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their mission. One of the most exciting areas for growth is engaging families with young children. Two programs currently supported by JFO are Shalom Baby and PJ Library. “Shalom Baby currently delivers a gift basket to welcome newborn or newly adopted children into our community,” Jennie explained. “We are expanding the program to add See Jewish education page A2

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AnneTTe vAn de KAMP-WrighT Editor of the Jewish Press Stanford Lipsey, who passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at his home in Rancho Mirage, California, was born in Omaha to Jacob Lipsey and Molly Brick Lipsey. His father owned a meat and wholesale poultry market. While today we remember Lipsey mostly for his work with the Buffalo News in Buffalo, New York, his first love was photography. He received his first camera when he was ten years old and was the photographer of the Central High Register as well as his college yearbook.

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Ozzie nOgg ennie Gates Beckman, who recently joined the Jewish Federation of Omaha as Director of Community Engagement and Education, is tasked with enhancing community engagement, promoting lifelong Jewish learning, providing a connection to Israel and supporting the synagogues in

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AnneTTe vAn de KAMP-WrighT Editor of the Jewish Press Although we’ve enjoyed a beautiful fall season, the temperatures are definitely dropping and winter is on its way. That means we can start looking forward to cozy sweaters, hot chocolate by the fireplace and, of course, chocolate coins and eight nights of Hanukkah. There is no better way than to welcome the holiday than to join the Jewish Federation of Omaha, the Jewish Community Center and Friedel Jewish Academy during the Kids’ Campaign Hanukkah Extrava-

Asher and Adria Tipp ganza. Mark the date in your calendar: Monday, Dec. 19, from 5 to 7 p.m., the front entrance of the Jewish Community Center welcomes kids from the entire community to celebrate Hanukkah and Tzedakah. The 2017 Kids’ Campaign Chairs are Stephanie, Matthew, Shalom,

Judah and Eliana Beneda; Crystal, Aryeh, Nina and Josie Epstein; Lisa, Chuck, Makayla and Kori Lucoff; Jamie, Troy, Ainsley, Aiden and Audrey Meyerson; Melissa, Matt, Joshua, Evan and Lea Shapiro and Sonia, Alan, Adria and Asher Tipp. “It’s important to show my See hanukkah extravaganza page A3

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That was just the beginning. After graduating from Central High, Lipsey earned a degree in Economics at the University of Michigan and worked for a period in sales and public relations. He subsequently joined the Air Force and was editor of the Air Pulse newspaper before his service in the Korean War. After his time in the Air Force ended, he became Publisher, President and majority owner of the Sun Newspapers. In 1969, he sold the business to none other than Warren Buffett. The two men would become life long friends; Lipsey stayed on as publisher and, together with managing editor Paul Williams, helped investigate a story that would earn the Sun a Pulitzer Prize. During those days, Father Flanagan’s Boys Town had come a long way from its humble beginnings. Donor money was actively solicited and coming in at a steady pace. Lipsey and his colleagues were instrumental in exposing the vast amounts of donor money Boys Town had accumulated -- but wasn’t using for their actual population. After requesting the charity’s financial records from the I.R.S. and studying them intensely, the Sun published an eight-page section with the headline: “Boys Town, America’s Wealthiest City?“ “The Sun Newspapers’ story won the Pulitzer Prize for local specialized investigative reporting, the first time a weekly paper had won a Pulitzer for investigative journalism.” (Washington Post) Eight years later, after Warren Buffett had bought the daily Buffalo Evening News, he asked Stan Lipsey to move to New York State and run the paper there. At the Buffalo News, Lipsey was extremely successful. The paper was solvent when many others were not, due to his keen business sense. It would inspire Buffett himself to purchase more papers in future years. See Stanford Lipsey page A11

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Continued from page A1 gatherings for new parents featuring themes related to Jewish holidays and values, knowing that this is also a great way for young families to meet one another.” PJ Library, a program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, sends Jewish children’s books to families across the world every month, with no cost to the families. “We know that something magical happens when parents sit down to read with their children,” Jennie said. “PJ Library shares Jewish stories that can help families talk about their values and traditions. New PJ Library subscribers also receive a tzedakah box in December of their first year, which fosters the practice of giving and the meaning of tzedakah. Thanks to the support of Federation and PJ Library, we’re raising devoted readers and philanthropists. This partnership means kids and their families grow together as they explore just what being Jewish means.” Some of these budding philanthropists will soon be engaged in JFO’s Young Jewish Giving program, directed by Danielle Gordman, inspiring Jewish teens and college-aged students to make a difference in the community through tzedakah and Tikkun Olam. The investment made by the JFO in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library has resulted in a world-class research, study, and recreational reading environment that benefits the entire Omaha community. Upcoming author events include Stanley Ginsberg (The Rye Baker) on Nov. 16, and Rabbi

2014 PJ Library featuring Mama Doni Joseph Telushkin, scheduled for April 20, 2017. The Kripke Library, a true inter-generational facility, is also the home of the Friedel Jewish Academy’s library. PJ Library will highlight the library’s offerings for children during the JCC’s Hanukkah Extravaganza, Dec. 19 from 5-7 pm. With the increase in online resources and platforms to connect with other Jews around the world, the access points to serious adult Jewish learning are expanding daily. “The current opportunities for adult education in the Jewish community are

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both expansive and incredible,” Jennie said. “I’m excited to support and collaborate with the synagogues and other institutions of higher learning to elevate community programming.” The increased involvement and support of foundations, philanthropists, and federations plays a key role not only in providing financial resources, but as sources of ideas and engines of positive change. Alan Potash, Jewish Federation of Omaha CEO, said, “Our national umbrella, JFNA, is investing in the work of professionals like Jennie through the Department for Jewish

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Education and Engagement. This new initiative helps us expand opportunities for individuals and families in the Omaha community to connect to Jewish life. What better way to invest our Campaign dollars.” JFO supplies financial assistance to religious school education at Beth El, Beth Israel, Temple Israel and Friedel Jewish Academy to promote Jewish education for the youth in our community. This subvention, which totals over $70,000 for the 20162017 school year, is calculated based on the number of children enrolled and hours taught at each institution. The JFO also works closely with Omaha Jewish educators to collaborate and provide support beyond subvention funds -- whether that is coordinating training or Israel experiences for teachers, or organizing community-wide experiences to bring our youth together for learning or service opportunities. According to Jennie Gates Beckman, the possibility to expand upon the existing Jewish education foundation in Omaha is almost limitless. “I’m putting together a parent advisory council to ensure we are addressing the needs and interests of all families looking to raise Jewish children. Together with the congregations and our Federation agencies, we’ll work to improve and maintain current adult educational programs and design additional learning opportunities for all ages. This is an exciting time for JFO and Jewish education in Omaha.”

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Western Galilee visit to Budapest brings immediate medical impact

SIMoN GrIvE he recent visit to Budapest by a delegation of the Western Galilee’s Partnership2Gether’s (P2G) Medical Task Force has produced impressive results. “The impact has been immediate and much bigger than we could have imagined,” says Dr. Arie Eisenman, Head of Internal Medicine in the Emergency Department of the Galilee Medical Center (GMC), and Co-Chair of P2G’s Medical Task Force. “The Hungarians have a large appetite for cooperation and we have alDr. Arie Eisenman ready hosted a wide range of reciprocal visits from professionals, academics and exchange students and sent one of our doctors to Budapest to speak about handling mass casualty incidents.” Dr. Eisenman travelled to Budapest in May for introductory meetings with medical personnel along with Aya Kipershlak, the GMC’s International Affairs Department Director and P2G Western Galilee Director Judy Yuda. Within the framework of the Jewish Agency’s P2G, the Western Galilee is partnered with the 14 U.S. Jewish Federation communities, including Omaha, of the Central Area Consortium, as well as Budapest. “The aim of the visit was to build a structured partnership between the medical professionals of the GMC and Budapest,” explains Judy Yuda. “We want to build a similar partnership to the ones that we have already built between the GMC and their medical colleagues in our partnership communities in the US. We succeeded in Hungary beyond our expectations.” Since the delegation visited Budapest, there has been a constant stream of Hungarian professionals visiting the Western Galilee. These include social workers from the Budapest University of Jewish Studies, a senior official from the Budapest ambulance services, exchange medical students, and executives from a private hospital in Budapest. “We were surprised to find such a strong and cohesive Jewish community,” recounts Aya Kipershlak. “They were thirsty not only for a professional partnership, but also to strengthen their Jewish community and identity through a

Interfaith Thanksgiving Service

ScoTT LITTkY Program Director, Temple Israel Each year at Thanksgiving time, Temple Israel has the opportunity and honor of participating in the Annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service. This year, the service will be on Sunday, Nov. 20, 5 p.m. at St. Margaret Mary Church, 6116 Dodge Street. This service is always a moving experience and a wonderful opportunity for those of different faiths to gather in worship. Rabbi Crystal, Rabbi Berezin, Cantor Shermet and our Kol Rina Choir will represent Temple Israel and participate in the service. Also participating in the service will be clergy from the American Muslim Institute, Countryside Community Church, First Christian Church, First Congregational Church, First Unitarian Church of Omaha, First United Methodist Church, Hanscom Park United Methodist Church, St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church and Underwood Hills Presbyterian Church. During services a collection is gathered for Together Omaha; those attending are asked to bring non-perishable goods.

