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SERVING OES MOINES, Vol. UV No. 47
Omaha, Nab., Fri., Octobar 3,197B
Bureau Rgures 'Impressive' community organization which has fluid lines of communication enabling nearly everyone to be reached. "Undoubtedly, the scho(d and the educational leadership have a great deal todowlthlt."hesaid.
DES MOINES-Or. George Pollak of the American Association for Jewish Educatkxi commended the Des Moines Bureau of Jewish Educatloa recently lor what Dr. PoUak described as an "Impressive" enrollment. Eigbty-thTM per cent of the enrollment potential has been achieved. Pollak noted this percentage Is "far above" similar sUtlsUcs for oUier communlUes. Dr. PoUak attributed Des Moines' success to the "dcseiy knit" nature of (he
ikinljra MkNLHmanttatMla. Pcrecntaae of Jewish children enrolled ^ (be Bureau in grade levels 31 - 3rd grade, W ptfcenl; 4th grade, 7i percent: Mb grade, M percent; «b grade, 11 ptrccol; 7lh grade, 77 psroeni; Wi ffsde, It 'HNlalali
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for im-11 Is 114-, pelefltUl li It74. Ei0«y-ttrse of lU itudMU In the flenMotafy level are ennilM at Ibt Bureau. Calculations an bised on percent enrclltid of the total nunbtr of studnis kwnn la be In a partiedar frade level. Hebrew Hi^ Sctool. Over Ibe year* Ibe enraUment has grown (ram M AidMito In WlHi to s> AidHU bi It74-7i. PretMtedMgk Miani atfandanee for aii-n U about 90 rtudenls. Tbe total Bureau enroUmenl for 1175-76 is approximately tU iUidanU Includtaig playschool, prreebool, Oneg Ivri, etenentary and bi|b school bat not Induthif adult educatton. ]
OMAHA - The Federation of Jewish Women Organizatlone will hsM Its annual Newoonen Party on Sunday. Oct 19, 6:30 p.m at the Jewish Oomnumlly Center. If you are a newcomer to Omaiia, or know of one, conUKt Mrs. Sol Kutler, 318-0393, or Mrs. Jeanette Ferrin, 334-BlOO. Further details will appear In the
OMAHA - The Omaha Jewish Family Service is mailing efforts to reach out and find the peopie who need heip - and to offer a heiping hand. Those lieing sought live in Omaha's Jewish community and they, like many others, need attention, according to a JFS spokesman. "It's hard to explain the feeling - like your Just being
W49>« Expectbtg-Agalnl r OMAHA - llie JewWi Federatkm of Omaha could be pictured as beaming like a proud parent-lo4)e after an announcement Issued by its Jewish Family Service department. "We're expecting - agalnl A new arrival!" the announoemeitf began. Ilien it want OB to expiahi the Jewish community Is expecting its third Russian Jewish family by the end of this month. "We all learned a great deal from our experience In resettling our flnt Russian families and we hope this resettlement wiD be even more sueeesstul," conthmed the statement. "But we cannot do this without a ooqis of vohmteers to hdp us out," it warned. "Even tboutfi we have appealed to all Jewiab organlxatkns for VQlunteen, we would like to afipeal to you, u an indlvkhial, to help us with lUs project. "This is a community endeavor and only you can mkae it succeed. "If you can give a little of your time, please volunteer to wort on this resettlement pn«Ject CaU Peari Yaflir at Jewish Family Service (334.000) and volunteer your time andservloes. "Let us hear (ram you!"
NEWYCmK-llwNatioiHi Oonferenoe on Soviet Jewry has recently ieamed of the fate of Rostialav Natanovltcfa EppeUeM, a 33-year old Jew from Kharkov q)parently sentenced to a sbt-year term in a Soviet labor camp bi 1071. L4ttlc informaikn is available
but, accorxltiv to the NCSJ, EppelfeM was found guUt of offenses coastKuted as "antiSoviet propaganda and agitation." He Insisted that his "guilt" cmsisted of being proIwael and of wishing to emigrate to Israel.
