November 30, 2018: Hanukkah Edition

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Happy Hanukkah!

t’s finally (almost) here, this holiday with its lights and presents and gelt and –of course- loud Maccabeats songs playing in our house. To be honest, my kids have been talking about Hanukkah for more than a month—basically from the moment the High Holidays ended. They’re at that age where Halloween holds no more attraction and they’d be perfectly happy if taking down the Sukkah was immediately followed by putting up Hanukkah decorations. On the one hand, a case can be made to take our time and not be in such a hurry.

Life moves fast enough as it is. On the other hand, it’s nice to watch teenagers be excited about a Jewish Holiday.

They claim it has nothing to do with presents. It is, instead, about increasing the lights when the days get darker. It’s cozy, they say. It’s about the atmosphere. That’s remarkably profound, even while I stubbornly keep panicking over what gifts to get and, oh yeah, don’t forget about Thanksgiving (they’re not excited about that one, either).

We all need light during dark times. And recently, we’ve experienced a specific kind of darkness that lingers, that forces us to ask: now what do we do? The answer I see at home is: we need to celebrate being Jewish. Not just holidays when they arrive, but every day. We are no less Jewish on a random Tuesday than when we light that first candle, eat our matzah or fast for Yom Kippur. We are Jewish every day and there needs to be joy in that. I never thought for one moment that would be a lesson my teenagers would teach me, but here we are.

As a community, we are extremely lucky. In addition to three beautiful synagogues with hard-working clergy, we have a welcoming Chabad House, countless organizations and a vibrant Jewish Federation, which all offer constant and diverse programming. So check your calendar, and show up. On the rare occasion you don’t see a familiar face, meet new people.

Dec. 3, Friedel Jewish Academy will host its Annual Latke Sale from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For many years, it’s been a staple of our community’s Day School to offer latkes, Sufganyot and a chance to get into the mood of the holiday. If you have never experienced it, I highly recommend. You will be pleasantly surprised at how much fun it is, even if you have never had any experience with the school.

Rabbi Shlomo Abramovich teaches conversational Hebrew every Wednesday, from 7-8 p.m. in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library. Star Deli is open most Fridays from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Beth El Synagogue offers their Hanukkah Popup Maker Workshop at Westroads Mall, Dec. 2 from 2-6 p.m. That same day, there will be a Hanukkah Carnival at Beth Israel, starting at 4 p.m. Chabad’s Annual Hanukkah Parade is scheduled for Dec. 4 at Boys Town, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. The JCC Musical Theater Community Acting Group performs Peter Pan Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 16 at 2 p.m.

Cantor Wendy Shermet offers her Hanukkah gift on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel.

And so on and so forth... even if some of the programs right now focus on the upcoming holiday, you’ll find the same vibrancy any other month.

Being part of Jewish Omaha is a blessing. Is it always easy?

Do we always agree on everything? Of course not- it would be unrealistic to expect otherwise. But we are here. We are vibrant and strong and diverse. When we disagree with another’s viewpoint, I think: thank G-d we have someone to disagree with. We are not alone, and that’s something to be truly grateful for. We are reminded that, even in the darkest of times, there’s always light to guide us through that darkness. If that sounds a little preachy and almost like a D’var Torah, I apologize.

I hope everyone’s latkes come out exactly the right kind of crispy. I hope Krispy Kreme doesn’t sell out of donuts and I hope nobody burns their hands on the oil. I hope zero kids get sick from eating too much gelt. I hope many of you respond to Yaakov Jeidel’s request for pictures of your Hanukkiah. I hope to see you out and about at one of the countless events planned around our community. Most of all, I wish you all a meaningful, happy, busy and vibrant Hanukkah.

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We can each be Judah Maccabee s I write this, I am surrounded by tough news – anti-Semitism on the rise, the horror of Pittsburgh, the wildfires in California, the barrage of rockets launched into southern Israel. It is a lot to take in. As Jews, I AlAn PotAsh think we feel more dis- Chief Executive Officer, mayed by these events. JFO We learn at a young age to pursue justice. e wrongs of the world weigh heavily.

I was once asked why Jews are so connected to one another – regardless of where we are, we feel an emotional response to those impacted and we want to take action.At its core, Judaism is a communal relationship – we care for one another. I have experienced this firsthand in saying Kaddish for my father, an act that requires communal support in the form of a minyan. I am helped and, in turn, help others. For me this is the very definition of community and our collective responsibility.

I have written before about the value of the Jewish calendar and its relationship to the lunar calendar. Hanukkah comes at a time of year when we can all use a little pick-me-up – the weather is changing, daylight is shorter, and this has been an especially tough year.

Latkes, jelly filled donuts, dreidels, flickering menorah flames are the perfect remedy! Sharing Hanukkah with family and friends, with community only adds to the joy.

A little history from myjewishlearning.com - Beginning in 167 BCE, the Jews of Judea rose up in revolt against the oppression of King Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire. e military leader of the first phase of the revolt was Judah the Maccabee, the eldest son of the priest Mattityahu (Mattathias). In the autumn of 164, Judah and his followers

were able to capture the Temple in Jerusalem, which had been turned into a pagan shrine. ey cleansed it and rededicated it to Israel’s G-d. is event was observed in an eight-day celebration, which was patterned on Sukkot, the autumn festival of huts. Much later, rabbinic tradition ascribes the length of the festival to a miraculous small amount of oil that burned for eight days.

I see Hanukkah as a bridge between collective responsibility and social responsibility. e Maccabees stood up for their religious beliefs. at action reached farther than they themselves could have, creating a movement with long-lasting impact. I think about the work our community did on behalf of Soviet Jewry not so long ago. Was Natan Sharansky a modern-day Judah Maccabbee? Absolutely!

He stood up for the right to practice Judaism against Soviet religious oppression, without violence. Today, religious freedom exists in the former Soviet Union.

Hanukkah centers on the rededication of the Temple, making it stronger. Let’s reflect this Hanukkah on our responsibility to our fellow Jews and rededicate ourselves to Judaism, Israel, our community and to those around us.

We can each be Judah Maccabbee and spread change farther than our physical reach.

Staying on top of current events impacting our Jewish communities around the world is a part of the action I take. Sharing that information is further action. Here are some options, should you choose to take action – Take Action with the ADL-CRC: https://omaha.adl.org/ Jewish Federation of Los Angeles: https://4249la.blackbaudhosting.com/2018 -california-fires-donation JFNA Crisis Relief: https://jewishfederations.org/crisis-relief Happy Hanukkah!

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Joan LaTchaw t was a damp and windy February day in 1991 when I walked those few solemn blocks. With trepidation I swung open the heavy door and for the first time entered a beautiful but cavernous space. As I slowly made my way down the aisle, about 12 men, some quite elderly, approached me with great chesed, loving-kindness. I immediately burst into tears, and before I could utter a word—they knew. I had lost a parent. For the next six months I was a “regular” at the Tree of Life morning minyan.

It is a long-held and deeply-felt tradition to say Kaddish, the mourning prayer, for eleven months after the death of a parent or child. Even Allen Ginsberg, who had little interest in Jewish law or ritual, wrote his famous poem, Kaddish, to commemorate his mother’s passing. The translation is surprising, as the words make no mention of death. Rather, the entire prayer is in praise of G-d, ending with a plea for peace, “for us and for all Israel.”

However, it is the intonation, the chant, the emphasis on the first four Hebrew words, “yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mei raba,” that carry the emotional weight for mourners. The English is, “May His great Name grow exalted and sanctified,” but the felt experience is entirely lost in translation. The Kaddish is in our collective bones as Jews, perhaps dating from the time of Jacob, though the oldest version is found in the prayer book of a rabbi in the 9th century.

Over a thousand years of tradition were echoed at the funerals of the 11 Jewish men and women who were shot and killed at the Tree of Life Shabbat services on Oct. 27, 2018.

In Judaism every life is regarded as sacred, from the humblest to the most revered. So it was not surprising that a group of Pittsburgh Steelers attended the funeral of “the boys,” Cecil and David Rosenthal, brothers with intellectual disabilities, who delighted synagogue goers on Shabbat mornings with their greetings and friendly quips.

In Talmudic writings and philosophy, chesed shel emet or true loving-kindness is the ultimate mitzvah, as it confers dignity on the deceased and reflects actions that cannot be reciprocated. Honor and dignity are bestowed equally regardless of status, gender, or religiosity.

For this reason, Judaism advocates burial in a plain pine box, after the tahara, the ritual washing and clothing of the body in shrouds.

Even in death the body is considered sacred. All of it. This means

that in times of war or violent crimes, like the slaughter of the11 Tree of Life victims, teams must be dispatched to collect all remains, even blood—the life force—for inclusion in the grave.

So, I wasn’t surprised that the Pittsburgh Jewish community immediately responded to this need.

Shira Telushkin, in an article in the Jewish magazine, Tablet, entitled, Their Bloods Cry Out from the Ground, poignantly reports that the local Squirrel Hill chevra kadisha, the Jewish burial society, refused outside help: “Pittsburgh Jews are pre Joan Latchaw pared to bury their own dead.”

One of these eight men told Telushkin that “when he is working with a dead body, he can feel the soul still hovering, watching as he does his work. He sees it as his job... to ease its journey on to the next world.”

Even in death the body is considered sacred. All of it.

Reading these words, I saw myself cocooned in a small room, “guarding” the deceased bodies in a Minneapolis funeral home. My husband and I were part of the newly created Chevra Kavod Ha’met at the Adath Jeshurun Synagogue in 1975. He participated in tahara, and I became a shomer, a guard. Space and time were erased as Minneapolis and Pittsburgh bled into a single community. I was heartened to read about the Google doc call for volunteers to sit guard with the bodies. Forty people answered that call, and so dignity was bestowed as Jewish ritual requires.

Some, such as Telushkin, have referenced “the blood of the Jewish martyr,” in relation to the Tree of Life victims and the righteous who died centuries ago for the sanctification of G-d’s name. Judaism is not big on martyrdom. But remembrance, zikkaron, is obligatory. One section of the High Holiday service for Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish year, is called Zikhronot, remembrances. These verses see a prayer of hope page a6

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community B’nai B’rith Bible Quiz

Tammy Johnson B’nai B’rith Administrative Assistant The Thirty-third Annual Edward Zorinsky B’nai B’rith Bible Quiz will be held Sunday, Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Jewish Community Center.

The contest is specifically designed for Jewish high school students in Omaha. Its purpose is to encourage Jewish youth to become familiar with the Bible, the foundation of Judaism and of civilization. This year, the subject of the Quiz are the Books of Genesis and Jonah. While the Lodge is the sponsor of the Quiz, the program has been developed in conjunction with Omaha’s synagogues and Jewish youth groups. The Bible Quiz is open to the community and is free of charge. Come and cheer on our youth!

First prize is $700, second prize is $40, third place is $300 and fourth place is $150. The prize monies can be applied toward college tuition, a trip to Israel or an approved Jewish camp or educational program sponsored by a local or national Jewish organization. In addition to these prizes, any contestant who answers three questions correctly during the preliminary round will be given $20 cash at the end of the evening. The contest winner will receive $50 cash. The contest is open to all Jewish teenagers in the Omaha area who are in grades nine through twelve.

Judging the contest will be Professor Leonard Greenspoon, Cantor Wendy Shermet, and Martin Shukert. The questioner will once again be Gloria Kaslow and Lodge President, Ari Riekes, will be timekeeper and host.

If you have any questions or to register, you may call Tammy at 402.334.6443 or send an email to bnaibrith@jew ishomaha.org.

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community Reminder: Hanukkah competition

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hile our Sukkah competition was successful, our Hanukkah will be even bigger and better! I’m happy to announce that anonymous donors have contacted me about underwriting the cost of a more significant prize, and that the competition will be expanded to include both Facebook and Instagram and once again be open to the entire Jewish community of Omaha. Anyone with an account can partake, even if they’re already in someone else’s post.

Here’s how it will work: Participants must A- post a picture between the first night and fifth night of Hanukkah (Sunday evening, Dec. 2–Friday, Dec. 7 any time before sundown) with them by the lit Menorah. BInclude in the post why Hanukkah is meaningful to them (and not just the Jewish version of Christmas). And Cuse the hashtag #OmahaIsLit18 when posting. Participants will have until the 8th day to acquire likes on their post. The one who receives the most likes on an individual post on their personal page wins. The winner will be announced on the 8th day at 11 a.m. CST on Beth Israel’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

May we all merit to light the Menorah this year with extra meaning and pass onto our children and grandchildren the passion to continue to do Mitzvahs no matter what the circumstances. I hope both you and your family members (together or separate) will join in this year’s Chanuka competition. Maybe they’ll even win a nice prize!

Continued from page A5 the trauma of her witness to the brutality of the civil war, I wrote: recall G-d’s covenant, the promise to Abraham and Noah and all their We are bound descendants. They link the generations, one to the other. Rememin a timeless slaughterhouse brance is celebrated in Jewish communities. For this reason, the KadI, with my Polish stockcars, dish cannot be recited alone; at least ten people are required. Back in You, with your burning amarradoes, 1991, I was enveloped, supported, and comforted—cocooned with those links of rope slowly tightening those ten men, the microcosm of a larger community. around our swollen wrists.

However, the concept of a Jewish community is in many ways eluIn reality, those were not my stockcars, as I personally lost no one sive. Some Jews identify with in the Holocaust. Neither were religious groups, though these my recurring dreams a living are in waning numbers. Othnightmare drawn from my own ers identify mainly with the experience: dying in a concenState of Israel. Many find tration camp and being reincarcommonality in Jewish culnated into a Jewish American ture with food (lox and family. But perhaps neither are bagels, latkes, chicken soup); they untrue. Indeed, today I’m Klezmer bands or the rap asking myself, “What constimusic of Matisyahu and tutes the truth?” Because Shyne; comedians, such as while checking out sources for Milton Berle, the bawdy Belle this reflection, I discovered that Barth, Joan Rivers, or Jerry Rose Mallinger was not a surSeinfeld; filmmakers Mel vivor of the Holocaust, as had Brooks, Nancy Meyers, or been widely reported in the afZack Braff; or lawyers and termath of the Tree of Life masjudges, such as Supreme sacre. From Oct. 28 to Nov. 2, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s cover on Nov. 2, 2018. Credit: Post-Gazette Court justice Louis Brandeis, newspapers and blogs corRuth Bader Ginsberg, Elena rected the error.

Kagan, and Richard Cohen of The claims about Rose and the Southern Poverty Law my poetic sentiments are Center that legislates against clearly inaccuracies. But the hate crimes. truth is that all Jews own a But the primary factor in common heritage of loss from formation of a Jewish identhe ovens of Germany and Easttity, according to a 2013 Pew ern Europe. It is a fact, too, Research Center study, is the that we survived.

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It is also a fact that the That fact was not lost on Pittsburgh synagogue is named the international Jewish com“Tree of Life.” It is a phrase munity, however it may be dethat derives from the prayer, fined. Indeed, it struck me as Etz Khayim, recited every time a tragic irony when I first the Torah is returned to the ark. heard that 97 year-old Rose It is a belief that the “tree of A view of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mallinger was not extermilife” is a metaphor for the Torah Credit: Google Street View scroll and that, as the prayer nated in a crematorium by a Nazi, but shot with an AR-15-style assault rifle in a synagogue by an says, the Torah’s “ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths American. It resonated deeply with me, a war baby whose psychic life are peace.” has been shadowed by the specter of skeletal bodies, museum exPerhaps peace can prevail, if we remember Deuteronomy 16:20, hibits of battered leather suitcases and shoes of all sizes and shapes, which commands, “Justice, justice you shall pursue.” Rabbi Tarfon, who and the writings of Anne Frank, CynthiaOzick, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, lived into the second century of the Common Era, expressed this idea in Art Spiegelman, and Bernhard Schlink. the phrase Tikkun Olam, known as “repair of the world.” One of his most Back in the 1980s, as an MFA student at the University of Pittsburgh, well-known maxims is, “You are not obligated to complete the work. But I wrote a poem dedicated to Carolyn Forché, an activist who spent a neither are you permitted to abandon it.” Judaism, as many of us are year in El Salvador witnessing horrendous atrocities, which shaped a taught, is a religion founded on action. Hopefully, belief will follow. bestselling volume of poetry, The Country Between Us. Connecting to See A prayer of hope page A9

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Star Deli, 11:30 a.m. at RBJH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel Junior Congregation, 10 a.m. at Beth El SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2 BESTT Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. at Beth El Religious School, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel The Secret Lights of Hanukkah with Rabbi Ari, 10 a.m. at Beth Israel Torah Tots, 10:30 a.m. at Beth El TED Talk, 10:30 a.m. at Temple Israel OTYG Board meeting, noon at Temple Israel Bible Quiz, 1 p.m.

