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AnneTTe vAn de KAMp-wRiGHT don’t even have to be an athlete! The stadium has allowed the school to have such impact through the years, from the Editor, Jewish Press irst constructed in 1967, the Burke High School dance team to all the games people come to see. The track meet is the third largest in the (Home of the Bullcountry!” dogs!) Stadium has Area sports clubs along hosted hundreds of with elementary and middle classes, football schools utilize the stadium games, band competitions, facilities as well. There have soccer practices and even been, of course, those famous Lacrosse games.

State Track meets, held at Toba Cohen-Dunning, ExBurke for 47 continuous ecutive Director of the years. Besides being the Omaha Public Schools Founhome of the Bulldogs, it curdation, said: rently serves as home field of “Burke High School has Creighton Prep High School meant a lot to the Omaha football. Burke Stadium has Jewish Community. As I was annually hosted “The Fellowgrowing up, I was aware that ship Games” for Special Edumost Jewish kids went either cation students. Sheri Wehr, to Central High or to Burke— principal at Morton Middle especially since it was so close School has organized the to the Jewish Community event over the years. It has Center after it moved in the also hosted special graduaearly 1970s. You don’t actually Sam Kohll readies to run in a relay in 2012 at the Omaha have to be an alumnus of Burke Stadium Track, home of the State Track Meet. Sam and tion ceremonies, community events and concerts—and Burke to understand how his sister, Anna, started the running tradition for the Kohll that’s just the tip of the much impact the school has family at Burke High. Brothers Jack and Leo Kohll currently See Burke Stadium page 3 had in our community. You are Bulldog runners.

Introducing the Omaha Community Beit Midrash

AnneTTe vAn de KAMp-wRiGHT Editor, Jewish Press When Beth Israel’s rabbi Ari Dembitzer first moved to Omaha, he watched a congregant park—far away from the front door, even though there were closer spots.

When he asked why, the congregant told

him: “Other people might need those closer spots.”

It illustrates how caring this community is, he said: “Jewish people are a united people. When we are able, we should speak as one and Omaha is very good at that.

This is one of the most close-knit communities I have ever seen. We have different viewpoints, but we have so much love.”

Case in point: the planned Community Beit Midrash, which will kick off Oct. 23 and involves Beth El’s Rabbi Abraham, Temple Israel’s Rabbi Stoller, Beth Israel’s Rabbi Dembitzer and Chabad’s Rabbi Katzman as teachers.

“The idea for community-wide adult learning, involving all four rabbis and partnering with the Jewish Federation of See Community Beit Midrash page 2

Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights

CuRTiS HuTT became a member of the ConstituDirector, Goldstein Center for Human tional Court of South Africa.

Rights and Director of Programming, Justice Goldstone’s visit to Schwalb Center Omaha coincides with that of On Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m., Samuel Bak, whose paintings there will be a Special Goldstein thanks to the work of the UNO Lecture on Human Fried Academy Rights held at and Schwalb CenUNO’s Strauss Perter, are now on disforming Arts Cenplay at the UNO ter. 25 years after Weber Fine Arts the end of Museum. A day apartheid in South after Bak speaks at Africa, the HonorUNO, the Goldable Richard Goldstein Center for stone – a Supreme Human Rights is Court Justice who holding its first headed the influ“Goldstein Sympoential Goldstone sium on Art and Commission inHuman Rights” – vestigating politione that is dedical violence in cated to his work Honorable Richard Goldstone South Africa – will on human rights. give a talk titled: The Current State The Goldstein Lecture on Human of International Criminal Justice. Rights, a longstanding event sponGoldstone also served as the first sored by the UNO Department of chief prosecutor of the United Na- Religious Studies, will cap off an intions International Criminal Tribu- credibly rich two days for faculty, nal for the former Yugoslavia and students and Omaha community for Rwanda between August 1994 members. and September 1996. After returnJustice Goldstone has written at ing to South Africa, he was nomi- length about the role played by Jews nated by Nelson Mandela and See Goldstein Lecture page 2

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Goldstein Lecture Continued from page 1 in the fight against apartheid in South Africa.

In his Forward article titled Nelson Mandela, Iconic Leader for Jews of South Africa – and World (Dec. 5, 2013), he highlights Mandela’s early job as a law clerk in a Jewish law firm and the following quote from his autobiography Long Walk to Freedom: “It was a Jewish firm, and in my experience I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.” Justice Goldstone, in addition to discussing international criminal justice, will share his thoughts about some of the art work of Samuel Bak. Each of these men have stared great horrors in the face, and their life work constitutes an ethical response to it. The work of the Holocaust survivor Bak, is an inspiration for Goldstone who has personally prosecuted war criminals like Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, as well as perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide.

Earlier in the day on Sept. 26 at UNO, the first Goldstein Symposium on Art and Human Rights will be held in the Weitz Community Engagement Center and at the Weber Fine Arts Gallery. This Symposium, titled Witness after the name of the Samuel Bak exhibition at UNO, will begin at 9 a.m.

At noon, Gary Phillips, author of Just Is in

the Art of Samuel Bak, will deliver a lunchtime keynote. Hank Greenspan, a psychologist, oral historian and playwright will present on The Witness as Dramatist. The philosopher Lewis Gordon will close the Symposium with an afternoon keynote on the topic of Art and the Right to a Livable Life.

On Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 11 a.m. in the UNO Criss Library, Dr. Gordon – a former Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor in Political and International Studies at Rhodes University in South Africa – will join Justice Goldstone for a panel discussion moderated

by UNO Professor Alecia Anderson titled Are Reparations Possible: Lessons to the United States from South Africa.

In addition to teaching at law schools like Harvard and NYU, Justice Goldstone has received many awards for his humanitarian efforts. Goldstone has received the International Justice Award of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He is an honorary President of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association. He will be signing copies after the Goldstein Lecture of his memoir: For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator. There will be book sales and a reception beginning at 6 p.m. before the Goldstein Lecture in the Strauss Performing Arts Center.

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Community Beit Midrash Continued from page 1 Omaha, originated about five or six months ago,” Rabbi Stoller said. “Rabbi Abraham and I had lunch together, which we do once a month; and we began talking about collaborating on a project.

We haven’t stopped talking about it since.”

“Oftentimes, when we as congregations collaborate, it’s a one-time thing,” Rabbi Abraham said.

“But we began discussing something more solid, more permanent. The idea for the adult Beit Midrash was born.”

Jennie Gates-Beckman said: “I was ecstatic to hear that the senior rabbis of our three congregations were committed to learning and teaching together in the format of a Beit Midrash (literally, House of Study) and wanted the JFO involved as well. Alan Potash and I agreed: if we were going to put the Federation’s name on this program, and call it a community-wide effort, we wanted to include everyone. We reached out and got Rabbi Katzman onboard for the panels.

You might be wondering… what about the other clergy? Well… we have to keep something back for the community to want more – I’d love for this to develop into an annual collaboration!”

The class will meet weekly between October and May of this school year on Wednesday evenings from 7:30-8:30 p.m. The location of these weekly sessions will rotate between Beth El and Temple Israel, with one session at Beth Israel during the month of January.

