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Corporate Tikkun Olam

September 26, 2014 2 Tishrei 5775 Vol. 95 | No. 2

This Week

by SHERRIE SAAG Communications, Jewish Federation of Omaha With generous portions of Tikkun Olam and scoops of social consciousness, Jerry Greenfield, creator and founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, will headline the Jewish Federation of Omaha’s 2015 Annual Campaign Community Event on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at Champions Run. Although no longer involved in the company’s day-to-day operations, Greenfield maintains a “spiritual” presence and heads the company’s Foundation. Today, his focus is to make corporate America give back to the community and bring values to the forefront of American business.

His professional biography lists his occupation as “philanthropist” and his zodiac sign as “Pisces”. Hey, it works.

Together with partner Ben Cohen, the entrepreneurs managed to create a company with a long history of social activism and a community-oriented approach to business that helped propel their ice cream emporium into a $300 million dollar enterprise.

Their vision for an ice cream company that would be both profitable

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and care about the needs of society has left a lasting impact on employees, stockholders, the Vermont community and its world-wide customer base.

With no formal business background, Greenfield used his heart as well as his head to incorporate simple ingredients: a great product, creative marketing strategies, inventive promotions and an emphasis on social responsibility.

Asked to explain the origin of his corporate social activism, Greenfield has said, “It evolved over time, like all good ideas do. At the beginning, we were a little homemade ice cream parlor in an abandoned gas station

In the Courtroom: James E. Gordon Family fun at Blumkin Home’s Main Street Page 12

by ANNETTE VAN DE KAMPWRIGHT Editor, Jewish Press Featured in this month’s In the Courtroom: James E. Gordon. James

Curry and Gordon).

“I am quite sure that many of your readers will remember Herman and Joe Ginsburg, Hymen “Hymie” Rosenberg, and Norm Krivosha,” he says.

has been a practicing attorney since 1974. In that year, he started in practice with the Lincoln law firm of Ginsburg, Rosenberg, Ginsburg & Krivosha, (later known as Ginsburg, Rosenberg, Ginsburg, Cathcart,

Where do you work, and what’s your official title?

“Since April Fools’ Day 1992, I have been employed by the Law Firm partnership of DeMars, Gordon, Olson, Zalewski, and Wynner, also located in Lincoln. The Firm’s name has changed from time to time with the coming and going of some partners along the way. But that is its name now and for the foreseeable future. My ‘title’ is ‘Attorney at Law, Mediator and Partner.’”

Has being Jewish had any influence on your career choice?

Being Jewish had no discernible interest in my career choice, but it Continued on page 3

Jerry Greenfield and we had no more plans beyond that. As the business grew, we understood better the role that business plays in the community and society at large and we wanted to use our influence for something more than just making money,” he said.

“Because we have no formal business education or corporate experience, we just ran our business the way a typical person would, so that it’s a good neighbor and helps to take care of its surroundings.”

He continued, “These thoughts evolved into social activism. Ben & Jerry’s has always felt that we should be defending issues for the good of society and not just to make the company more profitable.”

One oft-cited example of Ben and Jerry’s socially conscious business practices is its purchase of $8 million annually of chocolate brownies baked at the Greyston bakery in NYC – a nonprofit that offers job training and hires workers who have encountered difficulty securing employment elsewhere.

“We came up with a popular brownie-based ice cream flavor and bought the main ingredient from the small city bakery. We made them pretty happy with the outcome too!” said Greenfield.

In 1984, when the company needed to raise additional capital, they offered the investment opportunity to their Vermont neighbors by Continued on page 3

Diary of a Kosher BBQ competitor

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Chef Mike Aparo, Director of Food Services at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, puts finishing touches on Star Deli’s smoked beef ribs at the 3rd Annual Kosher BBQ Competition in Kansas City.

by MIKE APARO year, we made it happen. So, then Director of Food Services, I’m thinking (and panicking), Rose Blumkin Jewish Home “Wow. We have a lot of preparation For several years, Josh Gurock, to do since the competition is AuDirector of Operations at the gust 17, which, at the time, was RBJH, and I have discussed enter- only five weeks away. Plus, we’d be ing the annual Kosher BBQ Com- facing teams from Chicago, New petition in Kansas City. And this Continued on page 2

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Diary of a Kosher BBQ competitor Continued from page 1 York, the Maguire University Culinary Institute. Twenty-five topnotch teams in all.

Big time competition, for sure.”

FYI, this is no regular competition. This competition is the nation’s only kosher BBQ festival sanctioned by the KCBS (Kansas City BBQ Society). These are the Big Boys, the pros. Plus, Simon Majumdar -- who’s been named the Food Network’s toughest critic -- was among the judges. So now I want to research how Simon and the other guys are going to judge the food. I know three things: (1) they judge on appearance, taste and tenderness; (2) every team is cooking on the same equipment -- a 22.5” Weber Smoky Mountain Smoker and a 22.5” Weber Grill; and (3) we’ll be judged on chicken thighs, beef ribs, turkey breast and beef brisket. I tell Josh G. and Mike Silverman, “If we’re going to have a chance of winning, we need to practice on the same smokers and grills that we’ll use in Kansas City, which are nothing like the Altosham Combi Oven Smoker we use at the Home, where we put the meat in, put the wood chips in, set the temp and walk away. The units we’ll be using in KC are charcoal fueled and need constant monitoring to assure that proper smoking temperatures are maintained.” So we buy the “competition” equipment (which we’ll use periodically throughout the year for cookouts and such for our Residents) and begin to prepare for the big day.

I research recipes and smoking techniques used in BBQ contests. I download eight onehour episodes of “Pit Masters” and watch them at home. Good thing I did, or I would never have known that the judges -- when they judge chicken thighs -- take a bite of the thigh to make sure they can bite through the skin and get a mouthful of meat without all the skin coming off the thigh. I finally dis-

covered that the only way to achieve this is by carefully removing the skin from the thighs, scraping the layer of fat off the skin, and then re-pinning the skin on the thigh with skewers or toothpicks. A very time consuming process, believe me.

Andy Kudlacz, left, and Marco Martinez, members of the Blumkin Home culinary staff, work their magic on Star Deli’s BBQ chicken thighs. Josh Gurock was also part of the Star Deli team at the KC BBQ Competition.

Next, I had to figure out what the judges consider prize-winning beef ribs. I’m thinking, everyone likes ribs to be falling-off-thebone-tender, right? Wrong. Competition judges want beef ribs to be tender enough to take a clean bite off the bone without the rest of the meat falling off. Turkey breasts? Judges want them moist, tender and full of smoky flavor. Brisket, the main event, they want with a nice bark on the outside and a deep

L’Shanah Tovah to all our friends in Omaha.

smoke ring along the inside of the slice. The judges also like to take a slice of brisket and drape it over their finger, where it should hang like a limp piece of spaghetti but not fall apart. But when they yank on it from each end it should pull apart easily. Who knew?

Anyway, before we left for KC, we practiced smoking all the meats. We practiced about fourteen hours a day. We experimented with different injection marinades and rubs for the brisket, different brines and rubs for both chicken and turkey, and different rubs for the ribs. We also experimented with different woods, and decided on peach/sugar maple wood for the chicken and turkey, and pecan/cherry wood for the ribs and brisket.

