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Third Thursdays: IHE Lunch and Learn What’s so Jewish about baseball?

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SCOTT LITTKY Executive Director,Institute For Holocaust Education he Institute for Holocaust Education is pleased to announce a new educational learning opportunity that will begin on Thursday, Nov. 19, titled, Third Thursdays: IHE Lunch and Learn.

On the third Thursday of each month from noon until 1:30 p.m., IHE will offer different educational opportunities for the community to learn about different topics involved in both Holocaust education and topics of interest on subjects involving the Holocaust. For the foreseeable future the classes will be offered on Zoom.

Facilitation of the third Thursdays: IHE Lunch and Learn series will be with Scott Littky, Executive Director and Kael Sagheer, Education Coordinator of IHE, along with different experts of various topics.

For the first month on Nov. 19, please join us for our discussion on How Humor Helped Heal The Pain Of The Holocaust. Together on Zoom we will view a short lecture from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In this

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Temple Israel welcomes Dr. Gary Zola

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innovative and in-depth work, Dr. CASSANDRA WEISENBURGER Zola was appointed by President Temple Israel Obama to the Commission for the Director of Communications Preservation of Temple Israel is American Herexcited to anitage Abroad and nounce that Dr. was a lead organGary P. Zola, a naizer of the nationally renowned tional celebration Jewish historian of the 350th anknown for his niversary of Jewfriendly and enish life in gaging teaching America. Dr. Zola style, will join us is the author of

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The entire community is invited to join us virtually for Shabbat evening service on Friday, Nov. 6, at 6 p.m.

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presentation, Dr. Edna Freidberg, Historian at the USHMM, speaks with Ferne Pearlstein, director of The Last Laugh, to explore how humor kept the human spirit alive during the Holocaust and helped some survivors heal. Jewish come-

dian Robert Clary, who was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp and later acted in the 1960s sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, says that making people laugh during the Holocaust saved his life. Humor helped some people cope See IHE Lunch and Learn page 3

Join Beth Israel for The Shabbat Project

MARY SUE GROSSMAN For several years, an initiative has promoted the beauty and magic of celebrating a full Shabbat in early November. Traditionally, individuals and synagogues strove to fill Shabbat tables and offer learning sessions embracing the more and more lost art of truly enjoying Shabbat.

Beth Israel Synagogue has promoted The Shabbat Project for many years, frequently hosting Shabbat dinners filling the synagogue social hall.

As with so many happenings in our lives, things will look differently this year. Despite the fact there will be no live events with huge Shabbat See The Shabbat Project page 2

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What’s so Jewish about baseball?

a homer! This will not simply be about Jewish baseball players; ROBBY ERLICH Jonathan will bring a lot of engagement and enthusiasm to his Beth El Engagement Coordinator Batter up! Beth El Synagogue is excited to present a unique presentation through audio/video clips, trivia questions and more. Participants will feel like they are program on Sunday Nov. 8 at 1 p.m. tienjoying a ball game. tled Is Baseball the Jewish Sport? in A lifelong baseball fan since attendhonor of the 2020 World Series. All baseing his first game in 1971, Jonathan put ball fans are invited to participate via together this program for Camp Zoom in this engaging program led by Ramah in Northern California and baseball enthusiast, Jonathan Lightman. later showed it to his synagogue. While With a background as an attorney, he has never been to Omaha, he fondly Jonathan Lightman has over 30 years recalls watching Bo Jackson as a memof professional experience as a lobbyist ber of the Kansas City Royals tear up and nonprofit executive. A native of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park Los Angeles, Jonathan and his wife, with his offensive, defensive and base Janis, moved to Sacramento in 1988 stealing skills. Last summer, Jonathan where he has served as the local Jewish and his wife made their first trip to Community Relations Council Chair, Cooperstown where he and a teamproducer and host of his own Jewish mate missed winning that day's big radio show, Chai Sierra, and President trivia contest by one question. As they and now Gabbai Rishon of Mosaic Law say, there's always next year.

Congregation. He also volunteers in To sign up for this “perfect game” several capacities for the United Synaprogram, please visit www.bethelgogue of Conservative Judaism, includomaha.org. Any questions can be diing as Chair of the Shoshana Cardin Jonathan Lightman rected to Robby Erlich, Engagement Awards Committee.

Jonathan’s program will make Jewish texts come alive - with Coordinator at rerlich@bethel-omaha.org.

ORGANIZATIONS B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS The Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith is pleased to announce the resumption of its award-winning speaker program via ZOOM. Although the Home auditorium remains temporarily closed, we’ll continue presenting an outstanding lineup of thought-provoking keynoters. Now-retired law professor Dick Shugrue, PhD will provide an analysis of arguably the most controversial election in our lifetime on Wednesday, Nov. 4. For specific speaker information and/or to be placed on the email list, please contact Breadbreakers chair at gary.javitch@gmail. com or leave a message at the BB JCC office 402.334.6443.

The Shabbat Project

Continued from page 1 tables filling up around the world, the focus remains on making Shabbat an anchor in all that is crazy.

In some ways, however, we may be closer to each other than ever before. No matter where one lives – Jerusalem, Akko, Teaneck, Phoenix, Toronto, Seattle or Omaha - we are all home. The past few months have reminded us that homes are the anchor. Use that anchor this year on Nov. 6 and plan to flood your homes with the light, life, meaning, warmth and depth of Shabbat.

Shabbat has a unique rhythm, which flows from good meals and company to prayers and downtime. Unsure how to make your Shabbat a true Shabbat? Need to learn about Shabbat do’s and don’ts? The answers are as close as the nearest internet connection, that constant companion for lives today. Go to theshabbosproject.com for a wide range of help. From Shabbat basics and easily understood descriptions of Shabbat in-depth you will soon be a Shabbat maven and ready to embrace a wonderful new way to spend Friday night and Saturday. The Shabbat Project is also found on Facebook by liking The Shabbos Project. Rabbi Ari and Rabbi Yoni are also available to answer your questions on Shabbat. Email bethis rael@orthodoxomaha.org or call and leave a message at 402.556.6288 and they will get back to you. Remember to call in plenty of time to assure your Shabbat preparations are completed before sundown – 4:55 p.m. – on Nov. 6.

In addition to the on-line resources, Beth Israel will be offering Shabbat to Go bags to help make Shabbat special. The Shabbat bags have been distributed periodically in the community with goodies, fun items and always a nosh or two.

The Shabbat Project to Go bags will have even more info to help one truly celebrate Shabbat. If you are interested in receiving one of the bags, please email Rabbi Yoni Dreyer at ydreyer@orthodoxomaha.org.

Beth Israel will also be offering a drive-through service for those interested in purchasing kugel and cholent to enhance their Shabbat meals. The kugel and cholent will be made by Master Chef Rabbi Yoni in the Beth Israel kitchen. Reservations are required and can be made at orthodoxomaha. org or by emailing ydreyer@orthodoxomaha.org.

This year, plan to bring Shabbat home – that’s where it belongs.

