by Annette van de Kamp-Wright | Oct 5, 2016 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
10.7.16 Issue Leonard Greenspoon, Creighton University Klutznick Chair What does it take to be the keynote speaker at this year’s Symposium on Jewish Civilization, titled Is Judaism Democratic? In the case of Dr. Lenn Goodman, the invitation recognizes his decades of...
by Annette van de Kamp-Wright | Oct 5, 2016 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
10.7.16 Issue Ozzie Nogg The commandment to care for the stranger is mentioned more times than any other commandment in the Torah. In text and prayer we are taught: you too must befriend the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Turning this precept...
by Annette van de Kamp-Wright | Oct 5, 2016 | Arts & Entertainment, Featured, Local News, Special Events
10.7.16 Issue Liz Feldstern, Executive Director, IHE The Institute for Holocaust Education’s mission is to engage people with information about the Holocaust and WWII. We do this in order to honor the legacies of what was and what was lost – and as a way to prevent...
by Annette van de Kamp-Wright | Sep 14, 2016 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
9.16.16 Issue Liz Feldstern, Executive Director, Institute for Holocaust Education Three individuals of remarkable strength will take the stage together at the Strauss Performing Arts Center on the UNO campus on Thursday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. The featured speakers will...
by Annette van de Kamp-Wright | Sep 14, 2016 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
9.16.16 Issue Beth Cohen, Head of School, Friedel Jewish Academy The students of Friedel Jewish Academy spent an afternoon at the Joslyn Art Museum to see the “Material Voices” exhibit from Nebraska artist Sheila Hicks. In addition to a docent-led tour, students...
by Annette van de Kamp-Wright | Sep 7, 2016 | Featured, Local News, Special Events
9.9.16 Issue Annette van de Kamp-Wright, Editor of the Jewish Press In 2015, Danny Cohn and Andrew Miller moved to Omaha from Chicago so they could raise their daughter Nora in the Omaha Jewish community. “I grew up here,” Danny said, “and Andrew and I were married...
