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a kosher saudi celebrations pining for the shtetl conducting in israel

Patrick krohn

Julia Owen of the Northwest Yeshiva High School 613s girls’ basketball team pushes past three opponents for a shot during its final game of the season against Mt. Rainier Lutheran on Fri. Feb. 18. A hard-fought battle resulted in a 36-40 loss, but the girls finished the season 16-7 with a 12-0 record in their league. 613s coach Jed Davis was voted coach of the year by his fellow coaches in the SeaTac division 1B. Also, Owen and two of her teammates, Milana Davydov and Ilana Greenberg, were named to play on the division’s all-star team.

Ads will remain off Metro buses — for nowEric Nusbaum assistant Editor, Jtnews

King County Metro buses will not be running a contro-versial ad critical of Israel any time in the near future. Fed-eral Judge Richard A. Jones rejected an injunction sought by local group Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SeaMAC) that would have forced Metro to immediately run the ads that state “Israeli War Crimes: Your Tax Dol-lars at Work,” on 12 Seattle bus routes.

An ACLU attorney representing SeaMAC and a King County attorney presented their respective cases in a Seat-tle courtroom on Feb. 14. Their arguments hinged on dif-ferent readings of First Amendment law. ACLU attorney Jeffrey Grant suggested that King County buses were a designated free speech zone, while King County attorney Endel Kolde argued they were a limited public forum — not subject to full First Amendment protection.

In a ruling released late Friday, Feb. 18, Judge Jones sided with the county. Jones wrote that King County’s deci-sion to renege on its bus ads contract with SeaMAC was “viewpoint neutral,” and that the factors that led the county to pull the ads, such as potential vandalism, violence, and service interruptions, were “reasonably foreseeable.”

“We are pleased with the court’s finding that the deci-sion to pull the ad was reasonable in light of the threats of violence and disruption from members of the public and the safety concerns of bus drivers and law enforcement,” said Kolde in a statement. “This decision is good for transit and good for the people of King County.”

But the ACLU has indicated that this decision will not be the final legal ruling on the advertisementss.

“The ACLU of Washington still thinks it has a strong case and will be proceeding with the lawsuit on behalf of the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, seeking to have King County honor its contract to run the campaign’s approved ad on Metro buses,” wrote spokesperson Doug Honig in an e-mail.

Honig indicated to JTNews that the suit could unfold one of two ways: Either with a lawsuit in civil court, which would bring the case to a full trial, or with an appeal of Jones’ ruling on the preliminary injunction, which would land in the case in front of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He said there was not yet a timeline for the deci-sion.

Pro-Israel groups, who lobbied for King County to pull the ad, are happy with the ruling but realize that the case is out of their hands.

“Obviously we’re pleased with the decision, for all the reasons we presented along with the Federation, AJC, and others, to King County,” said Rob Jacobs, executive direc-tor of Israel advocacy group StandWithUs’ Seattle office. “It reinforces that our arguments had legitimacy when we

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letters to the editorthe rabbi’s turn

“Now the roof is leaky, there are no panes in the window and everything seems wrong. But what is still there is the memory.” — Theodore Bikel, rockin’ the Belz, at this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival. See previews starting on page 20.

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Dear JTNews reader:This column is addressed

to those who are “unaffili-ated.” The rest of you are wel-come to read it as well.

The word “unaffiliated” in this context means anyone in the Jewish community who is not a member of a syna-gogue. According to estimates by sociologists, this would be over 50 percent of the Jews in America — probably a bit more in the Puget Sound region.

I am going to make you an offer you can’t (shouldn’t) refuse — at least in my opinion: I will personally pay the first three months of your annual dues if you join a synagogue — any synagogue — before next Rosh Hashanah* (the details of this offer will be found at end of this letter).

The body of the letter will be a reasoned and reasonable argument (in the philo-sophical meaning of that word) of why you should join a synagogue, using selected quotations from the Mishna tractate “Avot,” also known as Pirke Avot (the Chapters of the Ancestors or ‘ancient rabbis’).

“Find yourself a rabbi.” (Avot 1:16)Every Jew needs a rabbi to call his or

her own. This is someone who will be your mentor, teacher, confidant, and lifecycle officiant. While you can probably find a rabbi on an emergency basis, there is no substitute for having an ongoing rela-tionship with your rabbi — someone who knows you intimately and has a true sense of who you are. In America, the best way to “acquire” such a mentor is through syn-agogue affiliation.

During the course of a year I officiate at 20 or more funerals. If a Jew dies and needs a rabbi, if I can I will be there (and I never charge for any mitzvah). However, there is a world of difference when I preside at the funeral of a member of my temple and when I preside at the grave of someone I never knew. My intentions are the same, but the depth of connection is worlds apart.

But it is not only at important lifecy-cles that having your own rabbi is crucial. To know there is someone who will listen to you day in and day out, and with whom you have an on-going relationship, is life affirming. To me, this is one of the most compelling reasons to be affiliated.

“All those engaged in the life of the community…will prosper.” (Avot 2:2)

This statement by Rabban Gamliel, son of the great Rabbi Judah, may appeal to the more selfish reasons for being affili-

ated. There is absolutely noth-ing wrong with that. Not all motives need to be altruistic.

Synagogue affiliation is a formula for success in a vari-ety of ways. You will prosper materially through network-ing and increased connec-tions. But you will also prosper emotionally and spiritually through a sense of belonging and the ego boost being part

of something larger than yourself brings. I would challenge a sociologist or Ph.D. candidate in social science to conduct a well-designed study, and I would bet that affiliated Jews are statistically more success-ful and happier than those who are not.

Being engaged in the life of a congre-gation is a path to success and the more involved you are, I would contend, the greater your success.

“Do His (God’s) will as if it were yours, so that He will do your will as if it were His.” (Avot 2:4)

I am so foolish to suggest that God wants you to be a member of a synagogue and that God will reward you for doing so? Maybe not.

But this is my belief: The world/fate operates on mystical principles that defy our understanding. One does not need to evoke the Hindu notion of karma to believe that all things are connected in ways that defy our rational understand-ing. Put another way, prayers may not be answered directly, but why take a chance? Judaism is a tradition that is open to all kinds of connections. Think about it.

“Do not cut yourself off from the community.” (Avot 2:5)

This oft-quoted aphorism of the saintly Hillel is the ultimate argument for affilia-tion. To be a Jew is to be part of the com-munity. There are, of course, many other ways to be part of the Jewish commu-nity. (Reading JTNews is one, to be sure.) I speak in this context not as a rabbi, but as a Jew raised from day one in a close-knit synagogue my grandparents help estab-lish decades before my birth. I can state unequivocally that my life was shaped in a wonderful way by my rabbi, my congre-gation, my friends and my teachers. Every Jewish child deserves such an experience. Your child/grandchild deserves such an experience. This is why I am making this offer you “can’t” refuse.

So now the details and the caveats:

An offer you can’t (and shouldn’t) refuserabbi JamEs L. mirEL temple B’nai torah

in need oF deMocracyEllis Goldberg’s column (“On Jews and Egypt: Dispatches from the front lines,” Feb. 11)

was informative.It is important that the new government that eventually emerges in Egypt be truly demo-

cratic and honors the peace treaty it signed with Israel in 1977. Also that there be an orderly and peaceful transition to democracy after the resignation of Mubarak’s autocratic regime. Mubarak did not renounce the peace treaty with Israel that had gotten his predecessor Anwar Sadat assassinated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

If the Brotherhood has its way, Egypt will become a Sunni theocracy modeled on Iran. The terror group Hamas is “the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.” Egypt’s tran-sition to democracy should not be hijacked by the Brotherhood, which could use violence, deception and rigged elections to seize power. It has been reported they intend to call for a referendum to rescind the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Their goal is to turn the world into an Islamist empire, which would have catastrophic consequences to the U.S. and Western civilization.

