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Late-Summer Family Calendar

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Endless Opportunities
A community-wide program offered in partnership with Temple Bnai Torah & Temple De Hirsch Sinai. EO events are open to the public.
AA Meetings at JFS
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Feldenkrais: Retrain Your Body to do Your Commands

With Irene Pasternak m Tuesday, August 30 10:00 11:30 a.m.
Shaarei Tikvah: A Celebration of Rosh Hashanah for People of All Abilities

An inclusive and accessible service, open to all ages and includes ASL interpretation. m Thursday, September 29 4:00 6:00 p.m. Advance registration encouraged. Contact Marjorie Schnyder, (206) 861-3146 or familylife@jfsseattle.org.
Peddler of Jewish Notions

With Chaya Kinberg m Thursday, September 8 10:00 11:30 a.m.
Kosher Food Bank

Special food bank opportunity for families who keep a kosher kitchen. m Wednesday, September 7 5:00 6:30 p.m. Advance registration required. Contact Jana Prothman, (206) 861-3174 or jprothman@jfsseattle.org.
Wrestling with the Liturgy of the High Holidays

With Rabbi Jill Borodin m Tuesday, September 13 10:30 a.m. Noon
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119th Annual Meeting

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What we must do for our veterans

Rabbi JaRon Matlow Congregation Bnai Torah
Before I was a rabbi, I was a career Navy officer. I am also a veteran on total disability. With this part of what defines me, one thing I do is volunteer as a pastoral counselor and benefits advocate at the Disabled American Veterans chapter office in Olympia. Because of my own experiences trying to access disability benefits through the Veterans Administration and the Social Security Administration, I have dedicated myself to ensuring that other disabled veterans get the services they need that they earned through service to our country. Sadly, political and budgetary pressures are putting our veterans at great risk. There are current moves afoot in the Defense Department to cut military and retiree pay and benefits while we are at war. The VA, while doing its best, is not able to fully serve all veterans. The situation for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is even worse. With troops serving as many as five or six combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, its a miracle that all troops coming home are not severely disabled due to PTSD. What is worse, several sources have found that roughly 56 percent of veterans with PTSD diagnoses are homeless. The VA reports that there are usually about 107,000 veterans without a place to stay. Veterans comprise more than 25 percent of the homeless population throughout the United States. This inability of our country to care for the veterans it chews up in combat is a true hillul Hashem, a disgrace to God. You might be saying to yourself that this is horrible, but why am I reading about it in the JTNews? We as Jews have a huge obligation to care for each other. Irrespective of ones political views, I believe we all have an absolute Torah obligation to care for our veterans. In Parashat Shofetim (Sept. 4 this year), we see in Deuteronomy 20 the rules for who should not go to war. After the priests have given instructions, the officers, in verse eight, say, Who is the man who is afraid and fainthearted? Let him go and return to his house so his brothers heart should not melt like his. In other words, Torah understands that soldiers who are not fully ready mentally should not go into combat, because they will bring down their unit. Nonetheless, we have soldiers with severe PTSD who are sent back to combat for more troubles. In Ecclesiates 3:3 we see A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up. Midrash Kohelet Rabbah (tr. Davka Soncino Classics edition) III:5 interprets this as A time to kill: in the time of war; A time to heal: in the time of peace. A time to break down: in the time of war; A time to build up: in the time of peace. What is this telling us? Those military personnel who come home are now in our care. We must help them rebuild their lives, and to seek spiritual and physical healing. In Leviticus 10:18 we are told, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Veterans are a small percentage of the population, but we all are obligated to care for them. Would you like to experience what our troops go through in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere? Would you like to be fighting these wars every day, even after youve come home? As a veteran, I dread the idea of the life veterans of our era are living if you can call it living. So what can we do? There are many things. Advocating for better care for military troops and veterans and preserving the benefits we have earned in blood is a good start. Contact your Congressional delegation as well as your local leaders to plead for better care for our veterans. Make donations to Veteran Service Organizations, which help care for our wounded and disabled veterans. Speak out about it on your blogs, your Facebook and LinkedIn posts, your tweets. In other words, shout it from the rooftops. August 31 brings in the month of Elul, where we focus on heshbon hanefesh, selfintrospection and personal inventories. As we near the penitential season, we need to ask ourselves, have we done everything we can to bring peace at home and abroad? Have we done everything we can to help wounded and disabled veterans heal? This is one of many forms of tikkun olam, of repairing the damage, that we can easily effect. As we see in Pirkei Avot, the Teachings of the Sages, 1:12, according to our great teacher Hillel, may it be Gods will that we should be like Aaron the priests students, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving all humans, and bringing people nearer to Torah.
The debate between Joel Alperson (Judaism is more than tikkun olam, Aug. 5) and Eric Yoffie (Judaism is always tikkun olam and more) offered two very different perspectives on whether non-Orthodox movements can survive long-term. And while its interesting to read point-counterpoint arguments in our local Jewish newspaper, they have the potential to drive a divisive wedge in our community. Particularly during this, the Hebrew month of Av, we should focus not on what divides us, but what unites us. We have so much in common, and its a terrible shame when we focus on our differences. Theres a beautiful mitzvah called ahavat Yisrael; it is the commandment to love your fellow Jew. The simple language of the mitzvah is instructive. It doesnt say to love only those Jews with whom you agree; it says to love them even if you disagree with them. And our sages are practical enough to know that you cant always bring yourself to feel loving feelings towards another, so we are told that the fulfillment of the mitzvah is to behave lovingly towards each other. Why is this important during the month of Av? One of the events that our recent day of solemn national mourning and fasting, Tisha BAv, commemorates, is the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70 CE. A primary cause of that destruction is that Jews at the time engaged in sinat chinam, or baseless hatred, toward each other. I think that the Seattle Jewish community does a pretty good job at dealing with each others differences, but theres a big gap between simply tolerating each other and behaving with love toward each other. So as we leave Av and enter Elul, our month of introspection leading up to Rosh Hashanah, each of us should resolve to reach out in kindness to another member of our big, diverse Jewish family, so that 5772 is a year of blessing for the Jewish people in Seattle and worldwide. Randy Kessler Mercer Island
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Week after week, month after month, in articles, op-eds and letters, the very legitimacy of the State of Israel is battled out on the pages of the JTNews. Israels critics are granted more than sufficient ink in the Seattle Times, The New York Times and in every other major or minor news publication. Would it be too much to expect that Washingtons sole Jewish newspaper serve as an unapologetic advocate of the Jewish state rather than just another outlet for its demonization? Michael Behar seattle
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Rabbi Jaron B. Matlow, a Navy disabled veteran, volunteers as spiritual adviser to Congregation Bnai Torah in Olympia and as a veteran counselor and advocate at the Disabled American Veterans, Olympia office.
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Dhara, left, Sara, center and Sam do a drumming activity during the annual Middle East Peace Camp held in late July. The camp is a joint venture of the Kadima Reconstructionist Community, the Arab Center of Washington and philanthropist Kay Bullitt.
I havent talked to one person, not one donor, who has said, I dont like what youre doing, were not going to give. Jewish Federation CEO Richard Fruchter on the reaction to the agencys new fundraising and allocations model.
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If you take down Israel, what else goes with it?

