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For the 2 p. m. matinee only, children and students will be admitted (or t2. Adult admission remains at $3.50 ($3 for Center members). The final performances ot "The Apple Tree" were rescheduled from Dec. 14 due to Inclement weather.
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SERVING DES MOINES,, Vol.LIVNo.10
NCIL BLUFFS LiN(X}LN, OMAHA Omaha, Nab., Fri., Dacambarao, 1974
Mrs. Meir Says 'We Will Fight'
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(about the stale o( young By RICHARD PBAHL OMAHA-A (resh wave of leadmhlp) because we want young Jewish leadership. to ramabi Ike JoarWi peaple. "It U not I, the IsraeU, who Omaha-style, gave a distlngulahed visitor to thU is ^leaking at this moment to the American Jew, but one city a thrill recently. "It Is a thrill and a pleasure Jew to other Jews. Israel to see to many young people belongs to every single living here. I always worry about Jew, 90 we especially want to young Jewish leaders," said see that the young are inMrs. Ruth Tekoah, wife o( the terested and upcoming." Then the seemingly inIsraeli ambassador to the United Nations Josef Tekoah • defaligable Mrs. Tekoah, who She made the statement to had already talked to four the more than 40 young other groups that Thursday, Omahans who packed the launched into an explanation living room of the* Harlan of the situation facing Israel Noddle home Thursday night, and world Jewry. Dec. 5, to get a first-hand She discussed Palestine account o( the crucial Liberation Organiiation situation facing Israel and the leader Yasir Arafat's true intentions ("the elimination of world's Jews today. Concern and anxiety over Israel") and the United the situation was evidenced by Nations' seeming approval the youthful gathering, nMSt (lOS ot 138 member nations In their 20s and 30s. They form voted for Arafat). She told of what Noddle hopes will be tlw the purpose of Israel ("to vanguard of Omaha's future Ingather every Jew whenever JawWi laadMriiip. Noddle U he wants to come") and ex.vto piwrWint bi charge o( plained that Zionism is not a leadership development (or political movement, but a the Jewish Federation of prayer ("we have prayed for Jerusalem and Zion for Ontaha. Mn. Tokoab laid the thousands of years"). The gatberlng, "We are concanied history and religion of the Jews "Is all intertwined—we are not like the Catholic American or others—we are a people, but (Irst o< the Jewish faith . .. Take a couple of Jews from two ends of the OMAHA - me Board (rf the world and put them together; Jewish Federation of Omaha >Vhen they meet, II is unique; wiU meet Man., Dec. 23, 7:30 they have an immediate p.m. at the Jewish Community common understanding." She spoke of Israel's Center. ThU meeting Is open dttemlnatkjn to edalt and to all Federation members.
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said, "We don't want or need aqy mon territory than we now have., .there is no place lor a thbtl eountry between Israel and Jordan. And Jordan li Paleitlne-take the Paleatlnlans away from Jordan and you would h|ve no people In that country." She told her youthful audience that Israel feels it can continue to rely on the United States, that she believes it would siq>port Israel If Syria started a war because "I, Israel is the only democracy in that Middle East area; 2, the Russians would be making moves and 3, the U.S. has a moral obligation to the Jews' because of Its devotion to (reedom and democracy. She asked how many in her audience had been to Israel. Only six raised their hands. "Nothing can show you Israel better than being there," she told the crowd. Then she added, "Israel is knowing that your grandchild may not have to (Ight a war, but that your son who will graduate from school soon will have to enlist in the military." She then answered a number of questions: -me oil BttuaUoa: Is there any reeearch In profreee to create another fuel simply (iolar energy) ao u to eUmlnata dcpendney on Arab oilf "There are four itataa In the U.8. that cbuld find mare on than the Arabs aupply tiila country wtib If the eftart were made. But wby should loaal
try to aolve the prabtem for the rest of tba world? It has enougb pnbtans of Ita own." —The Russians on release of Soviet Jews: "The Russians are so Machiavellian, Ihey will find ways and means not to live up to any agreement.'' —Henry Kissinger's worth: "No other man would have done so fantastic a job ol shuttling back and (ortli to bring peace. But he is the Secretary o( State of the United SUtes and not of Israel; however, I still want to believe that somewhere there lurksaYlddisheKopf." -Win Israel puU out of tbe UN: "Wby the beU should we gbre the world tbe. laiialaotlaaT And biaMia, about » per cant of the deMgatea wbo left their tablea when Joeef got 19 to ^paak atood ebMwten In (be U.N. and HKened to what be bad to say." —Arab-Israeli dialogue: "We are all prepared to talk with them—but they are not prepared to talk with us." —Are the Arabs using oil as a weapon: "Of course tliey are. The man on the street is ignorant of the true nature of the situation. And the Arabs know very well that ttie moment he (eels the least bit uncomfortable, he'll look (or someone to blame, and the Arabs will offer him the Jews." Ann Goldatein (3S1-106O) Is in charge of tbe young leadership effort. Any interested couples or singles are asked to call her.
