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EHZalkin to Receive Prime Minister's Medal OMAHA-Mr. Norman Krivosha, Nebraska State Chairman for State of Israel Bonds, takes special pleasure in advising the Jewish communities of Nebraska that Ell M. Zalkin has been designated by the State of Israel to receive the coveted Prime Minister's Medal in 1977 in recognition of his outstanding services to the State of Israel. Mr. Zalkin ,1s currently honorary Nebraska Stage Chairman and a long time outstanding Jewish Communal leader. Mr. ZalKin was notified by Mr. Michael Arnon, President of the Israel Bond Organization. He stated that "It is planned to present thi* award at a Dinner of State in November. This occasion will, I know, give your many friends and associates a welcome opportunity for expressing their
affection and regard for you, and at the same time to demonstrate their determination to reinforce Israel'* hard pressed economy." Governor J. James Exori, a previous recipient of the Prime Minister's Medal, will be there to make the presentation.
NEW YORK The world Jewish population Is estimated at about 14,145,000, according to the American Jewish Year Book; whose 1977 edition has just been published. This figure represents a drop of 86,000 from the population cited in last year's issue. The United States, with approximately 5,845,000 Jews, has the largest Jewish population in the world. The Year Book which is the authoritative record of events and trends in Jewish life, is published Jointly by the American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Publication of America. After the United States, countries with the largest Jewish populations are: Israeli 2,953,000; Soviet Union, 2,680,000; France, 550,000; Great Britain, 410,000; Canada, 305,000; and Argentina, 300,000. Forty-eight per cent of world Jewry is located in North, Central and South America, 29 per cent in Europe, 21 per cent In Asia, 1.5 per cent In Africa, and 0.5 per cent In Australia and New Zealand. In the United States, Jews comprise 2.7 per cent of the total population. Among the Jewish population figures for U.S. cities listed in the Year Book's tobies are: Greater New York, 1,998,000; Los Angeles, 455,000; Philadelphia, 350,000; Chicago, 253,000; Miami, 225,000; Boston, 180,000; Washington, 112,500; Bergen County (N.J.), 100,000; Essex County (N.J.), 95,000; Baltimore, 92,000; Cleveland, 60,000; Detroit, 80,000; San Francisco, 75,000; St. Louis, 60,000; and Montgomery County (Md.), 50,000.
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Figures for other European countries include: Austria, 13,000; Belgium, 40,500; Bulgaria, 7,000; Czechoslovakia, 12,000; Denmark, 7,000; France, 550,000; Germany, 33,000; Great Britain, 410,000; Greece, 6,000; Hungary, 80,000; Ireland, 4,000; Italy, 35,000; Netherlands, 30,000; Poland, 6,000; Rumania, 60,000; Spain, 9,000; Sweden, 15,000; Switzerland, 21,000; Turkey, 30,000; and Yugoslavia, 6,000. them feel comfortable In their Estimated population for major centers of Jewish concentranew home. tion In the,Americas, outside the United States, include: The Chausovskys left Len- Canada, 305,000; Argentina, 300,000; Brazil, 165,000; Uruguay, ingrad on Oct. l. In Vienna 50,000; Mexico, 37,500; Chile, 27,000; Venezuela, 15,000; Colomthey rested and enjoyed bia, 12,000; ind Peru, 6,000. The figure for Argentina, which Is sightseeing for two weeks. They spent five days in Rome 175\O00 less than that cited In last year's volume reflects the and three months in Ostia, Ita- view that the previous total may have been higher than warly waiting for their permission ranted; In Asia, the only major centers of Jewish population, except to come to this country. The were most impressed for Israel, are Iran, 80,000, and India, 10,000. In Africa, there are by ttie'-'-frwanm fflev ex- iut»yyuiUal jmjflbers of Jews only In south Africa, 118,000; perienced as won asthejNeft *l&orocWo;«iO; Eflfloi»Ia,20;(Wb/ Tunisia;ifiti^Bboi&ta,. the Soviet Union. "There Is ho 4,800. There are 72,000 Jews in Australia;- tod 5,000 to New •-••• • .,-•;.;• ••.-•-. •'••••,•*•. freedom at all there," ex- Z e a l a n d . ^ • - • < ' • • • • • • • Among the major world cities outside the United States where claimed Gllina. No freedom In work, in speech, to travel. Jews are located are: Amsterdam, 20,000;.Antwerp, 13,000; Once Mark tried to visit Brussels. 24,500; Bucharest, 40,000; Budapest, 65,000; Cape friends in Finland. He was Town 25,650; Glasgow, 13,000; Haifa, 210,000; Istanbul 22,000; given an examination which Jerusalem, 266,000; Johannesburg, 63,000; Kiev, 170,000; Leeds, he failed because he didn't 18,000; Leningrad, 165,000; London, 280,000; Lyons, 20,000; Manknow the population of chester, 35,000; Marseille, 65,000; Melbourne, 34,000; Mexico CiHelsinki, and he was hot ty, 32,500; Milan, 10,000; Montevideo, 48,000; Montreal, 114,000; allowed to leave the country. Moscow, 285,000; Nice, 20,000; Paris, 300,000; Rio de Janeiro, They must get used to many 50,000; Rome, 15,000; Sao Paulo, 65,000; Strasbourg, 12,000; things of which they have been Sydney, 28,000; Teheran, 50,000; Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 394,000; Toronafraid. Telephones (or exam- to, 110,000, Toulouse, 18,000; and Winnipeg, 18,500. ple. Russians fear phones, and who might be on the other end of the line, said Gllina. They are now getting settled In their apartment at 2313 Benson Garden Blvd. A little BETHESDA, Md. - Retired tired, I think from their ex- Israeli Major General Mathausting travels, and their many new experiences in a tltyahu Peled. speaking before a Quaker agency meeting In foreign world. Bethesda, Md., urged the They are confident of their creation of a Palestinian state adjustment, however. And we, In the Middle Bast alongside In the Omaha Jewish community, will continue to make Israel. "After peace, with two their new home a very loving states alongside'each other," predicted Gen. Peled, tounone. . ding member of the Israel Council for Israeli-Palestine Peace, "all our energies On The InskN should be directed toward developing the best possible Letters to the Editor, Page relations and confidence." 2... Alpert tells of Kibbutz Gen. Peled and isam SarMatiityahu Paled children stories, Page S . . . iawj — who spoke from Paris What's happening-at the by telephone on behalf of the (Religious News Service Photo) Synagogue, Page 4 Palestine Liberation Center Activities, Page S Organization (PLO) - w e r e gressJo sharply criticize the . . . Carnivals, Youth Actwo featured speakers at a Quaker agency. Conference tivities, Page 6 : . . Older "learning and organizing con- organizers charged American Adult news, Page 7 . . . ference" sponsored' by the Jewish and Israeli pressure Women's News, Pages 8 American Friends Service led to the dental of a visa tor and 9 . . . World Newt, .Committee. PLO representa- Sabri Jiryls, a PLO represenPage 1 0 , . , Monthly Calention had prompted leaders of tative who was to have attenddar^ Page Hv.".. T>esthe Antl-Defamatlon League ed the conference. The MolnesnewsrPagel2. of B'nal B'rlth, Hadassah, and meeting was boycotted and (he American Jewish Con- picketed by Jewish groups.
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AJC Resumes Travel Program to Mexico N E W YORK — T h e average tour will last 16 days American Jewish Congress and cost about 1750. announced resumption of its The Congress suspended its members' travel program to Mexico. Rabbi Arthur Hert- members' travel program to zberg, president of the Con- Mexico in November 1975 gress, made the announce- following Mexico's vote at the ment following a meeting of United Nations In support of a the organization's national ex- General Assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism. eculve committee recently. In his statement, Rabbi Rabbi Hertzberg led an Hertzberg noted two recent American Jewish Congress "positive actions" taken by mission to Mexico last month Mexico: The signing of a new that met with president Jose air agreement inaugurating Lopez Portillo; former Presi- regular flights between Israel dent Miguel Aleman, who and Mexico and the decision heads the Mexican N'attonai by Mexico to join the United Tourist Council, and leaders of States, Britain, France and Mexico's Jewish community. West Germany In abstaining from a UN resolution condem"On the basis of our conver-, ning "collaboration by Israel sations with Mexican govern- with the South African racist ment officials and with regime." representatives of Mexican Jewry," Rabbi Hertzberg said, "we believe it is appropriate to resume our members' travel program to Mexico. In our Judgement, the accession to the Presidency of TEL AVIV (ZINS) - 'A, new Jose Lopez Portillo marks the beginning oi a hew era not on- ami-cancer medicine is being ly In Mexico's relations with produced here by the pharthe United States but also with maceutical company "Avlk". the Jews of the country and The production process of the medicine Is qualified by exwith the people of Israel, "v perts as "revolutionary" and Rabbi Hertzberg said the is considered a first class Congress would resume its medical achievement. The scientists of "Avik", group tours to Mexico next October. Home ^departures for who worked on this invention more than 1,000 members are for only one year, ar« now now being scheduled. The waiting for a go ahead from
By Janii Fischer , OMAHA —The new Russian family has arrived in town. I had a.chance to interview them briefly this week and although communication was difficbif I found them to be absolutely delightful,, Mark Chausovsky, the head of the household, is a heating enata^.'tby ..profession, He speaks, a little jsngllsjjipiod. wears .a beautiful smile. Gllina, his slim, smart wife speaks English quite well. I understood her far better than she understood me.She is a graduate of a special institute in Leningrad who worked for several years in the newsroom and was then promoted to "producer" of an educational TV station.. The Chausovsky's have two daughters. Marina Is 19. She hopes to attend UNO in the fall. And Maria is an adorable well-behaved seven year old. The family applied for visas in July of 1976. There were among the few lucky ones; permission to emigrate came two months later. Although they had requested emmlgra(Ion to Israel, Ussy were thrilled to be allowed to come to the United States. They were allowed to take only a few things, nothing of value. But having their own kitchen supplies, books, clothes, and some of their Jewelry have helped
Anti Cancer Medicine Is Produced in Israel the Ministry of Health in order to increaseThe tempo of production. The confirmation will be given after the medicine will be tried out in different hospitals. P '.•'•'• The new medicine, whose^ chemical composition is held' In strict secrecy, is effective for different types of cancer and It Is even capable of stopp-. ing the spread of the dreadful sickness In some canes.
