June 18, 2021

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Summer is here!

Suicide Prevention Programming KAREN M. GUSTAFSON, MS, NCC, LIMHP Executive Director of Jewish Family Service Almost exclusively, our services have taken on a 1:1 personal approach to anything that we were doing as an agency in the past 15 months. We had one or two virtual programs on mental health, but found that the specific work of suicide prevention was handled much more effectively and safely, in person.

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SAM KRICSFELD Jewish Press Intern Camp 2021 will be truly magical this year. This summer’s theme is Once Upon a Summer, giving campers an assortment of fantastical themes and programs to explore. Campers are bound to have fun embarking on daily adventures focused around

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weekly themes. Kids from kindergarten to 7th grade are welcome to come and enjoy J Camp at the Staenberg Omaha JCC. The J Camp is the only day camp in Omaha to be accredited by the American Camp Association. The ACA accreditation focuses on quality, health, safety, and risk management to provide safe, fun and meaningful See Summer is Here! page 3

Annual HIV/AIDS intervention shows promise

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JOHN KEENAN UNMC Department of Strategic Communications In a new study published today in Nature Communications, a UNMC team of researchers reported on the development of a once-yearly pharmaceutical treatment designed to prevent human immunodeficiency virus type one (HIV-1) transmission.

The study demonstrates, for the first time, the mechanism underpinning

Dr. Yazen Alnouti

Dr. Benson Edagwa

the long-acting drug properties based on its formulation safety, rigor and manufacture reproducibility.

The team developed a prodrug -- or a biologically inactive compound, which is hydrolyzed “broken down” in the body to produce the native active drug -- that demonstrates promising, long-lasting pharmacokinetic profiles in human cells and in animals. The prodrug allows cabotegravir (CAB) --

Dr. Howard Gendelman

a potent HIV-1 drug that blocks the virus from inserting its genetic material into human cells -- to form a depot at the muscle site of injection.

The drug also is stored at tissue sites, including lymphoid tissues, for one year and beyond.

The study results showed an extended apparent half-life for the CAB prodrug, made possible by its slow See Annual HIV intervention page 3

During this time of Zoom counseling sessions only, we were gathering information, researching new materials and talking to possible speakers and authors about coming to Omaha. Please stay tuned for our program announcements coming soon.

If there was a positive that came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the normalization of mental health and that we all have it to varying degrees. Like many things, it’s on a spectrum. Sometimes our mental health is good and sometimes we need help. I hope you’ve seen our daily Facebook posts throughout the month of May for Mental Health Awareness Month. If you haven’t done so already, please follow us on Facebook at https:// www.facebook.com/jfsomaha.

I recently listened to the Apple TV+ series on mental health by Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry, called The Me You Can’t See. If you have access, I highly recommend it.

You will learn about trauma and survival and will hear from some of the world’s experts on the topic of mental health. One woman put it best: “I am not my diagnosis. I am a person first, who struggles with a mental illness. As soon as we begin to treat people that way, we all win.”

While we are gearing up to deliver some very compelling programs, I do want to share with you some community resources: The Kim Foundation is hosting a summer Mental Health Town Hall See Suicide Prevention page 2

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Suicide Prevention Continued from page 1 event on Tuesday, June 22, from 78:15 p.m. via Zoom and is free to attend. To register or to submit a question to the panelists, please visit https://the kimfoundation.org/summer-mental-health-virtual-town-hall-event/ or contact Jill Haupts at jhaupts@the kimfoundation.org.

The Kim Foundation’s annual event, A Time for Hope & Healing, will be held on Nov. 4 with Zak Williams as the speaker.

Zak is the son of the late comedian and actor, Robin Williams. The event will be held at Embassy Suites La Vista Conference Center from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

For more information, visit https:// www.thekimfoundation.org/annu al-event/.

It is known that overdoses from leftover family medication and access to firearms are some of the most lethal causes of death to those that are suicidal. In order to help prevent these tragedies, Region 6 Behavior Health has free medication lock boxes, trigger locks for guns and handgun lock boxes to give out to the community free of charge.

Please contact Crystal Fuller at cfuller @regionsix.com.

