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Vol. LXXXIX No. 45 Omaha, NE

Celebrating 89 Years of Service to Nebraska and Western Iowa

It’s all about Maccabi!

by EMILY GILLER In just two days over 1,000 athletes will be arriving in Omaha to compete in the 2010 JCC Maccabi Games. These teens will participate in a week of activities that will help them advance athletically, learn more about their Jewish heritage and build lasting friendships.

chaperones, but also to help enhance the Maccabi experience for the athletes.

These Delegation Heads were in Omaha this past April to attend the spring planning meeting and are back once again to help implement these JCC Maccabi Games at the highest level.

So take a moment and meet them: They are the JCC

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Omaha welcomes Raya Strauss

by ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Editor of the Jewish Press While the Maccabi Games, with their emphasis on sports, sports, and more sports, have invited numerous athletes and accompanying coaches to our community, we will see additional visitors as well. The Partnership with Israel will bring us someone who has no intention of competing in any athletic events, but whose presence will nonetheless enrich the experience in a major way.

Raya Strauss Ben-Dror and Zoë Riekes

On April 25-26, Delegation Heads from 27 of the 29 Visiting Maccabi Communities attended the Spring Delegation Head meeting at the JCC. This Friday, July 30, these same Delegation Heads, plus representation from Hungary and Israel, are at their final Delegation Head meeting in Omaha prior to the start of the Games Sunday, August 1.

Thirty delegations will be represented at the Omaha Games, all led by professional staff from JCCs all over the country. These leaders are coming not only as

Maccabi Games Delegation Heads for the 2010 Games in Omaha!

Meet them individually, see pages 5 and 6.

Raya Strauss Ben-Dror, co-owner and President of the Strauss investment company (they bring us such delectable temptations as Elite coffee and chocolate) will be visiting Omaha for the first time. Although we love it, it’s not those chocolate bars that bring her here. “Raya was invited by the Partnership Chairs, Stacey Rockman and Kimberly Robinson,” says Zoë Riekes, who has strong ties with the Partnership herself. She has known Continued on page 2

JCC Maccabi Games include Day of Caring and Sharing

by ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT ered by Yale Gotsdiner. It was created through the supEditor of the Jewish Press port of Nebraska citizens, and is dedicated to the memIt is customary for a host city to provide an opportu- ory of those who perished in the Holocaust and in nity for Tzedakah during the JCC Maccabi Games, a honor of all the liberators and survivors of the Nazi conhands-on project that gives participating athletes and centration camps. volunteers the chance to give to others. Since 1982, those attending the games have been part of a variety of activities, such as packing school supply kits for Family Centers and Israeli children, visiting sick kids and teens at local hospitals, spending time with older adults in nursing homes, or improving neighborhoods or local facilities. (i.e. Habitat for Humanity).

This, too, is the case in Omaha this week, as on Wednesday August 4 more than 1000 kids will be transported to Lincoln to perform a very special task.

Sharon Kirshenbaum, who chairs the Omaha project, says: “Caring and Sharing is all about having the kids experience Tikkun Olam, and making the world a better place.”

Wyuka Cemetery, the focus of Omaha’s Day of Caring and Sharing, is located in Lincoln. Established as a state cemetery by an act of the Nebraska Legislature in 1869, and designed like a public park, Wyuka Cemetery is the largest all-faith cemetery serving the Lincoln community. It The Nebraska Holocaust Memorial at Wyuka Cemetery, in Lincoln. is also the home of the Nebraska Holocaust Memorial.

“The Day of Caring and Sharing contains four basic The Nebraska Holocaust Memorial was dedicated on parts,” Jeff Aizenberg, JCC Director, says. “On the ride April 15, 2007, and serves as a place of remembrance to Lincoln from the JCC, there will be an educational and education. The Memorial started with an initiative component about Wyuka and the Holocaust, as well as by the Holocaust Memorial Committee, originally gath- an orientation to the afternoon activities. A volunteer

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educator of the Institute for Holocaust Education will lead this section. Upon arrival at the cemetery, delegations will get off their buses and have a chance to view the Holocaust Memorial. They will place a stone in the area as a permanent symbol of having visited. The delegations will divide into groups and participate in service projects throughout the cemetery, after which they will gather near the memorial for a short ceremony.” Those projects include adding a walkway to a new butterfly garden. This garden will memorialize the children who perished in the Holocaust and will be dedicated in honor of the 2010 Omaha JCC Maccabi Games. Aizenberg explains: “The walkway will begin with bricks which will contain the names of each delegation. Other projects will include spreading dirt and planting new grass to level several areas of the cemetery.”

Gary Hill is the volunteer Executive Director of the Memorial; on the Day of Caring and Sharing, he says, the volunteers “will come in four flavors.

First, we will have the Maccabi athletes, the teachers who accompany them, and about 50 students from Lincoln high schools who have attended Holocaust education classes.

Second, we have many kids and adults who already volunteer at Wyuka on a regular basis. Then there are representatives from the Jewish community, and, finally, there are volunteers from a construction company who work at the Memorial on a regular basis, accompanied by Wyuka’s staff. All in Continued on page 2

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The Library will be stocked with all kinds of “O!” and “Omaha” merchandise, ranging from key chains and pins to t-shirts and stuffed animals. Everything has either the iconic “O!” logo or “Omaha” emblazoned across it. “We were fortunate to arrange with both the

Omaha Convention and Visitor’s Bureau and the Omaha Chamber of Commerce to provide this merchandise at the Kripke Library throughout the week,” said Mary Sue Grossman, Director of Programming and Operations, Center for Jewish Education.

In addition, Gary Katz, Library Administrator, will have several books available for sale including “Omaha Impressions,” a book of photography, “Jewish Life in Omaha and Lincoln,” and a few select autobiographies of Warren Buffett.

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Continued from page 1 all, I expect about 1,200 visitors that day. I think it will be the largest group of volunteers ever at the Holocaust Memorial.”

Gary Hill has been working with the Memorial for four years, and says its main purpose has always been education. “We are big believers that statues are nice, but that is ultimately not what this is about. It is open to everybody, and visitors are expected to ask a lot of questions. During the school year, we have weekly visits from students who specifically come to see the Holocaust Memorial. They can come at any age: the butterfly garden the Maccabi kids will be building, for instance, is going to Sam Fried focus on hope, and will be particularly fitting for very young children.”

“The IHE and educators from the Nebraska Holocaust Education Consortium will escort the young athletes to the Holocaust Memorial in Lincoln,” says Beth Seldin Dotan, Director of the IHE. “Teachers will provide background on the Holocaust, and help students work on the cemetery grounds as a community service project. The Heartland Holocaust Education Fund has made this day possible for the young athletes.

These athletes will watch a short DVD that tells the story of the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936. Jewish athletes were not allowd to participate, so this Maccabi visit is a real statement of Jewish continuity and commemoration.”

She adds that this is “something these kids will always remember. It combines all these different organizations and facets, and it is something that has real meaning. I am very happy and honored to have been asked to participate.”

The Heartland Holocaust Educational Fund (HHEF) provides funding for Holocaust and Genocide education to institutions of higher learning across the Heartland.

It is a non-profit entity in partnership with the Omaha Community Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation. The Fund manages the Nebraska

Holocaust Memorial as well as a display at the Strategic Air & Space Museum.

Sam Fried, who is co-founder with his wife Frances, and a board member of the HHEF, has dedicated his life to educating the younger generation about the Holocaust. A survivor of Auschwitz, he came to America after the war and made a home in Omaha.

When he first arrived in America, he didn’t talk about his experiences during the Holocaust. Then, in 1978, something changed: “Someone wrote a book, called The Hoax of the 20th Century. The author denied the Holocaust ever happened,” he says. “At that point, I knew silence was no longer an option.” He organized the Society of Survivors of the Holocaust, and donated seed money to the University of Nebraska at Omaha to start Holocaust education. Sam Fried has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Nebraska, and has received special recognition from the American Freedom Foundation for all the work he has done.

“There are four components to the Holocaust,” he says, “there are the perpetrators, collaborators, the victims, and the bystanders. If there were no bystanders, there could be no Holocaust. We need to educate those potential bystanders, and we need to get the entire community involved in that education.”