Egypt needs enough time to allow opposition parties to form and reform its constitution to make democratic voting credible and protect minorities. An orderly transition that does not result in a fundamentalist Islamic regime would be in the best interest of Egypt and the civilized world. Why are some in the media seeing this global jihadist group, banned in Egypt for decades, as moderate?

Josh basson seattle

the curious case oF richard silversteinMy column, “Jewish Delusions and the Threat to the Jewish People,” (Jan. 28) evoked

Casablanca-like shock from Seattle blogger Richard Silverstein in the JTNews. Silverstein pieced together, ransom-note style, segments from my article separated by dots to assert that I had quoted him unfairly. I had not quoted him. His frenetic rant ricocheted from my implied culpability for the Tucson shooting to listing his Jewish bona fides, which are irrele-vant. No one doubts that Quisling was Norwegian. He may have meant well, but he sided with the enemy of his people in perilous times. That is also my view of Silverstein.

What his diatribe did not touch on was my thesis: Jews of the extreme left are well-mean-ing but delusional, and ultimately dangerous to the Jewish people. To understand my use of “delusional,” read my column. I stand behind it. The link to my column is at JTNews.net under the “opinion” category.

Since he can’t take on my thesis, he takes me on ad hominem, and puts me in some extraordinarily distinguished company. Others he has similarly attacked include Alan Der-showitz (“intellectual slimeball”), Natan Sharansky (writes “gobbledy-gook”), Elie Wiesel (“master propagandist”), Judea Pearl (“neocon”), Ambassadors Michael Oren (“sheer men-dacity,” speaks “pure fiction”) and Dore Gold (“intellectual thug,” writes “pablum”), and Israeli prime minister’s spokesperson Mark Regev (“outright liar”), to name a few. Dershow-itz and Sharansky are “Israeli and American Jewish toadies.” He has ferociously attacked the leadership of the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs as “thugs.” I am thrilled to be included in this list. My Jewish mother, who never let me forget that she wanted me to be a doctor, would finally be proud.

Silverstein is in the business of vituperative attack. His blog gushes invective at an amaz-ing rate. In Silverstein’s world, StandWithUs is a “radical, right-wing” organization. I am a founding member of StandWithUs Northwest. I know almost everyone there. As a lonely Jewish Republican living in the Seattle area, I can only say, “I WISH!” I have no desire to get in a food fight with Silverstein, and I am moving on. Thank you, Richard, for encouraging more JTNews readers to read my columns, and for letting more of the Jewish community see who you are. Sunlight is good for things like that.

robert Wilkesbellevue

the Missing Words How much more courageous can one be than the self-proclaimed journalist/blogger Rich-

ard Silverstein, a Seattle resident?In his meandering rant in the JTNews (“The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not

occupy,” Feb. 11) Mr. Silverstein acknowledges that if Israel did adopt the Silverstein plan for

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peace with the Palestinians, it would “involve risks.” But obviously, no risks to the brave Mr. Silver-stein or his family, all snug and safe in Seattle, half a world away from the daily rocket and bomb attacks Israelis face in their battle for survival. Attacks by Palestinians against Jews, which began long before the rebirth of Israel.

Mr. Silverstein may have some military background, even faced combat, but if so, he remains strangely quiet on this subject. But to this very matured World War II Air Force combat vet with two overseas assignments, when you are attacked, when other forces say they will destroy you, take them seriously. You hit back hard, often and quickly, or you perish. As Israelis stress: “Never again!”

Ironically, Mr. Silverstein’s slanted, error-filled diatribe against Israel, strangely headlined as fact with “The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not occupy,” seems to have phrasing lifted verbatim from the Hamas attack machine. As a self-anointed journalist, Mr. Silverstein should have at least used quotes. And of course, the headline should have included quotes to tell readers the headline was not an editorial judgment — which, without the quotes, is what it appears to be.

Most damning in Mr. Silverstein’s often-incoherent charges against the sliver of land called Israel, of occupation, lack of democracy, and his complete silence on Arab atrocities: Not a word about Arabs expelling Jews, even as Israel in 1948 pleaded with its Arab residents to remain in Israel. Not a word about Israel defending itself by having to push back the Arab attackers from Israel’s front door. Not a word by Mr. Silverstein of Israel being the only democracy in the Mideast, with open elections, where Arabs also hold office.

Philip r. scheiershoreline

in need oF educationI am very concerned about the comments Mr. Silverstein makes regarding Israel (“The Eleventh

Commandment: Thou shalt not occupy,” Feb. 11). I am concerned about Jews who so strongly sup-port the Palestinians against Israel. Mr. Silverstein claims to be a Zionist, yet his statements tell a different story. He clearly ignores (and I don’t know whether it is ignorance or “IGNORE-ance”) the facts and history of Israel and the Jewish people.

Space does not allow detailing all the historical facts about Israel, so I urge Mr. Silverstein and others to learn and synthesize these facts before speaking about Israel.

Israel has been a Jewish land for 3,500 years, albeit with limited control and numbers for almost 2,000 of those years. With creation of the State of Israel, it was supposed to be the Jewish home-land, with Jordan, the Hashemite kingdom, being a place for Arabs in Palestine; this has never worked as Jordan (along with Lebanon, Syria and Egypt) does not allow Palestinians entry.

In 2005, possession of Gaza was turned over to the Palestinians, in exchange for peace. There has been no peace since then. The Palestinians have violated the rules of war in using schools, clin-ics, mosques and homes as military bases and weapons launchers. This shows that there is little hope in “land for peace” with current trends in thought in the Arab/Muslim world.

Giving up control of the West Bank means a very narrow corridor, which could easily be blocked, cutting off the northern and southern halves of Israel. Thus it is vital to keep the current borders.

Mr. Silverstein calls for full equal rights for all Arabs and Palestinians living in Israel. This cannot be allowed to happen if Israel is to survive. Israel is first and foremost a Jewish state. To keep it such requires restrictions on non-Jewish people.

I would also point out the irony of anyone living in the Pacific Northwest complaining about Israeli occupation, given that we live on Native lands. I suggest that Mr. Silverstein do some serious intro-spection regarding his positions, and ensure that he is not taking contradictory stands on things.

rabbi Jaron Matlowolympia

unreasonable standardsMr. Silverstein, who do you propose will make this peace with Israel that you talk about (“The

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not occupy,” Feb. 11)? The two-state solution was first pro-posed back in 1937, again in 1948, at Camp David, at Oslo, and continues to be on the table in every meeting Israel has with the West and with the Palestinians. Only one problem: the Palestin-ians don’t want it. They have said that their goal is to push Israel into the sea. Don’t you believe them? I do. I believe when they say they want to destroy Israel and to kill all of the Jews world-wide. It’s in the Hamas Charter. Don’t you respect what they say? Why would Israel move back to the pre-1967 borders, with a nine-mile strip of land separating their eastern border and the sea. With just a little shove they could be pushed into the sea. Look at Arab maps of the region, and the speeches of their leaders. Israel doesn’t exist.

Two-state solution? Would they be integrated states? No, the Palestinians want all Jews out of their lands. Talk about Apartheid! No, they don’t want to live with Jews. Unless, of course they can live in Israel, take over our holiest site, the Temple Mount, take our capital city, and cry that they don’t have equal rights.

