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Lighting the Torch of Philanthropy Together from generation to generation

MArGo PArSow Life and Legacy Coordinator, Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation t is hard to believe that Omaha has just completed the third 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 the generous donors, lay leaders and volunteers, we have received 579 legacy commitment letters with an estimated value of $16,272,075.

To honor the success that our community has achieved, the Jewish Federation Foundation will be recognizing and thanking the members of our Omaha Jewish community who have generously made a commitment to

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Amy Hirshberg Lederman leave a legacy gift through the LIFE&LEGACY program at a community-wide celebration event which will be held on the Jewish Community

Center campus, June 15, 2017 from 6:30-8 p.m. We will be featuring Amy Hirshberg Lederman as our key note speaker. The topic of her presentation is called, My Grandmother’s Candlesticks Lighting the Way for Others.

Amy Hirshberg Lederman is an award-winning, nationally-syndicated columnist, author, Jewish educator, and attorney. She practiced law for 14 years before pursuing her passion of Jewish education. She has served as the Assistant North American Director of the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, the Director of the Department of Jewish Education and Identity for the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona and as Legacy Consultant for the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona.

Amy’s presentations range from Jewish Federation, synagogue and Leadership retreats to author book groups and seminars for Hadassah and the AntiSee LIFE&LEGACY page 2

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The Schreibman scholarship was estabJEwISH FEdErAtIon oF oMAHA The Jake J. Schreibman Foundation is lished in honor of Jake J. Schreibman who was born in Omaha on pleased to announce March 6, 1911. He that Josephine Slovut graduated from Cenhas been selected for tral High School in the 2017-2018 schol1927, was a member arship award. Jake J. of the Jewish ComSchreibman Freshman munity Center where Year Scholarship has he won several been awarded to Jewawards as an athlete, ish students residing and during World War in the Omaha commuII, he served as a nity since 1997. The medic in the Pacific award amount is Theater. After a lifepartly based on stutime “hobby” of finandent need and the maximum amount of cial investing, he died the award is $10,000. in 1994. The Jake J. Josie Slovut All Jewish high school Schreibman Foundaseniors in the greater Omaha metropolitan tion was established to serve the Omaha area are eligible to apply.

Jewish Community. There is no better way to accomplish this end than to focus on the education of our young people. The Jake J. Schreibman Freshman Year Scholarship has helped enable students to attend the school of their choice for the past two decades.

Primary scholarship criteria includes resiliency with overcoming obstacles to academic success; grades and participation in rigorous courses; letters of recommendation; employment experience; active participation See Schreibman Scholarship page 3

JEwISH FEdErAtIon oF oMAHA ments include acceptance in the The Financial Aid Committee of Omaha World Herald All-State the Jewish Federation of Omaha is Academic Team, Valedictorian of his class at pleased to anWestside, and nounce that maintaining a Joshua Militti 4.00 unwas selected as weighted GPA the 2017 recipithrough all ent of the David seven comKeiser and Lilpleted semesters lian Keiser Stoms Foundaat Westside. tion Education Josh also volEndowment unteers with Fund for AcaALS in the demic ExcelHeartland, has a lence black belt in Tae Scholarship.

Kwon Do, and This is the only has been active merit-based in BBYO. He Josh Militti spoke of BBYO scholarship on his scholarship application – granted by the committee. While “...I too will be able to say that I based strictly on academics, with high school grade point averages have helped strengthen the Jewish and ACT/SAT scores used as the community and brighten the lives primary measure, a prerequisite of many young men who I will alfor consideration is that the recipi- ways be able to call my brothers.” ent must demonstrate a commitHe has served in a number of ment to the Jewish community. leadership roles for the Mother Josh is the son of Dave Militti Chapter AZA #1. Rachel Martin, and Jennifer (Turkel) and Dan BBYO/ Teen Director had this to See Keiser Stoms Scholarship page 2 Goaley. His academic achieve-

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Rachel MaRtin BBYO/Teen Director t was five years in the making, but Spencer Arnold made one of his dreams come true in 2017.

“I joined BBYO in 8th grade, and one of the first programs I heard about was March of the Living,” Arnold said. “It was my goal to do it senior year.”

The March of the Living (MOTL) is a “twoweek travel experience and a BBYO tradition, where Jewish teens from five continents converge in Poland and in Israel for an emotional journey that will impact your sense of history, perspective, and identity.” The program is open to all Jewish teens and BBYO membership is not required.

Arnold said the program sounded like a time to learn about the past and explore a deeper meaning. “It was also a chance to go to Israel, and stand with the state of Israel.” He graduated from Westside High School in May 2017.

He has been involved in BBYO for five years, serving on his chapter board, Mother Chapter AZA #1, and attending many programs and regional conventions.

The December 2015 Mega Teen Mission was Arnold’s first trip to Israel, through the Jewish Federation of Omaha.

“The MTM was more touristy than the MOTL,” Arnold said. “We were able to see Israel during Yom Ha’Atzmaut and Yom HaZikaron and learn about what that meant during the March.”

If Arnold could re-live part of the trip, he would like to experience the physical march between concentration camps again, and find it more meaningful. The most impactful experience of MOTL, according to Arnold, was when the group listened to a Holocaust survivor, Paul, who traveled with Arnold’s bus group throughout the entire two week trip. There were 30-40 survivors who traveled with all of the teen groups.

“Listening to Paul speak allowed my emotions to flow into one thought and be able to think about what all was happening around me,” Arnold said. “That was the only time I cried, during his talk to our group.”

The most fun part of the experience, according to Arnold, was going from standing still for

same BBYO region, and some teens from the North Texas-Oklahoma (NTO) Region in BBYO.

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continued from page 1 Defamation League. She has a nationally syndicated column featured in more than a dozen Jewish newspapers and has published stories in the Chicken Soup series, On the Road to Motherhood and Jewish Stories from Heaven and Earth. Her reputation as the ‘Ethics Maven’ earned her a featured spot on Too Jewish, a Jewish radio show aired weekly in the southwest.

Amy’s first book, To Life! Jewish Reflections on Everyday Living was published by Aliyah Publishing in 2005.

Her second book, One God, Many Paths: Finding Meaning and Inspiration in Jewish Teachings won the 2009 Arizona Book Publishing Association Glyph Award for best book in the Religion/Spirituality category.

Amy speaks with humor, passion and clarity, and is able to inspire and empower her audiences using her knowledge of Torah, Midrash, Rabbinic and contemporary law.

We look forward to welcoming Amy to our community.

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two minutes in Tel Aviv and watching everything stand still, to going to Ben Yehuda street the next night to celebrate with thousands of other Jews for Yom HaAtzmaut. “There were four DJs playing rave style music. Everyone was dancing with each other and it was a great experience,” Arnold said.

Arnold met some teens who would later join him on MOTL at a Religious Action Center (RAC) trip to Washington, D.C. through Temple Israel a couple years prior. “We bonded because we were in BBYO,” Arnold said. “BBYO gave me leadership skills so it was easy to make new friends with that connection piece.”

At first, Arnold could count on one hand the other teens he knew going on MOTL. “I knew one guy from New Jersey, one girl from St. Louis that I had only heard about from being in the

Now, I have friends from all over the world.”

Some advice for future Jewish teens: “Go into the MOTL or any Jewish programming with an open mind,” Arnold said. “You can’t prepare yourself for what you’re going to see and you can’t force your feelings. Everyone experiences something different. It strengthens your Judaism, and in BBYO you make friends for a lifetime no matter where you’re going.”

