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GAbbY bLAIR Staff Writer, Jewish Press and MARGo PARSoW Life and Legacy Coordinator, Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation t is hard to believe that Omaha has just completed the fourth year of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation LIFE&LEGACY program and once again has done so with great success. Thanks to all nine of our Partner organizations; The Jewish Federation, ADL/CRC, Beth El Synagogue, Beth Israel Synagogue, Chabad House, Friedel Jewish Academy, Institute for Holocaust Education, Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, Temple Israel and our generous donors, lay leaders and volunteers. By reaching for the stars together, from generation to generation, we have received 617 legacy commitment letters with an estimated value of $17,892,075!

To honor the success that our community has achieved, the Jewish Federation

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YonI DoRon Community Shaliach In America we just recently celebrated Memorial Day. Many Americans did that by vacationing with their family, escaping the heat in some pool or at a beach resort. But for Israelis, Memorial Day – or as we call it - “Yom Ha’Zikaron”, is not a holiday but a commemorative date. There are no big sales, no fantastic deals on flights to Mexico, no Amazon specials. It is a day which for some may be the hardest day to bear in the year.

Some Israelis stay in bed all day, refusing to go to ceremonies or turn on

their television set. Some frantically try to catch every talk show, live ceremony or special documentary about various historic battles. Some question the essence or relativeness of the day. Basically, no matter who you are in Israel (yes, even if you are a Muslim/ Christian/Druze/ Bedouin Arab), this day affects you and stirs much emotion within you. And how could it not?

Every Israeli has a family member, relative or close friend who lost their lives in one of the wars or in a terror attack.

But how can we, as Jewish Americans, mark this day or relate to it?

This is a tough question to answer, and I feel it is getting harder to answer due to the way world media covers Israeli issues in ways that undermine Israel’s right to exist or defend itself in the minds of most people. When the death toll on the Palestinian side is greater than on the Israeli front and the whole conflict becomes a big smudge of numbers, statistics, opinion pieces and See Taste of memories page 2

gram at a community wide celebration event which will be held on the Jewish Community Center campus, June 13 from 6:30- 8:30 p.m. We will be featuring Rabbi Daniel Cohen as our keynote speaker. The topic of his presentation is called, “Leading a Life of Legacy.” The presentation sparks the fundamental question of how we will be remembered and crystallizes the essence of a meaningful life. Through stories and strategies, Rabbi Cohen will provide the framework for reigniting a life journey of deeper fulfillment and impact and will explore the question of how we all can live life with greater purpose, passion and realized potential.

Rabbi Daniel Cohen is the author of What Will They Say About You When You Are Gone? Autographed copies will be available for purchase at the June 13 event. Senator Joseph Lieberman wrote that Rabbi Cohen’s book is a “beacon of See LIFE&LEGACY page 2

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bRITTAnY HAMoR Intern, Jewish Press The “world-famous” candy man, Willy Wonka, made his way to the Jewish Community Center last week, and brought Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to life on stage. Performances for this show happened Thursday, May 31 and Sunday, June 3 at 7 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a play for all ages. This allowed everyone in the community to get involved with the program. Ultimately, it benefited many of the performers.

Giving the children the opportunity to be involved with musical theater gave them a creative outlet to let their imagi-

nations run wild. Intertwining adults and children into one play created the opportunity for children to enhance their communications skills and become more social with the people around them.

Overall, musical theater benefited the performer’s growth and development as actors as well as personally.

The show is very similar to what the children learn while performing; it was about positive growth of character but through the eyes of Charlie Bucket.

The magic that happens inside the Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory had been a mystery for several years. Willy Wonka decided to let five golden ticket winners inside his secretive factory. In See Golden ticket page 6

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Taste of memories

Continued from page 1 comment section talkbacks instead of actual individual stories, it is no wonder that fewer and fewer Jewish communities choose to hold a Yom Ha’Zikaron commemoration ceremony.

I guess it’s time for a change of strategies, trying to rethink how we can still find a way to relate to and learn from this day. Two years ago, Eden Kohali, the Shlicha of St. Paul, Minnesota initiated an amazing project called Taste of Memories, a series of communal meetings where the participants cook food using the favorite recipes of fallen IDF soldiers and casualties of terror attacks.

On Tuesday, May 22nd, an amazing group of women from Omaha met to hold one of these elaborate, interesting and emotional events. Twenty-six women who either went on one of the trips of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP) to Israel or women who are interested in going this year met in order to cook a ‫ ןורכיז םע ןוכתמ‬- Taste of Memories. During this event, we

learned about four soldiers’ personal stories and experienced this aspect of Israeli society through the personal connection that this specific food had to offer us. We talked about the project and its meaning, then separated into groups to prepare the food.

We prepared Second Lieutenant Bar Rahav’s Onion Soup. Bar was killed by an anti-tank missile fired at his unit during the 2014 operation in Gaza. We cooked Staff sergeant Tuvia Yanai Weissman’s Morrocan style fish. Yanai was stabbed while trying to save a fellow Israeli who was attacked by a group of terrorists in a local supermarket. We prepared Sergeant Amir Yaffe’s coconut fingers dessert.

Amir was accidentally fatally injured during an IDF combat training in the Golan Heights. Amir was the brother of Ilan Yaffe, CEO of “Yad La’Banim” organization in our partnership region – an organization which serves and supports families of fallen IDF soldiers. And we made Staff sergeant Dan Snir’s gnocchi with tomato sauce. Dan died in a car ac-

cident, driving in an IDF vehicle while on assignment. Dan was a close friend of our very own Nate Shapiro and we were privileged to hear Nate’s story about his time with Dan. The group worked hard on these recipes. The activity demanded us to work in a collaborative manner and really understand the fundamentals of each food. When finishing this, we gathered around photographs of the soldiers, read their stories out loud, learned who they were and how they died, and lit a memorial candle for each of them. Then, we sat down together and ate, making each of the soldiers a living part of our dinner – it was as if they and their families were there with us. Remembering these people through their favorite foods, through having fun and strengthening our connection with each other and Israel, made this project special, relatable and relevant.

We thank the women who came to this meeting and the families who opened up their hearts to us by sharing their sons’ personal stories and recipes.