Knowing that this large group of kids and adults will be experiencing the Holocaust Memorial is something Sam is very pleased with: “We must remember, and we must help others remember. We must teach the next generation to never be silent or be bystanders in the face of evil. They must speak up against injustice, racism, and religious hatred.”

The Wyuka project promises to be an ambitious undertaking, an operation with so many kids and volunteers involved that it is hard to imagine without experiencing it first hand. “Having kids from all over the country, and some from other countries, participate in this means they will help our community, while at the same time helping themselves,” Sharon Kirshenbaum says. “They will leave something of themselves behind, and simultaneously take the experience home with them, which I think is a fantastic thing. After all, taking care of and cleaning a cemetery is a very humbling experience, but it is also an excellent teaching opportunity, which is our main focus. At the end of the day, we should all leave with hope for the future.”

Omaha welcomes Raya Strauss Continued from page 1 Raya for several years, and the shared dedication for Partnership has forged a strong bond between them. As is so often the case with people who have a common goal, especially in relation to Partnership, it is those personal connections that make all the difference: “Her presence confirms the importance of Partnership,” Riekes continues. “It shows that the distance between our consortium communities and the Western Galilee really isn’t that far, especially when it comes to celebrating and participating in meaningful events.”

Raya Strauss has been the Chair of the Nahariya/New Jersey Partnership for over five years. She has also been the International Co-Chair for Partnership 2000 for about two years. She was born in Nahariya, in the Northern Galilee, and thus has strong personal ties with the area; she is actively involved in many philanthropic and community-oriented activities. Her main focus is on bringing together Jewish communities in Israel and the Diaspora, developing the Galilee, especially economically, and introducing a sense of social responsibility to the Israeli business world.

For Raya, it will be a busy week in Omaha: “She will be speaking at the Opening Ceremonies Sunday night,” says Zoë Riekes. “The topic will be the Munich 11 athletes who lost their lives during the 1972 Olympics there. She is donating 4,000 chocolate candy bars from Strauss Dairies. In addition, she will be participating in two different events for her friend, Dr. Barhoum, who is the Director General of the Western Galilee Hospital.

Finally, she will be speaking at a luncheon that is being held in her honor.”

“Discover happy moments,” it says on the StraussElite website. While the slogan is meant to convince the world to buy coffee, it could just as easily refer to Raya Strauss’ deep passion for Partnership 2000. “Raya inspires me to be and do the best that I can,” says Zoë Riekes. “I have watched her in action and listened to her speak; she has taught me that we can accomplish our goals with self-determination and respect for others. I have the privilege of co-chairing the “Friends of the Western Galilee Hospital” with her, and my hope is to be half as successful in my leadership as she is. In the end, we are a family… a Partnership family.”

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ing faces of various professional wrestlers from the photos and portraits he had acquired. One thousand sketches later, Mike published a book of his drawings and continued to produce them, some now ranging as large as 4 feet tall.

Michael Scheef with his artwork When Mike heard about the Maccabi Games, he knew it would be a great opportunity to branch out and start drawing other athletic figures. Mike worked with the Omaha JCC staff to further brainstorm the idea of the Great Jewish Athlete exhibit.

“We wanted to do something special in the Gallery during the JCC Maccabi Games. We wanted something that would excite the community and the visiting Maccabi athletes,” said Lynn Batten, JCC Omaha Gallery Supervisor.

“Mike had exhibited some of his wrestler

In addition to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, there were many who became victims of persecution and murder in the Nazis’ campaign to cleanse German society of individuals viewed as threats to the “health” of the nation. This exhibit focuses on the less known medical persecution of the Holocaust.

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Local artist hopes to inspire with “Great Jewish Athletes” exhibit

by J.L. BATTEN JCC Gallery Supervisor Omaha based artist Michael Scheef didn’t think that his obsession with drawing professional wrestlers would one day lead to painting an exhibit of well-known Jewish athletes. In fact, 10 years ago he never dreamed that he would have an obsession with drawing professional wrestlers.

“My work back in college was very abstract. I never thought that someday I would be rendering the human figure for public exhibits,” Scheef said.

But render he did. And now, in honor of the JCC Maccabi Games, Scheef has created the Great Jewish Athlete exhibit, which is currently on display in the Omaha Jewish Community Center Gallery.

This exhibit, which consists of 10 largescale acrylic portraits, portrays some of the best Jewish athletes from the 20th century, all rendered in Scheef’s trademark style.

Scheef, who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Omaha in 1996, didn’t start experimenting with drawing the human figure until graduate school.

“My great-grandfather was a professional wrestling champion in the early 1900’s,” Scheef said. “I started using his image as a reccurring element in the pieces I was creating in grad school. That was the first time that I consistently incorporated the human figure into my artwork.”

After graduate school, Mike continued to explore this theme. He started sketch-

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drawings in our Gallery back in 2009 so when he approached us about reserving the Gallery for this exhibit, it clicked. We knew that he is a very talented local artist, and that he was capable of producing a great body of work.”

When asked about how he narrowed down his list of potential Jewish athletes, Mike smiles and shakes his head.

“There was a lot of research involved.

Prior to this exhibit, I never really paid attention to what religion an athlete was.

Some people were easier to find than others, but it was a really fun process.”

After some digging, Mike ended up with a list of 30 athletes. From there he narrowed that list down to 10 peopleone athlete representing each of the ten sports being offered at the Omaha JCC Maccabi Games. Jewish athletes from the sports of swimming, bowling, baseball, basketball, golf, volleyball, table tennis, tennis, soccer, and dance are all represented.

“I want to inspire the younger generation of athletes like the ones who are competing at the JCC Maccabi Games.”

Scheef said. “I hope this exhibit will encourage them and give them examples to aspire to.”

Great Jewish Athletes will be on display in the Omaha JCC Gallery throughout the month of August.

Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 am to 9 pm, Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, and Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm.

For more information about the exhibit, contact Lynn Batten, Gallery Supervisor, at 334.6564.

by MUSHKA KATZMAN You are invited to a barbeque dinner and Refusenik movie screening at the Chabad Center on Aug. 4 at 5:30 p.m. The dinner is free of charge. Donations to the Community food pantry will be accepted.

Refusenik, a 120 minute documentary showcases the dedication, Mesiras Nefesh, and perseverance of a handful of warm, caring and fiercely dedicated Jews who could not remain silent while the suffering of their brethren behind the iron curtain continued unchecked. The tyranny that stood between Jews in the former Soviet Union and their freedom allowed this group no rest.

Our local pioneer and activist, Shirley Goldstein, endeared herself to thousands of refuseniks by working tirelessly on their behalf and is featured in this movie.

Small in stature but huge with conviction, Shirley used all the weapons in her arsenal to make a difference. She rallied the support of ‘students and housewives’ throughout the United States, collected clothing and food, and orchestrated clandestine visits for herself and others to help raise the moral of the Jews of Russia.

Shirley Goldstein’s family member Glenn Richter of New York City worked in tandem with her on this impossible mission. He will be present during the movie screening and share his experiences and personal reflections.

RSVP to Shalom@OChabad.com to attend this event. The evening is sponsored by friends of Shirley and Buddy Goldstein with hopes that it will inspire people and to share the message that “great things can be done when Jews get together.”

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Appealing to Arab media for fair coverage

by GARY ROSENBLATT NEW YORK (N.Y. Jewish Week) -Meet Adil Awadh, 42, an Iraqi-born Muslim whose new position as senior adviser for The Israel Project’s Arabic Media Project has him seeking out meetings with Arab journalists to encourage them to report Israel’s side of the Mideast conflict.

“It will be very difficult,” Awadh said in a distinct understatement earlier this month in New York at a private reception sponAdil Awadh sored by The Credit: Courtesy of The Israel Project.

Israel Project Founded eight years ago, the nonprofit organization with offices in Washington and Jerusalem tries to sway public opinion by providing Mideast information to, and working closely with, journalists.

The latest thrust of the group is to focus on the Arab community, and the guest speaker at this event was Ziad Asali, president and founder of the American Task Force on Palestine, a smaller, Palestinian version of AIPAC, the proIsrael lobby, in Washington.