(Spoiler alert: Our efforts paid off nicely.)

On Thursday, Aug. 14, My Star Deli teammates and I, Marco Martinez, Andy Kudlacz and Josh Gurock left for Kansas City. At 6:30 that evening, all the cooks in the competition met at the event venue -- the Ritz Charles in Overland Park -- where we picked out our meats and prepped them for Sunday’s competition. Star Deli was the first team to arrive and the last to leave at 11:00 p.m. We took our time preparing each meat just as we’d practiced, cooking our brines with fresh herbs and spices, making our rubs, scraping the skins, etc. The meat would be off-limits until after Shabbat.

At 9:30 p.m. Saturday night, we went back to the Ritz Charles and got our smokers and grills. We set up our tables and our Star Catering Sign, and I broke out a portable speaker and started playing some great Blues (which I believe is an essential part of successful BBQ-ing). About midnight we had our fire lit and started our brisket. We started our ribs at 3 a.m. and at 5 a.m. We started our turkey, spraying it with apple juice about every twenty minutes. The chicken went on the grill at 8:30 a.m. It had

to be ready by 11 a.m. so the judges could start doing their thing.

So here’s how this competition works.

Before each category of meat is judged, the teams have to prepare sample presentation boxes to turn in to the judges. We wanted our chicken entry to be as beautiful as possible, and we prepared it with special care, even taking Q-tips to wipe off any small drops or splatter from the sauce. At 11:30 a.m., Josh took our chicken entry to the judges. At noon, Josh turned in our rib box, the second entry.

Now we’re preparing our turkey for turnin, and by this time people are coming over to our tent telling us that the celebrity judges from the Food Network (including Chef Michael Smith, Chef Celina Tio and Rod Gray) are complimenting our ribs. At 12:30 p.m. we turn in our turkey and start getting our brisket ready. Now people are coming to our tent and saying the celebrity judges are raving about our turkey, calling it some of the best they’ve ever tasted and everyone should go taste what’s going on at Star Catering. It seems like everyone at the event swarms us at once, waving their tasting tickets, wanting to taste our food. One of the tweets we discovered from Simon Majumdar read, “Star Catering’s turkey is phenomenal!”

While Andy and Josh are fighting to keep up with all the people and their tasting tickets, Marco and I are putting our brisket box together for the judges. Now people want to taste our brisket, but I can’t let them because our presentation box isn’t finished yet. After we turn our brisket in to the judges, things really get crazy. We have a jar full of tasting tickets and it isn’t slowing down. By now, we’ve got almost no samples left, and people are asking for the bones sacrificed for our rib turn-in that have only scraps of meat on Continued on page 4

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In the courtroom: James E. Gordon Continued from page 1 certainly had a truly wonderful effect on what happened after I made that choice. I had started out at the University of Nebraska in 1964, fresh out of high school and with the intent to become a trauma surgeon. Enjoying the college life on a full-ride, four-year, Regents Scholarship, I became instead a very adept pool player and a very avid party-goer.

Due to an seriously lacking ability to understand higher mathematics, I was nevertheless made to take Math 14 and Math 18. I believe that those courses were probably more suited to students who were majoring in mathematics, from whom and from which I was at a considerable distance.

Nevertheless, my faculty advisor told me that I must take those two courses, and so take them I did. I received a “2” in each and both of those courses, when the grading scale was from “1” to “9” (where “9” was the best and “2” was, well, just short of failing. Attaining only a deuce in nine credit hours of any class was enough to reduce my grade point average to the realm of scholastic probation. With that, I was placed on “scholastic probation,” my scholarship went away, and my student deferment from the draft evaporated.

It did not take my local draft board any time at all to find me, and before long I was to begin my service as a proud member of the United States Army! That might actually have been a pleasant development, but for the fact that the United States was then involved in the Vietnam War. I was sent to Fort Polk, Louisiana, for basic training. Just as an aside, the barracks in which we were housed had been built as “temporary” structures, and had actually been condemned before I was born. And that housing was probably the best of what Fort Polk had to offer.

I was a fairly decent basic trainee, qualifying as a “sharp shooter” with the M-14 rifle, among other less-than-notable accomplishments there. My concern was what might happen after basic training. This concern became even greater because Fort Polk was the principal training base for infantry men bound for Vietnam. I did not like the idea of traveling to a foreign country which was already too often in the news. So I signed up for Advanced Training in Armor, instead of Infantry, knowing that I would be sent to Fort Knox, Fort Carson, Fort Hood, or some other armor base (and would thus not have to return to Fort Polk).

As this answer is already running much too long, suffice it to say that I received orders to go to Fort Knox. I was 21 years old, 20 miles from Louisville, Kentucky, and able to have my car with me there. Add to this the fact that I was really into the armor training, which enabled me to qualify as an expert in Tank Weapons, and a marksman with a .45 automatic pistol!

All of this bliss ended when I received orders to go to -drum roll here, please -- Vietnam. I arrived in the country early in April, 1967. One of the things I had learned in my armor training was radio communications. A tank radio would fill the trunk of your car. But when I received my assignment, I found out that I was to be a radioman in an air cavalry company! Ooops. I was given a radio the size of a grade school kid’s back pack, and joined my company in the field on April 15, 1967. Long story short, I was wounded on my parents’ wedding anniversary, June 20, 1967, and then spent an elapsed time of 17 months and six days getting my right leg put back together.

Now to the point of where being Jewish came in. I could no longer count on being a trauma surgeon because I could barely stand up without crutches. One of my brothers-inlaw (a law professor at the time), suggested that I might be better suited to something more sedentary, like the practice of law. Read quickly here: Went back to school, finished year three of undergraduate school, was accepted into law school, and graduated at the end of three more years there. And in July of 1974, I graduated from law school, passed the bar exam, got married, and was invited to join the Ginsburg firm where I had clerked during Law School. I would like to think that good grades, National Moot Court Team, and graduation with honors may have created this opportunity, but I attributed this good fortune to the fact that I was

Jewish and the Law Firm was known as “the Jewish Law Firm of Lincoln.”

What exactly is a mediator?

To my mind, a mediator is an impartial third-party, who brings together the “sides” of any dispute, in an effort to facilitate a discussion between the disputants, so as to enable them to resolve their dispute. There are many types and styles of mediation. I prefer “interest-based” mediation, although I am also asked to do “evaluative” and “transformative” mediations as well. More on those other types of mediation perhaps in another article in the Jewish Press.

I will offer here an almost inane example of interest-based mediation. You and I are arguing about who gets an orange (as there is only one orange to be had). In litigation, if you get the orange and I don’t, you win and I lose. If I get the orange and you don’t, then I win and you lose. But if you and I talk about WHY WE WANT THE ORANGE, the mediator moves that conversation forward to the point where you tell me that you want a glass of orange juice to drink, and I tell you that I want an orange to eat. Notice that cutting the orange in half will not work because you would only get half a glass of orange juice, and I would get only half an orange to eat. And if this were a child custody case, you simply cannot cut the child in half, as Solomon suggested to the two mothers who were each claiming the child to be her child.

