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Bktok Papers OMeAndts I ?«:WYORK - Two of the , nation's leading Black *• newspapers were critical this i week of Arab proposals to expel Israel from the U.N. ^ General Assembly, (he ' American Jewish Congress reported. In an editorial, the CWeagD
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Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference calling for Israel's expulsion from (he United Nations was not only fooliah and damaging but would bring no credit to the ministers themselves and no benefits to Arab interests." On the same day — July 22 - the PhOadiipUa TrfeOM declared: "The U.N. has acted irresponsibly thtougbout the Arat>-l8raell crisis, but if they become so outrageous as to vote to expel Israel, It wilk be clear that tbey have completely outlived their usefulness." The Chicago Dsfender called the Islamic Foreign Ministers' resolution "a crude and emotlonai gesture of contempt toward the United Nations and a deHbenitely rude and provocative ftply to Secretary of State Kissinger's speech appealing fo^ a more constnictive attitude by the smaller members of the world organization. "Tbat UM IMM SMii inlglit wlthdnw flaaBcial ooMtaUantolNVJI. isan omiaouB eoaUafmejr tbat riMRMnotberdMloiittfaw Third World .aattons go tJMu^ wilk the molubn ID eipal brail," the
"WHliout MS. membership, (inancial support and influence, the U.N. would be an empty shell.!' Ihe MadH; flagriiip of t the SengitMke chain of t. pepen Is publlabed daily with <-. an audited circulation of , approximately 35,000. : ItlsoaeoftwoBlaGkdaUies r intheU.S. In Its longer editorial, the * '
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asserting that a vote to expel Israel would be "an outrage and an bijustlce of monstrous proportlq^,"declared. "Most of the U.N. member nations hardly come to that august body with clean hands. Over half the nations are military dicUtorshlps which do not have even the most basic freedoms, ^humane treatment of ^dlnary citizens, or democratic principles In their own countries. "Many of the member natiaas have aogaged tai the ruthless, oohMoodedmuniir of thouaaads of CWMM «r the liupi Isunnsat and torture of teuofbiaidrsdiofthousaadi fat ilmply dtaa^Mliig with their gBwnmwBhi' poildas. In this catefoqr are Chile, Haiti, Brasll, Uganda, Uruguay, the Soviet Vidoii. Indooeda, the PhlllpplMs, South Africa, Sooth Kma, ate. (ConUnuedonPagea)
Authors Levin, Ozick Are Scheduled by JCC OMAHA - An exciting year of programming Was announced this week by the Jewish Community Center's Cultural and Performing Arts Department.
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According to Mark W. ' Zalkln, cultural and performing arts director, "The film series and theater series liave been announced and are now under way with shows and films scheduled through May, 1976. "Up until this time, our Jewish Cultural Arts (k)uncll has been working on the programs we call special events. These programs are broken down into a performing artist series, a Jewish Forum Lecture Series, a community-wide special events series, art exhibitiondisplay program, and Adult Jewish Education Series."
Soviets Put to Tost NEW YORK - In a test of the Soviet Union's compliance with the spirit of detente and international telecommunications agreements, New York officials placed phone calls to Soviet Jews who have applied for visas to emmlgrate to Israel. Of the 25 calls placed, only three were connected. Those making the other calls were offered excuses ranging from "noonehome" to "no one in the city by thst name." All of the intended phone call recipients were notified in advance, including three persons who were to be at Moscow's Central Post Office to receive calls. In left photo, Staten Island Borough President Robert Connor relates to Bronx Borough President Robert Abrams (right) the various excuses given by the Moscow operator lor not completing his call. He was first told that the party was not home, then that the person had moved a month earlier, and lastly that no one by that name II ved in the city.
Focum Lecture Serlsa At right. New York City Commissioner of Consumer Affairs Elinor Gugg^nhelmer Sun., Oct 5, UTS, 7:10 p.m. (right) and television news reporter Norma - Cynthia Qtick, Jewish Queries attempt to reach Spvl^ Jewfc by phone author, critic, poet, author of as interpreter Ilya Levkbv (top left) and "An Ihe World WaiU The Margy-Ruth Davis, who coordinated the phone JowsOead". test for the Greater New York Conference on Sun., Nov. 18,107S, 7:90p.m. Soviet Jewry, look on. Miss Quarles was able to reach Isaak Tsitberbllt, who told her: "You — Rabbi Eugne Bonwlts, don't know how difficult It Is for us to be alone one of Aaurlcan Jewry's editor of here under such circumstances. It Is only of "the possible to continue because of your concern and help. I thank you all very much. I know the Maafc Jaws Wear." Jtabbl Borawtts is iMlog prassBtid In end will be good. This year in Jerusalem." conjunction with the The Greater New York Conference con- Federatlaa Library's second ducted the test, aimed at calling attention to annual Jewish Book raativaL the rights being denied Soviet Jews, on the eve Sun., Feb. 30, Ifn, 7:10 p.ni. of the Helsinki summit meeting which President Ford and Soviet Communist Party —Meyer Levin, Jounalist. leader Leonid Brezhnev will attend. (RNS ntan maker, author of such works as "Ihe ObPhoto) ' aid "Conopuiaion''.
