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Vol. LXXXIV No. 48 Omaha, NE

Celebrating 84 Years of Service to Nebraska and Western Iowa

Frances Batt Honored with NJHS’s First Mary Fellman Award

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Omaha Brings Home the Gold

“thought her worthy.”

by CAROL KATZMAN Though Batt could not be Editor of the Jewish Press present, the award was From the time she could accepted on her behalf by talk, Frances Batt collected daughter Ellie and son and memorabilia about her daughter-in-law, Bob and famous mother, businessJanice Batt. “We were born women Rose Blumkin, into history,” Bob Batt founder of Nebraska added, noting that his famiFurniture Mart. That extenly’s perspective on life is:“It’s sive collection of newspaper not how much you have; it’s clippings, photos, awards, how much you give.” brochures, and more now In giving the award to Batt, belongs to the Nebraska past President Joanie Jewish Historical Society it Bernstein said of Mary was announced at the orgaAbove: Accepting the first Mary Fellman award from Joanie Fellman, who also served as nization’s annual meeting Bernstein, left, a past-president of NJHS, are Frances Batt’s President of the Jewish on Sunday. children: Ellie Batt and, in back, Janice and Bob Batt.

Federation of Omaha and Batt was awarded the first Editor of the Jewish Press, Mary “has raised millions of dolMary Fellman award, named lars for Jewish causes her and in Israel. Batt’s love of famifor NJHS’ founder, first ly, compassion for the elderly, and passion for our past” President and Executive propelled her to “organize and fund the NJHS exhibit Director. According to ‘100 Years of Jewish Women in Business’. She again chose daughter, Ellie Batt, who NJHS in donating her mother’s memorabilia, so others spoke for her mother, Frances would know how a little lady became a big success.”

Batt said she always had In addition to the Fellman award, NJHS also honored “great admiration for Mary’s Lois Friedman with its Shirley Berman Award. incomparable skills” and was Frances Batt Continued on page 15 “thrilled” that NJHS

Team Omaha captured 54 medals at the 2005 JCC Maccabi Games in Dallas, TX, July 31-Aug. 5, including Olga Elkin above, who battered the competition to win gold. More photos and final standings on page 16. See even more photos of the recent Games in Dallas, online at: www.jewishomaha.org; click on Jewish Press.

As Zero Hour Nears, Israeli Forces Fear Violent Worst-case Scenarios TEL AVIV (JTA)--The column of armored sport-utility vehicles waited, engines humming, as a phalanx of bodyguards ushered Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into the third truck from the end. As the convoy cleared the main gate of the Israeli government head’s residence, a set of decoy vehicles turned north, toward Jerusalem, while the remaining units proceeded south toward the Negev, where Sharon planned to tour absorption sites being built for hundreds of Israeli families soon to be evacuated from Two young settler women walk hand in hand with orange ribbons tied to them, the color of the anti-disengagement movetheir Gaza Strip homes.

For Sharon, the site ment, as thousands gather for a mass protest, July 19, in the inspections this spring were community of Kfar Maimon in southern Israel. Thousands of a welcome excursion beyond opponents of Israel’s historic Gaza Strip pullout gathered in his Jerusalem office com- the village ahead of their bid to break into settlements and pound or his Negev ranch. But for offi- the recently retired director of Israel’s Shin cers charged with protective security, the Bet security service, told JTA. Dichter was talking less about outing rivaled an elite combat operation.

Hours earlier, crack teams descended on Palestinian terrorists seeking to harm each of the six kibbutzim and farming vil- Sharon than about “Jewish ultra- extremlages on the morning’s itinerary, creating ists who are sure that one way to block “sterile” zones for Sharon to meet with the disengagement is by harming, if not pre-screened residents and local leaders. At killing, the prime minister,” he said, refereach stop, a bridgehead of agents cleared ring to the controversial plan to withdraw the way for the advancing prime minister Israeli soldiers and settlers from the Gaza while, 15,000 feet overhead, an unmanned Strip and northern West Bank that reconnaissance drone scanned the scene Sharon pushed through his government.

As the planned pullout approaches in with high-powered optics.

“We don’t spare any effort, money and just a few days, many fear that protests tools in order to protect the prime minis- against the Sharon government could ter from the growing threat,” Avi Dichter, give way to acts of violence. As ringlead-

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assessed a number of scenarios, including the prospect of a Jewish suicide bomber.

“We’re not ruling out a Jewish suicide bomber who might use ‘tamot nafshi im pilishtim’ as his rationale,” Dichter said, referring to Samson’s words in the Bible as he brought down the Philistine temple around himself, “Let me die with the Philistines.”

The Knesset Finance Committee last month authorized a budgetary increase of nearly $90 milimpede next month’s withdrawal. Right: Activists who sup- lion to cover extra costs port the disengagement wait to hand out blue and white rib- associated with Sharon’s bons in Jerusalem, July 29. The blue and white movement, personal protection, which a led by former security chief Ami Ayalon, was established to committee aide estimated at counter the settlers anti-disengagement stance, who have some $230 million a year. adopted the color orange.

Credit: Brian Hendler/JTA While many protective ers from the far right vow to thwart the measures were mandated by a commiswithdrawal, security officials are increas- sion of inquiry following the 1995 assasingly warning of the prospect of Jewish sination of then Prime Minister Yitzhak terrorism.

Rabin--and extended to a wider net of Those warnings appeared prescient last officials after Palestinian terrorists murThursday, when an AWOL Israeli soldier dered Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evi reportedly known for his extremist ideol- in October 2001--one recently retired ogy went on a shooting rampage on a bus Shin Bet official said the security around in the Israeli Arab town of Shfaram, Sharon was unprecedented and was killing four people and wounding 12. An directly related to the Jewish terror enraged mob lynched Eden Tzuberi, 19, threat. when he stopped shooting. Israeli gov“The fact that we now are dealing with ernment officials and leaders of the Yesha internal threats definitely compounds our settlers council condemned the attack as security requirements,” the former offian act of terrorism. cial said.

According to Dichter, the Shin Bet has Continued on page 6

This Week: Federation Honors Volunteers: Pages 8-9 Beth El Features Class for Adults: page 2

YU Torah Tours Returns to Beth Israel: page 3

Coming Next Week: Fall Home & Garden Special Issue Ocean Breezes Crossword Puzzle on page 10

Ole! Flamenco Dancer Highlights WRJ Event: Page 14

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by JILL BELMONT “From Your Heart to God’s Ears.” During this course, Beth El Publicity Coordinator participants will discuss the meanings, impact, goals and Beth El’s adult education program is brimming with personal interpretations of Jewish prayers. fun, educational, interactive learning opportunities for “Our goal is develop a better understanding and Jewish adults throughout our community, and the entire appreciation of our prayers,” Greenberg said, noting community is invited to join in as a new year of classes that all discussions will focus on the English translations begin later this month. Students are welcome to attend from the Sim Shalom prayer book. “Special attention as many classes as they like, as often as they like! will be given to Friday night, Saturday morning and holOn Sunday, Aug. 21 at 10 a.m., teacher Susi Frydman- iday selections. We will not learn how to pray: we will Levin resumes her “Living Hebrew” class. This intermedi- learn what we are praying for.” Knowledge of Hebrew ate-level Hebrew course is geared to those who already or prayer customs is not required, he added, saying that know how to read Hebrew but want to expand their all are welcome to experience this new class.

Following the High Holidays, Rabbi Levin will vocabulary and reading skills. “Our goal will be to increase participants’ fluency in reading and understanding of Hebrew texts,” Frydman-Levin said. “Through conversational Hebrew, we will decode new and known words, find their roots and enhance our knowledge.”

She also noted that to familiarize new students with the curriculum, the first two sessions will be used to review last year’s subject matter.

Following “Living Hebrew” at 11 a.m., Frydman-Levin will begin a new session of “Jewish Pot Pourri,” a free-form class that incorporates history, literature, music. Each week will be a surprise, the instructor said, with students exploring the richness of Jewish culture and traditions.

“Classes may be based on a variety of subjects--short stories, fables, children’s stories, songs – the possibilities are endless and we’ll make it up as we go,” Frydman-Levin said. “It’s fun to not have a specific text to follow, but the free form also makes it more of a challenge.”

At 10 a.m., students of the synagogue’s on-going Bible Study class will join together to study, discuss and interpret Jewish texts. (The group is currently exploring the third and fourth chapters of the second Book of Kings II.) Fledgling students, as well as seasoned pros with Top photo: Among those participating in Beth El’s weekly Bible study class are extensive knowledge of the texts, are wel- from left, Sylvia Wagner, Steve Riekes, Lynda Mirvish and Caryl Greenberg. come to join in the conversation, led by Bottom photo: Teacher Susi Frydman-Levin (standing, center), is flanked by some of the regular attendees of her “Jewish Pot Pourri” class.

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Also at 10 a.m., Cantor Gastón Bogomolni will con- resume his popular class held every Thursday at noon; tinue to instruct this year’s Adult B’nai Mitzvah class. the theme of this year’s class and the starting date will be Learning Torah, Haftarah and prayers for Shabbat serv- announced at a later date. ices are keeping students busy as they prepare to celeCost of each class (with the exception of Bible Study) brate this significant milestone next spring. is $18 per semester, to cover the cost of materials. To Beginning Sunday, Sept. 11, 11 a.m., an exciting make a reservation or for more information about Beth new class will be added to the synagogue’s adult-educa- El’s educational offerings, please call the synagogue tion lineup, as congregant Andy Greenberg will lead office at 492.8550.

Temple Israel Raises $12,000 for Israeli Congregations

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Since February 2004, when the Temple Israel Board of Trustees voted to join other Reform congregations throughout North America in the Hineini project, Temple has raised nearly $12,000 to sponsor Reform rabbis in Israel, to build Progressive synagogues in Israel, and to bolster Progressive Jewish leadership in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Specifically, Temple is helping finance the conAndi Willensky struction of synagogue buildings for two Israeli Reform congregations, Kehilat Yozma in Modi’in and Kehilat Mavasseret Zion located just outside Jerusalem in the Judean Hills. Both congregations are led by young, energetic women rabbis and have shown dramatic growth since they were established. Temple’s Middle/High School Social Justice Club also participated in Hineini along with Women of Reform Judaism which donated $500 to the project.

Kehilat Yozma is one of Israel’s fastest growing Progressive communities. Yozma has about 150 member families. But its diverse programs, including Shabbat and festival services, activity groups and programs for children, b’nai mitzvah courses, and life cycle ceremonies, serve hundreds more.

Kehilat Mevasseret Zion was founded by six families in 1993 and has grown to more than 130 families who meet in private homes for prayer and hold services, often attended by 700 people, in a junior high school. Led by the first Israeli-born female rabbi, the congregation runs a preschool for 40 children, provides weekly adult learning sessions, and celebrates more than 40 b’nai mitzvah each year.

Proposed by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, every Reform congregation was asked to adopt a project, “because these congregations, and others like them, are literally our Movement’s future in the Jewish state.”

Andi Willensky coordinated Temple’s campaign which sought a donation of $18 from each household in both 2004 and 2005. Temple was one of approximately 100 URJ congregations to commit to the Hineini project and was named one of 17 Builder Congregations by URJ. Stacy Schiff, who was the Hineini coordinator at URJ during the time of the campaign, said, “The committee in Omaha was particularly creative and enthusiastic about the Hineini initiative right from the beginning.

From launching a heartfelt appeal in installing an art exhibit on the project, (which was) highlighted on the URJ Hineini webpage, Temple Israel not only generously contributed to the funds collected for Israel but also inspired and motivated other Reform congregations around the country to participate in unique ways.

Working with Temple Israel of Omaha has been very rewarding.”

