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ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Now that the Jewish Community Center’s main entrance is open, it’s difficult not to be excited about the beautiful new space. This gift to our community could not have been completed without community members who stepped up and got involved. Among them are Dr. Joel and Nancy Schlessinger, both of whom have long felt a deep connection to the JCC and became instrumental in creating our new lobby nearly two years ago.

“We named it the Schlessinger Family Lobby,” Joel said, “because we wanted to emphasize the importance of ‘family’ at the JCC. We hope that it embraces all those entering as it did our family and enhances other lives with the spirit and love we have always felt when we were with family at the JCC. June and Bernie, my parents, came with us to Omaha in 1992 and have been users of the JCC since they arrived, having done water aerobics at the pool for years. Claire and Daniel, our now grown-up kids (and Stephanie Star, our See Schlessinger Family Lobby page 2

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Remembering Norman Krivosha

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ALAN POTASH Chief Executive Officer, JFO Today I want to pay tribute to a person who made an impact on the laws of Nebraska, weighed in on the practice of Conservative Judaism, inspired young men in his work with Sigma Alpha Mu, was a confidant to a governor and other leaders, and even had a private meeting with the former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion – all while being a proud Nebraskan. I will not be able to do him justice (no pun intended) in this short space, but it is a start. At times he appeared to many as larger than life.

When I read about the recent death

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of Norman Krivosha, former Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, I found myself reflecting on the first time I met him and the impact he had on me. There aren’t many people who have reached his level of significance while never hiding their Jewish identity. I will never forget the impression he left on me.

In 1979, the sitting Chief Justice of See Norman Krivosha page 4

Memories of Don Klein

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMPWRIGHT Jewish Press Editor Donald Stephen Klein passed away peacefully surrounded by family on Jan. 17 at age 86. A private burial was held and officiated by Rabbi Steven Abraham.

Don was born and raised in Oklahoma and lived his life as a proud Sooner. He was a long-time pharmacist and owner of Cris’ Rexall Drug, which he bought in 1971. Don maintained one of the last old-time

soda fountains, providing fond memories for generations.

Don was an avid golfer, voracious reader and an involved member of the Omaha Jewish community as well as the community at large. He served on numerous boards, many as president, including the Jewish Press, Bureau for the Aging, Planned Parenthood of OmahaCouncil Bluffs, National Association of Soda Jerks and Rotary OmahaWest, where he proudly maintained See Donald Steven Klein page 11

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Schlessinger Family Lobby Joel and Nancy actually met in summer 1988 at a Jewish sinContinued from page 1 soon-to-be daughter-in-law), have all used the JCC or seen the gles’ event at the St. Louis JCC: “I had just come to St. Louis project as it developed. Nancy’s parents, Maurice and Bernice to do my dermatology residency at Washington University,” Gordon, of blessed memory, used the JCC when they visited Joel said, “and the presence of a Jewish meeting place allowed us from St. Louis as well.” for the start of our lives toNancy, too, admits to being gether. It remains an indelible partial to the new lobby. “I am part of our lives. In fact, one of a workout buff,” she said, “and our companies is named ‘Olive pre-pandemic I visited the fitand Delmar’ with the ‘Olive’ ness center several days a part commemorating the week to use the equipment, street that borders our meettake exercise classes and do piing site at the JCC St. Louis.” lates and yoga. I hope that “We got married 14 months when we are again in safe later,” Nancy said, “so that times post-pandemic, I’ll be building has always held a very able to get back to my normal special place in my heart. workout routine or walk the When I made the visit with our track with friends, a great Omaha JCC staff, I saw the chance to exercise and catch room that Joel and I had met in up at the same time. The JCC 32 years ago and it melted my Claire and Daniel Schlessinger at the JCC is a wonderful place for people heart. I thought it was imporconnections, no matter what part of the building you’re in!!” tant to do something special for our JCC here in Omaha so “Every time I enter the new JCC,” Joel said, “I imagine our that others could make wonderful, lasting memories as I had past, present and future family coming in the front door. in my hometown St. Louis JCC. In addition, I felt that the lobby Nancy and I pray that Jewish culture in Omaha not only sur- for the Omaha JCC was important, as it is the first thing peovives, but flourishes over time.” ple see when they come in. I am so happy that our family can Nancy is currently a member of the Jewish Federation of be a part of that ‘first impression.’ When you walk in now, the Omaha Board of Directors, and in that role kept hearing about transformation is stunning. I love natural light and though the the building’s updates. Those updates piqued her interest: original lobby offered that, most of the original windows were “I had the opportunity to visit the St. Louis JCC as well as covered up. Now they are exposed, so the light comes in natthe St. Louis Jewish Federation last spring with some of the urally. It’s so beautiful!”

JFO staff,” she said, “Having grown up in St. Louis, I saw what They want these types of experiences and memories for other had been done there with Michael Staenberg’s leadership and couples in the future, Joel said, “as it is so important to the fugenerosity. I hoped that our own JCC and JFO could look and ture of Judaism, in general, and the Omaha Jewish Community, feel like that one day. It was inspirational.”

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Foundation update

For centuries, tzedakah, charitable giving, has been at the core of most Jewish households. Generation after generation, Jewish families have given a portion of their income, a portion of their wealth, to charity. Guided by their parents, children learn to help their neighbors, those in need and their communities, all the while learning to appreciate the joy of giving.

HOWARD EPSTEIN That joy of giving, handed down Executive Director, from parent to child, continues to this JFO Foundation day, and we at the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation are privileged to be part of it. Each year, we help parents and grandparents establish family donor-advised funds at the Foundation to engage and educate their children and grandchildren about charitable giving.

In each instance, together with their parents and grandparents, the children and grandchildren decide which charitable causes to support and how many dollars to allocate to each charity. It is rewarding and exciting to see multiple generations collaborate to benefit the Omaha Jewish community and the broader secular community.

