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Daniel Alhadeff leads a team of rope pullers for the tug-of-war at Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath’s Barbecue Bash and Fantastic Fair. The event took place on Sun.,
Aug. 16 and brought in more than 200 community members for games, a dunk tank, vendor fair and, of course, food.

JCC goes outside its ranks for new leader JFS receives
Joel Magalnick Neuman has a big job ahead of her: In addition to having stimulus to
Editor, JTNews to acclimate from the culture of the for-profit world to a
non-profit agency — the national association of JCCs offers expand food bank
As the Stroum Jewish Community Center embarks
upon a new era in its history — a capital campaign under-
way, a strategic growth and outreach plan, a newly hired
CEO — its lay leadership expects big changes. To help
move these plans along, the JCC went outside of its own
ranks, launching a local and national search to hire a
leader whose nonprofit credentials are based upon her
successful volunteerism, while her professional experi-
ence comes from years of working in the business sector.
Judy Neuman, who the JCC announced on August 4
had been hired to lead the agency, beat out more than 40
other candidates for the position, said JCC board presi-
dent Lindsey Schwartz. A record number of applicants
expressed interest in the position.
“We just feel like this is a really important time for the
JCC,” Schwartz said on the hiring of Neuman. “We really
have the opportunity to make a big statement to our mem-
bership and to the community that we have the opportu-
nity to achieve all the goals that we’ve set for ourselves, that
the board has set through our strategic process.”
The goal was to find someone who saw the agency as
something “besides being the Mercer Island hub, and
Judy…clearly brought that perspective,” said Robin Boe-
hler, who co-chaired the executive search committee
with JCC board vice president Aaron Wolf. “If the board
was interested in more than just a Mercer Island facility,
then she was really interested in this job.”
Neuman expressed her excitement about her move
into the nonprofit sector.
“Having worked as a lay leader in the Seattle Jewish
community for the past 20 years, it is with pride, joy and
privilege that I now have the opportunity to work profes-
sionally for a community I am so passionately devoted to
and an agency with so much promise for the future,” she
said in a letter to JCC members.
a submersion program for such executives — Schwartz said
she will need to get to know the inner workings of the center
as well as spend time with the leadership at other major
local organizations learning “about their perception of the
JCC, and about things the JCC could be doing better.”
Membership, while not dropping precipitously, has
experienced a downward trend over the past few years.
Newer, more modern equipment at the city-owned
Mercer View Community Center has likely taken some of
the users from the JCC’s fitness center.
And then there’s the capital campaign to raise about
$20 million to update its 42-year-old Mercer Island facil-
ity: “It’s fair to say that it’s still on track and we think that
Judy, with her experience…will be a major asset to that,”
Schwartz said.
Renovations would include updates to the fitness
center and the popular early childhood program and Par-
enting Center.
“We want to make sure that we’re relevant here for the
21st century,” Schwartz said.
It’s likely Neuman’s experience in working with local
Jewish agencies will be helpful for the fundraising aspect
of her new position, not to mention her ability from her
first day, which will be during the week of Sept. 7, to pick
up the phone and call the top brass at nearly any local
Jewish organization and not have to introduce herself.
Her professional experience includes having worked
as a principal for the venture capital firm Maveron and
most recently as managing partner at the CenterStone
Executive Search firm. But it’s the year-long gap between
those two positions that exemplifies her work for the
Jewish community: She spent 30 hours a week chair-
ing the committee that pushed forward the first phase of
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Joel Magalnick
Editor, JTNews
In 1999, when Jewish Family Service renovated its food
bank, it had a clientele of about 625 per month in Seattle’s
Capitol Hill neighborhood and throughout the Jewish
community. Today, that number exceeds 1,500 individ-
ual visitors a month — far more than the agency served
even a year ago.
“We are now really crunched in here,” Ken Weinberg,
CEO of Jewish Family Service, told JTNews in May. “We
have a food bank, the lines are extending quite far, and
we need a facility that can handle the new needs of the
community.”
Weinberg had expressed hope for the possibility of
federal funding, and on Tuesday, JFS announced that the
Morris Polack Food Bank had received up to $500,000
from the City of Seattle as a part of the Community Devel-
opment Block Grant funds made available through the
federal stimulus package.
According to a news release from JFS, construction on
the expansion will begin next month and is expected to be
completed by December. The project will double the food
bank’s size to about 2,600 square feet — most of that being
storage space, including an additional walk-in cooler, and
will alleviate the need to store excess food off-site.
JFS’s associate director Claudia Berman said she was
excited about the way the expansion will streamline oper-
ations.
“We’ll have our ability to receive food and to stock it
and move it for food bank use,” Berman said. “We’ll have
whatever’s necessary to move food efficiently.”
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For the community For JewiSh women For AdultS Age 50+

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Violence Outreach, Response & Advocacy)
m tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. A community-wide program offered in
are free of charge.
JFS, 1601 16th Ave, Seattle partnership with Temple De Hirsch Sinai.
EO events are open to the public.
Contact Eve M. Ruff, (206) 861-8782 or
emruff@jfsseattle.org Burma: Land of the
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m August 27 (thursday) Rescheduled to:
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. m August 25 (tuesday)

Hillel UW 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

4745 17th Ave NE, Seattle
RSVP to Gail Pollack, (206) 861-3151 or
e-mail gpollack@jfsseattle.org
Challah-Palooza!
Top challah vendors will share their delicious
creations, just in time for the New Year.
m September 11 (Friday)
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
FREE
Held at Whole Foods Market, Roosevelt
Square, 1026 NE 64th, Seattle
Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org.
Shaarei Tikvah: Gates of Hope
A Celebration of Rosh Hashanah for
People of All Abilities
A community wide non-denominational service
for persons with developmental disabilities or
persistent mental illness, their friends, families
and other members of the community. Join us in
prayer and celebration and hear the sounding of
the shofar. Led by Cantor David Serkin-Poole
and special guests.
m September 19 (Saturday)
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Temple De Hirsch Sinai
1441 – 16th Ave, Seattle
FREE
Kosher dietary laws observed
RSVP is encouraged. To discuss special
accommodations, please contact us by
September 10.
Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org.
Kid’s Club / Fall 2009
Helping Children Who Have Witnessed
Domestic Violence
A 12-week series of classes for mothers and
their children age 5-8. Designed specifially
to help children process what they have
experienced and witnessed; teach parents
to talk and listen to their children about their
experiences; support parents in strengthening
their relationships with their children; help
parents understand the impact of domestic
violence on their children and on themselves,
and reinforce behaviors that promote healthy
relationships.
FREE
All families, religions, communities & cultures
are welcome. Non-Jews and Jews alike.
Must register by 4:00 p.m. Friday,
September 18.
Contact Project DVORA at (206) 461-3240 for
dates, times and location.
Tashlich for Survivors of
Intimate Partner Abuse
Tashlich is a powerful Jewish ritual where we
“cast off” the things we need to leave behind
into a body of water.
Join us for an evening of discussion and ritual,
led by Danica Bornstein, MSW, LICSW. This
event is open to survivors of intimate partner
abuse and women with controlling partners. All
levels of Jewish observance are welcome.
m September 23 (wednesday)
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Confidential location
Must register by 4:00 p.m. Friday,
September 18
For more information and to RSVP, please
contact Project DVORA, (206) 461-3240 or
contactus@jfsseattle.org.
Confidential Support Group
Peer support, education and healing for Jewish
women with controlling partners.
m ongoing
Temple De Hirsch Sinai Foyer/Chapel
1441 16th Ave, Seattle
Moses & His Web of
Seven Women
m September 15 (tuesday)
10:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Mercer Island Library
4400 88th Ave SE, Mercer Island
For directions go to http://www.kcls.org/
mercerisland/
RSVP Ellen Hendin, (206) 861-3183 or
endlessopps@jfsseattle.org regarding all
Endless Opportunities programs.
For pArentS
Parenting & Teshuva:
Rupture, Repair & Return
Parenting is filled with constant adjustments and
challenges — yet these challenging moments
can ultimately turn us closer to our children.
Join us as we explore questions of forgiving
and moving forward in our parenting through
discussion, text study and activities.
m tuesdays, September 15 & 22
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At a Queen Anne location in Seattle
$20/person, $30/couple.
Scholarships available. Space is limited,
advance registration required.
Register online through http://www.kavana.org/
family/parenting-and-teshuva or call Marjorie
Schnyder, (206) 861-3146.
PEPS
A New Partnership with JFS!
PEPS is now offering a peer support group
experience for parents of newborns within a
culturally sensitive context. Jewish and
interfaith parents are invited to join us!
Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org or go to http://www.
pepsgroup.org/register-for-peps/jfs.
Mom2Mom
Provides ideas, support and connections to 1st
or 2nd time moms through peer mentorship.
Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or
familylife@jfsseattle.org

Confidential location, dates and time.