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Yeshiva University’s Summer Torah Tours Return to Beth Israel Cori Anne Robinson is originally from Staten Island. events are held at Beth Israel.

by MARY BORT for Beth Israel Synagogue Following morning services at 7 a.m. on Aug. 17-19, She received her BA in theatre from Brandeis University Yeshiva University’s Summer Torah Tours returns to and then her Master’s in theatre criticism and theory join the staff for breakfast and informal discussions startBeth Israel Synagogue for a fifth summer, holding a from City College of New York. She is now starting her ing at 7:30 a.m. “This is a great opportunity for men series of festive and insightful programs, Aug. 17-20. final year of Law School at Pace University. Robinson and women to participate in Shacharit and visit with the Informal breakfasts, “Lunch and Learns,” special din- and her husband, Gavriel Bellino, are the parents of six staff over a complimentary breakfast,” said Gross. ners and musical services are some of the events that will month old Choni Bellino.

There will be two “Lunch and Learn” programs, with be held during Torah Tours’ visit to Omaha. a $5 dairy lunch available at each. Men and women are Torah Tours staff are YU college students and invited to both. The first is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 17, noon and will include a discussion about the Simicha (Rabbinic) students who spend their summer historical perspective of prayer. A second Lunch and vacations traveling to communities to fulfill the mission Learn will be held in the JELS classroom at the JCC on of the Max Stern Division of Communal Services Thursday, Aug. 18, noon. The topic will address (MSDCS) at YU. MSDCS provides professional and “recycling and conservation” from a Jewish perspective. service programs, working with future and current Everyone is invited to attend a Spaghetti and Rabbis and educators with placement and training.

Rabbi Jonathan Gross, a graduate of YU’s Rabbi Isaac Meatballs dinner at Beth Israel on Wednesday, Aug. 17 Elchanan Theological Seminary and former Torah Tour at 6 p.m., followed by Mincha/Ma’ariv at 7:30 p.m.

Dinner is $10 for adults, $5 for children ages four-12, staff member, is pleased to welcome Torah Tours to and is free to children ages three and under.

Beth Israel. “In addition to the benefits that Torah After services, Elli Klapper will give a presentation Tours programming provides to Omaha, there is the about his experience as a candidate for Donald Trump’s added benefit of exposing our terrific community to hit television show, “The Apprentice.” Rabbi Gross our future rabbis and teachers,” said Gross. “The first time I came to Omaha was with this program during explained, “As one of the top 200 finalists to be chosen, Elli will talk about what it was like to be interviewed by the summer of 2001. I loved this community and the previous winner and other famous people. He’ll also decided to stick around.” show the video he submitted that resulted in his YU Torah Tours staff members are young adults who becoming a finalist.” offer unique points of view. Gross explained, “It’s nice A special Game Night and Dinner at Rabbi Gross’ to have some fresh perspective. Each Torah Tours staff Last year’s Torah Tours staff meets Sara Gross, left and Bette member brings expertise from different areas of study. Kozlen, second from right. home on Thursday, Aug. 18 at 6 p.m., will provide Elli Klapper is from Queens, N.Y. He studied for a youth the opportunity to spend time with Torah Tours For example, Gavriel Bellino is completing his Master’s degree in the specific area of philosophy and the year and a half in Yeshivat Hakotel in the Old City of staff. All fifth-12th graders are invited for dinner, for Kabbalah. Each staff member brings his or her insights Jerusalem. He is currently a student in YU’s Sy Syms which there is no charge.

School of Business. A young and ambitious entrepreand interests to the table, and we all benefit from it.”

A Family Friday night dinner is Aug. 19, following Bellino grew up in Greenwich Village, NY. He neur, Klapper has already started his own marketing 7:30 p.m. musical Kabbalat Shabbat services. Dinner is received his BA from Brandeis with majors in philoso- business in New York City. $12 for adults and $6 for children ages 4-12. Free Ashley Hoberman is from Skokie, IL. She learned in babysitting will be provided during services. phy, psychology and women’s studies. After graduating, Bellino worked for a year as a consultant in forensic psy- Midreshet Moriah in Jerusalem for a year. She is curOn Aug. 20, Shabbos morning services will begin at 9 chology until he decided to pursue his ordination at YU. rently a student in YU’s Stern College for Women and a.m. Free babysitting will be available from 9:30 a.m.

He is currently completing his courses and concurrently wants to work in interior design. Hoberman has worked until the conclusion of services, and Junior Congregation completing a Master’s in Jewish philosophy and as an advisor in our own Midwest Region of NCSY for will start at 10:30 a.m. A Shabbos lunch will follow Kabbalah from the Bernard Revel School of Judaic the past two years. services. Lunch is $8 for adults and $4 for children ages There will be a variety of formal and informal oppor- four-12.

Studies and his Cantorial degree from the Belz School of tunities, with Torah Tours. Unless otherwise noted, Continued on page 4 Jewish Music.

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Torah Tours Continued from page 3 Sponsor or Patron, please contact Beth Torah Tours will hold concurrent adult Cohen in the office. Sponsors and and NCSY sessions at 7 p.m. Mincha will Patrons will be listed in the Shabbos be at 8 p.m., followed by a complimen- Sheet at Beth Israel during Torah Tours, tary Shalosh Suedot, and then Havdalah. and in the September Bulletin.

In addition to the scheduled events, anyone interested in having individual or small group learning sessions with Torah Tours staff should contact Rabbi Gross.

He’ll help schedule a time and choose topics.

Summer Torah Tours is sponsored by Beth Israel Synagogue in conjunction with Yeshiva University.

Bringing Torah Tours to Omaha is made possible by the support of community members. Donated funds off- A Torah Tours staff member “drumming up some fun” with Max set the cost of staff airfare and Joshua Polack.

Please contact the office to make all meal and allow Beth Israel to offer program meals at reasonable prices. If you are reservations by calling 556.6288, or e-mail interested in being a Torah Tour BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org.

Community to Hold Forum on Gaza Disengagement Issue

Kripke Library Presents the Control Room and Discussion Afterwards

by GARY KATZ Library Administrator “The most profound work to date on how our government has manipulated news coverage in Iraq.”-- John Anderson, Newsday.

Join the Kripke Jewish Federation Library on Sunday, Aug. 28, 7 p.m. at the JCC Theater for the Omaha premiere of the Control Room. Afterwards, there will be a discussion with Paula Cohen, Senior News Producer with ABC News.

She supervised a daily newscast, ABC’s “World News This Morning”, for four years, and currently works with the network’s Special Events Unit, planning coverage of major stories. Prior to coming to ABC, she spent five years as a writer and producer for CNN in Atlanta.

Control Room by Jehane Noujaim, an award-winning Arab-American filmmaker who has lived within and embraced both worlds, provides an opportunity to reexamine what is perhaps the most pressing question of international relations today: “Is America radicalizing or stabilizing the Arab world?” Without miring itself in shadowy conspiracy theories, Control

Room provides a balanced view of Al Jazeera’s presentation of the second Iraq war to their worldwide Arab audience, and in doing so calls into question many of the prevailing images and positions offered up by the U.S. news media.

Control Room’s view inside Al Jazeeraa network branded “Osama Bin-Laden’s mouthpiece” and subject of intense criticism from U.S. administration officials for showing images of Iraqi casualties and American POWs that American viewers never saw. Lt. Josh Rushing, Central Command Press Officer, U.S. Army, says of Al-Jazeera, “It benefits Al-Jazeera to play to Arab nationalism because that’s their audience, just like Fox plays to American patriotism, for the exact same reason... because that’s their audience... the big thing for my generation is for these two perspectives--my perspective, the Western perspective, and the Arab perspective - to understand each other better... because, truly, the two worlds are colliding at a rapid rate.”

This program is free and open to the public. For more information please contact the Kripke Library at 334.6462

Special session of Guy and Bob Show “Engage about Disengagement”

by GARY JAVITCH All across Israel, the scheduled disengagement of settlers from Gaza has generated a great deal of discussion – most of it heated. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon based his bold gamble for peace on a number of premises. Depending on your viewpoint, Sharon is traveling down the right path, or he is sacrificing major resources, huge amounts of money, and risking many lives on a wasted effort. The directive by the prime minister will be implemented beginning Aug. 17.

“There is a great difference of opinion on this topic,” according to ADL director Bob Wolfson. “That is the main reason we worked with the Federation, B’nai B’rith, and other Jewish organizations to help put together a forum.”

The evening will feature a brief presentation about the news of the previous few days by Guy Matalon and Wolfson following the model of their hugely popular “Guy and Bob Show” on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m. at the JCC. The forum is free and open to the public.

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Temple’s Annual Golf Outing Promises Fun and Prizes

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Temple Israel’s Golf Outing is moving back to Ironwood Golf & Country Club, 126th and Pacific Streets, for its annual shotgun start on Monday, Aug. 29, 1 p.m. Michael Miller, co-chair of the event along with John Glazer, said, the 19-hole tournament with flag prizes on every hole and a new format should make “this a fun and fast event for everyone.”

Golf Committee members are in the process of securing prizes for the outing.

So far, there are gift certificates from numerous restaurants, Mulhall’s, and Parsow’s as well as golf bags, coolers, Weber grills, and jewelry from Brodkey’s.

There will be a raffle, wagering events, mulligan, and surprises, promised Miller.

In addition, the swimming pool and the tennis courts will be available for open play from 4-7 p.m. at no charge for golfers’ families. “We invite everyone, especially families, to join us poolside for dinner following golf,” Miller said.

He encouraged women to sign up to play and everyone to sign up early. For $125, participants get to play 18 holes of golf with a cart, enjoy lunch, use the driving range, and have dinner at Ironwood.

Foursomes can play for $500. It costs $30 to attend only the dinner and awards presentation. Call the Temple office at 556.6536 to make a reservation or to sponsor a hole.

Hole sponsorships cost $350 or $800 which includes golf for a foursome.

Sponsors’ names will be displayed on tees and greens and on printed material the day of the event.

“While this is a fundraiser for Temple, it’s also a fun afternoon and evening in a non-traditional setting,” Miller said. “I have played in this event many times and have always found it to be fun.” The “enjoyable group” of players includes “many age groups. Golf is a sport we can all play and enjoy as a group. When asked to chair this event, I was looking for a way to become more involved with Temple, and this seemed like something I could do that would be fun and benefit Temple at the same time.”

On Sunday, Aug. 28, at Boulder Creek Amusement Park, 14208 S St. (southwest of 144th and Q), Temple will sponsor its annual Family Miniature Golf Outing. Registration starts at 4 p.m., and the shotgun start begins at 4:30 p.m.

Bruce and Cindy Goldberg are chairing the event which features meat and vegetarian burgers and hot dogs after golf.

Every golfer is automatically entered into a drawing for a door prize. Raffles and other opportunities to win prizes are also part of the day’s activities which are free of charge.

Make a reservation by Wednesday, Aug. 24, by calling Executive Director Dennis DePorte at Temple at 556.6536 or send an e-mail to him at ddeporte@templeisraelomaha.com.

In addition to Miller and Glazer, Golf Committee members are Jim Farber, Rick Fox, Jay Matz, Jeff Smedlund, Jon Meyers, Joe Meyers, Mike Siegel, Kevin Gilinsky, Mike Silverman, Steve Redler, Scott Schneiderman, and DePorte. Lori Bennett has also been “a big help,” added DePorte.

