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" r S j z to Monday. Sept. 6, Labor Day, the Jewish Community Center will be open from 8:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. Available for use will be the outdoor pool, tennis courts, and all of the indoor athletic department facilities Including the Health Club. The business offices will be closed.
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New Year Greetings By Row Hoffman DES MOINES - In a special first-time project (or the High Holiday season, all members of the Des Molnes Jewish community will have an opportunity to send Rosh Hashanah greetings to refusniks and their families in the Soviet Union — people who, deprived of the freedom of religious expression, need some sign from us that they are not forgotten. The Des Molnes Committee of Concern for World Jewry WiU supply specially-printed greeting cards to be mailed to our Jewish brethren In the Soviet Union. Names and addresses of refusniks and their families will be provided with the cards and envelopes which have been distributed In a .community-wide mailing this week. All you a n asked to do is sign your name, add a personal message 11 you wish, and •uua,S3l€SS»«»SigSS*rS2Stt
stamp. Collection receptacles for the cards have been placed at Des Moines synagogues and at the Temple. Please return all cards at your earliest convenience between the time you receive them and Sunday, Sept. 26, so they may arrive in Russia in time tor the holidays. Sol Davidson, chairman of the Committee of Concern for World Jewry,' whose wife, Penny did the art work (or the cards, explained that the three-fold design was planned (Continued on Page6)
Early Dedline Set OMAHA -T Due to the long Labor Day Weekend, copy and advertising deadline (or the Sept. 10 Issue of the Jewish Press will b e noon on Friday, Sept. 3.
OMAHA - Although he left here almost 30 years ago, Sam Beber always thought of Omaha as home. And it was here, on Sunday, Aug. 29, In Beth El Cemetery, that Sam Beber was buried. Beber had been ill (or some time. He died of pneumonia In Chicago, 111., on Aug. 25. Sam Beber was known for many things but foremost among them was his role as fonderofAlephZedekAlenh.
organizations and served on the national boards of the Boy Scouts, the Jewish Welfare Board and the United Jewish Appeal. A recent gift by Sam Beber enabled B'nai B'rith to establish a summer youth camp In southern Wisconsin, the B'nai B'rith Beber Camp. • "The Omaha Jewish community Joins with the entire American Jewish community in mourning the loss of such a
OMAHA - "We want to express our deep appreciation to the men who helped to make this campaign so successful," said Dick HUler and Leo Meyerson, co-chairmen of the 1976 Philanthropies campaign, lit announcing the first Philanthropies workers' Appreciation Night Stag. The stag, originally set for Sept. 7, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 28, 6:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center. Special guest speaker at the stag will be Coach John Melton of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln CornCoach Melton husker football team. Coach Melton will present a "Big chairmen said. Red 76 Update.'' "We hope to see this become Included In the social eve- an annual event, because ning will be a dell dinner and without the hard work of our spocts movies, with plenty of volunteers a successful camtime for klbbutzing, the co- paign is impossible," Hiller
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himself, organized a boys "always be remembered (or the group in Omaha. Its goal was part he played in establishing to encourage among the young AZA and the B'nai B'rith Jewish man "a sympathetic youth organization and (or his OMAHA - So that "no one appreciation and love of his many other contributions to religion and people." Two Jewish life," Leonard Golds- shall be alone" during the years later this group, AZA, tein, Omaha Jewish' Federa- coming Rosh Hashanah holidays, "Operation Elijah" was brought under the B'nai tion president, said. is once again opening the B'rith umbrella through the Beber Is survived by his doors for the community to efforts of Beber who was then widow, Helen; son, Harley, of the youngest member ever to RockvlUe, Md.; daughters, Omaha newcomers, older serve on B'nai B'rith's na- Mrs. Floyd Abramson of adults, singles and others who may not have a family to be tional board. Chicago and Mrs. Jerald with on Yom Tov, according to This youth program, with a Katleman of San Diego; Mary Fellman, chairman for girls counterpart added in sisters, Mrs. Paul Landres the Coordinating Committee 1044, liter became the B'nai and Mrs. Sadie Feuer of Los on the Aging. B'rith Youth Organization Angeles; and eight grandwith an alumni of 650,000 and a children. In addition to private home current enrollment of 40,000 The family has requested hospitality, as has been the young people. that memorials be made to the practice for the past three Beber and another promi- B'nai B'rith Camp, In care of years, this year the Dr. Philip nent former Gniahan and an B'nai B'rith, 1640* Rhode Sher Home for the Aged will AZA alumnus, Philip M. Island Ave., Northwest, open its doors for holiday Klutznick, became business Washington, D.C. 20036. meals on Saturday, Sept. 25, partners in the postwar creation of Park Forest, III., a model for planned communities which Is now a city of 50,000. Beber and Klutznick were also brothers-in-law. Sam Beber was born in MinBy Barbara Simmon sk, Russia, and came to OMAHA - "It's absolutely Omaha at the age of four with incredible," says Howard his parents. As a boy he sold Weinsteln, director of the newspapers on street corners and later worked hia way Community Relations Comthrough Crelghton University mittee Anti-Defamation Law School from which he League, B'nai B'rith of the Jewish Federation of Omaha graduated magna cum laude. "It's incredible how-hard this One of the founders of Beth community has worked over El Synagogue, Beber served as its first president from IS29- the last two years, planning for next week's move toward 1931.