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continued from page A1 children that giving to this community matters,” Co-Chair Lisa Lucoff said. “We have to be involved fiscally, but also volunteer our time.” There is no cost to attend, and RSVPs are not necessary. During the celebration, which comes with all the bells and whistles like games, arts and crafts and a jumpy castle, Kids’ Campaign Tzedakah boxes will be handed out to everyone. And: guests can purchase latkes at Friedel’s annual latke sale, FJA Head of School Beth Cohen said. “Kids’ meals are only $5 and include two latkes with applesauce and sour cream, two donut holes and a juice box,” she added. Adult meals will have three latkes; a bottle of

strong connection with Israel.” In Budapest, Dr. Eisenman gave a lecture on the assistance that GMC is providing for Syrians injured in the civil war. There are currently 31 injured Syrians being treated in the hospital; and since the start of the conflict, more than 1,350 Syrian have been treated, (about half of the total number of Syrians treated in Israel), 22% of them are under 18 years old. “Those we treat are members of various militias and I am sure that many of them are organizations not very sympathetic to Israel; but it Yoav Hoffmann is our policy not to ask questions about their background. They are injured and need medical treatment.” As with most Diaspora Jewish communities, many members of the Budapest Jewish community work in the medical profession, some of them in senior positions. Dr. Eisenman’s lecture drew the attention of the Jewish deputy director of the military hospital in Budapest, which also houses NATO’s medical headquarters. As a result, an invitation was extended by NATO’s MASCAL (mass casualty) department to send one of their doctors to lecture on pre-hospital incident management and in-hospital major incident management based on their real-life experiences. Dr. Yoav Hoffmann of the GMC’s Pediatric Intensive Care Department, who, in a previous position played a major role in 2006 in treating the wounded from the Second Lebanon War, was chosen to travel to Budapest. “It was a thrilling experience,” he said. “I spoke of my experiences in mass casualty treatment during the Second Lebanon War. I spoke alongside a Belgian doctor and a French doctor who had treated the injured in the aftermath of the Bataclan massacre in Paris last year.” With the partnership now firmly established, “More trips to Budapest are planned by GMC staff and more visits from Hungary by medical professionals are expected.” For information regarding Partnership2Gether’s many opportunities to interact with Israel and our partnership consortium, please contact Nate Shapiro at Nshapiro@ Jewishomaha.org.

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Linda PoLLard Endowment Assistant/Staff Writer, Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation he Jewish Federation of Omaha (JFO) Foundation announced that the Murray H. and Sharee C. Newman Supporting Foundation Board of Trustees awarded ten grants to non-profit programs in the community. “The Newman Supporting Foundation accepted grant applications from Jewish Federation agencies as well as other charitable organizations whose programs are consistent with the mission of the Federation, and they voted to award these ten grants after reviewing all the applications,” said Howard Epstein, JFO Foundation Executive Director. A grant was awarded to the Anti-Defamation League/Community Relations Committee for the annual Promoting Empowerment for our World (PEW), scheduled for September 2017. Over 300 high school sophomores from approximately 40 schools will be invited to attend. School counselors, teachers and staff will receive educator training. Participants will learn to take responsibility for combating discrimination and prejudice and become change agents in their schools and elsewhere. The B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBYO) received a grant to support Shiputznick 2017, the annual Teen Mitzvah Day for Omaha Jewish teens. During this day of service and mitzvot, the teens will spend the afternoon doing service projects around Omaha and then share a meal and stories about their day. This program promotes Tikun Olam. The Jewish Federation of Omaha received a grant for PJ Library programming during 2017-2018. PJ Library is a Jewish family engagement program that provides high quality Jewish children’s literature and music to families with young children. Monthly kid-friendly programs feature unique activities with Jewish themes. The Newman grant will help fund Inclusive Communities’ four-day leadership and skill building workshop, IncluCity. Each year a diverse group of 75 high schools students attend IncluCity. Objectives of the workshop include raising personal awareness and recognizing their own biases, imparting personal and intrapersonal skills and developing a personal action plan. The Institute for Holocaust Education received a grant to provide a 1 1/2 day conference for advanced Holocaust educators in Nebraska. The conference will be held June 25-26, 2017. The conference will feature a notable keynote speaker and will include a variety of sessions on topics and pedagogy related to the Holocaust. Jewish Family Service (JFS) was awarded a grant to help support the agency’s Tzedakah Project for Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Chanukah in 2016-2017. The project feeds the hungry, offers celebratory food for holidays and reaches

out to Jewish community members in need. Volunteers will deliver gifts, visit with recipients and let them know they are remembered during the holidays. With this grant, the Jewish Community Center will host the community celebration for Israel’s 69th birthday. Activities being planned for May 1, 2016, include musical programming for both young and old. The Partnership is planning to send a group of Israeli teens to Omaha to work with students and help at the event. The Jewish Press received a grant to hire a Jewish college or high school student, who is an active member of Omaha’s Jewish community, to serve on staff as a summer intern for six weeks between May and August 2017. The intern will learn about research, composition, editing, interviewing and other skills associated with producing the newspaper. A grant went to B’nai B’rith Youth Organization (BBY0) for scholarships to help with the costs incurred in the March of the Living. Students going on this trip receive an intense educational experience. They march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, then they go to Israel to celebrate Yom Ha’Atzmaut. The goal of this program is to educate Jewish teens about the richness of the Jewish past and to perpetuate the future. The Jewish Federation of Omaha received a grant for the Young Jewish Giving Program, a revitalization of the former B’nai Tzedek Program for youth ages 12-22. The program encourages teens to become involved in tzedakah by establishing a fund for charitable giving. Jeff Kirshenbaum, President of the Newman Supporting Foundation Board of Trustees stated, “The trustees of the Newman Foundation are pleased to support these programs. These organizations provide effective and worthy programs that embrace the Foundation’s goals.” The Newman Supporting Foundation of the JFO Foundation was established in 1987 with an initial gift of $100,000 from Sharee and Murray Newman. Since then, the Newman Supporting Foundation has awarded $438,000 in grants. The Board of Trustees are Board President Jeff Kirshenbaum, Sharee Newman, Lisa Lewis, Jamie Friedland, Jay Lerner, Murray Newman and Danielle Gordman. A supporting foundation is a separate legal entity with its own board that is created by a donor or family and enters into a relationship with the JFO Foundation. “We manage and invest the supporting foundation’s funds, administer operations and make disbursements as directed by the supporting foundation board,” explained Epstein. “The board focuses on reviewing annual grant applications and selecting the programs that will receive grants, and we take care of the rest.” To learn more about establishing a supporting foundation with the JFO Foundation, please contact Howard Epstein at 402.334.6466.

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sites, museums and nature preserves, the group will experience the Tower of David Sound and Light Show, study with a Pardes instructor, spend time with Shabbat of a Lifetime in Jerusalem, and meet with members of the Ethiopian National Project in Hadera (to mention a few of the special experiences planned). The beauty of this tour is that members will be building our own community and writing the next chapter in our congregation’s story as we connect with our heritage in the Land of Israel. Individuals who would like more information about this tour should contact Nancy Coren, spiritual lay-leader of Congregation Tifereth Israel at ncoren@tiferethisraellincoln.org.

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Considering summer camp? Camp Director, Drea Lear, will be in Omaha on Nov. 20 at 12:30 p.m. at Temple Israel’s camp fair. “I’m here to get to know parents and kids, answer questions about Herzl as well as Jewish camping in general,” said Lear. Lear has been with Herzl Camp for seven years and was a Herzl Camper herself. “I know the impact of a quality Jewish camping experience and love sharing that with the next generation.” Herzl Camp is an independent, pluralistic Jewish overnight camp, known for creating a strong community of friends and family. Herzl’s program is designed to build friendships, spark a camper’s imagination and ignite a passion for Judaism, for community and for Israel. Over 90% of our staff are Herzl Camp alumni and return as staff for two to three summers. Our high retention rate means your child will have consistent role models through their years at camp. Located on 120 wooded acres in Webster, WI, Herzl is about 7 hours from Omaha and frequently provides bus service for larger sessions. Programs range from one to six weeks for children in 3rd through 11th grade. Specialty programs focused on wilderness adventure and Ultimate Frisbee are available for some age groups. Activities include a wide of options to engage all kinds of kids: waterfront activities like sailing and kayaking; sports like soccer and lacrosse; outdoor activities like rock climbing and farm hands; creative fun in art, drama and radio production. To learn more, attend Temple Israel’s camp fair on Nov. 20 and visit the Herzl Camp website, www.herzlcamp.org. PAID ADVERTISEMENT

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Chef Laura cooks gourmet kosher dinner at Beth El

