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The 2 p.m. event will be held at the Jewish Community Center.During the festivities, memorabilia from NJHS’s archival collections -- including newly digitized videos -- will be showcased, awards will be presented to dedicated supporters and sweets and refreshments will be served.Theafternoon will be highlighted by featured speaker

s the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society marks its 40th anniversary this year, the entire community is invited to raise a glass to the organization during a special celebration on Sunday, Oct. 16.

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communication between many institutions and agencies in the area with the focus on improving our community’s security.

“Every day I come to work, I try to bridge the gap between law enforcement and our community. I aim to be the intelligence hub within our community, working with the synagogues and community members to monitor potential threats and gather intelligence on threats within our community. I then work

At the Jewish Federation of Omaha, safety and security come first and we are proud to be a law enforcement/first responder friendly campus inside and out. JFO Security works tirelessly to build strategic relationships, assess safety and implement security improvements. Leading security at the JFO is James Donahue. A former U.S. Marine, Donahue has years of experience having also worked as a security contractor in Afghanistan and in law enforcement. In his short time as Campus Safety and Security Manager, he has improved lines of

communicate with local law makers.

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On Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 7 p.m, in the Alan J. Levine Theater at the Staenberg Omaha JCC, please join the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) for Community Conversations, a series of programs on compelling, current topics impacting the Jewish community of Omaha.

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said Robby Erlich, who is coordinating the anniversary event along with committee members Rocky Stern, Ducky Milder, Kate Kirshenbaum, Kelly Kirk, Seth Schuchman and Ben“TheJustman.historical society is in the midst of undergoing some See NJHS 40th anniversary celebration page 2

In addition to offering personal remarks, Pollak will speak about “The Amazing Ella Fleishman Auerbach, Nebraska Journalist and Historian.” Auerbach was an author and early chronicler of Jewish history in Nebraska from the early to Whilemid-1900s.NJHS’spast will be fêted during the afternoon, the future direction of the organization will also be celebrated,

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Our panel of experts include Carol Bloch, moderator and JCRC Civil Rights Committee chairperson and Rabbi Steven Abraham to give the Jewish perspective on abortion. Gilda Sedgh, Principal Advisor, Research and Policy Integration at the Guttmacher Institute, who will focus on levels and trends in unmet need for contraception in developing countries, women’s reasons for conSee JCRC presents page 3

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in Nebraska. Our goal is to equip attendees with tools to advocate for reproductive freedom, learn how to build coalitions, and the best ways to

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Co-sponsors of the program include The Women’s Fund, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland and the ACLU of Nebraska.

This inaugural program, Reproductive Rights in Nebraska—Where Do We Go From Here features a panel of local and national experts in a moderated discussion about protecting reproductive rights

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Oliver Pollak, PhD, who co-founded the historical society in 1982, along with the late Mary Fellman. Pollak is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he taught from 1974 to 2012. He practiced bankruptcy law in Nebraska and Iowa for 33 years and is also a noted author. He and his wife, Karen, currently reside in California.

Jewish communities take security seriously. It has become the standard for synagogues, day schools and community centers around the country to employ 24-hour surveillance, work closely with law enforcement agencies, host staff trainings and update their own security measures and plans frequently to ensure the safety of the people - from all backgrounds and religions- who work, play or pray inside of these buildings.

Many concert-goers also lined up to enjoy freshly baked pizza. They watched intently as dough was expertly stretched and the topped pizzas were placed in Dante’s mobile oven. Children of all ages lined up for shaved ice, prepared by the Kona Ice truck, before scurrying off to the playground and gaga pits.

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Continued from page 1 exciting changes,” Erlich said. “The scope of our work will greatly expand when the Kleinberg Jewish Heritage Center opens next year, and our archives are growing on a daily basis, thanks to community“NJHSsupport.hasbeen such a vital part of our community over the past four decades,” he added. "We’re thrilled to be able to mark this 40-year milestone anniversary with the public and look forward to seeing everyone on the afternoon of Oct. 16.”

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Since moving to Omaha, Heidi has been a stay-at-home mom to her most adorable and rambunctious son. In her spare time, she serves on the board of the Offutt Enlisted Spouses Club and the Jewish Film Festival Selection Committee.

