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Maurice Gilmore, vice-president and General Manager of Ed P h i l l i p s and Sons Co. of Omaha, has boon named general chairman of the H)G7 Jewish Philanthropies-United Jewish Appeal Campaign, Milton Abrahams, p r e s itlent of the Omaha Jewish Federation, announced the a p p o i n linent.of Mr. Gilmore at a Federation Executive Board meet-, ing this week. In making the announcement Mr. A b r a h a m s paid, "Mr. G i l m o r e demonstrated his dedication as well as his fine leadership ability
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when he served as chairman of the Initial Gifts Division last year, We are most fortunate to have him accept the responsibility of heading the c u r r e n t campaign when so many urgent needs must be fulfilled." Activities A graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, Mr. Gilmore is a member of the New York Bar and was a practicing attorney for 17 • y e a r s prior to his present association the Ed Phillips Co. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Highland Country Club, a m e m b e r of the
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Needs "Our Omaha needs are aggravated by the ever rising inflationary spiral. It simply costs more for our Jewish Agencies to render the same services. At the same time the demand for additional services keeps growing," Mr. Gilmore noted. "Israel, beset by hostile neighbors whose war-like ambitions are not only manifested by wild harangues over radio Damascus, Beirut and Alexandria but now by murderous incursions, must also absorb 250,000 Jews,
newcomers to Israel, who have not yet found their places in the main stream of Israel life; and, at the hame time, get ready to accommodate a flood tide of Jewish-Russian immigrants, if the Russian Premier m e a n s what he says," Mr. G i l m o r e said. "There is much to be done, but that is nothing new to Omaha Jewry who have been tested before time and again and have, never been found wanting. We have e v e r y expectation that our community will meet tha challenges of 1007."
London UTA) — The Arab League boycott against the Coca-Cola Corporation for relations with Israel will not be implemented for nine months to avoid economic losses to Arab business. Arabs in 12 countries' will therefore be able to continue buying the soft drink at least through next summer. The Cairo press also reported from Kuwait, whore the Arab League boycott committee blackMaurice Gilmore listed the soft drink firm. Ford 5 years ago, Mr. Gilmore wa3 Motor Company and Radio CorPresident of the Temple Beth poration of America, that a simEl Men's Club of Great Neck, ilar grace period would be apLong Island, and served as a plied to Ford and RCA operamember of the Board of Trus- tions in the Arab countries for tees of the Mt. Sinai Hospital of the same reason. Minneapolis during his residenThe boycott committee agreed to allow Arab plants to continue cy there. . In accepting the appointment to bottle and sell the soft drink Mr. Gilmore said, "I am deeply from existing stocks of importhonored to be selected by the ed Coca-Cola concentrates for Omaha Jewish Federation to be the General Chairman of the 1907 Philanthropies Campaign. It is an awesome responsibility, but fortunately, there are many who.will share the burden as always, and for that cooperation I White Plains, N. Y. (JTA)— am truly grateful." Zvi AlmoR, of Tel Aviv, will be brought here at Westchester County's expense to net as .tha principal witness against a Yonkers youth accused of having set fire a year ago to the Yonkers Jewish Community Center, causing the death ot 12" persons, according to District Attorney Leonard Rubenfeld. The youth, Thomas A. Ruppert, 17, is in jail, charged with arson and with 24 counts of first Israel Among degree murder as a result of the tragic incident. Uuppert was at First to Sign the time a youth corps worker United Nations (JTA)—The at the Jewish Center. Mr. Almog, Government of Israel was then studying for his doctorate among the first to sign the in New York, was the Center's two covenants on h u m a n executive director and, with rights adopted unanimously Yonkers police, had questioned by the General Assembly. Ruppert when the youth was arAmbassador M i c h a e l C, rested a month after the fire. Comay, Israel's permanent Since then, Mr. Almog had rerepresentative here, signed turned to his home in Tel Aviv. the covenant at a f o r m a l A county judge has ruled ceremony, in the presence of since, that the confession by Secretary-General U Thant. Ruppert, obtained by police auAmbassador Comay stated: thorities, could not be used "These covenants are a hiswhen the youth comes to trial, toric step forward, but the on the grounds that the police real test lies ahead in the had not warned Ruppert of his p r o c e s s of ratification by constitutional rights when he was under interrogation. Howstates and their acceptance ever, Mr. Rubenfeld insists that of binding commitments. The Mr. Almog, not being a member Jewish people has a special of the police force, could act as and tragic interest in the Witness to those confessions, in freedom and dignity of all which Ruppert had allegedly human beings and groups." stated he started the fires "for a thrill/1 •• •
the nine-month period. Boycott committee decisions are not binding on the participating nations which have the option to decide on implementing such decisions. The participating nations are Algeria, Iraq. Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Egypt and Yemen. Previously, it was reported that the Jordanian Government issued instructions to merchants and import officials to prevent importation of products of the Coca-Cola Corporation and Ford Motor Company. Officials of tha Coca-Cola and Ford enterprises in Jordan reportedly indicated little concern over, the boycott orders. They said their plants in Jordan had enough spare parts and products to last for the next two years.
Klein ..Wizard Says ¥hrh United Klan.s of America, opcrating in at! states, finds Florida a "prosperous" spot for its growing organization, said Robert Shcllon. Imperial Wizard of the United Klaus of America, on a television' p r o gram entitled "A Conversation with a Ku KIux Klan Imperial Wizard," telecast by station WTTV of Orlando. The Klan leader m a d e the statement in the hour-long pro-
New York (ZINS)—The Jewish population in all countries throughout the world now totals 13,400,000, according to statistics published in the American Jewish Yearbook. Seventy-eight per cent of this total reside in the United States, Russia and Israel. The report points to the fact that-some 2,030,000 Jews reside in and around the metropolitan area of New York. The Jewish population of Soviet, Russia is estimated at 2,486,000.
gram. Hay Rucster, vice president in charge of WFTV news, pre-taped the interview when Shclton was in Central Florida to appear at a public rally with six other Klan leaders. Shclton also charged in the television i n t e rview that the ''House Committee on Un-American Activities was n o t h i n g more than a political football used for political expediency by the present federal bureaucracy because we were becoming a stumbling block in the paths of the t y r a n i c a l powers under LBJ." He is currently appealing a one-year jail sentence for contempt of Congress. Shclton has been convicted by a federal "court jury for refusing to discuss and turn over subpoened Klan documents to a subcommittee on Un-American Activities. Sh el ton protested that the committee's investigation was not an "authenticated investigation," and "the Committee has been taken o v e r by the element."
United Nations, N. Y. (JTA)— The United Nations General Assembly has adopted by unanimous vote, two covenants on human rights, one dealing with economic, social and cultural freedoms, the other with rights in the civil and political fields. The covenants will become international treaties when they tre ratified or acceded to by a sufficient number of governments. At the same session, the Assembly adopted, by a vote of 60 in favor, with two against and 38 abstentions, an "optional protocol" which will obligate those Governments that adhere to this instrument to permit individuals to complain against human rights violations by their own government1?, and could make it possible for one'state ' to complain against human rights violations by another state. The adoption of the covenants came 12 years after drafts on those subjects were first opened to debate here, in 1034, nnri ltt years after the Universal Dec-
laration of Human Rights was passed by the Assembly in 1943 as "a standard of achievement." While the Soviet Union joined the United States, Israel and the other members of the-United Nations in voting for the covenants, the USSR was severely criticized by Israel ond,,the Dominican Republic for its suppression of cultural and religious rights now given full legal recognition through the newlyadopted covenants. Neither Israel nor the Dominican Republic, however, named the USSR specifically, Ambassador Michael S. Cornay, Israel's permanent representative here, referred, only to a country he did not name where, he charged, "deprivations" are Buffered by the Jewish people, while other minorities nre free from such cultural and religious discriminations. The Dominican envoy, Ambassador Orncs Coiscou, spoke of "Jews who live among the snows of the hteppe's."
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Ituppert is scheduled to ba given a hearing January 9. Mr. Rubenfeld said that the County has arranged to pay for Mr. Almog's transportation from and back to Israel, plus his hotel expenses, so that he could appear against Ruppert. The youth's voluntary defense counsel. Mrs. Eleanor J. Piel, has objected to Mr. Almog's expected testimony, charging that he had acted as a party to "the plot" by police to obtain the Ruppert confession.
J.C.C. Day Camp Brenda Newman, chairman of the J.C.C. Day Camp committee, reports that "an enthusiastic group of capable volunteers are giving of their time and energies in the preliminary planning for the 1907 J. C. C. Day Camp season." Members of the committee include: Mines. Larry Albert, Jack Baker, Elliot Brown, Jack Cohn, Dean Frankel, James Eisen, Arthur Novak, Martin Lehr, Jerry Krupinsky and Ra< mon Somberg. In addition to setting Uio basic policies of the camp, tho committee wilt coordinate all aspects of the camp program and select personnel.
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Dual Role of Funeral Director Discussed at National Meeting San Juan, Puerto Rico—A leading sociologist called for the development by Jewish iurn.ral directors of "m;vv customs and social techniques" to assist tlio.se '"whom death has touched'1 but for whom "there i, no longer an adequate social response'' in coping with firief and mourning. . Addressing the :i!Hh Annual National Convention of the Jewish Funeral Directors of America, Dr. Robert Fulton, professor of sociology at the University of1 Minnesota, urged the funeral executives to "acquire the .social service techniques needed to help reintegrate the bereaved into a beneficial social environment." Education In another address at the fourtiny comlnve. Dr. Marshall -Sklare. professor of sociology at Ycshiva University, called on the Jewish funeral directors to recognize their "crucial role'' as educators to marginally affiliated Jews who have "lost contact v/ith the Jewish tradition.''
