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Solomon mArburG On Tuesday, July 26, the ADL-CRC, in collaboration with the Jewish Federation of Omaha, held a workshop titled Words to Action: Empowering Students to Address Anti-Semitism on Campus. According to the ADL, this program is an interactive workshop for college and pre-colparticipant illyana hamicksburg lege students to empower and equip them with might face as a Jew on a college constructive, effective responses to campus, and how I can handle them in a way that is beneficial to both anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias me and any other parties involved. on campus. As an incoming college The workshop was held at No More freshman, I attended the workshop to learn more about what obstacles I Empty Cups, a local coffee shop, and was offered in two sessions.

Participants could elect to attend the 2-4:30 p.m. session, or one from 5:30-8 p.m. At the 2 p.m. session, I joined a group of Omaha and Lincoln Jewish college and soon-to-be college students.

The program, which was led by ADL-CRC trained facilitators Emily Newman and Shiri Phillips, opened with participants recalling the See Combating anti-Semitism page 2

Annette vAn de KAmp-WriGht Editor of the Jewish Press ehilla is Hebrew for “community.” It’s an appropriate name given to the Kehilla cup that is, for the second year in a row, up for grabs. During the 2016 Annual Campaign, the first Kehilla Cup was awarded to Team Kutler, and we are lucky that for the next campaign, Adam and Abby Kutler have agreed to take the lead.

Here’s what’s happening between Aug. 31 and Nov. 30: Each Team will “draft”/recommend and/or be assigned 40 pledge cards to be divided amongt their teammates at a DRAFT PARTY at DJ’s Dugout 114th and Dodge on Wednesday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m. The 8 to10 Team Captains will recruit and solicit about 8 to 10 team members each. All Team Captains and players will attend a “Kehillah Cup Competition Kickoff ” that will take place Wednesday, Aug. 31. The competition will be based on a point system awarded for a variety of activities, and there will be bonus point incentives for early successes on Aug. 31 and during the month of September.

Want to motivate a crowd to action? Try a little friendly competition.

Chief Development Officer Steve Levinger explains: “The Cup will unite and inspire our own Omaha Jewish community via a friendly team competition where participants connect with fellow Jews, learn of their Jewish interests, educate on our Federation mission and, ultimately, secure 2017 Campaign pledges.”

Prior to the official “Kick-off ” on Aug. 31, captains will be assembling their teams. They will be scouting for dedication, charm, salesmanship and sense of humor. Levinger says friends, See Kehilla Cup page 2

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CAriSSA hupKe Grab your lawn chairs and picnic blanket.

Pack the cooler. Bring the family and invite your friends to our 6th Annual Backyard Concert Series! Enjoy the fresh air, funky tunes, and fun atmosphere, all while relaxing in our backyard. All concerts begin at 5 p.m. in the Pavilion and last until 7 p.m.

During each concert, a local youth group will be selling desserts as a fundraiser. In addition, Jewish Family Service will be taking donations for their

food pantry. Pasta, pasta sauce, canned fruits in fruit juice, canned vegetables, toilet paper, tissues, toothbrushes and tooth paste are appreciated. Look for the blue bins! Please do not bring expired items.

Aug. 21, Satchel Grande will take the stage. Easily danceable and singable, Satchel Grande is straight-up the most fun(k) you’ll have shakin’ your tail feathers to. The combination of guitars, sax and some frisky keys allows the music to play See backyard Concert Series page 3

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Jordana Kurtzman We are still several weeks away from the High Holidays, but it’s time to place your orders for kosher food from KC Kosher Co-Op! As many of Omaha’s Jewish community members know, it has become increasingly difficult to find many kosher products in town; however, KC Kosher Co-Op, a company based in Kansas City specializing in providing Kosher food at low costs, is once again offering a full line of kosher products delivered to Omaha at significantly discounted prices.

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How does the Co-Op work? Any community member can go onto the Co-Op website at www.kckoshercoop.com to sign up for an account and easily browse, order, and pay for products online. All items are sold in bulk which keeps prices low, but if you don’t think you need an entire case of blintzes (or anything else for that matter) registrants can also choose cases to split with other members. The Co-Op carries hundreds of fresh meat/poultry, dairy, dry goods, fish, candy, etc. Once the orders are made, the staff at KC Kosher Co-Op processes the order and arranges a delivery to the city. When the order arrives, an unloading crew takes all of the boxes off the truck and makes sure everyone gets what they

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Continued from page 1 spouses and relatives are all “fair game”. “If you want to participate and get drafted by any of our outstanding captains, please let me know!”

Federation staff will provide support, logistics and training along the way,” Levinger says. “We’re planning a great season of fun, engagement and community spirit.”

During the Aug. 31 event, teams will learn the rules of the Kehilla Cup, followed by a solicitation training session, so everyone is fully prepared for competition. Of course, competition is no fun without prizes, the most coveted of which is the Kehilla Cup! Teams will want bragging rights to having their names engraved on the Cup. Teams will learn all about Kehilla Cup scoring. Points are generated

Combating anti-Semitism

Continued from page 1 many different forms of anti-Semitism they had experienced in the past. It was clear that the level of experience with anti-Semitism in the room varied greatly; some participants reported frequent and cruel acts of anti-Semitic comments and bullying, while others had few encounters with such behavior. After talking at length about these actions and how they reacted, participants were introduced to the four different types of comments and actions they might face on a college campus. Anti-Semitism, the most obvious of the four, refers to any words or action against the Jewish faith or people. Anti-Zionism refers to those who do not believe in the right of a Jewish state to exist at all. Anti-Israel thinking does not necessarily deny the right to a Jewish state, but believes the current state of Israel is a malevolent one, or otherwise believes that Israel is the source of Middle-Eastern conflict and should not exist where it does. The fourth kind of beliefs that participants were taught to handle were Legitimate Criticisms. Almost any objection to specific political or military actions by the State of Israel can be classified as a legitimate criticism and should not be considered to fall into any of the previous three categories.

Participants were given several cards with scenarios of alleged bias and asked to place them on a Venn diagram containing circles labeled anti-Semitism, anti-Israel, and anti-Zionism, as well as a separate box for Legitimate Criticism. Through this activity, it became clear that many acts of prejudice fall under more than one of the aforementioned categories. There was also discussion as to what could and could not be considered legitimate criticism. Par-

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ordered. Co-Op members have a one-hour window to pick up their order specially packaged and marked for them. People who split cases of products can then exchange items and/or money as needed.

The upcoming High Holidays order deadline is thursday, aug. 25 with a delivery at approximately 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at the Jewish Community Center. Visit www.kckoshercoop.com to signup and even receive reminders for order deadlines and pickup times.

Please contact KC Kosher Co-Op at admin@kckoshercoop.com with any questions about products and availability, or contact Jordana Kurtzman at j.kurtzman@cox.net if you need assistance navigating the website or using the split products page.

by team members and the donor engagement they undertake. New gifts, increased gifts, face-to-face solicitations and completed donor cards – these are just some of the points categories teams will work with.

Levinger has even planned for team bonus points.

Teams that establish a name or theme prior to the Aug. 24 Kick-off will earn 100 extra points and teams that arrive on the 31st in “team spirit wear” also earn an extra 100 points. Think special t-shirts, hats, wigs, or anything that shows your team spirit.

