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Limmud Omaha returns Chabon, Englander change the scenery, but find no answer to the ‘Jewish Question’ for a day of learning

by BEN HARRIS NEW YORK (JTA) -- More than the equator separates the most recent literary creations of Nathan Englander and Michael Chabon. Englander’s much-anticipated first novel, The Ministry of Special Cases, is a tragic caper set in the mid-1970s against the backdrop of the Argentine political terror known as the Dirty War.” The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon’s latest work, unfolds in Sitka, an imagined Jewish homeland carved out of Alaska to which America has allowed two million refugees of Israel’s lost war of independence to flee.

Where Englander’s concern is with the fate of the Jews among the goyim, Chabon’s characters are Jews among Jews.

Yet, in both cases, what we find are typical Jewish literary archetypes, airlifted from the Polish shtetl and dropped into unexpected surroundings. The result: Taken together, the books -one already a best-seller, the other likely to become one -- throw up their collective hands in frustration at what was once called the Jewish Question. And, while Englander and Chabon may be heirs to a literary legacy which has made an art out of savaging the fears of Diaspora Jews, they both seem to have come around to the idea that their overprotective Jewish mothers might have been on to something.

Neither in urban exile, nor the Alaskan wilderness can the Jews chase their desires and indulge their neuroses free from the depredations of the gentiles. Whether at the world’s arctic periphery or its spiritual center (“the

From challah sales to JewTube, young innovators cook up fresh ideas

by URIEL HEILMAN JERUSALEM (JTA) – When Eli Winkelman first had the idea of transforming her weekly challah sale at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., into a charity benefiting Sudanese refugees, she thought it would be a cool way to sell a few extra peanut-butter loaves.

Winkelman never thought the idea would galvanize hundreds of students to write letters to their lawmakers about the genocidal campaign in Darfur, raise $30,000 for the refugees, spark interest in replicating her Challah for Hunger program at campuses from coast to coast and earn her a mention in a speech by former President Bill Clinton.

“People who aren’t involved anywhere else in Jewish campus life think baking challah to help people in Darfur is cool,” she said. “It becomes a steppingstone for people who are getting in touch with their Jewish roots.”

Two-and-a-half years after starting Challah for Hunger, and weeks after graduating from college, Winkelman, 22, is pondering her next big move. She is one of 18 fellows spending time in Israel Continued on page 2

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navel of the world,” in Chabon’s telling), whether they assimilate or retreat unto themselves, whether they live as law-abiding Argentines or as scheming Alaskan Jews, whether it comes by a callous military junta or a disaster of their own making -- calamity always seems to have the Jews locked in its sights.

Ministry of Special Cases is the story of the bumbling Kaddish Poznan and his quest to effect the return of his kidnaped son. Kaddish’s feisty but perpetually dissatisfied wife, Lillian, unwilling to brook the possibility of her son’s demise, turns first to the Ministry of Special Cases, an absurdist bureaucracy worthy of Kafka, and failing there to the Jewish community, where she does no better. Kaddish, living up to his name, insists that the boy has been killed, dropped from an airplane into the Rio de la Plata with thousands of other enemies of the state.

The Yiddish Police-men’s Union takes place in Alaska, just as the territory of Sitka is about the revert to U.S. sovereignty, and with it, the likely end of this 60-year experiment in Jewish semi-statehood. To make his flight of fancy work, Chabon resorts to an even more brazen form of slapstick. The protagonist, the hard-boiled alcoholic detective Meyer Landsman, was plucked not from the shtetl but from a Chandleresque noir novel. Landsman and his sidekick are on the trail of a killer and their investigation leads them to uncover a plot by Jewish zealots to ignite a war in the Middle East and retake Jerusalem.

Continued on page 12

by MARY SUE GROSSMAN Administrator, Center for Jewish Education Last September, the Center for Jewish Education introduced a new program to the Omaha Jewish community: Limmud Omaha: A Day of Learning. The event was an instant success and the common refrain at the end of the day was, “You must do this again next year!” Based on such positive feedback, the agency board determined Limmud will now be an annual event to kick-off the agency’s year of educational opportunities.

The second year of Limmud Omaha -- “Judaism (Re) Examined: A Vibrant Spirit” -- will be held on Sunday, Aug. 19, 12:30-5 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center. Dr. Leonard Greenspoon, who holds the Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization at Creighton University, is a member of the Adult Education Committee. “The committee considered many themes, however the idea of the vibrancy of Jewish life surfaced repeatedly,” he explained. “This will provide a day to invigorate us and give us a reminder of how alive and exciting Jewish life can be.”

The keynote speaker will be Rela Mintz Geffen, who has recently stepped down after a seven year tenure as president of Baltimore Hebrew University (BHU), one of the five historic colleges of Jewish studies in the United States. She was previously Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of the Programs in Jewish Communal Service and Dean for Academic Affairs at Gratz College in Philadelphia for five years.

Continued on page 2

Second Israeli baby doing well after transplant

by GARY JAVITCH Special to the Jewish Press Raik said his son’s name, Bassem, means “to smile.” But for most of the 20 months of the baby’s short life, neither the baby nor the family had reason to do so.

All that turned around on April 25 when the Israeli infant received a triple-organ transplant at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

In an interview at the Center for Jewish Education office, and with the help of Executive Director Dr. Guy Matalon who trans- Israeli Druze Raik and Radya, parents of Bassem, a transplant lated, the father joyfully patient at UNMC, are grateful to Omaha’s Jewish community pointed to his wife Radya for its help during the last three months. and his son who couldn’t stop playfully cian Dr. Phil Itkin indicated an average pawing my computer and remarked, weight for a 20 month old should be “Todah rabah (thank you), Todah rabah, around 24-26 pounds.

“Bassem can even eat a little by mouth Todah rabah. I cannot say it enough to the Jewish community for their friend- now, although his primary source of food still comes through a feeding tube,” Raik ship and help to me and my family.”

He also praised the hospital and all the added. “Also, he is not walking on his doctors for the great care Bassem own yet.”

Still, the baby is making a good recovreceived. “Bassem has gained a great deal of weight and now is 10 kilos (22 ery and it is expected he will be able to pounds). For reference, Omaha pediatri- leave Omaha by the end of December

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following “routine” surgery in October.

Bassem’s mother is a Bedouin. Her family has served in the Israel Defense Force as have many in their Galilee village of Zarzir. Radya’s brother has finished his military service and a younger brother is soon to go into the IDF. Two cousins, serving in the IDF in Gaza were killed in action.

Ironically, while the father is Muslim and despite their being “alone” in Omaha, they have received no help from anyone at the local Mosque. “It is because we are Israelis,” the father said.

Temple Israel has helped funnel donations to the family, which does need some help with daily living expenses.

According to Dr. Matalon, “The operation cost over $900,000 and the family has raised all but about $27,000.

“Sisters in common,” Radya has struck up a friendship with Smadar Sweisa, the mother of Michael, the Israeli baby who received a transplant on June 26. They talk frequently.

Reported on several weeks ago in the Jewish Press, Michael is recovering slowly and remains in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit as of press time.

