January 11, 1957

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XXXV —No. 14

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Ben Gurion to Speak

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Entire Community Invited to Attend Nationwide Closed Circuit Telecast at New City Civic Auditorium Omaha Jewry has been ijnitcd to attend a dramatic closed circuit nationwide telecastj thil fir-»t o£ its kind ever bold by a philanthropic prtgnuizatipn, at 7:30 p. m., Tuesday; January 15 when the United Jen ioli -Appeal will roach 27 communitiesthroughout theUnited States via* i private television network, .lack W, JIarer, the president of the Federation for Jewish:SerV|ie, The telecast originating lxi,.'jl<w;:: rk City will be shown to th«, community at tb« Omaha .CLyiaAuditorium, 17th aha PaVenport '

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Onidlu will Join twenty-six other cities throughout the nation in receiving tho United Jewish Appeal Closed Circuit Television Network Program, Tuesday at 7:30 p, m. The other metropolitan incus to receive (lie program are: —Alt run —Atlanta —Itultimort' —llnston —Buffalo

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Primo Minister David Ben Gurion will deliver a speciul nie«3age on the problems of the current refugee (situation in b r a d on the telecast to be presented at .7:30 p. m., Tuesday, January ,15 in the Civic Auditorium.

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—Dallas —Detroit —Houston —'JiidiaiiupolU —LonUvllIfl —I.os Aiifjelei —Miami —Miluuukre

p —Nowark —New Orleuni —MilladoIphU Naples (WNS)-.Sordid stories ii stateless, fciihl the police had —rittnliurjrh how !hc Nasser regime i" E;:yi>' beaten him until he signed a —St. IxniM Is practicing horror and lirulnllty pledge to leave the counti"y for- —St. Paul •gainst the Jewish population ever1. An Egyptian-born Jew, Ib- —Han Francisco •part from tho commonplace dis- rahim Vetayn, related that ho and crimination were unfolded litre bis wife were expelled after tho —Worcester by n group of 907 Jewish refugees authorities sequestered bin textile Who arrived here fr.mi Eitypt by boat under tlw nej;ls ni ll)« in- concern und bank accounts totaling about 51,100,000. ternational Ited Cross. Tho fifth annual Citation DinItnhbl Herbert Friedman, exec- Oinii'lteil from Dispatcher utive vice president of Hie UnitMany Jewish refugees from ner of Beth Israel Synagogue, ed Jewish Appeal, ami Moses Kf;ypt who havo arrived In New honolrng former President Harry Leavltt, executive vice chairman York City havo found themselves Truman, will bo held Sunday, 01 the Joint Distribution ('.;niinlt- penniless due to the worlhlessness March 3 at 0:43 p, m. nl the Sytce met the arrival!', most of (jf travelers' checks or letters of nagogue. Ilsibnl Herbert Friedman Whom Indicated preference for credit Ijourcht from tho Egyptian Dan Gordman waj named geniettlomcnt in Israel. National Bunk, according to in- eral chairman of tho event in an Among the arrivals were many formation received hero by the announcement today by Harry Who wf?io made "s t ft t e 1 o H " World Jewish Congress. Sldman, president of tho synathrdufih the duress of Egyptian gogue. More than 10,000 stateless Officials who made them renounce Egyptian Jews have registered fur Tho former president was setheir Egyptian citizenship. In emigration from Kfiypt at a spe- lected to receive tho citation in many Instances there was resort cial lUn\ Cross section opened in trlbuto for his unstinting efforts Otto Nathan, internntlonnllyto police brutality not only to the offices of the rabbinate In on hehnlf of Israel, Mr. Gordman known economist, will speak on liavc 'he victims surrender their Cairo, said. It was reported by the Citizenship rii'.lits but to extract Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "Tho decisive manner In which "The Hungarian Revolt—Is This promises from them that they President Truman supported the The Kntl of Communism?" at the A croup of Jews arriving In recognition of Israel's statehood," Jewish Community Center, Sunivould never return to Kv:ypt. Most of tho arrivals said they Geneva Monday states that the Mr. Gordmnn added, "and his ex- day, January 13, nt 8 p. ra. H was Lebanese Government 1» putting tremely syuipathetic approach to (pent tho last weeks before their announced by Dr, A. Grcenbcrg, peparturo In prisons, camps or info effect a series of anti-Jewish tho problems of the young .State, program chairman- Mr. Nathan's Concentration centers. About 300 measures'. Thin far, they said, both during his term of office t>f tho arrivals were of Italian "petty but efficient anti-Jewish and subsequently, mark him as a appearance In Omaha to part of At'lgin, a country which was not measure*" have already been put pre-eminent .statesman worthy of the "Program of the Month" seinto force. Among tho obstacles the ncclalm of our people." ries sponsored by> the .Jewish Involved in tho current Mid-Ivist ,-ire excessive taxation, refusal to Itress. renew residence permits for nonIncluded In tho group were two I-cbancua nationals nnd hindering hyslclans, formerly with the the Issuance of commercial liewlsh Hospital In Cairo, who censes. [aid they line! been held pending Of tho 8,700 Jewish refugees Deportation In a Jewish school In The Annual Meeting of. tho Federation for Jewish Cairo together with several hun- from Ilmicary procossed by the Service will be held Sunday evoning, Jan. 20 at the Jewish dred men whose wives had been Hebrew ImmlRrant Aid Society Community Center, Jack W. Marcr, Federation president, in Vienna, nearly a fifth will be lent to it camp nt Hellopolis. Ono young man aald he wai de- coming to Canada, according to announced. prived of hi« citizenship and In-arrangements made with tho JewOrganisations are requested to keep that date open. terned when b» applied for a pasi- ish Immigrant Aid Society of Canport to Paris. Ah^tbrr young man, ada,

