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RBJH Enhancing the Quality of Life Beth S. Dotan, PhD receives Sower Award Page 5
Beth El produce swap: Leave one, take one Page 7
ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor t is no secret that the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home is the number one care facility in the State of Nebraska. Having said that, sometimes we forget how lucky we are, and how unique it is that this community has cre-
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Camp Ramah returns to Ukraine Page 12
Dance friends last forever
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EMILY BARNES JCC Dance Training Company Member At least once a year, Esther Katz, JCC Performing Arts Director, gives
the JCC DanceTraining Company what I affectionately call “the friendship talk.” The talk varies a bit each time, but the overarching theme is: “dance friends last forever.” As cliché as it may sound, this couldn’t be more true. Dance requires us to trust each other physically, from sharing our weight to literally lifting each other up. This trust cultivates lifelong friendships in a very short amount of time. Now, imagine dancing with the same girls since the age of three. Let me tell you, the result is some pretty amazing friends. See Dance friends page 2
ated a place like the Home. Consumer demands are high. It’s time to take the next step in providing the best possible care to our community and re-establish ourselves as an innovative and industry-leading provider. For nearly three decades, the Home has partnered with See Enhancing the Quality of Life page 3
Lehitraot, dear community feeling told me that SIVAN COHEN this is the place I JFO Community want to go to. Shlicha Therefore, I inDear Jewish terviewed with five community, it’s a people from the bit surreal to say JFO at the same this, but, after two time (it can be a bit years of Shlichut stressful...) and (mission), my time passed. So, without with the commugoogling anything, nity is over and I’m simply with faith, moving on to my willpower and two next journey. suitcases (which I will start by saysomehow have ing thank you. Sivan Cohen quadrupled... Thank you for the opportunity you have given me, the America) I set off. Although the support, the acceptance, the kind journey started with a delay of more words and for providing a fulfilling than nine hours, I made it. experience for me. It is difficult to summarize two My journey to a Shlichut in Omaha, years of activity and experience in a Nebraska was not really what I was few words, but I will try. planning. I was sure that I would I arrived in Omaha without knowchoose a different, more “familiar” ing anyone, apart from a brief accommunity. But when, from all loca- quaintance with the Dreyer family. tions that were offered, the idea to in- I also came without fully underterview with the community in standing the Shlicha rule, which is Nebraska was suggested, a strong gut See Lehitraot page 2