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.COUNCIL BLUFFS LINCOLN. OMAHA OfMtw, H»b.. Fri.. F«bruarv 1«. 1171
Yitzhak Rabin to Speal< At Creighton University Yllihak Rabin, formrr prime mInlaUnr o( Urarl, will br in Umaha Ffti 24 lo delivrr 1 Ifcture at Cmghton I'niver Illy
Thr If'clurr will br on Ihe p» trallal lor pra<f in thr Middle F.asl There m no charRr lor thow desiring to attend Ihe lecture Reaervalionk for the rcicplion
Thr annual Irclurr. which is opm to UM- public. l> c(jn ductnJ in brhalf of Alpha Sigmii Nu, thr honor suclcly lor gradualca in Jesuit higher Mlucation Mr Rahin will rorxlwl d no"' • undd^ Im ' up m in Ihe InniTMlv s lii|U(<' audllo riuin A ('(Kktiiil rti'i^luiii
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Mr Rabin was in Omaha on Nov 16. 1977, when he was Ihe guesi Hpeaker al Ihe Omah.i Israel Dinner of Stale h<inor ing Kli /.alkin
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da i)f the I-ft. 1 iii.i' .,f Ihe Hoard • Jewish Ke<)' al 7 !< ine jrwisn Comn r The III 31 i.^iiur ui be conald ered will be a serious offer for thr dispocltkin of Camp Esth er K Newman which was ckwed by action of the board in April I»7I The board re rently voted to also clooe Ihe camp (or the IVTt aeaaon The second major issue will
be the reiMiil uf llic rt-MilLs of Ihe stuii iter andAsi»" .xills for Living Ai for Omaha's Jew. ihe report will t>e prcwnU-d by Alvin Abramson chairman of th. • m, AduraingKimary rriimaii preaident of the Jewiih Feder atlon of Omaha, thr Input of Ihr eommunily is very impor tant un these two issues "Wa look hirward lo havli^ maay I of OM PMtandoa at
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rDinrnuTiiiy Other matters on the i will include several capital i pairs requests and a from the Community tiom C^offlmlttee co an Economic .Seminar I to Israel's 31st anniversary Vom Haatzmaul otwervance..
Beth El Synagogue Honors B'naiand B'not Mitzvah * By Lynda Mirvish
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As fine hig family, the con gregation has shared the na chas ' of more than I.OIIU of these happy ix'casion.s and (Hi
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.Shmuel Tamir Invited inlema with perwas imprisoned lor sp<-i>"<^ ""<"--' •• ••>'hillonal Juruts and representa JERUSALEM I JTA< Pre tives of "fair aad neutral pr. mier MMMHwm Bcgui ei countrie*" lo roiiit WftiaMlk praifd "anuaepiMil" ov«r see for themselves that there SU> I -n the publication ol a story in IS no mistreatment of prison tair' , r ,,( ifac WaahinKton Post alleging rrs He said that American the caaes did the Ked ( m-^ "ijllwmllc lorlure' by Is Congressional committees. ask lo pursue invesligdlinii^ rael of Arabs arrested for se Judges, lawyers and other baaed on complaints made by curlty offenses 'people ol standing" would tie thepriaoners He told refmrters thai the al welcome to study prison conTamir said the ICKC on one legations, derived from re- dllKjns In Israel occasion aeni a physician lo ports to the State Department Tamir denounce*! the alle^ check complaints uf phyiiiral by a lomMT employe of the gallons in Ihe Post story as torture but Itw physui.m could U s < nn.i.L.f,. in East Jerusa 'evil slander" and declared not find a single c aM' Tt>e talk lenj ily baseless " thai "there is no torture in Is of Irirture in Israeli prisons Ht,. 1,1 that similar rael's prliuns and there never doe>i a great iniuslice to Is allegations were putilished in hat been ' He said he took a rael. Tamir said the Sunday Times of l/>ndon very grave view of the Poat "There is no se<'on<l In l.srael last year and that Israel had «tor> tircause the facts could in Ihe scope ol hununilaria •proven that these are inveo easily have tteen verified nlsm and iilioralism exerciMYl lions of our enemies " He He noted thai under an towards its ewmles." the Jus blames "great papers like the agreement with ttie Intrma lice Minister slated Times and Post" for publish llonal Committee of the Red He also said Ihat a '.Slali' in Barton iBuckyi Gnaobarg with hla father. Joaeph Greenbert ing such accounts Cross ilCRCi. Its representa stilullon was Invesligalmit aad hta graal unda JWiui Sherman at Barton's Bar MItzvali Meanwhile. Justice Minialer lives have Ihe flghl to meet I Continued on Page 21 beid at Ihe Jewlab Community Center. June 3, inT.
