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.COUNCIL BLUFFS, LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha. Nab.. Fri. April 13. IfTt
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narry Trustin Dies: Federation Leader MTUIivr (rrm* on thr commii lion and U» fuecanor the City Council Hf Orml lervcd u commit' Kionrr for pMk improvrm«>nl*, thf predeccwor of thr f>ubllc Work* OefMrtmnil. until the lorm of city governmrni was changed m I9S7 with a new charter
Harry TnitUa praaMnt of th« Jrwifh Faderatlon <>f Omaha In UHhO, dM Manii • at an Omaha nuning hamr He wai M Servicaa varc con durird March » at Temple I s rad Survlvon Include hli wfn_Btm. MMi. Yale daughirr W^^ Myron Taxman tiaten, I^P Edith (iraetz and Mn r^da Bramion. all •<' Omaha and five grandc^^ drvn Mr Truitln. a former Omaha City Council pretMenl and iNMlnrtsman enRlm>er. hadbaanUlalongtime Mr Tmattn waa elcctad praaldml of B'nai B'rith In 1«a4 in 1«M. he headed the Philanthropies Drive and Kyaan lalar waa alocted IMM of UM Hltfiiand
rrCH* He aervcd the Jewlih Wei fare Board naUonally In t»4i and again beaded the Phllan thraiitaa Drive mi»4ii In IM6. he was the reciplenl el the Amerlcanitm Cilatton awarded by B'naiB nth A native of Chicago. Mr Trustin moved with his family lo Omaha as a child After at MadMg puMIc tdMWli here. he Itaidlad anglnaertng with the Railway Eduratlofl Bureau of the Union Pacific Railroad, •nd MTortad for the railroad for five yaan He than workad on engi prvtectf along the Amazon RWer In Brazil and In London In Itl7. he founded an englperring firm which twars hli game. Port*r Trustln-Carlaon Co lie retired from the pretl tency of the company atMut 10
Harry Trustin yearn ago Mr Tnotln was elacted lo the Omaiia Ctty CaaaMoo In ins, and servad aavcn con-
H' wl tu two terms as ' !tijin under Ih4' ne* ctiartii .vTVini! <" preM dent in l»6i«.^ Mr Trustin later wrvrt ;i l«rm on the Omaha .Municipai Dock Board on appumtmrnl by then Mayor A V .Sorenj»n s lormrr atsociate on the City Council
Rabbi Tanonbaum To Speak at JCC Richard Juro, r '-chairman of the Jewish Cultural Arlit Council, has announced thai the tecood i^ieaker of the I97B 10 Uectur* Fonim Series will be Jewish religious leader. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum TlM ladura-diacuaalon u •clMduled for Monday at 0 p m In the theater of the Jawlah Community Center His topic Is BrinfiinK Judaism To The Unchurched Rabbi Tanenbaum. National Inlerrallgious Affairs Director of the Amerlcsn Jawtih Com mlltee. has been Involved In Intcrrellglous relatlOM and aoclal justice movemcnU during IhapaatSS years A modem historian, writing recently In Commentary magazine. characterized Rabbi as "the leading
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figure among Jewish ecumen Ists" In fields of lntprreligiou.s relalMma and social Juslirr Newsweek magazine rei'enlly devoted Its Religion section to an Interview with Rabbi Tan enbaum dcitrrlblnf! him as "the American Jewish com munlty't loremoat apostle to who has tiem The tentative schedule lor the gentUea the chartered but is lo leave able to iolicll support from all either Beth El or Crosaroads factions ol the Jewish commuat ( p m and pouibly stop at nity " A poll of America's religion the JCC before going on to Un newspaper editors puhlixhed coin A de' lule should In the Christian Century in be avii: ir lor next January IVTt, VOI«KI Kat)t)i TanentMum one of the lu most waek's paper MeMDwhUe, the announce- respected and influential reli meni pointed out that thoae dr glous leaders In America ihe tiring to^reacrve space on the was ranked tourth alter I)r Billy Graham. Dr Martin bua should contact Mrs Na than Tunter S3ll Howard Marly, and President Jimmy (ireef. MM, (&51-0M0I Rea Carter i .Sacred Heart llniver ervaUona, whether uaed or tity ol Bridgeport, Conn . con not. will be charged t4 U (erred an honorary doctorate I Continued on Page 101 each
Bus Service Planned For Abba Eban Talk Chartered bus service Is being planned for thoie Oma kan* dealrlng to hear Abba In Lincoln. April 2S baa. former Foreign of Israel, and Ambasthe United Nations, ak at 7 30 pm in the lal Hoom of (hr NeI'nion at the UniverNebraska His Ulk will by a public raccpIhe Nebraska Union TickaU may be obUlned by n.10 tor each penon, r atudenU, to Eban LecgD Mtarp Building, Un NE<
<i»<ird preaentni the Volunlaar B>. WayoftheMKIlai»i» Thr nominees have been Invited '" '•"•—< "-f •••'••-• '
ncoK' placr r,^,. ,„ unHighland < event Isopi;. reaervatlen Thaw nnminate Pidri I.-I eonaur - :ij { slaf I of vanoui Federal partments are as folk Mrs George Kagan 'Re^ tired Cuttg/aryi. Mrs LM> Jane Paraow and the lyOVK prosram iAdult Group (ale goryi. Sam Zweibark iVolunlaer Driver ( alegory i. Mrs fCrvin .Simon 'Community l^radershlp <':fU-enr\-\ Mrs UeonardC" lintprr AmbasaadiH and Mrs. Jacob Mine iSpecial Ser