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Ozzie NOgg Is there such a thing as gourmet kosher cuisine? You bet. And proof will be found in the noodle pudding when Beth El Synagogue welcomes noted kosher Chef Laura Frankel as Scholar-in-Residence on Friday, Dec. 2 through Sunday, Dec. 4. During her stay, Chef Laura will prepare a gourmet Shabbat dinner following Friday night services at Beth El and teach an 11 a.m. cooking class at the synagogue on Sunday morning. Chef Laura will also speak after Saturday morning Shabbat services, following a Kiddush lunch prepared by the Beth El culinary staff. “My plan,” said Chef Laura, “is to talk about how we express love through food. How we express our faith - kashrut - through the choices we make each day through food, and what those food choices say about ourselves and the way we feel about those for whom we prepare meals.” When Chef Frankel opened her first restaurant featuring kosher fine dining in 1999, she was driven not only by her love of cooking, but also by the desire to prove that kosher food can be as delicious and exciting as any other type of contemporary cuisine. In the book, From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways by Ellen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost, Chef Laura is quoted as saying: “Kosher cooking often gets a bad rap, and some of this is deserved, since there are kosher cooks and companies that rely on processed foods. But artificial ingredients aren’t good for you or the planet; they don’t taste as good as natural food, and there is nothing about kosher laws that require them. I don’t mess around with faux foods created in

laboratories, and I only feed my family, friends and customers the very best ingredients.” From 2007 to 2015, Chef Laura served as the executive chef at Wolfgang Puck Kosher Catering at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership in Chicago. She is currently the Culinary Director for Jamie Geller’s Test Kitchens and Kosher Network International. An active educator committed to modernizing kosher food, Frankel is the author of Jewish Cooking for All Seasons and Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes, and contributes to The Jerusalem Post and EATING WELL magazine. Her third book, Clean Slate Jewish Cooking, will be published in 2017. Featuring Frankel’s signature blend of convenience and globe-spanning flavors, her recipes are designed to be kosher, yet accessible to eaters of all backgrounds. Working on arrangements for Chef Laura’s visit are Judi Finkle and Miriam Gottlieb, Co-chairs; Margie Gutnik, Beth El Programming Director; Eadie Tsabari, Beth El Director of Congregational Learning; Laura Bair, Beth El Kitchen Manager; and Allison Newfeld, Beth El Executive Director. “Beth El is excited to bring a chef of Laura Frankel’s caliber to Omaha,” Miriam Gottlieb said. “She will demonstrate that eating good, healthful food is consistent with Jewish dietary laws. This will be a delicious weekend, learning from a master culinary artist.” Reservations for both the Friday, Dec. 2, Gourmet Shabbat Dinner and Sunday, Dec. 4, Gourmet Cooking Class can be made on the synagogue website, www.bethelomaha.org, where you’ll also find complete details for the weekend. Space is limited. Deadline to register for both events is Nov. 21. After that date, please call the Beth El office, 402.492.8550, for availability. Chef Laura’s visit is sponsored by a generous donation from The Henry and Dorothy Riekes Endowment Fund.

JTA Graffiti that included a swastika and seemed to reference Donald Trump’s campaign slogan was found in an upstate New York town on the same day the Republican nominee won the presidential election. On Nov. 9 in Wellsville, in Allegany County, a passer by spotted a swastika and the phrase “Make America White Again” on a softball dugout, according to the Wellsville Daily Reporter. Trump’s campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again.” Wellsville police told the Reporter later that day that it had not received any complaints but would look into the incident. Later in the day, a group of volunteers painted over the graffiti, according

to the Reporter. Also that day, graffiti with Nazi imagery and the word “Trump” were discovered on a storefront in Philadelphia. One image included the words “Sieg Heil 2016,” a reference to the German Nazi greeting. Another showed the word “Trump” with the T replaced with a swastika. There were additional reports of similar images as well as other racist graffiti in South Philadelphia, according to Philly.com. Trump, who has received wide support among white nationalists, released a campaign ad late last week promising to defeat an international global power structure featuring several prominent Jews in the financial world. Critics alleged the ad used anti-Semitic tropes, but the Trump campaign denied the charges.

Trump-themed swastika graffiti found in upstate New York

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Warren Buffett: Investing in Israel Bonds is “A terrific tribute to the country”

Israel Bonds Pennsylvania Executive Director Harold Marcus, left, Israel Bonds President & CEO Israel Maimon; Warren Buffett; Israel Bonds Vice President for Sales Stuart Garawitz; President & CEO of Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc. Henry Davis; and former Israel Bonds President & CEO Izzy Tapoohi at a dinner with the famed investor on Sunday, Nov. 6, in Omaha. The evening resulted in $60 million in new Israel bond investments, including $5 million from Buffett. Credit: Stacie Kinney erkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett welcomed 43 U.S. Israel bond investors to Omaha on Sunday, each of whom made a minimum $1 million new investment to participate in an exclusive evening with the famed “Oracle of Omaha.” The evening opened with a tribute video from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said, “Warren is one of the most brilliant and successful investors of our time. He knows a good investment when he sees it. That’s why he invests in Israel.” Buffett, who made Israeli company Iscar his first overseas acquisition, spoke warmly of the Jewish State, calling it “a remarkable country.” He stressed that “The United States and Israel have a common destiny,” saying, “If you are looking for brains, energy and dynamism in the Middle East, Israel is the only place you need to go.” Buffett also spoke positively of investing in Israel bonds, calling the investments “a terrific tribute to the country.” He said he

would invest $5 million in Israel bonds in his personal portfolio if participants at the event matched his investment. In doing so, Buffett stated, “I wanted – through the lastminute challenge – to set the bar even higher for future events.” He added, “You can tell prospective investors that I would have taken a perpetual bond if you had offered one. I believe Israel is going to be around forever.” As a result, Israel bond sales directly attributable to the event totaled $60 million. In addition to Buffett’s $5 million investment, Berkshire Hathaway’s portfolio has included Israel bonds since its acquisition of GUARD Insurance in 2012, now known as Berkshire Hathaway GUARD Insurance Companies. In expressing appreciation to Buffett, new Israel Bonds President & CEO Israel Maimon said, “This event tells me that Warren Buffett, famed for his investment expertise, continues to view Israel as a sure bet.” The evening was hosted by Henry Davis, president and CEO of Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.

Tifereth goes to the Zoo

Spending time at the Lincoln Children's Zoo is special. Spending time with friends from Tifereth Israel is special. Spending time at the Lincoln Children's Zoo with friends from Tifereth Israel is extra special. That's why Tifereth Israel's Havdallah at the zoo gathering was such a success. With more than 30 TI members joining together on Saturday evening, Nov. 5, we toured the zoo, shared a meal together, and blessed the animals with a special service prior to havdallah. Coming at the end of Shabbat Noach, this experience brought all ages together to express their appreciation for the animals that inhabit our world.

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ANNeTTe vAN De KAmp-wrigHT Editor of the Jewish Press e’ve all seen the demonstrations that have popped up this past week, from Oakland to New York, from Chicago to Los Angeles and Portland to our own Omaha. Most have been peaceful, but they have led people to ask: what are they trying to accomplish? The election is over, move on. Protest marches aren’t always about effecting immediate change. Quite often, the participants are painfully aware there is a status quo that’s somewhat set in stone, and making an immediate change is not necessarily the purpose of the demonstration. Just as often, it’s about coming together, sharing your grief and discontent, being around others and having your voice be heard, rather than staying home alone and feeling isolated. It’s a way to let others know: we are still here, and we are with you. A democracy like America must make room for this. In fact, the U.S. of A has a longstanding history of nonviolent protest. From Harriet Tubman’s underground railroad, to the mass demonstrations for women’s voting rights, to the Civil Rights marches and freedom rides in the 1960s to the protests that drew attention to the Russian refugee crisis in the 1980s, nonviolent civil action is an important right in a free society. This is a good tradition to have. It’s why the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits Congress from enacting legislation that abridges the right of the people to assemble peaceably. It was interesting to see high school students all over Omaha making use of that right. Especially for teenagers who are not yet able to vote, having a voice is incredibly important. At my daughter’s school the protest is being planned through, what else, a group chat. Approximately 100 students spend the weekend on their phones, discussing the rules. Wait; there are rules for a protest? “It’s not a protest, mom,” my daughter says. “It’s a demonstration.” Oh.

She explains to me that it’s not about the President-elect; in fact, they are not even using his name. It’s one of the rules. They are deciding what language is allowed on the signs, and what they are allowed to say. They get awfully specific. They want to show solidarity with all minorities, and send a message of hope. They are methodical and composed. It’s why they are planning this for Monday morning, so they have time to think this through. Also, it’s scheduled before school, “because we don’t want to miss class.” It’s almost as if they have done this before. After school Friday, just before Shabbat, my daughter tells me a story. During her extracurricular time, she overhears another student say that people should get citizenship before entering the United States. “Excuse me,” she says, and asks him to repeat his words. She wants to make sure she heard him right. He repeats his words. “My mother isn’t a citizen,” she tells him. “Do you feel she should be deported?” He answers by saying, no, but “It should be a rule that people become citizens before they come here.” Personally, I’m aggravated that some punk, who I have never even met, has apparently decided what I should do with my life. But my daughter calmly engages him, explains to him that things aren’t always that simple, until he realizes he really does not know what he is talking about. And then he apologizes. How many of us as adults would not go anywhere near such discourse, because it so easily turns into an argument? Let’s face it -- we have a natural inclination to stay away

from face to face discussion. We can do it online, sure, but in person? It’s hard to stay calm. When our kids peacefully taking a stand, not just online, but face to face, I think something good is happening. When they join together and go outside, with their carefully marked signs, it reminds me that they are talking, and they understand the need to take an active part in their future. And no, it’s not about the President-elect. It’s about toler-

she stands on Israel (left of Netanyahu, right of Barack Obama) and Iran (backed the deal, vows to aggressively monitor Iran’s compliance). She kissed Sura Arafat in 1999, but served a fairly uncontroversial term as senator from New York beginning shortly thereafter. She is married to the convener

cerns and obsessions, but the spotlight mostly shines on him, the Republican candidate. This wasn’t the case in the past two elections. When Obama ran against John McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, there were compelling arguments and story lines on both sides about “Jewish” issues, especially Israel. The Republicans had managed to shape themselves as the more “reliably” pro-Israel party, at least in the eyes of Netanyahu and the groups and individuals who shared his security-first vision. Democrats were more likely to be aligned with an Israeli minority that supported a dormant peace process. That led to a lot of stories about whether the Jews were ripe for a political realignment. At home, Obama had the Reverend Wright albatross to contend with; McCain shackled himself to Sarah Palin and stalled the inroads that the GOP was making among Jewish voters for at least another four years. Netanyahu made clear that he was no fan of Obama, and Obama treated him in kind, a story line that kept the Jewish media busy before and after Obama’s second-term victory. These were typical issues that played out in normal ways. Who’s better for Israel? How do you define “better”? Should the pro-Israel lobby abandon its decades-long commitment to bipartisanship? Is Israel the only issue that Jewish voters do or should care about? Would the bubbe and zayde vote tip Florida? This time around, none of these issues seem to matter. Trump, who blew up the entire notion of a “typical” politician, undermined the old categories -- in Jewish journalism and everything else. Who’s to say who is “better” for Israel when Trump himself was barely expressing a foreign policy, had no meaningful track record on the issue and made statements on the region that often were contradictory? Israel barely came up See why Trump page A9

ance, about seeing the diversity all around them, about seeing each other as human beings, and reminding the world everyone deserves respect. It’s why, when I see a video online of a group of students at her school, chanting, “Build that wall!” during lunchtime, I am annoyed, but I am not worried. I know the other students will engage and educate these kids, much more effectively that the school administrators ever could. And if you are annoyed by school children (or anyone else) taking to the streets, just remember: they are executing their Constitutional Right. And that is something we should all be proud of.