For those who do not like traditional therapy services or would like additional services from people who have walked in their shoes, Community Alliance has

a peer services program called Safe Harbors. Go to https://community-allian ce.org/from-agents-of-chaos-to-ag ents-of-recovery/.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is hosting their annual Out of the Darkness walk, making a “live” return in Sept. 2021. Jewish Family Service will be there again! If you would like to join our walking team, please register by clicking “Join our team” here: https://afsp.donordrive. com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donor drive.team&teamID=270440.

JFS will communicate a meeting spot as the event gets closer.

For our upcoming college student and parents, the AFSP-produced film It’s Real: College Students and Mental Health is an 18-minute documentary designed to raise awareness about mental health issues commonly experienced by college students. You can find more information at https://afsp.org/itsreal.

Lastly, this article from UNICEF encourages you to show your teenager love and care, while looking after yourself: Four things you can do to support your teen’s mental health|UNICEF Parenting.

Our greatest challenge right now is keeping up with the enormous amount of information coming out in regard to mental health. I consider this a positive.

I also consider it a privilege to lead JFS in

staying connected and collaborative with many other agencies in Omaha. The agencies and websites listed in this article are phenomenal resources for you to stay up to date. We will continue to communicate Omaha-based programming as we know of it, in addition to programs offered through the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies (NJHSA), of which JFS Omaha is a member.

If JFS can further assist you in any way, please don’t hesitate to call 402.330.2024.

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ORGANIZATIONS B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS The Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith is pleased to announce the resumption of its award-winning speaker program via Zoom. Although the Home auditorium remains temporarily closed, we’ll continue presenting an outstanding lineup of thought-provoking keynoters. Jenny Javitch, Minnesota Founder, Global Game Plan, reveals how you can enjoy visiting sites around the planet, right from the privacy of your own house on Wednesday, June 23, noon. For specific speaker information and/or to be placed on the email list, please contact Breadbreakers chair Gary Javitch at breadbreakersomaha@gmail.com or leave a message at the B’nai B’rith JCC office 402.334.6443.

Progress ahead! I am so pleased to announce that two of our four main bookcases have finally arrived. As you walk straight in the main entrance, you will see the new sleek stacks in the Learning Commons to your right.

Those who attended the JFO Annual Meeting on June 7 were able to get a better sense of the space and noted how great it was to see shelves full of JENNIE GATES books again! As with all good things, BECKMAN there is still work to be done. After we JFO Director of welcome the final two custom book- Community Engagement & cases we will start to fill in little nooks Education and crannies with additional shelving.

We’ll also be working on better signage over the summer to assist community members in finding books that align with their interests.

As I have mentioned before, you can always reach out to our library specialist Shirly Banner, with specific questions or to request guidance. If you are here to browse the collection, you can check out your books at the front desk right inside the main entrance. If there are particular titles you’re interested in seeing added to the collection - just reach out and ask! We are constantly adding new titles and welcome community input to guide those purchases.

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Summer is here!

Continued from page 1 camp experiences. The ACA works with experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Red Cross and others to ensure that practices at camps are current and meet their high standards.

Camp staff is carefully chosen and undergoes background checks and drug tests. All staff completes over 25 hours of training in creative programming, group dynamics, child development, conflict resolution, first aid, and CPR. Camp is split into levels: Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd-3rd grade, and 4th-7th grade. Each week between June 7 and Aug. 6 has a different adventurous theme such as Land of Fairy Tales, Jeepers Creepers, Wacky, Wild West, and Mystery Madness. Campers will have jam-packed days that include swimming and sports, as well as all the fun themed activities for the week. Additionally, J Camp offers Before and After Care at a cost for students who need to come earlier and/or stay beyond the camp’s 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. hours.

On top of the weekly J Camp, the Staenberg Omaha JCC offers Summer Fun Days. They are offered the week before camp, the week of the 4th of July, and the week after camp ends. Summer Fun Days are single-day themed camp adventures with themes as varied as Baseball, Red, White & Boom after Independence Day, Generation Appreciation (when campers create cards for Rose Blumkin Jewish Home resi-

dents), and Throw Back Thursday. On Fridays, parents can opt for their campers to have a Pizza Friday at a small cost. Before and After Care are also available during Summer Fun Days.

