September 4, 1959

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Vol. XXXVII No. !H

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To Altai Institute A group of Omaha youth leaders will attend a Teenage Leadership Institute at Camp Henry Morton Richards, Om;ih;i biisl- national Economic Conference for Horner, III., this weekend, under iips's and civic leader, 1ms been Israel in Chicago, Sept. 11-13, Ger- the auspices of the National Jewnamed c l i i i i r m u n of the 11)39 ali' Schwartz, Iowa, Nebraska ami ish Welfare Board, Midwest Sec Builders of Israel. His appoint- South Dakota Manager, said. lion, Phil Kutler, Center Youth ment was announced today l>y Mrs. Golda Meir, Minister for Activities Chairman, announced. Kubcrt M. Fcinberg, chulrinnn of Attending the Institute are: Kd Foreign Affairs of the State of win Sidman, Omaha Jewish Youth the Greater Omaha Committee for Israel, has accepted an invitation Council president; Steve Cuss, State of Israel Bonds. extended in Israel by Dr. Joseph Youth C o u n c i l Vice-President; Richards, a past jncsident of theJ. Schwartz, vice-president of the Douglas Plait, AZA 1000 presiOmnliii Zionist Dktiicl, served us Israel Bond organization, to be thedent; Naomi Rothenberg, BBG chairman of the R o h a n u e 'president; and Susie principal speaker at the Chicago Spcier, BBG Kdinr president. 1952 and 1953 conclave. c a m p aigns for Dik Weiner, newly appointed Israel Bonds in Youth Activities Director, will acDr. Schwartz said, "Our ChiOmaha and cago conference will not only cele- company the group. Council Bluffs brate the attainment of the $100,- Tlie institute aims to bring toHe has been an 000,000 mark In Israel Bond sales, gether teenage leadership from the but chart a course of future cam- Midwest area to_ discuss problems active leader in paigning to enroll additional tens of youth, youth programming and Beth El syna of thousands of Americans and youth responsibilities in the comgogue, the Jewish: C a n a d i a n s us shareholders in munity. Eli Pcchany, Field SecreFederation and! Israel's e c o n o m i c development tary of the Midwest Section, is coU.J.A. drives, nndj projects." ordinator of the Institute. numerous com inunal causes. Morton Kirluirds Servo Under Ciintor Richards-will serve under Eddie Cnntor, Hollywood actor and humnnlturinn, who is national chairm a n of the Builders of Israel. Builders are p e r s o n s or firms which buy $3,000 in Israel Bonds this year.. "Although Israel has made remarkable progress with the help of Israel Bonds, its economic structure faces severe strain as a result of the renewal of mass immigration." Cantor said. "The Israeli government must build 3,000 housing units a month for the balance of IDS!). The cost o< one family unit is $.'5,000. Special Israel Bonds in that denomination have been issued, known as Israel Housing Bonds. I am confident Omaha again will play Its part in setting the pace this year," Richards asserted.