Why Trump dominated Jewish coverage of the 2016 campaign ANDrew Silow cAroll JTA On Monday, one day before Election Day, I received a call from a reader. She identified herself as a Reform Jew, 46, from Chicago. She had praise for JTA and our daily newsletter, but also a complaint: Our emphasis on the Trump campaign, including charges over the weekend that a campaign ad of his was reminiscent of anti-Jewish propaganda, led readers like her to believe that we were clearly biased in favor of Hillary Clinton. I was able to say in all honestly that our staff had been discussing that very idea moments before she called. On our homepage that morning were 11 stories about the campaign. Four of the stories I would call “neutral” in the sense that they focused on both candidates (one reported on a poll in Israel, another on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying his government won’t intervene in the U.S. elections). Six stories focused on Trump or his campaign. No story focused exclusively on Clinton or hers. That suggests something, but not political bias. We try to be an unbiased source of Jewish news, but first and foremost a source of Jewish news. And this sample of our daily coverage demonstrates what we’ve noted throughout the campaign: Trump, his campaign and his minions created the more compelling Jewish story. Think about it: A Jewish daughter. A Jewish son-in-law who serves as his top adviser. An ever-evolving Middle East policy. A vocal minority of supporters who traffic in the worst kind of anti-Semitic trolling. A campaign staff that either doesn’t understand the ways it courts or comforts those trolls or simply doesn’t care. A strained relationship with Republican Jewish donors and other influentials. By contrast, Clinton’s Jewish story line is pretty thin and unsurprising. We’ve known for years how

Donald Trump speaking with reporters following the first presidential debate, at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2016. Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images of the Oslo Accords, who is, depending on whom you ask, Israel’s greatest friend or its worst enemy. She and Joe Biden have Jewish children-in-law (whose names you probably don’t even know). Hillary Clinton may be controversial in other ways, but when it comes to Jewish issues, she is a known quantity. You can write about her stated positions and historical record on Israel on Iran -and we have -- but once you do, you’re essentially done. Trump’s brand is chaos, hers is control. Trump’s campaign is the media equivalent of a shofar blast -- or 100 in a row. Hillary is the synagogue treasurer, mumbling through the weekly announcements. One makes you pay attention. The other is someone you listen to politely if you’re not already asleep or out the door. Trump has managed to spotlight Jewish con-

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Why Trump dominated Jewish coverage Continued from page A8 at the three presidential debates, and the Iran stuff seemed like an afterthought. As for the great Jewish political realignment -- not this year, anyway. Trump barely made inroads into the Republican Jewish Coalition, let alone among American Jews as a whole. But Trump managed to make “Jewish” news anyway in ways that Clinton didn’t and probably wouldn’t want to match. At least three times -- in retweeting the infamous “Star of David” anti-Hillary meme, in a Florida speech railing against “international bankers” and in a campaign ad doubling down on the global conspiracy theory -- Trump raised alarms among Jewish watchdog groups and everyday readers about his intentional or merely careless broadcasting of popular anti-Semitic tropes. Beyond his control, perhaps, were the self-proclaimed Trump followers on the self-proclaimed “alt-right” attacking Jewish supporters who criticized their candidate with vile anti-Semitic tweets and threats. The guy at the Trump rally shouting “Jew-S-A.” Donald Trump Jr. using an ill-advised “gas chamber” analogy to complain about the media’s double standards. Trump’s stumbling path to a disavowal of former KKK leader David Duke. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were their own fount of Jewish stories, from how they were dealing with the accusations of anti-Semitism to the decision by their rabbi to withdraw from a speaking engagement at the Republican National Convention to the mere fact of their celebrity Jewish marriage at the heart of Trumpland. Trump also attracted the lion’s share of our attention as journalists for another reason: No one had ever seen anything like him. Week by week, sometimes day by day, Trump would do or say something that in a normal election year would be seen as the campaign’s defining story. Sometimes a Trump outrage would barely be the most interesting or controversial thing he did or said that day. You tuned into Trump news like a fisherman checks the weather reports -the sky is always changing, and there is bound to be a storm. That’s not to say that Hillary is not a flawed person or politician -- but she is in most ways normally flawed. Her secretiveness undermines her, and her own sense of infallibility leads her to ignore what so many others see as reckless conflicts of interest. She rails against special interests one day, gives a top-dollar speech to a bank on another. In most ways that makes her a politician, not a criminal. It was news when the FBI dug into her emails, and it was news when it found no criminal wrongdoing, but it wasn’t exactly Jewish news. My Chicago caller said she was most concerned about the rise of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism on the far left, suggesting that was an area we had undercovered in reporting on the campaign. But we did cover it when Clinton was still in a tough race against Bernie Sanders and the issue was in play. Sanders, while an avowed defender of Israel, also spoke about Palestinian rights in a way attractive to the left wing of the party. The Democratic National Committee allowed him to appoint five people to the platform drafting committee, and three of his picks were frequent critics of Israel. In the end, however, Clinton defeated Sanders decisively,

and the party rejected the main ask of the Sanders people: language calling for Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank and settlement activity. And we covered that battle. There are some things I wished we had done differently in covering the campaign. We wrote a number of articles about Trump’s appeal (or lack thereof) among Orthodox voters, but too few about Clinton’s appeal (or lack thereof) among the Jewish majority that is bound to vote for her. I would have liked us to do more on the influential “Never Trump” Jewish Republicans and what splits in both parties augur for the future of Israel as a foreign policy issue. But I don’t regret our focus on Trump and what his ascent has meant to the country as a whole and Jews in particular. Telling that story well was more essential than creating a false “balance” between two very different candidates.

Biden: Commitments to Israel will continue

JTA NEWS STAFF Vice President Joe Biden said the U.S. commitments to Israel will remain the same under President-elect Donald Trump. “I stand here to tell you that I have no doubt, none whatsoever, that in the Trump administration there will be no diminution of support as a consequence of this transition,” Biden said Wednesday night in a speech to the World Jewish Congress in New York, where he was hon-

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Musing on the election

Unless you were living under a rock for the past year, it would have been impossible not to notice our election drama. Despite partisan differences, most people agree that our most basic and important civic responsibility is to vote. However, a number of individuals in our Omaha Jewish community told me they decided not to vote for reasons including not liking any candidate, being turned off by divisive discourse, or feeling disempowered that their vote doesn’t really matter. These excuses should be particularly disturbing to Jews because we are a minority and if we don’t best advocate for ourselves, certainly no one else will! The 2008 presidential election result in Omaha’s 2nd congressional district, which sends an electoral college vote, hinged on only about 3000 votes. Every vote does matter! I propose that we join together to talk, encourage, and offer to partner with local Jewish community leaders at our synagogues, the JCC, and Jewish Federation to plan robust nonpartisan voter registration drives for future elections. I send kudos to Beth El Synagogue for setting up voter registration booths at several of their recent events. Let’s build on this example of leadership by involving all of our Jewish community institutions. For example, since the JCC is highly trafficked, it is an ideal site to set up a voter registration booth during election cycles. Residents at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home and hospitalized patients could certainly appreciate assistance. Most of our Jewish ancestors fled to the US from repressive totalitarian regimes, fleeing for their lives to assure their and their loved ones’ safety and prosperity. They were willing to risk their lives as Americans to defend their adopted country in every US war to protect their privileges and freedoms. But many now take these freedoms for granted, thinking they are not vulnerable to a low voter turnout. Our first generation ancestors would not hesitate to vote because they recognized the fragility of a democratic government could only be strengthened by voting to hold rulers accountable. They understood that once lost by an apathetic and misinformed electorate, it would be impossible to get it back. The Torah depicts the folly of Jacob’s brother Esau, a man uncaring about examining the consequences of his actions giving away his birthright for a meaningless meal of porridge. We must protect our heritage and selfdetermination by not allowing apathy to blind us from the necessity to vote. Respectfully, dr. Kevin Balter

Vice President Joe Biden, right, shaking hands with World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder, as former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger looks on, at the Pierre Hotel in New York City, Nov. 9, 2016. Credit: Shahar Azran/WireImage/World Jewish Congress ored by the organization. “Even if the new administration were inclined to reduce the commitment, which it is not, Congress would never let it happen; the American people would never let it happen.” Biden called the run-up to Tuesday's election "one of the most divisive campaigns in modern American history.” He praised the Obama administration for looking out for Israel's interests, including the 10-year, $38 billion dollar security aid deal. “No administration in U.S. history has done more to enhance Israel’s security than this administration,” Biden said. He praised the American Jewish community, as well. “You measure your influence on how well you influence me, presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, senators, congressmen. But your influence on the American community at large has been profound,” Biden said. e vice president received the World Jewish Congress' annual eodor Herzl Award, “which recognizes outstanding individuals who work to promote Herzl’s ideals for a safer, more tolerant world for the Jewish people,” according to the group. Also at the event, actor Kirk Douglas was recognized with the inaugural Teddy Kollek Award for the Advancement of Jewish Culture. Actor-director Michael Douglas accepted the award on behalf of his father.

