Omaha Aid Urged in The United Jewish Appeal has launched an extensive national casli drive to raise $25,000,000 during the month of June, needed by the UJA to meet critical requirements of the people of • Israel, Robert M. Feinberg, Regional Chairman on Cash Collections, announced this week. Tiie drive will seek to redeem 19G9 pledges for both the Israel Emergency Fund and the Regular UJA Fund, for the vast humanitarian programs
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for hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Israel. In a message to the Omaha Jewish community, Mr, Feinberg stated: "Israel, instead of enjoying a fruitful and enduring peace continues to face a •challenge to her. very existence. -"Although her.total resources are allocated entirely to security, the nation's Social welfare program must continue. The Israeli government
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cannot possibly bear this burden in addition to ' rising defense demands. '' •" ; "I hope that every contributor of our community will understand the urgency p i the situation today and respond immediately by- sending in payments on their 1969 pledges. "Just read the daily newspaper and then act accordingly."
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RESOLUTION OF JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA CONCERNING MILTON S. LIVINGSTON WHEREAS. Milton S. Livingston served ably as President of this Federation, as a champion of its causes and as a guiding spirit for its endeavors; and" WHEREAS, Milton S. Livingston gave unstintingly of himself, his counsel and his means to civic, educational, charitable and religious causes without number; and WHEREAS, Milton S. Livingston was a tireless, dedicated servant of his community, both secular and religious,, to the very cud of his days; ana WHEREAS, the death of Milton S. Livingston has taken from Omaha and its%Jewish community a citizen and leader of the first rank; . ' THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the executive committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, grateful for the privilege of his association, does with profound sorrow mourn the passing on June 7, 1969, of "Milton S. Livingston and hereby extends to his family the deepest sympathies of Its members. . Howard Kaslow S. Elmer Gross Prnld«nl
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"Our rabbis have taught us: front of Omaha communal af'When a wise man dies, all fairs for many decades. His acmen become his relatives and tive leadership and generous mourn for him.' philanthropy was s p r e a d in "And so, dear family, friends many areas of Jewish and~genand everyone in this commu- cral community life. nity: We are all mourners for Jewish Community Leader A past president of the OmaMilton S. Livingston." Jewish Federation, Mr. LivWith these opening words, ha Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks deliv- ingston also served the Jewish ered an eloquent eulogy for community as chairman of the Milton S. Livingston, age 78, a n n u a l Philanthropies' camwho died Saturday, June 7, paign; chairman of the Federa19G9. Funeral services w e r e tion budget committee; presiheld June 9, with interment at Tomple Israel Cemetery. A lifelong Omaha resident, Mr. Livingston was in the fore-
Georges Pompidou Favors General Arms Embargo . Paris (JTA) — Former Pre- both sides, M. Pompidou saidt r M. Pompido'u's s t a t e m e n t mier Georges Pompidou,—tho: - "I-have been away-fronrpower—wasrtheinost detailed -and Tspi? Gaulllst candidate for the Presnearly one year now. If cific he has yet made on idency of France, said in an in- for elected I shall study these files French Middle East policy. Obterview that he favored a gen- and it become clear that servers here said it greatly eral arms, embargo on all the one should of the two sides has been diminished the possibility that" belligerents in the June, 1967 Arab-Israeli war and that1 ho will reconsider her entire stand the- arms embargo against Iswould'reconsider France's ern- on the issue. There can be no bargopolicy only if it turned double standard for the parties rael wqulr be lifted if M. Pompidou is elected. out that France has been sell- concerned." ing arms to one of the two T sides while the de Gaulle-imposed embargo is in effect. ' M. Pompidou, predicted to win the Presidency by a wido margin over Acting President Alain Poher, told the newspaper L'Aurore that "no country should supply any war materials or equipment to any of New York (JTA) - A Rus- stemmed from r e m a r k s he' the belligerent parties." R e - slan-Jewish engineer whose ap- made at a memorial meeting plying to a question, he spe- peal for permission to emigrate' at Babi Yar where the Nazis cifically exempted .Lebanon to Israel was denied a year, slaughtered most of the Jewish from any arms embargo. "Leb- ago, has b e e n sentenced to population of the Ukraninian anon Is out of the fight and cer-1 three'years in a Soviet prison capital. tainly is no belligerent," M. camp on c