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Arms to Egypt galna editorial opposition In U.S. newspapers, Page 4. An expert warns of growing acceptance of tree marriage among college set, Page 5. Project Elijah suggests how to spend Passover this year, Page 6. On that same page Is an open letter urging communication on the needs ol Omaha's Jewish elderly. Omaha Community Calendar lor'April, Page 9.
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OMAHA - Two nationally recognized Individuals who have made major contributions to Jewish life hi America and Israel will be the guest speaker-teachers at this week's workshops for the Men's and Women's Divisions of the 1976 Jewish Philanthropies campaign. The announcement of the Workshop schedules and speakers was made jointly by Dick Hiller and Leo Meyenon, General Chairmen, and Jeanette Nadoff, chairman of the Women's Division.
Campaign Leaders HEM'S DIVISION General Co-Chalrmen: Richard H. HUler, U o I. Meyerson Keynoters: Co-Chairmen Joe Upton, Joe Klnhenbaum Pacesetter! Chairman Martin Lehr Leadership: Co-Chalrmen Irv Yaffe, Bernle Raskin, Uoyd Friedman ' Vice Chairmen: Morti Jerry Hoberman, Stuart Mjj Jerry Kohll, Owen Meyerson, rs Bernle Meyers f' InlUalGlfU:
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Mrs. Janet Brody According to Mickey Sturm, chairman of the" four workshops, "We are most fortunate to have Mrs. Brody come to Omaha to teach us campaign- know-bow In this unusual and exciting type of workshop." The Women's Campaign Cabinet will meet with Mrs. Brody and the local campaign leadership at a petite luncheon at noon on Monday, March 29; The first workshop for workers will be held on Monday at 7:30 p.m. with two workshops planned for Tuesday, March 30, at 9:15 a.m. and at 12 noon, following a petite luncheon. All workshops will be held at the Jewish Community Center. As in past years, all workers in the Women's Division are required to attend the training sessions before they are able to solicit any of their prospects. Cards for prospects will be distributed to the workers after the workshop sessions'-.': •; Mrs. Brody's wide range of activities Include three terms as the Women's Division Campaign Chairman In Youngstown, extensive travel and study in Israel, current membership on the Board of Directors of Brandels Women's Committee, ORT, Hadassah, National Council of Jewish Women, and the Mayor's Human Relations : Committee. • .
Senior Executives: Co-Cbalrnien Sam Fried, Al Goodman WOMEN'S DIVISION^, , General Chairman::; V". Jeanette Nadoff ' Vice Chairman: Lyra Ann Honasee
Director: Caryl Greenberg Workshop Chairman: Mickey Sturm
OMAHA-How do you say goodbye to a friend and helper? The task Is never an easy pne "Goodbye and thank you" Is one simple, honest way and this Sunday, those words will be said to Hy and Sandy Tabachnick by the Jewish community here. The occasion will be an Open House at the Jewish Community Center to honor the departing JCC director and his wife, who are moving to Akron, Ohio on April 1. "This will'be the community's opportunity to say goodbye and thank Hy for his four years in Omaha, for all his work in developing our beautiful new Jewish Community Center," said Jane Brooks, coordinator of the event. "Hy has been the most dedicated of workers. He steered us from our old Center at 20th and Dodge
Hy Tabachnick Into the new one and then he helped breathe life into the new facility, starting it on the road to being the home for our Jewish community here," she said. "For this, we are extremely grateful." The r e c e p t i o n Is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Grand Givers: Co-Chalrmen Frances Batt, Bea Sommer Pacesetters: Co-chairmen Marlene Hechtman, Madeline Katzntan UleSavers: Co-Chalrmen Connie Kully, Marjorle Somberg Providers: Co-chairmen Salli^npel, Edith Epstein,,, PauUneGuttTGaUKonlL •: Protectors: Co-Cbalrmen Shirley Berman, Ruth Ennan, Janet Glass; Cookie Hoberman, Toby Kaga'hi ' Maxlne Kir shenbaum, Elaine Nachman, Nancy Noddle Telethon; Frances Fox, Chairman Advisors: Miriam Simon, Maryf ellman
Leadership Group Meefs Sunday OMAHA - The first meeting of the Jewish Federation's new Young Leadership Group will feature two F e d e r a t i o n v i c e presidents as guest speakers. Howard Kaslow and David Friedland will give an overview of the Federation - what it is, what it does, what It hopes to do - at the klckoff program of YLG II at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28 at the Jewish Community Center. This meeting — open to all young couples age 35 and under - Is the result of an informational gathering earlier this year which drew bverWyoungpeople. That first gathering demonstrated - much to the delight of Federation officials and staff - that among the younger members there is a strong, continuing interest in the affairs of the Omaha Jewish community. This Includes many couples now starting their own families. A number of the young couples wanted to become active in communal activities
Dr.Nesher Dr. Aryeh Nesher, now In the United States on a special mission serving as the representative of the Prime Minister of Israel, is known as the Premier Solicitor Trainer In this country on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bonds.
