December 10, 2021

A N AG E N C Y O F T H E J E W I S H F E D E R AT I O N O F O M A H A

The Jewish Press WWW.O M A H A J E W I S H P R E SS .CO M

INSIDE

|

WWW. J E W I S H O M A H A .O R G

DECEMBER 10, 2021 | 6 TE V E T 578 2 | VO L. 1 02 | NO. 9 | CANDLELIGHTING | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 4:37 P.M.

Super Monday Netflix’s The Club offers a rare portrait of Turkish Jews shattering historical taboos in the process Page 4

Operation Grateful Goodies is back Page 5

MARK KIRCHHOFF JFO Community Engagement & Education ometimes a task doesn’t seem like a task. It seems more like an opportunity. And on Super Monday, Nov. 15, 25 volunteers and staff of the Jewish Federation of Omaha (JFO) took the opportunity to assist with the 2022 Annual Campaign by contacting community members and asking for their pledge to support the JFO and its programs. Super Monday chairpersons were Terri and Dick Zacharia and Sonia and Alan Tipp. That evening, 81 people made pledges totaling $28,297. Another 250 households re-

ceived voicemail messages and follow-up notes to encourage them to pledge as well.

While the process for making calls and asking for pledges is not complicated, not everyone is motivated to do so. Aviva Segall, volunteering for the evening said, “I think anything that really connects us all with the Omaha Jewish Community is worth doing.

There are so many amazing things happening here at the Federation and in our community that it is great to do even a tiny bit to help.”

Each volunteer obtained cards with information of potential donors, found a place at a table in the Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Community Engagement Venue, dialed the See Super Monday page 2

Pam Jenoff: Courage, friendship and survival REGULARS Spotlight Voices Synagogues Life cycles

7 8 10 11

IHE Teacher Spotlights ARIEL O’DONNELL Heidi Reinhart: In her over 27 years of education in Oklahoma and Nebraska, Heidi Reinhart has been a classroom teacher, assistant principal for academics and a softball coach. Heidi earned her bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma Baptist University and her master’s degree through Oklahoma State University. She has primarily taught at the high school level, but did have a brief three-year stint teaching middle school. Today she calls Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart her teaching home.

Sivan Cohen, left, Jennifer Tompkins, Alan and Sonia Tipp

S

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 gets release date Page 12

SPONSORED BY THE BENJAMIN AND ANNA E. WIESMAN FAMILY ENDOWMENT FUND

SHIRLY BANNER JFO Library Specialist Please note, the IHE “Third Thursday” event is commencing 30 minutes later than its usual slot and an hour earlier for the Kaplan Book Discussion Group.

On Dec. 16 the Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group will join IHE one hour earlier for their monthly Lunch & Learn Series meeting. Both groups will have the privilege of hear-

Pam Jenoff Credit: Mindy Schwartz Sorasky

ing author Pam Jenoff discuss her current novel, The Woman with the Blue Star, and her previous novel, The Lost Girls of Paris, via Zoom from

Philadelphia. Group members have the choice of joining the meeting either via Zoom or in person in the Benjamin & Anna E. Wiesman Reception Room in the Staenberg Jewish Community Center. They will discuss her current novel starting at noon followed by the second novel’s discussion at 1 p.m. Both virtual discussions will utilize the Zoom link that may be obtained by contacting Scott Littky at 402.334.6575, slittky@ihene .org or Kael Sagheer at 402.334.6453, ksagheer@ihene.org.

The Woman with the Blue Star centers around a newly forming friendship of Sadie Gault and Ella Stepanek developed in the tunnels beneath the city of Kraków and the streets above.

Just before the liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother seek refuge below the See Pam Jenoff page 2

Heidi Reinhart

Heidi attended an Echoes and Reflections conference and then went through the Bearing Witness for Catholic School educators program while a middle school teacher.

She recognized that there didn’t seem to be enough time in the history survey classes at Duchesne to allow students to learn about the history of the Holocaust and the relevance today, so she asked her principal if she could design an elective course. It has been going strong for several years now. This year, there are 19 students in the one-semester class. Students in the class often participate in IHE’s Tribute to the Rescuer’s essay competition.

“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”

“This Elie Wiesel quote is at the top of my syllabus for the Lessons of the Holocaust elective that we offer.

It drives my determination for teaching the course to as many students as possible. I believe in the power of education to drive out indifference, to create a ‘social awareness which impels to action’ and prevents future atrocities. And if one life could be made better through my efforts, it will all be worth it.”

Heidi is married to Tom Reinhart.

They have three children: Meg, Clare and Patrick. They have two dogs, Rez and Scout. If Heidi isn’t reading a book, she can be found cheering for her kids on the softball or soccer fields.

See IHE Teachers page 3

2 | The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021

News

Pam Jenoff

LOC AL | N AT I O N A L | WO R L D

Super Monday

Continued from page 1 phone number from the card and spoke with the person on the other end. Volunteer “scribes” wrote personal notes to those who weren’t contacted by phone and encouraged them to make a pledge.

Stacy Feldman, who recently arrived in Omaha, was fully engaged in making calls.

“I believe the Federation has the opportunity to be the glue that really keeps the Jewish community together. If it were not for volunteers and professionals making phone calls, raising money, putting on events, and engaging in the community, we would not be able to provide a secure Jewish future and help those who are in need right now.”

Every volunteer agreed that the people of the Jewish community of Omaha are Terry Rush and Marty Ricks in the background generous and contribute time and treasure to what is needed and dreamed of. This effort was not a mortar were part of it, but not all. Now that a transformation boiler-room marathon. It was connecting and sharing with has begun, the Omaha community recognizes the need for people who had common goals, perfectly exemplified by the ongoing support for programs and services. And that is what Hanukkah-like miracle of lights inspired by Michael Staenberg Super Monday was all about.

Perhaps Terry Rush summed it up best when he said, “I was and championed by the community that resulted in the visionary transformation of the Jewish Community Center over initially apprehensive to participate, as a non-Jew, calling on the past three years. With the building renovation came a ren- behalf of a Jewish organization. I feared it may give some peoovation of ideas and visions of what could be. Children, grand- ple pause about contributing – but in the end, I believe in the children, and their children’s children all matter. Brick and mission of this organization.”

Omaha Burke High School Hall of Fame

Marti Epstein

The 2020 and 2021 Omaha Burke High School Hall of Fame recipients were inducted Nov. 19 at Champions Run. The inductees included composer Marti Epstein (1978), whose music has been performed by such groups as the San Francisco Symphony, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Frankfurt and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston.

Also honored was Robyn Roberts Freeman (1973). Freeman worked with Camp Fire Girls and Boys, eventually becoming outdoor programming director. She went on to start Camp CoHoLo, the first camp for children with cancer in Nebraska. She served as camp director and board president for 10 years.

Continued from page 1 city in the dangerous tunnels. Meanwhile. Ella is living in affluence with her stepmother in the city with little regard to the emerging war and Jewish dilemma. But a fleeting encounter of Sadie through a sewer grate changes all this and Ella attempts to help Sadie survive this seemingly doomed fate. The courage and resilience of both girls is tested throughout the novel.

The Lost Girls of Paris is also a testimony of friendship and courage.

The lives of two women named Maria and Eleanor and their connection to a secret female spy ring from 1943 - 1944 is ultimately unraveled in 1946 by a third woman named Grace. Grace discovers an abandoned suitcase in Grand Central Station and removes the suitcase. The suitcase contains a folder of pictures of several military women and she discovers that Eleanor, the suitcase’s owner, was killed in a car accident that morning.

Who was this woman.

Eleanor Tigg? What was her relationship to the women in the photos? Why was she carrying them with her? And what was this British woman doing in New York?

Please feel free to join us on December 16 in person or via Zoom. The Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group meets on the third Thursday of every month at 1 p.m. New members are always welcome. To view books discussed by the group over the past several years, go to www. jewish omaha.org, click on the “Community & Education” pulldown tab and navigate to “Kripke Jewish Federation Library,” then to “Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group.”

The group receives administrative support from the Community Engagement & Education arm of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. For information about the group and to join in the discussion, contact Shirly Banner at 402.334.6462 or sbanner@jewishomaha.org.

Robyn Roberts Freeman

Pam Jenoff: Courage, friendship and survival SCOOPS OF SUPPORT Stop in at eCreamery in Miracle Hills or Dundee on December 16th and 10% of your purchase goes for the benefit of the Institute for Holocaust Education.

Contact Jay Katelman 402-334-6432 jkatelman@jewishomaha.org www.jfofoundation.org

The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021 | 3

A sure-fire investment

ined that at some point our kids would participate in a trip to MARK KIRCHHOFF Israel and this was an amazing opportunity for us to help save JFO Community Engagement & Education You have been planning this for years, and now the day of for that future trip while our funds are being matched by both fulfillment has come. Is this really going to work as promised? the Jewish Federation and Beth El. Jake is now a senior in high school and this winter There’s a lot at stake break he will be particihere. Your child – now a pating in the community young adult – is preparteen trip sponsored by ing for their first organthe Federation and the ized trip to Israel. You cost of the trip will be recall that when you enpaid through his Passrolled your child in port to Israel account.

