October 14, 2005

Vol. LXXXV No. 5 Omaha, NE

As Sukkot Nears, Jewish World Shaken by Looming Lulav Shortage

by CHANAN TIGAY NEW YORK (JTA)--American legislators, Israeli officials and Jewish groups are working diplomatic channels in an effort to stave off a looming lulav shortage ahead of Sukkot.

Their efforts follow a surprise move by Egypt, which-after years as the world’s primary supplier of the palm fronds that form the spine of the ritual lulav--said it no longer would provide the leaves to suppliers in the United States, Israel and beyond.

“We’ve got everybody on the case, and I told them to shake a leg,” Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY) told JTA, pun intended.

Ackerman has raised the issue in meetings with the Egyptian ambassador to the United States and America’s ambassador to Egypt, and says he also has put a call in to Osama el Baz, a top political adviser to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

In addition, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) has sent a letter to the Egyptian ambassador urging Egypt to “consider the needs of Jewish communities around the world and allow for a sufficient number of these palm fronds to be exported this year.”

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Federation to Honor Simon Family as Humanitarians of the Year

by CAROL KATZMAN Editor of the Jewish Press The fourth generation owners of Omaha Steaks--Alan, Fred and Steve Simon--were inducted last week into the Central High School Hall of Fame. And for good reason. Their 88-year-old company has grown from a 20man shop in 1917 called Table Supply Meat Company to the nation’s largest direct-response purveyor of gourmet meats. Employing close to 2000 people, Omaha Steaks is one of Omaha’s largest as well.

And on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m., the Simon family will once again be honored--this time by the Jewish Federation of Omaha as its 2005 Humanitarians of the Year. The event, which is also part of Jewish Book Month, will feature native son Eric Konigsberg, author of Blood Relations, the true story of Harold “Kayo” Konigsberg, a hit man for the mob.

“I cannot imagine the Omaha Jewish community without the support and leadership of the Simon Family,” insisted Jan Goldstein, Executive Director of the Jewish Fedeation of Omaha. “When you consider this family’s past three generations of involvement you can see the true realization of L’dor V’dor, for which we are all the beneficiaries,” The Simon family has been generous with their contributions and personal service to the Jewish community, and the arts and social service organizations. The National Conference for Community and Justice honored them in 1997 and the Nebraska Arts Council honored Omaha Steaks in 1998 with the Governor’s Arts Award for leadership in the business community. The State of Nebraska has recognized the leadership of

Fourth and fifth generation owners of Omaha Steaks include: Alan Simon, standing left, and Fred Simon; Todd Simon, seated, Steve Simon and Bruce Simon.

Omaha Steaks for “lifetime achievement” with its Food Company of the Year Award. In 2004, Omaha Steaks was given recognition by the Nebraska National Guard for supporting our troops overseas.

Lester Simon, who was posthumously inducted into CHS’ Hall of Fame last week, was also inducted into the Omaha Business Hall of Fame in 1998.

“The Simons are creative businessmen--fourth and fifth generation Jews in Omaha--who have put their business acumen to good use in the non-profit sector, in the Jewish community and beyond,” said Joanie Jacobson, Chairman of the Jewish Press Committee. “We’re proud to have nominated the Simons and have all benefited from their gifts: financial, advisory and leadership.”

Hornstein Fund Gives Aspiring Lawyers Chance to Climb Mountains An Israeli man shops for lulavs on the eve of Sukkot at the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem in a previous year.

Credit: Brian Hendler/JTA Staff members from the office of Rep. Eliot Engel (DNY) also have voiced concerns on the issue to the Egyptian Embassy.

Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture also is in contact with its Egyptian counterpart, which has said that palm-leaf exports had to be cut because removing the fronds damages the trees.

The pressure seems to be having some effect: Israeli officials say they now believe some lulav shipments from Egypt--the source in past years of about 1 million lulavs worldwide--could go forward, and Rabbi Abba Cohen, Washington director and counsel for Agudath Israel of America, said last week he’d received word from the Egyptians that “a partial release” was in the works.

Still, with a significant cut in the number of lulavs reaching distributors still likely, Jewish officials are concerned they may shortly have a “lulav crisis” on their hands for Sukkot, which starts Monday night, Oct. 17.

“The Egyptian action will not only create a tremendous shortage, so that some people won’t have lulavim, but those who do might have to pay an exorbitant price,” Cohen said. His group has been in contact with the Egyptian Embassy, the White House and the State Department on the issue.

Egypt’s concerns are backed up by horticulturalists, who say removing the fronds could damage a tree’s ability to produce fruit and thrive.

“It is detrimental to the health of the palm to remove the green, productive leaves,” said John Begeman, a horticulture agent with the University of Arizona’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, in Tucson.

“They are doing the work of the palm in manufacturing food” through photosynthesis.

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by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Foundation Public Foundation in Bennett’s Relations Coordinator honor.

Joe, who is 28, devoted Next March will be the “hours and hours,” dis20th anniversary of the cussing the idea of establishdeath of Bennett Hornstein, ing a fund, setting up an an Omaha-born attorney agreement with Marty who is still remembered for Ricks, Executive Director of his commitment to defending those who were hated, the Jewish Federation who were detested, and Foundation, working on whom nobody else would getting a website designed to educate people on the help. mission of the scholarship A 1958 graduate of fund and how to make a Omaha Central High School, Bennett was the son The Hornstein family, summer of 1985: Bennett and Nancy contribution to the fund, and arranging fundraising of Joe and Adele Hornstein. with Beth, Jill and Joey. Bennett died eight months later.

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma, events, according to his mother.

On the website, Joe wrote that his father decided to Bennett earned his law degree at the University of California at Berkeley. He married Nancy Venger in spend a significant portion of his life “fighting for the 1963 at Beth El Synagogue in Omaha. They had three rights of individuals and working for what he believed children: Jill, now married to Joe Goldstein; Beth; and was fairness for the underdog.” Bennett fervently Joe who is a commercial real estate broker in Denver. believed “that every defendant, no matter how poor, Joe was only nine when his father died of cancer, and was entitled to a good lawyer.” He served for 20 years as the young man’s earliest memories of his father were assistant Douglas County Public Defender in Omaha, spending summers with family in Vail, CO, and visiting noted Joe. (More can be found at the endowment’s him at his office. website: www.bghendowment.org./index.htm.)

Joe attended Colorado State University from 1995 to “He was a great appellate lawyer,” said Tom Rowen 1999 and “had the honor of receiving the Bruce who worked in the county attorney’s office when Fellman scholarship,” he said. “…it made a profound Bennett worked in the public defender’s office. They impact on my life personally.” In light of being the recip- became business partners as well as close friends. Joe ient of that scholarship and to keep Bennett’s spirit alive Hornstein and Rowen’s son Leo became good friends in the Nebraska legal community and continue to make too. “Bennett was a great guy and he’d be proud of a difference in the community that was his life, Joe Joe,” for setting up the scholarship endowment, Tom Hornstein, with his mother’s and sisters’ backing, estab- Rowen added. lished an endowment fund in August with the Jewish Continued on page 6

This Week: Kirshenbaums Visit Family Home in Ukraine: Pages 8-9 Coming Next Week: Education & Camping Jewish Genetic Gaucher Disease Widespread by Treatable: Page 3

Catholic/Jewish Relations Topic of Conversation: Page 4

Crossword Puzzle Hebrew Made Easy: Page 11

Generations Cel;ebrate at Blumkin Home: Page 16

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SUNDAY, OCT. 16 Sukkah Construction, 10 a.m. at Beth El Adult Education, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel WRJ-O Board Meeting, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel “Living Hebrew� Class, and Bible Study, 10 a.m. at Beth El Building the Sukkah (Part II), 11 a.m. at Beth Israel Prayer Class and Jewish Potpouri, 11 a.m. at Beth El Teacher Luncheon, noon at Temple Israel Yachad Sukkot Celebration, noon at location: tba Mah Jong Tournament, noon “Let’s Talk About It: Jewish Literature,� 4 p.m. at UNO Library

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MONDAY, OCT. 17 JCC CLOSED AT 6 P.M. FOR SUKKOT JSS Senior Luncheon, 10 a.m.

Sukkot Family Box Dinner & Service, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel TUESDAY, OCT. 18 JCC CLOSED FOR SUKKOT Adult Education, 6:30 p.m. at Temple Israel C WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 L JCC OPEN/FED OFFICES CLOSED FOR SUKKOT I Sukkot Lunch, noon at Beth Israel P

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Adult Education, 10 a.m. at Temple Israel Walk-in Drop-in, 10 a.m.

Long Range Planning Meeting, noon at Temple Israel Yiddish Group, 1 p.m.

Kripke Library Book Discussion Group, 1 p.m.

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by CHERYL KRUID for the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies Dr. Michael Walzer is a philosopher of society, politics and ethics currently working as a professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. since 1980.

He has written on a wide range of topics, including just and unjust wars, nationalism, ethnicity, economic justice, criticism, radicalism, tolerance, and political obliDr. Michael Walzer gation. His recent books include Arguing about War (2004) and Politics and Passion (2005). Outside of his academic work he acts as editor-in-chief of Dissent, and is a contributing editor to The New Republic.

He’ll be speaking on “The Paradox of National Liberation: India, Israel & Algeria� in Lincoln on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m., at the Lied Center For Performing Arts, located at 301 No. 12 St. His talk will also be broadcats live on the web at www.unl.edu, Lincoln channel 21, or UNL KRNU radio 90.3 FM. Sponsorship of this lecture is provided by the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies and the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, which is a cooperative project of the Cooper Foundation, the Lied Center for Performing Arts and the University of

Nebraska–Lincoln.

Professor Walzer is also appearing Thursday, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., at the Jewish Community Center. There, he will be talk about “Morality and Universality in Jewish Thought.� Sponsorship of this lecture is provided by the Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies.

Walzer, a leading American political theorist, has been a professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, since 1980. He has written about a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state.

He has played a part in the revival of practical, issuefocused ethics and in the development of a pluralist approach to political and moral life. Walzar is currently working on the toleration and accommodation of “difference� in all its forms and also on a (collaborative) project focused on the history of Jewish political thought. “Terrorism flourishes in part because there are so many people in many parts of the world who are prepared to make excuses,� Walzer said.

Walzer received his B.A. from Brandeis University in 1956 and attended Cambridge University on a Fulbright Fellowship from 1956-57. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1961. Professor Walzer was Professor of Government at Harvard University from 1966-80 and an assistant professor of Politics at Princeton University from 1962-66. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1974.

Playground Dedication, Family Sukkot Programs and Dinner at Beth Israel

Walk on Water Returns to Omaha

by MARY BORT for Beth Israel Synagogue There will be something for everyone during the events scheduled at Beth Israel Synagogue on Sunday, Oct. 23. The activities will include a Playground Dedication at 4:30 p.m., “hands-on� Sukkot Programs for children and adults at 5 p.m., and a Dinner in the Sukkah at 6 p.m.