M-.YMOfR WriNSTFIN of Y'orkClly vateltctal Ihc ntti prfrc iilent of Ihe Jewish Funeral Directors of America at llio organization's 39lb unnual national convention in San Juan, Puerto Itlra. The JFDA sctkl to promote tonllmtcd rewarch and study to cimlJle Ihe funeral profession to brat swre the needy of the Amtritm JenisJi community.
New York (JTA) — The Wall Street Journal, in a front page survey, reports that Jewish efforts to persuade certain industries to accept Jewish applicants for executive and managerial posts had produced a "broad ferment at large corporations." The survey cited the* parallel campaigns launched recently by the Anti-Defamation Lcsgu&'d. B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee. The report. said that the two organizations, "in quiet negotiations over the past two and a half years, have helped, start , programs to recruit Jews at companies like First Pennsylvania Banking and Trust Company in Philadelphia and at such corporate giants as American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Scott Paper Company, Pennsylvania Railroad Company and, according to the American Jewish Committee, 1 Southern California Edison " a major utility. Less Discrimination Referring to "the changing nature of resistance to employment of Jewish executives," the survey commented that "outright discrimination still exist3 but it Is less prevalent than in past years, observers say. More often, companies simply have been slow to implement their own oftstated policies that they hire and promote solely on the basis of merit." New Efforts John R. Bunting, executive vice-president of First PennBylvanja fold the Wall Street Journal that "in the past, we've had difficulty keeping Jews m our training programs." Officials then realized that with non-Jess
The great and increasing secularization of the American Jew, Dr. S!:lare declared, does not ficnirially extend to the iuneral home a.s might have been expected, At a time of death in the family, even the marginally affiliated Jew "reverts- to a Jewish milieu- When this alienated Jew returns to his ancestral pattern, however, he cannot, bring to it the full traditional feelings that the occasion demands." 'The; Jewish funeral director thus has contact with n segment of the Jewish community that no wie else has contact with," said Dr. Sklare. As the "surrogate" of the Jewish community acting for it in absentia, the funeral director faces a "great opportunity and challenge with the alienated Jew.
Ansence-Esrael Student Exchange' V/altham. Mass, (JTA)-An exchange of gifted students between Brandeis University and the Israeli Institute of Technology will be made .possible through a $75,000 endowment trust established by the family of a Now York industrialist, Henry P. Fischbach. to honor his 7">th birthday, it was announced here. Mr. Finchbach. a Fellow of Brandeis, has also been a close supporter of the American Technion Society. The program is mainly intended for the exchange of graduate students. It was also announced here that Brandeis University has received a Ford Foundation grant of $170,000 for a survey of attitudes toward race-related riots and demonstrations, The project will be undertaken by the university's newly-established Center for the Study of Violence, which has been underwritten by Samuel Lemberg, a New York realtor and a trustee of Brandeis.'
almost exclusively holdini; top managerial posts, the situation "might be discouraging to a young Jewish.fellow looking for a place to make a career. We are going to need bright competitive people and a proportion will be Jewish so we decided to do something to make it more attractive to them to come here." The bar.k is • sow consciously trying to draw more Jews into its predominantly nonJewish management ranks. The survey reported that one important area of Jewish jobs, the small or individually operated business "has been in sharp decline" recently in this country and this fact "lias provided more urgency for the current employment drives at large companies." Some executives reportedly consider findings of few Jews in top management in insurance, banking and utilities- as-misleading because in big companies "it usually takes 20 to 30- years to reach the top jobs. The fact that there aren't many Jewish: executives around now might show there was discrimination 25 years ago, but it doesn't say much about the current state of affairs," Recruiting ai: Brandeis Many of the larger companies do not argue when- confronted with data on non-employment of Jews. John W. Kingsbury, the assistant vice president for pertonnel at AT&T, told the Wall Street Journal that "we have been pushing harder to make our recruiters aware of any biases they might have." The company this year plans, along
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EliSes ©(aft A representative of the embassy of iFrael spoke on Ihe George Washington campus one The "Palestine question'1 can- month ago. not bo solved by moderation or Zionists compromise, a member of the Ha:;sen warmed to his subject militant Palestine Liberation Or- by saying Palestinians had no ganization iPLO) told an audi- quarrel with Jews, only with ence at George Washington Uni- Zionists. Hassan called Judaism versity as he asserted his it "great universal religion." group's position against Israel. "Wherever Arab, were mas"There are certain questions ters (if their own fate, there was in the world where compromise no anti-Semitism," he said. But Israel, he said, is a "marequals appeasement and appeasement equals inequity," Sad- riage of convenience" between dat Hassan, co-director of the British colonialism and Zionism. PLO office in New York City, "Israel is a wedge between the said. "We cannot compromise Arab East and Arab West, placed there by Britian to proour land, our homes." The program sponsored by the vide a base of a g K r e s s i o n International Students Society, against the Arab homeland." he attracted about 250 students find said. His remarks included a warna handful of adults. Many stood ing to the United States. "As in the ais'n or sat on the floor. long as people in the U.S. treat The questions, from a decided- Israel as tho 51st state." lie said, ly pro-Israel audience—one stu- "the Palestinians will disrupt dent softly played -Hatikvah" 1J.S. interests in the Middle on his harmonica before Hassan East." spoltc—appeared informed, inIn discussing the PLO. Hassan telligent and well-prepared. said the word "liberation" is misHassen fielded thorn all wiili understood, in America. He said courtesy and aplomb; answers it was "regrettable" that the were preceded with "Sir or U.S. attaches the meaning of "Madam." No one in the au- communism to the word. dience or at the lectern lost his "We are neither' Communist self-control as Hassan spoke for nor Western—only Palestinian." 30.minutes and answered ques- Hassan said. "VVe appreciate tions for an hour. Ho was rea- help from any country, irrespecdy for mare when the meeting tive of its political position." adjourned. Palestine not negotiable He dismissed suggestions of Hassan is the thin! spokesman for an Arab country or organ- negotiations with Israel as a ization to appear at a Washing- means toward solving his organton area university in the past ization's grievance. "We were not established to discuss the three weeks. IJy Barry PolsUy Washington Jewish Week
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situation, but to wage a battle of liberation," lie said. Hassan said those forces waiting for Arab unity before attacking Israel were wasting their time and that only a war of liberation would make Arab unity a reality. He said the PLO was the embodiment of the will of the Arab people and that "once the war starts, no Arab leader will stay in power 21 hours if he doesn't follow us." ' . • He based the Palestinian claim to Israel on legal and moral grounds. He said the United Nations partition of Palestine was contrary to the policy of selfdetermination of peoples embodied in the TIN charter. Portion called illegal "No one asked the Palestinians their opinion nn partition; there was no vote," Hassan said. "The UN and Israel took our land, our orange groves and our homes and drove us into the desert." He expressed sympathy for the plight of Jews under Nazism, but said, "Palestinians should" not be called upon to pay tho price of the murder of six million by 1 a Western, Christian country.' : He emphasized his move-1 ment's determination to regain, what is now Israel as be paraphrased a portion of the Psalm, "If I forget thee. o' Palestine, let my richt hand . . ." and his voice'trailed off.
