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anukkah is almost here. Have we ever needed light the way we do today? Most of us haven’t—although we’ve grown up with stories from those who have. For once, I am grateful I did not write this message months in advance (which I sometimes do for the Passover and New Year’s editions) because surely, I would have had to start over.

While the meaning of the holiday itself does not change based on world events, our experience of it certainly will. My prediction is that more menorahs than ever will be dusted off; that even those who maybe haven’t done so in years will add their lights to the whole.

Those who know my family are aware my husband is currently doing his residency in Sioux City, Iowa. He and the other residents do something called ‘Tree House’ every Friday afternoon. I don’t know why it’s called that, but it’s a time set aside for everyone to check on each other’s mental health. The simple question ‘How are you?’ might otherwise get lost in the busy-ness of it all. One of the other residents (not Jewish) told him last week she’d ordered blue pins for everyone, to demonstrate support for Israel. In addition, she switched the flood lights at her house for blue ones with the same intent.

Meanwhile in Omaha, one of our neighbors came over just to check on us and let us know they were thinking about us.

I’ve heard similar stories from friends and colleagues, about unexpected but appreciated acts of kindness, sometimes when we least expect them. Maybe you have such stories yourself, and they act like the shamash: one flame that lights others, so our world becomes more illuminated. It’s that ripple effect: one act of kindness inspires ever more.

However, as much as I would like to twist this into a story of hope, I’m struggling to do so. I can type all the right words on my screen, and remind myself over and over we have to have hope, we have to bring light, and we have to fight like Judah Maccabee. But I think, at the same time, sometimes it’s okay to admit to ourselves that what we are experiencing is really, really challenging. And no, Hanukkah will not be the same as it was before. How could it? We are tired.

So what do we do? We have only one choice: we celebrate like crazy. We bring out every Hanukkiah we own and light them all, each and every night. If you don’t have enough candles, call me, I’ll get you some. We fry latkes until the entire block stinks like oil, and if you own an ugly Hanukkah sweater, you wear it every day between now and the end of the holiday.

I don’t care that the ugly sweater is a theme stolen from Christmas. It’s Jewish now—wear it. If you own any decorations, bring them out. All of them. They don’t have to match; we’re not Martha Stewart. Go to synagogue, and let’s all join the Hanukkah parade. Put blue lights, Israeli flags, Mogen Davids and dreidels everywhere, all over your house. Dig up your Jewish music and play it loud in your car, your office, your house. Send out Hanukkah greetings to your friends, answer every holiday greeting with a Happy Hanukkah.

We are doubling down. Let’s party like there’s no tomorrow.

This year, we are all the shamash, and we’ll light up the world.

Happy Hanukkah!

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Community Unity Statement NEBRASKA

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The following statement is issued by the members of the Rabbis and Presidents Committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha.

On Oct. 7th, members of the terrorist organization Hamas carried out one of the most flagrant and brutal terrorist attacks in history against Israel, viciously murdering 1,400 innocent Israelis, wounding thousands more, and taking 240 hostages.

The shocking and horrifying series of crimes, which represent the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, were carried out with the clear intention to inflict the maximum amount of pain and suffering on the Jewish people.

In the shadow of these massacres, the United States has been challenged by rising division and expressions of hatred.

Antisemitic incidents have increased by 388% since the attack, and Jewish people have faced home invasions, harassment on public streets, on social media, and provocations from students praising Hamas. An alarming number of college cam-

puses have fostered inhospitable environments for Jewish students. Hate-fueled attacks and sentiments against any lawabiding civilian have no place in our country.

We, the undersigned organizations, and community leaders representing the Jewish community of Omaha, come together to condemn antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of hate, and reaffirm our commitment to unity at this crucial time. We are resolute in our condemnation of Hamas – whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jewish people – and we support Israel’s right to defend herself against the evil forces of hate. The Israel Defense Forces and its soldiers are obligated to protect human dignity. Every human being is of value regardless of their faith or origin, religion, nationality, gender, status, or position. Hatred must never be allowed to flourish, and we stand together in the battle against it.

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Galilee Medical Center’s General and Respiratory Intensive Care Department, headed

by Dr. Uriel Trahtemberg, includes a team of 52 nurses, about half of whom are women.

“At the beginning of the war, we moved the department to the protected compound, which is quite small and crowded. In accordance with the Ministry of Health’s instructions, we released less severe patients to make room for wounded from the northern front. In the smaller secure and safe complex, although the conditions became more challenging, the spirit of our unity and ‘togetherness’ makes up for it,” said head nurse Elah Talker, married and mother of four from Karmiel, a nurse for 30 years, including the past seven in Nahariya.

The ward is one of the most challenging and complex in the hospital, and now dur-

ing the war, we are receiving wounded from the northern front. Although we routinely treat hospitalized patients who are sedated and ventilated, recently we have treated particularly complex and severe injuries, including from shrapnel, and complex chest injuries and limb amputations. The severe injuries require two nurses for each patient, and the work is harder than before.

Moran Kriaf Even Haim from Nahariya, married and mother of two, has been working at the medical center for eight years, of which three years have been as a certified nurse in the department.

“Since my husband and I are essential workers, we bring the children to the daycare for employees’ children, which was opened in the medical center. My parents See Our job is to save lives page A5

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Continued from page A4 live far away and raising the children became particularly challenging during the war,” says Moran.

Reem Abu Hazana, 36 years old from Shfaram, who has worked in the department for the past decade, shares similar challenges: “Both my husband and I are considered essential workers. He works in the center of the country and does not come home every day. We have a ten-month-old baby, and in her nursery, there is not a protected area. When my husband comes home, I work, and when he works, I am with the children.”

Elah also encounters personal challenges: “My husband is also an essential worker and comes home late. We have a daughter who works as a nurse in another hospital, a soldier son who is serving in the south and two children in school.

Sometimes they stay alone until late.”

Moran says that working during the war requires a lot of mental strength: “We are exposed to difficult sights and it is not easy.”

All three emphasize the positive atmosphere in the department, where there are workers from all religions and sectors (Jews, Christians, Muslims and Druze).

“Our teams are proof that it is possible to live together in peace, love and brotherhood,” emphasizes Moran.

Reem, who is Muslim adds: “Moran is like my sister. We are all one big family, and this is not a cliché.”

In conclusion, the three wish to convey a message to the Israeli public: “Just as there are soldiers in the field, we are health soldiers. Our role is to save lives, and during war, this takes on a very meaningful aspect. “ Jewish Federation of Omaha Annual Campaign dollars support the work at the Western Galilee Medical Center.

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JCRC’s Community Conversations Why is This War Different? draws a crowd PAM MONSKY JCRC Assistant Director Community Conversations, a program of the Jewish Community Relations Council ( JCRC), continues to engage the community. On Nov. 6, more than 80 people attended Why is This War Different, on Zoom and in-person at the Staenberg Jewish Community Center for a lunch and learn style program.

This important conversation featured Dan Feferman, executive director of Sharaka in Israel, an organization stemming from the Abraham Accords that includes Israelis, Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze from around the Middle East. Also on hand was Dr. Ahmed Khuzaie, Political Affairs Director of Sharaka speaking from Bahrain, and Dr. Gina Ligon, Director of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE) at UNO. The program was moderated by Erin Grace, former journalist at the Omaha World-Herald and now the communications director for NCITE. The conversation focused on how HAMAS came to power in Gaza and possible outcomes of the war. The panelists also discussed how the Abraham

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The world can see that we are together BEN SALES AND JACKIE HAJDENBERG WASHINGTON | JTA Hannah Kaplan, a senior at Tiffin University in northern Ohio, can identify exactly one other Jew in the school’s student body of approximately 3,000. There are also a few Jewish professors, but no Hillel.

She says she’s felt lonely since Oct. 7, when Hamas’ attack on Israel killed 1,200, sparked a brutal war in Gaza to depose the terror group and led to a reported spike in antisemitism across the United States. Kaplan, who has relied on her lacrosse team for comfort, says there aren’t many pro-Palestinian protests on her campus — but she’s also feeling the absence of Jews.

So she got a seat on a bus leaving from Ohio State University and took the seven-hour ride to Washington, D.C., for what ended up being perhaps the largest Jewish gathering in American history on Tuesday, Nov. 14 — the pro-Israel rally on the National Mall.

“It’s important for me to be around people who I really associate with, and can identify with a community,” Kaplan said. “I’m so pumped and so ecstatic that so many Jewish students and so many Jewish people were able to come out in support today. It makes me feel like we really have a strong community. It makes me feel hopeful.”

The pull Kaplan felt — to be around many, many other Jews at an uncertain time for both Israel and American Jewry — was shared by attendees across the hundreds of thousands who filled the grassy expanse in the nation’s capital for two hours on Tuesday afternoon. Dozens of people who spoke with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency mentioned their support for Israel when they described what they hoped to hear at the rally. But mostly, they said, they were excited to be in a crowd of their own.

“When I heard about this rally, I felt it was so important to come and bring my daughter so that we can be here and stand with everyone,” said Marnie Atias, who flew with her 15year-old from Milwaukee. Another daughter moved to Israel shortly before the Oct. 7 attack and works at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Arias added, “The world can see that we are together.”