Contact Project DVORA, (206) 461-3240
or contactus@jfsseattle.org
Check out the new
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at www.jfsseattle.org!
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mAke A diFFerence!
Rewarding opportunities are currently available.
For details, please see Volunteer Opportunities
on our website, or contact Jane Deer-Hileman,
Director of Volunteer Services, at
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1601 - 16th Avenue, Seattle

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rabbi’s turn
Magical stories
As the High Holidays approach, it is through stories that we can best connect to our faith
Rabbi Ephraim
Schwartz
West Seattle
Torah Learning
Center
I’m a story junkie. As a child I was
always an avid reader and I haven’t lost
my love of sinking my teeth into a good
book. Unfortunately today, it’s not as easy
to find the spare moments to indulge in
my favorite pastime. I therefore have to
satisfy myself with tapes and lectures that
have great stories on them and the won-
derful brief summer vacations to catch up
on my story material for the year.
This year was no different. Miles of vaca-
tion drive time down to a beautiful Oregon
retreat, my favorite storyteller tapes of
all time — Reb Shlomo Carlebach —
at my side, kids sleeping in the back, and
I was transported to storyteller heaven
by the super holy Reb Shlomo: Miracu-
lous rebbes, holy thieves, tales of other-
worldly visits, Holocaust heroism. J.K.
Rowling and the scar-inf licted Harry
Potter have got nothing on a good Chas-
sidic rebbe tale.
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Perhaps the reason I found these stories
so meaningful, poignant and inspirational
are because they are about real people that
I’m familiar with. I have studied many of
these great sages’ works, where their piety
and erudition are most readily reflected.
Sure, any good Chassidic tale always has a
certain difficult un-believability factor to
it. But as my rebbe used to say, “they ain’t
telling ’em about me and you.”
Perhaps one of the most overwhelming
themes of these stories is the incredible
faith and miracles performed on behalf of
those of with less-than-perfect faith. Yet,
because of their supreme sincerity in cer-
tain areas, they are granted the heavenly
merit that brings them the salvation and
blessing they seek. In truth, I think many
of us today would love, at times, to dis-
appear to a magical world where all our
problems can go away and our nervous-
ness, anxieties, worries and even daily
challenges and fears would all dissipate.
One thing I have learned being a rabbi for
many years is that nobody has it easy. Or as
my mom would say, “everyone’s got their
pekel” — everyone’s got their package.
Is there a magical world? The Torah por-
tion we read this time of year discusses the
concept. In Deuteronomy, chapter 18: 9-15,
God tells us in no uncertain terms that we
should never consider utilizing any of the
services of any Potter-like diviners:
There should not be found among you
one who passes their children through
fire, one who practices divination, an
astrologer, an omen reader, sorcerer,
animal charmer, Ov or Yidoni witches,
or séance holders. For anyone who
does this is an abomination of Hashem,
and because of these abominations
Hashem, your God, banishes [the
nations] from before you. Tamim tiyeh
im Hashem Elokekecha — You shall
be wholehearted/complete with
Hashem, your God. For these nations
whom you are conquering, they
hearken to astrologers and diviners;
but as for you, Hashem, your God
has not given you so.
Bridging the gap
As the chair of the advisory board to
the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the
University of Washington, I was pleased
to read and agree with Professor Jaffee’s
August 7 column regarding the Stroum
Lectures (“A learning experience”). The
program is proud of its many contribu-
tions to the field of Jewish Studies as well
as to its contributions to the greater com-
munity. At the same time, we recognize
the importance of expanding the audi-
ence and participation of the Jewish com-
munity in deriving benefit from what the
program has to offer. This is the communi-
ty’s opportunity to be exposed to leading
research in various aspects of Jewish Stud-
ies as well as to engage with renowned
scholars in the field.
One of the goals of the advisory board is
to support the program by bridging the gap
between academia and the community at
large as well as to expand that interaction.
In this regard we seek to provide input and
feedback to the program on the interests
of the community, to widely advertise the
many events, lectures and programs open
to the public, and to ensure that interesting
programming is accessible to all who are
not necessarily scholars in the field. These
activities also require providing finan-
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The early commentators debate the
reasons for this prohibition. Maimonides
writes that there was nothing to these
frauds — there is no reality to these magi-
cal sorcerers. Yet the majority of commen-
taries see in the Torah’s harsh prohibition
that God was mandating us not to just
avoid scam artists, but that there are, or
at least were, such powers.
Just as God created the potential for
prophesy and to have communication
with the Divine, in the era of that spiri-
tual power and closeness there was the
power to distort, utilizing that energy of
the spiritual world for evil and as a tool to
distance oneself from God.
The Holy Ohr Hachaim, an 18th-
century Kabbalist and scholar, sees in
this verse an even more powerful idea:
Reading the verse more homiletically —
Tamim Yihyeh — complete you will be
— im Hashem Elokecha — when you are
with Hashem your God. We don’t need
magic. Our troubles and pekelach are not
mere happenstance. That which we seek
most, a sense of completeness and ful-
fillment, can be found in only one place:
Im Hashem Elokecha — with our loving
Father in heaven.
cial support to the program in addition to
that which is regularly allocated from the
Stroum and other endowments.
We look forward to interacting with and
supporting the Stroum Jewish Studies Pro-
gram faculty in the coming year to continue
offering the community exceptional learn-
ing experiences from scholars in Jewish
Studies. We welcome input and feedback
from the community with ideas to enhance
its benefit and participation in the program.
Robert Center, Seattle
Broad goals
Enough with this gay-schmay stuff (“Gay
Israelis reeling after shooting attack,” Aug.
7)! If we are intent on replacing ourselves
after the World War II slaughter, practicing
homosexuality isn’t the way toward that
goal. Didn’t your mommies and daddies
have “the talk” with you?
These homosexuals aren’t think-
ing about the broad goal for the Jewish
people; just their own self gratification.
And as far as adopting the children of
others, let me remind you of one of the
main precepts in teaching children: We
teach by example.
So folks, as the old song says, “Straighten
up and fly right.”
Edith Isaacs Ervin, Mercer Island
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It is that power of faith and connec-
tion to our Creator that is at the heart of
my favorite Chassidish stories. More often
than not in these tales, it doesn’t take the
most erudite or learned person to achieve
that level of faith. One doesn’t even have
to be the most God-fearing. What it takes
is a true sense and understanding that all
comes from Him. All is good from Him.
And oyyy gevalt (as Reb Shlomo would say)
do we need his help, do we need his love.
This Shabbos is the first of the month of
Elul. We enter the High Holiday prepara-
tory month. Historically, this is a momen-
tous occasion for we are told it is at this
time that Moshe went back up the moun-
tain to bring the ultimate forgiveness
for our nation’s first big betrayal of the
Golden Calf. It is also a month, our sages
have taught us, when Hashem is clos-
est to us. The King is coming to town and
is out in the fields waiting for us to join
Him. The conclusion of this story will take
place after Sukkot and Simchat Torah, an
ending that is happily ever after.
Yet our story begins now with this
month. May our books be inscribed with
life as we begin the preparation for the
upcoming Holy Days.
Letters
Unkosher chutzpah
The last issue of the JTNews carried
an ad from a pair of restaurants highlight-
ing their “Kosher Deli Meats (Plus Regu-
lar Kosher Style Deli Items).” By “kosher
deli meats,” are they referring to their
non-recommended brands that any-
body keeping kosher for religious reasons
wouldn’t get near, or do they mean the
chazir on the “Bacon Bagel” poster that
was prominently displayed at the opening
of their new location? By “regular kosher
style deli items,” are they touting their
“Ham and Swiss” sandwich and “Man-
hattan Clam Chowder” and “Denver
Omelet With Cheese” and/or their other
blatantly treif fare? Puleeze! This is the
height of chutzpah and a prime exam-
ple of why Washington State has a kosher
food law.
If the owners of these establishments
were to offer actually kosher places to
eat, I and other kashrus-observant people
would gladly patronize them. Absent that,
they should cease targeting unwary con-
sumers with their deceptive practices.
As for the term “kosher style,” it is
offensive mockery of our religious stan-
dards and its use should be prohibited in a
Jewish community publication.
Chaplain Gary Friedman,Seattle
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After the meeting, I surmised that the
administration was asking a great deal
to their homes. What I did hear is that
Israel had no justification to defend itself
after waiting seven years and absorbing
tens of thousands of missiles fired at its
people. What I did hear is a Palestinian
leader warning the Arab states not to nor-
malize their ties with Israel. (“Normaliza-
tion of Israel’s ties with the Arab countries
before the occupation ends in the Pales-
tinian areas is the last thing that the Pal-
estinians should have to experience,” said
Abu El-Izz Dajani, a former PLO ambassa-
dor.) What I did hear is Jordan calling on
Saudi Arabia to publicly reject appeals to
improve relations with Israel.
After meeting with U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jor-
dan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh told
her that confidence-building measures

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of Israel while requesting little from the the United States wants the Arab states

grow…
Arab world.
President Obama apparently likes the
word “recalibrate.” I’ve heard him use it
on many occasions. He said, “We have
to recalibrate the perception that little is
being asked of the Arab world, and specif-
ically the Palestinians.”
The president assured us that in pri-
vate discussions, Arabs have agreed to
stop the incitement and to recognize Isra-
el’s legitimate right to be a homeland for
the Jewish people, but they have yet to
express this publicly. We were assured
that in the near future there would be sig-
nificant changes in the news releases and
speeches given by moderate Arab lead-
ers. The president felt that with a more
evenhanded diplomatic posture, the
to take will not produce a resolution to
the conflict. So it seems the Arab world
has totally rejected President Obama’s
requests. I therefore eagerly await the
change in approach that the president
promised us on July 13.
In the interim, the Obama administra-
tion has continued to press the settlements
issue with Israel, making its displeasure
over the eviction of Arab residents from an
East Jerusalem building clear in conversa-
tions with the Israeli ambassador to Wash-
ington, Michael Oren.
Our meeting with President Obama
was the beginning of a dialogue and so I,
as president of the Orthodox Union, rep-
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Jewish life, respectfully ask the president

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It is time to look at what has happened
since we’ve had our meeting. I have not
heard one Arab leader publicly recog-
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to reconsider his position in relation-
ship to Israel. At that meeting the presi-
dent was urged that there be no daylight
between Israel and United States — the
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8:00 pm - Joint service with Temple B’nai Torah…at 7:30 pm - 4th Shabbat Shuvah – Seattle statements praising suicide bombers and ment, and once the relationship between
our Bellevue Campus. Saturday, September 26th threatening violence, as well as the ridic- the United States and Israel is solidified to
An evening of nosh and celebration culminating in a 10:30 am - Shacharit Services - Seattle ulous claim accusing Israel of assassinat- assure the world that there is no daylight,
10:00 pm service of reflection, music and prayer—the NO BELLEVUE AM SERVICE
ultimate preparation for the High Holy Days. ing Arafat — although the Fatah delegates then and only then will the seeds of true
acknowledged there was no proof. peace be planted in the Middle East.
EREV ROSH HASHANA KOL NIDRE
What I did hear at the convention is
Friday, September 18th Sunday, September 27th
Evening Service* Evening Service* that Palestinians who supposedly were Stephen J. Savitsky is the president of the
7:30 pm - Seattle and Bellevue 7:30 pm - Seattle and Bellevue expelled in 1948 should be able to return Orthodox Union.
R OSH H A S H A NA Y O M K I P P UR
Saturday, September 19th Monday, September 28th
Morning Service* Morning Service*
10:00 am - Seattle and Bellevue 10:00 am - Seattle and Bellevue JFS receives stimulus t Page 1 ment’s Housing and Urban Development
- OR - - OR - office, based upon a formula allocation.
Kids’ Kehillah* (Ages 6-9) Kids’ Kehillah* (Ages 6-9) A new checkout system will allow cli- Funding requirements specified that
10:00 am - Bellevue only 10:00 am - Bellevue only
Kulanu* Kulanu* (Ages 5-11 with parents) ents to choose their own food from the any facility expansion be “shovel-ready,”
(Ages 5-11 with parents) 10:00 am - Seattle only shelves instead of having to take pre- or prepared to start work within 120 days,
10:00 am - Seattle only Family Services (Open to the public) bagged items. During the construction Levin said, though that timeline eventu-
Family Services (Open to the public) (No ticket needed)
(No ticket needed) 1:30 pm - Seattle and Bellevue period, the agency will rely more heav- ally changed.
1:30 pm - Seattle and Bellevue Afternoon, Yizkor & ily on home delivery and consolidate the “This was what made JFS rise to the
Tashlich casting off our sins Neilah (Closing) Services food bank’s hours of operation to ensure top: Projects that had plans, permits
3:00 pm - Luther Burbank Park, : pm - followed by
Mercer Island Break-The-Fast Receptions its clients get fed. ready to go, and what they really needed
Seattle and Bellevue JFS is the only local food bank to was the last piece of funding to move the
Please Note: receive funding, said Sara Levin, deputy project forward,” Levin said.
* Ticket Required For Admission. All Non Ticketed Services/Events Are Open To The Public.
For more information call (206) 323-8486 or log onto www.tdhs-nw.org director of the city’s human services According to Berman, until the project

