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Local Author Series: Harold Mann We invite you to join us for the third installment of our Local Author Series, June 21 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. in person in the Wiesman venue and on Zoom. We will welcome Harold Mann to share his published works with us, and it promises to be an engaging conversation! Whether you choose to attend via Zoom or in person, we ask you to rsvp by visiting www.jewish omaha.org and clicking the form.

We also welcome you to submit questions ahead of the event at avandekamp@jewishomaha.org.

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Tristan Newman, Beth El Synagogue youth director, with microphone, blessed Eadie Tsabari, center, during her May 15 retirement as Beth El’s director of congregational learning. Tallit holders, from left: Julian Witkowski, Phoenix Mavropoulos and Ethan Finkelstein. Credit: Marcus of Omaha Fine Photography

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor his year’s recipient of the Jody and Neal Malashock Award for Professional Excellence is Eadie Tsabari—and rightfully so. The lasting impression Eadie has left with so many of her students is immeasurable. This honor is presented annually to a pro-

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fessional in the Omaha Jewish community who has shown exemplary professional performance in advancing the mission of the organization. Eadie, who recently retired from Beth El, will receive the award during the Jewish Federation of Omaha Annual Meeting, which will take place June 28 at 7 p.m. in the Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater.

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An evening with Holocaust Survivor, Milton Mendel Kleinberg

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SCOTT LITTKY Executive Director, Institute for Holocaust Education On Tuesday evening, June 21 at 7 p.m. in the Goldstein Community Engagement Venue at the Jewish Community Center, the Institute for Holocaust Education is proud to present the moving and enlightening testimony of local Holocaust Survivor Milton Mendel Kleinberg.

Mr. Kleinberg is the author of, Bread or Death: Memories of My Childhood During and After the Holocaust. As he states in his book, “The war brought Milton Mendel Kleinberg

about scarcities of just about everything... except misery.”

“Alle raise,” (everybody out), the German soldiers screamed as they pounded on our door with the butts of their rifles. And thus began a 4,500mile journey from Poland through Russia and Siberia and eventually to Uzbekistan in Central Asia, as the au-

thor’s family used bribery and darkness of night to flee as the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939.

Young Mendel, from age four to fourteen, tells in vivid detail the wretched journey in cramped cattle cars through frigid Russia, the indignities of being forced labor, the shame of begging for bread just to survive, and death of those closest to him. The family’s plight includes abandonment, hunger, and separation (and later remarkable twists of fate and reunion) quite unlike other Holocaust stories.

This coming-of-age Holocaust memoir is the author’s personal account of how through great sacrifices by his mother he managed to survive the worst atrocities in human history and his uncertain days in a Polish Children’s Home, scrabbling for fallen fruit, and surviving kidnapping and murder on the Black Road, and return to German Displaced Persons camps at war’s end.

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Since Jennie Gates Beckman has been hired as the education Director at Temple Israel, she will no longer be conducting the Local Author Series, although we’re sure we’ll see plenty of her. In her stead, Rachel Ring will join Annette for this event. We’re excited to welcome Rachel, and we’re excited to welcome you! For those attending in person, we’ll have dessert! Yes, we know it’s 10 in the morning, but is it ever too early for dessert?

After retiring from a food processing company as President/ CEO, Harold Mann turned his hobby of writing into a new career.

Combining his love for the game of golf and his true talent of storytelling, he wrote a children’s golf book, and it’s grown into a true passion—and more books!

An avid golfer, Harold always made note of the four-legged and feathered friends that he would encounter on his golf course. His first golf book introduced a stray dog named Marvin and a boy named Ted, who meet on the golf course.

Their love for each other is instant; Ted makes Marvin his golf caddy and their adventures begin! The story tells of their friendship and days of play on the course, while subtly covering some of golf ’s basic terms. Each page is colorfully illustrated and a list of basic rules for beginners is included in the back.

To purchase any of Harold’s books and/or merchandise, or for more information, visit www.the bookmann.com. You can even See Local Author Series page 2

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Lag BaOmer celebration

Beth Israel congregants of all ages enjoyed Lag BaOmer at the home of Alex and Mary Sue Grossman.

Milton Kleinberg Continued from page 1 Originally written as a memoir just for his grandchildren, Mr. Kleinberg gives a moving account of his family’s hardships and eventual immigration with a lump-in-the-throat passage to America past the Statue of Liberty and into a land of opportunity tinged with bigotry yet with a promise to future generations.”

Despite the conditions, Mr. Kleinberg endured; he not only survived, but has prospered.

Mr. Kleinberg started his insurance career in the 1960s as a field agent in Milwaukee and went on to serve as chairman and CEO of Senior Market Sales, an Omaha-based insurance marketing organization with more than 320 employees and 70,000 independent

Trade scholarships available for the 2022-23 academic year An anonymous donor in our community has created two trade school scholarship opportunities, up to $5,000 each, to go towards the 2022-23 academic year.

Not every student who advances into higher education signs up for a four-year curriculum. Some high school graduates seek job training that lasts a year or two and then places them in the workforce. Such opportunities include, but are not restricted to:

Local Author Series

Continued from page 1 send in questions, because “Marvin would like to hear from you.” For more information about our Local Author Series, please send an email to avandekamp@jewishomaha.org or rring@jewishomaha.org. We can’t wait to see you!

agents under contract.

Now executive vice president and chairman emeritus at Senior Market Sales, Mr. Kleinberg speaks about his Holocaust experience at schools, synagogues and libraries and for the Institute for Holocaust Education. He is dedicated to carrying on the memory of the Holocaust so future generations can better understand what happened and ensure it never happens again.

Mr. Kleinberg and his wife Marsha are generous philanthropists who support several nonprofit organizations and charitable causes.

The program on Tuesday, June 21, is open to all and if you have any questions, please contact, Scott Littky at slittky@ihene.org.

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ORGANIZATIONS B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS The award-winning B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS speaker program currently meets Wednesdays via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. Please watch the Press for specific information concerning its thought-provoking, informative list of speakers. To be placed on the email list, contact Breadbreakers chair at gary.javitch@gmail.com.

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Malashock Award Continued from page 1 Disclaimer: Eadie taught my own children at Friedel Jewish Academy; her impact lasts to this day. No Jewish holiday, including Shabbat, goes by without awareness of everything Eadie has taught them. Most importantly, in addition to instilling Jewish knowledge, Eadie personifies the joy that is inherent in Judaism and in Jewish learning.

“Over the past 20-plus years,” Beth El’s Rabbi Steven Abraham said, “Eadie has made a substantial impact on the lives of countless Jewish youth. From her time working as a teacher at the Beth El religious school, as a Hebrew teacher at the Friedel Jewish Academy, and then finally as the Director of Education at Beth El, Eadie has created an environment where Jewish learning has come alive. She cares about her students and is fiercely loyal to her teachers. Eadie has done something that most school directors can only dream of, which is to create a space where students want to come to school. I can think of no one more deserving of such a prestigious honor than Eadie Tsabari. She has put in countless hours over years to better our community.”

When Rabbi Abraham first arrived in Omaha, Eadie was an amazing resource as she knew the ins and outs of this community: “She had been involved in formal Jewish education as well as informal,” Rabbi Abraham said. “She knew our history as a synagogue, but also was always willing to adapt for a new flock of students. Eadie always made time for her teachers or others in the community who needed some guidance or direction.”

In her most recent position as Director of Congregational Learning at Beth El, Eadie oversaw educational programming for all ages, from pre-kindergarten-aged children through adults, as well as the synagogue’s three youth groups.

