December 2, 2022

A Sweet Kiss Goodbye for the Film Festival

MARK KIRCHHOFF JFO Engagement and Education

On Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7 p.m. in the Alan J. Levine Cultural Arts Theater at the Staenberg Omaha JCC, the 20th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival will screen another outstanding movie and present the audience with the opportunity to gently kiss this year’s series goodbye. Tickets for the film are available for $10 from the jew ishomaha.org webpage and clicking on the sliding film festival banner at the top of the page. Tickets are also available at the door with payment by cash or check.

Whether or not you have appreciated the films in this year’s festival, A Lullaby for the Valley, The Museum, In Search of Israeli Cuisine, in the way they have depicted the festival theme, Views of the World Through Israeli Eyes, you will be impressed by the

way this final film, Kiss Me Kosher, exemplifies that theme. In a contentious world where themes of same sex marriage, intercultural and inter-generational conflicts can spark fires, this movie pours water on the fire and looks at the world calmly and often humorously that include lively yet loving exchanges between various points of view. “This is our world,” the film says. There is no fuss, no muss, just a non-judgmental look at the world.

There is no surge of adrenaline from unresolved conflicts. The story is engaging, the actors convincing, the message thought-provoking. This is the right movie to conclude the series.

The Atlanta Film Festival selected this film for their community. Following the showing, the actors, director, producer, and writer engaged in a dialogue with the festival director and provided insight into the film and appreciation See Jewish Film Festival page 3

Bob’s Jam

The Jewish Federation of Omaha is counting down until we can welcome Bob Goldberg as our new CEO. While some of us, and some of you, have known Bob for many years, others have not yet had the pleasure. So, for the coming months, Bob will share short insights into who he is. This way, we get all get (re-)acquainted. If you have specific questions for Bob, feel free to email them to avandekamp@jewishom aha.org. For this first installment, Bob is remembering growing up at Beth El.

Women Leading A Dialogue

One of my most vivid memories of Beth El Synagogue as a child was going to Yom Kippur services, walking in with my family and hearing everyone offer Good Yuntif and asking my dad what it meant.

I remember how the sanctuary seemed like a cavernous space overflowing with people, including in the balcony. I remember watching Rabbi Alex Katz walk in, a small man, covered head to toe in white, he had retired a generation earlier, and I remember thinking that he must be the closest thing to G-d. I remember Cantor Najman, a large man who wore a bukhari kipot, and when he started to sing Kol Nidre, the room went quiet and everyone was attentive.

For Sunday school, we would go to the synagogue on 49th and Farnam, and then to the J on Mondays and Wednesdays for Talmud Torah. I remember having great teachers, like Blanche Wise, Walter Feidman, Margo Riekes, and Gloria Kaslow.

I remember Mr. Feidman, who I believe was a Holocaust survivor. He would teach us a prayer, like the Shema, and I would go up to him after class and ask him, what does it mean and why do we say it? And he would just look at me with a straight face and tell me to learn it, and to spit out my chewing gum! I know those prayers today because he made us repeat them over and over and over again. I am grateful to him for his persistence and dedication.

My classmates included David Zacharia, Mark Rosenblum, Mark Horwich (of blessed memory), Debbie Cohen (Roos), Debbie Fellman, Lisa Gordman (Lieb Marcus),

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JEANNETTE GABRIEL, PHD, Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies UNO Director

The Jewish Federation of Omaha and the Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, UNO hosted the Women Leading A Dialogue (WLD) delegation. The Women Leading A Dialogue program is sponsored by Partnership2Gether (P2G) for Western

Galilee and is a program through the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) . This diverse group of Jewish and Arab women who live in Akko, are seeking to move beyond coexistence to create long term ties of friendship and understanding. The events highlighted the promise and possibility that groups like WLD contribute to developing

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Shared Society opportunities within Israel. The recent election results in Israel have led to ominous predictions of increased religious and cultural polarization. Within that context, the visit of the WLD delegation to Omaha was particularly significant because it represents an alternative future path.

A few months ago, I spent a wonderful evening with the WLD group at the Parntership2Gether Western Galilee office in Akko. It was a pleasure listening to the women talk about their personal experiences that brought them to the group and their commitment to building new, enduring relationships across religious and ethnic boundaries. We discussed their long term goals for the group and their interest in setting up a program around domestic violence – a topic that united them all.

In response to the group’s interests, the Schwalb Center convened a forum at UNO to examine “Domestic Violence in the U.S. and Israel” featuring Women’s Center for Advancement (WCA). This local organization provides an extensive range of services including providing shelter and legal representation for victims. Janette Taylor, President and CEO of Women’s Center for Advancement was joined by her legal director and advocacy manager to provide a comprehensive overview of their project. The audience, which consisted of Women Leading A Dialogue members, Jewish community members, and UNO women’s studies students was taken aback by the scope of the problem and the number of clients served each year by WCA. During the follow-up discussion, WLD delegation member, Etti Sebag, who serves as an Advisor to the Mayor of Akko for the Advancement of Women provided information about the various programs that have been developed to support victims of domestic violence in that community.

Following the forum, UNO students from my Women and

Imagine your legacy

DIANE WALKER

JFO Foundation Fund & Scholarship Administrator

The Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation is again offering you the opportunity to help your dollars go further and benefit the Omaha Jewish community for years to come! With our Endowment Fund Incentive Match program –you can play a significant role!

We have two options available for your consideration. You can establish or add to either and receive a 20% match, up to $20,000 per gift, now through Dec. 31, 2022.

A PACE/LOJE Fund: The Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) or Lion of Judah Endowment (LOJE) funds are permanent funds dedicated to endowing your Jewish Federation of Omaha Annual Campaign gift. PACE and LOJE funds are not intended to take the place of any current annual gifts. Instead, they serve as a lasting legacy that will continue to make an annual gift to the campaign in perpe-

Religion class were invited to meet the WLD members and women leaders of American Muslim Institute (AMI) at their mosque located on the Tri-Faith campus. It was a great opportunity for the UNO students, most of whom have never been in a mosque before, to hear conversations between Muslim women sharing experiences across borders and learning about each other’s lives.

The events with the WLD delegation culminated at a public event cosponsored by the Jewish Federation of Omaha at Benson Theatre with a screening of Cinema Sabaya and community discussion. Cinema Sabaya, which is Israel’s official submission to the 2023 Oscars and won the Best Israeli First Feature award at the 2021 Jerusalem Film Festival, tells the story of a group of Jewish and Arab women from the mixed city of Hadera who participate in a community filmmaking class. Just like the WLD group, the film highlights the ways that Jewish and Arab women’s community projects in Israel provide spaces to overcome preconceived stereotypes and help build lasting bonds of friendship and empowerment. For many members of the audience, which included a diverse mix of Schwalb Center community supporters, UNO faculty and students, it was the first time they had met a mixed Jewish and Arab group from Israel. Many of them commented afterwards that both the film and meeting the delegation were powerful experiences that reshaped their understanding of the diversity and complexity of Israel.