“Over the course of the year,” Rabbi Stoller said, “we will also have four panel sessions at the JCC in which all four of us will participate. The first panel will mark the official start of the Beit Midrash and will take place Oct. 23. These panel sessions are held in the Jewish Federation Library, which is the perfect venue for all of us to come together!”

The Beit Midrash will culminate with a Tikkun Leil Shavuot, which Beth El and Temple Israel will host together. “It offers an exciting weekly oppor-

tunity for community members to learn together with four different Jewish institutions,” Rabbi Stoller said. “In addition to providing this as a fantastic new approach for community members, we as rabbis get something out of it, too: the chance to teach together. We have great passion in common; we all are teachers at heart and preparing for something like this is exciting.”

“It means the four of us get to create together,” Rabbi Abraham said. “Spending time together, developing ideas and then sharing those ideas with the community, it means we will all get to know each other better. The growth that will come from this will be immeasurable!”

They all agree that coming together will expand the learning experience of everyone. With a variety of topics to study, Rabbi Abraham said, “Some sessions will draw people to a specific topic, others will decide they’ll come every week.

The only way we can really expand the reach of adult learning is by collaborating; we really believe this will bring more people to the table.”

An initiative like this fits the Omaha community, Rabbi Stoller said.

“I’ve found the Jewish landscape of Omaha very compelling. Jewish identity takes shape in the synagogue, but Omaha goes beyond that. People really look beyond their ‘own synagogue.’ Our Community Beit Midrash answers that atmosphere of togetherness. I really don’t think you could create something like this anywhere else.”

The Beit Midrash is accessible to all community members.

“We’ll make everyone think,” Rabbi Abraham said, “no matter where you are at in your personal journey. It will be thought-provoking, engaging and at a high level. We’ll touch on many different aspects of Jewish life and in the process, break some barriers and become more comfortable in spiritually foreign spaces. In short, we’ll get to know each other better and that will make our community even stronger.”

Burke Stadium

Continued from page 1 iceberg. Burke Stadium is a place that has created memories for countless students, their family members, neighbors, staff and volunteers.

“I loved my four years at Burke High School,” alumna Andee Scioli said. “In many ways, it was the ideal high school experience. I was a cheerleader at Burke, and I have wonderful memories of cheering and dancing with my friends under the lights at football games on warm (and sometimes freezing cold) nights. I am so glad to hear about the renovation project, and I hope that future students at Burke will make memories as fond as mine.”

That renovation project includes bringing the stadium into code compliance and increasing seating from 3776 to 4376. The primary focus for the renovation will be updating the West and East stadiums and the Press Box. Future plans have been created for a comprehensive athletic facilities renovation and include a Field House/multi-purpose facility, a baseball/softball indoor training facility, and a soccer, lacrosse, and band complex all totaling $12.85 million.

Janet Kohll and her husband David sent all five of their children, Anna, Sam, Max, Jack and Leo, to Burke High School.

The two youngest are still there: Jack is a senior and Leo a sophomore.

“We purchased our home nearly 20 years ago,” Janet said, “because we wanted to be within walking distance to Beth Israel Synagogue. That meant our home school is Burke. Turns out, Burke is a hidden gem. Among many other assets, it has one of the few aviation programs of any high school in the U.S., including an in-house flight simulator. Our oldest son Sam caught the aviation bug at Burke and now works as a pilot in Scottsdale, AZ. Last year, two teenage boys from Israel stayed in our home for a few days as part of the Omaha Jewish Community’s Central Area Partnership with Israel. Part of their visit included going to host families’ high schools. Burke’s aviation director let the boys go in the flight simulator and the whole administration and staff couldn’t have been more welcoming to the Israeli teens when they came to classes. The Israeli chaperone couldn’t stop singing Burke’s praises!”

The stadium is definitely in need of renovations; Janet said: “Among other things, it’s important to keep the State Track Meet here. First priority in my opinion? The bathrooms! David and I are donating to the renovation and we urge others to do the same, especially Burke alumni and their families. But, all of Omaha benefits from Burke hosting the State Track Meet; it has a $5 million impact every year. We have to keep that going.”

“The Stadium,” she continued, “particularly the track, is like a second home for our kids. Although some of our kids have competed in other sports at Burke, primarily swimming and basketball, all five of them competed in Cross Country and Track. Just last May, our son Jack qualified in two events for the State Track Meet! It is really something to see your son compete in front of a packed stadium. The State Track Meet is an economic boom for Omaha and holds a special place in our hearts -- and it’s practically in our own backyard. The Track and Cross Country coaches at Burke have always treated our kids like their own. I can’t say enough good things about that program. Even after they graduate, they are welcome to meet up with the Cross Country team at the Burke Stadium and run with them during summer conditioning.”

Burke Principal Gayle Lannan said: “When I first joined the Burke High staff in 1993, I was impressed by how the Burke staff and community embraced the stadium events. The two events I most associated with were the Burke graduations and the State Track Meet. It was my responsibility as one of the counselors to organize and set up the graduation ceremony on the east track as well as indoors, in case it rained. Most years, the weather cooperated and the stadium with the setting sun offered a beautiful backdrop and endearing atmosphere for commencement ceremonies. State Track Meet memories include thoughts of hard, often hot work, but also a strong sense of pride and camaraderie. All Burke staff had work assignments and many garnered student volunteers to assist with the events as well as take care of officials, athletes, and patrons.”

Thanks to the generosity of Burke alumni and sisters, Amy Scott, Karen Dixon (Scott) and Sandy Parker (Scott), a Burke alumni challenge has been created to support the Stadium

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Renovation Project. The Alumni Association aims to raise $600,000 and the family will match half. “It’s time,” said Lisa Carlson, Burke parent, alumna and one of the driving forces behind the Burke Alumni Association, “to give the stadium our support, as alumni, so it can continue to create memories for many more generations to come.”

Memories like Janet’s: “My oldest children, Anna and Sam, remember as youngsters sliding down the grassy stadium hills on a sheet of cardboard during the State Track Meet - way before they were able to compete at the high school level.

“After our Friday night Shabbat meals, my husband, David, and I sometimes walk up to the Stadium to see part of a Burke game or I’ll go on my own and meet up with fellow Burke moms in the stadium. It’s really nice to be able to walk up to Burke from our home.

And, I have sat through my share of track meets there.”

Janet is not the only one who enjoys good memories of those track meets: “Having grown up in small town Nebraska,” Principal Lannan said, “I thoroughly enjoyed working the south gate every year to greet the athletes and coaches from across the state as they entered the stadium.

The atmosphere at the State Track Meet is like no other. Student competitors and spectators alike coming together from all parts of the state; urban and rural, big schools and small schools. People interacting, sharing stories, and reconnecting.

Celebrating the efforts of all. Memories are made during such events, but memories are also made over time as students, year in and year out travel their own personal journey to reach a goal. They grind through practices and workouts.

