May 9, 1941

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OUTSTANDING JCC ATHLETES ARE HONORED P*ul Bogdanof f and Landman Receive ' Awards Outstanding athletes of the lOfO -1941 Jewish Community Center season w e r e honored Wednesday.night at the annual Award Night. *; Paul fiogdanoff received t h e Coveted Irvln C. Levin trophy .as the^outstanding Senior athlete. ," yhe Harry Trustln award for the dutstanding Junior athlete went to Mike Landman. Basketball honors went to the Lincoln Tavern, pre-season champions; the Adler's Bakery team, Regular season champions; t h e Council Bluffs A; Z. A. 7, Junior - League winners, the Beth El Juiitors, runner-up in the Junior league, and the A. Z. A. 100 team .'which won second place in the Senior league, was A. Z. A. regional champ, and runner-up In the A. Z. A. district tourney at Hock Island. Members of the Lincoln Tavern team were: Jack Adler, manager, Mort Soref, Sonny Golding, Morris Adler, Herb Meiches, Sam Ruderman and Max Turner. Included on the Adler squad were: Art Adler, manager, Iz Noyak, Irwin Yaffe, James Bufroughs, Henry Riekes, Iz BogdaBOff, Sol Yaffe, and Harold Garber. On the Council Bluffs A. Z. A. team were: Al Passer, Jack Lincoln, Bob Yiidelson, Dan Kubbby, Douglas, Kooler, Herbert Tepperman, and Stanley Katleinan. ' Members of the Beth El team •were: Yale Trustln, Mel Sherman, Jerry Rosen, Frank Josephson, Darwin Marcus, Paul Zelinsky, Phil Fox, and Floyd Kuklin. The A. Z. A. 100 team included: Ben Kutler, Melvin .Levine, Mitchell Landman, Norman Kuklin, Sam Slutzky, Harold Epstein, Louis Slutzky, William Sussman, and Morris Ricbliu. * Handball Sol Yaffe was Class A preseason singles handball champion (Continued on Page 10.)

U;O.C. BROTHERHOOD DINNER WEDNESDAY The closing meeting of the U. O. C. Brotherhood will take place on Wednesday evening, May 14, at the Jewish Community Center. :This will be a novel dinner meeting in celebration of Lag B'Omer, Traditional observances will be followed. A short play entitled "The Star that Failed'-' will be presented. There will' also be a program of Palestinian songs and comic reading. Reservations arc being taken At JA 0887. • -• < Installation of new officers of the Brotherhood will take place at this time. The following will be Installed: Sam Katzman, president; Dr. A. Rimmerman, vice president; Sam Freed," treasurer, and I. Elewitz, secretary.

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. The Sisterhood of the V. O. C. Is planning a special Mothers Day service to take place on Sunday, May 11, at 9 a. m. at. the B'nai Israel synagogue/ Members of Sisterhood and their families' will be guests. The services wlll.be conducted by members of the Brotherhood, and Rabbi Isaiah Racftovsky.. will deliver a'brief address on-the 6c. caslon. This service will be followed by the usual Bible _Btudy_£roup j n the vestries of,the synagogue.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY » , 1 0 4 1

