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Make the most of the fall harvest

Michael NatkiN JTNews Columnist
Although Sukkot is past, Potatoes, Chanterelles and with our mild climate in the Shallots in Red Wine Sauce Pacific Northwest the harvest 4 Tbs. (1/2 stick) unsalted butter most definitely continues. 2 cups small fingerling potatoes or Beautiful wild mushrooms other small potatoes, cut up if larger than 2 bites like chanterelles, morels, and 1 cup (or more) chanterelle musheven fresh porcini are availrooms, thoroughly wiped clean able, as are new potatoes. 4 medium or 2 very large shallots, Heres a beautiful way to use cut into large bite-size chunks those ingredients. Everything 1/2 tsp. minced fresh rosemary is sauted until tender and leaves caramelized, and then a quick Jewish and 1/2 tsp. kosher salt pan sauce is made by deglaz- Veggie 1/2 cup water, plus additional as ing with red wine and finishnecessary ing with a little sweet butter. 3/4 cup dry red wine The result is rich and earthy, with a French 1 handful fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, minced feel. You can eat the mushrooms and shalFreshly ground black pepper lots and then mash the spuds into the Melt 2 Tbs. of the butter in a medium sauce to mop everything up. skillet over medium heat. If you are a farmers market shopper, Add the potatoes, mushrooms, shalyoull see a wide variety of small, waxy lots, rosemary, and salt, and toss to potatoes for sale right now. For the pretticoat. Cook, stirring occasionally, for est results, choose a kind that is about one about 8 minutes, trying to get a little inch or a bit larger in diameter, so you can browning going but without burning serve them whole. If those arent available, anything. just choose a larger variety and cut them Add 1/2 cup water, cover the pan, and down to size. reduce the heat to a simmer. The recipe makes a substantial side dish Cook, stirring occasionally, until the for two people, or a few bites for four. Ive potatoes are tender, about 15 minalso been known to eat a whole batch and utes, adding more water as needed to call it dinner for one.

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prevent burning. When the potatoes are cooked, remove the lid and raise the heat to cook off any remaining liquid. Transfer all of the vegetables to a warmed platter. Pour the wine into the skillet and raise the heat to mediumhigh. Cook, stirring and scraping any browned bits off the bottom of the pan into the sauce. Cut the remaining 2 Tbs. butter into small pieces and whisk them vigorously into the sauce, which should have a nice sheen. This whole step should take just a couple

of minutes, reducing and thickening the sauce slightly. Strain the sauce if you prefer a more refined look. Spoon the sauce over the vegetables, garnish with parsley and a grind of black pepper, and serve immediately.

Local food writer and chef Michael Natkin is the author of the recently released cookbook, Herbivoracious, A Flavor Revolution with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes, based on his food blog, herbivoracious.com.

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How will the Jews vote?

WeNdy RoSeN Special to JTNews
With the presidential election campaign in full swing, that quadrennial question arises once more how will the Jews vote? The majority of American Jews have been voting Democratic for some 80 years, often overwhelmingly so. Before each national election the Republicans try to break the pattern, and pundits wonder whether this time it will be different. Up to now it hasnt. AJC, the nonpartisan Jewish advocacy organization that has tracked Jewish voting behavior for more than three decades, used a new approach this year. Besides its usual survey of a national sample of American Jews, it also polled representative samples of Jews in two crucial swing states, Florida and Ohio, where the Jewish vote could make a difference in a close election. The surveys, conducted in September, asked not only about voting preferences, but also measured President Obamas approval ratings in the Jewish community and gauged Jewish attitudes on the key issues of the day. A separate AJC survey was conducted earlier, during the summer, of Russian Jewish voters in metropolitan New York, containing some differently worded questions. All surveys are available at www.ajc.org. The AJC data suggest that nationally, Jews continue to favor the Democrats by a wide margin, 65 percent reporting that they will vote for President Obama, 24 percent for Governor Romney, and the rest undecided. The support for Obama is consistent among all age groups, and Jewish women tend to be more pro-Obama than men. Ohio Jews split roughly along the same lines as the national sample, 64-29 percent for the president. In the other swing state, Florida, Obama did even better, attracting 69 percent of the Jewish vote against 25 percent for Romney. In the national and both state surveys, more Jews approve than disapprove of the presidents handling of the economy, health care, national security, U.S.-Israel relations and other issues, and believe that the Democrats are more likely to make the right decisions about those issues than the Republicans. The great majority of respondents say that the economy and healthcare are the most important issues in deciding whom to support for president. Still, more than 90 percent in all three surveys are concerned over the prospect of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. And, reflecting deep pessimism over the situation in the Middle East, the percentage of Jews who think that prospects for Arab-Israeli peace have risen in the past year languished in the single digits in all the surveys. However, there are two Jewish subgroups that appear to diverge from the majority-Democratic consensus Orthodox Jews and Russian Jews. While the Ohio and Florida samples do not contain enough Orthodox respondents to draw any conclusions, the national survey shows Romney beating Obama by 54 percent to 40 percent among the Orthodox. The edge for the Republican is also reflected in the presidents high unfavorable ratings in the Orthodox community on each of the issues. Although it was held earlier in the year and hence includes many more undecided responses 41 percent than the other surveys, AJCs survey of Russian Jewish New Yorkers similarly favored Romney over Obama, 47 percent to 12 percent. This was consistent with the last two presidential elections, when a majority of Russian Jews also favored the Republican candidates. Barring any October surprise, Jewish voters will in all likelihood give the bulk of their support to the Democrats, as in presidential elections past. Yet there are signs that this political tradition might erode over time. The Orthodox tendency to maintain high levels of Jewish affiliation and to have more children than other American Jews characteristics clearly evident in the recent demographic survey of the Jews of New York City portend a far greater voice for Orthodoxy in the Jewish community, and together with the steady integration of Russian Jews into American Jewish life, may eventually change the political profile of American Jewry.
Wendy Rosen is the regional director of the Seattle office of the American Jewish Committee.

We must do better
akiva keNNy SegaN Special to JTNews
On Sept. 25, The New York Times published an op-ed of significance to Jews everywhere, including throughout the Puget Sound and Washington State. Titled The Sin of Sowing Hatred of Islam, by the new president of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Rick Jacobs, it criticized the anti-Islam hate ads now placed around greater New York transit sites. In the ads, Muslims are called savages and Israel (and Jews) are presented as superior. Equally important yet unaddressed by Rabbi Jacobs in his criticism of the currently fashionable hate campaigns targeting Muslims at large is the impact of these hate ads on American schoolchildren of all ages and of all faith, race, national and ethnic backgrounds, including Jewish schoolchildren and teens. As directed by Pamela Geller, a Jewish New Yorker, the ads tell our students its acceptable in America today to paint whole groups of people as savage. While many of my professional Holocaust-education and educator peers like to decry what they call moral equivalency between Holocaust victims with the victims of other genocides past and present, it is just that moral equivalency that is urgently, even desperately needed. While the Holocaust was indeed a singularly unique historical event, pain and suffering are not relative. And for the victims of other hate crimes and genocides, their pain and suffering are no less than ours. For what do we bother to teach about the moral and ethical lessons of the Shoah if not to make it relate to ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity that continue to cause so much human suffering? During the first 10 years I guest taught moral and ethical lessons of the Holocaust in schools, using art as a universally understood medium of instruction, I showed the cover of a book published in New York in 1905: Two Little Savages; Being the Adventures of Two Boys Who Lived as Indians and What They Learned. I offered the image as an example of racial and ethnic stereotyping of the past. Have we learned so little here in the America of religious freedom that 107 years after Two Little Savages was published we now teach our children that whole groups of people can safely, with the blessing of federal courts, be described as savages? Let us not forget, too, Hollywoods long history of depicting savage, scalping and bloodthirsty American Indians, and black Africans, too. Out of curiosity and as a life-long movie fan, a few years ago I checked out a 1940s Tarzan movie from the library. After having taught and immersed myself in the Shoah as an artist and educator for many years, I dont shock easily anymore, but a Tarzan scene where a white colonialist picks up his rifle and shoots a black porter to death for having gotten tired on the jungle trail set me back in its casual presentation of normalcy. Of moral equivalency, then and now: Pamela Geller and supporters around the U.S. say Muslims are bloodthirsty, violence-prone and beyond redemption. In the 1930s in Nazi Germany and Austria, Jews were portrayed in signs, graffiti, posters, beer coasters, educational primers, newspapers, movies, and cartoons as race defilers preying on Aryan girls and women. How savage is that? Overweight Jewish men were portrayed as poisonous mushrooms with big noses. Some hold a whip in one hand and coins in the other: Theyre money-grubbing and money-obsessed brutal taskmasters. A pre-World War II Polish postcard portrays a Jew as a poisonous spider devouring Polish towns and cities; a comparable Jewish spider can be seen in a late 19th-century Viennese poster. These stereotypes continue today by professional Jew haters and Holocaust deniers. While courts say Gellers racist hate ads are free speech, I hope the outcry against them will be loud and noisy. If not, we will have come no further than our segregationist past, which allowed whites only bathrooms and drinking fountains, and restricted the number of Jews who could attend college, patronize certain businesses and work at certain firms (if at all), and rent or buy homes where they wanted to. Not only can we do better, we must do better. The real and most vulnerable victims of the Islam-hate campaigns are all our children.
Akiva Kenny Segan is an artist and Holocaust, genocide and tolerance educator.

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I love my work. I loved doing it when I was able to. I had fun doing it. Jewish childrens book author Chaya Burstein, who died on Sept. 15, upon receiving an honor from Temple Beth Am. Her obituary is on page 25.