Neighbors walk or run the track or stadium steps to push their limits, get in shape or stay in shape. Burke is a neighborhood school. Neighbors can tell the season of year by the sounds in the air from Burke Stadium. Band practice, whistles blowing, drums playing, lights on, cheers roaring, and yes, cars rolling down past the stadium on Burke Boulevard.”

“We’re aiming to complete the renovations between the Football season and the State Track Meet,” said Lisa Carlson.

“Today, as principal of Burke High and reflecting on the past 50 years, I feel the time has come to give Burke Stadium some extra care and updates,” Principal Lannan said. “It is showing its age and its patrons deserve a great place to enjoy the talents and competition of our youth. More importantly, we want Burke stadium to reflect the pride of our students and staff, both past and present; as well as our neighbors and our community. Miracle on Miracle Hill was the slogan when the school was dedicated back in 1967. 50-plus years later it’s time for another Miracle on Miracle Hill.”

For more information and to help, please visit https://burkefamilyofchampions.org/; you can also email your questions about the renovation to omahaburkerenovationproject@gmail.com. “We are also looking to grow our alumni database,” Lisa added, “and if you’d like to contact us, you can do so by emailing your contact info to omaha burkealumni@gmail.com.

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CHRiS Ulven Executive Director, Rose Blumkin Jewish Home The Nebraska Health and Human Services Medicaid Department is currently exploring a rate methodology change that will pay all providers a set amount for each level of care regardless of the differences in fixed and variable costs each nursing home may have. Under this proposal, low cost providers (mostly for-profit) will make a profit off of Nebraska tax dollars; others, mostly not-for-profit providers like RBJH will be hurt and have to significantly reduce services.

The proposed changes to Medicaid payment’s methodology will affect a minimum of 40% of RBJH Residents.

Currently, the State of Nebraska pays a different rate to each provider, based on actual costs the facility incurs. There are caps that set allowable limits where if you go over the limit, the overage is disallowed in calculating your cost. That current rate is already far below the actual cost incurred by the providers, and has had a large impact in the closure of over 30 Nebraska nursing homes over the past three years.

“Under the proposed Medicaid payment methodology (one identical rate to all providers for each level of care) RBJH is projected to lose $1.6 million per year in Medicaid funding, which is about 33% of our Medicaid revenue and 10% of our entire annual budget. It does not take facility costs, or as notfor-profits would say, money we spend on better staffing levels, better food and a nice place to live into consideration.

RBJH will be not able to sustain this type of lost revenue and continue to provide the level of services we currently do. This has the potential to be a mission changer for many not-forprofit nursing homes across Nebraska.”

“We have known the system is broken for a long time and we are appreciative and thankful people in the Department are looking to make changes; they are taking the wrong approach however. They failed to accept input from providers who should be a partner in this. They also failed to look across the nation at other states, like Oklahoma, who have implemented and failed at the very methodology the Department is proposing and had to spend more tax payer dollars to revamp the methodology within a couple of years.”

The most disturbing outcome of the proposed rate methodology change is found in a financial impact summary developed by Vetter Health Services. The summary shows a reallocation of $17.4 million in Medicaid funds from not-forprofit and government facilities to privately owned, for-profit facilities.

“I have been working with other impacted providers like

Immanuel and Tabitha who with RBJH make up $5.5 million of the $17.4 million being handed over to for-profit nursing homes from not-for-profit nursing homes. We are sharing information and communication so we have a consistent, strong and united message to the Medicaid Department and our state senators. We are determined to fight for our Residents and for the Medicaid recipients of the State of Nebraska.

If this proposal is passed, the quality of care in Nebraska will suffer greatly.”

The second major concern regarding Medicaid right now is the proposal to remove payment methodology from the regulations. This would allow the Department to be nimble and make changes quickly and often. However, that is the problem for providers. Providers would no longer be able to voice concerns or give feedback at the public hearings now required for payment methodology changes. Providers who are unable to budget and plan appropriately will ensure their sustainability by turning conservative in their Medicaid bed counts, leaving countless Nebraskans without the nursing care they need.

The Department was also made aware at the public hearing that the removal of payment methodology from regulations is against the State of Nebraska Administrative Procedures Act. It has not been determined how providers will respond should they decide to move forward with this illegal action.

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Philosophy at Yeshiva University, and received a Doctorate escribed by Newsweek as ‘Orthodoxy’s most from Columbia University in Epistemology and Moral Deprominent voice on social justice with a resume velopment. Newsweek twice named Yanklowitz one of Amerlonger than many rabbinic leaders twice his age,’ ican’s Top Rabbis, and the Forward included him in their list Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz will visit Beth El of The Most Inspiring Rabbis in America and The 50 Most InSynagogue as Scholar-in-Residence during the fluential Jews. upcoming Selichot weekend. Rabbi Yanklowitz’s presentaAn educator, activist and author of 17 books on Jewish tions include: spirituality, social justice and ethics, Rav • Friday evening, Sept. 20. Kabbalat ShabShmuly is President and Dean of Valley Beit bat Services at 6 p.m. followed by dinner.

Midrash in Phoenix which teaches and inTransforming our Inner World to Transform spires the value of pluralism. He also our Outer World founded Uri L’Tzedek, a first-of-its-kind Or• Saturday morning services, Sept.21 at thodox social justice movement; Shamayim 10 a.m. How to See the Invisible Right before V’Aretz Institute, an animal welfare center; our Eyes: A Mystical approach to Ethics and YATOM: The Jewish Foster and Adop• Saturday Lunch & Learn following servtion Network. Among other causes, Yanices: Judaism as a Call to Social Action: Deklowitz advocates for gun control, prison veloping our Unique Moral Voice. reform, business and consumer ethics, “I’m so honored to be visiting this very organ donation, environmental protection special Omaha community to share some and the rights of refugees and asylum seekTorah,” Yanklowitz said. “My hope is that we ers, espouses greater inclusion of Jewish can open our hearts, minds and souls toconverts, and urges clergy and laypeople to gether to expand our individual and collecturn synagogues, homes and communities tive spiritual potential to bring more into safe and tolerant places for the LGBTQ rabbi shmuly Yanklowitz kindness, justice and holiness into the world population. together.” Beth El’s weekend of learning with Rav Shmuly, in“Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz’s name has become synonycluding meals, is sponsored by the Leonard Goldstein Fund mous with the call for ethical renewal and social justice and open to the entire community at no charge. within the American Jewish community,” says Professor In a September 2016 feature for the Jewish Journal of Los Jonathan D. Sarna of Brandeis University. Another fan, Rabbi Angeles, Eitan Arom described 38-year-old Yanklowitz’s Dr. David Ellenson, Chancellor Emeritus of Hebrew Union style: “Donald Trump was in Phoenix for a speech on immi- College, calls Yanklowitz, “One of the most dynamic and gration, and Shmuly Yanklowitz wasn’t happy about it. On a charismatic Jewish social activists of his generation.” late August day, as temperatures topped 100 degrees, the outThose who have followed Rav Shmuly’s career suggest that spoken Orthodox rabbi strode into a busy intersection car- his desire for greater tolerance and inclusivity in Orthodoxy rying a sign written with colorful markers that said, ‘Hate is was influenced by his own backstory. In a November, 2014, not welcome in our town.’ But first, he threw his prayer shawl New York Times Op-Ed, Yanklowitz revealed he had conover his shoulders.” verted to Judaism because, although his father was Jewish, “I almost always wear my tallis for street protests,” Yan- his mother was not. As a teen, Yanklowitz became fascinated klowitz said. “And that’s because those protests are a form of with the tenets of his father’s Jewish faith, and after learning prayer for me. I view it as a conversation in partnership with the traditional significance placed on matrilineal lineage he God to be at street protests, to stand in solidarity with vul- converted — twice. “I underwent a liberal conversion as an nerable populations.” Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who adolescent,” Yanklowitz explained. “Later, I underwent a rigprayed with his feet during a civil rights march in Mont- orous Orthodox conversion.” Rav Shmuly feels richer for gomery, Alabama, would be proud. being exposed as a child to different approaches until he deShmuly Yanklowitz was ordained as a rabbi at Yeshivat liberately solidified his Jewish identity as a young man. “Had Chovevei Torah, a Modern Orthodox seminary founded in it not been for Jewish leaders and communities who em1999 by Rabbi Avi Weiss. He received a second rabbinic or- braced me so warmly,” Yanklowitz said, “I would not have dination from Rabbi Shalom Riskin and a third rabbinic or- cultivated such a passionate Jewish identity, nor would I have dination from Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo of Jerusalem. entered a lifelong commitment to Jewish communal service.”