While he has experienced complications involving his kidneys and a lung, he has continued to improve. “He currently has no ongoing or active infections,” Continued on page 2

Coming Aug. 10 The Learning Curve education issue Our family photographs: Keepsake or clutter?: Page 4

Temple students add wings to tzedakah list: Page 12

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Young innovators cook up fresh ideas Continued from page 1 this summer participating in the PresenTense Institute for Creative Zionism.

The brainchild of another pair of young innovators, Ariel Beery and Aharon Horwitz, both 27, the institute is a six-week summer program in Jerusalem for a select group of enterprising 20- and 30-somethings from Panama to the West Bank -- all of whom are looking for ways to change the Jewish world with fresh ideas.

Organizers of the institute hope the program, which they dreamed up several months ago, will serve as an incubator for creative Jewish concepts. The idea is to produce great Jewish achievements not just as a result of the training the fellows receive in such fields as Web publishing, podcasting, grant writing and business development, but also as a result of the synergy among talented people working together.

“There is so little Jewish leadership development,” Beery said. “There is so much talk about it, but there isn’t really an intensive skill-building workshop for these kids to come in and get the skills they need. We want to open up new paths for them. The idea is to have professional development for these innovators.

“It’s the next paradigm for Jewish collective existence,” he said.

It’s basically the same idea as another recent gathering in Jerusalem, the Global ROI Summit, where 120 young Jewish innovators from all over the world assembled for a four-day meeting of the minds.

“We don’t compete with each other. How many times do you sit down with someone in the same business who doesn’t compete with you and is generous enough to share everything they know about it?”

Run under the auspices of birthright israel and the Center for Leadership Initiatives, the summit also offered participants workshops in building online communities, pub- Participants in the PresenTense lishing webzines and program's home in Jerusalem. making films.But the primary goal appeared to be networking. Computer geeks mingled with bloggers, filmmakers dissected Kafka with doctoral students and artists shared their creative visions with anyone willing to listen over a glass of wine.

“The idea is to train emerging leaders in the Jewish community,” Yonatan Gordis, director of programs at

the Center for Leadership Initiatives, said over cocktails at sunset in the Israel Museum sculpture garden. “Here in Israel they have a chance to engage, cross-country and cross-topic. They think collectively.”

Participants came from Russia, Latin America, Israel, the United States, Australia, South Africa – pretty much anywhere there are Jews. There were TV reporters, Webmasters, Hillel directors, CEOs of start-up companies, environmental activists, Israel advocates, museum programmers and, of course, an assortment of Jewish community professionals. A few of the Creative Zionism Institute fellows were there, too.

“It’s an interesting group,” said Jeremy Kossen, 34, founder of the recently launched Jewish culture and entertainment site JewTube.com.

Promoted as “Facebook meets YouTube for Jews,” JewTube aims to become the central address for Jewish entertainment, culture, education and advocacy -- insofar as it can fit into a five-minute video clip.

Kossen said he originated the idea when he couldn’t find relevant, interesting Jewish multimedia content on the Internet. He said the summit was helpful mainly in getting his new Web site widespread attention in the Israeli media.

Institute for Creative Zionism work on innovative ideas at the Credit: Uriel Heilman/JTA Horwitz, of the Creative Zionism Institute, said Israel should be the creative platform for the Jewish people. As the co-editor of BlogsofZion.org, he also was one of the ROI fellows.

“Israel is a hub for the Diaspora. In Israel we have the spirit, wisdom, knowledge and social capital to take the next step forward in Jewish collective life,” he said.

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Continued from page 1 Geffen earned her undergraduate degrees at Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary (where she was one of the first three women majoring in Talmud), an MA at Columbia and Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Florida.

Greenspoon has known Geffen for many years and commented “Rela is a marvelous speaker. Her enthusiasm and extensive background will provide an outstanding avenue to begin the day of learning.” Geffen’s major research interest is sociology of religion, particularly the American Jewish community. Within this broad area she has done work on the family, changing roles of men and women, the cost of living Jewishly, the meaning of citizenship in a voluntaristic community and the impact of mixed marriage on the extended Jewish family. Her book (co-authored with the late Daniel J. Elazar), The Conservative Movement in Judaism, was published by SUNY Press in September of 2000.

Following Dr. Geffen’s keynote address, the afternoon will feature three breakout sessions with attendees choosing between four presenters during each session.

Sessions will run from 1:30-2:15 p.m., 2:30-3:15, and 3:30-4:15. A wrap-up session with a final presentation

by Geffen will conclude the day by 5 p.m. Presenters for the afternoon sessions will include Rabbis Jonathan Gross, Mendel Katzman, Mordechai Levin, and Ilan Emanuel, as well as Professors Greenspoon, Moshe Gershovich, and Jean Cahan, and Omaha Public Library Director Rivkah Sass, and urban planner and

community leader Marty Shukert.

Bob Goldberg, President of the Center for Jewish Education board, encourages everyone in the community to attend Limmud. “Last year’s event was very exciting and the learning opportunities were amazing. This is the perfect venue to kick-off the educational year.

Our entire board will be promoting Limmud throughout the community in addition to their involvement throughout the day.”

Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and babysitting, by reservation, will be available.

Limmud Omaha is presented in part with the generous support of the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Fund. For additional information, please contact the Center for Jewish Education office at 334.6445 or mgrossman@jewishomaha.org.

Second Israeli baby Continued from page 1 according to transplant surgeon, Dr. Deb Sudan.

When he is well enough, he will start to get regular feedings to test out his new organs.

The hospital stay is expected to last up to three months with continuing follow up in the Omaha area, which is expected to last up to six months. While he still has a long way to go in his recovery, doctors maintain a positive outlook.

Zohar Winer, the Israeli shlicha at the Jewish Community Center, also helped with translation.

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Part II: Press under pressure Jewish newspapers fight to survive the Internet Age

by DAN PINE j., the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California Earlier this year, the Baltimore Jewish Times ran a series of reports on Rabbi Ephraim Shapiro, an Orthodox Yeshiva principal accused of molesting hundreds of boys.

Shapiro died in 1989, and some in Baltimore’s Jewish community considered it a shanda to accuse the rabbi when he was not alive to defend himself.

Others pointed out that Shapiro’s victims were still very much alive and deserved validation of their trauma.

The Baltimore paper is an independent, family-owned enterprise, which publisher Andrew Buerger says allows for greater journalistic and financial leeway than a federation house organ. “It makes a big difference to have a family paper,” he says. “It’s a better model. In the secular press, you don’t see a lot of foundations or nonprofits owning papers. The for-profit model is important.”

Seeking those profits, the paper’s parent company, Alter Communications, expanded five years ago to become a broader media enterprise. Alter also publishes mainstream secular publications like Style, a Baltimore city magazine. Such horizontal growth helps bolster the Jewish Times during lean years. Though facing declining subscriptions, the Baltimore Jewish Times is holding its own, thanks in part to the city’s tight-knit and geographically concentrated Jewish population.

Houston’s Jewish Herald-Voice, another family-owned paper, is also holding steady. Founded in 1908, the HeraldVoice was bought 34 years ago by Vicki Samuels’ parents, Jean and Joe Samuels. The paper has 5,800 paid subscribers (in a region with a Jewish population of 48,000), and serves the Texas Gulf coast all the way to Galveston.

