June 23, 2023

The Jewish Press

The Foundation to present “With Heart in Hand”

JOANIE JACOBSON

When I was asked to chair one of the events in celebration of The Foundation’s 40th anniversary, and the event was going to be a conversation-inthe-round with four of our community rabbis and the audience, I said, “I’m in!” Then when Amy Bernstein Shivvers, Executive Director of The Foundation, explained they were going to “unpack the meaning of tzedakah beyond the Blue Box,” I paused. What was compelling or new about tzedakah that we haven’t heard and learned from the time we could talk?

Fast forward to when Amy and I met individually with Rabbis Steven Abraham, Deana Berezin, Yoni Dreyer and Mendel Katzman — they were all over it! Eager to talk about it, eager to share. No one questioned it, offered alter-

natives or sat silent. That’s when I knew we had something important to share with the community. So, we gave it a name, date, time and place...

The community is invited to attend “With Heart in Hand,” an out-of-the-box conversation with community rabbis about what it really means to “give,” Sunday, July 16 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Goldstein Community Engagement Room at the JCC. Program note: The rabbis were given a list of sample questions to answer and asked to choose three they might like to address at the event. They could also add a question or two of their own.

After meeting with the rabbis, I kept asking myself, “What’s behind their enthusiasm? What sample questions did they choose and why? So, I decided to ask them. Here’s what they had to say...

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Lincoln Jewish Community celebrates Pride Governor honors Israel at 75

SARAH KELEN

On June 9-10, Lincoln hosted the annual Star City Pride Festival and Parade, celebrating Lincoln’s LGBTQIA+ community. This year Lincoln’s three Jewish organizations: Tifereth Israel Synagogue, Congregation B’nai Jeshurun (The South Street Temple), and the Jewish Federation of See Star City Pride Festival page 2

PAUL HAMMEL LINCOLN

Gov. Jim Pillen signed a proclamation Thursday honoring the 75th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel and recognizing its relationship with Nebraska.

This presentation was arranged by the Jewish Community Relations Council:

“There is so much more to the strategic partnerships between Ne-

braska and Israel than many people realize,” JCRC Executive Director Sharon Brodkey said, “and the JCRC is honored to have facilitated the introduction of Consul General Cohen to our new Governor. We have much to look forward to as we work to increase opportunities and strengthen the ties between the Jewish community, Israel, our elected officials, and Nebraska’s See Israel at 75 page 2

David and Lillian KeiserStoms Scholarship Page 3

Bacon appointed to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council Page 5

New additions to the KripkeVeret Collection Page 12

Jeffrey Gold of the University of Nebraska, left, Yinam Cohen of Israel’s consulate in Chicago, Gov. Jim Pillen, Fischel Ziegelheim, manager of a Kosher beef plant in Hastings, and Mike Siegal of the Jewish Federation of Omaha. Credit: Screenshot of feed from Nebraska Public Media

Nanci Hamicksburg and Ginger Colton representing the Lincoln Jewish Community which was a sponsor of the Star City Pride Festival in Lincoln on June 9-10.

Rabbi Yoni Dreyer

Rabbi Deana Berezin

Rabbi Steven Abraham

Rabbi Mendel Katzman

Continued from page 1 business leaders, many of whom are excited about the prospect of visiting Israel and learning more! Advocating for Israel, identifying, facilitating, and cementing relationships, ultimately strengthens and makes our Nebraska Jewish community more secure. That is just one of the roles JCRCs play.”

The relationship, officials also said, includes cultural, educational and technology exchanges. It extends to shipments of kosher beef from Nebraska and components for missile defense systems produced at Lincoln’s General Dynamics plant.

In addition to the meeting and press

Israel at 75

conference at the Capital, Consul General Cohen also accepted congratulatory proclamations from Lincoln City Council At-Large Chair Tom Beckius, and Omaha City Council President Pete Festersen. He spoke with Nebraska’s Secretary of State Robert Evnen about an upcoming Nebraska trade mission to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. This was Consul General Cohen’s first visit to Nebraska since March of 2022 when he met with then Governor Pete Ricketts and visited the General Dynamics defense manufacturing facility in Lincoln. He was accompanied on this trip by his new Chief of Staff Adir Pahlavani who visited Nebraska for the first time on this trip.

Star City Pride Festival

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Lincoln collaborated as a united Jewish community to serve as a Star City Pride event sponsor. As a sponsor, the Jewish Community hosted a booth at the Pride Festival with volunteers available to talk about how both Reform and Conservative Judaism welcome the full participation of those within the LGBTQIA+ community.

The Jewish Community’s sponsorship and booth staffing were organized by the newly formed Jewish Community Social Action Committee, a joint committee that includes members of both congregations: B’nai Jeshurun (Reform) and Tifereth Israel (Conservative). Social Action Committee chair Barb Straus stressed the importance of the united Jewish community’s participation in Star City Pride: “We are a welcoming, inclusive community and want the LGBTQ community to know that we value all people.”

The first Jews settled in Nebraska in 1855, a year before the Territory of Nebraska was established, according to Mike Siegel of the Jewish Federation of Omaha.

Consul General Yinam Cohen of Israel’s consulate in Chicago said that the United States was the first country to recognize the nation of Israel. Then-President Harry Truman signed the recognition papers 11 minutes after the country announced its establishment on May 14, 1948, he said.

One of the speakers at the proclamation signing Thursday was Fischel Ziegelheim, manager of WR Reserve in Hastings. Reprinted with permission from the Nebraska Examiner (nebraskaexam iner.com).

Booth volunteer Julie Moore said that they had a mix of attendees stopping by during her shift, including some who expressed their appreciation at the fact that there was a wide diversity of religious organizations present to support the LGBTQIA+ community. Both Moore and Straus noted that a few times during the festival the volunteers met Jewish newcomers to Lincoln who had not yet had a chance to connect with the Jewish community or who may not have realized that Lincoln had a Jewish community.

Although early evening rain dampened the end of the festival, booth volunteers were pleased with the event and the postive responses they got from Pride Festival attendees. Plans are already underway to ensure an even stronger turnout from the Jewish community at next year’s Pride Festival.

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Lincoln City Council At-Large Member Tom Beckius presented a proclamation signed by Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird celebrating Israel’s 75th anniversary.

Cohen spoke with Nebraska’s Secretary of State Robert Evnen about the upcoming Nebraska trade mission to Israel, Egypt and Jordan.

Omaha City Council President Pete Festersen presented a proclamation celebrating Israel’s 75th anniversary signed by Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert.

