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Continues OMAHA-The" search for Omaha's "Invisible Seniors" is continuing, according to Jeanne (Mrs. Stanford) Lipsey. Transportation Task Force chairperson (or the /Coordinating Committee on Aging. These arc senior adults not now using the services ol the Omaha Jewish federation. "We have to know' where these people arc living In order to help them," she said. Persons with information about elderly Jewish people and the elderly themselves are asked to call Sam Liuber. assistant director of the Omaha Jewish Federation, at X{4 8200. as soon as possible
OMAHA-Seeking, a realistic goal fn (he face of the ever-increasing needs of the Jewish communities here and around the world, the leaders of the 1976 Omaha Jewish Philanthropies Campaign set their sights Sunday on a $2.2 million fund raising campaign. * The goal, set at a breakfast meeting Feb. 29 in the Jewish C o m m u n i t y Center., represents an approximate 20 Owen Meyereon, Moriey Zlpuraky, Mel Bornsteln and Bob Kully percent increase over the 1975 total of $1,969,040. after .about' listen to campaign discussion. (JP Photo) $160,000 has been deducted for
those contributors who moved away or are no longer living. The $2.2 million figure is second in Omaha Philanthropies history only to the $3.2 million raised during the 1974 Israel Emergency (postYom Kippur War) drive. "We want to be realistic." acknowledged Richard H. Hiller, Philanthropies cochairman who conducted the meeting. But he also noted that the Omaha community needs and wants to do more locally, in Israel and elsewhere, With inflation and the increased needs both at home and abroad, the 20 percent Increase is required Just to provide the same services as
were available to the Omaha Jewish community last year, according to the campaign leaders Indicated and Louis B. Solomon, Federation executive director. Omaha Federation President Leonard Goldstein spoke of local needs, stating that, for example, a study of the Jewish Family Service Department is underway and that its results may indicate a need to expand JFS. .He noted, too, that the Coordinating Committee on Aging is moving ahead in its attempt to provide the most thorough planning possible for the Omaha community's large group of elderly. And that as It (Continued on Page3)
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SERVING DES MOINES,, Vol. LV No. 17
Omaha, Neb., Fri., March 5,1976
Lincoln's Golden berg Names Drive Workers
What's Their Future? MOSCOW-Inna, left, and Julia Beloteerkovsky, i Dan Rosenstein, are young victims of the Kremlin's < war against Jews seeking exit, according to the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. The girls and their mother, Sofia, were promised and then denied visas after they demonstrated =stsi the KresUa. Dsz's father Gr!goryt a Moscow activut hag , been threatened many times by the KGB. (SSSJ Photo)
LINCOLN - Irv Golden- Davidson. Bob Chandler and berg, chairman of the 1976 Jeff Mellen, workers. Lincoln Jewish Welfare Harry Allen, captain; Dr. Federation drive said plans Ezra Kohn. Dr. Leon Chesnin are being made for the annual and Jim Rodenburg. workers. Federation dinner to be held Hyman Polsky, captain; Sunday March 21. Bob Pittlor. Charles Keller liMnherg announced that and Jack Nicker, workers. .::. Norman Krivosha will head Yale Golsdiner, captain; the Special Gifts committee, Andy Goodman, Herb assisted by Lou Mcsser. Harry Friedman. Sheldon, Kushner L e v i n s o n a n d L o u i s and Gary Hill, workers. Finke|sTein. Lincoln Max Nelden. captain; Gerry F e d e r a t i o n e x e c u t i v e Grant, Bruce White and secretary. George Novlcoff. workers. . The following campaign Ron Rosenberg,'/captain: leaders' and-their team Bernard Wishnqw. Dr. members were also an- Charles Coren,. Dr\ Robert iiiiiuriced \>y Goldcflbcrg; Shapiro and John BresSow, Abram Misle, captain: Bill workers.
Silver'Street' i Award nominations and a mllllon-dollar-plus gross nave helped bring smiles to the faces of native Omahan Joan Mlcklin Silver and husband Ray, whose film "Hester Street" opens here next week. And some of Joan's old friends are smiling, too. For details and more pictures, see Page 5.