The paper has experienced a dip in subscribers and profits since 2003 (due in part to the Enron collapse and fallout from Hurricane Katrina). It, too, has looked outside the Jewish community for advertising. In Houston, that means asking the all-important question: “Who’s hungry?”

“We have a greater number of restaurant advertisers,” says Samuels. “People are willing to drive away from their homes to go to a restaurant they read about in the paper.

Outside of restaurants, most of our advertisers are Jewish.”

In Detroit, the Jewish News lands ads from big businesses, from Neiman-Marcus to Lexus. How do they do it? As in Baltimore, the Detroit Jewish community is geographically concentrated. That’s good news for the newspaper’s bottom line.

According to publisher Arthur Horwitz, out of approximately 30,000 Jewish households in Detroit, his paper touches “almost 24,000 with some degree of frequency.”

That’s based on a paid circulation of some 16,000 (down from an early-1990s peak of 18,000). But factor in the muscular purchasing power of the community, and the Jews of Detroit remain highly attractive to advertisers.

Horwitz runs Jewish Renaissance Media, the parent company of the Detroit Jewish News and the Atlanta Jewish Times, as well as several secular magazines. His strategy echoes that of Buerger’s Baltimore model, and, though generally successful, Horwitz, too, faces hurdles.

“We have a demographic challenge,” he says. “Detroit is not a growing Jewish community. It is an aging Jewish community. However, the integration of print and online has provided new avenues of opportunity.

Currently we have more eyeballs looking at our content than ever before in our 65-year history.”

Nominated AJPA President Rob Certner is the first to admit his Cleveland Jewish News is a bit behind the curve when it comes the Internet. “We put our site up a number of years ago, tweaked it here and there to make it look nicer, but we basically put up an informational website. We need to sharpen it up.”

Despite that shortcoming, with 13,000 paid subscribers the Cleveland Jewish News is safely in the black largely because, like the Baltimore and Detroit papers, it diversified. “We realized five years ago we needed to develop some glossy publications,” says Certner. “That’s what advertisers wanted: something where ads stood out, where color popped. So two years ago we developed a custom-publishing division. We create special pieces for Jewish organizations, programs for fundraisers.”

Some papers rely on the local Jewish community federation for safe financial harbor. Though independent, j. relies heavily on federation support. Both the S.F.-based Jewish Community Federation and the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay buy complimentary subscriptions to j. for their donors.

Omaha’s Jewish Federation does, too, as well as paying for anyone claiming to be Jewish in the area, however the paper also relies on 15% of its subscriber base coming from out-of-town paid subscribers (usually former Omahans loyal to the community) and about another 5% paid by the Jewish Federation of Lincoln for its donors. The Jewish Press, which celebrated its 85th anniversary in 1986 with a major exhibit, also has expanded its advertising clientele outside the Jewish community. “Advertisers like our demographics,” said Carol Katzman, Press editor, “even though we are and will remain a small market.”

Small or not, the Jewish Press is in good shape financially, Katzman added, noting that the addition of a second full-time salesperson has expanded advertising revenues.

“But we’re always looking for ‘revenue enhancement,’” she added, “whether it’s royalties from ProQuest’s Ethnic NewsWatch site, grant income for special projects like the 2006 ‘Front Page’ exhibit, or general donations from readers who value this newspaper.”

Despite increasing revenue, the Press staff and com-

mittee are concerned about the future of the industry. At its next meeting they’ll be conducting a SWOT analysis - listing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

“From that list we’ll generate a new set of goals and objectives,” said Katzman. “We need to ask, ‘Are we in the business of publishing a newspaper or delivering the news?’ If it’s the latter, we can publish the format that best suits our readers, our advertisers and this community -- whatever that is.”

The Bay Area is home to one of America’s most diverse Jewish communities. Boasting the third-largest Jewish population in the country, the region contrasts sharply with its counterparts elsewhere.

“We’re one of the largest Jewish communities spread over one of the largest areas,” says j. Associate Publisher Nora Contini. “We distribute to more than 220 zip codes, whereas papers on the East Coast typically distribute to a few dozen zip codes.”

And the diversity extends beyond the geographical.

“It’s spread out religiously and politically, as well,” Contini says. “You have religious Jews, secular Jews, gay, straight, right, left and everything in between. We try to have a publication that’s of interest to all those people.

As long as the complaints are coming from all sides, we’re doing all right.”

Now in its 112th year, j. (formerly the Jewish Bulletin) has made it a priority to lure younger readers. In 1995, the Bulletin was the first Jewish paper in the country to put its entire weekly content online, and in 2003 the paper instituted a radical graphic design and name change in pursuit of its goal. Today its subscriptions -- around 19,000 -- remain steady, despite a wobbly local economy and a media-induced form of attention deficit disorder.

“People face so many options for receiving information,” notes j. editor and publisher Marc Klein. “There’s a plethora of newspapers, magazines, websites, cable TV, streaming video. The one thing we offer that no one else does is information about the local Jewish community.”

Jewish newspapers will continue to seek a stronger financial and journalistic foothold in an ever-changing world. Will they make it? That depends on who’s talking.

“Anyone who feels the Jewish press in America is safe is grossly misinformed,” says Detroit’s Horwitz. “While Jewish publications constitute a niche, and niche publications tend to be less vulnerable to broader trends in the industry, anyone who feels they’re immune is going to find themselves without a community to serve.”

Yet there remains room for optimism.

Says Cleveland’s Certner, “We do something nobody else does and nobody else is likely to be interested in doing. [The dailies] are not going to do the local coverage that we do. As such they will miss large pieces of information relevant to our community.”

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Our family photographs: keepsakes or clutter?

STAYING IN TOUCH

by OZZIE NOGG The photograph albums in my childhood home had cardboard covers stamped to look like brown Moroccan leather. The covers -- punched with two holes -- were held together by a black silk cord, one end of which threaded down through the top cover, down through holes in the thick black paper pages and through the bottom cover, then up through the pages again and through the top cover where the two ends met in the middle and tied in a bow. Small black paper triangles -- one at each corner -- kept the photographs in place.

The photographs -- black and white, sometimes sepia -- were taken in my father’s Lithuanian shtetl. The subjects included unsmiling men in heavy coats and tall boots, always with a hat. Their solemn wives, hair covered, surrounded by equally solemn children. A woman lying on her back in bed, her forehead draped with what looked like a dish cloth, the sheet pulled up to her chin.

I remember asking Poppa (I was five, maybe six at the time), “Who is that woman sleeping?” And Poppa answered, “My Aunt Dobeh and she’s not sleeping.

She’s dead. Immediately after she died Pozol the photographer came in his wagon to our house. It was a tradition in our village, this final portrait. Clever Pozol. He made a nice living from the dead.”

To the best of my knowledge, Gary Gerelick never took his camera to a house of mourning, but he took it just about every place else -- to synagogue dinners, Purim carnivals, cantor’s concerts, programs at the JCC, family simchas, costume parties at Highland Country Club.