The Playground Dedication will be led by Beth Israel’s Sisterhood. According to Sisterhood CoToba Cohen-Dunning, “Through President Sisterhood’s fund-raising efforts, along with a grant from the Esther K. Newman Foundation and a special donation by Jeff, Danielle, Harper, and Zev Dan Gordman, we’ve been able to build a terrific, commercial-grade playground, complete with rubber mulch for safety.� During the dedication, some of Beth Israel’s children will perform a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Following the dedication, everyone is invited to participate in one of three fun Sukkot programs from 5-6 p.m. Pre-schoolers and their parents can join Debbie Kricsfeld for a fun, hands-on activity. Kricsfeld is the teacher of Beth Israel’s weekly Shabbat class for 2-5 year olds. School-aged children will meet with Rachel Ohana to participate in a special Sukkot-related program. An Israeli native, Ohana has a master’s degree in education and is JELS Shlicha for the Omaha Jewish community.

Adults and teens will also have a program to attend: a kosher cooking class led by Nancy Mattly of Culinary Services. “Nancy’s class will focus on dishes that would be fabulous to serve in your Sukkah,� explained Beth Cohen, Beth Israel’s Executive Director.

A festive dinner in the Beth Israel’s Sukkah will be held at 6 p.m. Cost is $8 for adults, $4 for children ages 4 to 12, and free for kids ages 3 and younger. Dinner reservations must be made by Oct. 17. For more information about the playground dedication, Sukkot programs or dinner in the Sukkah on, please call the synagogue office at 556.6288.

EARLY DEADLINE NOTICE The Jewish Press will be closed for Sukkot, Tuesday/Wednesday, Oct. 18-19, and Shemini Azeret/Simchat Torah, Oct. 25-26. Deadlines are at noon as follows: Issue Deadline Oct. 28 Monday, Oct. 17 Pictures from the New Year’s issue can be picked up in the Press office during regular business hours. For more information, call the Press office at 334.6448.

by GARY KATZ Library Administrator “Complex and Paradoxical,� wrote Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.

After its very brief and successful engagement in Omaha theaters, the Omaha Jewish Film Festival will be showing the critically acclaimed Israeli film “Walk on Water� on Nov. 5 and 6, 7 p.m., in the JCC Theater.

Walk on Water is a first of a series of films to be selected by the Omaha Jewish Film Festival.

Lior Ashkenazi and Knut Berger by the Dead sea Lior Ashkenazi, who stars in it as an emotionally sublime Mossad agent, has the charisma of an Israeli Jason Bourne. Fresh off a mission in which he assassinated a Hamas leader, Ashkenazi’s Eyal, who is based in Tel Aviv, receives an undercover assignment: He is ordered to pose as a personal tour guide to get to know a pair of Germans, the newly expatriated Pia (Carolina Peters) and her brother, Axel (Knut Berger), who is visiting her from Berlin. Their grandfather, a Nazi, is rumored to be alive and hiding in Argentina, and Eyal is supposed to get information that could lead to his arrest.

This storyline establishes a course of action but it is only one component of the overall plot. Walk on Water addresses cultural stereotypes, political tension, and sexuality by depicting characters as more than elements of a story. Eyal, isn’t just an agent conflicted by his job obligation and his increasingly sympathetic view of the “targets.� He’s also a husband grieving over his wife suicide. Pia and Axel are not just representative of the new generation of Germans who have to live with knowing that their grandparents may have contributed to the Holocaust. Pia happily lives and works in a kibbutz, signifying a move to focus on the future. Axel lends a voice to the postwar attitude of the German youth. World War II is in the past and has nothing to do with them.

Tickets are $5 each. For tickets or information call the Kripke Jewish Federation Library at 334.6462. The Omaha Jewish Film Festival is sponsored by Jewish Educational and Library Services.

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“Easy to Miss,” Gaucher Disease Is Widespread and Treatable

by ANDREA WAXMAN The Wisconsin Chronicle When Jewish New Yorker Joan La Belle, now 70-something, was in her mid-20s, she began to experience symptoms suggesting a serious health problem.

“I felt exhausted, had rough menstrual periods with very heavy bleeding, and terrible nose bleeds.” Then she suffered hemorrhaging in childbirth, she said in a telephone interview from Minneapolis, where she has been a long-time resident.

Noting that hemorrhaging and an enlarged spleen are often misdiagnosed as leukemia and bone pain is often mistaken for arthritis, La Belle said that she really didn’t know what the cause of her symptoms was for years.

Finally, 15 or 20 years ago, a Jewish physician filling in for her regular internist correctly recognized her enlarged spleen as an indicator of Gaucher (pronounced go-shay) disease.

Gaucher is sufficiently rare that many doctors weren’t and still aren’t aware of it. And when LaBelle was diagnosed, “they were just doing research and there was not a glimmer of hope for [a treatment],” she said.

But then medical researchers produced the enzyme treatment that LaBelle needed and, for the last 12 or 13 years, she has received regular infusions that have dramatically improved her life, she said.

These enzyme treatments completely control her symptoms, LaBelle said. “Prior to the [enzyme therapy], I used to have hemorrhaging and my hemoglobin was very low. But, now it’s normal,” she said.

She receives intravenous infusions of the latest formulation of the enzyme, called Cerezyme, at a local Minneapolis

hospital every other week. It takes 60 to 75 minutes, but, she said, the length of time required depends on the number of units a patient needs.

LaBelle said “every couple of months” she has a “bone crisis,” which is an event when a sudden lack of oxygen in an area where Gaucher cells have interfered with normal blood flow causes intense pain that can last for hours or days. She said she treats the pain with medication.

Genetic counselor Amy White, of the Genetic Center at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, wishes she had some Jewish patients. Based on statistical probability, half of her Gaucher patients at the Lysosomal Diseases Treatment Center, within the Genetic Center, should be of Ashkenazi (central and eastern European) Jewish heritage.

But, in fact, only one of her eight Gaucher patients, though not Jewish, believes he has Ashkenazi ancestry.

According to the National Gaucher Foundation, Gaucher disease occurs when a person inherits a mutated gene from both parents, but if he or she inherits a mutated gene from one parent and a normal gene from the other parent, he or she will not have the disease but may be a carrier.

A carrier may pass the gene on to the next generation, depending on the genetic make-up of the person she marries.

And White, the National Gaucher Foundation (NGF) and Genzyme Corporation, the maker of Cerezyme, all “believe that there are people with Type 1 Gaucher Disease who have not yet been diagnosed.”

This is to due to “a lack of awareness among both medical and lay communities,” according to an NGF press release.

Gaucher Disease: The Facts Gaucher disease is a rare inherited disease, caused by a hereditary deficiency of a single essential enzyme (glucocerebrosidase), according to the National Gaucher Foundation (NCF).

Because this enzyme is necessary for breaking down aging blood cells, its lack causes some cells to become engorged. This condition eventually crowds the liver, spleen, bone marrow and lung cells and causes those organs to swell, disrupting production of blood cells in bone marrow and causing destruction of bones.

Genetic counselor Amy White, of the Lysosomal Diseases Treatment Center in the Genetic Center at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, put it this way: “Lysosomes are like the garbage disposals of our cells. Their job is to collect and get rid of the waste products.”

Symptoms of Gaucher disease can occur in childhood or adolescence but the disease is most often diagnosed in adults, according to the Center for Jewish Genetic Diseases website. An enlarged spleen and liver are often the first noticeable symptoms in children, said White, a member of the National Society of Genetic Counselors.

“And these are pretty noticeable. You see a skinny kid with a big belly,” she added. The most common symptoms in adults are bone breaks, bone infection, unusual bleeding and tiredness, White said. An “easy and accurate blood test” can diagnose Gaucher disease and identify carriers.

The effects of these symptoms vary depending on the severity of the disease, but they can be managed with bi-weekly infusions of Cerezyme, an enzyme manufactured from Chinese hamster ovaries, which are referred to as “cho.”

“It uses recombinant (artificially created) DNA technology that is five to seven years old. It is the oldest enzyme therapy around, so we know the most about it,” White said.

Gaucher disease is one of three lysosomal diseases treated at the center and is the only one that primarily affects Jews. The prevalence of Gaucher disease in Ashkenazi Jews occurs because of something geneticists call the “founder effect.” This refers to a genetic trait or disease that has a high frequency in a contemporary population because the gene was introduced by a founder into a small, often geographically or socially isolated group of people whose numbers then rapidly expand, according to a medical paper distributed by the NGF. Though Tay-Sachs disease (which affects one in about 2,500 Ashkenazi Jews) is the most well known of about 10 genetic diseases afflicting that population, Gaucher disease is much more widespread: One in an estimated 450 Ashkenazi Jews suffers from the disease and one in 14 is a carrier, according to the NGF.

They are particularly interested in reaching the Jewish community, where this often painful and debilitating, but highly treatable, disease is most prevalent.

White said that the Lysosomal Treatment Center has a lot to offer Gaucher patients in addition the life-changing to Cerezyme infusions.

Despite being located in Children’s Hospital, the Genetics Center, headed by Dr. William J. Rhead, the chief of the generics department, does not limit its services to children. “We see any individual or family who has a genetic condition,” White said. “We provide an initial evaluation and make recommendations as to specialists in Gaucher disease.” The center also provides evaluations of the course of a patient’s disease as well as its treatment.

And the Genetics Center can assist Gaucher patients with medical insurance issues, an important service because “Cerezyme is the most expensive medicine out there” according to Joan LaBelle.

White repeated LaBelle’s assertion that Gaucher disease can be “easy to miss” and said that “it isn’t life threatening, but it’s chronic and debilitating and the treatment is expensive.”

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The Jewish Mama’s Kitchen By Denise Phillips

JCC to Host Kohll’s Flu Vaccination Clinic

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by LEIGH CARLSON Community Services Associate As a convenience to the Omaha Jewish community and JCC Members, the Jewish Community Center will serve as a host site for Kohll’s Pharmacy to provide flu vaccinations Sunday, Oct. 23, 1-6 p.m. and Monday, Oct. 24, 6 a.m.-1 p.m. in the JCC Auditorium.

Reservations are required in order to ensure the correct amount of vaccine will be available for each day and can be made by visiting the JCC website at www.jccomaha.org or by stopping by the JCC Member Services desk.

The price of the flu shot will be $25

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by BETH KATZ Director of Interfaith Affairs and Community Education for the Anti-Defamation LeaguePlains States Region Join a panel of Jewish and Catholic clergy and lay leaders as we examine the evolution of Jewish-Catholic relations since the Second Vatican Council and discuss the current state of Jewish-Catholic relations in Omaha. Sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League, Archdiocese of Omaha and the Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society at Creighton University, the event is on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2-4 p.m. at Cathedral Cultural Center, 3900 Webster St. (Behind St. Cecilia’s Cathedral)

Opening remarks will be offered by Rabbi Mordechai Levin, Beth El Synagogue. Panelists are: • Reverend Father Ryan Lewis, Ecumenical Officer for the Archdiocese of Omaha; • Rabbi Aryeh Azriel, Temple Israel; • Dr. Roger Bergman, Director of Justice and Peace Studies Program at Creighton University; • Dr. Wendy Wright, Professor of Theology at Creighton University; • Dr. Bette Evans, Associate Professor of Political Science at Creighton University.