Oh no, only Israel has to be an integrated state. None of the other Arab nations, especially not the future Palestine, need to be integrated. Jews out, just like the 800,000 Jews kicked out of Arab lands in 1949. Only Israel has to have the bill of rights? What’s wrong with any Arab nation having a bill of rights, having freedoms for their own people before you demand that Israel give

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Joel Magalnick, right, current editor of JTNews, and esther Quint, who served as editor of the Jewish Transcript from 1948 to 1951. The two met during a speaking engagement at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue for Jewish Family Service’s “endless Opportunities” seniors’ program, when the current editor spoke about what he does for the paper. Quint recalled to the audience her duties at the paper during her tenure, when she was its only employee.

The Synagogue chronicles: a home for those who return 7Chabad-Lubavitch can count ba’ale t’shuva — people who return to traditional Judaism — as a large component of its success in the past several years. Chabad’s congregation in Seattle’s Wedgwood neigh-borhood is proof of that.

a yeshiva with a progressive bent 9West Seattle’s Kol HaNeshamah congregation just received a grant from the Union for Reform Judaism to begin something completely different: An in-depth, text- and discussion-heavy learning program with progressive values.

Film festival previewsThe Seattle Jewish Film Festival launches March 3 with a special party and a host of short films, then really gets into the swing of things March 12. Previewing this issue:

The human resources manager 20A nameless personnel manager for “the bakery” must accompany the body of a woman killed in a suicide bombing to her home in Romania.

la rafle 21A poignant, searing Holocaust drama about the Vichy government’s roundup of children to send them to Auschwitz.

(rock the) Belz 22You can fit a lot into four minutes, including a rose-colored remembrance of the shtetl, but it’s never quite the same as reality, as we learn in a music video you won’t find on MTV.

vancouver maestro does double duty — in israel 30The conductor of the Vancouver, Wash. Symphony Orchestra has been in Israel in the past week, and he’s going back again next month to conduct for the symphonette in Raanana.

morem.o.T.: Jewish life for a Saudi 10celebrations 11what’s your JQ?: a h’esthery game 23community calendar 25lifecycles 31The arts 32The Shouk classifieds 29

From the Jewish Transcript, Feb. 27, 1981, page 13.

Joel Polsky and Louis Himmelfarb, students at what is now known as Hebrew High, polish candlesticks once used by Louis’s great-grandmother, Stella Him-melfarb. The Shabbat candlesticks, given to the Himmelfarbs as a wedding gift in 1915, were part of a local traveling exhibit called “Judaica on Display.”

CorrectionDue to an editing error, rabbi and concert emcee Bob Maslan’s name (“Backstage with

the three cantors (plus one),” Feb. 11) was misspelled. JTNews regrets the error.

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A COMMUNITY TOOLBOX

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Cosponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and Repair the World. Supported by Congregation Beth Shalom, Herzl-Ner Tamid, Jewish Family Services, Kol Haneshamah, Seattle Hebrew Academy, Seattle Jewish Community School, Temple Beth Am, Temple B’nai Torah and The Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle.

Rabbi Sholom Ber Levitin began our Sunday afternoon conversation like any good Chabad rabbi: Had my soul elevated this past Shabbat? As if setting the tone for the interview, he launched into an unoffi-cial drash about Shabbat as the elevation to the world of machshavah (thought). And then he proceeded to ask me about my life until I reminded him that I was supposed to be interviewing him.

Another rabbinic giveaway — besides his role as the rabbi of Congregation Shaa-rei Tefilah-Lubavitch in Seattle’s North-end — is Rabbi Levitin’s humility and his pleasure with his congregation’s strength. Judging by the number of stories that went off the record and his side-stepping of certain pointed questions, Levitin comes across as being bound by Jewish dictates of verbal modesty and protective of both his community and Seattle’s Jewish con-tingent at large.

Levitin estimates that some 90 per-cent of the approximate 100 families and individuals who are members of Shaa-rei Tefilah came to the Chabad Lubavitch movement from another background. Most of them are considered baalei tes-huvah, or “returners” to traditional Juda-ism. While membership has remained

steady over time, many participants in Shaarei Tefilah’s community are visitors who are traveling, visiting nearby Univer-sity Hospital or passing through on busi-ness. The community sees to hospitality for its guests.

“Everyone is welcome in our shul, whether or not you’re a paying member,” said Levitin. Anyone wanting to partici-pate should “feel at home, accepted, who-ever they are, whatever background they come from.”

Shaarei Tefilah does not charge for seats at High Holiday services, and in spite of the economic downturn it has not lost a member due to financial hardship.

“There are members who are hurting, yes. And we’re helping them out to the best that we can,” he said. “You work with a person.”

Levitin is frank about the purpose of the synagogue.

“Shul is a place where people gather together and pray,” he said. Thus the bulk of Shaarei Tefilah’s programming is reli-gious, with prayer being the “prime focus.” Forget elaborate social events and galas: “To establish a strong core minyan for 7 a.m. — it’s not an easy chore,” Levitin says.

Organizing three daily minyanim,

Shabbat services, hospitality and holiday events falls to Shaarei Tefilah’s all-vol-unteer community. The only paid staff member is the custodian.

Levitin sings the praises of the vol-unteers who keep the shul running. The president, Joseph Greenberg, “was a driv-ing force behind the building of the syn-agogue...And he’s a tremendous lay leader.”

And Levitin’s wife, Chanie, “is the power of the shul,” he said, regarding her counseling skills that cut across the Jewish community. “She has a lot of people come to her. People from all over the general spectrum of communal life call her for her counsel.”

The events organized by Shaarei Tefilah are “in the context of what the Torah asks of us,” said Levitin. This is evident through the creation of the mikvah and the eruv in 2005 and 2009, respectively, two crucial elements in an observant Jewish commu-nity. Levitin reports that the shul contrib-uted the majority of funds to create the eruv, which is administered in conjunc-tion with Congregation Beth Shalom.

Programming centers around learning opportunities, speakers and acts of loving kindness.

“Women are very active in the syna-gogue,” Levitin said, from visiting the sick and delivering goods to families in need to organizing speakers and this year’s suc-cessful annual fundraiser dinner, which was orchestrated by member Shprintze Kavka.

“We have a very, very bright group of people, a warm group of people,” said Levitin, regarding the community of learners. The synagogue provides oppor-tunities for individual and chevruta (part-ner) study, along with shiurim (lessons) and guest speakers. “It’s impressive to see the development of the men and the women in their learning,” he said. “I really, really, genuinely feel I’m learning in the yeshiva.”

Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch is looking forward to its 25th anniversary next year, which will be celebrated with a major dinner.

“Everybody is welcome,” said Levitin. “People of all levels of observance are wel-come, and they’re greeted with warmth and love.”

But before that: Purim. On the Satur-day night of Purim, the congregation will

Standing-room only: Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch has a lot to say ‘l’chaim’ aboutEmiLy K. aLhadEff Jtnews correspondent

Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle –Building for Our FutureEvery organization periodically goes through strategic planning that successfully positions it for the future. Now is our time.

Your Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is embarking on an exciting journey to better connect with its donors and to provide for the needs of the Jewish community now, and well into the future. Over the next several months, we will be announcing new approaches to raising money so donors can support particular issues they care about. This will enable donors to follow their dollars to see the important impact of their gifts, whether providing people with enough to eat, a warm bed, a Jew-ish education or access to a variety of Jewish opportunities. Your support means the Federation can reach more people every day, ensuring a strong, vibrant Jewish community for generations to come.

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The Music is the MessageOne of the great ensembles of our time, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) celebrates its 75th anniversary at Benaroya Hall, on Saturday, February 26, at 8pm with a special concert featuring conductor Zubin Mehta. Concert tickets may still be available!www.SeattleSymphony.org

A special invitation: If you are attending the concert, please join the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle at a private

dessert and champagne reception on the mezzanine level immediately following the concert. Join us to celebrate the music and musicians for the IPO. Sponsored by Martin Selig and Catherine Mayer.