Beth El Hanukkah Pop-Up Maker Workshop, 2 p.m. at Westroads Shopping Center, 2nd Floor JYE BI Chanukah Carnival, 4 p.m. at Beth Israel MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 Friedel Annual Latke Lunch, 11:30 a.m.

Eye on Israel, noon Exploring Judaism Class, 7 p.m. at RBJH TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4 Talmudic Arguments Everyone Needs to Know Class, 11:30 a.m. at Beth El Annual Chabad Hanukkah Parade, 3:30 p.m. at Boystown Hall of Fame Plaza BBYO Chapter Meetings, 6 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5 Breadbreakers and Speaker, noon at RBJH Religious School, 4 p.m. at Temple Israel BESTT Hebrew School, 4:15 p.m. at Beth El Community Hanukkah Dinner, 6 p.m. at Beth El Cantor's Chanukah Gift to You, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel Conversational Hebrew with Rabbi Abramovich, 7 p.m.

Talmudic Arguments Everyone Needs to Know Class, 7:15 p.m. at Beth El THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6 Hebrew Class, 10 a.m. at RBJH Thursday Symposium, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Beth El Chesed Committee Visits Blumkin Home, 2 p.m.

Temple Israel OTYG Light Candles & Activities, 5 p.m. at The Heritage at Sterling Ridge Friedel Hanukkah Show, 6:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 Star Deli, 11:30 a.m. at RBJH Beth El Synagogue “Our Shabbat Tables”, 6 p.m.

First Friday Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. at Temple Israel Hanukkah Dinner, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel Shabbat's Cool 3-7th, 10 a.m. at Beth El Hanukkah Lunch, 11:30 a.m. at Beth Israel Tish Latkes and Vodkas, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9 BESTT Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. at Beth El USY Board Meeting, 10 a.m. at Beth El Religious School, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Temple Tots Sunday, 10:30 a.m. at Temple Israel Bellevue Artists Assocation, noon Musical Theater Rehearsals, 3 p.m.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 10 Beth El’s Operation Grateful Goodies Baking Day, 9 a.m. at Beth El Exploring Judaism Class, 7 p.m.

Friedel Board Meeting, 7 p.m. at FJA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11 Talmudic Arguments Everyone Needs to Know Class, 11:30 a.m. at Beth El Chesed Committee Visits Remington Heights, 2 p.m.

BBYO Chapter Meetings, 6 p.m.

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Talmudic Arguments Everyone Needs to Know Class, 7:15 p.m. at Beth El THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 Hebrew Class, 10 a.m. at RBJH Thursday Symposium, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group, 1 p.m.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 YJO: Erev Chistmas Social, 5 p.m.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16 Annual Blood Drive, 8:30 a.m. at Temple Israel BESTT Sunday School, 9:30 a.m. at Beth El Religious School, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Torah Tots, 10:30 a.m. at Beth El Book Club, 10:30 a.m. at Temple Israel ADL Annual Meeting, noon Temple Israel JYG Program Ice Skating, 2 p.m.

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kael saGheer cerned that she would see the barbed humorous way, she was able to highlight n November, local Holocaust sur- wire and gates and have an adverse re- what the women have in York, despite vivor Kitty Williams went to action or feeling to being there. Kitty, what they’ve lost, and give them a shinspeak and have lunch with some however, was able to put their minds at ing example of hope and resilience. And inmates at the Nebraska Correc- ease over lunch and, later, share with the women were able to give Kitty a pertional Center for Women in York, them her own experience of imprison- sonal understanding of who lives at the NE. These inmates are also Nebraska Correctional Center students at York College, for Women. They are no studying with Dr. Erin Delonger just inmates. They are Hart, Associate Professor of women with minds for learnEducation and Holocaust ing, and hearts for connection. scholar at York College. Erin “The air was... filled with love,� wanted to bring Kitty in to she added. “It was the best speak to her students after thing I’ve ever done. I didn’t they have spent time reading have to look at my notes diaries and memoirs written once... so perfect!� by other Holocaust survivors.

The prison chaplain, J EdKitty survived two Hungarward Epp, recounted, “I got to ian ghettos, four months at listen to just a little bit of what Auschwitz, and a munition Erin DeHart was teaching, but factory in Allendorf, Germany she had the ladies around in a where she was forced to recircle talking about the Holomove the poisonous explosives caust and having a tough and out of non-detonated bombs. good discussion about prejuShe grew up the fifth of six dice and how it happened and children in Sarand, Hungary. how it still does. And the After her horrifying ordeal, ladies were right there with she was liberated by an Amerher the whole time, completely ican tank division and went to shania Brown, York college education major, and kitty Williams engaged.� work on a newly created at nebraska Correctional Center for Women; nov. 13, 2018.

Kitty’s day in York turned American base in Germany, where she ment, hunger, fear, and hopelessness. into more than just a speaking engagemet her future husband. She then “I was able to share things I don’t usu- ment for some correctional center inmoved to Council Bluffs, IA and started ally share,� Kitty said. “They were so mates turned York college students. It a new life here. This new life included welcoming with their words and looks was one of mutual learning, respect, and raising three children and getting a job and feelings.� connection. One that no one involved at US Bank. It was there, with nothing In her wonderfully empathetic and will soon forget. more than a high school education, that she rose to be vice president of that bank and was named Iowa’s Business Woman of the Year. Kitty continues to be active in her community and with the Institute for Holocaust Education.

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in recognition of his ideals that closely align with Park University’s mission and vision, his commitment to community involvement and service, and his meritorious contributions to the Kansas City business community.

Blumkin, grandson of founder Rose Blumkin, is part of the third generation of Blumkin family leadership at NFM. Before being named chairman in 2017, he served as NFM’s president and chief operating officer for more than 30 years. During his tenure, the company has grown from a single store in Omaha,, to include stores in Kansas City, Kan., and The Colony, Texas. Nebraska Furniture Mart employs nearly 5,000

people and also owns Homemakers Furniture in Des Moines, Iowa, Floors Inc. in Lincoln, Neb., and a 420-acre mixed-use development called Grandscape in The Colony.

Blumkin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and joined NFM after serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1970-72. In 2010, he earned an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the Executive Education program of the Harvard Business School. In 2014, Blumkin was inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame alongside of his brother, Irv, and father, Louie.

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BRAd BileS Director of Communications and Public Relations Ron Blumkin, the chairman of Nebraska Furniture Mart, will present the keynote address during Park University’s Kansas City Area Commencement on Saturday, Dec. 8. The ceremony will be held at the Community of Christ Auditorium in Independence, Mo., starting at 10 a.m.

The event will include 489 Park University students eligible to graduate and participate in the ceremony — 200 students are set to receive a master’s degree and/or graduate certificate, and 289 students are scheduled to receive a Ron Blumkin bachelor’s degree, associate degree and/or undergraduate certificate.

Park University will also recognize Blumkin by awarding him an honorary degree — a Doctor of Humane Letters —

A prayer of hope

Continued from page A6 Action is born of remembrance. We must remember that the great Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel, marched with the great preacher and activist Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963. We must remember that, just last year, Muslim communities raised close to $200,000 and physically labored to restore headstones vandalized in Philadelphia’s and St. Louis’s Jewish cemeteries. We must remember that our country commemorated the 26 killed at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas in 2017. These actions are living proof that people are capable of going “from strength to strength,” a phrase commonly spoken to the bereaved. We sang Amazing Grace along with President Obama at the memorial for the nine members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015. We stood with Sikhs across the country after the killing of six people in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on Aug. 5, 2012.

But even with memory nudging our conscience and the winds of justice at our backs, action is difficult to sustain, especially with persistent acts of violence. Within a week of the Pittsburgh murders, ten anti-Semitic incidents were reported: seven fires in Brooklyn synagogues and yeshivot, and a Nazi-inspired graffiti reading, “Die Jew Rats” resulted in the cancellation of a get-out-the-vote event. A California synagogue, likewise, was sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti. The list goes on and on, and it certainly didn’t start with the Tree of Life killings.

Against such hate, we need an ever-flowing stream of inspiration.

Some will derive inspiration from scripture, attending perhaps to the concept of restorative justice Paul describes in his letter to the Romans. Some will be energized by iconic images, like the raised fist inside a Star of David or one overlaid with the brightly colored words, “Never Again.” These images are now printed on T-shirts, hoodies, and even tattoos. Some people will take inspiration from Hatikvah (Hebrew for The Hope), the poem that became the Israeli national anthem.

Maybe folks from my generation will feel the heart of John Lennon, as he imagines “all the people living a life in peace.” Maybe younger people will vibe to Holy War, by Alicia Keys, “so we can heal each other and fill each other... break these walls between each other.”

Whatever it takes, I pray that we may all find our way, individually and as a community, to ensure the survival of humankind for generations to come. Tikkun Olam.

Joan Latchaw, PhD is an associate professor at UNO specializing in rhetoric and composition. She teaches a variety of writing courses, Ethnic Literature, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Jewish Writers. She has worked with UNO’s sister institution in Nicaragua (UNAN León), teaching writing, giving workshops for teachers, and collaborating on writing/information literacy research. This article originally appeared in Bearings Magazine, a publication of The BTS Center, a thinktank on 21st century ministry headquartered in Portland, Maine.

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Children’s Nook dedication

CAssAnDRA HiCks WEisEnbuRgER Director of Communications, Temple Israel If you have been to Temple Israel recently, I’m sure you have noticed our colorful Children’s Nook in the Simon Community Court. We created a fun and inviting space made just for our littlest members. This space was made possible by the Staenberg Family Anything Grant awarded to Temple Israel. The grant requires matching funds and we will be matching the grant with donations that were made in memory of Courtney Nogg, who tragically passed away in 1998. We thank Sandy and Alan for designating these funds to make the children’s nook possible.

In September we started our Giving Tree campaign to fill this area with fun new educational books and play items, and now we are ready to dedicate the space! Join us on Friday, Dec. 7 for Hanukkah services where we will also dedicate our Children’s Nook. We will begin with candle lighting and Kiddush in the Simon Community Court at 5:30 p.m., services at 6 p.m., followed by Hanukkah dinner. You must RSVP to Temple Israel if you plan on attending the Hanukkah Dinner.

The cost of the meal is $11 for adults; $6 for children in 2nd-6th grade; and no charge for children under 2nd grade.

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Scholas Occurrentes José María del Corral to stage this conore than 500 students from around the world ference. He said the experience of the conference has been came together in Buenos Aires from Oct. 29 “a pleasure for all of us to share with all these kids from to Nov. 1 to participate in “The 3rd World around the world.”

Youth Encounter,” organized by World ORT Arianna Lozada, a student at ORT Colegio Estrella and the Pontifical Scholas Occurrentes Toledano in Madrid, commented, “What impacted me the Foundation. ORT Argentina was a host of the event and part most was the amount of talented and amazing people around of the ORT delegation of 57 representatives also hailing from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Spain, Israel and South Africa. These students not only shared their ideas and passions with young people from all over the world, but also had the unique chance to build relationships with peers from other ORT countries.

Students from the United States, Haiti, Italy, Mozambique, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal and the Dominican Republic also took part in this unique event.

Scholas Occurrentes, or Scholas, was founded in Buenos Aires in 2001 Delegates to the 3rd World Youth Encounter at ORT Argentina when Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, was Archbishop. Originally called “Escuela de Ve- the world. I came back with great ideas and projects, such as cinos” or “Neighbor” or “Sister Schools,” it brought together working on my identity and working for the future of our young people of all backgrounds: Public and private school generation and others.” students, Jews, Catholics, Protestants and Muslims. Today it Also from ORT Madrid, David Keslassy explained how the is an international organization endorsed by the Pope. ORT trip made him think about life for teenagers in other counstudents in Argentina have long been involved in Scholas’ tries. “I’ve learned we aren’t very different and one of the “Escuela de Vecinos” in which they identify common con- things most people like is music; this connects us a lot. We cerns with peers and work together to develop solutions. were all like a big family, learning from each other.”

Pope Francis saluted the gathering in a video message to Rotem Karni, a World ORT Kadima Mada student from the students, thanking all who made the event possible. “I Israel, added, “The event gave me a lot of friends around the would like to celebrate, together with you, this meeting; a world, and changed my attitude about people from other meeting of people, a meeting of different religions, countries, countries.” languages and realities; a meeting from different identities,” As part of the event, conference participants visited a camhe said. “We are not something which is fully defined or es- pus of ORT Argentina, regarded as one of the finest schools tablished. We are on the way and we are growing. And on in the country. the way, we encounter diverse identities to enrich each other.”

Amelie Esquenazi, ORT Education Network coordinator Dario Werthein, chair of World ORT’s Board of Trustees, for Latin America, said students had been especially moved signed an agreement at the Vatican with World Director of see ORT and scholas bring students together page A13

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Serendipities and a coat: Why museums matter

Gabby blair History Nebraska is pleased to announce a special presentation at this month’s Brown Bag Lecture series; a film that tells the story of a coat belonging to a Holocaust victim that made its way to Lincoln after WWII and later to History Nebraska’s collections.

Please join us for this poignant showing on Thursday, Dec. 20; noon; at the Nebraska History

Museum (131 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, NE) to hear the story from the victim’s own granddaughter.

The Brown Bag Lecture Series is open and free to the public. Lectures are held monthly on the third Thursday of the month in the Oldfather Family Auditorium at the Nebraska History Museum in Downtown Lincoln. Learn more about History Nebraska and its programs and services at history.nebras ka.gov.

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Earlier this month, Omaha BBYO held its international Fall Fest program, part of the organization’s global initiatives.

This year, we hosted an exclusive late-night program at the JCC. It included participating

they had to create an entrée and dessert with a limited amount of ingredients. MZ Yoshanah BBG had a relaxing evening that included painting and carving pumpkins together. The pumpkins ranged from scary faces to heart-shaped designs. The girls’ chapter also hosted an exciting and high-en-

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Teens got the chance to get inside big inflatable balls, play soccer, and bounce around.

Everyone who attended enjoyed the experience and was sent home with brand-new Omaha BBYO T-shirts.

We also had also some great chapter-level programs a few weeks ago. Mother Chapter AZA planned a fun Iron Chef program where

ergy spin class this past weekend at the JCC. During their workout, they lost themselves in a fun, fast-paced cardio workout on the spin bikes with great music that everyone enjoyed.

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Continued from page A10 by hearing Holocaust survivors’ testimonies. “Many students have never had the opportunity to know first-hand what really happened,” she explained. “They talked about human rights, dignity, horror... and especially about losing their loved ones.”

Vladimir Dribinskiy, ORT’s Chief Program Officer, traveled to Buenos Aires for the event and spent time meeting students and their teachers. He said: “I had a great feeling of togetherness here. ORT is a family and here I feel like I have an extended family.

ORT is the largest global educational network driven by Jewish values. Founded in 1880, ORT can be found in 37 countries on five continents and helps 300,000 students around the world in more than 235 schools and colleges.

In Argentina, the ORT schools in Buenos Aires have more than 8,000 students. More than 80% of all Jewish students attending a Jewish high school there are enrolled at ORT. World ORT, along with the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) are partners with the Jewish Federations of North America. This means that every year, the Jewish Federation of Omaha’s board allocates a certain percentage of its annual campaign to support programs that benefit world Jewry. The program described here is an example of the great work by our partners that Omaha supports indirectly.

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Continued from page A12 of Hanukkah on Dec. 9 at Dave & Buster’s from 5-8 p.m. Regwith spirit, programming, and special guest speakers. This ister for FREE at www.tinyurl.com/omahaconn ectDB. By convention is the first of the year that 8th graders are able to attending, you receive a $20 game card, unlimited arcade attend, and we know they will games, buffett dinner and our have a great time meeting new own private party room! Be people and experiencing the one of the first 10 people regional aspect of BBYO. Go signed up and receive an exto www.bbyo.org/marwrc201 clusive BBYO swag pack filled 9 to register, open through with apparel and gifts.

Jan. 3. To attend this convenAs 2018 wraps up, we are extion, you must be a member of cited for what 2019 will bring BBYO. To join BBYO, visit to BBYO! In February, Omaha www.bbyo.org/join.

