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Hanukkah Extravaganza

Mark kirChhOff Community Engagement and Education There is still time for you to purchase your ticket for the showing of Shoelaces that opens the 18th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival on Monday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m. at the Aksarben Cinema, 2110 S 67th St. Advanced tickets are available for $8 either online through the Aksarben ticket office which you may access through www.jewishomaha.org using the top “Omaha Jewish Film Festival” slider to navigate to the movie. Tickets are also available at the box office.

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GabbY blair Staff Writer, Jewish Press he Jewish Federation of Omaha will be hosting the 2019 Hanukkah Extravaganza on Sunday, Dec. 8 from 5-7 p.m. at the Omaha Children’s Museum (500 S 20th St, Omaha, NE 68102). While recommended for families and grandparents with children 12 & younger, older siblings are always welcome! Upon arriving to the event, families will first get to create a three-part ‘Moonjar’

provided by this year’s event sponsor, Lutz Financial. “The Moonjar concept is a new twist on a Tzedakah box of sorts,” explains Louri Sullivan, JFO Senior Director of Community and Special Projects. “Families will construct three separate banks, one for saving, one for spending and one for Tzedakah. These three banks lock together with a decorative band to create one Moonjar. Giving is such an important value in Judaism, but the importance of saving and spending cannot See hanukkah extravaganza page 2

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Ozzie NOGG Who wouldn’t want to take home a $100 gift certificate from Lululemon, two months of free Jazzercise, two weeks of free Tai Chi, or three free Yoga classes? You could be a lucky winner during Beth El Synagogue’s Miriam Initiative Fitness Sampler scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 17, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Jewish Community Center. The event will offer samplings of Yoga (led by Shiri Philips), Jazzercise (led by Caryn Scheer), and Tai Chi (led by Beth Staenberg) and is free of charge and open to all

women in the Jewish community. “The Sampler is a brand new idea that’ll be a whole lot of fun,” said

The Fitness Sampler begins promptly at 10 a.m. and features three 25-minute sessions in rotation with two 10-minute passing periods. The first rotation runs from 10:15 a.m. to 10:40 a.m., the second rotation from 10:50 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. and the third from 11:25 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. A participant can sample all three disciplines or just two or even one depending on her curiosity. “The idea for the Sampler came from the Initiative’s Design Team,” Jacobson said. “The committee meets once a year to brainstorm ideas for our upcoming season. We wanted to address health and fitness in a fun and inclusive way and ended up with a totally new concept. It was a win-winwin.” Members of the Design Team are Jenny Gates Beckman, Pam Friedlander, Margie Gutnik, Amy Isaacson, Abby Kutler, Patty (Steve) Nogg, Shiri Phillips, Caryn Rifkin, Caryn Scheer and Melissa Shapiro. “Caryn Scheer, Shiri and Beth have See Miriam initiatve page 3

The Miriam Initiative Joanie Jacobson, general chairperson of the Initiative. “It’s a perfect opportunity to try out a variety of new and pleasant ways to stay fit and healthy. How many of us say we want to get back to exercise or find a new way to exercise but we never do? We don’t have the time. We don’t take the time. Problem solved. Now you can enjoy two hours of one-stop fitness shopping free of charge -- and all for your own good!”

In support of this year’s festival, Film Streams and the Jewish Federation of Omaha are collaborating to present a screening of Tel Aviv on Fire on Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. After lacing up your shoelaces from the first film, Shoelaces, watch the trailer and purchase your tickets for this one online at https://filmstreams.org/ films/tel-aviv-on-fire (also available at the box office) and head to Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater for the showing of this outstanding film. Standard Film Streams ticket prices apply. Tel Aviv on Fire is a 2018 comedydrama satire film directed by Sameh Zoabi and co-written by Zoabi and Dan Kleinman. The film premiered internationally at the 75th Venice International Film Festival where Kais Nashef won the Best Actor award. The Israeli premiere was at the Haifa International Film Festival, where the film won the Best Film and Best Screenplay awards. It was selected as the Luxembourgish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards. In the film, Salam, an inexperienced young Palestinian man, becomes a writer on a popular soap opera after a See Jewish film festival page 3