David and Lillian Keiser-Stoms Scholarship

DIANE WALKER

JFO Foundation Fund & Scholarship Administrator

The Financial Aid Committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha is pleased to announce Hannah Stein has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the David Keiser and Lillian Keiser Stoms Foundation Education Endowment Fund for Academic Excellence Scholarship. The only merit-based scholarship granted by the Financial Aid Committee, this award relies heavily on academic achievement as a primary measure. Equally important to consideration is the recipient’s demonstrated commitment to the Omaha Jewish community. “Hannah is a wonderful recipient of the Academic Excellence scholarship,” shared Mary

Sue Grossman, the incoming chair of the Financial Aid Committee. “In my 12 years of working with the Federation’s scholarship program in a professional capacity, it was an honor to see the high caliber of academic performance coupled with involvement in Jewish activities of graduating seniors. Learning of the accomplishments of these young people always gave me a wonderful feeling about the future, and Hannah is one more of the long line of deserving recipients.”

Hannah, the oldest daughter of Darya and Jeffrey Stein, graduated from Westside High School in the top 3% of her class. Hannah has taken many AP and Honors classes both at Westside and at Brownell Talbot where she began her high school career. She has also been awarded four consecutive gold medals on the National Latin Exam for the years 2019 – 2022.

Hannah will be attending the College of William and Mary in the fall with a triple major – Economics, American History, and Classics. She visited the campus while on a trip to Colonial Williamsburg and was struck by the beauty of the campus and architecture, but also the kindness of everyone she met. Founded in 1693, William and Mary is an active part of history. Hannah will study in a classroom Thomas Jefferson utilized, peruse George Wythe’s personal library, and walk through the Governor’s Mansion where Patrick Henry once resided. The Jewish community at William and Mary is small but Hannah says, “that allows me to be more involved and to help build

and strengthen it. I am eager to get started.”

With ten siblings, Hannah has been shaped by her family. She has, from an early age, helped look after her siblings, gaining a sense of responsibility and a strong work ethic. More importantly, she has learned to be an active Jew and an active scholar. When I asked Hannah what was important to her, she mentioned two priorities – she loves to learn, and she loves Judaism. She attends synagogue each Shabbos and leads an observant lifestyle. An avid reader, from a young age she has enjoyed a variety of authors from Jane Austen to Herodotus.

Rabbi Ari Dembitzer, Senior Rabbi at Beth Israel Synagogue shared, “What is more impressive to me than her being an incredible student with a very bright future, are her character traits. She is incredibly giving, modest and a real inspiration for young and old alike. I am proud to be her Rabbi!”

This past fall, Hannah and a few others restarted the Omaha chapter of NCSY. She is a member of the board, serving as vice president of their chapter and is an active participant. She has helped to organize events for Jewish youth in the area as well as recruiting members and encouraging attendance. The chapter also regularly volunteers at Beth Israel, helping with whatever is required. Most recently, NCSY has launched a new program with Hannah teaching weekly parsha classes to young girls at Beth Israel, helping them build their connection to Judaism, G-d, and one another. Hannah has also worked closely with Shirley Goodman to digitize Beth Israel’s cemetery records, taking pictures of individual grave sites and creating a database of information for the synagogue. What a remarkable young woman!

Lillian Keiser Stoms and her brother David were native Omahans and this fund was established in their memory by their niece, Sally Clayman. In addition to the Academic Excellence award, there are two other scholarships that were established in their memory. The Lillian Keiser Stoms Educational Fund was established to benefit and assist in the education of Jewish youth living in a single parent family or Jewish single parents who have custody of their children. The David Keiser and Lillian Keiser Stoms Foundation Education Endowment Fund was created to provide funding for university scholarships to Jewish youth who have earned a minimum 3.0 GPA. Both awards are based on financial need.

For information on scholarship programs, please contact Diane Walker, Fund & Scholarship Administrator at 402.334.6551 or dwalker@jewishomaha.org. Those interested in contributing to or endowing scholarship funds should contact Amy Bernstein Shivvers, Executive Director of the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation at 402.334.6466 or ashivvers@jewishomaha.org

With Heart in Hand

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RABBI DREYER: The questions I picked to answer are questions that many people ask themselves and they represent many doubts people have about why they should give tzedakah. ‘What value does it give me when I give tzedakah?

Why should I give?’

I believe these are fair questions and need to be answered with fair answers. I would like to explain the value of tzedakah, hoping that with the help of G-D, I’ll be able to answer these questions in the right and true way. It’s all about what it means to be a Jew.

RABBI BEREZIN: Tzedakah is the bedrock of the Jewish community. It is how we create a just and loving society where we care for each other and recognize our responsibility for each other. It is not always what we do out of the kindness of our hearts or because it makes us feel good, but rather because not all of what we have belongs to us – some of it rightfully belongs to others. Reminding ourselves what it means to give Jewishly is such an important topic of conversation.

The questions I chose were those that I think will help families understand the complexities around tzedakah and some practical ways they can engage their families to practice tzedakah in the home. ‘Should we give to secular causes or non-secular causes?’ is just one example of questions we deal with on a regular basis. These are the ideas I’m looking forward to talking about together on July 16.

RABBI ABRAHAM: The question that caught my eye is ‘How are the mitzvot of tzedakah vehicles for spiritual growth?’ Tzedakah is a driver of spiritual and personal growth because it forces you to look inside yourself. Tzedakah also forces you to look outside yourself. In addition, it can and should provide a level of humility. No matter how much or how little you have, someone has more and someone has less. You can always give, which makes your own heart grow be-

cause you were able to help another person.

Tzedakah is a very personal decision, and should be a very thoughtful and intentional act of giving. Allowing folks to think about how they want to give, to whom they want to give, and why they choose to support certain organizations

and programming and not others. These are really important questions. Most importantly, while capacity matters, everyone can give whether it’s 25 cents or $25k.

RABBI KATZMAN: I was raised in an immigrant community whose assets were extremely limited, yet the generosity was unmatched. People would borrow money to give to others they knew were in need. The generosity and sacrificial giving was incredible. I saw this magnanimity and its impact both on the givers and on the recipients. This made an indelible impression on me even as a very young child, and showed me, outside of the classroom, what the meaning of tzedakah is and what it can accomplish.

We each make a living in our unique specific way. When we finally go to work, we shave off time from our sleep to get up early, give of our free time to answer questions, use our mind and heart to listen and understand and our mouth to respond. When we ultimately give tzedakah from money earned, we are elevating all those years, the time, energy, mind and heart, lost sleep to a higher plane. It’s not just the money we are giving, we are giving ourselves.

So, you’ll see on July 16, there’s more to this tzedakah story than we know. Remember, it’s not a lecture, it’s a conversation. Come to participate. Come to learn. Come to grow. Come “With (your Jewish) Heart in Hand.”

To reserve your seat, please visit https://tinyurl.com/ Fabat40 or call The Foundation, 402.334.6498.

Hannah Stein

Why are the trees gone?