Refreshments will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

Shiputznick Partners with Local Organizations

by RACHEL BLUM Shiputznick is for Jewish teens to particiOn Sunday, Oct. 23, 1-4 p.m., the pate in community service projects in the JCC sponsored Shiputznick program Jewish community as well as the for teen volunteers will be partOmaha community on a regular nering with Keep Omaha jewish teens re basis. pa The name Shiputznick Beautiful in their Fall annual Youth means “repairman� in Cleanup project and Hebrew, and lends the Swanson Library itself well to the prinin a special book sale ciples of Tikkun Olam, repairing the for the public. Jewish world. The Shiputteens from all youth znick program is fundgroups will be able to ed in part by the choose between cleanHerbert Goldsten Trust. ing up Memorial Park in If you are a teen interested mid-town Omaha or helpin participating or if you would ing to re-shelve books at like more information about Swanson Library.

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To Jewish mamas and boobas (The Glossary defines as a term of endearment for a Jewish grandmother.), who have shared their recipes with their daughters, are part of this new Mama’s Kitchen Cooking Series.

The English author/cooking school teacher learned her love of cooking at the elbows of her mother, grandmother, and a large group of aunts...these Yiddisher mamas all wearing “pinnys� (aprons), who were the source of inspiration. Phillips carries on their traditions and the link between food and the celebration of Judaism.

A balance of “traditional Jewish cooking� of Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Israeli Jews is shared in the 90 homestyle recipes in seven chapters: Appetizers, Soups-Dumplings & Bread, Main Courses, Side Dishes, Friday Night Desserts, Tea At Booba’s and Festival Cooking. ‘Mama Says’ notes are written here and there among the recipes just like having mama in the kitchen with you.

The recipes include Fleishik, Pareve, Milchik (meat, either and dairy) designations, preparation and cooking times, and numerical instructions.

Headnotes and chapter notes give insights about the recipes, chapters and holidays. Color photographs are scattered throughout the notebook style pages of this haimishe cookbook...nice to

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Holishkas (stuffed cabbage) for Tabernacles/Succot.

Latkes for Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication/ Festival of Lights.

This dish is for breaking the fast at the end of Yom Kippur that Phillips’ mother always chops with a large cleaver the old fashioned way.

CHOPPED HERRING Pareve: contains no meat or dairy products/can be made in advance Preparation Time: 15 minutes/Serves 4 to 6 one 24-ounce jar (pickled) herring, drained 2 tablespoons chopped onion from herring marinade 1 medium green or red apple, peeled, cored and grated 2 slices challah or white bread 2 large eggs, hard-boiled and peeled Remove and discard the skins of the herring. Place the herring, onion and apple on a chopping board and put aside.

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VISIONS Join Visions on a Magical Mystery Tour is Thursday, Oct. 27. The cost of $20 per person includes transportation, lunch, tour, tax and gratuity. This day will be full of surprises and fun. Depart from the JCC at 9 a.m. sharp to return by approximately 2 p.m. Send reservations to Harry Alloy, 11317 Harney Plaza Circle, Omaha, NE 68154. by Oct. 17.

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B’NAI B’RITH BREADBREAKERS There is no meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 18 or 26, due to the Jewish holidays of Sukkot and Simchat Torah.

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by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Simchat Torah, which will be celebrated on Monday, Oct. 24, at Temple Israel, revolves around the completion and the beginning of the cycle of Torah readings.

The Torahs themselves revolve round the sanctuary as congregants cradle the holy scrolls and parade in seven hakafot (processions) joyously surrounding the pews.

Tuffy Epstein’s Fabrangen Fiddlers will set the mood for the holiday worship service at 6:45 p.m. followed by the service at 7 p.m.

Simchat Torah at Temple Israel is also an occasion to rejoice with the families of Temple Israel’s kindergarteners and older students, who have never been consecrated, as they mark the beginning of their formal religious school training.

“Consecration marks the beginning of one’s lifelong journey of Jewish learning and is therefore a sacred moment which inspires us to embrace the occasion as a community,” emphasized Rabbi Craig Marantz who encourages the entire congregation to join in the celebration.

For Consecration at Temple Israel, kindergartners design covers for their own little Torahs.

More than 20 students will be consecrated including Samantha Matz. “We’re looking forward to this,” said her mother Stacie Spies-Matz. Samantha is Stacie and Jay Matz’s first child to be consecrated. “This is a big step for us,” Stacie remarked. The family, which includes sisters Meredith and Elizabeth, are planning to be at Temple for Samantha’s consecration. “We’re very excited,” added Stacie.

Following the festive tunes, singing, dancing in the aisles, and flag waving, the merriment will continue in the Friedman Social Hall with more of Tuffy’s music and Israeli dancing at an ice cream Oneg.

Everyone who attends the service is requested to bring non-perishable food items to donate to the Omaha Food Bank.

On Tuesday, Oct. 25, the Simchat Torah morning service will begin at 10:30 a.m. in the chapel. Yizkor will be recited.

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by MARY SUE GROSSMAN JELS Administrator In conjunction with the on-going “Partnership with Israel” efforts of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, Jewish Educational & Library Services welcomes Dr. Bruria Schaedel and Dr. Ofra Greenberg for a visit to Omaha. Dr. Schaedel and Dr. Greenberg are faculty members at the Western Galilee College in Acre.

Western Galilee College is an integral partner in the Partnership project.

Dr. Schaedel has a doctorate in education from CapeTown University in South Africa. While in Omaha, she will be meeting with faculty members of the College of Education at the University of Nebraska Omaha, in addition to visiting public schools in the area.

Dr. Greenberg received her doctorate in social anthropology from Tel Aviv University in Israel and will be spending time with faculty in UNO’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Department of Criminal Justice.

“The faculty and staff in the College of Education and the departments of sociology/anthropology and criminal justice are looking forward to discussing areas of mutual interest with Drs. Greenberg and Schaedel,” said Bill Blizek, Chair of UNO’s Religious Studies Program.

“UNO’s involvement with the Western Galilee College through the Jewish Federation’s Partnership with Israel program is a true benefit for both schools. We plan to continue expansion of faculty participation from both schools in addition to establishing student exchange opportunities.”

Guy Matalon, Executive Director of JELS and professor at UNO, reports “Partnership with Israel is an exciting program for the Federation and our agency is proud to be spear-heading the many programs of this effort.

UNO’s involvement has been a boost to our activities and affords many options for the Partnership’s Educational Task Force goals.”

While in Omaha, Dr. Schaedel, will give a community lecture on Thursday evening, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m. in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library. The topic of the lecture will be “Fostering Multicultural Dialogue among Jewish and Arab Israeli Teachers.” This talk will underline the dilemmas of Israeli teachers of various national, religious and ethnic origins who try to overcome misconceptions about the “other”. The lecture, which is free and open to the community, will be followed by a question and answer period.

Please contact the JELS office at 334.6445 with any questions or visit the Jewish Federation website at www.jewishomaha.org.

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Continued from page 1 “I knew him all my life,” said Tom Fellman who knew Bennett’s parents and was close with his brother Mike.

“Bennett was a passionate warrior for the underdog and an environmentalist before environmentalism was cool.”

Fellman described Bennett as a “very liberal-minded guy” who was also “very intelligent and learned. He came to our son’s funeral in a wheelchair knowing what was in store for himself. He was just a wonderful, big hearted, thoughtful guy.”

During his last couple years, Bennett formed a private practice but continued working in the public defender’s office until he died remaining true to his pledge to defend the rights of people who couldn’t afford a lawyer.

He argued many cases before the Nebraska Supreme Court and one before the U.S. Supreme Court against a Nebraska constitutional amendment that permitted judges to hold rape suspects without bail. Joe, who was only six at the time, remembers going to Washington, D.C. with his Dad for the case. Bennett nearly missed the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of the U. S. Supreme Court due to a throat ailment that impaired his ability to talk. He also battled cancer for eight years which eventually stole his life at the age of 46.

“He left behind a legacy of a strong will, integrity, and a compassionate heart,” Joe notes on the website. He was an inspiration to his family, friends, colleagues and is “remembered for his love, compassion, and unwavering selflessness…” Joe continued.

In 1982, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association honored Bennett for his “tireless efforts on behalf of the poor and powerless.”

But for those who were close to him, Bennett was even more. “He displayed a dedication to his family and profession, a desire to make a difference in his commu-

nity, a will to persevere against all odds, a sense of humor that was contagious, and a passion for the outdoors,” Joe recalled.

“One of his greatest personal achievements was climbing Switzerland’s Matterhorn, one of the most difficult ascents in the world, when he was studying abroad during college. Bennett embraced these challenges and encouraged others to do the same. Many remember him for his passionate conversations on politics or law that would last for hours and often leave others inspired to make a difference,” Joe relates on the website.

Established in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Omaha, the Bennett G. Hornstein Endowment Fund will be used in the form of an annual scholarship awarded to an aspiring law student who demonstrates Bennett’s core values and beliefs of commitment to justice and of striving to make a difference in the Nebraska legal community. The Hornstein family objective is “to educate and reward the next generation of attorneys who will forge their own place in their respective legal communities. Bennett would insist that each applicant be given the opportunity to seek out and climb his or her own individual mountain.”

“I have truly enjoyed working with Joe on his Dad’s endowment fund,” commented Ricks. “Joe is deeply passionate about the community, remembering all the good things Bennett stood for, but more importantly, Joe wants some law students in Nebraska who mirror Bennett’s values to have the opportunity to receive some financial assistance to offset the high cost of law school.”

For information on the scholarship, contact Ricks at the Foundation, 402.334.6440 or at mricks@jewishomaha.org. The inaugural scholarship will be awarded in 2006. Donations in memory of Adele Hornstein, who died last week, also may be made to this fund.

Beth El Class Makes the Connection “From Your Heart to God’s Ears”

by JILL BELMONT interest in Jewish prayer,” she said. “Initially, it was Beth El Publicity Coordinator through regular attendance at Beth El’s Shabbat services How effective are our prayers? Does God hear and that I began to enjoy community and continuity. answer them? Why are our Jewish prayers significant, and “Next, as I studied for my adult Bat Mitzvah I gained more importantly, what personal meaning do they hold for more personal enrichment. However, it was not until I said us? These are just some of the questions being explored Kaddish for my mother that I discovered the full power of during a newly-established adult education class at Beth El Jewish prayer. In the context of Beth El’s morning minyan, Synagogue each Sunday at 11 a.m. Taught by congregant over a period of 11 months, I was truly transformed. Since Andy Greenberg, “From Your Heart to God’s Ears” gives then, I have yearned to learn as much as possible about our participants the opportunity to delve into the meaning of daily services, our Shabbat services and our holiday servicJewish prayers, and share their own interpretation and es.” reaction to the liturgy.