Awadh introduced Asali as perhaps “the most moderate voice in the Arab world,” and Asali spoke of why the “old tribal fight” between Israelis and Palestinians who “want the whole thing” -- in reference to the land in question -- must give way to “the new think” that requires compromise and a two-state solution.

Asali said he worries that if the conflict goes unresolved, it will lead to a devastating and widespread “holy war” with great damage on all sides.

In his own opening remarks Awadh, who joined The Israel Project staff in April and also is based in Washington, described feeling “under attack” during his first attempts to engage Arab journalists at the United Nations earlier this month, and acknowledged that his work represents “a very dangerous game.” But

he said he felt “the friction and adversity was beneficial” because it forced the reporters to confront “an Arab with a Muslim background working with a proIsrael organization.”

They didn’t believe he wasn’t a Jew, he said, and expressed astonishment, then anger.

“But I enjoyed it,” Awadh said of the confrontation, because he felt he was able to tell the journalists that while as an Arab he favors a Palestinian state, he could make the points that Israel is a reality and that the common objective should be peace.

“The only solution is information and education,” he said.

Awadh is used to voicing his conscience, despite pressure to be silent. In 1996 he left Iraq, where he was a medical intern, after refusing to take part in government-ordered ear-cutting operations meted out as punishment to army dissenters.

After escaping to America, he spoke out to Arabic and English media outlets on the atrocities and the suffering he saw.

In the United States, Awadh earned a master’s degree in journalism from Georgetown University and won awards for his work as a senior editor at Radio Sawa, a congressionally funded Arabic radio station broadcasting to the Middle East from Washington.

Awadh told me he never shared “the hate that some have for Jews,” and felt that “demonizing Jews was counterproductive to any peace process.”

At the reception Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, the founder and president of The Israel Project, told the 50 invited guests -- mostly Jewish supporters from New York -- that after concluding that peace efforts were not working, her organization was undergoing “a paradigm shift.” The primary change was the decision to reach out more aggressively to the thousands of reporters in the Arabic language media “to try to level the playing field to make peace possible.”

Mizrahi noted that while widely told the effort would not work and that Arab journalists were closed to the notion of hearing positive information about Israel, some headway has been made. The Arab

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world still maintains a negative, onedimensional view of Israel, but recent polling funded by The Israel Project in Egypt, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza indicates that it is possible to influence perceptions of Israel by presenting certain facts, the findings show.

“Nearly 60 percent of the Arab public say they become ‘more favorable’ towards Israel after they learn about Israel’s willingness to pursue peace and Israel’s acceptance of all religious groups, including Muslims,” according to the organization, which insists that many Arab media outlets are willing to interview and quote Israeli officials and experts.

That’s where Awadh comes in. He said that in his one-on-one meetings with various Arab journalists at the United Nations, he was put on the defensive about Israeli policy but explained that his objective was not to make Jerusalem’s case.

“I said I am here to introduce myself and tell you about the program I supervise,” he said he told the reporters. “I said I assume I am talking to professional journalists who have the ability to separate their opinions and biases, and try to present the complete story. And I said we [The Israel Project] present sources who are knowledgeable.”

Awadh said “they were not used to such answers” and that the “intentional strategic choice” of the Arab media is to put Israel in a negative light. That means, for example, choosing not to interview Israeli officials like Avishai Braverman, the minister of minorities, who has been outspoken about his efforts to improve conditions for Israeli Arabs. Awadh noted that Al Jazeera and other Arab TV media tend to show footage of graphic, bloody scenes of wounded Palestinians during interviews with Israelis.

“They [the Arab media] don’t show the dynamic of Israel as a democratic society,” like Jewish demonstrations against the demolition of Arab homes, said Awadh. “They just want to fixate on the image in the Arab mind that Israel is a vampire, seeking to steal Arab blood and land.”

But Awadh said that by the end of his day at the United Nations, he was able to

persuade at least seven of the Arab reporters to meet with Braverman, though some said they probably would not be able to report on the interview.

By appealing to their sense of professionalism and fairness, and arguing that the current cultural boycott of Israel is “inhumane and unethical,” Awadh said he believed that he may have made a dent with the journalists.

“It’s a good sign,” he said, but cautioned, “I don’t know how genuine their expressions are.”

This article first appeared at thejewishweek.com.

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Maccabi Delegation Heads Contra Costa, CA

Ann Arbor

Atlanta

Austin

Bensonhurst, NY

Chicago

Delegation Head: Seth Penchansky Number of Athletes: 14, 3 are from Nahalal Israel Years as DH: 2 Position: Helped increase participation in Maccabi Games in Ann Arbor.

Interesting fact: Seth was on a downhill ski racing team in 6th grade.

Delegation Head: Kelly Brown Number of Athletes: 84 Years as DH: 2 Position: JCC Teen Department Interesting fact: Kelly played volleyball in middle school and high school and danced for ten years; three of which she danced competitively.

Delegation Head: Robby Etzkin Number of Athletes: 28 Years as DH: 3 Position: JCC Director of the Youth and Teen Department Interesting fact: Robby plays in “super social” adult softball and kickball leagues.

Delegation Head: Joseph Agrest Number of Athletes: 14 Years as DH: 3 Position: Coaches Girl’s Volleyball Team Interesting fact: Joseph is currently the Head Volleyball Coach at St. Peter’s CollegeNCAA Division I.

Delegation Head: Brad Herzog Number of Athletes: 31 Years as DH: 4 Position: JCC Sports Director Interesting fact: Brad played 10 years of football, 7 years of wrestling and 2 years of lacrosse.

Delegation Head: Judith Markowitz Number of Athletes: 14 Years as DH: 3 Position: Hired to get the delegation off the ground Interesting quote: “We had an athlete that had no connection to his Judaism until he participated in the JCC Maccabi Games and then made the international team and played in Israel the following summer!”

Ft. Lauderdale

Harrisburg

Houston

Hungary

Delegation Head: Lori Green Number of Athletes: 25 Years as DH: 3 Position: Volunteer Delegation Head Interesting fact: Lori has dedicated (and volunteered) a significant amount of her time to keep the Maccabi program alive in Ft. Lauderdale.

Delegation Head: Jeremy Kreiser Number of Athletes: 22 Years as DH: 1 Position: JCC Morning Fitness Manager Interesting fact: Jeremy participated in track and field in high school.

Delegation Head: Maytal Babajanov Number of Athletes: 22 Years as DH: 1 Position: Maccabi Administrative Assistant Interesting fact: Maytal was a JCC camp counselor during the Maccabi Games.

Maytal planned Maccabi themed activities for the campers, including meeting the athletes and coaches.

Delegation Head: Lior Harari Number of Athletes: 5 Years as DH: 1 Position: Delegation Coordinator Interesting fact: Hungary is home to the second largest synagogue in Europe and one of the largest in the world: the Dohany Street Synagogue.

Dallas

Delegation Head: Jon Mize Number of Athletes: 63 Years as DH: 3 Position: Past Assistant Delegation Head Interesting fact: Played baseball in college at Texas Tech University.

East Hills, NY Sid Jacobson

Delegation Head: Sarah Schmitt Number of Athletes: 20 Years as DH: 8 Position: Staff at JCC Interesting fact: Sarah was a high jumper on her college track team.

Indianapolis

Israel

Delegation Head: David Waldman Number of Athletes: 4 Years as DH: 4 Position: Past Delegation Head Supervisor Interesting fact: As a child David played soccer, football and wrestled, and as an adult he does karate, rugby and softball.

Delegation Head: Arie Ashkenazy Number of athletes: 13 Years as DH: 1 Position: Delegation Coordinator Interesting fact: Israel’s Maccabi team won the European Championship in 2001.

Israel Partnership

Delegation Head: Irit Asraf Number of Athletes: 15 Years as DH: 1 Position: Delegation Coordinator Interesting fact: Works with both Maccabi Games delegations from the Western Galilee as well as the delegations that joined the staff of summer camps (kefiada) in 3 of their communities.

Kansas City

Delegation Head: Brian Peel Number of Athletes: 33 Years as DH: 1 Position: JCC Sports and Recreation Coordinator Interesting quote: “In high school I was part of a Kansas 5A state championship baseball team. I also got to enjoy being a student athlete for 4 years during college.”