"Passport to Israel" when The Passport to Israel they entered kinderprogram makes it so garten, that you thought easy for families to save about a trip to Israel for this type of lifesomeday. Now that the changing trip and I enday of the anticipated courage everyone to payoff has come, you are enroll in the program." deeply involved in planFamilies make annual ning a trip, and you contributions to a dediknow that trips aren't cated account which cheap. can reach a maximum You check the account amount of $2,000. At the and confirm that you time that an Israel trip is have saved the maxibeing arranged, the fammum allowable amount ily’s synagogue and the of $2,000. As you look at Ari and Ethan Finkelstein JFO will each match the expenses and count the funds available, just as promised, the amount has grown from funds from the child’s account up to $2,000 to be used for the $2,000 to $3,000 to $4,000 to $5,000 to $6,000. How is that pos- trip. It is a no-risk program. A family may withdraw funds from sible? Promise fulfilled. The seed you planted for participation their account at any time. Only funds being used for a trip to in the “Passport to Israel” program (aka “Gift of Israel”) has Israel will be matched. The Passport to Israel Program does borne fruit. Your synagogue and the Jewish Federation of specify that the trip must be (a) educational in nature for a Omaha have joined with you to provide the experience of Is- group of peers, (b) be organized by a non-profit organization or an educational/religious institution, (c) staffed by qualified rael for your child that will have a life-long impact.

Rebecca Ruetsch Finkelstein shared her family's anticipa- personnel, (d) be structured with a predetermined itinerary tion and appreciation for the program when she said, "The or curriculum.

Rabbi Emeritus Aryeh Azriel is known for his strong support Passport to Israel program was an incredible resource for us.

It gave us the opportunity to send our sons, Ari and Ethan, to for all Jews to visit Israel. "Israel is a beautiful country that Israel for the summer with the Ramah Seminar program. They does not have the cold weather we have here – that should be will never forget the six weeks they spent in Israel learning reason enough to visit. But for a Jew, there is something beabout the sites, history, meeting new friends and understand- yond that. There is something very special that happens inside with a visit to the homeland for all Jews. That is a real gift to ing more about themselves and Judaism."

The Omaha Passport to Israel Program is a shining example give to a child."

Passport to Israel prides itself in minimizing paperwork to of a partnership between families, the Jewish Federation of Omaha ( JFO) and the local synagogues to provide the re- the extent possible and providing hands-on assistance in sources which will enable students enrolled in participating working through the process. Signing up takes little more than Jewish schools and Jewish study programs to take part in an five minutes, and obtaining matching funds at the time of a Israel peer experience as a meaningful part of their Jewish ed- trip only a few days. The goal of the program is to get kids to ucation. The program exists for those families in the Israel, not to teach the family about bureaucracies.

If you have a child who is entering kindergarten or has not Omaha/Council Bluffs metropolitan area who are in good standing with one of the area synagogues and are supporting yet completed 8th grade, it is hard to think of a reason why the JFO’s Annual Campaign. Students may enroll from the you would not participate in this program. Even if you are untime they are in kindergarten through the 8th grade and may sure of your child going to Israel, at a minimum you have set make use of the program through their last year of college or aside an affordable amount every year. If no trip is taken, your funds are returned to you. age 23, whichever comes first.

Enrollment is quick and easy. Have your questions anSpeaking for the Lucoff family, Erika shared, "Our family started participating in the Passport to Israel program when swered and get signed up by contacting Mark Kirchhoff at our oldest son ( Jake) began Kindergarten. We always imag- 402.334.6463 or mkirchhoff@jewishomaha.org.

IHE Teachers Continued from page 1 Trysta Asche: In her time as a secondary Language Arts teacher and Library Media Specialist, Trysta Asche has been dedicated to fostering student growth through academic progress and experiences.

Asche received her BA in Education in 2012 and an MS in Education in 2018, both from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. After spending time as a Library Media Specialist for Arcadia Public Schools, she served as a Language Arts Instructor for the same disTrysta Asche trict. In 2021 she made the transition to be an 8-12 Language Arts Instructor in Loup City, Nebraska. When she is not in the classroom, Asche is a

dedicated volleyball coach.

In 2018 she attended the Belfer Conference for educators, and has taken part in multiple Echoes and Reflections programs since 2018. In 2020 she was chosen to be a USHMM Museum Teacher Fellow. As a devoted Holocaust educator, Asche said the following: “Learning about the Holocaust has permanently changed my perspective on many aspects of my own everyday life.

The knowledge that I have gained from programs provided by the IHE, USHMM and Echoes and Reflection has made me want to share my feelings and experiences with every individual who crosses my path, and has given me an even stronger purpose in implementing and utilizing Holocaust education within each of my own classes. I truly believe that these lessons and stories can change lives, and can give our students an opportunity to use their knowledge of these atrocities as a way to develop a new way of thinking and perspectives on how they can positively contribute to changes we need in society today and into the future.”

ORGANIZATIONS B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS The Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith is pleased to announce the resumption of its award-winning speaker program via Zoom.

Although the Home auditorium remains temporarily closed, we’ll continue presenting an outstanding lineup of thought-provoking keynoters. For specific speaker information and/or to be placed on the email list, please contact Breadbreakers chair Gary Javitch at breadbreakersomaha@gmail.com or leave a message at the B’nai B’rith JCC office 402.334.6443.

How is this publication thinking about the future?

By becoming part of the past.

This publication is available from ProQuest Information and Learning in one or more of the following ways: • Online, via the ProQuest® information service • Microform • CD-ROM • Via database licensing

Electronic Databases

Microform & Print

Chadwyck-Healey

For more information, call

1-800-521-0600, ext. 2888 (US) or 01-734-761-4700 (International) www.il.proquest.com From

4 | The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021

Netflix’s The Club offers a rare portrait of Turkish Jews, shattering historical taboos in the process

HIRO 88 WEST OMAHA

3655 N 129th St.

OLD MARKET

1308 Jackson St.

402.933.0091

402.933.5168

MILLARD

LINCOLN

17664 Welch Pl.

402.933.5168

601 R St. #100

402.261.9388

www.Hiro88.com S U S H I | J A PA N E S E | C H I N E S E

up for a murder she committed as a teenager. The identity of DAVID I. KLEIN the victim and her motive start off unclear, but as one mystery ISTANBUL | JTA Imported Israeli TV has given Netflix several big hits in re- is revealed, another is introduced. cent years, largely focused on the travails of Orthodox AshkeJewish themes emerge throughout the drama. An early bit nazi Jews. The latest breakout show about a Jewish of conflict comes between Matilda and her main foil, the community is very different. brutish Çelebi (pronounced Chelebi and played by Firat Tanis) The Club is a Turkish drama about a Sephardic family in when the latter forces her to work through the start of Shab1950’s Istanbul, and it’s both reshaping what representation bat on her first week at the club. feels like for the roughly 15,000 Jews living in Turkey today and “Ah, that day when you people don’t even touch a light offering American audiences a window into an underexplored switch,” Çelebi smugly says before switching them off, leaving corner of the Jewish world.

Matilda working in the dark The first episode of The Club with Shabbat approaching. (translated from Kulüp), which Episodes later, Çelebi’s true debuted on Netflix Nov. 5 and back story is revealed in the is available to view for U.S. submidst of a Purim party, and scribers to the streaming platquickly followed with a monoform, begins with a Hebrew logue deftly delivered by Bana, sabbath prayer and ends in a a veteran of Ladino theatre.

Ladino song. It only dives “You must know what Purim deeper from there, weaving the is, Matilda,” Bana’s character intricacies of Jewish obserHaymi says. “It is the holiday of vance and the country’s evercontradictions, the revealing of present struggle between that which was hidden.” minority acceptance and asThe six-episode series isn’t disimilation into its plot. rector Zeynep Günay Tan’s first From discussion of Shabbat Ilker Kiliç, left, as Mordo, and Asude Kalebek as Raşel in The experience with Jewish audirules, to the tradition of kissing Club. Credit: Netflix ences. One of her past projects, a mezuzah when entering a room, to the scenes shot in Turk- The Bride of Istanbul, became a smash hit in Israel, where ish synagogues, many Turkish Jews have found the show a rev- Turkish soap operas have become increasingly popular in reelation — especially given the fact that Jewish characters are cent years. usually relegated to stereotypes in Turkish productions. TurkSince the Arab Spring a decade ago, Turkey’s film and teleish is the main language of the series, but there is some Ladino vision industry has replaced Egypt’s as the largest and most — the historical language of Sephardic Jewry, a mixture of me- influential in the Muslim world. But even though Turkey has dieval-Spanish, Hebrew and Aramaic alongside Turkish, a sizable Jewish population, unlike Egypt, the shift had not Greek, Arabic and other languages — in every episode. translated into meaningful representation.