The JCC also offers Premiere camps. Premiere Youth Camp, for kindergarteners-7th graders, allows campers to explore activities over weeks with themes such as Harry Potter and Bugs & Botanicals. Premiere Sports Camps, for kindergarteners-8th graders, includes sports such as basketball, cheer and dance, soccer, and a mini triathlon with swimming, cycling and running. Premiere Dance Camps will train dancers for a show at the end of their week such as Cinderella and Angelina Ballerina. Premiere Musical Theater Camps will train performers to perform Matilda and Willy Wonka.

For teens in 8th-10th grade, the JCC offers Leaders in Training. Over a two-week session, they will be given leadership training while also building self-confidence and self-worth.

They will learn how to work with kids and understand program planning, and they will assist J Camp counselors and work with campers. If the teen completes the L.I.T training weeks and attends their two-week session, they can earn a $40 stipend.

The J Camp, Summer Fun Days, Premiere camps, and L.I.T will all be filled with fun, engaging, and meaningful experiences and activities that any kid would love. You can find out more at www.jccomaha.org/camp/.

Let’s make this summer a fun one!

Annual HIV intervention Continued from page 1 release from a water-soluble nanocrystal. The prodrug was identified by its slow dissolution from the nanoparticle followed by chemical conversion to a native agent. The enzymatic hydrolysis used, in part, the body’s own enzymes activating at the injection site and tissue stores. These are the same stores that harbor persistent viral infections.

UNMC’s technology transfer office, UNeMed, licensed the technology described in this publication to Exavir Therapeutics for commercial development.

The study, drawing on results from three independent laboratories, found plasma CAB levels stayed high for at least one year after a single dose in animal models. The study also showed sustained native drug concentrations at the muscle injection site and in lymphoid tissues.

The Covance Contract Research Organization conducted the rigor and reproducibility study in collaboration with UNMC’s College of Pharmacy (Yazen Alnouti, PhD) and UNMC’s College of Medicine (Benson Edagwa, PhD, and Howard Gendelman, MD) laboratories and their staff scientists.

“By giving the drug in the form of a crystal, the drug half-life is no longer dependent on the speed the drug is broken down then excreted from the human body,” Dr. Alnouti said. “It is, in contrast, dependent on the release rate from the crystals in the storage sites before being converted into an active form and absorbed into the systemic circulation. The conversion is

a multistep process but still allows the drug to prevent infection for extended times after a single dose.”

“The implications of a year-long antiviral are huge in terms of preventing transmission,” Dr. Edagwa said. “Less frequent dosing is one benefit, but there also will be fewer adverse side effects as a result of frequent life-time dosing. In terms of global health, a once-a-year injectable that prevents disease transmission has huge implications not simply for HIV/AIDS, but other chronic diseases, as well.”

The study follows earlier work by the research team published in 2020.

While CAB has received attention from scientists and patients for both treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, Dr. Gendelman said in the paper, “limitations in dosing volumes, intervals of administration, and local injection site reactions remain. To overcome these, prodrug nanoformulations were developed and are currently undergoing pre-clinical evaluations by our group.”

“This study shows that we are on the path to success,” Dr. Alnouti said. “A once-a-year CAB treatment will have a tremendous impact on medication compliance and greatly ease the lives of people with HIV and AIDS while effectively providing protection against disease transmission.”

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Above and below: After a year off due to Covid, Beth El’s popular Kamp Kef was back in 2021 and better than ever! New this year was the Beth El Bubbie Brigade (pictured with Eadie Tsabari and Amy Dworin). Campers enjoyed the famous Kamp Kef slip-n-slide, arts and crafts, games and of course, celebrating Shabbat! Ezra Blair is pictured below holding the challah he braided at camp.

Top, above, below and bottom: Participants joined the Green Up the Park program with PJ Library Omaha and Jewish Federation of Omaha!

More than 50 volunteers picked up litter in Hefflinger Park using supplies borrowed from Keep Omaha Beautiful, Inc.. They learned about composting from Brent with Hillside Solutions, planted vegetable plants, and set up drip irrigation systems with Friedel’s own Mrs. Barrow. Thank you to everyone who participated!

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Below and right: Residents of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home enjoying the magnificent courtyard.

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The brownies will not help

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor It’s one of the more bizarre things I’ve read about to date: A bake sale to combat anti-Semitism.

I get how anti-Semitism continues to be a massive issue, we have to fight it as hard as we can, we have to educate the ignorant and call it out when we see it, but a bake sale?

“A bake sale to combat anti-Semitism draws high-profile Jewish foodies,” the headline states, “but few non-Jewish allies.”

