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nrw cftainMn bave bam MiMted to hMd die unual CtUagt Cantpaiffi ID bciulf o( tkt irm\A FedaraUon of Omaha They tn Hohbl Kobiick, Mark Lipped and Jill Liartfar ten "We have met aevtrai Umaa and have eane up wlUi what we think la an exctUng way la raacli coUafli ttadanu." thay aald to a jaM •tatemcnt "We plan la taU thMi «boiil the vartout way* the JawWi coinmunlty has beea a pnaltive Influance In our livea," ttwyaddad. Tlw leaden of the Colette
Canpalvi have achaduM ,a •ortan mectlnii on Feh loal II a.m. ai the J ('(' Thta maaUflg wtU lie a worfcini hnmch where the campalri worfcan wUI have an O|iportunlly to And out mara ahatil the CoUafe Caopaipi and aak any qaaaUaoa that Ihey have Collage Ma jM>a taitareaiad In marc tofannation alwul the OoOaga Canpalen iihould c-un lact the chalnner HM74S, L^ipatl ai Uattfartan at SMBII Conrad KoUer la the PederaiKin suir peraon woilUfK with the collaaicampaliin Hecanbeeenlacted at SM^im
nUa bhMprtnt haa haan dailgned to utiliir the Mnmc lounda Uon «| «ir paat wccaaaea and iMrniag aapwlancaa 10 Inaure the caatiaMadrtwiitlnvolvaiaaBterBowpitoBtlayandpnileaakwal toadanhlfi aaoaaaary ter our redaraUaa la eonUnue to carry-out ttt reiDaaalMUUaa aa the cantraj hmkalalflc pianninc and bud ••UBI inatnmant torUte Omaha J«»lab comnuBilly
mi-nis ,in,i [i» timney thai our KaderaUon earned Ihiwigh I • si 11)1 nrnr lit, ..itxT unreatrtctcd funda, we would have .stKirt Venn**, in Miir hudgfttng pruieaafof IWT) Th*"' ' indraising fn »"«" » iiofacaplt,!) >oi"Hii ... ; ,, |,„ Uit-Aged,co«riaUiig«<ai»ewl, cur. .11,1 It- ',„ .,!>, an apunniMii complex for aged I all who are able U) care r ^eg with mif' aervlcea and greater ulll> i-xislindJ, nity Center buUdiog
I •miMIIke to locua on three componeoUof fund raUIng our aoMwl radaralkm Campaign, Rndowmeni Pund Development and our Antlclpaied Capital Fund Drive lor a new iant4ann caremnlnf lacillty Omiha can be proud of her campaiRn achl^vemeuu In reeenl yean (Hir li.ui ( ampaign hai been ranked s- • - - "-,. ,n prr caplU It! small lntermedlate-iU< ., and aurWonx n haaalao maintained a 1.. ..^..,, .inking nationally lor per raplla giving
The Finance rommltlee is in the DrcKvssud.rf sniiniind led major coi' tieeded •upport lor ll„ , Keder allon Board of Uin • ., u « lutidraismg eflorl is feasible Our kMidgetIng prucru ha, txrcume as -v ' as any '•'ederatlon In Ihe country and our budge!. lee haa come In with balanced budgets in each of the la*! (iv «• years
Deipllc our eftorla. our Campaign haa dlppp'! ilnca im. when we ralaed In exceaa of tl .986 000 11 Campaign cloacd at approx' ros.ooo Drun ywrt, we have faced alea'i i o provide i ^ vkaa that we provided In la.. ..u, u/v r:ampaign snouio n.ivf reached CTSi.ooo The IMO Campaign wli; depend or leaders who I. age and rnnvlrtlon to lead In their own giving, in Ui. tyli' -''•approach to campaigning and then to aikoth ers' A M-xinfl rii.. ,1 the IWO's iment F'undlnK . for new ;<: ming We can !»• |>r, A liU' beat smaller commn Kund acnipvemenl to dale oi .i(i)iiii\iin.jiriv ».: <mi) IKXI it is iniportant In note thai without the income from our unreslrirled endou
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If we look at this In a poclllve manner as a nhrinkmg Jewlj community, these new arrivals ran be our ureatesl source ( growth as a Jewish <-ommunity in the coming decade As concerned Jews and community leaders, each depal mfnl ("xuriliif Ih)' .Ji-*isii Ki.,l<-r,ili<.n frmsi ehu.k \,^,
Lsli Idiiiil; life III Omaha A community's richest asset is Us leadership twth lay an professional The key to our swcess in the IWIO's is In |je able f ciHit inue to involve responsive and committed lay leailei-ship
Sakharov: The Jewish Connection The fighter li down but mi . »haae tall. round-ahouMered frii aeveolh-noor apartment at ai> whkh aarved aa Ihe nerve ceni< movement, has been banished H< Jewlah emigration a< < was Mended to show i' the K(iB. they are sIrcngUi' encouragement and penHm.i
USY Conclave W aad NaooiJ Mitchell co<:halnnan lor Unttad SynaYaodi Emu Ragioa OoncUv*. dtocwa final arraMlar MM praram. Mare than lOO USYan fran KajMai .. lam Otjf. Hhmaapalli. St Uuit. Denver, and Waterloo n aipectad to be la Omaha tor the propam IMi weekend
