ALETRINO, ARNOLD – A Dutch physician and professor of criminal anthropology at the University of Amsterdam; also served officially as surgeon to the city police and fire departments; born in Amsterdam, April 1, 1858. He is one of the leaders, in...
ALMEIDA, ISAAC – Turkish rabbi and author; born in the latter half of the seventeenth century; died between 1723 and 1739. He was associate rabbi in Constantinople. His printed work, "Ḥiddushim we-Sheëlot u-Teshubot" (novellæ andresponsa),...
ALMEYDA, JOSE HENRIQUES DE – A writer in Amsterdam in the early part of the eighteenth century. He published in Portuguese: "Anagrama Achrostica do Sagrado Nome de Tora, com hum Breve Discurso por Introito," Amsterdam, 1706. This was dedicated to D. Abraham...
ALMOLI, ALMULI – A Spanish-Jewish family name derived from the Arabic al-mu'alli ("the one who raises up"). In addition to those referred to in the following articles two other members of the family are known. A Salomon Almuli is mentioned in a...
AMELANDER (AMLANDER), MENAHEM MANN BEN SOLOMON HA-LEVI – A Dutch writer of the eighteenth century. He must have died before 1767, since in the edition of the Pentateuch published in that year many of his annotations are quoted with the addition to his name of the Hebrew letters ("of...
ASHKENAZI, ZEBI HIRSCH (ḤAKAM ẒEBI) B. JACOB – Early Life and Education. Rabbi; born 1658 in Moravia, died May 2, 1718, at Lemberg. He was descended from a well-known family of scholars. When a boy he received instruction from his father and from his grandfather, Ephraim...
ASSER, CAREL – Dutch jurist; son of Moses Salomon Asser; born at Amsterdam, Holland, Feb. 15, 1780; died Aug. 3, 1836. He studied law and philology at the Athenæum at Amsterdam. After obtaining a doctor's degree, July 3. 1799, Asser devoted...
ASSER, CAREL – Dutch jurist and scholar; born at The Hague, June 1, 1843; died at Leyden, Dec. 10, 1898. He was a son of Louis Asser, judge of the district court at The Hague, and grandson of Carel Asser, referendary in the Department of...
ASSER, TOBIAS MICHAEL CAREL – Dutch jurist; born at Amsterdam April 28, 1838. His father was Carel Daniel Asser (1813-85). His mother was a sister of Godefroi, Dutch minister of Justice.Asser studied jurisprudence at the Athenæum at Amsterdam, and as early...
ATHIAS – A Spanish family distinguished by the great number of its scholars and promoters of learning. The name is spelled in Hebrew variously, , (from an Arabic word meaning "present," "gift"). As early as the sixteenth century some of...
The Omaha ATA Martial Arts Black Belt Academy offers Taekwondo at the JCC. The whole family is encouraged to participate together. Classes meet 3 times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, and is held in the Aerobics Studio. The more members of your family that sign up, the more you save! Fees are collected on a monthly basis. Taekwondo is open to JCC Members only.
Prices are listed per family member * Must be members of same family to get discount. Any testing fees & ATA membership dues are separate.
Eddie H. Bailen passed away May 12 in his home surrounded by family after a long, courageous battle with Mesothelioma. Services were held May 14 at Golden Hills Cemetry.
He was preceded in death by his father, Samuel Bailen; eldest daughter, Stacy Bailen and oldest brother, Harold Bailen.
He is survived by his wife, Rena Bailen; children: Mark, Doug, Beth, Heather and Michael; grancchildren; Micaela, Mason, Paige and Leaf; sister-in-law and daughters-in-law, Kari, Alison and Monet; mother, Millie Altman; sister, Sandy Bailen-Scott; brother, Lew Bailen; and many nieces, nephews.
Eddie was the second oldest child of Millie and Sam Bailen. A veteran of the Korean War, he married Rena Ash of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on June 20, 1965; together they moved to Omaha. Eddie was a very successful electrical and computer engineer who owned several businesses such as Automated Electrical Controls and Electrical Engineering Equipment Service Company. Due to this background, he was approached by friend and Holocaust survivor, Sam Fried, to help create a Holocaust memorial. Together, they created a light which flickers 6 million times a year to commemorate each soul lost. The lights continue to flicker in all four Omaha synagogues to this day.
SAVE THE DATE FOR The Eddie Belgrade Memorial 3 ON 3 BASKETBALL CHALLENGE Sunday, March 29th Eddie Belgrade had a passion for the Jewish Community Center and for basketball. Eddie shared our vision of providing fun and exciting events for the entire community, which...	
By Hillel Kuttler BALTIMORE (JTA) — Rabbi Daniel Alter expects some added fervency during daily prayer services at the Denver Academy of Torah in the days leading up to the Super Bowl. Alter, the academy’s head of school, recalls that when the Colorado...	
By Dawn Dellasanta-Swann/JNS.org Standing behind the podium of the 2013 NAACP Image Awards is a man in a tux with a red tie whose smooth, dark skin is stretched over a frame so long that it cannot fit through a standard doorway. Behind the same podium, a woman...	
by Edgar Asher For the 20,000 participants in the 2013 Jerusalem Marathon the weather could not have been better. Dry and cool conditions enabled many of the participants to run the course in record times. Almost two thousand runners came from some fifty-two...	
By Chavie Lieber NEW YORK (JTA) — With consecutive quadruple jumps at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, Max Aaron launched himself not only to a gold medal and a national championship. The 20-year-old Arizonan also joined the ranks of Jewish athletes who...	
By Chavie Lieber NEW YORK (JTA) — Every Sunday during the football season, a group of 30 diehard Jewish Baltimore Ravens fans suit up in purple pants, jerseys, socks, face paint and special Ravens tzitzit to watch the game together. If the game falls on a...