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Carol Mullin, director of emergency services at Jewish Family Service, reads letters from appreciative food bank clients at the opening of the facility’s newly expanded food bank
on March 7. See the story below.

UW Hillel director Berkovitz to leave JFS food bank

organization
Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
Rabbi Will Berkovitz would have been satisfied serv-
ing his career as executive director of Hillel at the Uni-
versity of Washington. But then came an offer he couldn’t
refuse. Beginning in July, Berkovitz will become vice-
president of partnerships and rabbi in residence at a year-
old organization called Repair the World.
“I love my job here [at Hillel], and I’ve always said it
was my dream job,” Berkovitz told JTNews. “When I was
approached by these folks and they told me what the posi-
tion was, I said, ‘Look, it sounds great, [but] I really love
Seattle as well and I have no interest in leaving this com-
munity, because it’s my community.’”
When the New York-based organization offered a posi-
tion that would allow Berkovitz to stay in Seattle, however,
he began to give the opportunity some serious thought.
His mission, Repair the World told him, would be to
strive to take the model he has created at the UW to other
campuses and communities around the country, Berko-
vitz said.
In particular, it is his work in social justice such as volun-
teer spring break trips that work with indigenous peoples in
places like Central and South America that brought Berko-
vitz to the attention of the founders of Repair the World.
“Will is really absolutely exemplary as a model of some-
one who lives a life of commitment to service and social
change, and does so Jewishly,” said Jon Rosenberg, Repair
the World’s CEO. “The work he’s done, in terms of leading
immersive service trips, bringing social justice and service
to be a critical part of Jconnect and of the work of Hillel at
the University of Washington — he’s just someone who, as
a speaker, as a writer, as a thinker about these issues, is a
rare mix of being passionate, articulate and strategic.”
Repair the World’s mission “is to make service a defin-
ing element of American Jewish life, learning and leader-
ship,” Rosenberg said. Fulfilling that mission is four-fold,
including help to build up existing programs, creating
a more robust Jewish volunteer infrastructure, bringing
service as a central tenet to local organizations like Jcon-
nect, and to tie all those pieces together by supporting the
people who make these kinds of programs happen.
Berkovitz will help “to forge partnerships across the
spectrum of Jewish institutions, primarily things that
help strategically to make service a normative part of the
Jewish experience,” Rosenberg said.
Rosenberg cited the Jserve Jewish International Youth
Day of Service, which will have an event in Seattle next
month, as one organization with which Repair the World
is working.
It also includes working on college campuses, Rosen-
berg said, since students are often at the front lines of pro-
viding direct help for people in need worldwide through
what he called “immersive service experiences.”
“There’s a need and an opportunity when they come
back to campus for all sorts of follow-up programming,
where they can continue to engage in service activi-
ties, to deepen their commitment to service and social
change, to deepen the Jewish context for them doing that
work,” he said. “That’s one of the things we’re going to be
focused on in the coming year, and Will is going to lead
those efforts for us.”
Having the ability to be based in Seattle is something
important to Berkovitz, because the innovation that hap-
pens in local sectors such as tech and global health, for
example, finds its way into public service and volun-
teerism. Such has not always been the case in the Jewish
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Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
Though reporters and economists have been saying for
the past few months that the recession is over, victims of
the so-called jobless recovery would beg to differ. Nobody
can attest to that more than workers in food banks across
the country.
The statistics bear that out at the food bank that spe-
cializes in serving Seattle’s downtown and Capitol Hill
neighborhoods as well as the area’s Jewish community,
for instance. This past January the food bank at Jewish
Family Service gave away more than 24,000 pounds of
food — an 18 percent increase over the previous January,
when the economy was still spiraling downward. And
the number of people, including many senior citizens, in
need of emergency services continues to rise.
But Ken Weinberg, CEO of JFS, was smiling.
“Good news is in very short supply,” he said to a room
packed with supporters and staff on the morning of Sun.,
March 7 who attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the
expanded Polack Food Bank. “This food bank is very good
news, for our clients, our city, our state, and our country.”
The remodeled facility will enable JFS to store more
food, including perishable items, as well as serve its cli-
ents more efficiently. The dedicated area, which was con-
structed within the confines of JFS’s current building, has
a wide sliding door at the street for food bank employ-
ees to receive pallet shipments, shelves at the back filled
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A mantra, a meditation, a reminder of what’s behind this entire Jewish enterprise
Rabbi Harry
Zeitlin
Congregation
Beth Ha’Ari
We exist to be loved because the dom-
inant “flavor” of God is love — it must be
dynamic and flow in order to flower. And
while there is almost nothing our finite
minds can truly grasp of His infinite
nature, we do know that he is perfectly
complete, needing nothing from outside
Himself to be complete, that, ultimately,
He is unknowable, but that He is the
source of and definition of all Goodness.
A lover wants only the best for the
beloved, and since the ultimate goodness
is defined as God Himself, we’re given
the seemingly impossible opportunity to,
as finite beings, approach ever so closely
to the Infinite Goodness. And nearness,
spiritually, rather than physically, speak-
ing, is resemblance.
So we’re given the opportunity to
imitate the Creator. We can do this by
becoming creators ourselves, generating
our closeness rather than merely receiv-
ing it like some sort of cosmic welfare. We
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are given free choice to, at each moment,
consciously and actively, independently
move ourselves ever closer.
So the universe is created incomplete
and we’re placed in it with the opportunity
to partner in the finishing touches, bring-
ing the world to its own perfect complete-
ness. Tikkun olam is not merely restricted
to helping others, to protecting the phys-
ical environment or any other specific
set of tasks that might seem urgent at the
time, although it does include all of these
and more. But it really means each of us
uses our unique gifts and vision to facili-
tate the ultimate perfection. This becomes
clearer as we remember that “olam,” world
or universe, has several meanings. What
we usually call the world is, more specif-
ically, olam gadol, the greater world. But
there is also “olam katan,” the small world,
actually many of them — each individ-
ual human. This is the teaching that who-
ever saves a life is like one who creates
the world. So we work, simultaneously,
healing and completing both the olam
gadol and the olam katan. When we learn
“as above, so below,” we’re really talk-
ing about the power generated as we heal
and integrate our own personalities, as we
refine ourselves as lovers and creators.
Much is beyond our vision and under-
standing, but which, nonetheless, is
part of Creation. So in addition to those
actions whose effects we can seemingly
observe and understand, the empirical,
there is also a lot which we can, at best,
intuit, and if not, only “take on faith.”
But there is no “blind faith” in Judaism.
Emunah, faith or belief — related to “amen”
— is based on the same root as “omanut,”
Free pass
Morris Malakoff’s article (“On boycotts,
divestiture and sanctions,” Feb. 26) cer-
tainly gives a free pass to Gad Barzilai —
would that his comments have been half
as innocuous as the article suggests. While
Gordon castigated Israel as an apartheid
regime, Barzilai refused to counter such bla-
tantly false accusations, saying merely that
he did not wish to engage in “semantics.”
This is certainly not the response I would
expect from a lawyer and certainly not the
response we would want to hear from the
chair of the Jewish Studies Program at the
University of Washington. I have a son who
is a student at the University of Washing-
ton and he is engaged in defending Israel
during so-called “Israeli Apartheid Week”
— apparently he can not expect to receive
any factual information or other support
from Barzilai. I am deeply concerned that a
man who will not defend Israel against false
charges of apartheid is in a position to teach
our children at the university level.
Malakoff writes that Barzilai did
“acknowledge that the United States is in
a unique position to wield power over the
Israeli government to bring about change
through assertive diplomacy by cutting
back on the $3 billion a year in foreign aid
that flows from Washington, D.C. to Tel
Aviv.” He further asserts that this statement
prompted Gordon to say, “Barzilai was
supporting a de facto form of BDS [boy-
cotts, divestments and sanctions], only at
a higher level.”
At first it appears that Gordon’s state-
ment is a deliberate misinterpretation
of Barzilai’s intent. But, in fact, Barzilai
argued that the Obama administration
“should impose its own solution on Israel.”
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craft. Our mandate is to slowly craft our
own beliefs, each a work in progress.
So we have to work to accept, under-
stand and, finally, believe that even while
most of Creation is beyond our concep-
tion, it remains within our influence. And
tikkun olam extends to this realm as well.
There are both actions that make
sense and those which defy or transcend
“sense” — both the logical and the trans-
rational, and each can and must further
the project of bringing the world to its
perfect completion.
Step back a moment. Take ourselves
out of the centers of our universes, admit
our own finitude, and we begin to see
more than when we relied only on our own
senses. “Reishet chochmah, yirat Hashem,”
the beginning of wisdom is seeing that
there is an Infinite and Transcendent.
And remember, this Infinite Tran-
scendent God acts only for the Good, for
our good. “More than the calf wants milk,
the cow wants to nurse.” We’re meant to
succeed.
We’re given the tools to operate in
the empirical, “rational” world. We have
sense organs coupled with sense, the
ability to process information. Much of
what needs to be done in the world can be
learned through this channel.
But our work in the invisible, tran-
scendent world beyond our conception
requires a map, advice and guidance. But
to accept and trust these gifts, remember
the source and the motivation of them,
which is love. This enables us to trust, to
do things that evade everyday reasoning:
Mitzvot, in a word.
So we can now view those perplex-
Further, he urged that should Israel try to
alter the terms of an imposed solution, “all
aid to Israel should stop completely.”
It is only when one considers Bar-
zilai’s own words that it becomes apparent
that he and Gordon are indeed in agree-
ment as to what should be done to Israel,
although perhaps there is some difference
in tactics to be employed.
Ronda Stark
Seattle
Fighting the 3 D’s
I’m grateful to the JTNews for highlight-
ing the wonderful work that StandWithUs
is doing, training our college students to
effectively counter the rhetoric of anti-
Israel voices on our college campuses
(“Fighting back,” Feb. 26).  land. This is one reason why they have
While vigorous political debate has
always been expected on campus, we
are seeing criticism of Israel escalate into
calls for Israel’s isolation and destruction,
with unprecedented levels of the three
D’s: Demonization, delegitimization, and
a double standard. As the recent film
Crossing the Line: The Intifada Comes to
Campus, makes evident, it can be not only
frightening, but dangerous to be Jewish or
pro-Israel on campus these days.
The movement to brand Israel as an
apartheid state, complete with boycotts,
divestment and sanctions, hurts our brothers
and sisters in Israel, and it damages our col-
lective Jewish pride. It’s up to us as a com-
munity to expose the truth that in spite of
its imperfections, Israel is a beacon for free-
dom, human rights, and democracy, and I
applaud StandWithUs for taking a lead role.
Randy Kessler
Mercer Island
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ing mitzvot as pathways toward the
tikkunim we’re not able to directly under-
stand. They’re not arbitrary, nor intended
to turn us into regimented, unthinking
robots, but rather to enhance our unique
effectiveness, our sensitivity, our capac-
ity to love. We might not understand the
exact mechanism. We don’t have to.
Just as the Creator desires our perfect
completion, we work to create that same
perfection in the unfinished world, both
in ways we can determine for ourselves
and in ways we accept with loving trust.
Of course, we can analyze and examine
this to the finest detail. Like our individual
emunah (faith), like our efforts in tikkun,
like the world itself, it’s a work in progress.
They’re all works in progress, each of us,
the world we share, the infinite realms of
reality we can’t even directly perceive.
By saying we’re the key, we’re not
in any way saying the world is ours to
exploit, to destroy, to use as we wish.
Although we do have the power to destroy
much, our ultimate role, once again, is to
bring it all, our individual unique selves
included, to its finest state.
Then we’re truly the creative partners
of the Creator. We’re as close to that tran-
scendent being as possible, connected
and receiving the flow of great love, which
was the original goal.
A mantra, a meditation, a reminder.
We’re here to do our best, to be our finest,
and to then ultimately enjoy just being,
in the eternal moment, basking in that
Source of all light, all good, all love.
To paraphrase Hillel, the rest is details.
Come and learn.
Letters
Refusal of acceptance
Re: Jack Greenberg’s letter about Israel
and a two-state solution (“Not for Steal,”
Feb. 26). Greenberg makes some valid
points on this issue. Unfortunately, “the
peace process” has not led to peace, but to
more violence and killing of innocents. The
problem is that Arab countries have never
abandoned their dream of destroying Israel.
They were unable to defeat Israel in war. So
they decided to fight Israel by proxy by cre-
ating a terrorist organization, calling it “the
Palestinian people,” and installed it in Gaza
and the West Bank. That is why Jordan and
Egypt refused to accept back the West Bank
and Gaza, respectively.
Their objective has been to erase any
claim Israel has to their ancestral home-
refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state
while the rest of the world does. Remem-
ber, there never was an independent Pal-
estinian state. One way to achieve peace
in the Middle East is for Arab countries to
acknowledge and accept their defeat in
their war against Israel, as the losing side
should. They should accept Israel’s ancient
sovereignty over Gaza and the West Bank.
Let us not be deceived to think that Pal-
estinian Arabs are like Native Americans,
because they are not. Creating a terror-
ist Arab state called “Palestine” will only
lead to war, not peace. Israel should not
be pressured to negotiate with Palestinian
Arabs to make a temporary and elusive
peace that endangers its long-term sur-
vival and national security.
Josh Basson
Seattle
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community news

Remember us
Traveling exhibit will highlight Israelis lost in its many wars

Erez Ben-Ari
JTNews Correspondent
Israel is the home of the Jewish people,
but protecting that home has claimed the
lives of thousands. Over the years and
during its many wars, more than 22,000
Israelis have died. Every year, the entire
countr y stops and remembers them
during Yom Hazikaron.
Israel has chosen to hold its national
Memorial Day one day before Israel’s
Independence Day, and that choice has
been done with a purpose. What started
unofficially back in 1949 became law in
1963, and since then, on the fourth of Iyar,
Israel and many Jews around the world
observe Yom Hazikaron. Most coun-
tries have national Memorial Days, but as
opposed to some where it’s an excuse for
retailers to have a sale, Israel’s version is
particularly solemn.
The day opens w ith a siren that
resounds throughout the country. All
activity halts, people stand and cars stop,
and the citizens of Israel spend a minute
contemplating those who gave their
lives so the rest of their countrymen can
live theirs. Every kindergarten, school
and college, as well as many companies,
organizations and government offices,
hold memorial ceremonies. Even TV and
radio stations dedicate their entire broad-
cast schedule to Yom Hazikaron, playing
shows dedicated to remembering Israel’s
fallen men and women.
One reason Yom Hazikaron is such an
important and widely observed day is that
nearly every Israeli knows at least one or
two persons affected by war or terror. For
some, it is a family member; for others,
a friend. Many Israelis, though alive
and well, still carry scars, false limbs or
shrapnel somewhere within their bodies
to remind them of a battle they survived.
Some of these battles go back decades,
while others are as recent as last year’s
“Operation Cast Lead” in Gaza, which
added four widows and three orphans to
the circle of bereavement.
This year, the Jewish Federation of
Greater Seattle is opening a special exhibi-
tion dedicated to Yom Hazikaron. Rachel
Schachter, Israel program manager for the
Federation, has been working for several
months in the hopes of giving names and
faces to the stories of some of those thou-
sands. With the help of volunteers in Israel,
Seattle, Canada, Germany and elsewhere,
Schachter has collected dozens of stories,
photos and items from some of those who
have died protecting Israel, many of which
will see the light for the first time.
Full disclosure: This reporter has
assisted in some Hebrew translations for
the exhibit.
The exhibition will take place from
March 19 to April 25, and will be hosted in
several places, such as the Seattle Jewish
Film Festival (March 19-21), Congregation
Beth Shalom (March 22-28), Hillel at the
University of Washington (March 29-April
6), the Stroum Jewish Community Center
(April 11-15) and Temple B’nai Torah (April
23-25). The actual Yom Hazikaron will be
observed in Israel on April 19, followed by
Israel’s Independence Day on April 20.
Schachter, joined by Federat ion
employees and a group of volunteers,
collected hundreds of stories, photos,
articles, postcards, letters, and more,
had the materials translated to English
or Hebrew, and built the mobile exhibi-
tion. The stories presented include many
unknowns, as well as those of some high
profile casualties such as Eldad Regev
and Ehud Goldwasser, whose bodies
were returned by Lebanon more than two
years after they died in the second Leba-
non war of 2006.
One unique story is of Nava and David
Applebaum, as told by Shoshana Kor-
dova. Nava, who was about to get married
in Jerusalem, went out for a drink with
her father, a respected doctor from the
Shaare Tzedek Medical center. Both were
killed in a suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel
on Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem.
“The timing of their deaths seems
almost too tragic to be true,” Kordova
said. “A Jerusalem emergency room chief
returns from New York, where he lec-
tured at a September 11 commemora-
tive conference on how hospitals should
deal with mass casualties, and is killed
in a terror attack the night of his return. A
young woman goes out to a café with her
father and is blown up nearly beyond rec-
ognition the night before her wedding.”
Another unusual story is that of Cap-
tain Yonatan Netanel of Kedumim. Neta-
nel, a deputy commander of the 202nd
Paratroopers Brigade, sent his wife a text
message shortly before going into battle,
saying, “Everything is all right; you have
nothing to worry about.” Fate, however
had a different plan, and he was killed in a
Courtesy Bet Shira proceeds going to a
charity of choice. This year’s choice was more than $1,000 for Haiti earthquake
relief.
Correction
Mark Braverman, whose talk on
Israel was profiled (“The psychology of
opinion,” Feb. 26) grew up in the Con-
friendly-fire accident.
These two stories, along with the others,
will be shown in the exhibition. Younger
visitors will also be invited to paint a
camel in memory of Tal Kerman, killed in
March 2003 in a suicide bombing on Bus
Route 37 in Haifa. Tal loved camels, and
her father Ron is collecting painted pic-
tures of camels created by children from
around the world in her memory. Visitors
will also be invited to make a donation to
the families of soldiers, as well as to Kiryat
Malachi, Seattle’s sister city through
the Federation’s Tucson-Israel-Phoenix-
Seattle partnership. Such donations will
be used to provide needy families with
healthcare, groceries and more. The Fed-
eration will also launch a special Web site
in coming weeks that will include addi-
tional material beyond what is shown in
the exhibition.
Children at the Bet
Shira religious school
in Port Townsend
have created a Purim
tradition by making
hand-decorated
shalach manot
baskets to give to
each of the congre-
gation’s 75 families.
The catch is that
each family must gift
a basket to another
family, with the
servative movement, not within the
Hassidic community as reported.
JTNews regrets the error.

march 18–20
on the PLU campus
Yom Hashoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Community Commemoration

Sunday, April 11, 2010

1:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Stroum Jewish Community Center,

Pacific Lutheran university’s 3801 East Mercer Way, Mercer Island
third annuaL PoweLL and heLLer famiLy

Holocaust From Generation to Generation

L’Dor V’Dor
conference
scholar christopher Browning, John roth, Professor sara Horowitz and carl Wilkens will speak.
All events free and
March 20th is designed with educators in mind, and is focused on lessons of diversity and tolerance open to the public.
that can be learned through the Holocaust. educator clock hours are available.
Questions? Call 206-774-2201
the conference is free and all sessions are open to the public. or email info@wsherc.org.

