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At AIPAC, Clinton gets friendship, Bibi gets love by RON KAMPEAS demn the announcement of plans for WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Hillary new construction in East Jerusalem,” Rodham Clinton to AIPAC: We’ll Clinton said. “This was not about keep complaining about building in wounded pride. Nor is it a judgment Jerusalem. on the final status of Jerusalem, which Benjamin Netanyahu to same: And is an issue to be settled at the negotiwe’ll keep building. ating table. This is about getting to Guess which speech got the bigger the table, creating and protecting an cheers. atmosphere of trust around it, and To be sure, in speeches this week staying there until the job is finally at the annual AIPAC policy conferdone.” ence, all sides repeatedly stressed Clinton’s mild rebuke brought surcomplete confidence in the durabiliprising, if light, applause. It was a ty and necessity of a strong U.S.mark of the success of repeated pleas Israeli relationship, and highlighted from AIPAC’s leadership to more areas of agreement, first and forethan 7,500 activists in attendance to most the need for tough action to keep things civil. Clinton earned block Iran from acquiring nuclear standing ovations coming in and out, weapons. and there was no audible booing. Several key differences were on Netanyahu’s Jerusalem encomium, display, however, as the Israeli prime by contrast, brought the house down minister, the U.S. secretary of state -- delivering perhaps the biggest and the leaders of the American cheers during this year’s conference. Israel Public Affairs Committee did “The Jewish people were building not back down from their bottom Jerusalem 3,000 years ago and the lines. Jewish people are building Jerusalem AIPAC officials insisted that distoday,” he said. “Jerusalem is not a agreements between Jerusalem and Playing nice: Bibi greets Hillary at the annual AIPAC policy conference. All sides repeatedly expressed settlement. It is our capital.” Credit: ISRANET AIPAC Executive Director Howard Washington take place behind closed complete confidence in the U.S.-Israeli relationship. doors. Clinton said the Obama administration will make Netanyahu for dinner -- culminated two weeks of ten- Kohr and President Lee Rosenberg were equally as its unhappiness clear and public when it regards an sions sparked when Israel announced a major housing determined to make Israel’s point, almost to the word. start in eastern Jerusalem. The announcement coincided Israeli action as undermining the peace process. “Jerusalem is not a settlement,” Kohr said in the line For Netanyahu and AIPAC, Jerusalem is off the table; with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel that of the morning that brought the greatest cheering. had been aimed at underscoring the close U.S.-Israel “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.” for Clinton it’s very much part of the discussion. Clinton went out of her way to praise the Palestinian friendship and restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Kohr also made the case for keeping such disputes out “It is our devotion to this outcome -- two states for of public view. Authority; Netanyahu went out of his way to criticize it. The two speeches Monday -- Clinton for breakfast and two peoples, secure and at peace -- that led us to con- Continued on page 3
Omaha Children’s Hospital welcomes medical delegation from Israel by CHERIE LYTLE ated with Tel Aviv Media Relations Liaison, Children's University and is the only Hospital & Medical Center pediatric institution in A five member delegation Israel offering a full range from Schneider Children’s of specialties under one Medical Center of Israel visited roof. Children’s Hospital & Medical In addition to Omaha, Center on March 23. The team the Israeli group planned toured Children’s Newborn to visit children’s hospitals Intensive Care Unit and talked in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, with medical specialists about Houston, New York and leading edge care for critically Washington, DC. Leaders ill newborns. The guests also hoped to turn their observations from Children’s visited the hospital’s Pediatric and others into an “optiIntensive Care Unit and mum design” for their received a demonstration of facility. Children’s electronic medical While Children’s in records system. The Omaha Omaha does host medical stop was part of a week-long teams from across the journey to the United States to United States, a visit by a explore American health care foreign delegation is condesign and delivery. sidered rare. President and “We received good recommendations about Children’s in Delegates from the Schneider Children’s Medical chief executive officer Gary A. Perkins says such visits Omaha. This is a very nice hos- Center tour newborn facility at Children’s hospital. pital, very impressive,” said Prof. Joseph Press, MD, provide a good exchange of knowledge. Director of Schneider Children’s Medical Center. “You “We’re gaining insight into their hospital and practice should be proud.” of medicine which provides us with the opportunity to Schneider Children’s is in the midst of an in-house see how similar we are and also where differences exist,” renovation and expansion focused on its neonatology shared Perkins. “Not only does a visit like this allow us department. The hospital says it has experienced a to highlight Children’s unique services, but also the great deal of growth since opening in 1991. It is affili- positive and generous spirit of our community.”
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Omaha Community Yom Hashoah Commemoration by ILANA WEISS for Institute for Holocaust Education For some, the Holocaust seems like a part of distant history, a terrible time in the story of the Jewish People, yet something which is part of the past. For others, the memory of the Holocaust is recalled each day with heavy emotions and burning images racing through their minds. There is one day, however, that all members of the community join together to reflect and remember. That day is Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. While there have been many difficult periods throughout the Jewish People’s history, the Holocaust stands out as a particularly destructive time – one that had such an expansive reach. Therefore, a day on the calendar has been set aside specifically to mark the tragedy of the Holocaust. Around the world, this day is marked in different ways. In Israel, for example, a siren is sounded around the country for people to stand in silence in memory of those who were lost. In other places, a list of names of those who perished is read so people should never forget that each person who died in the Holocaust had a name. Known more formally by its full name “Yom HaShoah Ve-Hagevurah,” literally “Day of Destruction and Strength,” the official day of remembrance takes place each year on the Hebrew date of 27 Nissan, the same month in which Passover occurs. The date marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The true date of the uprising took place a week prior, on 20 Continued on page 5
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by OZZIE NOGG something that was simplified, light in appearance, yet This April, when visitors walk through the new entrance had elegant, contemporary lines to it. The Wall itself is of the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, one of the first things stone tile, but I’m also using sandblasted acrylic which is they’ll see is the Florence and Herman Goldstein a clean way to present the donor names and create the Menorah Wall. Located immediately to the right of the shape of the candles. We experimented and developed a reception desk, the impressive work of art was given prior unique method to work with the flames, which are to his death by Herman Goldstein and his family. pieces of colored acrylic that have been distressed and “The Goldstein Menorah donor recognition wall carries shaped in my studio. They’ll have a wonderful finish and the names of every single contributor to the building proj- are back lit with an LED lighting system. I haven’t used ect, from gifts of one dollar and up,” said RBJH Executive many of these materials in this way before, and I find Director, Mike Silverman. they’re appropriate to the “The Menorah is also a funcpiece. It’s always exciting to tional, working piece of art. create something new.” Each Hanukkah we plan to Perhaps the thrill of creatinvite kids from the CDC, ing something new was also from Friedel, as well as memfelt by Bezalel, the Biblical bers of the entire community, artisan who made the origito visit the Blumkin Home nal Menorah lamp used in during the week of the festithe First Temple. That proval to help residents light the totype, formed from a solid candles on the Goldstein block of pure gold, had six Menorah. Often, when we branches stemming out of see a donor wall, we recogone main post. Over history, nize its beauty and then it can the Menorah morphed into a fade into the background. Taken in 1994, Florence Goldstein, left, Ellen Goldstein seven-branched candelaBut the design and specific Neuman, Herman Goldstein, Jeanie Goldstein Neff. brum which has been a symfunction of the Goldstein Menorah forces us to notice it bol of Judaism for almost 3000 years and serves as the and always pay attention to the names of those whose gifts official emblem of the State of Israel. The origin of the made the Blumkin Home’s New Beginning possible.” word Menorah is thought to be taken from the sevenJeanie Goldstein Neff, speaking for her late husband branched salvia plant indigenous to Israel. Another tradiSherm and her sister and brother-in-law, Ellen and Tom tion says the Menorah represents the Tree of Life in the Neuman, said, “We never experienced the necessity of Garden of Eden, with its seven branches representing the the Home before my father’s short stay there in 2008. seven days of creation. Whatever its origins, the Menorah The dedication and devotion shown to each and every is a powerful Jewish symbol. “The Blumkin Home is a resident was the quintessential feeling of healing and living, breathing part of the Omaha Jewish community,” love. To have the Blumkin Home so beautifully Placzek said, “and an invaluable asset for all generations. designed, managed and available to our community is I’m excited and honored to have been chosen to create the consummate gift. To be part of the Goldstein such an important piece for the new Home.” Menorah Wall is very meaningful for us and for our chilPlaczek’s work -- “Labor” -- is a feature of the Omaha dren and grandchildren.” Riverfront and the second largest labor monument in the For Neff, “The culmination of the tremendous effort country. His installations can be seen outside the Quest of Mike Silverman and the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home Convention Center, at the Joslyn Art Museum’s sculpBoard to finish this building project so elegantly shows ture garden and in the collections of Guinness Brewing, the extraordinary level of commitment within our com- London; Takao Building Development, Tokyo; BMW, munity. Those of us in the Florence and Herman Germany; and the presidential collections of Austria, the Goldstein family are honored to be represented in such Republic of China and former President Reagan. a beautiful way.” “The Menorah Wall is a permanent tribute to Florence Designed and executed by local artist Matthew and Herman Goldstein and to everyone who supported Placzek, the ten foot by sixteen foot Menorah Wall com- this magnificent building project,” Silverman said. “The bines an ancient concept with contemporary elements. commitment of this community to Jewish values and the “I researched traditional Menorahs,” Placzek said, “and generosity shown to its elders is exceptional. No other found them to be quite beautiful. However, we needed city has a more open, giving heart than Omaha.”
