Life cycles

SIERRA ROSE LEWIS

Dr. Travis Lewis and Dr. Emily Echevarria, of New York City, announce the Jan. 18, 2022, birth of their daughter, Sierra Rose.

Grandparents are Lisa Lewis and the late Denny Lewis of Elkhorn, NE, Susan Feuerstein of Beacon, NY, and George Echevarria of Pleasantville, NY.

Great grandparents are Irene “Missy” Feuerstein of New York City, the late Audrey and Morrie Shapiro, and the late Libby and Harry Lewis of Omaha.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, In the March 11, 2022, “Letters to the Editor” column, my friend Sen. John McCollister replied to my Feb. 2 article in the Jewish Press of Omaha regarding the Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act. First, I appreciate the hours he and I have spent discussing this important issue regarding Nebraska’s trading partner and ally, Israel. (Nebraska annually does in excess of $50 million a year in business with Israel.) Within the proposed act, there is a specific provision that prevents anything within the LB 845 bill from infringing upon the free speech rights in America’s First Amendment. That is where we differ. All that said, I appreciate his recognition of the positive intent of the bill. For that reason, I would take him up on his proposal to sponsor and push through a legislative resolution which “would be tangible evidence of the Unicameral’s increasing support for Israel.”

All my best, Gary Javitch

Photographer wanted at Camp Sabra

Camp Sabra is looking for a photographer for the 2022 summer sessions, which take place from June 12-July 7, and July 10-Aug. 4. Those interested can contact Michael Parsow at mparsow5@aol.com (this will be Michael’s 26th year at Camp Sabra, so he knows his way around) or visit the website at https://www.campsabra.com/staff/open-positions/. Camp Sabra is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Sabra will recruit, hire, train, and promote people in all job classifications without regard to race, color, marital status, religion (unless religion is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability or history of disability (except where physical or mental abilities are a bona fide occupational requirement and the individual is not able to perform the essential functions of the position even with reasonable accommodations), or sex (unless gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), status as a veteran or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law.

Coming in April: Community and Special Events

Pinwheels for Prevention

Jewish Family Service will join Prevent Child Abuse Nebraska’s Pinwheels for Prevention® campaign to promote healthy child development and positive parenting. The blue pinwheels on the JCC front lawn represent “innocence”, and are the national symbol for child abuse prevention.

JCC Book Club

Tuesdays: April 5, May 3, June 7 from 5–7 p.m. Cost is $45 | code:16-0405 The JCC Book Club combines older books with new ones, snacks, and great conversations. Love reading or maybe just need a nudge to get yourself back into it? We are the perfect club for you! The next session of the Book Club will start April 5. We will be reading The Boys in the Boat, a non-fiction novel by Daniel James Brown. For more updates on what’s on the calendar, please visit www.jewishomaha.org or www.om ahajewishpress.com.

THANK YOU

To everyone in our community who reached out and showed support after the passing of my wife, Jeanne Shechet, and my son, Stanley Shechet, I want to say thank you. I am grateful for family and friends like you at this time of sorrow and appreciate having you in my life now, and always.

Sincerely, Rabbi Maximo Shechet

April Speaker at B’nai Israel synagogue

Steve Kaniewski will be the guests speaker at B’nai Israel in Council Bluffs, Friday, April 8. His talk will discuss Valmont's working relationship with Israel, and he will talk about his career at Valmont leading up to his becoming the President and CEO. In his role, Steve is responsible for day-to-day operations for the company’s four operating segments. Valmont operates with 85 manufacturing facilities in 22 countries and more than 10,000 employ- Steve Kaniewski ees and has been in the international markets for more than five decades. In addition to his work at Valmont, Steve currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Board Committee for the United Way of the Midlands and as Chairman Emeritus of the Board for the AIM Institute where he has served since 2011. The AIM Institute in Omaha is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building vibrant communities through technology. Steve also served on the Board of Advisors for the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s College of Information Science and Technology from 2010-2013. Steve is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Santa Clara University in California.

