient Omaha—Mrs. Milton Margolin has been named as one of 10 women in the community to be honored by the Germaine Monteil Company and Brandeis Department Store. A Champagne Tea for the honorees will bo held Monday, November'6 at 3 p.m. in t h e downtown , Brandeis Store Auditorium.
Lincoln—Rabbi Nason Goldstein and the'officers of the Board of Tifereth Israel Synagogue were installed at a dinner held at the Synagogue October 15. Herman Ginsburg served as Master- of Ceremonies at the dinner and installed the following new officers: Gerald S. Grant, President; Bernard Wishnow, vice-president; Everett Evnen, Treasurer; Sheldon K u s h n e r , Secretary, and Charles Sherman, Trustee. Rabbi David Goldstein who for many years filled the rabbinical post at Beth El Synagogue in Omaha, presided at the installation of his son, Rabbi Nason Goldstein. , In his remarks, Rabbi Goldstein recalled Jewish life in Omaha and Lincoln some 40 years ago when he joined the Beth El congregation. He spoke of the hardships of those Jewish families who came to the midwest as immigrants and their efforts to build solid Jewish communities. Rabbi Myer Kripke, currently serving the/ Omaha Beth El Congregation, was among the special guests attending. Congratulating Rabbi Nason Goldstein, Rabbi Kripke noted that the event marked the first time a native Nebraskdn had returned to be installed as a rabbi in his home state. Rabbi Nason Goldstein and his wife, Carole
are the parents of two children, Deena and Arnon. Prior to coming to Lincoln, Rabbi Goldstein served for three years as the rabbi at the Montifiore Synagogue in Salt Lake City.
Pictured above (from left to right) Mrs. David Goldstein, Mrs. Nason Goldstein, Rabbi Nason Goldstein and Rabbi David Goldstein.
Visas Granted and Head Tax Waived For Released Soviet Jewish Activists
New York (JTA)—Three maEarlier in Jerusalem, reports Eban told the Cabinet that jor Jewish activists in Moscow, that 139 Soviet Jewish families "Whether waiving the educaall with advanced academic de- have been spared the emigra- tion tax is intended as an effort grees, have been granted per- tion head tax since the signing- to calm world public opinion by mission to leave the Soviet Un- of a Soviet-American trade'pact a small gesture or whether it's Mrs. Milton Margolin ion without paying the exces- continue to be treated w i t h the first sign that world public A member of Beth El Sister- sive visa taxes levied on edu- skepticism by Israeli officials. opinion has impressed the Sohood, Mrs. Margolin has been cated Soviet citizens, the Stu- Foreign Minister Abba Eban, viets enough to do away with a circle chairman for many, dent Struggle for Soviet Jewry reporting to the Cabinet con- the tax, we must r e a c h the> firmed that 35-40 other families same conclusion, and that is to years. She has served as Jew- said. ' continue the fight (against it)." have been spared the tax. ish National Fund chairman . A SSSJ spokesman said that for Hadassah and has been ac- exit visas have been granted to tive in B'nal B'rlth's Blood GavricI Shapiro, Roman Rut-" Bank program. Currently Mrs. man and Mikhail Kliachkin. Margolin is serving as treas- Shapiro, who began serving a urer of the Lutheran Medical one-year-sentence at "correcCenter Distaffs and as a volun- tive labor" last month for alteer in the Medical Center' leged draft evasion has had his Lounge. She also serves as a sentence suspended and will leave the Soviet Union within LOVE volunteer at the Dr. Sher ten days, his American wife/ Home. Judy Silver Shapiro, told the ' •Tickets for the Champagne JTA. . Tea at $3.50 can be purchased • Mrs. Shapiro, a Cincinnati soat the door or from Mrs. David cial worker who was married Meyers, 391-5690. to Gavrlel in a religious ceremony at his Moscow home last June was denied a civil mar-' rlagc by the Soviet authorities. She said that" she was planning to fly to Vienna to meet her husband. ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT SIIAZAR, left, looks at the. duplicate of a Tollls he will receive as a gift from the Wilkes-Barre JewShapiro, 28, a chemical enOmaha—B'nal B'rith Women include bingo, Mah Jongg, priz- gineer graduate of Moscow Uniish Community Center and thanks Seymour Hefter, educational versity, first applied for an exit Cornhusker Chapter will hold a es and cards. director of the JCC, who was'in Israel for a JVVB-sponsorcd Buffet Luncheon oh Wednesday, A portable black and white visa to go to Israel in Feb. 1971. Seminar on Jewish Program Materials. The 100th Tallls to bo November 8 at noon at the Po- TV set will be raffled .during Roman Rutman, 38, who was a woven by WilKcs-Barre JCC members was made especially for professor of technical sciences lish Home, 4701 S. 25th St, the afternoon. Raffle tickets are President Shazar in honor of Israel's 25th Anniversary but was Luncheon, at $2.50 will fea- obtainable from Chapter mem- at the Institute of Radio Engineering in Moscow, had applied ture a variety of foods prepared bers. . damaged In the flood when Tropical Storm Agnes struck tho by B'nai B'rith members.Tick- ,Baby sitter.service will'bq ir his visa in March 1971' it M S l ' 1 l t h d l i d i W i l k B f cts may be obtained from any provided at 50 cents per; family; b b l l i M " or,; by calling' Mrs,"t'<lieservalioiuj for-sitter,ifervico Harold Franklin, 5584692; ' may be'made by-calling Marii ;Afternqqn,cntertaiiunent will' t lyu Ciplnko, 397-7767. , . applied for a visa. Department of the World Zionist Organization..
For-the past several years Germaine Monteil and leading ' department stores have been . honoring "Beautiful Activisits" in many major cities. This is the first year Omaha has been included in tho program. Mrs. Margolin will be cited for her many years of volunteer service. She has been active for "17 years in the Senior Citizens Club at the Jewish Community Center which is cosponsored by the Omaha Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. She served as • Council's chairman of the project for 15^years and then be. came a member of. the club • serving as treasurer, vicepresident and president. Mrs. Margolin also participated for 15 years in the NCJW • program at Children's Hospital, and continued her work at the hospital w h e n Council phased out its program.
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