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The Kaplan Book Group wonders what happens After I’m Gone SHIRLY BANNER Library Specialist On Feb. 18 the Dorothy Kaplan Book Discussion Group continues the year with Laura Lippman’s After I’m Gone.

The novel was inspired in part by a true crime story in which Julius Salsbury, the head of a large illegal gambling operation, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. He disappeared while awaiting the results of his appeal. He leaves a wife, three daughters and a mistress behind.

Recently convicted Felix Brewer is the “Julius Salsbury” of Lippman’s novel.

While out on appeal for his crime, Felix disappears on the Fourth of July in 1976, throwing his family’s and mistress’s lives into turmoil. Lippman’s novel focuses on the lives of the women in Felix’s life - his wife Bambi, his three daughters Linda, Rachel, and Michelle, and his mistress Julie Saxony. Ten years later from the day of his disappearance, Julie mysteriously disappears. Twenty-six years later, Sandy Sanchez, a retired cop working freelance on cold cases, tries to uncover

what happened to Julie.

The burning question throughout the investigation into Julie Saxony’s death is whether she was on her way to rejoin errant Felix and what happened to the money that was supposed to have been left for Bambi and the girls. Sandy’s investigation uncovers details of the events of the lives of the five women and their relationship with Felix. In an effort to discover what happened during those years, the reader is confronted with what is true and what is rumor.

Just when it appears that the mystery is solved, some secrets are revealed showing that the story is more complex than what appeared at first look. No matter how well you think you know someone, sometimes you really don’t.

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Schlessinger Family Lobby Continued from page 2 in particular. Our kids were a part of the JCC from nearly the moment they were born, from moms’ groups to pre-school.

Later, as they grew up, they were active in sports, dance and other activities. It was an important part of their formative Jewish identity.”

Most importantly, Nancy and Joel knew they wanted to give back to the community that supported them and helped them to be successful.

“We have been very fortunate to serve Omaha and the surrounding area in my dermatology practice since 1992,” Joel said. “With the addition of Lovely Skin.com, our online retail cosmeceutical business, our footprint expanded.

This could not have happened in Omaha without the ability to practice our religion and raise a family in a Jewish environment. Conversely, we wouldn’t have come to Omaha if these opportunities had not existed. We are hopeful that this gift will allow other young families to come to or remain in Omaha and feel they have the same religious opportunities that we had.”

The transformation of the building has inspired both Nancy and Joel.

“I am amazed by the new Omaha JCC and what it has become in look and feel,” Nancy said. “It is not only a wonderful place for fitness, programs, dance, theater, learning and social interactions, but it’s like stepping into an art museum - an art museum that I would want to visit again and again, with the benefits of fitness, programming and great people! It’s stunning and I feel so fortunate

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to be in this community, where we can have this and share it with others. Not only did the lighting get changed to all LED throughout the campus, which is so bright in a very nice way, but the art work, generously given to our JCC by Michael Staenberg, is cheerful, bright, happy and unique. We are so fortunate to have Michael and his continuously huge heart.”

Joel agreed: “I can’t even begin to express the joy I feel when I enter the JCC now. I always felt like I was coming to another ‘home’ when I arrived, but now we have a ‘crown jewel’ to show visitors to our city with the ‘new’ JCC.” In addition, Joel and Nancy are very enthusiastic about their experience working with CEO Alan Potash, Chief Development Officer Steve Levinger and Executive Director of Operations Phil Malcom. “We truly enjoyed working with all three of them,” Nancy said. ”My hope,” Joel added, “is that it brings us all together and strengthens our resolve to survive as a community. It is no secret that Jewish life and culture are challenged in this environment and time.

Sports, community events and the education of our next generation are the top ways that I see to keep Judaism relevant to the newer generation. The remarkable confluence of attention and investment from the greater Omaha community (many of whom have left Omaha but still love it) have made this possible.

I hope that the vision I have in my mind of a thriving Jewish community in 2050 and beyond happens due in part to the investments we are all making now.”

“We want to get the word out to all of Omaha that we have this terrific building with so much to offer,” Nancy said.

“Hopefully we can partner with some of our local theaters and arts groups to host shows and other programs in the acoustically and architecturally advanced new theater. Our fitness center and new indoor and outdoor swimming pools are family-fun and ready. I hope that our center will be a place where Jewish families, young single adults as well as our senior community will feel comfortable in and use regularly. We anticipate getting more people involved in programming as well, so they have more connections to the JCC other than just using the fitness center or the swimming pools. We will also bring in art exhibits as we have done in the past and have local artists there for a special meet and greet day. There are so many ideas to explore!”

Joel said: “One final thought is that it is essential that this space welcomes all, whether they are Jewish or not. We must be welcoming to interfaith families as well as families that identify positively with Jewish culture as this will be a key to our success.”

The gift Nancy and Joel have given this community is more than bricks and mortar; it is the promise of a bright and engaged future for our entire community.

During this past year, we have all learned first-hand how challenging life can be when we cannot come together. Once we are able to do so again, we will do so in a beautifully enhanced space, which makes us a fortunate community indeed.

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Continued from page 1 the Nebraska Supreme Court took a meeting with two 19year-old college students on a non-legal matter (I must give credit to my father – Norman’s fraternity brother – for setting up the meeting). My friend Andy and I met the Chief Justice in his chambers and he gave us a tour of the courtroom. It was all very impressive.

Following the tour, he took us to lunch to get down to the business at hand. I can’t remember where we had lunch, but I don’t think it was open to the public, because almost everyone in the room seemed to be an elected representative. What struck me most was each time someone came over to our table to greet the Chief Justice, he in turn introduced us as “college students planning to start a Jewish fraternity.” He was a very proud ∑AMY and wasn’t at all shy about it. He was the Supreme Prior of Sigma Alpha Mu (1981-1985) and a mentor to many young leaders. I later learned from others that he enjoyed stopping by the ∑AMY house on football days.

