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Local Author Series: Ari Kohen ANNETTE VAN DE KAMPWRIGHT Jewish Press Editor The next installment of the Local Author Series is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 10-11 a.m. in the Ben and Anna Wiesman reception Room at the Staenberg JCC. Our guest that day is Ari Kohen.

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LINDA POLLARD JFO Foundation Endowment Assistant/ Staff Writer ver 80 attorneys, accountants, financial advisors, insurance professionals and charitable gift planners attended the 13th Yale Richards Professional Education Seminar on Oct. 28, 2022, at the Boys Town Conference Center. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation and Boys Town, featured speakers Professor Christopher Hoyt, J.D., of the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law and Tim Weid-

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man, Director of Information Technology at Frankel Zacharia Tech Services, provided four hours of continuing professional education credits to all in attendance. Professor Hoyt focused on tax-smart charitable giving through retirement accounts and planning techniques for inherited individual retirement accounts. Mr. Weidman addressed the best practices for professional advisors to follow to keep information confidential, secure and privileged and to protect electronic devices from hackers. The professional education seminar is named to honor Yale Richards, of blessed See Yale Richards Seminar page 2

20th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival presents The Museum

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MARK KIRCHHOFF JFO Engagement and Education How is it possible that in a movie titled The Museum, the museum is not the focus of the movie at all? Is this some kind of upside-down world we live in? The answer to the second question may be “yes,” but not based on the movie. Film distributor Menemsha Films describes it this way: “The Museum is a film that seeks

to explore the Israeli soul through the galleries, storerooms and visitors of

the Israel Museum, Israel’s most important cultural institution. This is a documentary puzzle, simultaneously intriguing and amusing, which attempts to define the unique essence of the museum within the exceptional geographical, historical and political context in which it functions. With a trenchant, ironic eye the film follows the visitors, observes the observers, listens to the speakers and descends to the storerooms, labs and conference rooms. The American museum director, the singing security guard, the Jerusalemite curator, the Haredi kashrut inspector, the Palestinian guide and the blind visitor are just a few of the characters that take part in a chain of activities which add up to the museum.” In keeping with the 20th Annual Omaha Jewish Film Festival, Views of the World Through Israeli Eyes, the See Jewish Film Festival page 2

Ari Kohen is the professor of political science, the Schlesinger professor of Social Justice and the Director of the Harris Center for Judaic Studies at UNL. He is the coauthor of several books, and is well known for leading several Momentum trips to Israel. In addition, he guided a group of UNL students during a study abroad program in Israel, which was featured in this paper a few months ago. Most recently, together with Gerald J. Steinacher, he co-edited Antisemitism on the Rise: the 1930s and Today. It contains a collection of nine essays, with topics ranging from the Weimar Elites, antisemitism at Harvard, use and abuse of the Bible in the 1930s and 40s to BDS and Holocaust education. Writing after the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, the book traces how deep antisemitic roots go, and how it doesn’t grow in a vacuum. “Replacement theory,” Kohen and Steinacher write, “the conspiracy that provides structural support for a good deal of the white supremacist activism we see today, can be traced back to antisemitic conspiracy theorizing in France in the late 1800s that imagined a Jewish plot to bring about the downfall of a white, Christian Europe through miscegenation.” The book addresses questions about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and about See Local Author Series page 2