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Vol. LXIH No. 29
Omaha, Neb., Frl, Aprs! 5,1985
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<5Ja I LOT § B t v f i l l - ^ p O O d b A w a •The Business and Professional Division of ths Women's Federation Campaign will hold its grand event, "Gallery Gala," April 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center. Gaest speaker will be financial planner Judith N. Brown of Minneapolis. For those who did not receive invitations, pleoes refer to the invitation on page 16 of this week's Jewish Press.
More than 2,500 invitations have besri mailed to the Jewish Community of Omaha in connection with the April 20 dinner-dance at the Red Lion Inn. The community dinner-dance, scheduled to begin at 7:45 p.m. is the main function of the Fedsration's 1885 Men's Campaign. Dietary laws will be observed. According to co-chairmen Tom Fellman and Howard Kooper the community event also will provide special recognition to the Livingston Foundation and its trustees. The Foundation has given the Jewish community substantial financial support since 1948 and the dinner-dance will be the setting of an official tribute to that organization, the co-chairmen said. They stressed that all members of the Jewish community are encouraged to attend the event and that the cost will be $15 per person. "There is no minimum gift required to attend and this will be a night of fun and surprises," the co-chairmen added. Yale Richards, secretary, The Livingston Foundation, has provided the Jewish Press with a list of trustees, past • and present, as well as a detailed description of the Foundations's contributions to the community all of which have been published previously in the Jewish Press. . The information is as follows: LIVINGSTON FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Milton S. Livingston • 1948-1989
1948-1961 Corinne N. Livingston Marion Sally Belmont 1948-1957 Joseph Belmont 1948-1957 Paul Veret 1948-1962 David E. Beber 1948-1974 Morris E. Jacobs 1962-1983 Dr. Abe Greenberg 1962-1983 Jule M. Newman 1962-Present Morton A. Richards . 1972-Present Stanley Slosberg 1974-Present Louis Somberg 1983-1984 Robert I. Kully 1983-Present Murray Newman 1984-Present Present officers of the Foundation are; Jule M. Newman -— President Morton A. Richards —— Vice President Stanley J. Slosberg — Treasurer Yale Richards — Secretary ' Milton S. Livingston served as President from 1948 until his death in 1989. Jule M. Newman ha3 been President of the Foundation since. CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LIVINGSTON FOUNDATION TO THE JEWISH FEDERATION CAMPAIGN SINCE 1970 TOTAL $2,370,000. (continued on page 2)
YomH ' A state-wide commemoration of the Holocaust will-take place on Yom-Hashoah, April 18 at 10:45 a.m. in the East chamber of the State Capitol. According to' Yale Gotsdiner of Lincoln's Community Relations Committee, who is chairman of the event, State Attorney General Robert Spire will deliver the main address. Also scheduled to participate are Governor Bob Kerrey and Chief JusYale Gotsdiner tice Norman Krivosha. Proclamations from the Governor and Mayor, respectively, will be presented to survivors Sam Fried and. Henry Wald. Norman Smith, of Albion, an Army veteran who participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, pill speak. Survivors lighting candles will be Ann
International NazihuntGitBcateinarsfeld, vrffl highlight the community ohisrvance of YomHcShostiwitli en c&irzzi at Beth El Synagogus ,"'" ~" " ', on April 22, 1S35, ! ' at 7:30 p.m., on- j nounced Robert > Yaffe, this year's Yom HaShoafot chairman. Her I topic will . be-! • "Wherever they j . may bs! One Worn- [ an'o Moral Crusade i.. Against Nnziiam." ' This 1977 Nobel i Peace Prize jiomiEsate KlarofcKl nse mads international he&dlinss as nha vrcti instrumental in the capture and arrest of Klaus Barhes,! the notorious Nazi butcher of Lyon. Her address will keynote the Yom HcShoah memorial service being held at Beth El Synagogue this year. For the first time, the Yom HaShoah ob-