Arnold’s feelings he has for Israel grew the first time he visited, and he knew they would get stronger the next time he visited. He plans to apply to staff the MOTL in the future, as well as to study abroad in Israel or spend a gap year in Israel between undergraduate and graduate school. Arnold is attending the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in Fall 2017 and plans to continue building his Jewish identity.

continued from page 1 say - “Josh was a great member of BBYO. He supported his chapter, was a mentor to younger members and served on his chapter board for multiple semesters. We will definitely miss having him in Omaha Council!”

Gov. Pete Ricketts also recently honored Militti at a reception for the 17 graduating high school seniors earning perfect scores on college entrance exams.

Josh is attending the University of Minnesota and plans a double major in chemical engineering and mathematics.

There is no doubt Josh will be a tremendous success in whatever he chooses to do.

Lillian Keiser Stoms and her brother David were native Omahans, and this fund was established in their memory by their niece, Sally Clayman. In addition to the Academic Excellence award, there are two other scholarships that were also established in their memory. The Lillian Keiser Stoms Educational Fund was established to benefit and assist in the education of Jewish youth living in a single parent family or Jewish single parents who have custody of their children. The David Keiser and Lillian Keiser Stoms Foundation Education Endowment Fund was created to provide funding for university scholarships to Jewish youth who have earned a minimum 3.0 GPA. Both awards are based on financial need.

For information on scholarship programs, please contact Alan Potash, Chief Executive Officer of the Jewish Federation of Omaha at 402.334.6574 or alanpotash@jewishomaha.org. Those interested in contributing to or endowing scholarship funds should contact Howard Epstein, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation at 402.334.6466.

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imam Daoudi has been waiting for us, too Jackie Grau By now you’ve heard about Imam Jamal Daoudi, the American Muslim Institute’s (AMI) new leader. Maybe you’ve even seen his photo.

But perhaps you haven’t met him and don’t know anything about his views and beliefs.

What kind of man moves to Omaha for the sole purpose of leading a Muslim congregation built next to a synagogue and a church?

Imam Daoudi, that’s who.

He’s an understated champion, and to meet him is to walk away with a smile and a dash of hope. You may even walk away misty-eyed.

Seeking to dig into his imam Jamal Daoudi mind, I sat down with Imam Daoudi the day after he spoke at Temple Israel on a Friday evening. To the Temple Israel congregation he talked about growing up in Syria, where he learned that Jews are natural “neighbors and friends.” He described the gathering of the Abrahamic faiths as one would describe a family reunion.

Love for siblings born of Ishmael is a foregone conclusion.

Imam Daoudi’s core beliefs and amity come through consistently, whether he is speaking to a crowd or sitting down for casual conversation. Daoudi seems to have the weightless conscience of a much younger man, and he speaks about the future of Tri-Faith with no bitterness for the past.

He is rationally idealistic. He reflects the positive, like sunrise over water. When he first heard about the Tri-Faith Initiative (TFI) he wondered: “Could my dream come true?”

Even if you’ve never attended a Tri-Faith event you’d enjoy sitting down with Imam Daoudi just to hear about his eclectic studies, experiences, and achievements. He studied English Literature for four years and Islam for the next four. He speaks of his time in Dallas working at his brother’s gas station as an experience equally as important as his seminary and ministry education. He was the first Muslim to attend the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Of that, he modestly says, “I was curious of what I would experience.”

Imam Daoudi is a patient listener and an obviously talented minister of advice and counseling, although there is so much we want to hear from his own mouth too. When it’s his turn you’ll hear his slightly accented and lyrical speech, filled with evidence of his exposure to many cultures and beliefs. He is the missing piece in the jigsaw of Tri-Faith, one that many have been anxiously awaiting.

Imam Daoudi is confident in his faith and respects that others are too. He is firm that the three religions shall not compromise their rituals and traditions while also being part of TFI. Our religious differences are not barriers. For him, they never were. Instead they are like the qualities that make a garden of colorful flowers so breathtaking. Imam Daoudi believes we are even better together. And to doubters, he demands: “Why not?”

However, the open-minded Imam Daoudi is unwavering about some things. He is not a “liberal” Muslim, nor does AMI serve up watered-down religion. Islam doesn’t have denominations like Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox. It is only Islam. There are five mosques in Omaha and you are welcome to stop to pray at one that isn’t “yours.” Yet you will find much the same rituals and prayers at each! There is no question Daoudi is “all in” in terms of being a Muslim. Because of that, he is comfortable explaining that “radical”

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Muslims are simply radical people. In his faith, in his background, real Islam is about love. It is about the heart. Think about existing in a time where those misconstruing your re-

ligion take the headlines. The thought is unbearable. This imagined experience (call it empathy, perhaps) just serves to add to one’s appreciation for Imam Daoudi’s calm, confident, and open demeanor. His optimism is unflappable.

At the same time (and much to my glee), Daoudi relishes meaningful discussion, friendly debate, and answering all kinds of questions. Even in response to my sometimes tactless interview cross-examination he remained unreserved, showing there is no “wrong” topic to bring up nor touchy issues to step around. Transparency is important to him and so is the opportunity to explain Islam and share his rituals.

In fact, Imam Daoudi firmly believes questions must be asked. We should be willing to question our own motives, but also to ask our neighbors about their traditions. Ignoring differences isn’t the way to go. Unasked questions lead to fear like a thick, blinding fog. But asking shows your respect: it means you are taking an interest, engaging in a dialogue. So, ask Daoudi why he feels more comfortable not shaking a female’s hand, or what happens when he’s busy and it’s time to pray. He wishes you would, instead of presuming to know the answers. Put another way, wouldn’t you choose knowledge over fear? Imam Daoudi is proof that conviction and curiosity are natural bedfellows. But don’t we Jews already know that? There should be no doubt that Imam Daodi came to the right place for us and him.

During my interview we talked about the approach of the month of Ramadan and that the new doors of AMI will shortly be opening for the congregation. Actually, by the time you read this, our neighbors will likely have moved in.

So when you see AMI congregants this month, remember that the preferred greeting is “Blessed Ramadan,” or “Ramadan Mubarak.” At the end of Ramadan you can wish someone “Happy Eid,” or “Eid Sa’id.”

So, to Imam Jamal Daoudi and our new neighbors at Sterling Ridge: Welcome. Blessed Ramadan.

I think you’ve come home.

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continued from page 1 in athletics, band, cheerleading, DECA, and/or other extracurricular activity leadership positions; essay composition; and a personal interview.

Josie is the daughter of Beth and Mitchell Slovut. She participates in her school’s Debate team and Butterfly Effect club. She is also an active volunteer to a number of area non-profits.

Josie will graduate from Millard North High School and will be attending the University of Minnesota, planning to focus on International Agriculture and Rural Development.

Schreibman’s niece, Marlene Bernstein, is the Executive Director at the Schreibman Foundation. “Our focus has always been to support those students who have overcome with integrity some obstacle in their lives and those who have worked not only at school but also have worked to contribute financially for college.”

The personal interview is a key component. Bernstein has spoken of her pleasure at spending time with each student and hearing their plans and goals. Choosing the recipient of this scholarship is typically quite difficult and the interview provides the opportunity to discover something special about each student.

Application information for the Schreibman scholarship is available in January of each year from area high school counseling offices and the Jewish Federation of Omaha’s website – www.jewishomaha. org. The application deadline is typically march 1. For additional information, please email Stan Maliszewski at sjmalisz@u.arizona. edu or call 520.360.7476.

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messianic Jews?

e are friends here with an unusual family. They are European-born Christians and have been in Israel for over two decades. Their prayer community in Jerusalem is heavily composed of “messianic Jews.”

While I deeply respect this couple, I’ll call them John and Kristina, for hav- Teddy ing chosen to raise their family in Is- Weinberger rael, I have a severe disagreement with them concerning these “messianic Jews.”

