xt%% Butered as Second Class Mall Matter on January II, 1911, at Postofftce, of Omaha. Nebraska, under the Act of March S. 187t
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 1 6 , 1 9 4 1
¥out li Groups ACQUIRE NEW To Meet Here LOCATION FOR Next Sunday CAMP Conclave To last Alt
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Increase In Pledges to Campaign
Site Near Fremont/^ $ m Yale Richards Round For the C6mj% t% '-" Table Vice-President • , , . S e a s o n /«o rs , Jewish Chautauqua Names Henry Monsky Yale Richards of A. Z. A. No. Camp Jay-C-C will ^ ^ jr Its
Philanthropies To Conclude Drive
00 was elected-vice president of Henry Monsky, president of Interest will on Sunday, May he Round Table of Jewish third season of outf£ & uping , 18, be focused on the first mid- outh at their last regular on a new site, thir'.o *? miles h e Supreme • Lodge of B'nai r Fre- B'rith and head of the local Jewjrest regional conclave of young monthly meeting, held on May 6, northwest of Onw •* With approximately 9100,000 / :•;,_ ish Federation, has been named ilready pledged to the current 'people f r o m Omaha, Council to fill the term of Warner Froh-> mont, Neb. According to K .vT. Rice, ;o serve on ^he advisory commit- ewish Philauthorpies campaign, •Huffs* Lincoln, Sioux City and man, who has stepped into the :ee of the Jewish Chautauqua so- fforts are being intensined ih shalrman of the Camp i . lhmittee, Des Moiueg. The affair is being presidency, • . he new site, located in an ideal Jiety/ , held here under the auspices of se the remainder of tho 1041 Officers for 1941-42 w i l l be ine tree setting, has many unThe election took place in De- [uota of $100,500. the R o u n d Table of Jewish lected at the closing meeting of usual advantages and modern con- roit at the ninth biennial 'con- Under the chairmanship of Miljjfouth. . r year, the first Tuesday in veniences. ention of the National Federa- on S. Livingston, campaign * , Registration for the day's ac- he The c a m p consists of seven ioii of. Temple Brotherhoods, workers are seeing the remain-" tivities will proceed during the une. ;abins, an administration build- sponsors.of the Jewish Chautau- ing cards. At least 200 cards repnorningr under the chairmanship nain to be seen. Ing, recreation hall, dining lodge qua society. Otffortye Lea Byron of the GamThis year's drive has seen the and crafts lodge. In addition to j|aa Tan Sigma sorority. The banargest number of subscribers to the wooded acres of the camp, the quet at noon will mark the offi:he Philanthropies. Before t h o iampeis will also have the use of cial opening of the conference, lampaign is ended it is expected he Fremont city park, not far according to Delores Sklar of the our thousand separate pledges rom the campsite for short hikes, . ilT. T t sorority, chairman. T h e will have been made. This is a look-outs, and nature lore. For ' {banquet program will he hlgharge increase o v e r last year's iwimming there Is a clear-water . lighted by two features: an ora,500 pledges. torical contest on the topic, "The Y o u t h Leaders Will Be iand-Pit on the grounds. Arrangements are now being completed Need for Unity in American JewHonored at All divisions of the campaign for horseback riding under the su- To Speak Tomorrow ish Life;" and a presentation of are clean-up operaConclave on ions conducting pervision of Fremont's finest rid(he Kovod key. and according to the re"Call to Youth" ports of the division chairmen It ' Participants in the oratorical The first winner of the Kovod ing academy. Program Limited Registration is expected that the drive will Contest will be Sheldon Singer of Key in two and a half years will Registrations f o r t h e 1941 e completed during the coming Sioux City; Fred Prager, Des e revealed at the banquet openweek. jMoines. a n d Edward Chernlss, ing the Youth Conclave activities camping season will be limited to The role of the Bible in the Workers in all divisions taro Council Bluffs. Judges will be >n Sunday afternoon, Slay 18, fifty persons. Announcement will American tradition will be disbo made soon as to the rates and Dr. Abe C. Fellman, Mr. Harry w h e n Mr. Milton Abrahams, ussed tomorrow morning front eportlng an unprecedented re£3. Cohen, and Mr. Milton Frohni. liairman of the Jewish Comuiu- :he length of the camping period. 