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Selma Weintraub to speak at Women's League conference Selma Weintraub will be the keynote speaker for the Spring Conference of the Midwest Branch of Women's League for Conservative Judaism to be held in Omaha April 26-28. Mrs. Weintraub has just completed a four-year term as national president of Woman's League and is currently assistant publisher of her husband's trade publication. In her Sisterhood at Temple Israel Center, White Plains, N.Y., Mrs. Weintraub has served at president and chair-, man of many committees. Later, as president of the I Westchester-Rockland Branch Sebma Weintraub of Women's League, her responsibilities included leadership training chairman, twotime Spring Conference chairman, and accredited discussion leader. On the national level of Women's League, Mrs. Wein-
traub has been national vice president, national treasurer, convention advisor, convention chairman, and national budget and finance chairman. She is a national consultant and Spring Conference coordinator for Women's League. She is an honorary president of the World Council of Synagogues and a member of the Board of Directors of Temple Israel, where she served as the first woman officer. Mrs. Weintraub has been secretary of the World Jewish Congress-American Section and she is also on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. She received the Solomon Schechter Medal and National Community Leadership Award. She also serves on the executive committee of MERCAZ and the Jewish Braille Institute and is a member of B'nal B'rith, ORT, Women's UJA, and Israel Bonds. She is a life member of Hadassah and has most recently been appointed to the Chancellor's Leadership Committee. Mrs. Weintraub is the wife of Morris, and the mother of four, including Connee who is currently co-president of their Sisterhood at Temple Israel. She is the grandmother of nine and is currently pursuing her work in Braille to become an accredited Braillist.
[Lincoln Women's Campaign reports a 'good gain'
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Barbara Scglln (left) and SoniaBreslow, co-chairmen of Women's Campaign in liacoln.
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The Lincoln Federation's Women's Campaign cochairmen Sonia Breskm and Barbara Seg^ report a "good , gain" thus far with somewhat less then 60 percent of the i pledges in hand. Pledge cards have been mailed directly to prospective contributors, and two follow-up letters have brought about an "excellent response in terms of signed pledge cards," they said. To bring forth the remaining cards, telephone solicitations and person-to-person visits will be employed to complete the pledging procedure and finalize the campaign. Sonia and her husband, John, who serves as chairman of the board of both linweld and Linaire, have three dauj^ters: Laura, II; Melissa, eight; and Danielle, three. Formerly of Omaha, Mrs. Breslow has been active at Lincoln Gieneral Hospital as a volunteer, her latest project has been
that of chairing the Raffle Sales Committee. "I hope Barbara and I, together with committee members, w^ have contacted everyone in the Jewish Community of Lincoln and that we will have secured total participation. Of all the worthy needs served by the Federation, the single one that strikes me most deeply is that of local needy perstms. The highest form of giving in our tradition is an un8<dicited anony^ious gift by an anonymous donor. To accon^dish that Mitivah ought to be of the highest priority." Barbai* and her fauaband, Steve, a partner in the law firm of Crosby, Guenzel, Davis, Kessner, and Kuester, are the parents of a daughter. Shannon, 9. Mrs. Seglin has been active in the Tifereth Israel Sisterhood and has served as membership chairman for both the Synagogue and the Lincohi Hadassah ch^ter. She has served as a vohmteer of Planned Parenthood and of the Madonna Home. She has further served Lincoln on the advisory board of the Community Health Center and as a room mother at Calvert Elementary School. "The needs I see in our own commimity are particularly important to me, and so I hope our drive continues at its present pace so that we can take care of local needs and make a substantial contribution to the larger Jewish community as well. Therefore, I do appeal to all who have not returned their pledge cards to please do so promptly." Those who have returned their signed pledge cards will be guests of the Federation for a gala evening including "the damdest show you've ever seen," according to Bob Pitlor, executive secretary of the Lincoln Jewish Welfare Federation. It will be a night for the community to laugh at itself—all in the name of good fun and a successful Federation Campaign. "Be a part of the fun—sign the card and mail iti"
B'nai B'rith urges NJ. Assembly to reject constitutional convention TRENTON, N.J.—B'nai B'rith International has called on the New Jersey State Assembly to reject a proposal for a constitutional convention to consider an amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. E Testifying before the Committee on State Government, Seymour D. Rdch, preddent, said such a convention "poses : a potential threat to our phiraliatic democracy and to our ^American way of life." Reich said that opening the U.S. Constitution via a constitutional convention to change "carries unacceptable rjaka because it invites tampering with our basic freedmns." Many eq)erts, he added, fear that the Bill of Rights also would not be secure. The reason for B'nai B'rith's cjoncem "is the nature and agenda of the groups pressing for the convention." Many, he explained, seek more than a balanced budget amendment; some "have made no secret that they are loddng for fundamental changes." Reich pointed out that many legal scholars are convmced that once such a convention begins, there are no restrahits on what it can consider. "In theory, the delegates to a convention can rewrite the Constitution altogether, just as the first convention, mandated to rewrite the Aridcles of Confedaratkm, decided to recommend a radically different docu-