Even before meeting him in person I viewed Norman as a Jewish role model. As one of the most public individuals in Nebraska government, he was never shy about being Jewish.

This stood out to me then and still does today. In my conversations with others who knew him, this aspect of his personality was cited again and again. His love of Judaism was evident in almost everything he did.

Our paths crossed many more times over the years. The last time I saw him was in Austin, Texas during one of his and Helene’s visits. Their daughter Rhonda and her family belonged to the same synagogue my family and I attended, and he always took time after services to sit and chat with me.

In preparation for writing this tribute, I spoke with several people who knew Norman to get a holistic picture of who he was as a judge, a lawyer, a community leader, and a friend. Many common themes ran through my conversations. He was a brilliant lawyer who loved the law. He had a strong belief in Judaism and Jewish Law, and of course he loved his family. He practiced and embodied all of these loves every day. During my conversations, I discovered that he sat on the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. To date, he is the only Chief Justice to ever sit on that committee. I learned he had a talent for weaving American Law and Jewish Law seamlessly. He was also a board member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

During his time as a lawyer, Norman demonstrated a true understanding of the power and beauty of the law, and he found a friend in J.J. Exon, later becoming his lawyer. It was Governor Exon who appointed him Chief Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, a job he loved very much. I learned from those I spoke with that he was a transformational justice.

In addition to being the Chief Justice, he became the chief administrator of the courts – a role he especially enjoyed. He believed that the Supreme Court was for the people and he worked hard to elevate the image of the courts. It was with his skills as an administrator that he put in motion many of the practices that today seem natural. One such practice that was

shared with me was his interest in the rights of children and the focus and attention he brought to the importance of the juvenile justice system.

Everyone I spoke with shared with me that Norman had a brilliant legal mind with a wicked sense of humor. He could provide a legal opinion in a way that didn’t offend the opposite position. Both a scholarly approach to the work and his colorful personality shown through in his dedication to the job.

Besides being a brilliant lawyer, he was a wonderful person who truly cared for the community.

For me, a highlight of one of Norman’s archived interviews was a story he told about going to Israel twice with Governor Exon and their wives. (I was able to find the itinerary of one of those trips.). In the interview he recalls, after a long day of meetings and touring, they returned to the King David hotel and he received a phone call from the front desk inviting the two of them to meet former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion in the lobby. “He would like to meet you,” said the voice on the phone. Norman included this among the most meaningful and important days of his life, having the opportunity to meet one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.

During my research and conversations with people I discovered so many interesting facts about Norman’s life that I hope to follow up with more after this. Again, I want to thank those who took time to share their thoughts and memories with me.

To learn more about The Honorable Norman M. Krivosha, I encourage you to watch his 1998 interview with Richard Shugrue, part of an oral history series of distinguished Nebraska lawyers in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Nebraska State Bar Association and accessible through Creighton University’s School of Law website. He and Helene also did an oral history for the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society, which is accessible on the NJHS website.

IN THE NEWS SAM KRICSFELD was selected for Hillel International Writers Program. He was the Jewish Press’s 2020 Summer Intern and continuing contributor. Sam is one of six college students from across the United States selected for this program.

The program lasts five months and is aimed at undergraduate students studying journalism. Writers will produce content for the Hillel International News and Views blog, the Hillel College Guide Magazine and Humans of Hillel.

Throughout the program, Jewish journalists and Hillel professionals will teach lessons over Zoom to the participants.

Kricsfeld looks forward to writing for Hillel International and continuing to write for the Press.

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ORGANIZATIONS B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS The Monsky Lodge of B’nai B’rith is pleased to announce the resumption of its award-winning speaker program via ZOOM. Although the Home auditorium remains temporarily closed, we’ll continue presenting an outstanding lineup of thought-provoking keynoters. For specific speaker information and/or to be placed on the email list, please contact Breadbreakers chair at gary.javitch@gmail.com or leave a message at the BB JCC office 402.334.6443.

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Mother turns 100

My mother, Ruth Bachmann Pollak, died in 2016 shortly after her 95th birthday in Orange County, California. She would be 100 on Feb. 18, which is also the birthday of her mother Nellie.

In these months and years of pandemic we see the obstacles and traumas of our ancestors. Mother, born in 1921, could list family members struck by the 1918-19 Influenza which claimed OLIVER B. POLLAK at least 50 million lives worldwide.

Mother survived the rise of Hitler and the nazis and being a Jewish refugee.

English-born Nellie Borgzinner married Dr. Felix Bachman in 1912 in London’s Ethical Church. They lived in Germany and divorced in the mid-1930s. Nellie returned to England.

Felix, proudly German, wanted to stay; he had a house, employment, pension and daughter Ruth living with him.

Mother lived in a nice middle class Hannover neighborhood. She went to Sunday School. My sister and I have about half a dozen of her books including a gift from the synagogue and a well-worn 1929 Langenscheidt’s English-German Pocket-Dictionary.

The Board of the Hannover Community Synagogue presented my mother in March 1937 with Propheten und Gottesmanner (1930) by Marcus Ehrenpreis, signed by the rabbi.

Hillel’s statement, “Trenne dich nicht von der Gemeinde!” means “Do not separate yourself from the community.” My sixyears-younger sister, Judy, has a seventh edition of Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary from when mother went to nursing school in 1957.

Kristallnacht, Nov. 9-10, 1938, changed things, though in later years Mother confessed no memory of the events. The rise of Hitler and her parent’s divorce traumatized her. At 18 years of age, too old for Kindertransport, she contemplated Shanghai, got a visa to England and left Hannover on April 15, 1939. Felix said he would be on the last train out of Germany.