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Sunday, October 21, 14:30 p.m. Join families and community members in support of children with special needs on a walk benefiting the Friendship Circle. The Friendship Circle has already raised over $30,000, but hopes to meet its goal of raising $85,000 this year. After the walk, enjoy free, family-friendly entertainment and food for purchase. At Mercerdale Park, 77th Ave. SE and SE 32nd St., Mercer Island. For more information and to register, contact Esther at info@friendshipcirclewa.org or 206-FRIENDS or www. walkwithfriendship.com. Monday, October 22 and Wednesday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. This years Stroum Lecture Series, hosted by the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, moves to the fall with Professor David B. Ruderman of the University of Pennsylvania. Ruderman will present Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving Ones Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitzs Sefer ha-Brit. Can science, modernity and religion be reconciled? This was the question asked by Pinchas Hurwitz when he

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wrote his book Sefer ha-Brit in 1797. On Monday night, Ruderman will speak on A Remarkable Modern Jewish Book and its Entrepreneurial Author, and on Wednesday hell ask Who Were the Readers ofSefer ha-Britand Why Did They Read It? For more information and to register, visit www.jewdub.org/stroumlectures or contact Lauren Spokane at jewishst@uw.edu or 206-543-0138. At 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle. Sunday, October 28 at 7 p.m. The Eastside Torah Center will host Joanne Caras, author and compiler of the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook and Miracles and Meals. Participants will enjoy a dessert buffet of recipes in the cookbooks, including apricot torte and rugelach, and Caras will speak about some of the stories in the books and her experiences creating her cookbooks. Open to all Jewish women regardless of age or affiliation. $15, or $10 if registered by October 22. For more information and to register, visit chabadbellevue.org or contact Rochie Farkash at rochie.farkash@gmail.com or 206-3838441. At Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE #303, Bellevue.

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The film festivals soft landing
Its official: The Seattle Jewish Film Festival is now a part of the Stroum Jewish Community Center. The show, the festival says, will go on.

Why Jews are fighting for marriage equality

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If approved, Referendum 74 will make same-sex marriage legal in Washington State. Several Jewish organizations explain why theyve been working so hard to get it passed.

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The end of an era

On October 1, the Jewish cooperative housing group known as the Ravenna Kibbutz shut down. This cohesive, diverse group will now have to gather elsewhere.

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From the Jewish Transcript, October 11, 1948. Bnai Brith did its autumn cabaret fundraiser in style, bringing in Ivy Anderson, known as Harlems Hildegard, from New York. Proceeds from the show, held at the Civic Auditorium, were sent to the organizations Aid to the People of Israel program, which helped immigrants in the nascent Jewish State.

The real deal: Jacob Lunon, a ninth-degree black belt in Kung Fu, saw after the Crown Heights riots that the Jewish community needed to be able to defend itself. The world-class instructor runs the only martialarts school on the West Coast specifically geared toward Orthodox Jews. The pretender: Michael Chabons new novel riffs on Blaxploitation films, soul music, and fathers who cant seem to get it together. But even its Kung Fu-fighting movie star cant save this mess.

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Solving hunger
Could you live on $4.50 a day? One rabbi went on the equivalent of food stamp rations just to see how people without food security can survive. It wasnt easy.

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Saying goodbye to a childrens literary luminary

Up until a year before her death, Chaya Burstein still drew and wrote Jewish childrens books from the studio behind her Northgate home. Her work is known internationally and is a staple in Jewish libraries everywhere.

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Film festival lands at the J

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While viewers may not notice a change when the Seattle Jewish Film Festival rolls around at the beginning of March, the backbone of the organization will be very different. Thats because at the beginning of this month, the board of the Stroum Jewish Community Center voted unanimously to bring the 18-year-old festival into its stable of programs. The Seattle chapter of the American Jewish Committee decided in July to release the festival, because as regional director Wendy Rosen said at the time, having to run both AJC and film festival programs and their associated fundraising needs, it was almost like we were running two simultaneous programs, two organizations in parallel with one another. Judy Neuman, the Stroum JCCs CEO, said shes excited about the festivals move because it so perfectly maps to the Js vision. For the past two years, the JCC had already been running encore screenings of festival films at its Mercer Island facility, including a Fathers Day screening that has attracted three generations of families. The mantra for the current year, however, is to stay the course. Were not really shooting for tremendous change this year, Neuman said. Pamela Lavitt, the festivals longtime director, will stay on in her position, but now has an office on Mercer Island. The festivals most recent co-chairs, Barri Rind and Amy Buckalter, will also continue in their roles. Both Neuman and Lavitt have big ideas that would expand the festival into the Seattle areas greater cultural scene, but each said they are just ideas at this point for the time being, the focus needs to be on settling in. Were trying to keep our creative juices under wraps, because theres so much opportunity, Lavitt said. Being inside the halls of the JCC does allow for some immediate programming possibilities, in particular to populations the festival hasnt served as well as it has wanted to in the past. The J has strong connections in the Israeli community and with young families. I think thats an incredible asset to the film festival, Lavitt said. Getting people who use the exercise facilities and then leave are another target. A film program, Lavitt said, gives them a reason to stay. As far as the films themselves are concerned, Neuman said the mission of the JCC and the mission of the film festival are very similar. The AJCs mission interfaith and interethnic dialogue as well as Israel advocacy didnt always map so well to the festival, Lavitt said. Being associated with an organization that already has arts programming will allow for a broadening of the film selection and perhaps expand to topics that werent covered under the umbrella of AJC. We can celebrate the cultural arts of the film festival, the thematics, in new ways and build programming, Lavitt said. That said, AJC wont disappear from the festival. The agency will continue to be listed as the festivals founding organization and sponsor its annual Bridge series, which Rosen said is a series of one to three films that focus on interethnic, interfaith, interreligious dialogue. In addition, some members of AJCs board have continued and even increased their financial support of the festival as it moves to the JCC. Weve promised to them that we have their back, Rosen said.

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But Lavitt cautioned that those increased donations from what she called loyal supporters dont mean the festival is in the black. It could easily lead to our demise if we dont make our numbers this year, Lavitt said. The festivals funding, like all of the Stroum JCCs programs that dont drive revenue, all comes from philanthropy and community support, Neuman said. Were absolutely looking to the community, not only existing donors. At the same time, we dont want to cannibalize their donor base, Lavitt said of the JCC. We want to make it clear to the community that if they love the J and love the film festival, they should support both of us. Moving the festival from one agency to another wasnt necessarily an easy process, but both Rosen and Neuman said it went smoothly. Their board members and our board members were really committedto the concept of a soft landing, Rosen said. I really do feel like it landed into very caring hands. If ever there was truly a collaborative effort to keep the communitys best interest in mind, this was a great example, Neuman said.

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Despite some opposition, Jewish organizations continue final push for marriage equality
eMily k. alhadeff associate editor, JTNews
As momentum builds toward Election Day on Nov. 6, many local Jewish organizations are working overtime to encourage approval of Referendum 74, the decision to legalize civil same-sex marriage in Washington State. According to a fact sheet put out by Seattles Jewish Marriage Equality Coalition, as much as 80 percent of the 5 million Jews in America support same-sex marriage more than any other religious group. The Jewish community has long stood with oppressed people and people seeking human rights, said Zach Carstensen, director of government relations and public affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Its a question of basic rights. The coalition consists of 28 organizations, including the Federation, Jewish Family Service, the Anti-Defamation League, and Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative congregations. According to Carstensen, the Federation is following the communitys lead. The Federation has historically looked to the community for guidance on these issues, he said. However, this is an issue where there is not a single voice in the Jewish community. Though there is not a single voice, the voice in support of the referendum has been speaking loud and clear: At least three synagogues are holding weekly phone banks to call people across the state to talk with them about the issue. One of the things that Jews need to do is to reach out to their Jewish colleagues and neighbors and talk to them about the importance of marriage equality, said Josh Friedes, spokesperson for Washington United for Marriage, the organization leading the effort to approve Ref. 74, and a member of Kol HaNeshamah. Not only does it educate the Jewish community about LGBT families and how they embrace traditional Jewish values and customs, its also an opportunity to reach out to the broader community. Jews can help others see this as a matter of religious liberty, he said. Ken Weinberg, CEO of Jewish Family Service, sees marriage as an issue of human rights. We feel that marriage equality is part of the health and well-being of our community, he said. JFS got behind marriage equality following the Federations decision to support the movement. I dont think weve ever taken this strong a position in my 38 years here at JFS, he said. But its not without a small price to pay. Weinberg admits the social-service organization has lost supporters. There hasnt been a mass run, but there have beentops, a half dozen people who felt that marriage equality is repugnant to them, that it is anti-Torah, that it is un-Jewish, and that they could no longer support the agency, he said. It hurts me when I see it happen, and it hurts me when I read their letters. Traditional, Torah-lawabiding Judaism does not allow for same-sex partnerships, and Seattles Orthodox community has not weighed in officially on Ref. 74. Local leaders JTNews contacted for this article did not respond or declined to comment. While marriage patterns have undergone changes over the generations, Judaism has never understood marriage to be anything other than marriage between a man and a woman, Rabbi Marc Angel, a Seattle native and rabbi emeritus of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York, wrote in an email. However, he added, If the secular government and general society wish to authorize gay marriage, that is a decision which in no way impinges on Orthodox Judaisms views on the topic. Furthermore, he wrote, all must agree that each human being has a right to be treated with respect and dignity, regardless of sexual orientation. Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island didnt support same-sex marriage in the past. He now supports the referendum and believes the majority of his congregation does, too. We all rethink thingswhen we have new information, when we have new understanding, he said. His personal relationships with gay and lesbian families swayed him toward marriage equality. Theologically, I think its fairly easy, he said. We have a tradition that has always evolved, always changed. However, Rosenbaum admits that the Conservative movement, which does not perform interfaith weddings, is not in consensus. Were a pluralistic movement, he said. Not every Conservative rabbi is supportive of gay marriage. The Reform movement began supporting same-sex marriage in 1996, and halachah, Jewish law, doesnt necessarily play a part in the decision. We dont ask if its okay halachically. We dont care, said Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, of Temple Bnai Torah. Halachah has a vote, but not a veto. Traditional, biblically based marriage was really about a financial institution not one manone woman, she said. As Judaism evolved over time, we retained a lot of elements about a woman being the
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Clean Up Your Doorstep