MenschWorks is At It AgainDo you like to ‘get your hands dirty’ helping others?Want to make an impact in your Jewish community?Then MenschWorks just might be for you!

The Young Leadership of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle invites all to come where the action is. We meet monthly to connect with other young Jewish community members, have a little fun and do a lot of good. Every month is different. On January 20, volunteers painted the Kids Town room at the SJCC.

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Seattleites will tell you things happen a little bit differently in West Seattle — the neighborhood is certainly part of the city’s fabric, but also has an independent vibe. So it’s no surprise that when the Union for Reform Judaism was considering appli-cants for its $5,000 incubator grants, the proposal from West Seattle’s Kol HaNesh-amah distinguished itself.

“This was the only project of its kind that was looking to set up a liberal yeshiva,” said Stephanie Fink, outreach specialist with the URJ and grant project leader. It was the only proposal to involve serious in-depth Jewish text study for any members of the congregation, let alone two different demographics.”

The proposal that won Kol HaNesh-amah the grant was for what the congrega-tion is calling a progressive yeshiva. That means offering classes in a format reminis-cent of chevruta, the traditional approach to Jewish learning that involves partners and a lot of discussion. The yeshiva wel-comes post B’nai Mitzvah students and adult learners.

Rabbi Zari Weiss says she’s excited to introduce chevruta to a Reform congre-gation that may not be accustomed to the learning style. But she also wants her con-

gregants — and potential students — to know that this is not a traditional yeshiva.

“It’s not Chassidic guys, it’s men and women intellectually and emotionally engaged with different kinds of texts,” she said, “but kind of using a similar pro-cess of study: We’re looking at texts word by word, phrase by phrase, line by line. It leads us to other kinds of sources and resources.”

The other major difference from a tra-ditional yeshiva environment is “we’re trying to employ progressive values,” Weiss added.

Two initial curricula of the yeshiva began in January: A visions track, which is more broadly focused on the Jewish com-munity, and an Israel track. The visions class meets every two weeks and the Israel class once a month. Both require a dedi-cated time commitment. No dropping in and dropping out, Weiss said.

There is also an online component to the progressive yeshiva, so students can continue their discussion between classes. This allows for the yeshiva to be not just a once-in-a-while activity, but a fixture in the lives of the students. Donations are suggested, but no students are turned away for lack of money. Weiss hopes the

Progressive yeshiva launches in West Seattle with national grantEric Nusbaum assistant Editor, Jtnews

URJ grant will soon allow them to expand the course to a third track, and continue to offer it to all members of the community, regardless of their financial situation.

One Kol HaNeshamah member par-ticipating in the visions track is Jeff Merriman-Cohen, who, unlike many Reform-affiliated Jews, came from an Orthodox background. He spent two years after high school studying at an Orthodox yeshiva. Merriman-Cohen said the pro-gressive yeshiva courses feel extremely familiar.

“The differences so far have been the material,” he said. “Instead of studying Talmud as a primary document or text, we’re using the Reform Responsa for dis-cussion points. The Reform Responsa is actually formatted similarly to the Talmud: A question is presented and a group of people provide answers, then there’s a whole discussion.”

The discussion then moves from the text on the page, to the mouths and ears of the students, and if Rabbi Weiss has her

way, to the actions of the broader commu-nity. She believes the progressive yeshiva can open up dialogue, enabling people to deal with challenging topics.

“I think it has a lot of far-reaching implications for any community, for how we can work together to address issues,” Weiss said.

So far, the yeshiva’s students have worked well together. While emotions may occasionally run high, as can happen when discussing morality, and as the debate-ori-ented chevruta learning style might lead to, students have kept their heads.

“No fistfights as of yet,” said Merriman-Cohen. “What we’re hoping for is that there will be very healthy debate, if people feel comfortable being able to say, ‘Thank you, I appreciate your position, but I’m having a totally different idea.’”

For more information about Kol HaNeshamah’s Progressive Yeshiva, visit www.kol-haneshamah.org or call 206-935-1590.

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It sounds like the start of a bad joke. A Saudi Arabian stu-dent comes to Seattle to attend a Catholic high school and live with a Jewish family that keeps kosher. But it’s true.

Mohammed Ashgan is the student from Riyadh, and he is living with Hannah and Bob Cordes and their teenage boys, Sam, 15, and Isaac, 13 (and their dog, and their three chick-ens). Mohammed is a senior at Blanchet High School, where he has acquired the fine American art of playing football, while Sam attends Roosevelt High School and Isaac is at Eckstein Middle School.

A U.S. State Department-sponsored program called AFS brought Mohammed here, and more specifically, a special AFS program called YES, which brings stu-dents from Muslim countries to live with American families for a school year.

It isn’t a common thing for Saudi stu-

dents to do, says Mohammed, who speaks fluent American English with barely a trace of an accent. Few of his friends chose to participate in this competitive program for which students had to demonstrate language as well as social skills.

He was inspired to travel by two things. “My brother was leaving for college,” he recalls and “I didn’t want to stay home [without him].” Additionally, “my best friend was leaving” for an exchange pro-gram and asked Mohammed to help him with paperwork. That proved the inspira-tion Mohammed needed.

“I thought, ‘why not?’” He looked AFS up online, gave the coordinator a call, and then asked his dad what he would think. With his father’s approval he went ahead with the application.

As one of the first of this year’s appli-cants to be accepted, he learned right away that he was going to a Catholic school (Blanchet selected him). About two months later he heard he’d been placed with a Jewish family.

“I thought they were kidding,” he says when the program coordinator began the call with “Don’t freak out….”

Mohammed’s dad asked for a few days

to think about it and then decided it would be a good choice because Mohammed would be eating kosher food, which is accepted as halal by many Muslims.

“‘There’s no difference between families,’” Moham-med said his father decided. “‘It just depends on what kind of people they are.’”

Mohammed describes his time here as nothing short of life changing, especially com-

pared to home where he says life changes very little. Now, “I’m doing something every day that’s different,” he says. In addition to football, he says the academics are more rigorous here and he’s taken up skiing and snowboarding. “I’d never seen snow before.”

When the three teens aren’t busy with homework and extra-curricular activi-ties, they indulge in the universal language of Xbox. “Madden,” the virtual football game, is their favorite. Mohammed calls home often via Skype, which helped stave off some early homesickness.

Mohammed is the fourth foreign exchange student that Hannah and Bob have hosted, but the first from an Islamic nation. Hannah says they consulted with their kids about having him.

“I love hosting students,” says Isaac, who also hopes to study abroad one day.

Sam was excited to have a boy closer to his age in the house, as other students have been older.

“People are really friendly around here,” observes Mohammed, noting that his English is so good he has trouble con-vincing people he’s not American. “Some-times they don’t believe me.”

The Cordeses attend Congregation Beth Shalom and Mohammed has been to synagogue a couple of times, getting his first exposure on Simchat Torah! He attended “regular” services soon after just so he’d know that not all Jewish worship involves such wild revelry.

“AFS has opened our family up to the world [and] to what family is,” says Hannah, who is the chef at Hillel at the University of Washington.

Since many of us associate travel with food, I asked Mohammed his favorite Amer-ican food, expecting him to name a fast food restaurant. His answer surprised me.

“I like what Hannah cooks,” he said. The family rarely eats out, and then

it’s usually vegetarian or fish. There’s no need for fast food: “In Saudi Arabia we have most of the fast food restaurants,” Mohammed says.