John and Kristina point out that Jesus and all of his followers were Jewish, and so the precedent was set for a person to be both Jewish and to believe in Jesus as the messiah. The standard answer to this point is that what was true in the first century of the common era ceased to be true a few centuries later. Two millennia ago, when the Jewish people itself was in deep conflict as to “who is a Jew?” (i.e., in the first century, when there were four separate competing Jewish groups: the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, and early Christians), there were legitimate competing answers to this question. After the destruction of the Second Temple, Christianity and Judaism each went their separate ways. In order to preserve my friendship with John and Kristian, though, we long ago agreed to disagree about “messianic Jews.”

A few weeks ago, however, this topic could not be avoided.

I happened to stop by John and Kristina’s house while their married daughter and husband were visiting. The husband’s parents are Americans, the mother is Christian and the father was born Jewish. Kristina told me that before the father met his wife, he spent several years as a kind of hippie in the Sinai, and it was there, Kristina said, that “he found Jesus.”

My heart sank when Kristina said this because she said it with some degree of satisfaction. I have to now wonder if my friend Kristina’s positive view of messianic Jews causes her to pity all Jews who have not yet found Jesus. It’s clear to me that out of her love for her own faith, she believes that finding Jesus is better than not finding Jesus.

Lest you think that all believing Christians have to be sympathetic to Kristina’s position, here is what my friend Don Compier, Dean of the Bishop Kemper School for Ministry in Kansas City, wrote to me about this matter: “I am very disturbed by ‘Jews for Jesus’ or ‘Messianic Jews.’ If one is a Jew and joins this movement I feel that there is a rejection of one’s rich heritage and the mistaken notion that Jews are not ‘saved.’ It seems to me to be a denial of the call to bear the witness of the people of Israel, which I see as essential. Like you I don’t see how this cannot be supercessionism, which after the Shoah is highly problematic theologically and ethically (well it was always, but now it is glaringly evident how harmful this view is).”

Don brings up the evils of supersessionism (how the Church viewed itself as superseding the old ways of Judaism). Especially after the Holocaust, which took place smack in the middle of European Christendom, he feels it imperative to state clearly that a Jew does not in any way improve their spiritual position by “finding Jesus.” This is why Don also wrote me: “I have known a few Christians who convert to Judaism, and I have no problem with that.

But ‘Messianic Judaism’ is neither Christian nor Jewish.”

I realize that for a deeply faithful person like Kristina, such a stance against the benefits of accepting Jesus is painful. Kristina has set down firm roots in Israel, her children have served in the army, some of them even doing combat duty. And here I am asking her to come out against the bedrock of her life, to say that what is essential for her is unnecessary for Jews. More than this, if and when she learns of a Jew who has found Jesus, I want this to be a source of sadness for her, just as it is for me, just as it is for Don. It’s a tough order, I know, and yet Kristina has expressed such incredible fealty to the Jewish state that I hope that one day she will bow to the dictates of the Jewish people concerning “messianic Jews.”

Teddy Weinberger made aliyah in 1997 with his wife, former Omahan Sarah Ross, and their five children. Their oldest four, Nathan, Rebecca, Ruthie and Ezra are veterans of the Israel Defense Forces; Weinberger can be reached at weinross@netvision.net.il.

Amy Hirshberg Lederman, is an award-winning author and columnist, expert Jewish educator and attorney. She will be the keynote speaker on June 15 for the year 3 celebration event of LIFE&LEGACY. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and will be held on the Jewish Community Center campus. It promises to be Amy HirsHberg a wonderful event which will begin LedermAn with wine and hors d’ oeuvres and end with an original LIFE&LEGACY song by Karen Sokolof Javitch and a dessert reception. For more information and to R.S.V.P. contact Margo Parsow at mparsow@jewishomaha.org or by calling 402.334.6432.

I felt like I was channeling my parents this week when I heard myself complaining about how I miss “good old days” – when people actually sent handwritten thank you notes and invitations, rather than texting, Facebooking or sending e-vites. Call me old fashioned, but there is something nice about getting a real live letter or card from a friend. And while my mail box is full, its contents are mostly bills, advertisements and a host of requests for donations from organizations in need of help.

Over the past few years, those requests have grown exponentially, especially in light of the economic crisis that our country has been living through. Unemployment is still high, the housing market has been under water, and college tuition and insurance premiums have eroded the confidence of even the most prudent investor. All of which makes me feel more responsible to give to worthy organizations that are struggling to keep their doors open to the many in need of help and services.

I have the privilege of working as a legacy consultant for the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona, the arm of our Jewish community that “helps individuals and families today invest in a stronger Jewish and global community for tomorrow.” Simply put, we empower people to create lasting legacies for the values they cherish and the organizations they hold most dear.

I get asked a LOT of questions by folks who are trying to develop a strategy for philanthropic giving. Questions like: How much should I give? Should I give now or wait until I die? How do I prioritize my gifts? Should I support Jewish organizations first and then donate to other charities second? Do I need to give up something I enjoy – a dinner out, theater tickets, a trip – to make a more substantial contribution this year?

There is no word for charity in Hebrew. Instead, we speak of tzedakah, which literally means “righteousness.”

Tzedakah is the counterpart to tikkun olam, the Jewish obligation to act as God’s partner in repairing the world. Both affirm our responsibility to distribute a part of what we have to take care of others. This is based on the idea that our own wealth is viewed not as a right or entitlement, but as a means to care for the world.

Jewish law is fairly specific in its answer to the question of the amount we should give. Maimonides established specific parameters for giving: Ten percent is average, 20% is ideal, but we should not give more, so that we don’t become impoverished ourselves.

But 10% of what – gross pay, net income, your entire estate? While there are differing opinions, it is generally accepted that maaser (Hebrew for tithing) is calculated based on net income.

Think of it like this: God is your business partner and you can deduct the same business expenses, such as taxes, insurance payments and travel expenses, as you would in any legal partnership. For those who want to really figure it out, there are maaser calculators available online!

In terms of prioritizing charitable gifts, the general rule is that “the poor of your own town come before the poor of any other town,” but priority is given to the poor living in the land of Israel. We start with our own family, town and community and then reach out into the larger world, which includes Jews and non-Jews, alike. The Talmud specifically recognizes that any needy person who lives peacefully with us is worthy of charity because of the “ways of peace.”

Another bit of wisdom comes from the Chofetz Chaim, a see When the going gets tough page 5

When the going gets tough, the tough get giving

Jewish Movie Nights at Temple Israel

scOtt Littky Program Director, Temple Israel During the summer, we will again view two Israeli movies. After each movie we will discuss the major themes raised.

Wednesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. we will show Atomic Falafel. The movie is the story of two girls from nuclear towns in Israel and Iran who spill their countries’ most valuable secrets on Facebook while trying to prevent a nuclear crisis.

The movie was written and directed by Dror Shaul. In a review for this 2015 film, Alissa Simon of Variety wrote: “A hilarious, fastpaced satire with a propeace message, Atomic Falafel encompasses the Israel-Iran nuclear showdown, the Internet friendship of two teens from the opposing countries, a youthful hacker’s first romance and a falafel maker’s discovery of a new love. Especially resonant in today’s political climate, this exuberant, delightfully absurd, spot-on comedy is Israeli writer Dror Shaul’s Dr. Strangelove, and reps a tasty treat with loads of style for niche distributors in most territories, especially Stateside.”

Next, Wednesday, July 19 we will view, I am.