for further information, please contact Brenda Murray at 253-535-7595 Funding for this event provided by the Washington State Holocaust Education
Resource Center, Stroum Jewish Community Center, Conference on Jewish Material
www.plu.edu/holocaustconference Claims Against Germany Inc., and Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.
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Jews gone Greek

UW Panhellenic recognizes Jewish sorority

Nick Feldman Also integral to the formation of the formation of this

Special to JTNews
Three and a half years of hard work and dedicated
organization came down to one vote. And that vote,
deciding whether the University of Washington’s Pan-
hellenic Council would recognize the 18-member Jewish
Sorority, passed.
“It makes a lot of sense,” said Lauren Brown, director of
Undergraduate Engagement for Hillel at the UW. “There’s
a community of Jewish women out there and we’ve seen
that build over the last couple of years, and many of them
are interested in being a part of the Greek system. It’s
really easy for Jewish guys who come to campus, but this
gives an independent place for Jewish girls. Now they can
say, ‘I really want to join a Jewish house for the best of
both worlds.’”
Students at the UW have the option of joining special-
interest fraternities or sororities as an alternative to tradi-
tional Greek organizations. The options for Jewish women
have long been limited since the Jewish-founded, non-sec-
tarian sorority Phi Sigma Sigma left campus in the 1980s.
Even Jewish men have had multiple options — namely the
Alpha Epsilon Pi and Zeta Beta Tau fraternities.
But with the granting of recognition by the campus
sorority community’s governing body, that quickly
changed. Currently called “The Jewish Sorority,” this long-
running project already has 18 fully committed women
and hopes to be housed by recruitment time next fall.
“This is really important to the UW community,
because the Jewish girls on campus didn’t really have a
place to go,” said Jaclyn Lieberman, Jewish Sorority co-
president. “But now, with the Greek community having
a place for Jewish women, it’ll help all of us become so
much stronger.”
Nick Feldman
From left to right, Lauren Brown of Hillel at the
University of Washington, sorority president Jaclyn
Leiberman, member Nicki Balk of The Jewish Sorority,
and Chaya Estrin of Chabad at the UW worked to create
the recently university-recognized sisterhood.
Before the sorority’s creation, the only other Jewish
women’s organization at UW was Banot — originally cre-
ated to be the Jewish sorority — which has since evolved
into a less-formal bonding group for Jewish women. Most
members of The Jewish Sorority were or are also members
of Banot, and while overlap exists between the two orga-
nizations, they’ve come to fill different purposes.
Although the sorority’s members can’t yet hold leader-
ship positions on the Panhellenic Council, they do have
every social, philanthropic and community leadership
opportunity the nationally recognized fraternities and
sororities do. The sorority just doesn’t have letters — yet.
When a new national organization is invited to campus,
it will hopefully take the nascent organization under
its umbrella and grant what is now The Jewish Sorority
membership from its national headquarters.
new sorority is the UW’s Chabad House. While Chabad
and Hillel have been notorious nationally for butt-
ing heads, the two organizations in Seattle have had a
warmer relationship over the past several years. Rabbi Eli
Estrin from Chabad and Rabbi Will Berkovitz from Hillel
meet on a regular basis and often do programming in col-
laboration with each other.
“[Estrin] and I strategically think through any number
of topics as it relates to campus,” Berkovitz told JTNews.
They saw this opportunity as one truly important to
the Jewish community as a whole, and worked for a long
time together to make it happen.
“When I think about it, it’s an amazing thing that
Hillel and Chabad were able to come together and bring
this huge asset to the Jewish community,” said Chaya
Estrin of Chabad. “If the whole world would work like
that, it’d be amazing.”
Though it has taken time and hard work, both UW
Greeks and the organization’s members and support-
ers see this endeavor to create a new division of Jewish
campus life as an important addition to the UW commu-
nity and an exciting new place for Jewish students to live
and be supported.
“AEPi only started nine years ago, and ZBT just three
years ago, and they’ve both so strongly helped solidify
the Jewish community on campus,” Estrin said. “I think
everyone sees that having a Jewish sorority on campus
will enhance the Jewish fraternities and enhance the
Jewish community. Now more students can be actively
Jewish and actively involved at the same time.”
Nick Feldman is a student in the University of
Washington Department of Communication News
Laboratory.

B”H

Happy and KosHer passover

Have a Chabad-Lubavitch
Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle
5305 52nd Ave. S 206-760-0805 Presents the 18th Annual

Passover
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For Passover questions and product information, please call the Va’ad at 206-760-0805, your

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synagogue or any of the following rabbis who will be available before and during Passover:
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206-723-3028 206-721-0970 206-527-1411 206-527-1411 206-722-5500
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vaadinfo@seattlevaad.org. Visit us online at www.seattlevaad.org.
PLEaSE CLiP and SEnd to YouR RaBBi So HE wiLL RECEiVE it
BEfoRE SundaY 3/28/10.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Services at 9am ~ Program at 10am
delegation of power for sale of CHometz Join community Rabbis
Know YE that I, the undersigned, fully empower and permit for discussion and reflections on
Rabbi............................................................ to act in my place and stead, and in my behalf Passover concepts and Mitzvot
to sell all Chometz possessed by me (knowingly or unknowingly) as defined by the Torah at
and Rabbinic Law (e.g., Chometz, possible Chometz, and all kinds of Chometz mixtures).
Also Chometz that tends to harden and to adhere to inside surfaces of pans, pots or cooking Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch
and usable utensils, and all kinds of live animals that have been eating Chometz or mixtures 6250 43rd Ave NE, Seattle 98115
thereof. And to lease all places wherein the Chometz owned by me may be found especially in
the premise located at..................................................... and elsewhere. Rabbi Simon Benzaquen Rabbi Bernard Fox
Rabbi, Congregation Sephardic Bikur Cholim Dean, Northwest Yeshiva High School
Rabbi ....................................................... has the full right to sell and to lease by
transactions, as he deems fit and proper and for such time which he believes necessary in Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin Rabbi Abraham David
accordance with all detailed terms and detailed forms as explained in the general authorization Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch Rosh Kollel — Kollel Seattle
contract which have been given this year to Rabbi ...................................... to sell Chometz. Rabbi, Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch
This general authorization is made a part of this agreement. Also do I hereby give the
said Rabbi ............................................. full power and authority to appoint a substitute Rabbi Moshe Kletenik Rabbi Mordechi Farkash
in his stead with full power to sell and to lease as provided herein. The above given power is Rabbi, Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath Director, Eastside Torah Center
in conformity with all Torah, Rabbinical regulations and laws, and also in accordance with
laws of Washington State and of the United States. And to this I hereby affix my signature on
the .......................... day of Nisan in the year 5770. Moderated by Rabbi Yecheskal Kornfeld
Educational Director, Chabad of Washington State
Director, Chabad-Lubavitch, Mercer Island
Name Rabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim
Address
City Light Breakfast Included

Signature
For more information:
The legal intricacies concerning this transfer of property are many,
and only a competent rabbi should be entrusted with its execution. info@chabadofseattle.org or 206-527-1411
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community news

The forgotten victims

The Roma, known then as Gypsies, were also targets of the Nazi machine

Leyna Krow The Gy psies Jerusalem of Gold dinner

Assistant Editor, JTNews
It’s easy to forget that Jews were not
the only victims of the Holocaust. As
the single largest group targeted by the
Nazis, the Jewish story is the most fre-
quently told, and the best documented.
But that doesn’t mean it’s the only story
worth telling.
On Feb. 24, educators from a variety of
Western Washington schools as well as a
half-dozen students from a class on social
justice at South Seattle Community Col-
lege got a chance to learn about the fate of
a far less studied ethnic group.
At an event hosted by the Washing-
ton State Holocaust Education Resource
Center, Morgan Ahern, founder of Lolo
Dik lo/Red Bandanna: Roma Against
Racism, gave a talk called “Roma/Sinti
During the Holocaust and in Today’s
World.” Ahern’s lecture focused on the war-
time experiences the Roma and Sinti, who
are more commonly known as Gypsies.
“‘Gypsy’ is a term that’s loaded with
stereotypes,” Ahern said.
The names Sinti and Roma refer to the
largest tribes found in Europe, and are
less racially charged words. However,
they refer to specific groups, so Ahern
continues to use the word “Gypsy” for
general reference.
Ahern began with a brief character-
ization and history of the Gypsies.
“I always have to assume people don’t
know who we really are,” she said.
Create a Lifestyle
o r i g i n a t e d f r om The Northwest Yeshiva High
the Punjab region School’s annual dinner and auc-
of Ind ia a nd a re tion will honor supporters Don
thought to have left and Deanne Etsekson. This year’s theme
India to escape the is “Jerusalem of Gold.” Music will be pre-
Indo-Persian wars, sented by Grant Blumenstein 2009, with
ending up in Europe TV host John Curley on auction duty.
by t he beginning Takes place Sun., March 21 at 4:30 p.m. at
of t he 12t h cen- the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 Univer-
t u r y. Since t hen, sity St., Seattle. Contact 206-232-5272 or
they have lived a mrivkin@nyhs.net to RSVP. To preview
predominantly items, visit www.nyhsauction.com.
nomadic lifest yle
and can be found in Turn the Page: Tips and
almost every coun- Text
tr y in Europe, as Ilana Kennedy/WSHERC This year’s Turn the Page wom-
well as other places Morgan Ahern shows methods of measuring Gypsies’ heads in en’s learning event, “Tips and Text
around the world. the years prior to the Holocaust. for These Times,” will feature a
Gy psy life has long list of speakers that explore femi-
not changed much over the centuries. communists, homosexuals, the disabled, nine voices from biblical to Talmudic to
Although some have assimilated into and others, upwards of 500,000 Gypsies modern times, including educator Rivy
their countries of residence, many con- were killed during the Holocaust, 65-70 Poupko Kletenik, Rabbis Yohanna Kin-
tinue to live in traveling caravans, keep- percent of the entire European Gypsy berg, Rachel Nussbaum and Zari Weiss,
ing their money in the form of jewelry population. as well as Stefanie Thomas, victim advo-
rather than in banks, and valuing appren- Like the Jews, the trouble for the Gyp- cate on the Internet Crimes Against Chil-
ticeship more than formal education. sies in Germany actually began long dren task force with the Seattle Police
Gypsies have no written language and, before the rise of the Third Reich. The first department, who will speak about the
therefore, no self-recorded history. anti-Gypsy laws in Germany were written importance of promoting safety for chil-
“We are one of the only people to say in the early 1400s. dren when they use the Internet. Key-
we’ve never waged a war,” Ahern said. By the mid-1930s, as the Nazis were note speaker will be local comedian and
“I think that’s because we’ve never had making life difficult for Jews, so too were radio personality Julie Mains. Cost is $25
a homeland and we’ve never wanted a Gypsies picked out for scrutiny and harass- for kosher dinner and program, $72 for
homeland.” ment. German anthologist Eva Justin Turn the Page supporter. Thurs., March
That’s not to say that violence hasn’t and psychiatrist Robert Ritter took spe- 18 from 6–8:45 p.m. at Herzl-Ner Tamid,
been inflicted upon the Gypsies, however. cial interest in the Gypsies and spent the 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Alongside Jews, Jehovah’s Witnesses, years leading up to the Holocaust studying Register at w w w.jewishinseattle.org/
Gypsy genealogy, hoping to prove that they turnthepage or at 206-774-2272.
are inherently asocial criminals. Ahern
blames Justin and Ritter for much of the Discovering Passover
attention paid to the Gypsies by the Nazis.
Germany began its deportation of
together
A gathering for interfaith cou-

That’s Just Right for You. Gypsies to concentration camps in 1940.

The final blow came in 1942, when
Heinrich Himmler signed a decree con-
demning all Gypsies to death.
“Himmler had reservations about this,”
Ahern said. “Not because he felt remorse,
but because he wanted to keep a few ‘pure-
Happy breds’ and open up a zoo for the education
and entertainment of the German people.
Passover But he was told this was impractical.”
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ples and families will feature
a trip around the seder table,
exploring symbols and traditions of Pass-
over. Learn and enjoy symbolic foods,
discussion, music, storytelling and art.
Couples and families with kids of all ages
welcome. Sun., March 21 from 3–5 p.m. at
Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave.
E, Seattle. Suggested donation $10/family.
Advance registration required. To RSVP,
contact Emily Harris-Shears at 206-861-
8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org.

Civil trial in Corrie death

opens
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A civil trial in the
death of American activist Rachel Corrie
Guaranteed! by an Israeli military bulldozer opened
in Haifa.
Retirement living at Merrill Gardens is full of Some 40 protesters demonstrated out-
opportunities for self expression including Anytime side the courthouse Wed., March 10, the
Dining, activities, classes, trips and more. We are so
SM first day of the trial, carrying signs read-
ing “Remember Rachel Corrie.”
sure you’ll find living here inspiring that we back it up
Her parents reportedly are demand-
with a 60-day guarantee.* ing $324,000 in damages from the Israel
Defense Forces.
Members of U.S. Vice President Joe
Biden’s entourage met Tuesday with the
Corrie family, Haaretz reported. The Cor-
ries and four witnesses who were with
their daughter when she was killed are
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Corrie, 23, of Olympia, was wearing
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a bulldozer from demolishing a Pales-
tinian home when she was killed seven
years ago.
An Israeli army investigation follow-
ing Corrie’s death found that the driver
of the bulldozer did not intentionally run
her over because he could not see the
activist. The report accused Corrie and
the pro-Palestinian International Soli-
darity Movement of “illegal, irresponsi-
ble and dangerous” behavior.
Witnesses say that Corrie was clearly
visible and that activists shouted for the
bulldozer to stop before it hit her.
The Corries sued Caterpillar Inc., the
U.S. company that manufactured the
bulldozer, but lost in court.
— JTA World News Service

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Author! Author! (Publisher!)
A roundup of some of our local Jewish authors
Diana
Brement
JTNews
Columnist
We Washingtonians are a bookish lot
(Seattle once again has topped the list
of most literate U.S. cities, according to
a survey by Jack Miller, the president of
Central Connecticut State University).
This results not only in a lot of book read-
ing, but a lot of book writing. Here is just a
sampling of folks in the Seattle area who
are working at writing, publishing or pro-
moting new books.
Miryam Gordon has an exciting pub-
lishing project through her small press,
Green Elms. While doing some research
on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg a while
back, she met David Alman, 91. David
and his late wife, Emily, who had known
the Rosenbergs, had written a book he
was trying to publish. (For younger read-
ers, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were con-
troversially executed for spying for the
Soviet Union in 1953.)
Exoneration: The Rosenberg-Sobell
Case in the 21st Century will be released
in June, on the 57th anniversary of the
execution. This first-person account of
the Almans’ efforts to win clemency for
the Rosenbergs includes new informa-
tion, published here for the first time, and
deals with anti-Semitism in the federal
government during a period of extraordi-
nary societal paranoia.
“It’s clear from just reading the tran-
script,” says Miryam, “that there was
prosecutorial misconduct.”
For more information or to place an
advance order, call 206-367-713 or visit
www.greenelmspress.com.
Sondra Kornblatt has been teaching
people how to cope with insomnia for 10
years and now she’s written a book, Rest-
ful Insomnia: How to Get the Benefits of
Sleep When You Can’t. Sondra laughed
when I asked her how her sleep is.
“Everyone asks me that,” she says,
adding that her sleep is fine, thank you.
Her book is mistaken for one about
sleeping better, but really it’s about learn-
ing to relax when you have insomnia,
making it restful and not distressing.
The science writer is hoping to teach
another ‘Restful’ class in September, but
meanwhile you can learn more at her
Web site, www.restfulinsomnia.com —
or buy the book! Her next book will be
about the female brain.
David Volk has decided to Web-publish
his entertaining travelogue, Fresh Ameri-
can Bananas: Memoirs of an Itinerant Idiot
on his Web site, www.davidvolk.com. Like
a lot of authors today, David searched
high and low for a publisher before decid-
ing just to do it himself. He calls it the
“humorous coming-of-age-t hrough-
travel-tale of a man who thought he was
too old to come of age,” and includes sto-
ries of his travels in Asia, New Zealand
and Australia. Three sample chapters are
posted, and more will come.
Meanwhile, our intrepid traveler is
home-bound, working furiously on a
project for Globe Pequot Press, The Cheap
Bastard’s Guide to Seattle. David’s still
collecting suggestions on how to expe-
rience Seattle on the cheap, particularly
ideas for entertaining kids. You can con-
tact him through his Web site or e-mail
him at david@davidvolk.com.
Over at Temple Beth Am, in Seattle’s
“Jewishly happening” Northeast quad-
rant, music director Wendy Marcus, a
former journalist, has been maintaining
her writing chops.
After founding the literary journal,
Drash: A Northwest Mosaic, she published
a collection of her short stories through
Beth Am’s publishing arm. Polyglot: Sto-
ries from the West’s Wet Edge was a Jewish
Book Council fic-
tion finalist last
y e a r a nd w on
Sna ke Nat ion
P re s s’s S eren a
McDonald Ken-
nedy 2009 award
for fiction.
You can find
Polyglot and back
issues of Drash
on l i ne a nd at
The cover of Wendy local booksellers.
Marcus’s book of More i n for ma-
short stories, Polyglot. tion on Drash —
Volume Four is in
production — is at www.templebetham.
org under “Music & Arts.”
Journalist-turned-judge Adam Eisen-
berg has published his book, A Different
Shade of Blue. While working as a pros-
ecutor and still writing articles for local
papers, he struck up a conversation with
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hire women police officers in 1912.”
Women also earned the vote in our
state 10 years earlier than the rest of the
nation.
Currently working as a commissioner
in Seattle Municipal Court, Adam is seek-
ing appointment to the Superior Court.
Information on purchasing the book is
on the Web site.
Baseball author Steve Steinberg has
a new book coming out written with Lyle
Spatz: 1921, The Yankees, the Giants and
the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New
York, will be published by University of
Nebraska Press early next month.
“I’m quite modest about my work,”
Steve writes us, but says he can’t help be
pleased with enthusiastic responses and
Courtesy Adam Eisenberg comments from national sports com-
Former journalist Adam Eisenberg, who mentators Bob Costas and Frank Deford
is now a judge, recently published his (I always wondered how I could work
history of female police officers in A those two into my column!).
Different Shade of Blue. Steve will be at the newly relocated
Elliott Bay Books on May 21, at Third
a policewoman at the court house. Think- Place Books in Lake Forest Park on June
ing it might make an interesting article, 16, and at the Federal Way Regional
he asked what it had been like to work as a Library on July 15. Visit him online at
female officer 30 years ago, when women www.stevesteinberg.net and read more
were first being hired on the force. The sub- about the book under “What’s New.”
ject proved so compelling that it became One of the byproducts of Seattle’s
this book, which you can learn more about being the most literate city in America is
at www.adifferentshadeofblue.com. its abundance of local bookstores, so sup-
“Seattle has a unique place in his- port your local bookstore!
tory.” Adam says. “It was first place to
Joel Magalnick
It’s not every day you can throw things at
your rabbi, but the kids were lining up at
Temple Beth Am’s Purim carnival on Feb.
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Their Stories Live On: Yom HaZikaron

On September 9, 2003, Nava Applebaum, her father David, and many of their friends
and family members were working feverishly to prepare for the 800 guests expected Send a
for Nava’s wedding the following evening outside of Jerusalem. As it grew late, David
suggested that he take “his Navaleh” out for a father-daughter chat and a cup of coffee
at Café Hillel. He simply wanted some alone time with his daughter before she became
Tailored Tribute.
a bride. But Nava and David never returned. A suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the Mark a special occasion with a thoughtful
Jerusalem café that evening, wounding 50 innocent people and killing seven—including tribute through our new online tribute page.
bride-to-be Nava and her father David. An acknowledgement will be sent on your
behalf, reflecting your personal message
Each year on Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s National Memorial Day, Nava and David are and benefiting the Jewish community.
remembered along with thousands of innocent civilians killed in terrorist acts and www.JewishInSeattle.org/Tribute.
Israel Defense Forces soldiers who fell fighting for their country, trying to make the
David Applebaum with daughter, Nava world a safer place for Jews. As we near Yom Hazikaron, you may wish
to make a special tribute in memory of a
In a way, those whom we remember on Yom HaZikaron sacrificed their lives not only for Israel, but for all of us, to ensure
loved one. The proceeds from this special
that Israel would endure as the home of the Jewish people. While we may not know them personally, their lives and
tribute will provide psychological, medical,
deaths affect us all.
legal or financial help to those affected by
This year, we are bringing their stories to life through a memorial exhibit of soldiers and civilians killed by terrorism and terror in our partnership communities in
acts of war against the Jewish people and Israel. This multi-paneled exhibit of stories, photos and other mementos Israel. Go directly to
will be shown at several locations throughout Seattle between March 18 and April 25. Our hope is that the memorial www.JewishInSeattle.org/YHZTribute.
we have created and the stories we tell will put faces and names to Israel’s heroes, to honor their memories with the respect
and dignity that they so richly deserve.