In actual practice, the “orange” can be the thing at issue between the disputants, no matter what that “thing” actually is.

What are you proud of?

Pride may be the seventh of the Seven Deadly Sins, but I try to avoid it as if it were any of the other six. Nevertheless, I think I take joy in knowing that I have two great kids, many good friends, a wonderful and useful profession/occupation, the ability to give back to my community in many different ways, the love of my wife, the guidance and love I received from both of my parents, a well-developed sense of humor, and the good health and the strength necessary to “do stuff.”

What is your favorite part about your work day?

The favorite part of any part of my day, be it work or play, is the opportunity to meet and interact with all kinds of people. I genuinely like people, unless they are -- may I say it?

-- unlikeable. I often say of my mother that she never met a stranger. I think I have inherited that gene, and my days -work or otherwise -- make meeting people one of the highlights of any day.

What are the three biggest differences between real life and Law & Order?

I have to claim ignorance here. I hardly ever watch television. And unless it’s a Nebraska Football game, I seldom watch any television except an occasional program on NETV. So while I know that Mariska Hargitay was one of the stars of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, I only know that because I know that she was also Jayne Mansfield’s daughter, and I know of the grisly car crash in which her mother was killed. Have I mentioned here that I probably know way too much trivia?

If you could not be an attorney, what would be your second career choice?

Tough question, this Number Seven. Since I have already explained why I am not a trauma surgeon, I guess professional sports are also probably beyond my reach and my ability. I enjoy “teaching” as in meeting with groups of people and talking about “things” which I understand well enough to be able to explain them. So every now and then I am asked to speak about topics of my own choosing. The one I enjoy giving most is the one I first gave to my younger daughter’s graduating class. The topic was “doing good.”

Because of my love of how it works, the other option I would think about pursuing would be to practice mediation full-time -- if I could not be an attorney. If not that, it would have to be any occupation in which I could help people to help themselves, whatever that might mean to them.

Editor’s note: Do you work in the legal profession, and would you like to be featured in this column? Let me know by emailing avandekamp@jewishomaha.org.

Corporate Tikkun Olam Continued from page 1 holding an in-state public offering. “People at any economic level could participate,” he said, and one in every 100 Vermont families became shareholders. “As the business supported the community, the community supported the business.”

When, in 1985, the company established the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation, it began donating 7.5 percent of pretax profits to nonprofit organizations, the highest percentage of any publicly traded company at that time.

Their unique mix of corporate success and social

responsibility has earned accolades. They were recognized by the Council on Economic Priorities with the Corporate Giving Award, the U.S. Small Business Administration named Cohen and Greenfield U.S. Small Business Persons of the year in 1988, and they were honored with the James Beard Humanitarian of the Year Award.

“What we have learned in 35 years at Ben & Jerry’s is that there’s a spiritual aspect of business just as there is in the lives of individuals. As you give, you receive,” Greenfield said, “As you help others, you are helped in return.”

Right on, man.

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painted ceramic Mezuzahs were then fired and returned to us shiny and gorgeous.

The classrooms learned about what a Mezuzah is and what we do with the participation of Rabbi Weiss, Rabbi Abraham, Rabbi Brown and Rabbi Katzman at our ceremony. Assisting the Rabbis were children

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Left photo: Rabbi Steven Abraham hanging a mezuzah while his daughter, Naama watches; right photo: Carole Greenberg, left, Rabbi Steven Abraham, Jeanine Huntoon, Rabbi Mendel Katzman, Rabbi Yackov Weiss and Rabbi Josh Brown The rest of the Mezuzahs were donated by parents and staff and appreciated greatly.

Director Jeanine Huntoon learned all about Mezuzahs with the guidance of Rabbi Weiss, who spearheaded the proper placement of the Mezuzahs. Jeanine felt that as a Jewish center it was important to continue traditions.

The Pre-K children creatively painted bisque Mezuzahs under the direction of Carole Greenberg. Personal taste and color selections were picked by each child. The

from the Pennie Z. Davis CDC to symbolize our focus on children.

Our commons area was filled with children, parents, and guests. We enjoyed the ceremony, songs and Shabbat led by Carrie Fingold. It was indeed a warm and endearing event.

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Mah Jongg Classes at Temple Israel

by SCOTT LITTKY Program Director, Temple Israel My first introduction to Mah Jongg came when my daughter Sarah was young. My mother-in-law, Sarita Cooper, had a card table setup for “Mahj” for one of her two Mahj groups. My daughter thought she would play a joke on Bubby by taking some of the pieces of the set home with her. Later that evening she shared with us the pieces that she had taken. We found it very funny but realized that we better get the tiles back to Bubby before her game the next day.

Many Jewish women and some men have had a love for the game of Mah Jongg for many years. No one is exactly sure how this ancient Chinese game became associated in America with Jewish women, though. What is known is that “Mahj” is alive and well in Omaha. Here at Temple Israel you will see a game or two going almost every afternoon.

There is even a group that meets Tuesday

evenings.

During the last year, Claire Flatowicz and Dora Goldstrom conducted very successful classes in preparation for a Mah Jongg tournament. Claire and Dora are very excited to

be offering Mah Jongg lessons again this fall.

The classes will run beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 7 and will conclude on Tuesday, Nov. 25. They will run from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The cost is $45 for the class and includes the most recent Mah Jongg card and a copy of the official rules of the game. Classes are open to both men and women. To register for the class, please contact the Temple Israel office at 402.556.6536.

Kosher BBQ competitor Continued from page 2 them. Soon we have no meat left, and someone even tries to grab a piece of fat off the table to taste. Then the celebrity judges come over to congratulate us on the meats they tasted and to take pictures with us. At this point, my head is spinning.

Folks come to our booth and ask, “You guys do Kosher catering in Omaha?” We answer, “Yes.” One man asks, “How many Jews live in Omaha?” I answer, “Less than 6,000,” and the guy says, “We have about 20,000 Jews in Kansas City but we don’t have a dedicated Kosher caterer.” Another couple asks if we’d consider catering BBQ to KC and I say, “Sure. Anything is possible.” We were overwhelmed with attendees and possible new customers.

After the smoked cleared (literally), here’s how the judging results went. Of the

twenty-five teams in the competition, KCBS gave Star Catering: chicken, 9th place; ribs, 8th place; brisket, 5th place; turkey, 12th place -- which translates to an Overall 6th place. The Celebrity Judges awarded us Best in both the turkey and brisket categories, and we received 2nd Place in the People’s Choice Award.

Success!

As an added bonus, one of Josh Gurock’s college buddies came to the BBQ from Chicago along with ex-Omahan Rachel Katzman and her husband. They entered the contest under the name 3 Dudes and a Vegetarian. Bottom line, Star Deli had a great time at the Third Annual Kosher BBQ Competition, and I believe Omaha left its mark on Kansas City. A big thank you to Mike Silverman for letting us compete in such a wonderful event.

