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by ANNETTE VAN DE and, of course, the Riekes KAMP-WRIGHT Museum will now offer Editor of the Jewish Press greater visibility to our If you haven’t walked members and guests.” through the front door The move is scheduled to of the Jewish Combe finalized August 15, in munity Center lately, time for students to return you might be surprised to school and find a classat what you find. room in its place. One final Instead of a quiet lobby tour of the museum is with a place to sit, read planned for August 2, when the paper and wait for an ADL/CRC group will your children to get tour the space. When that out of dance class, tour is completed, all items there are now signs of will be temporarily stored pending change. And in the community room, to it’s a big change: the eventually be placed in the Riekes Museum is new space. moving from Friedel The move of the Riekes Museum is a big part of the Jewish Academy to the overall campus improveJCC front entrance. ments; what is striking “The relocation of about it is how many differthe Riekes Museum to ent departments are the main entrance of Jewish Federation of Omaha President Jody Malashock, left, Nebraska Jewish Historical Society campus is a culminainvolved, and are commitPresident Sue Millward, Jewish Community Center President Mike Siegel, Friedel Jewish Academy tion of months of ted to working together.

President Harry Berman, Center for Jewish Life President Bonnie Bloch, Building and Grounds strategic planning,” The move impacts everyCommittee Chair Mark Martin and Steve Riekes. says Mark Martin, one, and there is a strong Chair of the Jewish Federation of museum provides new opportuni- much needed classroom space, the feeling of excitement about the projOmaha Building and Grounds ties for many departments. The library space and the Center for ect.

Committee. “The re-location of the Friedel Jewish Academy will gain Jewish Life will be re-configured, Continued on page 2

All work and no play... Nebraska Holocaust For Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, art is a window into secret life Page 12

by OZZIE NOGG The Jewish Federation Staff Pool Party and BBQ Picnic is scheduled for Sunday, Aug. 5. The Jewish Community Center outdoor pool

Shelly Spencer, an LPN at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, is one of the picnic planners. “A highlight of the event will be ‘Tony from Complete Music’ with the latest

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by MARY BORT Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation Did you know that there is a Holocaust memorial in Nebraska?

Do you know where it is? Have you visited the memorial?

According to Jewish Federation of Omaha (JFO) President Jody Malashock, “On our recent visit to the memorial, our community leaders had the chance to visit this beautiful site that is dedicated to those who perished in the

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Last year’s employee party was a huge success. will close to JCC members at 4 p.m.; the building will close at 4:30 p.m.; and the festivities will run from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The event is sponsored by Barbara and Bob Goodman.

dance tunes, games and poolside entertainment -- all guaranteed to get people up on their feet and involved in the fun,” Spencer said.

“Picnickers will also be treated to burgers and hotdogs with all the trimmings supplied by the Star Deli kitchen. “Employees and their families are in for a wonderful time,” Spencer said. Other JCC staff members working on picnic arrangements are Maggie Conti, Director of Activities and Outreach Programs Jewish Social Services/Rose Blumkin Jewish Home; Shelly Fox, Social Services Admissions; Esther Katz, JCC Cultural Arts Director; Continued on page 2

Sam Fried was instrumental in creating the memorial, seen behind him.

Lay and professional leadership of Omaha’s Jewish community recently met at the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial for a program designed to highlight the importance of the site to the community.

The Nebraska Holocaust Memorial is located at Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln. Wyuka is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

Holocaust as well as the liberators and survivors. Sam Fried shared his passion and vision to perpetuate understanding and awareness of the Holocaust for generations to come. It was truly an extraordinary experience. As president of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, I would like to thank Frances and Sam Fried for their continued Continued on page 2

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Riekes museum to move Continued from page 1 For many years, the Riekes Museum has been a fixture at FJA. A great place for the students to learn to pray, speak their first words in Hebrew, experience what it means to be Jewish. It is so much more than a synagogue; it is a piece of Jewish Omaha history, lovingly maintained by the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society.

However, Friedel needs more space. The school continues to grow, and moving the museum to another part of the building will provide the school with that classroom space. “We have outgrown our building,� says Harry Berman, President of FJA’s Board of Directors, “and we are very happy that through this project we are able create more room for our kids. Of course, once the museum is relocated, our students will continue to use it, since all they have to do is walk down the hall. We are extremely excited to get more space, while at the same time making the museum more accessible to the rest of the community. It will make a fantastic entrance to the JCC.�

Bonnie Bloch, Board President of the Center for Jewish Life, is excited the agency is a part of the move: “At first glance,� she says, “the impact of the relocation of the Riekes Museum may appear to be a loss of square footage to the Kripke Federation Library. But this move is an exciting opportunity for the Library, CJL, and the Historical Society to enhance Jewish programs and learning. The new accessibility of this beautiful museum will increase what we can offer as the Center for Jewish Life strives to maximize

involvement of the Jewish community in imaginative, compelling and meaningful Jewish experiences.�

Mike Siegel, President of the JCC Board of Directors, agrees: “This brings a level of excitement to the Jewish Community Center. Few people currently have access to the Riekes Museum, and I imagine there are community members who have never been inside. Relocating it means that the history will be visible to the community, it will create a centerpiece for all of us. Imagine the welcome it will present once it has been moved.�

Sue Millward, President of the Nebraska Jewish Historical Society Board of Directors has a similar view. “We are very happy with the increased visibility at the new location,� she says. “This move provides a great opportunity to share this treasure with the community. In its new location, the museume will be accessible to and shared by the entire community, and that is a great thing; we should all be very proud of the Riekes Museum.� “With the relocation of the Riekes Museum to a prominent location on our campus, we fondly remember all Dorothy and Henry Riekes have done for us and for that commitment to the Jewish Community. They have been instrumental in passing on our heritage and traditions to the next generation,� says Jewish Federation of Omaha President Jody Malashock. “We are very grateful to the Riekes family for being an integral part of this new project.

This is truly continuing the legacy.�

Nebraska Holocaust Memorial Continued from page 1 efforts in the area of Holocaust and genocide education.�

The Frieds founded the Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund (HHEF) of the JFO Foundation. The HHEF supports and maintains the memorial. Generous donations made it possible to establish the site, which was built without state funding. “We wanted to provide an opportunity for leaders in our community to visit the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial because a number of them know about the site but have not had a chance to travel to Lincoln and visit it,� explained Mike Silverman, JFO Chief Executive Officer. “Upon arrival, it was clear to everyone that the memorial is a special place that is linked to our community. I know that people were profoundly moved by what they experienced.�

A program was held after attendees explored the site.

Malashock welcomed everyone and spoke of the importance of the memorial to the community.

Gary Hill, volunteer Managing Director of the memorial, said it was dedicated in 2007 after a group of people from Omaha and Lincoln, including Sam Fried, worked for three years to create a Holocaust memorial in Nebraska. He noted that Wyuka was chosen as the location for the site because it is the State Cemetery for Nebraska.

Hill explained the layout of the site that includes the “Sea of Stones� representing the millions murdered during the Holocaust, Star of Remembrance sculpture, memorial bricks, Wall of Remembrance, plaques, Children’s Butterfly Garden and more.

Sam Fried was the keynote speaker. He thanked those who created the memorial. Fried also expressed gratitude to attendees, HHEF board and charter members, Wyuka’s staff and board, Gary Hill, Alan Simon, Jerry Kohll, Yale Gotsdiner, JFO Foundation Executive Director Marty Ricks, the Jewish Federation of Lincoln, and all the individuals who donated or gave their time in support of the memorial.

Fried’s speech included a compelling “bricks and mor-

tar� theme. At Auschwitz, he saw chimney stacks made of bricks and mortar, and the smoke of victims who were murdered, including his family. Yet bricks and mortar were also used to create the beautiful Nebraska Holocaust Memorial, designed to enrich the souls of generations to come. “It’s just bricks and mortar until we, as human beings, decide not only the path we choose to follow, but the roads we choose to build,� he said.