I am not surprised.

Organizer Whitney Fisch said: “We felt there was such a knee-jerk run to condemn Israel, which allows for anti-Semitism to grow, and to not support anything related to antiSemitism. People seem scared to say they support a Jewish person’s right to live in this world without fear.”

That is an uncomfortable truth. Here’s another one: many non-Jews don’t care. They are convinced they have no personal stake in the matter and they will become bystanders faster than you can say ‘Never Again.’

Let’s face it: in a time when social action has become front and center, when many of us support not just one cause but live in the intesectionality of LGBTQ rights, Black rights, Immigrant rights, Women’s rights, the Jews are low on the list. And let’s not pretend there is a difference between antiZionism and anti-Semitism; in both the US and Europe that line is blurred beyond recognition.

While I agree that we have to do something, I am not convinced an online bake sale is the answer.

Sure, the dollars go to a good cause (a holocaust

museum in Ohio) and anything is better than nothing. I get that. I think what I’m struggling with is the invitations sent to non-Jews which have subsequently been ignored or turned down. Are we, as Jews, just opening the door to being dismissed? I can’t help feeling like being in high school, trying

something is wrong; being in a space with others who get it is a relief. Shabbat dinner is more than ever a time to exhale, to let some of the tension out.

Where do we go from here? I honestly don’t know. I do know we can’t give up. The thing is, we’ve always put a lot of effort into educating others. And perhaps that effort, in certain cases, is wasted because it’s not that people are ignorant from lack of teaching. Perhaps they are ignorant because they want to be, because it’s convenient. After all, when many different groups clamor for equality, who is left to be the scapegoat?

Is it human nature An online bake sale to combat antisemitism has drawn many Jewish participants, to always have one but Daniela Weiner, right, is among the few non-Jews to participate. Sale ad credit: weakest link, one Whitney Fisch; other pictures credit: Weiner sad kid on the playto ask the most popular student on a date and get- ground who is picked last? Is it that humanity just ting laughed out of the room. I feel very unpopular. simply cannot function without having someone Sometimes, what we really need is a space with to step on? What if there is space for all of us, only Jews. A safe space. Constantly trying to con- would that be so bad? vince others we have a right to live is exhausting.

I’m still angry, I still don’t have answers. I’m still And how dangerous is that line of thinking? reeling from the crazy surge of anti-Semtism online Suffice it to say that these past weeks have been over the past weeks. To top it off, I still don’t know hard on all of us. Friends we thought of as allies what to tell my kids. If none of this is new, why does have been silent, or worse. In some cases, family it feel new, and strange, and different? members and acquaintances don’t even notice

It’s more important than ever to show the Israeli people that American Jews stand with them MARK WILF This article was sponsored by and produced in partnership with the Jewish Federations of North America, which represents 146 local Jewish Federations and 300 network communities. This story was produced by JTA's native content team.

Recentlty I arrived back home after leading the first solidarity mission of Jewish leaders from North America to arrive in Israel following Operation Guardian of the Walls and the year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In not much more than 36 hours, our top communal leaders visited Ashkelon and Lod, two of the most impacted communities in Israel during the week of fighting. We also conveyed our message of solidarity and love to Israel’s top leadership.

In the week since our trip, Israel has elected a new president and may have a new “change” coalition coming to power in the Knesset, the wave of antisemitism in North America has grown and our community mobilization to address this challenge has accelerated.

Despite these rapid events – or perhaps because of them – I cannot let us forget what we did or why it is so important.

First, although we may not have walked a mile in their shoes, we did travel thousands of miles to embrace those who suffered loss and trauma, to reaffirm the unshakable bond between the Jews in North America and our brothers and sisters in Israel, and to show the depth of our love and concern.

We must never forget how important it is to show up, and to openly and publicly express our support.

Second, as much as we felt honored to be the first group of senior leaders of the American Jewish community to visit Israel since the COVID pandemic, we also felt deeply our responsibility to be the eyes and ears of those we represent back home.

It was energizing to feel the toughness and vigor of the country and its people, and to convey that spirit back to our home communities.