“I want to make sure people are getting what they need,” she said in 2020. “I want to bring people in who normally wouldn’t come in to take a class, and see what it takes to entice them.

I want to make Jewish education a priority in people’s lives again: a priority over sports and other activities that we are so involved in today,” she continued. “By making programming that’s interesting, by making programs that are inclusive and

educational, we can encourage people in a friendly way to be more Jewish, or more learned about their own religion.”

Tsabari’s dedication to Jewish education is unquestionable and longstanding: in addition to teaching at Beth El for over 30 years, she led Junior Congregation for second- to seventhgrade children, as well as Simchat Shabbat, one of the synagogue’s alternative Shabbat celebrations. In addition, she spent many years at the Friedel Jewish Academy, where she taught Hebrew in the school’s immersion program. As a teacher at the day school, she was phenomenal at engaging her students every step of the way.

Born in Omaha, Eadie’s parents were Joe and Helen Fishel, who owned the Herman Nut Company. They were Holocaust survivors who came to Omaha, raised a family and built a business. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Eadie made Aliyah and ended up staying in Israel for nine years. She met and married Eitan Tsabari; together, they raised four children: Ron, Onie, Gal and Effie.

In 2011, Eadie was honored with the Sokolof Outstanding Teacher Award. Ron Giller, who was Friedel’s principal at the time, said: “Eadie teaches children a lifelong appreciation of Jewish culture, traditions, language and the State of Israel.”

When parents whose children have been in Eadie’s classroom talk about her, they use words like ‘exceptional,’ ‘outstanding,’ ‘dedicated’ and, most importantly, ‘warm.’ Eadie herself more often talks about her students instead: “What I like most about my students is how curious and smart they are,” she said in 2011. “They offer such insight. And I enjoy getting to know each of them.”

It’s probable both of those things are true: Eadie is an exceptional educator, her students respond in kind, which is why The Jody and Neal Malashock Award for Professional Excellence is a well-deserved honor to bestow on Eadie.

Please join us for the JFO Annual Meeting on June 28, and help us celebrate Eadie Tsabari and everything she has given to our community. For more details about the Annual Meeting and the various award recipients, please visit our website at www.jewishomaha.org or contact Jennifer Tompkins at jtompkins@jewishomaha.org.

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Albert and Eleanor Feldman Family Israel Foundation Grants awarded LINDA POLLARD JFO Foundation Former Omahans Albert, of blessed memory, and Eleanor Feldman established the Albert and Eleanor Feldman Family Israel Foundation at the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation in 2018. Although Al and Eleanor moved to California over 20 years ago, they still considered Omaha their home.

The Feldmans generously honored their hometown Jewish community by creating this foundation. Daughters Lori Feldman and Jodi Fleishman both reside in California and direct the operation of the foundation.

Lori stated, “The goal of the Foundation is to enhance the relationship between the Omaha Jewish community and Israel. Since our parents, Ellie and Al, started the Foundation, we are gratified that the Foundation has granted over $350,000 to assist members of the community to travel and make Aliyah to Israel, as well as to support enrichment programs in the arts, music and education for Omaha children and adults. Dad’s singular goal was to instill in others his deep love for Israel, and through the Foundation we are proud to carry on his legacy.”

The Albert and Eleanor Feldman Family Israel Foundation awards funds and subsidies for programs, initiatives, activities and operations all pertaining to Israel. The fund supports trips to Israel by Jews of all ages, assisting Jews to make Aliyah, social, economic, and religious exchanges, subsidizing Israeli musicians and artists to come to Omaha and for Omaha artists and musicians to go to Israel. The fund also supports the community Shlichim program, mutual youth camp exchanges, the JFO participation in the Partnership2Gether program, and Omaha synagogues’ programs and activities, which support and promote Israel, its history, culture, holidays, and current events.

Jodi stated, “Our father would be so gratified by the generosity of the Foundation and the worthy programs we have funded.”

It is the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation’s honor to announce the Albert and Eleanor Feldman Family Israel Foundation’s grants awarded at the board’s April 2022 meeting: Jewish Federation of Omaha - Community Teen Trip 2022 – The funds will be used for the Federation’s teen trip to Israel. The trip was cancelled last year due to COVID. Jewish Federation of Omaha - 2022 Momentum Men’s Trip to Israel – This grant will subsidize a day/night in the Partnership and to help defray the overall cost of the trip to Israel for the men participating in this trip.

Jewish Federation of Omaha - 2022 Momentum Women’s Trip to Israel - This grant will subsidize a day/night in the Partnership and to help defray the overall cost of the trip to Israel for the women participating in this trip.

Jewish Federation of Omaha - Scholarships – The funds will enable community members of all ages, backgrounds, and affiliations to have an Israel experience, including but not limited to, a Rabbinic or yeshiva study in Israel, semester at an Israeli high school, or other Israel experiences.

Jewish Federation of Omaha - Shaliach Expenses – This grant will help to cover the living costs of the community Shaliach. The expenses are for the second year for the current Shaliach.

University of Nebraska Foundation - Nebraska Study Abroad in Jerusalem – The funds awarded will help subsidize expenses for university students to travel to Israel for a facultyled study abroad program. It is a month-long program that will be held every other year beginning this summer. This is a See Feldman Family Israel Foundation Grants page 4

Respect coming soon to the Omaha Community Playhouse Celebrate the divas who dominated the music scene for decades with Respect, a high-energy concert experience opening June 10 at the Omaha Community Playhouse!

Featuring the music of Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, The Supremes, Carole King and more — served up by a team of powerhouse vocalists and backed by a full rock band.

This production runs from June 10 through 26 in the Howard Drew Theatre at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at Omah aPlayhouse.com or by calling the OCP Box Office at 402.553.0800. Reserve your seats early for the best pricing and seating options.

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Above: Mr. Harold Mann, Carl Frohm Memorial Foundation, Trustee; top right: Kathryn Prosser, V.J. and Angela Skutt Catholic High School, First Place winner for grades 9 and 10; bottom right: Claire Williams, Omaha Central High School, First Place winner for grades 11 and 12.

Divine play All Jews can agree that the holiday of Shavuot, which begins this year on Saturday night June 4, celebrates the Torah (Pentateuch). However, Jews differ as to how the Torah came into existence: whether wholly as a product of human beings, whether given

by God to Moshe on Sinai precisely on Shavuot (i.e., the sixth day of the Hebrew month of Sivan), or as some kind TEDDY of divine-human collaboration (that WEINBERGER is: a belief in a Sinai-type event with the words of the Torah written down by human beings).

There are also a number of traditions concerning God’s own relationship with the Torah. A midrash ( from the Zohar), speaking about the Torah as pre-dating creation, says: “God looked into the Torah and created the world.” Another midrash ( from the Talmud), which provides a kind of overview of God’s typical day, speaks about God dedicating the first three hours of each day to “sitting and learning Torah.” In both of these midrashim, we sense that “Torah” is being used as some kind of fundamental key to existence, whose study facilitates a vital connection to this “key.”

Curious about the rest of God’s daily schedule? Well, you’re in luck! In honor of Shavuot, here it is (according to the above midrash): During the second three-hour block of time, God sits in judgment of the world, but since the world is invariably doomed as a result of this process, God switches seats to “the chair of mercy”; during the third set of three hours, God “sits and sustains the world, from the horns of wild oxen to the eggs of lice”; and during the final three-hour period, God “plays with the Leviathan” (see Psalms 104.26; other traditions speak of God playing with the tzadikim/pious).