lillian FadeRMan The Advocate
Americans have every reason to envy Israels enlightened policies toward their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens. So it puzzles me deeply when I hear of LGBT groups lending their sympathy to opponents of Israel. The rights we have been fighting for and still have not fully achieved in the United States, LGBT Israelis already enjoy. I came out in the middle of the last century and witnessed firsthand the persecution and oppression of LGBT people. It was because of those early experiences that I have devoted the last 40 years of my life to writing books and articles about our communitys history and progress. In America, as late as 2003 there were still 14 states that punished gay men under sodomy laws. Israel abolished all sodomy laws in 1988. In America, weve been fighting for decades for a law that would end employment discrimination against LGBT people. A few states have passed such laws, but the federal government has not. Israel passed a law in 1992 that protects any citizen (Jewish, Christian, or Arab) from employment discrimination for being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. In America at mid-century, lesbians and gays in the military had to be absolutely closeted; they were witch-hunted and given dishonorable discharges if found out. The Dont Ask Dont Tell policy that was passed during the Clinton administration was actually considered progressivea big improvement over the old policybecause lesbians and gays were to be booted out of the military only if they drew attention to their homosexuality. Finally now, 11 years into the 21st century, America is getting around to permitting lesbians and gays to serve openly in the military. Our Israeli brothers and My partner and I have been together for 40 years. Like 18,000 other same-sex couples in California, we got married in 2008. Though all 36,000 of us are still married as far as the State of California is concerned, Proposition 8 banned samesex marriage for all others. Because federal laws dont recognize our marriage, our legal bond doesnt do us much good anyway. If we should decide to move next door to Arizona or Las Vegas or Oregon or almost anywhere else in Americawe wouldnt be considered legally married. We both pay federal income tax, of course, but under the law we get none of the federal benefits that opposite-sex couples receive. In fact, the only result of our marriage with regard to taxes is that we have to pay our accountant triple: Once for doing our state income tax as a married couple, a second and third time for doing our federal income tax as two single payers. And if one of us should die, thats the end of her Social Security benefits for which shed paid in for more than half a century; the surviving spouse gets absolutely nothing of those benefits. If wed lived in Israel, wed be much better off. In 1994, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled in favor of granting spousal benefits to same-sex couples. In 2004, the court ruled that LGBT couples could qualify for common-law marriage status. In 2005, legislation was passed in Israel recognizing all same-sex marriages that are performed abroad. So there can be no explanation for LGBT groups participating in wrongheaded actions such as the BDS movement that seeks boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Outside of Israel, everywhere in the Middle East, LGBT people are utterly despised under the law. Indeed, official treatment of LGBT people in other Middle East countries makes the bar raids and job losses and police entrapments that we experienced in the 1950s and 60s seem like coddling. If a family wishes to rid itself of the embarrassment of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender member by honor killing, there would be no legal consequences in the area governed by the Palestinian Authority or Hamas, or in Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or Syria. Needless to say, and as even the Amnesty International LGBT website shows, theres no Middle Eastern country other than Israel in which lesbian or gay couples can receive spousal benefits, none other than Israel in which lesbians and gays can serve openly in the military, none other than Israel that protects lesbians and gays from discrimination or hate crimes. In Iran and Saudi Arabia were put to death. In Syria were thrown in prison for three years. In Egypt, were prosecuted under lewd conduct laws, and were illegal in Lebanon and Libya, too. After long years of struggle, American LGBT people have finally won a modicum of freedom and justice. Only insane logic or misinformation could justify withholding our sympathies from a country that grants our LGBT brothers and sisters not only the benefits that we enjoy but even more. Why would we work against such a country?
Lillian Faderman has published eight books on LGBT history and literature. She is the recipient of several LGBT lifetime achievement awards, including Yale Universitys James Brudner Award, the Monette/Horwitz Award, Publishing Triangles Bill Whitehead Award, and the ONE National Archives Culture Hero Award. This article first appeared at TheAdvocate.com.
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A participant in the Tel Aviv Pride Parade.
sisters have been able to serve openly since 1993, and since 1997 a same-sex partner is recognized by the Israeli Defense Department as a member of the soldiers family. When I was doing research for my 2006 book, Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians, I interviewed an 83-year-old lesbian who had just lost her partner of almost 50 years. Their house had been in her partners name and because the partner died without a will, the law granted the house to the deceased womans distant cousin, with whom shed had no contact for decades. My 83-year-old interviewee was left without a place to live. If shed been an Israeli citizenwhether Jewish, Christian, or Arabshe would be living in her home until her death because lesbian and gay couples have full inheritance rights under Israeli law.
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For the past five summers, a group of Jewish teens have come to the area from Hungary to volunteer at local camps and learn about the Jewish community in the United States. This year could be the programs last.
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How the Jewish Federation will now raise money
With the official launch of its new fundraising and allocations model next month, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle will allow its donors to decide where their money goes.
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The story of Siberias Jews

A group of young adults from Seattle and other U.S. cities recently returned from a service trip to the farthest reaches of Russia. They brought back a new knowledge of a foreign Jewish community while being touched by this communitys history.
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The sweet vegetables of summer
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Nows the time of year when veggies are at their tastiest. Here are a couple recipes (and reasons) why you should relax on the patio with a delicious vegetable dish for dinner.
Fall books: These are the people in your neighborhood
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Sometimes life transcends race and ethnicity, as this collection of books about knowing your neighbors, parenting and job loss can attest. But that doesnt mean some Jewish insights cant help.
Books in brief A primer on Palestinian statehood
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Come Sept. 20, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will likely request that the United Nations declare a Palestinian state. Read about the impact and implications.
From August 15, 1973 A group known as the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry managed to obtain this picture of the children of many Soviet Jewish activists attempting to leave the USSR. The caption read that one of the children had received the gift of a prayer book for his Bar Mitzvah, only to have it confiscated by Soviet authorities.
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A Jewish summer in Seattle for Hungarian teens

Studies have long shown that Jewish summer camp plays a huge role in helping kids develop their Jewish identities. For those without a strong Jewish community around them at home, being immersed in a community filled with other Jews, Jewish values, and Jewish practices for several weeks can provide important opportunities to help them decide how they want to embrace Judaism in their own lives. For the past four summers, Jewish teens from Hungary have been given the chance to experience all of these benefits of Jewish summer camp in America. As many as 10 Hungarian 16- and 17-yearolds have volunteered at camps each year, including Camp Solomon Schecter in Olympia, Bnai Brith Camp in Oregon, and Stroum Jewish Community Center day camps on Mercer Island. The teens who volunteer at the JCC as counselors stay with five different host families throughout the summer and take advantage of all Seattle has to offer attending Mariners games, visiting Snoqualmie Falls and the opera, touring Microsoft and Boeing, and even taking an occasional trip with their host families. But this summer will likely be the programs last. According to Lenny Kashner, its organizer, host families are crucial to the programs existence and hard to
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Hungarian teens who participated in the Stroum Jewish Community Center day camps on Mercer Island, from left to right: DnielMarkovits, Tams Somogyi, Hermina Ds, JankaErdly,ronHajnal, and EszterZewde.
come by. Not many families are willing to put up a teen for two weeks and help transport them to and from the JCC each day, Kashner said. I would be very surprised if I find any success in finding families, he said about the possibility of continuing the program in 2012. Im 99 percent sure that this is the last summer. Kashner, Shainie Schuffler, the programs treasurer, and Edit Pragai, the
programs Budapest coordinator, have worked to keep it organized and wellfunded through small private donations from Jewish families in the area. But its the housing that has become the roadblock. Even so, Kashners passion for the program remains as strong as it was when he decided to start it. In 2005, the retired Seattle Public Schools teacher traveled to Budapest to help an English teacher
in two Jewish schools. When interviewing the students, Kashner was struck by their affection for America. He decided he wanted to afford these teens the opportunity to come to America not as immigrants, he said, but toexperience the Jewish communities here. The teens participating must be dedicated to the program they are required to complete an extensive application for admission only after inquiring by email. Because the program has no official website, teens can only discover the program by word of mouth or, more recently, through Facebook. For these teens, the benefits of the program extend beyond a visit to the U.S. I wanted to know about the Jewish life here, said Hermina Ds, a participant volunteering at the JCC. Its really good to see that not everybody is shy [about their religion]. They are not going to hide what they really are, said Eszter Zewde, another participant volunteering at the JCC. Some kids go back with a strengthened Jewish identity and want to learn more, Kashner added. Some of them go back to Hungary speaking English better than their English teachers.
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New Federation model will allow donors to direct their giving