Los AngelesWestside

Delegation Head: Rachel Hagar Number of Athletes: 62 Years as DH: 2 Position: JCC Director of Teen Programs Interesting quote: “2008 in Detroit was my first year and I was, and still am, completely impressed by the magnitude of the Games.”

Mexico

Delegation Head: Yosi Bernstein Number of Athletes: 43 Years as DH: 1 Interesting fact: Mexico has been participating in Maccabi since the first Games in Memphis.

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Maccabi Delegation Heads North Miami Beach

Northern Virginia

Omaha

Omaha

Miami

Miami Beach

Delegation Heads: Andy and Joanne Hesser Number of Athletes: 37 Years as DH: 1 Position: Andy was a Maccabi baseball coach for 5 years Interesting fact: Andy and Joanne have 3 sons who play sports and Andy started coaching their oldest son in the 2004 Maccabi Games and has been coaching ever since.

Delegation Head: David Mandel Number of Athletes: 5 Years as DH: 5 Position: Past JCC Sports Director Interesting fact: David’s favorite part about the JCC Maccabi Games is the opening ceremonies because “athletes get to walk around an arena and wave to all the spectators.”

Delegation Head: Chris Moltmann Number of Athletes: 22 Years as DH: 16 Position: Past coach for the Maccabi Games Interesting fact: Chris played high school football and is in an adult basketball league.

Delegation Head: Nori White Number of Athletes: 10 Years as DH: 1 Position: Completed the JCCA Merrin Teen Fellowship and started working with teens at the JCC. Interesting fact: Nori used to play softball both in an area league as well as her high school team. She also played tennis.

Delegation Head: Diane Malashock Number of Athletes: 109 Years as DH: 1 Position: JCC Sports and Recreation Supervisor and Maccabi Program Director Interesting quote: “I have a very fond memory of a wonderful group of boys who played basketball for Atlanta at our 2002 Games. It’s a long story, but I smile every time I think of Maccabi.”

Delegation Head: Anne Muskin Number of Athletes: 109 Years as DH: 3 Position: JCC Teen/BBYO Director and Assistant Delegation Head 2010 Interesting fact: Anne played high school softball and was the captain of her high school dance team.

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Delegation Head: Richard Chapin Number of Athletes: 11 Years as DH: 1 Position: Palo Alto JCC Teen Camp Coordinator Interesting fact: He has many years of experience in coaching and looks forward to working with the youth in the community.

Delegation Head: Jeff Knoll Number of Athletes: 48 Years as DH: 2 Position: Past Youth Sports Director Interesting quote: “In San Diego I had a great experience watching the kids I coached work with atrisk-kids. It was amazing to watch these kids give back to the community through the Maccabi Experience. “

Delegation Head: Ruthi Warburg Number of Athletes: 57 Years as DH: 12 Position: Helped start up the San Diego Delegation Interesting quote: “I had a 6’5” basketball player who injured his ankle and couldn’t walk to the hospital.

At a nearby hotel, a bellman lent me a luggage cart; I put the athlete on the cart and pushed him for six blocks.

Delegation Head: Sarah Zaides Number of Athletes: 57 Years as DH: 2 Position: Teen Director Interesting fact: San Diego is the seventh largest city in the U.S. with 2.5 million people. San Diego was a Maccabi host city in the 2008 Games.

Delegation Head: Jackie Lewis Number of Athletes: 38 Years as DH: 11 Position: Past Games Director for the 2009 JCC Maccabi Games Interesting quote: “During the St. Paul Games, our flight home got cancelled.

We had Shabbat at a hotel which the teens thought was so much fun, they wanted to repeat it the next year!”

Delegation Head: Fanchon Auman Number of Athletes: 86 Years as DH: 9, 15 years total in Maccabi Position: JCC Sports Recreation and Aquatics Interesting quote: “My family lives by one rule — they may not schedule any family event that will conflict with the Games.”

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Delegation Head: Phil Ruben Number of Athletes: 86 Years as DH: 3, 5 years total in Maccabi Position: JCC Sports Recreation and Aquatics Interesting quote: “We have formed friendships with other delegations from all over the world. We connect throughout the year just as many of the athletes do.”

Delegation Head: Ann Johnson Number of Athletes: 32 Years as DH: 1 Position: JCC Athletic Director Interesting fact: Ann was a competitive year-round swimmer for ten years.

Delegation Head: Stu Epstein Number of Athletes: 14 Years as DH: 22 Position: JCC Sports Advisory Committee for Basketball Interesting quote: “We were fortunate to have the first quadriplegic athlete participate for our Tucson team in both 2005 in Dallas and 2006 in Phoenix. He won 6 medals.”

Delegation Head: Ron Polsky Number of Athletes: 14 Years as DH: 24 Position: Delegation head for 24 years Interesting fact: Played basketball for Canada and defeated the United States for the first time ever in Mexico City in 1999.

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Friedel Ice Cream Social Movie, 7 p.m.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 Parsha Prayer and Prophets, 9 a.m. at Chabad Main Streeters Committee Meeting, 10 a.m.

Friedel Executive Board Meeting, 5:30 p.m.

BBYO Chapter Board Elections, 6 p.m.

Friedel Board of Directors Meeting, 7 p.m.

Board of Trustees, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel Rabbi Mizrahi’s Weekly Class, 7 p.m. at Beth Israel WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 Friedel First Student Day, 8:15 a.m.

Holocaust Survivor Speaker Series: Through the Eyes of a Survivor, 7 p.m.

Rabbi Weiss’s Weekly Class, 7:30 p.m. at Beth Israel Advanced Halacha Kollel, 9 p.m. at Beth Israel THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 Women of the Torah, 9:30 a.m. at Beth Israel School Directors Committee Meeting, 10 a.m.

Rabbis Around the World, 7:30 p.m. at Beth Israel FRIDAY, AUGUST 20 NCJW Meeting, noon Mainstreeters Luncheon Program, 12:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 Sparks Beneath the Surface, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 BBYO Worlds of Fun Trip, 8 a.m.

Bagels & Beit Midrash, 9 a.m. at Beth Israel Limmud for Educators, 10 a.m.

MONDAY, AUGUST 23 High Holiday Stories with Nancy Rips, 9 p.m. at Beth El TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 Parsha Prayer and Prophets, 9 a.m. at Chabad BBYO Chapter Board Installations, 6 p.m.

Rabbi Mizrahi’s Weekly Class, 7 p.m. at Beth Israel 9th Annual Jewish Omaha Film Festival, 7:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25 Friedel K-Curriculum Night, 6:30 p.m.

Community High School, 6:30 p.m.

NCJW Board Meeting, 7 p.m.

Rabbi Weiss’s Weekly Class, 7:30 p.m. at Beth Israel Advanced Halacha Kollel, 9 p.m. at Beth Israel THURSDAY, AUGUST 26 Women of the Torah, 9:30 a.m. at Beth Israel JOLT Session, 7 p.m.

Rabbis Around the World, 7:30 p.m. at Beth Israel 9th Annual Jewish Omaha Film Festival, 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 Tot Shabbat and Dinner, 6 p.m. at Temple Israel Birthday Blessings, 6 p.m. at Beth El SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 Sparks Beneath the Surface, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 Bagels & Beit Midrash, 9 a.m. at Beth Israel ADL Civil Rights Immigration Discussion & Coalition Building, 2 p.m.

Temple Israel Mythbusting: The Path to Becoming a Legal Citizen, 2 p.m.

Wine, Cheese & Book Talk for 20’s and 30’s with Rachel Shukert, 4:30 p.m. at Beth El 9th Annual Jewish Omaha Film Festival Deli Dinner, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 31 Parsha Prayer and Prophets, 9 a.m. at Chabad BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

Rabbi Mizrahi’s Weekly Class, 7 p.m. at Beth Israel

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Excitement Builds for Jewish Community High School

by SHERRIE SAAG, Center for Jewish Education The community is talking, and it’s not all about next week’s Maccabi Games. As exciting as the games will be, after 6 days, they come to an end. And when they do, the Omaha Jewish Community High School (OJCHS) opens its doors for its first school year.

Mark Javitch, a member of Temple Israel and a BBYO advisor, will be teaching a class on Jewish Philanthropy.