“We feel strongly that the team concept builds relationships and friendships among the solicitors and helps create fun and goodwill among donors. Its win-win,” Levinger added.

ticipants were then instructed to role-play with the scenario cards, allowing us to practice tools that would help us deffuse a situation and potentially open the eyes of others to how their words could be interpreted. Tools included asking the other party why they hold this belief and what they mean by their statement, then explaining how they read what they are saying. Participants were also taught how to politely explain the other side of the viewpoint to individuals, including the fact that it is ok to admit that you don’t know a lot about a particular topic.

In my view, the workshop was very effective. It provided a casual, friendly environment in which all who attended were comfortable sharing their views and experiences and participating in the discussion. It did more than just serve as a heads-up for what we might face during our college careers; it gave us powerful ways to combat anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias, and anti-Zionism amongt our classmates and professors without burning bridges. If given the option, I would attend a similar workshop again.

This program was funded by: Special Donor Advised Fund, Phillip and Terri Schrager Supporting Foundation, the Morton A. Richards Youth Program and the Sharee and Murray Newman Supporting Foundations.

For more information on the ADL’s Words to Action workshop series, available to high school and college age students across the country, and to learn about other available ADL-CRC programming, visit www.omaha.adl.org.

To find out more about programming being offered by the Jewish Federation of Omaha, please visit www.jewish omaha.org.

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Stephen Center Scott LittKy Program Director, Temple Israel hen there is a month with a fifth Sunday in it, Temple Israel makes and serves breakfast at the Stephen Center in South Omaha. The Center was founded in 1984 with the mission to partner with the community, families and individuals to overcome homelessness, addiction and poverty.

The Stephen Center was founded by Sharon and Dick McNeil, a couple who was determined to focus on the particular needs of the poor in South Omaha. With the help of many friends and volunteers, they opened Stephen Center in a building that had formerly been a bar with a colorful history.

During the winter of 2015 the Stephen Center moved into a new state-of-theart facility.

The Center now operates three distinct programs to overcome homelessness, addiction and poverty. First is the Emergency Shelter which is staffed 24 hours a day and is the only dry shelter in Omaha. Second is the HERO Program, a state-licensed substance abuse treatment program. The program is a 12 step-supported program and also serves those with a co-occurring mental illness. Finally, is the Traditional

Living Program that utilizes a when she died, he spiraled downward strength-based case management phiand lost everything, including his relalosophy that focuses on participants tionship with his family. As a result, he attaining self-sufficiency and building ended up at the Stephen Center as a self-esteem. person who was homeless and with a Many past participants in various serious drinking problem. He said that Stephen Center programs now are employed by the Center. One particular employee is Tina who was a substance and alcohol abuser who, through the Stephen Center, cleaned herself up and now helps in preparing meals that are served every day, 365 days a year. Each time the volunteers of Temple Israel come Eric Shapiro and Kayla Monroe preparing eggs for 120 people. to serve, Tina greets them and loves to the Stephen Center helped him to reshare her personal story of success. gain his focus and to clean up. He said This coming November she will gradhe is healthy and happy and trying to uate college with a degree in Human rebuild his relationship with his family.

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Hector Anchondo, who will be here Sept. 11, doesn’t just play the blues -- he lives and breathes the blues. At 16-years-old, the budding musician picked up his first guitar and never looked back. Anchando has played on many stages and festivals including SXSW, Warped Tour, House of Blues Chicago, BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups to name a few. He has been a semifinalist in the 2015 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN, as well as the winner of the 2014 Nebraska State Blues Challenge.

Our final concert, Sept. 18, features Lazerwolfe. Born unto the wilderness and raised by wolves, these five young men have lived their lives never knowing fear. They have spent years honing their craft and have grown from tiny defenseless cubs to those who lead the pack. They chose to honor those who have gone before and embrace the music of the past, paying tribute to such artists as Dire Straits, Bruce Springsteen, Prince and The Police. If you love it, they have played it and will so again.

We can’t wait to see you there!

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OZZiE nOgg are not uncommon, but they can be eth El Synagogue will host a overcome when generous volunteers Red Cross Blood Drive on roll up their sleeves to restock the Sunday, Aug. 28, from 8 shelves. If you are an eligible donor, a.m. until 1 p.m. The Drive please consider doing your part to coincides with the first day help our community. Invite a friend or of BESTT -- Beth El Synagogue Talfamily member to join you in saving mud Torah. “We’ve offered this prolives.” gram on the first day of Sunday School Michael Parsow, son of Alan and for several years,” said Bill Dreyfus, Carol Parsow, just returned home chairman of the drive. “The timing from his summer on staff at Camp makes it very convenient for our memSabra, and is eager to join the Beth El ber parents and others in the commublood drive. “Michael’s been a donor at nity to participate in this mitzvah.” the synagogue for the past three years,” Dreyfus, a long-time volunteer with Carol said. “He donates at the Red the Red Cross, has donated over 150 Cross, too. When he hears someone is units of platelets. He is quick to point sick, he tells me ‘I’m going to give out the ‘Benefits of Donating Blood’ blood and save his or her life.’ He’s so from the organization’s web site. “Blood determined. On Aug. 28, Michael will is something you can spare, yet there’s probably be first in line.” still not enough to go around,” he said.

According to Dreyfus, “We’re unable Michael Parsow, dedicated blood donor, en“Your donation ensures blood is on the to collect platelets, plasma or packed courages community members to participate shelf when needed, and the person who red blood cells at the Beth El Drive, in Beth El Synagogue’s Blood Drive. needs it one day could be you. You but if people are interested in these could help save more than one life with just one donation,” areas I’ll be happy to put them in contact with Red Cross Dreyfus continued, “and be someone’s hero. And, on the staff who can help.” To find out if you’re eligible to donate, lighter side, after you donate you get free juice and delicious and for answers to frequently asked questions about what to cookies.” As a special thank you from the American Red expect when you donate blood, go to: http://www.redcross Cross, all donors receive a $5 Amazon gift code via email. blood.org/donating-blood.

This year, Beth El is offering new incentives to encourage Registration for the Beth El Synagogue blood drive is participation. According to Program Director Margie Gutavailable on line. Go to http://www.bethel-omaha.org and nik, “When young parents donate, we’ll designate their chil- click the Blood Drive link on the homepage under featured dren as Pint-size Heroes (kids K through 5) and Future links. Registrations can also be made by calling Melina Donors (kids grades 6-8). All Pint-size Heroes receive Red Cohen or Cait Leff at the synagogue office, 402.492.8550.

Cross flashlights, and Future Donors get Red Cross ball “Blood is meant to circulate,” Dreyfus said. “Let’s pass it caps.” Gutnik stressed that teens can also participate in the around.” blood drive. “Sixteen-year-olds can donate, as long as their parents sign an online permission form, and young people 17 and older can donate without their parents’ permission.”

Ellie Wagner, Beth El’s contact at the American Red Cross, added, “Every unit of blood counts at this point.

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Mark kirchhoff Program and Communications Assistant, Jewish Federation of Omaha The 15th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival is underway and accelerates rapidly this coming week. On Sunday, Aug. 14 at 7:15 p.m. in the JCC theater the film 50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. & Mrs. Kraus will be shown. This is a 2013 film produced in the United States and directed by Steven Pressman, a journalist by profession who is directing his first film. The film is in English and runs 62 minutes. When much of the world closed its eyes to the terrors of Nazi Germany, one American couple risked everything to save Jewish children from an unimaginable fate. This is a true story of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus who never intended to become heroes. Yet ,in early 1939, as conditions were worsening for Jews living inside Nazi Germany, the Philadelphia couple embarked on a risky and improbable mission – an effort to rescue 50 Jewish children and bring them to safety in the United States. They put themselves in harm’s way to bring what would become the single largest known group of children allowed into the U.S. during that time. Admission is $5.