The crowd was a mix of young and old, with a large proportion of Orthodox attendees, in part a reflection of the decision by Jewish day schools and universities to cancel classes and bus students, and in some cases their families, to Washington. Clusters of men gathered outside the event before it started for afternoon prayers.

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Politically, attendees seemed to reflect the broad pro-Israel tent that the organizers had hoped for, with right-wing demonstrators standing in the same crowd as a “Peace Bloc” organized by progressive Jewish groups. Signs mostly declared broad support for Israel, op-

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position to antisemitism, a call to free the hostages or condemnation of Hamas. Many held the hostage posters that have become a common sight in cities across the world, with more strewn in spots across the Mall.

A few signs made a “hummus/Hamas” pun, favoring the Middle Eastern chickpea paste while opposing the Middle Eastern terror group. Many people wore or waved flags that were half-American and half-Israeli. At least one person went a step further, wearing a tripartite flag that was one-third Israel, onethird United States and one-third Ukraine.

There were also some Jewish demonstration mainstays. A group from the activist antiZionist Hasidic group Neturei Karta protested outside the event’s security barricade. Emissaries of the Chabad Hasidic movement roved around the crowd, seeking men who could put on tefillin, the prayer article worn daily by many observant Jews. A man sold Israeli flags ($10 each) from a cart, along with pins with messages such as “Go to Hell Harvard” — a reference to recent accusations that the university has not done enough to fight antisemitism — and “F— Iran” over a picture of former President Donald Trump.

There were also a significant number of Christians at the rally (and much to the chagrin of the liberal groups present, conservative evangelical Pastor John Hagee spoke from the stage). Kaylee Santalucia and her parents left Buffalo, New York, at 2:30 am, representing their church, on the Buffalo Jewish Federation’s bus to Washington. She said she felt God would play a role in saving Israel.

“I am feeling uplifted, hopeful, that we can come together and stand for Israel and just be supportive,” Santalucia said. She said she hopes to see “an end to the slaughter that Hamas is doing.”

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We are together Continued from page A7 But the vast majority were Jews. One man, from Toronto, made a sweatshirt that read, in all caps, “THANK YOU PRESIDENT BIDEN FOR YOUR MORAL CLARITY,” below a picture of the president. He stood on a chair, arms outstretched, one hand waving an Israeli flag and the other an American flag as he advanced a message that even some right-wing Jews have espoused about the Democratic president in the wake of Oct. 7.

“His stance is seen around the world,” said the man, Zach Mammon. “He knows that, and we know that around the world.”

A couple who flew from Atlanta was decked out in all manner of Zionist apparel: Eric Fox wore a blue-and-white scarf on top of a T-shirt bearing the likeness of Theodor Herzl, the ideological father of Zionism. His wife Julie Fox wore a blue shirt with a white Star of David and an American-Israeli flag as a cape.

They said they were motivated in part to counter the images of mass rallies held by Jewish Voice for Peace, an antiZionist Jewish group that brought thousands to a demonstration at the U.S. Capitol weeks ago.

“Just to show what the Jewish point of view really is instead of what’s been shown on TV as far as Jewish Voice for Peace,” Julie Fox said. “That doesn’t represent most of us.”

She added, “We want our hostages back and we want Hamas gone and I don’t really think there is a way to have a two-state solution, unfortunately.”

Not far away, Carol Berkower wore a shirt from the liberal Israel lobby J Street that identified her as pro-Israel as well as pro-Palestinian. The group advocates vocally for the establishment of a Palestinian state. She said she owned the shirt before Oct. 7 but read it again before putting it on and decided she still agreed with it.

But she said she hadn’t come to the rally from her home in Baltimore to convince anyone. Rather, what brought her was concern for her cousin who lives in Kfar Aza, a kibbutz ravaged by Hamas.

Berkower’s daughter is also a student at the University of Rochester, and Berkower wanted to be part of a large crowd showing solidarity with Jewish college students.

fast as possible,” Tussia said, “Bring back the captives, and then we’ll deal with the rest. First of all, bring back the captives.”

For David Lender, a sophomore at the University of Delaware who comes from

“I think we’re all together,” she said of the rallygoers. “Everyone I know in Israel is traumatized right now so I’ve been doing everything I absolutely could to stand for it.”

Another mother of a college student, Sarah Rubel from Westville, New Jersey, has a son at Tulane University, which was recently the site of an altercation between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters. She said she isn’t scared — she’s taking her cues from him, and he feels fine — but does feel sad, and felt a need to stand in solidarity with other Jews.

“I want all of Israel to see that we all support them,” she said.

Some protesters did come advocating for a specific set of goals. Orna Tussia and Devorah Selber, Israelis who live in Philadelphia, carried huge posters with the pictures of the hostages held by Hamas. Selber’s cousin is among them.

They said they came to raise awareness for the hostages and to push for a largescale prisoner exchange that would bring the hostages back in exchange for all of the Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

“Israel and all of the world should see that it happened, this tragedy occurred, and we have hostages, there are still families there, we want them back as

an Israeli family, the rally was an opportunity to support his people. He arrived in Washington with a bus of about 20 other students from his school.

“Israel is my everything — it’s my home, it’s my family, it’s my people,” he said. “What I want people to understand the most — and this is a point that I’ve heard echoed throughout the rally, even from people just walking around — is that Hamas and the Palestinian people are two very different entities and I don’t want people to conflate one with the other.”

Eytan Saenger, a first-year student at Binghamton University, originally had a test scheduled the day of the march in Washington.

“But then I was like, ‘When else do I have the opportunity to stand with hundreds of thousands of people and stand here against the antisemitism that’s going on both across the country and on college campuses?’” he told JTA. “Fortunately, my campus has a lot of Jews — but even where sometimes I’m the only Jew in a class or something like that, I will know that I’m part of a greater people that can come together for each other in times of need, and hopefully also in times of strength.”

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Rabbi Geiger’s Weekly Torah Expedition PARSHA VAYATZAY Possibly one of the most cliché themes in kids’ movies today is “believe in yourself.” Perhaps you are familiar with Luca or Onward, to name a few. The big question I am always left with is how in the world does believing in myself make magic happen? This lesson cannot be accurate.

However, this week’s parsha shows RABBI that, for once, Hollywood got it right! MORDECHAI The Torah relates (Genesis 28) GEIGER Jacob’s dream. In this dream, a ladder Beth Israel reaches from Jacobs’s head up to the heavens with Angels going up and right back down.

If this dream doesn’t seem strange enough, wait until you hear the midrash! Apparently, in the dream, G-d tells Jacob to climb the ladder. But Jacob does not because he is afraid he will just come back down like the angels did. So G-d says because of this, your children will be exiled from the land of Israel!

Confused yet? Are the entire Jewish people to be punished because of the dream of Jacob?!

Rabbi Shmuel Bornsztain explains that there is a pearl of wisdom hidden here. G-d was not threatening a punishment, He was describing a natural consequence. Jacob was afraid that he would fall just as the angels did. He did not believe in his greatness, the greatness of man, and the greatness of the Jewish people.

How I view and identify myself will ultimately be the guiding hand in the direction of my life. And so, in truth, we fall only when we forget the greatness of who we are.

We must stand tall, now more than ever, proud of our Jewish heritage.

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Louisville, Kentucky; Buffalo, Partnership2Gether (P2G) is NY; Omaha, NE; Canton, Daya program of The Jewish ton, Toledo and Youngstown, Agency and The Jewish FederOH; Austin, San Antonio and ations of North America, proFort Worth, TX. The American moting people-to-people communities are referred to as relationships through cultural, the US Central Area Consorsocial, medical, educational, tium. and economic programs. The Our Partnership2Gether orWestern Galilee Partnership ganization and programming connects 17 US communities structure consists of commitin the central US, Israel’s Westtees focusing on creating and ern Galilee and Budapest, building upon our mission of Hungary. a global and united A Minute Before the Rain Credit: Baruch Metzil, Israel connecting people and estabJewish community made up of a tapestry of strong, lively, lishing personal relationships. These committees create a dyflourishing and interconnected Jewish individuals, families namic array of cultural, educational and social activities, and communities working together to enrich Jewish continu- including dedicated programs for professionals in fields such ity, identity and cultural understanding between Jews in Israel, as art, medicine, business and academia.

Budapest and the US. For instance, in 2020, photographers from our P2G created Our Partnership is made up of an inclusive and active net- the COVID-19 Photo Exhibition. The exhibition, presented on work of people focused on the mutual exchange of ideas and an online gallery is a curated collection of photos shot by Isprograms with the goal of developing relationships to raeli, Hungarian and American amateur photographers. strengthen our global Jewish identity. We are dedicated to The photos were shot while COVID-19-induced quarantine connecting people and creating a meaningful difference for and social distancing affected those countries, and most of Jews in Israel, America and Budapest. Through committees the world. When we look at each other’s communities, we see (community engagement, education, academia, resource de- the world through the eyes of our friends. velopment, medical and young adults) community members If you want to learn more, and don’t want to wait for the become change agents and create stronger bonds between next Jewish Press, you can read more at https://www.westour communities. erngalilee.org.il. To be continued!