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Coming to the JCC Gallery

by LYNN BATTEN Publicity and Gallery Manager, Jewish Federation of Omaha

Local artist Duane Pieper presents a wonderful exhibit that is inspired by his passion for, and study of, scripture and biblical archaeology in Israel. His recent discovery of encaustic wax, an ancient art medium, is also represented in this fascinating exhibit of work. The public is invited to an Opening Reception for the exhibit on Sunday, Oct. 5 from 2-4 p.m.

From historical and educational exhibits to beautiful displays of local, national, and international art, the Jewish Community Center Gallery hosts a wide array of content. Located just next to the JCC Theater, the Gallery provides individuals an excellent opportunity to immerse themselves in culturally enriching exhibitions. Exhibits cycle through on a monthly basis, providing a constant stream of new material. The Jewish Community Center Gallery is open to the public. Admission is free.

Organizations B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS Speaker to be announced for Wednesday, Oct. 1, noon, at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. An optional buffet lunch costs $11; beverage service only is $3. For more information or to be placed on the email list call 402.334.6443 or bnaibrith@jewishomaha.org.

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by MARSHALL BECKER world, and they have helped us share this long tradition.

Fifty years ago this summer, seven Jewish men in their late One of the most amazing things about our 50-year-old 20s and early 30s decided to play a game of poker. They were game is that at the end of each year, every single player Larry Albert, Marshall Becker, Jim Farber, Jerry Krupinsky, ended up winning money. At least, that’s what we all told our Marshall Kushner, Bob Malashock and Sol Rosinsky. Right wives. off, we decided to play every other Sunday, which we conDue to the fact that some of us alter kakers occasionally tinued to do for the next 50 years. Hence the name: “The misread their hands or have real trouble seeing the cards in Never on Sunday Boys.” the middle of the table, we know that in the not too distant After Sol left town and Jerry dropped out, we were joined by Tom Bernstein, Dick Zacharia, Stu Kutler and then Mark Romanik and Sandy Kasner.

At first, we played wherever we could: in houses, apartments, trains, hotels and yes, even on the second floor of an ice cream parlor. At some point, early in the game, we decided to hold an annual “hold-em” tournament in Las Vegas, which continued for a good number of years. Because we made it an annual event at the Barbary Coast and they provided us a suite, even the head of security came to the room to watch us play. Not because we were a risk, but because we were well acquainted.

Clockwise from left: Tom Bernstein, Marshall Becker, Jim Farber, Stuart Kutler, While some people thought it was a Marshall Kushner, Larry Albert, Bob Malashock and Dick Zacharia. little unusual to travel all those miles to play poker, we assured them this was something all reason- future we will be playing our game at the Rose Blumkin able people would do. Persuading our wives was a little more Jewish Home. difficult.

And of course, when our time does come (hopefully not Through the years, it took unusual occurrences to call off for a long time), we hope that God will reserve us a table one of our games. When Neil Armstrong went to the moon, with comfortable chairs and maybe even a little fudge. And we were playing at Marshall Kushner’s house. We stopped just as in the past, everyone will be a winner. dealing long enough to see him take a few steps, and decided we would never do that again.

When we started, we made sure our wives did not have a baby on poker night, that our daughters didn’t have a baby on poker night, and now we are at the point where our granddaughters aren’t allowed to have a baby on poker night. We assured our wives that if they really became sick on poker night, we’d check up on them from time to time. If it were a serious illness, we’d of course check more than once--assuming we were out of a hand.

As the years progressed, we learned a full house is not our residence at Passover, a straight is not someone who isn’t gay, and a flush has nothing to do with the bathroom.

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From the top: front: Janet Lipsey and Gail Eisenstatt, and rear: Patty and Lynn Nogg; Connie and James Shapiro and Mary Bernstein; guests are treated to live klezmer music; Lance Margolin, left, Speedy Zweiback, Natan and Hannah Schwalb and Carmela K.

Memo of Gratitude To all Omaha Jewish Reunion Volunteers, Staff and Sponsors, he Omaha Jewish Reunion, which took place earlier this month, was unique and successful in many respects, but none more so than due to the passion of our volunteers, the professionalism of the staff and the generosity of our sponsors.

Planning the reunion began nearly two years ago with Steve Riekes’s dream: an event where Jews with a love of Omaha and the Omaha Jewish Community -- those living here and those who reside elsewhere -could come together to celebrate. Leaders of the various Jewish agencies gathered to hear about his idea, which was met with immediate enthusiasm “What can we do to help?”

The next step was to enlarge the circle: to see if it was possible to recruit enough volunteers to plan programs, tours and other experiences that would be of interest to attendees. Once again: affirmation and enthusiasm for playing a role. “Sign us up! What can we do to help?” Ditto from the staff of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, including the Jewish Community Center, the Blumkin Home, our three synagogues and Chabad. “What a great idea! We’ll do whatever we can to make the reunion a success.” But what about financial support so that registration fees could be reasonable? Again, not a moment’s hesitation. “What do you need? Count on my support.”

For the past 18 months, over 100 volunteers have dedicated themselves to creating a weekend where friends could reconnect and where the Omaha story – past and present – could be told.

My sincerest thanks to each and every person who played a part in making the Omaha Jewish Reunion 2014 the resounding success that it was. As Rabbi Joshua Brown said in his imaginary letter to Elie Weisel within his moving sermon at Temple Israel Friday evening, “We (in Omaha) have a new shtetl...

One whose walls are not deteriorating. One whose enemies are extinct. And one filled with life – with vibrant Jewish life – big enough for everyone to enjoy and small enough for everyone to be known.”

Through our work together on the reunion, we made that shtetl more alive than ever and helped create vivid new memories. Thank you so much! It was a pleasure working with you.

Mary Bernstein Coordinator

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Dear Omaha Reunion participants, I loved the weekend in total. I led two bus tours of Mansions and Millionaires. I had some trepidations: get 30-plus Jews on a bus, and verbal pandemonium will ensue. In which case I would have curtailed my stories and not attempted to speak over the chattering.

However, both tours were incredibly silent -- you could have heard a pin drop. There was total respect for other participants during the long two-and-a-half hours. I am so proud of all of you, and want to offer my humble thanks.

Sincerely, Janey Dann

From the top: Nancy Noddle, left, Pete Brodkey, Nancy Noddle and Nancy McCormick; Sue and Tom Friedman and Jody and Buzz Malashock; Bob Wolfson is greeted by Anne Shackman.

From the top: Patty Nogg, left, Steve Nogg, Dana Kiper, Bob Slutzky, Terrie Nogg Kleinman, Lynne Nogg Weinberger and Jane Nogg Fruchtman; Nancy Rips and Elaine Jabenis; Steve Nogg, left, Marty Ricks, Harlan Priesman and Iris Ricks.

What a great weekend. Thanks for all the work you put into it. I feel sorry for the people who did not make it, they missed a once-in-a-lifetime event.

All the best, Marshall Widman

From the top: Debbie Denenberg and Doug Wolfson; Shirley Goldstein; Susie and Nancy Noddle, Judy and Jim Farber and Jay Noddle; Eadie Tsabari and Barbara Taxman; Kevee and Joe Kirshenbaum.