Rabin In His Own Words is a bonus film shown on Tuesday, Aug. 16 also at 7:15 p.m. in the JCC Theater. Because of generous sponsorship, this film is presented FREE of charge. “There’s nothing harder than defining oneself,” Yitzhak Rabin says during an interview shown in Rabin in

Love and Ahava

In honor of Tu B’Av, Israel’s holiday of love, which this year falls on the night of Aug.18, following are some thoughts about the differences between how my native and adopted tongues speak of “the holiness of the heart’s affections” (John Keats, 1795-1821).

In Hebrew “love” is also a four-lettered word. Indeed, if you go to the Israel Museum’s sculpture garden you TEDDY WEINBERGER can see a Hebrew version (1977) of Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE design (1964). The two words, however, have a completely different feel because in Hebrew “love” is three syllables and comes out: a-ha-va.

I have nothing against ahava, but I must say that I am partial to love. If I write a note to someone in my family, even if I am writing in Hebrew, I will always sign off with “Love.” I typically want my short notes to my family to express my love without being too heavy-handed, and for my (native English) sensibilities. “Love” does that much better than the tri-syllabled ahava. Actually if I wanted to sign off a note with the Hebrew word for “love,” correct Hebrew usage would force me to add yet another syllable and write down the four-syllabled word “be-a-ha-vah (“with love”).

What ever happened to love being simple?

To round out this survey of Hebrew’s syllabic love woes, I should mention that when you “make love” in Hebrew you do it in six rather than in two syllables: “la-a-sot a-ha-va.”

The expression in Hebrew seems to make the whole process much more physically challenging.

If ahava the noun leaves something to be desired, ahava the verb has some distinct advantages over its English equivalent. Hebrew’s use of the self-reflexive provides a wonderful alternative to falling in love -- a phrase that can

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His Own Words. Still, this documentary, consisting almost entirely of his recollections in his own voice, outlines his life and his terribly dangerous times.

Rabin (1922-1995) was born in Jerusalem, and after his early studies joined the military and rose through the ranks. He was twice elected Israeli prime minister, and in 1994 won the Nobel Peace Prize (with Shimon Peres and Yasir Arafat). With a few exceptions, the film relates these milestones by piecing together interviews and speeches he gave and employing videos, letters and photographs. Along with his historical analysis, we hear personal recollections from this often reticent leader. (Director: Erez Laufer, USA/Israel; Hebrew with English subtitles; 72minutes.)

We extend our thanks to the generous sponsors of this year’s film festival. They are the Henry Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith, Richard and Fran Juro, and the following Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation funds: Klutznick/Creighton Custodial Fund, Special Donor Advised Fund, Frederick J. Simon Memorial Endowment Fund, Samuel & Bess Rothenberg Memorial Endowment Fund, and the Avy L. & Roberta L. Miller Film Fund. Because of the generosity of the sponsors, tickets are only $5 per film, and the film on Aug. 16 will be free of charge.

be criticized for not adequately describing the process of what happens (typically, no one does any actual falling). In Hebrew when you speak of falling in love, you use the selfreflexive “le-hit-a-hev,” so that if, for example, you say that a man “hitahev” with a particular woman, you are saying that the man was filled with love which was then directed toward the woman. It seems to me that this is a much more accurate description (if perhaps less romantic) of what goes on when we are in love: Another person may be the object of one’s love, but the emotion of love begins within you and then gets expressed outwardly.

Another advantage of ahava the verb over its English equivalent is that like all Hebrew verbs, it greatly benefits from compactness, where tenses can shift with simple vowel changes (in English you often need several words to do the job). For example, if you ask a man whether he loves a certain movie, you say “a-hav-ta?” whereas in English, this comes out as “Did you love it?” Ay, but there’s the rub. Because in English you would usually say “Did you like it?”

There is no satisfactory word for “like” in Hebrew, and, as a result, Hebrew speakers freely use “ahava” when they mean “like,” especially if the context is clear. This happens in English, too, of course; you might say that you love your profession and it’s clear that you don’t mean that in a romantic way.

However, Hebrew, with its absence of “like,” forces you into a corner on this much more often than you would “like.”

Ultimately, since I think that the Beatles were right when they said “All you need is love” (and please note that they did not say all you need is “love”), the most important thing is to fill one’s life, and the lives of those you love, be-a-ha-va.

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

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Israel experience: Breathtaking seth norton The ten days that I spent in Israel with my fellow teenagers was an incredible experience. It was so great to finally see the mythical land we have been learning about and talking about throughout the last decade or so of our lives.

We were asked to pick the most impactful thing that we encountered or visited during our stay. I tried to only pick one of the many experiences we had in the Holy Land, but I eventually settled on two.

The first of my selections, I imagine, will be a common one. It is a must-see for any Jew visiting Israel: the Kotel, or the Western Wall. The Wall was breathtaking, in a spiritual sense as well as a physical sense. Physically, the Wall is huge, and to think of people long ago, without modern technology to aid them, shaping and moving these massive boulders and building this structure is just mind-boggling. Our guide, Assaf, told us to imagine, back when there were no photographs to capture the immense size of this wall, to try and explain how big it is to someone who has not been there. I don’t even think pictures of the wall will do its size justice. Spiritually, it was amazing to be in the holiest place for the Jewish faith in the entire world, and the opportunity to pray among and see Jews from all walks of life converging to talk to God there, and stuffing all their hopes and dreams into the wall in the form of words scrawled on a page. It was a phenom-

enal experience and I would recommend it to anyone who hasn’t been.

My second choice seems much more mundane to other people, but being there really stuck with me throughout the trip. It was the first shuk that we briefly walked

through in Akko that struck me. It was partially the atmosphere that was energetic and laden with the aromas and odors of exotic spices and fish (hence the odors), but also it was so astounding to me that these people went about their everyday lives similar to the way we live ours. I didn’t see any evidence of the constant conflict with the surrounding countries, only merchants trying to sell their wares - which they assured us were 50% off and very good prices – and people shopping for that night’s dinner or a toy for their child.

I don’t know if it was just me, but seeing that life in Israel was normal, and wasn’t always a bunch of battle-hardened people waiting around for the next attack, really gave me a new perspective on life there.

Beth el Adult ed classes: Prep school for the High Holidays ozzie nogg Traditionally, Jews spend Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, preparing for Yomin Noraim -- the Ten Days of Awe. We’re told to examine our souls, take stock of our deeds and review the way we’ve lived our lives in the past year.

This fall, Beth El Synagogue will help community members prepare for 5777 through a series of weekly Adult Education classes -Your Journey Starts Here: An Insider’s Guide to the High Holy Days -- scheduled for August 31 through September 28 and led by Rabbi Steven Abraham. “The High Holy Days are meant to be joyous,” Rabbi Abraham said. “The themes of remembrance, forgiveness and renewal are ideas intended to impact our everyday lives. Together, we will look at how the High Holy Days are much more an exercise of the heart than of the mind.”

Participants are invited to attend class either at Beth El on Tuesdays from Noon to 1 p.m., or at Spirit World on Wednesdays from 6:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., following minyan at the synagogue. The class subject on both days will be the same, with topics as follows: Tuesday, Aug. 30, and Wednesday, Aug. 31: What page are we on? Finding meaning in other people’s words.