You name it, Gary was there, camera around his neck.

Gary loved people. The camera was his ticket into a world that, despite his genuinely caring ways, seldom repaid him in kind. Over the years, like many of you on many occasions, Don and I said ‘cheese’ for Gary and waited -- always in vain -- to see a copy of the picture.

Eventually we decided there was no film in his camera.

Never had been, we whispered.

Two years ago Gary Gerelick died, end of story (one might think) until family members offered up his unexpected legacy of slides and photographs -- thousands of them -- all neatly identified in pencil, filed carefully by

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date. Suddenly the myth became a chronicle of Jewish life in Omaha, 1960-2000.

On Aug. 5, as part of its 25th Anniversary celebration, the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society will mount an exhibit of Gary’s photos, aptly named: There WAS Film in the Camera.

To look at the pictures as I did last week -- still in their manila boxes and metal trays as Gary left them -- is to marvel at their number and scope of subject matter.

B’nai B’rith conventions, Men’s Club breakfasts, bowling tournaments, planes taking off from Eppley Airport, Crossroads under construction, the 1972 College World Series, jolly political candidates, sports banquets, Gary’s 1983 trip to Jerusalem, Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, 1965. Astonishing.

Gary’s gift to this community contains photos of his family, too. Grandma’s house Pesach 1967.

Thanksgiving 1967 at Aunt Beck’s. Uncle Sam’s 70th Birthday October 5, 1968. Aunt Beck’s 65th birthday May 23, 1969. Some pictures are slightly out of focus, every woman’s face soft, unlined, young. One picture of Gary’s beloved cousin, Marlene, is almost painfully sharp, the camera’s flash bouncing off her crystal earrings and reflecting on her cheek.

Yes, of course I looked for pictures of my family, and there we are -- big hair, harlequin glasses, cigarettes.

Dinner at Beth El May 26 1969 honoring Rabbi and Mrs. Katz. Our daughter Marsha’s 1972 Bat Mitzvah.

Poppa’s 83rd birthday with his special Torah dedication, January 1980. Scattered pictures (sang Ms. Streisand) mem’ries of the way we were. Forgive me, Gary, and all others whom I have wrongly judged. This Yom Kippur I will surely repent my sin.

So. More than 65 years have passed since I first gaped in wonder at my great-aunt Dobeh’s deathbed photograph. The fake leather albums fell apart ages ago and few shtetl photos remain. (We moved. Things vanish.)

But I still have decades upon decades of family snapshots that log my journey with Don from honeymoon to grandchildren -- he (back then) in a purple leisure suit, me (back then) in white go-go boots, both of us (now) in blue jeans.

Rows of photographs hang in our hall, the family shrine. Other pictures are albumed in acetate sleeves, stuck on the fridge, saved in electronic scrapbooks at Shutterfly or (more and more, lately) dropped haphazardly into shoe boxes. Frankly, the whole lot of them is beginning to get in my way, take up too much room in our house and on our hard-drive. (In my head, too, I confess.) And herein lies the dilemma.

My need to downsize has become increasingly urgent.

Mother’s seder plate, Zayda’s chumash, Poppie’s cufflinks we box up and save for the kids. Extra coffee mugs, rarely used cookbooks, the wachamacallit from Peru we box up and give to Goodwill. But what do we do with photographs of friends and loved ones -- all those snapshots of the same scene taken from a dozen different angles, or with someone’s eyes closed, or the image-almost-gone Polaroids and the photos that are down right unflattering? Is it safe to just throw them away? After all, some cultures believe that photographs steal part of a person’s soul and bring evil curses, harm, even death. If I tear up, toss out a picture, do I (p’tui, p’tui) jeopardize someone’s health, someone’s life, like sticking pins in a 4 x 6, borderless, Kodak voodoo doll?

I know, I know -- this foolish superstition is contrary to Jewish belief, contrary to logical thinking, bubbeh meisehs as Poppa would say.

Still ... when it comes to family photographs, I’m afraid to hit Delete. Could be Gary Gerelick felt the same way.

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ORGANIZATIONS B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS World renowned neuroscientist, Dr. Howard Gendelman will speak at Breadbreakers on Wednesday, Aug. 1, noon, at Regency Lodge, according to Marty Ricks, Chairman. He will discuss stem cell research. All men and women in the community are invited. Cost is $12 for a complete lunch and $3 for beverage service only.

LOMIR REDN YIDDISH Come to the Yiddish meeting at the JCC on Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. If you have any Yiddish books you would like to donate, please call Anne Skolkin at 343.1638.

VISIONS Reminder: our visit to Lauritzen Gardens Botanical Center is Monday, July 30 (gather at 9:45 a.m., the tram will leave at 10 a.m.) Lunch follows at Lucky’s Restaurant. If you have a current membership to the Lauritzen Gardens, please bring your card.

Visions and 39 Forever Summer Picnic is Sunday, Aug. 26, 1 p.m. at Chalco Hill’s Recreation Area (doors will not open until 12:45 p.m.) Derek Ventura’s One Man Band will entertain. Cost is $6 per person which includes main course, drinks and entertainment.

Send reservations to Judy Katskee, 10356 Browne St., Omaha, NE 68154 by Aug. 20. Questions? Call Ethel Goldston at 393.7358. Make check payable to Visions.

JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES Take a musical journey to Mexico with Mariachi Luna & Sol on Thursday, Aug. 16, 1:30 p.m. at the JCC. There is no admission fee. With their beautiful harmonies and soloist they have stunned crowds with unforgettable performances. For Information, call Maggie Conti at 334.6521.

Salute the Big Band Festival to celebrate music of the 30s, 40s and more! The Swingtones (the Nebraska Wind Symphony) will perform Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7:15 p.m. at the JCC and will feature the Classics: the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home residents and staff vocal ensemble.

The Swingtones Big Band was formed in 1983 by trumpeter, Mark Foster. It consists of 18 semi-professional musicians, mostly from the Nebraska Wind Symphony. The Swingtones repertoire consists of big band arrangements in the style of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Harry James and more. For information, call Linda Fitzgerald, RBJH Activities Director at 334.6520.

BIRTH Cari and John Rabroker of Overland Park, KS, announce the July 6 birth of their daughter, Ava Lauren.

Grandparents are Vicki Perlmeter, Jeff Perlmeter of Phoenix, AZ, Mike and Janae Hawkins of Dallas, TX, and Steve and Toni Rabroker of Carrolton, TX. Great-grandparents are Roie and Bernie Meyers, Jan and Stan Perlmeter of Key Biscayne, FL, and Jane and Don Kemp of Dallas, TX.

Joan K. Marcus received an award from the American Red Cross at its annual meeting earlier this month for 25 years of service to the Energy Assistance Program Mitchell Sanford competed in 2007 United States Trampoline and Tumbling National Championships competition held June 1824 in Daytona Beach, FL, sponsored by the USTA. There were seven states represented at the meet.

