Join us every Sunday in August from 5 pm-7 pm 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

Join us for this series to engage in conversation with our hosting scholars as well as each other.

July 19, 7-8pm - Sacred Texts and Evolving Sects: Historical and Theological Trajectories

July 26, 7-8pm - The Variety of Jewish and Christian Understandings in Response to Scientific Discoveries

It's time to gather!! Join us for a Sunday FUNday Young Professional Kickball & BBQ. We will start with a friendly game of kickball and end with beers & BBQ! This event is open to those in the community ages 21-36.

The Jewish Business Leaders of Omaha invites the community to a free virtual event featuring Chief Economist Spencer Levy.

JBL Members please join us for this in-person breakfast featuring Jason Itkin.

Jason Itkin is one of the nation’s top lawyers. He is known nationwide for winning record-setting verdicts and settlements. Jason is one of only four lawyers in the country who have won a billion-dollar verdict for a single person. Learn more

JFO is excited to co-host a "Get to Know You BBQ" with Jason Rife, Jewish lay leader at Offutt Air Force Base, and the Jewish War Veterans at the Jewish Community Center. We want to connect veterans with our active-duty families to help ensure a strong network of support within the Jewish community for those who serve our country. Come meet those in the community who are connected to the military and share ideas about what else we might be able to do to celebrate this important and wonderful community. 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

Ask anyone who has been on a Momentum trip (formerly JWRP) to Israel, and they will tell you it was an amazing and transformative once-in-a-lifetime experience. Action packed and informative from the moment you land in Israel to the time you board the return plane home, these trips are open to parents of college aged kids and younger. Omaha has been blessed to have organized multiple groups for both men’s and women's trips in the past and many community members have participated.

While the Covid pandemic halted these trips over the past year and a half, Momentum is building once again and the organization is leading a small group of healthcare workers to Israel from July 6-12, 2021 as part of their Healthcare Heroes Trip.

Unlike other Momentum groups, the Healthcare Heroes trip was open by nomination only. Twenty-five mothers working in healthcare from across North America were chosen to participate after an interview process. Two of this year’s selected participants are Omaha’s very own Amy Tipp and Danni Christensen!

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 today to secure your ticket.

Raising an unprecedented amount of $42,974 from 165 donors, you have helped us break every record in a time where we least expected it.

We are proud to serve every client and meet every need by seeing how supportive our community is of the work we do...Read more

Join the "Uncle" Chuck Fundraising Drive!

This fundraising drive aims to raise $2M to build an additional basketball gymnasium in memory of Chuck Arnold and a pickleball complex.

Don’t miss the “Uncle” Chuck fundraising drive kickoff on Aug. 22. Join us at the Backyard Concert on Sunday, August 22nd from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. to learn more about the new “Uncle” Chuck fundraising drive. In addition to great music and food for purchase, we’ll have yard games and special activities!

The Omaha Jewish Alumni Association proudly presents our first-ever fundraiser! On August 15, 2021, OJAA will be holding a fundraiser at Topgolf in Omaha at 908 N 102nd St, from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm. Tickets for the event are $54 per adult and $36 per child and include 3 hours of golf, lunch, and a drink ticket. Bays are currently limited to 6 people, so round up a group of friends, or sign up and meet some new ones!

All money raised from this OJAA fundraiser will be distributed by the Jewish Federation of Omaha Foundation to families who need financial assistance to enroll or keep their child or children enrolled at the Pennie Z. Davis Early Learning Center at the JCC. We are very excited to see as many of you as possible on Aug.15!

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. RSVP

Super Smash Bros Tournament Ages 12+

Sunday, September 12 - Registration closes September 1st!

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. | cost: $15

Join us for our FIRST EVER e-sports tournament playing 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 Allan J. Levine Performing Arts Theater. Register here

Cocktail Hour + 7:30 pm Concert: $25  |  7:30 pm Concert Only: $15

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. Buy tickets here

Juvenile:

The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice by Cynthia Levinson

Adult:

Lilyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played by Tovah Feldshuh

The Auschwitz Detective by Jonathan Dunsky

JCC Front Plaza Outside

Recognize the unwavering support of two remarkable ADL Board Members

-- Carol Bloch & David Gilinsky--

with keynote remarks from Oren Segal, Director of ADL's nationally-recognized Center on Extremism.

Music, food, drinks, and many special surprises await! Learn more

Tisha B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av

is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar. Although a large number of disasters are said to have befallen the Jews on this day, the major commemoration is of the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. and 70 C.E., respectively. Central to the observance of this day is fasting. Read more