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IHE Lunch and Learn Continued from page 1 with atrocious conditions in ghettos and concentration camps as they suffered under Nazi brutality. We will debrief and discuss the presentation together after the viewing.

On Dec. 17 from noon to 1:30 p.m., we hope you will come learn with Kael Sagheer, IHE Education Coordinator, when she will present and discuss the book, Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm.

There is no need to read the book. We will send you a synopsis. Ravensbrück, from the outside, was a prison/re-education center (1939-45) for women who were a threat to German society: communists, socialists, criminals, asocials, Jehovah Witnesses and Jews among them. From the inside, it was a place of torture, infanticide, prostitution, theft, slave labor, medical experiments and murder. According to those who survived it, Ravensbrück was its very own kind of hell— one only understood by those inside the walls. The environment spawned both incredible compassion and generosity as well as dog-eat-dog competition—the very best and worst of which humans are capable.

In her 658-page book, Sarah Helms tells the previously unknown story of Ravensbrück through historical investigation and personal narratives of inmates as well as German personnel. Yevgenia Klemm, the Soviet POW; Elsa Krug, the prostitute from Düsseldorf; Krysia Cruz, the Polish rabbit; Grete Buber-Neumann and Olga Benario, the German communists are among the inmate narratives. Dr. Sonntag, the barbarian; Dr. Mennecke, the psychiatrist; Dorothea Binz, the cruel but beautiful guard, and Johanna Langefeld, the morally conflicted chief guard are among the personnel. Each story is a complete tale of the human experience. Yet each one is also a piece of the whole picture that is Ravensbrück. Unfortunately, not every story of the nearly 140,000 women could be known.

Many voices were lost in that dark place.

Speaking about her session, Kael states, “The voice that I will

be focusing on Dec. 17 is that of Johanna Langefeld, the Oberaufseherin of Ravensbrück. Quite often when teaching and talking about the Holocaust, the question, “How could good people let this happen?” comes up. It is both an earnest and a rhetorical question because to answer it takes a considerable amount of thought and exploration. My hope is that through Johanna’s story we will be able to explore whether she deserves our empathy or condemnation, and whether we can make a personal connection to Johanna or others like her.”

On Thursday, Jan. 21 at noon-1:30 p.m. we are excited to learn from Dr. Eileen M. Angelini about The Vel d’Hiv Round-Up: The Largest Mass Arrest in Wartime Dr. Eileen M. Angelini in French History.

From July 16-17, 1942, the French Police arrested French Jews.

The victims were held in deplorable conditions at the Velodrome d’Hiver, or Vel d’Hiv, an indoor cycling stadium. Learn about the detailed planning by the Vichy Government behind the roundup and how the French Government and citizens have since dealt with the pain and shame of this traumatic event.

Dr. Angelini, co-creator and co-director of the documentary La France Divisee (France Divided) will share her historical knowledge, her experience working with survivors and her work in Holocaust education with us.

Dr. Eileen M. Angelini was from 2013-2017 a Fulbright Specialist, recipient of a 2010-2011 Canada-U.S. Fulbright award as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University and named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques in August 2011. She received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. Dr. Angelini is the Associate Dean of the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College.

To register for the third Thursday IHE Lunch and Learn series, please email Ivy Banks, IHE Administrative Assistant at Ibanks@ihene.org. After registering for the event a confirmation email with the Zoom link will be sent to you.

ADL launches online election incident reporting tool SCOTT KURZ Associate Director, ADL-CRC In response to growing concerns that extremists could attempt to interfere at the polls in the next few weeks as Americans cast their ballots, ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) has established a new online incident-reporting tool that will enable voters to flag any potential hate crimes or disruptions involving extremists.

In addition to an online reporting form, where the public will be able to report possible hate crimes or extremism-related incidents quickly and confidentially, ADL has established a text short code to provide convenient access to the reporting form.

Anyone can text “hatehelp” to 51555 to receive a link and additional information on how to report extremist activity or other manifestations of hate, such as anti-Semitic or racist graffiti.

“As the 2020 election approaches, we are mindful that some extremists may seek to exploit the divisive political atmosphere in the country,” said Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO. “This situation has been exacerbated by the pandemic

and by irresponsible rhetoric from political leaders fanning the flames of intolerance.”

ADL will process any incident reported and track potential extremist activity in real time. (For voting issues that are not extremist-related, ADL will direct voters to contact the national, nonpartisan Election Protection coalition at 1.866.OUR-VOTE).

Additionally, ADL experts will be on standby to assess situations to determine whether there’s a need to elevate reports to law enforcement, polling officials or other government authorities.

Staff in ADL’s network of 25 regional offices across the country (including the Plains States Region covering NE, IA and KS), who have direct contacts within government, law enforcement, and local community organizations working to prevent racism and hate, will also help assess and follow up on possible threats.

“While some extremists are pushing a hateful agenda this election season, we are committing our resources and expertise to fighting their efforts,” said Greenblatt. “We hope everyone is able to exercise their right to vote in this important election.”

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HANUKKAH The Festival of Lights

Continued from page 1 Dr. Zola will speak about Profiles inAmerican Jewish Courage. As we begin our year of celebrating Temple Israel’s 150th anniversary, Dr. Zola will demonstrate how our congregation’s history sheds light not only on the significance of Nebraskan Jewish history but also on the lofty meaning of the American Jewish experience itself.

On Saturday, Nov. 7, at 9:15 a.m., Dr. Zola will lead us in a lively discussion via Zoom about Jewish Pioneers in The Cornhusker State: A Documentary Study Session. Dr. Zola will introduce us to some of Omaha’s pioneering Jewish citizens who laid the foundation for our city’s Jewish future. Together we will examine a number of historical documents from the American Jewish Archives that shed light on the lives and careers of these Jewish trailblazers who contributed to frontier life in the Cornhusker State.

Our Virtual Scholar-in-Residence weekend is made possible by the generosity of Dr. Speedy and Debbi Zweiback.

“Knowledge of the past allows one to artfully ‘shape’ one’s future,” said Speedy. “We learn from our mistakes and ‘profit’ from our successes. Gary Zola’s broad knowledge of Jewish history can provide us with pride about our heritage and incentivize us to work together to insure the success of our future as a Jewish community.”

Debbi said she also sees the importance of learning about the past as we look to the future: “History helps us develop a better understanding of the world and ourselves and helps us learn to understand other people. History helps us understand how the society we live in came to be. As we study the past, we learn our present and potential future. I believe it is good to seek knowledge about the world God has made and our place in it.”

For the Zoom links to view these services, please visit: templeisraelomaha.com/zola.

Dr. Zola and his wife Stefi reside in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have four grown children: Mandi, Jory, Jeremy and Samantha.

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The Omaha Community Playhouse production of A Christmas Carol opens Friday, Nov. 13! Experience one of Omaha’s favorite holiday traditions—this year, in a reimagined small-cast version with eight cast members!

Ebenezer Scrooge takes us on a life-changing journey filled with stunning Victorian costumes, festive music and crisp, wintry sets. A Christmas Carol is a beautiful reminder that love and generosity are the heart of the holiday season.