Retired General Peled Urges Creation of Palestinian State
By Janls Fischer The advantage of working for a newspaper is being able ' to express ones own opinions and the ability to reach a good • many people in one fell swoop. I am taking this opportunity, as editor of this weeks paper (while Judy is on vacation) to express some of my thoughts. This is my last week as a member of the staff of The Jewish Press. A new. editor has been hired, he will begin March 1.1 was aired, Isst July to assist Judy Marburg, acting editor, until a new editor was hired which was supposed to occur after the New Years edition came out in September. I thought it was the perfect part time Job for me; something to do while the kids were in day camp at the J, and something to get me out of the bouse two and a half days a week, when camp was over and before school started. Besides, to my parents Joy, that college degree in English was finally w o r t h s o m e t h i n g . As "September came and went and no editor was found, I readjusted my schedule, my kids schedule, our family schedule and the office schedule to become a "working woman." Now can I describe the past seven and a half months of my life as a staff member of THE JEWISH PRESS? Inspirational? Yes. I know that someday, somehow, I must go to Israel. I want to see the places. I've read about, meeUhe people I've come to know thorugh articles in the International press. T want to. know Alpert's Israel, Melr's Israel, Zifroni's Israel, Kenen's Israel. Have I become a Zionist? Maybe. I know my feelings toward Judaism have never been' stronger nor more secure.
Exhausting? Yes, at times I becoming a member of the don't know bow full-time Federation Press committee working women with families on which I could not serve manage it. But, I did manage while a paid employee of The to get Mindy to Hebrew Jewish Press. school on time, most of the Most people, in all their time. And I must take this opportunity to thank Art and Bev comings and goings at the Lowe for teaching S year old Center, don't realize what Jonathan the value of money goes on behind the reception at the snack bar, and for never desk. In the seven and a half minding his. being around months that I've been here six (constantly). And the girls in directors of assorted departments have been hired. Yet the Keyhole have been Just the marvelous staff of clerical fiiarVciOUS, SiUting differed employees go on dealing with 'things to entertain my kids the constant changes in policy day after day. and routine. They are among I did learn that my family the most courteous and helpful would Just as soon have ham- people with whom I've workburgers, hot dogs or tuna ed. Without them the work just sandwishes rather than the wouldn't get done. "gourmet" meals I used to serve when I had the time to Frantic? Well, that's typical shop for the ingredients and of the newspaper business. I the tune to prepare them, I am wiij never again condemn a especially grateful to my reporter for his inaccuracies wonderful husband who ator biased opinions. No one tended to the kids schedule likes it, but I can now underswhen I had to meet a deadline, tand how easily errors can be often put them to bed and who made in the rush to meet a never complained when I fell deadline, and how personal asleep on the couch at 9 p.m. viewpoints can easily slip into Thank you, Steve. a writer's text. Educational? Without doubt I have interviewed I reel however, that the staff Mike Albert, who will pro- of The Jewish Press is an bably win the Omaha unusual group. The staff mayoralty race; Gavriel writers do their work diligentZlfronl, one of Israel's ly. Susie Somberg and Debt foremost Journalists; Jeb Platt who handle the advertisBrownstein, international ing department, are always president of BBYO; the willing to help out the news Chausovskys, the new Russian department by listening, givfamily in town. ing advice when asked and I have come to know of the making runs down to the Sun dilemma of Russian Jews newspaper office. This through the unceasing Work of cobesiveness of The Jewish Shirley Goldstein; the always Press staff enabled the cheerful, dynamic Mollie • department to run smoothly Oelman is an inspiration to and put out decent papers anyone who cares about peo- each week without an official ple. director (editor) and without I think I even finally unders- clear policy to follow. tand the set up of the FederaGrateful? Most of all. I'm tion and its assorted committees. I hope to stay involved by grateful for the opportunity of
Jewish Community Calendar of Events SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 36 Hsdsssch Orssg Shcbbst, Dr. Shsr .Horns, 2 p.m. Yiddish Theater, JCC, 7:30 p.m. AYG Coffee House, JCC, 7 p.m: v SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Beth El Learning Fair, 10 a.m. Ad Hoc Committee Mfg., JCC, 10:30 a.m. Family Spaghetti-O Supper, JCC. 5:30 p.m. MONDAY. FEBRUARY » Older Adult Luncheon, JCC, 10:30 a.m. Israeli Independence Day Plonning Session, JCC, ' i i :30 a.m. ,. Weight Mpnagement and Reduction Clinic, JCC. 7 p.m.
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Adult Education, JCC, 7:30 p.m. Health Club Mfg., JCC, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY, MARCH 1 Beth Israel Sisterhood Board meeting, 9:30 o.m. Beth El Sisterhood Study Group, 9;30 a.m. . - JC Oidtimers, JCC, 12 noon Lecture forum Sub-Comm, Mfg., JCC, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2 _ \ Older Adult Special Interest Group, JCC, 10 a.m. Coffee with Rabbi Brooks, Temple 10 a.m. ORT meeting, 7:30 p.m. Girls' and Women's Athletic committee meeting J£<" 7'3r»»»"! THURSDAY. MARCH 3 JCC "Walk-in, Drop-In", Beth El, 10 a.m. Beth-El School Board mtg., noon
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talking with the young and the . old, the active judlhcbehbHithe scenes workers In the community. I've remet old acquaintances, families of old friends and relatives. Having been back in Omaha for only a year and a half, after a twelve year absence, I feel more a part of the community than many people are lucky enough to experience in a lifetime. And finally, I am most grateful to Judy Marburg, my boss. Kind, understanding, sympathetic, patient . . . it was she, alter all, who by hiring me last July, gave me this incredible opportunity.
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A Friend Bias Farewell Once I was queen, Abe Fisher was king. How thrilled I was. Mr. Fisher was tall and handsome, be dressed in the height of fashion. He didn't come to the Monday, meetings too often, but when he did, everyone knew he was t h e r e with his smile. He was such a good mixer and so liberal with the donations. How I dread to say goodbye. ^ To the family:
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cept of the "limited liability war." They could wage war, as they did In 1948 (and several' times later) and then claim the territory they lost. The territory would have been theirs if they had not gone to war. The Egyptians still maintain this highly Inequitable theroy. They opened the Six-Day War when they mobilized their Soviet-armed forces, ejected the United Nations Force from Slnal and closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping In violation of UN principle and Inteniolionai law. Now they lay claim to all the territory they, lost in that ignominious defeat and, as a reward for unsuccessful negotiation and in return for their defeat, they offer — not genuine peace — but only observance of the 1949 armistice agreements. f
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Egyptlanf'resfdlenl'saSat emerges from the cover (tory of last week's Parade Magazine smelling like the rose he holds in his hand. In George Michaelson's Interview, the Egyptian . leader reaffirms his country's readiness to end the state of war with Israel and enter into a "peace" agreement. It is part of a diplomatic propaganda offensive designed to impress the Carter adHAIFA - Clever sayings of precocious children have ministration and to put the Israelis On the always amused adults. The defensive. Sadat frankly concedes that he Is not unguarded and naive utready to enter into a genuine "peace treaty" terances of the youngsters frewith Israel, which would establish normal quently Illuminate problems "diplomatic relations, the free exchange of people, trade and ideas. Despite this refusal, Sadat Sadat's publicity apparatus is designed to which grownups surround still demands that Israel return aH the lands pressure the United States to "squeeze Israel," with complicated verbiage. captured during the 1967 Six-Day War, which as he has frequently said. But the type of peace Random remarks of the little Egypt opened and lost. Israel seeks Is still impossible, he Insists. That ones also often provide inmust wait for the next generation. Yet Sadat Is sights' into family relationships and background. There are two Arabic words for peace: one is not educating that generation to accept Israel., salaam, which means merely ending the state of war; the other Is soil), which means sincere - Sadat tells Parade that he wants a great deal Thus It Is with a volume reconciliation, a truly peaceful relationship. of help from the United States, not only to recently published here. The Arabs invariably speak of salaam - never create an obsequious Israel - but to moder"From the Mouths of Babes" ofsoui. ' nize and build his economy, to feed and sub- is a collection of stories and sidize the "Calcutta of Africa." comments ascribed to kibbutz All this is manifestly hypocritical, for Sadat children whose education and is still not doing what Egypt was ordered to do And what does he propose in exchange? orientation are quite different by the UN Security Council, 26 years ago. On A direct negotiation with Israel, which, In from those of city-raised Sept. 1,1951, the Council denied Egypt's claim conformity with Resolutions 242 and 338, would children. The following stories that it could remain In a state of belligerency call for secure and recognized borders? Not at selected from the book and with Israel and that it could bar Israel's ships all. Israel's security, he magnanimously of- freely translated from from the Suez Canal. The Council contended fers, Is to be guaranteed not by an Egyptian- Hebrew will indicate what I (bat the 1949 UN-sponsored armistice Israeli treaty, but by the United States. (Per- have in mind. agreements ended the state of belligerence and sonally, be would prefer other great powers to opened the way for final peace settlements. But Join such a force.) There is no hypocrisy in Kibthis Interpretation, lucidly explained by Dr. butz education. Facts are lacUp to now. Israel has not asked for great ed squarely. Realism is the Ralph Bunche, was rejected by the Arab states. Despite Sadat's Parade statement that Israeli power guarantees, which have proved too keynote. For example: It is "cargoes" are going through the canal, the fact ephemeral In the past. She has consistently reported that a group of Kibremains p u t Israeli ships are still blocked, and called for, peace "treaties" with her neighbors, butz fourth-graders was in the full meaning of the word. Americans visiting a nearby monastery. • the carriers blacklisted. should not be misled by Sadat's peace offers. ' The children were impressed .-, Itt.ttoe Lausanne conciliation talks between His. Arab allies won't be, for:as so often mjthe with the; monks and asked :-• i 1949 and USl, the Egyptians advanced the con- past, hestiJI uses double'talk; "Where are the nuns?" "In a
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Stories of Kibbutz Children Published separate convent", was the reply. "Then how do you multiply?" asked the farmbred youngsters. At another kibbutz the little ones were getting Into their Purim costumes. Little Shmaryahu climbed into the girl's skirt which was to be part of his masquerade, and at once hurried off to the toilet to take a quick look and see if there had been any more basic biological change in him as well. Kibbutz Standards are aptly illustrated by the tale of young Gabl who tells a member of the settlement that he likes his ' kindergarten teacher very .much.
atmosphere of the Israel collective. It is clear what the Sabbath means in the kibbutz of little Yair, age 3. He notes that on Friday evening, after the meal, the white cloths are removed from the dining room tables, and exclaims with some emotions: "Look! They have taken away the Shabbat!" Does the kibbutz child have a conception of God? Joab, 6 years old, .asks his teacher: "Does God see that we are reading the Bible now?" "Could be", Is the noncommltal answer. "Wonderful"., says Joab, oblivious of the reservation In the reply. "It must be nice for him to be reminded of all the things that happened."