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The event will be held on Friday, sept. 27, from 4-5:30 p.m. in the JCC Gallery. Light Hors-d’oeuvres and cocktails will be served. The OJAA provides a fun and modern way to connect, reconnect and network with other Jewish Omahans. Anyone with nostalgic feelings and memories of life in our wonderful Jewish community is welcome. If you haven’t joined yet you are welcome to come and please sign up for the OJAA through our facebook page - search Omaha Jewish Alumni Association to find us!

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Continued from page 5 here that Torah can be most transformative for twenty-firstlive in Scottsdale, Arizona. They are also foster parents to a century Jews. As Moses is reassured in Deuteronomy 30:12, mixed-race baby born to a drug dependent mother, and reg- Lo bishamayim hu — the Torah is not in the heavens. The ularly open their home to Midrash teaches us that black and Latino foster Abraham was the biblical children. The Yanklowitz paradigm for this model — family make a practice of to run from the security of welcoming Syrian refugees one’s tent to greet strangers into the community by and to teach and learn hosting them at their resiStreet Torah. His epic herdence. Four years ago, after itage of courageous disthinking about privilege, course and social luxury and what it means engagement is our path to to “give back,” Rabbi Yanfollow.” klowitz donated a kidney to Yanklowitz acknowla complete stranger — an edges that his approach is Israeli who had spent fifdefinitely not ‘mainstream,’ teen years on dialysis. “To and quotes Rabbi Nathan save a life is one of the Lopes Cardozo, one of his greatest things one can do own teachers in Israel. “I in the Jewish tradition,” Rav love heresy because it forces Shmuly said. “I gained us to rethink our religious more than I lost.” beliefs. We owe nearly all of In 2015, Rabbi Yanour knowledge not to those klowitz founded Arizona who have agreed but to Jews for Justice, a clearing those who have differed.” house for Jewish activity on Though considered a firesocial justice issues and inbrand by some of his critterfaith and inter-ethnic diics, Yanklowitz counters, alogue in the American “We’re to be on fire in a way Southwest. Working with that’s healthy and produces their Latino partner, Promlight, not heat.” ise Arizona, Arizona Jews Reservations for Friday, for Justice developed a two- rabbi shmuly yanklowitz, left, with Civia tamarkin from the national Sept. 20 dinner and Saturpage Haggadah supplement Council of Jewish women (arizona) and eddie Chavez Calderon, an or- day, Sept. 21 Shabbat lunch that provided information ganizer at arizona Jews for Justice in front of iCe in phoenix, June, with Rav Shmuly can be on the undocumented pop- 2019. arizona Jews for Justice and Uri L’tzedek have held protests at made on the Beth El webulation in the United States least once every month to demand authorities stop deaths in detention site: bethel-omaha.org. and urged people to sup- centers, stop the separation of families and provide better medical and Saturday night, Sept. port hard-working, law- humanitarian treatment to undocumented immigrants while in detention. 21, Beth El offers an innoabiding, tax-paying undocumented immigrants, and to act to vative off-site Green Selichot program in partnership with The prevent their mass deportation. “Deuteronomy tells us, ‘You Big Garden, an organization that has helped more than 170 shall love the stranger as you were strangers in Egypt.’ No schools, faith communities and non-profits start community other commandment is more essential to the moral destiny gardens across Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas. A bus will leave of the Jewish people.”

Beth El around 8:10 p.m. on Saturday evening and head to In his 2012 work, Jewish Ethics & Social Justice: A Guide for the Big Garden located at 5602 Reed Street. Selichot services the 21st Century, Yanklowitz examines how traditional Jewish will begin at 8:30 p.m. in one of their two greenhouses. “Folethics translate into contemporary Jewish social justice lowing services, participants will have the opportunity to plant responsibilities. “Our Jewish texts, values and laws inform how a variety of vegetables that will be transported to local north we are to respond to our greatest moral challenges,” he wrote. and south Omaha schools,” said Rabbi Steven Abraham. “It “It is also clear that we must respond.” This response can come should be a wonderful experience both to study, learn and get through what Yanklowitz calls ‘Street Torah.’ “Authentic reli- our hands dirty helping our community. The bus will take us gion today is lived in the hustle and bustle of the streets. It is back to the synagogue at the end of the evening.

The Devil is in Jerusalem but the Kaplan Book Group’s meeting is here in Omaha

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KripKe Jewish FederatiOn LiBrary staFF n thursday, sept. 19, the Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group will be discussing The Devil in Jerusalem by Naomi Ragen, an intriguing book based on true events, which examines many issues, but foremost an issue of cults. The cult of Ragen’s work is not a typical cult but rather one that revolves around the mystical world of Kabbalah.

In an Israeli hospital emergency room a toddler is fighting for his life - seemingly alone - but the ER doctor soon realizes that Daniella, the child’s mother, is already at the hospital at the bedside of another of her sons who has also been seriously injured. As she sits at his bedside, Daniella steadfastly recites Psalms for her children, refusing to answer any questions about the cause or circumstances surrounding either son’s injuries, and cautions her children to remain silent.

Bina Tzedek is the detective assigned to investigate the situation and uncover the hidden secrets and the truth behind the family’s silence. The situation hits close to home for Bina who is also a young mother.

As Bina delves further and further into trying to understand what has happened, she wanders into the mystical kabbalistic world and the beliefs shared by many Jews.

Daniella is an American who, along with her young husband Shlomie, made Aliyah years before. Burdened with misguided expectations of what their new life in Israel would become, each parent undergoes a radical change as their lives evolve around their new life in Israel, their deepening faiths in Judaism, and the misguided dark paths that it can take.

The Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion group meets on the third thursday of every month at 1 p.m. in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library. New members are always welcome. The group receives administrative support from the Community Engagement & Education arm of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. For information about the group, contact Shirly Banner at 402.334.6462 or sban ner@jewishomaha.org. To view books discussed by the group over the past several years, go to www.jewishomaha.org, click on the “Community & Education” pulldown tab and navigate to “Kripke Jewish Federation Library,” then to “Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group.”

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JFO Backyard Concert Series Finale

Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal

gabby blair Staff Writer, Jewish Press Do not miss the final act; we may have saved the best for last! The Jewish Federation of Omaha’s Backyard Concert Series presents series finale, Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal, on Sunday, Sept. 22, 5-7 p.m. As always, concerts are free and the show will go on- rain or shine! In case of inclement weather, please join us indoors at the JCC Theater.

Formed in 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska, Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal are an award-winning five-piece band composed of some of the area’s most revered and accomplished musicians. Joining Hoyer (keyboards/vocals) is Blake DeForest (trumpet), Mike Keeling (bass), Benjamin Kushner (guitar) and Larell Ware (drums). Inspired by the sounds of Stax, Motown, Muscle Shoals, New Orleans, Philly and San Francisco, Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal’s electric sounds are a combination of soul, funk and R&B. The band continuously crosses musical boundaries in both style and era and is sure to have the crowd dancing.

Their fourth album, Do It Now, came out earlier this year. Upon its initial European release in August 2018, the album drew rave reviews from European publications with Blues Mag-

azine stating, “Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal still prove to be at the top of the contemporary soul movement.” The band promoted the album on their second European tour; a 37city outing spanning six different countries.

Pack your own picnic or plan to purchase delicious nosh and ice cold beer from this week’s food vendor, Mayne Street Market and cool treats from Kona Ice. Please consider bringing donations for Jewish Family Service. Items in highest demand this year include personal hygiene products: shampoo, toothpaste, mouthwash (both regular and sensitive formulas), dental floss, toothbrushes... anything to feel pampered and special. Look for donation collection bins as you enter the backyard and let us beat last year’s record efforts to stock the JFS shelves!

The show could not go on without the support of our generous donors. The Backyard Concert Series would like to thank Omaha Steaks, Morgan Stanley, All Makes Office Equipment Co., Alan J. Levine, Centris Federal Credit Union, Karen Sokolof Javitch Music Fund and the Special Donor-Advised Fund at the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation.

For more information, please visit www.jewishomaha.org.

The legacy of Milton and Rosalie Saylan continues, even after their lifetimes. Milt passed away in October, 2012 at age 94, and Rosalie passed in August, 2018 at age 97.

Their daughter, Dorothy Shapiro, wrote about her parents, “Rosalie and Milt Howard EpstEin Saylan grew up and lived Executive Director, most of their adult years JFO Foundation in Omaha. Their early married life was in small towns around Denison, Iowa, and they retired to Palm Springs, CA, late in life before returning to Omaha. They cared about their families and neighbors. Wherever they lived, they were involved in the community through volunteerism and philanthropy. So it was that their estate plan was an extension of their thoughtfulness and realistic approach to life decisions.”

Rosalie and Milt’s final gift to the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation, a generous legacy gift through Rosalie’s estate, established an endowment fund named to honor the memory of their son, Craig.

The Craig Saylan Memorial Endowment Fund will provide funds each year in perpetuity for Jewish Family Service to assist needy Jews living in the greater Omaha metropolitan area to cover the basic necessities of life, including food, medicine, clothing, rent, mortgage assistance, transportation, and vital home repairs, with first priority to Jews who are de-

velopmentally delayed or developmentally disabled.

When delivering the gift from her mother’s estate, Dorothy Shapiro wrote, “It is an incredible position for me to bring this gift to the Jewish Federation Foundation for Jewish Family Service under the Craig Saylan Memorial Endowment Fund – in memory of my parents and their son, Craig, as a tribute to the way they lived and died.”

You, too, can create a legacy for Omaha’s Jewish community. LIFE & LEGACY is a partnership of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation. All of us, regardless of age, wealth or affiliation, have the ability to leave a legacy gift. Your legacy gift of any size can be customized to fit your dreams, lifestyle, family and financial needs and can be made to support any of our local partner organizations: the Jewish Federation of Omaha and its agencies, the ADL/CRC, IHE, NJHS, Friedel Jewish Academy, Beth Israel Synagogue, Chabad, Beth El Synagogue and Temple Israel.

Leaving a legacy is simple. Some options include: the bequest in a will, gift of life insurance, gift of IRA or pension funds, gift of cash or assets or charitable remainder trust.

Please consult Howard N. Epstein, Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation Executive Director, or Margo Parsow, LIFE & LEGACY Coordinator to determine which method of legacy giving is best for you.

Please feel free to contact me at 402.334.6466 or by email at hepstein@jewishomaha.org. We will be happy to help you achieve your charitable legacy.

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Above: Resident Ron Budwig and RBJH activities coordinator Chrissie Caniglia-Nelson enjoy celebrating their shared birthday on Aug. 29 with a special private luncheon of good-ole-fashion barbeque.

Above: The 2019-2020 Kindergarten class at Friedel Jewish Academy is ready for a great year.

Below: Gail Knapp, left, Mindi Armstrong and Judy Roberts prepare Wednesday night family dinner at Temple Israel.

Above: Many groups come to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home to throw some tiles around during their weekly Mah Jongg game. Pictured are Jeanne Shechet, Jean Elkon, Eden Ostravich, and Rose Rosenberg.

Above and below: The Pennie Z Davis CDC held their recent Family (and grandparents!) Shabbat in the JCC gym, since the auditorium isn’t quite ready for use.

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ANNETTE vAN dE KAMP-WRIGhT Editor, Jewish Press very once in a while I feel the years passing me by like a freight train and no matter how often I remind myself that I’m ‘not that old,’ I can’t deny that I am no longer young. Most often, this realization happens during conversations with my kids. I mispronounce things. I complain there’s too much yelling on television. I make weird momjokes that, although they are truly funny, fall flat.

Worst of all: I don’t understand why some things are cool. Sometimes we don’t speak the same language and I have to admit: being 30 years older does make a difference.

So when I read the story about James Jacoby’s art installation at this year’s Burning Man Festival, I had to ask myself if I was simply getting too old for this nonsense.

Here’s the story: The annual Burning Man Festival in Nevada presented an art exhibit that featured naked Barbie dolls posed as if they were walking into kitchen ovens at a simulated death camp. It included Barbies nailed to pink crosses. There was a sign, too. It read: “The Mattel co. & Auschwitz Inc. ‘Purveyors of fine lampshades and soap products since 1939’ presents Barbie Death Camp & Wine Bistro.” The tagline said: “Arbeit macht Plastik frei.”

From the California-based Jewish News: “Other photos show toy soldiers with semi-automatic rifles “marching” the Barbies from the rear. A banner strapped to an RV proclaims the Barbie Death Camp “the friendliest concentration camp” at Burning Man.” I don’t really get ‘Burning Man.’ I feel like I would, probably, have gotten it when I was 19 and attended my share of random not-entirely-wholesome festivals myself (sorry,

Mom,) but now, I just don’t pay that much attention. Is that why the artists did it? To get attention from a wider audience than what is available within the confines of the festival?