At sundown on April 19, as Yom HaZikaron draws to a close and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) begins, let us
remember that Israel is independent and free because of the dedicated men and women who gave their lives for the
country they loved. This year, let’s celebrate in their honor.

Read their stories and more at www.JewishInSeattle.org/YomHaZikaron.

Special thanks to volunteer Erez Ben-Ari for his hard work on this project and to the generous and brave families who shared their stories with us.

Jewish Federation Goes to the Movies

Join the Jewish Federation at three movies we are sponsoring during AJC’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival this March.

Federation Movie Night, March 21
Join Jewish Federation donors and
supporters for Sushi, Sake, Sweets
& Sumo. This closing night of the
film festival will feature the Israeli
Tickets at Academy Award nominated comedy,
www.JewishInSeattle.org/FilmFestival A Matter of Size, and a tasty
Proud sponsor of the pre-reception with kosher alternatives.
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
March 21, 7:30pm at Cinerama
Bashert Movie Night, March 20
Eyes Wide Open is “a restrained yet
bold look at the highly controversial
topic of homosexuality in Jerusalem’s
ultra-Orthodox community” showing
March 20, 9:15pm at Cinerama.
Israel Unplugged Night, March 17
Join those already registered for our Jewish
community trip to Israel May 23-June 1,
those still considering it and those who
just adore Israel, for the moving film,
Jaffa, that captures the complexities
of contemporary multi-ethnic Israel.
March 17, 9:15pm at McCaw Hall

Tips and Text for These Times

Join us for a girls night out of learning, laughing and dining at Turn the Page on Thursday, March 18.
This entertaining evening for women of all ages will begin with a humorous keynote speaker and light dinner,
followed by a selection of additional learning sessions covering a wide breadth of both secular and
Torah-based topics.

This year Julie Mains—an adored local radio personality and comedian—will be taking center stage as our
keynote speaker. Julie is an entertainer who is intensely connected to Judaism and knows that this is what
makes her funny! She is not only hilarious, but also quite inspiring.

The breakout learning sessions, led by Jewish educators and experts in our local community, range from sexuality
and marriage in Judaism to keeping our kids safe online. Check out our session leaders and topics below and
join us for Turn the Page: Tips and Text for These Times.

The Generosity Keeping Your Kids

Meaningful & Fun Passover of Women Pharaoh’s Daughter Safe Today:
Seders for all Ages & Stages Rivy Poupko Kletenik Rabbi Cyberspace 101
Sexuality Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg Rachel Nussbaum Stefanie Thomas *Full speaker bios and
& Marriage Deepening the sessions descriptions
in Judaism Mussar for Busy Moms Connection with Changing Roles: Hey Girlfriend: available online.
Ruz Gulko & Working Women Our Children When Mom The Blessing of Female
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg Techiya Levine Needs Help Friendships Chairs: Linda Hansen
Never Have A Boss Again: Jane Relin Rabbi Zari Weiss & Stephanie Rosenthal
Financial Empowerment Repair the World Turning up the
by Self-Employment & Recover Your Life Volume on Your Torah & Toddlers With My Voice
Marlene Kaplan Susan M. Kleiner, Inner Comedienne Stefanie Somers I Call Out to the Eternal
PhD, RD, FACN, Julie Mains (Psalm 3)
CNS, FISSN Rabbi Zari Weiss

Turn the Page • Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 6:00-8:45 pm • at Herzl-Ner Tamid on Mercer Island
$25 Kosher Dinner & Registration ~ $72 Turn the Page Supporter
Register online at www.JewishInSeattle.org/TurnThePage or call 206 774-2272
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spring books

Good, evil, and the spaces in between

The Holocaust in fact and fiction

Diana Brement
JTNews Columnist
Revenge against the Nazis — the ulti-
mate battle between good and evil. Could
it be more clear-cut? Maybe, maybe not.
This theme is visited in two new works
of fiction that have the Holocaust at their
center. The first is an interesting murder
mystery by contemporary, non-Jewish
German historian Christian von Dit-
furth. A Paragon Of Virtue (Toby, cloth,
$25) is set in modern-day Hamburg and
translated for British audiences by Helen
Atkins.
Ditfurth’s protagonist, Prof. Stachel-
mann, is also an historian, specializing in
World War II Germany. While struggling
to complete his long-delayed thesis, the
very shy Stachelmann is persuaded by
an old school acquaintance, now a police
detective, to help solve a series of puz-
zling murders. It’s his historian’s thor-
oughness that leads him to clues before
almost becoming a victim himself. These
crimes go to the heart of his expertise;
all concern the appropriation of Jewish
property by local police at the time.
The case also forces him to look at, and
finally confront, what his father did during
the War. The author is only about 50, but he
has clearly struggled, as many Germans
have, with the moral and ethical ques-
tions that arise over actions of “ordinary
town. He also lives with his obsession of
revenge against the commandant of the
camp. As he becomes friend and family
to a few, good and evil become less black
and white.
Lebrecht tries to make this a story
without a place. The camp, the village, the
country, the war — all remain unnamed.
It’s an interesting idea, assuming Leb-
recht wants to free the reader from pre-
conceived notions, but it proves too
challenging to sustain through to the
end. It also removes the reader emotion-
ally from the characters, but remains an
interesting idea in an interesting book.
More common Holocaust literature is
the memoir and as Holocaust survivors
reach the ends of their lives, we see more
books written by their children.
One new offering is Good Neigh-
bors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s
German Village (Nebraska, paper, $16.95)
by Mimi Schwartz.
Schwartz had an all-American child-
hood and didn’t pay much attention to
her father’s stories about the Holocaust or
growing up in a German village that was
“ H A P P Y
half Jewish. But years later, she hears that
her father’s Christian neighbors saved
the synagogue’s Torah on Kristallnacht,
and she is consumed with curiosity about
her dad, his home and surviving villagers,
Jewish and gentile. Traveling to Germany
and Israel to hear first-person accounts
she finds that judgment, which seemed so
easy before, is a little muddier.
Readers of the New York Times may
already be familiar with the work of
Sandra Hurtes, whose personal essays
are collected in a short book, On My Way
to Someplace Else (Poetica, paper, $15).
Hurtes’s parents were both survivors
of Auschwitz. Survivors seem to fall into
two groups: The tell-all and the tell-lit-
tle, with Hurtes’ mom of the tell-all per-
suasion. Hurtes writes movingly about
the influence of these stories on her life
and how they made her the person she
is today, even creating her career. Even
when not writing directly about the Holo-
caust or her parents, they still shadow
almost everything she does.
A more typical Holocaust biography
is The Girls of Room 28: Friendship,
P A S S O V E R ”
Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt
(Schocken, cloth, $26). A decade ago,
Swiss journalist Hannalore Brenner met
10 of these surviving, now-elderly women
at their annual reunion in Europe and
decided to bring their stories to us.
In Holocaust history, Ronald Florence
tells the story of Joel Brand and the Jewish
Rescue Committee of Hungary in Emis-
sary of the Doomed (Viking, cloth, $27.95).
The committee, which had successfully
brought individual Polish and Slovakian
Jews to the relative safety of Hungary, then
turned their efforts to saving Hungarian
Jews, including secret negotiations with
Adolf Eichmann. Without the aid of the
Allies, they lost their race against time.
Other new Holocaust non-f iction
includes Who Will Write Our History:
Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from
the Warsaw Ghetto, by Samuel D. Kassow
(Vintage, paper, $16.95) and Rediscover-
ing Traces of Memory: The Jewish Her-
itage of Polish Galicia, by Jonathan
Webber, photographs by Chris Schwarz
(Indiana U, paper, $27.95) from the Litt-
man Library.

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both mysteries and of Holocaust literature
will be interested in seeing how Ditfurth
has handled the subject in this format.
Vengeance lives in the heart of nov-
elist Norman Lebrecht’s new work The
Game of Opposites (Pantheon, cloth,
$24.95), which also deals with questions
of good or evil and what ordinary citizens
did during the War.
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work camp a few days before the end of
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spring books

Books in brief
A look back in biblical history, with a dash of humor thrown in

Diana Brement visors), and of Orthodox and secular Extraordinar y

JTNews Columnist women from a myriad of different cul- People, edited
tures plus her own experiences, Polak- b y A r yeh Rubi n
Bible Sahm explores the most secret, sacred (D e v o r a , p a p e r,
JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible, and sensual moments in a Jewish wom- $16.95). One inspir-
retold by Ellen Frankel (JPS, cloth, $35). an’s life. i ng prof i le a f ter
Illustrated by Israeli artist Avi Katz (Jeru- another of rabbis,
salem Post), this 225-page book focuses Fiction scholars, scientists,
on the most plot-driven sections of the The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of advocates and more
Tanach. Frankel, a scholar of folklore Shira of Ashkenaz, by Michelle Cameron all working in ser-
and Midrash, and the editor-in-chief of (Pocket, cloth, $25). Historical novelist vice to the Jewish
JPS, adds some interesting notes for the Cameron weaves fact and fiction together community. The cover states the sub-
grownups on the challenges of introduc- in this tale of Euro- jects are drawn from “across the U.S. and
ing “American children to the language pean medieval Israel,” but from this Northwest outpost
and rhythms of the Hebrew Bible.” Jewr y during one the book seems a little New York-cen-
Subversive Sequels in the Bible, of the most chal- tric. Surely a few people west of the Rock- $29.95). Reading an early political car-
by Judy Klitsner lenging periods in ies are doing a few things of value in the toon in this book, it occurred to me that
(JPS, cloth, $35). Jewish history. The Jewish community. my grandfather, who arrived on these
I n t h i s book , f ictional Shira is Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Story shores in 1912, might have viewed this
subtitled “How witness to some of Behind the Song, by Canfield, Hansen exact piece: Karl Marx as Moses, leads
Biblica l Sto- the more horrific and Geffen (CSS, “the working class to the land of milk and
ries Mine and events of the times: paper, $14.95). Here honey, the land of economic freedom”
Undermine Talmud burning, a r e t h e “e x c l u- through a Red Sea of woes consisting of
Each Other,” the religious disputa- sive, personal sto- tenement houses, child labor, war, cor-
aut hor m a kes tions, executions and Crusader massa- r ie s b eh i nd 101 ruption, hunger and “rotten food.” Enter-
u nu sua l pa i r- cres. Shira has a real-life husband, Meir of you r f avor ite taining and educational.
i ng s of bibl i- of Rothenberg, a distant ancestor of the songs.” Of course, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible!
cal stories and author, which adds to the book’s appeal. not all song w rit- by Jonathan Goldstein (Penguin, paper,
shows how the later story may comment As often occurs in this genre, the author ers are Jewish, but $15). Public radio listeners may be famil-
on or even subvert the earlier one. Noah sometimes works too hard to include all many of them are, iar with the work of this Canadian come-
and Jonah are linked, for example, as are the historical details, but it reads well and so you can enjoy a dian (“Americo-Canadian” according
the Tower of Babel and the midwives of is entrancing in parts. little John Legend to Wikipedia), a staff member on “This
Exodus. Fascinating and thought-pro- The Defector, by Daniel Silva (Putnam, (“Ordinary People”) with your Barry American Life,” and host of “Wire Tap,”
voking work (and just a tad scholarly) cloth, $26.95). Silva’s Israeli spy-art Manilow (“Mandy,” etc.). his own CBC show,
from a senior faculty member at the restorer-hero Gabriel Alon returns to which airs in Seat-
Pardes Institute in Jerusalem. again combat the evils of terrorism, Comics & Humor tle on KUOW 94.9.
counter-espionage and international The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Goldstein puts his
Religion crime, enduring the Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbol- spin on a number of
The House of Secrets: The Hidden usual threats on his lah, by Joel Chasnoff (Simon & Schuster, biblical tales both
World of the Mikveh, by Varda Polak- life and his family. cloth, $25). As Chasnoff begins his basic famous and obscure
Sahm (Beacon, cloth, $28.95). A fascinat- An exciting page- training he has the following encounter: a nd g ives fa m i l-
ing culmination of 10 years of research turner, but nothing “‘Hey, I think you misspelled my name,’ iar characters sar-
on the part of the especially unique I said to the guy at the dog tag machine. donic, neurotic and
Israeli author, this or different here. ‘So don’t die,’ he said and shooed me out poignant personas,
book dissects the Perhaps t h is is the door.” A proverbial 98-pound weak- saying and think-
historical and cul- A lon’s retirement ling lies his way into the Israeli armed ing things you’d never imagine. “Since…
tural significance pa r t y? A f ter a l l, forces in order to live in Israel and — of every village needs a mayor as well as a
of the mikveh and how much abuse course — impress a girl. Comedian Chas- village idiot, it broke down in this way:
its value in today’s can one man take, even in the service of noff has lived to tell the tale of war — and Eve: mayor; Adam: village idiot.” Gold-
world. Based on in- his country? make us laugh. stein takes us all the way to Mary and
dept h i nter v iews Jews and American Comics: An Illus- Joseph, the latter whining about how dif-
w it h balanyiot Profiles trated History of an American Art Form, ficult his life is now that his girlfriend has
(immersion super- Jewish Sages of Today: Profiles of edited by Paul Buhle (New Press, cloth, been impregnated by the Lord.

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with members and friends of northwest jewish family
Congregation Kol Ami
All about raising a family Jewishly in the great Pacific Northwest.
for the 2nd Annual
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Saturday, April 3 at 6 p.m. Published may 14
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Enjoy a delicious catered meal, songs and camaraderie
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Ya gotta love ’em!

The true story of the fabled 613s and their road to near-victory
Martin Jaffee
JTNews Columnist
While the “adults” of American Jewry
make news — all too frequent ly —
through public scandal, it appears that
it’s up to the younger generation — the
“millenials” as the journalistic pop-soci-
ologists call the generational cohort born
between 1980 and 2000 — to uphold
Jewish dignity in the public eye.
You might remember t he coura-
geous self-control shown by Jewish Uni-
versity of Washington undergrads last
spring when their celebration of Yom
Ha’Atzmaut was raided by a threatening,
pro-Palestinian demonstration.
Well, add now to the list the exemplary
message conveyed by the girls’ basket-
ball team of the Northwest Yeshiva High
School just before Purim at the Washing-
ton Interscholastic Activities Association
state playoffs in Yakima. The “613s,” as
they are called, are the first athletic team
in any sport to represent a Jewish school
in an all-state competition anywhere.
Quite an honor!
The only problem was this: The team
was scheduled by the WIAA to play its
final game on a date that coincided with
the Fast of Esther. Observant Jews will
recognize “Taanit Ester” as the fast estab-
lished by the rabbis to commemorate the
self-sacrifice of Queen Esther in saving
her people from the genocidal hatred of
the Persian court.
The story, of course, is memorialized in
the Esther Scroll (see Esther 4:15-17), read
in most synagogues on the evening and
morning of Purim. According to the hala-
chic tradition, Esther’s “dark night of the
soul,” prior to confessing her Jewishness to
King Ahasueros and begging him to spare
her people from the plotting Haman, is
commemorated by a public fast in which
both men and women abstain from all food
and drink from sunrise to sunset on the
day before the Megilla is read in public.
This year, Purim fell on a Sunday. Since
fasting is not permitted on Shabbat, the
fast was pushed back to Thursday. That
calendrical anomaly is what hung up the
WIAA. Its officials claimed that schedul-
ing accommodations to enable Sabbath
observance are acceptable, but that there
is no precedent for fast days. Negotiations
between the Head of School, Rabbi Bernie
Fox, and the WIAA proved fruitless.
Before the team lay a stark choice: To
break the fast in order to accept the honor
of athletic competition on the state level,
or to honor the fast and forfeit the honor
of all-state competition. As we all know —
and to our pride — the team forfeited the
game and refused to compete.
Debra Rettman
Though the Washington Interscholastic
Activities Association was unable to
accommodate the 613s’ request to
change their game time so they wouldn’t
have to play during a fast, they were
able to move games around so boys’ and
girls’ teams from the same schools
would not have to play at the same time.
Now, as Blu Greenberg, one of the pio-
neers of Orthodox Jewish feminism, is
famous for observing: “Where there’s an
halachic will, there’s an halachic way.” A dil-
igent halachic expert, in love with girls’ bas-
ketball and recognizing the value of public
acclaim in strengthening Jewish identity,
might have found a heter, a “loophole,” for
permitting the girls to break the fast.
But even were such a heter found or at
least contemplated, I think the team and
the school made the right choice. Once it
became clear that the scheduling would
remain as planned by the WIAA despite
the danger to the team, which would have
to play without any hydration, they found
that the disappointment of forfeiture
concealed a rare opportunity.
How common is it for American teen-
agers to be forced to make a choice
between religious principle and the ego-
f lattering rewards of public acclaim?
Well, these kids did.
Confronted by pressure to compromise
on a Jewish obligation in favor of a “this-
worldly reward,” they resolutely chose the
path of kiddush hashem b’farhesia (“public
sanctification of the Holy Name”). In the
glare of public media coverage, the girls
explained the significance of their choice
and, in so doing, brought before the public
gaze a rarely glimpsed aspect of Jewish
spirituality. For this they deserve from all
of us a loud yasher koach!
So much of the upheaval of modern
Judaism has been premised on the assump-
tion that any conflict between halachic
tradition and “modern realities” would
necessarily be resolved in favor of “reality.”
The resurgence of halachic consciousness
across the spectrum of American Jewry —
unanticipated by “experts” as recently as a
u Page 30

QFC teams up with Treehouse

to help foster kids
By Kristin Maas, QFC Public Affairs Director

Many of us have been quite lucky in life

and we have probably taken it for granted.
We grew up in families that loved us and
took care of us. While we may not have
been wealthy, we never went hungry and
we had many of the things we not only
needed, such as school supplies, but we
also had some of the things we wanted,
like dance lessons. Unfortunately, not
every child is so lucky. Through no fault
of their own, some children are removed
from their family homes in order to protect
them from unspeakable abuse, neglect,
or parental drug use. And although it is in
the best interest of the child — for their children throughout our area. Treehouse
physical safety and emotional wellbeing, helps bridge the gap for foster families to
sometimes the displacement can cause provide necessary school supplies and
other unintended consequences, such as clothing, as well as support for the “extras” QFC is proud partner with Treehouse
anxiety and low self-esteem. such as tutoring, music lessons, sports to raise awareness and funds to support
activities, and much more. Treehouse local foster kids. We invite you to make
Foster families provide safe homes is the humble strength behind foster a donation at any QFC checkstand
for these children, but many times they families, helping to create wonderful or designate your bag reuse credit to
cannot afford to provide the “extras” memories and encouraging positive Treehouse, now through March 27th.
like music lessons or even some of the self-image, self-worth, and self-confidence We hope you’ll join us and support
simple things, such as a warm coat for in local foster children. All of these Treehouse because, “Living in foster care
winter or jeans that are in style. That’s are critical components to developing shouldn’t keep a kid from being a kid.”
where Treehouse comes in. They are a good adults and good citizens, who will
local nonprofit organization which helps hopefully make better choices in life for
bring “childhood” back to scores of foster themselves and for their future families.