there is helping someone," said Peari Yager, director of the Omaha JFS, in describing the new Outreach effort. Mrs. Yager continued, "Perhaps it's a call on the phone and the sound of a friendly voice that nukes someone's day. Or maybe once a month you drive him to a doctor's appointment and he's glad to have someone to 'kibblU'wIth." QuaaUon: Who are we trying to reach? Anawor: Individuals in every age bracket are, at times, in need of special services. We know that the elderly are particularly In need of a heiping hand. Quaadm: What problems do these peopie have? ABWwr: He may be an elderly person who is isolated In the community. He may be
someone who has only recently arrived in our city or in the U.S. It may be a child in need of ^)ecial services, such as tutoring. It may be a person who is alone with no family In the area. l)ueitlaB: How does the agency handle some of these situations? Ansmr: We would like (o offer companionship to someone needing to keq> a doctor's appointment. We vrauid like to offer an isolated and lonely person an opportunity for an outing. We need volunteers to help resettle newcomers to the U5. This involves a range of services, from help in learning English, to helping with grocery shopping or extending hospitality. A volunteer can make a (Continued on Page 5)
'All The Worid' Writer To Speak at JCC Sunday OMAHA - "AD Ibe World WanUlte Jews Dead". Hut will be the subject of a lecture to be deUvered by author, critic and poet Cynthia Ozick at the Jewish Community Center on Sunday, Oct. S,at7:30p.m. Tbe lecture, sponsored by the Jewish Cultural ArU Council, opens the l(7&-7> Jewish FOrum Lecture Series and is free to the public. MiM Odck is the author of "Trust" a novel; and "Tlie Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories," nomtauted for the 1972 National Book Award. She has also published essays, poetry, criticism, reviews and translations hi numerous perkxflcals and
Q«ttta(Mefc anthokigies and has bea the recipient of several prises, including the Award for Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
UBob Feinberg—His Ideas Helped Fundraising Co. o( Omaha, Inc., and one of tUa city's premiere charity (undraissn. It Is not only the daaale tale ol the boy tram an Old World poor famfly who makes good In
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-fflsTto hi n Wg •!(• Iiif asw Mss*ig Bulldtag isr Bdaeadaa, Rshraw UalMnlty, ByRktadPiari OMAHA - Visuallie the following: - Eariy mondng In turiHif-thfrceotuiy Tbrtmto as a youig boy bunies to (Oed and water a horse he (ean: a short while later, that lame boy drtvii« that same hor^ on grocery store deliveries; - A young man sitttaig at a lunch counter, drinUng a new csrtxnated beverage and surprishig Umsalf by ordering a second toasted cheeaesandwidi; - A inU-rs^Ncted busiosas oecutlve In a mkhmtem dty, fladtag time to aerve on 16 dinenat dvlc and rellgtous organliatkm boards, travel behhxi Ibe Iron Curtata tor the United Jewish Appeal and still busily promote Msownfliui; - A man bi a wheelcbair being borne fwlltly 19 the aters of ML Scopus bi Jeniaalem by sht itunlylirasttsaldlen. Tbs boy and the nun, of course, are the same person: Robert M. (Bob) Fetaberg, an tmmlgrut shoemaker's son who became chabrnaa of the board af Pipil Oola Bdttttag
the usual IMay wheat harrsathigagwmsnt There were eventually eight children (six boys) In the Fdnberg family and Bob helped feed them. Among his earliest Jobs was feeiUng and watering a grocery store horse so that the anhnal woukl pidl the ddWery wagon. Bob also swrept the store's sidewalk, put out the bushel baskets and weighed and packaged beans and grains. * The Job paid 13 per week tai groceries. Bob wasUattbethne. He and his brother Charles, who would become an oil company executive and the WKKld's foremost expert on poet Walt Whitman, also had magadne routes. Tbe boys collected and traded not only the redeemadle magazbie sale vouchers, but also cigarette cards and dgar bands. The Jobs and the trading would be kqr factors ta Bob's later career. He and Charles later became real collectors - Charles of books, Bob of Israeli coins and stamps (his coUectkm today is one of the most complete bi the Mklwest). He came to the US. in ino, marrying Freda C. Strikowsky of Canton, Ohk> whom he had met bi Canada during a visit of bsrs to bar relatlvea.
n teak two toasted chaiae saBdwiehas and a boMeof pspst to gst BobtolMfe the *oe bosfaisas, In which be had woriBsd U years, and Jotaihlsia|her4frlaw'sboltHi«baBtDess. "I used to go home for lunch every day except on Saturdays," Feinberg relates. "One day I happened to be sitting at the lunch counter across tbe street from the shoe store eatbig my usual toasted cheese sandwich and drinking a bottle of Coke wiien tbe nuuiager of the place came over to me. " 'Hiya, Bob,' he says to me, 'I've got a new drink here, Pepsi-t^la, and I want you to try it' I noticed It came in a big beer bottle, but I was busy reading the newspaper and i didn't pay that much attentkm. However, I unconsciously ordered a second cheese sandwich to go with that big bottle. I noticed Pepsi's taste was more carbonated than (Take and that It offered twice as much In the bottle as Coke." Somethbig clicked ind Bob Fetaiberg got excited. He called his fMtaer-bi-law who said Pepsi people had alreac^ approached Um about handling the product. But Mr. Strikowsky was worried that tbe Coke people would be angry with Mm. "To hell with the Coca Cola peoplefBob exclaimed. "For years you've been wanting me to go Into the business with you and I sakl I would U sdmething grabbed me. WeU, this grabbed me." From ins to IMI. Bob Feinberg used seven dlflOrent Mg promotkmal Idsaa - such aa prevlouBly unheardof laigaslas (ContbiuedonPageS)