Avital Ben Dror, the Partnership2Gether Western Galilee Community Engagement Coordinator who directs the Women Leading A Dialogue program, sent thanks to the Schwalb Center and the Jewish Federation of Omaha for having the “opportunity to learn and deliver our message of the desire for a shared society in Israel and the importance of dialogue between us.”

tuity on your behalf.

A Building Fund: Establish or add to an existing endowment to help pay costs to repair, replace, or renovate the newly renovated JCC. We are all enjoying the newly refreshed Staenberg Omaha JCC. With your help, we will be able to maintain the fresh look and improvements for years to come.

Between now and Dec. 31, 2022, the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation will match endowment gifts for these two specific options. Time and matching funds are limited so now is your chance to make an even bigger impact with your gift.

The Foundation’s Incentive Match program is a limited promotion that ends Dec. 31, 2022, and does not apply to donor-advised funds. For more information, please contact Amy Bernstein Shivvers at 402.334.6466 or ashivvers@jew ishomaha.org

Annual Zorinsky Bible Quiz

GARY JAVITCH

Registration is open for the annual Zorinsky Bible Quiz, which will be held Sunday, Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. in the Goldstein Room at the Jewish Community Center. The contest is open to all Jewish teenagers in the Omaha area who are in grades nine through twelve. Interested students can connect with their synagogues or study on their own.

The questions this year cover the Books of Exodus and Ruth.

“The purpose of the quiz,” according to its founder and Lodge Trustee, Steve Riekes, “is to encourage Jewish youth to become more familiar with their heritage. It is also to honor the memory of the late Omaha mayor and US Senator, Edward Zorinsky, who had a special concern for young people.” The senator’s family set up an endowment fund to pay for scholarships.

First place prize money is now $1,000, second prize is $750, third place is $500 and fourth place is $250. The prize monies can be applied toward college tuition, a trip to Israel or an approved camp or educational program sponsored by a local or national Jewish organization. In addition, any entrant who answers three questions correctly will receive $50; the overall winner will take home $100.

Marty Shukert, bible scholar, Hazzan Michael Hausman and UNL Professor Ari Kohen are the judges. Gloria Kaslow, also a cofounder, will resume her place as the quiz master; Ari Riekes will be the timer, and Adam Trubnikov will keep score. All interested students should submit their name along with their parents’ names, address and zip code, email address, telephone number, high school and grade to their synagogue or the B’nai B’rith Office, 333 S. 132 Street, Omaha, NE 68154. Other ways to enter the contest are by connecting with your synagogue leader or by emailing Gary.Javitch@gmail.com

The deadline for applications is Dec. 7. Additional information may be obtained by calling Mr. Riekes at 402.333.8498.

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Danielle Epstein (Sherman), Barb Shkolnick (Flott), Andrea Joffee (Siegel), Philip Oren, David Ben Yaakov, Eric Konigsberg, Paul Roffman, Jeff Slutzky, Chuck Levy, Rich Rosenblatt, Kathy Mann (McGauvran), Heidi Meyerson (Schneiderman), and others. Our classrooms were in the main hallway of the J. I remember Stan Mitchell was the head of the school and had a small office at the end of the hall in a space that later became the entry to the health club. I was active in sports as a kid and it caused me to miss Hebrew school from time to time, so much so that I was not allowed to graduate or go through confirmation. It is a hard deal as a young person when you have to choose between competing areas of your life. It’s hard for parents as well. That hasn’t changed. There still remain conflicts of time between religious school education and outside activities and there are no perfect answers. A long overdue thank you from me to Mrs. Wise (of blessed memory), Mr. Feidman (of blessed memory), Mrs. Riekes, Mrs. Kaslow, and Mr. Mitchell. I owe each of you a sincere debt of gratitude because you helped instill in me a lifelong love of Jewish learning. I am forever grateful.

Jewish Film Festival

Continued from page 1 for the relationships that developed among the principles through its. The Omaha Jewish Film Festival will present this dialogue video after the screening of Kiss Me Kosher. Since this is the final film, a free ticket drawing would hold no value. This evening’s drawing will be for cash refunds for tickets.

The 20th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival is made possible through the generosity of these Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation funds: Lois Jeanne Schrager Memorial Fund; Samuel & Bess Rothenberg Endowment Fund; Ann Woskoff Schulman Memorial Fund; Ruth Frisch & Oscar S. Belzer Endowment Fund; Lindsey Miller-Lerman (Avy L. & Roberta L. Miller Foundation); Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation IMPACT Grant. Additional support from B’nai B’rith – Henry Monsky Lodge.

We welcome and encourage feedback about this year’s films and other aspects of the festival. Please direct comments to Mark Kirchhoff at mkirchhoff@jewishomaha. org or 402.334.6463.

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ANTISEMITIC/HATE INCIDENTS

If you encounter an antisemitic or other hate incident, you are not alone. Your first call should be to the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in Omaha at 402.334.6572, or email JCRCreporting@ jewishomaha.org. If you perceive an imminent threat, call 911, and text Safety & Security Manager James Donahue at 402.213.1658.

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Operation Grateful Goodies is in its 5th Year!

ROBBY ERLICH

Beth El Engagement Coordinator

Attention Bakers!

Homemade goodies are needed for the years’ Operation Grateful Goodies! Now in its 5th year, Operation Grateful Goodies is gearing up to spread joy throughout Omaha later this month.

A program of Beth El’s Miriam Initiative, Operation Grateful Goodies is a way for the Jewish Community to thank people who work to save lives, away from their families during Christmas. The program is a partnership of Beth El Synagogue, Temple Israel, Beth Israel, the Jewish Federation of Omaha and Chabad of Nebraska.

Among the recipients of gift boxes are police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, emergency veterinarians and nursing home staff.

As our community is starting to recover from the Corona Virus pandemic, most gift boxes will contain homemade baked goods, while a few will still contain single-serving, storebought, non-perishable items.

The boxes will also contain homemade thank-you notes to add a personal touch to each box.

Everyone of all ages is welcome to participate in Operation Grateful Goodies! Volunteers are needed to provide goodies,

write thank-you cards, sort items and deliver boxes throughout Omaha.

In 2021, volunteers delivered 288 gift boxes to 132 locations throughout the region. Volunteers went to locations ranging from the Eppley Airfield Control Tower to fire stations, hospitals, and Offutt Air Force Base.

