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Joe Kirshenbaum Helps To Improve Jewish Life BjraiuCiMpmu A dnllrated voluntcrr I ThoM wordf CDuid accuI batrty dMchbr Jar Kir lUtaalMUfn A> vinM-haIr ^Kl of thr [)T l-hUtpShpr VHlliir Board of TniftM*. Mr Kinhrnbaum. 4*. haa dfviXfd over 10 s*%ry> In rommiilw work lor UxJewish Kcilprallnn I ktartH out b\ tx-rom ing invnivrd (hn)UK^ Ihc YouiiR lyradrrthip t'ro dram " Mr Klrahpntwum uld "Around 10 yran a)(i) IbfiT werf no youngfr HMinbah on ihr Fr<t»r •Uon Board Ttwy in<d lo recniil paoplr but Uirrp wa* no mponac " Since then there ha* been tome fwponie Over Ihr laM 10 yean (he Federation Board hat bacome procmilvely younfier. prtmaiily due to the InvolvamaM of concerned volufi>a«ri Mr KinhenbMim explained thai Invoivtmanl vtUi UJA gave Mm a good expoaure to Fedaraltaa acllvltm You becln lo lee the Federation worfclngi thai way," he aaid Many pM|)tc do not taidenland way the Federation op and 11 la said that be or Uili. the Feder atlon hai become a largFl IlicMin Thia altlludr. lo Mr KlribcndMurMng "Moat people «1w plead Igno-
older population, a Krral deal of awareness hait tm-n directed towards the .Sher Home, however, this awareneu has not express cd Itself complelel) Mr K(rKh-">..."- i,„v...,i,.^ih,. Ia< I have not . : lime or aervices towards the , lunctlonlnit of the Sher Home "We need more ac live people people are loo busy with Iheir every day lives and It's hard tn get them into the rommu nltyrnle."hesaid Wt ii. the dll< .-der Joe Klnhfubaum ranee lo the role of the Fed eralion have never Ijeen in mUcri in Federation ic noted ing on hlk in volventeni with the Dr Sher home, Mr Klrritenbaum mentioned (fllf Hr" find became interealed leverai yean ago afler nolldac the changet tormer aher Home dirertor David Samfaol and current director Ben Uub had Insll tuled "I wanted to be a part of II The Sher Home Committee ID the one com millee where you can make the declKKNu and lee the reaullt " With the demagraptua o( the Omaha Jewlah Community ihininii lowarda an
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Oiip awt Mr Kir>l». ,.., .-,,.>,. that the solution can IMfound t>y having people tie come involved He »u|! dented that those interested should attend Board meet IngB and listen to the pniblema betog dtaciMiad that confranl Ihe ooromunlty and see the time that lay people devcKe to tolving thoae problems By InvestinK larKi' amounts of time and effort into working on Federation projects and committee wort, Joe Kirshenbaum hopes that nv>re people fol low hl.itrxiiniiilc .irvl partlc ipateinht xthe quality of I ix-tter for the entire (.-ommunity
Nahum Shamir to Attend Lincoln-Israel Dinner Israel He was respoiiMhle lor Ihe Displaced PerMins lampA In Italy and for tlM> tryisporta (Continued on I '/((te 21
CX}LN - Bill Davidson. Chairman for the Uncoln-lsI raei Dinner <* Slate honmlng (Norman Krivoaha on Sept «. that the special .0(Uie«venlnKwlllhelh4' Oonaul Ganeral of Israel In Uw Mtdweat. Nahum Sha
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Shamir emigralad •• a iMDager rrom Poiaitd to lirMlbiltH Asoneof Ihe active leaders a( Ihe "Tioflm" (Bey Scouts) organlzatlOM In Ttt Avtv. In int he waa sent to Yupaiavia to organixe a Tioflm pwp with (he goal of unltJavpliii youth and ultlanlgrailoa to Ma ratoni (ron YugoaMr. Bimlr toinad a
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aHi, be (01^1 m defenae o< hu kJbbuix, and alao parttrlpalMl In all the major batUw tar control of the Galllaa durMg laraei's War o( Indeiwndence Uto In IMI Mr. Shamir waa MiM by tta HagaM^ to Italy tvhira ha waa la dMrgi o( the maia aUyak (ran Byrope to
Due to Jewish holidays which occur durinii the month ol ()clot)er the JpifiMh C'onimunlly Onler and the offices of the Jewlah Federation will be cloaed on the followmn date* Oct 2 and 3, (let It; Oct IIand 17, Oct 23 andM Becauae o( these holl days Ihe J««Wi PraM will obiarva UM (allowing earty deadltaMa lor news and advartlatng copy: Sapt a (or Get I laaue. Oct II (or Oct » laaue: Oct II tor Oct 27 laaue Your cooperation ID obwtUbeigprariaiad
SHruiine GItnIck and Marvin IVilikiiv have heen named the I97H AiiirxTh of the Justia Greenberg Young Lcadrrahlp Award, II was aMiauncad at Ihe Federation ih>ard meeting laat week Preaentatlon of the awards will lake place al Ihe com bined annual meeting ol the Federation scheduled lor Jan 7 Mrs Ollnick. at 12132 Far num Street, is the wile of Uls trict Court Judge Jerry Gil nick She ih a VII f