According to the same Jewish News article, “Some people, particularly experienced Burners, saw in the Barbie Death Camp a bit of boundary-pushing gallows humor, social commentary, or even a daring critique of American materialism.

Others, though, saw baffling tone deafness, sheer insensitivity or worse. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so offensive,” said one festival attendee who was shocked by the display.”

Here is the strange part: Jacoby, who –by the way—is Jewish, has brought this art installation to the festival for 20 years. It took this long before it hit the papers. Apparently, ‘Burning Man’ labels itself as a kind of social laboratory, a hedonistic free-for-all, where boundaries can be pushed, humor can turn very dark and nothing is off-limits. But as is so often the case, social experiments like these can get out of hand and usually will, even if it takes 20 years.

I show my daughter the photos of Jacoby’s installation and she says they make her uncomfortable. She has no patience with it and quickly gets back to whatever she was doing before I interrupted her. I guess my confusion isn’t necessarily a generational thing.

I’m left to wonder: what would make a Jewish American artist like Jacoby think this is okay? What’s his justification? None of the interviews he’s given (and there haven’t been many) enlighten me. He just talks about how he thinks it’s been a popular exhibit through the years and how “part of the magic of [Burning Man] is that it’s not vanilla, Disneyland, pro-family. There’s a lot of nudity. A

Sharon’s decisions were driven in part by some of the same factors that will confront Israel’s next government, so it is important to understand who he was and what drove him.

Sharon was a man of contrasts: roughout his career, his superiors could not count on his loyalty, but he was unfailingly loyal to those who served under him — and they revered him. As Sharon wrote in his 1990 autobiography, he did not “trust” Arabs, yet he always employed Arab workers on his ranch, with whom he typically shared meals in his home.

it meant breaking with Likud, the party he founded. He would do what had to be done, no matter the political cost. All the factors that led to his belief that he must act to preserve what was important to Israel also reinforced his view that he was the only one who could do it.

Making a decision and acting on it reflected what he believed was required of leaders: Leaders assume responsibility. Leaders had to be prepared to go it alone.

In many ways, Sharon saw leadership as his calling. He spent a career striving to get to the point where he would make the fateful choices for Israel.

He played rough; he bulldozed opposition and former supporters. But he would never fail the test of being up to the challenge and getting the job done.

Several factors led Sharon to make the decision to withdraw from Gaza. First, he was a firm believer that Israel must always take the initiative and not be acted upon or forced to react.

Second, the impact of Israeli soldiers having to conduct police actions against the Palestinians weighed heavily on him, especially when reservists from elite commando units and the Air Force voiced their unwillingness to conduct operations in the West Bank and Gaza. ird, demographic trends made him worry that if Israel did not withdraw, it would risk losing its Jewish majority or its democratic character.

Today, Israel faces a looming, fateful choice. A little over three-quarters of all Israeli settlers live in about 5 percent of the West Bank that is closest to the June 4, 1967 lines. If Israel keeps building outside of the settlement blocs, Israel is on a path where it may soon lose the ability to separate from Palestinians. To face this challenge, Israel needs a leader who will rise to the occasion — and who recognizes the stakes and not just the cost of action, but also of inaction.

Because the Palestinians are divided now between Fatah and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza, two states are impossible at this stage, and the issue of building outside of the settlement blocs is not an issue in the Israeli election. But whoever wins that election See To Learn from Ariel Sharon page 11

What Israel still needs to learn from Ariel Sharon

dENNIS RoSS ANd dAvId MAKovSKy WASHINGTON| JTA With Israelis heading to the polls on Sept. 17, it is worth reflecting on the last Likud leader, Ariel Sharon, and the decisions he made on the Palestinian issue. Sharon, the 11th prime minister of Israel, was a large man who did not think small.

As Nir Hefez and Gadi Bloom noted in Ariel Sharon: A Life, Sharon in the early 1950s commanded Israel Defense Forces Unit 101, which sought to deter terror in Israel by carrying out controversial attacks into Arab states. Shimon Kananer, who served in the 101, said, “When I first came to the unit and met Arik, I couldn’t sense anything special about him. But aer a week in his presence, it was clear to me he would change the course of history.”

Sharon saw himself as a man of destiny. During the War of Independence, somehow he was saved during the battle for Latrun when he easily could have died. Sharon would say later that he was marked by Latrun and saved for a larger purpose.

He was a brilliant warrior who played a leading role in the Six-Day War and was more responsible than anyone else for changing the course of the 1973 war. Sharon would help to forge the Likud party when he chose to enter politics, but would be forced out of the Defense Ministry in 1983 when the Lebanese Christian militia carried out the killings of women and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Shaba and Shatilla. e IDF let the militia into the camps, and the Kahan Commission held Sharon responsible for this act of omission. He would say later that only in Israel could the Jewish defense minister be forced from office because of what Christians did to Muslims.

True, he was forced out as defense minister, but he would remain a minister in the governments through the 1980s and early ’90s. Aer the failure of the Camp David summit and the beginning of the second intifada, Sharon would be elected prime minister in February 2001. He declared, as prime minister, that he would end the intifada and produce peace. He would send the IDF into the West Bank cities to destroy the terrorist infrastructure, but he would also make the decision to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gives a speech on the opening day of the new school year in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, Sept. 1, 2004.

Credit: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images He was merciless in criticizing Israeli leaders for not being tough enough on Palestinian terror, yet in response to the suicide bombing of the Dolphinarium nightclub in Tel Aviv, an attack that killed many teenagers, then-Prime Minister Sharon declared that “restraint is also strength,” as David Landau wrote in “Arik: e Life of Ariel Sharon.”

At the Wye River negotiations in 1998, he would not shake Yasser Arafat’s hand. Yet shortly aer becoming prime minister, Sharon sent his son discreetly to meet the Palestinian leader and instructed him to be respectful and treat him with dignity.

Sharon was the driving force behind building settlements in the territories seized in the 1967 war, and would declare that giving up any territory taken from the Arabs would signal Israeli weakness. Yet later he would be the Israeli leader who actually dismantled settlements in the Sinai and Gaza, and the first Israeli leader to publicly embrace Palestinian statehood there and in the West Bank.

Sharon, too, would ensure a Jewish state even if

lot of sex. A lot of drugs. It’s not a family-friendly environment. And our camp isn’t, either.”

He said some other things, too, but I’m not going to repeat them. Shock value, is that all this is? But to what purpose? Besides, ‘not family-friendly’ is no excuse for anti-Semitism, no matter how artsy you try to make it look.

Frankly, if I were Mattel, I’d sue.

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Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Shumuly Yanklowitz, Fridaysaturday, sept. 20-21.

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Friday: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. saturday: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. weekdays: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. suNday: Service, 8:30 a.m.; Sunday Secrets, 9:15 p.m. following Minyan.

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.