He miscalculated the direction and was transported to Theresienstadt on July 23, 1942. It is difficult to imagine a teenager dealing with the divorce of her parents, the swelling anti-Semitism that caused her to leave school, caring for her WWI disabled father, planning to go to Shanghai but getting an English visa, going into domestic service as an unappreciated nannie, and working in a pub in Cambridge. The turmoil and tumult of being a young marginally welcome refugee in England at war for its life against the hateful leaders of her mother coun-

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try was disconcerting or much worse.

She may have spent a week at a mental health facility.

She married my father William, 19 years her senior, an Austrian refugee in the Czech Brigade of the British Army. My father was fined one pound for punching a neighbor for calling mother a dirty Jew. Mother’s experience colored her life, her ability to trust people and attitude toward Germany and the German language.

My attitude and empathy for the Rohingya in Myanmar 7900 miles away, the mother and child at the “Southern Border,” and the undocumented in our midst stems from her experience.

My parents named me Oliver, I suspect, in part because my German and Austrian Jewish refugee parents wanted to anglicize their son born in war-torn London in 1943. Oliver Cromwell assisted the return of the Jews to England in 1657; King Edward had expelled them in 1290. Cromwell was a regicide and republican.

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Coast-To-Coast Book Club high adventure!

JOANIE JACOBSON Tippi Denenberg was a late bloomer.

Luckily, this English major from Vassar, right out of college, read Beryl Markham’s autobiography West With the Night, and it spoke to her own sense of adventure and experimentation.

“Beryl has meant a lot of things to me at different times in my life,” Denenberg noted. “She means passion and exploration. She means ‘use your brain, do what you want to do; do it 100%.’ She means that age is irrelevant in terms of limitations. Her autobiography West With the Night and Straight On Till Morning, a biography by Mary S. Lovell, are two of my all-time favorite books and continue to inspire me every day.”

On Tuesday, Feb. 23, from 7:30-8:30 p.m., the Coast-To-Coast Book Club at Beth El Synagogue will feature a “Ladies’ Choice,” giving participants their choice to read either the Markham autobiography or the Lovell biography and join in a transformative conversation facilitated

by Denenberg, no passport required.

“Beryl was way beyond 20 when she started doing amazing things,” said Denenberg. “She was a horse trainer who became a bush pilot in Africa who became an aviatrix who was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America and later became a consultant in the

movie industry and then an author. She remained an active horse trainer until

she died at 83.”

“I’d always wanted to be a vet since I was a little girl,” Denenberg noted, “but I reconciled myself to the fact that nice Jewish girls become human doctors.

After I read Beryl’s book, I realized you can have whatever career you want at any stage of life.” And so began her own years of adventure and experimentation.

Denenbergs experiences are wide and varied. She’s worked as a horse wrangler in a cattle ranch in Colorado, a yoga Nomad, an outdoor education teacher in an NYC ER room and for the first international movie gross company in Los

Angeles. Before earning her private pilots license and a degree in Veteranary Sciences.

“I kept ending up with animals,” she explained. “My three brothers couldn’t stand the sight of blood so I took care of our dogs. I liked the feeling, liked their vibe. I have an affinity for animals... I understand them and their unspoken language. I’ve always had compassion for those who can’t speak for themselves.”

Books have also been “a life blood kind of thing” for Denenberg. “Reading ruined my eyes like my parents said it would. I’d read under the covers with my flashlight. Later the cell phone killed a lot of my novel reading but I’ve come back. I also love cookbooks — I read them like novels. My fantasy is to be trapped in a mountain chalet that’s stocked like a library.”

Denenberg is asking Coast-To-Coast participants to identify a famous woman who has inspired them and to share the reason why on Feb. 23. “Just thinking about it is a good exercise in itself,” she added. “And don’t underestimate the power your own passions to light someone else’s fire!”

To register for the Coast-To-Coast Book Club’s “Ladies Choice” on Tuesday, Feb. 23 from 7:30-8:30 p.m., contact Beth El Synagogue at www.bethelomaha.org.

LOURI SULLIVAN JFO Senior Director of Community Impact and Special Projects We will once again be offering Anything Grants in 2021 funded by the Staenberg Family Foundation and friends of the Federation for Jewish organizations in Omaha, Lincoln and Council Bluffs.

These special one-time matching grants will range from $1,000 to $5,000, equal to 50 percent of the project budget. Organizations are responsible for raising the remaining 50 percent from other sources. Project budgets should not exceed $10,000. Michael and Carol Staenberg chose to establish the Staenberg Family Foundation in 2005 to mobilize resources needed to preserve and enhance Jewish life in St. Louis, Israel and around the world.

They have now expanded their support to Omaha where Michael was born and raised. The Staenbergs hope that their actions will inspire others to give back to the community by funding Anything Grants to benefit Jewish non-profit organizations or synagogues in Omaha, Lincoln or Council Bluffs.

All applicants must have a 501(c)3 tax status.

Grant applications will be accepted Feb. 2,-Feb. 28, 2021.

Anything Grants, like the name says, could be for anything, such as hiring a nonprofit consultant, purchasing technology, staff development or building needs.

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You must complete the application all at once; this program does not allow for saving and budgets will need to be emailed to me.

These grants are intended for projects or programs on your wish list that would not be funded without this grant.

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For questions or to discuss possible grant ideas, please contact Senior Director of Community Impact and Special Projects Louri Sullivan at lsullivan@jewishomaha.org.

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books are historic fragments. On the shelf consigned to Mother here in Richmond was a small cardboard box that once held greeting cards and stationery. It still does, but not the original purchase.

Mother and I save stationery, mail, greeting cards, business cards, a genre charitably called ephemera. In this small box was a twee 2 x 3 1/4 inch envelope containing her children’s, sonin-law’s and grandson’s business cards and some Rolodex cards.

So, when someone says you got it from your mother, it means traits as well as mementos.

My business cards are housed in repurposed Dom Perignon champagne boxes.