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Clinton and Bibi at AIPAC Continued from page 1 “When disagreements inevitably arise, they must be resolved privately as is befitting close allies,” he said. That’s been the mantra of AIPAC, along with the center and right in the pro-Israel community -- and Clinton turned it around. The announcement of new construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, she said, “exposes daylight between Israel and the United States that others in the region hope to exploit. And it undermines America’s unique ability to play a role -- an essential role, I might add -- in the peace process. Our credibility in this process depends in part on our willingness to praise both sides when they are courageous, and when we don’t agree to say so, and say so unequivocally.” It was clear, though, that Clinton was sensitive to Israeli and pro-Israel complaints that the opprobrium she had heaped onto Israel -- she called the building announcement an “insult” -- was one-sided and that she had ignored Palestinian violations. In fact, her spokesmen have condemned Palestinian incitement. And Monday, Clinton picked up the two signal issues that have exercised Israel’s advocates: the naming of a public square in Ramallah for a terrorist who led a deadly 1978 attack, and Palestinian rioting greeting the rededication of an Old City synagogue destroyed during the 1948 Independence War. “These provocations are wrong and must be condemned for needlessly inflaming tensions and imperiling prospects for a comprehensive peace,” Clinton said to applause. Clinton leavened her calls for an end to
incitement by attempting to shift blame for the naming of the square from the Fatahcontrolled Palestinian Authority to Hamas. And she had praise for the PA leadership. “We commend the government of President Abbas and P r i m e Minister Fayyad for the reforms U.S. Secretary of State Hillary t h e y ’ v e Rodham Clinton speaking to undertaken thousands of pro-Israel activists to strength- in Washington at the annual en law and AIPAC policy conference, March Credit:AIPAC order, and 22, 2010. the progress that they’ve made in improving the quality of life in the West Bank,” she said. Netanyahu had only criticism. “What has the Palestinian Authority done for peace?” he asked. “They have placed preconditions on peace talks, waged a relentless international campaign to undermine Israel’s legitimacy, and promoted the notorious Goldstone report that falsely accuses Israel of war crimes.” AIPAC, Israel, and the Obama administration have differences on Iran as well. AIPAC activists will push hard for enhanced Iran sanctions when they lobby on Capitol Hill, while the administration wants time to exhaust the prospect of multilateral sanctions. Here, though, Clinton was able to throw the crowd some meat, saying that whatever sanctions emerged, they would not be glancing. “Our aim is not incremental sanctions but sanctions that will bite,” she said. “It
is taking time to produce these sanctions, and we believe that time is a worthwhile investment for winning the broadest possible support for our efforts. But we will not compromise our commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring these nuclear weapons.” Rosenberg, just inaugurated as AIPAC’s president and a key fund-raiser in candidate Barack Obama’s presidential run, also made sure to hit affectionate notes, noting Clinton’s pronounced pro-Israel record in her eight years as a U.S. senator from New York. Among other things, she led the successful effort to force the International Committee of the Red Cross to recognize Israel’s Magen David Adom. Netanyahu made sure to praise Obama for increasing security cooperation. “From one president to the next, from one Congress to the next, America’s commitment to Israel’s security has been unwavering,” he said. “In the last year, President Obama and the U.S. Congress have given meaning to that commitment by providing Israel with military assistance, by enabling joint military exercises and by working on joint missile defense.” Kohr, the longtime AIPAC director, used the policy conference to outline the group’s priorities. He focused on gaining Israel its deserved entry into the international community through membership in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which coordinates economic policy in the developed world; getting Israel a seat on the U.N. Security Council; and forging a closer relationship between Israel and NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. All have been Israeli priorities for years, but throughout the Bush administration and the prevalence of neoconservatism in
its foreign policy, AIPAC’s embrace of these issues was low-grade. In fact, in making the case for advancing Israel in the United Nations, Kohr even asked: “Now, some of you may be asking, why does it matter?” He ran through an explanation of the U.N. Security Council’s powers, but left unsaid why else it matters: The Obama administration’s emphasis on multilateralism and on working out differences in international forums. Kohr was telling his activists that this was the new Obama order. Perhaps most telling was where Clinton ad-libbed away from her prepared remarks and revealed a soft affection for Israel and its friends. She delivered a prepared line about “pioneers who found a desert and made it bloom,” then paused and said, “There were people who were thinking, how could that ever happen? Ahh, but it did.” She amended a line about warriors offering peace to describe them as “so gallant in battle.” Clinton asked the crowd if they thought she thought it necessary to speak “because AIPAC can get 7,500 people in a convention center? I don’t think so.” In her lengthiest unscripted passage, Clinton recalled traveling the world during the 1990s, the heyday of Arab-Israeli peace talks, and never hearing anyone mention the conflict outside the confines of the Middle East. These days, she said, its periodic explosions into war is often the first item, however far-flung her travels. It was a gentle unsettling of the belief that the Israel-U.S. relationship exists in a bubble unaffected by outside realities. “We cannot escape the impact of mass communications,” Clinton said. “We can only change the facts on the ground.”
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The Four Sons: 2010
Part 3: The Simple Son
by OZZIE NOGG offered at Yachad gatherings give participants a chance to The Four Sons are familiar characters in the Passover build friendships, maintain or improve their independence narrative. According to our sages, the questions they ask and social skills, and become better equipped to reach reflect their different personalities -- knowledgeable, self- their full potential. Yachad programs provide a variety of absorbed, unsophisticated, unaware -- traits all of us share learning opportunities, all of which help members get out, to some degree. This edition of the Jewish Press is one of hang out and have fun. Through participation in Yachad, four, in which we reframe the members become active particiquestions asked by the Four pants in our Jewish and larger Sons to reflect current issues in community. our community -- specifically In order to thrive, each of us those relating to Jewish Family -- child or adult -- needs supService -- as well as our responsport, understanding and encoures to the questions. And just as agement. When Yachad memwith the Haggadah, in the bers display the paintings they telling we will learn. created and see people in the In the first week of this series, community show interest in we discussed the Wise Son’s their work and in them, the question: “Why does our comsmiles on their faces reflect their munity have a Jewish Family growing sense of self-worth. Service? What is its purpose, When a Yachad member feels mission and goal?” The answer: According to a Midrash, God created free enough to dance in front of to strengthen and preserve life TV during half-time of the just one man, Adam, and one woman, the in the Jewish community and Superbowl, to the applause of the community at large through Eve, to remind us that we are all descend- his Yachad extended family financial assistance, counseling ed from the same ancestors and part of members, the joy is felt by everyand other vital human services. the same human family; so that no per- one. This year, Yachad members The following week we spoke many success stoson can say to another, “I am better than experienced of the Wicked Son, the ries. Here (with names changed) overindulged and self-absorbed you, for my ancestors are better than are two remarkable examples: child who felt no connection to yours.” The Yachad program reflects this When she left the grocery the suffering of our enslaved philosophy. store, Marian was accosted in ancestors, and -- in our contemthe parking lot by a stranger porary scenario -- has little concern for those in our who demanded she give him everything in her cart. But community less fortunate than he. she fought back, verbally, and the man beat a hasty Today we look to the Simple Son. His question, “What retreat. Marian, usually shy and withdrawn, had found is this service?” comes from a place of innocence and her voice and her spine through participation in Yachad. childlike wonder. Where does the Simple Son fit into the When she proudly shared the story of her bravery with Haggadah, and what is his place in Jewish Family Service? her Yachad friends, they were understandably impressed. Ancient rabbis, as well as modern day educators, con- So was Jewish Family Service, and the agency now offers sider the Haggadah a learning tool. They suggest that self defense classes so other Yachad members can gain the narrative describes four types of children to make the confidence needed to fight bullies. sure we remember that each of us is unique and brings Bill, another Yachad member, enjoys bowling, but something different to the seder table. The Haggadah would always use the ball assist guide ramp. This year, reminds us to accept people as they are, and offers differ- with the encouragement of his Yachad teammates and ent answers for those with different abilities and differ- volunteers, Bill found the confidence to carry the ball to ent needs. As the Proverbs tell us, “Teaching should take the lane himself and give it a toss. While other young place in a manner appropriate to the understanding of people and adults grow through participation in BBYO, the child.” This approach can be applied to our interac- USY, Haddassah and other groups, both Bill and Marian tion with adults, as well. are gaining confidence and building relationships Yachad -- a program sponsored by Jewish Family Service through their participation in Yachad. -- is designed for those in our community with developJewish tradition teaches that God deliberately created mental disabilities. The Hebrew word, yachad, means an imperfect, unfinished world. Then God created togetherness. The social, cultural and religious activities humans to be his partners in its completion and repair.