“Jewish people were just happy to see themselves,” Eli “Until today, we had only heard the names of these people Haligua, editor of the Turkish Jewish news outlet Avlaremoz, on Turkish television: The textile merchant Nedim, pawnbrotold the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. ker Solomon, Mossad agent Moshe, Jewish businessman It’s not just Jews who are watching either, as the show has Mison, etc,” wrote Gabi Behiri, an Istanbul-born Jew, on Twitbecome popular across a large swath of Turkish society. ter in Turkish last week. “In other words, a uniform and genWhile the series can be at times convoluted and its ultimate eralized Jew was shown to people living in Turkey, using all of resolution underwhelming, the show’s real strength lies in the the known antisemitic tropes.” world of Turkish minorities that it depicts. Its characters’ In contrast, The Club portrays its Jewish characters, both names make that clear — there is Agop (Armenian); Yanni, rich and poor, in a largely sympathetic light.

Tasula and Niko (Greeks); and of course, Matilda, Davit, Rasel “One of the major things people were really happy about and Mordo (Sephardic Jews). was that the Jewish characters weren’t shown as evil or as a Much of The Club takes place in the Istanbul neighborhood kind of loan shark,” Haligua said. “It was one of the first times of Galata, colloquially known as Kula, a site that evokes a that all minorities and non-Muslim people were represented, strong sense of nostalgia for Turkish Jews. Today it is one of not as evil, or the enemy, but actually as victims of the politics Istanbul’s biggest tourist attractions, thanks to its eponymous of Turkification,” or the practice of forced assimilation that has tower, but in the era in which the show is set, the neighbor- characterized much of Turkish history. hood was home to a large and close-knit Jewish community, “That was kind of a milestone,” he added. “And not only for where one was as likely to hear Ladino on its twisting streets Jewish people, also Armenian people and Greek people.” and alleyways as Greek or Turkish.

The show tackles another taboo from Turkish history: The To get the setting right, the show’s producers brought on timeframe places the show in the aftermath of the infamous many prominent Ladino speakers from the Turkish Jewish wealth tax of the 1940s and the 1955 Istanbul Pogrom. community, including theater actor Izzet Bana, actress Forti The wealth tax, or Varlik Vergisi, was a policy of the Turkish Barokas and Karen Sarhon, also an actress and editor of the Republic instituted in 1942. Its stated purpose was to fund a last printed Ladino language magazine, El Ameneser. They standing army in case Turkey was invaded by either the Nazis and several other members of the Istanbul Jewish community or the Soviet Union. In reality, the goal turned out to be a transhad small roles in the series. fer of wealth from non-Muslim minorities, who were promi“I saw in the show five or seven people that I know in per- nent in Turkey’s merchant classes, to the Muslim majority. son,” Haligua said. “So of course, I felt a belonging to the story.”

As such, while Muslims were taxed at a rate of less than 5% Set in the 1950s, the plot follows Matilda (played by Gökçe on the value of their non-movable assets, Jews and Greeks saw Bahadir), a Sephardic Jewish woman who has just been released rates well over 100%. Armenians were hit harshest of all with from prison, her daughter Rasel (pronounced Rashel, and rates over 200%. For many, that surpassed their entire wealth, played by Asude Kalebek) and the other workers of the titular and those who could not pay within 15 days were sent to labor nightclub, Club Istanbul, where Matilda finds herself working. camps near the town of Askale in Eastern Turkey. At least a When the viewer first meets Matilda, she has been locked See The Club page 6

The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021 | 5

Operation Grateful Goodies is back

LINDA SALTZMAN The 4th annual Operation Grateful Goodies is gearing up to spread joy throughout Omaha later this month. And with Chanukah behind us, OGG is a great opportunity for Jews to give back to our community during the holiday season.

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.

Because Dec. 25 falls on Shabbat, volunteers will deliver goodies on Friday afternoon, Dec. 24.

As our community continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic, gift boxes will once again contain single-serving, store-bought, nonperishable 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 notes, sort items and deliver boxes throughout Omaha.

In 2020, volunteers delivered 236 gift boxes to 112 locations throughout the region. Volunteers went to locations ranging from the Eppley Airfield Control Tower to fire stations, hospitals and Offutt Air Force Base.

News LOCA L | N ATION AL | WO RLD

An 11-year-old girl found a rare coin in Jerusalem

Here is the schedule for Operation Grateful Goodies 2021: Dec. 21, 22 and 23: Goodies and cards dropped off at Temple Israel from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Dec. 23: Sorting Shift #1 at Temple Israel: 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. (8 people maximum) Dec. 23: Sorting Shift #2 at Temple Israel: 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. (8 people maximum) Dec. 24: Pick up boxes at Temple Israel to deliver: noon - 1 p.m.

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 at rerlich@bethel-omaha. org or 402.492.8550.

Patent attorney. Jazz enthusiast. Philanthropist.

A life well planned allows you to

LIVE YOUR LIFE.

SHIRA HANAU JTA An 11-year-old girl found a rare silver coin dating from approximately 67-68 CE in dirt from excavations at the City of David park in Jerusalem.

Liel Krutokop was visiting the site with her family recently to sift dirt from an archeological dig when she found the coin, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority.

“We poured the bucket with the dirt on the strainer, and as we filtered the stones that were inside, I saw something round,” Krutokop said of the moment when she found the coin in a statement.

After cleaning and examining the coin, archaeologists overseeing the site believe the coin may have been minted by Temple priests sympathetic to the cause of the Jewish rebels in their war against the Romans who controlled Jerusalem at the time. The coin is marked on one side with a cup and the letters “shin” and “bet,” which indicate that it was minted during the second year of the war, sometimes also called the Great Revolt.

The other side of the coin bears an inscription associated with the headquarters of the High Priest in the temple and the words “Holy Jerusalem.” That inscription, along with the high quality of silver from which the coin was made, indicates that the coin may have been

Liel Krutokop holds the coin she found in Jerusalem. Credit: Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities Authority

minted by a priest using metal from the Temple’s own silver reserves.

Dr. Robert Kool, who leads the coin department at the Israel Antiquities Authority, said the coin was especially unusual because it was made of silver.

“This is a rare find, since out of many thousands of coins discovered to date in archeological excavations, only about 30 coins are coins made of silver, from the period of the Great Revolt,” Kool said.

“I was lucky to find it, but I also want to say thank you to my sister for choosing the bucket we sifted,” Krutokop said. “If she had not chosen this particular bucket, I probably would not have found the coin.”

HOLIDAY SALE ALL JEWELRY UP TO 50% OFF*

If there’s one thing we all share, it’s that our lives are all unique. Backed by sophisticated resources, a Raymond James financial advisor can help you plan for what’s important to you. That’s LIFE WELL PLANNED.

Michael Sigmond Vice President, Investments 13120 Pierce St, Suite 200, Omaha, NE 68144 T 402.800.1358 // T 844.542.1827 Michael.Sigmond@raymondjames.com SigmondFinancialManagement.com

© 2020 Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC. Securities offered through Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC, and are not insured by any financial institution insurance, the FDIC/NCUA or any other government agency, are not deposits or obligations of the financial institution, are not guaranteed by the financial institution, and are subject to risks, including the possible loss of principal. The financial institution and the investment center are not registered broker/dealers and are independent of Raymond James Financial Services. Investment advisory services offered through Raymond James Financial Services Advisors, Inc. 19-BDMKT-4086 BS 2/20

402-333-SOLS | Solsomaha.com 6 LOCATIONS | OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK *(exclusions apply, see store for details)

6 | The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021

News

The Club

LOC AL | N AT I O N A L | WO R L D

National Museum of American Jewish History buys back building it lost in bankruptcy with gift from Stuart Weitzman ruptcy protection in March 2020, it donated to the museum. In 2018, he gave ASAF SHALEV owed $30 million to bondholders as a re- $1 million to establish the First Families JTA Footwear entrepreneur Stuart Weitz- sult of costs associated with a recent Gallery, which is focused on the lives of early Jewish settlers in colonial America. man has come to the rescue of the finan- $150 million building project.

The museum was able to come out of Weitzman made his fortune as a piocially beleaguered National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. bankruptcy by mid-September 2021 neering shoe designer. The company he The museum had racked up $30 million in construction debt and lost ownership of its new building, emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. Now, a gift from Weitzman will allow the museum to buy back the building and establish an “eight-figure” endowment, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported recently.

The institution is being renamed the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.