Kristin Maas is the Director of Public Affairs for QFC. She can be reached at kristin.maas@qfci.com or 425-990-6182.
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community calendar
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3/12/10 5:52 p.m.
3/19/10 7:02 p.m.
3/26/10 7:12 p.m.
4/2/10 7:22 p.m.
The JTNews calendar presents a selection of ongoing events in
the Jewish community. For a complete listing of events, or to
add your event to the JTNews calendar, visit www.jtnews.net.
Calendar events must be submitted no later than 10 days
before publication.
Ongoing
Friday
■■9:30-10:30 a.m. – SJCC Tot Shabbat
Dana Weiner at 206-232-7115, ext. 237
Parents with children ages infant-3 celebrate Shabbat with
challah, live music, singing, and dancing in the JCC’s foyer.
Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Tots Welcoming Shabbat
425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org
This Temple B’nai Torah program for kids ages infant-5
includes songs, stories, candle lighting, challah, and open
play. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St.,
Bellevue.
■■12:30-3:30 p.m. – Drop-in Mah Jongg
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
A friendly game of Mah Jongg. Free for members, $2 for guests.
At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■12:30-3:30 p.m. – Bridge Group
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
Prior bridge playing experience necessary. Coffee and tea
provided. Bring a brown bag lunch. Free for members, $2
for non-members. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
Saturday
■■9-10:30 a.m. – Temple B’nai Torah Adult Torah Study
425-603-9677
A discussion of each week’s parshah. No experience needed.
At the Temple B’nai Torah youth room, 15727 NE 4th St.,
Bellevue.
■■9:45 a.m. – BCMH Youth Services
Julie Greene at 206-721-0970 or julie@bcmhseattle.org
Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath Congregation has something
for all ages: Teen minyan, Yavneh program, Junior minyan,
Torah Tots, Mommy and Me, and Navi class. Starting times
vary. At Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 5145
S Morgan St., Seattle.
■■10 a.m. – Morning Youth Program
206-722-5500 or www.ezrabessaroth.net
Congregation Ezra Bessaroth’s full-service Shabbat morning
youth program focuses on tefillah, the weekly parshah and
the congregation’s unique customs in a creative and fun
environment. For infant to 5th grade. At Congregation Ezra
Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.
■■10:45 a.m.-12 p.m. – Herzl Mishpacha Minyan
206-232-8555 or www.herzl-ner-tamid.org
A Shabbat morning service at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative
Congregation that meets twice a month and features songs,
stories and treats for 2- to 5-year-olds and their families. Meets
first and third Shabbat of the month. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Con-
servative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■5 p.m. – The Ramchal’s Derech Hashem, Portal from the
Ari to Modernity
Rabbi Harry Zeitlin at 206-524-9740 or
hlzeitlin@comcast.net
This is the earliest systematic and reliable explanation of
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Kabbalah, which is grounded in tradition and comprehen-
sible to contemporary, educated Jews. At Congregation Beth
Ha’Ari Beit Midrash, 5508 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■6:30 p.m. – Avot Ubanim
Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at 206-722-8289
A class where children can learn alongside their parents.
Refreshments and prizes at each session. At the Seattle Kollel,
5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
Sunday
■■9 a.m. – Shabbat in Practice
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
An ongoing course taught by Rabbi Yehoshua Pinkus on the
Abridged Book of Jewish Law, known as the Kitzur Shulchan
Aruch. Free. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S,
Seattle.
■■9 a.m. – Advanced Talmud for Men
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
A chance for men to study the intricacies of a classic Talmudic
text and examine the basic commentaries that bring forth its
understandings. Taught by Rabbi Avrohom David. At the
Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■9 a.m. – Intermediate Halachah
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
Designed for students who want to learn comprehensive,
in-depth, everyday Halachah. Taught by Rabbi Yeshoshua
Pinkus. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■9:30 a.m. – The Role of Conscience in Judaism
Mimi Porad at 206-323-8486 or mimi@tdhs-nw.org
Explore the role of conscience in religion in general and
Judaism in particular in this seven-week class. $60 for members,
$75 for non-members. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1530 E
Union St., Seattle.
■■10 a.m. – Mitzvot: The Fabric of Jewish Living
206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
An ongoing course about the philosophical underpinnings
and practical implications of the 613 mitzvot. Free. Part of
the Seattle Kollel’s “Breakfast Club,” offering bagels, lox and
cream cheese, Starbucks coffee and Krispy Kreme Donuts.
At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■10:15 a.m. – Sunday Torah Study
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075
Weekly study group. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800
35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■10:30 a.m. – Intermediate/Advanced Prayerbook
Hebrew
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915, ext. 210 or
alysa@templebetham.org
This course focuses on developing a basic Hebrew vocabulary
necessary for understanding the siddur. At Temple Beth Am,
2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
■■11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Hebrew From Scratch
Melanie Berman at melanie@h-nt.org
Learn the basics of the Aleph-Bet. $170. At the Frankel Library
at Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Moving on in Hebrew
Melanie Berman at melanie@h-nt.org
Reading, comprehension and basic grammar. $170. At the
Frankel Library at Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
■■1–4 p.m. – Shalom Bayit Warehouse Volunteer Work
Party
Rachel at 425-558-1894 or shalombayit@ncjwseattle.org
Help organize donated items for survivors of domestic violence
and their children. This event takes place every second or
third Sunday. Call for exact dates and location.
■■7:15 p.m. – Beginners’ Talmud
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
This course will walk the novice through the basic learning
skills to begin to learn Talmud. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd
Ave. S, Seattle.
■■7:30-10:30 p.m. – He’Ari Israeli Dancing
Ellie at 206-232-3560 or tiaellie1@yahoo.com or
israelidanceseattle.com
Seattle’s oldest Israeli dance session. Couples and singles
welcome. Call for schedule changes. Cost is $6. At Danceland
Ballroom, 327 NE 91st St., Seattle.
Monday
■■10 a.m.–2 p.m. – JCC Seniors Group
Roni 206-232-7115, ext. 269
The Stroum JCC’s Seniors Group meets on Mondays and
Thursdays for activities and celebrations. At the Stroum JCC,
3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■10 a.m. – Jewish Mommy and Me
Giti Fredman at 206-935-4035 or info@seattlekollel.org
Giti Fredman leads a weekly playgroup for Jewish moms and
young children. Sponsored by the Seattle Kollel. At the
Hiawatha Community Center, 2700 California Ave. SW,
Seattle.
■■4:30–6:30 p.m. – Modern Conversational Hebrew
Sharron Lerner at 206-547-3914, ext. 3 or
slerner@kadima.org or www.kadima.org
Kadima Reconstructionist Community offers conversational
Hebrew classes for students in the 3rd–7th grades. Open to
non-members. At Kadima, 12353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – CSA Monday Night Classes
info@shevetachim.com
Weekly class taught by Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld on topics
in practical halachah. At Congregation Shevet Achim, 5017
90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.
■■7-8 p.m. – Ein Yaakov in English
Joseph N. Trachtman at 206-412-5985 or
tracht@accommotrac.com
Ein Yaakov has been studied since its publication in 1516 by
those desiring an introduction to the Talmud through its stories.
Free. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch, 6250 43rd
Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7:45-8:45 p.m. – For Women Only
206-527-1411
Rabbi Levitin offers classic commentaries on the weekly
parshah, Rashi, Rambam and Or HaChaim. At Congregation
Shaarei Tefilah, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■8-10 p.m. – Women’s Israeli Dance Class
Ruth Fast at 206-725-0930
Learn Israeli dance steps in an all-female environment. At the
Lakewood/Seward Park Community Club, corner of 50th Ave.
S and Angeline St., Seattle.
■■8:30 p.m. – Iyun (in-depth) class in Tehillim
info@seattlekollel.org
Class led by Rebbetzin Shirley Edelstone and sponsored by
the Seattle Kollel. For women only. Free. Location provided
upon RSVP.
■■8:30 p.m. – Talmud in Hebrew
Rabbi Farkash at rabbifarkash@earthlink.net
An in-depth Talmud class in Hebrew for men taught by Rabbi
Mordechai Farkash. At the Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th
Ave. NE, #303, Bellevue.
■■8:30 p.m. – Talmud, Yeshiva-Style
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
This class tackles sections of ritual, civil and criminal law. Be
prepared for lively discussion, debate and analysis. Students
must be able to read Hebrew and should have had some
experience with in-text Torah study. At the Eastside Torah
Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE, #303, Bellevue.
Tuesday
■■11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Mommy and Me Program
Nechama Farkash at 425-427-1654
A chance for parents and kids to explore the child’s world
through story, song, cooking, crafts and circle time. At a
private address. Call for location.
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■■12 p.m. – Torah in Sneakers with Rabbi Borodin
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Power walk with the rabbi while discussing the Torah portion
and other topics. Meet at Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800
35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■12 p.m. – Torah for Women
Rochie Farkash at 206-383-8441 or
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
Rochie Farkash leads a group of Eastside women in a discus-
sion of the weekly Torah portion. At Starbucks (backroom),
Bellevue Galleria, Bellevue.
1 p.m. – The Gaonim: The Era of Genius
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
Five-week class exploring the era of Gao taught by Rabbi
Ephraim Schwartz. $25. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave.
S, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Teen Center
Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@aol.com
Video games, game tables, food, and fun for high school
students. Hosted by NCSY. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
■■7 p.m. – Living a Meaningful Jewish Life: From Social
Justice to Sexuality
Jacob at jacob@hilleluw.org
This year-long class for people new to Judaism as well for
Jewish young adults interested in deepening their knowledge
of Jewish life will cover the Jewish calendar, lifecycles, theology
and prayer and will emphasize the deeper meaning behind
Jewish practice. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7 - 9:15 p.m. – Living Judaism - The Basics with Mary
Potter
Kris Klippel at 206-524-0075 or
krisklippel@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
An introduction to Judaism for Jews looking to deepen their
knowledge, non-Jewish partners of Jews, and conversion
students. The tuition for this weekly class includes a year-long
Hebrew course. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th
Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings
Eve M. Ruff at 206-461-3240 or emruff@jfsseattle.org
Meeting for anyone who has stopped or would like to stop
drinking. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.
■■7-8 p.m. – Portraits in Leadership
425-957-7860
A study of the life stories of six figures whose courage and
determination helped Judaism weather its darkest hours.
Lessons will examine a range of classic Jewish sources, drawing
extensively from the stories of the Talmud and modern com-
mentaries. Led by Rabbi Sholom Ber Elishevitz. At the Eastside
Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE, #303,Bellevue.
■■7 - 8:30 p.m. – Intermediate Conversational Hebrew
Janine Rosenbaum at 206-760 -7812
A course for students with some Hebrew background interested
in expanding their conversational skills and understanding
the basic principles of Hebrew grammar. $65 plus materials.
At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7:15 p.m. – The Philosophy of Rav Aharon Kotler
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
Five-week course exploring the life of Arahon Kotler, founder
of the Kollel movement in America. Taught by Rabbi Yehoshua
Pinkus. $25. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S,
Seattle.
■■7:30 p.m. – Why Be Jewish?
Melanie Berman at 206-232-8555 or melanie@h-nt.org
This class explores what is distinctive about Judaism and the
Jewish people. At Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Island
Way, Mercer Island.
■■7:30 p.m. – Parshah class
425-427-1654 or Rabbi@ChabadIssaquah.com
Rabbi Berry leads an in-depth parshah class. At Chabad of
friday, march 12, 2010
the Central Cascades, 24121 SE Black Nugget Rd.,
Issaquah.
■■7:30 p.m. – Weekly Round Table Kabbalah Class
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
Men and women join together to explore the mystical teachings
of the Kabbalah. At a private home.
■■8:30 p.m.– Understanding the rabbinate
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
This course will explore the role of the rabbinate and some
of the greatest leaders in recent centuries. Taught by Rabbi
Yitzchak Goldman. $25. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd
Ave. S, Seattle.
■■8:30 p.m.– Fertility, Birth, and Jewish Parenting
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
This class will guide students through the different lifecycle
events that accompany the birth of a new baby. Taught by
Rabbi Schwartz. $25. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave.
S, Seattle.
Wednesday
■■11 a.m.-12 p.m. – Torah with a Twist
206-938-4852
Women learn Torah with Rabbi Ephraim Schwartz of the
Seattle Kollel at this weekly class. At a Mercer Island location.
Call for directions.
■■11:45 a.m. – Talmud Berachot
Rabbi Yehoshua Pinkus at 206-718-2887 or rabbipinkus@
seattlekollel.org
Interactive discussion and study session of the Talmud
Berachot. Hosted by the Seattle Kollel. Free. At Tully’s Westlake
Center, 1601 5th Ave., Seattle.
■■1 p.m. – Heroines of the Torah
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
This series will explore six of the most important women of
the Torah. Taught by Rebbetzin Shirley Edelstone. $25. At
the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■ 1:30 p.m. – Book Club at the Stroum JCC
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
Book discussions the first Wednesday of every month. At the
Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■3 p.m. – The Mother’s Circle
Marjorie Schnyder at 206-461-3240, ext. 3146
A program for moms from other backgrounds raising Jewish
kids to get support, learn about Jewish rituals, practices and
values, and get connected to the Jewish community. Sponsored
by Jewish Family Service. Every other Wednesday. At Whole
Foods Market, 1026 NE 64th St., Seattle.
■■7–9 p.m. – Teen Lounge for Middle Schoolers
Ari at 206-295-5888
Foosball, ping-pong, pool, basketball, arcade games and
optional classes. At the Yavneh building at Congregation
Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St.,
Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Beginning Israeli Dancing for Adults with
Rhona Feldman
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075
Older teens and all experience levels are welcome. $40 for
a five-session punch card. Discount for members. At Congre-
gation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Wisdom for Women 14+
Rabbi Bresler at 206-331-8767 or info@seattlekollel.org
Jewish Women ages 14 and up are invited to take part in an
afternoon of thought-provoking learning, wisdom, and ideas
from the Torah. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S,
Seattle.
■■7-10 p.m. – Parsha and Poker
info@h-nt.org
A look at the Torah portion of the week followed by a friendly
game of poker with proceeds going to tzedakah. Led by Rabbi
Josh Hearshen. At Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
■■7:15 p.m. – The Jewish Journey
206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
This two-year comprehensive program guides students through
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the historical, philosophical and mystical wonders of Judaism’s
3,500-year heritage. Cost is $360, plus a $36 registration fee.
At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■7:30 p.m. – Parshas Hashavuah
eastsidechabad@earthlink.net
This class provides a general overview of the Torah portion
of the week accompanied by Midrashic commentaries,
philosophical insight, and practical lessons. At the Eastside
Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE #303, Bellevue.
■■8:15 p.m. – The Hot Zone: Topics of Controversy
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
Rabbi Fredman tackles some of the hottest topics in modern
Judaism, including Jewish pluralism, defining committed
marriage relationships, interfaith dialogue and mutual co-
operation, confronting evil, the right to life and the right to
die, and the changing role of women. $25. At the Seattle
Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
■■8:15 p.m.– Great Books of Spirit and Wisdom
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289 or info@seattlekollel.org
This course will explore the book of Psalms-Tehillim, Shir
Hashirim-Song of Songs, Kohelet-Ecclesiastes, Mishlei-
Proverbs, Iyov-Job, and Yonah. Taught by Rebbetzin Shirley
Edelstone. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.
Thursday
■■9:30-10:30 a.m. – Women’s Talmud
Sasha Mail at 206-323-7933, ext. 301
Talmud study class for women led by Rivy Poupko Kletenik.
Free. At Seattle Hebrew Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E,
Seattle.
■■12 p.m. – Ramban on Chumash for Women
Marilyn Leibert at 206-722-8289
A discussion of foundational Jewish concepts through the
eyes of Nachmanides on Chumash in the Book of Genesis,
as well as an analysis of key Rashis. Prerequisite: the ability
to recognize the Hebrew letters and a desire to learn basic
Hebrew grammar. For women only. $25. Sponsored by the
Seattle Kollel. At a private home, Mercer Island.
■■6:50 p.m. – Introduction to Hebrew
Janine Rosenbaum at 206-760-7812
Helps students build fluency and comprehension of the prayers
of the Friday evening service. $50. At Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700
E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7 p.m. – Junior Teen Center
Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@aol.com
Video games, game tables, food, and fun for middle schoolers.
Hosted by NCSY. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
■■7 p.m. – Beginners Bridge Class
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or ronia@sjcc.org
An eight-week class to familiarize students with the basic
principles of bridge. $60/JCC members, $70/non-members.
At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7:30 p.m. – Judaism: The Ultimate Journey
info@h-nt.org
Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum leads a course called “From Slavery to
Freedom: Political Activism and Personal Ethics in the Bible
and the Age of Democracy.” At Herzl-Ner Tamid, 3700 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■8–10 p.m. – Teen Lounge for High Schoolers
Ari at 206-295-5888
Foosball, ping-pong, pool, basketball, arcade games and
snacks. At the Yavneh building at Congregation Bikur Cholim-
Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
■■8 p.m. – Beth Shalom Beit Midrash
Carol Benedick at 206-524-0075 or
carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or
www.bethshalomseattle.org
Rabbi Stuart Light will teach Masechet Berachot from the
Mishna. $5/class or 6 classes for $25. At Congregation Beth
Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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Friday 12
■■5:30 –7 p.m. – Jconnect Grad School Happy
Hour
Rachel Feller at feller6@u.washington.edu
Happy hour for graduate and professional
students and their friends. At The District
Lounge, 4507 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■6 p.m. – Mussar 2: Along the Way
Devlin Donnelly at 206-323-8486 or
publications@tdhs-nw.org
Rock Shabbat including dinner and a look at
the Mussar ethical movement with Rabbi
Daniel Weiner. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai,
1441 16th Ave., Seattle.
■■7–11:30 p.m. – Mega Shabbat
www.hilleluw.org
The Ravenna Kibbutz, Hillel UW, Jconnect
and the Kavana Cooperative are joining forces
for Seattle’s biggest young adult Shabbat of
the year. $12 for dinner. RSVP requested. At
Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Saturday 13
■■ 7:30–11 p.m. – International Women’s Day
Christina Lopez at 206-722-6057 or
rwseattle@mindspring.com or
www.radicalwomen.org
“Palestinian Women Resist the Israeli Occu-
pation” panel discussion commemorating
International Women’s Day and addressing
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Sunday 14
■■10 a.m. – “United Way the Jewish Way”
with Jon Fine
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
alysa@templebetham.org
Jon Fine, president and CEO of United Way
of King County, will discuss how the United
Way meets the needs of the Jewish community
and how his Jewish values motivated him to
enter this field. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE
80th St., Seattle.
■■11 a.m. – A Benefit for Furnishing Peaceful
Homes
ncjwseattle.org
Fundraising event for Shalom Bayit. $60. At
the Bellevue Hilton, 300 112th Ave. SE,
Bellevue.
■■ 4 p.m. – Jewish Day School Annual Auction
Fundraising auction for JDS. At Meydenbauer
Center, 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue.
Monday 15
■■7–9 p.m. – The Power of Stories: Yours,
Mine, and Ours
www.jgsws.org
Carol Starin shares the story of her three-
decade search for her family’s history. Hosted
by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Wash-
ington State. Free for members, $5 for non-
members. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer
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Tuesday 16
■■4–6 p.m. – What’s a Gefilte Fish?
Emily Harris-Shears at 206-861-8784 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org
Passover foods tasting co-hosted by Jewish
Family Service and Jconnect. At Whole Foods
Market, 1026 NE 64th Ave., Seattle.
■■7–9 p.m. – Good Health, Great Sex and
Your Body
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
alysa@templebetham.org
Dr. Morton Stenchever, a chair of the Univer-
sity of Washington School of Medicine, gives
a talk on women’s health. At Temple Beth
Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
Wednesday 17
■■7 p.m. – Death and Dying Workshop
Emily Harris-Shears at 206-861-8784 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org
Jewish Family Service presents a series of four
workshops on the traditions surrounding death,
including comforting the bereaved, burials, and
mourning rituals. Cost is $36 per person for all
four sessions. Scholarships available. At Temple
De Hirsch Sinai, 1530 E Pike St., Seattle.
Thursday 18
■■6–8:45 p.m. – Turn the Page — Tips and
Text for These Times
Rebecca Cohen at 206-774-2272 or
rebeccac@jewishinseattle.org or
jewishinseattle.org
An opportunity for women to explore their
feminine voices through biblical, Talmudic,
prophetic, medieval and modern women. At
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation,
3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■7–9 p.m. – Conference on Holocaust
Education
Brenda Murray at 253-535-7595 or
murraybj@plu.edu
Kickoff for the third annual Powell and Heller
Family Conference on Holocaust Education.
Includes three days of events and lectures
offered through the History department at
Pacific Lutheran University, 12180 Park Ave.
S, Tacoma.
Saturday 20
■■4p.m. – Garinim Chametz Hunt
Isolde Shiebert at 206-232-8555, ext. 204
Young family night featuring Passover seder
songs, a burrito bar, and chametz scavenger
hunt. Members and non-members welcome.
$20 per family. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conser-
vative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
Sunday 21
■■9 a.m. – Passover Symposium
206-527-1411 or info@chabadofseattle.org
Join community rabbis for discussion and
reflections on Passover concepts and mitzvot.
At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah–Lubavitch,
6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■10 a.m. – A Great Yiddish Poet & Anti-Nazi
Fighter
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
alysa@templebetham.org or
www.templebetham.org/education/adults
Barbara Henry, associate professor in the
department of Slavic languages and literatures
at the University of Washington, will speak
about the life and work of Yiddish poet and
Vilna ghetto anti-Nazi partisan fighter Avrom
Sutskever, who helped to conceal books and
works of art from the Nazis. Free and open to
the community. At Temple Beth Am, 2632
NE 80th St., Seattle.
■■10 a.m. – HNT Blood Drive
Isolde Shiebert at 206-232-8555, ext. 203
or rsvp@h-nt.org
Annual blood drive. RSVP requested. At
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation,
3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■3 p.m. – Discovering Passover Together
Emily Harris-Shears at 206-861-8784 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org
An opportunity for interfaith families to learn
about the Passover seder. Hosted by Jewish
Family Service. At the Miller Community
Center, 330 19th Ave. E, Seattle.
■■ 4:30 p.m. – Grand Gala Dinner & Auction
Melissa Rivkin at 206-232-5272 or
mrivkin@nyhs.net
Fundraising event for Northwest Yeshiva High
School. At the Fairmount Olympic Hotel, 411
University St., Seattle.
Monday 22
■■1 p.m.–Seniors’ Book Club
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269 or
ronia@sjcc.org
Book club co-sponsored by Herzl-Ner Tamid
and the Stroum JCC. Meets the first Monday
of every month. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E
Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
Saturday 27
■■10:30 a.m. – Western Washington IBD
Connections 2010
Sarah Smith-Brady at 877-703-6900 or
ssmith@ccfa.org
An opportunity to learn about the latest updates
on topics related to Crohn’s disease and
ulcerative colitis, as well as resources available
to patients, loved ones and healthcare
providers. At Seattle University, Pigott Hall,
901 12th Ave., Seattle.
■■5 p.m. – JRM Auction
Laurel Abrams at 206-323-8486
Fundraising dinner and auction for Jennifer
Rosen Meade Preschool. At Temple De Hirsch
Sinai, 1520 E Union St., Seattle.
Sunday 28
■■10 a.m. – Bike Ride
Bike ride with the Ravenna Kibbutz. Approx.
30 miles. Meet at Ravenna Kibbutz House
Gimel, 6211 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
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passover preparations