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What is asked of us in our pursuit of Tikkun Olam? To remember the teachings of kevod haberiot -- respect and honor for all human beings. This Passover, as we gather at our Seder tables, let us look at those who sit with us and recognize that though each of us is unique, we are all created in the image of God. Each of us has value and dignity. At our Seders, and on other occasions as well, let us remember that everyone learns in his own way, in her own time. And that each question, even the most simple, deserves an answer. To learn how you can become a Friend of Jewish Family Service and support the agency’s programs, including Yachad, call 330.2024.
Temple Israel fifth graders sort food for the hungry
by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Temple Israel’s fifth grade Religious School class learned a lesson in social justice when the students recently had a tour of the Omaha Food Bank. “We helped sort food. We learned what they do with the food and how they get the food,” said Bennett Ray, a fifth grader. His first trip to the Food Bank, Bennett added, “I t h i n k they’re being real generous to people who don't have e n o u g h Front row: Alex Belgrade, left, Spencer food to Arnold, Bennett Ray, Nate Gendler, Asher Rosenquist; back row: Max Goldberg (partially eat.” S p e n c e r hidden), Phillip Schrager, Josie Platt, Whitney Arnold, also Feidman, Jacob Wigodsky, Mikayla Langdon, a fifth grad- Ian Schrier, and Hannah Goodman. er, explained that “for a long time, we un-packed soup and and put them in boxes. We got three huge boxes that weren't sorted all done. It was exciting to see what they do there. It was an eye-opening experience, and it makes me happy that I have food at home.” “I thought it was cool that we give food to organizations that feed the hungry,” said Hannah Goodman, 11. She noted that “there are actually” a lot of hungry people in Omaha. “It makes me feel good that I'm helping out people,” she commented.
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Moral courage during the Holocaust
by SARA GILLIAM University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Office of University Communications Alan L. Berger, professor of Judaic studies at Florida Atlantic University, will deliver a lecture titled Am I My Brother’s/Sister’s Keeper? Moral Courage During the Holocaust on April 8 at the University of NebraskaLincoln. Berger will speak at 7 p.m. in 127 Architecture Hall, 10th and R streets (map at http://www1.unl.edu/ tour/ARCH). The lecture is free and open to the public and sponsored by the family of Harry Alan Berger “Francis” Cunningham Jr. and the family of Zoltan and Elizabeth Foldes-Roth, as well as the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the College of Architecture at UNL, and the Jewish Federation of Lincoln. The lecture recognizes Cunningham in memory of his
valor during the Holocaust. A longtime resident of Lincoln, Cunningham died in 1999, and many of his relatives still reside in Lincoln. In the late 1930s, during his first Foreign Service posting in Budapest, he helped a young Jewish couple, Zoltan Roth and Elizabeth FoldesRoth, escape from Hungary despite the formal rules that would have barred their immigration to the United States. This story became part of the Roth family lore, and recently the family decided to honor Cunningham’s memory through a lecture at UNL. His actions have also recently been recorded in the Congressional Record. His father, Harry Cunningham Sr., founded the School of Architecture at the University of Nebraska and was a member of the team that designed the Nebraska Capitol. Berger occupies the Raddock family eminent scholar chair for Holocaust studies and directs the Center for the Study of Values and Violence after Auschwitz at Florida Atlantic. He also founded and directed the Holocaust and Judaic Studies program at FAU. Previously, he was a professor in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University, where he founded and directed the Jewish Studies Program.
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Yom HaShoah community observance in State Capitol Rotunda by BETH SELDIN DOTAN Director of the Institute for Holocaust Education On Sunday, April 11, at 3 pm, the community will gather in the Nebraska State Capitol Rotunda. for the annual Holocaust Commemoration Day (Yom Hashoah). This year’s theme Never Again? What We Do Matters “will pose the question of how our actions make a difference in our community and in our world,” remarks Pam Gannon, Holocaust Commemoration chairperson and media-center director at Lincoln High School. During this year’s commemoration, Nebraska Education Commissioner Dr. Roger Breed, will greet the community along with Lincoln City Council representative, Doug Emery. A special candle lighting ceremony will honor Nebraska Holocaust survivors, World War II liberators, and Righteous Rescuers. One additional “Candle of Hope” will be lit by a young man who is a new immigrant from the Congo and now attends Lincoln High School. “I am very honored to be asked to light the candle of hope. I love the United States,” he said with a big smile. Then his face became sad: “but I do miss my aunt and my country. My parents are lost.” Cantor Wendy Shermet from Omaha’s Temple Israel and Bill Caldwell will also participate in the commemoration, along with a choral presentation by the Lincoln Southeast Court Choir. Winners of the Lincoln Public School’s Holocaust poetry contest will present their prize-winning poems. The featured speaker will be Holocaust Survivor and Civil Rights Activist, Judy Meisel. Mrs. Meisel faced a childhood full of smuggling bread into the ghetto, a miraculous escape from entering the gas chamber at the Stutthof Concentration Camp, and finally escaping to Denmark near the end of the war. She later immigrated to the United States, becoming an advocate in the American Civil Rights Movement. Meisel will speak at Lux and Pound Middle Schools on April 8 and as part of the Literature of the Holocaust Yom Hashoah Speaker Series at Lincoln Southwest and Lincoln High on April 12. Numerous other LPS students who are
registered in semester Holocaust literature courses, as well as students from Pius X will attend Meisel’s talks. Gannon explains that “for the committee, it has been significant for the Commemoration to be held in the center of state government, because the Holocaust was the state-supported persecution and murder of 6 million Jews. It is important that Nebraskans participate in the national commemoration, to learn the lessons of the Holocaust and to honor all of the victims. I have learned so much about valuing each day, surviving life’s difficulties, and sharing the stories of our lives, to encourage respect and caring for all people.” Educators or groups interested in meeting with a survivor before the Commemoration or to plan a guided tour of the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial at Wyuka Cemetery, should contact Pam Gannon at 402.489.2125 or via email at pgannon@lps.org. The Holocaust commemoration is sponsored by the Office of the Governor of Nebraska, Office of the Mayor of Lincoln, Jewish Federation of Lincoln, Harris Center for Judaic Studies – University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Community Relations Committee of the AntiDefamation League, and The Institute for Holocaust Education. Support from the Jewish Federation of Omaha, the Cooper Foundation as well as other generous organizations, help support Holocaust programming in our state. Committee Members are Marcia Kushner, Yale Gotsdiner, Gary Hill, Cece Hill, Lori Feldman, Julie Brockman, Kathy Christensen, Paul Smith, Mark Gudgel, Beth Seldin Dotan, Bill Caldwell, Pam Gannon, Albert Weiss. For more information: Pam Gannon, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow 402.489.2125 or pgannon@lps.org; Beth Seldin Dotan, Director, Institute for Holocaust Education, Plains States Office of the ADL, 333 S. 132nd Street, Omaha, NE 68154, www.ihene.org, tel. 402.3346575 or bdotan@ adl.org; Yale Gotsdiner, 328.2669, zedee@neb.rr.com.
