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The Phil and Terri Schrager Spirit of Federation Award Five Jewish questions about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, answered Page 4

Gabe Kapler is following in the footsteps of other Jewish activist athletes Page 7

Catching up with the Institute for Holocaust Education Page 12

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Nancy Schlessinger

Jeff Kirshenbaum

her participation in the Life and Legacy program shows others that you can make a meaningful impact to the Omaha Jewish community even after your life has ended. Nancy is a committed volunteer, and she is always quick to respond when asked for input or feedback. She participates meaningfully in a number of programs through-

out the organization and she is also deeply invested in the future of our organization by helping us to choose a new CEO to lead us moving forward.”

Mike Seigel, current President of the JFO Board, who nominated Jeff Kirshenbaum had this to say about Jeff ’s many years as a Federation volunteer: See Spirit of Federation page 2

Josephus Flavius’ Military Camp found at Kela Valley

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RACHEL RING JFO Director of Development he Phil and Terri Schrager Spirit of Federation Award is given annually to honor one man and one woman who have demonstrated personal commitment, dedication and leadership to the Federation and/or its agencies. The Federation, Foundation and Federation agencies were invited to nominate candidates and the winners were chosen by the Federation Executive Committee. The committee is delighted to announce Nancy Schlessinger and Jeff Kirshenbaum as this year’s honorees.

Phil Malcom, Interim CEO of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, who nominated Nancy said this of her dedicated service to the Federation: “Nancy shows up for the Omaha Jewish community with her time, her talent and her treasure. Nancy's efforts as a major donor and a leader for the campaign inspire others to join her as she invests in the community. Further,

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RAMI ARAV On the weekend of May 20, 2022, the camp of Josephus’ force was discovered at the convergence of Kela Valley and the Jordan River by a team from the Bethsaida Excavations Project of the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). At the urging of Dr. Carl Savage (Northwind Seminary) who had noted for many years the presence of a stone enclosure across the Jordan River from the tell of Bethsaida, Dr. Rami Arav, chief archaeologist, led the team that also included

Ann Haverkost (UNO), Hanan Shafir (project photographer), and Itai Savage (Princeton University) to the location that was a perfect hiding place for Josephus’ Jewish fighters, who revolted against the Romans.

The location matches the description that Josephus makes in his writings. Josephus relates that at the onset of the Jewish revolt against the Romans (66 CE), he had a skirmish in the Bethsaida plain with forces commanded by Sulla, who led King Herod Agrippa II’s mercenaries. Sulla built a fortified camp at the junction of the roads leading to Gamla and Seleucia with the intent to cut off supplies from Galilee to those rebellious towns. In response, Josephus came with a force of about 5000 soldiers and divided them into two camps: two thousand were camped near Bethsaida and the rest in a ravine, hidden from the Sulla’s base.

See Josephus Flavius page 3

Sportscape IS a home run!

Jordan Nogg and Joe Scioli

JOANIE JACOBSON One day about a year ago, 9-yearold Taylor Nogg was going through a rough patch with his baseball skills. Taylor’s mom ( Jaime) asked Taylor’s oldest brother (Jordan) if his friend (Joe Scioli) would come over and the two older boys could work with Taylor to get his game back.

“I was glad to help,” said Scioli.

“We focused on all aspects of the game and Taylor had a great time.

After the lesson, Jordan and I had a ‘catch’ and talked about how much

we liked working with Taylor and how good the two of us were working together.

“We can make this our summer business,” Scioli exclaimed — “choose our own hours, make money and love it!’”

Nogg had his doubts.

“There’s no risk!” Scioli insisted. ”We don’t have to buy anything — we already have all the equipment we need!”

Two days after Taylor’s lesson, See Sportscape page 3

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Spirit of Federation

Continued from page 1 “You couldn’t find a better role model in our community than Jeff Kirshenbaum. When he is asked to take a leadership role, he does not say no. Growing up in Jewish Omaha, Jeff understands the importance of leading a Jewish life in Omaha. He is willing to tackle the hard issues and always listens to community members. Jeff is reliable and lives up to his promises.

If Jeff says that he will get the job done, you know he will!”

Not surprising, both Nancy and Jeff credit their parents and families for being role models and instilling a love of the Jewish community and for offering the inspiration to step up and lend their talents and energy to ensuring a strong Jewish community here in Omaha.

Jeff says his parents have always been very active in the Jewish community so he grew up in that environment. “I grew up, not with the expectation, but with knowing how important it

is to be an active member of the community.”

Nancy describes the Federation as a “support beam” that pulls us together. “If people come to learn about it, they’re going to find out there’s so much here. I can work out here. I can take classes here. My kids can do a million things here. I can join my friends here. I can listen to a lecture here. I can go to the Jewish Film Festival here. The Federation houses so many important things to me.”

“I hope I can inspire people to be active and as excited as I am about our Federation and our Jewish community. I’d like to spark an interest in others and inspire others to follow and work together!”

Congratulations to both Nancy and Jeff for this well-deserved honor. The Jewish Federation of Omaha is better because of the work you do and your commitment to cultivate a thriving, welcoming and inclusive Jewish Community.

2022 Annual Supreme Court Review STEVEN FREEMAN ADL Vice President, Civil Rights In this unprecedented year, you are not alone in wondering what’s going on at the Supreme Court. The decisions of these nine justices and their particular perspectives are grabbing headlines and shaping our national discussions.