Baum praised Greenberg’s teaching prowess, saying, “I’ve always been convinced that in shul, many of us who “Andy is a thoughtful, knowledgeable teacher. I come know Hebrew say the prayers quickly and forget what they away from each Sunday session with new insights about the mean or what they do,” said Greenberg, a frequent form and underlying meaning of our prayers and about the Shabbat service leader at the flow of our services. Our Rose Blumkin Jewish Home classes are informal and nonand longtime volunteer at threatening. In class, we read Beth El. “Many people do in English before we have a not show up because they discussion. Even so, Andy don’t know what the prayers sometimes makes reference to mean. the Hebrew, and he is always “Prayers help us to identify willing to help me in my quest with God, the earth, people at translating individual words and our inner selves. Many and phrases.” people go through life Andy Greenberg, left, discusses the significance of prayer Fellow student Audrey depressed, upset about what with several of his class participants, (fromleft) Anna Epstein also gives her instructhey do not have or not Wiesman, Larry Kronick, Diane Baum and Dottie tor straight ‘A’s’ for his teachappreciating what they do. Rosenblum. ing style, and says she was Prayers profess love -- they are positive motivators as they drawn to the class because “after seeing Andy lead services always remind us of the blessings we have. And yes, we do at the Blumkin Home--and he did such a beautiful job--I get to ask for more, but not only for ourselves as individu- knew that I’d want to go to any class that he led.” Since als, but for all people, even those who are not there.” the class began last month, Epstein has not been disapDuring sessions of “From Your Heart to God’s Ears,” pointed. “Andy’s a wonderful teacher--he makes you think, discussions focus on the English translations from the and you always come away from class with something new.

Conservative branch’s Sim Shalom prayer book, I also enjoy hearing other people’s views and hearing explaGreenberg said, adding that knowledge of Hebrew and nations about the prayers,” she said. “There is no one way regular attendance at Shabbat services are not require- to pray,” Epstein noted, adding that, “My time at Friday ments to participate in or appreciate his class. Rather, his services is a time for reflection. You can pray in your own priority is making the class accessible to everyone in the way and it’s meaningful. community and allowing each individual to look at his or “I always thank God for all my blessings. I’m not just her own relationship with prayer. reciting words anymore: I’m thanking God and he’s listenWe won’t be studying prayer technique,” Greenberg ing to me.” Greenberg concluded that, “Once people noted, explaining that while some historical, biblical or reli- understand these benefits [of prayer], perhaps they will gious aspects may be touched upon, the class’s main focus pray more, enjoy longer lives and re-ignite the love of life will be about individual interpretations of prayers and and others that is found in each one of our hearts and exploring the relevance of these readings in everyday life. souls.”

“This course is designed to allow adults to understand All Jewish adults in our community are welcome to join prayer from their own perspective.” this insightful and interesting new class. Cost is $18 per Participant Diane Baum joined the class to further her semester; to register or for more information, please conown exploration of and relationship with prayer. “Over the tact Beth El Program Director Margie Gutnik at past several years I have developed, step by step, a deep 492.8550.

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Looming Lulav Shortage Continued from page 1 Sunday before Easter, many Christians Date palms typically have 15-20 use bunches of green palm leaves -healthy green leaves at any one time, and pruned from date, Sago and other palm removal of leaves should be limited to the varieties -- as they mark Jesus’ entry into dead and dying brown leaves at the trees’ Jerusalem in the days prior to his crucibase, Begeman said. fixion. In many churches, the fronds later The Encyclopedia Judaica translates the are burned and their ash used on Ash Hebrew word lulav as “a young branch of Wednesday. a tree” or “a shoot.” The lulav is one of Distributors of Christian goods say the the arba’ah minim, or four plant species, Egyptian decision is unlikely to affect that are joined together and shaken on Christians this year as the vast majority of Sukkot. The others are willows and myr- their palm supply comes from Florida and tle, which are bound to the lulav with Mexico. strips of palm; and the etrog, or citron, As Erev Rosh Hashanah fell, Judaica which is held beside the lulav as it is stores that supply lulavs to local conwaved. sumers were unsure about the status of Calls to the Egyptian Embassy were not their orders. returned.

“I’m very nervous about it,” said Those in contact with the Egyptians say Madelyn Heyman, proprietor of Bala they have been receptive to Jewish con- Judaica in suburban Philadelphia. cerns. No one interviewed believed that Heyman said her distributor had promthe Egyptian move was politically moti- ised that the lulavs would arrive--and vated. They said they hoped the already had raised the price on them.

Egyptians might take steps to cushion the “It’s very unusual just to raise the price blow in light of the appeals. on the one item,” she said. “We sell them “We’re surely sensitive” to Egypt’s as a set.” needs, Cohen said. “What we’re looking for is some way to allow them to pursue what’s in their best interest, but at the same time allow us to adjust and develop or tap into other sources.”

Cohen suggested, for example, that instead of cutting off lulav shipments at once, a decrease could be gradual.

While Egypt long has been the major producer of lulavs -- the majority come from the El Arish region of northern Sinai - Worshippers hold lulavs as they pray during the Sukkot holiday - some distributors have at Jerusalem's Western Wall in a file photo.

Credit: Brian Hendler/JTA gotten portions of their Heyman was able to get relatively inexsupplies from California, Arizona and Israel. In light of the news out of Egypt, pensive etrogs, and as such was not planseveral Israeli distributors reportedly vis- ning to raise the price on the lulav-etrog ited Jordan recently to determine if the sets.

“I’m hoping that we’re all wrong and Hashemite Kingdom could become a that there’s going to be plenty of supply,” new source.

Palm fronds also play a role in she said. “We have to be optimistic at this Christianity. On Palm Sunday, the time.’’

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Temple Invites Christian Clergy to Help Teach Course in “Understanding Each Other”

by CLAUDIA SHERMAN Temple Israel Communications Coordinator Rabbi Craig Marantz of Temple Israel has invited Christian scholars, representing several denominations, and faculty from Creighton University to join him in an open discussion with participants interested in developing an understanding of Christian teachings as they relate to issues of Jewish importance.

“Jews and Christians: In the Pursuit of Understanding Each Other,” will meet in the evenings from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Oct. 27, Nov. 3, 10, and 17 at Temple. Lending their expertise, the speakers will expand on the nature of the Messiah, the writings of Paul, antiSemitism, monotheism as it relates to both Judaism and Christianity, ethics, and spirituality.

According to Rabbi Marantz, the discussions will address what it takes in this day and age to create and develop a vital open-minded relationship between Jews and Christians. “We live in a world that needs more dignity, more wholeness.

Dialogue such as this contributes to greater understanding,” he said.

Texts will include readings from the Tenach and the New Testament.

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Kupel, Ukraine, 2005: What Once Was a Scene from Fiddler on the Roof

by CAROL KATZMAN Editor of the Jewish Press It seems only fitting that the day members of the Kirshenbaum family visited the cemetery in Kupel, Ukraine, was dark and dreary. The rain fell continuously--a perfect symbol for the fate of the Jews who once lived in this small village, 265 kilometers from Kiev.

Overturned headstones, heavy underbrush and mosscovered gravesites are all that’s left of what was once a large shtetl. Of the six synagogues, all are gone; even the former marketplace, where Jewish peddlers sold their wares, is no more than a pile of foundations stones.

There’s not a single Jew left in Kupel today, but in 1921, there were nearly 1000--80% of the total village

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“The scene looks like it’s straight out of the movie, weren’t able to find any Kirshenbaum graves.”

On the way back to Kiev to rejoin the Federation ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ ” said Joe Kirshenbaum.

Omahans Big Joe and Little Joe Kirshenbaum, so named Mission, Rabbi Raskin made a detour to Berdichtev, to differentiate them from one another as they were birthplace of the Baal Shem Tov, the originator of the named after the same grandfather, had traveled there to Hasidic movement. Rabbi Yisrael ben Eliezer was born find any remnants of the Kirshenbaum family. Along with in Okop, a small village in the Ukraine on the Polish them were Maxine Kirshenbaum and Kevee Kirshenbaum Russian border (Podolia), sometime around 1700.

He was reputed to have performed miracles--in fact, (Little Joe’s wife and Big Joe’s brother brother) and Phyllis his name Baal-Shem-Tov means master of the good Rifkin, Big Joe’s sister from Dallas, TX. Big Joe was actually born in Kupel in 1921, the year name. Before his time, Jews prayed mournfully, still he left with his parents, Meyer and Dora, and older sis- awaiting their return to Zion. Most rabbinic leaders ter Rose (Becker), who today lives in Cedar Rapids, IA. frowned upon singing and dancing, but the Baal Shem It took the little family hours to make what today is a 45 Tov insisted that worship and prayer should be joyful minute drive to Voloshek, the nearest town with a rail- and that even illiterate Jews must be allowed to experiroad. From there, they journeyed to Warsaw, Poland and ence the joy of worship. His school of thought led to the growth of may Hasidic stayed for four months “courts” in Western Ukraine before arriving in Antwerp and Eastern Poland, each to board a ship to America, following different leaders. along with Little Joe’s parAmong the six synagogues ents, Abraham and Yetta, in Kupel were Zinkover and his grandfather, Keva.

Hasids, Zionists--both leftWhile he doesn’t rememleaning socialists and rightber anything of his birthwing traditionaists, “liberplace, Big Joe had someals”, and “bundists.” thing even better--a memoir The group also stopped in of Kupel, written by a 92Voloshek, where only one year-old woman now living elderly Jew still lives. This 83in Israel--Tova Perlshtein.

“When (Little) Joe asked The foundation stones are all that’s left of the marketplace year-old, a veteran of the Soviet Army, lives in a 300 Kevee and me a year ago if in Kupel, located in Western Ukraine. we were interested in visiting our parents’ birthplace, I square foot apartment with his wife, surrounded by phoimmediately said ‘yes’,” and started doing some tos of his family and his wartime medals. Staff from the research,” recalled Big Joe Kirshenbaum. After phone JDC visit when they can...bringing a food package, some calls, online research at www.JewishGen. org (a Jewish staples, sometimes medicine. genealogy website), and more phone calls, Big Joe “There but for the grace of God,” whispered Kevee to obtained Perlshtein’s manuscript, a map of 1912 Kupel, his brother and cousin. “That could be us.” and even a photograph of a funeral in 1924.

The two Joes and Kevee, Maxine and Phyllis couldn’t In addition, he has another manuscript, entitled “The help thinking about Kupel, even as they continued with family of Rav Itzhak Meir Glaser,” by Nina Bolshakova. the mission to Israel. Armed with Perlshtein’s phone In it, she writes of her family history in Kupel, relatives, number, the group hoped to make contact with her at friends, the war years and the Holocaust, and the after- the Tel Aviv nursing home where she now lives. As luck math under Soviet occupation. would have it, she was available--and anxious to meet One of the stories was familiar, Joe said, “I remember fellow “Kupeliers.” my mother telling us this one. It seems that Zalman With two of the mission participants--and Hebrew Glaser was born during the Russian Civil War on July speakers--Guy Matalon and Rabbi Jonathan Gross in 15, 1919. One day the town as occupied by the Red tow, the group spent an enlightening morning with the Army, the next day, it would be the White Army in con- spry 92-year-old, in what Little Joe described as “an trol. And even the Ukrainian gangs got into the act. immaculate nursing home, filled with attentive staff.”

Zalman’s brith was only possible because some Polish Perlshtein, who was born in Kupel in 1912, told her soldiers helped them get to a doctor. That’s the way life visitors she “escaped” the Holocaust. But that’s a miswas then.” nomer. An active member of the Hashomer Hatzair--the Rav Glaser was tortured by the Nazis, but escaped. Jewish Pioneer movement of the 1930s and ’40s which Recaptured, he was killed along with 50 other Jews; hoped to establish a homeland in Eretz Yisrael, they’re buried in a single grave somewhere near Kupel.