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community Continued from page 1 be overlooked. We hope that by creating these unique banks, we can help our youngest community members create positive financial habits and get families thinking about where their money is going and how it is being spent.” After this activity, families are free to enjoy the exhibits at the Omaha Children’s Museum which closes to the public at 6 p.m. at which point dinner will be served on the 2nd floor. This community-wide celebration also includes components planned by Omaha’s PJ Library. “I’m so thrilled we’re back at the Children’s Museum to offer up an evening of entertainment right before Hanukkah,” exclaims Jennie Gates Beckman, JFO Director of Community Engagement & Education. “We have two very special PJ Library book selections that have to do with Tzedakah and Hanukkah, which we’ll be featuring throughout the museum so families can browse while they play. We are also sending out a special invitation to those families who have

just welcomed their little ones in the past year to join us for a baby meet-up in the Museum’s “wiggle room.” Finally, we’ll be setting up a little “book nook” where folks can explore more titles related to both themes of Hanukkah and giving back. I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone there!”

Special thanks to this year’s event sponsor, Lutz, and the evening’s Host Families: Marissa and Bradley Abramson and sons Dayton and Austin; Libbie and Zachary Appleby-Leo and daughters Ilana, Ziva and Netanya; Jennie and David Beckman and children, Sadie and Walter; Danny Cohn, Andrew Miller and daughter Nora; Anna and Joshua Priluck and daughter Ariella; Michelle and Chad Whyte and daughters Hannah and Charlotte. The cost for this family friendly event is $5 per person, with a $20 maximum per household. This event is free for children under age 2. Includes admission to museum, Moonjar, and a kosher meal by Star Catering. Please RSVP and submit payment online at www.tiny url.com/hanukkah19. Deadline to RSVP is Monday, Dec. 2. Please contact Jennie Gates Beckman, JFO Director of Community Engagement and Education at 402.334.6445 or via email at: jbeckman@jewishomaha.org with questions or for more information.

Security and protecting our community is all of our responsibility. The JFO has a Security Team that meets regularly to discuss the different aspects of security that involve our community. There are unique situations to our Campus. We have agencies that are open 24/7 and some open specific days and times. Agencies that have young children and elderly who need care and protecNatalie tion and agencies with people of all ages OsbOrNe, rN who come and go. Nurse Manager, RBJH All agencies on the Campus use the “See Something, Say Something” Program. We tell our staff that if they see something that is unusual or is a concern to them, they need to tell their supervisor, who will notify the Security Team. A package sitting somewhere that is not usual. Someone walking around the Campus or driving around the parking lot who seems suspicious. A car sitting in the parking lot that hasn’t moved in days. Someone trying to get into a building who shouldn’t be here. Staff receive training regarding the Campus Security policies and procedures at the time they are hired. More training occurs quarterly, annually and as needed for existing staff. We perform drills and table top exercises to review our policies and procedures and make adjustments as needed. We also utilize resources such as the Omaha Police Department, ADL and Homeland Security. Visitors on the Campus have a part in our security. All our entrances are secured. People must use their badge or have a receptionist let them in an area. Please understand if we ask for your identification or ask your reason for visiting. If we let you in, watch that you are not letting others in behind you. Not all “tailgaters” are good! If you “See Something” please “Say Something.” It takes everyone to keep us safe! Please feel free to contact me with any questions: Natalie Osborne RN, RBJH Nurse Manager & JFO Security Team Member. 402.334.6516 or nosbor ne@rbjh.com.