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by JOAN K. MARCUS state. They need to take four years of English and three Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman recently addressed years of Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.” a capacity crowd at The B’nai Brith Breadbreakers. He “We also want to make sure that any high school gradbecame Nebraska’s 39th governor in January of 2005 uates 90% of their kids. And, one of the areas that we’re when then Governor Mike Johanns was appointed trying to prepare for the future, is to work with The State Secretary of Agriculture by Department of Education, President George Bush. He State Board of Education and was elected to his first full The University of Nebraska term in November of 2007. to develop a Nebraska Prior to becoming governor, Virtual High School. This is he served more than three important for a variety of reayears as Lieutenant Governor sons.” and nearly seven years as “First of all, when you talk State Treasurer. to kids, the classroom of the When Heineman camfuture isn’t a room with paigned for an elected term, desks. It is where kids can he said that he would guide take a course online and this Nebraska into tax reform, will allow some of our smallreduced state spending and er, rural schools that can’t strong economic growth Dr. Ben Rubin talks with Governor Dave Heineman. hire instructors for specialwhich, to him, translated into more jobs. He advocates for ized subjects to allow kids to do it online. It will also local control of public schools and quality education for all mean that we can move beyond the traditional school children. High academic standards and increased parental day and year. If kids can go to a computer lab and take involvement are also part of his vision for Nebraska. courses online, it might keep them off the streets of Heineman was born in Falls City and is a graduate of The Omaha. That way, they wouldn’t be engaged in drug United States Military Academy at West Point. He and his and gang activities.” wife, Sally Ganem, have one son, Sam. One of the goverHe also addressed the truancy issue of two or three nor’s accomplishments is to have signed into law a bill that thousand kids every single day who don’t go to school makes The Department of Health and Human Services and spend their days on the streets. He said, “By the more effective, more efficient and more accountable. time that a youngster is in the sixth grade and has been During his address, he tried to explain to the group passed along--even though they can’t read, they can’t Nebraska’s position, economically and educationally, in do any of their school subjects. Then, that kid is totally comparison to the rest of the states. He said, “People ask frustrated and becomes a drop-out. We have to find ways me what we are doing in Nebraska in order to be so suc- to intervene sooner and make a difference.” cessful economically.” Governor Heineman also addressed the issue of prena“I share with people by telling them that our citizens, tal care for illegal aliens. He said, “For 25 years, the businesses and government believe in a very sound Department of Health and Human Services was incorfinancial principle. We don’t spend money that we don’t rectly identifying who should receive free prenatal care. have! We have one of the lowest foreclosure rates in They were doing it based on the unborn baby.” America and our businesses haven’t leveraged themselves “But The Federal Government says that we have to with debt that they can’t afford to pay off.” determine the eligibility based on the mother’s eligibiliThe Governor went on to tell that Nebraskans are still ty. So, here in Nebraska, we have about 6,100 pregnant generating economic activity and we have the second women that we had to go back and re-identify.” lowest unemployment rate in America. He said, “It isn’t “Of those women, 5,300 are here legally and that just the second lowest. We’re sitting at 4.6% and the rest leaves us with 900 who are illegal. This is where wellof the nation is at 9.7%, more than twice our average. meaning people are going to disagree. But, the fact of Fifteen states are above 10%. In Michigan, there is more the matter is that, if you’re here illegally, we shouldn’t be than 14% unemployment.” providing you taxpayer-funded benefits. The bottom Governor Heineman also spoke of government at the line is, ‘How do I justify giving money to illegals when state level. He brags that Nebraska’s books are balanced— we can’t provide everything we want for legal citizens?’” unlike the federal government and the State of California. (According to Heineman, even illegal moms will receive He said, “Forbes Magazine has identified Nebraska as one coverage at delivery. The babies will receive infant care.) of the top ten best states for businesses. Also according to On another subject, the Governor spoke of the effecForbes, we are rated number three in the ranking of fiscal tiveness of our one-house legislature, the only one in the fitness. Three years ago, we had one of the largest tax nation. He said, “In October, we had a projected revenue relief packages in the history of the state.” fall of being short 335 million dollars. I called the legislaHe also reiterated that the television station, CNN, has ture into special session and, in 12 days, we cut spending, identified three of the top ten places in the United States didn’t raise a single tax, had a unanimous vote and we to work as being in Nebraska. Heineman attributes our went home! That’s what the people of Nebraska expect. high rating to the fact that our books are balanced and We can agree to disagree in an agreeable way. But, we that we haven’t overspent. find a common ground and we move our state forward.” “However,” says Heineman, “We are not immune to this national economic showdown. We are nervous about this next four or five months. Business leaders say that we have bottomed out. The four largest tax receipt months for Nebraska are March, April, May and June, as B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS you can imagine, because of income taxes.” Dr. Gaylord Moeller, retired principal of Central “And, if we meet those projections, I think we will be High School will talk about his experiences as the head in pretty good shape to get through the next seven or of OPS’s most recognized high school on Wednesday, eight months. Hopefully, the economy will begin to pick April 7, noon, in the JCC social hall. Everyone in the up and we will be ready to accelerate our growth.” community is invited. The program is free; an optional Heineman commented that the other key issue of our lunch is $13; beverage service, $3. For more information economy is linked to education. He said, “We want to or to be placed on the email list, contact Jenny at give our children the very best education that we can. 334.6443 or bnaibrith@jewishomaha.org. Then, we want to create good-paying jobs to keep them in Nebraska. One of the challenges of education today is LOMIR REDN YIDDISH that our kids are going to compete in a knowledge Yiddish brings us closer to our roots! Come join us based, technology driven, global free-market economy. every Thursday afternoon from 1-3 p.m. in the social They are no longer going to be competing against Iowa, hall of the JCC. For information call Anne Skolkin at Kansas and Missouri.” 343.1638. “We are out there competing with India, Pakistan and China. So, what was an acceptable education 20 years ago, isn’t today. We have to do more, and I don’t think that a single kid can afford to just rest with a high school education. In order to be career and college ready, they Laura and Eric Givner of Irvine, CA announce the need at least two years of college—whether it be commu- March 17 birth of their son, Jacob Wayne. nity, technical, university or private college.” Grandparents are Donna Givner, Nat Givner of “So, one of the things that we’ve done is to restructure Scottsdale, AZ, Marge and Dennis Ceto of Gibraltar, what we call The Nebraska P-16 Initiative. That’s pre- MI, and Bob and Geri Hinzmann of Kalamazoo, MI. school through four years of college. We came together Great-grandparents are Beverly and Gene Eisenberg of and developed eight goals. One of them is that we need Carlsbad, CA, and Sarah and Jerry Richards of a core curriculum for every high school student in this Morristown, TN.
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JCC Maccabi Games Housing Committee goes to great lengths to reach goal by LISA SHKOLNICK JCC Associate Executive Director When CDC Director, Corey Kirshenbaum signed-up for the second time in 8 years to staff the Housing Committee for the JCC Maccabi Games, dressing up as Tigger was not in the job description. However, on February 27th and 28th, that’s exactly what he did. With Maccabi t-shirt and lots of chutzpah, Corey met with dozens of Jewish families during the Purim Celebrations around Omaha, and had a terrific response. “It’s hard to ignore Tigger!” said Corey. As of March 10th, Omaha has 230 Jewish Host Families registered for the upcoming Games. With over 1,000 visiting Jewish athletes coming to Omaha August 1st - 6th from all over the world, we still need 120 Jewish homes! Athletes will come from over 29 cities, including delegations from Israel,
Mexico, Canada, and Hungary. Home hospitality is the fundamental principle that makes the entire JCC Maccabi Games program possible. While athletes are engaged throughout the day in competition, and socializing in Maccabi Programs in the evening, it’s the local host family experience that is one of the most memorable for the athlete; and without a doubt the most rewarding for the entire Omaha Jewish Community. You don’t have to wait until the next time you see Corey or are called by any of our dedicated Housing Co-chairs -Rosie Zweiback, Sally Zipursky, and Danielle Gordman, to sign up as a Host Family. You can say YES to Housing today in one of three ways: Call Corey Kirshenbaum at 334.6415, call our Maccabi Office at 334.6418 and ask for Jessica Reed, or go to www.jccmacreg. org and register directly online!
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April is National Holocaust Month and the Jewish holiday of Passover occurs March 29-April 6, NET Television will broadcast a number of programs honoring Jewish heritage and traditions. The talented David “Dudu” Fisher performs a collection of Broadway tunes, as well as traditional and contemporary Israeli songs in Dudu Fisher: In Concert from Israel, airing Saturday, April 3, 9:30 p.m. CT on NET1 and NET-HD. “The Jewish Americans, a three-part documentary series examining the struggle of a minority to make its way into the American mainstream, premieres Sunday, April 4, 10 p.m. CT on NET1 and NETHD. The first episode, They Came to Stay/ A World of Their Own, covers the period from the 1700s, when the first Jews arrive in America, to the early 20th century, when more than two million Eastern European Jews, fleeing poverty and
oppression, emigrate. Gravitating to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, they develop their own unique cultural institutions. The final two parts of the series air on successive Sundays, April 11 and 18.
IN THE NEWS Omaha native Sara Cowan is the conductor for the new group The Twin Cities Jewish Chorale, an inclusive, multigenerational concert choir dedicated to performing the full range of Jewish choral music and to providing outreach and education. She graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa, where she majored in music. Sara is currently a Master’s of Choral Conducting student at the University of Minnesota, in her second year. She is the daugther of Drs. Alison Freifeld and Ken Cowan.