ByYItxbakRaM NEW YORK (JTA)Fornier Israeli Premier Golda Meir declared here that Israel will fight for its existence "even if we are alone ... We will (Ight with everything in our possession. Israel will not commit suicide like the heroes ofMasada." Mrs. Meir spoke forcefully and with emotion to an audience of more than 3,000 American Jewish leaders attending the closing dinner of the United Jewlsii Appeal National Conference given In , her honor at the New York Hilton Hotel. The former Premier was greeted by a standing ovation that lasted several minutes and was repeatedly Interrupted by appiatoe. the' Conference, which began Friday, ushered in the 1975 UJA campaign. She scornfully rejected Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy's demand that Israel close its doors to immigration for the next 50 years and return to the 1947 partition boundaries. "I aak you, can't we be Jorthcomlng lor a change and accapt that fbr the sake of peace?" atae aald. "In what a peaceful atmosphere we will live In (YasIr) Arafat'a 'aacular state,' tba
'democratic secular state' with 80 yeara of bnmigratkm, with no new child bom, I leave It to your Imaginatloo." Mrs. Meir also denounced the United Nations and UNESCO (or attempting to isolate Israel and deprive It o( Its right o{ membership. It is not Israel that has been isolated, she said. "The UN is isolated from everything that Is decent and moral in human life." Mrs. Meir stressed that she no longer spoke in the name of the government but as a private cititen of Israel. She said she could not promise that the Yom KIppur War was Israel's last war. She said that Israel would never, under any circumstances, negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization, even though UNESCO, which deals with education, prefers Arafat over IsraeL "Who knows better about schools and children than Aralat?" she said, re(errlng to the massacres at Maalot and KIryatShemona. She stated that she believed the (uture "existence o( the Jewish people depends upon an Israel safe, alive and developing. If. you believe that, then everything Is worth while," she told her audience. (Continued on Page 3)
74 Omaha Check for UJA Is Presented by Rubinstein NEW YORK - A check for $25,000 - Pledges to the United Jewish Appeal made by Omahans In 1974 — was presented to the UJA National (inference last weekend by Herb Rubinstein, executive director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. The conterence drew some 3,000 American Jews "(rom communities just like Omaha," Rubinstein said, although no other Omahans were present. "One of the speakers said the state o( affairs today Is Just like that of 1938, when World Jewry allowed German's Jews to go down the drain," Rubinstein related. •But he said this time. World Jewry is united and Israel Jewry Is armed — for the first time In 2,000 years. "He toU Amcrica'a Jawa to take heart, that Jews have
never been a people of deipair, but rather a people of optiinlam, tbat th^ muit believe In miracles.") The crisis is now, Rubinstein emphasized. "The Jews of America and Omaha have to replace the despair some feel with action, one form of which is by campaign pledges, which demonstrate confidence. "Israel faces a hostile wot-ld, declining income and many serious social problems," said Rubinstein, who lived In Israel for 20 months prior to coming to Omaha. "But after the conference, one (eld sure the problems will be solved. "Optimism and good works have always characterized the Jews. We have to believe In miracles — and at Hanukkah time, such belief is all the more appropriate."