TEMPLE
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1441 - 16th Avenue
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(425) 454-5085
lion in community development funding the expansion is undetermined, but will
click on TGIS @ TDHS at www.tdhs-nw.org the city received from the federal govern- likely run between $350,000 and $500,000.

First stop: Seattle
Israel lobbying organization J Street selects Seattle for its first satellite office
Leyna Krow
Assistant Editor, JTNews
In just 16 months, J Street, described
by its founders as the “political arm of
the pro-Israel and pro-peace movement,”
has made a name for itself in Washing-
ton, D.C.
The young organization has made a
concerted effort to show it is operating
with a different agenda than other major
Israel lobbying groups that have been
working Capitol Hill for decades. J Street
has been largely supportive of President
Barack Obama’s opposition to settlement
growth in the West Bank and is vocal in
its advocacy for a two-state solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
These are positions that apparently
register well with both a large portion of
the American public as well as the cur-
rent administration. J Street currently
boasts a roaster of nearly 110,000 sup-
porters and last month J Street executive
director Jeremy Ben Ami was one of 16
Jewish leaders invited to the White House
to meet with President Obama.
Now, J Street is looking beyond the
nation’s capitol, hiring regional coordi-
nators to strengthen supporter bases in
other parts of the country. Their first stop:
Seattle.
“Seattle is one of our key national
hubs,” explained J Street political direc-
tor Dan Kohl. “We have been very encour-
aged by the support shown in Seattle.”
J Street has selected Barbara Lahav
as its Pacific Northwest regional coordi-
nator. Lahav describes herself as having
been “active in the pro-Israel, pro-peace
community for many, many years.”
Lahav was an early supporter of J
Street and has helped organize events
to bring Ben Ami to Seattle on two sep-
arate occasions. She has also worked
with the Jewish Federation of Greater
Seattle and as the program director for
Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congre-
gation. Lahav is a founding member of
the interfaith educational organiza-
tion Find Common Ground and of Brit
Tzedek v’Shalom, on whose national
board she now serves. This experience
combined, according to Kohl, makes
her a perfect fit for the job of regional
coordinator.
“Barbara brings such exceptional
knowledge and passion and connections
in the Jewish community to this posi-
tion,” Kohl said. “We couldn’t have asked
for more of an ideal person.”
As the Pacific Northwest regional
coordinator, Lahav will be responsible
for organizing J Street-sponsored events
in the Seattle area, broadening the orga-
nization’s base of local supporters, and
acting as a local connection for existing
supporters. She will also be working with
the Washington and Oregon State Con-
gressional delegations to make sure they
know J Street’s position on issues related
to Israel and the Middle East.
friday, august 21, 2009
Courtesy Barbara Lahav
New J Street Seattle director Barbara
Lahav.
Despite its relatively small Jewish pop-
ulation in comparison to other major U.S.
cities, Seattle has a strong history of sup-
porting Israel advocacy organizations,
both Kohl and Lahav said. Lahav cited
the ongoing success of AIPAC’s North-
west chapter as well as the popularity of
groups such as Brit Tzedek. She added
that several of the main members of J
Street’s national finance committee are
from Seattle.
Where J Street differentiates itself
from groups such as AIPAC is in its phi-
losophy, Lahav said. W hile AIPAC’s
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mission is strictly pro-Israel without
further qualification, J Street fills the
niche of “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” she
said, focusing on “constituent inf lu-
ence of Congressional leaders to sup-
port America as a pro-active broker in
the Middle East.”
J Street differs from Brit Tzedek in
that J Street is dedicated to lobbying
while Brit Tzedek, and the similar orga-
nization Americans for Peace Now, focus
on grassroots activism. A report this
week from the JTA wire service said J
Street and Brit Tzedek are discussing a
formal alliance.
The local J Street chapter’s first event
will be a visit from Colette Avital, a former
Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Israeli
Consul General. Avital is now a senior
adviser to J Street in Israel. She will be in
Seattle Sept. 15-16 as part of a multi-city
West Coast tour.
Seattle is not the only city where J
Street is looking to broaden its influence.
According to Kohl, the organization plans
to hire coordinators in Chicago and New
York in the coming months as well.
J Street’s almost immediate popular-
ity has been attributed in some cases to
the rise of a younger generation of Israel
supporters — Jews in their 20s and 30s
who are more liberal in their position on
Israel than their parents may have been
and who feel that J Street represents
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community news

Acceptance of others as child’s play

Dolls for Democracy and Diversity showcases generations-old teaching tools
Malkie Cramer
JTNews Intern
In the era of online high schools and
interactive learning software, one orga-
nization is bringing out a teaching tool
from generations back: Dolls.
After an extensive restoration, The
Washington State Jewish Historical Soci-
ety will be presenting its collection of the
Dolls for Democracy and Diversity at the
Rosalie Whyel Museum of Doll Art through
November 8. WSJHS plans to share the
original message of the dolls that were
used between the 1950s and 1970s to teach
children in the classrooms about tolerance
and acceptance of others’ differences.
“[It’s] the type of program that showed
children, boys and girls, that all people
are equal,” said Lisa Kranseler, executive
director of WSJHS.
The Dolls for Democracy and Diver-
sity are hand-made dolls created by
Ceci l Week s of Independence, Mo.
bet ween the 1940s and 1970s. They
depicted such historical persons as
George Washington, Jackie Robinson,
Abraham Lincoln, Anne Frank and Jus-
tice Louis Brandeis.
However, it was the Jewish organi-
zation B’nai B’rith Women, now known
as Jewish Women International, that
started touring public schools nation-
wide in the 1950s with suitcases full of the
10-inch dolls in an attempt to teach chil-
dren acceptance and awareness of differ-
ent ethnic, racial, religious and financial
backgrounds.
“It taught kids that anyone can achieve
anything,” said Kranseler.
WSJHS hopes that restoring the dolls
and putting up the exhibit, after almost
B’nai B’rith Women member Marsha Burns uses dolls to explain diversity in a 1950s
classroom she visited.
20 years of sitting in storage, will help
bring a sense of public awareness of his-
tory and the importance of historical
preservation.
“History is always the first thing to
go,” Kranseler said, “and once it’s gone,
it’s gone.”
If you go:
Dolls for Democracy and Diversity will
be on display at the Rosalie Whyel
Museum of Doll Art, 1116 108th Ave.
NE, Bellevue through Nov. 8. Visit
www.wsjhs.org for more information.
Courtesy WSJHS
WSJHS hopes the exhibit will demon-
strate the value of history and work put
into not only making the dolls, but of the
women who worked hard to share their
message.
“People ca n see t hat ha rd work
and community service [are] valued.”
Kranseler said.
Children of the original B’nai B’rith
Women, also known as “the doll ladies,”
served as “ambassadors” at the exhibit’s
Aug. 18 opening to explain the dolls to
visitors less familiar with their message
of diversity and tolerance.
With the children whose classrooms
had been visited by the traveling “doll
ladies” now grown and many with chil-
dren or grandchildren of the same age,
WSJHS is looking at the current school-
age generation for teaching diversity.
“Today we still have reasons to edu-
cate the youth,” said Kranseler. “There are
issues that still remain [in the classroom].”
The organization, along with others
such as the Washington State Holocaust
Education Resource Center, recognizes
that the issues of acceptance and diver-
sity the Dolls for Democracy and Diver-
sity addressed during their tours are still
valid today.
“The dolls were trying to show people
role models of different people and back-
grounds,” said Ilana Kennedy, direc-
tor of education at the Holocaust Center.
“That’s still the kinds of lessons we’re
trying to teach today.”
Kranseler said WSJHS is looking to put
the dolls back to their old uses after the
exhibit ends. With the hope of gathering
enough staff and financing, the WSJHS
will strive to bring the dolls back into
the classrooms, starting first with local
Jewish day schools, and using that expe-
rience to work lessons of respect and the
acceptance of differences into their daily
curriculum.
“Tolera nce a nd diversit y shou ld
always be respected.” Kranseler said.
Despite the dolls’ history of work-
ing with children, the exhibit is geared
toward all ages.
“The doll collection was trying to get
at the concept that humans of all colors,
ethnicities, races, [and] backgrounds
play an important role in society and
that everybody has the potential to make
a great difference.” Kennedy said.
Although the doll exhibit does not
deliver the original message of the 1950s
through 1970s as strongly as touring the
schools, Kranseler said, restoring and
showing the dolls and what they repre-
sent is as important today as it was then.