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lysts Dahlia Lithwick, Erwin Chemerinsky, Gregory G. Garre, Frederick Lawrence and Melissa Murray discussing the important cases of the term including voting rights, church-state separation, reproductive rights and immigration. They will also discuss the impact of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Court and what to expect next term.

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IN THE NEWS Emily (Newman) MacNabb graduated with her Doctor of Philosophy in Public Administration with an emphasis in Emergency Management May 13, 2022, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Newman received her BS from UNO in 2014 and her MS from UNO in 2015.

Her dissertation research was “Social Vulnerability and Trust in Government Disaster Response.

The Case of a PotenDr. Emily (Newman) MacNabb with her tial Flood Event mother Dr. Patricia Newman, Dr. Robert in a MetropoliNewman (brother), Martin MacNabb. tan Area.”

Emily is married to Martin MacNabb. She is the daughter of Dr. Patricia Newman and daughter-in-law of Kaffi and Jim MacNabb.

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Failed vote threatens Bennett government RON KAMPEAS JTA A vote that would maintain the extension of Israeli law to Jewish West Bank settlers failed in the Knesset, threatening Naftali Bennett’s fragile government.

The vote Monday to extend the “Judea and Samaria” law lost 58-52. The law, expiring at the end of this month, must be extended every five years.

Failure to extend the statutes would render chaotic the status of Jewish Israeli Prime Minister Naftali settlers and, more broadly, Bennett Credit: Abir Sultan/Pool/ Israeli-Palestinian relations. AFP via Getty Images Most Knesset members back the law, which facilitates Israel’s ability to run separate administrative systems, one for Israelis and one for Palestinians in the West Bank.

But Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister Bennett ousted in elections last year, instructed his Likud Party and other right-wing backers to vote against the extension to force a crisis in which he would replace Bennett. A right-wing coalition led by Netanyahu would handily pass the law.

Bennett controls just 60 of the 120 Knesset seats, and two of his coalition members, from the left, voted against the extension, because they oppose the dual system, which favors Israelis, in the West Bank.

The law, based on emergency statutes passed after the 1967 Six-Day War, circumvents international laws restricting the extension of an occupier’s legal system into occupied territory.

A briefing circulated Tuesday by the Israel Democracy Institute outlined some of the consequences if the law is not renewed. Israeli courts would no longer enforce debt claims in the West Bank and settlers would lose the right to file claims in Israeli courts on inherited West Bank property. Keeping Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails would no longer be legal.

The crisis comes ahead of a visit by President Joe Biden slated to take place next month. Biden is invested in keeping Bennett in power, in part because of longstanding tensions between Netanyahu and Biden’s Democratic Party.

Sportscape Continued from page 1 their friend Evan Kugler was helping them create a website.

The plan was to make flyers and go door-to-door talking to people. Nogg was still skeptical. “Mom and I thought it was sort of weird,” he said, “but Joe insisted it was worth a try.

“Joe’s very first knock was at the new neighbors across the street. He knocked on the door and the dad answered. Joe gave him the whole pitch.”

“I was nervous,” Scioli confessed. “He was probably going to shut me down. But then he goes, ‘Oh, I have kids. My son loves sports, and he could use a good coach. I’ll shoot you a text tomorrow!’”

And that’s how Sportscape started. “Our first customer ended up to be our biggest customer,” Nogg noted. “That kid came three or four times a week, and he got better at everything. We took a video of his first swing and then his most recent. The difference was huge.”

By the end of last summer, Sportscape had 10 clients.

Friends talked to friends, parents helped spread the word and the guys hung flyers at nearby ballparks. “We didn’t expect an instant reaction, but we found that parents needed and wanted it for their kids,” said Scioli. “They trusted us.”

And with good reason. Just ask first customer Matt Dwyer.

“We moved next to Noggs a couple years ago,” said Dwyer.

“My son Miles was seven, a sports fanatic and a natural athlete. Sportscape was a perfect fit. They worked on whatever sport Miles was working on at the time — batting, fielding, throwing and pitching; played basketball together, and ran pass routes in football.

“The minute I watched them interact, I could see Joe and Jordan had a lot of athletic ability themselves, knew the fundamentals and how to play the game. They’re a great match for Miles and not just as athletes. They’re good, honest kids who are kind, patient and positive role models. Sportscape gives Miles a chance to play with experienced teenage athletes (close to his age) who he respects.

“I was impressed with how much Joe and Jordan really wanted to help younger athletes improve their game,” Dwyer recalled.

“They’re kind, not abrasive or cocky. They communicate well with parents and run a responsible business. Miles gets super excited when he knows it’s Joe and Jordan time, and as parents we, too, look forward to another summer with Sportscape!”

Scioli and Nogg both excel in their sport of choice. For Joe, it’s baseball. He’s played with major select teams like the Omaha Pacesetters and Elkhorn Prime Red, the highest level of play in Omaha. Scioli has also played basketball at Westside Middle School, the Jewish Community Center and for the Westside Warriors.

Jordan excelled in baseball, as well — three years for the Suburban Stampede, three years for the Omaha Warriors and one year for Westside. But his first love is basketball. He currently plays on the summer basketball team at the Jewish Community Center and was a member of the 25-0 Westside freshman basketball team, champions of the Metro Freshman Tournament in 2021.

But what do they know about running a business? Plenty.

Nogg took an Honors Business Class at Westside and Scioli took a business class on Zoom taught by a professor from the Heider Business School at Creighton.