Aside from giving us a sense of God’s schedule, this midrash points to the tremendous importance of play. (True, we are informed of just 12 hours of God’s day, but this problem can be imaginatively solved; e.g., given that Psalms 121.4 speaks of God as one who “neither slumbers nor sleeps,” perhaps God “alternates” between hemispheres so that his full day indeed is only 12 hours). The Maharal of Prague, Rabbi Judah Loew (d. 1609) draws significance from the fact that

in Hebrew the first few letters of “Leviathan” spell out the Hebrew word “livuy” (“to accompany” or “to connect with”).

In other words, the midrash both conveys to us the idea that God plays, and it also gives us a sense of what constitutes good play: When you are fully within the word of play, when you are fully in “the zone,” you are fully connected to your play and to the things and people with whom you are playing. To my mind, the Maharal’s is a wonderfully playful reading of the midrash, and it lends poetic sense to why, years after his death, the legend developed in the early 19th century that the Maharal created a Golem to protect the Jews of Prague (and if I too can be playful here, the Maharal may have been predisposed to such a reading because in Hebrew his very name, “Loew,” shares the same letters as “livuy”).

The play element of religion is often forgotten or dismissed. And yet a noted scholar, Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), has shown that just as it is possible to categorize the human being as Homo Sapiens, so it is possible to speak of the human being as a creature of play, as Homo Ludens (in 1938, Huizinga published a book under this name with the subtitle: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture). Perhaps it’s no coincidence, then, that my friend and teacher Lior Engelman, who is nearing the completion of his third novel (an extremely playful thing to do for an Orthodox Israeli rabbi), is also my tennis partner.

Whatever else happens in Israel on Shavuot, all of Israel has fun with the holiday’s emphasis on dairy foods--especially cheesecake. Weeks before the holiday, cheesecakes start appearing in grocery and convenience stores throughout the country, and recipes for cheesecakes abound on social media and in newspaper food-sections. On Saturday night June 4, the Israeli thing to do will be to eat cheesecake with one’s family and friends. Yes: “Israeli.” Just as in America, the secular state here relies upon the religious culture of a majority of its citizens for many of the country’s seasonal traditions. So enjoy your cheesecake and have a Happy Shavuot.

Teddy Weinberger, Ph.D., made aliyah with his wife, former Omahan Saraj Jane Ross, and their five children, Nathan, Rebecca, Ruthie, Ezra, and Elie, all of whom are veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces; Weinberger can be reached at weinross@gmail.com.

Feldman Family Israel Foundation Grants Continued from page 3 collaboration between the UNL Harris Center for Judaica Studies and Hebrew University’s Rothberg Internatonal School.

Friedel Jewish Academy - Jewish National Fund Educators Mission – This grant will enable Friedel to participate in the Heads of School cohort of the annual JNF Educators Mission. JNF is seeking to work with North American Jewish day schools to provide 8th and 12th grade capstone trips to Israel.

Friedel Jewish Academy - Morim Shlichim Jewish Studies Teachers – The awarded funds will be used for an additional Jewish Studies teacher from the World Zionist Organization’s Morim Shlichim program in Israel.

Beth El Synagogue - Musician-in-Residence – This grant will bring Israeli musician Yahala Lachmish to Omaha, where

Beth El congregants will learn from and be inspired by her unique and spiritual liturgical music.

Chabad of Nebraska - Lag BaOmer Concert – Funds will be used to bring an Israel focused singer to Omaha for the Lag BaOmer Concert that Chabad is planning for 2023.

Officers of the board of directors are Jodi Fleishman, President, Lori Feldman, Vice President, and Howard Epstein, Secretary/Treasurer. The board of directors is comprised of Mike Abramson, Ozzie Nogg, and Louri Sullivan.

To learn more about establishing a supporting foundation or endowment with the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation, contact Howard Epstein, 402.334.6466 or hepstein@jew ishomaha.org.

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Mental Health myths and facts

MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AFFECT EVERYONE MYTH: Mental health problems don’t affect me.

FACT: Mental health problems are actually very common.

In 2014, about: • One in five American adults experienced a mental health issue • One in 10 young people experienced a period of major depression • One in 25 Americans lived with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. It accounts for the loss of more than 41,000 American lives each year, more than double the number of lives lost to homicide.

MYTH: Children don’t experience mental health problems.

FACT: Even very young children may show early warning signs of mental health concerns. These mental health problems are often clinically diagnosable, and can be a product of the interaction of biological, psychological, and social factors.

Half of all mental health disorders show first signs before a person turns 14 years old, and three quarters of mental health disorders begin before age 24.

Unfortunately, less than 20% of children and adolescents with diagnosable mental health problems receive the treatment they need. Early mental health support can help a child before problems interfere with other developmental needs.

MYTH: People with mental health problems are violent and unpredictable.

FACT: The vast majority of people with mental health problems are no more likely to be violent than anyone else.

Most people with mental illness are not violent and only 3%– 5% of violent acts can be attributed to individuals living with a serious mental illness. In fact, people with severe mental illnesses are over 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime than the general population. You probably know someone with a mental health problem and don’t even realize it, because many people with mental health problems are highly active and productive members of our communities.

MYTH: People with mental health needs, even those who are managing their mental illness, cannot tolerate the stress of holding down a job.

FACT: People with mental health problems are just as productive as other employees. Employers who hire people with mental health problems report good attendance and punctuality as well as motivation, good work, and job tenure on par with or greater than other employees.

When employees with mental health problems receive effective treatment, it can result in: • Lower total medical costs • Increased productivity See Mental Health page 6

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NJHS Archives uncovered!

This summer everyone is invited to a series of programs as we uncover and display objects from the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society collections.

Come discover and learn about the collections at the Jewish Federation of Omaha. All events will be held in the Wiesman Family Reception Room.

Join us on Tuesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. as we uncover the Military and Political Service. We will look at the Holocaust and Refugees, Tuesday, July 12 at 7 p.m. and Arts and Culture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Our final program will be Tuesday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. and cover the Business Community.

Space is limited; please RSVP by phone 402.334.6441 or by email at njhs@jewishomaha.org.

From My Kosher Jerusalem Kitchen: Special Cheesecake for Shavuot SYBIL KAPLAN Every year I like to look through my cheesecake file and try something different.

PEACHY CHEESECAKE This came from a food magazine of many years ago.

Ingredients: 16 reduced-fat finely crushed chocolate graham crackers 3 Tbsp. melted butter 1 1/2 cups low-fat cottage cheese 15 ounces peaches in juice with 1/4 cup juice reserved 8 ounces 1/3 less fat cream cheese 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. lemon juice 2/3 cup sugar 4 egg whites Directions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Coat 9-inch springform pan with vegetable spray. Wrap outside with heavy-duty aluminum foil.

In a bowl, combine cracker crumbs and melted butter. Press in springform pan.

Puree cottage cheese and 1/4 cup peach

juice in blender or food processor until smooth, about 1 minute. Add cream cheese, vanilla, lemon juice and 3/4 cup peaches. Blend until smooth.

Add sugar and egg whites and blend until well combined.

Pour cheese mixture into springform pan. Place pan in 13x9x2-inch baking pan.

Pour enough hot water into baking pan to come halfway up sides of springform pan.

Bake in preheated 375 degree F. oven 40-45 minutes until cheesecake is set in center.

Carefully remove both pans from oven.

Place springform pan on a rack.

Remove foil. Cool for 30 minutes. Place in refrigerator about 4 hours.

To serve, top with remaining 1/2 cup peaches.

Serves 12.