Shimon Peres. This documentary biography of Shimon Peres allows us to see him as a leader of Israel as he guides his country through political turmoil in the Middle East and as a man who is attempting to reconcile with his past. This documentary follows the Israeli leader over the course of four years, reflecting on his storied career in politics as well as his private life. Shimon Peres was a founding father of Israel who was beloved and served in many governmental positions and was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work towards ending the Israeli Palestine conflict. He was always attempting to move Israel forward and once was quoted as saying, “Israeli children should be taught to look to the future, not live in the past. I would rather teach them to imagine than to remember.”

Both movies are open to the community and all are invited to attend. For more information on these movies or other activities at Temple Israel, contact Program Director Scott Littky, 402.556.6536.

Organizations

B’nai B’rith BreadBreakers

B’nai B’rith Breadbreakers meets weekly on Wednesdays at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home auditorium from noon to 1 p.m. For specific speaker information, please email Gary.Javitch@Gmail.com, Breadbreakers chairman. For more information or to be placed on the email list call 402.334.6443 or bnaibrith@jewishomaha.org.

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community When the going gets tough continued from page 4 pious 19th century rabbi and ethicist, who taught that it is better to give smaller sums frequently than a lump sum annually, in order to encourage us to regularly think about the needs of others.

But does giving tzedakah have to hurt?

Should we be required to give up something

in order to make a meaningful gift? The answer is no, and yes. To give in a Jewish way is to act out of a sense of justice and responsibility – not guilt or dread. Jews neither give because it feels good, nor until it hurts.

We are obligated to give for the simple reason that the need exists. But if we have committed to giving by making a pledge, either privately (in our own minds) or publicly, we

are obligated to fulfill it even it if “hurts.”

When we give, Jewish tradition asks that we give from our hearts – because it is from our hearts that we need to lead, rather than from our heads. When we look upon the world with compassion, we are more inclined to see the real needs of others and make a gift that is truly meaningful.

During our lives we will have times when our income may be limited or our resources depleted.

An unexpected tragedy, the loss of a job or an illness can reduce our estate such that it seems nearly impossible to give. But tzedakah is an “equal opportunity mitzvah” and applies to everyone, no matter how much or how little we have. If we are unable to give of our money, we can give of our time, talents, wisdom and presence. That is why our sages assured us that everyone is capable of giving when they said: “To the one who is eager to give, God provides the means.”

Amy Hirshberg Lederman is a legacy consultant for the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona as well as an author, Jewish educator, public speaker and attorney. She lives in Tucson and can be reached at aleder man@cox.net.

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community Combining Hebrew and Arabic to promote understanding

Andrew Tobin 638 characters. Vowels are used as needed for legibility -- below the HeTEL AVIV | JTA brew letters and above the Arabic ones, per the languages’ respective iddle East peace may remain out of reach, but at least rules. Turkenich tested the Hebrew elements on herself and her friends. the Hebrew and Arabic languages have found a com- For advice on the Arabic, she turned to Arab-Israeli commuters on her promise. daily train ride from Haifa to Tel Aviv.

Israeli typography designer Liron Lavi Turkenich has “Whenever I heard someone speaking Arabic, I would ask them if they created a stylized writing system that merges the two had time to answer a few questions. They always said yes,” she recalled, ancient alphabets, allowing noting that she now has Arab Hebrew and Arabic speakers friends who help. to read the same words. Her Since graduating in 2012 hope is that Aravrit will profrom Shenkar, a college of enmote coexistence in Israel and gineering, design and art in beyond.

Ramat Gan, Turkenich has fur“I believe Aravrit sends a ther developed Aravrit into a message that we’re both here, writing system. She has incorand we might as well acknowlporated alternative forms of edge each other,” Turkenich letters in both languages -told JTA. “That applies to some Hebrew letters take on a Jews and Arab Israelis, but different form at the end of also to Israel and the Palestiniwords -- and connected the ans and Israel and the Arab Arabic elements in traditional world.” cursive style. The changes Israelis have been receptive. Liron Lavi Turkenich comparing produce in a video for her Aravrit writing have given her the flexibility to Credit: Screenshot from YouTube craft each word in a unique Over one million people have system. watched a Hebrew-language video introducing Aravrit since it was posted way, and she is working on writing down the rules. on Facebook by Kan, Israel’s new broadcasting authority.

Turkenich said she gets lots of requests to write Aravrit, including re“We can do something caring for the other side just by reading, with- cently from the head of a small mostly Jewish city in Israel that she deout having a solution,” Turkenich said. clined to name. She also teaches and gives lectures about her work in Turkenich, 32, was inspired to create Aravrit by the road signs in Haifa, Israel and around the world. Last year, Aravrit was exhibited at The Muthe mixed Jewish and Arab city where she was born and has lived most seum of Islamic and Near Eastern Cultures in Beersheba. of her life. Although many of the signs feature Arabic -- along with HeLanguage, of course, can be a political issue in the Jewish state. Hebrew and English -- she realized that she had always ignored the lettering. brew and Arabic both have sacred roots and are central to the identities Arabic tends to appear smaller on official signage and, like most Israeli at stake in the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Earlier this month, Israeli Jews, she cannot read it. ministers backed a bill that would constitutionally enshrine the country’s For her final undergraduate project, Turkenich set out to combine He- Jewish status and make Hebrew the only official language, demoting brew and Arabic lettering in a way that would allow them to “live to- Arabic from that status -- and, critics say, further marginalizing the 20 gether,” as she put it. She started by revisiting the work of French percent of Israelis who are Arab. ophthalmologist Louis Émile Javal, who in the late 19th century found But Turkenich said her goal is to build on the languages, not subvert that people can read pretty well using only the top half of Latin letters. them. In Aravrit -- itself a hybrid of the Hebrew words for Arabic and HeWith some experimenting, Turkenich discovered that the same is true of brew -- sentences follow the grammar rules of Arabic on top and Hebrew Arabic -- and by happy coincidence, the opposite holds for Hebrew. on the bottom, she noted, and the lettering retains the most prominent “In Hebrew, most of the identifying characteristics of letters’ forms features of each script. A word like “peace,” for example, would read as are near the bottom part,” she said. “When I went to check Arabic, I “salaam” on top and “shalom” on bottom. crossed my fingers that they would be on the top half -- and they were!”

“Both Hebrew and Arabic have incredible histories. We should not Based on this insight, Turkenich combined each of the 22 letters in erase them,” she said. “It’s the same as the political situation: We can’t Hebrew with each of the 29 in Arabic to create an Aravrit alphabet with start from scratch.”

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SArAh KeLen Since a proclamation by President George W. Bush in 2006, May has been Jewish-American Heritage Month. Jews have been part of North American history since before the American Revolution, and the history of Jewish Americans is an integral part of our nation’s story. Each region of the United States has its own Jewish history. Nebraska’s Jewish history extends to territorial times and includes Jewish communities and individuals all over the state.

In celebration of these generations of Jewish Nebraskans, the Jewish Federation of Lincoln submitted a request that Governor Pete Ricketts honor May 2017 as Jewish American Heritage Month. On May 5, 2017, Governor Ricketts signed a proclamation “urg[ing] all citizens to take due note of the observance” of Jewish American Heritage Month, recognizing that “Jewish Americans have contributed to the fabric of American society for the past 350 years” and that “Jews have been among Nebraska’s residents and have contributed to Nebraska’s history since the territorial period.”

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Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem SCott Kurz Administrative Assistant, ADL All members of the public are invited to join the Anti-Defamation League Plains States Region (ADL-CRC), the Jewish Federation and The Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest and participate in a livestreaming demonstration of support on Wednesday, June 7 at 1 p.m., to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.

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JTA NEWS STAFF A Chabad house has opened in Laos, making it the 92nd country with a permanent Chabad presence. e two-story villa in the city of Luang Prabang contains a large dining facility, synagogue, lounges and a garden with a pond.

