SERVIMG NEBRASKA, tOWA Vot LXII No. 11
Omaha, Neb., Fit, Hovtntbar 11,1913
Book Far highlights
A special children'* program, and the film, "Goodbye, Columbus," will cop off thp 10B3 Jewish Book Fair activities at the Jewish Community Center on Sunday. Children participating In the 2 p.m. program will be making puppet* depleting character! from various storybooks, then will act out their respective stories, according to the activity's coordinator* Marten Frost and Handl White. The children'* »klu will also bo videotaped and shown to parent* at 3:30 p.m. on a large-screen television la tbff-.Bhimkln Homo auditorium. In the photo are Laura Rifkin, (left) and Karl Dunn.
Danish official to talk on rescue of the Jews College in lilnir hn» invited the Jewish community of Omaha to licnr the Uiuunli cultural counselor «|>«nk on the Dmiish tetcue of .lew* during World War II. ; ArconlinK to the gpokcuman, I'ffe Htmmeintrup, culturnl counselor «it Hit- Itoynl Dnniah Embassy in Washington will bo ot Dana College, Tuetulny, Nov. 15. He will xpi-.ik following H 7 p.m. dinner in the Blue Room •if K, <;. Hunt Cnmjms (.'enter. Ht'«*r\(itiuni> must lx- nmdo hy Mondny by rnllinK tho public relation* office nt 420-^101. 1'uymcnl of $5 per penon ttuty be iniidi- at the door
No to Denver By David Landau JERUSALEM <JTA) - The U.S. government him rejeeted liirucl'ii application to open n new Consulate General in Denver. CVJIO.
The U.S. decision wtw justified by the State Deportment on the grounds that Denver in clone to xenaitive military installation*. If hirnel open* a Consulate there, Icon deitirable foreign •niwons might «eek to follow «uit and the Ami'rinin authorities* do not wish to encourage this development, the State Department explained.
It was standing room only for tho Chaim Potok appearance in conjunction with the PcdornUorriMbmry Book Fair last Sunday at the JCC so tho overflow crpwd was provided with seating on tho theater stage. See story on Page 3.
Senator Grassley to speak Sunday Honorable Charles E. Growley, United Suites Senator, Iowa, will *(H;nk Sunday at n Red Lion Inn reception on behalf of the Society of Fellows, Anti-Defamation League of H'nai H'rith, it wax announced by Frederick S. CflxHinnn, chairman. Strintor f!rn»»|ey nerves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, tho Senate Finance Committee, and the Senate Hudget Committee. Named a "Guardian of Small Business" by the National Federation of Independent HuninoM (NFIB), Senator (irnsslcy ulna received a Dixtinguiiihed Service Award from the Americans for Comititutionnl Action. Senator Grasstoy Mcithcd with his commitment to fiscal integrity and viable defense systems in strong sensitivity to human need.i, fiurh n» senior citizen conccrnn, resulting in a 100 percent approval rating from the National Alliance of Senior Citizens.
Sam Sacks dies Sorn Sacks, n leader of the Council Bluffn Jcwioh community for about 40 years, died Sunday. He wan 84. Services took place Nov, 8 at the Jewish Funeral Home with Itabbi I'aul Drawn, Ituhhi Innnr Nmloff nnd C'dntor Kmil Herkovits offirinting. Hurinl was in (iolden IIHIH Cemetery. A native of Kussia, Mr. Sacks iTui^ralcd til the United St/ites in 1923. A retired grocer, he had iiwned Snm'tt Super Market. Mr. Sacks had visited l«rm>S nnd had nerved for inimy years as chairman of the Philanthropies drive in Council Hluffs. Sam Sncks He WHS honored by the Jewish community on n number of occasions and also was honored by the Council Bluffs community tin it« man of the year. Mr. Socks is survived by his wife, Sarah; non, Kenneth; eight grandchildren nnd three great-grandchildren. The family has suggested memorial gifts to favorite charities.
Jane Evans at 75
How Reform Judaism has changed over the past half-century Editor's Note: Fifty year* ago Jane Evans was named executive director of (he National Federation of Temple SiHterhrxKls (NFTS). which* holds its biennial convention Nov. 1011 in Houston. Dr. Evans retired in 1070 but continues as a lender not only of the Itcform movement but also of the Jewish Hrnille liiMilute of ArnMcn of which she in now president. Tho following interview appeared in Itcform Judaism magazine- Permission to reprint i* granted. Jane Evans Q. What was the Reform movement liko when you became executive director of NFTS in 1033? At that time. Reform Judaism was still very univeraalist,
OB well a» anti-Zionist. We still placed great emphasis on Judaium as a religion rather than an the religious experience of a people, ivlhnicity. which i» now perhaps ovcremphaxized, wns not in the early thirties n ruling concern in the Reform movement. Hut World War II changed all that. Q. Your career with NFTS began the year Hitler took power in Germany. How did you respond to tho rise of Nazism and later to the war? Hi'ciiuno I am a religious pacifist, the war presented me with a great dilemma. I do not believe that one should lie drnvn before evil. But at the name time, I find the nonpacifist position — I must kill you in order to change your opinion — a terrible paradox. War and the mass murder of civilians do not solve problems. Because I was a pacififit when World War II broke out, 1 offered my resignation to NFTS to Income the executive vice president of the National Pence Conference, an over-all agency of major religious, labor, and other organization* whonc programs
included concern for international relations. Q. Were you able to help Jewish victims of Nazism in Europe? During the Hitler period NFTS gave money to help the Hebrew Union College bring over rabbinic students from (jcrmnn seminaries. We passed resolutions urging the U.S. government to rescue refugees. And I become the head of the Commission on Displaced PerHons of the American Jewish Conference, which, during the war, was in touch with the underground in Europe, trying to rescue an many people BH possible nnd move them to Pnlcstine.'lt was difficult to comprehend what was going on in Europe. Some of the reluctance to believe the worst I attribute to attitudes held over from World War I, when the Germans were accused of great atrocities which later proved to be propaganda. We believed the horror stories about the Nazi atrocities but we had great difficulty getting the public to accept the truth. (continued on page 2)