Tickets are on sale now starting at $40 for adults and $26 for students, with ticket prices varying by performance. Tickets may be purchased at the OCP Box Office, located at 6915 Cass Street, by phone at 402.553.0800 or online at OmahaPlayhouse.com.

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ADL-CRC Voter’s Corner: Election Day

ELLIE BATT, CAROL BLOCH AND MURPHY WULFGAR It all comes down to a single day. If you haven’t voted early, posted your mail-in ballot or dropped it in a drop box, you have less than a week to play your part in shaping the next four years. With COVID numbers climbing and anti-Semitism and extremism surging across our nation, the stakes couldn’t be higher. If you are a recently registered voter or a seasoned participant of democracy you will always remember where you were and the part you played in what is to come. Don’t sit this one out. Below you will find some helpful information to share as this truly momentous election draws to a close.

DOUGLAS COUNTY ELECTION COMMISSION OFFICE Aside from your neighborhood polling place, there is no more important location between now and Election Day than your county’s Election Commission Office.

Location: 12220 West Center Road, Omaha, NE 68144, in the building complex behind Nobbies Party Store.

Contact: 402.444.8683(VOTE) or at http://www.vote douglascounty.com/.

Important Dates: Oct. 29, extended hours (8:30 a.m.-6 p.m.), Oct. 31, special Halloween hours (9 a.m.–1 p.m.), Nov. 2, early Voting Ends at 5 p.m., Nov. 3, Election Day (8 a.m.–8 p.m.).

THINGS TO REMEMBER ON ELECTION DAY

• Find your polling place either online (www.votedouglascounty.com) or at 402.444.8683 (VOTE) • Make a plan for Election Day voting.

Know what time you are going, how you will get there, be prepared to wait in a line, have a proper facemask and a backup plan if anything goes awry.

• Mail-in ballots cannot be turned in at your polling place.

• Mail-in ballots can be hand-delivered to the Election Commission Office (or deposited in any of your county’s drop boxes) up to 8 p.m. on Election Day. • If you make an error on your mail-in ballot, you can take it to the Election Commission office, sign an official oath and receive a new ballot.

• One drop box is located in the Election Commission Office parking lot with two additional boxes located inside.

• Track your ballot at www.votedouglascounty.com for confirmation that your ballot has been accepted. (This site can be used for any county in Nebraska.)

• You may request a provisional ballot if you are turned away from your polling place for any reason. Simply state: “Give me a provisional ballot with a receipt as required by law.”

• If you encounter any problems call Civic Nebraska’s Election Protection Hotline at 402.890.5291.

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Israel lifts lockdown restrictions GABE FRIEDMAN JTA Israel’s “coronavirus cabinet” decided last week that the country is ready to begin lifting some of the strict lockdown restrictions designed to bring down an alarming second wave of COVID-19 infections.

Starting Oct. 18, Israelis can travel farther than a kilometer from their homes, The Times of Israel reported. Beaches, national parks, preschools, day care centers, the Western Wall and the Temple Mount reopened for visitors. Gatherings of up to 10 people indoors and up to 20 people outdoors will also be permitted.

But those plans will be scrapped if Israel’s daily new case rate rises above 2,000. The case rate has more or less fluctuated around that figure over the past weeks, with spikes in both directions. On Sept. 30, according to public data, Israel recorded over 9,000 new cases — the equivalent of over 300,000 new cases in the U.S. Israel’s Health Ministry recommended easing the lockdown over a period of four months to avoid the chaos of this past summer, when the country moved to reopen in a decision that politicians of all persuasions agreed came too soon. Israel’s health minister acknowledged the risks involved in reopening now — particularly for preschools.

As the reopening deliberations were taking place, footage of police dragging a bleeding man out of an Orthodox wedding in a West

Bank settlement riled the public and government officials.

The video uploaded to Twitter depicts a scene of chaos: attendees screaming, people lying on the ground and a man being led out of a house by police, his face covered in blood.

According to the police, as reported by the Guardian, wedding guests began throwing bottles of olive oil at the officers as they broke into the home to disperse the crowd, who were violating current coronavirus protocols. The man who was bleeding was the brother of the bride, and police say he slipped on some of the oil, fell and cut his face on a shattered bottle.

Government officials who saw the footage called for an investigation, which is now underway. Even Aryeh Deri, the haredi Orthodox interior minister who has begged the religious community to socially distance, said the police had gone too far.

Over the course of the pandemic, many in Israel have accused haredi Orthodox communities of flouting government rules that have restricted public prayer and other gatherings.

The country’s former health minister, Yaakov Litzman, who is haredi Orthodox, resigned after catching the virus, and critics alleged he had participated in large prayer groups that his government had outlawed.

Many haredi Orthodox communities still have the country’s highest infection rates.

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Greek Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust monument vandalized

Earlier this month, anti-Semitic slogans CNAAN LIPSHIZ and a Nazi symbol were scrawled on the JTA Two Jewish cemeteries and a Holocaust stone fence of the Jewish cemetery in Nikaia, memorial were vandalized in Greece. a southwestern suburb of Athens. The graffiti The most serious incident, which involved the smashing of several headstones, occurred at the Jewish cemetery on the island of Rhodes on Oct. 11, the Politismika news site reported on Monday.

In a separate incident in the northern city of Thessaloniki on Oct. 16, “With Jews you lose” was painted on a monument for 50,000 of the city’s Jews killed during The entrance to the Jewish cemetery of Thessaloniki, Greece bears the Holocaust, accord- the slogan "death to Israel" on Oct. 11, 2020. Credit: The Jewish ing to a report Monday Community of Thessaloniki on the Parallaxi news site. included the phrase “Juden raus,” German for The third incident occurred at the Jewish “Jews get out,” and the symbol of the elite SS cemetery in Thessaloniki on Oct. 10. The Nazi force. perpetrators of that incident wrote “death to On Oct. 7, the Athens Court of Appeals Israel” on the entrance gate to the cemetery. convicted dozens of the former members of “It is clear that despite the steps that have Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Party, including been taken in recent years, there is still much party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, of belongto be done to combat racism and intoler- ing to a criminal organization. Michaloliakos ance,” the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki and other party leaders were given multisaid in a statement. year jail sentences.

Following Facebook, Twitter will ban Holocaust denial

increase in anti-Semitic violence, as have our BEN SALES wider policies on hate speech.”

JTA “We strongly condemn anti-Semitism, and Twitter will now ban posts that deny the hateful conduct has absolutely no place on our Holocaust.

Bloomberg News reported that a Twitter service,” the Twitter spokesperson said in a spokesperson said posts that “deny or dis- statement. “We also have a robust ‘glorification of violence’ policy in place tort” violent events includand take action against ing the Holocaust would content that glorifies or be banned. praises historical acts of viTwitter is the second olence and genocide, inmajor social media netcluding the Holocaust.” work to ban Holocaust deThe moves come as sonial this week. Facebook cial media networks make announced last week that a series of moves to crack it would ban posts that down on hateful content deny or distort the Holoahead of the presidential caust, two years after Mark election, and as activists Zuckerberg said Holocaust have called on social denial should be allowed in media companies to do the name of free speech. more to combat hate and For years, Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, A Twitter logo is seen displayed on misinformation. Facebook had defended Holocaust a smartphone. Credit: Illustration by also recently banned condenial as a misguided but Omar Marques/SOPA Images/Light tent related to the QAnon Rocket via Getty Images conspiracy theory, as well legitimate form of expression. In 2018, regarding Holocaust denial, he as a range of hateful posts including those said, “I don’t believe that our platform should that say Jews control the world. YouTube take that down because I think there are likewise banned QAnon content, and Twitter removed thousands of QAnon accounts this things that different people get wrong.”

