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Reservations for the "Decade of the Negev" Dinner this Sunday, December 2, will still be accepted up to noon on Sunday, it was announced today by Elmer Gross, toastmaster of the evening. The dinner, scheduled for 6 p.m. in the Hotel Sheraton-Fontenelle's G r a n d Ballroom, is expected ta be one of the most uniquely successful evenings in Omaha's history, Mr. Gross said. Israeli Styled Menu An Israeli-styled menu will include courses served in the style of Tel Aviv's Hotel Sheraton ,and the decorations of the evening will carry out the tlieme of expansion in the Ne-
Center Offers Free Ha£t3kkafi 'Booklets "Hanukkah in the Home," the title of a new booklet in the J e w i s h Community Center's Home Holiday series, is being distributed free to families preparing for the holiday. The booklet, prepared by the Center's Activities Department, suggests ways to observe the holiday including decorations and other useful ideas. Booklets will be mailed to those requesting copies, Harry Sidman Center C o m m i t t e e chairman, stated. A free copy may be reserved by calling the Center' Activities Department, 34-13GG,
firs. Brodkey to'. Talk On Eleanor Roosevelt Mrs. M. H. Brodkey will address a 12:30 p.m. gathering of Senior Citizens, Monday, December 3 at the Jewish Community Center. She will speak on the late Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. A short movie will show Mrs. Boosevelt's participation in the Jewish Women's Philanthropies Drive. Further information may be secured by calling Joe Ra (iinowski, 342-3891.
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gev, the program EO vital to Israel in the coming decade. Dinner music will include a number of modem Israeli selections, including the unusual "Song of the Negev" and "Daroma," phis other popular son;js of the young State of Israel. Noted Personages Featured speaker of the evening will be Abbie Ben Ari, pioneer developer of the Negev. Tova Porat, Israel's greatest entertainer, iwinner of the coveted Marian Anderson prize, recent first-prize winner among 31 national television contestants in Paris and wiiroor from among 100 applicants on the Ed Sullivan Show, will entertain with accompaniment by the internationally known William Guijther, whose records this week have been exhibited on the Jewish Community Center's main floor. Complete charge for the evening will be $1.25, with diners offered a choice of chicken, fish or fruit. Reservations may be made until noon on Sunday, by calling the Israel Bond Office, 341-1177.
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On the occasion of twentyfive years of dedicated service to the Jewish Federation of O m a h a , '3 j P a u l Veret, its Executive „. 'vM Director, will ,. | be honored at ,r a testimonial dinner to be j^ held Sunday, f December 16, at Beth Israel \ Synagogue at 6:30 p.m., J. Harryy Kulay kkofsky, fk Past Chairman President of the Federation, is serving as chairman of the affair.
KBON Radio 1490, Presents "Message of Israel" Sunday,. Dec. 2 at Id p.m. Speakers Rabbi M a u r i c e N, Eisendrath President of UAHC Irving J. Fain, Chairman of Social Action Commission of UAHC Lou Cassels, Religious Editor, United Press International Topic Social Action and Religion.
Second Class Postage Paid Single Copy 10 Cents at Omaha, Ktljr. Annual Hate 4 Dollars
Plans for the testimonial affair are being made by a committee composed of Ernest A. Nogg, President of the Federation; Harry Sidman, Dr. A. Greenberg, Milton R. Abrahams, Mrs. Samuel N. Wolf, Mrs. Hubert Sommer and Mrs. Sam L. Katzman. Other committees will be announced at a later date.
Members of the community who are planning to attend this outstanding affair in the life of Omaha Jewry are urged to make their reservations before December 7. It is anticipated that many leaders of the Jewish and non-Jewish community as well, will gather to honor Mr. Veret.
