Life cycles

BAR MITZVAH

CORY NOGG

Cory Nogg, son of Jaime and Brian Nogg, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, March 19, 2022, at Temple Israel. Cory is a seventh-grade honors student at Westside Middle School. He is interested in playing basketball, playing sports video games, and hanging out with his friends. For his mitzvah project, Cory volunteered at AllPlay (baseball complex for kids with special needs.) He has two brothers, Jordan, age 15, and Taylor, age 10, and a dog, Frankie, a yorkie poo. Grandparents are Patty and Steve Nogg, and Judy and Craig Goldford of St. Louis, MO.

IN MEMORIAM

MYRON MAX BEAR

Myron Max Bear passed away on March 2, 2022, in Berkeley CA. Services were held on March 9, 2022 in Council Bluffs, IA and were officiated by Rabbi Steven Abraham.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara Bear; daughter and son-inlaw, Dawne and Gregg Novicoff; son and daughter-in-law, Ab and Allyson Bear; grandchildren: Arlo and Rayna Novicoff, Jackson and January Bear.

Memorials may be made in his honor to the Southern Poverty Law Center or The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

LARRY STEPHEN COHN

Larry Stephen Cohn passed away on Feb. 27, 2022, at age 77 in San Diego, CA. Graveside services were held on March 3, 2022, in San Diego, CA at El Camino Memorial Park.

He was preceded in death by by his parents, Lyman Cohn and Rose Cohn Perelman; and his beloved pets, McKeever, Boomer, Tyler and Connor.

He is survived by devoted wife, Margaret; sweet Wheaten Terrier, Shine; loving brother and sister-in-law, Jeff and Pam; nephews, Danny Cohn and Andrew Miller, and Michael; greatniece, Nora Miller-Cohn; and many cousins and close friends.

Larry was born in Omaha to Rose and Lyman Cohn. He graduated from Central High School and was a fixture in the glass industry, most recently at Key Stone Glass for more than two decades. Larry was a life-long Husker fan and never missed a game — be it live or later from his home in California.

Memorials may be made to the Nebraska Humane Society, 8929 Fort St, Omaha, NE 68134.

Zelensky thanks Israel for support

SHIRA HANAU

JTA Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked Israel for its support for his country Sunday March 6, the day after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Moscow for a three-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky did not mention Bennett by name, nor did he mention Bennett’s meeting with Putin. Zelensky, who is Jewish, said previously that he does not feel Bennett “has wrapped himself in the Ukrainian flag” throughout the first weeks of the war. Bennett met with Putin for three hours on March 5 before flying to Berlin to speak with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He also spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron over the phone and has spoken with Zelensky three times since the meeting with Putin. At the beginning of the weekly Israeli cabinet meeting March 6, Bennett said Israel had a “moral obligation” to try to negotiate between Ukraine and Russia, though he said he could not elaborate on the status of his talks with Putin and Zelensky. “I returned from Moscow and Berlin a few hours ago,” Bennett said, according to The Times of Israel. “I went there to assist the dialogue between all of the sides, of course with the blessing and encouragement of all players.” Israel occupies an unusual position among Western countries due to its close relations with both Ukraine and Russia. Zelensky, who is Jewish, had previously asked Israel to serve as an intermediary between the two countries. Israel has declined to condemn Russia as forthrightly as other Western countries since the beginning of the war. Though Israel declined to sign a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Russia, it did sign onto a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a few days later. Israel is set to send a field hospital to Ukraine this week to assist Ukrainians affected by the war.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, In the Feb. 25 edition of the Jewish Press of Omaha, my friend Gary Javitch indicated that LB 845 is “stuck in committee” and that two senators (Senators Hansen and McCollister) should help move the bill on to the floor of the legislature by advancing the bill out of committee. While the bill has undeniably good intentions, it currently has a fatal constitutional flaw. Several states that have passed similar laws are now dealing with lawsuits regarding freedom of speech. Specifically, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a ruling stating that an Arkansas law of this nature violates the First Amendment. Until a statute of this type is ruled to be constitutional by a federal court, LB845 should not be taken up by the legislature. I have never supported a bill that was constitutionally suspect and unfortunately this bill suffers from this malady. However, I support the intent of the bill and perhaps the Nebraska Legislature could support the intent of the Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act through a Legislative Resolution which would be tangible evidence of the Unicameral’s unceasing support for Israel. If this approach is acceptable to Mr. Javitch and others, I will request that such a Resolution be drafted.

SEN. JOHN S. MCCOLLISTER

Nebraska Legislature District 20

Ukraine Crisis: Israel’s reponse

Jewish immigrants fleeing the war in Ukraine arrive at Ben

Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, March 6, 2022. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90 JTA Around 300 Ukrainian Jewish refugees landed in Israel Sunday, among them some 90 orphans between the ages of two and 12, in the first round of what Israeli government officials are expecting to be a wave of thousands in the coming months. They were flown on three planes from Moldova, Romania and Poland. But whether Israel will accept Ukrainian refugees who are not Jewish, and therefore ineligible for Israeli citizenship under the country’s Law of Return, is unclear. The Law of Return allows any Jew who wishes to live in Israel to obtain Israeli citizenship. But Israel has not historically opened paths to citizenship or long-term visas for refugees who are not Jewish, including the thousands of African asylum seekers currently living in Israel. Fewer than 10% of Ukrainians who have entered Israel since the start of the war have been Jews, Israel’s Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said Sunday, according to Haaretz. “We will reach 15,000 Ukrainians in a month. The State of Israel needs to do more in order to bring Jews and those eligible for the Law of Return. We can’t keep going at this rate, things need to be planned,” Shaked said. Israel has already tried to deport some of the Ukrainian refugees who are ineligible to immigrate under the Law of Return who have entered the country so far. The government has collected monetary deposits from some nonJewish refugees to ensure they do not stay in the country longer than necessary, a tactic some have criticized as inhumane in light of the circumstances. Government officials discussed the issue of whether to admit more non-Jewish refugees to the country at a cabinet meeting Sunday and the cabinet is expected to return to the issue during the coming week. The Jewish Agency, a nonprofit that brings large numbers of immigrants to Israel, received a flood of new requests from Jews trying to flee Ukraine as the war began late last month.

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