Community came together for music, food and fun on the back lawn of the Jewish Community Center on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022. The family-friendly gathering was the first in a series of three musical performances known as The Staenberg Omaha JCC Backyard Concert Series.

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Heidi and her family enjoy traveling and look forward to doing it again, as they like to visit family around the country as well as explore historical sites. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, Heidi has enjoyed relocating back to the Midwest.

Even though clouds filled the sky cooling down the recent sizzling summer temperatures, the heat was on as the sounds of local musicians filled the air, as it does every summer for the last 11 years.

Heidi Heilbrun is an award-winning photojournalist, who moved to Omaha in 2018 from Augusta, Georgia.

She spent 15 years as a photographer and videographer for newspapers covering everything from breaking news to politics, entertainment and sporting events. Her work has been featured in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times, CNN and several international publications.

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Midwest Coast, known for its electric R&B/Soul style, took the stage right at 5 p.m. as the lawn filled with adults and children, eagerly waiting to see the band. Their unique sound had some listeners swaying along while enjoying their picnic dinners.

There is no charge to attend the celebration. Reservations are requested by Oct. 10 and may be made by contacting NJHS Interim Executive Director Liz Boutin at njhs@jewish omaha.org, or 402.334.6441.

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In addition, it is important to increase security awareness for our community members. That includes a training schedule of security-based training covering active shooter, bomb threat, suspicious package, de-escalation, suspicious activity reporting, threat identification, terrorism awareness, and various other security related topics.

All these things, James says, are just a few examples of how everyone’s security and safety is our primary concern. If you have safety concerns or suggestions, you can reach Donahue at jdonahue@jewishomaha.org

How common are mental illnesses?

• 1 in 25 Americans lives with a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or major depression.

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• Biological factors or chemical imbalances in the brain

Yes, it’s important to remember that a person’s mental health can change over time, depending on many factors. When the demands placed on a person exceed their resources and coping abilities, their mental health could be impacted. For example, if someone is working long hours, caring for a

• More than 50% will be diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder at some point in their lifetime.

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While sharing site-specific measures of any one facility would be counterproductive to maintaining security, there are many health and safety measures that the JFO has implemented.“When considering safety on campus, it’s easy to first imagine outside threats made by nefarious characters and the tragedies you hear on the news. While law enforcement monitors security concerns throughout the city, region and nationally, my job is to make sure this campus is as safe as possible from the smallest issues to the biggest,” James said.

What is mental health?

We are also working on building relationships and bridging the gap between the Jewish Community and other businesses and organizations within the community, by re-establishing evacuation and mutual aid policies with our neighbors.

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Can your mental health change over time?

As the public affairs voice of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, the JCRC works to foster a just, democratic and pluralistic society through cooperation with other faith partners, racial, ethnic and civic groups. Guided by Jewish values, the JCRC fights anti-Semitism, advocates, educates, collaborates and mobilizes action on issues of importance to the Jewish community and promotes the security of Israel and JewsThiseverywhere.programwill be in-person and presented over Zoom. Please register at https://tinyurl.com/JCRC1. A reception with light refreshments will follow the program. For more information please contact Pam Monsky, JCRC Assistant Director, pmonsky@jewishomaha.org, or 402.334.6572.

relative or experiencing economic hardship, they may experience poor mental health.

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• Early adverse life experiences, such as trauma or a history of abuse (for example, child abuse, sexual assault, witnessing violence, etc.)

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There is no single cause for mental illness. A number of factors can contribute to risk for mental illness, such as

• Having feelings of loneliness or isolation

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That includes focusing on such things as routinely inspecting all exterior lighting for operation and ensuring immediate repairs are made. JFO is installing safety bollards around vulnerable areas of the campus to prevent vehicle-ramming attacks. Safety film has been placed on vulnerable windows to prevent the glass from becoming shrapnel in the event of a vehicular-based explosive attack and delay forced entry into our

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Mental and physical health are equally important components of overall health. For example, depression increases the risk for many types of physical health problems, particularly long-lasting conditions like diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Similarly, the presence of chronic conditions can increase the risk for mental illness.

• Experiences related to other ongoing (chronic) medical conditions, such as cancer or diabetes

Why is mental health important for overall health?

• Use of alcohol or drugs

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JFO is building relationships with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to help with intelligence sharing and threat reporting.

