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B'nai B'rith 'Cover' Honors Aged WASHINGTON—A B'oal B'ritb first-dajr cover of tha newt/issued Grandma Moses stamp i i part of Senior Citizens Month, celebrated In May. In a ceremony at ths f tst Offiu Department, Abe Cnmer (tight) ot PotUvillo, Fa., ctialrraan ot B'nal -fritt's Senior Citizens Housing Committee, presents Deputy Postmaster-General f . T. Klassen with a copy of tie cover, which describes tna organization's tationwide program to comtroct low-cost, non-sectarian boosing projects for 'persons 62 years and elder living on limited incomes. The cover can be ordered (for 3Q cents) from B'nai O'rith'i Klutznick Exhibit Hall in WashingtoD, D.C.
5 Appointees Named For Federation loard Five appointees to serve on the Executive Committee of tho Omaha Jewish Federation were Unanimously approved at the Executive Committee, meeting last. Thursday. Submitted by Elmer Gross, Federation President, the appointees are: Joe Rice to serve the one year unexpired term of C. M. Newman who was recently elected Federation 1st vice president; J. Harry Kulakofsky to serve the two years of the unexpired term of Marlon Somberg, - newly elected Secretary of the Federation. Appointed to s e r v e the full three year terras .on the board are: Mrs. Sam Katzman, Jack Cohen and Dr. Irving Shapiro. C, M. N e w m a n , general chairman of the 1969 Pliilanthropies Campaign, reported the progress of the current drive. Mr. Newman noted $726,640 has been pledged thus far as compared to pledges of $566, B 4 5 h t h : d ^ i h t h 1968 campaign, Mr. Newman
said that a determined effort will bo, made to complete the c a m p a i g n in the next few weeksrlle expressed the hope that the remaining unsolicited cards would result in the necessary increases to reach the ¥1,000,000 goal.
The dinner will honor The Rev. H. W. Linn, S.J., President of Creighton University; and The Rev. Carl M. Reinert, S.J., Vice-President for University Relatipns of Creighton University. Mr., Klutznick serves on the NCCJ Board in Chicago, and . was guest speaker at the Omaha Brotherhood dinner in 1962. | Recognized as one of the foremost leaders of modern Jewish times, Mr. K l u t z n i c k , earned world-wide recognition {or his activities as "past international president of B'nai 3'rith and as a former U.S. ambassador- to the United Nations. . . •-•;, Reservations for the Omaha Brotherhood dinner at $35 per plate may be made at the
miles from Dimona, site of a plant where Israel is experimenting with nuclear power, reportedly for peaceful purposes. The story said when the bombs were completed they were rushed to an unknown destination "whose exact location is Israel's best kept military secret." The Gazette report said the reactor at Dimona was capable of producing both atomic arid hydrogen bombs and was built with the help of France in the years when France was a close
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Golda Meir warned this week that the Lebanese border was Israel's "new trouble spot" and said that top priority would be given to the construction of shel« ters in Israeli villages near the Lebanese frontier. Mrs. Meir spoke at a meeting of the Histadrut leadership as reports reached here of new clashes between Lebanese Army troops and guerrlllas massed in the southern portion of the country. : The guerrillas were said to belong to the Syrian-backed al-Saiqa (Thunderbolt) organization. But El Fatah, the most powerful Palestinian commando group, claimed in a broadcast from Cairo that five of its members had been killed by Lebanese sol-> diers and 10 others wounded in clashes that developed when the guerrillas attempt to invade Israel on a sabotage mission from . southern Lebanon. The Lebanese military command denied tho charge.
EARLY DEADLINE The Memorial Day holiday necessitates an early deadline for that week. All copy for the May 30 Issue must be in tho Jewish Press office by 5 p.m. Friday, May 23.
Washington (JTA)—The FBI lican, who had written to the has been asked by the Justice Department several weeks ago, D e p a r t m e n t to investigate urging action against Arab stucomplaints that El Fatah, tho dents having such ties. Arab terrorist group, is inMr. Yeagley also said that volved with some student rebels and other elements in this the Department w o u l d take country, according to Assistant "appropriate action" if, the inAttorney General J. W a l t e r vestigation Indicated that any Yeagley. The Justice. Depart- Federal laws were bjbing viment official's disclosure was olated. Rep. Burke sent to the -made-public by-Rep7~Jr~Hefr -departmcnt^B'narB'Vllh'Afilfr bert Burke, F l o r i d a Repub- Defamation L e a g u e report which charged a connection be.'tween El Fatah and some ex. tremist student groups in the United States. Mr. Y e a g 1 e y said that the Department had been aware "for some time" of the El Fatah activities "as NCCJ .office, 4016 Farnam, alleged in the report of the Suite 105. Further information Anti-Defamation league." "is available from Ken Kershaw, NCCJ Regional Director, 556-3005.