Fried also spoke about the bystanders of the Holocaust. “Without bystanders, this could not have occurred,� he explained. “This memorial is about memories of the past for the benefit of the future, honoring the victims, recognizing the liberators and celebrating the resilience of our people,� continued Fried. “The voices of the survivors and liberators will be silenced by the passing of time. It is up to future generations to remember that people stood by while millions of other people were murdered.� “We laid the groundwork, using bricks and mortar, to create this important place and now look to the community to ensure that the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial will continue in perpetuity,� he said.

Rabbi Jonathan Gross shared a Biblical story about establishing a memorial and offered a prayer for the occasion. Malashock ended the program by thanking the Frieds and others involved with the memorial. Afterwards, the group went to Tifereth Israel Synagogue to enjoy a meal provided by Star Catering. “Frances and I are so pleased that leaders from Omaha’s Jewish community visited the memorial and look forward to seeing future Omaha programming involving the site,� noted Fried. “We believe that everyone in our community should see and support the memorial.�

For more information about visiting the memorial or to arrange a tour, contact Hill at 402.420.0602 or Garyhill@cega.com. If you would like to support the site, contact the HHEF at 402.334.6459 or email mbort@holocausteducationfund.org.

Campus employee pool party Continued from page 1 Jenn Kirshenbaum, HR Specialist; Kathy McGauvran, JCC Customer Service Director; Tracy Modra, Member Services Supervisor; and Laura Wine, JCC Registrar.

Last year -- in appreciation for the care she received during a month of physical rehabilitation at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home -- Barbara Goodman and her husband, Bob, established the Robert L. and Barbara J. Goodman Donor Advised Fund at the Jewish Federation Foundation to underwrite an annual event for the staff at the RBJH. “What we did is not unusual for families in our very caring Jewish

Community,� Bob Goodman said at the time. “We discussed a few options with Marty Ricks and Mike Silverman and decided that sponsoring a campus-wide employee picnic at the JCC was a great idea. Through our Fund, we hope to keep providing something enjoyable, every year, for the staff that treated Barbara so well during her stay at the Blumkin Home.� “This picnic is a great way for the Federation extended family to enjoy time together,� said Mike Silverman, Omaha Federation CEO. “We all thank Bob and Barbara Goodman for providing this program for those who work on Campus.�

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Strangers to hate crimes, Bulgarian Calling all Omaha Jewish authors Jews reeling from Burgas bombing

by CNAAN LIPHSHIZ AND SVETLANA increased its security arrangements in GUINEVA February, following warnings from the local SOFIA, Bulgaria (JTA) -- After the suicide Israeli Embassy, according to Martin Levi, bombing of a bus carrying Israeli tourists in vice chairman of the Jewish community in the Black Sea city of Borgas, Jews in the Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital. Among other meascountry are speaking of a basic change in ures, security at the entrances to the comtheir sense of security. munity building in Wednesday’s exploSofia and other Jewish sion outside Sarafovo institutions were Airport in Burgas tightened. Bulgarian killed six Israeli authorities had been tourists, a Bulgarian made aware of the bus driver and the warnings, he said. suspected suicide That came in the wake bomber. More than 30 of the discovery by Israelis were injured.

Bulgarian authorities The Israelis had just of a bomb on a charter arrived on a charter bus for Israelis that was flight from Israel. heading to a Bulgarian Maxim Benvenisti, ski resort from the president of the Turkish border.

Israeli ZAKA emergency rescue team examOrganization of Jews “We took the alerts ining the remains of the bus at the scene of in Bulgaria, said that seriously and upped the terrorist attack in Burgas, Bulgaria, July three years ago the security, but the 19, 2012. community had draftBulgarian authorities Credit: Dano Monkotovic/FLASH90/JTA ed emergency plans to were dismissive,” Levi respond to potential terror attacks. “We dis- said. “Some argued Bulgaria was immune cussed such scenarios. But we see that it’s because it had such excellent relations and one thing to discuss them, and it’s another to cultural attachment to Muslim populations. see the scenario happening before your I am deeply disappointed in how the authoreyes,” he told JTA. Bevenisti said security ities handled this.” measures will now be tightened. “The situaSome observers are worried that the tion needs to be improved,” he said. attack could have negative repercussions for Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev said the generally positive relations between Wednesday that at a meeting a month ago, Bulgaria’s Jews and Muslims. Approx-imatewith representatives of the Mossad, Israel’s ly 8 percent of Bulgaria’s 7 million people are foreign intelligence service did not warn Muslim, the vast majority of them ethnic Bulgarian officials of the possibility of a ter- Turks. rorist attack.

Bulgaria has an estimated 3,500 to 5,700 Bulgaria’s Jewish community had Jews.

by MARK KIRCHHOFF Administrative Assistant, Center for Jewish Life Calling all Omaha Jewish authors! Calling all Omaha Jewish authors! Your craft has been recognized, and you are being invited to step into the spotlight at the Jewish Community Center.

This year marks the 87th Anniversary of an exhibit that evolved into the National Jewish Book Month, and the Center for Jewish Life wishes to present the talent and diversity of our own Omaha authors as part of the activities for the month. Over the years these authors have produced scholarly writings, books that chronicle local history, novels, light entertainment, cookbooks, and children’s books.

The Kripke Jewish Federation Library has many of these materials in its collection, and now CJL is looking to provide the community with the opportunity to meet the authors and hear about their writing directly from them. This is an open invitation for any Omaha Jewish author to express interest in participating in a “meet, greet, and discuss” type of event. We envision a relaxed, casual, informative gathering that continues the rich tradition of Jewish Book Month.

In 1925, Fanny Goldstein, a librarian at the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library, set up an exhibit of Judaic books and used it as a focus for what she called Jewish Book Week. In 1927, with the assistance of Rabbi S. Felix Mendelsohn of Chicago, the event was adopted by communities around the country. During its first fifteen years, the annual date of the program coincided with the holiday of Lag B’Omer, traditionally regarded as a scholars’ festival.

In 1940, the event was moved to the days and weeks preceding Chanukah in order to

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Today, Jewish Book Month remains an annual event coordinated by the Jewish Book Council, dedicated to the celebration of Jewish books. Because it is observed during the month preceding Chanukah, the

exact date changes each year.

CJL is putting out the call for Omaha Jewish author participation far in advance, hoping to accommodate schedules for as many authors as possible within the November/December time frame. The initial plans are to hold a reception followed by a panel discussion with the authors as participants. Informal discussions would follow, either as one-on-one conversations or small group interactions. Book-signing opportunities would be a part of the event.

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Cross country Bikers for Friendship arriving in Omaha

by RABBI LEIBEL BAUMGARTEN for Chabad Center of Nebraska Thirteen bikers riding from Los Angeles to New York City are set to arrive in Omaha on Friday, July 27. The group is taking the 3,279 mile journey to raise funds and awareness for The Friendship Circle, a global initiative founded by Chabad-Lubavitch, which pairs teenage volunteers with special needs children, giving them the gift of love, care and friendship. The bikers, whose grueling journey began on July 1, ride an average of 85 miles per day and will pass through more than a dozen states, with stops in Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, Cleveland and more.

In Omaha, the riders will be hosted for Shabbat at the Chabad Center. Community members are invited to meet and greet the riders who have trained for months to achieve this goal. The unlikely crew includes Rabbis, rabbinical students and others who were touched by the work of

Friendship Circle and wished to make a difference.

Rabbi Mendel Katzman, Director of the Chabad Center, along with Tom Fellman and Larry Gilinsky, avid bikers and community members, recently formed their own biking troupe, The Chai O Riders. While the long bearded Hassidic Rabbi may seem an “unorthodox” choice for biking partner, Katzman says riding goes hand in hand with a religious lifestyle. “We have a holistic outlook toward life, Judaism and spirituality. A healthy body and healthy mind lead to a healthy you.”

Katzman says that biking carries a profound spiritual lesson. “In life, just like when you are on that bike, you have to keep moving to stay upright. It’s when you stop progressing, that’s when you run the risk of falling.”

For more information, or to meet or interview the riders, please contact Chani at the Chabad Center of Nebraska, 402.330.1800 or chani@ochabad.com.

