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JORDANA KURTZMAN uarantining at home during a pandemic is hard enough for most of us, whether we have young children to home school, jobs where we need to transition to telecommuting, or homes that suddenly seem a lot smaller to us, some of those who need the most support are those who live alone. People who live by themselves or with

just one other person can suddenly feel even more isolated than the rest of us do. These people, because of being at a greater risk of catching COVID-19, whether due to age or health reasons, feel the loneliness that comes with isolation more acutely. The simple freedoms and pleasures that many of us can still enjoy—taking a walk around the block or even running to the grocery store— have suddenly become obstacles for those of See A Taste of Shabbos page 3

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SAM KRICSFELD Jewish Press Intern The Jewish Community Center’s Premiere Dance Camps are unique opportunities for children in K-3rd grade to experience a taste of JCC dance programs. Participants enjoy a morning of dance instruction, art projects, prepackaged snacks and learning about the featured ballet of the week. Camp takes place from 9 a.m. until noon. The week of June 8 focused on the Igor Stravinsky ballet Petrouchka. As proud as I am about my breadth of knowledge, it fails to extend to, well, most things – but especially ballet. Upon researching the ballet, I found that Houston Public Media called Petrouchka, “The Unhappiest Puppet Story Ever,” about the “less fortunate,

Performing Arts Assistant Director Jessica Westerlin and a camper create Petrouchka dolls.

more tragic cousin of Pinocchio.” The ballet focuses on three puppets who are brought to life by a magician. The puppets deal with love, jealousy and rage (who doesn’t?). Of course, this heavy topic was simplified for children – the focus was on the dancing and the puppetry. By the end of the week, campers were experts on the story and created their very own Petrouchka doll and dance. Petrouchka was chosen because of

its whimsy and its array of characters. The dance camps rotate a list of ballets, some of which are well-known and some that are just fun. Performing Arts Director Esther Katz and Assistant Director Jessica Westerlin lead the camp and pick the ballets. Dance camps are now held upstairs in the new Staenberg Arts & Education Corridor dance studios. These new studios include fully sprung See JCC Dance Camp page 2

Marvin Bittner

Marvin Bittner MD is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. After earning his bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago and medical degree at Harvard, he went on to complete training in the specialty of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and the subspecialty of infectious diseases at the University of Minnesota. He moved back into his old medical school dormitory 22 years after graduation to complete the course work for his master’s degree in clinical epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Professor of Medicine at Creighton University, where he is director of the infectious diseases fellowship training program. He is past president of the Metro Omaha Medical Society and past governor of the Nebraska chapter of the American College of Physicians. He has accompanied medical students on 21 service trips to the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia, and he has received the Voluntarism and Community Service Award from the Nebraska chapter of the American College of Physicians as well as its Laureate Award and the Metro Omaha Medical Society’s award for distinguished service to medicine. His major clinical activities are at the VA Medical Center in Omaha, where he is Deputy Chief of Staff, hospital epidemiologist, and Chief of Infectious Diseases. Dr. Bittner is a member of the COVID-19 task force planning the response of the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System to the pandemic. In addition, Dr. Bittner serves as its hospital epidemiologist and caring for COVID-19 patients. This should be a timely and See B’nai Israel reopens page 2

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Coast-toCoast Book Club top picks Beth El Synagogue’s Miriam Initiative, a series of ongoing women-led projects and programs, hosted its first Coast-to-Coast Book Club. Because a normal book club held in person is impossible, the Miriam Initiative hosted its club over Zoom.

Continued from page 1 dance floors, updated lighting and sound systems. They also include a wall of mirrors, resulting in a temporarily frightened Jewish Press intern thinking he wasn’t alone. Premiere Dance Camps have been altered to safely operate during the pandemic. Groups are less than 15 campers, health and temperature checks are taken at check-in and staff wear masks. Changes include dancing six feet apart in the large studios (there are x’s on the floor which mark positions) and having snack-time and other activities outside as often as possible. “[There is no] holding hands or circle time,” Katz said, “but [they are] still having fun and are able to run around.” The June 8 camp was smaller than usual, allowing the campers to do their

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arts and crafts indoors at the ends of eight-foot long tables. The children were able to choose daily themes. Katz said that the smaller class allowed her to get to know the children better. “I love hanging out with those kiddos!” Katz said. The smaller camp also resulted in nearly all the participants being in Kindergarten or first grade, even though the camp is for K-3rd grade. The camp is taught at a pre-ballet level, allowing all participants to dance at an equal level. The final performance was on Friday, June 12. Originally intended to be prerecorded and sent out to parents, the event was moved outside in front of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. This al-

lowed not only RBJH Residents to watch the ballet, but also campers’ parents to watch from their cars in the parking lot. As I went outside to photograph the ballet, I was met with a wall of sound from construction equipment working on the front entrance of the JCC. As mighty as Katz and Westerlin’s voices are, they would have been no match for a Bobcat. Thankfully, they brokered a 15 minute peace treaty during which the construction workers took an unscheduled break and the dance could happen with audible music. The performance had campers be floppy puppets, choreographed dancers and storytellers in front of a large homemade Petrouchka sign. The ballet went smoothly and was great fun to watch.