Community seders
Need a place to go for
Passover?
Compiled by Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
If you don’t have a seder planned at home or
with family or friends, plenty of synagogues
and organizations around Washington State
will be hosting community seders. Share a
meal with a stranger and make a new friend
on this holiday that celebrates the exodus
from Egypt. Please contact the individual
organization for reservations and questions.
Monday, March 29
■■TBD – Chabad of the Central Cascades
www.chabadissaquah.com
The story of Exodus comes alive through
mystical meanings and Kabbalistic insights
told through humor and melody. Suggested
donation of $36/adults, $20/children, no one
turned away due to lack of funds. RSVP
requested by March 20. At the Chabad House,
24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.
■■7 p.m. – The Chabad Jewish Discovery
Center
360-584-4306,
rabbicheski@jewisholympia.com, or
www.jewisholympia.com
Discover the seder’s relevance to the modern
Jew in a warm and friendly environment.
Suggested donation $18/adults, free/children
and students. At the Chabad Jewish Discovery
Center, 1611 Legion Way SE, Olympia.
■■7 p.m. – Ravenna Kibbutz
www.ravennakibbutz.org/events/2010-03-29
Kosher dairy/vegetarian seder dinner with
residents and friends of the Ravenna Kibbutz.
All welcome, RSVP requested. Suggested
donation of $15. At Ravenna Kibbutz House
Bet, 6316 23rd Ave. NE, Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – Hillel at the University of Wash-
ington
Join Hillel undergraduates, Jconnectors and
community members for festive themed seders
led by Hillel staff and volunteers. Food super-
vised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater
Seattle. $54/community, $25/Jconnect, $12/
students. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
■■7:15 p.m. – Chabad Jewish Center of
Snohomish County
425-967-3036, rabbi@jewishsnohomish.com
or www.jewishsnohomish.com
A traditional, insightful, uplifting seder in a
great atmosphere. $36/adults, $15/children
ages 12 and younger, free/children under 2.
At the Chabad Center, 22225 100th Ave. W,
Edmonds.
■■7:25 p.m. – Chabad of Spokane
509-443-0770 or jewishspokane.com
$25/adults, $18/children under 12. At Chabad
of Spokane, 4116 E 37th Ave., Spokane.
■■7:45 p.m. – Chabad of Pierce County
253-565-8770,
seder@chabadpiercecounty.com, or
www.chabadpiercecounty.com
An in-depth Hebrew/English Passover experi-
ence with translation, traditional songs and
lively discussion. RSVP requested. $25/adults,
$18/children under 12. At the site of the future
Chabad Jewish Center, 2146 N Mildred St.,
Tacoma.
■■8 p.m. – Chabad Jewish Center of Whatcom
County
360-393-3845 or rsvp@jewishbellingham.
com
$25/adults, $75/families, free/students. At the
Chabad House, 820 Newell St., Bellingham.
■■8 p.m. – The Seattle Kollel
Rabbi David Fredman at 206-251-4063 or
rabbifredman@gmail.com
Join the Seattle Kollel for an explanatory
Passover seder. Learn the depth and wisdom
behind why this is the most celebrated night
in the Jewish year. $20/adult, $10/child. At
the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S,
Seattle.
■■8 p.m. – Chabad Jewish Center of Clark
County
Rabbi Shmulik Greenberg at 360-993-5222
or info@chabadclarkcounty.com
An inspirational and enjoyable family-
friendly  community seder complete with a
catered gourmet dinner and four cups of fine
kosher wine. $30/adults, $20/children. At the
Chabad Jewish Center, 9604 NE 126th Ave.,
suite 2320, Vancouver.
■■8 p.m. – Chabad Russian Community
Seder
206-387-3919 or rabbi@evryinseattle.org
$16/adults, $16/students and children, free/
seniors. At the Chabad House, 6250 43rd Ave.
NE, Seattle.
■■8:15 p.m. – Chabad of Seattle Community
Seder
206-527-1411 or info@chabadofseattle.org
$20/adults, $5/seniors, students and children.
At the Chabad House, 6250 43rd Ave. NE,
Seattle.
Tuesday, March 30
■■TBD – Chabad of the Central Cascades
www.chabadissaquah.com
The story of Exodus comes alive through
mystical meanings and Kabbalistic insights
told through humor and melody. Suggested
donation of $36/adults, $20/children. No one
turned away due to lack of funds. RSVP
requested by March 20. At the Chabad House,
24121 SE Black Nugget Rd., Issaquah.
■■TBD – Hillel UW Second Night GLBTQ
Seder
joshf@hilleluw.org
This special seder will connect the Passover
story to GLBTQ history. For students and
Jconnect members, ages 18-32. Food not
supervised by the Va’ad. Location TBD.
■■5:30 p.m. – Congregation Beth Sholom
Debbie Greene 509-735-1149 or
richland.uscjhost.net/seder.asp
$27/adult members, $37/adult non-members,
$16/children 7-13, $6/children under 7, free/
children under 4. At Congregation Beth
Sholom, 312 Thayer Dr., Richland.
■■6 p.m. – Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue
Shellie Oakley at 206-527-9399 or
shellie@betalef.org
Explore the deeper mystical teachings of the
Jewish lineage and share the traditional
symbols and story of Passover. Led by Rabbi
Olivier BenHaim. For members: $38/adults,
$20/children. For non-members: $48/adults,
$25/children. RSVP requested by March 23.
At the University Unitarian Church, 6556 35th
Ave. NE, Seattle. 
■■6 p.m. – Temple Beth Hatfiloh
China Star at 360-754-8519 or
tbh@bethhatfiloh.org
An open, relaxed and participatory community
seder. For members: $20/adults, $10/first
child, $5/additional child. For non-members:
$25/adults, $15/first child, $10/additional
child. At Temple Beth Hatfiloh, 201 8th Ave.
SE, Olympia.
■■6 p.m. – Congregation Tikvah Chadashah
206-355-1414 or ctc@tikvahchadashah.org
Annual community seder hosted by Seattle’s
GLBTQ chavurah. Requested donation of $20/
adults, free/children. All are welcome. At the
Graham Visitors Center in the University of
Washington Arboretum, 2300 Arboretum Dr.
E, Seattle.
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■■6p.m. – Temple B’nai Torah
Karen Sakamoto at 425-603-9677
Led by Rabbi James L. Mirel and Cantor David
Serkin-Poole. Enjoy a traditional seder dinner
catered by Terentino. Vegetarian meals
available upon advance request. $45/adults,
$20/kids ages 6-12, free/kids 5 and under.
RSVP requested by March 16. At Temple B’nai
Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.
■■6:30 p.m. – Bet Chaverim
Howard Orlean at 206-577-0403 or
ho-gs@comcast.net
A traditional celebration with music and an
and younger, free/children under 2. At the
Chabad Center, 22225 100th Ave. W,
Edmonds.
■■7:45 p.m. – Chabad of Pierce County
253-565-8770,
seder@chabadpiercecounty.com or
www.chabadpiercecounty.com
An in-depth Hebrew/English Passover experi-
ence with translation, traditional songs and
lively discussion. RSVP requested. $25/adults,
$18/child under 12. At the site of the future
Chabad Jewish Center, 2146 N Mildred St.,
Tacoma.
■■8 p.m. – Ravenna Kibbutz
www.ravennakibbutz.org/events/2010-03-29
Friday, April 2
■■11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. – Hillel UW Community
Passover Lunches
It’s a Seattle Jewish community tradition you
won’t want to miss. Food supervised by the
Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. No
reservations needed. $15/community, $7/
students. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE,
Seattle.
Saturday, April 3
■■5 p.m. – Secular Jewish Circle of Puget
Sound
info@secularjewishcircle.org or
206-528-1944
Join the only Secular Humanistic Jewish
community in Seattle for Passover. $20/
members, $35/non-members, $10/children.
Location TBD.
■■6 p.m. – Congregation Kol Ami
Stephanie Glickman at sasglick@msn.com
$35/adults, $15/kids under 12. At the Carol
Edwards Center, 17401 133rd Ave. NE,
Woodinville.

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affordable seder of the finest blend of
homemade and catered foods. For members:
$22/adult, $12/children ages 6-12, $5/
children ages 2-5. For non-members: $28/
adult, $18/children ages 6-12, $8/children
ages 2-5. RSVP requested by March 24. At
Bet Chaverim, 25701 14th Pl. S, Des
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■■6:30 p.m. – Hillel of Western Washington
University
hillelwwu@gmail.com
This seder is focused on the exile of Jews
throughout history. Participants will read short
passages and enjoy a great meal together.
Free. At the Shalom Center, 102 Highland
Dr., Bellingham.
■■6:30 p.m. – Stroum JCC
Roni Antebi at 206-2327115, ext. 269 or
ronia@sjcc.org
Join the SJCC for a traditional second night
Passover seder recalling the exodus from Egypt
and freedom from slavery. $35/adult members,
$50 for adult non-members. $25/senior
members, $35/senior non-members, $22/
children ages 7-15, free/children 6 and under.
At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer
Island.
■■7:45 p.m. – Chabad Jewish Center of
Snohomish County
425-967-3036, rabbi@jewishsnohomish.com
or www.jewishsnohomish.com
A traditional, insightful, uplifting seder in a
great atmosphere. $36/adults, $15/ages 12
Kosher dairy/vegetarian seder dinner with
residents and friends of the Ravenna Kibbutz.
All welcome, RSVP requested. Suggested
donation of $15. At Ravenna Kibbutz House
Gimel, House Gimel, 6211 23rd Ave. NE,
matzoh brie contest!
Seattle.
So you think you can fry the best tired of dry crackers, the fat from this
Wednesday, March 31 matzoh brie? treat’s quite the haven for snackers.
■■6 p.m. – Congregation Kol Shalom Savory, sweet or just a bissel of salt, So send us your method of frying it
Beth at 206-842-9010 or this Passover breakfast tastes like per- up so we know how your family pre-
admin@kolshalom.net fection to a fault. fers to sup.
Potluck supper. Free. At Congregation Kol
We’re having a contest, it’s even We’ll print them next issue — as
Shalom, 9010 Miller Rd. NE, Bainbridge
got prizes! To see whose oily creation many as we can — so you can taste for
Island.
makes us feel none the wisest. yourself if any are worth a damn.
Thursday, April 1 By the fifth day or sixth, when you’re So give a shot, send it in, fill your pot!
■■11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. – Hillel UW Community But w het her t r ad i-
Passover Lunches tional, modern, or with
It’s a Seattle Jewish community tradition you ingredients unknown, no
won’t want to miss. Food supervised by the
cribbing from cookbooks
Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. No
— it must be your own.
reservations needed. $15/community, $7/
students. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE,
Seattle. Send your matzoh brie
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Irina Vorona at 425-643-2221 or no later than Friday,
ivorona@jfsseattle.org March 19. One random
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Passover-observant wine lovers, rejoice!