Community's Goodbye to Hy Slated for Sunday, March 28
and were pleased to know that Young Leadership Group activities provided a chance for both young husband and wife to participate together, a Federation spokesman noted. Young Leadership Group II follows on the heels of YLG I, launched very successfully last year, he said. Three YLG I members were elected in February to the Federation board of directors, indicating both their desire to serve and -the Federation's Interest in employing their abilities and interests, he added. Couples who missed the Informational meeting are welcome to join- Sunday's session. The meeting will also Announce the schedule for the rest of the year, according to Steering Committee members Francie Ann, Ellen and Jim Cohen, Evle Kate and Donna Kort. In addition to Kaslow and Friedland, Lou Solomon, the Federation; executive director, will attend the meeting as a resource person. -^
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In Israel, he has been elected vice president of the University of Haifa, consiiltant in Human Relations to the Government of Israel and the Jewish Agency, and is a former lecturer at the Tel Aviv School pf Law and Economics. Noting that workers In the keynoter, Pacesetter, Leadership Gifts and Initial Gifts Divisions will be honored to meet with Nesher at the Tuesday, March 30, 5:30 p.m. dinner meeting, Hiller and Meyerson said (hat, "Again In Omaha we are privileged to have as our wprker-tralner a man who has not only won recognition throughout the Jewish world for his ability and service but who also has worked In many of the areas for which we must continue to raise funds from our Omaha Jewry." Nesher served as an active underground fighter when the Nazis occupied his home town In Rumania, made his way to the American Military Zone in Germany toward the end of the war, and was a driving force in the work of organizing the broken and displaced Jewish survlyors of Nazi terror. He has resided In Israel since 1948, when he and his wife both jofned the Israel armed forces.
At the annual Des Molnes Women's Federation luncheon, March 17, FayeSchenk, left, la seen with, from left, Shirley Pidgeoh, Women's Campaign co-chairman, Sue Ruttenberg, Women's Campaign chairman, and Dorothy Bucksbaum, Women's Federation President.
National Jewish Leader Returns to Des Moines By Rose Hoffman DES MOINES - Faye Schenk's presence at the annual Des Molnes Women's Federation Spring Luncheon on March 17, was uniquely appropriate as Phyllis Cytron, wife of Des Molnes Rabbi Barry Cytron of Tifereth Israel synagogue, noted In her Invocation before the group of more than 150 Jewish women a s s e m b l e d atop the panoramic Holiday Inn tower restaurant hi downtown Des Molnes. March 17, was Shushan Purim, "a day of feasting and gladness, of sending Shulach Monos to one another and giving gifts to the poor," Mrs. Cytron said. "In 1976, It Is also a time for celebration," she continued. "Though Esther may not have been the Ideal political model, her lesson in politics is clear. We Jews are just beginning to learn how to use our power Judiciously and effectively within the political structure. Shushan Purim Is also a most appropriate day for the Women's Campaign Luncheon — a Jewish holiday whose central figure is a woman is a rare, and unique holiday Indeed, We women may have been unsung llturglcaliy, but
not because we have not been hi the forefront Today is a witness to that... "Finally that which connects Shushan Purim, the Women's Campaign and our guest speaker is that 2,500 years ago a Jewish woman did not forget she was a Jewess. Her Persian name may have been Esther, but her Hebrew name was Hadassah. "We are here today because we do not forget our Hebrew names, our history and the obligation which it places upon us," Mrs. Cytron concluded. Indeed, Faye Schenk, Des Molnes' own native girl, daughter of the late and revered Rabbi Zeichek, is like Esther, her Purtm counterpart, a meritorious Jewish woman and leader whose life's work for Hadassah (Esther's Hebrew name) has enc o m p a s s e d numerous positions of national office. The U.N. resolution of Nov. 10, was "beneath contempt," she cried, and represents what she described as "the beginning of the dissection of the Jewish people and Israel." Y e t how many w e r e astonished by the document, Schenk asked. How many had (Continued on Page 12)