Following is the schedule for Operation Grateful Goodies 2022:

Wednesday, Dec. 21: Food and cards drop off, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Temple Israel

Thursday, Dec. 22: Food and cards drop off, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. at Temple Israel

Friday, Dec. 23: Sorting shift #1, noon-1 p.m. at Temple Israel, and Sorting shift #2, 1-2 p.m. at Temple Israel

Sunday, Dec. 25: Delivery is noon - 1 p.m.

For Robby Erlich from Beth El, he and his family look forward to participating every single year. “For several years, it’s been a highlight for me and my family! It’s such a great feeling to deliver some happiness to Omaha’s finest on a holiday away from their families.”

Families, teens, couples and anyone with a few hours to spare can sign up to participate in Operation Grateful Goodies at www.bethel-omaha.org. If you have any questions about Operation Grateful Goodies, contact Robby rerlich@bethelomaha.org or 402.492.8550.

Please let the Jewish Press know in advance when you are leaving and when you are returning. Sometimes several papers are sent to your “old” address before we are notified by the Post Office. Every time they return a paper to us, you miss the Jewish Press and we are charged! Please call us at 402.334.6448 or email us at jpress@jewishomaha.org.

JFO and the elections

MIKE SIEGEL, JFO President and ZOË RIEKES, JCRC President

As part of the Jewish Federation system, the Jewish Federation of Omaha has a role to play following the elections in the U.S. and Israel. It is our job to communicate to our elected officials about the priorities of our Jewish community, and how various ideas suggested by them during their candidacy will impact us.

It is also the role of JCRCs and Federations to reassure you, our stakeholders, and community partners that we are looking out for our mutual interests, especially with regard to policies that affect the Israel-Diaspora relationship, our democracy, and our safety and security at home.

In their most recent communication to all of the Federations across the country, JFNA Chair Julie Platt and President and CEO Eric Fingerhut expressed that they are very encouraged by their conversations with leaders in Israel and their commitment to building a government “that reflects the will of the voters and considers the impact of these decisions on the Jewish world as a whole.” Concurrently, the JFNA’s public affairs work in

Washington “is proceeding with a similar seriousness of purpose, helping to find ways to make our agenda a priority during the next two years of closely divided political power.”

efforts we will adopt locally, in addition to the input from our Omaha community survey earlier this year.

We are committed to keeping you informed of the JFNA’s and JCPA’s national

In January, the JFNA’s national leadership will convene to vote on the legislative and policy priorities for the coming year based on the feedback they have collected from Federations across the country. Policy and advocacy priorities are entirely nonpartisan and rooted in Jewish values. They also help guide and inform some of the issues and advocacy

and local policy agendas and activities, and there will be opportunities for you to assist in communicating with our elected officials in Lincoln and Washington.

If you have any questions or would like to engage with JCRC’s work, please do not hesitate to contact JCRC Executive Director Sharon Brodkey at sbrodkey@jewish omaha.org

The Staenberg Family Complex in St. Louis turned 13 years old, which was celebrated with a B’nai Mitzvah on Nov. 19.

The St. Louis JCC honored Michael Staenberg for the critical role he has played in helping their J become one of the finest in the country.

Michael was deeply involved in all efforts to bring the Staenberg Family Complex to life 13 years ago. His continued dedication to the J has profoundly impacted its success and the success of the St. Louis community. And, of course, no B’nai Mitzvah are complete without being hoisted up on a chair and danced around. Mazal tov, Michael Staenberg!

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu, who recently won with Ben-Gvir’s help. Credit: Getty Images

Winter session of Exploring Judaism

MARK KIRCHHOFF

JFO Program Assistant

The winter 2022-23 classes of Exploring Judaism begin on Tuesday, Dec. 13 and continue on subsequent Tuesdays through Feb. 28. Classes are from 7-8:30 p.m. and will be presented virtually via Zoom featuring an added emphasis on holding a number of sessions in-person.

Exploring Judaism through the Jewish Federation of Omaha is tailored for individuals considering conversion; persons seeking to enhance their Jewish spirituality; anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of Jewish life, no matter faith tradition, cultural background or religious upbringing; interfaith couples and parents. Group discussion is an integral part of the class. You are encouraged to ask questions, learn multiple perspectives on topics and discover what is meaningful to you in Judaism. As part of the class, clergy from the three congregations in Omaha participate in a panel discussion focusing on Judaism from each of their perspectives.

The instructor for Exploring Judaism is Scott Littky, an experienced Jewish education instructor. He began his career in Jewish education in 1985 as a religious school teacher. From 1988 through 1997 he served the then Bureau of Jewish Education of Omaha as a Community Teacher. He taught at the Friedel Jewish Academy as well as afternoon religious school programs. Scott served 17 years as a Director of Education,

A new day in security

JAMES DONAHUE

JFO Campus Safety and Security Manager

This past week, I was invited to attend a security conference hosted by the Secure Community Network in New Orleans, Louisiana. I was there with 89 other security professionals from around the United States and Canada. The conference hosted speakers ranging from former Israeli Ambassadors to the United Sates to former Presidential Press Secretaries.

We also had the pleasure of seeing presentations from retired F.B.I, D.E.A, and A.T.F. agents who worked the cases of national tragedies like the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburg and Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.

While listening to these incredible speakers, some topics seemed to come up repeatedly; how the threat environment is changing, and Anti-Semitism trending upward. During the year 2012 the ADL reported there were a little over 900 major antisemitic incidents. In 2021, a short decade later, there were over 1200. This is a trend that is only perpetuated when people who have voices of influence officially support and make antisemitic statements.

Earlier last month Kayne West (Ye) tweeted it’s time to go “death con 3” on the Jewish people. A few days later, a banner was hung from a Los Angeles freeway stating, “Kayne is Right about the Jews.” The same anti-Semitic message popped up on the Jacksonville TIAA Bank field during the Florida-Alabama college football game.

Sadly, we no longer live in the world where we can ask the question, “if,” a major event happens in our community. We have to come together, as a community, and face the fact that the question is: “when a major event happens, how prepared are we going to be?”

first at Beth El Synagogue in Omaha, Nebraska followed by positions in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Alexandria, Virginia. In 2014 he returned to Omaha and was the Program Director at Temple Israel. Scott is currently the Executive Director for the Institute for Holocaust Education. He has been teaching Exploring Judaism since 2014.

Scott has arranged the classes into three categories: (1) Judaism as a Religion, (2) Judaism as History, (3) Judaism as a Way of Life. In addition to the core course reading materials, Scott adds a variety of supplemental material each week. All of the reading material is accessed via electronic links, so no purchase of written material is required. “I’m always on the alert to include current, topical articles that fit with the Exploring Judaism classes,” Scott commented. The fee for Exploring Judaism is $180 per person. The Jewish Federation of Omaha (JFO) presents the class as a gift, free of charge, to current contributors to the Annual Campaign of the JFO, to those who are active congregants of an Omaha synagogue, to those who are being guided in a conversion process by the clergy of one of the synagogues, and to JFO employees. Registration is required and you may do so by going to www.jewishomaha.org and clicking on the “Exploring Judaism” sliding banner at the top of the page. For questions, contract Mark Kirchhoff at 402.334.6463 or emailing him at mkirchhoff@jewishomaha.org

It’s no secret that our local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are stretched beyond the max. It’s also no secret that when our community is divided, we are not as strong as we could be. These are the reasons why it is imperative we become united and prepared as a community when it comes to security.