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Jewish Film Festival

Continued from page 1 chance meeting with an Israeli soldier. His creative career is on the rise - until the soldier and the show’s financial backers disagree about how the show should end, and Salam is caught in the middle. A thoughtful and well-acted story that proves it’s possible to find humor amid cultural conflict. Run time for the film is 1h 40m and is in Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles. The additional films and locations for this year’s festival are listed below. All showings are at 7 p.m. Admission is $8. nov. 18 Leona at Village Pointe Cinema nov. 25 The Samuel Project at Marcus Majestic Cinema of Omaha We have a special bonus for those patrons who attend all four of this year’s films. Save your first three ticket stubs and bring them to the nov. 25 showing and your ticket for the final show will be only $5. If you purchase the final ticket online at the $8 price, we will have a stack of $1 bills and will gladly give you three of them. We will have a record of online purchases for the nov. 25 film, but bring your proof of purchase just to make sure. Visit www.jewishomaha.org and click on the Omaha Jewish Film Festival slider at the top of the page for more information about the 18th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival. This year’s film selection committee members are (alphabetical order): Helen and Tuffy Epstein, Jordana Glazer, David Golbitz, Dora Goldstrom, Margie Gutnik, Heidi Needleman, Gloria Kaslow, Ron Lugasy, Ophir Palmon, Amanda Ryan, Marty Shukert and Nancy Wolf. The Samuel Project, the Holocaust-themed film, was chosen by the Institute for Holocaust (IHE) staff and their film review committee. We extend our thanks to the generous sponsors of this year’s film festival. They are The Henry Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith, and the following Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation funds:

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Continued from page 1 been teaching their passion for years,” Jacobson continued, “and they’re excited about sharing their passion on Nov. 17. Pick your pleasure, pick your time -- you’ll leave feeling energized, motivated and proud of the fact you did something positive about your physical and mental wellbeing. Maybe even win one of those great gift certificates.” The three free Yoga classes were donated by Pranam Yoga Shala, 3925 Farnam; Jazzercise gift certificates can be used at any of the three nearby Jazzercise locations (156th & Maple, 132nd & Center, 90th & Blondo); the Tai Chi gift certificates were donated by Karma Yoga on 156th and Dodge. Registration is preferred in order to determine class sizes. To register for the Nov. 17 Fitness Sampler, please go to the Beth El website: bethel-omaha.org or call Robby Erlich for details: 402.492.8550. The Miriam Initiative is an ongoing series of projects and programs created and implemented by Beth El women. The Initiative welcomes all women who want to participate at any level from leadership to fellowship.

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On my mother’s lap he question was often asked me... what made you so interested in politics? The answer was buried deep in my memory. It was so deep that I usually hesitated to re- richard fellman spond, for to explain meant telling a story that some would say couldn’t be true. Yet, I knew it to be totally truthful. It begins with my mother, Frances Fellman, born in Omaha in 1911 and 24 when I was born, the first of her four children. Both of her parents were Jewish immigrants, her father from St. Petersburg, Russia, and her mother from the tiny village of Kapulyah, called a “shtetl” in Yiddish, the language spoken by the Jews of Eastern Europe, near Minsk in what is now Belarus. He was a peddler, with a horse and wagon, selling fruits and vegetables, while she was a homemaker with eight children. Frances, the fifth of those children, was the first to complete a university course, and she became a second grade teacher at Vinton Public School in South Omaha. She married Leon Fellman, shortly after he graduated from Creighton University Dental School. At first they lived with her mother, but soon they saved enough to build their own home. He worked hard, built a growing dental prac-

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Jerusalem prepares to open an underground city of the dead