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Mental health includes our emotional, psychological and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.Although the terms are often used interchangeably, poor mental health and mental illness are not the same. A person can experience poor mental health and not be diagnosed with a mental illness. Likewise, a person diagnosed with a mental illness can experience periods of physical, mental and social well-being.

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in 5 children, either currently or at some point during their life, have had a seriously debilitating mental illness.

Mental illnesses are among the most common health conditions in the United States.

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Novick, meanwhile, was raised in the United States, in a secular Jewish family that had already been here for generations. For her, the project was eye-opening in a different way.

It is also supplemented by extensive interviews with Holocaust survivors and historians, most prominently Deborah Lipstadt, an influential Holocaust scholar and currently the U.S. State Department’s special envoy on antisemitism. Lipstadt delivers what the directors saw as the film’s most haunting conclusion: that the Nazis achieved their goal of permanently crippling the global Jewish population, which has not been fully replenished in the decades since the Holocaust.The American focus means the film takes 30 minutes to arrive in Germany. The timeline begins not with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power but with the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, an American law that set national quotas on all immigrants to the country and would come to factor heavily into U.S. refugee policy during Europe’s mass expulsion of Jews.

A German policeman checks the identiﬁcation papers of Jewish people in the Krakow, Poland, 1941. Credit: National Archives in Krakow

“My grandmother used to say to me: ‘If someone shook you

The film also discusses divisions within the American Jewish community over whether to let in so many Jewish refugees. Twenty-five percent of American Jews at the time didn’t want to let any more in, some because they looked down on the Eastern European refugees as poor and unassimilated, and others because they were scared of making life worse for the Jews still in Europe if they spoke out too forcefully. “It took me a while to really get my mind around the idea that there was a significant voice within a powerful Jewish American community that [believed] we shouldn’t say too much because it will just stir the pot and awaken more antisemitism,” Novick said.Intheir publicity for the film, Burns and company are partnering with several organizations to try to bring the Holocaust’s lessons into the modern day, including the International Rescue Committee, a refugee aid agency, and the U.S. government-funded think tank Freedom House.

The filmmakers take a wide sweep in establishing the racist political climate of the time, discussing the Chinese Exclusion Act of the 19th century; Theodore Roosevelt’s love of eugenics; Henry Ford’s public campaign of antisemitism; and Jim Crow laws, which rendered Black people second-class citizens and which Hitler would eventually draw from when crafting his own race laws.

One of the first people introduced in Ken Burns’ new documentary series about the Holocaust is Otto, a Jewish man seen in the series’ first episode who tries to secure passage to America for his family but gets stymied by the country’s fierce antiimmigration legislation.

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“There was a way, because we were relating it to the U.S., that you could get a different and perhaps fresher kind of picture,” Burns said. “The United States doesn’t do anything, and then all of a sudden it does. They’re bad guys, and then they’re goodTheguys.”filmmakers hope such a message will have modern resonance, especially as it arrives in a very different world from the one in which work on it began: amid a growing climate of authoritarian governments, right-wing extremism, Holocaust denialism and fierce debates over how to frame American history in the classroom.

For these reasons and more, Burns said, “I will never work on a more important film.”

“To set the table meant we had to go pretty far back,” Novick said.The chronological approach places particular emphasis on what had already transpired in Europe by the time Americans got significantly involved: the “Holocaust by bullets,” for example, in which more than 1.5 million of what would ultimately be 6 million dead Jews were slaughtered by gunfire and dumped in mass graves throughout Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe before the concentration camps were even constructed.Asitdetails the horrors unfolding in Europe, the film focuses on the rise of Nazi-sympathizer movements on the homefront, including the America First Committee, and breaks down the tensions within the State Department, where antisemitic officials in positions of power undermined efforts to intervene diplomatically on behalf of Jews.

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The project took seven years to complete. In 2015, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum reached out to Burns with a request: Would he consider making a film about America during theBurnsHolocaust?andhis longtime collaborators, Botstein and Novick, along with writer Geoffrey C. Ward, had already been considering such a project. Their 2007 miniseries about World War II and their 2014 project about the Roosevelts covered historical periods that overlapped with the Holocaust but did not explore the subject in depth — and their makers recognized theProducedgap. in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation, and drawing on the latest research about the time period, the resulting six-hour series explores the events of the Holocaust in granular detail. But it also chronicles the xenophobic and antisemitic climate in America in the years leading up to the Nazi genocide of Europe’s Jews: a nation largely hostile to any kind of refugee, particularly Jewish ones, and reluctant to intervene in a war on their behalf.