Hadassah Planning Sen. Wagner Forest New York (JTA) — Senator Robert F. Wagner, chairman of the newly-formed American Palestine commute, .w a s honored during A semi-annual conference of Hadassah's national bboard, which closed at the Hpte) Astof, by the dedication' of a forest of 10,000 trees to be planted In Palestine In recognition ot hln "life-long liberalism, devotion to justice, interest in the Zionist cS , the current Jewish Philan$ pies drive entered its secdnd movement a n d courageous es^ o K, all indications point to the pousal of humanitarian causes." £ j<» ta of $100,500 being reached. The announcement was made "* At the second report luncheon by Mrs. David de Sola Pool, Ha>t Tuesday at the Jewish Com.unity Center, workers heard dassah president, before 60 leadlilton S. Livingston, g e n e r a l era representing nearly, 700 Ha- Morton Margolin, Miriu. chairman, announce that $87,723 dassah chapters and groups from Rubnitz to Honor had already been pledged, . Less than twenty per cent of 46 states. Societies the quota remains to be raised On May 1, during the tradi- a n d workers are intensifying tional Ivy Day ceremonies, two their efforts,. Principal speaker at Tuesday's Jewish students at the University of Nebraska were awardedd the luncheon was Rabbi Saul Appelhighest honors possible for a Ne- baum, assistant to Rabbi Jonah Wise of the Central Synagogue of braska student to receive, Morton Margolin, son of Dr. New .York. Rabbi Appelbaum and Mrs. Morris Margolin of Om. characterized American Jewry as was inducted into the Inno- "the saving remnant." "We must All-Day Affair to Be Held aha, cents society, men's senior honor- give because we are the only In Omaha On ary; and Miriam Rubnitz, daugh- people left in the world who can May 18 ter of Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Rubnitz share." of Omaha, was made a member Increases Shown Complete plans for the first of Mortar Board, women's senior Rabbi Appelbaum described midwest conclave sponsored toy honorary. the work of the three national the Round Table of Jewish Youth agencies—the Joint Distribution The Innocents Society includes Sunday, May 18, have been an- a membership of thirteen men, Committee, the United Palestine nounced by Willard Friedman and the Mortar Board has thir. Appeal, and tho National Refugee and Kutli Rosenstein, chafriuen teen women chosen for their service. "There has been le#s anof the affair. prominence in university activ- tagonism toward the refugee than Registration will begin at 11 ities on a basis ot leadership, we had a right to expect In these o'clock in the morning at the scholarship, and service... Those days of lies and. propaganda,1; he Jewish • 'Community-' Center. A elected will serve for the ensuing said, crediting the National Refugee Service with this phenomyear. enon. Both Active Registration Mr. Livingston announced that Margolin is enrolled In Arts the Business a n d Professional and Sciences college, is i n e w s Registration for the Round of "The Daily Nebraskan," Women's group was showing an Table Youth Conclave sched- editor a member of the Student Union increase of forty-two per cent. uled for May 18, will be held board of managers, historian The Men's General Solicitations at the Center at 11 a. m. of of Alpha Pi Omega, past (Continued on Page 3.) and past secthat day. retary a n d historian of Sigma Those who wish to attend Mu fraternity. Sigma Aleverything on the all-day pro- Alpha Mu holds the distinction of gram with the exception of the pha seven men elected to the mid-day banquet may register having honorary in the last ten years. at this time, but tickets must Miss Rubnitz, a j u n i o r at be purchased in advance for those who plan to attend the Teachers' College, will be vice banquet so that reservations president of Tassels next semesmay be made. Th^s does not ter. She is a member of the Stu. apply to out-of-town delegates. dent Council, Coed Counsellor, Registration chairman is Maf- Sigma Alpha Iota editor, and a Members of the Beth El Synatye Leo Byron working with a member of Vestals of the Lamp. gogue will Sunday evening, May She was sophomore attendant to committee consisting of Shel11, participate in the dedication don Bernstein, Mollie Kelberg, the May Queen in 1940 and is of a new Sefer Torah. The Sefer present historian of Sigma, Delta Gloria Friedman, and Bertha Torah is being given by Mrs." J. Slutsky. Tickets for the day's Tau sorority. Sigma Delta Tau Milder and her children in memhas had* four girls on this honor- ory of the late Herschel and Rlvprogram are 50c. ary since its founding. ka Moss. , The service is scheduled to bemid-day banquet will be served, Vichy —JTA) - Lending 11- gin at 8 o'clock. Cantor Aaron Dolores Sklar, banquet chairman, announces that, reservations for braries have been "advlsed" by Edgar and the choir-will conduct the banquet must be made in ad. official circles to discontinue cir- the service and Rabbi David A. vance. The fifty cents charge culation of certain books, includ- Goldstein will deliver the sermon. must be paid at the time of res- ing Leon Blum's "Marriage," Following the dedication cereervation. This fee also includes which created a sensation when monies, the donors will, receive attendance - at all events, except it was first published 30 years in the social hall of the Synaago, it was learned. gogue. (Continued on Page 3.)