by Mike Selinker

If everyone cleaned his own doorsteps, Hebrew fabulist Yehoshua Steinberg writes, the whole town would be clean. Sometimes, if you deal with what appear to be minor problems in your neighborhood, the major ones will start to fade away. Here are five ways to take back your neighborhood.
ACROSS 1 Out of alignment 5 Respectful address 9 Electric guitar hookup 12 Orson Welles masterpiece Citizen ___ 13 Mideast country locked in an uprising 14 15 18 19 20 21 26 27 28 31 32 35 40 41 42 43 45 47 52 54 55 56 61 62 63 64 65 66 DOWN 1 Yojimbo director Kurosawa 2 Administers a Brazilian 3 They work in ORs 4 So far 5 Dr. Evil portrayer Mike 6 Gallery contents 7 Feel bad 8 Rum, Curaao, and lime juice 9 One of the Three Musketeers 10 Today co-host Lauer 11 ___ in Boots 13 Now you ___... now you dont 15 Dandy 16 Wallaby cousins, for short 17 Bridal purchase 22 Iranian leader exiled in 1979 23 Forbidden act 24 In history 25 In ___ land (daydreaming) 28 Possess 29 Its got a meter and an odometer 30 Upper left key on a MacBook 31 Humpty Dumpty, for one 32 I might like the cut of yours 33 Feasted 34 Geek icon Wheaton 36 First three community cards of a Texas hold 37 38 39 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 57 58 59 60

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Answers on page 24 2012 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

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The end of the kibbutz movement

deBS gaRdNeR Special to JTNews
The Ravenna Kibbutz, the Jewish intentional community formed in 2007 in Seattles Ravenna neighborhood, closed its doors October 1 when the kibbutzs landlord decided to sell the house. And so, five years of Shabbat dinners and events come to an end. The Ravenna Kibbutz has always been a place of change, despite the sense of some residents and guests that it has always been one way or another. It started with one house (the one being sold now) in 2007 and grew to three houses, increasing and decreasing in size as residents moved in and out, lives changed, and houses changed hands. The events the kibbutz offered varied. But theres been one consistent theme: Friends and friends-to-be coming through and experiencing Jewish or Jew-ish community in a casual home setting. Shabbat dinner for mostly young, mostly Jews has, for years now, meant sitting around a familiar home dining room table with friends and strangers and, before making Kiddush, thanking God and the unions! for the weekend. Shabbat dinners were like going over to your friends house because, well, thats what theyve been. The goal is to continue that, now that weve had five years to practice. Were launching an informal group called the Seattle Shabbat Potluck Co-op. The concept is pretty simple. Anyone can host a Shabbat dinner or other event any time, and invite a limited or large number of people. They can host in the style of the kibbutz or in their own style. If needed, UW Hillel is kindly holding a few tables, folding chairs, and other supplies from the kibbutz for use. Its basically a rotating Shabbat dinner, and still a chance to meet new people and see old friends. As a resident of the Ravenna Kibbutz for the last two-plus years, and a frequent visitor before that, I admit the change is hard. The place grew into a community, the kind that even those who only visited a few times a year saw as integral to Seattle Jewish life. It was a place to run into beloved friends and meet new people without the stress of being in a more public or formal setting. It was unaffiliated with any branch of Judaism or level of religiosity, welcoming in guests ranging from Modern Orthodox to agnostic to friends and partners of Jews. It was also wildly silly, irreverent, and wonderfully weird. At the final Shabbat dinner, we recounted stories and memories of the kibbutz. Neal Schindler told the story of the time the kibbutz acquired a quadricycle, a vehicle built out of a long rectangular platform, bicycle wheels, and boat seats, and members pedaled it around the neighbor- Ravenna Kibbutzniks enjoying a communal meal. hood, nearly crashing, until a topics ranging from punctuation to what tavern owner came out and offered to buy babies can do when theyre born. us all drinks. We recalled various Sukkot celebraDanielle Soffer told of a kibbutz that tions, from the time the spare sukkah colwelcomed her in warmly the first time lapsed to the time we did the blessings in she visited, and how quickly she moved the pouring rain, to the years the sukkah in after that. Lonnie Wall recounted how came out perfectly, decorated with lace Azura Newmans introduction of him as and vines and fruits and bamboo. We granddad led that nickname to stick. might have told a few last thats what she Elias Kass remembered the five-minute said jokes for old times sake. lecture series we organized one year for We closed up the house as Sukkot Shavuot, during which we learned about was starting, with no longer any time or reason to build a sukkah. Matching the holidays theme, we realized we were entering a time of transition and temporary dwellings, looking forward to Shabbat dinners and other festivities under any roof. Well miss the house itself, with its fruit trees, enormous backyard, porches, and Craftsman details, just as we missed a previous house when it closed. But there will be a certain delight in getting to visit new places, see one anothers homes, and realize that the same people (and their new friends the new co-op is open to anyone participating and hosting) can make the same kind of community, Kiddush, and terrible jokes in any house or apartment big enough for a dinner table and two challot. Ideally, the informal co-op will thrive and be a model for other communities where Jews seek semi-structured homebased events. The Ravenna Zo daSh Kibbutz was great practice. With the start of a new year and a reflection on the year gone by, we look forward to sweet new beginnings. For more information about the Seattle Shabbat Potluck Co-op, visit www.facebook.com/groups/ seattleshabbatpotluckcoop.
Deborah (Debs) Gardner was a residentorganizer of the Ravenna Kibbutz from 2010 to 2012. She is a writer focusing on food and public health.

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Painting outdoors on Whidbey and studying immigration issues in Israel

Their first day-long retreat I studied painting in was in May and weve had college and got away about one or two a month from it when my kids since then. were growing up, explains Complete novices to comartist and businesswoman pletely experienced painters Stephanie Schriger. About are welcome at the women10 years ago, she and her only retreats, which focus on husband Stan bought a oil painting en plein air, or cabin on Whidbey Island outdoors. and I started painting there The whole idea is to be [again]. She imagined offercreative in a very beautiful ing that experience to a wider place, says Stephanie. circle of women and this member of The day begins with coffee, spring she and her friend, the Tribe goodies and introductions. Peg Elefant, co-founded After giving techniques or pointers that Whidbey Island Painting Retreats relate to the location, participants paint for (www.whidbeypaintingretreats.com). three to four hours with breaks for feedback and instruction. Most finish their paintings and pizza boxes are provided to transport the wet canvases home. The group then reconvenes indoors to sample local wines and cheeses. A member of the Whidbey Island Grown organization, Stephanie tries to keep it local in support of other island CourTeSy STephaNie SChriger businesses. The Schrigers, Stephanie Schriger, co-founder of Whidbey Island Painting Retreats, paints both native Califorfrom the patio of her island retreat.

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nians, moved to the Seattle area in 1997 after living in Israel for 15 years. Growing up in a Zionist household, Stephanie always planned to make aliyah once she had a profession. With a graduate degree in design from Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles (and undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz), she moved to Israel, where she worked for the Jerusalem Post and started a graphic design business with a friend. Here she founded Design & Graphics (www.designandgraphics.biz), a design, print and mailing business, and Stan works with her. Stephanie says the Northwest is a beautiful and picturesque place, but I will always live a dual identity. I will always miss Israel. The next painting retreat is the first weekend in November with an optional overnight at the Captain Whidbey Inn. Stephanie has plans for cooking and jewelry-making retreats. See the website for more information.

Yoav Duman was collecting data in Spain when the AmericanIsraeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) announced that he had received

a $15,000 Schusterman Scholar Award for his doctoral studies in political science at the University of Washington. Its his third award from the foundation. The Raanana, Israel, native told me the town, near Tel Aviv, is home to a lot of Anglos, including many South Africans. Yoav did his military service in the office of the IDF ombudsman and holds bachelors and masters degrees in political science from Ben Gurion and Tel Aviv Universities. He founded a Hebrew-language academic journal that publishes high-quality political science work in both the original Hebrew and in translation. (Find it at www. public-sphere.com, but non-Hebrew readers will need Google translator.) I really wanted to work with Joel Migdal, of the UWs Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, says Yoav, which brought him to Seattle. His research is on immigration and Israeli politics, especially the relationship between the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and the issue of labor migration. Israel has a huge number of migrant laborers, legal and illegal, and has now
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kung fu: The real deal