And if you ask them — Why Sportscape? — the two, young entrepreneurs fire back. “We have first-hand experience, we’re mobile and we really care about these kids!”

“We have a personal connection to our kids,” added Scioli.

“We’re closer in age. They like interacting with high school kids especially athletes. We want them to get better, and they know it. If I see they’re doing something wrong, I just have to fix it.”

“We know what mistakes to correct because we’re currently playing the game,” Nogg continued. “Things change in the game, the mechanics change. We know what today’s players need to know more than a parent coach who hasn’t played since he or she was eight.”

“And we’re mobile,”Scioli repeated, “we can go anywhere.

Sometimes we’ll both go to a lesson for one kid. Even in a professional training facility, the ratio is never like that!”

“I’m still playing basketball and Joe’s still playing baseball,” Nogg noted. “We’re a great resource for each other. We’re good talking to adults and good talking to kids. We both do well in school. Joe knows when to be strict when a kid needs to refocus.

I’m a little more laid back. We’re a great team with a lot to offer and look forward to another successful season with Sportscape.”

In case you’re interested, Sportscape also offers a Party Package.

Kari Tauber hired Sportscape to run her 11-year-old son Taylor’s (not to be confused with Taylor Nogg’s) birthday party.

“It was the ‘instant cool factor,” said Tauber, “young kids playing basketball with high school athletes — fun for the kids and super easy for me. Sportscape comes to your house so you don’t have to deal with driving to a commercial venue with all the party goods, parking, reserving courts or sharing the space with a lot of other people.”

The Sportscape duo put together a 3 vs. 3 tournament for the party, “It was very organized and well thought out,” Tauber said. “They even created a bracket for the tournament. Jordan and Joe were referees with not one contested call. The game was competitive but fun. Even when it was down to the last two teams, everyone else was cheering them on.

“Jordan and Joe brought a good energy to the party. They were personable and professional. They kept everyone entertained, the kids had a great time, and the hour with Sportscape was definitely the highlight of the party!”

“We had as much fun as the kids,”said Nogg.

“And we’re offering it again this year as a birthday party or just for fun,” added Scioli, “— like a neighborhood party or around a holiday. It’s something really special for kids.”

And that, sports fans, defines Sportscape … “something really special for kids.”

Sportscape is open to all kids ages 4-12. One lesson/one athlete/one hour is $25 an hour and $10 for each additional athlete in the same hour. Sportscape has a company Instagram and can be found on Yelp. To sign up or for more information, contact Joe (402.999.6997) or Jordan (531.301.0528).

Josephus Flavius Continued from page 1 Josephus lured the mercenaries out of their fortified camp, and then signaled his forces to emerge from his two positions, thus springing the ambush. Unfortunately, Josephus’ horse fell in the swampy terrain, and he was injured and had to be removed. His forces were dispirited and returned to their camps. The next day Sulla attacked those camps, but reinforcements sent by boat from the city of Tiberias led Sulla to withdraw to his fortified camp. However, Josephus’ forces then dispersed and Sulla continued blockading the rebels until the Roman legionnaires conquered Gamla a year later.

The exploration conducted by the team additionally found a settlement that dated from the Iron Age, that was later occupied during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

Behind this settlement were several walled enclosures that were perfect for a military encampment.

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There were quite a number of years when I was growing up when I saw my paternal grandparents on a weekly basis.

My mother was gradually earning her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the City Univer- TEDDY sity of New York, and WEINBERGER my grandparents would often babysit. Grandpa Nathan was an extremely quiet individual, but Grandma Rose spoke freely to us children in her heavily accented English. For years I had had this idea that had Grandma Rose spoken to us in the language in which she had communicated with her own children, I would have been fluent in Yiddish by the time I reached high school. As a grandfather, I think differently. My thinking now is that had my grandmother spoken to me exclusively in Yiddish, I simply would not have understood her.

My two oldest grandchildren have reached an age where they speak full sentences: Noam turned three in November and Yehuda in April. Noam is exposed to both English and Hebrew at home, as my son Nathan tries to speak with him in English; whereas Yehuda is growing up solely with one language, as my son Elie speaks only Hebrew with him. This makes sense because Nathan is our oldest-he was nine and a half when we moved here in the summer of 1997, and Elie, our youngest child, was not even three years old when we made aliyah. When I speak with Yehuda, unless the context is obvious, there is no chance that he will understand my English. For example, if I ask Yehuda if he had fun in kindergarten, he will not react to my words.

Interestingly, he will not say to me, “Saba, I do not understand what you are saying.” He will just not react. It’s almost as if my English words are some kind of background music.

And so, if I want Yehuda to understand me, I have to speak with him in Hebrew. It’s true, I

could perform this grand experiment where I absolutely only spoke English to Yehuda, and then in a dozen years or so, we could see if he had learned any English from me. I am unwilling to conduct this experiment because one thing is for sure: my relationship with Yehuda would be impaired because of it. In practice, I try doubling as much as possible; i.e., after speaking a sentence in Hebrew, I immediately give its English translation.

With Noam, things are somewhat different.

He knows what “English” is, he knows that there are different words in English for Hebrew words, and he knows some of these English words. Still, he will never spontaneously speak in English, and if I want to be more of a grandfather than English-language instructor to him, I feel a need to speak in Hebrew-though here too I will often immediately give the English translation, hoping that that accomplishes something.

When Sarah and I were raising our children in Givat Ze’ev, we only spoke to them in English because that is our native tongue, and it was in our native tongue that we could most easily build a relationship with our children.