The museum’s CEO Misha Galperin announced the news on Tuesday in an article for eJewishPhilan- A view of the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, March 17, 2020. Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images thropy. The Inquirer interviewed Galperin, who declined to share after bondholders forgave almost $14 founded was acquired by luxury design the exact amount of the donation but million in debt and the family of busi- brand Coach in a $574 million deal in said it provides more than half of the ness executive Mitchell Morgan agreed 2015. His wife, Jane Gerson Weitzman, funds needed for an upcoming capital to buy the building from the museum is a member of the board of 70 Faces and endowment fundraising campaign. for $10 million and lease it back for Media, the nonprofit that operates the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

“I can tell you [the Weitzman gift] has $1,000 a month.

“The Morgan Family also gave us the Closed to visitors since the pandemic allowed us to buy our building immediately and set up an eight-figure endow- option of buying back the building any lockdowns, the museum has built up its ment,” Galperin told the Inquirer. “That’s time over the next 42 months,” Galperin virtual platform, with six online exhibias much as I can say. It’s very significant told the Inquirer. “The Weitzman gift tions and dozens of programs. Over the and it deserves the name of … the mu- will allow us to buy back the building past 20 months, four million people from the Morgan family right away.” have participated in museum activities, seum. It really ensures our future.”

It is not the first time Weitzman has according to Galperin.

When the museum filed for bank-

Continued from page 4 thousand people toiled there and dozens were ultimately worked to death.

The law destroyed the financial wellbeing and security of many of Turkey’s minority communities, accelerating an exodus of Turkish Jews.

Nearly half of the Turkish Jewish population departed the country between 1948 and 1951, following the establishment of the state Gökçe Bahadir as Matilda Aseo in The of Israel. The 1955 Club. Credit: Mehmet Ali Gök/Netflix Istanbul pogrom, which was mainly aimed at the Greek population but affected Jews and Armenians as well, also prompted thousands more to emigrate.

The pogrom was incited by the government of then-Turkish premier Adnan Menderes and his ruling Democrat Party. Over the course of Sept. 6 and 7, 1955, thousands of rioters who had been trucked into the city were frenzied by fake news reports that Greek nationalists had bombed Turkish consulates in Greece and the childhood home of modern Turkey’s founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in Thessaloniki. For nine hours they assaulted Greek neighborhoods — which were often side by side with Jewish and Armenian ones — killing over a dozen people and damaging thousands of properties, including 73 churches, two monasteries and a synagogue.

Menderes would be ousted from power in 1960 by a military coup.

In The Club, the viewer quickly learns that the wealth tax is what destroyed Matilda’s once happy family, sending her brother and father to Askale to be worked to death.

That story is known by most Turkish Jews, but not outside of the community, as the topic has been nearly untouchable in Turkish public discourse for nearly eight decades.

“People had no idea about what the wealth tax was,” Betsy Penso, another Istanbul-born Jew and writer for Avlaremoz who is currently living in Israel. “We try to explain this to our friends and even they fail to understand it because it is never taught in schools.”

Thanks to The Club and its popularity in Turkey, that may be changing. Avlaremoz has frequently written about the tax and its impact, including a special series of articles on it this spring. Since the show’s release, Penso said the site has seen a flood of new readers.

“We have been talking about the wealth tax for at least five years now, but we could only reach the people who were really already interested,” Penso said. “Now people who had no idea, or weren’t interested, are making their own research.”

PARKWOOD T E R R A C E

A PA RT M E N T H O M ES

Bloom Companion Care is full-service home care designed around your needs and way of life.

We communicate. We listen. We understand.

9205 Western Avenue | Omaha 402.397.3994 | ParkwoodOmaha.com

In-home Nursing

Managed by

Medicare/Medicaid and private insurance accepted

arialhomehealth.com 402-393-0833

402-342-3040 | bloomcompanion.com

402.393.6306

The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021 | 7

Above: Artwork by Friedel Jewish Academy students: “Each one of us is a small light, but all together, we shine bright.”

SP O TLIGHT

GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY

PHOTOS FROM RECENT JEWISH COMMUNITY EVENTS SUBMIT A PHOTO: Have a photo of a recent Jewish Community event you would like to submit? Email the image and a suggested caption to: avandekamp@jewishomaha.org.

Top, above and below: Christina Caniglia hosted a ‘Friendsgiving’ for RBJH Russian Residents. Residents spent the afternoon conversing in their native language and enjoying traditional Russian cuisine. Russian translator Anna Mosenkis helped serve the food and gave a lovely piano performance of Russian music. The menu was borscht, red caviar on buttered rye bread, Russian herring on rye bread, hummus on cracker topped with cucumber and tomato, Russian root beer, hot tea and Russian chocolates.

Clockwise form above left: To kick off Hanukkah, Chabad brought an actual Bagel Menorah to Stinson Park in Aksarben Village. Pictured are: Eli and Mushka Tenenbaum with daughter Chana; Karen and Jack Cohen; and Congressman Don Bacon and Rabbi Mendel Katzman.

Below: Donald Gerber, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Sid Zacharia share sufganyot at Beth Israel during Hanukkah.

Above left and right: The official Jewish Press product tester, Sadie Beckman, inspects the newest craze: Sloomoo Hanukkah-themed slime. The verdict: “It was super amazing—the best slime ever!” The only complaint: although it smells great, it’s not edible.

8 | The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021

Voices

The Jewish Press (Founded in 1920)

Margie Gutnik President Annette van de Kamp-Wright Editor Richard Busse Creative Director Susan Bernard Advertising Executive Lori Kooper-Schwarz Assistant Editor Gabby Blair Staff Writer Mary Bachteler Accounting Jewish Press Board Margie Gutnik, President; Abigail Kutler, Ex-Officio; Danni Christensen; David Finkelstein; Bracha Goldsweig; Mary Sue Grossman; Les Kay; Natasha Kraft; Chuck Lucoff; Joseph Pinson; Andy Shefsky and Amy Tipp.

The mission of the Jewish Federation of Omaha is to build and sustain a strong and vibrant Omaha Jewish Community and to support Jews in Israel and around the world. Agencies of the Federation are: Community Relations Committee, Jewish Community Center, Center for Jewish Life, Jewish Social Services, and the Jewish Press.

Guidelines and highlights of the Jewish Press, including front page stories and announcements, can be found online at: wwwjewishomaha.org; click on ‘Jewish Press.’

Editorials express the view of the writer and are not necessarily representative of the views of the Jewish Press Board of Directors, the Jewish Federation of Omaha Board of Directors, or the Omaha Jewish community as a whole. The Jewish Press reserves the right to edit signed letters and articles for space and content. The Jewish Press is not responsible for the Kashrut of any product or establishment.

Editorial The Jewish Press is an agency of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. Deadline for copy, ads and photos is: Thursday, 9 a.m., eight days prior to publication.

E-mail editorial material and photos to: avandekamp@jewishomaha.org; send ads (in TIF or PDF format) to: rbusse@jewishomaha.org.

Letters to the Editor Guidelines The Jewish Press welcomes Letters to the Editor. They may be sent via regular mail to: The Jewish Press, 333 So. 132 St., Omaha, NE 68154; via fax: 1.402.334.5422 or via e-mail to the Editor at: avandekamp@jewishomaha. org.

Letters should be no longer than 250 words and must be single-spaced typed, not hand-written. Published letters should be confined to opinions and comments on articles or events.

News items should not be submitted and printed as a “Letter to the Editor.”

The Editor may edit letters for content and space restrictions. Letters may be published without giving an opposing view. Information shall be verified before printing. All letters must be signed by the writer. The Jewish Press will not publish letters that appear to be part of an organized campaign, nor letters copied from the Internet. No letters should be published from candidates running for office, but others may write on their behalf.

Letters of thanks should be confined to commending an institution for a program, project or event, rather than personally thanking paid staff, unless the writer chooses to turn the “Letter to the Editor” into a paid personal ad or a news article about the event, project or program which the professional staff supervised. For information, contact Annette van de KampWright, Jewish Press Editor, 402.334.6450.

Postal The Jewish Press (USPS 275620) is published weekly (except for the first week of January and July) on Friday for $40 per calendar year U.S.; $80 foreign, by the Jewish Federation of Omaha. Phone: 402.334.6448; FAX: 402.334.5422.

Periodical postage paid at Omaha, NE. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Jewish Press, 333 So. 132 St., Omaha, NE 68154-2198 or email to: jpress@jewishomaha.org.

American Jewish Press Association Award Winner

Nebraska Press Association Award winner 2008

National Newspaper Association

Editorials express the view of the writer and are not necessarily representative of the views of the Jewish Press Board of Directors, the Jewish Federation of Omaha Board of Directors, or the Omaha Jewish community as a whole.

Friends

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Recently, I went on a quick trip to LA with a good friend. We’ve only known each other for a little over five years, but we mesh extremely well. I could not wish for a more comfortable friendship. After I came back, My husband, daughter and I attended the last installment in the JFO Jewish Film Festival, Standing Up, Falling Down and one of the characters made the following observation: “It’s impossible to make new friends in your thirties.”

He meant: once you’re out of school, working, maybe in a relationship, with or without kids.