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The Jewish protection expert

gWeN daviS Special to JTNews
Martial arts and the commandment of honoring ones parents go hand in hand, according to Jacob Lunon. Lunon, who has been training and teaching for more than 40 years and holds a ninth-degree black belt in Shaolin White Dragon Kung Fu, is the founder and head instructor of Macabee Martial Arts, the only Orthodox Jewish martial arts program in the Western United States. The respect and discipline that accompany the study of martial arts, he said, is part of what makes it exciting and relevant to Jewish Seattleites. I like the focus martial arts gives me everywhere in everything I do, said Macabee Martial Arts student Yoela Zimberoff, an 8th-grader at Seattle Hebrew Academy. It gives me confidence. Macabee Martial Arts, located at the Torah Day School on South Edmunds Street in Seattle, provides children, teens and adults with classes that include Kung Fu, sports yoga, Commando Krav Maga the Israeli armys martial arts regimen and self-defense. Lunon is one of three certified Krav Maga instructors in Washington State. He believes martial arts are necessary in the Orthodox community. We needed an organized program for Jewish children, especially because of anti-Semitism, Lunon said. Theres lots locking our doors, we have to start looking both ways, he said. This is the reality we live in. A couple years ago, I witnessed on TV a girl being mugged downtown in the bus station with security guards standing there but gweN daviS The students at Macabee Martial arts study a number of different doing nothing to help. It horrified me techniques. to think we have come to this point that as Americans of anti-Semitism in the world. We plan to and Seattleites we allow this to happen, do a seminar for every synagogue so that Lunon said. As long as Im here Im going people feel safe and know what to do in a to do everything I can to see that doesnt dangerous situation. happen. Macabee Martial Arts was born in Lunon began the program in 2004. response to the Crown Heights riots in Prior to that, he had an acting career in New York between that neighborhoods New York. Once he realized he wanted black and Chassidic communities, and more meaning in his life, he shelved his Lunon decided to tailor his martial-arts acting, converted to Judaism, and came program to Jewish communities. Theres to Seattle. plenty to be afraid of in day-to-day life, Upon founding the school, Lunon he says. gutted the traditional martial arts philosIf you read the newspapers, you see ophy to encompass Torah. I took all the synagogues being attacked, and people Eastern philosophies and esoteric out of being attacked in movie theaters. The what we do and substituted it with Torah, world is not safe anymore, and we cant he said. We teach one thing: Discipline, take a lot for granted. We have to start honor and respect. The program started in the basement of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath before being tapped by Torah Day School. The program also works out of the Greenlake Elementary School and the Seattle Jewish Community School. Eighty percent of the student body is from the Orthodox community. Lunon plans to expand the program. We want to do a city-wideclinic to all synagogue congregants, members and door-greeters of what to do in case of a terrorist attack, he said. We want to put a program together for the entire city and make it available for every synagogue. Many of the younger students get hooked by watching their older siblings or parents become involved. My best friend started Kung Fu two years ago and she pressured me to join, Zimberoff said. I was like, No, I dont think I could do that. But my brother did it, and my cousin and uncle and then I was like, That is so cool. I have to join. Others participate for the mental discipline qualities martial arts provide. My son started doing afterschool programs in the North End, said student Scott Adams. He has ADHD and we
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kung fu: The disappoinTmenT

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going for Brokeland, not quite making it

Joel MagalNick editor, JTNews
Back in his prime, Luther Stallings was the biggest, baddest, blackest Kung Fu champion and action movie star to walk the streets of L.A. With his co-star Valletta Moore by his side, the man was the definition of cool. Even 30 years later, after the drugs and the drinking and the comebacks gone bad, the star of the infamous Blaxploitation Strutter series could knock out a couple of oversized henchman so fast that if you blinked, youd miss it. What Luther Stallings couldnt do was save Michael Chabons new novel. In fact, Luther, despite his talents, never made it beyond supporting character in a cast thats too vast. As I read. And read. And read, I couldnt figure out what bothered me so much about Telegraph Avenue (Harper, $27.99). Then it hit me. This book, its like the menu at Cheesecake Factory. Its got pages and pages of just about anything youd want to eat, but none of it feels authentic. Its all oversalted, high cholesterol, and sampled by focus groups. And theyre almost the same number of pages. These are, admittedly, harsh words for an author who wrote my favorite book of all time, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and whose 2007 Yiddish Policemens Union is among my top 10. That an author so imaginative might not be able to top two masterpieces shouldnt be unimaginable who talks about Beethovens 10th, after all? its that with this go-round, it feels like hes trying too hard. Luthers son Archy is the closest thing this story has to a hero though a tragic one. Archy and his best friend Nat Jaffe own Brokeland Records, a failing music store on an uncharted desert island between Berkeley and Oakland that sells nothing but vinyl in 2004, when the record business is suffering and those ubiquitous white headphones have been popping up all over town. The writing is on the wall now that Oakland native and former NFL star quarterback Gibson Goode, a.k.a. G Bad, the fifth richest black man in America (he owns a zeppelin!) has come back home. City councilman Chandler Flowers III, whos got his own checkered history with Luther, has just thrown his support behind G Bad to build a Dogpile Thang, his popular chain store geared toward black consumer culture, complete with an expanded vinyl record section, just two blocks from Brokeland. Naturally, Archy and Nat smell a rat, and their reactions trickle into their marriages. Gwen, Archys about-to-beestranged wife, and Aviva, an ace midwife who has long suffered husband Nats Brooklyn transplant neuroses, are business partners as well, dealing with their own issues. Gwen, 36 weeks pregnant and livid about revelations of her husbands infidelities, has put her professional partnership and their hospital access in jeopardy following complications during a homebirth. Then theres the kids: Julius, Nat and Avivas 14-year-old son, has fallen in love with Titus, the 15-year-old son that Archy kind of knew he had, but had not laid eyes on until, well, just now. Everything up to this point has taken place on the day the story opens. Tired yet? Also on day one, just before he encounters his new son, Archy has his first encounter in years with Valletta. It appears that Luther is back in town, news that Archy doesnt exactly welcome. In the end, its Chabon who saves his own book. As a writer he is still unique, musical, and a joy to read. In the hands of an amateur, Telegraph Road wouldnt have made it past the literary agents desk. But like the obnoxious advertisements on the pages opposite Cheesecake Factorys menu items, he resorts to gimmickry Gwen, grumpy and about to burst, also happens to be a black belt in qigong and catches a teacup flung at her head from close range (never mind that Chabon, breaking the cardinal rule of dont write in a gun that you dont plan to shoot never gives Gwen another chance to break out her lethal fists); a fundraiser at a Berkeley mansion features a certain AfricanAmerican state senator from Illinois with his own race for U.S. Senate well underway (this is 2004, remember); a 12-page, single sentence in which Fifty-Eight, Mr. Joness parrot, surveys the goings-on in the East Bay upon being set free. Imagine a climax of this story thats something akin to the last fight scene of Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill Vol. 1, a Busby Berkeley-esque scene of synchronized Kung Fu fighters. Which would have made sense, given how much ink Tarantino gets in this book, and given that if youre going to remove your story from the authenticity of the Blaxploitation era, you may as well give credit to the original homage rather than the real thing. But sorry, not here. All we get is over-sugared cheesecake. Itll probably be a good five years until we see Chabons next novel. You might be better off waiting.

Things head downhill from there. Chabon jumps into the heads of each of these characters, and many others, but so many feel crudely drawn that even toward the end the only character I felt I really knew was the young, heartsick Julius with his unrequited love. The author writes the language of black Oakland through Archy and the old men who hang out at the record store all day, but Toni Morrison is far better at the dialect, and Percival Everetts contemporary black fiction (not to mention the laissez faire attitude both he and Chabon try to get across in the writing process) feels much more like the real thing, because it is the real thing.

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israel: To your healTh

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When Mom suffers from PTSD

JaNiS Siegel JTNews Columnist
Motherhood can be one of the most joyous times in a womans life. However, a small, somewhat controversial 2012 study from Tel Aviv University published in the June issue of the Israel Medical Association Journal found that nearly one-third of the 89 post-partum women who volunteered for the study reported having varying levels of Post-Traumatic Stress Dis- To Your order one month after their delivery. Many of those women chose natural childbirth with no pain medication. The lead researcher, Prof. Rael Strous of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at TAU, and his team, Dr. Inbal Shlomi Polachek of the Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center, and Liat Harari and Micha Baum of the Sheba Medical Center, surveyed the new mothers, who were between the ages of 20 and 40 years old, looking for clues that might provide insight into whether some women have a higher risk of developing the stress disorder during pregnancy and delivery and whether others bring a predisposition into their pregnancy. The less pain relief there was, the higher the womans chances of developing post-partum PTSD, said Strous. Of the women who did not develop any PTSD symptoms, only 48 percent experienced a natural childbirth. Within the group that reported having all of the symptoms of PTSD, 67 percent said that prior pregnancies had been traumatic, and 80 percent said they were uncomfortable being unclothed. Many said they feared the intense pain, and Health the potential danger to themselves and their children. Expectant mothers worry for not just their own safety but also for the health and well-being of their babies, Strous said. According to the research, 80 percent of the women who had a natural delivery reported some or all of the symptoms of PTSD, nearly 8 percent suffered from partial PTSD, and 3.4 percent had fully developed PTSD, including flashbacks of a previous labor, an unwillingness to bear another child, avoiding the topic, and having heart palpitations while talking about it. PTSD was first identified in war veterans who had been in extreme combat situations. The disorder is identified by three categories of sufferers: Those who continually relived the event, those who shunned the subject by numbing or staying away from people and places that reminded them of it, and those who displayed arousal symptoms, where a sufferer is always on guard, alert, or startled when reminded of the event. Researchers also looked at the relationship between the PTSD-prone women and whether they had assistance from a midwife or doula. They reportedly found none, but cited no statistics. Also, they wrote that education, religion, socio-economic position and marital status did not affect the results. However a critic of the PTSDchildbirth connection challenged the studys findings. Writing on the Lamaze Internationals research blog Science & Sensibility, Seattle-based Penny Simkin, co-founder of international doula organization DONA, and PATTCh, the Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Birth, a childbirth educator, doula, birth counselor, and author of books and published research on maternity, found this study to be flawed, sensational, without enough detail, and bordering on fearmongering by both researchers and the media. It has happened again, Simkin wrote. Yet another study of a hot topic in maternity care this time, natural childbirth, which the authors define as childbirth without an analgesia or without an epidural has been picked up by online and print media, and passed on to their audiences, with twists sensationalizing the material and adding fuel to the belief that natural childbirth is traumatic.most of which do not accurately present the study findings. Simkin criticized the small sample size, the fact that the women self-selected, and the use by researchers of vague terminology and inconsistent numbers as reasons to doubt the applicability of the results to women outside of the study sample. For example, added Simkin, 80 percent of the women with PTSD also had discomfort with being undressed, previous mental health problems in previous pregnancy or postpartum, and complications, emotional crises, and high fear of childbirth in their current pregnancy. All these factors have been reported in many studies to be instrumental in the development of PTSD. Strous and his team concluded that women should be more closely profiled for PTSD tendencies during pregnancy, identified as at-risk for the disorder, and monitored for its onset after their delivery. Simkin agreed with this assessment, writing that the recommendation to screen women for the syndrome is on target, as has been confirmed over and over again in the literature on traumatic birth.