Precisely because our grandchildren are growing up in exclusively (or close to it) Hebrew environments, the way to build a relationship with them is through Hebrew.

Postscript: I always thought that I would like to be “Grandpa” rather than “Saba”; however, “Grandpa” has lost the battle for two reasons: it is not a Hebrew word, and due to the “r,” it’s a tough word for a native-Hebrew speaker to pronounce. Do I want to absolutely insist that my grandchildren call me Grandpa rather than Saba? No. It’s enough that they experience the meaning of this English word with every fiber of their being: LOVE. Teddy Weinberger, Ph.D., made aliyah with his wife, former Omahan Saraj Jane Ross, and their five children, Nathan, Rebecca, Ruthie, Ezra, and Elie, all of whom are veterans of the Israeli Defense Forces; Weinberger can be reached at weinross@gmail.com.

Five Jewish questions about the Jan. 6 committee hearings, answered

Aaron Mostofsky, a supporter of President Donald Trump, broke into the U.S. Capitol with other rioters, Jan. 6, 2021. Credit: Saul LoebAFP via Getty Images

RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON | JTA The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is about to tell a story, and it comes with a warning: Some parts might be unsettling to Jews.

The committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, began primetime hearings June 10. There will be more hearings held intermittently through

September.

The goal is to chronicle the events leading up to the riot and suggest ways for it never to happen again. The committee has conducted over a thousand interviews and has tens of thousands of pages of documents in hand.

Many of their revelations have already leaked to the media.

“People must pay attention,” the committee’s lead Republican, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, See Jan 6 committee hearings page 5

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Jan. 6 committee hearings Continued from page 4 told CBS this week. “People must watch, and they must understand how easily our democratic system can unravel if we don’t defend it.”

Cheney has also in recent weeks suggested antisemitism and white supremacy will feature in the committee’s narrative of the plotting. A number of neo-Nazi and conspiracy theory-aligned groups attended the riot.

Cheney, a pro-Israel stalwart, and Adam Kinzinger, the only other Republican on the committee, have effectively been cut off from the rest of the party for agreeing to serve on the commission. Cheney said that the House’s GOP leader, Kevin McCarthy, has resisted the work of the committee because he caters to extremists and antisemites.

Here are five Jewish angles to watch for as the hearings unfold.

IS ANTISEMITISM ON THE DOCKET? The first session will present a timeline of the events leading up to the riot, and it appears as if the Proud Boys, a far-right organization, will feature prominently. One scheduled witness is Nick Quested, a documentarian who was embedded with the group. Notably, the Justice Department won an indictment against five members of the group for sedition.

The charge is rare.

The Proud Boys has had leaders in the past who have denied the Holocaust and who organized the deadly neo-Nazi march in Charlotteville, Virginia, in 2017. Trump appeared to encourage the group’s disruptive tactics in presidential debates.

political break with Trump — who says the committee’s work is fraudulent and aimed at keeping him from running in 2024 — looks to be pretty firm.

Protesters who claim to be members of the Proud Boys gather with other supporters of President Donald Trump to protest outside the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. Credit: Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

WHAT ABOUT THE JEWISH RIOTERS, AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW? If the committee succeeds in casting the insurrection as an event spurred in part by bigotry, the decision of those Jews who participated in the riot, in the protests beforehand and in defending Trump — will likely once again draw community scrutiny. Still, these pro-Trump players were relatively marginal and likely will not feature during the hearings.

REMEMBER JARED AND IVANKA? THEY’RE BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT. Kushner, Trump’s Jewish son-in-law and former top adviser, and Ivanka testified to the commission, and there are reports that video excerpts of their testimony will feature.

Most of Trump’s other top former and current advisers have refused to testify. Kushner and Ivanka’s agreement to do so signals their

ARE THERE JEWS ON THE COMMITTEE? Of the seven Democrats on the nine-member committee, three are Jewish. Two of them will be reprising their leading roles in Trump’s two impeachments: Adam Schiff of California was the lead prosecutor in impeaching Trump for seeking to solicit election assistance from Ukraine, and Jamie Raskin of Maryland led the impeachment for Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 events.

Also on the committee is Elaine Luria of Virginia, a Navy veteran, and one of a group of moderate Democrats who in 2019 were in-

strumental in launching the first Trump impeachment, and faced down angry questions from constituents as a result.

WHAT’S THE JEWISH JAN. 6 LEGACY SO FAR? It’s not an exaggeration to say that the Trump presidency and the extremist violence that manifested during it reshaped Jewish organizational priorities. The committee’s findings could consolidate some of the turns organizations have taken. The Anti-Defamation League, for example, is party to a lawsuit that seeks to cripple the Proud Boys and another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, for their role in planning the insurrection.

This story was edited for length. Read the full article at www.omahajewishpress.com.

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Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile CNAAN LIPHSHIZ JTA As the head of a large European rabbinical group, Pinchas Goldschmidt regularly travels in and out of Moscow, where he has worked since 1993 as the city’s chief rabbi.

But when he left most recently, two weeks after Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine, he did so without a firm plan to return. And now he is officially working in exile after coming under pressure by Russian authorities to support the war, according to his daughter-in-law.

“Can finally share that my in-laws, Moscow Chief Rabbi @PinchasRabbi & Rebbetzin Dara Goldschmidt, have been put under pressure by authorities to publicly support the ‘special operation’ in Ukraine — and refused,” Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt tweeted on Tuesday.