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It’s surprising that Goldberg has tackled the unfamiliar Regent Beverly Wilshire, punctuating his Brooklynese with staccato belly laughs. On this sunny Saturday in world of Internet dating, since he’s known for mining his Beverly Hills, he’s speaking about his new film, “Must own past to create hit TV shows and movies. His definitive Love Dogs,” about a 37-year-old divorcee (Diane Lane) 1980s sitcom “Family Ties” pitted an arch-conservative son (Michael J. Fox) against liberal exprodded into Internet dating by her hippie parents like Goldberg and his loving yet intrusive family. wife, Diana. His 1989 film, “Dad,” But the conversation inevitably drew on the year he fought to keep veers back to 1950s Bensonhurst, his father alive through a labyrinth aka”Paradise,” the nurturing blue of doctors. “Brooklyn Bridge,” of collar Jewish area where Goldberg course, revolved around his Wonder grew up with Orthodox grandparYears in a two story house shared by ents and well-meaning, if nosy, his immigrant grandparents and neighbors. He immortalized the nuclear family. “Downstairs it was ‘hood in “Brooklyn Bridge,” one of Poland, and upstairs, it was the most critically acclaimed TV America,” he says of the living series of the 1990s.

Co-Stars Diane Lane and John Cusack. arrangements. The cocky Goldberg Now he muses with relish about how residents there would have Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures worshipped sports, but was bar mitzresponded to his romantic comedy about personal ads vahed Orthodox to respect his relatives.

Dating non-Jews was forbidden, but he broke that and 40-ish divorces. “Actually there was no one 37 and single in Bensonhurst, because you stayed together, taboo (and many others) upon going off to Brandeis unhappily, for the children,” he says. “Except my cousin University on a sports scholarship. After he was expelled Pearl, who was spoken of in hushed tones and ultimate- for ditching classes around 1970, he hooked up with Irish-Catholic Diana around 1970 and set off on a world ly moved to California.

“Matchmaking was a lot of fixing up; the whole neigh- tour with a Labrador named Ubu. Two years later, they borhood was like J-Date but without a computer, with conceived their first child in Israel, but ran out of money aunts and uncles and telephones,” he adds. “And God for- and had to beg the airfare home.

Goldberg’s family promptly embraced non-Jewish Diana bid a woman of a certain age should be single. People “because by that point, they were relieved I didn’t turn up would start talking, ‘What’s the matter with so-and-so?’”

The 61-year-old Goldberg (“Family Ties,” “Spin City”) with a black man,” he says. It wasn’t until Goldberg was admits to being a “smug married person” who conde- 30 that he chanced to take a scriptwriting class, which scended on the personals when he picked up Claire Cook’s prompted him to buy his first TV set, used, from a motel novel, Must Love Dogs, in a bookstore around 2003. At the for $25. He proved a quick study. “He was one of the few time, he had let his agent go and considered himself in television who could always be counted on to deliver retired, eschewing his Brentwood home to live in his comedy that was smart--and--funny,” said Howard Rosenberg, former TV critic of the Los Angeles Times.

Revolutionary War era farmhouse in Vermont.

“I didn’t own a computer, so I didn’t realize ‘Must Love Goldberg’s UBU Productions turned out sitcoms that Dogs’ was a dating tagline,” he recalls of the novel. “I reflected the zeitgeist as well as his real life. Perhaps thought it was about people who love dogs, and I love “Dogs” lured him out of retirement, in part, for the dogs.” So he bought the book and was surprised canines chance to explore material that was not autobiographical.

The filmmaker does not believe he could find romance played only minor roles. Yet he laughed out loud at the Irish-American protagonists who, like his relatives, engaged after marriage: “When my grandfather died, my grandin “a lot of meddling, a lot of talking about people as if mother never looked at another man, and I am like my grandmother.” So if Goldberg should ever find himself they’re not actually there, but with overwhelming love.

“I thought the project would give me something to do single, what would his Internet dating profile read? “It besides walking the dogs,” he says. Because the long-mar- would be, ‘Lonely old man seeks to stay lonely and old.”

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Riekes wasn’t the only one to make that kind of comment about Walk on Water, an Israeli movie presented at the Oakview mall in a special, limited showing in July.

So many people buzzed about the movie that it became the topic of conversation during its one-week run.

The outgrowth of the interest led to a decision to form a panel and open a forum for discussion. To help focus the conversation, two well-known local movie mavens will sit on the panel. The panel leader will be Dr. Stephen Skulsky, a local family therapist, a highlyregarded movie buff and film critic. Dr. Skulsky has facilitated several very popular discussion groups of this type before with his insightful, interesting, and informative commentary. Rabbi Jonathan Gross, another film aficionado, will join him.

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Continued from page 1 Aides say Sharon is disturbed but not deterred by threats from nationalistic elements he once considered his most ardent supporters.

“The tension here, the atmosphere here, seems like we’re on the eve of a civil war,” Sharon noted in an interview earlier this year on NBC television. “All my life I fought to defend Jews. Now, for the first time, I am taking steps to defend myself from Jews.”

Little more than a decade ago, Rabin used to walk the Tel Aviv streets to his Shabbat-morning tennis session.

With his security detail trained to keep watch from a deferential distance, dog walkers and other early risers had no difficulty approaching Rabin in his tennis whites.

In the heady but tumultuous period after the 1993 Oslo accord, Rabin circulated relatively freely at public events, eager to glean firsthand feedback from supporters as well as from increasingly strident detractors. He brushed off repeated requests by Carmi Gillon, then the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets Israeli head of Shin Bet, to curtail his public appearances or Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on July 22 at Sharon’s ranch in limit those with whom he came in direct contact. He the southern Negev desert. Rice met with Sharon at the start also refused to wear the bulletproof vest the Shin Bet of a fresh diplomatic push to ensure the success of Israel’s upcoming pullout from the Gaza Strip. prescribed.

Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/BP Images/JTA “Internal security was not a factor in determining his officials trot out such schedule,” said Oded every few warnings Ben-Ami, who served as months, delegitimizing Rabin’s media adviser at the opposition, while the the time. “He absolutely by DAN BARON refused to listen to those JERUSALEM (JTA) -- In addition to the human dimensions, this supposed threat never warning of the so-called summer’s disengagement plan can be measured by the numbers: materializes.

But Ephraim Sneh, a Jewish threat.”

• 100 -- percent of the Gaza Strip to be evacuated and handed Labor Party legislator Ben-Ami recalls the over to the Palestinian Authority who chairs the Knesset time in early 1994 that • 300 -- square miles of the West Bank to be evacuated Sub-committee on DeGillon sent Rabin an • 21 -- Israeli settlements to be uprooted in the Gaza Strip fense Planning and Policy, armored Cadillac to pro• 4 -- Israeli settlements to be uprooted in the West Bank is privy to what he said tect him against increas• 9,000 -- approximate number of Israelis to be evacuated ingly rowdy anti-Oslo • 45,000 -- Israeli soldiers and police expected to participate in were ominous briefings by security officials condemonstrators. the Gaza withdrawal “He absolutely refused • $1.74 billion -- approximate cost of the withdrawal to the Israeli cerning the Jewish terror threat. “The potential for on principle. No. 1, he government. didn't think it would look • $360,000 -- average compensation the Israeli government political assassination and civil war here are no good for a prime minister expects to pay each relocated family. of the people to be driv• $870 million -- approximate cost to resettle former West Bank longer just rhetorical,” he said. “The poisonous ing around in the epito- and Gaza residents elsewhere in the country. me of American luxury.

• $2.2 billion -- amount of special assistance Israel plans to atmosphere is getting worse.”

And No. 2, which was request from the United States “We’re hearing very disprobably more important Figures provided by The Israel Project, culled from various turbing reports about the for him, Rabin rejected sources, with some modifications. theft and stockpiling of the notion that he could IDF weapons by a small minority of fanatics who could become a target for domestic violence,” Ben-Ami said.

Even as the atmosphere grew increasingly menacing, sweep up the entire Israeli society and the region into with political opponents and rabbinical authorities catastrophe,” he said.

Beyond political assassinations, catastrophic scenarios demanding Rabin’s removal for his “traitorous” dealings range from the indiscriminate killing of Jewish civilians with the then Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, his 1995 slaying by a religious university to guerrilla-style warfare against military and police units charged with implementing the withdrawal. Details of student stunned Israel and the world.

On that fateful night in November 1995, Israelis lost one plan that could have resulted in scores of victims not only a leader but also their relatively free access to were revealed May 18 in an indictment brought against two brothers, residents of the West Bank settlements those in positions of power in the government.

In retrospect, said Hezi Kalo, a former Shin Bet offi- Yitzhar and Homesh.

According to charges brought in Tel Aviv District cial, the incitement against Rabin pales in comparison with the invective hurled at Sharon and supporters of Court, the pair loaded two gasoline-doused vehicles the withdrawal plan, such as “Sharon: Lily is waiting for with mattresses, tires and other flammable items and you,” a reference to the prime minister’s recently planned to set them ablaze at one of the most congested areas of Tel Aviv’s Ayalon freeway during the morndeceased wife.

“Today it’s much uglier. We haven’t learned our les- ing rush hour.

“The suspects practically and intentionally endangered son,” Kalo said. “We’ve already seen how verbal violence the security and the lives of all drivers and citizens in the can lead to murder.”

Since Sharon began talking of withdrawal in vicinity of the vehicles,” the charge sheet proclaimed.

December 2003, opponents of the plan have blocked “All this was driven by the suspects’ opposition to the roadways, planted dummy bombs in public places, and disengagement plan.”

Dichter said the early May plot easily could have blanketed the country with placards and banners pillobecome a double suicide attack. rying the prime minister as a “traitor” and a “fascist.”

“Certainly they would have been killed instantly,” he Rabbinic authorities--including two former Israeli chief rabbis--have issued religious rulings against the said of the two planners, “but the rest would have withdrawal, insisting that Israel Defense Forces soldiers depended on who crashed into them -a passing bus filled must refuse orders regarding the withdrawal. Other rab- with children? A fuel tanker? God only knows what could have happened there.” bis have fiercely rejected such rulings.

Soldiers will not be precluded from defending themWhile the rough and tumble of free expression is one of the hallmarks of Israeli democracy, even the most selves if settlers open fire during the withdrawal, said the vociferous defenders of the right to protest have been IDF’s new chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, who working with the Justice Ministry, the nation’s attorney called on settlement movement leaders to rein in general and academics to define the lines separating extremists and prevent events from spiraling out of control. So, too, have dozens of rabbis who have banded legitimate protest from seditious and violent acts.

At an April seminar sponsored by the Israel together to criticize colleagues whose interpretations of Democracy Institute, Attorney General Menachem Jewish religious law appear to sanction violence and Mazuz noted that clarifications or amendments to exist- insubordination in the army.

“We have a special responsibility to preserve pikuach ing laws and statutes would help to draw clear lines for nefesh,” or the sanctity of life, Rabbi Yehuda Gilad, the protest.

However, he noted, “I’m not naive to think that this head of the Religious Kibbutz Movement, told JTA in July. alone will stop the next political murder.”

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Continued from page 6 Hirschfeld too was released once the state determined Leaders of the Yesha settler council have backed resist- there was insufficient evidence to indict him. ance to the withdrawal but stress that such resistance Nevertheless, Israeli police vowed to act forcefully and should be nonviolent. swiftly to nip any future plots in the bud.

Gilad and 80 other rabbis--many of them passionate“These cases illustrate the determination and high ly opposed to the withdrawal plan--insist that civilians level of sensitivity that exists within the Jerusalem Police must not take the law into their own and the General Security Services to hands, nor should soldiers refuse any intent or idea to attack the orders from their commanders.

Temple Mount,” the May 16 stateKalo, now a research fellow at the ment concluded.

Institute for Herzliyah-based Those who hope for a peaceful Counter-Terrorism, stresses that outcome this summer often look most in the right-wing camp are back to the 1982 evacuation of patriotic citizens exercising their Israeli settlements in the Sinai--part right to protest nonviolently against of Israel’s peace agreement with what they trul believe is a betrayal Egypt--when worst-case scenarios

by Sharon and his government. didn’t materialize.