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Modenstein, Joe Boin, Rose Feuerberg, Eli Modensteih; Ilona Berk, Gretel Wald and Lilo Sommsrhauser..-. Cantor Emil Berkovits of Beth El Synagogue, and Cantor Leo Fettman of Beth s Israel Synagogue, also will participate. Mr. Gotsdiner said he is working with the leadership of the Omaha Jewish community as well as contacts in other parts of the state to ensure a larger than usual turnout. "I hope that organizations in Omaha will charter buses so that a proper memorial commemoration can take place oh this day," Mr. Gotsdiner added. Members of his committee include Rabbi —^UA Ian Jacknis and Rabbi Kenneth White, Nancy Coren, Robert Nefsky and Reba Ku- Activists in the cause of Soviet Jewry — from left, Miriam Simon, Shirley. Goldstein and Sister Ann Gillen. klin. Mr. Gotsdiner said that in past years, the Holocaust observance in Lincoln took place in a small room near the Governor's office limiting the number of people who could attend. This year, he said, the larger quarters will enable many more members of the Jewish and non-Jewish communities to attend. . ligious oppression and attempts by the So. B y Morris Maline A Roman Catholic nnr» has called for a. viet government to eliminate the greater Christian commitment to work with generational transmission of religion Soviet Jews regarding-human righto -violations in Jews are recognizing who they are. . • The Soviet Union, she said, is a "wastethe Soviet Union. Sister Ann Gillen, executive director of land" religiously with church buildingB the Inter-reUgiou3.TasiForce on-Soviet Je- demolished and constitutional rights dete'••rcrvanccv/ill bs co-sponsored by the'Jewish wry in Chicago, satdChristian religions lock riorating. The Jews, however, are seeing what Ss Culture! Arts Council and ths ADL/CRC. thff "esnsa of, pspplehood" which motivates happening to their co-religionists and. are In edditioatothecsrvice at Beth El on the Jewish community. "Christiana need to.do more • . . we can't reacting strongly to a people in trouble, she April 22Jtfaa observance- will includoara in• ter-fhith Holocaust renxsmbrance service eiipsct the Jewish people to do it all,", oho eddud. Sister Ann reminded the audience .that which will take place April 21, at 7:30 pan. told an interfaith- breakfast at the Jewish. "Jews are not the only targets of repression at the First United Methodist Church, 7020 Community Center. The breakfast, sponsored by the Anti- and KGB harrassment. Cass Street. That service will include a lec"The entire hierarchy of the Ukrainian ture by the Reverend John T. Pawlikowski, Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, was a leading Christian tbsologian in the area held for-members of the clergy and leaders Catholic Church was arrested, all church property was nationalized, and the religious of Christian-Jewish relations. Reverend of interfaith organizations. Sister Ann also opoke to approximately community exists today only in the underPawlikowshj is a member of the United States Holocaust1 Memorial Council to 150 members of the Jewish community the ground." There is a movement to have their rights which he was appointed in 1980 by Presi- previous evening hi tho Jewish Community Center in an event sponsored by the Omaha restored, she said, but indicated that the dent Jimmy Carter; — The inter-faith-service will involve par- Section, National Conference of Jewish movement is not as strong as it should be for lack of strength on the part of the Chris' ; • • : • ticipation from the Christian and Jewish Women. '." At this meeting, which was highlighted by tian efforts. communities and hes the support of the "We don't have that sense of peoplehood mainline Christian denominations in a can die-light ing ceremony in recognition of ' Omaha, and will further serve as a memorial 'those Buffering state-sponsored harrass- that the Jews have," ahe added. Sister Ann described the separation of to the nix million Jews and millions of dtnsr ment in the Soviet Union, Sister Ann oaid innocent victims murdered by the Nazis Soviet Jews are undergoing a "profound" church and state in tho Soviet Union as the state being on top "strangling" the church during the "Final Solution," reports Carl religious experience. (continued on page 7) She pointed out that despite years of re- ' . (continued on page 8) *
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