Perlshtein had been sent to Moscow in 1932 to Hatzair In the meantime, Little Joe arranged for the family to headquarters. By the end of that year, the young mothvisit Kupel in the days right before a Federation Mission Continued on page 9

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Kupel, Ukraine, 2005 Continued from page 8 “The crying of the survivors became hysterical,” er had been arrested and sent into exile in Siberia with Perlshtein related in her memoirs. “Suddenly, all was quiet.

A Christian woman surrounded by five children entered her twin infants; the babies later died there.

She has lived in Israel since 1958, where, according to the synagogue. She told us, ‘This is your church (sic).

Eliav Bar-Hai, who translated her memoir, “She has Today your people remember the souls of those who were spent her life divided between the laborious task of doc- murdered by the Nazis. I brought you (the children) here umenting the extermination of Kupel and the under- to pray and cry for the souls of your parents.’

“The worshippers said that the woman was a maid in ground Zionist movement in Stalinist Russia, and helpa Jewish home,” ing new immigrants Perlshtein continued. get settled in Israel.” unpublished “When the Germans Her invaded Proskurov, memoirs, Kupel: In she managed to hide Memory of My Shtetl the children. When and the Dear Ones Who their parents were Died There, provides a unique and detailed forced into the ghetto, history of the Podolia she took the children region in the decades and fled, moving freleading to the Nazi quently to ensure the Holocaust, according Nazis didn’t catch to Bar-Levi. them.

Perlshtein was “On Yom Kippur, she allowed to return to managed to bring them Kupel for one day, hopback to their Jewish traing to see her parents. In Israel, Tova Perlshtein, center, the 92-year-old Kupelier who docu- ditions,” Perlshtein “The shtetl had mented life in that town in her memoirs, met with Phyllis Rifkin, left, and added. “I’m sorry I can changed,” she told the Guy Matalon (who helped translate); and Kevee Kirshenbaum, standing, no longer remember group. By 1934, the “Little” Joe Kirshenbaum and “Big” Joe Kirshenbaum. her name. She deserves Ukrainian shtetls near to be honored and

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1207 HARNEY ST. • OMAHA, NE the border with Poland, including Kupel, were put under the authority of a “security zone,” and the Jewish residents lived in a ghetto. On the surface, “everything was good,” she added. “There was serenity between the Jews and Ukrainians. Children played and learned together. Every Jew seemed to have a close gentile friend.”

All that changed when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Perlshtein learned later from landsman who had survived the war. “To flee was impossible,” she continued. “The road to the nearest train station passed through hostile villages.”

On Rosh Hashanah in 1941, the “Aktion” began, first when the SS rounded up a group of distinguished Jews in the yard across from the synagogue. It continued on Yom Kippur, when more Jews--and the main synagogue’s rabbi--were ordered to strip and run back and forth on the unrolled Torah scrolls. Later, the Germans rounded them up and marched them to the Jewish cemetery, where they shot them all, including their wives and children. In Kupel’s cemetery, buried along with the Kirshenbaum ancestors, are two mass graves.

Years later, after Perlshtein was finally released from the gulag in Siberia, she visited the synagogue in Proskurov (Chmielnistki). It was Yom Kippur in 1948.

Photos from left: the road sign shows Teofipal and Kupel--the birthplaces of Yetta and Dora and Meyer and Abraham Kirshenbaum, shows how close the two were; the last remaining Jew of Voloshek and his wife; while this headstone looks like it’s been overturned, it’s not--it was the custom to place it like this so the deceased could rise from the grave upon the arrival of the Moshiach; the entrance to the cemetery in Berditchev marks the gravesite of the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism. remembered among the righteous gentiles.”

Eighty-four years after Joe Kirshenbaum left Kupel with his parents and sister, 64 years after the Nazis slaughtered Kupel’s Jewish residents, 57 years after Tova Perlshtein last visited her birthplace, a contingent of Kirshenbaum descendants walked among the gravestones of Kupel’s deteriorating cemetery, wondering what they could do to memorialize their family.

“We decided to take something of Kupel back to Omaha,” Kevee added, displaying a plastic bag filled with dirt from Kupel’s Jewish cemetery.

And so, when memorial services were held at Mount Sinai Cemetery in Omaha right before Rosh Hashanah, Kevee sprinkled some of that dirt on the graves of Meyer and Dora Kirshenbaum--his parents and Big Joe’s, on the graves of Abraham and Yetta Kirshenbaum, Little Joe’s parents, and on the graves of other family members, whose roots are in Kupel--but whose descendants live free--as Jews--in America.

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Jews and Christians: A Journey of Faith will be broadcast on Thursday, Oct. 20, 8 p.m., on NET2 (Cox Cable). The documentary explores the common beliefs, traditions and rituals shared by Judaism and Christianity, and examines how contemporary Jews and Christians perceive each other, confront prejudice and stereotypes and how they can understand and respect one another despite their differences. Segments show American Jews and Christians discovering their mutual roots in Israel, illustrating their widely differing reasons for visiting.

Based on the book Our Father Abraham: The Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson, Ph.D., the program contains fascinating interviews with an inter-denominational cross-section of leading biblical scholars, historians and clergy.

The Omaha Symphony Chamber Series presents its second concert of the season on Oct. 29, 7 p.m., at the Strauss Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Gentle Winds, features Maria Harding on flute, and Chrisoph Campestrini conducting. For ticket information, contact 342.3560 or order online at: www.omahasymphony.org.

The Omaha Area Youth Orchestras will open its 47th Concert Season on Sunday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. in the new Holland Performing Arts Center, 13th and Douglas. The All Orchestra event will culminate the Holland Performing Arts Center’s Day of Arts.

OAYO will partner with the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer to present the Nebraska premiere of Joan Tower’s “Made in America” as part of a groundbreaking project, “Ford Made in America.”

The Broadway hit musical, Chicago, plays at Omaha’s Orpheum Theater from Nov. 18-20. The Omaha engagement will feature Tom Wopat.

Tickets may be purchased through Ticket Omaha-located at the Orpheum Theater, 409 So. 16 St., open Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m., with extended hours during performances.

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IN THE NEWS Last month, Sigma Alpha Mu Regional Governor Andrew S. Raffel formally colonized seven students at the University of Nebraska as the Sigma Omicron Colony of the fraternity. The ceremony marks the return after an eight year absence. Sigma Alpha Mu was first established at the University of Nebraska in 1926 and the chapter has initiated 671 men in its history. Sigma Alpha Mu’s alumni include Norman Krivosha, a past Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nebraska and University of Nebraska Chancellor Harvey S. Perlman.

The return to the Lincoln campus will give Jewish students an opportunity to get involved in the campus Greek system.

The new group plans to work closely with the campus Hillel and hopes to soon gain University recognition. “We look forward to growing the chapter back to its former greatness,” said newly elected Colony President Jon Gates.

Contact Regional Governor Raffel at 359.1459 to identify young men of

upstanding character attending the UNL. Local SAM alumni are also encouraged to contact RG Raffel as there are plans to charter an Omaha area alumni group and to identify candidates for the role of chapter advisor.

October is AIDS Awareness Month.

The Nebraska Red Ribbon Community (NRRC) will be sponsoring the second annual Human AIDS Ribbon event in Omaha, NE on Sunday, Oct. 23, 1:30 p.m. Join us as we form a human AIDS ribbon at Levi Carter Park to publicly celebrate and honor the lives of those we have lost and to express our determination to fight and end HIV and AIDS. Diana Manvitz, daughter of Wendy and Todd Manvitz has been selected to Sigma Delta Tau’s Hall of Fame for 2004-2005. Diana graduated Cum Laude from the University of Kansas last spring where she had been president of the local chapter. She is student teaching in Lawrence, KS.

BIRTHS Former Omahans Chaim and Rivka Wax of Chicago, IL, announce the birth of twins on Sept. 1, Gedalya Yechezkel Ephraim and Tehila Chana Devora.

They have three brothers, Akiva, age 9, Yehuda-Nachman, age 7, and Rashi age 4.

Grandparents are Dr. James and Esther Wax and Drs. James and Sarah Christiansen of Des Moines, Ia. Brian and Robyn Crone of Laurens, IA, announce the arrival of Andrew Jacob, “A.J.”, on Sept. 3, named for his maternal great-great grandfather, Adolph Stein

A.J. has a brother, Douglas Michail, 6.

Grandparents are Sharon and Barry Allen, Bob and Mary Fox, all of Omaha, and Dallas and Irene Crone of Laurens, IA. Great-grandparents are Harold and Ruth Fox and the late Sam and Shirley Berman.

CORRECTION In the listing of births for 5765, two were incorrect; Abigail Coren is the mother of Jemma Elisheva Coren, and Yehoshua and Nava Coren are the parents of Orli Bina Malka Coren.

October 14, 2005

A Cooperative Approach to Teaching the Holocaust Offered to Metro Omaha Educators

by BETH SELDIN DOTAN Holocaust for credit or for continuing Director education credits.

Institute for Holocaust Education Michael Young, Coordinator of the Teachers from area high schools have Teaching American History Grant for been working together to learn new Omaha Public School, commented, “We methods to teach the Holocaust. were fortunate to be able to coordinate This 10-week, three-credit directed- this effort through the Teaching readings course, offered through the American History Grants. Teachers are Department of Philosophy and Religion able to participate in the class for one, at UNO, is a joint effort of UNO, the two or three credits, and those who are OMAHA Teaching American History part of the grant program receive a the Millard Public stipend to cover their expenses.

Grant, Schools/MOEC Teaching American Requirements include: creating three History Grant, and the Institute for classroom lesson plans, extensive reading Holocaust Education brings secondary and two research papers. An additional educators from Social Studies, requirement includes a one-day trip to English/Language Arts and other areas the United States Holocaust Memorial of study to focus on teaching the Museum in Washington, D.C. Last Holocaust through inter-disciplinary month, the teachers flew to Washington, had the opportunity to visit the exhibits methods.

Objectives for the course include: pro- and participate in workshops during their viding a solid historical understanding of stay at the museum. Warren Marcus, World War II and the Holocaust; identi- Director of Teacher Workshops from the fying and providing access to literature USHMM, provided supportive and ageand other printed resources related to the appropriate materials for the educators to Holocaust; illustrating how using the lens take home.”

The teachers will share their museum of the Holocaust and its lessons are a valuable tool for meeting state standards visitation experiences in class this week and assessments; and demonstrating the and will also hear child survivor, Bea Karp most up-to-date teaching strategies and give her testimony.

Bob Wolfson, Director of the Plains technology for Holocaust curriculum.

The Omaha Public Schools (OPS) States Region of the Anti-Defamation received a three-year Teaching American League remarked that, “One of the most History Grant (TAHG) from the U.S. meaningful components of this course is Department of Education in 2004. OPS that there are teachers from OPS, is utilizing TAHG funds to provide teach- Millard, Westside, Bellevue and the ers with professional development oppor- Catholic schools involved in the program. tunities.

The focus of the grant is to directly help the classroom teacher improve in instruction American history.

The goal of this grant is to expand the teacher’s knowledge of history and to give them new teaching tools that will enhance the delivery of instruction.