BBYO will be having a Super While we have had a jamBowl Party, where we will packed past few months, there come together and enjoy the is no sign of stopping! On biggest night in football. We Dec. 4, we will celebrate also will be getting pumped for Hanukkah with our MysteriBBYO’s International Convenous Hanukkah Program, tion, held Feb. 14-18. Over BBYO Connect where we will try our hands at this long weekend, more than an Escape Room followed by a white elephant gift exchange. 5,000 of the Jewish community’s top teen leaders, educators, Registration for this event is $15 for members, $20 for non- professionals and philanthropists from around the world will members. Visit tinyurl.com/occhanukkah2018 to register. come together in Denver, Colorado, for one of the largest JewJoin us for BBYO’s Global Shabbat on Dec. 7. RSVP for this ish communal events of the year. Delegates will hear from and event at www.bbyo.org/omahaglobalshabbat. This is a part meet inspiring speakers, deepen leadership skills, serve the of an international initiative that allows teens to celebrate the local community, celebrate Shabbat and learn together, have joy of Shabbat along with the other hundreds of BBYO com- access to exclusive music performances and do their part to munities around the world all on the same night. This year’s strengthen the Jewish future. theme is Let There Be Light, which draws inspiration from BBYO is offered for Jewish teens in grades 8-12. To join the quote by the celebrated Jewish author, Nobel Laureate, BBYO, go to www.bbyo.org/join to pay the one-time, lifetime and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel: “Even in darkness it is membership fee of $149. By becoming a BBYO member, you possible to create light.” We invite any and all Jewish teens in are able to attend all local, regional, and international programs.

Omaha to attend this teen-led program planned just for you.

For more information about BBYO and BBYO Connect, Not in high school just yet, but still want to enjoy please feel free to contact Jacob Geltzer, BBYO/Teen Program Hanukkah with BBYO? Join BBYO Connect for the 7th night Director, at jgeltzer@jccomaha.org or 402.334.6404.

From my family to yours, we wish you a happy Hanukkah.

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synagogues b’nai iSrael Synagogue

618 Mynster Street Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 712.322.4705 email: CBsynagogue@hotmail.com

betH el Synagogue

Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism 14506 California Street Omaha, NE 68154-1980 402.492.8550 bethel-omaha.org

betH iSrael Synagogue

Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific Street Omaha, NE. 68154 402.556.6288 BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org

CHabaD HouSe

An Affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch 1866 South 120 Street Omaha, NE 68144-1646 402.330.1800 OChabad.com email: chabad@aol.com

Congregation b’nai JeSHurun

South Street Temple Union for Reform Judaism 2061 South 20th Street Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 402.435.8004 www.southstreettemple.org

offutt air forCe baSe

Capehart Chapel 2500 Capehart Road Offutt AFB, NE 68123 402.294.6244 email: oafbjsll@icloud.com

roSe blumkin JeWiSH Home

323 South 132 Street Omaha, NE 68154

temple iSrael

Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 13111 Sterling Ridge Drive Omaha, NE 68144-1206 402.556.6536 templeisraelomaha.com

tiferetH iSrael

Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Boulevard Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 402.423.8569 tiferethisraellincoln.org

b’nai iSrael Synagogue

Join us for our monthly Shabbat Speakers Series on Dec. 14, at 7:30 p.m. with guest speaker Jeremy Wright. Our service leader is Larry Blass, and as always, an Oneg to follow service. Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel!

For information on our historic synagogue, contact any of our board members: Scott Friedman, Rick Katelman, Howard Kutler, Carole Lainof, Wayne Lainof, Sissy Silber, Nancy Wolf, or email nancywolf16620@gmail.com.

betH el Synagogue

Services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman. friDay: Beth El Shabbat at the Blumkin Home, 2:30 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SaturDay: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Junior Congregation (Grades 3-7), 10 a.m.; Mincha following Shabbat Morning Services.

WeekDay SerViCeS: Sundays, 9:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; weekdays, 7 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

SunDay: BESTT Maccabiah, 9:30 a.m.; Morning Minyan, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10 a.m.; Torah Tots, 10:30 a.m.; Yiddish Class, 11 a.m. with Hazzan Krausman; B’nai Brith Bible Quiz, 1 p.m. at the JCC; Hanukkah Pop-Up, 2-5 p.m. at Westroads Mall. tueSDay: Talmudic Arguments Class, 11:30 a.m. with Rabbi Abraham; Women’s Book Group, 7-8:30 p.m. at Debi Kutlers home for our discussion of Sister of Mine by Sabra Waldfogel. We will have the opportunity to hear from the author that evening. Newcomers are always welcome to join us.

For more information, contact Darlene Golbitz.

WeDneSDay: BESTT Classes, 4:15 p.m.; USY & Kadima Hanukkah Program, 5:15 p.m.; Hanukkah Dinner, 6 p.m.; Talmudic Arguments Class, 7:15 p.m. with Rabbi Steve Abraham. tHurSDay: Chesed Committee visits the Blumkin Home, 2 p.m.

Shabbat Tables, friday, Dec. 7, in homes at various times.

Cup of Coffee with God, Saturday, Dec. 8, 9:30 a.m.

Kevah Family Program–Grade 3: Siddur Covers, Sunday, Dec. 9, 11 a.m.

Operation Grateful Goodies Baking Days, monday, Dec. 10, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and Wednesday, Dec. 12, 3-8 p.m. To sign-up or for more information please visit www.bethelomaha.org.

Become a Soulful Parent, Sundays, Jan. 27, feb. 24 and march 31 at 10 a.m. Join us for an exploration of parenting challenges against the backdrop of Jewish ideas and texts.

betH iSrael Synagogue

Services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer. friDay: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Omaha Jr. NCSY Shabbaton, 2 p.m.; Candle Lighting, 4:42 p.m.

SaturDay: Omaha Jr. NCSY Shabbaton; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Insights into the Weekly Torah Portion, 3:35 p.m.; Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, 4:20 p.m.; Havdalah, 5:42 p.m.

SunDay: Omaha Jr. NCSY Shabbaton; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; The Secrets Lights of Hanukkah, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Ari; Hanukkah Carnival, 4-5:30 p.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m. monDay: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Jewish History — Your History, noon with Rabbi Shlomo; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m. at Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. tueSDay: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m. at Rose Blumkin Jewish Home.

WeDneSDay: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m. at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home; A Taste of Conversational Hebrew, 7 p.m. tHurSDay: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Connecting with Our Faith, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari; Jewish Ethics wtih Rabbi Shlomo, noon at UNMC; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:40 p.m. at Rose Blumkin Jewish Home.

CHabaD HouSe

Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. and Friday, 8 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.

WeekDayS: Shacharit, 7 a.m. followed by coffee, treats, study and shmoozing. tueSDay: Annual Chabad Hanukkah Parade, 3:30 p.m.

at Boystown Hall of Fame Plaza.

All programs are open to the entire community. For more information call 402.330.1800 or visit www.ochabad.com.

Congregation b’nai JeSHurun

Services conducted by Rabbi Teri Appleby. friDay: Candlelighting, 4:41 p.m.; Erev Shabbat Service, 6:30 p.m. with music by Nathaniel and Steve Kaup; Oneg, 7:30 p.m. hosted by Jayne Draper.

SaturDay: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. on Parashat Vayeshev; Havdalah (72 minutes), 6:11 p.m.

SunDay: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m.; LJCS Gesher, 10 a.m.; LJCS Annual Hanukkah “Wrap” — Please send your student with a new, unwrapped gift for the children at Center for People in Need. Parents, please join your students at 11:30 a.m. at Tifereth Israel for a Hanukkah sing along with Jon Leo and Hanukkah snacks; Adult Hebrew Class 2, 11:30 a.m.; Candlelighting for Hanukkah, 6:11 p.m.; Come learn and play Pickleball, 7-9 p.m. All equipment furnished. Wear comfortable clothing. For questions, call or text Miriam Wallick at miriam57@aol.com. monDay: Candlelighting for Hanukkah, 6:11 p.m. tueSDay: Candlelighting for Hanukkah, 6:11 p.m.; Star City Kochavim Rehearsal, 6:45 p.m.; Mussar Va’ad, 7 p.m.

WeDneSDay: Candlelighting for Hanukkah, 6:11 p.m.; LJCS Hebrew School, 4 p.m. at Tifereth Israel. tHurSDay: Candlelighting for Hanukkah, 6:11 p.m.; Choir Rehearsal, 7 p.m.

Annual Hanukkah Dinner, friday, Dec. 7, following the 6 p.m. service. Reservation deadline is Dec. 1. Seating is limited to the first 85 who RSVP. Call the Temple Office (402.435.8004) or e-mail office@southstreettemple.org to sign up. Cost for Adults (age 13 and up) is $5, and no charge for active military, college students, and children 12 and under.

Scholar-in-Residence: Prof. Margaret Gurewitz and Dr. Zachary B. Smith, Saturday, Dec. 15, 10:45 a.m. on From Estminster to Westboro: American Religious Fundamentalisms.

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friDay: Services, 7:30 p.m. every first and third of the month.

roSe blumkin JeWiSH Home

SaturDay: Services, 9:15 a.m. led by Jim Polack.

Services will be held in the Chapel. Members of the community are invited to attend.

temple iSrael

friDay: OSRUI Alumni Shabbat and Rabbi Stoller Birthday Celebration, 6 p.m. OSRUI alumni are invited to the bima to light Shabbat candles and enjoy services. We will follow with a camp-style oneg afterwards where we will also celebrate Rabbi Stoller’s birthday!

SaturDay: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Service, 10:30 a.m.; OSRUI Havdalah at Rabbi Stoller’s, 5-7 p.m.

OSRUI alumni, current campers, and interested campers are invited to join Rabbi Stoller and Dylan Singer, Assistant Director of OSRUI, for a special ukulele Havdalah at the home of Karen and Rabbi Stoller.

SunDay: Kol Chokolad Kids Choir, 9:30 a.m.; Religious School Grades PreK-6, 10 a.m.; OSRUI Day at Religious School, 10 a.m. K-6 students will meet Dylan Singer and learn about camp fun! At 11:30 a.m. parents are invited to meet Dylan to learn about opportunities for OSRUI campers

and get important summer information; Social Justice Committee Meeting, 10:30 a.m.; Grade 5 B’nai Mitzvah date setting ceremony, 10:30 a.m.; Temple TED Talk, 10:30 a.m.; OTYG Meeting, noon.

WeDneSDay: Religious School Grades 3-6, 4 p.m.; School Dinner, 6 p.m.; Grades 7-12, 6:30 p.m.; Family School, 6:30 p.m.; Cantor’s Hanukkah Gift to You, 6:45 p.m. The Omaha Chamber Music Society will play traditional Hanukkah music and holiday music from around the world in celebration of the Festival of Lights! This event is open to everyone and all ages are welcome. tHurSDay: The History of the Jewish People: TAn Islamic view of the Middle Ages, 10 a.m. wtih Imam Jamal Daoudi of AMI; Hanukkah Lighting at The Heritage at Sterling Ridge, 6-8 p.m. Come play games, craft, and light Hanukkah candles with our neighbors at the Heritage as well celebrate the festival of lights! Hot cocoa and other warm treats will be provided! Open to 6th through 12th grade young people. Cost to participate is $10. RSVP to Jacob Kahn, jkahn@temple israelomaha.com.

Hanukkah Service & Dinner, friday, Dec. 7 Candlelighting and Kiddush, 5:30 p.m., Services, 6 p.m. followed by dinner.

Join us for a family-friendly Hanukkah service featuring the First Friday band, dinner and games for all ages. Bring your dreidels!

Bring your family menorah to decorate your holiday table! Cost is $11 for adults; $6 for children in 2nd-6th grade; and no charge for children under 2nd grade. Please RSVP to Temple Israel, 402.556.6536 or rsvp @templeisraelomaha.com.

Temple Tots Sunday, Sunday, Dec. 9, 10:30 a.m.

The Other Peace Process: Inter-Religious Dialogue As A Form of Peace Building In Israel and Palestine, tuesday, Dec. 11, noon. During this Faith Matters Talk, Rabbi Kronish will discuss the theory and practice of inter-religious dialogue, education, and action in Israel and Palestine.

Temple Israel Blood Drive, Sunday, Dec. 16, 8:30 a.m.2:30 p.m. To donate, please contact Executive Director Dennis DePorte, 402.556.6536.

Ice-Capades with JYG, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2-4:30 p.m.

Join JYG as we skate and have hot chocolate! Pick up and drop off will be at Temple Israel. This event is open to all 6th8th graders. Cost to participate is $20. RSVP to Jacob Kahn, jkahn@templeisraelomaha.com.

tiferetH iSrael

Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: monday-friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. friDay: No Services; Candlelighting, 4:41 p.m.

SaturDay: Shabbat Morning service, 10 a.m. followed by a light Kiddush luncheon; Got Shabbat, 11 a.m.; Havdalah (72 minutes), 5:41 p.m.

SunDay: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m.; LJCS Gesher, 10 a.m.; LJCS Annual Hanukkah “Wrap” — Please send your student with a new, unwrapped gift for the children at Center for People in Need. Parents, please join your students at 11:30 a.m. at Tifereth Israel for a Hanukkah sing along with Jon Leo and Hanukkah snacks; Tifereth Israel Board Meeting, 1 p.m.; Come learn and play Pickleball, 7-9 p.m. All equipment furnished. Wear comfortable clothing. For questions, call or text Miriam Wallick at miriam57@aol.com.

WeDneSDay: LJCS Hebrew School, 4 p.m. at TI. Tifereth Israel's Annual Hanukkah/latke party, Sunday Dec. 9 at 12:15 p.m. TI has Talent will return this year!

Acts should be 3-5 minutes in length (maximum). Performers can be ages 3-100! Solo or group acts, you choose! Just email Nancy Coren to let her know you're going to participate and what you plan to do!

Save the Date: Temple Israel Blood Drive CaSSanDra HiCkS WeiSenburger Director of Communications, Temple Israel You can help save a life! The American Red Cross will be visiting Temple Israel for a blood drive on Sunday, Dec. 16, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and we hope you will help us support their good work.

Every two seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. A single car accident victim can require as many as 100 pints of blood. To donate, call 1.800.RED.CROSS (1.800.733.2767) or visit redcrossblood.org and enter: Temple Israel to schedule an appointment. Questions? Contact Executive Director Dennis DePorte, 402.556.6536.

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lifecycles iN memoriam

aNNa elleN WiesmaN

Anna Ellen Wiesman pased away on Nov. 20 at age 84. Services were held Nov. 22 at Golden Hill Cemetery.

She was preceded in death by parents Margaret and Isador Robinson of Des Moines, and siblings Dr. Beverly Robinson, Mary Robinson, and Samuel Robinson.

She is survived by husband Benjamin Wiesman, sons and daughters-inlaw, Mark Wiesman and Brenda Everson, David Wiesman and Cynthia Epstein, Stephen Wiesman and Susan Golden, and William Wiesman and Marilyn Laves; grandchildren: Aaron, Alex, Andrew, Rachel, Harison, Mathew and Ilan Wiesman; sister Sally Schechter.

Anna graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and worked as a speech therapist. Among other charitable work, she was active in Beth El Sisterhood and was President of the Central Regional States Women’s League for Conservative Judaism. Later she was President of the Omaha Volunteer Braille Services for many years where she transcribed books into braille and taught others to do the same.

Memorials may be made to American Parkinson Disease Association, KVNO, American Foundation for The Blind, Omaha Public Library, Jewish Federation of Omaha, Beth El and Beth Israel Synagogues, and the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home.

William Goldman, author of The Princess Bride, dies at 87

JTA news sTAff William Goldman, a novelist and screenwriter who twice won the Oscars for his work on All the President’s Men and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, died at the age of 87.

Goldman, who was Jewish, passed away Nov. 15 in his Manhattan home, surrounded by family and friends at the age of 87, friends of his family told Deadline.

Goldman began his writing career as a novelist and later transitioned to writing scripts.

As a novelist, Goldman wrote the critically-acclaimed Marathon Man and e Princess Bride, among others. He later adapted those two novels for film, turning them into box-office hits that are considered classics.

His first film script William Goldman at a New York was Masquerade in 1965. Knicks game in New York City, Dec. Some of his other no- 23, 2003.

Credit: Ray Amati/Getty Images table film credits include Misery (adapted from the Stephen King novel) and e Stepford Wives (adapted from the Ira Levin novel).

Goldman was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Highland Park, Illinois.

He was married to Ilene Jones from 1961 until their divorce in 1991. ey had two daughters.