“I understand better now, I think, the world that my grandparents, or sometimes great-grandparents, grew up in, and how antisemitic America really was,” she said.

Botstein said. “Because her identity had defined everything that ever happened to her, and I didn’t have that experience living in a fairly liberal part of New York State.”

in the middle of the night, what would you say? Are you an American? Are you a Jew? Are you a woman? Are you Sarah?’”

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The series paints a picture of a country largely failing the century’s greatest moral crisis, through a combination of bureaucratic ineptitude, political skittishness and open bigotry emanating from the streets to the most vaunted chambers of power — while a handful of heroes, working mostly on the sidelines, succeeded in helping small numbers of people.

The producers asked JTA not to give away the details of the film’s ending — an unusual request for a Holocaust documentary. But the reason is that Burns and his team don’t end with the camps’ liberation in 1945. Instead, they come up to the present, in unexpected ways.

Ken Burns’ PBS documentary The U.S. And The Holocaust asks hard questions

It isn’t until the third episode that viewers learn that Otto’s daughter is nicknamed Anne, and the pieces fall into place: He’s the father of Anne Frank, the Holocaust’s most famous victim.Burns calls the delayed detail a “hidden ball trick,” hoping that an audience with only passing knowledge of the Frank family will not immediately clue into the fact that Otto was Anne’s father. Burns and his co-directors, the Jewish filmmakers Sarah Botstein and Lynne Novick, wanted their viewers to ponder the question of what the U.S. government felt Anne’s life was worth when she was still a living, breathing Jewish child and not yet a world-famous author and martyr of the human condition.

Like most projects by Florentine Films, Burns’ production company, The U.S. And The Holocaust tells its story with copious historical documents — in this case, photographs, letters, and newsreel footage — often read aloud by celebrities, including Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Hope Davis and Werner Herzog. They voice the stories of Frank and others like him who sought refuge in the United States but died in gas chambers and concentration camps instead.

“It was important to us to look at a way in which you can rearrange the familiar tropes so that you see: This is a family that is getting the hell out of Germany, and hoping eventually to put more distance between them by going to the United States, which basically in the majority of the citizens and in the policy of its government does not want them,” Burns told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.Burns is the foremost documentarian of American history, with iconic works such as The Civil War Jazz and Baseball (where he explained the real hidden ball trick, an on-field sleight of hand), turning PBS programs into must-see TV multiple times over the past four decades. His latest, The U.S. and the Holocaust, premieres on the public broadcaster Sept. 18 and will air over three nights.

The film was an especially personal journey for Botstein and Novick, who are both Jewish. Botstein’s father (Bard College president Leon Botstein) was born in Switzerland in 1946, to two Polish Jews who had met in medical school in Zurich and later came to the United States as refugees. She is a first-generation American and said making the film helped her better understand her family’s survival.

Truss says she is committed to the Conservative Party’s outlook on Israel, saying, “There is no greater friend to the UK than Israel.” On the campaign trail, she even suggested that she would be open to moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as the United States did under President Donald Trump. Like Johnson, who has used friendly language in relations to Jews and Israel and whose maternal great-grandfather was a Moscow-born Jew, Truss too says she has positive associations with RespondingJews.to a Jewish Chronicle survey

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that he does not mourn the destruction. “We have prayers instead of sacrifice,” he said. Judaism did not die when the temple was destroyed.

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Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson as the prime minister of the United Kingdom Sept. 5. A liberal turned right-winger who at 46 is one of the youngest people to ever hold the post, Truss cited a Jewish boss as an inspiration and vowed to fight antisemitism in an interview with the Jewish Chronicle of London

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On the 9th of Av, Anna and I headed to the Arch of Titus in the Roman Forum at Rome. Titus was the commander of the Roman military that conquered Judea, destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem, and took with him the spoils from the temple in addition to thousands of Jewish slaves. With the money he took from Jerusalem he had the fourth story of the Coliseum built in addition to his arch on the Holy Way (Via Sacra) in the forum. The relief on the arch shows the famous Menorah that was taken from the Temple in Jerusalem carried on the shoulders of the army and captives. It is a mitzvah to spit on the arch. However, Rabbi Yehohanan ben Zakai said

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In a surprising ceremony at the office of the Mayor of the new city of Pompeii, the Mayor granted me the emblem of the city of Pompeii for 30+ years of excavations and discovery of the biblical city of Bethsaida. The ceremony was attended by the Mayor’s team and friends. The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 CE. Pompeii has been under archaeological excavations since the 18th century and is considered to be a Heritage Protected site by UNESCO. About 12 million people visited Pompeii in 2022. The modern city of Pompeii is located around the ancient city.