Sanford competed on trampoline, double minitrampoline and he also tumbled. He competes at the Advanced level for trampoline, double mini tramp and tumbling. He also competes at the Elite level for double mini tramp. After competing in his advanced division events, he became the USTA National Champion for 15-16 year old boys on the double minitramp and the Synchronized Trampoline. He also placed second on the individual trampoline event and fourth on double mini-trampoline. In his Elite division he placed ninth on the double mini-tramp.

Mitchell is the son of Mark Sanford and Vicki Sanford.

He will be attending Millard North in the fall as a junior and competes for Premier Gymnastics.

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The Southwest Short Rib Roast was developed by Omaha Steaks and produced in Nebraska. This new product is being promoted to consumers via the Omaha Steaks catalog, website and through special monthly mailers.

“The development of new and interesting beef products has been a major emphasis for our industry over the past several years,” said Nebraska Beef Council Executive Director, Ann Marie Bosshamer. “The contest offers an incentive to Nebraska processors to develop beef products that are easy for the consumer to prepare and serve.”

Nicholas C. Newman, son of Sharee C. and Murray H. Newman, was named to the Dean’s list for spring semester at the University of Montana in Missoula, where he is a senior, majoring in Resources and Conservation in the College of Forestry.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 The Living Torah, 9:30 a.m. at Chabad Bible Study Group, 10 a.m. at Beth El What’s Jewish About Me?, 11 a.m. at Beth El Yachad Zoo: Education & Tour, 12:30 p.m.

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Remembering the past keeps the future alive Tisha b’Av in this community passed by this week with hardly a mention. In last week’s Press, Rabbi Jonathan Gross implored the community to attend services Monday night or Tuesday, participate in one of the classes or watch one of the films offered at Beth Israel on this national Jewish day of mourning. Eicha, the Book of Lamentations, also was read at Chabad on Tisha b’Av, but only the same regulars who attend each shul showed up.

Why is it important to even remember events that happened thousands of years ago? Do Jews even care about the destruction of the first and second Temples in Jerusalem? Should we?

One rabbinic story tells of a non-Jew who walked by a group of Jews who were crying out with great sadness. When he stopped to inquire, mention was made about the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. He asked, “Why haven’t I heard about this newsworthy event?” One of the Jews responded, “Because it happened in 70 CE.” The non-Jew replied in admiration, “Any people who remembers a tragic event in their history as though it happened yesterday is bound to survive.”

Will we? With changes in the world coming at us at breakneck speed on YouTube, JewTube, the web, e-mail and 24-hour cable news cycles, even an event like the first Gulf War (which occurred only 16 years ago) seems like ancient history.

Today’s teens listen to politicians compare the current push to leave Iraq to the Vietnam war and the protests of the 1960s, and wonder how dredging up a war that took place when their parents were teens is relevant to their lives. Imagine what they think of Israel’s War

of Independence, World War II, and the Holocaust -- not only did these events occur in the last century, they took place in the last millennium!

If we’re not going to give Tisha b’Av much thought in 2007, what can we expect our children and grandchildren to do when it comes to Yom HaShoah? Is it fair for us to assume they should have the same compassion, interest and caring in observing a memorial day to those who perished 60+ years ago when we don’t observe a day of mourning for our ancestors of 1937 years ago when the Romans sacked Jerusalem?

And what of their children? When there are no survivors of the Holocaust to remind the world of the horrors perpetrated during World War II, won’t Yom HaShoah fall into the same category as Tisha b’Av. That is, won’t our grandchildren ask (much like Holocaust deniers, sad to say), “How do you know these events actually occurred?” in much the same way we 21st century skeptics ask questions of our rabbinic authorities about events in Jewish history?

Today, Judaism has become a voluntary religion, not a religion of obligation. We cannot force Jews to know and understand their history,

let alone observe any rituals or services surrounding historic events.

But if Tisha b’Av has now fallen into the category of “What’s that? Another fast day? No swimming? No movies or live music for nine days preceding it? Fahgettaboudit!”, then can Shavuot and Sukkot be far behind? And if those are considered “normal” workdays, and Jewish institutions are open for business as usual, will our grandchildren even care about Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Passover?

There are no easy answers for Jews living in a pluralistic society, but surely there are questions we must at least discuss! What is important for us (and our children) to remember?

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by RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Bush’s latest Middle East peace initiative earned the backing of the centrist pro-Israel establishment in about as much time as it takes to pronounce AIPAC, ADL and American Jewish Committee.

Just as quickly, however, the plan was criticized

by Jewish groups on the left and right.

Encomiums of support from the centrist establishment triumvirate came down within hours of Bush’s announcement of a plan that would transfer substantial funds to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and call for a regional peace conference in the fall.

Murmurs of doubt arose, however, from smaller groups that at times have successfully nudged the larger organizations, as well as the U.S. Congress, away from the administration’s policy on the peace process. Both Americans for Peace Now on the left and the Zionist Organization of America on the right raised objections to the plan.

Within hours of Bush’s speech on July 16, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League and the AJCommittee issued statements praising the initiative, focusing primarily on Bush’s reiteration of support for Israeli security guarantees.

“As the president laid out in his speech, the Palestinians have a clear choice to make,” AIPAC spokesman Josh Block said. “They can go down the path of terrorism and violence or choose the path of negotiations and progress toward peace with Israel.”

Echoed the ADL: “The president plainly identified the clear choices facing the Palestinian people between a hopeful future and one of continued despair.”

The emphasis in Bush’s speech was indeed on Palestinian reform.

“The Palestinian people must decide that they

“They can go down the path of terrorism and violence or choose the path of negotiations and progress toward peace with Israel,” AIPAC spokesman Josh Block “Now Arab nations should build on this initiative by ending the fiction that Israel does not exist, stopping the incitement of hatred in their official media and sending cabinet-level visitors to Israel,” he said.

That message earned praise from the AJCommittee, which noted that only Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania and Qatar have relations with Israel. Bush placed a rare emphasis on U.S. expectations that Israel freeze settlement expansion, saying that “Israel’s future lies in developing areas like the Negev and Galilee, not in continuing occupation of the West Bank.”

When pressed, State Department officials will note that an end to the occupation is U.S. policy. But Bush’s comments -- delivered in firm tones at the session attended by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice -- were unusual.

Americans for Peace Now welcomed the emphasis, noting that repeated commitments on ending the occupation have been “unfulfilled.” However, the group expressed concern that Bush continued to freeze out any possibility of a reconciliation between Abbas and

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Bush plan draws support from centrists, skepticism from the left and right want a future of decency and hope, not a future of terror and death,” Bush said. “They must match their words denouncing terror with action to combat terror. The Palestinian government must arrest terrorists, dismantle their infrastructure and confiscate illegal weapons.”

The president also called for the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, held for more than a year by Hamas-affiliated gunmen in Gaza.

Bush also called for reform to take place in the broader context of Arab recognition of Israel. He praised the revived Arab League initiative that would exchange a comprehensive peace for Israel’s withdrawal from lands it captured in 1967.

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Hamas, despite the Islamist organization’s pre-eminent role in Gaza.

“This administration’s policy of freezing out Palestinian leaders and political players it does not like, in the naive hope that this will disempower or transform them into Western-style democracies, has failed,” Peace Now stated.