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By Marissa Almoslino, Rena Greene and Julia Appelbaum, talking to Jessica Hoffman, regional director of greater Seattle NCSY.
What age range is the clothing directed to? The age range of the styles being shown at the Mod-Fab Fashion Show is teen and up! From gorgeous dresses to casual wear, funky to classic, weve got a beautiful show coming. Is the clothing in fashion? The entire point of this fashion show is to feature in-fashion clothing that just so happens to be on the modest side. It does exist! Where did this Mod-Fab Fashion Show come from? I was covering a charity fashion show for a local magazine, and so many of the styles were over-thetop revealing and none of it was ready-to-wear, especially for Seattle weather the rest of the year. I would much rather attend a fashion show where I might want to buy the clothing afterward. Beautiful pieces that are also every-shape friendly, and dont show every inch of my skin! Then I saw that New York NCSY did an event called Project Frumway, and it inspired me to bring a version of that event here to Seattle. What is the purpose of this event? I wanted to feature what we have to offer to our women and teen girls who are shopping in this town and dont always want to layer a long-sleeve shirt under a sleeveless dress, or make do with the first thing they can find. And of course to show that you can be fabulous and gorgeous and completely stylish while still dressing modestly. Modesty, of course, has many levels, but the most important level is the way that you feel when you leave your home every day. Do you feel exposed? Or do you feel confident and beautiful? It should always be the latter. Can I buy the clothing after it is modeled? Many of the designs will be available for auction (for charity, of course!) at the end of the show. The designs from local boutiques Peridot and Velouria will be available at those stores. Who are the designers and how did you choose them? I started by scouring local Seattle shops for the stores who sold beautiful clothing that also just happened to be modest. It wasnt hard to find. Peridot was an easy choice, with their abundance of sweaters, skirts, and long-sleeve dresses. Their funky-meets-upscale style is appealing, and their blog and Facebook page encourage exploring the store and mixing-and-matching their clothes in exciting combinations. I chose Velouria because of their commitment to supporting local designers. They feature Seattle-based designers, and focus on pieces that are artistic, luxurious, and unique.
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I am here
By Lauren Fishman

As I finished putting up pictures of my family, friends and favorite bands along the walls of my dorm and looked out the window at Bellingham Bay, I thought: I am finally here. I made it. By Ilana Hoff Then I realized how much I have grown in the past few years. Four years The word nesiya means journey in ago, I was terrified of going to high school, even though nearly everyone I Hebrew. This past summer, I went to Israel knew would attend the next few years of school with me. I still had my friends on a program with that same name, and the from dance and Hebrew school, yet I was petrified of such a huge transition. six weeks I spent there turned out to be the Last Sunday, I moved up to Bellingham to attend Western Washington Unimost transformative journey of my life. versity as a freshman. Surprisingly, I never got nervous about making friends, I have attended Temple Beth Am, a locating my classes (although I did get lost), or finding my course load intimiReform synagogue in Northeast Seattle, dating. I kind of feel at home. I feel like I belong. I am here. since I was two years old. I have grown Already, I recognize that I have a solid group of friends whom I met during up celebrating holidays with our chathe Monday Night Seahawks football game. That tiny dorm room was crammed vurah and going to lively, klezmer-filled with at least 25 people screaming, booing and cheering, and while I had no idea Na hoff Shabbat services. My Sundays and CourTeSy ila what was going on during the game, I had found my group. ein Tuesdays have been spent at religious rticipants at llow Nesiya pa In among all the chaos and people, I thought, I am here and I found my school, where I have learned what it her fe with some of na Hoff, left, friends. means to be a Reform Jew. Ila After knowing each other for less than 10 days, we are already poking fun at gedi, Israel. I have learned to value egalitarianism, to do tikkun each other, working out together at the Rec Center, inviting ourselves into each olam, and to use teachings from the Torah as inspiration for how to act in the others dorm rooms, and giving the guys haircuts in their bathroom. world. But Ive always known that what differentiates Reform Judaism from other denominaThe only way I can describe coming to college might sound strange. I didnt expect tions is that, as a Reform Jew, I get to choose which Jewish practices are meaningful to me. it to feel this way and I dont expect it to last, either. But so far, I feel like Im at summer I love my Jewish community, but before this past summer it was all Id ever known. camp: Hanging out with friends whenever there is a free moment, eating mediocre food in Nesiya allowed me to experience a very different kind of Jewish community. It was a comthe dining hall, no bedtime, and the best part, no parent supervision. Of course, there are munity made up of secular, Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Jews, as well as those who many people who have taken advantage of this last fact and already engaged in Weed choose not to affiliate with a denomination. We all had to learn how to live together, study Wednesday and Thirsty Thursday, but this girl is trying to pass precalculus. I am here text together, worship together, and, most importantly, to learn from each other. and I am sober. On Nesiya, instead of standing out for being Jewish, like I do at my public high school, Yesterday, my roommate Alli and I had a dialogue with our RA. One of the questions she I stood out for how I was Jewish. This forced me to articulate my Judaism to the group as asked us was, What did you expect coming into college? For me, it was a difficult quesa whole, and help them understand the Reform movement. It also forced me to justify my tion. I had come, obviously, to get an education, but why else was I here? beliefs, and explain why they are meaningful to me. I had to make clear that I do not see I am at college because I want to live away from my parents. I am here because I want Reform Judaism as a watered-down version of Conservative Judaism, but as an essential to find a career rather than a job. I am here because I want to make new friends. I am here and important way of practicing my religion. because I like to learn. I am here because I want to make an impact on society. I am here On Nesiya, I learned to listen and try to understand others beliefs and practices instead of because I want to experience my culture and religion. dismissing them. I learned why some girls on the program believe in the mechitzah, the sepaI am here because I want to find out who I am and who I will become. ration between men and women in the synagogue. I learned why some participants want to I am here.

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When First Mate Amy first told me there would be no iPods allowed, my heart sank. What was I going to do all day? When I first stepped aboard the 100-foot, nearly 100-yearold Sound Adventuress sailboat that would become my home over the next four days, I was expecting a couple of days to relax on a boat, but dreading the lack of showers and constant proximity with my classmates. My expectations were blown out of the water. Literally. At first it was really exhausting, the sun beating on me from all angles and meals that seemed like nothing but beans. But as I got to know the 12-person crew and put effort into the sailing, everything began to click. The sails went up with the sea shanty we sang and it was a sight to behold. This is how I spent the third week of my freshman year at the Northwest Yeshiva High School. I learned three remarkable ideas from my experience on the sailboat: Environmental

awareness, community, the beauty of nature. Without Internet or electronics, I was forced to be constantly present and a part of the boat community. We all quickly learned how much work the boat requires as we watched our crewmembers lend each other an immediate hand anytime they were asked. The crew became like family each night they sang us to sleep and woke us in the morning. We felt peaceful and warm and safe, crew and classmates huddled together, slowly being rocked to sleep. When you go on a sailboat, everything is rationed: Food, water, supplies, oil, electricity and more. Every night Zeal, the boats engineer, would talk about a different type of resource that has to be carefully managed throughout the course of the trip. In a society where food is cast away without a care, it was refreshing to have to watch exactly how much you take and how much you eat. Each day, one of the crew members would give a lesson about the sea. It was interesting to hear how plankton create the oxygen we breathe or how carbon dioxide invading the water kills so much sea life. If there is anything I learned from this trip, its the importance of not taking one little thing for granted not food, not water, not living space, and not the natural beauty that surrounds us. There is nothing more humbling than being on the open sea, surrounded by water with the sun beating down on the enormous sails. Or at night, with stars that light up a pathway across the sky. I saw amazing things I never thought Id see: Sea lions stretched out on a buoy, plankton that light up in a wondrous fluorescent green, and the hint of a porpoise ducking in and out of the water. It was an amazing experience living as a part of nature, not just observing it. In the beginning I couldnt take it: The vegetarian food always a mixture that included beans the constant work, the ban on electronics. But after a while I began to love it; I learned to hold my breath to avoid the smell of the bathrooms and to take only as much as I could eat. I learned to tie obscure knots and how to lift the hardest sail. I learned the true meaning of two are better than one. I learned that the administrators and teachers at the Northwest Yeshiva High School care deeply about their students and will even take surplus beans off our hands.