sAm sokol Alphandary said the tunnel system in many JERUSALEM | JTA ways is more similar to a skyscraper than a Carved into the rock on the side of a traditional cemetery. mountain directly under the Har HaMenu“What you will see is a massive technology chot cemetery here lies the entrance to and engineering project, but we joke that our Jerusalem’s newest necropolis, a city of the blueprints were written in the days of the dead that its designers hope will relieve a Mishna and Gemara,” he said, referring to anshortage of burial space in the capital. cient Jewish texts dating to the early centuries A local engineering firm and Jerusalem’s of the Common Era. largest burial society have devised a plan to The tunnels were dug from the top down radically change how Jerusalemites dispose using special drilling machines that carved of their dead by building a modern system of burial caves, a throwback to a practice discontinued some two millennia ago. During the Second Temple period, it was common to briefly inter bodies in caves and after a time rebury the bones in niches carved in tunnel A new tunnel network will ultimately hold some 23,000 bodies and is exCredit: Sam Sokol walls. Rolzur Tun- pected to be filled within a decade. neling and the Chevra Kadisha Kehilat out burial niches on the walls. Controlled exYerushalayim don’t plan to revive the exhu- plosions and heavy equipment were used to mation part, but they are carving crypts again lower the floor to make room for more in tunnels. The partners expect to soon open niches. Bodies will be interred both in the the first section of a massive underground floor and on multiple levels along the walls. complex that they claim will eventually hold In parts of the tunnel system where the rock more than 20,000 bodies. could not handle the excavation of holes in “The cemeteries will grow and grow, and the walls, crypts have been fabricated out of this will be at the cost of the living,” Rabbi heavy duty polystyrene. Hananya Shahor, the executive director of KeDespite the high cost of construction, Alhilat Yerushalayim, told the Jewish Telegraphic phandary believes the cost of burial should Agency. “In a few hundred years, we won’t still be competitive. have space to live here. And if so, something is “There will be no maintenance for the wrong with the system. So we started thinking graves themselves, no weather, no wind or about making the size of the cemetery as small snow,” he said. “On the other hand, there will as possible because we need the surface to live.” be electricity. But in order to minimize the Jerusalem’s burial crunch is driven by a amount needed, we are using smart city tech growing population, increasing urban density like automated ventilation and lights.” and high demand for burial in Judaism’s holiThe tunnels may also be more convenient est city. At Har Hamenuchot, located at the for mourners. Rather than walk across unwestern entrance to the city, the dead already even ground, mourners can take an elevator are buried in multi-tiered structures rising and then move across a smooth tunnel surseveral stories above the hills and dominating face to a grave. the approach from Tel Aviv. The structures “A man in a wheelchair can easily visit relhave alleviated the problem somewhat, but atives,” Alphandary said. “There will be real they are expensive to build and still take up a climate control as well. It won’t be so hot that considerable amount of space above ground. people faint.” “The outer part of the globe is very full and The entire facility will have a capacity of there is not much space to stretch,” said Adi Al- 23,000 graves spread out over about a mile of phandary, Rolzur’s chief of business develop- tunnels. At current rates, the structure is exment. “But you only have to go below [ground] pected to be filled within a decade, which has and there is a whole world waiting for you.” led some critics to question whether it’s Without the tunnel project, Alphandary worth it. said, Jerusalem is “doomed” to become a Rabbi Seth Farber, the founder of Itim, an graveyard. advocacy group that works to help Israelis navUpon its completion later this month, the igate the country’s religious bureaucracy, said $77 million design will incorporate multiple the project only solves the problem for a few connected tunnels beneath the existing years. Instead, he said, Israelis should get past cemetery, each with burial plots carved into the idea that burial grounds must be in cities. rock several stories high. Visitors will take el“I think we should build in the Negev and evators down to graves located in air-condi- have public transportation and solve the tioned tunnels as deep as 160 feet below problem for the next 100, 150 years,” Farber ground. Automated systems will keep electri- said, referring to Israel’s large and mostly uncal use to a minimum. An app to enable populated southern desert. mourners to easily find their loved ones is Shahor vehemently disagreed. also in the works. “In Haifa they built a cemetery outside of While the unfinished tunnels emit an un- the city and the residents are paying a lot to deniable horror movie vibe, those that are have burials in the city,” he said. complete feel more like a public concourse “Once all the areas around the city are than a graveyard. The walls are lined with filled, the government will decide where the Jerusalem stone and the floors are brightly lit. next place will be. 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Above: Fall break + great weather = The perfect day for the JCC Youth Department’s ‘School Break Special’ trip to Vala’s Pumpkin Patch!

Above: Celebrating Sissy Silber’s birthday. Pictured are Shane, left, and David Kotok, Sissy Silber and Carol Lainoff. Below: The High Holiday food drive at Temple Israel was a big success.

