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Sol Kutler returns: left Israel smiling By Morris Maline World traveler and dental-care provider Dr. Sol Kutler has returned to Omaha from Israel with enough anecdotes and impressions to talk before a dinner audience. He'll get that opportunity Sunday night at 6 p.m. at Beth Israel Synagogue when scores of friends and dignitaries attend a dinner in his honm*. At the dinner, AMIT Women will honor Dr. Kutler with its Humanitarian Award. It is not the intent of this article to preempt his remarks, but what writer could re^t the following: •Dr. Kutler and his wife, Cherie, are waiting to see the Prime Minister of Israel who is busy at a Cabinet meeting called to discuss the Pollard case... television cameras and news reporters are swarming about as Shamir, Ariel Sharon, Abba Eban etc. walk out... outside hundreds of students are protesting the rise in tuition costs and riot police stand by—a typical day in Israel? *The Jewish community of Savannah, Georgia, now know that a resident of Sdorot, Israel, is going to marry one of their girls and whisk her off to the land of milk and honey—courtesy of a conversation between Dr. Sol Kutler points to a town in Israel where he spent five weeks providing denMrs. Kutler and a friend in Jerusalem. •The dentist working with Dr. Kutler at tal care as part of a Rotary Onb humanitarthe clinic in Sdorot is Rubin Silvern of New ian effort. Additiomd photos oii page 5. York, whose wife, Thelma, is a cousin to the He said that now the land is green, lush late Eli Zalkin of Omaha. Dr, Kutler was wiUfaig and able to disclose and fertile, and that in addition to agriculmore tidbits of information, but after five ture, numerous factories and industrial enweeks away from his office, he was anxious terprises thrive. He pointed out that altbouj^ the poputo be on time for w<n-k Tuesday morning when his interview with the Jewish Press lation of 9,000 is about 85 per cent Moroccan, many Ethiopians and Soviets also live took place. Dr. Kutler described Sdorot as a develop- there. The dental clinic in which he worked was ment town about 20 miles from Ashkelon, a town in which mostly Moroccan Jews set- described as well-equipped and with Moroccan aides. Dr. Kutler was able to treat a patled some 35 years ago. "They literally were given some tents, tient every half hour from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. placed at the edge of the desert and told to Monday through Friday and take care of (Continued on Page 2) build a dty."
26 Adar, 5747 Friday, March 27, 1987
Super Sunday response called 'unprecedented' By Joanie Jacobeon Federation PnbUc RelationB Director Denise and Carl Greenberg, co-chairmen of the 1987 Super Simday Telethon, announced an unprecedented response from volunteer woricers for the giant fund-raising event for the Jewish Federation of Omaha on Sunday, April 6, and during Superweek, April 6-8. " 'Rally 'Round the Phone, Friends' is this year's Super Sunday message, and that's just what people have done," said Mrs. Greenberg. "We sent postcards to past woricers, even before the ads ran in the Jewish Press, and within several weeks, all the time slots were filled. Response cards are still coming in, and seme people who will be out of town made special note to contact them again next year!" "We also sent letters to all Federation agency presidents," added Mr. Greenberg, "asking them to recruit board members to work the event. Again, the response was ex-
cellent. It says that agency board members want to get involved, and that's good for all of ua. "It speaks well for the Omaha Jewish community in general," continued Mr. Greenberg. "That over 100 people 'rallied' within a few weeks of recruitment makes a very positive statement about the Federation Campaign as well. Support for each other, for our human services agencies and for Jews around the world is what this campaign is all about." "Super Sunday is the last fund-raising event in the 1987 Federation Campaign," concluded Mrs. Greenberg, "and we look forward to making a strong finish I" Super Sunday volunteers will be making their calls on Sunday, April 5, from 10 a.m. to 3 p jn. Those members of the community who cannot be reached on Sunday will be contacted during Superweek, Monday through Wednesday, April 6-8, from 6-9 p.m.