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New York (JTA)—A two-day conference on advancing tho arts in American Jewish life, convened by the National JewNew York (JTA)—Formation Catholics and 1.200,000 Jews, ish Welfare Board, was held of a Catholic-Jewish Relations was announced here this week here this week. Purpose of the Committee for two New York by the Anti-Defamation League meeting was to help Jewish cenboroughs containing. ],GO0,O0O of B'nai B'rith and the Catholic ters and YM-YWHAs to intensiDiocese of Brooklyn. Co-chair- fy J e w i s h cultural creativity man of the new committee are and programming through tho Msgr, Vincent O. Geneva, a arts. The -conference, m a d e member of the Diocesan Ecu- plans to make a maximum use menical Commission, and Rabbi of available resources of existIsrael Mowshowitz, chairman ing Jewish c u l t u r a l material of the ADL Interrciigious Coop- and to establish new resources eration Committee. The new by encouraging individuals and unit, comprised of 24 clergy- groups to create new Works in men, educators, lawyers and various artistic fields by prowith its usual college recruit- jurists of Brooklyn and Queens, viding facilities and instructions .ing, a program of selective re- will seek better understanding through repertory c o m p a n i e s cruiting at schools like- Bran- between Catholics and Jews. and traveling exhibitions. deis University which hove a The conference also sought to Msgr. Geneva said that "achigh percentage of Jewish stucurate knowledge of one an- aid development of resources dents. scholarships, c o m missions After being approached on the other is the first step toward: for and awards in Jewish arts and question, the First Pennsylvania mutual understanding." Rabbi to attract more participation by bt-grm to contact officers of Moshowitz said that the new involving lay leaders in such.acHillel Foundations before it re- group would avoid "the old type tivities and by also involving cruitprl on the camnuses. Samuel of inter-faith meetings." An creative artists and professionSeeman, the Bank's personnel ADL spokesman said that one als such as teachers, director, said the.- effort was meeting of the committee was and performers, andinterpreters involving "very productive" and that already held and that another the general public. Another obbe held in about a month handling the program was would to lay the foundations, for a jective was development of co"mostly a matter of taking the series "dialogues" and later operative communal o b s e r v initiative and making it clear specificofinterfaith projects. ances of cultural activities, we really wanted" Jewish appli-
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Bonn (JTA)—Dr. Kurt Kissinger, West Gtrnianv's new Chancellor, told the Jewish Tele.graphic .Agency correspondent here that he had never in his life taken an anti-Jewish attitude and had never done anything against Jews. Concerning his membership in the Nazi Party, he insisted it was purely nominal, and added: "I never sympathized with the Nazis and I believed that I would be able to -out-inaneuver them." The Chancellor disclosed that he had wanted to emigrate from Germany when the Nazis took power in HU.'I, but did not have the money '.o do so. He said he entered the party in 1!)S3, but had nothing to do with it after 1934. He -said Unit ihe liml given " ' " ^ " J " " • M i s t e t < «fuo«e*, mainly rrom Eastern much thought to the olfur to beT ™ T " ! K c n n e t f y .AlrP<"-t to b efl ln new live, in tha come Chancellor because of his ,1 T h e n e w ? o m " « " 1 " b« resettled In «ven cities past connection with the Nazi J " « ° U n i r y W l t h t h e ' ™°P"*f">n of the New York Parly. He stressed that he himi ! ! ' , " " ! " " " and local Jewish Federation agen.. fl l r o l t J r y C1 f g» ' « " ^ ' >-« •AnflelM, PJH.burflh and self had proposed Dr. Eugene ? i i " ' w o r l d w l d e •mlfl'-atlon aOency, will r«ettla Gerstenmaier, the president of f m e r t and C dren l n f r W t c m the Bundestag, West Germany's countries ihl M . r * 7 m » ^ "" " " P b8 hel ed t 0 wblIsl1 lower house of Parliament, for new hamei' M1 t h ' U S " *"" P .« the post of Chancellor, but that his Christian Democratic Union Party had decided differently. Then and Now Chancellor Kiesinger agreed that it was only "natural'' for people outside of Germany to be disturbed about the rise of New York (JTA)—Dr. George during the 10-year period cov- the extremist .National DemoGallup, director of the Ameri- ered in the report. In response cratic Party. However, he incan Institute of Public Opinion to an inquiry from Rabbi Alvin sisted there was no comparison in Princeton, has conceded Kass, editor of the United Synathat synagogue attendance in gogue Review Dr. Gallup has the past 10 years tins increased, now confirmed the results of a despite a drop in over-all at- survey which the United Synatendance at religious services gogue Review itself had conduring that period, the United ducted and which revealed "a Synagogue of America, central decided rise in synagogue atbody of the Conservative Syna- tendance during the High Holy gogue movement, announced Days and on the Sabbath during Los Angeles (JTA) — "Antithe past 10 yean," the anthis week. Semitism is still very much alive nouncement said. In the initial "audit" report both in its rabic variety, not which was released by Dr. Galonly in Europe and South Amerlup several months ago, an imica, but even in the United pression was created that SynaStutes in its polite or genteel gogue attendance had dropped forms, as we practice it in our along with attendance in Protown country," Father Edward estant and Catholic churches Jerusalem (JTA)—Israeli offi- H. Flannery of Rhode Island, cials are puzzled by the appearance in Pravda, official organ of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, of a renewed attack against ilsrael. This is the London (JTA)—Colin Jordan, third time within a month that head of the tiny British National Israel is being attacked in PravTel Aviv (JTA)—Hundreds of Socialist party — which has da. Hassidim of the Calever Rebbe, about 40 members—and Peter The renewed attack comes -Rabbi- Mendel Taub, braved Pollard, one of his youthful fol- after a high ranking Soviet of- •wind and rain to sing and dance lowers, were ordered this week ficial, whose name was not dis- in. .a procession inaugurating to stand trial on charges of vio- closed here had told Israeli dip- the new Hassidic quarters in •Inting the British Race Rela- lomats in New York that ihe Rishon .LerZion near here, built tions Act. knows that Israel is not inter- by the followers of the Rcbbe. Trial was ordered by a Plym- ested in undermining the pres- The new quarter includes a outh court after a hearing on ent regime in.Syrja but only in synagogue built at a cost of charges of involvement in a maintaining pdace on the bor- 1,000,000 pounds '($33,000) a Veshiva and some eight apartconspiracy to stir up hatred ders. The article in the Moscow ments. against Jews and colored immigrants. They will be tried on newspaper charged Israel with The procession, led by chilcharges of distributing insulting "provocations" against the Arab dren carrying torches, and folwritten matter "likely and in- states and declares that these lowed by Torah scrolls under tended to stir up hatred against "provocations" are part of an a canopy, made its way to the a section of the public in Great "imperialist scheme" to topple new quarters to the accompaniBritain distinguished by color the Syrian regime which is be- ment of the brass band of the ing supported by the Soviet fire brigade. Rabbi Taub, who is or race." Union. It claims that Israel's The two British Nazis were chief of staff, Gen. Yitzhak Ra- the s ix th generation descenbound over for trial at the next bin, had stated that the Syrian dent of the rabbinic dynasty Devon Azzizes opening in Exe- Government must be over- founded 180 years ago in the ter on January 12. They were thrown The article also said Hungarian town of Cale, spent allowed to post bail of 50 pounds that the "difficulties" surround- the Second World War in a concentration camp. After the ($M0) each. ing the closing of the Iraqi Pe- war he emigrated to Cleveland The Plymouth court heard troleum Company's .pipelines, by before settling in Israel. evidence that Pollard received Syria were due to the same imthe material from Jordan's perinlist "conspirocy," headquarters and thnt he afMR, IIARKY XEFKOWITZ fixed hate stickers on JI Plym(hanks 1i<s many relatives and outh synagogue,and on a pubFURNISHED RO&M 'friends For the cards, 'flowers, lic house. He also was accused for 1 or 2 Women gifts, contributions to charity of painting swastikas with the and oilier expressions of good words "Jews Get Out" on vari- Kitchen' *nd household privileges. wishes offered during Ills recent ous walls, lie was quoted as 1713 North 70th Avtnua. 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between conditions in Germany "I would never let myself be now and those in l!t;s:i. He con- influenced in this question by tended that the 'two major par- outside parties," the Chancellor tics in West German—the CDU promptly replied, "We have a and the Social Democrats now very special responsibility tojoined in a coalition which he ward Israel. This entails a speheads as Chancellor—both fav- cially favorable attitude toward ored direct elections to replace Israel, of course." Ho drew atthe present proportional election tention to the fact that he said system under which the NDP this previously on a visit to Inwon seats for the first time in dia. Asked whether he intended November in the provincial par- to maintain that position in the liaments of Hesse and Bavaria. future. Dr. Kiesinger said: "I He said that the two major will do everything so that our parties favored such change not relations with Israel, which we solely because of the NDP— have regularized formally, are "such importance is not at- further developed, strengthened tached to the NDP"—but be- and deepened." He added, "I am cause an incidental benefit of not letting myself into a posisuch a revised electoral system tion of 'either or' on this queswould be to prevent the NDP tion. from reaching the Federal ParTavorcd Tits With Israel liament. 'He added that he was Dr. Kiesinger was then restudying "this complex prob- ferred to reports that, at the lem." time diplomatic relations with Arab Relations Israel were under discussion in Dr. Kiesinger was asked about Bonn, he had spoken against his attitude toward statements that step. He shook his head emby Arab spokesmen that they phatically in denial. He said would attach conditions toward sonuone had written something efforts by West Germany to re- to that effect but that actually establish normal diplomatic re- the opposite had been true. He lations with the Arab states. explained that what he had done Most of the Arab countries sev- was to criticize the "clumsy ered or suspended ties with way" of West German diplomacy West Germany after Bonn ex- in first telling the Arabs that changed ambassadors with Is- diplomatic relations with Israel rael. One such condition indi- would not be established, and cated by the Arabs was a then doing just that. He added change in West Germany's at- he had always favored diplotitude toward Israel. matic relations with Israel.
ce told the annual Inter-religious Institute at the Loyola University. Speaking before key religious and lay leaders from all parts of Southern California, he described anti-Semitism as "the chief stumbling block in the path toward better Jewish-Christian relations and to the progress of Jewish-Christian dialogue." He called upon Catholic teachers, preachers and journalists to combat religious prejudice. Joining in the,call was .Dr. Franklin Littell, president of Iowa TVesleyan College. Rabbi Marc Tenenbaum of the American J e w i s h Committee called for both grass roots involvement in the ecumenical movement in this country and the establishment of an international center to study JewishChristian relations. "Unless the ecumenical .movement becames part of the grass roots community and does not remain the sole concern of the elite professional leadership of the three faith communities, a situation will develop with a number of ecumenical generals and an infantry dragging behind," he said.
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On Visit to Israel Boston (JTA)—U. S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, who visited the Middle East recently, proposed here that the U.S.A. guarantee the territorial integrity of both Israel and Jordan as one step toward the reduction of tensions in the Middle East region. He said he had found, in the area, "a greater hardening of linja and less understanding than I had anticipated." He •voiced his proposal at a breakfast of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of' Greater Boston. Among the concrete -steps he advocated for pacification of the Mid-East nrea were: A new and serious effort by the major powers to reach agreement on an embargo of arms being sent to the region, the. patrolling of Israel's borders by a joint Israeli-Arab force or bj a strengthened United N a t i o n s force; new efforts by individuals and neutral countries to bring the Arab states and Israel to direct peace negotiations; expansion of U.S. welfare programs in the area; and formation of an international Middle East Development Bank to aid the economies of the states in the region. .