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Teens visit non-profit organization for Philanthropy Program event by MARY BORT Another facet of the evening was a Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation simulation activity that demonstrated The Jewish Federation of Omaha what the residents of QLI are chalFoundation’s B’nai Tzedek Teen lenged with every day. For example, the Philanthropy Program recently held an students tried manipulating wheelchairs event for teens at the Quality Living while only using their non-dominant Institute (QLI). Approximately 60 mid- side. They wore glasses that distorted dle and high school students from Beth their vision and then they tried to walk El Synagogue and Temple Israel spent an evening at QLI, which is one of the nation’s premier facilities for non-geriatric adults with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries or severe physical disabilities. “We want to teach our teens to be philanthropic leaders,” explained Janie Murow, Omaha’s B’nai Tzedek Director. “Our get-togethers are designed to help them learn Students playing a card game with QLI residents are more about charitable giving Rachel Saag, left, Hannah Budwig, Jacob Vann. and non-profit organizations. This event and throw a ball. The teens also stood gave the teens an opportunity to meet on balls that kept them unbalanced and people who benefit from the support of tried to sign their names with their nona non-profit organization and the chal- dominant hand. lenges that these individuals face.” Jen Karolski, QLI’s Director of “The QLI campus is impressive,” con- Development, and her staff coordinated tinued Murow. “The Lied Life Center, a memorable program for the students. where the teens gathered, is brand new Karolski stated, “I heard several comand offers residents a theater, art room, ments, from staff and residents alike, on and exercise facilities. There is also a what a terrific group of young people it space to hang out, with pool tables and was who attended the event. Thank you a coffee bar. Our students had an for allowing us a chance to send a very opportunity to interact with some of the important message to them during their residents, playing cards, pool and Wii formative years.” games.” According to Murow, Temple Israel Rabbi Aryeh Azriel accompanied the and Beth El Synagogue provided transTemple group and explained to the portation for their students to attend teens, “Not all of the people you will the event at QLI. “We appreciate that meet look like you or have the mobility they worked with us to hold the event that you have, but remember, we are all during the time they usually hold created in G-d’s image.” Hebrew school,” she said. “It’s wonderOne of the residents, Brian Gut, told ful that so many of our young people the students about the accident that were able to participate.” changed his life “in the blink of an eye.” Omaha’s B’nai Tzedek Teen “Brian’s message was delivered through Philanthropy Program offers teens in a video,” said Murow. “The ‘Q and A’ 7th-9th grade the opportunity to estabsession that followed was done with a lish individual endowment funds, with special communications device since matching funds provided by the Brian can’t speak. The room full of Foundation. Teens in 10th – 12th teenagers was silent as they waited for grades can participate in a youth philanBrian to type the answers to their ques- thropy foundation. The program’s next tions into his device. It was astounding event, open to all teens, will be held on to learn the story of this young man, May 4. For more information, contact who at the time of his accident was only Murow at jmurow@jewishomaha.org or a few years older than his audience.” 334.6566.
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A little hate goes a long way
by ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Editor of the Jewish Press April is Holocaust Awareness Month, and so we are expected to be extra ‘aware’. We remember people, places, and events; we tell and retell stories of pain and suffering, of miraculous escapes and survival, and we vow: ‘never again’. We try to piece together what happened, story by story, in an attempt to comprehend the incomprehensible. Recently, the International Jewish Committee for Inter-religious Consultation held a series of meetings with the Vatican. The IJCIC is a Jewish interfaith umbrella organization, the members of which have been trying to convince Rome to open those archives that pertain to WWII. Pope Pius XII seems to be on the fast track to sainthood, even though critics say he chose to ignore Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. Knowing what’s in those archives would be nice, and it’s one example of why research continues to be a hot button. But then, there is another piece to the puzzle: we have to pay attention to what’s happening today. On March 18, 2010, a Polish court convicted three men for stealing the “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign from the front gate of Auschwitz. Anders Hogstrom, a former Swedish neo-Nazi, is suspected of ordering the men to steal the sign; he allegedly acted as an agent for a British Nazi sympathizer who wanted the sign (for what? Who knows). That same day, Calgary police issued a Canada-wide arrest warrant for an 18-year-old youth over a series of spray-painted antiSemitic messages. The racist graffiti on mailboxes, signs at synagogues, and a memorial for Holocaust survivors included swastikas, and the words “kill Jews” and “six million more.” Apparently, he didn’t have anything better to do. In January, a French Jewish cemetery was vandalized; that same month, a synagogue in Sacramento was defaced with anti-Semitic messages, and a hacker attacked Jewish web
sites in Boulder, Colorado. In March, a swastika was found in a California dorm room. The very unpleasant list goes on, but I won’t; there is nothing new here. The question is: what should we think, and what should we do? We can get mad and then drop it, or we can ignore, and pretend none of this is happening. We can tell ourselves that one anti-Semitic teenager in Canada is no cause for concern. Maybe that is true; but a rational response to the evening news does not make that news itself rational. Besides, if we treat each hateful act as an outlier, we are going to miss the bigger picture. Of course, anti-Semitism isn’t the only thing we have to worry about. Lately, it seems nearly impossible to have any kind of disagreement without tempers flying. Why come up with a well thought out argument, if you can just sling some mud and get it over with? Why use your words, when spray paint does the job just as well? How about saliva? The recent health care debate made this all the more e v i d e n t . Warnings of c o m i n g Armageddon, racist and homophobic slurs directed at politicians, bricks through windows, and one lone member of Congress yelling about ‘baby killers’.
It’s all very exciting, and makes for fantastic headlines. Sticks and stones: maybe we’re on a slippery slope, and maybe this is only temporary. However, I believe that at the end of the day, it does matter what we say to each other. I don’t think there is a difference between someone scratching a swastika in the wall, and someone using racial slurs towards African American politicians. Sure, we’re not fighting in the streets yet, but is it really so much better when we call each other names because we can’t think of anything else to say? Besides, once words (and spray painted swastikas) are out, you can’t pull them back in. So, let’s all watch our mouths a little, and, equally important, speak up when someone else forgets how to behave. I guarantee, it’ll be better for your health.
FOCUS ON ISSUES by JULIE SCHONFELD
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Israeli officials faced “coalition challenges” on three fronts last week: U.S.-Israel relations, the cohesion of the governing coalition, and Diaspora-Israel relations. A seismic shift took place that should not be missed. The Diaspora community, which has been too silent on issues of religious freedom when challenges to Israeli security and internal political unity were present, strongly spoke out. The U.S. and Israeli governments are working through a major crisis in the wake of the controversial settlement announcement during Vice President Biden’s visit. At the same time, on a different issue, the coalition government seemed at risk of crumbling under the weight of the intransigent ultra-religious parties. The catalyst was the Rotem conversion bill, which began as an effort to open the system of religious conversion courts. It suddenly expanded to include possible changes to the Law of Return and further disenfranchisement of the majority of world Jewry. As events unfolded, a shift occurred in the Israel-Diaspora Jewry coalition that may come to be recognized as the most significant outcome of last week’s developments. The Diaspora community has become progressively more marginalized on issues of religious status
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Israel-Diaspora relations: a new equation and identity over the past two decades. As tiny ultra-Orthodox parties have become both more extreme in their religious outlook and more powerful in their political maneuverings, we deliberately restrained ourselves. Yet by doing so, we allowed fundamentalism imposed by the ultra-Orthodox to be enforced by the Israeli government. By holding our tongues in the name of unity, we have become ever less unified. But last week, faced with the possibility of the Rotem bill passing, Diaspora leaders looked at the familiar equation: SILENCE ON RELIGIOUS COERCION = UNITY = SECURITY and saw it doesn’t add up. The net result of this equation is that the younger generation sees Israel as an increasingly oppressive and fundamentalist society. We must act to reverse the growing disaffection among young Diaspora Jews, who will not accept a society that allows a religious minority to treat their core Jewish values with contempt. As tensions rose on issues of U.S. government relations and internal coalition stress, the Conservative and Reform movements continued to issue calls for letters to Prime Minister Netanyahu. The Jewish Federations of North America sent a high-level delegation to meet with the bill’s author, Knesset member David Rotem, and others. Natan Sharansky, in his official capacity as chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, spoke publicly of his alignment with the Diaspora on this issue and the necessity of Israeli consultation with us in the formulation of laws that affect world Jewry on
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conversion and the Law of Return. Last week represented a sea change in Diaspora-Israel relations. Diaspora leaders recognized that any threat to our relationship with Israel is a threat to the strength and security of the Jewish state. We said no to religious coercion -- not despite Jewish unity and the priority of Israel’s security but because of it. The vast majority of world Jewry cannot relate to the Judaism of the ultra-Orthodox minority. During this eventful week, Conservative and Reform leaders, along with the Jewish Federations of North America, called out the Israeli government on the coercive power that coalition arithmetic has granted to the Orthodox. We proclaimed that it so harms Israel-Diaspora relations as to name it for what it is: a security threat. We set aside our other agendas and spent our week on this issue. We treated it with the level of seriousness and focused attention that we, as stalwart lovers of Israel, treat any threat to her security. Diaspora Jewry derived a new axiom this week: ISRAEL’S FUTURE = SECURITY + RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. As more than 100 Conservative rabbis, over half of the total rabbis in attendance, prepared for the AIPAC Policy Conference, an annual highlight for supporters of Israel from across North America, we ordered 1,000 blue wristbands with four simple words: ISRAEL • SECURITY • RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Ask us for one. Help us carry the message. Rabbi Julie Schonfeld is executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative rabbis.