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superlative merits of its leaders. Dy AL SEGAL * In the Jewish Post of Indianap- Who doesn't know how valiantly olis." there" is a flaming" argument Anshe Giborlm has been paying over Jewish publicity in the daily off the mortgage? Who doesn't preBs. It 1seema that Mr. Cohen, kno.w the spaciousness of Anshe the • Post's publisher, feels-that Giborim's synagogue which c a n matters- strictly of Jewish inter- hold as many as a thousand peoest only should not be allowed to ple on Yom Kippur? Nor can too much be said of clutter up the -columns, of the daily press. They belong in'the- its .leadership. Who isn't acquainted with the virtues of its presiJewish, press. \. t I myself have suffered- acute dent, Mr. Zilch, who is the big pain to see some- of the Jewish gadget manufacturer, or o£ Mrs, publicity that gets into the daily Zilch, who, with all her 60 years, press.'• Iti seems .to have to do looks BO young. (Her friends are largely with the vanities of Jew- always asking her how she manish leader's who like to see -their ages to keep her figure.) It was the.. Zilches who' paid names and pictures in the paper.. " Of/what public fnteresit, for ex-, 5iO.0-forJhe-key.with which the anlple; is- the ipiCnic- of the; K. K. doors of Anshe Giborlm were for, A'nshe ttiboH'in? 7 I d a not - mean mally, opened. to asperse' the- great and good • -• This wa,s also the day when name of ,'Anshe Glborim or the Anshe Glborlm'c treasurer paid

$50 for one brick of the synagogue. For the benefit of the congregational funds . they were auctioning off tho bricks, brick by brick, and his bid was the highest. No one. can tell me anything against* Anahe Giborlm. Nevertheless, I submit that it is none of tho business of "the general public, as represented by the daily press, that Anshe Giborlm is going to give a picnic, or that Ansho Glbbrlm" is going to have a bar mizvah or that Anshe Glborim is about to -Install- a. new acroll of the Holy Law. Yet when Anshe Glborim has a picnic it is made & matter that competes with the.rAxis, for .space In the daily press., -Anshe Gib:, orim's publicity ch&irman.sees^ (Continued on-'Page'-d.)'

RECRUIT ARMY FOR PALESTINE Ready Nation as Axis Drive for Suez Looms By BEUL COKALNIK Jerusalem (JTA) — Ilecruiting of Palestine Jew.s between the ages of SO and 80 was in full swing thLs week to meet tho threat arising from tho lighting in Iraq and the reported Axis plan for a drive towards SUCK through .Syria and the Holy Land. Enlistment of unmarried Jews began Sunday In response to a proclamation issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine and the Jewish National Council. Jewish officials said the call met with a warm response, but there were no immediate figures on tho number .of .recruits. There are already more., than 8,000 Palestine Jews w i t h the British, forces in North .Africa ana some were among the expeditionary force evacuated from Greece. Jewish soldiers returned f r o m Greece told the J. T. A. that the majority of tho Palestine Jews, most of whom were serving In the Royal Air Force, were safely evacuated from Greece. An Allied steamer bearing.400 refugee Britons, Poles, Czechs, German Jews and Yugoslavs from Greece arrived nt Haifa. Tho steamer was a" part of a largo British convoy which was unsuccessfully attacked from the air flve times. Escorting destroyers shot down one of the raiders. . The recruiting authorities named a special committe to consider applications for exemption. Although 8,00i) Jews are already serving In the British forces," mainly In Jewish units, the situation demands , Speedy ; enlarge^ ment of the ranks, the proclamation asserted. To spur the recruiting c a m p a 1 g n, Australian troops, headed by military bands, paraded through;the1 main streets of Tel Aviv, while Royal Air Force planes circled,,overhead. ; Confer \Vith British Dr. vM. Altman;'•'< leader 61 tho P a l e s t 1 n e Zionist-Revisionist group, conferred with Chief Government Secretary James McPherson and Major Clark, commanding officer of British forces in Palestine, on plans to convert,the Jewish community into a w a r machine for more active defense of the* country and aid to the British war effort. Both promised to forward his proposals to the porper authorities. \ * The outbreak of fighting" In Iraq has aroused intense excitement in Palestine and the belief Is widespread that the Holy Land is now on the front line of "the (Continued on Page 12.)

Pi Tau Pi to Hold Annual Services This evening the annual Pi Tau PI Mother's day service will ha held at Temple Israel. Rabbi David H. Wice will.deliver a aer-

monette, and Barton Green berg of the Junior Pi Tau Pi will speak.' . •' • . . , > " . . ' \' Ushers for the occasion ;wiH b» "Edwin, , Soinmefs,.ChapS o i n e f , Bernard B d p Kaplap;'3i4?lpn MiK Kl;'3i4l MK iaah) Howardd Kaplap;3i4?lpn M

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