Hanukkah facts

aNNette vaN De Kamp-WriGht Editor, Jewish Press Gelt is a relatively new invention.

“Some credit America’s Lo candy company with creating it in the 1920s, while others suggest there were European versions earlier that inspired Israel’s Elite candy company.

Prinz notes, as well, that chocolate gelt resembles a European Christmas tradition of exchanging gold-covered chocolate coins “commemorating the miracles of St. Nicholas.” (myjewishlearning.com) Although I grew up with the tradition of St. Nicholas, I don’t remember ever receiving chocolate coins back in Holland. ere were gag gis and small, spiced cookie-like treats called ‘pepernoten’ which were thrown at us whenever someone dressed as St. Nicholas came to visit our elementary school. ose things were rock-hard and the chance of getting hit in the head was ever present.

According to Israel21C.org, “e average 100-gram sufganiyah (doughnut) packs 400-600 calories. One potato latke has about 150 calories, svinge (a Moroccan cruller) 350-442 calories, and chocolate coins 85 calories each. Israelis devour some 24 million sufganiyot during the eightday holiday – adding up to 10.8 billion calories.” “e Hanukkah candles must burn aer night falls, since their purpose is to bring light into darkness. But they need to be lit early enough that someone will be around to see them. e lights need to be seen so they can serve their function of reminding others of the great miracle G-d wrought,” according to Chabad.org. e word “Hanukkah” comes from the Hebrew word “Hinuch,” or “to teach.” Defined in one word, it means ‘dedication.’ “What is especially fascinating about Hanukkah is the roots of the word. Hebrew, aer all, is a language made of triliteral roots; Hanukkah is constructed from the threeletter root chet, nun, chaf, which also happens to be the root of words having to do with teaching and education” Aviya Kushner wrote in e Forward. “But it extends past that.

Hebrew theoretically assigns up to seven different structures for any given verb, each of which has a different meaning. All of them share a deep kernel of meaning, sometimes quite fascinating to discover. In this case, with the root chet, nun, chaf, one of these meanings is “to dedicate anew,” another is “to educate others,” and a third is “to educate oneself.”

Finally, when the holiday is over and you are ready to move on, your kitchen might not be. To get rid of oily smells, place bowls full of vinegar around your house. Charcoal supposedly works, too, as do coffee grounds or baking soda. Food52.com recommends aer frying anything, you clean your whole kitchen imediately: “It's tempting to eat the hard-earned latkes right away. Yes, sneak a few, but then start cleaning A.S.A.P. Once you’ve disposed of the oil, clean the pots, pans and appliances and wipe down the stovetop, counters, and nearby walls (!) with kitchen degreaser.”

I don’t find that very practical advice. Aer making all those latkes, I seriously need to sit down.

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Lessons in Hashgachat Pratit Gabby bLaiR ight days. The number of days we celebrate Hanukkah. The number of days before a Brit Milah. Hashem made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The Eighth Day, however, is transcendent. Extraordinary. It also happens to be the number of days in a JWRP trip!

As I have gotten older, I have become firm in the belief that coincidence is anything but. During my recent trip to Israel with JWRP, this idea was reaffirmed and given a name: an “HP” Moment.

From the Hebrew Hashgacha Pratit, defined in rabbinic literature and as Divine Providence, our Higher Power moments were the unexpected highlights of our trip, in my opinion- and they were numerous!

For eight days we were “Bus 2”; JWRP sisters from Omaha, NE; Tampa Bay, FL; and Queens, NY. Each group had their respective city leaders and we shared a rotating bus leader who acted as each day’s tour guide. Rounding out our dedicated team was Boaz, our fearless and expert Israeli bus driver and our Madrich, Udi, who kept us on time and made sure our needs were met.

Upon stepping on the bus for the first time at the airport, Udi encouraged us to sit with new people and to make the most of our time by bypassing ‘making friends’ and instead, just jump into ‘being friends’. Bus 2 really took this suggestion to heart and, as a result, our experience was enhanced by what can only be described as true sisterhood.

So, what exactly is an HP moment? Some joked it was a Harry Potter moment, because these moments seemed magical. In Israel, especially, we know these moments are really blessings from

Kotel photo of the Omaha JWRP group above- impossible to orchestrate, impossible to explain. Much like the Hanukkah story where the Maccabees emerged victorious over the much larger, stronger Greek army; how the oil lasted eight days instead of one.

On our first night, we attended an icebreaker, class and dinner. During the event, Adrienne Gold, our JWRP trip leader, urged us to be recep-

tive to HP moments before instructing us to seek out a complete stranger and find something in common. Tippi Denenberg turns to a woman next to her, finds out not only did they attended the same non-Jewish summer camp in Colorado as kids, but that they have many many mutual friends in common. It’s a small world, right?!

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Nancy Rips puts us in the Hanukkah mood

Ed. Note: In 1997, Nancy Rips published Hanukkah Stories: Thoughts on Family, Celebration and Joy, in which she collected Hanukkah memories from a series of friends in the community. With Nancy’s permission, we reprinted a few of them here so, with Nancy’s help, we can all get in the Hanukkah mood.

Sometimes Hanukkah miracles can happen to you. When our younger child, Leo, was a preschooler, he stayed a bit later at school on Wednesdays for lunch and an art class, which gave me a few precious hours on my own. One particular Wednesday, I planned to go to one of my favorite stores, Von Maur at the Westroads Mall. Von Maur is a throwback to the department stores of old. With great customer service and a wonderful atmosphere. But before I headed to the mall, I checked my email.

I discovered there was to be a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the mall later that day as well as a canned food drive. Ohhh, I should go to that, I thought. It will be good for the kids to observe the holiday and do a good deed to boot. I decided I would push off going until after school so my kids could join me.

The date was December 5, 2007. At 1:42 p.m. that day, a gunman opened fire, shooting innocent people at the Von Maur department store. Eight people, ages 24 to 66, were senselessly killed and others were seriously injured. It was one of the deadliest mall shootings in the United States.

I will never know for sure, but part of me believes that I experienced my own Hanukkah miracle that day. As the gunman was heading into the store, with murder in his heart, I was safely on my way to pick up my little Leo on a cold, December afternoon.

Janet Kohll

When I was a child, my parents started Hanukkah Theme Nights with our family. One night we got books as presents, another night was the dreaded pajamasand-socks night, another night we served dinner at a homeless shelter and still another night we always went to the movies. My favorite night was when we would take a walk outside before lighting the candles. We’d talk about how cold and dark it was on wintry, December evenings. Then we’d come back inside to light the menorah and bask in the glow and warmth of our home and our family. That was my favorite night every year.

BarBara Grossman When my mom passed away just days before Hanukkah, one of the first things I did when I got up from sitting Shivah was to get out her big box grater, pile potatoes on the counter, and start peeling. My tears started long before I even got to the onions, and that will probably be my experience again this year and every year from here on. But one thing is certain: for me, food, especially Jewish food, is intricately linked to the people we love, to tradition, and more than anything to memories. Here’s to honoring our memories. lisa Kelvin tuttle When I was growing up, my mom’s family had very little money. She taught us to play a dreidel game with walnuts instead of coins. The “walnut game” was played with a bag of walnuts and a

slanted board. The board was placed against a chair and the walnuts were divided. Each player rolled a walnut down the board with the intent to hit as many other walnuts as possible. When a walnut touched yours, it would be added to your pile. The person with the largest walnut pile won.

It warms my heart to know that my grown-up children still choose to play my mom’s homemade dreidel walnut game. sandy epstein Hanukkah was a wonderful time as a child in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

There were only 50 Jewish families out of a population of 50,000 and because of the generosity of our parents, we always felt a deep connection to both the Jewish and the general community.

Every year, mom made Hanukkah cookies and invited our classes from school over for a snack and to learn about the holiday. We wanted everyone to know who we were and why we believed what we did. Our friends were all impressed and respected us. One day for show and tell I even taught my classmates a few Hebrew letters and words.

My brothers and sister and I got a present every night. We even thought pajamas and socks were great gifts!

We all learned an important lesson in Sioux Falls: whether one lives in a thriving Jewish community or a small one, the warmth and beauty of Judaism keeps us all together and gives us the strength to enjoy life and live it to its fullest.

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In 2017, Corsica had its first public Hanukkah celebration JTA

n 2017, Corsica saw its first public celebration of Hanukkah in its recorded history, according to the French Mediterranean island’s only rabbi.

The event took place in Foch Square of the capital Ajaccio on Tuesday, the last of the Jewish holiday’s eight days, on which Jews light menorahs with candles, the Corse-Matin daily reported.

“This was the first time in the history of the Island of Beauty that the Hanukkah menorah was lit in public,” Rabbi Levi Pinson told the daily, adding it is “a historic moment.”

Pinson, 27, and his wife Mushky opened the country’s first permanent Beit Chabad – the Hasidic movement’s term for a Jewish community center and synagogue – last year.

Ajaccio Mayor Laurent Marcangeli said he was “proud to be the first mayor of any city in Corsica to permit the lighting of candles in public,” as he put it. He said it was “an important message of tolerance.”

Several hundred people attended the candle lightings, including Jews who traveled there especially for the ceremonies from the southern mainland city of Nice, located 120 miles north of Ajaccio.

“I have to say I sort of expected to see only 20 people here this evening,” Nice resident Alain Schraub told Corse-Matin, adding that the local Jewish community of a few dozen people is “small but dynamic.”

Yvonne Malka Cohen, whose parents settled in Corsica in 1919, said that for her, the candle lighting was “the biggest celebration” she’s ever seen at Foch Square.

Roni Barkats, a local barber and member of the Jewish community, attended Tuesday’s ceremony wearing a kippah and sang Hanukkah songs. He told the Corse-Matin daily it was a “moving experience.”

Whereas on mainland France anti-Semitic attacks have become routine, with hundreds of incidents reported annually, “you never experience anything like that here,” Barkats said. “Jews here live in security.”

Corsica was the only region in France whose authorities, operating under the Nazi puppet Vichy government, refused to comply with orders to round up and deport Jews to be murdered. Thousands were saved thanks to authorities turning a blind eye to the presence of refugees and local Jews, and then falsely reporting to headquarters that Corsica had no or very few Jews.

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Israeli soldiers with thank you letters and cards from Beth El and Temple Israel kids

Continued from page B1 On our first full day, I arrived on the bus early in the morning and sat next to a woman from Tampa. After introductions, I asked her how many kids she had. I am shocked as she began listing them off... they have the same names, in the same order, as my own three children. Needless to say, we became instant friends... but how is that even possible?!

Mindi Armstrong carried with her a bundle of thank you letters and cards written by Beth El and Temple Israel kids which she hoped to hand out to Israeli soldiers. One evening at the Kotel, we happen upon a large group of young soldiers in uniform dancing and singing praise over a recent promotion.

Excitedly, Mindi pulls out the bundle and begins giving cards out to the pleasantly surprised soldiers. She had no idea how many cards she had in total, but it was exactly the right number to make sure each soldier had one. Perfect. Who could have planned that!?

A woman from Queens and a woman from Tampa shared a story over the bus microphone on the drive back to Jerusalem from the Dead Sea. They had randomly sat together for the ride back and had just discovered that their children not only knew each other, but also were close friends who were in daily contact. What is the chance?!

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A woman named Margarita Gerzhina, part of a Russian Peaceful calm as a quiet moon rises over the Western Wall, JWRP group, mentioned over Shabbat lunch that she had a balm to our souls. prayed to find lost family while at the Kotel. “She explained A feeling of familiarity in a place one had never been before. to her Shabbat lunch hosts, that her last name originated from Overlooking the Temple Mount after an emotional HavTishvin, a small Jewdalah and being ish shtetl in Russia. struck with such a As she continued to quality of indescribshare her family’s hisable euphoria that tory, her hosts lisjust thinking about it tened in stunned still brings tears. silence. Margarita’s A face on the wall story was exactly the in Yad Vashem that same as Ilya’s, her bore such a striking host’s father, who had resemblance to a spent his whole life loved one back home searching for his famthat it sucked the air ily as well. It turned from the room and out that Margarita wrenched the heart. and Ilya’s grandA perfect last sunmothers were sisters set as the bus turns who had lost contact towards the airport, with one another in ending the trip of a Russia. Both feared lifetime.

Final sunset as we prepared to leave Israel that their families Every one of you had perished in the Holocaust, but they continued to look for reading this has had a moment in life where the coincidence each other for over 30 years without success. Over Shabbat is just too great to write off to chance. In these situations perlunch, they even realized that they owned identical family haps, you feel the hand of G-d moving in some tangible, obphotos! Amazingly, Ilya planned to be in Israel the following vious way. week, and on Monday, after Margarita’s JWRP MOMentum These HP moments of extraordinary shared experience Trip ended, the two sides of the family reunited.” among a group of newfound sisters who danced and laughed More often, the HP moments were more subtle, but just as together, who prayed and cried together are good and proreal, just as moving. found; they are not coincidence. These HP moments connect Random folks on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem sporting all people invisibly – sometimes with such a fine, nondescript Camp Simcha sweatshirts excitedly sending their regards to thread it is easy to miss; however, it does not make it any less Rabbi Dembitzer in Omaha. real.

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Dark days: Hanukkah in 1938 annette van de kamp-wright Editor, Jewish Press hat must it have been like, for Jews in Omaha, Nebraska, to celebrate Hanukkah in 1938?

A holiday that marks our survival, our victory over the oppressors, the continuation of our people, bringing light in the darkness?

Save for a few ads and small announcements, there’s minimal evidence in the Jewish Press that there was a festive spirit.

“The ideal gift for Chanukah, New for you!” one ad proclaims. It’s from Sol Lewis at 1901 Farnam, who suggests “the new 1938 Hotpoint Electric Range” and offers any customers a demonstration, if they’ll just come in. Omaha Crockery Co. at 1116, 18 and 20 Harney Street claims “The Most Complete Line of Chanuka Gifts We Have Ever Shown,” and suggests Syracuse China sets and glassware: “Start a set for Mother, Sister or the Bride-to-Be.” Another ad that strangely enough doesn’t include the name or address of a retailer, states: “Men... Here are Gifts She Really Wants!” It then lists an electric coffeemaker, an electric mixer and an electric waffle iron.

It adds: “Mother... Dad wants a Shaver.”

But in that same Jewish Press, which landed in mailboxes on Dec. 23 (about a month and a half after Kristallnacht) there is this headline: Ghetto Walls are rising in Germany.

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hanukkah Know these Hanukkah fire safety tips before you light the menorah

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Lior ZaLtZman anukkah this year begins on Sunday, Dec. 2. And while everyone loves Hanukkah, there’s no Jewish holiday that’s as dangerous. Open flames?

Check! Boiling oil? Check!

Sharp graters for latke-making? Check!

Of course, the safest thing to do would be not to light any candles or fry any foods, but let’s get real: We’re not giving that up. So we’ve compiled these helpful tips to help you minimize the risks and have a safe and bright Hanukkah. menorah safety tips: Don’t leave your menorahs unattended. Never leave a room where a menorah is lit. Either wait for the candles to go out, or put them out yourself if you need to leave the room or house.

Put your menorahs on a non-flammable surface. If you’re putting your menorah on a wooden window sill or any other

wooden surface, make sure to lay down aluminum foil or another non-flammable material. An even better idea is to put your menorah down on a stone or marble counter. Glass and metal surfaces also work.

Put your menorahs on a sturdy surface. Is your dining room table a bit wobbly? Don’t put your menorah there! Any piece of furniture with wheels is also a bad idea. Opt for a sturdy, safe surface.

Keep your menorahs away from pets. This might be easier said than done, especially with adventurous cats around, but it’s better to not put that menorah anywhere your pets are known to get to.

Keep your menorahs out of reach of little kids. It’s an obvious one, but make sure your menorahs are away from edges and are high enough.

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Continued from page a5 order on Dec. 31 depriving Jews of the right to drive automobiles. The police decree withdrawing all automobile drivers’ permits issued to German Jews was signed by Heinrich Himmler, chief of all German police, and was intended as further punishment of the Jews, who already have been fined $400,000,000 for the murder by a Polish Jewish youth of Ernst vom Rath, third secretary of the German embassy in Paris. The order said: “The cowardly assassination committed by the Jew Grynszpan against the whole German people reveals the Jews as lacking sufficient guaranties for possession for operation of automobiles.”

