Jewish Federation Launches Program To Resettle Indochinese Refugees Omaha plan People" Thr Fedpratkm'l Board ol Dlrecton al lU July U iMCt ing. •pprowd ui apprDptlalion of n.ooo 111 launch i reirlttrmrnl program lor IndorhUmr rFfugees Mary Fellman. rcderatMn pmwlral, appotnled Shirley and liconard GoMtUttn Is a*
scmlili- .1 <.iitiiniiii-«' o( vol unli-iT- I.. ri..iiilii ihe pro (ram Mn Uoldatetn. curr«-nll> chalrfnan o» the Omaha Com ounce lor Soviet Jewry, and Mr Goldilrin immrdlair pait prcitdent i>l the Kedrr alien, announred at the meet ing thai they periMinally will ipunaiir Iwo uf Ihe V lelnameur children
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thr neni 'inlly Service which ih uiMlrr the chairmanship III Miriam Simon The concensus ol the Board was that rew'"'-•' ' " •• slan Jews si.I .
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H.iard .,|,(,Tuvr.l .1 'lllon (,i,r,,lti,-( .[ ' -Kand Burturting Commillre to a<' (fpt Ihe concepts ol Ihe Smiley (ilolter report on Ihe (en ler for Ihe Aged and authorized Mrs Fellman to form appropriate suticommit
Jerl Kaplan vice-chairman ul this years Israel Bond* campaign ur«es thM^HMSf Ihe community to attend Ihe gala luncheon "I kmjw the women of timaha will wel come this unique opporlunil), to horeir Mrs B and support Israel Bonds al Ihe same lime '• Admission to the luncheon Is • minimum purchase ul Israel Bonds Mm Kaplan pointed iMjl that bonds bought in 11)67 are no* (allmtt due and m courag<-* bond hoUlers to re invest these iKinds
work, lOr ID this way itic «Ml If acMiwwl without any loa o» sril-rii#«rt •• In annaaMinc the Scpl 13 hnclMon for the im Women's nivtelon of Israel Bonds Mrs I , . 'I this .iRhi ra^^ 1.1 ici>' • j -^curd toMaimunldes ThU not only cpilainUc* eaaenllal meaning of Is Wl Bonds." said Mrs IMllch. •but also describes Ihe woman who Israel Bonds will honor al our Thursday lunch n>n Mrs Rose Blumkin' •'Mrs B " will receive the RIeanor Rooaevelt llumanila run Award lor her lifelung iKmMii to Ihe Jewish ^_ and UM Slate of Israel Tills remarkable and beloved woman, known to all. .(from her daughter Frances Ball, to strangers far from Omahai as "Mrs B ' has be come a irw legmd ol generoa liy" Site came to this country in 1(17 and. her daughter says she has never forgotten where die came from Kven when she herself had very llllle. anything she had was shared with Ihoae who were tana lortu^
•at* "She ahrays remembered the italiis of the immigrant." 1 lald lira Batt. "and her way I •! hclfiat newcomer* was to ' 0ve tbem job* al her store. Ihe Nebraifta rnrnllure Marl This way. Ihoae people were able to help themselves Maybe this really is the moat •ondsrM kuid ol phitanthro^
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"Mrt. B" „,r.v-i <"r tiw William K WIe n,.r ry Library of l)^. • Jewish Commit lee Although she herself has never been to Israel and has no plane to visit there she lirmly beUeves thai the sur vival of Israel Is vllaUy Impur lanllo Jewi idl o»ef the worid She haa expreiaed enor mou* admiration for the cour acr ol • people who have had to flgW for their country agabial overwhelming odds, and who have buUI Ihe country •Hh Ihdr -genhis • u she puUil' A fupporter o( Israel Bonds ilnce their inception. Mra B has given more than simply money to Ihe cause of the re Wrth of the Stale of Israel Only recently ihe told her ' how. In the late Ms,
a young school teacher, raising money for Palestinian Jews needed a place to ad dress the Jruts i>( Omaha and naturall) came loIhe Blumkm home That teacher was (iolda Meir' In comparing Mrs B's phi loauphy of helping her fellow human beings to that of Israel Bonds. Mrs IHiitch pointed out that by supporting Israel Bonds, all American women wtti be able lo help Israels economic growth and slabtlily "Funds raised by Israel BoMta go to helping industrial and agrlcullural fxpansion transportation, communica liana and energy thus increas Ing Ihe )ob market and ex porU.'Mrs Dullch added
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Mrs. Rose Blumkin to Receive Roosevelt Humanitarian Award f The hlfhMl tain of chw I i* itimiakt) la Ml lo give HKina. bol la Mp Uw paar to ^KiiabUUau Omnmt^m ky ^HHiikW ONBI DNney, Uktag awm talo partmnMp. am-