The good news is that I’m leaving New Orleans with more tools and resources than I ever imagined possible to help our community do just that. I now have a team of full-time intelligence analysts at my disposal 24/7/365 who work with law enforcement agencies to track down the people who make antisemitic threats and want to do harm to the Jewish people.

I’m also happy to announce that I have more tools, training materials, support, and connections to be able to roll out a catalog of training opportunities available to members of the community and campus employees starting early next year. These training courses will cover topics like how to stop the bleed, countering an active threat, suspicious activity response, and other security related topics. It’s my goal that community members and employees who attend these training courses leave better prepared to answer the question of what they would do when a major incident does occur. I can also assure you that I have come back with a number of other tools and resources to make the Jewish Federation of Omaha campus a safer place to live, work, and play for all of us.

I really believe it’s a new day for security in the Omaha Jewish Community. I encourage anyone who may have any questions, security concerns, or would like to report any suspicious activity to please reach out to me at Jdonahue@ jewishomaha.org or call my office number 402.334.6446 and remember; if you see something, say something.

Harrison Ford will fight Nazis again

ANDREW LAPIN

JTA

Indy’s going to sock it to the Third Reich once more.

The fifth movie in the Indiana Jones series will plop Harrison Ford’s heroic archaeologist into “a castle swarming with Nazis” in the year 1944, according to new plot details revealed in Empire Magazine this week. Digital de-aging technology will be used to make Ford appear young again for the opening sequence before the film transitions to the year 1969.

Leaked set photos had previously hinted that Nazis would be involved in the story to some degree, but the full details were not known. The image of Indy fighting Nazis with his bare fists became an iconic part of series lore after its first entry, 1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, but the most recent go-around, 2008’s Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, was set in the 1950s and swapped Nazi villains for Soviets.

Although the character is not canonically Jewish, Jones is known for staring down antisemites over Biblical artifacts in

the first and third entries in the series, making him something of a Jewish folk hero. In the universe of the series, Hitler’s army has been subjected to cosmic punishments for attempting to exploit holy items, implying the existence of a Hebrew Almighty: Raiders depicts a gang of Nazis getting their faces melted off by a divine presence after they pry open the Ark of the Covenant, while 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ends with a Nazi crumbling to dust after he tries to drink from the Holy Grail (and also features Adolf Hitler signing autographs at a Berlin book-burning).

Set to be released next year, the still-untitled fifth Indiana Jones movie will co-star Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Mads Mikkelsen, and it is the first not to be directed by Steven Spielberg. He has handed the reins to James Mangold, whose other credits include Logan and Ford v. Ferrari. Spielberg, who created the character with George Lucas and remains involved as a producer on the fifth entry, has said he based the franchise on the adventure serials of his youth.

Teenager killed, 22 injured in Jerusalem bus stop bombings, the first in years

PHILISSA CRAMER JTA

Two bombs rocked bus stops at crowded entrances to Jerusalem during the early morning of Wednesday November 23, killing a teenager and sending about 20 people to the hospital, some in serious condition.

The fatality was a 16-year-old yeshiva student named Aryeh Shtsupak from Har Nof, a largely Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem. He may have held Canadian and American citizenship, according to local media reports.

The attacks represented the first time in years that terrorists used bombs in a deadly assault against Israelis, and police say they believe the bombs were detonated remotely. In recent months, Israel has seen a wave of terrorist attacks comprised mostly of stabbings and car rammings, including in an attack in the West Bank last week that consisted of both and killed three people. Tight Israeli security is credited with thwarting terrorists’ use of more sophisticated attack methods, and these latest bombings are being seen as a failure of Israeli security.

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad praised the attack but did not take responsibility for it. The Palestinian militant groups have claimed responsibility for previous attacks but said this one reflected “a natural response” to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and “its criminal practices” related to Muslim holy sites.

The bombings come amid the deadliest year in nearly a decade for Israelis and Palestinians, following a wave of terrorist attacks in the spring and an intense response by Israel’s army. The army has said most of the people killed in the raids it has conducted in the West Bank, including the city of Jenin, which is controlled by militants, have been involved in terrorism; some, including the Palestinian-American journalism Shireen Abu Akleh, were not.

Also on Nov. 23, an 18-yearold Israeli Arab, who was involved in a serious car accident died in Jenin after armed militants snactched his body from the healthcare facility he was hospitalized at. His father said the teenager died when the militants disconnected him from medical equipment to take him away. Another Israeli Arab man who had been involved in the car accident was then relocated to Rambam hospital in Haifa.

The security situation was among the top issues in this month’s national election that gave Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, a mandate to form a new government, which he is in the process of doing now. The current prime minister, Yair Lapid, planned Wednesday to brief Netanyahu about the security situation afternoon.

Meanwhile, a right-wing politician who is angling for a Cabinet position in charge of security in the new government traveled to the scene of one of the bombings to call for a heavy response to terror attacks, including targeted killings and curfews on the towns from which attackers are seen to have come from.

“It’s time to establish a right-wing government as soon as possible,” Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, said at the scene. “Terror does not wait.”

Among those injured in the blasts were a classmate of Shtsupak who was seriously wounded. (Shtsupak’s name has ap-

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peared with multiple English spellings.) Uri Pilichowski, an American rabbi who moved to the West Bank and has used his social media presence to try to explain the perspective of Jewish settlers, said his teenage daughter was injured in one of the blasts. “Thank God she is fine, just a small cut,” he tweeted

In related news: On Nov. 15, a Palestinian assailant killed three Israelis in an extended attack before being shot dead in the northern West bank settlement of Ariel on Tuesday.

The attack came after a period of relative calm following a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks in the spring, which spurred a series of Israeli raids in the northern West Bank that have fueled tensions.

The 20-minute spree began when the 19-year-old assailant,

whom police named as Muhammad Murad Sami Souf, stabbed and seriously wounded a security guard at Ariel’s industrial park, Haaretz reported. He continued to a gas station where he stabbed and killed two more people, stole a car, and killed another man in a car ramming. Souf got out of the car and stabbed and seriously wounded a third person before a soldier shot and killed him.

Souf reportedly had a permit to enter the Ariel industrial zone. After the attack, Israeli troops searched Souf’s nearby home village, Hares, and arrested several members of his family, according to the Haaretz report.