By supporting and enriching teachers, Above: a group of teachers from OPS, Millard, Bellevue,Westside and they will in turn be Omaha Catholic schools flew to Washington, D.C. last month for a visit better able to to the U.S.Holocaust Museum. Below: Warren Marcus, staff at the improve the edu- USHM, instructs the Omaha teachers in Holocaust education. cation of students.

In addition to learning new teaching strategies and attending enrichment activities, teachers have the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree. They can participate in seminars, workshops, and educational field trips. The grant allows OPS to utilize community resources by forming partnerships with institutions such as The University of Nebraska at Omaha, The Teachers from the Metropolitan commuNebraska State Historical Society, the nity are learning together about how the Durham Western Heritage Museum, the lens of the Holocaust forces us to view history and man’s inhumanity to man. We Anti- Defamation League, and others.

Teams of Social Studies/English must be very clear about the life lessons Language Arts teachers were given top we teach our young people. We hope that priority for registration of the class. by bringing new awareness of the historiIndividual teachers and teachers from cal content and appropriate teaching other disciplines are also participants this tools to the teachers we will continue our semester, bringing a total of 35 educators efforts to change lives.”

The Institute for Holocaust Education to the class. The course meets on Tuesday evenings throughout the Fall is a resource in the Omaha community Semester from 5:3-8:30 p.m. at the with an objective to teach students, teachJewish Community Center. Teachers who ers and all people the lessons of the have participated in workshops through Holocaust, while offering avenues to the Institute for Holocaust Education apply these lessons to life and society in over the past four or five years have order to make the world a better place. requested the opportunity to study the For information, call me at: 334.6575.

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Hebrew Made Easy

by BERNARD MANN Legacy Crosswords© 2005 Sponsored by CATEGORY ONE

ACROSS 1. Large simian 4. Leave a corporate position 10. MAN, OR FIRST MAN, IN HEBREW 14. 2,000 pounds 15. Baltimore player 16. Harbor city of King Hiram 17. Greek goddess of dawn 18. SHIR HASHIRIM (Book of the Bible where we find “the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in the land”) 20. Maltreated, disparaged 22. Pore-like openings in leaves 23. Markets morays?

26. The ending of most any ideology 27. Mets’ stomping grounds 28. Spanish kings 30. O.J. Simpson judge 33. Intended, as with words 36. British term for Northern Ireland 39. ARUCHAT SEDER PESACH (when those good dishes are served - 3 words) 43. Embellished to the nth degree 44. Italian basil-based sauce 45. Friend, in France (m.)

46. Friend, in France (f.)

48. Evaluate 52. Aunt, in Andalusia 55. KEN, P’TACH OTO! (“Positive! Unpack that!” - 3 words) 58. DAY OF REST 61. A sore will do this if

untreated 62. P’GISHA BA’IR HAGADOL (Well, the first part of the answer is Israel’s largest city; the second part is the English word for a dinner appointment) 65. Gold in Guadalajara 66. Composer Satie 67. One on an eating-less regime 68. Vim, zip, etc., as a phonetic contraction 69. Furniture wood 70. Ruhr city and namesakes 71. Christian spr. holiday DOWN 1. Top units, such as Mr.T’s squad 2. Mikado’s Lord High Everything Else (spelled variantly without a middle “h”) 3. Make certain, guarantee 4. V'RADIM (good red flowers) 5. Eat away 6. Moral transgression 7. Acronym, institute of government 8. Shiny 9. HEBREW FOR OIL, KEROSENE 10. Molecular components 11. Explosive 12. Archaic for silver, variant abbr.

13. MASADA (as a mountain type) 19. Itself, or himself, in French

21. Press, newspapers, in Italy 24. Sea eagles 25. “___ ____ do it” (allow the Taylor boy, on Andy Griffith Show, to perform the task) 29. Litigates 31. Constant Comment. e.g.

32. Airport symbol for Disneyworld town 34. Consume 35. On the ocean 37. Modern trolley system 38. Campfire treats for the young 39. “That suits me __ _ ‘T’” 40. Q. Elizabeth's title 41. In Italy, in Spanish 42. Victory letters 47. “__ __ __ on the blink!” the couch potato phoned the appliance repairman 49. Clifford _______, owner of Austin’s famed blues club 50. _____ del Fuego 51. Citrus fruit used in Succot rites (pl.)

53. “_ ____ the winning candidates, always!” claims the steady supporter 54. Alcohol content acronym (by volume) 56. Frequently 57. Equals, as in British Parliament 58. Proofreaders' mark 59. Not there 60. Adjutant, assistant 63. ___ Plaines 64. Past tense of 34 Down

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Nobel Prize for Peace Has Become a Mockery When the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of this organization, were named as the 2005 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, 1994 winner Yasser Arafat must have been laughing in his grave. ElBaradei joins such other “auspicious” winners as the 1981 winner--the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations and Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who won in 2001.

What do they all have in common? For starters, they have not only not advanced the cause of peace in the world, in some cases (like the UNHCR) the winners have made a mockery of the prize.

As stated in the Nobel description of this year’s prize: “In its application of this criterion in recent decades, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has concentrated on the struggle to diminish the significance of nuclear arms in international politics, with a view to their abolition. That the world has achieved little in this respect makes active opposition to nuclear arms all the more important today.”

So what has ElBaradei done to advance the cause of peace? Did his countless inspections stop Saddam Hussein from developing weapons of mass destruction--or was it the courageous actions of the Israeli Airforce which bombed the Iraqi reactors in Osirik in 1981? Has the IAEA prevented Iran from continuing their development of nuclear weapons-or North Korea for that matter? Has ElBaradei been able to enlist the aid of the government of China to persuade North Korea to drop its nuclear program?

Or, as we suspect, has the IAEA joined the “live and let live” philosophy that the United Nations seems to have adopted...as long as the

terrorists aren’t bothering me, we’ll leave them alone.

While reaction from France, Germany and even Britain and the U.S. was generally favorable, not everyone was impressed with this selection. (Maybe we’re biased, but we think choosing Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem would have been a better--and bolder selection. The hospital, which treats all patients with the same degree of care and concern, be they Palestinian, Israeli Jews or Arabs or visitors, has been featured on national news shows, documentaries and in all major newspapers. Palestinian terrorists and Israeli soldiers can occasionally be seen lying in hospital beds side-by-side--but the care provided by these very ethical health care professionals is above reproach and identical in all cases.)

According to CNN, Terumi Tanaka, the secretary-general of Hidankyo, an organization that represents Japanese survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, had this to say: “It’s very disappointing. We had hoped that if we were able to win the award, it would give us a big boost and provide great encourfor agement hibakusha (atom bomb victims) who are growing old.”

Asked what he thought of the award being given

to the IAEA and ElBaradei, he told CNN: “It’s not an organization that has conducted peace activities. It is very disappointing.”

Even former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres noted that the choice of ElBaradei was “not perfect.” (Granted the Prime Minister of Iran wasn’t too thrilled either.)

Well, Jimmy Carter is probably happy about this choice. The winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize winner and the man who let American hostages languish for more than 400 days in Iran, has no doubt applauded yet another bureaucrat who thinks he can reason with terrorists. That’s about as helpful as negotiating with a three-year-old.

If Iran develops nuclear weapons, we hope Israeli pilots will again take to the air to keep the world safe. It’s a helluva lot smarter than feel-good inspections that allow terror states to keep moving the cups in the nuclear weaponry shell game.

retrieve the $400 deposit he had paid on a truck subsequently used to blow up the World Trade Center. His penny-pinching lead to his own capture and that of several other bombers.

• Zacarias Moussaoui, thought to have been the twentieth 9/11 hijacker, was sitting in jail on that date because his disheveled and impoverished appearance at a flight instruction school was so discordant (“there's really something wrong with this guy”) that two of its staff phoned the FBI. In April 2005, Moussaoui pleaded guilty to six counts of conspiracy to commit terrorism.

“provide insights into the tactics, techniques and procedures” of Al-Qaeda and other groups.

• Sami Ibrahim Isa Abdel Hadi, 39, was stopped in May for tailgating in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. When a police officer called in Abdel Hadi’s North Carolina license plates, he learned that Abdel Hadi had been ordered deported to Brazil in December 2001 and is listed in the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database. Even more alarmingly, he has a valid temporary identity card permitting him to paint the George Washington Bridge (a high-profile potential terrorist target).

• When an accused Los Angeles terror gang, the Assembly of Authentic Islam, needed money for arms, it robbed gas stations rather than obtain funds legally. One of its holdup artists dropped a mobile phone during a June robbery, which the police retrieved and used to unravel the plot and arrest the conspirators.

Other famous dumb terrorists include Yu Kikumura, a member of the Japanese Red Army, whose odd behavior prompted a search of his car at a New Jersey Turnpike rest stop in April 1988, which turned up three powerful bombs. Or Timothy McVeigh, apprehended in April 1995 after bombing the Oklahoma City federal building that killed 168 people, because his car lacked a license plate.

Counterterrorism is a difficult business, so it is fortunate that terrorists often act dumb.

Why can’t they keep out of trouble until the big day? In part, because terrorists, like other criminals, are usually not the sharpest knives in the drawer; and in part because their ideology and hatred cause them to disdain the enemy, leading them to take unnecessary risks.

As a result, the rest of us are a little bit safer.

Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and author of Miniatures (Transaction Publishers). He can be reached at his website: www.DanielPipes.org.

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Stupid Terrorists

BEHIND THE H EADLINES

by DANIEL PIPES One would think that Mahmoud Maawad, a 29-year-old illegal immigrant from Egypt living in Memphis, TN, would lay low and stay out of trouble. But no, he defiantly did just the opposite.

He used a fake Social Security number to open a bank account, arrange for household utilities, and enroll in the University of Memphis business school. He worked off-thebooks at a convenience store and in early 2005 sold alcohol to a minor, for which he was arrested. And then, he ordered US$3,300 worth of airline-related goods in mid-2005 from Sporty's Pilot Shop, including such items as an airline pilot’s uniform, a flight gear bag, a radio communications handbook, and an instructional DVD titled “How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act.” To top it off, he placed this order on an overdrawn credit card.

Sporty’s, not surprisingly, informed the FBI about Maawad’s order and federal agents searched his apartment in September. There they found flight simulation software and on Memphis detailed information International Airport. Maawad was then indicted for wire fraud and fraudulent use of a Social Security number.

While it’s far from established that Maawad had terrorism on his mind, his actions are sufficiently suspicious to enroll him as an honorary member in my newly created “Stupid Terrorists Club.” He joins plenty of others there.

• Mohammed Salameh, the terrorist who returned to the rental agency in 1993 to

...terrorists, like other criminals, are usually not the sharpest knives in the drawer; and in part because their ideology and hatred cause them to disdain the enemy, leading them to take unnecessary risks.

• Michael Wagner, an African-American convert to Islam associated with Al-Qaeda, did not wear a seat belt and that got him stopped by the police in July 2004 near Council Bluffs, Iowa. His car contained “flight training manuals and a simulator, documents in Arabic, bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, a night-vision scope for a rifle, a telescope, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.”