Tuesday, Sept. 6, and Wednesday, Sept.

7: God, are you listening? Having faith in things unseen.

Tuesday, Sept. 13 and Wednesday, Sept.

14: Rosh Hashanah focus: Who will live and who will die. An inside look at Unetaneh Tokef.

Tuesday, Sept. 20 and Wednesday, Sept.

21: Yom Kippur focus: Two roads diverged in

a path and I took the one less travelled, by a discussion on teshuva and learning to forgive.

Tuesday, Sept. 27 and Wednesday, Sept.

28: Yom Kippur focus: Food for thoughts, Tips for having a meaningful fast.

Your Journey Starts Here sessions require online registration, available at www.bethelomaha.org. The fee for classes held at Beth El is $36 which covers the cost of lunch.

Participants may attend classes at Spirit World at no charge, but must purchase their own dinner.

Additional adult education classes planned for later in the year include Ethics and Values: A Jewish Guide to Life’s Most Difficult Questions that will meet from Nov. 2 through Jan. 25, 2017; and a course using Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s text, Jewish Wisdom: Ethical, Spiritual, and Historical Lessons from the Great Works and Thinkers scheduled to run from Feb. 1, 2017, through March 29, 2017. “These classes will also meet on Tuesday for lunch and on Wednesday for dinner,” said Eadie Tsabari, Beth El Director of Congregational Learning. “The exact times and locations will be announced in a future edition of the Jewish Press.”

Beth El continues to offer its popular Torah Study Group which has met every Sunday morning from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. since 1999. “It’s considered by many to be Omaha’s longest running Torah study group,” Tsabari said, “and shows no signs of slowing down. New participants are always welcome.” The synagogue will also continue its Sunday Speakers Series beginning in September. The schedule of presenters and dates will be announced soon.

Showers at Auschwitz-Birkenau

JTA NEWS STAFF Shower-like misters are back at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, one year aer similar cooling devices were removed aer an outcry.

Installed to help visitors beat the heat at the site of the former Nazi death camp in Poland, the misters are again leading to complaints that they are reminiscent of the decoy “showers” used by the Nazis to murder Jews.

Rabbi Rafi Ostroff, who heads the religious services department of the Gush Etzion region in the West Bank, posted on Facebook photos of the mist sprinklers, which were installed inside a parking lot of Auschwitz-Birkenau to cool visitors on Friday, when the temperature reached 88 degrees Fahrenheit.

Mist showers outside the Auschwitz memorial museum, installed in 2015 to cool visitors, led to charges of insensitivity.

Credit: Facebook “Showers at the entrance gate to the parking lot of Birkenau,” Ostroff wrote. “I don’t know about you but I feel uncomfortable entering a shower at the entrance of a death camp.”

“Granted, they mean well (to provide relief from the maddening heat) but, come on, show a little sensitivity,” Ostroff wrote. “Or am I imagining, yet again, insensitivity to the Jewish story on the part of the museum’s management?”

In September last year, aer similar objections, management from the Auschwitz museum told Israel’s Channel 10 that they had removed the misting sprinklers, but maintained the reason for their removal was the drop in temperatures, and not consideration for the feelings of visitors who found them disturbing.

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UNO welcomes Rabbi Azriel to campus KASey dAviS he University of Nebraska at Omaha is pleased to welcome Rabbi Aryeh Azriel to the Religious Studies faculty as a part-time instructor during the 2016-2017 academic year. This Fall, Rabbi Azriel will be teaching the new UNO Hebrew Scriptures class on Tuesday evenings, 6–8:40 p.m. The course will run from Aug. 23 to Dec. 10, 2016 on the first floor of Arts and Science Hall room 148. The course number is RELI 2150-001. Space is limited. In addition to interested UNO students, this class is open to community members to enroll. The University of Nebraska at Omaha continues to offer its “Senior Passport Program” for those who are 65 and older to join up to six classes per year at a special rate of $25. Senior members of the community who wish to enroll in this program, as well as those already enrolled, can register for this class by contacting Ms. Patsy Stradling at the registrar’s office 402.554.3042 or pstradling@unomaha.edu.

UNO, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Schwalb Center are offering other classes related to Israel and Judaic Studies. These include courses in Biblical Archaeology and Dead Sea Scrolls offered by Dr. Rami Arav and Apocalypticism by Dr. Curtis Hutt. For more information on Religious Studies at UNO please contact Staci Geis at 402.554.2628 or sgeis@unomaha.edu. For classes on Israel and Judaic Studies, please contact, Kasey Davis at 402.554.2788 or unoschwalbcenter@unomaha.edu.

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No place for politics

ANNETTE vAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Editor of the Jewish Press here are few things I enjoy as much as watching the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. All those different faces and costumes; the excited athletes who have worked their tails off to get there, the crazy mix of languages and ethnicities and customs, there’s something incredibly fun about it. Lights, colors, fireworks and out of-this-world performances—what’s not to like?

Even if I did have to miss the entrances of America, Israel and the Netherlands because it interfered with Shabbat dinner. That’s okay; first things first, and there are plenty of other things to watch. Plus, there’s always the ESPN app. We can re-watch anything anytime. During the Olympics, there is so much to root for, and the sometimes-inspiring backstories inspire us to cheer on athletes from countries we’ve never even heard off. When watching sports, we temporarily pretend politics can take a backseat.

Until, of course, we hear about how the Israeli team was assigned to a bus that also transported the Lebanese delegation to the opening ceremonies. We hear how the head of the Lebanese delegation physically blocked the Israelis entrance to said bus, because they wouldn’t share. And then we read about how that delegation was praised at home for standing up to those awful Israelis, how administrators arranged a different bus, so the Israeli delegation could actually march in those opening ceremonies.

Then, there was the Saudi Judoka who forfeited a match in order to avoid competing against an Israeli, claiming injury, only to get right back onto the mat as soon as that Israeli was eliminated. Oh, and the Palestinian swimmer who said she was denied entrance to the Olympic sized swimming pool in Jerusalem during her training. Except, Gaza had three Olympic pools, and the athlete never even asked to use the Jerusalem one. But who cares, right? It’s just Israel, no big deal- we’ll just turn our head and go right back to cheering for our favorites, and we won’t worry too much about the playground behavior.

Being mean to Israel does not make headlines on the international stage. We know this; the popular narrative has been set and there is not much we can do to change it. And I wonder:

is it simply a PR issue? Where does this eagerness to spit on Israelis come from? Sure, Israel has problems; it’s not perfect.

But doesn’t that go for everyone? Governments around the world regularly mess up, in big ways and small, it’s human na-

less that ideal, would that give the Iranians cause to physically block the Americans from that bus? And what would happen if they did? International outcry would surely follow, and people would be talking about it everywhere. Can you imagine the out-

Israel’s flagbearer, Neta Rivkin, leading her delegation during the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 5, 2016.

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ture, and yet when it comes to Israel, there is an almost gleeful eagerness to bully, boycott and hate without consequence.

Sure, there are stories in the Jerusalem Post and Haaretz, and even Tablet Mag did a lengthy expose about that swimming pool incident. But that’s an exercise in futility - the ones who hear it already knew about it, and those who need to hear it can’t or won’t.