CHARLES SHAPIRO

UNO Emeritus Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture Temple Israel has been removing trees from our property. Nebraska is the ‘Tree Planter State’ and home of Arbor Day. Why would we want to remove trees?

The TriFaith Commons is a former prairie. That means it was dominated by grass plants, mostly warmseason perennials, with a mixture of other native plants. Except for along streams and other waterways, maybe in depressions, there weren’t many trees. This condition was kept by a combination of fire and grazing by buffalo, managed by Native Americans for hundreds of years. In our neighborhood, we can neither graze buffalo, although some have suggested goats, nor burn the prairie.

Our goal is to renovate this land back to prairie.

Due to the biological globalization of living species, formally geographically isolated, we have on our Temple Israel property, and also of our neighbors, invasive species that provide few of the ecological services (home to native birds and insects) that native species do. In our case, the major invasive species is a tree called Siberian Elm. They are everywhere on the Tri-Faith Commons, except where they are kept out by

mowing or other human intervention. Look out the windows of the social hall, and where the managed grass stops, there should be native grass. Until now, there were many Siberian Elms; when you read this, many will be gone.

The perennial grass on the slopes surrounding Hells Creek provides a habitat for animals and helps control soil erosion through their extensive root systems and the close growth of individual plants. Siberian Elm crowds out these plants. Without plants growing under them, the ground is susceptible to erosion. Because of the lack of fire and grazing, grass maintenance is a continual challenge. Once we get the present infestation under control, we will develop a plan to have a more diverse plant population and keep invasive weeds out. We will report on that process in another article.

A group of congregants volunteered to work on removing these invasive species. Thank you to Logan Armstrong, Joseph Pinson, Francisco Guzman Jimenez, Nolan Bald, Justin Limoges, and Zachary Smith (and his sons) for their efforts. Anyone who wants to help with this effort is welcome and can contact Temple Israel to get involved.

B’nai Israel Synagogue Poker Run

HOWARD KUTLER

The B’nai Israel Synagogue Poker Run is a novel event benefiting Life and Legacy organizations. For everyone who comes to participate there is no entry fee and the rewards are great. Drivers with their passengers take a 62-mile scenic drive through the Loess Hills of western Iowa. The beauty of the rolling country roads comes to life with cows and horses grazing in the fields. And the farmers’ crops of corn and soybeans are beginning to show growth through the soil.

Some of the stops along the route included the Twisted Tail Steakhouse and Saloon in Beebeetown, and Tripper’s Blue Moon Bar in Neola. After finishing the ride people return to the social hall to play one hand of 5-card-draw poker and

enjoy a lox and bagel brunch on the house. The ten best hands of poker each won $500 to donate to their Life and Legacy organization of choice.

Donations went to Yachad, Beth El Synagogue, B’nai Israel Synagogue, Chabad, Jewish Family Services, JFS Food Bank, and the Jewish Federation of Omaha Annual Campaign. This year we had some of the winners divide their $500 donation equally between two organizations.

Special thanks to my early kitchen crew of Margo Parsow and Renee Corcoran who so nicely prepared our platter of lox. And my thanks to everyone following the Poker Run on kitchen cleanup. Keep your eyes to the Jewish Press in 2024 for news about next year’s Poker Run.

Summer’s Coming!

Kids who learn from their parents or care-givers about the risks of drugs are:

• 36% less likely to smoke

• marijuana than kids who don’t

• 50% less likely to use inhalants

• 56% less likely to use cocaine

• 65% less likely to use LSD

Volunteers Francisco Guzman Jimenez, left, Charles Shapiro, Logan Armstrong and Nolan Bald.

Bacon appointed to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council

DANIELLE JENSEN AND MAGGIE SAYERS

WASHINGTON

Earlier this week Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) was appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.

The Council acts as the board of trustees for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which serves as the nation’s memorial to those who died during the Holocaust and as an institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history.

The Museum, which opened in 1993 and is located in Washington, D.C., has helped educate more than 47 million visitors, including 11 million school-age children, about the Holocaust as well as genocide and threats of genocide in other parts of the world.

“It is an honor to serve on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council,” said Bacon. “The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s important work to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity should be something we all strive for—that’s why I continue to fight against anti-Semitism, which has no place in our country or our world.”

“I will be a tireless advocate and supporter of the Holocaust Memorial Museum,” added Bacon.

Bacon is one of five members of Congress appointed to the Council, and his appointment runs through the end of the 118th Congress. The President and Senate leadership also appoint members to the Council.

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IHE Lunch & Learn

SCOTT LITTKY Institute for Holocaust Education Executive Director

The Third Thursday Lunch and Learn Series, presented by the Institute for Holocaust Education, is programming that seeks to educate, engage, and empower the community through discussion, presentations, and informative speakers about topics pertaining to the Holocaust. All Third Thursday presentations are offered via Zoom, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. on their respective days.

On July 20, at 11:30 a.m. by Zoom, the IHE hosts Dr. Chad Gibbs, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Director, Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies, Yaschik/ Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston. His presentation is titled, To Live and To Tell: Resistance at Treblinka and its Legacies. Trapped behind barbed wire and under the control of vicious SS guards, Jews at the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka II managed to revolt on Aug. 2, 1943. As they fought their way out of the camp with stolen rifles, pistols, and grenades, these men and women burned much of the camp and enabled the escape of around 300 prisoners— at least 70 survived the rest of the war. How did they manage such a feat? Once they had finally survived the regime and its murderous war, what were the lasting results of this uprising? These questions are at the core of his ongoing research that began as a master’s student at the University of Nebraska. Dr.

Rosh Hashanah GREETINGS

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Gibbs, when asked to be a presenter said, “As a professor at the College of Charleston, it is an honor to join IHE to discuss what these amazing people accomplished and my work to bring those stories to light.”

On Aug. 17, at 11:30 a.m. by Zoom, we will hear from Scott Littky, Executive Director of the Institute for Holocaust Education. His presentation is titled, Reflections on my second trip to Poland. This July, Scott Littky will be visiting Auschwitz Birkenau again with Creighton Law School and their Nuremberg to the Hague program. Scott has had a year to process his first visit and will reflect upon what a second visit means to him. Further, Scott will also be visiting Warsaw this time and sharing what he saw and learned there.

For more information regarding Third Thursday programming at IHE or to RSVP, please reach out to Scott Littky, Executive Director of IHE, at slittky@ihene.org

ORGANIZATIONS

B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS

The award-winning B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS speaker program currently meets Wednesdays via Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. Please watch our email for specific information concerning its thought-provoking, informative list of speakers. To be placed on the email list, contact Breadbreakers chair at gary.javitch@gmail.com

Don Bacon

Dr. Chad Gibbs

Scott Littky

There’s no time like the present

AMY BERNSTEIN SHIVVERS

Charitable giving begins with the heart. What’s important to you? What do you care most about? When it comes to our Jewish community, where do you feel the need is greatest?

