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'Paul Wasf^mttngA Mosaic for the Future' enc« of tha deatti of a priiica of tha l4»or IhanabeiiU. Ha Wt vln^fsnli Mid Jiwdry. fit dla not lha». bnl wllM them away in

VtoeoaUtBlhaBarty great poaaaaataa In even tniofala In

"Whan ba came ta Ua hooka. h«Mv«r, he boqoaolhad than one by one to Ua dooeal, addtag a word of daatilpltan or af• betian looaeh Minna, for (hay had baM Me nMat Inoaarad I had tear bosks in an. and had read ovary one of I of ttaMO."

—PraakHante.

OMAHA — Atthoagb Paid Voret had many, many more than jMt foor booka in Ma Ufatlma, the praeatfng «|uoto from Frank Harris 'YaaDy amns up what I toal ha (Varat) ' says Monte Hofbnan. da^ Hoffman, dialrman of the Jewiah FedwattoB of Omaha's Library Qmmittoo, know Vcret, than Fsdwatlon osocuUvo direetor, lor aboU U yoan. Hoffman Is the man cntniated with organtiti^ the mnMlade of books left by Vawtwhkh nwistltiits the Podnratioa's ftae Ubraryr ' ^"~ Hoftaan, ilie diroctor of tarformathai aorvteeo for Northern Natora) Gas who haUs maatcr'a degroeo hi both taacMag and library aeieneo, eald Vorat never felt a book was a wasted faiI a way of lai«iMy holdhig bnowMio to

Ma hand, and Voret waa more thaa Juat familiar with UM books ka purdiaaed.

"Many times wo sat and rliacumsd thtags and I waa amaaed at the scope of what ha know, both Jewish and nonJewish," roedfed Hofbnan. "He waa eneyciopaedfe. And whan it came lo musie, I dont know what Und of mnsldan he was, bat if It had anythtag ta do with the Bible, be had It - modem.

"POr thoae WIM queottoned Us purchasing, even of the most I books. Paid folt thoro was somothtag very viaMa (or ov rtfigion or wo woiddn't hevo had it.

"He sought tangible eonnoctioae for IMngs, sought to make the connecHoo between (he book and our Uvee."

Nottag Ifaat the catahigntaig of tbeee books was nevar accomplished by Voret ("there waa Just so much a human befaig GouU do"), Hofftaian potaita out tliat Veret never had any trouble locating a partlctdar book: "Any piece of Uierature, any book or rMond. he inew what it waa and uaually where it wee."

The two men had a coitfideaoe ta> each other that eech Imew wasa'tjust on UM sorfaea. Hoffman recalls he woidd try to catoh Voret on eemo obecnre title of a record pert^Unlng to judalca "but ibara were very few I could catch tiim on.

"I underntand now what be waa trying to do: he was painting a mosaic that would be pieced logether inter on. And now, Juet es be figured, people are asking for it — this is that later on' Paul espactad."

Our Cover Mr. Abo Gcodlar of Both Q Synafofue. Mr. Ahfin RoM of Iteiplo Iwaci and Jod FlriiUn, an of the AitiMa' rWikliM of Both tanei SjriMCogue, are Aown on the oovor of tUt New Yoar odlttoa of the JewWi Praaa.

We feel tfaia piiotefrqih and the acoompanying qdetatlcn (ran the "ai*ina" aymboUaa the CODtltiattBii of Jewiah leanring and tfaia the oooItaMtloa of the Jewtafa people.

Lai It reBstaid ta, aa we approach the tirat anatvananr of the Yam iOppiv War, tiiat juat aa the airvhrai of the State of larad dependa oa fias and tai^ the aurvhral of the CoograiMka of laraal d^tooda on tradtthm and Torah.

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Freda: Paul Aimed for Quality

By Ridurd Pearl If the Jewish people are the people of the ^ook, then Paul Veret was a giant among the ^•ople. \ He was not a very big man phyiically— ifeout 5 feet 7 inches tall—and he did not tend Ivwards the physical activity in his life. ; Rather, the man who served 32 years as ttecutive director of the Omaha Jewish PMeration vested his energies in the tnMlectual and the cultural in Jewish life. ', Veret, whose name today stiU evokes a iertain warmth in those who hear or mention I, was a lover of words who left Omaha's lews-and, indeed, all Omahans-« legMS' if books, a legacy of learning, that has been |rocIaimed internationally. ' It is a legacy estimated to number between It.OOO and 13,000 volumes. It comprites the ^Mention Library, which is located in the iarth wing of the new Jewish Community Center and which has been acclaimed by lome to be the finest coUection of Jewish iterature between Cincinnati and Los Ikweles. ' As work progressed the past summer Inward finally cataloging the library, Verel's iidow Freda commented about her late lusband's love of the printed word.

He was, she said, a man who impressed iteople with his commami of the EagUsli \uifiaagt^ Born in Ritmaala, Paal Veret tame with his family to America as a koy tf iX who was already rinenl In French aad Berman. He dived into the English language Hid his academic prowess earned him a tcholirshlp to Temple UaiversHy in Philadelphia. He also atieaded the Univeraily of Pennsylvania Law School.

As an undergraduate, Veret majored in languages—he taiew how to read and speak lussian, Hebrew and French "and he loved 10 conjugate Latin verbs," Mrs. Veret said.

- Some of her earliest recollections of him, Ibe said, were of his constant bustling about.

Us jacket pockeU bulging with papers and

pencils as be quested after more books and more reading. "Freda gets a guy," her friends would say, "and what does he do? He chases after books!"

In fact, young Paul's constant buying of books was one of the things that infuriated his mother, Freda said. "She used to tell him. 'I wouldn't care if you spent the money on girls or yourself, but always on books?'

"He once went to get some shoes. He saw some books and got the books—he didn't get the shoes," Freda laughed.

"It cost more to ship his collection of books to Omaha from Philadelphia than It cost to ship aar famllurc," she recalled. It was a coUectioa whkh the yoang coople had laborloasly hallt. she>«akl. a coUectioB that iaeiiided books no longer la print.

The reputation of this well-educated young Jew had spread west from Buffalo, N.Y., to Omaha and in 1938, amid dire warnings from their eastern friends, the Verets decided to accept the Omaha Federation's offer.

"Don't go," they were told. "They'll chew you to pieces there. Omaha's on (he oulskirti of Jewish life."

"But Paul used to tell them, 'A town that produced a Phil Klutznick, a Henry Monsky and a Sam Beber can't be on the periphery of Jewish life,' " said Mrs. Veret.

It was the right move, she said, because "Omaha let him have his head"—it let him think and do largely as he saw fit.

What Omaha gotwas a man who admired it because Its Jewish community was wellorganized—it already had a youpi council, for example "and nobody else hiad that in other cities," said Mrs. Veret. Veret admired Omaha's leaders and only attempted "to build on what was here," said his wife.

Omaha abo got a fascinating speaker.

Another woman once told Mrs. Veret that she "didn't care what he (Veret) was saying— but the fascinating words he used, 1 wouldn't think of using!"

Veret "was ««t a rellgioas Jew ia the Iradltisaal sease. bat tai a caMwsl saasc."

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PBU/ Veret saM Mrs. Veret. She saM be ebsenrad Ibe Friday night sablwth. bat: "Paul's idea of yahrzeit for his father, for example, was to sit and read his father's favorite books," rather than spend hours In formal prayer sessioat, "What's CO Jewish about a swimming pool, or a handbaU court!" Veret would ask. "He fell that what justifies a Jewish Community Center is iu quality and quanUty of Jewish culture, which it got largely through its books," Mrs. Veret said.

Veret would patiently explain to people that the Federation library was "not a lending library but a research library."

Pointing to one of its books, he would say, "This is not a book you lake home a nd read in bed, it's for research." He would say the library was not in competition with the public library.

One time an old friend of Paul's, who was a clothing manufacturer looked at the mixed cohirs and sizes of books on Verel's shelf and sofiestod that Paul arrange them according lo color and size.

"These are books, aat paaU," Veret remonstrated.

"If he (Paul) thought a. book were important, the Center would have it. Others, including duplicate copies, he would give away as replacements." She said that, unfortunately, some volumes in the Federation library were given away as part of Israel's 2Sth anniversary celebration.

If anyone told Veret they had some money for the Federation, Paul would urge book purchases.

The Federation Library was "a labor of

love with him," said his widow. "PuA.tuA standing orders for books. He would Imf u| pracUcally all night" studying pufaolven' digests. ^ "He cwild scan (a method of rapl reading)." explained Mrs. Veret. "Wl would lake me a hall-hoar lo read, be hi scanned b> five minute*. We'd gel a YIddl paper and he would read It like It ware English. 'y "If I told him I needed some qiffc formation for a five-minut' «ketch, hrd me to come down to the J and he'if ha' something for me. When I'd get there,lie' have five or six books slacked up for JM look through, all on that topic."

When his son Barton, now a Washii D.C. attorney, would ask his father ai sports, Paul would say, "I'll get you a on It." Barton and his sisters Linda and Judith slept with little sUcks of books beside their beds so they could read if they awoke earf Even the Veret grandchildren got bookl fi Grandpa.

Every trip the VereU took both in OH United SUtes am) abroad included vislu to bookstores.

When the Verets decided to move frein longtime residence at 120 South Slst A' some years back, Mrs. Veret toM husband to "go through your books and give a lot of them away.

"He went through the books, alright," laid Mrs, Veret, 'He gave away Linda's teflBi, Barry's books and my books—but wiW it came time to move, his collection Ucl."

The Jewish Press PuMlshed wealdy on Friday By the J«wi«h Fadanition of Omaha Stanford Lipsay, Prasa' Commtttaa Chairman

MfS. Freda Veret

Richard B. Pearl, Editor Lynda MIrvish, AtaiatatSt Susanna Somberg, Advarttsing Imond CIH* PoM*g* PM « Omda, Mtbr.

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Ending Books Easy Jewish Library IIAHA - T«fter» of (be "cup of Judaica" in the Omaha PederaUon Ubrary will find it has a diitioct Weioa. vor.

TlMt'i "Welne" ai in Mayc Weine, the woman who dcvliMl ) claulfication acheme by which the nearly l2,00(Kvolume rary U beinc claMifted. bThe tyitem ii baaed on the Dewey Decimal Syalem uaed oat univenully in pabUc librariea, but it» peculiariy pM to the HMdi of Judaica lifarariMi <ucb aa Omaha*.

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r In fact, It wai the aifflUarity between the Dewey and Weine ptema that M to Uw dediion to put the fedaration library |lo the Weine ^tem. ^T*«ae HnaM aacd to looklag ap boofci in the Dewey MlMiaf iMrraMic MbrartetibatiMa'lliave IM ranch trouble Mkg them iBder Uie Weine lyaCem, accor^lag t« Mn. jHyUe Wolf. Federatiwi head librarian.

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)- SiM, together with ber regular aaaistut, Shari UpahuU, lipd Ted Mewman.'tMlaiaat Omaha city librarian, have worked Iktwgh the Mnnur to get the library daaaifled. Ute ttiU |mnMr, the Job WM deemed about 60 per cent completed. 't TlM basic dUfererce la the two lyitems la that, in the Ivwey ayatem, all Jewiah toptca are under one number, while idar ibe Weine lyatera different numbera are aattgned dif•wi aspect* <i Judaica. y Tvt Kcaunple: ' —In the Dewey system, the number tU denotes "The Bible i» Holy Scriptures of Judaism and Chriatlanlty"; L

[ -Birt la the WehMayttMB. Ike letter "I" I* pteeed before he -tM" and that namber (m*) apecMcally refer* to "Old llnUaieM - aatberiied Jewish Tcnlaa aaly." A a«(e petots lat that the "N*»Jewiab varaisa" caa be feaad aader tm la Ibr WefaM tydeai (ttl hi Dewey Ubraria*). s -Under the Dewey lystem, ChrisUanlty U assigned the

Mrs. Edytbe Wolf. FedcraUon head Ubrariaa, say* claasiflcaUoa Job wsi sbeat halfway ftahtbed late thb sammer.

Mn. Shari Upachuti. aialstaat llbrarlaa, keeps ba*y ehccUag oat books wbea ibe'* act helplai with the cUisUlcatlea work.

number HO; but z220 in the Weine syalem is for "Post-Biblical Rabbinic Literature".

—Udder Dewey, »45 Is the number for Italian history, but in the Weine system, xMS covert books on the history of Jews in Italy.

Cettiai more specific: Dewey's sumber lor books deaUaf with the history o( Nebraska te W1.2: Wetae'i number fgr beefcs sa tke hialary *( Jew* bi Nebraika la (Imply itTI.2.

Or. suppose you'd like to find books on the history of Jews in the western United States. Under the Dewey lystem, you'd only find number tn — General Hialory of the Western United Sutes. Under the Weine system, you'd find tm - History of Jews In the Western United States.

Thli similarity applie* in many, but not all, inatance*.

The book! in the Federation Library, as in other libraries, are clauified under three listings — author, title and subject.

The Federation Library has approximately the same number of books as is C(mtained in the Millard Public Library and Mrs. Wolf and Mrs. Lipshutz will be happy to aaaist vlsitora.

Happy New Year from

"Judaism held high a light In the darknesa of the world.'

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Federation Library Offers Readers 'Wealth of Material' I OMAHA - Chinese Jews? i_You may have known there ire (one native-born Chinese >ho are also Jewish. Bui do pu also know where you can Ibid out about them?

In the new Jewish (deration of Omaha rary, located in the north of the Jewish Cornunity Center building. ' "The Chinese Jews", a book igr William Charles White, is Be of approximately 12,000 boks on myriads of topics •nerally related to JudaJsm, |r written by Jewish authors, IBntained in the library. ^White, incidentally, is a inadian Episcopal biabop >, as a missionary to na, discovered a clan of Biinese Jews. The book is a Mrd-and-pictures report ot jkeir existence.

- "U's Ike Mly sabiUaUal hidaica library between ^iaaati aad L«s Aagelet," eTed Nrwraaa, aitisUDt rian for the City •( tataha wh« has been woridng lui-Ume to help Mrs. Eiythr l«if.

Federation kead krarian, and lirr aisisUBt. piri.

Sharl Lipshatt. tttalogue and organiie the "It's unique in its subject Ratter and in that there is

nothing like it elsewhere in the Pr|jrie States," continiKd Newman, a friend of both Morris Hoffman, Federation library chairman, and the library itself.

"There's a wealth of material here, quite unique for this part of the country," said Newman, who haa been Omaha assistant city librarian for 15 yean. He formerly worked in the New York City Public Library.

Newman, who is not Jewish, noted the books included English translation of the Talmud. the E:ncyclapaedia Judaica, and the Laws of the State of Israel.

Library shelves include between 150 and 200 books on The Hokicaual alone. There are also hiatories of Jews "in almost all countries, in almost all periods," Newman noted.

"People have written an almost everything imaginable." he said. "Some of the subject matter is terribly epiiemeral — for instance, how many woald want a book on 'The History o( the JewK in De» Moines'?" he asked.

However, he added that it was the purpose of libraries.

Malmonldes": "God and Freud": "The Phllpiapfcy of SpMwa": "Tk* VlMUr^r "David".

The library also contains a numbar of magazines of Jewish interest — one haa a aerialiutin of Omahan Carol Gendler's history of Omaha Jews around the turn of the century.

New Books In tho Library

Ted Newaiaa, whe Is heipiag classify boaks hi Ike FederaUea library, is iaprcasad by the raaga tl Material it caalakM. particularly specialised libraries, to "keep an ear to the ground and hear about and gel such books before all copies disappear."

A casual browser took a few minutes the other day and came up with this wide variety of titles and subjects: "Israel Langhs": "The Wisdom of Israel": "Some of My Best Jokes Are Jewish": "The Rise aad Fail of the Judaean SUte": "Child of the Holocaust": "The Gestapo"; "The Dreyfas Case":

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Using the Federation Library EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is Icprinted from the Passover Edition of. The fewish Press ai> an aide to readers.

I ByEdythrWolf ^' Federation Librarian ;: This is your library and w« hope you will |0on lake lime to explore II thoroughly. Many K your questions will be answered in this paction which has been compiled by the library {Kaff tu show you how l»gel Ihe most out of this Pldendid collection. Your recommendations br additions and improvements will be appreciated and acted upon where possible. ^'Service is our mam purpose. Books and Iibrai7 materials are ordered, cataloged made readily available to you for the purpose of perpetuating our Jewish itage through the written, spoken, and il word. Please let us know whenever we hay be of assistance lo you. ' Oar collecUon contains a wealtb of Intsraaliaa hi the lollowhig areas:

fl. Books I. Periodicals (Current I I. Periodicals iBound) Mono and Stereo Records Film strips Films Art LIBRARY HOURS The library hours are as follows: k»days& Wednesdays. ' f a.m. totp.m. iKadays, Thursdays and Friday « a.m. to 5

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CTRClil-ATlON OF MATERIAL In order lo borrow library material it is isary to fill out and sign a library card rslralion form. A library card will be made Hied in your name and will be retained ia t library. In Ihe future all that is necessary your iume and specific request. prilb the exception of books marked leftmice", which do not circulate, all other ms are lent for a period of four weeks. The I date on the salmon cok>red card, located the pocket of each item, tells you when the ik is due. Your cooperation in this respect I be most helpful. All material may be ewed if there to •• waMlag Ust. Periadleals toflodicals. except current issues, circulate

And there are also] phooograph records, motionl pfctBPB flhni and fibnstrips,-| 35 nim slides and art books all with Judaica themes.

The Federation LIbrarjrl tags a number on each newJ book It receives; al last count,'! the numbering had gone into J the 13,000s. But some of the 4 hooks have disappeared^ unfortunately.

for one week. Current issues remain in the library for all to read.

PHYSICAL LAYOUT The Orculation and Reference Desks are located in front of the library entrance. All material is lent and returned at these desks.

The Circulation Desk attendant will aid you and answer any questions regarding use of the card catalog.

A. The Card Catalog This catalog contains a listing of all the cataloged items in Ihe Ubrary, and is the key to help you make use of Ihe wealth of material stored here. It is located near the middle of the library. Otir library has a divided catakig.

That is, the catalog listing authors and title*is separate from the one listing subjects. This arrangements simplifies your search.

Nevertheless, you may encoimler some points needing clarification; you should feel free To call upon anyone of the library staff to help you. As indicated, you may approach the catalog in several ways: by author, by title, or by subject, depending on what information you have.

B. Inforraatioa Givea en the Catalag Card The library uses the Unit Qard System which means that for a book the same information is given on each card, varying only with the heading on the top line. On each card you will find the Claaaification Number, or Call Number, in the upper left hand comer. This is information needed to find Ihe book on the shelf. In addition, there is the author's name, the full title of the book. Ihe edition, names of people and organizalioas responsible for the book, the place and dale of publication, name of the puMlabg:. number of pages in Ihe book and information abeut illustrations and bibliographies.

C.r%t Library Classification Scheme All books are arranged by a combination of Ihe Dewey Decimal System and the Weine Classification Scheme. The classification number is typed in the upper left hand corner of each catalog card. Numbers on the first line are classification numbers; the letter and numbers on Ihe second line stand for Ihe author of the work. New books which have been received but are not yel catalogued are represented in the catalog by a temporary author card. These hooka may be conaulled t^ requesting them at the Drculatlon Desk

Eagbad"; "My CoBBtry" by Abba Ehaa; "Rome aad Jemsalem": ''EveryoBe's Guide U Israel": "History of The Arabs": "HolUlay Starybeak"; "The Scholar Fighter": "Jews Fight Taa!": "Israel Defeaee Fercss — Tke Six-Day War'"; "The Psycbodynamlci of American Jewish Life": "The Jews of Des Moines":

'•Good to Be A Jew"; "The Ku Klax Klan"; "Pretesia attorn ": "The Talmud"; "The Greatest Book Ever Written": "The Dead Sea Scrolls": "Exodas"; "The Nine Lives of Michael Todd"; "Trtol and Error, the Antobiagrapby of Chalm Weiimann": "The Code of

Silvers, PhU. Thto Uagh Is aa Me. N.J. Prentice-Yall. 1973.

276 p. $7.M — The autobiography of the famous "Top Banana".

Blal, Morrison IJavid. The QMSUMM YMI Asked. N.Y. Behnnan House, 1072. US p. — OtieitlofU on Jewish Belief and the aiiawers of a liberal rabbi.

Ruather, RoMmary Radford. RcUglaa aad Sestoai. N.Y. Simon aad Schuster, l»74. 35« p. 19.96 - Essays on the role of religion in shaping the traditional cultural Images that have degraded and suppressed women.

Miller, Patrick D. Ike DIvtoe Warrior la Eariy brael. Maia.Harvard Univ. Pr., 1973. 279 p. IS.9S - A study of one of (he major images of God in Ihe Old Testament and its background in the mythology of Syria-Palestine.

Rabinowicz, Harry M. Treasaret pf Jadalca. NY, Yoaekiff, 1971. 240 p. $12 - A detailed description of books and manuscripts still preserved in Great Britain.

Wise, Isaac. Remiatoceaces. NY. Amo Pr., 1973.367 p. 120 The struggles lo establish Reform Judaism in America.

Mocatta. F. Je ws of Spahi and Portugal. NY Cooper Square.

1973. 106 p. tS - An historical sketch of a thousand years of Spanish-Jewish history.

Maur. Benjamin. Beth She'arai. vol. 1 N.J. Rtitgers Univ.

Pr., 1973. 228 p. tl7.S0 — A report on the f^wavations during J936-19W. Bonavla. David. Fat Sasha and the Urban Guerina.N.V. Atheneum, 1973. 193 p 16.50 — A book about the brave men and women protesting against the Soviet police slate.

Cohen, Sarah B Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter. III. Univ. of III., 1974. 242 p. 18.95 — An exploration of the sources! evolution, and function of Bellow's comic vision.

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hfrMi • dup4cr o( "tiw New Antl Bflttll" (McGraw-HUI). a kMk by ATMU FMltar. , aiiociate director and general coaaael ef the ' Aati-Dcramatloa League of B'nai B'rilli. aad \ Beajamln R. Epitein. aatloiul director. ^ On March 20. 1972. Dr A Koy Eckardt. a Clwdiiig ProlettanI (heokigian and chairman of r8ie' Peparlmenl of Religion al Lebisb U;niversi(y, addressed the Third Aniwat Scholars Conference on (he German Church Struggle and the Holocaust at Wayne State , University in Detroit. ', Dr. Eckardi analyzed what he called "(he ^highly pervasive, contemporaneous and, Semilism of the theological left" and warned ; (hat it should not be underestimated by 'focusing exclusively on the anil-Semitism of r "the biblicisi and theological right."

As an example of liberal, insenaitive Christian antipathy toward Jews as Jews, Dr. EU:kardt cited The Crime of Christendom by a Unitarian-Universalist scholar, Fred Gladstone Bratton. la Ike book, iroaically wrtttea to combat ••U-SuUtiim. Brittoo contended that "ethnic • aad cnltarsi anti-Senititm . . . was originally provoked and conlinBously nonrisked by tbr orthodox Jewish dogmai of uniqueness." thus making the victims basically responsible for Uwir own victlmiiatlon.

Dr. Eckardi was disturbingly prophetic. On March 28, Palm Sunday, (he Very Rev. .Francis B. Sayre, Jr., dean of the National (Episcopal) Cathedral in Washington, DC, delivered a religious sermon that approached the line between inaensKivily (o Jewish feelings and anii-Semilism itself. Many thought (he line had been crossed.

Dean Sayre chose (he occasion no( merely (o • focus on the religious significance of Jerusalem bu( lo attack Israel for its alleged policies in East Jerusalem, and lo link these alleged policies with the "fatal flaw" of mankind that resulted in the crucifixion of 'Jesus.

Many clergymen dissociated thamseivea frtm Dean Sayre's views. Rev. Letter Kiniolviiig inquired, in his syndicated column, why Dean Sayre had nothing lo say at>au( the real and "sordid alroclties t>eing visited upon Jews by the Syrian government" or why he had no( protested "the wholesale desecration of aynagogiies and expulsion of Jews after the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion invaded Jerusalem and occupied it in 1M7."

Khisslving pointed ant that this was ia viaiatisa of Ibe United Natlonf order — "as Deaa Sayre roiut know, since his fatkcr was Chalrnaa tt the TrasteesUp Conacil la Jenisaleai ki Itt;."

Dean Sayre gol support, however, al a preaa conference held by two clergymen who are long-lime disseminators of anii-IsraeL antiSemitic Arab propaganda. One, Rev.\. C. Forres!, editor of the United CTiurch Observer, had been described by Dr. Eckardi as "Clanada's most notorious and perhaps most denominationally protected Christian antiSemite."

Dean Sayre wu in the news again on September 10,1972, at a memorial service for "the victims of violence during the Olympiad " Dean Sayre said he was mourning not only the innocent Israeli athletes slain al Munich by "murderous guerrillas and ruthless revolutionaries," but also "thoac additional

victims ... (haae viUaten in liebanoa and Syria whose lives have been extinguished by Ihe Israeli Air Force ..

II waa possible that Dean Sayre may have been influenced in his thinking by a documeni published as a paperback in 1970 under (he auspicet of (he American Friends Service Committee.

Alter more Ikaa a datca drafts — wklch had keen aharply critlciied by scholars whose critici>ms were tkerenpoo virtually igaored -^ Ihe American Friends Service Committee kraaght out Search For Peace hi the Middle East.

A pro-Arab document masquerading under repeaied claims of objcc(ivi(y by Its authors, the Quaker report Is a rewrite of history which dislribuled blame for the Six-Day War evenly among Arabs and Israelis and put the onus squarely on Israel lo make the peace. So wldepread was 'the acceptance of the arguments advanced that two leading Jewish organizations published a counter-report exposing Ihe Quaker distortions. Truth and Peace in the Middle East - A Critical Analysis of the Quaker Report, in August, 1871.

The counter-study .charged that the Friends had "displayed a blatant bias, repressed facts, distorted history and presented a slanted and one-sided set of conclusions."

The (Quaker group had accepted the Arab

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propaganda view that israel was inpoaed cif' the area by Western stales guilty of antiSemitism. Omided was the truth — that for from imposing Israel on the Arab world, the Western powers did much to block Ua establishmenl. Omitted was any reference (o the persecution of Jews in Arab countries or Ihal more than half of Israel's current population comes from Arab lands.

In writing of the IMS war. the Quaker account Jmpllcd that flgiiM"g' empted spontiBtously on both tide* when. fa> fact. It was Isaached by the Arabs. The Qnsker report mentioned neither the li|.vaslon of Israel by •nrrounding Arab states nor Britains's Important role In turning over key installations and equipment to the Arabs.

The Quaker report insisted Ihal Egypt and Israel were equally guilty for Ihe outbreak of (he June, 1967, war and insinuated (hat Israel moved "aggressively" in search of territorial expansion. It contained nothing about the role of Jordan, which was repeatedly urged by Israel lo stay out of (he fray.

The <)uaker account avoided any significant Arab responsibility for (he plight of Arab refugees. Moreover, Ihe Quaker report strongly advocated a "Big Four" aolulion, aKhough there was no reason lo expect (he Big (Continued on Page 10)

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It was noted that the space Thoae are among the needed for such items does irccommendationi being not. appear available at Considered by the preaent. at least. ^Federation's Library ComAmong Mrs. Wolf's bnittee, chaired by Morris suggestions were the Hoffman. They and other development of a Great Books recommendations were made program for adults and in a report on the Library's summer reading for children; atatus by Hoffman and preparation of roving exhibita Librarian Edythe Wolf which of Judaica in synagogues, Was presented to the churches, private homes, and talka and Federation at its Aug. 2S businesses; meeting. presentations to groups r The teenage comer would throughout the metropolitan have material geared to area and establishment of a itecM' iniarects and would weekly new book lisiting in 4ispUy the laieat informatioa The Jewish Press (which has and novels recommended for been begun).

She said that, as of Septeens Including paperback tember, It74, 6,000 books had hooks.

The chiMrens' corner been catalogued — about half '*'eoald be eqalpped wHh rich of the Library's coBectioa.

Material of stories. keUdays.

The Library has a 4radltio« which is geare for phswsgraph record coUectlaa Iheir age greap." HaffaiaB knaiberlBg bctweea I.M<•Uted.

4,IW discs. A prafessisMl ! Other of Us auggestiaas ••sIclaB who Is a menber af iDchide • special area for the Osaaba Sympbaay kaa

bcea hked ea a part-tiaie basis to s«r( aad cat^flarise tlw caliecUsa to prepare k far sctaal catalogtag. schadaled la October.

One of the great laaki remaining is the compUaticn of a current catalogue of the Library's 16 mm films. The most recent cataloging of the rUms — some of which have been sought by such as Hebrew University — was made about 20 years ago. under direction of thanFcdcraion Director Paul Veret. ' In the past year. Mrs. Wolf said, the Library staff has selected and ordered newly published books in accordance with the policies adopted by the Library Committee. Since June, 1973, the Library has acquired approximately 600 books and IS nimstrips, she said.

Mrs. Wolf added that in the past IS months, between 2,000 and 2,S0O people made use of the Library, including Jewish individuals and

JBook Reviev^: New Anti-Semitism (Continued from Page I) foai could or would guarantee true peace.

Despite a history of broken Arab snd ilestern pledges and agreements, costly wars IDd unremitting Arab efforts to destroy her, inrael was required by the Quaker group to brego the possibility of negotiating a real peace, with secure and agreed borders, and Wy instead on Arab "willingness" to live in peace.

The Quakers insisted that Israel as a first gep commit itself to withdraw from all the Iccupied territory — a strictly Arab reading of be .UN Security Council's resohitioii of liovembcr 22, 1«7. , On uctober M, I9n. in the midst of the Yom IDppur War, Father Daniel Berrigen, the jhsuit priest admired by many (or his antinetnam war acUvities, addressed the iiaiiUatlgrii of Arab University Graduates hi feafataglMi, D.C., and castigated Israel for l^mestic repression, deception, cruelty, bilitarism"; for having turned the "settler ithos" into "the imperial adventure"; for having failed "to create new forms of political (He for her own citiicns"; (or having created hone and a half milUoo refugees." ^ Father Berrigen said that were he a "conMentious Jew in Israel I would have to live as I was living in America; that is, in resistnce Igafaist the slate"; in Israel as in the United

Stales, he claimed,such a posture would result in his being "hunted by the police, or in priaon."

Father B^rigan accused "many American Jewish leaders" — and particularly the "Zionists in our midst" — of "ignoring the Asian holocaust in favor of economic and military aid lo Israel."

The speech came lo public attention whan Ihe text was printed in the October 2» isaue of American Report, biweekly publication of Clergy and Laity Coocenwd.'