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“Understanding Hike with the rabbi

Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases: What Every
Patient Needs to Know”
The Crohn’s and Colitis Founda-
tion of America, Northwest Chap-
ter presents a lecture by Dr.
William Holderman about Crohn’s dis-
ease and ulcerative colitis, which both
affect a disproportionately high number
of individuals of Jewish descent. IBD
patients, their relatives and friends, and
members of the medical community are
invited. Free. For more information, or to
register, visit w w w.ccfa.org/chapters/
northwest. Thurs., Aug. 27 at 6:30 p.m. at
Tacoma Community College, building
28, room 106, 6501 S 19th St., Tacoma.
JFS 117th annual meeting
Jewish Family Service will hold its
annual meeting Thurs., Aug. 27 at
Karen Langman 6:30 p.m. at Hillel at the University
Two of the three teams playing the Jewish Volleyball Challenge, a fundraiser of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
round-robin tournament co-hosted by Herzl-Ner Tamid’s NextGen young adult Donations of $18, $36 or $117 requested.
group and JewSEA, the Jewish Social Experience Association, battle it out on Sun., Attendees are also asked to bring a contri-
Aug. 16. The winning team, Yalla Shawarma, donated the proceeds from its bution for the food bank. Pre-registration
winnings to the National Council for Jewish Women’s Shalom Bayit. is required. To RSVP, contact Gail Pollack
at 206-861-3151 or gpollack@jfsseattle.org.
Temple Beth Or’s new rabbi, Jes-
sica Kessler Marshall, invites
unaffiliated Jews in Snohomish
County to take their Judaism outdoors for a
Shabbat morning hike. The hike will last
about two hours with stops along the way
for brief teachings and discussions. Friends,
families and dogs are welcome to come
along. Participants should bring water,
lunch and weather-appropriate clothing.
For more information, contact the Temple
Beth Or office at 425-259-7125 or office@
templebethor.org. Sat., Aug. 29 at 10 a.m.
Meet at the Stanwood park-and-ride by the
76 Station just west of I-5 at exit 212.
SJCC annual meeting
The entire community is invited to
attend to the Stroum JCC’s annual
meeting on Thurs., Sept. 10 at 1
p.m. The meeting will celebrate the SJCC’s
60th anniversary and honor staff members
and volunteers for their service during the
year. Attendees will also have the opportu-
nity to meet Judy Neuman, the JCC’s new
CEO. To RSVP, contact Marcie Wirth, 206-
388-1998 or mwirth@sjcc.org. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

