Tours of New JCC Begin This Sunday Omaha — InvitaUont have baan iaaucd to the Hnt o( a Mriea or guided tour* of the new Omaha Jewish Community Center (Ma Sunday tram 1 to 3:30 p.m. The enUre Omaha Jewlah Community Is t>eing invited to aec the new Center either anday the 20th, the Z7th or PWruary UKh, accottUiic to Mr. Ramon Somberg, MembcnMp Chairman for the new Center. The tours will b« conducted by members of the Jewish Community Center lUff and wUI be followed by coffee hours in Ike Center auditorium.
Those who received invitations for the tour this Sunday who cannot attend at the time designated may come anytime between I and 3TS0 p.m. The tours will only take approximately one-half hour. Meaberskly Committee Sub-committees of Ihe Membership committae have been named by Mr. Somberg. Under the chairmanship of Robert Kully Is a committee of Ncasrs: Jay Lemer, Dick Zacharia, Jerry Kohll, Larry Plattner, Bernie Meyers, Undy Paul, Bennett Hornstein, Tom Bernstein, BUI Kully, and Steve Simon.
Marv Steinberg Is chairman,,of a committee that includea Mesars. Dick Rochman, Richard Juro, Steve Lultgarten, Donald Nogg, Ed Belgrade, Jerry Freeman, Alan Tully, Frank Goldberg, Leonard Segal, Eddie Rosen, Buddy Goldstein, Stuart MuaUn, Dr. Ben Nachman and Dr. Al RImmerman. Serving on Dr. Jim Wax' committee are Meaars: Mort Glass, Paul Alperson, BUI Cohen, Manny Goldberg, Joe KIrsbenbaum, Eli Schupack, Leon WIntroub, Dr. Bennett Fishbain and Dr. Paul Shyken.
PICnmED ABOVE IN the Seaiar AdaU L«Hge area of the new Jewith Community Center boUdiag are former Omsbani (from left) Mr. and Mr*. Sam Beber. Mrs. Phil Klutinkk and Mr. Khrtsakk. The former Omabaai were boaored at the AZA annlveriary dbincr last weekead. bariag their brief visit to Omaha, tbey toored the aew Center bnilding on iSnd Street
SERVING DES MOINES, Vol.UII-No.17
NCIL BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Nab.. Fri.. Jan. 18.1974
Romanian Chief Rabbi To Speak in Omaha Omaha — The Chief Rabbi af Romania. Dr. Moiet Rosen, will speak to the Omaha Jewish commnnlty at the inDoti meeting of the Jewith Federation of Omaha to be held Sonday. Febmary 3.1(74 at J p.m. at the aew Jewish Commaaity Center. All memben of the community are invited to attend the meeting which will be the first, major event held at the near-completed new Center facUity. on lJ2nd Street between Dodge and Pacific. A member of an Ulustrious rabbinical family, 62 year old Rabbi Rosen has a degree in law, aa weU as a vast Talmudic education. Chosen CM«f Rabbi in 1948 by the Congress of Rabbis and Ihe communities of Romania, he serves as president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Romania, with which all 70 communities of the country are affiliated. Since 1957 Rabbi Rosen has been a member of the Romanian ParUament. He alto serves as a member of the Govemhig CouneU of the World Jewish Congress and of the Jerusalem Hebrew University's Board of Goyeitwrs. A noted world Jewish leader. Rabbi Roaeq played an Instrumental role in the migration of 300,000 Jews to Israel following the Holocaust. Among his many historic achievements was the creation of legal conditions for adequate Jewish religious life In Romania. Rabbi Rosen has served as a guest professor at New ^York' Yeshiva University and has lectured extensively Uirougheut ttia United SUIes. For the first time in the past 35 years of Federation history, every member of the Jewish Federation of Omaha wjll'have Uie opportunity to partkipate in Uie election of Federation officers and memben of the board of directors. The recently adopted. Federation By-Laws changed the voting procedure which formerly limited voting privileges to members of Uie Federation Board of Governors. Howard J. Kasbw, chairman of Uie
Chkf ItabbI Rosen Nominating Committee, halr^ubmitted a slate of nominations .for Uie election. Additional nominations may be made by written peUtlons, which must be signed by at least 15 members of the Federation and filed wlUi Alvin Abramson, not later than today. E^ch petition must contain Uie written consent of each candidate. Officers selected by the nominating committee to serve one year terms include: Morley Zipursky, president; Alvin Abramson, Hubert Rosenblum, Harlan Noddle, vice-presidents: Mary FeUman, secretary; Joseph Lipton, treasurer. In addition to the officers, 14 new members of the board of directors will be elected.
Rat Motor Co. Defies Arab Blackmail Threat
NORMAN BATT. ehahiBan •( the aew Jewith CommuiMy Cealer BididlngCommlUee, des cribei ••roe ol Ibr biglillghu of the aew iHiUdlBg U Phil Klutinlck sad 8am Bcber during their Omihi visit IstI wethend. Kxprcsslng their dellfhi wiUi the new fscUlty, Mr. Klutinkk noted that the Oaiaba facilitlcf mslcbed or lurpaited any Crater Mldlag be bad vltiled anywhere, "i hope," ba satd, "that the ^aaUly of Ibc program! offered are eqaal in excclcnce to Uic lacOUles."
ROME, (JTA) - Italy's Flat Motor Co., under an Arab Blacklist threat, is refusing Arab demands to fire three employes of the Turin newspaper La Stampa which it owns, including the Jewish editor, Arrigo Levi. The demands and threats from the Arab Boycott Committee in Beirut followed the recent publication of humorous references to President Muammar elQaddafi of Libya which Qaddafi did not consider funny. Flat'i Interests in
Libya, an Italian colony before World War II, are valued at t30 million. Its business Uiroughoul the Arab world is much greater. Qaddafi whs Uie butt of humor in a column written for La Stampa by Carlo Fruttero and Franco LucenUni. His ire appears to have been aroused as much by Uie fact that e<|itor Levi Is Jewish and fought for Israel as a volunteer during Uie 1948 war as by what the two humorists said about him. The latter Included tongue-in-cheek
suggestions that Qaddafi, who makes much of his Moslem austerity, was a secret homosexual, kept a harem of 48 wives in Switzerland, and ate pork, forbidden to Moslems. The news staff of La Stampa and Its afternoon edlUon, Stampa Sera, has backed Levi and denounced Uie Arab blackmail attempts. Their managing editor issued a statement thanking them for Uieir support and declared there was no pressure from Flat to fire anybody.