Among the responses was one oa December 21 from Rev. Donald 8. Harrington, senior miniater of the Community Church of New York, who was lo have presented a peace award to Berrigan.

Instead, Mr. Harrington witbtkrew from the presentation and told a press conference that Berrigan had 'ceased lobe a witness and an influence (or peace and has become the opposite."

SUting that Bcrrigen's remarks wan "inflammatory," Mr. Harrington said Berrigan's prescription for Israel would mean "a return to the role of 'suffering servant.' " He asked; "What kind of prophecy is this that solemnly prescribes policies implying crucifixion for a whole pea|ile lo an audience of Iheir enemies?"

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She concluded, "Early indications ... suggest that utilization will increase probably due to a variety of (actors, including parking availability, publicity and the general attractiveness of Ihe new Onter and die library."

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Youngsters Sign Learning ^Contracts'at Betit israet OMAHA Some youngit«r« are signing ^"contncU" at Beth Iara«l ' Religious School to help rid bttietnaelvea of boredom and ^restleiineas — two "af^flictionf" common to the ^jroung.

I The contracts are part a( the Behavioral Objective ' Method ol Teaching, whidi is being tried on an ex[perimental basis this year ilmder the direction of the Synagogue's Board of Education.

The BOMT is being offered the fourth and fifth grade 'Students studying Jewish ^history, customs and ^tradition in Mrs. Shirley Spilzer's classes.

Dr. Arthar FUhkia, Resident of the botnl, and , alM a profeuor at Creigktaa Univrnity Mrdkal School, says thr BOMT dirfm rron traditional teaching methods h that K gtvet each clOM a ahaaee la work at hli awa fadlvMaal level Ihroagh the •BC of lach devices ss taped /prsgrams sad coatracti."

Contracts? Yes, contracts — each student signs a liontract (or agreement) to learn a legment of hit subject matter, but the date of completion of the conirsct is 'Op to the child, Dr. Fishldn nplains.

"The object is to make him (the sUidtet) feel good about ^s religious school experience," says Mrs. Spitzer, who is assisUnt to the Synagogue's Arector of education. Rabbi Isaac Nadcff.

Explains Dr. FiahUn: "A child comes to Synagogue after his regular school; he's tired, he'i fidgety, maybe he's traveled a long diatance. i(ow, to set Uds in s straitJacket and holler at them and tell them 'Learn this!' and *Learn that!' — it turns some af them off.

"We daa'l want liiat — we

Ha notaa Synagogue con- Tuesdays and Wednesday tributora didn't limit tbem- are held in the Synagogue'i admaJn donating aaianllali west branch buildiiig at l> — whMi It became known the .and Pacific Streets. school waa looUng for an Sundays, all students meet i llxSt-foot carpet remnant, a the Synsgogue, S2nd and aOxM "remnant" - really, Charles.

Dr. FishUn says the boar brand-new carpeting — hopes to expand the school'i "suddenly appeared."

"It's just too much," says media center to Includa Grades 3 through 8. the professor.

"What really inlaresia ua,'9 Beth Israel's siHiool currently consists of six hours he says, "is developing al of claases a week, three days generation of youngaters whoj per week. Monday and will be Informed Jews and| Wednesday clasaca are heM who will look back on their] at Beth Israel generally for experiences in the school with 1 ihoee students living east of joy and hope to pass it on to j their children."

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Beth Israel Synagogue iawlik Frtu MMO. Mrs. gpltier explsfau caalract achievement chart ta two stadeats, ftfth-grsder Peaay Hiaes, ecater. and foarth-grader Andy Kaplan. waat reUgioiii achaol ta be a* rkk, dynamic, livtaig Jewish experience for then."

The studies thus attempt to deal more arith concept and meaning rather than "to get Uds to list nitpicking facts.

We hope (he kids know not only a prayer, but what it means," Dr. PishUn adds.

The methods being tried in Mrs. Spitzer's dasaea this year are similar to those used in the public schools, maUng for "an easier transition from public to synagogue teaching," says Dr. FisUdn. "A (eacber looks to maUvate each indlvidnal," says Mrs. Spitzer, who taught at the Pratt School of Individual Instruction.

Dr. FIshkin elaborates: "There is no such thing as an unmotivated child — just an unmotivating environment.

"There will alwayi be loaie chlldrea whs won't be nMllvated ta laara. Bat I

think we caa say the ma|arity of the kids win react la the opea chisi tyitem" which Beth Israel rmplayi.

Under the system, students pursue their studies at their own pace, in comfortable surroundings: for instance, some may recline on ruga and pillowa while reading; others may opt to read in the carpetlined bathtub, while still others will plug into portable tape recorders to bear (heir preHsped lessons and write out answers to pre-taped Aa (or the agreementa: "For some Uds, eight agreements will be acceptable; for other Uds, one agreement is acceptable"' saya Dr. FishUn. In other words, each youngster takes only what he can handle.

IIK move to attempt (he open classroom-motivadon type of teaching program was initiated by Synagogue Board

of EducaUon members "who had expertise in education and who were much concerned about the school," sayd Dr. FishUn. Marilyn Berman, Phyllis Brown and Mrs. Spitzer started investigating new teaching melhoda and were soon joined by other Synagogue members and interested parents. Omaha Public School District, District 66, Sacred Heart and the Millard District were contacted and the inveatigalora learned how to plan their own programs.

"It's amazing how thfaip have happened," says Dr. /Flshkia eatbasiasticaHy. "The acceptaace of the pragram has geae beyond aw cxpcctalioas. We've baea given e^aipmeat, material and caapsradan nbave and bejrasri ear basic needs — hi same areas mneb better than we expected."

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Two Jewish Groups Differ on Court's Aid Rulim ByBcaCaUob T«l««r*plik Afocy.)«.) ' Two Jewish organizationi Vhich use law as a basic tool ijn their programs to protect 'the rights of Jews have taken diametrically opposed EMM Oil whether the US. ma Court has, in two I rulings, approved as !|^ssifaly constitutional thf fovernment funding of remedial aid to pupils in nonpublic schools.

The National JewUb Commission on Law and Public Affairs has contended HMt such aid to pupils on nonfuUk school premisM may be constitutional and that the Supreme Court bad approved the concept of public assistance to such pupils, in tituations other than public aid for textbooks and bus transportation.

But the American Jewish Congress said that, in tiioae nilings, the Supreme Court had demonstrated it had no intention of weakening "Its steadfast determination not to allow any further erosion of the principles of state-church 'Separation as it affects such «id."

Na»yaMie schMis ia the UaHed Stales laclade aa Mliautcd IM,M* HTtls atleadlag Jewisk day sc%Mto. The two cases were Wheeler v. Bcrrera, a Missouri case, and Mar"kurger v. Public Funds for Public Schools, a New Jersey «ase. Both were handed down ia June. The Wheeler case lavolved Title 1 of the Elementary and Secondary ^fdueation Act of 1966. The llaitNirger case involved a llew Jersey education law.

Under the IMS federal education act, according to a COLPA memorandum to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, ;State education agencies faiibmit proposed programs to sMw federal CommiiiloiMr of •Edneatioa to niMt apecial educational needs of educationally deprived children in schools in arcM with high coDcmlnitioas ot children from low income tamiliea. ; The programs must be ! designed to provide nonfjHiblic school pupils with '•ervices that are "comijftntAe in quality, »eoft and [apportunity for participttion !io tlM»e provided for public

school children," accardiog to the COU>A ntemoruHhn, Missouri education officials implimented programs under Title I primarily coDCCmed with providing remedial instruction for disadvantaged children. Federal fundi were used to employ teachers for remedial instruction in Missouri public schools during regular school hours but state education officials refused to provide funds for remedial aid teachers in parochial schools during regular school hours, though parochial school students do receive such remedial aid after school hours away from the premises of parochial schoob.

Parents of psracbiat SCIMOI paplb laed in federal coart. claiaiiBg that lack af prwvislaa far teachers la the' paracUal Khaab vialaied the "caaiparabllltjr" reqalreBMirtal Title I. The state contended it couM not provide on-premise instruction with remedial reading teachers in parochial schools because that was banned by the First Amendment, as well as by the Ifiasouri state constituiion.

The state also argued that the "comparability" rule did not require identical services but "comparable" ones.

The district court ruled in favor of Missouri, holding that the state was not obligated to provide on-thepremiaes non-public school remedial instruction.

The district court did not rule on wtiether programs in effect for non-public Khool pupils off the premises complied with the comparability requirement "despite gross disparity in the service delivered" to the parochial school pupils, the OOLPA memorandum said.

The Court of Appeals reversed the lower court and hdd that the programs offered parochial school pupils, compared to those offend In public schools, did violate the comparability standard.

The Caarl •! Appeals decUacd la rale aa the sUlc's cbiai Ihalasc o( Title I faads ia provide renedial readlag leackers aa private school premises woaid violate (he esUbUshmeat cUasc af the Fhrat Amendmeat becaose there was aa spectfic plan before the coart to seod

teachers to leach k Ifet private sebaals. _.

The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of trie Caurl of Appeals on all of these issue*. The Supreme Court endorsed the comparability requirement, agreed that the public and private programs did not have to be identical but found that the programs offered in Missouri were not comparable. Like the Appeals Court, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the First Amendment issue, for lack of' a specific plan.

Two programs of the New Jersey education department were involved in the Marburger case. In one, reimburaement was provided to parents of children in nonpublic schoola for money spent to buy "secular nonideological textbooks, instructional materials and supplies."

The second program provided that funda remaining from the lolal appropriation, after the textbook > reimbursement program was funded, would be assigned to non-public schools to. buy "secular supplies,' equipment and auxiliary services," according to COLPA. The AJCongress said that, in defining "equipment" and 'temedial services," a term used to cover remedial reading and remedial mathematics, the New Jersey law was modeled "in large measure" on Title I. A graap ef iadivirfaal ciliieas, taxpayers aad orgaalaatloes filed SBH hi federsi csart, coateadiag that the New Jersey law caaslttaled aa "estoblWuBcal af A three-]udge district court struck down both sections of tlie state law as being an establishment of religion, holding that the primary effect of the law was to advance religion, that it resulted in excessive entanglement of the state in chirch affairs" and that it was likely to produce political division ah>ng religious lines, according to the analysis by the AJCongress Commission on Law, Social Action and Legal Affairs.

The Supreme Court affirmed that decision without issuing an opinion.

According to the AJCongress analyiia. the Supreme Court ruling in the Wheeler case "interpreted the dacisioa of the Court of Appalls as in effect uphokiing the basic contentlOD of the (Missouri) State Board of Education and the holding of the Dialrict Court, namely that the State Board was not required to assign teachers to parochial schools even if it assigned them to public schools" as a means to assure "comparable" services to the non-public school pupils.

Noting that the Supreme Court had referred to the obligation of Missouri stale education officials "to provide comparable sendee to children in non-public schools," the AJCongress analysis declared that "this language has been taken by some as indicting that the Supreme Court was prepared to retreat from its recent hokUngs and to allow some forms of aid previously rejected."

However, the AJCoagreu analysis declared, the Supreme Court was "merely paiatlag Is the generally accepted prapaaitioa that TMIe I does require programs far chlMrea ia aoa-pablk schaels aad that these programs mast be eeaslllBllaaal. There Is aalklag ki the decisiaa that todkales any change tai pesKlaa, ar evea any views as to what Is The analysis noted that the Supreme Court said the Court of Appeals decision, which it was affirming, "is not to be read to the effect that petitioners — the defendants — must submit and approve plana that employ the use of Title I teachers on private school premises during regular school hours."

In the Marburger school case, the AJCongress aaseried, the Supreme Court did indk»te iU views as to ths valkUty of that practice. U that ruling, said the AJCongress, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision condemning not only suxiiiary services but also various fomf tt textboohi and other aUs. "This plainly implies that the court views these practices as probably unconstitutional," In the AJCongreu view. But the

COLPA memorandum cootaaded that the ruling in the Marburger case "does not conchislvcly add anything to our understanding of the Supreme Court establishment doctrine" because the court did not laaue an opinion in that case.

The COLPA aaalysk af the Saprcme Coart Wheeler dedslsa aotod the eewrt's retaaal to rale an the Ffa^ Ameadmeat bsac on (raaads there was aa specific plan to tend remedial reading teachers to aoa-publlc schools hi Missoari. Howevn-. the COLPA memarsndam dectored that, "ilgniflcsally," the Sapremc Coart "weal a 111 farther thaa the Caarl af Appeals •• this In reiterating that it was expreuing no view as to the Establishment clause of any particular program, the Supreme Court sak) that "the range of poasibilities is a broad one and the Fk^t Amendment implications nuy vary according to the precise counters of the plan that is formulated.

"For example, a program whereby a former parochial scirool teacher is paid with Title I funds to teach full-time in a parochial school undoubtedly would present quite different problems than if a public school teacher, solely under public control, is sent Mo a parochial school to teach special remedial courses a few hours a week."

The COLPA memorandum asserted that "as if to confirm this apparent straw in the wind. Justice Byron Whito in a concurring opinion, and Justfare William Douglas in dbseot, pointed to the apparent endorsement by a majority of Justices of permitting some form of on-thepremlse instruction."

The AJCongress analysis, while not referring to the Supreme Court comment on the "broad range" of paasibillUes in whicli "first Amendment implkations" might vsry, described Justkx White as saying In his concurring opinion that "while the court intimated no opinion as to whether using public funds to pay teachers giving special instnictkin tai private schools would be consUtutional, it inUmated that it might be so. Since this would

be impermissible under ttie court's recent cases — ta whk:h he diasentod - he tell encouraged that the court mi^t be retreating Croin these decisions."

Justice Donglai was described, in the AJCoagreai analysis, as disieiiting on the graaad that "say lue of Title I feeds tar parschtol scheal childrea woald be aaconsUtatioaal."

The COLPA memorandum contended that the Wheeler dedskM and the tower court's Marburger ruling "seems to support'' the conclusion that a general aid program with a "comparability" requirement for parochial school students "would spparently be significant in terms of oversll constitutional acceptability."

COLPA sakl thla "would eliminate both any openended commitment to parochial education and the coDComlUnt risk of periodic confrontations" stemming from the possibility of annual debate and lobbying for more funds for parochtal school aid under Title I. The COLPA memorandum did draw a distinction as to the acceptability of remedial instruction for non-public school pupils given away firom such Khools and such T instruction in the schools. \ COLPA argued that "remedial instruction prograihs employing teachers directly responsible to public authorities, whom would teach outside of parochial school grounds, would be acceptable."

In regard to on-the-premiae instruction, the COLPA conclusion was that "some" programs were "constitutionally foMlhle."

The AJCongress contended that "what Is not constitutional and what the Supreme Court confirmed in the Marburger caae is ttw proviskm of remedtal aU on the premises of non-public schools."

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fremple Plans More 'Experiences' ^ RabU Barry L. Wctanteia f OMAHA - The mettodi o( Vcligiaiis educatioo cootiauc ID cluuige rapidly. Thia each ^ear the approach to Mutation In our Congregation and our Peligious School is revised jind evaluated. i- Our goal is to ke«p pace |rith the latest educational inaterials and techniques.

Unlilce secular education, Jewish education baa a hi^ degree of psychological and Mnotional conponents. The f Ititude with which students tome to religious education bnd the atmosphere and committment of parents are Importsnt in determining any Sccess in Jewish education, e know this and attempt a twofold diraction: ta parents ind lostudcnU. ' Our curriculun is never the lante succeMhw yean. This far our students will have eater opportunities for iDdividualiMd instruction and bnovative learning experiences.

0«r ReUglwis fchsal tokhides stadeirts from Idafcrgarten ihraagb ISUi grade.

Ok Sandayi, Uadergartea Mreagii Grade i ncet. aal aa •stiirdsy Grades < Uirsagk I tMid classes eadlag Jast befsre Shabbal Servteet. : Our Confirmation Class, for pOth graders, meets during Ihe week with Rabbi Brooks. y Ow instructional program Iocs not end, with Con-

firmatioB. Our " oaaiof ~ Seminar for nth and ttth grades meets regularly with our Rabbis, and provides an opportunity for our Post Confirmation student* tnfsnnally to study and diacuas together Jewlah topics of interest to Ihem.

In addition, Post ConTirmation students serve as assistant teachers in our Sunday division. In this way they lend impcMrtant help to our classroom teachers, continue theh own learning and begin their-training as future religious school teachers. II is noteworthy that a larg^ portion of our faculty consisis of graduates of our School snd fomier auistant teachers.

Our ReHgkMs Scbasl also iachidef a complete prsgram of Hebrew studies. StadeaU begin Hebrew In Grade 4. aad csatiaac with their stMlies for fsar years', attending midweek classes.

In the Hebrew program, students become proficient in the reading of the prayer book and also sre exposed to a basic classical and modem Hebrew vocabulary. For thoae students who choose to celebrate their Bar-Bat Mltsvab. thorough preparation is provided in our Hebrew D^artment both in daas and through individual inslTTictioa.

Our Sunday division inchidas a JunJor Choir, with

studanU in Gradea S4. Our Junior Oioir learns Jewish music appropriate to aa*^ of our holidays, traditional Jewish medlodies, and contemporary laraeli songs.

In addition, our Junior Choir participates in Religious School worship and Family Sabbath servicea.

The Saturday School program conaisis of a series of mini-courses.

The flexibility of our mini-course approach provides a depiga continually open to change and revision. Contemporary subjects are added as minicourses from time to time to reflect the needs and interests of our students.

Those courses which become outdated can be deleted. Our aim is continually to emphastte Ihe relevancy of Judaism to Ihe contemporary scene.

Last year we introduced experiential programming in our Saturday School to supplement our classroom instruction.

The first program, a Russian Sabbath Experience, enabled students to discover for themselves the difficulties encountered by Jews attempting lo emigrate from Russia.

The program gained aaUaaal recogaMiea for sar school. This year several more similar experiences in varioas areas of Jewish life have beca planaed..

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pnvidaaaur studeols with the opportunity to relive, for themselves, important episodes in Jewish life in the past and today. In this wsy we hope to deepen each s^u'lsat's sense of Jewish idaiillty and reelii«s of |Mrtiei|istipn in the history snd development of our People.^ Several field trips to places of Jewish interest in Omaha have been planned.

Our Sunday session curriculum teaches the fundamentals of Judaism. It includes Bible study, Jewish liturgy, great personalities of the Bible, and Jewish history.

Jewish ethics is also taught in the upper grades, together with a progressive course of Jewish theology. Jewish festivals snd life cycle events are taught at various leveb consistent with each age group.

The most unique and dramatic innovation in our school is our new Individualiied Learning Center. Here studenU of all grades will be able to carry out specisi research projects and engage in lesrning experiences with the latest In audio-visual equipment.

Prepared snd developed by ihideats hi response to their needs, aar Lcsmbig Center wMI sapplement •a-gelag classraon histmctioa.

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In addition, teaching machines designed specifically foe selfinatructioii and review in various subjects are included in Ihe Learning Center.

This Innovation in our school will, we are sure, provide increased notivatioa for our students to learn more about Judaism, helped by the latest leaching techniques.

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ByPhiUySlMMTtti I E4llar.Delr«ilJe«rMiN«n I More thu ever before, mankind u concerned about the fifrttfMiKi danger of war. Iiaiah't version (Chapter XI) of tlte MMtf dwvQing with the lamb, of the calf anid the young lion being [logelhar, of the cow and bear feeding alike, and a little child i leading them, is more remote in this nuclear age.

When the atomic bomb wai stUI unknown, before Hitler gained power, the world's greatest minds were worried about the developing menace of war. ^ Albert Einstein posed the question, "Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?", as realy as ' 1932. He pleaded for an answer and he addressed his consternation to none other than Sigmund Freud, the world's leading physicist poeed his question to the world's outstanding interpreter of the human mind.

That wUck triMbled these twe geataiscs M years sga ^reaulas UM leadlog cballrage In MV day.

Professor Einstein was not concerned with nations alone.

He was worried about the "intelligentsia," more about the intellectual than about the uncultured masses. He asked Prof.

Freud: "Is It passible to control man's mental evolution so as to 'make him proof against the psychoses of hate and desirucitivenese?"

The letter from Prof. EinsteiD waa dated July 30,1833, and : was sent from Caputh near PoUdam. Tlw reply from Prof.

- Freud necessitated a delay of lenral wetfci.

Dated September 1182, Freud's answer, written from Vienna, indicated that the eminent analyst was taken "by surprise" by the query over the relations between Might and Ri^l, and the eminent psychiatrist made It clear that: "It was dumbfounded by the thought vi my (of our, I almost wrote) 'incompetence."

Bat Fre«d was qaick to Mie: "Tke* I reallied that yoa did •at raise the qaesiiee is year capacity af scientist of physics, k«t at i lover of hi* feUow men."

And Frued reminded himself that "I was not being called en to formulate practical proposals, but, rather, to explain bow this question of preventing wars strikes a psychok)gist . .."

While posing a question, Albcft KintUii offared a sohition: "the setting up, by intematiooal eoBMSt, of a legislative and Judicial body to settle every conflict arising between nations As if intuition told him that even a United Nations, which was organiied 13 years after he had formulated his questions to

Siginund Freud, might fall, Einstein added to hia query to Freud: "I come up against a diffkulty; a tribunal is a hinnan Instibtion which, in proportioa as tlte power at its disposal is inadequate to enforce iU verdicts, la all the more prone to suffer these to be deflected by extrajudicial pressure."

That is why Einstein, in posing his questions, commented: "Man has within him s lust for haired and destruction. In normal times his passion exists In a latent state, it emerges only in unusual circumstances: but it is a comparatively easy task to call it into play and raise it to the power of a collective psychosis..."

That is why he declared: "I am IhlaUag by no neaas oaly of tlM se-called uncultured masses. Experience prove* thai i* ii rather the totalled •iBtelllgealsia' that i* rao*l apt to ylcU to Uiese disastrotts saggesUsas."

Sigmund Freud's reply — Justifying the several weeks' delay in answering Einstein's urgent quesUons — was more than three limes the length of Einstein's letter. It was not an optimistic conclusion.

It asserted that "there is no likelihood of our being able to supress humanity's aggressive tendencies." He was unable to accept the contention that "in some happy comers of the earth, where nature brings forth abundantly whatever man desires, there flourish races whose lives go gently by, unknowing of aggression or constraint."

He expressed a desire for more details "about these happy folk" and added: "The Bolihevflis, tee, aspire te do away with human aggressivene** by ensuring the •atiffactlea of material need* and enforcing equality Ixlween man and man. To me this hope seems vala. Meaawhile they perfect lluir armaments, and Ikclr haired of suutden Is aot the least tf,lhe factors at ceheslea ameagst themselves ..

And this was written in 1933!

Taking into account the date of this expressed thought — September 1932 — the realism of the eminent psychiatrist becomes obvious. And his pessimism was embodied in this additional comment in his letter to Einstein: "The ideal conditions would obviously be found in a community where every man subordinated his instinctive life to the dictates of reason. Nothing less than this could bring about so thorough and so durable a union between man, even if this involved the severance ol mutual ties of sentimenl. But surely such a hope is utterly Utopian, as things are."

Freud concurred with Einstein: "There is but one sure way

of ending war and that is the esUblishmenI, by common consent, of a central control which shall have the last word in every conflict of interest ... (But) obviously such notions as Ihssc oan only be significant when they are the expressloa of a deeply rooted sense of unity, shared by all."

Here we have s lense of pessimism. Freed wrote te Elasleb a* a conclndbig comment, aecempaaled by the a**ertioB "(bould thi* expose prove a dUappalatmeat to you my sincere regrcU: "The cultural development of mankind (some, I know, prefer to call it'civilization) has been in progress since immemorial antiquity. To this process we owe all that is best in composition, but also much that makes for human suffering. Its origins and causes are obecure, its Issue is uncertain, but some of its characteristics are easy to perceive...

"On the psychological side two of the most importamt phenomena of culture are, firstly, a strengthening of the intellect, which tends to master our distinctive life, and secondly, an introversion of the aggressive Impulse, whitb all Ita consequent benefits and perils.

Now, war runs most emphatically counter to the psychic disposition imposed on us by the growth of culture; we are therefore bound to resent war, to find it utterly intolerable.

With pacifists like us it Is not merely an Intellectual and affective repulsion, but a constitutional Intolerance, an idiosyncrasy in its moat drastic form.

"Hew lesg have we le wail before the rest of men turn paciflsIT Impassible to ssy, and yet perhaps our hope that these two faclers — naa'i culiaral dispesilloa and well-lesaded dread of the farm that future wars will take — may serve te pat an end to war in the near fnlare, is not chimerical. But by what ways of by-ways this will come akeet, we cannot guess.. .1 Since this exchange of letters — which have historic merit —«ame the most intolerable of all wars. Hitler came and with him the threat to everything Uiat is decent in the world. And now there are new wars, added threats to man's dignity.

How would Einstein and Freud have written and acted in 1932 had they known what was to happen to them — Einstein a refugee in the United States and Freud a refugee in. Great BriUin? With what added despair both might have written only six years after their exchange of two now-famous epistles!

But even now, their questions, their pacifist cravings for an end to wars, continue to haunt the intellect of) man, pleading with him to make an end of strife so that the Prophecy of Isaiah may Indeed become a reality.

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Hour-Long Family Service Among Changes at Beth El OMAHA — Efforts are again being made this year by Beth El Synagogue to bring the family together in worship on the High Holy Days. rnim«gaiili have been notified by the fyitmua't Ritual Committee that a special Rash Hashanah family service and a Yom Kippur memorial service have been scheduled as part of this year's observances.

The schedule changes are experimental, emphasuced Mrs Steven (Margo) tUikes, chairwoman of the committee which spent about rive months studying the synagogue's services.

The family lervice will be held oo the first Day of Roth Hathanali. We4aei4ay, Sept. 17.

The hour-loag service will be conducted tai the SysigogBC taacUury and will foUow the complete tradttioaal service, which has bcea moved up aae hoar to begia at ( a.m.

The memorial larriM will be held outdoors qn the steps of the Syufogue'i main entrance 00 49th Avenue at noon on Yom Kippur Day, lliursday, Sept. 26, weather permitting. It will follow the regular morning service which wrill begin at 9a.m. and which will resume after the

memorial service. The memorial will eapecially honor those Israeli soldiers who fell in the Yom Kippur War of 1*73 and also those victims of terrorist attacks.

Other changes at Beth El inchide a new High Holy Day Prayer Book and the re-instatement of a Junior Congregation aervke during Roah Hashanah, Mrs. Riehw said.

The changes are the results of outgrowth* of what Mrs Riehes termed a "fantastic response" to the Ritual Committee's experiroents last year.

"We tried a family lervlcr last year fee the first Une (U was held dawatUirs hi the Syaagegae flecfail Hall) aad there was a faatoslk respoase fraai the coagregatloa."

•he saM. Prtsr to the family service effort last year, there had beea only Junior CoagregatioB services In the SocUl Hall.

"That was the first year for our committee as it is now structured and we felt that the families should have a chance to worship together.

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Rabbi Kripke: Deeds Testify

By RabM Mycr 8. Kr<pke_ Bc<hEi8yMig«gae,0i One does not vole God into does God cease to exist at a coavanUon of atheUta, or in the halls of the KremUn. What we mean by God either is or is not, by virtue of

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itself, not by any human determination.

Yet, Jews have a chance to vote, to make public declaration, again and again. As Yom Kippur comes to its end and the gathering dusk settles over the city, Jews rise in their place* in God's Hous^ and declare the Shma, and then Adonai Hu HatlloUm: the Lord U God. the Lord indeed is God. But thli b B*( ear My pabUc dcchraliaa.

Oar most real declaraUoa is Ike shsdw* of aar lives, s "fanctloB" (as a mathcBMlieal lerai) of aar actioai and Iboaghts.

"Ye are My Witnesae*," the L«rd hai told us. What we do — in righteousneu — testifies to His Nature. What we do - in unrighteousoes* - testifies to our disbelief and to cynicism, despair, impiety, and denial.

In the New Year, the Holy Days call us to commitment and declaration — in our prayer, yes, but even more in our thoughts and actions. For we are God's witnesses. And we can fill the year with truth and beauty and hope.

May the year be a goodyear, of fulfUiment aad achievement and hopefulneu in our homes, our synagogues, and our community.

^bbiNadoff: Who Reads This?

By RabM Isaac Nadoff Beth Israel Synagogae I have serious reservation* about thi* written religious message.

There is ahrays the question of whether il will be read, and the further question of whether its contents will be taken to heart by Ihoee who will read il.

By its very nature, the written religious message contains liltle that is new or exciting.

Even with the best choice of language and style, il is slill a repetition of old truths Ihal nuiny of our people have long chosen to Ignore.

The High Holiday message is, in essence, no different than the usual Sabbath pulpit message.

I, far eae, would ritber have sur people go to thek' syaagogaet on tke many Sabbaths of the year aad listea to their rabbl'i message. Ikaa to kave Ike* read Ikis message.

The large circulation of the Jewish Press doem't Impna* me aa much as a large eauyagathw present in the synagogue week ^aAar week. I avea dare to hope that If this were Ikacaae, pirlitf* MM raUgiiw* measage heard ki Ike ayBaitms* aright be tafcaa seriously and •ppUed in our daily lives.

If (here is any value al all lo a Ro*h Hashanah metaage, it is lo remind u* thai Judaism is not a matter for occaalonal concern «k>ne. Judaism is not something we resort to •i special times in our lives. ,; II aiki far ow eonatani attention and inyaraut, our undividad loyally, our permanent PaiBjnilment.JiidaiamuMkaUHLwapanniLiU.

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Temple Israel ROSH HASHANAH Moaday. September ir First Service (:30 p.m.

Second Service 8:30 p.m.

Taesday. September IT Morning Service 10 a.m.

Youth Service 3 p.m.

8HABBAT8HUVAH Friday. SeptoaiberM Evening Services 7:30 p.m.

Satarday, September Zl Morning Services 11 a.m.

BATMITZVAH VleU Lynn Novak, daughter of Mr. and Mr*.

Arthur Irving Novak, will celebrate her Bat MiUvah during the Sabbath morning service*.

ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE Saaday, Septembers Temple Israel Cemetery, 2 YOM KIPPUR Wcdaetday. September ft First Service 6:30 p.m.

Second Service S:30 p.m.

Thursday. September 3* Services begin at 10 a.m., continue throughout the day.

Youth Service 1:30 p.m.

Aftemoon Service 3:00 p.m.

CoundBlurffs B'nai Israel ROSH HASHANAH Moaday. September 16 Evening Services I p.m.