10:30 to 10:43 over station ponse to the needs, and every This year's staff of counselors WOW and the K«d Network of division has shown a substantial Following t h e orations, Mr. ity Center committee, makes will again be selected on the basis the National Broadcasting Com- ncrease in per cent of gifts. he presenattion. (Continued on Page 5.) C h o s e n for leadership and f training, experience, and ability pany by Babbl David H. Wice, ot rvick to' the" youth* community to wprk w 11 h children. Senior Temple Israel. For ' several years, the candidate ounselors, who will be In charge Rabbi Wice, who Is appearing will be admitted to the fellow- of various camp activities, are re- on the weekly religious feature, hip of the national honor so- quired to have had at least two 'The Call to Youth," will speak :iety of Jewish Community Cen- years of college and camping ex- on "The Religious Sources of the ers in appreciation and recognl- perience. The number of Junior Declaration of Independence and ion of cooperation and notewor- counselors and campers-in-train- the Constitution." The program, hy participation in the activities ng will be limited this year be- which Is sponsored by the Union ;ause of lack of space. the Center. of American Hebrew Congrega- A n n u a l (Congregational Seventy - First A n n u a l The tions, will originate in Omaha, Omaha Chapter of the KoMeeting to Be Meeting to Be rod Society, in consultation with "The Call to Youth Program" Held Held he executive staff of the Center, is sponsored for f o u r months a the group which makes the each year by the Union In coopannual dinner meeting of Following the regular services ward, "This is not a popularity eration with Catholic and Protes- theTlio El synagogue will bo '. this evening, the seventy-first on- contest," stated Mr. Abrahams, tant groups who a l s o provide held Beth in the synagogue social hall " nual congregational meeting of but means of recognizing Cenyear round weekly programs in- on Monday evening, May 10, At ' Temple Israel will bo held in the ter members w h o have distinLast Saturday, according to rat- terpreting democracy to youth. p. m. vestry rooms. guished themselves in the cul"The Religious Contribution to New officers for the coming j Officers and trustees will also ural life of the Center, who have ings, issued by t . J. Thompson, American Democracy" is t h e dean of student affairs at the Uniwill be elected at that time. be elected for the coming year. rendered unselfish service over a theme of the U. A. H. C. discus- year Present officers of the Temple period of years, and who have versity of Nebraska, the two Jew- sions. The program which start- Reports will bo g i v e n by tho • are: Morris E. Jacobs, president; cooperated in all its undertak- ish fraternities on the campus ed May 3 will continue through hairmen. The pictures of the tenth anniversary dinner, given Alfred S*. Mayer, vice president; ngs and who by their exemplary were singularly ranked first "and August. In honor of Rabbi and Mrs. Da•Manning: Handler, treasurer, and (Continued on Page 5.) third, respectively, in scholarship vid A. Goldstein several weeks Milton R. Abrahams, secretary. ago, will be shown. for the first semester of 1940-41 . ! Members of the board of trusRabbi David A. Goldstein will , tees are, besides t h e officers: in a group of twenty social ...frabe speaker of the evening. Leslie Burkenroad, Sol Degen, ternities. , Present - officers of tho Beth ' David Goldman, Abe Goldstein, This extends the string of firsts El are; Arthur A. Colin, presiMbrton Hiller, Sam Leon, David which SAM has received; ;a numdent;. Dr. Morris Margolin, first Levine, Louis E. Lipp, J. H. Newber which has not been exceeded Jewish National Fund box col- vice president; Moe Venger, secman, Louis Somberg, and Mrs. by any fraternity on. c a m p u s . lections will start t h i s Sunday ond vice president; Al Fiedler, - Sam Robinson. '.'"