Joel Magalnick Editor, JTnews
Richard Fruchter has a vision for the Puget Sounds Jewish community. We want people to move to Seattle because they think its a fabulous Jewish community, said the CEO and president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Not, Incidentally, we moved here and it is, but thats why were moving here. Because our kids will be better educated. Because we have vital organizations. Camping is growing. Synagogue membership is growing, and everybody feels like this is a very robust place to live Jewishly. To get to that place, Federation officials could see that the way they supported local Jewish organizations would need to change. But they saw as well that the way they raised the money they allocate would need to change. We became aware that through national studies, through research that we did here, through talking to donors, that the next generation of philanthropists really were changing the way they wanted to give their money, Fruchter said. They really wanted to follow their money and see where it made an impact, and find a return on their investment. We wanted to be responsive to that. When the Federation kicks off its annual community campaign next month, donors will be presented with a form that asks them to do more than fill out an amount of how much money they want to give. They will also be given a long list of options in four umbrella areas with several sub-options. The four impact areas, as they are being called, are: Helping our community in need, with sub-areas that help alleviate poverty, help seniors, and improve the Jewish communitys response to mental health needs. Experiencing Judaism birth to grade 12 has four sub-areas that include programs for early childhood, teens and Jewish camps. Building Jewish community postgrade 12 covers Jewish-identitybuilding programs, young adult programming and adult education. Most cultural programs, including JTNews, would fall into this area. Strengthening global Jewry focuses on poverty-alleviating programs in Israel and the former Soviet bloc as well as for the elderly in the former Soviet Union. Donors will be able to decide on as many of the impact areas or sub-areas that speak to them. They can actually choose what really moves them, said Federation board chair Shelley Bensussen. A fifth option, the Sustaining Community Fund, acts much like the previous unrestricted campaign model. The more money that goes into the Sustaining Community Fund, the more opportunity we have to be able to flow that through the model, and fill in wherever we find some of the needs that havent raised enough money, Fruchter said. In the first year, specific goals both Fruchter and Bensussen cited a 25 percent increase in the number of kids sent to Jewish camps over three years as an example will be set for donors to reach. After the first campaign is complete, they will then receive reports on how their donations were used. Were hoping that well tell people, after these programs are in play, that Your donation did this, you met your goal, Bensussen said. On the allocations end of this new equation, Fruchter said he hopes to expand the Federations volunteer base with the creation of committees to deliberate over each of the 13 new sub-areas. Federation officials acknowledge it wasnt a matter of if the Federation would have to come up with a new way to raise money for the programs it funds. It was a matter of when. The old model of the Federation, where we once a year ask people to make one donation to our organization and then we decide where [the money] goes, is broken, Robin Boehler, the chair of the Federations fundraising arm, the Center for Jewish Philanthropy, told a group of supporters at an event in late July. So we had to decide on something new. Community campaigns over the past several years have been stagnant or come up short of their goals. Though economic turmoil can be blamed for some of the shortfalls, Federation officials recognized that the unrestricted giving model felt antiquated, in particular when reaching out to the families of some of the Federations largest, most faithful donors who had died in recent years. We havent done a good enough job in reengaging their children and that next generation, Fruchter said. Were hoping that this will give them an opportunity to say, You know what? Its not my dad or moms Federation anymore, theyre trying something new. Lets give it a shot. The big question, then, is will it work? I havent talked to one person, not one donor, who has said, I dont like what youre doing, were not going to give, Fruchter said. Everybodys very intrigued to see how its going to work out. Brian Schultz, a part of the younger generation the Federation is trying to reach and a longtime Federation donor and volunteer himself, said he agrees there needed to be changes. But he believes this model doesnt go far enough. By leveraging technology in interesting ways, I think theres an opportunity to really build a different kind of relationship with their donors, particularly using social networking, Schultz said. I think the new model is compatible with that. I dont think it quite gets all the way there. Still, I hope they succeed, he said. I really want them to. Defining success aside from the easy metric of raising more money cant be determined holistically until Federation officials see the grant proposals from the agencies it funds. They believe the interest is high enough that they will raise more money, but they admit the risk involved with this new model. The first year, we have no idea how moneys going to come in. None at all, Boehler said at the July event. When I say were taking a risk, were not kidding. We have no clue how people will earmark their funds. Fruchter said making a transition
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The Jewish Federation of greater seattles campaign kickoff event will feature Yeshiva Universitys popular a capella group The Maccabeats, on sun., sept 18 at 5 p.m. Tickets and dinner cost $54. At Mccaw Hall, 321 Mercer st., seattle center.
piecemeal would not have the same impact. [We] felt that just half-heartedly going in, saying were going to try this and see how it works and maybe in a year or two well move over, it wasnt going to make the change in the community that we really wanted, he said. Federations in Portland and San Francisco are both embarking upon allocations models similar to Seattles, but not currently adopting a donor choice option. There really isnt a good example out there for what were doing, Fruchter said. We looked at United Ways, we looked at Federations, we looked at nonprofits, we looked at foundations. And then we ended up designing a program, taking into account what some of their experiences have been. Scott Kaufman, CEO of the Jewish Federation of GreaterMetro Detroit, called the traditional allocations model in an article for the JTA news service the lifeblood of the community and expressed doubts about different models providing the same impact. At the same time, similar agencies will watch closely to see if Seattles Federation can make this model work. Were on the cutting edge of the Jewish Federations, which is wonderful, said Bensussen, the Federations board chair. Hopefully we will have such success that the other federations will follow us.
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Dear Rivy, A friend of mine is getting married this fall and came to me with some questions about the wedding ceremony. She and her fianc are pretty secular, but she is still oriented toward tradition. She needs some help understanding one of the rituals in particular, the ceremony performed before the chuppah called the badecken. She wants to better understand this tradition, and how she should put it into practice in this day and age. who has been fted by the women, will see each other here for the first time. The groom will often be escorted by an entourage his close family members, his friends, and the rabbi toward the bride, who is seated. She will be surrounded in turn by her close family members and friends. This part of the ceremony might have loud festive music in the background or, depending on the custom, more somber and plaintive singing of the grooms party. As the groom approaches the bride, flanked on one side by his father and the other side by the brides father, the emotions in the room tend to soar this is often the most emotional moment of the traditional wedding. There is close proximity and intimacy it is the first time the couple sees each other at their wedding. The groom draws close to the bride, lifts the veil resting on her head, then gently lowers it over her face. The bride is veiled. A flurry of blessings are bestowed upon her by the fathers, the uncles, grandfathers and perhaps the rabbis. The blessings include the blessing enunciated by the family of the biblical Rebecca, as she prepared to leave her home, to travel with the servant of Abraham to meet her groomto-be Isaac. Her brothers declared, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them. The priestly blessing is often pronounced as well: The Lord bless thee, and keep thee; The Lord make His face to shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee; The Lord lift up His countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. The groom and his entourage depart, guests make their way to the area where the chuppah and marriage ceremony will take place, and the bride, newly veiled, prepares to walk down that aisle. This delicate veiling is heavy with symbolism. It is at once evocative of a nascent status of exclusivity, a subtle intensified modesty and an implied sense of privacy. All of which are indeed integral to marriage and about be the new reality for said bride. The word for veil in Hebrew, tzeif, appears twice in the Torah, both in reference to women who veiled themselves at uncertain moments ahead of intimacy. Rebecca, upon seeing Isaac, her intended, for the very first time, at the end of the long camel trip from her birthplace in Mesopotamia to Canaan where Isaac was living, veils herself as she alights from her camel. Tamar, the disguised widowed daughter-in-law of Judah, veils herself before presenting herself to him. The Midrash links these women and their
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Lets start with a basic core understanding of ritual and symbol as a lead-in to this larger conversation. Lifecycle events are rich in symbolic and ritualized behavior. These rites help us navigate the liminal moments in our lives. It is generally accepted and often the case that transitions are pregnant with a precarious potential for peril. To move from one state to another is fraught with tension and uncertainty. The rituals that have grown around celebrations of birth, puberty, marriage and death address these natural tensions either by diverting attention, comforting or addressing head-on the transition at hand. These rituals contribute to a massaging, so to speak, of the transition and perhaps even as a navigational tool to assist the intense changes that are underway. Symbols go hand in hand with ritual. A symbol is a physical object that transcends its basic physicality by assuming a meaning far beyond its utilitarian nature. A wedding ring is not just a piece of jewelry by virtue of it being given at a ceremony of commitment and devotion. It becomes that physical symbol of those ideals and values. The ring triggers the memory and takes on the very meaning and significance of the commitment and devotion it represents. Its symbolic value transcends its actual value. Jewish wedding rituals and symbols are a persnickety mlange of tradition, halachah (Jewish law), family heritage and regional variations. Weddings are a lifecycle ritual perhaps most fraught with the intense and highly charged negotiations, given the merging of two previously distinct individuals and their families. And of course, the communal union of these two people must offer authentic meaning to its two central figures this being the moment of their newly birthed connection; their marriage. Hence the planning is complicated and worthy of careful deliberation. This is a big deal. The badecken, the veiling of the bride, most prevalent in Ashkenazic communities takes place immediately before the chuppah and right after the signing of the ketubah. The groom, who has been ensconced with the men, and the bride,
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It was a quiet evening at home when Arlene G. Cohens husband Steve turned to her and said, Do you want to move to the South Pacific? Steve was a tax attorney in private practice and had seen an ad for a job in Saipan, U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The rest, as they say, is history. Arlene had moved to Seattle from Los Angeles in the early 1970s and got her Masters in Library Science from the UW in 1973. When Steve they met here through one of the earliest Jewish computer dating services posed that question, Arlene was a tech writer and editor at Boeing.
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Arlene now back in Seattle received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni award from UW iSchool (short for Information School as the school of library science is now known) in May. Ive always been interested in resource sharing, she says. In Guam, the couple found their Jewish community through the local military base. The military had a multipurpose center. If you went in one door it was Jewish and if you went in another door it was Catholic, she says. The military would send rabbis for the holidays. Back home they are involved in the Kavana Cooperative (www.kavana.org), and are working to develop a bigger group of retirement age adults in the cooperative. Like many of us, Michael Cory received an orchid as a gift. It came from his wife Sheila almost 25 years ago. Most of us, however, dont turn that little floral gift into a major hobby, but he did.
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When I married him I thought I would stay in Seattle the rest of my life, she says, but she said yes and they left Seattle in late 1987. In 1990, Arlene was offered a job at the University of Guam and spent a year and a half commuting between Saipan and Guam until Steve also moved to Guam. The university is the main educational institution for that area, including Micronesia, Palau, American Samoa and the Marshalls. We would get students from all the islands and even the U.S., Philippines and Japan, Arlene says. As associate professor and head of the University of Guam Library Circulation and Interlibrary Loan Department, she was interested in library development in the region and co-founded the Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives. After retiring in 2007, she helped establish a network of nine medical libraries among those Pacific Islands, funded by grants from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation, or, as she called them, the Band-Aid people. She did part of this work while being treated for, and recovering from, breast cancer.
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I managed to get it to re-bloom, recalls Michael. This can be challenging, as those of us whove received a store-bought orchid can attest. Living in Chapel Hill, N.C., we had a nice sun porch, which first housed his collection and then we built a greenhouse, a small greenhouse as the collection grew. Michael, a computational chemist who grew up in New York and California, retired in 2002 and Sheila, who worked in the University of North Carolinas department of education, retired in 2006. They moved to Seattle five years ago to be near family. Once here, they built another small greenhouse and Michael started a new collection from scratch. Being tropical, orchids dont take to temperature extremes and dont travel well.
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The Siberian Airlines flight carried a group of seven young professionals from Seattle. When it touched down in the faraway city of Khabarovsk, two members of the group asked a native woman sitting nearby what she recommended to do in this Russian city. Dont get off the plane, she responded. But we did. As we stood on the tarmac, the air heavy with humidity, facing a decrepit building posing as an airport, surely one or two of us wondered if we should have listened. What had we signed ourselves up for? The idea was relatively new: For the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC, or Joint, as its often called) to bring a group of Americans to a struggling Jewish community in far eastern Russia. The JDC runs trips like this all over the world, but this was the first of its kind to Siberia. Its not Siberia. Its the Russian Far East, Valentina Nemirovski, the Khabarovsk Hillel director, corrected from her seat on our tour bus, the dcor of which appeared to be inspired by a Mariachi band and displayed a framed hologram of dolphins by the drivers seat. Khabarovsk lies 19 miles from the Chinese border. It is the second-to-last stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a mere 500 miles from the terminus in Vladivostok. For the sake of perspective, Moscow is an eight-hour flight, a trip that jumps seven time zones. Its so far out there, in fact, its considered beyond Siberia. Aside from the initial impression at the airport, to envision Khabarovsk one must forget anything one has ever thought about that vast region east of the Urals. Downtown Khabarovsk, with its boulevard of pastel boutiques bumping up against the Amur River looks more like Lisbon than any stereotyped Russian town. It exceeded my expectations, said Mariel Venhuizen, 24, a participant on the trip and the Hillel at University of Washingtons Repair the World fellow. I kind of had this idea that it would be kind of like a decrepit city. And when we arrived at the airport I felt those expectations were met. But then once we got into their downtown I was really surprised. For the next week, the Seattle group through Hillel UWs Jconnect program along with a smattering of young Jews from the East Coast, toured Khabarovsk and engaged with the local Jewish community and history through conversations and service work. Joanne (Jhanna) Rossignol, 28, was motivated to join the trip out of her experience studying in Vladivostok in college and working as a Russian interpreter in Seattle. Their focus is to rebuild a sense of community, she said of her impressions of Khabarovsks Jews. Getting people involved, getting people together to explore Jewish identity. Rossignol was repeatedly struck by the number of former Soviet Jews and non-Jews who had no idea any Jewish community remains in the region. You dont think there are communities that are forgotten, she said. I think this community is forgotten. Both the JDC, a welfare organization, and the Hillel, a community center, are active in bringing dignity to Jewish life in Khabarovsk. A Chabad rabbi leads religious services, but Chabad exists in tension with the other organizations, which are more culturally oriented. Unlike American Chabad centers, characterized by their enthusiastic outreach efforts, Chabad of Khabarovsk remains disconnected from the community at large. Part of this is due to the fact that many Russian Jews cannot prove matrilineal Jewish heritage, while the JDC qualifies Jews as having just one Jewish grandparent. The rabbi and us have different bosses, explained the JDCs Siberian director, Boris Boguslavsky, through a translator. The rabbis boss is God. Despite the JDCs extensive welfare work with the poor, aging community, Khabarovsks young population is contributing to a Jewish revival of sorts. I was surprised by the dedication by the Jewish professionals that we met. Many of them were finding out their Jewish identity not long before, said Josh Furman, Jconnects director and the trips staff person. The weeks activities included visits with elderly Jews who told stories of their survival through World War II; home visits to recipients of JDC aid packages; discussions with the local staff and the JDC staff about the programs in Khabarovsk; service work; visits to local Jewish organizations, including a preschool founded with funds from Seattles Jewish community; and discussions about Jewish life with our Hillel peers, as our companion group of late-teen, early-20s Russians was called. The Khabarovsk Jewish community consists of 12,000 to 14,000 Jews, incredibly. But coming here with an American concept of Jewish practice for all its diversity is futile. The majority of Jews we encountered were either poor and coming to the end of long, often sad lives, or young, culturally oriented Jews who did not grow up in homes with any Jewish practice. Some only found out recently that they were Jewish, often through the help of Vadim, Khabarovsks Jewish community leader. The mission of the JDC branch that serves Khabarovsk, based in Novosibirsk about 2,200 miles away and the largest city in Siberia is to provide aid to anyone with a Jewish grandparent. The Hillel acts as a community center and houses a synagogue, a parve kitchen, and social spaces that host all of the citys Jewish activities, such as the weekly throngs of elderly JDC Hesed program aid recipients who come to pick up food subsidy cards. The most powerful experiences included home visits to the aid recipients. The JDC provides food baskets to eligible people of all ages who, for whatever reason, cant leave their homes regularly. Many are elderly Jews sentenced to walkup apartments; others are at home with small children or are unable to work. The most meaningful thing to me were the homecare visits, said Venhuizen. I feel personally so fortunate to have heard from the elderly people.... They were so grateful we wanted to hear their stories. Given what she had learned about the Holocaust, she said, it appeared that Russias experience was largely forgotten. Just because there werent concentration camps, [that doesnt mean] they werent equally tortured, she said. That was a huge shock for me. One of our service projects, the cleanup of a Jewish cemetery, impacted many of our groups members. The gravesites, tucked away among brambles, suffered from years of neglect. Were supposed to honor the people before us, said Furman. I cant imagine not being able to celebrate publicly and not [being able to] visit a grandparents grave...which is why they were covered in garbage. For Furman, cleaning up the cemetery and visiting the elderly brought dignity to a long-suffering community. It also left him, and others, with perspective into their own communities and their roles in the Jewish community. Personally, this trip has inspired me to go on further with my own exploration of my Jewish identity, said Rossignol. Rossignol said she was also inspired to bring attention to the plight of struggling Jewish communities. If we dont keep them in our minds and our hearts, where are they going to be in two generations from now? she asked. It makes me realize we have so many opportunities here and so many things we can do, said Furman. It reminds me of that bond we have with Jews everywhere we go.
This is the second in a series by Emily K. Alhadeff about Jewish life in the farthest reaches of Russia.
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The sweet vegetables of summer