Nevertheless, Kalo estimates that “We were ready for the phenomthere are dozens of hard-core oppoenon of snipers,” recalled Oded nents, many of them veterans of Tyrah, a retired IDF brigadier genelite IDF fighting units, with the eral who managed the withdrawal capability and intention of carrying operation in Sinai’s Yamit settleout terrorist acts. ment. “We had a unit of Golani Meanwhile, Sharon and top brass anti-terror forces ready to go, but from the IDF and police force are we didn’t deploy them.” trying to boost the morale of soldiers As challenging and heart-rending who will have to confront any antias the Sinai evacuation was, security withdrawal extremists. As the clock sources say it may seem like child’s ticks down to next week’s evacuation, play compared with the pullout senior officers sense that the esprit de from Gaza and the northern West The Gaza Strip corps is eroding, particularly Bank. This time around, they among troops from nationalist face a more emotional and communities where the anticommitted group of resisters withdrawal slogan “A Jew does who have a much more spirinot expel a Jew” has deeper tual, financial and cultural resonance. attachment to the place In the past several weeks, they’ve called home -some nearly three dozen soldiers for more than 20 years. have been disciplined, reasSimha Weiss, 47, who has signed or arrested for refusing lived for 16 years in Shalev, a orders, a top Israeli general tiny settlement in southern told JTA in late July.

Gaza, insists most longtime In addition to the possibility residents of the cluster of of Jews attacking other Jews, Jewish communities known security officials also are afraid as Gush Katif would never of a Jewish extremist attack on think of provoking violence the Temple Mount mosques in against Israeli forces who Jerusalem or other Islamic come to evacuate them. sites. Their vigilance led to the “These soldiers are like my The Northern West Bank. arrest in April of four suspects own children,” she said. “I Credit: Ehud Tal/Consulate General of Israel in New York think I speak for most when I in two separate attack plots.

According to a May 16 summary by the Jerusalem say we will never lift a hand against them, nor will they District police, three of the men acknowledged under against us.” interrogation that they had planned to launch an antiThe IDF’s Tyrah said he’s tired of the doomsday scetank missile at the Temple Mount in hopes of thwarting narios about withdrawal, which lend what he considers the Gaza withdrawal. unwarranted credibility to “marginal criminals and In the second incident, a Ra’anana businessman, Ilan hooligans” who he said are adept at employing psychoHirschfeld, 61, allegedly considered flying a remote- logical warfare on a nervous public. controlled plane over the Temple Mount, hoping that Likewise, he said, politicians, rabbis, activists and even the international tension likely to result from the episode security officials need to tone down the rhetoric, and would scuttle the withdrawal. begin to think about the day after the withdrawal.

The police summary described Hirschfeld as “a known “Everyone is posturing for media attention. It’s one supporter of Kahanist activists for many years.” But in a promo after another, and it’s doing nobody any good,” he July interview with JTA, a longtime family friend denied said. “After the evacuation, we’ll have to live with these Hirschfeld’s involvement with or support for outlawed people and fight alongside them against the real enemy. So far-right groups and insisted that he dropped the idea it’s imperative that our government and our security estabout of concern that the camera-equipped aircraft might lishment accomplish this mission with utmostdeterminacrash down on Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall. tion and professionalism, but also with compassion.”

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Federation Honors Volunteers, Recognizes Community Service at August Board Meeting

by Jewish Federation of Omaha Staff At this month’s open board meeting, on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m. at the JCC, the Jewish Federation of Omaha will honor Bob Lepp, Susan Rothholz and Suzanne Singer, Howard K. Marcus, Reva Oruch and Julie Schapiro, and Shana Ray as Volunteers of the Year.

Bob Lepp has been an integral and vital part of the Federation Executive Committee for the past eight years. He joined its Board of Directors in 1994 and assumed a position on the executive committee in 1997.

His insights and expertise have been during invaluable times of enormous change in the Federation. In his current position as Vice-President, he has proven himself to be an extraordinary facilitator in discussions and decision-making.

Lepp first joined the Federation Board as President of the Blumkin Home, where he continues to be a tremendous resource. As an attorney at McGill, Gotsdiner, Workman and Lepp, he specializes in nursing home regulations and law and is considered an expert in the field. His longevity and dedication to the Federation and the Jewish community are unsurpassed.

Susan Rothholz, right, and Suzanne Singer have served as Co-Chairmen of the Dorothy and Myer Kripke Jewish

Federation Library for the past two years. They were instrumental in changing the mission of the Library from simply being a library to becoming a focal point for Jewish learning activity.

The two have each invested innumerable hours organizing, planning and participating in programs and events to enhance the educational opportunities offered by the Jewish community. One of their most successful programs was “Chanu-Kids,” a children’s Hanukkah event that attracted over 100 children.

They were also responsible for reinvigorating the Book Fair. This year, their hard work paid off when nationally known author Tova Mirvis agreed to speak at the Book Fair luncheon, drawing over 125 people. In addition, the two women also restructured the Library Friends fundraiser, resulting in its best success ever.

K. Howard Marcus has proven himself to be a valuable asset to the Jewish Press Commmittee.

A member of the Jewish Committee Press since 2000, Marcus currently serves as its

Vice-chairman. He has been stewarding the Press through a two-year process of creating a Disaster Recovery Plan, which would enable the Press to continue operating even if a natural disaster, terrorist attack or sudden loss of staff struck the newspaper.

Marcus brings tremendous credibility to the Press Committee in part because of his position as Editor of the Special Sections at the Omaha World Herald. A creative thinker, Marcus has proposed a number of themes for special issues and suggested that the Press create a Student Internship in Sales and Marketing, which began with the summer session in conjunction the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Volunteers of the Year for Jewish Senior Services are Reva Oruch, left, and Julia Schapiro. Both women are active volunteers for the Y o u n g Energetic S e n i o r s (Y.E.S.). More than 50 years old, Y.E.S. provides socialization and entertainment for Jewish seniors.

The two women are proof positive that chronological age is not always a reliable indicator of how old someone is. If they see there is work to be done, they are the first to offer assistance. One of their most significant volunteer jobs has been the task of writing out the contribution cards, a Y.E.S. fund raiser for more than 10

Women’s Seder Wins Community Service Award

by Jewish Federation of Omaha Staff As the community’s first citywide women’s Seder, the The Women’s Seder is the recipient of the 2004 program truly was an inter-congregational effort. The Community Service Award. This award is given annual- planning committee represented many different instituly to recognize creative programs sponsored by tions, generations and even a few newcomers to Jewish Federation agencies or Jewish organizations that have Omaha. Community members were invited to host tables made a significant impact on the community. and to use their own Seder plates, matzo covers, and canThe Seder, titled, “From Slavery to Freedom: A dlesticks for centerpieces. The synagogue gift shops Women’s Seder,” was a true collaboration. The planning brought some of their Passover wares to display and sell. committee included representatives from six Omaha The Women’s Seder was a wonderful religious experiJewish women’s organizations; Beth El Sisterhood, ence that gave women a chance to understand Passover in Congregation Beyt Shalom, Hadassah, Jewish Women a new way. For many women, Passover means cleaning International, National their house top to bottom, Council of Jewish Women, ridding their kitchen of every Omaha Section, and Women bread crumb, and preparing of Reform Judaism. and serving an enormous Close to 250 women from Seder meal and the spiritual Omaha, Council Bluffs, beauty of the holiday can get Lincoln, Sioux City, and even lost in the labor. Because this Grand Island participated in unique Seder did not require the Seder in the JCC auditoany preparations (except by rium. Its purpose was to allow the hard-working committhe women to experience the tee!), the women who attendstory of Passover through a ed were able to immerse uniquely feminine lens. Rabbi themselves in the story and Amy Katz, a graduate of the music. The Seder was also Jewish Theological Seminary, a social opportunity to meet and Yachad: the Traveling Tnew women and mingle with fillah Band, came in from old friends from the various Kansas City to lead the Seder. congregations.

Several weeks before the It took nine months of participants actually had to planning and creative fundprepare for Passover, they raising to bring the came together to “hear the Women’s Seder to life. The story” in a new way--to sing, planning committee’s goal to dance, to taste exotic to make the program affordcharosets and try new able led them to successfully Passover desserts. The Seder apply for numerous grants. itself was unique and utilized a They also sought out creative Haggadah that every patrons to underwrite other woman got to take home. expenses related to the The planning committee event. of 13 women hoped that The Women’s Seder was a this event would bring joyful experience, a true together Jewish women community effort and a from every denomination powerful example of how and every generation to cel- Above: More than 250 women from the Jewish communities Jewish Omaha can pull ebrate a Jewish holiday and of Omaha, Lincoln and Sioux City joined together in April of together across all denomito connect with each other 2004 for a Women’s Seder. Below: The Yachad Band and nations to produce an inspirin a joyful, social setting.

Rabbi Amy Katz traveled from Kansas City to participate. ing and rewarding program.

years. The donations generated by the cards help to sponsor professional entertainment and fund special theme parties.

In addition, both women also help out at the Blumkin Home. Reva has assisted by folding laundry and helping the Home’s Laundry Director for over 15 years. Julia volunteers to drive seniors to concerts and other community events.

Shayna Ray has been a member of the JCC for several years with her husband, Matt, and their three children. It was after her children’s first year at the Pennie Z. Davis Child Devel-opment Center that she began to volunteer.

As her children began learning about Judaism, Ray wanted to show her appreciation.

An accomplished Sergeant with the Omaha Police Department, Ray volunteers her services by teaching safety lessons at the CDC. She also volunteers many hours as an officer and security guard at large events held at the JCC, including the Israel Scouts Caravan, the JCC “3 on 3” Basketball Tournament and Yom Ha’Atzmaut. When asked about her favorite volunteer project, Ray says she loves them all, but teaching children about safety and providing security are among her most memorable.

Gary Katz, Carol Katzman, Mike Silverman, and Lisa Shkolnick contributed to this article.

Steve Riekes to Receive Spirit of Federation Award

by Jewish Federation of Omaha Staff Steve Riekes will be presented with the prestigious Spirit of Federation Award on Aug. 23, at the Jewish Federation of Omaha’s first Board Meeting of the year.

The Spirit of Federation Award is presented at the discretion of the Federation Executive Committee and recognizes an individual’s extraordinary achievements and dedication to the Omaha Jewish community.

Riekes has dedicated a lifetime to the pursuit of Jewish education. His zeal in creating and implementing educational programs has enriched Jewish life and touched many people in the community.

His love of Jewish education comes from his own passion for learning. He believes that “education is the key to being Jewish and to the community’s future.” So, Riekes has channeled his own enthusiasm into making educational opportunities easily available to the entire Omaha Jewish population.

Many of his contributions to Jewish education in the Omaha community continue to have lasting effects to this day. He was instrumental in establishing the Philip and Ethel Klutznick Chair of Jewish Civilization at Creighton University and assisted with the creation of a position in Jewish Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He founded the College of Jewish Learning as well as the Jewish Cultural Arts Committee.

In the early 1970s, he was one of the first chairmen for Omaha’s Jewish day school, a position he held twice. He has also served on the board of Friedel Jewish Academy.

In recent years, Riekes has served in many leadership positions throughout the Federation and the community. He has been actively involved with JELS, Jewish Educational and Library Services, serving on its board for eight years, several as president. He has also been involved for many years in the Cardoza Society, organizing annual speakers for the Jewish legal community. A an active member of Beth El, Riekes continues to provide leadership in areas of adult education and is devoted to bible study.

To Riekes, Jewish learning is a process--a never-ending quest. He is constantly thinking of new ideas to educate others--and himself.