• Zaynab Khadr, accused by the Canadian authorities of having “willingly participated and contributed both directly and indirectly towards enhancing the ability of Al Qaeda to facilitate its criminal activities,” returned to Canada in February with a computer chock full of documents that the authorities say

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Jewish Groups Scramble to Learn About Court Nominee the nominee might be more conservative than Roberts.

Several groups, including the RAC, decided not to oppose Roberts, reserving political capital to fight the expected conservative nominee for the O’Connor vacanby MATTHEW E. BERGER cy.

Miers’ nomination changes the game plan. Groups NEW YORK (JTA--Perhaps it was Sen. Charles cannot oppose her out of the gate, as the NCJW did Schumer (D-NY) who best summarized the American with Roberts, and will have to learn more before makJewish community’s position on Harriet Miers. ing an assessment.

“We know even less about this nominee than we did “I think we all have to sit back and pause and see what about John Roberts,” Schumer said Monday after we know about her and don’t know about her,” Snyder President Bush nominated Miers, his White House said. “We have to do our research.” counsel, to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on But it’s unclear where the information will come from. the U.S. Supreme Court.

A former president of the Texas State Bar Association, When Roberts was nominated to the high court in Miers spent most of her career in private practice, and her July--he later was promoted to chief justice after the work at the White House could be protected as privileged. death of William Rehnquist--most American Jewish One tidbit has emerged: In 1992 Miers worked groups said they would have to wait until his confirma- against an American Bar Association resolution supporttion hearing before casting judgment, citing his limited ing abortion rights. But reports said she did not speak to judicial record. the merits of Roe v. Wade, only to the appropriateness of Because Miers, 60, has never been a judge and has not the lawyers’ group taking a stand. weighed in on most controversial issues, her political Fred Zeidman, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust and judicial philosophies are even less known.

Memorial Council, noted Miers’ reputation for integrity “We’re in somewhat the same position as we were in when she was chairwoman of the Texas Lottery with Roberts, in that the hearings will be very impor- Commission from 1995 to 2001. She is reported to tant,” said Mark Pelavin, associate director of the have cleaned up an institution with a history of quesReligious Action Center for tionable practices.

Reform Judaism.

“The deal with Harriet Two major differences was, whatever was right was between the nominations going to happen,” said already have emerged. First, Zeidman, who also is from Miers lacks the universal Texas. “No compromise praise Roberts received for politically.” his intellect and experience.

Miers would not be an Miers also would be replac“activist” judge--either from ing O’Connor, who served the right or the left, as the swing vote in many Zeidman said. contentious issues since “If she doesn’t fit the suit 1981, raising the stakes of of the Republican right, the confirmation. that’s fine with me,” said “This is the battle that is President Bush looks on as Supreme Court Justice nominee Zeidman, one of the top going to swing the court Harriet Miers delivers remarks at the White House on Oct. 3. Jewish contributors to past Credit: Paul Morse/White House Bush campaigns. one way or another,” said Phyllis Snyder, president of the National Council of Steve Gutow, a Dallas-based lawyer who recently Jewish Women. became executive director of the Jewish Council for In the hours before the Jewish community broke for the Public Affairs, said he had met Miers several times in Rosh Hashanah holiday Monday, analysts were scrambling legal circles, but did not know her well. He said she had to learn what they could about Miers. At the RAC’s a reputation as a conservative, and was well regarded as Washington office, staffers were purchasing domain names a lawyer. for people to solicit potential questions for Miers to be “My friends who knew her respected her,” he said. asked at confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Miers was recognized as a major presence on the Committee. They launched similar Web sites seeking ques- Dallas scene because of her relationship with Bush. She tions for Roberts over the summer. received the Dallas ADL’s Jurisprudence Award in 1996 “It is the responsibility of every generation to be true for her “commitment to democratic values that characto the founders’ vision of the proper role of the courts terize America.” in our society,” Miers said Monday. “If confirmed, I recBush, who at the time was governor of Texas, and his ognize that I will have a tremendous responsibility to wife attended the luncheon in Dallas as honorary chairkeep our judicial system strong, and to help ensure that persons, and he described Miers there as a “pit bull in the courts meet their obligations to strictly apply the size six shoes.” laws and the Constitution.”

Marlene Gorin, community relations director for the Bush said Miers has the “talent, experience and judi- Greater Dallas Jewish Federation, said Miers had been cial philosophy to make her a superb choice.” slated to join a civic leadership mission to Israel run by “Harriet Miers will strictly interpret our Constitution the federation in 2000. and laws,” the president said. “She will not legislate However, Miers cancelled three days before the trip from the bench.” because her law firm had taken on a major case.

In the days before Bush decided on Miers, liberal Gorin said Miers was remarkable for her lack of profile Jewish organizations were quietly raising concerns that on issues affecting the Jewish community.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR To the Editor: Yasher Koach to Burke High School senior and tennis player Zach Muskin on his decision to skip the Boys State Tennis Tournament being held on Yom Kippur!

Zach’s courage in standing up for his beliefs should be an example to all of us. Like Hank Greenberg, the leader of the Detroit Tigers in 1934, who refused to play in the World Series on Yom Kippor, Zach should be honored for his stand In the words of poet Edgar Guest: Come Yom Kippur - holy fast day wide-world over to the Jew - And Hank Greenberg (or, in this case, Zach Muskin) to his teaching and the old tradition true Spent the day among his people and he didn’t come to play Said Murphy to Mulrooney, ‘We shall lose the game today!

We shall miss him in the infield and shall miss him at the bat, But he’s true to his religion - and we honor him for that!

The NSAA claimed it didn’t realize that the State Tournament fell on Yom Kippur. As Zach said in his interview on WOWT, it’s hard to believe they could miss such an important holiday.

Thank you Zach, and thank you to Zach’s parents and his coach and teammates at Burke for supporting his decision to “be true to his religion”. If only more Jews would do the same, maybe the non-Jewish community would pay just a bit more attention to our holidays when scheduling major events.

Sara A. Juster, JD To the Editor: “The Man Apart” feature in your impressive New Year’s edition is a classic! We never expected such extensive coverage of our book abut David Kaufmann. We are deeply grateful.

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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

The Neighborhood Minyan 1317 No. 57 St. Omaha, NE 68132 551.6609

Tifereth Israel Member of United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism 3219 Sheridan Blvd., Lincoln, NE 68502-5236 423.8569 www.tiferethlincoln.org

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: Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Junior Congregation (3-7), 10 a.m.; K’tantan (K-2), 10:45 a.m.; Kiddush sponsored

by Carole Lainof, in honor of her husband, Wayne Lainof, on his 60th birthday; Evening Service, 6:45 p.m.

SUNDAY: Bible Study Class with Leonard Greenspoon, 10 a.m.; “Living Hebrew,” with Susi Frydman-Levin, 10 a.m.; Adult B’nai Mitzvah class with Cantor Bogomolni, 10 a.m.; Jewish Pot Pourri Class, 11 a.m.; “From Your Heart to God’s Ears”, led by Andy Greenberg, 11 a.m.

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

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

PATTER will not be held during October; it resumes Nov. 2 at a new time Wednesdays, 10:3011:45 a.m.

SUKKAH BUILDING: Join Men’s Club and USY in building Beth El’s sukkah in the courtyard on Sunday, Oct. 16, 8 a.m.

SUKKOT MONDAY: Minha/Ma’ariv, 5:30 p.m.

TUESDAY: Morning, 9:30 a.m.; Minha/Ma’ariv, 5:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Morning, 9:30 a.m.; Evening, 5:30 p.m.

T H U R S D AY - H O L HAMOED: Morning, 9:30 a.m.; Minha/Ma’ariv, 6:25 p.m.

TOT SHABBAT: On Friday, Oct. 21, 6 p.m., Jewish families from throughout the community are invited to experience our joyful, interactive service, featuring songs, storytelling and lots of Shabbat fun!

SUKKOT PARTY: The community is invited to a “Soup-er Sukkot Luncheon” on Sunday, Oct. 23, 12:15 p.m., in the synagogue’s sukkah. Cost is $6.50 for adults; $4.50 for kids ages 512; free for kids under five. New synagogue members (since July 1, 2005) are invited to attend, free of charge. Reservations are needed by Oct. 18, call the office.

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FRIDAY: Kabbalat Shabbat, 6:30 p.m.

SATURDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Free Babysitting, 9:30 a.m.; Junior Congregation, 10:30 a.m.; Kiddush sponsored by Harry Wolfson in commemoration of the yahrzeit of Ethel Wolfson; Mincha, 6:30 p.m.; Havdalah, 7:25 p.m.

SUNDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Sukkah Decorating for all children

and their parents, 11 a.m.; Call the office for Mincha/ Ma’ariv time.

WEEKDAYS: Shacharit, 7 a.m. (Shacharit during Sukkot is at 6:45 a.m.); Contact the office for Mincha/Ma’ariv time.

MONDAY: Office closes at noon; Mincha, 6:30 p.m.

SUKKOT TUESDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Free Babysitting service, 9:30 a.m. through the conclusion of services; Junior Congregation, 10:30 a.m.; Kiddush is the Sukkah is sponsored by Sisterhood; Mincha, 6:30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Free Babysitting service, 9:30 a.m. through the conclusion of services; Junior Congregation, 10:30 a.m.; Lunch in the Sukkah will follow services; Mincha, 6:30 p.m.; Havdalah, 7:19 p.m.

Potluck dinner, 5:30 p.m.--all festivites at the home of Ellin Siegel and John Moscow, 8103 North Shore Dr. WEDNESDAY: No Hebrew classes THURSDAY: Board of Trustees meeting 7:30 p.m.

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

ROSE BLUMKIN JEWISH HOME SATURDAY: Shabbat Services, 9 a.m. led by Steve Riekes.

TUESDAY, Sukkot, Oct. 18: Services, 9 a.m. led by Rabbi Maximo Shechet.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19: Services with Yizkor, 9 a.m. led by Rabbi Maximo Shechet.

TEMPLE ISRAEL BEYT SHALOM FRIDAY: Shabbat in the Home.

SATURDAY, Oct. 22: Sukkot/Havdalah, 3 p.m. at the home of Jenni Schlossman and Jeff Ferber.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 26: Simchat Torah celebration, 7 p.m. at the Blumkin Home.

CHABAD HOUSE Services conducted by Rabbi Mendel Katzman. Office hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Minyan, 7 a.m.

SATURDAY: Maamar class, 9 a.m.; Shacharit, 9:30 a.m.; Kiddush to follow service.

SUNDAY: Services, 8:30 a.m.; Mishne class, 9:30 a.m.; Chabad Cheder and Aleph Champions, 10 a.m.-noon.

WEEKDAYS: Minyan, 7 a.m.

TUESDAY, Sukkot I: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Kiddush follows services WEDNESDAY, Sukkot II: Shacharit, 9 a.m.; Kiddush follows service.

THURSDAY: Jewish Thought, 12:45 p.m.; Torah Tots, 4:15 p.m.

For information, call the office or visit: www.nebraskajudaism.com.

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

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

SATURDAY: Shabbat Morning Service, 9:30 a.m.; Torah Study, 10:30 a.m. led by Rabbi Emanuel; Game Night and Potluck, 6 p.m.