We were profoundly moved by our encounters

with ordinary Israelis who had dug themselves out stronger than ever from the attacks and the riots. of the rubble but were still coping with the trauma But no matter how resilient Israelis are, it is importhat the conflict had engendered. Even as the tant for them to know that their family — Am Yisstreets and restaurants were bustling and life rael, the people of Israel — are standing together seemed to be returning to normal, we learned that with them at this critical time. It was deeply meanunder the surface, the suffering ran deep.

The house of the director of the partnership between the Jewish communities of Baltimore and Ashkelon was ruined by a direct hit from a missile; it will take at least a year to rebuild. A young mother in the Israel Trauma Center in Ashkelon could not buy balloons for her son’s birthday party because he has been traumatized by the incendiary devices that Hamas floats across the border.

Children cry when they hear music at weddings because loud sounds remind Members of the first solidarity mission of the Jewish Federathem of explosions from rocket and mor- tions of North America in Israel after its May 2021 conflict with tar attacks. In the mixed Arab-Jewish city Hamas in Gaza visit an Iron Dome anti-rocket installation. of Lod, well-intentioned people on both Credit: JFNA sides are still trying to build a shared society de- ingful to be able to express this solidarity and in turn spite the terrible strains that the recent conflict has to receive the love of our Israeli brothers and sisters. caused, even among those who have known each We came away from the mission more unified and other their entire lives. more aware of how much we need each other.

The task of rebuilding is immense. The missiles My parents and grandparents survived the Holothat hit Ramat Gan destroyed more than five dozen caust. It is impossible for me to come to Israel and apartments. The staff in the absorption centers in not think about how the existence of a Jewish state the South have their own post-traumatic stress to at that time might have changed history. overcome. The first responders to the missile attacks, We will never cease to advocate for Israel and for which reached deep into the heart of the country, are her right to defend herself against violent attack. And still struggling with what they had to do and see. we will provide even more opportunities for both In addition to our ongoing support for the organ- Jews and non-Jews to visit Israel and see firsthand, izations that are first responders to these crises, we as we did, what it means to live in the Jewish state. raised an additional $2 million from federations Above all, we need to inspire those back home large and small in just the first few days of the con- with the knowledge of how truly indomitable the flict to help with these extraordinary demands, but spirit of Israel is and always will be. we know there is still so much more to be done.

Mark Wilf is the board chair of the Jewish The news cycle may have moved on, but we Federations of North America. won’t. We will not forget those who have suffered The views and opinions expressed in this article are and need our help. those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the Israel is a strong country, and it will bounce back views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE

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BETH EL SYNAGOGUE

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

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

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

B’NAI ISRAEL Join us in-person on Friday, July 9, 7:30 p.m. for evening services. Our service leader is Larry Blass.

Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel!

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

Handicap Accessible.

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

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

FRIDAY: Passport to Shabbat: Cultural Connection — Shanghai, 4:30 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. at Beth El; Havdalah, 9:45 p.m. on Zoom.

SUNDAY: Torah Study, 10 a.m.

MONDAY: Women’s Book Group, 7 p.m. on Zoom.

WEDNESDAY: Passport to Shabbat: Book/Film Discussion of “The Joy Luck Club,” 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY-June 25: Nebraska AIDS Coalition Lunch, 11:30 a.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m. at Beth El. SATURDAY-June 26: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. at Beth El; Havdalah, 9:45 p.m. on Zoom.

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

BETH ISRAEL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer.

Classes, Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah on Zoom, WhatsApp or Facebook Live. On site services held outside in pergola, weather permitting. Physical distancing and masks required.

FRIDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbos, 7:30 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:42 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Daf Yomi, 7:50 p.m. with Rabbi Ari; Kids Class, 8:20 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:50 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:52 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Laws of the Land, 9:40 a.m. with Rabbi Moshe; Daf Yomi, 8:20 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:50 p.m.

MONDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi, 8:20 p.m. with Rabbi Ari; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:50 p.m.

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Biden’s support for Israel during Gaza conflict gets mixed results among voters RON KAMPEAS JTA U.S. voters were split about evenly on whether President Joe Biden’s backing of Israel was on target during the recent Israel-Gaza conflict or whether he could have done more for the country.

The poll published Tuesday by Vox, a liberal online magazine, found that 34% of voters believed that Biden was “not supportive enough of Israel” during the recent conflict and 32% thought Biden “had taken the right approach towards Israel,” an even split within the survey’s 3 percentage points margin of error.