Interns Sought For PIJCO Jobs Tte J«akdi Padaratian baa alllona The Federalkm has MHBoad that ratoH to Ihe altoralad money lor up to five idUna tor appltoattana for tatome to take part in the sec PLPCO program. and yaar of the program Pur Conrad KoUer. Federattoo poaa or the program la to Inter *ft peraon working wllh the eat college age peopto to mgraffl. aald. "We have had Jewlah Communat Servtoe aa y goad reapooae to the In^ aprofCaakin, Mppragramlhuafar" Appllcalkma aad tatomatn paopto have applied for tkn are avallaMe tnn Mr. raOaUa Protoailenal In Koller at the Jewish PMarUpa to Jewlab Oammun^ atlon. 333 S I33nd St Omaha. OpportunlUaa (PLKX)) po- NE «IM Phone
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According to the .student .SlruKglp lor Soviet Jewry, even at the beginning of his emergence into a public (h.iii.-n'uer i,f the Kremlin In IIMS, Sakharov lashed out at "ux sem Itlam" which pervades "the highest bureaucr , vern menl."Ayearbefore.hehaddelendedlsr <i: ;;. •!,: irwar In the lace of the threat of destruction of nil II n.ss miinincally vastly superior forces of the Arab coalition." who were backed by the USSR's "irresponsible encouragement " At an unofficial Mowvw human rights vigil in October 1970, tie met pediatrician Elena Banner. half-Jewish and half-Armenian, whose mother Hul had spent 17 years In Stalin imps and internal exile Admitted on Ihe strength of) prestige to be an observer at the Infamous Lenlngrau i nai m a group ol desper ale Jews who sought to steal a plane and fly to Israel, Sakharov broke the news to the Western prees on December 24.1970 of the death laatoaeat agalnat two of the defendanU A short time later, be mairlad B<>nner w hr. vh^red hia oonauminc passion for Justice. In wn and l»72. .sakhann detxHinced the continuing trials and haratamenU against Jews who bad applied to leave for Ihoir hooMland "ZIonUm ". he declared at that time, is no mart tban Ihe Idea of Jewtah statehood One can only admire the •titohomaaat of an aactcnl and persecuted peopto. which. In the lace of quHe dlfflcull condltlona. has revived a atote which dis appeared k«g ago It la precliely thla rejuvlnatlon and the re^ meval of Ihe conaequencea of dlaipora that have been so tragic tor the Jewlah paopto that to Zkmlim's aim " la September 1972. Sakharov Joined Jewlah demonstraton at the LabaoMe EmhaMy In Moscow to protest the PI>Os murder of II UradI athletes at Ihe Munich Olympics He became a Mnmg aupporter of the Jackson Vanik Amendment, introduced a tow Matt* toler In the US Congreaa. which linked a free pro*"* 'LfS?*' ""'*'••""" '""" U* IJSSR wllh trade credlU ba<ly naagtd by the Kremlin, and characleruied the legislation aa a "minimum condltkm'lor true .Soviet American dataote His defanae of Ihe rIghU of many groupa and todlvlduala to the USSR brought tocreaalngly severe retrttutkm from Ihe secret police HIi apartnaot was pcrknlkally ransacked, and he was aubjectod to vllrtolle condemnation In the preat On October a, ItTS. after he had laaued a statemenl strongly aupporttag "to raei'a right to exist withto borders Insuring lu rollitory and ton dwnatoal eoooomlc tolereats and proqMctlve emigration toaral" two Araht clalmtag to be from the Black September ter rertot gRN^i came to Ma home and thraatattod to murder him If llvthar such dacUratloM ware made. EdMng precisely the
Andrei .Sakharov words oft heard by Jewlah activists from the KGB, they left him by saying, "We never give two warnings " .Sakharwv was sha-1 ken, but not deterred \ In January 1975. Sakharov's Jewish son In-law Efrem Vankelevich. was threatened by two secret police agenU, "We'll get you and your son" Uter that year. Sakharov was prevented from visiting Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize Reached by phone by Israel Radio, he emotkmally gave greetings to his friends and supporters in the Jewish stole, adding that "I have great respect for those who left the Soviet Union to build new lives in their modem-ancient homeland" Exhausted by haraasnnenis and Increasingly Isolated by the forced emigration of many of his human rights co-workers. Sak harov nevertheieas, continued to apeak out forcefully during the latter part of the decade, the SSSJ said In December 1976. he at toodad Ihe uaofflclal Sympoalum on Jewish Culture in the USSR. shortened to one aeatton becauae of Ihe arrest of most of Its organizers While some Ameixan Jewlah aupport for the Jackson-Vanlk Amendment began to waver, Sakharov remained as firm aa ever (Cool inued nn Page 21