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fSoUdaritY Day'Events This Sunday at JCC _^ OMAHA — Omaha Jewry will join Jewish communitiet throughout the country in the obaervance of "Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jews" Sunday, June 2, 1974. The Omaha observance, under the chairmanship of Mmes. Leonard Goldstein and Ervin Simon, will be held from 1 to $ p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. The continuous programming during the afternoon will
include the concurrent presentations of three movies about Soviet Jewry; a film strip presentation depicting the history of Jews in the Soviet Union, and a skit presented by Kadimah SYO of Beth Israel Synagogue. Free Information provided by the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry will be available in the Center lobby. Bumper suckers, art posters, buttons
and other items will also be on sale In the lobby. Names, addresses and thumbnail sketches of Soviet Jews who have applied for and been denied exit visas will be available for those interested In participating in letter writing campaigns. Background music in the lobby throughout the afternoon will be provided by Theodore Bikel's recording of "Silent No More" an album of
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Omeha, Neb., Fri.. May 31,1974 •
Gei^ral Orii Will Present Israeli Medal at Bonds Eve
Pictarcd above, • scene from the film "They Will See Flowers" one of several fUms to be shown at the Omaha observance of Solidarity Day for Soviet Jews. Sunday, June 2. from 1 to i p.m. at the Jewia Caiamaalty Ccatcr.
Five Rabbis Manhandleqi By U.N. Security Guard NEW YORK, (JTA) - Five rabbis who claim that they and 120 Jewish student demonstrators were manhandled by United Nations security guards who forcibly ejected them from the UN visitors lobby on May 20, have aaked for a meeting with Ambassador John Scali "to diKusa this matter and to attempt to insure that the United Nations ... docs not become a forum for wholesale violation of civil righta." The signers on this letter were Rabbi Steven RisUn, Avraham Weiss, Saul Berman, Reuben Grodner and Benjamin Blech. On May 22, Rabbi Berman and Rabbi Blech and a delegation of Yeshiva University students met Deputy Mayor Judah Gribetz at City Hail to protest the incident. Gribetz said he would inform Mayor Abraham D. Beame and "lake appropriate action with UN authorities." The letter to Ambassador Scali contained a detailed account of what the rabbis say happened when they and the students demonstrated peacefully in the UN lobby to demand that the world organization "aasert moral leadership to prevent further terror in the Middle East" in the wake of the Maalot and Kiryat Shemena tragedies. "We informed the deputy chief of security that we would be willing to leave u soon as we made a statement to the press," the rabbis'
letter said. "Wejndicated to him that we had no Intention of being arrested. The demonstrators were students, many of them young women, and in the many years of demonstrations we have participated in we have always avoided violence in any form," the rabbis wrote. They claimed in the letter that when a reporter began to interview Rabbi Weiss, the entire group was subjected to an unprovoked assault by about 30 UN guards without warning. "Many of us were brutally beaten and dragged out of the lobby. One of the students was hit at the Ijase of his spine so severely that he could not walk. One Yeshiva University student, Michael Burr, had his hand broken by the guard* i a number of the younger iomen, also from Yeshiva University, were treated at Beth Israel Hospital and now have their arms in slings," the letter to Scali said. It also claimed that the guards had removed their shields before they attacked the group to avoid identification. "We came to the United Nations seeking an end to violence and we were met with violence. Certainly the civil and human rights o( American citizens does not end at the United Nations gate," the rabbis wrote. James Finore, acting chief of security at the UN, denied that the. guards, had uaed
excessive violence or antiSemitic expletives all charged by the group.
