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Editor's Note: Followtng are sketches of the candidates nominated (or the sli posltkm of leadership in the Jewish Federation of Omaiia (or 1(76. The election wUi be heid at tiie annual Federation meeting on Sunday, Feb. 1, 7:30 p.m. at the Jewlab Community Center The meeting will be open to ail Federation memben. FOR PRESIDENT: LeonanlGdliMeiD Executive of the Hertz truck and auto leasing firti^, Leonard (Buddy) Goldstein is a member of a family long active in Jewish community affairs. His brother and business partner, Arthur Goldstein, is a (CkxitlnuedonPageS)
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OMAHA-Progress In community leadership development was signaled here this week by the announcement that a second Young Leadership Group Is being formed. Young Jewish couples are being invited to attend an informal gathering at the honne of Bob «nd Connie Slutzky at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25, The Slutzkys, who reside at 710 South 130th Street, are members of last year's Young Leadership Group which has committed itself to a second yeaf of study and involvement in Omaha Jewish communal life. Purpose of the Jan. 25
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stressed, "it is only la caU attentkn to the pU^ of other artists - Jews and Daa>len alike - within the Soirtet Unkn." Mrs. Goldstein said she was contacting members of Omaha's Ciechostovaklan and Lithuanian conununlties who had participated In the 1975 demonstration, held on the steps of the Joslyn Museum in AprU. In the 197S demonstratkm, held on the steps of the Joslyn Museum in April. There was some confusion over property lines. The city of Omaha apparently Inadvertently granted demonstratkm rights on what had become Joslyn property. Mrs Goldstein said the City seemed to be very earful, although very cooperative, tn granting Uie Jan. 20 permit. During that demonstration, there was aome confusion over property lines - the city of Omaha apparently inadvertently granted demonstration ri^ts on what had (Continued on PageS)
gathering will be "to discuss the concept of Young Leadership with ttie group," said Lou Soloman, executive director of the sponsoring Jewish Federation of Omaha He said some participants from last year's Group will be on hand to discuss the program with the newcomers. Another aim of the flrat DMctlng will be to gain a commitment to attod future meetingi of the new gnup, Soloman said. "We will eiped new OMinben to agree to attend meetingiana regular basis for the MKt year." Soloman stressed that members of the new Young Leadership Group "will have input into the planning of new programs" as did last year's members. The Young Leadership program "is one of the priority concerns of the Federation Board of Directors," he said. The purpose of ttie program
"is to stimulate biterest In all aspects of Jewish communal life Young leadership participants are exposed to a variety of local, national and overseas concerns. Hopefully, these participants will assume positions of major responsibility In Faleratlon agencies, synagogues and Jewish organizations in Omaha," Soloman said. Giving wpoit to Solomon's words wss Mrs. Slutzky, who pcrinted out that three of last year's Young Leaderthip Group members—Ann Goldstein, RuUi Erman and Dr. Paul Shyken—are candidates for positions on the Federation Board of Otreetors. "It shows there Is a potential for change in new directions on the Federation directorship level as well as on the agency level," said Connie. "We all used to moan about the same old people (Continued on Pages)
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Omaha, Nab., Fri., January 16,1976
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Demonstration Planned -Before Berman Concert OMAHA - Memben of the Omaha Jewish community are being asked to Join a quiet demonstration outside the Orpheum Theater on Tuesday nl^t, Jan. 20. Shirley Goldstein, co* chairman with Miriam Simon of the sponsoring Omalia ^ Committee for Soviet Jewry, said the "peaceful demonstration will protest the ; continued harassment of Jews and other minorities in the Soviet Union." [ A concert t>yLazar Berman, a Soviet pianist, is scheduled I. for •p.m. that night. '<-. PeraoM wishing to > par' ticipate bi the demonstration, which will feature the distribution of leaflets calling attention to the plight of ^^ Russian minority gnxqM, will f Miemble at the downtown ^ office of the Omaha ADLr Jewish Community Relations Committee, 305 S. 16th Street, ; at7p.m., said Mrs. Goktotein. "TUs demooatratkai is not , being held to dlscoiirags 1 Moiiie train going to bear 'Berman and the Omaha Synvbooy," Mn. OoldMslB
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director of United Way of the Midlands, also guides the volunteer Bureau-Voluhtaiy Action Center of United Way, which places approxinutely 2,000 volunteers per year. Earlier In his career, he directed volunteers in group work and adult socialization programs for United Cerebral Palsy 0^ Western Massachusetts. He Is a member of Temple Israel.
Lucille Zelinsky, Extension: "Outreach (the basis of the Extension Task Force) means how do we make the connection between the services that the community has to offer and the consumer of those services ... We may have a 'broker' role between the services available through the Jewish Federation, through the Jewish com(ContlnuedonPage2) Scbnetdennan
Phil Schneiderman, Volunteers: "Volunteering Isn't Just for the person being helped it's an opportunity (or the volunteer to employ skills he has. II also gives the housewife, the retired businessman and the college and the high school student something meanhtgful to do, plus a sense of accomplishment. You multiply the effectiveness of your dollars by how you use volunteers." Schneiderman, executive
NEW YORK (JTA)-Zuhayr Muhsin, "defense minister" of the Palestine Liberation Organization and second In command, a leader of the Syrian-supported terrorist organization As Saiqa (Thunderbolt) and a leader of the ruling Baath Party in Syria, was recently Interviewed hi Damascus by "Die Zeit," a widely read weekly pubUshedMVest Germany. The interview appeared in the weekly's Dec. 12 issue. What follows is an excerpt of this interview as it was released here by th American Jewish 0)mmittee. DIE ZETT: What will be the PLO's objectives when it participates hi the Security Council's Middle East debate? }SmSH: ...Itepoaiikni of the PLO in the United Nations must be etrengUiened, the legitimate and national rights of the PaleaUDlanB nuat be flnnly grounded, and anUNrwohitlMiiCflnpemlngPaleBtlnebad[tol9«7-tfaat is, back to the Paitltkn Plan-must be mobOixed agatost Israd. The Palestinian questioo must never again be dealt with in the Unftad Nations as a mere leftigee mt)blem, but mmt be handled with a view to a aeparate Palestinian state. DIE ZEIT: Would this also create a basis for recognition by the PLC of a separate Israeli state, of Israel's right to exist? MUHSIN: I don't Uke to aimwr this question. If Israd remalM what it b-aradst, Zkmlst, Imperialist itate-aU it will gd from our dde If buDda and didls. Not until Israd has beeone snmethlng ditfennt will the Jews see our faces and, indeed, — our outitretdied hands-not unless they are ready for peaceful dbdogue with iM, ao as to create with na the denxKratk, aecular State of Palestine. We want to ooeadst with them. In s ifflifM state or a state with two caofami. We dont want to mrow them Into the sea or drive them Into the desert. DIE ZEU: But that really amounts to denying them the right of existence in a state of their own, doesn't it ? MUHSIN: They will liave to accept this eventually. Our right of existence in all of Palestine comes first. DIES ZEIT: And a Palestinian state confined to the formerly Jordanian West Bank and Gaza would not satisfy these juristic claims? MiniSIN: No, never. We want back every piece of land, every field, every village and every house that was ever ours. We will not yield on that. Rigfit, natural right, is on our side. DIE ZETT: Can one put it ot the Israelis to commit this sort of national suicide? MUHSIN: They will have to learn to understand, but they won't understand until they change their outlook. That will happen when they are down on their kenes before us, when we have smashed them to pieces by force of arms. DIE ZETT: In other words, peace is not in sight? MUISIN: For now, neither war nor peace. And in the future, war again, new wars. It's inevitable.