Rabbi Azriel returns from Israel with renewed faith

by DAVID GOLBITZ Temple Israel staff writer During the first two weeks of July, clergy from around the world--Reform, Conservative and Orthodox--gathered in Jerusalem at the Shalom Hartman Institute for a series of lectures and discussions about faith in modern society.

Temple Israels Rabbi Aryeh Azriel was among them.

The program, titled “Dilemmas of Faith: God and Spirituality in the Modern World,” was part of an annual series held at SHI known as the Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar, which, according to the SHI website, “enriches rabbis of all denominations and nurtures their capacity to inspire their communities, excite them by the Jewish tradition, and motivate them in their quest for meaning.”

Rabbi Azriel returned to Omaha invigorated and eager to share what he learned at the seminar.

“It definitely created interesting topics for preaching for the high holidays,” he said.

Lectures that Rabbi Azriel attended had titles like “Faith and Ambivalence” and “The State of Faith in North American Jewry,” topics which resonated deeply with him.

“Faith, this topic is so, so important in, I think, a generation that is faithless,” Rabbi Azriel said.

As one of about 150 rabbis, Rabbi Azriel enjoyed engaging with and debating clergy from other parts of the world, something he doesn’t have much opportunity for at home, given Nebraska’s relatively small Jewish population.

“This is not a state or a city that is saturated with rabbis and colleagues,” Rabbi Azriel said, “so for me, going there is about connecting to friends, to rabbis, to other people.”

The seminar is set up “like a yeshiva,” Rabbi Azriel said.

Each morning, the clergy would gather at 8:30 for a half hour introduction to that day’s topic, after which they would break up into smaller groups of four and discuss the reading material.

“We have tables, it’s in the library, and we sit across the way from each other and study like a yeshiva, when you study nonstop, you read the material, you ask questions,” he said.

The smaller groups come back together after about an hour and a half and that day’s speaker lectures and leads a question and answer session. After lunch, which is hosted on the SHI campus, there are different panels to attend, many of which didn’t end until 10 o’clock at night.

“And you don’t go to sleep, because at night, late at night, you talk about what is successful at each other’s congregation, what programs work,” Rabbi Azriel said.. “It’s like a big brainstorm for two weeks.”

But the early mornings and sleepless nights didn’t bother Rabbi Azriel. He relished the opportunity to learn with his fellow clergy.

“I think a rabbi who stops learning and studying after he’s ordained or she’s ordained is useless,” Rabbi Azriel said. “I think if we don’t continue to study we become stale.

“This congregation understood from the moment they hired me 24 years ago that I need to continue [to study] and they pushed me,” Rabbi Azriel continued. “They created the right funds for me to be able to continue going to programs, educational programs, that are transformative. This is a transformative program. When you come out of it, you’re different, because of the intensity.”

Being able to attend programs like the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Rabbinic Torah Study Seminar “is a gift,” Rabbi Azriel said. A gift he looks forward to sharing with the Temple Israel congregation as well as with clergy and members from other Omaha ministries.

“I will definitely engage clergy from other denominations,” he said. “It will be fascinating to go into dialogues with clergy or with lay people about faith from their perspective.”

Rabbi Azriel also wants to introduce faith into the lives of Temple Israel members away from the synagogue. He wants to show that practicing your faith is not contingent solely upon attending services once a week, that there are other ways to have faith that don’t necessarily involve prayer.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 20 Wrestling w/Rabbis of the Talmud, 10 a.m. at Beth El Torah Teleconference Class with Rabbi Gross, 10:30 a.m.

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BESTT School Board Meetings, 7 p.m. at Beth El WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22 A Guide to the High Holidays with Rabbi Brown, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel Rabbi Weiss’s Weekly Class, 7:45 p.m. at Beth Israel THURSDAY, AUGUST 23 Adult Study with with Rabbi Azriel, 10 a.m. Temple Israel 11th Annual Jewish Omaha Film Festival, 7 p.m.

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by DAVID GOLBITZ progress, much of the new content will be available upon Temple Israel staff writer launch, including a blog, photo albums and a calendar filled In addition to building a new physical home, Temple with events.

Israel staff have been busy creating a new virtual home as Another new feature is the cookbook, The Missing well. Chosen to take part in a Union for Reform Judaism Ingredient, sponsored by the Temple Israel’s Women of pilot program, Temple Israel has been designing a new web- Reform Judaism. Now online and searchable, The Missing site that promises more Ingredient is full of recipes functionality and ease-ofcontributed by congreuse than its predecessor. gants in honor and memoOffered as a benefit of ry of their loved ones.

URJ membership, the new Congregation members website features a streamwill also be able to sign in lined interface and to the Chavarware dataenhanced interactivity in base and manage their the hopes of providing a personal information. more enjoyable experience Keep an eye on your inbox that both congregants and for your invitation. staff have been asking for.

The Cantor’s Classroom “The old website was will also be new and more of a process to get improved, with a database things done, to add photos of audio files of prayers and any sort of media, it was and blessings, as well as more of a pain,” said Temple Torah and Haftorah porIsrael Graphic Designer tions in place of the CD Cassandra Hicks. “Putting The redesigned Temple Israel website will make it easier than Cantor Shermet has been content on the [new] web- ever to stay connected to the congregation. giving to B’nai Mitzvahs. site, and changing it, it’s going to be quicker and easier to do.” There will also be .pdf files of the prayers in both Hebrew The Union for Reform Judaism contacted Temple Israel and transliterated English. about eight months ago, Hicks said.

And there will be a World Jewry section full of news from “We were chosen as one of a handful of congregations to Israel and around the world. try out their new web design program,” Hicks said.

Perhaps most exciting will be the cameras set up at the Dubbed WebBuilder 2.0 and developed by Whole construction site of the new Temple Israel. You’ll be able to Megillah, a web-based design firm that specializes in Jewish watch the progress via weekly photo updates as the building organizations, the template for Temple Israel’s new website is slowly comes together. wholly customizable and adaptable to the congregation’s Be sure to check the website frequently for updated inforneeds thanks to the Joomla content management system. mation about the religious school, adult education and the But before that could happen, the staff had to learn how, high holidays as fall approaches. exactly, Joomla worked.

And the website isn’t the only thing getting a facelift.

“It was a process to learn the new software,” Hicks said. Temple Israel’s weekly electronic newsletter, eTidings, also “I’d never used it before. That was a little bit of a challenge, boasts a new look to better match the design of the website. getting used to it... but once I got used to that, it was a lot This redesigned eTidings will provide information about easier and a lot faster to put it together, and all the changes lifecycle events, members in the news, as well as celebrate you wanted to make could be done quickly.” members who volunteer their time and contribute to The URJ has been instrumental in assisting Temple Israel Temple Israel’s endowment. staff in learning how to use the new software. Hicks has Comments and suggestions are welcome as Temple Israel been in almost daily contact with Jared Shih, the URJ Web continues to grow and evolve. And if you have any personal Help Desk Assistant. news you’d like to share, contact Program Director Wendy “I’ll try my best to figure what the answer is, but sometimes Goldberg at wgoldberg@templeisraelomaha.com or feel free I don’t know what’s going on, and so I’ll contact him and he’ll to post a comment to the Facebook page or Twitter account. usually reply that day or the next day,” Hicks said. “He’ll go in To check out the new-look website, visit www.temple and figure out what went wrong and how to fix it and then israelomaha.com and while you’re there, be sure to sign up we can get right back on track. ...They’ve been very helpful.” to receive the weekly eTidings, too, if you aren’t already While some features of the new website are still works-in- receiving it.

It’s all about the fun during Beth El’s Family Fun Day

by JILL BELMONT Beth El Publicity Coordinator Before the school bells ring, marking the symbolic end of summer, Beth El is inviting all congregants to enjoy the second annual end-of-the-season Family Fun Day on Sunday, Aug. 5, at the Jewish Community Center’s outdoor pavilion. The 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. event is being sponsored by the synagogue’s Men’s Club and Sisterhood.