That approach garnered widespread out- summer.

Twitter has taken an especially tough cry from scholars and anti-Semitism watchdogs. Zuckerberg later wrote in a Facebook stance on disinformation recently, appendpost that he now believes banning Holocaust ing warnings to tweets by President Trump sharing false information, violent content or denial “is the right balance:” “I’ve struggled with the tension between conspiracy theories. The network also restanding for free expression and the harm cently blocked an unsubstantiated article caused by minimizing or denying the horror about Joe Biden from the New York Post, beof the Holocaust,” he wrote. “My own think- fore saying similar content would be allowed ing has evolved as I’ve seen data showing an with a warning attached.

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ADL-CRC’s Walk Against Hate is growing PAM MONSKY ADL-CRC Assistant Director Due to incredible community response, the Walk Against Hate has been moved to Nov. 22 in order to give our partners ample time to plan each of their significant sites.

Since bringing ADL’s National Walk Against Hate™ to Omaha and transforming it from an afternoon “walk” into a weeklong, COVID-safe “journey,” there has been an incredible appetite for this positive community experience. Thanks to inspired collaborators and creative partners willing to open their doors and welcome us, the scope of our event has blossomed. The Walk Against Hate will now take place Sunday, Nov. 22 so that we can accommodate expanding locations and enrich this one-of-a-kind experience for the public.

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demic, also struck a nerve with Orthodox SHIRA HANAU Jews who feel targeted because of upticks in JTA Reports of a large wedding planned for COVID-19 cases in several Orthodox neighMonday, Oct. 19 in the Satmar Hasidic com- borhoods in New York City. munity in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, were met Incidents of assaults and verbal attacks on with fury over the weekend. New York Gov. Orthodox Jews have increased in recent weeks Andrew Cuomo even issued a special order as some blamed Orthodox Jews for the city’s blocking the event at which 10,000 guests increasing case numbers. A video that went were expected, which was later curtailed to include family only.

So when a Twitter account with the handle @SatmarStrong posted a video of a large wedding with thousands of people not wearing masks, it quickly racked up thousands of views and dozens of retweets. Except it wasn’t real.

The video was taken at the wedding of Satmar Grand Rabbi Zalman Teitelbaum’s grandson in 2006, according to Abby Stein, a transgender activist, and Meyer Labin, a writer and translator. Both were at the wedding, they said, and called out the tweet for spreading disinformation.

The @SatmarStrong Twitter account was created this month and had only 19 followers as of last week. Multiple users said they An anonymous Twitter account posted a video of a large would report the tweet for contain- Satmar wedding this week — but the wedding happened ing lies, and it was later deleted. in 2006. Credit: Screenshot from Twitter The account has no other tweets. viral on social media showing a man yelling at The tweet, and the suggestion that Ortho- an Orthodox man, who was walking and talkdox Jews were continuing to flout public ing on a cellphone without wearing a mask health recommendations during the pan- but far from other people, to put his mask on.

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Northwestern University president spars with protesters JTA Was a left-wing activist group being anti-Semitic when it called Northwestern University’s Jewish president “piggy Morty”?

The president, Morton Schapiro, said it could be. The activist group said it was not. The ensuing debate has divided Northwestern’s campus just north of Chicago.

The activist group, called NU Community Not Cops, chanted “piggy Morty” outside Schapiro’s home over the weekend, according to an open letter Schapiro wrote. The group is calling for the abolition of the Northwestern University Police Department as part of a racial justice campaign.Schapiro wrote that while he recognizes “the many injustices faced by Black and other marginalized groups,” he opposes disbanding the police and “condemn[s], in the strongest possible terms, the overstepping of the protesters.”

Associating Jews with pigs is a centuries-old anti-Semitic trope traditionally called the “Judensau,” a type of image that depicted Jews engaging in obscene acts with pigs.

In the context of anti-police protests in the United States, however, “pig” is commonly used as a derogatory term for police. The activist group wrote in a statement that it was using the term in that context, though it wrote, “Regardless of our intent, we apologize to our Jewish community, to individuals both inside and outside of the campaign who may have been harmed by language utilized at the protest.”

But the statement also emphasized the group’s opposition to Zionism and Israel, something Schapiro did not reference in his own letter and which was not a focus of the protest.

While left-wing groups generally say anti-Zionism is distinct from anti-Semitism, mainstream Jewish organizations and anti-Semitism watchdogs caution that there is often significant overlap between the two, while Jewish groups on the right tend to treat them as one and the same.

The group wrote it condemns anti-Semitism, then included “Zionism” among a list of other ideologies it opposes.

The university’s Department of African American Studies added its own open letter, writing that Schapiro did not take concerns of racism and police violence seriously, and that he displayed “sour, small and moribund leadership.” “[I]t is difficult to conceive of the level of ignorance, narcissism, or disingenuousness that would have to be present for you to personalize students referencing ‘pigs’ as an antiSemitic slur, rather than to understand these students’ anger as a product of nightmarish experiences that you — as an adult who in fact wields a great deal of power — bear substantial responsibility to address,” the letter stated.

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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT “In addition,” Lisa wrote, “I deal with uncontrollable tongue Jewish Press Editor Since Lisa Hoberman, daughter of tremors, my left hand is immobile and Jerry and Cookie Hoberman, was diagclenched tight. Eating and swallowing nosed with Primary Lateral Sclerosis are a challenge. I drag my left leg and (PLS), she has wanted “others who falling down is an issue.” have their own challenges in life to Lisa still considers herself “one of the know: there is light in the darkness.” lucky ones.”

PLS is in the same family as Amy“I am not yet in a wheelchair and not otropic Lateral Sclerosis, better known yet on a feeding tube,” she wrote. “This as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. It is a horrible disease has robbed me and so type of motor neuron disease that many others of what was normal. ‘Norcauses nerves within the brain to mal’ has been replaced with the sad reslowly break down. This makes the alization that what was can never be nerves unable to activate the motor again.” neurons in the spinal cord, which conBut, giving up hope is not an option. trol muscles. PLS causes weakness in “Life is filled with sadness and joy, soryour voluntary muscles, such as those row and happiness,” Lisa shared. “The list you use to control your legs, arms and continues; life is always a balancing act.” tongue. This can make it impossible to Part of that balance for Lisa is educattalk. However, primary lateral sclerosis ing others about the disease and raising progresses more slowly than ALS. funds for the Les Turner ALS Foundation PLS can develop at any age, but it by inviting people to ‘speak out.’ usually occurs between ages 40 and 60.