“The problem of Jewish operation of trucks will be settled later, the decree disclosed. All German Jews were ordered to hand in driving permits and other automobile papers by Dec. 31. Commenting on the measure, the official German News Agency said: “For a long time Germans have considered it a provocation and a danger to public welfare for Jews to race through German streets and over German roads, or to profit from the Adolf Hitler highways built by German hands.”

On another page, we read: Death Rate Rises in Nazi Camps as Cold Wave Comes. “Conditions are reported particularly bad in the Buchenwald camp near Weimar, where hundreds of prisoners do not even have the boon of labor but are forced to stand outdoors for hours.”

It’s sobering, these reminders, especially when you consider it was only 1938 and the horror would become so much worse in the years to come. I don’t know why there aren’t any stories about celebrations, about Hanukkah parties and get-togethers. Why there are no recipes for latkes or Sufganyot, no photos of smiling community members lighting candles. But that Jews in Omaha lit those candles just the same, of that I have no doubt. I imagine against the rising tensions on the world stage, it was all the more important to bring extra light into people’s homes.

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Perusing the Jewish Press during the Hanukkah season, one is struck by the sheer number of ads for kosher foods, especially when compared to what is available today.

The old Hinky Dinky supermarket ad proudly announces “delicious, convenient Hanukkah giftables in every department”, highlighting many kosher options ranging from deli selections, fish and cheese platters and Israeli confections available at all six locations. They even go as far to stick a little yiddish in their ads, urging their shoppers to “go ‘frailach’ for Hanukkah with a gift of food’ because everyone enjoys ‘noshing’ during the holidays and “Everyday’s a Yomtov this week!” Not to be outdone, Maxwell house promotes their coffee as the perfect beverage to enjoy with blintzes and a local company, Everyday Gourmet, announced that metal dreidel cookie cutters had arrived just in time for Hanukkah. Shukert’s meats (50th &

Williams) featured certified kosher briskets, burger, salami and even potato pancakes while the Nebraska Kosher Meat market, off 49th and Hamilton, was running a special on lamb and veal, for one day only, leading up to the holiday.

Happy Hanukkah Event calendars put out by Rexall, Kohlls and Keystone pharmacies advertised all of Jewish Omaha’s area happenings- from committee meetings to Hanukkah parties and youth programs. The JCC was hosting its 3rd annual Family Hanukkah party featuring entertainment and a latkes and turkey dinner for a value price of $3.25 per adult and $1 for children and a free Hanukkah fun run for its members.

It is interesting to look back in time, in this case 40 years, and see the roots from which today’s community grew. The former generations are like the shamash on our menorahssharing their light with those that come after them so that our community’s proud traditions are preserved, strengthened and carried on for future generations.

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Hanukkah fire safety tips Continued from page B6 Don’t walk around with a lit candle. No running with scissors, no walking with fire are some basic rules to live by! Keep your candles in a contained space.

Take precautions when letting children light the menorah.

Make sure that when you let your children light the menorah, they are standing on a sturdy surface, are close enough and high enough to safely light it (a stable stool is good, so they can see what they’re doing). Have an adult present and there for support and intervention.

Keep decorations, papers, and fabrics away from your menorah. Put up any decorations far from where you’ll be lighting your menorah. If you’re putting your menorah by the window, make sure there’s no way for the flame to touch those curtains. Keep any papers (including paper towels) away from the surface where the menorah is placed, and out of your hands when you’re lighting candles. And when you’re lighting those candles, make sure they’re far from your clothing and hair!

Don’t light your kid’s art and crafts menorah, unless you’re 100% sure they’re not flammable.

Your kids’ hand-made menorahs are super cute —but they can also be fire hazards. Make sure to only light menorahs you are certain are non-flammable. Keep the ones you’re not sure about away from the lit menorahs, and consider using electric candles with those instead.

Frying safety tips: Make sure your fire and carbon monoxide detectors are working. This is pretty self-explanatory, but easy to forget. Do this a week before the festivities to have peace of mind.

Never fill your pan with too much oil, and keep it from getting too hot. Being burned with splashing oil really, really sucks. Make sure your oil doesn’t get too hot. It’s a good idea to use an oil with a high burning point, like canola oil or olive oil.

Keep your pan and pot handles facing the inside of the stove. It’s a good way to keep them from getting knocked over. You DO NOT want that boiling pan falling on the floor.

Keep young children away from the stove.

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flames. Keep your hair and shirtsleeves pulled up and away from the flame. Make sure you keep paper towels away from the flames, too.

Never try to extinguish a fire with water, and keep water away from your frying pan. In case of a grease fire, turn off the stove and use a pot lid or a baking pan to extinguish a grease fire. If that doesn’t work, you can douse it with lots of baking soda.

Keep a good burn cream around and treat any burn right away. Let’s be real, accidents happen. If you do get burned, run your burn under cold water right away.

Dispose of your oil properly. Don’t throw that oil down the drain! It will clog your pipes. Instead, let it cool and put it in a closed container, that you can throw away.

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The Contents: Nibbles/Starters & Small Meals, Soups & Salads, Chicken, Meat, Fish & Shellfish, Vegetable Go-Alongs & Go-Alones, Desserts, Basics & Transformers.

Recipes are listed on the chapter pages and include detailed headnotes with work ahead tips, clear instructions with storing and play around ideas. Choices might include swaps, add-ins, mix and match, substitutions and for food that is intensely cookable Try the recipe that includes rolling carrots in a mix of honey, vinegar, cumin, cayenne, and smoked paprika also called pimenton and can either be mild and sweet or hot (picante) and roasting in a hot oven. A jar of store-bought mayo has mix-ins to magically transform with yuzu (somewhat like Meyer lemon) ponzu or the Korean ketchup, the rusty red gochujang. The Pantry is from Aleppo Pepper to Za’atar. Page after page of photographs inspire and make you hungry. These are recipes Dorie makes for friends in her Paris, New York City and Connecticut homes. Start your own “A” list of friends this Hanukah and add some surprises to your menu. Try this dressing over just about anything or as a dip or as a soup or as a sipper or just about everything!

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Ingredients: 1/2 cup buttermilk (well shaken before measuring) 1/2 cup plain greek yogurt 1/4 cup white balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp. freshly squeezed lime or lemon juice 1/2 tsp. fine sea salt, or more to taste 1 ripe avocado, halved, pitted, and cut into chunks 1 small or mini (Persian) cucumber, scrubbed and cut into chunks 1 garlic clove, germ removed, finely chopped 3/4 cup loosely packed coarsely chopped mixed fresh herbs, such as chives, basil, cilantro, mint and/or parsley 3 fat scallions, white and light green parts only, cut into inch-long pieces Freshly ground pepper (optional) Directions: Put the buttermilk, yogurt, vinegar, juice and salt into a blender or a food processor and whir until smooth. Drop in the avocado, cucumber, garlic, herbs, and scallions and blend until the dressing is once again smooth. Taste for salt and if you’d like, add white pepper.

You can use the dressing now, but if you have time, chill it for at least 1 hour--its best served cold.

Makes about 2 cups.

Work Ahead: You can refrigerate the dressing in a tightly covered container for up to 3 days--shake before using.

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annette van de kamp-wright Editor, Jewish Press They get dusted off and put back on our table every year, those dreidels. Except for the few that the cats get a hold off, the ones that disappear in deep corners and get found sometime in February, that is. At our house, we’ve collected them over the years. There are little wooden ones with my kids’ early Hebrew scribbles, from when they were at Friedel Jewish Academy; special ones that were given as gifts, a wooden painted one from my mother, a dainty silver one my husband received for Hanukkah one year. There are plastic ones in many different colors, leftovers from Hanukkah carnivals at the JCC or at synagogue, from when the kids were still excited about jumpy castles and games that involved throwing things. We’ve saved them all.

Together, sitting in that bowl, they tell the story of Hanukkahs past.

After Thanksgiving, the gelt get mixed in and the Hanukkah season is on (it means a lot of digging towards the end of the holiday).

Fun fact: Dreidel is considered a spoof competitive sport in North America. Major League Dreidel (MLD), founded in New York City in 2007, hosts dreidel tournaments during Hanukkah. There is also something called “No Limit Texas Dreidel,” which is a cross between traditional dreidel and Texas Hold’em poker.

One sign that some people take their dreidel game seriously: the Guinness World Record attempts that pop up from year to year. In 2004, Scouts in Ramat Gan broke the Guinness world record for largest dreidel. Standing at approximately 19.7 feet, it broke the previous record by a foot and-a-half. It took 100 people to construct it; materials were green and recycled.

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raBBi reBecca roSenthal e love Hanukkah. The message that the rabbis in the Talmud give about the holiday is that we light candles each night in order to increase the holiness in the world. What a beautiful idea... which can be completely lost on children. We don’t expect them to be immune to the culture in which we live, but we want to help them understand that the miracle of Hanukkah is about bringing more light into the world, not filling their rooms with more stuff. So here are some ideas for celebrating Hanukkah with kids that aren’t just about the presents, that have worked for our families.

1. decorate. The mitzvah of Hanukkah is to publicize the miracle, both that the small Jewish army defeated the large Greek army and that the small jar of oil lasted for eight days.

Get the message out by decorating your house. Turn it into a family project by making your own decorations.

2. do something for others. The best way to publicize the miracle is to help others see the light in the world. Find a project that you can do as a family that helps others in your community or in the world.

3. donate your tzedakah. Search your house for those coins that have been hiding in the couch all year or empty your tzedakah Find a cause that your family is passionate about and donate all that loose change. You’d be surprised how much it can add up to. Instead of

presents every night, ask your family and friends to make a donation in your child’s honor.

4. carve out time together. Commit to turning off your phones and being present. Sing as many silly Hanukkah songs as you know, play competitive

dreidel, and eat some latkes and jelly donuts.

5. read hanukkah books. There are so many fun children’s stories about Hanukkah. Both PJ Library and Amazon are great sources for finding books that will appeal to your child and the whole family.

6. invite friends over. Bonus points for inviting those friends who have never celebrated Hanukkah before. Make sure you brush up on the story before they come over.

7. watch lots of hanukkah parody videos. This is a personal favorite in my family, where we watch videos from groups like the Maccabeats to Six13 to videos people made in their own homes (or offices, like we did). Feeling

brave? Make your own.

8. make a new family tradition. Are there things you always wanted to do in your city? Make a Hanukkah bucket list and do one each night. Or have a latke contest to see who can add the most creative ingredients to the traditional potato pancakes.

Add something fun that you can do together as a family and share it with others.

And, since we know that kids (and grown-ups!) still love to get presents, you can participate in a “get one, give one” plan so that each time your child is given a toy, they have to choose a gently-used one to donate.

Make it even more meaningful by taking your child to deliver his/her donation to a shelter or a hospital.

Happy Hanukkah!

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Cheesy Kale and Potato Gratin Chaya raPPoPort The Nosher via JTA Chances are, if you’ve heard of Hanukkah, you’ve heard of the miraculous jug of oil that lasted eight days instead of one, the Maccabees, and of their hero, the warrior Judah. But there’s another hero — or in this case, heroine — associated with the Hanukkah story, and while her story is lesser known, it’s just as awe-inspiring.

Judith was a young, beautiful widow who lived in the second century BCE in the town of Bethulia. When Bethulia came under siege by the notoriously cruel Assyrian general Holofernes, and the townspeople were close to surrender, Judith stepped in. She begged her people to have faith and asked them to give her a chance before they gave up. They did, and that night, she and her maid set out for the enemy camp.

Judith walked confidently into the camp and demanded to be taken to the general. Once in his tent, she presented herself as a Jewish sympathizer and promised Holofernes she’d help him take down Bethulia. The general, who was instantly smitten, invited her to a feast.

Judith came prepared. She brought her briny, homemade goat cheese to the feast, persuaded the general to partake of the salty dairy and when he got thirsty, plied him with strong, undiluted wine. In a matter of minutes he had passed out, and lay sprawled across his tent in a drunken stupor. Judith, alone with him in the tent, uttered a silent prayer asking for help and strength. And then, in one swift motion, she unsheathed his sword and beheaded him.

Suffice it to say, Bethulia emerged victorious. Judith brought Holofernes’ severed head back to her community elders, who then launched a surprise attack on the Assyrians. The Assyrians, who found their commander laying headless in his tent, fled.

Judith had courage and bravery in spades, and today, in her honor, it’s customary to eat dairy on Hanukkah. I love this gratin for Hanukkah parties because it feeds a crowd, incor-

porates cheese and features these thinly sliced potatoes -- it’s like one big cheesy latke. The kale is a hearty addition that breaks up all the creamy, cheesy goodness, and the garlic, thyme and bay leaves add flavor.

Raclette is a particular type of Swiss cheese that becomes nutty and melty when it is heated up, but you could also use gruyere if you cannot find Raclette.

It’s delicious, but best of all, it’s a reminder of the strength women have within, and that a single act of courage can change the course of history. Eat cheese -- and celebrate

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Ingredients: Butter, for the dish 2 1/2 cups heavy cream 2 garlic cloves, minced 3 fresh bay leaves 3 sprigs fresh thyme Credit: Chaya Rappoport 5 whole black peppercorns 1 tbsp. ground mustard seed 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1 tbsp. kosher salt 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper 4 pounds russet potatoes, scrubbed and thinly sliced 4 cups washed curly or lacinato kale, chopped and stem removed 4 ounces raclette cheese (1 cup), finely grated (can also use gruyere) 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs Directions: Preheat oven to 350 F. Butter the inside of a 3-quart baking dish.

Bring the heavy cream, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, peppercorns, mustard and nutmeg to a simmer in a small saucepan over low heat. Let cool slightly. Remove bay leaves, thyme and peppercorns from sauce. Season the cream mixture with salt and pepper.

Fan out a layer of potatoes on the bottom of the buttered casserole dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and top with 1 cup of the kale. Pour 1/4 of the cream mixture on top. Sprinkle with 1/4 of the grated cheese mixture. Repeat with 3 more layers, reserving the last 1/4 cup of cheese.

Bake potatoes until tender and creamy, around 1 hour. Then cover the potatoes with foil and let bake for another 30-35 minutes, or until the cream is bubbling and the potatoes are easily pierced with a fork.

Place rack in highest position; heat broiler. Mix the breadcrumbs with the remaining 1/4 cup of cheese and sprinkle over the potatoes.

Broil until cheese is bubbling and top of gratin is golden brown, 7-10 minutes. Serve topped with sprigs of fresh thyme leaves, if desired.

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Melissa lasher y great-grandmother baked a version of the same cake every Friday for Shabbat, varying the fruit filling with the season.

Baked in a large rectangular dish, the cake was like a double-crusted cobbler.

Throughout the day, siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts, and uncles streamed through her Williamsburg apartment for a warm square of cake and a steaming cup of coffee from the percolator. On the way out they clutched paper bags, the bottoms greasy from the cookies she made with the extra cake dough.

Born in southern Russia, my great-grandmother Lily settled in Brooklyn in 1916, after working as a seamstress in France, London, and Palestine. She found the original recipe in the Forward, the Yiddish daily newspaper, and it reminded her of the cake her mother often made back home.

Her simple recipe is forgiving. Whether you add too much of this, run out of that, or leave it in the oven for a few extra minutes while you shower, the batter still puffs into soft cushions, and the fruit still sweetens the dough with its juice. She used apples in fall, blueberries or peaches in spring and summer.

My great-grandmother died well before I was born. Every Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, my mother and grandmother reminisced about her cake so longingly that it wafted scents of flour and sugar and simmering fruit through my childhood dreams. But no one could find the recipe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The cake was like a deep dish pie, but not a pie,â&#x20AC;? my mom said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too sweet, but not bland either,â&#x20AC;? my grandmother said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It had a little bit of flavor, maybe a spice.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cinnamon? Nutmeg? Vanilla?â&#x20AC;? I suggested. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, none of those,â&#x20AC;? they both insisted.

These vague and intangible descriptions made me yearn for the family recipe the way other women covet the family jewels. Every few years Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ask Grams to call her cousins and ask if they had the recipe. No one fessed up.

I pressed Grams again one spring, when I was newly pregnant with my first kid. Fatigued and queasy, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d determined that this cake would be the one thing besides bagels, Cheerios, and Ritz crackers I could stomach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tell me again why you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever baked this cake?â&#x20AC;? I grouched one day on the phone.

I used a more accusing voice than Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to remember. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d started to doubt whether

this cake had ever existedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and pregnancy didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do much for my patience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We never had to bake because my mother and aunts always made enough for five families,â&#x20AC;? my grandmother said, indulging my moodiness.