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I’m talking to you! GUEST EDITORIAL by SALLY ZIPURSKY Maccabi Housing Chairman
As I sat down to write this editorial, I tried to think of something I could share. Something profound, something awe-inspiring, to convince you to house teen athletes this summer for the JCC Maccabi games to be held Aug. 1-6 here in Omaha. Yes, it is clearly you I need to convince. Because we need you! The JCC Maccabi Games provide the opportunity for nearly 1,000 Jewish teenagers to come together in Omaha. They will compete in sporting events, work together in Tikkun Olam (repair the world), and socialize; all in Omaha. The key to the success of this amazing celebration of Jewish youth is… you got it: you!
You can be a part of this amazing week by providing a host home for these kids from across America and several other countries. You can connect with the Jewish leaders of tomorrow, and you can make a difference! So, what does it mean to be a Host Family? First of all, at least one adult in your home must be Jewish. We are asking you to house a minimum of two visiting athletes for five nights (if you have a roof, windows and a door, you’re there!) You will then provide separate beds for each teen; pull-out couches or air mattresses are fine. (We have air mattresses available, so you can’t turn us down on that one!) You will provide breakfast each morning and two dinners during the week (we’re pretty sure you eat anyway). The athletes need transportation to the JCC or their venue each morning, and will need to be picked up at night after evening programs. Car pools are not only allowed, they are encouraged. As a volunteer, you will attend one Host Family Orientation session (hosted by Corey Kirshenbaum, Rosie Zweiback, Danielle Gordman and me—could anything be more
A nuclear power plant in Israel would be disastrous
BEHIND THE HEADLINES by KARL GROSSMAN
OLD WESTBURY, New York (JTA) -- The recently announced proposal by Israel’s minister of national infrastructure, Uzi Landau, that Israel build a nuclear power plant makes absolutely no sense economically, militarily or environmentally. It’s also bad for the health of the Israeli people. Economically, the cost of a nuclear power plant is between $12 billion and $15 billion per plant. Because private money does not go into nuclear plants, according to Michael Mariotte, executive director of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, huge government funds would be required. In the United States, President Obama recently proposed a $54.5 billion loan guarantee fund to build new nuclear plants stateside. With the Israel Defense Forces’ total budget at approximately $13.3 billion, building a nuclear plant simply would be unaffordable. “Nuclear is uneconomic,” says Amory Lovins, a physicist and chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a group of industry experts promoting renewable energy. “It costs, for example, about three times as much as wind power, which is booming.” Solar power, at which Israel excels, would be far more cost-effective than nuclear power. Some 80 percent of homes in Israel are equipped with solar thermal panels to heat water. Nowadays there are new technologies at use in Israel to use the sun to produce electricity through solar photovoltaic panels. Last year, ZenithSolar, an Israel start-up company, put into operation a solar farm at a kibbutz that converts 70 percent of incoming solar energy to electricity. Industry norms are 10 to 25 percent. At its opening, Israeli President Shimon Peres declared, “Israel has the capability to become the leading country in the promotion of alternative energy technologies. We have the brain power and the ability to do this.” Israel should do this rather than waste its resources on the dead end of nuclear power. Militarily, Israel’s construction of a nuclear power plant would create a sitting duck for its many enemies. A country or terrorist organization hostile to Israel need not put together an atomic bomb to bring nuclear devastation to Israel; it need only use a heavy weapon or aircraft to pierce the concrete containment of the proposed plant to cause a core meltdown or nuclear catastrophe. This is no secret. Nuclear power plants are “predeployed weapons of mass destruction,” says Paul Gunter, reactor specialist with an anti-nuclear power group called Beyond Nuclear. There have been numer-
ous reports of Al-Qaeda considering and training to attack a U.S. nuclear plant. In the danger-fraught Middle East, a nuclear weapon would not be needed to wreak atomic havoc on Israel if Israel builds a nuclear plant. Israel already has a nuclear facility, at Dimona -- long said to be the source of fuel for Israeli nuclear weapons -- and Iran has talked about hitting Dimona. But Dimona is small compared to a modern nuclear power plant, which would hold inside it 1,000 times the radioactivity of an atomic bomb. From an environmental point of view, nuclear power is senseless. The nuclear industry is seeking to revive nuclear power with the argument that nuclear plants don’t emit greenhouse gases. What they don’t tell you is that the overall nuclear chain needed to produce nuclear power -- including uranium mining and milling, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, the disposal of radioactive waste and so on – produces significant greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, where would Israel get the water necessary to cool a nuclear plant? Minister Landau spoke of the plant being located in the northern Negev desert. A nuclear power plant needs hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per minute as coolant to keep the atomic reaction in check. That amount of water is not available in the northern Negev desert. Indeed, it’s barely available anywhere in parched Israel. When it comes to nuclear waste, the hotly radioactive poisons produced constantly in a nuclear plant, Israel would have to find a way to isolate it for up to millions of years. Is Israel to become the land of radioactive waste rather than the land of milk and honey? Finally, a nuclear accident is not the only threat to public health. Nuclear power plants all have “routine emissions” of radioactivity -- which has consequences for people who live miles away. For a long time, the Radiation and Public Health Project has documented how these emissions cause elevated rates of cancer. And God forbid there should be a major accident that allows the poisons in a nuclear plant to escape. These dangers are outlined in a recently published book called “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment.” The book finds that the 1986 accident at Chernobyl has caused 985,000 cancer deaths so far. A Chernobyl-scale accident in Israel would be devastating to Israel and leave a large portion of the country uninhabitable for millennia. Rather than pose a deadly and unnecessary threat to Israeli life with a nuclear power, Israel instead should be a light to the nations in the use of safe, clean, renewable energy technologies. Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism at the SUNY College at Old Westbury and is the author of “Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power.”
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Yoffie urges Jerusalem moratorium
FOCUS ON ISSUES by RON KAMPEAS
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The leader of the Reform movement called for a temporary moratorium on building in East Jerusalem. In remarks delivered Thursday to the board of trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Eric Yoffie noted Reform’s commitment to Israel’s claim to Jerusalem and its right to build there. “The Union for Reform Judaism, like most American Jewish organizations, supports a united Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty,” the URJ president said. “This means that we believe housing units constructed in Jerusalem by Israel are not settlements and they are not illegal. But a great many things that are legal are not prudent or wise – and building in Arab sections of Jerusalem in the current political climate is one of those things.” Yoffie recommended the moratorium as a means of easing tensions with the United States sparked last week when Israel announced a major building start in Jerusalem during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden aimed at showing U.S.-Israel unity. The announcement also led the Palestinian Authority to pull back from planned renewed peace talks. “Surely no opportunity to move toward an enduring settlement must be squandered,” he said. “I hope that the government of Israel will see the declaration of a temporary moratorium on building in East Jerusalem as a means of seizing the initiative, deepening her ties with America, rallying her allies around the world, and challenging the Palestinians and Arab world to come forward with confidence-building steps of their own.” Among U.S. Jewish groups, Yoffie and the Reform movement tack toward an aggressive U.S. posture in brokering Israeli-Arab peace, something its leaders have made clear in meetings with the Obama administration. However, Yoffie also has assertively defended Israel from what he sees as unfair attacks in recent months, particularly against calls on Israel to face war crimes charges after last year’s Gaza war.
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Dear Editor, Your explanation of the meaning of Truman Clare's vital ties to the Omaha Jewish Community was lacking in detail. Truman was absolutely the most important advisor on legal & tax matters to a number of the most charitable Jewish families of the Omaha community, particularly (names withheld). He explained to these people how to make their businesses successful. He, using the Yiddish that he learned from (name withheld), taught every one of these people to give to the annual Federation campaign, as well as special projects, such as the Blumkin Home. When things went wrong, Truman was always available for counsel and sympathy. This devout Catholic taught many Jews to live in a truly Jewish manner. I worked with Truman for over 30 years and he became my greatest mentor. Thank you, Alan Goodman, Omaha, NE
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Synagogue Listings B’nai Israel Synagogue 618 Mynster St. Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 322.4705 email: CBsynagogue@hotmail.com
Beth El Synagogue Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism 14506 California Omaha, NE 68154-1980 492.8550 www.bethel-omaha.org
Beth Israel Synagogue Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific St. Omaha, NE. 68154 556.6288 BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org
Chabad House An Affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch 1866 S. 120th St. Omaha, NE 68144-1646 330.1800 www.OChabad.com email: chabad@aol.com
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun South Street Temple Union for Reform Judaism 2061 S. 20th St. Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 435.8004 southstreettemple.org
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Temple Israel Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 7023 Cass Street Omaha, NE 68132-2651 556.6536 templeisrael-ne.org
The Neighborhood Prayer Group 1317 No. 57 St. Omaha, NE 68132 551.6609
Tifereth Israel Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 423.8569 www.tiferethisraellincoln.org
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B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE FRIDAY: Services followed by Oneg, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY, April 9: Services followed by Oneg, 7:30 p.m. with guest speaker, Carol Lainof, RN, MSN on Here’s to Your Health. The community is invited.