There are no right or wrong answers. Yours are the only ones that count.

Finding a way to give back to our community provides purpose and meaning. One way to achieve that today is by setting up a charitable fund at the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation.

Inspired by his parents (the late) Shirley and Leonard “Buddy” Goldstein, Don Goldstein and the Goldstein family continue to be long-time supporters and donors of the Foundation.

Don has found many benefits in taking care of some of his future estate bequests, including some of his Life and Legacy commitments, during his lifetime.”I don’t expect to take care of all of my estate bequests during my lifetime, but I do like to keep the door open to getting some things done while I’m still around,” Don said.

“Several of the benefits of giving during your lifetime are significant”, Don said. “You can enjoy first-hand the pleasure of giving and see how the designated charity uses the funds. The tax consequences of giving are different for everyone; the benefits for me made my decision making much easier. Giving

during my lifetime enables me to get my family involved in the decision making. I like to let them know my thoughts concerning certain projects and I love to get their feedback.”

TODAY’S GIFT IS SINCERELY APPRECIATED.

Every agency and organization in our community experiences an immediate financial need that is hard to predict and falls outside of their operating budget. Linda Cogen, JFS Assistance Coordinator at Jewish Family Service shared, “At times, even the basic necessities of life are unattainable for people in urgent situations. Today’s gift can help stabilize the life of one individual or an entire family.”

YOU DECIDE WHAT’S IMPORTANT AND WE MANAGE THE PROCESS!

The Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation is a sound financial institution with an impressive track record. Giving during your lifetime benefits both donor and recipient, and The Foundation can make that happen.

If you want to help assure a solid future for our community and feel good about it, make an appointment to discuss the community’s current needs, what’s important to you, and how your priorities can become our priorities.

For additional information, please contact Executive Director Amy Bernstein Shivvers at www.jfofoundation.org or 402.334.6498.

House passes resolution calling on Russia to free Evan Gershkovich

JACKIE HAJDENBERG

JTA

The United States House of Representatives voted unanimously to approve a resolution demanding that Russia release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

The congressional resolution, which does not have the binding force of law, calls for Gershkovich to be released from prison immediately, and also demands that he be given full access to U.S. consular staff until he is released.

Gershkovich, 31, has been held in a Russian prison since March 29 on allegations of espionage, which he, the U.S. government, and the Wall Street Journal say are spurious. His pretrial detention was recently extended until at least August 30. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in a Russian penal colony.

Gershkovich is the son of Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union, and is the first American journalist arrested on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War. His case has attracted interest and support from Jews and Jewish organizations around the world, who have pushed for his release. The resolution, passed Tuesday, was introduced by Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution also calls for the immediate release of Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who was arrested in Russia in 2018 on espionage charges and is currently serving a 16-year sentence.

“No evidence has been presented to back up this accusation, because there is no evidence,” McCaul said on the House floor on Tuesday.

“He was simply doing his job reporting on the news in Russia,” McCaul said. “But we know that the war criminal Putin doesn’t like that. He doesn’t want his own people to know about atrocities that he is committing in Ukraine. He doesn’t want them to know about the corruption within his own government, or how he has turned their country into an international pariah.”

Don and Andi Goldstein

Top and above: The JCC Basketball Camp Program has grown into two separate morning and afternoon programs based on age. This year we had 86 kids participate; they were coached by the Bellevue University Basketball Team. We saw a lot of smiling faces, as it was a great week to learn and have fun. This year we had a record amount of young ladies participating as well.

Right: The first week of summer camp at Beth Israel!

Below: Beth El’s 9th year of Kamp Kef. This year’s theme was “Out of this World”.

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Above left, below and bottom: Laurel from Scatter Joy Acres will visit RBJH monthly and introduce various animals for Residents to pet and learn about. This month was Puff the Guinea Pig.

Above and below right: RBJH Residents and staff threw a Bon Voyage party for activity coordinator Jill Ohlmann before she left for her vacation in Hawaii. We love Jill!

Left, above and below: B’nai Israel Poker Run was a great success!

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It’s totally clickbait, I know. Those headlines that make you do a double take—but when I read Feds to investigate NY college where an assault survivor group booted a Zionist student, I can’t really help myself. Assault survivors vs. Zionists? Tell me more!

“The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into the State University of New York at New Paltz,” Andrew Lapin wrote, “surrounding an incident in which a student-led group for sexual assault survivors kicked out one of its cofounders for sharing a pro-Israel Instagram post.” (JTA)

Here’s the story in a nutshell:

“As reported last year by the New Paltz Oracle, a student newspaper, Blotner shared an infographic on Instagram in December 2021 from pro-Israel influencer Hen Mazzig reading, in part, ‘Jews are an ethnic group who come from Israel,’ and, ‘Israel is not ‘a colonial state’ and Israelis aren’t ‘settlers.’ You cannot colonize the land your ancestors are from.’ Shortly afterward, Blotner said, her fellow group leaders messaged her to request a conversation about her views on Israel. One wrote, ‘Personally, I think Israel is a settler colonial state and we can’t condone the violence they take against Palestinians.’

“Blotner at first refused to have a conversation with other members of the group, then later suggested they talk to the school’s Jewish Student Union — at which point, she said, the group kicked her out.”

The notion that to fight for one cause, we must

all agree on all causes, is remarkably immature and naïve. What’s more: it means a loss of focus. Do you want to support assault victims or do you want to get mired in a useless fight? But the ‘one-for-all’ attitude can be found on college campuses everywhere, and it’s become an enormous problem. Policing whether Jews can believe in and support Israel is not only antisemitic, it’s fascist. When we’re all so busy checking up on each other’s opinions, we forget the real work, which is to make this world better, less divisive, more inclusive.

There is a deeper issue here, though. If being anti-Israel is a requirement for being allowed into a student organization (and who are we kidding, this wouldn’t end with the Assault Support Group) where does that leave Jewish students?

Because this is not just about Zionism; it’s pitting non-Jewish students who are critical of Israel against Jewish students who consider themselves Zionist. And even those Jewish students who may feel conflicted about Israel’s policies will feel marginalized. Besides, since when does the State of Israel have anything to do with supporting assault victims at an American university? Are those same

parameters set when it comes to other regimes around the world? Do you have to be pro-China or against? Do you have to support Afghani freedom fighters? Must you be critical of South Sudan? Should we keep a list?

Enough. We all have a right to our opinion, and

that certainly goes for students on campus. What we don’t have a right to is reducing our relationships to a political package deal. We have struggled with this for quite a while: from Pride parades to college campuses, from the music industry to the business world, it always comes down to Israel. It is time we all refuse to play ball. We can live anywhere on the political spectrum while being proudly Zionist.

And if that means I can’t be in your club, I don’t want it anyway.