What he does miss are the “big feasts we’d have at home” for special occasions, something he hopes his return will war-rant when he returns home this summer.

For information on AFS, visit afs.org.

Saudi student enjoys kosher fooddiaNa brEmENt Jtnews columnist

BoB corDES

From left to right: Isaac Cordes, Saudi Arabian student Mohammed Ashgan, and Sam Cordes. When not busy with school, sports and extra-curricular activities, the three teens enjoy speaking the universal language of Xbox.

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been a professional photographer since 1987. In addition to family celebrations photography, she shoots portraits and works freelance for several publications. Dani recently won the JTNews’ “Best of Everything” survey for the fifth year in a row and was just voted the Brides Choice Award on Wedding Wire for the second year in a row. She holds a degree in Fashion and Commercial Photography as well as Photojournalism. She is currently involved with the Seattle Professional Photographers’ Association and the Greater Seattle Business Association. Contact her at www.daniweissphotography.com or 206-760-3336.

Embassy Suites BellevueLet Embassy Suites help you make

your Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah the special day you’ve always dreamed it would be. Their professional banquet staff, seasoned chef, and personal catering manager are there to assist you and make it a stress-free event.

Their beautiful six-story garden atrium with lush tropical plants, stream and cascading waterfall is the perfect backdrop for a fun evening with family and friends.

The ballrooms can accommodate a grand event of 250 to an intimate gathering of 30.

With a great location, just off I-90, they offer plenty of free parking. For more information call Brittany at 425-698-6689 or go to their Web site:

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Emmanuel’s Fine Rug & Upholstery SpecialistsThey’ve been cleaning rugs, carpets, furniture and

fine Orientals for 103 years. You can count on them! Highest-quality carpet cleaning, custom in-plant rug washing, rug repair and blind and upholstery cleaning. They specialize in Oriental care, repair and mending and restoration. Emmanuel’s is the place to go for consigned new and antique Orientals, rug sales and appraisals, as well as on-site carpet cleaning and maintenance. Fifteen percent off all in-home services and 30 percent off all cash-and-carry cleaning services. Gift certificates available. For more information call 206-322-2200, fax 325-3841, or visit www.emmanuelsrug.com.

Games On WheelsGames On Wheels is a video game arcade on

wheels, contained in a 30-foot-long trailer with four 50” plasma-screen TVs, four Xbox 360s, four Wiis, one PS3, and 20 feet of leather couches. They are fully self contained and climate controlled with their own quiet generator, so all they need is about 50 feet of space to park and it’s Game On! Perfect for birthday parties, team events, graduations, corporate events and picnics, B’nai Mitzvah, and more. They have over 50 different games to choose from across three different gaming consoles. They bring the party right to your home or business.

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Joel Dames Photography Award-winning photographers Joel and Hitomi Dames are prepared to capture

your every simcha. They offer DVD full-resolution printable images and 60-day private Web sites as well as glove-leather coffee table albums digitally designed by graphic designer Hitomi. Check out their work: www.joeldamesphotography.com or call 206-367-1276 for more information.

Judaics with JasonJason Kintzer is an enthusiastic Judaics teacher with 30-plus years of experience

in Bar and Bat Mitzvah tutoring, helping students learn to lead and understand the prayers, write their dvar Torah speech, chant Torah and Haftarah, and gain synagogue skills. Students find the process fulfilling and inspiring.

A graduate of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Jason is an active leader at Congregation Beth Shalom of Seattle (since 1989) and beloved teacher of both youth and adults of all skill levels. Students learn a melodic and uplifting chanting style that infuses their prayer with spiritual depth.

Jason also has extensive experience in working with youth and adults both individually and in groups for Hebrew instruction and Torah learning. Each student receives personalized teaching, making for a meaningful experience for the student and family. The way it should always be! Contact Jason for more information: 206-387-1845 or jasonkintzer@me.com.

KasparsYou will remember your special day for the rest of your life, so

choosing the right partners to help you is an important decision. The team at Kaspars Special Events and Catering, with more than

20 years of experience and a reputation for excellence, will support you through the entire planning process, including venue selection, menu creation, ceremony, and reception planning, ensuring you are stress-free.

Family owned and operated, Kaspars’ passion is to provide creative, fresh cuisine and superior service at a reasonable price. They cater to groups of all sizes, both within Kaspars as well as at off-site locations including private homes. Whether you are entertaining a few or a few hundred guests, the elements for success are the same: Superb fare, impeccable service, the proper ambience, and the right caterer! Kaspars Special Events and Catering has it all. Call 206-298-0123, fax 206-298-0146 or visit www.kaspars.com.

Kids’ Creations B’nai Mitzvah Celebration Videos

Susan Johnson has packaged her video techniques, photography talents, and passion for working with kids to create her Kids’ Creations “It’s All About You” video production service. For children celebrating a memorable milestone like a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, a Kids’ Creations video adds an incredible element of

excitement and fun when viewed at special events.Parents who provide their child with this unique video creation experience allow

for a lifelong treasure and the opportunity to keep memories alive forever. Her unique video process and the resulting Kids’ Creations video is a wonderful gift to honor any celebration. Through a collaborative process the child becomes the director of creating his or her own memorable multimedia video — see samples on Susan’s Web site.

Susan will take the stress out of your busy B’nai Mitzvah planning. When working with your child, the video-creation process will be one of engagement, encouragement, excitement, and fun!

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Matzoh Momma CateringCatering with a personal touch. Serving the community

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Are you searching for the perfect venue for a celebration like a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? If so, take a look at the Community Center at Mercer View, an award-winning facility with state-of-the-art amenities.

Conveniently located between Seattle and Bellevue, the CCMV offers several room accommodations for any celebration, with free parking available for over 220 vehicles.

The Mercer Room provides banquet seating for 200 guests, has full audio/visual capabilities and more! The adjoining terrace features tables, chairs, warm lighting and cover. A catering kitchen is also available for rent and you are welcome to bring in a caterer of your choosing.

The quality of their facility competes with many upscale venues while remaining at competitive rates. Reservations can be taken up to 18 months in advance. For information, visit www.mercergov.org/mercerroom or call 206-275-7609.

Organic TableTheir menus feature a seasonal selection

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BENNINGTON, Vt. (JTA) — In keeping with my son Brendan’s bar mitzvah project on energy efficiency, I was committed to the idea of making the event eco-friendly.

With a little research, I found many ways to do this: A local venue with sustain-ably designed buildings and fueled largely by solar; compostable plates and cutlery; even kipot made from recycled cardboard. The green choices added little, if anything, to the cost.

As we headed into Brendan’s big week-end, I was feeling quite virtuous about it all, even rather pleased with myself.

Glimpse ahead to two days after the party: My husband, Tony, and I are stand-ing on our driveway, which is radiating midsummer heat, up to our elbows in trash bags. We’re trying to tease out what of the remains from a weekend’s worth of celebrating goes into recycling vs. what can be composted vs. just plain (and now smelly) garbage.

I can assure you, I wasn’t feeling so smug now.

What happened? Simple: A classic case of “I thought you were going to label the bins…”

Our hosts at Pompanuck Farm Insti-tute had done such a great job of identify-ing what went where for other events we had attended that I assumed they’d do the

same for mine. They likely thought that since the caterer was running the show, she would arrange disposal. The caterer, in turn, thought that since we wanted the party to be green, we would green it. (Only later did friends say, “I knew you wanted it green, but we didn’t know where to throw things.”)

So in order to keep ourselves honest about our minimal-impact pledge, we had to get up close and personal with the weekend’s waste. While we were able to streamline the amount destined for the landfill down to three medium trash bags, I could have done with-out the extra confrontation with the swill.

