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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 Vol. LXV No. 15 Omaha, Nebr.
4 Tavet, 5748 Friday, Dae. 25, 1987
Livingston Foundation Carmi Schwartz to keynote annual meeting funds Home study The trustees of the MUton S. and Corinne N. Livingston Foundation, Inc. have approved a pledge of up to $20,000 to the Jewish Federation of Omaha to conduct a study and preliminary planning for an addition to the Rose Blnmkin Jewish Home. The pledge follows the announcement last week of a gift of $500,000 by the Rose Blumkin family for the construction of such an addition. The executive committee ^ the Jewish Federation has authorized the Bureau for the Aging to study the feasibility of such an addition and the needs of the community, and to determine what additional facilities are most needed. Jule Newman, president of the Livingston Foundation, said, "The Foundation decided to underwrite the cost of the study and preliminary planning because the trustees feel there is a great need for additional facilities at the Home. Even though many of the private rooms have been converted to two-bed rooms, there is still a shortage, and there are still a number of Jewish residents in other nursing homes. "Kitchen and office facilities are also inadequate," said Mr. Newman. "By making funds available for the study and preliminary planning, the trustees hope that accomplishment of the project can be greatly facilitated." Donald Klein, president of the Bureau for the Aging, has appointed a conmiunity-wide planning conunittee consisting of Ron Epstein, Carol Farber, Don Greenberg, Jay Lemer, Bert Lewis, Jerome Milder, Steve Redler, Yale Richards, Ted Seldin and Suzanne Singer. Norman Batt, Eugene Brandt, Kevee Kirshenbaujn and Marvin Polikov will serve as ex-officio members and Mr. Klein will be chairman. If the study confirms the need for the addition and the feasibility of constructing it, preliminary architectural drawings will be prepared and the project will then have to be approved by various committees of the Jewish Federation and, ultimately, by the Federation Board.
By Lynda Frank Keynote speaker for the Jewish Federation of Omaha's annual meeting on Jan. 10 will be Carmi Schwartz, executive vice president of the Council of Jewish Federations. Mr. Schwartz will address the topic, "Are federations a thing of the past?" He will also formally present the William J. Shroder Award Honorable Mention to the Jewish Federation of Omaha and Jewish Family Service for the "Farm Crisis Project." Made Carmi Schwartz aware by the AntiTDefamation League of B'nai B'rith/Community Relations Committee of growing anti-Semitism among the rural population in Nebraska, JFS designed a program to offer free professional social services to people in rural communities. This not only gave the farmers emotional, financial and legal support but also counteracted some of the prejudices brought about by extremist groups in the area. The program was successful and funding for a second year has already been approved. The Shroder Honorable Mention was officially accepted by Denny find Carl Greenberg, delegates to the 1987 General Assembly held in Miami last month. Mrs. Greenberg was president of Jewish Family Service when the Farm Crisis Project was initiated. Mr. Greenberg was presi-
dent of ADL/CRC, the agency of the Omaha Fiederation that first called attention to the problem of anti-Semitism in rural Nebraska. Mr. Schwartz was associate vice president of the CJÂĽ for three years before assuming his present position and, prior to his appointment with the CJF, served four years as executive vice president of the Jewish Community Federation of Metropolitan New Jersey. From 1966 to 1975, he was associate director and director of social planning for the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore and has held various Jewish Federation executive positions in Utica, NY; Miami and Montreal. Mr. Schwartz, who holds a master's degree in social work and sociology from McGill University in Montreal, also studied in rabbinical seminaries in Jerusalem and New York. He has been a visiting lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland School of Social Work, Baltimore Hebrew College and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served on the faculty of Yeshiva University's Wurzweiler School of Social Work and as adjunct professor at New York University. He servedas vice president of the Conference of Jewish Communal Service and was the community organization consultant for the study of American Association for Jewish Education which led to the creation of Jewish Educational Service of North America. Currently he serves on advisory committees and boards of a variety of colleges and universities and is an associate member of the Executive Agency for Israel.