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Where to find the best Israeli foods in the Seattle area
Erez Ben-Ari
JTNews Correspondent
I recently wrote about making some
Mediterranean delicacies right at home
(“Restaurant? Who needs restaurants?”
July 24). In fact, most other Israeli dishes
aren’t that hard to make, but you still
need to get the right ingredients. While
garbanzo beans and tahini are easily
available at most supermarkets, many
people have asked where to get some of
the more interesting, exotic items. Some
companies in the area have even formed
discussion groups that actively seek and
assist each other with tips for finding the
cheapest Bamba, or the best selection of
hummus. Perhaps it is time to share some
of those secrets.
Jewish traditional items, like matzoh
ball soup, borscht and Hanukkah candles
are easily obtainable in any QFC, Safe-
way or Fred Meyer, but some branches
stand above. Mercer Island is a prime loca-
tion for many notable local Jewish fami-
lies, and that Albertson’s location makes a
point of catering to their needs. Aside from
the above-mentioned items, one can find
a variety of Jewish and Israeli items, from
Israeli-made marshmallows to hot pep-
pers known as “shipka.” They also offer
kosher meats, fish and even sushi!
Those of you who don’t live on the rock,
however, need not travel so far to get your
goods — a hidden gem could be right
around the corner. Residents of Bellevue
and Renton need only travel to Factoria
Mall, where at Goldberg’s Famous Delica-
tessen, which I’ve often praised for their
wide and tasty selection of Jewish dishes,
also has a small deli counter and store. The
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store offers the usual items, and also fresh
brisket, Jewish-style salads and other rarer
items like Bamba and Dr. Brown’s sodas.
Residents of Redmond and North Belle-
vue whisper of the Pars Market, a tiny store
dedicated to Persian food, but also offering
a lot of kosher items and treats imported
from Israel. The Pars Market has, beyond
the Israeli basics, chocolate spread,
olives and pickles, soft cheeses, frozen
bourekas and malawach and the all-too-
famous soup almonds. On special occa-
sions such as Jewish holidays, Pars Market
owner Zari Motarjemi imports specialty
items that include an extended variety of
cheeses, available during Shavuot. Most
of these items are imported directly from
Israel, rather than locally produced, so
they guarantee the original taste.
In Seattle, the QFC at University Vil-
lage as well as the just-opened I Love NY
Deli have plenty of imported items on the
shelves.
For those less inclined to shop around,
the Internet has become quite the source.
While many still feel that shopping for
food online is still a bit strange, local Inter-
net guru Jeff Bezos and his little online
shop Amazon.com have some surprises in
store. A wide selection of products, mostly
by Osem, is offered on the site.
Amazon does force you to buy larger-
than-normal quantities, but the shipping
is free. For less than $20, you can have a
60-oz. box of Bisli (that’s almost 2 kilos for
Israelis still more comfortable with the
metric system) delivered to your door-
step. Other items on the menu include
couscous, Meals on the Go (Mana Hama)
and even pudding and crackers (I recom-
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Find Israeli pickled peppers online for
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Other than Amazon, the Web is jam-
packed with stores that offer a wide
variety of items for the Israeli connois-
seur. Wissotzky Tea, Elite instant or
black coffee, and even chocolate and
candy are all hiding on eBay. A few
months ago, eBay introduced a Hebrew
interface to the site, which draws many
Israeli sellers, and they offer prett y
much anything. To locate an Israeli
seller on eBay, just go to the advanced
search page, select “Items located in,”
and choose “Israel.”
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Mercer Island Albertson’s
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Goldberg’s Famous Delicatessen
3924 Factoria Square Mall SE, Bellevue
425-641-6622
Pars Market
2331 140th Ave. NE #B, Bellevue
425-641-5265
QFC University Village
2746 NE 45th St., Seattle
206-523-5160
I Love NY Deli
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We should speak with humility, God willing
Including requests for God’s watchful eye in our conversation makes a difference
who invoke the English “God willing” or
the Hebrew phrases “im yirtzeh Hashem”
which translates as “if God wishes” or
“be’ezrat Hashem,” meaning “with the help
of God,” are trying to do their best to ward
Rivy Poupko off the evil eye and we might be tempted to
Kletenik leave it there. In truth, there is more here
JTNews than simple superstition.
Columnist Not that I would ever, ever mess with
the evil eye. Those of us who grew up with
Dear Rivy, notions of ayin hara, the evil eye, do not
I don’t know when I started noticing cast it aside with ease. By no stretch of the
this or maybe once I did notice it, I just imagination did the thought of it rule our
started to notice it more. What I’m talking lives, but neither was it to be taken lightly.
about is the habit some people have, when In fact, I am the duly respectful proprietor
talking, to throw in a “God willing” about of an anti-evil eye incantation. My mother,
any anticipated event in the upcoming of blessed memory, confidentially passed
future. For example, “We are, God will- on to me a secret Yiddish chant that is
ing, going to Los Angeles next week.” assured to ward off the evil eye. I was
I am wondering about why they do not, she cautioned, to use this invocation
this. Is this mandated by Jewish law? Is unless it was absolutely necessary. It was
it a custom? Is it wrong to not say it? certainly not to be evoked casually.
The core belief of ayin hara is that
You have picked up on a subtle nuance there are bad vibes out there, perhaps
that is most certainly an element of the from people who may be envious of you.
standard parlance of many pious people. They could cast an “evil eye” upon you
Extreme caution when speaking is some- at your very pinnacle of success or good
thing encouraged by a host of our tradi- fortune, when you might be most vul-
tional texts. Whether in regard to how we nerable, to bring you down. Therefore,
speak (“words spoken softly by the wise are in a prophylactic effort, some utter “God
heeded”), or of what we speak (“do not be a willing” with the hope that its effect will
talebearer”), or when we speak (“say less — undermine the muscle of the “evil eye.”
do more”). Speech is considered a power- T he fol low ing Midrashic puzzle
ful tool, fraught with potential pitfalls. addresses this very practice. Here’s the
But you raise a somewhat different puzzle: One story, two versions. In Deva-
aspect of speech. Some might say that those rim Rabbah, we find the following short
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Halafta, went to a circumcision cere-
mony. The father of the child made a feast
and gave those present 7-year-old wine
to drink, saying, ‘Of this wine, I will store
away a portion for my son’s wedding feast.’
Later on, the sage, having the opportunity
to chat with the Angel of Death, was told
that though the father had excitedly pro-
nounced, “Of this wine I will store away
a portion for my son’s wedding feast,”
this father has no idea that tragically, his
child’s time has come. He is to be snatched
away after 30 days and will therefore never
have a wedding feast.
The episode is of course deeply disturb-
ing. Curiously, the same story appears in
Kohelet Rabbah, but here the father speaks
a bit differently. He says instead, “Drink
some of this old wine, and I trust in the Lord
of heaven that He will grant me to offer you
drink at his wedding feast.” Something has
been added: A version of our “God willing.”
This is one part of the very different narra-
tive, which goes on to say that the baby’s
life is spared. Quite the puzzle.
It is not that we would say that the
baby’s life is spared because of the addition
of the father’s, “and I trust in the Lord of
heaven that He will grant me.” That would
be pushing the providential envelope. But
rather, there were deeply disturbing ele-
ments in the first version and in a subse-
quent rendition the disturbing elements
were tweaked. One of those disturbing ele-
ments is the haughtiness of the father, who
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unabashedly and arrogantly boasts, “Of
this wine I will store away a portion for my
son’s wedding feast.”
In contrast, in the second version,
we feel the humility, some of the “by the
grace of God go I” stance that is more
behooving of one who walks humbly with
the Lord. This stance is what lies behind
the pronouncing of “God willing.”
That you hear a number of “God will-
ings” begs the question of overuse. Is
there an appropriate utilization of the
expression? Is there a point where it
becomes a trite aphorism encouraging
mockery rather than sincerity? Who’s to
say? We are a people taken with adages
and rote formulations. My mother would
tell of a rabbi who would visit their house
on Shabbat and with every mouthful of
food he would raise to his lips he would
say, “l’kavod Shabbos kodesh,” in honor
of the holy Sabbath. Every morsel! It was
a visceral devotional exercise in his expe-
riencing the holiness of his food. It left a
deep impression on a little girl.
So, too, this “God willing” expression.
Though this is not anything that would
fall under the rubric of Jewish law, it is
instead one of those subtleties that conveys
a certain worldview. The skill of speaking
carefully and responsibly is a lifetime occu-
pation; few among us have no regrets in this
regard. This particular nuance is an oppor-
tunity to train ourselves in humility and,
God willing, we will be the better for it.
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(Almost) based on a true story
Tarantino’s Basterds turns WWII into child’s play
Michael Fox
Special to JTNews
It’s a fool’s errand to criticize Quen-
tin Tarantino for historical inaccuracy or
chronic amorality. Everybody knows his
movies are inspired by and respond to
other movies, not real life.
So there’s no percentage in railing
against Inglourious Basterds as blather-
ing, self-indulgent drivel that (among
many examples of its creator’s hubris)
leaves uneducated moviegoers with an
erroneous perception of where and how
Adolf Hitler met his end.
Nor is there much value in pointing
out that the thorny practical and phil-
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— powerfully addressed in Ed Zwick’s
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m.o.t.: member of the tribe
Adventurous merchant writes
book about adventurous merchant
Also: Local Holocaust essay winner
Diana
Brement
JTNews
Columnist
Harry Rutstein’s book, The Marco
Polo Odyssey: In the Footsteps of a Mer-
chant Who Changed the World, recently
won the independent publisher’s associ-
ation prize for best travel book.
Harry is the only person
to travel Polo’s route from
It a l y t o C h i n a (ot her s
have traveled sections of
the route or modified the
route).
Three expeditions were
mounted in 1971, 1981 and
1985. The first covered Italy
up to the Pakistan border. Courtesy Harry Rutstein chants of Kaifeng, China.
The second, only 300 miles Adventurer and author
long, covered the most dif- Harry Rutstein.
ficult terrain over the four
mountain ranges that comprise Paki-
stan’s “roof of the world.”
Harry’s heart’s desire was to complete
Polo’s route through China, but the polit-
ical situation made getting permission
impossible.
“I had been approaching both the Chi-
nese delegation to the UN and also the
Chinese government,” he explains (there
was no Chinese embassy in D.C. until
1979).
It’s a long and complicated stor y
involving repeated contact with Chi-
nese and American officials, including
then-Vice President George H. W. Bush.
He even started doing business in China,
importing high-technolog y products
(computers, microwaves), which gave
him access to Chinese officials.
But still no luck.
“It took 14 years to get permission,”
says Harry, and then it really did come
down to luck. (You can read more on the
Web site, www.marcopolofound.org.)
Around 1982 he met a Chinese pho-
tojournalist who was very interested in
his project and very well connected. She
made just one phone call — to her father,
third in command in the Chinese gov-
ernment.
So in 1985, with said photojournalist
along, Harry fulfilled his dream, a two-
and-a-half month journey across some of
the most remote parts of China.
Then it took more than 20 years for him “small classes.” He also likes the self-
to write this book because he was so busy
running the successful business he had
created in order to get permission to travel but just far enough.”
across China! (A volume about the first two
expeditions — In the Footsteps of Marco
Polo — came out in 1980, coauthored with
cultural anthropologist Joanne Kroll,
who was on the expedition.)
“I finally sold my business, which gave
me time to write the book,” Harry says.
It also means the book is more up-to-
date politically. “A lot of places I visited together and is a project of the interna-
[including Afghanistan and Iran]…had
either disappeared…or things had hap-
pened,” he says (a slight understatement).
n jtnews 11
The Jerusalem Post
Crossword Puzzle
By David Benkof
Choosing an independent publisher
got the book published a lot faster. Tra-
ditional publishers told him the book
would take two years to get into print.
Now approaching 80, Harry didn’t feel he
had the luxury of time. “I don’t buy green
bananas,” he told me, though he says he
feels 23.
Originally from Baltimore, Harry met
his wife, Nancy, in D.C. She is from Seat-
tle and they soon settled here. Harry has
five grown children, two with Nancy and
three from his first marriage. (His son,
Richard, was a member of the first expe-
dition.) He and Nancy belong to Temple
B’nai Torah and Harry is also a member
of the Sino-Judaic Institute.
In addition to describ-
ing his adventures, Harry
enjoys educating people
about Marco Polo, who
wasn’t Jewish, by the way,
but w rote about Jew ish
traders he encountered on
his trip and Jewish mer-
Polo introduced the con-
cepts of “about 168 other
technologies” to the west,
Across Down
including charcoal, asbestos and paper
1. Tool for Shawn Green 1. “I and Thou” philosopher
money. However, he did not bring noo-
dles from China to Italy. “The Romans 4. “Howie Do It” network 2. Order
had noodles, the Greeks had noodles,” 7. Dov ___ of Mezrich 3. It may be served hot with lemon
Harry assured me. 11. “Racially ___” and a sugar cube
Information about both Harry’s books 12. Take on 4. Dressed to the ___
are at the website mentioned above. 13. Red sea port 5. Star Trek star Spiner
••• 15. Portuguese Bible commentator 6. Every Israeli seems to have at
Earlier this summer, Elliott Appel of Don Isaac least one
Lacey found out he was one of 10 winners 17. Hevra Kadish concern 7. Grovel
of a national Holocaust essay contest. He 18. Airport Kenny G flew out of when 8. ___ on a G String
heard about the contest through Fast Web
younger 9. Mike Nichols’s comedy partner
(a college scholarship Web site) and as
19. How Solomon judged 10. Abaye’s discutant
one of 7,000 entrants he was “a little taken
21. Actor Ziering 11. “Remembrance of Things ___”
aback” to find out he’d won.
The winners were treated to a week 22. Sip, as borscht 12. Nicer way of saying “ain’t”
in Chicago in late June, where they vis- 23. Shabbat benefit 14. Sinai number
ited the new Illinois Holocaust Museum 24. Gain shekels 16. Nabokov’s wife
and Education Center and other memori- 27. ___ Israel (camp founded by the 20. Meaning of a nod
als. They heard a panel discussion on the Lubavitcher Rebbe) 25. ___ mode
1970s legal conflict between the Village of 28. Shlufn 26. It parted, once
Skokie and a neo-Nazi group that wanted 30. IDF location 27. Where to find 10-Down
to march there, met with Holocaust sur- 33. Democrat Steve Cohen’s st. 28. Dancer Sokolow
vivors and with Clemantine Wamariya, a 36. Confess on Yom Kippur 29. Holocaust museum shoes sight
Rwandan genocide survivor.
38. ___ Smasher (Jewish superhero) 30. Boy’s mitzvah?
“It was great,” says Elliott. The oppor-
39. Israeli MIA Arad 31. Second word of a blessing
tunity to hear survivors’ stories and ask
40. Special at Saks 32. “There’s a place for us” song
questions was “a different experience
[than any] I’ve ever had.” 41. ___ Gan 34. Conservative Cantor
A recent graduate of North Thurston 43. He directed “Dave” 35. Month of partition
High in Lacey, Elliott will be at Seattle 45. Brown-___ (like most Jews) announcement, 1947
University this fall. 46. Like Chana Szenesh 37. Koppel or Kaczynski
“They have great diversity,” he says of 48. British Mandate, e.g. 42. Dreidel
his reasons for choosing the school, and 50. Modes 44. Democrat Shelley Berkeley’s
51. “___, from New York...” state
contained but urban campus also and, of 53. Where Jesse Eisenberg works 47. Chazon ___
course, it’s “not too far away from home, 56. Start of Petach Tikvah 49. Moses Isserles’s nickname
58. Sixth word of a blessing 51. Like some slots in 44-Down
He plans to study business and to work
60. React to “Schindler’s List” 52. Beitar ___
and travel internationally. As you read
61. Siren announcing Shabbat’s 53. Bit of work for Mel Brooks
this, he is in Nicaragua teaching a photog-
raphy workshop for the “voluntourism” arrival 54. Late philanthropist Jesselson
organization, Communidad Connect. 64. Premier with a silver tongue 55. City south of Beirut
The Holland & Knight Charitable 66. Aish Ha___ 56. New York Senator Moynihan
Foundation was established to bring 67. Teheran’s location (1977-2000)
students and sur v ivors of genocide 68. Number of times shofar is blown 57. Longtime Haaretz newsman
at the end of Yom Kippur Amos
tional legal firm Holland & Knight. A 69. Seminary for girls 59. Artist Yaacov
selection of winning essays may be read 70. Encountered 62. With 63-Down, Joseph B.
at holocaust.hklaw.com. 71. Funnywoman Arthur Soloveitchik
63. See 62-Down
65. Bugsy Siegel’s group
Answers on page 16
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arts & entertainment

Wednesday, August 26, 7:30 p.m. September 5-7

Monsters of Accordion Bumbershoot
Music Music and arts festival
www.monstersofaccordion.com
All Bumbershoot events take place at the Seattle Center, 305 Harrison St., Seattle. Tickets
A night of performances celebrating the accordion, including songs can be purchased in advance online at www.bumbershoot.org/tickets.
by Geoff Berner, the self-described “klezmer mongrel” who revamps
traditional Jewish folk music with a punk rock twist. At the Triple Saturday, September 5
Door, 216 Union St., Seattle. The Great Northwest
Panel discussion with Pacific Northwest writers Jess Walter, Kerry Cohen and and Kevin
Sampsell. Kerry Cohen is the author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity. 3:30 p.m. at
the Literary Arts Stage.

the arts aug. 26 – sept. 9 Sunday,

September 6
Wednesday, August 26, 7:30 p.m. David Cross
Mental: An Evening of Homo-Neurotic Comedy Comedian David
Comedy Cross is best known
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Comic and author Eddie Sarfaty muses on being gay, Jewish and “Arrested Develop-
all the neuroses associated with both. Sarfaty has been featured ment” and “Mr.
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and is on the faculties of The Theatre Lab in Washington, D.C. he will share sections
and New York University where he teaches courses in stand-up from his first book, I
and comedy writing. Drink for a Reason.
At The Chapel, 1600 Melrose Ave., Seattle. Tickets cost $20. 8:15 p.m. at the per-
forming arts stage.