Organizers encourage attendees to pack up their baseball

mitts, Frisbees, soccer and volleyballs, hula hoops, swimsuits and towels (for running through the sprinklers), and lawn chairs for the day of fun and games; a picnic lunch will also be served. Cost to attend is $5 per person, or $18 per family.

To RSVP and pay online, visit www.bethel-omaha.org (type “Family Fun Day” into search box); reservations may also be made by contacting the synagogue office at 402.492.8550, or programming@bethel-omaha.org.

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Mainstreeters August programs are hot

by OZZIE NOGG Mainstreeters never runs out of fun ideas to fill your calendar. Check out these August events: Take Me Out to the Ballgame: Thursday, Aug. 2.

Game begins at 7:05 p.m. Come see the Omaha Storm Chasers battle the Reno Aces at the new Werner Park stadium in Papillion. Take advantage of the free transportation sponsored by Jewish Social Services. Depart from the JCC by school bus at 6 p.m. Return to the JCC by approximately 10 p.m. Cost is $7.00 per person for game admission. Reservations must be in by Monday, July 27. Make check payable to Jewish Social Services. Send reservation with full payment to: MAINSTREETERS, c/o Maggie Conti, 323 So 132nd Street, Omaha, NE 68154. Dinner will be on your own. Choose from all the excellent food venders at the ball park including Omaha Steaks, La Mesa, Famous Dave’s and The Reuben Sandwich -- an Omaha original. For more information call Harry Alloy at 402.697.8709.

This will be a fun night!

Annual Summer Picnic: Sunday, Aug. 12. 1 - 3:30 p.m. at Chalco Hills Recreation Area. 154 & Giles Road. Once again, we’ll party in the Nature Resources Center, indoors with air conditioning. Musical selections by Joe Taylor, Mr Memories. In just a few short years (Joe began singing in 1994) this local vocalist went from store owner to full-time entertainer. Over 3,000 shows in 12 years and seven CDs to his credit, and Joe is still going strong. Not bad for a guy in his early 70s. His greatest joy is bringing back memories through songs that seem to bring smiles and laughter to those who need them the most. An afternoon with Joe is always a hit. Picnic main course of Boston Market Rotisserie Chicken plus is provided for $6 per person. Please bring a side dish to share. If your last name begins with the letter A through G bring a dessert. Letter H through Z bring a salad.

Thanks in advance! Reservations needed by Friday, Aug. 3.

Make checks payable to Jewish Social Services and send full payment to: Mainstreeters c/o Maggie Conti, 323 So. 132 Street, Omaha, NE 68154. For information call Maggie Conti at 402.334.6521. A special thank you to Ilse and Marcel Kahn for chairing this event.

The Art of Percussion with Michael Fitzsimmons: Monday, Aug. 20, 12:30 p.m. Lunch in the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home Auditorium. Percussionist Michael Fitzsimmons is an award winning composer and performance/recording artist with Dancing Man Music. Michael is a solo artist with the Nebraska Arts Council’s Touring Program, performing in schools, communities, and corporate settings. As a master teaching artist with University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Arts

Are Basic, and a resident teaching artist with Nebraska Arts Council, Fitzsimmons provides programs for music and story as a way of learning. Come dance to drums, flutes and whistles from around the world. For your entree, choose either Fried Chicken or Baked Cod, both served with potato salad, cole slaw, challah roll, cookies plus coffee and tea.

Cost is $11.50 a plate. Make checks payable to Jewish Social Services and send full payment to: Mainstreeters c/o Maggie Conti, 323 So. 132 Street, Omaha, NE 68154. Reservations are appreciated by Monday, Aug. 13. For information call Maggie Conti at 402.334.6521.

A Free Afternoon at the Movies: We Bought a Zoo featuring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. Friday, Aug. 24. 1 p.m. in the JCC Theater. Complimentary popcorn -- warm and delicious -- will be served. No reservations necessary.

Invite a friend. Benjamin has lost his wife. In a bid to start his life over, he purchases a large house that has a zoo. This is welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper, Kelly, and the rest of the zoo staff. But, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble. The staff must get the zoo back to its former glory, pass a zoo inspection, and get it back open to the public. This film is based on a true story. If you’d like to enjoy a Star Deli lunch at the Blumkin Home before the show, call Maggie Conti at 402.334.6521 to reserve a table. Lunch is on your own. The Star Deli opens for business at 11:30 a.m.

Mainstreeters welcomes all Jewish residents of the Omaha area age 60 plus. The group offers a mixed bag of social events and learning opportunities that give participants the chance to meet new people, exercise their brains, take part in new activities and continue enjoying life to the fullest.

According to Maggie Conti, Director of Activities and Outreach Programs at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, “Mainstreeters continues to offer diverse programs every month, and we invite community members to join the August excitement.”

Births Inessa and Vadim Pesetsky of Harrisburg, SD, announce the July 11 birth of their daughter, Josephine Arianna.

She has a brother, James Allen, and a sister, Julianna Amber.

Grandparents are Margarita and Mark Libov, and Sophia and Ed Pesetsky.

Sarah and Yosef Seigel of Brooklyn, N.Y announce the May 21 birth of their daughter, Ella Miriam, who is named after Sarah’s maternal great-great grandmother.

Grandparents are Dinah Abrahamson, and Eliza and Dovid Seigel of Monsey, N.Y.

Organizations B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS Stephanie Reis, Nebraska coordinator for the best-selling author Brigitte Gabriel, who survived 10 years of the Lebanese Civil War. Reis will discuss radical Islam on Wednesday, Aug. 1, noon at the Blumkin Home. An optional buffet lunch costs $11; beverage service only is $3.

For more information or to be placed on the email list call 402.334.6443 or bnaibrith@jewishomaha.org.

LOMIR REDN YIDDISH It has been said that Yiddish doesn’t only have words, it also has an attitude. Leo Rosten wrote “Yiddish never takes its tongue out of its cheeks!” Come join us at the Rose Bumkin home’s Boardroom, at 1-3 p.m., every Thursday.

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Our caregivers provide any combination of these tasks: personal care, transportation, meal preparation, medication reminders, companionship, respite care, errand service, light housekeeping.

Transportation is one of CSS’ services that is uniquely different than what other agencies offer. Many of our clients utilize this specific service for a variety of different needs. As we age, it’s normal for our driving abilities to change. By reducing risk factors and incorporating safe driving practices, many of us can continue driving safely long into our senior years. But we do have to pay attention to any warning signs that age is interfering with our driving safety and make appropriate adjustments.

Even if you need to reduce your driving or give up the keys, it doesn’t have to mean the end of your independence. Seeking alternative methods of transportation can offer health and social benefits, as well as a welcome change of pace to life.

For example, one of our clients goes to dialysis 3 times a week. Our caregiver picks him up at 5:30 a.m. to be at his dialysis appointment at 6 a.m. This is a win-win situation for our client, as he is able to receive the medical treatment he needs, and this also relieves the family of worrying about their father driving to and from dialysis. Many of our clients enjoy the ability to be able to keep up with their daily tasks with the help of CSS. Driving is a symbol of freedom. When we lose the ability to drive on our own, this doesn’t mean we can’t get out and do the things we once did.

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by ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Editor of the Jewish Press Few things excite me more than the news. That goes for any news, whether it is local, cable television, various newspapers around the world, or through an email. I love it when my iPhone tells me things as soon as they happen. I’ve never met a breaking news logo I didn’t love; I’ve been known to watch the same bit three times in a row. We own just one TV, so this drives my children up the wall; asking to watch something, only to be told: “No, I have to see the news.” Which they subsequently watch with me, out of pure desperation.

The fact that my seven-year-old can name every single 2012 Republican presidential candidate is probably a sign of how bad it gets. Adding fuel to the fire, it’s an election year.

What’s not to love?

Funny you should ask.

Over the past week, the Israeli coalition went bust when Kadima walked out. The Syrian Minister of Defense, his deputy, and President al-Assad's security adviser and assistant vice president were killed. In Bulgaria, a suicide bomber attacked a bus full of Israeli tourists; five people died instantly, 33 ended up in the hospital. Netanyahu accused Iran of being behind it. A Nazi criminal was arrested in Hungary.