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Israeli medical staff help Ukrainians cope

CNAAN LIPHSHIZ

JTA Israeli physicians and Jewish groups are assisting thousands of non-Jews across Ukraine deal with the effects of the Russian invasion into that country. Near Lviv in Ukraine’s west, a field hospital set up this week by the Israeli government with physicians and nurses from the Schneider Children’s Medical Center near Tel Aviv has treated at least 160 patients, most of them children, since it opened on March 22, according to the Jewish News website on Ukrainian Jewry. There are 66 beds and dozens of staff and volunteers working alongside the medical staff from the Schneider Center at Israel’s Kohav Meir hospital — a name that means “shining star” in Hebrew but is also a reference to Golda Meir, an former Israeli prime minister who was born in Kyiv and is seen as an inspiration by many Ukrainians. Israel and the United States are among a handful of countries that have set up field hospitals in Ukraine. The Israeli one is set up to treat about 150 patients daily, according to Israel Hayom. Most of the patients have issues unrelated to the fighting but have lost access to medical treatment because of it. The hospital’s first patient was a 12-year-old girl with a heart problem who fled with her mother from Mariupol, a city devastated by Russian bombing. She arrived with a rapid pulse and chest pains and her condition was stabilized at the field hospital, which operates outside of a school and partly under a sturdy white tent opposite a church in a town near Lviv, Yedioth Acharonoth reported Wednesday. Another, a 2-year-old girl named Alisa, came in with a chronic skin condition that had worsened following weeks in which it was not treated. The physicians at the field hospital consulted experts at the Schneider Center in Israel, using telemedicine video equipment, to arrive at a diagnosis and treatment. The inspection was interrupted by sirens that sent the patients and medical staff running toward the nearest shelter, the Israeli paper reported. In Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine with many Jews, the Jewish Medical Center clinic, which was set up with the primary goal of treating members of that community, has shifted its focus, dispatching its staff of about 10 medical professionals across centers for internally displaced persons in Ukraine, the Jewish community of Dnipro wrote on its website Thursday. The Russian invasion, which began on Feb. 24, has resulted in thousands of casualties and a wave of refugees — about 3.5 million Ukrainians are estimated to have moved into the European Union alone — and many more internally displaced. In Uman, a city in central Ukraine, local Jews set up an aid center near the grave of Rabbi Nachman, an 18th-century lu-

minary who inspired the Breslov Hasidic movement. Several hundred Jews, most of them Israeli, had moved to Uman in recent years amid an annual pilgrimage of about 30,000 Jews from all over the world to the gravesite. The center offers clothing and other assistance as well free tea and coffee and shelter to internally-displaced persons, the Jewish News of Ukraine website also reported. In Bila Tservka, a small city near Kyiv, the small Jewish community pooled their resources to buy and donate diapers, wet wipes and hygiene products for mothers and children, as well as blankets and detergent, according to the Jewish News of Ukraine. The Jewish community of Zaporizhzhia near Dnipro A staffer of the Israeli field hospital Kohav Meir plays with children outside the struc- is also collecting products and medicines from its ture near Lviv, Ukraine, March 23, 2022. Credit: Schneider Children’s Medical Center members for the general population. Before the invasion, Ukraine, which has a population of about 40 million people, had about 43,000 people who selfidentified as Jews, according to a 2020 demographic study of European Jewry, and up to 200,000 people who are eligible to immigrate to Israel under its law of return for Jews and their relatives. At least 4,000 of that group have immigrated to Israel over the past month. In other Ukraine-related news, Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest who coined the phrase “Holocaust by bullets” in his writing about the murder of Jews in Ukraine and elsewhere in Eastern Europe by Nazis and local collaborators, announced his intention to document alleged Russian war crimes on Wednesday in a joint statement with the Babyn Yar center, which said it would assist him. And on Friday March 25, Valentyna Veretska, a Ukrainian athlete who fled with her daughter as Russia attacked her country, won the women’s race in the Jerusalem marathon.

OMAHA COMMUNITY Holocaust

COMMEMORATION

Includes a candle lighting ceremony with local Holocaust survivors

FEATURED SPEAKER: Dr. Gerald J. Steinacher James A. Rawley Professor of History University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who will speak on his recent exploration within the Vatican archives OPEN TO ALL

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