It is located near guesthouses that are frequented by Israeli travelers, mostly backpackers who tour the Far East aer their army service. e Chabad house already runs a kosher restaurant, holds weekly prayer services,

Torah classes and Shabbat celebrations for about 50 people, according to Chabad.org.

Rabbi Sholom and Tamar Glitzenstein, the new Chabad emissaries in Laos, arrived at the beginning of the year to set up the Chabad house, where they also live. e rabbi served as an intern in Bangkok, ailand, before marrying and agreeing to serve in Laos.

“When people come here, they are open to new experiences, to learning and growth,” Tamar Glitzenstein said. See full story at Chabad.org.

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Annette vAn De kAMP-WRIGht Editor of the Jewish Press very once in a while, there’s a headline that chills me to the bone. Nooses have been appearing around Washington (Jesse J. Holland, June 1, AP) is one example. It makes one pause and wonder: exactly what is it that goes on in some people’s minds? It’s the question that pops up every time we hear of racial slurs, graveyard vandalism or insensitive tweets. It’s also a question we seem unable to answer. And yet, I can’t seem to stop asking: why?

We’ve seen enough hate speech in recent months to last us a lifetime. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, between Election Day 2016 and February 1 of this year, the organization collected information on approximately 1,800 hate-related events. Those events are not limited to certain areas but have occurred in almost every state. The nooses have been left in six different locations around our capital including the Smithsonian’s African American History Museum, a middle school and the American University in Washington—where bananas were tied to them.

To put the symbol of the noose in historical perspective: between 1877 and 1950, there were 4,075 lynchings of blacks in the southern part of the U.S. A noose or a swastika: take your pick. As Jews, we understand the ramifications when symbols of hate are cowardly left in public and private spaces. The perpetrators certainly do.

But here is an interesting side note. A story my daughter told me the other day involved a friend of a friend, living in a different state, who owns a dog named “Adolf.” Naturally, her response was one of disgust. Naming your dog ‘Adolf’ is not funny, it’s not cute: it’s insulting. She gets that. We as her parents get that. Her siblings and most of her classmates get that. However, trying to explain her reaction to someone who doesn’t, is remarkably difficult. What do you say to a person who thinks joking about the Holocaust is

sometimes acceptable and not really that big of a deal?

What do you say to someone who doesn’t get goose bumps when hearing about a noose outside the African American History Museum? How do you counter the accusation that you’re just “too sensitive?”

Sensitivity: it’s become a bit of controversial term. Sometimes disagreement is reflected in how we use our words. Language is no longer used for debate and civilized discourse alone; in addition, our nation wields it like a weapon. The intimidation thus becomes twofold: first, the hate speech or symbol, subsequently the accusation that, should we have the courage to call it out, we’re all “just too sensitive.” We’re “snowflakes.”

The funny thing is, it’s not the perpetrators who make this accusation: they know what they are doing, and they know what reaction they are looking for. Instead, it’s often the bystanders who claim we’re overreacting. The people who would never dream of picking up a can of spray paint themselves, the people who would never consider tying a rope to a tree, the people who have a friend who named his

dog Adolf and think it’s not that big a deal.

We don’t get to be bystanders; none of us have that luxury. When it comes to hate, there is no such thing as “too sensitive.” A headline telling us Nooses Have Been Appearing should chill us, every single time.

Those nooses don’t have to be hanging from the tree in our own backyard to upset us.

While it is unlikely we will get the answer to the “why-“ question, we can (and probably should) focus on the question of how to respond. That response needs to be immediate and convincing. Not with violence and not in anger, but with determination and with the right words.

When we feel those goose bumps, when we notice actions and language that is hateful, we need to speak up. You don’t have to be black to know that a noose is uncalled for. You don’t have to be Jewish to understand a Swastika constitutes a threat. You don’t have to be gay to call someone out for making a homophobic joke. You can be a size 2 and still draw the line when someone makes a derogatory comment about overweight people. You don’t have to be targeted in your own backyard to stop being a bystander.

abdication of our country’s longstanding commitment to providing development assistance and diplomatic support to the most vulnerable people around the world.

The vision of U.S. foreign policy outlined in Trump’s budget violates the post-World War II bipartisan consensus that successful foreign policy

turbed that the president’s budget would disproportionately affect women and girls by gutting money for women’s health.

For the first time in decades, all U.S. funding for family planning and reproductive health programs would be eliminated. We know firsthand how important these programs are. For instance,

Trump’s cuts to foreign aid budget are dangerous and inhumane RobeRt bAnk NEW YORK | JTA This week, President Donald Trump proposed radical and cruel cuts to U.S. foreign aid. If his budget for 2018 is approved by Congress and implemented, it would slash crucial aid and development programs and weaken key institutions upholding human rights worldwide. As the head of the leading Jewish organization that works to end poverty and support human rights in the developing world, I stand in fierce opposition to the president’s proposed cuts.

Each year, I have the honor of traveling the globe to meet with leaders of groundbreaking organizations working for a better world. I speak with thousands of people in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean who are on the front lines of the fight for human dignity in the face of epidemics, grinding poverty, natural and manmade disasters, and authoritarian regimes. These brave advocates work to end child marriage, protect minorities from discrimination and create just societies. Tragically, nearly everything that these organizations are working for would be undercut by Trump’s budget and every problem they are attempting to address would be made worse.While the American Jewish World Service receives very little funding from the U.S. government, some of the more than 450 organizations we support worldwide receive substantial support from the U.S. government. These groups would be at risk for steep cuts, or worse, under Trump’s budget. Moreover, the international courts and institutions they rely on to advocate for their communities would be undermined by this budget.

We know from our three decades of work at AJWS that U.S. foreign assistance, which makes up only 1 percent of the federal budget, plays an indispensable role in combating poverty, mitigating global challenges such as climate change and advancing human rights. The world needs continued American leadership on this front, not an

Young women rally against child marriage, dowry and domestic violence in a protest organized by an American Jewish World Service grantee, the Masum Foundation, in Mavadi, India, March 31, 2015.

Credit: Jonathan Torgovnik/AJWS is predicated on robust development assistance and tenacious diplomacy. The sweeping and unprecedented cuts to development programs and diplomacy would hobble the ability of the United States to lead internationally, including our ability to promote essential human rights.I know all too well that the people hit hardest would be ethnic minorities, political dissidents, women and girls, LGBT people and others who have counted on our country to lead on human rights and stand up against abusive governments. I am deeply dis-

efforts in India to empower girls and young women are only effective when adolescent girls can access services like comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.

The president has also proposed drastic cuts to development aid and economic support funds to vulnerable countries across the globe, such as Senegal, Haiti and Burma. Such cuts would destabilize those governments, weaken civil society and lead to instability. Slashing essential See trump’s cuts to foreign aid budget page 9

Trump’s Hebrew translator lets the president’s words speak Bernie Sanders defended Israel on Al Jazeera. for themselves Here’s why that’s a big deal.

RoN KAMpeAS WASHINGTON | JTA In an appearance on Al Jazeera, Bernie Sanders defended Israel’s right to exist, rejected BDS as a tactic and assailed the United Nations for singling out the country for condemnation.

The Vermont senator’s interview on the Qatar-based network, known for its often hypercritical coverage of Israel, was consistent with a style that Americans came to know last year during his run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination: Sanders does not modify his messaging for his audience.

Sanders, despite his defeat in the primaries by Hillary Clinton, who went on to lose to Donald Trump, remains the standard-bearer of the American left. His robust rejection of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is evidence that a firewall remains on the American left against more radical expressions of Israel criticism that have gained traction overseas.

