Israel Will Honor tS' Morton A. Richards .COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA /'--^^ «0.4
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Omaha, N«b.. FrI, Octobwa. 1979
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M MisMon Joe Klnhenbaum and Harten Noodle, 1979 Combined Federation Cochairmen today that the community Fact Finding Mission to Israel scheduled for Nov V (hrougt) Dec. 6 is all •et "We have had a very |{ood response to date," they said. They stated there are only 10 spaces left for couples or singles on this all fir8t<lass trip and urged those interested in participating to contact IxMj .Solomon. Federation executive director at 334-8200 by no later than Monday. Oct. 90 The Mission is t>elng nibsidlxed by a "gener^ubsk grant' to the Federby the Uvingslon tFotm Foundation
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Steps of Time "CUaMi« The Maps •( Ites" Is s aular I BMtradiv Ilia, art aaderilws ta SMiaal mgslUii) liialsa riMi—^j rwilir "n r"~ » Han, Or. Jo* isgr. prstaiMaardtaslv. dliBto the aUpa o( a loH laddar I. L_i L4 aiiirt •—• II ruij nTiii I rn r' ttf »tfl i^lqr At i1^ Is tai PtralmsB. JOC cultural Arts dl-
Jewish Press Requests Early Federation Data TtK- Jewish Prwu Is researciitng Uie early iilstory of ti»e Je* ish Federation of OmaJia and IIR prede oeoor welfare agencies, and is calling upon its readerahtp for aastatance. "We ire looking for a complete listing o( all prrvkMiB Federation presldenU. photographs of them, and wtiatever historical informallon and pbotograpta that people nuy have Involving past Feder ition aclivilles and special evenU," said Morris Maiine,aditor Those possessing such material, or those who may have knowledge of Federation activities going back to the eariy 190Os would be Invaluable resources and are urged to call the Jewish Press office at 834430O. Mr Mailnetald
Morton A Richards,! v»e«pf*«l«l«»l of Uic Jewish rederauon ol Omaha. «ir suit of lirad Mh Annh«nwn Omaha-Israel Dtrnier of State. hunaa> xiv 19 Annoiaw«lM«i of Mr RIchard'i lelectMn (or the hoaor was made by Joe 1 Jplon, Omaha chairman lar Stale of Israel Bonds Upon accapUnc Mr Rkhardi obaerved that be coitfd not help but lie reminded of this year's Hl^ Holiday theme, "Prom Holocaust to RcdemptlMi" The Slate o( isrH^i ».is i«irn out of Uie aahci of Uie Holocau' enter the final !*««• "f Israd Mry year, withe Uik of ^ louidatlans « ve tliai peace for wti .i-ss it is first ecoremii uri "By pMd I reimiroeslo the lerurlty ami NinnnUi ul Israi-I WP can help Israel ucvtvi Ih*- lnrluouh liul Klciriou-s road from the desiruction of Ih. the Redemption o( buildinK Ihi II liatOfKeourprivllegcaiKlour nspmiMi'in ty l>et US no) hesitatr to malii' » firm commit ment " Information regardloK participallon In lh«Dinner o( Stair can be ntit ••••'•'" ' •"••••m 1177. Mr Richards 15 ch.i —* Group of Alco SlandanI' ber of Ihp Board of DIKSavings and Uian Asscxi. . I larkton Memorial Ho^>lial He Is a trwitee of lh<- Milton l.ivmf(iil(>n Koundatlon. the Boys ClubK of ilmaha and the Omaha Industrial Foundation He If I past presMenl of th< ! '>' Omaha and the Nebraska Hw v
The Federsthm's Central Planning and Budnettaig Committee will continue lU I97S buditel review of departments onOct 2SandOcl B The an nual review started on Get 15 Mary Fellman. Federation president, said thai members of the Jewish community are invited and encouraged to at tend any and all of the meet tnci Wattaasdsy-Oct B 7 pm Community Rela tlons Committee S p m - Department of Jewish l-^ducalian
» pm I)r Philip Sher Home for the Aged Sunday-Oct »
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He IS a vice president of the Jewish Keder allon of Omaha, m which he h.is brrn active torover W years in var. <N Mr Richards«T\<' nfBonds (or Israel on Ihn i-TTT, and M-isilinneri i s
Daniel Nathans Shares Medicine Nobel Prize ByJoaephPolakorf
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Dr Daniel Nathans «. direc lorof IIM-mil r'iliic,l<iLi\ ilcprtrt meni .• IKHII ofMe<li' • Mn<<1S7J. I> one of Ihree »cienll»l.s to Share the l»7« Nobel Frite (or Medicine Nalhanit who became the leconil American Jew to win a Nobel Phie this year. »hare» the award with SWIM microhl ology Prof Werner Arfien »( Basel and Hamilton O Smith, also of .lohns llopkinii The award ol 1140.000 Is Inr their eniyme genettcal re»earch Previously Isaac Bashevis Singer the renowned Yiddish writer, was awarded (he I97H Nobel Prite (or Literature AniniiB Niilliiin.s' niiriierous I was