Omaha approves Mission for men, women, singles A lOday Community Mission program to Israel has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Jewish. Fedoration of Omaha. At its Tuesday night meeting at the Jewish Community Center, the Board unanimously adc^ted the concept that husbands, wives and singles would join together in a single mission program. According to Sandy Friedman, Jerry Hoberman, co-chairman. Men's Division and Bert Lewis, chairperson. Women's Division, the mission will take place Nov. 2-10. Up to 90 memblrs of the Jewish Federation of Omaha will be accommodated for a
pledge of at least $1,000 to the Canq>aign. Cost of the trip will be approximately $995 to the participant with a Federaticn subudy of «938. The cost includes air fare from Omaha to Israel, food and lodging. Accommodations will be at the Tel Aviv Hilton, a Kibbutz guest house, and the Jerusalem Hyatt. The purpose of the Mission is to join other Federations in the United States in helping the Jewish community understand first hand why increased support Of Israel is necessary, and to have the 1988 Campaign benefit from the additional giving which is the pattern of all UJ A Missions.
Klutznick's $1 million Chair at Creighton will bolster Jewish Federation's programs By Morris Maline ' An endowed Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University is linked to the Jewish Federation of Omaha in a fairly unique arrangement between a university and a Jewish institution. The Chair at Creighton, funded by a $1 million gift from former Omahan Philip M. Klutznick and his wife, Ethel, also gives the Jewish Federation of Omaha an opportunity to benefit from the scholar who will occupy that chair. A similar arrangement was introduced by the Klutznicks in their recent gift of a $1 million to Northwestern University and linking that Chair in Jewish Civilization to the Jewish Federation in Chicago. Those attending the press conference announcing the gift to Creighton last Friday said they had no knowledge of any of the 1,000 or so Jewish Studies programs at major universities being linked to Jewish Federations, thereby making the arrangement between Creighton and the Jewish Federation of Omaha "very unusual." Under the terms of the Klutznick gift to the Campaign for Creighton, the University's current fund-raising effort, the College of Arts and Sciences annually will receive 90 per cent of the distributed income from the Chafr endowment, while the remaining 10 per cent will go to the Jewish Federation to assist it in conducting programs using the talents of the scholar in Jewish civilization. Mort Trachtenbarg, president, Je*ish
Federation, praised the coDaborative nature of the new academic program. "The exciting partnership between campus and community which has been written into the new chair should serve as a model for others to emulate." He said that, "Having the benefit of a brilliant scholar to develop opportunities for education and ctiltural enrichment in the community as part of his or her academic responsibilities serves to emich Creighton University, the Omaha Jewish community, and the greater Omaha conunimity as wdl. It is a most innovative approach to 'town and gown' relationships." Mr. Klutznick, a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, former chairman of the World Jewish Congress and former international president of B'nai B'rith, was on the Creighton campus last weekend to deliver the Alpha Sigma Nu-Jesuit Honor Society lectui;e. (See separate story on Page 5;) A 1930 graduate of Creighton's School of Law, Mr. Klutznick said that his major interest m life now is to try to make it possible for Jews, Christians and Moslems to better understand each other and to live together in peace. Mr. Trachtenbarg said, "The partnership between the (Dreighton campus and the Jewish community which has been written into this new chair should serve us all well. To have the ability to develop opportunities for educational and cultural enrichment in the community as part of the professor's academic responsibilities' serves to enrich
Philip M. Klutznick annonnces the Klntsnick endowment of a Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University during a press conference at the University last Friday. Creighton Universii v, the Jewish community and, also, the greater Omaha community. "The Federation's responsibility in this partnership is to maintain a program for membera of the Jewish community, and
other interested citizens, for the purpose of providing them with various educatumal opportunities in or related to the field of Jewish civilization. The programs that we will plan will consist of a variety of courses of,, (ContMned on Page 7) j iissstii>'ai;s:aigi«s5ikn;