All programs are open to the entire community. For more information call 402.330.1800 or visit www.ochabad.com.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Teri Appleby.

Friday: Pop-Up Shabbat Dinners — No Service at Temple; Candlelighting, 7:20 p.m. saturday: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study on Parashat Ki Teitzei, 10:45 a.m.; Potluck Dinner and Game Night 20th Anniversary, 6 p.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 8:49 p.m. suNday: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m.; LJCS Gesher, 10 a.m.; Adult Hebrew Prayer Class, 11:30 a.m.; LJCS Board Meeting, 1:30 p.m. at Tifereth Israel; Feeding the Kids at F Street Rec Center, 2:30 p.m. For more information, contact Aimee Hyten at aimee.hyten@gmail.com. tuesday: Ladies’ Lunch, noon at Hacienda Real, 3130 Pine Lake Road. Let Deborah Swearingen (402.475.7528) know if you plan to attend and if you need a ride. wedNesday: LJCS Hebrew School, 4-6 p.m. at TI. thursday: High Holidays Choir Rehearsal, 7 p.m.

Jewish Book Club Meeting, sunday, sept. 22, 1:30 p.m. at Gere Library, 2400 S. 56th St (South 56th & Normal Blvd) and will discuss Spies of No Country by Matti Friedman.

Bringing of treats is permitted. Also note that this not intended to be a women’s-only group; men are welcome!

We’ll be sprucing up the Temple gardens for the High Holy Days and we hope that volunteers will join us on the mornings of sept. 22 and 29, from 8:30-10 a.m., for gardening. We will be trimming, weeding, and mulching and all members, friends and family are welcome to join in!

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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 Stan Edelstein.

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

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Friday: Shabbat Comes to You at Remington Heights, 4 p.m.; Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. saturday: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m. suNday: Grades K-6, 10 a.m.; Tri-Faith Listening Session, 10:30 a.m.; Temple Tots, 10:30 a.m.; Kol Rina Rehearsal, 1 p.m. tuesday: Kol Rina Rehearsal, 6 p.m.; Board of Trustees Meeting, 7 p.m. wedNesday: More Than a Joke - A Tri-Faith Symposium Made in God’s Image: Jewish, Christian & Muslim Perspectives on Human Rights, Lunch-and-Learn, noon-1 p.m. at American Muslim Institute; Grades 3-6, 4-6 p.m.; Community Dinner, 6 p.m. Menu: chicken and vegetable lo mein, miso soup, egg rolls, extended salad bar, assorted desserts. Wednesday night dinners are open to the entire community! If you have a child in our Wednesday learning programs, there will be no cost for your family’s dinner. Cost is $4 per adult and

$3 per child (12 and under), which will be billed to your account. Please RSVP to Temple Israel the Monday before; Grades 7-12, 6-8 p.m.; Preparing our Hearts for the High Holidays, 6:30-8 p.m. with Rabbi Stoller. thursday: Tri-Faith Neighbor to Neighbor Mixer, 5 p.m. at Temple Israel. Have you heard about Neighbor to Neighbor?

If you haven’t, come and learn about this hallmark Tri-Faith program. N2N is a great way to make new friends and meet TriFaith families. If you already have a N2N group, come and help answer questions about how your group is working and the connections you’ve built. N2N provides opportunities for people from the three faith communities on the Tri-Faith Commons to connect, learn about the other faiths, share their own faith experiences and create meaningful relationships with others in a social environment that is safe, respectful and welcoming.

Tot Shabbat, Friday, sept. 20, 5:45 p.m. We are introducing a fun and spiritual evening created for our youngest congregants! We’ll begin at 5:45 p.m. with challah braiding and baking, at 6 p.m. there will be crafts, music, and prayers, and at 6:30 p.m. we’ll enjoy dinner together.

Brooks Café Dedication, Friday, sept. 20, following Shabbat evening servic.

OTYG Lock-In, saturday, sept. 21–sunday, sept. 22.

S’lichot, saturday, sept. 21, 7 p.m. S’lichot, meaning “prayers for forgiveness,” marks the official start of the High Holidays. We’ll begin with wine, cheese and conversation with our new cantor, Joanna Alexander, about her spiritual journey, her vision for Temple Israel, and the themes of the High Holidays. A S’lichot service led by our clergy, and featuring the changing of our Torah covers to the holiday white, will follow.

Temple Israel’s 7th & 8th Grade Youth Group Kick-Off

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Event at the Mark, sunday, sept. 22, 4:30 p.m.

Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Friday: Friday Celebration of Shabbat with friends from Tifereth Israel, 6:30 p.m. at the home of Haleigh (Brockman) and Matt Carlson. Bring a dairy or pareve salad, vegetable dish, or dessert. The main dish, challah, and grape juice will be provided. Please RSVP to the synagogue office; Candlelighting, 7:20 p.m. saturday: Shabbat Service, 9:30 a.m. followed by a light Kiddush luncheon; Junior Congregation, 11 a.m. followed by a snack; Havdalah (72 minutes), 8:18 p.m. suNday: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m.; LJCS Gesher, 10 a.m.; Adult Hebrew Prayer Class, 11:30 a.m.; LJCS Board Meeting, 1:30 p.m. at Tifereth Israel; Tifereth Israel PJ Library Bakes Honey Cakes, 3 p.m. Come bake two mini-honey cakes to take home for Rosh HaShanah. Bring a parent or other adult family member to join you in this activity. Please bring a canned food donation for the Lincoln Food Bank Barrel. tuesday: Ladies’ Lunch, noon at Hacienda Real, 3130 Pine Lake Road. Let Deborah Swearingen (402.475.7528) know if you plan to attend and if you need a ride. wedNesday: LJCS Hebrew School, 4-6 p.m. at TI. Selichot Service "Radical Forgiveness,” saturday, sept.

21 at 8 p.m. Join us for an evening of introspection, conversation, and prayer as we prepare for the High Holy Days.

Fire destroys Minnesota synagogue

beN sales JTA An early Monday morning fire destroyed a synagogue in northern Minnesota. e cause of the fire at the Adas Israel congregation, a traditional synagogue in Duluth, was unclear, according to local news reports. It appears to have destroyed much of the building, which was built more than a century ago. ere were no fatalities, though one firefighter was injured while fighting the blaze. It is unclear whether any of the synagogue’s Torah scrolls survived, according to the Star Tribune, a newspaper in the Twin Cities.

“It feels like one of your family members passed away,” David Sher, a board member and

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lifelong worshipper at Adas Israel, told the Star Tribune. “We have no idea what we are doing [next]. ere are no words right now.” e synagogue has around 50 members. e local Jewish federations have started a fundraising campaign on behalf of the synagogue, and another local synagogue, Temple Israel, has offered Adas Israel temporary space.

“We thank the Duluth Fire Department and the Duluth Police Department for their swi response to this terrible incident,” Steve Hunegs, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas, said in a statement. “As we approach the Jewish High Holy Days, we offer our full support to our fellow Jewish Duluthians.”

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lifecycles in memoriam

mariya “mary” eTuS

Mariya “Mary” Etus passed away on Sept. 6.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Mira and Leonid and her brother, Mike.