B’nai Israel reopens Continued from page 1 fascinating talk and is open to the entire community. B’nai Israel will be following all the CDC Guidelines and sanitation protocols. Everyone who attends should be wearing a mask. Seating will be 6 feet apart in the main sanctuary, however, family groups may sit together. The presentation will be followed by an ONEG in the Social Hall again with social distancing and adherence to all recommendations. Extra masks and hand sanitizer will be available. Everyone is welcome at B’NAI! Services will begin at 7:30 p.m. at 618 Mynster St. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Questions? Call Carole or Wayne Lainof 402.293.0321.

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The Miriam Initiative Over 60 women virtually joined Nancy Rips on June 9 for the book club. Attendees included avid readers from 10 different states. The attendees shared which books they are currently reading. Their passion for reading great books was evident. The women shared books from their favorite authors as well as some books they tend to revisit. The top highlighted books were Eric Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, Jennifer Chiaverini’s Resistance Women, Rachel Kadish’s The Weight of Ink and Isabel Vincent’s Bodies and Souls – a book about three Jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas. A Women’s Book Group meeting, also over Zoom, will take place at 7 p.m. on June 29. They will be discussing Sara Aharoni’s The First Mrs. Rothschild. Newcomers are always welcome.

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A Taste of Shabbos

Continued from page 1 us who are more vulnerable than others. In March of this year, right after the World Health Organization had announced that we were indeed in a pandemic and that we would need to quarantine at home for safety, Rabbis Ari Dembitzer and Yoni Dreyer knew they had to do something to help. They decided to start a new program, A Taste of Shabbos, that would bring a bit of Shabbos joy to those in the older Jewish community who are alone or otherwise unable to go out. As Rabbi Ari said, “Although the physical walls of our shul are closed, we want to be spreading the warmth of the shul to our community.” Rabbi Yoni, who arrived in Omaha with his family from Israel just this past November, has taken the lead in running this program. An amazing cook and baker, Rabbi Yoni has been running the Tasty Torah program since coming to Beth Israel, and this seemed like a natural fit for him. “We wanted people to feel connected to the community, and it’s not really easy for people when they live by themselves. This way, they will know that the shul is still thinking about them,” said Rabbi Yoni. This program has been well received by the community. Nate Shapiro, outgoing Executive Director of Beth Israel, said he received a note from one recipient that said, “it means so much that people are thinking of her.” So far, over a hundred people have benefited from receiving

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a gift bag from Beth Israel. Packed by teens Zoe and Bradley Berman as well as Yaakov and Faige Jeidel each week, these gift bags contain fresh-baked challah rolls, Shabbat candles, a weekly message from Rabbi Ari, and a surprise tasty treat. Then, all of them, as well as Rabbi Yoni, drive these wonderful gift bags all over Omaha, providing people like Susie and Paisey Shyken with a wonderful treat to discover on their porch. “We came home to find a gift bag, and we were so surprised and delighted, and we enjoyed every part of it! We are glad to be connected to Beth Israel this way,” said Susie. Jack and Bette Kozlen were other recipients of Beth Israel’s new program. Bette was delighted to see their gift waiting for them on their porch. “What a surprise it was to see a Shabbos package outside our door! I’d like to thank Rabbi Yoni and Rabbi Ari for organizing this program because it's a way to connect to the synagogue and all the people we miss,” said Bette. For Shavout, Rabbi Yoni’s marvelous team of volunteers, including Rachel and Sam Kricsfeld, delivered A Taste of Shavuot gift bags that included delicious cheesecake bites to all 140 Beth Israel families who live in the local community as well. If you would like to sponsor A Taste of Shabbos in honor or in memory of someone, please contact Rabbi Ari at rabbi dembitzer@orthodoxomaha.org or call Beth Israel at 402.556.6288.

Seven tips for baby boomers preparing to age in place Seventy six percent of Baby Boomers say that they want to continue living in their current homes as they age, but only 46 percent believe they’ll be able to do so, according to a recent AARP survey. What’s preventing over half of these Boomers from “aging in place?” The answer: homes that are unable to accommodate some of the needs associated with growing older, such as reduced mobility and lower muscle strength. Here are seven tips to keep in mind if you’re interested in upgrading your bathroom to age in place: 1. Grab bars that double as towel racks are ideal for smaller 1. spaces and can provide extra security. 2. Additional lighting can brighten darker corners and 2. highlight potential tripping hazards. 3. Comfort-height toilet seats make navigating the 3. bathroom easier for those with limited mobility. 4. Sink/shower/tub lever handles offer a more user-friendly

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ence in Detroit in 2017. I have served on the Nebraska Writing Project Advisory Board and have been a conference and seminar presenter for the Institute For Holocaust Education Nebraska since 2013, a Nebraska Writing Project summer teacher educator, and a presenter at the Malaika Foundation “Brave Teacher” Conference. In 2018 I was accepted into the USHMM Museum Teacher Fellows Program in Washington DC, where I met other incredible teachers from around the nation and world and deepened my understanding of this work even further in order to become a better teacher for my students at home and across the state. Most recently, I was accepted into the United States Institute of Peace Teacher Fellows Program, where I am working with three teachers across the nation to develop rich lessons about global conflict and peacebuilding in order to help students develop a stronger knowledge of international relations the role that peacebuilding plays in our homes, communities, and countries. I enjoy seeking professional development opportunities focusing on themes of social justice, history, and human rights, and I believe that putting myself out there and surrounding myself with incredible teachers from diverse backgrounds and experiences helps make me a more empathetic, wiser, and purpose-driven educator. I have also been a photojournalism instructor for 15 years and have enjoyed being an entrepreneur since 2010 as the owner of a Fine Art Portrait business in which I enjoy creating both classic and storytelling fine art portraiture. My husband Scott and I ranch in the beautiful rolling Sandhills of Nebraska with our two boys, Carter (14) and Alex (12). Between educational, ranching, and entrepreneurial activities, I love to explore and adventure with my family, accompany students abroad for cultural learning experiences, and serve my school and community in various capacities.

