First constructed in 1967, the Burke High School (Home of the Bulldogs!) Stadium has hosted hundreds of classes, football games, band competitions, soccer practices and even Lacrosse games. Toba Cohen-Dunning, Executive Director of the Omaha Public Schools Foundation, said: “Burke High School has meant a lot to the Omaha Jewish Community. As I was growing up, I was aware that most Jewish kids went either to Central High or to Burke—especially since it was so close to the Jewish Community Center after it moved in the early 1970s. READ MORE
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On Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m., there will be a Special Goldstein Lecture on Human Rights held at UNO’s Strauss Performing Arts Center. 25 years after the end of apartheid in South Africa, the Honorable Richard Goldstone – a Supreme Court Justice who headed the influential Goldstone Commission investigating political violence in South Africa – will give a talk titled: The Current State of International Criminal Justice. Goldstone also served as the first chief prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda between August 1994 and September 1996. READ MORE
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