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Endowment will maintain Nebraska Holocaust Memorial by MARY BORT for the Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund The Nebraska Holocaust Memorial, located at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, serves as a place of remembrance and education. This important site is dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the Holocaust and in honor of all the liberators and survivors of the Nazi concentration camps. The Memorial was created through the support of thoughtful Nebraska citizens and the Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund (HHEF) in 2007.
Maddie Simon, right, daughter of Jim and Kim Simon, aand another Swanson student point to the list of donors to the memorial which include Maddie’s grandmother Kathy Simon. In order to assure that the Memorial is maintained in the future, Sam and Frances Fried have established the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial Endowment Fund with the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation. “We want the community to know that the Memorial will be taken care of,” stated Sam Fried, a survivor of Auschwitz. “The Memorial commemorates something that should never be forgotten.” Continued on page 2
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Some Israeli, U.S. officials move to keep the volume down by RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) -Stop the shouting, we’re trying to get something done over here -- that’s the message from some U.S. and Israeli officials after weeks of reports about widening divergences over the settlements. The first example came June 2 in the form of an email from a senior White House official to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella body for public policy groups. “While we may have some differences of view with Israel at the moment over settlements, we are trying to work through them quietly, professionally, and without rancor or ultimatums, as A Jewish man at an electronics store in Jerusalem watched as President Obama delivered Credit: Kobi Gideon/FLASH90/JTA befits a strong relationship his speech in Cairo, June 4. with an important ally,” the official said. “We are confi- not recommit to a two-state solution, as his predecessors had done. Without such a reaffirmation, the officials dent we can do that.” Within a day, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was argued, they could not recommit to Bush administration making the same point: The sides agreed to “lower the recognition of the inevitability that certain settlements volume,” Barak said after meeting with top administra- will remain part of Israel -- and to look the other way at some “natural growth.” tion officials, including President Obama. Not only was Netanyahu not prepared to give, but his “It’s very important to have a direct conversation behind closed doors and not to do it through the foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, had said Israel would scrap agreements achieved under the Bush media,” Barak told Israeli reporters on June 3. The differences emerged after Prime Minister administration during the Annapolis talks. Those agreeBenjamin Netanyahu’s summit with Obama last month. ments were tactical rather than substantive -- they had to U.S. officials were frustrated that Netanyahu would Continued on page 2
Former Omahan finds beauty in form in new photography book versity’s yearbook. Even his by CAROL KATZMAN first professional position was Editor of the Jewish Press as a photographer, for the Sun Omahans know Stan Newspapers, the paper he Lipsey as the former pubwould later edit, publish and lisher and owner of the own. Dundee Sun, a Pulitzer Lipsey received his first camPrize-winning weekly newsera at the age of 10, and as he paper. For the past 25 years, says in his introduction to residents in Buffalo, NY, have known him as the pubAffinity of Form, “Little did I lisher of the Buffalo News. know that this moment would But there’s another side to be the beginning of a lifelong this newspaperman. Lipsey fascination with visual form has just released a new book and content.” of photography, Affinity of The book demonstrates that Form, a visual feast of the clearly. As does Lipsey: “My natural wonder of the world, most rewarding shoots are the from the linear shapes of a ones where I enjoy the process building under construction and am pleased with the final to the the underside of a results.” He cites “Young monstrous palm tree. Aspens Hibernate” which He’s not a newcomer to appeared in his first solo exhiphotography; in fact, his first bition in Omaha (he’s had nine foray into journalism was as exhibits of his photography). a photographer for the “As often happens, this is not Register, Central High the photo I was after,” Lipsey School’s newspaper. As an says in his introduction to the undergrad at the University book. “Looking for a different of Michigan, Lipsey worked set of trees, I was on my way as a photographer for the up Independence Pass in Michigan Daily and served Untitled (Salvation Army building reflected in the Solon building), New Colorado, on cross-country as photo editor of the uni- York, NY, June 2003 by Stanford Lipsey. skis so I wouldn’t sink in the
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deep snow, when I spotted this group of Aspens in the last rays of the sun, creating perpendicular shadows in the snow.” He added, “It turned out to be better than the shot I had in my mind.” The authors of the two foreward pieces agree. Louis Grachos, director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, described the strength of Lipsey’s photos as “this underlying sensibility, ... this is the most innovative aspect of his photographic work.” Anthony Bannon, director of the George Eastman House, in Rochester, NY, noted that “Lipsey follows the scales of visual language, discovering though his images an understanding of light and line, pattern and color, texture and surface, placement and perspective, design and composition, scale and space, volume and mass, shape and contour, and movement and stasis, all within the visual dynamics of comparison and contrast.” Lipsey was thrilled to have these two prestigious figures in the photography world included in his book. The publishers, Powerhouse Press, have left Lipsey’s images untouched by page numbers and descriptions in order to give the viewer the full impact of the photographs. But in the back is a guide, with Continued on page 2
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