The United Kingdom’s decision not to back a 2017 international statement in support of a two-state solution in Israel was a watershed moment in the country’s Israel policy — part of a rightward shift after Johnson’s predecessor, Teresa May, assumed power. Previously, the U.K. had typically voted with other European countries to back policies and statements that were more critical of Israel.

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showing a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in British schools, Truss, who was born in Oxford to a university professor and a nurse, said, “I want to see the scourge of antisemitism eradicated. That means driving it out from our culture, starting with the schools.”Andon Iran, she said that it “cannot allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon.” The U.K. is still party to the Iran nuclear deal, which is currently being renegotiated.

Truss’ claim to have taken a “strong stand in tackling antisemitism at the international level,” he wrote, “stands up.” At the United Nations Human Rights Council, she ensured that Britain “voted with Israel,” Pollard wrote, in keeping with the country’s shift under May and her successor, Johnson, from long-held voting patterns on Israel. She even clashed with foreign service officials to do so, she told Pollard.“Bodies like the Human Rights Council,” Truss told Pollard, “have been used to peddle a particular agenda which frankly has strong elements of antisemitism.”

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As foreign secretary, Truss, a mother of two who was first elected to parliament in 2010, challenged the singling out of Israel at the United Nations, according to Stephen Pollard, a former editor-in-chief of the Chronicle who interviewed Truss for the article.

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Amy believes that the biggest victory from the summer was working with the leadership team at the ELC. “It has been so much fun to work so closely with such passionate people! We each bring different skills and strengths to the table and I am looking forward to seeing what we do next!”The activities they will do next will involve celebrating Jewish holidays and engaging with our community. They are looking forward to in-person family Shabbats and a family Sukkot celebration coming in October. If you are interested in volunteering at the ELC, please reach out to Amy Dworin at adworin@jccomaha.org or call 402.334.6415 to learn more about opportunities.

A middle-aged wannabe rock star lands a new gig as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school, where he transforms a group of straight-A students into a face-melting rockBasedband.on the hit movie starring Jack Black, School of Rock features a cast of young rock stars who act, sing and perform

Let’s make this year the brightest and the happiest for our community! Happy Rosh Hashanah.

After spending her first year learning the ropes at the ELC, Assistant Director Amy Dworin was excited to start implementing many of her ideas this past summer. “I spent the past few years as Director of Youth Engagement at Beth El synagogue and really enjoyed my time working with community teens, many of which attended the ELC as children. I was excited for the opportunity to help lead the ELC as my graduate degree is in early childhood special education.”

It’s not too late to join Jewish Family Service’s team for the Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Community Walk on Saturday September 17th. The walk starts at 1 p.m. at Stinson Park. We are joining thousands of teams across the country to help save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness Community Walk is a journey of remembrance, hope,

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“The color run and Yom Sport Color War were also a huge hit and provided excellent opportunities for sensory exploration. Young children explore and learn through doing. So many times in life they are instructed to not make a mess or to stay clean. These activities were designed to let loose, make messes and try new things. We held it in the field and had shaving cream, mud, assorted bubble stations and a massive slip & slide,” said Amy. ELC students in the older age groups had a lot of fun tye-dying shirts for our color war. The teachers who helped them were covered in dye for several days, but it was worth it! “It was such a great opportunity to teach cause and effect!” said Amy. “The kids were so excited to tye-dye… for many it was their first experience and they loved seeing how the colors mixed and changed; They were thrilled with how their shirts turned out and wore them proudly!”

all of the show’s rock instrumentals live on stage.