“I was very happy to hear about this latest chapter in Omaha Jewish education and even happier to get involved. I have learned more about my own Judaism through exposure to the Judaism of my peers, and I had to wait for college to experience this. I think it will be an amazing way for our teens to debate, challenge and learn about what Judaism is to them,” he said.

Rabbi Jonathan Gross of Beth Israel Synagogue was one of the high school’s earliest supporters. He believes a pluralistic Jewish education can be a wonderful experience for teens. “My experience in Omaha, and one I take great pride in, is how all Jewish denominations work together in the best interests of the entire community. As we embark on this latest community endeavor, I hope it will not only benefit Omaha but serve as an example of cooperation that can inspire other like-minded communities,” he said.

“I believe this will rejuvenate the Jewish high school experience of our time-and-relevancy-starved kids. I think it’s a way to keep it fresh and interesting,” stated John Lehr, an OJCHS parent and president of the Temple Israel Board.

Rabbi Eric Linder of Temple Israel concurred. “What a great opportunity for kids with different Jewish backgrounds to learn from each other and strengthen their Jewish identity as members of a vibrant community.”

Alyssa Kirshenbaum will be an incoming freshman at Burke High school when the school year begins. She is a member of Beth El Synagogue and completed her elementary Jewish Education at the synagogue. Alyssa’s family participated in Federation’s 2007 Family Mission,

along with Temple Israel’s Rabbi Aryeh Azriel. “I had a great time with Rabbi Azriel on my trip to Israel. I heard he will be teaching and I am really looking forward to the possibility of taking his class. It will be great to have teachers I’ve never had before,” she said.

Would there be any other incentive to look forward to? “Being together every Wednesday with friends who attended religious school elsewhere will be great. I am really looking forward to that,” she added.

Sally Zipursky, another OJCHS parent, believes that, while all her children have gotten a great foundation in Conservative Judaism at Beth El Synagogue, “I think this is a great opportunity to expand their Jewish horizons.”

In addition to the social prospects, her son Aaron commented, “The classes that I heard about sound interesting. I am looking forward to a more diverse education.” Aaron’s sister Naomi likes the varied academic options: “Choosing my own class subjects means I can take more personal meaning from them and use it in my everyday life.”

It’s not just students, parents and clergy that are excited and pleased with the pluralistic educational format the new high school brings. “As each detail fell into place, Beth El Synagogue became more excited about the inauguration of the new OJCHS. The collaboration of all three congregations and the Omaha Jewish Federation in creating this secondary educational entity for Omaha’s Jewish youth is dynamic and historic,” said Judy Rubin, Education Director at Beth El Synagogue.

Perhaps Janet Kohll summed up the past and future of Omaha Jewish education best when she said, “I wish this had been around for Anna (a freshman at the University of Arizona this fall) and I hope it will be around for Leo (a 1st grader at Friedel Jewish Academy) when the time comes!”

High school pre-registration begins Aug. 15. The first day of classes is Oct. 6 with special events and educational programming planned in September. Information will be mailed soon or call school director Miriam Gross at 590.2147.

With an eye toward cooperation, recalling the Holocaust heroism of Muslims

by LAUREN GREENBERG thought this fits the perspective of mutual understandNEW YORK (JTA) -- In April 1941, members of the ing and shared history.”

Kavilio family of Sarajevo fled their house as Nazis ramMughal said his organization detected a rift between paged through the city destroying Jewish homes. As they the Jewish and Muslim communities in Europe and saw ran toward the mountainside, a Muslim friend of the fam- this booklet, which took the better part of a year to proily, Mustafa Hardaga, spotted them and offered shelter. duce, as an opportunity to address it.

Shortly after, when Josef Kavilio thought the family Jews see Muslims as inclined toward violence and could be moved to safety, the Kavilios relocated to uninterested in engagement, discussion of the Mostar, an area under Italian control, but Josef stayed Holocaust or mutual understanding, Mughal said. And, behind. He was arrested by the Nazis and held captive in according to Mughal, Muslims believe that Jews don’t chains in the freezing snow. want Muslims to be heard.

Hardaga's wife, Zejneba, Muslims, he said, “feel that found Kavilio and smuggled there is an overwhelming him food until she could desire to protect the Middle help him escape to safety, East, and that the Jews where he stayed with the don’t want to discuss anyHardaga family again. thing else.”

Kavilio later rejoined his By chronicling World War family, but their relative II stories in which Muslims security did not last. When went out of their way to the area fell under German help Jews -- 70 Muslims are control, the Kavilios again named by Yad Vashem as Zejneba Hardaga, in black, at a Yad Vashem tree-planting sought refuge with the “Righteous Among the ceremony in honor of her family, 1985.

Hardagas.

Nations” for aiding Jews in Credit: Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial North Africa, Turkey and Decades later the Kavilios, by now living in Israel, petitioned the Yad Vashem Albania during the Nazi era -- the booklet aims to Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem to recognize the change those perceptions.

Hardagas’ bravery and name them Righteous Gentiles.

Aside from physically saving people, the Muslims whose Later, when Yugoslavia broke up and the region stories are retold in the booklet helped preserve Jewish descended into war in the 1990s, the Hardaga family was life and culture, helping Jews obtain kosher meat before rescued from Sarajevo and brought to Israel in 1994. the Saabbath or saving the famed Sarajevo Haggadah.

The story of the two families is among eight told in a Mughal said he hopes the booklet will demonstrate to new booklet produced by a British interfaith dialogue Muslims and Jews that “life is not black and white, group and called “The Role of Righteous Muslims straight and narrow.” http://www.faith-matters.org/resources/publica “The histories are different but are intertwined,” he tionsreports/171-righteous-muslim.” The 30-page said. “Our shared histories can overcome feelings of booklet, produced by Faith Matters, focuses on stories helplessness and hopelessness.” of Muslims helping Jews during the Holocaust and is Faith Matters, which has posted the booklet on its webbeing distributed to educators, synagogues and mosques site, is working with partner organizations in both comas a model for positive Muslim-Jewish interaction. munities to distribute the booklet and have it used in com“We wanted to try to look at something that could munity settings by educators and by individual readers. bring greater understanding in both communities in the “It is short and was written in an easygoing style, so UK,” the director of Faith Matters, Fiyaz Mughal, told that it can be read in 20 minutes,” Mughal said. “We JTA. “We’re looking for bridging points, and we want people to absorb it without having to revisit it.”

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July 30, 2010

Let the Games begin GUEST E DITORIAL

by JEFFREY AIZENBERG JCC Executive Director

This coming week the Jewish population of Omaha will increase by about 25% as we welcome 1,000 Jewish teens along with 500 accompanying delegation heads, coaches and family members from 29 communities throughout the country as well as delegations from Mexico, Canada, Hungary and Israel for the JCC Maccabi Games! Two years of planning by hundreds of volunteers and staff will come together this week in what is sure to be an extraordinary event.

I could spend all the pages of this week’s Jewish Press thanking people for their significant contributions in preparing to host these Games. There are several individuals, however, whose leadership over the past two years requires me to mention them personally. When I approached Kimberly Robinson about the possibility of hosting the JCC Maccabi Games she was also beginning her two-year term as President of the J. Kimberly had been Housing Chair in 2002 and had attended a number of Games in other communities, so she knew what we were asking her to do. After thinking about it and consulting her family, she said “yes,” and I knew then we would be able to get this done.

When she got her co-chairs Cindy Goldberg and Stacey Rockman on board, we knew we had a team that would be successful. These three leaders tapped every resource available to

them: friends, families, organizations and others throughout the Omaha community, all with one goal in mind: to get everyone involved in our Omaha JCC Maccabi Games. Jonathan Rockman chaired our fundraising campaign with exceptional effectiveness. In spite of the economic uncertainty over the past two years, it never occurred to Jonathan that our community would not support hosting the Games and of course he was right. Our Associate Executive Director, Lisa Shkolnick, agreed to be the Games Director for the second time. Her outstanding organizational and communication skills, attention to detail, and commitment to excellence set the standard for both our staff and lay leadership. Assistant Games Director, Esther Katz, together with all of our JCC staff, provided outstanding support in every area of organizing this event. They assumed these responsibilities in addition to their regular jobs and in doing so once again demonstrated their high level of professionalism.