Mom turns 100. Dad would be 118. I have marked the cellphone Tiny Calendar for October 2023 for a story on his favorite expression, “Bis hundertwanzig,” until 120.

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Continued from page 5 War, not our permanent home. We arrived in America in November 1952, just in time for Thanksgiving, quite a contrast to England’s food rationing.

Mother and Father achieved the American dream, home ownership, in 1959. I still remember the Fallsgrove phone number, AXminster 31964, not used in 40 years; Zip codes were introduced in 1963. Dad died in December 1977 and mother moved to Laguna Hills in 1982.

Three generations of Borgzinner, Bachman, Pollak and Seligman women were nurses; Mom’s aunt Elsie Borgzinner Hyman nursed in WWI and WWII and Mom’s niece Laura Seligman in Reno, Nevada.

Mother graduated from Lawton Nursing School in Los Angeles in 1957.

While in school, mother had a European refugee with a strong accent care for us. She made gefilte fish.

Few mementos remain from Mom’s 19 years in Germany, some books, photos, documents and postcards, a blend of what her mother Nellie, who died in 1961, managed to ferret out of Germany after her divorce from Felix. Felix survived Theresienstadt and left Germany in 1947 with some additional rescued property.

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Why Soros?

ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor From Marjorie Taylor “Space Laser” Greene to the Hungarian prime minister, George Soros is the go-to scapegoat. Rudy Giuliani accused him of being intent on destroying our government. He controls the free Press. His face shows up in countless memes, picturing him as the ultimate bad guy.

He’s rich, Jewish, foreign-born, he gives quite a bit of money to liberal causes and he’s up to no good.

In the current climate of paranoia, forget about the Rothschilds. While they may still make a cameo appearance here and there, if you want to show off your anti-Semitism, George Soros is who you blame, publicly and often (one day last year, there were 500,000 negative tweets about him—one day!).

Funny thing: George does not practice his Judaism. Or so he says. He doesn’t have much sympathy for Zionism, although he has at times acknowledged that Israel’s existence is important.

He has spoken out against AIPAC, claiming “the group’s behavior lent some ‘credence’ to the antiSemitic belief in an ‘all-powerful Zionist conspiracy.’

Ouch.

That Soros is a liberal, who funds Democratic candidates and promotes left-wing causes has never been a secret. So we can agree with him or disagree with him on various policy issues, and that’s fine. It’s how democracy works: we don’t all see the world the same way. However, when Fox News’ Glenn Beck in 2010 aired a series labeling

Soros a ‘Puppet Master,’ then-Director of the AntiDefamation League Abe Foxman said this: “The oldest stereotype of anti-Semitism is about Jews and money. It goes all the way back to Jesus being sold for 30 pieces of silver. It’s there, it’s deep, it’s broad, it’s universal. What has happened in recent years is that Soros has been made the poster boy of this stereotype of the international Jew. He’s become an icon.” (JTA.com)

George Soros Credit: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images

The ‘stereotype of the international Jew’ does not only have to do with money. It has to do with control. Which makes Soros a prime candidate for the types of conspiracies people like Marjorie Taylor Greene are so fond of: the world is not working the way we want it to, someone must be pulling the strings. Someone is sabotaging, controlling the outcome, working against us, in secret. This notion that

Jews are secretly scheming to undermine the status quo has been around for a long time and even taken on new life with the theory of ‘Great replacement-’ the notion that a Jewish cabal is working to replace all white people in America with minorities. And George Soros, well, he is at the head of that cabal.

Another favorite claim QAnon followers continue to make is that Soros pays thousands of dollars to counter protesters in order to bring violence.

Remember the migrant caravan? George Soros was accused of masterminding that, paying migrants to “storm the border.”

When you are susceptible to conspiracy theories, you’ll twist everything to fit those theories.

I wonder how it feels to be George Soros. To look in the mirror and know you are the embodiment of everything the Nazis hate. To know that whatever you do, you will be blamed for wanting to destroy entire regimes. It must be a little insane, to live with that. I couldn’t handle it if one person tweeted something mean and untrue about me. What do you do when that becomes a world-wide thing, where hundreds of thousands of people you’ve never met denounce you?

Why George Soros? I don’t know. He fits pretty neatly into existing stereotypes, and maybe that’s the key here: none of these accusations sound exactly new. Maybe someone can tell the anti-Semites out there they are getting boring, but then, they might come up with new material. We don’t really want that either.

I refuse to tell my daughter about what shut down her Jewish preschool CARLY PILDIS This story originally appeared on Kveller.

I lied to my 4-year-old little girl, right to her pretty little curly-haired face, about why her school was closed. I told her it was because of a traffic problem. She accepted this — she was happy that it wasn’t because of COVID-19 and that school would open again on Thursday.

The truth, however, was much uglier.

The real reason her school was shuttered was because it wasn’t safe to go to school. It was the second time this term her Jewish preschool had to close because Nazi hate groups and far-right extremists were marching in support of President Trump.

We live in Washington, D.C., and her school is downtown. The Stop the Steal March was today, with its parade of fanatics, conspiracy theorists and white supremacists who are furious that Trump lost the election, and they came to demand Congress overthrow the will of the American people.

While violent white supremacy has always existed, for most of my life public displays of it were not a regular occurrence. But Trump’s presidency took extremism out of the shadows and encouraged it into the mainstream. My daughter’s school was closed because fascists were marching against democracy. They marched to take away your vote — our votes — the vote I fought to mobilize and win while I served as director of grassroots organizing for the Jewish Democratic Council of America. The vote for which we are still fighting.

At four, my daughter is just beginning to learn about voting, and about how wonderful democracy is. She hasn’t learned yet that it is also fragile.

Mayor Muriel Bowser advised Washingtonians to avoid downtown and warned that this was not a normal protest — the ones we expect and respect as D.C. residents — but an event filled with those who were seeking violent confrontation. The night before, six protesters were arrested for assault or gun charges. While downtown D.C. was dangerous for everyone that day, it was particularly dangerous for my family: We represent everything these people hate. We are Jewish, we are interracial, and my daughter and husband are Black. We are everything they want to burn down and destroy.