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A homecoming

By Zev Behar
explains the Behar family history. The one sentence that always stood out was, Toledo, where our family lived for many years with great satisfaction. When looking through NCSYs Euro ICE program brochure, I saw that they would be traveling to Spain, and, more important, to Toledo. I immediately managed to convince my parents to let me go, and with help from Seattle NCSY director Ari Hoffman, Elise Peizner of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and the SAMIS Foundation, I was on my way. Our trip to Toledo on the second day was the most meaningful experience of the trip. We visited the churches and learned about the Inquisition and the oppression of the Jews in Spain. We then visited a Sephardic synagogue museum. It was strange to think how my ancestors may have once attended this synagogue until they were kicked out of Spain in 1492. During free time, some of my newfound friends and I walked around nearly the entire city. For two hours I walked in the footsteps of my ancestors, from the highest point in the city to the lowest. It was an unforgettable experience getting to see what my family hadnt seen for generations. Sitting at the top of the city, overlooking the high-rising churches and everything else the city held in all its grandeur, I couldnt help but wonder how my family had lived when they were here. Because of this trip I felt a strong connection to my past, and it only grew stronger as we traveled the rest of Spain and most of Israel, following the course of Maimonidess life. vised, singing their own melody over the steady humming of the group. That niggun represented the genius of Nesiya: It allowed Jewish teens to undergo an intense summer of self-discovery within the safety of a caring community. Sitting there, as night fell, I felt an incredible sense of pride. I was still a Reform Jew, but I now had a more nuanced understanding of the many different ways to be Jewish. I was still an American, but I knew that I loved Israel and felt at home there. I knew I would carry the humming and the individual voices with me long after Nesiya was over. But I also knew Nesiya could never really end, because when the program started, so did my own Jewish journey. I knew I would go home and try to make Shabbat as sacred as my last Shabbat in Israel. I knew I would go home and try to make my community at school as safe and as open as the community on Nesiya. And I knew I would go home and try to keep learning, to keep listening, and to keep being open to the evolution of my Judaism.

From the beginning it was obvious: This would be the best summer ever. My best friend Itai and I boarded a plane to New York and arrived later that day. Over the next hour the most important people in my life would walk through the terminal entrance CourTeSy Zev Behar I just didnt know it yet. From left to right: Yosef Peretz, elyse Behar, trip adviser Malkie Besides the amazing friends I Krieger, Zac groffman, Itai amon, and Zev Behar on their tour made this summer, almost as important were the memories. through old Jewish Spain. This trip was great for obvious reasons what teenager wouldnt want to travel to Spain and Israel with 38 other kids his age? It was also the first time someone from my immediate family, aside from my grandfather, had returned to Spain since the Inquisition. In my cousins house a necklace hangs on the wall with a short paragraph beside it that
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become less religious, and why others want to become more so. I learned that other participants look at Torah very differently than I do, but that what they see in the text is just as valid as what I see. I learned why some participants keep Shabbat, and why some have chosen not to. In order to learn, though, I had to listen. And in order to listen respectfully to those I disagreed with, I had to keep in mind their backgrounds, and how their own individual stories informed their perspectives on the world and on Judaism. Nesiya gave me an invaluable tool to help me do this. During the last Shabbat on the program, at a field school in Ein Gedi, we gathered outside in the dark to sing together. The air was heavy and damp. The trees swayed slightly in the soft breeze. We sang a niggun we had learned on our first Shabbat. Everyone sang the chorus. Instead of verses, everyone hummed the melody, while one or two people impro-

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NEW YORK (JTA) To eat: A cup of black beans, a few ounces of pasta and a bit of tuna. To drink: Water. This was my dinner menu one Friday night last November as my fellow dinner guests dined on standard Shabbat fare: Homemade challah, two types of salad, chicken prepared three ways, three bottles of wine, four side dishes, cake and fruit for dessert. I generally look forward to Shabbat dinner, but I had decided that week to join rabbis and faith leaders across the country to participate in a food stamp challenge. Some background about the challenge, which this year is being held Nov. 11-17: The average recipient of aid in the governments Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP commonly known as food stamps receives $31.50 in benefits per week. That works out to $4.50 a day or $1.50 a meal, assuming three meals a day. In participating in the food stamp challenge, I had committed to spending only $31.50 on food and drink for a week, including Shabbat. I did so for two related reasons: To deeply understand the day-today reality of the 45.7 million Americans who receive federal aid each week necessary for their survival, and to have this knowledge lead me to act to ensure that this essential strand of the social safety net would not be cut in proposed deficitreduction legislation. Growing up, my family never required government assistance. The day after that Friday night dinner, while at shul, I realized how lucky I was: A friend had heard about my participation in the food stamp challenge and confided to me that her family had received food stamps throughout her childhood. Without this form of government assistance, there were times when she would have gone hungry. She wanted to remind me that hunger is not just an issue for gentiles; Many in the American Jewish community struggle with food insecurity as well. This conversation, as well as many others I had during the week I participated in the challenge, left me with a deep awareness of the fragility of my own life circumstances. My middle-class family had the resources to nurture me as I grew, and I realized that the wealth and privilege I enjoyed growing up was a matter of mere chance and therefore not a predicate of fairness. My life would have been much
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different were I born to parents who were food insecure or did not provide an environment that would nurture me and allow my talents to flourish. But if the circumstances of life are based on luck, in what sense can I claim, with integrity and as a matter of justice, that my resources belong solely to me? A variation of this line of reasoning is forcibly argued by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice, perhaps the most influential social justice work of the 20th cen-

tury. But all great philosophical works have a pre-history, and the idea that wealth is not our own is a core teaching of the Torah. Time and again, the Torah reminds us that the land, the generator of wealth in the agrarian economy of the Bible, is Gods: For mine is the land, for you are sojourning settlers with me (Leviticus 25:23). The Jewish people are graced with our wealth and property by God; we cannot claim it as our own. As the Torah tells us in Deuteronomy 9:4, Do not say in your

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on Sun., September 30, more than 200 volunteers including young orly gathered at a warehouse in Seattles SoDo neighborhood to sort and package more than 25,000 pounds of non-perishable foods donated to Jewish Family Service during its annual food drive. The goods collected help keep the JFS food bank stocked during the winter months.

heartthrough my merit did the Lord bring me to take this land. Rather it is through Gods goodness that we enjoy the lands bounty. This leads to the great concern of the Torahs teaching about wealth, to a delusional narcissism that prioritizes our efforts and forgets that our capacity to create wealth transcends individual effort: Lest you eat and be sated, the Torah warns, and build goodly houses and dwell in them. And your cattle and sheep multiply for you, and all that you have will multiply for you. And you will say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand made me this wealth (Deut. 8:12-13:17). The fantasy of the wealthy, who believe that wealth is generated solely through individual effort, could not have been stated better by Ayn Rand. Yet the Torah straight on counters the myth of the selfmade person: And you will remember the Lord, your God, the Torah informs us, that God and God alone gives you power to make wealth (Deut. 8:18). If all this is correct and the core biblical teachings about wealth are that it originates with God who gifted it to us, then what are the conditions of its use? Here, too, the Torah provides the answer: If we receive wealth as a gift from God, it is essential that we in turn gift it to those in need. Throughout the Torah there are various avenues through which this is accomplished, from tithing to leaving a corner of a field for the poor, and so on. All these

commandments stem from the same fundamental motivation: Our wealth is not completely ours, therefore we do not have complete control in its use. The 16th-century commentator Rabbi Moshe Alshech could not have said it clearer when he wrote, Do not think that you are giving to the poor from your own possession, or that I despised the poor person by not giving him as I gave you. For he is my son, as you are, and his share is in your grain; it is to your benefit to give him his share from your property. This brings me back to SNAP and my participation in the food stamp challenge. Based on my experience and my understanding of the Jewish tradition, I deeply believe that my station in life is accidental, the nourishment I received as a child was due to circumstances beyond my control, unlike billions around the world and millions in America who lack this basic security. If so, then I have an obligation to share the wealth that God has given me to ensure that those born without it have the same privileges and opportunities that I enjoy. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is a necessary part of this social safety net. To make sure it remains there, I ask that you join me take the food stamp challenge on Nov. 11-17.
Rabbi Ari Weiss is the executive director of Uri LTzedek, a social justice organization of the Orthodox movement.

YWCA works to end homelessness

No child should have to worry about what they are going to be having for dinner, or where they will be spending the night. Unfortunately, for many children in our community these worries are part of their reality. As our economy continues to slowly recover from the stubborn recession, homelessness remains an issue for too many people. Statistics show that families with children make up almost half the homeless population. U.S. Census statistics show that children living in single-parent families headed by females are four times more likely be living in poverty and seven times more likely to be living in deep poverty than children living in married couple families. YWCA Seattle|King|Snohomish is a leading organization in helping to move these women and families out of crisis and empowering them to achieve lasting independence. YWCA programs to help women and their families include: homelessness intervention and affordable housing in the forms of emergency housing, transitional housing and permanent affordable housing, individual and group job search counseling and placement assistance, access to medical care and mental health counseling, domestic violence services and a variety of children and youth services. In 2011, the YWCA provided tools and services to 64,000 adults and youths here in the Northwest, including over 26,000 who received ongoing services. In the area of housing, the YWCA provided services for over 11,000 adults and over 3,700 children. The YWCA owns or operates 885 units of permanent housing, which has made it possible to provide stable, affordable homes for nearly 1,500 members of our community. In just 52 days, the YWCA distributed more than 148,000 pounds of food at the YWCA Central Area Food Bank. It helped over 9,700 people move towards economic self-sufficiency through employment services, case management, college enrollment and navigation assistance, wardrobe and networking assistance, and self-directed job search assistance. In 2011, the YWCA introduced a digital media platform to create an interactive community and enhance its existing advocacy efforts on behalf of women and their families. It is called Firesteel and can be accessed at firesteelwa.org. Firesteel provides a platform for users to share opinions, reach out to friends, comment on topics of interest, and receive information. Its goal is to advocate for social change

and continue to work to end homelessness in Washington State. The Firesteel network links with both Facebook and Twitter. QFC is proud to support YWCA Seattle|King|Snohomish as our checkstand charity of the month for October. If you would like to contribute to the important work of the YWCA, from September 30th to October 27th, QFC customers can donate to the YWCA at any checkstand using the $1, $5, or $10 scan cards or by dropping their coins in the coin boxes at the checkstands. Thank you for supporting an organization that is making a difference in thousands of lives here in the Northwest.