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE Services conducted by Rabbi Mordechai Levin and Cantor Beth Schlossberg. FRIDAY, Hol Hamo’ed: Shacharit, 6:45 a.m.; Musical Kabbalat Shabbat service, 6 p.m. SATURDAY, Hol Hamo’ed: Morning services, 9:30 a.m.; Minha/Ma’ariv, 7:40 p.m. WEEKDAY SERVICES: Sundays, 9 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; weekdays, 7 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. Hol Hamo’ed: SUNDAY, Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Beginning Hebrew, with Eadie Tsabari, and Bible Study Discussion Group, 10 a.m.; Minha/ Ma’ariv, 5:30 p.m. MEN’S CLUB MATZA BREI BREAKFAST: Sunday, 10 a.m. Cost is $4 for adults and $2 for children 6 – 12, free for 5 and under. No RSVPs needed. MONDAY, Seventh Day: Shacharit, 9:30 a.m.; Minha/ Ma’ariv, 5:30 p.m. TUESDAY, Eighth Day: Shacharit (Yizkor is said), 9:30 a.m.; Minha/ Ma’ariv, 7:45 p.m. Passover ends no earlier than 8:15 p.m. MINI COURSE: “Parsha and Pizza,” with Cantor Schlossberg, Wednesdays, April 7, 21 and 28, and May 12 and 26, 7-8 p.m. Cost is $18 for Beth El members, $25 for non-members. Register by calling the office. TOT SHABBAT and SAY SHALOM TO SHABBAT: Friday, April 9, 6 p.m. Dinner follows the service. Cost is $5 for Beth El members and $7.50 for others by Wednesday, April 7; after that date, $10 for Beth El members, $15 for non-members. RSVP to Margie Gutnik at programming@bethel-omaha.org. BESTT: Classes will be on spring/Passover break until April 11. All Beth El classes and programs are open to everyone in the Jewish community.
BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fri., 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Gross and Rabbi Yitzchak Mizrahi. FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; free babysitting, 9:30 a.m.; Children’s Classes, 9:45 a.m. with Torah Parade; Kiddush is sponsored by Sisterhood; Bible Quiz, 6:15 p.m. for fifth through eighth graders. Pirzes will be awarded to the top three contestants. The Bible Quiz is in place of the regularly scheduled Shabbat afternoon classes; Mincha, 7:15 p.m. followed by Seuda Shlishit; Havdalah, 8:34 p.m. SUNDAY-Erev Yom Tov:
Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Sunday morning breakfast and classes are canceled during passover; Mincha, 7:35 p.m. WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m. MONDAY, Seventh Day: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Minha/ Ma’ariv, 7:45 p.m. TUESDAY, Last Day: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Yizkor, 10:45 a.m.; Minha, 7:45 p.m.; Havdalah, 8:38 p.m. Chometz should not be used before 10:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY: Rabbi Weiss’s weekly class, 7:30 p.m.; Advanced Halacha Kollel, 9 p.m. Follow the Kollel at www.omahakollel.blog spot.com. THURSDAY: Women of the Torah class, 9:30 a.m.; Rabbi’s Gross’s weekly class, 7:30 p.m.
CHABAD HOUSE Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m. FRIDAY: Service, 7 a.m.; Parsha Club for the Elderly, 2:30 p.m. at the Blumkin Home. Contact Shevi@ochabad.com to make sure your parent or friend at the home can join the program and learn about the Parsha. SATURDAY: Shabbat Minyan, 10 a.m.; Youth Minyan, 10:30 a.m. Mini-Mensch title will be awarded. Kiddush lunch follows. Join Rabbi Katzman from 12-1 p.m. SUNDAY: Service, 8:30 a.m. MONDAY: Minyan, 9 a.m. TUESDAY: Moshiach Feast, 7 p.m. Participate in the Kabbalistic Pesach finale with dinner, four cups of wine, Matza and great conversation. Kids are welcome. RSVP to rsvp@ochabad.com or call 330.1800. WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m. THURSDAY: The Parsha Club for Level I beginners, ages 5-6; and Level II intermediates and experts, ages 7-9, 3:50 p.m. Please contact Shevi@ochabad.com. All programs are open to the entire community.
Second Annual Hallah High Rummage Sale for charity, Sunday, April 25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. For questions, please contact Katie Cook Wilson, 423.9198.
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m.
ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME FRIDAY: Service, 7 a.m.; Parsha Club, 2:30 p.m. with Chabad members. SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m. led by Marty Shukert. MONDAY: Services, 9 a.m. led by Rabbi Maximo Shechet. TUESDAY: Services with Yizkor, 9 a.m. led by Rabbi Maximo Shechet.
TEMPLE ISRAEL FRIDAY: Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. led by Rabbi Azriel, and Tami Field. SATURDAY: Sparks Beneath the Surface, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m. SUNDAY: No Religious School. MONDAY-Conclusion of Passover: Matzvah Brei Breakfast, 9:30 a.m.; Morning Service and Yizkor, 10:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY: No Religious, Family or Middle/High School. THURSDAY: Adult Study with the Clergy, 10 a.m. So, What Makes It Jewish Cooking? Sunday, April 11, 10:30 a.m. Get some new ideas for a homemade Jewish breakfast with caterer and chef Miriam Gross. Yom HaShoah Speaker to Tell Her Story of Holocaust Survival,
Wednesday, April 14, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel. Shabbat Service: Police and Fire Fighters Appreciation on Friday, April 16, 6 p.m. Jerry Hoberman and Ray Somberg will address how we can show appreciation for our police and fire fighters.
NEIGHBORHOOD PRAYER GROUP FRIDAY: Minyan, 7:33 p.m. SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m.
TIFERETH ISRAEL Services conducted by Nancy Coren, Lay Leader. Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and Friday, 8-11 a.m. FRIDAY: Services, 6:30 p.m. SATURDAY: Morning service, 9:30 a.m. followed by Kiddush lunch and Talmud study. SUNDAY: No LJCS Classes. MONDAY, Seventh Day: Services, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY, Eighth Day: Services with Yizkor, 8:30 a.m. WEDNESDAY: Hebrew classes (grades 3-7), 4-6 p.m. at Tifereth Israel. (Grades 5-7 will go to Wyuka Cemetery for a presentation by Yale Gotsdiner.) The temple office will be closed on April 5 and 6 for Passover. Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, Friday, April 23, 7:30 a.m. with guest speaker Dr. AmyJill Levine at the downtown Holiday Inn. RSVP to the Temple office by April 9. Second Annual Hallah High Rummage Sale for charity, Sunday, April 25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. For questions, please contact Katie Cook Wilson, 423.9198.
Preschoolers’ Seder at Temple Israel
CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN Services conducted by Rabbi Ilan Emanuel. FRIDAY: Oneg, 6 p.m.; Early Family Shabbat Service, 6:15 p.m. led by Rabbi Emanuel. SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m., all led by Rabbi Emanuel. SUNDAY: No LJCS Classes. WEDNESDAY: Hebrew classes (grades 3-7), 4-6 p.m. at Tifereth Israel. (Grades 5-7 will go to Wyuka Cemetery for a presentation by Yale Gotsdiner.) ADULT EDUCATION SUNDAYS, 7 p.m. Intro to Judaism, led by Rabbi Emanuel. Mayor’s Interfaith Prayer Breakfast, Friday, April 23, 7:30 a.m. with guest speaker Dr. AmyJill Levine at the downtown Holiday Inn. RSVP to the Temple office by April 9. Joint service with UN-L Hillel, Friday, April 23 on UN-L campus.
Vanessa, Joan, Marissa, and Justin Cooper enjoy Temple’s pre-K Seder.
B’nai Israel Speaker Series Marc Kraft, spoke on March 12 at the Shabbat speaker series. He discussed the topic, Starving the Beast. His message: citizens can’t expect public services without paying for them through taxation. Admittedly, there are many examples of waste, but street repairs, public safety, and other services cost money and we all have to pay for them. The Speaker Series offers the Jewish Community a variety of speakers and topics of interest. On April 9, Carol Lainof, RN, MSN will speak on the topic, Here’s to Your Health. The entire Jewish Community is invited to attend.