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scholar in the Depart ment o( (ienetics at the Weizmann In stituteof S<'iencein Israel
Bulletinl Dr Daniel N;ilh.ias ic the uncle o( Mrs .Arrmld I Judy/ Carniel. ol l.iiiidin Mrs Carmel told the Jew ish Press that her father a expected to acctimpany his brother to Slockholni to observe the Nobel f*rtte ceremony She said also that she plans to visit with her uncle at a (amily reunion In Wllmlnitton. Del . over Itie ThanlisRivini! holiday
Nathans, who Is on Ihe editorial boards u( two medical journals, has been a leader In
research nn Ijinli.gy and viro log) fni ii ijtiieration. was chairman «( Ihe American Cancer Society committee on cell biology and virology and on the advisory commiltee n( Ihe Natumal Cancer Insti lute s vlni!. cancer program Me was awarfle<l the Sel man Waksnian Award lor ml irobiologj in 1967 and is a MiemlX'r o( the Americiin Aca d«-iny u( Art!, and Sciences Nathans born in Wilming Ion Del was graduated (rom Ihe I niversity ul Delaware and received his medical de gree from Washington I.niver Illy in .St L«iis (our years later He Joined Johas Hopkins as an assistant prolessor in 1962 He and his wile. Joanne (lom- I berg Nathans have three | ions. ranging In age (rom IS to j 21
Ancient Jews, Lands and Peoples By RabM JeoalliaD Roaaobsam TIM Matnw BtMa Is prImarUy history It is mainly conccnwd with avMls which began with the first Patriarch, Abraham (daM by scholan to approximataly im BCE) and ended wttti Uw lM( of Ihe Biblical prtasU and historians lappnKtataMyMBCE) BatwsMi ttwae h»o hMorlcal poinU. the Israeiltes esperi «ncedE|ypUanbondate.UieEsodus(ca IBO B C E. I, Iha OODoBMlsflhspswaiasdlaadofCanaanitasBCE i.theperiodof tha Judgss who protactcd thrir IsraeiHas from Uwlr Canaanlte Hljrtiin lea. laD-lOl BCE. i. Iha unllad klagtan at David andSalsniMica t«MB). the dtvlslan of Isrsai Mo two sspar«la aaUam, UM evsotual deatnKtkm of the Nsftbare Ktagdom sflsraribythsAasyilamlnTa/l B C E, Uw Babylonian Exile a( Ite Itnwlhsni ldi«^ o( Judah ISIS B C E i and Uie subse^ t ntwn el Ihe Jews to their homeland iS» B C £ ) under Mt^apaf the FerslswEmpsror. Cyrus UwGraat Mssniwlsml r (h* valWv between Uw Tlgha and EtqihratM
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RIvsrs. Is Ute source of the earliest known clvUUatkm Beglnnli^ about 3000 BCE in Uw southern half of Mesopotamia, a people known as Ute Sumertans produced an elementary system of wrltlna This achievement was by no meana Uteir only accompllshmenl Having come to this area sometime In Uie preceding mlUsntann. Ute Sumerlans peaaeaaed an oraanlied. poiyUielstIc rallghM complete wiUi holy illarature and a dlscemihie Uieology By about mo B C E , Uiey had established s system of clly lUtes KIngriilp passed from the leaders of one clty^Ute to the nilc of anothar and precise system of administration emerged The Soaarians apoka s languaae which la unraialed to any oOier known. From very early times. Samites seem to have oc Cloned naltfiboring areu HMsa paspiss voka AkkadUo, s langnagi raialad to talsr PhsaalciaB, Habraw, Aramaic, and Arabic. By about 23S0 B C E , die first of the great Semitic kmgs. SarfM tt Akkad, had subtugatod Uia Sumerian rtilers and placed soiabani HaaopoUmla under his domination. Despite this mllttary domhiallon, Sarfoo's Semitic dynasty adopted
much of Sumerian culture, religion, and literature Sargon'i dy nasty survived until about 290 B C R when It was destroyed by . Invaakmsof mountain people from the east known M the Gull I The Gull held sway in southern Mesopotamia for a century" but were ultimately displaced by the re^mergence o( Sumerian power under a king called Dtukhegal The latter was himself overthrown by his own sutwrdlnale, a certain Ur-Nammu, who! established the third <lvnasty o( Unknown simply as llr III) lit 1 should be remci Abraham and his family came from Ur,quitepossll>i Mte J Under Ur-Nammu and his successors, Sumerian culturel reached Its classical phase Literature Increased and old traditions were probably formally recorded (or the (ipil lime Among i)(hc >'Hurvlved Is a list"' kings| whi iithoaewhowere'' uod" and thiK>e afterward. I Continued next week)