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l''nite<: May inbinnalion and referral nupiber and a work er at Ihe Children's Hospital Bazaar Mr Polikov. ol 126lli.Shirle> ,Slreel is executive vie*' presi deni of Aar(Hi F'erer & Sjns Co a Hcrap metal firm He Is a memt>er of the Board of Trustees ol Henry Monsky l-odge. B nai B rilh and a ,).'isl president ol that \Miav a member ol Ihe Board ol I)ir<'<' tors ol Ihe JCC. chairman ol Itie Health Club cammitter a direj'lor ol Ihe (ireenherg Foundaliim i;orhairman ol Ihe Vnung Men's Division of Ihe Federation Comhined Campaign, a memt>er o(
Temple Israel, and a member of the Shfine His wife, Sheila, Is a pro gram coordinator at the Jew ish Community Center, and editor ol thi- Center Scene pages m Uw Jewish Press
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J('( sHoaril" ,ir)il » memtx-r ol lltt- i\\ s Alhlel IC. ("fe .S<hooi. Camp and Voulh •ommillee^ a.s well a!> chairman of Ihe Children's commitlee Sht- lujfi wrvwl to enroll worker* lor Ihe Federation ( anipaign during the paM live vears She IS a member of Ihe Beth f;i .Schi"' "• •"' ' Tasurer ol Belh y inenit>er of Cri-i.'.. ..,.. jie Center Hyard. the l*aren» Teachers as.social Ion Children s school'. Human Helalions Task Force co editor ol a newspaper covenng activities al nine schools, a meml>er of the Commission developing
Costs Rise JKKI ,SA1.KM ,rr.\ The cost of living mdex ntsi- by a re<'ord V4 percent since the Likud government look power, the latest consumer price Index shows Contrary tn the traditional decrease ol prices during tlie month ol, July, this July pushed the index upwards by another 2 4 percent.
Labor Camp Prisoner To Speaic Wednesday Dr Mikhail Komblit, who served seven years at hard labor in a Russian labor camp, will speak Sept 13 at 8pm in tbeJC( His Omaha appearance is under the auspices of the Union of CouiK'lls for Soviet Jews, coordinated by Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry and the Omaha Soviet Jewry Com mitlee Dr Komblit wa|t bom In the Ukrainian village of NImerov on Oct 4, 1934 He graduated from dental college in IMS Drawn lo his Jewish heritage, be was, by the early IMO's. an outspoken Zionist. In IWQ he was reprimanded by Soviel authorities for his Zkmisl sym pathies In I960 he graduated from Ihe First Leningrad Medical Institute as an oral lurgenn
Dr Komblll During his years al the ln.sli lute he became more and more active as a Jew and as a Zionist He applied for an exit vLsa to Israel but was refused In his apartment he housed a forbidden Jewish library and Hebrew language school Jew
Dr. Sher Home Plans Open House Resldenis of the Dr Philip Sher Home lor Itie Age<t will entertain al an (;pen House on Sunday. Sept 10 Imm 2 lo 4 p m Invitations were mailed this week to the entire Jewish communities ol Omaha, l.in coin and Council Bluffs Volunteers of I.OVF I beagMt Offering Volunteers lor the Elderly) will serve as guides for a lour of the home according lo Mrs Sot Parsow, and Mr* Ervin Simon. U)VE oo^halrmen, and will be on' hand to anawer queatlon* about the volunteer program
and lo enlist new recruits llertu made by the residents In arts and crafts classes will be lor sale Kefreshments will he served by the residents and Mrs Jake Wine and Mrs David Potash Ben l,.aub. director of the Sher Home, and Joe Klrshen baum, qhalrman of the Sher Home committee, are urging all members of the commu nlly to attend this Open House and lo acquaint themselves with the Home and the impor tani services it provides for Uie community
ish aclivisl.'. (rtiiiH-nlly used his home .IV .i nu-<ling place In liiTil. together with other Jewish activists, he wa.s impll cated in the Whcalled "liCningrad Hijacking 'ase " In a serious crackdown on Jewish emigration activism in Lenin grad. he and eight others the Leningrad Nine." were brougtit to Irial in May. 1971, in the second l.eningrad Trial Dr Kornblil was tried for treason and sentenced to seven years al hard labor These yven years he served In labor camps in Mordavia, digging ditches, chopping wood, performing hard out door duties while enduring deprivation of food, physical abuse an^lack pi medical attention From the da\ of his arrest, Komblit's aged mother was nol allowed lo see him. she j#ied three months prior lo his relea.se in 1977 He was expelled from Ihe .Soviet Union without being permitted lo visil her grave Since November, 1977, Dr Komblll has lived In Jerusalem where he Is practicing an oral surgeon
Mollh'9 Mwno Mollle Delman has announced that the Older Adult groups will not meet Sept 4 al the JCC or .Sept 7 at Beth El Synagogue, but will meet Sept 6 al Temple Israel for the Walk In Drop-In
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