The Israeli origins of Amitai Etzioni’s big ideas about community

ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL JTA

Although I was born in Germany, my formative years were spent in the early, idealistic days of the cooperative Jewish settlements, in pre-Israel, Palestine,” wrote Amitai Etzioni in his 2003 memoir, My Brother’s Keeper.

In writing about his early years in a cooperative settlement called Kfar Shmaryahu, the Israeli-American sociologist and polymath provided the origin story for the big idea that made him famous: communitarianism.

When Etzioni died May 31 at age 94, the obituaries noted how he came to Israel as a young refugee from Nazi Germany and fought in Israel’s war for independence. But few noted how his early life in Israel shaped his life’s work. Nor did they note how far Israel had come for better and for worse in the years since he lived on a kibbutz, battled as a Palmach commando and studied at the Hebrew University.

Communitarianism is a social philosophy that emphasizes the importance of society, as opposed to the individual, in articulating the good.”[W]hile individual rights surely matter, these rights must be balanced with commitments to the common good — for instance, by protecting the environment and public health,” Etzioni explained.

He also held that the various liberation movements of the 1960s went too far in undermining authority figures and what he called “the accepted standards of upright conduct.”

Because it proposed a “third way” between liberalism and conservatism, communitarianism was also embraced and ridiculed on both sides of the aisle. Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were fans. Some labeled George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” communitarian.

Etzioni left Israel in his mid-twenties for a teaching job at Columbia University. He opposed the Vietnam War and the nuclear arms race, activism that propelled him beyond the academy and into the role as a “public intellectual.” He taught ethics for two years at the Harvard Business School before launching into a hybrid discipline he called “socioeconomics.” Hired by the Carter administration in 1979 as a senior adviser, he joined the faculty at George Washington University, where he taught international affairs for more than 30 years.

The theories behind communitarianism weren’t new, but Etzioni’s articulation came to wide public attention on the eve of the Clinton presidency, when, according to one profile, it was “supposed to be the Big Idea of the ‘90s, the antidote to ‘Me Generation’ greed and the cure for America’s cynicism, alienation and despair.”

“We need an awakening of values, of caring and commitment,” Etzioni told an interviewer in 1992. “The Communitarians are saying this is possible; in fact, it is inevitable.”

Although communitarianism never did live up to the hype, Etzioni became a reliable commentator and theorist in a host of fields and causes, including just war, bioethics, national security and privacy.

Although he occasionally wrote about Israel, his roots there were rarely front and center in his work or public image. In his memoir he notes that a lot of readers thought he was Italian. (“Amitai” comes from the Hebrew word for truth; he took “Etzioni” from a folk tale about a boy who learns to protect nature from a tree – “etz” in Hebrew.)

In his memoir, however, he delves deeply into his youth in Israel. “In those days, the country was quite different from what it has since become,” he writes. “[I]t was strongly imbued with the spirit of community (from which the term communitarian arises); most people were dedicated to serving the common good and to erecting a home for Jews escaping Nazi-dominated Europe. It was in that preIsrael that I first knew the high that one gains when serving a cause greater than oneself.”

His parents were among the founders of the small farming community; a young Etzioni would attend co-op meetings with his father, where members would debate how cooperative they needed to

be – a question, he writes, that was never settled.

“It was as if I were growing up in a high school of communitarian theory and practice,” wrote Etzioni.

He also discovered the limits of that practice after a year as a teen on Kibbutz Tel Joseph. He found the kibbutz “excessively communal,” with little tolerance for individuality or privacy. Communitarianism itself would often be attacked on the same grounds: Etzioni would later have a fierce antagonist in the American Civil Liberties Union, which felt some of his calls for limiting privacy and suspending individual rights in the name of the common good went too far.

Etzioni wrote movingly about watching friends die in the fighting for Israel’s independence. Although he never wavered in feeling the war was justified, he lamented that the Jews and Arabs might have avoided the bloodshed had they agreed to the two-state partition that, in 2003, he still felt was inevitable. Nor did he regret Israel’s founding: “The Jewish people require a homeland to protect them not merely from physical annihilation, but also from cultural devastation,” he wrote in 1999.

But perhaps the most fascinating influence on Etzioni’s thinking was the year he spent in a Jerusalem institute set up by Martin Buber, the Vienna-born social philosopher. The formidable faculty included Gershom Scholem on Kabbalah, Yeshayahu Leibowitz on biology and Nechama Leibowitz on Bible.

Etzioni imbibed Buber’s ideas about “I and Thou” relationships – the “unending struggle between the forces that pushed us to relate to other human beings as objects, as Its, rather than as fellow humans, as Thous.”

Etzioni would call this “moral dialogue,” as in his definition of democracy: “[O]ur conception of right and wrong are encountered through moral dialogues that are open and inclusive. It is a persuasive morality, not a coercive one.”

Etzioni’s memoir and his obituaries recall a more hopeful political climate, when right and left could briefly imagine common ground around the common good. They also recall a different Israel, before it largely embraced the free-market economics of the West and let go of many of its communitarian values.

College Hall at SUNY New Paltz in New Paltz, New York, May 1, 2013. Credit: crz4mets2 via Wikimedia Commons

Amitai Etzioni was a sociologist best known for his work on socioeconomics and communitarianis. Credit: Poklekowski/ullstein bild via Getty Images

Queer Jews fought to join the Celebrate Israel Parade.

MORDECHAI LEVOVITZ JTA

“Look mom, he’s a beautiful butterfly,” a child shouted, pointing at me, as I marched up Fifth Avenue in drag on June 4 at the Celebrate Israel Parade.

I could only imagine how meaningful it would have been for me as a kid to see drag included as part of this annual Jewish communal celebration on Fifth Avenue. I didn’t know that boys were allowed to be beautiful. Worse, I thought that there was something shameful about my own longing to embrace my femininity. Certainly, growing up, there were many who seemed only too happy to reinforce that shame. Now, strutting proudly in the parade in a fabulous pink sundress and 9-inch heels is my way of creating a Jewish world where one’s whole self belongs.

Drag helps me find joy in not fitting neatly into boxes or binaries. As a queer Jew who grew up in an Orthodox family, non-binary identity is not just a helpful framing for my gender, it also best captures my approach to religion and my relationship with Israel. Not quite a man and not quite Orthodox, I am equally not quite a woman and kind of Orthodox. While I may not label myself a Zionist, I most certainly celebrate Israel and consider the nation central to my Judaism.

For me, these internal conflicts create the tension that energizes my art. The ability to hold seemingly opposing identities at once provides an authenticity that is both thrilling and freeing. Perhaps this is why I am so drawn to drag. What better art form to express the full spectrum of identity with all its contradictions, complications, and kaleidoscopic colors? I find drag the most exciting and self-actualizing way to fully show up in a parade that celebrates the complexity of Jewish heritage and homeland.