PERSONALS Thank you to all my relations and friends for your calls, cards, and donations for my recovery. Milt Saylan Sincere thanks for the cards, donations, calls and prayers during mu lengthy hospitalization. We’re coming along – slowly but surely. Sandy and Frd Bromley
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The Ingenious Ancient Rabbis
SPARKS FROM THE WORD by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Va’yikrah We open our Bible again and find ourselves in the middle of the five books of Torah, i.e., Va’yikrah. It was easy to miss the main point of this book. The average reader will find himself, in our day, totally unimpressed by all the sacrifices on the altar. But he misses the point. Some parts are burnt on the altar. That is to say, these parts were given to God. But if one looks closely, he notes that none of these parts of the sacrifice are used, generally, for human food. The parts that are given to the Kohanim are parts that are used for human food. There was no way that the Kohanim could eat, or would want to eat, all this food. The obvious alternative was to give or sell this food to other Israelites. Thus the people of Israel were provided food that was already, so to speak, blessed by God. In these chapters (important ones!) we are given instructions about three “pilgrimage festivals”: Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. Further, there is a single-sentence commandment, which the ancient Rabbis used to derive the Jewish law and practice of separating all dairy food from meat food. Thus we must remember, and constantly refer to the ingenious interpretation of the Rabbis of ancient times, as they read passages from the Torah which would ordinarily escape our understanding.
DEATHS DAVID “BUDDY” BEAR David “Buddy” Bear, 80, died Wednesday March 3 in West Des Moines, IA. Funeral services were held March 5 at Tifereth Israel, and he was buried at Jewish Glendale cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Jeanette Blumberg-Bear; son and daugther-in-law, Dr. Philip and Robin Bear; daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Robert Carpenter, all of Des Moines; and daughter, Mary Jane (MJ) Bear, of Vienna, Austria; five grandchildren; brother and sister-in-law, Myron (Max) and Barbara Bear of Des Moines. David was born March 14, 1929, in Leavenworth, KS, to Abe Bear and Jennie Katelman-Bear. He graduated from Omaha’s South High school in 1947. Memorials may be sent to Tifereth Israel synagogue, 924 Polk Blvd, Des Moines, IA 50312, or to DMARC food pantry, 3816 36th street, suite 202, Des Moines, IA, 50310.
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IN THE NEWS The Institute for Holocaust Education’s Executive Director, Beth Seldin Dotan provided training sessions to nearly 120 docents at The Illinois Holocaust Museum in Skokie last week. Dotan curated “The Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey” which opened on Thursday, March 25. The exhibit highlights giclee prints from the illustrations of the book The Journey that Saved Curious George by Allan Drummond along with enlarged facsimile drawings of some of Margaret and H.A. Rey original work. The book, written by author Louise Borden tells about the Reys’ flight from France during World War II.
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Chabad completes JLI course
by SHEVI KATZMAN meaning, Beyond Never Again examines the universal for Chabad House themes that the Holocaust forces us to confront, such as This month completed the six week Winter Jewish the nature of good and evil, and how empathy and conLearning Institute (JLI) course at Chabad for inspired science may be nurtured. The course is formulated as a students. Irv Goldenberg, student of the course, said the series of facilitated discussions that will enable particiclass was “very good.” He explained, “I think it made me pants to articulate their personal responses to the do a lot of thinking and it was interesting to see what great Holocaust, and provides relevant angles on some of life’s servants of G-d and good exammost difficult questions pertainples these [leaders] were.” ing to faith and suffering. Dr. David Cohen, who Starting on April 26 at 7 p.m. attended the course with his at Chabad Center, 1866 South wife, Marlene, said “it was a 120th Street, Beyond Never Again will run in Omaha for six consecspectacular class and gave me utive Mondays, and is expected to exposure to parts of Jewish hisdraw more than 30 local students tory that I was completely to its dynamic text-based and unaware of.” His wife added audio-visual classes. that she “liked the stories and JLI, is the adult education arm the individuals [discussed.]” of Chabad-Lubavitch. Now based JLI classes open the door to in almost 300 cities nationwide, all levels of Jewish knowledge, questions are always welcome, JLI student Dr. David Cohen proudly displays his as well as Australia, Belgium, and the learning is rewarding. Portraits in Leadership diploma after completing the Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, Holland, South Africa, Sandra Kohll, who participated course this month at Chabad. in the Winter course reflects, “I enjoyed every minute of Sweden, United Kingdom, and Venezuela, JLI’s classes the class.” Food for the mind is often accompanied with and programs have been attended by nearly 150,000 food for the body, as is done at the JLI classes. people since its creation in 1998. Every course offered by JLI is offered concurrently in Goldenberg noted that the “soup [served] was very all worldwide affiliate locations. This unique feature has good and the refreshments were delicious.” Timed to coincide with Yom Hashoah – Holocaust created a true global learning community. Please visit Remembrance Day, Beyond Never Again, a six-part www.myjli.com for up-to-the-minute information course about the Holocaust, will premiere in more than about Beyond Never Again. JLI courses are presented in Omaha, Nebraska under 300 locations worldwide, including Omaha. Created by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute, the world’s largest the auspices of Chabad Center and are instructed by network of adult education, Beyond Never Again has Rabbi Mendel Katzman. The cost for the course is $79 and includes a textbook. won support from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, and more than 100 Special discounts are available for couples registering centers and institutes devoted to studying the Holocaust together and for full-time students. To learn more or to register, call 330-1800. around the world. Envisioned as a journey into the intense realm of
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Beth El middle schoolers enjoy regional youth-group convention
by JILL BELMONT Beth El Publicity Coordinator Beth El’s Kadima youth group, made up of seventh and eighth graders, recently trekked to Excelsior Springs, MO, to connect with other Jewish middle schoolers to enjoy the Emtza Region Kadima Kinnus convention. The annual retreat, held this year at Lake Doniphan Resort, creates an allJewish environment where everyone has an opportunity to observe mitzvoth together and create a community by celebrating Shabbat together, according to Beth El Education Director Judy Rubin. “The pluses of attending a retreat such as Kadima Kinnus include connecting with other Conservative Jewish teens in the Emtza Region who will become their lifelong friends as they progress throughout USY (United Synagogue Youth),” Rubin said. “Very often, these same teens attend the same universities and their bonds extend into the future from their middle-school years.”
The weekend was a huge success, said to conventions with for the next four activities were great because no matter Beth El’s Dayna Cohen, who serves as years. It sets a great foundation for their what, I hung out with friends and made memories that will last a lifetime,” she USY Emtza Region’s Executive Vice years to come in USY.” said. Shandell added that after years of President/Israel Affairs hearing about the fun of youth-group Vice President. Cohen, conventions from her older cousins, she who helped to organize was glad to experience it firsthand. the weekend, said parSarah Kutler said she was not only happy ticipants had the opporto make new acquaintances, but also to tunity to experience re-connect with some friends from Camp USY-style Shabbat servHerzl. Saying she “loved all the activities ices and “intense ruach that they had for us to do,” the seventh sessions,” plus prograder cited a ‘trust walk,’ the dance and grams offering leadermaking tzedakah boxes as her favorite ship, social action/ activities of the weekend. “I had a lot of tikkun olam, Israel and fun,” she said. Judaic themes. Cohen was pleased with the overall “One of the most important goals of the The Omaha contingent attending last month’s Kadima Kinnus con- convention, and said that, “We, the weekend is to have all of vention included, back row, Beth El’s Cantor Beth Schlossberg, regional board and regional youth directhe Kadimaniks from all Jessica Shandell, Alex Pichik, Sarah Kutler, Ethan Potash and Chad tor, measure our success by the feedback over the Emtza Region Shulewitz; front row, Alyssa Cohen, Eva Phillips, Rebecca Boocker, of the Kadimaniks. They all left the weekend talking about how much fun they meet one another,” Elissa Wiener and Dayna Cohen. Cohen added. “It doesn’t take more than For seventh grader Jessica Shandell, the had and how excited they were to see that one weekend for them to make retreat gave her the chance to share expe- each other again at camp or the next conincredible friends that they will be going riences with other Jewish friends. “All the vention.”
Partnership brings exciting summer opportunities to Omaha by SHERRIE SAAG Administrative Assistant, Center for Jewish Education The Jewish Federation’s Partnership with Israel Program brings two unique and exciting summer opportunities to Omaha. If you are still considering a summer in Israel, these two opportunities provide experiences unlike any other. Partnership with Israel’s Kefiada program provides a volunteer opportunity for 19-26 year olds interested in working at Western Galilee summer camps. You can experience Israel like an Israeli, immerse yourself in Israeli society and make a
meaningful contribution to its people – all while having fun at a summer camp! In addition, Jewish Hungarian Jews will join the program in Israel for one week as part of the new Budapest connection through Partnership with Israel. The program runs June 28 - July 22. The Tri-Teen Summer program is aptly named because it brings together teens aged 15-18 from Israel’s Western Galilee, Partnership’s Central Area Consortium communities (of which Omaha is a part), and Budapest, Hungary for a unique experience traveling together. The trip combines ten days in Israel, divided
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