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Some Jews are taking down their mezuzahs due to antisemitism ANDREW LAPIN JTA When a man broke into the home of a Jewish family in Studio City, California, last week yelling antisemitic language and “Free Palestine,” neighbors quickly honed in on a key detail: The assailant had allegedly previously questioned the family about the mezuzah on their door.

This caused some fear among secular Jews on their block, said Menachem Silverstein, an Orthodox comedian and rabbi who is close friends with the victims. He said an Israeli neighbor told him that he was considering taking his family’s mezuzah down.

But the response from Silverstein’s non-Jewish neighbors, he said, “gave me goosebumps”: They proposed putting up their own.

“I’m tearing up. I’m like, this is the most beautiful thing anybody has ever said to me,” Silverstein recalled to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It was the inspiration I needed, personally.”

The neighbors ultimately decided that the break-in was a one-time incident and held off on following through with their offer. Still, Silverstein said, the mere gesture that they might be willing to support Jews in this way stuck with him

at a time when so many Jews say they are feeling alone and unsupported by the non-Jews they know.

He compared the moment to the “I am Spartacus” scene in the 1960 movie, in which the hero’s countrymen all identify as him in order to protect his identity. It also calls to mind the myth that the king of Denmark wore a yellow Star of David to shield the country’s Jews under Nazi rule.

“If everyone has a mezuzah, no one has to take it down and you can’t identify the Jews who have a mezuzah,” he said.

And to Silverstein, the gesture invoked something even more gut-wrenching.

“To me it felt like the precursor to ‘We’ll hide you when you’re in our attic.’”

Silverstein’s reaction taps into a broader conversation taking place in Jewish homes and communities around the world. As antisemitic sentiment has risen across the world in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas, which killed more than 1,400 Israelis in a terrorist attack on Oct. 7, Jews are questioning whether their mezuzahs — small boxes containing a passage from the Torah commanding Jews to inscribe the words on the doorposts of their homes — make them vulnerable to attacks by

identifying their homes as Jewish.

Some are seeking ways to keep their mezuzahs up while making them inconspicuous. In Europe, some Jews have been buying up Camozuzah, a mezuzah disguised to look like a home alarm, originally developed by a ChabadLubavitch rabbi in Ireland in 2021 for Jewish university students concerned about antisemitism there.

Elsewhere, non-Jews looking to stand in solidarity with Jews and Israel also shared plans to put up their own mezuzahs. One non-Jewish woman in Toronto went viral on the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, for sharing her own mezuzah affixed to the door of her apartment building. She says she procured it inexpensively from a Judaica shop after consulting with Jewish friends who told her that it wouldn’t be insensitive.

“Some of our Toronto neighbours are facing harassment — just for being Jewish,” wrote the woman, who identified herself as Susie Movat. “As a non Jew, I’m putting a mezuzah on my door to stand in solidarity with my friends who deserve to live without fear. Never again.”

This story was edited for length.

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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East (Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan).

Golda Meir was the third woman in history to serve as a country’s prime minister.

The glue on Israel’s postage stamps is kosher.

Speaking of the postal service: there is a special Letters to G-d department, for all the letters arriving in Jerusalem from around the world addressed to G-d. They are opened and placed into the cracks of the Western Wall.

Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed

by Microsoft-Israel.

Voice mail technology was also developed in Israel. And: four young Israelis developed the technology for AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ. Wait, there’s more.

Israel has the highest number of altruistic kidney donations per capita in the world.

Scientists in Israel managed to grow fresh dates from sixth century seeds found at Masada and Qumran.

At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre an old wooden ladder has been propped up against a window since the 18th century. No one can move it because the building is managed by six different churches and none can agree on who owns the ladder.

More than half the landmass of Israel is desert, but it still has an Olympic bobsled and skeleton team.

Israel is piloting a new locally-developed AI system to help lifeguards protect swimmers on the beaches and give realtime data on wind, waves and other possible hazards.

Cows in Israel produce more milk on average than do dairy cows in other countries.

Israel recycles 90% of the waste water it creates, making it the leading nation in the world for water recycling. In the United States, only 1% of wastewater is recycled.

Babies in Israel are 10 times less likely to be allergic to peanuts than in other countries. Studies suggest it’s because they eat Bamba peanut snacks from an early age.

Israelis eat some 24 million sufganiyot (donuts) during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.

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Israeli teens are stepping up placed from the south, near Gaza, and groups of teens have DANIELA GRIBETZ This story was produced as part of the JTA Teen Journal- been organizing donations of food and other essentials.

“It brings the whole nation together, especially in times like ism Fellowship program. these, ” said Hallel Heller, a ninth-grader from Jerusalem who JTA After her husband left abruptly to join his army unit, Meytal spent the first week of the war packaging meals for soldiers.

Other teens, like Shefer Zimran, 14, who hails from the West Blumenthal Gordon realized she still hadn’t disassembled her sukkah, the temporary structure the family put up during the Bank city of Efrat, are helping younger children affected by the Sukkot holiday at their home in Jerusalem. She wasn’t physi- war. Together with friends from her neighborhood, Zimran handed out bags of candy and art supplies to children who are cally capable of doing so alone. home from school in her “Two sweet boys, community. Zimran later teenagers, came and they sent videos of art projects took down the sukkah and to keep the children busy. helped me organize it,” Zimran knew that mothBlumenthal Gordon said. ers whose husbands had “We actually had a siren in been drafted had trouble the middle. We all ran to keeping their small chilthe shelter, and then they dren occupied. continued helping.”

“It is important, now It wasn’t the only time Teens play with children in Jerusalem during the weeks after Hamas' Oct. more than ever, to help that neighborhood teens 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Credit: Odelia Kaye people in need,” Zimran have stopped by to help Blumenthal Gordon in the weeks since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack said. “And we have free time and the ability to help.”

Odelia Kaye, 16, from Jerusalem, has been offering practical on Israel plunged the country into war. They have also brought her boxes of food and helped her with her two chil- and emotional support for mothers who are now caring for young children on their own. “Sometimes they’re alone and dren, a 5-year-old boy and a newborn daughter.

It’s all part of an abrupt and notable shift in a country that it’s really difficult to take care of kids by yourself,” she said.

In addition to playing with children, washing dishes, cleaning uniquely refers to school-aged teens as being in “the stupid age.” In ordinary circumstances, Israeli teens are not assigned up and folding laundry for mothers on their own, Kaye has many responsibilities before they graduate from high school, found that what is sometimes most appreciated is the company.

“I feel like the more I’ve done it, the more I’ve learned about in a nod to the fact that most will enter compulsory military service soon after turning 18, cutting short the extended ado- how difficult it is for some of these moms who have really small children, including young babies, a couple of months lescence that many of their peers in other countries enjoy.

But since war began earlier this month, most young Israeli old,” said Kaye. “These moms need emotional support. It’s easy men and some women have been drafted into military service. to feel alone and it’s important for me to make sure that these With schools closed until recently, teens have been uniquely people know that they’re not alone and that I’m there to help.”

Blumenthal Gordon said she is accustomed to being alone bepositioned to step into the gap.

Thousands of teens have been organizing independently cause her husband, a physician, is often away for extended peand through youth groups to volunteer to babysit, dismantle riods, so it’s not just the loneliness that local teens help her battle.

“Emotionally, it’s very different,” she said. “I’m so worried about sukkahs, prepare food for soldiers and stock refrigerators. my husband, we’re constantly running to a shelter, and the enSome have even been digging graves.

Youth group buildings have become shelters for those dis- ergy is really low. Having the teenagers over gives good vibes.”

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Alleged bus driver boycott snarls trek to DC Israel rally JACOB GURVIS JTA Four hours after the Nov. 14 historic pro-Israel march in Washington, D.C. ended, Jennie Levy had expected to be touching down back in Detroit, after a long but fulfilling day standing shoulder to shoulder with Jews from around the country in support of Israel.

Instead, her delegation of 900, organized by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, was hungry, disappointed and nowhere close to home. Many members had missed most if not all of the rally because of what the federation said was a “malicious walk-off of drivers” hired to ferry them between the airport and National Mall. Now, their return flight was delayed as a result, too.

as Levy put it, they “refused to drive Jews to the rally.” Miller said he thought it was just a rumor at first, but then the federation confirmed it with its statement.

The statement said the federation was “deeply dismayed by this disgraceful action” but noted that not all Detroit attendees were affected. “Fortunately, many were able to travel to the march and we are grateful to the drivers of those buses that arrived,” it said.

Dennis Bernard, a former head of the Detroit federation and the chair of JFNA’s security and antisemitism committee, was aboard one of the planes and read the statement aloud to the other passengers. In a video shared with JTA, Bernard, speaking into the plane’s public address system, said “unfortunately this falls

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Makeshift buses, including a rented limousine, arrive to replace the ones hired by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, in this picture taken from a plane chartered by the federation to the March for Israel, Nov. 14, 2023. Credit: Jennie Levy

“The buses that were hired to take over 900 participants from Dulles International Airport to the site of the march failed to appear, delaying the arrival of many in our group,” read a statement from the Detroit federation that was circulated by the Jewish Federations of North America. “We have learned that this was caused by a deliberate and malicious walk-off of drivers.”

