The Jewish Press | May 11, 2018 | 11
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ReAgAn KOOm
Reagan Koom, daughter of Jennifer and Brandon Koom, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, May 19, at Temple Israel. Reagan is a seventh-grade student at Westside Middle School. Reagan is interested in lacrosse, voice/singing and is an animal lover. For her mitzvah project, Reagan volunteered at the Children’s Respite Center for special needs and the Nebraska Humane Society. She has a brother, Evan. Grandparents are Georgine and Larry Koom, and Shirley and Jim Ferley.
benJAmin LeATheRS-ARnOLd
Benjamin Leathers-Arnold, son of Dr. Ilene D. Arnold and Carrie L. Leathers, will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, May 12, at Temple Israel. Ben is a graduating senior at Elkhorn South High School. Ben is interests include acting, pinball and singing. He enjoys performing and has participated in Show Choir, Concert Choir, School Musicals, One Act Plays, Marching Band and Forensic Speech at Elkhorn South High, and performed with the Elkhorn Community Theater. Ben also started an after school Slam Poetry Club. Ben is very involved with Temple Israel’s youth programs volunteers for many events such as OTYG meetings, Shabbats and lounge nights. He also served on the OTYG board through his high school years. Grandparents are Rita Arnold, the late Burt J. Arnold, the late Larry L. Leathers, and the late Doris K. Leathers.
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fLOyd J. PeRLmeTeR
Floyd J. Perlmeter passed away on March 25 at the age of 97 in Denver. A private family service was held to celebrate his love of life on April 8 near Denver. He is survived by his daughter, Peggy Randall of Denver and son, Stu Perlmeter of Denver; grandchildren: Taylor and Dustin Randall, Michael and Scott Perlmeter; and six great-grandchildren: Evan, Davis, Kayden and Avery Randall; Brynn and Bryce Perlmeter. Floyd and his wife Beth (Bess) were long-time residents of Omaha, where they raised their family and were active participants in the community, and they moved to Denver in the late 1970s to be with their children and grand-children. Floyd worked in the auto dealership business, where he spent the long span of his career. As sales manager of McFayden Ford, he won several national awards for his accomplishments. Memorials may be made to Anti-Defamation League (Mountain States) 1120 Lincoln St., Suite 1301, Denver, CO 80203.
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At least 30 injured in Lag b’Omer bonfire explosion
JTA news sTAff Up to 30 people were injured when a Lag b’Omer bonfire exploded in London. A fireball erupted when the bonfire was lit Wednesday night in the Stamford Hill neighborhood. e cause was believed to be fuel placed on the wood to make it catch fire easier. Initially it was thought that smartphones placed on the bonfire caused the blast. People at the bonfire “shrieked and panicked,” and others “trampled on one another,” according to the Yeshiva World News website, which published a video and photos of the incident. Ten people were taken to the hospital with burns on their faces. e rabbi of the community hosting the bonfire had spoken prior to lighting about the dangers of smartphones and said he would be burning one, similar to a speech he had given the previous year, according to Yeshiva World News, which cited eyewitnesses to the bonfire. Others reportedly also put their phones on the bonfire pile. Lag b’Omer marks the 33rd day of the counting of the days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot and the end of a minor mourning period recognizing the deaths of thousands of students of the second-century sage Rabbi Akiva. Lag b’Omer also commemorates the death of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a kabbalist and mystic who was a disciple of Akiva. e bonfires, lit at sundown, are meant to symbolize the light of his teachings.
Report: Montreal home to one of North America’s ‘most influential neo-Nazis’
MONTREAL | JTA Montreal is home to one of North America’s “most influential neo-Nazis,” who is trying to build a white supremacist network in his city, according to the Montreal Gazette. But the man, who uses the pseudonym “Zeiger” and is identified in the article as 32-year-old IT consultant Gabriel Sohier Chaput, only has managed to recruit a core group of 10 to 15 “members” since August 2016. e story characterizes Sohier Chaput as “probably” the “second-most prolific writer” on the Daily Stormer – an extreme right-wing news website, aer website founder Andrew Anglin. e site is described as getting 80,000 “unique visitors” a month. e article says Sohier Chaput emerged “as a key figure in the [neo-Nazi] movement” four years ago, though he does not have public profiles on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn or other social media. Zeiger’s “path of questioning” began in his early teens. In a white supremacist podcast, he describes his process of radicalization, saying: “I think I was about 14 when I was reading about the Holocaust and realized that it was a hoax.”
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