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SERVING DES MOINES, Vol. LV No. 22
.COUNCIL BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Fri.. April 9,1976
OMAHA - The School of Continuing Jewish Studies will not meet on Monday. April 12.. Classes will resume"on Monday, April 19. While attendance at .all sessions Is encouraged for continuity, Interested persons may attend Individual classes. The remaining classes are April 19 and 26 and May 3, at the Jewish Community Center.
DM Community Leaders Respond In letters to President Ford E d i t o r ' s N o t e : Rosellnd Rattnowttx, chairperson of the Det Molnes, l a . Community Relation Commission, wrote the . following letter to President Ford to which ibe dearly describes the case against U.S. sale of defense hardware to Egypt Similar letters of concern were tent, by the Federation president and various officers In their exercise of personal coMrtwice and community responsibility. *
participants in the Arab-Israel conflict. The argument that the United States will be maintaining the military balance by providing military assistance to Egypt is questionable when one takes into account that Israel (aces 20 Arab states, all of which have received and continue to receive sophisticated military equipment from both the Eastern bloc and Western DES MOINES .'-• "I a m writing you to convey my nations. The Arab states have grave concern with the already received billions In reports given wide circulation military equipment in the last • in the public press that the two decades; to increase the administration is giving flow with American arms now serious consideration to a would tip the military balance program of arms aid and sales in favor of the Arabs, and this will Inevitably lead to'another to Egypt. round of fighting in the Arab"It Is helpful to review the Israel theater. ' implications of this decision "(b) The United States is for. United States Middle East Israel's sole source of arms, policy. I dispute Secretary while the Arab states of the Kissinger's assertion that it is region are the recipients of In U.S. interests to sell military equipment from-tha military equipment to Egypt. Soviet Union, the United It is my considered opinion States, France, and England. that it is not In United States Various Arab states have national interest.to become received, or will, American Fthe arms suppliertoEgypt. 5E fighters, American elec"The arguments against tronic equipment, American U.S. military assistance to missiles, American tanks,. Egyptlnclude: French Mirage fighters, "(a) The military balance In French Matra missiles, theAilddle East will be tipped English Chieftain tanks, In the Arabs' favor if the English Jaguar fighters, in United States becomes the arms'supplier to the major (Continuedon Page8)
On The Inside:
OMAHA-Sheldon Brodsky, chairman o f the Jewish C o m m u n i t y "Center nominating committee has announced the nominees for the Jewish Community Center boardof directors. . " Nominated for- two-year terms are Marv Pollkov, Bill . Cohen, BUI Kully, Steve Lustgarten, Marshall Lewis, Saranne Gitnick, Esther Canar, Marshall Kushner, Cal Kirshen and Miriam Soghnlk. Elections will be held at the Center's annual meeting,
Thursday, May 13, 7:30 p.m;, at the Center. Any person wishing to have his or her name placed in nomination may do so by filing a written petition with the chairman of the Center board, Norman Batt, not earlier than 30 days, nor later than 15 days prior to the Annual Meeting. Any person doing so must be an active member of the Jewish Community Center and the Jewish Federation. For further Information, call the Center at 334-8200.
'Matzoh of Hope7 Read This at Your Seder
Symbolic Meal Eaten NEW-YORK - Two Democratic Presidential candidate*) Sen. v Henry Jackson of Washington (left) and Rep. Morris Udall of Arizona (right), breakfast on stale breadand sardine scraps In a symbolic ceremony in support of the right OJ Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. The candidates flank Vladimir Markman, an engineer wbo ate stale bread and sardine scraps as a regular meal during his three years in a Soviet prison camp. He now lives in Israel. In his remarkstothe breakf ast,«rganlzed by the Greater .New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, Sen. Jackson declared that persona engaged In the struggle on behalf of Soviet Jewry "must persevere. We must have the will to bold fast We will keep the faith and stay for generation after generation in this struggle." Rep. Udall urged, "We must help to free prisoners of conscience through a politics of purpose and change - never forsaking basic principles of human freedom and always seizing opportunities to further the case of justice in toe community of man." (RNS Photo.)