beveRly levitt special to JTnews
Summertime, when the living is easy and the produce is sweet, is also the time when entertaining is at its peak with summery wedding and anniversary activities and our own volition for taking our outdoor furniture out of storage and hosting festivities in our own backyard. No matter the celebration, take advantage of the most flavorful offerings of summer, which turn any occasion into a supreme celebration of the senses. With all the talk about buying local, in season, and sustainably grown produce, we often lose sight of the best reason to encourage folks to grow their own vegetables or seek out an organic farmer who grows his produce nearby: The flavor. Theres nothing like the mlange of fragrances from peas hanging from curly vines, bright yellow squash blossoms peaking through velvety leaves, the intoxicating perfume of vine-ripened tomatoes, aromatic basil, rosemary, tarragon and thyme. I dont even mind my eyes watering from the acrid pungency of onions, chili peppers and garlic as I can hardly wait for them to punctuate my favorite summer salads. One whiff and its Prousts Madeleine; I am 6 years old, sitting in my mothers garden, stuffing mud-layered tomatoes, basil, sweet onions and radishes into my mouth, while visions of summer picnics dance in my head. In summertime our cooking chores are simplified because we can depend on the robust flavors of our vegetables, instead of feeling obligated to drown dull winter veggies in heavy sauces and exotic spices, or overshadow them by hearty meats, which now clash with warm temperatures and sunny moods. Summer is also the best time of year to eat our veggies raw, preserving all the vitamins and minerals depleted by cooking. Try carrot, celery and jicama sticks, zucchini rounds, half moons of bell pepper, florets of broccoli and cauliflower, mushroom buttons. Even delicate baby asparagus and snap beans are delicious au natural. Savory salsas, creamy guacamole and veggie kabobs are also better this time of year. Crisp, crunchy raw veggies can be enhanced by creamy dips seasoned with fresh herbs, nuts, olives or pimientos. A wonderful combination is cream cheese or yogurt, flavored with ripe olives, chives, spinach, mushrooms and hazelnuts. Make a hot cheddar cheese dip with chili peppers, garlic, cilantro and tomatoes. Try roasting onions, garlic, tomatoes and colorful bell peppers with a drizzle of olive oil, balsamic and some fresh basil, rosemary, or thyme. Or serve your tomatoes ice cold sprinkled with a tad of French salt, atop some white mozzarella, fresh basil, and a drizzle of olive oil. Using vegetables in season from local gardens right to your table yields not only the best quality, the biggest variety and the sweetest taste, but the best price. Its odd that we actually pay more for grocers to buy vegetables that they put into cold storage for months, then pull out as the fresher supplies get slim giving us a tired substitution for their younger counterparts. So, enjoy early summer vegetables now. Save the canned and frozen stuff until a gloomier time of the year.
Freshly ground black pepper to taste 1-1/2 cups arborio rice, rinsed in colander 5 cups homemade chicken or vegetable broth, boiling 1 cup white wine 1/2 cup carrots, sliced in rounds 1/2 cup Japanese eggplant, sliced in rounds 1/2 cup mushrooms, halved 1/2 cup baby asparagus, halved 1 cup baby pear tomatoes, halved 1 Tbs. fresh chives, minced 1 Tbs. fresh basil, sliced 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese In heavy skillet saut shallots, garlic, yellow pepper in olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper, cook until soft, 3-5 minutes. Add rice, cook until grains are coated, but not browned. Increase heat; add broth, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring frequently, for the next 15 minutes. Add wine, carrots, and eggplant; cook 10 more minutes. Add mushrooms, asparagus and tomatoes, cook 5 minutes more. All liquid should be absorbed and the rice tender, but not firm. Remove from heat. Sprinkle with chives and Parmesan cheese. Serves 4.
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Garden Vegetable Risotto