Now – August 29 Monday, September 7

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Mirah
Music Olympia-based musician Mirah has been per-
www.oicmf.org
forming her unique brand of solo indie-pop
The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, directed by Aloysia Friedmann, includes perfor- throughout the Pacific Northwest for nearly a
mances of works by Felix Mendelssohn, Zoltán Kodály, Gabriel Kahane, Ernst Dohnányi and decade. Her most recent album, (a)spera was
others. Participating musicians include Alisa Weilerstein and Adam Stern. Tickets range in released at the beginning of the year.
price from free–$30, depending upon events. Visit the Web site for times and locations. 4:15 p.m. at the Broad Street Stage.

Friday, August 28, 8:30 p.m. Writers of Lost w/Jeff Jensen

Dunava CD release party A panel discussion with “Lost” writers Carlton
Music and dancing Cuse, Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.
Seattle Balkan Dancers will host a CD release party for Dunava, Seattle’s Balkan women’s 3:30 p.m. at the Leo K. Theatre.
choir. Dunava’s members include Jill Cohen, a lay cantor and member of the board at
Congregation Beth Shalom; Hila Lenz, whose parents founded the choir at Ahavath Beth Oren Lavie
Israel Synagogue in Boise, Idaho; and Meredith Selfon, who has sung with the a cappella Berlin-based, Israeli-born musician Oren Lavie
choir Hachi Pele and for services at Hillel at the University of Washington. Suggested $10 performs jazz pop. He is currently promoting his
donation. CDs will be available for purchase for $5. At the Russian Cultural Center, 704 debut album The Opposite Side of the Sea.
19th Ave. E, Seattle. 5 p.m., Northwest Court Stage