India blacklisted Israel Military Industries for the next 10 years, and a protester in Tel Aviv set himself on fire and later died. The U.S. government issued a worldwide safety caution to U.S. citizens abroad based on increased terrorist threats, and crew and passengers on four Delta flights from Amsterdam to Minneapolis discovered needles in their food.

Two girls went missing in Iowa, our country is suffering its worst drought in 50 years, and George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity he’d “do it all over again.” In the meantime, 12 people died in an Aurora, CO movie theater during Batman’s opening night.

Plenty of news to pick from. And yet, it’s all being drowned out by the endless talk about Presidential candidate Mitt

Romney’s tax returns. He has released some. He won’t release any more. He’s released them in the hope of becoming VP in the past. His father released his, why won’t Mitt do the same? And so forth, and so on.

It sometimes seems as if the various news outlets follow the lead of those commercials we try so hard to tune out.

Talking points and mudslinging wherever you turn, and all the important news will just have to take a back seat. And yes, I am aware I have ranted about this before.

But it remains an important issue. Because the more time we spend on yakking about those tax returns, the less we pay attention to the really important stuff. Any Presidential candidate, whether incumbent or challenger, should speak to the nation about what is happening in Syria. Comment on Hillary Clinton’s very interesting visit to Egypt and the outcome of the recent Egyptian elections, discuss why it is that the peace process in Israel is perpetually stalling and what they plan to do about it.

Let’s talk about the pending expiration date of all the Bush tax cuts, or about the status of defense spending. Maybe we can have a discussion about what’s going on with our veterans. How are they doing, all those heroes who went to Iraq and Afghanistan to fight for the rest of us? Why are they not in the news? We are all proud of them, but pride from the country doesn’t pay the bills or help with bad memories.

I have an idea. The Presidential debates are sched-

uled to begin October 3.

I would like to propose we move that date up by a month or two. We stop talking about tax returns, and start discussing things that truly matter. I am not saying Romney’s taxes aren’t important, but right now they drive the discourse through their absence. So at the end of the day, we are talking about nothing.

Bring on the debates. Let’s hear what Romney has to say besides “I am not releasing any more tax returns.” Let’s discuss Syria or the Muslim Brotherhood. Let’s talk about defense spending, Social Security, education, starvation, the 2nd Amendment, and everything else that makes us uncomfortable. Let’s talk about the stuff that’s hard.

I’m not optimistic, though. No matter how loud I yell at the television, no one ever hears anything.

Iran is the problem, not Israel

Behind the headlines STEVEN WEIL NEW YORK (JTA) -- The third round of negotiations with Iran on its nuclear activities have failed, the latest and most severe round of sanctions against the economy of that country have gone into effect, and all eyes are turned to -- Israel.

Israel -- such a small piece of land should logically be ignored and forgotten. Israel is content to be the Jewish homeland that welcomes and absorbs people of all faiths.

She does not seek the world’s attention; she seeks the world’s persecuted and broken, and offers assistance and refuge. She does not ask for special treatment, but democratically asks for and grants rights, privileges and freedom to all of her citizens. Her one claim to fame is the disproportionate share she contributes to the world’s intellectual, scientific and cultural advancements. But she doesn’t want fanfare. All she wants is to live in peace with her neighbors.

Yet, time and again, little Israel is viewed front and center stage as an aggressor, an oppressor, an antagonist and the source of all the evil in the Middle East and beyond. Terror attacks, boycotts, divestments, sanctions, hate conferences and countless U.N. resolutions have been aimed at Israel, punishment for her “crime” of survival. The international community seems to thrive on making her government, her occupation, her military maneuvers, her self-defense and her pre-emptive strikes the problem.

But if Iran should achieve nuclear capability, Israel will be right in Tehran’s sites. Israel cannot be expected to be a sitting duck, and so Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and

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Defense Minister Ehud Barak have threatened a preemptive strike, much to the world’s chagrin.

The world should not be focused on whether Israel will attack Iran in a lifesaving effort to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear capabilities. Israel is not the problem. The world should be focused on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear capabilities. Not for Israel’s sake, but for the sake of the world.

A nuclear Iran would create an untenable situation and have devastating and incalculable effects on the world’s safety and economy. A nuclear Iran would cause the cost of oil to permanently skyrocket due to its ability to intimidate and control fellow members of OPEC. Iran will share nuclear technology with its proxies all over the world. Groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, which already have 50,000 rockets that we know of, could conduct nuclear terror activities anywhere, including in the United States.

Earlier this year, Jerome Hauer, commissioner of New York State’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, met with representatives of more than 60 Jewish institutions at the Orthodox Union. He expressed his greatest security concern: a “dirty bomb” hidden in a parked car that could instantly destroy thousands of lives.

Countries allied with Iran -- Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia -- also could gain from Iran’s nuclear capabilities and bring a nuclear threat closer to American shores. If Iran develops nuclear capabilities, it will set off a round of nuclear proliferation in the entire Middle East. To keep a balance of power, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and others will race to develop their own nuclear capabilities. A nuclear Middle East will inevitably lead to nuclear terrorism, and

nuclear terrorism is a game changer for the entire world.

In the 1930s, Winston Churchill was perceived as a warmonger for warning that military action needed to be taken against Hitler. But after World War I, the world was tired of fighting and instead engaged in capitulation and appeasement.

This emboldened Hitler and enabled him to follow through on what all along he told the world were his intentions.

The Iranians have not been shy about their intentions, either. They have used “talks” and “negotiations” for more than 20 years to cheat and deceive the West. They continue to push the envelope; every day they are closer to acquiring nuclear capabilities. Even as the so-called “technical experts” meet to keep negotiations alive, the centrifuges keep spinning.

Yes, we are tired after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yes, there will be dire consequences if we take military action against Iraq: oil prices will rise, sleeper cells will be roused. Pentagon war games have predicted that some American ships in the Persian Gulf will go down. But the world needs to have no doubts: not stopping Iran will pose the most devastating consequences of all.

Israel is at the most immediate risk due to its proximity to Iran. A nuclear Iran poses an existential threat to the Jewish state, which has limited capabilities to defend herself against such a nuclear attack. When Iran’s leaders and people say “death to Israel,” they are not engaged in mere bluster -- they mean it. As an Iranian general told Reuters recently, if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear installations, “They will hand us an excuse to wipe them off the face of the earth.”

Israel has too often been forced to defend herself alone against existential threats and she will do so now if Continued on page 9

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Re-examining the Jewish contributions to progressive reform

Behind the headlines PETER DREIER LOS ANGELES (JTA) - When it comes to the entertainment industry, Jewish participation is legendary. But much less emphasized is the remarkable impact that Jews have had on social reform and activism. The depth of those contributions must be re-examined, particularly at a time when some observers ponder the long-term viability of American Jewish life.

While only 3.6 percent of the nation’s population in the early 20th century -- and less than 2 percent today -- Jews have played and continue to play a disproportionately large role in the key social justice movements of the last and the present centuries.

In 1900, you were a dangerous dreamer to call for things such as women’s suffrage, laws protecting the environment and consumers, an end to lynching, the rights of workers, a progressive income tax, old-age insurance and more. Today such ideas are taken for granted. The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next.

Jews were among leaders and rank-and-file activists in all the great movements -- labor, civil rights and civil liberties, feminism, environmentalism, gay rights and the crusade against militarism. They have more than done their part in making America a more humane, democratic and inclusive country.

Take Rose Schneiderman, a fiery socialist union organizer. She was on the front lines of the Progressive Era battles against slums and sweatshops. So were settlement house pioneer Lillian Wald, Rabbi Stephen Wise and lawyer Louis Brandeis (later a Supreme Court justice), whose writings and legal activism helped tame the growing power of corporate monopolies. Victor Berger, an Austrian immigrant and in 1910 the country’s first Socialist congressman, introduced the first bill to provide old-age pensions. Eventually the idea was adopted in 1935 when President Franklin Roosevelt created Social Security.