Taesday. Septomber 17 Shachris Service S:4S a.m.

Torah Reading 10 t.m.

Sbofar and Sermon 10:30 a.m.

Musaf Services II a.m.

Evening Services 7 p.m.

Waaaasdayf Bspteaihar lg Morning services same schadule as Tuesday.

Saaday, September 22 Kever Ovos Service* at Bikur Cholim Cemetery. II a.m. Public is invited.

Rabbi Nadoff influence lo pervade fa) Ihe marketplace as well as home, vMulay as well as Sabbath.

The message of Jadatom It far toe aeeessary to sar welfare aibamanbciagstobe rckplod to a fargoMea coraer sf our Uvea.

The High Holiday season Is merely the compass Ihst shows Ihe way we must follow Ihe whole year round. II is nol Ihe end, but the beginning, of s year of Jewish living.

If we reduce Ihe High Holidays lo anything leu than this, we will have engaged in an exerciae in religious futllily.

II is in Ihe hands of every individual lo make Ihe coming year a Jewishly meanfaigfiii one.

Then will 11 also become a happy one for u* and for. our Joined «n**.

YOM KlPPin Wedaesdsy, September 25 Kol Nidre 6:45 p.m.

Thursday, September 26 Sachris Service 8:45 a.m.

Torah Reading 10 a.m.

Sermon 11:30 a.m.

Yiakor at 12 noon.

Musaf Servke 12:30 p.m.

Mincha Service 4:30 p.m.

Neilah Servtee 6:30 p.m.

Omaha Beth Israel ROSH HASHANAH Moaday. September 16 Mincha Maariv 7 p.m.

Taesday. Wedaesdsy. ITtktsth 'Introductory Prayers 7 a.m.

Shachris (Morning Service) 7:30 a.m.

Musaf Service 10:15 a.m.

Youth Service* 10:15 a.m.

SUABBOSgUUVA (Sabbath of Rcpealaace) Saturday, September 21 Morning Service 8:45 a.m.

YOM KIPPUR Tuesday, September ZS Kol Nkfre 7 p.m.

Wednesday, September 36 Shachris Service 9 a.m.

Youth Services 10:15 a.m.

Ylzkor Memorial Service 12:40 p.m.

Musaf Service I p.m.

Mincha 4:30 p.m.

Neilah 6:15 p.m.

Due lo daylight tavinga time, the Shofar will be sounded and the Yom Kippur fast wiU end at 7:45 p.m.

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B'nalJoshurun ROSH HASHANAH Maaday. September 16 Evening Service, 6 p.m.

Taesday. September IT Morning Service, 10 a.m.

ChUdren's Servke 2 p.m.

CMMren of Israel ROSH HASHANAH Monday, September 16 Evening Services 6:30 p.m.

Taesdsy, September IT Morning Services 8 a.m.

Wednesday. September IS Morning Service 8 a.m.

YOM KIPPUR Wednesday. September 25 Kol Nidre, 6:30 p.m.

Tharsday, September 26 Morning Service 8 a.m.

Ylzkor Service II a.m.

Aftemoon Service 2:30p.m.

DesMolnea Tlfferoth Israel ROSH HASHANAH Monday. September 16 Evening Service, 8 p.m.

Taesdsy, September IT Moming Service 8:30 a.m.

Evening Service 6:30 p.m.

Wedaesday, September IB Morning Service, 8:30 a.m.

Friday, September 26 Evening Service, 6 p.m. • YOM KIPPUR Wedaesdsy, September 25 Kol Nidre 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

Tharsday, September 26 Morning Service, 9 a.m.

Friday, September 21 Evening Service, 6 p.m.

Friday, September 2fl Evening Service, • pjn.

YOM KIPPUR Wednesday. September 2$ Evening Service, 6 p.m.

Tharsday. September 26 Morning Service, 10 a.m.

Children's Service, 2 p.m.

Aftemoon Service, 3 p.m.

Memorial and Concluding Service, 4:30 p.m.

Omaha ROSH HASHANAH Moaday. September 16 Evening Service* 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday, September IT Morning Service* 8 a.m.

Family Service 11:45 a.m.

Mincha-Maariv Service 7:15 p.m.

Wedaesday, September IS Morning Service 9 a.m.

School Service 11 ajn.

Mincha-Maariv 7:15 p.m.

YOM KIPPUR Wedaesday, September 25 Kol Nidre 7:10 p.m.

1%Brsday, September 26 Morning Service 9 a.m.

School Service II a.m.

Ylzkor and Service of Caiie*mi2p.m. (noon).

Mkxha-NeUah Maariv 5:15 pjn.

Shofar 7:S p.ra.

MEN'S CLUB Beth El Men's dub will meet Sunday, September 15 in Room 9 of the Jewish Community Center from 10a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Coffee and rolls will be aerved.

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B'mriJeshurun ROSH HASHANAH Moaday. September 16 First Service 7 p.m.

Second Service 9 p.m.

Taetday, September IT Moming Service 10 a.m.

Children'a Service 2 p.m.

YOM KIPPUR Wedaesday, September n First Service 7 p.m.'

Second Service 9 p.m.

Thurtday, September 26 Moming Service 10 a.m.

Memorial Service 4:30 p.m.

Neilah Service 5 p.m.

Dee Molnee Belh B Jacob ROSH HASHANAH Moaday, September il Evening Service 7:15 p.m.

Tuesday, September IT Moming Service 7:30 a.m.

Evening Service 7 p.m.

Wedaesday. September 18 Morning Service 7:30 a.i Evening Service 7 p.m.

Friday. Septembers* Evening ServIcA 8:15 p.in.| Salarday. September 21 MonUng Service f a.m.

YOM KIPPUR Wednesday, September 3l| Kol Nidre 6:45 p,m.

Tbartday, SeptemberM Moming Service 8:30 a.mj Ylzkor 11:30 a.m.

Muaaf 12:30 p.m.

Mincha 5:30 p.m.

Neilah 6:30 p.ra

Sepfmbw 13,1974

IThe Tenth Man Can Be Ms. ; OMAHA - E«rly morning |!Snllij>peri al Beth El gue Ihese dayi are no lurpritcd when the •ehiil wrvicc begins on time wilh a minyan of nine men and one man.

A year ago Ihal would have in imlbinkable.

A Minyan was always 10 len over bar mldvah age — the full number did not turn in lime, the service was lyed unlll the tenth man even if 30 women

nounced a far-rpschiag change 1» Jewlsli rellglegs practice — namely, that the Aiiembly'i Committee on Jewish l.aw and Standards bad voted to approve a propoial which wonM count men and women eqaally as memberi of a mbiyan.

Early this year, Ihe Board of Beth El Synagogue ratified this resolution and so the tradition of sex discrimination was broken.

Women now not only are counted l« make up a minyan but can be and are called up According to the for Allyab to the Torah.

While some women members of Beth EI feel uncomfortable with their new acceptance in that il might Impose an extra duty upon them, moal women of the

By Dr. Praderkk LachmH congregation have greeted Executive Editor, Encyclopaedia Jndaica the innovation enQ. What is the "Boolt of life," opened on Roah thusiastically.

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Mrs. Sheldon Lincoln, viceA. Why, on the first night of Roey Haahanah (which president of the Beth El year occun on September 16) is it customary to Board, says that moat women ireet one's friend with: "May you be inscribed for a are happy about gaining iood year"? "equal righU". "Those who r llie wish "May you be inscribed" refers to the have sufficient religious fBock of Life" which, according to the Tabnud, is education have reaponded lopened on Rosh Hashanah. The "Boole of Life" is sup- eagerly to beirtg called to the posed to be a heavenly boolt in which the names of Torah. This is something that can only be regarded as righteous are inscribed, the Encyclopaedia Judaica favorable," she said. ;tays.

Mrs. Norman Pred, imThe expression "Book of Life" appears only once in mediale past president of |the Bible, in Psalms 60:29 (28): "Let them be blotted out Beth El Sislerhood, is equally pt the bock of tbe'living; let them not be enrolled among excited about the new status Iherighteous," but a dose parallel is found in Isaiah 4:3 of women.

"After' alt," she says, Which speaks of a list of those "written" (meaning "when a girl has Irained for "destined") for life in Jerusalem.

The erasure of a sinner's name from snch a regisler and has celebrated her Bal Mitzvah, she should certainly Is equivalent t« death. be able lo parlicipate in Ihe For example, when Moses pleads: "Yet now, if Thou services on as equal a basis as wilt forgive their sin; and If not. Mot me, I pray Thee, a man. Mrs. Pred also added «it of Thy book whidi IIHNI has written. And the Lord that "Women's equality can laid to Moees: Whosoever hath sinned against Me, him I only strengthen the Will blot out of My book.' (Exodus 3^:3^33) meaningfulness of family There are several references to heavenly ledgers in observance.

And what do the men of the Talmud. In the Mlshnah (Avot 3:17) Rabbi AUva q>eaks of the heavenly ledger; the Talmud also states: Belh El think? Well, as one "Three books are opened in heaven on Rosh oMer man said lo another, Bashanah, one for the thoroughly wicked, one for the after an attractive female member of Ihe congregation ittioroughly righteous, and one for th^ intermediate. The left Ihe pulpit, "She sure iookaihorougMy righteous are forthwith inscribed in the Book a lot better up there than we pt Life, and thoro(«hly wicked in the Book of Death, do!"

Encyclopaedia Judaica, --Minyan" (from the Hebrew word meaning "number") conatitutes a quorum of 10 male adults over the age of 13, this quorum being necasaary (or a public synagogue service and some other religious gatherings. The Talmud derives this number from the term "edah" (community) which in the scriptures is applied to the 10 spliet (Num. 14:27). la September Ifll. The Rabblalcal Assembly, the bilemallonal orRaaiutloii of Conservallvc rabbis, an-

Rabbi Brooks: Greater Imperative

By Rabbi Sidney H. Brooks Temple Israel, Omaha There is Ihe traditional mixture of the festive and the awesome in our High Holidays always. Every year is lime for gratitude for life and the responsibility to review our past in anticipation of an uncertain future.

This year is a new beginning In so many

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while the fate of the intermediate is suspended until the Day of Atonement. If they deserve well, they are inscribed in the Book of Life, if they do not deserve well, |hey are inscribed in the Book of Death."

According to the Encyclopaedia Judaica, the basic Idea ofaBookofUfedidnot start with Judaism: but can be traced to Mesopotamia, where gods were believed to possess tablets recording the deeds and destiny of man.

The idea of a Book of Life also finds expression in ittie liturgy and piyyutim (lyrical compositions intended lo embellish an obligatory prayer or any other religious leramony) of the High Holidays. The "Amidah" or Fshemoney Esreh" is one notable example as is the 'Sieving prayer "U-Netanneh Tokef."

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We may well be entering a new era that shall, far later than our limes, be defined by Ihe historians as a new opportunity to assert the best Ihat lies within man's capacities for. decency and honor.

All of which places no new obligation upon us because we have always been expected by our Failh not lo be perfect, bul lo be our own best.

Neverthalest, this year the Imperative Is greatet^. We bavejar larger obligations to our People here and In Israel and wherever they may live.

We have an inescapable obllgathto ^ reassert the demand that our society be governed with integrity.

We are thrust into prominence on the stage of history as if each one of us were, the only aclor in Ihe drama. Whal each of us does, what each of us is, whal each believes and then acts out In personal relationships will have far greater effect upon Ihe year Ihal lies before us I ban ever before.

The guidelines are Ihe teachings of the Eternal Failh of Ihe Eternal People.

We all wish this Year to be a good one, a creative one, a humane and serene one. We need 11 so. We pray it be so. May each of us live lo make il so.

Rabbi Eisenstein: Let Us Remember

By Rabbi Abraham RIsrnsleIn B'nal Jacob Adas Yeihuron, Omaha The first of Ihe high holidays has several names: Rosh Hashanah — The Beginning of the Year; Yom Hadln — The Day of

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Judgment; Yom Teruah — The Day of Shofar Blowing; and Yom Hazikaron — The Day of Remembrance.

Each of Ihe names has an imporTanI message for us, but we will now dwell on only one of them: The Day of Remembrance.

Let us remember the solemnity and holiness that prevailed on Rosh Hashanah In the Synagogues and evea bi Uie homes of our faUiers.

Lei us remember ihe high spirits Ihal filled Ihehearlsof our parents during the worship. II was not necessary lo make good resolutions.

They came by themselves.

Lei us have Ihe same spirit. It will be lo us an inspiration lasting throughout the year.

I lake Ihis opporlunily lo convey my besl wishes for a Happy New Year lo the members and worshippers (f B'nal Jacob Adas Veshuron" Synagogue and lo Ihe entire Jewish community.

Mr. Sacks: Spirit Isn 't Diministied EDITOR'S NOTE: Because of a decreasbig Jewish community in Council Hluffi. B'nal Israel Synagogue has not been able to sustain a regular Rabbi in recent years. However, says Sam Collck. congregational secretary, a Rabbi is brought In for Uie High Holy Days. He is assisted by Sam Sacks, the congregation's lay leader.

By Sam Sacks With the coming of the High Holy Days, we

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ajman: Jewish Music Composition Is What's Importai Nai h By Castor Chain Najman |_ As one listena to the many pfferent tuna* of the Hi^ Holy Dayi, one easily mar[*els at the prolific outpouring [of liturgical and musical •creativity which the Holy Day .thennes inspired. \ The divergent character of" ifliese tunes is also quite miinssive — as though each 'melody were meant to mpresent a different community of the diaspora, or [another period in Jewish 'ystory. ,• I A signiTicant number of j the more authentic melodies »'which are heard at these services, date back as far as ;,M0 years. These pristine ichants ahrays seem to sur^pass the recent and more [vdabotate IWh century tet;tiags in their sheer beauty ' and simplicity.

Take the responses within 'the Neilah service, for example, and the Reader's ^ EaMist which precedes il; or ^llie recognizable Ha-Meleidi ''which provides a fanfare ; introduction to the Shaharit |«ervice: or the Alcna of iMasaf and the recounting of Ittt Avadak on Yom Kippur. *• These arc bat a few ol the ^laaes which caaiprise a vail ^Mat •( recagaiiable -nxed melodies" which were ' carefaily preserved over <iK

cealartes in vlrtaa'lly all Aihkeaaii comainaltiea.

Thcic tanri are easily idntified with specific texts asd occasions, so that their mere meation conjures np a partlcalar mood.

The High Holy Day ^services offer an unusual opportunity to worahippers who wish lo broaden their scope of Jewish music and surround thonselves with the sense of Jewish History which is found in the Holy Day Mahlor.

Throughout Jewish Usiory, liturgical paasafes were set to music in the style of a particular period and indigenous to a particular country. Thus we find isth century settings of Rossi in Mantua, 19th century settings of Sulzer and LewandowsU in Germany, or of Duna)evsky in Odessa, very clearly reflecting the music of their day.

Many of these setting such as "Ki MItziyon", "Shma", "En Kelohenu", have become permanent parts of the synagogue repertoire (in the most traditional of synagogues) and are regarded by many to be authentic and certainly traditional. Truthfully — practically all of synagogue music was "conceived of foreign soil", so to speak. .

stagnation that can result from loo much unlfqrmitjf within a synagogue.

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Cantor Nttfman la ladghig the Jewishaess of these settings, oae aaasl evalaate the Jewish tm^ttiemt af the composUlon rallMr Ihaa the overall style or character of the piece.

Does the music cootatai an Hcbrak maiif—a Uat (no mailer how subtle) ol "Nasah" perhaps, or caaUaalloa* Is there a "modal" saaad to the tune, Is there a remhiisceace of one of many so-called "fixed" Jewish tuaes which characterise Jewish litargy* The outer dress of the composition — namely, the metre and harmonizatioa — although important are really incidental to the esaential quality of Uie composition.

Harmonic trends and rhythmic patterns change as do modes of dress and ought not be raised as sole criteria of what is acceptable hi Jewish music.

In the interest of broadening the musical horizons of Its worshippers^ Beth El will again this year offer special programs and

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innovative services, among them an evening devoted to the music of Salamone Rossi and a series of programs on "Music from the Bible".

Special opportanHlet will be given to yonager worshippers to participale la the creative process of new services, hi the belief that creativity b la MseK a learning experience which also generates interest tai. Jewish caMare and helps develop ideatky.

Musical variety witUn synagogue services Is essential to creativity, and need not necessarily detract from the desirable standardizatloa of the servite (any more than, let us say, different sermons).

Congregants ;••> hod should lesra new tunes. The mark of sophistication among congregants is an acquaintance with more than one or two versions of a particular prayer. The anecdote of the worshipper who, when visiting a different synagogue for the first time, exclaimed in anger, "Why, they're singing the wrong tunes!" — best illustrates the cultural

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Capt. Freedman Seeks to Unite Off utt and Omaha Jew f OFFUTT AIB BASE |-C^. Mvfhall Fyeednnn tg t the Jewish lay leader who i would like to become an ofl ficial Air Force chaplain. i But he doesn't see the I government being willing to i send him to the three years of : schooling he'd need, partly ^ because he has already had r eight years in the aervice.

1^ And 10 he's contenting I himself with providing a worship program and general [ leadership (or the apf proximately BO Jewish ' families plus Jewish single men and women on the base.

"I see a need to have i Jewish chaplains stay in the r-'Service," says Freedman, i who has hdd lay leadership positions in Texas and Japan.

He adds, "1 (eel I would be paying a debt to Judaism and to my fellow Jews."

Frcedmaa. who hails frea BafTal*. N.Y., and Is •• the siaff of teachers thb year at the newly formed Omaha High 8cho«l of Jewish Stndief hcM at Beth El SynagogBc. has impretsive credeBtials.

He took Hebrew in high school in Buffalo, completing four years of studies in two years. He and an Israeli both opted for the senior class Hebrew examination and both passed with grades in the high M's. Freedman earned' the Golden Ayin Award (or excellence in Hebrew upon his graduation.

He was o((ered a Ml tuition four-year scholarship to study Judaica at Columbia University in New York, but he had to turn it down because dormitory fees were too high (or him.

Instead, Freedman stayed •in Buf(alo, going on to study history at Buffalo University, and also studying 24 of the . three years offered by the 'Hebrew College in Buffalo.

In addition, he taught Hebrew, became involved in Hillel activities and served as 'editor of the Hebrew . uem$f^lu in high school and ineollefe.

His studies were interrupted by his call-up active duty during the Vietnam War. He was an Air Force ROTC graduate at the time and the government pulled him from school and sent him to Sbepard Air Force Base in WichiU Falls, Tex. "They had a Jewish lay leader there at the ttme. ' Being shigle aad aecdiag lomethig, I wtat I* senrkes and became active. I became (he chairman of the Jewish Chapiaia Fsatf." said , Freedaaa.

services every weak, either.' " Freedman flgorad there were synagogues and a temple available in Omaha, so be sought to schedule a service on the third Friday of every month at an early enough hour <7 p.m.) to allow most of Ms people to Join Omaha aacviees aftoward, if they so deaired.

He gat the womca le handle tfcf Oaag ahabbat. and added sigBifleaaccla theh' hrhighig CMUes aad other Heas by .havh« ihem tie the'shabkat In with thek- weddhig aanlversaries or Mrtbdays, etc.

"I did not expect to perform

any miraclea. when I took it (the lay leader positon) and I told the wives and their husbands this. But I have to brag because I increased service attendance from about three on Friday nights to from 16 to 3S people."

The captain says he doesn't feel "we should exist out here in the dark. We are a product of the Omaha Jewish community ^vA as-far as I'm concerned, not only does Omaha owe us but we owe Omaha — I'm not saying we have to dig down in our packets and give. But they owe us the right to let us

particiate with them in Jewish community affaira .i Omaha and we should avail ourselves of the portunities lying at our feetl Freedman says he doesn| feel that his Jewish ca munity should conduct vices in conflict with those I Omaha. And he has (ound t Omaha's synagogues — ai its Jewish residents— hav been very warm and friend to base personnel.

"To me, 1 am helpili cement a better relation with the Jews of this area, don't want any of our peol|i to leave Offutt with a taste in their mouths."

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Capt Marshall Freedman WicWU Falls had About MO Jewish families plus many young Jewish trainees. The only synagogue in Wichita Falls didn't have a rabbi but the Air Force contingency did, so city residents joined service men and their families for services.

to improve the situation for Offutt's Jewish populace.

For oae thfaig,hr oMahied •se of the main base chapel — the Jewish community had been using tlie annex, wMh Its folding ehaks that had to be set ap and taken down each week.

He and hit wife also got Freedman got married and he and bis wife Roberta were together with the sertransferred soon after to vicemen's wives ("because Misawa, Japan. Ffeedman's they control their husbamti") Hebrew proficiency soon had and asked them how many him teaching that base's services, they wanted per ''" found they wanted youngsters and tie was later mo endorsed as lay leader by the a chiiui>.n's service Oil the firtt Friday of every month.

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During the three years he He pUnned a service, then spent at Misawa, there were got everyone on the telphone three community Seders, plu.^ calling everybody else to tell Chanukah parties and regular them about it, and the aervice Hebrew school. He also was a big succaas. particpated in a special JWB But Freedman, who had training course. vowed he was "not going to The Freedmans, who now force Jewlshness on numt>ered three with the anybody," was dissatisfied."! arrival of daughter Mk:helle, thought to myself, 'I can't were trans(erred to Offutt Air stand this once-a-month deal, Base in August, l«73. Son but I'm not going to run Barry was bom there six montlis ago.

Capt. Freedmaa, wb« works hi iatefligeaee, became lay leader at Offutt in January, 1174, and promtly set about doing what he could

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An outside service "was done once before as I Because the sanctuary isn't big oMilgh to handle tHe entire 77&-family congregation, no a protest against the treatment of Soviet Jews 1 iamity services had l)een attempted there on and it was well-accepted. This one will require 1 .extra work on Rabbi Kripke's part, but I lie High Holy Days in the past nine years.

The purpose of the family service, Mrs. thought it would add an extra dimension to the ] ^ Riekes said, is "to give the (smity a real day's worship."

At S p.m., the IMincha service will be held — j feelhig of the holldsy. With th« choir and the canter and thr rabbi there, it should help to get but this time as a family service, with children] the whole (rellng of the boMay ipbit. It Jest in the USI and USJ synagogue youth groups] doesn't come across dowastab's — it's still a - actively participating. The Ritual Committeel hopes to draw more people to this, eveningj social hall.

"And too, «^ really felt that it is important service, Mrs. Riekes said.

The new High Holiday Prayer Book features] (or children that their wonhlp be led by a more easily undersfbod liturgical translation rabbi."

The Ritual Committee has written —the old English speaking style that uses such] congregants advising them of the changes and words as "thou" and "thine" has beeni replaced by more contemporary language. asking their cooperation.

Those attending the traditional service Roih "It adds the thoughts and feelings of Hashanah morning are asked to leave u modem' era to those of our aAcettors," the quicldy as poesible in order to clear the sanccommittee said in Its letter. "And It arrang tuary. . the service to allow for a more flexible an Families attending the special service at meaaiagfiil presentation." tl:45 a.m. are urged not to come until apAnother (ealure o( (he book compiled by I proximately 11:30 a.m. so as to avoid traffic United Synagogue Association is that It crffa Jams in the parking lots and also to facilitate more transliteration — the spelling out seating.

English of Hebraic words.

The service is (or (amilies with children "There are also excellent historical from kindergarten age up. with pre-school planations of the prayers — you can get a r« youngsters to be placed with sitters provided history lesson out of the book this year," i by the Synagogue.'

There will be only one • a.m. service ee the Mrs. Rieket. second day of Rosh Hashanah, and children of The is-member Ritual Coihmitt Bar and Bat MItivah age and older are enrepresents different ages groups and rctigio views within the congregation. It has coqS coaraged to attend. A Junior Congregation service wiH be held in the Social Hall at II a.m. suited with Beth El teenagers and has mg| (or younger children, with sitter service again once or twice a month during the last (our gr being provided for pre-schoolers. five months this year, with Rabbi Kripke add The traditional Kol Nidre service will be Cantor Chaim Najman serving as advison. offered Erev Yom Kippur (Wednesday night) In its study, it has heard from variout and the regular morning service will begin 9 authorities, including Dr. Sol Wachs af a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26. There will also be , Brandeis University, Mrs. Riekes said.

An decisions have been made with tiMl the Junior Congregation service at II a.m., with Rabbi Myer Kripke leading both groups concurrence of the Beth El staff and major changes were approved by the Synagogue outside at noon for the special memorial board, she said. service — thus bringing families together for

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Saving Moscow's Synagogue ByBariigaaUr (Editor-in-Chief EmeritiH, J.T.A.) tCa^yixrialit t*;4. J«wM> TttabraphicAgtncv, Inc.) Jewish toumu from UK i Ainericai — and those from [ other countries as well—when i: they visit Moscow now, make Ht a point to see the Great rthoral Synagogue there, the hast citadel of Jewish f-traditionalisiii in tlie Soviet eapiUI. Whether or not they are r religious. the Moscow synagogue is for these Jews ' the only attractive Jewish , address in the Soviet Unioa.

But none of these foreign IJews knows that this imposing synagogne, situated only a few minutes walk from ''the Kremlin, very nearly became a Worhers' Club in 1921 as a result of demands that were made by Moscow Jewish Communists. The danger was averted only after; I succeeded in persuading Soviet Vk:e-Pre8ident Piotr .Smidovich and Commissar of ; Culture Anatole Uinacharsky ;'to take an interest in th<; ma tier.

I Vice Presideat Smidovich twas an exceptionally won'derful person. One of the bolder intellectual Communists, he was a very goodnatured individual arid very sensitive to Jewish feelings.

!• sMltlsa to bekig VieePresideat sf the USSR, be was also Conmissar for Rrllglsi Affairs as well as CkairHan •( the Soviet GovemmeBlkl Comaitlec COMZET. which was jcsiiceracd with belpiag declassed Jews settle aa Ike toad as faracrs.

Actually, my friendship with him had its origin in the contact which 1. as correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Moscow, devekiped with him as a eoaaequenee of Ibeae two of hia various positions.

Of Commissar Uinacharsky it is enough to recall that although Hebrew was almost entirely forbidden in the Soviet Union as a result of the influence of the "Yevsekzia"—the Jewish Section of the Communist Party—Uinacharsky nevertheless, in 1918, one year after the Communist Revolution, helped organixe the Hebrew language theater troupe, Hablmah.

Born in Moscow, Hablmah, with some of its original members—among them the famous actress Chana Rovina—is now the State Theater of Israel.

Hebrew wsaU kavc reauiaed a livkig laagaage ia the Sevirt Uaiaa.

But Lunacharsky arat under a considerable aBHHMt of pressure from leaders of the Yevsehzia, who regarded Hebrew as an expression of Zionism, which they strongly opposed. Nevertheless, he kept one eye closed to the fact that even as much as Hen years after the revolution, Hebrew religious books were being printed in various cities of the Soviet Union such as Berdichev. Zhitomir, Minsk, Siulskand Bobroiak.

How did I come to be drawn into efforts to help averi the implementation of the decision to transform the Moscow Synagogue—one of the very largeat in all of the Soviet Union—into a Wotigers' Oub? In ins, when (his was about

to happen, the Moscow Jewish community still ooaated many thousands of IraStiomlist Jews who were members of synagogues.

Many of them were not exactly Orthodox, but in the Soviet Union all the synagogues are still Orthodox—Just aa they were In the Czarist timea. Russian Jewry has no knowledge of Reform Judaism or of Conservative synagogues. If anyone is member of any synagogue, he can only follow services conducted in the Orthodox trsditloa.

The traditional elements of the Jewish community Moscow—not only the very ry religious, but also those who KM had little contact with the synagogue except on holidays—expressed great indignation when it became (eonUnued on M)

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Rosh Hashanah in Omaha, 1967:

20 'Brothers' Attend Service at Rosenthal's House lint wMrted Jewish Mrvkw in rnn iimbunced In an OauAa on September 21, iaS7: itet' New Years' Day comes on SeptMnber 30th (tomorrow.) There prayer by Mr. Rosenthal at his house, Eat 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. All brothers are ear|B8sUy solicited to take part in this Iwrtival, Mod help the organization of a synagogue in k)maha." ^ There were 20 Jews present at these ser'Vioes and at the Yom Kippur ohservsnce the ^gilowing week. Prayers were read both in alshrew snd in German. The newspaper ^•dltor wished the Jews "• successful combletkw oi their project to estabUsh a Mmagogue in Omaha." ; A year later, in ISfll, the following notice ;could be found in the daily press: "Khela B'ni Israel: — To the IsraelUes of Council ; Bluffs and others: We art piaaiad to inform iyou that we have formed a Hebrew ; congregation called B'ni Israel, and extend to you our cordial Invitation to attend our ' Divine Services on Rosh Hashona and Yom tKippur at Masonic Hall, Pioneo- Block."

The aolice was slgB«d by Isasc M. Fraak, .president ef Ike coogreptloa. and Samael M. Levy, secretary.

During these early yesrs so^rices were held only on tiie High Holidays and until ICri the congregation remained rather k>oseiy structured. In August, im, a group of 11 'men met to reorganize the tiny Omaha Jewish community for the conduct of ^feligious services for thst year.

Frank remained preskient and senrlees -were again heki at Masonic Hall. Max :Abrahams, who had come to Omaha with Us ;fsther shortly after the Qvil War, served as Iwader for the services.

Reform , In ia7l, Omaha Jews formally organlMd

bath a religleus confregatioa and a burial loeiety. Ah itein in the AMERICAN ISRAELITE in February, 1S71, reads: "Israelites of thU city held a maating on the Btb ult. (or the purpose of orgaBisiai a CongKgatkM. The nestioi proved s soeeeas in every respect; there are already 'Ihhtjr' names enrolled, with the prospects of obtainii^ several more yet. The Coogregatioo

An 'In Retrospect' Special: Onraha Synagogue History

By Carol Gendler ada|)ted the name The Coogregatkm of Israel' and will be conducted on the reform plan. A subscriptkm list wss opened at once, for the purpose of receiving voluntary donations, to be enabled to buy the necessary ground, and erect a house of worship thereon during this year. The memb«-s present signed very libersUy and we are in hopes that our coretigk>nists in the Eastern cities will also assist us in our endeavors to carry out our religious enterprise."

Plans moved ahead and by March, $1,000 had been pledged toward the building fund Although the congregation had decided to warship according to the principles of Reform Judaism advocated by Rabbi Isaac M. Wise, the diversity of religious practke among the members precluded litersl spptkrstion of Reform customs.

The B'nai Israel Burial Society was orgsnized the ssme yesr by a group of men almost identical to that whkh had organized the Congregation of Israel.