Just 15% thought that Biden was “too supportive of Israel.”

Asked the same question about Biden’s support for the Palestinians, 27% said he was too supportive, 33% thought he was taking the right approach and 18% thought he was not supportive enough.

Biden during the May 10-21 conflict backed Israel’s right to defend itself against rockets fired by

Hamas and refused to countenance calls from a number of lawmakers on the left-wing of the Dem-

which Israel did.

The poll carried out by Data for Progress reached 1,319 likely voters in the last days of the conflict, May 19-21. The poll showed greater support for Israel among Republicans than Democrats, but did not report the number of respondents in subsamples or give a margin of error for them.

During the same qweek, Anti-Israel protesters at the Port of Oakland claimed victory in preventing a Zim container ship from unloading its cargo, and organizers were planning further actions this week against ships of the Israeli-owned President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Credit: firm in other port cities. “Block the Alex Wong/Getty Images Boat” organizers online also indiocratic Party to leverage assistance to get Israel to cated similar actions were planned in Detroit, Vanagree to a cease-fire. In the last days of the conflict, couver, Philadelphia and London. (Additional Biden called on Israel to wind down operations, reporting from JNews of CA)

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Israel Teen Trip

ALAN POTASH Chief Executive Officer, JFO The biennial community teen trip to Israel is moving forward for this coming December. The proposed dates are Dec. 22-Jan. 3 (subject to change). Several precautionary measures will be taken to ensure a positive experience for all who participate in this meaningful experience. It is available to high school juniors and seniors enrolled and attending a synagogue religious school education or actively involved in BBYO. This trip is significantly subsidized by the Jewish Federation of Omaha, area synagogues and community foundations.

All participants will be required to attend a minimum of 6

pre-trip educational and social bonding meetings. Parents and participants will be required to sign a code of conduct and adhere to this conduct in the sessions and on the trip.

Two key issues that we are still monitoring that could impact this trip are COVID-19 and current events in Israel. As of now, the only COVID-19 issue we know of is that all students will have to have been fully vaccinated with one of the COVID19 vaccines prior to the trip.

Please contact Jamie SkogBurke (jskogburke@jewishom aha.org) at the Jewish Federation of Omaha if you or your high schooler is interested in participating in the experience.

Writers remove references to Anne Frank, Israel president jokes that the U.S. amANDREW LAPIN bassador to the United Nations JTA Bestselling authors Elin Hilder“said something idiotic about Isbrand and Casey McQuiston rerael, and now I have to call Nemoved references to Anne Frank tanyahu and personally apologize.” and Israel from their novels this A handful of Twitter users wrote week following an outcry on social that even mentioning Israel in ficmedia from small subsets of readers. tion “normalizes” the occupation The moves have ignited a storm of Palestine. Their complaints were of controversy in the literary world. amplified by a fan account of the The campaigns against the books book, which prompted McQuiston have been successful despite ap- Authors Elin Hilderbrand and Casey McQuiston said to say the line would be changed pearing to be relatively small in they would remove respective references to Anne for future printings. McQuiston has size, and originate from wildly dif- Frank and Israel from their novels after small num- a new book coming out this year. ferent perspectives on Jews and Is- bers of social media readers took issue with the The authors’ decisions to remove rael. One takes the authors to task passages. Credit illustration: Grace Yagel/JTA the passages from future printings for a joke perceived as antisemitic, while the other objects have been criticized on Twitter by Slate books columnist to the mere mention of Israel.

Laura Miller and many prominent authors, including Taffy In the former case, the first edition of Hilderbrand’s new Brodesser-Akner and Mark Harris, who are Jewish. Several novel, Golden Girl, contains a line of dialogue in which two compared the incidents to other recent campaigns against teenage girls in Nantucket discuss a plan for one of them to young-adult novels for perceived cultural insensitivities, saying hide in her friend’s attic for the summer. One of the girls then that many readers on social media have lost the ability to disjokes that she would be “like Anne Frank.” tinguish between a character’s points of view and the author’s.

Some readers on Instagram said the joke was antisemitic “Complaining about other, more successful writers is one and demanded an apology from Hilderbrand. The author is- of the most popular activities on Twitter, as is devising elabsued one and announced she would be removing the pas- orately exacting standards of correct speech and vigorously, sage from future printings of the book. if informally, prosecuting those who violate them,” Miller McQuiston, a romance novelist, is taken to task for the wrote. “What’s unusual about these two examples is how 2019 novel Red, White & Royal Blue, about a romance between rapidly both authors caved in the face of what appear to be the son of the U.S. president and a prince of England. The very small posses of critics.”