August 12, 2005

Our Future Looks Bright FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT

by ZOË RIEKES, President of the Jewish Federation of Omaha With our Volunteer of the Year Reception right around the corner (on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m.), it seems an appropriate time to say thank you the many wonderful people who make the Jewish Federation of Omaha one of the best and strongest in the nation.

The Federation staff remains among the hardest-working professionals I’ve ever encountered. Leading the way are Jan Goldstein, Executive Director, and Julee Katzman, Assistant Director. Both these women are dedicated to the community and the Jewish people, and this passion for excellence flows throughout the entire staff. Without these dedicated people, we would never accomplish what we do.

I also need to thank the members of the Budget and Allocation Committee, chaired by Jay Gordman. This group of committed individuals represents a broad spectrum of the Jewish community and they also have one of the most challenging volunteer jobs on the planet…that of deciding how to allocate the funds raised by the Federation Annual Campaign.

As the first year of my term as President comes to a close, I’m tempted to look

back on our accomplishments, but our vision for the future makes that impossible. As you may know, the Federation is in the midst of a strategic planning process and that will keep us focused on the future.

To borrow a phrase, our future looks so bright you’re going to need shades!

Norm Sheldon, Strategic Planning Committee Chairman, and the dozens of other community members involved in the Strategic Plan are envisioning a way of doing business at the Federation through what I like to call the “three ‘Cs;” collaboration, cooperation and communication. We are starting from a position of strength and we are planning on continued strength in this community.

The goals I set for my presidency are being met. We have added many young people to board positions in every facet of leadership. The Israel teen trips are coming back. Missions to Israel are seeing a revival and people are eager to travel to the former Soviet Union, Cuba and Spain.

I’m so very proud of our accomplishments as a Federation as well as the achievements of our many wonderful volunteers. Mazel tov to all the volunteers of the year and enjoy the well-deserved nachas!

Campaign Team Surpasses Goal, Sets New Record Joe and Maxine Kirshenbaum served as chairs of the Campaign Leadership Team for the 2004 and 2005 Annual Federation Campaigns. Under their direction, the 2005 Campaign raised an unprecedented $3,250,000.

Federation Executive Director Jan Goldstein stated, “Joe and Maxine have provided tremendous leadership in the Omaha Jewish community. Their devotion to the Jewish people and Israel has been a great motivator for the Campaign team and staff, as well. We cannot thank them enough for their important work.” Other Campaign Leadership Team members include: Arnold Joffe, Pacesetter Chairman, Jeanie Neff, Lion of Judah Chairwoman, Howard Epstein and Fred Tichauer, Men’s Campaign Co-chairmen; Ruth Erman and Bobbi Leibowitz, Women’s Campaign Co-Chairmen; Jim Glazer, Young Leadership Chairman, Stacey and Brett Atlas, Super Sunday Co-Chairmen; Jody Malashock and Marcia Pitlor, Event Co-Chairmen and Anne and Bruce Shackman, 2006 Incoming Campaign Chairmen.

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2005 Annual Report Allocations to our Centers of Excellence ADL/CRC ................................................................................................................... $160,328 Jewish Community Center ............................................................................................. $59,161 Jewish Educational & Library Services ........................................................................ $220,442 Kripke Federation Library............................................................................................. $129,791 Jewish Family Service ................................................................................................. $163,358 Jewish Senior Services .................................................................................................. $65,179 Community Services and Programs Funded by the Jewish Federation of Omaha Vaad Hakashrut ……..............….......................................................…………........…………... $855 Community Development ………..............................................................………...…...…. $39,962 College of Jewish Learning …………...............................................……......................….... $8,751 Children’s Needs Scholarships …………......................................................……........…... $40,000 Child Care Financial Assistance ………..............…...............................................……..… $30,000 Jewish Press …….....………………….................................................................………….... $38,915 Friedel Jewish Academy ……………...............................................................…………….. $49,000 Heritage ……………..……..................……..................................................……………….... $42,500 Israel–UJC ………………………………....................................................................…... $1,200,150 National Agencies ……....…..…………..................……..............................................….….. $4,400 Bar/Bat Mitzvah Grants ………………........................……................................................ $10,000 Needy Funeral Fund ……………….....................….............................................…..….…..… $2,218 Birthright Israel ……………....…..................................................................…………………. $9,300 Federation Programs, Services, Missions & Campaign ..................................…………. $560,835 Central Services …………………….................................................................…….……… $388,594 Campus Capital Funds ………….................................................................…………….….. $15,000 Campus Maintenance Fund …………...............................................................………..…. $35,000 Campus Asset Replacement Fund …………......................................................….……….. $75,000 Campaign Shrinkage ……….……….......................................................................…...…. $40,000 Contingency Fund..........…………………….............…............................................……..... $15,000 Total Dollars Allocated: $3,403,525

Please join us Tuesday, August 23, 8 p.m. for a special recognition and reception honoring the Federation and Agency Volunteers of the Year.

The Humanitarian of the Year and Young Leadership Awards will be announced and recognized at future events.

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Longtime Omaha business leader and community volunteer Barry Zoob is the new Chairman of the State Board of Directors of Community Health Charities of Nebraska (CHC-NE). senior Zoob, advisor with Grubb Ellis/Pacific Realty, has been active in CHC-NE for 14 years and is a longtime board member and chairman of the board of Cystic Fibrosis Society, a CHC-NE member agency.

Among new directors elected to a three-year term on the board, is Jeff Gordman, President and CEO of Gordmans, Inc. Among new agency appointees is Scott Farkas, President and owner, Valpak of Omaha, representing the ALS Association.

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Omaha native Jeff Zweiback will be featured in a new television series--“My Kind Of Town.” This is a show which combines elements of sitcom, game show, variety, and reality. It will be premiering Sunday, 9 p.m. on ABC--and airing every week. (Check local listings for your time zone). He will be starring in his natural role as a musician.

Jeff is the son of Judy Zweiback.

ORGANIZATIONS BREADBREAKERS Israel combat veterans will talk about their battle experiences on Wednesday, Aug. 17, noon at the Regency Lodge, according to Gary Javitch, Chairman.

Two Israeli combat veterans, Ilanit Shterinberger and Eldad Ohayon, will share their past experiences in the IDF as combat soldiers, as well as talk about life after military service. Friends of the IDF Executive Board Member Alan Brody and FIDF Executive Director Bill Lipper will also be on hand to answer questions about the work of the organization in assisting IDF soldiers, veterans and their families. Cost is $11 for a full lunch and $2 for beverage service only.

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COMMUNITY JEWISH SINGLES Jewish adults from throughout the community are invited to join together at the Boulder Creek Amusements, 14208 ‘S’ St., for a fun-filled evening of miniature golf during the upcoming Community Jewish Singles event on Sunday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m. Cost is $5 for

18 holes; attendees will meet inside the clubhouse. For more information about the evening, please contact Harriet Einziger at 492.8550.

CARDOZO SOCIETY The Jewish community is invited to recognize the distinguished career of Judge Norman Krivosha at a luncheon at the Jewish Community Center on Monday, Aug. 22, 11:30 a.m. Judge Krivosha will speak on” The Role of the Judiciary in Deciding Cases and Making Law”, a timely topic as the country awaits the next Supreme Court appointment. Luncheon reservations are $10 per person and can be made by contacting Maggie Gerber, Program Coordinator for JELS, at 334.6462 or via e-mail at mgerber@jewishomaha.org. For more information on the Cardozo society, visit the Cardozo page on the Jewish Federation website at www.jewishomaha.org.

JEWISH COLLEGE KIDS If you’ve spent the summer taking classes, working, volunteering, or just hanging out and are about to pack up or just pick up to go back to college, Temple Israel’s Rabbi Aryeh Azriel and Youth and Informal Education Director Lynne Jensen want to send you off with a sweet farewell. Join them on Wednesday Aug. 17, 8 p.m., at Ted and Wally’s Ice Cream, 1120 Jackson in the Old Market. Rabbi Azriel wants to get together with the college kids for some “bonding, hugging, laughing, and (of course) some ice cream.”

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Omahans and former Omahans had a reunion during visitors day at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin. Back row (left to right): Susie Drazen, Rabbi Paul Drazen, Gila Drazen, Marissa Sadofsky, Kelli Sadofsky, Paul Sadofsky, Barbara Gottlieb, and Carolyn Ware, Joel Rich; front row: Seth Rich, Brianna Sadofsky, Mary Rich, and Daniel Ocanto.

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in Kansas City on Sunday, Aug. 28. Annual dues for BBYO are just $60, and with it comes a variety of free programming throughout the year. Our members want you to join because they know from experience that BBYO offers tremendous opportunities in all aspects of being a Jewish teenager. Because BBYO is a youth-led organization with adult advisors and professional staff, our members learn through hands-on experiences such as chapter leadership, organizing and implementing GREAT programs, and participating in social action programs, community service, and athletics, to name a few. BBYO holds chapter meetings throughout the Tuesday every year, evening at 6 p.m., so there is always something important going on!

For more information about BBYO, please me at 334.6404 or email at rblum@jccomaha.org.

The 2005 BBYO new Joe Goldberg and Shiri Tene Elina Yurikov and Chelsea Taxman members so far are: Ashley Bernstein, LaShanna Bernstein, Sarah Bleicher, Our next BBYO Rush Program is the “BBQ and Splash Bash” on Sunday, Aug. 21, 5- 7 pm at the JCC out- Amanda Bucher, Salomon Cemaj, Lauren Davis, door pool. Come meet our members, eat great barbeque Hannah Ferer, Steven Finkle, Susan Freeman, Audrey and participate in our pool party with games and prizes. Gerber, Adam Goldberg, Daniel Grossman, Maxwell The event is free for all Jewish teenagers, which makes Halsted, Dana Harnik, Noa Harnik, Andrea Holmberg, for an excellent opportunity to determine if BBYO is the Joseph Kahn, Daniel Klein, Leslie Kravitz, Alec Lerner, Talia Levin, Amy Levinger, Charles Parsow, Dylan right place for you. We think it is!

As an extra incentive to get new members, all Jewish Saferstein, Mitchell Sanford, Claire Schlessinger, Ygal teens who join BBYO for the first time this fall will be Schuller, Alex Solomon, Zach Spooner, Lydia Stern, treated to a free trip to Worlds Of Fun Amusement Park Effie Tsabari, Nathan Wolf, and your name here!

by RACHEL BLUM JCC Program Director This past spring, the B’nai B’rith Youth organization brought in over 30 new members during their annual “Rush” season, and the opportunities to join still continue! As we approach the end of the summer, we have some exciting programs for Ninth, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders, and all Jewish teens are welcome and encouraged to attend!

Beth El’s Popular Programs for Toddlers and Parents Resume This Month

by JILL BELMONT years old. Led by longtime preschool and elementaryBeth El Publicity Coordinator school teacher Helen Epstein, this innovative class uses After a short summer hiatus, Beth El’s educational and storytelling, playtime, songs and creative movement to religious programming geared for our area’s Jewish pre- impart the joy of Judaism to its small participants and schoolers will resume next week, beginning with the their parents. Now in its second year, PATTER has been always-joyful Tot Shabbat service on Aug. 19, 6 p.m. made possible by a generous grant from the Herbert This monthly Goldsten Trust. service has As a special treat attracted families for the Jewish comfrom throughmunity’s preout the entire schoolers, a special, Jewish commufun-filled program nity, and has entitled “What’s become a wonJewish About derful way for Summer” will be grandparents, held at Beth El on Tuesday, Aug. 16, parents and chil10 a.m. to noon. dren of all ages to enjoy wel- Left: Tot Shabbat leader Patty Nogg leads attendees in song as several young par- Sponsored by the coming Shabbat ticipants join in with their Jewish mishpocha puppets. Right: PATTER pre-schoolers synagogue’s Parent in a kid-friendly Rachel Kricsfeld and Emmanuelle and Samuel Bogomolni explore Hebrew letters and Child Meaningalong with Lena Bogomolni and teacher Helen Epstein (seated in chair). ful Activity Network atmosphere.