U Jaly, int. the B'sal Israel Bwial Ssctety parckascd preperty at ttad and Redlcfc Streeta far tW aad Ihaa estatHBked Pleasaat HiU. the first Jewish ce«ctei7 la

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Nebraska. Befsrc loag tke mataleaaBce sf twe lepsrste orpnlnQaBs became bardeassjae sad the ctsaslsry wss deeded to the CaagregstkNi of lirsel.

For a short time the congregation waa served by Reverend Alexander Roaenspits, who came to Omaha from Jefferson, Tex. On September 16, 1171, at ceremonies during Rosh Hashanah aervie«, s«vea young people rvceivsd oartifleales of oonflrmatkin signed

by Ravarend RosenspUx. TMs was the Brst indk»tion of any religious instruction tor the Jewish youth of Omahs. , — The following year the four young ladies who had been confirmed organized a Hebrew Sunday school. Although it was short-lived. It was the first of Its kind known to exist in Nebrasks. There were but four pupils, and it would be several years before Jewish education could be provided (or Omaha children on a continuing basis.

Having conducted an apparently successful fund-raising esmpaign, the Oongrsgation of Israel in 1873 purchased a krt on Cau. between 16th and 17lh StreeU, for 11,000. This property was never utilised, however, and two years Uter was sold.

Far the sexl seversl years, the Ceagregatisa •( Israel held Wgk HeUdsy services ia vsrtoas public halls. Thsagh meetings were held to discuss the parckase of anotker plecf «(property and the boiidiag sf a syaagsgae. ao resaKs were evident Tlases were kard la Omaka hi Ike ins's aad appareatly laada were simply aot avaHable.

Although the congregation leaned toward Reform Judaism. Its membership comprlasd many (actions until the arrival of numbers of East European Jews snd the organizatfam of Orthodox services. The Congr^tion of Israel did not ofriclally affilUte with the Reform movement until 1889 and, at least until then, effort waa made to accomodate all of those who attended the services.

Dissent was ineWtabte and incidents occurred — some of them quite ugly — which attracted the attention of the local press. On one such occasion, s reporter prefaced his account with the following comment: "The klea, however, that the disputes and bicfceringi of some of the more ignorant and unpleasant members of the congregation need reflect upon the many intelligent men of education and high social position of the same synagogue Is wholly without reason, and the reader will readily comprehend that the difficulty occurred among the lower cabs of society and is probsbiy more personal than religious In its origin."

In 1R7I, the congregation sought lis first permanent rabbi and Reverend David Stem, formerly of Virginia. was selected. Stem was said to be a nun of "consMerable.educatkm and liberal views," a situation which did not much appeal to the more tradttional-mlndad mcmhers of the congregatlm. nMSgh Men remalaed la Osssks eaiy s few BMalhs, regslar FrMay evealag aad Satarday naralag services were hMagaraled durlag kis Uaare aad the anaday Ickeal was streagtkeaed.

In 1(7* the coogrcgatian p«rchased land at Z3rd and Harney. Until a temple was built in im, weekly and holiday services continued to be held in a variety of public halls and in the Unitarian Church.

The next spiritual leader of the coogregatioo was the Reverend H. Saft, but Ms tenure kio proved brief as he was more Iraditiaaal ttiaa many members of the eongregatkm.

JBy June of IM construcUon of the first synagopie buiUing ia Nebraska had begun.

The simple structure was of Moorish areUledure, brick and frame, with three pairs of stained glaas windows en each side snd a seating eapsdty of 100. At hU Ume the congregation had s membership of dS families with <0 ehikksn enrolled in the Sunday school.

Dedieatiea esTMBNlM ware prasidsd over

by Revennd BonmspHi and by the newly engaged rabbi, Georfs E. Harflekl. The maonsr of worship hi Ihe naw temple was

deeidtdly Reform. Man and women Idgaaet', an organ was used, and worshipped with bare heads.

Wttkhi s year the roagregatloa (• Revaread Harfleld's servkes uBsaUsfacl aad ke was dismtosed. RabM N. I. BCMS was eagaged In the fall of IMS. Bcasea's (o«r-yesr leaare, tke La Sewbig Societr was ergsaiicd Ike Jewish wonMB's grsap ki Omaka.

The Congregatkw of Israel ofricially a(l filiated with the Union of American Heb Coiwregations in lliao. A new conatitutio indicated that worship would be sccording I Ml^lHAG AMERICA, the prsyer compiled by Rabbi Wise.

Rabbi William Roaensu, the Dnt p«duak of Hebrew Union College to aer Cogregation of Israel, succeeded Rab Benson in September, 18N. Shortly befo Rosenau took offlca, 46 members of the] congregation petitioned the board ot directors, requesting that the new rab wear a skull cap and tallit while conducti servkies.

The congregation gave approval, but was subsequently decided thst sine Rosenau had been engaged under no conditions, he should be permitted to conduct ] Ihe servkres in occordance with his own I beliefs and practiess until a "full expresskm j by all the Members should be beard.'

It soon becsme apparedl that wearingl traditional Judaic garments was not in ae>| cordance with Rosenau's beliefs and thej matter was dropped. This represented s I sttempt on the part of Uioae temple memb who preferred a more traditional practice < Judaism to impose their views.

RabM Roscsas renshiH hi Omaka im whea kc ws sacteeded by Zt^ear-4 RabM Lee FraakUa. Uader RabM Fraa tke ceagregatiea begsa ase ef Ihe Ua Prayer Bosk.

Rabbi Abrsm Simon came to congregation In im and served until appointment in l«M of Rabbi Cohn. Rabbi Cohn served the congregaU for over 10 years and in IM a new I known as Temple Israel, was dedicated Park Avenue and Jackson Sbeets.

TMs building was sold in 1963 to St. John'i Greek Orthodox Church snd a new Temp Israel wu dedicated at 70tli and Can. The congregation has since been served 1 Rabbis David Wke, Arthur J. LeIyveU. I H. SUbemun, and, since IMS, RabM I H. Brooks.

Orthodox The worship of East European immigrants, who began to come to Omaha considerable numbera hi \Ut, diff< markedly from that of Reform Jews.

Orthodox servkes, held twk:e dally, highly Informal snd required opiy a min; of 10 adult males. The presence of a ral was not essential; services were often heM M private homes and, as the number of participants incressed, in rented halls and stora* fronts.

The Orthodox congregation provided not only for the religious needs of Its memi but also for their social needa and physi well-being. Thus the Orthodox roinyan began as a aociety which granted and death benefits.

The Orthodox congregatioM bi in other communities, were organlaad cording to the country of origin of the migrant. The form and manner of and the pronunciation of both YiddUh Hebrew dUfsrad tai Europe from country' country — sonHttmes even (mm towa to town.

IVse aatlaaally-erleated services wsi% la effect, trsBsplsated ts America, tfiiM establlsklag hi mesi Aaierlcsa-Jesrlsk csmpaaltles s variety of OrlkedOT •kiyaalsi based aa Ike kaekgreaad si tm sitta faamlgraats.

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Omaha Synagogues: Different National/ties^ Different Stiuls I (Continued from Page SO) fc•AHl man than one national gnu|rtiic tmmi wltWa the atructure of a reliciMU ^^•iPM of ttai* dtuatioa, thare were I^JKdaui (UfTiculties involved in trying to Cbafy all o( the immigranti. Little coheiion itied either within or among the varioui Orthodox coagrvgatiaw, and Ifacre were •uny •piioter groupa. la a few individuab ^iltaikl become diMtiiBed with the Mrvicea of Hw eeogregation and would join another, or Wt off and form itili another Orthodox frayer meeting. Raorganiution wai the rule father than the excepdon. . Pit early a> 1817 there were at least four traditional Jewish congregations in Omaha.

The first recorded Orthodox services in Omaha took place in 1880 and gained yiMicity because some of the participants Wigsged in a dispute settled in police court 'and aired in the newspapers. These services were conducted according to the practices of Lithuanian Jews and were held first in a Iwtedbouse and later in various buildingi in Vttt downtown area.

The small congregation was served briefly

by Reverends Cohen and L>eve9, and, itarUng in 1183, by Reverend Abraham Branson, a sbohet who acted also as reader idr the minyan.

MaseasiMi persisted wttUa the raaks «f •crve the eaagregsUsa la 1881 a IMS sasaU grsap bat la October af l«l the eeMdery. Flakar's Parah was hy Caagngaliaa B'aai Israel, aiare fsMUlarly the oMgregatiM, kaawB as Ibe "Ulviachc shal", was larauUy Another raargan<ttHw> tai 18>r involved •rgaaised. incorporstion uBdar a new name, Beth Soon all Omaha Jewry was invited to be Hamedrosh Bagodol. A newly remodeled gu^ts of the new congregation at Crounse's bHlUng at not S. 13th Street accomodated Hall, 16th and Capitol, "to celebrate the the coogregatloo until Mil when a new arrival of the new scrolls of the covenant." building was coostnicted at iMh and-Burt The arrival of large mimbers of Russian In itMa group of RuMian Jews, disatiafled Jews sUrUng In 1881 conaidenibly incnaaed with the LitvisclM coogregaUon, decided to the Orthodox population. Soon ttiere were organize thefa- own synagogue, Chevra B'nai prayer meetings in a variety of locations so Isnel Adas Russia. Thus the Society of that members would not have too far to walk. Russian Israelites was incorporated for the One minyan was held at I2th and Jackson staled purpoae of promoting "Fraternity, and later at Uth and Leavenworth Another Love and Friendship." was conducted at lOth and Center near a Mark Horowitz served as the firat group of houses owned by David president of the congregation and each' Skolnikovsky, who looked after many of the nvember agreed to pay 1} cents weekly duea. immigrants when they first srrived bi The membership fee was '$3. All members Omaha. This minyan eventually removed to were required to be present when another i3th and Center and 13th and William, where member observed a yartxeit. Dissension was the immigrant Jewish population was prevalent in this congregatioa too, and concantrated. reorganizations were frequent.

In 1889 the Litvlsche shul reorganized and dedicated an existing building at 1407 S. 13th LIBRARIAN FJ|R8T Street as a new synagogue. At the dedication The first professional "the attendance was large, the interest employee of a YMHA was the manifested great and a liberal collection was librarUn, and ihe first Y taken up." facilities were mostly reading Rabbi Henry GradibMlqr was appslirted to rooms.

For a time the Russian congregallSB mat ia rooms at lOth and 1 llh and Jones, aad tiMB btreiitad quarters at ill N. lOth Street. In iSM a fUnd-raiaing drive was started and two years later land on Capitol Avenue between Uth and 13th was started and two years later land on Capitol Avenue between I2lh and ISth was leased for 10 years at a rate of «S monthly.

Oa Jaoe 38,188« the Ihst newly coMlnicled OrthadM syaagogae building bi Omaha was dedkaled. The membership wat enUrely fareiga-bam aad most had beea hi dds CMUrtry less Ibaa a decade, la 1188 (ho caagregatlMi porckascd laad fer GoUea HIU Cemetery fer tl8t.

Shortly after the turn of the century the congregation bought property on 21st and Chicago for a new building but his parcel was later sold and another acquired at 18th and Chicago. By this time the membership numbered ISO fsmilies and the congregation shared the servkM of lUbbi Grodzinsky with (Caalinuedon42)

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4 Sher Residents Remember Rosh Hashanah in Russia His Fast-Moving Brottiers Left UttJeKlws OMAHA - It if eaq' to picture Kiwa Hornatetn ai the "lilllest brother" at the Homtein cUn - the little fellow who wu running, always running to catch iq) with his big brothcn on their way to market before Roah

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Today, at age t3. Kiwa (prounounced Kee-va) is still a little guy. But bealdta the wiry, rather wMteihouhfarnl build, the tUag a viaitor notice* moat are his eyes — two warm, seemingly saucer-ahaped eyes that one can visualixe entreating the

big brothers to "let me go with you, pleaae".

He speaki warmly, eagerly of those days long ago and (ar away in the rolling hill country of his native Rusaia ("I could write a book, I really could," he aayk).

He recalU that hia town, Klayoe OrU (UtUe Orii, the little neighbor to Big Orti nearby) in the state of Minak was so small it had no shocfaet (kosher butcher). "Ours was a little country town. Just a few Jewish people...only about eight or 10 Jewlah familie* and about MKNO

Izzy Was A Good imitator Among his other recollections of his early yean in Russia: Rash Hssbaaah was a haUday which aieaal a trip far Jewtoh faaiHes to the In fact, all you have to be la pabllc baths. "Everyaac '^.about Vh years old and waaM slap waffc at II a.ai. oa surprisingly good at imitating the day ef Erev Rash ; your uncle, the cantor.

Hashaaah. eat saau teach Aa Shafer, now n, recalla aad thea bead to the hatha, -it. he was one of U grand- (he mea to aae ptocc. the children hi a big, happy waaea to aaatker." family in the town of Popova The trip was usually acroas Gora in Russia. Popova Cora to«m anid acroaa a river, translates roughly into necessitating gobig by boat.

"Pope's Mountain" and was a In the spring, around Pesach Greek Orthodox village with when the melting snows made about 12S Jewish families and the river swell and the ground . one sbul. muddy, the famiUes had to But while Shafer waa only contend with soother problem one of M, he was a noticeable — keeping clean on the way back home. one out of that 14 - he was the But once at home, ttiere apple of his grandmother's i.eye and even got to sleep was tea and chalah, then to shul for an hour and a half , between grandma and before returning home for the . grandpa on occaaion.

Resh Hashaaah was •( big meal. There was whiskey ; cearse a very bwsy time a( on Roah Hashanah — "we had year, what wMh the wea no wines until Pesach," preparing the sappers and the Isadore recalled. ' men readylag far slial.

Shafer had a sister and two ' A4diag la the coefasioa was brothers, but his father, who tought Russian to Jewish sJIW-giHefwiiy •< his graag^-parMI*. who welcomed aa(youngsters, was happiest t sMawaers hila thek bsae far when be could have guesto in ' ihebalMays. the house. "Everybody came Little Isadore was left to my town for the holidays," ' somewhat to himself to play Shafer saM. : and generally keep out of the "My father hivtted people ' way, and he did do that, but to sapper — pasr pc«|rie. ,he apparently was also osBsally two or three at a fascinated by his uncle, the liaie. Bat the aiare people he cantor, who was busy had, the happier he was."

OMAHA - Isadore Shafer is living proof that you don't have to be a Bar Mitzvah to participate in High Holy Day •ervices.

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' Day services, practicing some singing and chanting ] with appropriate gesture*.

The hazzan didn't notice it, \ but standing on a chair in the I shul, imitating everything he 'did, was little Izzy. \ But little Izzy didn't escape Mhe eye of his loving bubeh. h'Look, look at what he's t- doing! Didn't you notice what \ the Uttle one is doii«?" his \ grandmother told Ua nnele, \ pointmg to where Izzy stood on top of a number of books he'd pUed on the chair.

TlH ta*y cantor finally did

and' little Izzy won a small part here and ^jharc bi the Roah Hashonafa rrom then it was • liMirtilip to baeoniBg Bwnber of die choir; fasy's waalaiBKhed.

He recalls that hia grandmother was a mid«i^e "for free — it was a real mitzvah."

But he, a toddler, dUbi't understond what it was all about, and his grsndparento had a constant battle on their hands keeping him from racing to the door fhvt Ui the dead «f night when someone called for his grandmother.

His zaydeh and bul>eb didn't always succeed in containing the impetuous youngster, and a few seeker* afiar the midwife got some fine shocks in the wee momning hours.

Shafar.was to come to the Urited Stale* in l»12. aa a yomg man of » who had raMhMl formal traiolng u aa ofriear*' toilor in PWrogrwl.

noa-Jews there."

The nearest shochet was in Dovid Holodok, a community located a couple hours walk away and KIwa's brothers did walk, becau«e they were too poor to afford a wagon (Kiwa was one of nine children, including two sistors).

"The mala oae (the leader aaoag the Harasteia brathers), the leeaad fram Iht stdest was Chalm." ssid Khvs. "He wss slwsys gahig fast, walfcfaig faat. I was aaly ( ar layears aid thea, aad I had to raa ta keep ap with then. I Utod to go (to David Hetodsk) bat they waaMa't let aie becaase I was la* sauU. I had yf Job-aad-a-balf to keep ap with then.

"Of course, when I was 10 or U yesrs old. after I had grown up, I went with them.

But when I was younger, I was usually left behind. For one thing, the trip had to be made in the daytime and quickly, too because it was too dangerous at night."

On that day befora Roah Hashanah, Kiwa's brothers would take three or four chickens to the shochet. They tied the chickens' feet together snd put them in sacks arith air holes. Then off the brothers would march, toting sacks dotted with the i>eaks of excitetl, curious chickens.

The brothers usually broiight back some meat

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Ms Independence Got Tested: Colien OMAHA - What do people associate with Rash Hashanah?

For some. It is the good eating asaocUted with (he big family dhmers; for others it is a rededication to life, to hope of a good year ahead.

For others, such a* Jacob Cohen, it waa a personal declaration of independence — albeit one by a young man ju*t beginnhig to make Us way in the world.

Bern ta NlMiayeir, ta Padaa State ta Raasta, CalMa recalls a partieatar lastaace that happeaed dariag a Rash

Hasaaah he celebrated wHli hta famay at the haaie M bis graadpareata.

HU family, he said, had moved to small village some miles from Nikolayav when he waa young. HU fadUf WM a merchant, his mother a housekeeper, and had one sister. Together, they nude up the only Jewish family hi the viUage.

It also meant that tlie Cohens had to go back to NIkolayev to celebrate the High Holy Days each year.

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along with the chickena, becauae they usually didn't have enough chickena to feed everyone. They also brought back bread, because their mother, Minnie, couMn't bake enough for everyone. E^ch family in the vilUge cooked for its own clan; big gatherings were rare, iUwa aaid.

There was no shul (synaogognel in KUyne OrIi, so all worship was held at the home of KIwa's great uncle.

The house was big enough to boat all the Jewish villagers and their families and also thoae Jews living on farm* and hi hamleto outside town.

On the Sabbath, Kiwa's uncle, Chaim Soshnik, served as cantor. But on Rosh Hashanah, the poor villagers scraped together 100 rubies — "that's like a $1,000 U today" — and would hire themselves a real cantor.

Oa New Year's Ray, "they woaM davta from • a.ai. aatil Z ar 1 p.m. la the afteraaaa, aad. like tt or not. I had to stay with theni or otherwise I wsaU gH a licktag," said Kh»a.

"I would get hungry, get reatlea*, but I would have to stay there unUI they finUhed the service." His father^ he said, helped him learn some Hebrew, but most of what Kiwa knows today — and he's always reading one Hebrew book or another — is aelflat«ht.

The patrlairch of the Homstehi clan, Matus, tried to make a living for hia family as a capUIn of a raft on which he ferried villagers, farmers and their produce across tiie river.

But he "couldn't make enough money at ferrying to support his family," Khra recalled, so the four oldest Homstein brothers left (own each Sunday, heading for work In the big port city downriver.

The brother* would work unUI Friday, loading the big tiarges with fuel wood. "It was only $20 to $23 a week they would bring back," said Kiwa. "That kind of work would Ull a man here — he wouldn't do that today for a hundred dollars an hour."

The-brothers Hornstein packed theh- lunches. Each Sunday the brothers would pack four or five loaves of their mother's bread, to to 1$ pounds of potatoes, onions, salt and pepper and head out.

Once at the river, they caught rish.

Jacob Cohea

When he aras 20 years old Kiwa, like his brothers before him, was drafted Into Czar Nichotas' army. He spent three years on duty to Siberia, where the tamperalure was 4S degrees l^low sero.

He cam* to Omaha to ItU, three year* after hia brother Sam.

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Anna Sought Shochets OMAHA - Perhapa if there WM one thing constant in the Ufe of Mrs. Anna RundeU both to Russia and in the United States, it was the need for a shochet.

The shochet to both Ruaata and to the VS. has alway* been a very important man - he wu (and still ia) the man to whom you brought your chickens for UUIng. He employed the traditional JewWi method of slaughtering arUch made the meat kosher.

"He would u<e such a sharp rator to slaughter the chickens, the chickens wouldn't even feel it," Mr*.

RundeU recalled, thinking of the preparations for (he Rosh Hashanah dinners to her life.

The shochet, she said, would simply guide the razor around the chicken's neck, ustog a very light tough — ahnoat a tickle — that was all that was needei to sUt the chicken's threat, "That's the only way to Un a chicken, the only kosher | way," said Mrs. RundeU, nowj a resident of the Dr. Sher Home.

After kllUng, the chicken woukl lif in cold water for i half-hour, then in salt for sn| hour. From time to time, thel chickens wouM be turned soj that six sides would b»| properly salted on each one. i Mrs. RundeU, now 87, still^ recalls her recipe for (arfel j ("two pounds flour, eight, eggs beaten, add the flour,] chop it up ...") and, asiisti

by Mrs. Mary Wine. Sh Home occupational therap she still whip* up a dcllc farfel on occasioaa and alio helped bake kreplach an hamantashen.

She was one of fo daughters in her family cooking was an expeck and much-wanted duty. relishes thoughts of all good things to eat at Hashanah — gefilte cMckan aoup, roast, ehichm — and ha* memorie* of the iCMrosit; Cialtaaii m Pag* U

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She was M( !•• BBck •U«r .. tkaa be, lad le rertMft her f woria werca'l titttg U hire Ikat Bach dlact aa UM ya«lk; Ad Jacab. "She reaUy bawM '' Mc a«t," CohcB. turn II, ' recalla. "Bat I (Igared I'M a ' yaaag (ella and I ahairid d« ' what I waal ta da."

It la perhapi hii ttrong wlU r that helped put him In the ; United SUIei. i He Myt that, when he was r^ 21, he spent only three months 1^ in the Russian army before arranging to leave for a new ': life In the United SUtes.

froml4) her family at New Year when those less fortunate were invited to dine.

Her father, she said, wu a sort of taxi driver. He brought people to the marketplace with hii hone and wagon. Her city, near IMlMk, had three lynagoguei and two rabbis.

She married Jacob Rundeil, who already had been to America three timei in hii young life, in IS22, and the following year the new Mn, Rundeil wai In Omaha preparing Roih Hiihanah dinner the kosher way — by first taking the chickens to a

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Deaths M 1974, for Jake KapUn, »1, at 3014 Lincoln Blvd. Interment was at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.

Survivors are: tflfe, Emma; daughters, Mrs. Rose Konecl?; Mrs. Sam (Guuie) Zweiback; Mrs. Marjorie Avner, all of Omaha; Mrs. Mary Geiler of OUahonia City, Okla.; son, Harry, Omaha; 7 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; brothers, Ike Kaplan, Abe Kaplan, both of Omaha; sister, Mrs. Jake (Betty) Ruback of Omaha.

8AM ZORINSKY Graveside services were held Sunday, September f, 1974. for Sam Zorlnsky, SfS No. SOth Ave. Interment was at Pleasant Hilt Cemetery Survivors are: wife, Sarah; son, Eldon J.; brother, John, all of Omaha; slitert, Mrs. Ben (Jennie) Ravitz, New York City; Mrs. Joe (Rebecea) Poater, Omaha.

ROSE ISAACSON Graveside services were held Thursday, September 5, 1V74 for Rose Isaacson, 9323 Oak St. Interment was at Beth El Cemetery.

Survivors are; sister, Mrs. Lucille Rosen, Los Angeles, Calif.; brother. Moody Isaacson, Sioux City, la.; niece, Mrs. Phyllis Goldstein, Omaha; nephew Maynard Rosen, Los Angeles, Calif.

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The Last Synagogue of Council Bluffs? Some Think So kBy SYLVIA TELPNER

oouMcaBLum-uis eNewYearaac* again. The p-<mali, greying Jewiih Kconununity of Council Bltiffi ! 'Will bow it* head for iU anl nual confeiaion in an almoat ' empty synagogue that Ku - grown old with the : congregation.

Yiakor will arrive and ray I children and their children i will visit the cemetery f without me, I can no laofft J climb the grasay knoOs nor walk unaided far I, bo, have grown old with my aging iShul. f- When my.chitdren tell me about the cemetery, my ^Ifaoiighta return to my youth ft whan the synagogue and the ; Jewish community were alive ! with activity. Many tocta ' about tlie old community are - missing, and none are alive to - fill them in. ' Jews arrived in Council •'^ Bluffs after the Russian •programa of ISSl. These immigrants, mainly from , Russia and Poland, soon Liirganixed a congragataoo and a synagogue.

These rint Jews laciaded • JuHas Ckemiii, 8. Friednua. : LMUS 8. Bergniaa. J. Stela. ' Saaiael L. Ntmtm, L. RoseaneM. M. Bstaaiaa aad 'H. CttiHky. 8a«e af Ikeie •aases live aa la thia ckjr '4a<ay. Others are reawai'kered wdy as fading iaacriptiaas aa laaely. weathered (eaibitaaei. ^ ABMag Inese firal Jews were l^aierehaats, tailars. lakarers. ^Jmdmen and peddlers. , Jews continued to settle in fCouocil Bluffs in the late iSOOa 'and early IWOs. Sol Bloom ;«itabHahed a clothing store.

'A. B. Newman was in dry ; goods and Henry Eiaman sold ) general merchandise. Other : names familiar to Council : Bluffs inchided F. Friedman, i>H. Moaaler, Simon Eiaman, ^. Hershberg, A. GoUstein UuidL. Hnrria, \ These first CouncU Bluffs ' Jews were materially poor, Ibut each was rich in the : courage and devotion that ; bispired all to begin the synagogue. Named the »Congregation Bibir Cholim, it ' held services in a tiny, rented, brick building on Main Street.

I This first synagogue ia gone sand its congregation baa ralumbered for 50 years or Imore under the wind-kiased y hills of the Bikur im cemetery.

I The incorporators and ^afticers of the Congregation pikur Cholim were N. prolich, preaideot, and bAbraham Marks, vice nreaidenl. The prayer serIfices of this Orthodox iyflagogue were conducted by IpkMS and teamed member U the congregatiea. They nddn't afford a rabbi.

I Taday, In (fee preaeat t^wagagae —B'aal lirael— a a ad learned gatiaa asember. Saas icks, leads the prayer Ices. We a* laager can aid a rabM aa a regular tUa year we wlB have bM Larry EMerg da gaesl

Bit^brmelinth^BkiffB rabbi aa the High Haly Days.

A Reform Hebrew Society was incorporated in 1882. Its first officers were Benjamin Newman. G. G. Moaier an4 Simon Eisman. They alao led the Society to purchase 1 and for ttie Jewish Cemetery of Councjl Bhiffs.

ThMe reform Jews worshipped in whatever meeting plaieea were available. An early location was tlte Oaniah Han. Saoo, however, they dedicated a used building on North 7th Street as Temple Emanuel. Rabbi Frederick Cohn of Omaha conducted two weekly services. Eventually, it wu sold to the Swedish Bapliat Chuch and the society was disbanded.

Upon dissolution, its Sefer Torah and its treasury ol tWW were given to the Orthodox synagogue. They did not question who wns a Jew. Jews were Jews.

The present synagogue, B'nai Israel, was incarporaied about 1900 by Isaac Gilinksy, president; George Whitebook, vice president; M. Frieden, secretary and M. SokHnan, Uaaaurar, Other Uu corporators WIM served as trustees were: B. GiUnsky, Samuel Snyder, E. Pill and M. Marctn.

Other charter members were Julius Katelman, Isaac Cheraiss, Boruch Simon, Enoch Gilintky, Sam Friedman and Abe Giiimky.

The original membership was 14.

Services were bcM daily ia small rented ^aarters.

Sabbath and holiday services were also held.

By 1904, the congregation was able to construct a building. They laid the cornerstooeott June 19,1904. The present synagogue is ia the ume locaton. The first B'nai Israel Synagogue was a frame building that coat M,000. The funds, raised from the small community, caused great finalfeal sacrifice far each member.

The by laws, written in Yiddish, provided for dues of SO cents monthly from each member.

The religioua artifacta and Holy Scrolls ««re received from other congregatlonB that had been disbanded. In ad-

dition, Sefer Torahs were received from Moses Saltzman, 0. Hochman, Zelig Glazer, Moaes Nogg and B. Gilinaky. A Torah crown came from Moaea Gilinaky and the children of, Barney Gilinaky preaented a Babylonian Talmud to the Congregation.

Fire leveled the synagogue on the Sabbath night of March S, 19W). With great courage and love, Mrs. Charles Endelman, Morria Grossman, the Katelman brothers and Chriatian neighbors rescued the beloved Sefer Torahs from the devastating, roarhig blaze.

With the typical eadaraace and paraavcrance that had marked Iheh' aacestars far caaatless geaeratioaa, the Jews at CawcU Staffs elected a ballding camniUee to begfai a aew syaagagae. This camsaKtee faKladed George WUlebaak. B. Gittnsky, Abe Giiimky. Morris Haffmaa, Dave Fax aad Simon Sbykea.

With the depression reduoing income and with money needed to fight rising Nazism, it was difficult to squeeze funds from the small community. But the hearts and puraes of tlie local Jews opened, milk money was given for mortar and, by Auguat 10,19M, a cornerstone of the new synagogue was Uld. It bore the dates of both buildinga - "June 19, 19IH"

for the original buihUng, and on the otfiar side "At«uat 10, 19S0." The cornerstone contains the Council Bluffa Nonpareil and the Jewish Maridng Journal of August 10, 1930. In addition, a silver dollar .and the namea of the congregaton members and the members of the building comimttee are preserved in the atone.

The stone-laying ceremony was attended by leading Jews and Christians of Council Bluffs. Mayor Brown of the City addresaed the crowd.

By January 11, 193I, the synagogue was completed.

The total coat was |26,000 and hundreda of hours of freely given Jewish time. A banquet was held to celebrate Uie completion.

Rabbis H. Grodzinsky and David Goklsteio of Omaha spoke. la 1913, SiaioB Shykea was elected president of the coagregalioa sod served for the next II years. Dariag Ua admlaistratiaa. the martgage was paid aad baracd oa November Zl, 1941.

Dr. laaac Stemhill became preaident in 1947 and waa succeeded by Sam Meyeraon.

Louia Katelman. Sam Sacka, Abe Katelman, Leon Frankel and many others.

A house adjacent to the ' Synagogue was purchased in 1936. It was remodeled in 1953 for use of Rabbi Korb and his family. The remodeling committee was Leon Fraohel, Abe Kateiman, Lloyd Kraane, Harry Kiihby, Ben Seldin and Ben Schneider. Thia houae was sold some years ago as the rabbi who succeeded Rabbi Korb refused to live in Rabbi Korb served for about eight years. After he left, Rabi Jay Karzen stayed about three years. There waa no rabbi then until Rabbi EmU Klein, the last rabbi, who left the community in 18J9, .