My drag also pays homage to the unapologetic fighting spirit that allowed queer Jews into the parade in the first place. Today, the Jewish Community Relations Council-NY (the parade’s producers) fully embraces the LGBTQ marching cluster and makes us feel like valued members of the Jewish community. But queer organizations were not always welcome at this event. When New York’s gay synagogue attempted to March in the early 1990s, its invitation was rescinded when Orthodox day schools (which still appear to make up the majority of marching schools) threatened to pull out from a parade with an LGBTQ contingent.

As a closeted teen in yeshiva, I remember feeling crushed when I read about the parade’s gay ban. The internalized message was clear: I’m not wanted and there is no place for me in this Jewish community. I recall feeling angry that it seemed like queer Jewish organizations just gave up and gave in to homophobia without a fight. This fury became a drive that helped create JQY (Jewish Queer Youth), the organization I co-founded whose mission is to support LGBTQ youth from Orthodox homes.

It was not until years later, in 2012, when a 16-year-old JQY member named Jon asked if we could march in the Celebrate Israel parade, that I knew it was time to reopen the fight for queer inclusion. That year JQY organized a cluster of queer Jewish organizations and applied to march as an official LGBTQ contingent. At first there was little resistance and our application was accepted. But two weeks before the parade, I was contacted by the parade’s director, informing me that the banner for our marching group must have “no reference to a LGBT or Gay and Lesbian community.” Apparently, once again Orthodox schools were threatening to boycott the parade if

queers were to be allowed to march under an LGBT banner. This time, however, JQY would not back down. I made it clear to the parade director that his request to erase our community identity is unacceptable and that we intended to show up on parade Sunday ready to march with a banner that read “Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans Jewish Community.” I told the director that he was welcome to call the police and deal with the optics of arresting queer Jews attempting to celebrate Israel. Soon after, I began getting phone calls from leaders of the largest queer Jewish organizations. To my surprise, instead of being encouraging, they pressured me to stand down and compromise. Their concern was that my position made queer Jews seem “divisive.” I nearly gave in to these calls for appeasement until I spoke with Larry Kramer, the gay activist, playwright and personal hero of mine. Larry’s words still ring true today. “They were wrong then and they are wrong now,” he said. “The pressure to not be divisive is just a convenient and cowardly device for professionals to hang their internalized homophobia [on].”

The JQY team devised a plan. Prior to the parade’s pushback, we had already received an invitation to a pre-parade wine-and-cheese reception hosted by Fox TV, which was televising the parade that year. I would attend the event with Jon, the JQY member who inspired this parade advocacy, and we would speak to every journalist in the room, letting them know how excited and thankful we were that, for the first time ever, there would be an LGBTQ marching cluster.

When we approached the parade director who was flanked by Fox TV execs, we shook his hand and loudly congratulated him on the incredible milestone for queer inclusion. Cornered and in the spotlight, his response could not have been more perfect. “Yes, we are so proud to have an LGBTQ cluster this year,” he said. We had won.

That Sunday our LGBTQ Community cluster had more than 100 marching participants made up of queer Jews of all ages and denominations, as well as friends, family, and allies. We received an overwhelmingly supportive reaction from the crowd, made up of mostly Orthodox Jews. We felt like we were healing old wounds and breaking new ground. Most importantly, we demonstrated that Jewish unity means including the LGBTQ Jewish community by name.

The organizers of the parade were so impressed with our contingent that they awarded us the Most Enthusiastic Participation Award. With subsequent yearly participation, our LGBTQ cluster has become a parade staple and highlight for onlookers. It is one of JQY’s proudest accomplishments.

I believe that it is precisely JQY’s focus on uplifting complex identities that made our case to join the parade so strong. For most of our teens, celebrating Israel is part of what it means to both be Jewish and part of the Jewish community (the nation of Israel). Participation in the parade for them is about belonging, not support for any political structure or agenda. It makes

sense that Jewish queer youth want to experience communal belonging in an LGBTQ-affirming way. Yet there are still those on the extreme political right and left who refuse to see this nuance and put our participants at risk.

In 2017 our LGBTQ contingent was targeted, infiltrated and sabotaged by members of Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Israel activist group. The protesters physically pushed, surrounded and blocked terrified queer Jewish minors who were bravely marching in front of their Orthodox families. Little did our teens know that it was bigotry from the left that would come for them that day.

This year we were particularly wary of marching among a predominantly Orthodox crowd — not because the Orthodox community has gotten more religious or pious, but because of reports that the Orthodox community has become more influenced by a political right that increasingly targets the LGBTQ community. One of the most influential public figures on the right is Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew who recently published an article blaming LGBTQ acceptance for the “failure of modern Orthodox Judaism.”

Our contingent this year was mostly met with smiles, cheers and applause. However, it was difficult to ignore the handful of people on nearly every block who covered their children’s faces, displayed angry thumbs down signs and even shouted homophobic or transphobic slurs as we passed. Over the last few years I have noticed an uptick in these kinds of negative responses. It would be negligent not to connect this change to the recent nation-wide scapegoating of trans youth, drag artists, and LGBTQ acceptance.

This week, for the first time ever, the Human Rights Campaign declared an LGBTQ state of emergency in the United States, after lawmakers in 45 states proposed anti-trans bills in 2023. Of those, 24 have proposed “Don’t Say Gay” laws that criminalize discussion of LGBTQ issues in public schools, and lawmakers in 14 states have proposed anti-drag laws. Politicians and pundits with huge platforms are openly describing queer advocates as “groomers,” conveying that there is a pedophilic sexual agenda to the call for LGBTQ human rights and dignity.

This is the environment that LGBTQ Jewish youth live in today and experienced while marching in front of the Jewish community at this year’s parade. This is why I chose to march in drag. Marching is an exercise in building resilience and selfesteem in the face of adversity. My message is to not be afraid, to never back down and to be as magnificent as possible. These principles are the foundations of drag.

This article was slightly edited for length; please find the full story at www.omahajewishpress.com.

Mordechai Levovitz is the founder and clinical director of JQY (Jewish Queer Youth), an organization that supports and empowers LGBTQ+ youth and teens. If you need support, visit the JQY website (http://jqy.org/) or call/text the JQY warmline at (551) JQY-HOPE (551) 579-4673.

Succession, Barry and the very Jewish nature of unresolved endings

This story originally appeared on My Jewish Learning JTA

Over the past few weeks, a lot of sad faces were peering at their screens as two popular television shows came to an end. Two HBO staples, Succession and Barry, aired their season finales in late May. And as happens with all high-drama prestige television, the debates began the moment the episode was over. Did Kendall deserve what he got? Was justice served for Mr. Cousineau? Without revealing any details, it is fair to say that many fans were left with that gnawing feeling of an unresolved ending.