Led by early-childhood specialist Patty Nogg, Tot (PACMAN), this creative program will be led by Helen Shabbat is known for its interactive nature, offering each and Tuffy Epstein, along with Cantor Gastón Bogomolni, child the opportunity to participate in various Shabbat and will offer children ages two to five the opportunity to rituals. The 30-minute service is complete with stories, create art projects, learn some new Hebrew words and sing songs, prayers and a new mishpocha of puppets, and is along with favorite Jewish songs. Hands-on activities will always followed by a delicious Oneg Shabbat of juice, include painting ceramic mezzuzot and other Judaica items, making challah, crafting musical instruments and challah and cookies.

On Wednesday, Aug.31, 10:45 a.m. to noon, the creating a Judaica collage.

Both pre-school programs are free and open to all patter of little feet will be welcomed once again at the synagogue, as its popular PATTER class (Parent and Jewish families in the community; for more information, Toddler Torah, Exercise and Recreation) begins again contact Beth El Program Director Harriet Einziger at for parents and their children ages 18 months to three 492.8550.

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Local vs. National and International News Since the earliest days of publication, the Jewish Press has strived to maintain a balance between local news of the Jewish communities of Omaha, Lincoln and Council Bluffs, and news of interest on the national and international scene. Should this newspaper only print local news like publicity for upcoming events, social announcements like births, weddings and obituaries, and interviews of members of the local Jewish community? If that’s all that’s printed, will the Press become nothing more than a “rag”-- a “house organ” -- a “bulletin”?

We not only think our readers want more, we know they do. A recent readership survey conducted by the Circulation Verification Council of St. Louis, MO (which audits our subscription list), showed that a whopping 99% of our readers “read or look through” the Jewish Press each week. And, 23% use the Press for their only Jewish news and information source, while another 61% use it for their primary source.

That means that 84% of our readers depend on this newspaper for the JEwish perspective on the news--and that’s why continue to pursue this delicate balance between local and international news. While a story like Israel’s “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip may not appear to have any local impact at all, we feel it’s of vital importance to share the views of our “cousins” in Israel on this topic.

The results of the pullout are far-reaching.

In fact, David Bedein, Bureau Chief of the Israel Resource News Agency in Jerusalem, asks questions about the pullout that may have long term consequences: Did the withdrawal from Lebanon (where rockets continue to be fired on Israel’s northern border), serve as a precedent to withdrawal from Gaza and the northern West Bank? Since

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Mahmoud Abbas’ election as leader of the Palestinian Authority, has there been less incitement? Is Abbas truly a “peace seeking leader”?

Has aid to PA education a positive development and have there been changes to classroom materials and websites eliminating the hatred toward Jews and Israel? Did the United States recognize settlement blocs--and then withdraw its statement? Did the U.S. promise $56 million to aid in the withdrawal--and then renege? Will there be any additional funding to Israel from either the U.S. or the European Union to assist with the huge costs of withdrawal? Is Jerusalem now up for negotiation? Will there truly be an improvement in security--or will Gaza become a staging ground for the illegal import of weapons aimed at Israel proper? Will the withdrawal signal the formation of new moshavim in the western Negev--or will the Jewish Agency discourage new settlements there due to security concerns about Gaza?

Bedein offered some answers to these questions, as does the front page article in this week’s Press--and the opinion pieces on this page and page 13.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, while many Israelis want to get out of Gaza, they are frightened about the aftermath.

Abbas is worried, as

well, since he now has to deal with Hamas, still a terrorist organization despite its cover of welfare services. The PA has not changed any of its inciteful materials or its websites, nor have Muslim clerics toned down their rhetoric against Israel and Jews. In fact, the PA media reported (in Arabic--not in the English-language press, of course) that Abbas has no intention of dismantling terror groups or stopping the flow of arms.

While Israel is halfway across the globe, the results of next week’s “disengagement” may affect us here--whether you read about it or not. So, dear readers, we will continue to print stories about Jews in other lands--in Israel, in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South America and Europe.

And you can say you read it in the pages of the Jewish Press first!

Sharon, a person not known for pacifist views, is leading the disengagement plan? Here Yitzchak engages in something like conspiracy theory: Just before the time that he fully committed himself to the disengagement, Sharon and his sons were being investigated for shady financial dealings. According to this theory, the whole disengagement is designed to buy off the left and the press. In effect Sharon told them: “I will get us out of Gaza, a move so dear to your hearts, if you abort this investigation.”

What about the fact that Sharon was duly elected in a democratic process? Yitzchak points out that Sharon changed his stripes, that the Sharon who was elected was not a Sharon who stood for disengagement.

According to Yitzchak therefore, when Sharon had to dismiss the ministers of his first government because of their opposition to the disengagement, Sharon should have called for new elections.

Prime Minister realizes that he has no wide public support for disengagement; and 2) To bring about a situation where there will be legitimacy to refusing an order to evacuate the Jews of Gaza--not to sabotage the Israeli Defense Forces, but to get the government to reconsider its plan.

The whole struggle, says Yitzchak, is worthwhile because it is stirring up the people, because the people are beginning to realize that this disengagement is just a first step: “Gaza is filled with refugees who don’t think of Gaza as home but who think of Ramle, Lod, Yaffo, Akko, Haifa, and Be’er Sheva as home. Israelis are beginning to understand that after this pull-out, the Arabs will demand others.”

What does Yitzchak propose to do? After all, there are over one million Arabs living in squalor in Gaza? “If they want peace we will get to peace,” says Yitzchak. “It’s possible to set a border without a disengagement. So for the shortterm, the Arabs can stay where they are and we can stay where we are. But in the long term, they will have to move to Sinai. Let the world community give them reparations, build them beautiful homes, and move them.”

What if the disengagement goes through?

Yitzchak says: “If we have to move I will be very sad for a long time. But it will not break us. It will be a hard crisis but it will be temporary. It will be hard not only for us, but for all the people of Israel.”

Yitzchak, however, does not feel that it will come to this: “I believe that in the end, there will be no disengagement,” he says. “How this will come about I don’t know. The drama is still ahead of us.”

On this last point at least everyone can agree: this summer is certainly not a dull one in Israel.

Teddy Weinberg made aliyah to Israel with his wife, former Omahan Sarah Ross, and their five children. They live in Givat Ze’ev.

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My Poor Orange T-Shirt

JOURNAL ENTRY FROM ISRAEL

by TEDDY WEINBERGER I have a nice orange t-shirt. It fits me really well. But I can’t wear it this summer because orange is the color of those opposed to the pull-out from Gaza. And I am not opposed.

Sarah’s cousin Yitzchak Golan and his wife Havi have lived in Gush Katif (as the Jewish settlements in Gaza are known) since October of 1983. They moved to Neve Dekalim (the largest settlement in the area) just two weeks after the birth of their third child. Four more children were to be born to them, and today their seven children range in age from 11 to 24, with the first three married and also living in the area (the oldest is already a father to two girls). Yitzchak was in the regular army for more than two decades as an electronic engineer in the air force. He understands what it means to go against your superior officer, let alone your commander-in-chief. And so, even though I have put away my orange t-shirt for a few months, I thought it worthwhile to present Yitzchak’s views here.

Yitzchak knows that his strongest arguments are going to have to be based on the security situation. Neither the personal interests of the 9,000 settlers nor the religious sanctity of the Jewish settlements will matter if leaving Gaza is truly important to the safety of the State of Israel. And so Yitzchak says quite clearly: “From a security perspective, leaving Gaza will not help anything. In fact, it will increase terrorism and undermine the general security situation. The Arabs will see the move as capitulation and weakness, and they will see that their pressure has borne fruit.”

How does Yitzchak explain the fact that Ariel

Neither the personal interests of the 9,000 settlers nor the religious sanctity of the Jewish settlements will matter if leaving Gaza is truly important to the safety of the State of Israel.

Yitzchak notes that recent surveys show decreasing support for the disengagement, and he says that if you discount the voice of Israeli Arabs (who necessarily are polled in any careful study of Israeli citizens) the picture would be even sharper. Yitzchak says that it is not too late for a referendum: “Let’s see if the nation really wants this pull-out.”

According to Yitzchak, the anti-disengagement forces are currently engaged in a twofold struggle: 1) To reach a point where the

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Israel Smaller in Size, but Stronger in Spirit

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

by URI DROMI JERUSALEM (JTA)--The withdrawal from Gaza, scheduled to begin in mid-August, is one of the most important events in the history of the State of Israel.

It will determine whether Israel can continue to be a Jewish and democratic state.

In an Alert Paper published in June 2003 by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, “Jewish Demography: Facts, Outlook, Challenges,” a renowned demographer, professor Sergio DellaPergola, makes the following prediction: Sometime around 2014, there will be between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea more Arabs than Jews.

My interpretation of this chilling statistic is that in less than 10 years, if Israel keeps the West Bank and Gaza and still wants to remain Jewish, then it will become an apartheid state; and if it wants to remain a democracy, then it will lose its Jewish nature. Or, in the words of a Palestinian poet-in-exile, Mahmud Darwish, “If you don’t want a Palestinian state on 22 percent of the land today, in 20 years there will be a Palestinian state on the whole land.”

Pulling out of Gaza, then, is the beginning of a long journey which will hopefully bring Israel back to its senses. But is it indeed? Many Sharon mavens believe he wants to get rid of Gaza only to strengthen Israel’s grip on the West Bank and thus coerce the Palestinians into accepting some kind of “autonomy.” The trauma of the Gaza pullout, with the ugly scenes expected to flood TV screens, should supposedly convince the Israelis and the world community that further withdrawal is impossible. Sharon even went to Ariel (a West Bank city of 18,000) recently and promised it would forever be ours.

If I were living in Ariel, I would start looking for a moving company, just in case. Not only because Sharon said something and maybe meant the opposite, but because the basic analysis of Della Pergola remains unchanged. Whether Sharon meant it or not, he has just started a process bigger than he had envisioned-- namely, bringing Israel to its viable borders. It remains to be seen if in due course he will be the one to break the bad news to the West Bank settlers or if someone else will lead us in the next painful phase. Either way, it has to be someone from the right, because in Israel, only the right can carry out the policy of the left.

Settlers and opponents of the evacua-

tion claim that the way Sharon brought about this plan was undemocratic: He dismissed his campaign promises, disregarded his reluctant Likud party, fired two right-wing ministers and refused to hold a referendum on the evacuation plan.

His conduct reminds one of the Jewish woman, who, in the darkness of the shtetl, mistakenly prepared the cholent (traditional Shabbat stew) in the night pot. The worried woman asked the rabbi if it was kosher.

It is kosher, he told her, but it stinks.

It stinks, indeed, yet it’s kosher. It was repeatedly approved by the Knesset, the body representing all Israelis, and by the Israeli Supreme Court. As for Sharon’s sudden U-turn, wasn’t Menachem Begin elected in 1977 on the slogan of Greater Israel only to give Sinai back to the Egyptians when the historic opportunity presented itself?

And anyhow, the settlers, who for decades benefitted from Ariel Sharon’s talents when those helped them in cunningly maneuvering all governments in their favor, should be the last to be surprised and cry gevalt when he suddenly turns against them.

As for a referendum, I don’t recall ever being asked if I agreed to settling the West Bank and Gaza. I didn’t.