Israeli scientists develop self-disinfecting face mask

is talking to industrial comMARCY OSTER panies about mass producJERUSALEM | JTA Israeli scientists have deing the masks, according to the statement. In some veloped a self-disinfecting, reusable face mask as the countries, demand has far demand for protective outstripped the supply of masks has risen dramatiface masks amid the pancally since the start of the demic. Here’s how the mask coronavirus pandemic. works: A layer of carbon The mask was developed fibers can be heated using a at the Haifa-based TechUSB port with a low current nion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Ma- Prototype of the self-disinfecting reusable mask developed by re- source such as a phone terials Science and Engi- searchers at The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Credit: charger in a process that neering by a team of Technion destroys viruses that may scientists led by Professor Yair Ein-Eli. have accumulated on the mask. A patent application has been submitted in the United In Israel, wearing a mask in public is mandatory, and those States, the Technion said in a statement. The research team not in compliance can be fined.

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Temple Israel Torah Award

and called me over and explained she was CASSANDRA WEISENBURGER Director of Communications, Temple Israel looking for a 2nd grade teachers. I thought, As we move through June and July, Temple â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m that caliber?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; And Elyce said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Absolutely!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Israel will be announcing our 2020 award â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through that conversation 14 years ago, winners in our weekly eTidings email and in itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taken me on two trips to Israel and how the Jewish Press. many families in 14 years Mazel tov to Jill Idelman that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had the privilege for receiving the Torah of them letting me spend award for excellence in Sunday morning with teaching. Jill teaches 2nd their children, and trustgrade at Temple Israel and ing me to do that. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been she will begin her 14th year a really, really rewarding with us this fall. experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jill is an extraordinary â&#x20AC;&#x153;Temple Israel has been teacher who takes the time one of the greatest things to get to know her students, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ever happened to and understands what each me. I just feel so blessed to of them needs as individuhave that experience with als to feel part of the class the clergy and seeing the community. She brings fun changes that our congreand creativity to everything gation has gone through Jill Idelman she does,â&#x20AC;? said Director of with ease and grace; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reCongregational Learning Ben Mazur. ally been a highlight of my life. It really has.â&#x20AC;? Hear from Jill: Jill works full-time at C&A Industries as â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was overwhelmed when I got the news. their Career Development Manager where There are so many wonderful teachers at she is responsible for overseeing professional Temple Israel, so I felt extremely honored and career development for the company. In that I was selected. I love teaching 2nd grade. May, she won the award for the 2019 CorpoI love the Religious School community. rate Support Employee of the Year for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Receiving the award was a little bitter- Medical Divisions. Jill is also a Gallup Certisweet; it takes me back to Elyce. She was the fied Strengths Coach. one who recruited me to be a teacher. I can If you would like to receive our weekly remember I was in the JCC parking lot, I was eTidings email, please contact Director of leaving spinning class and she was picking Communications Cassandra Weisenburger, up Yaniv. She shouted out the car window chicks@templeisraelomaha.com.

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Andi Redler Jacobs honored

The Tampa Bay Lightning honored Andi Ja- her father before her, to give her time to the cobs as the 17th Lightning Community Hero non-profit world. She donates on average 25of the 2019-2020 season earlier this year. The 30 hours per week working with TampaBayhonor came during a Lightning game against Job-Links (TBJL). the Ottawa Senators. The Tampa Bay Lightning cited Andiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;posAndi is the daughter of itive impact on others,â&#x20AC;? and Steve and Dodi Redler and presented her with a has a brother, Dan. Steve $50,000 check from the was born in a St. Louis subLightning Foundation and urb and met his wife while the Vinik Family Foundagoing to college in Wiscontion to benefit the charity of sin. They married just beher choice. fore senior year. As a founding board chairâ&#x20AC;&#x153;She wanted to move person of TBJL, Andi seback to Omaha,â&#x20AC;? Steve said, lected Job-Links to receive â&#x20AC;&#x153;because her mother had the funds. The money will recently died and her father be used to help support was alone. We were marone-on-one career coaching ried for 49 years and then programs. some.â&#x20AC;? Job-Links also honored After Dodiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death, Steve Andi by naming its jobAndi Redler Jacobs remarried Linda Siref. They search and career coaching have been together eight years. program the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Andi Jacobs Job-Links 1:1 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both my children moved away and ended Coaching Program. In addition, one donor up in Atlanta,â&#x20AC;? Steve said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then, Andi ended matched the $50,000 stipend in honor of Jaup meeting someone from Tampa, and the cobsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; accomplishments. rest is history.â&#x20AC;? In addition to contributing her time, Andi Steve volunteered for the Bureau of the Jacobs is a Guardian Ad Litem, a role in which Aging for 19 years. After retiring from she advocates for neglected children in the Carrabaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant chain, Andi chose, like foster care system.