The lesson: Making something green involves not just good intentions and deft purchasing, but also the more down-to-earth tasks of planning, implementing and following through on how to get rid of the garbage you generate — inevitably a higher volume than you’d ever guess.

The service, afternoon kiddush and Sat-urday night party went off beautifully. (I trust in this company it’s okay to kvell that

Brendan did a fabulous job, chanting well despite a weeklong head cold, delivering a speech that revealed a depth of thought

about Judaism that sur-prised me, and per-forming his own songs on his solar-fueled elec-tric guitar.) Sunday we said goodbye to folk and in general recovered. And on Monday, Tony headed over to Pompa-nuck and met his nem-esis : A bunch of steaming mounds of trash.

“Maybe we’ll just leave it and let it go out with your regular pick-

up,” he said, wiping his brow, to Pompa-nuck ‘s co-director, Scott Carrino.

Scott shrugged.“You can,” he said, “but around here it

all goes into an incinerator.”Oh no! Our refuse — compostable,

recyclable and otherwise — wouldn’t just go quietly to the landfill and benignly decompose. It was to combust and become fumes in the air! How “green” was that? Tony called me and, resigned to our fate, agreed: He’d haul it back.

The Jewish life cycle and yearly cycle

are full of celebrations; that is something we as Jews cherish. God willing, minimiz-ing the environmental impact of our cele-brations will become second nature, so that we’ll automatically think to compost, reuse and recycle before throwing things away just as many of us are trying to buy local or organic, switch to low-energy lighting, cut back on driving.

But we’re now coming off decades of institutionalized indifference to what hap-pens to debris: We throw a party, the trash goes out, and no one’s the wiser. I can regard our post-Bar Mitzvah adventure not as a failure but as one small arc on our collective learning curve.

I can see that things already are chang-ing. There is now a Green Bar Mitzvah Web site, www.greenbarmitzvahs.com, with ideas like renting digital cameras rather than supplying disposable ones. Where was this resource six months ago when I needed it? (Full disclosure: Bren-dan’s Bar Mitzvah is noted on the blog.)

Who knows? Maybe soon one of the first questions people ask about an upcom-ing Bar/Bat Mitzvah — after “Where is the party?” and “What’s the parshat?” — will be “Where are you composting?”

Judith D. Schwartz lives — and composts — in Bennington, Vt.

The green bar mitzvah: a cautionary taleJudith d. schwartz Jta World news Service

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What the Chelm!What the Chelm! has enlivened simchot since 1993 and entertained at countless

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Woodland Park ZooWoodland Park Zoo, one of Seattle’s 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 zoo’s quality animal care, education programs, and field conservation projects to help preserve wildlife species and habitats in the Northwest and around the world.

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When we think about Israeli films, we think about them taking place in Israel. Often, we think about them addressing the kinds of issues that make Israel such a dynamic place and such a constant pres-ence on the nightly news: tension, ter-ritorial conflict, and terrorism. Lauded Israeli director Eran Riklis’s The Human Resources Manager begins this way — an anonymous woman is killed in a bus bombing — but it unspools into an alto-gether different kind of film.

It turns out that the anonymous woman is carrying a pay stub for her low-level job at a corporate bakery. After her body has sat in a morgue unidentified for weeks, a smarmy journalist breaks a story paint-ing the bakery — and its human resources manager — as negligent.

The eponymous human resources manager — he has no name, he’s always “human resources manager” — is the film’s heart and soul. We quickly learn that he is in the throes of a failing marriage, that he works too much, that he tends to flake out on commitments to his daugh-ter. We also learn that he travels a mysteri-ous amount, that his boss is a domineering matriarch known only as “the widow.” In other words, the human resources man-ager is a sad man who can’t seem to take control over his own fate.

The employee is identified. It turns out she was a Romanian immigrant — and the task falls on the title character to accom-pany her body home. What ensues makes up the bulk of the film and marks a tran-sition. Where the first scenes are dra-matic, deeply personal, almost invasive, and feel quite Israeli (there’s no other way to put it, especially considering how casu-ally the film deals with suicide bombings), the ensuing action feels a touch more uni-versal.

The Human Resources Manager plays out like an Israeli-Romanian Little Miss Sunshine, as an unlikely group accom-panies the body of the worker across the Romanian countryside by all manner of

vehicle. Characters shift between Hebrew, Romanian, and English — and within Romania, the languages they speak to one another say as much as anything else about their personal relationships.

There’s also humor to be found, espe-cially between the title character and the relentless, self-righteous journalist who follows him around. But many jokes also fall flat: The movie trades on post-Soviet stereotypes and old-fashioned culture-clash humor in places where the story would have been better suited to just let it be.

Over the course of the film, we begin to care about the human resources manager. Israeli actor Mark Ivanir creates a subtle character who is at once eminently capa-ble and quietly desperate. We may realize that his determination to bring the coffin carrying his company’s former employee home is a bit of a film cliché, but we also realize why it’s important to him — and as he bonds with the family she left behind, why his own wife and daughter mean so much.

Riklis made his career working with Arab filmmakers on 2004’s The Syrian Bride and 2008’s Lemon Tree. The Human Resources Manager had been short-listed to continue the three-year streak of Israeli Academy Award nominees for best for-eign film, but didn’t make the cut. At least you’ll get to see it in Seattle.

The long journey homeEric Nusbaum assistant Editor, Jtnews

If you go:

The Human Resources Manager headlines the seattle Jewish Film Festival with director eran riklis appearing to receive the sJFF reel difference award. Program begins at 7:30 p.m. on March 12 at AMC Pacific Place 11, 600 Pine St., seattle. visit www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for ticket and schedule information.

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The human resources manager (Mark Ivanir) and his ragtag group of followers cross Romania to take a dead employee’s body home in The Human Resources Manager.

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For decades after the war, French film-makers avoided the subject of their country’s collaboration during the Nazi Occupa-tion. The late Louis Malle helped break the silence with his chilling teenage-fascist saga Lacombe Lucien (1974) and movingly auto-biographical Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987).

The latter film famously centered on the wartime boarding-school friendship between a Jewish boy and a Catholic boy, and was all the more wrenching for its main characters’ innocence and naiveté.

Children are the least culpable and most defenseless of victims, a fact that director Rose Bosch parlays to great emo-tional effect in her ambitious fact-based drama, La Rafle (The Roundup). An often-nuanced depiction of compassion and cru-elty under pressure, the movie does not flinch from indicting the French men and women who helped uproot and deport their Jewish neighbors. Over and over, it asks what kind of people could inflict such suffering on children.

Bosch recreates the spring and summer of 1942, when some 13,000 Jews were swept up in the city and suburbs of Paris over two days and eventually sent to Auschwitz. German soldiers handled the final stages, but they would have had no one to murder without the acquiescence of Marshal Pétain and the efforts of the French police.

La Rafle introduces us to a rather diz-zying array of characters in its opening scenes, including 11-year-old Jo Weiss-man, his carefree friends and his worried parents and siblings. The Montmarte lads can’t quite grasp the meaning of the yellow star, but everyone else worries that further ignominies are in store.

In a slight misjudgment, for it’s almost impossible to depict Hitler and Himm-ler at this late date without tipping into parody, Bosch shows the head Nazis dis-cussing the French Jews with but a fraction

of Petain’s callous disregard. We discern that it’s easy to see people as an abstrac-tion — and to decide their fate — from the distant vantage point of the Wolf’s Lair or Vichy headquarters in central France.

Bosch takes pains to differentiate between the Fascist youth corps, who take brutal pleasure in venting their anti-Semitism, and the French cops, many of whom are ambiv-alent, if not reluctant, participants in this heartless travesty. Amid the pervasive vil-lainy, some people retained their humanity.