At stake is not only the future of the settlements, it's the future of Israel’s democracy. Sharon’s plan to pull out of Gaza is actually about the ability of Israel to turn the will of the people into political action in a democratic way. The execution of the plan will determine whether the Israeli democracy is still a functional one or a democracy in name only, incapable of implementing its most important decisions because veto power has been surrendered to a few extremists.

In the coming days, many of us will watch agonizing scenes coming from Gaza. However, we shouldn’t lose sight of the wider perspective. Stepping into an operating room in a hospital while a patient is being operated on might be a disheartening experience. Yet it is a vital act in the road to recovery. Pulling out of Gaza--and later, out of the West Bank--is likewise vital to the survival of Israel.

With self-defined borders at last, the State of Israel, democratic and predominantly Jewish, might be smaller in size but stronger in spirit, ready to defend itself if attacked or to give a helping hand to the Palestinians once they embark on a peaceful track.

Uri Dromi is the director of international outreach at the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem. From 1992-96 he was the spokesman for the Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres governments.

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Gaza Withdrawal Shakes Fundamental Roots of Zionism

BEHIND THE HEADLINES

by ASHER KEREN KEDUMIM, West Bank (JTA)-The Jewish people are in the grasp of a powerful catalyst called the disengagement plan, which envisions the unilateral withdrawal from Israel’s settlements in the Gaza Strip and parts of Samaria.

Whatever the result of the plan, Israelis must come to grips with its implications on Judaism, Zionism and even democracy. Disengagement forces upon us decisions that can no longer be postponed and the effects of which will be present for decades.

For many, including myself, the antidisengagement protest last month at Kfar Maimon was the first real statement regarding these issues. There was a sense of unity that is impossible to describe in words, a sense of harmony and purpose that came from within each of the tens of thousands of people who attended. What I witnessed gives me hope and even confidence for a reaffirmation of the Jewish roots of the State of Israel.

If disengagement happens, it will be the first step in the endeavor to empty the rest of Judea and Samaria, including half of Jerusalem, of its Jewish presence. The sociological and political ramifications of this attempt already are shaking the foundations of the Jewish return to Israel. Whatever happens will produce an earthquake.

The danger of disengagement is so great precisely because it has nothing to do with peace. Peace will not come because of disengagement, nor will terrorism cease. Quite the contrary, disengagement is the greatest reward that Palestinian terrorists could have hoped for, and it will further whet their appetite. Everybody knows this, from the supporters of the plan to its most vociferous opponents.

Rather, it has to do with the changing of the guards: The tired and morally bankrupt secular elite trying to halt the growing and ideologically charged religious settler movement.

To those who support disengagement, the excuse given is that leaving the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria behind means taking Jewish soldiers and citizens out of the heart of a hostile Arab populace. The deeper truth is that it’s a declaration of divorce from the Jewish settlers.

Economic wealth and corrupted values are the sole interests today, and that is the true motivation for disengagement.

To those who oppose disengagement, uprooting thousand of Jews from their homes signals the loss of Jewish claims over

all parts of the Land of Israel.

It is a painful recognition that the ruling minority wishes to crush the remnants of early Zionism and Jewish revival in the Land of Israel.

Secular Jewry is slowly abandoning the most rudimentary vestiges of Judaism and political Zionism, while religious Jewry is becoming more and more fundamentalist and suspicious of the secular state, from the court system to the media and government.

In fact, the disengagement plan is the expression of an exhausted and ideologically bereft, left-wing populace no longer willing to come to terms with a hostile external reality. By willingly sacrificing what many see as their “problematic” and “fanatical” Jewish brethren, they are pleading for recognition by the world of their non-Jewish tendencies. It is an excuse for moral breakdown and ideological surrender. The settlers bring to the surface that old Jewish malady of exhaustion, corruption and fear of the gentile expressed through anger towards those who are “too aggressively Jewish.”

The chiefly religious settler movement is saying that even if hard and costly, it’s a divine right and privilege to reassert our Jewish presence in all parts of the Land of Israel. Their view may be termed biblical Zionism, which means a much bolder and primal Jewish response to the world than has existed since Zionism took root and, really, since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. The issues have been delineated: How is the Zionist claim diminished or strengthened by disengagement? What is Jewish or even Zionist about secular post-Zionism? How is religious Jewry to relate to the state after it uproots thousands of predominantly religious settlers?

What is the cost to Israeli democracy of a plan that goes against the government’s mandate, especially in light of the prime minister’s refusal to conduct a national referendum? Is the State of Israel primarily a secular democracy or a Jewish state with Jewish values ensconced in its institutions?

Disengagement may happen, but it is without seed. It cannot produce an ideological framework for the left because in truth it is ultimately no more then an excuse for corruption.

In the long run, it will fail.

Asher Keren, originally from Detroit, Mich., is a biologist who has lived in Israel since 1982. He is married with four children and has lived in Samaria since 1993. He is also the author of a new book titled, A Time For Change, to be published soon by Gefen Publishing.

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

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

Beth Israel Synagogue Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific St. Omaha, NE. 68154 556.6288 BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org

Beyt Shalom An Affiliate of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation 3012 S. 119 St. P.O. Box 390352 Omaha, NE 68139 660.2395 www.beytshalomomaha.org

Chabad House An Affiliate of Chabad-Lubavitch 1866 S. 120th St. Omaha, NE 68144-1646 330.1800 nebraskajudaism.com email: chabad@aol.com

Congregation B’nai Jeshurun South Street Temple Union for Reform Judaism 2061 S. 20th St. Lincoln, NE 68502-2797 435.8004 jewishnebraska.org

Offutt Air Force Base SAC Memorial Chapel 301 Lincoln Highway Offutt AFB, NE 68113 294.6244

Rose Blumkin Jewish Home 333 S. 132 St. Omaha, NE 68154

Temple Israel Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 7023 Cass Street Omaha, NE 68132-2651 556.6536 templeisrael-ne.org

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PERSONAL I would like to thank all my friends and family for the cards, flowers, gifts and donations for my recent birthday.

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B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE FRIDAY: Services followed by Oneg, 7:30 p.m.

BETH EL SYNAGOGUE FRIDAY: Musical Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: The community is invited to our special “Generations of Beth El Families Shabbat,” at 9:30 a.m., followed by a kiddush luncheon sponsored by the synagogue; Minha, 8 p.m.Bar Mitzvah of Jeffrey Libov, son of Dmitriy and Marina Libov.

TISHA B’AV SERVICES: Saturday, 9:10 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 14, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

SUNDAY: Bible Study Class with Leonard Greenspoon, 10 a.m.; Adult B’nai Mitzvah class with Cantor Bogomolni, 10 a.m.

WEEKDAY SERVICES: Sunday, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.; Weekdays, 6:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM, “WHAT’S JEWISH ABOUT SUMMER?”: Tuesday, Aug. 16, 10 a.m. to noon.

TOT SHABBAT: Our kid-sized Shabbat celebration will resume on Friday, Aug. 19, 6 p.m.

ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES: Beginning on Sunday, Aug. 21, include “Living Hebrew,” intermediate level class, at 10 a.m., and “Jewish Pot Pourri” at 11 a.m., a class, both led by Susi Frydman-Levin.

Moskovits and family in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Sam Moskovits; Mincha, 7 p.m.; Havdalah/Fast Begins, 9:11 p.m.; Ma’ariv, 9:30 p.m., followed by the reading of Eicha and Kinnos.

SUNDAY-Tisha B’av: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Class with Rabbi Gross, 10 a.m.; The Disputation, 3 p.m.; Mincha, 4:30 p.m.; The Flight,”5 p.m.; Ma’ariv, 9 p.m.; Fast ends, 9:09 p.m.

WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.; Contact the synagogue office for Mincha/Ma’ariv time.

WEDNESDAY: Breakfast with YU Summer Torah Tours follows 7 a.m. Shacharit; Lunch & Learn with YU staff, noon Cost is $5 for dairy lunch. Dinner, 6 p.m. followed by Mincha/Ma’ariv, 7:30 p.m. Dinner is $10 for adults, $5 for children (free to kids age 3 and under).

THURSDAY: Breakfast with YU Summer Torah Tours follows 7 a.m. Shacharit; Lunch & Learn with YU staff, noon in JELS classroom. Cost is $5 for dairy lunch; NCSY Game Night and Dinner for fifth-12th graders at Rabbi Gross’s house, 12314 Westover, 6 p.m., and YU staff; no charge.

Please make meal reservations for programs by calling or e-mailing the office by Aug. 14.

BEYT SHALOM FRIDAY: Shabbat in the Home.

CHABAD HOUSE BETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE Office Hours: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Fridays, 8:30 a.m-2 p.m. Services conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Gross.

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

SATURDAY-Erev Tisha B’av: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Free Babysitting, 9:30 a.m.; Junior Congregation, 10:30 a.m.; Kiddush is sponsored by Ann

Jamie Abramson daughter of Sheri and Mike Abramson, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, Aug. 20, at Beth El. Jamie is a seventh-grade superior honor roll student at Kiewit Middle School. Her interests include cheerleading, basketball, and tennis.

Jamie has a brother, Bradley and a sister, Erin.

Her grandparents are Doris and Alvin Abramson, and Roberta and Sidney Weissman of St. Louis, MO. Emma Feldman daughter of Lori and Howard Feldman, will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 19-20, at Tifereth Israel.

Emma is a seventh-grade honor roll student at Lux Middle School.

Her interests include volunteer work, crafts, friends and family. For her mitzvah project, Emma has given donations to Shrine Hospitals and the Lincoln Children’s Zoo. Emma has a sister, Carly.

Grandparents are Lillian Feldman and the late Aaron Feldman, and Letha and Robert Pitlor of Las Vegas, NV.

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

FRIDAY: Shabbat Evening Service, 7:45 p.m., led by Rabbi Ilan Emanuel, with oneg following provided by Tracy Gordon.

SATURDAY: Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. led by Rabbi Ilan Emanuel.

MONDAY: Religious School Merger Committee, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY: Choir practice, 7 p.m.

SAVE THE DATE Celebrate the installation of Rabbi Ilan Emanuel Aug. 26-28.

Friday Aug. 26: Service starts at 7:45 pm with reception following. No reservations required.

Sunday, Aug. 28: Dinner and dance at Cornhusker Hotel, 5:307 p.m. cost $36 per person or Dance and dessert only starting at 7:30 p.m. $18 per person.

Reservations due by Aug. 15.

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Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Gift Shop open during office hours or by appointment.

FRIDAY: Services, 7 a.m.

SATURDAY: Maamar class, 9 a.m.; Services, 9:30 a.m., followed by a Kiddush luncheon.

SUNDAY: Services, 8:30 a.m.

Mishne class, 9:30 a.m.

WEEKDAYS: Services, 7 a.m.

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MONDAY: Halacha, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY:Torah for Teens, 4:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Kabbalah, 7 p.m.

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

Programs are open to the community. For information or to register, call the office or visit: www.nebraskajudaism.com.

FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m.

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

TEMPLE ISRAEL FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat Service, 6 p.m. Cantor Wendy Shermet will officiate. Summer

worship-study discussion: “Praying in the 21st Century.”

SATURDAY: Bagels and Sacred Books, 9:30-10:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m.

INTERFAITH FAMILIES Join Outreach co-chairmen Nikki and Adam Kirshenbaum for a pool party at the J.C.C. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 5:30 p.m.

Meet at the snack bar for a light dinner catered by Nothing But Noodles, followed by swimming.

Cost is $8 per person; kids age 9 and under eat for free. RSVP mkube@templeisraelomaha.co m to the office by Aug. 15.

