Endowment Funds Accepted
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UCOUNCIL BLUFFS. LINCOLN, OMAHA
/ ; CC NQ , V.<? Omaha, Neb., Fri., August 6,1375
jader: • • By David Landau JERUSALEM (JTA) — It Is not common to hear from a leading American Jewish giver and fundraiser a hard sell "pitch" (or allyah. That kinclof talk has traditionally been left to the "organized Zionist" leadership, while the United Jewish Appeal men have quietly gotten on with the Job of raising the funds to pay for whole areas of social and educational endeavor which the Israel government Itself simply cannot afford to cover. ""••-"•"-•- Bat "things are ciianging," sa id Stsnisy Slosne of New Jersey, one of the UJA's 15 national chairmen and a shrewd and sophisticated observer of the trends of Jewish history. It was Pinhas Saplr, who, as chairman of the World Zionist Organization, first called for the challenge of aliyah to be transferred from the sole "Jurisdiction of Israel" Into the hands and responsibility of Diaspora communities themselves. Some moves in that direction have already been made. But first, of course, the need for the change has to percolate through to theawarencssnnd conviction ol the diaspora leadership — and particularly of the American Jewish leaders, Sloan observed. This, he believes, is what is happening at this present time and he saw convincing evidence of It at the Jewish Agnecy Assembly held here last week. "We Americans came away with tKo conclusion that it's up to us to get involved In allyah...to exhort our fellow citizens.. .and to act In a practical way to turn exhortation Into realization. .," be said. The Zionist proponents of allyah, urging others to go but not showing the example themselves, have been positively detrimental' to allyah, Sloane said, referring to ths l.cadsrs of the various large American Zionist organizations.
O^MAHA — Leonard Goldstein, president of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, has announced with pleasure the receipt of two major endowment funds. The funds, the David- E. Beber Scholarship FungVand^ the Ruth Rlekes Richards Memorial Fund, were originally set up in October, 1975, under the auspices of the Milton S. and Corlnne N.
nough Their options are to hop over to a nearby neighborhood, moving piecemeal away from negative social influences, or to make the more difficult move to suburbia, where life Is more expensive. ; The tasfc facing American Jewry, Sloane stated with conviction, is to persuade these young urban Jewish families, many of them only loosely affiliated with organized Jewry, that they have a third option: Israel. ' Part of this persuasion must be in the form of material -arrangements — efficiently made and adequately explained - for their settlement and absorption in Israel, A moderate success r1say In the realm of two percent annually — would mean 20,000 American Jews to Israel each year. And that would be Just a start. • • ' , . - . < ; As throughout Jewish history, migration movements are •begun by the economically weak — but the more affluent quickly catch on and follow suit, Sloane observed. This was the case when mass Eastern European Jewish Immigration hit America. First It was the poor—but the more affluent quickly followed.
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Livingston Foundation. , mer c a m p s , Institutes, The new funds will operate seminars, etc., sponsored by . u n d e r t h e p r e v i o u s l y national and local Jewish established names and con- r e l i g i o u s a n d s e c u l a r tinue to support the same organizations. All scholargoals, Goldstein said. A sum of ships will be awarded on the $125,000 has been contributed basis of need, Goldstein to the Federation by the Liv- stated. . - r:... lngston Foundation with the The income from Ruth stipulation that ihf principal remain intact and the interest - Riekes Richards Memorial be used to support the pur- Fund, with an endownment of $25,000, will be directed poses of the two funds. toward programs^nd projects One hundred thousand in aid of the Jewish elderly In dollars has been set aside for Omaha, including, but not the Beber Scholarship Fund limited to, the residents of the with the income from this Dr. Philip Sher Home for the designated to provide scholar- Aged. ships, by means of loans and grants, to Omaha's Jewish David B. Beber, who was a youth. This program will not prominent Omaha attorney be fully operational until and longtime friend of Milton September, 1977, at which Livingston, was a trustee of time sufficient income will the Livingston Foundation unhave been generated, Golds- til his death in 1974. Ruth tein noted. Riskes Richards was known When fully operational, the for her work in Jewish Beber Scholarship Fund will charitable and .philanthropic have four basic priorities. It o r g a n i z a t i o n s . P e r s o n s will assist youths in attending wishing to honor the memory college; it will encourage and pf these two outstanding assist youths wishing to enter Omahans may do so by' senJewish professions such as the ding their checks, payable to rabbinate, teaching of Jewish the Omaha Jewish Federation studies and social or com- with the appropriate designamunal workj it will enable tion, to the Federation, 333 S. youths to visit Israel on ap- 132nd St., Omaha, Nebraska, proved study tours; It will aid 68154. These donations are tax youths wishing to attend sum- deductible.