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Saturday, Kel) 17. memben and friends of H<Mh Kl wH have 'i Hilly In reliv all 11. .If and Ka Mil/vati < I'li'iii .iiiuiis dl a sp rial Shat)t)al morning servio honoring former Bnai an R'not Mllzvah This IS another ol Ihe nn-1 Komg celebrations markin(| Belh FA synagogue's 50t^ niversary Kat>bi Kenneth Hrombergfl Helh Kl points out thai Ih firsi mention nf Har Miliva child of llie conimandmeni our Jewish Irartlt. in Pirke Avol. tin tile Fathers, wberr n is wnt^ H'n thai, ' Judah. the son '"'?' 1 u.s«'d to say that al IS" •i' IS rpiirhf-d for Ihe ful • il III Ihe I'limmand-
Al Ihis age of religious responsibility. Ihr child takes his ' place in thr congregation, and Ihe Synagogue community at, a whole rejoices as it wel-j comes a full fledged memlMTl Barton (Buckyi (ireenberg,! »ho. logettwr with Jeanne! 1-ipsey. IS one ol Itie co-chair-l men of this event, became Bar I •Mllzvah at Beth Kl on June 3,| 1!*37 iContlnuedonPage2i
Bankruptcy Clouds: The Synagogue Crisis Policf '••• .illvrs ad (In-ss I re of ten »nt» on J1 security IntrrrrliglouR neighborhood The street tn New York bazaars are being heM there where I reside has no stores It for charitable causes. Is strictly reaidentul. cut off Lectures, opm to all. are from Central Park by thr being delivered by prominent American Museum (if Natural speakers And. ol course. History and Ihr Planetarium there is lh« congregational |l has a mixed population of U'lMxil for Jewish children and ^^••nd non-Jews, mostly In courses on Judaism for adults ^^Bbuls. with Jews predom On legal holidays su<'h as Veterans Day some MOU It has a synagogue Jewish police officers ol all Standing out In the block Is ranks, and other Jews in the Ihe synagogue iMilldlng in Ils service o( Ihe New York police irchitrctural majesty which system, march in parad(- to iltracts attention Thr build the synagogue under the U S ng serves as a social center and municipal Hags, led by the entire nel^ibocnood their own band This is Ihe lews and non-Jews o( Ihe "Shomrim Society. " the or Ighborhood hoM Joint meet ganitation ol the Jews in the ngi there on problems con- police force, which considers Kmlng retaUona with municl- the (ynaiMut •* lla place of lalauthoniles worship ByBorliSiiiotar Kdllnr in chief emeritus. J T A >
On F'riday eveninits. IIHbuilding of the syangogw is richly llluminaled. adding color lo the street On Jewish holidays especially on Hush Hashanah and \'oni KIppur one can s«'e in front uf IIHbuilding adoleM^ents wailing lo greet their parents when they leave the synagogue ser vices On Chanukah. a huge meno rah radiati-s from Ihe lofi nf Ihr I Thef 1 aroui kah , even The ,f Ihe ti. , ...; :,> young and old However, this year Ihings were dllferrni As I looked out from my window to Ihe synagogue on Ihe first evening this Chanukah, I
was pii . the l)Uilrt ing u fliiodlighls on JewiMi iHiii'i.i\s wrapped in total darkness No Chanu kah 111 '"••• nl Ihe en Irancf 'i III on Ihe lopolli ^. \o crowds milling al llie door No merry voices (mm Inside thr build ing A picture nf total gloom I wondeml what happened and I left my apartment l« find out There was nolxidy in front of the synagogue build log whom to ask Bui I got Ihe
from a small sign on It read s.iiH luary o( the Korean ( ommunily of New york " Thr sign, in Kngluh and Ko rean letters, was a shock to me The Jewish congregation, although composed of well todo memhert. could not meet Ihr payments on the mortgage of Ihr iMJildmg It, quietly sold
Itir building lo Ihe Korean group This. I believe, is lh»' fir>l lime ihal a synagogue in New York, one ol Ihe tn'sl and m Ihe center of Ihe city, was converted from a Jewish house of worship into a Korean sanctyary Ttie tragedy of the syna goguc un my street is the Irag edy of many synagogues throughoul Ihe nmnlry They face bankruptcy Ix-cause they cannot meet their mortgage payments and have difficul lies in renewing them They al.so suffer from the mounting cost of mainlatning a syna gogw caasi-d by growing in nation II IS estimated by some ratihis Ihal 25 percent of Ihe congregations in the II S are now on the verge of bank ruptcy In Greater New York there were some 1200 s> nagogues ZS
years ago Today IhiTe an only about UIKi Thew do nol in elude the "shilblach the" very small OrthodoK prayer houst's In .Manhattan, only Hi percent (if the Jewish population j are members of synagogues.! according to an estimate byj experts of the New York Federation of Jewish Phllanthm-1 pies In Brooklyn, where some sections are thickly inhabited | by Hasidim and otlwr religious Jews, only about :I5 percent of Ihe Jewish residents*] are now synagogue members In the New York suburbs/ where many t>eauliful syna-' gogurs were built by young 1 Jewish familieii after World 1 War tl only i' '-• nent of the entire .)• iiion ' are today nu i ... .>nagogues This. d(>spite the (act | 1 Continued on Page 2)