The incident was a rare blemish on an otherwise successful day for the march and its attendees. Organizers estimate 290,000 people turned out, making the march one of the biggest Jewish gatherings in U.S. history, and people successfully made the trip from all over the country.

The snafu stood out so notably that it was mentioned during the rally itself. William Daroff, the executive director of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and one of the organizers of the event, said on stage that “antisemitic bus drivers refused to drive participants to the rally.” Daroff added that the federation told him the bus company had promised to take action against the drivers.

Levy, who works at a hospital and whose husband is Israeli, woke up at 6 a.m. Tuesday for a flight chartered by the Detroit federation. She traveled with a friend for the rally because she thought it was important for the Detroit Jewish community to “be there in full force,” she told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The three planes chartered by the federation landed at Dulles International Airport at around 11 a.m., leaving plenty of time for the delegation to board buses and make the 26mile drive to the National Mall by the rally’s start time of 1 p.m. But around a third of the buses never showed.

Mark Miller, the senior rabbi at Temple Beth El in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, told JTA that “all that we knew at the time was something about the buses,” possibly a security issue.

Two hours went by, with the three planes stranded on the Dulles tarmac. Because the flights were privately chartered and the passengers did not pass through a TSA checkpoint before boarding, they were not permitted inside the airport.

Then the news started to trickle out from federation staff, who told the people on board that drivers from the bus company the federation had hired were staging a sickout, where workers call out sick as a form of protest — or

right in my lap,” before presenting the statement as “official talking points.” The video cuts off before Bernard shares additional information that he had said was confidential.

David Kurzmann, the senior director of community affairs at the Detroit federation, told reporters at a late-night press conference that the private bus company, whose name he said he did not know, informed them that some of the drivers called in sick once they became aware of the assignment.

Kurzmann said he considered the incident to be “an act targeting the Jewish community” that prevented people from exercising their right to protest but, when pressed by a reporter, stopped short of calling it antisemitic.

Levy said the mood on the planes on the way to Washington had been one of excitement and pride, with passengers singing the Israeli national anthem and “Am Yisrael Chai” and chanting the Jewish travelers’ prayer. But once things were delayed, the vibe shifted as organizers were noticeably stressed and scrambling to devise a backup plan, Levy said.

After around two hours, the delegation’s organizers had arranged for makeshift shuttles, which allowed many of the 900 people to make it to the rally, though one full plane’s worth of people didn’t get to the event at all.

Miller said he arrived at the rally around 2:30 p.m., and Levy said she got there at 3 p.m.

That was when the event was scheduled to end, though it ran until closer to 4 p.m.

Then because of the unexpected delay in the morning, Levy said the plane’s crew had “timed out,” or exceeded federally mandated work limits, and was not allowed to begin the route back to Detroit until 2:30 a.m. — leaving the delegation waiting for several hours outside the airport. Some in the group hadn’t eaten all day, Levy said on Tuesday evening.

Miller said the incident was not only an inconvenience for rally-goers from his area but possibly “an indication of a much larger problem, which could lead to worse consequences,” including violence.

“We can’t pretend it’s not real, this antisemitism,” Miller said. He added, “On a day like today, where we had a large and enthusiastic group who was proud to be there … for this to be the reason we couldn’t get there just speaks to the reality of what is happening all around us.”

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LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: TIFERETH ISRAEL Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Boulevard Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 402.423.8569 tiferethisraellincoln.org

B’NAI ISRAEL Monthly Speaker Series Service, Friday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m. with a jam session with the Bagel Boys after services. Our service leader is Larry Blass. Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel!

For information about our historic synagogue, please contact Howard Kutler at hkutler@hotmail. com or any of our other board members: Renee Corcoran, Scott Friedman, Rick Katelman, Janie Kulakofsky, Howard Kutler, Carole and Wayne Lainof, Ann Moshman, Mary-Beth Muskin, Debbie Salomon and Sissy Silber.

Handicap Accessible.

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

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

FRIDAY: Beth El Office Closed; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Thanksgiving Break - No Jr. Congregation; Havdalah, 5:35 p.m. Zoom Only..

SUNDAY: Thanksgiving Break - No BESTT Classes.

TUESDAY: Pirkei Avot, 10:30 a.m. with Rabbi Abraham.

WEDNESDAY: BESTT (Grades 3-7), 4:15 p.m.; Hebrew High (Grades 8-12), 6 p.m.

FRIDAY-Dec. 1: Pre-Neg & Tot Shabbat, 5:30 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 2: Shabbat Morning Service and Bar Mitzvah of Evan Shapiro, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Jr. Congregation (Grades K-12), 10 a.m.; Havdalah, 5:35 p.m. Zoom Only.

Please visit bethel-omaha.org for additional information and service links.

BETH ISRAEL FRIDAY: Office Closed; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha/ Kabbalat Shabbat/Candlelighting, 4:41 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Tot Shabbat, 10:30 a.m.; Youth Class, 10:45 a.m.; Kids Kiddush Club, 11:15 a.m.; Soulful Torah: Unpacking the Or HaChayim’s Teachings, 3:45 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.; Laws of Shabbos/ Kids Activity, 5 p.m.; Havdalah, 5:44 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m.

MONDAY: Nach Yomi, 6:45 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Monday Mind Builders, 4 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m.

TUESDAY: Nach Yomi, 6:45 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Nach Yomi, 6:45 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m.

THURSDAY: Nach Yomi, 6:45 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Character Development Class, 9:30 a.m.; Min-

cha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m.; Parsha Class, 5 p.m.

FRIDAY-Dec. 1: Nach Yomi, 6:45 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Candlelighting, 4:38 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 2: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Tot Shabbat, 10:30 a.m.; Youth Class, 10:45 a.m.; Kids Kiddush Club, 11:15 a.m.; Soulful Torah: Unpacking the Or HaChayim’s Teachings, 3:36 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.; Laws of Shabbos/Kids Activity, 5 p.m.; Havdalah, 5:42 p.m.

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

CHABAD HOUSE All services are in-person. All classes are being offered in-person and via Zoom (ochabad.com/academy). For more information or to request help, please visit www.ochabad.com or call the office at 402.330.1800.

FRIDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Inspirational Lechayim, 4:30 p.m. with Rabbi and friends: ochabad.com/ Lechayim; Candlelighting, 4:40 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush and Cholent; Shabbat Ends, 5:42 p.m.

SUNDAY: Sunday Morning Wraps: Shacharit, 99:30 a.m., Video Presentation, 9:30 a.m. and Breakfast, 9:45 a.m.

MONDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Personal Parsha, 9:30 a.m.; Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Parsha Reading, 6 p.m. with Prof. David Cohen.

TUESDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Intermediate Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 6 p.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Introductory Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 7 p.m. with Prof. David Cohen.

WEDNESDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Mystical Thinking (Tanya), 9:30 a.m.; Introductory Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Parsha Reading, 11:30 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen.

THURSDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Parsha Reading, 10 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Advanced Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 11 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Talmud Study (Sanhedrin 34), noon; Introduction to Alphabet, Vowels & Reading Hebrew, 6 p.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) Class, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY-Dec. 1: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Inspirational Lechayim, 4:30 p.m. with Rabbi and friends: ocha bad.com/Lechayim; Candlelighting, 4:37 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 2: Shacharit, 9:30 a.m. followed

by Kiddush and Cholent; Shabbat Ends, 5:40 p.m.

LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: B’NAI JESHURUN & TIFERETH ISRAEL Services facilitated by Rabbi Alex Felch.

All services offered in-person with live-stream or teleconferencing options.

FRIDAY: Offices Closed; Erev Shabbat Service with Rabbi Alex, 6:30 p.m. followed by Oneg Shabbat at

SST; Shabbat Candlelighting, 4:44 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. at TI; No Torah Study this week; Havdalah, 5:46 p.m.

SUNDAY: LJCS Classes, 9:30 a.m.-noon; Men’s Bike/Coffee Group, 10:30 a.m. in the Conference Room at Rock 'n Joe (5025 Lindbergh St.). For more information or questions please email Al Weiss at alb ertw801@gmail.com; Pickleball, 3-5 p.m. Anyone interested in playing or learning how to play can text Miriam at 402.470.2393. If there are enough interested people; we will play in the Social Hall at TI. TUESDAY: Ladies' Lunch, 1 p.m. at Pho Factory (640 N 26th St).

WEDNESDAY: LJCS Hebrew School, 4:30-6 p.m.; Adult Ed Movie Night: Denial, 6:30 p.m. at SST. FRIDAY-Dec. 1: Erev Shabbat Service with Rabbi Alex, 6:30 p.m. at SST; Shabbat Candlelighting, 4:41 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 2: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. at TI; Torah Study, noon on Parashat Vayishlach; Havdalah, 5:44 p.m.

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FRIDAYS: Virtual Shabbat Service, 7:30 p.m. every first and third of the month at Capehart Chapel. Contact TSgt Jason Rife at OAFBJSLL@icloud.com for more information.

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME The Rose Blumkin Jewish Home’s service is currently closed to visitors.

TEMPLE ISRAEL

In-person and virtual services conducted by Rabbi Benjamin Sharff, Rabbi Deana Sussman Berezin, and Cantor Joanna Alexander FRIDAY: Shabbat B’Yachad Service, 6 p.m. In-Person & Zoom.