1/2 cup shallot onions, chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1/2 cup yellow pepper, sliced 2 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil 1/2 tsp. salt
Broiled Eggplant with Sun-Dried and Plum Tomato Sauce

2 large purple eggplants Olive oil as needed 4 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped 1 large sweet Walla Walla onion, minced
8 cups sweet plum tomatoes, pured 1/2-cup sun dried tomatoes, soaked in 1-cup water for an hour, then chopped 1 tsp. kosher salt, coarsely ground Freshly ground pepper to taste 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, sliced 1/2 cup fresh thyme, chopped 1 /2 cup Parmesan Cheese (optional) Cut eggplant into 1/2- to 3/4-inch slices. Brush with olive oil. Broil five minutes, until brown. Turn and brown the other side. Drain, and then remove to baking pan. Saut garlic and onions in olive oil. When light golden brown, add plum and sun-dried tomatoes, salt and pepper. Bring to boil, lower flame, and simmer for 40 minutes. Add basil and thyme. Pour tomato sauce over eggplant, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese; bake for 15 minutes until cheese is hot and bubbly and eggplant is tender. Serves 6.
Waterways Cruises and Events

Waterways Cruises and Events will make your special occasion an unforgettable Northwest experience with the Seattle skyline and views of Lake Washington and Lake Union as the perfect backdrop for your celebration. Add exquisite cuisine prepared by their culinary team, professional event planning services, and your personalized touches for lasting memories of your special event. Waterways beautifully appointed yachts offer unique venues for weddings, Bar and Bat Mitzvah celebrations, holiday events, birthdays, graduation and anniversary parties. Their yachts feature spacious interior salons for dining and live entertainment, open-air decks that are perfect for ceremonies, photography and viewing of the ever-changing shorelines, and onboard galleys and bars for full-service catering. Contact their event planners to schedule a tour of Waterways yachts! Call 206-223-2060 for your event proposal or visit www.WaterwaysCruises.com for more information.
What the Chelm!

What the Chelm! has enlivened simchot since 1993 and entertained at countless Bnai Mitzvah and weddings around the Puget Sound area. Public performances have included Folklife, Klezfest, the Juan de Fuca Festival and moving the Boise synagogue to its new home, as well as annual gigs for the Bellingham Parks and the Whatcom Museum. The band plays klezmer, Israeli, Yiddish, Ladino and other types of music. Contact Dan Raas at 360-6761621 or visit www.whatthechelm.com.
Woodland Park Zoo

Woodland Park Zoo, one of Seattles most cherished community resources, is the perfect location for your next event! Set on 92 acres with over 300 species of animal, the zoo offers 17 unique venues to host your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, holiday party, picnic, meeting, wedding, family reunion or birthday party. Funds generated by your event help support the zoos quality animal care, education programs, and field conservation projects to help preserve wildlife species and habitats in the Northwest and around the world. For more information contact groupsales@zoo.org or 206-548-2590, or visit www.zoo.org.
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Many VoicesOne Jewish Community: Sept. 18

The place to be in Seattle on September 18 is the Jewish Federations 2012 Community Celebration and Campaign Kickoff: Many VoicesOne Jewish Community.
The entire Jewish community is invited to join in the party to learn more about the Federations dynamic new ways of supporting our Jewish community locally and worldwide. Plus: enjoy the music of the fabulous Maccabeats the YouTube sensations who have been featured on the Today show and performed at the White House. This group of performers will bring their unique brand of a cappella music straight from Yeshiva University to share with us. Make your plans now, and bring your friends for an evening of friendship and fundraising for our Jewish community. September 18 5-8:15pm McCaw Hall/Seattle Center registration at: www.JewishinSeattle.org/Kickoff or by calling 206-443-5400
Volunteers Welcome!
Do you have a little time to help your Jewish community? Looking for a way to have a meaningfulimpact on the lives of Jewish people? The Jewish Federation has a variety of ways you can help, in the office, at events or helping with fundraising. If you can spare a few hours, email Volunteer@JewishInSeattle. org or call 206-443-5400. Its a great time to connect with your community and know that your work is valued.
Imagine
Imagine what a vibrant Jewish community might look like...all Jews in need would have enough to eat and a safe place to sleepevery Jewish child would have the opportunity to attend Jewish camp our many Jewish schools would have support to provide quality educational programsand every Jew living in Israel or across the world would have the freedom to practice their religion in peace and dignity. This is the Jewish world we strive forand one that we can achieve together. Your Seattle Jewish Federation is in the forefront of a new way for Jews to join together to create the thriving Jewish community of the future. We are preparing to launch a dynamic new program that will allow donors to express their passions through their Jewish giving and allow all local Jewish non-profit organizations to submit proposals.This year, for the first time, donors will be able to choose one or more areas of impact and community priorities to support with their gift. Developed over more than a year, with input from community members from throughout the region, the impact areas and specific priorities have been created to address identified Jewish community needs. In addition to the unrestricted Sustaining Our Community fund, four impact areas will allow donors to direct their gift to achieve goals that are important to them. And if your personal passions are even more specific, you will be able to designate in even greater detail toward a specific priority. Watch for details in the coming weeks as this new philanthropic model unfolds. Then get ready to participate in building a Jewish community that Jewish people across the world will identify as the place they want to live and raise their families. Imaginehow we can join together to build and sustain the Jewish community of the future.
high School Students only

Know a high school student?All Seattle area high school students are invited to join in the fun and sing along with The Maccabeats at the September 18 kickoff event. If you, or someone you know, is a high school student this year, join us on stage. To sign up, call Michael Wardlow at 206-774-2256 or email him at MichaelW@JewishInSeattle.org. Lets fill the stage with the music of our Seattle Jewish teens!
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Family matters,
but so do your neighbors