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Registration is now open for Contributions c o n t i n u e to two new classes, First Aid and come in, Mrs. Joe J. Greenberg, Knitting under the sponsorship Chairman oi the Jewish Federof the Jewish Community Cen- . ation Agencies Section of Ihe ter. Needlework Guild Drive reportFirst Aid will be offered free ed, and it is hoped, she said, with six sessions, Monday that those who have not remornings from 10 a.m. to 11:30 sponded will send in their doa.m. in a West Omaha location nations immediately to the Jewwith Joseph Micek, Center's ish Community Center. director as instrucThe following have mailed in (The Dr. Philip Sher Jewish Home for the Aged ackuowleges swimming tor. The initial course is for contributions since the last list the following memorials and donations.) housewives only. appeared in the Jewish Press. Also open for enrollment is Mmes. Sheldon A. Bernstein, Donor In Memory of •a Wednesday morning knitting Abe H. Brodkey, Edward D. Mr. and Mrs. ErncslA. Nogg Mrs. Rulh Birk class for the beginner as well Brodkey, Ben Eisenberg, Sam Mr. and Mrs. Leo Nogg ...........*. Sam Cosnow Means, ona Mmcj. MorrH Katteman, fred Kurlzman, as the more experienced, which M. Greenberg, Jules M. NewM l » Harriet Horwlch, Mmes. Mai) Pope, Cell OXcniwII, Stella Robinson William clmple will meet six times from 10 a.m; man, Julius I. Novak, Nathan •Messrs: qn$ Mmes. Horolii Poltock, Ben SfiQplro. to 11:30 at the Center. The fee Novak. Paul Vcrat, I. H.,w«lner, Mrs. Oscar sutln *.... Abraham Levey Messrs. and Mmcj, Aba Cohn. Ernsst A. Ma<w, Phlt is $5. " . Mmes. Aaron Rips, John RosSchwarl*. Den Shapiro, Lou Sogolov*, Pout Veret, I. H. Wclncr, M I K BCSM Blow. Mrs. Ann RoftThe.classes will begin as soon enblatt, Arthur Rubin, Morris rnan, W. F. Holmes (Moroon Wheel & Equipment Co.) .....Nalhan Steinberg as the minimum number of reg- Ruderman, Paul Sacks, William M i l l Beatrice Sommer Hale Urclonk (Pacific Palisades, Colll.) Mr. and Mrs. David Orfccw Mrs. Hatlit D. Wolf (Albion. Near.) istrations are received. Enroll- Saferstein, Phil Sokolof, Vale ment may be made by phone Trustin, Morris A. Venger, SidDonor In Honor of call confirmation with the Cen- ney Wasserman • and Morris Mrj. Moble Frledel. Mr. end Mrs, David Orkow and ' ter, 342-13G6. Weiner. family. Mr, and Mrs. /^Illon Yudclson end Michael 65|h birthday, Nalhati L. Nogg
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Messrs. and Mmai. Ernest A. Hogg, E. Leo Noog 75lh birthday, Mrs. David Sherman Mr. and Mrs. Mathan L tlogn recovery, Fred Kurtzmon Mr. ond Mrs. Mlllon Yudclion.......recovery, Manuel Kruplniky, Ernie Noflj, Ralph Nogo Mr. and Mrs. Nalhan L. NQfltJ, Mr, and Mrs. Milton Yudclson and Michael •• ............... recovery. Gen Wlnlroub Mr. ond M n . Fred Kurnrnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..recovery. Or. Sam Turkel
Synagogue Donations Mrs, B, Ruderman, Mr. ond Mrs.Duve Hoberfncjn.
Special Contributions Dr. and Mrs. A. A, Sloiiiboro—a Lumcx hospital versa-cart—In memory ot 1. Goldslcln, Nalhan Steinberg.