SATURDAY: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. In-Person & Zoom.

SUNDAY: No Youth Learning.

WEDNESDAY: Yarn It, 9 a.m.; Grades 3-6, 4:30-6 p.m.; Grades 8-12 Teen Beit Midrash, 6-8 p.m.

THURSDAY: Thursday Morning Class, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Azriel via Zoom.

FRIDAY-Dec. 1: Drop in Mah Jongg, 9-11 a.m. InPerson; Shabbat B’Yachad Service, 6 p.m. In-Person & Zoom; 20 Somethings Event, 6 p.m. In-Person.

SATURDAY-Dec. 2: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. In-Person & Zoom; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m. InPerson & Zoom.

Please visit templeisraelomaha.com for additional information and Zoom service links.

JEWISH PRESS NOTICE

The Jewish Press will be closed on Mondays, Dec. 25, 2023 and Jan. 1, 2024. There will be no Jewish Press on Jan. 5, 2024.

JP archive: ‘American Jewish Committee Deplores antisemitism’ This story was first published in the Nov. 22, 1923 edition.

New York, Nov, 20 | JTA Reaffirmation of their confidence in the sense of justice and fairness of the American people to repudiate the un-American doctrines of the Ku Klux Klan and reference to the present intensified antiJewish agitation in Germany were the main features of the Annual report read by Mr. Louis Marshall, the President, to the seventeenth Annual Meeting of the American Jewish Committee which took place yesterday at the Hotel Astor.

Referring to the recent statement of the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan that the Jews are one of the unblendable elements in our American population, Mr. Marshall’s report said: “The recorded history of the Jews is an inspiring narrative of unrivalled patriotism. He certainly, in common with all good citizens, reveres the Constitution of the United States, and loves the institutions of this country, and feels a deep sense of gratitude for the rights which have been accorded to him here. The imperial wizard, however, preaches a violation of the Constitution.

The Committee’s report also takes a firm stand against any further attempts to restrict immigration. It points out that the present 2 per cent re-

striction law is unscientific and arbitrary and that it places upon immigrants the burden of keeping informed of the quotas allowed to each country so as to avoid arriving here after the monthly or the annual quotas have been exhausted.

In that same edition of the Jewish Press, there was a story about what was happening in Berlin at the time, with the headline ‘Devastated Jewish Quarter of Berlin Guarded by Tanks.’

Berlin | JTA The German nationalists’ furious agitation against the Jews came to a head Monday when a mob of 30,000 strong invaded the Jewish sections of the city and carried out the first pogrom in the history of Berlin.

Anti-Jewish riots commencing in the afternoon in the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse, inhabited largely by East-European Jews, spread by the evening to all quarters of the city housing Jewish residents. The mob took advantage of the darkness enveloping the Jewish section to strike additional terror in the hearts of the already hor-

ror-stricken Jews. Unspeakable noises filled the narrow streets for hours. The pogromists were not daunted by the presence of the police, who remained strikingly inactive and ineffective throughout.

Hundreds of Jews were taken into custody by the police, ostensibly as a means of protecting them from their assailants. Some were arrested on the charge of disturbing the peace.

No Jew was safe on Berlin streets Monday and it is too early to say that greater security prevails at this time. Jewish passersby were stopped at every turn, were searched, maltreated, robbed of their possessions and stripped of their clothes, some being left only in their undergarments. Homes of Jews were searched for food and money, owners offering the least resistance being severely beaten.

That the anti-Jewish riots were premeditated and well-organized is shown by the fact that on a given signal the mobbing and plundering began, and at a sign the anti-Jewish excesses would end.

Life cycles B’NAI MITZVAH ALEXANDRA MICHELLE DEBRUIN Alexandra (Allie) Michelle DeBruin, daughter of Steven DeBruin and Sarah and Benjamin Baelow, celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on Oct. 14, 2023, at Congregation Beth Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas.

Allie is a seventh grade honor roll student at Frontier Trail School, Olathe, Kansas.

Allie is taking an advanced math course at school. She loves to play music, attend plays, cook, read and spend time with friends.

For her mitzvah project, Allie assembled 150 snack bags for families staying at The Ronald McDonald House locations in Kansas City.

She has a two brothers, Joseph and Zachary Baelow.

Grandparents are Hanna and Larry DeBruin of Omaha and Monte Cotton of Olathe, Kansas and the late Sonia Cotton.

EVAN MICHAEL SHAPIRO Evan Michael Shapiro, son of Melissa and Matt Shapiro, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Dec. 2, 2023, at Beth El Synagogue.

Evan is a seventh grade honors student at Westside Middle School.

Evan is a member of the Westside Connection Show Choir and ran cross country for the school. He was on the JCC swim team and enjoys playing the piano, saxophone, cooking, basketball, and baseball. Evan loves going to Herzl Camp in the summer.

For his mitzvah project, Evan will be volunteering in the kitchen at NorthStar Foundation.

He has a brother, Joshua, and a sister, Lea. Grandparents are Sherry and Larry Shapiro and Barb and Jeff Shapiro.

Surviving great-grandparent is Ben Shapiro.

The biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis JACKIE HAJDENBERG JTA A group of Jewish celebrities and TikTok creators decried antisemitism on the video social media platform in a private video call with its executives and employees.

The approximately 90-minute meeting included more than 30 participants, according to a recording obtained by The New York Times. It comes during a reported spike in antisemitism following the outbreak of Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, and as debate over the war on social media has grown heated.

Among the Jewish celebrities were actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Debra Messing and Amy Schumer, and TikTok creator Miriam Ezagui, all of whom have previously spoken out about antisemitism. Adam Presser, TikTok’s head of operations, and Seth Melnick, its global head of user operations, both of whom are also Jewish, were the app’s lead representatives on the call.

“What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis,” said Cohen, who previously made waves in a 2019 address to the Anti-Defamation League, in which he called Facebook and other social media platforms “the greatest propaganda machine in history,” and accused them of facilitating the spread of antisemitism. The call, which was arranged by TikTok executives, comes after Schumer, Messing, Ezagui and other Jewish celebrities and influencers (but not Cohen) signed an open letter saying that TikTok “is not safe for Jewish users.”

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Happy Hanukkah May this season of celebration bring you light and joy out of the darkness.

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Hanukkah SECTION 2

How do you celebrate? Part 1 ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press editor Remembering the joy that is inherent in Judaism is tremendously important. So we asked the question: how do you celebrate Hanukkah? What’s your favorite memory? And of course the most important one, how do you top your latke? Here are the answers we received.

HEIDI HEILBRUNN NEEDLEMAN, PJ Library Coordinator for our Omaha Jewish Community We place Hanukkah decorations around the house, make latkes, light our family menorah and of course open presents, dividing them up over the eight nights. Growing up my extended family would gather at my childhood home and we would have a big Hanukkah party. My mom would make a traditional Jewish dinner and my dad would fry the latkes. We would always open ALL the presents on this night. And I like my latkes dipped in sugar! My grandmother always dipped hers in sugar and I have to say it’s the best way!

JENN TOMPKINS, Executive Director Philanthropy & Engagement How we celebrate is yet to be determined! When daughters Kathleen and Laura lived at home, we would light the menorah each night and say the blessing. The girls loved it when I would play Hanukah songs on the piano (right hand only) and inspire everyone to sing Sivivon Sov Sov Sov, Ocho Kandelikas, etc.!

When the girls were little, Cantor Shermet and Beth El held a children’s Hanukkah concert. I still love the music from that concert! As for my latke

Heidi Heilbrunn Needleman with PJL swag

topping, it has to be applesauce.

DAVID FINKELSTEIN, Jewish Press board member I moved to Omaha 30 years ago, from St. Louis and have been happily married to Becca Ruetsh for 26 years. I am also the proud papa of Ari, Ethan and Asher.

Growing up in St. Louis, we had a large extended family, and every Hanukkah there would be a Cousin’s Club where just about the entire family

would gather to celebrate the holiday, light candles, play games, eat, and catch up with everyone.

My favorite tradition is to create a new one with my family, usually around frying latkes. Whether they are for Friedel, Beth El, or family, I always try to involve the kids and make it an annual thing to fry up a bunch, for us and to share with others.

Even though it’s been a couple of years since I’ve had one, my favorite way to top my latkes is the Latke Reuben way!!

RABBI MORDECHAI GEIGER, Beth Israel I like to celebrate by lighting the menorah with my family and eating lots of donuts.

My favorite Hanukkah memory is: growing up, after we lit the menorah, my family would sit around and talk about Hanukah and play dreidel.

I like my latke fresh from the frying pan (no toppings).

MICHAEL STAENBERG, real estate developer and Omaha native I like to celebrate by honoring others. My favorite Hanukkah memory is getting a red jacket when I was eight years old. I always eat my latkes with sour cream!

TERESA DRELICHARZ, Interim Executive Director, Jewish Family Service: I don’t celebrate Hanukkah myself, but love the traditions surrounding it! Growing up in a Catholic family, I attended CCD. In 2nd grade, I remember learning songs about Hanukkah, dreidels, and how to sing and dance the Hora. I have vivid memories of that day, and how much fun it was to learn about other religious traditions besides my own. I See How do you celebrate? page B2

Thank you for being the light!