The last Bar MiUvah In the Synagogue was in 1969 when my grandaon, Joel Telpner, stood proud before the Torah with hia father Zeph and Rabbi Klein. The old synagogue still lived. Today.

Jod is a student at Iowa University.

la 1971. Edie Calick, daughter af San aad Lat<|e Caitek. stead at the BfaM far the last Bat MItsvah. No rabbi was avalUMe aad Edie aad Abe Katelmaa, assisted by Sam Sacks aad Saul Savalsky, coadacled the traditional services.

In 1973, the Talmud Torah and Ute Sunday School, which consisted of my three grandchildren, Deborah, David and Michael, were ctoaad. Theaa children, whoaa parents an Zeph and Flora Telpner, now attend Beth Israel Synagogue in Onuha.

The synagogue ' still breathes today. It breathes religion for those who seek it, becauae Sam Sacks leada daily and weekly minyant.

Monthly Hadassah meetings are beki in the social hall as are annual UJA dinners.

Frieda Suvalaky, one of our first Sunday School teachers, continues to instill Judaiam and courage in the entire community.

The present officers continue to hold occasional dinners prepared by smiling and ageleaa Bd TCpperman.

The current afflears are Seal Savalsky, prcsldeal: Sam EveMt, vice president: Sam Colkk. secretary; Aarae Perils, flaaoclai secretary aad Leslie Krasae, treasurer.

Trustees are Ben Cohen, Richard Gordon, Lloyd Krasne, David Gallnar, Ben Paaaer and Max Harris. Abe Maltz Is an honorary trustee.'

Lou Passer, a devoted member of the Jewiah War Veterans and the American Legion, hat eatabliahed aa annual interfaith veterans' service for Memorial Day. The synagogue is filled mainly with Chrlatiana for that aervice.

Because of hia scholarship in Yiddish and Hebrew and the Orthodox faith, Sam Sacka. aaaisted by the officers, holds servk^ for Roab Huhanah and Yom Kippur.

Each year, tlie roeniibers struggle to raiae a minyan.

Few Jews live in Council Bluffs today. The synagogue, built to bold about SOO members, now serves about 36 families. Many of the young people have moved away, or attend services in

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' As i ttdak af Oa IdiriMy Ikia Jewia camaraaity. hear aacc mare the mo call of the aactlaaeer aad I reapoDse of llw cangregalJ ai they bid for an haaar at I High HoUday services.

I remember the men they scramble to sit on i pews at the eastern wall of the j Shul.

I recall myaelf In tt balcony with my altera, my' daughter and many oth^ women.

How well remember my husband an my sons in the seata belowl who glanced up to the bakmny from time to time to catch my. eye.

The synagogue i* no longe segregated.

My memory turns back my mind hangs on the word of the Yiddish sermon that I rabbi delivera.

II seems only yesterday' that my children would leave the Shul oil Yom Kippur, i sneak to the grocery store on the comer and break the fast j They have always believedj that I didn't notice.

The Jewish community Council Bluffs is M. Soon] there will be no minyans. ( day my grandchildren chant the Kaddish for Last Synagogue ot Bluffs

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Teen Trio Tells Impressions of Israel OMAHA - WhiU impnMkn did Imel make 00 the MSnuriu and Council Bluffs youngsters who participated m tUs MDuner's seven-week study-tour trip? r line MIS was to that question are contained in [Oiese reports from three teenagers — Helene WaiierFtnan, Joel Alperson and Sari Tdpoer.

I Alperson, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paid Alperson of Omaha and a junior at Burke High School, says he was timpr—aad by willingness to sacrifice so much which the Pbraelis showed. !

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Jerome Wasserman of Omaha and'a senior at Wwtiide High School, was frightened by security iimw m but impmaed by Israeli patriotism. __:rr_^_:=:_:_-r- Mas Telpner, 16, daughter of Hn. mi Mn. Maynard Telpner of Council Bluffs and a sqnior at Abraham Lincoln liigh Schotd, was impressed by the country's beauty and its peoples' strength.

The three were among 27 teens from Omaha, Des Moines and ottier Midwest cities who went on the tour gi^kled by Ramah Association, an arm of United Synagogues of America.

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Dancing and Chanting Gasoline Is Luxury Marie Worship Styles To One Israeli Soldier

I 'ByHeleaeWsMcrmaa ' Arriving a( Israel's B«n : Curion Inlernalional Airpoii »was not quite the emotional experience that I had an' (icipatcd. I knew where I was, .mii yet I somehow lacked the fawareneas o( being in the land [«f aqr igrcfalhert. My biggest ^clne was the woman giving I flight information over the IMblic addrcM system in [Hefarew We arrived in Israel on a ^Thursday ariernooo. The ^aame feelings stayed with me on Friday, but once the sun set, the surge of emotion hit 'me.

As Shabbal approached, we were taken to the Kotel. The Wall is the only remaining i-remnant at the great wall of [the Second Temple, which ^as destroyed by the Romans tin 70 C.E. For the past 10 ^(iecades the Kotel, also known ;«s the Wailing Wall, has iSymboJixed the Jewish ; People'x refusal to give up, ' the determination to preserve ^tiieir religion for future fenerations. :. Tkere we saw masy dlffereat Uad* tl Jews aad as ^maay differeal Iliads of iworship. There were the fHaaaUin wMh Uieir jayaas •aces and wngs. Nearby aae hear the cbaats aad I shMrts al the Yemeattc prabtof Gad. Thca ^erc cere la^lrMaais.

El and otherwise, who farmed tnull. qalet ^ .* er •iaaply prayed oa their awB. I The Wall holds a great deal of significance for all of these yews, myself included. Being jthere and knowing its past pbetter enabled me to gain iMight into the history and heritage of the Jewish people U my people. [ On the walk back from the •let, I realised that I had finally arrived In Israel, syehologically as well as bysically. For the next four ays we stayed in Jerusalem, such sights as the trael Museum, Herzl's nb. the Old City, and wnlown Jenisalem. ; Ofall the things that we saw feoae first few days, I was Most impressed by Yad foshem. TtM Yad Vaahem ksmplas consists of a •assm, a'ajnagt^ and a prary, M eeaunemorating IK Six Million Jews who were liurdered by the Nasis p World War 11. There S also the Walk ol the

By JacI Atpersaa

Before iraveHng to Israel, I had many misconceptions about the country, and I would like lo explain some of them while telling about what I've seen.

For 64 weeks, I spent my time learning about Urael and trying lo understand what it's really all about. This brings me lo my first misconception; "Israel is a Utopia where everybody studies the Torah and where every place is like the old city of Jerusalem."

Joel In actuality, it is a place HeleM where the Hasidic and their dress codes for women planted, each tree honoring a Orthodox Jews are in con- are very strict; these codes non-Jew who risked their own stant conflict with the other apply to any female who life to save the life of a Jew. Jews of the State; it is a place enters the area. Those like the Where the Kotel made where the government taxes people of Mea Shearim are clearer the ancient past of the are the highest in the world; . the center of the prot>lem; Jews, Yad Vasl)em gave a rinally, it is a place whose they refuse lo sccepi any more recent and much more existence is constantly in compromise on issues such as hsving only orthodox rabbis horrifying view of the not so danger. distant past.

In the year of 1V73, inflation in the Chief Rabbinate.

Ai we left Jerusalem for the went up approximately 40 per Because of this, msny DMlhern (;alilce, ear scearity cent, whk;h, of course, caused proUems hsve come about wai Ughlrnrd greaUy. Oar many people to strike for and there doesn't seem to be Israeli tUff menliers had ta higher wages. During one any quick solution carry gani. Nat beiag oaed la part of our group's trip, there Most everybody on our tour K. I was reiUy kathered by was only one radio station had lo get used to seeing the slUuUra lor a whHe. broadcasting due to a strike.

Israeli soldiers carrying their^ Talking to liraeHt my age. An Israeli sidier told me that giois around on the streets, in sad seeing their drdiotioB to he felt the necessHies (food, department stores, etc. thch- rovntry helped me ta ctolhing, etc.) were fairly Hearing sonic booms from fbuUy resoKe my fears. ' Inexpensive, while the op- Phantom Jets was something We did become very posite was lure for almost which we got used lo also. security conscious, however, anything else. For example, when the Syrians began My point is, although he considered gasoline a tnoving tn»i» toihaJionlecs.. hmury itena because of the sometimes these are long The threat of war is always price; at the time, one galkm periods between battles with very great in Israel, and other Mideast nations, the cost approximately fl.SO. where the Israeli citizens Isrselis sre constsntly The problem of religion fai have learned to live with it, Israel is very apparent, but it rembtded thsl they must we as American tourists doesn't concern the Jewt and always be on guard. weren't quite prefwred. the Chrislians or the Jews and This is where I drew my During the course of our the Moslems; it concerns the seven-week lour we were Orthodox and non-Ortbodos third snd final misconception: "Isrsel Is selfshown many abandoned Jews. sufficient milltsrlly and military fortresses, both This brings me to my economically."

Israeli and Arab, that had second misconceplon: "All been captured by Isrseli This is the Isrgest Isrsell Jews are ultratroops.^ ortbodos and have an un- misconception of sU because We learned the history o( ihaksatle position on the it is a fact that Iwael has only the modem State of Israel chssrvinM of Jewish laif." enough bombshelters for half through its four wars — the The statement is a the populalkNi of the State, Independance War in IMS, misconcepton primarily and the amount of money the Sinai Campaign of 19S6. because of a large group of needed to build the rest of the the Six-Day War in 1967, and Israeli Jews who believe that bombshelters is phenomenal. the most recent, the Yom. they are meeting the Money is needed Klpfiur War in l?73. War requirements of the Jewish everywhere in Isrsel and it is nearly becomes an accepted religion by Just living in coming out of the Isrsell part of life in s country which Israel. These Jews wsni lass citizen's poeM. is so violently opposed by its stringent taws governing the TUs, snumg other things, is neighbors. state of Israel as far as what gives me great respect From the north we visited religion is concerned. In Moshav Bel Yosef and each of order to accomplish this, for the Israeli. I know of no other people who is wilUng lo us was placed with a family. there must be a change of A moshav is a small co- policy in the Chief RabMiate, sacrifice so much for his operalive community, and ihU is one of the things country physicslly snd finsncisNy. bosieatty agricultural, where, they're leaking Isr. unUfet a Kibbuts, each family In my opinion, the people, Living in Mea Sbaasiai Is a group of the most srihodsa not the places, are what '(OofltBMefl ow Page 4^ .-*^. 'Jews°ialsi%ai. F0ircttM|M,'" IsrsefirailaboWi.

"Hie Omaha portion was organized by the Omaha' Israel Tour Committee, a part of the Jewish Federation of Omaha which supplias scholarship funding throui^ ito Bureau of Jewish Education. llie tour committee, co-chaired by Mrs. Marilyn Pred, Jack Cohen and Dr. Jim Wax, said the tour — first of its kind from Omaha in four years — was so successful that the 1975 edition is now being (danned.

Groups wishing to hear area teens tell about their trip are asked to pontact Marcel Kahn at Beth El Synagogue (559-3231).

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By Sari Telpner All of my life I was taught about Isrsel and of its meaning lo the Jewish people of the world. To me Israel was always a dresmlsnd, s pisce that is In books snd stories, s land I would never know. But I've already been there and am now home.

I had formed so many ideas of Israel over the years, of the people, the land, the life style, and more. All of these ideu left me when I arrived in Israel.

Everything was so different. It was s whole new style of life. At first it was bard for me to realize that all the people I was among were Jews. It was a wonderful feeling, especially after growing up in a city, state, and country where I've always been a minority.

Our first four days in Isrsel werespent in the magical city of Jerusalem. I was amazed as we climbed the mountains to Jerusalem. I had no idea that it was in the mountains.

The hills were so beautiful as Ihe sun set and a full moon. .Far oar llrst Shabbat wa drove to the old city before saasel, bat the gale we tried to grt In was blacked wiUi rachs and Hassldlm wha woaid not allow cars ta eater.

It was my first expcrleaca wHh sirmig orthodaqr^ H great to icc R f or real.

We went lo the Kotel. The thing that interested me mostly about It was sll of the different Jews there preying.

The wall in itself didn't draw me at all emotionally.

We walked back to GoMstein Youth VilUge from the Kotel. Saturday the streeU were empty. Hardly anyone drives on Shsbbst. It wss wonderful, so pescetul. In Israel, Shabbat is s reel day of rest.

We next were slatioiied in Ihe Galilee for 10 days si Hoydiyot youth village. I k>ved Ihe vegetalkm in the GalUee. It was all so green. At one time it was all swampland. The Kinneret was beautiful. We ssw so msny cities, memortsia, snd nature reserves. Since there Is so much to see there, we had lo go St a very fast pace.

We also got to visit the Golsn. I was almost terrified ss we stood in what wss a Syrian buoksr before IM7. II kMtod right over KibbuU Ein Gev and another nearby Ufabutt.

Sari Moshav far fear days. It was lacated In the Jardaa Valley, right across the river from Jordaa. la fact. I saw two Jordaalaa fishermen serosa the rhrer.

We were each put in families. They were Jews from Kurdistan In Northern Iraq. They were all so wonderful. Since my family didn't have any field work for us, we scrubbed the floors and washed windows. It was such a great experience.

From the Moshav we. continued on lo the Tel Aviv area for about a week. We went to the top of the Shalom Tower, which is the highest building in Israel. From there we viewed the city.

I never dreamed Tal Aviv wassuch a big city. It is so developed. We also toured s Haganah museum and went lo the Shuk HaCarmd fruit and vegetable markets.

On one of the days we went to a Druze village, where a msn spoke to ui. It wss fascinating. We were served very strong TurkUh coffee in small cups. The Druze are nol Jews and nitt Arabs. They originsUy csme from Syria snd their religious beliefs are secret.

We weal to Halfs far a day and saw so mack. la Ihe meat beanlifal BahalTemple, we had lo take off oar shoes to i ester. We then went to aa!

Illegal Immlgraat ship which is BOW a museum. We alsa had a leelare at Uw Techalso, which Is MU of Uie fiaesl^ caghieeriag schaab la UMI warM. We saw a bcaaUfnIj view a( the part «( Haifa Uw^ night.

Afters week In the Tel Aviv j srea, we went back lo' Jerusalem for our last three II wsso't exactly thrsa weals becsuse four days were HCiaMaaidewPagMa)

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By BcrttcLatar The Senior Citizen* with all [ their members and Memim ( 1 Healtky and Happy New • Yew. 1^. .We wU M( aect •• tke It I" aad a d Scfteniker becaaw . af UM baUdayi. 0«r aexl mediBR wUI he htM MI September M. Maael Tov to Mary Brown and Oave Weiis on their forthcoming marriage.

At our meeting Monday, we : welcomed the following new memberi: Mri. Malvlna Spitzer. Mrs. Anna Weiaa, Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Bnmm, Mr*. Lil Weinttein, Mrs. Helen SUar. Mrs. Ella Moge'nsen, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur N. Rubin and Mrs. FYieda Krizelman.

We wish Mrs. Sarah Beriman a speedy recovery. We ' mxt happy to bear that Mr. Abe Fisher is home from the hospital. r The following 'donation! were received: (or the safe retuit of Sam and Olga ' Jacobow; from Mr*. Belle Shrago for the birthday of MoUie Delman; from Mrs. Ida Potash in memory of Jake Kaplan; from Sam Lashimky for Mollie Delman'i bir:. Ihday; Dr. and Mn. Milton Margolin in memory of Eva Lewia of New York; from Irv. . Janger for the Kansas City Group; and from Mrs. Rachel Swartz for the SSth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkowitz.

UvlBg with a family lor few days gave at a fantastic chance U meet the peaple, especially •{ oar own age graap. I think both the •Msksv (eeaagen and n of at learned that basically Uds are the saaie all aver except in aae respect. The kM* that we met were aiHch mare patriotic to their coaatry aad their gaveraneat than we ar« Next on our agenda were (he cities of the coastal plains, Tel-Aviv and Haifa. Tel-Aviv, which was Israel's Tirst allJewish city, was very large and westernized. It could pass for many of America's large cities, except for the signs in Hebrew.

Haifa is a very beautiful city. It could possibly remind you of San Trancisco, with its beautiful rolling hills and breathtaking port.

The summer went very quickly and as I was becoming involved with the country and her people, it was lime to leave. I'm still finding it very hard td mesh my feelings into a conclusion, one encompassing all of my experiences into one.

My lour to Israel was one of Ihe most exciting and interesting experiences of my life, one I will surely never forget.

Telpnerspent camping i«ithe Negev and Sinai deserts. It was so wonderful. We set camp the rirsl night in the Sde Boktr area after climbing down a canyon called Avdote. At the bottom we swam in a spring called Ein Avdote. Us natural beauty was mystifying.

Since Ihe Army campa are kicated in the desert we heard explosion* all day long. The next |tay weaaw Ben Gurion's tomb. II overlooks the mountain* and valleys of the Negev. It's so breathtaking!

On we went to the Sinai. The mountains there are *o cokirful and full of shape. We camped at an empty beach, except for a Bedouin camp nearby.

We had gaard duty shiru all Bight laag *• Bothing would be stalen. That mornlBg we woke ap with aa Arab next t« as, tsUag away on his walerplpc.

The Red Sea is so blue and clear. We went snorkeling for two hour* around the Coral bland. II waa enchanting.

Thai night we slept on an Eilal beach. Our last day Ibrre, Ihe temperature was UOdeffees.

The re*t of the (rip was spent in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem wu my favorite city. We saw *o many different people there.

The Haaidim were v$ry beautiful people but alao aometime* very rude and pushy. I waa upset when we were in Mea Shearim, the Hasidic section — at all of the hale for Zionism. They would

have Israel or Zionism written on a wall with a swastika next to it.

I saw many things in Jerusalem. We were walking near Ihe Kolel one day and heard drumming and screaming. We found about six Sepbardic Bar MItzvaha taUng place. The women scream and throw candy at Ihe young children. It wa* beautiful.

Utt in Israel is much harder than ours. We Americans are lo spoiled. I really fell terrible when asksd how many rooms my house had. Most Israeli apartments have only three rooms. The cost of living is so high there.

The Israelis are very strong, courageous people.

They mu*t live every day with the fear of not knowing how long their nation can survive.

Orths Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Decker announce the birth September 1, lt74, of a daughter, Julie Ann. They alao have a son, Jonathan AUn. Grandparent* are Mr. and Mrs. Morris Raznick, Omaha, and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Decker, East Meadow, New York. Great-grandfather is Mr. Max Kariand, Long Beach. N.Y. ONLY 2 PER CENT Only two per cent of Israel's reading populace read thrillers and sex books.

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The student-youth contest, •ponaored by Ihe Congress of American Jews from Poland in Loa Angelea, a non-profll corporation, now offers five prizes; first prize of $250, second noo. third tlSO, fourth IIOO and fifth ISO. The organization announced Its first contest In December, lt73, and offkials said the response "revealed great interest and encouraged The Congress lo promote a second contest on the tame subject."

The Congress believes that a study of Ihe causes which led lo the Holocaust as well at the growing awareness that these causes are still with us may contribute to finding ways and means of preventing its recurrence.

Rules of the contest are: 1, The contest is open to students of high scbooli, colleges, universities and other educational Inslitutioni.

The conteitant agrees lo the enumerated rules.

2, Each entry shall reflect the independent research efforts of Ihe contestant.

3, The entry shall contain no lesa than 1,000 and no nlore than 7,0OC words. At least three copies of each entry shall be submitted.

Manuscripts shall be typed, double-spaced and on one side of Ihe paper only.

S, Manuscripts shall not be •signed but marked by a code only. The identical code shall

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6, All entries remain the property of The C^gresa which reserves Ihe right to publish any of them In their enllrety or In part.

7, The names of the winners of the prizes will be publicized in Ihe press on October 1, 1»75.

8, The panel of Judges consists of the following experts in Ihe field of Holocaust literature: Dr. Bernard Cohan, Dr. Judah Pilch, and Dr. Abraham Zygielbaum. The Judges alone shall determine U any entries merit awards and or the amount of the award. «. The closing dale for aubmilting entries Is: Wednesday, April 30, I»75.

10, All manuscripts should be addressed to: BENJAMIN GREY, CHAIRMAN CONTEST COMMISSION, CX>NGRESS OP AMERICAN JEWS FROM POLAND, «S34 MOORE DRIVE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90048.

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YAD—Social Link for Omaha Singles ].

By CUadla SlMrnta

OMAHA — Th€ liqKta young adulU o( • community poM :a unique (irobtein lu any community center. The Jewiih singlet of Omahi are an example.

They've outgrown high school programs, but they're.still young and very much interested in meeting other Jewish people with whom they can socialise.

The Omaha Jewish Community Center, which is oriented toward meeting the recreational, cultural. Intellectual, educational and social needs of everyone from pre-achooiers to 'Senior dtisens, attempts to provide for the young singles with ' YAO — lis Young Adults Division The group has a mailing list \at appmimalely 300 people lielween the ages of It and 35. p OM Of those who has Joined YAO is Fern Sperling, a iMdwr tibo became active in the group four years ago when Ibe flnt moved to Omaha. She wanted to meet other people her age and aays she belongs to the group to enjoy .the social life it offers.

i Another member, Rosie Fellman, explained that YAD fills [a void by reaching out to young people either In college or tasaptojred, bringing together both native-bom Omahans such as MtenaifaMiUMMSingles who have moved to the city from other ^places. ; YAD's predecessor, The Committee, originated In 1(70. Al 'Krueger, an Air Force captain from Ohio who is another YAD'er, notes that YAD "has gone through a melamorphoais in flhe last nine months. We've really bee4Nne better organiaed Httan in past yearaJ^' ^_—-^ •.

YAD does not elect offlcera; It's guided instead by a [•leering committee of not more than seven members. V» [(tearing committee makes final decisions on functions and

funding, meeting once each month with the meetings open to all interested persons.

Mrs. Mollie Delman, Center staff director for older adults, is now also staff coordinator for young adults. She organized a Farewell Party for college students last weekend and included YAD members, and she Is now planning parties for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Chanukah.

"We had our best inter-dty party here recently," said Misa Fellman, referring to one of the JCC's first organized social events, a dance with live rock music.

Monday through Thursday evenings, the older adult lounge . at the Center becomes the younger adult lounge, providing a place for these people to meet and relax. The lounge has a television set and record player and young adults can play cbesa, checkers or cards or hold meetings there.

In addition, the youth gameroom Is reserved for young adults on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m.

Other YAD activities to dale have included an evening together at a nightclub; a trip to Kansas City foran Intercity party with KG Jewish singles; a midnight supper; horseback ride and cookout; picnics and brunches; professional baseball, hockey and basketball games as well as plays and cultural events; a progressive dinner, bowling party and discussion seaaions.

Attendance at these functions varies according to members' interests, said Miss Fellman.

Being planned by YAD are another intercity party in 1 - JUnsas City (Sept. 21), a ski trip, mystery bus ride, mystery airplane flight, a splash party and a Nebraska football ex«=**•"

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Jacob Klein was primarily respoMflile for

the initial organiiatkw at dais eoagragatioa, vUek in itM purchasad and remodeled the iamiar Second Praalvterlan Cbivch at Mlh and Nicbolaa. B'nai Jacob, limlUalrly referred to as the KapuUar, alaa pwdiaaad a cemetery tract at Pleasant HOI. The property at Mth and Nicholas was sold in IMI to the Omaha School District for constnicti. n of Kellom Pool. Hie synagogue building was then moved to Mlh and Cuming, where it Mill sUnds.

A number of other Orthodox coogregatioos existed from time to time. The Coi^regation of Russian Israelites Sbomry Shabas was incorporated in 1117 by s group of Russian Jews who had probably been members of the Russian B'nai Israel but who came to consider tbsmaehres as more pious than the others.

Another grsep called B'aai Jacob alto had a brief exiatcace araand ISM bat Hs meaibert laaa |tbnd other caigregatlaaa.

Sharey Zion. of ten called the Shirotka Shul, was organixed in 1900 with Aaron Ferer as founder and president. Services were conducted by Max I. Zimman at 1117 Dodge Street and later at iwh and Cuming.

(Continued on 91) NATION OF HIKERS A recent survey shows that SO per cent of Israelis like touring and hiking.

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CUef of SUIT Gen. Mordechai Gur also said today that the exercise was a success. He said many units bad 100 percent of their men report while others cane close to the target. He prsised Ihe public which helped transmit news of Ihe csU-up and helped those mofaUixed reach their posts. Isrsel's military command will now study Ihe results of the mobilization.

The scene through Israel was reminisceni of war-time. Shops cloeed down In the main cities with the owners putting up notices "closed iMcauae of the exercise."

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pfoBCOw Choral Synagogue Uw turned to Dr. Joseph P*en, head of the American f*Agro-Joint" In Moscow, iphkh was established by the iMnt Distribution Committee iB New York to trawler Ijleclassed Jews from various n cities and towns to

Crimea and to settle them Jewish agricultural there.

Dr. Roaen was an American Mtiien and ihe Soviet Central jbovernmenl officials treated ^m with extreme courtesy. It |n* the hope of tbe synagogue ' lection that as a result of Rosen's contacts in government circles he ght succeed in saving the

synsfocue from t>eing turned into a club.

Dr. Roaen, howsw, was particularly rehiclaat lo do anything which might interfere with the work o( Ifa^ Agro-Joint. He simply did not want to ghre tlM Moaeow Ycvsdoia any cppnrtuBity to attack the A{p«Jolnt.

AWMBgh kc «ss mat a reMgioas nan Umself, Dr. Rasca did waat to help the leaders af tke Mascaw Syaagagae aad iMad a way to da *• Mlrectly. He loii Iheai that I was highly rospedad by batk Sniidavick aad Laaackarskjr and advised them to soMeM my ssalslaace.

This they dM. I knew in advance that 1 wouki not have any difficulty persttnding Smidovich and Lunacharsky to oppoae turning the Moscow Synagogue into « worhers' Oat. SmMovich, to whom I had frequent access, never did believe, as Commissar for Religious Affairs, in violent attacks .upon rellgioua institutions. I used to meet Lunacharsky, who, as Commissar of Culture had to do with the workers' clubs— which ware considered cultural institutions—at official receptions which the government gave for imporUnt foreign guests, as weH as on other occasions.

Smidovich and Lunacharsky, who gave me difinite aasurances that they would intercede against changing the Moscow Cliaral Synagogue into a Workers' Club, also received the assistance of the Soyiot Commissar for Foreign Affairs in this.

I had advised several higliraakiag officials la tbe Csmmhsarial of the fact that tbe leaden if Jha Moscow Choral Syaagsgac ' were retalved to begia a eswrtereampaigB by collcctiag a« less Ihaa U.tm ilgaatare* to

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a pctltlaa appaslag tbe M^rtdatios af Ibehr syaagagaa aad to knad tbe petittoa to the MascM Municipal Soviet.

I emphasised that the closing of the synagogue wouM provoke violent Jewish mass protests abroad.

On Jtdy 1, im, I eafaied Tbe Jewish Tetegraptrte Agency in N«w York that Jewish community leaders in Moscow had begun gathering signatures to a petition to the government not to tranafonn their largest synagogw into s Workers' Oub snd that they had set a goal of M,O00, signatures. The Soviet censor let the cnUe through.

Several days later I was informed at Ihe Foreign Commlsaarlat that the synagogue was not aa yet about to become a chiblMuae.

By that time I had already spoien with both Smidovich and Lunacharsky but I was not at liberty to make public their assurances.

On August 2, I was in a position to send to New Yoifc the following cable, which then appeared in . the An>erican press: "Tbe iemaad •• tbe part of Jewish ComniBnlsts Is Mascaw that tbe Great Choral Synagogue there be turned into I Workers' Clab hat bees rejected by tbe Soviet government. At tbe same time a declsian wai made to caasldcr Inadvisable any farther coaverllag of synagognes late dabs asywberr tai the csentry."

HIUS the wav< of converting synagogues into clubs was hailed, but syaagogues were liquidated in other ways. In Smolensk, the local Soviet had already decided to ck)se Ihe synagogue there and use the bailding for a chibhouse, but in Smidovich's office I was shown specific instructions to the Municipal Soviet of Smolensk ordering the reopening of 4be synngoftue.

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I Once more at Maalot, our children wen pan 16 (he land of WbHih. No Iwiger doei Hie •|KMif the Lord call from heaven: H^Phm, Abraham, lay not thy hand upon jHie l«l." Why not Lord? Abraham ha* not Withheld hit Mm, hia only son, from You. : What are we to You? What are we to tbe Vorldt ' Abraham loved You. Has it been tlmoat 4,000 years from that shadowy, ancient dawn «( our recorded history, when Abraham and Sarah led a tribe of wandering Hebrews to a JRrst meettng with You? ' Abrakaii recegabed Your anlty. In his M p(e, be was circumciied to aBDomce his leve Jar Vm - hb belief in Yon - hb aRreemeat U ^Mrvejen. la retwa. be asked only that Yoa be ^GMI. ' f, Do You remember when he argued with You ,aboul Sodom and Gomorrah? Was not Abraham convinced of Your mercy and perfect Justice? He was willing to obtain Your mercy for tbe evil ones of Sodom in order to obtain Ycur Justice for the righteous ones. ; At Kiryat Shemona, our children were taken to the Und of Moriah - and at Lod - and at ^unich — and at Dachau — and at Buchenwald — and at Auschwitz .. .

When in justice we seek retribution -, when In mercy we destroy only houses and planes; when in final desperation to survive, we dMtroy people, the world — the whole world is Ijguick to condemn us. They hear not the cry of our blood from the ground.

Where b Metes to argae with yoa? To plead br as? Has IMtset been gone for J.Ht years?

Motes the lawgiver, who freed slaves aad created men — will be return ae moreT Mases, 'Wbe believed hi the rale of law and Justice and gave law !• a pagan world — will he retara a* ^Morc? Moses, who argned with Van, bnl peHtrmed hb obllgithMa U Van and la Israel '— will he relarn M more?

To the world, Moaea gave the vision of law •mi morality, of justice and retribution. Doet

his vUion no longer live?

Where are the Babylonians, the Assyrians, Oie Romans? For many centuries, they have lain silmt and untroubled. But when they sacked Your Jeruaalem; when they destroyed Your temple; when they murdered the seven children of Hannah — when they did all of this, who cried out: lay not thy hand upon the lad?