Rev. Alexander Kafz to Be: Honored at Beth El Dinner Twenty-five years of service to Beth El Synagogue, will be recognized May 18 at a special congregational dinner honoring Rev. Aloxander Katz. The 6:30 p.m. candlelight dinner in the synagogue social-hall will be preceded by a Champagne Hour.. "We want to recognize the - exceptional service of this beloved man to our synagogue," said Mr. anil Mrs. B a r t o n Greenberg, co-chairmen of tho • dinner, in announcing plans for the s p e c i a l event. "For 25 years he has faithfully provided the Bar Mitzvah training for our children and led the
Irving Forbes, Phil Kutler, J. Milton Margolin and Herman Weinstein, assisted by members of their circles. Reservations at $4 per plate will be accepted to the capacity of the social hall.
^ J y ^Jj m nlX j Bin i ^Lv j i L g "services,"'the co-chairmen noted. A special program, written by Mines. Stanford IApsey and Norman Dehenberg will follow the dinner. * Chairmen for the evening Include: Mmes. Arthur Grossman, Sam Ban, dinner; Mrs. SteVo Silver, decorations. Circle co-ordinators are Mmes.
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ally of Israel. Mr. Lust claimed that the atomic bombs were .completed last February, He said Israel could deliver the bombs either with its A-4 Skyhawk jets or with the F-4 Phantorn jets which the U n i t e d States will start delivering next September. The writer said the Dimona site was so .closely guarded that an I s r a e l i plane that strayed over it during the 1967 Six-Day War was shot down by Israeli r o c k e t s and its pilot killed.
Lebanese Border Seen as Israel's NewTrouble Spot
FBI Probe On El Fatah Ties inUS
Philip Klutznick to Speak at NCCJ Brotherhood Dinner Former Omahan, Philip M. . Klutznick, will tie the guest . speaker at the National Conference of Christians and Jews, - Brotherhood Dinner, Sunday, May 25, s 1969 at Ak-Sar-BeD
Jerusalem (JTA) — Foreign Ministry officials vigorously denied this week foreign press reports that Israel had built five n u c l e a r bombs. They called such reports "speculative, unaH-t&orized and unfounded." The report in the Montreal Gazette w h i c h was re-published in the London Evening Standard was attributed to an as yet unpublished article in De Spiegel, the West German weekly. The officials said such reports "crop up from time to time" but that "Israel is not a nuclear state." The Government's p o l i c y remains; they said, that Israel will not be the first nation to introduce such weapons into the Middle East. The Montreal Gazette story, written by Peter Lust, its foreign a f f a i r s specialist, said that existence of the alleged bombs was discovered by a group of Der Spiegel journalists. The Gazette described the bombs as 20 kiloton atomic . bombs similar to those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the closing days of World War II. It said the bombs were produced at a nuclear testing station in the Negev Desert 11
' NEW YORK (JTA)-The New York Federa'tiori of Reform Synagogues has embarked on a • program to provide young men of draft age with accurate information on the Jewish point of view on war and peace ahd on Selective Service procedures to help them "reach Intelligent decisions regarding their course of action with respect to the draft." The information has been assembled in a kit underjhe heading ''Selective Service and Its Alternatives" which the Federation has distributed to 103 Reform synagogues in New York area through its youth activities department. The Federation stated that it and its parent body, the Union of American Hebrew Congregations take no official position on the draft r 'but seeks to help each young man to reach his own well thoughtout position.
Rev. Alexander Katz
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Counseling The kit outlines the procedure-'for program* mirig a conference on the questioneand recom« mends that presentations be made to participating young men by a rabbi, a representativa of the Selective Service System and a draft counsellor, who would answer questions.. The kit also contains relevant passages from the Bible, The Talmud and other H e b r e w sources; the text of a resolution on Selective Service passed at the last biennial assembly o: the UAHC; a sermon titled "Can a Jew Be i Conscientious Objector?" delivered by Rabb Jerome K. Davidson, of Temple Beth-El, Grea Neck, N. Y.; and a bibliography of publicationi containing official Government material am divergent views on thejdraft and conscientious objection. • '