Chizik-Goldschmidt, a journalist who lives in New York City, shared a report from the French newspaper Le Figaro that detailed her father-in-law’s experience, which included a fundraising stint in Western Europe followed by a visit with his own father in Israel, where he remains today.

Contacted by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Goldschmidt declined to comment or to answer questions about whether he believes that he will return to Russia, where he was reelected as the leader of the Moscow Choral Synagogue June 7.

Goldschmidt has not been a vocal critic of the war, though Le Figaro reported that he was sufficiently concerned about it that he reached out to rabbis in neighboring Moldova in mid-February, days before Russia invaded Ukraine, to warn of a potential flood of refugees.

Other top rabbis in Russia, including the country’s chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, have stayed in the country even after criticizing the war.

But Goldschmidt’s status in Russia has already been shaken by politics in the past.

In 2005, Goldschmidt, who has had a presence in Moscow

since 1989, was suddenly denied entry into the country. It took several weeks before he was allowed back in. Authorities gave no official explanation as to the denial of entry, but some officials made unspecified references to “national security issues.”

Swiss-born Goldschmidt was eventually allowed to enter Moscow, but the trajectory of his career increasingly centered on Western Europe. He has served as the head of the Conference of European Rabbis since 2011.

An exterior view of Moscow Choral Synagogue, one of the main synagogues in Russia and in the former Soviet Union.

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According to the Jerusalem Post, Goldschmidt is staying in Israel. The Ashkenazi and Sephardi chief rabbis of Israel, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, wrote a letter to leaders of Russian Jewish communities asking them to respect Goldschmidt’s authority even though he is “unable to stay in his congregation,” the Post revealed Tuesday.

“The rabbinic court he headed continues to operate under his guidance and provides a proper response to those in need,” they wrote.

Back in Moscow, Lazar’s Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has set itself apart from other religious groups in its

open opposition to the war.

Lazar himself wrote in a statement: “Stop the madness so that no more people die.” And he criticized Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, for saying Adolf Hitler was of Jewish descent. (The unfounded claim was Lavrov’s attempt to draw analogies between the leader of Nazi Germany and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish.)

“It would be nice if he apologized to the Jews and simply admitted that he was mistaken,” Lazar wrote about Lavrov.

It was an unusual rebuke by Lazar, who is widely thought of as enjoying strong ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin and a member of the dictator’s inner circle.

The fact that it happened in the context of the Ukrainian war, which has touched off a witch hunt against supposed traitors in both countries, only further highlighted the tensions around this issue.

This attitude by Lazar’s organization is markedly different to the line taken by the Russian Orthodox Church, whose head bishop, Patriarch Kirill, is a vocal supporter of Putin’s campaign in Ukraine.

Heads of Russian Muslim groups, representing millions of congregants, have also endorsed the war, including Talgat Tajuddin, the head of the Central Spiritual Muslim Board of Russia, Ismail Berdiyev, the head of the Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus, and Albir Krganov, the head of the Spiritual Assembly of Muslims of Russia.

Both Lazar and Goldschmidt have confirmed that thousands of Jews have left Russia since the war broke out. In an interview with Deutsche Welle last week, Goldschmidt said a “very significant part” of Russian Jewry, which had 155,000 members according to a 2020 demographic survey, had left and that another “significant part were thinking of leaving.”

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Gabe Kapler is following in the footsteps of other Jewish activist athletes JACOB GURVIS JTA Gabe Kapler likes going against the grain.

The 46-year-old Jewish manager of the San Francisco Giants is relatively young for a professional coach. He’s active on social media and writes his own blog. He’s a fitness geek with a unique diet and very Jewish tattoos. ESPN recently deemed him “the most interesting man in baseball.”

And in 2020, amid racial justice protests across sports, Kapler became the first Major League Baseball manager to kneel during the anthem.

ALY RAISMAN STANDS UP AND SPEAKS OUT ON ABUSE The 2012 Olympics were huge for Jewish gymnast Aly Raisman. She won a gold medal while performing to Hava Nagila on the way to becoming one of the most accomplished gymnasts in U.S. history.

The Boston-area native had also advocated for the Olympics to hold a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed in the 1972 Munich Games. That ultimately happened — nearly a decade later, in 2021.

Raisman’s advocacy didn’t stop there. As details emerged about the years-long pattern of sexual abuse by U.S. Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar, Raisman became one of the most vocal athletes in the groundswell of accusations and personal testimonies, as a harsh critic of both U.S. Gymnastics and the U.S. Olympic Committee. She emerged from the trauma and the court case as a national hero for girls and women and has remained an advocate for systemic changes in the Olympics and sports overall.

Aly Raisman testifies during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General’s report on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill, Sept. 15, 2021.

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Gabe Kapler kneels during the playing of the National Anthem prior to a game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, July 31, 2020.

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So it was not shocking to some that in the wake of the deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Kapler announced last week that he would begin skipping the pregame national anthem to protest the “state of this country.”

“When I was the same age as the children in Uvalde, my father taught me to stand for the pledge of allegiance when I believed my country was representing its people well or to protest and stay seated when it wasn’t,” Kapler wrote on his blog. “I don’t believe it is representing us well right now.”

While some of Kapler’s tendencies have earned him the reputation of an outsider, his political activism follows a path paved by American Jewish athletes for decades before him, from World War II and the Holocaust to more recent fights for equal pay in sports.

Here are some examples, from then and now, of Jewish advocacy in the sports world.

