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oddle Is Elected President, Says 'We Need Your Input' OMAHA - Saying i am Joined Mrs. Fellman as vice Interested tn what tlie com- presidents, Rosenblum for a munity wants," Harlan J. second consecutive one-year Noddle accepted the reins of term. leadership as president of the ^rs. MUtoo G. (Mlml) waldbium wit elected Jewish Federation of Omaha leenMry, lucceeding Mrs. Sunday night Feb 2 Noddle, a real estate rellman and reportedly developer, headed the list of ghfing tbe Federatloa two woiMn oftlcen for the Orst candidates unanimously voted time In history. Into office by the apEli Schupack operations proximately 200 Federation chief of a restaurant franmembers attending the annual election meeting at the chise, was elected treasurer. Board members elected to Jewish Community Center. three-year terms were Alvin Mrs. Morris C. (Mary) Fellman, an advertising- Abramson, Paul Alperson, Mrs. Don (Nancy) Greenberg, public relations specialist, became the first woman vice Howard Kaslow, Joe Upton, president in Federation Mrs. Sol (Lee Jane) Parsow, Steven Riekes, Dr. Joseph history. Charles A. Monasse, president of a grocery market Soshnlk, Isadore Tretiak and chain and chairman of the Dr. Jim Wax. Riekes was JCC Executive Board, and nominated by petition; the Hubert Rosenblum, a Cer- others were selected by the Federation nominating tified Public Accountant, committee. Noddle succeeds Morley Zipursky, < who served two successive one-year terms as president after filling out the remaining half-year term of the late C. M. (Nick) Newman In 1972. Zipursky, who handed the gavel to Noddle, was in turn presented a plaque in appreciation of his work on belialf of the Federation. Noddle, an Omaha native who at age 38 may be the 'gpwiKir. nPft MOINESTJ LCOUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA youngest man ever elected Federation president, said II Omaha, Neb., Fri., F»brufy 7,187B was Newman "who got me In Vol. UV No. 17 this work eljjit or nine years ago" with the suggestion Noddle help Interest young people in servlngon the board. The new president praised He addressed himself to diaspora, leaving the State JERUSALEM (JTA)-Dr. Nahum Goldmann declared lucb delicate and potentially and iU institutions the right Zipursky as a man "who has here that "the number one devlsive Issues as activism and privilege to reach binding spent a lot of time and problem of Jewish foreign versus caution in meeting decisions on Its policies; the energy" on Federation work policy Is to secure the survival external threats to the Jewish recognition by Israel of the and as "one of the guys who people and Israel; when to autonomy of the diaspora, not turns me on to this sort of and future of Israel.' In a lengthy address on raslst and when to retreat In trying to dominate its internal thing, iust by listening to him "The Jewish People Among the Interests of survival, the policies and allowing it to talk. The community owes this the Nations," which opened problem of dual loyalty as it voice Its views on Israel's man mud). I think we owe him policies."^ affects diaspora relations with the Sixth Plenary Assembly of Dr. Goldmann divided the flos trniMDdous vote o( thanks the World Jewish Congress, Israel; the need of neutrality for moUvtUng tbe people o( the WJC president also by the Slate of Israel in world problems and perils conour comminuiiity." Zipursky stressed the dangers affairs; and the dangers fronting Israel and world recsivtd a standing ovatk». threatening the survival of Inherent In the "unilateral Jewry Into two categoriesNoddle, who thanked Jewish communities In tlK orientation of Jewish world external and Internal. In the pollciei . .. solely with the former he listed the everyone for the vote of diaspora diminution of guilt for the Nazi confidence and praised the He mentioned specifically, democratic nations." Dr. Goldmann stressed at Holocaust on the part of the officers elected with him as "a the three million Jews in the Soviet Union and the one the outset of his address that non-Jewish world; the fine slate of backup officers million In Latin America. He "every Jew, in my opinion, is realignment of the world and directors", said the dwelt at length on the fun- entitled to express his views power structure by the Federation is "a service damental and far-reaching about Israel's policies, but emergence of the Commiuiist organization — to serve not changes that have occurred in when It comes to the final bloc of nations and the Third some of the people, but all of World nations, capable of the people. the world during the last 30^0 conclusion he has the duty to challenging the democracies years, embracing the Nazi stand by Israel, even if he is "1 am interested in what the in which the Jewish people not In accord with its Holocaust and the emergence community wants and I'm not have traditionally relied. policies." He noted that the of the Jewish State-the two He suggested; "We have afraid of your phone calls. We most important events WJC "by Us structure, cannot first of all to reconsider and II need your Input." moulding