Beth Israel to present concert by Cantor Goffin Sherwood Goffin, cantor of the Lincoh) Square Synagogue in New York City for 22 years, will present a concert in Omaha at Beth Israel Synagogue on Feb. 7. Concert chairman Sid Wertheim said general admission tickets are $10, $5 for senior citizens and students. Tickets may be obtained from John Kolm, 656-6288. Cantor Goffin will present a non-liturgical concert of Jewish ballads. "His inspiring voice, special warmth and masterful interpretation of Chassidic, Israeli and Yiddish folksong has delighted audiences in over 100 cities," Mr. Wertheim said. Known aa "America's voice in song for Soviet Jewry," Cantor Goffin has made more personal appear-
Cantor Goffin ances in behalf of Israel and Soviet Jewry than any other artist, the Jewish Press was told. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, Town Hall and, each year, entertains over 150,000 at the United Nations on Solidarity Sunday. . ,
Zionist Congress ends in chaos JERUSALEM (JTA) The 3l8t Worid Zionist Congress ended in an uproar at dawn last Friday, with delegates hurling potted plants and other objects at each other on the dais. At issue was the size of a broad executive of the World Zionist Organization that is to function alongside a smaller operational executive. Labor representatives wanted
the broad body to comprise 51 members, while Likud sought a smaller number. Both major parties have nominated their key figures from the previous executive to serve on the new one, but behind-the-scenes negotiations throughout the weeklong congress failed to produce agreement on the allocation of the chairmanships of the departments here of the WZO.
Denny and Carl Greenberg, right, accept the WnUam J. mtly a Federation Board member and chairman of the PerShroder Honorable Mention Award, presented at the sonnel Practices Committee. Pictured with Mr. and Mrs. General Assembly last month in Miami, to the Jewish Fed- Greenberg are, from left, Sondra Topper, associate direceration of Omaha and the Jewish Family Service of Omaha tor of the Jewish Federation of Omiiha, and Esther Leah for the Farm Crisis Project. Mrs. Greenberg attended the Ritz, chairman of the William J. Shroder Award ComGA as the 1987 recipient of the Lois Jeanne Schrager Me- mittee. morial Young Leadership Award and Mr. Greenberg is cur-
Shamir chides media coverage By Hugh Orgel TEL AVIV (JTA) - Premier Yitahak Shamir declared Dec. 21 that Israel would continue to enforcelaw and order in the administered territories by all appropriate means, regardless of its image abroad, and implied that the world news media could not be trusted to report events objectively. Shamir addressed the third International Conference of the Jeane Kirkpatrick Forum for Public Leadership and Public Pohcy at Tel Aviv University. He blamed the current disturbances in the West BanJt and Gaza Strip on Palestine Liberation Organization terrorists. "We shall cohtinue to impose security and public safety (in the territories) even if there are in the area correspondents and cameramen covering every step, and even if, as everybody knows, it is not always possible to rely on the media to act respobsibly and not emphasize the negative out of all proportion/' Shamir said. The premier was apparently referring to the daily television films and newspaper photographs of Israel Defense Force troops in full battle gear confronting young Palestinians armed with rocks and gasoline bombs.
Professor Alexander Lerner receives permission to emigrate By Susan Bimbaftm NEW YORK (JTA) - Professor Alexander Lerner of Moscow, an internationally known scientist and one of the longest-term refuseniks left in the Soviet Union, was told Dec. 21 he could emigrate. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was notified of the news by the National Conference oii.Soviet Jewry and the Long Island Committee for Soviet Jewry, who spoke to Lemer by telephone. Lemer received a phone call Monday from the OVIR emigration bureau in Moscow saying he had permission to leave for Israel. Lemer's son, Vladimir, and Vladimir's wife and child also were told they could leave. Lemer, 74, known for his work in the field of cybernetics, has been waiting since 1971 to go to Israel. He has been refused permission to emigrate several times on "state secrecy" grounds, despite the fact that his work supervisor testified to the KGB that he was not privy to state secrets. Earlier this year, Lemer was among a list of refuseniks the Soviets said would never be allowed to leave.
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