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SERVING PES MOINES Vol. LV No. 7
OUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA OmalM, Nab., Wad., OM«nb«-24,1979
lEIle Wiesel Given Rrst Ben Gurion Award NEW YORK - Urging American Jewry to be stnng not to (01^ the put, noted author and poet Elle iiriesel received the United Jewish Appeal's tint annual ivid Ben Gurion Award •aylng, "What distlnguiihet a Jew li not the color o( his skin, but his memory."' The award, dedicated to the memory of David Ben Gitflon, founding father of Israel, was presented to Wieaei by Pranlc R. Lautenberg, UJA general chairman, at the UJA's atlonal Conference Dinner held at the York Hilton. The UJA David Ben Gurion Award will be given annually to an individual who has significantly contributed to Jewish life, to the continuity of Jewish Identity, heritage and unity, and to the continual fulfillment of Ben Gurion's yision of a free and vibrant the B^F In presenting I Lautenberg said, '"Hw David Beo (lUrioo award lynboUzes
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Demonstration At Conference EUe Wieiti, left, raorifw Untitd Jewirii Aplwal's first anmial David Ben Qmtaa Award from UJA Gcoaral Chatamao nink R.Lanttnb«s. the fusion of the past with our struggle for freedom goes on future hi the present. RJonors ((ally." Elle Wiesel as a IpDdem ^Wiesel saM, in his acprophet'... for exceUaice in 0^>tance speech, "To be leadership. He has contmuaUy J0visb Is an adventure - both and eloquently •TTt^Tlfi* "'"*«"»"t(ofL f^ Intense. Yes, theme of Jewish survival in it Is a privilege to be Jewish our time In a world where the today, to live constantly on the razor's edge, on the seventh wave, to be David's haip expoaed to the wind that trembles with every emotkm, captures every sign and respolMs to every call. This has always been our lot: wtutever happened — happened to us first. When the Jewish people spoke - the world listened. "We live In extraordinary times. In the outside world, there is anarchy, resignation, sadness. Total decadence, distrust, degradation of SueRottaabeig values, corruption of ideas sbopkee|wr In Jcmsakn said and ideals, broken promises to ua 'go OB, oriojr jnur and vows. Inside - inside our oountiT' and ndwily «• history, Inside our people — w«re flUad with a new anas o( there is hope and pride. And dlncUoo," an soU^tainMBft Joy." wbldi evolved tbroo^MMt our Isrsal tniiBiOB, flie rBBBfloi* 8tflt9l1Mllt MSIM oeno. WASHINGTON (JTA) ° The LOOO-member Koacfa The Federal Reserve Board group spent their last misskin has Issued a statement days in Jerusalem. "We knew requesting American banks our presence was everywhere. not to issue letters of credit We gave away thousands of containing discriminatory Koach buttons, badges of clauses that conform to Arab strength, to the people. The boycott requirements, the Israelis wore them proudly American Jewish Committee along with us. The iden- reported. tification was tremendous," The statement is an outshe continued. "Jews from all come of a meeting held here over the United States united Dec. 16 between Federal with Jews in Eretz Yisrael- Reserve Board chairman and were all one." Arthur F. Bums and three AJMrs. Ruttenberg looks Committee representatives forward to doing her Job in the Seymour Samet, director of its collective effort to meet domestic affairs department; Jewish responsibilities and Lester S. Hyman, a member will appredate advice and of the domestic affairs assistance from the many commission; and Hyman women in this community who Bookbinder, the AJComhave shouldered this mittee's Washington responsibility In the past. representative.