The kosher wine market has made it — maybe even to your cellar

Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
There are people who love wine. And
there are people who love wine. Not 10
years ago, the people whose tastes hew
toward the enocentric would have looked
at a kosher wine — likely with a rectan-
gular-shaped bottle — and laughed
all the way to their cellars.
Not anymore.
Every year, when we taste
wines in anticipation of Pass-
over, we remark how the
wines are generally quite
good and for the most
part comparable to any
decent bottle of wine
you’d find at your local
grocery or wine store.
Not anymore.
As we’ve seen in the
past couple of years,
kosher wines are not
just comparable to your
average bott le. They
are, oftentimes, better.
For our tasting this
year, a small group of us
tasted nine wines supplied by
Michael Friend, regional distributor
for Royal Wine Corp., all of them kosher,
most of them mevushal, meaning that the
wines have been flash boiled for about
two seconds to allow anyone, whether an
observant Jew or not, to serve the wine
at a catered meal. And, with the possible Dave liked the nose, but after that,
exception of one or two, they were excel- particularly for a Chardonnay, “it came
lent. across as too buttery,” he said.
Most wines, incidentally, are avail- “I thought there was a lot of oak and
able at Albertson’s on Mercer Island or not a lot of fruit,” Michael N. said, calling
the QFC at University Village, though it crispy and acidic.
most stores would be willing to do special “It wasn’t a very interesting wine,”
orders. Prices listed are suggested retail. said Dan, noting the butter, but with a
Depending upon where you go, they may smoother second note. “Didn’t have a
be a bit more or a bit less. range that I’d be looking for.”
The tasters in our eighth annual event Ned liked this wine’s smoothness,
were a mix of new and veteran: with tastes of retsina and licorice.
Karen Chachkes, JTNews publisher Michael F. called it crisp, light, and easy
and wine enthusiast to drink. “Not so serious, more fun and
Joel Magalnick, JTNews editor (need good with appetizers, probably,” he said.
more be said about journalists and alco- Next was a 2007 Herzog Special
hol?) Reserve Chardonnay Russian River
Dan Mayer, JTNews board member (California, $34.99), also mevushal. This
and wine enthusiast is available exclusively at the Costco on
Michael Natkin, aspiring chef and writer 4th Ave. S in Seattle.
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Ned Porges, professor emeritus of
wine and spirits at Washington State Uni-
versity and Highline College. Ned, prior
to the first pouring, gave us a lesson in
appellations, estates and growing regions
of France and Italy.
We began with the whites.
Ou r f i rst, Sega l’s Cha rdonnay/
Columbard Fusion from Israel ($13.99),
is mevushal and started out with mixed
reviews.
“The first thing I got was apples,”
Karen said. “I got butter, actually, on the
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Michael F. called it grassy, with a long,
oaky finish and a medium body.
“I liked that a lot more” than the Segal’s,
Michael N. said. “That one was a lot better
balanced. Flavors played off each other.”
“I did get the stronger flavor imme-
diately,” Ned said. “Lots of tannins, long
finish.”
Dave thought the dark color was per-
fect for a Chardonnay, but he found the
taste a bit too oaky and with too much
vanilla.
“There’s a good vegetative flavor going
march 12, 2010
on,” he noted however. Like me, he also
found hints of honeydew.
“The nose — it smelled like toast,” Karen
said. “I liked the butteriness in this one. It’s
what I lean toward in Chardonnay.”
Our last white was Barkan Sauvignon
Blanc, also from Israel ($11.99), made
with grapes from the Galil in Northern
Israel. It’s mevushal as well.
Dan liked the wide range of fruit, call-
ing it light and smooth.
“I liked this wine. I was surprised,” he
said. “The real range of taste was there,
offered what I wanted in a Sauvignon
Blanc: Light, but there was some taste there.
I was pleasantly happy.”
“I thought I caught a little bit of apples
and pears in the nose,” Dave said, call-
ing it delightful. “It felt like a day at the
seashore, like a summer
breeze coming in from the
ocean.”
“A little fruit flavor in
it, buttery,” said Ned, who
found a short finish: “Zim-
zam-dam.”
Michael N. found it tingly, crisp, bal-
anced, and with a taste of mango.
“I thought it was pleasant,” he said.
And now the reds:
As we got started on the reds, our host
Michael noted something about the com-
monly purchased Manischewitz: That
this fortified kosher wine is not kosher for
Passover year-round.
“All year long they put in a sweetener,
and the sweetener is not kosher for Pass-
over,” he said.
“But what is Passover without Manis-
chewitz?” Ned asked.
“All the wines we’re drinking here!” I
responded.
We started with a label unfamiliar
to us all: Binyamina Yogev Cabernet/
Merlot (Israel, $13.99). That said, we did
find the label, with an image of a worker
carrying a bushel of grapes, impressive.
The non-mevushal wine was not univer-
sally so.
“I like the bottle more than the wine,”
said Dan. “Not much nose to it. Kind of a
Merlot taste and a Cabernet afterglow.
“I got hints of cassis in the flavor. It
somehow reminded me of being in a clay
studio,” Dave said.
“Yeah, I got earth,” Karen responded.
She called it a one-note wine, and quite
tannic.
Michael F., also finding it too tannic,
noted a “barnyard taste.”
“There’s a lot of smoke to it,” Ned said.
“It was smooth and it did linger. It also did
have a bite. I thought I got a little cherry
on the nose, but none on the palate.”
Next we tried Segal’s Special Reserve
Merlot (Israel, $14.99). Though its closest
availability is an Albertson’s in Portland,
this wine produced in Israel’s Galil may
be worth the drive, especially consider-
ing the price. It is mevushal.
Ned found the Segal’s robust with a
good finish. “Mmm… This is a Merlot,” he
said. “I thought it was earthy, really full-
bodied, nice glow.”
Dave tasted currants, raisins, and
commented on what he called the perfect
ruby red color.
“I thought it was the right note,” he
said. “I thought it was really spicy, and
[would] go well with that Passover roast.”
Dan called it “a good Merlot. I think
of the characteristics I would find in a
Merlot and it had those.” Specifically, he
liked the well-blended variety of tastes
and the nice fruit nose.
“I liked this more than a regular
Merlot,” Karen said, noting its syrupy
nose, peppery flavor, and long finish. “I
thought it was going to be smoother than
it was. I liked it.”
One person’s syrupy is another’s dis-
taste, however. Michael N. thought this
wine was pretty acidic, and he noted
“something a little funky on the nose.”
But Michael F. really enjoyed this one.
“I detected a fruit in the nose, then choc-
olate,” he said.
From Spain, we tried Elvi Wines Clas-
sico ($12.49), made from 88 percent tem-
pranillo grapes, 12 percent Merlot. It is
not mevushal.
Michael N. tasted olives and black-
berry with what he called a very straight-
forward wine. “Not a very complex wine,”
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he said, “but I could eat it with a lot of
foods.”
“I’d serve it with cheese,” added Dave.
“Fat, cheese — it would cut through that.”
He added his appreciation for the
“deep dark black cherry color,” he said.
“I wouldn’t say it was complex, but I got a
lot of different flavors: Roasted peppers,
licorice.”
“Spicy, woody and herbal,” Karen said.
Ned found it to be tart, spicy and
astringent, with a lingering afterglow.
We have tried Goose Bay’s wines
before, most notably their Chardonnay.
This year we got a taste of the Goose Bay
Pinot Noir, a mevushal wine (New Zea-
land, $23.99)
“I like that a lot,” Michael N. said.
“Every time I tasted it I came back to the
same thing: Sesame oil.”
“Spicy and maybe a little honey,” Ned
said.
Dave liked the flavors, but found it a bit
too light, perhaps diluted even.
“It didn’t stay with me very much,” Dan
said, finding this more acidic and oaky for
his tastes. “A first taste, and that’s it.”
Karen wasn’t so impressed. “Sweet.
Just boom,” she said. “Sweet’s what I got
and that kind of stopped it.”
Baron Rothschild Malbec ($24.99)
was our one taste of what our host
Michael said is the hot grape these days.
Grown and produced in Argentina, on
alluvial flood plains, he said it’s the only
kosher Malbec on the market.
“It was strong, long finish, full body,”
Ned said. It wasn’t a favorite for him.
But Karen marked this as her favor-
ite. “Smoky nose,” she said. “Just a very ries, peppers and raisins,
yummy fragrance. I loved this.” with a lingering finish. It
Dave tasted a little bit of tobacco, and stood as one of his favor-
the burnt ends of a roast with this one. ites.
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Ned really enjoyed this one. “It had a
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“Pretty strong at the beginning. I
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“It gave a range of tastes — that rain-
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arts & entertainment

seattle jewish film festival

Ethiopia in Israel A wild, incredible ride
A film about Israeli Ethiopians, by Israeli Ethiopians, Cycle of Israeli Arab-Jewish violence sparks sizzling
would make Tevye proud Ajami

Joel Magalnick Michael Fox

Editor, JTNews Special to JTNews

For their first time out, Israel’s Ethi-
opian community has produced a film
that enters their adopted country’s pan-
theon of moviemaking. That said, Zruva-
bel is not without its flaws. At 72 minutes,
this short (by today’s standards, anyway)
feature film is the first time we can see
a snapshot of a population, now in its
second and third generations in Israel,
through the eyes of one family, for whom
the film is titled.
Zruvabel screens as a part of the Seat-
tle Jewish Film Festival on Tues., March
16.
To call this film a modern Fiddler on
the Roof wouldn’t be much of a stretch,
with the family patriarch, Gite (Meir
Desai), as the much more austere Tevye.
Gite has three children — a fourth died
during his army service — who emi-
grated from Ethiopia with him and his
wife, Molo. Gite’s children cause him
tsuris while he, once an important man in
his homeland but now working as a street
sweeper, struggles to come to terms with
the hand modern society has dealt him.
The eldest, Hana, has left her husband
because his fervent embrace of Judaism
has alienated his family and led him to
Even by the high standards set by
Israeli films in the last few years, Ajami is
a knockout. A crackling urban drama shot
with unblinking realism and steeped in
astringent Middle East irony, Ajami sinks
its hooks in the first minute and never
lets up.
Written, directed and edited by Scan-
dar Copti (a Palestinian citizen of Israel)
Transfax Films and Yaron Shani (a Tel Aviv Jew), Ajami
Young Almaz (Tamar Imla) sits in her takes its name — and its intersecting
boyfriend’s rooftop domicile while plotlines — from the Jaffa neighborhood
factory smokestacks loom in the where Jews and Arabs live in uneasy
background, in Zruvabel. proximity. Melting pot? Try boiling pot.
The story unfolds from a succession
violence. The middle child, the beautiful of characters’ perspectives, augmented
Almaz, has been promised to a man twice at times with flashbacks, that grant us
her age, but she rebels against her father’s entrée to a number of worlds. The kinetic
traditional ways and falls in love with a effect of this 21st-century neo-realism,
distant cousin she meets while tending achieved via non-professional actors and
bar at a nightclub. The youngest, Gili, is handheld cameras, is to experience this
smart but mixed up in the wrong crowd, seething city at the speed of life.
despite his father’s attempts to extract Ajami was nominated — and passed
him from his dangerous lifestyle. over — for the Academy Award for Best
Hana’s son, video-camera-wielding, Foreign Language Film.
12-year-old Itzhak, is the only native The film begins with a bang, with a
Israeli in the family, yet he’s only too child gunned down on the street by a
duo on a motorcycle. This gutless revenge
u Page 24 killing turns out to be a case of mistaken
Kino Films
An arrest shows the seamy underside of
Jaffa’s Ajami neighborhood in Ajami,
which opens the Seattle Jewish Film
Festival.
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vertently thrown into the middle of an
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So Omar (Shahir Kabaha) appeals to a
well-off, well-connected, Christian Arab
restaurant owner, Abu Elias (Youssef Sah-
wani), who arranges a cease-fire with the
aggrieved Bedouin gang and a meeting
to arrange a settlement. The price is more
than Omar can pay, leaving him suscep-
tible to illegal and dangerous schemes to
raise the cash.
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arts & entertainment

seattle jewish film festival

After the explosion
Seven Minutes in Heaven define a lifetime
Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
It might be a few hours after you leave which a yeshiva bocher who works with
the theater before it hits you how spiritual t he Z A K A rescue organizat ion and
a film Seven Minutes in Heaven is. Galit
(Reymond Amsellem) survives a suicide
bombing on a Jerusalem bus line, and
must search for answers to those minutes
immediately before and after the explo-
sion that eventually took the life of her
boyfriend.
Seven Minutes in Heaven screens on
Galit (Reymonde Amsellem) flashes back to the bus ride in
which she never reaches her destination.
Saw that coming
Australian coming-of-age story walks fine line between
charming and cliché
Sat., March 20 at 7 p.m. at Cinerama as
part of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
Without giving too much away, it’s Leyna Krow
a short scene during Galit’s search, in Assistant Editor, JTNews
Allow me, if you will, to illuminate for
assisted in saving Galit’s life, that tells us you two unwavering cinematic truths.
so much: When a person dies and the soul First, in any film, if an adorable animal
ascends to heaven, there is a moment in appears in the first act — especially if said
which the body and soul come together creature is the only friend of an awkward
that the person can decide his or her child — that adorable animal is destined
future. for death. Second, if a perky goes-her-
Galit spent seven minutes clini- own-way redheaded woman gets on a
cally dead, but she came back to life and motorcycle without a helmet in the third
a year later needs act, she too will die.
to jump-sta r t her I’m telling you this because it’s some-
memories from that thing every moviegoer should know. I’m
hor r i f ic day. T he also telling you in case you decide to
mov ie opens w ith watch Hey, Hey It’s Esther Blueberger at
her shav ing Oren, the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, so you’ll
her boyfriend, who take care not to get emotionally attached Monterey Media
has been in a coma to the duck. Or to Sunni’s mom. Esther (Danielle Catanzariti) stands out
si nce t he at t ack . To be fair, sandwiched in between from the crowd — but not in a good way
A fter t he opening these unnecessary deaths is a delightful — in the comedy Hey, Hey It’s Esther
credits, we’re at his and quirky coming-of-age story. Blueberger.
funeral. So the film Esther Blueberger is the only Jewish
centers around Galit, student — or for that matter, the only twin brother Jake, and following that, the
coping with recover- student who isn’t tall, blond and blessed siblings’ lives as attractive, popular, con-
ing from her injuries with perfect vision — at a private all-girls ventional teens. It’s an expectation nei-
while building up school in Australia. She is an oddball and ther Esther nor the equally offbeat Jake
the courage to enter an outcast and is understandably miser- can ever hope to live up to.
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March 8-11 March 12 & March 13 at 9 p.m.

American Radical: The Trials of
Norman Finkelstein
Film
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Exploring the complex issues at the heart of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the documentary
American Radical follows Norman Finkelstein
around the world as he shares his views among
his impassioned critics and supporters. At the
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle.
Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight
Film
www.nwfilmforum.org
Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight is a collection of original footage from Leonard
Cohen’s late-night August 31, 1970 performance at the third annual Isle of Wight Music
Festival in front of an estimated 600,000 people. Includes interviews with fellow Isle of
Wight performers Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, and Judy Collins about Cohen. At the
Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle.

the arts March 8–25

March 13 – March 25
Seattle Jewish Film Festival
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org
The 15th annual Seattle Jewish Film
Festival hosted by the American
Jewish Committee will include 30
different films from around the
world focusing on all manner of
Jewish experiences and traditions.
See Web site for times and
locations.
March 12 – 28
Fiddler on the Roof
Theatre
www.studio-east.org
Studio East, Kirkland’s youth theater, presents a production of Fiddler on the Roof, the
classic story of a poor Jewish family trapped between the pull of love and tradition. At
Studio East, 402 6th St. S, Kirkland.
March 16 & 17 at
7 & 9 p.m.
“Early Resnais Shorts”
Films
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The Northwest Film Forum
presents a collection of hard-
to-find documentary shorts by
director Alain Resnais. Films
include Guernica, Le Chant du
Styrène, and Toute la Mémoire
du Monde, as well as Night
and Fog, one of the first and
most haunting film commen-
taries on the Holocaust. At the Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Ave., Seattle.