In 2020, Lisa hopes to raise $10,000 toA subtype of primary lateral sclerosis, wards research and to help with equipknown as juvenile primary lateral sclement needed for ALS and PLS patients, rosis, begins in early childhood and is such as feeding tubes, chair lifts and caused by an abnormal gene passed shower chairs, to name but a few. from parents to children. “In 2010, I “We must fight to defeat this disease,” was watching my son play soccer,” she she wrote. “Through it all, I have met so wrote. “I passed out. I have never been many incredible people who inspire me. the same. I was diagnosed with PLS, a Together, we will keep our hope alive and cousin to ALS. I have not spoken in the we are asking others to join us, and last ten years. I only make inarticulate speak out for us. Speak out for those who guttural sounds. I was 42 years old cannot. Let your donation shout, and toLisa Hoberman when I last spoke in my normal voice gether we will defeat ALS.” to David, my husband, and our children Ashley and Brandon.”

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Europe’s future doesn’t look bright CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AMSTERDAM | JTA Jews’ share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago and is declining even further, according to a landmark new demographic study.

The study published recently by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research found 1.3 million people who describe themselves as Jewish in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Russia.

That figure has declined by nearly 60% since 1970, when there were 3.2 million Jews in the same area, wrote the report’s authors, Daniel Staetsky and Sergio DellaPergola.

That decline, which follows the death of about 6 million European Jews in the Holocaust, owes mostly to the emigration of more than 1.5 million people following the collapse of the Iron Curtain, their data shows.

But Western Europe, too, has lost 8.5% of its Jewish population since 1970. It is home to just over a million Jews today compared to 1,112,000 in 1970.

In particular, the Jewish community of Germany is in a “terminal” state because more than 40% of its 118,000 Jews are above the age of 65, whereas less than 10% are under 15, the study says. This reality, which exists also in Russia and Ukraine, “foreshadows high death rates and unavoidable future population decline,” according to the study.

The project is arguably the most comprehensive survey of Jewish demographics ever completed in Europe, more far-reaching than

a 2018 European Union survey — although the rope in recent decades. new survey uses some information from the Jews in Europe had grown to constitute 2018 EU project. It is also based on official cen- 83% of world Jewry in 1900. They now acsus data and figures provided by individual count for merely 9% of the total number of Jewish communities, which are often organ- Jews worldwide, according to the study. ized into organizations with official membership tallies.

“The proportion of Jews residing in Europe is about the same as it was at the time of the first Jewish global population account conducted by Benjamin of Tudela, a Jewish medieval traveler, in 1170,” the authors wrote.

The study also notes that there are an additional 2.8 million people in Europe today who are entitled to immigrate A man celebrates Sukkot in Rome, Italy, Oct. 9, 2020. Credit: Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images to Israel based on their ancestral Jewish roots — at least one Jewish grandThe new report’s figures diverge significantly parent — but who are not necessarily Jewish from membership numbers provided by orthemselves or identify as such. ganizations such as the European Jewish ConThe demographics of European Jewry gress and the World Jewish Congress, which would have been “totally different” without are often cited in research and reporting. the impact of the Holocaust, DellaPergola The European Jewish Congress’ website told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an in- speaks of 1,929,650 Jews in Europe today – terview about the report. “But that was 75 nearly 33% more than the number arrived at years ago, and some of the trends we’re seeing in the new report. The World Jewish Congress today, which are driving the decline, have little counts 1,438,000 Jews in Europe. to do with the genocide,” he added.

France, which has the second largest Jewish Among those trends is an increasing inter- diaspora population after the United States, marriage rate and a decline in the reproduc- is responsible for much of the decline In tion rate of Jewish couples, which is part of Western Europe. France currently has 449,000 the broader drop in birthrate throughout Eu- Jews compared to 530,000 in 1970, according

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At the current rate of decline, Canada — which according to the World Jewish Congress currently has about 391,000 Jews — will soon overtake France as home of the world’s second largest Jewish diaspora community behind the United States, DellaPergola said.

The well-documented reasons for the French Jewish exodus include economic opportunity and fear about anti-Semitism.

The report also shows that Turkey, which used to have 39,000 Jews in 1970, now has only 14,600 of them. That drop is the product of a low reproductive rate and a high emigration rate. “Low fertility is characteristic of Jews in Europe. Intermarriage, operating on the back of low fertility, complements the picture – these two factors in combination create a situation where the reproductive capacity of many European Jewish populations is low and conducive to future numerical decline,” the report states.

There are some exceptions, all in countries where the Jewish community has a large Orthodox contingent. The Jewish populations of Austria, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, all with sizeable strictly Orthodox communities, “may be growing, or at least, not declining,” according to the report.

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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Friday, October 23, the next Borat movie hit Amazon Prime. By the time you read this, many people will have seen it. I think I’ll pass, for now at least. Not because I don’t appreciate Sacha Baron Cohen, the man or his work, but because this year has been a bit much. I don’t know that I have the bandwidth for more Borat.

When the first movie came out, it also took me a few months before I felt ready to watch it. I was familiar with Cohen’s type of humor: an unrelentless cringe-fest, with jokes you don’t really want to admit to finding funny. You watch it at home with people you trust before you dare to laugh out loud.

“Cohen’s upcoming film tackles anti-Semitism and a range of other hot-button topics, in the same way that the original Borat movie did,” Gabe Friedman wrote for JTA, “by tricking real people into making incriminating comments. Anti-Semitism was a central theme of the original Borat film as well; some scenes, including the fake ‘Running of the Jew’ event, have become some of the zeitgeist’s most memorable parodies of Jew hatred. The AntiDefamation League criticized Cohen in 2006 for perpetuating anti-Semitic stereotypes in pop culture, regardless of his intentions. But Cohen repaired that relationship and last year received an award from the ADL for his efforts to fight disinformation.”

Cohen’s work is political theater at its most fundamental: the laughs are there, but what he really aims for is to educate his public. And the lessons Cohen has to teach that public are tough and un-

comfortable. By convincing people they are in an “anti-Jewish safe space” (Is that even a phrase we want to use, ever?) he invites them to say what they really think. And lo and behold, when anti-Semites

place. Anti-Semitism was still something few people wanted to admit to feeling; being exposed as someone who did not care for Jews was shameful and to be avoided in most polite circles. Since then, neo-Nazis have come out of hiding, not just in America, but everywhere. The claim that Jews caused the COVID-19 pandemic doesn’t just live on the fringe and is therefore much harder to mock. What’s more, because we didn’t have enough conspiracynuts out there, we now have QAnon. People who believe America is run by a secret, satan-worshiping, childrens’ blood-drinking cabal, funded by George Soros.

Sound familiar?

