The Jewish Press | April 21, 2017 | a11
lifecycles B’naI mItzvah
kennedy clark
Kennedy Brooklyn Clark, daughter of Kimara and Kevin Clark, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, April 29, at Temple Israel. Kennedy is a seventh-grade honor roll student at Kiewit Middle School. She enjoys club volleyball, select basketball, softball, track, speech/debate team and playing with her dogs, Jake and Packer. For her mitzvah project, Kennedy participated in the Urban Plung with Tri-Faith, which was a weekend of multiple community projects. She also completed a drive for Together, Inc. where she raised the money and donated 200 hygiene kits. She has two brothers, Cooper and Jackson. Grandparents are Frances and Richard Juro, Mary Claire and Lyle Clark. Great-grandparents are the late Merriam and Harold Cooperman.
yanIra kaplan
Yanira Kaplan, daughter of Stacy and Corey Kaplan, will become a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, April 29, at Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, IL. Yanira is a seventh-grade student at Chicago Jewish Day School. Yanira enjoys piano, karate, Camp Young Judea, Saturday Night Live, and all things Hamilton. For her mitzvah project, Yanira worked with FreeGeek Chicago, a not for profit organization seeking to both bridge the digital divide and recycle used technology in an environmentally safe manner. Grandparents are Ronna and the late Gene Kaplan of Omaha.
In memorIam
davId romanIk
Former Omahan David Romanik passed away March 28 at age 94 in Dallas. Services were March 30 in Dallas, with interment in Restland Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Gerry Shafer; sons and daughters-in-law, Marc and Susie Romanik of Omaha, and Ron and Beth Romanik of Albuquerque; grandchildren: Randy and Lindsay Romanik, Nikki Jo Romanik and Ben Martin, Max Romanik and Kate Romanik; sister, Betty Rottman of Milwaukee; and brother Leonard of Stuart, FL. David was born May 29, 1922, in Milwaukee. He was the eldest son of Kate and Joseph Romanik. After graduating from Washington Heights High School in Milwaukee, he fought in World War II as a B-24 navigator after enlisting in the Army Air Corps at age 19. He served 4 1/2 years and became a 2nd lieutenant. For 56 years, he had an extensive retail career as a buyer, store manager and consultant. Together with Gerry, the couple owned two different homerelated retail specialty stores. His career led the couple to live in Omaha; Leavenworth, Kan.; Corsicana, Texas; and Dallas. He served as president of Agudas Achim Synagogue in Leavenworth, Kan., and Anshai Torah in Dallas, the congregation he and Gerry helped found in 1980. In 2005 at age 83, he celebrated his second bar mitzvah at Anshai Torah. He was a board director of B'nai B'rith and United Jewish Appeal in the places he lived. Memorials may be made to Congregation Anshai Torah. 5501 Parker Road, Plano, TX, 75093.
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EU adopts anti-boycott stance in official commercial policy
JTA In a reaction to attempts in Europe to boycott Israel, the European Union’s report on commercial competition for the first time included a rejection of such initiatives. e reference to boycotts, which does not name Israel specifically, was introduced earlier this year into the dra of the Report on Competition Policy for 2016 by a pro-Israel European Parliament lawmaker from Italy, Fulvio Martusciello, JTA learned recently. e clause on boycotts states that the European Commission “Underlines the need to fight against unfair collective boycotts, defined as a situation in which a group of competitors agree to exclude an actual or potential competitor, as restrictions of competition by object.” A spokesman for Martusciello, the chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with Israel, confirmed that he introduced the clause to “translate for the first time into EU commercial policy the stated objections of EU leaders to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.” Martusciello introduced the clause not in his capacity at the delegation -- a body responsible for maintaining and developing parliamentarian ties between Jerusalem and Brussels – but as rapporteur for the Competition Policy Report in the Economic Committee. e clause was introduced with the support of Martusciello’s political group -the EPP center-right bloc, which is the Parliament’s largest. Martin Schulz, the former president of the European Parliament, has in the past said the European Union will not support attempts to boycott Israel. Several EU politicians have expressed their objections to such initiatives in speeches. However, the stance has not been carried over to official European Parliament documents reflecting a consensus within its increasingly influential legislature. Separately, Martusciello is also fighting a plan to remove Israel from a list of countries eligible for credit benefits from the European Investment Bank. e Budget Committee is also considering removing Brunei, Iceland, Singapore, Chile and South Korea in addition to Israel, to exclude high-income countries with high credit rating. But Martusciello is arguing for keeping Israel on the list, “as this will benefit to Palestine, Jordan and other counterparts in such an unstable region,” he wrote in the justification for the amendment he is seeking to the dra of the list for 2018.
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