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Wanna talk?
Being polite to telemarketers can land you in the grave
Etgar Keret
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TEL AVIV (Tablet) — I really admire
considerate telemarketers who listen and
try to sense your mood without immedi-
ately forcing a dialogue on you when they
call. That’s why, when Devora from the
satellite TV company YES calls and asks
if it’s a good time for me to talk, the first
thing I do is thank her for her consider-
ation. Then I say politely that no, it isn’t.
“The thing is that just a minute ago I
fell into a hole and injured my forehead
and my foot, so this isn’t really the ideal
time,” I explain.
“I understand,” Devora says. “So when
do you think it’ll be a good time to talk?
An hour?”
“I’m not sure,” I say. “My ankle must
have broken when I fell, and the hole is
pretty deep and I don’t think I’ll be able
to climb out of it without help. So it pretty
much depends on how quickly the rescue
team gets here and whether they have to
put my foot in a cast or not.”
“So maybe I should call tomorrow?”
she suggests, unruffled.
“Yes,” I groan. “Tomorrow sounds
great.”
“What’s all that business with the
hole?” my wife, next to me in a taxi,
rebukes after hearing my evasive tactics.
“Why can’t you just say ‘Thanks, but I’m
not interested in buying, renting or bor-
rowing whatever it is you’re selling, so
please don’t call me again, not in this life,
and if possible, not in the next one either.’
Then pause briefly and say, ‘Have a nice
day.’ And hang up, like everyone else.”
I don’t think that everyone else is as
firm and nasty to Devora and her ilk as
my wife is, but I must admit that she has
a point.
In the Middle East, people feel their
mortality more than people in other
places on the planet, which causes most
of the population to develop aggressive
tendencies toward strangers who try to
waste the little time they have left on
earth. And though I guard my time just as
jealously, I have a real problem saying no
to strangers on the phone.
I have no trouble shaking off ven-
dors in the outdoor market or saying no
to someone I know who offers me some-
thing on the phone. But the unholy com-
bination of a request plus a stranger
paralyzes me, and in less than a second
I’m imagining the scarred face of the
person on the other end who has led a life
of suffering and humiliation.
I picture him standing on the window
ledge of his 114th-floor office talking to
me on a cordless phone in a calm voice,
but he’s already made up his mind: “One
more a—hole says no to me and I jump!”
And when it comes down to decid-
ing between a person’s life and getting
hooked up to the “Balloon Sculpture:
Endless Fun for the Whole Family” chan-
nel for only 9.99 shekels a month, I choose
life, or at least I did until my wife and my
financial adviser politely asked me to
stop.
And that’s when I began to develop
the “Grandma Strategy,” which invokes a
woman, may she rest in peace, for whom
I’ve arranged dozens of virtual burials in
order to get out of futile conversations.
But since I’d already dug myself a hole
and fallen into it for Devora of the satellite
TV concern, I could actually let Grandma
Shoshana rest in peace this time.
“Good morning, Mr. Keret,” Devora
says the next day. “I hope this is a better
time for you.”
“The truth is that there were a few
complications with my foot,” I mumble.
“I don’t know how, but gangrene devel-
oped. And you’ve caught me right before
the amputation.”
“It’ll just take a minute,” she gamely
tries.
“I’m sorry,” I insist. “They already gave
me a sedative and the doctor is signaling
for me to close my cell phone. He says it
isn’t sterilized.”
“So I’ll try tomorrow,” Devora says.
“Good luck with the amputation.”
Most telemarketers give up after one
call. Phone pollsters and Internet-surf-
ing package sellers might call back for
another round. But Devora from the sat-
ellite TV company is more persistent than
any of them.
“Hello, Mr. Keret,” she says when I
take the next call, unprepared. “How are
you?”
Before I can reply, she goes on.
“Since your new medical condition
will probably keep you at home, I thought
I’d offer you our Extreme Sport package,”
she says. “Four channels that include all
the various extreme sports in the world,
from the dwarf-hurling world champion-
ship games to the Australian glass-eating
matches.”
“Do you want Etgar?” I whisper.
“Yes,” Devora says.
“He died,” I say and pause before con-
tinuing to whisper. “Such a tragedy. An
intern finished him off on the operating
table. We’re thinking about suing.”
“So who am I talking to?” Devora
asks.
“Michael, his younger brother,” I
improvise. “But I can’t talk now, I’m at the
funeral.”
“I’m sorry for your loss,” Devora says
in a shaky voice. “I didn’t get to speak
with him a lot, but he sounded like a
lovely person.”
“Thank you,” I keep whispering. “I
have to hang up. I have to say Kaddish
now.”
“Of course,” Devora says, “I’ll call
later. I have a consolation deal that’s just
perfect for you.”
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Way beyond mediocrity
The only appealing option to a starving college grad
— six months in Israel — yields self-awareness and
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Michele Hathaway
Special to JTNews
Having returned to my hometown of
Seattle, with a Bachelor of Music from the
University of Southern California and no
gigs on the horizon, I feared I would be
forced to alter my life pursuits overnight.
It seemed I might have to replace my lofty
desire to pursue world-class opera star-
dom for an accounting job. I felt destined
for mediocrity.
Afraid of the work ing world in a
doomed economy, I did what any lost col-
lege grad with a Jewish parent and a pass-
port should consider: I made a sojourn to
Israel. I enrolled in the Masa Israel pro-
gram, as a World Union of Jewish Stu-
dents intern in Tel Aviv, a six-month
internship program for college graduates
from all over the world.
In Israel, I quickly learned a very
important lesson for both a recent col-
lege graduate and an artist — flexibility,
confidence and persistence yield hidden
rewards.
With no family in Israel and little rec-
ollection of my Bat Mitzvah Hebrew,
sometimes the simplest task proved
daunting. But after a few months of bum-
bling through the city, I was relieved
to discover that daily tasks were some-
times even difficult for native Israelis
who were always willing to lend a hand.
From neighbors to coffee baristas to my
co-workers, everyone welcomed me into
their homes.
Roaming the Israeli Opera House,
where I interned, I stared wide-eyed at
the world-renowned opera singers, con-
ductors, and musicians while I com-
pleted administrative tasks in their office.
Inspired by their presence but unsure
how to approach them, I decided to take
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initiative and asked the assistant music
director if I could sing for him. As a result
he became my mentor, inviting me to join
his choir and eventually allowing oppor-
tunities for me to become an adjunct
member of the prestigious Tel Aviv Young
Artists Program. Suddenly I had access to
practice rooms, opera rehearsals, voice
lessons, and performances.
In Israel nothing is predictable. One
afternoon, in the administrative office,
the opera’s head director ran to the pho-
tocopier, where I sat beneath a daunt-
ing stack of scores, and exclaimed the
singer playing the role of Queen of the
Night was sick and they needed a singer
for that night’s performance in Jerusa-
lem. Luckily I knew the part and — within
two hours — was on stage, dolled up in
glitter and costume, singing in German
while the other opera singers performed
in Hebrew. As a result of this experience,
I made invaluable contacts.
The erratic nature of Middle Eastern
life — a hotbed for all extremes — became
increasingly appealing to me. When Tel
Aviv shut down on Shabbat, I sauntered to
the beach in flip-flops, freshly squeezed
guava-banana juice in hand, and lay in
the sun. I took dips in the gorgeous Med-
iterranean Sea, snacked on hummus
and pita bread (which never got old) and
heeded the advice of locals about the Tel
Aviv nightlife.
Israelis live a life of rawness and no-
nonsense. Tel Aviv clubs are filled with
young men and women who flood into
the city after completing their military
service and traveling stints. From the
classiest restaurants to the frozen yogurt
joints, kitchens stay open past 3 a.m. all
week. Moseying down Rothschild Bou-
levard late at night, I watched people cry
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hysterically, laugh unabashedly, and fall
in love right before my eyes.
While at first the abrasive, in-your-face
Israeli behavior was difficult to under-
stand, let alone embrace, later on I found
it a relief that I didn’t have to pretend to
be cheerful all the time. Eventually I shed
the Western tendency of taking every-
thing personally. When I wasn’t attend-
ing art gallery openings, magazine galas
and film festivals with my fellow WUJS
participants, I felt free to sit by myself in
restaurants, travel alone on weekends, or
sit on a park bench simply observing the
Tel Aviv crowds.
Now back in Seattle, I continue to
study with a world-class opera singer and
audition for roles while working at a local
event-management company. The Masa
Israel experience broadened my views
on society, war, community, religion, and
self-value in ways that can’t be taught in
classroom. The stories and experiences
with which I returned will continue to
lead me down a path that is anything but
mediocre.
SJFF Zruvabel t Page 20
eager to leave his country — he’s known
to everyone as Spike Lee because of his
fascination with the American film-
maker, and expresses his desire to move
to Hollywood at his first opportunity.
The metaphorical Russian soldiers
come in the form of two police officers
who harass and mock the Ethiopian
immigrants, eventually leading to the
film’s tragic but not unexpected climax.
Director Shmuel Beru has created an
unflinching look into a population that’s
largely ignored by his country’s citi-
zens and pretty much unknown outside
of Israel. Beru himself is an Ethiopian
émigré who walked the Sudanese desert
during the Operation Moses rescue mis-
sion, and his life in the ancient city of
Tzfat is reflected in Zruvabel’s city streets
and urban underground.
My biggest complaint about Zruvabel
is the muddy plot and the lack of char-
acter development among some of the
players. The young Spike Lee’s use of his
video camera, for example, to introduce
us to his family is a strong opening, but
he’s hardly integral to the story beyond
that. Gite pushes Hana and her husband
to reconcile, but after that final view into
their loveless marriage, hardly mid-way
through the film, we never see the hus-
band again. Many of the arcs that should
have been brought to conclusion sadly
were not.
Thankfully, the long walk by the towns-
people, accompanied by the mournful
dirge “Anatevka,” happened before the
film’s timeline instead of during, sparing
us an extra 20 minutes at the end.
That an Ethiopian cast and crew has
debuted with such a strong film may be
more notable than the film itself, but it’s a
notable feat nonetheless.
If you go:
Zruvabel will screen as part of the
Seattle Jewish Film Festival on Tues.,
March 16 at 8:30 p.m. at SIFF Cinema
at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St.,
Seattle. Visit www.siff.net or call
206-324-9996 for tickets and visit
www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for
further details.
Gypsies t Page 6
Ahern’s grandparents were living in
Germany when Hitler came to power. In
1932, sensing that things would not end
well for the Gypsies, they decided to gather
up the family and leave the country. At
the time, however, no other nations were
accepting Gypsy refugees. Ahern’s grand-
mother scraped together all the money she
had and bought Italian passports for as
many family members as possible.
Even those who survived the Holo-
caust were far from being able to return
to a normal life.
“Many Gypsies remained in camps
until 1948 because they were considered
stateless,” Ahern said. No country would
take the refugees.
Today, Gypsies continue to face perse-
cution in almost every part of the world.
Even in the U.S., there were laws pre-
venting Gypsies from entering the states
of New Jersey and Mississippi until the late
1970s. Although these laws are no longer
on the books, Gypsies remain second-
class citizen in many areas of the United
States because their style of life often
appears in conflict with American norms.

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national & international news

Palestine’s founding father?

Salam Fayyad: The Palestinian with a plan for statehood

Leslie Susser
JTA World News Service
ANALYSIS
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Pundits and pol-
iticians have taken recently to compar-
ing Palestinian Authority Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad to Israel’s founding father,
David Ben-Gurion.
No less a figure than President Shimon
Peres, one of Ben-Gurion’s foremost dis-
ciples, is the latest Israeli leader to offer
the accolade.
The reason is simple: Like Ben-Gurion,
Fayyad is building institutions of state-
hood.
In the 1920s, the Jews of Palestine under
the single-minded Ben-Gurion estab-
lished institutions for what they called
the state-in-the-making: the Haganah
with the idea of a single armed force; the
Histadrut Trade Union, with a depart-
ment for workers’ rights, a sick fund, a
bank and the Solel Boneh construction
company; and the Jewish Agency dealing
with immigration, schools and hospitals.
Now Fayyad is doing something sim-
ilar.
Last August he announced what has
come to be known as the “Fayyad Plan”
under the heading: “Palestine — Ending
the Occupation, Establishing the State.”
The idea is to build a de facto Palestinian
state by mid-2011, with functioning gov-
ernment and municipal offices, police
forces, a central bank, stock market,
schools, hospitals, community centers,
etc. Fay yad’s watchword is transpar-
ency, and his aim is institutions that are
corruption-free and provide an array of
modern government services.
Then, in mid-2011, with all the trap-
pings of statehood in place, he intends to
make his political move: Invite Israel to
recognize the well-functioning Palestin-
ian state and withdraw from territories it
still occupies, or be forced to do so by the
pressure of international opinion.
In February, at the 10th Herzliya Con-
ference, an annual forum on Israel’s
national security attended by top deci-
sion-makers and academics, Fayyad, the
lone Palestinian, gave an articulate off-
the-cuff address, leaving little doubt as to
what he has in mind.
“This is not about declaring a state. It is
about getting ready for one,” he explained.
“The program we have embarked upon
was not supposed to be in lieu of a polit-
ical process. It was supposed to rein-
force it.”
“The political process track,”  Fayyad
added later, “is absolutely necessary
because that is what is going to bring an
end to the occupation.”
Fayyad went on to speak about creat-
ing a critical mass of positive change on
the ground that by mid-2011 would per-
suade the world that the Palestinians
were ready for statehood, and that it was
time for the Israeli occupation to be rolled
back.
“If by then we succeed, as I hope we
will,” he declared, “it’s not going to be
too difficult for people looking at it from
any corner of the world to conclude that
indeed the Palestinians do have some-
thing that looks like a well-functioning
state in just about every facet of activity,
and the only anomalous thing at the time
would be that occupation which every-
one agrees should end.”
Fayyad has been working closely on
the economic and institutional elements
of his plan with Tony Blair, the former
British prime minister and the inter-
national Quartet’s special representa-
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enforcement aspects with U.S. Gen. Keith
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the synagogue chronicles

Synagogue Chronicles: Bet Chaverim

Little temple in South King County keeps chugging along

Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
Bet Chaverim, South King Coun-
ty’s Reform synagogue, is known affec-
tionately by its members as “the small
but mighty.” Indeed, the congregation
currently has just 44 family units on its
roster, but with a new rabbi and a growing
social calendar, Jewish life at this little
shul remains vibrant.
Currently, the synagogue offers three
Friday night services and two Torah
learning sessions per month. Services are
led by Rabbi Rick Harkavy, who joined
Bet Chaverim last fall. Before that, the
congregation had relied for a number
of years on student rabbis who rotated
through.
“The students always did a great job,
but it’s nice to have someone with such
great maturity and experience,” said Bet
Chaverim president Sherwin Alpert.
Beyond Rabbi Harkavy, Bet Chaverim
has no paid staff.
“Everything is done by congregant
volunteers,” Alpert explained.
This includes daily operations, social
activities, lay-led religious events, and
outreach.
According to Lori Nevin, co-chair of
the outreach committee and a former
board member, finding new ways to get
unaffiliated Jews in South King County
to check out Bet Chaverim is at the top of
her priority list.
“Basically, we’re just trying to splash
our name all over the place,” she said.
To that end, Bet Chaverim is a sponsor
of this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
They are also planning to conduct focus
groups to find out what people do and
don’t know about the synagogue.
“We just want to see who’s out there,”
Nevin said.
That’s not to say that exciting things
can’t happen for a small-sized syna-
gogue. Nevin, who has been with the
congregation for more than 20 years, said
that watching Bet Chaverim’s first gener-
ation of young people mature and then
come back with their own kids has been
a real pleasure.
“All our kids have grown up,” she said
of Bet Chaverim’s founding generation.
“Now, my daughter brings our grandson
to temple. He has a Hebrew name and
knows he’s Jewish. Because our congre-
gation is so young, that’s new for us.”
Alpert noted, however, that there
aren’t quite enough of the new genera-
tion for Bet Chaverim to have a religious
school.
“We have members who are ver y
knowledgeable educators and would be
happy to teach,” he said. “But no kids.”
The “Religious School” section of Bet
Chaverim’s Web site reaffirms Alpert’s
sentiments, stating, “The last group of
our children grew up. We are waiting for
the next generation ‘Ldor V’dor.’ When
they arrive, we will schedule our classes
again.”
In the meantime, the synagogue is
branching out in other ways.
Alpert said the congregation has been
working to do more social action and
interfaith programming. In November,
Bet Chaverim hosted its first interfaith
event, a joint service with the Saltwater
Church with whom Bet Chaverim shares
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Saying shema
Chile’s Jews providing comfort during aftermath of devastating earthquake

Shimon Vinger 90 seconds.” about. The livelihood of many Jews who

JTA World News Service
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — I left Santiago,
Chile, with my wife and four children
exactly two months before the massive
earthquake hit on Feb. 27. My wife and I
had founded NCSY, the National Coun-
cil for Synagogue Youth, in South Amer-
ica (Chile and Argentina) seven years ago
while living in Chile.
Earthquakes were a topic of conver-
sation in my eight years in Chile. Those
who experienced the last major earth-
quake in 1985 — now it sounds minor —
could never forget the sound and terror.
There was always talk of another impend-
ing quake.
We heard of the 8.8 magnitude quake
as Shabbat ended here in Los Angeles,
nearly an entire day after it happened. We
started speaking to friends and former
students immediately after Shabbat.
Their stories were the same:
“We woke up at 3:34 Shabbat morning
as our beds began to shake. Everything
shook tremendously for 90 seconds, but it
seemed like forever. We made our way to
what we hoped was the most secure part
of the house and said shema Yisrael.”
In the words of Rabbi Efraim Sauer,
director of the very successful Morasha
outreach kollel (institute for advanced
Jewish studies) and a close friend, “Every-
one I have spoken to — friends, students,
everyone — said the shema during those
Efraim’s wife, Chava, describes a
flurry of activity — hiding, praying, chil-
dren running. Most people ended up in
the streets in their pajamas until they
could work up the courage to go back
inside their homes.
Look ing at v ideos on line of t he
destruction in Chile paints a picture of
a desperate situation. Speaking to close
friends creates a different feeling.
During the Musaf service of Yom
Kippur we pray, regarding the earth-
quake-prone Sharon Valley of Israel, that
“their homes should not become their
graves.”
The Jewish community of Chile is
located almost entirely in the newest part
of Santiago and appears to have escaped,
at least physically, nearly unscathed.
Some 185 miles from scenes of desper-
ation and despair, the Jewish commu-
nity began immediately to play the role of
helper instead of victim.
Rabbi Chaim Waissblut h of A ish
Hatorah in Chile is leading one cam-
paign. The community is being urged to
bring clothing, pillows, blankets, med-
icine, food and water to the local Aish
center. At the same time, the community
gathers together to say tehillim (psalms)
on behalf of the rest of Chile.
Further south, the brother of a close
friend awaits reinforcements on their way
from Santiago. He lived in a port town
destroyed by the quake and the rising
Roberto Herrera/Creative Commons
A museum in the town of Talca, Chile,
sees its façade strewn around on the
ground following last month’s massive
earthquake.
tides that followed. Instead of heading
back to Santiago, he has chosen to stay
put, to help recovery efforts while Jewish
university students are recruited to drive
his father’s truck to him with supplies and
reinforcements.
True to our increasingly well-known
nature, the Jews of Chile look outward to
see who and how to help.
There is a more difficult side to talk
live in Santiago comes from businesses
located in some of the hardest-hit regions.
Many friends, for example, make kosher
wines in the Maule Valley of Chile. Others
own businesses in or near Concepcion,
the area hardest hit by the quake.
At this point it is hard to know what
will happen to these family businesses,
which are an integral part of the Jewish
community.
Many times I have remarked how there
is something special about the Jewish
community of Chile, which according
to estimates runs from 12,000 to 15,000,
most of whom live in Santiago. There is an
incredible amount of Torah learning and
mitzvot performing growing exponen-
tially each year.
So it’s not surprising to me that an inte-
gral part of the community’s response to
the tragedy and challenge of the quake
would revolve around spiritual growth.
Chana Bengio, who took over opera-
tions of NCSY in South America, explained
the contrast between how the different
communities dealt with the quake during
the first hours.
Chana also teaches in the religious day
school, and after asking the non-Jewish
secular studies teachers about their first
post-quake day, she said, “Their entire day
was running to the car trying to find a radio
signal to hear what was going on, while
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Chile t Page 28
we said ‘Baruch Hashem, we are okay,’ the
men went to shul and it was Shabbat.”
NCSY in South America works pre-
dominantly with students who attend
Jewish communit y schools that lack
any serious Torah curriculum. Karen
Brilovich, an 11th grader, told me the fol-
lowing story:
She was in Vin del Mar, a popu-
lar vacation site on the Pacific Coast 75
miles northwest of Santiago. It was Friday
night, and she and her boyfriend felt bad
about joining her friends for a typical
night of dancing at the local discos on the
beach. For some reason she was brought
to tears by the thought that she was at a
club on Shabbat.
Karen and her boyfriend decided to
return to their condo to salvage what was
left of erev Shabbat.
At 3:34 the house began to shake. While
the condo shook, they said the shema with
an intensity reserved for such moments.
As soon as the shaking stopped, they ran
out of the open door and found their way
downstairs to the lobby of the condo,
where others now gathered.
Her thoughts quickly turned to the
friends she left at the club near the beach.
There was little else to do but wait. They
wandered outside and happened across
other friends, but there were no sign of
the ones she left behind. Finally they
arrived after walking all the way.
Karen remembers their first words as
they reunited: “They said they thought of
me the whole time, that they should have
left the club with me, and that they never
want to go out to clubs again on Shabbat.
They said that they feel that God touched
them from above showing that He is in
complete control.”
While my family and I are now physi-
cally thousands of miles away, emotion-
ally we are with the incredible Jewish
community of Chile — our students and
dear friends. We pray that they continue
to find the strength to reach out and help
each other and the general community of
Chile, and that those whose livelihood has
been affected, with the help of God, find
an abundance of blessing and success.
Rabbi Shimon Vinger, director of the
West Coast region of the National
Council of Synagogue Youth in Los
Angeles, formerly was director of NCSY,
the Orthodox Union’s international youth
program, in Chile for seven years.
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kitchen is a Palestinian, Malek (Ibrahim
Frege), who’s even younger and more
naïve than Omar. He also has money wor-
ries, for his mother urgently needs major
surgery.
The first hour of Ajami is devoted to
the fraught circumstances of these Arab
youths, but their motivations and mach-
inations are designed not merely to keep
the drama percolating but to illuminate
the hierarchy within the Arab commu-
nity. Malek, who is in Israel illegally and
has no rights, is at the bottom of the peck-
ing order — illustrative of the callous way
in which the wider Arab world views the
Palestinians.
In due time, Ajami introduces Jewish
characters whose paths collide with the
Arabs we’ve already met. Copti and Shani
accomplish this far more organically
and believably than films like Traffic and
Babel handled their interrelated charac-
ter arcs, partly because none of the actors
are familiar (let alone famous) but largely
because the story feels as if it’s springing
from the streets before our eyes.
The overriding sensation of the film
is imminent and omnipresent violence,
though assuredly not in the quasi-enter-
taining, nerve-wracking manner of a
Tarantino flick, where a scene might gra-
tuitously skip from conversation to fusil-
lade at any moment. Every shooting and
stabbing in Ajami is the surface manifes-
tation of the perpetually stressed charac-
ters’ churning suspicion and frustration.
Speaking of suspicion, the filmmak-
ers employ misdirection with great skill
to encourage incorrect first impressions
and arrive at wrong conclusions — that
is, for the viewer to experience what it’s
like to be Arab or Jewish in a mistrust-
ful world.
To be clear, Ajami isn’t interested in
violence — that is, the romantic fatalism
or macho glamour that most movies offer
— but its crushing consequences, and the
ripples of mania and revenge that ensue.
If you go:
Ajami opens the Seattle Jewish Film
Festival on Sat., March 13 at 9 p.m. at
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lifecycles
Bat Mitzvah
Aliza Ben-Varon
Aliza celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on February 27, 2010 at
Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
Aliza is the daughter of Ricca Ben and Al Varon of Kirkland.
Her grandparents are Becky Ben of Kirkland and the late Victor
Ben and Becky Varon of Seattle and the late Mike Varon.
Aliza is in the 7th grade at Stella Schola Middle School. Her
hobbies include playing piano and clarinet, singing, acting, martial
arts, swimming, and hanging out with friends, family, and her dog Shayna. For her mitzvah
project, Aliza raised awareness and solicited donations for Homeward Pet, the largest
no-kill animal shelter in Washington.
Bar Mitzvah
Adrian Edward Rasmussen
Adrian will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on March 20, 2010 at Temple B’nai Torah in
Bellevue.
Adrian is the son of Jon and Laurie Rasmussen of Seattle and the brother of Leiah
Rasmussen. His grandparents are Ruth and Marvin Scheflin of Nashville, Tenn., Edward
Spivack of Boca Raton, Fla., Audrey Hanson of Lewiston, Idaho, and the late Albert Edward
Rasmussen.
Adrian is in the 7th grade at the Salmon Bay School. His hobbies include snowboarding,
mountain biking, movie-making and cooking. For his mitzvah project, Adrian assisted with
trail building for the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance.
Ann Meyers Kaplan
March 9, 1907–February 28, 2010
Ann M. Kaplan passed away peacefully on February 28, 2010
at Kline Galland Home in Seattle. Ann was born in Manhattan, N.Y.
and moved to the Seattle area at the age of 3. She graduated from
Garfield High School in 1926 and worked for several years in Seattle
and San Francisco before marrying Ben J. Kaplan in 1935.
Ann was very active with the PTA and was instrumental in starting
the deaf PTA in Seattle. Ann spent many years involved with the
National Council of Jewish Women, was a life member of the Golden
Age Club, involved with the Ship a Box program, was past president
and secretary, treasurer of the Golden Age Club, and was featured in
“Weaving Women’s Words” with the Jewish Women’s Archives. The
display was featured at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.
Ann was preceded in death by her parents Louis and Rose Meyers,
husband Ben James Kaplan, and her siblings Sam Meyers and Marion
Fingold.
Ann is survived by her daughter Maxine (Brian) Schnebele, son
Art (Marcie) Kaplan, grandson Henry Louis Honig, brother Jack
(Betty) Meyers plus several beloved nieces and nephews.
The funeral was held on Tuesday March 2, 2010 at Bikur Cholim
Cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the Harriet Meyers
Elevator Fund at the Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle or to the
Kline Galland Home in Seattle.
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And let’s not miss one other point: The
613s are not just any “Orthodox Jewish”
basketball team — they are a girls’ Ortho-
dox Jewish basketball team. Those who
enjoy attacking the “gender politics”
of Orthodoxy will want to take a closer
look at how it was that a group of “disen-
franchised, suppressed” young Jewish
teenage girls managed to “overcome
patriarchy” and summon the stamina
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Hillel t Page 1
communal world.
“So much of what happens is on the East
Coast and works its way west,” he said.
Berkovitz cited several local organiza-
tions that have popped up in recent years
as examples of the innovation that goes
on in Seattle’s Jewish community, includ-
ing the Kavana Cooperative, Ravenna
Kibbutz, and Hillel’s own young adults’
Jconnect program.
“By dedicating resources in an area that
really speaks to the Jewish community,”
including those on the margins, he said,
“those disconnected Jews may find some-
thing in Judaism that feels compelling.”
The goal is not to just be involved in
Jewish life, he added, but to make that
involvement meaningful.
Leaving Hillel, however, means the
student organization has big shoes to fill.
Berkovitz took over the job of executive
director nearly four years ago after serv-
ing as assistant executive director under
former director Rabbi Dan Bridge, a year
of which was spent as interim executive
director while Bridge was on sabbatical.
Hillel board chair Suzan LeVine called
Berkovitz’s departure a mixed bag.
“We’re super sad to see him go, but
excited about having the deep connec-
tion with this national, if not global orga-
nization, and having them recognize the
amazing work that’s been done and that
will continue to be done at Hillel in terms
of social justice work,” she said.
Already, an administrative team has
been formed to come up with logistics
for a search committee, LeVine said, and
she hopes they will find a replacement for
Berkovitz by July 1.
That said, she added, “we will only hire
the right person for this position, so this
administrative team will be providing a
recommendation for an interim solution
if we don’t have an executive director in
place by the time Will leaves.”
The search committee will engage in
what LeVine called an “extremely trans-
parent” process during the search.
“People feel like Hillel is their family,”
she said. “We want to make sure that we
provide regular updates so that every-
one who feels a kinship with Hillel knows
what’s going on.”
Though his tenure at Hillel UW was
relatively short — the first of his last two
predecessors came to the organization in
1959 — LeVine said Berkovitz’s legacy at
Hillel will be his commitment to building
the social justice programs and creation
of the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender
effort, as well as his continuing to build
the Jconnect program.
“Will has been outstanding in terms of
community and university outreach, and
as his predecessors were, he’s also been
an incredible presence in the community
overall,” she said.
There is a personal aspect to Berko-
vitz’s job change, and it’s a reason staying
in Seattle was important to him as well.
As the father of two young boys, part of
his mission in life is to inculcate the value
of service into them as well, whether
within the Jewish community or in the
broader community.
“When my sons end up in college, I
want service to be such a natural part of
what happens,” he said. “Volunteering
and living a life of service is something
that this community values.”
Hillel UW’s search committee is
accepting referrals and applications for its
new executive director through
submissions at www.hilleljobs.org. The
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Seeking new recruits