The most vivid example is a fresh-out-of-school Protestant nurse (Melanie Laurent of Inglourious Basterds and The Concert), who’s assigned to the Vélodrome d’Hiver where the arrested Jews have been collected and dumped. Her dedication to these innocents, especially the children, compels her to accompany them (and a Jewish doctor played by Jean Reno) on the next suffering-laden step of their journey.

Once the majority of the characters are under one roof at the Vélodrome, La Rafle snaps into linear focus and retains that intensity all the way through the final shot. That last image, incidentally, is of a child staring hard at the camera — at the audi-ence, that is — in a wordless “J’accuse.”

La Rafle was a box-office hit in France, which suggests that moviegoers accepted the present-day challenge implicit in the child’s eyes: What is France doing about anti-Semi-tism today to head off another roundup?

‘La Rafle’ revisits pain of French collaboration michaEL fox Special to Jtnews

If you go:

La Rafle will screen as part of the seattle Jewish Film Festival on thurs., March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at siFF cinema at Mccaw hall, 321 Mercer st., seattle center. visit www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for tickets.

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Melanie Laurent stars as a sympathetic French nurse who accompanies the children rounded up by the Vichy government and sent to Auschwitz.

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Were things really better in the old days? Or do we look back and see our past with rose-colored glasses? Those hazy memories — of the shtetl in Russia, of the farm fields in the Congo — may feel like simpler, happier times, especially com-pared to a lonely subway ride in Brooklyn or the split-level ranch house in the sub-urbs. But perhaps things weren’t quite as good as they seem now. That’s the prem-ise of (Rock the) Belz, director Kaveh Nabatian’s look at the rose-colored past, with appearances by Jewish stage and film legend Theodore Bikel and hiphop artists Sans Pression and DJ Socalled (whose dis-

cography includes a hiphop Jewish wed-ding and Passover seder).

“Now the roof is leaky, there are no panes in the window and everything seems wrong,” intones Bikel between Yid-dish lyrics. “But what is still there is the memory.”

Past and present intertwine in what could be described as part music video and part puppet show. All three main charac-ters, and the supporting background char-acters as well, are marionettes.

I won’t get into the quality of the acting, since it’s hard to judge the performance of characters mobilized by strings, but the

emotion coming out of these puppets is almost enough to bring tears to John Mal-kovich’s eyes. Almost. And the choreog-raphy, from the synchronized dance to the rippling amber waves of grain, is both amazingly creative and beautiful.

That said, this video is densely packed with symbolism and meaning, and not training all of your attention toward the screen from the get-go may take away from its meaning — all of which is packed into a mere four minutes. A very heavy, very complex four minutes. And yes, it’s hiphop, but it’s also klezmer, Afro-French, and very well produced. Don’t expect to find the Belz on MTV stuffed between the Justin Bieber and the Britney Spears.

—Joel Magalnick

From the shtetl to the subway If you go:

(Rock the) Belz screens with five other short films at the Sweet 16 launch party for the seattle Jewish Film Festival thurs., March 3 at 9 p.m. at tom douglas’s Palace ball-room, 2100 Fifth ave., seattle. tickets cost $25-$50. visit www.seattlejewishfilmfestival.org for tickets.

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Blink or you’ll miss this papier maché stand-in for Theodore Bikel in (Rock the) Belz.

made them before. We’re waiting until the courts make a final decision.”

The controversy is already two months removed from the initially proposed launch date for the ads, December 27, 2010, that was intended to coincide with the anniversary of the Gaza war of 2008-09. County executive Dow Constantine can-celled the ads on December 23.

King County reported receiving thou-sands of e-mails and phone calls complain-ing about the ads, including some violent threats. Before and during the injunction hearing, the county argued that reneging on the ad contract was a business decision, not a political decision — and that running the ads could have damaged Metro service.

Kolde, at the Feb. 14 hearing, cited threats made to the county in the aftermath of news stories about the initial ads. He alluded to September 11, terrorist attacks on transit in London and Madrid, and the history of bus attacks in Israel.

The ACLU and SeaMAC argued that the county’s claims were baseless and that the decision to not run the ads was political.

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Dear Rivy,I think that Purim should

be a time to educate people about the strength of Jewish women. But the day has a life of its own. It is a high-speed kind of an experience packed with a dizzying amount of activities; lots of eating and sometimes too much drink-ing. Every year I find myself frustrated that there is no time to really pause and delve into — or to at least discuss the amazing strength of — Esther and her powerful place in the collective mind of Jewish women for all times. What can you suggest as an activity that would engage people at our Purim celebration about the phenomena of Esther’s impact on Jewish women?

I appreciate your sentiment. Purim is quite the frenzy frenetic festival. By the time the whirlwind of Megillah, mishlo-ach manot, meal and matatnot levyonim, gifts for the poor, are finished — wow! Other holidays seem to have ample time for study, reflection and processing. But short of a radical reconfiguration, there’s not much we can do, so let’s work with the reality of a packed Purim.

Everyone knows about history. Now, in the playful spirit of Purim, I welcome you to H’Esthery, the spirited game that invites you to test your knowledge of extraordi-nary Esthers in H’Esthery. It is a matching game, asking you to consider the colorful cryptic descriptions below and then match them to the names of 10 Esthers from H’Esthery. No peeking at the answers!

1. I was born in Sioux City in 1955. Few people know that my real name is Esther. They send me many a query addressed to my pseudonym. Asking things like, “Should I break up with my boyfriend?” “Is my mother-in-law too intrusive?” and “What to do about the irritating co-worker,” I followed in the footsteps of the original Esther. I too am a writer, read by over 60 million readers. Who am I?

2. I am the daughter of a cantor and my father always encouraged me musically. At 15 I wanted to emigrate to Palestine, but was thwarted by the Nazis. I was taken to Auschwitz, where I became part of the girl orchestra of Auschwitz and played the accordion. I survived Auschwitz after escaping in March 1945 and finally made it to Palestine. Since the 1980s, I have sung Jewish ghetto and anti-Fascist songs with the musical group “Coincidence,” which I started with my son and daughter. I was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky medal and the Cross of Merit, First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Ger-many. I learned fearlessness from that first Esther! Who am I?

3. I was a very successful business-

woman and diplomat. Born in 1530, most would not believe it was I who served as a go-between in the Turkish Court. As a Jewish woman, I was free to move about from the harem to the street and handle the personal and business affairs of the Muslim women of the Royal Court. I even became special friend of Baffa, the favorite wife of Murad III, the Ottomans’ emperor. At my finest moment I served as the

negotiating diplomat who translated com-munications between the Ottomans and Venice, Italy. The trust in me was so great that I was permitted to start a lottery in Venice — the only foreigner allowed to do so! You could say I took after the first Esther! Who am I?

4. I, like the first Esther, had to hide my true identity. My claim to fame? I am the first Jewish female to set foot in Canada! I was the born in 1738 in Brandeau, France and was only allowed into Canada dis-guised as a young Roman Catholic boy serving onboard a ship bound for Quebec. It was a short masquerade. My religion and gender were soon discovered and as a non-Catholic in a legally Catholic coun-try, I was arrested and taken to the Hôpital Général in Quebec City. Though strongly cajoled, I refused to convert and was deported back to France. Read all about me in a book by Sharon McKay. Which Esther am I?

5. My two brothers are quite famous. Some might be bitter, claiming that they stole the limelight, though I was writing way before either of them. We grew up in a very colorful rabbinic home in Poland. My brothers were given all the education while I was relegated to doing the house-work. I loved to read and had to hide my books so no one would know. All I wanted to do was to study and write! My parents married me off to a diamond merchant in Antwerp, but after the war we made our home in London where I continued my work as a writer. Who knew I would one day be the inspiration for a movie starring Barbara Streisand?