OMAHA - BrigadierGeneral Avraham Orli, Israel's Deputy Commander of the Gaza Strip area, representing the State of Israel will make the presentation of Israel's Prime Minister's Medal to Morris r Miller, Chairman of the Board of the Omaha Natieoal Bank. The Tribute Dinner is taking place Saturday evening, June 8th at the Omaha Hilton. Frank 0. Starr, President of the Omaha NtfUonal Bank, will ferve as Chalrmn of the event and Harold W. Anderson,. President of the Omaha World Herald, will be Toastmaster. A member of the Israel Defense Forces since the establishment of the State of
Israel in 1948, General Orll was a commander of an Infantry brigade. He became an officer in 1950 and has seen service during Israel's War of Independence, the Sinai Campaign of 1958 and the Six Day War of June 1987. General Orli has pursued advanced military coiu'ses in England and in the United States and has represented his country abroad as the head of several military missions in Ethiopia and other Africlan countries. Because of urgent economic needs in the wake of the Yom Kippur War, an unWecedented $1 Billion Reconstruction and Development Issue has been rioatedby th« State of Israel, the largest in the history of
General Orll the Israel Bond Organization. Proceeds from the sale of Israel Bonds will make possible the rehabilitation of the war-dislocated economy and the establishment of job opportunities.
Rabbi Proposes.#*•Disbanding ""«!P^ ^ . . LevKSh Freed Of Synagogue Sisterhoods r\^ r%
NEW YORK, (JTA) - A New York rabbi proposed the disbanding of synagogue sisterhoodoe which he said had deterred women from positions of synagogue leadership by channeling their activities into what have been considered "traditionally feminine or supportive roles." The proposal was made by Rabbi A. James Rudin, assistant director of the American Jewish Committee inlerrellgious affairs department, at a panel discussion on the women's movement and ihe Jewish community at the 88th annual meeting of the AJCommlttee here. Rabbi Rudin said "it's time we dropped all the women's clubs and all the men's clubs so that we can really have congregations." He said sisterhoods "have done some fine things - but their existence has prevented women from moving into the mainstream leadership of synagogues. It's the executive committee of a congregation that sets the budget—and the executive committee still meets In the men's room."
Rabbi Rudin proposed the "active recruitment of Jewish women for the rabbinate, the cantorate and positions of real professional responsibility In the Jewish community, especially in national Jewish organizations and the various community Federations." Arthur L. Kimmelfleld, a New York member of the AJCommittee's Executive Council, said women must take Ihe lead in moving the Jewish community toward accepting full equality of both sexes. He said Jewish women "have been too modest about making their demands." Dr. Nancy Wyner, assistant principal of Larchmont Schools, Larchmont, N.Y. another panelist, said the Jewish community had no provisions for including Ihe independent woman in its religious and communal activities. She offered four recommendations on how the Jewish community might correct Its "current neglect" of women. She proposed creation of day care centers "completely Immersed In Jewish tradition" to relieve mothers
of being the sole transmitters of Jewish identity; more opportunities for women to participate In Jewish ritual; provision for rabbinical counselling, or straining women to perform such counseling In the synagogue to support changes in the lifestyle of women; and more open discussions in the Jewish community.
NEW YORK (JTA)Yevheny Levich, the 27-yearold Moscow astrophysicist, has been released from a military camp In Siberia and his parents have been told to pick him up.
Levich was taken into custody last May after the entire family applied for exit visas. He received two draft deferments on grounds of illness and had been seriously ill in prison.
Six Terrorists Killed on Golan TEL AVIV, (JTA) - Six Arab teNjrists who Infiltrated from Syria were killed and two were captured on May 23 in a battle with an Israeli army unit near Ramat Magshlmlm on the Golan Heights. A military spokesman said the terrorists were heavily armed and carried equipment indicating they were on a mission to seize hostages and commit sabotage. According to the spokesman, the two captured terrorists informed Israeli soldiers that six others of their group were in the vicinity. They were discovered about noon local time and killed. One was blown up when a shot hit a pack of explosives he was carrying. There were no Israeli casualties. Two electric loudhailers were found near the bodies, apparently to be used in negotiations after hostages were captured. Also found near the bodies were eight Kalachnikov automatic rifles, four pistols, about 30 hand grenades and two back packs containing 22 pounds of explosives, sabotage gear, transistor radios, maps, compasses and binoculars.