Israel identified the people who died as Motti Ashkenzi, 59; Tamir Avichai, 50; and Michael Ledigin, 36.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid condemned the attack as did his soon-to-be successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is close to forming a government after winning Nov. 1 elections.

Netanyahu campaigned in part by saying that Lapid was not forceful enough in countering terrorism. One of Netanyahu’s likely coalition partners, Itamar Ben-Gvir, a leader of the Otzma Yehudit Party, wants to institute the death penalty for terrorists and loosen open-fire rules for soldiers and police responding to perceived threats. (Additional reporting by Ron Kampeas).

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B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS

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Police and security personnel at the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem, Nov. 22, 2022. Credit: Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90

Medics remove the body of a man murdered in a stabbing attack earlier outside Ariel, in the West Bank, Nov. 15, 2022. Credit: Flash90

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and second-graders welcomed Israeli women who were visiting Omaha as part of the Partnership2Gether program. They sang songs, played telephone (in Hebrew, Arabic, and English), and learned some Israeli and Bedouin dances.

Top, above, right and below: Two weeks ago, the Jewish Federation hosted 16 women from Israel from the Women Leading a Dialogue program. These women are Jewish and Muslim and spent the year getting to know each other and promoting a shared society of cultures. Their program culminated with a trip to the United States. We packed a lot into the 2.5 days and made so many amazing memories!

Below: ELC students visited Friedel for their monthly innovation learning class. This month, they created salt-and-glue spiderwebs with traps and passageways and added color with watercolors.

Above: “Today I got to see a friend from Beth Israel’s Hebrew School/Talmud Torah whom I have not seen since the late 1970s: Dr. Lynn Polonski. Lynn, Jeff Kirshenbaum and I were in the same class and being together today after 45 years was incredible.” — TOBA COHEN-DUNNING

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This is not a competition

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor

David Baddiel is a British comedian-turned-activist against antisemitism. He has been discussing the forthcoming documentary based on his 2021 bestseller, Jews Don’t Count. The book deals with the idea “that progressive anti-racists are guilty of hypocrisy towards Jews by not viewing them as worthy of similar protection or championing as other minorities because they are seen as white, privileged and wealthy.” (Jacob Judah for JTA).

This ‘being seen as white’ is a central issue in the documentary. For many Jews, this is an issue we wrestle with only privately—as pushback from others is almost a given. At some point, Baddiel speaks with actor David Schwimmer:

“I am highly aware that I pass as white and I enjoy a lot of the privileges of being a straight, white, man, able bodied, I get it, I understand, and I am very aware of my privilege,” Schwimmer says before mentioning the murder of two Jewish civil rights activists by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in 1964. “I never felt white, because for me, white means safe.”

Generally, in American public discourse, ‘white’ points to skin color. It means ‘not brown, not black.’

It is, in and of itself, a racist construct, a context in which people practically use a color wheel to decide where others belong. Like crayons in the newly updated skin-tone box. How brown are you? A little bit? Medium? Are you more of a beige? Can you be technically white if you look white, but you have a

parent who is not? How much white is white enough? How much is there about the word ‘white’ that has nothing to do with color at all?

Obviously, Schwimmer is onto something: white is much more than skin tone. And if he is right when he equates white with safe, then no, Jews are not white because we are definitely not safe.

seems to have conveniently forgotten.

Here is where this whole discussion really becomes problematic. During the 1990s, Baddiel mocked soccer player Jason Lee while wearing blackface. He chose to include his public apology to Lee in this documentary. Apologizing for being a racist while making the case that antisemitism is racism?

The discussion about whether Jews are white or not, and what that means for us, is in and of itself useful. I don’t think Baddiel is entirely wrong to bring it up. I can’t argue that we are the majority, that we have ever been safe, or accepted. I think one of the great motivators of antisemitism is the fact that as a people, we are difficult to categorize. I often feel sometimes non-Jews get irritated because they can’t put us in a box. Are we a religion? An ethnicity? What are we? So they built a new box just for us and that box is antisemitism.

“Baddiel — while recognizing that there is a certain privilege in being able to ‘pass’ as white — has argued that being white is more about being ‘protected because you are a member of the majority culture’ than it is about skin color. He says antisemitism is racism, and not about ‘religious intolerance.’” (JTA)

But: this is not a competition. A fact Baddiel

At the same time, Baddiel’s work has a little bit of a martyrdom flavor. A hint of ‘me, too’ which makes that apology a strange thing to include in this documentary. A bit like saying ‘I may be a bully, but I have feelings, too.’ I don’t know. I have a hard time taking Baddiel seriously. Especially when I read things like this:

“He often feels ‘whatever the Jewish equivalent of the Bat Signal is’ and recalled how a senior Labour Party politician ‘came up to me yesterday and said: How does it feel to be the person saving the Jews?’”

Saving the Jews from what? If we have to believe David Baddiel, we mostly need to be saved from ourselves. And that really is a most uncomfortable idea.

The exhausting job of debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL JTA

A few days after the comedian Dave Chappelle appeared to justify the never-ending appeal of Jewish conspiracy theories, this sentence appeared in the New York Times: “Bankman-Fried is already drawing comparisons to Bernie Madoff.”

I’ll explain: Sam Bankman-Fried is the 30-yearold founder of FTX, the crypto-currency exchange that vaporized overnight, leaving more than 1 million creditors on the hook. Bernie Madoff, is, of course, Bernie Madoff.

It’s a fair comparison, as a former regulator tells CNN: “Bankman-Fried, like Madoff, proved adept at using his pedigree and connections to seduce sophisticated investors and regulators into missing ‘red flags,’ hiding in plain sight.”

Nevertheless, seeing these Jewish figures lumped together, I braced myself for the inevitable: Nasty tweets about Jews and money. Slander from white supremacists. Plausibly deniable chin-scratching from more “mainstream” commentators.

It’s exhausting, having to deny the obvious: that a group of people who don’t even agree on what kind of starch to eat on Passover regularly scheme to bilk innocents, manipulate markets or control the world. And it often seems the very attempt to explain these lies and their popularity ends up feeding the beast.

Chappelle’s now notorious monologue on Saturday Night Live is a case in point. At first pass, it is a characteristically mischievous attempt to both mock the rapper Kanye West for his antisemitism, and to push boundaries to explain why a troubled Black entertainer might feel aggrieved in an industry with a historic over-representation of Jews. Jon Stewart certainly heard it that way, telling Stephen Colbert, “Look at it from a Black perspective. It’s a culture that feels that its wealth has been extracted by different groups. That’s the feeling in that community, and if you don’t understand where it’s coming from, then you can’t deal with it.”

