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Vol. LV No. 44
CBS Airs Entebbe Special
Omaha, Neb., Fri., September 10,1976
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Others meet a specially scheduled bus at Crossroads at 11 a.m. which brings them to the Center by 11:30 a.m. Some are bought to the Center by children and grand-children. A few, no more than 11, arc transported by the MAT Senior Citizen _ Mini—bus which provides portal to portal service for $1 round trip. On Thursdays some walk to Beth El, others take the Dodge bus to 49th and Dodge, a few drive, and some are "dropped off" by their children or a member of their family. ' ;
OMAHA - A television news special has been produced by CBS news and will air on . Tuesday, Sept. 14. . This special news report, "Rescue at Entebbe" will feature eye witness accounts of the rescue raid by 12 oT the rescued 104 passengers, soldiers who led the raid and officials who planned It, a CBS spokesman said. Included in the CBS special is a BBC interview with Ugan; • dan President Idi Amin, according to a network official. Films of Israeli commandos in training and the celebration at Ben Gurion Airport upon the return of the hostages arc also Included in the network special. The CBS special will be -shown In Omaha on WOVVT Channel 6, 9 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 14.
JCC Walk-in Registration Set Sept. 12 OMAHA - The Jewish Community Center's WalkIn Registration Day, Sept. 12,1-5 p.m., is being planned in order to assist the membership in registering, according to Phil Cofman, JCC executive director. Cofman - indicated that while many of the Center's programs will receive a very high registration, the Center staff is encouraging peole to register on that day in order to avoid disappointment due to classes being filled. Jane Brooks, president of the Center, noted that.the fall program; has something (or every member of the family and Is looking forward to' the members participation and enjoyment as we begin new year of activities.
Bond Meeting NEW YORK— One hundred U.S. and Canadian Jewish leaders participated In the 1076 Jerusalem Leadership Conference with Prime Minister Yitzhak Kabln and i .other-Government leaders on the country's.economic probJeros'and needs.
OMAHA—"A ride, a ride, my kingdom fora ride" could easliy be termed the most often heard plea of Omaha's Jewish older adults! In fact, transportation looms as the major problem for a!! of Omaha's senior citizens, according to Jeanne Lipsey, xhairman of the Transportation Task Force of the Coordinating Committee on the Aging. At the present time,' older adults who attend the Monday program at the Jewish Community Center and the Thursday pro-" gram at Beth El reach their destination through several forms of transportation. Some Monday members use the Metro Area Transit bus that arrives at the Center at approximately 9:30 a.m. However, for many who live on the Dodge line, this Is a difficult means of transportation because of the early hour.
Town in Transition Is Mission Stop SHLOMI, Israel - While on the United Jewish Appeal's Prime Minister's Mission to Israel last week, Murray Newman, leader of • the 1977 Jewish PhUanthropjgs^GampalES, and Lou Solomon; executive director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, stopped In the town of Shloml. Newman Is seen on the left as he visits with some of the children there. "This town, even down to the children, has a
very poor self-image," Newman said. The Mission participants learned that the situation ShJoml could be Improved by bringing In new residents, but that this would necessitate'. the construction of additional housing. "This was but one example of the needs In Israel, one place where the monies raised by the Philanthropies Campaign could be well utilized," both Solomon and Newman noted.
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Israeli Ambassador Slmcha Dinitz and Histadrut treasurer Israel Kessar will be among the speakers at the 53rd annual convention of the National Committee for Labor Israel to be held at the New Ydi-k Hilton October 22-24, The 1976 Chess Olympiad will be held In Mt. Carmel In October with an expected 56 countries participating. Contempory artist, Ludwlg Y. Wolpert, will have his works displayed at the Maurice Spcrtus Museum of Judaica in 'Chicago, SepC12-Jan. 16. Rabbi Walters. Wurzburger, the head of the largest Orthodox Rabbinic body in America, has said that Individuals who promote making Allyah to Israel should be better inferred and better prepared ~-hcn speaking i s Isvis sitix ;r western world In order for Israel to become a truly Jewish State. ' The United States State Department said recently that It has "no intention" of opening an Embassy In Christian-controlled areas of Lebanon and that It "reaffirms its' stand for Lebanese sovereignty, national cohesion, and unity". The United Synagogue of America Is about to begin its first agricultural settlement In Israel calling on SO couples to make Aliyab. Dr. Samuel Sandmel, the first Jewish scholar to serve as editor of._ The New English Bible has announced Its publication by the Oxford University Press.
