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Be an Ally, Make a Difference, Raise a Glass for ADL-CRC
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Pam mONSky Community Development Liaison, ADL-CRC xcitement is building for the ADL-CRC’s first fundraising event since 2006! Be an Ally, Make a Difference, Raise a Glass is a wine tasting and silent auction event taking place at Gallery 1516, 1516 Leavenworth Street, on Sunday, Aug. 19 from 2-4 p.m. The featured wines for the event are from Yarden, Inc., importer of quality Israeli wines from Golan Heights Winery and Galil Mountain Winery and Chiefton Distribution. Event sponsors include Fraser Stryker Law Firm, Toba Cohen-Dunning and Eric Dunning, Broadmoor Development, W.H.
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OzziE NOGG Rabbi Levi Lauer, the Founding Executive Director of ATZUM-Justice Works, will visit Omaha for a series of lectures on Thursday, aug. 23 through Saturday, aug. 25. A pioneer educator and activist, Lauer’s concern for making social justice a priority of Jewish devotion led him to found ATZUM in 2002 to
Eric Dunning and Toba Cohen-Dunning Ferer Corporation and Kohll’s Pharmacy. Honorary Event co-chairs are Gary Nachman and Sheila Fitzgerald along with Toba Cohen-Dunning and Eric Dunning as Event Co-Chairs. “This is going to be a fantastic event,” said Toba. “Recent disturbing events in our community have made it clear that our work at the ADL-CRC is more crucial than ever. The event offers a great opportunity to galvanize our community and to state without a doubt that we are united against hate in all forms,” she added. Gary Nachman agreed, adding, “We invite the entire community to come together for a short time on a Sunday afternoon and enjoy the wine, pick up an auction item or See Raise a Glass for aDL-CRC page 2
Backyard Concert Series Jam Session: The 9s
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GaBBy BLaiR Staff Writer, Jewish Press The Jewish Federation of Omaha invites you to attend the third installation of this year’s Backyard Concert Series Sunday, Aug. 19 from 5-7 p.m., in the JCC Backyard pavilion featuring The 9s. Offering a hybrid of 70’s jazz rock, 80’s funk, and soaring stadium rock with a healthy dose of wink-and-nod thrown in, The 9s are sure to have
you boogying down. Since their inception, The 9s have shared the stage with The Average White Band, Parliament/Funkadelic, Maceo Parker, Sonja Dada, Ziggy Marley, and Bela Fleck. As always, concerts are free and the show will go on rain or shine; inclement weather location is conveniently located on site, in the
JCC Theater. Kona Ice will have 50+ flavors of shaved ice, as well as novelty ice creams available for purchase. The Dante Food Truck will have cheese, margherita and veggie pizza as well as soda. Gluten-free and vegan options are available. See Backyard Concert Series page 3
Rabbi Levi Lauer to speak at UNO and Beth El Synagogue.
remedy injustices in Israeli society and encourage individuals to become agents of change. The organization was founded on the belief that Israel should be a model for the rest of the world in combatting and resolving social justice issues. Dr. Sam Meisels and Deborah Denenberg, two of Rabbi Lauer’s long-time friends, suggested his visit to Omaha. “Levi is the rare person who matches his beliefs to his actions every-single-day,” Denenberg said. “He is passionate, intellectually curious, learned, smart and funny as can be. You will want to hear what he has to teach.” Among other projects, Rabbi Lauer developed ATZUM’s Roberta Project for Survivors of Terror to seek amelioration of the anguish of Israelis suffering the brutal aftermath of surviving a terror attack; The Righteous Rescuers Project which assists Righteous Among the Nations (non-Jews who helped Jews during the Holocaust) who came to Israel to live after WW II; Project Abrah for Ethiopian high-school students and Ethiopian Prisoners of Zion (Ethiopian Jews who assisted the emigration of Jews from Ethiopia to Israel, were arrested by African authorities for doing so, and were imprisoned and/or tortured as a consequence); Beit Midrash TAKUM, an international forum for social activist study of Jewish texts; The Task Force on Human Trafficking and Prostitution, which has made substantial progress combating sex slavery in Israel; and ATZRAS, which extends assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in Israel. Rabbi Lauer’s Omaha schedule and topics include: See Rabbi Levi Lauer page 3