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The Great American Deli Schlep GABE FRIEDMAN JTA Motorcyclist Steve Goode is on the way to Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But on a recent phone call from a hotel room, he doesn’t know exactly where he is.

“Indiana, in... what the hell town am I in?” he says with a laugh.

Turns out he’s in Richmond, Indiana, a few days into a 75day trek called the Great American Deli Schlep, during which he will stop at 41 Jewish delis across the United States to raise awareness about hunger and food insecurity. He started out at Manny’s Cafeteria and Delicatessen in his native Chicago, then hit Shapiro’s in Indianapolis, then Stevens & Stevens in Louisville, before turning around to go back up to Michigan.

It’s all part of a meticulously mapped-out sequence that will bring him in contact with every state in the continental U.S. Goode, a retired real estate developer and longtime crosscountry biker, was inspired to organize the schlep by a map of the country’s best Jewish delis compiled by The Nosher in 2018. He partnered with Mazon — a Jewish nonprofit working to combat hunger — to help with the logistics and getting the word out.

The map, produced by The Nosher in 2018, was Steve Goode’s starting point when planning The Great American Deli Schlep.

On each stop, he tries to meet with the deli owners for conversation and photo ops — some have been wary to connect with him because they think he’s going to ask them for money for the cause, which he’s not. He’s well aware of how the COVID crisis battered restaurants — even many of the wellknown delis on his list, like Katz’s in New York and Canter’s in Los Angeles — in addition to low-income families and service industry workers.

“Before the pandemic, the number [Mazon talks] about is like 38 million people are food insecure, which means at some

point during the year, they didn’t know where their next meal changes on the road, too. “I don’t know if the beards are longer was coming from, or how they were going to feed their fami- because of COVID. They appear to be, though. A few more tatlies,” Goode said. “That has jumped, according to Mazon, to toos, too,” he said. about 80 million” during the pandemic.

He’s also hoping to meet with locals who can follow his trip in blog form on Mazon’s social media pages, and to ride into town with local chapters of the Jewish Motorcyclists Alliance — a national network of groups of Jewish motorcycle aficionados, with names such as the Chaiway Riders (Goode’s Chicago club) and Hillel’s Angels in New Jersey. He wants the New York City branch to help him navigate the Manhattan traffic he finds intimidating on his way to Katz’s on his 2018 Honda Goldwing Tour bike.

“Yeah, that’s going to be a frightening ride,” he said.

Goode, 66, who has served on the board Steve Goode, far left, is biking across America to raise awareness about hunger by of his Reform synagogue, B’nai Jehoshua visiting Jewish delis. Credit: Goode Beth Elohim in Deerfield, Illinois, and helps organize the As for the delis he’s most looking forward to visiting, he said Greater Chicago Jewish Festival, has been in love with motor- he’s heard a lot about Canter’s in L.A. and Corky & Lenny’s cycle touring since high school. In 2013, he touched all four near Cleveland, which have slung Jewish sandwiches since corners of the continental U.S. The following year he touched 1931 and 1956 respectively — but he’s having trouble tuning all 48 states. In 2017 he visited all 47 national parks. out the many suggestions of his friends, who he says clearly The Deli Schlep has been the most challenging to plan, he aren’t looking at the map he and Mazon meticulously planned. said, in addition to the most rewarding. He credits his wife Two Jews, several Jewish deli opinions.

Judi, who used to accompany him on some of the excursions, “Every friend of mine who lives somewhere outside of with reaching out to Mazon with the idea, because he admits Chicago, even in Chicago, has an opinion. Surprise, surprise. she is even more involved in Jewish causes. (Although she’s So when they start yelling at me about, you know, this deli is not with him on the Deli Schlep, they talk several times a day not as good as this deli, you should be going to visit this deli through the Bluetooth system he set up in his helmet, and in New York and this in Boston, I’m like, guys, stop. This list have dinner together on Zoom each night.) was assembled by Nosher magazine. I’m just riding... I mean, Goode has also already observed some pandemic-era that’s the one thing everybody’s got an opinion about: food.”

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