From the top: Randi Friedel Jablin and Alan Jablin; Richard and Joanie Jacobson; Bruce Shackman, left, Howard Epstein, and Bruce Friedlander; Louri Sullivan, left, Sonia Forbes, Nancy Kavich, Mendy Halsted, Tippi Denenberg and Marcia Kapustin.

From the top: Gary Javitch and Craig Gardenswartz; Ellie Batt, left, Beth Staenberg, Maxine White-Polsky, Joanne Freeman and Bud Polsky; Donald Goldstein and unidentified; Tom Friedman and Eadie Tsabari.

Editor’s note: Although we tried our best, we were unable to identify every single person in these pictures. If you know who any of the unidentified people are, please drop us a line at avandekamp@jewishomaha.org.

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October Community Calendar FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 JCC Campus Closed for Rosh Hashanah Beth El Our Shabbat Tables, 1:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel Temple Israel: JYG Zoo with Picnic, 2 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Adult Ed Class Strange Customs of the Modern Day Jew, 10 a.m. at Beth El Beth El Social Action Committee Walk to End Alzheimer’s, 10 a.m.

Weekly Torah Study, 10 a.m. at Beth El Beth El Memorial Services, 11 a.m. at Beth El Cemetery Beginning Prayer Study with Elyce Azriel, 11 a.m. at Temple Israel Yachad: Miniature Golf followed by BBQ, 11:15 a.m.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 JFO Board of Directors Meeting, 11:30 a.m.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

2015 Federation Annual Campaign Kickoff Event, 7 p.m.

Mah Jongg Mavens are Back, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel Rabbi Weiss’ Weekly Class, 8 p.m. at Beth Israel

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

JCC Board Meeting, 7 p.m.

Mah Jongg Mavens are Back, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel Rabbi Weiss’ Weekly Class, 8 p.m. at Beth Israel

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8 Erev Sukkot Board Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Beth Israel

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22 UNO Class with Assaf Gavron Israeli Literature of War, 4 p.m.

BESTT Weekday Classes, 4:15 p.m. at Beth El Torah from the Beginning, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel BESTT Hebrew High School, 6:45 p.m. at Beth El

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9 JCC Campus Closed for Sukkot FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 Temple Israel Shabbat Comes to you, 4 p.m. at Remington Heights SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel Beth El Joint Men’s Club Jews ‘N Brews and Sisterhood Dames and Drinks, 8:30 p.m. in the Krausman Sukkah

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

JCC Board Meeting, 7 p.m.

Mah Jongg Mavens are Back!, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel Rabbi Weiss’ Weekly Class, 8 p.m. at Beth Israel WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1 UNO Class with Assaf Gavron Israeli Literature of War, 4 p.m.

BESTT Weekday Classes, 4:15 p.m. at Beth El Re-Jew-Vination with Stephanie Grossman, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel BESTT Hebrew High School, 6:45 p.m. at Beth El THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 Beth Israel Women’s Class, 9:30 a.m.

UNMC Chabunah, 1 p.m. at UNMC Scholar’s Club, 3:30 p.m. at RBJH Parenting the Love and Logic Way presented by Jewish Family Service, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3 Erev Yom Kippur Star Deli, 11:30 a.m. at RBJH Kol Nidre with speaker Dr Leonard Greenspoon Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, 7:30 p.m. at B’nai Israel SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 Yom Kippur JCC Campus Closed Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel Yom Kippur with speaker Marti Nerenstone Jewish Politics, 10 a.m. at B’nai Israel Concluding Service, 5:30 p.m. at B’nai Israel

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 BESTT Sunday Classes, 9:45 a.m. at Beth El Weekly Torah Study, 10 a.m. at Beth El BESTT Torah Tots, 10:15 a.m. at Beth El Beginning Prayer Study with Elyce Azriel, 11 a.m. at Temple Israel Brownville Concert Series, noon NCJW Chocolate Festival, noon-4 p.m. at LaVista Conference Center Beth El Kibbutz Chaverim Goes to the NCJW Chocolate Festival, 12:15 p.m.

Family Sukkot Celebration, 5 p.m. at Chabad MONDAY, OCTOBER 13 Beth El Dessert Open House in the Abrahams’ Sukkah, 6 p.m.

Soup in the Sukkah, 6 p.m. at Chabad TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 Rabbi Abraham’s Weekly Class, 10 a.m. at Beth El ADL/CRC Board Meeting, noon Eye on Israel with Eliad Eliyahu, noon BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

Mah Jongg Mavens are Back, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel Sukkot Night Star Deli Brisket Dinner at RBJH Rabbi Weiss’ Weekly Class, 8 p.m. at Beth Israel WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15 UNO Class with Assaf Gavron Israeli Literature of War, 4 p.m.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 Babies, Bigger Kids, and Bagels Parent/Child Playgroup, 9:45 a.m. at Beth El BESTT Sunday Classes, 9:45 a.m. at Beth El Adult Ed Class Strange Customs of the Modern Day Jew, 10 a.m. at Beth El Weekly Torah Study, 10 a.m. at Beth El

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5 Weekly Torah Study, 10 a.m. at Beth El Friedel Sukkah decorating, 11:30 a.m.

BILU USY Game Night, 6 p.m. at Beth El BILU USY Interfaith Program, 6 p.m. at Beth El

MONDAY, OCTOBER 20 Exploring Judaism Class, 7 p.m.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 Beth Israel Women’s Class, 9:30 a.m.

Music in Transition with Cantor Shermet, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Parenting the Love and Logic Way, 6 p.m.

Dr. Michael Grodin Lecture on Medical Resistance in the Holocaust, 7 p.m. at Creighton University FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24 Star Deli, 11:30 a.m. at RBJH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25 Torah Study, 9:15 a.m. at Temple Israel Beth El Women’s Rosh Hodesh Meeting featuring Rabbi Naomi Levy, 8 p.m. at the home of Sally Zipursky SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 27th Annual Klutznick Harris Symposium, 9 a.m.

BESTT Sunday Classes, 9:45 a.m. at Beth El Weekly Torah Study, 10 a.m. at Beth El BESTT Torah Tots, 10:15 a.m. at Beth El Adult Ed Class: Scholars Series with speaker Rabbi Naomi Levy, 11 a.m. at Beth El Beginning Prayer Study with Elyce Azriel, 11 a.m. at Temple Israel MONDAY, OCTOBER 27 27th Annual Klutznick Harris Symposium, 8 a.m. at Creighton University JFO Board of Directors Meeting, 11:30 a.m.

Exploring Judaism Class, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 Rabbi Abraham’s Weekly Class, 10 a.m. at Beth El JSS Board of Directors Meeting, 11:30 a.m.

BBYO Night, 6 p.m.

Mah Jongg Mavens are Back, 7 p.m. at Temple Israel Rabbi Weiss’ Weekly Class, 8 p.m. at Beth Israel WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 UNO Class with Assaf Gavron Israeli Literature of War, 4 p.m.

BESTT Weekday Classes, 4:15 p.m. at Beth El Torah from the Beginning, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel BESTT Hebrew High School, 6:45 p.m. at Beth El THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30 Beth Israel Women’s Class, 9:30 a.m.

