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OMAHA — People wanting to attend a Pawover Seder or thoee wanting to!« hosts •rc asked to contact either Pearl Yager or Mollle Delman at the Jewish Community Center as soon as possible so that arrangements can bamade. The phone number Is 334420Q.
SERVING DES MOINES, Vol. UV No. 22
.COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Nab., Fit., March 14,1976
To Live Another Summer' Lives Another 1)8/ OMAHA - "To Live Another Summer" will be held over for an additional performance Sunday, March 16, 8 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center The cast baa agreed to this special showing to help kick off the 1J75 Jewish Philanthropies Drive in Omaha. A $1 fee Includes refreshments following the performance. Call the Center (334-8200) for reservations or purchase tickets at the Center desk.
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"The Rfth Gup" Available; Stresses Freedom, Dignity raiW YORK- TheUiiltMl Jewish AppeuRas created a special Passaver program enUtled "The Fiftb Cup", wtiicb provkhs the American Jewish commtnltjr with the means to express its detemlnation that freedom and dignity be preserved for Jews in Israel and throughout the world. Traditionally, there are (our cutis of wine consumed at the Seder, and it has become the custom to set aside a fif tli cup - the Cup of Elijah which remains unconsumed. Since this custom >s not mcnUoned in the traditional lext of the Ha«adab, the
UJA has produced a booldel called "The Fifth Cup", with a special text designed to be incorporated into the Seder service. The lUurgy dramatically proclaims the need for personal reaffirmation of hope and courage for the future of the Jewish people. In addition to the booklet, (he UJA has also produced a Teachers' Discussion and Activity Guide on the concif>t of the Fifth Cup, for Sunday and Hebrew School teachers. All of "The rifth Cup" materials will be available thr««h the Omaha Jewish Federation.
Israeli Def icK For Fiscal Year JERUSALEM IJTA)Leadlng economists are warning that Israel (aces a deficit of nearly IL 4 billion for fiscal 1975-76 rather than the IL l.S blllkxi deficit built Into the new national budget now under atudjr by the Knsastt. A defied of such pnportioas will lead to an unprecedented wave of inflation and the only possible solutkNi is further cuts In the propoaed IL 56 billion budget, especially the allocations for defenie expenditures which, at IL 22 billion, comprises the largest single budget -Itein, the economists say. The experts, who all seem to be In agreement as to the real size of the deflctt. Include economists asaoclated with the Bank of larad, the Hebrew University and. In fact, the Treasury itself Tbsy lay Uiat tba pp bal-
tbt effieUl deficit eootataed hi HMM* MtaHtar Yahousbba Rablnowltt'i propoaed budget and actual deficit stems from the gtfvenmmit's rstreat on tax matters and lumnder to local !)>» ndueUoD o( the.JMW payroll tax from 7.5 to 4 per cent wUI result in the loss to the Treasury of IL 450 million, (ContinuedonPageH)
Terrorists Raid Hotel TEL A<IV — Arab terrorists, who had come ashore hi two small boats with machine gum biasing at about midnight, seized the imill beachfront Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv and held some 30 persons captive for six hours. The sclge ended early in the morning when Israeli troops stormed the four-story, 1»room hosUI. Seven Arab gnerrlllas, three Israeli soMlers and three civilians were Utled in the gun fight and In an explosioB set off by the terrorlits. At top, Israeli security men and police surrowid an Arab terrorist (second from left with only head visible), as they bustle him to an ambulance through an earaged mob. He was the only survivor of eight terrorUU and was found as soldiers searched the rubble of the hotel. Below is a view of the Savoy Hotel after the rald.The Palestine guerrilla hcadqnarters in Beirut, Lebanon, said the raiders wrc members of AssUah, the mllttary arm of the Ai Fatah guerrilla organisation.
Gerda Kleki: A Vohe of Humanity ^RaaaHottmaa DBS MOINES - A voice sweet and tremulous issued from the lips of Gerda Klein on Friday evening, March 7, at Tifereth Israel Synagogue's community-wide service. This event marked Mrs. Klein's flnal appearance in Oss Mstacs after a five-day serief ^Making engagemenU. Gerda's message, a meisair from the heart tinged with • pathos that no time will erase, reUined a darity, a "freshness" o( vision which made her mefflonea live ^ us. She recalled the "beginning of the end" when the Nazis burned the synagogue of her native home, UH synag^ie which sht had known (rom childhood. Gtrdi rcmemberad her (atbtr's last words. On the night before the family was to be deported, he Implond Gerda «svcr to gKe up.
never to relent bi the struggle for survival, (or life. Bdioed over Gerda's cai>rMfmvm during sbi of the moot lortaoui years of her cqdalioca. bar (atbar's ««rdi aavad bcr (ram auecumbiag to the peaceful obUvkm of death, the escape for those who could not endure the labearable agDOias of the perverted raaittjr. Time passed. Gerda's friend, Hilda, the last remaining link with her shattered former world, died shortly before the liberation. Through all this misery one would little expect a ray of hope—but ttcanwk' Over a nuiddy rise a Jeep entered the small Czechoslovaklan village where Gerda and the UO survivors of the "death march" remained, miraculously spared from a pUuilad booU) that navsr
detonated. Aboard the Jeep was U. Klein, member of an advance Army contingent sent to announce the war's end and liberate those in enemy territory. He was a Jew who identided with the plight o( the Holocaust victims and later was to become Gerda's husband. 01 all the longings which plagued her captive spirit, Gerda, gazing (rom the barbed wire of the camp on a chUI winter night, could not forget her love of the quiet evenings at home with her family. How simple and yet how precious were those moments together. Her closing words to us Imparted the importance of appreciating our homes and our families —o( searching, not for what may be missing, but for the beauty of what Is then.
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NEW YORK - RatM BerEditor's Note: The (ollowbig Is an open letter to the Omaha tram W. Kom o( Phlladelpbia, Jewish community from Eli M. Zalkln, 1«7S General Cbalrman a chaplain in the U.8. Naval o( the PhUfmthroples Campaign. He also Invites readers o( the Reserve, has become the first Jewish Pnaa to Die HotaMS snd Lincoln to look in. US. Jewlsb ebaplaln ever The time Is here again - as a matter of fact. It seems It's promoted to the rank o( rear admiral. The promotioo was always here: the time to stand up and be counted. You will soon be called upon (11 you haven't been already) called a "unlquo historical by a dedicated, unselfish person who, himself, has made a breakthrough for Iha rabmeaningful contribution and is now contributing his time - time bbiate and Judaism" in a nMisagt sent to Rabbi Kom taken from his everyday pursuits. He is calling to give you an opportunity to join with him and by otfldals of the JewlA Wdfare Board's Commlaskm all other concerned Jews — concerned with the needs of our community: the need ol the Talmud Torah, of the Home for the on Jewish Chaplaincy. Kom, senior rabbi of Reform advanced aged, for our Jewish youth programs. Besides these Congregation Keneaeth Israel are the agencies concerned with the welfare of Jews everywhere o( Philadelphia, he U also - not the least of which is the concern for keeping Israel strong. Prseeding and during the all-too-recent Holocaust, many o( noted as a hiitorlan and Ibe w wen silant with the excuse, "We did not know." Now we do author or tdltor of IS booka. know. We now know w« must ransom our brethren in Russia, to His most widely known work Syria or wherever they an systefflatlr<aiy betog persecuted. We Is anUtlad "Amsrlcan Jewry (ContlouadonPage?) MdthsOlvttWar."