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Read the account of a Jewish ‘Dreamer’

values contained in Jewish teachings. GABE FRIEDMAN Growing up, his family attended synagogue often and celeJTA The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Donald brated Shabbat and Jewish holidays. Trump cannot immediately shut down the Deferred Action for Despite the hardships he faced following his mother’s death, Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, protecting 700,000 or Rosenfeld excelled in high school. He completed 13 Advanced so immigrants brought to the United States with their parents Placement courses and ranked among the top 10 percent of from likely deportation. Liberal immigration reform advocates celebrated the decision, a setback for the Trump team that includes Jewish adviser Stephen Miller, who leads the administration’s policy on immigration. Trump announced his plans to end the DACA program in 2017. At that time, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency spoke with a Jewish “Dreamer” — as the DACA program participants are often called — named Elias Rosenfeld, who moved with his family to the U.S. from Venezuela at age 6. He was attending Brandeis University, and the school’s president sent a letter to Trump urging him not to undo DACA. Elias Rosenfeld, then a sophomore at Brandeis University, speaks at a rally at Boston’s “Here at Brandeis University, we value Faneuil Hall. Credit: Jeremy Burton/JCRC of Greater Boston our DACA students, who enrich our campus in many ways his graduating class, according to a Miami-Dade County school and are integral to our community,” the letter said. “Reversing bulletin. Rosenfeld was widely recognized as a student leader, DACA inflicts harsh punishment on the innocent. As a nation receiving several awards and honors. During the presidential founded by immigrants, we can, should, and must do better.” campaign, he volunteered for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Many students who were undocumented live in constant “I don’t think it aligns with our values, with Jewish values fear, even after receiving temporary legal status under DACA, and the Jewish community,” he said of a policy that would es- Rosenfeld said. sentially strip a generation of people raised here of official “There is fear behind the shadows,” he said. “We are always recognition. behind the shadows.” Rosenfeld cited the activism of a group called Torah Trumps Read the article in full at www.omahajewishpress.com. Hate, which opposes policies that it considers anathema to

Embracing Juneteenth

JOSEFIN DOLSTEN AND PHILISSA CRAMER JTA After the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic this spring delayed the launch of the website for TribeHerald, a new media company for Jews of color, founders Yitz Jordan and Rabbi Shais Rishon settled on a perfect alternative: the evening of June 18. After all, it would be “erev Juneteenth,” Jordan said — a mashup of the Hebrew word denoting the eve of Jewish observances and the name of the holiday commemorating the day Black people enslaved in Texas learned they had been freed. First observed in 1866, Juneteenth has experienced a surge of interest this year amid nationwide protests against racial injustice. That surge extends to the Jewish world, where a range of events are planned for this Juneteenth, which this year coincides with the beginning of Shabbat. “The key word for this Juneteenth would be visibility,” Jordan told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “Starting from the most obvious example, we got to see so much police brutality and so much inequality and so much visual evidence of disparate treatment, so the struggle became more visible. And now more people are visibly out in the streets, of all ethnicities, screaming Black Lives Matter. Now is the perfect Juneteenth to bring Jews of color into visibility and to show that our lives matter, too.” Chris Harrison, a Black Jew who works for the Union for Reform Judaism, wrote that he will be celebrating Juneteenth for the first time this year. He said the holiday inspires him to take action to make the country more just for Black people. One major event capitalizing on this year’s Juneteenth timing was an online Juneteenth Kabbalat Shabbat service. Organized by Be’Chol Lashon, an organization advocating for Jews of color, and Keshet, which focuses on LGBTQ Jewish issues, the event featured two Black rabbis, Sandra Lawson and Isaama Goldstein-Stoll. “We are celebrating what it means to live freely in the United States, and we also must remember that for many of us freedom is a journey,” Lawson wrote in the Forward last year. “The fight for freedom for all is not over. There is still work to be done. Juneteenth is an important reminder to all of us of why we fight: The struggle for freedom for all must continue because until we are all free, none of us is free.”

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Summer special: Brisket tacos REBECCA FIRSKSER This recipe originally appeared on The Nosher. When I was growing up, I knew brisket as an island of meat in a sea of sweet brownish-red sauce with carrot-plank buoys. Every holiday, this was plunked in the center of the table alongside a loaf of bread. It was... fine. But nothing to write home about. Whoever hosted the meal would lament about how the meat had been in the oven for hours as they sawed through the roast. I couldn’t help but think “all that time for this?” As I sliced through the brisket, I imagined all the ways it could be improved upon: more salt, always, maybe a bit of heat to break up all this fat, and some acid, too, to balance out the sweetness of the sauce. And why such thick slices of brisket? Brisket is a tough cut of meat, but if braised in well-seasoned liquid long enough, it can go so tender it practically shreds itself when nudged with a fork. I’ll be honest, all I want to do with shredded meat is wrap it inside a warm corn tortilla with a big squeeze of lime. This summer, I dare you to leave the giant platter of meat for the winter months and embrace the warming weather with braised brisket tacos. A note on carrots: You’ll find none in this pot of brisket. When cooked to oblivion along with the meat, carrots become mush. But a crunchy, tangy raw carrot slaw served alongside the meat breathes new life into the familiar flavors. My great-aunt probably wouldn’t stand for it, but I say that once you’re changing one thing, why not just lean into some tweaks that speak to you? Personally, I don’t miss the original at all when this is on the table.