She is survived by her brother, Gregory; sisters-in-law Olga and Valentina; niece, Lucy and her family; and nephews: Igor, Slava, and Kostya and their families.

Mary was born in February 1941 in the village of Parichi, Belarus. When she was four months old, Nazi Germany occupied Belarus during World War II. Mary and her mother, Mira, were evacuated to Siberia while Mary’s father Leonid fought in the war. After the war, the family reunited in Parichi, Belarus. She finished secondary school and continued her education at the Foreign Language Institute in Minsk, Belarus, graduating in 1966. For many years Mary worked as an English language teacher, an interpreter, a cultural director, and a librarian.

Mary and her family immigrated to the United States in 1993, joining her cousins Gail Kogan and Jean Tsyrlin, their families, as well as aunt Lyuba. Mary worked as a Russian language interpreter and an English-asa-second-language teacher. For years, she took excellent care of her elderly parents, Mira and Leonid. Mary was fortunate to develop many genuine friendships and was surrounded by her family and friends.

Mary enjoyed various volunteer opportunities and community services, such as volunteering at the JCC library, helping newly arriving Russianspeaking immigrant families learn English and assisting them with medical and legal matters. In her free time, she enjoyed reading and writing, cooking, collecting art and antiques, knitting, and exploring the Internet.

In the last several years, she lived at the Livingston Plaza apartments and more recently at the Blumkin Home, where she received the compassionate and highly skilled care that she needed.

Mary will always be remembered as a kind, compassionate, honest, loyal, and modest person. She will be truly missed by so many of us.

arThur (arT) i. Friedman

Arthur (Art) I. Friedman of Omaha passed away surrounded by his family on Sept. 5, at age 77. Services were held on Sept. 8 at Beth El Cemetery, officiated by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Julius and Adele Friedman and brother-in-law Martin Gilinson.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Sheryl; daughters and sons-inlaw, Holly and David Weill and Caren Friedman and Corey Greendale; grandchildren, Julia and Levi; sister, Pam Gilinson; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Charles and Kathleen Natkins; and nieces and nephews, Stacy, Hilarie, David, Jacob, and Zoe. Art was born in Brooklyn, NY, and served with the US Air Force in Vietnam. He was a life-long Mets fan and lived in New York, DC, and Ohio before moving with his family to Omaha 35 years ago. His quick wit, dry sense of humor, and ability to navigate without GPS will be missed.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the organization of your choice.

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continued from page 9 will face the reality that separation may soon be lost as an option unless a decision — a courageous political decision given the weight of the settler movement in Israel — is taken.

Ross and Makovsky are the co-authors of “Be Strong and of Good Courage,” (PublicAffairs/Hachette).

Dennis Ross is counselor and the William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He served as special assistant to President Obama, as Special Middle East Coordinator under President Clinton, and as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff in the first Bush administration.

David Makovsky is the Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations at e Washington Institute for Near East Policy. e views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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Official fired for Facebook post seen as anti-Semitic is reinstated

Sam Sokol JTA A Trump administration official accused of anti-Semitism was reinstated a day aer resigning over allegations that he had accused American Jews of controlling the press.

On Tuesday, Sept. 3 Bloomberg Law reported that Leif Olson, a recently appointed senior policy adviser at the Department of Labor, had used several anti-Semitic tropes in a 2016 Facebook post commenting on the political fortunes of Paul Nehlen, a white nationalist who had failed in his bid to unseat then-House Speaker Paul Ryan in Wisconsin’s Republican primary.

Olson resigned several hours aer Bloomberg contacted his department and the White House for comment.

He defended his post as “sarcastic criticism of the altright’s conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic positions” — a position that was echoed by journalists and commentators across the political spectrum.

His post said that Ryan had been “brought to heel” by an “uprising of the conservative masses of real America eager for an authentic voice in Washington instead of the same tired globalist open-borders pap they’ve been pushing on us since the Elites abandoned the People.” “e guy suffered a massive historic, emasculating 70point victory,” Olson continued. “Let’s see him and his Georgetown cocktail-party puppetmasters try to walk that one off.”

Responding to a commenter who asserted that Ryan was Jewish, Olson wrote that “it must be true because I’ve never seen the Lamestream Media report it, and you know they protect their own.”

Yair Rosenberg of Tablet wrote that the incident “ought to be an object lesson for reporters seeking to tackle this important topic,” while New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait said that firing Olson “as an anti-Semite over this post strikes me as terribly unfair.” e Anti-Defamation League, which initially condemned Olson, said it had accepted his explanation aer reporting that highlighted later comments on the post in which its sarcastic nature was made explicitly clear.

According to the right-wing Daily Caller website, a senior Department of Labor official said that the department’s acting secretary “personally decided to instate Olson aer carefully reviewing all the facts and circumstances.”

Bloomberg said it stands by its reporting.

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shirley’s kitchen: Onion Pie

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Honey cake with apples and pecans annette van de kamp-wriGHt Editor, Jewish Press

Honey cake witH apples and pecans

Ingredients: 1 cup vegetable oil 2 medium eggs 2 cups sugar 2 cups flour 1 cup pecans, small pieces almost a whole cup of honey, although that can be less if you don’t want to go too heavy on it 3 tsp. cinnamon 1 tsp. vanilla 1 tsp. baking soda 4 apples, peeled and diced 1/2 cup pecans for decorating Directions: Grease a round springform pan (if you’d rather use a different pan, it’s up to you. I just like the springform).

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Mix oil and eggs together, then add all dry ingredients and the vanilla extract. You want to add the apples last, and carefully (don’t use the mixer for this part, just a wooden spoon will do).

Pour into pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes (everyone’s oven is different so you’ll have to kind of check when the toothpick comes out clean); when cake is done, drizzle the honey

over the top and sprinkle with half a cup of pecans.

If you want, you can put it back in the oven for another 5 minutes. It helps the honey settle in.

From: shirley Goldstein Originating from: Probably from Ladies Home Journal or Good Housekeeping magazine, they always had great recipes! Most of the time, I didn’t follow recipes or use cookbooks much.

Usually served this when: when having

people over to the house.

This was a favorite when having company. It became a ‘regular’ at New Year’s Eve. Once I learned to do this, I made it all the time! It was a popular thing to serve (along with tamale pies).

onion pie

Preparation time: 50-60 minutes Temperature: 350 degrees Ingredients and Directions: Mix together thoroughly: 1 cup fine cracker crumbs 1/2 cup melted butter Press the mixture into the bottom and sides of an 8” pie plate.

In skillet, sauté 2 cups thinly sliced onions in two tbsp. butter till transparent but not brown.*

Spoon into crumb lined pie plate and pour over them a mixture of 2 eggs (lightly beaten), 3/4 cup milk, 3/4 tsp. salt and dash of pepper.

Sprinkle top with 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese and little paprika. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or till knife comes out dry. Garnish with parsley and serve hot.

Serves 6-8. * For the test, I used red onions since that’s what I had in the kitchen, but the original onion pie probably had yellow onions, ed.