TV endings were not always this way. Decades before “The Sopranos” famously concluded with its cut to black, shows typically concluded with a nice emotional ribbon — loose ends tied up, characters discovering the promised land. On “Cheers,” Sam returned to his bar. The Mary Tyler Moore Show ended with an actual group hug. On Friends, Ross and Rachel finally got together. M*A*S*H, still the most watched television finale of all time, ended with the main character finally returning home, wistfully looking from a helicopter to the word “goodbye” spelled out in stone. The episode was aptly titled, Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen

Then everything got darker and grittier. Today, TV fans have come to expect unsettling, unresolved and even unhinged endings to their favorite shows. I am here to say that such conclusions are quintessentially Jewish. The Torah itself is an ode to unresolved endings.

As you may already know, the Torah concludes (spoiler alert!) with the death of Moses on the edge of the promised land. I take it for granted now, but imagine reading this for the

first time. What?! The leader of the Jewish people, who brought them out of Egypt, received the Torah on Sinai and led them through the desert for 40 years doesn’t live happily ever after in the promised land?

fails to enter Canaan not because his life is too short but because it is a human life.

In Kafka’s reading, the Torah’s ending reflects the larger reality of human life itself, which is “nothing but a moment,” an exercise in incompleteness. Our personal narratives don’t fit neatly into a box. They don’t have ribbons on top and rarely end with group hugs. Human life ends unrequited, ever yearning, ever hoping. As Aviva Gottlieb Zornberg writes in her magisterial biography of Moses: “Veiled and unveiled, he remains lodged in the Jewish imagination, where, in his uncompleted humanity, he comes to represent the yet-unattained but attainable messianic future.”

If the Torah were an HBO show, fans would have been outraged. Shouldn’t the final scene have seen Moses walking arm and arm with the Jewish people across the Jordan River, the sun slowly setting as the credits roll? Instead, we are left with our beloved leader buried right outside the land he yearned to enter. Why does the Torah end this way?

Franz Kafka — himself no stranger to unresolved endings

(The Trial ends with Joseph K. being beaten “like a dog”)— took an interest in this question. He writes:

The dying vision of it can only be intended to illustrate how incomplete a moment is human life, incomplete because a life like this could last forever and still be nothing but a moment. Moses

And that is perhaps why I love abrupt endings most. They reflect the fabric of life itself. As David Foster Wallace once observed of Kafka’s narratives, they emphasize “[t]hat our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home.” What is more human than an ending that just recursively folds into another beginning of longing and hoping? Moses’ unrealized dream and legacy continues, and begins again, in the minds and hearts of those captured by his story.

So save your group hugs for sitcoms. Real life doesn’t have a neat ending. We continue the journey where the last generation left off. An ending that perpetually endures.

Rabbi David Bashevkin is the director of education for NCSY, the youth movement of the Orthodox Union, and an instructor at Yeshiva University.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of JTA or its parent company, 70 Faces Media.

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JQY Founder and Clinical Director Mordechai Levovitz marching, in drag, at the 2023 Celebrate Israel Parade in New York, June 4, 2023.

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From the archives: The Jewish Press in June, 1923

Tickets Distributed for Hebrew Club Pinic Organizations to Enter Various Contests Which Will be Held

Tickets for the Omaha Hebrew Club Picnic to be held Sunday afternoon and evening, July 29, at Peony Park, have been placed on sale at the following places: Steinberg’s Delicatessen, 310 North 16th Str.; Frid & Kuklin, 1613 North 24th Str.; Adler’s Delicatessen, 1618 North 24th St. and John Feldman, 109 North 16th Street.

Competition in the sale of raffle tickets on a Chevrolet touring car to be given away at the picnic is becoming very keen. The Hadassah Girls have entered the contest and promise to give Hatikvoh Girls a fight for the prize offered by the lodge to the one selling the greatest number of raffle tickets.

Henry Monsky Presents Women’s Auxiliary With Grand Lodge Charter

First Women’s Auxiliary to Be Recognized in Dictrict No. 6. Large Crowd attended open meeting

Mr. Henry Monsky, past president of District No. 6 of the B’nai B’rith and present member of the executive committee of the National Order, presented the Grand Lodge Charter to the Women’s Auxiliary of the B’nai B’rith Sunday afternoon before a large crowd of members and friends of the organization. Twenty new members were initiated followed by

installation of new officers for the ensuing terms.

The officers installed are the following: Celia Kooper, president; Bess Greenberg, vice-president; Bess Stock, secretary; Fanny Rosenblum, treasurer; Ray Beren, guide; Esther Katleman, sentinel; Rose Grodincky, guardian; Ella Auerbach, Hannah Greenblatt Cohen, Flora Beinstock, trustees; Ruth Levey, moinstress.

Miss Sadie Levy rendered several piano selections, Mrs. H.S. Kaimen sang several vocal numbers, and a tableaux depicting the following Biblical characters was presented: Revecca at the Well: Ann Wintroub; Ruth and Naomi: Ruth, Rose Kraft; Naomi, Ann Blank; Queen Esther: Gertrude Lewis.

The Omaha Women’s Auxiliary has been functioning in the city for more than ten years.

Omahan Appointed as Official Delegate To National Convention

Will Speak at National Hospital Convention

Harry H. Lapidus was officially appointed to represent District No. 6 at the convention of District No. 2, I. O. B. B., which meets at Denver, Colo. Mr.

Lapidus was appointed by Gustvus Loevinger, president of District. No. 6.

Mr. Lapidus as trustee of the hospital, and representing District No. 6, will be one of the principal speakers at the banquet, which will be held Saturday evening, June 23, at the Albany Hotel.

Rabbi Charles Blumnethal of El Paso, Texas, to Speak Here

Rabbi Charles Blumenthal of El Paso, Tex., arrived Wednesday evening to be the guest of the congregations of the city. Rabbi Blumenthal will deliver an address at the Congregation B’nai Israel Friday evening, at which place the younger set of Omaha Jewry is invited to attend. On Saturday morning Rabbi Blumenthal will deliver a sermon in Yiddish.

All children of the city Sunday school and all those that are not members of the Sunday school are invited to attend the ‘suprise treat’ Sunday morning at the B’nai Israel Synagogue, eighteenth and Chicago streets.

Life cycles

DIANE JEAN KAIMAN

Diane Jean Kaiman passed away on June 13, 2023, in Bloomington, Indiana. Services were held on June 19, 2023, at Golden Hill Cemetery and were officiated by Rabbi Ari Dembitzer.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Wendy L. and Lewis Berman and Beth K. and Jim Silberstein; grandchildren: Mac VanOudt, Zachary Berman, and Rachael and Eliana Silberstein.