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^ vH Kail i.Miiiiii-«-s \i,il| lie Its. ^1 01 1)1 I'hil •'(•sal (It III "•.tfcd r e ei ip.M M •, f|. • lar • r of Of It Of im" rear awarn Soviri .)<'*rj ol ol the Jewish I L4iachean reservations at V -' •• th the Omaha, has i~ It •ot I nit lellinglhr stor'Huuian Jrwry iii <-ii »^d> di imr.) iidirirv street lion, drmonstrations andpolil 1342-1232/ Accor'-;- ' •'•(• announceiral work Shr was nominalec (or her thorough and convinc ment. I was nomi ing effort m thrsr duties Rated I • I -ri-rvlces as Miriam Simon rhairiiian ol chairman of (he Older Adult , u, ((... I....,.!, Com Uir Rrseltlemrnl Commit ^ the ol Jewish Family Service in of Depart mrnt of the Jet .ram Krdrralion of Omaha, wa> nomm-ili'd fur tui rolp m fe ii! r her I for hei \> • -r of srtil it chair ».• rtors part , man of thr U.»Vfc program a» u-er work al the .She also i.'. a member o( the Cl. ' i>ilal gift shop F'pdrration Hoard fl Mrs Harsow waa nominated (or her lonn \e»r\ of service Mary Wmr has been noflfl and cur p of nated in rrcognition of her LOVK I , Vol many years ol rllort In t)rhall o( thr residrnLs o( the Dr I'hil unleers fur Kldt^riyi. lite or ip .Shrr Home ftir the Aged as prrsideni o( Hikur I'holim, the urKanizatipn which exists tc I Conlimrd on Page 121
Cavanaugh Stirs Holocaust Dinner Rep Jotin C^UiinauKh jnlted more Ihan Wf) prrMms attf-nrt inf! the S«irlely ol survivors recognitiun dinm-r la.sl Sal urda\ •' • ^til Iron I ,1 |0V*riiiiii'ji> ^ igvpinua* in dealing with the HoUcauat Hundreds leaped lo their feel affcrlng a spontaneous itandlng ovatloa when the Congreiiniii completed his '•^'"~''"""'sl review of world that gave rise lo :; .^..ust Hep Cavanaugh delivered his remarks upon r«vivin(( a plaqiM" de»lin«l for Prpsid«'nl Jimmy Carter The plaque Ihankii thr I'nIIrd .Slate>i for making il possible for so many victims lo enjoy a life of free dom After accepting the plaque. Conx Cavanaugh luiid hr wDiilil be remijis if he did no( ilrlvc deeper inlo the history ofour partlcipalion I have reviewed some o( that history and I find thai it isn't all history of brtvr and hofKirahl*' people Indeed, thr i-nlrrnimalion o( all those mllllonii did not occur with each of the individuals In exis lence shouldering his rexpon tibllltles " He added." We didn't as a nation shoulder ours " Cong Cavanaugh described how the boat. St 1/MIS. left Hamburg, Germany on May 13. 1138. with S3« Grrmaii Jews aboard The boat sailed the cold At ianllc (or more than six months to find a port that * III Ihem, and Ihey 1 a port in Cuba, iitn'i findaport in '•'
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I run •x'crctary of .Slal*' Cordrll Hull said that 11 would h. " - ' • ••'.•mm 1' I-, t iit-> f.-iui iH-ii 111 »it-imany and Ihey eiperlenred the Mo locaust " Cong Cavanaugh said thai
Il wa.sn t until IJ<H- 17, 1!M2 that thr Cnited .Stairs <;ovrrn mmt first express*^ any dis approval of thr (mat solu tion ••
He asserted that In 1<K». the world popular ' ' ••{ ac cepttheoMiK ^pon sbllity of each inniMnuai and so In 1979 il ih esisrnlial for u.s In remind ourselves of that de ficirw y if we are to avoid rrp etttion "And in the case of Jews there is a special nlrhr in his tnr> liecauM- th<>ir failh lo a certain rxtrni wa.s dictated by thr peculiarity of history, by the fact that m I<I39 no state pxisted for thr people of Is rael "There was ao soverlgn na tlon lo harkrn to thr rest of thr world that the Jews were m peril and that their survival was in jeopardy •".So the ship. .St Louis, sail rd ami did not find a port, did not find any nation on the (ace of the earth to demand the port tir open "" "Its our obligation as Americans to insure that the circumstance is never repeat ed • In his address. Or l<oyal (iould, head of the Baylor I'm versity Journalism depart menl. al.so warned of thr ineplitudr ol thr l^nlled .Slates Department of .Slate As a result, he said, nations, lerrorlst-i and rartrU com pet. .• the I'll
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StcM' ItoifMtjljtt. proidenl. City Council, and actinfi mayor of Omaha, and .Sam Jrnsen, who acted in behalf of Gov Charles Thone, pre srntrd proclamations to Sam Fried president of the Society (((Survivors William '•' ••• '•V. dlrec tor of III al Boys T(i» •'
Cantor Chalm Najman
Najman Cantor Chaim .\'ajman, Heth Kl Syna)(ogur has re signed lo accept the position,( head cantor al ("onuregatl .Shaarr Tzrdrk in .SoulhfH Mich l/ocaled in a suburb of I troll. Shaare Tzedrk is nne| the largest ("onservatlve i gre((alion!i in thr country In announcing his nation. Cantor Najman that hr was doing .so mixed feelings, and hr plained "'The warm friend!>hips, close relation.ships that have rstablishrd during past seven years, make it > Iremrly difficult lor us leave "Nevertheless, our cli drens' acute education needs necessitates that makp a move al the present lime " Cantor Najman will be turning his new position on Aug 1, succeeding Cantor JacoOBarkin whi ' The rabbi o( < Shaare Tzrdek is luiiin n v Groner, a brother o( Kab Benjamin Groner, formerly | Omaha Cantor Najman said his r position "Will afford mr
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