When Tomas de Torquemada wrenched Judaism from the heart of tbe Jew — whan he flayed ua, burned ua, murdered lis — when he did all of this, who cried out: lay not thy hand upon the lad? Where is Torquemada now? For many dusty centuries, he has lain silent and untroubled.

Where are the Crusaders, who watched as the Jews of Xantendied, hut still affirmed that You are One? Where is Haman? For many dusty centuries, they have lain silent and untroubled.

When Adolph HlUer washed hb hands with oar fst, lined hb beets with our hair and fertlliied hli garden with oar ashes — when he didallof tbb, who cried out: lay not they hand upon the lad? Where Is Hitler now? For many dasty years, he has lain silent and unlronbled.

But the Jew — the maligned, and tortured, and murdered Jew — the children of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob; we who have never forgotten Your unity. Your mercy, Your justice and Your covenant — we continue on the Journey to Moriah.

It b time once more, for You to remember Your covenant.

It is time for You to listen once more to the eloquence of Your servant Moaes who pleaded for Israel at SInal: "Wherefore should the EgypUans speak. saying: 'E'er evil did He bring them forth, to slay them in tbe mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth?'

"Turn from Thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against Thy people.

"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Thy tervanta, to whom Thou didst swear Iqr (Continued onto

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OMAHA - One o( OM bMlc I purpoMt of Camp Eatkar K. f Newman ia to provide campers with a itaare in1 tlmate concept of Judaiara.

'• Newman's Tisha B'Av program Uiia summer was a ^ perfect example of this goal i inactioa.

Tiaha B'Av, the ninth day of i^ Av, is the gloomiest day in the I endre Jewish calendar. A |lMf aeries of national Paaaaters, from the [ dealruction of the first [,; Temple to the Spanish are historically with this date.

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generation, this day has been ; looked upon as the essence of . all national mourning, and 'fbm lamentation prayers of f Tiiha B'Av recall not only r events that occurred that day, . but also the atory of the sufferings of our people throughout its exile. Indeed, a . day net to be fargettea.

During the week prior to rTtaha B'Av, campers were \ taught the song "Akaee ,: Ma'aaicca" (I Believe) as ' preparatioa.

Saturday evening foDowing rshabbat, discussions In each IS#it lodge reviewed the

[ purpose of the holiday as well as its effect on Jews today in the Diaapora and in Israel.

Shertly thereafter, the campers were eacarted. via a ,-|««b-lil prMeaaisa, la Ih*

rnUtr Ochel. wkere staff • maaibtri read excerpto Iraai a creative service preparsd

by Harvey Kaha. aaatbar ; staff BMmbcr.

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— a glow from candles providing the only light.

Dramatic readings traced exploitation of Jewa throughout the years. A aUde show of pictures of Israel, accompanied by soft Hebrew songs, created an inlanae and very serious atmoaphere.

It was rather tnmte — almaat nacaaay — haw, darlag eac of the mesl dramalk readlags, a lead crash af thaader hrterrapted the praffvm. addfaig what seeaied a H( af beavealy partklpatlaa.

Bedtime was quieter than UMial, moat people thinking about the program and ita meaning.

Sunday morning the staH led another creative service.

Thoae who did not fast went to the Hadar Ochel for breakfast, while thoae who fasied (there were over 30) continued.

A service, including readinp from the Book of Lamentations and Aeha, was conducted and campers and staff recited prayers and Psalms. Following breakfast more dtsconkMB were held and Uds shared many personal stories of antiSemitism, ranging from Christmas show participatlona to actual confrontations, verbal and otherwise. Discussions in-

chided how (o deal with the situationa and also bow Jews, aa a people, have had lo>(aee~ diacrinination and prejudice.

LanekUme laaad nest af Ifcc M sliU fastteg; the day was vary waras, bat Ike Uds were ddermlaed.

Following a free swim, the entire camp gathered around the flag pole. People were singing softly, in keeping with the solemn mood of the day.

Suddenly, over the PA system, there came a blast of voices reenacting that memorable day in November 1M7 When the United NaUons voted to partition Israel. Vote after vote was.read and excitement filled the camp as the resulU of the voting became obvious.

After the final vote waa cast, everyone broke into the singing of HaTUKraln^nd as the Israeli flag was fiiatd amidst many cheers, dancing began around the flagpole.

Agaia. at Just this time — perhaps as a shew at Dlvlae approval — M begaa to rata.

The program w)w over as far aa the physical aspect waa concerned. Iliose who bstad broke faat in the evening after Havdaleh at the lake. ,

There, In a beautiful memorial, were the words Zachor—Remember, blazing with (b'e in the darkness of the night.

Who Shall Unbind(Continued from 37) TUne own self, and saidst unto tnem: 'I will multiply your seed as the stara of heaven, and all Ihia land that I have ipehen of will I give unto your aeed, and ihey ahall inherit it forever'."

Lord! Unbind laaae! Cry out oaee more: lay not they band upon thy lad!

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Brth RametktMh AdM YMhum wM vauiMd to l»iC by tome menibera «f Uw B'aal Israel who Uved loo («r from that •ynagogue lo walk to Sabbath and holiday •trvicea. The coagrecatloa purchated a houaa at Bib and Seward and in I9B con•Irwtad a new building Unm. After B'nai Jaeabwat moved toSOth and Cuming In IMS, a merger wu effected, creating B'nai JacobAdas Yesburoo.

Two other amaU < iMfngaMeM, Agudatb AeUm and Tiphcratt braei, were briefly maintained by Omaha Ortbodoi Jewi, and a group o( young memben of the community orgaolaed tha Yooag Israel Synagogue hi int.

South Omaha Jews incorporated Adas Yeshuroo, or the CoagregatiM of Israel of SduUi Omaha, in im. The congregaMon acquired the former first Preabyterian Church at ath and J and refuiMshed it. This congregation diahanded in IMI and the boUding was sold.

Other ibert-llvcd Seath Oaaha csagrcgallaas lathidtg T^fccrelh et Israel sad the Jewish Psgsh Ceafftptlsa ef geatt Onuha.

It early became Ihe practice of liw Orthodox congregalleaa to share the servicei d a rabbi. The idea of a merger of aD or of the tradiliaaal coogregattona was regularly and lo WO, net loog after the foundbig of the Cooaervative iynagogne, wUch greatly weaheosd the Ortbodoi movement, the foir synagogues lolMd into the Omaha Union of Orthodox Synagogues, or, the Va'ad H'oer.

Thia letter from N. Leviaaon, membvaUp chairman of the Va'ad, is eiceiptad froni an edition of the JEWISH PRESS hi MS: Tbe Va'ad waa "not founded in ofipaattiaa to any extaUng Jewish orgaaixathM In Omaha. It was ftwsded by rsapanalWa men ss an organixatiaa wideh woald attanapt to ma a new and vlcorovi spirit bi Ortbodm 8)rMCs»Macthrilles. We have htohad at Ifas •Ivw but sve dUintegratioo of the Orthodox

Syqsgogues. We have reaUxM with anguish that tha ^magoguea were becmning an institutien patronised by the aged alone and that the spirit pf life characterized by a participation of youth was missing. Tbe Orthodox Synagogues had no one to interpret tlwir significance to the community at large.

They were inarticulate and were suffering from a ladt of understanding. They no longer filled Ihe place in Omaha Jewry that tradition ascribed to them.

"WNfc the toteatieiit of remcdyfaig these defect!, the U.0.8. was farmed sad hai prececded la Ms work. We have attempted sad are renti—hig to sitempl to introdace •ympslhetic nadentoadlag, beauty and • •pirtt «f viullty la the Orthedex Syaagogaes.

"We hope to then gain the cooperatioa of aB these to whom traditions and a loyalty to Jadaiam are dear and we call upon the Jewlsfa community to aid us in thia, our The merger, however, remained a affair until 1944 when a complete merger of Beth Hamedroah Hagodoi and B'nai Israel look effect, cubninatlng In the conalnictlon of Beth Israel Synagogue at Hnd and Cbarlea in IKI. Rabbi Isaac Nadoff has served the congregation shice IM.

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Throughout the iMO's, considerable thought waa given by a number of Omahana to the organixatioti of a Conaervatlve congregation. to August, ltt7, a groig) of men met and voted to take "tanmedlate steps" to organise a "modem Orthodox" congregation.

More than a year later, a mass meeting was haU at the Jewiab Community Center at which "the immediate organization of a modem Orthodox congregation and tbe Uriag of a rabbi" was determined. Seventyfive kidivi<hials aigned up u members and pledged 13,000 to fund the congregation.

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By lUbM Barry D. Cytroa TUerclii liraci SyMgofttc, DM M«iMS

Thm it a ttory about a sroup 4f YaiMva •iudmU who watched intemcly aa a new •tudenl at the academy itudied a (olio (A the Talmud.

They noticed that M he had flniihed reading '(* page, he would atart over and atudy the Inrdmlical page again. After he had done this timet, they approached him and 'Hayim, why do you keep going over , and over the tame page?"

Haylm rapUad: "Aa eta it mir gut dah, voa darf ick gehn veiter?." "U I am enjoying the page so much, why ihould I go any further?"

Oae can feel partlcuiarly iympatbetk to the rttadeat'i retpaaie daring ibli time of the year. Thoie WIM have been able to enjoy a somewhat more relaxed pace dwiag the ' aammer are reluctant to let go. The carefree days, the anburrlrd pace, the enjoyable gatherings occasioned by the summer weather : — all these we feel hesitant about reieasbig fraai atir gratp.

Yet we know thai the summer doaa end; children are readying (hemtelye* for aebool, parents are preparing to resume their aclivllica In the community, etch of ui lrawar« Ibal a new year it beginning no matter how much we wotdd want to retain the summer. We luraly comprehend (hat we must let go.

Judaism It particularly sensitive to the new mood which affects us al this time of year.

The High Holy Day period, coming as it does at the change of season, alerts us to the reallzalfcH) Ihal we cannot remain where we have been. We must be prepared to move on, to continue exploring means by Vhich to attain our goala at retpontlble Jews.

Roth Hashana and Yom Kippur are especially valuable toola lo help us towards that end. The reflection and self-scrutiny that Is so much a part of the liturgy for these days can stimulate us to restructure our priorities and rethink the values which ought to guide our exiatencei.

The days ahead call us lo live wisely and retpontibly. The Shofar wmmora us to fulfill our fulletl and finest potentialltlet.

Rabbi Berg: Do We Choose Life or Death?

ByRabMManhaUBerg Beth El Jacob Synagogae. Des Moiaet The year S73S finds the world faced with many crises. Fear and uncertainty of the future gripa the heart of mankind. War and the threat of war, famine, inflation and imI'morality confront ilt.

Indeed, at we approach the New Year, we become aware of the Great Day of the Lord, that the prophedaa o( our Ttrah are being fulfilled.

We have before us Jutt two cholcet: "Behold I place before you this day Life and Death, the blaMing and the curse." Moaet tpeaki in the name of the Lord. He admonltbet ua: "Choote

Ufe".

EHher we beat mtr swords hilo plowshares, •tbig atomic eaergy for pcacefnl purposes, or else atomk itockpUes will be our own undoing.

The last Yom Kippur War was a call to Worldwide Repentance. Let us all turn back to Hashem with all our hearts and souls, that He may have mercy upon us.

Let the tremendoue Tsedakah that Det Moines gives be an Inspiration for the other Mitzvos of prayer and repentance.

May Haabem barken to our progress and may He grant ut and all mankind a world of peace and protperity.

LSHANA TOVA TIKOSEVU!

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i Toward A Plan of Implementation

The Year in Pictures

t As we appntacfa the beginning of New Year 5735 and |tbe Ifigh Holy Days associated with it, it is most ap^propriate that each of us evaluate ourselves in tnth a r^Iective and in somewiiat an analytical form.

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For the last year we have, as have the people oflfrael, been tested. For Iirael, it's on the batUeflelds of the Mideast and in 'the diplomatic councils of the world; for u«, it's l>een the »poUUcal and diploiiiaUc batUefietds both here and abroad. The fwAcuKa* of aU of tlMse deUbcrations and battles are, in fact, [stUI in question. \ In Des Moines, the past year has been a year of inglroapaclkB, a year of analysis, where the most fundamental IqiMSittwns have been asked: "Where are we?" and "Where are f- we going?". These simple questions have been tossed about by \ many, and the recommended answers, program structures, ^and plans are stiU being evaluated. As we reflect and take I Stock of our total environment. both local and around the world, '; the condition of our people both in distant places and locally — lin Israel, Russia, the South American countries, and in all ^.places where the Jewish people fight to live in a free and equal iaodety — has again been questioned. ^ One anat csadade ifcat there arc many tasks left nadaae. ^fka qnastlin af sarvival at a pcaple re-assert* itself on aa ,«a9aing basis. If we are Mice and fer all to stand np and OMct ?lksie gats Hess bead oa and answer Ihcni io an alflrmative ^ way, aaswer then In tcrnu of oar heritage aad oar •bligatiaat. ^(bea the year ahead, ST3S, will indeed be dynamic and most |cnKlal. '^ Let there be no mistake about the threat Uiat is imposed by h the strength of the Arabs and their control of ttie strategic ^supply of oil in the Mideast. The question of how much we in the ' free world will pay, both in dollars and in terms of compromise ; of real and human values, remains to l>e seen.

L V Certainly, then is a question as to whetlier the -free I governments of the world could well succumb to the economic f and political pressures brought to bear on such a basic and '; fundamental free world requirement: that is, keeping our •- economic wtieeU turning. \ II is true that we could be aubverted in a way that would In t the kaig run force our civilization to regress aind to forfeit one of I'tbe few real opportunities afforded us during all of the history ^of mankind in terms of creating a world of peace and opl portunity.

I But ilia also possible that we will find thainMTstrength as Jews in a free society to meet this challenge in a way that will maintain oar aelf-respect and will also resolve tUs most difficult prot>leni for many years to come.

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Governing the Commbs/ons And Committee Plenning

The fact is. liMn is a choice being glvea la the decisiaa •uker*. aad It b ap la each aad every oae of at to ssaert sarseives la a way that helps to create the eavirtaaicat accessary far ear leaders to Uke the right path.

No small part of this environment inchidea what course of I action we in Des Moines on the local front aboold encourage. \ Tot the development and building of strong local institutions. the setting, of high and Mty standards for us Io reach, is an essentia] element and an intagral part of wl>at is required of us as a people.

It is no secret thst, in Des Moines, we have — throui^ Harlan Hockenberg's administration of the Welfare raderation I— davek>ped a Community Action Committee, which has IseraeBsd, evaluated, and deliberated for more than a year on lew JawWi (Community problems. They have isolated the [ priority items in order to energlae the adkms we must ac!complJah. \ The implanentaUon of the Community Action Committaa's recnnunandatiaa to the fullest aatent poaaible maat be part of >aar new yaar aelin plaB. This, in my optaioa, woM indude the ^pnMaaioary aad baghaiaf piMuas of a new bMUdhg program.

It is qpUs daar that wa Bust atrtngltaan. further develop, ;aad carry on a more aethra, pwigresahra Jewish Education IqralaaL It la aiao a known fact that as our papulation matures Md grows older that ov obligation that we have for our elderly — •staaljr to care for than if tbay are ill, but also to care for •aairpejfdialagical and aodoiogical needs—is, in our tradition, « laniiiiinil Tfeanfm, we muat be praparad io meet our >!?Mgf*t«^ to diia sagBMBi of oar population.

Aad. akhaagh Iks gaaaMsn haa been paadand aver aad ever agahi. dMrecaa be aa^MsttMi la asy Mind that there are eaMaral aad social, aad y«. even alMaik sarrlcaa that BNMt ha pfwvlded M we are ta dsrslap the prsasnt gsnsraHaa aad fatwe

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Israel Provides Tight Security for Icids TBL AVIV (JTA) - Aboot one million Israeli youagaUra, the largest tetrar, trooped Into •.M schools of aU levela aad trends all o««r Iba ceiaitry.

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general of the Education Mtaiiatry, this year there will be DO claases without teachers and no classes without claasrooma.

Shmueli aald about tnjm ehllifeen ware emoUed in Undargariaa, a half-million in elementary achooia and the

rcfluinder in Mgh sdx Is, Junior high schools .<id teachers' Iraini g seiniaarlea.

Ha strsaaad that this year, asenrity meaaures at schools will be stricter than ever bitee in light of the Maakt and Kiryat Sbemooa

outrages. In virtually all schools, parmts and taachtrs have organiied patrols during school hours. Secu-lty fences sre being erected around school boUdingt. Parents in one Tel Aviv school dialrlet refused to send their chikban to clssses until ths steirily faocewas compiotad.

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>me Members of 1974 Des Moines Leadership Corps Mrs. Silk Is an Organization Worker

Two Federation Chairmen

DES MOINES - Mrs. Marvin Silk, president of the Iow4 Jewish Home Guild, brings many hours of experience in organization work to her task.

Ttkacb, atracr tl jlnMid'f FiihlM Cmilert, I* k>Ciaatii( ki* leemai year •• ikalraaB •( the l«wa Jewlib jlkmc CtmaiMlMi.

PalU Newgaard

KUrtfai PMfcM. prnldest tl Ike !•»• FarBitiire Mirt, i« la hh Mcond term at cbalrmaa o( Ike JcwUh Fintly Servlect CoamtatlMi.

B'nai B'rith Gals'Proxy Keeps Busy DES MOINES - Patti Newgaard. president of the ^ Des Moines Chapter of B'nai ^ B'rith Women, is a mother of four children who is concerned both "in the welfare of their future as well as with their present environment."

-^She says she feels "in all ways that B'nai B'rith helps me to have a part in Iowa and Israel as a Jewish parent concerned with helping make the world a better place In which to live."

Mrs. Newgaard looks forward to a busy year since she's also treasurer of Tifereth Israel Women's League, decorations chairperson for Beth El Jacob Sisterhood, a School Volunteer and a Youth Aliyah chairperson for the Henrlette Szold Group of Hadatsah.

Beside ail this, she plans to continue her studies in the field of accounting.

"I hope I will see a lot of all of you through the year and that you all have a very good year," uys Mrs. Newgaard.

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' Born in Ruttta in 1906, |rinicl( moved to the United putes in IS31.

He haa been a member of the Jewish Welfare Federation Board of Governors and wat president of Beth El Jacob Synagogue in iW3, He is a maton in B'nai B'rith.

WInick bat been associated with Winick Brothers Paper Martet since 1919.

^ FIRST CONTESTS I The fint etaay contetit in lewWl hlllory and literalure liere conducted in IS76 and fgn by tlw New York and phlUdelphU Y't.

CITY HALL The first YMHA in Boston, organized In 1B7S, had as its headquarters a room in City Hall set aside for Its use Iqr the Mayor.

t DBS MOINES - MOM* J. hnnlck hat bCM prcaidcnt o( •iirachi Men't Organixatioa br » of the 36 years he hat j|««n aaioclatcd with the |lraup.

THE NUCLEUS The library of the 92nd SI. Y in New York (now celebrating its Centennial Year) was the nucleus of the Aguilar Free Public Library, which in turn became a part of the New York Public Ubrary.

Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year

Her organizational duties have included such as correspondence secretary, luncheon circle chairman, and four-time Sunday School home room mother for Tifereth Ifrael Synagogue.

She also has served as program chairman and cochairman (rf decorations (or the 1971 Golden Ball, and is a former member of the Jewish Community Center board.

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He's President of CRC

She has been a member also of the Home Management Board and the Women's Jewish Welfare Federation board. She has served two terms as vice president-honor roll for the Women's American ORT and was also re-enrollment chairman.

In the community, Mrs. Silk has been a PTA member, chairman of the Hanawalt School and a volunteer at Mercy HospiUI.

DES MOINES - AlviD H. Kiraner is a native of Minneapolis, Minn., who lias lived in Des Moines since 1940. Now president of the Des Moines Federation Community Relations Commission, Kirsner is a past president of Temple B'nai Jesburun, Jewish Social Service and Standard Club. He's also a former board member of the Jewish Community Center, Greater Des Moines United Way and Des Moines Symphony Association. The president of W. P. Johnson

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DES MOINES - Sidney J. pharmacy services at the Des Pearlman, president of the Moines College of Ostepathlc Children of Israel Synagogue, Medicine and Surgery and its Is keeping busy these days. clinics and also at RefdfieM He's involved with weekday Hospital.

In 1972, Pearlman .was minyans at the Synagogue and participates in and helps Iowa's representative at the conduct Saturday morning 'Second World Congress of services at the Iowa Jewish Pharmacy, at which time the new Pharmacology Center Home.

Pearlman is director of was dedicated.

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Ik Growing with 1^ DesMoines' For over S6 years. Bankers Trust has l>e«n hetping build a l>«ner 0«a Moinat. And right now we're helping build, a new home lor burselvesi Construction Is well underway on our new home m Iowa's tallest building—the 36 story Ruan Center.

As Oa« Moines' largest locally-owned bank, we have a real Interest In our city. Itpeople, and Ita plans lor the future A' we're always here to help you In any » we can.

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Des Moines Community Calendar, 1974-1975 SEPTEMBER — JoLynn Hurwiti A TUerelb ImMi SyMiagti* Tactdiy. September 17 tUM - Beth El Jacob Slitwtmxi Luncheon Meelting.

I Ttmndiy.StVtcMkerlf jf:« •.m. Eteanor RooMvett Ora^ Hadutaii Meeting. t-.m a.m. - HadUHh dupter Board Meeting [ U « ORT tioard Maatk« ^T:SO p.m. JFS Baud Maetiiig b SMi<ay.ac»leaikerI» T:SO p.ra. Board of Governors Meeting at Temple B'nai -Jeaburun. i Maaday.ScpleaberM |U:« pjn. ORT Meetfaig ir< OCTOBER I Twafay.Oetekerl FM ajn. - Beth El Jacob SUterfaood Board Meeting I Wcdaniay.OctokerZ i t:IOa.ni. — Eleanor Rooeevelt Hadaiaah Group Board Meeting . a p.m. — Beth El Jacob Men Synagogue Board Meeting. i^ Maiiay.OetakerT f UM pjn. TUereth land Women* L««gue Board Meeting. liCiday.Oelakerl : l:4B ajn. Imra Jewiafa Home Guild Board Meeting.

7:10pjn. Simcha* Torah Cotnmunily Service at Beth El Jacob FrMay.Octakcrll Bat Mllsvah — Dana Mintaer at Tifereth larad Synagogue.

Soiday, Oclabcr U 1:30 pjn. Hadasaah BnlMaa and Profeasianal Muaical Program at the Iowa Javtah Home B'nai B'rith Play at Charlie's.

MMiday.OctabcrU ' U;« pjn. ORT Board Meeting Tieaday. Octaber II t:n a.m. — Temple Siitertiood Board Meeting •i 9:30-12:30 Oergy Meeting. ^Eleanor Roosevelt Hadaasah Group Hadasaah .

Membership Tea and Speaker U:45 p.m. Beth El Jacob Ssterfaood Luncheon Meeting , U:48^3:00 Soviet Jewry Wadbesday. OciaberM ; Hadasaah Donar Friday. OdabcrU L Bar Mitzvah — Leonard Sheppard at Temple B'nai Jeahunn Saaday. October 2t District 20 Convention Temple Sisterhood All Day, October 20'.»•

^ Jack Zohn Installation Brunch 7:00 p.m. — JCt movie aeries Mwday.OetaberZI District 20 Convention — Temple Sisterhood : 1:46 a.m. Hadasaah Chapter Board Meeting.

7:30j).m. Jewish Fannily Service Board Meeting Taeaday.Oclabcra 12:45 Henrietta SMM Group Open Group Umcfaeon Meeting ^ Eleanor RooaevaH Hadaasah Group — Speaker r District 20 Convention - Temple SUterhood l Wedaetday.OclaberZS |t:30 ajn. Eleanor Rooieveit Group Board Meeting I Tharsday, Oclaber 24 17:30 p.m.'Board of Governor's Meeting at Iowa Jewish Home. .} Frtday, October U ^Bat Mitzvah - Susan EUiabeth Fiiber. Beth El Jacob L Synagogue. f Balarday.OcteberK I Golden Ball, Hotel Fort Dea Moines. f: TlMnMlay, October 31 I ORT - Evening. Israel Polk FesUval NOVEMBER PrMay.N*veaiberl Bat Mitzvah —.Kim Engman at TUereth Israel Synagogue.

Satarday, November 2 '^^•:00. — Jewish Book.Month Sneaker |Brandels at Jewish Community Center

7 pjn. jeC Movie Series Msaday.Nevemberli -12:45 pjB. Tifereth Israel'* Wemaa's Laagua Torab Fund Uaieheoo.

Taesday, Navember 12 12:4B p.m. Eleanor Roosevelt Hadaaaah Open Meeting.

Wedacaday. Navember II 9:« aJB. Eleanor Roosevelt Hadasaah Board Meeting.

Thursday, Navember 14 12:90 pjn. Iowa Jewish Home Guild - Open Meeting.

Friday. November It Bar Mittvah — Jason Ekehnan ~ Tonple B'nai Jeshumn.

Satarday. November II Israel Bond HonOr to Vice President of Butcher's Union.

Saaday. November II , Valley Baseball idayoff - BBYO > BBW - 2:00 Maaday. November II 9:45 a.m. Hadasaah Chapter Board Meeting.

12:46 p.m. ORT Board Meeting Taesday, November It 9:30 — Temple Sisterhood Board Meeting 12:46 p.m. Beth El Jacob Sisterhood Luncheon Meeting.

Wednesday. November U ALL DAY — Womens Federation Education Day nanday, Navember 21 9:45 a.m. Br^uideU Meeting.

12:30 p.m. Handicrafts and Book Sale, B'nai B'rith Women.

Friday, Novembers Bar Mitzvah — Jay Brown at Temple B'nai Jeshurun.

Maaday. November 21 9:00 p.m. ORT Meeting. "Consumer Protection" 7:30 p.m. — Jewish {"vnily Service Board Maatiog.

Taeaday, November 21 12:45 p.m. Temple SisteriXMd Luncheon neeting 7:10 p.m. Board of Governor's Meeting.

DECEMBER Moaday. December 2 U:45p.m. - Tifereth Israel Women* League Board Meeting.

I^aaday. December 1 10 a.m. Beth El Jacob Sisterhood Board Meeting.

12:45 p.ffl. Eleanor Rooaevelt Hadaaaah Group Meetbg.

Wednesday, December 4 8:00 p.m. Beth El Jacob Men's ^nagogue Board Meeting.

Saaday, Decembers 1:30 pjn. Hadaiaah Busincaa and Prefaasional 7:00 pjn. - JCC Movie Series Maaday, December ( 12:45 p.m. Hnrietla Saold Group "Youth Allyah Faahion Show."

Taeaday. December II 9:45 a.m. Iowa Jewiah Home Guild Board Meeting.

Friday, December II 6:16 p.m. Tifereth brad Early Service and Hannukah Shabbal Dinner Maaday, December M 9:46 a.m. Hadaaaah Chapter Board Meeting.

12:45 p.m. ORT Board Meeting.

Taeaday, December 17 12:45 pjn. Beth El Jacob Sistefbood Luncheon Meeting.

9:30 a.m. — Temple SIstettood Board MeeUng 8:00 pjn. — aialerhood Meeting with the men Wedaetday, Deccaiber II 9:» a.m. — Eleanor Rooaevdt Hadasaah Board Meeting.

Saaday. December ZZ B'nai B'rith Bake Sale at Ricfaman Gordman all day.

Monday, December 23 7:30 pjn. Jewish FamUy Serrfcie Board Meeting Tbaraday, December M 7:30 p.m. Board of Govemors Meeting at Temple B'nai Jeshwtn.

Friday, December n 8:00 p.m. — College Student night at Temple B'nai Jeshurai Saaday, December Z* 12 p.m. RiU Isaacson will be marrying Irv RabinowiU al Tifereth larad Synagogue.

t SaadiayNeveaiker) [ 19^00 Brandeis Jewish Book Month I M*adsy,NeveBber4 112:45 Tifereth Urael Siiterbood Board Meeting. '*-12:00 Brandeis Jewish Book Month ^ Taesday, November i klO a.in. Beth El Jacob Sisterhood Board Meeting.

I Wedsesday, November I i:iea.m. Eleanor Roosevelt-Hadaasah Groap Board Meeting. |:«0 pjn. Beth El Jacob SyaagogiM Men Board Maatiog •• Priday, November I Bat Mitzvah - Judith Hockenberg - Tifereth Israel IjniagngiMi Satarday. Nevcmber 9 kaoor — Hadaasah Evening.

V; taaday.Novsaiberlt KM pjn. Hadaasah Burineaa and Profeaaional Book Review, . iiivtl Bend Conjqiuqity A/faIr

JANUARY W*daeaday,Jaaaalryl S p.m. Beth El Jacob Synagogue Board Masttag.

Satarday, Jaaaary 4 Bar Mitzvah - Mark Ginifaerg at Tifereth Israel Synagogue.

Maaday. Jaaaary • U:46 p.m. Tifereth Ivad Womens League Board Meeting.

Taesday, Jaaaary 7 9:46 ajn. Program on Jewish Art — Roosevdt, 10:00 a.m. Beth El Sisterhood Board Meeting.

12:45 p.m. Eleanor Rooaevdt HMlaiaah Tea at the Art Center.

Saaday. JaaaaryIt 1:» pjn. Hadasaah Bualneas and ProfaMlooal 7:to ajn. — JOC Movie Series Meaday. Jaaaary II 12:46 pjn. Tifereth Israd Uterary "The Look" Uwichenn IWiday, Jinntry 14 9:46 a.i|i. Iowa Jewiah Home Guild Board MeeUng. I4M pJB. Hsnrletts Baold Group Board Mactinj.

Satarday, Jaaaary IS Da Moines Symphony — Ruaaian.

Maaday, Jaaaary 10 9:46 am. Hadaasah Chapter Board Meding 12:45 p.m. ORT Board Meeting.

7:30 p.m. — Jewiah Family Service Board Meding.

TMaday, Jaaaary II 9:30 ajn. — Temple Stotaitacod Board MaeUng 12:45 p.m.-Beth El .lacob Sisterhood Meeting.

U:46 p.m. —1:00 p.m. New Food "Koahar" Wedaesday. Jaaaary 22 9:30 a.m. Eleanor Roosevelt Hadassah Group Board Meeting.

Tbarsday, Jaaaary 23 »:4i a.m. BrandeU Meettag.

Satarday, Jaaaary Z* 7:00 p.m. B'nai B'rith Art and Poems by iowans.

Maaday, Jaaaary 27 I2:tf p.m. ORT Meeting Thanday, Jaaaary 10 7:30 p.m. Board of Govemon MeeUng FEBRUARY Maaday. Febraary 3 13:45 p.m. Tifereth brad Women's League Board Meeting.