"How much?" the kibbutznick inquires. "As much as candy—chocolate?" Gabl .considers for a moment and theh replies: "As much as — as our big kibbutz tractor." I
What could be more delightful than the following personal and intimate relationship reported from a kibbutz where religion has no place in the curriculum? There has been much talk Jonathan tells his friend: "Toabout lack of religious day I played with God." "How understanding In the kibbutz. could you do-that?" "Very Some of the stories in the col- simple. I tossed a pebble up Inlection reveal what religion to the sky — and He threw it means to a child raised in the backtome."
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TEL AVIV, (JTA> - Spain has notified Israel that an Israeli pavilllon will not be permitted at the agricultural exposition In Saragossa at the end of March although Israeli companies will be allowed to participate under their own names, . The Spanish action came as a surprise here since Israel was invited to participate in the fair following the success
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$3ERUSALEM, ( J T A ) " Israel, In need of new energy sources, Is searching the Negev for coal deposits and plans a giant hydro-electric project utilizing the waters of the Mediterranean. Prof, Yitzhak Yaacov, chief scientist of the Ministry of Wmmerce ajuTImlusiry, told newsmen here that traces of coaLwere found to tbe.Negey
Matzoh Sent to Egyptian Jews NEW YORK - Rabbi Alexander M. Schlndler, president of the vskm sf Assricsn Hebrew Cwgregoiions, examines part of a 2,500 pound matzoh shipment being sent in cooperation with the Egyptian government to the 400 Jews in Alexandria and Cairo hi time for Passover. Looking on is Josette Knight, a former member of the Egyptian Jewish community and a current UAHC staff member..... TW S . Siftnischewitz Company of New Jersey donated the mataoh atUJ1Habh?SehjnHier Mperted tts ccsssssiiy's ealS for assistance because their matzoh oven had broken down beyond repalr.(REIJGIOUSNEWSSERVICBPHOTO)
MONTREAL (JTA) - For the past number of years, the Canadian Jewish Congress has fcssr, supplying maizo meal, wine, oil and other Passover products to the Jews in Cuba. The program is being continued this year and shipping arrangements are; being made well In advance in an effort to made sure that the supplies reach their destination in time for the Passover holiday, the CJC announced.
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OTTAWA, (JTA>.-;Eight major Canadian firms have been identified as among a larger number of Canadian businesses that comply with the Arab boycott of Israel. The C o m m i s s i o n on in the past. Drilling will begin at Hadera, burns coal fuel and soon In the DImona region to others may be built., Yaacov Economic Coercion and see If sufficient coal exists to said that planning will be com- Discrimination, headed by make its extraction prac- pleted by the middle of the Prof. Irwin CoUer of McGill reported here that ticable, Yaacov said. He noted year for a tunnel from the University, u itotJto:govgrm)Blt is anxz- Mcditerrsnsan to «K> Dead it immd - a pattern of comioui to use coal as an alter- Sea. The latter lies over 1000 pliance and complicity with native to high priced oil, One, feet below sea level and the; the Arab boycott in both the power plant to Israel, located*'- plunging waters would be used • . public and private sectors."
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synagogue Omaha Beth El SERVICES: " Friday: 8:i5p.sn. Services will be conducted by Rabbi Kenneth Bromberg. Cantor Cham Najman and the Beth El Choir wUl conduct the musical service. Following services there will be an Oneg Sbabbat honoring Rabbi Alex KaU. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. — morning service,. 10 a.m. — ShaharitseVvlce. 5:15 p.m.— Mlncha service 5:45 p.m.—Shaleshudes 6:15 p.m.—Ma'ariv and Hadallah Sunday: Horning Service 9 a.m. Weekdays: Services at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. BARMITZVAH Daniel Rochnun son of Mrs. Marda Rochmanand Stuart Rochman will become Bar Mltzvah on Friday evening, March 4, and Saturday morning, March 5. LEARNING FAIR The second Beth El Talmud Torah Learning Fair will be held Sunday, Feb. 27 from 1012 noon. Children will be involved in baking hamantaschen and cookies, followed by making and filling shalachmanot baskets. PURIM Reading of the Megillah will be Thursday evening at 7 p.m. followed by a costume parade. It will also be read Friday a t . 6:30a.m. .
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SERVICES: Friday: 7:30 p.m.—Early Family Worship, story Sermonette The Service will be preced-, ed by the second "Grade Level" Sabbath Evening Dinner for all First Grade Students and their families. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. in the New Milder Conference Center of the Temple to welcome the Shabbat with Sabbath blessings, and with the singing of Sabbath and other melodies led by Bruce Greenberg and Josi Farter following the meal. ' The 7:30 p.m. workshop In the Temple Sanctuary will be an abbreviated Sabbath Worship Service with the congregation. Saturday: Morning services — u a.m.
SERVICES: Friday: Kabbalat Shabbat 6. p.m. Family Service 8: is p.m. The service is conducted by Rabbi Issac Nadoff and Cantor Leo Fettman with the Beth Israel Choir. The Oneg Shabbat reception, sponsored by Sisterhood, will follow services. Saturday: MornlngServices 8:45 a.m. Kiddish following services will be sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Sam Shyken In honor oi their grandson Joseph Varan Shyken. Youth services 10 a.m. Talmud Class 5: IS p.m. Mlncha 5:45 p.m. Shalosh S'eudos 6:05 p.m. Ma'ariv and Havdalah 6:25 p.m. Sunday: Morning service 9 a.m. Breakfast and Rabbl'sstudy group: 9:30 a.m. Weekday*: Morning services 7 a.m. Eveningservicct4-.450.in, Cantor's ClasMs: Saturdays: Torah Reading 11:30 a.m. Monday: . • ,-.'. •,-„;. <, „ .,, Adult. Beg; Hebrew 6:30 p.m. • Adult Adv. Hebrew 7:15"
Omaha Dr. Slier Home v SERVICES: Saturday: 9 a.m. Men of the community are Invited to the Home to makeaminyan.
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SERVICES: Services are conducted fn SERVICES: the Capehart Chapel on the Saturday: 8:45 a m . first and third Friday of each Sunday: 8a.m. ~. ••,': ..-,. ;• ' month, 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m, P u r i m thursday, March 3, 6 p.m. respectively. An Oneg Shabfollowed by Ma'ariv and Mebat follows the service. Services are conducted by .: qlllah reading. Friday, March 4 - 7 a . m . Lt. Col. Martin Victor.
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DesMolnes Beth El Jacob SERVICES: Friday: 8:15 p.m. Saturday: Morning service 9 a.m. Minchas: 4:30 p.m. Sunday: 8 a.m. Monday and Thursday: 6:45 a.m.: and Tuesday. Wednesday and Friday 7 a.m.
DesMolnes Temple B'nal Jeshurun SERVICES: . Friday: ' Shabbat Services 8 p.m.
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Early Minyan 8 a.m. Morning Servlce9:30 a.m. Jr. Congregation 10 a.m. . pjn. Mlncha 4:30p.m. Sunday: 9a.m. KNOW THY NEIGHBOR Weekdays: 7:15 a.m. SABBATH Uncoln Tonight, the annual Know Thy Neighbor Sabbath will be B'nai Jeshurun held in honor of Brotherhood ~ month.'Jewish people of the SERVICES: ' community are urged to bring Friday: 8p.m. Rabbi Kaiser will conduct their non-Jewish friends and neighbors to the traditional the service. 8:15 p.m. service led by Rabbi isascNsricH, Cantor Fettinari and the Beth Israel choir. A All You Need To Know question and answer period Is Our Phone Number will be conducted followed by, a tour of the sanctuary and a . 342-3144 social hour. Charge It A t . . . For further Information contact chairmen Lois Wine, 5563770, or Marilyn Berman, 5561620 Homey 5810. ~ '
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Panel Discussions Tell Stories OMAHA - t h e Soviet Jewery Committee will present "a discussion entitled: TELL MY STORY WHEN YOU GET HOME (A PANEL FOR SOVIET JEWERY). AU of the principal speakers particiapted In the UNO tour of the USSR in December.- Each , speaker will tell of his or her personal and Intensive involvement with Soviet Jewery both in and out of the Soviet Union. Principal speakers are the following: Harlette Kutler (Mrs. Ben); Mr. and Mrs. Julius Cohn; Susan Budwig (Mrs. Ronald); Allle Milder; Eric Sorenson; and Mel Katskee. Shirley Goldstein (Mrs. Leonard), the co-founder and co-chairman of the Soviet Jewery Committee, will share her experiences and involvement. Marlene SolomaB (Mrs. Lou) will act as moderator.
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PERSONALS Mrs. LJbbis Sar.-on wishes to thank her relatives and friends (or the cords gifts and contributions during her recent hospltallzatlon.