She promised sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d make another round of calls.

Three weeks later she sent me a recipe hand-written in her shaky script. A cousin had watched her own grandmother bake the cake. Every time her grandmother portioned out an ingredient with a jelly jar or eyeballed it, she stopped her and re-measured the amounts using measuring cups and spoons.

She had read the recipe to my grandmother over the phone.

I was delighted but wary, since the directions were vague. I figured Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to make the cake a few times before I got the proportions and baking time correct.

To my amazement, it was perfect the first time. In summer, I make the cake with strawberries, and use nectarines and blackberries.

We eat the leftovers, when we have them, for breakfast. At night in the fridge, the jammy fruit saturates the inner layers of dough, giving the cake a dense, bread pudding-like texture.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also become my go-to Hanukkah dessertâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the low-maintenance yin to the labor-intensive yang of latke production. The first time I baked the cake for my kids I worried that, with its sprinkle- and icing-free simplicity, the cake would lose out to the ever-present color-saturated Christmas cookie. But by some miracle, or possibly because of how gigantic the cake is, my kids looked at me like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hung the moon.

Oh, and that mystery flavor? Turned out to be vanilla. But I held my tongue.

Without further ado, the recipe for my great grandmotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cake: Any type of apples will work in this cake, but more flavorful varieties like perfumed Honeycrisp and sweet-tart Pink Lady or Gravenstein enhance the mild batter. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tinkered with the batter over the years, decreasing the sugar from 2 cups to 1.5, and adding some whole-wheat flour for its nutty flavor (and yes, fiber). I list the classic all-purpose flour batter in this recipe, but to mix it up try using either even amounts of all-purpose and whole-wheat pastry flours, or 2 cups all-purpose and 1 cup whole-wheat flours.

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CHaya RappopoRt The Nosher via JTA Babka is nearly a weekly occurrence in my house, and I can think of few things better. But it’s not just me: Babka has really been getting the recognition it deserves all over the country, making appearances everywhere from artisanal bakeries to Jewish delis and even high-end restaurants.

My babka recipe is rich, buttery and loaded with eggs, more closely related to brioche than to the old, which is what I wanted for these babka-doughnut hybrids. I increased the flour content and the eggs, making for a sturdier dough, and I reduced the amount of butter — just by a smidge so the dough would stand up better to frying. For a little crunch and to offset the sweetness of the filling and dough I added cacao nibs, which impart a slightly bitter flavor and some nice crunch, too. Cacao (or cocoa) nibs are dried, fermented pieces of coffee beans – a very pure, intense chocolaty flavor. You can find them at Whole Foods, specialty food stores (like a health food store) or on Amazon.

With these doughnuts you get all the pillowy softness of babka, plus the moisture that deep-frying locks into the dough. The dark chocolate pastry cream would be lovely in a tart, cream puffs or on cake, but here, along with the cacao nib sugar, it serves to further complement the dough and turns the whole treat into something much more than just chocolate babka.

Both doughnuts and babka are time-intensive kitchen projects — usually, it’d be either-or — and that choice would be pretty hard to make. But with these doughnuts both are possible at once. And if that isn’t a Hanukkah miracle, then I don’t know what is.

Please note: You want to make the dough the night before you will fry, so plan accordingly.

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Continued from page b12 Ingredients: For filling: 4 cups apples (about 5 medium or 1 pound), peeled and coarsely chopped 5 tbsp. sugar 1 tsp. cinnamon 10 gratings nutmeg (or a big pinch of ground nutmeg) 1/8 tsp. kosher salt For batter: 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 tbsp. baking powder 1/4 tsp. kosher salt 1 cup vegetable oil (I use sunflower but I’m sure my great-grandmother went for canola.)

4 large eggs, beaten 1/4 cup water 1 tsp. vanilla Directions: Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease a 9” x 13” baking dish with vegetable oil.

Add the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and salt to the bowl of chopped apples, mix well, and let stand for 15 minutes.

Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and kosher salt in a large bowl. Whisk together the vegetable oil, eggs, water, and vanilla in another bowl. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry. Stir together with a rubber spatula until just combined.

Using the spatula, spoon a little more than half the batter into the greased pan. Don’t just dump it into a pile, or it will be hard to spread.

Make a line of dollops lengthwise in the pan. Use the spatula to spread the batter into a somewhat even layer. (You don’t have to cover every inch of the pan, since the batter will spread and even out in the oven.)

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Continued from page B10 Their record, though impressive, was beaten two years later by West Island Hillel. When local students constructed a 22 ft., 2.5 inch dreidel in the lobby of a Montreal synagogue, Beth Ora. The project required scaffolding and a 25 ft. pole, according to hillel.org. The bonus: it actually spins. Initially, the students planned to build a giant Menorah, but since it proved too cold outside and doing it inside would certainly be a fire hazard, the idea for the giant dreidel was born.

This past November, a dreidel stood 18 ft. tall in front of the Chabad Center in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. While technically “the world’s largest dreidel” at the moment (the one in Montreal was taken down after Hanukkah 2006 was over) at that size it won’t go into the Guinness Book of Records. Still, 18 feet is nothing to scoff at, and a nice number to boot. Besides, this one is placed outside, towering over a busy intersection, drawing lots of attention.

There are other areas in which records need to be broken: in 2008, NPR.org ran a story titled No Gelt, No Glory, describing the highstakes world of Major League dreidel spinning.

“The competitors hunch over the tables, cracking fingers and stretching their wrists. It’s the first night of Hanukkah, and only one person can take home the crystal dreidel-shaped trophy,” Robert Smith writes. “The legends of the game arrive early at a bar on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. With nicknames like ‘Debbie Does Dreidel’ and ‘Jewbacca,’ this is no longer a sport for children.” The game not only centers on who can spin the longest, but participants’ dreidels have to stay on progressively smaller surfaces. This ‘sport’ may have the shortest season, but these people take their game seriously. “It’s like the NCAA,” organizer Eric Pavony says, “except more Jewish.”

In 2017, a Guinness World record was set for the most dreidels spinning at one time: 820, to be exact (965 were handed out). They spun simultaneously for approximately 10 seconds at the Boy Scouts of America’s Jamboree in Glen Jean, West Virginia. The event was sponsored by the National Jewish Committee on Scouting, whose Chairman, See Game on page B15

Chocolate Babka Doughnuts Continued from page B13 Ingredients: For the doughnut dough: 3/4 cup whole milk 4 large eggs, lightly beaten 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature, cubed 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup sugar 1 tbsp. active dry yeast 1 tsp. kosher salt For the chocolate pastry cream: 4 large egg yolks 1/4 cup sugar 2 tbsp. cornstarch 4 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 tsp. fine sea salt 1 1/2 cups milk 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, broken into pieces 1/2 stick unsalted butter, cubed For the cacao nib sugar plus frying: 6 cups vegetable oil, for frying 2 cups sugar 4 tbsp. cacao nibs Directions: To make the cacao nib sugar: In a food processor, grind the cacao nibs until fine. Combine the pulverized cacao nibs and sugar. Transfer to an airtight container until ready to use.

The next step is to make the pastry cream, since it needs to set before you fill the doughnuts. Whisk together yolks, vanilla, sugar, cornstarch, cocoa powder and salt.

In a heavy saucepan, bring milk just to a boil over moderate heat and in a stream add 1/4 cup to egg mixture, whisking until smooth.

Transfer the milk-and-egg mixture to the pan with the rest of the milk and bring to a boil, whisking (the mixture will look curdled but will become smooth as whisked).

Boil the mixture, whisking vigorously, 1 minute and remove from heat. Stir in chocolate and butter, stirring until melted and combined well. Transfer to a heatproof bowl and chill, surface covered with plastic wrap, overnight, or until ready to fill doughnuts.

To make the doughnut dough: Heat the milk until warm to the touch, around 110 F. Add the eggs to the warm milk mixture and

whisk gently to combine.

Butter a medium bowl and set aside. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, sugar, yeast and salt. Add the milk mixture and mix just until combined.

Switch to the dough hook and knead the dough on low speed, about 3 minutes. The dough will be sticky — this Credit: Chaya Rappoport is perfectly fine.

Increase the speed to medium and add the butter, a piece or two at a time. In the mixer, let the dough mix until completely smooth and elastic. To test the dough’s readiness, try stretching a piece of it. It should stretch easily to a point where it becomes translucent but doesn’t rip.

Put the dough in a buttered bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for minimum of 12 hours, or overnight.

The next day, when ready to make the doughnuts, line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Dust the paper well with flour. Tip the cold dough onto a lightly floured work surface and roll it into a 9 1/2by 12 1/2-inch rectangle. It should be about 1/2-inch thick.

Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, cut out 12 dough rounds and set them on the prepared sheets. Lightly cover them with plastic wrap and set in a warm place to proof for about 1 1/2 hours. After proofing, the dough should look puffy and spring back slowly when pressed gently.

When you’re ready to fry, line a rimmed baking sheet with paper towels. Prepare the cacao nib sugar in a bowl nearby. Spoon the pastry cream into a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip.

Add the oil to a medium, heavy-bottomed pot or to a deep fryer.

Heat the oil to between 350 and 365 F. Carefully add 2 to 3 doughnuts to the oil and fry them until golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Using a slotted spoon, put the doughnuts on the paper towels. After about 1 minute, when the doughnuts are cool enough to handle, toss them in the cacao nib sugar. Repeat with the remaining dough.

To fill the doughnuts, put the pastry cream in a pastry bag. Using a knife or a chopstick, poke a hole into one side of each doughnut. Be careful not to poke through the other side. Insert the tip of the pastry bag into the hole and gently squeeze to fill. Makes 12 doughnuts.

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Watch these four movies in honor of Hanukkah haley longman e have certainly come a long way when it comes to accurate portrayals of Jews and Jewish themes in movies and TV. But for some reason, one thing that’s seriously lacking — yes, still, in 2018 — is the amount of films that exist about Hanukkah.

Despite growing up in a relatively observant home, I pretty much spent the December breaks of my youth watching Christmas movies like Santa Clause and Home Alone because the Jewish holiday movies were so scarce — A Rugrats Chanukah and Eight Crazy Nights get old really quickly, let me tell you.

And sure, there are depictions of Hanukkah in mainstream TV and movies, like the Holiday Armadillo episode of Friends and that Chrismukkah celebration in the Meet the Parents sequel Little Fockers. But the options are still limited as far as movies about Hanukkah go — which is crazy, because isn’t Hollywood like fiy-seven percent Jewish?

But don’t despair — there is hope: ere are nonetheless a decent amount of films with Jewish themes and/or characters that are worth a viewing over the holidays. So, aer you light the candles, fry up some latkes, and open gis, sit down with your kids and stream these must-watch flicks, each with its own lesson that’s almost as inspiring as the Maccabeats’ and the story of the Festival of Lights itself.

Fiddler on the rooF is iconic musical follows a poor milkman in 1880s Russia who tries to marry off his five daughters with the help of a matchmaker (and some really catchy tunes, like, um, Matchmaker.). It’ll give the kids a glimpse into Jewish history and teach them the importance of adhering to our tradition. Plus: dancing! an ameriCan tail Another animated must-watch is this 1986 gem, which tells the “American Dream” story of Jewish mouse Fievel Mousekewitz and his family, who emigrate from Ukraine to New York to escape the pogroms (with a few hardships along the way). At its core, it’s a tale of Jewish triumph, something we need to be seeing more of in the media and in life these days. Also? e movie begins on the first night of the Festival of Lights, when Fievel is given his signature blue hat as a gi from his father. yentl If there was ever a time to rewatch Yentl it’s now. e film revolves around the title character — none other than Barbra Streisand herself — who disguises herself as a boy so she can enroll in a Yeshiva to learn Talmud. Considering that Americans just elected 100 women to Congress, Yentl was basically the OG gal who shattered glass ceilings and proved that

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Continued from page B14 Bruce Chudacoff, said: “We look forward to continuing to challenge our brothers and sisters in Israel to more competitions like this.”

Those Boy Scouts broke Tel Aviv’s record of 754 (including Tzipi Livni), which was set in 2014. Wait for the rematch; there’s no way Israel will let that stand.

More fun facts: the longest dreidel spin on record belongs to Ariel Benjamin of Claremont, California: 49.65 seconds. Jake Feinbaum of Farmington Hills, Michigan recited 81 digits of Pi during one single dreidel spin—while blindfolded. And last but not least: At Asa H.’s Bar Mitzvah party in Brooklyn, NY, Jack S. tapped a hacky sack with a dreidel 97 times in 20 seconds.

Happy spinning, everyone.

women can do everything their male counterparts can do. the Jazz Singer If you want to take it way back, e Jazz Singer is a good option. All three iterations — released in 1927, the 1950s and 1980 — are about a young man who wants to become a mainstream singer, defying his religious cantor father’s wishes and his observant upbringing in the process. I’d recommend the

‘80s version, which stars real-life Jewish singer Neil Diamond as the lead.

annette van de kamp-wright Editor, Jewish Press Every year, we hear the question: why is this holiday sometimes spelled ‘Hanukkah,’ and other times ‘Chanuka?’ Even within the same paper? The truth is, it doesn’t really matter how you spell it, because it’s transliterated from Hebrew so your guess is as good as mine. Although putting the ‘ch’ at the beginning sometimes confuses people into mispronouncing it as ‘Tschanukka,’ causing awkward moments.

In 1951, when Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion gave Harry Truman a menorah as a gift, Hanukkah first appeared in the White House. Jimmy Carter became the first American president to recognize the holiday publicly by speaking at a candle-lighting event hosted by Chabad Lubavitch in 1979.

“In Dec. 1958, then Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion presented his personal Chanukah (see?) menorah to the Israel Bond Organization as “a token of appreciation for the great work you are doing in the rebuilding of Israel.” The menorah was received on behalf of the Israel Bond drive by Dr. J. Schwartz, its vice president, who was in Israel for talks with government leaders on the problem of providing increased Israel Bond resources to make housing and employment available for immigrants from eastern Europe. The prime Minister’s menorah will be kindled at New York’s Chanukah Festival for Israel at Madison Square Garden on Monday, Dec. 8.”

(Jewish Press, Dec. 5, 1958) “The first official White House Hanukkah party was held on Dec. 10, 2001. President George W. Bush borrowed a 100-year-old hanukkiyah from the Jewish Museum in New York for the event.

Since then, the White House Hanukkah party has been a coveted get-together.” (israel21C.org) Searching Hanukkah recipes on Google gets you about 32,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds. That includes a recipe for chocolate-orange challah on delish.com and, oddly enough, matzah-lasagna as well as caramel apple upside-down cake, advertised as “our twist on apples and honey.” It’s easy to mix up those holidays, I guess.

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hanukkah The Dundee Dell

Did you know the Dell has been around since 1934? It is possibly the oldest restaurant and bar in Omaha, with the recent closings of Omaha landmarks such as the Bohemian Café, Piccolo’s, and others.

In 82 years, there have been several owners, most recently Greg Lindberg, who bought the Dell from Pat Gobel, who owned it for 27 years. Coincidentally, Gobel bought the business from Neill Everitt, who also had the Dell for 27 years. Lindberg thinks he has a shot at 27 years himself.

Famous for Fish and Chips for decades, that recipe continues to this day, and is considered sacred. Since The Dundee Dell is now in the Absolutely Fresh family, a few additional seafood dishes have been added to the menu: Faroe Islands Salmon, Peel ‘n Eat Shrimp, and the MacHaddie (haddock – quite similar to cod – with a very thin breading).

Pat Gobel, before he handed the baton to Lindberg, had this to say: The Dell is unique. It has its own vibe. It is a pub in the style of pubs in the British Isles. In the small villages and hamlets there, everyone gathers at the pub. Their homes were traditionally too small to gather in. So, the pub.

The smallest child, the oldest person, and everyone in between. No matter what your background or income level or your education, you are welcome at the pub. It is where you go to be yourself and be with other people; not virtually but really.

This is what the Dell is about.

Lindberg is proud to be able to say that 29 of the 31 Dell employees are still around, after the change of ownership.

Shucks Fish House & Oyster Bar “I swore I would never get into the restaurant business,” Greg Lindberg said many times. “So many restaurants have gone broke owing us money. And it’s an endless amount of work. You’re just never done!”

Lindberg, owner and founder of Absolutely Fresh Seafood Company, distributors of seafood to over 300 restaurants and clubs in the area, nonetheless found himself starting Shucks Fish House in 2006. Because of customer demand, Absolutely Fresh Seafood Market began serving soups, salads and sandwiches for lunch; on 4 tables next to the fish counter at 119th and Pacific.