BRISKET TACOS Ingredients: For the brisket: 4 pounds beef brisket Kosher salt and black pepper 1 Tbsp. neutral oil 2 Tbsp. granulated sugar or honey 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar 2 medium red onions, quartered or 3 large shallots, halved 1 head garlic, halved crosswise (no need to get rid of the skin) 1 Tbsp. hot smoked paprika 1 Tbsp. chili powder 3 Tbsp. tomato paste 1 14-ounce can crushed tomatoes 2 cups chicken, vegetable or beef broth For the slaw: 1/4 cup lime juice 1 tsp. honey 1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes Kosher salt and black pepper 5 medium carrots, grated 6 scallions, thinly sliced For serving: Corn or flour tortillas (small) Diced white onion, pickled jalapeño, sliced radish, hot sauce Lime wedges Directions: Season the brisket all over with salt and pepper at least 1 hour at room temperature (or overnight in the fridge, then returned to room temperature before searing). Preheat the oven to 325 F. Heat oil in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat, then sear the brisket fat-side down until well-browned, about 4-5 minutes per side. Transfer to a cutting board or plate. Pour out all but 2 tablespoons fat. In a small bowl, dissolve sugar or honey in apple cider vinegar and set aside. Add onions and garlic to the pot and cook, stirring occasionally, until they take on some color, about 4 minutes. Stir in paprika, chile powder and tomato paste, and cook until the spices are fragrant and the tomato paste turns brick red, about 1 minute. Stir in the vinegar mixture, tomatoes and broth, then bring to a boil. Season with a big pinch of salt. Let the mixture reduce for 5 minutes, then return the brisket to

Credit: Rebecca Firkser the pot, fat-side up. Cover the pot and transfer to the oven. Bake, removing the pot from the oven and spooning some of the liquid over the meat every 40 minutes or so, until the meat easily shreds when you pull at it with a fork, 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Remove pot from the oven and carefully skim off as much rendered fat as you can from the surface of the mixture. Discard fat. Uncover the pot and let cook for an additional 15 minutes. Let cool, then skim fat again. Skim fat every 15 minutes until you’re ready to serve, then use 2 forks to shred the meat and coat entirely in the surrounding sauce. The onions and garlic will have essentially melted into the sauce, but if you spy whole cloves of garlic, give them a smash to incorporate. (Alternatively, remove pot without skimming fat, let the mixture cool to room temperature and refrigerate overnight, covered. The following day, scoop off solidified fat from the surface and return to the oven at 325 F. Discard fat. Cover and reheat for 1 hour, then shred meat.) To make the slaw, combine lime juice, honey and red pepper flakes in a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Let sit for at least 15 minutes or up to 1 hour. Toss in carrots and scallions. Season with more salt and pepper to taste. Serve brisket with warmed tortillas, slaw and desired taco fixings. Serves 6-8.

Tel Aviv to recognize same-sex and interfaith couples MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM | JTA The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality will recognize same-sex, interfaith and other couples who are not eligible to be married by the state’s religious authorities. Those couples who live together will be allowed to register their relationship with a statement to the city. They will be eligible for municipal benefits, including housing tax discounts, and easier enrollment of their children into public daycares and schools. Tel Aviv-Jaffa Mayor Ron Huldai made the announcement, in honor of the city’s Pride Week, on Sunday. The recognition on the municipal level has no impact on

Around 250,000 people marched in the 2019 Tel Aviv Pride Parade. Credit: Laura E. Adkins

recognition or lack of it on the national level, according to the Kan national broadcaster. Same-sex and interfaith marriages are not performed by the Orthodox-controlled rabbinate and those performed in Israel are not recognized by the state. Marriages performed outside of Israel can be registered with the state. “We hope the government also will move towards the 21st century and promote in law the rights of the (LGBT) community — the right to marry, to equal parenting, to protection from hate crimes and workplace bullying and more,” Huldai said. Tel Aviv announced in May that it would postpone its annual Pride Parade, held each year in June, due to the coronavirus. Last year, it had some 250,000 participants, including thousands of tourists.

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It’s not a joke anymore ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor If you know me at all, you know I don’t have any experience with beauty pageants. I won’t badmouth them (much). If it’s your thing, go for it. Except in the case of Alice Cutter. She and boyfriend Mark Jones, both British citizens, were arrested earlier this month for belonging to the neo-Nazi group National Action. They hate the usual trifecta of Blacks and Jews and Gays. The group is banned under Great Britain’s 2016 terror laws, making membership a criminal offense. White supremacists getting arrested are not unheard of. What made the headlines noticeable in this case was the fact that Alice Cutter had, according to court documents, participated in something called “The Miss Hitler Pageant.” She entered that bizarre contest as “Miss Buchenwald.” I have questions, as, I imagine, do you. Is “Miss Buchenwald” actually a thing— as in, did she win that title, or is it a gimmick she made up to enter the other pageant? Does “Miss Hitler” get a tiara? Is there a sash? Where would you go to order such a thing? How does a young woman like that arrive at a point where this becomes, in her mind, acceptable? There was a website, which has since been taken down: “Miss Hitler 2020 contest!” one advertisement screams. “Welcome to participate!” It’s accompanied by a photo of 11 happily smiling young women, right arms raised in Nazi salute, dressed in

what could be described as “survival chic.” Women are told they can enter by posting a “sexy, Nazithemed photo” (we are not going to go there) and by explaining “why they love and revere the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler.” It reminds me of a time when most neo-Nazis were laughable and sad, when we could discard them as simpletons who enjoyed dressing up in their spare time but otherwise couldn’t hurt us. Re-