Hershel Freedman Si.Si ihunk* io ait nis friends for their many cards, gifts, don a t i o n s and' colls during his long stay in therfospitol. . • '
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ticket Sales Brisk for Bikel Concert 9MAHA - "This is the beginning of the calvacade of stars.!: That is what Phil Cofman answered when asked If • there would be more stars appearing at the Jewish Community Center after Theodore Bikel. The enthusiasm and excitement of having Bikel ap-' pear at the Center Stage has stimulated an unprecedented attitude. -According -to Cbfman, the Theodore Bike) Concert Committee is made up of people who have volunteered their time, assistance and talents. Without their help the upcoming performances would not have been possible. The Bikel Concert Committee Is under the direction of Florence Elsenberg, and Beanie Conn. Chairman of the Patron Ticket sales is Audrey Cohen, with the assistance of Janey Batt and Sally Rosen. Chairman of general ticket sales is Gloria Vann who Is assisted by Dory Gerber, Mollle Delman, Jeff Lowe, Deenie Meyerspn, Sheila Pollkov, and Linda K. Gordman. Publicity Is being handled by Denise Greenberg. and Linda Kenyon with the aid ol Cal K i r s h e n . B a r b a r a Kushner Is chairman of the invitation and program subcommittee. The evening reception is being arranged by Jeanette Ban with decorations byJudyBaher Florence Elsenberg told the Jewish Press that "ticket
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memorandum demanding reparations, restitution and indemnification due to the Jewish people from Germany. He appealed to the Allied Powen to include this claim In their negotiations for reparations with Germany, In view of the "mass murder, the human suffering, the annihilation of spiritual, Intellectual, and creative forces which are without parallel In the history of mankind." Due to the deadlock and later Interruption of the Allies' negotiations for reparations, no further development took place until March 12,1951, when the Israel foreign minister, Moshe Sharett, submitted a note to the ' four Allied governments which claimed global recompense to the Stateof Israel of $1,500,000,000 from the German Federal Republic (West Germany). . According to (he'authoritative Encyclopaedia Judaica, this claim was based onthe-ftaandal cost Involved in the rehabilitation in Israel of those who esc*apedbr^urvlved the Nazi regime. The financial expense Incurred by Israel In ife absorption of 500,000 Nazi victims could be covered at HflOOpemplia.
DALLAS, (JTA)-A leading m a n p o w e r e x p e r t : has predicted that American Jews should be ablq r to maintain their above average position • As a result of unofficial preliminary contacts, Chancellor Konrad on the social-economic scale Adenauer declared on Sept. 27, 1851, Germany's readiness lo compensate during the final quarter of the tend for material damage and losses and to negotiate with her and with 10th century. But he also saw representatives of Diaspora Jewry. The Utter established a Conference certain factors that could on Jewish Material Claims against Germany In New York In October, mitigate against this. 1S61, presided over by NahuraOoldmann. The forecast was made by A resolution to enter Into direct negotiations, .wllh Ihe Federal Dr. EH Ginzberg, Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics Republic of Germany was passed In the Knesset by a small majority after at Columbia University's stormy street demonstrations staged by the Hcrul opposition and a heated three-day debate. The German delegation first met with the Israel Graduate School of Business. "The only, major threat that delegation at The Hague onMarch 21,1952. The delegation ol the Claims Conference, headed by Moses Leavllt, most Jews In the United States face is a soft American was in charge of the negotiations on- Individual claims for Ineconomy that is unable to pro- demnification. Israel reduced her claim to f 1 billion against the Federal vide Jobs and earning op- Republic of Germany alone. She reserved her right to claim the balance portunities for a sizable pro- from East Germany (German Democratic Republic), which so far has portion of the population," refused any nay nwnU dsrytag her re^CnSliiUity for ihe KiZKefiffira, ihe Encyclopaedia Judaica reports. Ginzberg said. On Sept. 10, 1952, after six months of negotiations, an agreement He "also listed several psychological factors that between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany was signed at might have negative effects on Luxembourg by Moshe Sharett and Konrad Adenauer. -The agreement the prosperity of American was ratified and came into effect on March 21,1953. after a delay caused Jews. Among these, he said, by the Arab states' efforts to prevent ratification. wag the "current and prospecThe TsSsxA RsjaSBc d Genssss -afertosS: a pay. ifl ifiioad of tive oversuppjy o f coiiegetralned persons" which would DM3,450,000.00 ($850,000,000) In goods, of which DM450,000,000 "slow the progress of many (1110,000,000) was earmarked for allocation by the Claims Conference. young Jews now entering the This 1845,000,000 was to be paid in annual Installment* over a period of M labor force"; and the "rapid years (between April 1, IB), and March si. 1966), Thirty percent was to _, growth of the South and pay for Israel's crude oil purchases In the United Kingdom. With the Southwest, with their, relative- balance of 70 percent, Israel was to buy ferrous and npnferrous metal*, ^ ^ l ^ ^ d " ly spztss Jewish popoJsSfcns ' and the retardation of the rale • The agreement was carried out by the Federal Republic ol Germany of growth In the North where both in letter and In spirit. The reparations agreement was implemented most Jews are concentrated." by the government-owned Shllumlm Corporation in Tel Aviv—Shllumlm Ginzberg specifically men- refers to recompense (or material damage ("For thi Lord hath a day ol tioned the Orthodox Jewish-, vengeance, a year of-recompense for Ihe controversy of Zlon" (Isa. 34: a) community as one "whose — which accepted orders frtm prospective buyers under the agreement, practices Inhibit their occupa- and by the Israel Purchasing Mission In Cologne, to place these orders tional advance because many , with the German suppliers. Goods bought and.Imported under the iYuS secular w^legei-and are agreement represented 12-14 per cent of Israel's annual Imports and thus disinclined to Jiave^ t h e i r ; , madman .jmportpvt contribution to Israel's economy, the Judaica con: woi"' j e f o f c i ' •"• • " "'"" • '-'
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Anatole Kaplan Exhibit Begins March 6 at JCC OMAHA - ANATOLE KAPLAN LITHOGRAPHS, a new exhibit from the New York Jewish Museum will open on Sunday, March 6, at the Jewish Community Center's Omaha Gallery West, 333 South 132nd Street. The exhibit, which will be on view In the Center Lobby, Includes 20 lithographs by the Soviet Jewish artist whose colorful works illustrate the delightful Sholom Aleichem tales, The Bewitched Tailor and Teyve, the Dairyman. Kaplan who was born in Byelorussia In 1902. grew up in the same region as Sholom Aleichem and Marc Chagall. With the apparent approval of the Soviet State he practices his art which deals basically with Russian Jewish .folklore. As an artist his greatest achievement may be his enrichment of the old traditions and stories with the techniques of 20th century graphic art. But for his fellow Jews in the Soviet Union, Kaplan is more than an artist. He is a recorder of history who provides a visual link to the practices and patterns of the lives of their forefathers. ANATOLE KAPLAN LITHOGRAPHS, is part of a series of traveling exhibits created by the Jewish Museum with assistance from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Foundation for Jewish Culture. The exhibit represents the Museum's interest in sharing its vast resources with the national Jewish community. Says Hedy Gershman, Art Committee Chairman, "We are very proud of the fact that we are able to present quality exhibits of this kind to our Omaha community. The ANATOLE KAPLAN display demonstrates a goal of the Center's Art Committee: to present traveling exhibits of national interest, as well as to promote local artists and their work." OMAHA GALLERY WEST is open concurrent with the Jewish Community Center's building hours. Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday 1 p.m.-7p.m. Sunday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.
Deaths ABRAHAM FISHER Graveside services were held for long time Omaha resident, Abraham Fisher, age 93, on Monday, Feb. 14. Rabbis Myer Kiipke and Kenneth Bromberg and Cantor Chalm Najman officiated. Survivors: daughters, Mrs. Fred (Ethel) Kerns, Miami Beach, Mrs. Sam (Sylvia) Rosen; sons, Henry, Morton, Charles, all of Omaha; eight grandchildren, four great grandchildren. MINNIE B. FREY • Graveside services were held at P l e a s a n t Hill Cemetery on Friday, Feb. 18 for Minnie Frey. Rabbi Barry Weinsteln officiated. Survivors: sister, Pauline Frey; cousin, Isidore Falk. Reuben Smeerin Former Omahan, Reuben Smeerin, passed away Feb. 14 in Ventura, California Funeral services were held In California for the 91 year old who started Norman Shoes in Omaha. Survivors: wife, Ida; daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Bank, Ventura, Ca., Mrs. Hammond Chaiietz oi Vvinnetka; ill.; son, Norman, Omaha; six grandchildren.
From the series, TEVYE THE DAIRYMAN, ISSi illustration of a story by Sholom Aleicham. One of a collection of the Jewish Museum In New York, it will be on display at the Center, beginning March 6.
