STATE HISTORICAL Lincoln. Nebraska
VoL XI—No. 19
Publication Office. 301 No. aoth Omuhu. Nebraska, I'lionc 312-ariGQ
Health < ensnas @n /«"S • Plans for tlie 19G2 summer sessions of the resident, cjunp for boys and girls, iti;e.s 7 through 14, sponsored by the Jcwi.sli Federation of Omaha are progressing. Season dates, rales and staff will be announced soon. Several openings still exist on the camp staff In addition to past personnel who arc returning. Interested college and graduate students should contact the Camp Office ut the Jewish Community Center immediately. Stuff applications nre ulso boing accepted for the summer day camp. Final selections for membera of both camp staffs will be completed by the first of February. I-ast season's resident campers' will have the first opportunity to enroll for the camp sessions with feneral registration K opened the following week.
Israel War Hero Named to Post Tel Aviv fWNSJ— Aluf Mclr Amit, who served ns batalllon commnndcr in the War of Liberation and who was later wounded In a parachute exercise jump, has been named Chief of Israel's intelligence service. The forty-year-old Intelligence chief visited the United States, Whero he was treated for the injury.
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Are Stressed Open every weekday from noon until 8 p.m. and oa Sundays, 9 ii.m. until 6 p.m., the Center Health club offers to its members and non-members alike, the most centrally located facility in ' Omaha, providing massages and steam baths for businessmen at convenient rales and free pntking. Appointments are not necessary in using the services offered by tlie Club. Other conveniences include n light dolicatesson luncheon Sunday noons, sunlamp baths during the winter months, plus workout and slumber room facilities. Uiisincssmen can take advantage of the $100 umuial Executive Membership that Includes a Center Family plan, plus unlimited massage and stcambath services throughout the year or they may purchase a massage card or pjy for the individual massage treatments received, The Health Club is located in the Jewish Community Center's building at 20th and Dod|;e. O\er 200 members are now using the Health Club regularly. WARTIME SLAUGIITKR COLLECTION ON TOUR New York (YVNS)—A collection of items dealing with tho wartime slaughter of 6,000,000 European Jews, the first such showing in the United States is on display at the Jewish Museum. Taken from the Yad Vashem, the exhibit will j;o on tour of the United .States after Feb. 1.
New stamps IUTO Issued in Israel to mark the 25th anniverunry of Ms Philharmonic Orchestra und tho nation's Achievement of Afforcstratlon. . •—
Jerusalem — Immigration, continues to mount in Israel and v a r i o u s government agencies are hard at work coping with the problems of the newcomers. The Jewish Agency absorption reported that immi-
grants were continuing to arrive and that newcomers during the past nine months came from G2 countries. Ups Housing 300 Per Cent Giora Josephthal, Housing Minister, told a Housing Ministry executive meeting this
Hquulld shanties disappear us decent apartments rise to provide homes for the Increasing munber of Immigrants arriving- daily In Israel.
24-Hr. Guard Posted Police Hold Suspects New York (WNS)—Two suspects were under arrest this wcclc In the bombing of a Chicago synagogue while Jewish war veterans went on piard nt synagogues and Jewish schools in Minneapolis after n half dozen synagogues were smeared with swastikas. The Chevra Kadisha Machiltnl TIadas Synagogue, on Chicago's North side, Buffered a dynamite bomb attack which did some 310,000 damage. Police found an unexploded bomb in the debris. Police posted a 24-hour guard nt all Chicago north side synagogues after the bombing and after another synagogue, the
Moteler Congregation, received a telephone threat that It too would be blown up. The caller also said "all the other synagogues on the North Side would be blown up." . •- •
week that the M i n l « t r y w o u l d increase immigrant housing by 300 per cent in the first six months of 1962. He added that if the pace of immigration increased, the building program would be speeded up to keep pace. He reported that the number of housing units for new immigrants would reach 20,000 in the current fiscal year. He said his Ministry had provided 12,000 units during 19G1 compared with an original plan for o n l y 6,500 unite. Stalling this month, he said, the Ministry will turn over to newcomers 1,500 units a month, compared with the 500 a month originally planned. Increased Rato of Arrivals Jewish immigrants continued to arrive in Israel at an increased l'ate during the past nine months, it was reported here by Aaron Zisling, head of the absorption department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. Ho Stressed that there was not a single country "from which immigration lias not doubled." A variety of measures are being taken by the government and Jewish Agency Departments ' to find suitable employment, to provide intensive courses in Hebrew, in addition to its building program for the surge of new immigrants.
