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Serving Nebraska and Western Iowa for more than 75 years No. 20
Vol.XXXVI
Omaha, NE
January 29,1999
Life at Livingston by Jill Belmont
(Editor's note: this is the first in a series of articles about the Livingston Apartments, located on the grounds of the Jewish Community Campus.)
Nurse Carole Lainof, right, gives instructions for medication to Livingston resident Daisy Sweeney. For residents of the Livingston Plaza Apartments, independent living does not mean living isolated from the care and watchful eye of Jewish Senior Services (JSS), especially where medical care is concerned. " : In an effort to identify potential health problems and provide medical guidance, JSS has set up a biweekly clinic at Livingston to give residents the opportunity to consult with a community health nurse. The clinic is held on Friday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon, and since its establishment two months ago, has been well-received, according to JSS Executive Director Barbara Gottlieb. "It is a comfort for the Livingston residents to have someone there and to know that there's an
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agency who's looking out for them," Gottlieb said. "We want them to know that they're not out there alone oh a raft; they're a part of us, they're a part of Jewish Senior Services and we really care about them." Gottlieb noted that, in the past, during periods of illness, Livingston residents have been shuttled back and forth between their apartments and the Rose Blumkin Jewish Home. She said she is hopeful that with the addition of the visiting nurse, potential health problems "will be caught before residents have to enter the nursing facility." In addition, having the same nurse run the clinic is greatly beneficial to the residents, Gottlieb said, because "it's like having your own doctor. You build a confidence and camaraderie and a sense of confidentiality that is invaluable." Carole A. Lainof, Livingston's new nurse, has worked in community health for the past 30 years, and is currently a part-time employee of Interim Health Care, as well as a community health teacher at Nebraska Methodist College. "I've been interested in gerontology ever since I started in community health and am looking forward to these clinics," Lainof said, noting that among the services she provides are blood pressure screening, blood glucose tests, medication and weight checks and nutritional advice. She will also be helpful to those residents who do not receive regular health maintenance check-ups, she said. TU be a liaison who can identify potential problems and hook people up with'the proper health care providers;".-\ • .^-•K- < • > ' ¥ ' - : ^ : • Lainof received a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Medical College in Virginia, a master's degree in health education from State University in New York, and a graduate degree in community health from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. She and her husband, Wayne, a pediatrician and retired Air Force colonel, reside in Bellevue and are members of Beth El Synagogue. (Continued on page 12)
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Temple Israel presents JazzShabbat by Cantor Jennifer Blum
Mark Bloom Musician Mark Bloom and his creative, dynamic and spiritually uplifting Jazz Shabbat will be performed at Temple Israel, Friday evening, Feb. 26. Jazz Shabbat is a prayer service which takes traditional liturgical music and combines it with innovative- and compelling jazz arrangements. The result, is a musicfti service which maintains a respect for the sanctity of worship, while generating an infectious spiritual energy through the rhythms and harmonies of jazz. Bloom is a Minneapolis artist with a broad range of musical talents. A composer and sound designer, he has scored literally hundreds of stage productions for both regional theaters and national tours. His original music has been heard at the Guthrie Theater, : Cricket, New Classic, History Theater, Actors Theater of St. Paul, Orchestra Hall and Illusion Theater, where he wrote and performed for many of Illusion's award-winning prevention projects. He has served as both stage and musical director for many musicals, variety shows, revues and live industrials and has also been music coordinator/director for such varied acts as Joan The Judaicathon, an evening of Jewish mini- courses Rivers, Peter H^pnelman, Noa and Gil Dor, Ron featuring local Eliran and Second City. talent, food, and Bloom is also involved in both secular and liturgical . music by CanJewish music. Over the years he has served as both tor, Emil Berko-1 cantonal soloist and choir director working with a vits and the Invariety of age groups. He is frequently commissioned spirations, is, to write and arrange liturgical music and has develscheduled for. oped, produced and performed his Jazz Shabbat proSunday, Feb.; gram at congregations across the country. 14, 7-9:15 pan., j Bloom will also present a session on Jewish Jazz at the Jewish' to students at Beth El Synagogue, Sunday mornCommunity'! ing, Feb. 28, at 11 a.m. Center. Jazz Shabbat is not a concert, lecture or demonstraOne of the tion, but a Shabbat service that invites congregationfeatured preal participation. The result illustrates the relationsenters will be ship of keva (fixed prayer) and kavannah (devotional, Gerald Shainterpretive prayer.) Bloom's innovative combination piro, a Profes_ of prayer, study, and discussion will fill Temple GeraId sor of English Shapiro Israel's sanctuary with joy and spirit. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He will offer a course entitled, Growing Up Jewish in America— Tu B'shevat Seder this Sunday The Making of a Jewish Writer. Young Jewish Omaha and Beth El Synagogue —' Shapiro most recently wrote American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories, published by the are co-sponsoring a TuB'Shevat Seder, Sunday, University of Nebraska Press. His stories have from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. at Beth El. Tu B'Shevat, appeared in many prestigious literary journals which means the 15th day of the month of Shvat, including The Missouri Review, Witness, has become a kind of Jewish Arbor Day and is also known as the New Year of the Trees. Cost for the Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and The program, which includes lunch, is $5 for adults and Gettysburg Review. $3 for children. Call 334-6485 for reservations. "^(Continued on page 2)
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