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Join us for our monthly Shabbat Speakers Series on dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. with guest speaker to be announced. Oneg to follow service. Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel! Our services are led by lay leader Larry Blass. For information on our historic synagogue, please contact any of our board members: Rick Katelman, Carole Lainof, Marty Ricks, Sissy Silber, Nancy Wolf and Phil Wolf.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman. friday: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.; Our Shabbat Tables in congregants’ homes. saTurday: Morning Service/Minyan in the Round, 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush Lunch; Shabbat’s Cool (Grades K-7), 10 a.m.; Mini-Minyannaires, 10:45 a.m.; BESTT Shul-In (Grades 3-7), 12:15 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:45 p.m. weekday serVices: Sundays, 9 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; weekdays, 7 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. sunday: No BESTT Classes; Torah Study, 10 a.m. Tuesday: Rabbi Abraham’s Ethics & Values: A Jewish Guide to Life’s Most Difficult Questions, noon at Whole Foods. wednesday: No BESTT Classes. Thursday: Synagogue Office Closed for Thanksgiving Day; Morning Service, 9 a.m. Synagogue Office Closed for Thanksgiving Break, friday, nov. 25. Lunch at Nebraska AIDS Coalition, friday, nov. 25, 11:30 a.m. No BESTT Classes, sunday, nov. 27. All classes and programs are open to everyone in the Jewish community.

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Office hours: Monday-Wednesday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Thursday and Friday, closed. Services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer. friday: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv & Kabbalat Shabbat, 4:44 p.m.; Candle Lighting, 4:44 p.m. saTurday: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Torah Parade, 9:45 a.m.; November Simcha Kiddush, 11:30 a.m.; Insights in the Weekly Portion, 3:40 p.m.; Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, 4:25 p.m.; Havdalah, 5:46 p.m. sunday: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Bagels and Beit Medrash, 9:45 a.m. weekdays: Shacharit, 7 a.m. monday: Lunch and Learn, 2 p.m. with Rabbi Shlomo. Tuesday and wednesday: Shacharit, 7 a.m. Thursday: Synagogue Office Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday; Shacharit, 9 a.m.

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Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. friday: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. saTurday: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. followed by a kiddush luncheon. sunday: Shacharit, 8:30 a.m. followed by Sunday Secrets: Jewish Fun Facts class at 9:15 a.m. weekdays: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. monday: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani. wednesday: New Tanya Series -- The Anatomy of Your Soul: Who Are You?, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Thursday: Advanced Talmud Class, noon with Rabbi Mendel Katzman. All programs are open to the entire community.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Craig Lewis. friday: Pre-neg, 6 p.m. hosted by Alan Frank; Candlelighting, 4:47 p.m.; Shabbat Evening Service, 6:30 p.m. saTurday: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. on Parashat Vayera; Game Night and Potluck Dinner, 6 p.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 6:16 p.m. sunday: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m. at Tifereth Israel; LJCS Gesher, 10 a.m. at South Street Temple; Global Day of Jewish Learning Community Event: Under the Same Sky: "The Earth is Full of Your creations" Learning about our world

and nature, 10 a.m.- noon at Tifereth Israel; Interfaith Choir Rehearsal, 2 p.m.; Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, 3 p.m. All faiths are welcome and encouraged to attend. wednesday: No LJCS Hebrew classes. Thursday: Synagogue Office Closed for Thanksgiving Day. No LJCS Classes, sunday, nov. 27. Jewish Book Group, sunday, nov. 27, 2 p.m. at Scooter’s (84th & Van Dorn) to discuss Love and Trasure by Ayelet Waldman. President’s Office Hours, sunday mornings, 10 a.m.– noon at SST. If you have any Temple business you would like to bring before the Board of Trustees, potential programs, or new ideas, please let us know! Call for an appointment at the Temple at 402.513.7697. Or if you prefer, email David Weisser at president@southstreettemple.org.

Tuesday: Youth Committee Meeting, 6 p.m.; Executive Meeting, 6 p.m.; Board of Trustees Meeting, 7 p.m. wednesday: No Grades 3-6, Grades 7-12 or Family School. Thursday: No Adult Education Class. Temple Tots Shabbat, saturday, dec. 3, 9 a.m. All children and their families are invited to participate! Enjoy stories, songs, crafts (and bagels, of course!) with your child, while connecting with our Temple Israel community. Temple Israel Annual Blood Drive, sunday, dec. 4, 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Make an appointment online by visiting www.redcrossblood.org and search sponsor code “TempleIsrael” or contact Executive Director Dennis DePorte, 402.556.6536.

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Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: monday-friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. friday: World Without Hate Shabbat and Oneg, 7:30 p.m. with gues spekaer Gene Crump, retired Associate General Counsel for UNL and former Deputy Attorney General of the State of Nebraska and reipeint of hte 2015 MLK Fulfilling the Dream Award from UNL. saTurday: Shabbat Morning service, 10 a.m. followed by a Kiddush Luncheon. sunday: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m. at Tifereth Israel; LJCS Gesher, 10 a.m. at South Street Temple; Global Day of Jewish Learning Community Event: Under the Same Sky: "The Earth is Full of Your creations" Learning about our world and nature, 10 a.m.- noon at Tifereth Israel. wednesday: No LJCS Hebrew classes. Jewish Book Group, sunday, nov. 27, 2 p.m. at Scooter’s (84th & Van Dorn) to discuss Love and Trasure by Ayelet Waldman. Please contact Zoya Zemen with any questions. LJCS Hat and Mitten Drive: Every child deserves a warm and cozy Winter season! Join the LJCS as we collect hats and mittens for the children of the Friendship Home. Donations will be collected through sunday, dec. 4. Donations can be dropped either building.

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Dutch mark Kristallnacht as Europe, US confront a wave of right-wing populism

CNAAN LiPhShiz AMSTERDAM | JTA is name was never mentioned during the Netherlands’ main commemoration event for Kristallnacht, but Donald Trump was likely on everyone’s mind at the ceremony at the Dutch capital’s majestic Portuguese Synagogue. It wasn’t for any imagined parallels between Trump’s election as U.S. president and the campaign of violence that the Nazis unleashed 78 years ago against German and Austrian Jews, which many historians see as the opening shot of the Holocaust. Most European Jews, whose families still live in the shadow of that pogrom and the extermination it heralded, would find that comparison cheap and even hysterical. Trump was on my mind that evening because his election -- the latest upset in a series of unforeseen shifts in global politics -- begged comparison between his style and that of the European head of state in attendance: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. A young and dynamic leader, Rutte is wellliked for his chummy yet courteous behavior but heavily criticized for his pragmatism. Amid speculation that Trump’s election and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union herald a wider shift in European politics, I wondered if even successful Old Guard politicians such as Rutte could prevent a power vacuum that would embolden radicals with Kristallnacht-like ambitions. Rutte, a center-right politician whose coalition partner is Dutch Labor, touched in his speech on some of the themes witnessed during the U.S. presidential campaign, when Trump broke accepted speech norms by calling Mexicans rapists and proposing a ban on Muslims entering the country. By commemorating Kristallnacht, Rutte said, “We show we are vigilant here and now of anti-Semitism that always lies under the surface. Against discrimination and exclusion of ethnic groups. Against intolerance.” Following his address, which was announced at the last moment and unusual in that Dutch prime ministers rarely attend Kristallnacht commemorations, Rutte hugged a woman who survived the pogrom in the German city of Essen. The survivor, Mirjam Weizner-Smukn, in her remarks, also reminded me of the charged populist atmosphere surrounding the Trump campaign and Great Britain’s Brexit vote.