She was born and grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, attending Central High where she met the love of her life, Stan C. Kaiman, who predeceased her. They were married for fifty-two years before he passed in 2012. Stan loved to share that when they started dating, he’d visit the home where Diane and her mom, Esther Singer, and Diane’s grandmother, Rae Raduziner (three generations of women living and arguing together) and could not get a word in edgewise.

Interestingly, Diane and Stan bonded when they were on a date at an ice-skating show at Ak-Sar-Ben, and Diane received sad news that her father had passed. She was sixteen and Stan was seventeen. Little did they know, later they would bear two daughters who became accomplished figure skaters and Diane would be the most effective “Skating Mom” in Indiana. Not only that, she also worked toward getting certified as a Figure Skating Judge so she could be even more involved in her children’s skating world.

Diane attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Indiana-Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She worked in a variety of jobs, one of which involved wearing roller-skates at her telephone company job in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska and in Hyattsville, Maryland. She also worked for a doctor in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Diane spent her last four years in Bloomington, Indiana and was well taken care of at Bell Trace and Hearthstone Legacy Care.

Diane was always ready to help those in need, whether that meant taking care of friends’ dogs or volunteering for the Jewish Federation in Ft. Myers. She immediately responded when someone needed words of support. Diane will be remembered for her

determination and her unapologetic candor, and she will be missed for many reasons, especially for her generosity of spirit and her nurturing care for those she loved.

Memorials may be made to to one of Diane’s important causes the Alzheimer’s Association for Research or Planned Parenthood.

CARL TICHAUER

Carl Tichauer of Peoria, Arizona passed away on June 11, 2023 at age of 74.

He is preceded in death by his parents, Helena and Walter Tichauer.

He is survived by his wife, Gayle Tichauer; son and daughterin-law, Cory and Kolleen Tichauer of Ashland, OR and daughter and son-in-law, Jayme and Mike Buse of Austin, TX; and grandchildren: Aralia, Zaiden, Hendrix and Zoey; and brother, Fred Tichauer.

He was born on Dec. 21 in Montevideo, Uruguay where he grew up the son of two post World War II German-Polish immigrants. His mother, a survivor of the Holocaust, and his father, the lone survivor in his family. In 1963, at the age of 14, he and his family immigrated to Omaha, Nebraska.

Carl was actively involved in many community and personal projects. For as long as can be remembered, he loved photography. As his legacy, he leaves dozens of captivating and unique pieces of art, many of which have won awards and been featured in various magazines. Those who knew him also knew of his fascination and love for all things computers and technology.

The family would like to thank his pulmonary transplant team and all the care providers at Phoenix St. Joseph Hospital who provided astounding care and enduring compassion since his surgery in 2014. These past 9 years were a gift to him and his family that allowed Carl to create many more memories and form a lasting bond with his grandkids that would not have been possible without the donor lungs.

Memorials may be made in Carl’s honor to the lung transplant center at St. Joseph’s Foundation Norton Thoracic Institute, https://www.supportstjosephs.org/nortonthoracicinstitute

Olympian Ben Helfgott dies at 93

JACOB GURVIS

JTA

Ben Helfgott, one of two known Holocaust survivors to go on to compete in the Olympics, died Friday at 93.

Helfgott survived the Holocaust as a teenager, and he went on to become a champion weightlifter and a champion of Holocaust education. He was knighted in 2018.

Helfgott was born in Piotrkow, Poland, in 1929. He once said his parents were troubled about their future as Jews in Poland, and in 1935 his family had secured paperwork to leave for then-Palestine. But his grandmother did not want to leave, so they stayed.

The Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, when Helfgott was 10. His family was forced into a ghetto, the Nazis’ first in Europe. Helfgott’s father led efforts to smuggle food into the ghetto, while Helfgott himself took advantage of his blond hair by spending time outside the ghetto — without his Star of David armband.

Helfgott would spend three years in the ghetto before he and his father were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Other members of his family were deported to Ravensbrück.

Helfgott would ultimately be separated from his father, who

he later learned was killed attempting to escape a death march. Helfgott was sent to the concentration camp in Schlieben and later Theresienstadt, which was liberated three weeks later. At 15, Helfgott was alive and an orphan.

That’s when he jumped at an opportunity to go to England, where he would be reunited with his sister. That’s also where Helfgott would discover weightlifting.

The 5-foot-5 Helfgott would go on to become Britain’s lightweight champion in 1955, 1956 and 1958. He represented the United Kingdom in the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, and he won gold medals at the Maccabiah Games in 1950, 1953 and 1957. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.

Despite his athletic achievements, Helfgott’s greatest passion was his work supporting fellow survivors.

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In our June 16, 2023 edition, the page 12 article “A Salute to Donors” contained two mistakes. Andi Goldstein was erroneously identified as Ann, and Dennis DePorte’s name missed an ‘n.’ The Jewish Press regrets these errors.

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YOUNG ADULT:

Looking for Me by Betsy R. Rosenthal

One of twelve siblings growing up in Depression-era Baltimore, Edith isn’t quite sure of who she is. Between working at her father’s diner, taking care of her younger siblings, and living in the shadow of her more mature sisters, she feels lost in a sea of siblings. When a kind teacher encourages Edith to be a teacher herself one day, Edith sees prospects for a future all her own. Full of joy, pain, humor, and sadness, this novel in verse is an enduring portrait of one family’s pursuit of the American dream.

ADULT:

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for the Lost World by Michael Frank

The remarkable story of 99-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished 90 percent of her community, and the resilience and wisdom of the woman who lived to tell the tale.

With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood on the Greek is-

land of Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium.

Neither of them could know this was the first of 100 Saturdays over the course of six years that they would spend in each other’s company.

During these meetings Stella traveled back in time to conjure what it felt like to come of age on this luminous, legendary island in the eastern Aegean, which the Italians conquered in 1912, began governing as an official colonial possession in 1923, and continued to administer even after the Germans seized control in September 1943.

The following July, the Germans rounded up all 1,700+ residents of the Juderia and sent them first by boat, and then by train to Auschwitz on what was the longest journey— measured by both time and distance—of any of the deportations.

Ninety percent of them were murdered upon arrival.

The Revolutionary Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man.” With high-minded ideals and bareknuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history.

Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. A singular figure at a singular moment, Adams amplified the Boston Massacre. He helped to mastermind the Boston Tea Party. He employed every tool available to rally a town, a colony, and eventually a band of colonies behind him, creating the cause that created a country. For his efforts he became the most wanted man in America; When Paul Revere rode to Lexington in 1775, it was to warn Samuel Adams that he was about to be arrested for treason.

In The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams, Schiff brings her masterful skills to Adams’s improbable life, illuminating his transformation from aimless son of a well-off family to tireless, beguiling radical who mobilized the colonies. Arresting, original, and deliriously dramatic, this is a long-overdue chapter in the history of our nation.

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