Just how can I tell my daughter this awful fact?

And when, exactly, is the appropriate moment to tell her how much some people hate our family be-

cause of who we are proud to be? They hate our tell her Jewishness is wonderful, Blackness is beauBlackness, our Jewishness and our proudly multi- tiful, and how good it is to have many different types cultural family. of friends and family. At home, we dance to Beyonce My daughter knows about the election. She and Debbie Friedman. We talk about love, and lovknows her mother helped elect Joe Biden. She ing ourselves, and how proud we are of who we are. knows her friends’ mothers would bring her This is a part of how we resist: We celebrate who mother coffee and offer rides to school so her we are and live lives full of joy. The day we must talk mother could work. These women would tell her to her about hatred is coming, probably sooner how important her mom’s work was and she would than we’d like. But first we are instilling love, confinod solemnly. She knows about the late nights. dence and pride. When it is time, we hope to tell She remembers the joyful day the election was her a story of a world where hate still lives but good called; she calls it “Joe Biden Day.” She saw her en- people are fighting for equity and justice every day. tire city block explode in joy: honking horns, banging pots and pans, chanting and dancing in the street. She learned about happy tears. She thought it was pretty fun and frequently asks when the next Joe Biden Day is. She knows that you are supposed to be kind and welcoming and that our old president was not. She can’t remember his name; Biden is the first president she will remember.

She requested hamburgers and fries for Inauguration Day. She knew it as the day when Biden moves into the White House Crowds arrive for the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, Jan. and when we would celebrate the Biden- 6, 2021. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital to Harris victory again. She occasionally protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Elecasks if she can meet Biden’s grandkids toral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 elecand pet his dogs. Given all this excite- tion. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images ment, how can I tell her that white supremacists While I beg all Americans not to let this become were still marching to take the vote away? When our new normal, I am working my hardest to give should I tell her that people died to be able to vote, my daughter normality. Like all of us, she has had and that we still need to fight to protect the ballot, precious little “normal” since the pandemic started, especially for Black people? and we are so grateful to be able to have her physAs for why school was closed, my husband and I ically in school at all. struggled with what to tell her. In general, we prefer So instead of spending that day in fear, I declared age-appropriate truths to flat-out lies. But this year it to be Special Mother-Daughter Fun Day. We has been a very scary time for us all, and we didn’t stayed in our neighborhood, farther away from want to scare her further. What could we say that downtown. We had bagels delivered from our fawas truthful, but not terrifying when we ourselves vorite place, and we went to the playground for a are frightened? So we made the decision that child- masked and socially distant playdate. I let her eat hood is precious — especially Black girlhood, extra treats so she thinks the world is sweet just a which tends to end far too soon. little while longer, and she won’t question why I So we decided that we won’t let these marchers was being a little indulgent. Precious girl, I love you take that from her. As a Black Jewish woman, un- so much, how could anyone hate you? To your fortunately there will be plenty of opportunities for mother, you are perfect. her to experience hatred. So I want her to learn to The views and opinions expressed in this article are love herself first: her Jewishness, her Blackness, her- those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the self. We fill her life with books, music and media that views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE

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BETH EL SYNAGOGUE

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BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE

Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific Street Omaha, NE. 68154 402.556.6288 BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org

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TEMPLE ISRAEL

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B’NAI ISRAEL Join us via Zoom on Friday, Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m. for evening services with a guest speaker Richard Fellman. Our service leader is Larry Blass. Everyone is always welcome at B’nai Israel!

For information on our historic synagogue, please contact Howard Kutler at hkutler@hotmail.com or any of our other board members: Scott Friedman, Rick Katelman, Janie Kulakofsky, Carole and Wayne Lainof, Mary-Beth Muskin and Sissy Silber.

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BETH EL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman.

VIRTUAL MINYAN SCHEDULE: Mornings on Sundays, 9 a.m. and Mondays and Thursdays, 8 a.m.; Evenings on Sunday-Thursday, 5:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Hamantashen Orders Due, 5 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m.; Havdalah, 6:30 p.m.

SUNDAY: Torah Study, 10 a.m.; No BESTT — President’s Weekend; Virtual Trip to Israel (Grades 8-12), 12:15 p.m.

MONDAY: Cholent To Go Orders Due, 5 p.m.; Jewish Law with Rabbi Abraham, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY: Biblical Literacy with Rabbi Abraham, 11:30 a.m.; Virtual Office Hours with Eadie and Amy, 4 p.m.; Board of Trustees Meeting, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Coffee & Conversation with Rabbi Abraham, 2 p.m.; BESTT (Grades 3-7), 4:30 p.m.; Beit Midrash — So You Wanna Be a Rabbi, Huh?, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY: Virtual Office Hours with Eadie and Amy, 4 p.m.; Pearls of Jewish Prayer with Hazzan Krausman, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY-Feb. 19: Together We Rock (Supply Pick Up), 10 a.m.; Cholent Pick Up, 10 a.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY-Feb. 20: Shabbat Morning Services, 10 a.m.; Havdalah, 6:40 p.m.

Please visit bethel-omaha.org for additional information and Zoom service links.

BETH ISRAEL Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer.

Classes, Kabbalat Shabbat and Havdalah on Zoom, Whatsapp or Facebook Live. On site services held outside in Sukkah, weather permitting. Physical distancing and masks required.

FRIDAY: Rosh Chodesh Adar — Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:30 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 6:45 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Candlelighting, 5:37 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Kids Class, 4:30 p.m. with Rabbi Yoni; Mincha, 5:40 p.m.; Havdalah, 6:38 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Jewish Law in Depth, 9:45 a.m. with Rabbi Moshe; Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yoni — 30 mins prior to Mincha; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5:40 p.m.

MONDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yoni — 30 mins prior to Mincha; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5:40 p.m.

TUESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yoni — 30 mins prior to Mincha; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5:40 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yoni — 30 mins prior to Mincha; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5:40 p.m.

THURSDAY: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deeping Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Character Development, 9:30 am. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Daf Yomi with Rabbi Yoni — 30 mins prior to Mincha; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 5:40 p.m.

FRIDAY-Feb. 19: Nach Yomi — Daily Prophets, 6:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (WhatsApp); Shacharit, 7 am.; Deepening Our Prayer, 7:45 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Laws of Shabbos, 8 a.m. with Rabbi Ari (Zoom); Mincha/Candlelighting, 5:45 p.m.

SATURDAY-Feb. 20: Shabbat Kollel, 8:30 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha, 5:50 p.m.; Havdalah, 6:46 p.m.

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CHABAD HOUSE Virtual services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Due to Coronavirus, all services and classes have moved online. For schedules and more information or to request help, please visit www.ochabad.org or call the office at 402.330.1800.

FRIDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Lechayim, 4 p.m. with Rabbi Katzman; Candlelighting, 5:37 p.m.

SATURDAY: Minyan, 10 a.m.; Shabbat Ends, 6:38 p.m.

SUNDAY: Minyan, 8:30 a.m.

MONDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Shani Katzman; Advanced Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. with Professor David Cohen.

TUESDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Virtual Pirkei Avot Women’s Class, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Mystical Thinking, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Katzman; Introductory Biblical Hebrew Grammar, 10:30 a.m. with Professor David Cohen; Introduction to Hebrew Reading, 11:30 a.m. with Professor David Cohen.

THURSDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Advanced Hebrew Class, 11 a.m. with Professor David Cohen; Talmud Study, noon with Rabbi Katzman; Fun with Yiddish, 1 p.m. with Shani Katzman.

FRIDAY-Feb. 19: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Lechayim, 4 p.m. with Rabbi Katzman; Candlelighting, 5:45 p.m.

SATURDAY-Feb. 20: Minyan, 10 a.m.; Shabbat Ends, 6:46 p.m.

LINCOLN JEWISH COMMUNITY: B’NAI JESHURUN & TIFERETH ISRAEL Virtual services facilitated by Rabbi Alex Felch.

FRIDAY: Candlelighting, 5:36 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat Service from service leaders/music: Rabbi Alex, Leslie Delserone and Peter Mullin, 6:30 p.m. via

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SCOTUS rejects appeal by Holocaust heirs for restitution RON KAMPEAS JTA The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an appeal by Holocaust survivors and their heirs who wanted to pursue restitution claims in the United States after failing in the countries where the art was stolen.

The opinion published Wednesday, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, agreed with the defense and with the U.S. government, which joined the defense, that allowing the lawsuits to go ahead would contradict international agreements.

“As a Nation, we would be surprised — and might even initiate reciprocal action — if a court in Germany adjudicated claims by Americans that they were entitled to hundreds of millions of dollars because of human rights violations committed by the United States Government years ago,” Roberts wrote.

“There is no reason to anticipate that Germany’s reaction would be any different were American courts

to exercise the jurisdiction claimed in this case.” and Hungary, claimed that the Foreign Sovereignty During oral arguments in December, some of the Immunities Act protects foreign governments from justices had appeared skeptical of the government’s having to defend claims in U.S. courts. position and expressed surprise that the solicitor general could not identify how the lawsuits would damage the nation’s foreign policy.

The two cases are known as the Republic of Hungary v. Simon and Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp.

The plaintiffs are Hungarian survivors who were deported to death camps and whose property was appropriated by the Hungarian collabora- The high court was unanimous in backing the governments of tionist government, and the Germany and Hungary in two separate cases. Credit: Wikimedia descendants of German Jewish art Commons dealers who say that Nazi German authorities coThe plaintiffs contended that an exception to the erced their ancestors into selling their collections act holds that claims regarding property taken in to the state at less than market value. violation of international law may be pursued in The defendants, the governments of Germany U.S. courts.

Life cycles IN MEMORIAM DONALD STEVEN KLEIN Continued from page 1 a 100% attendance record even attending meetings when out of town. As Bureau for the Aging president he served as the chairman of the Rose Blumkin Home building addition committee.

Don was named as honorary Mayor of Dundee and he received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Nebraska Medical school for his years spent training future pharmacists and providing internships. He was honorably discharged from the Army as a captain in 1965.

Don was known for his dry sense of humor and his love of the movie Blazing Saddles.

“Don Klein was a fixture on 50th,” wrote Kelsey Stewart for the Omaha World-Herald. “The Oklahoma native worked the counter at his Dundee drugstore seven days a week. Employees and customers at what was then Cris’ Rexall Drug on 50th and Dodge Streets were like family. Klein knew them by name and always made sure they walked away with exactly what they needed.”

“My parents were partners in every sense of the word,” said daughter Stephani. “Our mother Ilene made the drugstore success possible. I believe my dad’s involvement within the Jewish community was also due to her in some respects. Mom was President of the JCC and the Beth El sisterhood. He not only was involved because giving back was the right thing to do, but because it was important to her, therefore it was important to my dad.”

Daughter Vicki has great memories of her father’s store: “I worked at the drugstore when the kids were little, helping with Medicare/Medicaid bookkeeping. Every Saturday, Taylor and Mitchell would come with me. Grandma Lenie was also working in the office doing deposits, so they would get to see both grandparents. They remember being able to go downstairs in the basement of the drugstore with my dad and pick out their chocolate milk and then go behind the soda fountain and pick out one donut for breakfast. Then my dad would have them do something and their pay was to go to the front candy counter and pick out one candy treat out of all that candy on display. As they got bigger and smarter, they picked packages with more than one candy in it!”