Taeaday, Febraary 4 10 a.m. BeUi El Jacob SUtathood Board MeeUng. 13:00 p.m. Brandeis at Art Center.

13:45 p.m. Olmstead Center at Drake University 13:46 pjn. Eleanor Rooaevdt Hadaaaah.

Wedaesday, Febrarary i 9:00 p.m. Beth Q Jacob Men Synagogue Board Meeting.

Saaday, Febrarary 9 1:30 pjn. Hadasaah Bodoeas and Profesdond TiMsday, Febraary 11 9:46 ajB. — Iowa Jewiah Home Guild Board Meeting 13:45 p.m. Henrietta Sadd Group "Baking for Purim" or "How to in One Easy Lesson."

Wedaesday, February IZ 9:30 a.m. Eleanor Rooaevdt Hadasaah Board MeeUng. Saaday, February IS 2:00 p.m. B'nd B'rith Brotherhood Ftogram, Palman Poster

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7:00 p.ro. - J.C.C. Movie Scries Msnday, Febraary 17 9:45 a.m. Hadassah Chapter Board MeeUng. 12:45 p.m. ORT Board MeeUng Taeaday, Fekraary 18 9:30 a.m. — Temple Siaterbood Board MeeUng. 13:45 p.m. Tifereth larad Women at BeUi El Jacob Sisteriwod Umcheoo.

Wedaesday. Febraary II 9:30 a.m. — E. Roosevdt Group board meeting, home of Mrs. Marshall Berg.

Saaday, Febraary Zl 10 a.m.-13. — Purim Caraivd at Temple.

Maaday, Febraary M 7:30 p.m. — JFS board meeUng. Taesday, February Z5 13:46 pjn. — Temple Sisterhood Purim- luncheon.

7:30 p.m. Board of Govemon meeUng at UH Wedaetday, Febraary 31 B'nai B'riUi Dance of Joy If there are any quesUons about Uiese scUvities, pleaae contact: Mea'i OrgaafasHsas B'nai B'riUi Men - Sam Zelden (279-2845) Children of larael - Sidney Pearlman (2S&-2486) Jewish War Veterana - Sidney Levine (256-1441) Mitrachi Men - Mose Winick (Z77-8888) ZOA - David Kaminsky (295-10921 BeOi El Jacob Synagogue - Sam WInkik BeUi 61 Jacob BroUiarhood - Hyman Booth Temple B'nai Jeahurun - Fred Lorber TUereth larad Synagogue — EUiol Brody Women's OrgaaliaUoat Iowa Jewiah Home Guild — Mrs. Marvin Sillc (296-4345) Children of Israel Siaterhood — Mrs David Biber (2434(39) B'nai B'riUi Women - Mrs. Patricia Newgaard (2n-l004) Brandeis University Women's Committee — Mrs. Elliot Brody (270-6167) Scttkn' Hadaasah - Mrs. Shirley Berg (274«m) Hadaaaah Buainesa k Profaaafamal - Mrs. Sophia Ferslanfeld (279-ISM) Eleanor Roosevelt Group of Hadasaah - Mrs. David Kaminsky (2S6'II»2| Uenrletu^zold Group of Hadaaaah*- Mrs. Sharon Koren (2250279) Mltrachi Women - Mrs. David Biber (3n-«m> ORT - Mra. Charleen Fdnbarg (2S6-25S2) BeU) El Jacob SIslerhood — Mrs. Ron Dadda Ttmple B'nai Jeahurun - Mra. Gary Friedman T)fereUi Israd Women'a Leagtie - Mra. Al Winick

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iDes Moines BJE Hopes to Develop 'Model Program' I DES MOINES - To pevelop "a model pngrtm Slor JewUh coramunttiet ^croH the country"

r That'i tlM 8oiU which the Moinas Bureau o( Jcwiih ^Education, headed by David 'W Beliii, hai tet for Itaelf.

And U> that end, Belio «nd )Shlomo Benderly, the BJE'i txecuiive director, have aimed ttiemselve*.

"Our primary goal," aaid ^Belin in bit annual mcfaage :lo the Det Moinei Jewiah i«ommunlty, "is to d«v«lop urithifl our youth a potltive, •ntliuaiaatic attitude toward 'Judaiim and Jewish values ^and the importance o( being ^•wiih that wiU be itrong Iwaugh to carry through our ^children ia they nniture, Cleave for college and start .^ir own familiea." !" The BJE also seeks "to Integrate the education of our children with tJie total family |DM

education experienee," Battn said.

To reach these goals, he uid, the BJE is developing a curricula which includes a basic understanding of Hebrew with optional programs available for thoae wanting to develop greater skill in the language. Also offered are Bible study pragrams "so that every stadeat in our Jewish cAieatioa program will have basic famlllarUy with key partloiis of the Bible as weU as Jewish histary" from Abraham tkroagh the holocaast and the ettabllsbment of the State of Israel.

Presenuday liraeli problems aad those in the American Jewish commuoity will also be studied.

Balin uid study also inchides Jewish culture and ethical values as well as in-, formal education programs

EmatioaaUsm ... Beaderiy, left, and stadenti dance. including Jewish singing,' motivate them because the daricing, drama and arts and key to the goal of our crafu. philosphy is 'motivated Benderly stressed emotions Jewish youngsters'. during the past year.

"We believe that if the Ud Is "We approached Jewish motivated, the rest will come study differently," he said, easy. We tried to achieve "we placed more stress on these goals by many varied emotion — the feelings of activities on a formal an your children. We tried to informal baais.

"By giving ipcelat attention to each and every one of our students, wr tried to give them a chance to express themseivei and to faiteract with their peers in Jewish society."

Benderly, In his annual message, said that what one parent called the "special curriculum and special charisma" of the school was due in part to the parents, the staff, the rabbis and board officials and to the students tliemselves.

He told the parents, whom he termed "the greatest helpers in the world," Your smiles, your 'thank you', your positive feedback and even your critical remarks were very rewarding to me and to the staff."

He said of the suff, "I think we're lucky to have a group of profesaionals who are on such a high level . . . There is not

perfection, but it's a pleasure to see a group of creative, dynamic, capable Jewiahteachers who are enthusiastic, concerned and who care."

He lauded the rabbit, memlxrs of the board and President Beiin "who gave so much of their support, time, effort, talent and understanding to guide us in safe directions."

And the kids? "Maybe we're not objective because there ire no objective parents. At this time I don't feel like bebig objective. Our Udt hi Des Mobies are just great — period!"

Benderly notes, however, (Continued on 72)

Serving the Community—People Activities Mrs. Shirley Berg

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Oes Moines Native Is Hadassah Leader DES MOINES - Mrs. Sharon Koren, a native of Bes Moines who has always been active in local organizations, is currently president of Senior Hadassah.

Mrs. Koren, who holds a degree in social administration from the University of Arizona, has three children — Bruce, Deena and Sheliey.

President's Message— (Continued from M) ieneratlMM te the paiat la which ihey undersUnd their Jewish IcriUge hi a way perhaps that few American geoeratiaw have feeftre: and then als«, a* that the next geacratioM and the aaes Ikat follaw have the •yysrtutty la ndarstaad the Impact af Ikefaig Jewish.

These requirements will mean sacrifice to many of ua; l^erhapa it will mean aacrifice beyond a level which we forfutiy have (bought unnecessary and histortcally unwilling to poncUier.

In summary, our obligation to our local community, to brael, to Russian Jews, and to all people in all lands who are pppnsaed, will cause us, in the final analysis, to be.called upon m • participative and moat meaningful manner not only for Pnancial resources, which of course are essential, but also for a •ew and even more lofty personal commitment of time and The Board of Trusteea and Officers of the Jewish Welfare ^Meration join with me in wishing to each of you a moat Balthy, happy, and prosperous new year, L'SHANAH TOVAH CHATAVU. (..

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Mrs. Berg is on the Jewish (immunity Center board and is a memlier of the Women's federation, B'nai B'rith Women, ORT and the Brandeis Study Group and is, of course, also active in the Beth El Jacob Sisterhood.

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nOU Timer's Review By tmm Zwcteck The regular "luncheon gneeting" of the . JC Oidmmert wu held Tueaday, pfcpt-3 at Uw new JCC with M

Greetings for the New Year May the coming /«or bring you and your fomifiM tha blessings of good heoith, p«ac« and contentment.

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BETH EL MEN'S CLUB ZweibackllsteM laMcCaUlsttr Gordon of Council Bluffs, guest of his brother-in-law, Charles Pellmao. GenUemen, It's such a pleasure to have you with us.

We held our election of officers who will take over for the coming year on Oct. 1, lff74, and the following slate recommended by the Nominating Committee was elected by acclamation: PresMeat — Marvin TVeller; Vice-Presideat .ssd Program ChairouB — Sam Zwciback; Secretary sad Treisarer — Morrie Becker; Ubrarlaa — Joe Freeman, and GaedWelfsrc — Sol Kriielman.

Congratulations to our new officers, and we know that our "Old-Timers" can expect another good year under their leadership.

After the Election, Charley Pellman was given the floor, and, on behalf of the entire membenhlp of 162 men, read a tribute to our out-going president, Joe Rice, who contributed so much to making the succesa that is our group.

Ow U Ike High HoHdays there will be ae meetiap far Ike rest o( this mMtk. 0«r •est meeting will be held oa TWsday, October 1st.

Again, just a reminder, please call a day or so ahead of Ume to make your reservatioa. Call Ose, 334«00.

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Beth El Officers RabU .MyerS.Kripke iCaBlor Chaim Najman PrMldsnt Hubtrt I. Roaenblinn VicePnaidnt 7...,...w;....>lr».ah«MpnUix!oln VkePreridHt RichardWIntroub VlcePrcdtait Arnold Starn Secretary Sheldon Rips Treaaurer Jerome Gordman Traslcees — Stanley Silverman, H. Lee Gendler, Jenina Cohen, Mrs. Nathan Berg, Robert Epstein, Alan Goodman, Barton Greenberg, Gary Groaa, Mrs. Louis Jess, Mrs. George Kagan, Dr. Sol Kutler, Philip Ringle, Stuart Rochman, Kenneth Sacks, Dr. Martin WoU, Harold Novak, Harold Zabln, Ell Zalkin, Stanley Wldmsn.

Hsierkaod RcpreseaUUves — Mrs. Donald Klein, Mrs. Norman Pred. Mrs. Harold Novak.

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\ At nMal, many of our pnamhera started to arrive at iMrty as 10 a.m., just to have MkepisMure of "schmoosing" Paad renewing acquaintances ^At 11 a.m., another out '•landing "Israel Movie" was ' tbown and was enjoyed by all.

'At noon, we moved Into the ^krge room just off the lobby ^for a outstanding Dairy -Lunch Prepared and served 'by MoUie Delman and her 'Volunteer Girls — Sara Saltzman, Bemice Kaiman, Dorothy Rubenstein and Van Farrand. Again, thank you girls. Before partaking of our hmch. Rev. Alex KaU led the '. group in reciting the "HotM" and after lunch. Cantor Aaron Edgar led aU of us in the "Benchen".

I This week, our guest [speaker was Congressman John Y. McO^ister. second fDislrict, Nebraska, who spoke :'an "Current Problems in ^Washington," including .Inflation and other topics.

After hU talk, he opened the •floor to all kinds of questions ^concerning government, etc., bnd answered them all "straight from the shoulder". ,In spile of another ^gagement. he stayed ground to renew acquaintances with many of our 'nembers who are personal IHends of his. : Due to our speaker's pchedule, our business 'ineeting, conducted by president Joe Rice, was hekl later. Joe introduced two new tmembers, Al GoMstein and I^Alfred Marburg. He also 'introduced Morris Peltz of •Chicago, guest of his brother ^Keith Pelz and Richard

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269 Fami/ies Affiliated(Continued from 91) The Conservative congreation heU its first official service on September IS, Its, and RahU Abraham Bengis was chosen to serve the congregation. His tenure was brief, however, and he wu succeeded by RabM David Goldstein, who would serve until the appointment of Rabbi Myer S. Kripke InlMt. At the first aaaaal BMetkig af the coagregatlaa hi IKS, a teUI sf 2M famUos was reported as atnUaled. la tts first year, the CaesanraliTe caegregalloa became the largest caegregatlse ki Ike cHy sad afnUaled with the Uaked Syaagogne et AaiMlea.

Several caaters briefly served the coagregatlaa before the arrival of Caalar Aaroa Edgar hi l«M al a yearly salary af The congregation was called simply the Conservative Synagogue for several yeara, though consideration was frequently given to a name change. In 1935 the congregation became Beth El Synagogue.

A cemetery was consecrsted In ItSt st e4Ui and L Streets.

Services were held at the Jewish Community Center end classes In the SOth and Dodge area until the present building was dedicated at 4Mh and Famam In im.

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Personal Greetings for Rosh Hashanah IR. AND MRS. JOHN L MRAHAM wUi aU th«ir relatives and friends 'health, hippinest, prosperity and peace in tlw New Year.

AND MRS. NORMAN ABRAHAM80N AND FAMILY extend warm greetings and (ood wliliet to all tor a happy, healthy, pnaperoua New Ye^. t^y the New Year brini S. health, t and proapcrity to all my fi relatJret and friends. DEBI JO ABRAM8 ^VHE ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE OF, B'NAI B-RITH extends their '' greetings and good wishes ' to all for a New Year fllM : with health, happlneia and ; peace.

MRS. DORA ARBITMAN ; AND FAMILY extend ., warm greetings and good wishes to all for a happy, ' healthy, prosperous New Year.

MR. AND MR8. CHARLES ARNOLD, wish aU their relatives and friends ' health, happiness, ti. prosperity and peace in the New Year.

B llR. AND MRS. NORMAN BATT AND FAMILY ex' tend warm greetings and good wishes to all for a happy, healthy, proaperous r New Year. fUL. AND MRS. PHIUP H. :' BATT extend their ^ greetings and good wishes to all lor a New Year filled with health, happiness and h peace.

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^R8. ALBERT BEBER wishes all her relatives and : (rlaods health, happiness, 4 prosperity and peace in the * NwrYear.

M. A. BERCOVin extends her greetings and good wishes to all for a New Year filled with health, happiness and peace. vThe NATHAN NORMAN \ BERG FAMILY extends [^ Uieir greeting and good t. wishes to all for a New Year r filled with health, hapt pincss and peace.

•R. AND MRS. MONTY BERGMAN extend warm greetings and good wishes loan for health, fuinilntent, and peace in the New Year. ilie Officers and Members of tBETH ISRAEL [^ 8I8TERHO0D extend ' wishes for a Happy and '•<- Healthy New Year to all.

Itay all our relatives and [friends be inscribed in the NEW YEAR BOOK OF LIFE with health, happiness, peace, and prosperity. MILT AND

MR. AND MRS. EUGENE BRAUN AND FAMILY Of W. Palm Beach, Florida, extend warm greettngi and good wishes to all for a happy, healthy, proaperous New Year.

May the New Year bring health, happlneaa, peace and prosperity to all our relatives and friends. MR. AND MRS. MAX BRESLOW AND DAVE New Year greetings and best wishes for health and happiness through-out the year. May every day be flUed with joy and contentment unsurpassed.

MRS. ANNETTA BROWN.

PEGGY AND JAY CHA8EN AND FAMILY extend warm greetings and good wishes to sll for a happy, healthy, prosperaus N<ew Year.

May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace snd prosperity to all our relatives and friends. MR. AND MRS. PAUL C. COHEN, DAVID AND DEBBIE MR. AND MRS. BEN Ct)HN AND FAMILY, S218 Corby, extend warm greetings and good wishes to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year.

MR. AND MRS. MAX OOHN wish all thair relaUvea and friends health, happlneaa, prosperity and peace in the New Year.

MR. AND MRS. SAM COLICK AND EDIE RENEE, of Council Bluffs, wish all their relatives and friends health, happiness, prosperity and peace in Iht New Year.

MR. AND MRS. MEYER COLNIC Wish all their relatives and friends health. happiness. prosperity and peace in the New Year May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and prosperity to all our relatives and friends. MR. AND MRS. HAROLD COOPERMAN The MR. AND MRS. PHILLIP CRANDfLL FAMILY extends their greetings and good wishes to aU for a New Year filled with health, happiness and peace.

D MRS. I. DAN8KY AND FAMILY extend warm greetings and good wishes lo all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year.

MR. AND MRS. HARRY DAVIDSON of Des Moioas wWi aD their relatives and friends health, happineas, prosperity and peace In the

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MR. AND MRS. OSCAR DIAMOND. RICHARD AND BILL wish sll their relttives and friends health, happiness, prosperity and peace in the New Year.

May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and presperity to all our reltUves and friends. MR. AND MRS. ALBERT FOX

May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and prosperity io all our relatives and friends.

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MR. AND MRS. JOSEPH FRAIDENRAICH and family extend, warm greetings and good wishes to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year.

May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and prosperity to all our relatives and friends. MR. AND MRS. DAVID DVORKIN

MRS. KLIZABETII FRIED wishes all her relatives and friends health, happiness, prosperity and peace in the New Year.

E May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and prospoity to all our relatives and friends. MR. MORTON EHRENREICH

MR. AND MRS, A. B. GENDLER AND FAMILY extend warm greetings and good wishes to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year.

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May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and prosperity to all my relatives and friends.

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Msy the New Yesr bring health, happiness, peace and prosperity to all our relative* and friends. MR. AND MRS. AV GREENBERG. BRUCE, MIKE AND RANDY The BARTON GREENBERG FAMILY extends their greetings and good wishes to all for a New Year fUM with health, happiness and peace.

MRS. NAOMI GREENBERG AND FAMILY extend their greetings and good wishes 10 all for a New Year filled with health, happiness and peace.

May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace and prosperity to all our relatives and friends. MR. AND MRS. GARY GROSS AND DAVID MRS. M. (LENA) GROSSMAN AND FAMILY extend warm greetings and good wishes to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year.

MR. AND MRS. MOE GROSSMAN wish all their relatives snd friends health, happiness, prosperity and peace In the New Year.

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KALAH FRANKLIN MIZRACHI WOMEN'S aiAPTER wish all their members and—their relatives and frieiKis health, happlneaa,, proaperity and p«ace In the New Year, MR. AND MRS. HAROLD KARP AND ALAN extend warm greetings and good wiahes to all for a happy, healthy prosperous New Year.

MR. AND MRS. MARVIN KIRKE AND FELICIA wish all their relaUvcs and friends health, happinaii, prosperity and peace in the New Year.

MR. AND MRS. S.< ABRAHAM KLOPPER «vish all their relatives and friends health, happiness prosperity and peace in their New Year.

The HERBERT HATCH FAMILY extends their greetings and good wishes MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY L. KLOPPER AND SONft> to all for a New YearfiUed extend warm greetings snd with health, happiness and . good wishes to sll for a peace. happy, healthy, prosperaus MR. AND MRS. BEN New Year.

HEI8LER AND FAMILY wish all their relatives snd ^MR. AND MRS. EDWARD friends health, happiness, KOHN wish all their prosperity and peace in the relatives and friends New Year; health, happiness, prosperity and peace in tht MR. AND MRS. PHILIP M. New Year.

HIRSCH wish all their relatives and friends MRS. MARTIN KOLM AND heslth, happiness, MR. JOHN KOLM extend' prosperity and peace in the warm greetings and good New Year. wishes lo all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New JERRY AND COOKIE Year HOBERMAN wish all their relatives and friends The MICKEY KAPLAN health, happiness, • FAMILY extends their prosperity and peace in the greetings and good wishes New Year. to all for a New Year Tilled with health, happlneaa and The MORRIS HOFFMAN peace.

FAMILY extends their greetings and good wishes to all for a New Year filled May the New Year bring health, happiness, peace with health, happiness and and .prosperity to all our peace.

L_ relatives and friends. MR. MR. AND MRS. SAM AND MRS. MANNY HORNSTEIN AND KREIT8TEIN AND FAMILY extend warm MOTHER. FRANCES^ greetings and good wishes GREENBERG to all for a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year.

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Zipursky: AH of Us Must Respond We apfiroacta the High Holy Days ftill suffering from tlie chilling shock of last Yom KipfMT. The terrible newt of the outbreak of war In Israel intruded upon the iinctlty of tbeiUy. On that day we responded the only way we could. We prayed together.

Immediately after Yom Kippur, tUi Jewixh community mobiliied to demonstrate our unqualified support of Israel by mounting an emergency Philanthrofiies campaign. That campaign raised an unprecedented amount of money.

BaaiiitlDiracten Praakhnt Moriey Zipunky ^ccPresident AhrtaiAliramMn VicePrMidnt Hubert I. RoMnfatum \ieePnMeBX HarianNodde Secretary Mn.MorriiC.Fdliiian IVeuurer Joeliptan ExecuUve Director Herbert M. Rubinitcin Member* — Norman Batt, Rabbi Sidney H. Brooki, Mrs. Jack B. Cohen, Paul G. Cohen, David Priedland, Mrs. Lloyd FYiedman, Prank Goldberg, Leonard Goldstein, Gary Gross, Danid Katzman, Joseph Kirshenbaum, Rabbi Myer S. Kripke, Robert Kully, Leo Meyoson, Charles A. Monasee, Rabbi Isaac Nadoff, Mrs. Isaac Nadoff, Mrs. C. M. (Nick) Newman, E. Robert Newman, Murray Newman.

Mrs. Robert Nogg, Yale Richards, Mrs. N. Julian Rips, Richard Robinson, Edward A. Rosen, Jack Saferstein, Eli Schupack, Mrs. Ervin Simon, Stanley SkMburg, Maurice Udes, Mrs. Milton Waldbaum, Richard Wintroub, Mrs. Harold Zelinsky.

Department Chairmen — Charles A. Monasee, Jewish Csmmunity Center; Mrs. Harold Zelinsky, Jewish Family Service; Robert Nogg, Dr. Philip Sher Home; Ernest Wintroub, Community Relations; Richard Zacharia, Esther K. Newman Camp; Steven J. Riekes, Bureau of Jewish Education; Stanford Lipsey, Jewish Press; Mrs. Morris C. Fellman, Omaha Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs. > Beatrice Sonuner, ctuirman of Women's Division; Howard Weinstein, Plains States Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; Hy Tabachnick, Director, Jewish Community Center; Richard B. Pearl, Editor, Jewish Press.

Never wai our ivpport more necessary.

Never has aor respease bees more evident.

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Our joy and pride in the Jewish Community Center is underscored by the knowledge that it will make a positive contribution to the enrichment of Jewish life in Omaha.

The Federation it operating under its bylaws. We see the involvement of mi pcofiie In more activities. Our departments are now able to act with more (reiedom. Yl*-have established a cogent and timely financial reporting system and we are concentrating on developing fiacal responalblllty in all areas.

We have accomplished much this year.

There is much yet to be done.

Our brothers, in Israel are in the midst of the bitterest struggle for survival in their history. We will help them in the way we do best — with money. Our 1975 Philanthropies campaign will be critical. The campaign leadership Is ah-eady at work and will be soliciting help from all of us. All of us must respond.

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Kulakofsky Tribute: Builder, Believer OMAHA — Tributes were offered this week in memory of J. Harry Kulakobky, a man whom many Omohans considered a pacesetter and policymaker both within and outside of the area's Jewish community.

Kulakofsky, a co-founder of no less than five Omaha Jewish institutions, died in a local hospital at age tl on Thursday, Sept. S, after a brief, illness. > He had helped found the city's Jewish Community Center, its Jewish Federation, Beth El Synagogue, Highland Country aub and th« Dr. Philip Sher Home for the Aged.

He served as president of Beth El. Uie Federatloa and Highland and together with his wife, Sadie, helped etUbtish Uie Israel Bond movement In Omaha.

In the community at large Kulakofsky, who was bom in Omaha in 1802, served on the Omaha Chamber of Commerce board and waa an active'meml>er of the Rotary aub.

A ' co-owner of th« Central Market, 1608 Harney Street, (or SO years, Kulakofsky was also active in Ak-Sar-Ben and one of his daughters, Ethelyn Simon, was an Ak princess.

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Omaha Jews, k>st a dear friend last week," said Moriey Zipursky, president of the Omaha Jewish Federation.

"Harry Kulakofsky was a believer, a builder, a participant and a supporter of all that makes us good Jews and responsible citizens.

"He was In the ferefroet of sapporters o( all new directions Uken In oar community development. He paHlcipated with all hU resources and helped develop J. Harry Kulakofsky the vibrant community we are now. will be with us at all limes.

"His leadership and "We extend our sincerest guidance will be missed but condolences to Sadie and the (Cbntinuedon69) his contribution! to all of vn

Israeli Dance Class Draws Interest

JCC Cultural Arts Survey Response Pleases Zaikin

By Claadia Sberaaaa OMAHA - Mark Zaikin, director of the Jewish Community Center's CulUiral and Performing Arts Department, says he's exUemely pleased with both the quantity and positiveness of the responses to a survey taken by his department in July The survey attempted not only to aquaint Center members with the department and ib objectives, but also to give membes an opportunity to voice their opinions and make i auggestions concerning programs in art, drama, musk and dance.

"We also exposed members to the kinds of classes we're offering. They may be interested in taking them later, if not now," Zaikin said.

Zaikin designed the survey, which described a wide variety of classes. JCC

members were asked to faidicate their interest in taking each class and their scheduling preferences. "i tried to make the sarvey as sinpie and as coaclse as possfele." he said. Besides Involving members In. the progrsasmiBg.Uie sarvey also affercd Iheni a chance to join aay of loor dcpartmealal sabcommlttees.

"We took the survey because our department is really starting from scratch compared to some of the Center's other departments, Zaikin explained.'The Jewish Community Center has never had an on-going cultural and performing arts department.

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Post<lau evaluations by members also are planned, Zaikin said. Many of the classes in the survey were inchided in the Center's faUwinter brochure, so Zaikin ngures the survey results will really be felt in the spring Elev«n persom signed for subcommittees, which will be the department's sounding boards. Music classes — especially for piano and guitar lessons — drew "gratifying responses," according to Zaikin, who added there was "tremendous interest in dancing classes and we also had a heavy response indicating llie popularity of art classes, especially those for children."

In the latter category, Zaikin cited the "Creathity Comer", a class for }-to-Syear-olds which teaches them

to relate to their group through crafts, rhythmic movement, mtuic and dramatic storytelling.

"Adults seemed particularly interested in 'Arts For The Home' and our non-artist workshops dsigned for people who have never experimented in the various media of fine art such as point, cky, ink, wood and paper.

"There's also an overwhelming interest in drama elaases, especially for Children's tlieatcr and "Prop Box', which utilizes simple props and toys to stiihulate creativity," Zaikin sal^.

He called the resonse for photography "unbelievable" and vowed "we certainly will keep the suggestions in mind and hMk into the poMlbiUty of some photography courses in the spring."

Members were also asked to indicate their Interest In

classes of Jewish orientatioa and content.

Piano lessons at the Center will make use of general and Jewish musical literature.

The recorder class and beginnnng guitar lessons will leach fundamentals utiliting Jewish literature.

"Inlrodnctloa to Jewish Mask", an historkai sarvey o( Jewish mask with special emphasis «a Uie Ashheaattt Song tl i%t Syaagogue.

Chaxianlna and Chaixaaut, drew members' Interest.

Yiddish, Israeli and ChassMk songs will also be enjoyed ia tkb class. Zaikin said.

For those who like to aing a varied repertoire, a JCC chorus will include folk, pop, cUssical, Hebrew, Yiddlah and liturgical selections.

Zaikin stated that instrumental ensembles wouU take advantage of the thousands of works by Jewish composers and compositions of Jewish content

An Israeli dance class attracted some interest in the survey, as did "Children's Crafts and Holiday Workshop" making gifts and decorations for Jewish holidays. Several adult members said they would be interested in taUng a special^ Chanukah art workshop.

"We keep a list of class suggestions submitted by members. Usually all it takes to get a class started is enough people interested in taking it. Generally, we don't have any trouble getting a good instructor," Zaikin said.

"We want to be innovative and creative In our department. We don't want to stagnate in our programming," he emphasized. "So we'U continue to listen to our members' requests and we'll keep track of idei)s we receive from other Jewish Community Centers and remain aware of our own community's needs and trenda.

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Center fs 75 Per Cent OMAHA - On A{irU », , 1«74, a iMw dimension wu ^dded to Jewiili community rUfe is Omaha. [ On that day. the lOt.OOO|tquare-(oot Jewiih Com^munity Center, built by $4 million In donationa from the f Jewish community and Its I' rriemb. was opened. [ After 4'^ months of I operation, the JCC lisU about L 1,150 members. Families are I represented by BS per cent of ^Ihat figure, meaning ap;; proximately 3,504 persons Lbave accMs to the Center as members.

These 3 ,$M ha ve been aslng [ facllHies ranging frimi the fgymnisltim and handball ' co«r<s to the art* and crafts ' stadia and the library. i Ray Somberg, chairman of '. the JCC memt>ershlp comr mittee, says he's pleased with the progress of the mem' bcrship drive during the \, Center's initial stages.

"We're about 75 per cent filled now," he said, "and I [think that's commendable comtderlng we've been open far l«H than six montha." He wMad, "I certainly want to we the Job completed, though, and I hope the * membership will continue to grow throughout the rest of ; (he Center's first year." ^ "J" members were offered i» variety of classes and ] special evenU during the ^summer months.

The Heelth and Physical Education Department offered youngsters the Recreation and Sports Camp which drew 260 Idds aged 5 through (, as well as a preseason baslcetbaii which drew 20.

Chuck Arnold, director of the health and pbys. ed. department, said he was gratified to see so many adults working out both bidividually and in classes at the Center this summer.

Racquetball competition was popular among both men and women. An on-going ladder tournament has 100 participants. Karate, wrestling and gymnastics were also popular at the Center this past summer.

Highlighting the season for the JCC Cultural and Performing Arts Department was the eight-day run of the musicsl "Cabaret," the Center's first theatrical production which drew a cumulative audience of over 2,100.

Department director Mark ZaUdn has already instituted a classic film series which will run through May, 1975, and the theater Is now readying its next production, 'TV Tenth Man", to be performed In October.

Another highlight for ZalUn's department was the •warding of a $3,000 grant by the Nebraska Arts Councii.

The grant will help pay for thn^ apeclal events at the Center, beginning with a photographic exhibit, "Jerusalem: City of ManUod," and inchiding a presentation of a special choral work by Cantor Charles Davidson honoring the new Center's opening, and alio a workshop demonstration and concert by Felix Febich, an autKority on Jewish dance with a wide variety of programs.