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Barbara Simon reveals the Federation Library's "Wish List" in the "In Depth" series.. .Dr. Joe Seger of UNO head? for talks in Sioux City on Page 7.. .Author Meyer Uvih defends being "too Jewish" on Page 10 and the spring lineup of Adult Jewish Education coufsesisanriouiKKdonPsgsll. -
Provost on Brussels II: Of Doubts And Young Activists Note: I t e author, sports columnist and former (port* editor of the Omaha World-Herald, attended the Soviet Jewry conference In Belgium a» the special reprewnUUve of the Omaha Section, National G)uncu\>f Jewish Women. A series be wrote on Soviet Jews after visiting Russia last year has been widely distributed and earned the Omaha Jewish Federation's Humanitarian Award. - - -•— ByWaUyPrevoe*
Soviet government? Better plans for aiding Rinnan Jews? A well-defihcd action program that the world would respeqt? The good things did come, but patience was required. The young people, of whom there were hundreds, wanted action now! ;.v To thcm>the formal addresses being given at the Petalsribs Congrcs tonrmaddeningly tfTtoO inadequate. The young men and women were : .••'•,.. Wmu«lorTheJ«wliiiPtTM . On the eve of the Second World Conference of more passionately moved by the testimony of Jewish Communities on Soviet Jewry in Russian emigres at a caucus of their own ; Brussels/and even though the opening day, calling. Example: Whlte-halrcd P.ivka there was a strong undercurrent of nagging Boriskina, 76, pleading for her son, doubt. . Was the announced program too much sound distinguished biologist IJya Glezer, who has served three years In a Soviet labor and not enough substance? camp and recently begjin a three-year Would the real problems be tackled? "Or," as Philip G. Givens of Toronto said he Siberian exile for "disseminating antiwas being asked,"are we merely holding this Soviet propaganda." Hyaj who had taught conference to apply a poultice to our con- at Moscow U. for nearly 10 years, was arrested one month after he applied for an science?" ,,-,,. The questions were not Immediately a n - _ emigration visa. Example: Pretty Aviva Gendin, wife of swered. ' • • .' The initial picture was one of confusion, a Moscow activist Lev Gendin. She accepted seeming jumble of Speeches, whirring tape an opportunity to go to Israel, believing she recorders, pencils flying across notepads, the could do more for her refusenlk husband intonations of interpreters, meetings hastily from a free-world vantage; point. But that called by splinter groups, briefcases being was four years ago and now the KGB is searched in the hall, mad dashes for taxis and threatening to draft Lev into the Army. buses, droning announcements, distractions In "That would be nine year's of separation," the tearful wife protested, . the aisles, short tempers at the checkstnnds. Out of this could come a solid warning to the Led by sharp-witted Glenji Richter, of the
Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the young people held a demonstration in downtown Brussels. With that out of their system, they settled to the tedious, job of.wprking alongside - If not within - the [•establishment." -Simply stated, the conference was hard work. Day.sessions ran into evening sessions. Some meals were missed; When fatigue set In, there was quick reyitallzatlon from an Irma Cnernlak, visited In Leningrad late last summer, now hugging Omaha's Shirley Golqstein and thanking her in heavy accent for "helblng get me out." • Or there might pe the buckle-down insplration of Soviet emigrant Dr. Alexander Voronel warning that1 the future holds "social and spiritual deadlock" for the families of Jewish intellectuals in the USSR. The prominent physicist reminded delegates of the earlier years \yhen Jewish fathers and mothers made substantial sacrifice to put their children through the uplift of higher education. But with the latter-day discrimination in higher education,- Dr. Voronel cautioned, Russian Jews "are going back to being a nation A hairdressers and tailors." When it seemed, alarmingly, that every group In Brussels was yeeting off in a different direction, there was (be erudite Stanley H. Lowell, chairman of tpe National Conference on Soviet Jewry, to counsel: "No one voice is the Messiah who can lead
Ihis movement. We need all the voices and all the efforts." Thus rallied, the delegates would redouble their resolve to-achieve unity through a constructive follow-up program. Always there wasjhe picture of Golda Meir on the stage, sometimes with chin in hand, hopefully but wearily waiting for all that tremendous energy to be harnessed and refined. ' Shortly after the final session, Lewis D. Cole of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council observed: "Taken as a whole, the conference reflected the full gamut of ideologies in Jewish life, and a broad . •spectrum . , from grass - . roots .to top , - levels ,, •<* P?»»cs. academe, business and science. unity stemmed from common commitmentIts to the cause of Soviet Jewry." . Cole noted that, unlike the Brussels session in . 1971. the 1976 Presidium and Steering Committee are being continued "with" instructions to hold consultations on means and organization to conduct the continuous campaign ... This time, the structure for follow-up has been assured." That was the word that young delegates, such as Omaha's Gary Klnsflinger. and other "action" groups had wanted to hear. Recharged by Brussels II and rededicatcd within their own affiliations, they are geared to. resume the good fight with much greater ef/ • fectiveness.