\ Zurich (JTA)—Segregation of a period of the ladjt! thirteen secretary, a n d B. A. Simon, • i The presidential message will ail the Jews in Salonika into a Over years Sigma Alpha Mu 4tfll ranks morning with all Zionist group treasurer. •- • • • be read by Mr/ Jacobs. ., closed ghetto is contemplated by first in scholarship on' the N. U. assisting. Members of the Beth El aux' A reception, tendered by mem- the Nazi authorities in Greece fol Several years ago, Sigma Mr. I. Morgenstern Is president iliary are iu charge of the dinbers of the Temple Sisterhood, lowing an order issued there in campus. Omicron chapter was recognized of the J. N. F. council and Mrs ner. will follow the meeting. . troducing yellow armbands f o r as the third highest in scholarship Jews, it was learned here. all social fraternities In Frank Ackerman is in charge of ' Reports from Greece reyealtha among the nation. year Iti :averag< the distribution of cards. the Nazi military authorities in was 2.594, This just slightly lowe Participating in the box collec Salonika'and Athens have ordered than the mark which.gave na- tlous will be Hadassah, Mizrach a census of the-Jewish population age for third place Zetoi BetaitTau with a view to establishing the also maintains a scholastic rating Women, Pioneer Women, and Ju number of Jews, who served in the close to the top of the list. nlor Hadassah. Greek military-forces fighting the . The I. W. O. Dramatic" club Italian "and' German armies. The Mrs. M. D. Brodkey was elected . regrets to announce that- due to same reports state that able-bodvice president a n d Mrs. A. D. , the sudden.'illness of its dra led'Jews in Salonika and in Ath Frank, a member of the board of ' inatlc director, -Mr. Ben Martin "ens* ore" being .ordered to repor the southwest region of Hadassah . the play.". "Tz.u.zelt _und Tzustf for' forced "labor and will be or at its sixteenth annual conference fpreit" will- be Indefinitely post 'ganized' in special Jewish labo which was held in Des Moines on ! pohed. * ---.-..'. battalions. Sunday, Monday a n d Tuesday, May 11, 12 and 13. The play, which was to have . The wealthier Jews in Salonika Mrs. A. D. Frank and Mrs. Mike been given Sunday, May 18/ will have been ordered -to move into Freeman took part in the.discus- ,be prespnted at a future date the-section'of the city inhabited Rabbi David A. Goldstein wll sion on the Hadassah Medical OrPlease' watch" ttiV press for fur- by the poor Jewish-, population. In • accordance with a tradition ' ther ."announcements.' The homes of the richer Jews in established by the Social Service conduct..the services, and Rabbi ganization. The annual donor luncheon was the city have "been occupied by Committee of* the. Jewish Federa- Isaiah Rackovsky • of tho Union Nazi officers, who did "not permit tion and the Omaha lodge of of Orthodox Congregations will held at the Jewish Community Refugee Aid . . . "the owners to remove any of theii B'nai B'rith, tho annual bacca- address ,ihe graduates. ' Problem Center on Thursday, May 15. Mrs. Jewish youth will be discussed A. P. Schoolman, national secreNow York (JTA) — The Na- belongings. It is believed that thi laureate service for Jewish High of Jews of Athens and other parts o school graduates will bo held on by two members of the graduat- tary of Hadassah, gave a most tlonal Refugee Service spent Interesting a n d inspiring talk. total of $1,035,238 in the four .Greece .will be ordered to leave Friday evening, May 80, at 8 ing classes. Following the service, the Sis- Mrs. Dayid Goldstein led the commonth period from January t( for Salonika, where the-Nazis in o'clock at the Beth. El synaApril, 1941, for cash relief, re- tend to' segregate all' the 70,00 gogue, 49th and Farnam streets. terhood 01 the- Beth El congre- munity singing, and Mary JenetU "will serve •'refreshments.'.' Brown presented a violin solo. Dr. Philip -Sher, chairman. of gation settlement,' " Job placement, re- Jews ofc Greece and isolate them 1 Last year's Baccalaureate aery; ,'Two" short "reports.'were given training and, other services for behind the'walls'of a ghetto, as the Social Service Committee, anrefugees in the. United States, the was done .with the Jews in, War nounces t h a t ninety graduates ice was held at theB'aai'Israe by Mrs/' Julius ' Stein arid Mrs. synagogue. .'* > Win. Alberts/' will participate in the service. United Jewish Appeal announced . s a w , "'• • " - " • - • , " ' " . ' "
WARD KOVOD KEY SUNDAY
TEMPLE ELECTTp
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I. W. 0. PLAY PRESENTATION
BOX COLLECTIONS TO START
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