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bidstein Heads Slate for Federation OMAHA-Leooard (Buddly) GoidiMfl, Jewish PhlluitbraplM Committee chalnhan
(or 1«7S, heads the slate of candidates nominated Ibr tlie 1976 leadership positions fai the
Jewish Federation of Omaha. Goldstein is one of six candidates named to serve as
Election 76 Information Nominees for Office, 1976
Outgoing Officers
Leonard CMdsteln ^cePrakkoti: Mrs. MorrisC. (Mary) Fellnuui David LFrMBand HMtodJ.Kaslow
Praidail: Harlan J. Noddle VlMPrakknts: Mrs. MotrisC. (Mary) Fellman CSuurleaA.Monasee HubotRosenblum
FrankN. Goldberg SeerabBy: Mn. Milton G. (Miml) Waldbaum
EU.LScfaUiMk Seerctiiiy Mrs. MlltfloG. (Miml) Waldbaum
Outgoing Board
Nominees for Board, 1976 NomliMaa kr Bowd, UK (Tt Ssm Until JanuuT.uvi) Mrs. SUwy (Jane) Brooks AlanCmne Mrs.JM(Riith)Erman Mrs. DooaM (Ann) Goldstein Martin J. Lehr SUafortUptey Mn. LaiTjrB. \9fMM) RoCtman Or.PaulA-J.Sbykcn Ramon S.Soa)l>et8 RkbardZMharU These nwmben wen elected in Septnnhcr to flU the vacancies ovated by Board members who mowd (rani Omaha and wtaooe terms would have expired in
(Tenns Expire Janaary, 1971) N(mnanBatt Mrs. Sidney (Jane) Brooks* AlanOounse* David L.Fffedland Frank N.Gfldberg OaryO.GralB wel. Meyefflofl Sbarles/Mbnaaee Mrs. Ervin (Miriam) Simon Mrs. Harold (Ludlle) Zellnsky January, 1976. Under these circumstances, the current board members are eligible for r^elecUon.
Continuing Board Members Mioibin wbcae tmna anlft Jauians UTT: Mn. Jack B. (Audrey) Cohen Paul G. Cohen
Mrs. Lloyd (Lois) Friedman Joseph Kiiriienbaum Robert!. Kully Murray H. Newman Yale Richards Mrs. N. Julian (Barbara) Rips JackM.Saferstein Maurice M.Udes
whose tfnm optre Jamwy, 1979: AlviHAbranuon PaulAlperson Mrs. Ommv. (Nancy) Greenberv Howard J. Kaslow Joseph Upton Mrs. Sol (Lee Jane) Parsow Steven J. RIekes Joseph Soshnik laadoreM.Tretiak Dr. James I. Wax
Membership Fee Increase Is Announced by Center OMAHA - Tlie Jewish Community Center membership fees are Increasing for the tint time since the doon opened in May, 1974, the JCC hat announced. Effective Jan. 1, 1976, as memberships come up for renewal or as new members }oin, the new rates will be in effect. In a letter sent to Center members, Chairman of the Board of Directors Norman Batt and JCC Executive Director Hy Tabachnick explained that the increasing costs of operating the Center's programs and lervlces bavt nude it necessary to Increase duesacross the board. It WM noted that the cwnnt If akn
affecting the Center's main lundlog agendas, the Jewish Federation and the United Wayo(theMkllands,aBdtUs aftoeti OM aDodtflonB to the enter. In searching (or sources for extra funding It was concluded that "membership dues are the Center's chief aource of funds-and that an increase in the dues is the only practical solution," Uie letter said. Effective Jan. 1, Family Memberships will be $200 tup from $160); Single Parent Family and Young Married Family memberships will go from $100 to $140 and Young Adult memberships (25 yean of age and younger, not living (Continued on Page 31
Under Smile NEW YORK - "Must I die alone In Rusiiar" A smile conceals the tear of a year <rid Deborah SamuUovlefa. According to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, Russian authorttias have told the retired profMsor of physics and mathenutlcs that her work, long since dedassMed and avalUMe ta the West, is now "secret" and she cannot Join her only son ta Israel (SS8J Photo)
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officers for 1978. These candidates, and 10 others named to be candidates for threeyear terms on the Federation Board of Directors, will be voted upon at the annual Federation meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sunday, January 25, at the Jewish Community Center. The new board will serve until January, 1979. The slate of officers for 1976 and new board members was announced this week by Joe TlM town o( KuMHrt in S]ni>. one o( the placet nOer saw Lipton, chairman of ^ the during tour of Golan Hil^. nominating committee, i. IbMAHA - As he thinks back on it now, the luncheon visit Serving with him were Mrs. Donald Goldstein, Mrs. Don whidn Richard H. (Dick) Hiller of Chnaha made was probably Greenberg, l^eo I. Meyerson, the most stunning of the three that Wedhesday, Oct. 29. Hiller and the other members of me United Jewish Appeal Jack Saferstein, Isadore TreUak and Dr. Martin P. Fact-Finding Misston had earlier