1936 BERLIN OLYMPICS The 1936 Olympic Games were held in Berlin in 1936, two years after Adolf Hitler had ascended to power and well into his antisemitic campaign. German Jewish athletes were banned from competing, and many saw participation in the Olympics as an endorsement of Hitler and the Nazi regime. In August 1934, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported about calls for Jews not to compete.

“My advice to the athletes and others of world Jewry is not only not to compete but to keep as far away as possible from any form of participation in the Olympic Athletic Games to be held in Berlin in 1936,” said Samuel Untermyer, president of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, an organization that advocated for economic boycotts of Nazi Germany — and later infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

“Out of decent consideration for their race, it is unthinkable that any self-respecting Jew could accept the hospitality of a country that persists in so insulting, degrading and persecuting our people.”

In October 1935, JTA reported on the mounting pressure, from both Jews and non-Jews, for a boycott of the Olympics, including from prominent faith leaders and politicians.

But while some Jewish athletes skipped the games, several Jews would compete — and medal — in Berlin. The Nazis convinced most of the world to participate as well.

A PUSH FOR RACIAL EQUALITY When Morrie Arnovich enlisted in the U.S. army in 1942, his greatest impact arguably came on the baseball diamond.

Arnovich was assigned to Fort Lewis, Washington, where he would play for and manage the base’s baseball team. It was there that he fielded a fully diverse, integrated team — before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier a few years later. Arnovich’s leadership caught the attention of then-MLB commissioner Happy Chandler.

That same year, Sam Nahem also managed and pitched on an integrated team while serving in the military.

“I was in a strange position. The majority of my fellow ballplayers, wherever I was, were very much against black ballplayers, and the reason was economic and very clear,” Nahem told J. The Jewish News of Northern California years later. “They knew these guys had the ability to be up there; and they knew their jobs were threatened directly and they very, very vehemently did all sorts of things to discourage black ballplayers.”

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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Honestly, my plan this week was to write an optimistic message. Something light, potentially even fluffy. Who among us is in the mood for any more heavy? The news, as always, is going from bad to worse; between the ongoing war in Ukraine, mass shootings in the US, the January 6 hearings and ongoing pandemic trouble, there is enough tsuris going around. But then I learned about the “Mapping Project.”

“A Jewish arts group,” Andrew Lapin wrote for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last week. “A Jewish high school. A Jewish newspaper. A synagogue network.

A major Jewish philanthropy that directs funds to mental health, homelessness prevention and refugee resettlement initiatives. These are a few of the locations on a dense interactive map of “Zionist leaders and powerhouse NGOs” in Massachusetts created by an activist group that says it aims to expose “local institutional support for the colonization of Palestine” and reveal how support for Zionist causes is a nexus point for various “other harms” in society, ranging from gentrification to the prison-industrial complex to ableism.

“The Mapping Project, a Boston-area pro-Palestinian activist collective aligned with the local Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, is using its map (which includes addresses of the organizations and names of their staffers) to draw literal links between dozens of area Jewish groups, universities, foundations, police departments and other organizations.”

That the BDS movement keeps a list is not news.

Seeing it in map-form feels a lot more threatening.

Why is that? The goal of the project, according to the collective, is “to demonstrate that “institutional support for the colonization of Palestine is structurally tied to policing and systemic white supremacy here where we live, and to US imperialist projects in other countries.”

different than condoning violence. Let’s face it, finding yourself on a map like this, it would give all of us pause, no? It doesn’t advance discourse, but maybe discourse isn’t what these people want.

Maybe what they want is to extend an invitation to violence. After all, the purpose of a map is to guide the user in a certain direction. We all know when you do this, someone somewhere might be paying attention and decide to act on their baser instincts.

And that brings us to the third reason this is just plain wrong: it’s bully behavior, and when some of the entities and persons on that map are teen organizations and high schools, it becomes all the more worrisome. I guarantee you there are people in the BDS camp who sent throughts and prayers to Uvalde, while at the same time painting a target on Jewish kids’ backs.

A map of purported connections between Jewish groups and other Admittedly, part of the reason I’m organizations in Massachusetts created by progressive activist so cranky is because the BDS movegroup The Mapping Project, which says its goal is to map ‘institument always manages to get under tional support for the colonization of Palestine.’ Credit: Screenshot my skin. I wish they didn’t, I wish I This is problematic for a variety of reasons. could ignore them, but none of us really have that First of all, using terms like ‘colonization,’ ‘impe- luxury. It’s not only the organizations in Massarialist’ and ‘white supremacy’ to describe Jewish or- chussets who need to worry about this. We all need ganizations simply repeats –and makes use of-- a to pay attention, because the consequences can be dangerous old trope: ‘The Jews are in charge.’ so dire.

Second, singling out people, institutions and orAnyone who’s ever spent more than five minutes ganizations you disagree with, no matter the rea- on the playground knows: bullying is easy. Stopping son, and putting them on an actual map, is no a bully, that’s an entirely different matter.

Jewish environmental thought is not ready for the climate crisis.

DAVID ZVI KALMAN JTA Smoke from California’s fires is regularly bad enough to tint the sun on the other side of the country. Pakistan and India just experienced a devastating heat wave. In the Middle East, temperatures have risen by 1.5 degrees Celsius, more than twice the global average. Climate change, and its punishing effects, are here, and getting worse, yet Jewish thinking and advocacy on climate change are still stuck in prevention mode. The Jewish organizations that have blossomed to meet the political moment, not to mention the rabbis, activists and rank-andfile Jews who are engaged on this issue, are largely focused on one bottom line: Judaism demands that we care for the planet before it is too late.