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I Beth Israel SERVICES Friday: Traditional Kobolas .Shabbos: 4:40 p.m. Late Friday Evening Family Service: 8:15 p.m. conducted by Rabbi Isaac Nadoff. C a n t o r Jacob Lefkowitz and the choir. Saturday: • Morning Service: 8:45 a.m. Junior Congregation: 10 a.m. The Cantor's Class in Torah Reading will meet 45 minutes before Mincha. Rabbi Nadoff will conduct the Talmud Class at 4:10 p.m. followed by Sliolesh Seudos and Maariv. Sunday: Morning Service: 9 a.m. followed by breakfast and the Rabbi's class in Psalms. Services at 7 a.m. and 4:40 p.m. ' * • * BAR MITZVAHS The Bar Mitzvah of Sanford Burstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Burstt'in, will be celebrated on Saturday, December 24, 1906, at 8:45 a.m. i
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SERVICES Friday: 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Myer S. Kripke will officiate. Musical portions of the service will be provided by Cantor Aaron Edgar and the Choir. Immediately f o l l o w i n g the service, which will not include a sermon, the congregation will assemble in the social hall for an open discussion on "The Problem of Kthlcs." The answers of Rabbi Mordcai M. Kaplan will be presented on "Can One Be Ethical Without Being Keligious?" Steve Riekes will serve as moderator of a panel to discuss Rabbi Kaplan's answers. Members of the panel include Bennett Hornstein, Jack Molad and Mrs, Joel Helfman. Following the panel comments, the discussion will be opened to all attending. A Coffee Hour will follow. .Saturday: Morning Service: 10 a.m. Mincha-Maariv: 4:45 p.m. Sunday: Morning Service: 9 a.m. Daily: Services at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
HENRY MONSKY LODGE B'.VAI B'lUTH Anguish of the Jews, a new book by Catholic priest Edward II. Flaimery, will be reviewed by Rev. Wendell E. Langley, S.J., Creighton University professor of Theology and Philosophy at the next r e g u 1 n r meeting on December 2H, )!)GG, G:30 P.M., in the new p a r t y room of Ross' Steak House, !)0!( South 72 Street, Omaha, Nebraska. Members and w i v e s are urged to attend. This book is a comprehensive study of Anti-S e m i t i s m from prc-biblical times to the present and examines causes and effects from the point of view of a Christian. Steak dinner will be served. Reservations should be made with Nor m a n K o r n e y, Ben Snricr, Joe Goldwarc cr Dr. Sol Ktitler, SENIOR CITIZENS The Senior Citizens Club will meet Thursday, December 2!), for a 12 noon luncheon ^meeting at the Jewish Community Center. The Johnny Swoboda'Studio Silver Streak Band will present a variety show. The Senior Citizens Club is cosponsored by the Omaha Section of the National Council of Jewish Women and the Omaha Jewish Federation.
Edwin Morris Silver, son of • * • Mr. and Mrs, N'orntan Silver, will observe his Bar Mitzvah BAR MITZVAH Alan Fredericks, son of Mr. Saturday, December 31, 19G6 at and Mrs. David Fredericks, will MAX COHN 8:45 a.m. observe his Bar Mitzvah Friday • * * Funeral services were held evening and Saturday morning, Sunday. December If!, for Max ALUMNI DINNER Rabbi and Kirs, feme Nadoff December 3D and 31. A recep- Cohn of :SC()2 Charles Street. Inwill be l.osts at a dinner and in- tion will follow both services. terment was at Beth El Ceme* % • formal gathering for Beth Israel tery. College Alumni on Wednesday, COLLEGE LUNCHEON Survivors are: son, Gerald; December 28, at 6:30 p.m. in tlie All Beth El college students daughter, Eunice, both of Omasynagogue social hall. invited to meet with ha, sisters, Mrs. Esther ForeAn open discussion on the sub- have been Kripke for lunch at the man and Mrs. Bessie M a r s h ject "Jewish Life on the Cam- Rabbi on Thursday, Decem- both of B u r b a n k , California; pus"' will be held following brief synagogue ber 29 at 12 noon. Those plan- brother, Joe, Los Angeles, Calipresentations on the subject by ning on attending are asked fornia. two of the collegiates. to place their reservations with • * * the synagogue office, 553-3221. NANCY PERLIS ADULT INSTITUTE Funeral services were held in Dr. Eliezer Berkovits, head of Council Bluffs, Iowa on Tuesthe Department of Jewish Philday, December 20, for Nancy osophy at the Hebrew TheologiPerlis, age 15, of 531 Forest cal College, Skokie, Illinois, will Drive in Council Bluffs. Interbe the guest speaker for the SERVICES final session of the Institute of ment was at Oak Hill Cemetery. Adult Studies on Monday, De- Friday; 8:15 p.m. Survivors are: parents, Mr. Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks will and Mrs. A. E. Perlis; brother, cember 26, at 8 p.m. in the syofficiate. His sermon topic will Steve; grandmother, Mrs, Mollie nagogue social hali. Dr. Berkovits was ordained be: "The December Spirit and Perlis, Omaha. a rabbi by the Hildesheimer The Jewish Year." Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin, _ Musical portions of the serv- Qmahans in News Germany. He is a graduate of ice wiil.be provided by Cantor David Kntz, son of Mr. and the Berlin University and holds Manfred F. K u t t n e r and the a Ph.D. degree in Philosophy. Choir under the direction of Mrs. Maurice Katz, will present the sports feature on KMTV He is the author of many scho- Miss Ida Gitlin. larly books and has contributed A Sabbath Coffee Hour will December 2-1 at 4 p.m. A member of the Junior Achievement •widely to national magazines follow the service. TV3 Productions sponsored by and periodicals. Saturday: 11:30 a.m. KMTV, David'was host of the Dr. Berkovits wiU speak on program last month. "Major Sources of Present Day Judaism." He will develop the COLLEGE HOMECOMING thesis that Judaism is a direct Homecoming college students Mr. and Mrs. Gerald S. Levin outgrowth of many movemenis will be the guests the congrega- and daughter, Deborah, of Nnpa and personalities that shaped its tion and Rabbi and Mrs. Sidney California are in Omaha visiting character and form; and that H. Brooks at an informal supper with Mrs. Levin's parents. Mr. reason, faith, mysticism and ra- Tuesday, December 27 at 5:30 and Mrs. Morris M. Franklin. tionalism are its component p.m. at the home of Rabbi and parts. Mrs. Brooks. Following Dr. Berkovits' comMr. and Mrs. Robert Kully ments, at 8:45 p.m. participants Trill engage in open discussion, RELIGIOUS SCHOOL RECESS announce the birth of a son, All school classes have been David Conrad, born December question and answers. A social dismissed for winter recess 18, I9GG. T h e y a l s o have a hour will follow. starting December 19. Classes daughter, Julie. All interested members of the resume as follows. community are invited to attend. will Grandparents are Mr. and Hebrew Classes: January 3 Jule Newman and Mr. and Nursery School Classes: Jan- Mrs. Mrs. Conrad Bangh, all of Omauary 3 Confirmation Class: January 3 Senior Seminar Class: January 4 MR. AND MRS. ARNOLD If. Post Confirmation Class: Jan- JOFFE thank (heir many friends SERVICES uary 5 for the good wishes extended Friday: Saturday Division Religious them through Bclli-El-Ograms on Kobolas Shabbos: 4:40 pjn. School: January 7 (he occasion of (heir recent mar• Saturday: . Sunday D i v i s i o n Religious riage. Morning Service: 8:45 a.m. School: January 8 Shabbos Mincha, 4:40 p.m. followed by Sholesh Seudos and Maariv. The Place to Find All Hie ' Sunday: Morning Service: 7 a.m. Fines? Holiday Delicacies Daily: Services at C:30 a.m. and 4:40 We Will U Closed Sunday. December 25 p.m.
By HAIJIil SAMUEL J. FOX QUESTION: Why Is there a general restraint against having pictures of any kind on the walls of the synagogue? ANSWER: Generally speaking, this was prohibited so as not to distract the worshiper, and consequently his mind, to stray and thus weaken his concentration during prayer. Furthermore, certain pictures might even make it appear that one's prayers were being directed to the finite beings on the synagogue walls instead of the infinite being of the Almighty. Some 'Rabbis even forbid the painting of prayer verses on the synagogue walls so as not to distract the worshipers during prayer. QUESTION: Why do many insist (hat the entire congregation stand during the recital of the KaddiMi liy the cantor or the mourners?. ANSWER: The Kaddish is regarded as one of those recitations which ure a "matter of sunclification" (i.e. the Divine Name is sanctified in the process of its recital). Such a recitation requires the entire congregation to rise because in the course of such a recitation it is the congregation which is taking part in tlie sanctification, (i.e. the Cantor or the mourner and the congregation react to each other responsively). Thus, it becomes an activity which is like that of the angels who summon and consequently-respond lo> each other in the process of sanctifying the Divine Name. Since the angels do this in a standing posture <i.e. in a fixed position) the congregation, which is emulating the angels, do likewise.
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Dr. Miller's Topic: Estrogen Therapy Wednesday, January 4, 1967 Biackstonc Hotel, 12:30 p.m.