Wednesday, September 9, 7:30 p.m. All three days

Seattle Jewish Chorale auditions Eugene Mirman
Music Comedian Eugene Mirman has
Seattle Jewish Chorale, a volunteer choir, is seeking new members for the ’09-’10 season. toured with Modest Mouse and The
Music-reading ability and familiarity with Jewish languages are preferred, but not required. Shins. He has a recurring role on
Prospective members should attend an open rehearsal on September 9, plus a low-stress HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords,”
audition to assess range, vocal quality, rhythm and intonation. SJC performs all types of Jewish and had appeared on “Late Night
choral music including sacred and secular; a cappella and accompanied; classical, jazz, folk with Conan O’Brien” and Comedy
and pop. SJC is a non-discriminatory organization and welcomes singers of all backgrounds. Central’s “Premium Blend.”
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Jewish on canvas
The stories of Jewish life and history, painted through abstracts
Janis Siegel
JTNews Correspondent
Karen Kosoglad stores memories of
her former figure models, her Jewish
i m m ig ra nt-t u r ned-pr i nt i ng-mog u l-
father and her loving mother, within
layers of finished and unfinished paint-
ings in her home art studio. Occasionally,
she brings them out for the public to view.
Most recently, Kosoglad’s show at the Lisa
Harris Gallery in the Pike Place Market
caught the attention of browsers and col-
lectors alike.
Her wel l-at tended a nd success-
ful show at the gallery, “Small Works:
Paintings and Collages,” proved that
Kosoglad’s abstract figures of women
and men contemplating the shoreline
or beloved canine companions wander-
ing the beach capture a decidedly North-
west point of view.
Kosoglad trained at the University of
California at Santa Cruz in the tradition
of the mid-century abstract expression-
ists who emerged there, such as Donald
Weygant and Richard Diebenkorn. The
Chicago native mainly studies the form
and gesture of the “seated woman” in her
work.
“I’m playing with a metaphysical
landscape and how the figure becomes
part of the landscape,” said Kosoglad in
an interview with JTNews. “The ‘seated
woman’ is the idea or the question of,
what’s in front and what’s behind — that
mystery of not knowing. And I love the
female form, the rhythm and the shape
of it.”
The small-scale f igures are fully
relaxed, engagingly aloof, and somewhat
contemplative.
“It’s also about turning inward,”
added Kosoglad. “Sometimes the face
is more neutral — and there’s a balance
between the real and realism. They are
also about the banality and the priestli-
ness of it, respecting the ordinary.”
Kosoglad also creates rhythmical col-
lages with figure illustrations. These col-
lages are combined with vintage paper,
random phrases from old letters, and
remnants of yellowed, mid-century sheet
music given to her by her mother in Chi-
cago and her father, before he died eight
years ago in a car accident.
Like many Jewish immigrants before
him, Kosoglad’s father came to America
with next to nothing and created a thriv-
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ing business for his family and children
out of random “junk” he collected each
day. He eventually built a thriving busi-
ness selling industrial printing presses
and related factory equipment.
“My grandfather fought in the Rus-
sian-Jewish War and immigrated to the
United States after that,” Kosoglad said,
ref lecting on her Jewish background.
“They ended up in Detroit.”
Kosoglad is the youngest of three
brothers and sisters. She recalls how
stubborn she was about developing her
interests.
“I was 11 or 12 when I started oil paint-
ing,” said Kosoglad. “In high school, I
loved the freedom that art was able to give
to me. You have to pursue it and be tena-
cious. I needed it.”
Kosoglad went on to earn a Bachelor’s
degree in fine arts from UCSC in 1980,
and a Master’s degree in education from
City University in 1995.
Her work is held in private collections
in Seattle, Chicago, New York, Boston,
California, and Italy.
Reflecting on her younger years with
respect, a certain sadness, and a pro-
found sense of gratefulness, Kosoglad
noted that her father had his own artistic
talent that went unexplored.
“He didn’t pursue [his ow n ar t]
because he felt that he needed to go out
and make a living,” said Kosoglad. “This
work is about memory and reflection. It’s
a way to bring him back.”
Kosoglad now houses her father’s
soon-to-be-antique printing presses,
turn-of-the-century Hebrew printing
type, and dozens of original typeface
wooden block printing collections that
once belonged to him and the business.
She treasures them all.
“He had given me typeface and [his
personal office] steno pads, and 75 draw-
ers of wood type,” said Kosoglad.
Random phrases from the piles of old
sheet music, letters, and paper mate-
rials her parents gave her appear ran-
domly but meaningfully in the collage
works, although she didn’t plan on it, said
Kosoglad.
Although her work is not expressly
Jewish, her background can’t help but
infuse it. Ideally, she believes, an artist’s
work should transcend his or her culture,
but her father-inspired collage work that
she also displayed in a previous show at
the Columbia City Gallery has not only
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Artist Karen Kosoglad with some of her
work during a July exhibition at the Lisa
Harris Gallery in the Pike Place Market.
been a joy to make, but also reveals her
ties to her Judaism today.
“I’m a very strongly identified Jewish
woman,” said Kosoglad. “Judaism is
open-ended and mysterious. It connects
me to love, trust, and the ritual of com-
munity and coming together. There’s a
beauty, an awe, and a sacredness. Every
time I work, there’s an awareness that this
is what Judaism is all about.”
Having lived in Washington since
1980, Kosoglad now has a strong connec-
tion to the Seattle area and has given back
much to it, including 17 years of teach-
ing K-12 students in the Seattle Public
Schools. She’s also been a guest teacher
in the King County Arts and Education
program, and the Washington State Artist
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them better than the old-guard Israel
organizations. Lahav suggested, how-
ever, that J Street’s success has less to
do with appealing to younger Jews and
more to do with filling a political void.
“J Street is representing really anyone
Jewish or non-Jewish who believes we
need to negotiate a two-state settlement,”
she said. “For too many years the public
voice of support for Israel has been very
much to the right of center. I believe lib-
eral Jews were busy working in issues
such as civil rights and environmental
issues and ended up giving public voice
for support for Israel to people who didn’t
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in Residence program. This fall, she will
begin teaching art full-time at Nova High
School in Seattle.
In fact, three of the models in many
of the abstract figures in Kosoglad’s work
are former art students she recruited as
subjects when she taught in the Summit
Arts Program. They are now grown young
women.
“That’s Chloe, she’s in about half of
them,” said Kosoglad. “I met her when
she was in the 4th grade.”
Chloe is now 23 years old and living in
Israel, she said.
“My teaching career has been a gift,
as far as working with students in a real
art studio  and a creative environment,”
she said. “I am hoping my new assign-
ment will allow for this incredible kind of
interactive and real honoring of creative
potential for me as a teacher and for my
students.”
Kosoglad is one of 28 artists featured
in the 25th Anniversary Show now run-
ning at the Lisa Harris Gallery from Aug.
6 to Sept. 14 in the Pike Place Market. She
has one painting on display and the gal-
lery has several others stored there for
visitors to see upon request.
“I feel very lucky to be here and hon-
ored to be a part of the gallery,” said
Kosoglad. “I also feel very fortunate to
have such a great artistic community
here in Seattle that has been my support
and base for all these years. Great friend-
ships  have grown out of our common
interests and we continue to work side by
side in many ways.”
J Street, she said, is the opportunity
for liberal Israel supporters to have a
say, too.
According to Kohl, that lack of rep-
resentation is precisely where J Street
takes its name from. In the nation’s
capitol, he explained, J street has been
omitted from the lettered streets. Sim-
ilarly, Kohl feels that prior to the for-
mation of his organization, a sizable
percentage of A mericans interested
in Israel were being omitted from the
political process.
“We’re definitely filling a hole in D.C.,”
he explained. “There wasn’t a politi-
cal vehicle for the pro-Israel, pro-peace
majority of Americans to make their
voices heard. Now there is.”
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Friday 21
■■7:15 p.m. – Summer Barbecue
rsvp@templebetham.org
Shabbat potluck barbecue and Ultimate
Frisbee. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th
St., Seattle.
Saturday 22
■■10 a.m. - 1 p.m. – Walk/Jog/Rollerblade
Around Green Lake with Jconnect
Jared Brown at orbs@rogers.com
A jaunt around the lake followed by lunch.
Meet at Starbucks, 7100 E Green Lake Dr.
N., Seattle.
■■7 p.m. – “Schmovie Night!”
Nick Barrat at Nickb543@aol.com
A potluck picnic dinner followed by an
outdoor screening of the film Iron Man at
the Seattle Center with the Tribe at Temple
De Hirsch Sinai. At Seattle Center Mural
Amphitheater, 305 Harrison St., Seattle.
Sunday 23
■■10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. – Zoo Day
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A trip to the zoo with the Friendship Circle.
Participating kids should bring a bag lunch.
At Woodland Park Zoo, 5500 Phinney Ave.
N, Seattle.
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Monday 24
■■1 p.m. – JCC Book Club
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
This month, the book club will discuss The
World to Come by Dara Horn. At the Stroum
JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
■■ 6:30 p.m. – Class of 2012 Family Dinner
Melissa Rivkin at 206-232-5272, ext. 515
or mrivkin@nyhs.net
Welcome party for incoming sophomores
at Northwest Yeshiva High School and their
families. At Robert and Leah Gladstein’s
home, address provided upon RSVP.
Tuesday 25
■■10 a.m. – Free Computer Class
Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115, ext. 269
Computer class taught by a trained instruc-
tor of the King County Library System. At
the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer
Island.
■■10 a.m. – Story Time at the Issaquah
Highlands Firehouse
leslie@h-nt.org
Stories, bagels, and a chance for kids to look
around. Co-sponsored by Herzl-Ner Tamid
and the PJ Library. At the Issaquah Highlands
Firehouse, 2250 NE Park Dr., Issaquah.
■■7 p.m. – NYHS Orientation for New
Parents
Michelle Haston at 206-232-5272,
ext. 12 or admin@nyhs.net
Meeting for parents of new NYHS students.
At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017
90th St. SE, Mercer Island.
Wednesday 26
■■7 p.m. – Time Tested Techniques for
Improving Our Relationships
rabbir@h-nt.org
Relationship seminar with Rabbi Jay
Rosenbaum and Dr. Dave Penner, certified
Gottman therapist. At Herzl-Ner Tamid
Conservative Congregation, 3801 E Mercer
Way, Mercer Island.
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■■12 p.m. – Cardozo CLE
Rebecca Cohen at 206-774-2272 or
rebeccac@jewishinseattle.org
Continuing Legal Education opportunity for
CLE credits by the Cardozo Society of Wash-
ington State. This CLE will be facilitated by
John Schochet and will compare and contrast
American Constitutional law and Jewish law.
Location TBD.
■■6 p.m. – Kayak on Lake Union
henry at henryzim@comcast.net
Kayaking and dinner with the Jewish Activities
Group. Cost for kayaking about $20. Singles
and double kayaks available. Beginners
welcome. At the Northwest Outdoor Center,
2100 Westlake Ave. N, Seattle.
■■6:30 p.m. – “Understanding Inflamma-
tory Bowel Diseases: What Every Patient
Needs to Know”
www.ccfa.org/chapters/northwest
The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of
America, Northwest Chapter presents a
lecture by Dr. William Holderman about
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. At
Tacoma Community College, building 28,
room 106, 6501 S 19th St., Tacoma.
■■6:30 p.m. – JFS 117th Annual Meeting
Gail Pollack at 206-861-3151 or
gpollack@jfsseattle.org
Jewish Family Service’s annual meeting.
Donations of $18, $36 or $117 requested.
At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
Friday 28
■■7:15 p.m. – Congregational BBQ Potluck:
Welcome New Members!
Alysa Rosen at 206-525-0915 or
rsvp@templebetham.org or
www.templebetham.org
Chicken, hot dogs, and veggie dogs provided.
Participants are asked to bring either a side
dish (last name A-M) or dessert (N-Z). $9 for
adults, $4 for kids 12 and under. At Temple
Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.Sat
(206) 523-8400
■■10 a.m. – Hike with the Rabbi
425-259-7125 or office@templebethor.org
Temple Beth Or’s new rabbi, Jessica Kessler
Marshall, invites both Beth Or members and
unaffiliated Jews in Snohomish County to a
Shabbat morning hike. The hike will last
about two hours with stops along the way
for brief teachings and discussions. Meet at
the Stanwood park-and-ride by the 76 Station
just west of I-5 at exit 212.
Sunday 30
■■10 - 11 p.m. – Is Your Child Starting
Kindergarten This Fall?
melanie@h-nt.org
Special family ceremony to mark the
milestone of starting school. Program will
be followed by an open house and family
picnic for Herzl-Ner Tamid’s Frankel
Religious School. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Con-
servative Congregation, 3801 E Mercer Way,
Mercer Island.
Thursday 3
■■6 p.m. – First Thursday Art Walk
Josh at joshf@hilleluw.org
Join Jconnect and Moishe House for the Art
Walk in Pioneer Square. Meet at the Globe
Building, 105 S Main St., Seattle.
Sunday 6
■■9:30 p.m. – Mason Lake Hike
Laura at lgeggel@gmail.com
A five-mile hike around Mason Lake with
Jconnect. Meet at Hillel UW, 4745 17th
Ave. NE, Seattle.
Wednesday 9
■■7 p.m. – Curriculum Night at NYHS for
All Parents
Michelle Haston at 206-232-5272 or
admin@nyhs.net
Open house for parents of all students
attending NYHS. At Northwest Yeshiva High
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Jake will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah at
Camp Solomon Schechter on August 29,
2009. Jake is the son of Billy and Dana
Pruchno of Mercer Island and the brother
of Eli Micah and Lilly Zahava. He is the
grandson of Naomi Doble of Scottsdale,
Ariz. and the late Joel Goldhar and the late
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Jake will be an 8th grader at Islander
Middle School. He enjoys playing soccer,
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He is a member of the IMS cross-country
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IMS band. Jake has been volunteering with
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teenagers in Seattle’s University District. For
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and spending time with a homebound
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Jessica will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah
on August 22, 2009 at Temple B’nai Torah
in Bellevue.
Jessica is the daughter of Janice and
Marshall Brumer of Bellevue and the sister
of Megan and Kayla. Her grandparents are
Shirley and Edmond Goldstein of Bellevue,
Dorothy Brumer of Huntington Beach, Calif.
and the late Eugene Brumer.
Jessica is going into the 8th grade at the
Jewish Day School. Her hobbies include
participating in Eastside Dream Elite Cheer
and playing volleyball at JDS. For her
Mitzvah project, Jessica made a donation
to Camp Kalsman to provide water cooler
houses, which her father built and she and
her camper friends decorated.
Sabrina will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah
on August 29, 2009 at Temple B’nai Torah
in Bellevue.
Sabrina is the daughter of Gregory and
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Jack and Bernice Belur of Bellevue, Jerrie
Steinhauer of Mission Viejo, Calif., and
Douglas Steinhauer of Issaquah.
Sabrina is going into the 8th grade at
Islander Middle School. Her hobbies
include swimming and reading. Her
mitzvah projects are taking part in Swim
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for Jewish Family Service.
Natania celebrated her Bat Mitzvah on
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Natania is the daughter of Herb and
Naomi Stokes of Sammamish and the sister
of Joshua, Catherine and Alexander. Her
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Texas, Cynthia Martin of Houston, Herb
Stokes, Sr., of Lubbock, Texas and John and
Ruth Gibbons of Niceville, Fla.
Natania is going into the 8th grade at
Beaver Lake Middle School. Her hobbies
include watching anime, solving puzzles,
thinking, creating, drawing and playing
chess. For her mitzvah project, she assisted
with gardening for the Growing Garden
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New JCC Leader t Page 1
Jewish Family Service of Greater Seattle’s
Family Matters campaign.
Family Matters, a combination of
capital, programmatic and endowment
fundraising, has expanded JFS’s reach
into new social service arenas and will
eventually result in a new, larger facility
to better help in providing those services.
She has sat on that agency’s board for 16
years, including a term as president.
Earlier in the decade, Neuman chaired
the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s
community campaign that brought in
record donations (at the time) during the
tail end of a recession.
Though in some ways the title is
semantic, Neuman was named CEO
instead of executive director, which was
the title held by previous people in this
position. It is a change that reflects a
more active role the organization wants
Neuman to play in the Seattle-area
Jewish community.
“It’s a statement that we wanted to make
to the community that the importance of
the position, and with all the things that
are going on, that…there is more respon-
sibility than there has been in the past. We
just felt it would be the appropriate title
moving forward,” Schwartz said.
The process of hiring a new CEO at the
JCC had a process of its own. Rather than
relying on solely an outside search firm or a
committee made up exclusively of staff and
board members, the board brought in Boe-
hler, former board chair of the Jewish Fed-
eration, to co-chair the search committee.
One of the first things Boehler did
was to identify non-board members with
New Stroum JCC CEO Judy Neuman
some history with the organization to
join the search committee.
“They were all users of the ‘J’ at some
point in time,” Boehler said. “Most of
them had other associations with the
community that made it desirable to have
them for one reason or another.”
One t hing t he ent ire commit tee
agreed on was that the JCC should be the
center for Jewish outreach. They all saw it
as representing “the most friendly place,
the least threatening place for a non-affil-
iated person to connect,” Boehler said,
though they agreed the JCC may not be
living up to its full potential.
After bringing in several candidates
from around the country to meet with the
board and JCC staffers, Neuman’s vision,
knowledge of the region, and network
of contacts made her the best fit, both
Schwartz and Boehler said.
“Judy is a great addition to the constel-
lation of CEOs in the Jewish community
and it’s all the better for our community
that she’s accepted this job,” Boehler said.
Inglourious Basterds t Page 10
Contrast the teenage heroine of The
Diary of Anne Frank (1959) — the most
innocent victim imaginable — with the
unscrupulous Jewish criminal deported
to the camps in The Counterfeiters (2007).
The compromised and conflicted Resis-
tance operatives in the Dutch film Black
Book (2006) and the new Danish film
Flame & Citron, meanwhile, are light
years away from the noble freedom fighter
Victor Laszlo in Casablanca (1942).
Ah, but here comes Tarantino, who
previously turned hard-boiled armed
robbers and ice-cold hit men into charm-
ing, smooth-talking icons. He employs
the same alchemy with a ruthless Gestapo
officer using his patented approach:
Pages and pages and pages of amusingly
pointless dialogue.
Inglourious Basterds, which opens
everywhere Friday, August 21, runs on two
slender tracks. Col. Hans Landa (nicely
played by Christoph Waltz), a cunning
Nazi charged with finding and eliminating
the Jews of France, spends the movie’s first
20 minutes politely interviewing a dairy
farmer about an unaccounted-for Jewish
family, and drinking the man’s milk.
Mea nw h i le, Lt . A ldo R a i ne (a n
homage to war-film standby Aldo Ray,
and played by a drawling Brad Pitt)
assembles a group of Jewish GIs whose
mission is to spread terror through the
Nazi ranks. They do such a good job that
frightened rumors spread all the way to
the Führer that the American platoon
includes a Golem.
Raine and Landa will eventually, inev-
itably, meet at a Parisian cinema owned
by a Jewish woman whose family was
murdered by Landa’s men. There’s a bit
more to the plot, but not 152 minutes’
worth (including the credits), which is
what Tarantino arrogantly asks of his
audience. (Prospective ticket buyers may
also want to be advised of the underlying
streak of sadism that includes, but is not
limited to, violence against women.)
To give Tarantino his due, he is a suf-
ficiently talented writer to make us care
what happens to characters that are
one-dimensional cardboard cutouts.
That’s no mean feat, but at the same time
nobody grows or changes in a Tarantino
movie — they just play out their destiny,
which sometimes involves catching a few
unexpected bullets.
Tarantino’s riff on Nazis and Jews
may amuse and satisfy less mature audi-
ences. For those with a deeper and fuller
understanding of the Third Reich and the
Holocaust, particularly one gleaned from
sources other than action movies, it is
shockingly superficial.
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jewish on earth