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Mental Health

Continued from page 5 • Lower absenteeism • Decreased disability costs MYTH: Personality weakness or character flaws cause mental health problems. People with mental health problems can snap out of it if they try hard enough.

FACT: Mental health problems have nothing to do with being lazy or weak and many people need help to get better.

Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including: • Biological factors, such as genes, physical illness, injury, or brain chemistry • Life experiences, such as trauma or a history of abuse • Family history of mental health problems People with mental health problems can get better and many recover completely.

MYTH: There is no hope for people with mental health problems. Once a friend or family member develops mental health problems, he or she will never recover.

FACT: Studies show that people with mental health problems get better and many recover completely. Recovery refers to the process in which people are able to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities. There are more treatments, services, and community support systems than ever before, and they work.

MYTH: Therapy and self-help are a waste of time. Why bother when you can just take a pill?

FACT: Treatment for mental health problems varies depending on the individual and could include medication, therapy, or both. Many individuals work with a support system during the healing and recovery process.

MYTH: I can’t do anything for a person with a mental health

problem.

FACT: Friends and loved ones can make a big difference.

Only 44% of adults with diagnosable mental health problems and less than 20% of children and adolescents receive needed treatment. Friends and family can be important influences to help someone get the treatment and services they need by: • Reaching out and letting them know you are available to help • Helping them access mental health services • Learning and sharing the facts about mental health, especially if you hear something that isn’t true • Treating them with respect, just as you would anyone else • Refusing to define them by their diagnosis or using labels such as “crazy” MYTH: Prevention doesn’t work. It is impossible to prevent mental illnesses.

FACT: Prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders focuses on addressing known risk factors such as exposure to trauma that can affect the chances that children, youth, and young adults will develop mental health problems.

Promoting the social-emotional well-being of children and youth leads to: • Higher overall productivity • Better educational outcomes • Lower crime rates • Stronger economies • Lower health care costs • Improved quality of life • Increased lifespan • Improved family life This mental health series is sponsored by the Jewish Press and the Jennifer Beth Kay memorial fund.

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JFO Save the Dates

Our Staenberg Kooper Fellman Campus is getting busier and busier, and it can be hard to keep track of everything that’s going on. While we encourage you to check the full community calendar at www.jewishomaha.org for any and all community events, For more information, please contact Rachel Ring at rring@jewishomaha.org, or visit our website.

JUNE 9 L’chaim Shavuot edition, 6–8 p.m.

Location TBD JUNE 11 Booth at Omaha Arts Festival, 9 a.m.–6 p.m. Aksarben Village JUNE 12 Family Day at Henry Doorly Zoo JUNE 12 All You Need is LOVE Event, 1 p.m. AND 6 p.m. in the Alan J. Levine Performing Arts theater JUNE 12 JCC Piano Recital JUNE 13 Eye on Israel Event, noon–2 p.m.

JUNE 16 IHE Lunch and Learn, 11:30 a.m.– 1 p.m.

JUNE 16 Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group, 1–2 p.m. in the Wiesman Room JUNE 20 YJO College World Series and Tailgate, 5:30 p.m. Charles Schwab Stadium JUNE 21 Local Author Series with Harold Mann, 10–11 a.m. Wiesman Room (in person and on Zoom) JUNE 21 An Evening with Milton Mendel Kleinberg, 7–9 p.m. in the Goldstein Family CEV JUNE 28 JFO Annual Meeting and Awards Night, 7–9 p.m. Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater

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Above: The madrechim of Beth El lead Sunday morning services at BESTT. Julian Witkowski, left, Preston Gordman, Joshua Shapiro, Ollie Lucoff, Peyton Kelln, and Ari Finkelstein.

Right: This one of Jennie Gates Beckman and Sadie is a few years old, but it will make you smile.

Below: Look who has come back to watch over the KripkeVeret Collection of the Federation’s Library!

Top, above, below and bottom: Friedel hosted another parent/child learning session. Fifth and sixth graders set up a shuk. Each booth had a different part of dinner (pizza, veggies, chips, dips, desserts, and drinks). Friedel students helped their parents order in Hebrew!

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Above and right: Friedel Jewish Academy recently planted their (mostly edible) school garden—and installed a drip irrigation system to help it keep growing all summer. They will give extra food from the garden to Tri-Faith Initiative to distribute to families in need in the community. Special thanks to Matt and Sarah Frey for helping plant!

Below: Beth El Synagogue Graduation Class 2022: Phoenix Mavropoulos, left, Benjamin Kutler, Jake Lucoff, Dina Saltzman, Ari Finkelstein, and Ethan Finkelstein.

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Bad Moon Rising? seems that the modern Jewish explanation is that alSAM KRICSFELD though lunar eclipses are predictable, the “omen” asThe Kansas City Jewish Chronicle Editor On May 15, half the world and I had the opportu- pect is that the eclipse’s occurrence marks a time that nity to watch our floating rock cast a shadow on a people are predisposed to tragedy and punishment. smaller floating rock. Lunar eclipses aren’t particu- Basically, it marks a predetermined time of bad luck.

As somebody who is making larly rare in terms of celestial quite a few big changes in their events, but this one coincided life, I did not like to read this. I’d with a “supermoon,” meaning just found out that right before I’ll the moon was brighter than make one of the first major leaps usual. The sun, Earth and the in my adult life, I’d witnessed a cemoon lined up, and I watched as lestial event that I thought was a the moon was slowly covered up sign that I —and everyone else — and turned red. would have bad luck.

As I stood futzing with my I kept reading, thankfully, and camera and tripod in my uncle’s discovered that I’d jumped to backyard, I was suddenly aware conclusions and worried a bit too of how quickly the universe soon. I was directed to Tosefta moves. I was reminded of the world’s turning when, after only Credit: Zeederp, licensed under the Cre- Sukkah (yes, I hadn’t heard of it a few minutes, I could no longer ative Commons Attribution 4.0 Interna- either) 2:7, where it says: tional license.

“When the luminaries are see the moon in my viewfinder.

With a strong feeling of existential motion sick- eclipsed, it is a bad omen to the whole world... ness, I went inside after the maximum eclipse at When the sun and the moon are turned as it were 11:11 p.m. to view my photos. My entry-level camera to blood, punishment by the sword comes on the and 400mm lens did a decent job — certainly better world, punishment by pestilence and by famine...”

So far, not so good. It continues: “There is no nation than the naked eye or my cellphone — and I drove home as the Earth’s shadow slowly slid off the moon. punished whose gods are not punished with it, as it On the drive back, I realized I hadn’t said a bless- is said, ‘And against all the gods of Egypt, etc.’ When ing upon viewing the eclipse. Because we as Jews Israel is busied in the study of Torah it is not troubled say blessings for many special natural phenomena by these things, for it is said, ‘Thus said G-d, Learn (rainbows, thunder, comets), I figured that we’d not the way of the nations, etc.’ [Jerimiah 10].”

The Lubavitcher Rebbe said, “Not only are Jews have something for the awe-inspiring eclipse. I was surprised and a bit dismayed when I read that the able to overcome their nature (through hard work, Talmud says lunar eclipses are considered a bad etc.), but rather they don’t take these ‘signs of the heavens’ [i.e. eclipses] into account in the first omen for the Jewish people.

Upon reading some more about the matter, it place... The ultimate level is when we no longer have

to pay attention to the rules of nature at all. This is the way G-d behaves with righteous people (and ‘Your nations are all righteous’) — a clearly miraculous manner that is completely beyond nature.”