Many thanks go to our committee chairs, host families, volunteers, sponsors, synagogues, Jewish agencies and organizations, our Day of Caring/ Sharing partners in Lincoln, the JCC Association staff and the many organizations and businesses

throughout the Omaha community who got involved and supported this effort. It has been a privilege to work with all of you.

The past two years have been uncertain ones for our country. We know that significant change is happening; there is much anxiety about what the future will look like for our Jewish and secular institutions and how that change will affect us. For this next week, however, we will focus on what we do best as we welcome 1,500 members of our global Jewish family into our community, treat them to our first-class Midwestern hospitality, and provide an outstanding week of athletic, social, cultural, educational and community-service programming. Together we’ll create meaningful Jewish memories that will last a lifetime.

Thank you, Omaha!

BEHIND THE H EADLINES

by JEROME A. CHANES NEW YORK (Forward) -- With the American Jewish Congress apparently closing its doors, there won’t be many mourners saying Kaddish. Instead, the prevailing communal sentiment will probably be: “We have too many agencies; one less will not matter.”

The serious financial problems that had plagued the AJCongress over recent decades became a mortal threat in the past year-and-ahalf as a result of l’affaire Madoff, in which the storied agency lost the bulk of its endowment.

While details have been scarce, the on-again, off-again -- and now very much on-again -merger talks between the American Jewish Committee and the AJCongress appear certain in the event of an agreement to yield more of a takeover than a merger.

The lonely mourners for the AJCongress will be those of us who remember what the group once meant to the American Jewish polity. We will recall the pioneering role that the AJCongress -- not so many years ago one of the “Big Three” Jewish “defense” agencies (along with the AJC and the Anti-Defamation League) -- played in shaping the contours of American Jewish communal affairs over nearly a century. The AJCongress taught the American Jewish community how to say what it wanted to say and how to do what it needed to do.

There is a great irony in the fact that the American Jewish Congress has been forced to turn to the American Jewish Committee in its dying days. After all, the AJCongress was launched in 1918 by Jewish activists who were dissatisfied with the then-dominant AJC. The AJCongress’ founders saw in the AJC’s wealthy German-Jewish leadership a selfappointed, self-perpetuating aristocracy. In their view, the AJC lacked a mandate to speak

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What the American Jewish Congress gave American Jews for American Jewry and was in fact dismissive of the Eastern European Jews who by then constituted the vast majority of the nation’s Jewish population.

The debate over who spoke for American Jews, which reflected largely overlapping divisions between Eastern European and German Jews and between Zionists and anti-Zionists, erupted over the question of who would represent American Jewish interests at the peace conference following World War I. The result was an ad hoc “congress” that would act as an umbrella for Jewish groups and which dispatched a delegation to the peace conference to represent Jewish interests.

Institutionally, today’s AJCongress was an outgrowth of this first “American Jewish Congress,” which assembled in Philadelphia in December 1918, was dissolved in 1920, was reconstituted in 1922 under the leadership of Rabbi Stephen Wise, was fully organized in 1928 and evolved into a membership organization in the 1930s. The AJCongress’ early leaders, foremost among them Wise and Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, believed that only a democratic structure would yield maximum participation in Jewish affairs, not just by German Jews but by Jews of all stripes -- Litvaks and Galitzianers as well as Yekkes.

The AJCongress approach to Jewish identity and interests also was different from those prevailing at the AJC or the ADL at the time.

Wise, in particular, offered a vision of American Jewry that was both religious and ethnic -- in contrast to those who saw American Jews simply as citizens of the Mosaic faith. He saw Jews as a people possessing a distinct cultural history and interests that needed to be represented. The AJCongress leaders articulated the view that Jewish group interests needed to be advocated through appropriate organizational channels, not merely through a few well-connected individuals.

Wise and Brandeis firmly rejected the view that Jews should eschew vigorous public advo-

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cacy and restrict their efforts to behind-thescenes lobbying so as not to “make waves.”

The AJCongress pioneered the use of legislative and judicial action to improve conditions for American Jews. This direct-action method -- using the law and litigation, often in coalition with like-minded groups such as the NAACP and the ACLU -- concentrated on actively fighting discrimination, not simply on reforming prejudicial attitudes.

This approach was a major departure from the “social-relations” model of the ADL and the AJC, both of which emphasized education programs to promote good-will toward Jews and tended to use quiet diplomacy to redress grievances. Indeed, the creation of the AJCongress’ Commission on Law and Social Action in 1946 sent shock waves reverberating throughout the Jewish communal world.

Towering AJCongress figures such as Alexander Pekelis, Will Maslow and Leo Pfeffer, and later Phil Baum and Marc Stern, crafted, refined and implemented these strategies, which subsequently became standard for American Jewish communal agencies. Pfeffer emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as the Jewish community’s chief strategist on church-state matters; for many years he exercised almost complete dominance over the Jewish community’s litigation agenda. The AJCongress came to be seen as the American Jewish community’s “lawyer”; it played a leading role in landmark civil rights and First Amendment cases (especially on church-state issues) heard before the Supreme Court.

The AJCongress’ demise reflects in two ways the death of what characterized American Jewish communal life at its very best. First, the model of democratic governance in the Jewish community was a creation of the AJCongress, and was its hallmark from its earliest days.

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Fringe benefits when I have to be where, and who I should be with.

During the last week of July and the first week of August, the sticky note is my friend.

But with the knowledge that “it” is almost here, comes the realization that the Games bring us much more than mere bustle. There are some very specific fringe benefits to this sort of thing. Watching an entire building slowly but surely come together working towards the same goal is an amazing sight. Seeing an army of volunteers drop by to pick up their packets is impressive, and – for us at the Press - having our very own intern who came to lighten the load during this busy time has been pure bliss.

When we get busy and preoccupied, we tend to sleep less, worry more, and we are in danger of forgetting why we do what we do. Maybe this is an overwhelming undertaking, and I’m sure some of you every once in a while secretly (or not so secretly) wish it were over already. Reminding ourselves of the pure awesomeness of both the Games and our city is, I think, a necessity. It takes a very dedicated group of people to pull something like this together. We’re going to host more than 1000 kids, we’re welcoming them in our homes, and every single Jewish organization within our community is involved in some way, shape, or form. How fabulous is that?

If there is one thing I have learned first-hand over the past 12 years, it is that Jewish Omaha is a very cool citywithin-a-city. I have not a single doubt about this community’s ability to make every last athlete, coach, and artist from out of town feel incredibly welcome. Making people from all over feel at home: it’s what Jewish Omaha does best. So whatever your task is, all of you who are working so hard: pat yourself on the back as you go and do your thing.

Community connections

by EMILY GILLER Jewish Press Intern A Jewish community. It is a sense of belonging and unity. It is a place where a person can always come back to and even call “home.” What makes Omaha’s Jewish community so strong, so tight-knit? What makes people want to come back here and become involved within the Jewish community?

I have lived in Omaha my entire life. That is 20 years of swimming at the JCC pool, attending JCC summer camps, going to Hebrew school, obtaining leadership positions in the B’nai Brith Youth Organization and traveling to Israel on the Artza 2006 trip.

I thought my well-established Judaic career, my all day every day, nothing is more important than my Jewish identity career was over once I graduated high school.

See, I attend the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where the Jewish population is slim-to-none when compared to other universities. (Ok maybe we beat Brigham Young University.)

I went down to Lincoln freshmen year where I joined a sorority where I am, in fact, the only Jewish person. I try to keep my Jewish connection by participating in Hillel events, but at best, only 12 people ever show up.

In December, I usually find myself helping string Christmas lights around my sorority house and decorating the Christmas tree that sits in the living room. I do tell my fellow sisters though, that I plan on bringing a menorah to sit on the table next to the tree this year.

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Now, after being in college for two years and getting ready to enter my third year, I’m in awe at how wrong I was. See, I am writing this little article at my desk in the Jewish Press where I am interning. I have been writing stories for the biggest youth event to happen to Omaha since 2002: the JCC Maccabi Games, which I will be working at.

How did going away to college for two years lead me back here to the Omaha JCC? Community, that’s what.