“The vital interests of both the U.S. and Israel demand sober, pragmatic policies, not moralizing and sloganeering.”

The Israel Policy Forum, another group that backs greater U.S. engagement, praised Bush’s speech as showing “courageous, hands-on engagement.” However, Israela Doron, a former Israeli general, met with Congress members this week under IPF’s aegis and also expressed doubts about excluding Hamas from the mix. “A Hamas that doesn’t have what to lose in the Gaza Strip is a very dangerous Hamas,” she said.

ZOA President Mort Klein issued a statement saying that Bush was “making the same mistakes as President Clinton and the late Prime Minister Rabin made when they promoted the false premise that Yasser Arafat was a moderate peacemaker who would make peace with Israel if Israel made major concessions.”

Bush pledged to move more than $270 million in appropriated funds to the Palestinians, including $80 million to the Palestinian Authority for defense training -- much greater sums than were available until just a few weeks ago, when Abbas was still in a nominal coalition with Hamas.

Congressional sources said they did not foresee a problem for such a transfer, although at least one critical constituency -- evangelical Christians -- was set to pose tough questions.

“We will be analyzing that speech very carefully, then making judgments about where to weigh in,” said Gary Bauer, a top evangelical leader attending the national Christians United for Israel summit. Bauer spoke with some authority: The event drew 4,000 delegates from all 50 states, with appointments in virtually every congressional office last week.

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by JINSA STAFF Last week, we asked President Bush to speak clearly about his political, military and diplomatic aims in order to let the American people decide how, when and for how long to follow him. Unfortunately, the President’s determination to reassert American support for Abu Mazen and Palestinian independence is a mistake for Israel, the Palestinians and America at almost every political and security level. It is worth parsing the main points. The President said: • This is a moment of clarity for all Palestinians and a moment of choice. • Choosing Hamas, Palestinians would “surrender to Hamas’s foreign sponsors in Syria and Iran and crush the possibility of a Palestinian State.â€? • They can choose the “hopeful optionâ€? of Abu Mazen and Salaam Fayyad. • Only the Palestinians can decide which of these courses to pursue.

This is entirely false.

This moment is no clearer for Palestinians than June 24, 2002, when the President told them they had to choose and said that only if they chose well and followed through would the U.S. support Palestinian independence. Nor is it clearer than the day Israel withdrew from Gaza, leaving intact the valuable and profitable greenhouses they created. That day the Palestinians might have chosen coexistence, cooperation and economic enhancement. It was just another day.

And the Palestinians do not choose freely. The President's remarks entirely skipped over the fact that Palestinians in Gaza are living under the gun -- literally -- of a victorious terrorist organization that threw the weaker terrorist organization out of town. How exactly would the President like the people of Gaza to express their choice? Last time we encouraged them, they voted for Hamas. If the Palestinians in Gaza want to choose Fatah now, Hamas isn't likely to care much.

If they do repent their vote, why should we be thrilled?

Fatah was known by the people to be so corrupt that even many secular Palestinians couldn’t stand the idea of casting a ballot for Abu Mazen’s party. They chose religious fanatics supported by Iran instead of secular criminals supported by the West. Hobson's Choice was presented as their choice and it remains that the people with the guns make the decisions.

In any event, while the short term implications of choosing may differ, the long range ones do not. Hamas will not engage Israel at all; Fatah will talk about security and economic progress. But to extrapolate that Fatah then agrees that Israel is legitimate and Jews are entitled to sovereignty in the Middle East would be wrong.

President Bush misuses the language -- Israel does not need the Palestinians to “accept Israel’s ‘right to exist.’�

That right was posited by the United Nations in 1948 and not subject to review. The Palestinians -- and the Arab states -- need to provide demonstrable acceptance of UN Resolution 242 with its requirement for acceptance of the “legitimacy of all the states in the region and their right to secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.�

President Bush committed the U.S. to additional economic and military support for Abu Mazen: • More than $190 million in American assistance including funds for humanitarian relief in Gaza (assuming he can get it there). • OPIC will help generate $228 million in lending to Palestinian businesses. • $80 million to help the Palestinians reform their security services under the guidance of U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton. • Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will oversee the reforming of Palestinian institutions to help establish effective governing structures, a sound financial system and the rule of law. • A “political horizonâ€? for a Palestinian State.

More, more, more. The Palestinians are already the largest per capita recipients of international aid in the world and have received more money in constant dollars than Europe during the Marshall Plan. But without

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Gen. Dayton’s mission has been addressed by JINSA before, beginning with assistance to Palestinian "police" during Oslo and running through Gen. Dayton's predecessor, right up to the ignominious collapse of Abu Mazen’s forces in June.

What is an American general training them to do?

Legitimate American interests would be to enable them to protect the Palestinian people, “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure� and/or help provide security for Israel. Will they? Did they ever before and do we have a commitment that they will now? No. Are we instilling American military values in them along with American military capabilities? We try to do it in Iraq and it is difficult. But if we can’t, how can we be certain our training will not just produce better terrorists? We can’t and so we should be extremely wary here.

How does the “political horizon� differ from President Bush’s prior commitment to Palestinian statehood? Does it come before or after a demonstrable Palestinian and Arab commitment to UN Resolution 242? The Oslo documents are all about the rule of law. So is the June 24th speech. So is the Road Map. So many words about rules but so very little law. Why? How about a little application of the law for that nameless “Israeli soldier held hostage by extremists�?

His name is Gilad Shalit, Mr. President, and you don’t know who holds him hostage -- Hamas and Fatah both deny culpability. But international law requires that the International Red Cross be able to visit him privately.

The mention of his name and the weight of your outrage would have been helpful here. This selective interest in the application of law as it would protect Israel is the next, and final, chapter.

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Synagogue Listings B’nai Israel Synagogue 618 Mynster St. Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 322.4705 email: CBsynagogue@hotmail.com

Beth El Synagogue Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism 14506 California Omaha, NE 68154-1980 492.8550 www.bethel-omaha.org

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BETH EL SYNAGOGUE Services conducted by Rabbi Mordechai Levin and Cantor Gastón Bogomolni.

FRIDAY: enjoy Shabbat for all ages at Zorinsky Lake. Meet at Shelter #2 (off of 156th St., south of West Center). Dinner is 6:15 p.m.; services, 6:45 p.m. Note: Shabbat services will also be held at 8:30 p.m. at Beth El. SATURDAY: Morning services, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush is sponsored

by Beth El; Mincha/ Ma’ariv, 8:40 p.m.

Sitter Service is available during Friday night and Saturday morning services, on a drop-in basis, at no charge.

WEEKDAY SERVICES: Sundays, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.; weekdays 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

HAZAK INSTALLATION SUNDAY, 11 a.m. Featured speakers are nutritionists Ruth and Irwin Goldenberg. To RSVP, send a check for $11 to Natalie Rubin, 2004 So. 138 Ave. Cir., Omaha NE 68144. For more information, call Gloria Goodman at 333.3351. Bible Discussion Group resumes Sunday, Aug. 12.

SHABBAT DINNER FOR YOUNG ADULTS All Jewish adults in their 20s and 30s are invited to a Summertime Sangria Shabbat Dinner on Friday, Aug. 10 following Kabbalat Shabbat. Cost is $10.