To expose all the prejudice and craziness in the world, we don’t need a Borat Sacha Baron Cohen as the Borat character at a book signing in Westwood, movie. We need a hundred Calif., Nov. 7, 2007. Credit: Steve Granitz/WireImage/Getty Images Borat movies. It’s just too think they are in like-minded company, they say much. I’m afraid we’re way past the point where awful things. Which we of course already knew, but mockery makes us feel better. hey. Now it’s on film. Exposing anti-Semites is what But perhaps I am wrong. It wouldn’t be the first Sacha Baron Cohen does best; in that sense I am time. I’ll let you know in six months or so, when I sure this second Borat adventure will not disap- finally feel brave enough to actually watch the point. movie. Because right now, it’s just going to serve as Here’s what is giving me pause. When the first a reminder of how many people are willing to bemovie came out in 2006, we were in a different lieve COVID-19 was created in an Israeli lab.

I was afraid to reveal I was Jewish in Bahrain GAYLE MEYERS JTA On my trips to Bahrain, almost nobody knew I was Jewish. I was a strange enough creature as it was: young, female and civilian, traveling with a mostly male, mostly military delegation; low ranking, but representing the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the top-ranked organization in the delegation. Its ranking was so far above the people in the field that one of my friends at the U.S. Navy base in Bahrain said that getting a call from me was like getting a call from Mt. Olympus.

I was a policy analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense in the late 1990s. As part of an effort to build cooperation between U.S. and Middle Eastern allies to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction, I traveled several times to Bahrain and once each to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.

We didn’t talk much about religion, though it came up in random ways — when my Mormon colleague turned down the ritual coffee offered by our Bahraini hosts; when the Bahrain Defense Forces members halted conferences several times a day in order to go pray, leaving their U.S. military counterparts pacing the hallways with barely contained impatience; when a senior defense official whom I was accompanying folded his hands and closed his eyes for a moment of private prayer before dinner.

I’m not sure what I thought would happen if I talked about being Jewish. Although it’s a major part of my identity and obvious to anyone who gets to know me, I already kept a low profile about my Judaism at the Pentagon. I was certainly not the only Jew in the building, but the culture of the place was overwhelmingly Christian, from earnest invocations of God and country to office doors that were lovingly decorated with wreaths and Santas at Christmastime. When I was working on Middle East policy, I feared it would paint me as biased, or at least as caring too much about the region.

In Bahrain, the fear was different. In my wildest nightmares I imagined being called out loudly as a Jew and all heads turning in my direction. My fear of being seen as an outsider was magnified by the nature of the country itself, which is marked by social inequality, sectarian discrimination and police

repression. Among the Kingdom’s half million citizens, the in-group is composed of Sunni Muslims, with the ruling family at the center. Next come Shia Muslims and a few dozen Jews.

They are all outnumbered by foreigners, who form 80% of the country’s work force. Here too, there is a strict hierarchy: Arabs from Gulf countries can be executives and consultants. Other Arabs and educated South Asians can be clerks. Maids are Filipina. Sex workers are Eastern European and Asian. Construction workers are Bangladeshi. It almost goes without saying that women have fewer rights than men.

A view of Manama, the capital of Bahrain. Credit: Getty Images

As an American and a member of a high-level delegation, I moved easily across lines. I could speak up and be heard in meetings with men twice my age. I ate lunch with the three female Bahrain Defense Force medical officers who attended our meetings, which would have been inappropriate behavior for my male colleagues. I went shopping in the pearl and gold markets in the evening with the guys from the delegation, while black-veiled Bahraini women shopped in quiet malls during the day.

Foreign workers have no such flexibility. They are allowed into the country to perform a specific job and can be transferred or sent home without their consent. Despite recent reforms, many are still employed under a sponsorship system that allows employers to withhold their passports and wages and leaves them vulnerable to exploitation of all kinds.

I became aware of this oppressive system in brief glimpses of Bangladeshi workers on scaffolds in the intense, humid heat and Pakistani restaurants

crowded with men seeking a taste of home. That’s when I realized that I was safe. I was a privileged, protected “other.” In spite of my fears, if I had revealed my Jewishness, I would probably have suffered nothing more than a moment of uncomfortable silence.

I left government service long ago and now I live in Israel. I assumed I would never go back to the Gulf, but with Bahrain and the UAE opening diplomatic relations with Israel, it just might be possible. This time, I would be coming not from Mt. Olympus, but from Mt. Moriah, the holy plateau in the heart of Jerusalem, which sits just across the valley from my home.

I would be going as a tourist — a different kind of protected “other.” When tourists come to Israel, I hope that they can see the country in all its complexity: the Tel Aviv beaches and Jerusalem alleys; the high-tech towers and neglected development towns; the euphoria of the Zionist dream and the disaster it wrought on Palestinians.

Israeli tourists to Bahrain should also go with open eyes. In the excitement of meeting Bahrainis, they should not overlook the “others” who are all around them, who cannot conceal their identities and who may be unsafe as a result.

Gayle Meyers began her career as a policy analyst in the U.S. Department of Defense, fighting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and staffing the U.S.-Israel Joint Political Military Group. She later directed the Middle East Regional Security program of Search for Common Ground. After moving to Israel, she worked for civil-society organizations promoting regional peace and a shared society for Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. She teaches at the Machon L’Madrichim (Institute for Youth Leaders from Abroad) in Israel has designed, facilitated, or participated in more than a dozen conflict-resolution initiatives. Gayle received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She lives in Jerusalem with her family.

The 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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A New York Times op-ed tried to elevate Black women, but it failed to address Louis Farrakhan’s bigotry JONATHAN A. GREENBLATT JTA Like many others, I quickly saw that something important was missing from the New York Times op-ed this week about the 25th anniversary of the Million Man March.

The piece, by Natalie Hopkinson, a professor at Howard University, highlighted the behind-the-scenes roles played by Black women like Cora Masters Barry and Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X. As the piece notes, hundreds of thousands of previously unregistered Black men were registered to vote, thanks largely to the tireless efforts of Barry and others.

But while the piece achieved its goal of rewriting the Million Man March story to include new voices, it also contained a shocking omission. It fails to mention — or even scratch the surface of — the serial bigotry of the march’s main organizer: Louis Farrakhan, the longtime leader of the Nation of Islam.

The op-ed does note that Farrakhan needed the help of Barry and other women to massage his messaging around the march, which was viewed, as the writer points out, as “exclusionary and sexist.” And while that may be true, it does not even begin to qualify as a passing glance at the record of bigotry that belongs to Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam.

If you were to only read Hopkinson’s account of Farrakhan and the 1995 march, you most likely would walk away with a lukewarm impression of the man. But as with any narrative around a monumental historical event or person, it is necessary, at minimum, to be willing to acknowledge the significant negative or uncomfortable aspects surrounding such leaders, so readers are able to glean a clearer picture of what is true. This is where Hopkinson, and The New York Times, dropped the ball completely.

So let’s set the record straight. Louis Farrakhan, who is 87 years old, has been trafficking in hate, anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism and misogyny since long before the Million Man March in 1995 and continues to do so today.

In February of 1995, eight months prior to the march, Farrakhan suggested that it was Jews who got America into World War II and that “international bankers,” an anti-Semitic dog whistle, financed both sides of the war effort.

In recent years, Farrakhan has embarked on a wide-ranging campaign specifically targeting the Jewish community, a campaign that has featured some of the most hateful speeches of his tenure as head of the Nation of Islam.