Music in Transition with Cantor Shermet, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Parenting the Love and Logic Way, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31 Congregational Shabbat Dinner featuring Scholar-in-Residence, Rabbi Steven Wernick, 7 p.m. at Beth El

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Tzedakah ANNETTE VAN DE KAMP-WRIGHT Jewish Press Editor With the Jewish Federation of Omaha’s event at Champion’s Run on Oct. 7, we officially kick off the 2015 Campaign season. We hope many of you join us to hear our main attraction, Jerry Greenfield (and share the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream!). Starting that night, we will, as a community, focus on collecting pledges to our Annual Campaign; we will talk to you about what this community means and how to maintain our vibrancy, and ask you to join us by pledging your support.

“Giving to charity may improve your sense of well-being,” it says on Gaiam.com. And: “Supporting a cause can help keep you informed about issues of social injustice. Selfless giving is a key component to many spiritual and religious belief systems. Recognizing that you have taken action in line with your spiritual beliefs by offering your resources to others in need can bring a sense of inner peace.”

Lofty words, but when I asked my 13-year-old daughter why we give, she put it a lot simpler: “To even things out.”

I like those words better, and here’s why: we don’t use the word “charity” very often because it implies a condescension we don’t feel. Correctly translated, Tzedakah does not mean “charity,” it means “justice.” Calling it charity reeks of pity.

We don’t send our dollars to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home, or the Kripke Library, or to the Partnership region in Israel because we feel pity. We do it because “evening things out” is necessary, and because it is right. We support programs both here in Omaha and in Israel, because we all benefit from them. Just think of how many different things the Annual Campaign dollars touch, here and abroad, and you’ll see what I mean.

Maimonides famously designated eight levels of giving when he spoke about Tzedakah. I don’t want to discuss them

all right here and now, just number six: “Giving generously, but only after being asked.”

“While it’s certainly preferable to be proactive,” Chaya Shuchat writes, “at the very least, don’t give a cold shoulder to those who approach you for help. You can never know how laborious and awkward it was for them to ask you for a favor, and how desperately they are counting on you to respond graciously. The Torah certainly does not advocate that we abrogate all personal boundaries and let others walk all over us. However, if we are honest with ourselves, we can

always find a way to fill the other person’s need.”

(Chabad.com) One problem with that quote, though: we can’t think about Tzedakah in our community as merely helping others.

Whether we are young or old, rich or poor, members of synagogues or unaffiliated, Lubovitch or secular, male or female, born on American soil or elsewhere, the “other” is us. What we try to do is take care of us, of our community and everyone in it. And yes, sometimes (quite often actually, if you’re anything like me) we need to be asked.

I’ll be honest. As much as I believe in Tzedakah, as much as I believe in supporting every aspect of this community, I still need to be reminded. I need the fliers, the ads, posters, postcards and events. I need someone to pick up the phone and ask me outright for support. I am much more likely to give when someone asks me to help out. Left on my own, I forget. Not because I am selfish or because I don’t believe in the cause; it’s just, life is busy and money is tight. I am much more likely to focus on the list of bills that need to be paid, groceries that need to be bought, clothes my kids need, home repairs that need to be done and gas my car always seems to run out of. And I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you are the same way. We need a little prodding from time to time, a gentle push in the right direction.

I don’t think there is any shame in that. I also think it forces us, when we’re the ones doing the asking, to put ourselves in your shoes. Having said that, our community, here and in Israel, is important enough to make that gentle push.

So please join us at Champions Run on Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. for our community event, eat some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (I have it on good authority there will be three different flavors, among which is strawberry cheesecake) and pledge your support to the 2015 Annual Campaign. We really, really need you to be there.

The Jewish imperative to tackle climate change -- and four ways to do it

Focus on issues YOSSI I. ABRAMOWITZ JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Two days before the U.N. Climate Summit, demonstrators, including a large multi-faith contingent -- descended on New York City to demand urgent action on climate change. The People’s Climate March, which coincided with the week of the U.N. General Assembly, is being billed as the largest climate march in history.

Sunday’s event notably took place in the city badly battered less than two years prior by Hurricane Sandy -- the “super storm” that killed 285 people and caused tens of billion of dollars in damage to property and infrastructure.

Also remarkable: The March happened just three days before Rosh Hashanah. This Jewish New Year is different than all past ones, for it is the last observance of Shmita -Israel’s biblically mandated yearlong farming sabbatical -before extreme climate change becomes irreversible.

PricewaterhouseCoopers recently released its latest Low Carbon Economy Index, with the damning news that the major economies are falling further behind meeting their carbon reduction goals.

All of this makes the haunting liturgy of the Days of Awe -- “who shall live and who shall die” -- particularly resonant.

Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, which erased more than 6,300 names from the Book of Life last November, was supercharged by the warming waters of the Indian Ocean and the higher sea levels due to the melting of the ice caps.

Who by water. The severity of the droughts across subSahara Africa threatens millions of lives. Who by thirst.

Even California is suffering compromising water shortages and wildfires. Who by fire.

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The economic devastation alone of climate change -prices for water, food and energy will rise for billions of people -- coupled with the unprecedented loss of human life is like no other physical and moral challenge that humanity has ever faced.

Enter the Jewish people.

Let’s not fool ourselves. We are a small people, contributing a fraction of a fraction of the nearly 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide that trap more and more heat in our atmosphere, creating the devastating greenhouse effect. Yet we are not without agency. Here are four things we can uniquely do as a people that can turn the tide against this global challenge.

1. Swell the People’s Climate March. There are about 2 million Jews in the New York area, so we can have a disproportionate impact at a historic inflection point. Dozens of Jewish groups, from the Shalom Center, a social action group run by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, to the Jewish environmental organization Hazon, from the Reform movement to the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, are among the 1,000plus sponsors of this people’s climate pilgrimage.

2. Lead by example. Jewish federation and foundation endowments, with total assets of over $60 billion (according to the Milken Institute) in this Shmita year should divest from all carbon-intensive businesses, like oil, gas and coal companies. There is a similar call being led by 350.org for the Vatican and universities to divest from carbon; it should be supported. Every Jewish institution and family can calculate their carbon footprint and offset it by planting trees via the Jewish National Fund or other carbon-offset programs.

Nigel Savage of Hazon challenges us “to become the first carbon-neutral people on the planet.”

3. Invest in Israel’s renewables technologies and compa-

nies so that Israel can become a global platform to solve climate change while providing a healthy return for investors. (Disclosure: I am involved with two solar companies.) Israeli companies are on the cutting edge of solar robots, inverters, energy storage and concentrators, and are uniquely qualified to manage risk to bring renewables to developing countries. And even though the environmental movement in Israel is starving for donations, we succeeded earlier this month in stopping a major questionable oil shale endeavor. This historic victory over carbon can provide an inspiration to environmental groups fighting big oil everywhere.

4. Offer hope. Recent international conferences meant to fight climate change focused more and more on how to mitigate the negative impact of climate change rather than how to beat it. With the exception of Sir David King, climate adviser to the British foreign secretary, and a handful of Jewish energy pioneers, few believe we can win the ultimate climate battle. Yet those of us who had the good fortune to grow up in the Soviet Jewry movement are very familiar with the area in front of the United Nations. We know what it means to conduct and win an unprecedented global, ethical campaign. The Jewish people are at our best when we represent the value of hope in history.