SUNDAY: LJCS Sukkah decorating, 9:30 a.m.-- all classes at Tifereth.

JEWISH YOUTH OF LINCOLN (JYL) Sunday, Oct. 16, 3 p.m.: the Ruach group (grades 6-8) meets; 4-7 p.m.; planning meeting, election of officers, great food and schmoozing, at South Street.

MONDAY: Sukkah decorating, 4:30 p.m.; Sukkot service and

FRIDAY: Shabbat Evening Service, 7:30 p.m. Rabbi Craig Marantz and Cantor Wendy Shermet will officiate. The Oneg Shabbat will be sponsored by the Women of Reform JudaismOmaha.

SATURDAY: Sparks Beneath the Surface, 9:30-10:15 a.m.; Shabbat Morning Service, 10:30 a.m.; 8 p.m.: OTYG Haunted Havdalah, Community Jewish seventh-12 graders are invited to havdalah at Annie Rips’ house (672 J.E. George Blvd). Board the bus at Temple for a ride to area haunted houses. No cost for OTYG members; $10 for all others.

SITTER SERVICE: Available at each Friday evening service, Saturday mornings when there is a bar or bat mitzvah, as well as Sunday mornings when there is Religious School. Please make a reservation through the Temple office. Cost is $2 per family. Sorry, there are no facilities for infants.

ADULT EDUCATION SUNDAY, Oct. 16, 10:15 a.m.: Beginning Hebrew with Colleen Kennealy. Fee: $18 for members/$25 for non-members.

THURSDAY, Oct. 20: “Adult Study with the Clergy” with Rabbi Azriel, 10-11:30 a.m.

SUKKOT MONDAY, Oct. 17, Erev Sukkot, 7:30 p.m. Bring the family at 6:30 p.m. to make decorations to add to our outdoor sukkah, followed by a potluck dinner. Ice cream and cookie Oneg Shabbat follows services. Call the Temple office, 556.6536, by Friday, Oct. 14 to make your reservation. There is no charge.

TUESDAY, Oct. 18: Sukkot Worship Service, 10:30 a.m.

SIMCHAT TORAH MONDAY, Oct. 24: Erev Simchat Torah, 7 p.m. Rabbi Azriel, Rabbi Marantz and Cantor Shermet will officiate. Kindergartners and older students who have never been consecrated will participate in the special Simchat Torah service. The tunes of the Fiddlers, Tuffy Fabrangen Epstein’s group, will add to the merrymaking. A Oneg will follow with ice cream, cookies, music and dancing.

TUESDAY, Oct. 25: Simchat Torah Service and Yizkor, 10:30 a.m.

NEIGHBORHOOD MINYAN There will be no services in October.

TIFERETH ISRAEL Services conducted by Rabbi Royi Shaffin. Minyan, MONDAY & THURSDAY, 7 a.m., followed by breakfast.

FRIDAY: Services, 6:30 p.m. with an Shabbat dinner following.

SATURDAY: Parashat Hashavu’a class, 8:30 a.m.; Morning service, 9:30 a.m. followed by Shabbat lunch and then Talmud class.

JEWISH YOUTH OF LINCOLN (JYL) Sunday, Oct. 16, 3 p.m.: the Ruach group (grades 6-8) meets; 4-7 p.m.; planning meeting, election of officers, great food and schmoozing, at South Street Temple.

MONDAY: Erev Sukkot servics, 6:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, Oct. 18: Sukkot Service, 9:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 19: Sukkot Service, 9:30 a.m.

BAR MITZVAH Harison Wiesman son of Cynthia E. Epstein and David A. Wiesman, will celebrate his Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 22, at Beth El Synagogue.

Harison is a eighthgrade distinguished scholar student at Westside Middle School. He had a painting exhibited at the Kearney Arch.

His interests include drawing,

reading, playing piano and the clarinet.

For his mitzvah project, Harison volunteered at the Omaha Public Library this past summer.

Harison has a brother, Mathew.

Grandparents are Geri and Irv Epstein, and Anna and Ben Wiesman.

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Harvest Home--May It Be Abundant

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by RABBI MYER S. KRIPKE Sukkot There is evidence that Sukkot must have been at one time (before there was Israel?) the most important fall Holy Day. Indeed it seems quite natural. If early man recognized seasons, he probably gave attention to early barley harvest, a bit later a wheat harvest, and later, in the fall, the harvest of fruits and (other) vegetables. A remembrance of that we still have in our lulav and etrog.

When ancient Israelites wanted to miss no time in the harvest period, they didn’t return to town homes at night, but slept in the field. There, against the howling winds, they threw up temporary covers or lean-tos or huts. Here is the origin of our sukka. We remember its beginning by our insistence that the sukka be relatively flimsy and have no complete covering against the fall rains.

With us city slickers, the life of the farmer is only a pretty remembrance. But Sukkot, as a harvest festival, we understand. And now we can understand that Rosh

Hashana and Yom Kippur grew up later to give the thankful farmer at Sukkot time the opportunity to come to the festival in a condition of physical cleanness and mental and moral purity. This was provided by Rosh Hashana and, especially, by Yom Kippur. With these properly observed, Sukkot, too, could be properly celebrated.

None of the above is certain and definite. But when we are in search of origins, scientific certainty cannot be achieved. It is useful, however, to attempt a hypothesis that points, at least, in the right direction.

All of that now having been said, forget it all now--and turn to the fall Holy Days with a holiness and seriousness that Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur deserve, and with the joyous and lightness of heart that Sukkot brings.

Good Yom Tov! Moadim l’simha!

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ARTHUR ADLER Arthur Adler died Oct. 3 at the age of 92. Services were held Oct. 6 at Beth El Cemetery with Rabbis Meyer Kripke and Mordechai Levin officiating.

Born in Bialystok, Poland, he immigrated to the United States in 1920 and was the proprietor of Adler Bakery for most of his adult life.

He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Charlotte (Sis) Adler; daughters and sons-in-law, Bobbie and Bob Epstein, Kathy and Keith Liberman of Beverly Hills, CA, Carole and Andy Shovers of Atlanta, GA; grandchildren, Jeff and Laurie Epstein, Melissa and Michael Schop, Elizabeth and Stuart Bohart of London, England, Todd and Amy Glick, Cary Glick, all of San Diego, CA, Greg and Jessica Liberman, Matt Liberman, all of Los Angeles, CA, Jill and Lance Kosmal, and Tim Shovers, all of Atlanta, GA; eight great-grandchildren; and brother-in-law, Martin Robinson, Des Moines, IA. Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home or charity of choice

ADELE HORNSTEIN Adele Hornstein died at the age of 85. Services were held at the chapel at Beth El Cemetery on Oct. 10.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Hornstein, and son, Bennett Hornstein.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Ellen Hornstein of San Francisco, CA; daughter, Francie Hornstein of Oakland, CA; daughterin-law, Nancy Hornstein; grandchildren, Jill and Joe Goldstein, Beth Hornstein, Joe Hornstein, Jesse Hornstein, Emily Hornstein, Jordan Hornstein, and Sam Peskin; and two great-grandchildren.

Memorials to the Rose Blumkin Home or to the Bennett G. Hornstein Endowment Fund of the Jewish Federation of Omaha.

GARY DOTY Gary Doty died at the age of 51. Graveside service was held on Oct. 11 at Beth El Cemetery.

He was preceded in death by a son, Dale.

He is survived by his wife of 15 years, Mary; hisdaughter, Rebecca; son, David; a brother, Charlie; and sisters, Linda Doty, Lila Beed, Beverly Boettiger, and Shirley Chadd.

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by MARY SUE GROSSMAN JELS Administrator Jewish Educational & Library Services is offering “Derech Torah: Judaism 101� to the Omaha community. The course will be taught by Guy Matalon, Executive Director of JELS and will meet for 25 sessions beginning Monday, Nov. 7. “In meetings with Rabbis Azriel, Gross, and Levin, the need to offer a single basic Judaism class in the Omaha community was expressed as a high priority�, states Matalon. “For individuals interested in converting to Judaism and for those wishing to strengthen their knowledge of Judaism a structured course is key.

Having such a course offered through our agency was a natural as part of its mission to provide adult educational opportunities to the community.� “Derech Torah: Judaism 101� is designed to introduce the adult learner to the wealth and richness of Judaism as a religious culture. The approach of the course is historical and a brief survey of Jewish history will be included. Jewish theology, life cycle, yearly cycle, and worldview will be discussed in some detail. The pur-

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pose of the course is to offer a gateway into Judaism for those who are exploring their spiritual options and a starting point for Jewish adults who are looking for a comprehensive course to give them the background to continue Jewish learning.

The class will meet Mondays from 7:30–9 p.m. in the Kripke Jewish Federation Library at the Jewish Community Center. Course dates will be Nov. 7, 14, 21, 28; Dec. 5; Jan. 9, 16, 23, 30; Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27; March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 3, 10, 17, 24; May 1, 8, 15, 22. Required texts will be the JPS Tanakh and Jewish Literacy by J. Telushkin.

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Jewish Press, Omaha, NE

October 14, 2005

Generations Celebrate at Blumkin Home

Photos from left: Harry Alloy, center, practiced flipping pancakes for a group of cheering spectators Sept. 25 during the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home’s annual Grandparents’ Day celebration. Eileen Remer, president of the Blumkin Home auxiliary, League Offering Volunteers for the Elderly (L.O.V.E.), helped Julius Bernstein, a Blumkin Home resi-

dent, pour syrup on three of the 500 pancakes that were served to residents, their families and their guests. Marti Tichauer and her granddaughter Emily Kirk, made a new friend with the help of staff of Wildlife Encounters.

Participants also enjoyed a magician’s performance and made hats at a craft table staffed by L.O.V.E. volunteers.

Funding for Grandparents’ Day was provided by the following endowments administered by the Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Omaha; Sheldon A. and Lorrie Bernstein, Betty A. Studna and Seymour T. Lee, and Chester and Phyllis Lustgarten funds.

Friedel Students Make a Splash guards--something that provides parents and teachers with a sense of security and ease when their children attend swimming lessons.

The Aquatics Department provides at least two swim instructors. They teach freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, sidestroke, elementary backstroke, the butterfly, and diving.

Weekly swimming lessons comprise 45 minutes of both Swim instructor Ina Weiner teaches Sam Kricsfeld, center, swim instruction and super- and Zachary Stein. vised free play for the Friedel who have a fear of the water while children.

Instructors work patiently with children encouraging more experienced swimmers

by JORDANA L. KURTZMAN Students at Friedel Jewish Academy know that school is truly in full swing when their swimming lessons start up again. One of the inherent benefits of the day school being located in the Jewish Community Center campus is its proximity to the swimming pools. Children who attend Friedel not only have access to these aquatic facilities, but they also receive weekly swimming lessons from qualified instructors.

Linda Behounek, the JCC Aquatics Director, ensures that all swim instructors take the Water Safety Instructor course from the American Red Cross as well as first aid and CPR classes. JCC swim instructors must also be certified as life

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Many Friedel children make it to Level Five of the swimming program by the time they graduate the school in sixth grade. For more information about Friedel Jewish Academy, call principal Cookie Katskee at 334.0517, and for details about swimming programs in the Aquatics Department, call Linda Behounek at 334.6421.

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