Sometimes I question what is worse: that nonsense with the bus, or the quiet afterwards. Imagine if part of the American delegation (say, the gymnasts) were assigned to a bus with a number of Iranian athletes. Political relations with Iran being

rage? I can.

And just once, I would like it if that outrage would follow when these types of irritating incidents happen to Israelis. I know; there was no violence, nobody was bleeding, and compared to everything Israelis have to deal with, this is something minor. However, these ‘minor’ incidents are oh so telling. And when we don’t call attention to the small stuff, we run the risk of the anti Israel sentiments growing and festering more and more.

There is no place for politics in the Olympics. It sure sounds nice. But what would be really, extra, super-wonderfully nice, is if it were actually true.

at the convention. Big-name Jewish donors declined to attend. Republican Jews, from journalists Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin to former Republican operatives like Noam Neusner and David Frum, oppose Trump. The Republican Jewish Coalition held no events that were open to the media, a departure from previous conventions.

date to win a major party primary. Jewish entertainers, activists and politicians peppered every night’s roster, from singer Paul Simon to Senator Barbara Boxer.

Criticism of Israel was a recurring feature in Philadelphia, a point the RJC pressed in an ad released last week calling the party “stridently antiIsrael.” Many Sanders supporters wore pro-Palestinian stickers, and a few advocated changing the United States’ historically pro-Israel policy. On Wednesday, a night devoted largely to national security, no one mentioned the U.S. alliance with Israel. There was full-throated support for the Iran deal throughout the convention.

At one point, protesters outside the convention burned an Israeli flag. At a roundtable discussion held outside the convention by the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and the American Friends Service Committee, Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson compared Israel’s West Bank settlement movement to termites.

But in the end, the party could point to the ways it shored up its traditional pro-Israel wing.

The Democratic platform committee rejected an effort to even mention settlements and occupation in its section on Israel. Like Trump, Clinton threw a shout-out to Israel’s security into her acceptance speech, and didn’t mention Palestinians. Gen. John Allen, the former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, gave a convention speech in support of Clinton that echoed neoconservative rhetoric, which tends to be forcefully pro-Israel. Even Bill Clinton got into the act, sporting a Hebrew “Hillary” button during Obama’s Wednesday night speech.

It could be that, in future election cycles, discord over Israel will drive more Jews to the Republican party. Part of Sanders’ dissent from Democratic orthodoxy was in his call for more See Republicans and Democrats diverge page 9

Uneasy Republicans and confident Democrats diverge on ‘Jewish’ issues BEN SALES NEW YORK | JTA It’s never been easy for Jewish Republicans.

Jews have broken overwhelmingly for Democratic candidates since Woodrow Wilson. Despite rising American Jewish affluence, usually a harbinger of conservative voting patterns, a plurality self-defines as liberal.

Republican Jews have poured millions into upping their share of the Jewish vote in recent elections, portraying the GOP as the pro-Israel party and telling largely affluent Jewish Americans to vote their economic self-interest. The needle has only moved a little, despite those efforts: 80 percent of Jews voted Clinton in 1992, 79 percent voted Gore in 2000 and 74 percent voted Obama in 2008.

Organizations like the Republican Jewish Coalition have kept pushing despite it all. Most Jews don’t vote primarily based on Israel, but as Democrats passed a controversial Iran deal and condemned Israel’s West Bank occupation, Republicans saw a window of opportunity.

Republicans doubled down on the Israel case at their national convention in Cleveland last month. Donald Trump, Mike Pence and a handful of other speakers included lines in support of Israel in their speeches and drew loud applause.

President Barack Obama’s support of Iran’s nuclear program, anathema to the Israeli government, was a nightly punching bag.

Dozens of delegates told JTA that the main reason Jews should vote Trump is that he’s better on Israel than his opponent, Hillary Clinton. The Republican platform swung right on Israel, eliminating the long-held bipartisan consensus supporting the two-state solution, and rejecting the United States’ right to dictate terms on IsraeliPalestinian peace.

Even so, Republican Jewish uneasiness showed

Pictured left: Hillary Clinton speaking on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 28, 2016. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images; right: Donald Trump speaking on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 21, 2016 Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Much of this ambivalence has to do with Trump’s string of statements insulting minorities - Jews among them. It’s a point Democrats stressed every day of their confab a week later in Philadelphia. A video aired on the first night of the their convention featuring Trump’s retweet of an image widely called anti-Semitic. The convention’s explicit message was that anyone who cares about safeguarding minority rights has to vote Clinton.

The first night of the Democratic National Convention featured a string of Jewish public figures -- Sarah Silverman and Sen. Al Franken among them -- and it ended with a keynote speech by Bernie Sanders, the first Jewish candi-

an important speech Aug. 1, Beth El Rabbi Steven Abraham took the stage during Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s visit to Omaha. Below is his invocation, reprinted in full. ree weeks ago my congregation, my community learned a hard truth that we had known in our minds, but not experienced in our hearts. at violence does not affect other people and other families, but is something that touches us all. ree weeks ago, a young man, Seth Rich, 27 years old, was shot dead in the prime of his life on the streets of Washington, DC. ree weeks ago my congregation lost one of its children.

Seth grew up here in Omaha, attending Central High and Creighton. He moved to DC to follow his dreams, working on the front lines of our democracy at the DNC. Seth believed that everyone in our country, no matter their economics, religion or the color of their skin had the right to vote. Seth wanted to make a difference in the world around him, and we honor his memory not with our tears, but with our vote.

Yet if Seth could speak to us today, he would undoubtedly tell us that our response to violence must be colorblind, that our response to hate must be love, our response to bigotry must be diversity.

A story found in Jewish tradition told about how a man in a boat began to drill a hole under his seat. His fellow passengers protested. “What concern is it of yours?’ the man responded, ‘I am making a hole under my seat, not yours.’ e other passengers replied, ‘is is so, but when the water enters and the boat sinks, we too will drown,’ [Leviticus Rabbah 4:6] e pain and suffering that we see on the news and in our neighborhoods is not someone else’s problem, but our very own. Every time our country has sought to find the courage to overcome adversity we have done so together; not as black or white, rich or poor, Christian or Jew; but as one nation under God indivisible with justice for all.

I stand before you today as a son, a husband, a rabbi, but most importantly, a father. I am here because of my children and the country I hope they inherit. A country that does not discriminate based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation. A country where no child goes to bed hungry. A country where a hard day’s work is paid a fair and equitable wage. A country where every child receives a first rate education. A country where parents do not have to worry about the safely of their children at school.

We are here today because we want to leave our children a union more perfect than how we found it. ere is a beautiful story told by Rabbi Meir that God wanted proof that the Jewish people would cherish his most precious possession, the Torah, e 5 Books of Moses. God asked the Israelites for guarantors that the tradition would be upheld. e people responded, “Our ancestors will be our guarantors”. God responded saying “they are not sufficient”, so God asked again and the Jewish people responded saying, “our prophets will be our guarantors”. Once more God said “I have found fault with your prophets. Who shall be your guarantors? e Israelites, newly freed from bondage, looked toward heaven and said, “if you give us your most prized possession, your Torah, we will offer you our most prized possession, our children will be our guarantors”. With that God responded by saying “Since you have offered me your children, I will give you My Torah” e Torah teaches us that our children are our greatest legacy. ey will carry on the values we teach them.

We will be judged by the world we leave our children.

We should choose leaders who care about our families, our children and our grandchildren as much as they care about their own; and that is why “I am with her.”