This is our gift; this is our responsibility. And time is running out.

Yosef I. Abramowitz was named by CNN as one of the six leading Green Pioneers on the planet and is the winner of a Covenant Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. He is a co-founder of the solar industry in Israel and serves as CEO of Energiya Global Capital, a Jerusalem-based developer building solar fields in Africa and elsewhere.

Abramowitz is on Twitter: @kaptainsunshine.

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Synagogues B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 618 Mynster Street | Council Bluffs, IA 51503-0766 |712.322.4705 email: BnaiIsraelCouncilBluffs@gmail.com Looking for something different? We welcome back Jeffrey Taxman to lead our services. Our speakers for the High Holidays are: Dr. Leonard Greenspoon on Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. and Marti Nerenston on Oct. 4 at 10:30 a.m.

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

FRIDAY: Rosh Hashanah Service, 9 a.m.; Youth Service, 10:30 a.m.; Our Shabbat Tables lunch in homes, 1 p.m.; Kabbalat Shabbat, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Services, 9:30 a.m. Bat Mitzvah of Lillian Cohen, daughter of Karen and Michael Cohen; Miniminyannaires, 10:45 a.m.; Kiddush lunch following services; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 7 p.m.

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

SUNDAY: Torah Study Group, 10 a.m.; Walk to End Alzheimers, 10 a.m. registration and noon walk at Turner Park in Midtown Crossing; Men’s Club Sukkah Building, 10 a.m.; Strange Customs of the Modern Day Jews, 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: Religious School, 4:15 p.m.; Hebrew High Dinner, 6 p.m.; Hebrew High School, 6:45 p.m.; Choir Practice, 7:30 p.m.

Kadima Game Night, Sunday, Oct. 5, 6 p.m.

Jews & Brews/Dames & Drinks, Saturday, Oct. 11, 8:30 p.m. in the Krausman Sukkah.

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

Candlelighting Friday, September 26, 6:56 p.m.

THURSDAY: Women’s Study at UNMC with Shani Katzman, noon. RSVP by emailing Marlene Cohen at mzcohen@unmc.edu.

All programs are open to the entire community.

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

FRIDAY: Shabbat Shuvah Shabbat Service, 7:45 p.m. with oneg following.

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

SUNDAY: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; LJCS Hallah High, 9:45 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; Hallah High Lite, 9:45 a.m.-noon at South Street Temple; Star City Kochavim plays at Lincoln Arts Festival, South Pointe Pavillions, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.; LJCS teachers meet at South Street Temple, 12:15 p.m.

TUESDAY: Volunteer training for bone marrow registration, 4 p.m.; Star City Kochavim Rehearsal, 6:30 p.m.; Lincoln Temple Youth Group, 6:30 p.m.; Volunteer training for bone marrow registration, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: LJCS grades 3-7, 4-6 p.m. at Tifereth Israel.

THURSDAY: High Holiday Choir Rehearsal, 7:30-9 p.m.

Annual Break-the-Fast Potluck, Saturday, Oct. 4 immediately following Yizkor services starting between 5:30 and 6 p.m.

Annual High Holidays Food Drive has begun and we are collecting food and personal care items. Remember that monetary donations are also welcome and encouraged.

Make checks out to the Food Bank of Lincoln and get them to the Temple office so we can send our collective donations to the Food Bank after the holidays.

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Member of Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America 12604 Pacific Street | Omaha, NE. 68154 | 402.556.6288 www.BethIsrael@OrthodoxOmaha.org Office hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Shacharit, 8 a.m.; Torah Reading, 9:30 a.m.; Sermon, 10 a.m., followed by Shofar blowing; Mincha-Ma’ariv, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Mincha/Seudah Shlishit, 6:40 p.m.; Havdalah, 7:54 p.m.

SUNDAY: Fast Begins, 6:06 a.m.; Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Beit Medrash with NO Bagels: Tzom Gedaliah: There is a hole where my bagel once was; What happened on Tzom Gedaliah; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 6:30 p.m.; Fast Ends, 7:42 p.m.

WEEKDAYS: Selichot, 6:40 a.m.; Shacharit, 7 a.m.

MONDAY: Tashlich and Picnic, 5:30 p.m. at Trendwood Park.

TUESDAY: Rabbi Weiss’s Weekly Class, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY: Women’s Class, 9:30 a.m.; UNMC Chaburah, 1 p.m.; Scholar’s Club for grades 4-6, 3:30 p.m. at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home.

Capehart Chapel 2500 Capehart Road | Offutt AFB, NE 68123 | 402.294.6244 FRIDAY: Services, 7:30 p.m. every first and third of the month.

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

FRIDAY: Shacharit, 9:30 a.m.; Shofar Service, 11 a.m.

Musaf and Kiddush luncheon to follow.

SATURDAY: Shabbat Shuva Shacharit, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Reading, 10:45 a.m.; Musaf and Kiddush luncheon to follow.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 8:30 a.m.

WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m.

TUESDAY: Dynamic Discovery with Shani Katzman, 10:15 a.m. A class for women based on traditional texts with practical insights and application. RSVP by calling the office.

WEDNESDAY: Personal Parsha class, 9:30 a.m. with Rochi Katzman. RSVP by calling the office; The Development of the Oral Tradition, 7 p.m. with Rabbi Katzman. RSVP by calling the office. In memory of Forrest Krutter -- Efrayim Menachem Ben Avraham Yitzchak.

MEMORIAL SERVICES Sunday, September 28 Oak Hills/Bikhor Cholim, Council Bluffs, 10 a.m.

Beth El Cemetery, 84th and ‘L’ Sts., 11 a.m.

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME 323 South 132 Street | Omaha, NE 68154 FRIDAY: Morning service, 9:15 a.m., led by Andy Greenberg.

SATURDAY: Services, 9:15 a.m. led by Alan Shulewitz Services will be held in the Chapel. Members of the community are invited to attend.

TEMPLE ISRAEL Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) 13111 Sterling Ridge Drive | Omaha, NE 68144-1206 | 402.556.6536 http://templeisraelomaha.com FRIDAY: Shabbat Shuvah Service, 6 p.m. A special haftarah is read and traditionally the rabbi gives a sermon related to repentance.

SATURDAY: Tot Shabbat, 9 a.m.; Torah Study, 9:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m.; JYG Zoo with Picnic, 2 p.m.

SUNDAY: Grades K-6, 10 a.m.; Beginning Prayer Study with Elyce Azriel, 11 a.m. - noon. If you have no clue what the prayers in our service mean or if you struggle to keep up with the congregation singing and reciting these prayers, then this class is for you; Kol Rina Rehearsal, 1 p.m.

TUESDAY: Kol Rina Rehearsal, 6:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Grades 3-6, 4 p.m.; School Dinner, 6 p.m.; Grades 7-12, 6 p.m.; Family Night, 6 p.m.; Re-Jew Vination with Stephanie Grossman, 6:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: OTYG Lounge Night, 6 p.m.