Left and above: Omaha Shlicha Ron Lugasy feeds employees during Shaksukah in the Sukkah. Pictured are Carissa Hupke, left, Lynne Batten and Margie Utesch.

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Above: Residents of the RBJH enjoyed an afternoon at the Omaha Community Playhouse to see the musical production of Annie - pictured with some of the cast members, including Annie herself! Sponsored by the Ervin & Miriam Simon Endowment Fund from the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation.

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Above: Abby Kutler with sons Henry and Sam at Herzl Family Camp.

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is it anti-semitism, or are you just drunk? anneTTe van De kamP-WRiGHT Editor, Jewish Press ach year when the High Holidays are over and it’s time to clean up the Sukkah, I’m slow to comply. All the work that goes into building it and the quick pace with which Sukkot comes and goes make me a little sad. Usually I end up leaving it for a few extra days. Breaking down the sukkah: it means summer is really, really over and cold and nasty times are ahead. Besides, my neighbors have never complained, so we’re good. Imagine if you’re still in the middle of the holiday and strangers take it upon themselves to tear down your sukkah. Imagine waking up in the morning and finding it destroyed, in pieces, not because of high winds and other annoying weather, but because someone else decided to have some ‘fun.’ Imagine rebuilding it, because the holiday is not over and you need that sukkah. Only, sitting in it becomes an act of defiance instead of one of celebration: ‘we’re still here.’ Hillel at Michigan State University found their sukkah vandalized this year; thanks to surveillance cameras, the perpetrators were caught: “The damage was inflicted early on Saturday morning, according to the timestamp on the footage. The vandals appeared to be drunk.” (JTA) In 2016, the sukkah built at the University of Montana was torn down; the pieces were reconstructed into a cross in the Oval. In 2015, penises were spray painted on the sukkah. (montanakaimin.com) And: “In September 2007, the sukkah at San Jose State University was burned in an attack that has not yet been solved. That same week, the sukkah at the University of California in Davis was defaced. In 2008 the sukkah at the University of Montana was so badly vandalized that it had to be taken down two days into the holiday.” (niot.org) In 1982, vandals damaged sukkahs on three Ivy League campuses: Brown, Dartmouth and Yale, but “although the

Dartmouth and Yale incidents occurred within a week of the Brown vandalism, Dartmouth and Yale officials blamed drunken destructiveness for their two incidents.” (thecri mson.com) There have been many more incidents, mostly on college campuses; sometimes with spray paint (‘free Gaza’)

but leave the structure intact, than to tear the structure down while intoxicated? How drunk do you have to be before you no longer realize what it is you are tearing down? Many of us have, at times, had maybe a little too much, especially back when we were in college. If we haven’t, we’ve seen others drink more than they could handle and

Footage from the michigan state university Hillel posted on its Facebook page show the alleged vandals enter its sukkah.

and sometimes with more straightforward destruction. My question is: as often as college leadership blames drunkenness for these attacks (because that’s what they are), are we supposed to believe that makes them somehow less anti-Semitic? Would these students not have done this, had they been sober? ‘They were drunk’ can very quickly become ‘they were just drunk.’ It sounds like an excuse. Is it more anti-Semitic to spray paint an anti-Zionist slogan,

A Rosh Hashanah ritual — in space

we know: when you’ve had a few glasses, you become less inhibited. College students getting drunk and misbehaving does not mean their personality suddenly changes and they take up random beliefs they wouldn’t normally have. If you tear down a sacred space while drunk, it means you don’t have that much respect when sober either. So let’s call it what it is: an excuse. And if you’re like me, you’re growing tired of excuses.