Kristallnacht commemoration at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, Nov. 9, 2016. Credit: Jonet.nl

“My message is that you don’t need to love other members of society,” she said. “Just treat them respectfully.” Rutte’s warm embrace of Weizner-Smukn and the Jewish community, wearing a kippah and with a single security guard in tow, he mingled with the synagogue crowd like a regular, shaking hands and chatting -- typical of his rapport, which has made this conservative-leaning leader acceptable even to hard-left voters and politicians. But his message of acceptance and respect, which has been the norm on a continent with memories of fascist cruelty, is giving way to new voices that are rising in popularity based on polarizing rhetoric, disdain for “elites” and a deep concern for, if not outright fear of, the other. “The European far right is currently being reinvigorated by Trump’s election,” said Ronny Naftaniel, chairman of the Dutch Humanitarian Fund and a member of Dutch Labor. “A backlash could benefit the far left. To prevent both scenarios, Europe’s moderate forces will need to draw lessons and come up with new, strong messaging, and in some cases new politicians.” In the Netherlands, the far-right politician Geert Wilders, who is on trial for promising to make sure his country has “fewer Moroccans,” is waging a withering assault on Rutte ahead of the general election in March. His tactics, centering on Rutte’s power sharing with Labour, seem to be working: Wilders’

Party for Freedom and Rutte’s People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy are seesawing in the polls to see which will be the largest faction. Wilders, who often speaks of his support for Israel and “Judeo-Christian values,” belongs to a loose alliance of anti-Muslim European nationalists riding a wave of discontent with the European Union, Muslim and Slavic immigration, and a culture of political correctness whose critics say comes at the expense of national cohesion, sovereignty and traditional values. Marine Le Pen of the National Front party in France is running ahead of the other candidates in the 2017 presidential elections with an unprecedented 26-29 percent projected for her anti-Islam party in most major polls. Her Austrian counterpart and ally, Norbert Hofer, is projected to win a popular vote next month after losing by a hair’s breadth to a liberal candidate in a May vote that was nullified over irregularities. Further east, hard-right movements like the Law and Justice Party in Poland and Fidesz in Hungary are locked in a bitter fight with even more extreme forces like Jobbik. They are competing over voters who are resentful of austerity measures dictated by richer EU members and their insistence, citing humanitarian principles, that Muslim migrants be allowed to cross into the bloc from the east. Le Pen said that with Trump’s rise, the American people had been set “free.” Wilders called it a “revolution” that will repeat itself in the Netherlands. Golden Dawn, the Greek neo-Nazi party, posted online a video of its beaming spokesman speaking of “a major global change,” including in his homeland. Back in Holland, Naftaniel worries that this is more than empty bravado. Rutte, he said, “is more popular and likeable than France’s Francois Hollande or Germany’s Angela Merkel, with a better chance of addressing the concerns of the common man.” But even Rutte will not be able to guarantee the survival of centrists in power, Naftaniel warned, unless he internalizes the “fundamental change in how politicians need to interact with voters” in the post-Trump age where social media memes and populist slogans seem to be replacing well-reasoned debates and speeches. Many European centrist politicians have the qualities necessary to give populists a run for their money, Naftaniel said, “but so far I don’t think the lessons have been drawn.”

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Leonard Cohen, whose Jewish-infused poetry and songs inspired generations ROn KAmpeAS JTA Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer-songwriter whose Jewish-infused work became a soundtrack for melancholy, has died. He was 82. “It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist Leonard Cohen has passed away,” his Facebook page said Nov. 10. “We have lost one of music’s most revered and prolific visionaries.” It did not give a cause of death but said there would be a funeral in Los Angeles in coming days. Cohen, a Montreal native born in 1934, was playing folk guitar by the time he was 15, when he learned the resistance song e Partisan while working at a camp from an older friend. “We sang together every morning, going through 'e People’s Song Book' from cover to cover,” he recalled in his first Best Of compilation in 1975. “I developed the curious notion that the Nazis were overthrown by music.” As a student at McGill University, he became part of Montreal’s burgeoning alternative art scene, one bursting with nervous energy at a time that tensions between Quebec’s French and English speakers were coming to the fore. His influences included Irving Layton, the seminal Canadian Jewish poet who taught at McGill and, like Cohen, grappled with the tensions between the secular world and the temptations of faith. Cohen began to publish poetry and then novels, and was noticed by the national Canadian press. Moving to New York in the late 1960s -- his song Chelsea Hotel is about his stay and that notorious refuge for the inspired, the insane and the indigent -- he began to put his words to music. Suzanne, about the devastating platonic aﬀair with a friend’s wife that was a factor in his leaving Montreal, was recorded by Judy Collins and became a hit, launching his

career. Cohen sang in his limited bass and wrote his songs so he could sing them. ey would have been dirges but for their surprising lyrical turns and reckoning with joy in unexpected places.

Leonard Cohen in concert at London’s O2 Arena, Sept. 15, 2013. Credit: Brian Rasic/Getty Images In Bird on the Wire, one of his most covered songs, he recovers from a crippling guilt when he finds inspiration in a beggar, and then in a prostitute: “And a pretty woman, leaning in her darkened door/ She cried to me, ‘Hey why not ask for more?’” Cohen embraced Buddhism but never stopped saying he was Jewish. His music more oen than not dealt directly not just with his faith but with his Jewish people’s story. His most famous song, covered hundreds of times, is Hallelujah – he has said its unpublished verses are endless, but in its recorded version is about the sacred anguish felt by King David as he contemplates the beauty of the forbidden Bathsheba. Cohen’s version, released in 1984, did well in Europe (in a

video on German TV he is backed by a children’s choir hiding behind a faux Greek set). John Cale recorded a pianodriven version for a Cohen tribute album in 1991. Jeﬀ Buckley heard that version and used it as the basis for his own six-minute cover, reinterpreting on his guitar the arpeggios Cale had used to accompany the song. Running longer than six minutes, Buckley’s version became the go-to song in the late 1990s for extended TV show montages depicting trauma and melancholy. Cale’s version was used in Shrek in 2001, and that did it: e song became inevitable. First We Take Manhattan, recorded in the late 1980s when Cohen was living much of his time in Europe, plumbs the anger of a modern Jew traveling through a postwar consumerist Europe that has become adept at ignoring its Jewish ghosts: I love your body and your spirit and your clothes But you see that line there moving through the station? I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those. Cohen was droll, but also reverent: Each of his explanations of his songs on 1975’s Best Of is sardonic except for one, for Who by Fire. “is is based on a prayer recited on the Day of Atonement,” was all he wrote. Cohen, in his 70s in the late 2000s, again began to tour and record; a manager had bilked him of much of his fortune. He released his final album, You Want It Darker, last month. He oen toured Israel, and he expressed his love for the country -- Cohen toured for troops in the 1973 Yom Kippur War -- but he also expressed sadness at the militarism he encountered there. Under pressure from the boycott Israel movement to cancel a 2009 concert, he instead donated its proceeds -- much needed by him -- to a group that advances dialogue between Palestinians and Jews. See Leonard Cohen page B2

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The science and art of Thanks-Giving e all know how good it feels to be appreciated. When someone thanks us for something, we are happy. It turns out that psychologists have shown that giving thanks also benefits the thanker. For example, Dr. Robert Emmons of the University of California, Davis and Dr. Michael McCulTEDDY lough of the University of Miami WEinBERGER conducted a study where participants were divided into two groups: one group was asked to write about what they were thankful for, and the other group was asked to write down what displeased them. After 10 weeks, participants in the thankful group (based upon a relevant questionnaire) were found to be more optimistic and happy than the other group. In another study, conducted by Dr. Martin Seligman of the University of Pennsylvania, participants were asked to write and personally deliver a thankyou letter to someone whom they had never properly thanked. The impact of this exercise was a huge increase in happiness scores. You get the idea. Even if you are a natural curmudgeon, it is in your self-interest to practice gratitude on a regular basis. The internet has greatly facilitated thanks-giving. Every now and then I reach out to someone from my past, typically a teacher, and thank them. I strongly encourage this practice; but I also ask you to remember that whatever the reaction of the person being thanked, you have already been successful by doing the thanking. It may happen that with that first thank-you a relationship is rekindled and then this feels extremely good, as happened with me and Professor William B. Dillingham, with whom I studied 19th Century American literature in the mid 1980’s as a doctoral student at Emory University. But it can also happen that the person being thanked doesn’t wish to engage with you at all, as happened when I emailed my college clarinet teacher. After resending my email and still getting no response, I wrote the department secretary (I call this being persistent; my daughter Rebecca calls it “stalking”). The secretary wrote back to say that, yes, my clarinet teacher had received my note and that he was happy to have it. While I was disappointed not to receive a personal response, I needed to remember that my goal was accomplished whether or not I heard back from him. With the tale of my clarinet teacher serving as a caution-

ary lesson, I still very much urge you to make a practice of thanks-giving. Anyone in your life who has been especially nice, kind or helpful is an appropriate candidate to receive your thanks. Then there are people who worked for you, whom you treated nicely but whose contribution to you and your family continues to grow in hindsight. I am speaking here in particular of women who were responsible for your home and/or child care. At the time the relationship seems to be a standard professional one, if (hopefully) mutually warm and pleasant. But only in retrospect do you realize how important these people were to your family. Go ahead and reach out to thank them. It’s wise not to put off your thanks-giving for too long. People are not just sitting around waiting for you to decide to thank them. A few years ago I reached out to Pete Yellin, the man who first taught me clarinet, who then also taught me saxophone as well for about a decade. But alas, I was only able to convey my thanks to his daughter Allegra, for Pete had suffered a debilitating stroke two years before I made contact (He died this past April, may he rest in peace). The bottom line is that you cannot thank people enough, and it’s a smart idea to do the thanking sooner rather than later. Plus, it’s good for you. Happy Thanks-giving! Teddy Weinberger made aliyah in 1997 with his wife, former Omahan Sarah Ross, and their five children. Their oldest four, Nathan, Rebecca, Ruthie and Ezra are veterans of the Israel Defense Forces; Weinberger can be reached at weinross@netvision.net.il.

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Continued from page B1 Tickets to the stadium at Ramat Gan sold out in minutes. His Israeli fans embraced him that September night, and he returned the love, sprinkling the concert with Hebrew and readings from scripture and ending it with the priestly blessing. In August he wrote an emotional letter to his former girlfriend and muse Marianne Ihlen, who died in late July, suggesting he, too, was ready to embrace his death. Last month, in a profile of Cohen in e New Yorker, Bob Dylan compared his fellow singer-songwriter to Irving Berlin -- linking three iconic Jewish musicians in one poignant assessment. Cohen is survived by a son and a daughter.