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One of Dworin’s many innovative ideas this summer was a huge hit with the kids. “We have an area at the front of our building that is adjacent to the pool that we call our trike track. The kids love zooming around it with ride on toys, wheeled carts and gliders so we have decided to turn the trike track into a tiny town. While we are still working on plans for our tiny town, I incorporated our summer time water play into building a car wash, something most kids have experienced in town with their families.”Dworin sketched out to scale plans and explained her idea to students. She assembled color coded PVC pipes, that she had drilled holes into to create the car wash. “Our kids were very interested in the process from start to finish. They were very curious how I could “make” a car wash so I began sharing the plans with them and loved the input they gave me. They watched me drill holes into the pipes and helped me to problem solve, offering ideas to make our car wash the best ever!”

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“What fun they had riding through our tiny town car wash!” said ELC Director Lisa Cooper. The carwash had the added bonus of allowing students to help wash many toys that were due for their deep cleaning in such a fun way. While outdoor water play season is winding down for this year, color coding all the pieces will allow children to help to reassemble it easily next summer.

A few other ideas incorporated into this summer’s ELC schedule were adapted from Jewish summer camp traditions. Preschoolers did flag pole once a week, held a color run and did a Yom Sport Color War.

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Sarah Piper, ELC Mentor Teacher, coached the teachers on leading flagpole and made sure to have something special happen each week. From a bubble show to learning new songs, flagpole or deleg in Hebrew, there was a highlight each week. “It was a wonderful opportunity to build community while incorporating camp traditions,” said Piper.

“Our students really love being able to help build, create and problem solve; it gives them a sense of pride and accomplishment to point out to their loved ones that they helped to build the car wash. While many children love going through real car washes in their family vehicles, it can be frightening to some. Creating our own little car wash will hopefully help to alleviate some anxieties children may have about the real carwash. It was a lot of fun for everyone!”

and support. It unites our communities and provides an opportunity to acknowledge the ways in which suicide and mental health conditions have affected our lives and the lives of those we care about. All are welcome. If you cannot join in person, you can sponsor others through the link below. Register at https://supporting.afsp.org/team/293946. Questions? Call JFS at 402.330.2024.

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While there are no shortages of fabulous amenities available for these young learners on the newly updated Staenberg JCC campus, what makes the ELC so special are the teachers and the truly fabulous learning programs and projects they create.

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Above: Friedel’s ﬁrst small group innovation learning challenge of the year: Design and build a structure that will support a heavy book, using only plain paper and scotch tape. Students discussed what worked, what didn't work, and how the groups adjusted their designs as they worked through the challenge.

Below: Chabad Rabbi Berel Feldman (originally from Australia) puts up the mezuzah for Danny Denenberg and his college roommates. From left are John from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Nathan from Maryland; Danny; Theo from Newton, Massachussets and Rabbi Feldman. The ﬁfth roommate is not in the picture, but we’ll include him next time.

Below: Friedel uses Well-Managed Schools, which is a positive approach to teaching classroom skills that was created by Boys Town based on extensive research. It gives teachers strategies for effectively managing classroom dynamics while keeping joy in the classroom.

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Above: Cleaning up and organizing: Temple Israel’s Dani Howell is getting ready for the beginning of the school year.

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Above, right and below: RBJH Third Annual Corn Shucking Party Residents shucked 17 dozen ears of corn from a local farmer’s market to give to staff to say thank you with a sweet gesture. Residents also shucked enough corn to serve for lunch in the RBJH kitchen! A sampling of the homegrown watermelon was an added treat for all of their hard work.

Top, left and below: In Friedel art class, students learned about Wayne Thiebaud, who was known for painting desserts. Instead of painting, the kids made mini desserts out of modeling clay. They look delicious!

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Above: BBYO teens from Omaha and Kansas City enjoyed a day of fun at Worlds of Fun during their annual Fall Kickoff program.

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Blowing the Shofar

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Repentance Bot is about “distilling [apologies] down to really oversimplified, easy steps,” Ruttenberg said. “And they’re not easy. None of those steps in real life are easy.”

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Nowhere in the Torah does it specify why we have to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashana, but maybe that’s because the why is less important than the how.

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While the tradition of symbolically throwing bread, representing sins, into a body of water may be a more familiar High Holiday custom, a new Twitter bot aims to address “fauxpologies” on social“Repentancemedia.