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Continued from page 1 light and a touchstone for the timeless values of leading a purposeful life.” His unique blend of authenticity, wisdom and spiritual insight draws on real life stories to teach valuable lessons. The book is written in an engaging and captivating style which includes discovering your “Elijah Moment”, Making courageous choices that reflect your core values, seizing meditative moments, finding a sacred space to pause and rediscover purpose, creating memories and celebrating the gift of every moment, finding faith, living inspired and discovering your renewable energy to draw on your infinite potential.

As well as being an acclaimed author, Rabbi Cohen is also the co-host of the nationally-syndicated radio show, The Rabbi and the Reverend, with Reverend Greg Doll, and is the Bottom Line Expert. He serves as senior rabbi of Congregation Agudath Shalom, the largest modern orthodox synagogue in New England. Rabbi Cohen is a husband and father to six daughters.

We look forward to welcoming Rabbi Cohen to our Omaha Jewish community and encourage community members to attend this event as our guests. Join us for heavy hors d’oeuvres and wine from 6:30-7 p.m. Rabbi Cohen will speak from 7:15-7:45 p.m.; dessert reception and book signing to follow from 8-8:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Margo Parsow, Life &Legacy Coordinator, mparsow @jewishomaha.org or 402.334.6432.

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WWII family secrets and a granddaughter’s reckoning G.T. MUraUSkaS aND liz FElDSTErN ward-winning author Julija Šukys will give a presentation about her latest book Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning at The Bookworm (90th and Center) on Wednesday, June 20 at 6 p.m. The book recognizes and attempts to reconcile a painful family story.

When Julija Šukys was a child, her paternal grandfather, Anthony rarely smiled and her grandmother Ona spoke only in her native Lithuanian. But they still taught Šukys her family’s story: that of a proud people forced from their homeland when the soldiers came. In mid-June 1941, three Red Army soldiers arrested Ona, forced her onto a cattle car, and sent her east to Siberia, Julija Šukys where she spent 17 years separated from her children and husband, working on a collective farm. The family story maintained that it was all a mistake. Anthony, whose name was on Stalin’s list of enemies of the people, was accused of being a known and decorated antiBolshevik and Lithuanian nationalist.

Some 70 years after these events, Šukys sat down to write about her grandparents and their survival of a two-decade forced separation and subsequent reunion. Piecing the story together from letters, oral histories, audio recordings and

KGB documents, her research soon revealed a Holocaust-era secret—a family connection to the killing of 700 Jews in a small Lithuanian border town. According to KGB documents, the man in charge when those massacres took place was Anthony, Ona’s husband. Šukys weaves together the two narratives in Siberian Exile: the story of Ona, noble exile and innocent victim, and that of Anthony, accused war criminal. She examines the stories that communities tell themselves and considers what happens when the stories we’ve been told all our lives suddenly and irrevocably change, and how forgiveness or grace operate across generations and across the barriers of life and death.

Julija Šukys is a writer and an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Missouri. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto and is the author of several books, translations, and essays. Her book, Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė (Nebraska, 2012) won the 2013 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Literature.

This presentation is coordinated by the Omaha Friends of Šiauliai programming committee (Omaha Sister Cities Association) with support from the Long Dog, Fat Cat natural pet food and supply stores of Omaha.

Gabby blair Staff Writer, Jewish Press The Jewish Federation of Omaha is pleased to announce that The Staenberg Family Foundation has again bequeathed numerous Jewish organizations within our community with matching funds for various projects through their Anything Grants™ program. For the second year in a row, Anything Grants™ totaling over $25,000 will be used to improve and strengthen myriad programs, projects and initiatives benefitting the Jewish communities of Omaha, Lincoln and Council Bluffs. Additionally, Friends of the Federation matched this year’s Staenberg Family Foundation Anything Grant™awards, effectively doubling the impact to $50,000!

Each grant will be equal to 50% of the projected plan budget with the remainder of funds being raised or matched through other grants and donors. This year’s Staenberg Family Foundation Anything Grant™ recipients include: • Omaha JCC – JCC Maccabi Games and arts Fest 2018 • Temple israel – Community Court Children’s Nook • beth El Synagogue – Holiday Pop-ups • The Jewish Federation of Omaha – branding and • Communication Project • aDl Plains State region – CrC – Hate Crimes Community • Task Force • b’nai israel Synagogue – lower level floor • Jewish Social Services/rose blumkin Home – • intergenerational Percussion Workshop • Jewish Women’s renaissance Project – Omaha Unity Event

• institute for Holocaust Education – New Executive Director • relocation and Professional Development • The Jewish Federation of Omaha – Humans of Tel aviv • Exhibit • Friedel Jewish academy – Teacher’s Wish list-technology • Chabad-lubavitch of Nebraska inc. – Taking the Mega • Challah bake to a Whole New level • beth israel Synagogue – Cemetery Digital Data base • Project • Partnership2Gether Western Galilee – american & israeli • Jewish Teens Create Films • The Jewish Federation of Omaha – Generation NOW! • Entertainment “We are so fortunate to have the support of The Staenberg Family Foundation and are honored to be in partnership with them,” said Louri Sullivan, Senior Director of Community Impact and Special Projects for The Jewish Federation of Omaha. “The Staenberg Anything Grants™ have allowed many organizations throughout our community to benefit in many ways; from much-needed building improvements and enhancements to technological and security upgrades to creative programming. The flexibility of the Anything Grants™ really allows the varied needs of multiple organizations to be met and we are grateful for their generous support for a second year.”

For more information about Anything Grants™ or The Staenberg Family Foundation, contact Louri Sullivan 402.334.6485 lsullivan@jewishomaha.org.

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The City in the City in the City at the blUEbarN THEaTrE The BLUEBARN Theatre is currently presenting The City in the City in the City, a new play by Matthew Capodicasa. Directed by Susan Clement Toberer, the play features guest actor Kim Gambino, from New York, and local actor Kaitlyn McClincy.