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I am so pleased to be able to greet so many Omahnns nt this time. Our membership usually limits the size of our reading audience. Our Hoard joins me in the hope that you will acquaint yourselves with the Brandeis University Women's Committee through this special Bulletin. This is the first time our Bulletin has ever been printed in the Jewish Press. We hope t h i s innovation will prove to be an annual occurence, for in this manner we can tell the Story of Brandeis University, not only to our members, but to our other friends as well. This page presents a picture of some of our activities. We hope to see you at many of our functions. It would be my pleasure to greet all of you personally. Cordially, Mrs. Charles (Jac) Ilosenstock
It lakes more than Ivy-covered walls to make a great university—and Brandeis is a Great University. This House of Learning is unique. It is the first non-sectarian Jewish-sponsored University, as well as the youngest school in the country to be granted a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. It has been recognized as one of the nation's finest centers of higher learning. Yet it has only been In txislanee- since 194!!! How could this respected University grow so fast and so great in just 18 years time? Belief in this special place has played a great part. Jews all over the country have contributed in time and money, both in vast amounts, to create this Great American Dream. The entire philosophy is not unlike most Jewish Thinking—that what they have must be the best, and in this case this means the best faculty, the best buildings, the best seat of instruction and research facilities. To keep this Modern Day Miracle alive, we cannot let down in our efforts. We must continue to make this University thrive and grow. It is for Us! What arc some aspects (hat make up Brandels University? Recently a "pass fail" program was inaugurated. Students will be allowed to
is a graduate of Creighton University and Creighton Medical School. He completed his internship and residency at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, and served a fellowship in cancer surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A member of the AMA and the Nebraska Medical Society, Dr. Miller has been a prolific contributor to many medical publications, particularly on the subject of
A Big Success
Under the chairmanship of Mr. Robert Feinberg, a dinner sponsored by the Men's Committee of Brandeis University was held at the Highland Country Club, November 22, 196G. A long-time friend of Branbroaden their undergraduate education by ex- deis, Mr. Milton Livingston, was perimenting in unfamiliar academic areas withhonored for his many years of out adversely affecting their over-all grade averfriendship and d e v o t i o n to ages. The student can take four s e m e s t e r Brandeis. courses on the "pass-fail" basis in undergraduGuest speaker of the evening ate school. A student who successfully comwas Dean Clarence Berger of pletes an extra course with a grade of "pass" will receive appropriate academic credit, but the Brandeis University who spoke course won't be considered in computing the stu- of the growth of Brandeis and of its monetary.needs. Followdent's academic average. The plan represents ing Dean Berger's remarks, an effort to cut through the increasing rigidity pledges and clicks were collectof a university curriculum, and constitutes an ed totalling more than $46,000. effort to regain the spirit of the old liberal arts concept, and prevents a college education from being just a stepping stone to Graduate School. Three new schools were instituted this year at Brandeis. The Kutz School of Biology, the Mrs. Sanford Kasner, ViceLovvn Graduate Center for Contemporary Jewish President in charge of memberStudies and the Poses School of Fine Arts, ship, announces the addition of The Theater Arts Program will enable stuMrs. Irwin Eisenberg and Mrs. dents to work with well known theatrical profesPhil Ortega to her most sucsionals. Add to these programs scientific recessful fall campaign for new search of such depth and scope as to have atmembers. We also welcome as tracted world recognition. a transfer from the Des Moines These are but a few examples of what makes chapter, Mrs. Donald Lubin. Brandeis a vital, exciting, growing University.
Dr. Daniel Miller
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This promises to be our most exciting meeting of the year. Estrogen Therapy, of interest to all women, will be discussed by Dr. Daniel Miller, a leading Omaha physician and surgeon who is among the country's leading authorities on cancer surgery and therapy. Dr. Miller is president-elect of the Nebraska Division of the American Cancer Society and serves on its executive committee. He is a member of the staffs of University of Nebraska Hospital, Clarkson Hospital and Methodist Hospital, and is conducting clinical drug evaluation tests at these institutions. A professor at the Nebraska University Medical School, Dr. Miller
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A Mice Way to Remember Campus Capsule A bright student—an intellectually curious, seeking person— this is part of what makes a Brandeis student. T h e r e are three such students from Omaha at Brandeis this year. Sol • Stephan Marcus, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nate Marcus, will graduate this June with a major in Chemistry. Steve has distinguished himself academically with a National Science Foundation Grant and .member; Ehip in a German language honorary. Steve has participated in debate and played in combos'for. extra curricular activities. He plans to attend Graduate School next fall. Rand Zachary Engel, 17, son of Dr. Robert Engel and Mrs. Renee Kaiser, is a freshman at Brandeis. Rand is a Liberal Arts student with Political Science as a special interest, A Central High graduate who distinguished himself there as ^a debater and as AZA Regional PresP" dent, Rand's ultimate college goal is a degree in Law. In the meantime, as a freshman, he keeps busy with his studies and debates as an outside activity. Rand is a grandson of Dr, and Mrs. Abe Greenberg. Dr. Greenberg is on President Sacher's Council. Deborah Ann Lipp, ID, daughter of, Dr., and Mrs'.; Frank E. Lipp, is a freshman majoring in Biology. Dcbby is a prc-med student. A Central High gradunte also, Dcbby's extra-curricular activities, at Brandeis Include w o r k i n g behind the ccenes in drama at the fabulous Spingold Theatre lor the Performing Arts.
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Advisors* Mmes. Charles RoscnslocK and The I960 Book Sale is part of Alort Farber. Phonalhoit Worfctrs the past, and can be considered Mmes. Leo Elsenslatf, Alon Fartoer, A. H. Grcenberg, Slonford Kasner, Marvin the most successful Book Sale Kohll, Howard Krantl, Leonard Kulokof•kv, Mlllon Lehr, Robert Marantz. Millard ever held in Omaha. Margolin, Allrcd Mayer, Myron AAIIdcr, Donald Polsky, William. Raduilner, Don The "New Books for Old" Rice, Henry Rjekcs, Millard Rosenberg. Rosenblall, Charles Rosenslock, Kencampaign began November 28th Sieve nclh H Rosen, Bernard Sax, Arnold Stern, and ended December 3rd. It was M . A. Venaer, Paul Verol, Warren Zweiback and Miss Beatrice Sommer. held in the Crossroads Arcade. Book Sola Wcrktrs Mmes, MourlcB Aresty, Lloyd Bonk, Louis Between 7,000 and 10,000 books Elumkln, Robert Bernstein. Max Canar, were collected throughout the Seymour Cohn, Robert Epitcin, A|on. Farber, Harold Forber, Dean Frankel, Maurice year, according to Mrs. Warren Gllmore. Gary Goldslein, Herman GoldNelson Gordman, Edward B. Green, Zweiback and Mrs. Milton Lehr, stein, H. Greenberq, Elmer Gross, Manntnn co-chairmen of the event. They N. E. Handler, Waller Jocobson, Howard KopRobert Kooper, Abe Kallemun, Arthur l u l l * ftUUCI I ^ U U p C I , r*UV rVUMITf MUFII / ^ l M*UI wish to thank the many commit- lon, Kutokofsky, Leonord Kulokofcky, Mlllon tee chairmen and all those who Lehr, Robert Levlne, Jay Moloshock, Mil* lord Morootin, Leo UOQQ, Julius Novak, participated in all phases of the William Raduilncr. Kenneih Rosen, Millard Charles Rosenslock, Jack J . sale. The success of the'Book Rottnbero. SchrQQcr, Harold Sloiberp, Stonley SloiSale is due entirely to the de- , berg, Louis Somberg, Marlon Somberfl, Taren, "\/ern- Vonce^ Martin Warvoted e f f o r t s o£ those who Sidney ren, Herman Welnsfeln, • Bernhordt VJo\f, fJ. V/olf, Warren Zwelback oncl worked so unceasingly to make Saniufl Miss Anne Aresfy. this the Biggest T3ook Sale ever. CommlllM tholrm«n Ctflcrol co-Chalmwi; Mitwi; Mlllon Lthr end Warren Zwtlbocfci initial Sellclollim, Mrs. Harvey Fcrcr; Arrangement! end fuppfUt. Mrs. Pomon Sombero; Publicity, /•Art), Sldicy Novak: PhonomaR* Mmes. Cconeit Walter nrni Sonfpri) Kosufr; Picfeup, Mrs. frvia 5h«rirtGrii Treasurer* Mrs. Harry B. Cohm; Pntt«r» ottd signs, Mr;. Worrit Klrtnenbnum; Meriting end Sortins, Mmn. MoihJce Gllmoro orttl Genntlt Hornileln; Loan Procurement, tMt. f.fyrcn Milder) flailing, Mrs. Htnry Creeilxrgi »
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For your interest and enjoyment, Brandeis this year inaugurates several new features. Be sure to clip and send in your choice as soon as possible, as many of these study groups will be limited in size. 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN MUSIC: This group will be lead by Myron Cohen and will start February 2 and run six sessions. The price is $6 for the series. The first meeting will be held from 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. at the home of Mrs, Millard Rosenberg. 2. AN ART TOUR: Mrs. Myron Milder announces that the tour will be held April 19, the group leaving Omaha at 9:30 a.m. for the bus trip to Lincoln. The art tour will include the Phillip Johnson Collection, a photographic collection and a Persian Miniature coi-' lection. At 11:45 a.m. there will be a luncheon on the Agricultural Campus, followed by shopping in downtown Lincoln. We will return by Scenic Cruiser at approximately 3:30 p.m. A fee of $5 includes the luncheon and the bus fare. Reservations will be limited. Watch for additional information. 3. GOURMET COOKING: This will be conducted by the world famous chef, John Monbaron of the Omaha Club. There will be six lessons for $10 which covers the cost of the food. The first class session will be held January 11 from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Milton Lehr. The class will be limited to the first 20 registering. 4. THE MODERN NOVEL: This group will be led by our own Mrs. N. H. Greenberg who was a moving force and a guiding light in the creation and leadership of our chapter's first study group. It is our pleasure to have Ruth lead us once again. The only expense involved is the cost of the paper-back books. There will be six meetings, one each month, starling January "16 at the home of Mrs. Greenberg. • Clip the coupon on this page and reserve your space in (lie groups of your choice. . Check your preference, clip and return (o: Mrs. Charles Rosenslock 704 Sunset Trail , Omaha, Nebraska, 68132 Please enroll me in (lie following study groups: 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN MUSIC ( ) 2. AN ART TOOR (
