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GABBy BlAIR Staff Writer, Jewish Press magine the classic family reunion; Immediate and extended family members get together to reminisce and catch up on life. Now imagine a family reunion where all are strangers... 500 relatives traveling from six continents, 15 counties and over 50 cities to meet in London. A gathering so monumental that it was covered by BBC! Last year, to satisfy the curiosity of her daughter, Sue Rubin decided to submit her DNA to Ancestry.com. “My results came back with thousands of possible matches for family members. I was shocked,” she says. Born to Betty and Bus Rubin, Sue grew up in Omaha and had many family members and cousins and was under the impression that she knew them all. As a result of the DNA testing, Sue received a phone call one day from a gentleman named See Rubin: long lost family page A2
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GABBy BlAIR Staff Writer, Jewish Press Dara Rosenberg, daughter of Maynard and Sylvia Rosenberg of Omaha, was recognized as one of this year’s Outstanding Alumni Award Winners at the 2017 Burke Bash on Nov. 17. Each year at the Burke Bash, e Burke PTO, in conjunction with the Burke Alumni Association, strive to honor alumni who have demonstrated exceptional accomplishments or service in their respective fields. Rosenberg (class of 1998), a Buffet Award winning science teacher in Omaha Public Schools at Alice Buffett Magnet Middle School, was flattered to be one of this year’s honorees. An active member of the Ne-
Dara Rosenberg braska science community, Rosenberg has demonstrated exceptional service in support of the advancement and continued excellence of Omaha Public Schools. She has helped cra science curriculum for both OPS and the state of Nebraska at the middle and high school level, and her bio is rich with her many accomplishments, highlighting her passion as a teacher, stating: “Dara inspired and led a team to create the OPS BLAM curriculum which utilizes lowest performing indicators See Dara Rosenberg page A3
Auschwitz II Barracks Credit: Lankhorst/Wikimedia Commons RIchARD FellmAn e recent trip I took to Prague, A trip to the great cities of CenWarsaw, Krakow and Budapest tral and Eastern Europe by a Jew was no exception to that demoraltoday can’t be considered comizing rule, even though in years plete without a visit to whatever past I’ve been to a number of Nazi killing site is in the path of those hideous places. In past travel, however difficult and howyears, I’ve visited Dachau near ever sad that visit might be, for the Munich, Germany, Babi Yar in history of European Jewry and its Kiev, Ukraine, and the forest outsudden demise in the middle of side the shtetl of Lechovitz, in the 20th Century has no parallel Western Ukraine, once the home in the thousands of years of Jewish of the Fellman family and where life, and those death camps tell the Nazi hordes shot and killed the story of Judaism’s destruction by Jews of that and neighboring vilthe Nazis of Germany. lages in 1941, before the large See night page A6 Still the Remnant remains.