SERVING COUNCIL BLUFFS,
LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Fri., August 28,1981
roundbr Hawkins Const, selected; new fundraising goal set
CENTER FOR THE AGING BUILDING FUND DRIVE
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home For the Elderly will be held Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 7:15 p.m. on the north side of the Jewish Community Center. A gala program in the theater and a reception PLEDGE in the auditorium will follow the outdoor ceremonies. Announcement of the "go-ahead" on the groundbreaking was made at the Aug. 25 meeting of the Board of Directors of the Jewish Federation of Omaha following the Date unanimous vote to award the building contract to Hawkins Construction Company of Omaha. The board also voted to re-adjust the campaign goal for funds from the original figure of $3,600,000 to $4,350,000 to include some recently added changes and adjustments In the new building and an increase in the Endowment Fund from $735,000 to one Mrs. Penner said. She ad- million dollars. The campaign has presently dog, "we are also responding reached the original goal whicft will cover the to a National Resolution that cost of building the new Home. According to urges local Sections to Leonard (Buddy) Goldstein, chairman of the promote and support Finance Committee, the community cammeasures that meet the physical, psychological and social needs of the elderly.
TO FUND CONSTRUCTION AND ENDOWMENT OF THE ROSE BLUKKIN JEWISH HOME
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NCJW pledges $25,1mm to Blumkin Home fund A pledge of $25,000 has been made by the National Council of Jewish Women for one of the nursing stations in the new Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. Announcement of this pledge to the building campaign for the long term care home was made by Ellie Penner, president of the Omaha Section.
Early deadlines Due to the Labor Day weekend, deadlines for the Jewish Press issue of Sept. 11 will be Thursday, Sept. 3 for news copy and Friday, Sept. 4 for advertising.
The donation continues Omaha Section's long time support for services 1 6 the elderly, Mrs. Penner said. Established in 1932 by NCJW and the Jewish Federation of Omaha, the Older Adult Group (then the Golden Agers) has continued to receive annual financial support from the Omaha Section. Over the past 25 years the Section has also provided more than $50,000 for specific projects at the Dr. Philip Sher Home. "By contributing to the Rose Blumkin Home, NCJW Omaha Section is fulfilling its responsibility to the Omaha Jewish community,"
The Council Thrift Shop, chaired by Sue Meyers, will assume responsibility for payment of $15,000 of the gift. The Omaha Section Project Fund for the Rose Blumkin Home will provide the remaining $10,000. This fund, headed by Rae Brodkey and Lois Friedman, is supported by tribute cards for various occasions.
Deliver pBans to preserve Golda IVIe^'s teenage home DENVER, (JTA) - An effort is underway by an ad hoc committee to save an abandoned structure in Denver which by sheer chance has been discovered to be a residence in which Golda Meir lived as a teenager and where she met Morris Myerson, later to become her husband. The Intermountain Jewish News reported that on Aug. 4, the Denver City Council unanimously passed a resolution calling for the preservation of the abandoned duplex on Julian Street on Denver's West Side. The Jewish weekly reported that while the vote does not guarantee preservation of the struc-
ture, it will help greatly, adding that actual permission to allow the building to be placed on city property "should be debated soon." Meanwhile, a resolution urging that the home be designated a historical landmark was adopted by the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission. The commission said that the home was likely to qualify as a landmark. When Golda Mabovitz was 15, she lived in the Denver duplex, then the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Shana and Sam Korngold. During the year she lived there, she attended North High School and made pocket money by working- in her brother-in-
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paign for funds will continue until the new goal is reached. The new Blumkin Home for the infirm elderly will provide the most modern facilities and the finest long-term skilled care for up to 80 residents, It will replace the present Dr. Philip Sher Home at 4801 No. 52 Street which will be sold upon completion of the Blumkin Home in approximately a year. Presentation of the contractors bids was made to the Federation Board members and visitors by Harlan Noddle, co-chairman with Is Tretiak of the Phase III division of the Steering Committee for the Center for the Aging which had recommended Hawkins. Bids had been received from 16 contractors. Roger L. Schutte and Associates are the architects. Further details about the groundbreaking ceremonies which are being planned by Nancy Greenberg and her committee will be included in next week's Jewish Press. Invitations to the groundbreaking ceremonies are being mailed to all members of the Jewish Federation this week.
Jeanette Nadoffnamed Woman of the Year'
By Barbara Simon
The Greater Omaha Women's Division, State of Israel Bonds has named Jeanette Nadoff "Woman of the Year" on behalf of the State of Israel. She will be honored at a luncheon on Sept. 24 at the Jewish Community Center. ' ,, Mrs. Nadoff is being honored for her lifelong dedication to Israel and the Jewish people.
Jeanette Nadoff A native of Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. Nadoff was involved in
Zionism from the beginning of her life. Her parents arrived in America to escape pogroms and persecution and she heard from the start about Israel, about creating a homeland so Jews will be safe from beatings and destruction. As a young person in Hebrew school she went with her friends to collect money for trees to save the land and precious water. And she told Continued on Page 12'
law's dry cleaning business. According to the weekly, the duplex has been empty for more that a year and its owners, the Boys Club, Inc. of Denver,' who had no idea that Israel's Premier-to-be had lived in it, planned to raze the structure for a new athletic field. The Intermountain Jewish News reported the structure was saved at the last tnoment by two fortuitous events. One was the photographic activities of a volunteer, Jean May, seeking pictures of historic buildings in Denver for a fund-raising cookbook for a local citizens group. Though Senator Edward Zorinsky met with Elena Fridman, center, and Shirley Goldstein, chairman non-Jewish, Ms. May has of the .Omaha Soviet Jewry Committee. Mrs. Fridman, sister of Prisoner of Conscience Ida Nudel, was In Omaha last week to bring Senator Zorlnaky up-to-date on Mrs.'Nndel'a plight. Continued on Page 14 See story on Page 2
Zorinsky meets with Mrs. Fridman