After my impromptu, multi-hour, solo Jewish studies session, I felt a bit better. I was reminded that we are fortunate that G-d is merciful, and that even though we might be predisposed to some bad luck, we can mitigate or even avoid it by working to be a better Jew. I feel the need to add a disclaimer that I am not a rabbi or a scholar — I’m a guy who looked at the moon and went on the internet to look stuff up.

From what I gather, there are times other than eclipses when we are predisposed to bad luck — Jewish astrology is a thing — but predisposition does not affect free will, and using our free will to work towards being a better Jew can overcome the omen.

Levi Brackman’s Chabad.org article Is Astrology Kosher? put it in terms I understood best: “The message is clear: nature and its rules — including astrological truths — do exert an influence on our lives. It presents us with auspicious times and circumstances, and inauspicious ones; it imbues our character with certain traits and tendencies. However, one must recognize that ultimate power rests not with ‘nature’ but with the Creator of heaven and earth.”

I found various opinions, difficult language, endless sources, and arguments in Jewish laws and literature about the omens of eclipses. Even if everything I’ve researched up to this point is disputed, the “solution” of doing G-d’s will has benefits no matter what.

So next time there’s a bad moon rising, trouble on the way, or bad times today, the scholars say that mitzvot, prayers, tzedakah, Torah study — anything you can do to be a better Jew — will make things a bit better.

Overturning Roe would be an unconscionable infringement on the religious freedom of Orthodox Jews DOV LINZER AND SARA HURWITZ JTA As Orthodox rabbis, we are devastated by the news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. If this happens, states will be free to pass laws to prohibit or strictly limit abortion, and approximately 25 of them are prepared to do so or already have. Such legislation would impact the lives of tens of millions of women.

It would also be an unconscionable infringement on the religious freedom of Orthodox Jews.

A strategy of the anti-choice camp is to claim that women make the decisions to terminate a pregnancy for trivial reasons. That is the opposite of our experience. A few years ago, one of us was approached by a pregnant woman whose husband had a history of erratic and violent behavior. She herself had just learned that the fetus she was carrying had a severe congenital birth defect and she did not believe that she had the capacity to care for such a child. Carrying out the pregnancy would wreak havoc on her delicate and compromised family situation. She was deeply conflicted about which decision was the right one. Had Jewish law offered her no choice — as she had initially believed — it would have robbed her of any moral or religious agency. No wonder, then, that she felt trapped and helpless.

This changed when she was presented with the fact that, according to some Jewish decisors, abortion was an option in her case, for reasons we’ll explain. She was able to own her agency, to grapple with the competing ethical and religious mandates, to consult with a halachic (Jewish legal) authority and to give weight to her own and family’s well-being.

The final choice she made isn’t what is relevant here. It is that she was empowered to make it.

We believe that halacha is binding and that protecting human life is one of its highest values. Our commitment to halacha is not contradicted by our pro-choice beliefs but expressed by them. We have seen how many false assumptions exist when it

comes to Orthodoxy’s approach to questions of when life begins or what a woman’s autonomy entails. So we are writing together — as two leaders of Orthodox seminaries — to clarify misconceptions and to challenge those who claim that there is one “authentic” Jewish way at this personal decision.

The Orthodox position on abortion is not the same as that of the Catholic Church. In fact, there is no one “Orthodox position” on abortion. Jewish law

Protesters attend the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" at Union Square near the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

is rarely, if ever, univocal on issues. Its beauty and power lie in its decentralization and in the multiplicity of opinions articulated by those who interpret it.

When it comes to abortion, the opinions run the gamut, from those who see the fetus as merely a part of the mother’s body to those who rule that abortion is tantamount to murder. The status of the fetus might also be quite different depending on the stage of development, whether first, second or third trimester, with an increasingly shrinking range of justifying circumstances as the fetus becomes more fully developed.

It would be wrong to characterize any of these positions as either pro-life or pro-choice. Jewish law is not so simple. As distinct from much of the contemporary “either/or” discourse around abortion, Jewish law embraces a “both/and” approach. There is both a mandate to protect life, even a future life,

and, at the same time, a religious obligation to protect the health and psychic well-being of every human being. Because a fetus is not seen as a full life, these two mandates exist in an ongoing tension.

Halacha embraces the complexity and messiness of our lives and rejects simplistic, prepackaged answers. Orthodox women grappling with the question of whether to have an abortion will be guided by their consciences and their faith and consult with a religious advisor to guide them regarding Torah values and ethical and religious-legal obligations.

To deny women the right to choose is to assume that they cannot be responsible to give this consequential decision the full weight that it deserves. It is to infantilize women, to exhibit a lack of trust in them to be responsible moral agents. And in the case of women committed to Jewish law, it is to rob them of the ability to be true not only to the dictates of their conscience, but to their faith as well.

If the Supreme Court removes the protections of Roe v. Wade and states adopt legislation that limits or eliminates a woman’s right to choose, we and our co-religionists will be effectively barred from acting in accordance with our religious beliefs and from being guided by our moral compass. Taking away choices about one’s pregnancy undermines central values of Jewish law: engaging a range of options, bringing to bear competing Torah values, and owning the complexity of one’s reality.

Dov Linzer is the President of Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, and serves as a religious guide to the yeshiva’s current rabbinical students and over 130 rabbis serving in the field.

Sara Hurwitz is Co-Founder and President of Maharat, the first institution to ordain Orthodox women as clergy, and also serves on the rabbinic staff at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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How a rebranded 92nd Street Y sees its Jewish future ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL JTA When I last spoke to Seth Pinsky in January 2020, soon after he was appointed CEO of the 92nd Street Y, he was looking forward to the challenge of taking over at a legacy New York Jewish institution — unaware that a pandemic was about to sweep away nearly all of the assumptions he brought to the new job.

Like every business and nonprofit, the 92nd Street Y, one of New York City’s cultural landmarks, was staggered by the shutdowns brought on by COVID. Live events ground to a halt and the center had to lay off staff.

Now, as New York’s cultural life emerges from over two years of upheaval, the Y is embarking on a $200 million renovation of its home on the Upper East Side. It’s also investing some $30 million in a digital platform — called The Roundtable — that will turn the expediency of online programming into an established part of its offerings.

What the Y is calling a “transformation” will also include new branding: An institution founded in 1874 as the Young Men’s Hebrew Association and that became known as the “The 92nd Street Y” is becoming “The 92nd Street Y, New York” — a city-centric identity reflected in a new logo reading “92NY.” Although its “pillars” include the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, with Jewish study for adults, an after-school program for kids and a leadership fellowship for rabbinical students, the “Y” was never just a Jewish community center. It competes with the city’s major secular venues by presenting classical music, modern dance, the American songbook and speakers and programs far afield from Jewish life — to the degree that, in 2014, when it appointed a new executive director who wasn’t Jewish (Henry Timms, Pinsky’s predecessor), some worried it had lost its way as a Jewish institution. Rabbi Peter Rubinstein of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, hired that same year as the Y’s director of Jewish community, helped assuage critics by expanding its Jewish programming and adding the prominent Brooklyn rabbi Andy Bachman to his team.

Recently I spoke via Zoom about 92NY’s new look and its Jewish future with Pinsky — who came to the Y after heading economic development for the Bloomberg administration — and Rabbi Joui Hessel, the interim director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life. (Rubinstein is now its emeritus director.)

Our conversation was edited for length and clarity.

New York Jewish Week: How much did the pandemic impact that put the word “Paris” in their name. If you’re a cultural inyou financially and how much does that play into the current stitution and you have the word New York in your name, it adds a certain cachet. It is a subtle enough change that it rebranding and redevelopment?