U.S. anti-Semitism envoy wants to bring non-Jews into the fight

Melissa Apter
JTA World News Service
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President
Obama’s special envoy on anti-Semi-
tism wants to recruit non-Jews to make
her case.
Hannah Rosenthal outlined her goals
in her new role during a recent address
in Dallas to the annual plenum of the
Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the
public policy umbrella she once led as
president.
To combat anti-Semitism, the Jewish
people need more non-Jews on their side,
said Rosenthal, who spoke at a panel
on anti-Semitism alongside Abraham
Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League’s
national director.
Everyone expects Foxman to be on the
case, she said, “but if we have the messen-
ger be someone who’s not Jewish, who’s
willing to be a spokesperson condemn-
ing anti-Semitism, it comes with much
more power.”
To that end, Rosenthal said she will
incorporate the annual anti-Semitism
report into the State Department’s annual
human rights report instead of the sepa-
rate breakout authored by her predeces-
sor, Gregg Rickman. That brings the issue
to a larger audience.
“If I want to infuse this into every
annual report, the people on the ground
better know what anti-Semitism is,”
Rosenthal said.
Additionally, she will introduce a day-
long module into training at the Foreign
Training Institute; modules at the prep
school for diplomats usually last only a
few hours.
Rickman said he favorably views his
successor’s attempts to bring non-Jews
into the fight, but cautioned that Rosen-
thal needs to be wary of how she views
criticism of Israel.
“If she fails to see how anti-Israel-
ism can be parlayed into anti-Semitism,”
then her efforts to train and work with
diplomats will be in vain, he said.
Rosent hal said she would main-
tain existing practices, including using
Jewish nongovernmental organizations
like the ADL and pressing U.S. diplomats
to report on anti-Semitic acts around the
globe.
Rosenthal also committed to utilizing
the United States’ role as a superpower
through quiet diplomacy. She pointed to
the recent referendum passed in Switzer-
land that would prohibit minarets from
being built on new mosques. Buried in
the same referendum was a call for the
To combat anti-Semitism, the Jewish
people need more non-Jews on their
side, said Rosenthal, who spoke at
a panel on anti-Semitism alongside
Abraham Foxman, the Anti-Defa-
mation League’s national director.
end of Jewish cemeteries.
“Very quietly, we dealt with the Chris-
tian Democratic People’s Party and in
fact they apologized and that policy is
not happening,” she said. “You didn’t
read about it and that policy was taken
care of.”
Rosenthal, who was sworn in last
November, was a controversial choice
by Obama. Jewish insiders questioned
her lack of diplomatic experience. At the
time she readily acknowledged that after
a career of advocacy, she wasn’t about to
switch to anodyne niceties overnight.
She has made waves with criticism
of Israel’s ambassador to  Washington,
Michael Oren, for refusing to deal with
J Street, a liberal pro-Israel group that
Rosenthal helped to found.
That drew a rebuke from Alan Solow,
the chairman of the Conference of Pres-
idents of Major American Jewish Orga-
nizations, who said her remarks “could
threaten to limit her effectiveness in the
area for which she is actually responsi-
ble.” The Obama administration stood by
Rosenthal.
The position Rosenthal holds was cre-
ated in 2004 by legislation sponsored
by U.S. Reps. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) and
Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. George
Voinovich (R-Ohio).
Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who died
in 2008, saw a need for Western democ-
racies to speak out on the rise of anti-
Semitism globally. Rickman was its first
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SJFF Seven Minutes t Page 21
understandably, board a bus.
It’s Purim, exactly a year after the
explosion, that life starts to happen again
for Galit. A necklace thought lost in the
attack is returned in an anonymous letter.
A mysterious man (Eldad Prives) begins
to pursue her after she collapses outside
of the Ben Yehud shouk. Her doctor tells
her the day that she can finally remove
the protective garment that shields her
burns is rapidly approaching. And her
search for answers to the circumstances
of her rescue and what happened that day
takes her on a strange and circuitous path
to a place that is, unfortunately for us, a
little too predictable.
But that flaw shouldn’t take away from
the beauty of the film. Director Omri
Givon, in his debut, has given us about 87
more near-heavenly minutes with Seven
Minutes in Heaven.
The gravity of a film like Heaven hits
hard when Galit visits a room at a police
station that contains unclaimed items
from the many attacks Israel has expe-
rienced. It hits again when, on the anni-
versary of the explosion, her mysterious
stranger takes her to the bombed-out
skeleton of that bus and she relives the
terror all over again, this time with her
soul and body meeting and taking her to
a very different place.
Heaven is not for the faint of heart. The
aftermath of the explosion is grisly, and
don’t expect to walk out of the theater
with your spirits uplifted. Heaven is dark,
depressing and grave. But it’s solid, inno-
vative and emotional filmmaking.
If you go:
Seven Minutes in Heaven will screen
as part of the Seattle Jewish Film
Festival on Sat., March 20 at
Cinerama, 2100 4th Ave., Seattle.
Visit www.siff.net or call 206-324-
9996 for tickets and visit www.
seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for further
details.
SJFF Esther Blueberger t Page 21
somewhat predictably, the beginning of
Esther’s quest for her own identity. She
sneaks out of her Bat Mitzvah party and
discovers Sunni, a punky-looking public
school girl, lurking nearby. Esther invites
Sunni into the party, Sunni encourages
Esther to get drunk on kosher wine, and a
life-altering friendship is born.
With the help of Sunni, Sunni’s equally
cool motorcycle-riding mom (remember
not to get too attached) and Sunni’s burn-
out friends, Esther decides to secretly stop
going to her fancy private school and start
attending public school instead.
Much of the film is dedicated to the
often hilarious balancing act Esther must
maintain between being the good prep-
school girl for Mom and Dad and the rebel
for Sunni’s cohorts. There are strange
lies weaved, raincoats stolen, and Jew-
fro-sporting boys experimented upon.
Ultimately, Esther concludes that she
is neither the goody-two-shoes nor the
bad girl, but rather her own person — an
amalgam of something in between. But by
then, Sunni’s mom is dead, Esther’s own
family is on its way to fracturing, and nei-
ther school is a welcome environment.
The film never quite succeeds in pick-
ing of the pieces of the havoc wreaked
at the climax, and the ending, though
moving in the direction of “happily ever
after,” feels forced. But then, a clean res-
olution may be too much to ask from as
complicated a situation as adolescent
identity crisis.
If you go:
Hey, Hey It’s Esther Blueberger will
screen as part of the Seattle Jewish
Film Festival on Tues., March 16 at
6:30 p.m. at SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer
St., Seattle. Visit www.siff.net or call
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national & international news

Fayyad t Page 26
The results on the ground have been
impressive.
Palestinian security forces trained
by Dayton’s troops have been deployed
in West Bank cities, creating new levels
of law and order and enabling Israel to
remove dozens of roadblocks and check-
points. The aim from the outset was to
secure a major principle of modern state-
hood: A single armed force, subordi-
nate to the elected government, with no
rival militias roaming the streets. For
all intents and purposes, this is the case
already in the West Bank today.
At the Herzliya Conference, Fayyad
suggested that Israel could help further
augment this facet of his state building by
handing over more West Bank territory to
Palestinian security control.
The law and order and the opening up of
the West Bank to free movement of people
and goods has led to a dramatic change in
the economic climate, which also augurs
well for Fayyad’s state-building project. The
upturn in trade, tourism and consumer
spending was reflected in economic growth
of 7 percent last year, one of the highest fig-
ures anywhere in the world. Fayyad also
is working on Palestinian budgetary inde-
pendence. More than half of this year’s Pal-
estinian Authority budget of approximately
$3 billion will be raised in taxes.
There have been significant institu-
tional achievements as well: A function-
ing stock market is operating in Nablus,
Fayyad has been building government
and municipal offices, and the nucleus of
a central bank is in place.
Over the past two years, Fayyad has
completed more than 1,000 commu-
nal projects, investing more than $100
million in schools, clinics, libraries and
community centers. He is starting work
now on a new phase to improve existing
infrastructures: Roads, electricity, water
and sewage. Most of the money has come
from the United States, the European
Union and the oil-rich Gulf states. 
At Fayyad’s address to the Herzliya
Conference, among the interested spec-
tators was Israeli Defense Minister Ehud
Barak. As the leader of the Labor Party,
Barak is Ben-Gurion’s heir and, like
Fayyad, is a strong advocate of the two-
state solution.
For people like Barak, who see this as
the key to a secure Jewish-majority state
at peace with its neighbors, Fayyad could
well be the man of the hour. And he also
could prove the toughest opponent of
those Israelis who see in an independent
Palestine a recipe for disaster.

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 36 jtnews n friday, march 12, 2010
the back page
Tall cool one
Microbreweries bubbling up in Israel
Ari Miller
JTA World News Service
TEL AV I V (JTA) — Dav id Cohen
doesn’t think Goldstar beer is bad —
especially for a macro-brewed, industrial
label that is Israel’s most popular.
But Cohen’s beer of choice comes from
The Dancing Camel, the brewing com-
pany he started in 2006 at an old grain
storage facility in an industrial area of
Tel Aviv.
His beers have a distinctively Israeli
flavor about them. There’s the Carob-
bean Stout, brewed with the ubiquitous
Mediterranean carob; the Six-Thirteen
Pomegranate Ale, released for the High
Holidays (613 is the number of mitz-
vot cited in the Torah); the Golem, a
high-alcohol content beer; the Gordon
Beach Blond, named for one of Tel Aviv’s
beaches and spiced with rosemary and
local mint; and the ’Trog Wit, brewed
after Sukkot and using etrogs.
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seeks to escape,
once again,
from the uncertainty
all around us…
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JFS continues to be our community’s “first responder” in meeting the unprecedented
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the Family Matters Campaign, please contact Lisa Schultz Golden, Chief Development
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…because family matters, always has, always will.
“It’s a fun fruit to work
with,” Cohen said of the
brew, which contains a wal-
nut-sized piece of etrog in
every bottle.
A former accountant
and New Jersey native,
Cohen is one of a growing
number of micro-brewers
in Israel. Aside from The
Dancing Camel, which
produces about 7,500 liters
of beer per month, there’s
Haifa’s LiBira brewer y,
the Golan Brewery in the
Golan Heights, Canaan
Beer from Ma’ale Adumim, in the West
Bank, and Malka Beer in the western Gal-
ilee — not to mention home breweries
throughout the country.
Israeli beer experts say the Jewish
State is going through something of
a beer awakening. While the average
Israeli consumes only 13 liters of beer per
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year — compared to an
estimated 85 liters annu-
ally for Americans — beer
consumption is growing.
Shachar Hertz, owner of
Beer Master, which orga-
nizes beer-related events
in Israel for beer aficiona-
dos, brewers and import-
ers, projects a 50 percent
growth in Israeli beer con-
sumption over the coming
decade. Hertz and others
Sarah McD./ say beer is following the
Creative Commons model of wine in Israel,
where the development
of unique, local wines fueled significant
growth in wine consumption over the
past decade. Now it’s happening to beer,
thanks in part to microbreweries.
“The revolution started exactly as in
the wine industry,” said Guy Zuckerman,
alcohol category manager at Tempo Bev-
erages, which brews Israel’s two national
beer labels, Goldstar and Maccabee.
Overall, Goldstar remains Israel’s beer
leader, with 27 percent of market share,
according to Zuckerman. Carlsberg is the
country’s second favorite brand at 19 per-
cent, followed by Maccabee at 13 percent
and Heineken at 11 percent.
The emergence of the neighborhood
pub over the past few years in urban cen-
ters such as Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem
has helped fuel beer consumption, Zuck-
erman said.
“People moved to these cool, quiet
neighborhood bars and drink beer,” he
said.
The increased interest in hand-crafted
brews has benefited Israel’s major beer
players by promoting beer consump-
tion generally. Tempo even sponsors and
mentors some home brewers, and the
company runs a competition for them.
A variety of microbrewers showed up at a
beer festival held in early October at Kibbutz
Ma’abarot’s House of Wine.
One was Denny Neilson, an Ameri-
can expatriate who runs a shop for home
brewers in the Jerusalem suburb of
Mevasseret Zion called The Winemaker.
The house line of beers, available in 10
varieties, is called Isra-Ale. It carried top
honors at the Ma’abarot festival. Neilson
also teaches classes on brewing.
Neilson said one of his main chal-
lenges in setting up shop was deal-
ing with the bureaucratic processes he
needed to acquire the proper permits.
Most home brewers don’t bother with
permits, he said, making 19-liter batches
in their kitchens.
For t he t ime being, microbrews
remain a boutique item in Israel. Since
they are not pasteurized, they don’t travel
or store well and tend to be available only
at upscale alcohol shops, bars and res-
taurants.
But it may be only a matter of time
before the microbrews go mainstream.
“Eventually,” Zuckerman said, “the
know-how will catch up.”
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