Jewish social activism helped spearhead the early civil rights movement as well. In 1909, Joel Spingarn was a founder and then long-term president of the NAACP. Julius Rosenwald of Sears & Roebuck was a pioneer in the new field of progressive philanthropy. He endowed Jane Addams’

Iran is the problem Continued from page 8 necessary. This is Israel’s issue and Israel’s prerogative.

No one desires war, and that is why the most crippling sanctions to shut down the Iranian economy are now operative. However, if sanctions and international pressure fail, the world does not have the option of tolerating a nuclear Iran. We need to convey the message that Iran is the problem and not Israel. We need to articulate that no one dare confuse the victim with the perpetrator.

Unfortunately, many in the media and in other circles lack an understanding of the facts and a sense of moral clarity. We cannot allow a repeat of what happened in the 1930s. Our responsibility is to be as proactive as we can in helping to clarify where the problem lies, and to pray to the Almighty that the world does not have to endure a nuclear Iran.

Rabbi Steven Weil is executive vice president of the the Orthodox Union.

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Lear, folksingers Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, writers Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich and Studs Terkel, and social critics Paul Goodman, Howard Zinn, Frances Fox Piven and Jonathan Kozol -- gave voice to movements of dissent.

Community organizer Madeline Janis, founder of the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, helped catalyze the wave of local “living wage” laws (now in nearly 200 cities) and has built bridges between labor and environmental activists through campaigns to clean up the nation’s polluting ports. Likewise, SEIU union organizer Stephen Lerner led the most successful union organizing drive of the past two decades -- the Justice for Janitors campaign among lowwage immigrant workers. He also has forged links between the Occupy Wall Street movement and community and labor activists.

Jews also are among today’s most influential progressive opinion-shapers. They include writer Naomi Klein, columnists Paul Krugman of The New York Times, and Ezra Klein and Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post, Yale political scientist Jacob Hacker, Democracy Now host Amy Goodman, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Eli Pariser, an early leader of MoveOn.Org, pioneered the use of the Internet to foster political activism.

And let’s not forget recent progressive politicians such as City Council members Jackie Goldberg (Los Angeles) and Brad Lander (New York); Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vermont) and the late Sen. Paul Wellstone (Minnesota); and Congress members Barney Frank (Massachusetts), Steve Cohen (Tennessee), Bob Filner (California), Henry Waxman (California), Jerrold Nadler (New York), Jared Polis (Colorado), and Jan Schakowsky (Illinois), many of whom started their careers as grass-roots activists.

Since the early 1900s, these Jewish reformers joined others -- on picket lines and stages, and in newsrooms and political campaigns -- to move America in a more progressive direction. Like the Passover story, it is important to remind ourselves that people can overcome great obstacles and achieve great things if they have a vision and build movements that challenge the conventional ideas of their day.

Peter Dreier is a professor of politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His new book, The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame, was published recently by Nation Books.

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Hull House and Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, funded more than 5,000 schools for African Americans in the rural South, and supported the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee-based training center for labor and civil rights activists.

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, labor leaders Sidney Hillman, David Dubinsky and Ralph Helstein led battles for workers’ rights and economic reform, while composers Yip Harburg (Brother Can You Spare a Dime? and Over the Rainbow) and Aaron Copland (Fanfare for the Common Man), artist Ben Shahn and playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty) gave shape to radical ideas that caught the public’s imagination.

During the 1960s, Allard Lowenstein, along with AfricanAmerican organizer Bob Moses, created the Freedom Summer project, which brought more than 1,000 college students to the South to register black voters. About half of the white volunteers were Jews. Many of them -- including Barney Frank, Heather Booth and Vivian Rothstein -- pursued careers in activism and reform that have lasted into the 21st century.

Lowenstein, along with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, journalist I.F. Stone, critic Noam Chomsky and other Jews, gave voice to the rising tide of anti-Vietnam War sentiment.

Jews constituted at least one-third of the early leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, the leading campus antiwar organization.

When it came to modern feminism, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem and Andrea Dworkin were at the forefront. Likewise with gay rights, where San Francisco activist Harvey Milk, poet Alan Ginsberg, scientist Frank Kameny and writer Larry Kramer helped catalyze the movement in the 1970s, a tradition continued today by playwright Tony Kushner.

Today, a new generation of Jewish activists and thinkers, few of them well-known, is extending this tradition.

Business social activists Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s) and George Soros are among those who are continuing the social justice philanthropy tradition started by Rosenwald and Boston merchant Edward Filene in the early 1900s.

A 1970 Time cover story called scientist Barry Commoner the “Paul Revere of ecology.” Jews in the arts and the academy -- including playwright Arthur Miller, filmmakers Sidney Lumet and Stanley Kramer, TV producer Norman

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Well... turns out Jewish summer camps have had the secret ingredient all along -- gaga. So says The New York Times in this report: Believed to have originated in Israel, the game -- which translates to “touch, touch” in Hebrew -- has been a standby of Jewish summer camps and community centers in the United States since at least the 1970s. Now, to the surprise of parents who recall the game from their youths, gaga is solidly mainstream. Young people are playing gaga this summer with devotion, from day camp in Silicon Valley to Bible Camp in Long Prairie, Minn.

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Synagogues B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 618 Mynster Street | Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 | 402.322.4705 email: CBsynagogue@hotmail.com For information on our historic synagogue – dates and times for Friday night services, please call 712.323.8885.

BETH EL SYNAGOGUE Member of United Synagogues of Conservative Judaism 14506 California | Omaha, NE 68154-1980 | 402.492.8550 www.bethel-omaha.org Services conducted by Rabbi Mordechai Levin and Rabbi Steven Abraham.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Services, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush given

by Beth El; Evening Services, 8:40 p.m.

Tisha B’av, beginning on Saturday, during 8:40 p.m. services, we will mark the destruction of Jerusalem and the loss of Jewish independence in the land of Israel, with a day of fasting and national mourning. On Sunday, July 29, our morning service is at 9 a.m.; Minha is at 1 p.m.; Ma’ariv service, 5:30 p.m.

WEEKDAY SERVICES: Sundays, 9 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.; weekdays, 7 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.

SUNDAY: Torah Study Discussion Group, 10 a.m.

MONDAY: Wrestling with Rabbis of the Talmud, 10 a.m. with Rabbi Abraham.

THURSDAY: Drinks & Dames, 7 p.m., at the synagogue.

All women of Beth El are welcome.

Young Families’ Shabbat Shira, Friday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m. For all Jewish families with young children, at the synagogue.

Kid-friendly Shabbat will be followed by a sing-along led by Rabbi Steven and Shira Abraham. Cost is $5 for Beth El members, $7.50 for non-members. No charge for children ages six and younger. For reservations, visit www.bethelomaha.org (type “Shabbat Shira” in search box), or contact the synagogue office, or programming@bethel-omaha.org.

Family Fun Day, Sunday, Aug. 5, 11 a.m to 4 p.m., at the JCC outdoor pavilion. Lunch will be served; Cost to attend is $5 per person, or $18 per family. RSVPs are required and may be made by sending a check to the synagogue. For more information, contact Margie in the synagogue office, or at programming@bethel-omaha.org. (see full story on page 6.)

Let’s Do Lunch, Friday, Aug. 10, noon. Meet Rabbi Levin at the Star Deli for a delicious meal and casual conversation.

RSVP to the rabbi at rabbilevin@bethel-omaha.org, by Thursday, Aug. 9.

All classes and programs are open to everyone in the Jewish community.

BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific Street | Omaha, NE. 68154 | 402.556.6288 www.BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org 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 and Rabbi Yitzchak Mizrahi.

FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Free babysitting service begins at 9:30 a.m.; Children’s Classes begin with Torah Parade, 9:45 a.m.; Kiddush is sponsored by Sisterhood; Veshinantam, 5:30 p.m.; Rabbi Gross’s Twitter Topic Class, 7:15 p.m.; Mincha followed by Seuda Shlishit, time to be determined; Tisha B’Av Fast Begins, 8:45 p.m.