Adulthood comes with various responsibilities and there is neither time nor opportunity to make new friends, or so he claims. Of course, the main character (who is in his thirties) goes on to prove him wrong by striking up a friendship that forms the backbone of the plot.

And so, the concept of friendship has been on my mind. How we build them and how we maintain them. Especially these last almost-two years, we’ve all had to re-evaluate what our friendships mean to us and how we sustain them. Are we friends because life throws us together, either through work, synagogue affiliation or because we live in the same neighborhood? What happens to those friendships when we are suddenly forced apart? Social media and phone contact aside, most friendships really need in-person contact to thrive, don’t they? If we don’t meet up, we don’t share dinners and drinks and other random events, do our friendships wither, or do they beat the odds?

I am not sure what my answer would have been to all these questions before the pandemic. I wonder what the 2019 version of us would have thought about this whole crazy thing anyway, but as is often the case, life tends to surprise us. It’s yet another reminder that we don’t know everything: the times (and we have more and more of those) when we are able to finally come face to face with people we haven’t been able to hug in a very long time and find all the love is still there. Perhaps even more of it, because we haven’t forgotten why we liked each other in the first place. In addition, we are painfully aware of how much we have missed each other all these long months.

“The ancient rabbis had a very clear understanding that one’s peers create an environment in which the self develops,” it says on MJL.com. “In the Mishnah, we find advice on the importance of selecting one’s friends: ‘Come and learn–which is the straight [right] path to which a person should adhere? A good friend.’”

“Being that the need for friendship is a basic human need,” Rabbi Dan Roth wrote for Aish.com, “existing in people of all races since time immemorial, our Sages do not seem to be revealing any new ideas or instructing us to do something we wouldn’t have done anyway.

But upon examining their words more carefully, we see that their every word is imbued with wisdom and, like all their insights, everything they say reveals a depth of understanding we might not have perceived on our own and from which we have much to learn.”

He goes on to explain that while we think we only want friends with whom we have many things in common, “The Sages teach us that the purpose of a friend is to expand our personalities and broaden our way of thinking.”

No wonder we have struggled without our friends. If isolation means the absence of growth, of stimulation, let’s all hope and pray that we come out of this with all our friendships intact. We need each other, and if that is the only lesson we take away from this horrible mess, well, we could do worse.

The Orthodox community rose up against accused abuser Chaim Walder. That needs to become the norm.

ASHER LOVY JTA Allegations of child sexual abuse against Chaim Walder, the author of children’s books beloved in the haredi Orthodox market, and the uncharacteristically swift and harsh community response, have left many wondering if this case could mark the turning point in how the community addresses sexual abuse.

As an abuse survivor who supports and advocates for victims of sexual abuse in Orthodox communities, it’s a question I’ve been asked many times over the last week. That was when Mordy Getz, owner of Eichler’s of Boro Park, a Judaica store in Brooklyn, took the unprecedented step of removing Walder’s books from its shelves, setting off a cascade of action including Feldheim Publishers halting the sale of Walder’s books.

Those who come to me want to know: What led to this moment, and what does it mean for the future of the community? And why do some allegations stand out when so many do not result in swift changes?

Part of the answer may be the unknowable vagaries of human behavior. Sometimes it’s because someone is victimized in a shocking way, or decides to go public with their experiences. Part of it is no doubt thanks to the foundation laid by activists and advocates working to raise awareness and change how people think about the issue. In this case and some others, careful reporting by reputable journalists lay the facts bare and make them harder to discard. And sometimes it’s because there’s a reserve of pent-up frustration that just hits the boiling point.

Too often abuse allegations in the haredi Orthodox community are met with fierce denials by the accused’s defenders, or stony silence from leaders.

Accusers have been vilified and ostracized for daring to come forward, especially but not only when the alleged abuser is someone who’s revered or beloved by their own community.

I see the impact of that dangerous dynamic all the time, when people in the haredi community call and tell me their stories of being sexually abused.

Consistently, after I explain their legal options, most will express that they’re too scared to come

forward because of the backlash they expect to receive. Many are scared they won’t be believed, or of losing their livelihoods, homes or positions in the community, or are concerned about what will happen to their children or loved ones in retaliation.

Credit: Elva Etienne/Getty Images

Walder’s is the rare case in the Orthodox community where the alleged abuser is beloved by, well, everyone. Every millennial and Gen-Z haredi child, and even many Modern Orthodox children, grew up reading Walder’s books. In Israel, where Walder is a prominent speaker, columnist, radio host and child-treatment expert, he’s even more universally known and beloved. I knew that whatever the reaction was going to be to the allegations against him, it was going to be fierce, and visceral.

Indeed, in different parts of the community there were equally forceful — if opposite — reactions.

While some did go on the offensive and vigorously defend Walder against what they claimed were false allegations, many others were disgusted and threw out his books.

There are those who are hailing the community’s response to the Walder allegations as a sign that it has turned the corner on sexual abuse and is now a safer place for survivors to come forward and receive help and support. That’s a mistake.

Flashpoint cases are never themselves definitive indicators of sustained, systemic change. They merely provide the opportunity for such change.

The Orthodox community is still not a place where

survivors of sexual violence are encouraged to come forward. Institutions like Agudath Israel of America still require as their stated policy that a rabbi be consulted before abuse is reported to secular authorities.

Whether that rule is written or unwritten in other parts of the Orthodox community, it’s very often the expected norm. That has to change.

Survivors must also know that they will receive the support they need from the community when they come forward about abuse. They must know and feel that their allegations will be taken seriously, and that they will receive the resources they need. The community has a large and impressive network of chesed, or charitable care, organizations for every possible need imaginable, yet spends precious little time, effort and money on supporting survivors of sexual abuse — not because it can’t but because it chooses not to. That has to change.

Furthermore, the culture of backlash against survivors who dare to disclose their abuse publicly, or pursue a case against their abuser, whether civil or criminal, must end. Too often we’ve seen rabbis or community leaders make public statements insulting survivors or minimizing their experiences.

Lately, with the spotlight that Child Victims Act cases have shone on the issue in New York — allowing victims to report abuses sometimes decades old — some have resorted to making these statements in private, but to people they know will spread them.

The result is the same: Survivors feeling too intimidated, and too scared to want to come forward.

This should not be remembered as the moment the community solved the issue of child sexual abuse, but as the moment it was given the opportunity to begin fixing the problem.

Asher Lovy is an abuse survivor and director of ZA’AKAH, which raises awareness about child sexual abuse in the Orthodox Jewish community, advocates for legislative reforms, and operates a Shabbat and Yom Tov mental health peer-support hotline.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021 | 9

New owner of a San Diego Jewish news site blurs journalism and PR ANDREW LAPIN JTA Jacob Kamaras got the San Diego Jewish World for an absolute steal — $1, to be exact.

The journalist and public relations executive bought the publication for that ceremonial price from its previous ownerpublisher, Don Harrison, who founded the online outlet in 2009 and was looking to step down from day-to-day operations; Harrison will become publisher emeritus.

Kamaras views his stewardship of the site as one important way to contribute to his adopted local San Diego Jewish community. Though he was born in Brooklyn, his wife Megan’s family is from the San Diego area, and they now live there.

But Kamaras brings something of a nontraditional mindset to the publication. Unlike most professional journalists, who seek to draw a clear line for their audiences between their own work and public relations, Kamaras will combine both.

“I always kind of kept my hands in both worlds, in PR and journalism, and that’s going to continue to be the case,” Kamaras told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency about his new role.

“I believe that the two fields, or subfields within the same space, have a more symbiotic relationship than one would think.”

The former editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Syndicate, Kamaras left the wire service in 2016, though he continues to contribute to the publication; he’s since founded his own PR and lobbying firm, Stellar Jay Communications.

The firm has drawn attention for its lobbying work on behalf of the government of Azerbaijan — work that has included registering as a foreign agent and placing pro-Azerbaijani columns in Jewish publications touting the Central Asian country’s partnerships with Israel. (Azerbaijan has been engaged in an ongoing armed conflict with neighboring Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region since 2020; Israel has been sending arms to the country.)

Kamaras also has Jewish clients. He’s an associate at J Cubed Communications, an international firm based in Tel Aviv whose clients include The Jewish Agency for Israel, the IsraeliAmerican Council and Nefesh B’Nefesh, a nonprofit that assists Jews in emigrating to Israel.

Kamaras said he has no intention of hanging up his work in PR and lobbying just because he now owns and operates a

news site; in fact, he expects his PR work will continue to be his main source of income for quite a while. He knows this arrangement won’t sit well with journalists.

Jacob Kamaras Credit: Jacob Kamaras

“I think some journalists would look at PR reps and have an attitude,” he said, but added, “I kind of think we’re all in the same team here in Jewish journalism, and that includes PR.” Nearly all local Jewish publications have struggled for a viable economic model in the last decade, with their financial woes intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Boston’s 118-year-old Jewish Advocate ceased operations entirely last fall; in March, the 75-year-old Arizona Jewish Post did the same. Other Jewish news organizations have been reinventing themselves: The 60-year-old Canadian Jewish News shut down in 2013, restarted operations within a year, and in August has relaunched as an all-digital news site. And the New York Jewish Week joined JTA as part of 70 Faces Media in January.