DaviD a.m. Wilensky ries of projects mixing Stanford expertise with Jew- happening. You can only throw bread so far.” SAN FRANCISCO | J. The Jewish News of Northern California ish content. Shorr has always been interested in space, but his via JTA “We did a project with cameras on top of a bike connection with Judaism is more recent. Though Typically, Jews gather after Rosh Hashanah serv- helmet and reading Talmud about protecting your his family is Jewish, he grew up in China with very ices to recite a brief prayer and then symbolically body. Stuff like that,” Ragent says. little Jewish content in his life. It wasn’t until he got cast away their sins by tossing breadcrumbs into a He and Shorr talked about ways Hillel and the involved with Hillel at Stanford that he became acbody of water. The ritual, tively Jewish. called tashlich, isn’t manHe feels a tension between Jewdated by Jewish law — it’s ish observance and his non-Jewjust a popular folk ritual. ish interests. But its simplicity and sym“This was a way to have that bolism have kept it popular crossover happen in a way that for centuries. felt organic and genuine,” he says. Now Stanford students “I want something to ground me have created an otherwhen I think about going out worldly twist on the act: there as far from the ground as they call it Tashlich in possible.” Space — and it’s pretty selfThe launch will occur sometime explanatory. in November, depending on a vaThat’s right, this year you riety of factors. In the future, can (belatedly) send your Shorr wants to follow up with a sins up into the Earth’s atrocket that will go to 30,000 feet. mosphere on an honest-to“We’re also working on a space God rocket, thanks to the shot, to about 350,000 feet, actual ingenuity of Hillel at Stan- Daniel shorr, far right, and other members of stanford’s student space initiative escort a rocket space,” he says. “And we’re lookCredit: Shorr ing forward to maybe a Hillel ford and Stanford’s Student he built. Space Initiative. Student Space Initiative could collaborate. payload on that one as well.” Technically, admits Stanford junior Daniel Shorr, “Certainly, tashlich in space is something new Add your confession to this year’s launch at it’s not really space. Space begins at the Kármán for us,” Ragent adds, “and hopefully will open the https:// docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeline 62 miles up. Your sins are only destined for door to all kinds of cool collaboration.” orw0kRGtI9795ptQ0_vDg1P8lLKc_WGZqwYu about 4,000 feet. At that altitude, you still get birds. Here’s how it works: Go to the project’s online RhIR2k299QQ/viewform. So not even close to space. form, submit your sins (securely — no one will But they will definitely ascend in a rocket, which read them), and they’ll be put on a small SD storTo submiT announcemenTs is still pretty cool. The program’s website puts it age card along with some breadcrumbs in a 5-foot Announcements may be e-mailed to the Press at succinctly: “Reflect. Renew. Blastoff.” rocket built by Shorr. jpress@jewishomaha.org; or mailed to 333 So. 132 The Student Space Initiative is a Stanford UniIn a normal tashlich, your sins go away. In this St., Omaha, NE 68154. Readers can also submit anversity club that allows students with an interest in case, they’ll come back down in the recoverable nouncements -- births, b’nai mitzvahs, engagements, space to get together and work on practical proj- section of the rocket. marriages, commitment ceremonies or obituaries -- online ects. “We don’t know what state they’ll be in or whether at the Jewish Federation of Omaha website: www.jew“We do experiments in low-Earth orbit or com- we’ll find it, but it will likely come back,” Shorr ishomaha.org. Click on “Jewish Press” and go to Subpete with other universities. You don’t need any says. mit Announcements. Deadlines are normally eight days background to join,” Shorr says. “It’s a heightened version of the embodied pracprior to publication, on Thursdays, 9 a.m. Please check Hillel assistant director Jeremy Ragent ap- tice we do down on Earth,” says Ragent. “We hope the Jewish Press, for notices of early deadlines. proached Shorr about collaborating as part of a se- there’s a cathartic release in seeing this blastoff