Des Moines Announces Women's Campaign Head DES MOINES - Dorothy Bucksbaum, rE^nsenting the Women's Federation, announced the appobitment of Sue Ruttenberg as Women's Chairman of the 1976 All-inOne Campaign at the Dec. 17 board of govemors meeting. Mrs. Bucksbaum expressed her great pleasure in appobiting Mrs. Ruttenberg. In the last several years, Mrs. Ruttenberg has been hivolved In the Women's Campaign, the Young Leadership Group, has served on the JOC Board, Brandeis Board and is currently the vice preirideni of Tlferetb Israel Women's League. Recently, she and her husband, Hal, returned from a "most exdtlng" l,(IOO-Stn)ng Koadi Misskm to Israd where the Ruttenbergs had the opportunity to not only see Israel and stwv its problems, but to meet Israelis. 'Tor three evenings we stayed in Israelis' homes until early In the morning," she aaid, "getting to know the peoirie. It's a different kind of experience than being just a tourist." "HW mMoo was • magk momnt lor m," Mrs, Rolr tnbwg said. "You kanr you lum to help ID whilaw way you can. You rMliM Urael it oun. A SCUM d iUHtag of problems la part tt the
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PARIS, (JTA l-lfie United States, Israel and 10 other nations walked out of the UNESCO conference here on Dec. 18 in an angry demonstration of protest against the adoption Dec. 17 of a Yugoslav-sponsored irrit resdution which iiKluded a dause calling attenttm to the UN Generil Assembly vote for
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Several other countries, among them Norway, Ecuador, Austria and Venezuda, remained In the hall but refused to participate in the proceedings or served notice that they will vote against the final document. The walk-out countries induded dght member states of the European Economic Community - the ninth, Luxembourg, was absent Australia and Canada Mexico also was afascint and boycotted the vote. Letters bitterly condemning the Yugoslav amendment were sent to the conference chairman by the U.S. delegate, Donald F. Stowe, and the Italian delegate, Ludovoco Carducci Artenisio on behalf of the Common Market states. A Idler stressing that the amendment was "in flagrant contradictkm of the dedared aims of the meeting," was submitted by the Israeli ddegate, Avraham Primor. The conference chairman Joseph Grohman of Czecholovakia, refused to read the letters to the conference on grounds that such a step was contrary to UNESCO procedure. But the effect was obvious to all delegates and spectators. The conference hall In the UNESCO building was half empty as a result of the walkout and the absence of nuuiy other delegates who preferred to remain outside while awaiting Instructkins from their gavemmeots.
tank beadqoartai near (hs top o( Ow Golan Bd^. OMAHA - It was, thought Richard Hiller, a common enough practice, this loaning sometMng to a neighbor. People do that all the time here at home — they'U loan each other a cup of sugar, a hammer and nails, a table and chain. But this situation was quite different and it starkly revealed the differences between everyday life here hi Omaha and that of the dedicated sdtler in Israd, particularly the one who chooses to live In the Gdan Heights near Lebanon. Far it was a rttle - a common piece of eqoipmept in the Israeli ffloabav housdwid - whkl the Israeli had lofiMd that day last year to Us ndgUbor. And that night - InadcaDy, bi Uiat new^ dttenaileas boiaehold in MMhav Kiryat Shmooa - iour terrorists waked In and klOed two iBvelis. "Every other buikUng had a rifle and defense," Hiller sakL As a result, precautions are now "very extreme" in Kiryat Shmona, which at one point stands ody 150 yards from the Lebanese border. TK moshav has barbed wire fences, mined roads, lookout towers, road patrols - "even soft dirt roads that will reveal footprints," sakl Hiller. "People In every house have weapons - guns, rifles." The kibbutzim, he learned, are better-defended. "When some of the men or boys are off to army duty, someone else Is there to do their work. In a moshav, each family has its own Job — taking care of the property, or the animals, or some such and there's no one to help them If one of them is off to the army. It creates problems in the moshavim and some social problems between people In the town." niler learned, too, that Uryat Shmooa Is not yet a ftiOy coiMidklatad and indspsodent communis. It needs more people and It especially nteds better bousing for the young people. "There's aLw no hospital close by and not much social life," he said. "The people are not worried by the nearness of the Arabs, but some of their young are leaving because of the lack of these other things." Those are items, he said, which monies contributed by American Jews to the UJA will help provide for their Isradl brothers. A short distance from Kiryat Shmona is Moshav Kfar Yuvd, a settlement of Jews from Indlu. Begun in 1950, this sdtlement is even closer to the Lebanese border than Kiryat Shmona. It; people are "very dark and small" and raise apples, avocados and chickens, Hiller reported. IHere are 65 families there - "300 people hiduding adorable young chiUrcn" whom HlDer and the other members of the UJA M&doo visited In the kids' admintom. Only two percent o( the populaee is not Indian, Hiller learned. "Each family runs Its own business - maybe they market (Continued onPageS)