My daughter last Tuesday night asked me who that man was on TV. I told her Bill Clinton. She responded, “Isn't he married to the President?”

Keyn yehi ratzon - May It Be God’s Will May God bless us and guard us May God shine his face upon us and be gracious to us May God li up His face upon us and grant us peace And let us say Amen

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What Khizr Khan teaches us about America

Like millions of Americans, I was enthralled by the presentation of Khizr Khan at the Democratic National Convention. It was not only a highlight of the convention, but also a moment particular to the changing America of the 21st century.

Yet at the same time, Khan’s story is classically American: an immigrant wanting to bring his family to this country, “not,” in his words, “because of religion, but because of Jonathan its values.” greenblatt Generations of immigrants of different National Director and faiths and backgrounds have been attracted CEO of ADL to this country exactly because of these values -- the freedom to choose one’s life, to think as one likes, to observe one’s religion as one chooses, or not to follow any religion. Immigration has indisputably been an engine of American economic success and inseparable from American ingenuity.

Indeed, what is classic in Mr. Khan’s story is how quickly this immigrant family integrated into American life. Khizr Khan attained an advanced law degree and became an attorney. Their middle child, Humayun, joined the army out of high school and, later, while preparing to enter the University of Virginia Law School, he was called up to serve in Iraq.

Humayun’s story, his service It wasn’t the fact that the Khan family is Muslim that is the core of this tale, though the Khans clearly are proud of their Islamic faith. It is the fact that they are Americans who believe in America and who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country they loved.

For us at ADL, this event had particular significance.

First, it spoke to our long understanding of the value of immigration to this country. Back in the 1950s, ADL worked with the young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, to publish his work: A Nation of Immigrants. The values presented by Khizr and Ghazala Khan at the convention were the very values embodied in JFK’s classic book -- that we are all immigrants in one way or another, all contributing to making America what it is. It Khizr Khan is this feature of our society that makes us exceptional -- what makes us American.

Second, back in 2010, we sought to convey the kind of message so powerfully delivered by Khizr Khan when we honored a different Muslim American who had given his life for his country. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was a New Jersey born American Muslim who volunteered to fight in Iraq. Laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery, Kareem was killed by an improvised explosive device in 2007 and was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. His mother Elsheba accepted the honor on her son’s behalf at our annual “In Concert Against Hate” at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. We recall this only to point out what should be self-evident -- that Army Capt. Humayun S. M. Khan is another of many stories that need to be told about American Muslims’ sacrifice and contribution to our country.

It has been heartening to see the response to his remarks from many

politicians as they have stood up on behalf of the Khans. They and many others realize that scapegoating of Muslim Americans not only threatens the fabric of our society, but weakens us in our battle with Islamic extremism by playing into the tropes of ISIS recruiters that seek to portray the U.S. as an enemy of Islam.

While the fight against stereotypes is a collective responsibility, it has been a significant part of ADL’s mission since our founding. My hope is that in the wake of this episode, in this effort we have won many new allies who recognize that in order to be for ourselves, we must stand by one another.

History shows that one of the strongest generators of prejudice and stereotyping is fear: fear of the unknown, fear of the other. In the case of Muslim Americans, that fear is often conjured by invoking anxiety about terrorism. Indeed, Khizr Khan’s remarkable presentation reminds us that, when it comes to the overwhelming majority of American Muslims, that fear is not only misplaced; it is unfair, dangerous, and unAmerican.

Surely, the threat posed by Islamic extremism is real. Self-proclaimed Islamic extremists have employed terror and shaken communities around the world. We have recently seen unspeakable violence perpetrated in Brussels, Baghdad, Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Paris, Nice, San Bernardino and Orlando.

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But, as the American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said in the face of a much grander threat, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He explained that “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.” We need at this hour is to draw on that great American reserve -- hope -that has sustained us through so many difficult moments in our past and is the surest guide to our future.

Humayun Khan was an American hero, but his story is not an exception to a rule. His family’s story is far more representative of Muslim American aspirations than the phantasmagorical stereotypes so often used to portray Muslims.

More than anything else, we can only hope that the attention appropriately accorded to Khan’s remarkable speech and the heroism of his son will deliver a powerful blow to those in this country who would seek to blame an entire people, religion or ethnicity for the terrible deeds of the few extremists.

Republicans and Democrats diverge Continued from page 8 criticism of Israel. In her acceptance speech, Clinton adopted much of his domestic rhetoric but none of his Middle East policies. But if Sanders delegates become the new Democratic mainstream, the party could gravitate away from its pro-Israel stance.

At Jewish Democratic events, though, the old guard held sway. If anything, the Democratic Jews’ biggest problem came from one of their own, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was ousted as chair of the Democratic National Committee at the convention’s start. Schultz was the

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Even as she was embattled, the NJDC stood with her, presenting her with an award on the convention’s final afternoon. Wasserman Schultz sounded defiant at the event, calling Trump a traitor and promising to win her primary.

And despite her fall from grace, Jewish Democrats cheered her, as if to say that whatever the future held, they felt good about this year.

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synagogues B’nai iSRael Synagogue

618 Mynster Street Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 402.322.4705 email: CBsynagogue@hotmail.com

BeTH el Synagogue

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

BeTH iSRael Synagogue

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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An Affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch 1866 South 120 Street Omaha, NE 68144-1646 402.330.1800 OChabad.com email: chabad@aol.com

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South Street Temple Union for Reform Judaism 2061 South 20th Street Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 402.435.8004 www.southstreettemple.org

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Capehart Chapel 2500 Capehart Road Offutt AFB, NE 68123 402.294.6244

RoSe Blumkin JeWiSH Home

323 South 132 Street Omaha, NE 68154

Temple iSRael

Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 13111 Sterling Ridge Drive Omaha, NE 68144-1206 402.556.6536 templeisraelomaha.com

TifeReTH iSRael

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

B’nai iSRael Synagogue

There will not be Friday night services in July and August.

Services and speaker series will resume Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m.

For information on our historic synagogue, please contact any of our board members: Rick Katelman, Carole Lainof, Marty Ricks, Sissy Silber, Nancy Wolf and Phil Wolf.

BeTH el Synagogue

Services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman. fRiday: Join Rabbi Abraham and Hazzan Krausman as they celebrate an early Shabbat with the residents of The Heritage at Sterling Ridge, 1:30 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SaTuRday: Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Mini-Minyannaires, 10:45 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:15 p.m.; Tish B’Av and the reading of Eicha, 8:45 p.m.

Weekday SeRViceS: Sundays, 9 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; weekdays, 7 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

Sunday: Tish B’Av, 1 p.m.

Special Shabbat on the Green, friday, aug. 26, 6 p.m.

Kabbalat Shabbat service followed by a BBQ Shabbat dinner.

Reservations for dinner are required. Earlybird Pricing: Adults: $12.50 – Children ages 6-12: $6.50 – Free for Children ages 5 and under due by Friday, Aug. 19. Pricing Aug. 20-22 is Adults: $18 – Children ages 6-12: $10 – Free for Children ages 5 and under. We are unable to take reservations after Aug. 22.

Red Cross Blood Drive, Sunday, aug. 28, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

BESTT Talmud Torah First Day of School, Sunday, aug.

28, 9:45 a.m.

All classes and programs are open to everyone in the Jewish community.

BeTH iSRael Synagogue

Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer. fRiday: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv & Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 p.m.; Candle Lighting, 8:08 p.m.