Thus, Sloane observed, the successful absorption of a substantial number of urban American Jews In Israel would certainly catalyze an aliyah process among young suburban Jewish families — who would come In even greater numbers and.would NEW YORK (JTA) - he was anti-Semitic. "I'm enneed much less In the way of material aid and support, The allyah ol say half a million Jews from America to Israel, Sloan Eormer Vice President Splro titled to my opinion without said, far from weakening the U.S. Jewish community, would ac- Agnew defended his right to' being followed around by the criticize Israel while denying B'nai B'rlth Anti-Defamation . tuallystrenglhcnit. . \ .,.'.... ".' -.' League and being accused of ""sioanoli BlmJIafly bold'and sweeping when he surveys the His own recommendation — It Is still in the form of general, being a bigot," he sal*toanUJA's current situation. "The tlmehas come, in termsof Jewish personal thoughts that have been running though his mind — Is Interview on ABC-TV's "Good for the American Jewish leadership tb^ldentify (ho people who need, for American Jewry to step up the giving," he said firmly. Morning America" show. "I arc the potential for allynh" and to encourage them, materially "We have come up in a relatively short time from fifty million to could be wrong, but I'm not a and morally, to make the move to Israel. The-allyah potential, five hundred million dollars a year.. .Now we must state our bigot." — ' Sloan observed, Is among the estimated two million urban aim: one billion dollars a year.. .and having stated It, we must ' The ADU charged Agnew . . . . ' American Jews, About one-half of these are elderly, but the strive to attain it." last week with taking over a others are the obvious reservoir for an Initial mass ^movement of " The aim must be achieved within "a few years" - and Ittax-exempt foundation, American ollm to Israel. ••.-.-•• can be achieved, Sloane Is convinced, if UJA broadens its front. Education for Democracy, for These urban Jews,jusuaiiy In the middle or lower-middle in"FrankLautcnberg (UJA general chairrtan) was right when he the purpose of organizing a come brackets, arc struggling constantly to make a living, and spoke of U M giving as 'self-taxation,' I want to add to that the movement to reflect hts antlat (be same time facing worsening problems of ecology and need for tax reform," Sloane said. (lWe have to reach more peo- Israel, pro-Arab vie^ws. quality of life. Evntually — arid for most of them within the next ple — while at the same tlnie maintaining the level of Intensity decade - the need to make a physical relocation will become ofouroperatlons." • Victor Gold., Agnew's press; . • secretary when he was Vice pressing. • ' , ^ " President, appearing on the He estimated that UJA reaches presently Just less than halt same program, took issue of all American Jews. But only half of them give "responsibly," OMAHA-Sara Zalkln with an article published by he said. "We must get up to 50 per cent responsible giving becomes the youngest the foundation's newsletter . TEL AVIV (JTA) - Israel Israel; However, opposition to among all American Jews," Sloane asserted. He did not quanmember of the JCC's Older which criticized the United has decided to let villagers the employment of" large tify'"rcspoiisibility" in dollars and cents terms; • Adult Club. (JP Photo). States for not galhg along with and farmers from' southern numbers of Lebanese workers a United Nations General Lebanon work in Israel. Labor have come from such local Assembly vote that Gold said Minister Moshe Baram an- labor leaders as Yaakov Pllar, OUT mm to air locally, Page "would have .affectively nounced. The first group of 17 secretary of the Building i. . .New staff at Jewish Day. abolished and done away with the recently-signed Helsinki By Dr. Sol M. Davidson came through the security Workers Union in the northern School, Page 3...U.S. will Israel." : . " D M Molnu