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him. Mark Twain
In the circle of life we start as children, become adults, and usually going on to become parents ourselves. The family circle may be better characterized as a spiral. As parents we draw on a widening circle of friends and experts for advice and assistance. Unfortunately, one type of person Americans are likely not to call on is a neighbor. If you know some of your neighbors well enough to help each other out, you are probably a minority in our culture. This is the focus of Peter Lovenheims In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street, One Sleepover at a Time (Perigee, paper, $13.95). Living in Rochester, New Yorks most exclusive suburb (Houston Barnard), he is deeply affected by a tragic murder-suicide only a few houses away from his own. This started him wondering: If the murdered woman had known her neigh-
bors even one would she have gone to them for help? Would she have fled to safety if she knew she had a nearby place to go? Lovenheim (hes an attorney and mediator by training) sets out to know his neighbors and to increase the safety and well-being of the neighborhood. He even asks some if he can sleep over at their houses, to get to know them and to observe them. A few consent and this is the authors report and musings on the subject. Its a fast read and a great starting point to get us thinking about our own neighborhoods and our roles as neighbors in them. As spouses and parents, though, we are probably more likely to turn to a book than we are to turn to our own family or neighbors for advice. In Letting go With Love and Confidence: Raising Responsible, Resilient, Self-Sufficient Teens in the 21st Century (Avery, paper, $18), Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg of the UPenn School of Medicine joins journalist Susan FitzGerald to give parents practical, thoughtful and contemporary strategies for achieving those goals stated in the books title. In addition to the usual teen struggles,
parents now seek the balance in moderating electronic media and social networking. Are kids being forced to grow up more quickly or being encouraged to be more dependent? Ginsburg offers suggestions based on his experience as a pediatrician and as a father of teens. Read it from beginning to end or pick and choose the sections that apply. Its great if we can turn to family in a crisis. What I Learned About Life When My Husband Got Fired (RedandBlack, paper, $25) is written by a sister duo who have taken the noms de plume Red and Black. It details Reds attempt to comprehend and control family finances in the wake of her husbands and sole bread winners job loss. She starts from zero and, with the help of her older sister, with her 30 years of corporate experience, builds a solid knowledge of personal finance. We learn along with her step-by-step as Red relates hundreds of phone calls, emails and instant message exchanges between the sisters. Its a personable and do-able approach. The book has already been used as a textbook and a teachers guide is also available. Houstons Jewish community, of which the duo are a part,
have embraced the book and the stories within. Finally, we can only hope as parents that our kids grow up to respect us and, even better, let us know it. My Parents Were Awesome, edited by writer, producer and comedian Eliot Glazer (Villard, paper, $15), is a collection of mostly sweet essays culled from the popular website of the same name. There, in 2009, Glazer began encouraging people to find vintage photos of their parents and reflect on those parents lives before children and the challenges of raising a family. The title gives the impression that only good memories are in store for the reader, but the book is not saccharine. Many of these writers turn an eye to their parents faults, but not with intent to blame. Its done with the love and compassion that we hope to acquire once we reach that certain stage of adulthood. (Some of these parents, though, might have done well with a little of the expert advice referenced above.) It so happens that many of these writers are Jewish, but many are not. Overall, the respect, love and yes, awe, conveyed here transcends race and ethnicity.
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Books in brief
FiCtion Jerusalem Maiden, Talia Carner, (Harper, paper, $14.99). Carners real skill in this, her third novel, is in her vivid descriptions of settings. She brings Jerusalems pre-World War I Mea Shearim neighborhood alive in this story of Esther Kaminsky, oldest daughter of an ultraOrthodox immigrant family. Esther struggles to balance her religious and family obligations and her love of drawing, which she studies in school. Married off to a less religious man in Jaffa (as a punishment), she follows him to Europe and gets stuck in Paris alone during the war, another place Carner captures so well. Conflicts between religious and secular life, and strong statements about womens independence dominate this historical novel, based loosely on the authors grandmothers life. The Blood of Lorraine, by Barbara Corrado Pope (Pegasus, cloth, $25). On the eve of the Dreyfus trial, French magistrate Bernard Martin and his pregnant wife have just moved to Nancy in Lorraine, where Martin is asked to investigate a series of troubling crimes. A baby is murdered and mutilated and the parents insist it is the act of a wandering Jew. Then two prominent members of the local Jewish community are killed. During the investigation Martin, a non-Jew and steadfast believer in republican ideals, becomes aware of the dark undercurrent of antiSemitism that grips his town and his nation all while coping with personal tragedy. The author is a University of Oregon professor. This is her second historical mystery featuring Martins character.
Song Yet Sung, by James McBride (Riverhead, cloth, $25.95). The bi-racial author, whose mother was born Jewish, is best known for his memoir, The Color of Water. This novel of slavery in northern, coastal Maryland in the mid-1800s brings historical and mystical elements together as the lives of free, captive and escaped slaves blend with white slave hunters, abolitionists and hard-working fisher folk in a tense drama. The story focuses on Liz, an escaped slave whose head injury has given her seemingly prophetic dreams. She is hunted by a vicious band of bounty hunters and by a more sympathetic oysterman. With the Promised Land of the north only 80 miles away, and the Underground Railway operating nearby, Liz desperately tries to make her way to freedom. Roll Over Hitler, by Daniel Bruce Brown (Inkwater, paper, $25.95). This political farce finds Ron Goldberg, a liberal U.S. Senator, elected the first Jewish president of these 51 United States (Israel has been added to the roster). Its a rollicking White House adventure with an angry first lady (living in a hotel while the White House is renovated), old flames and dead fathers resurfacing, all while the prez has to contend with political infighting and international disdain. The solution, well, it might be out of this world if it works. A first novel and a good first effort. Youth FiCtion The Inquisitors Apprentice, by Chris Moriarity (Harcourt, cloth, $16.99). Harry Potter meets One of A Kind Family in this early 20th-century magical crime novel. Thirteen-year-old Sacha is from
a poor but happily eccentric Lower East Side family. When the police learn he can see magic they send him to work for the departments top inquisitor, where he is paired for training with snobbish Upper East Sider Lily Astral. The working poor of the city want to keep their old-country magic, used mainly for chores and work, but wealthy industrialists like James Pierrepont Morgaunt seek to control it all. While our heroes hunt a murderous dybbuk, we learn about immigrant life in old New York. Young readers might not get the jokes, but adults will be amused at Moriaritys historical satire. The IWW is now the International Witches of the World and Sachas Uncle Mordechai had been kicked out of Russia for being a Bavatskyan Occulto-Syndicalist, but he was actually a Trotskyite Anarcho-Wiccanist. iSrAel Israel for Beginners: A Field Guide for Encountering the Israelis in Their Natural Habitat, by Angelo Colorni (Gefen, paper, $16.95). A very funny look at Israel and Israelis by an Italian with an American wife who has made his home there for 30 years. Designed to serve as a guide either for tourists or new residents, Colorni covers learning the language, the people, their lifestyles and popular tourist destinations. In addition to his sardonic observations, the author begins each subject section with a biblical quote, usually taken out of context in hilarious manner. The epigram for fashion: They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons; and for politics: Let his days be few; and let another take his office (Psalms). In real life the author is an
authority on diseases of aquatic organisms at the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Center. The Ablest Navigator, by J. Wandres (Naval Institute Press, cloth, $32.95). Even civilians can enjoy this dense but relatively short biography of a little-explored piece of Israeli history. In 1944 Paul Shulman was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and one of 50 Jewish midshipmen commissioned in his class. His mother was an executive with Hadassah and after the war he helped buy supplies for the Haganah. In 1948, Ben-Gurion called Shulman to Israel to establish a naval training academy. Starting with almost no assets he took the Israeli squadron into action against enemy ships in less than three months. After the war of independence Shulman settled in Israel. Out of the Depths, by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (Sterling, cloth, $24.95). This is the memoir of Israels former chief rabbi, who served in that position from 1993 to 2003. At age 8, Lau was liberated from Buchenwald, and he lost most of his family in that tragedy. He chronicles his time in a French orphan camp and his arrival in the newly formed state of Israel. The book is filled with interesting stories of early Israel and its leaders, the authors education, and how he came to be a public figure who has met with popes, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, U.S. presidents and many other global leaders. Shimon Peres wrote the forward.
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Candle lighting Times August 19 ...........................7:58 p.m. August 26 ...........................7:45 p.m. september 2.......................7:31 p.m. september 9.......................7:17 p.m. FRiday
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7:309:30 p.m. intro to Bet Alefs meditative shabbat

Shellie Oakley at info@betalef.org or 206527-9399 or www.betalef.org/shabbat.html If you are curious about what a meditative Shabbat service is like, but have not yet experienced it firsthand, then come to this introductory service. If you are a regular, this is a great night to bring others for a first or second taste. At Unity of Bellevue, 16330 NE 4th St., Bellevue. 79 p.m. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Manuel Cawaling at manny@youththeatre. org or 206-232-4145 or www.youththeatre.org Join Youth Theatre Northwest on a comic, colorful and musical journey through the biblical story of the young and remarkable Joseph. Recognized for its family-friendly storyline, universal themes and catchy music, the show is an audience favorite. Runs throughout the next week. $13$17. At Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 SE 40th St., Mercer Island.
19 august
7:30 p.m. Being Jewish in shanghai

Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at assistant@wsjhs. org or 206-774-2277 or www.wsjhs.org Werner Glass will present about the years he lived in Shanghai, including the Japanese occupation. After living in China for 14 years, he moved to the U.S. Free. At Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue. 10 a.m.12 p.m. sJCs summer Play date
Deb Frockt at dfrockt@seattlejcs.org or 206-522-5212 Preschoolers and kindergarteners are invited to come by for a play date. Free. At View Ridge Park, 4408 NE 70th St., Seattle.
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right with Temple De Hirsch Sinais BBQ. Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 3850 SE 156th Ave. SE, Bellevue. 6:30 p.m. Bet Alef family shabbat
Shellie Oakley at info@betalef.org or 206527-9399 or www.betalef.org/programs.html Join Bet Alef for a family-friendly Shabbat service led by Rabbi Olivier. Includes a BBQ potluck, swimming, and discussion about a future Bet Alef school for kids. Free. At Trails End Clubhouse, 13860 NE 42nd St., Bellevue.
Jean Genauer Memorial Beis Medrash and the Korchak Library. $10-$15. At Torah Day School of Seattle, 3528 S Ferdinand St., Seattle.
wednesday
sunday
FRiday
10:30 a.m. The PJ library music mash

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@ jewishinseattle.org or www.facebook.com/ pjlibraryseattle Come shake your wiggles out at a PJ concert with musicians Josh Niehaus and Ben Gown. Fun for the whole family and kids of all ages. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 68 p.m. schmooze-A-Que
Wendy at info@tdhs-nw.org or 206-3238486 or www.tdhs-nw.org Burgers, hot dogs and all the trimmings! End summer
26 august
10:30 a.m.1 p.m. hadassah Kick-off Brunch

Seattle Chapter Hadassah at seattle@ hadassah.org or 425-467-9099 or www. seattle.hadassah.org Nancy Garfinkel, co-author of The Recipe Club, will read excerpts from her book and share how real-life recipe clubs work to bring women closer together. Share food stories with the group (and be prepared to get emotional). $45/$72/$108. At the Seattle Yacht Club, 1807 East Hamlin St., Seattle. 36 p.m. Back to school Community Event
Rena Berger at RenaB@tdsseattle.org or 206-722-1200 or www.tdsseattle.org A welcome-back-to-school event open to the whole community. Includes a dedication of the Ben and
28 august
7 p.m. hebrew high open house

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@ jewishinseattle.org Hebrew High Seattle is an accredited after-school Jewish studies program that educates and inspires high school students. Get more details at their open house. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. 6:309 p.m. Jfs Annual meeting
Gail Pollack at gpollack@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3151 Jewish Family Service will hold its 119th annual meeting. At Hillel at the University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
31 august
satuRday
1111:30 a.m. Tot shabbat

Irit Eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle. org or 206-524-0075, ext. 2503 or bethshalomseattle.org Children ages 03 (and their parents) are invited to a fun Shabbat morning tot-friendly service! Service meets on the first Shabbat of the month. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.
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veilings by matter-of-factly observing that they both veiled themselves and they both gave birth to twins. Are their particular coverings connected to modesty or concealment? What is this wispy covering of a veil? It is a distancing but yet not a total hiddenness. This very quality of tacit separation is evoked when Moshe places a veil over his face to serve as a boundary between himself, who saw the Holy One face to face, and those who had not. His beaming face was to be set off from others.
On a mystical note, it is reminiscent of the veil that distinguishes between the Holy and the Holy of Holies in the Temple and of the thin divide between the upper and lower worlds. It is a hint of extraordinariness, of an intimacy borne of being set apart of commitment and years of devotion yet to come.
Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question thats been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.
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There are also, I learned, some temperate orchids with over 40 species in this state. They are primarily low growing and tiny, and include some varieties of lady slippers. Michael says they have become almost impossible to find due to attempts by well-meaning folks to transplant them. This is almost always unsuccessful. You really have to be an expert to get them to grow outside their natural habitat, he says. Michael is an active volunteer with the Northwest Orchid Society (www.nwos.org), sometimes exhibiting at their monthly
shows. I grow for fun, not for competition, he says. He volunteers as well at the Volunteer Park Conservatory, and the week we spoke, Michael was a counselor at a plant camp there, teaching kids about plants. (Visit www.volunteerparkconservatory.org, but really, you ought to visit in person its one of my favorite places in Seattle.) When not tending his orchids, which takes about an hour a day on average, the Temple Beth Am members enjoy hiking, spending time with their kids and grandkids, and, Michael says, I walk Green Lake whenever I can.
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care Givers
HomeCare Associates A program of Jewish Family Service 206-861-3193 www.homecareassoc.org Provides personal care, assistance with daily activities, medication reminders, light housekeeping, meal preparation and companionship to older adults living at home or in assisted-living facilities.
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Abolofia Insurance Agency Bob Abolofia, Agent 425-641-7682 F 425-988-0280 babolofia@yahoo.com Independent agent representing Pemco since 1979
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counselors/therapists
Jewish Family Service Individual, couple, child and family therapy 206-861-3195 www.jfsseattle.org Expertise with life transitions, relationships and personal challenges. Jewish knowledge and sensitivity. Offices in Seattle and Bellevue. Day and evening hours. Subsidized fee scale available.
Financial Services
Hamrick Investment Counsel, LLC Roy A. Hamrick, CFA 206-441-9911 rahamrick@hamrickinvestment.com www.hamrickinvestment.com Professional portfolio management services for individuals, foundations and nonprofit organizations.
Physicians
Vision Improvement Center of Seattle, PS Joseph N. Trachtman, O.D., Ph.D. 206-412-5985 tracht@accommotrac.com 108 5th Avevue S, Suite C-1 Seattle, WA 98104 Serving the Central District. Vision improvement and rehabilitation.
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Leahs Catering, Inc. Seattles Premier Kosher Caterer 206-985-2647 leah@leahscatering.com Full Service Glatt Kosher Delivery or Pickup All your catering needs. Vaad supervised. Place your Service online See your Service in Print
Dentists
Toni Calvo Waldbaum, DDS Richard Calvo, DDS 206-246-1424 Cosmetic & Restorative Dentistry Designing beautiful smiles 207 SW 156th St., #4, Seattle
Madison Park Cafe Simmering in Seattle for over 30 years 206-324-2626 Full service catering for all your Jewish life passages: Bar/Bat Mitzvahs Weddings Brit Milah Special Occasions. Karen Binder
Mass Mutual Financial Group Albert Israel, CFP 206-346-3327 aisrael@finsvcs.com Jamison Russ 206-346-3266 jruss@finsvcs.com Retirement planning for those nearing retirement Estate planning for those subject to estate taxes General investment management Life, disability, long-term care & health insurance Complimentary one hour sessions available
Eastside Insurance Services Chuck Rubin, agent 425-271-3101 F 425-277-3711 4508 NE 4th, #B, Renton Tom Brody, agent 425-646-3932 F 425-646-8750 www.e-z-insurance.com 2227 112th Ave. NE, Bellevue We represent Pemco, Safeco, Hartford & Progressive
Senior Services
Hyatt Home Care Services Live-in and Hourly Care 206-851-5277 www.hyatthomecare.com Providing adults with personal care, medication reminders, meal preparation, errands, household chores, pet care and companionship.
Matzoh Momma Catering Catering with a personal touch 206-324-MAMA Serving the community for over 25 years. Full service catering and event planning for all your Life Cycle events. Miriam and Pip Meyerson
Warren J. Libman, D.D.S., M.S.D. 425-453-1308 www.libmandds.com Certified Specialist in Prosthodontics: Restorative Reconstructive Cosmetic Dentistry 14595 Bel Red Rd. #100, Bellevue
Solomon M. Karmel, Ph.D First Allied Securities 425-454-2285 x 1080 www.hedgingstrategist.com Retirement, stocks, bonds, college, annuities, business 401Ks.
Funeral/Burial Services
Hills of Eternity Cemetery Owned and operated by Temple De Hirsch Sinai 206-323-8486 Serving the greater Seattle Jewish community. Jewish cemetery open to all pre-need and at-need services. Affordable rates Planning assistance. Queen Anne, Seattle
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The program also allows many of the participants to make their first Jewish friends in addition to giving them the opportunity to see and experience American culture. Often that experience with American culture sparks a stronger interest in many of their own Hungarian roots, Kashner said. Various estimates show between 50,000 and 100,000 Jews living in Hungary. A strong community there has yet to fully
develop. New opportunities for Jews are springing up, however, and after this program, many kids retain the relationships they have made throughout their time in America to help build their own Jewish community. Speaking with rabbis, celebrating Shabbat, and being immersed in other Jewish activities allow the programs participants to think more deeply about Judaism than they might have before. Its harder to be religious in Hungary [than it is in America], said Zewde. estinian statehood in some form, it will be seen as a public relations victory for the Palestinians. But in the absence of progress on the ground in the Middle East, a U.N. vote could set off popular Palestinian protests against Israel that could escalate into another Palestinian intifada. The outbreak of violence, however, could undermine Palestinian interests. In the relative absence of Palestinian terrorism in recent years, the Palestinians have managed to get increased economic assistance, established upgraded diplomatic ties with nations throughout the world, rallied more global support for their cause, and seen a considerable rise in their GDP and quality of life in the West Bank. They dont want to throw that all away. That may leave the Palestinians and Israel back where they started before talk of U.N. recognition began: At a standstill.
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What are some of the other possible negative consequences for the Palestinians of u.n. statehood recognition? The U.S. Congress has threatened to ban assistance to the Palestinian Authority if it pursues recognition of statehood at the United Nations. That could cost the Palestinians as much as $500 million annually, potentially crippling the Palestinian government. Whats the plan for the day after the u.n. vote? Its not clear. The Palestinian leadership doesnt seem to have a plan. The Palestinian public is expected to stage mass demonstrations. Israel is preparing for a host of worst-case scenarios, including violence. If the United Nations does endorse Pal-
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Galit will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 20, 2011, at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Galit is the daughter of Mindy Hara and Sandy Salzberg of Woodinville and the sister of Gavrielle and Geyliah. Her grandparents are Victor and Adrienne Hara of Bellevue. Galit is entering the 7th grade at the Overlake School. She enjoys soccer, swimming, kayaking, singing, photography, travel and playing Mah Jongg with her Bubbie. A portion of her Bat Mitzvah gifts will go toward cancer research to help the many people in her life who have been affected by the disease.
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Jessica Rachel Luper