SaTuRday: Bar Mitzvah of Daniel Stein; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Torah Parade and Kids Classes, 9:45 a.m.; Kiddush Luncheon sponsored by Dasha and Jeff Stein; Insights into the Weekly Portion, 7:05 p.m.; Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, 7:50 p.m.; Fast Begins, 8:25 p.m.; Havdalah, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday-Tisha B’av: Shacharit, 9 a.m. followed by Kinnot; Explanatory Kinnot with Project SEED, 10 a.m.; Kids Craft and Class, 10 a.m.; The Essence of Tisha B’Av, 11:30 a.m.; Movie Presentations beginning at noon; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 7:45 p.m.; Fast Ends, 9:09 p.m.

WeekdayS: Shacharit, 7 a.m. monday: Morning Learing Opportunities with Project SEED, 9-11 a.m.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m. fRiday: Minyan and Meditation, 7 a.m SaTuRday: Minyan and Meditation, 9:30 a.m.

Sunday: Minyan, 8:30 a.m.

WeekdayS: Minyan and Meditation, 7 a.m.

TueSday: Dynamic Discovery with Shani Katzman, 10:15 a.m. A class for women based on traditional texts with practical insights and application. RSVP by calling the office.

WedneSday: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Rochi Katzman. RSVP by calling the office; The Development of the Oral Tradition, 7 p.m. with Rabbi Katzman. RSVP by calling the office. In memory of Forrest Krutter -- Efrayim Menachem Ben Avraham Yitzchak.

THuRSday: Women’s Study at UNMC with Shani Katzman, noon. RSVP by emailing Marlene Cohen at mzcohen@ unmc.edu.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Craig Lewis. fRiday: Pre-neg, 6 p.m. hosted by the Gift Shop; Shabbat Evening Service, 6:30 p.m.; Candlelighting, 8:09 p.m.

SaTuRday: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. on Parashat Devarim; Havdalah (72 minutes), 9:38 p.m.

TueSday: Ladies’ Lunch, noon at Carmela’s Bistro, 4141 Pioneers Woods Blvd; Kochavim Rehearsal, 6:45 p.m.

THuRSday: High Choir rehearsal, 7:30 p.m.

It’s a mitzvah! The Temple is seeking volunteers willing to

provide occasional transportation to services and events for members who are in need of a ride. Please contact the Temple office for details and to sign up by phone at 402.435.8004 or email at office@southstreettemple.org. annual Back-to-School Supplies drive: South Street Temple continues its tradition of providing supplies to students and teachers at Saratoga Elementary School. Eighty-six percent of Saratoga's students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, double the average for Lincoln Public Schools. The school is specifically in need of the following items: Crayons, especially the twistable kind, Glue sticks, Pencils - mechanical and wooden (No. 2), Boxes of tissues, Hand Sanitizer, Sanitizer wipes, Pocket folders (2 pockets), Erasers and Composition notebooks. Please drop all donations in the totes labeled "Saratoga School Supply Drive" in the social hall by aug. 11. Thank you!

Temple volunteers will gather at 8 a.m. on Sunday, aug.

21 and Sunday Sept. 11 to help with weeding, raking, sweeping, and trimming of the Temple grounds.

President’s Office Hours, Sunday mornings, 10 a.m.–noon at SST. If you have any Temple business you would like to bring before the Board of Trustees, potential programs, or new ideas, please let us know! Call for an appointment at the Temple or just to chat any time at 402.513.7697. Or if you prefer, just email David Weisser at president@southstreettemple.org.

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

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SaTuRday: Services, 9:15 a.m. led by Alan Shulewitz.

Services will be held in the Chapel. Members of the community are invited to attend.

Temple iSRael

fRiday: Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. led by Rabbi Crystal, Rabbi Sussman and Cantor Shermet.

SaTuRday: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Services, 10:30 a.m. Hannah dysico, daughter of Rachel and Gil Dysico, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah; OTYG Retreat, noon – 4 p.m. at Embassy Park Apartments Clubhouse. This will be this year’s annual OTYG Board retreat, where board members will start the process in leadership training and planning for OTYG’s new year (lunch will be included).

Sunday: Madrichim Orientation, 10 a.m.; Teacher Orientation, 10 a.m.; Annual Tri-Faith Picnic, 12:30-2:30 p.m. at Countryside Community Church, 8787 Pacific St. Please join us for food & fellowship! Rain or shine! Halal burgers & kosher

hot dogs provided. Bring a side dish or dessert to share!

(Please, no pork, shellfish or gelatin dishes) Open to all supporters of the Tri-Faith Initiative! Questions? Contact info@trifaith.org or 402.934.2955. monday: Temple Israel Golf Outing, noon at Shadow Ridge Country Club. Invite your spouse or friends to join us for cocktails, dinner and awards banquet!

TueSday: Board of Trustees Meeting, 7 p.m.

TiYPE Smores n’ Outdoors, friday, aug. 19 at 6 p.m. at Temple Israel. Join our young adults for Friday night services starting at 6, followed by making smores and hanging out with friends at Temple Israel’s fire pit!

First Day of Religious School for Grades PreK- 6, Sunday, aug. 21, 10 a.m.

Temple Israel Book Club, Sunday, aug. 21, 10 a.m.

Temple Tots, Sunday, aug. 21, 10:30 a.m. Join us for this fun and engaging program, for children 4 and under. Enjoy Jewish learning with your little ones, while meeting other families with young children. Enjoy stories, songs, crafts (and bagels, of course!) with your child, while connecting with our Temple Israel community.

JYG Rush, Sunday, aug. 21, 12:30 p.m. at SkateDaze. Our annual JYG Rush event, all 7th and 8th graders invited for some skating, food, and fun! $20 includes admission ticket and food.

First Wednesday of Religious School for Grades 3-12, Wednesday, aug. 24: Grades 3-6, 4–6 p.m., School Dinner

TifeReTH iSRael

– everyone welcome, Grades 7-12, 6:30–8 p.m. and Family School, 6:30–8 p.m.

Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: monday-friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. fRiday: Services, 6:30 p.m.

SaTuRday: Morning service, 10 a.m. followed by a Kiddish luncheon to celebrate the retirement of Mike Eppel sponsored by the Eppel family; Tisha B'Av chanting of the Book of Lamentations, known as Eicha, will begin at 9:15 p.m.

TueSday: Ladies’ Lunch, noon at Carmela’s Bistro, 4141 Pioneers Woods Blvd. Please contact Deborah Swearingen with any questions.

Mark your calendar's now for Tifereth Israel's 7th Annual Shabbat on the Green/ New Member Dinner on friday aug.

26. We will be grilling up hotdogs and sides beginning at 6:30 p.m. followed by a fun outdoor Shabbat service. We hope to see you all there!

Please let Nava in the office know of any personal information changes as she is working on the new TI directory. Please inform the office of any landline/cell number, address or name changes ASAP. Thank you.

Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust hero, executed in Soviet prison, diaries reveal

JTA NEWS STAFF Serov died of a heart attack in 1990 at age 84.

Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who He is thought to have hidden the diaries around saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the 1971.