Seth Pinsky: The pandemic was incredibly painful for us as didn’t fundamentally alter our underlying identity.

The Roundtable is the new online platform. Does that suggest an institution. Everyone who worked at the 92nd Street Y was impacted. And then on top of that, we saw attendance in our that streaming events are here to stay, and a new revenue stream?

Pinsky: They’re definitely here to stay and they’re unquestionin-person events fall to zero, and it had a significant financial impact. We had to do what many of our peer institutions did ably a net positive for us. They’ve allowed us to expand our comin terms of furloughs and layoffs, which were maybe the most munity exponentially. What we’re fundamentally about is difficult decisions that we had to make.

But what was interesting for us was that at a certain moment, we made the decision that we were going to have to view the challenges that we’re facing also as opportunities.

The pandemic was forcing us to reimagine everything about who we were and to ask the question looking at a 150-year-old institution and say what we want to be going forward.

And that was?

Pinsky: One of the things that we learned during the pandemic was, as we transitioned our program from in-person to online, is that we had a global audience, and that our messaging, our values, the things that we’ve always viewed to be important, resonated all across the United States and The 92nd St. Y unveils its new name and branding: The 92nd Street then over 200 countries. Pre-pandemic, we would have, on Y, New York at a news conference at its Upper East Side bldg, May average, about 300,000 people come through our doors for 10, 2022. Credit: Karl Ault/Michael Priest Photography all of our programming. For the last couple of years, our online enriching lives and connecting people. And being online allows programming alone, we’ve created about 2,000 original pro- us to do that at an even greater scale than we could when we grams that have generated about 6 million views. And so, were solely in person. That doesn’t mean that we’ve abandoned coming out of this, we decided that we were going to work to in-person programming, but it’s a great addition to our repertory.

One of the challenges that we faced pre-COVID was that we continue to hold true to the values and mission that have always animated the 92nd Street Y, but in a distinctly 21st-cen- were essentially maxed out in terms of the scale of programming that we were producing, because our space was being tury manner.

And part of that is what you described as “doubling down on used almost 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Digital prothe deep connection with your home city.” In rebranding as “The gramming allows us to add to our programming without taxing our physical space.

92nd Street Y, New York,” why is that important?

Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of The New York Pinsky: As we expanded internationally, we came into contact with lots of people who had never heard of the 92nd Jewish Week and senior editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Street Y and we had to figure out a way quickly to communi- Agency.

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B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE

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BETH EL SYNAGOGUE

Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism 14506 California Street Omaha, NE 68154-1980 402.492.8550 bethel-omaha.org

BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE

Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific Street Omaha, NE. 68154 402.556.6288 BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org

CHABAD HOUSE

An Affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch 1866 South 120 Street Omaha, NE 68144-1646 402.330.1800 OChabad.com email: chabad@aol.com

LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: B’NAI JESHURUN

South Street Temple Union for Reform Judaism 2061 South 20th Street Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 402.435.8004 www.southstreettemple.org

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE

Capehart Chapel 2500 Capehart Road Offutt AFB, NE 68123 402.294.6244 email: oafbjsll@icloud.com

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME

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TEMPLE ISRAEL

Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 13111 Sterling Ridge Drive Omaha, NE 68144-1206 402.556.6536 templeisraelomaha.com

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Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Boulevard Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 402.423.8569 tiferethisraellincoln.org

B’NAI ISRAEL Join us on Friday, June 10, 7 p.m. for evening services. Our service leader is Larry Blass. Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel!

For information on COVID-related closures and about our historic synagogue, please contact Howard Kutler at hkutler@hotmail.com or any of our other board members: Scott Friedman, Rick Katelman, Janie Kulakofsky, Carole and Wayne Lainof, Mary-Beth Muskin, Debbie Salomon and Sissy Silber.

Handicap Accessible.

BETH EL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman.

VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON MINYAN SCHEDULE: Mornings on Sundays, 9 a.m.; Mondays and Thursdays, 7 a.m.; Evenings on Sunday-Thursday, 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Kamp Kef, 9 a.m.; Registration Due for Annual Meeting Dinner by 5 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m. at Beth El & Live Stream.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Tikkun Leil Shavuout — Community Beit Midrash, 7 p.m. at Beth El & Live Stream.

SUNDAY: Shavuot Morning Service, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream.

MONDAY: Shavuot Morning Service with Yizkor, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Beth El Office Closed for Shavuot.

FRIDAY-June 10: Annual Meeting, Six String Shabbat, Awards & Dinner, 5:30 p.m.

SATURDAY-June 11: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Havdalah, 9:40 p.m.

Zoom Only.

Please visit bethel-omaha.org for additional information and service links.

BETH ISRAEL FRIDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/ Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:34 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Tot Shabbat, 10:45 a.m.; Mincha/Shalosh Seudos, 7 p.m.; Tikkun Leil Shavuot Classes, 7:30 p.m.; Candlelighting/Ma’ariv, 9:30 p.m.; Dinner, 9:45 p.m.; Tikkun Leil Shavuout Classes, 10:30 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Kids Davening, 10:30 a.m.; Kids Class, 7 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 7:15 p.m.; Candlelighting, 9:45 p.m.

MONDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Yizkor, 10:30 a.m.; Kids Davening, 10:30 a.m.; Kids Class, 7:40 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:40 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:45 p.m.

TUESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Prayer, 7:45 a.m. (Zoom); Kids Parsha Class, 3:45 p.m.; Daf Yomi, 8:10 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/ Ma’ariv, 8:40 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Prayer, 7:45 a.m. (Zoom); Camp JYE, 9 a.m. at Beth Israel; Daf Yomi, 8:10 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:40 p.m.

THURSDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Camp JYE, 9 a.m. at Beth Israel; Character Development, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Medical Ethics, noon with Rabbi Yoni at UNMC; Daf Yomi, 8:10 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/ Ma’ariv, 8:40 p.m.

FRIDAY-June 10: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Camp JYE, 9 a.m. at Beth Israel; Mincha/ Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:39 p.m.

SATURDAY-June 11: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Camp JYE, 9 a.m. at Beth Israel; Tot Shabbat, 10:45 a.m.; Daf Yomi, 8:10 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha, 8:40 p.m.; Shalosh Seudos/Laws of Shabbos/Kids Activity, 9 p.m.; Candlelighting, 9:49 p.m.

Please visit orthodoxomaha.org for additional information and Zoom service links.

CHABAD HOUSE All services are in-person. All classes are being offered in-person/Zoom hybrid (Ochabad.com/classroom). For more information or to request help, please visit www.ochabad.com or call the office at 402.330.1800.

FRIDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Inspirational Lechayim, 5:45 p.m. with Rabbi and friends: ochabad.com/Le chayim; Candlelighting, 8:34 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush and Cholent; Light Shavuot Candles after, 9:44 p.m.

SUNDAY: Pancake Breakfast and Interactive fun for Tots and Little Tykes, 10 a.m.; Ten Commandments Torah Reading, 11 a.m.; Garden Party, 11:30 a.m. RSVP at Ochabad.com/rsvp; Light Shavuot candles after, 9:44 p.m.

MONDAY: Shacharit, 10 a.m.; Yizkor Service, 11 a.m.; Holiday Ends, 9:45 p.m.

TUESDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Virtual Pirkei Avot Women’s Class, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Mystical Thinking (Tanya), 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Katzman; Introductory Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Introduction to Hebrew Reading, 11:30 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen.

THURSDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Advanced Hebrew Class, 11 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Talmud Study (Sanhedrin 18 — No advance experience necessary), noon with Rabbi Katzman; Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) Class, 8 p.m. with Rabbi Ell. FRIDAY-June 10: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Inspirational Lechayim, 5:45 p.m. with Rabbi and friends: ochab ad.com/Lechayim; Candlelighting, 8:39 p.m.

SATURDAY-June 11: Shacharit, 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush and Cholent; Shabbat Ends, 9:48 p.m.

LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: B’NAI JESHURUN & TIFERETH ISRAEL Services facilitated by Rabbi Alex Felch.

Note: Some of our services, but not all, are now being offered in person.

FRIDAY: Synagogue Offices operating remotely.;

Kabbalat Shabbat Service, service leaders/ music: Rabbi Alex, Nathaniel and Steve Kaup, 6:30 p.m. at SST; Candlelighting, 8:35 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Alex at TI; Pre-Shavuot, noon at TI; Candlelighting for Yom Tov, 9:44 p.m.

SUNDAY: Men's Jewish Bike Group of Lincoln meets Sundays at 10 a.m., rain or shine, to ride to one of The Mill locations from Hanson Ct. (except we drive if it’s too wet, cold, cloudy, windy, hot or humid) followed by coffee and spirited discussions. If interested, please email Al Weiss at albertw801@gmail.com to find out where to meet each week; Pickleball at Tifereth Israel is on hiatus until after Yom Kippur 5783. In the meantime, everyone is welcome to play at Peterson Park through the spring and summer; just wear comfortable clothes and tennis or gym shoes. For motre information, contact Miriam Wallick by email at Miriam57@aol.com; Candlelighting for Yom Tov, 9:45 p.m.

MONDAY: Synagogue Offices Closed; Shavout Morning Service and Yizkor, 9:30 a.m. at TI; Mutual Review Committe Meeting, 7 p.m. at SST. TUESDAY: Tea & Coffee with Pals, 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.

FRIDAY-June 10: Synagogue Offices operating remotely.; Kabbalat Shabbat Service, service leaders/ music: Rabbi Alex, Leslie Delserone and Peter Mullin, 6:30 p.m. at SST; Candlelighting, 8:39 p.m.

SATURDAY-June 11: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Alex at TI; Torah Study on Parashat Nasso, noon; Havdalah, 9:49 p.m.

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FRIDAY: Virtual Shabbat Service, 7:30 p.m. every first and third of the month at Capehart Chapel. Contact TSgt Jason Rife at OAFBJSLL@icloud.com for more information.

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME The Rose Blumkin Jewish Home’s service is currently closed to visitors.

TEMPLE ISRAEL

In-person and virtual services conducted by Rabbi Brian Stoller, Rabbi Deana Sussman Berezin and Cantor Joanna Alexander.

DAILY VIRTUAL MINYAN: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. via Zoom.

FRIDAY: Drop-In Mah Jongg, 9-11 a.m.; Farewell Shabbat for Rabbi Stoller, 6 p.m. via Zoom or In-Person. Dessert Oneg to follow services.

SATURDAY: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. via Zoom or InPerson; Tikkun Leil Shavuot, 7-10 p.m. at Beth El. SUNDAY: Shavuot Service and Yizkor, 10:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Yarn It, 9 a.m.

THURSDAY: Thursday Morning Class, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Azriel via Zoom or In-Person.

FRIDAY-June 10: Drop-In Mah Jongg, 9-11 a.m.; Shabbat Shirah, 6 p.m. via Zoom or In-Person.

SATURDAY-June 11: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. via Zoom or In-Person.

Please visit templeisraelomaha.com for additional information and Zoom service links.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Mila Kunis, Zoë Kravitz among Jews on this year’s Time 100 list JACKIE HAJDENBERG JTA Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s Jewish president who has been leading his country during the Russian invasion that began in late February, has been named to Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Zelensky was listed in the “leaders” category, and his entry was written by U.S. President Joe Biden.

Several Jewish entertainers also made the list released on Monday, including another with Ukrainian heritage: actress Mila Kunis, who immigrated from Chernivtsi to the United States at age seven and launched a campaign that has raised over $36 million for Ukrainian refugee aid efforts. Other actors like Andrew Garfield, Sarah Jessica Parker and Zoë Kravitz were included, as well as Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson, who was just announced to be leaving after seven years on the show.

Taika Waititi, the Maori-Jewish director from New

Zealand of JoJo Rabbit fame, had his entry written up by Jewish actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. In JoJo Rabbit, a Hitler Youth member finds out his mother (played

by Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic.

Andy Jassy, who became CEO of Amazon last year, was named in the “titans” category.

Other Jews who Zoë Kravitz, left, Volodymyr Zelensky, center, and Mila Kunis, right all were all made it on the list in- included on Time magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential peoclude photographer ple. Credit: Cindy Ord/Irina Yakovleva/TASS/David Livingston/Getty Images and opioid crisis activist Nan Goldin, who led ily of Purdue Pharma, and David Zaslav, CEO and protests against museums’ ties to the Sackler fam- President of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Shavuot 2022 at Beth Israel: A night of learning and more

MARY SUE GROSSMAN It is once again time to join in the centuries old tradition of a night of learning in honor of Shavuot and where better to do this than at Beth Israel Synagogue. The tradition of staying up all night is meant to show one’s love for G-d and appreciation for his amazing gift of Torah. Another thought about staying awake on Shavuot night to learn is a response to a midrash that says the Israelites slept so deeply the night before the Torah was revealed at Mount Sinai that they had to be awakened with thunder and lightning Shavuot begins Saturday evening, June 4. Mincha and Shalosh Seudos take place at 7 p.m., followed by Tikkun Leil Shavuot Classes, Part 1, at 7:30 p.m. Maariv is at 9:30 p.m. and candle lighting is at 9:45 p.m. Those teaching classes will include Mari Sartin, Michael Cohen, Laura Dembitzer, Seth Feldman, and Momo Blachman, among others. A delicious dairy dinner with salmon, salad, pasta, dairy desserts, and more will be served at 9:45 p.m. Beginning at 10:30 p.m., Part 2 of Tikkun Leil Shavuot classes will begin. This session

will include special classes for youth and an open Beit Midrash. Dairy refreshments will be available throughout the evening. Tikkun Leil Shavuot is generously sponsored by Leta Greenstein and family and Florie and Shai Gasner and family in memory of their precious parents, Jack and Minde Diamond, and their beloved family members who perished in the Holocaust.

Shavuot services continue on Sunday, June 5, with Shacharit at 9 a.m. Mincha/Marriv will be held at 7:15 p.m. and candle lighting at 9:46 p.m. On the second day of Shavuot, Monday, June 6, Shacharit begins at 9 a.m. and Yizkor will take place at 10:30 a.m. Kiddush will be sponsored

by Alan Biniamow in honor of his wife, Nancy, for her constant care and love during his recent illness. Shavuot concludes with Havdalah at 9:45 p.m.

For any questions about Shavuot events or any other Beth Israel happenings, please call the synagogue office at 402.556.6288 or email bethisrael@orthodoxomaha.org.

Americans are not paying attention to the boycott Israel movement, survey finds solution, while 27% favor a one-state solution, in most cases ANDREW LAPIN with a joint Israeli-Palestinian government.

JTA A Pew Research Center survey released Thursday found The survey also found that Americans’ favorable impresthat American adults are just not paying attention to the sions of both Israelis and Palestinians are slightly on the rise.