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toby AxelroD Merkel was honored Oct. 27 in BERLIN | JTA Munich. She became chancellor in 2005 and said she will step German Chancellor Angela down aer elections in 2021. Merkel was honored by the World Also receiving a eodor Herzl Jewish Congress for her role in Prize this year will be Nikki fighting anti-Semitism. Haley, the former U.S. ambassae annual eodor Herzl Prize dor to the United Nations, Nikki recognizes individuals who repreHaley, who will be honored next sent Herzl’s commitment to buildmonth in New York City. ing a safer, more tolerant world for Some critics in Germany and the Jewish people. “is prize is a statement against abroad have decried awarding the prize to Merkel, suggesting that anti-Semitism,” said the head of the while she condemns anti-SemiJewish Community of Munich and German chancellor Angela tism, her government is so on Upper Bavaria, Charlotte Merkel. Credit: Sean Gallup/ Iran and Hezbollah. Knobloch, who serves as the WJC Getty Images Past prize winners include President Ronald representative of the Jewish World Congress for Reagan, posthumously, former U.S. Secretaries Holocaust Remembrance. Knobloch in a statement noted that the honor of State Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and comes a few weeks aer a violent neo-Nazi attack George Shultz, former U.S. Vice President Joseph on the synagogue in the Germany city of Halle, Biden, the late Israeli President Shimon Peres, and Elie and Marion Wiesel. which took two lives.

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Lauren Freeman and Matthew Sculnick of San Francisco, announce the July 30 birth of their daughter, Isabelle Leigh Sculnick. Grandparents are Robyn and Bob Freeman of Omaha, and Linda and David Sculnick of New York, NY. Great-grandparents are Joanne and Jerry Freeman of Omaha, and Norma Tarlow of Boston, MA.

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Alexandra (Allie) Schrader and Alexander Lund were married Oct. 18 at the groom’s parents Dundee home followed by a reception at Reverb Lounge in Benson. The attendant flower girl and ring bearer was their daughter, Hannah Beatrice Lund. Allie is the daughter of Kellie Schrader and the late William Schrader of

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Electoral gains by far-right Alternative for Germany party Toby axelrod BERLIN | JTA Electoral gains by Germany’s strongest far-right party has Jews and Muslims worried.Winning 23.4 percent of the vote in Sunday’s parliamentary election, the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, or AfD party — propelled by male voters and those under the age of 60 — is now the second strongest party in the former east German state of uringia. “Something has fundamentally gone oﬀ the rails in our political system,” former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Charlotte Knobloch told reporters. AfD politicians have “trivialized the Nazi era, expressed open nationalism and hatred against minorities, including the Jewish community,” Knobloch said. AfD also finished second in parliamentary elections in Saxony and in Brandenburg. Some pundits said AfD is grabbing a protest vote against mainstream politics, while others see a rise in populism, in part driven by Chancellor Merkel’s approach to migration. Some have blamed anti-migrant, nationalistic rhetoric for the Yom Kippur attack by a neo-Nazi on the synagogue in Halle, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. Two people on the street were killed. In the election, AfD finished behind the Le Party and surpassed the mainstream party of Merkel, the Christian Democratic Union. e Christian Democrats are said to be considering creating a coalition with the Le Party in order to block the far-right party from power. In general, mainstream parties have sworn oﬀ any coali-

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tions with AfD. Aiman Mazyek, head of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, in a tweet said that so many voters supporting “a rightwing radical party... is much worse than merely a warning sign.” e executive vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee, Christoph Heubner, said in a statement that Holocaust survivors see AfD’s climb up the political ladder as “a renewed signal of terror, which gives rise to fears that rightwing extremist attitudes and tendencies in Germany will continue to consolidate.” Meanwhile, a newly released study shows an increase in open anti-Semitism in Germany. Felix Klein, Germany’s commissioner on fighting antiSemitism, said that while anti-Semitism was present previously, people are now expressing it more openly. He accused AfD of contributing to the problem. In 2018, the Central Council and numerous other German Jewish organizations were part of a joint statement titled “AfD — not an alternative for Jews” aer a small group of supporters called themselves Jews for the AfD. “e AfD has been trying for some time to score points with its alleged solidarity with the State of Israel and its alleged concern for the security of the Jewish community in Germany,” the statement read in part. In fact, it continued, “e AfD is a party in which Jewish hatred and relativization up to the denial of the Shoah have a home. e AfD is anti-democratic, contemptuous of humanity and in large parts right-wing extremist.”

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