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wl" *" -1 T ;cd this Pesach by Bob Lovett, executive director of Jewish Family Service, and Mollle Delman, Older Adult coordinator. They may be contacted at 3K-8S00. A program of the Omaha Jewish Federation, Project Elijah helps match those families desiring guests for the holiday with fellow Jews who want to be with hosts for the Seders. According to Lovett, there are two special requests from elderly women this year: One, an 80-year-old resident of a downtown hotel, recently released from a hospital, and' another In deflate 70s, handicapped with a walker due to arthritis, are both requesting homes for the week of Passover.
Keys to the City Omaha Mayor Paul Cunningham presents the key to the city to vising Israeli students Uri Hertberg and Nltla Traubice. The students are part of a group of Israeli youth touring the United States on a goodwill mission. (JP Photo) .
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ByTamarLevy GENEVA (JTA) - The Presidium and Steering Committee of the Brussels World Conference on Soviet Jewry opened its semiannual meeting here with expressions of "grave concern" over the intensified Soviet campaign against Jewish emigration activists and dissidents which, it was claimed, exceeds In virulence anything experienced by Soviet Jews since the end of the Stalin era. ___-_ Delegates attending the meeting cited anti-Semitic articles in the Soviet press and anti-Semitic television programs and films _ currently being shown In the Soviet Union. Yosel Almogi, chairman of the World Zionist Organization and Jewish Agency Executives, who Is also Presidium chairman, said one of the most alarming developments In the USSR was 'the allegation that Jewish scientists Alexander Lerner, Vladimir Slepak and Anatoly Sharansky who have been cam: palgntng openly for years to obtain exit visas, belonged to a spy ring In the service of the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).. • Mrs. Shirley Goldstein said she was advised this week that her'friend, Anatoly Sharansky, has been arrested by the Soviets. Mrs. Goldstein met with Sharansky In September, 1975, and also In December, 1976, during two of her four trips to the Soviet Union. A story about one Of the visits appeared In the Jan. 21 issue of the Jewish Press. Mrs. Goldstein said Sharansky make a series of tape recordings concerning the plight of the Refusniks, exnininingwhat could be done to help them. These tapes, Mrs. Goldstein added, are now In Washington and will be used during the hearings on the Helsinki agreement. . Mrs. Sharansky, who Is now living In Israel, also'Is scgtauled to appear and testily ^ { J t e r i M Goldstein Btdted
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All Jews Threatened By Massive Petrodollars By Morris Mallne LINCOLN— Petrodollars are the greatest present threat to Jewish survival, and united action must be taken to counteract this • menace, an Israeli journalist said here last week. ; "Jews are no longer spectators applauding and weeping over Israel, but-are now In the ~ frontllnes facing menaces of monstrous proportions," said Israel Amitai. • Petrodollars, anti-Semitism, and the moral bankruptcy of world powers such as the United Nations have changed the structure of the world In the past couple of yean, Amitai said. " A guest of the Lincoln Jewish Welfare Federation, Amitai addressed members of : Congregation Tifereth Israel and also the annual meeting of the Federation.' Amitai said at the synagogue that petrodollars are being used to buy control of
media properties such as newspapers, radio and' television stations, as \vell as major hotels, office buildings business organizations and manufacturing companies. "Petrodollars now are dictating foreign policy in many parts of the world... Now, Jews are being dismissed from top corporate jobs because of an Arab bos? thousands of miles away,!'Amitai said. ' Petrodollars are forcing nations like France to their knees, and have made a mockery of the General Assembly of The United Nations. - •. "You can buy votes in the General Assembly . . . 15,000 for an ambassador if he can vote on his own, or maybe a million dollars If he needs the consent of his country's leadership" Amitai pointed out that there was a case of a delegate voting on a Zionism Issue without ,(Continued on Page 2)
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D.K. Sirnes ToLecture OMAHA - The second guest speaker of the 1977 Lecture Forum Series will be Dr. Dlmltri K. Simes, director of Soviet policy studies at the Georgetown UniversityCenter for Strategic and Interjtatlonal Studies, according to Mrs. Al Crounse, co-chairman of the Jewish Cultural Arts Council's Lecture Forum Series Sub-Committee. The lecture discussion Is scheduled for Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Theatre of the Jewish CuiiinVunity Csntsr. The topic is "Developing A Public Diplomacy". Dr. Slmes, is a consultant to the U.S. Arms Control1 and Disarmament Agency. He atteffded Moscow State Uijiver- (Continued on Page.2)
A communique released to the press claimed that '"The upsurge of official anti-Semitism and the attacks oh the scientists are intended to subdue and crush the Jewish revival In the Soviet Union which expresses Itself in the return to Jewish religion, language and. culture as well as a longing for the homeland, Israel." The communique said that harassment was the lot-of Jews who apply for exit visas ofseek to study Hebrew. It said the recent ban on the Importation of matzoh for Passover and the arrest of Ioslf Begun of Moscow, a mathematician, on charges of "parasitism" were "a cause of grave concern not only for his fate but for the fate of hundreds of others who, like Dr. Begun, have been refused an exit permit to Israel and In consequence of their application, were dismissed from thelrwork."
Matzah For Russia; Demonstration Planned OMAHA — A demonstration for the right of Russian Jews to eat matzah will take place Sunday at 7 p.m. outside Beth Israel Synagogue, Mrs. Shirley G o l d s t e i n , cochairman of the Committee for Soviet Jewry, has announced. "In placing a ban on the importation of matzah, the Soviet Union is in clear violation of the Helsinki agreement and this demonstration will be part of an all-oul effort to. cor-
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Floyd Kuklln (left) leader of Lincoln's Jewish Welfare Federation's annual fund drive for 1977, and Mrs. Max Nelden, head of the Women's Division, chat with Israel Amitai at the Federation's annual meeting. (JP Photo) ' • . ....,.,,,
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rect this situation," Mrs. Goldstein said. The demonstration, according to Mrs. Goldstein, will consist of orderly marching with committee members and volunteers carrying placards. In addition. Gary Kinslinger, coordinator for demonstrations, is scheduled to project color slides so that images fall on (he wall of the synagogue. "It is important for as many Nebraska"" as possible to be there, Mrs. Goldstein said, adding that Nebraska Is a grain producing state and that this Soviet ban doesn't help our economy. Mrs. Goldstein stated that the demonstration will be followed by a mass mailing of rDflslcards to President Carter and others asktngfor top ievei intervention with the Soviet