At the beginning of the play we meet Tess (played by McClincy) whose mother dies just before a planned trip abroad to the ancient city-state of Mastavia to retrieve a package. Unwilling to give up the mission, Tess posts an ad for a substitute traveling companion with the same name as her mother, and meets a mysterious woman (Gambino) eager to escape her life. This unlikely duo sets off on an adventure to a strange city of doubles, checkpoints, mystifying bureaucracy, ancient graves, and a hidden world neither of them expected to encounter. Two actors play dozens of roles in this thoughtprovoking journey. The City in the City in the City had its first exposure as a staged reading at last year’s Great Plains Theatre

Conference. BLUEBARN’s production is the first fully staged presentation of the play.

The BLUEBARN Theatre has been bringing professionally-produced plays to area audiences since 1989. Since its inception, BLUEBARN has produced over 100 plays and has established itself as Omaha’s professional contemporary theatre company. Bringing artistically significant scripts and professional production values to Omaha and the surrounding region, BLUEBARN is known for high-quality entertainment and the fearless pursuit of stories that challenge both theatre artists and patrons. The BLUEBARN is located at 1106 South 10th Street in Omaha.

The City in the City in the City runs May 17-June 17. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 10. Purchase tickets at www.bluebarn.org, or by calling 402.345.1576.

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The couple have been community leaders since they moved to Omaha in 1999. Dr. Cowan is director of the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the Eppley Institute, while Dr. Freifeld is professor of internal medicine and director of the section of oncology infectious diseases.

Pictured right: Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., and Alison Freifeld, M.D., holding their Lifesavers Award from the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures.

It’s my turn, daddy

We had four children, two girls and two boys, each born about two years apart starting in 1966.

Susie, Debbie, Johnny and Daniel; they are now all grown and in excellent careers of their own with riChArD FeLLMAN their own families which include eight grandchildren, four girls and four boys. And there are also four dogs.

As for the gender of each child, I guessed wrong each time. But whether they were boys or girls quickly evaporated in my mind. They were each healthy and, to me, they were each beautiful.

When we went some place together we looked like one of those fictional families in the movies and, back then, on television, with me, not quite five foot six in front, then Bev, always looking elegant, and four kids trailing as stair steps, always dressed well at least on our way to wherever we were going, and again, to me, always perfectly well-behaved.

Then in November, 1972, Governor Jim Exon of Nebraska appointed me to fill a vacancy in the Unicameral Legislature as a State Senator.

A month later Daniel was born and a month after that our three oldest children and Bev came with me to Lincoln for the swearing-in ceremony.

For the next two years my life was consumed with politics. I was in Lincoln five days a week. Every Saturday morning during the session, an Omaha radio station invited State Senators to participate in a call-in program. I took part each week.

Then, in 1973 the Legislature adjourned, and I announced that I would not run for election. Saturday mornings suddenly became free. Bev and I decided that we would start attending Shabbat Services at Beth El Synagogue with all four of our children every week. And we did.

All six of us, dressed in our best, were regulars. We always sat on the north side of the sanctuary towards the middle in the old building on 49th and Farnam. If there was some celebration and a luncheon, we always remained; but most weeks there was nothing except a simple table of cakes and cookies.

Bev and I then decided that each week I would take one child with me and we would have lunch and spend the afternoon together.

The child would select where we went for lunch and then go with me to my office for a short time, and I would try to do a few sim-

ple things left over from the week. Each child would take a turn, one after another, and Bev and I enforced the rule that they would maintain the rigid birth order in their turns, week after week.

Still, I constantly heard: “It’s my turn Daddy, this week it’s my turn.”

When the children were young, lunch was always at McDonald’s or Burger King or one of the other fast food restaurants, usually the one with the best give-away that week.

As they each got older, their choices became much more sophisticated. From the start, where we went each week was entirely up to the child whose turn it was. Over time they each advanced from hamburgers and fries to restaurants with white table cloths and real napkins. Regardless of the cost of the lunch, I went along with each child’s selection.

Then, usually during the early high school years, each child began to privately tell me that they thought they were getting “too old” for a “turn with Daddy on Saturday after Synagogue.”

During those years when each child went with me on their “turn” we saw many sights, went many places, and did many things.If there was something special going on, we were there. Some places we talked about, and others we said little about. In December we saw Santa, before elections we went to small political meetings, when the car show came to town, we were there and sometimes we went to a game. Sometimes, if the time of the year was right, her birthday for instance, we bought Bev a gift. We often bought a sister or brother a birthday gift.

Those afternoons alone with each child taking turns with me, as clear today in my 83year-old mind as if I was still a young father with school-age children, remind me of the best of being a father, the joy of watching each child grow, the pride as in turn each one told me that he or she was too old to “take a turn,” the smile that came to me each week as their choice went from Burger King to whatever they in their youth then thought was the most “correct” place in Omaha, the smile l still have recalling each child taking a nap on the dark brown couch in the waiting area of my law office, the “dress up good clothes” each of them wore since they were first at the synagogue, and even me, as a father still in his 30s or early 40s smiling with the warmest feelings of fatherhood imaginable.

And today, when I listen carefully, I can still hear a child’s voice, one of my four children, saying to me, “Daddy, it’s my turn.”

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The sin of the spies, or the reluctance of the Jewish people to go into the land of Israel, has many explanations. The rabbis tell us that one of the reasons was self-confidence. In the desert, the Jewish people experienced open miracles and had a leader who constantly interceded on their behalf. The Holy Land, however, would require them to be holy. raBBi ari They couldn’t rely on miracles or DeMBitzer Moshe to act for them. They had to Beth Israel Synagogue act for themselves. In our lives as well, the rabbi sometimes is employed to do the “mitzvot” that we are supposed to do. However, this is the mentality of the desert. In the Holy Land, we all become like rabbis.

Let us enter the Holy Land and put the rabbis out of their jobs and engage in our relationship with G-d without the need of a rabbi.

Shabbat Shalom.

omaha Chamber Music Society 2018 Summer Concert Series

The Omaha Chamber Music Society has announced its 2018 Summer Concert Series, with four performances taking place over four weekends at the Omaha Conservatory of Music. Each concert features musicians familiar to the Omaha community, including artists from the Omaha Symphony, Omaha Conservatory faculty members, and friends to the Omaha Classical Music community.

The concerts all take place on Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m., with pre-concert talks happening at 2:40 p.m. in the Accelerando Coffee House on the Conservatory premises.

BranDenBUrG & BeetHoVen: June 10, 3 p.m.