The interviewer, Dena Takruri, challenged Sanders for joining every other U.S. senator last month in signing a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urging him to remedy the body’s “anti-Israel agenda.”

Takruri asked why Sanders was “effectively trying to shield [Israel] from criticism.” Sanders interrupted, “No, no, no, no, no, I don’t accept that,” saying “there are many problems with Israel” and he would continue to “be critical of a lot of what Israel does.”

“On the other hand, to see Israel attacked over and over again for human rights violations which may be true, when you have countries like Saudi Arabia or Syria, Saudi Arabia – I’m not quite sure if a woman can even drive a car today,” Sanders said.

“So I think the thrust of that letter is not to say that Israel does not have human rights issues -- it does -- but to say how come it’s only Israel when you have other countries where women are treated as third-class citizens, where in Egypt, I don’t know how many thousands of people now lingering in jail, so that’s the point of that, not to defend Israel but to say why only Israel, you want to talk about human rights, let’s talk about human rights,” he said.

Asked by Takruri whether he “respected” BDS as a legitimate nonviolent protest movement, Sanders said, “No, I don’t.” The senator suggested in his reply that the tactic was counterproductive as a means of bringing the sides to peace talks.

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“People will do what they want to do, but I think our job as a nation is to do everything humanly possible to bring Israel and the Palestinians and the entire Middle East to the degree that we can together, but no, I’m not a supporter of that,” he said.

“What must be done is that the United States of America is to have a Middle East policy which is even-

Bernie Sanders at Bronx Community College in New York City, April 9, 2016.

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handed, which does not simply supply endless amounts of money, of military support to Israel, but which treats both sides with respect and dignity and does our best to bring them to the table.”

Sanders also rejected Takruri’s assertion that the two-state solution is almost dead and said he would not embrace a one-state solution.

“I think if that happens, then that would be the end of the State of Israel and I support Israel’s right to exist,” he said. “I think if there is the political will to make it happen and if there is good faith on both sides I do think it’s possible, and I think there has not been good faith, certainly on this Israeli government and I have my doubts about parts of the Palestinian leadership as well.”

Sanders, the first Jewish candidate to win major party nominating contests, was critical of conventional pro-Israel postures during the campaign, but also defended the state.

He told MSNBC last year that antiSemitism was a factor driving the BDS movement, yet in a debate in the New York primary – with its critical mass of Jewish voters – Sanders chided Clinton for barely mentioning Palestinians in her speech earlier the same year to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

for young Jews who embraced the idea of Israel but were willing to robustly protest its government’s actions.

Sanders also named prominent Israel critics to the Democrats platformdrafting committee, yet when their Israel-critical language was rejected, he nonetheless robustly endorsed the platform because it met his other demands on economic inequality. He described himself at a meeting in New York’s Harlem neighborhood as a “strong defender of Israel” and for the first time spoke warmly about the time he spent in Israel in the 1960s on a kibbutz.

Democrats in recent years have grown increasingly critical of Israel, a result in part of the perilous relationship between Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, and the fraught tone of the debate in 2015 over the Iran nuclear agreement.

But the tense tone of the Al Jazeera interview and Sanders’ refusal to accept anti-Israel pieties commonplace among progressives here and overseas suggests the resistance among Democrats to more radical expressions of Israel criticism. Democratic lawmakers, for instance, continue to join Republicans in overwhelmingly approving anti-BDS legislation on the state and federal levels.

partners in numerous countries have worked with the U.N. special rapporteur to achieve concrete human rights advances. This type of cooperation would be jeopardized by the cuts.

The good news here, if any is to be found, is that the president’s budget proposal is just that — a proposal.

Now it’s on all of us to ensure it never becomes reality.We’re calling on members of Congress from both parties to stand together in opposition to these

draconian cuts. Moreover, we’re calling upon American Jews and the organizations and leaders that represent them to raise their voices in fierce opposition. This budget rejects our values and history, weakens our own security and undercuts our vision for America’s role in the world as a champion of human rights and dignity. We must reject it.

Robert Bank is president and CEO of American Jewish World Service.

Trump’s cuts to foreign aid budget Continued from page 8 aid to countries in need simply does not serve America’s own safety or long-term strategic interests.

Likewise, proposed cuts in funding for international organizations like the U.N. Human Rights Council would undermine the ability of local human rights advocates to use international mechanisms to hold their countries to account for the wide range of human rights violations they witness. AJWS

During the campaign, he hired as his Jewish outreach staffer Simone Zimmerman, who founded IfNotNow, which protests mainstream U.S. Jewish silence on Israel’s occupation. Although Sanders fired Zimmerman after her vulgar postings on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to light, the very hiring was a signal that there was now a political home

RoB gloSteR SAN FRANCISCO | J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA A San Francisco teacher hired to translate into Hebrew President Trump’s “not very eloquent” (as she puts it) speeches last week in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem said she isn’t proud to be working for this administration and promised “my students get preference, especially over this particular president.”

Merav Rozenblum, a Hebrew teacher at Jewish Community High School of the Bay, is a contract translator for the State Department and has worked with three presidents — including a 2013 trip to Israel with Barack Obama.

Rozenblum, who moved to the United States from Israel in 2001 and has been working at the San Francisco high school for nine years, Merav Rozenblum said her job is to exactly Credit: JCHS translate the president’s words from English to Hebrew, even if she disagrees with what he’s saying. “e ethics of my profession require that I repeat whatever was said as precisely as I can without adding anything personal,” she said. “If somebody reads my translation and can read between the lines my criticism, then I have not done my job well.

“Of course, when it comes to my principles, I would feel better translating for a president that did not offend about half of the American people. But when I work, this should not be reflected in anything that I do.”

Rozenblum and a colleague in Washington, D.C., were hired to translate Trump’s May 21 speech in Saudi Arabia at the Arab Islamic American Summit. ey were told to expect a 3,000-word dra of the speech at 6 a.m. California time on May 20, and agreed to divide it in half and then proofread the other’s work. e dra arrived 12 hours late — at 6 p.m. Saturday — and the two translators were given until 6 a.m. Sunday to turn in their work. Aer Trump gave the address, the Hebrew version was updated to reflect minor changes he made in the actual speech. “is president speaks in very short sentences, so it wasn’t a very difficult speech to translate,” Rozenblum said.

In the Jerusalem speech at the Israel Museum on May 23, Trump went off script to add a reference to the Manchester bombing. Rozenblum also changed her colleague’s translation of one of Trump’s comments there.

Talking about the American security partnership with Israel, Trump said, “Under my administration you see the difference — big, big beautiful difference.” Her colleague in Washington “made it sound better” in the Hebrew version, Rozenblum said, but she stuck with his original words because “I wanted it to sound as lame as it was [by using] his usual hollow words.”

Rozenblum, who translated Obama’s 2009 “A New Beginning” speech at Cairo University into Hebrew, said the previous administration was well organized and the speeches were more challenging to translate because they were better written and included quotes from the Talmud and the Quran.

Rozenblum traveled to the Middle East with Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, as an interpreter. “e protocol requires that the president is interpreted by an American. ey always travel with an interpreter, they cannot use local interpreters,” she said. “Just like there’s a special unit that brings the president’s water and food, they bring their own interpreters.”

A graduate of Bar-Ilan University’s program for translators and interpreters, Rozenblum also translates Spanish into Hebrew. She said she felt better working for Obama than she does for Trump.

“I am not very proud of translating for this particular president, but I feel that I do my work for my colleagues, for the American people,” she said. “is is what I do, and I do it the best I can.”