JOIN TEAM TEMPLE! Temple is assembling a team to ride in the MS Society’s Celebrate Cycling Ride on Aug. 28 in Waterloo, in memory of Joel Brodsky, who died after a 20 year battle with this disease. Join our team to fight the devastating effects of MS. Questions? Contact team captains: David Gilinsky, david@bergmanincentives.com or Jon Gordon, jon.gordon@dhs.gov

NEIGHBORHOOD MINYAN FRIDAY: Kabbalas Shabbos, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharis, 9 a.m.

TIFERETH ISRAEL Services conducted by Rabbi Royi Shaffin. Minyan, MONDAY & THURSDAY, 9 a.m.

FRIDAY: Services, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY: Morning service, 9:30 a.m.

TUESDAY: The Ladies’ Lunch Bunch will meet at The Parthenon, noon. If you need a ride, call Marcia Kushner at 423.5959.

WEDNESDAY: Men’s Lunch Group will meet at the Knolls, 12:30 p.m. Contact Yale Gotsdiner at 423.7066.

Temple Women to Click Castanets at WRJ Kickoff

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Vamos a Comer! Bailar! Gustar!

If you don’t speak Spanish, that means “Let’s Eat! Dance! Enjoy!” which is exactly what the Women of Reform Judaism (WRJ) are planning for their kickoff event on Thursday, Aug. 18. The poolside party will feature tapas (appetizers), sangria, recipes which will be available for everyone who attends, and even a flamenco dancer!

Program Chairs Bonnie Pfrenger, Danielle Gordman, and Rosie Zweiback thought the Spanish theme “sounded different and fun.”

From there, the flamenco dancer was just a beat away. The chairs, along with Gretchen Radler, Amee Zetzman, Stacie Brodkey, Stacie Matz, and Lisa Epstein, will be the tapas chefs for the event.

Tamara Say, who dances at a restaurant in Benson and is the founder of the Prairie Flamenco Company, will perform and teach some of the basics of flamenco dancing. Say was recently a guest artist at the American Flamenco Theater in Las Vegas. In 2002, she danced for the Vice President of Nicaragua and his delegation

during a diplomatic visit to the U.S. She has also performed in the New Orleans French Quarter and as a soloist in Louisiana, Virginia, and Nebraska.

In addition to her flamenco training, Say has studied classical ballet and jazz with the Richmond Ballet, the Ballet Theater of Boston, the Dance Arts Studio of Shreveport, and the Omaha Academy of Ballet. She has performed in operas and has toured in Japan. The Jewish mother of two is also an architect with a degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s from Tulane University.

All members of WRJ as well as anyone interested in joining the Omaha Chapter are welcome to attend at Casa de Gordman (Danielle Gordman’s house, 1430 So. 85 Ave.) starting at 7 p.m.

WRJ sponsors educational forums, speakers, book discussions, a weekly study class, and cooking demonstrations throughout the year. Cost is $5 or two dozen baked goods, wrapped to freeze, to serve at WRJ Oneg Shabbatot.

Reservations can be made by calling Temple at 556.6536.

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Repeating the Law

SPARKS FROM THE WORD

by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Parashat Devarim On Aug. 13, our Torah reading opens the Book of Deuteronomy, where the title describes the content of the book, a repetition of the Law. Our first Sidra is read on Shabbat Hazon (the Sabbath of Vision), the title taken from the first verse of the great book of Isaiah, which is used for the Haftarah of the day. It immediately precedes the great day of mourning, Tisha b’Av (the ninth of Av).

Note the brilliance involved in Jewish tradition which lumps many catastrophes over many centuries on this day, the nine of Av. Jewish history has its share of catastrophe and disaster. But Jewish tradition assigns all of them, in whatever year or whatever century, to the ninth of Av. This provides for a catharsis once a year, instead of parceling out mourning periods throughout the year.

How’s that for a human manipulation of periodic mourning into an annual single day of major mourning?

There are other mourning days, to be sure, but none as of the weight and distinction of Tisha b’Av. The Torah reading is the opening of the great Book of Deuteronomy. Most readers of Torah look upon this fifth book of Moses as the greatest outpouring of emotion in the Torah. The Book consists of several addresses by Moses to the Children of Israel, assembled at the shore of the Jordan River, ready to take the historic step into the Promised Land. The Book does not have a nameless narrator, like the four previous Books. It is Moses himself.

And the Book has the level of rhetoric unmatched by the previous four. Under intense emotion, Moses rises to to a level of eloquence that surprises the reader, for Moses has described himself as slow of speech.

We are told that it should have taken only 11 days from Sinai to Kadesh-Barnea, which is in Moab on the far side of the Jordan River. At Sinai, the Children of Israel are told to go through the land of the Amorites and the Canaanites and Lebanon, all the way to the Euphrates River and accept

DEATH RUTH NOGG Ruth Nogg died Aug. 4 at the age of 95. Services were held Aug. 7 at Beth El Cemetery.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Nogg, granddaughter, Courtney Nogg; daughter and son-in-law Barbara and Dean Frankel.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Alan and Sandy Nogg, grandchildren, Drs. Harris and Janice Frankel, Amy and Evan Kleeberg of Lincolnwood, IL, and Philip and Keri Bahar of Minneapolis, MN; seven great-grandchildren; and sister, Bernice Frieden of Kansas City.

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all of this as their land. So the Lord has announced to Israel.

Moses reminds the people that by necessity, he has chosen deputy leaders, over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens of people who are to deal with all minor matters, with only difficult matters to be brought to Moses himself.

The sad news is given now that all the people of the generation who left Egypt, except Caleb and Joshua, are not to enter the Land itself, for they have angered the Lord again and again. And Moses announces that he, too, will not enter the Land, because of a minor infraction that he undertook on the part of the people.

The people now turn back toward the wilderness.

They had tried to enter the Land from the south, but were sorely defeated by the Ammorites. They were bidden now to turn north through the land of Edom, but were admonished to undertake no conquest there. They were to buy food and water, rather than to try to take it.

They had spent 38 years to get from Kadesh to the Wadi where they would enter the Land. All the original warriors who had left Egypt had died in the wilderness, and it was to be a new generation to enter the Land itself. They were to pass by the Ammonites without engaging them in warfare, but on the contrary, conquer the Ammorites.

They had conquered Sichon and Og and had taken all the towns of these kings and all the booty. These lands were given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh. They were to fight with their brothers on the west side of the Jordan, to conquer the Land and then to return to the east side which they had requested for their own possession. Moses ends this first address with words of encouragement to Joshua for the major encounters facing Israel ahead.

At this point it is impossible to assess the historicity of all of this. One who wishes to do so accepts it at face value from its description in the Torah passages. One who recognizes that peoples like to emphasize their victories and minimize their difficulties may assume that Israel’s entry into the Land might well have been gradual and involve assimilation to and with the local population.

All of this now is a matter of conjecture only, for there is no way for the practical historian to determine “scientifically” how the ancient Israelites found themselves in the Land of Israel.

NJHS Annual Meeting Continued from page 1 Friedman, a past-President of National Council of Jewish Women, Omaha, Section, who has continued to serve on its board since 1957 as an Honorary Vice-president, was a founding member of NJHS. She is also a past board member of Temple Dottie Roseblum, right, presIsrael and the Jewish ents the Shirley Berman Award Federation. In presenting to Lois Friedman. the award, NJHS staff Dottie Rosenblum said of Friedman, “The reason volunteers aren’t paid is because they’re priceless!”

In addition to the awards, NJHS installed new officers and board members, with Helen Epstein as President and Helen Rifkin Chorney as outgo- Members of Frances Batt’s family in ing President. The attendance included sisters Babe meeting closed Cohen, left, and Cynthia Schneider and with a video pro- nephew Jerry Schneider. duced by board member Ben Nachman, featuring a number of Jewish Omahans reminiscing about the old neighborhoods. Among those featured are Dina Bloom, Ron Brodkey, Irv Forbes, Maury Katzman, Marv and Selwin Suvalsky and Harry Wolfson.

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GROSSHANS INTERNATIONAL, Inc. is taking applications for a full-time Case-IH Parts Manager. Farm equipment dealership or auto industry parts manager experience is preferred but other similar experience considered. Position includes full benefits, salary based on experience. DIS, JDIS or PFW program experience helpful. Please send resume to: Grosshans International, Inc., 1471 West Hwy 34, Aurora, NE 68818 Attn: Alan Anderson, 402-694-2121.

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HOUSING FURNISHING. Full-time assistant feedmill manager and assistant animal health manager positions open. Will train. Kugler Co., 75429 Rd 424, Cozad, NE 69130, 308-324-2834.

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DRIVER: COVENANT Transport. Excellent pay & benefits for experienced drivers, O/O, solos, teams & graduate students. Bonuses available. Refrigerated now available. 1-888MORE PAY (1-888-667-3729). $.38 PER mile. $.36 to start, $.37 after 10/01/05, $.38 after 4/01/06 + benefits, health, HSA, 401K, cafeteria, zero down, O/O plan, Hinz Trucking, 800-523-4631.

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Jewish Press, Omaha, NE

August 12, 2005

Omaha Brings Home the Gold!

by RACHEL BLUM JCC Program Director Teens from the Omaha Jewish community and three Israeli teens from our Partnership with Israel returned from 2005 JCC Maccabi Games in Dallas, TX. The experience was one they will not soon forget, having made new friends with 1400 of their peers from the United States, Mexico, Vancouver, and Israel. During opening ceremonies, teens circled around Resistol Arena as the Dallas Jewish community welcomed each delegation to “the Big D.” Competition began the following day and continued throughout the week, interspersed with social and Judaic activities.

This year’s community service project included making finger puppets for children in the hospital and designing CD covers for the hundreds donated for the Mitzvahs to Victory project. Sarah Spooner, a four-year dancer in the JCC Maccabi Games and the 2005 recipient of the Isadore Boggy Bogdonoff All JCC Maccabi Award, noted, “It’s a good feeling to know you are making a difference in someone’s life; this was a fun way for the athletes to get involved.”

Though the temperatures reached 100º+, our athletes represented Omaha with class and returned with 54 medals. Athletes and medal winners are: Daniel Canfield , golf, two silvers; Eliza Cowan, Soccer; Michelle Elkin, Tennis, gold; Olga Elkin, Tennis, gold; Alex Epstein and Brad Frank, basketball; Michael Friedman, tennis; Spencer Gallner and Nimrod Ginsburg, basketball; Becca Gordon, dance, gold; Ben Gordon, golf, gold; Rachel Gordon, dance, two golds, two silvers; Justin Jacobson, basketball; Lauren Josephson, tennis; Caroline Juster, swimming, two golds, a silver,and a bronze; Max Katz, basketball; Barr Kolakofsky, dance (sister city athlete), four golds and a silver; Jeff Malashock, table tennis, silver; Rachel Martin, table tennis, gold and silver; Steven Meyer, golf, bronze; Alyssa Morris, swimming, two golds, three silvers, and a bronze; Aaron Murow, basketball; Jackie Neesman, soccer; Aaron Passer, golf, gold; Arielle Pilley, bowling; Josh Pilley, bowling, six golds; Daniel Rahmani, tennis; Danny Raznick and Dylan Saferstein, basketball; Mitchell Sanford, tennis; Libby Singer, soccer (sister city athlete); Sarah Spooner, dance, gold and bronze; Zach Spooner, bowling; Talia Tene, dance, gold; David Trubnikov, swimming, nine golds and a bronze; Effie Tsabari, dance, gold; Dylan Wertheim, bowling, gold, silver and bronze; and Carmel Yaari, swimming (sister city athlete), silver.

Planning for the 2006 JCC Maccabi Games has already begun. For information, please contact me at 334.6404.

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Steve Mayer and Daniel Canfield medaled in golf, while Josh Pilley won multiple medals in bowling.

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