The ongoing upheaval has had the effect of causing some local Jewish outlets to abandon certain journalistic practices and values in favor of a more economically viable approach, says Jonathan Sarna, a Jewish media historian and professor of Jewish studies at Brandeis University.

“The bottom line here is that many local Jewish newspapers, looking for a model that can sustain them as advertising and circulation decline, seem to be returning to an older pattern of feel-good journalism that eschews controversy and looks to boost the values and institutions that community leaders

uphold,” Sarna told JTA. “The Jewish community suffers by not having journalistic watchdogs, but the cost of having no Jewish newspaper at all may be even greater,” Sarna added.

The currently all-volunteer-run San Diego Jewish World will remain focused on local community news; Kamaras doesn’t represent any San Diego-area Jewish interests in his PR work.

He does plan to run press releases on the site, including from organizations he represents, though in those cases he says he will disclose his relationship with them. Eventually, the Jewish World may charge publicists to run their releases.

The site will pursue traditional advertising for its revenue model, and will also “experiment with sponsored content, conduct online fundraising campaigns and solicit individual donors,” Kamaras said; he’s also planning their first gala fundraiser in 2022. He says he will follow the industry practice of disclosing when content is sponsored.

Kamaras said the publication under Harrison, whom he calls “the de facto Jewish historian of San Diego,” would often run press releases from his clients. It was one of the things that, as a PR professional, he’d come to appreciate about the Jewish World; Harrison’s willingness to do so was one of the reasons the two of them had become close enough for the publisher to eventually trust Kamaras with his outlet.

Kamaras also points out that San Diego Jewish readers will have local options. In addition to the World, the region is also home to the San Diego Jewish Journal (a JTA syndication client) and L’Chaim San Diego Magazine, both print monthlies. He hopes to distinguish the Jewish World by building it up as “a hub for writers from the younger demographic.”

A recent homepage of the Jewish World includes an interview with a comedian about her upcoming San Diego engagement and a profile of a San Diego man who wants Congress to honor his father’s World War II unit. There are also press releases about a recent speech in Boston by the Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt and a promotion for United Hatzalah, the Israeli ambulance service.

At the end of the day, Kamaras said, keeping the lights on at the Jewish World was the most important part of the equation, regardless of how that happens. “I did not want to see this product go by the wayside.”

SENIOR LIVING

Publishing date | 12.25.20

Space reservation | 12.16.20

Contact our advertising executive to promote your business in this very special edition.

SUSAN BERNARD | 402.334.6559 | sbernard@jewishomaha.org

Synagogues

10 | The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021

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

LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: 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 rbjh.com

TEMPLE ISRAEL

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

LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: TIFERETH ISRAEL

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

B’NAI ISRAEL Join us In-Person on Friday, Dec. 10, 7:30 p.m. for evening services with guest speaker, Sivan Cohen, our Community Schlicha. The service will be led by the members of the congregation. Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel!

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

Handicap Accessible.

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

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

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Tot Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Jr. Congregation (Grades 3-7), 10 a.m. at Beth El; ADL-CRC Presents Privilege: Owning It & Putting It to Work with Adam Fletcher Sasse, D’Var Torah at services, discussion following at lunch; Havdalah, 5:30 p.m. Zoom only.

SUNDAY: Siddur 101 with Hazzan Krausman following morning minyan; BESTT (Grades K-7), 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10 a.m.; B’nai B’rith Bible Quiz, 1 p.m.

TUESDAY: Mussar, 11:30 a.m. with Rabbi Abraham at Beth El & Zoom.

WEDNESDAY: BESTT (Grades 3-7), 4:15 p.m.; Hebrew High (Grades 8-10), 6 p.m. at Beth El; Israel Meeting (Grades 11-12), 6:30 p.m. at the JCC; Community Beit Midrash, 7 p.m. via In-person at the JCC or on Zoom.

THURSDAY: Revisting the Classics, 7 p.m. with Hazzan Krausman.

FRIDAY-Dec. 17: Nebraska AIDS Coalition Lunch, 11:30 a.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m. at Beth El & Live Stream SATURDAY-Dec. 18: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m. at Beth El & Live Stream; Havdalah, 5:35 p.m.

Zoom only.

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

BETH ISRAEL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer.

Classes, Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah on Zoom, WhatsApp or Facebook Live. On site services held outside in pergola, weather permitting. Physical distancing and masks required.

FRIDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Candlelighting, 4:37 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Torah Class/Kids Class, 10:30 a.m. with Shiran Dreyer; Tot Shabbat, 10:45 a.m. with Shiran Dreyer; Kiddush, 11:30 a.m.; Daf Yomi, 4 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha, 4:30 p.m.; Shalosh Seudos/Laws of Shabbos/Kids Activity, 4:50 p.m.; Ma’ariv/Havdalah, 5:42 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Daf Yomi, 3:50 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.

MONDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi, 3:50 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.

TUESDAY: 10th of Tevet Fast Begins, 6:27 a.m.;

Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Kids Class, 3:45 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.; Fast Ends, 5:29 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi, 3:50 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Wednesday School, 4:15 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.; Board of Directors Meeting, 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Character Development, 9:30 am. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi, 3:50 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY-Dec. 17: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Kabbalat Shabbat/Candlelighting, 4:39 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 18: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Torah Class/Kids Class, 10:30 a.m. with Shiran Dreyer; Tot Shabbat, 10:45 a.m. with Shiran Dreyer; Kiddush, 11:30 a.m.; Daf Yomi, 4 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha, 4:30 p.m.; Shalosh Seudos/Laws of Shabbos/Kids Activity, 4:50 p.m.; Ma’ariv/Havdalah, 5:44 p.m.

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

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

FRIDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Inspirational Lechayim, 4:30 p.m. with Rabbi and friends: ochabad.com/Le chayim; Candlelighting, 4:37 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush and Cholent; Shabbat Ends, 5:40 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Parsha and Coffee, 9:45 a.m.

MONDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Personal Parsha Class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani Katzman; Advanced Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen.

TUESDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Virtual Pirkei Avot Women’s Class, 7 p.m.

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

THURSDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Advanced Hebrew Class, 11 a.m. with Prof. David Cohen; Talmud Study (Sanhedrin 18 — No advance experience necessary), noon with Rabbi Katzman.

FRIDAY-Dec. 17: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Inspirational Lechayim, 4:30 p.m. with Rabbi and friends: ochab ad.com/Lechayim; Candlelighting, 4:38 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 18: Shacharit, 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush and Cholent; Shabbat Ends, 5:43 p.m.

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

Note: Some of our services, but not all, are now being offered in person.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, service leaders/music: Rabbi Alex, Steve and Nathaniel Kaup,

6:30 p.m. at SST; Shabbat Candlelighting, 4:41 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Alex at TI; Torah Study on Parashat Vayigash, noon; Havdalah, 5:45 p.m.

SUNDAY: LJCS Classes: Last day of first semester, 9:30 a.m.; Men's Jewish Bike Group of Lincoln meets Sundays at 10 a.m. rain or shine to ride to one of The Mill locations from Hanson Ct. (except we drive if its too wet, cold, cloudy, windy, hot or humid) followed by coffee and spirited discussions. No fee to join, no dues, no president, no board or minutes taken. If Interested please email Al Weiss at albertw801@ gmail.com to find out where to meet each week; Tifereth Israel Board Meeting, noon; Come learn and play Pickleball, 7-9 p.m. at Peterson Park. Everyone is welcome; just wear comfortable clothes and tennis or gym shoes. If you need a paddle, contact Miriam Wallick by email at Miriam57 @aol.com or by text at 402.470.2393 before Sunday.

TUESDAY: Asara Fast Begins, 6:15 a.m.; Tea & Coffee with Pals, 1:30 p.m. via Zoom; Fast Ends, 5:37 p.m.; Jewish Ethical Teachings Class, 7 p.m. with Rabbi Alex.

WEDNESDAY: No LJCS Classes.

THURSDAY: South Street Temple Annual Meeting, 7 p.m. at SST (with Zoom option) FRIDAY-Dec. 17: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, service leaders/music: Rabbi Alex, Leslie Delserone and Peter Mullin, 6:30 p.m. at SST; Shabbat Candlelighting, 4:42 p.m.

SATURDAY-Dec. 18: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Alex at TI; Torah Study on Parashat Vayechi, noon; Havdalah, 5:48 p.m.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE

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

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

TEMPLE ISRAEL

In-person and virtual services conducted by Rabbi Brian Stoller, Rabbi Deana Sussman Berezin and Cantor Joanna Alexander.

DAILY VIRTUAL MINYAN: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. via Zoom.