“Almost immediately when Don came to Omaha to go to summer school at Creighton,” sister-in-law Susie Silverman remembered, “he met my sister Ilene through mutual friends. Right away, they began dating (she had just graduated high school) and became a couple. She was going to go to college at Colorado in Boulder. For whatever reason, my mother often had my sister take me along on her dates with Donny. Maybe she just wanted me out of the house! Don drove a little yellow Jeepster that summer and I would sit in the back and pretend that it was me who was on the date. I was all of 11 years old! From that summer onward, Donny treated me as the little sister that he never had. In later years he would advise me about all kinds of things. I think until the day he died, he always thought of me as a ‘little’ sister.”

“Way back when,” Vicki said, “Hebrew school was held at the JCC every Tuesday and Thursday. I had a friend talk me into skipping Hebrew school and going down to the gym. My dad played racquetball at the J back then as well. I came home from Hebrew school that night and my dad asked: “How was class?” I lied and said it was fine. He said he was looking for me and couldn’t find me. Because I lied about being there, I was grounded for Halloween the next week. I never skipped a class again, whether it be Hebrew school or high school, when everyone else was ‘going out to lunch.’ It was a lesson I obviously never forgot and made me part of who I am today, honest and hardworking in life and business. My father was just a good man, who cared for people and did the right thing.”

“We have always shared Bloody Marys on Thanksgiving morn-

ing,” Stephani added, “children, grandchildren, aunts/uncles, cousins - whoever was in town. Due to Covid, clearly no one was getting together this past year, so we Zoomed. It was Brady Bunch or Hollywood Squares on steroids! All those boxes and there’s Dad and Dee in the middle with Dad leaning in asking where we all were and we’d wave back to him. I’m so grateful to have taken a picture of him in that moment. He is so not a tech person, but there he was fully participating and enjoying it.”

Don was preceded in death by his wife, Ilene Klein; parents, Edith and Elmer Klein; and grandson Donald Maurice Tikalsky.

He is survived by his wife Dolores (Dee), daughters and sonsin-law, Stephani and Jim Tikalsky and Vicki and Steve Allely; stepdaughters Joann Rogers, Karen Memmel and Maria Vullo; grandchildren: Taylor and Mercer Gunnels, Mitchell and Marissa Sanford, Libby and Carter Haaland, Sid Tikalsky and Gianna Memmel; brother and sister-in-law, Phil and Betty Klein and sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Susie and Jim Silverman and more family and friends too numerous to mention.

Memorials may be sent to the Donald Maurice Tikalsky Camp Scholarship Fund (minnesotajcc.org), the Omaha Jewish Community Center, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland or the organization of your choice.

PATRICIA HEITHOFF LINN Patricia Heithoff Linn passed away on Jan. 12, 2021 at age 69 at UT Southwestern Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Services were held on Jan. 15, 2021 at Beth El Cemetery and officiated by Rabbi Steven Abraham and Hazzan Michael Krausman.

She is survived by her mother; husband, Michael; son and daughter-in-law, Jonathan and Maria, and daughter, Sarah; grandchildren: Ari and Amelia; siblings Bill and Deb Heithoff, Mark Heithoff, John and Jenny Heithoff, Gloria and Paul Ludwig and Paula and Alan Wittrock; many nieces and nephews, great as well, a large extended family and many, many friends and colleagues.

Pat was born in Carroll, Iowa on Feb. 25, 1951. She was the daughter of Margaret and Eugene Heithoff. Pat spent her childhood in Templeton, Iowa and graduated from St. Joseph School of Nursing and Creighton University in Omaha. In addition to her nursing degree, she earned a B.A. degree in gerontology and business.

She had a varied professional career that included a mobile Red Cross blood van, operating an overseas immunization clinic for Douglas County, and management positions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, High Desert Medical Facility in Lancaster, California; Norton Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky; Crista Santa Rosa, San Antonio; and JPS Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.

Pat was dedicated to the care and well-being of others.

While living in Omaha, the Linn family were active members of Beth El Synagogue.

Memorials may be made to the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.

DR. STANLEY MALASHOCK Dr. Stanley Malashock passed away on Jan. 29, 2021 at age 94.

Private family services were held on Feb. 3 at Temple Israel Cemetery.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Malashock.

He is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Beth and Steve Leeds, sons and daughters-in-law, Neal “Buzz” and Jody Malashock and Larry and Diane Malashock, and daughter, Kathy Malashock; seven grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren; brother, Dr. Edward Malashock and brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Norma Malashock.

Memorials may be made to the Stanley and Barbara Malashock Camp Scholarship Fund c/o the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation, or the Alzheimers Foundation.

Netanyahu again allying with right wing Reports that Netanyahu engineered RON KAMPEAS a similar maneuver in 2019 led to the JTA rebukes from American Jewish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Negroups. This time, the Anti-Defamatanyahu reportedly is striking a deal tion League’s Israel office made a simwith parties on the extreme right to ilar warning. consolidate his chances of reelection.

“We are disturbed by reports of efThe Times of Israel, citing multiple Isforts to ensure that extremist parties raeli media outlets, said Netanyahu cross the electoral threshold and make was behind the merger Wednesday it into the Knesset,” the office said in a February 3 of three parties: Jewish Power, or Otzma Yehudit, which foltweet. “Assistance to mainstreaming lows the teachings of the late extremthem is a dangerous phenomenon ist Rabbi Meir Kahane; Noam, an which risks normalizing racism in the anti-LGBTQ party; and Religious ZionKnesset and Israeli society.” ism, one of several heirs to the national AIPAC, the Conference of Presireligious movement. dents of Major American Jewish OrGetting the parties to merge means Credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90 ganizations and the Jewish Council they are likelier to meet the threshold needed to enter the for Public Affairs declined to comment, while other groups Knesset in elections next month and then back Netanyahu did not return requests for comment. in his efforts to once again build a coalition.

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