Two Immortals launch our 2018 Summer Concert Series: Johann Sebastian Bach, likely the greatest composer who ever lived, and Ludwig van Beethoven, the fearless thunderer who bowed to no one as he kicked classical music to the next level. First up, Bach’s magnificent Brandenburg Concerto No. 1. A dozen players sweep you along its exuberant path, from brisk opening to jubilant finale.

Beethoven’s crowd-pleasing Septet lets you enjoy the “softer side” of the iconic composer. Its lightness, high spirits, and infectious melodies made it all the rage in the composer’s own time and are guaranteed to delight you, too.

Tickets are available online at https://www.omahachamber music.org/ticketsbeta/ as well as the door at each concert. The Omaha Chamber Music Society is a 501c(3) nonprofit, performs and produces over 16 concerts each season with partners such as KANEKO, Gallery 1516, and the JCC, as well as engages in community service and education programs with Josie Harper Hospice House and Omaha Public Schools.

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He began by completely cutting carbs: Mike Sadofsky He never planned on being in a bodyno pizza, pasta or bread. He ate only building competition at 75. It had hapfruits, vegetables and protein. He also pened by chance. has worked out every day for the last One day while working out he began five years at the JCC. talking to Matt Jackson, owner of “I can exercise all I want, but it’s what M.E.A.T Nutrition Consulting/CoachI put in my body that really counts,” ing and promoter of the Heartland Sadofsky said. “But I really like how I Classic 2018 bodybuilding competifeel after a workout.” tion, about the competition. Sadofsky Now, he does over 2,000 crunches a told him he could never do something day. He starts his work out with 300 like that at his age. Jackson convinced crunches in the sauna for his warmup, him to compete by showing Sadofsky a 1,600-1,700 on various machines and picture of Jackson’s father, who was 63 then, at the end, he does another 400 at the time, competing in a similar crunches in the sauna. competition.

“The main thing is I feel so much bet“I thought what the heck? It’s kind of ter after working out,” Sadofsky said. a bucket list thing,” Sadofsky said. “I’ll “All of your body functions improve do it one time just for the kicks.” after working out.”

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Continued from page 1 order to receive one of these golden tickets, Willy Wonka hid the golden tickets in five different chocolate bars and distributed them around the world.

The chocolate bars sold out instantly once they hit the store shelves. Everyone wanted to be one of the lucky winners of the golden ticket and get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to tour Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Charlie Bucket, Augustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee were the winners of the five golden tickets.

Willy Wonka took the children through a tour of the factory to see if any of them were cut out to run his factory when he retires. All of the children are very spoiled, except for Charli; his family is extremely poor.

By the end of the play, every single child breaks the rules, but Charlie is the only one honest to Mr. Wonka about it. Willy Wonka said that his honesty showed his true character and allowed Charlie’s family to live in the factory. Wonka will also have Charlie begin running the factory.

In its beginning stages, the story was not intended to be a play.

It was originally written as a book in 1961, but published in 1964, by author Roald Dahl. It is estimated that over 20 million copies have been sold worldwide, according to roalddahl.com. He later wrote the screenplay for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the movie that starred Gene Wilder. Years later the story was produced as a musical in London’s West End and was directed by Sam Mendes.

This well-known play took a variety of people in order to make it successful at the Jewish Community Center. Some include Esther Katz, the Dance and Cultural Arts Director, Jessica Westerlin, the Dance and Cultural Arts Assistant Director, Fran Sillau, the Director, Bernadette Smith, Musical Director, as well as Courtney Stein, the Choreographer.

If you’re interested in auditioning for the next musical, registration is required. Auditions for the fall and winter musical will be held Sunday, Aug. 19. Adults (ages 18+) auditions are from 1 to 2 p.m. and kids (ages 8-18) are from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

This program was made possible by the continued generous support of the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation Funds: Karen Sokolof Javitch Music Fund, Morton A. Richards Youth Program Fund, Samuel and Bess Rothenberg Endowment Fund, and JCC Theater Program Endowment Fund. Support for sound equipment and engineering has been made possible through a generous gift from Patty and Steve Nogg and Joanie Jacobson Jewish Cultural Arts Fund, as well as the Norman and Frances Batt Family Fund.

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Liz FeLdstern Executive Director, Institute of Holocaust Education he Omaha community is cordially invited to attend a public presentation of the film Persona Non Grata (2016) directed by Cellin Gluck, followed by a short Q&A session with expert Holocaust-rescue panelists. The screening will take place on Tuesday, June 19 in the JCC Theater, at 7 p.m. The $5 admission includes refreshments. The Honorable Naoki Ito, Consul General of Japan in Chicago, is scheduled to attend the screening.

Persona Non Grata (English/Japanese with subtitles; 139 minutes) was an Official Selection of both the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival, receiving accolades as the Best Feature Film at the Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival and winning the Special Jury Prize for Social Justice and Excellence in Filmmaking at the Disorient Film Festival.

The film Persona Non Grata is an historical drama that tells the story of an unlikely Holocaust rescuer: Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, was appointed a Vice-Consul and later a Consul in Lithuania and served there from 1939 to 1940. As WWII began and Germany

invaded Poland, hordes of Jewish refugees fled to Lithuania. In search of transit visas, they turned to Sugihara who was torn between his loyalty to his country and his loyalty to humankind. Ultimately, Chiune Sugihara saved the lives of some 6,000 Polish Jewish refugees and Lithuanian Jews by issuing transit visas to the Japanese Empire (including local Holocaust survivor, Mrs. Helen Manheimer).

Following the film, questions will be answered by Dr. Julija Ĺ ukys (Assistant Professor of English (Creative Nonfiction), University of Missouri-Columbia) and Dr. Ari Kohen (Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln).

Persona Non Grata is presented as a collaboration between the Omaha Sister Cities Association (OSCA) – notably the Omaha Friends of Šiauliai and the Shizuoka sister-city programming committees – and the Institute for Holocaust Education (IHE). Generous sponsorship is provided by the Long Dog, Fat Cat natural pet food and supply stores, owned and operated by Kazu Goto and Indrė Seibutytė – young Omaha professionals from Japan and Lithuania, respectively.