“Back in the day, when I was looking for seafood

on the Gulf Coast, I would be killing time waiting for a boat to come in, and I would hang out in these seafood shacks instead of holing up in the Motel 6,” said Lindberg. “I never dreamed that someday I would make my own seafood shack in Omaha.”

From the very old barn wood (they call it ‘wharf’ wood) on the walls, to the straightforward recipes, to the oh-so-casual ambiance, Shucks is a tribute to the many establishments Lindberg frequented in Louisiana, as well as in New England, Florida and the West Coast.

“We have the very thinnest breading possible,” Lindberg said. “Never have I seen any thinner. When we started the Luncheonette in 2003, with Chef Claude

Hampton, we did not have a fryer. No fried fish, no french fries. I was trying to create a very healthy place to have lunch.”

“That was one of the biggest of my many, many mistakes,” Lindberg said. And he explained that people love fried food but not the calories. To that end, they purchased a fryer and started experimenting with the thinnest breading possible. That resulted in what Shucks touts as “the thinnest breading in town.”

Today, Shucks’ three locations each boast its own chef and long-term staff, and has been voted Best of Omaha for the last seven years.

The story of Absolutely Fresh Seafood Company: since 1979, Lindberg began bringing fresh seafood to Nebraska and Iowa, selling off the back of a refrigerated truck. He moved ‘inside,’ at the request of the Douglas County Health Department and never looked back.

1727 Leavenworth was the site of the first Absolutely Fresh fish market, as well as the emerging wholesale seafood operation, opening there in 1982.

In 2002, Absolutely Fresh retail market merged with Sherm’s Seafood, and then moved completely to that location, at 1218 South 119th Street.

Today, Absolutely Fresh consists of the market at 119th and Pacific plus the wholesale division (the Mother Ship) still at 18th and Leavenworth. Selling to over 300 restaurants, hotels, casinos and clubs in the Omaha, Lincoln and Des Moines areas, fresh fish is flown in several times each day.

The fish market has expanded from a few gulf seafood offerings (shrimp, crab, oysters, flounder, red snapper) into a thriving market featuring fresh and frozen seafood from around the world. The selection on any given day can include crab legs from Alaska, lobster from Maine, salmon from the Faroe

Islands off Scotland, shrimp from Louisiana, mussels from Massachusetts, oysters from New England, and fish from Central and South America.

Absolutely Fresh has long been famous for homemade cocktail sauce, freshly steamed shrimp and fresh smoked salmon. Prepared dishes, such as Seafood Enchiladas, are quickly becoming a significant part of the business. Also, fresh baguettes are delivered from Le Quartier daily.

Grab-and-go items, like sausages and cheese abound, as well as a wide variety of wine and beer.

Café Café occupied the space where Bailey’s is now, for about 25 years, under four different owners.

When it suddenly closed, Greg Lindberg decided to take a chance on the breakfast business.

“On a Tuesday noon, when the parking lot should have been busy, it was deserted. A sign on the door explained that Café Café was closed, and it was ‘just another Omaha statistic.’ That really got to me,” said Lindberg. The casinos had moved in, along with chain restaurants, and he was concerned about the loss of identity of Omaha as a result.

“We thought we could throw up a little paint, fix up some of the kitchen equipment, and be in the breakfast and lunch business,” said Lindberg. “Then I proceeded to lose a few hundred thousand dollars in the next 18 months, doing a complete remodel and then not having enough customers coming in” he said, smiling.

After the third year, the school of hard knocks started paying off, and Bailey’s has been profitable ever since.

Karen Bauermeister, who with other staff, started in 2007, even before Bailey’s was open, left in 2013

to open Over Easy. Lindberg and staff are delighted that she returned in January of this year to retake the helm.

Bailey’s claims to have the best bacon in town. “It ain’t rocket science,” says Lindberg, “we just buy the best, thickest, meatiest bacon on the market. You should try it.”

Best sellers include six variations of Eggs Benedict, Chicken Fried Steak, coffee cake, and salmon salad. The lunch menu also includes sandwiches, soups and several salads. Breakfast is served all day, and house made corned beef hash is available Fridays through Sundays.

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Five unique kosher foods you’ll be eating soon JoseFIn Dolsten SECAUCUS, N.J. | JTA nce a year, this swampy neighbor of New York City turns into kosher food heaven. Jews from across the country gather at the Meadowlands Exposition Center for the world’s largest kosher food trade show, Kosherfest.

There’s plenty of nosherai, Yiddish and kippahs to go around at an event where attendees skew Orthodox and male. Some 300 exhibitors showed their products on Nov. 13-14 to an audience of some 5,000 food industry professionals, vendors and journalists.

JTA has rounded up some of the more unusual products at the 2018 Kosherfest, from plantain croutons to dessert ravioli and a menorah-shaped ice cream cake.

Plantain croutons Home cooks looking to spice up their salads need look no further. These plantain croutons, which are manufactured in Ecuador and won Kosherfest’s award for the best new savory snack, pack a salty crunch and are gluten free. Feel free to pour on the dressing: The manufacturer claims they don’t get soggy like the regular ones.

Plantain croutons are available in supermarkets throughout the U.S. for around $2.50 for a 5ounce package. They are flavored with sea salt, but new flavors — including garlic, lemon and spicy — will hit stores soon.

“It’s all natural,” said Enrique Villacreses, general manager of TropicMax. “You can use it for soups, salads, and it always keeps crunchy.”

Sweet cheese chocolate chip ravioli Craving pasta but also in the mood for some-

Klein’s Ice Cream offers a cake, center, with slices that look like Hanukkah menorahs.

Credit: Josefin Dolsten thing sweet? These unique ravioli will satisfy your craving. The pasta is breaded and stuffed with sweet ricotta cheese and chocolate chips. They are sold frozen and can be heated up in the oven at home. For those seeking a savory version, New York Pasta Authority also sells more traditional flavors, such as spinach cheese, mushroom and

pizza ravioli. The raviolis retail for about $5 for 12 ounces; the sweet variety will be available in about three months in kosher stores.

“It’s special because people don’t think that a ravioli would be dessert or sweet,” said Chavi Katzman, who founded New York Pasta Authority see Unique kosher foods page C2

Happy Hanukkah This is a week that celebrates both the spiritual and military triumphs of the Maccabees. Almost 2,200 years ago, Antiochus IV brutally oppressed the Jewish people. During this time, the Jewish people were stripped of religious and cultural freedoms under the severest of penalties including death. Against overwhelming odds, a small army of heroic fighters took up arms and managed to defeat the Seleucid Greek Empire. After three years of struggle, the Jewish people finally were successful in their fight for freedom. Upon liberating the Temple of Jerusalem, they went to work cleaning the Temple and preparing it for rededication. Unfortunately, they were only able to find enough consecrated oil to kindle the Temple’s eternal flame for a single day. In spite of this, a miracle occurred and the oil kept the Temple lit for eight days.

When I think of the miracle of Hanukkah, it is a reminder to me of just how precious our freedom is. As with the sacrifices made by the Maccabees, every generation must fight against the darkness so that freedom may enjoy new light. I want to wish all of our friends in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District and throughout the world a Happy Hanukkah!

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Unique kosher foods Continued from page C1 with her husband, Moshe.

Menorah-shaped ice cream cake Klein’s Ice Cream gives sufganiyot a run for their money with a cake with slices that look like Hanukkah menorahs. The pareve (non-dairy) and vegan dessert is made of cherry and passion fruit-mango sorbet and is topped with chocolate icing. The health-conscious can delight -- or at least take solace -- in the fact that the cake, which comes presliced, is made with real fruit. (Another version has slices that look like candle flames.) The menorah cake is only sold around Hanukkah, but those looking for a cold treat can buy other varieties of Klein’s Ice Cream year-round. A 12slice log costs about $30 and is available in kosher supermarkets.

“If you buy it for your kids, your kids will love you,” said Victor Klein, manager of Klein’s Ice Cream.

Coconut-based butter substitute Betterine positions itself as the perfect solution for consumers who are looking for a non-dairy and all-natural butter substitute. It is made from coconut oil and is vegan, organic and GMO-free.

Betterine sticks look similar to butter, have a neutral taste and can replace butter or margarine in recipes. The product will be available in two months in kosher stores across the country at a cost of about $5.80 for one pound.

Plantain croutons don’t get soggy, their manufacturer says.

“Most [butter substitutes] have chemical ingredients. The ones that don’t taste horrible,” said Akiva Stern, president of Amarlane Foods, which produces Betterine. “This doesn’t have chemical ingredients and it tastes great, so it’s the ultimate solution as far as we’re concerned.”

Gluten-free cheese sambusaks These sambusaks taste just like the traditional Syrian savory meat- or cheese-stuffed dumpling — except they are gluten free. The idea for the dish came to Esther Anzaroot when her son started dating his now-wife, who follows

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a gluten-free diet. Anzaroot wanted to share her family’s Syrian Jewish culture with her son’s significant other, but found that many dishes contain gluten.

“Syrian food is part of our culture, so I felt terrible that she couldn’t embark and taste and share,” Anzaroot said.

Her gluten-free sambusaks, which are sold under her brand GlutenFree.sy, beat out regular pastries to snag Kosherfest’s new product award in the breads and baked goods category. They retail for $13.50 per dozen at kosher markets in the New York-area and are available with a cheese or meat filling.

JERUSALEM | JTA Israel Post and the U.S. Postal Service have issued a joint stamp for Hanukkah.

The stamp also is meant to celebrate 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United States, Israel Post said in a statement.

The new stamp design was launched simultaneously in the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest synagogue in the United States, and at the American Center in Jerusalem.

“Today’s joint stamp issue is a Credit: U.S. Post al Service symbol of the shared values and the cultural affinity between the United States and Israel,” U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman said at the Jerusalem ceremony.

Postal Service Judicial Officer Gary Shapiro said in Rhode Island: “Starting today, this work of art celebrating the Jewish Festival of Lights will travel on millions of letters and packages, throughout America and around the world.”

The stamp art features a Hanukkah menorah created using the technique of papercutting, a Jewish folk art, by artist Tamar Fishman. Behind the menorah is a shape that resembles an ancient oil jug representing the miracle of the oil that burned in the candelabra in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem after its sacking and recapture for the eight days necessary to resupply. Additional design elements include dreidels and a pomegranate plant with fruit and flowers.

The stamp is being issued in the United States as a Forever stamp, which will always be equal in value to the current first class mail one-ounce price. It will sell in Israel for 8.30 shekels, the cost of a regular first-class stamp. Hanukkah begins at sundown on Dec. 2.

The first joint U.S.-Israel Hanukkah postal stamp was issued in 1996.

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Whoever owned the menorah no longer possessed it by At the center of the object is a round network of arabesquelike decorations “that probably contains the owner’s initials in a monogram,” Faber said, “but we haven’t been able to decipher it. It’s a riddle.”

The monogram was one of several techniques that Nieuwenhuys and other Christian silversmiths in the Netherlands had developed for their rich Jewish clients.

Before the 19th century, no Jews were allowed to smith silver in the Netherlands because they were excluded from the Dutch silversmiths guilds, which were abolished in the 1800s.

“This exclusion was beneficial [to the guild] because it The Rintel Menorah, which was sold for $563,000, is Holland’s priciest object of its kind.

Credit: Amsterdam Jewish Historical Museum kept out competition, but it meant that Christian smiths needed to become experts at mak- 1907, when Queen Wilhelmina bought it for an unknown ing Jewish religious artifacts like this menorah,” Faber said. price at an auction to give it as a gift to her mother, Princess Works like the menorah on display at the museum illustrate Emma. how some Jewish customers clearly were art lovers with soThis purchase may appear inconsequential to a contempophisticated tastes. rary observer, but its significance becomes evident when exWhereas the Maduro menorah was symmetrical with amined against the backdrop of institutionalized anti-Semitism Baroque highlights, the Nieuwenhuys is asymmetrical with See Hiding in plain sight page C5 1000 N. 90th St., Suite 100 Omaha, Nebraska 68114

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RaChel RINgleR The Nosher via JTA ach Jewish holiday has its iconic food: For Passover it’s the symbolic matzah; for Rosh Hashanah it’s sweet honey and new fruits.

For Purim we get the delectable hamantaschen; and for Hanukkah it’s oil.

That purified olive oil, used to rekindle the iconic seven-branched candelabra that was eternally lit in the grand Temple in

and fried in vegetable oil. We never use schmaltz, the chicken or goose fat that was often used in Eastern Europe because of its ubiquity and low cost. We would like to! But we feel guilty enough eating any sort of fried food. Cooking our potatoes in schmaltz, while delicious, is simply a bridge too far.

But still, even within my own family, there is a latke schism. Yes to potatoes. Yes to vegetable oil. But it’s the texture of those potato delights that causes the great divide. I like a

Crunchy vs. Creamy Credit: toriavey.com Jerusalem, has shown up in modern times in our Hanukkah lamps and in our foods.

Jews from North Africa traditionally ate some form of fried pastry or doughnut filled with fruit or coated with honey and sugar. In Israel, expect to see bakeries filled with flats and flats of sufganiyot, fried doughnuts filled with jam, for weeks before the start of the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah. But in the United States, while jelly doughnuts have grown in popularity, some sort of fried pancake is still de rigeuer.

In our home, we eat what our Polish-born grandparents ate: potato latkes. Generally they are the classic ingredients: grated russet potatoes and onion, bound with matzah meal and egg, seasoned with salt and pepper,

Credit: Rachel Ringler crunchy latke, while my sisters prefer creamy. The difference between the two?

How they’re prepared and processed — on a coarse or fine grate.

For a potato pancake that while crisp on the outside is memorable for its creamy texture within, and that requires lots of oil — a tip of the frying pan to Maccabean times — try my sister Cheryl Schildkraut’s simple recipe for potato latke straight from my family’s treasure trove of Eastern European foods.

Rachel Ringler is a museum docent, challah instructor and cook who has strong feelings about the important role food plays in life, in family and in community. Her twitter handle is @rachelringler.

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hanukkah Hiding in plain sight

Continued from page C4 helmina mentioned the suffering of her Jewanti-Semitism among other European royal ish subjects only three times in her radio houses and governments. speeches to the Dutch people during five The German Emperor Wilhelm II, a con- years of exile. temporary of Wilhelmina, was a passionate Whereas before the war “Jews always anti-Semite who famously said in 1925 that “Jews and mosquitoes are a nuisance that humankind must get rid of some way or another,” adding “I believe the best way is Gas.” Belgium’s King Leopold III was more politically correct, stating magnanimously in 1942 that he has “no personal animosity” toward Jews, but declaring them nonetheless “a danger” to his country. He raised no objections when the Germans and their collaborators began deporting Belgian Jews to their deaths.

But in the Netherlands, where In countless wartime broadcasts, Queen Wilhelmina of the thousands of Jews found haven Netherlands mentioned Jews only three times.

Credit: National Archive of the Netherlands after fleeing the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition of the 16th century, royals not only refrained from such statements but were genuinely “interested in other faiths, including the Jewish one,” Faber said.

Wilhelmina’s gifting of a menorah to her mother “isn’t strange for her,” Faber said. “I imagine she found it fun, something to talk about with her mother, to see together how it works.” After all, “Jews have always been under the protection of the Royal House.”

Except, that is, during the years 1940-45, when Queen Wilhelmina and the Royal House fled to the United Kingdom. Wil-

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sought the Royal House,” during and after “it appeared Wilhelmina didn’t think too much about the Jews,” Faber said. This was “a stain” on relations between Dutch Jews and the Royal House, which underwent a “rupture.”

But this was gradually healed in the postwar years.

The fact that King Willem-Alexander, Wilhelmina’s great-grandson, in 2012 gave the Nieuwenhuys menorah on an open-ended loan to the Jewish museum on its 90th anniversary “symbolizes the healing of the rupture,” Faber said.

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Creamy Potato Latkes

Ingredients: 3 pounds russet potatoes 1 medium yellow onion 3 extra large eggs 1/2 cup matzah meal 2 tsp. kosher salt 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper Vegetable oil for frying Directions: Peel and quarter potatoes and onion.

Divide into 3 batches and place in a food processor fitted with a stainless steel mixing blade.

Process each batch until there are no visible chunks and the mixture is smooth. Do not overprocess.

Drain mixture using a sieve placed over a large bowl. Press down gently to release liquid.