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OPEN LETTER TO NORMAN JIAHX Let's call a sp:ule a spade! If anyone is doiny an injustice to the youth of our community, it is you and your Omaha Jewish Youth Committee! Teenagers need guidance; t h e y respect discipline and you are not accomplishing your goals or theirs by turning your back on them and allowing them to ignore tlier own standards. I am and always have been aware of the local "rule" on interdating. However, Mr. Halm, you reign as "King of the Naive" if you are not cognizant of the "popularity" and "acceptance" of iriterdatinK at Youth Council dances, rule or no rule!! All you need to do is read the stimulating "Taggin" the Teens"' column in the Dundee Sun after a big club dance and you will find out how effectively this ruling is being enforced. I deplore your suggestion that we parents stay '"out of the picture." As a mother of teenage sons, I protest because we are allowing interdating to become the "in" thing to do, and no matter what we do in our own homes, this becomes a community problem because it is almost impossible to fight on a teenager's level when it is acceptable by their peers. I realize that parents alone can try to control their children's dating habits on regular dates. I agree that there are children who even try to "fool" their own parents by switching dates. But, let us at least let our children know that they cannot expect to use facilities and professional workers supplied primarily by Jewish Philanthrophy monies if they do not take seriously the rules they themselves have accepted. At a recent dance, many couples who inter-date were present. A week later at another ciub dance, they were there again. Where was Ihc disciplinary action?? You, as chairman of the Omaha Jewish Y o u t h Committee, are helping these kids make a farce out of their own rules. They are laughing at you, not with you!' As for youth groups using the synagogues, I can guarantce you thai these children have never or will ucver be refused admittance to any religious service!! The basic trouble is that when these clubs decide fa few times a year) that it is time to fulfill one of their fivefold programs, it must be with a flourish so that everyone knows that, they attended services! I am certain the original intent of the
founders wss to make for a continual, iluid religious program —not one in which the members sell ads on Shabbos or schedule Beau dar.ee rehearsals on Friday niyht. etc.. etc.. etc. Mr. Halm, maybe you think the situation has improved, but I challenge you!! 1 suggest you tour the .synagogues on a Friday night d u r i n g the school year and count the young people; then check the Friday night dances, the Friday night sport events, the private home card games, and Use local drive-ins! I'lcase let me know who is winning!! Mrs. Alan (Uernice) Walfson P.S. While you're at it, go to the next big club dance, loo! That may provide another revelation!! RABBI REPLIES I had chosen not to enter the controversy concerning the "lack of cooperation" between the synagogues and the local teen clubs. However, since you have been receiving letters nnd comments regarding this issue for a number of weeks now, I feel it incumbent upon me to correct misrepresentation of facts. In a little more than a year that I have been in Omaha AZA and other teen-age groups have not -be^n turned down once when they requested to use synagogue facilities or to participate in the conduct of the Friday night service. I had hoped that the AZA-er's themselves would call your attention to this fact. In the absence of any such statement from them it falls upon me to make it; They were not only permitted to participate in the conduct of the services on numerous occasions, but I had personally spent much time with them in preparing the service and in its rehearsal. In my remarks from the pulpit I made it clear that they were welcome and encouraged their more frequent participation and attendance in the synagogue. While I have not discussed this matter with my colleagues in the rabbinate, I am quite certain that their synagogue doors are not closed to any teen-age group. It is entirely in order that the rules and requirements of the synagogues be adhered to by the teen-agers when the facilities are granted to them. Setting down such rules in no way implies that they are not most anxious to be cooperative and helpful. I hope tins puts an end to a controversy which I feel is without foundation. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff Beth Israel Synagogue
Letter From a Christian Friend (From tfw Nashville Temple Bulletin)
Dear Israel: Last night you showed me the Christmas tree you placed in your home. You thought I would be pleased and flattered. It is a beautiful tree, carefully set up arid painstakingly decorated, but I am neither flattered nor pleased. I am somewhat resentful, a little ashamed, and deeply sorry. Certainly this is no symbol of Brotherhood between us in your home; it is a mockery-of the tnuiuai respect I thought we shared. To me, a Christian,'the tree is a symbol of my most sacred religious holiday. During the Christmas season, it is a constant reminder of the birth of our Lord and Savior. It has become, in our home and in the homes of our Christian friends, the mark of our Christianity during the season of the year when we celebrate the birth of Christ. I ask myself: what meaning has the tree for you? It cannot be a religious .symbol, since you have told'me often that as a Jew, you do not accept Jesus as your Christ. For you, it must then be no more than a pretty decoration or a symbol of your keeping up with your neighbors, How can I help feeling resentful when you take my religious symbol and make it a mere decoration or psychological crutch? And when I hear you refer to it jokingly as a Hanuka bush, I am both resentful and ashamed . . . and pitying. Ashamed and pitying for you. For your nervous laugh when you say it. For the look in your eyes that cannot quite hide your hope that I will "understand"—-and your'fear that I might not. And especially because of your lovely children's obvious misunderstanding and bewilderment about it all, I am truly sorry. Sincerely, Chri9
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Fiy Rabbi Allen Kaplan The other day someone told In a pinch it's your friends me the substance of some rethat I made \v hen I and neighbors who help, i><> marks I have a pica directed to the Jew- spoke before the Beth Israel Synagogue S i s t e rhood. This ish Community of Omaha. In South Carolina, where I ;mi woman was not at the meeting, Stationed, there is a race prob- but' she heard from . . . who lem. It is, in ,'jomo ways, .similar heard from , . . Needless to.say, to the problems of the near what she told me that I said, north side in Omaha. Negroes was by that time, pure fiction. here live in slums and shacks; Please allow me, therefore, to &oiiie cannot |;et jobs; some do clarify and a m p l i f y my renot eat balanced diets; some marks. care about the situation and try There are a great many peoto help; some are lazy; some are afraid; some are apathetic. The ple in the Omaha Jewish com"Backlash" is in full swing, munity who desire to do somestopping the good programs thing for our boys in the servalong with the bad . . . and the ice, but do not know how to go about it. Prior to Hanuka, many list goes on. We also have a special "South- women wanted to send gifts to ern" problem—the racial news our boys overseas and asked gap. The South Carolina newspa- me how to do it. There is a way, pers are lily white. They tell of but two weeks prior to the holino Negro birth (except if it is day was much too late. Hanuka out of wedlock); no Negro life packages were sent out by sis(except in a feature story on terhoods and B'nai R'rith auxilcrime) and no Negro death (ex- iaries last August in order to cept by violence). There is no reach their destinations in time. reporting of Negro weddings, This massive project was cojob promotions, scholarships, or o r d i n a t e d by the Women's military decorations; In short, Services' Organizations of the the South Carolina press will not Jewish Welfare Board. At the admit the existence of a normal present time, they are completNegro human bei...y with heart ing a project for Passover. and mind. THIS WE AKK TRYING. TO CHANGE:! Omaha Inactive In a combined Yankee-SouthThe Omaha Jewish communern, Student-Nonstudent, part and full time, white and black ity is conspicuously absent from effort, a newspaper designed to active participation in serving fill this racial news gap has the Jewish p e r s o n n e l in the been published since September. armed f o r c e s on a national The bi-weekly "Carolina Con- level. The Armed Forces ServIrasl" is intended to give the ices Committee of the Omnha South Carolina Negro an aware- Jewish Federation is the estabness of himself and his prob- lished group which should dilems. We feel that giving the rect such activities, but it does Negro a sense of pride in him- not f u n c t i o n . It once did a self and his contributions, is just notable job. but that was duras important as better schools ing World War II. Today, there is as great a need, or greater, nnd swimming pools. "Contrast's" editor, Captain for this committee to function. Howard Levy, a physician at On a local level, the Jewish Fort Jackson Army Hospital in Columbia, says: "Mast of our money came from contributions, r but now that civil rights is losing popularity, all the hypocrits are cleansing their consciences elsewhere. We have problems, f-S 1 * but with just a little help, we could put out a good paper, a very important paper." Just a little help, Two thousand dollars would enable as to By publish the paper for one full year without financial worries. Please address contributions Prestige is a rock thrown into to: Carolina Contrast a still lake which produces everdo S. C. Voter Education widening, ever-deepening ripProject ples. A two-car garage isn't 1719 Taylor Street enough for some of the folks. Columbia, South Carolina 29201 They've installed their own gas Thanks for your support, .Gordon S. Hollls tank. There are other folks who do not know the names Did You Know? literally of their grandparents or from SAMUEL ALATRI, a nine- whence their grandparents have teenth century Italian states- sprung who own dogs with paman, was one of the first Jews pers going as far back as King to serve in the Italian Parlia- Louis. XIV of France. They are ment after the unification of the very proud of their dogs whose country. (JTA) ears stand at the right angle, whose paws spatulate in proper GEORGES AARON BENE- proportion and who like the newD1TE, a nineteenth century ly installed gas tank. French-Jewish explorer, was Belonging to the U n i t e d curator of the Louvre Museum and one of the outstanding Daughters of the Confederacy, Egyptologists of his time. (JTA) or to the Daughters of the American Revolution, or to the Colonial Dames is, for sor.ie prestigious. Why that Quote cf the Week reason, should be, I do not know. Since The London Jewish ChronI am excluded by birth, descent icle reports that the Ameriand attitude from membership can novelist, Herbert Gold, of such noble organizations, I was asked about his halfshall refrain from further comDanish girl friend in Caliment lest someone accuse me of fornia. "What was the other munching sour grapes. half?" the questioner asked. But I recently heard a Sena"Some of my best friend torial candidate, campaigning is Jewish," Gold answered. as a hawk, tell his audience, "We have to back up the boys in the slit trenches," inferring that as The Jewish Press an old combat man from World Published weekly on Friday he- War II he knew whereof he Clnnlng the last week In August spoke. Now I could tell him, havthrough second week in July by ing missed both wars, that trenches belonged to World War Jewish Federation of Omaha, I and that the slit trenches of . Sctoni Clan Poilaoo Void * ' ' et Omaha, Hear. ' • World V/ar U were the latrines Annual Subscription, (4.99 AdvtflWnm the soldiers dug and never inRolM on AijpllcollMi habited. And this confirmed by RuWlcatim Office—18! Ui J81(i tutth Omaha, M*Ur. Pliant 34M364. my sons who did not miss the Mrs. Robert Gerelick, Editor wars.