The Center's art classes drew approximately 45 children with a wide variety of programs offered children ages i through 8 and 9 through 12.

Zaikin said about so children and sdults enrolled in the Center's five ceramic classes, which are being offered again this fall.

The JCC's youth game rooms became the focal point for Youth Department programs aimedat Junior and senior high school students, according' to Larry Katz, JCC director of youth services and programs. Efforts are underway to organize a teenage advisory planning borad.

Other children's programs included the Kiddie Camp and use of the elementary school game room. The game room, k)caled in the J's nurser school wing, was open several afternoons a week for

Chemical Products Co., Inc. children age 5-12, Kiddie Camp for 2>4-to-S-year-olds had an enrollment of 137 youngsters who came to the Center three mornings a' week.

The concrete finishers' strike in Omaha during the summer delayed completion of the Center's outdoor Olympic-size and Indoor swimming pooto and also the tennis courts.

But the indoor pool is now in use — as JCC Construction Chairman Norman Batt puts it, "The cavity in the indoor pool has been filled" — and Center members will be able to swim throughout the year.

The outdoor pool will be ready next sprinK. Batt noted the Center's air conditioning unit was turned on during the record-breaking heat wave. He is now working with contractors and the architect to eliminate the construction problems indigenous (o new buildings.

"We look back with a great deal of pride on our various department programs and our auspicious first months at the center," said Hy Tabachnlck, JCC executive director.

He added, "We're also looking forward to a happy and healthy new year for not only the Center, but also the entire Jewish community."

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The Ad^dacry Committee also hopes to better the diak)gue between groups with similar interests — for instance, between the JCC'a older adult group, the Jewtab Family Service and the Dr. Pl^ Sher Home fw the Aged.

The committee hepcs te kelp hMtttote pregrans that have been asked (or by the Jewish ^rederattoa la past years, "aamely, the College Youth Program."

On long term planning, Abramson points out that "data must be devekped rdating to an in-dq)th study of our Jewish community. Who we are, where we are, wliat are our conununity needs."

To provide such information, the Advisory Committee will look into having a demographic study made of the Jewish community — a study never before undertaken in Omaha.

Such a survey would bring in such data as the age, sex and marital status i of the Jews of Onoaha; famUy unit compositipn; the individual's education, profession, approximate income ievd^, place of origin, years in Omaha, his synagogue affiliation, places of residence and employment, health status, interests and needs.

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They're asking a kit of other questions pertaining to those two, also, as they form RHhaps the first regularly constituted group ever to kiok at Omaha's Jewish community in its entirety and attempt to project the actions it may need to continue to care for itsdf and improve its condition.

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"Our conunittee must be sensitive to the short-term and long-term needs of the community."

Under the short-term designation, the committee seeks a continuous evaluation ot the programs and services of the various agencies of tlie Je^viah Federation.

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Is it Mt • charactcrtsUe •( »aay to believe thai the eU •vlrtaes are disappearteg, the ;«U valaes dislMegrallBg, Ike iiM, ge«d, stem ways aa " The historic tacts are that |tte moral order undergo** regeneration as well sa decay. Within the soul, within ;|lie body social, there mutt be •~ if we are to experience long IHrvival — a contiauoua ^'recurrence of birth" to lullify the unceasing ^^Bcurrcnoa of dealb. l^'^HUt aaase are laahig Ikdr jlhHk. alben are acUevhw •ew spMeal laslghts: whBe lp«e src grewlag slack aad kypecrlllcal, ethers aro Hi^llni a new Meaahig aad ytollly le (beir aierai rfMen and women who unitnUod thU fact of life and iiecept its impUcaUoM «UI ienew the moral order and |enew their aociety u well. : A leclety Is ceetlnaeesly Mcrested fey Its meaibera, IfUa win sirihe some as a fcrisMfr respeaaMWy. M It wM MisaMsa etkars to prtatacas. ' In the life of humanity, we must have the ability to live in bm-term values instead of pMrt-Ume values. f- We can live only with tbe ^asolves to make our best Bntribution to whatever Iture Ihall survive for the Iferiumph of men whom we IhsU never know, in ages that lire shall never experience, This also is maturity •itual maturity. And this ; for the good life has iver been put more rerfully and auccinctly an by Mut Twain: "So |hn( at though you will live •Dr ever; so labor sa though lou will die tomorrow." t;Ewn ss we are the heirs of Baillln, MinU and heroes •ho lived and died for us and p IMr death gave birth to Hir world of conflict, so are •e ibe anceston of an unEredleltbla, creative,

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lemaoding human society yet in the womb e( time. perils, despahr, etc. May be news, bat they are by no mesas new to the banan rsce or human beings.

The aegstivc end denigratfaig attitnde toward the hanaa psaorama igseres the decisive rele of hamin •geaaity. the will, the visiea lad tbe wsrk af aiea sad wemta fai s free seeicty.

Recently Barbara Tucb' nun, dlttingulsbed historian, said: "The doomsayers work by extrapolation; they take a trend and extend it, forgetting that tbe doom factor generates a coping mechanlam ... You cannot extrapolate any series Ip which Die human element Intrudes: History, that la, the human narrative, never follows, and will always fool, tbe scientific curve."

Some time ago I put it this way: Human life is too complex and too profound and too sublime to be computerized even by the most cocnsumate computers.

Pro^iets of doom fail to predict accurately what will happen. They cling to the bdief that there are accepted abaohilae in a world of rapidly

changing value systems.

Te avoid this myopic tunnel-view of men and mankind and its vast, latent and unpredictable potential, we have to feel that there are oeraons and causes and powera outside of our own egos worthy of our devotion, our loyalty and our love. Tbe more we avoid our selfcenterednest, the truer become our cooperative attitudes, our sense of interdependence and our mutual growth with others; tbe happier become our own personal destiny and the richer our own individual Joy. Is It BOt an axiom that the oaly way to mnltiply happlaess Is to divide It? The norc eae gives of bimseil to ethers, the aiore be baa left As Rabbi Joshua Loth Uebman said: "We thaU never find life worth living so long as we remain imprisoned within our own little egos. The secret of survival and success in the world is to place one's ego at the service of loved ones, of large social purpoaes, of great causes."

Day by day, it It more and more evident that the world is getting smaller — far too small for petty loyalties; and

far loo looaU (or oationa armed to tbe hilt with atomic bomba, poiaooous gases and lethal bacteria.

AU peoples of Ibe earth are inextricably involved in a common fate and destiny.

The world of tomorrow la going to need more toughminded, tender-hearted, welladjuated, sane aplrits than ever before.

If we keep faitellfctaal and emotional maturity iteadily before as, wi shall be able to afffa'm that life is worth the ttniggie. It it worth it In its owe terms sod becsuse II gives as the patiibliity of making Ikoae icrmi better for the geaerations yet to come.

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OMAHA - Approximately «M JewiMh bmilicf ia the Omaha area have a "relative" in the perton of Mrt. Pearl Yager.

The director of the ooewomao Jewish Family Service of Omaha lays the wantt her office, located in the new Jewish Communtiy Cenity Center, to be considered "an extended family

for everyone."

At a time when even the Jewish family unit is becoming more looae-knit, Mrs. Yager feels her role is especially Important.

"You know," she said, "we are having ntany of the same problems now that other ethnic group* have had."

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among those of the Jewish faith, Mrs. Yager said that said tlMt many individuals in the community "definitely need help" in coping with their new situations.

However, Mrs. Yager isn't Just present in times of extreme crisis. "We run tlte gamut of a family service agency," she explained.

Some of her duties include working closely with the aged, especially at the Dr. Sher Home, and also helping to relocate immigrant families and aiding transients.

But she also helps with adult and child personal adjustment problems, marital counaeling and financial asslatance

problenu.

She added there will be a definite attempt to offM Jewish Family Utk Education programs that wUI assist families in coping wltb their everyday problems. , Other new outreschfii currently being studied oy Mrs. Yager are a "friend^ visitor" program, whicii would prtnide the eldernr with someone to talk to daily, and family life program fCM divorced and widoweij women.

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A Canadiu rabM. and hit ereport thtt daU (ron tlw 1 Canadian cenaua Indicate I (he fertility of CanadUn 'ew« la the loweat of at! etbnic '^oupa in Canada and that Jews over the age of 4S are a : .Jarger percentage of the '^00,000-member Jewiah fmniunity than ii true for t Canadian popqlatlon aa a

whole The report waa made by flabbl Bernard RaaUn of Hallton and hla wife, a reaearch aaiociate at McMaiter Univeraity'i department of epidimdogy and bio-alatiitici.

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UaUke the attaattoa ia the UaKed SUIet, where Jewiah orgaaliatiaaa have adamaatly raaiatad all Ceaaai propeaalt la ttmiy Jews demographlcally. the Canadian census data Include lafermalion about Canadian Jewry.

The RaaUna reported that the cenaua data showed that the Jewish birthrate in Canada during the paat 20 years, and especially during the paat 10 years, has been aubatantlally lower than that of the general population.

They aald this finding is not aurprialttg since population studies In both Canada and the United States have shown that Jews marry later, have the smallest families and are succeaaful in planning the number and spacing of all of their children.

They also reported that during the past 40 years, Canadian Jews "have been barely reproducing themselves." Demographers uaually give 2.1 children per family as the replacement level. The fUsMns found that the toUl ferUllty rate of Canadian Jew for the 1966-

1971 period waa 1.7, which they deacribed aa the current rate for Jews in Quebec "and well below the replacement level."

They described the high proportion of Jews over 4S as the result of a long period of true fertUlty, addhig that "contrary to popubr belief, the aghig of a populatioB is the result of a decline hi fertility and not the result of longer living."

They reported as another surprising result of the census that 296,940 Jews placed themselves In the category of "ethnic group" and 276,020 Jews described themselves as members of a religion. They aaserted that the differential was Impossible to analyze but thai one Interpretation could be that nearly 20,000 Canadian Jews prefer the ethnic to the religious label.

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They added that If that waa a conaclous choice, rather llian the result of misunderstanding or whim, "it does not bode well" for the future of rellgiouB growth and Jewish Identification among Canadian Jews.

Kulakofsky Tribute (Continued from 64) family. Hla cheerful smile and warm support will be meffloriea we will always cherish."

A longtime personal fHend, Harry Rubiensteln, said Kulakofsky "waa the most charitable aeOve worker as any Jewish member of the Omaha community. He never said no to anything that was right.

"He operatad a large bttsbieaa weD and he did many Ihbigs for both Jews and non-Jews thai were not pabllclied because he didn't want them publlclied."

A basketball player and track athlete at Central High

School, Kulakofsky attended the University of Michigan.

Physically active throughout his life, he played golf until a couple of weeks before his death.

Survivors hiclude his widow, Sadie S.; daughtera Ethdyn of Piedmont, Calif.; Beth Smith of Kansas City and Ruth Belzer of Glenooe, Dl.; son Michael Kulakofsky of Park Forest, HI., 14 grandchildren and four greatgrandchildren.

Funeral services were Friday, Sept. S, at Betlv El with interment In Fllher^ Farm cemetery.

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Waffingm The Cemetery: Aftermath ofMeah ' EOITOR-8 NOTE: Tfe( trUegy af MaaM teMiuwt U renMato liw a*M af aU Itraaiit ^ Jewi evcrywlMra. b thb lerica af jM^cttM. 8Mia K. ui Jay C. JaeokMi. iw* lAiacrkaa Jaw* wha aule iHya. renect lUi Ingc4y thraagh Ikair eye*. Thb leriet wat Iccctvcd by tk« Jewbk Tcletp-aphic Afeacy pkraagh Ike eaarttay al Ike Vaiui Jewisk i. -ICopyrlakt W*. J*wl(li TaMfripMc AMacy, lac.)

• The keening, (lie wailing «•• aiidUite half a pile away, a aympboay of bopelessncw and isipair written in a minor key.

I Thirty days after Arab tcmorisU murdered |1 Israeli children and four adult* in cold blood tltoalot. their families gtttiercd in Safad'i «k cemetery for the dedication of their ^bstones.

'• Ironically, moii of these unfortunate huniliet expressed their grief in Arabic. Tliey tame to Safad in the IKOa, immigrants from ikrab lands in North Africa and Asia Minor.

Called Oriental Jews, or Sephardim, they are t community ol close-knit clans whose youngsters are reared in homes where love is pRore important than money, where singing, isncing and storytelling provide heartier fare {ban television, where riches are measured in Itehal," Dul special kind of pleasure that Bomes only from kids and grandchildren.

1 In the eeaetery, tke caonnaaily expretied |k fnulratiwi aad (car. Us aager aad beartMckncii ID the s«ly way it knawi.

A ragged group of wonnen surrounded the pfave of little Sarah BenShimon. Some Happed (heir hands, marktog a tempo to a Krge sung in the eerie mode of Midddle Bastem music, wtiUr others rhythmically peratched at tbeir (aces, Iwring skin and flesh IB time to the threnody, feeling no pain in their iB-encompassing sorrow. Even the drops of iood that fell and splattered on the tomb pemed to keep (ke beat. : Nearby, the mother of Yiataiv Kabla sat in fee dust before his monument. She tried to

beat herself to death, pounding powerful fists on breast, throat, face. She reached out and picked up a good-sized stone — a woman deftly took it from her hand. Never hrnaWng cadence, she continued to rain heavy tdows on herself while the woman, undH-standing, stood silently by.

At other gravesides there was no hysteria.

Rachel Ahuta's mother and three sisters sat on her crypt, silently weeping. A man stood at the resting place of Yocheved Mason, crying unashamedly. As the tears streamed down His ckeeks, he comforted his womenfolk, gently patting their hesds, kissing the Mood off their (aces.

Across the narraw able, a hirge, qnlel crowd paid homage to the memory of Sara Sofer. The Scpkardic rabbi recited Kaddlih. the prayer far tke dead, Iken comforted the moarneni.

They gave way to tears again as be began to chant another prayer: "Kl Moieh Rahamim ... God full of mercy, who lives on higk ..

A pregnant woman became pale and swayed. A dozen hands grabbed her, eased her to the ground. Aviva Hananel, eleven years a volunteer in the Safad branch of the Red Magen David, hurried over with a glass of water and a sniff of aromatics.

A hundred yards from the burial site stood s galvanized iron sbed housing gravedigger's tools. Outside the shack, supported by two unfinished tombstones, stood a table of rough planks. It was kiaded down with cakes and sandwiches, bottles of soda and fruit juice, jugs of hot mint tea and Turkish coffee. The women of the town brought them for the mourners. No one wanted to take credit for the idea; "it just grew," said one of the ladies serving. "Nobody really planned it."

Slowly, in twos and threes, the mourners drifted away from the graves. Holding each other, comforting and being com(orted, tbey numbly trudged to the waiting cars and buses.

The ride home was perhaps a mile, perhaps two. But the little sectkm of Safad called

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most of the murdered youngsters dwelt, was « lifetime aaray tnm the bare, rocky cemetery.

Everysac weal bat. Oa^* a saMdla aged, gray-haired waawa wllk Metkaselak eyes remalaad behkid. She sUpycd qalctiy from grave ta gnive, Ussiag ascb aae, murmrriag la eack one a blesskig: "Be kappy bi Hcavea They sat under a tree, two brothers, and talked about the way it was in the old days. Not in the way that old men do, for ttie Ben Lulu brothers are still In their tacns. And the good old days ended only in mid-May. MarUe Ben Lulu is is years oM. He was classmate to the youngsters from the Safad Religious High School - the kids who set off, singing, on a mid-May trip to the northern Galilee.

David Ben Lulu remembered, too. He's 17, a new soldier in (he Israel Defense Forces; but David is an alumnus of the sanne religious school, a lifelong neighbor of liana and Halm and Shoshana and Yaacov.

They sat in the Friday morning quiet and looked around them; the memories still seemed so close.

They talked alMut tbt way liana Turgeroan joked, the night before Uw trip, about ber "premonitioo." "Take tUi ngeney." she told a girl friead. "Bay flowers far my grsve if I don't come back."

And they pointed to the fieM whefe Yaacov .

Levy played football with them, "whenever he wasn't helping in his father's store."

Tbey talked about the lucky ones, the wounded ~ many of them still in the hospital.

About Haim Assulin, recovering in Nahariya Hospital, and his brother Yaacov, in Rambam Hospital in Haifa.

"It still doesn't seem real, somehow," David Ben Lulu said, pain creasing his handsome face. *'And yet, what can these families do?

"Moal of the kids came from big^families.

Parents with lots of other children to take care

of have no chok^: tbey have to go on. I don't know bow tbey do It." Maride looked up, his (ace suddsnly very young.

"It's all around, all through the neighborhood. We were all so close," he Mid. "Uke one family. And no matter where you are, there's so much to remember.

"And then you ask yourself, 'Wby did they die?'"

They walked skwiy up the hill, the old couple on their way to the hospital at Safad.

Maier and Hannah Hanai, well in their 7t)B, came to Israel from Iran in 1951; they brought five children with them, four more were born in their new land.

Theirs is a close-knit family, a family that shares each joy and burden. A family knit even closer by the terrible events of May IS, a day they will never forget.

The Hanai's youngest daughter, RicUe, is a nurse. Pride of (he family, she was bom m^ Safad, grew up with other youngsters whs ' studied with h«r at the Religious High School. % Every year, since her graduation, Rickie has ' gone as a volunteer-counsekr on (he school's annual (rip through the Galilee.

RlcUe's older sister Malka remembered kow the terror began, when aeigbbors Utid her of early-mamtaig rsdlo reports of (he terrorlsis* breakfaig Into the Maalot school baitdiag wkert Rickie and ber yoaag charges slept.

"All day we waited for news, wsited in tlw poUce station Is Safad," Malka recalled. "Af^' five, we fell there was no hope. At six, they told us shooting had started. And at seven;" somebody said that there were no survivors.''

Rickie Hanai's brother Ezra, ffleanwhileT^ had spent the day in Maak>l, as dose as the authorities would let him come to the besieged school buikling.

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"Bui she la so cheerful." Malka said. "She to escape; Ezra helped evacuate boyi and girls wounded in their leap from a second story keep* our spirits up. Somehow, when you're around RicUe, you can't help believing building. Bodies were everywhere.

Suddenly he heard the voice he was listening everything will be OK." for.

And then, Malka repeated a statement bom "Eira. tell mother Vm aUve." out of the deep religious failh other family, out Tear* streaming down her face, Hannah of ils tradition ot firm Jewish belief, ''It's the Hanai spoke about the painfllled days that will of God." followed the wild surge of relief that her Leaning heavily on his cane, her father daughter was still alive. raised his head. Suddenly he seemed stronger, Riclde was shot in the leg by Ihetcrrorists as firm, almost Utter. she raced for the schoolroeni window; her "No, Malka, this was not God's wlU. This wounded leg was further damaged when she was (he will of the Arabs." l<^

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He said the school ii making changes — one grade will study in the open call class method, there will be some course changes for the sixth, seventh and eighth grades and also some changes in the Sunday program for the third, fourth and fifth grade*.

"We are adding, new, modern material, a new

program for learning disabilities and more Individual inatnieUoo to meet the need."

For those who think such educational programs in Judalca are "baloney — * waste of time," Benderly sites a paragraph from Dr. Wrenn, which says in part that "it is "right' to dream, to muse, to be sensitive to truth in forms other than the scientific or the logical . ..

There is merit in just being and not always doing. We're such 'doers' in America that when we're not active we feel guilty or restless ... We

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. .„ at quiet houn wandering through I viird^m (orttt*. In the early dawn we taw the momng mill cling to the loarlng Teton Mouittlilns.

Thf j^renlty of laket and the itillneu of the night'ipoke to us of the wonder of God's world.

In a way, our summer peregrination was meUphorical of the High Holy Days.

The New Year is the time to be awakened from our complacency and to meditate upon the infinite gifU of God. May we spend quiet hours with loved ones.

May we take the time to view the loveliness that surrounds us.

This is the season to say thank you to God — thank you for life — for loved ones — for your creation.

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Spursky Message (Continued from 64) — caiMt be fargetten. The Omaha CanmlUce M Soviet Jewry is actively involved In fMoshig atteoUen on the plight of Rasslan Jewf. Tke Jewish commaalty's participation Is rcfnrM. On our local scene, we need to expand our serviceii to the aged, to college students and to the programs of the Family Service Bureau.

Our Center needs your membership.

WithdiM your support It will be only a magnificent structure, not the meaningful Institution it is meant to be.

There is niuch work ahead of us! There are great demands on our time. While we are alive, we are responsible.

From one Rash Hashanah to the next, we do what Jews have been doing for centuries: we recognize the needs, and we take action with all our resources to support one another throughout the world.

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Mothar-Daughtar Program Plannad "Mother-Daughter <>rab Bag Sports Day" an afternoon of (ports and games (or girls with their mothers, is scheduled by the Center's Girls' and Women's Athletic Committee. Oct 8,1:30 — 3:30 p.m., are the date and time to remember if you have daughters in kindergarten thru 6th grade. Refreshments will be served at no charge.

Rabbi Donald Tam officlaled at the ceremony which was foUowod by a reception.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. RadbiU, Northbrooli, lU. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest S. Priesman are parents of the groom.

Honor attendants were the bride's sister, Mrs. Lester Jelinek of Nbrthbrook. and the bridegroom's brother, Harlan Priesman, Lincoln.

The newlyweds will make their home in Houston, Tex.

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Mr. and Mrs. Harry WeiMman of Omalia were visited over the Leber Day Weekend by their daughter, Beverly Kalfen, and grandchildren Lori and Alan, all of SkoUe, III., and also by Mr. Hy Fisher of C:)iicago.

Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs President Mrs. Morris C. Fellman Vice Preaidcnt ,. .Mrs. Ervin Simon Vice President Mr«. Sam Berman Recording SecreUry Mrs. Martin Lehr The Federation of Jewish Women's Ouba consists of a council of the presidents of all Jewish women's organizations in Omaha, as well as chairpersons of standing committees within the Federation itself.

Two board meetlnga are scheduled, one on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 9:30 a.m. at the Jewish Community Center, and another in the iprinf. ^' Major activitiet betaig planned are a November "Welcome to Omaha" for all recent Jewish newcomer families and in January, a "Women's Day" focusing on aspects of leadership.

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Sharon Trachtenbarg, Mike TholtAre Wed* OMAHA - Miss auroo ATTENTION - 7Ul and 8th GRADE CENTER MEMBERS : YOU are needed NOW to help your profetfioMl staff plan the many programs YOU want to enjoy al YOUR Center!

What are your inlereatt? If they're in SOOAL ACTION, you may want to plan activities relating to your local and the world Jewish community.

If they're in expanding your knowledge and broadening your experiences, you may want to plan "mini-courses" in a wide variety of areas (Jewish heritage and identification, the arts, and sciences, etc.>.

If they're in having fun with your friends and making new

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Committee members l)esides Abramson are Hubert Rosenblum, Ernie Wintroub, Harlan Noddle, Bob NofW. Dick Zacharia, Charles Monasee, Steve Riekes, Mrs. Harold Zelinsky, Stan Lipsey, Mrs. Morris Fellman; Milton Abrahams, David Frickland, Art Goldstein, Murray Newman, and Morley Zipursky.

ones, you may want to plan Special Social Events.

There is no end to the variety of prograins you may want to plan and choose from!

A Jr. High Department "steering committee" is now being chosen. In the week ahead, you will be notified of the first organizational meeting of the Jr. High Center Steering Committee.

For more itiformation, call 334-8200, and ask for me (ext, 3$) or Lee (ext. S3).

8UCCOTHATTHE"J": A TAB-sponsored '^Succoth Celehratlon at the 'J'," now being planning by the TAB Jewish Cultural Committee, wiU be held during Choi Hamoed (Intermediate Days).

Highlights of this program will be announced soon. Iltase who are interested in helping build the Center's Sukka and in planning our department's Succoth Celebration, are asked to contact me or Lee at the "J", or Betty Moses, chairman of TAB'S Jewish Cultural Committee (5534473). We'd like to hear fhm you as soon as possible!

CAMBERS? Some 65 (>er cent of Israelis parlicipale in games of chance, according to a survey.

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Trachtenbarg became (he bride of Mike Tholt on September 7 at the home of the bride's perents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Trachtenbarg of Omaha.

Mrs. Joseph Tholt, Omaha, it the mother of the groom.

Mrs. Robert Goodman served as matron of honor for her sister. Mike Robbins was the groom's best man.

The couple will live in Missoula, Mont., where the^ bridegroom is a student at Montana University.

MOVIEGOERS In a recent survey, 36 per cent of the Israel population visited (he movie bouse at least oiKe a week. Most popular was the melodrama, with comedy a close second. '^

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[PHYlEAL FITNEiS ^ROMIAM : Bojfllandgirli are invited to ^n tte Jewish Community ['Cental's Physical Fitness at the JCC gyraI Sunday, Sept. IS. A icbe<hile o( exerclaes (or 'youngsters will be offered.

I'Certiricates and patches of I achievement will be awarded.

I We hope through this type [of program children will gain \» daalre to maintain a sound, [fhyiically fit body, to com:pele with themaelves in rfuture challenges, and an appreciation of the important \nit that sports, recreation 'and physical fitnets play in our lives.

DATE: SUNDAY, SEPTEleER IS.

WHERE: CENTER GYMNASIUM TIME: 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Ages 6 thru U, boys and girls.

3:30p.m.-4:30p.m. — Ages 12 thru 17, boys and girls.

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SENIOR HIGH FLAG-FOOTBALL The new flag-football season opened Sunday at Trendwood Park with an overtime thriller as AZA No. 100 defeated Chaim Weizmann, 7-6.

Mark Pred and Mark Schulman scored the touchdowns during regulation time, but neither team could convert (he extra point.

Overtime rules gives each team four plays from midfield and the team accumulating the moat yardage wins. AZA No. 100 gained 27 yards while Chaim Weizmann could muster only 20.

The other contest saw AZA No. 1 "A" roll past AZA No. 1 "B", 43-0, Rick Renn, Bruce Frank and Jeff Glass led the winners with Renn scoring three times and throwing a TD paas to Glass. Bruce Frank acored twice on runs.

PUNT, PASS AND KICK CONTEST Sundiy, Septcraiier 21 at the JCC AthleUc Field: 1:30 p.m.-2:30 p.m. — 2nd, 3rd, 4th grade boys ii girU. 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. — Sth, 6th, 7th and 8th grade boys A girlf.

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. — 9th, 10th, 11th and 12lii grade boys and girls.

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TOM WHITE hat the headieit tpot in town

JCC SPONSORS HEALTH FAIR The Health and Physical Education Department announces a Health Fair for all adults, (young through senior) (he week of Oct. 21-2S. Representatives of various health drganizations will be on hand to help participants learn more about today's health problems.

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NOTICE; NO JCC HIGH SCHOOL CLUB FLAGFOOTBALL GAMES WILL BE PLAYED THIS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, lt74.

MENS FLAG-F00T9ALL LEAGUE REPORT The JCC Four Man FlagFootball season got underway this past Sunday on the JCC Athletic Field. The offenses on the four teams looked potent as they became organized during pre-teason scrimmages.

Rosters include: "Supporters" — Mike Singer, Mike Sadofsky, Mike Blatt, John Ralnlsh, SUp Stern.

"Teais "B" — Dennis Paley, Sandy Friedman, Steve Friedman, Jay Lerner, Ed Wintroub, Steve Luttbeg and Bruce Hoberman.

"A-K's - Urry Gilinsky, Steve Bloch, SUp O'Keefe, Nelson Gordman, Justin Greenberg, Hugh ^Abrahamson.

"CHIEFS" Bob Jacobson, Dave Jacobson, Harvey Josin, Steve Nogg, Paul Kaiman, Len Shefren.

SdMduk Sun., Sept IS 10:30 a.m. — "Suppoorters" vs "Team "B" 10:30 a.m. - "A-K'S" vs "Chiefs".

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DES MOINES - Carl Rogat it on the Board of Directors of the Iowa Association of Homes for the Aging and the National Association of Jewish Homes for the Aging and not the Board of Directors of the Iowa Association of Jewish Homes for tlie Aging.

Palmer Heuse by Manrln Pomerantz, Des lioines Pederatioa president.

Thoee indicating tliey will attend inclode Mr. and Mrs. Gary Rubin, Mr. and Mrs. Pomerantz, Evelyn Mintzer, Mr. and Mrs. Harlan Hockenberg, Mr. and Mrs. David Bear, RabU Marshall Berg, Dr. Gerald S. Ferman, Lllyan Carson and Fred Lorber.

Among issues to be dealt with by the convention of some 2,000 community leaders are the Implications of the post-Yom Kippur War period; quality of Jewish life; Federation-Synagogue relations ; building public support for a just peace in the Middle East

Des Moines Tifereth Israel Officers DESM0INE8 ' TirERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE OrriCEM | RabM BanyOCrirm PnMmh.... r. n. -.-. -. TTTT.-^.-. r. .T, r.^. ^. .^^ • ElMofBroty VicePr«l«lsot ManrifatWliiiek VicePrMhtont ..Burypidtsea SecreUrty HanyBookey Treafor^ Irv;lnKarp Hon. President Marvin PomeranU Trustees — David Bear, Morris Carpenter, Marvin Davidson, Stanley Engman, Morris Feintech, James G^lnslty, Harold I^eener, Dr. Burton Leiaer, Richard Levitt, James Marcovis, Sol Nagomer, Dr. Sidney Robioos, Gary Rubin, Elvan Spilka, Tonl Urban, Mose Waldlnger, AUn ^ckert, Allan Rovner (President, Men's Oub), Barbara Wlnick (President, Women's League).

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Indeed, ivon tlis altar of pregreea we sacrifice the old, tlie InArm. and any minority group which baars witness to the truth that ehanga does not necceasarlly imply progress.

LitUe wander that tlw visionaries of our time hsvc been most often ridiculed u dreamers or wishful thinkers.

They ibare with the religious man a sense of the roundedneas of things. They see bow desth ss weB as life, helplessness ss well as power, suppUesthm as well as eentrol sre the halbnarhs of tlie human condition.

HSnce ai w« enter this Holy Day season, may >ou through both fasting snd celebration remind yourself of the vsried esperisnees of your lives aad prepare yourself to solaee in the coming year.

. By lUbM Rokert A. KalMT CM^egiliMi B'MI iMtarw, Llaceki dMotial to our High Udy Day leaaon ia UM notloa of repcntMice which in HatRW Is lynooymoua wilta • lenae of "returning".

In Jewiib life, to repent of tini committAd against otlier men means not merdy to apoioglie, tut alio to act differently whan timilar circunuCancet recur. To repent to God means not only to ask His forglveneas, but to return to that childlike MOSS of awe and majesty at the world around us.

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