For more information, contact the IHE at 402.334.6575 or info@ihene.org.

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Everybody is welcome at B’nai Israel Marty ricks Friday, June 8 at 7:30 p.m., B’nai Israel will welcome and honor our long time members Steve and Toni Goodman, now residing in Ft. Myers, FL. Steve, who grew up in Omaha and lived there for many years, is turning 70 and desires to celebrate this birthday with family and friends (many coming from both coasts), in Council Bluffs where he worked for years in the family retail business and other businesses.

For the second month in a row, our speaker will be a rabbi, Rabbi Benjamin Sendrow, from Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, Carmel, Indiana. Rabbi Sendrow

was the Goodman’s rabbi in Ft. Myers where they developed a close relationship.

Besides leading his present Conservative congregation, Rabbi Sendrow is an adjunct Bible professor at Butler University.

As always, we will follow our service with a wonderful Oneg and heavy schmoozing.

We welcome members of all Omaha congregations and those not affiliated with a synagogue. Our Oneg will take place in our newly appointed Oneg room and adjacent kitchen.

This will be our final service until Erev Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 9. Our next Friday evening services after that will be Oct. 12.

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Get to know the Farmers growing your food and Stop by after work for a quick happy hour with learn about their specific practices behind the friends, then pick up fresh ingredients for your scenes. You’ll also find plants, gourmet breads and Thursday night or weekend meals. pastries, cold-pressed juices, and even all-natural We are now in our fourth year for this commusoaps and beauty products. nity-service event and we are thrilled to partner The Rockbrook Village Organic Farmers Market with other local farmers and business owners as it is an intimate affair where you can avoid the relates to our mission of supporting local! Buy in crowds and comfortably stroll, shop and feel conconfidence at our fourth annual Organic Farmers fident in the quality of food for sale. Located in Market, thursdays 4 – 7 p.m., exclusively at the central plaza of the Rockbrook Village shopRockbrook Village, just off the interstate at 108th ping center, our market provides a well shaded and Center. Rockbrook Village--homegrown, locally and relaxed shopping experience with free, close, owned.

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My Father’s Dreams OliveR B. POllak The title Dreams of My Father was usurped by President Obama in 1995.

My Father Dreams represents my father’s dreams and mine of him. Our dreams establish a dialogue. He started his family, with me, at the age of 40. He died in 1977 at the age of 74. I am now 74.

We went to a destination wedding in Puerto Morelos, a resort between Cancun and Playa del Carmen. Le Chique restaurant boasted an almost Michelin reputation. We chose a 22-course, Mexican themed and sourced menu paired with Mexican wine and closed with tequila. Karen and I took cellphone pictures of each dish. The meal started at 6:30 p.m. and we left at 10 p.m. At four in the morning, I woke with a stomach ache, which along with Pepto Bismol colored the next 12 hours. The picturetaking reminded me of my father; he dreamed of food and cameras. He also had nightmares.

The Bucket List, popularized by a 2007 movie with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, lists things that a person hopes to experience or achieve during his or her lifetime. Some dreams are impossible, impractical, unattainable or pipe dreams. My father’s dreams changed radically after he lost his family, property and livelihood in Vienna after the Nazi takeover.

After the war, America offered a path to leave Europe behind, escape post WWII deprivation in England, and enjoy the opportunity for education for his children, something oppressors and a gyrating economy could not take away from you the education you carried in your head.

Dad, mother, my younger sister and I came to America in 1952. Bleak postwar conditions and food rationing fed dreams of the promised land. Material possessions play a role in dreams. A job

well done, a degree of excellence, a certain panache. He did not aspire to keep up with the Joneses, nor was he envious of the wealthy. He achieved the American home ownership dream in 1959.

His dreams had European roots.

He had a penchant for cameras, especially Hasselblad, Voigtlander and Leica, but never purchased any. We inadvertently bid against each other on a polaroid at a Los Angeles police auction.

We drove home laughing with our new prize. I bought a Minolta for Dad in Japan. My sister remembers photographs of animals taken by my father when he visited us in Africa in the early 1970s.

Vienna nurtured his love of classical music. He purchased a state of the art Hi Fi system with a Garrard turntable, Fisher vacuum tube tuner and amplifier.

He did not purchase many records. The “Mid-century” Danish modern Barzilay cabinet stayed in Nebraska, remodeled as a home bar.

A good fountain pen was a standard of excellence. He purchased a Waterman from Paris as a wedding present for my mother. Sheaffer, made in America, had the aura of professionalism. I still own these pens. Sheaffer became part of the Cross Company which produced

those thin sleek gold pens we got for B’nai Mitzvahs. I doubt our children and grandchildren will have any interest in them.

Omega and Rolex were his gold standard watches. He got the former through his jeweler brother-in-law in New York. He never owned a Rolex, though Karen and I satisfied that by each purchasing one in Geneva in 1971.

There’s something to the Patek Phillippe advertisement: ‘You never actually own a fine watch, you merely take care of it for the next generation.’ Karen gave me a Patrimony for my 65th birthday.

Mercedes Benz was the best car but well beyond budget. He appreciated German engineering, if not Germany.

Father taught tzedakah by example.

While walking the London streets, he gave coins to the disabled. My father had no excesses other than smoking. He purchased a gun after the 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots; I got rid of it shortly after his death.

Some father’s dreams are inherited by their children. We honor our parents by carrying on their dreams. Sometimes I ask, “What would my father have done?”

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Dinner with friends ANNETTE vAN DE KAMP Editor, Jewish Press e had a week to be grateful for: hundreds of visitors in our theater to see the JCC’s production of Willy Wonka, a Friday night Israeli Shabbat dinner cooked by our Shaliach Yoni (with a little help from his friends) and a stellar Annual Meeting that culminated in a poolside party during which we could admire our beautiful new addition. We are incredibly lucky.

Whenever we travel out-of-state and strangers ask that eternal question, ‘There are Jews in Omaha?’ We can answer wholeheartedly: ‘Yes, and we’re thriving.’