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

FRIDAY: Temple office closed; Service, 9 a.m.; Youth Service, 11 a.m.; Mincha/Ma’ariv, 7:15 p.m.

SATURDAY: Morning service, 10 a.m. followed by a Kiddush luncheon.

SUNDAY: LJCS Gan through Grade 7, 9:30 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; LJCS Hallah High, 9:45 a.m.-noon at Tifereth Israel; Hallah High Lite, 9:45 a.m.-noon at South Street Temple; LJCS teachers meet at South Street Temple, 12:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: LJCS grades 3-7, 4-6 p.m. at Tifereth Israel.

Babysitting will be available Saturday, Oct. 4.

Annual Congregation Break-the-fast, Saturday, Oct. 4 at the end of Yom Kippur. Havdalah service and meal around 7:45 p.m.

HIGH HOLYDAY FOOD DRIVE: We will be collecting canned food items for the Lincoln Food Bank during the High Holy Days and Sukkot. Please remember to bring items like packaged pasta, canned vegetables and fruits, boxed cereals with you when you come to shul on Rosh HaShanah and Kol Nidrei. Please do not bring items on Shabbat. A donation box is located outside the Synagogue office. We can make a difference in the fight against hunger in Lincoln as we begin the New Year.

Orthodox synagogue in L.A. ready to hire first female clergy member

by JTA NEWS STAFF 2015, Kanefsky told the Jewish Journal.

Kanefsky emphasized that the female clergy member will (JTA) -- Congregation B’nai David-Judea, an Orthodox synagogue in Los Angeles, said it is planning to hire its first not have the title “rabbi.” He said he hopes that using an alternative title will ease concerns female clergy member. from Orthodox congregation memThe hire would be a first among bers who otherwise would be resistOrthodox synagogues in Los Angeles, ant to introducing female clergy. the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported.

“The best way to derail a good idea is by moving too far, too fast,” The congregation recently retained Kanefsky told the Jewish Journal. “If Alissa Newborn, 25, a student at the we want to continue advancing New York-based seminary Yeshivat women’s participation in communal Maharat, for a one-year “kehilla leadership, we have to have common intern” position. The position involves communal sense.” addressing the full congregation on Orthodox groups have condemned Shabbat and teaching at events with ordaining female clergy members in groups from within the congregation. the past. In 2010, the Rabbinical In addition, Newborn will shadow Council of America said in a stateB’nai David’s Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky at ment that it “cannot accept either life-cycle events, according to the the ordination of women or the Jewish Journal. recognition of women as members Newborn will complete her studies of the Orthodox rabbinate, regardwhile interning in Los Angeles. Upon Alissa Newborn less of their title.” graduation she will earn the title of Nonetheless, Yeshivat Maharat, which may be the only “maharat” -- an acronym meaning female leader of Jewish Orthodox institution in the world with a female ordination law, spirit and Torah.

If the congregation benefits from the presence of a program, has placed five of its graduates and eight of its female religious leader, the synagogue’s board will assem- current students, including Newborn, in jobs and internble a list of candidates for a permanent female clergy mem- ships at eight Orthodox synagogues in the United States ber position when Newborn's intership ends in September and one in Montreal.

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In memoriam RAPHAEL “RAY” EDGAR Former Omahan Raphael (Ray) Edgar passed away on Sept. 12 at age 82. Services were held Sept. 18 at Congregation Beth-El Zedeck, Indianapolis, IN. The burial followed in Beth-El Zedeck North Cemetery.

He is survived by his children: Barry Edgar of Lake Villa, IL, Orna Edgar of Redmond, WA, and Daphna Edgar of Medford, MA; sister Laya Frischer of Evanston, IL; and four grandchildren: David, Aaron, and Crystal Edgar, and Tahlia Edgar-Chalker.

He was born in Des Moines, IA on May 28, 1932. From his father, Cantor Aaron I. Edgar, he absorbed a lifelong love of operative singing and Jewish music. From his mother, Ann Ziff Edgar, he learned the values of family solidarity and loyalty. These would be the pillars of his long and fulfilling life. He loved the human voice, especially in its highest forms: operatic arias and ensembles, and Cantorial chants of the highest caliber.

He grew up in Omaha, graduating from Omaha Central High School in 1949. He continued his education in Chicago, IL, at Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Music, specializing in vocal performance. He went on to graduate studies at the Cantor's Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City, where he received a Master's of Sacred Music and a diploma of Hazzan (Cantor). He was also the recipient of a Master's degree in Linguistics from American University in Washington, D.C. He began his professional career in Washington, D.C. as Cantor and Musical Director of Adas Israel Congregation, where he served until 1972. This was followed by Cantorial positions in Buffalo, NY, Chicago, IL, and Indianapolis, IN. Memorials may be made to Beth El Zedeck Congregation, the Santa Fe Opera, and the Jewish World Service.

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The coalition wants Congress to reform the Higher Education Act, or HEA, which includes the allocation of federal funds to 129 international studies and foreign language centers at universities nationwide. Congress is considering the act's reauthorization.

The organizations, which are involved in education, the Jewish community and civil rights, are working to ensure there is oversight of universities. The goal is to require recipients of federal funding to implement grievance procedures and for the Department of Education to include a complaint resolution process.

Rabbi Meyer May, executive director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, called on Congress to press the Department of Education to demand that those who receive HEA funding “guarantee that the funds will not be used to stifle the free speech of Israel advocates or to foment anti-Semitism on campus.”

The organizations involved are Accuracy in Academia, the AMCHA Initiative, the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, the Endowment for Middle East Truth. The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, the Middle East Forum, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations and the Zionist Organization of America.

Meanwhile, the Anti-Defamation League is calling on university administrators to look out for the safety and well-being of Jewish students on campus due to a possible increase in anti-Israel activity around the High Holidays.

American Muslims for Palestine has set Sept. 23, the day before the start of Rosh Hashanah, as the International Day of Action on College Campuses. The group has called for the elimination of study abroad programs in Israel, a ban on university administrators traveling to Israel and an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.

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Family fun at Blumkin Home’s Main Street

by OZZIE NOGG The recent Carnival/Grandparents Day Combo at the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home provided a fun-filled Sunday afternoon for Residents, staff and guests. “There was a wonderful

Clockwise from top left: Volunteer Patrick Hook, left, and Blumkin Home resident Gloria Goldberg having a laugh and enjoying the Main Street festivities together; One of the beautiful Mugg Boards made by Doug Smith of the RBJH activities department. Having a good time with it are Date Gbikpi, left, of the RBJH Housekeeping team and Volunteer Patrick Hook, right; Sarah, wife of Community Shaliach Eliad Eliyahu BenShushan, enjoyed the Amazing Wax Hands Machine; Blumkin Home resident Rita Biniamow, center, with her son Alan, left, and his wife Nancy, right, enjoyed the carnival atmosphere.

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Linda Cogen, Vo l u n t e e r Coordinator at the Rose B l u m k i n Jewish Home, also applauded the carnival volunteers: Jim Polack, Vicki Pe r l m e t e r, Sheila Tomps, D o r a Goldstrom, Ricki Skog, Lois Wine and Tootie Simon.

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