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For a complete listing of events, or to add your event to the JTNews calendar, visit calendar.jtnews.net. Calendar events must be submitted no later than 10 days before publication. lead professionals through 18 powerful lessons on leadership from the lives of biblical leaders and value-based teachings from the ancient rabbis. Four-session workshop (October 13, 27, November 10, 24). Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. Israeli wines served. $36. At Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave. (at Seneca), Seattle.

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Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Yearlong course. Instructor: Yiscah Smith. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 79 p.m. The Jewish Journey ii
The Seattle Kollel at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org Classes include business ethics, the Jewish home, lifecycle, philosophy, mysticism and the development and intricacies of the Jewish legal systems. Cost includes classes, handouts and books. No prerequisites necessary. $180. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. 79:30 p.m. living Judaism: The Basics
Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Instructor: Ron DeChene. Yearlong introduction to Judaism course for Jews looking to deepen their knowledge, for non-Jewish partners, and for those interested in conversion. Hebrew class during the first hour. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 8:159:15 p.m. pirkei avot with the Commentary of meam loez
Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Stories, parables and ethical discussions round out this commentary for a clear and inspirational teaching. Instructor: Yiscah Smith. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. X Page 20

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Deb Frockt at storytime@sjcs.net or 206-522-5212 or www.sjcs.net SJCS, in partnership with PJ Library Seattle, presents stories, songs, and an activity with Shoshana Stombaugh on the second Friday of almost every month. Everyone is welcome. Free. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle. 12 p.m. leadership Training Shabbaton
Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or SeattleNCSY.com Leadership training Shabbaton for high-school-age teens. At Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.

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Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Second Saturday of the month. Learn about the Shema. RSVP appreciated. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 1:152:15 p.m. moses and miriam on management
Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Inspired by the book Moses on Management, Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg and guest teachers will

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10:30 a.m.12 p.m. fall mikvah Brunch

Rena Berger at bergerena@gmail.com Featuring keynote speaker Miriam Meyers, a nutritionist, a Pilates class, Israeli dance lessons, and a potluck brunch. Dress for comfort and movement. Bring supplies for the mikvah and get a free raffle ticket. Suggested donation $10. Raffle tickets $2, or $3 for 5. At a private home; RSVP for details. 24 p.m. Jump into fun with Story and Song
Amy Paquette at AmyHP@JewishInSeattle. org or 206-774-2237 or JewishInSeattle.org/ PJLibrary Led by Temple Beth Or, PJ Library and Leading Edge Gymnastic Academy, including music with Julie Warwick. Free. At Leading Edge Gymnastic Academy, 1500 Industry St., Everett. 57 p.m. my Big fabulous Jewish gay wedding
Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at rabbikinberg@templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org Free class open to LGBTQ couples planning a Jewish wedding, to explore the traditional ceremony and creative ways to adapt it. Interfaith couples welcome. Light dinner will be served. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 6:308:30 p.m. Standwithus annual reception
Lauren Simonds at LaurenS@Standwithus. com or 206-801-0902 or standwithus.com/ northwest Featuring keynote speaker Irwin Cotler, international human rights attorney and former attorney general of Canada. Kosher appetizers and

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11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. washington State holocaust education resource Centers voices for humanity luncheon
Karen Chachkes at info@wsherc.org or 206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.org New York Times bestselling author and keynote speaker Edwin Black presents IBM, The Holocaust, and the Ethics of Technology. Hear from inspiring teachers and students. Suggested minimum donation: $180. At The Westin Seattle, 1900 Fifth Ave., Seattle. 79 p.m. Back to School 5773
Dena Kernish at DenaK@JewishInSeattle. org or 206-774-2279 or www.JewishInSeattle. org/educators Learn how to build a physically and spiritually joyful classroom environment. JTC and STARS credit available. Clock hours available. Open exclusively to educators in early childhood settings, supplementary schools and day schools. Free. At the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, 15749 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

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Ilana Cone Kennedy at ilanak@wsherc.org or 206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.org Author Edwin Black will talk about IBM and the Holocaust, the story of IBMs strategic alliance with Nazi Germany. Clock hours available for educators (minimum 3 hours contact Ilana). Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 E Pike St., Seattle.

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8:159:15 p.m. approaching the divine other: opportunities, dangers, and responsibilities
Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org Learn the language of Jewish mystical practice and the responsibilities, dangers and opportunities created by these experiences. Instructor: Beth Huppin. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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34 p.m. Connecting eretz yisrael to medinat yisrael

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org This class will explore Eretz Yisrael in the parshat

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hashavuah and what relevancy that has for Israel today. Instructor: Yiscah Smith. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle. 78 p.m. doing a mitzvah
Shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.org Visited someone terminally ill and been at a loss for what to say? What do you say when you pay a shiva (condolence) visit? These informational sessions, led by Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg, will help ease these sometimes-uncomfortable situations. Session 2 on Oct. 24. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. 79 p.m. NyhS open house for prospective Students and families
Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272 or www.nyhs.net Meet students, teachers and alumni and learn about NYHS, the Pacific Northwests premier fulltime, college prep, dual-curriculum Jewish high

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8:30 a.m.12:15 p.m. Shemanski Trust filmTalks

Sharon Zweiback at szsandflow@gmail.com or Becki Chandler at chandlerb@ajc.org or 206-622-6315, ext. 3 A free, facilitated workshop for middle- and highschool age students. Participate in a dialogue about diversity, social action and tolerance. Educators, parents and community members welcome. At SIFF/Uptown Theater, 511 Queen Anne Ave., Seattle.

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Havdalah and a haunted corn maze at Stocker Farms with kids from BBYO, the Stroum JCC, NCSY and USY. Transportation and corn maze admission included; spending money is optional. $25. Transportation available from the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island, and Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52 Ave. S, Seattle.

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14:30 p.m. friendship Circle walk

Esther at info@friendshipcirclewa.org or 206-FRIENDS or walkwithfriendship.com Join hundreds of men, women and children from all over the community to walk in unity to support special needs families and children. Free. At Mercerdale Park, 77th Ave. SE and SE 32nd St., Mercer Island. 15 p.m. Seattle Supplementary Teachers Conference
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experience. STARS, clock hours and JTC credit available. Registration and lunch begin at 12:45; program begins at 1:30. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle. 23 p.m. NyhS Student art opening and poetry reading
Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272, ext. 515 or www.nyhs.net A special student art opening and poetry reading with Sol Birulin. Free. At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle. 79:30 p.m. mod-fab fashion Show
Jessica at jessicabhoffman@gmail.com or www.seattlencsy.com NCSY and JSU young women model modest designs from local and online boutiques. Giveaways and swag bags.Ladies only. $20 online, $30 at the door. At the Microsoft Gathering Hall, 7054 32nd Ave. S, Seattle.

or www.jSt.org/seattle An introductory analysis of how Israel, the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, and Iran have figured in the election campaign so far, and a national callin conversation with Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street president, afterward. At the Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle. 7:309 p.m. Stroum lectures in Jewish Studies at uw
Lauren Spokane at jewishst@uw.edu or 206-543-0138 or www.jewdub.org/ stroumlectures Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving Ones Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitzs Sefer ha-Brit. Free public lecture by UPenn professor David B. Ruderman. Register online. Free. At 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle.

changing. Take a closer look at these two government programs and another confident step toward retirement. Financial assistance available. $10 in advance; $15 at the door. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.

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6:309 p.m. Before you Sign up: making Sense of medicare and Social Security
Leonid Orlov at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-8784 or www.jfsseattle.org Medicare and Social Security are continually

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78 p.m. Crash Course in hebrew

Rabbi Yehuda Greer at rabbigreer@gmail.com or 732-534-2284 or seattlekollel.org Learn how to read Hebrew in just five sessions. Offered free in conjunction with the National Jewish Outreach Project. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. 7:309 p.m. Stroum lectures in Jewish Studies at uw
Lauren Spokane at jewishst@uw.edu or 206-543-0138 or www.jewdub.org/ stroumlectures Behind a Best Seller: Kabbalah, Science, and Loving Ones Neighbor in Pinhas Hurwitzs Sefer ha-Brit. Register online. Free. At 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle.

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7 p.m. Jewish women Sisterhood kickoff event

Rochie Farkash at rochie.farkash@gmail.com or 206-383-8441 or chabadbellevue.org Open to Jewish women of all ages and affiliation, featuring cookbook author and philanthropist Joanne Caras, who will speak about her Holocaust Survivor Cookbook. Tasting included. $15. At Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE #303, Bellevue.

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79 p.m. Contemporary News and views for educators

Dena Kernish at DenaK@JewishInSeattle.org or 206-774-2279 or www.JewishInSeattle.org/ educators Facilitated by Rivy Kletenik, this session will focus on engaging in meaningful text study and drawing out students creative interpretations of Torah. JTC credit, STARS and clock hours available. Open to educators in early childhood centers, supplementary schools and day schools. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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Yossi (2012) Monday, October 15 at 7:15 p.m. Film In this sequel to Israeli director Eytan Foxs acclaimed 2003 film Yossi & Jagger, Ohad Knoller returns as Yossi, a lonely workaholic physician. Years after hes lost his love in the Israeli Defense Forces, Yossi begins to re-emerge into a life of promise and possibility, brought about by meeting a young soldier on his road trip through the desert. Yossi is being screened as part of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, presented by Jewish Family Service. At The Egyptian Theater, 805 E Pine St., Seattle. Tickets are on sale now at threedollarbillcinema.org. RSVP to Leonid Orlov at 206-861-8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org.