Workman Circle To Meet In Lincoln

The annual conference of the I'sruci—A warm welcome awaits limited her activity. Her parents Workman Circle Midwest District, eight-year-old Lea Fikslcr of Mos- carried her on their backs to Sunday and Monday, September liav Meiron, who requires urgent school to avoid any undue exer- 6-7 at the Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln, heart surgery, and her mother, tion qn her part. They took her to Nebr., will be attended by an Omawhen they arrive in Minneapolis, see Dr. Jerome Kaye, the U. S. ha delegation headed by Louis WitMinn. Their stay there is being heart specialist then visiting Israel kin, chairmqn; Max Crounse, arranged by the Junior Chamber several months ago but he urged treasurer and M. F. Goodmen, secof Commerce and the Minneapolis that she be operated on in Minne- retary. : apolis as the operation in Israel Jewish community. would he too risky. Delegates from Sioux City and Combine To Aid Father'A Tructorist Des Monies, Iu., Omaha and LinThe Safad Junior Chamber and The cost of the entire round coln, Nebr., and Denver, Colo., will its counterpart in Minneapolis, totrip and operation was an unparticipate in the meeting which Kethor with many organizations und individuals both in Israel and dreamed-of sum for her father, a will open Sunday at 11 a. m. tractorlst in the m o s h a v. The in the U. S. are sending Lea to the U. S. for an "open-heart" opera- Mlrom Hagalll Regional Council also found it impossible to raise tion. the sum alone and enlisted the aid Carried on Buck of the Safad Junior Chamber. Lea was born with a heart deAmong the organizations who fect which has endangered her life Jerusalem, (JTA>—Israel's Cabever since and has seriously gave generously were: Kupat Ho-' lim; the Scrcnl Fund of the Ru-inet has approved the Governmanian Immigrants Association; ment's delegation to the United Moshav Meiron; the M'rom Hagalil Nations General Assembly, which Regional Council; the Hnpoel Ha- will convene September 15. mlzrahi Moshav Movement; and Mrs, Golda Meir, the Foreign El Al, which hns donated the cost Now York (WNS)—Jewish teen- of the round trip for Lea and her Minister, will head the delegation, during tlie early weeks of the Asagers trained in Reform Temples mother. sembly, after which the chairare proud of their religious herit(From Jerusalem Post) manship will be taken over by. age, it was disclosed here this Arthur Lourie, Israel's Ambassa_weel< on the basis of a survey condor to Canada. Other members of d u c t e d by the Union of American the delegation will be: Yosef TeHebrew Congregations, The survey koah, acting permanent reprerevealed that 95 percent of the nearly 1000 teenagers interviewed Haifa (WNS)—Premier David sentative at the United Nations; stated that if they had a choice Ben Gurlon, returning aboard ship Michael S. Goinay, deputy directhey would prefer to be reborn from a brief vacation to France, tor-general of the Foreign MinisJews. disclosed that he held no political try, former Ambassador to Can• While there was some division conferences there. All bo did onada; Shabtal Rosenne, legal adon the question of dating non- his .trip, he said, was to "write a visor to the Foreign Ministry; and Jewti, the large mnpority of the foreword and a survey for the Ayrahdm Darom, Israeli Minister youngsters declared' themselves next Issue of the Israel Year to "Yugoslavia, an expert on Latin American affairs. • ogainst Intermarriage. ' " • > . • Book." '

UN Delegation

Jewish Teen-Agers Proud of Heritage

Second Class i'oMuj'e al

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Kindle Cony 10 Cents Annum Rate 4 Uollais