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women are beginning to do a magnificent job in aiding my work with the boys at Offutt, Mines. A. C. Fellman, Ramon Sombcrg and Joseph (Maxinc) Kirshenbaum to name j u s t a few, have been of tremendous help by their active work. But many of you are still PASSIVE. Months ago I asked your help in acquiring books for our Hbrary, and received NOT ONE. The only Jewish books our religious school children have to read are text books which am provided by the Air Force. Too Little—Too Late There are a number of women who have called prior to a holiday asking for a boy, or boys, to come to their homes for dinner. Again, they mean well, but usually they call too lata and I am unable to find a boy to send into town. Believe me, on a base this size that operates 24 hours a day, it is impose siblc to find a boy by using tho phone. A "SerVe-A-C h a p 1 a I n Committee" which operates .successfully in other communities could adequately handle theso types of activities. I hope this clarifies any mistaken impressions that might have come about because of my remarks to the Beth Israel Sisterhood. I was not singling out this g r o u p for criticism. My comments referred to the entiro Jewish community and are directed to the other .sisterhoods as well. Unfortunately, previous experience has proved that either no one really reads items like this in the Jewish Press, or that few people really care enough to do anything about it. I do hope, however, that I am wrong, and that With effective leadership this community can assume its responsibility towards our Jewish lads in the service.
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Once upon a time real statin accrued to those who owned their home free and clear. In fact, when I first came to Charlotte, I remember going to a mortgage-burning. It is true tho folks who burned their inoitfinge were a little long in tho tooth and wizened from overwork, but they had disengaged tile bank's claws. Nowadays tho folks achieve status by tha amount of debt they can accumulate. I have heard fellows brag about the bank cashiers who refuse them additional loans. Wliat with the number of Jewish journalists, novelists, critics, and essayists, I had a teacher tell me it is chic these days tr» be a Jew. I could tell him how chic it is to be a Chassidic Jew with beard and constant prayer but I forbode. Far be it "for me to disparage any attitudo which is good for the Jews. We arc all competing for family and background, money and debt and even leisure and services, those other two organizations which round out our little life. Don't think a Sunday picnio is simplified by ordering two buckets from the Chicken Go-Go, because half your pals will insist two buckets from the Kentucky Colonel is finger-lickin* good, even though the KentuckyColonel doesn't deliver and lh« kids don't like their cole slaw. I used to spend my leisure time playing double deck pinochle ana occasionally taking in a double feature. Golf and' power boats are the rage and th3 truly sophisticated hava' a vacation cottage which they reach every weekend after only a 13hour drive,
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IIy Franeie lirody A common belief in the Jewif.h community is that as soon as Jewish teenagers leave home for liie college campus, they lose their Jewish identities. In accepting the identities of their chosen universities, it is believed that many college students seem to be rejecting their affiliations with Judaism. In discussing this matter with some college students home on vacation, I found that their expcriencfcs varied from complete loss of Jewish affiliation on enmpus. to a great interest in many Jewish activities. The following college students expressed their views on the question: Does a loss of Jewish Identity occur when a boy or girl goes away to college?
"Gbot Shabbas, Mr. P i n s k e r . . . and which Shul didn't you go to this morning?"
By BORIS SMOLAK A visit to Germany, and talk3 with members of the Bonn Cabinet, leave no doubt that the two dominating political parties in West Germany of which the present new Cabinet is composed are determined to see to it that the rise of the neo-NazWm in the country should be checked. This is especially emphasized by Paul Luecke, the Minister of Interior, who is now the most important man in the new German Cabinet, after Chancellor Kiesinger and Vice-Chancellor Willi Brandt. Dr. Luecke Is the •Cabinet member in charge of w a t c h i n g subversive movements in the country and of suppressing them on the basis of constitutional provisions. The neo-Nazis fear him; the democratic elements—which constitute the great majority in the country — trust tim; and the Jews in Germany have great confidence in him. He was himself a Na2i victim and came cut of a concentration camp a man physically tortured by the Nazi, but strong enough to become one of the most influential members of the Christian Democratic Party.
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As I was sitting in his office jn Bonn listening to his views on the neo-Nazi party, which has shown substantial .gains in the recent elections in two states, I was certain that he intends to do something about checking the influence of the neo-Nazi movement. What did he say? He did not deny that the Nazis and neo-Nazis are raising their ugly heads in Germany now and are showing it by voting for the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party. However, he made no secret of his intention to have the neo-Nazi parly dissolved, should it really turn out to be a danger to the democratic form of government which has been prevailing in West Germany since the end of the war. As far as anti-Semitism is concerned, he was certain that no political group in West Germany will dare to conduct antiJewish propaganda, b e c a u s e this will spell its certain death. Under the present German laws any organization'pr e a c h i n g anti-Semitism is considered a subversive body and thus can be declared illegal. And the person to Bee that such a group is declared illegal is Dr. Luecke. Danger Signals Although there can be no doubt'that the new Bonn Government will now w a t c h the neo-Nazis very closely, danger nevertheless exists that Ger-
man extremists may gain even more ground than at present, should the situation in Germany change from the present prosperity to economic recession. A sharp economic recession will pave the way for the emergence of political demagogues with extreme nationalistic slogans similar to Hitler's. Up until now, Germany suffered from a shortage of labor and today there are in Germany more than a million imported workers from Italy, Spain and other countries. In case of unemployment, they will be the first to be told to go home, so that the German worker v/ill not be affected for quite a time. However, history has a hnbit of repeating itself, and when one remembers the good years in Germany after World War I and the severe unemployment that followed those years, leading to the birth of Nazism, one must be cautious in assessing the outlook for the future. It is true that the young generation in Germany today considers that Hitler was a misfortune for Germany, but it is also true that the majority of y o u n g adults in Germany are now indifferent to political.problems. They feel satisfied because the country enjoys prosperity; they are anti-Nazi because Hitler after all was a loser. In time of economic depression mnny of them may fall under the influence of extreme nationalists. German 'Identity' Some German demagogues are already now arguing that Germany lost its "identity" and must regain it. They point out that 20 years after the war Germany is still a country occupied by other powers; that Germany is entitled to o c c u p y in the world a place similar to France and England; that she does not enjoy the international status which even small under developed countries enjoy—she cannot even be a member of the United Nations. They claim that Germany, an industrial giant, is compelled to spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on buying armaments in the United Stales at a time when she can manufacture these arms herself. They argue that Germany, which was the original developer of the atom bomb, must be permitted to produce it now. Not to spenk of their claim that reunification of the two parts of Germany is essential to the German nation but is prevented from taking place by outside powers which fear that n united Germany might become n military threat.
Al.iii Mtislun, Freshman, Iowa U. "There are fewer Jewish kids at Iowa limn at many of the other schools. I am in a Jewish fraternity, however, fraternity activities are not limited on the basis of other people's religions. I am in Millet, but not very active clue to lack of lime. I think that if a student wishes to find Jewish affiliation he can. It depends largely on what he decides he wants before lie leaves." Steve Soliolof, Freslmian, Iowa U. "I am in the same Jewish fraternity as Alan, however, I have found no particular Jewish atmosphere. We are just another fraternity on campus and participate in campus ac-
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tivilies accordingly. We do not associate exclusively wiih Jewish sororities. We plan activities with the girls on the basis of which ones we happen to like, rather than on the basis of religion. Any student here Unit wishes a closer affiliation with his religion can find it; but this is in spite of the fraternity, rather than because of it."
because they have notable people leading them, such as William S. Coffin, Jr. Most of the Jewish students I have found do not attend religious services, however, when asked if they are Jews, the majority respond in "the affirmative and feel that they v/ill continue in "the Jewish way of life" — something that is defined in many ways."
Gail Hudonnan, Freslmian, Missouri U. "I'm in a Jewish sorority, which does have activities with Jewish fraternities, however, it is primarily just another sorority on campus. Since we are a group of Jewish girls, we do such things as lighting Shabbos and Hanuka candles together. However, most of the Jewish students on campus do not affiliate themselves with their religion, because they don't want to bother being different. The University as a whole has very poor facilities for Jewish students. Hillel is small and inactive. As this sort of thing has always been important to me, I'm on a committee in Hillel. But the students engaged in Jewish activities are in the minority."
Jill Slosburg, Freshman, Washington U. "If someone is Jewish before leaving home, then that person will be Jewish for the rest of his life. If he's not, then he won't be."
Ben Sliaflon, Freslmian, Yale "At Yale, I have found that those who wish to retain their religious or ethnic identity can do so. Hillel is on the campus, however, it is a weak organization and the vast majority of the ethnically Jev/ish students do not belong because it has very little to offer. The Catholic and Protestant organizations on campus are stronger simply
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Bruce Poster, Junior, University of Chicago "At Chicago, it is up to the individual to do as he wishes. Hillel is a strong organization, but not widely utilized. My own Jewish beliefs have undergono a great d e a l of examination while I have been at school. For a majority of the kids, due to less parental pressure and lack of campus emphasis on a dogmatic belief, the c o n t a c t of these kids has lessened in both belief and practice. There is little emphasis on the girl's religion when choosing a date. As marriage to me is in the distant future, I do not usually consider my dates on the basis of religion." Nclta Kripkc, Freshman, University of Chicago "At Chicago U. a lot of kids are finding Judaism and finding its relevancy. Most of this is a result of a very good Hillel chapter—I would think probably one of the strongest in the nation." Sara Perelman, Freshman, Washington U. "I think I have lost a lot of contact, especially in ritual, due to lack of facilities and time. However I have gained very much in other ways. I h a v e learned a great deal from the different observances of olher kids. For instance, I find myself neglecting to observe the dietary laws which I would like to observe, yet being with people with strong Jewish feelings who have learned much about their religion has taught me a lot of new things. I think that while I have lost something in actual observance, I h a v e g a i n e d understanding and knowledge at the same' time."