Yet, this past Sunday morning, I woke up to find that my Red Alert app, which indicates rockets fired at Israel, had already gone off 11 times. Suddenly, I don’t feel so good. How can we feel lucky when part of our family has to run into their shelters so often? Granted, those attacks are more often than not intercepted, but that does not make it okay. What makes it worse: the vast majority of the international media will report it the second Israel steps out of line, real or perceived, but will not address these relentless attacks. Maybe they think Israelis deserve to live in fear, maybe they just don’t care. Maybe they hope that one of these days a rocket will hit its target. If that sounds a little bitter, I’m not sorry. Here’s why: “Large fires broke out in kibbutz fields on the border with Gaza, ignited by an incendiary kite flown across the border by Gazan Palestinians. The fires on June 3 came a day after a burning kite, or a balloon filled with chemicals dripped flames in the area, burning hundreds of acres of agricultural fields as well as part of a nature reserve next to Kibbutz Carmia.

“Saturday’s fires, which claimed more than 740 acres, were the worst since the new terror tactic took root about two months ago. At least one-third of the nature

preserve was destroyed, according to reports, and required several teams of firefighters to put out. The fire fighters on Saturday battled three large blazes and several small ones throughout the area.

“Sunday’s fires destroyed agricultural fields in three kibbutzim located near the Gaza Strip: Nir Am, Or Haner and Be’eri. A major highway in the area also was closed as area residents worked in tandem with firefighters to put out the blazes. Four planes dropping fire retardants were required to assist in putting out the flames.

“Damages to agriculture from fires set by the incendiary kites since the protests started in March are estimated at $1.4 million, the Times of Israel reported, citing Israel’s Tax Authority.

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered the government to withhold customs duties collected by Israel for the Palestinian Authority on items that come through Israeli ports on the way to the PA in order to offset the cost of the damage. This, despite the fact that Hamas and not the PA control Gaza and Hamas is considered responsible for the attacks.

“A total of some 6,200 acres of agricultural land and nature reserves in the Gaza border area of southern Israel have been damaged or destroyed by the burning kites and balloons sent from Gaza.” (JTA.com)

There is, unlike when Palestinian protesters get hurt, no reaction on the international stage. There is, however, retaliation. Sweden’s foreign minister, Margot Wallstrom, pledged her country will fight for and with the Palestinians. Three teens, one of them Jewish, were assaulted in a Berlin train station for listening to Israeli pop music. Security did not pursue the attackers, in spite of the fact they nearly pushed the Jewish teen on the tracks, cut one with a broken bottle and hit another in the face. A high school in Milwaukee had to cease distributing yearbooks because one student included the line “There will always be one true Final Solution.” A major department store chain in Japan canceled the participation of an importer specializing in wine from the Golan Heights at an event celebrating Mediterranean cuisine over fear of protests from activist groups. The Danish parliament is debating a ban on circumcision and in Sharon, Massachusetts, a local man was arrested after repeatedly vandalizing the local eruv.

None of this will make national news, which is why it is all the more important we keep paying attention. I’ve said it here many times: Israel is not perfect. The Jewish people aren’t perfect. But somehow, we are expected to be; every time someone utters the words ‘show restraint,’ the underlying message is that we are not allowed to defend ourselves.

I can’t help but wonder what would happen if the same people who don’t care to give Israel or the Jews a break were, for one day, treated this way. What would they do?

Would they be open to the suggestion that restraint is in order? I seriously doubt it.

Across the country, Presbyterian-Jewish relations on the local level are generally superb. Rabbis have developed close relationships with Presbyterian ministers; churches collaborate with synagogues in a host of endeavors; and Jewish organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, partner with Presbyterians in many communities.

Indeed, at a time when many Jews and Presbyterians are mobilizing to aid the most marginalized in America, the ability of these two faith groups to work together has been seriously compromised by the Israel obsession at the Presbyterians’ assembly.

tend with and debate some of the issues raised in the Presbyterians’ resolutions. But — and it is a big but — the church resolutions are articulated as a kind of zero-sum game warfare in which Israel, by definition, must be evil and the Palestinians blameless.

Presbyterians will not be taken seriously as peacemakers as long as their judgments against Israel are a foregone conclusion and they are unable to see the immense complexity in the conflict. Resolutions calling for support of BDS initiatives and the like will ultimately have no impact in achieving the peace that anti-Israel advocates claim to desire.

To the contrary, they will surely make it still more difficult by lifting any responsibility from Palestinian shoulders.

We are grateful to our Presbyterian friends who have labored against difficult odds to counter antiIsraelism within their church. Their valiant efforts have served to mitigate the overwhelming Israelbashing at the church’s GAs. We pray that they will succeed in taking back their hijacked church.

But the American Jewish Committee, whose decades-long record in interfaith relations is second to none, will not engage with the GA farce anymore. Unlike previous years, we will not be present in St. Louis at the assembly, which opens June 16.

No longer can we participate in a GA drama whose best-case scenario is exaggerated Jewish relief that anti-Israel resolutions are marginally toned down before passage. Instead, we will devote our energy to where it matters by redoubling our effort to create, sustain and expand relationships with Presbyterians at the local level through our 22 regional offices across the United States.

A famous Hasidic tale tells of two who are separately lost in the forest and relieved to find one another. They know that the paths they took were not the right ones, so they go together on a new path.

It is long past time for a new path in national Presbyterian-Jewish relations.

Rabbi Noam Marans is the American Jewish Committee’s director of interreligious and intergroup relations.

The Presbyterian Church has been hijacked by anti-Israel activists NoAM E. MARANS NEW YORK | JTA Since 2004, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has engaged in a biennial ritual of obsessive, relentless anti-Israel demonization. The church’s upcoming General Assembly in St. Louis will be no exception.

Multiple mainline Protestant denominations have considered anti-Israel resolutions and initiatives. However, no denomination is more clearly associated with anti-Israelism than the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Indeed, some of its actions have flirted with or crossed over to anti-Semitism, most notably its publication and dissemination of the anti-Semitic “Zionism Unsettled,” a congregational study guide that distorts Jewish and Israeli history. The sheer volume of anti-Israel resolutions discussed and debated reveals a deep animus that needs to be called out.

The General Assembly next month will consider at least eight Israel-related resolutions. By stark contrast, it will consider one on the massive carnage in Syria. Does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict deserve eight times as much attention as the hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced in the Syrian civil war? Something is awfully wrong here.