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Services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer. friday: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv & Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 p.m.; Candle Lighting, 8:38 p.m. saturday: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Insights in the Weekly Torah Reading, 7:35 p.m.; Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, 8:20 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:48 p.m. sunday: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Bagels & Beit Medrash, 9:45 a.m. monday: Shacharit, 7 a.m. tuesday: Shacharit, 7 a.m. wednesday: Shacharit, 7 a.m. thursday: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Ethics with Rabbi Ari, 7:45 a.m.; Woman’s Class with Rabbi Ari, 9:30 a.m.

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Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Friday, 9 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. followed by a festive kiddush luncheon. sunday: Shacharit, 8:30 a.m. followed by Sunday Secrets: Jewish Fun Facts class at 9:15 a.m. weekdays: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. monday: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani. wednesday: New Tanya Series -- The Anatomy of Your Soul: Who Are You?, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Mendel Katzman. thursday: Advanced Talmud Class, noon with Rabbi Mendel Katzman.

Summer is here and there's no better way to spend it than with Chabad at Camp Gan Israel! Register today for camp!

Summer Camp Registration is OPEN! Give your child an amazing experience this summer with Chabad!

All programs are open to the entire community.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Craig Lewis. friday: Pre-neg, 6 p.m. hosted by Vicki Edwards; Shabbat Evening Service, 6:30 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:39 p.m. saturday: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. on Parashat Beha’alotecha; Havdalah (72 Minutes), 10:10 p.m. thursday: Trope Class, 6:15 p.m. with Michael Boekstal. Class participants will need The Art of Torah Cantillation

by Marshall Portnoy and Josee Wolff; Special Advance Screening of From the Ashes, 7:30 p.m. at SST. RSVP to the Temple office at office@southstreettemple.org or 402.435.8004.

Potluck Dinner and Game Night, friday, june 17, 6 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 18 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, email Sarah Beringer at sarah.m.beringer@gmail.com.

An invitation from the Malcoms… Kent and Lupe will renew their wedding vows in the Temple Sanctuary on saturday, june 24 at 5 p.m., with a dinner to follow at their home 1515 A Street, Lincoln. All are invited to attend!

Help in our Temple Gardens! Help us get ready for a beautiful summer garden! How can you help? Tending the flower beds during the summer: We can also use help with routine weeding and trimming during the spring and summer. Help us keep a beautiful garden to enhance our Temple! Contact: Ellin Siegel at ellin7@aol.com or 402.525.4022 or the Temple Office and let us know you would like to help in the gardens.

LJCS CAMP ISRAEL, july 10–july 21, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. at TI. Kosher lunch and snack provided. LJCS enrolled students entering. Tuition for each week is $75 and if you are enrolling two or more children, the cost is $50 per child, per week. This program is open to children entering kindergarten through sixth grade.

Please send tuition checks payable to LJCS to Andrea at TI no later than July 1. Camp registration is required through LJCS. We are looking for any Lincoln (current or former residents) Jewish military veterans - both those who are deceased and those who are still alive. Names of any individuals they know who were murdered in the Holocaust - this is to make sure we have them listed at the Nebraska State Holocaust Memorial. Please e-mail or mail names to: garyhill@cega.com, P.O. Box 81826, Lincoln, NE 68501.

offutt air force Base

friday: Services, 7:30 p.m. every first and third of the month.

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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 Service Comes to You at the Heritage Sterling Ridge, 4 p.m.; Old School Shabbat Service, 5:45 p.m.

Looking to make friends at Temple Israel or reconnect with folks you already know? In partnership with PJ Library, we invite you to join us for an Old School Shabbat dinner & songs. We welcome all families with young children, young couples or anyone wanting to meet new people at Temple Israel. Dinner is included as well as fun activities to keep the kiddos busy. RSVP’s required; Shabbat Service, 6 p.m.; Friday Night TiTYPE Night, 6-9 p.m. Join our college-age TiYPE group for Shabbat services

at Temple Israel, followed by dinner at Hunan Fusion! Appetizers are on us! RSVP required. saturday: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Services, 10:30 a.m. tuesday: Grief Support Group, 5:30 p.m. For many, support groups are also important in the grief process. Whenever you feel ready to begin, Temple Israel’s Grief Support Group will welcome you. It is with this in mind that we would like to invite you to participate in our Grief Support Group, led by Marla Cohen, MS, NCC, LMHP. With Marla, you will have an opportunity listen and learn from others who find themselves in similar situations as they strive to find a “new normal” in their lives.

If you have any questions about the Grief Support Group, please call the Temple Israel office, 402.556.6536. wednesday: Movie & Discussion Night at Temple Israel: Atomic Falafel, 7 p.m. Movie followed by a discussion.

Shabbat Service, friday, june 16, 6 p.m. Join us for Rabbi Crystal’s final service as we thank him for his service and wish him well.

Movie & Discussion Night at Temple Israel: I am. Shimon Peres, wednesday, july 19, 7 p.m. Movie followed by a discussion Holla for Havdallah (21+), saturday, june 24, 6-9 p.m.

Welcome the summer with TiYPE for a nice service, followed by dinner, beverages, games, and movies! RSVP to Aliyah Lasky by monday, june 19.

tifereth israel

Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: monday-friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. friday: There will not be services this week. saturday: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. There will be no Kiddush lunch this week.

Please join with the extended Pitlor family on sunday, june 18 at 10:30 a.m. at Mount Carmel Cemetery for the unveiling of the stone of Letha Pitlor.

LJCS CAMP ISRAEL, july 10–july 21, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. at TI. Kosher lunch and snack provided. LJCS enrolled students entering. Tuition for each week is $75 and if you are enrolling two or more children, the cost is $50 per child, per week. This program is open to children entering kindergarten through sixth grade.

Please send tuition checks payable to LJCS to Andrea at TI no later than July 1. Camp registration is required through LJCS.

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israel’s president: Peace deal must feature Jewish presence in Hebron

JTA news sTAff Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that any peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians must feature a Jewish presence in Hebron.

Rivlin, a member of Likud,spoke at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the SixDay War. “Hebron is not an obstacle to peace. Hebron is a test of our abilities to live together, side by side,” Rivlin said as he stood on a large outdoor stage in a concrete arena on the outskirts of the Kiryat Arba settlement in Hebron.

“I do not know if there will ever be a political agreement and, if there will be, what its nature will be. But it is clear that, in any agreements, Jews and Arabs will continue to live here,” he said. e biblical city had a continuous Jewish presence until 1929 when an Arab massacre of 67 Hebron Jews destroyed the community. Jews were not allowed to settle in the city when it was under Jordanian control from 1948 until 1967.

Aer the Six-Day War, the Kiryat Arba settlement was founded in 1968 with residents moving in three years later in 1971. A small, heavily

guarded Jewish community was established in Hebron itself in 1979.

But the geographic location of Kiryat Arba and Hebron, outside the boundaries of the security barrier and deep in the heart of the West Bank, make their situation precarious in any final status agreement with the Palestinians.

Rivlin, however, reassured the several thousand participants in the celebration that included fireworks, music and cotton candy that Kiryat Arba and Hebron would remain part of Israel, even as President Donald Trump pushes for a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians.

Rivlin fought in the Six-Day War and was among those soldiers who entered Hebron aer the Jordanians fled.

“I remember the moments in which we stood at the entrance of the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

As a child, I knew the Tomb only as far as the seventh step, from the days before the war,” said Rivlin. “I directed my friends how to get there and how to enter.

“And here I found myself at the Tomb of the Patriarchs dressed in a dust-covered uniform and shoes that I had not removed for several days, listening to the sounds of the Shofar” that a rabbi was blowing, Rivlin said.

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JaCelYN Sage ShulewItz

Kelsea and Chad Shulewitz of Omaha, announce the May. 13 birth of their daughter, Jacelyn Sage.