Israel Constructing 760 l e w Synagogues Jerulsalem (JTA)—Seven hundred new synagogues are now under construction, the Ministry for Religious Affairs reported. The new houses of worship Include one in the Arab city of Nazareth ,and most of them are in the settlements for immigrants and in new towns that are part of Israel's development program.
Commemorative stamps issued ~ ~ by Israel in December include one honoring the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's twenty-fifth a n n i versary, cliild will be placed in a small and two hlghactivity g r o u p to worlt with 11 gh'ting the Are there many senior citizens crafts, dramatics, sports, gamc3 interested in art and ceramics? In nation's woik ) 0 t afforcstra- j and dancing under the supervi- expanding its programs, the JewCouples will have a chance,to tlon. ! polish up their ballroom dance sion of a trained youth worker ish Community Center is trying T h e design j to find which services have the steps while learning the latest with a supplemental professional mo3t appeal for those who are ©f the orclies- j worker. new dance steps in a series of six tra stamp Is retired. b a s e d on a evening classes offered by tho Tlie project will be limited to Golden Agers are invited to call compos 11 i o n Jewish Community Center, Harry 30 registrants in order of their the Center's activity office, if m a d o up of Sidman, Center Committee chair- receipt at the Center Activities they would like to spend activity f o u r orches'Musiu man, announced. The feo for the office. Feo for the eight week pro- periods on painting, ceramics and tral Instruments. The post office other special interest groups. If sheet consists of 15 stamps with sessions under professional dance gram is 58. five or six persons are interested, five descriptive tabs adjacent to supervisors Is $7.50 per couple. groups will be formed under the the bottom row, Registrations are limited to direction of professional leaderCacheted first day covers of. eight couples per class, and may ship. the size 17.5 by 10 centimeters be made by calling tho Center will b© postmarked with a spe- Activities Department, 342-1366. cial cancellation of tho tempo- C o u p l e s interested in forming Tlie door Is open to grade and rary post office at the Frederick: small groups for instruction in A. Mann auditorium, Tel Aviv, their own homos will bo provided Where tho jubilee concert of the with an instructor by the Center, Slimnastics, the popular figure Jewish Community Center for conditioning sessions for women orchestra took place In DecemMr. Sidman stated. ber. .' recreational and sports activities. are run at tho Jewish CommunThe afforestration series, conThe loungo game rooms, the ity Center five mornings a week sisting of two stamps which comworkout facilities, handball court under the supervision of trained memorate tho achievement of af. nnd gymnasium will bo available. instructors. iforestatlon work in Israel. The Tlie T u e s d a y and Thursday The swimming pool will also bo post office sheets consist of 15 "Sunday Funday," a program Included in the youth activities sessions from 9 a, m. to 10 a. m. stamps with five description'tabs adjacent to the bottom row. designed for girls from kinder- unless;, it has been reserved by a are conducted by Marge Jantz. Cachoted First Day Covers are garten through the fourth grado Bpeciai group. Supervision for the Featured is the baby-sitting serv175 by 10 centimeters and will is being organized at the Jew- Saturday evenings will be pro- ice for pre-schbol children. Following the figure conditioning Harry •be'postmarked with tho Jeru- ish Community Center, Sidman announced. Starting on vided ,by the Center. Registration class, women may use tlie pool salem post office date. is not necessary and grade and with their children. • Collectors may contact the Sunday, January 21, tho meetings Mrs. Edith Goldstein heads tlia Philatelic Services of iBracl In will run eight Sunday afternoona high schoolers are free to use the Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Each facilities on these evenings. Jerusalem for these stamps.
The Ministry's figures show there nre about 4,000 synagogues now in Israel. Only about 1,000 of the congregations seat more than a few score of worshipers. A Ministry spokesman said there are under consideration applications for loans for the construction of other new synagogues or for the expansion and furnishing of existing synagogues.
Center Offers Activities for All Ages Art and Ceramics
Dance Instruction Series for Adults
Saturday Evening Sessions at Jay
'Sunday Funday' Eight Afternoons
Slimnastics for Women, Mornings
classes, conducted from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Classes will be scheduled through spring. Membership is open.
Center Projects For Youngsters In Neighborhoods Small intimate interest and activity groups for grade school boys and girls are now being organized in neighborhood groupl by the Jewish Community Activities Department. Members of these C e n t e r formed groups will meet In their homes after school hours twica each month under direction of a professional. leader supplied by the Center. Activities will includa snorts, games, arts and crafts, hobbles, trips and outings plui special events. Six neighborhood groups aro being formed as the result of a telephone survey among parent* of kindergarten, first and second youngsters who were enthusiastic over this new typo of program. P a r e n t s who hava not been reached by tlie survey and, who are interested In having their c h i l d r e n participate In theatt groups should contact the Jewish Community Center.