Pour drained potato mixture into a clean bowl.

Add eggs, matzah meal, salt and pepper. Mix well.

Pour 1/2 inch of vegetable oil into 12- or 13-inch frying pan and heat on medium until the oil shimmers.

Using a slotted spoon, carefully place mounds of potato mixture into the hot oil.

Fry until brown on one side — about 3-4 minutes — and turn over and fry the second side until brown and crisp.

Place the browned latke on a plate lined with paper towels to absorb the excess oil and repeat steps 8 and 9 until the mixture is all used.

Serve with applesauce and sour cream if desired.

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JoseFin DoLsten JTA If you read the Harry Potter series in Hebrew you may have noticed a curious Jewish fact: Though Sirius Black isn’t Jewish, the character sings a Hanukkah song in one scene.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hebrew translator Gili Bar Hillel reveals some behindthe-scenes tidbits about her Harry Potter translation process. In the original English version, Black parodies a Christmas song, God Rest Ye, Merry Gentleman, but Bar Hillel felt that wouldn’t resonate with Israeli readers.

Instead, she referenced a well-known Hanukkah song, Mi Yimallel (Gvurot Yisrael) so that Jewish readers would be able to relate.

“There were fans who ridiculed this and said that I was trying to convert Harry to Judaism, but really the point was just to convey the cheer and festivity

of making up words to a holiday song,” she said. “I don’t think any of the characters come off as obviously Christian, other than in a vague sort of cultural way, so I didn’t feel it was a huge deal if I substituted one seasonal holiday for another!”

That wasn’t Bar Hillel’s only translation dilemma.

She struggled with finding the right phrase for “Pensieve,” a container used to store memories. After weeks of thinking, she came up with the term “Hagigit.”

The phrase is “a portmanteau of ‘hagig’ — a fleeting idea — and ‘gigit’ — a washtub,” Bar Hillel said.

It doesn’t seem like author J.K. Rowling would mind the liberties Bar Hillel took. The British author has recently become a vocal critic of anti-Semitism, using Twitter to call out people peddling anti-Jewish arguments. Her latest book even includes a villain whose obsessive hatred of Zionism turns into antiSemitism.

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sybiL kaPLan Not Just Potato Latkes An old folk proverb does say: “Hanukkah latkes teach us that one cannot live by miracles alone.”

Joan Nathan, Jewish food writer and cookbook author, contends the word latke is not Yiddish as everyone presumes but stems from “a Russian word, latka, and a pastry, from obsolete Russian oladka or flat cake of leavened wheat dough.” This, in turn, probably came from a Middle Greek word, eladion, or oil cake, stemming from elaion, meaning olive oil.

Potato pancakes do seem to have originated among poor Eastern European Jews, but potatoes did not become a staple until mid-19th century. John Cooper, in Eat and Be Satisfied-A Social History of Jewish Food, comments that Jews from Lithuania ate pancakes made from potato flour for Hanukkah and had borrowed the idea from the Ukrainians who made a potato pancake dish with goose fat called kartoflani platske, which they ate for Christmas. Since Hanukkah fell about the same time, and there were plenty of geese to provide goose fat or schmaltz, we could conclude that schmaltz became a substitute for oil. Jews living in the Pale of Settlement in the 17th century probably adapted it for Hanukkah as a way to dress potatoes differently for the holiday. Cooper also states that many Eastern European Jews ate buckwheat latkes for Hanukkah, while Polish Jews made placki, pancakes, from potato flour and fried them in oil.

But what happens when you get tired of potato latkes? Here are some variations for Hanukkah.

Sybil Kaplan is a journalist, author, compiler/editor of 9 kosher cookbooks and food writer for North American Jewish publications. She lives in Jerusalem where she leads weekly walks of the Jewish food market, Machaneh Yehudah, in English.

Ingredients: 5 grated parsnips 2 grated carrots 1/4 cup flour 2 eggs 1 tsp. dry chives or onion 1 tsp. dry parsley 1/2 tsp. salt oil Directions: Grate parsnips and carrots into a mixing bowl. Toss with flour.

Add eggs, chives or onion, parsley and salt and mix.

Heat oil in a frying pan. Make latkes by hand, add to oil, and fry until brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels.

Makes 16 patties.

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adapted from The Delights of Jerusalem by rena Valero, steimatzky, 1985 Ingredients: 6 zucchini salt salt and pepper to taste 1 diced onion 2 tbsp. chopped parsley 2 tbsp. chopped dill 2 large eggs 1/2 cup matzoh meal 1 tbsp. vegetable oil oil for frying Directions: Grate unpeeled zucchini into a strainer. Sprinkle with salt and drain for 30 minutes. Squeeze to remove remaining liquid.

In a mixing bowl, combine zucchini, salt, pepper, onion, parsley, dill, eggs, matzoh meal and 1 T. oil.

Heat oil in a frying pan. Form zucchini mixture into patties. Fry for a few a minutes on each side. Drain on paper towels.

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reidels, gelt, latkes and recent cookbooks for Hanukkah meals for friends and family. Fabulous treats are waiting page after page, recipe after recipe, story after story, photograph after photograph. israeli soul | michael solomonov & steven Cook | houghton mifflin, $35 Dazzling! Felt like I was roaming the streets and discovering the food and Israeli soul!

These award winning authors added the subtitle “easy, essential, delicious” to recipes for the varied, boisterous food found all over Israel... the flavors from all over the world, from the ends of the earth and of the people.

Think telling the story of Israel through the food. The Contents are: In The Hand: Falafel, Pita Bread, Sabich, Shawarma, Druze Mountain Bread, Jerusalem Grill, Schnitzel. At The Table: Hummus, Salads, Ashkenazi, Soups/Stews/ Stuffed, Grilling. From The Bakery: Savory, Sweet. From The Icebox: Drinks & Cold Treats. The centerfold for me is the 37 pages of mouth watering, tempting recipes and photographs for the hummus

section... not over garlicked, only a “nick” for flavor. 24 recipes just for toppings! Lose yourself in the salad pages. Included are eight quick recipes for essential salads plus over 18 more.

Lois Friedman The recipes feature brief headnotes, mostly numerical instructions, a little local color “Falafel is where your heart is” with many photographs of “the balls of gold” and local countermen and kiosks up and down the streets. The photographs make you want to be there, sampling, sampling, sampling.

Page after page after page of photographs capture the essence of this odyssey.

Bring the food of Israel for your family to enjoy this Hanukah... just open the book to any page, cook, enjoy!

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ChiCkpeas with Baharat, tomatoes, and Brown Butter

Cook 5 tbsp. salted butter in a small saucepan over medium heat until it turns brown, about 2 minutes. Chop 2 large tomatoes. Drain and rinse 1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas. Combine the tomatoes and chickpeas in a medium bowl. Strain the brown butter through a fine sieve over the tomatoes and chickpeas. Toss well. Taste and add a pinch of kosher salt and a squeeze of lemon juice.

Serves 4.

A boy murdered for his gelt and 4 other wild Hanukkah stories from the past 100 years

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in 1928, three polish boys murdered a Jewish child because they believed all Jews received hanukkah money from their parents.

Credit: Lior Zaltzman JoseFin doLsten had received at least 10 zlotys for Hanukkah from JTA his father, a woodcutter.

Since its founding in 1917, JTA has been reportin 1936, Jews in Germany canceled public ing on Jewish life around the world — including hanukkah celebrations some stories that seem more like fiction than fact.

Three years after Hitler rose to power, Jews livIn celebration of the Festival of Lights, we’ve col- ing in Nazi Germany celebrated the Festival of lected five of the most unusual Hanukkah stories Lights in synagogues, but didn’t hold any public celfrom our archive. Whether they testify to deadly ebrations in order to “avoid provocations.” A year anti-Semitism, the triumphs of Jewish life after the earlier, Germany had enacted the Nuremberg Laws, Holocaust or the positive ways in which Jews and which took away citizenship from Jews and others non-Jews have connected, they all paint an indelible who were not ethnically German, and limited their picture of the 20th-century Jewish experience. rights. As history came to show, keeping a low proin 1928, three polish boys murder a Jewish file did not help Europe’s Jews avoid the terror of child for his hanukkah money the Holocaust.

Three Christian boys murdered 7-year-old Yankele in 1945, u.s. planes deliver menorahs to Jews in a town outside Warsaw, Poland. Anti-Semitic in Germany ideas about Jews seem to have been the cause: The In the wake of World War II, the U.S. Air Force, boys, who were “taken to a hospital for psychiatric with the help of the Joint Distribution Committee, investigation,” said they thought they Jewish boy see wild hanukkah stories page C9

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What’s new for kids to read at Hanukkah?

PeNNy SCHwArTz JTA lla, Henny, Sarah, Charlotte and Gertie. The names of the five fictional sisters bring a smile to generations of Jewish Americans who grew up reading All-of-a-Kind Family, the classic mid-century chapter book series by Sydney Taylor that followed the day-to-day doings and adventures of a Jewish-American immigrant family on New York’s Lower East Side.

The trailblazing series marked the first time that a children’s book about a Jewish-American family found an audience in both Jewish and non-Jewish American homes.

Now the beloved family comes to life in All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah, the first fully illustrated picture book based on the series, by Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky. The dynamic writerillustrator team will charm young readers with this delightful story that reflects the warmth and spirited character of the original and creates a new chapter for this generation.

It’s among eight new outstanding and engaging children’s books for Hanukkah, the eight-day Festival of Light that begins this year on Sunday evening, Dec. 2.

All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah | emily Jenkins & Paul O. zelinsky | Schwartz & wade Books; ages 3 to 8 Jenkins, an award-winning author, grew up reading the All-of-a-Kind classics -- over and over, she told JTA. “As an only child, I adored books about big families and their escapades,” she wrote in an email.

Jenkins read the books to her children, who were just as smitten.

For this illustrated book, set on the eve of Hanukkah in

1912, Jenkins focused on Gertie, the spunky 4-year-old, as the family gets ready to celebrate the holiday. Adults familiar with the chapter books will spot various references to the original -- such as the ginger snaps hidden in the bed, Ella’s favorite hymn and a special library book, Jenkins revealed.

Zelinsky said illustrating the Taylor classic was a chance to reconnect with the books his daughters adored. In a phone conversation, the Brooklynite, whose recognition for excellence includes the prestigious Caldecott Award for Rapunzel, said he immersed himself in the All-of-a-Kind world, down to the details of what the storybook family’s New York apartment looked like.

Zelinsky stepped away from his well-known finer, more detailed style and embraced bolder, less polished illustrations that he said matched Gertie’s passion and reflect the soul of the stories. In one spectacular double-page spread, kids get a cutaway view of the family apartment: In the bedroom, Gertie is hiding under the bed after a tantrum while Mama and her sisters are in the adjacent kitchen joyfully preparing potato latkes.

The back pages include notes from Jenkins and Zelinsky that fill in details about Taylor and the creation of this new book.

Dreidel Day | Amalia Hoffman | Kar-Ben; ages 1-4 Young kids will spin, bounce and tumble their way through Hanukkah along with a lively kitty in this delightful board book that glows like the colors of a box of holiday candles. Little ones can count out loud with each double-page spread that features one word and one number and discover the corresponding number of colorful dreidels.

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hanukkah Wild Hanukkah stories

Continued from page C8 flew more than 48,000 candles and 400 menorahs from Palestine to Germany, where the surviving Jews were publicly celebrating Hanukkah for the first time in a decade. Hanukkah lights would shine from the windows of thousands of Jewish homes in Germany as symbols of “a new message of hope to our brethren here,” said JDC’s director of religious activity at the time.

In 1965, Jewish soldiers in Vietnam receive battery operated fans as Hanukkah presents Jewish groups dispatched over 50,000 gift-wrapped presents to Jews in the military, including some 500 battery operated fans to help bring relief from heat, humidity and insects to troops serving in Vietnam. Other gifts included books, records, mezuzahs, Star of David necklaces and refreshments. No matter how far away from home they were, Jewish chaplains were organizing candle-lighting services so the soldiers could celebrate the holiday. A total of about 30,000 Jews would serve in the Vietnam War. In 1969, Jews deliver Hanukkah food to Native Americans occupying Alcatraz Beginning on Nov. 20 of that year, Native Americans began occupying Alcatraz Island, protesting the fact that the government had not honored a century-old treaty to hand over the land. Some members of the American Jewish Congress headed to the former federal prison in San Francisco Bay to celebrate Hanukkah with them. Members of the San Francisco AJC chapter brought “a boatload of Jewish food,” and lit a menorah with the protesters, who were running out of things to eat. The takeover would not end until June 11, 1971.

Josefin Dolsten is a staff writer for JTA covering the intersection of religion, politics, and gender. Prior to joining JTA, she wrote for the Forward, Times of Israel and Psychology Today.

She received an MA in Jewish Studies and Comparative Religion from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a BA in Government from Cornell University.

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Continued from page C9 My Family Celebrates Hanukkah | Lisa Bullard; illustrated by Constanza Basaluzzo | Lerner Publications; ages 4-8 This easy-to-follow illustrated story is perfect for families and classrooms. Kids learn about the Hanukkah tale and the miracle of how a small amount of oil lasted eight days. Families celebrate, light candles, play dreidel, and receive chocolate and coins as gifts. The book’s end pages explain the holiday and pose reading-based questions helpful for educators.

Light the Menorah! A Hanukkah Handbook | Jacqueline Jules; illustrated by Kristina Swarner | Kar-Ben; ages 4-10 In this contemporary guide to Hanukkah, families discover unique ways to celebrate Hanukkah that give deeper meaning to the ritual of lighting the menorah, as well as easy-to-understand explanations of the holiday. Jules, an award-winning author, offers a short verse for each of the eight nights that can be read after lighting the menorah. They reflect the holiday’s themes of religious freedom, courage and miracles.

Swarner’s illustrations and border designs add warmth and glow. Songs, rules for playing dreidel and instructions for simple crafts such as a homemade coupon gift book make this book a welcome resource.

Hannah’s Hanukkah Hiccups | Shanna Silva; illustrated by Bob McMahon | Apples & Honey Press; ages 4-8 Uh, oh. Or make that Uh-hic-oh! Hannah Hope Hartman, a spunky young girl who lives in a brownstone on Hester Street, is practicing for her religious school’s Hanukkah program when she suddenly gets a case of the hiccups – and they just won’t go away! Her brother Henry tries to cure her by making funny faces. The building’s diverse neighbors offer their own customs: drinking pickle juice backwards; a Mexican red string cure and cardamom cookies.

Kids will relate to Hannah, who doesn’t want to be in the

The Story of Hanukkah | David A. Adler, illustrated by Jill Weber | Holiday House; Board book, ages 2-4 In this vibrantly illustrated board book, the award-winning David Adler retells the story of Hanukkah in simple, straightforward prose for young readers, paired with richly colored bold illustrations by Weber, the team that wrote the original (2011) version for older kids. The end depicts a modern family celebrating Hanukkah.

Light the Menorah: A Playful Action Rhyme | Tova Gitty Broide; illustrated

by Patti Argoff | Hachai Publishing; ages 1-4 This lively rhyming book features two young brothers and a sister from a haredi Orthodox family joyfully celebrating Hanukkah, with latkes hopping in the frying pan and the sister spinning like a dreidel.

school program with the hiccups and finds a creative solution.

Silva’s heartwarming story -- and the play on words that begin with the letter ‘h’ -- is perfectly paired with McMahon’s cartoon-like illustrations in this lively, laugh-outloud yarn that shines with the light of a family’s Hanukkah celebration.

How It’s Made: Hanukkah Menorah | Allison Ofanansky; Photographs

by Eliyahu Alpern | Apples & Honey Press; ages 7-12 Family members of all ages will gather round this engaging book, which shines a light on all things menorah. The 32 pages of Ofanansky’s text, brought to life

by Alpern’s vibrant photographs, explain the holiday and explore the many types of menorahs -- from antiques to creative whimsical versions. Kids go behind the scenes with menorah-making artists.

A fun fact reveals that one Israeli bakery fries and bakes 2,000 doughnuts for each day of Hanukkah. Gifts, songs and blessings in Hebrew, English and transliterated from Hebrew are also included, along with instructions for making candles, olive oil and latkes.

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Happy Hanukkah

Senator Bob Hilkemann Nebraska Legislature | District 4

Paid for by Hilkemann for Legislature

C12 | The Jewish Press | November 30, 2018

Wishing you a season of light and happiness.

‫מאחלים לכם עונה של אור ושמחה‬