That is a useful message, but consider the messenger. Chappelle appears to disapprove of West’s conspiracy-mongering, but never once discusses the harm it might cause to the actual targets of the conspiracies. Instead, he focuses on the threat such ideas pose to the careers and reputations of entertainers like him and West. The “delusion that Jews

run show business,” said Chappelle, is “not a crazy thing to think,” but “it’s a crazy thing to say out loud.” He ends the routine by ominously invoking the “they” who might end his career.

That’s what critics meant when they said Chappelle “normalized” antisemitism: He described where it’s coming from, explained why his peers might feel that way, and only criticized it to the degree that it could lead the purveyors to be cancelled. It’s like saying, “You don’t have to vaccinate your kids. Just don’t tell anybody.”

A documentary shown recently at the DOC NYC festival here in New York teeters on the edge of the same trap. The Conspiracy, directed by the Russian-American filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin and narrated by Mayim Bialik, uses 3-D animation to explain how conspiracists ranging from a 19th-century French priest to American industrialist Henry Ford placed three Jews — German financier Max Warburg, Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and falsely accused French soldier Alfred Dreyfus — at the center of a vast, contradictory and preposterous scheme to take over the world. It connects age-old Christian animosity to the Jews to centuries of antisemitic paranoia and fear-mongering that led to unspeakable violence at Kishinev, Auschwitz and Pittsburgh. “This myth has plagued the world for centuries,” Pozdorovkin explains.

Or at least that’s the message you and I might have gotten. But I can also see someone stumbling on this film and being seduced by the rage and cynicism of the conspiracy-mongers — who, I should note, are quoted at length. Part of the problem is the film’s aesthetic: a consistently dark palette and a “camera” that lingers on ugly examples of antisemitic propaganda. Even though these images are seen on a creepy “conspiracy wall” and connected with that red thread familiar from cop shows and horror films, I can well imagine an uninformed viewer asking why members of this tiny minority seem to be at the center of so many major events of the 19th and 20th centuries.

I was reminded of a joke by the Jewish comedian Modi, ridiculing the ritual of inviting celebrities accused of antisemitism to visit a Holocaust museum. “Which is the stupidest idea, ever,” he says. “You’re taking someone who hates Jews into a Holocaust

museum. They come out of there [saying] ‘Wow! Oh my God, that was amazing! I want a T-shirt!’”

The makers of The Conspiracy (oy, that title) obviously intend the very opposite. In an interview with the Forward, Pozdorovkin agrees with the interviewer’s suggestion that those “who most need to see this film might be the least likely to be convinced by it.”

“My hope is that this film has a trickle-down effect,” he explains.

The fault lies not with those who seek to expose antisemitism but with a society that relies on the victims to explain why they shouldn’t be victimized. As many have pointed out, antisemitism isn’t a Jewish problem; it’s a problem for the individuals and societies who pin their unhappiness and neuroses on a convenient scapegoat. Ultra-nationalism and intolerance are the soil in which conspiracies take root.

But as long as scapegoating remains popular and deadly, the victims have to keep explaining and explaining the obvious — that, for instance, the fact that Sam Bankman-Fried and Bernie Madoff are Jewish is no more significant than the fact that Henry Ford and Elon Musk, two people who founded car companies, are gentiles.

The question is, who is listening?

Andrew Silow-Carroll is editor in chief of the New York Jewish Week and senior editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He previously served as JTA’s editor in chief and as editor in chief and CEO of the New Jersey Jewish News.

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A scene from The Conspiracy, a film by Maxim Pozdorovkin. Credit: Third Party Films/DOC NYC

David Baddiel. Credit: Channel 4

MANISHTANA

JTA

Last week saw Dave Chappelle deliver a brilliant monologue on Saturday Night Live addressing the antisemitism controversies surrounding Kanye West and Kyrie Irving.

Unfortunately, “brilliant” doesn’t inherently mean “moral” or “good.” Chappelle’s monologue was a masterclass in how to normalize and embolden antisemitic discourse, delivered in plain sight and with just enough “wink wink, nudge nudge” plausible deniability — mixed in with a sprinkle of real commentary — that one would easily almost not realize that … wait, did Chappelle denounce anything exactly?

He opened the monologue by pretending to read from the kind of apology being demanded of Kanye West, the rapper who in recent weeks had exposed various antisemitic tropes. “I denounce antisemitism in all its forms, and I stand with my friends in the Jewish community,” Chappelle “read,” mocking the boilerplate apologies that often arise in these moments. At face value, it’s a great piece of satire. But then he follows up with the punchline: “And that, Kanye, is how you buy yourself some time.”

He isn’t holding West to account. He’s clearing the way and setting the stage for the finest bout of antisemitic dogwhistling probably ever featured on SNL

There is legitimate commentary to be made about the often disproportionate and racialized vitriol directed at Black Americans who engage in antisemitism, coming from a society that revels in Black pain and punishment. Jews of color, and especially Black Jews like me, have been addressing this reality across social media for decades, noting the lack of intensity and accountability when the shoe is on the other foot — when Jewish figures espouse anti-blackness.

But this monologue by a Black comedian is making no such argument. And it comes as more bold and brazen bad-faith actors are acting out in more and more violent ways. Comedians are just as capable of incitement as political figures.

Chappelle is wildly adept at structuring complex jokes. For years he deftly delivered biting, raw and real socio-racial commentary, from his standup routines to The Chappelle Show, and since the 2000s has positioned himself as an astute teller

of hard truths. If you doubt the man’s intelligence, watch what he does late in the SNL routine when he talks about Donald Trump.

With backhanded praise, Chappelle attributes Trump’s popularity and appeal to his skill at being an “honest liar.” Never before, said Chappelle, had voters seen a billionaire “come from inside the house and tell the commoners, ‘Inside that house we’re doing everything you think we’re doing.’ And then he went right back inside the house and started playing the game again.”

ter a link to a wildly antisemitic film, for the terrible things that happened to Jews. They were just being asked not to promote the ideas of people who had done those terrible things.

Also on full display is Chappelle’s deft, almost “1984”-esque doublespeak. Chappelle notes that when he first saw the controversy building around West’s antisemitism, he thought “Let me see what’s going to happen first” — a strange and telling equivocation. Chappelle diminishes the significance of the film shared by Irving, Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America, by describing it as “apparently having some antisemitic tropes or something,” but then jokes that Irving probably doesn’t think the Holocaust happened — a trope presented in said movie.

Chappelle is reluctant to call Kanye “crazy” but acknowledges he is “possibly not well,” but has no problem referring to Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker as “observably stupid.”

Ultimately and persistently, Chappelle suggests that Kanye erred not in being antisemitic, but in being antisemitic out loud.

Most insidious in this regard was his seeming rejection of the notion, promoted by West, that Jews control Hollywood. Said Chappelle: “It’s a lot of Jews [in Hollywood]. Like a lot. But that doesn’t mean anything, you know what I mean? There’s a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri. It doesn’t mean we run the place.” He refers to the idea that Jews control Hollywood as a “delusion.”