OMAHA — Both local and national organizations Working for Soviet Jewry have issued a statement which they are urging Omaha Jewish families to include In their PassoverSederonWednesdaynlght,Marchl4. The Omaha Committee for Soviet Jewry, jui conjunction with the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, urges that the statement be read so that "the Jews of the Soviet _ Union may know that they have not been forgotten and, thatweareonelnbrotherhood," . , • ,. ' _ The NCSJ is an association of 34 national Jewish organizations. It, together with the Omaha Committee and hundreds of Jewish community federations, aire in support of the struggle of Soviet Jews to attain freedom and equality. The statementis as follows: "THIS ISTHE'MATZOH OF HOPE.' "This Matzoh, which we set aside as a symbol of hope for the Jews of ibe Soviet Union, reminds us of the Indestructible links that exist between us. "As we observe this festival of freedom, we know that Soviet Jews are not free, to leave without harassment; to learn of their past; to pass on their religious traditions; to learn the languages of thelf .fathers; to train the teachers and the rabbis of future "We remember with bitterness the scores of Jewish prisoners of conscience who soughttolive as Jews and struggled to leave for Israel—the land of our fathers —but now languish In bondage In Soviet labor camps. Their struggle against their oppressors is part of an ongoing effort, and they shall know that the/have not been forgotten. As Soviet Jews assert themselves, they are Joined by all wbo are'aroused by their affliction. We will continue untfl they emerge into the light of f t e e d e o m . " : . -.-•-•••
Jewish Presence inJerusalem—Politic^ VS. Planning' ByUzlBenzlman
Gurion strongly urged to populate East Jerusalem JERUSALEM - The immediately with thousands always-controversial debate of Jews, paying scant need to over the town planning of considerations of town Jerusalem has come to the planning and esthetics. .forengain, Xevi Esl&ol, then Premier, Soveral governmental undertook the responsibility of agencies have leaked in- erecting new Jewish quarters formation about their plans in the annexed part of the city. regarding the development of Eshkol personally supervised the city, thus highlighting the the housing projects In East connection between politics Jerusalem by establishing a and environment in the Holy special governmental agency City, which was to circumvent the bureaucratic Since 1967, when Jerusalem ordinary ' . •.-•'-.•• was reunited, the discussions procedures. The agency was empowered about Its town planning have reflected the conflict between to Ignore the conventional the political goals and pure rules and laws regarding the licensing of new buildings. All planning considerations. It was David Ben Gurion, considerations and wbo In 1S57, as an .ordinary procedures were subordinated citizen, summoned several to one goal: the speedy setCabinet members to his home tling of Jews in East .and told them of his deep Jerusalem. :•. Ever' since then, political concern over the future of Jerusalem. Mayor Teddy considerations have had a Kollek, Ben Gurion's former major impact on Jerusalem's, aide when be was Premier, town planning. Whenever - was among those whom Ben' peace, talks with the Arabs. M t t T**nfUc Aiaqp, toe.
Oratorio of Freedom Cantor Cbalm Najmanol Beth El Synagogue and Dwalne Price, conductor, study the musical score of the Passover - oratorio "Search for Freedom" to be performed Sunday; April 11,7:30p.m. at Beth ELFor more details seePage6.
Also This Week: Nixon obsessed with the idea of a 'Jewish cabal', Page 2. Guidelines offered for an election year, Page 4. Omaha B'nai B'rith Women to inaugurate a new chapter, P a p 7. On the same page, the last of the In Depth series on Jewish education in Omaha.
seemed likely or feasible, the the hills around the city, planners and politicians were i aiming to surround the whole s u m m o n e d to d i s c u s s city with Jewish suburbs. suggestions aiming to inIn June 1968 ''temporary" crease the Jewish presence in prefabricated houses were the eastern part of the city. erected near Mount Scopus — The first new Jewish apparenUy~in reaction to quarters were built along the political pressure coming jformer border that bad from the U.S. in the direction /divided the city for 19 years, of an imposed political set: Creating "StttuuSg" bstwScu tlement . • . , . . • " the two halves of the city. The Many of these projects were second wave of building -undertaken regardless of focused on the external ring of (Continued on Page2) •
Don't Be Alone! OMAHA-If you haven't ' have indicated their interest in made plans for the First Seder, the program, the spokesman there's still time, according to said. "All you have to do is call spokesmen for Project Elijah. Federation Assistant Director The Project, a program of the Omaha'Jewish Federation Sam Lauber or Mollie Ijelman, which- brings people together the Jewish Community Cenfor Passover,,will provide the ' ter's Older Adult coordinator, key to your, sharing enjoying at 3344200," said the Project spokesman. "They'll be glad to the warmth of Pesach with other Omaha Jewish.families, help you enjoy the Seder-or help you offer your hospitality this Wednesday night, April 14. Several Omahans, already . to those seeking It."