'The First Days of Israel, by Moshe Pearlman. Tel-Aviv. World Pub. Co., 1973. 225 pp. This work recreates the story of Moses through a fine Written text and brilliant photographs. Faith and Fratricide, by Rosemary Ruether. New York. Seabury Pr., BERNARD SCH1MMEL World renown chef and hotel' 1974.294 pp. An exploration ot the theological roots of antt-wmHtsm The Bluebird of Happiness, by Alan Levy. N. Y. Harper & Row. 1975.325 owner, Bernard Schlmmel pp. TheMsjasirTsf-'=.-, Pccrcs. passed away Feb. 16. Services The Rift In Israel, by Leslie S. Clement. New York. Schocken Books, were held Friday, Feb. 18 at 1971.185 pp. An inquiry Into the relationship between religious authority Temple Israel. ... and secular democracy In the State of Israel today. Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from HemSurvlvlors: wife, Beatrice; daughters, Judith Well, ingway to Mailer. Boston. Little, Brown & Co., 1973.334 pp. A critical exWellesley, Mass., Constance amination of American fiction and its makers since 1940. Garden Ashes, by Oanllo Kls. New YorkTHarcourt Brace. Jovanovich, Shapiro, Piedmont, Calif., l»7S.170pp.StoryofayoungboylnYugoslavlatlurlnkWotldWar.il. ;,<••. Mary Bernstein, Omaha; Tbe Trial of Judaism in Contemporary Jewish Writing, by Josephine seven grandchildren; sister, Kaapjj. Urbaoa, 21. Uslvsrsity si Klinsis F t e s v i t e i o t w ' . The"«£•'•«. Miriam Robinson, Moniclalr, amlnation of the trial of Judaism as a force In modern Jewish fiction by NJ,; brother,-Walter Schlitt- relating the works of l.B. Singer, Nelly Sachs and Andre Schwartt-Bart; njel, vyjchU«.Kaoa.,, .EUeWlesel, Bernard Malamud and Saul Bellow. "
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Campus Notes Six "students are among those selected to partake in the "executive intern" program at Westslde High School. They were chosen according to grades, recommendations, and career choices. They are: Hike Wasserman, son ot Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Wasser-
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NFTY Plans Beth Israel | Youth Activities ] Plans Annual Purim Carnival will be a fee of 11.25 per person HATH TEAM WINNER - Temple Israel Purim Carnival Todd Finkle, a junior atCen- to cover the cost of food. All willOMAHA hold its annual Purim
OMAHA — The annual Purim Carnival at Beth Israel Synagogue will be held this year on Sunday, Feb. 27, from noon til 4 p.m. The carnival will have many booths that can be played by all ages. The children in the Kadlmah SYO and the Tovim Jr. SYO chapters will man the booths for the children of the Tina Render, daughter of Religious School. Mrs. Ruth Render was named There will be an admittance the winner at Weststde High fee of 25 cents and all games School in the "Family tickets will be 10 cents apiece. Leaders of Tomorrow" con- As in the past, there will also test sponsored by the General be a cafe serving hamburgers, Mills Foundation. Winners hot dogs, potato chips, trench were selected on the basis of a fries, pop, and dessert. There written knowledge scd at- will also be the traditional titude examination ad- hamenlaschen. m i n i s t e r e d to s e n i o r s Please come and join us in throughout the country. the festivities at our carnival.
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Jewish college age students are welcome to attend. For reservations please call Warren at 449-3325 or Dede at 3336188. DEANS'LIST Susie Albert, a freshman at Arizona State University has bees waned to tfce Bean' List and has been selected for membership In Alpha Lamda Delta, the freshmen scholastic honorary organization. Susie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Albert.
OMAHA - The Louisville Kentucky Jewish Community Center hosted the Jewish Welfare Board Tennage Basketball Tournament during the week-end of Feb. 11-14. Teams represented were Omaha, Sioux City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and St. Louis. The host team, Louisville, played well and beat Omaha in the semi-finals 72 to 54. Omaha was led by junior forward Kevin Scudder with 12 points and Mark Saferstein with 10 tallies. On Sunday, Omaha met Sioux City for the 3rd place trophy and won 57 to 52. Bruce Marko led the scoring attack with 16 points. An added attraction durlnq the weekends festlvltes Included a free throw shooting contest in which Indianapolis took first place and Omaha came in second. The Athletic Directors, officials and coaches voted Omaha as the team
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Carnival on March 6. It will be sponsored by the Omaha Temple Youth troup from 12 Noon until 4 p.m. Tne Carnival will take place in the newly refurnished Social Hall and the Milder Center.
There will be food, games, cake walks, and Purim costume contests. We will have a child's "make-up" specialist with us who will make-up the children as displaying the best sport- famous Jewish heroes and smanship on and off the heroines using washable and basketball court during the en-, non-toxic make-up. tire weekend. Omaha was' presented the team SportThe Carnival will also smanship Trophy. The f e a t u r e a l i v e c l o w n Louisville JCC will represent throughout the afternoon to the Midwest Region at the Na- entertain the youngsters. tional ' Tournament at the Kids of all ages are Houston JCC in April wejeome.
NEW YORK-Construction of a '•greenhouse village" for North American* seeking to begin an agricultural life in Israel was scheduled to get underway. 'According to Simcha Slgan, group aliyah program director for the Israel Allyah Center, a modest test advertising campaign conducted recently has^, produced a "larger than expected" number of inquiries. "More than 100 people responded to our announcement about the i OMAHA — As In previous project," Slgan said. "The years, the Kadimaha SYO of majority now live in large Beth Israel Synagogue Is mak- metropolitan areas in the ing available Shalach Manot United States. Many indicate baskets for Purim. The they are looking for a new way baskets which are fUled with of life. They don't want the fruit, homemade cakes and cities any more. They want a other goodies, are traditional- small community with strong A lovely facility to serve our ly exchanged on Purim day inter-relationships; a place downtown customers. Entrance (this year on March 4). for the children." from Douglas Street. If you .would like to have a The new settlement, called Shalach Manot basket sent to Moshav Talmel Yosef, will be 8:30 a m . to S p.m. a neighbor, friend or relative, modeled on Sde Nitzan, which (MomteitiFndjy) contact the Beth Israel office was settled by Immigrants 341-4400 (556-6288). They are being sold from the United States and at the cost of J3.S0 per basket. new Zealand three yean ago. Kadlmah SYO members Basing themselves entirely on will deliver the baskets on greenhouse growing of Thursday, March 3 and Friday, t o m a t o e s , S d e N i t z a n March 4. fanners—virtually all of them
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. Old Timers* Review By David Lazarus : Omof tite more exciting Ideas for enrtchmeflt of our Old Timers meetings was suggested by member Dr. Leon Fellman, and it was quickly seized upon by Prexy Sam Zwetback. No time was lost with the implementation of (hit new practice, and it caught on with all the fifty or more who attended this first inspirational "side-show" session. Monitored by JCC's affable Herman Rubin, the first Open Forum got off to an excellent start. Anything within the range of human experience may be brought under the microscopic examination of our Piipul debates. Und kennit mir gleyben, every idea expounded, quickly elicits challenging responses. Anytime you get two Jews together, you can depend upon developing at least three opinions, so you can Imagine what happened with fifty alert and articulate Old Timers who were offered a chance to express themselves. A lebedlcke tawgl The Open Forum comes as a welcome •hot in the arm, a revitalizing tide of keen Interest, which permits individual participation by any member who wishes to do so. Leon is to be commended for his useful suggestion, and Sam for his perception of the splendid response it would invoke. Sam Rice brought his son, Norman; John Abraham invited Rabbi Myer Kripke, and Sidney Katleman invited himself. Sidney promptly signed up for full membership, joining with Carl Lagman, Richard Gunmers, Morrle Abrahamson and Ben Wlsnla. Brother Abe Gendler, a quite recent Yored, made'the . Motzi, and Cantor Edgar, likewise just returned from Israel, led us in the benshlnft. We welcome them both from their recent sojourn B'Artzenu. The birthday celebrants were Sam Rice, Bernle Fisher, Joe Llpton, "Veep" Earl Siegel, Sam Shyken, Sol Lagman, Mel Plolkln, Iz Sokoloff and Abe Gendler. Yom HuledetTovl The delicious meal of choice smoked fish was served by our Beautiful Ballebawstehs Bea Pappenhelmer, Dorothy Lazarus. \m Lehman, Elsa Kahn, Gussle Zweiback, Leah Siegel, Pearl Llpton, Ann Fisher and Toby Kagan. Mother Malke hovered over all with constant concern and effectiveness. In an unusual departure from our more routine policy of having an after-lunch speaker, our entertainment was some delightful singers, the Westbrook Junior High School Swing Choir. This group of teen-agers sang their sprightly music with their fresh, unspoiled voices. Both singers and audience enjoyed themselves mightily. The Choir is under the abte direction of David A. Moore. What a difference their performance was from the kinds of music, and the styles of presentation, we used to sing in High School Glee Clubs, but times have changed—Oyyl HOW they have changed! Fregg shaya nit I But, we go from strength to strength, so they tell us. Shalom uvracha Itelchom, ulklal Yisraell
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There were glittering lights on the table; beautiful decorations and streamers) a wonderful Rock Cornish dinner when the members of the Older Adult Club celebrated their 25th Anniversary on Feb. 21 — but most important of all there were over 200 happy faces at this most Joyous occasion. The program opened with the invocation and blessings by Rev. Alex Katz. Ann Margolin, chairman of the event, was Introduced by president Minnie Cutler. Jewish Federation President, Leonard Goldstein, extended greetings from the Federation which, along with the National Council of Jewish Women, sponsor the programs of the Older Adult Group. Lou Solomon, Executive Director of the Federation, also extended best wishes to the group, as well as compliments to the National Council of Jewish Women. Phil Cofman, Executive Director of the JCC and Herman Rubin, Assistant Director, also expressed their greetings and best wishes (or the health and long life of the Older Adult Club and its' members. Eva Schwartz, on behalf of the Dr. Philip Sher Home and Ben Laub, brought a message of inspiration. Jan Schnelderman, president c f Council spoke of the origin of the Golden Age Club in Omaha. Co-sponsored by Council and the Federation, the organization which started with 10 members In February of 1952, tub grown to include 300 members. "Council Is pro-
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Mottle Delman shows dock presented by Jan Schneiderman (left) of National Council of Jewish women, while Mln Cutler looks on. ud to have been instrumental In starting the Golden Age Club In our city4* and will continue to fulfill our commitment to you that we made 25 yean ago." Jan presented to Motile for the Senior Citizens, a lovely, large clock to be hung hi the older adult lounge at the J. Mary Fellman, chairman of the Coordinating Committee on the Aged, as well as board member of the Federation, gave many words of encouragement and urged each attendee to bring a guest (who ii currently not participating in any of the Older Adult programs) to the next luncheon and meeting at the Center or at the Beth El Walk-In, DropIn meetings. Fanny Manvltz, on behalf of the Older Adult Club, presented the* Jewish Community Center With a lovely silver tea set, which was a
EruvFormed in New York NEW YORK, (JTA) - access to or use of the area by Bronx Borough President non Jews, It will be of tremenRobert Abrams has proclaim- dous religious significance to ed the formation of an "eruv" 'Orthodox Jews who observe in the Rlverdale section ot the holy laws. By forming the New York. An "eruv" Is a 'eruv,' we wJH enable Orcommon communiity area thodox Jews to carry prayer within which Orthodox Jews shawls and prayer books to are exempted from the and fronUheir synagogues for religious law which prohibits religious services. They will the carrying of any items on also be able to wheel baby carpublic streets on the Sabbath riages throughout the community on SaturdaVs and and on Jewish holy days. The formation of the "eruv" other holy days, something was made possible after mon- which is of great Importence ths of meetings between to many young familes in the religious leaders In the River- Rlverdale area." dale community and represenWithout an "eruv," Abrams tatives Of CCTi EulSOfi and Uie said, "observant families N.Y. Telephone Company. The bounderles of the were often kept restricted to "eruv" are defined by existing their homes on holy days. I am fences and by utility poles sure all Riverdale residents with special slats attached to will join me in extending or form a symbolic fence sur- best wishes to these families and in hoping they will enjoy rounding the community. Abrams stated: "While this action will In no way restrict eruv
'Dial-A-Bus' Keeps Tampa Jewish Elder!? SVScbsSs Tampa, Fla. — Jewish Sixteen months ago, a grant residents in the Tampa, from the Jewish Community .Florida area no longer have to Council of Tampa enabled the {be homebound or isolated Council of Jewish Women to ffrom community life (hanks to purchase the bus to transport 'the imagination and generosi- elderly citizens to and from ty of the local Council of appointments with doctors, Jewish Woraeaand the Jewish .religious services, social ac'Community Council In tivities and shopping, Initially establishing the "Chal Dlal-A- serving some SO people monthly. .