How does one go into the High Holidays against such a backdrop? While antisemitism in the United States keeps getting worse, we can’t really imagine what it would be like to live with this constant threat to our existence. Not really

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The ideas and prayers of Yom Kippur lend themselves to innovation, said David Zvi Kalman, who created an online Jewish confessional booth, AtoneNet, that offered an early intersection of ancient Jewish practices and contemporary digital tools.

There is a strange dichotomy between blowing something as beautiful as the shofar after such terror, just as there is between Rosh Hashanah prayers and a weapon on one’s hip. Prayer shawls and violence don’t go well together—except, sometimes circumstances dictate they must. It’s a sobering thought.

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Repentance Bot is meant to distill some of the lessons from the book and make them visible, Ruttenberg said.

Letters should be no longer than 250 words and must be single-spaced typed, not hand-written. Published letters should be confined to opinions and comments on articles or events. News items should not be submitted and printed as a “Letter to the Editor.”

In one meta-example, Repentance Bot had published a tweet in a robotic font that was not com-

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massacre was a Palestinian terrorist attack that occurred in May 1974 and involved a two-day hostage-taking of 115 Israelis, which ended in the murders of 25 hostages and six other civilians. That was then, and this is now: After a reltively quiet beginning, 2022 has seen a total of 22 dead Israelis from a number of terror attacks.

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The main message from Rosh Hashana has to be hope. When, just a few days after 9/11, Menachem Posner went to synagogue in New York, he ob-

To me, there is something triumphant in the sound. Yes, it’s supposed to remind us of the binding of Isaac, and the war cries of our enemies, and the revival of the dead at the end of days. I know all those things.

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Bot” allows users to tag the account when they see an apology that they believe falls short. The bot then replies to the apology with encouragement to do better and a comic strip laying out five steps to take to do so.

Those vows reflect the to-do list in the bot’s comic strip, which begins with taking responsibility without making excuses and ends with making a different choice in the future.

In one recent example, Repentance Bot was tagged underneath a video of the athletic director of Brigham Young University addressing fans after a Duke University volleyball player and her other Black teammates were attacked with racial slurs during a game against BYU.

The steps are those laid out in Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg’s forthcoming book, “On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.” Out next Tuesday, the book uses the traditional Jewish concepts taught by the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides to discuss contemporary issues of surviving violence and lays out a framework for making amends in a meaningful way.

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“We live in a culture where people do not have a roadmap when harm is caused,” Ruttenberg told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “This is basically an experiment in public education, to try to see if we can move the culture towards showing people what taking responsibility and making change looks like.”

Inspired by lessons from Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg's new book, On Repentance and Repair, the Repentance Bot is an experiment in public education around apologies. Credit: Carol Yepes/Getty

That bot was created by Russel Neiss, a Jewish technologist and educator who coded Repentance Bot and worked with the Jewish digital consulting company Tiny Windows to produce it on Ruttenberg’sRepentancebehalf.

Move over, tashlich: Twitter is the new place to atone, thanks to a bot programmed by Jewish coders who want users to apologize better.

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“Worshippers in Safad will be carrying their firearms to synagogue on Rosh Hashana. Inspector Itzhak Deutch, the local police commander, made this unusual request in case terrorists should try an attack on a synagogue during the High Holy Days. Most of the children who were killed by terrorists in the Ma’alot school-house were from Safad. Elsewhere in the country, the local police and civil defense are preparing plans for the protection of synagogues and other places of prayer during the holidays.”TheMa'alot

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that had rammed into our world.”

Unlike some Twitter bots that call out bad behavior on social media, including @RacismDog and its now-defunct cousin, @AntisemitismCow, Repentance Bot aims to do more than name and shame. It launched on the first day of the Jewish

“People will engage with it to have a little fun with it as well as trying to do meaningful public education,” she added.

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During the service, Posner, who was 18 years old at the time, blew the shofar:

“The image is seared into my mind. Walking over the Williamsburg Bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan in the early morning, looking to the right, and seeing giant plumes of smoke rising from the spot where the Twin Towers had stood just days before.”

month of Elul — the last month of the Jewish year and the beginning of a period of reflection ahead of the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year and Day of Atonement — and is meant to help people improve themselves.

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In September of 1974, this headline ran on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s wire: “Rosh Hashanah Worshipers asked to bring Guns.” The story did not pertain to American Jews:

There are countless stories out there about blowing the shofar against the backdrop of violence and violent threats. What they have in common: that shofar is never silenced for good.