in IIM- rec iws I • •port umiii «i1 Ihe Mr Board thai plaiiK die under way lor avaiJablr members to travel tu Kanus City. AuR » to look al the lacilities for the aged in thai city The Board alMi approved
This IS m> (olli)« up lo our phone ninversalion I expect of rourse. that our lirsi Krand<hild will be duly recogni/ed m a center box on Ihe front page' After all. Isn't everybody as excited as we are'' ()n July 20. liTTJ. a daugh ter was bom lo Mr and Mrs Alan Whitman in Huntingt'in Memiinal Hospital at I'asadena. Califor ma Mrs Whitman is the former Saundrs Kicks of Ontario. California Mr Whitman a (ormer Oma han. IS now an as.sociate vice-president lor invest menu of [)ean Witter Key nolds Inc In Pasadena The pnMid and pleased grandparents are Mr and Mrs M Ricks of Ontario. California and Mr and Mrs Norman Whitman of timaha Thanks so much lor printing our big news were really appreciative
Ihe ivn Kederalion audit Mrs ^>llman also advised" the Board of the resignallons ol Kobert J l^vell as e»e^ cutive director o( Jewish Family Service and Michael Richmond as dire<ti)r ol Ihe Plains Slate ollice of Ihe Anil Defamation I^eague of B'nal Brith Mn Fellman said that Allan Greene, director of Hlanninu and Budgeltng will assume Mr l-ovelfs duties temporarily
Beth El Announces Classes for Women For the MH-ond year in a nm. Beth FJ Synagogue and Belh Kl Sisterhood will con duct Its Uarning Center lor Jewish Women The fir-H "'af Sept 11 .•' 'hriMjgh Nov 27 iHi .... "•'•"' '* a m to noon. ^^! •' '•'' i*;'!'' committee chainn.in (M in nounred Reservations arc rwfMleil by -Sept 7 Mrs Wagner said the (en ler u> an affirmative action program for women which fills a gap in Jewish education Women participating in the program have several options including the possibility ol a Hat Torah certificate an adult Bat Mitrvah. or class auditing withuul any formal commit menl Members of the committee
SylvU Wagner include Johanna Bromberg Anna Wleaman. UlorU Kaa low Natalie Kubin. Dorothy l^zanis, and Rabbi Kenneth Bnjmberg
Federation Directors Submit Resignations KcMKnalions (rom the dir»'< lors "I Iwo departments of lh«' JewLsh Federal ii>n ol Omaha weresubmitte<l last we«-k Robert J l»vett exeiulive director of Jewish Family Ser vice, submitted his resig nation at the July 2.'! meeting of the department board ac nirdiiiK to Far! Megel acting ihjirniiiTi (i( .Ic^ish Family S«Tvice Allan (;reene. Feder alKm diriHior ol Budgeting and Planning, will cover dur ing the interim period Any persons needing the services of that il' houldcon lacl Mr -• WW Michael nicniiicMi.l director ol the Anil Defamation l^eagueCommunity Relations Council submitted his resignation e(le<live Aug 20 ac cording lo Sanford Friedman, chairman o( ADI./CRC Both departments will con linue lo provide services ". ac cording to Mary Fellman. Federation president In the meantime Iwo meetings ol lh«' Kxecullve Committee ol the Federation have been sched ule<l to begin the process of ex pluring other options lo dellv er these services We will also meet with the department boards for discussion study and evaluation before report ing to the Federation Ixiard" Mr Greene was graduated from Yeshivs I'niventity with a Master of .Social Work de «ree
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As part of student inlem-1 ship, he worked al llillsidel Psychiatric Hospital On grad-l ualion Mr Creene was em-| ployed as a psychiatric WK-1 worker at Ihe Manhattan Stat« Hospital and as a suiiervis lor the Jewish Child Care A» siM'iation Mr (ireene received vanced training at th<- Jamaica Center lor psvchotherapjl and served several years as r psychiatric social work suilani lor Ihe New \ork Stall Department ol Disabilities
Naomi Ranee Earns Research Prize Naomi Ranee, a former Ml coin resident has bee awarded a total t-tdo in priz lor work m student researd at Ihe I'niversity of Marylan at Baltimore il'MAB' Ms Ranee IS lh«-daughter « Mrs Al Freedman and l^ late Harold Kaiice forma Lincoln residents She is doin graduate work m neuniend crlnolegy al tMAB bavin graduated fnim l!niver»ily i Pennsylvania with a degree I physical therapy Al UMABs recent (Jradual Student Research Day M| Ranee was awarded a J2no prise lor presentation ol her paper on h<irmones and their effect on rat brains
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