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The Rose Blumkin Jewish Home: A Legacy We Proudly Carry Forward The Untested Cookbook Page 5
More than a Mirrorball: The Jewish Story Behind Dancing with the Stars Page 8
The property at 25th and Charles Street LYNN BATTEN JFO Content Coordinator/Gallery Manager s we prepare to open the new addition to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, we will be running a series of articles reflecting on our community’s history of senior care. To
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Welcome Home, Benjamin
In the Jerusalem Community Garden in the German Colony with former Omahan and rabbinical student, Jay Ascher, April 2026.
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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMPWRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Leaving home and eventually
coming back (even if it might be temporarily) is often accompanied by next-level relationship building. There is something exciting about meeting up with people you knew as kids, once they have grown to full adult-size, both in stature and in education. Such is the case with Benjamin Brodkey. Benjamin has plenty of Omaha memories, from Temple Israel, from the JCC Musical Theater, from growing up in this See Benjamin page 2
help us fully understand the significance of where we are today, this series will look back at the journey that brought us here and the previous generations who made this moment possible. Special thanks to the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society archives and Jewish See RBJH page 2
Standing on Their Shoulders: Milton R. Abrahams (1965–1967) MARTY RICKS NJHS Advisory Board Member As a young man, Milton R. "Milt" Abrahams loved journalism and seriously considered making it his career. He wrote for Central High School's Register and, as a freshman at Creighton University, edited The Creightonian. Still torn between journalism and law, he paid a courtesy call on the editor of the Omaha World-Herald and asked for advice. In a 1994 "Sun-Up Interview" with longtime World-Herald columnist Robert McMorris, Milt recalled that the editor showed him what the newspaper paid its reporters and then what it paid
its lawyers. "I decided to become a lawyer," Milt said. It was a practical decision that launched a distinguished legal career. Yet what ultimately defined Milt's life was not only the See Milton Abrahams page 3