The Invisible Men Thursday, October 18 at 6:30 p.m. Film Screening and Director Talk Israeli director Yariv Mozer will be on hand to talk about his award-winning documentary, The Invisible Men, the story of three gay Palestinian teens who sought refuge in Israel after being persecuted by their families and society. The film depicts the hardships each faced while on the run from their families and hiding from Israeli police, as well as the Israelis who helped them. At Hillel at the University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle. Presented by Hillel UW and A Wider Bridge. Free. Also screens at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on Oct. 17 at 7:15 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, 805 E Pine St., Seattle. Visit slgff.strangertickets.com to purchase tickets for that screening.
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Letter to Warsaw Saturday, October 20 at 2 p.m. Concert As part of its Sparks of Glory education series, Music of Remembrance presents Letter to Warsaw. Hear a musical response to Elles, Seattle Art Museums landmark exhibition on the impact of pioneering women artists. Introduced by MORs Mina Miller, composer Thomas Pasatieris Letter to Warsaw (2003) showcases lyrics by Polish poet and cabaret artist Pola Braun, written while she lived in the Warsaw ghetto and the Majdanek concentration camp during World War II. At the Plestcheeff Auditorium, Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle. Admission is free. For more details, visit musicofremembrance.org.

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The Theater of Needless Talents Thursday, October 25Saturday, October 27 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, October 28 at 6 p.m. Dance Choreographed by Tony-nominated choreographer Donald Byrd, The Theater of Needless Talents pays homage to Czech Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff and the artists who died in the Holocaust. Needless Talents is based on events at the Terezn concentration camp, where Nazis staged a propaganda film depicting Jewish prisoners as thriving in culture and arts. Schulhoff was imprisoned at Terezn before dying of tuberculosis in 1942 at the Wlzberg concentration camp. Tickets are $25 general admission, $20 for students. For more information and tickets, visit spectrumdance.org/company/theater-of-needless-talents or contact staff@spectrumdance.org or 206-325-4161. At Spectrum Dance Studio Theater, 800 Lake Washington Blvd., Seattle.

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Farewell chaya, and thanks

Rita BeRMaN fRiScheR Special to JTNews
When I first starting teaching children in a Judaic setting, Chaya Bursteins Jewish Kids Catalog was the book I used for ideas and simple explanations of holidays and customs. As a day school librarian, I often recommended her mystery books for 3rd and 4th graders who needed a mystery for a book report. I loved being able to give them a Jewish story for a secular assignment. Her Jewish Holiday Cookbook was a perennial favorite. Students who checked it out were required to bring the librarian a taste of whatever they cooked. Like Chayas books, Delicious! She was a true treasure and contributed so much to the juvenile Judaic lexicon.
Susan Dubin, past president, Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL)

CourTeSy diNa BurSTeiN

chaya Burstein in Israel.

Chaya Burstein, mother, grandmother, talented artist and author, a woman of extraordinary valor, vigor and opinion, passed away on Saturday, September 15, surrounded by her family singing her on her way. When she died, the world of Jewish childrens books lost a wonderful asset, a person who, while living her life with passion and creativity, wrote and illustrated varied books which offered young readers accessible and appealing introductions to just about every aspect of Jewish life. She paid special attention to the worlds ecology and to Israel for, besides her family

and her work, it was Israel that ignited in Chaya the adventurousness and devotion that was to shape so much of her life. Born in Queens, N.Y. in 1923 to Russian immigrant parents, Chayas imagination was fed by her mother who, she said, would steal time away from the family grocery store to tell me stories about the village in Russia where she grew up about her goats and chickens and other friends. Then I would sit on the milk box and draw my own comic strips or make paper dolls and tell myself stories, using

them as the characters. Chayas imagination was also engaged by her early involvement in the secular socialist Zionist organization Hashomer Hatzair. In this group, when she was 16, she met Mordy Burstein, her future husband, a younger man of 15 who was her match in daring and determination. While Mordy served in the Pacific during World War II, Chaya turned to practical drawing as a draftsman and a year after Mordy returned in 1945, they married. Then, in 1948, after first working with survivors in a displaced persons camp in France, the two smuggled themselves into Israel to join a group there and founded a kibbutz that still exists today. They were home. However, when Mordy was accepted into engineering school at the University of Missouri under the G.I. Bill, they made the tough decision to move back to the States until he got his degree. Circumstances intervened and they would not return to live in Israel for almost 35 years. Living on Long Island, Chaya raised three children and put her art and ambition on hold until they were in school, whereupon she stud-

ied at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She then took her portfolio to Harcourt Brace, where they told her she should write stories to go with her illustrations. The best stories she knew were told to her by her mother, Rifka, who lived with the family; Chayas first book, Rifka Bangs the Teakettle, sprang from those tales of her mothers childhood in a shtetl in Russia. Harcourt published the book in 1970. Over the next 41 years, Chaya wrote and illustrated 15 books while getting her masters degree in Middle East History and caring for her family. Two of those works, Rifka Grows Up (1976) and The Jewish Kids Catalog (1982) a classic in every Jewish school and library won the National Jewish Book Award. She wrote and her art enlivened an outstanding series of catalogs, one which focused on Israel, one on the natural world and ecology. She wrote modern and ancient histories, Bible stories, and a Passover Haggadah. But despite winning awards and recognition, Chaya, like Mordy, yearned
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to return to Israel. At ages 63 and 62 they became founding members of a community in the Galilee where they lived and worked for 20 years. She continued to write while working to shape the emerging community and do literacy work with both Jews and Arabs. In 2005, health concerns and the desire to be close to their immediate and extended family, most of whom had settled in Seattle, brought them back in spite of their strong desire to remain in Israel. They shared a studio behind their house in Northgate, where Chaya worked on the drawings and text for her final book, The Amazing History of the Jews, which she completed in the summer of 2011. In December 2011, at Temple Beth Ams Jewish Book Month Shabbat, Chaya was named as the temples Author of the Year. But the rare nerve disease that would ultimately cost Chaya her life was already affecting the use of her hands, a tragedy for an artist. Unable to work, she read, and when she could not,

her children read to her. In her final days, she was never alone and she heard singing as she slipped away into the sunset. Let her have the last word on her career. On the night she was honored, Chaya gave a speech in which she said, I love my work. I loved doing it when I was able to. I had fun doing it. I looked forward to drawing and writing each day. I dont know if that warrants an honor. I think all of us working people who enjoy work and work hard should be honored. However, most to be honored are those who go in to do jobs they do not enjoy or jobs that must be done in order to earn a living. Her grandson, Jacob, said it best: True to who she was, at the end of her long and extraordinary life, Chaya was thankful, humble, wholly aware of the world around her, and contrary. Chaya is survived by her husband of 66 years, Mordy Burstein, her three children, Ranan, Dina and Beth, her five grandchildren and a host of extended family, all of them expressing gratitude for the legacy she has left.

Jack Abravanel March 23, 1932September 16, 2012

Jack Abravanel was born in Salonika, Greece, on March 23, 1932 to Isidore and Dora Abravanel. A natural athlete, winning medals in high school for high jumping, he subsequently became a celebrated soccer player in Salonika, and later in life an avid racquetball player, until he was diagnosed with Parkinsons in 1997. He valiantly fought the disease for 15 years. Jack was a Holocaust survivor. He was deported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 11. Due to the family having Spanish citizenship, they survived. During the war, he spent time in a Palestine refugee camp and then he and his family returned to Greece where he met Lela, his future wife, in a summer camp. Lela, with her family, immigrated to Houston, Texas after the war. Jack followed her there, where he later graduated from the University of Texas. Jack and Lela were married, and had their first daughter, Doris. Jack was hired by Boeing, which brought the family to Seattle, where Tammy was born. Jacks rewarding career as an aerospace engineer spanned over 35 years. He traveled domestically and abroad, and the Boeing business trips he took with Lela to France were their most memorable. As a founding member of Temple Sinai, Jack was active in the synagogue, especially the Sunday school. An attentive and caring father, he cherished the times he spent helping his daughters study, excel in sports, and realize their dreams. After retiring, Jack (a.k.a. Papu) devoted his life to helping raise his only grandchild, Makena. He described the time he spent taking care of Makena as the most enjoyable and rewarding job he had ever had. Jack passed away on September 16, 2012 in Bellevue with his family by his side. The family wishes to thank Evergreen Hospice for the excellent care of Jack. As a devoted husband for 56 years, Jack is survived by his beloved wife, Lela, daughters Doris and Tammy (Craig Owens), one granddaughter, Makena, brother Sylvin, and two nephews, Isidore and Mario. Memorial contributions may be made in his honor to the charity of your choice.

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Ellie will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on Saturday, October 20 at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. Ellie is the daughter of David and Jen Dynes and the sister of Connor. Her grandparents are Joyce and Eric Sundin of Seattle, Elizabeth Dynes of Burlington, the late Art London and the late Charles Dynes. Ellie is a 7th-grader at Whitman Middle School and enjoys making movies, going to Camp Kalsman in the summer, playing guitar, skiing and spending time with her friends.

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Joshua will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, October 13, 2012 at Temple Bnai Torah in Bellevue. Joshua is the son of Robert and Annie Osnis of Mercer Island, and the brother of Leah, Michelle and Ian. His grandparents are Arkady Osnis of New York, Arkady and Alexandra Cherts of Issaquah, and the late Irina Osnis. Joshua is an 8th-grader at Islander Middle School. He enjoys playing sports, engineering, working with specialneeds kids and cooking. For his mitzvah project he is doing a pet food drive.

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