FRIDAY: Shabbat Shira, 6 p.m. via Zoom or In-Person.

SATURDAY: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. via Zoom or InPerson.

SUNDAY: Second Sunday Breakfast Service, 9 a.m. at the Stephen Center; Youth Learning Programs, Grades PreK-6, 10 a.m.

MONDAY: Tri-Faith’s Virtual Women’s Lunch, noon.

TUESDAY: Tri-Faith Making the Familiar Strange: The Dreams of Joseph of Nazareth, noon.

WEDNESDAY: Youth Learning Programs: Grades 36, 4-6 p.m.; T’filah, 4:45 p.m.; Community Dinner, 6 p.m.; Grades 7-10, 6:30-8 p.m.; Israel Education for Grades 11-12, 6:30-8 p.m. at the JCC; Community Beit Midrash, 7 p.m. at the JCC. THURSDAY: Thursday Morning Class, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Azriel via Zoom or In-Person.

FRIDAY-Dec. 17: Drop-In Mah Jongg, 9-11 a.m. InPerson; Classic Shabbat: Sages of the Talmud: Personalities and Legacies, 6 p.m. via Zoom or In-Person.

SATURDAY-Dec. 11: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. via Zoom or In-Person.

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

Black Eyed Peas lead singer will.i.am says being in Israel is ‘like mishpocha’ JTA Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am feels at home in Israel so much so that he used a Yiddish word to describe the feeling he gets in the country.

While on a visit to Israel to perform with his group, will.i.am, born William James Adams, Jr., said that he would not boycott the country and added that being in Israel is like being among family — or “mishpocha.”

“I always wanted to come to Israel growing up in Los Angeles, a lot of my friends are Israelis,” said will.i.am, who is not Jewish. “My grandma came here. When she visited, she would say, ‘I’m going to the holy land.’ She came with her church. It was always a place of aspiration and wonder and when I first came, I brought my grandma... I always love

coming here. It’s like mishpocha.”

‘L’chaim’ and he was like, ‘Will, I The rapper made his remarks at a techalways knew you are mishpocha.’ nology forum at the Orient Hotel in So to me, when I say mishpocha, Jerusalem. This wasn’t the first time the I mean that dearly. This place is Black Eyed Peas performed in Israel, where magical to me, for my grandma they put on concerts in 2006 and 2007. wanted to come here, and I can’t Speaking at the conference, will.i.am exlet politics get in the way of plained how one of his childhood friends where my heart is going.” inspired him to throw some Hebrew words Will.i.am worked the word into one of the band’s most popular songs, “mishpocha” into a music video I Gotta Feeling. In that song, will.i.am fafor a song the Black Eyed Peas mously shouts out “mazel tov” and another Rapper will.i.am on Nov. 29, made with the Israeli pop duo 2021. Credit: Sivan Farag band member responds with “l’chaim.”

Static and Ben El in 2020.

“I wanted to make Benjamin‘s dad proud,” the rap“What’s up, mishpocha?” he asks at the beginper said of his childhood friend. “So I said, ‘Mazel tov,’ ning of the music video.

Life cycles IN MEMORIAM BLUMA POLONSKI Bluma Polonski passed away on Nov. 26, 2021, at age 91 in Scottsdale, AZ. Services were held Nov. 28, 2021, at Levitt-Weinstein/Beth David Memorial Chapel in Hollywood, FL She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Polonski.

She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Sonia and John Breslow, Rose and Steven Viny and sons and daughters-in-law, Morris and Claire Polonski and Dr. Lynn Polonski and Melissa Balzer, cherished grandmother: Laura Breslow, Melissa and Kyle Breslow, Danielle and Benji Gross, Michelle Gerson, Shaun Apple, Aaron and Aly Viny, Arielle Viny, Yale Viny, Dreo and Hadlie Polonski, adored great-grandmother: David Weigel, Asher, Joey and Naomi Gross, Lilah and Ada Viny, Dalhia and Remi Gerson.

Memorials may be made to Smile on Seniors, 2110 E. Lincoln Dr., Phoenix, AZ 85016 or Survivors Generations After & Friends, 12701 N. Scottsdale Rd. #122, Scottsdale, AZ 85254.

BARBARA LEWIS Barbara Lewis of Peoria, Arizona passed away on Nov. 26, 2021, at age 87, surrounded by family. A memorial service will be held Dec. 6, 2021, at National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Harry Leon Lewis; parents, Charles and Gertrude Litt.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Steve and Julie, Craig and Janey and son, Robert; grandchildren: Amanda, Shelby, Riley, Reagan, Brittney, Brennan, Autumn, and Jason; great-grandchildren: Asher, Lyla, Harry, Reese, Ryland, Zander, Valerye, Gunner, Hudson, Kadence, and Peyton; and many loving nieces and nephews.

Barbara was born and grew up in Bronx, NY, and moved to Omaha after meeting the love of her life on a blind date. Upon her marriage in 1957, she and Harry lived in Omaha, where they raised their family. As empty nesters, Barbara and Harry moved to Phoenix, AZ. Barbara was highly successful as a salesperson for the Yellow Pages. In retirement, she enjoyed traveling, music, theater, and spending time with her expanding family. She was an active member of Temple Chai and Na’amat USA, a Jewish

The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021 | 11

Pulverente MONUMENT CO. Over 60 Years Experience With Jewish Lettering and Memorials

1439 So. 13th 402-341-2452 Family Owned and Operated

Tritz Plumbing Inc. 402-894-0300

women’s organization supporting Israel. Barbara’s social spirit, compassion, and signature straight forward style were admired by all who knew and loved her.

We are forever grateful to the nurses and staff at Inspira Arrowhead, who every day for the past year demonstrated much devotion, dedication, care and love for Barbara.

Memorials may be made in Barbara’s memory to Temple Chai, 4645 E Marilyn Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85032, or to the organization of your choice.

MARRIAGE BELMONT/SMALL Lindsay Rachel Belmont and Michael Abel Small were married on Oct. 17, 2021, at Beth El Synagogue in Omaha. Rabbi Steven Abraham officiated at the 5:30 p.m. ceremony.

Lindsay is a graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Nebraska College of Law, and is the daughter of Jill and Mark Belmont of Omaha.

She is the granddaughter of Barbara and Marshall Kushner of Omaha, and the late Florence and Joseph Belmont.

Michael is a graduate of Emory University and the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, and is the son of Holly and Jerome Small of Youngstown, Ohio. He is the grandson of the late Anna and George Cohen, and the late Eleanor and Jerome Small.

Following the wedding ceremony, a dinner and dance were held in the ballroom of the historic Livestock Exchange Building.

After a honeymoon in Jamaica, the couple is living in Omaha, where Lindsay is a partner with the law firm of Koenig|Dunne, and Michael is Senior Claims Counsel, Assistant Vice President, at Fidelity National Title Group.

Gabrielle Giffords just celebrated her bat mitzvah Giffords was a member of the SHIRA HANAU Arizona legislature in the JTA early 2000s. While the two After former House Rep. discussed Giffords becoming Gabrielle Giffords was shot a bat mitzvah multiple times, in the head outside a superit wasn’t until two years ago market in Tucson in 2011, it when Giffords recruited two wasn’t clear if she’d survive, friends to study with her that let alone be able to speak. they began preparing for the Giffords’ injuries, which led moment in earnest. The four her to resign from office, left women studied the weekly her with partial paralysis and Torah portion together beaphasia, which makes it diffifore beginning to study Gifcult for her to speak.

But last Saturday, Giffords Gabrielle Giffords speaks during a demonstration with victims ford’s portion, which Giffords chanted her Torah portions, of gun violence in front of the Supreme Court, Nov. 3, 2021. chanted along with Aaron.

“I am a person who is albecoming a bat mitzvah at Credit: Joshua Roberts/Getty Images Temple Chaverim in Tucson at the age of 51, the Forward ways looking for ways to grow, to keep moving and find new paths,” Giffords wrote to the Forward. “I am proud and honreported.

The milestone was the culmination of 20 years of study ored to become a bat mitzvah as an adult. It is never too late with Rabbi Stephanie Aaron, as well as two close friends. to explore faith, to learn the stories of the past and reflect Aaron delivered a speech that Giffords wrote and Giffords on their meaning today.”

Giffords’ grandfather changed his surname from Hornperformed the song Amazing Grace on the French horn.

“My Torah portion is from Genesis, from the story of Joseph,” stein in the 1940s to avoid antisemitism. She was raised by Giffords told the Forward in an email. “If you know Vayeshev a Jewish father and Christian Scientist mother in Tucson but you know it begins ‘And he lived.’ Any story that begins ‘and he has practiced only Judaism since the early 2000s.

Giffords represented Arizona’s 8th District in Congress lived’ is good with me. I lived. Everything afterwards is a gift.”

Giffords and Aaron first began studying together when from 2007 to 2012.