How to not waste our food

Ba’al Tashchit and the great food circle of life
Martin
Westerman
JTNews
Columnist
What if you knew you could heal the
world by throwing your food away — in
the right place?
It’s now possible for synagogues and
temples in about 30 of America’s larger
urban areas to recycle and compost most,
if not all, of the food and packaging mate-
rials they generate. This means they can
create no-waste simchot (celebrations),
which satisfies those key Jewish environ-
mental principles, ba’al tashchit (“don’t
waste”) and tikkun olam (heal the earth).
For most of human history, we have
been grinding up the earth’s resources and
throwing them into garbage dumps. It’s all
simply explained in Annie Leonard’s The
Story of Stuff (www.storyofstuff.com). EPA
waste statistics show that almost 80 per-
cent of what we send to landfills as “gar-
bage” shouldn’t be going there at all. Most,
according to its 2007 report (www.epa.gov/
waste/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw07-
fs.pdf) can still be recycled and re-used:
Glass (5.3 percent), metals (8.2 percent),
plastics (12 percent), organics (31 percent
— 12.5 percent food scraps, 12.8 percent
yard trimmings, and 5.6 percent wood),
and paper (33 percent). It leaves policy-
makers asking themselves, “Why are we
building and maintaining giant, expensive
landfills, when only 20 percent of what our
citizens throw away belongs there?”
Good question. It’s more expensive to
invest in waste than to divert it for recy-
cling and composting.
For all other species on earth, waste is
food. For humans, it’s unusable and usu-
ally dangerous. In Cradle to Cradle, Wil-
liam McDonnough and Michael Braungart
eloquently call for us to redesign every-
thing, and make it safe, long-lasting and
recyclable. The EPA says we have made
progress: Americans now recycle about 33
percent of municipal solid waste, up from
less than 10 percent in 1980, and we’ve cut
waste to landfills from 89 percent in 1980
to 54 percent now. But we can do better.
Much of what ends up in the garbage
today is food, the number two item in
most Jewish celebrations. While Amer-
ica’s organic waste recycling programs
now capture about 64 percent of our land-
scape waste, they get less than 3 percent
of our food scraps.
The advantage of diverting food into
the organic waste stream go beyond ba’al
tashchit and tikkun olam. Within 90 days,
the waste is transformed into compost,
which we can use to grow new food and
landscapes. But more than that, it saves
money. To encourage recycling and com-
posting, cities and towns charge lower col-
lection fees for them than for garbage. And
since at least half of the waste usually gen-
erated by any Jewish house of worship is
food-related, we’re looking at significant
annual savings for the congregation.
How to get your synagogue or temple
connected to organic waste collection?
Check Biocycle’s “Find a Composter” list-
ings (www.findacomposter.com). If yours
is one of the lucky localities, ask your
local waste management department
how your congregation can participate.
I initiated our Potluck Project at Kol
HaNeshamah five years ago, when I
learned that the City of Seattle would
pick up food and organic waste from
our building. We already recycled glass,
paper, metal and plastic. Now, we could
divert food scraps, paper and biodegrad-
able serving ware, stained pizza boxes
and other food-related goods and pack-
aging from the garbage.
The next steps I recommend:
1. Get your board, Tikkun Olam or Social
Action committee, and congregants edu-
cated and involved.
2. Find places (a) near the kitchen where
organic waste, recyclables and garbage
can be collected, and (b) outside, where
trucks can pick them up.
3. Instruct your janitor, who will handle
(a) lining the collection, and (b) cleanup
and movement of full bags to outside con-
tainers.
4. Inform and instruct your caterers and
other food service suppliers of your no-
waste protocol.
5. Deputize high school and adult con-
gregants as shomrei adamah (guardians
of the Earth) to help guide diners in where
to discard their organics, recyclables and
garbage.
6. Supply your kitchen with the necessary
biodegradable or permanent plates, cups,
napkins, and cutlery, and biodegradable
liner bags for waste cans, and
7. Announce your new no-waste plan
before meals begin, in your newsletter,
and in event planning packets for upcom-
ing simchot.
KHN shares space with the Alki United
Church of Christ, and gets more than twice
the bang for our buck, as the preschool,
garden club and other organizations that
meet in the UCC building also participate
in the no-waste foodservice program. Our
single action ripples far beyond our single
congregation. Seattle’s Temple Beth Am
and Hillel at the University of Washington
have also gone no-waste, as have a small
number of congregations in the Midwest
and Northeast.
But we expect that number to grow. My
Grandma Sonia used to say, “Ess gesunt!”
(“Eat for your health!”) She’d probably be
happy to learn that we could all eat for the
earth’s health, too.
Author and teacher Martin Westerman
writes and consults on sustainable living.
He can be contacted with questions at
artartart@seanet.com.

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Entering Nazi territory
Is the turbulent health care debate bad for the Jews?
Eric Fingerhut
JTA World News Service
NEW YORK (JTA) — When U.S. Rep.
Travis Childers announced several months
ago that he was headed to Israel, the trip
was billed as an opportunity to boost eco-
nomic development. But by the time the
Mississippi Democrat arrived earlier this
month, the trip suddenly became a flash
point in one local corner of the nation’s
increasingly bitter health care debate.
Alan Lange, the founder of the Mis-
sissippi political and legal Web site Y’all
Politics, didn’t like that Childers was
spending part of the congressional recess
out of town instead of at home talking to
constituents about health care reform. So
on Aug. 9 he posted a video to YouTube
slamming the congressman.
With “Hava Nagila” playing in the
backg round, t he v ideo hig h lig hted
Childers’ recent comment that he would
like to talk to constituents about health
care — “If they’re civil.” The words “Go
make some new friends” then appeared
on the screen, followed by a photo of an
Orthodox Jew in Israel as the narrator
said, “Tell ’em we said ‘hi.’”
Next came the words “And grab a sou-
venir yarmulke” and a picture of a yar-
mulke emblazoned with “Obama ’08.”
The video ended with the words “Come
on back home, Travis.”
A few days later Lange took down the
video, explaining that several Jewish
friends had told him that it contained Referring to Lange’s video, Hier said, Deborah Lipstadt, a modern Jewish
“imagery that was ‘on the line’ and could “When there’s turbulence, people make and Holocaust studies professor at Emory
be taken the wrong way without the polit- sinister remarks, question every motive.” University, also said she did not see any
ical context.” “The breakdown of civility is normally specific reason for the Jewish community
“I messed up,” Lange said in an Aug. a danger for minority groups, period,” to be concerned.
12 statement posted to his blog. “I apol- said Michael Berenbaum, a professor of “Civil discord is never good for soci-
ogize to those who might have taken Jewish studies at American Jewish Univer- ety” and Jews are part of society, Lipstadt
offense to it.” sity in Los Angeles and the project director said. But “I’m not willing to go there yet.”
Lange stands out — for saying he’s during the creation of the U.S. Holocaust Bill Nigut, Southeast Region direc-
sorry. As bloggers, radio hosts and pro- Memorial Museum in Washington. tor for the Anti-Defamation League in
testers ratchet up their rhetoric in the “It’s a particular danger for Jews” Atlanta, said the “first casualty” of the
fight against health because “the climate ratcheting up of the health care debate
care reform, many The “first casualty” of the ratcheting in which we thrive has been a “respectful democratic pro-
are unapologetically up of the health care debate has been is one where there cess.” He voiced disgust at the entrance of
utilizing inflamma- a “respectful democratic process.” He is security,” he said, Nazi symbols and rhetoric, including the
tor y rhetor ic a nd voiced disgust at the entrance of Nazi noting that the worst painting of a swastika on a sign in front of
imagery — often in symbols and rhetoric, including the period of anti-Sem- the office of U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-Ga.)
ways that could be painting of a swastika on a sign in front itism in the United “It’s dangerous for all Americans if we
ex pec ted to ra ise of the office of U.S. Rep. David Scott. States was i n t he can’t have civilized debates,” Nigut said.
alarms in some cor- post-Great Depres- “You can’t invoke one of the most heinous
ners of the Jewish community. sion 1930s, where there was no economic criminals in the world” when debating
Protesters and radio talking heads, security. the health care system.
notably Rush Limbaugh, have been com- Berenbaum, though, said the fact that Berenbaum had particular scorn for
paring the Obama administration to the Wall Street financial crisis last fall — those comparing the Obama health care
Nazis. A Democratic congressman had a and the ensuing Bernard Madoff scandal plan to Nazi policies.
swastika drawn on the sign in front of his — did not result in a wave of anti-Semi- For instance, he noted that the right to
office. Bloggers are exploiting images of tism is likely a positive sign for the Jewish be informed of and consent to one’s med-
Anne Frank, tagging her with the Obama community. ical treatment grew out of the Nuremberg
health care plan’s symbol instead of a “All the ingredients for a monumental trials — because that’s “the antithesis of
yellow star. uptick were there and it didn’t material- what the Nazis did.”
“Historically, whenever there are tur- ize,” he said. “The idea that you’re entitled to meet
bulent times, it’s always bad for the Jews,” Berenbaum speculated, however, with your physician is the embodiment of
said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean that with an African-American president Nuremberg ethics,” he said.
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum and a new Latino Supreme Court justice, “Anyone who uses the Nazi analogy,”
of Tolerance, and the current environment other minority groups could instead draw he said, “has no idea what Nazi medicine
is “unstable” with “a lot of turbulence.” the ire of some disgruntled Americans. was about.”