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Hanukkah

How do you celebrate?

Scallion Pancake Latke Perfect for Hanukkah parties and gatherings, this pizza sized latke-meets-Chinese scallion pancake is a crispy fusion of potato, sesame, scallions and panko. Slicing it up like a pizza allows everyone to choose toppings, if desired; ideas include a teriyaki drizzle, a sweet and spicy chili sauce and of course, the traditional apple sauce and sour cream.

Recipe from the Tasting Table Test Kitchen.

Jenn Tompkins with daughters Kathleen and Laura

Credit: Lizzie Munro/Tasting Table

SCALLION PANCAKE LATKE Ingredients: 2 1/4 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and shredded (2 medium russet potatoes) 2 tsp. kosher salt, divided 3/4 cup thinly sliced scallions, white parts only (from about 5 1/2 ounces scallions) 1/3 cup panko bread crumbs 1 large egg, beaten 2 Tbsp. canola oil or schmaltz 2 Tbsp. sesame oil, divided 1 1/2 tsp. soy sauce 2 tsp. roasted black sesame seeds 2 Tbsp. thinly sliced scallions, green parts only Directions: On a large, clean kitchen towel, toss the shredded potatoes with 1 1/2 tsp. salt. Wrap in a bundle, twisting the top to close, and wring out the potato liquid over a large bowl. Discard the liquid and wipe the bowl clean, then transfer the shredded potatoes to it, along with the scallions, panko bread crumbs, egg

and remaining salt, and stir to combine.

In a 12-inch cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat, add the canola oil. When the oil is rippling hot, add the latke mixture in 1 even layer. Don’t press down. Drizzle 1 Tbsp. of sesame oil around the inside edge of the skillet where it meets the latke.

Reduce the heat to medium low and cook until the bottom is deep golden brown and crispy, 15 minutes.

Cover the skillet with a large inverted plate and turn the pan over to transfer the latke onto the plate. Slide the latke back into the skillet, cooked-side up, and drizzle the remaining sesame oil using the same method as before. Cook until deep golden brown and crispy, 15 minutes more.

When cooking the latke, use a fish spatula to help loosen it from the skillet before flipping, so that you don’t scuff its perfectly deep golden crust.

Slide the latke onto a cutting board and evenly drizzle the soy sauce over the top. Garnish with the black sesame seeds and green scallions.

Recipe from: https://www.tastingtable.com/686869/scal lion-pancake-latke-recipe-hanukkah-recipe-latke-recipe/.

Continued from page B1 don’t have a preference for what goes on my latke, but certainly not ketchup!

MIKA MIZRAHI, Omaha Community Shlicha I celebrate by lighting a Hanukkiah every evening with friends and family, and eating a lot of latkes and sufganiyot (Israeli donuts). In Israel there is a big show for children every Hanukkah called Festigal, so my favorite memory is going to Festigal with friends or with my cousins. And I don’t top my latke with anything; latkes are perfect just the way they are!

MIKE SIEGEL, co-President Jewish Federation of Omaha We celebrate by decorating our home, lighting the candles each night and singing Hannukah songs.

My favorite memory is getting together with other families and celebrating with them together. It was so much fun to watch our children sing the songs and open presents. My latke topping of choice is applesauce.

BOB FREEMAN, community member We light candles every night; then we have one big night of family celebration that includes all the prayers, dinner, and presents for the kiddos. My favorite memory is the ‘anticipation’ from when I was a kid, then seeing it with our own three daughters, and now knowing that our grandkids are probably feeling the same thing this Hanukkah. I top my latke with lotsa sour cream!

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From the JTA archives ANDRE MOUSSALI Last December, I received an email from a close friend, a woman active in her synagogue, who wrote: “I’ve finally gotten over wanting to be Christian, but I still want to wake on a December morning to a pile of presents.”

I empathize. The approaching holidays always give me pause. Hanukkah seems like the season’s poor relative knocking on the door without much more to offer than a few candles, and potato latkes or pancakes.

Of course, Hanukkah also offers us the opportunity to reflect on the meaning of materialism and spirituality, of plentitude and austerity, of belief and doubt, and on the fact that most of us spend our time negotiating the high wire that’s strung between these poles. I used to think religion was about finding answers, but now I think it’s about asking questions-about learning to be comfortable with doubt, of finding ways to transmute doubt into a creative rather than a crippling presence.

It’s hard to live with doubt and ambivalence in the everyday world. In order to accomplish our busy schedules we have to be assertive, and act as if we know the answers. Holidays, and ritual celebrations allow us to excuse ourselves from linear time and step onto a balcony, or into a little shack that I envision as a sukkah, where we entertain ambivalence. If genius is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in your head at once, then celebrating ritual makes us geniuses, because we are thinking about paradox: Hanukkahs past present and future, about growing old and staying young, about lighting candles and anticipating darkness, being together and being alone with God. It’s a mistake, though, to equate ritual with routine. Ritual is rooted in our paradoxical

need for both consistency and adaptability; it asks us to not only preserve that which shouldn’t change from year to year, but also to acknowledge all that has changed. And once we recognize this, the holiday comes alive. I realized recently that my entire concept of Hanukkah has undergone several huge shifts.

When I was a girl I concentrated on the miracle associated with Hanukkah-how the oil could last for eight days instead of just one.

When I had my own children, and moved to a non-Jewish community, I reflected more on the political meaning of the holiday, and on the power of conviction in the face of long odds.

My husband and I have also experimented with gift giving which can be as spiritual a part of the holiday as lighting the candles.

When my sons were little, we gave them one gift a night. Then we began to notice that they cared only about presents, and not about the holiday, so we gave them all their presents on the first night. Then we tried giving them one big gift. I hope we are teaching them that ritual means experimentation. Ritual challenges us to bravely reinvent, to reconstruct, rather than proceed as usual.

For in truth, a ritual is less an event than a process. Hanukkah begins the first moment you ask yourself: “I wonder when Hanukkah comes this year?” Then the exhausting preparations start .You buy gifts, wrap them, schlep them to the post office, polish the menorah, grate the potatoes-and in the middle of straining the apple sauce or finding a gift for your child’s Hebrew school grab bag, you realize that you’re not preparing for Hanukkah, you’re celebrating it, right now. Ritual’s gifts are serendipitous, bestowed on us when we least expect them.

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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT My favorite topping is butter, followed by applesauce.

Jewish Press editor Remembering the joy that is inherent in Judaism is tremen- NATE SHAPIRO, Executive Director at Temple Israel dously important. So we asked the question: how do you celI like to celebrate with my family. My favorite memory is ebrate Hanukkah? What’s your favorite memory? And of when my parents got me a Special Edition Pokemon Yellow course the most important one, Gameboy Color! how do you top your latke? Here I don’t have a preference for are the answers we received. specific latke toppings. I’ll take whatever!

RABBI DEANA SUSSMAN BEREZIN from Temple Israel MELISSA SHRAGO, Director Every night we light the canof Learning Initiatives at dles as a family. My kids love to Friedel Jewish Academy pick out each candle by color, We give the boys a small gift and on what order we should each night. We also have a big put them into the menorah. We family dinner with brisket, turn the lights down in the latkes, sufganyot, presents and kitchen, light candles, and sing lots of fun! My favorite memory a couple of Hanukkah songs. involves a family celebration at Since we live far away from fammy Aunt Rocky’s house and my ily, we will often coordinate with Grandma Bess gave all of us our extended families to light socks. However, being the only the menorah over video chat togranddaughter, all of my boy gether, so we’re still getting to be cousins wanted to trade for my together during the holiday. socks! The sock trade has been One of my favorite Hanukkah an incredible memory! I top my memories was my first time cellatkes with sour cream. ebrating Hanukkah with Robbie, HEATHER LAKE, my oldest son. We were able to administrative assistant Mary Sue Grossman visit St. Louis, my hometown, Temple Israel during Hanukkah that year, so his first Hanukkah experience My favorite Hanukkah memory is watching my kids light included lighting the candles with his grandparents and great- the candles every year. It is beautiful to see the candles light grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. It was a beautiful up the darkness. We all love latkes and I especially enjoy moment for all of us. donuts. The kids adore playing dreidel with gelt! I am firmly As for how I top my latkes, applesauce is the only correct committed to topping with both applesauce and sour cream. answer!

So delicious!!

MARY SUE GROSSMAN, Jewish Press board member HELEN EPSTEIN, Jewish Press board member I put up Hanukkah decorations and we have a family We always did the usual, decorations, latkes, dreidel, etc.

Hanukkah celebration. Lighting a variety of hanukkiahs is my One of the traditions we had was the annual White Elephant favorite part.

Hanukkah party. It wasn’t always on Hanukkah, but we did During the pandemic, the Facebook group, “Menorah from our best. Each person brought a white elephant that was in my window” was created. Seeing the hundreds of posts on See How do you celebrate? page B5

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Continued from page B4 their house that they wanted to get rid of. The rule was you weren’t supposed to buy something. It had to be something you wanted to get rid of. It often was hilarious and some of the gifts came back every year they were so great! We did this every year for about 20 years with our friends.

