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Women’s Event Let’s have some fun at Sunday Funday Page 2
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RACHEL RING JFO Director of Development oin us in celebrating the wonderful women who make up our community on Tuesday, June 27, from 6-8 p.m.! Our event chairs Mindi Marburg, Brooklyn Armstrong, Toba Cohen-Dunning, Eleanor Dunning, Rita Yaffe and Caryn Sheer invite you to Omaha’s beautiful Lauritzen Gardens to celebrate
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with each other. Enjoy summer and nature while tapping into your creative side. We’ll start with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 6 p.m. followed by a Build Your Own Moss Terrarium workshop given by Moss Hunters and then end the evening with prosecco and dessert. Moss Hunters will provide all the materials you’ll need – See Women’s Event page 2
JFO hosts FBI Victim Services Education
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Andrew Mitchell and James Donahue 300+ Campers migrate from the Columbian School drop off to gather around the flagpoles at 9 a.m.
The 2023 JCC Summer Camp officially began June 5. This year the camp theme is The Future is Ours. Over 400 unique campers will have days filled with fun adventures exploring different paths including arts, science, nature, sports and community services. More than just fun, summer camp See JCC Summer Camp page 3
JAMES DONAHUE JFO Security Manager As many of you reading this probably already know, antisemitism is on the rise. Of all the citizens in our country, the Jewish population only makes up about 2.4 percent. However, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that 63 percent of all religiously motivated hate crimes are antisemitic. We will never be able to know the
exact location or exact time of the next major incident in the Jewish community, and we would be naïve in thinking that we can stop them all, but what we can do is choose how we prepare. On the evening of May 30, the Jewish Federation of Omaha hosted Supervisory Special Agent Andrew Mitchell who is the Crisis Management Coordinator from the local See FBI Victim Services page 2