SUNDAY: Gemara class, 8 a.m., learning tractate Kiddushin; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Live Streaming of OU Presentations, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Film: The Believer, 2:30 p.m.; Film: Gentleman’s Agreement, 4:30 p.m.; Minchah, 6:30

Bar Mitzvah Josh Gordon, son of Tracy and Randy Gordon, will become a Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, Aug. 4, at B’nai Jeshurun in Lincoln.

Josh is an eighth-grade student at Lefler Middle School in Lincoln.

His interests include reading, writing short stories, godzilla and movies.

He has a sister, Maggie, and two brothers, Grant and Calvin.

Grandparents are Linda and Alan Muskin, Jean and Jerry Jordan of Lincoln, and Marilyn and Chuck Gordon of Fremont.

Great-grandparents are Bettie and Stuart Muskin, and Margaret Weimann.

p.m.; Film: The Grey Zone, 7:15 p.m.; Ma’ariv, 9:10 p.m.; Fast Ends/Havdalah, 9:23 p.m.; A light breakfast will be served.

WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.

MONDAY: Weekly Teleconference Mishnah Class, 10:30 a.m. with Rabbi Gross. Contact the office for information on how to call-in to the conference call.

TUESDAY: Rabbi Mizrahi’s Weekly Class, 6:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Rabbi Weiss’s Weekly Class, 7:45 p.m.

THURSDAY: Women of the Torah class, 9:30 a.m. with Rabbi Gross; Weekly Med Center Class, 1 p.m.

CHABAD CENTER An Affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch 1866 South 120 Street | Omaha, NE 68144-1646 | 402.330.1800 www.OChabad.com | email: chabad@aol.com Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat followed by dinner, 7:30 p.m. with visiting Cross Country Bikers.

SATURDAY: Minyan, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush luncheon follows the service. Cross Country Bikers will participate in the service and luncheon. Come meet them and share your Nebraska’s good life with guests from throughout the country.

SUNDAY: Minyan, 8:30 a.m. followed by Breakfast Bonanza.

WEEKDAYS: Minyan, 7 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Torah Studies: A weekly journey in the soul of Torah, noon. RSVP to 402.417.2009; A Taste of YeshivaChevruta style Beit Midrash study, 6:30 p.m.

All programs are open to the entire community.

CONGREGATION B’NAI JESHURUN South Street Temple | Union for Reform Judaism 2061 South 20th Street | Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 | 402.435.8004 www.southstreettemple.org Services conducted by Rabbi Craig Lewis.

FRIDAY: Shabbat Evening Service, 7:45 p.m. with oneg following hosted by Sara Friedman.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. on Parashat Devarim.

THURSDAY: Choir Rehearsal, 7:30-9 p.m. Please contact Elaine Monnier, 402.327.9212 or emonnier@windstream. net or Holly Heffelbower, hheffel@inebraska.com with any questions.

The Social Action Committee encourages you to participate in the school supply drive for Saratoga School and Community Learning Center. Saratoga School, located less than a mile from South Street Temple, is a Title 1 school in which 81% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

Items most needed are notebooks, backpacks, pens and pencils, crayons, markers, colored pencils, kleenex and hand sanitizers.

Candlelighting Friday, July 27, 8:28 p.m.

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE SAC Memorial Chapel 301 Lincoln Highway | Offutt AFB, NE 68113 | 402.294.6244 FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m.

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME 323 South 132 Street | Omaha, NE 68154 FRIDAY: Shabbat Comes to the Blumkin Home, 2:30 p.m. led by Temple Israel Members.

SATURDAY: Services, 9 a.m. led by David Herzog; Tisha B’av Services, 3:30 p.m. led by Andy Greenberg Services will be held in the Chapel. Members of the community are invited to attend.

TEMPLE ISRAEL Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 7023 Cass Street | Omaha, NE 68132-2651 | 402.556.6536 www.templeisrael-ne.org FRIDAY: Shabbat Comes to You at Rose Blumkin Home, 2:30 p.m. led by Rabbi Brown; Shabbat Worship Service, 6 p.m. led by Rabbi Azriel and Cantor Shermet featuring our congregant Hannah Grossman playing the flute; Summer Speaker Series: “Cass Street Memories II” with Angie and Stan Krieger.

SATURDAY: Torah Study, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m. Torah and Haftarah reader: Miles Remer.

SUNDAY: Stephen Center Breakfast, 9 a.m.

Shabbat Worship Summer Series, “Gift Shop Lady Tells All” with Sandy Nogg on Friday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m.

Temple Israel Annual Golf Tournament, Monday, Aug. 13, noon at Shadow Ridge Country Club. Please contact the Temple Israel office, 402.556.6536 or mweidner@templeis raelomaha.com, to register.

TIFERETH ISRAEL Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Boulevard | Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 | 402.423.8569 www.tiferethisraellincoln.org Services conducted by lay leader Nancy Coren. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

FRIDAY: Services, 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY: Morning service, 10 a.m. followed by Kiddush lunch; Chanting of Eicha, 9:30 p.m.

Saratoga School and Community Learning Center. Saratoga School, located less than a mile from South Street Temple, is a Title 1 school in which 81% of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch. Items most needed are notebooks, backpacks, pens and pencils, crayons, markers, colored pencils, kleenex and hand sanitizers. Please consider participating this year. Please drop off any items to the marked box at Tifereth Israel.

Israel denies report of hunt for terror group of Islam converts

by JTA NEWS STAFF JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel is denying a report that it is on the lookout for a terrorist group made up of converts to Islam that is planning to attack Israeli targets at the London Olympics.

The Sunday Times UK reported that Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency “is hunting a group of white Europeans who are thought to have converted to Islam and to be working with the Iranian Quds force and Hezbollah’ the terrorist group backed by Tehran.”

Fears of a terrorist attack at the Olympics’ on the 40th anniversary of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Munich Olympics’ and in the wake of last week’s attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria’ have risen in recent weeks and days.

Israel has sent Mossad and Shin Bet agents to London with its Olympic delegation’ according to the Sunday Times. The opening ceremonies of the Games are being held Friday.

“There is a particularly distinct alertness both on the operational and intelligence levels for the imminent Olympic Games’” Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday. “The British security services in particular -- who

are extremely proficient -- are acting to the best of their abilities with the assistance of other intelligence agencies around the world in order to minimize the chances that there will be any sort of incident during the Olympics. “[This vigilance] is first and foremost because things have happened in the past’ things that we all remember at the Munich Olympics. This isn’t the only incident’ even though this is the most prominent. We must remain alert.”

Meanwhile the head of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, reiterated over the weekend that a moment of silence would not be held for those slain at the ‘72 Olympics.

“The opening ceremony is an atmosphere that isn’t fit to remember such tragic events” he said Saturday during a news conference.

Rogge said’ however’ that he would lead an official delegation to Munich on Sept. 5 to hold a memorial ceremony at Munich’s Furstenfeldbruck airbase’ where a raid by German commandos ended with the deaths of the Israelis being held captive.

Late last week, President Obama expressed his support for a moment of silence and NBC’s Bob Costas said he would hold one on the air during the opening ceremonies.

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Moses...Moses...Moses!

Sparks from the word RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Parsha D’Varim (Chazon) With this Sidrah, we open the fifth and last book of the Torah.

There is much more instruction for happy and productive lives in our scriptures. Indeed, our Haftarah itself is one of the most beautiful and comforting passages ever written. It is called “Chazon,� the Vision of Isaiah.

For many people, including me, Isaiah is the greatest of the prophets.

He calls now to Jerusalem (meaning all the people of Israel) and tells them that a new era has come. The Kodesh Baruch Hu has called for an intimate conversation with the people of Israel, represented by the capital city, Jerusalem.

Isaiah announces to Jerusalem that its sins have been forgiven. Its punishment has been severe, and now, through repentance, its sins have been made white as snow. A new era of joy and happiness has dawned for Israel.

Isaiah is one of the greatest poets who have ever lived in human society. We do not know where or how he learned to put words together, to be demanding and prosecuting on the one hand, or comforting on the other. He is, as everyone can see, a genius in using words to comfort.

If, reader, you haven’t experienced Isaiah, read at least some of his words now. If you have a taste for literature, you will recognize that here are some of the greatest words ever written.