But we now know better. We now know: feelings of racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia will not go away. Any group who bases its existence on hate for the “other” is dangerous, will not disappear on their own, and, when given the chance, will spill blood. To be precise: our Jewish children’s blood, our Black children’s blood, our gay children’s blood. Suddenly, “Miss Buchenwald” is not so laughable. She and her friends may be in jail, but for every jailed neo-Nazi, ten more spring up. We can jail people, but we cannot jail ideas—which is why jails in general only tend to make things worse. What we do is we address it, uncomfortable as it is. We scream, yell and holler; we call out hate when we see it in any form and we make as much noise as we can. We educate, and we keep educating, even when people don’t listen. Especially when they don’t Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images listen. member those neo-Nazis going into the river in the That includes calling out any hate towards the Blues Brothers movie? Like that. People to ridicule, ‘other,’ no matter what that perceived ‘otherness’ entails. Fighting anti-Semitism means fighting all but never to take seriously. I want to mock this so badly. I want to go back hate together. It means we look beyond ourselves, to a time when we could stick our collective head we are sensitive and we create a bond with those in the sand and pretend none of this matters, these who are on the receiving end of hate. It means we people are nobodies, when the only logical answer all have to be allies to each other. to groups like National Action was to laugh at Because there is absolutely no good reason to go them. at this alone.

My mom is white and my dad is black. Don’t call me a ‘Jew of Color.’ KYLIE UNELL NEW YORK | JTA As a biracial Jew, there is an expectation that I must have something to say in this historic moment. Unlike at any other time in my life, people are treating my opinion as though it deserves a stage, or a glass case for passersby to take in as they walk through a new exhibition on the lives of various Jews of Color. When I tell people that I do not have much to say about my experience as a “Jew of Color,” I see faces drop just a smidge. I sense that people want to hear about the time I was rejected because of the color of my skin, or when I was sitting in services at a synagogue and somebody came up and asked what inspired a nice non-Jewish girl like me to visit a synagogue, unaware of the fact that I am an observant Jew. The truth is that nothing like that has ever happened to me, thankfully. There have been moments when a person’s curiosity got the better of them, and they can’t help but probe into the personal details of my life within a minute of meeting me in hopes of figuring out how somebody who looks like me ended up in a Jewish environment. I’ve heard comments like, “Is it hard for you to date in the Jewish world because, you know, you’re not the stereotypical Jew?” or “You can’t meet his family yet because you grew up in a broken home and that’s not something that people in his community are used to.” Here’s my personal favorite, which came up while I was living in Israel: “Can you rap for us, you know, like Jay-Z!” Yes, all of these moments and a few more like them have happened to me, and some of them were painful. But they are not the moments by which I choose to define myself. My mother is white and my father is black. I have lived as a proud Jew in a variety of Jewish communities, including Kansas, Israel, North Carolina and New York City. Aside from those few standout moments, I have always felt at home in the Jewish world. It is the only world I know and, more than that, it is an expression of all that I am. The 20th-century German-Jewish philosopher

Franz Rosenzweig defines Judaism as a person’s “most impenetrable secret, yet evident in every gesture and every word.” To call myself a Jew of Color would be to ignore that indefinable trait inside of me that is expressed in all that I do and unites me with my fellow Jews throughout the world.

ferent from any other Jew. I choose not to overanalyze the fact that my skin is slightly darker than parts of my family or the people in my community. That does not matter. I have no unique traditions because of my skin color. I was born and raised an Ashkenazi Jew, and I plan to do the same thing for my children that my mother did for me — teach them that we are more than any label cast onto us by others or any label we put on ourselves. The Jewish world is changing, and people who look like me are becoming the face of the “typical Jew” more and more by the day. I beg you to look up Malka Groden, Chavie Bruk, Nissim Black and Yaffy Newman to see just a few examples of where the Jewish world is The author in front of Washington Square Park Credit: Kylie Unell headed. The very term Jews of Color designates a portion Jews of Color is a term that does not signal of the Jewish population as different from the rest. progress. Instead, it holds us back. It keeps us from It is a catchall for those in the Jewish world who seeing what makes every individual Jew unique. We look different, whose stories are worn on their bod- all have a story to share whether we hint to it on ies. our skin or not. The idea behind it is not a bad one. It is a term Kylie Unell is a Ph.D. student in Jewish that people can use to feel seen in a world where Thought at New York University. She is also the they can feel unseen — and we know that many founder of Rooted and Models of Faith. people have had the experience of feeling unseen The views and opinions expressed in this article are in Jewish settings. those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the But that hasn’t been my experience — and still, views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media. no matter how much I want people to consider me a Jew, when people see me, they label me a Jew of TO SUBMIT ANNOUNCEMENTS Color. They will do so more now than ever. I want Announcements may be e-mailed to the Press to tell you that calling me a Jew of Color means at jpress@jewishomaha.org; or mailed to 333 So. defining me by negative moments in my life — the 132 St., Omaha, NE 68154. Readers can also submoments when my Judaism, and in turn my humit announcements -- births, b’nai mitzvahs, enmanity, is brought into question. gagements, marriages, commitment ceremonies I choose not to define myself by those moments or obituaries -- online at the Jewish Federation because doing so would mean belittling the far of Omaha website: www.jewishomaha.org. Click more numerous moments in my life when I have on “Jewish Press” and go to Submit Announcefelt a part of the Jewish world at large. ments. Deadlines are normally eight days prior to I choose not to walk into a room and call myself publication, on Wednesdays, 9 a.m. Please check the Jewish Press, for notices of early deadlines. a Jew of Color because I refuse to see myself as dif-

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B’NAI ISRAEL Join us for our monthly Shabbat Speakers Series on Friday, July 10, 7:30 p.m. with guest speaker Dr. Marvin Bittner on Cannibalism, COVID-19 and Tisha B’av. Masks are required and social distancing guideline will be followed. Our service leader is Larry Blass, and as always, an Oneg wil follow service. 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 and Sissy Silber. Handicap Accessible.

