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Center Committee To Meet Wed. Noon The Jewish Community Center Committee will hold its first general meeting of the New season Friday, October 4, with a luncheon at 12:15 p. m. nt the Hill Hotel." All committee members arc asked to attend this meeting, by Lou Canar, committee chairman.
fir. Abe.Grccnbcrg, President off the Federation for Jewish Service,1 urged the membership this week to support and give generously to the United Red Feather-Red Cross Service* campaign in Omaha. A letter Issued by Dr. Green: berg pointed'out: "The membership \of.--Hie, Federation It very much concerned lit feeing to it that the United Red Feather-Red Cross . Service* • campaign thii year to * complete 'sueees*. The United Red Feather-Red Crpsi Services drive i i the annual fund-railing effort of the entire community, in which all fallhi and groups merge their efforts for the good and welfare of all Omahans.
New Youth Group Meets at Center Paul Shyken, B a r b a r a Brodkey and Howard Welnberg represented the Omaha Jewish Youth Council in the newly organized city-w I d c Inter-Grou;> Council sponsored by the' National Conference for Qirlstlans and Jews. The first meeting which was held on Monday, at the Jewish Community Center. Moderators were: the Rev. Neil Danburg, director of the National Conference for Christians and Jews In' this area and Saul Sllverman, activities director of the Jewish Community Center. - A tour of the Community Center followed the meeting. The Council purposes, to effect a better jndcratandlnc of youth problems among all faiths and backgrounds. The group will meet again In two weeks nt the University of Omaha.
""hie Federation for J e w i s h ' Services and received *59,525 toward it* operating funds in 1937, through the United Red FeatherRed.. O w n ; Services drive. The C h a t ha» al«o helped Ui U) maintain our building by providing capital fund*. :,;•:.'•• •:• .-.: "The coat of operating our many service*, like the co»t« In business, have Increased considerably, while the demand for the many services of the Federation have likewise Inercajed,1'-
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; Emphasizing that agencies win face a real criils in 19Stt unless the goa) of the United Red FeatherRed Crow Services of. $1,7T7,825 Is raised; Dr. Grccnbcrg said. '•We appeal earnestly to every member of the community (o make increased contribution] to t h e Community Chest campaign, upon whose success the program and service Of our Federation depend. We urge everyone <o spread tiu< important me-iiaje of the I'nllwl Rod Feathcr-Iled Cross Service.1; .campaign thoughout the city, and work toward the successful completion of thU greatest humanitarian challenge which the Omnha conuiiunlly faces now," Dr. (ircenberg concluded. . Dr. Grccnberg also reported that many members of the Federation board* are active In the ranks of campaign worker*.
Two Events Sell $35,000 in Bonds • A Roan Hashonah Appeal at the B'nal Jacob-Adass Ycshurcn Synagogue resulted In the sale of almost $5,000 In Israel bonds, it «•«« announced by William Grodinxjcy, chairman of the 1957 bond campaign. More than J-TO.OOO in bonds were told nt a recent fashion show, Mr. Grodlnsky reported. lie said that tcvorul meetings ami a luncheon nrc planned prior to the IClcjinnr Roosevelt Dinner In November.
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British Diplomat To Open Lecture Series Reginald Sorcnsen, a member of the British 1'nrllament more than 20 years, will open the University of Omaha World Affairs Institute with n lecture Wednesday, October 9 at 8:15 p. in. In the university auditorium. The Federation for Jewish Service ii one of the Omaha organizations sponsoring the 12th unn,ual six weekly lecture series at the university. Members of the Federation are entitled to free admission by presenting institute cards which haxa been mailed to them. Each card admits two person*. Theme of the 1957 aeries is " E l e m e n t s Shaping Foreign Policy", Mr. S o r e n s e n will discuss "Colonialism and Foreign Policy." lie Is chairman of the India I-caguc and the West African Student Board and is vitally Interested In the colonial problem. He has traveled extensively. In Africa, the Kast and on tlic continent. Mr. Sorensen's visit to the U n i t e d Slates this year Is his uecond and W under the auspices of the American Friends Service committee. William T. Utiey, chairman of the University Political Science Department Is director of the In-
stitute. Among members of the advisory committee nre Milton II. Abrahams, Arthur Goldstein and Paul Veret. The series will bring to Omaha top-ranking authorities on world affairs.
Gifts Confuse Arab Wives L o n d o n (WNS) - - "Zionlif1 sweaters put the squeeze on the wives of the Arab delegate* to the recently concluded Interparliamentary Conference here, It was disclosed when it became known that the sweaters they had received as gifts from a local firm came from a Jewish-owned firm whose directors are tied to" Zionism and Israel, The Aral] women were quite in a dilemma. On the One hand they could not see themselves relinquishing such warm and beautiful giftf. and, on tha other hand they feared antagonising their husbands by breaking the Arab boycott. How they sot out of t h e squeeze play has not been recorded.