and Meyerson noted. "Due to the dedication of this year's workers the 1976 campaign was finished in record time and has neared the $1,700,000 goal." "We are very proud of the achievements of this year's campaign. But the needs of Israel and the local community are so great and continue to grow. We cannot afford to rest on our laurels but must look forward even as we express our appreciation (or the completed campaign," the cochairmen said. "We look forward to seeing each worker at the stag evening so that we can personally thank everyone for the great job they did." Individual Invitations have been sent to the Philanthropies workers and reservations are needed by Sept. 20.
NCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Fri., September 3,1976
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'Operation Elijah' Opens Doors and Sunday, Sept. 26, the first and second days of Rosh Hashanah. The 1:30 p.m. dinners following the close of synagogue services, will be served hi a special dining room for guests and will be complete holiday meals in a festive setting, Ben Laug, director of the Home, said. The cost of the holiday dinner at the Home will be $2 per person with reservations accepted until Monday, Sept. 20. Call Janet Fisher at the Dr. Sher Home, 451-7220, to make reservations. "We are anticipating the attendance of a goodly number of persons who want to enjoy a
For those individuate or newcomer families who would like to have private home hospitality (or the holidays, requests should be made to Mollle Delman or Sam Lauber at the JEWISH Community Center 334-8200. Those who wish to open their doors and e x t e n d a w e l c o m e to that merely avoiding a crisis newcomers, older adults and when school opens next week singles who otherwise would is not the main purpose of the be alone on two of the most imtwo years' work, although it Is portant days In the Jewish an important accomplishment religious year should also call for the hundreds of teachers, 334-8200. administrators, clergymen , "Because it is important and community leaders who {hat no one should be alone on have worked to change at- the holidays," said Mrs. titudes toward busing and Fellman, "it Is important that racial integration. members of the community "The main point of all the step forward to offer hospitaliwork and sensitizing," says ty in their homes, rides to the Weinstein, "Is to create s Hcnr.e for these who wish . ---— climate of continual coopera- them, and also the names of tion and involvement among; those persons who might be the people of this city who care hesitant to let us taioy_thev —. ,. about children. This involve- are desirous of this variHSSvSj±r^S==. ment must be sustained fered by the Omaha Jewish" ^_rir_ community." , ' (Continued on Page 3)
Omaha School Integration Begins; Work to Continue Throughout Year
Sam Beber led the first Jewish Philanthropies campaign in Omaha in May, 1930, and at one time beaded the "Omaha Federation for Jewish Services. He was active in many civic and philanthropic
school integration. I'm confident that Omaha will net have the disruption surrounding busing that other cities have had. So many people have worked so hard — we've done agoodjob,"hesays. Weinsteln says, however,
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traditional holiday meal and do not have family to share it with this year. This is not the first time members of the Omaha Community have been Invited to share Yom Tov with us, however it is the first time that arrangements have been made for a special dining room for the meal which will be served later than the holiday meal (or our residents. We are pleased to have the Sher Home work out this program in conjunction with the Federation's Committee on the Aging," said Laub.