When Chappelle says there are two words you should never say together — “the” and “Jews” — he’s not speaking against antisemitic conspiracy theories that treat Jews as a scheming monolith. He’s insinuating instead that there is a “The Jews” that should never be challenged. (Chappelle goes on to repeatedly use the phrase “The Jews” in his monologue.) The one time he uses “the Jewish community” is to introduce the straw man argument that Black Americans should not be blamed for the terrible things that have happened to “the Jewish community” all over the world — a declaration so baffling that only one person in the audience responds. After all, no one was blaming West or Irving, the NBA star who shared on Twit-

And then, rather than let this necessary distinction set in, he undercuts it, saying, “It’s not a crazy thing to think. But it’s a crazy thing to say out loud in a climate like this.” The problem, Chappelle is suggesting, is not harboring dangerous delusions, but saying them in public and risking being called on it. The “climate” is not one of dangerous antisemitism, but the danger of speaking one’s mind.

Chappelle telegraphed this sentiment with an earlier quip: West, he said “had broken the show business rules. You know, the rules of perception. If they’re Black, then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian, it’s a mob, but if they’re Jewish, it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it.”

Manishtana is the pen name of Shais Rishon, an African-American Orthodox rabbi, activist, speaker and writer. He has written for Tablet, Kveller, The Forward, Jewcy and Hevria.

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Chappelle took notes on Trump’s knack for saying exactly what he means and telling people exactly what he planned to do.

Comedians are just as capable of antisemitic incitement as political figures. So let’s take Dave Chappelle seriously.

Posters advertising a Netflix special by Dave Chappelle line a wall in Midtown Manhattan, April 2017. Credit: Brecht Bug/Flickr

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There’s no beer at the World Cup, but there are kosher bagels

I KLEIN

JTA

Qatar may have caused an uproar by banning alcohol at the World Cup soccer tournament in Doha this month, but for religious Jewish fans, some kosher offerings will be available, thanks to two rabbis.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, from New York, and Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s emissary to Istanbul, worked with Qatari officials to create a kosher catering program to provide for observant Jews who may attend the games. And despite a report that has echoed around the world claiming that Qatar banned the production of kosher food after promising it would be made available, the rabbis say all is still going as planned.

It won’t involve five-course meals or fine dining, but the duo arranged for kosher bagels to be baked in a catering space provided by Qatar Airways and delivered to those who need them during the World Cup.

“We decided to go with the theme of bagels, because while they are not well known here in Qatar,

they are very well known in the U.S. and ethnically identified with Jews,” Schneier told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “They’re probably the first kosher bagels being produced and baked here in Qatar.

The kitchen is under the supervision of Chitrik, who manages kosher certification operations in Turkey — one of the world’s largest food producers — on behalf of the Orthodox Union, the Israeli Rabbinate and the Turkish Rabbinate. He has also helped facilitate kosher operations elsewhere in the Middle East, such as the United Arab Emirates. Chitrik’s son Eli, also a rabbi, will stay in Qatar for the duration of the tournament to supervise the facility.

Neither rabbi said they know how much demand there will actually be for kosher food.

“It was really, you know, taking a leap of faith,” said Schneier, rabbi at the Hampton Synagogue on Long Island in New York. “I don’t know if one person needs a kosher meal or if 100 people will need a kosher meal.”

Chitrik, who has been involved in similar projects in the Gulf region in the past, told JTA that he received many phone calls asking if there would be

kosher food available.

“As rabbis in the region, we felt it was our responsibility to respond to those requests and make sure that people have what to eat if they are coming to the games. Some people are staying for a month.”

The kitchen will be operational for the full 30 days of the World Cup tournament.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Qatar has banned cooked kosher food at the World Cup, and World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder released a statement saying he was “outraged.” Both Chitrik and Schneier denied that claim.

“The whole thing was not very organized. Nobody actually came saying they would put up the money to establish a kosher restaurant. Everybody is demanding the Qataris to open a kosher restaurant, and no, they didn’t open a kosher restaurant. I’m sure if someone came with the business plan to open a kosher restaurant, they would have no problem with that. At the end of the day they did open up a kosher kitchen, but it was very last minute so there is no meat. That’s it for now,” Chitrik told JTA.

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Life cycles

MARVIN PAUL ALTMAN

Marvin Paul Altman passed away on Nov. 22 at the age of 78. Services were held on Nov. 28, 2022 at the Ludvigsen Mortuary Chapel followed by the burial in Memorial Cemetery.

He was preceded in death by parents Goldie (Eisenberg) and Benjamin Altman and brother to Harvey Altman.

Paul was born in St. Louis, Missouri on Nov. 18, 1944. He was loved by so many but held the heart of two, in particular, his first wife Francee Rife Altman, and his second wife Crystal Bahner Altman. Paul became the real-life Mike Brady bringing together the love he had for his personal three boys together with the love he had for his new three children of his new wife’s family. It was a testament to the Godliness of his soul that he was so loved by this combined families as he grew to become the loving parent of Derek and Helen, Andrew and Jill, Brian and Meira Altman, as well as the new father of Diane (Martin) and Jon Wagner along with Mike and Brian Martin. Paul was the loving Grandparent of Moriah and Justin Scamehorn, Shauna and Jeffery Hines, Jeremy, Shannon, and Bryant Wagner, as well as Grant, Jada, Daniel Chi,

Yahonaton, and Rachama Altman. Our father also had the joy and love of being the great-grandfather to Malea, Jaida, Corbin, Sofia, Raven, and Alex.

This love for Francee and motivation to start a family and become a father led Paul on his journey to Omaha, Nebraska. There he began his formal career in sales in the family men’s clothing store Stuarts with his father and brother-in-law before beginning his own store named for his two boys at the time DERRANS (Derek and Andrew).

Memorials may be made to the organization of your choice.

LORI KOLNICK

Lori Kolnick passed away on Nov. 24, 2022 in Milford, Nebraska. A private family funeral on Nov. 27, 2022 and was officiated by Rabbi Steven Abraham.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Martin and Betty Kolnick.

She is survived by brother, Stuart Kolnick and sister, Robbi Kolnick; beloved nephew, Seth Kudym; and niece, Molly Kudym.

Israeli coalition deal gives far right’s Itamar Ben-Gvir control over the police

PHILISSA CRAMER

JTA

Itamar Ben-Gvir, the right-wing Israeli politician called a “pyromaniac” by his critics because of his penchant for inflaming his country’s deep tensions, will head Israel’s police forces, under the terms of a deal inked with Benjamin Netanyahu early Friday.

The deal would expand the ministry of internal security, the old name of the cabinet position in charge of the police, into the ministry of national security and would also give Ben-Gvir authority over border police in Palestinian territories, according to the terms reported in Israeli media.

