by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
10.25.13 Issue by Aaron Michaelson Adeev and Ezra Potash also known as the Potash Twins have been selected to participate in the upcoming TEDx talk on Oct. 26 at Creighton University’s Harper Center. TED is a nonprofit devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading.” It started in...
by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
10.25.13 Issue by Mary Sue Grossman, Program Coordinator, The Center for Jewish Life A joint mission had been a long- time dream of the communities in Omaha’s Partnership2GETHER consortium. That dream became a reality last month when 33 people from Omaha, Austin, Des...
by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Local News, Weddings
10.25.13 Issue Steven and Marilyn Tipp announce the Oct. 4 wedding of their son, David to April Lee. April is originally from Butte, Montana, and is the daughter of Danetta and Thomas Lee. Alan Tipp, the groom’s brother, acted as his best man, and Hayden, age 9, the...
by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Local News, Obituaries
10.25.13 Issue Dorothy Blau Strauss passed away on Oct. 16 just six days prior to her 94th birthday. Service were held Oct. 18 at Golden Hill Cemetery. She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 yrs, Donald B. Strauss. She is survived by daughter and son-in-law,...
by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Local News, Obituaries
10.25.13 Issue Elaine Shapiro passed away at age 83 in Phoenix, AZ. Services were held Oct. 20 at Golden Hill Cemetery. She was preceded in death by husband Dr. Irving Shapiro and mother Eve Roth. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Stephanie and Steve...
by admin | Oct 23, 2013 | Local News, Obituaries
10.25.13 Issue Roland Lewis passed away on Sept. 24 at age 92, after a brief illness. Services were held on Sept 25 at Beth El Cemetery. He was preceded in death by parents, Millie and Sol Lewis, son, Gary Lewis and grandson, Jonathon Lewis. He is survived by daughter...
by admin | Oct 22, 2013 | Editorial & Opinion, Jewish Culture, Point of View
PERSONAL ESSAY By Alice Feiring NEW YORK (JTA) — When I received the Evite to my yeshiva high school’s 40th reunion, I reverted from an East Village-based traveling wine writer to the awkward, alienated high school student I once was. Back then, the others...
by admin | Oct 22, 2013 | Europe, World News
By Cnaan Liphshiz YEKATERINBURG, Russia (JTA) — Growing up in one of the Soviet Union’s richest cities, Elena Chudnovskaya never imagined that she would be raising her daughter in a place so full of drug addicts that “the flowerbeds became strewn with...
by admin | Oct 22, 2013 | Editorial & Opinion, Featured, Israel, Jewish Culture, Point of View, World News
by Teddy Weinberger and Moshe Gresser Foreword: If you make aliyah after you have established yourself professionally in America, chances are that you will not have made a good career move. I met my friend Moshe Gresser when we were both up and coming Jewish Studies...