Alleged movie theater shooter worked at Jewish summer camp

by JTA NEWS STAFF (JTA) -- James Holmes, the alleged shooter who killed 12 in a crowded Colorado movie theater, reportedly worked at a Jewish summer camp for underprivileged children.

Holmes, 24, spent a summer working as a counselor for Camp Max Straus in Glendale, CA, which is run by Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported. He is suspected of opening fire on the crowd late Thursday night at a midnight screening in Aurora, Colo., of the new Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. Twelve people were killed and 58 were injured in the shooting spree.

Holmes was arrested shortly after the shootings. He reportedly set off smoke bombs before firing at the crowd.

In a statement to the Los Angeles Times, Randy Schwab, chief executive of Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and director of Camp Max Straus, said of Holmes, “His role was to ensure that these children had a wonderful camp experience by helping them learn confidence, selfesteem and how to work in small teams to effect positive outcomes.� In a later e-mail, Schwab added, “That summer provided the kids a wonderful camp experience without incident.�

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to President Obama on Saturday expressing his condolences and those of the Israeli people to the families of the Americans who were murdered in the theater. “All Israelis stand alongside the American people in mourning over this terrible tragedy which claimed the lives of so many,� Netanyahu wrote. “We well understand the pain and loss that you are experiencing.�

Local Jewish artists to be shown at JCC

BBC Olympics website fudges capitals of Israel, Palestine

by BETH BROWN-GERSHOVICH AND MARGE BRESEL The Omaha Jewish Artists' Gallery Show will be on exhibit at the Jewish Community Center throughout the month of September. The event will feature the artwork of 11 local Jewish artists in a variety of mediums. Marge Bresel –will contribute fiber art, Beth Brown Gershovich – will show her fused glass pieces.

by JTA NEWS STAFF JERUSALEM (JTA) -- The BBC amended its Olympics web page on the capitals of Israel and Palestine following complaints from Israel.

Under the Israel entry, the BBC amended the site to say that the country’s “seat of government� is “Jerusalem, though most foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv,� and amended the Palestine entry to say that its “Intended seat of government� is “East Jerusalem. Ramallah serves as administrative capital.�

The website at first had listed East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine and listed no capital for Israel -- the only country with no capital listed.

After complaints from the public and a letter from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman Mark Regev, the BBC late last week amended its site. “Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Israel, and accordingly we respectfully request the immediate rectification of this matter,� Regev wrote.

Palestine has been recognized as a member of the Olympic Council of Asia since 1986 and the International Olympic Committee since 1995.

There will be mixed media by Daniel Christensen, mixed media sculpture and acrylic painting by Lila Ferber;– acrylic painting and jewelry by Allyson Friedman;– lampworked glass by Tom Friedman;– wearable fiber art by Bette Kozlen;– paper mache sculptures by Naava Naslavsky; photography by L. Randall Nogg; photography Jenni Schlossman and bronze and clay sculpture by Annette Sherman Fettman.

There will be an opening reception at the JCC Thursday evening, Sept. 6, from 7 to –9 p.m. This event is open to the public. For more information, contact Beth BrownGershovich at bbgartistry@gmail.com or 402.660.4084; or Marge Bresel at breselms@cox.net.

To Submit obituaries to the Jewish Press: Email to the Press at jpress@jewishomaha.org; fax to 402.334.5422, or mailed to 333 So. 132 St., Omaha, NE 68154, or online at the Jewish Federation of Omaha website: www.jewishomaha.org. Click on Jewish Press and go to Submit Announcements.

Community to say goodbye to the Matalon family

by JUDY ROSENFELD The entire community is invited to a special Kiddush lunch on Saturday Aug. 11 at Beth Israel. We are saying farewell to Dr. Guy Matalon, his wife Elinore and their children, as they make Aliyah to Israel.

Guy has served as the Jewish Federation of Omaha Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the JFO’s Scholar-in-Residence, and is well known for his ‘Eye on Israel’ sessions at the Center for Jewish Life’s Kripke Library.

We hope you will all join us in wishing him and his family well. For more information about the event, please contact the synagogue office at 402.556.6288.

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For Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, art is a window into secret life

by EDMON J. RODMAN revealed new DNA evidence that Spanish Americans of the Painted in a folk art style with brightly colored acrylic paint, LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Artist Anita Rodriguez’s “aha” Southwest likely had Jews in their family trees. The Crypto- the boxes, which have two hinged doors, reveal what she moment came after reading To the End of the Earth: A Jews of New Mexico are said to be descendants of Sephardic sees as the duality of the Crypto-Jewish life.

History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico.

Jews who were forced to convert during the Spanish For example, on one nicho, a Christmas Eve scene is The 2005 book by New Mexico’s former state historian, Inquisition. shown with people streaming in to the village church. Open Stanley Hordes, tells the story the box’s doors and painted of the Southwest’s Converso on the inside is a skeletal settlers and the elements of Jewish family seated at table their Sephardic heritage – with a lit menorah. among them lighting candles “There are some truths that on Friday night and refraincan only be spoken in the ing from eating pork -- that voice of art,” Rodriguez said. were passed down over 500 Rodriguez says that when years. she shows her work in New It suddenly dawned on Mexico, some people have Rodriguez, a Catholic from whispered in her ear things Taos whose family has lived like, “I need to talk, but can’t in New Mexico for 10 genermeet you downtown.” One ations, that her neighbors person, the artist says, told may have been reticent to her that after seeing her work talk about religion because of he spent a night sneaking secret family histories. through a graveyard looking “Growing up in Taos, I for signs of Crypto-Jewish quickly learned that it was heritage on his ancestor’s A Nicho by Anita Rodriguez with the doors open, showing a headstones. taboo to ask people about A crypto-Jewish secret wedding by Anita Rodriguez.

Credit: Anita Rodriguez Chanukah scene.

Credit: Anita Rodriguez their religion,” she told JTA. “I have had close friends Rodriguez is one of several artists planning to exhibit After reading Hordes’ book and researching Jewish life, who have made the discovery,” Rodriguez said. “Some are Crypto-Jewish-themed paintings and folk art at the confer- Rodriguez began painting Southwestern and Mexican- furious because they were lied to; some even go back to ence of the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies www.crypto- influenced scenes of the secret Jewish lives that she imag- Judaism.” jews.com/category/conference-2012-albuquerque/ to be ined her neighbors’ ancestors had practiced.

In researching her own family history, Rodriguez discovheld July 22-24 in Albuquerque. Among the featured speakAmong the works she will bring to the conference is a ered that the name Rodriguez appears frequently on lists of ers will be historian David Gitlitz, author of Secrecy and large pink, turquoise and royal blue painting influenced by surnames of families forced to convert. She hasn’t taken the Deceit: The Religion of Crypto-Jews, and Santa Fe educator Mexican Day of the Dead art, depicting a Jewish wedding low-cost genetic test now available that could cast light on Isabelle Medina Sandoval, author of Hidden Shabbat: The scene in which the groom, bride and wedding party are all her ethnic heritage.

Secret Lives of Crypto-Jews. ghostly skeletons.

Diana Bryer, another New Mexico artist exhibiting at the “Artwork makes people want to know more about their Another one, titled Hora, shows skeletons dancing upcoming conference -- her work depicts secret Sephardic own identity,” said Dolores Sloan, president of the society, around a Jewish bride on a raised chair. symbols like six-pointed roses and families holding secret which helped obtain grants to bring artists to the confer“These could be ancestors who come back on the day of seders -- says she has had moments of recognition, too. ence. the dead and act out scenes from their lives,” Rodriguez “One person came over to me and said, ‘I think I have The gathering, which will include a genealogy workshop, said.

Jewish roots. There are things in here that my family did,’” is part of a continuing effort to reveal the stories of those In another work she calls “nichos,” a takeoff on a tradi- said Bryer, who comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish backwho may have had a hidden Jewish past. A recent genetic tional Latin American form of folk art, Rodriguez uses ground. “People have feelings, and those feelings should be survey published in the Journal of Human Genetics painted wooden boxes created from kiln-dried wood. acknowledged.”

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