President Is for Uffe Center ByBflasHottnaa DES MOINES "Cooperation," that U the word JWF President Marvin Pomerantz used to describe the "overriding objective" of Des Moines Jewish community life at the Federation's annual gathering on July 31, in the TIfereth Israel Clubhouse. Following the D'var Torah delivered by Gary Rubin, Marvin Pomerantz was presented with a plaque of honor (or bis dedicated Federation service. The reception of the presidential address was a major highlight of the meeting. As s central focus of his annual report, Pomerants reviewed the dsvelopoMnt of the JewWi U/e Ctnisr COBcept from Ito Initial phMoa whan the FMeratta Board In U74-7B, passed a reaohition which called for an architectural study. This rssolve, u part of ths oonUauatioo of Oomnumity Acttoa CkHnmlttaa aeitfltiia, was
The "special events" announced this week by the various sub-committee chairmen and Zalkln include:
conducted with the purpose of pravtdlag the Das IMMS Jewish community, Pomersntz noted, "with the opporfaailty to profeislooaDy svahMte all of the reoommendatioos and luggiatlaos of various pardei and vested Interest groups In an afiort to determhw what ktad, if any. Jewlab IM» Oinler Aoold be oQDstnictad pyar the <;oursf of
'the nest several years." The JWF President thanked Jewish Life Center Planning Committee Chairman Tim Urban and Co-Chariman Dick Levitt (or devotion of their time and energies to the project. To familiarize the community with the components of the Life lu function in the Jewish comnMinlty. The Life Center, Pomerants said, "is to be a (acility tbat provides, over a long pariod of thne, a myriad of KTvlcaa and activities tor all major segments of our community. By way of Ohatratkia, it would meet the total requtawnenU of our geriatric population. It would be deaigaed to enhance programs to attract UM 46 per cent of our youth not eumntly involved In formal Jewish actlvltlea. "It would encompass s pisn to service family needs in a Jewish environment and build tlia that would maxtanise the . (Continued on page 8)
Christian Relations, Archaeology, Jewish Contribution to America, Hassidic Rabbis and their Influence on the Talmud, plus the usual courses in Hebrew Reading and Yiddish. The (all term Includes a new Instructor, Dr. S. Daniel Breslauer, professor of Judaic Studies at UNO, and the return of two old friends, Dr. Bruce Mallna o( Creighton University and Dr. Oelvin Hutton of Dana College. Brochures will be mailed to the community in early September. In addition, an intensive Hebrew Uipan program will also start In the fall. Performing Alts The 1976 ^ring Jewish Studies Series will begin Monday, March 1,1976. The 1975-76 Performing Arts Series promises to be one of the most entertaining and exciting ones of recent years, according to Zalkin. It begins on Saturday, Nov. 8 when "Here Is Israel" performs on the JCC Stage. "Here Is Israel" is the musical revue featuring Israelis who are on concert tour of the entire U.S. This show is produced by the same people who presented IsRt year's fantastic program "Sing Along With Israel". Reserved tickets for this evening will go on sale in midOctober. Salurday evening, Dec. 27, promises to be a special evening (or Omaha when the Jewish Cultural Arts Council presents the noted actor, Joseph Wiseman, in an evening o( reading from famous and important Jewish writers.
May, Itn - AUrad Kaski, Salurday night, February literary critic, author 21, 1978, sees the return to (ipecillc data not yet dstar Omaha of the ever popular national Yiddish Theater Sidney Cahan is chairman of Troupe headed by Ben Bonus. the Jewish Forum Lecture Their 1976 show is entitled ' 'Long LI ve Coliunbus". Series. Adult Educatkm Dr. Martin Wolf, chairman of The School of Ck)ntlnulng Jewish Studies, announced the expanded 1975 Fall aass Schedule to begin Monday. Oct. 6.
Special Programs This spring will include' special? programs such as a Holocaust Memorial Observance, Israeli Independence Day Celebration and possibly a Scholar-InResidence.
Among the courses are: The The JCC's Cultural and Jews in Moslem and CSiristlan Spain, Jewish Law and Performing Arts DepartContemporary Issues, Jewish- ' ment's program advisory arm is the 45-member Jewish Cultural Arts Council. The Arts Council is made up of representatives o( all the major synagogues, most of the OMAHA - Ihe special major (nen and women's New Year Issue of die organization; and at-large Jewish Press will be membA's representing the ptiblished on Wednesday, JCC and community in Sept. 3. Roih Haahanah general. Ruth Katzman and b^tlna at sundown on Alan Crounse are co-chairmen Friday, Sept. 5. of the Council. Zalkln Is assisted by Janls Perelman.
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