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SERVING DES MOINES, Vol.LVINo.38
LONDON (JTA) - F o r the .Britain undertook to support first time, a British Prime the Jewish claim to a national •Minister has agreed to ad- home in Palestine. dress the Board of Deputies of It Is also believed to be the British Jews. first time that a serving James Callaghan will ap- British Prime Minister has pear at a special session of the agreed to appear on a public .COUNCIL. BLUFFSi LINCOLN, OMAHA Board on Oct. 23 to mark the (Continued on Page 2) 60th anniversary of the Omaha, Neb., Frl., August 12,1977 Balfour Declaration in" which • —
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Begin Urges Syrid, Jordon to Reverse Opposition to Plgn Rgised by Sadat President Anwar Sadat, at his 'conference. change their minds. meeting In Alexandria with He added that, if the proBegin, speaking during a Secretary of State,Cyrus visit to Rarnat Hagolan said posal could not be followed, Vance, for a working group of there was still time for Syrian Israel would agree to bilateral Mideast foreign ministers to President Hafez Assad and .talks, Israel talking with meet preceding the Geneva Jordon's King Hussein to Vance and the Arabs talking with Vance at separate meetings. Begin offered a proposal for such proximity talks during his July visit to Washington. Begin called the Golan Heights the security belt for Israel's populated areas and said the Heights were now In good, strong, devoted hands. Earlier the Premier and his entourage visited the good fence at the Lebanese border. He also examined the nearby Lebanese terrain as the deployment of the Lebanese Christians and Palestinian terrorists wa* explained to him. Begin said it was "inconceivable" that Israel would desert the Christian minority In south Lebanon. He said the Israelis, a minority In the region, would do their "utm o s t " to p r e v e n t the "genocide" of the Christians in south Lebanon. He denied rumors of U.S. pressure on Israel to close down the good fence, as alleged by Major Saad Hadad, commander of the Christian Lebanese In the south. Begin reiterated Israel's determination to help the WASHINGTON - After months of secret discussions, President Hafez al-Assad of Syria has south Lebanese Christians to notified U.S. officials of his approval of an unusual plan that allows Syrian Jewish women to defend themselves, adding that "I told that" to President emigrate to the U.S. after proxy marriages to American Jews they have not met. He gave Immediate approval to 12 proxy marriages, on July 19, of Syrian Jewish women in Damascus to Carter. He said that the Christian world should also know of Syrian Jewish Men In Brooklyn, N.Y.. : the "danger ol exterminaf Meanwhile, Joseph Ackman, left, of Baltimore, traveled to Damascus, Syria to marry Shaila tion" he said loomed over the Kabaritl, a Syrian Jewess, right. In the center Is Sellm Total/, leader of the local Jewish communiChristians In south Lebanon. ty In Damascus. (Religious News Service Photo)- • " •
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By Morris MaUne The 1978 'Omaha Jewish Philanthropies Campaign is' off and running. Federation. President Leonard Goldstein has appointed a team of leaders to spearhead a vigorous campaign. "We are on our way with an early start this year. We have a top-flight group of dedicated volunteers with a difficult job to do but we are proceeding with confidence and optimism," Goldstein said. The two teams of cochairmen are as follows: Joe Kirshenbaum and Harlan Noddle for the Men's division, and Leslie (Cookie) Hoberrnan and Lois (Ducky) Milder for the Women's Division. "While it's a little early to set goals, we must recognize that a minimum increase of 10 per cent Is needed to compensate for inflation," Goldstein said. He added that Omaha has not kept up with inflation the past few years and now must (Continued on Page 2)
Anniversary of Death By Shirley Goldstein Chairman, Omaba Committee for Soviet Jewry " Twenty-five years ago — on August 12, ,1952 — 24 leading Jewish writers, actors and intellectuals were executed by the Soviet Government. This was the ultimate expression of Stalin's quest to eradicate Jewish culture, Judaism and Jewish consciousness in the USSR. To this day, the Soviet Union has failed to lift the death sentence the regime has imposed on Jewish culture. ' In the winter of 1948-49 it is estimated that over 431 Jewish artists, writers and musicians were arrested, most of whom died in labor camps. But the fate of.the most prestigious Jewish intellectuals^ was reserved for the'summer of 1952. The "Jewish Trial" began on July 11, 1952 and lasted until the 18th. Among the 25 accused were the leading poets and writers — David Bergelson; Itslk Feffer; Peretz Markish; Benyamon Zuskin, and several academics and physicians. The accused were charged with being l) "Rebels" . . . 2) agents of "American imperialism;" 3) enemies of the USSR." The "court" on July 18, 1952, pronounced its verdict — the death penalty. Only one of the 25 was sentenced to a long prison term. On August 12, 1952 the executions were carried out in the cellars of the Lubianka Prison in Moscow. Recently, more ominous echoes of the Stalin state period were reawakened by allegations in Izvestia that some Jewish activists for emigration to Israel committed espionage and were linked to the American CIA, One of them, Anatoly Sharansky, has been held in prison since March 4 without rights to an attorney. Tosif Begun, in a Catch-22 situation, has been sentenced to two years in exile in Magadan near the Arctic Circle for "parasitism" after not being allowed to work when he applied to emigrate. Begun, 46, has been seeking to leave for Israel for the past five years. The evaluation of the Helsinki Accord currently going forth in Belgrade has not yet given us a scorechart of matching words and deeds. But one thing is certain: the promises that were made two years ago in Helsinki have not been kept. The 24 murdered writers, poets and intellectuals of 1952 are still remembered . \ . if we forget them . . . and those that are now being persecuted, It can happen again.