very fitting gift for this "Silver Jubilee" or 25th Anniversary. Gloria Wagner, accepted the gift for the Center. Mollie also gave a short talk, welcoming all members and guests in attendance. In addition to the Council members already mentioned, there were the following who represented this organization: Sue Meyers and Dottle Rosenblum, past presidents; Ann Kalman; Donna Epstein; Jennie Bear; Rachel Blelcher and Pearl Llpton. We had a surprise visitor, U.S. Congressman John Cavanaugh, who spoke to the group about his recent trip to India and how he felt honored to be In the company of Lillian
Carter and Chip Carter, He also stated that he believed me had a good administration in Washington and one that will get things done. Morrle Epstein, program: chairman tor the Older Adult Club, introduced the highlight of the afternoon — Davy Bold, who entertained us with .his wit and humor. Vocalist w a s , P a m Smith who s a n g "Hatikvah" and "Hava Negilah." Davey favored us with "Yldisha Mama" and other favorite songs. We are very very grateful for having •these wonderful entertainers at our 25th Anniversary Celebration. David Lazarus gave the after dinner blessings. David also took photographs of our celebration. The celebration was televised by KETV and appeared on Channel 7 News Monday evenIng at 5:30. Reminder: Attend the Yiddish Theater Saturday, Feb. 26, and the Jewish Family Night, Sunday Feb. 27. There will be a board meeting next Monday, Feb. 28. Also the regular meeting. Bus as usual from the Crossroads at 11 a.m. A Purlm party is being planned for Monday, March 7. More news will appear in next week's Newsletter. A ceramics class will be held on Mondays from 1:30 to 2:30 starting next Monday. Registration will take place at the first meeting.
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Gerda Klein Profoundly Touches Women and teens During Visit ByBsrbsrsSSsss OMAHA - In her soft, hushed voice, Gerda Klein told the group of Omaha women seated In the beautiful living room how she marched for three months, more than 3000 miles, on the " death march" to another concentration camp; so called because of the 4000 young girls who started out, only 120 were left at the end. She was 18. She lived, but her dearest friend Use, died in her arms. She spoke so softly that any rustle in the room, sounded lrritatingly loud. She mesmerized her listeners. We all cried. The few men who were lucky enough to come to one of the evening or afternoon philanthropies coffees cried too. We cried not SO much because she told of horrible incidents or details of the Nazi yean. Not at all. We cried because she touched the universal pain hi all ol us about separation of children and parents, lonely children, the agony of loss, mixed with the joy and blessing of being free to leave the camps at last (but not to go home—home was gone); the Joy of falling in love, coming to America, having children, having happy endings. She stood by the fireplace, a
living testtmsB? to esduraoce, our own yearning for heroism, survival, the tenacity of life. She told about her boots, which her father insisted she wear on a hot July day when the Nazis forced them to leave their bouse.,, The boots saved her life on that frozen march, she recounted. Small twists like that played in and out of her teenage yean among the Nazis. . We contrasted her with our own- t e e n a g e s e l v e s — carefree, busy with proms and dates, summer camps and movies, making excruciating decisions like which college to attend. She compared her own teenage son in Buffalo, also wrestling with the mighty problem of college choice, with the present-day Israeli teenager who might not live through his military service in the Golan. The irony was painful. Our encounter with Gerda was an encounter with our own primal hurts and sense of loss. Our indenUflcation with her was out of a deep, unknown sadness, a weeping for a l l t h e unrealized possibilities within ourselves and those we love. She survived. We survived. Suppose we hadn't? Sup-
beioved family. I thank you saine way again. And; 4s you pose, as she softly pointed out, like it was happening to me." our grandfathers or fathers "I know now that I'm not for giving me the opportunity suggested, our "boring" evenhadn't decided to take that getting the whole story In to listen to your sensitive story ings at home can now be seen boat out of Russia, or school, that kids who aren't three times, and helping me to as exquisite islands of perfect Lithuania or Poland — hadn't Jewish have no idea what that understand my Jewish family life and peace, only to made it to America. Then we period of history was like. It's heritage. Your friend, Melanie be treasured now that we have felt the pain with you ol the Sturm." might have been on that only words on a page." march. Then we might have We'll never return home real possibility of losing them. Melanie said, "I got a feelsons at the Golan. Then we ing for the first time about my again, Gerda, in quite the With love from all of us. might be standing in a own "roots." I wanted to listen beautiful living room telling to what she said; she was my our story of survival, if we age when she was taken away were among the lucky few. and never saw her family And she made us feel a bit of again. I can feel that healthy shame. We have so sadness." much. We hardly notice what She continued. "I know the we have, and we even dare to other kids who heard her felt complain when it's a little chil- the same way. It made us feel ly, or tne price of meat goes how Important the day-to-day up, or the car breaks down. little things are - how much Her feet were frozen, even we have. I can't wait to have a with the boots — they pain her conversation with my grandtoday. And six million Jews mother to find out more about never made it at ail. my own past." Gerda's quiet talk threw inWhen asked how hearing to high relief the details o/ our Gerda affected their lives, own lives. She changed us; she Mike answered. "I feel so Mike Milder and Melanie Sturm changed our perceptions of much more aware of our what is important. She altered religion — ef what our people our c o n s c i o u s n e s s of went through. I want to find ourselves; she tumbled us into out the real story, and I want serious thoughts about life and to be one of those who works to ONEGSHABBAT home of Barb Hein, 2305 South death. Heavy stuff—but very make sure the Nazi horror real—and very cleansing. doesn't happen again. I feel so . The monthly Hadassali IMthStreet. Members are requested to ' Oneg Shabbat at the Dr. Sher And it was there that Gerda much more strongly toward Home will be held on Satur- RS.V.P. by Monday, Feb. 28 mypeople." Klein became a sister of us all day. Feb. 26 at 2 p.m. A to Susie Stiver (333-7076) or — a blood-bonded relative, a When Gerda was leaving for musical program will be Janle Ruback (493-6366). person we had to hear tell our the airport, she turned to me ol Dessert will cost $1. aunost-story. That's why we to praise the young people she presented by the New Image Quartet. Mn. Joe Sokolof Is cried. Never before, I think, m 'Vchairman, Mrs. Charles CAREER WOMEN had we felt so closely the nearFellman, co-hostess. The' r e g u l a r monthly miss ties between us and the meeting of the Career rest of the Jews In the world. It Women's group of the Omaha OUT could have been me, each one Former United States at- Chapter of Hadassah will be of us whispered. tache to the Soviet Union, Col. held at the home of Llllle Gerda spoke to Omaha William P. Schneider (U.S. Becker, 1310 No. 49th Ave. on young people, too. .She adArmy, retired) and his wife Sunday, Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. •.in dressed; Jewish] teen£.:BI •#>«.. v Guest speaker will be '',1, Will show a slide presentation Omaha High School of Jewish and give "A guided tour" of Robert Lovett, head of the Studies. They crieij; too. A c Moscow at the Women's Jewish Family service. His cording to Melanie Sturm, American ORT meeting, to be topic will be "Basic Comdaughter of Mickey and Don ,""""...., held on Wednesday evening, munication". Sturm, and Mike Milder, son : i* March 2, at 7:30 p.m. The A business meeting will •13 of Ducky and Mike Milder, This orphan child, being raismeeting will be held at the follow a coff.ee hour. Gerda touched them as no ed In one of Israel's developother teacher or historian has. ment towns, can be thought of "There she was," said Mike, .•ill "right there in front of us. I as one of our own children, was amazed she was wllllngto ~ tald <ferda-Klein In Omaha tell about her feelings. She lastweek. made me feel like I was there, met in Omaha. "It's them,"
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FirstWomariis Selected For Jewish Hall of Fame SAN FRANCISCO - Mel Wacks, Numismatic Consultant to the Magnes Museum, "The Jewish Museum of the West," has announced the selection of the first woman to the Jewish-American Hall of Fame — Henrietta Szold. As Sig Uie past eight years, a limited edition art medal is being issued to honor Miss Szold. Sculptress Gerta Wiener, who previously modeled the Justice Louis Brandels and Rabbi Gersham Seixas Hall of Fame medals, has worked on the Szold medal for a full year and has created a moving work of art. This is a double commemorative, honoring both the woman and the organiation which she founded - Hadassah — which Is celebrating Its 65th 'anniversary this year. The distinctively shaped Szold medal is 2" In diameter and weighs over 2,5 troy ounces. As with the preceding medals In the JewishAmerican Hall of Fame series, the serial numbered ) edition will be strictly limited , to' 500 pure .999-1- silver and 1000 antiqued bronie medals, priced at $47.50 and $12.50 respectively. The Henrietta Szold medals are available for immediate delivery. Checks, } made payable to the educational non-profit Judah Magnes Museum, should be m a i l e d to, the Magnes Museum, 2911 Russell Street, Berkeley, California 94705. Henrietta Szold was bom in Baltimore, Maryland in I860, a little more than a year after her parents arrived from Hungary. Her father, a prominent Rabbi, gave Henrietta the attention and education usually reserved for an eldest son. She learned German, English, French, and Hebrew. . Her mother saw to It that £t Henrietta and her four sisters J U s s r a s d savtsg. cooking, gardenUigand botany.