This sentiment remains important and I support it, but it cannot be the only Jewish message for the moment. This is because “we,” the Jewish people are likely powerless to affect the environment on a scale that would make a difference. It is also because, whether we like it or not, it is too late. As a scholar interested in the Jewish future and as a member of a research team devoted to Judaism and the natural world, I believe it is time to expand our understanding of what “Jewish environmental thought” can be.

The problems with mainstream Jewish approaches to addressing climate change, which scientists say is rapidly approaching a breaking point, are twofold.

First, unlike many other environmental problems, climate change can’t be meaningfully curtailed through individual behavior; for better or worse, it is primarily in the hands of national governments and the energy sectors that they regulate.

In the United States, it is largely for the worse: Legislative deadlock and the current Supreme Court’s deregulatory impulses make it hard to imagine tighter regulations on emissions, and domestic political polarization severely hampers America’s ability to exert influence over the 85% of global emissions that are produced outside its borders.

These realities undermine much Jewish thinking on climate change. Rabbis can tell their congregants that they should care for the planet until they’re blue in the face, but if their ideas are to be greeted with something other than a nod of agreement, a wistful sigh, and eventual indifference, they cannot

solely focus on the possibility of political change.

Second, the “it’s too late” piece is harder to hear.

Even if humanity radically changes its ways in the next decade, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says it must, disasters aggravated by climate change are already here, and many people, especially young people operate under the assumption that they will get worse. Despite this, messages from Jewish leaders largely continue to focus on prevention, frequently insinuating in the process that climate catastrophe is on us if we fail to act.

Such messages were appropriate in the 1980s, when disaster merely loomed on the horizon. Now, however, this line of thinking will increasingly be heard as nothing more than a grand “I told you so.”

A man walking on cracked saltpan land scorched by heat waves in Mumbai, India, May 15, 2022. Credit: Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

We can address both of these problems by expanding our conception of what Jewish environmental thought is supposed to be. Even as we continue to push for sensible climate policy, we must make realistic plans to greet the future, as well.

Rather than doubling down on messages of prevention and personal responsibility, hoping to achieve a better result perhaps by being more emphatic about it, Jewish environmentalism must help people adapt to the stresses of our warmer world, offer consolation to those who are mourning the one that we are losing, and prevent us from treating the present climate as “normal” by reminding us of the truly normal climate that will soon be out of living memory.

The Jewish tradition is already well suited for these tasks. As examples: rabbinic Judaism’s central narrative about moral failure leading to the loss of a land bears a striking similarity to the contemporary climate crisis, and the long process by which

all types of Judaism dealt with that tragedy speaks to its ability to reinvent itself around a story of loss and recovery, a story which has served it well through other periods of persecution. In terms of memorializing tragedy, Jewish tradition continues to commemorate events that took place more than two millennia ago, and the imperative to never forget continues to be highly motivating.

An expanded Jewish environmentalism also offers us the chance to reconsider a basic question: is this line of thinking for the benefit of the world, or just for other Jews? While politically minded environmental thought is strongly incentivized to spread universal messages, it does so by focusing on stories that Christians and Muslims will find relatable, Adam being charged with stewarding the world, Noah and the flood and ignoring a much larger set of stories and ideas that are particular to Jewish tradition. The proposed new kinds of thinking might ironically be better capable of speaking specifically to Jewish interests, developing ideas about how to adapt to a changed planet that draw from the particulars of Jewish history.

Shifting Jewish environmental thought in this direction is not without its risks. As with any strategy that takes climate change to be inevitable, this line of thought could be accused of propagating a dangerous fatalism and sapping environmental activism of its energy. The risks are serious, but Jewish educators and leaders must understand that new ideas are crucial because environmental fatalism has already become the accepted wisdom. Many young people already assume that their entire lives will play out in a world of radical climatic decay, and this plays a powerful dampening effect in their ambitions to change even non-environmental aspects of the world. Jewish environmental thought, like the environment, is out of time. It is time to embrace this reality and think about the subject anew.

David Zvi Kalman is the scholar in residence and director of new media at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America and the owner of Print-o-Craft Press. He holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

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

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In a first, Israeli government to pay Orthodox women to advise on Jewish law RON KAMPEAS JTA In a first, Israel will pay 21 women to be advisers on Jewish law in the Orthodox community, a concept that has spread in the United States but that Israel’s Orthodox establishment has resisted.

Matan Kahana, the deputy religious services minister, said in a release Thursday he will hire the women for “communities across Israel” this year.

Women advisers on halacha, or Jewish law, have flourished in recent years in the United States, where there has been a demand among women for counseling on issues considered too sensitive to bring to a male rabbi.

The rabbinic establishment in Israel has resisted the concept, saying that certification may be seen as a form of ordination, which is prohibited for

women across almost all of Orthodoxy. Polling in Israel has nonetheless shown that there is a demand for the service among Orthodox women, and the institute founded by Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, who died last year, and his wife Chana to train and certify “Yoatzot Halacha” is based in Jerusalem.

Kahana has become known for his efforts to accommodate nonOrthodox and more liberal Orthodox Jewish practices, and has come under fire from extremists In a 2009 photo, A yoetzet halachah, or Jewish legal counselor, anfor doing so. swers a hotline for women with questions relating to Jewish laws on sex and intimacy. Credit: Nishmat

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Life cycles IN MEMORIAM DOLORES SIEGEL GOODMAN Dolores Siegel Goodman passed away on June 5, 2022, at age 89. Services were held June 7, 2022, at Beth El Cemetery, 84th & L Streets.