Within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a small but vocal minority of activists has managed to keep anti-Israelism on the agenda through eight assemblies spanning 14 years. This faction even has its own committee, dubbed #12 — Middle East Issues, allowing a concentration of Israel-denunciatory time and energy in one place throughout the weeklong GA. For American Presbyterians and Jews, this is an interreligious relations tragedy. There is no scintilla of evidence that these anti-Israel propaganda shows reflect the views of Presbyterians in the pews. Presbyterians, like most Americans, overwhelmingly support Israel, which they correctly see as a lone beacon of democracy in the Middle East and a frontline bulwark against global terrorism. What takes place on the GA national stage is a farce.

Gift of the First Meridian Heights Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis Credit: Wikimedia Commons To make matters worse, this anti-Israelism has provided a platform for the misnamed Jewish Voice for Peace, which has positioned itself as a vocal ally of the Israel-haters within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This clearly violates the principle in interreligious dialogue that a faith community should be understood the way it understands itself. The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace is not representative of American Jewry, which remains overwhelmingly supportive of Israel and sees its Jewish identity as inseparable from the existence of the Jewish state. Romanticizing Jewish anti-Zionism raises serious questions about the church’s full embrace of the concept of a Jewish state as an essential element of modern Judaism.

To be clear, like any country, Israel is not perfect.

Just ask its robust citizenry and press, which con-

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Synagogue Service for June 8, 7:30 p.m. (Note this will be our final service until Erev Rosh Hashanah on sept. 9. Our next Friday evening services will be Oct. 12. We invite your membership).

For information on our historic synagogue, please contact any of our board members: Scott Friedman, Rick Katelman, Carole Lainof, Marty Ricks, Sissy Silber, Nancy Wolf and Phil Wolf.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman. friDAy: Annual Meeting and Six String Shabbat, 5:45 p.m. sAturDAy: Shabbat Morning Services, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush honoring the Feldsterns, following morning services; Shabbat Mincha following Kiddush.

WeekDAy serViCes: Sundays, 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; weekdays, 7 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. sunDAy: Torah Study, 10 a.m. tuesDAy: Beauty and Ugliness with Rabbi Abraham, noon; Chesed Committee visits the Remington Heights, 2 p.m.

WeDnesDAy: Beauty and Ugliness with Rabbi Abraham, 6 p.m. tHursDAy: Shanghai, 1 p.m.

Calling all bakers — Help us fill our freezer with sweets for Beth El Baking Days, June 19 and 20 and July 10 and 11 between 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer. friDAy: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha, 7:30 p.m.; Candle Lighting, 8:38 p.m. sAturDAy: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Insights into the Weekly Torah Portion, 7:35 p.m.; Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, 8:20 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:47 p.m. sunDAy: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Bagels and Beit Midrash, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Ari. monDAy: Shacharit, 7 a.m. tuesDAy: Shacharit, 7 a.m.

WeDnesDAy: Shacharit, 6:45 a.m. tHursDAy: Shacharit, 6:45 a.m.; Connecting With Our Fatih, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari; Rosh Chodesh Group, 7:30 p.m.

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Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. friDAy: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. sAturDAy: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.

WeekDAys: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing.

WeDnesDAy: Mystical Thinking, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Katzman. tHursDAy: Talmud Class, noon with Rabbi Katzman.

All programs are open to the entire community.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Teri Appleby. friDAy: Chardonnay Shabbat, 6 p.m. Join us on the front steps of the Temple prior to services; Erev Shabbat Service, 6:30 p.m.; Oneg, 7:30 p.m. hosted by Steve and Nathanial Kaup; Candlelighting, 8:38 p.m. sAturDAy: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Studay on Parashat Shelach, 10:30 a.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 10:09 p.m. tHursDAy: Choir Rehearsal, 7 p.m.

South Street Temple is partnering with "We Can Do This" to provide weekend meals to the children of the F Street Community Center. Join us as we provide lunch on the third Sunday of every month. Food/monetary donations, meal preparation and assistance with setting up, serving, and clean-up are needed! We will serve our next meal on June 17 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, contact Aimee Hyten at aimee.hyten@gmail.com or Lupe Malcom at lupemal com65@gmail.com.

As you start to make summer plans, consider sending your child to LJCS CAMP ISRAEL, July 9–July 20, 9 a.m.–2

p.m. at Tifereth Israel. Light Kosher dairy snack and lunch included. Tuition for each week is $75. This program is open to children ages 5-14. We require ALL campers to be registered through the LJCS, therefore we cannot accept drop-in guests.

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sAturDAy: Services, 9:15 a.m. led by Stan Edelstein.

Services will be held in the Chapel. Members of the community are invited to attend.

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friDAy: Shabbat Comes to You at The Heritage Sterling Ridge, 4 p.m.; Family Shabbat Cookout, 5:15 p.m.; Musical Shabbat Service with Soul Zimra, 6 p.m. sAturDAy: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. with Rabbi Stoller and Soul Zimra: Music — The Language of the Soul; Shabbat Service, 10:30 a.m. featuring Soul Zimra.

TiYPE Event at Dave and Buster’s, saturday, June 16, 5-8 p.m., Join 21+ for a night of games, food, havdalah, and fun! Appetizers and beverages are on us! RSVP to Temple Israel, rsVP@templeisraelomaha.com, by monday, June 11.

Walk with Temple Israel and Beth El Synagogue at the 2018 Heartland Pride Parade in Council Bluffs, saturday, June 30, The parade lineup begins at 9 a.m. with the parade starting promptly at 10 a.m. Shabbat services will be held in Council Bluffs that morning before the parade begins.

More details to come. Let us know you will be walking with us! Register to walk by contacting Temple Israel, 402.556.6536.

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Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: monday-friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. friDAy: Services, 6:30 p.m. sAturDAy: Shabbat Morning service, 10 a.m followed by luncheon (sponsored). sunDAy: Mincha, 5 p.m.; Come learn and play Pickleball, 7-9 p.m. All equipment furnished. Wear comfortable clothing. For questions, call or text Miriam Wallick at miriam57@aol.com.