Bot, as with many similar bots, has a sense of humor. It is meant to be “fun and funny,” while also serving as an educational tool, said Ruttenberg, who last month announced that she would be donating to the National Survivor Network to begin to make amends for personally benefiting from a Jewish foundation tied to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“After reciting the blessings, I closed my eyes and blew with all my might. I blew for the souls that had been cruelly snuffed out on 9/11. I blew for the congregation, wishing them another year of life and health. I blew for my generation, realizing that we were entering into an era when security was not something that we could ever take for granted. And I blew for G d, who saw mysterious beauty in the destruction and had a reason for the hammer-blow

“In the same way that on Hanukkah people will innovate menorahs or on Pesach people will innovate Seder plates, on Yom Kippur, they want to innovate liturgies,” Kalman said. “What else are you going to innovate? You literally can’t eat anything. So it’s this.”

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However, this is a holiday, no matter what is going on in the background. Whether there are terror attacks, white supremacists, political strife and anti-Zionist and antisemitic sentiments aplenty, whether yet another stupid college newspaper somewhere in the world calls for Israel’s destruction, at the end of the day, we must celebrate. And we must celebrate in a triumphant way.

Reboot, the Jewish arts nonprofit, offers 10Q, an annual online questionnaire that stores responses securely for a year, then returns them by email the following year to facilitate respondents’ reflection on their personal growth. And the Yom Kippur-themed eScapeGoat (also known as @Apologybot) appeared on Twitter in 2013 and would “collect” users’ sins when tagged.

patible with ALT text, an HTML attribute that allows for verbal image descriptions. Visually impaired readers may rely on a program that reads ALT text aloud, and if there’s no ALT text, they may not be able to interact with the text or image at all. Repentance Bot learned of the incompatibility and

“You’re a 10, but you need some help doing the work of repentance and accountability,” reads the tweet, which references a recent meme and is followed by the cartoon.

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wrote an apology note for the error, along with an updated version of the previous tweet and a promise to “teach other bots this important human factoid.”

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Total Barre integrates elements of Pilates, dance, cardio, and strength training. Focus on your glutes, hips, abs, and arms with this class.

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FRIDAY: Drop-In Mah Jongg 9-11 a.m.; Classic Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. via Zoom or In-Person.

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Ct. (except we drive if it’s too wet, cold, cloudy, windy, hot or humid) followed by coffee and spirited discussions. If interested, please email Al Weiss at albertw801@gmail.com to find out where to meet each week; South Street Temple Board Meeting, 1:30 p.m.; Pickleball at Tifereth Israel is on hiatus until after Yom Kippur 5783. In the meantime, everyone is welcome to play at Peterson Park until after Yom Kippur; just wear comfortable clothes and tennis or gym shoes. For more information, contact Miriam Wallick by email at TUESDAY:Miriam57@aol.com Tea & Coffee with Pals, 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.

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A Vinyasa Yoga, characterized by stringing postures together so you move from one to another seamlessly, guided by the force of inhales and exhales. Classes may include more dynamic and complex postures. Accessible to all experience levels.

SUNDAY: Youth Learning Programs, 9:30 a.m. InPerson; Book Club, 10:30 a.m.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat Service with Rabbi Alex and music by Nathaniel and Steve Kaup, 6:30 p.m. at SST; Oneg host TBD; Candlelighting, 7:15 p.m.

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MONDAY: Selichot, 6:40 a.m.; Nach Yomi, 6:45 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Daf Yomi, 6:30 p.m.; Mincha/ Ma’ariv 7:10 p.m.

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

THURSDAY: Thursday Morning Class, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Azriel via Zoom or In-Person.

PIYO

SUNDAY: BESTT (Grades K-7), 9:30 a.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush and Cholent; Shabbat Ends, 8:11 p.m.

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ence levels from beginner to advanced.

SUNDAY: Sunday Morning Wraps: Video Presentation, 9-9:30 a.m. and Breakfast, 9:45 a.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush Lunch sponsored by Sandy and Jeff Passer at Beth El & Live Stream; Selichot Under the Stars, 8 p.m.

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THURSDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Advanced Hebrew Class, 11 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Talmud Study (Sanhedrin 18 — No advance experience necessary), noon with Rabbi Katzman; Jewish Law Class, 7 p.m.

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