For information, contact Margie Gutnik in the office or at programming@bethel-omaha.org.

WHAT’S JEWISH ABOUT ME? Arts and crafts and music activities for children ages threesix on Sunday, Aug. 12, 11 a.m.

Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fri., 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Gross.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.

Free babysitting, 9:30 a.m.; Children’s Classes, 9:45 a.m. with Torah Parade; Kiddush sponsored

by Ann Moskovits in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Sam Moskovitz. Mincha, 8 p.m. followed by Suedat Shlishit and Gemara class; Havdalah, 9:33 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha/ Ma’ariv, 8:30 p.m.

WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 8:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: Women of the Torah class, 9:30 a.m.; Advanced Parsha Study, 7:30 p.m.

BEYT SHALOM FRIDAY: Shabbat in the Home.

CHABAD HOUSE Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Service, 7 a.m.; SATURDAY: Maamar class, 9 a.m.; Service, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush luncheon follows the service.

SUNDAY: Service, 8:30 a.m.; Living Torah, 9:30 a.m., 20minute video broadcast.

WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m.

MONDAY: Maamar Kabbalistic Insights for Women, 12:15 p.m.; Halacha, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY: W.O.W. Tehillim & More, 9 a.m.; Parshah Roundup: Weekly Torah Portion, 7 p.m.

Kabbalah WEDNESDAY: Circle, 7 p.m.; A Peek Through the Lens of Kabbalah, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY: Jewish Thought, 12:45 p.m.

All events and programs are open to the entire community.

For information or to register call the office or visit the website.

CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN Services conducted by Rabbi Ilan Emanuel.

FRIDAY: Shabbat evening service 7:45 p.m. led by Rabbi Emanuel, with oneg following provided by Maureen and Dale Lobb.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. led by Rabbi Emanuel.

TUESDAYS, 7 p.m.: Beginner Hebrew: A Crash Course, led by Rabbi Emanuel on July 31, Aug. 7, 14, 21, and 28.

THURSDAY: Choir Rehersal, 7 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m.: outdoor service potluck dinner at Holmes Lake Park, 70th and Normal Blvd. RSVP to the office or call Dottie Shapiro, 489.5372.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m.

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m. led by Andy Greenberg.

TEMPLE ISRAEL FRIDAY: Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. Cantor Wendy Shermet will lead the service. D’var Torah: Jill Idelman: “Toto, We’re Not in Kansas Anymore.”

SATURDAY: Sparks Beneath the Surface, 9:15-10:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m.

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WRJ to host outdoor Shabbat for all families with tots

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator “You can’t start early enough strengthening Jewish identity,” said Annette van de KampWright. Once a couple has a child, “they oftentimes get reenergized and “rediscover” their (Jewish) identity,” she pointed out.

Van de Kamp-Wright and Dana Kaufman are vice presidents of young family programming for Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) which sponsors Tot Shabbat at Temple Israel. “Living Jewishly becomes much more important, because one has to set an example,” van de KampWright said.

Open to the community, Tot Shabbat is a tot-friendly worship service led by one of Temple's clergy members. Shabbat basics, stories, and music are emphasized at the fun and welcoming service.

Rabbi Eric Linder will lead an outdoor Tot Shabbat on Friday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m., at the pavilion behind the Jewish Community Center. Any family, including immediate and extended mem-

bers, with children six-years-old and younger and their older siblings is always welcome. It’s certainly appropriate to arrive at the pavilion a little before 6 p.m. and romp on the playground equipment before Rabbi Linder begins the service with his guitar.

Families are reminded to bring a picnic dinner which follows the 30-minute service. WRJ will provide beverages and desserts.

Tot Shabbats are purposely “laid back,” explained van de Kamp-Wright. “This is one place and time where parents of young children don't have to worry as much about whether their little ones behave. Children need to feel at home,” she said.

Danielle Gordman, president of WRJ, said that “augmenting the services of Temple is WRJ's mission. We provide experiences for families and women to enhance their Jewish journey. Our tots are important as are all of our members,” she emphasized.

Van de Kamp-Wright added, “We are hoping to include a few (Tot Shabbat) ‘theme-nights’ this year. We have been talking about having a musical Shabbat where

kids can bring their own instruments.” She also noted that the dinners, which always accompany Tot Shabbats, “are going to be revamped and be healthier while still child friendly. There are many traditional Jewish foods that should be included. We have an extra opportunity to instill identity though food. Never underestimate the cultural relevance of food!”

Additionally, van de KampWright and Kaufman plan to encourage “the kids to be as interactive as possible. We want them to get up and get involved,” van de Kamp-Wright said.

In addition to Aug. 3 for which there is no charge, other Tot Shabbat dates are Oct. 12, Nov. 9, 2007, and Jan. 11, Feb. 8, March 14, April 11, and May 2, 2008. All begin at 6 p.m. and are followed by dinner.

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each Friday evening service except when there is a Tot Shabbat, Saturday mornings when there is a bar or bat mitzvah, and Sunday mornings when there is Religious School. Advance reservations and a $5 donation are appreciated.

Sorry, no facilities for infants.

NEIGHBORHOOD MINYAN FRIDAY: Minyan, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m.

TIFERETH ISRAEL Services conducted by Nancy Coren, Lay Leader. Office hours are Monday - Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

FRIDAY: Light Nosh, 6:15 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat Services, 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY: Morning service, 9:30 a.m., Torah service, 10:15 a.m.

MONDAY and THURSDAY, Minyan, 9 a.m. Please contact the office if you want to make arrangements for a Minyan at another time.

WEDNESDAY: Men’s Lunch Group meets at the Knolls, 12:30 p.m. Call Yale Gotsdiner at 423.7066.

TREE OF LIFE CENTER Services conducted by Rabbi Michael Weisser.

FRIDAYS: Sabbath Experience, 7:30 p.m.

Havdalah: SATURDAYS: Rites of Separation, 6:30 p.m.; Drumming Meditation follows until 8 p.m.; Social Time until 10 p.m.

Sitting/Silent MONDAYS: Meditation, 6 p.m.; Teachings/ Discussion, 7:30 p.m.

Sitting/ WEDNESDAYS: Silent Meditation, 6 p.m.; 8 Weeks to Mindfulness Class, 7:30 p.m.

BAT MITZVAH Orlea Lizka Miller, daughter of Dr. Alexander and Monica Miller, became a Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, June 9, at Temple Beth El in San Antonio, TX. Orlea will be entering eighth grade at Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Academy.

She had a second Bat Mitzvah in Israel at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City with a group of Jewish families from San Antonio. Orlea is making a donation from her Bat Mitzvah gifts to the Clown Program for Children at Hadassah Hospital.

She has a sister, Madeline.

Her grandparents are Harriet Miller and the late Dr. Daniel Miller.

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by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Parashat Va’ethanan/ Shabbat Nahamu With Tisha b’Av behind us, Israel’s great mourning day, we come to Shabbat Nahamu. Here the Haftarah turns to the great poetry of Isaiah of Jerusalem, who asks everyone to join in speaking words of comfort to the heart of Jerusalem.