I had forgotten how strong of an impact the Omaha Jewish community has on my life; on all our lives.

So that is why I come back and why we all come back.

It isn’t just for the Jewish mothers asking me if I’ve found a nice Jewish doctor yet, or the old Hebrew school friends I haven’t seen in years, or even the fact that due to the size of the Omaha community, the “six degrees of seperation” rule can safely be cut down to the “two degrees of separation” rule within the Jewish population. As Jewish people, we come back for all of that and more.

As a united people we are strong and supportive, but without that unity we lose a sense of belonging and even a sense of ourselves. It is important for us to keep our Jewish identity alive and I can’t think of a better community to do that in than the one right here in Omaha.

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by ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Editor of the Jewish Press Whoever said things get quiet before a storm wasn’t aware of anything called ‘Maccabi Games’. The week between me writing this editorial and you reading it promises to be hectic, crazy, and fast. Before we know it, it will be here: a mega-number of out-of-town guests who will eat our food, sleep in our spare bedrooms, and participate in our athletic events. We are hardly the first city to host, nor is this the first time for Omaha; but it is an impressive and ambitious undertaking nonetheless.

Like so many of you, I’ve said yes to housing athletes, as well as to attending and hosting more dinners and lunches than I can keep track off. There are the Social Hall and Community Room that need to be decorated, volunteers have been signed up left and right, articles need to be written, advertisements need to be placed.

Somebody somewhere has ordered insane amounts of food, a certain artist has provided the gallery with larger than life images (see page 3), the staff at the Kripke Library is putting together something called the ‘Maccabi Store’ (see page 2). Hotel rooms, rental cars, flight schedules: they have all been arranged and booked by someone diligently working behind the scenes. Were I to write a list of every detail that has to be in place, I’d need this entire newspaper.

In the middle of all that, there is an adult B’nai Mitzvah party at the Blumkin Home on July 30 (2:30!), as well as the new deli initiative on the same day (11:301!), which promises to be busy, busy, busy. I expect to see many of you there: missing out is not in the vocabulary these coming days; besides, who can say no to a delicious Blumkin sandwich?

As I said: hectic. Crazy. Fast. I just hope I’ll remember

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Continued from page 12 tions.) The ideal of vigorous discussion and debate of issues within and among agencies is today but a dim memory to many in the Jewish communal arena.

Second, the AJCongress was idiosyncratic from the start. It was willing to stand on principle and apart from the rest of the Jewish organizational world. But in breaking the Jewish communal mold, it often would recast that mold in its own image.

Examples abound: The early AJCongress was Zionist at a time when anti-Zionism (or, at best, non-Zionism) was the regnant ideology in our community. In its pioneering of law and social action, the AJCongress incurred the wrath of other Jewish groups concerned about Jewish advocacy being too visible, but these groups eventually followed the AJCongress lead. The AJCongress was alone among Jewish organizations in supporting Israel’s kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina. The AJCongress was the first major American Jewish group (in 1984) to support the idea of a Palestinian state. The AJCongress was a trailblazer in its unvarnished support of free speech, often staking out positions at odds with other Jewish groups.

The demise of the American Jewish Congress should be an occasion for mourning. But more important, it should be an occasion for remembering and reconnecting with the oft-forgotten ideals and values that it helped introduce into Jewish communal life. Who will teach us how to say what we need to say and how to do what we need to do?

Jerome A. Chanes is editor of the forthcoming “The Future of American Judaism” by Trinity/Columbia University Press. From 1983 to 1996 he served as national affairs director of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council, the predecessor to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs. This OpEd first appeared at Forward.com.

Rabbis told: quit singing

by JTA NEWS STAFF JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel’s Chief Rabbinate has ordered rabbis to stop singing under the chupah, saying it “cheapens the Rabbinate.”

Ynet reported earlier this month that the Council of the Chief Rabbinate agreed to strip rabbis who incorporate song and musical performance into the marriage ceremony of their authority to officiate at weddings.

A similar decision was announced a year ago, but with the recent decision the rule will be enforced more vigilantly, according to Ynet. Officiating rabbis have filed complaints with the Chief Rabbinate about the practice, claiming that they “degraded themselves” during the ceremonies.

“We are aware of the fact that a younger generation has arisen that is far from the tradition and is interested in such a chupah so that it is more accepted by those attending,” Rabbi Ratzon Arusi, chairman of the Rabbinate’s Marriage Committee, told Ynet.

“However, everything must be in accordance with halachah. If the rabbi is genteel and cordial, we have no opposition. On the contrary, he sanctifies the Heavens. But when he sings and plays music, this is problematic.”

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Oliver Stone decries Jewish lobby’s power, then apologizes

by JTA NEWS STAFF Holocaust, for which I am sorry (JTA) -- Oscar-winning director and I regret,” Stone said in a Oliver Stone apologized for saying statement released late Monday. in an interview that the Jewish Elan Steinberg, vice president of lobby controls the American Washington’s foreign Gathering of policy and that Holocaust Survivors Hitler’s actions should and their Descendants, be put “into context.” was among the Jewish Stone in an interorganizational and view with the Sunday Israeli officials to conTimes also had said demn the remarks. that “Jewish dominaSteinberg in a statetion of the media” ment said Stone’s has prevented an apology “was neceshonest discussion sary and we accept it.”

Oliver Stone about the Holocaust.

“But whether he “In trying to make a broader acted out of sincerity or as a deshistorical point about the range of perate response to the moral outatrocities the Germans committed cry at his comments is an open against many people, I made a question,” he added. “He must be clumsy association about the judged by his future words and

Ann Kibel Schwartz to speak at Temple Israel Ann Kibel Schwartz, formerly of Omaha, will be speaking during evening services at Temple Israel on August 6, 6 p.m. The topic for the evening is ‘My Jewish Journey’.

PERSONAL Family and friends please join us for a memorial service honoring Minda Friedman Lieberman on Thursday, Aug. 5, 11 a.m. at Temple Israel Cemetery.

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deeds.”

The article by reporter Camilla Long is not available online without a paid subscription to the newspaper, although British bloggers and other newspapers have printed excerpts.

During the interview, Stone said that Jews were dictating U.S. foreign policy and that the Jewish lobby “are hard workers.”

“They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington,” he said, adding that Israel has “f---ed up U.S. foreign

policy for years.”

“Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry,” Stone said in his apology statement. “The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity -- and it was an atrocity.”

Stone, the winner of three Academy Awards, including as Continued on page 15

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His interests include reading, swimming, and boy scouts.

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Grandparents are Fran and Barry Snyder, and Letha and Robert Pitlor.

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The rule of consequence

SPARKS FROM THE WORD

by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Ekev It is in the very nature of our being that we often do things without considering what might follow.

Our Sidrah reminds us that we must be much more careful about the things that we do or say. Why? Because there often are results that we do not anticipate and that are not to our liking.

Notice the interesting etymological connection of the word Ekev with the word “heel.” You remember that when the twin sons, Jacob and Esau, were born, Esau was said to be hanging on to the heel of Jacob.

We get some idea of the logic involved when we remember that some things “follow on the heels” of one thing or another.

If we do one thing, we ought not to be surprised at what follows. On the other hand, if we do differently, we ought not to be surprised at that different outcome.

One result “follows on the heels of another.”

Thus we are prepared to understand why our Sidrah is called “Ekev.” But here the consequences are not unimportant: ancient Israel was warned that if they listened carefully to what the Lord required of them, and to do these things, then the results would be happily received.

On the other hand, if they did not do as they were directed, the results could be devastating.

Read again what the Torah describes as the joyous results of doing as the Lord has directed. Chapter 46 of Deuteronomy sums this up very well. All of the promises made to their ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, would be fulfilled, fulfilled on you yourselves, for you are their descendents. The Lord will love you and bless you and increase your numbers, and he will bless your descendents and the very produce of the land into which you are entering.

The promises indeed are astonishingly inclusive of all good. Israel was to be more fortunate than all the other nations. All difficulties and illnesses would be removed.

All the difficulties that they had suffered in Egypt would be erased. They would have no difficulty with the people who were there before them as they entered the Promised Land.

