Campers who have attended J Camp or any other Jewish Summer Camp are invited to join us for a pre-concert Summer Camp Reunion! Wear your camp gear and help us celebrate the power of Jewish Summer Camps! Dinner will be provided to those who RSVP. Families are welcome. We will meet at 4:15 pm in the JCC Pavilion.

From 5:00-7:00 pm the community is invited to enjoy a FREE outdoor concert by Midwest Dilemma. There will be fun swag, games and food for purchase from Dante’s, Cheese Life, and Kona Ice. We will also be launching our efforts to build a second JCC basketball gymnasium in "Uncle Chuck’s" honor. The construction of a new PICKLEBALL complex is also included in this plan. Both spaces will provide an opportunity to further foster a sense of community - something that "Uncle Chuck" would have promoted. Join us!

Register your teens today for this once-in-a-lifetime 10-day community trip. Spend Shabbat in Jerusalem, meet teens from our Partnership region, float in the Dead Sea, explore the desert, and learn about the innovations of Tel Aviv.

Thanks to the support of community foundation grants, Beth El, Beth Israel & Temple Israel this trip is heavily subsidized to encourage participation. We want to ensure that all Omaha Jewish teens have a chance to explore Israel together. Place your $200 deposit now to secure your spot. Learn more

Join us Sundays in August from 5-7pm for our FREE concert series! Bring your lawn chairs & blankets and enjoy a night of fabulous music. Dante’s, Kona Ice, and Cheese Life will have food available for purchase. Concerts are held in the green space on the east side of campus and are open to the entire community. Simply show up and enjoy. Learn more

Lunch, Noon, Shotgun start, 1 p.m. Summer is upon us and that means Temple Israel will be hosting its annual Golf Outing at Shadow Ridge Country Club that includes 18 holes of golf with a cart, lunch, access to the driving range, and a steak dinner. You can sign up as either a single or a foursome. Participant cost is $135 and if you sign-up as a single, we will assign you to a foursome. The cost for a foursome is $540. Interested in joining the festivities but don’t want to golf? Come enjoy a steak dinner for only $35. Learn more

IHE is excited to welcome Larry Raful to share his mother’s testimony of surviving the Holocaust. Susy Taubner Raful was born in 1925 in Budapest, Hungary. She had an older sister Mary and a twin sister Edit. Of his mother’s family, Raful says: “my grandparents and their three girls moved from the hills of Buda into the Jewish ghetto in Pest at the beginning of the war. The Nazis invaded Budapest in 1944 and started rounding up Jews. Mom and her older sister pushed sister Edit out of line, but they went to the train station and boarded a cattle car to the concentration camp in Ravensbruck. They were transferred to two other camps later and were on a death march when the war ended. Mom met Dad soon after in the most romantic story ever told!" Read more

On August 20th Star Kosher Deli will be offering online ordering and curbside pickup! (Limited menu items available) View menu

“We really wanted to accommodate the community while the RBJH remains closed to the public. This is a great way for us to do that,” said Mike Aparo, Head Chef.

Join us poolside at the Cottonwood (Blackstone) Hotel for a celebration of Omaha’s Young Jewish life: past, present, and future. At this afternoon cocktail party, we will honor this year’s JFO Young Leadership Award winners, celebrate the 2021 Ben Gurion Society members, and highlight the role that GenNOW (Under 45) Philanthropy plays in our community.

This 12-week class is designed for anyone exploring Judaism for the first time, for Jews interested in refreshing their knowledge of Judaism, those in the process of conversion to Judaism, or folks of any background with a general interest in Judaism and a desire to learn more. Learn more

River City Star in Omaha, Nebraska

Early Bird Rate $35 (July 25-August 8)

Regular Rate $40 (August 8-22)

This event is open to all Jewish Teens in 9-12 grade for Kansas City and 8-12 grade for Omaha and Lincoln. Reunite with your Omaha and Kansas City friends on our Private Boat Charter. Registration includes food, drinks, transportation (KC only), and admission on the boat. Questions? Contact Jacob Geltzer, Omaha BBYO Director, at jgeltzer@bbyo.org or Annie Rifkin, Kansas City Director, at arifkin@bbyo.org

Join us to meet our new Community Shlicha, Sivan Cohen. As a trained wine educator, Sivan will teach us about Israeli wine, over some kosher dessert platters. Additionally, we will be collecting used children’s clothing, making back-to-school supply packs for kids at a partnership school in Israel, and assembling Rosh Hashanah flower arrangements for the Rose Blumkin Home residents. Learn more.

Super Smash Bros Tournament 

Community members, ages 12+ are invited to join us for the FIRST EVER JCC E-sports Tournament featuring Super Smash Bros for Nintendo Switch! Prizes will go to the top 3 winners. Game will be played on our large screen in our Community Engagement Venue as well as our brand-new large screen in our newly renovated Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater. The registration fee is $15. Register online or by calling (402)334-6426.

Jewish Family Service is hosting a team for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s (AFSP) Out of the Darkness Walk on Saturday, September 18, 2021.

To register and join our team, please click the button below. This event is FREE to attend; however, when registering you do have the option of donating to AFSP. Read more

JCC Front Plaza Outside

Tickets: $20

This September we welcome our opening performance of Jazz at the J to the newly renovated Alan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater. Trumpeter Doyle Tipler and his quartet will show off our state-of-the-art sound and lighting with jazz standards and originals from the group.

The J is looking for volunteers to help at events held in the Alan J. Levine Theater! Volunteers may be required to undergo a brief training and background check. Volunteers will receive one complimentary ticket for the event they sign up to work. Interested? Email Alex Beil at abeil@jccomaha.org for more information or to sign up.

It’s been called America’s most practical and entertaining parenting program, and it’s here to help you! Jewish Family Service and Woodhaven Counseling Associates, Inc. present Parenting the Love & Logic Way™

a four-part parenting workshop. The workshop helps strengthen parenting skills and teaches how to raise happy, self-sufficient kids. The classes will be held from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Staenberg Omaha JCC. This workshop is open to ALL parents. Participants must attend all four classes and register in advance. Learn more

Are you interested in an opportunity to visit Israel and reengage with our partners and interests there? The JFO is planning an eight-day trip not meant for first timers, but for those in our community who value the connection they have with the country and its people.

The itinerary, as it is set thus far, will focus on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Western Galilee.

We will meet with members of Knesset, journalists, and representatives of the programs the Jewish Federation of Omaha supports, including a visit with our partnership community in the Western Galilee. More details will be announced soon.

Interested? Contact Alan Potash if you'd like to join the trip and reconnect with Israel.