BETH EL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman. VIRTUAL MINYAN SCHEDULE: Mornings on Sundays, 9 a.m. and Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m.; Evenings on Sunday-Thursday, 5:30 p.m. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services with guest speaker Heidi Schneider of the Masorti Foundation, 10 a.m.; Havdallah, 9:53 p.m. SUNDAY: Torah Study, 10 a.m.; USY Film Club, 7 p.m. MONDAY: Women’s Book Group, 7 p.m.; Jewish Law Class with Rabbi Abraham, 8 p.m. TUESDAY: Jewish Values Class with Rabbi Abraham, 11:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Coffee & Conversation with Rabbi Abraham, 2 p.m.; USY Check-In, 5:15 p.m. THURSDAY: Teen Book Club, 4:30 p.m.; Shul Music, with Hazzan Krausman, 7 p.m. FRIDAY-July 3: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m. SATURDAY-July 4: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m.; Havdallah, 9:52 p.m. SUNDAY: Torah Study, 10 a.m.; USY Film Club, 7 p.m. TUESDAY: Jewish Values Class with Rabbi Abraham, 11:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Coffee & Conversation with Rabbi Abraham, 2 p.m.; USY Check-In, 5:15 p.m. THURSDAY: Hummus Salad making with Andrea, 2 p.m.; Teen Book Club, 4:30 p.m.; Shul Music, with Hazzan Krausman, 7 p.m. Please visit bethel-omaha.org for additional information and Zoom service links.

BETH ISRAEL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer. FRIDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 p.m. (Zoom); Candlelighting, 8:44 p.m. SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Havdalah, 9:53 p.m. (Zoom) SUNDAY: Rambam: Rabbi Moshe, 9:45 a.m. (Zoom) MONDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp). TUESDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp). WEDNESDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp).

TURSDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Middot with Rabbi Ari, 9:30 a.m. (Zoom); Parsha Inspiration with Rabbi Ari, 4:30 p.m. (Facebook Live). FRIDAY-July 3: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Musical Kabbalat Shabbat (Zoom), 7 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:43 p.m. SATURDAY-July 4: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Havdalah, 9:52 p.m. (Zoom). SUNDAY: Rambam: Rabbi Moshe, 9:45 a.m. (Zoom). MONDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp). TUESDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp). WEDNESDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp). TURSDAY: Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Prayer, 7:45 a.m.; Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Middot with Rabbi Ari, 9:30 a.m. (Zoom); Parsha Inspiration with Rabbi Ari, 4:30 p.m. (Facebook Live). Classes, Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah on Zoom, WhatsUp or Facebook Live. On site services held outside in sukkah, weather permitting. Physical distancing and masks required, Please visit orthodoxomaha.org for additional information and Zoom service links.

CHABAD HOUSE Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Due to Coronavirus, all services and classes have moved online. For schedules and more information or to request help, please visit www.ochabad.org or call the office at 402.330.1800 FRIDAY: Candlelighting, 8:43 p.m. SATURDAY: Shabbat Ends, 9:52 p.m. MONDAY: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani; Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Mystical Thinking, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Katzman; Introduction to Reading Hebrew, 10:30 a.m. THURSDAY: Intermediate Hebrew Reading and Prayer, 11 a.m.; Talmud Class, noon with Rabbi Katzman. FRIDAY-July 3: Candlelighting, 8:42 p.m. SATURDAY-July 4: Shabbat Ends, 9:51 p.m. MONDAY: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani; Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Mystical Thinking, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Katzman; Introduction to Reading Hebrew, 10:30 a.m.

B’NAI JESHURUN The Temple office is on reduced hours until further notice and all services and activities are being offered via livestream or teleconferencing. Please call 402.435.8004 or email office@southstreettemple. org for further information or to make an appointment for a visit, if necessary. You may also email Board president Nicholette Seigfreid at president@south streettemple.org. South Street Temple’s events can be found at https://south streettemple.org/calendar/. FRIDAY: Erev Shabbat Service, 6:30 p.m. service leaders/music: Elaine Monnier; Candlelighting, 8:44 p.m. SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, service lead-

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TEMPLE ISRAEL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Brian Stoller. DAILY VIRTUAL MINYAN: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. FRIDAY: Shabbat Evening Service, 6 p.m. SATURDAY: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Mindful Meditation, 9 a.m.; Jewish Law & the Quest for Meaning, noon. FRIDAY-July 3: Shabbat Evening Service, 6 p.m. SATURDAY-July 4: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Mindful Meditation, 9 a.m.; Jewish Law & the Quest for Meaning, noon. THURSDAY: The Israel Forum, 10 a.m. Please visit templeisraelomaha.com for additional information and Zoom service links.