Religious Inquiry In Cehsus Opposed New York (JTAl— Two major Jewish organizations nmiotmceil tliat they had voiced strong opposition to the projected inclusion of n q.iestlon on religion* belief or affiliation in the I960 Federal population census. T h e y warned that the inclusion of this question would violate the Constitution and that the data accumulated* would be "of doubtful validity. In a memorandum submitted to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce by the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nal B'rith, the agencies stressed that the Federal. Government, under the Constitution, may not aid religious groups or "take cognizance of religious affiliations of Its citizens." Therefore, they emphasized "there can be no legitimate reason why tbo Federal Government should need Information on the religious affiliations of IU dtbens." The'U.S. Bureau of Census in the Department of Commerce for the first time is now considering the Inclusion of the question "what la your religion?" JIONOBED New York (WNS)—The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America for the first time honored two non-Jewish clergymen at a recent Governor's Island ceremony.
Ifolyoke, Mass. (JTA(—Samuel Jlesnic, an«'nttorney antl leadinc member of the Jewish communlly of llolyoko, lias been .worn In ns Mayor of this predominantly Catholic town. Mr. Kosnic is the first Jew toehold the office In the history of the city.
On the Air Sunday, October G KBON-—".Message of Israel" 11 p. m. KFAH — "Eternal Light," 10:15 p. in. "C'ullutised Hands" by Steven Gathers will be presented In observance of the festival of Siiccoth.
Czech Jews Intermarry London (WNS.I—The rate of'intermarriage among the Jews in Czccholovakia exceeds inarringeii within 4he fold, It was reported here by Agudalh Israel feeder HA. Goodman on returning from a , tour of Czechoslovakia. Mr. Goodman r e i o r t e d that some 20,000 Jens were registered as members of the Jewish community, about 8,000 In Bohemia and the rest in Slovakia, IV; asserted that the Jewish coiruaunlly of Prague was "for all practical purposes" today "a museum piece, He suid the thousnnd-ycnr-old AltNeue-Synagogue wui now a Jo •>• Ish museum and~that although \\t synagogue Is open dally for. worshippers there Is rarely available* a required minyan. He dUcloscd that on the walls of the synagogue museum there were being inscribed the names of 80,000 Jews whom the Nazis deported to death from Prague, and that of the 400,000 Jews who lived in Czechoslovakia before the war more than 250,000 perished In Hitler's death camps. At the same time the Agudah leader disclosed that Rabbi D. Farkas, one of the three official rabbis in Bohemia who was arrested some months ago, was still In prison but that there was reason to believe that his release was Imminent though it was doubtful he would be permitted to resume rabbinical functions, Mr. Goodman also conferred with .Chief Rabbi Slehei\ who told him that the Prague Jewish Community had used up all Its. funds for the maintenance oi the Ghetto Cemetery at Tcreszln nnd that if aid dirt not come forth from Jews overseas the cemetery, in which thousands of .lews from all parts of Kurope are burled, would be taken over by the Czech Government. Prague authorities were reported to have promised that, in the event the cemetery Is taken over by the government, religious administration w o u l d remain vesjer in the Chief Rabbinate.
Mich. Doctor to Discuss Diabetes The greater Omaha lay section of the Nebraska Diabetes Association will present its annual fall public lecture Monday evening, October • 7, at' the Jewish Community Center Auditorium. The guest speaker will be Dr. Stefan S. Fajans, Associate1'Professor of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich. His subject will cover "Present Day- Aspects of Diabetes Mellltus." , Dr. Fajah's special interests lift In Diabetics and Metabolic Research. He has done pioneering work in relationship of Diabetes to the Clands oMnternal Secretion. A question and answer period will follow his presentation. There is no charge for admission. Free parking space, is. available just east of the Community Center on Dodge' Street. Doors will open nt 7*30 p. m.
Zim Lines Cancel W. Indies Cruises • Jerusalem fJTA)—The Israel Government has asked the International Red Cross headquarters in Geneva to establish the fate of the Israel fishing vessel Doar and its »Ix crewmen seized las! week by Kgypt. Earlier, tlie Foreign Ministry asked the Israel delegation at the United Nations to sccl< UN intervention. The Israel Government also
sought Italy's intervention because one ot the crew Was an Italian The International Red Cross was asked to Bend a representative lo visit the fishermen to determine whether they were receivinK llic treatment required by Geneva e/uiventlons nnd to provide whatever legal protection might be needed. Israel also asked the Red Cross to obtain from the fisherman com-
munication!* to their families in Israel, The Foreign Ministry indicated it had no information on th; fate of the ship or Its crew except that neither had been r e t u r n e d to Israel. Owners of the ship sail that, on the basis of the last radio communication from the ship, they h.-id no doubt that the-boat was captured outside Egyptian territorial waters.
The American-Israeli Shipping Company, Inc., U. S. representatives of the Zlm Israel America Lines, nnnounced today the cancellation of the 1957-58 West Indies winter cruise prosram of the newly built S. S. Theodor Horzl. The cruises were cancelled because of a delay In completion of the Theodor Herzl's slstcrshlp, tlio new S. S. Jerusalem, which was to have taken over the Zlm Lines* Mediterranean passenger service while the Herzl was cruising.