State Department View Clouds Begin's Visit 3COUNCIL
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By Joseph Polakof WASfflNGTON (JTA) The Carter Administration, officially and publicly said that it Will welcome Israeli Premier Manachem Begin to Washington and is looking forward to hearing his views on a Middle East settlement.' —
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Frank N, Goldberg, .13031 president. Don Slotsky, of Marlnda, was elected. presi- Sioux City, will serve as sedent of the Southwest' cond vice president and Max Regional Council of B'nai . Nelden, of Lincoln, will be B'rith at the Council's recent third vice president. John B. Anderson, 1607 meeting held at the JCC Goldberg, a partner in the South 136th Street, employee Alexander Grant Accounting. relations administrator. NorFirm, succeeds Ell M. Zalkln, thern Natural Gas Company, was elected sergeant-at-arms. also of Omaha. Hans Nauen, Sioux Falls, Fred Bryner, of Sioux Falls," S. D., was elected first vice will begin his 26th year as treasurer of the Region. Paul G. Cohen, 1855 South 130th street, was nominated to a second term on the Board of Governors of District 6 of B'nai B'rith and was elected at the District Convention in Detroit. The Southwest Regional Council has constituent lodges in Nebraska, South Dakota and Western Iowa. District 6, headquartered in Chicago, represents members in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois; Iowa; Nebraska, North and South Dakota' and four Candadlan Provinces. B'nai B'rith, with International headquarters in Washington, D.C., represents over 500,000 m e m b e r s Frank Goldberg worldwide.
The State Department also said that National Security Affairs Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski telephoned Israeli Ambassador Simeha Dinitz to this effect June 27. Dinitz left June 28 for Jerusalem for a week of consultations in Jerusalem in preparation for Begin's scheduled talks with President Carter here July 1920. The Brzezinski call of reassurance came after reports filtered privately and,
Senator John Culver Lectures on Sunday The fifth guest speaker at the 1976-77 Lecture Forum Series will be United States Senator, John C. Culver. The announcement was made by Leni Crounse, Chalr- man of the Forum Series Committee. The Lecture-Discussion is scheduled for Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. The topic of Senator Culver's lecture is "A Birdseye View of Defense Six Months into the Carter Administration." Senator Culver was born and raised In Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree with honors In American Govern• mertMrom Harvard University. " ;--'g'V-?-r>^-irp"-viT;:;.'^',?tp After a year of graduate scholarship study at Cambridge University in England, Culver served • in the Armed Services for three years. Upon Johanna Bromberg shows some of the new books that now are completion of his military duavailable at the Federation library In the Jewish Community ty, he attended Harvard Law Center. Material for summer reading is available for all age School where he received his groups. (JPptwto) ...:,;.'.....-• law degree.
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A New Feature: "Off the Cuff" The Jewish Press takes pleasure in announcing a new column that will concern Itself with answering questions about problems in dally living.
Called, "Off the Cuff", the new column will be authored by Bob Lovett, director of Jewish Family Service, a department of the Jewish
Church Council Accuses Jews for Jesus Group NEW YORK, (JTA) - The Long Island councii.of Churches, target of a suit by Jews for Jesus over a Council letter accusing (he Jesus group of
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Up and Away Some fancy diving from the high board contributed to the success of the family picnic at the Jswlsh Community Center earlier this week. f•
unofficially to reporters that' the Administration would have no point in meeting with Begin if he did not retreat from his position of maintaining that Judea and Samaria,' commonly known as the West Bank, are parts of Israel. However, Begin has repeatedly said that UN Security Council Resolution 242 Is negotiable In all its parts, although he would not say categorically that Israel* (Continued on Page 5)
An Informal get together for Jewish singles out of high school will take place July 13 at 7 p.m. In the JCC, Herman Rubin, assistant executive director of the JCC, has announced. " All young' adults Interested In organizing a group to meet the needs and interests of Jewish singles in Omaha are Invited to attend, Rubin said. Refreshments will be served.
"subterfuge and dishonesty," is net the first Christian organization to repudiate the efforts of such groups "for their campaigns to proselytize and thereby seek to under.mine Judaism and the Jewish people," a rabbinical expert reported, Hlneni Ministries, the national J e w s for Jesus organization, filed, the suit in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to stop (he Long I s l a n d C o u n c i l from disseminating what the group called negative information.. The suit asks for an injunction against distribution nf the Council letter in which Jews -for Jesus is accused.of "engaging in subterfuge and dishonesty'' and wiUi "mixing religious symbols in ways which distort:their essential meaning."
Federation of Omaha. In his column, Lovett will answer questions sent In by our readers. Letters should be addressed to "Off the Cuff", C/O The Jewish Press, 333 South 132nd Street, Omaha NE 68154. Lovett's column starts next week.
Sen. John Culver Senator Culver was' first elected to the United Stages House- of "RepresentliUves '-& slonal District in 1964. After serving 10 years there, he was elected to the United States Senate In 1974. In the senate he Is a member' of the Armed Services Committee, and chairs its General Legislation Subcommittee; of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and chairs its Resource. Protection Subcommittee; of the Judiciary Committee, and chairs its Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency; and of the Select Committee on Small Business, and chairs Its Sub-' committee on the Future of Small Business. The Lecture is free and open to the community and an informal reception will follow. -
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