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OMAHA - Julee May Tillman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack TlUman of Wahoo, Nebraska, and Richard Alan Katzman, son of Mr, and Mrs. Julius Katzman were married Feb. 13 at Beth Israel Synagogue. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff and Canto Led Fettmaaoffidated. Honor attendents were Sherry Barnes and Charles Robinson. After a wedding trip to Acapylco, Mexico, the couple .will reside hi Omaha.
been excelled. Henrietta went on to teach and supervise the first night school for immigrants In Baltimore, which became the model for the Americanization of all immigrants. She was Secretary of the Editorial Board of the Jewish Publication Society from 1897 through 1916, where she took on the lion's share of -producing the first American Jewish Year Book and the Monumental Jewish Encyclopedia. In 1909, Henrietta Szold first vitttted Palestine. During her tour of the Holy Land, she was as impressed by the beauty and the desirability of the land as she was by the misery and disease among the people. Following her trip, Szold wasted to help. And so, on: February 24, 1912 in Rabbi Judah Magnes' study at New York's Temple Emanuel, Hadassah was born. The mot- Mr. and Mrs. Richard Katzman to selected for the organization was taken from Jeremla 8:22, "THE HEALING OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE." The motto, in Jeff and Ronda Cooper anHebrew, Is inscribed on the reverse of the Jewish- nounce the birth of a son, American Hall of Fame Joshua Adam on Feb. 15. - Grandparents are Mr. and Henrietta Szold medal. Mrs. Selwln Suvalsky of Council Bluffs and Mr. and Mrs. In 1933, just when she was Nate Cooper. Great grandplanning to return to the parents are Mrs. Frank United States, Szold embark- Cohen, Mrs. Esther Cooper, ed on a most important new Mr. and Mrs. Mumle Richards project . . . even though she and Mrs. and Mrs. Saul was already 73 years old! Suvalsky. Despite obstacles in dealing with the British Mandate Mr. and Mrs. Randy government in Palestine, by Endelroan announce the birth 1948 30,000 children had been of a daughter^ Jalmle Beth on brought from toubled Europe Feb. 15. *' .-.• by Youth Aliyah. On here Grandparents are Mr. and eighty-first birthday, this vibrant woman was entrusted Mrs. Robert -Endelman and with the planning of the Fund Mr. end Mrs. Leonard (Chris) of Child and Youth Care. Krasne. Great grandparents Henrietta Szold's great love are Mrs. Edith Segall, Mrs. for children is dramatically Hose Friedman, and Mrs. portrayed on the reverse of Toba Krasne.
U» medal; The inscribed quote, "MAKE MINE EYES LOOK TOWARDS T H E Miss Szold graduated from . FUTURE," was the theme of I high school in 1877; her Hadassah's Sixtieth Anniveracademic record has-never sary in 1972.
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Couple Wed Februarys OMAHA — The marriage of Pam Greenberg and Dick Rochman took place on Sunday, Feb. 6 at Beth El Synagogue. Mrs. Rochman Is the daughter of Mr. and-Mrs. Harold Perelman. Rochman is the son of (he late Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rochman. GRANT AWARDED Brandels University's Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department (NEJS) - the first comprehensive Judaic studies department in any American university — has been awarded a $250,000 grant by the National Endowment tor the Humanities. HELENA.BERNSTEIM 397-V11I
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Lincoln Lights By Estelle Rosenberg The monthly meeting of the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood will be held Tuesday March 1, 12:30 p.m. in the social hall. The program for the afternoon will feature a book review "Women in the Kibbutz" by Shane Kotok. The book is a controversial study of how three generations of women responded to freedom from their traditional roles. A date of officers will be presented for the coming term. ' ' Luncheon chairmen for the coming «vent are Mmse. Max Kushner and Lou Sommerhauser. The committee assisting Is as follows: Mse. Hyman Brlcker, Charles Farber, Julius Goldberg, Harry Goldberg, Joe : Goodman, Nate Grossman, Bess Katleman, James Fisher, Ell Modensteln, Jack Nlsker, Lou Orloff, Leo Rosenberg, Sam Rosenblatt, Sam Rubinow, Eugene Schaffer, Martin Schwartzman, Louis Schwartnnan, Henry Wald, Walter Weill and W.Wolff.
Lodge 377 held their meeting Tuesday Feb. 22 at the Ramada Inn. The evening was spent with a "Story-Telling Contest" and films and tapes of last years "Roast." Max Nelden, president, presided at the meeting. The Hadassah Casino.Party will be held Saturday,,March 5,8 p.m. at the Tifereth Israel Sunagogue. Tickets are $4 per person and entitles you to $2500play money, raffle drawIngs, and food and drinks. . Chairmen are Betty Mellen and Joyce Brown. Anyone wishing tickets mailed to them, please send checks to K i t t y N o w l c o f t , 5821 Fleldcrest, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68512. Tables close at U.30 p.m. with auction to follow. Bring your friends and plan to attend this gala event. •• On March 4, Tifereth Israel' congregation will - hold an Oneg Shabbat following services honoring two Israeli high school students who are visiting Lincon. They are Sarith Bachar and Yaniv Davidson.
The Purim services with the reading of the Meglllah will be held at 6:45, Thursday evenIng, March 3. An Oneg Sftab- , On Friday. Feb. 25, Bonim bat will follow the services. ITSY will conduct services at Tifereth Israel synagogue The Lincoln.B'nal B'rith -followed by anOngShabbat.
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Eliat Changes: Huts to Hotels
EILAT, ISRAEL: - Israel's port on the Red Sea, Eilat, n u grown from two mud nuts in 1956, to a thriving city o( 13,000 persons today. The huts, shown above in the foreground have been carefully preserved by the city as a basis for a municipal park. Thausacds o! pain trees hsve been planted in Eilat since 1966 and at holiday times the resident population is Joined by an additional 15,000 tourists. Ellat's hotel rooms, beaches and many private apartments are filled to overflowing. The bustling port, the copper mines that date back to the time of Solomon and the tourist industry are the three pillars ct this thriving desert city. ' _
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LONDON, (JTA) — The migrants to Palestine. They JERUSALEM, (JTA) British government has will not be made public for The Knesset passed the conreleased hitherto secret another 20 years. documents related to the The papers made public troversial abortion bill on its Palestine situation 30 years record the effects of the third reading. The infuriated Orthodox ago, including Cabinet papers dynamiting of the King David of the Labor Government Hotel In Jerusalem in 1946 religious establishment headed by Prime Minister Cle- which took the lives of 91 per- branded it "murder" and vowsons — British, Arabs and ed to overturn it. Feminists in ment Attlee. They show that the-Attlee Jews. The blast, attributed to the Knesset said, however, government made strenuous the underground Irgun, aimed that the new law did not go far efforts to avoid antagonizing at the British Mandatory enough because It still does the Arab states in face of government offices then not give women the right to abortion on demand. strong Jewish pressure for im- located In a wing of the hotel. The measure legalizes abormigration and independence It precipitated two frantic in Palestine. At the same Cabinet meetings in London tion in the early stages oftime, Attlee himself sought to where proposals made includ- pregnancy if approved by a retain the good will- and ed Jevying a half million committee of three which cooperation of moderate Pctund Sterling fine on the en- must consist of two doctors — Zionist leaders. tire Jewish community In one a gynecologist — and a . A number of documents not Palestine, a complete ban on social worker. Abortions will r e l e a s e d (among them Jewish immigration and be obtainable if the committee records of Cabinet deiiber- 'disarming all Jews. However, <tel*nnlnes that birth would tlons) have been withheld on Attlee counseled against ex-, Injure the physical or emogrounds that they are still to treme action and won the tional health* of the mother, sensitive for publication. Cabinet's support for his view -that the child would be born These are said to include that it Would have totally with physical or. mental hanCabinet discussions of a pro- alienated the moderate Zionist dicaps, and if Use mother Is posal to arrest ships at sea leadership, the released under 16 or over 40. carrying illegal Jewish im- documents show.
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Humphrey Give Money to C h a r j ^ NEW YORK, NY, - "Si $10,000 "Hubert H. Humphry? First Amendment Priz*)f' awarded to the Senator lip} week by the Anti-Defamatlfn%. League of B'nai B'rith w i l l ( £ / donated by him to Mil c h a r i t i e s , the Nation] Association for the Advai ment of Colored People ADL.Senator Humphrey was first recipient of the new A award established to those who have streni the four freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment lo Uvf U.S. Constitution. In.his acceptance speech, at a dinner (Feb. 3) during ADL's national, executive committee^ meeting at The Breakers Hotel, Palm Beach, FL.,] Senator Humphrey said he 1 donating $5,000 of the prize Minnesota agencies fo retarded and educationally deprived children, 52^00 the N AACP and £2,500 to ADL.
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A Yeshiva University official hat) reported that a space! satellite link will be put into operation in the spring by which j rabbinic response — replies to questions on Jewish rellglou»law1 and social customs—stored in a computer at Bar Han Unlversi- ] ty in Israel will be beamed to a university facility at its main' center in Manhattan . . .Rudolf Banna!, a prominant Soviet, conductor and founder of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra baa
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'. HAIFA - "The Breastplate of the High Priest-Aaron (HaCho&hen)" has been erected in the .courtyard of the Ohel Aharon Synagogue at the Technlon. • Israel Institute of Technology. The work, a massive rectangle of flat Hebron stone inlaid wlthbronze, Is by Israeli sculptor ZvlAldouby. ' Protruding from the two parallel surfaces of the rough-hewn stone are twelve rectangles of bronze arranged in four vertical rows of three, representing'the stones on the breastplate of Aaron. Each rectangle fixed into the stone appears to be the continuation of the opposing one on the other side. -"The breastplate which the high priest wore over his heart was adorned with twelve precious stones, each one different, symbolizing the twelve tribes of Israel. In ancient times the breastplate was a part of the religious ritual, symbolizing the uniiicniiwn of the iribea o! Isrnei into one people, in our own times, the breastplate of the high priest might serve as a symbol and a hope for the unification of the Jews living In Israel and for the unity of the Jewish people everywhere," feels the artisan.
