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Brodkey appointed to Supreme Court the University of Iowa where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; Order of Artus, a honorary economics fraternity; and the Order of the Coif, honorary legal scholastic fraternity. At the University of Iowa Law School he served for two years on the board of Student .Editors of the Iowa Law ' Review.
By virture of his recent appointment to the Supreme Court o( Nebraska, Judge Donald Brodkey became the first Jew in the history of Nebraska to serve as a judgt in three judicial areas. In 1967, Brodkey left private practice to seek election as a Municipal Judge. He won that election and served as a Judge in the Municipal Court of Omaha until 1960 when hf was elected District Judge of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Nebraska, the position he now holds. The appointment to the Supreme Court made by Governor J. J. Exon last week, will be effective as soon as Judge Brodkey completes his present assignment as District Judge on April 1. Judge Biodkey and his wife will move to Lincoln where the Nebraska Supreme Court meets Mrs. Brodkey is also a practicing attorney, presently serving on the staff
Judge Donald Brodhey on the Legal Aid Society. Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Judge Brodkey made his home in Avon, South Dakota from the age of six until completing his jCreshman year at the University of South Dakota. H^ is a graduate of
Black Poitical Convention Urges Support for Arabs The National Black Political Convention meeting in Little Rock. Arkansas last weekend adopted a resolution condemning all Black Congresimen who voted Cor the n.2billion in the US. aid to Israel while "ignoring African Arab Nations. The language of the Resolution appeared to be a victory against the harderline Black militants who had
fought for a much stronger Resolution assucing Israel of being the "major instrument" of a U.S. dictated word strategy of monoply to increase proflts and exploit all people." Only three of the 16 Black Congressmen voted against aid to Israel, John Conyera of Michigan; Parren Mitchell of Maryland and Ronald V. Dellums of California.
Brodkey moved to omaha in 1933 following his graduation from law school. His local activities Include membership on the Board of Trustees of Goodwill Industries and the Omaha Home for Boys; Past President of Henry Monsky Lodge of B'nai B'rith, Order of the Coif of Nebraska, Omaha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, and a former nnember of the Temple Israel Board. Nationally, Judge Brodkey has served as delegate to the National Conference of State Trial Judges from the Nebraska District Court Judges Association during the annual conventions of the American Bar Association, and as a member of the National Program Committee of the National Conference. Judge and Mrs. Brodkey are the parents of three chiMren. Their son Bruce is a practicing attorney in Omaha; their daughter Amy is a third year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and their youngest, Frank Is a third year mathematics major at Cornell University,
AJ Congress Raps Bar Assoc. For Support of Racial Quotas NEW YORK, (JTA) - The American Jewish Congress took sharp issue last week with a report by the civil rights committee of the New York Bar Association supporting voluntary racial quotas by employers, college admissions officers and bousing developers. Voicing "profound concern" over the report "emanating from such a prestigious ' source," the AJCongress contended that the quota plan would be counter-productive because it would turn private citizens into "racial Robin Hoods" engaged "In the same kind of discrimination against innocent individuals which' created the situation they seek to remedy." The Bar Association's report declared that "voluntary programs using quotas for ameliorative purpoMS to correct the effects Of subsUnlial prior discrimination are legally permiulble in such areas as empktymmt, education and housing." The AJCongress' reply
described the report as support for "do-it-yourself quotas — that is quotas instituted for private parties or institutions on their own initiative and not as part of a remedial order impoaed by a
court or administrative agency." It called the Bar Association recommendations an "ill conceived proposal, justified neither by the cases nor by wise demands of social policy."
'Book of the Dead' Distributed in Israel TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Israelis who are used to queing up for every thing from bus tickets to a concert, stood in long, mostly silent lines last week ouUide post offices all over the counU7 waiting to receive a booklet, just published, that contains the names df the more than 2S0O Israeli soldiers, sailors and airmen who died in the Yom Kippur War. It is called "The Book of the Dead" Knesset Speaker Israel Yesheyahu referred to it as "the book of pain, heroism and dedication" — and Is the first complete list of Israel's war dead. Although the number of casualties was published some time ago, the dimensions of the tragedy suffered by so many Israelis families was brought home more forcefully by the publication of the actual names. Grownups and school children wept openly as they approached tables draped In black to be handed (he bookleU by members of the Aasoclation of Bereaved Parent*. Wilhin one hour the booUeU were all distributed and tens o( thouaaods were still lining up to get the booklet. "We shall eoaUnue to print the booklet until everyone who would like to have one wUl get It," a senior army officer uld.
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Dayan, Kissinger to Discuss Disengagement with Syria JERUSALEM, (JTA) - The Cabinet has selected Defense Minister Moshe Dayan to go to Washington for talks with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger on a disengagement with Syria. The announcement said,"The Cabinet approved the trip of the Defense Minister for talks with the Secretary of Slate on the issue of separation of forces on the Syrian front." No date was set for his departure. Cabinet Secretary Michael Amon said the timing of his trip remained to be decided between Washington and Jerusalem. Some officials here bdlcated that Dayan might not go to Waihlngton until Klitlnger returns from his visit to Moscow later this
month. Sources here said that Dayan would bring to Kisahiger Israel's proposals for troop separation in the Syrian territory Israel captured durbig the Yom Kippur War. They said that Israel will insist on full reciprocity of concessions by both sides and would favor a buffer zone manned by the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) similar to the one separating the two sides on the Egyptian front. ••rsei is reported to have rejected absolutely a Syrian demand that dhengagement hiclude Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights town of Kuneitra captured by Israel In the 1967 Six-Day War.
Omahan Finds Israel In Urgent Need of Cash Omaha — Leo Meyerson returned to Omaha from Israel last week with an urgent plea "that all t>hilanthropies pledges be paid as quickly as possible. The economic situation in Israel is critical," Meyerson said, "with defense costs eating up B4 cents out of every Israeli tax dollar." Mr. Meyerson was among the 4S Americans participating in a UJA Factfinding Mission in Israel which focused on the needs for the immediate flow of cash. During the intense S day visit, the American leaders met with top government and military officials who spoke of the pressing needs in Israel as the result of the Yom Kippur War. Moshe RIvlin, Director General of the Jewish Agency explained that "the need for
cash is urgent, primarily for relief from the pressures of post-war immigrant absortion and welfare aid to Israeli citizens." According to Rivlin over 15,000 immigrants have come to Israel since the Yom Kippur War. 40,(X)0 new immigrants are expected this year. This has necessitated a tremendous increase in the normally heavy absorption budget. Rivlin said, "The entire functioning of many human needs programs in Israel depend on the cash flow from American Jewry . " Explaining the soaring cost of living as a result of the war, Rivlin noted that the cash received by Israel now will do far more than it will in six months from now. Mr. Meyerson said that a national UJA effort is being directed for the collection
$250,000,000 by June 30. He stressed that this was not a campaign for additional funds, but an effort to redeem pledges for critically needed cash. Meyerson said that the goal for Omaha in this Cash Collection effort is $1,000,000 by June 30. He noted that collections of gifts made in the record 1974 irampaign in Omaha which to-date stands at $3,084,242 has also been outstanding In that nearly half the pledges have already been paid. "We are appealing to those who have not yet paid their 1974 pledges, as well as those who have not completed payment of prior year pledges. The need for cash in Israel is urgent, and as many pledges as possible must be converted to cash before June 30.
Omahan Leo Meyerson greeted by Moshe RIvUn In Israel