The Lord has punished Jerusalem double for all her sins. Double? Yes, Hamas and Hezbollah. Have we suddenly shifted from ancient to modern times? Indeed we have, for the situation of modern Israel, if not desperate, is indeed extremely difficult, with those two threatening continuously, and the nasty puppet-master, Iran, pulling the strings off scene.

All that having been said, it is necessary to be aware that it is not Israel alone that is under attack; the attack is on all of the Western world. We are in a war, possibly a war to the finish between East and West, between Islamofascists and Western civilization. I shudder at the sacrifice of life and treasure that has already been made and the enormous sacrifices that are yet to be made.

One understands the envy of Western civilization that the East displays. The East has been asleep for centuries of progress that the West has made. And now, instead of asking how it may share in the benefits of civilization, the East demands it all, or else.

Nahamu, therefore, the name attached to our Sidra, is clearly in place. It has gone far enough, and now is the time for comfort. It has been said that freedom is not free. Our relief from the conflict between East and West is also not free. But relief is sure to come; for the West, despite some selfishness which it has displayed, has not deserved the danger in which it finds itself.

Comfort, oh comfort my people, proclaims your God. So our Haftarah begins.

By chance I attended a session on poetry the other day.

I remarked that I appreciated Milton even more than Shakespeare. And yet the mighty poetry of the Bible, e.g.

Isaiah, is certainly more gripping and powerful, at least to me, than my love for Milton and Shakespeare.

My late wife wrote a master’s thesis on Tennyson. But Tennyson is milquetoast in comparison with Isaiah, Deutero-Isaiah, and Jeremiah. Readers of the Bible must be eternally grateful for having these passages so beneficent to mind and soul.

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LYNDA BARR SAFERSTEIN Lynda Barr Saferstein died at the age of 52.

Preceded in death by her mother, Betty, she is survived by her husband, Mark; stepchildren Dylan and Rachel; father, Ray Barr and step-mother Laura Beth; brother and sister-in-law, Rick and Laurie, neice and nephew, Amber and Jarrod; sister, Nancy O’Brien.

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An automotive dealer for more than 45 years, he served as a member of the Nebraska State Equal Opportunity Commission under Governor J.J. Exon.

Preceded in death by his wife, “Babe” Ratner, he is survived by his children, Renee Corcoran, Susan Ratner of St. Louis, and Randy Ratner of Dallas; and four grandchildren.

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ADRIAN BROWN Adrian Brown died July 21 at the age of 84. Services were held July 22 at Golden Hill Cemetery.

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Jewish Press, Omaha, NE

July 27, 2007

No answer to Jewish Question

Temple students add wings to tzedakah list

Continued from page 1 In allowing that all Jewish phobias might not be baseless, Englander and Chabon are following the lead of the godfather of literary neuroses, Philip Roth, whose 2004 novel, The Plot Against America, imagined that the Jewish anxiety he had brilliantly satirized for the whole of his career might be more justified than he allowed.

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN right thing to do,� she said.

Temple Israel Communications Coordinator There are approximately 300 youngsters who attend Temple Israel kindergartners chose three animals at Temple Israel’s religious school including the Middle the Henry Doorly Zoo; first graders picked “The and High School. By the end of the school year, some of Chosen,� a Ugandan children’s group, and the second them hadn’t designated a beneficiary for their class grade opted for Gifford Farm. Third graders voted for tzedakah donations. So, as Azriel explained to the stuthe Open Door Mission’s Lydia House. The Nebraska dents on the last day of school, those contributions Humane Society was the choice of the fourth graders. would be given to Wings: Preparation for Life, the flagNot just places to go and things to do, these destina- ship project of Kivunim: New Directions for Special tions and the children’s performing troupe were select- Needs Youth in Israel, a non-profit organization dedied by Temple’s kids as cated to the progress and their tzedakah recipients. development of young Elyce Azriel, director of people, who live in the education at Temple Galilee, and have disabiliIsrael, gave the classes ties. The first program of ideas for tzedakah projits kind in Israel, Wings ects “to get them startfocuses on these young ed,� she said. Her suggespeople’s capabilities and tions led to further disstrengths and helps them cussion in the classrooms. learn to live independentSometimes the children ly as they enter adultdecided on a beneficiary hood. related to their grade A bomb shelter will be level curriculum. For completed for the apartexample, part of the secment building where the ond grade curriculum young people in the focused on being kind to Temple Israel religious school students’ tzedakah boxes are empty Wings program. A gift of animals, and the class now, but they were full of donations destined for local as well as $3,200 was donated by voted to donate their international recipients. the Temple Israel tzedakah to Gifford Farm Education Center, a 400-acre Religious School, Tot Shabbat, and other sources. The working farm in Bellevue.

Religious School portion of the money represents the Azriel explained that donating tzedakah on a weekly undesignated tzedakah given by the students. basis “is a stepping stone for the children’s futures on Stacey Rockman, Omaha’s chair of Partnership for how to give, not just to receive.�

Israel, said, “The safe room at the new Wings apartment Max Gendler, who is ten, said tzedakah is important, is a necessity. Without it, these young adults are really in “so we can help others who don’t have very much. We a quandary as they do not have the speed, mobility, and want everyone to live a good life,� the fifth grader time to get to another shelter. The combination of many explained. He added that it makes him “feel good to sources, including the state of Israel, (the Great Plains give tzedakah.�

Hanukkah) Concert last year, and this tzedakah money�

Incoming ninth grader, Emily Katz, 14, believes all contributed to the bomb shelter construction which “tzedakah is important, because it helps out people who began in early June. “As a community, we should be are less fortunate than ourselves.� And besides, “It’s the very proud of our persistence that made this a reality.�

Nathan Englander, author of The Ministry of Special Cases, is tentatively scheduled to be in Omaha during Jewish Book Month on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m., in the JCC Theater.

In Roth’s book, it is America, the very embodiment of Jewish security and prosperity over the last 60 years, whose veneer of safety turns out to have a nasty underbelly. Now the idea has been transplanted to Englander's Argentina and Chabon’s Alaska. “Moving the Jewish story out of greater New York and Israel and putting it in Alaska is one of the ways these writers are keeping things fresh,� said Mark Oppenheimer, senior book critic for the Forward. “They’re just moving it into different places, either chronologically in time or geographically.�

But while Chabon, especially, owes a debt to Roth, neither he nor Englander present a life or death scenario for the Jews on par with the Holocaust. Without their Alaskan homeland or their beloved son, both the Poznans and the Jews of Sitka will be diminished, but will persevere. Still, the works reflect a well-developed sense of the tragic, even though both authors came of age at a time when Jewish civilization was not perched on the edge of annihilation. “I don’t think Chabon feels much for Jewish neuroses in the sense that Roth does,� Oppenheimer said. “But we’re living in a time when there’s a lot of anti-Semitism.

Look at England with the boycott. Listen to what Ahmadinejad in Iran is saying. I don’t think that we’re on the verge of another Holocaust. But the theme is still there. What’s amazing is that these writers have managed to mine it in new ways that feel very fresh.�

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