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A series of special oneweek 30th anniversary United Jewish Appeal Missions to Israel Is available to members of the Omaha Jewish Community, Louis B. Solomon, executive director; Jewish Federation of Omaha, has announced: The "Israel Today" Missions will take place Jan. 8, Jan. 15, Jan. 22, Jan. 29, Feb. S, and Feb. 12. Cost is $797 per person from New York City. Additional information may be obtained from Mr. Solomon.
The entire Omaha Jewish community Is invited to attend the first Joint Annual Meeting of the Jewish Federation arid all Its constituent departments, (Jewish Community Center, Dr. Philip Sher Home, Jewish Education, Jewish Family Service, Esther K. Newman Camp, Library, Jewish Press and Community Relations) on Sunday, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center, according to Al Crounse, chairman of the
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Joint Annual Meeting. At the meeting, the community will elect and install new officers' and board members from all departments and hear a state of the Federation report from Federation President Leonard Goldstein. The Federation slate of officers to be voted on includes: Isadore Tretlak, president; Paul Cohen, Joe Kirshenbaum, Morton Richards, vicepresidents; . Jane Brooks,
secretary; Dean Frankel, treasurer. The names placed in nomination for a three-year term for the Federation Board are: Jerry Gltnlck, Manny Goldberg, Dan Gordman, Mickey Kaplan, Maurice Katzman, Joseph Klrshenbaum, Murray Newman, Beatrice Sommer, Mickey Sturm, Sam Zwelback; for a t w o - y e a r t e r m , Mort Trachtenbarg; for a one-year term, Miml Waldbaum — these latter to fill the unex-
plred terms of two elected board members who resigned. During the meeting, the following people will receive awards for service to the community: outgoing Federation officers, Leonard Goldstein, Paul Cohen, David Friedland, Joe Kirshenbaum, Frank Goldberg, Miml Waldbaum; outgoing Executive Committee members, Jane Brooks, Mary Fellman, Iz. Tretiak; outgoing board members, (Continued on Page 2) .
Aid Available for Students' Israel four Applications are now available for the 1978 Omaha Youth Pilgrimage to Israel. The applications may be obtained from David Lastman, education director at Beth Israel Synagogue, Rabbi Barry Weinstein at Temple Israel, Stanley Mitchell, Beth El Synagogue educational director or Caryl Greenberg, tour chairperson, at 393-7240. There Is financial assistance available through the individual synagogues and the Jewish Federation for. those people who meet the qualifications. Any student who has completed Jiis or her'freshman, sophomore, or junior year in high school by the summer of 1978, is eligible to participate ui the tour. .
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The Jewish Press plans to contact former area residents now living in Israel to Older Adult Director Mollie Oelman releases a shower of highlight their experiences in balloons during the group's annual holiday party at the JCC last the upcoming Passover issue. week. (JP Photo by Maline) _ , If you know of someone you would like to recommend, please call 334-8200 ext. 46.
Federation Welcome Dinner Scheduled for Jan. 15 at JCC By Barbara Simon A warm welcome for new arrivals to the Omaha Jewish community has been a high priority in the minds of the Omaha Jewish Federation board, according to Ruth Erman, Newcomers Committee chairperson, but in the past year several programs to help new arrivals enjoy their first months have been started. The Federation through the .Newcomers Committee is holding a Super Bowl dinner party for Jewish adults who have arrived in Omaha In 1977, on Sunday, Jan. 15, at S p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. Invitations have been sent to all newcomers the Federation knew about, said Mrs. Erman, but all new arrivals are invited as guests of the Federation. "Call Gloria Bossik, 333-2626, to let us know you would like to attend," sfco said. < The Federation had its first dinner last January for nearly 100 people, as well as a family swimming party In July.
Nora Zoob, left, and Connie Slutiky, Newcomers Committee members, select host couples who will escort Jewish couples and singles to the Newcomers Dinner, Jan. 15. .These events will be continued every year, she added. The Newcomers Committee, tries to call each person or family as soon as it hears of new arrivals she said, and offer any assistance it can, from names of physicians to the
location of grocery stores sellIng kosher foods. ThC-Ultlmate goal of the first welcome call, according to Louis B. Solomon, Federation executive director, Is to have a committee'person visit each (Continued on Page 3)
SERVING Vol. LVII No. 16
COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Fit, January 6,1978
Midwest Teenagers Meet Here For Reform Judaism Convention By Stu Chapman . More, than ISO teenagers from throughout the Midwest had an opportunity last week to discuss Jewish Life Cycle" events through the use of a new text in the tradition of Reform Judaism. The teenagers, representing the Missouri Valley Federation of Temple Youth (MoVFTY) from Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Nebraska and Iowa attended the fiveday convention at Temple 'Israel.; The main purpose of the convention was to discuss the various stages of the Jewish Life cycle as it related • to Reform Jewish tradition. Seminars were led by Rabbi Barry Weinstein on the topics of birth, Bar and Bat Mitzvah, marriage and life future aftermarriage. Rabbi Sidney Brooks and the convention staff discussed these subjects using a new text put together by the Central, Conference of American Rabbis. ' David Bernstein,' a San Francisco Temple Youth organizer addressed the convention describing an "extraordinary" experiment in Zionism and Reform Judaism that has led to the establishment of the first Reform Kibbutz in Israel. The Kibbutz, Kibbutz Yahel, was officially dedicated in November, 1970, by a group of . American and Israeli students attending the Leo Beck School, which 1B affiliated with the Reform-oriented Union of American Hebrew Congregations (UAHC). . .. Mr. Bernstein noted that there are ..several "core groups'' across the United States, known as Garin, that plan to make aliyah to Israel In 1978, to help settle the Kibbutz. Bernstein stated that he plans to be a part of a Garin
that will make aliyah to the new Kibbutz in September 1978, . '.'••>•• ijjlher; events occuring. dur-.
ing the five-day convention Ineluded a fundraiser which raised $210 for Temple Youth, and MOVFTY Charities.
~rv Bjoh Falter (far left) looks on as his parents, Mr, and Mrs. AJon Farber are "remarried" ln.a ceremony held last week at Temple Israel. (JP photo by Robert Maline)
A Remarriage Mr. and Mrs. Ajon Farber were "remar; ried" last week. The marriage ceremony performed at Temple Israel by Rabbi Sidney Brooks, was part of a Temple Youth convention program that dealt with Marriage and the Jewish Life Cycle. •'&'• Those in attendance not only witnessed the wedding ceremony, but saw a re-enactment of ~ the couple's pre-rharital conference held 23 years ago as well. : Rabbi Brooks, in describing the marriage, ceremony, called it a "reaffirmatlon" of the love and life which Mr. and Mrs. Farber already have. The ceremony itself was a real wedding with musical accompaniment provided by Michael Gilbert and David Meyer. Bjon Farber, the couple's son, served as best man. Josi Farber, their daughter, served,,, as bridesmaid.