My favorite memory is playing dreidel as a child with nuts or pennies with my cousins at my grandparents’ Hanukkah dinners. We didn’t really get presents very much. I think Hanukkah gelt, but not the chocolate kind, real gelt. I top my latkes with sour cream and applesauce!

MARGIE GUTNIK, Jewish Press board president: We light candles, with different grandchildren on different nights on Facetime. Then we eat latkes!

My favorite memory is from when Hanukkah coincided with winter break from school. We lit candles first night, and I got a pair of ice skates. Real ‘grown up’ white lace-up skates, not double runners. Then the next day, I got chickenpox and was confined to the house for the remainder of winter break. However, we had wall-to-wall carpeting and my mother allowed me to wear the skates in the house to practice walking in them and I walked all around the house making lines in the carpet.

I am a purist – no topping, I like to eat my latkes plain.

NANCY SCHLESSINGER, Jewish Federation of Omaha co-President We celebrate by lighting my parents’ very old brass menorah every night - we zoom in with family as we are all over the map!

Each year, while our kids were very young, my mom would always send us a fun, ‘kids’ menorah. One time, our daughter, Claire, walked into the dining room to peel off some of the new, soft, hot wax as it dripped, only to find our dining room table cloth on fire, no joke. We caught it in time, but there was damage to a few of the chair seats, curtains and carpet.

We were fine.

How do I top my latke? Applesauce!

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HANUKKAH JELLY DOUGHNUTS Ingredients: 1 package refrigerated biscuit dough vegetable oil, for frying jam, prepared pudding, Nutella, or other filling powdered sugar

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Heat around 3 inches of oil in a large, deep pan over medium-high heat (oil should be 350 F.). To see if the oil is hot enough, use a thermometer or place wooden skewer into the oil. If small bubbles appear, it’s ready for frying.

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How do you celebrate? Part 3 ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press editor Remembering the joy that is inherent in Judaism is tremendously important. So we asked the question: how do you celebrate Hanukkah?

What’s your favorite memory? And of course the most important one, how do you top your latke? Here are the answers we received.

BETH COHEN, Head of School, Friedel Jewish Academy We celebrate low key – lighting the candles (everyone in the family has their own Hanukkiah) and eating delicious fried foods!

Growing up, we always had to sing Hanukah songs before we got our presents. It was one of those funny parenting moments when I inflicted the same on my kids and loved every minute of singing with them!

I top my latkes with homemade applesauce.

AMY BERNSTEIN SHIVVERS, Executive Director, JFO Foundation As a child, taking turns lighting the menorah each night with my brother and singing the blessings. Grandparents would come over to join in lighting the menorah on some evenings. They would bring a gift for each of us which made their visit extra special. We also spun the dreidel for gelt. As Rachel Dratch commented during Sunday Night Give, “Why can’t the chocolate gelt be higher quality? You can’t even melt gelt due to the high wax content.” She has a point!

Applesauce on my latke, and I prefer the potato to be extra crispy – yum!

Beth Cohen’s husband, Harry Berman with Zoe (left) and Brad

SCOTT LITTKY, Executive Director Institute for Holocaust Education We celebrate by getting together with friends and family as many nights as possible of Hanukkah – light candles, say the blessings and enjoy time together.

I am not sure I have just one favorite Hanukkah memory/story, but I do love how into the celebration of Hanukkah my children were each year growing up. When they were young, we would go one night to Krispy Kreme for donuts because they were fried!

As for latkes, I’m a downer here – I don’t eat

latkes. Too high in carbs and calories!

BRUCE FRIEDLANDER, favorite child of Morton and Sylvia Friedlander and past President of the Jewish Federation of Omaha We celebrate Hanukkah with our children and grandchildren. We ask them what they want so there are no surprises which makes them happy. We don’t spin the dreidel to choose what they want. We do play dreidel, but not to choose presents.

My favorite Hanukkah memory is being with my grandparents and their four daugh-

ters and family, sort of like Tevya.

I top my latkes with homemade applesauce, or I don’t eat them. And they better be crispy!

JOANIE JACOBSON, friend of the Press staff and all-around rockstar Up until last year, Richard and I would celebrate with our in-town daughter’s family (Maggie, Jed, Tova and Dax) or with in-town cousins Patty and Steve Nogg, their kids and now their kids’ kids. We celebrate with our out-of-town daughter’s family (Carrie, Eric, Ella and Emmet) like most out-of-town grandparents -- via Zoom and UPS! Last year was different here at home. I got out all my Hanukkah decorations and turned them over to Tova (8) and Dax (6), who did a fantastic job of decorating our house!

It never looked more festive. It never looked so good. We hope they agree to do it again this year. We loved it.

My mom made Hanukkah so fun for me and my two younger sisters. In addition to decorating the house, she’d get three big boxes from the grocery store and decorate them herself, each one different with each of our names. Then she’d put all the Hanukkah presents in each box and we could choose which one we wanted to open each night.

It was always fun to guess what they were.

I liked all of that so much, I made it a tradition with Carrie and Maggie until they were old enough to decorate their own box -- which they did much better than Mom. See How do you celebrate? page B8

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Continued from page B6 I remember my Sunday school teachers made Hanukkah fun, as well. I liked celebrating and singing with my class, hearing the Hanukkah story told and retold and remembering it was fun to be Jewish.

I like to top off a latke with applesauce and cinnamon, but I am also perfectly happy eating just the latke!

MARK KELLN, Education Director at Beth El Synagogue My wife, kids and I light candles every night, attend the Beth El Hanukkah celebration, eat A LOT of latkes while trying to stay away from the donuts!

My oldest son was born during Hanukkah. He was adopted. We got the call the day he was born that he would be coming home with us the next day. His Hebrew name is Nissim, meaning ‘miracle.’

I am not dogmatic when it comes to latke toppings. Sometimes it’s applesauce, sometimes it’s sour cream. I’m not even opposed to jelly or other creative toppings.

BENJAMIN SHARFF, Rabbi at Temple Israel We sing the blessings, light the candles, and often exchange gifts.

I have many favorite Hanukkah memories, but most involve celebrating with my family.

I top my latke with applesauce.

LAURIE EPSTEIN, community member We celebrate by lighting the candles

every night and saying the prayers. The kids get to open one present a night.

One of the nights, instead of presents, the kids decide on a charity to which to give money.

We started two traditions with all the

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cousins. One of the traditions is that each kid draws a name and is responsible for buying a gift for that cousin. We have brisket and latkes one night with the extended family, when everyone exchanges their gifts and has to guess who their gift giver was. The other tradition is, we have a very competitive candy menorah making contest every year.

One of my favorite Hanukkah memories from my childhood was sharing Hanukkah with my non-Jewish neigh-

bors and them sharing Christmas with me. On one night of Hanukkah, we would have the neighborhood kids over to light the candles and we’d give them a small gift like chocolate gelt. Then, I would go to their houses to help them decorate their Christmas tree. One of my old neighbor friends still posts on Facebook every year about how much our sharing the holidays meant to her, too.

I top my latkes with applesauce.

ANDIE GORDMAN, community member We always have a family dinner and I make the latkes with my daughter, Lindsey Thomas. We also have a strawberry, cream cheese jello in the shape of a Jewish star made by my brother Jay Gordman.

I remember my mom making many Hanukkah dinners. I love that my brother and I have maintained the traditions and are now passing them down to our children.

I top my latkes with applesauce.

MUSHKA TENENBAUM. Claim to fame: she’s the only clergy in Omaha who was born and raised here I celebrate by listening to the candles’ message each night of Hanukkah.

My favorite Hanukkah memory is visiting the Dreidel house at the Omaha Children’s Museum. Ahhh, it was amazing. Let’s bring it back for our kids!

Latkes should be eaten with sour cream or ketchup.

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Hanukkah: What to do and where to go

Happenings at the JCC

This year, Hanukkah begins the evening of Dec. 7. The first candle is lit at 5:46 p.m.

Join Temple Israel for the congregational Hanukkah celebration, an Integrated Shabbat dinner for all ages followed by a dreidel tournament, menorah making, and olive oil tasting.

Bring your own menorah for lighting and new and gently used winter gear items for our annual drive with Together.

Cost to attend is $5 per family. Thank You to Denise and Jon Meyers & family for their generous support of this event.

Hanukkah Menu: Chicken Piccata, Brown Sugar Salmon, Rice Pilaf and Mixed Greens We will also be offering a kids’ buffet of chicken fingers, mac and cheese and fruit kabob. Sufganiyot will be available for dessert from Hudson’s Mini Donut Company.

RSVP online by Sunday, Dec. 4. If you have any questions or need help to register, please contact Director of Engagement and Events Mindi Marburg.

Chaired by Sophie Ambrose and Jimmy Friedlander, the Jewish Federation of Omaha and PJ Library present the Hanukkah Extravaganza Sunday, Dec. 10 from 1:30-3:30 p.m.at the JCC/Staenberg Kooper Fellman Campus.

Beth Israel’s Hanukkah Carnival is Monday, Dec. 11 from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m..

Beth El Synagogue hosts a Community Hanukkah party with a Superhero theme, Wednesday Dec. 13, from 6 p.m.