Jessi will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 20, 2011 at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Jessi is the daughter of Brenda and Steve Luper of Issaquah and the sister of Nathan. Her grandparents are Carol and Fred Luper of Columbus, Ohio, Larry Norban of Phoenix, Ariz., and the late Dody Norban. Jessi is entering the 7th grade at Pacific Cascade Middle School. She in involved with volleyball, environmental club and theater. She loves to listen to music, babysit and spend time with friends. Jessi volunteers with PanCAN.org, PurleStrides walks, 4H Builders club, and as a madricha in the HNT kindergarten.
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Jessica Rose Barer

Jessica Rose Barer will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 27, 2011, at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation on Mercer Island. Jessica is the daughter of Karyn and Joe Barer of Mercer Island. Her grandparents are Carol and Arny Barer of Medina and Susan and Edward Richman of North Bellmore, N.Y. Jessica will be an 8th grader at Lakeside School in Seattle. She plays lacrosse and also enjoys guitar, baking, and reading. For her mitzvah project, Jessica has been volunteering at Treehouse for foster kids, assisting in the warehouse and store.
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Isabelle Alexandra Quinn

Isabelle will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on August 27, 2011 at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. Isabelle is the daughter of Hillary and David Quinn of Woodway and the sister of Adam. Her grandparents are Ernest and Erika Michael of Woodway, the late Martin Siegel and the late Barbara Siegel. Isabelle is going into 8th grade at Seattle Academy. She likes swimming, dancing and gymnastics. For her mitzvah project, she volunteered with Gingers Death Row Dog Rescue, which finds loving homes for abandoned and mistreated dogs.
Sarah S. Kolodner
Sarah Kolodner (nee Saphir) of Philadelphia passed away on Aug. 6, 2011. Wife of Meyer Kolodner. Mother of Janet Kolodner and Michael Klein zl (Atlanta and Washington, DC), Elliot Kolodner and Elana Dorfman (Haifa, Israel), Stuart Kolodner and Deborah Simonds (Newton, Mass.; formerly Seattle); Sister of Cecile Berman (Phila. and Baltimore); also survived by seven grandchildren. Sarah was a member of Congregations Beth Shalom and Beth El Ner Tamid in Philadelphia. She was a long-time teacher in the Philadelphia School System, was an avid knitter and baker, and served as treasurer for a variety of Jewish organizations. Her greatest joys came from life with her husband and the accomplishments of her children and grandchildren. Contributions may be made to Abramson Hospice (Phila.), the Martins Run Dementia Unit Fund (Media, Pa.), Jewish National Fund, or the charity of your choice.
Bar Mitzvah
David Edward Lichter

David celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on August 6, 2011, at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. David is the son of Nancy and Aaron Lichter of Seattle. His grandparents are Bonnie and Alan Stone of Bellingham, Elayne Lichter of Skokie, Ill., and the late David Lichter. David will be a 7th grader at Eckstein Middle School. He enjoys aikido, Ultimate Frisbee, clarinet, band, gaming and creating comics with friends. For his mitzvah project he fostered cats and kittens at PAWS.
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A primer on Palestinian statehood

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NEW YORK (JTA) On Sept. 20, when the annual session of the U.N. General Assembly opens, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to ask U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon to present a Palestinian request for statehood recognition to the U.N. Security Council. Here is a guide to what might happen, and what it might mean. the 15-member councils five permanent, veto-wielding members, has promised to veto a Palestinian statehood resolution. is there a way for the Palestinians to overcome a u.S. veto? Not in the Security Council. However, the Palestinians still could seek statehood recognition at the U.N. General Assembly. While a General Assembly vote in favor of Palestinian statehood would not carry the force of law, the passage of such a resolution would be highly symbolic and represent a significant public relations defeat for Israel. is there any benefit short of full statehood recognition that the Palestinians can obtain at the united nations? Yes. The Palestinians already have nonmember permanent observer status at the United Nations, which they obtained in 1974. This time, the General Assembly could vote to recognize Palestine as a non-member U.N. state, which would put Palestinian U.N. membership on par with that of the Vatican. While being a non-member state wouldnt give the Palestinians much more than they have now as a nonstate observer, it would be another symbolic victory. If the Palestinians can get a two-thirds majority in support of statehood in the General Assembly, they also could put forward a so-called Uniting for Peace resolution. This nonbinding, advisory resolution could provide legal cover to nations wanting to treat Palestine as a state for example, allowing sanctions and lawsuits against Israel to go forward. The Uniting for Peace option was first used to circumvent a Soviet veto in the Security Council against action during the Korean War, and it was employed during the 1980s to protect countries that sanctioned apartheid South Africa from being sued under international trade laws. Why are the Palestinians seeking statehood recognition from the united nations rather than negotiating directly with israel? The Palestinian leadership has eschewed renewed peace talks with Israel, either because Abbas believes that talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wont produce desired results or because Abbas believes he has more to gain by going to the international arena or both. Abbas essentially is gambling that the U.N. move will give him more leverage vis-a-vis Israel, making it more difficult for the Israelis to stick to their current negotiating positions and establishing the pre1967 lines as the basis for negotiations. What tools does israel have to respond to the Palestinian bid? Israels strategy now is trying to persuade as many nations as possible as well as the Palestinians that a U.N. vote favoring Palestinian statehood would set back the peace track. The argument is that it would make it less likely that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would succeed, forcing Israel to dig in its heels. Beyond that, Israeli experts have warned, Israel may consider the unilateral Palestinian bid for U.N. recognition an abrogation of the Oslo Accords, which stipulated that the framework for resolution of the conflict be negotiations between the two parties. If the Oslo Accords, which provides the basis for the limited autonomy the Palestinians currently have in the West Bank, are nullified, Israel may re-occupy portions of the West Bank from which its forces have withdrawn, end security cooperation with the Palestinian Authority and withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority.
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What do the Palestinians want the united nations to recognize? The Palestinians want recognition of the state of Palestine in the entirety of the West Bank, Gaza and eastern Jerusalem. The West Bank an area controlled by Jordan from the end of Israels War of Independence in 1949 until it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War includes lands on which Jewish settlements now sit. Eastern Jerusalem was effectively annexed by Israel, but the international community views it as occupied territory. In total, more than 600,000 Jews reside in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank. Whats the legal process for becoming a state? The U.N. Security Councils approval is required to become a U.N. member state. The United States, which is one of
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