Beth Israel to Cite Harry S. Truman

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"This will prove to be the most unforgeta'blc and most impressive assembly In tho history-of our. community," Mr. Macer said, and I Urge every member of the cpm» munity to bo present at this extraordinary and unusual meeting," A most unique and exceptional feature of the program will be a special filmed report from David Hen Gurion, Primo Minister of Israol, who will describe the current refugee .situation in Israel. ;, Kaubi Herbert Friedman, vice* chairman of the United Jewish Ap« peal, who has just returned from a survey trip of chief gathering points in Europe where 4hc itream of Jewish refugees from Hungary, Poland and Esjypt is constantly Wowing, will give a first-hand report on the greatest refugee crtall , since the Nazi terror. V . •; ••/;' He'will discuss the emergency rescue project launched in recent;. weeks to aid tho thousands of JeW». ish families streaming out of Hungaiy nnd other Iron Curtain cottn* tries.

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An unusual feature Of tha national telecast meeting WU1 j>e th»V announcements of gifts and con*/ trlbutlons made by national Jew* ish leaders to the 1957 Rescue Fund, neporta will also be mad* via the hook-up by many communities on their activities In behali-' of the Rescue Fund. , • ;, Omaha Jewry will see and hear : the reactions of a Jewish refuge* from Egypt and another from anV < Iron Curtain country who were interviewed at their place of rescuo.

xonomist to Speak i .Hungarian Revolt

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Community Center and the B'nal, B'rith lodges and chapters. ;. * ' Author of "The Nail Economic System" and "Nazi Banking and Finance," Dr. Nathan was editor from ]()0Q to 1928 of the German • Magazine "World Economic Review." He has taught at the College for Politics in Berlin, at Princeton, Columbia and Vassar, and at the U.S. American Army University at Hlarritiz, as well as at Howard and New York Unlvcrsitics. Educated In Germany,: Belgium and England, he hna worked Iti international banks and In the government service. He has lie™ economic advisor ta committees appointed hy Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt, and Chief Economic Analyst to tha United States treasury department. Presenting a different speaker (Continued on Page 1).

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