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I ' — Senior J Clllien Brunch and Matinee al I JCC I 7 p.m. — Play • "Enter • laughing" a l JCC • 10 o.m. — Belh El Patsaver I Inslltul* I -A:30 p.m. — Pioneer Women I Charily Dinner at JCC j 7:30 p.m. — Film ot JCC
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9:30 a.m. - Beth El Siller, hood Study Group 13:30 p.m. — Beth Urael I not Toroh Study Croup 7:30 p.m. — Federation Board Meeting at JCC 8 p.m. — Pioneer Women Hegular Meeting
I 11 o . m . - O U T Brunch noon — Senior Clllian j 2 JO p.m. — Theodore Bik*i luncheon ol JCC I cancan. 7 p.m. — Adull Education • I S p.m. — Theodore ilVsl otJCC • concert at JCC. 7 p.m. — Weigh Monag*. 1 Club 94 "Out ol Building menl and Reduction Seminor ot JCC I M e n ' * Racquelball " A " M e n ' * Racquelball "A' tournament at JCC iTmrrnomentalJCC -•
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February 2 5 . 1977
Havdalah Premieres March 19 Creative Havdalah Service Inspires League Members DES MOINES - USY presented a program entitled, "Where the "Buck Stops USY and You", and a creative Havdalab service at the Feb. 14 meeting of Tifereth Israel's Women's League. The purpose of the program was to Illustrate the activities and purposes of the Conser**• vative youth movement: Rhoda Kreamer, one of the . USY advisers, described the youth group as the bloodline of the synagogue and pointed out that Women's League had the ability to facilitate the transfusion. She said USY needed WL's "concern and support" and Women's League, in turn, needed USY's "enthusiasm and vitality." USY Past President Frank Lipsman viewed the group's three programming areas: religious and cultural, social, and fund-raising. Referring to the conclaves and summer camp as "fringe benefits" he
stressed that USY's real meaning was defined at individual chapter level during the chapter's day to day activities. USY President Marty Schwartz spoke about the conclaves, Klnnus, and conventions, and Vice President Sue Tabor described a typical day at Leadership Training Institute (LTD, held every summer at Camp Esther K. Newman in Omaha. Finally, Steve Pldgeon outlined plans for the Passover candy sale. The creative Havdalah service followed. Stationed in places surrounding the tables where the WL members were seated, the participants held candles which lit up their faces in the darkened room. The service proved an inspiring reminder that the youth of today are concerned, sympathetic and alert; and cer-' tainly worth listening to.
Hadassah Plans Blue box Lunch DES MOINES - The Des M o i n e s C h a p t e r of Hadassah Is to hold its annual Blue" Box luncheon Tuesday, March 1, 12:30 p.m., in the David Miller wing at the Iowa Jewish Home, 1620 Pleasant. Admission will be a Blue Box containing a minimum of $3 or a contribution of $3 which includes luncheon. The program will feature the poignant film, "If I Forget Thee," which depicts the heroic story of the* 1948 massacre of Hadassah doctors and nurses on Mt$Scopus, The group will also hear selected poems written by Mrs. Philip Shapiro and read by Mrs. Marvin Dlenstfry. In view of the Hadassah garage rummage sales to be started again in the spring, members attending the luncheon are asked to bring ONE article of rummage,'such as an article of usable clothing, a kitchen utensil, a knick-knack, and so forth.
Left to right: USY leaden Marty Schwartz, Sue Tabor, Rboda Kreamer and Frank LJpsman
Blue Box chairpersons are Mrs. Sam Winick, Mrs, Don Mover and Miss Sara Chapman. For reservations please call Mrs. Marvin Davidson, 255-9279.
Des Moines Hosts Israeli Students DES MOINES - The Des Moines Jewish community, under the auspices of the Comand the government of Israel, , will be host to two Israeli high school students from Feb. 27 to March 6. The participants are chosen on the basis of academic achievement, leadership ac-
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tivities and a desire to learn more about their peer groups in the United States. They are not coming to Des Moines merely to observe passively a -different lifestyle, for they are equipped to participate actively in the school's schedule. They will be giving lectures and smaller topical discussions in political science, social studies and history classes. They will be bringing movies'and slides — oil of a Don-political character, which wttl provide an added dimension to their oral presentation. Their activities will be geared to establishing a Moijto onrf ^Waring a hatter understanding between two socieities whose basic tenents are democratic action and social justice for all citizens. Meeting with their counter-' , parts, (high schco! youth) can do mssch toward establishing ideals and ideas for the young people who will be the active citizenry in the important years ahead.
Israel. She how attends Aryeh Tager Municipal High School (11th grade). A member of the Conservative youth movement since she was eight, she was In the USA last year With the participating of the representing the Israeli move- Des Moines public schools, the ment at the USY-on-Wneels. students will be the guests of -Her Jmbbies are handball, Roosevelt, Hoover, North and stamp collecting, reading ana" Dowllng high schools and wfll correspondence with pen pals. spend one day in the Ft. Dodge
public high school and the parochial school. They will be at the Bureau of Jewish Education Monday evening, Feb. 28, to speak to their fellow Jewish students. Nir Luri-Sher will be staying with Mr. and Mrs. Barry Pidgeon and Orlt Elion will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Levitt.
These are the opening lines from the theme song of the new folk-oratorio "HAVDALAH A SABBATH PAGEANT OF FAREWELL" which is scheduled for its worlH premiere performance on Saturday afternoon, March DAVID KARP Funeral services for David 19, Des Moines Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Karp, 81, were1 held Feb. 13. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Born In Poland, he lived in Des Moines for 64 years. He Engman, co-chairmen of the operated Karp Auto Paris special cbttunUlee in charge from 1928 to 1958. Upon retire- of the arrangements, pointed ment from business, he out that "Havdalah" was com: established the Karp Invest- missioned by. Tifereth Israel ment Co. of which he was on the occasion of its 75th Anniversary. The premiere of president. Mr. Karp attended Iowa the new oratorio will mark the State College and was a culmination of the anniverveteran of World War L He sary festivities which began was a member of Tifereth last year. Israel Synagogue, Ancient The director and coorCraft Masonic Lodge, Des dinator and author of the Moines Consistory, Za Ga Zlg multi-media project is Cantor Shrine, B'nal Brith, Jewish PInches Spiro.The music is by War V e t e r a n s , Zionist the gifted young composer. Organization of America <!lfe Dr. Morton Gold, who also member), and the Home composed the music for the Builders Association of Des oratorio "Haggadah - A Moines. Search for Freedom" which Survivors:,wife, Gertrude; has been performed for the daughter, Sylvia Gaynor of past two years in Des Moines Columbus, Ohio; sons,. Dr. and Omaha with .outstanding Basil Karp-of Claries Summit, success. Pa., and Harold H. Karp of The music of "Havdalah," Omaha; brother, Irvin J. while entirely original, was Karp of Des Moines; six written In the lilting folk-style grandchildren. of the Shabbat Zerolrot and is The family suggest that any greatly Influenced by the memorial .contributions be Joyous Hassidic chants. The made to the Karp Educational composer dedicated hut work Fund' at Tifereth Israel "In honor of the Sabbath, to Synagogue, 924, Polk Blvd., Hassidlm everywhere, and Des Moines 50312, or the chari- also to those who are Hassidlm at heart." The ty of the donor's choice. music is scored for Cantor, Soprano and Alto soloists, Narrators, Adult Mixed Choir, Children's Chorus, Organ, Flute, Piccolo, Trumpet, Timpani, Snare-Drum, Cymbals, Triangle, Tambourine, and Glockenspiel. The premiere performance
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David Karp RESEARCH PROFESSOR The honorary title of Research Professor was conferred o)i Professor Nathan Rosen, Department of Physics of the Technlon — Israel Institute of Technology.
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PLUS COFFEE AND DESSERT Reservations: Thursday March 3,12:45 p.m. ' 255-2458 TonlUrban's, 214 Foster Dr. 243-1880 Nir Luri-Sber, seventeen, was born in Jerusalem. He now. attends Yahud High School in Savon, Israel, where bis family moved when be was four years old. He is head of the student council and a Junior lecturer for the Zionist Organization. An expert swimmer, Nir holds several national records. ~~
at Tifereth Israel will include a newly-formed Dance Ensemble, under the direction of Choreographer Jill Arenson, that will interpret visually many of the episodes of the oratorio. There will be special staging and lighting directed byAlLipsey. In describing the contents of the new oratorio, Cantor Spiro said: "I have always marveled at the special faseiiiatiofl that the Havdalab ceremony holds for so many people, especially youngsters. When all the lights are turned off and only the crackling, dancing flame of the braided Havdalah candle Illuminates the proceedings, one senses an air of sublime mystery. It Is Uv dssd an hour of wondrous glow. In trying to recapture* the mood of the Havdalah ser-. vice, I attempted to convey the feeling that it represents on the one hand a reluctant farewell to the blessed Sabbath Day that has just ended, and at the same time a hopeful welcome to a new and nappy week of creativity about to -' begin." The premiere performance of "Havdalah" will be held in the main sanctuary of Tifereth Israel Synagogue. It will be open to the entire community ; freebfcharge. ' *
Author of Havdalah text, Cantor Pinchas Spiro.
In The News NEW YORK - With the retirement of Mr. Max Dienstfrey; Dlenstfrey, Inc. of Mount Vernon, New York, has announced that Marvin Dienstfrey, of Des Moines, Iowa has become president of the sixty-nine year old firm. The company Imports and produces the machinery which is used In the manufacturing of all types of brushes. Mr. and Mrs. Max Dianstfrey reside now In Laguna Hills, California. Within the next few months Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dienstfrey will make their home In Westchester County, New York. IOWA CITY-Linda Land, .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvln Land of Des Moines, has made the girls Vanity basketball squad at the University Of Ipwa.
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