"The big probelm," said Mrs. Lipsey, "is the senior citizen who is not using any of our services because of lack of public transportation and the hesitancy to let us, or their children, know they do not have rides. We are making every possible effort, through our Federation, and in cooperation with community transportation committees, to reach everyone who wants to participate in our activltes but Is home-bound because of lackT>f mobility". Weekend and evening activities provide an even greater problem for those who cannot get a ride or do not drive. "We are anxious to set up car-pools, cab-pools, and pick-ups where possible", said Mrs. Lipsey, "but we need the cooperation of the community. Hopefully those driving to synagogue services, to the Center for evening or Sunday programming, will of' fer to pick up those who do not have rides". According to Molllc Delman, Older Adult Director at the Center, "we are discovering that many older adults are shy about asking their own families and children for ritles. Some stay home, alone, rather than impose on anyone, particularly . their families. They would welcome ah offer though of a ride, particularly when we have Sunday programming as we will on Sept. 19 for the family picnic". ' - , Anyone wishing to assist the Transportation Task Force In providing rides for older adults, during the week and on Sundays, is asked to contact Mollie Delman or Sam Lauber at the Center, 334-8200.
Israel Is Ready for Overall Peace Israel is ready cither to negotiate an overall peace with the Arabs at Geneva or to reach agreements on an end to the slate of war with its neighbors, Prime Minister Rabin said Aug.
so today... and I believe we shall." Asked whether Israel's apparent Interest in keeping Russia out of the Middle East, diplomatic activity would not turn Russia into a "sworn enemy," Rabin answered: "To the best 29. • • . . . • . . „.' . _ . . . . : ' ' • Interviewed on Israel felevislon,'he said the of my knowledge It was the Soviet Union which, Geneva negotiations would have to be in terms through its policy, decided that Israel would be its sworn enemy, not Israel that decided this." of the original invitations sent out* by the UN Secretary-General in December 1973, Just after Soviet policy in the region had been one of the end of the Yom Kipp.ur War. (This would proposing the military option tOtlie Arab States exclude any separate terrorist representation.) In their struggle against Israel, tiirough huge The Prime Minister was being Interviewed to arms-shipments. They had adopted a pollcyjf total support for the most extremist Arab mark the first anniversary of the Sinai accord. He said that the Egyptians were interested in states, were the main support of "the terrorist observing the accord, and were likely to con- organization that calls Itself the PLO," and were the power that Is preventing the conventinue to be so In the foreseeable future. ing of the Geneva conference on the basis of the He admitted that there had been Egyptian 1973 letter of Invitation. violations of the agreement. "These are violations of secondary military significance," he "If the Soviet Union continues to cling to its added "hut we should sec that they are cor- extremist anti-Israel policy," he said. "I see no rected. Perhaps we didn't handle them correctreason why Israel need be interested in its inly when a year and a half ago — actually, more itiatives." than two years ago — there came the first, . "The Soviet Union can play a role in revelations of violations as to the number of establishing peace in the Middle East, but to do forces, they were permitted to maintain." so It must change its approach, its policy and ',"But,"he continued, "the fact that we didn't Its attitude from what they are today," he adddeal properly with that then requires that we do ed.
The Council of Jewish federations is cooperating with the U.S. Dept.'of HEW in carrying out its Influenza immunization program by sending each of the 215 member Federations a packet of materials including 'lists of local offices and background of the program.. .The nursing shortage In Israel Is co acute that the American Physicians Fellowship has been requested to campaign for 10 to 12 surgical nurses to work at the NEW YORK (JTA) fargest hospital, Tel Hasomer. A salute honoring Edward J. Carlough, General president of the Sheet Metal Workers' Inter- . Ramsey Clark, who is seeking the Democratic nomination national Association produced close to $2.5 million in Israel for the U.S. Senate, has urged Bond sales for Israel's economic development. Attorney General. Edward Seventy percent of teenage Immigrants who attenda college, -Levl to .reconsider. the ,1m-f or university In Israel remain In the country after five years, ac-. migration and Naturalization cording to figures recently released, by the Central Census Service's recent-denial of an . Bureau In Jerusalem. An Israeli scientific film which deals with immigration request-for 2,000 Soviet Jews stranded in Italy marine life won 1st prize at the international Conference of in what Clark termed squalid Scientific Films in Japan. *~
Clark Urges Ley! conditions. Since- he left the Justice -; In a telegram to Levl, Clark, Department In 1969, Clark has a former Attorney General, been active on behalf of Soviet -said "simple humanity and and Syrian Jewry. In 1970, he our history a a nation of im- led the delegation to the Soviet migrants,, anione.ihat aids. ;Unioa:that.sought to monitorrefugees from oppression, the Leningrad trials. In 1974 argues that we< allow this he headed 'the American group of Soviet Jews to be r delegation to th&Iftisrssli .reunited with thelt families in Conference on Syrian j theUnitedStates." - Paris.