Cdltor'i not*: Thli la ont In Agreement and of Russia's ~C fence Aug. 1 and the number Galilee. stick by Israel, Page 4.. .More a M r l n of COM •ludlct illuminating senseless anti-Semitism, In and more older adults attend was expected to grow to 170 In "We are. having trouble tha datpwola plight ol dl»«l<(«nt», this case, by special customAgnew said he agreed that Walk-In Center at Beth El, the remainder of the week. enough finding work for our—rafuinlki" end Prlsofltn of Cont'the article was "a biased Page 8.. .JCC will hold jazz The 17 Lebanese workers, own members'" •Pllar said, CIMK* In thatovltl Union. Th« reawn tailored cruelties. piece." But he added, "What I festival, Page 7...JCC's After a lifetime of work In whose .names were withhold declaring that his union would for th>lr hannsmanl and Imprlionam defending myself against medically supervised exercise the Soviet Union dating back and whose pictures were for- not allow the'Lebanese to be men! — limp!/ that they cpp!!=d for a is a charge-of anti-Semitism, program is going strong; Page to even before the Communist bidden to be taken because of employed in construction yl|g lo Itovi the Soviet Union end 10.. .Teens write' home from not the fact that I may be biasfear of terrorist reprisals, work. "We should provide a/nlgrota (uiually lo U r a l ) . II lh» Revolution early In this cenIsrael, Page 11. ed—not even the fact that I went to work In the Dubck them with food and medical plight of lh« perton or fomlly d«Krllf tury, the Vinkovetskys applied may be wrong in my opinion. Cigarette Co.'s tobacco sor- services as a humanitarian •d in any oMlcl» In thl» » r l » i touch*! in January, 1973, to emigrate • Agnew repeated his charge to Israel. In their case, there your haort end you with to h«!p, ting plant in Safad. gesture but we cannot give ' that the major American news wasjip job to be fired from pltei* follow lha octlon tuggtttlom iiThev-wilLbe-pald Israeli M! jhrf ' ' i? ol iWaflSot »oth ometa. m n « n e i i» • dhe usual first step rerusnlks NEW YORK, (JTA) — Tne iiieuia *'?u7Gni tile isracii-pGaiwages and will be insured tlon and does not In a balanced tponiorad by lha Da! Molrm and have to face after applying to. -death sentence imposed by the ..against Job accidents on the way present the' other Omoho-CommHttw of toneam for Moscow Municipal Court in •emigrate). Aron had retired 10 same basis as workers from Work) Jawry, For furthar Informotlon, equities." However, he'agreed years before and Ray a even December, 1974, on" Mikhail the West Bank. The -workers contort Mr*.'Uonard (Srjlrfoy) GoldtLevicv has been commuted to that major newspapers were before that. were met In Israel by the Itln In Omaha or Dr. Sol Davldian 15 years in prison, according now becoming "a little more __ "military commander ot the and-er Cl>orl«» Krom*r m P«i nuinti. The 1976 New Year's EdiStill the refusal came. to reports received by the objective." northern region and by the tion of the Jewish Press Agnew said he was not Reason:The " s e c r e t " Greater New York Conference This month's herocs-lnLabor Exchange man for the will have a copy deadline ot need-of-hclp, refusniks Aron knowledge Aron had from his on Soviet Jewry. Levicv, the charging a conspiracy in the August 30. The advertising rca, and B«yn Vlnkovotsky of Len- former occupation Aron had manager of a store in Moscow, media. "I say that the_ deadline is. Aug. 23. Aii Tho-rest of the Lebanese ingrad, Russia, provide been "a specialist in sanitary had been charged'with American people, have been . material should be typed workers will be employed by perfect examples of the engineering in- the shlp- "economic crimes" and "anlt- routinely exposed to quite a lot-. and triple spaced. nl niw-lcrpoll nmnaaanAa IL(Ccniinucdcr.PageS) Sovict activity." the Jewishi National Fund in Soviets' flagrant disregard of afforestation work in northern
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