Grandparents are Cindy and Alan Shulewitz, and Kristi and Mike Townsend all of Omaha.

Great-grandparents are Phyllis and the late Normand Roffman, the late Anna and Norman Shulewitz, and Connie and Mike Townsend, all of Omaha.

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BehM/BleICher

Joel and Sandy Bleicher of Council Bluffs announce the engagement of their son aaron Bleicher to Shannon Behm daughter of Cindy Behm and Randy Behm.

Shannon is the granddaughter of Phyllis Behm of Council Bluffs.

Aaron is the grandson of Dorothy Tawzer of Lincoln.

A wedding is planned for Aug. 18, 2017 at Temple Israel in Omaha.

Celebrating Israel in NY

JTA News sTAff Tens of thousands of people lined Manhattan’s Fih Avenue to show their support for Israel. e “Celebrate Israel” parade was held Sunday aernoon, under the banner of “Celebrate Israel All Together.” e parade also recognized 50 years of the reunification of Jerusalem.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio marching during the “2017 Celebrate Israel Parade” in New York City, June 4, 2017.

Credit: James Keivom/NY Daily News via Getty Images

Nine members of Israel’s Parliament were scheduled to march in the parade, as were Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio were in attendance. Some 30 floats and 11 marching bands were scheduled to be part of the parade.

Former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber served alongside Barkat and kosher chef Jamie Geller as honorary grand marshals.

Cuomo was joined in the parade by Chemi Peres, son of the late former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. Prior to the parade Cuomo declared the day, and every first Sunday of June, Shimon Peres Day in New York.e parade was protested by activists from IfNotNow, the Jewish anti-establishment group, who attempted to block the route carrying a sign reading “No Celebration of Occupation.” Police intervened, walking between the marchers and protesters.

Seven activists were arrested during the parade, according to Jewish Voice for Peace.

B’NaI MItzvah

NaNCY FellMaN rIPS aNd toM FellMaN

Nancy Fellman Rips, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Leon Fellman, mother of Amy (Scott) Levine (Highland Park, IL) and Wendy (Conrad) Mahaffey (Santa Fe, NM), and grandmother to Noah Levine will celebrate the 60th anniversary of her Bat Mitzvah with her twin brother Tom Fellman. It will take place Saturday, June 17 at Beth El Synagogue.

Tom Fellman, son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Leon Fellman, husband to Darlynn, father of Louri Sullivan and Ted (Estee) Fellman (Missoula MT.), and grandfather to Rachel, Josh, Samantha, and Tommy Sullivan and Leo and Grayson Fellman will celebrate the 60th anniversary of his Bar Mitzvah with his twin sister Nancy Rips. It will take place Saturday, June 17 at Beth El Synagogue.

They have a sister, Jane Pickus, Highland Park, IL. and a brother, Richard Fellman.

Their mitzvah projects have included Libraries, Synagogues, Temples, Nursing Homes, Fitness Centers, Schools, and Assisted Living Residences.

The Bat Mitzvah 60th Anniversary Celebration at Beth El will be followed by an Oneg Shabbat and Kiddush Lunch.

No gifts, please.

JDC, local partner providing emergency aid to stormstruck Sri Lanka JTA News sTAff e American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is responding with emergency aid to catastrophic flooding and mudslides in Sri Lanka.

More than 200 people have been confirmed dead and at least 100 missing in the worst storms to hit the island nation since 2003.

JDC, together with its local partner Sarvodaya, a Buddhist-inspired humanitarian organization, deployed its first responder unit to provide food, water, and other emergency aid in Sri Lanka’s five hardest hit districts. e Sarvodaya–JDC Disaster Management Unit was founded aer the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, when the two organizations partnered to ensure immediate aid for Tsunami survivors.

Since the 2004 Tsunami, the unit has responded to dozens of disasters in Sri Lanka, according to JDC. More than 77,000 have been displaced and over 1,500 homes destroyed since rains began swamping the southern and western areas of Sri Lanka nearly a week ago.

“We mourn the loss of life in Sri Lanka, and are working to ensure that desperately needed assistance is delivered to survivors who have lost so much in this disaster,” said JDC CEO David M. Schizer in a statement issued on Wednesday. “As the Jewish community gathers to celebrate Shavuot, commemorating the commandments we received on Mount Sinai, we honor our tradition and its value for human life by joining with our Sri Lankan partners to save lives and carry forward a shared commitment to compassion in the face of adversity.”

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Pullout from Paris climate accords blasted by Jewish groups

JTA NeWs sTAff resident Donald Trump on ursday, June 1 said he will withdraw the United States from the landmark 2015 global agreement to fight climate change, earning statements of dismay from critics, including Jewish groups who regard the pullout as a diplomatic and environmental disaster.

Speaking at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Trump said the so-called Paris accords, signed by every country except for Syria and Nicaragua, place “draconian” financial and economic burdens on American businesses and taxpayers and give other countries a trade advantage over the United States.

“As someone who cares deeply about our environment, I cannot in good conscience support a deal which punishes the United States,” he said. “e Paris accord is very unfair at the highest level to the United States.”

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued a statement on behalf of the Reform movement saying the announcement was “an abdication of responsibility to address global climate change and is both physically dangerous and morally reprehensible. “e decision disregards vitally important environmental efforts to protect both our planet and the population, with consequences that will reverberate for generations,” wrote Pesner. “Reneging on the agreement diminishes U.S. leadership and undermines longstanding alliances, placing an undue burden on other nations to address climate change.”

American Jewish World Service, which advocates for people in developing nations, said such countries would bear the brunt of the severe storms, flooding, droughts and famine that a scientific consensus regards as the already apparent signs of the effects of man-made global warming. “e longer the U.S. denies climate change and fails to take responsibility for its outsized contribution to global

warming, the greater the risk and more than 100 businesses posed to the entire world, esthat will submit an independpecially the poorest people on ent pledge to be included in Earth,” said Robert Bank, the Paris accords, according to president and CEO of AJWS, the New York Times. in a statement.

Vatican officials also sigAdded Bank: “We stand naled their dismay with proudly as Jews who cherish Trump’s decision. e the Earth to object in the Catholic church strongly supstrongest terms to the Presiported the climate accords. dent’s shortsighted and damLast month, the Union for Reaging decision. As American form Judaism, AJWS and the Jews, we will continue to raise Coalition on the Environment our voices in solidarity with and Jewish Life joined 20 the people worldwide who other religious groups in urghave done the least to cause ing Trump to adhere to the global warming but who sufagreement, which was reached fer the most.” in 2015 and signed in 2016.

Following Trump’s ane 195 countries that nouncement of the pullout, signed the Paris Agreement former New York City Mayor pledged to adopt nonbinding Michael Bloomberg anplans to curb greenhouse gas nounced that his foundation, emissions.

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Republicans largely apPresident Donald Trump arriving in the Rose Garden of the White plauded Trump’s decision to would be donating $15 milHouse to announce his decision to withdraw the United States pull out of the accords, allion to the United Nation’s from the Paris climate agreement, June 1, 2017.

Climate Secretariat, which though reports indicated that Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images there was opposition among aids implementation of the Paris accords. e donation replaces the money the United some of his closest advisers, including Gary D. Cohn, the States would have contributed. director of the National Economic Council; Ivanka Trump, Bloomberg, the world’s 10th richest person, serves as the the president’s daughter and unpaid adviser, and Secretary U.N. Secretary General’s special envoy for cities and climate of State Rex W. Tillerson. change. In that capacity, he is coordinating climate efforts Neither Ivanka Trump nor her husband attended the anamong local governments, including an American group of 30 nouncement ceremony, which fell on the second day of the mayors, three governors, more than 80 university presidents Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Both are observant Jews.

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