As you start to make summer plans, consider sending your child to LJCS CAMP ISRAEL, July 9–July 20, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. at Tifereth Israel. Light Kosher dairy snack and lunch included. Tuition for each week is $75. This program is open to children ages 5-14. We require ALL campers to be registered through the LJCS, therefore we cannot accept drop-in guests.

Please join us for Tifereth Israel's Annual Congregational Meeting, sunday June 24 at 3 p.m. in the social hall.

New Director of Communications at Temple Israel

Dennis DePorte and engaging content. She has been our B’nai Executive Director, Temple Israel Mitzvah videographer since she started at Temple Temple Israel is pleased to announce that Cas- Israel and she is excited to explore other ways to sandra Hicks Weisenburger has accepted the new use video to bring synagogue life to congregants position of Director of Commuof all ages. Temple Israel’s goal is nications. Employed here for the to tell our story and involve our past seven years as our graphic community in every way possidesigner, Cassandra has played ble and we are confident Cassanan active role in our publicity dra will help achieve this. throughout that time and will Rabbi Brian Stoller also benow be responsible for all comlieves this is the right move for munications coming from TemTemple Israel: “Cassandra is a ple Israel. talented, creative writer and deOriginally from a small town signer, a skilled user of social south of Sioux City, IA, Cassanmedia, and an experienced, loyal dra moved to Omaha in 2006 to member of the Temple Israel earn her B.A. in Graphic Design team. We know she will do an amazing job in her new and exand Photojournalism at Creighpanded role!” ton University.

Cassandra Hicks Weisenburger Though Cassandra is not JewCassandra is very excited to take on this new opportunity: “I started my post- ish, she has learned a lot over her many years at college career at Temple Israel and over the years Temple Israel and will continue her education I’ve gotten to know many of the wonderful con- through the Exploring Judaism class this Octogregants and worked on a number of projects. ber. Rabbi Aryeh Azriel will also help mentor her I’m greatly looking forward to this opportunity through this process. to take on more responsibility and be a part of Cassandra married her husband Joel in August the senior staff.” of last year in Okoboji, IA. They live together in As Director of Communications, Cassandra Omaha with two cats, Gizmo and Bob. In her will bring her love of photography to capture im- spare time, she enjoys golfing and volunteering portant moments at Temple and keep our website at the Nebraska Humane Society. Oh, and her faand social media updated with current images vorite Jewish food? Hamentaschen!

A ‘speck of bird poop’

JTA news sTAff e co-head of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party said that he regrets calling the Nazi era a “speck of bird poop’ in German history.

Alexander Gauland made the statement on Saturday to a meeting of the party’s youth wing. He said in remarks that were widely reported and widely condemned that Germans must take responsibility for 12 years of Nazi rule but that “Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history.”

A group of party moderates on Sunday condemned Gauland’s remarks and called for a public apology.

Gauland said that he had used the words “bird poop” to express his “deepest contempt for Nazism.”

“It was never my intention to trivialize or deride

the victims of this criminal system,” he also said, according to e Associate Press.

Chancellor Angela Merkel through her spokesman called it “shameful that we have to deal with such comments by a lawmaker in parliament.”

In national elections last year, the Alternative for Germany Party, or AfD, which was launched in 2013, finished in third place, securing 94 seats in the national parliament, the Bundestag, which has 709 seats in all.

Bjorn Hocke, the AfD party leader in the eastern German state of uringia, caused a stir last year when he said that paying too much attention to the Holocaust was making German history “appalling and laughable.” He has recommended a radical departure from “these stupid politics of coming to grips with the past.”

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israeli pop star Shiri Maimon will make Broadway debut

JERUSALEM | JTA Popular Israeli singer Shiri Maimon confirmed that she will be debuting this fall on Broadway.

Maimon will play the starring role of Roxie Hart in the hit musical Chicago. Her run with the production will begin on Sept. 21 at New York’s Ambassador eater.

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina | JTA Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered as a direct consequence of his accusation against former President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of a cover-up of Iran’s role in the1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing, a federal court ruled. e Argentinean Federal Chamber of Appeals on Friday backed the federal judge who is leading the investigation, Julian Ercolini, who ruled last December, more than two years aer Nismans death, that it was a murder and not a suicide.

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the grave of late Argentine prosecutor Alberto nisman at La tablada israelite cemetery in Buenos Aires, jan. 10, 2018.

Credit: Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images Shiri Maimon performing at the Eurovision contest in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2005.

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She announced her new role on Sunday night aer appearing in Times Square as part of the March for Israel parade and the 70th anniversary celebrations for the State of Israel. She called her Broadway opportunity “proof that dreams are meant to be fulfilled,” and said she was “proud to bring an Israeli presence to Broadway,” in a statement issued June 3.

Maimon, 36, recently starred in a production of Evita at Habima, the national theater of Israel in Tel Aviv, where she reportedly was seen by the Chicago producers.

She recently completed her third season as a celebrity judge on the Israeli version of X Factor. She first rose to stardom as the runner-up in the first season of the Israeli reality show Kochav Nolad, which translates to A Star Is Born, in 2003. She then went on to take fourth place at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 with the ballad Hasheket Shenishar, garnering international acclaim.

Maimon, who sang with the Israeli Air Force Entertainment Troupe during her military service, has released four albums.

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On Jan. 14, 2015 Nisman sued the president at that time, claiming that Kirchner and other officials of the government decided to “not incriminate” former senior officials of the Islamic Republic and tried to “erase” their roles in planning the bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires that le 85 dead and hundreds wounded due to an agreement with Iranian officials.

Four days later Nisman’s body was found in his apartment, with one shot in his head, just hours before he was to present evidence to Argentine lawmakers that the government covered up Iran’s role in the bombing.

According to this upper-level court, in the current investigation “there are clues with sufficient importance to sustain as a hypothesis that the destiny of Nisman... was decided as a consequence of the nature, seriousness and scope of the complaint filed a few days before,” wrote judges Martín Irurzún and Leopoldo Bruglia. e court confirmed the original murder ruling by Ercolini and his indictment of the security officials who were tasked with protecting Nisman at the time of his death. In that December ruling, the judge also charged Diego Lagomarsino, a former IT employee of Nisman’s, as an accessory to murder. e Federal Chamber of Appeals also urged the judge to continue “with the speed and seriousness that such a grave fact imposes.”

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