ment, which was then ratified by the states," said Reich. The B'nai B'rith leader said that the Jewish organization has been working with members of Congress to strengthen the constitutional convention procedures bill in an effort to limit a convention to the specific subject for which it was called. "But despite our efforts, and the efforts of many other groups, the principal sponsors have resisted stronger language." Reich added that even such a bill still would not guarantee that a convention Would operate within certain parameters. He stated that a safer and more traditional means of amending the Constitution is for Congress to consider amendments. "This is the way the Constitution has been amended all 26 times," he declared. Reich urged the New Jersey legislative committee to reject the call for convention. "If New Jersey and the rest of the country want a balanced budget amendment to the constitution, let it be done by that traditional method. Only in this way can we protect our Constitution," he said. "Only in this way can we be assured that no extreme and willful segment of our body politic will be in a position to undermine our fundamental liberties as a free and tolerant pe<^."
25 Nlam, 8747 Friday, April 24, 1987
Yom HaShoah Sunday, 7:30 p.m. The community observance of Yom HaShoah will take place Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Beth Israel Synagogue. This annual ceremony commemorates the remembrance of the Holocaust and is jointly sponsored by Beth Israel, Temple Israel and Beth El. The talk by Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel— also part of the community observance—will take place Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Omaha Civic Auditorium. Tickets for the Elie Wiesel lecture are $3 and $2 and are available through TIX and the Jewish Community Center.
Hadassah celebrates at Shabbat service The Omaha Chapter of Hadassah will celebrate the 76th anniversary of the founding of Hadassah at the Friday evening Shabbat services at Beth Israel Synagogue on May 1. Services will begin at 8 pjn. and will include the installation of Hadassah officers for the coming year. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff will install the following cheers: Co-presidents (completing a two-year t«in) Ellen Albin and Corinne Levin; Educati(Hi vice president, Jufee Katznum; fund raising vice preeidait, Kathy Rapaport; membership vice president, Faye Ruback; local services vice president, Maxine NoodeJl; recording secretary, Judy Katzman; financial secretary, Susie Shyken; correspcmding secretary, Maggie Gerber; treasurer, Bev Rich; nominating committee chairwoman, Betty Sanford. Hadassah also will sponsor an Oneg Shabbat fdlowing the service. Services are open to the entire community. . "We are pleased to commemorate this special Hadassah anniversary at a Sabbath service," stated Judy Katzman, Omaha Chapter 76th Anniversary chair woman. "We felt that this was a most appropriate way to celebrate with the community as we recognize the achievements of this outstanding organization."
High court issues landmark decision ByHoghOrgel TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Supreme Ckjurt issued a landmark decision upholding the right of journalists to protect their sources of information, except in the most serious cases of wrong-doing. Supreme Court President Justice Meir Shamgar ruled that a journalist must reveal his sources only if a crime carrying a five-year maximum sentence or a lesser crime with grave consequence, was involved. He said in the case of a serious dvil crime, disclosure would be required only if it was essential in the interests of justice. The ruling was on the case of two journalists, Ben-Zion (Titrin and Yifat Nevo, who appealed to the high court against a demand by the Israel Bar Association's discipUnary tribunal that they reveal the sources of published information in the trial of two lawyers charged with violating the Bar's code of ethics. The.tribunal wanted the journalists to disclose whether the information they published originated with the accused lawyers. The case was the first to come before the Supreme Court questianitig a journalist's right to protect his sources. Shamgar stated in his dedsian that a democracy can exist only if it recognizes the right to gather and publish information. "The right to gather information includes the need to protect the sources of that information," he said.
Elie Wiesel There will be bus transportation available for the Elie Wiesel lecture on Wednesday, April 29. A chartered bus will pick up ridcnrs at the JCC at 6 p.m. and wilTmake a stop at Beth Israel Synagogue at 6:30, anriving at the auditorium at 7 p.m. Seat^ are limited so reservations must be made by Monday, April 27. Call Helen Rifkin, 334-8200. i:*v!Xa(;;feft:i:i-\.