Historic ‘Titanics’ kosher deli closes

JosEfin DolsTEn Titanics, a historic kosher deli in Manchester, England, has met the same fate as its namesake: It’s gone under. The last branch of the store, the oldest kosher delicatessen in Manchester -- named for the ill-fated liner because its founder survived the famous shipwreck -- was recently forced to close its doors. “It is a very sad day and the end of an era in Manchester,” Stanley Hyman, the grandson of founder Joseph Hyman, told The Jewish Telegraph.

The iconic “Titanics” kosher deli in Manchester, England, has closed for good. Credit: Screenshot from Google Maps Street View

“The community has been taken over by the big supermarket chains,” he said. “At Pesach, for example, the supermarkets sell everything for less than half the price, so everybody started to go there because it was cheaper.” Originally from Russia, the deli’s founder, Joseph Hyman, left for the U.S. to escape pogroms. But a captain who was supposed to take him to New York ended up dropping him off in Glasgow, in what his great-grandson Richard Hyman told the BBC “was apparently a common scam at the time.” But the eldest Hyman wasn’t deterred. He saved up money to get a third-class ticket on the RMS Titanic, then the largest ship afloat. When disaster struck and the ship sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, Hyman was fortunate enough to get a spot in a lifeboat. (As it happens, he was in the same boat as J. Bruce Ismay, the owner of the White Star Line.) Only a quarter of third-class passengers survived the disaster and the odds were even lower among men, according to the BBC. More than 1,500 people died in the shipwreck. Though Hyman arrived in New York as planned, he ended up moving to Manchester, where he had relatives. In 1913, inspired by New York delis, he opened his own food establishment, which became known as “Titanics,” due to his unique tale of survival. Hyman died in 1956, but his relatives continued to manage the deli. “I feel proud to be part of the Titanic dynasty of survivors,” Richard Hyman, who was managing director of the shop until its closing, told the BBC in 2012. According The Jewish Telegraph., Hyman was “devastated” and “too upset to talk about” the deli’s recent closure.

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German neo-Nazi group posts map on social media of 70 Jewish sites

JTA News sTAff A neo-Nazi group in Germany posted a map on Facebook containing the addresses and locations of about 70 Jewish institutions and businesses. î ˘e list was published by the Berlin-based group on the 78th anniversary of Kristallnacht. Titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jews among us,â&#x20AC;? the list includes synagogues, day care centers, schools, memorials, businesses, restaurants and cemeteries. Its existence was first reported by the German-language Tagesspiegel. î ˘e 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom is what many Holocaust historians view as the

opening shot in the Nazi-led campaign of violence against the Jews. î ˘e post also read: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Today is such a nice day!â&#x20AC;? All the Jewish establishments on the list were contacted by the group Mobile Counsel against Right-wing Extremism, or MBR, and Green Party lawmaker Volker Beck, who told Tagesspiegel that he was disgusted by the post and said he would stand with the Jewish community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see this as an attack against our open society. î ˘is is an attack against us all,â&#x20AC;? Beck said.

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FED 2016 big success

On Nov. 5, the Jewish Federation of Omaha held FED 2016 at David Radler’s Studio on 25th and Leavenworth. This food-focused event, chaired by Danny Cohn and Andrew Miller, engaged close to 100 of the next generation members of the Omaha community along with other community leaders and philanthropists. Billed as getting “fed” and “doing good” FED 2016 intertwined food, community building and philanthropy in an innovative way to highlight the work of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. Attendees were served a kosher five-course meal of Jewish comfort food catered by Swartz’s Delicatessen, while being given the chance to mix and mingle in a unique urban setting. FED would not have been possible without the support of the Leonard and Shirley Goldstein Trust, Republic Wine and Spirits, Rabbi Steven Abraham of Beth El Synagogue, David Radler and the FED 2016 host committee: Amy Dworin, Jimmy and Sophie Friedlander, Dusty and Candice Friedman, Andy and Amy Isaacson, Donny and Ellie Novak, Jed and Maggie Ortmeyer, Dave and Shiri Phillips, Kari and Brandon Tauber, Alan and Sonia Tipp and Matt and Leora Werner.

Top, from left: David Radler’s studio exterior; Danny Cohn and Andrew Miller; Sonia and Alan Tipp. Second row: Adam Kutler, Chuck Lucoff and Jason Epstein. Third row: David and Shiri Phillips; Kari Tauber, Carrie Fingold, Laurie Epstein, Lisa Lucoff and Jaime Nogg. Fourth row: Andy and Amy Isaacson, with Ellie and Donny Novak; Andrew Miller and Shervin Ansari; Gretchen and David Radler; Dusty and Candice Friedman. Fifth row: Rabbi Steven and Shira Abraham; Michael and Emily Schneider with Shiri and David Phillips; Eli Rosenberg, Liz O’Connor, John Rosenberg, Amy Dworin and Ryan Welner. Bottom row: Jason and Laurie Epstein, Leora Azriel Werner and Andrew Miller; Jaime and Brian Nogg.

Mazal tov, Sandy Nogg!

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community Israel sees first significant rise this year in terrorist attacks

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Friday, Nov. 11, Sandy Nogg officially celebrated her retirement from Jewish Family Service. Top: Karen Gustafson, Sandy Nogg, Nate Bock and Teresa Drelicharz; bottom: Linda Cogen will take over Sandy’s role at JFS.

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Nov. 5 found the students of Integrity ATA Martial Arts competing at the Heartland Championships Tournament in Crete, Nebraska. David Kay, 1st Degree Black Belt received 3rd places in traditional and combat sparring; John Spears, Orange Belt got 1st places in traditional forms and sparring and combat sparring; Lauren Marshall, White Belt placed 1st in traditional forms and one steps; Sandy Gordon, 3rd Degree Black Belt and owner of Integrity ATA received 2nd places in traditional forms and combat weapons and 1st places in traditional weapons, sparring and creative weapons.

of rock throwing that occur every month, mainly in the he number of terrorist attacks recorded in Israel West Bank. increased last month by almost 30 percent over According to the Palestinian Maan news agency, more September -than 275 individuals have the sharpest died during the wave of unrise recorded in rest starting from Oct. 1, any given month over the 2015, including over 235 past year. Palestinians, many of whom e Shin Bet recorded a were killed while perpetrating total of 153 attacks in Ocattacks. During that period, tober, with nearly a third attacks also caused the death occurring in Jerusalem, of five foreign nationals -- two compared to 109 attacks in Americans, one Eritrean, one September, according to Sudanese, and one Jordanian. In September, October and the security agency’s monthly report which it November, the Shin Bet published on its website recorded 223, 620 and 326 attacks, respectively, in what Isearlier this week. e 29 percent increase The scene of a bus bombing in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem, raeli Prime Minister Benjamin April 18, 2016. Credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90 Netanyahu called a “wave of in attacks -- the largest terror.” Many of the perpetrators said they acted in defense of since the near tripling of incidents recorded in October Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, which the Palestinian media 2015 -- owed partly to a near doubling of incidents in the Israeli capital to 48 last month from 26 in September. e reported were under attack by Israel, though the Jewish state October tally for Jerusalem has more than tripled since Au- and international observers denied such actions. gust, when 13 attacks were recorded there. e volume of terrorist attacks has gradually decreased aer e attacks last month resulted in two fatalities and 23 in- reaching its peak in November 2015. e lowest figure juries among victims, according to the Shin Bet. Both recorded since the escalation was in August, with 93 incidents. On Nov. 10, a protest march commemorating the 12th killings occurred on Oct. 9 during a drive-by shooting in anniversary of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat the West Bank that also injured 10. Despite the rise, the erupted into clashes with Israeli forces as the demonstrators tally for October is still lower than the average of 170 atheaded to the Ofer detention center. Four Palestinians were tacks per month over the past year. e Shin Bet reports do not include dozens of incidents injured and two were detained, according to Maan.

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As Israeli right celebrates President Trump, experts urge self-control