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

Since 2019, when Pew conducted a similar survey, favorA whopping 84% of adults surveyed said they have heard able impressions of Israelis rose from 64% to 67%, and of “not much” or “nothing at all” about the movement, which Palestinians from 46% to 52%. seeks to pressure Israel into changing its policy towards the Favorables also rose for the peoples’ governments, alPalestinians by promoting boycotts and economic sanctions. though they were not as popular: Israel’s government was Only 5% of the surviewed favorably by veyed adults — who 48% of Americans as were of diverse reliopposed to 41% in gious backgrounds — 2019. Notably, in the knew “some” about it, interim, Benjamin and only 2% strongly Netanyahu, who had support it. famously tense relaPew used an online tions with Democpanel to survey rats, was ousted as 10,441 U.S. adults Israeli prime minister. from March 7 to 13, The Palestinian govwith the stated goal ernment’s favorability of better understandrose from 21% to 28% ing Americans’ views and its unfavorable of the Israeli-Palestinratings dropped from ian conflict. The mar- A Palestinian man waves the Palestinian flag next to the Israeli outpost of Evi- 71% to 63%. gin of error for the full atar, north of Nablus in the West Bank, Oct. 10, 2021. Credit: Jaafar The questions, Pew sample was 1.5 per- Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images said, did not give parcentage points. ticulars on Palestinian government, which has two branches: Jewish American organizations are at odds over how best The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the Hamasand even whether to combat the movement, often referred led authority in the Gaza Strip. to as BDS, and Arab American and Palestinian American orOlder Americans were the likelier they were to be favorganizations are generally in favor of the movement. That has able to Israeli people: 63% of those aged 18-25 viewed Israelis led to fraught political clashes — but Americans by and large favorably while 77% of those 65 and older did. don’t seem to notice.

Republicans also were likelier to view Israelis favorably: The survey also asked about views on how to best solve 78% said they had positive views of the Israeli people, while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and only 35% favor a two- 37% said they had positive views of Palestinians. Among Destate solution, the outcome long favored by the United mocrats, 60% said they viewed Israelis favorably and 64% States and many other world power governments. The num- said they viewed Palestinians favorably. bers changed little even among partisans, with 34% of ReThree out of ten Americans also believe God gave the land publicans and 36% of Democrats favoring the outcome. of Israel to the Jewish people; that breaks down to 46% of ReAs far as an alternative: 37% say they don’t know the best publicans and 18% of Democrats.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: We were astounded to read in the May 13, 2022, Jewish Press an obituary for Maimon Edmond Cohen. We knew him as a beloved, generous member of Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan before his family’s aliyah. We did not know his Omaha connection. Small Jewish world, indeed. There’s a sad update to the obit. His wife Raymonde, who’s listed as a survivor, died a few days after Edmond’s demise. May we not know further sorrow.

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From My Kosher Jerusalem Kitchen: Cobblers for Shavuot SYBIL KAPLAN Walking in Jerusalem’s shuk, the fruits for spring and summer are beginning to appear—apricots, peaches, nectarines, strawberries, cherries and all kinds of apples.

Cobblers were said to have originated among the American colonists.

Wikipedia says: The origin of the name cobbler, recorded from 1859, is uncertain: it may be related to the archaic word cobeler, meaning "wooden bowl," or the term may be due to

the topping having the visual appearance of a 'cobbled' stone pathway rather than a 'smooth' paving which would otherwise be represented by a rolled out pastry topping.

Sybil Kaplan is a Jerusalem-based journalist, author and compiler/editor of nine kosher cookbooks. She is a food writer for North American Jewish publications, and she leads walks of the Jewish food market, Machaneh Yehudah, in English.

PEACH COBBLER This came from an old newspaper.

Ingredients: 1 cup flour 3/4 cup sugar 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder 4 Tbsp. unsalted pareve margarine 1 large egg 1/4 cup non-dairy milk 5 cups pitted and sliced peaches 4 tsp. cornstarch 1/4 tsp. cinnamon Non-dairy vanilla ice cream Directions: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a shallow baking dish. In bowl, mix flour, 2 Tbsp. sugar add baking powder. Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse

SUZANNE HORWICH This is Ivan from Ukraine and he was my last student of the day. We sat quietly painting together, sharing our love for art. I could tell we were connecting even though few words were spoken.

Later while I was trying to navigate the city of Krakow I attempted to take the tram.

I was feeling a bit flustered as I don’t speak Polish and as the tram pulled up I saw Ivan looking right at me and beaming through the window of the tram. He was truly excited to see me in the street and I was truly excited to see him. We are two strangers in this city and what a comfort to see a familiar face. Our eyes connected and we had the biggest smiles. I quickly jumped on the tram and Ivan couldn’t wait to tell me, “Tomorrow we paint.”

I smiled and said, “Yes, tomorrow we paint.”

crumbs.

Beat together egg and nondairy milk. Add to flour mixture until dry ingredients are moistened and a dough forms.

Put peaches, remaining sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon in a saucepan. Cook until peaches are tender and syrup is clear, thick and boiling (5-7 minutes).

Pour peach mixture into baking dish. Drop dough by heaping tablespoons in six portions over peach mixture.

Bake in preheated 400 degree F. oven 20 minutes.

Serve with pareve vanilla ice cream.

Serves six.

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*As of May 28, 2022, all Board not yet finalized. See the final board lists in The Jewish Press digital issue - June 3, 2022.

Mike Siegel, President Jon Meyers, Past President Betsy Baker Bob Belgrade Shane Cohen Ron Feldman Margie Gutnik John Lehr Lisa Lucoff Michael Miller

Brian Nogg Zoë Riekes Nancy Schlessinger Aviva Segall Norm Sheldon Yosef Siegel Jeff Zacharia

Bob Belgrade, President David Gilinsky, Past President Michael Abramson Steven Bloch Paul Epstein Ronald Feldman, Ex-Officio Ted Friedland Donald Goldstein Kip Gordman Howard M. Kooper Susan Lehr

Jody Malashock Murray H. Newman Steve Nogg Susan Norton Martin Ricks Carl Riekes Andrew Robinson Stacey Erman Rockman Harley D. Schrager Mike Siegel, Ex-Officio

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Norm Sheldon, President Jeff Kirshenbaum, Past President

Shane Cohn, President John Glazer, Past President

Margie Gutnik, President Abigail Kutler, Past President

Ellie Batt, Co-President Ron Giller, Co-President

Mike Abramson Joanie Bernstein Darlene Golbitz Larry Kelberg Kate Kirshenbaum Alan Kricsfeld Susie Norton

Amanda Blumkin Marty Cohen Ari Dembitzer Shane Donnelly Carrie Epstein Laurie Epstein Janet Klein

Seth Feldman David Finkelstein Ally Freeman Mary Sue Grossman Les Kay Natasha Kraft Chuck Lucoff David Phillips Joseph Pinson

Lindsay Belmont Bob Bleicher Carol Bloch Ted Friedland Herb Friedman Arnold Garson David Gilinsky Jan Goldstein Nancy Jacobson

Jeff Platt Shayna Ray Aviva Segall Yosef Siegel Dorothy Spizman Terri Zacharia

Tiffany Malone Terry Rush Caryn Scheer Joy Watanabe

Rich Juro Carmela Kramer Gary Lipshutz Bob Nefsky Alan Parsow Erin Porterfield David Radler Zoë Riekes Becca Ruetsch

Mark Singer Meagan Spomer Tom Vann Scott Wagner Jim Wax

We invite the community to the Federation's Awards Night & Annual Meeting on Tuesday, June 28th at 7:00 p.m. in the Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater for the installation of the Boards.