With all the talk about the is the responsibility of the synaincreasing adoption by Jews of gogues, its leaders and rabbis, the Christmas holiday, there's to rise above these criticisms, good indications that the prob- recognizing that the BBYO lem is not rampant in the Oma- membership is made of the chilha Jewish community. Witness dren of their congregations, the items which have appeared who are entitled to their help in this paper during the past and cooperation. The negative few weeks which indicate any- aspects of the BBYO program thing but "peace on earth good can only be corrected with the aid and cooperation of those will toward men." who have the ability and It started with a Teen Talk adults column a few weeks ago in which authority to do so. I am appalled by BBYO activiour young people decried the lack of cooperation they were ties scheduled for the Sabbath, receiving from synagogues and the inter-dating and lack of enrabbis. A critical letter from forcement of rules concerning Mrs. Alan Wolfson followed1, same. These things are wrong which motivated an equally and should be corrected, but critical letter about Mrs. Wolf- shutting the door of the synason's comments from Norman gogue to these young people cer5 YEARS AGO Harm, and Mrs. Wolfson's reply tainly isn't the answer. Linda Kavich and N e l s o n in today's Opinion column—all evaluation the indications of a full-fledged Gordman announced Iheir .: en-' •,. • I think it's time for some hon- gagement . . . Patty Mogil and feud, void of any "Christmas est evaluation of the youth prospirit." Then there were the Maynard Tatclman were marcritical comments which fol- gram in our community. If in- ried . . . Richard Katelman celevestigation proves the BBYO lowed Kabbi Allen Kaplan's apbrated his Bar Mitzvah. pearance at a Beth Israel Sis- clubs to be inadequate in terms of leadership and positive pro20 YEARS AGO terhood meeting, necessitating Suzanne Simons and Neil F. his statement which appears gramming with no redeeming this week in the Press—a rather features, then let's disband Miller announced their engagecritical indictment of the Oma- them. I firmly believe it is bet- ment . . . Doris Rapoport and ter for teenagers, to be unor- Alvin Abramson were married ha Jewish community. ganized, than to be organized . . . Phyllis Kaplan became the I think it is well that all these and given no direction. If on bride of Elliot Brown. feelings are being brought into the other hand there are posi15 YEARS AGO the open, not because as I fa- tive values in the program, let's cetiously suggested earlier they use our efforts to correct the Leah Cohen and M a r v i n are contrary to the Christmas weak spots and e n f o r c e the Brookstein were married . . . spirit — but because disagree- strong points, but let's do some- Constance Milder and Stephen ment, discussion and investiga- thing. Greenberg announced their ention of problems are the posigagement. Our young people have been tive signs of an interested and 20 YEARS AGO forced to choose between BBYO vital Jewish community. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Greenaffiliation nnd membership in The Issues the synagogue youth groups. If berg announced the birth of a From a personal point of both g r o u p s offer the same daughter, Sandra Gail . . . Lois view, I can do no more than things, both' groups are not Novitsky and Lloyd Friedman plead guilty to Chaplain Kap- needed. If on the other hand, the announced their engagement lan's complaints. His case is two groups o f f e r different . . . Mr. and Mrs. Keith Saunwell stated and I for one have things, then dual membership ders announced the birth of a done less than my share. I can should be compatible without daughter, Lynn Deborah . . . only try to correct the short- the fierce competition that Howard Vann celebrated his comings he has brought so exists between them for mem- Bar Mitzvah. clearly into focus. bership. 25 YEARS AGO On the Wolfson-Hahn-BBYOLet's stop pulling our kids Ann Rosen and Irvin Kaiman Synagogue c o n t r o v e rsy, my apart. Let's forget our vested stand is not as cut and dried. adult interests whether in the announced t h e i r engagement Many of the. criticisms Mrs. synagogue or B'nai B'rith. Our . . ...Harriet Kubby and Shirley,,., < / Wolfson has of the BBYO or- kids have heard our criticisms, Bernstein were hostesses at a :.' . ganization are, I believe, valid. now it's time for them t» hear cocktail p a r t y preceding the On the other hand, I believe it our offers of help. Emesel Bid dance . . .
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YOl'TII COUNCIL 'II" BASKETBALL LEAGUE Rayim ''B" turned back AZA 1 "B" by a score of X3-15. Mark Singer and Steve Epstein led their team a.s each tallied for .seven points Singer made ;i big contribution on the boards, and his rebounding made a bi;,.; difference in the outcome of the game. Bob Kih Kir&lienbaum was scorer for the losers with 11 taliics. Itajiin ft. pts. AZA 1 (1. pts. o r> Weinslein 1 Pitlor fl 0 I) Cipinko 0 n 0 0 i Marant/. 2 o G Rifkin .. 0 (1 o Epstein l 5 7 l 11 Kirslienbautn i (i (1 2 Waldbauni 0 Simons o •> 2 Richards 0 B Rillcin . . 1 •',
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Milder Oil remains in a tie for the league lead by running past Micklin Lumber 65-54. AI Konecky led the winners with 18 tallies, while his teammates Sandy Kasin and Nate Aroster each scored 17. diet Stoler led the losers with 17 Micklin fg. ft pts. 'Milder Oil ig. ft. pts. Kasjn . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7 17 Platt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 2 Konecky......... 6 6 18 Stoler 5 7 17 Amster".......... 8 1 17 Goldstein . .4 0 8 Schrager 0 0 •0 Simons ,.. 0 6 0 Herzog . . . . . ; . . . . 2 1 5 Sachs . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 4 Segal 2 0 4 Noddle 5 0 10 Kalin
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MIDGKTLEAGUE 7TII AND 8TII GRADES A determined Mason's Root Boer Squad pulled the game out of the fire in the second half to heat Younglown 14-12. Youngtown had a 10-5 edge at the half, but a fine defense—4 pig points by Bob Freeman and 3 for David Colin, iced the match in the closing minutes, Bruce Jacobson also contributed 4 points for the victors. Mike Muskin led the losers with 6. A tight first half gave way to a free-wheeling second half by Mogen-David as they downed H. L. Schwalski 27-10. With the ficore knotted at the half, the Mogen-David crew began to bang the boards from all over the court. Mike Mciches popped in 10 points and Richie Canfield tallied 5 for the winners. Mark Sanford and Dick Bernstein led the losers with G each. RED FEATHER TOURNEY A handpicked group of 7th, Uth and 9th graders put together a near perfect game in the Holiday Red Feather Tournament, while bamboozling their first opponent 5fi-9. Scoring came from nine men. Danny Grossman and David Cohn rippled the nets from the outside for IG and 12 points respectively. The entire team played outstanding ball. SCORING Dick Bernstein C Mike Muskin 2 Mark Belmont 0 Mark Meiches 4 David Cohn 12 Jim Harris 2 Sandy Cipinko 8 Jeff Libowski 2 Danny Grossman 16
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Who Knows! In England a soccer match between the Orthodox Manchester Jewish Grammar School and the Jackson's Row Reform Synagogue team was called off when the Orthodox side withdrew. It seems that the Orthodox learn was advised against playing Reform Jews. Sports writers are speculating on whether it was fear of the Lord or fear of a loss that caused the withdrawal.
greater difficulty in conveying the "increasingly diffuse Jewish heritage'1 to their children. The- form of the crisis, said Dr. Sklare, would not be tha "vanishing" of most of American Jewry hut a "shaking out process'' in which some Jews would remain Jews and tha others would assimilate. A polarization could take place in which the strongly committed Jews would coalesce into a ::o!id core group and the less committed Jews—the "marginal" or "peripheral" group — would lose a certain percentage. The core group may then consist of between 1.000,000 and 2,000,000 people, said Dr. Sklare. These people would be the Jews involved in the structures and institutions of Orthodox, Conservative and Reform life. Tha secular Jews, who are not involved in any of these religious movements, were most in danger of losing their Jewisii idenity, he said. This secularist group, he continued, lias no "organized educational or institutional framework" for its people. This group, which had been active in the Socialist and Yiddisli culture* movements, shows the "poorest prognosis for survival, he said. In spite of this, the "deep desire" on the part of Jews to retain their identity must not be under-estimated, he declared.
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VARSITY LEAGUE . R. C. Cola went off the undefeated roster as they fell to Mastercraft 53-50. Cliet Stoler, who had just been traded to the Mastercraft team, gave the winning team a big boost as he swept the boards and scored 13 points. R. C. Cola fg. ft. pis. Masfercraft fg. fl. pts. Bob Ginsburg . . . . . 3 Engstrom 3 6 0 Saylan 1 0 2 Kirshen 3 Whitman 2 6 Belgrade 4 2 Bill Gjn^btirg ,.-.,.•,. fi. Zorinsky / . ; , ; , . . 0 1 13 Goldberg 4 0 8 Kutler . . . . . . . . . . . C Fiedler 5 •1 11 Martin 0 Siusky .-. 2 0 "4 Stoler 6 Totals
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San Juan (JTA)—The American Jewish community was reported here this week as having a high rate of acculturation —acceptance of new culture traits—but a very low rate of assimilation. The report was presented by Dr. Marshall Sklure, professor of sociology at Yeshiva University, in an addross here at the annual convention ol the Jewish funeral Directors of America. "There is no expectation that widespread assimilation will take place in the present generation." he said. However, he predicted that American Jewry may face its "survival crisis" within the next two generations. The next generation of American Jews, he said, would face
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