visited Kiryat Shmona and Kfar Yuval near the Lebanon border, two settlements wellWolf. A Federatkm spokesman known in the Diaspora. Now they, with their box lunches in hand, were at littlepointed out that Federation members—defined by known Moehav Keabet, a tiny settlement k)cated in, of all Federatkm Bylaws as Jewish plac|s, a former Syrian tank outpost captured by the Israelis persons contributing to Jewjab duriM the 1973 Yom Kippur War, "Aey found the concrete tankers and bloddnim to be Philanthropies-roay submit additional jiames of can- ocevgedby.inBmer^inrdl,"mHandtankiind«na|ri..." The "one gal" is a 30-year-<^(SinerBrooUyn, N.Y„ social dtdatei for otOce or board worker,- an Ortbodw Jew who's lived In UnA eight yeaiis and poaithMs by petitioning. According to }he Bylaws who, together with the other 33 moshav members, are "deterArticle XI, Nominadoos and mined to build a settlement there" in what Hiller could only Elections, Section 3, such describe as "no man's land." That's because It was in that general area In 1973 that Syrian other nominatkins may be made by written petition tanks overran a number of Israeli settlements. And not too far signed by at least twenty-five away were sites where the Syrians murdered Israeli soldiers (25) Federation members and after capturing them. Ilie ex-BrooUynite and the others lived in the buildings left filed with the Federathm secretary (Mrs. Milton G. by the Syrians, said Hiller. "Their dothes were hanging where Waldbaum) not later than the Syrian tank shells had been," he said. There were a few fifteen (15) days prior to the military trailers, too, but there was no modem plumbing annual meeting of the anywhere. 'Itare was real dedlcatln and aacrlfioe bjr thaae yoong Federatkn (for this election, the deadline is January 10, people," a few of wiism are married and have eUkkeo, HlOer noted "It was really UDbellevable inieaB you uw it yourself," 1976). A written endorsement by beaaid. What are they doing there, with the Syrians seemingly the candidate or candidates, giving their consent, must breathing down their necks, HiUer and the others wondered. They were planning - planning for the future. The Jewish appear on the petition. The Bylaws further instruct Agency would supply litem with a few cows and, with the the secretary to post a notice electrical carpento' equipment they had installed (they at least of the filing of the petition-as had electricity), they would manufacture furniture. They had already demonstrated their ingenuity by taking long as it's been received within the prescribed time- the wooden shellboxes left by the Syrians and turning them into on the Omaha JCC bulletin beehives, so that the settlement might have some honey — board and also to have the sometliing "sweet in an otherwise hard life. The weather in this notice published in the Jewish northernmost area of Israeli territory, said Hiller, Is "not Press or other official exactly what you'd call resort weather." "They are determined to defend what they have and to publication as soon as continue to have Israel as a home for the Jews of the world. possible. After all, nobody else in the world wants them. So whatever these Israelis have to do, they will do, with the help of the rest of us." Early The young Israelialoki Hiller aomething else: they were in that barren country In order to keep larad's defense forces around. "They Ague if they are there and the Syrians attack, Because of the Christmas the Israeli forces will stay and fight to proted them and what and New Year obthey've establisbed," said Hiller. servances, deadlines for all These young people weren't alone In their high aims and news copy for Jewlsti Press purposes, Hiller learned. Major Yona Gavit, the Israeli army issues of Dec. 16 and Jan. 2 officer who led the UJA group on ttie tour, told them that, at that will be noon on the moment, the Israel government had four other groups waiting to preceding Fridays, Dec. 19 settle nearby but had been putting them off to see If Syria wmiid and 26, respectively. agree to keep the United Nations peacekeeping forces In the Deadline for advertising area after Nov. 30. copy for the Dec. 26 Issue The Syrians did and now more Israelis will be establishing was Thursday, Dec. 18, and homes and manufacturing places in the Golan Heights - again will be Thursday, Dec. 25, building and creating where once all was barren. fortheissueofJan.2. (For more on the Golan Heightt, see Page S.)