the external and adopt a unified position on any possible to Improve our He noted a demographic Internal lives of the Jewish of Israel's internal or external relations with the Communist survey of the Jewish compeople-but also the steady political problems." He formulated three prin- bloc and with the Third World, munity, which will help better realignment of the world particularly because next to identify community members ' power structure which, he ciples, however, which he said the survival of the State of and needs, is to be started. He should form the basic apstressed, will have profound Israel, the future of the three also said the advisory com' effects on the future of Israel proach by the Plenary Assembly to the relationship million more Jews living In mittee will assist in the and (Uaspora Jewry. the Communist world is a Federation's long-range Addressing MO delegates between Israel and the major Issue we have to solve." planning to meet those needs. diaspora: "The unity of the L from 85 countries. Dr. GoldAmong th* internal manit spoke from the vantage whole Jewish people and the Noddle, who said he has problems. Dr. Goldmann point of 60 years of leadership equality of all parts of it; the •tressed the fragiltty of a always l)een impressed with In the Zionist movement and recognition of the sovereignty (Continued on Page3) (ConUnuedonPageS) of Israel by the Jews of the world Jewish affairs.
Goldmann: Secure Israel's Future
The Resolution WHEREAS, the United Nationas Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has shamefully acted to exclude the State of Israel from participation in UNESCO activities and to withhold from Israel financial assistance for the country's museums, libraries and restorations; and WHEREAS, this blatantly political action, based upon wholly unfounded claims of the Palestine Liberation Organization, is a perversion of UNESCO's ideals of international cooperation and universality; and WHEREAS, leading scholars, writers, educators, artists and scientists throughout the world have registered their protests against these flagrant actions and have refused further collaboration with UNESCO until such actions are reversed; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Jewish Federation of Omaha hereby condemns the gross debasement of the spirit and purpose of UNESCO that results from the recent actions of its delegates and calls upon fair-minded persons everywhere to voice their unequivocal protest of such unworthy actions and to seek their immediate rescission. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••"••••••••••••••••••'^ The following individuals support the above resolution: Nnme.
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Address (or city and state): Matl to: Michael Oren, c-o Jewish Community Center, 333 South 132nd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68154. Signatures are due by February 15,1975.
The Sign-Up Drive OMAHA-A drive to secure Grossinger's atop Golgotha, thousands of Nebraska and there might be a technical Iowa signatures protesting basis for this complaint. But, Israel's exclusion from the first of all, nothing of the sort United Nations Educational, has been undertaken and Scientific and Cultural second, even if it had, the Organization (UNESCO) got Arabs and their allies have the blessing of the Jewish clearly forfeited the right to Federation of Omaha Sunday complain. The first rule of night when that body voted equity Is that a complainant unanimously to adopt the has to come to court with resolution protesting 'clean hands.' But for some obscure reasons, the antiUNESCO's action. The resolution was In- Israel coalition in the years 1948-67 never objected to troduced—with prior approval from Incoming Federation Jordanian defacement of President Harlan Noddle-by Jewish antiquities and holy Mike Oren, an Israeli living in places In the Old City. For Omaha, at Sunday night's example, 60 historical annual meeting at the Jewish. synagogues were destroyed and the Jordanian army used Community Center. Over 180 signatures were ancient tombstones from the obtained on the resolution Mount of Olives to floor Its prior to the meeting and all it camps." The amount of cultural took was one reading of the assistance money withheld protest to gain the from Israel is $26,000, which Is Federation's approval. Oren later cited an article less than what Israel confrom tbe Dec. 2», 1974 New tributes to UNESCO, says York Times in which writer Roche, who Is Henry R. Luce Professor of Civilization and John P. Roche sUted the Foreign Affairs at the Fletreason given for the expulsion cher School of Law and was a charge that "Israeli Diplomancy, TufU Univerarcbeologlsts have persisted sity. 'in altering the historical Underlying it aU, says Oren, features (or Jerusalem) by is the Arab attempt to prove undertaking excavations that the SUte of Israel has no which constitute a danger to place In the world of nations, its monuments.' because, if nothing else, the "Now, if the Israelis were Arab charges about Israeli busily dynamiting mosques (Continued on Page U) and installing a branch of