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This event is being moved indoors.
Due to the muddy conditions of the green space, Israel's Independence Day Celebration will be held in the JCC Gymnasium.
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The community is invited to celebrate Israel's Independence Day
(Yom Ha'Atzmaut) on Wednesday, May 4 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at the Staenberg Kooper Fellman Campus, 333 South 132nd Street.
An opening ceremony will kick off the evening at 5:15 pm.
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This celebration of Israel will resemble an Israeli shuk, or marketplace where local vendors will sell arts & crafts, jewelry, food, and more.
Activities for all ages will include face painting, petting zoo, photo booth, Israeli dancing, crafts, games, and more!
Plus the B’nai Brith Annual Trivia Contest will begin at 6:30 pm in the
Shirley & Leonard Goldstein Community Engagement Venue.
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Celebrate Israel’s Birthday, Join the Community for Fun & Fellowship, Jennie Gates Beckman Explains | |
Sponsored by the Murray H. & Sharee C. Newman Supporting Foundation, Herbert Goldsten Trust, and the following JFO Foundation funds: Special Donor-Advised Funds, Esther K. Newman Memorial Fund, Gertrude T. & Albert B. Newman Endowment, Morton A. Richards Youth Program Fund, Foundation IMPACT Grant. | | |
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Poppin' Penelope
We are excited to welcome Poppin' Penelope Fratelli and Polka Dot Entertainment to our Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration! Poppin' Penelope has been performing at events in Omaha and beyond for over 20 years. She and her team will be providing balloon animals, face painting, and airbrush tattoos for all ages.
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Scatter Joy Acres' Traveling Ranch
With Scatter Joy Acres’ Travelling Ranch, children and adults alike will learn about farm animals through hands-on interaction with chickens to cows, horses to alpacas, and sheep to goats.
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Israeli Dancing Instructed by Rebecca Smedlund
Rebecca Smedlund began dancing at the age of 2. She dances with the Rugged Soles Tap Troop and has been a dance instructor at the JCC since 2019. For our Yom Ha’Atzmaut celebration, she’ll be teaching Israeli dancing!
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PJ Library offers fresh squeezed orange juice
Of course, Jennie from PJ Library will be on hand to offer some educational (and fun!) activities. Jaffa oranges have been emblems of the Israeli state since the 1950s, and fresh-squeezed juice stands are a staple of Israeli shuks. So stop by the PJ booth to juice your own oranges! Jennie will also be offering a take-home activity that highlights the fact that citizens of Israel, just like Jews, come in all hues!
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Inflatables
What would a party be without inflatables? Meet all your favorite animals in the Animal Kingdom Playland! The youngsters will have a blast bouncing around with an array of cute critters. They can climb with the monkeys and run with the zebras in this fun inflatable! If your kids need more of a challenge, they can face off on the Mega Three-Lane Thrill Obstacle Course! Crawl through tubes, mosey up a hill, dodge inflatable pop-ups, soar to the summit and retreat down the 16 foot slide! Who will be the conquering hero? The Favorite? The Dark Horse? Who can say? It’s a melee for the crown!
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Photo Booth
Finally, our photo booth will be a great place to make memories with your friends and family. There will be props available as well as a backdrop that will be sure to transport you straight to the Negev!
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a.j.k. o'donnell
a.j.k. o’donnell has always been an artist, and began writing as a child. By fourteen, she had moved out of her childhood home, living in the countryside outside Omaha. Over the course of five years, o’donnell lived in multiple places, before finally settling down. It was during this time of constant uncertainty, that she began to compile poems from her childhood and works recently written, into the collection Nicoteane and Other Foolish Mistakes. In 2018, she released her second collection, This Void Beckons. o’donnell’s writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, with her 2017 series entitled A Life in Transitions, the Outrider Review, The Daily Iowan, and most recently on Medium. “My literary career will always be focused on investigating the human experience in an intimate, yet universal, fashion. I hope to remain a constant voice of the mundane, the unconsidered, and the improbably prophetic events of the human narrative.”
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Annette van de Kamp-Wright & Isabella Wright
Annette van de Kamp-Wright and her daughter Isabella Wright will share their space and their art at the Yom Ha’atzmaut carnival. Annette paints in her spare time (she particularly loves pomegranates, which will be heavily represented on May 4) while Isabella’s drawings are mostly digital, and would be at home in fairy tales. Annette is from Voorthuizen, the Netherlands; Isabella was born in New Orleans but considers herself a life-long Omahan. John Irving said: ‘Life is serious, but art is fun.’ He is right.
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Doug Wolfson
Doug Wolfson grew up in Omaha. After his retirement he rediscovered his love for making art. He combines his expertise with different technologies and traditional art, merging the two to create something new. A few years ago, inspired by his family’s own beloved pets, he started doing pet portraits. He also creates other decorative items using a laser cutter and other traditional art techniques. Doug’s art crosses many genres. He accepts commissions and looks forward to sharing his work with the community.
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Heather Miller
Heather Miller’s mission is to normalize wearing cocktail rings with sweatpants. “I want to make the next generation of heirlooms. I love using using old school metalsmithing techniques, antique impressions, and the highest quality gemstones in my designs.” Heather is passionate about the history of antique jewelry. She studied metalsmithing at NWMSU, Maryville, and Overland Park, KS before working as a hairstylist for 25 years and returning to the craft of metalsmithing over five years ago. She works from her home studio in Midtown Omaha and draws much of her inspiration from the historical architecture of the city.
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Liam Chleborad
Liam Chleborad is a self-taught artist of various medias. Most of all he likes making things for people and helping their ideas come to life. He also explores humor through comics and illustrations. Liam will be selling prints and commissions for personal works.
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RSVP
RSVP specializes in finding the perfect invitation, card, or gift to fit your needs. They have a knack for making things custom and unique to you - while happily helping to write the perfect wording, choosing just the right font and ink colors, all with style, flair and etiquette. RSVP began in 2003 when Nanci Kavich, a newly single stay-at-home mom, decided she wanted to share her love of paper and the personalized gift with the world. Nanci had always been passionate about etiquette and the wonderfully personal art of the written note.
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Papio Fiber
Papio Fiber was born to fulfill the need for more unique, high quality, wool in the Midwest. A one-woman studio specializing in very small batch hand-dyed yarn, each piece is expertly died with professional grade dye and hand-washed and dried with care.
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Unpreserved Suburban Farmstead
Unpreserved Suburban Farmstead is a food and lifestyle company, specializing in personalized and custom infant and Judaica artwork.
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