The Lord reminds them of all that lay behind them for forty years without accomplishment. He reminds them it is He who has fed them and cared for them during this long period of difficulty. In a few famous words (8:4) Israel is reminded that man “does not live by bread alone, but rather by everything that the Lord has promised.” It is a “two-way street.” Nothing comes automatically to Israel, but upon its return to faithfulness in following instructions of the Lord.

These few words, spoken to Israel, just before our ancestors entered the Promised Land, have remained the foundation of Israel’s faith for all the ensuing centuries.

There are consequences to what we think, plan, and do.

One thing follows upon another, as it were. One thing follows “upon the heels” of what has preceded.

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DEATHS ELEANOR ALEXANDER Eleanor Alexander passed away on June 23 at the age of 81. Services were held at Beth El Cemetery on June 24, followed by memorial services and reception at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home.

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Palestinian bishop critical of Israeli policies wins top Lutheran post

by JTA NEWS STAFF BERLIN (JTA) -- A Palestinian bishop who has been a harsh critic of Israeli settlements and a proponent of a shared capital in Jerusalem was chosen for a top post in the Lutheran Church.

Munib Younan, 59, told Lutheran leaders after his election as head of the Lutheran World Federation in Stuttgart on Saturday that he hoped to contribute to building peace in the Middle East.

The Jerusalem native said his church must dedicate itself to fighting “extremism and xenophobia, especially anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,” according to the Deutsche Welle news agency. He added that “The conflict in my own home is never far from my thoughts.”

Younan, bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land, will head a church federation with 145 member churches in 79 countries.

Some critics have charged Younan with being antiZionist. While he declared support for a two-state solution in a 2009 interview with PBS, he also suggested that Israeli policies were to blame for violent attacks on Israel.

“We Palestinians, Christian or Muslim, care for the security of Israel,” he told PBS. “But the security of Israel depends on the freedom and justice of the Palestinians.”

In 2006 he signed “The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zionism,” condemning the pro-settler Christian movement as “detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel.” The declaration also promoted “nonviolent resistance as the most effective means to end the illegal occupation.”

In the PBS interview, Younan also said that Palestinians had to understand the trauma of the Holocaust for Jews, and Jews and Israelis must “understand the deep trauma of occupation in the depth of us Palestinians. Although there is no comparative suffering. Suffering is suffering.”

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Kafka manuscripts uncovered

by JTA NEWS STAFF (JTA) -- Original manuscripts by Franz Kafka were found in safety boxes opened in Zurich, Switzerland.

More manuscripts reportedly are stored in vaults in Tel Aviv, six of which were opened last week.

The manuscripts were revealed as part of a trial over the estate of the Jewish writer’s close friend and literary executor, Max Brod.

Brod had left his estate to his secretary, Esther Hoffe, who died three years ago. The estate is now under the control of Hoffe's daughter Eva. Kafka had requested that his manuscripts be burned upon his death, which apparently was not honored. The existence of the manuscripts came to light when Eva Hoffe and her sister Ruth began selling pieces of the estate.

Brod had requested that the manuscripts and other papers in his estate be kept at the National Library in Jerusalem or some other public archive in Israel or abroad. The library filed suit against Hoffe to obtain the documents.

The Tel Aviv Family Court is due to rule on a petition filed by Hoffe asking that the contents of the safe deposit boxes not be made public.

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On Hitler, Stone said that the German leader “did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million. Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein -- German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.”

Israel’s public diplomacy minister, Yuli Edelstein, was among those who had condemned Stone’s remarks early Monday, “They are nauseating, anti-Semitic and racist,” the Jerusalem Post quoted Edelstein as saying. “Not only is he showing ignorance, he is demonizing Jews for no reason and returning to the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

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Tourists flocking to Israel at record pace

by MARCY OSTER JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli tour guide Yossi Weiss was leading two busloads of American Christian pilgrims on a tour of Jerusalem’s Old City when he noted how difficult it was to move around.

The Jewish Quarter was so crowded and busy Monday as the group visited the Temple Mount, Robinson’s Arch and other famous sites, observed Weiss, who recently was named chairman of the Israel Tour Guides Association.

It was one sign of the record year Israeli tourism is having.

Despite the hand-wringing over Israel’s image overseas, the political direction of the Jewish state and the persistence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, visitors are continuing to flock to Israel -- more than ever.

In the first half of 2010, some 1.6 million tourists visited Israel, setting a new record, according to the Israeli Tourism Ministry. It constituted a 39 percent increase over the same period of 2009, which included the Gaza war, and a 10 percent increase from the first half of 2008, Israel’s previous record year for tourism.

“Israel is a sought-after tourism product,” said Oren Drori, senior deputy director general at the Tourism Ministry, adding that there is a wide gap between Israel’s political image and its actual image.

Despite the gains over last year, the number of visitors for 2010 is only slightly ahead of where the numbers were 10 years ago, before the start of the second Palestinian intifada, according to Ami Etgar, director general of the Israel Incoming Tour Operators Association.

Claiming that Israel can do better, because Israel lifted the visa requirement Etgar said that “This is a country that for travelers from Russia in 2008. With every person in the world has a motiva- the visa restriction now being lifted on tion to visit.”

Ukraine, visitors from that country are Furthermore, the record numbers have expected to grow, too. not translated into equal gains for Israeli • Tourism traffic from Latin America, hotels because many of the tourists are particularly Brazil, has risen dramatically. day trippers A new El Al visiting from route estabE g y p t , lished earlier J o r d a n , this year Cyprus and between Tel Tu r k e y, Aviv and Sao according to Paulo has Eli Gonen, helped bring president of more visitors the Israel from South H o t e l America.

Association.

“It’s a The numb o o m , ” Always a draw for tourists from a variety of countries -- Dead bers also P i l g r i m Sea mud. include the Tours’ operpassengers on cruises that dock in Haifa ations manager Eduardo Kitay said of the and Ashdod ports. For nearly a decade, agency’s Spanish and Latin American pilcruise ships did not stop in Israel due to grimage tours. Kitay says the agency is so ongoing security issues, but they have busy, it may have to turn away groups at returned in recent months, and bookings the end of the year and into early next have increased for 2011. year.

“We are glad that people are coming to • New tourism markets, such as the Far visit the country,” Gonen said. “We hope East and Eastern Europe, have begun to they will come again and stay longer.” send more travelers, while tourist from Industry experts attribute Israel’s Germany, England and France remain tourism boom to several factors: steady. North America remains the No. 1 • Israel has changed its aviation policies source of tourists to Israel. to allow more airlines to land in the counTourism Ministry officials attribute try, including charters and low-cost their success in promoting Israel to European carriers. implementation of the recommendations • The evangelical market is growing. from a 2006 report by Ernst & Young on Three-fourths of all visitors to Israel are Israeli tourism. The report found that non-Jewish, and 35 percent of those visi- Israel has the potential to more than doutors define themselves as pilgrims, ble the number of annual visitors, to according to Drori. between 4 million and 5 million per year, • More Russians are coming, in part and the way to reach that point was to

promote Israel’s attractions while minimizing any negative feelings associated with its political developments.

The study propelled the Tourism Ministry to develop “intensive, segmented and focused” marketing and advertising campaigns to improve Israel’s image as a tourism destination while targeting specific audiences, Drori said. Over the past year, targeted advertising campaigns have run in the United States, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Scandinavia and Brazil, ministry officials said.

The manager of Tel Aviv-based Yarkon Tours, Joseph Mizrachi, says the main increase in bookings has come from Christian visitors. Jerusalem is the agency’s main destination, in addition to such Christian religious sites as the Sea of Galilee (the Kinneret), the Jordan River, the Mount of the Beatitudes and Mount Tabor.

The surge in tourists also has benefited the Palestinian economy by sending visitors to the West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Jericho. Though Israeli passport holders are barred by law from entering areas fully controlled by the Palestinian Authority, known as Area A, the Tourism Ministry recently allowed Israeli tour guides into Bethlehem in preparation for leading tours there, and Israel is considering easing restrictions on Israeli visits to Palestinian areas.

Weiss, of the Tour Guide Association, says August and September do not look very promising now. The American market, which usually books well in advance, appears to be waiting until the last minute, he said, speculating that concerns about the economy could be the reason.

“It puts some uncertainty into the equation,” he said.

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