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Virtual services conducted by Nancy Coren. FRIDAY: Zoom Evening Kabbalat Shabbat, 6:30 p.m. Candlelighting, 8:44 p.m. SATURDAY: Zoom Shabbat morning Service with Daniel Neiden and Nancy Coren, 10 a.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 9:44 p.m MONDAY: Zoom chair yoga class with Becca Coren in Maui, 7 p.m. FRIDAY-July 3: Zoom Evening Kabbalat Shabbat, 6:30 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:43 p.m. SATURDAY-July 4: Zoom Shabbat morning Service with Daniel Neiden and Nancy Coren, 10 a.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 9:43 p.m MONDAY: Zoom chair yoga class with Becca Coren in Maui, 7 p.m. Please visit tiferethisraellincoln.org for additional information and Zoom service links. The Lincoln Jewish Community School is looking for a Lead Teacher for our Preschool/Kindergarten classroom. The LJCS is seeking a candidate who is dependable, energetic, creative and nurturing. Early Childhood education experience is preferred. If you or someone you know is interested in interviewing for this position, please contact Andrea Halpern at ahalpern1386@gmail.com.

German church covers anti-Semitic sculpture CNAAN LIPSHIZ JTA A church in Germany was forced to keep an anti-Semitic gargoyle of a Jew kissing a pig’s rear end, so it did the next best thing: covered it up. The Stephan Church in Calbe, a city situated some 80 miles southwest of Berlin, reinstalled the relief on its façade this week after it had been dismantled earlier in the year for restoration work, the Volksstimme newspaper reported recently. The evangelical church’s pastor, Jürgen Kohtz, said his church didn’t want the relief to be reinstalled at all, but it was required because of legislation that forbids the removal of any element in the building housing the church, which is a registered monument. “This sculpture was meant as an insult to Jewish citizens,” Kohtz said.

The statue, which is believed to have been installed in the 15th century, was covered amid ongoing efforts to have it dismantled, the report said. Dozens of anti-Semitic reliefs can be found in churches across Germany. One recurrent theme is the Jew Sow, featuring a female swine with Jews suckling from her udders. German Jews and others have campaigned to have the anti-Semitic imagery removed, with limited success. In February, a court in Karlsruhe rejected a motion to remove one Jew sow relief from a church in Wittenberg, near Berlin, where the theologian Martin Luther once preached. The anti-Semitic figures installed at German The controversial “Judensau,” or “Jew’s Sow,” relief on churches are widely thought to have been inspired the facade of the historic 14th-century Stadtkirche church by Luther’s anti-Semitic attitudes. in Wittenberg, Germany, where theologian Martin Luther once preached. Credit: Carsten Koall/Getty Images

Life cycles IN MEMORIAM LOUISE LIPPETT Louise Lippett passed away on June 17, 2020 at age 99. Private services were held on June 18 at Golden Hill Cemetery. She was preceded in death by brother Ben. She is survived by her daughter, Sharon, son Mark, nephew, Ed Wintroub, niece Joan Kellner, and several grandnieces and grandnephews. Louise loved her family unconditionally. She had many friends for whom she was always available for support and aid. She also supported her community. Methodist Hospital honored her for long-term service as a volunteer; she served as a troop leader for her daughter's girl scout troop; she did volunteer work for various religious organizations. Louise was an eternal optimist who focussed on all that she had, and not on what she did not have. She will be dearly missed by all those that she touched. Memorials may be made to Beth Israel Synagogue.

JFO Virtual Village While we may be apart, share what you are up to with the community. Whether you are gathering virtually, visiting loved ones through windows, or just being creative in your own house, when you post on social media please include the hashtag #JFOVirtualVillage. The community continues to offer a variety of LIVE events via Facebook and Zoom. Check out the LIVE Virtual Calendar to see what events are happening at www.jewishomaha.org. Our homepage offers a number of convenient links; there is everything from story time with a large variety of books read out loud for our youngest members to weekly Torah study. Of course, the virtual JCC has numerous classes and opportunities. There is even a carry-out directory, in case you don’t feel like cooking!

Attempts to boycott Israel a form of anti-Semitism CNAAN LIPSHIZ JTA A Spanish state for the first time passed legislation declaring the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel a form of anti-Semitism. The parliament of the Balearic Islands Autonomous Community — one of 17 such entities that make up the semi-federal state kingdom of Spain — made the declaration in a June 11 motion that was passed unanimously and finalized last week. It said the Balearic Islands condemn “any form of anti-Semitism” as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and “particularly the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS, and calls to boycott Israeli products, scientists, artists and athletes from Israel,” the motion reads. It also spoke about the need to research and educate about the unique Jewish history of the region, whose capital city, Palma, is on the island of Mallorca. The definition of anti-Semitism referenced in the resolution includes some examples of anti-Israel vitriol, including comparisons between the Jewish state and Nazi Germany. Spain’s judiciary has repeatedly defined BDS as a discriminatory endeavor, but legislation reflecting this view rarely passes. Separately, an appeals court in Barcelona on Wednesday ordered a suburb of that city, Molins de Rei, to scrap its 2013 motion declaring support for BDS and calling Israel an apartheid state. In 2018, an Israeli water polo team’s match against the national women’s team of Spain was canceled because the Nautical Club Molins de Rei refused to host it.

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