Tel Aviv is the world’s most expensive city to live in, study finds terms. By Jan. 1, 2021, Israel had vacciGABE FRIEDMAN nated over 10% of its population, earnJTA Tel Aviv is now the world’s most ing international praise and attention. expensive city to live in — and the The price of about one out of every reason why is tied in part to Israel’s 10 everyday goods found in Tel Aviv, successful COVID-19 vaccine rollout. especially grocery items, “increased The Israeli city rose from No. 5 to significantly,” the report said. The city No. 1 in the annual Worldwide Cost is also the second-most expensive of Living index compiled by the place in the world to purchase alcoEconomist Intelligence Unit (EIU), An aerial view over Tel Aviv, Feb. 19, 2018. Credit: hol and public transportation, the rethe research arm of The Economist Yossi Zamir/Flash90 port added. The increased prices of Group. The London-based media company also publishes The household goods, cars and fuel are noted too.

Economist magazine.

Tel Aviv’s real estate property prices also rose in 2021, but The 2021 report explains that Israel’s world-leading pace in vac- the EIU index does not factor those into its research. cinating its population helped the shekel reach a “soaring” value After Tel Aviv, the EIU ranking lists Paris, Singapore, Zurich against the U.S. dollar, leading to steep local inflation rates in dollar and Hong Kong as the other most expensive cities in the top five.

www.tritz.com repair • remodel

commercial • residential

family owned and operated since 1945

NEBRASKA STATEWIDE CLASSIFIEDS

ATTENTION MEDICARE Recipients! Open Enrollment for Medicare health plans is here! Call our licensed insurance agents for an affordable quote for your needed coverage. Call for a no obligation free quote now! 855-504-1694 (TTY: 711).

2 DAY Firearms Auction Live & Online. December 10th 2 pm & 11th 10 am. 1500+ LOTS Military, Sporting & Modern Firearms www.montroseauction.com 478-376-4559 GAL2006.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING works! Place your 25 word ad into thousands of Nebraska homes for $225. Contact The Jewish Press or call 1-800-369-2850.

SOCIAL SECURITY Disability Benefits. Unable to work? Denied benefits? We Can Help! Strong, recent work history needed. Call to start your application or appeal today! 866-563-0161 [Steppacher Law Offices LLC Principal Office: 224 Adams Ave Scranton PA 18503]

AFFORDABLE PRESS Release service. Send your message to 155 newspapers across Nebraska for one low price! Call 1-800369-2850 or www.nebpress.com for more details.

ENJOY 100% guaranteed, delivered-to-the-door Omaha Steaks!

Get 8 Free Filet Mignon Burgers! Order The Delightful Gift this holiday season- ONLY $99.99. Call 1-888-820-2101 and mention code 65658PEN or visit www.omahasteaks.com/thegift1184.

VIASAT SATELLITE Internet. Up to 12 mbps plans starting at $30/month. Our fastest speeds (up to 50 mbps) & unlimited data plans start at $100/month. Call Viasat today: 1-877-255-9312.

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS. Easy, One Day updates! We specialize in safe bathing. Grab bars, no slip flooring & seated showers. Call for a free in-home consultation: 844-596-6325.

DIRECTV FOR $69.99/month for 12 months with Choice Package. Watch your favorite live sports, news & entertainment anywhere. One year of HBO Max Free. DirecTV is #1 in customer satisfaction (JD Power & Assoc.). Call for more details! (Some restrictions apply). Call 1-855-977-3794.

DIRECTV NOW. No Satellite needed. $40/month. 65 Channels.

Stream Breaking News, Live Events, Sports & On Demand Titles.

No Annual Contract. No Commitment. Call 1-855-417-4299.

DISH NETWORK $64.99 for 190 Channels. Blazing Fast Internet, $19.99/month (where available). Switch & Get a Free $100 Visa Gift Card. Free Voice Remote. Free HD DVR. Free Streaming on All Devices. Call today! 1-877-688-4784.

DON’T LET the stairs limit your mobility! Discover the ideal solution for anyone who struggles on the stairs, is concerned about a fall or wants to regain access to their entire home. Call AmeriGlide today! 1-855-671-2638.

PORTABLE OXYGEN Concentrator? May be covered by Medicare! Reclaim independence and mobility with the compact design and long-lasting battery of Inogen One. Free information kit! Call 855-385-3580.

PUT ON your TV ears and hear TV with unmatched clarity. TV Ears Original were originally $129.95, now with this special offer are only $59.95 with code MCB59! Call 1-855-404-3553.

DOES YOUR basement or crawl space need some attention? Call Thrasher Foundation Repair! A permanent solution for waterproofing, failing foundations, sinking concrete and nasty crawl spaces. FREE Inspection & Same Day Estimate. $250 off ANY project with code GET250. Call 1-844-958-3431.

ELIMINATE GUTTER cleaning forever! LeafFilter, the most advanced debris-blocking gutter protection. Schedule a Free LeafFilter estimate today. 15% off Entire Purchase. 10% Senior & Military Discounts. Call 1-855-671-2859.

THE GENERAC PWRcell, a solar plus battery storage system.

Save money, reduce your reliance on the grid, prepare for power outages and power your home. Full installation services available. $0 Down Financing Option. Request a Free, no obligation, quote today. Call 1-833-513-0190.

USE SEAL N Heal® to seal wounds on dogs & cats with a bitter taste to prevent gnawing, allow healing. At Tractor Supply® (www.fleabeacon.com).

BECOME A Published Author. We want to read your book! Dorrance Publishing - trusted by authors since 1920. Book manuscript submissions currently being reviewed. Comprehensive Services: Consultation, Production, Promotion and Distribution.

Call for your free Author’s Guide, 1-877-858-2822 or visit http://dorranceinfo.com/Nebraska.

DONATE YOUR car or truck to Heritage for the Blind. Free 3 Day Vacation, tax deductible, free towing. All paperwork taken care of. Call 1-877-730-8167.

12 | The Jewish Press | December 10, 2021

News LOC AL | N AT I O N A L | WO R L D

University of Toronto student union walks back BDS resolution though it said exempRON KAMPEAS tions would be considJTA After an outcry and a ered because of the rebuke from the Univerrelative scarcity of sity of Toronto president, kosher food. the student union at a The revised resolution, satellite campus of the which no longer menuniversity modified a tions any proposed reproposed ban on kosher strictions on kosher food foods in any way affiliproviders, came after ated with Israel. condemnations by the A resolution passed university leadership Nov. 29 by the University and Canadian Jewish orof Toronto Scarborough ganizations. B’nai B’rith Campus Student Union The campus of University of Toronto-Scarborough. Credit: Wikimedia Canada said the original protects the rights of Commons resolution would have Jewish students to “enjoy freedom of expression on campus, “effectively shut down Jewish life” on the campus because the including the articulation of political views, the practice of re- union “controls clubs funding, room booking and many other ligious beliefs and the display of Jewish symbols,” according aspects of student life at the Scarborough Campus.” to a screengrab posted on Twitter by Jewish on Campus, a Meric Gertler, the university president, said on Nov. 26 — group that serves as a watchdog on behalf of Jewish university after the first resolution, but before the second one walking it students. back — that the original resolution was inconsistent with the That followed an original resolution, passed Nov. 24, which university’s “core values of freedom of speech and inclusion.” had reaffirmed the union’s commitment to the movement to “A requirement that providers of food as a religious accomboycott, divest and sanction Israel and prohibited a range of modation be required to apply for an exemption, or even be engagements with groups, businesses or individuals with ties asked about their views about issues elsewhere in the world to Israel — including kosher food distributors. is unacceptable,” Gertler said.

According to a copy of the resolution obtained by the proTwo years ago, an official of the university’s Graduate StuIsrael blogger Elder of Ziyon, the student union wrote that “ef- dent Union said the union would not back a Hillel initiative forts should be made to source kosher food from to bring kosher food to campus because Hillel is “pro-Israel.” organizations that do not normalize Israeli apartheid” — al- The union later apologized.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 gets release date

Rachel Brosnahan and Milo Ventimiglia on the set of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel. Credit: Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

MADDY ALBERT This article originally appeared on Kveller.

It’s official: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 4 will be dropping on Feb. 18, 2022, on Amazon Prime.

We’ve been waiting for this for nearly a year (since production began for the show in December 2020). After Season 3 left us hanging, we now have a sense of what the new season will bring with the release of the first official trailer.

The trailer consists of Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) sitting with her manager Susie (played by Jewish mom Alex Borstein) at their classic spot: the Stage Deli. The two discuss Midge’s future as a comic after last season’s kerfuffle, which left us all waiting to see how Midge would redeem herself. But, the trailer suggests that redemption might not be what Midge is seeking at all.

As usual in this period piece, the trailer consists of elaborate 1950s costumes. We see shots of Midge at big events, signaling her comeback with shots of knocking over a silver platter at a fancy event and then dropping a mic on what seems to be a televised comedy show.