ANDRew tobiN during the presidency of George W. Bush. In 2004, Bush ing coalition, considered by many the most right wing in TEL AVIV | JTA sent a letter to Ariel Sharon, the prime minister at the time, history. Bennett and other members of the hardline pro-setight-wing Israeli politicians welcomed the elecsaying it was “unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final tlement Jewish Home party have urged the annexation of tion of Donald Trump with open arms. status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the Area C, the 60 percent of the West Bank controlled by Israel. On Nov. 9, Education Minister Naali Bennett armistice lines of 1949,” or Israel’s pre-1967 borders. e “I think Netanyahu wants to avoid from a domestic point said Trump becoming the president-elect of the letter was widely seen as accepting Israeli autonomy over of view the issue of Jerusalem and the issue of building in United States was a chance for Israel to “retract major settlement blocs and Jerusalem as a fait accompli. the major settlements. So yes, he would like to see the new the notion of a Palestinian state.” Several administration adopt as policy the spirit of politicians, including Jerusalem Mayor Nir the Bush letter,” Dekel told JTA at the INSS Barkat, said they expected Trump to move event. “He will say, we got a green light for the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to certain building, not for everything, and Jerusalem, which the Palestinians also we want to keep the relations with the new claim as their capital. president better than with the outgoing e politicians had reason for optimism. president.” During the election campaign, Trump e Prime Minister’s Office declined to praised the new Republican platform, comment. which omits past support for a two-state Besides preserving the two-state solution solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for its own sake, Israel might want to reand calls Jerusalem Israel’s “indivisible” strain itself in the West Bank to preserve its capital. Like presidents before him -- who international relationships, starting with did not follow through -- Trump commitDemocrats in the United States. Left Picture: Researcher emily Landau at the institute for National security studies in tel Aviv, Nov. 9, “Probably by inclination and temperated to moving the embassy to Jerusalem. His Israel advisers have said Trump does 2016; middle picture: itamar Rabinovich, a former israeli ambassador to the U.s., speaking at the institute ment, [Trump] is for Israel, his [Republifor National security studies in tel Aviv, Nov. 9, 2016; right picture: Daniel shapiro, the U.s. ambassador can] party is supportive, but it’s important not see the settlements as an obstacle to peace, would support their expansion and is to israel, speaking at the institute for National security studies in tel Aviv, Nov. 9, 2016. for Israel to go back to bipartisanship and Credit for all three photos: Andrew Tobin not dri toward one political party in the not wedded to the idea of a Palestinian state. Leading security experts who still support a two-state soluWhen President Barack Obama took office a few years United States,” Itamar Rabinovich, the president of the Istion, of course, say unrestrained building in territory claimed later, he ignored the letter. Like most of the world, he oprael Institute and former Israeli ambassador to the U.S., told by the Palestinians could end hope for the idea. Yet even they posed all building by Israel in eastern Jerusalem and the JTA aer addressing the INSS event. think the Israeli government could urge the incoming Trump West Bank, saying it undermined the two-state solution. More immediately, inflaming the conflict with the Palesadministration to make concessions to the right wing, paraIn an address at the INSS event, Daniel Shapiro, the U.S. tinians could interfere with Israel’s security cooperation doxically as a way to encourage territorial compromise. ambassador to Israel, confirmed that Obama was weighing with Arab states, which Netanyahu has touted over the past Udi Dekel, the managing director of the influential Instiaction to “help arrest those trends that take us in the direcyear. Emily Landau, a senior researcher at the INSS, said the tute for National Security Studies think tank and a former tion of a binational reality and put us back on the path of a rise of Iran has created a rare chance for Israel to formalize negotiator with the Palestinians, had a specific proposal: Isnegotiated two-state solution.” He didn’t rule out a United this cooperation, assuming the Palestinians don’t scuttle it. rael should ask Trump to recognize the major settlement Nations Security Council resolution among the options “Right now there’s an opportunity, really, for setting up blocs but not the unauthorized outposts in the West Bank. under consideration. some framework for regional security dialogue here, some“If we’re clever enough, we could take this opportunity to Oded Eran, a senior researcher at INSS, and former thing that’s always sort of on the agenda but then things change the reality,” he told JTA at an INSS event here diplomat and head negotiator with the Palestinians, said he happen in the Israeli-Palestinian sphere, and then you can’t Wednesday to discuss the implications of the U.S. election expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wait out do it because the Arab states can’t cooperate with Israel for Israel. “We could give territory to the Palestinians. We the rest of Obama’s term and then do what Dekel described. when the Palestinian issue is burning,” she said. could still invest in the settlements we believe will be part of He said Netanyahu would probably visit Washington, D.C. Ideally, Landau said, the Palestinian issue also would be Israel. We could freeze settlements we don’t see as part of a within a few months of Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and dealt with in a regional context. But there will be no deepenfuture state. But we need the [U.S. and Israeli] administraask him to endorse the Bush letter. ing of Israel’s regional ties without encouragement from the tions to speak the same language.” But Eran said the prime minister would be unlikely to U.S. A worst-case scenario, she said, would be for Trump to e approach is something of a middle path. Many rightseek carte blanche from Trump in the West Bank, even if it embrace his isolationist tendencies, leaving Israel to deal leaning analysts argue that Israel must maintain the status quo were on the table. He said Netanyahu seems to understand with both the Palestinians and the Middle East alone. in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, which it seized from that unfettered settlement building could make a PalestinJordan in the 1967 Six-Day War. At least until the Middle East ian state unworkable, which would saddle Israel with perjewish pRess Notices becomes less threatening and more predictable. Others, manent responsibility for the millions of Palestinians living The Jewish Press will be closed on thursday, Nov. 24 for mostly on the le, see an urgent need for Israel to negotiate a in the West Bank. Thanksgiving. The deadline for the Dec. 2 issue is tuesday, Nov. withdrawal from the territories or leave unilaterally. Without cover from the U.S., Netanyahu would be hard22, Noon. 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Former Navy SEAL becomes first Jewish governor of Missouri

the town’s Reform synagogue. He attended JTA NewS STAff Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL whose Duke University, where he become a military awards include the Bronze Star, has Rhodes scholar. Aer earning a degree at become the first Jewish the University of Oxford, he governor of Missouri. joined the Navy SEALS and Greitens, a Republican, won seven military awards, defeated Democrat Chris including the Bronze Star and Koster with 51 percent of a Purple Heart. He later the vote on Nov. 8 to 45 launched e Mission Conpercent for the state’s attinues, a nonprofit that oﬀers torney general. veterans volunteer opportuni“Tonight, we did more ties. than win an election; we e Post-Dispatch reported restored power to the peothat Greitens is likely to make ple and we took our state Missouri a “right-to-work” back!” Greitens told superic Greitens state by decreasing the power porters at a hotel in Credit: Rubenstein of its unions. A key tenet of Chesterfield, the St. Louis Public Relations his campaign was promising Post-Dispatch reported. to “clean up” corruption and “bad ethics” in Greitens, 42, grew up in the Maryland Jeﬀerson City, the state’s capital. Heights suburb of St. Louis and attended

Jewish contingent in House grows from 19 to 22

JTA NewS STAff mocrat Harry Reid in the Senate. WASHINGTON Jamie Raskin, a Maryland state senator, e Jewish contingent to the U.S. House who won the battle to replace Chris Van of Representatives grew from 19 to 22 in Hollen in Maryland’s 8th District. e disNov. 8 elections, doubling its Republican trict includes the Maryland suburbs of representation from one to two. Washington, D.C. Van Hollen, a DemocFive Jews overall were rat, was elected to the newly elected to the House, Senate. while one Jewish congressDavid Kustoﬀ, a former man each in Florida and in U.S. attorney, who handNew York is retiring. e ily kept Tennessee’s 8th Senate Jewish contingent district Republican, redropped from nine to eight. placing the retiring ree Democrats picked Stephen Fincher. Kustoﬀ up seats from Republicans brings to two the Memin an otherwise dismal phis Jewish delegation, night for their party, which joining Steve Cohen, a saw the GOP sweep the Democrat representing White House and both the 9th District, and the chambers of Congress. Republican Jewish delePicking up seats for the gation to Congress, joinDemocrats were: ing Lee Zeldin, who was Democrat Josh Gottheimer unJosh Gottheimer, a former reelected in New York’s seated Rep. scott Garrett, a longspeech writer for President 9th District encompasstime congressman, in new Bill Clinton and a Microso ing Long Island’s eastern Jersey’s 5th District. executive, who won a hardreaches. Credit: Screenshot from Twitter fought battle in New Jersey’s Another Jewish Repub5th District against Scott Garrett, a longlican scoring a victory on Tuesday was time congressman who was exceptionally Eric Greitens, a former Navy SEAL who conservative for this northeastern district. became the first Jewish governor of Mise election was marred in its final days souri. with the appearance of an unsigned antiLeaving Congress is Steve Israel, repreSemitic leaflet targeting Gottheimer. senting a Long Island district, who is retirBrad Schneider, who regained the seat ing, and Alan Grayson, who retired as a he lost in 2014 from Bob Dold in Illinois’s representative in Florida’s 9th District in 10th district, encompassing Chicago’s the south of the state, to run for the Demnorthern suburbs. Dold first won the seat ocratic nomination to the Senate -- he lost. in 2010, then lost it to Schneider in 2012. e Democratic contingent in the SenJacky Rosen, a soware developer and ate will drop by one with the retirement of synagogue president, who won in Nevada’s Barbara Boxer of California. Two Jewish 3rd District, covering the Las Vegas subDemocrats in Missouri and Wisconsin urbs. Joe Heck, the district’s incumbent failed in their bids to replace Republican Republican, lost in his bid to replace Deincumbents.

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RESPECT receives the 2016 BBB Integrity Award Bones unearthed at former Jewish cemetery

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JTA News sTAff LVIV, Ukraine City workers in a Ukraine city suspended their digging at a former Jewish cemetery amid controversy over the unearthing of human remains at the site. Pieces of skull and limbs were among the bones discovered last week at the Old Jewish Cemetery of Lviv, in western Ukraine, where diggers with heavy machinery excavated a 40-foot trench despite previous objections by some local Jews. Officials said the dig, which went through without permission from local rabbinical authorities, was necessary to reinforce a damaged exterior wall. But Meylakh Sheykhet, Ukraine’s director of the Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, disputed the claim. Sheykhet said he believed the work was part of a multi-phase commemoration project that he has fought in court, saying it would damage heritage sites and desecrate burial places needlessly in violation of the principles of halachah, Jewish Orthodox religious law. “This dig is as illegal as it is cynical; the city is desecrating Jewish graves it says it wants to commemorate,” said Sheykhet, who has collected pieces of bone throughout this week from the heaps of cemetery earth left exposed by the diggers at the site, which is adjacent to what used to be the Jewish hospital in Lviv. The city, along with the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe there, has announced plans to build a memorial park near the area where the work was taking place. The area is part of a larger Jewish burial place that today mostly lies under a main marketplace built during communist times including the Chesed-Arieh association. In 1939, Lviv was home to 110,000 Jews, a third of its total population. It now has 1,200 Jews.