In the role, Ben-Gvir will have the power to carry out some of his long-held wishes, including loosening rules so that officers can open fire on Palestinians who throw stones and expanding the ability of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, the Jerusalem site that is home to the Al-Aqsa mosque.

Ben-Gvir — an acolyte of Meir Kahane, a rabbi barred from Israel’s parliament in the 1980s because of his racism — has ignited conflict by accompanying Jews to pray on the Temple Mount, where Jewish prayer has been strictly limited for security reasons. Twice convicted of incitement in Israeli courts, Ben-Gvir has also called for annexing large parts of the West Bank and for deporting Arabs who are not loyal to Israel.

The agreement between Ben-Gvir’s party, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power), and Likud, Benjamin Netanyahu’s party, does not mean that Netanyahu has finished forming a governing coalition, which he is charged with doing after receiving a majority of parliament seats in Israel’s Nov. 1 election. But it is a crucial step that indicates progress among the parties — and indicates that any who hopes that Netanyahu would not in fact elevate Ben-Gvir and others in his far-right bloc are likely to be disappointed.

Some U.S. Jewish groups have expressed discomfort with Ben-Gvir and his allies being installed in government, saying that the rightwing lawmakers’ vision for Israel is at odds with that of American Jews; others have remained silent, perhaps recognizing that they may have to work with a government that includes him. The Biden administration is considering refusing to meet with Ben-Gvir, though his expanded portfolio would likely create more opportunities for such meetings.

Netanyahu is still working to finalize an agreement with Bezalel Smotrich, head of the Religious Zionist party. Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to give Smotrich authority over Israel’s administration of the West Bank, including construction and demolition of both Palestinian and Jewish settlements. But the pair are reportedly at odds over whether Smotrich, who has disparaged non-Orthodox Jews, should get control of the government division that oversees Jewish conversion.

killed

RON KAMPEAS

JTA

A top Jewish community security consultant accused the University of Arizona of ignoring antisemitism as a warning sign in a case that culminated in the shooting death of a professor.

“Professor Thomas Meixner lost his life because antisemitism is not being taken seriously enough,” Michael Masters, the CEO of the Secure Community Network, wrote in an op-ed published in the Arizona Republic.

Masters said the alleged assailant’s explicitly antisemitic threats should have been a red flag for the campus police, which, Masters said did not aggressively pursue criminal charges, and the Pima County Attorney’s Office, which did not file charges. The assailant in one text to a teacher wished “death to all Jews.”

“Too often reported violent antisemitic threats like these are dismissed as a byproduct of poor mental health and are not treated with necessary precautions,” Masters wrote. “More could and should have been done to prevent a senseless murder.”

Masters’ group coordinates security for Jewish organizations across the country, and his op-ed comes amid renewed atten-

tion to the work of security groups like his. Last week, a local security project in New York City, the Community Security Initiative, provided the tip that led authorities there to apprehend a man who allegedly posted online that he would “shoot up a synagogue”; when arrested, the man had a gun, ammunition and a Nazi armband. Previously, people who have received Security Community Network training have credited it with mitigating attacks, including during the hostage situation at a Texas synagogue last January, and the group says that its tips about online posts have also led to arrests.

Murad Dervish, the suspect in the Oct. 5 slaying on the Tucson campus of the University of Arizona, believed Meixner was Jewish and was targeting Dervish because he was a Muslim, according to Meixner’s colleagues.

Dervish had received a poor grade and was fired last semester as a teaching assistant, although he was allowed to stay on at the school as a student.

Meixner, the department head, was a Roman Catholic, but, according to Eyad Atallah, another teacher whom Dervish threatened, Dervish refused to believe it.

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A Family of Things

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor

Sara Jacobson’s shop, A Family of Things, is based in the historic Little Bohemia neighborhood, and surrounded by likeminded, women-owned shops selling independent goods The Chute, Dusk Goods & Gifts, and The Greenhouse. That neighborhood is like an extra actor in the story of Sara’s shop: halfway between dilapidation and gentrification, Little Bohemia occupies that sweet spot where you can see what was, and what will be. There is a vacuum store from the 1950s, and a newly renovated metal work building. Fresh paint and old rust. It’s a landscape full of possibilities.

With a Masters in Designed Objects from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sara Jacobson is well-acquainted with the history of design, the process of making, and the value of craft and the creator. When she moved back to Omaha in January of 2020, she knew it would be different from the places she had lived before. However, she was ready for a change.

“I finally, after all the travel, felt drawn to home,” she said. “I had had it in mind for a long time.”

Sara has a solid design background and describes herself as someone centered on craft, concept and ideation. “The meaning of objects fascinates me,” she said, “and I love the research into people’s behavior, how it is connected to the design of the objects we use every day.”

Sara is a big museum person, she said, and found that museums are often a way to decompress.

“I began to do that with stores as well. Coming from a design background, objects are never just objects—they are much more than that. Where art and functionality intersect, you

gain a different level of accessibility.”

Most designers will agree: looking at pretty objects is inspiring, whether that object is an art installation worth thousands of dollars, or a simple soup spoon. Functional art and design is where Sara focused her energy when she began planning her business.

intent dedicated to making things. We hope to share things you can make, live or work with for a long time.”

A Family of Things contains a mini-gallery that rotates every month, hosts sidewalk markets (together with the neighbors) and occupies a space between art gallery and shop—like a museum, but everything is for sale. Instead of sneaking a photo on your phone while the guard isn’t looking, you can bring the object of your affection home. It’s, like Sara said, “a much more tangible way to experience art and design.”

Each object in the shop has a story. Who made it, what materials were used, where in the world does it come from.

Initially, coming home meant a trial period. She would work on her business plan and ready herself to open a store focused on design objects. Except, “Covid took the decision out of my hands. The shop plans were put on hold. Then, in June of 2021, I found the perfect space and I decided to move forward.”

A Family of Things is a curated shop for considered, wellcrafted art and design objects, and tools for living and creativity. “We source all our goods from makers around the world who are focused on a high level of quality and craft,” Sara said.

“Our mission is to support and promote independent makers, designers and manufacturers, and the process, time and

“There are regions in Japan where there is this great focus on passing down skills, on the art and craftmanship, and it’s unique—you won’t find it anywhere else. Bringing some of those objects to Omaha is a pleasure.”

The shop offers a little bit of everything, from baby gifts to handmade paper, from kitchen utensils to soaps, apothecary products and coffee and tea ware. There are toys and games, art prints and handblown glass.

A Family of Things is located at 1234 South 13th st. #203 and you can check out the website at famofthings.com. It offers curbside pickup; if you don’t have the chance to visit in person (which we highly recommend) you can check out many of the objects online.

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Annette van de Kamp | avandekamp@jewishomaha.org