-7:30 p.m.

Chabad of Nebraska will hold its annual Menorah parade and lighting Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 5 p.m. at Aksarben Village.

Jazz at the J returns for its third and biggest season yet!

This year we focus on the Americana musical tradition. We start Thursday, Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. in the Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater with Mary Carrick, a local award-winning singer who will be presenting a concert of all American Women Singers and Songwriters.

That’s not all that’s happening in our theater.

JCC Members and Non Members, are invited to get involved in out theater programs! From acting workshops to musical theater performances, we have options for everyone! We are a community of actors that support each o t h e r ’s growth. Our Theater group meets once a week for a 2 hour rehearsal.

During that time we work on general theater skills, blocking scenes, learning dances, lines, and songs (if we are performing a musical). Our next perfoirmance is Newsies, the Musical!

The community is invited to attend our upcoming produc-

tion of Newsies the Musical held at the Alan J. Levine Theater at the J. Tickets went on sale Monday, Nov. 20. All tickets can be purchased online through our ticketing system; please visit jccomaha.org/performing -arts/musical-theater for details.

Advanced purchase is strongly recommended. Any remaining tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Performances are scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 16 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. Cost of General Admission Tickets is $12.50 in advance and $15 at the door.

Patron tickets are available for all recitals and musical theater performances. The amount beyond the ticket price is a tax-deductible donation! Cost is $50 per Patron ticket. Patron tickets need to be purchased by December 1st to have your name in the program. Our performance is made possible through the generosity of our sponsors Karen Sokolof Javitch Music Fund; The Foundation IMPACT Grant; Special DonorAdvised Funds; JCC Theatre Program Endowment Fund; the Morton A. Richards Youth Endowment Fund and the Myron (Mike) Milder II Memorial Fund. Security for this event is provided by the Etta & Harold Epstein Security Fund of the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation.

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What does Hanukkah actually mean?

YEHUDA SHURPIN People love to joke about the many ways to pronounce and spell Hanukkah (or Chanukah), the holiday of lights that begins on 25 Kislev and lasts for 8 days. But what does Hanukkah actually mean?

DEDICATION OF THE ALTAR On a basic level, the word hanukkah means “inauguration.” Indeed, Hanukkah celebrates the inauguration of a newly built altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.

After the Maccabees defeated the Greek interlopers and drove them from Judea, they found that much of the Temple, including the altar, had been defiled and used for idolatry. Credit: Sefira Lightstone The Maccabees buried the stones of the altar and built a new one. Thus, Hanukkah celebrates the rededication of the Holy Temple and the altar. The word can be traced to chanukat hamizbeach, “the dedication of the altar,” a term used in reference to the inauguration of the Tabernacle in the desert.

There is a fascinating Midrash that tells us that the construction of the Tabernacle was actually completed on the 25th of Kislev. However, G-d commanded Moses to wait until the auspicious day of 1 Nissan to dedicate the Tabernacle. To “appease” 25 Kislev, the rededication of the second Temple in the days of the Maccabees took place on that day.

Another explanation is that the word hanukkah is a conjugation of chanu-kah (‫ונח‬-‫)ה”כ‬, “they rested on 25 Kislev.”

Hanukkah alludes to the day the Maccabees rested from their war with the Greeks once they entered Jerusalem and the Temple: the 25th of Kislev.

In a similar vein, some explain it to be a conjugation of the word chein kah (‫)ה”כ נח‬, “they found grace on 25 Kislev.”

Some see the word chanukah as an acronym for ‫םיאנומשח‬ ‫םיביואה לכ וגרהו ורבגתנ‬, “the Hasmoneans prevailed and killed all the enemies.”

We find divergent traditions in the Talmud regarding how many candles to light each night of Hanukkah. According to Beit Shammai, we start the first night with eight candles and decrease by one candle each night thereafter. According to Beit Hillel, we start the first night with one candle, and each night we add a candle. The accepted halachah follows the teachings of Beit Hillel.

Thus, Hanukkah can be read as an acronym for “‫הכלהו תורנ ’ח‬ ‫“ — ”ללה תיבכ‬Eight candles, and the halachah is according to Beit Hillel.”

Some point out that hanukkah is related to the word chinuch (‫)ךוניח‬, “education.” The Greeks issued decrees against Jewish education and forbade circumcision, the mitzvah that begins a Jewish boy’s education. On Hanukkah, we celebrate our freedom to provide our children with a proper Jewish education.

Indeed, the Lubavitcher Rebbe often stressed the unique connection between Hanukkah and education. Hanukkah is a special time to inspire children to connect to their heritage, as can be seen by the many Hanukkah customs that specifically involve children, like the giving of Hanukkah gelt.

Hanukkah is an opportune time to reflect on our children’s Jewish education and continued spiritual growth. As we learn from the Hanukkah candles, the way to fight darkness is not by maintaining the same amount of light we had in the past, but by always increasing the light.

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Make your own Hanukkah wrapping paper

Potato printing is an old favorite. It’s a terrific craft project for the whole family. Together you can make some beautiful materials for your Hanukkah celebration: homemade wrapping paper, table cards, aprons, napkins and more. Since you’ll be buying many potatoes for your latkes, why not buy a few extra for this project? It’s easy and fun. Just follow the steps below and you’ll be creating your own unique projects in no time.

You will need Hanukkah-shaped metal cookie cutters sharp knife large russet potato or sweet potato paper towel acrylic paints (fabric paint is best if you are painting on fabric) metal tray or paper plate paper or fabric on which to stamp

Instructions Cut a potato in half and use your favorite Hanukkah cookie cutter to press into the potato at least 1/2 inch deep.

Using a paring knife, cut the negative pieces out around the potato and dispose leaving the cookie cutter shape protruding from the potato. Pat your potato shape dry with a paper towel.

Dip your shape into acrylic paint and stamp onto choice material such as paper, fabric napkins, aprons, tablecloth. The sky is the limit!

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Colel Chabad: Israel’s largest food security network JACOB SCHEER JERUSALEM With tens of thousands of displaced families from Israel’s south in immediate need of food assistance, Colel Chabad—the leading food security NGO in Israel—has sprung into action.

With their lives threatened daily by relentless missiles from Gaza, more than 60,000 men, women and children from southern communities were evacuated after terrorists murdered their neighbors and destroyed their homes and towns.

“For the tens of thousands of families from the Gaza envelope impacted by the violence unleashed by Hamas, we are in a unique position to meet their immediate need for food,” said Rabbi Sholom Duchman, the organization’s director.

Over the years the Israeli government has partnered with Colel Chabad on many programs to help Israel’s most vulnerable families access healthier food and sustain themselves financially. Colel Chabad’s network in southern Israel was already feeding 50,000 households in southern Israel prior to the war, and within days of the Hamas attack was already delivering 18,000 meals a day to residents of Ofakim, Sderot, Netivot, Ashkelon and Beersheva, where many grocery stores were closed or empty.

The longest-operating charity in the Holy Land, Colel Chabad was founded by the first Chabad Rebbe—Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, known as the Alter Rebbe—in 1788. Colel Chabad’s modernday activities have been guided by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson,

of righteous memory. Under the Rebbe’s stewardship, it has become one of the Jewish world’s most recognized charities and its reach is staggering.

The food deliveries are not just for those who have had to flee their homes, but for the elderly and others who are sheltering in place and are unable to shop or cook for themselves, and to supplement food supplies for IDF troops and reservists who were called up to bases that did not yet have sufficient food for them.

With some supermarkets closed and shelves bare in many places, Colel Chabad is also providing aid packages delivered directly to people’s homes.

These non-food packages include basic items like baby formula, diapers and toiletries. So far, Colel Chabad has distributed more than 3,000 aid packages last week and plans to hand out at least 10,000 this coming week.

In addition, many of the displaced families have fled to Jerusalem, where Colel Chabad is delivering 6,000 meals three times a day. This is in addition to the organization’s “Meals on Wheels” program, which provides food for 37,000 families every month door to door.

One of the Chabad volunteers on the

ground is Shlomo Rizel, a resident of Ofakim, a town near Gaza hard hit by Hamas. According to Duchman, Rizel has been at work day and night throughout the week to help assemble and distribute thousands of meal packages to distressed residents of Ofakim with other volunteers.

But when Chabad. org’s reporter attempted to reach Rizel, he messaged a number of times that he couldn’t come to the phone—because the sirens were sounding and he had to get to a shelter; or there was word of a terrorist on the loose in Ofakim, and he and his family had to lock themselves into their homes; or he had a list of urgent requests for help from community members that he had to rush to fulfill.

Rabbi Menachem Traxler, director of volunteers for Colel Chabad and head of its Pantry Packers program, was among the Colel Chabad staff who has been rushing around the country. Throughout the year, volunteers work with Pantry Packers to assemble meal packages for the needy, and the need has been greater than ever before.

In addition to finding ways to assemble more food packages than he could have imagined, Traxler has been working with Israel’s Channel 13 TV show Hatzinor and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews to raise and distribute 5,000 NIS (about $1,250) gift cards to survivors of the massacre at the Kfar Aza kibbutz so they can purchase whatever they immediately need. Colel Chabad hopes to extend the program to everyone displaced by the war.

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