January 19, 1973

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Senator H. Hughes Will ,Visit Israel Next Month Des Moines—Senator Harold E. Hughes, accompanied by several Jewish leaders of Iowa, will visit in Israel Feb. 17-25. Mose Waldinger is in charge of plans-for the tour. The Senator's party will be honored at a reception in the VIP Lounge at the airport in New York City before departing for Israel. Hosts for the reception will be El /\1 Airlines. Mr. Hughes was elected to' the U. S. Senate in 1908 after serving three terms as governor of Iowa. He is a member of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee, tho A r m e d Services Committee, and the Committee on Veterans Affairs. / ' In' 1969 the Senator was named chairman of the newly created Special Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Narcotics. The subcommittee's" investigations led to Senatpf Hughes' introduction of landmark legislation in the fields of alcoholism and drug abusercontaining authority for establishing programs to deal with these primarily as medical, rather than criminal, problems.

WISH Serving Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Lincoln, Omaha Vol. MI—No. 20

Israeli Prime Minister Senator Harold Hughes As governor of Iowa, Mr. Hughes was instrumental in the enactment of many humanitarian programs. Capital punishment was a b o l i s h e d , programs emphasizing rehabilitation were stressed at state correctional institutions and mental hospitals, state commissions on civil rights and the aging were established, and fair employment and open housing laws were enacted.

Rome (JTA)—Pope Paul VI received Mrs. Golda Meir for a one hour and twenty minute audience, the first ever to be granted to an Israeli Prime Minister in the Vatican. Immediately' a f t e r w a r d s , however, n Vatican spokesman issued a blunt statement to say that "The Holy Sec has not changed its attitude over the

HIAS Executive to §peak at I F t i Annual Meeting Des Moines—Gaynor I. Jacobson, executive vice-president of United Hias Service, - will be the speaker at the annual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federation, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan." 21 at Temple B'nal Jeshurun. Mr, Jacobson will discuss the work of United Hias in absorbing and assisting Jewish immigration tliroughout the world. _ "Sidney Rubin, outgoing'president of the Federation, will give a farewell address focusing on "Building'the Quality of Jewish Life in Des Moines in " the 1970's." There will also bo a report '. on the state of Jewish education in Des Moines. Mr. Jacobson joined United ' Hias Service in 1954 as director of European and North African operations. He also has served as director of Latin American operations and as executive director. He was elected to his present post in 1968. He had formerly served with - the Joint Distribution Commit-

OMAHA, NEB., FIU., JAN. 10, 1973

Board Members To Be Elected

Gaynor Jacobson tee in Italy, Greece, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. He is vice-chairman of the American Council of Voluntary Agencies for Foreign Service, and is chairman of that group's Migration and Refugee Affairs Committee. Bart Axelrod is chairman of the annual meeting.

Middle East and there was no reason whatsoever for such a change." The Vatican statement was considered to be unusually harsh and blunt. It specified that the meeting was not "A gesture of preference or of exclusivity as the Pope has received King Hussein of Jordan and tjther persons of the Arab world." It also noted that the Vatican has cordial relations with Egypt, Lebanon and Syria and has diplomatic relations with various other Arab countries. The statement said that the altitude of the Vatican on the Middle East was made known by the Pope in his speech to

the Cardinals of Dec. 22, 1972. In that speech, the Pope called for the internationalization of the holy places in Jerusalem and for the rights of the Pales* tinian refugees. The Vatican, spokesman went out of his way to stress that' Mrs. Meir had asked for the audience, contradicting Israeli government statements which had said that the'invitation had come from the Holy See. The Israeli Premier 'spent nearly 00 minutes with the Holy Father in his private li» brary. A Vatican statement said that she outlined Israel's attempts at reaching" a peaceful'solution to the Middle East conflict through negotiations.

Des Moines — Six persons have been selected by the nominating 'committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation for terms of office on the Federation Board of Governors. - Nominated for throe-year terms are Dr. J. Leonard Azrneer, Mrs. Matthew Bucksbaum, Mrs. Lewis Caspe, Dr. Milton Mark, Dr. Glenn Purnell, and Marvin Winick. Stanley Isaacson is chairman of the nominating committee. Election of board members will be held at 'the a n n u a l meeting of the Federation, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, at Temple B'nai Jeshurun.

Israelis Alerted To Letter Bombs

Tel Aviv (JTA)—The Israeli public was % warned against a new wave of booby-trapped envelopes, this time posted within Israel. The warning was issued following the injuries Omaha—A Resolution urging Association of Reform Rabbis sustained by a woman in Kir"an immediate cessation of ' meeting in Omaha last week. yat Gat when she opened an military action in Vietnam" The Resolution has been for- envelope addressed to her. was adopted by the Midwest warded to President Nixon. The postman, who was nearA letter from Rabbi Sidney by, said he personally handed II. Brooks, president of tho over the letter which contained Midwest Association of Re- explosives t'.i the woman and he was certain the envelope form Rabbis, accompanied the was mailed in Israel and bore an Israeli stamp. • Jerusalem (JTA)—Reliable Resolution. Rabbf Brooks wrote, "The sources said, that Israel will An immediate alarm issued postpone opening nn Embassy R e s o l u t i o n expresses the to sorting offices yielded anin Saigon until a cease-fire thoughts of all attending this other booby-trapped envelope Conference, and we hope that agreement is reached between the urgency of this matter will at the Tel Aviv main letter sorting office. It was a usual North and South Vietnam. result in immediate cessation white envelope with an Israeli Israel and South Vietnam an- of military action and wanton stamp and a Tel Aviv post ofnounced in Nov. that they were destruction in Vietnam and a fice cancellation stamp. It was establishing diplo m a t i c rela- speedy negotiated peace will written in Hebrew and addressed- to a Tiberias resident, tions and would exchange am- restore our national honor." Dr. Yoram Badi- of Safad bassadors very soon. The Midwest Association of Road.i. , ,:. • The] sources, noted thati.fc ; 'Reform < Rabbis consists of 75] 5 • rael's decision to open a Saigon 1 member.,rabbis 'in nine states "'All,, sorting houses were, .Embassy-iyas made at a" time' and is an arm Df the Central , called tt6 be on; the' alert to '•When <a Vease-firo agreement* 'Co'ttfe'rencc of American!'Rab- , similar enveldpes 'irrespective teemed imminent. "",. • H

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Israel Delays Opening Embassy in Saigon

Dr. Max Bay (left) accepts the deed from 'Matt' Dillon.'

A Gift from'Matt Dillon' LOS ANGELES—Actor James Arness, TV's.towering Marshall Dillon, has staked out a new frontier with a $2 million land gift to help Southern California's Brandeis Camp Institute pioneer siew methods of overcoming Jewish college youth alienation. Mr. Arness is not Jewish. Tho popular marsKaF. of "Gunsmoke" has deeded fo tho youth facility a scenic 950-acre ranch, valued at approximately §2 million, immediatelj adjoining the BCI's own 2,250-acre camp institute at Santa Susana, 35 miles northwest of Los Angeles. He presented the deed to Dr. Max W. Bay, president of tho 33-year-old "laboratory of living Judaism," at a luncheon of the. Brandeis. board of directory in, the Beverly Hills Club. BCI is phllanthroplcally maintained!" ' " i ; ' , titiTto ArneES!ipropdrty contains ranchhouses, corrals, barns and farm outbuildings, and has been operated by its actor ownetf h i i a ( i O . . . , 1 > ., ._,

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