Room for Pioneering... Ben Gurion Tel Aviv (JTA)—Israel's "days of pioneering" have not yet ended, Prime Minister David BenGurion asserted here at ceremonies dedicating Israel's latest "economic breakthrough," the official commencement of the building of the new town of Arad. Standing on a bare hilltop in the Judean desert, with his back to the Dead Sea, the Prime Minister spoke of the new town of Arad to rise on the site—a town expected to house 40,000 people. There are 50 families in Arad. But within the next year, said Yoscf Almogi, Minister of Development, 1,200 workers will live there in new housing. Two thousand persons made
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their way to the site of Arad through desert roads. The town, northeast of Beersheba, is located on the ancient site of Tel Arad, near the spot where the patriarch Abraham gazed across the desert toward S'dom and Gomorrah. A f o r t r e s s stood there in those days. Now Arad, located near the Z o h a r gas fields, will be the first Israeli settlement to use gas for street lighting, cooking pnd heating.
Series Offered Outstanding Yiddish films, an evening of live Jewish theater, with a professional Broadway cast and prominent lecturers, are on the Yiddish Culture committee calendar/to start in January, H a r r y Sidman, Jewish Community Center Chairman, reported. The Yiddish Culture committee, is headed by J, Radinowski and M. Crounse. All events are free and open to the community. A complete schedule of the series will appear shortly in the Jewish Press.
The regular luncheon meeting of the Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs will be held Thursday, December '6, 12:30 p.m., at the Dr. Philip. Sher Jewish Home for Aged, Mrs. Harry Sidman, president, announced. Presidents and representatives of all women's organizations and the committee chairmen are urged to attend the meeting. Reports will be presented by committee chairmen.
UJA Paris (WNS)—Anna Langfuss, a Polish-Jewish woman who was a member of the Resistance in Poland and who was imprisoned by the Gestapo until the liberation, has won the coveted Prix Goncourt lor her novel "Les Bagages de Sable" (Luggage of Sand). Miss Langfus is the f o u r t h woman chosen for the honor. Her novel tells of a Polish girl whose family was wiped out under the German occupation. After the war she finds Paris still peopled by shadows of the dead. Miss Langfus has written for the theatre and has one previous novel. She lives in Paris with her husband and daughter.
Brussels (WNS)—Israeli Minister of Finance Levl Eshkol and a delegation of experts has opened negotiations here on a trade agreement between Israel and the European Economic Community. Successful termination of the negotiations, said Mr. Eshkol, would mean the "economic rebirth" of Israel.
Expects 1,500 Delegates New York (JTAV-Close to 1,500 delegates representing hundreds of organized Jewish communities throughout the 50 States will attend the 25th An.nunl National Conference of the United Jewish Appeal which will open here on December 7, Joseph Meyerhoff, general chairman of the UJA, said. The three-day conference, •will serve a. two-fold purpose. It will determine the UJA's program and goals for its 1963 nationwide campaign, and inaugurate a year-long ob s e r v a n c e by America's Jewish communities of the Appeal's quarter of a century of activity in behalf of distressed and homeless Jews the world over. Chief among the many reports to be submitted to the delegates will be a recommendation for a multi-million dollar Special Fund drive to, supplement the Appeal's regular 1963 campaign. The recommendation will be supported in separate reports that will be made by a representative of the UJA's recently returned Overseas Study Mission which investigated conditions among Jewish refu-
gees in France and Israel; and by spokesmen for the UJA's executive committee and its 88member National Campaign Cabinet.
Opera fans to iHeet At Josef '-Mayers' A gvoup interested iri "Evenings with Opera," sponsored by the Jewish Community Center, will hold its first meeting, Tuesday, December i at 8 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Josef Mayer, 2603 South Sixtieth Street. In charge pf the group, will be Rabbi Michael Sanders, Omaha Hebrew Academy Director, and opera scho\. ar, Featured singers in the initial session, devoted to Vetd^ will be Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle, Jussi Bjoerling, Giovanni Martenelli and Leonard Warren. Discussion will follow. Those desiring further particulars on the series may call the Center's Activities Department. The series is open to. all persons in the community interested in music, particularly
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