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Town Hall Meeting Planned by JCC Cultural Arts Program Study Committee Omaha—The second In a series of Town Hall Meetings to discuss plans for the new Jewlsh Community Center will be held Thursday, June 3 at 8 p.m.
at the Jewish Community Center West,.12604 Pacific Street. The Cultural Arts Program Study Committee will report on four months of study com-
pleted by five sub-committees. Sub-Committee chairman reporting will include: Arts and Crafts, Mrs. Daniel Miller; Music, Frederick Simon; Library
and Adult Activities, Morris Jerome Cohn,' Erwin Eisen— Hoffman; Dance, Mrs. Robert berg, Willard Friedman, HowBernstein and Theatre and The- ard Kaplan, Leo Kraft, Dan Miller, Myron M i l d e r , Inr atre Arts, Ira Raznick. The subcommittees will puesent activity and facility recommendations. The informal meraqg will be open to reactions and lecommendations from thise attending. Mrs. Daniel Katzman, Chairman of the overall Cultural Arts Program Study Committee, will preside at the Town Hall meeting, wlu'ch will allow the community to make its wishes known regarding cultural arts programs and facilities for the new JCC. Included in the recommendations by the "Sub-Committees are provisions for a fixed seat Serving Council Bluffs, theatre, two art studios, a complete dance studio with sound Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha equipment, a modern Jewish Mrs. Daniel Katzman library and a media Center to Vol. L—No. 80 OMAHA, NEB,, FKI., MAY 28, 1071 servfr the Jewish community. Singer, Fred Simon, Harold Mrs. Katzman urges every- Slosburg, Betty Cutler. one interested in cultural activDANCE: Mrs. Robert Bernities for all age groups, from stein, Mrs. William Fogel, Dr. the pre-school child to the older Mel Greenblatt. adult, to attend the Tiiursday LIBRARY AND ADULT ED. UCATION: Rabbi Morris AmJerusalem (JTA) — Israeli "senseless." She cabled a per- Army, claimed credit for the evening event. leaders voiced shock and out- sonal message of condolence to kidnaping. They demanded the The sub-committee members stor, Dr. Jerome Bleicher, Rabrage", over the murder by Turk- Elrom's w l d o w, Elsa, Mrs. release of all revolutionaries in serving on the Cultural Arts bi Sidney Brooks, Mr. Richard Program Study Committee are: Fellman, Mr. Morris Hoffman, ish terrorists of Ephraim El- Meir said: "Dearest Elsa, I ARTS AND CRAFTS: Milton Mrs. Leo Kraft, Rabbi Isaac rom, Israel's Counsul General have Just heard the awful news. Turkish custody in return f6r Wolsky, Mmcs. Meyer Beber, Nadoff, Rabbi Myer Kripke, in Istanbul, who was kidnaped We wish we could comfort you Elrom's life. from his apartment last Mon- but this is Impossible. We are Turkish authorities launched Ronald Bud wig, Oscar Carp, MrsT Myer Kripke, Mrs. Shel(Continued on Page 3.) day. Elrom's body was found all with you in your terrible a nation-wide dragnet which Harold Cherniack, Jerry Cohen, rounded up scores of suspects Saturday with a bullet hole in suffering." A leftist Turkish revolution- but were unable to apprehend his head, not far from the Consulate office. Premier Golda ary group which styles itself the k i d n a p e r s . The ransom Meir denounced the murder as the Turkish Peoples Liberation deadline passed last Thursday with no word of Elrom's fate. Reports from Istanbul on Friday suggested that a breakthrough was imminent. A 15 hour curfew and house-to-house London (JTA)—The n i n e the Jewish people in the Soviet search was ordered by the mil- Jewish defendants in the sec- Union will endure. This veritary commander in Istanbul. ond Leningrad trial were con- dict was criminal. But the So* By then however, Elrom may viet - Union will not • succeed already have been shot, * victed on charges r a n g i n g in its designs." The chairman from anti-Soviet activities to , WASHINGTON (JTA),-The an agreement that would reThe k i d n a p - m u r d e r was treason and were sentenced to . of the Conference of Presidents State Department is holding open the Suez Canal. of Major American Jewish Orviewed by Israelis as an act of Bray gave no hint as to what sheer terrorism with no link to hard labor in labor camps ganizations, Dr. W i l l i a m A. fast to its policy of "quiet diranging from one year to 10. plomacy" in the Middle East. may have transpired at a the Arab-Israel c o n f l i c t alWexler, told an Israeli radio Department s p o k e s m a n meeting this .week between though the Turkish terrorists The Leningrad s e n t e n c e s interviewer that A m e r i c a n Charles Bray parried questions Eban and U.S. Ambassador are known to sympathize with were received in Israel with Jewry would redouble its enabout progress toward an in- Walworth Barbour. in Tel Aviv the most extreme of the Pales- undisguised fury. F o r e i g n ergy to help Soviet Jews. Reacting to the news of the terim Suez settlement at to- or Israel's Ambassador Yitz- tinian guerrilla groups. Presi- M i n i s t e r Abba Eban in a day's press briefing. He re- hak Rabin's meeting here with dent Zalman Shazar sent a mes- speech called them "a shock- conviction and sentencing, ol fused to comment on the im- Assistant Secretary of State sage of condolence to Elrom's ing miscarriage of justice and the nine Soviet Jewish defendpending visit to Cairo' of So- Joseph. J. Sisco. He said the widow. He said, "We are distortion of the truth." Immi- ants, Jewish leaders appealed viet President Nikolai V. Pod- Sisco-Rabin talk was within shocked by the awful news of grant Absorption Minister Na- to the Nixon administration, gorny. At one point he told the context of the continuing this cruel crime. Our hearts are tan Peled told an assembly of the United Nations and free newsmen, "Let me not get into series of discussions on the with you in'your grief which is Soviet immigrants at the West- peoples governments • to proMiddle East. Asked if the U.S. the grief of all of US'." ern Wall: "The strength of test. the Middle East." . The official silenco indicated was "discouraged" by the slow to some observers that there pace of negotiations; he remay be serious movement at plied, "We have yet to be disthis time toward an interim couraged." Observers here said the settlement. Though Israel's Foreign Minister Abba Eban State Department's "quiet dicharacterized President Anwar plomacy" reflected caution Sadat's latest speech as "neg- not to undercut the position ative and extreme," Israel, of Sadat at a time when he according to Bray, is prepared has succeeded in crushing a to continue negotiations toward coup aimed against him by the pro-Moscow faction in Cairo.
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Officers of the Executive Protective Service, the special White House unit assigned to shield foreign diplomats from illegal demonstrations and physical harm, tore up placards carried by a group of rabbis Joday outside the Soviet Embassy. ' **> . . The- 35rrabbis were making their second circling of the block, protesting the trials of Soviet Jews, when' an EPS sergeant read a mimeographed statement warning them to cease demonstrating within 500 feet of the Embassy. The rabbis nevertheless raised their signs and continued their march, and "the EPS police literally ran after them and grabbed the placards from their hands and tore them up," it was rcpqrted to tho Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Samuel H. Sislen, assistant community relations director of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washl ington. Sislen said the officers outnumbered the rabbis. There were no arrests. The demonstration was sponsored by the Washington Board of 'Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly of Washington,,the Rabblnica.1, Council and.i tho JCC. ,The.i,|abbIs-represe,ntjng all 1 three branches <jf Judaism—proceeded .to a nearby rally by mojrd, [fhsIfcbrfiWA^depjy.;,;;,;;,ft.\ />ife/- .v.\ :
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