He has alleged that Jews are messengers from Satan, sent to attack the messiah. He has stated that the Jewish people were responsible for the slave trade and that they conspire to control the government, the media and Hollywood, as well as various black individuals and organizations. He has likened Jews to vermin and termites, using the kind of dehumanizing slander pioneered by Nazi Germany. Indeed, in an October 2018 speech marking the 23rd anniversary of the Million Man March, Farrakhan told his followers, “When they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, you know how they do — call me an anti-Semite. Stop it, I’m anti-termite!”

Farrakhan does not limit his bigotry to Jewish people. He has referred to the LGBTQ+ community as “degenerative crap,” described homosexuality as having been created by Satan and used scripture to justify the demonization of gay and lesbian people.

In 2009 he said, “You think you know Jesus Christ?... If you knew

him, why is there so much drunkenness, so much drugs, so much fornication, so much adultery, so much homosexuality, so much lesbianism, so much murder, so much crime?”

There are plenty more examples of Farrakhan’s bigotry, and they are not hard to find.

Even as we still mourn the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, we should remember that Lewis declined the opportunity to speak at the March. He wrote in Newsweek that he could not “overlook past statements by Louis Farrakhan —

A New York Times op-ed, left, received scrutiny for omitting Louis Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic and bigoted history. Credit: Screenshot; Getty Images

and others associated with the Nation of Islam – which are divisive and bigoted.” Lewis said that the march was “fatally undermined by its chief sponsor.”

In running this piece, the Times is guilty of the sin of omission.

They failed to make clear that Farrakhan is an avowed bigot, one who may draw applause in some quarters but who has been rejected in mainstream circles for decades because of his unapologetic prejudice. Running this piece without any mention of his history only further legitimizes an anti-Semite and hateful figure.

In short, excusing his intolerance by overlooking it makes it more acceptable for other leaders to hold such dangerous views.

We can speak fondly of, remember and celebrate landmark historical moments. But it is irresponsible and inexcusable to ignore hatred hiding in plain sight, particularly considering the context. As The New York Times itself has reported, anti-Semitic incidents surged in 2019, reaching a 40-year high. And the tristate area from which the New York Times draws its legitimacy experienced some of the worst anti-Jewish acts in recent memory, including a wave of assaults in Brooklyn; a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, that left three people dead in a kosher supermarket; and a stabbing in Monsey, New York, that injured four and left a rabbi in a coma who later succumbed to his wounds.

Every day, we witness attempts to rewrite, revise or soften the most difficult aspects of American history. In recent years, The New York Times admirably has sought to use its platform and voice to right these wrongs. And yet that is why this oped, one that falls so dramatically short of their own standards, demands not just a robust correction but an internal investigation to ensure it never happens again.

Jonathan A. Greenblatt is CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.

The 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.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor, Four friends meet in a café. One says, “Oy!” The second says, “Oy vey!” The third says, “Oy veyz mir!” The fourth says, “If you fellas don’t stop talking politics, I’m out of here.”

While many may feel this way and are sick of the hyper-partisanship which has swallowed much of public discourse, we must not be silent now. Our current situation is not about politics.

Rather, it is about saving the basic foundations of our democracy.

This election is, in fact, about saving the soul of America.

The defense of our democracy, including a free and fair election, is the civic duty of every citizen regardless of race, religion, or political inclination. As Jews, we have added reasons to sound the alarm and take up this cause.

Our historical experience demonstrates that Jews have been far safer and have flourished more under democratic governments than dictatorships and autocracies.

There may be several reasons for this.

Often the principles of our religion clash with the actions and desires of the autocrat. Judaism holds that all are equal as children of one God. But this is unacceptable to the dictator. Because he is afraid of his own loss of power, the dictator rules by fear, division, and hate. Enemies are a necessary foil. Thus, pharaoh told his people that it was necessary to enslave the foreign Hebrews in their midst.

The dictator wants to glorify himself. He demands praise and absolute loyalty. His deeds and words can never be questioned.

On the other hand, Jewish tradition questions everything including itself. This creates a conflict with the mortal autocrat who

claims that he alone knows the Truth. Everything else is “fake news” by his enemies. “Only he can fix it”. But Judaism rejects this mortal pretense. It commands that we must have only one God before us.

Trump may not yet have the power of Putin, he so admires.

The election stands in his way. That is why it is so important.

To those who say Fascism can’t happen here, I ask, “How do you know?” In our newspaper there appeared the following headline: “Trump’s touting of ‘racehorse theory’ alarms Jewish leaders, stirs memories of eugenics.” The Nazis used this false theory for their race laws.

Even worse, there are members of Trump’s camp who advocate that opening the economy is more important than many, even millions, of human lives. They espouse the survivor of the fittest theory, “herd immunity.” This theory has been rejected as unworkable and unethical by the medical community. Also, in Judaism, people are not expendable. The saving of life, even one life, is paramount.

The fact that Trump has Jewish grandchildren has not deterred the white supremacists, whom he weakly condemns, or the QAnon that he has not condemned and is rapidly growing. This group holds dangerous conspiracy theories like those that have often been used against Jews. It incites violence and so does Trump.

Consequently, we have a civic duty to oppose the rise of dictatorship. We also have a religious duty to not remain silent. We must defend our democracy. We must save the soul of America.

STEVEN J. RIEKES

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B’NAI ISRAEL Join us via Zoom on Friday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. for evening services. Our service leader is Larry Blass.

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BETH EL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman.

VIRTUAL MINYAN SCHEDULE: Mornings on Sundays, 9 a.m. and Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m.; Evenings on Sunday-Thursday, 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m.; Havdalah, 7:10 p.m.

SUNDAY: Torah Study, 10 a.m.; BESTT (Grades K7), 10:30 a.m.; Finding Your Purpose Workshop, 12:30 p.m.

MONDAY: Thanksgiving To-Go Orders Due, 5 p.m.; Jewish Law with Rabbi Abraham, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY: Biblical Literacy with Rabbi Abraham, 11:30 a.m.; Women & Religion with Jeannette Gabriel, 2 p.m.; BESTT Committee Meeting, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Coffee and Conversations with Rabbi Abraham, 2 p.m.; BESTT (Grades 3-7), 4:30 p.m.; Hebrew High (Grades 8-12), 7 p.m.; Beit Midrash — Election Debrief, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY: BESTT Chug Chamishi (Grades 3-7), 4:30 p.m.; Finding Your Purpose Workshop, 6 p.m.; Shul Music with Hazzan Krausman, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY-Nov. 6: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

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Classes, Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah on Zoom, Whatsapp or Facebook Live. On site services held outside in Sukkah, weather permitting. Physical distancing and masks required.

FRIDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (What’s App); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Whats App); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Whats App); Mincha/Candlelighting, 6:03 p.m.

SATURDAY: Open Beit Midrash, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha, 6 p.m.; Havdalah, 7:03 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5 p.m.; “Ask the Rabbi,” 7 p.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom) MONDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 6:45 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. (WhatsApp); Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5 p.m.

TUESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 6:45 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. (WhatsApp); Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 6:45 a.m.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. (Zoom); Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5 p.m.; Board of Commissioners Meeting, 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Character Development, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Ma’ariv, 6:10 p.m.

FRIDAY-Nov. 6: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Candlelighting, 6:03 p.m.

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SATURDAY: Shabbat Ends, 6:03 p.m.

MONDAY: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani; Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m.

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B’NAI JESHURUN The Temple office is on reduced hours until further notice and all services and activities are being offered via livestream or teleconferencing. Please call 402.435.8004 or email office@southstreettemple. org for further information or to make an appointment for a visit, if necessary. You may also email board president Nicholette Seigfreid at president@south streettemple.org. South Street Temple’s events can be found at https://south streettemple.org/calendar/.

FRIDAY: Candlelighting, 6:06 p.m.; Erev Shabbat Service, service leaders/music: Rabbi Alex and Elaine Monner, 6:30 p.m. via Live stream.

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Zoom.

TUESDAY: Synagogue Staff Meeting, 10 a.m.; Tea & Coffee Time with Temple Pals, 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.

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FRIDAY-Nov. 6: Candlelighting, 4:58 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat Service, service leaders/music: Rabbi Alex, Steve and Nathaniel Kaup, 6:30 p.m. via Live stream.

SATURDAY-Nov. 7: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Felch via Zoom; Torah Study on Parashat Vayera, 11:30 a.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 5:58 p.m.

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SUNDAY: Youth Learning Programs for Grades PreK-6, 10 a.m.; Temple Tots Sunday, 10:30 a.m.

MONDAY: Jewish Law & the Quest for Meaning, 11 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Mindful Meditation with Margot, 9 a.m.; Youth Learing Programs: Grades 3-6, 4-6 p.m.; and Grades 7-12, 6:30-8 p.m.; Community Beit Midrash, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY: Thursday Morning Discussion, 9:30 a.m.

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FRIDAY: Candlelighting, 6:05 p.m.; Zoom Service, 6:30 p.m. from SST. SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. (new start time) via Zoom from TI; Zoom Torah Study, 11:30 a.m. with Rabbi Alex; Havdalah (72 minutes), 7:04 p.m.

SUNDAY: LJCS Gan-Gesher, 10-11:30 a.m. via Zoom.

WEDNESDAY: LJCS Grades 3-7, 4:30-5:30 p.m. via Zoom.

FRIDAY-Nov. 6: Candlelighting, 4:57 p.m.; Zoom Service, 6:30 p.m. from SST. SATURDAY-Nov. 7: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. via Zoom from TI; Zoom Torah Study, 11:30 a.m. with Rabbi Alex; Havdalah (72 minutes), 5:56 p.m.

Please visit tiferethisraellincoln.org for additional information and Zoom service links.

ADL’s 2020 Never Is Now Summit goes virtual and free The world’s largest summit on antisemitism and hate is getting bigger ADL’s Never Is Now Summit, the world’s largest summit on antisemitism and hate that is usually held annually in New York City, will be virtually available for all at no cost from Nov. 8-19. The Summit kicks off at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 with the opening plenary featuring an expert panel reviewing the election, the annual State of Hate address and the presentation of ADL’s 2020 Courage Against Hate Award. Breakout sessions will be spread out over the next eleven days, on Nov. 10, 12, 17 and 19 from 1 to 2 p.m.

Breakout topics include Diverse Jewish Voices On Current Issues, Antisemitism In Progressive Spaces: How It Looks; How To Address It, Antisemitism Across Borders: The Spread of Hate and Its Impact On Global Jewish Communities, From Quad to the Keyboard: How Hate Has Moved from on Campus to Online, Black-Jewish Relations in 2020: Navigating a Changing World and, The Vital Need For Holocaust Education.

The Summit closes with a final session on Nov. 19 at 7 p.m. that will cover everything from the im-

portance of athletes as role models in the fight against hate to the successful Stop Hate for Profit campaign launched this year to hold social media companies accountable for hate on their platforms.

“Never before has it been so easy to attend ‘Never is Now,’” said ADL Southwest Regional Director Mark B. Toubin. “Every year our summit on antisemitism and hate provides up-to-the-minute information on the depth and breadth of hatred and what we can do to fight it, but this year, it’s so simple to participate. All you need is a registration

ticket and a computer.”

To learn more and to register, visit events.adl.org/NeverIsNow. Or, contact ADL’s Assistant Regional Director Margi Levin at mlevin@adl.org with questions or to help with registration.

This year’s summit also features a dedicated track for high school students to participate with special sessions and post-event virtual gatherings.

Students may register at https://events.adl.org/ neverisnow/student.

News LOC AL | N ATI O N A L | WO R L D

For the first time ever, Stockholm has a Swedish-born rabbi JOSEFIN DOLSTEN JTA The rabbis who work in Stockholm usually speak very little Swedish and are unfamiliar with Swedish culture.

That’s because the Jewish community in Sweden — around 15,000 people out of the country’s total population of 10 million — is small enough that they usually need to import rabbis from elsewhere.

While that is the case in many European and other countries with small Jewish populations, Sweden presents its own specific challenges to the incoming rabbis. Many Swedes are known to be polite but closed-off, which can make it hard to get to know congregants.

None of this is a problem for Mattias Amster, who in July became the first rabbi born and raised in Sweden to hold a pulpit in the nation’s capital.

Swedish-born rabbis have worked in other cities but not in Stockholm, which is home to about 4,500 Jews, making it the country’s largest community.

Amster, himself a Stockholm native who left the country in his 20s, brings with him deep knowledge about Swedish culture.

“One thing I’ve noticed, it’s fun for people that it’s someone they can relate to,” Amster said.

Amster spent eight years learning at Orthodox yeshivas in Israel, where he received his ordination and met his American-born wife Esther. There the couple had two children, Gita and Shmuel, before moving to Oregon, where they spent two years working for Portland Kollel, an organization that offers Jewish educational programming to Jews from a range of backgrounds.

Now Amster, 36, has returned to his roots as the Orthodox rabbi of the Swedish capital. The community traditionally employs one Orthodox and one non-Orthodox rabbi. There is

also a chapter of the Orthodox Chabad Lubavitch movement that operates outside of the official community.

“It feels really good to for the first time in our community’s almost 250-year long history be able to hire a Swedish-born rabbi. Rabbi Amster has grown up in our community and he knows the challenges that our community and its members face,” community leader Aron Verständig told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a statement.

For his part, Amster, whose wife recently gave birth to their third child, says it feels “fantastic” to be back in his hometown.

He will work together with the city’s Conservative rabbi, Ute Steyer, to lead the local community; he is in charge of Orthodox life, while Steyer is in charge of non-Orthodox life.

I grew up in Sweden’s Jewish community and used to reminisce about it over Shabbat meals in Israel with the Amsters.

I spoke to the rabbi about Jewish life in his native land, his journey to becoming an Orthodox rabbi and the country’s controversial response to the coronavirus pandemic.

To read Josefin Dolsten’s full interview with Rabbi Amster, please visit www.omahajewishpress.com.

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