She was preceded in death by parents, Dorothy and Earl Siegel.

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CORRECTION In our June 3, 2022 edition, we published photos from the Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest awards ceremony. We identified the award recipients as well as Carl Frohm Memorial Foundation Trustee Harold Mann, but neglected to identify Kathy McGauvran, who is also a Trustee of the Carl Frohm Memorial Foundation. The Jewish Press regrets the error.

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Catching up with the Institute for Holocaust Education

SCOTT LITTKY Executive Director, IHE Over the last few months, IHE has had the honor to do work ranging from celebrating the winners of our annual essay contest, to attending the Anne Frank Tree Planting in Iowa City.

The 2022 Tribute to the Rescuers Essay Contest was a successful endeavor, which saw over 250 submissions. This year, our awardees ranged from Omaha to Grand Island, and students from private to public schools. We are grateful for another successful year, and the generosity of the Carl Frohm Memorial Foundation for making the contest possible.

In April, IHE was pleased to host the Art and the Holocaust reception for the community. Over 1000 students participated in the programing this year and hundreds of attendees came to the reception to honor and celebrate the wonderful work of the students.

The 2022 Yom HaShoah program was held on April 27, in the Theatre of the Jewish Community Center. This year, we welcomed Dr. Gerald Steinacher as the Yom HaShoah speaker, who presented Secrets of the Vatican Archives: The Nazis, the Holocaust, and the Pope.

On Friday, April 29 Iowa City became the 13th home in the United States to a sapling from the tree outside Anne Frank’s annex in Amsterdam. IHE staff members Kael Sagheer and Ariel O’Donnell were fortunate enough to be in attendance at the moving and powerful planting ceremony.

The Searching for Humanity: Veterans, Victims and Survivors of World War II exhibit tells a powerful story about the Holocaust and those who rescued survivors from concentration camps. Told via photographs, memorabilia and testimony of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and servicemen - the exhibit grapples with the search for humanity during the Holocaust.

This exhibit was curated by the Institute for Holocaust Education and designed by Placzek Studios.

Above: Anne Frank Tree planting in Iowa City, below left: Milton Kleinberg and below right: Nicole Freeman.

Support was provided by the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Education Fund. The exhibit is on permanent loan and available for viewing at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum. This school year, IHE staff guided twelve school groups through the exhibit.

COMING UP: On June 16 at 11:30 a.m. on Zoom, IHE Communications Coordinator, Ariel O’Donnell, will be presenting a discussion

of LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and their experiences during the Holocaust, including the enforcement of Paragraph 175 in the post-Holocaust period. Outside of working for IHE, O’Donnell is a student at the University of Nebraska Omaha where she studies Religion, Philosophy, and Creative Writing. Keep an eye out for her appearance in the Jewish Press/ JFO Local Author Series, as she is the August guest.

On June 21 at 7 p.m., local Holocaust survivor Milton Kleinberg will share parts of his experiences during the Shoah to the community. The event is free and will take place in the Shirley & Leonard Goldstein Community Engagement Venue at the Jewish Community Center in Omaha, Nebraska.

Nicole Freeman, Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, will be welcomed to speak on July 21 via Zoom. Currently, Ms. Freeman is finishing her dissertation on the experiences of child survivors in Poland after the Holocaust. She will be presenting on Jewish children’s experiences during and after the Holocaust and using memoirs as sources in the classroom. This program will take place via Zoom, on July 21 at 11:30 a.m. CST. Finally, on Thursday, Aug. 18, Scott Littky, Executive Director of the Institute for Holocaust Education, will speak about his trip to Poland in July of 2022 as part of the partnership that IHE has with the law school at Creighton University and their Nuremberg to the Hague summer program. This will be Scott’s first trip to Poland, and he will be speaking about the meaning of a trip to Poland as a Holocaust educator. This program will take place via Zoom, on Aug. 18 at 11:30 a.m. CST. The Institute for Holocaust Education provides educational resources, workshops, survivor testimony and integrated arts programming to students, educators and the public. The IHE provides support to Holocaust survivors in our community.

For more information about the IHE or any of its programs, please contact slittky@ihene.org.

RECONNECTING OUR COMMUNITY

TUESDAY

& ANNUAL MEETING

2022

JUNE 28 7PM Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater

Please join us to celebrate our award recipents!

JEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA HUMANITARIANS OF THE YEAR

BRUCE FELLMAN MEMORIAL YOUNG LEADERSHIP AWARD

Gloria and Howard Kaslow

Justin Spooner

PHIL & TERRI SCHRAGER SPIRIT OF FEDERATION AWARDS

LOIS JEANNE SCHRAGER MEMORIAL YOUNG LEADERSHIP AWARD

Nancy Schlessinger Jeff Kirshenbaum

Tamara Draeger

JODY & NEAL MALASHOCK AWARD FOR PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE

Eadie Tsabari

JEWISH FEDERATION COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD

Beth El Synagogue’s Little Free Pantry

AGENCY VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARDS JFO: Jess Cohn ADL-CRC: 70th Anniversary

Event Committee IHE: Sydney Tetrault JCC: Shane Cohn Jewish Press: Andi Goldstein

ROBERT & ELLEN GORDMAN TEEN LEADERSHIP AWARDS

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