Heriw Asked Washington,. (JTA)--Three lie to the United Arab Republic fofl publican Senators have asked Sec- Canal improvement. relnry of Slate Christian Herter to lA'tl<-r To Macomlior obtain firm guarantees of free The Senators were Jacob K. transit for Israel shipping in theJavilS, and Kenneth Keating of Suez Canal, before I lie United New York, and H u g h Scott, .State., approves a World Bank loan Pennsylvania, all Republicans. They reminded Secretary HerteV of a letter from Assistant Secretary of State Macomher, on July ,'t, in which Mr. Macomber said the U. S. executive director of the United Nations, N. Y., (JTA)— World bank was aware of developIsrael took directly to the Secur- ments involving Israel in the Suez ity Council its grievance over re- Canal issue. In light of this, the Senators cent United Aral) Republic violations of the principle of the free- noted that the Bank is moving fordom of passage through the Suez ward with consideration of a loan to the UAR. They told Mr, Herter: Canal. Yosef Tekoah, Israel's acting "We would appreciate your advice permanent representative here, as to what is being done to obtain sent a long letter to Armand Ber- from the UAR firm assurances and ard, of France, this month's Presi- guarantees of free transit: through dent of the Council, accusing the the Canal. Needless to say, we do UAR of "continued acts of piracy" not feel that money should be adwhich, according to the Israeli, vanced to the UAR for the Canal place Egypt "hi open challenge to without at least these assurances the world community" and con-in hand." stitute a " c o n s t a n t threat to Houso Hanking (Wniuittce peace" in the Middle Kast. Representative Seymour HalThe open complaint to the Coun- pern. New York Republican, also cil was made by the Israel repre- addressed a letter to Secretary sentative after many months of Herter asking him to consider the discussions of the Israel com- views of 13 members of the Hous9 plaints on the level of "quiet diplo- Banking and Currency Commitmacy." Mr. Tekoah and his aides tee on the issue of a World Bunk o.i the delegation have been in al- loan to the United Arab Republic most daily contact on the Suez to improve the Suez Canal. Tha issue since last February with Congressmen voiced opposition to Secretary General Dag Hammar- the loan because of lhi> UAH's skjold and with other ranking anti-Israel blockade of the Canal. Senate Debate United members-of the Secretarial. In the senate, debate was heated when praise for the Nasser rogimp's operation of the canal by Chairman J. W. Fulhright of tho Senate Foreign Relations CommitWashington, D. C. (WNS)— tee, drew opposition from other Leaders of major United States senators who attacked .Egyptian Jewish groups have formally re- discrimination against Israel shipquested the Soviet Embassy in ping, among them. Senator Scott. Washington to arrange a meeting Senator Fulbright said the Canal between them and Premier Niltita was now being run "efficiently." S. Khruschev to discuss the status Senator Scott Interjected that tha of Jews in Russia. Both the United Canal might be operating "efficiStates State Department and Rus- ently, but so was Hitler's governsian spokesman have indicated ap- ment." ...-.•proval for such a meeting although Addressing Senator Fulbrighl, no formal commitment hns been Senator Scott said that, as long made. as Nasser refuses Israeli commerA special conference of leaders cial transit in the Canal, he would of eight Jewish groups, with Philip not spend his time praising Nasser M. Klutznlck of Park Forest, 111., for bringing peace to the-Neaf past National B'nai B'rith presi- Fast. dent, as chairman, was established last week at a meeting in New York City. ' Concern over the situation of Jews in the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, New York, (JTA)—A contribumotivated the joint action of the tion of $150,000 to the Weizmann Jewish leaders. Institute of Science in Israel was Leaders of the Jewish groups, announced here at the annual din,vho banded together, are t h e ner for the Institute. The donor heads of Jewish fraternal, Zionist is Herman P. Taubman of Tulsa, and non-Zionist groups, as well as Okla. He made the gift in honor the lay religious organizations of of Israel Ambassador Abba Kuan's the three branches of Judaism— becoming president of the WeizOrthodox, Conservative and Re-mann Institute. form. It was learned that the conference would name a subcommitee to arrange the details for the possible meeting with Mr. Khrushchev. The subcommittee will be empowered to appoint those who Plans are under way for several would attend such a meeting. new programs to open the fall season in the Activities Department of the Community Center with the arrival of two new staff members this week. Seymour Seitchick who has asLondon (WNS)—Shipping ties between Israel and the Soviet Un- sumed his duties as Director o? Health and Physical Education, ion were reported to have been resumed for the first time since said plans were "shaping up" for the 195G Sinai campaign when the new features to be introduced In USSR cut Israel off its shipping the near future. An athletic schedlist, the Financial Times of Lon- ule will be announced soon, nlso. An invitation "to come in and don reported. The London paper discloses that an Israeli freighter get acquainted" has been extended recently unloaded a .shipment of to students in the community oy asbestos at Odessa and that addl- "Dik" Weiner, who has joined tha tlonnl sailings between the twoCenter staff, as director, of Children's and Youth Activities. countries have been scheduled.

Ssr&el Submits

Complaint to UN

Conference With Khrushchev Sought

Omniums To Meeting' Folnberg, R i c h a r d s , Mrs. J. Harry Kulakosky, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kntzmiin, and others will represent. Greater Omaha at the

Minneapolis Joins Efforts To Save Israeli Youngsler

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Contributions Made to Weizmann Institute

Two Mew Center Staff Members Assume Duties

Israel, Soviet Union Resume Shipping Ties


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