Life cycles

BAT MITZVAH

LIAT FREY

Liat Frey, daughter of Sarah and Matt Frey, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, May 7, at Beth El. Liat is a seventh-grade honor roll student at Elkhorn Ridge Middle School. Liat is interested in art, drawing, and anime. She is a member of the Student Council and the basketball team at her school. For her mitzvah project, Liat will be donating seeds, plants, and her time to City Sprouts Community Gardens, which works to combat food insecurities by building local food systems, improving community health, empowering neighborhoods, and strengthening economic viability and sustainability. She has a sister, Yael. Grandparents are M’Lee Hasslinger of Omaha and the late Lawrence Hasslinger; Matt and Michelle Frey of Patchogue, NY; and Ali Gutierrez of Jacksonville, FL. Great-grandmother is Elaine Jabenis of Omaha.

MARRIAGE

DOLGIN/SHERMAN

Madeline Dolgin and Mathew Sherman were married on March 5, 2022, at 6 p.m. at The Icehouse in downtown Phoenix. The ceremony was officiated by Rabbi Bonnie Sharfman. Madeline is the daughter of Holly and Ken Dolgin, Scottsdale, AZ. Mathew is the son of Randi and Alan Jablin, Scottsdale, AZ; and Lisa and Dave Sherman, Phoenix, AZ. He is the grandson of the late Leonard and Phyllis Friedel. The couple honeymooned in Sedona and took a Mexican cruise.

IN MEMORIAM

BRAD ASHFORD

Former U.S. Rep. Brad Ashford, a Democrat who served one term representing Nebraska’s Omaha-centered district, passed away on April 19, 2022, at age 72. Services were held on April 23, 2022, at Christ the King Catholic Church, followed by interment at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

He is survived by his wife, three children and a granddaughter.

Ashford earned his bachelor’s degree from Colgate University in 1971 and his law degree from Creighton University in Omaha in 1974. He worked as an attorney for the Federal Highway Administration in 1974 before opening a private practice the next year. In the 1990s, he became co-owner of the Nebraska Clothing Company.

As a state senator, Ashford represented Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District.

Memorials may be sent to an organization of your choice.

ROBERT E. KATLEMAN

Robert E. Katleman passed away on March 30, 2022, at age 94 at Hospice House in Omaha. The burial was held on April 1, 2022, at Temple Israel cemetery followed by a memorial service at Temple Israel and were officiated by Cantor Joanna Alexander.

He was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Esther J. Katleman; parents, Minnie and Oscar Katleman; and sister, Beverly Katleman Gilinsky Portnoy.

He is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Debi and Jeff Smedlund of Omaha; son and daughter-in-law, Steve and Roberta Katleman of Fairfax, VA; grandchildren: Rebecca Smedlund of Omaha and Daniel Katleman of Fairfax, VA.; niece, Sandra Gilinsky Cole; nephew, William Gilinsky of New York; and cousins and friends.

Robert served in the US Army after WWII in Japan. He was a life member of the Jewish War Veterans Organization and a longtime volunteer with his wife Esther at Methodist Hospital.

Memorials may be made to Temple Israel or the organization of your choice.

ESTHER MISLE

Esther Misle passed away on April 18, 2022, at age 98 in South Florida. Serivces were held on April 24, 2022, at Beth El Cemetery in Omaha and were officated by Rabbi Abraham.

She was preceded in death by husband, Henry; sister, Shirley and brother, Martin.

She is survived by four children; six grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

Esther grew up Jewish in a small Polish town. She was displaced for 10 years during WWII. Esther fought to survive during the Holocaust, working long days of manual labor to keep the whole family alive in a Siberian work camp until they were able to emigrate to Detroit in 1949. She met her husband Henry, a World War II veteran, and started a new life in Crete, NE, moving to Lincoln as the family automobile business continued to grow. They raised four children together. Esther was a pillar of the Lincoln Jewish and secular communities and made entertaining seem effortless. She and Henry enjoyed a later retirement in Boca Raton, FL.

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Venice’s frayed Jewish Ghetto

ORGE CASTELLANO

VENICE | JTA Through a narrow, fraying sottoportico, or Venetian alleyway, and across a wooden footbridge, there is a wide square enclosed by rows of multicolored buildings. Stepping into Venice’s Jewish Ghetto feels a bit like traveling back in time. On March 29, 1516, the Venetian Senate gated the city’s Jews here near a cannon factory, in one of the earliest examples of forced religious segregation. In contrast to their Muslim, Greek Orthodox, and Christian neighbors, Venetian Jews were allowed to freely practice their religion as long as they remained inside the Ghetto, paid their taxes and rents (higher than other citizens), and stuck to a few occupations: moneylenders, doctors, traders and rag sellers. They endured, and over time the Ghetto, crammed into the space of an acre, became the vibrant Jewish cultural capital of Europe. Early printing presses produced religious and secular works in Hebrew, Ladino, and Yiddish within the Ghetto; the 1609 Venice Haggadah is one of the most famous examples of the book that guides the Passover seder. Centuries later, much of the architecture is in a precarious state, and the local Jewish community is much smaller than it was. It’s taking action — small steps at first — to reverse those trends in the wake of the failure of other high-profile campaigns. “The community’s population probably peaked around 1630 with about 5,000 Jews of German, Italian, French, and Sephardic descent. Before the Shoah, between 1500 and 1800,

they lived here. Nowadays, we are approximately 450 Jews,” said Paolo Navarro, vice president of the Jewish Community of Venice organization. In recent decades, tourism has been a double-edged sword: it sustains an economy but has caused a citywide exodus of local Jews and non-Jews who find daily tasks, like shopping and errands, difficult in a city that receives tens of millions of tourists each year. The buildings, which were wedged too A guard climbs stairs by the entrance to closely together from the start, needed a the Campo di Ghetto Nuovo, or former long-overdue renovation to stay stand-Jewish Ghetto, in Venice. Castellano Credit: Orge ing, especially as the city’s water levels continue to rise due to climate change. In 2014, looking forward to the 500th anniversary of the Ghetto’s creation in 2016, a group of philanthropists called the Venetian Heritage Council, led by the famed Jewish fashion designer Diane von Fürstenberg, announced a $12 million project to restore the ghetto. But the project fell through when the group couldn’t raise enough funds to begin the restoration. That’s when the Jewish Community of Venice, a group that now owns much of the Ghetto’s real estate, decided to take the challenge into their own hands. First they renovated the Ghetto’s kosher bed and breakfast, the Giardino Dei Melograni, Garden of Pomegranates. This year they’re renovating the kosher restaurant next door, the Gimmel Garden, which has been closed for years, and the small-but-historic Jewish Museum, which catalogs Venetian Jewish history. Both buildings are scheduled to reopen this summer.

This article was edited for length. To read more about Venice’s Jewish community, please visit www.omahajew ishpress.com.

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