h a r g e s of slander According to the Times, he -Pompidou said. against the Soviet state and so- toMJ the. several dozen Jewish The GaulUst candidate de- cial s y s t e m , the Times re- mourners at the site, "Here clared that "France will al-" ported from Moscow this week.! lies, part of the Jewish people." ways defend Israel's right to The court.ruled this to be The report said the sentence "bourgeois - nationalist - Zionist 'exist in full independence and was pronounced on Boris Kosecurity and hopes that all propaganda." Soviet policy is countries will admit this funda- chubiyevsky after a four day to memorialize the Babi Yar trial at which spectators shoutmental right." He added that victims without reference to until this day arrives, Erance ed anti-Semitic epithets daring their Jewish origin, the Times must do all it can to avoid a examination of witnesses. said. "new Arab-Israeli war. A L q n d o n J T A . dispalcli; Pressed about p o s s i b l e last "montH~reporled the arrest' supplied with weapons, France of Mr. Kochubiyevsky after he' Frencharmsdeliveries to Arab and his wife, a non-Jewess, states despite the embargo on were summoned to the passport office last November, os-' tensibly to pick up emigration documents. The JTA also re-1 ported the text of a letter writA special invitation is beten by Mr. Kochubiyevsky last! ing extended to all donors to New York (JTA)-Rhode Is- Nov. 28 to Soviet Communist the Kalah Franklin Meland Gov. Frank Licht will lead Party chief Leonid I. Brezhnev, morial Chapel at Camp Esa delegation of lawyers and demanding the right to emk ther. K. Newman to attend jurists from the United States grate to Israel and the right of the Dedication of the Chato the first International Con- all Soviet Jews to live a Jewish pel which will take place gress of Jewish Lawyers and life and to educate their chilon Sunday, June 22, 2 p.m., Jurists iri Jerusalem in August. dren in Jewish schools in the at Camp Esther K. Newman The congress, the, first of its Yiddish language. The young in Louisville, Nebraska. kind, is being held under the engineer wrote that if he were, Members of the communatronage of Yaacov Shimshon sentenced and lived until his ity at large are also urged hapiro, Minister of Justice of release he would go to Israel to attend the Dedication and Israel, and is sponsored by the "even if It means going on Open House. Israel Bar Association. It will foot." This will be a good oppor.-',. v be attended by some 800 deletunity to see the Camp and The c h a r g e s of slander gates from the U.S., Canada Its wide range of facilities.; a g a i n s t Mr. Kochubiyevsky and Europe. >
dent of the Highland Country" Club; and leader of the Israel Bond campaigns. At the time of his death he was chairman of the New Jewish Community Center Building Committee; a project to which he had devoted much time as well as providing substantial financial support. A devoted leader of the Temple Israel Congregation, Mr; Livingston had served as president of the congregation, and was largely responsible for the Religious, School wing which was dedicated in 1962. A" gift from Mr. Livingston defrayed the entire cost of construction and furnishing of the new Temple Chapel which bears his name and that of his late wife, Corrine, Noting his many contributions to the community, Rabbi Brooks s a id, "Anything that .was constructive, hu-1 manitarian, and yet sensible and planned commanded his attention?-* -*-• .-For- e v c r y — worthwhile c o n s t r u c t i v e cause in his community, Milton gave fully of himself, his Immense' knowledge and the full soul of his devotion . . . Our community cherishes his . gifts of hand and heart. Our children are his beneficiaries. MHton S. Livingston Our city will long reflect his judgments and service." ' Mr. Livingston s e r v e d as president of the board of regents of Cfeighton University! the board of trustees of Children? Hospital and had 'been a member, of the Omaha Planning Board since 1961. He served on the city library Further charges of slander board, advisory board of the were brought against Mr. Ko- Lutheran Hospital, the board of chubiyevsky for an argument Center Bank; and the budget he had with a Soviet lecturer committee of UCS. Mr. Livingston is survived by who called Israel the aggressor In the June, 1967 war and for a sister, Mrs Fanriie Weil of Lincoln; three grandchildren, remarks he allegedly made at David and Marcia Belmont, the passport office, the Times O m a h a ; Mary Jo Belmont, Santa Barbara, Calif. reported.
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SACHAR INVESTED AS HONORARY FELLOW AT WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
Kalah Franklin Memorial Chapel Dedication June 22
Dr. Abram Sachar, Chancellor of Brandcis University (center) . { ehown in'Hchovot at his recent investiture 08 an Honorary Fellow: of the Weinnann Institute of Science, left, Meyer TY. Welsgal, ••'•'••< President, right, Dewey D. Stone, Chairman {of the Institute'*. ; j ,: Board of Governors. .•••;•'." * ' ., :'"V