Nazi gas chambers, was executed in a Soviet A 1991 joint Russian-Swedish effort to disprison, according to a KGB cover what happened to Walhead’s diaries. lenberg, which included The diaries of Ivan A. Serov, archival research and interwho ran the former Russian views with retired state secusecret police and intelligence rity employees, yielded no agency from 1954 to 1958, definitive conclusion when it were discovered inside the ended in 2000. The investigawalls of his second home in tion found that documents had been destroyed or altered northwestern Moscow, which to eliminate all traces of him. his granddaughter is now renovating. Discovered four years Wallenberg was posted to Nazi-occupied Hungary durago, the diaries were pubing World War II, where he islished this summer, The New sued protective passports to York Times reported August 7.

Jews in the final months of the “I have no doubts that WalHolocaust. He disappeared in lenberg was liquidated in 1945 after being seen sur1947,” Serov wrote.

Raoul Wallenberg rounded by Soviet officers in The diaries contain references to several previously unknown documents Budapest. The Soviets later claimed Wallenberg referring to Wallenberg, including one recording had died of heart failure in prison.

The diplomat’s parents both reportedly comthe cremation of his body. They were published under the title Notes From a Suitcase: Secret Di- mitted suicide in 1979 in despair over his disaparies of the First KGB Chairman, Found Over 25 pearance. In November 2015, Wallenberg family Years After His Death, which went for sale in Rus- members asked Swedish authorities to declare him dead. sia in June.

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Micah Gilbert, son of Sarah and Dan Gilbert, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, Aug. 20 at Temple Israel.

Micah is an eighth-grade Gold Honor Roll student at McMillan Magnet Center. He is a member of the National Junior Honors Society.

Micah received an individual gold medal in mathematics at the National Academic Pentathlon competition.

His interests include trumpet and speed-solving Rubik’s cubes.

For his mitzvah project, Micah is serving meals and raising donations for the Stephen Center.

He has a sister, Noemi.

Grandparents are Cathy and Steve Gilbert of Newport Beach, CA and Polly and Frank Partsch.

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Melanie Danielle Schwarz, daughter of Lori Kooper-Schwarz and Wayne Schwarz, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, Aug. 20 at Beth El. Melanie is an eighth-grade student at Westside Middle School.

Her interests include gymnastics, swimming, reading and attending Herzl Camp.

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She has two sisters, Courtney and Sabrina.

Grandparents are Sharon and Howard Kooper, and the late Vivian and Morton Schwarz.

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Indignation brings Philip Roth’s novel about anti-Semitism to the big screen ChaRLes Munitz BOSTON | JTA ames Schamus remembers the block he faced while writing the screenplay for Ang Lee’s 1994 film Eat Drink Man Woman.

Creating the right voices for the film’s Taiwanese characters was not going well “and Ang Lee was getting very nervous.”

In a desperate effort to turn the script around, Schamus, who is Jewish, decided he would “just make them all Jewish in my mind,” changing the names to Jewish ones during the writing and then changing them back to Chinese names afterward. The technique succeeded; the result was a modern cinematic classic.

That capacity to bridge cultural differences while working within one’s own idiom is evident in Indignation, Schamus’ adaptation of Philip Roth’s 2008 novel. The film traces the effects of subtle institutional anti-Semitism on a “nice Jewish boy” and stellar student from New Jersey attending a conservative, Christian-influenced college in the Midwest in 1951. In his directorial debut, the veteran screenwriter (The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and producer (Brokeback Mountain) manages to remain empathetic to all his characters, even the most seemingly anti-Semitic one.

Indignation, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January, arrives in theaters July 29. Schamus, along with star Logan Lerman, sat down with JTA in Boston on July 18.

Roth’s novel is set in the middle of the Korean War. Marcus Messner, 19, a bright Jewish kid from Newark, flees his neurotically controlling father, a kosher butcher, by transferring from a local college to the fictional Winesburg College in Ohio. (Through not explicitly autobiographical, Indignation draws from Roth’s parallel experience trans-

ferring as a sophomore to Bucknell College in Pennsylvania from the Newark campus of Rutgers University.)

Though serious and studious, Marcus finds himself in a strange land. Obligated with other students to attend chapel regularly, he is newly constrained and cornered by completely different forces than those that forced him out of Newark.

At Winesburg, Marcus also encounters the beautiful but troubled non-Jewish Logan Lerman in a scene from Indignation, a film adaptation of the Philip Credit: Alison Cohen Rosa beauty Olivia Hutton. Living Roth novel. somewhat dangerously for the first time, Marcus is lured strating the dean’s sincere admiration as well as his scorn.

Director Schamus, who grew up in a strongly identified by another Jewish student into dodging chapel attendance and by Olivia into dark sensual corners, leading Jewish family in Southern California and now lives in him eventually to clash with Winesburg’s patrician dean, New York, and 24-year-old star Lerman, who also is JewHawes D. Caudwell. The dean’s insinuating and vexing ish and was raised in Beverly Hills, remain empathetic to cross-examination effectively draws out Marcus’ indigna- the dean character, while acknowledging the systemic if tion and defines his fate. (The novel is explicit about the subtle form of anti-Semitism he embodies.

For Lerman, Caudwell’s version of anti-Semitism nature of that fate early on, but the film does not reveal doesn’t crudely exhibit “hostility or ill intentions,” but it until the very end, so we’ll avoid the spoiler here.)

A central but daringly extended scene in the film de- rather “a sincere prejudice.”

Schamus agrees. picts the charged encounter between Marcus (a pene“Caudwell doesn’t get up in the morning and say ‘how trating and simmering performance by Lerman, the boyish heartthrob from the Percy Jackson adventure se- can I hurt the Jews?’” Schamus says. “He thinks he’s ries and the 2012 film The Perks of Being a Wallflower) doing a good thing -- ‘we’ll expose them to the Christian and the dean (played tautly and convincingly by Tracy part of the Judeo-Christian tradition and it’ll be good for Letts, also a Tony Award-winning playwright). Schamus’ everybody. It’s a great country and we can accommodate script manages to expose the subtly prejudicial indictment these people as long as they toe the line.’”

Schamus says he was drawn to Roth’s novel by the by the very non-Jewish dean of the Jewish kid, demon-

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appeal of the characters, including Caudwell. That is not to say that Schamus condones Caudwell’s subtle version of anti-Semitism, but places it in the context of a complex of qualities demanding more nuanced assessment. For Schamus, Caudwell responds warmly and enthusiastically to Marcus “knowing that this is the smartest kid who’s walked in there in a long time,” yet still can’t keep himself from pursuing an insinuating cross-examination of him.

In his explicitly autobiographical 1988 work The Facts, Roth recalled how his time at Bucknell constrained both his Jewish identity and artistic sensibility. In his student writing he set out to prove “that I was a nice boy, period,” he wrote. “The Jew was nowhere to be seen; there were no Jews in the stories, no Newark, and not a sign of comedy. ...I wanted to demonstrate that I was ‘compassionate,’ a totally harmless person.”

In portraying Marcus, Lerman echoes the spirit of the young, decent, inhibited author ready to ripen into the funny, indecent, vivid one.

“To a certain extent, I know Marcus Messner very well,” Schamus observed. “There’s a little of him in me.

There’s a little of him in any good Jewish boy who went on to try to do well in school.”

Schamus says that among those expressing the strongest appreciation of the film are young people of color who relate to its portrayal of the subtleties of prejudice. And, while many barriers have been removed, minority students at colleges and universities continue to identify its effects.

In somewhat idiosyncratic cinematic terms, the film distills Roth’s view of how justifiable fury sprouts, how that sense of indignation can simmer over time and how it can eventually boil over.

Charles Munitz publishes the blog Boston arts Diary.

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