6. Queen Esther anointed herself with makeup and oils for an entire year before going in front of Achashverosh. I hope your morning make-up routine is a lot shorter. Perhaps that first Esther was my inspiration to create a line of beauty products known worldwide. I might not rule over 127 prov-inces, but it certainly feels that way! I have created an empire! But not to worry, I have not forgotten my people – my family sup-ports many a Jewish cause. Who am I?

7. After my parents’ untimely death during the destruction of my homeland, I was adopted, raised in a foreign coun-try, and then brutally kidnapped — yet

esther’s impact: A game of historyrivy PouPKo KLEtENiK Jtnews columnist

somehow I summoned up the courage to save the Jewish people. Though I risked my own life, it was beyond worth it — my name is the name of a Fast day and of one of the five scrolls and I am one of the seven prophetesses. You know who I am; how could you not?

8. The Telling, The Morning and Mourning; A Kaddish Journal, The Wom-en’s Haggadah — some might ask where the American Jewish women’s movement would have been without me. I sought to depict the depths and the complexities of the modern American female experience, and that I did! What would Queen Esther say? I am not sure, but I would love to know. Who might I be?

9. Who knew — a Jewish-Arabic jour-nalist and a feminist? I was born in Beirut and began taking part in public affairs in 1893 while teaching at the Scottish Church mission. I was sent to Chicago to represent Lebanon at the International Women’s Conference and began to write. I became very involved in women’s organizations, married, and moved to Cairo, where in 1898 I founded a newspaper. Following that, I helped establish an organization for Jewish women though stayed involved as a journalist. I lived in Marseilles, but moved back to Jaffa in the ’40s. Who am I?

10. Hineni! Here I am! There is no stronger expression for a Jew. After surviv-ing the Holocaust I made it my life’s mis-sion to bring Jews back to Judaism. It was in Madison Square Garden on Novem-ber 18, 1973 that I took my strongest and most dramatic stand to prevent the silent Holocaust here in America, by starting the worldwide Hineni movement. Just like Esther before me, I am committed to the survival of the Jewish people. Who am I?

Choose from these 10 possible answers:

A. Queen EstherB. Esther KieraC. Esther BrandeauD. Esther MoyalE. Esther JungreisF. Esther, a.k.a. Estee LauderG. Esther BejarnoH. Esther KrinitzI. Esther BronerJ. Esther Pauline Lederer, a.k.a. Ann

Landers

Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.

Answers: 1.J, 2.G, 3B, 4C, 5E, 6F, 7A, 8I, 9D, 10E.

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USY Summer ProgramsUnited Synagogue Youth offers a broad variety of summer programs. Whether touring across North America on a USY on Wheels trip, exploring Israel and/or parts of Europe on various Israel Pilgrimage programs, or taking classes and living with other Jewish teens in New York City on Summer in the City, USY has something for everyone! Experience the beauty of Shabbat, learn about the power of tzedakah, and gain inspiration through creative prayer and engaging interactive Jewish learning programs. Grades 8-11 for North American programs; grades 10-12 for Israel programs. Contact 212-533-7800, ext. 1145 or youth@uscj.org, or visit www.usy.org.

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fridays12:30–3:30 p.m. – Bridge GroupStroum Jewish Community Center 12:30–3:30 p.m. – Drop-in Mah JonggStroum JCC 9:30–10:30 a.m. – SJcc tot ShabbatStroum JCC 11 a.m.–12 p.m. – tots Welcoming ShabbatTemple B’nai Torah 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – creative BeginningsTemple de Hirsch Sinai

saturdays9–10:15.am. – Learner’s Minyan with ron SchneeweissCongregation Beth Shalom (2nd Saturday of month)10 a.m. – Morning youth ProgramCongregation Ezra Bessaroth9 a.m.–10:30 a.m. – temple B’nai torah adult torah StudyTemple B’nai Torah5 p.m. – the ramchal’s Derech hashem, Portal from the ari to ModernityCongregation Beth Ha’Ari Beit Midrash

6:30 p.m. – avot ubanimSeattle Kollel9:45 a.m. – BcMh youth ServicesBikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath

suNdays9:00–10:00 a.m. – change your thinkingSeattle Kollel10:15 a.m. – Sunday torah StudyCongregation Beth Shalom7:30–10:30 p.m. – he’ari israeli DancingDanceland Ballroom8:30 p.m. – talmud, yeshiva-StyleEastside Torah Center

moNdays10 a.m.–2 p.m. – Jcc Seniors GroupStroum JCC12:30 p.m. – caffeine for the SoulChabad of the Central Cascades7 p.m – cSa Monday night classesCongregation Shevet Achim (at Northwest Yeshiva High School)10 a.m – Jewish Mommy and MeWest Seattle Torah Learning Center (at Hiawatha Community Center)8:30 p.m. – talmud in hebrewEastside Torah Center

1 a.m.–12 p.m. – Women only torah Study classChabad of the Central Cascades

tuEsdays11 a.m.–12 p.m. – Mommy and Me ProgramChabad of the Central Cascades. Call for location.12 p.m. – torah for WomenEastside Torah Center (at Starbucks Bellevue Galleria)7 p.m. – alcoholics anonymous MeetingsJewish Family Service7 p.m. – teen centerStroum JCC7–8 p.m. – hebrew i (alef Bet)Congregation Beth Shalom.7:30 p.m. – Weekly round table kabbalah classEastside Torah Center (call for location)8:15–9:30 p.m. – Living Judaism-the Basics with Mary PotterCongregation Beth Shalom

wEdNEsdays11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – talmud BerachotTullys Westlake Center7 p.m. – Beginning israeli Dancing for adults with rhona FeldmanCongregation Beth Shalom

7–8 p.m. – Beginning Modern hebrewCongregation Beth Shalom7–8:30 p.m. – Modern hebrew LiteratureCongregation Beth Shalom (1st Wednesday)7–9 p.m. – teen Lounge for Middle School-ersNCSY (at Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath)7:30 p.m. – Parshas hashavuahEastside Torah Center8:15 –9:15 p.m. – resurrection, the after-life & reincarnationCongregation Beth Shalom

thursdays10–2 p.m. – Jcc Seniors GroupStroum JCC6:50 p.m. – introduction to hebrewHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation7 p.m. – Junior teen centerNCSY (at the Stroum JCC)8–10 p.m. – teen Lounge for high SchoolersCongregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath 8–9:30 p.m. – Beth Shalom Beit MidrashCongregation Beth Shalom (2nd Thursday of month)

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friday 25 fEbruary7–9 p.m. – thank God it’s Shabbat ‘chappy’ hour and Services

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ofeldman@templebnaitorah.orgJoin Temple B’nai Torah for a Thank God it’s Shabbat “Chappy” Hour and service. Chappy hour starts at 7 p.m. and service begins at 8. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

saturday 26 fEbruary6:30–10:45 p.m. – Jewish tween Extreme

Matt Korch at MattK@sjcc.org or

206-388-0830 or http://jew.sh/iJQvSpend an evening with your friends playing Laser Tag and video games at Laser Quest. Bus transportation available from the Mercer Island SJCC and Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath in Seward Park. $20. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

suNday 27 fEbruary2 p.m. – reading: The Blood of Lorraine, Barbara PopeAuthor Barbara Pope reads from her mystery novel set in France during the Dreyfus affair. Free. At Elliott Bay Books, 1521 10th Ave., Seattle4–9 p.m. – northwest yeshiva high School Dinner & auction

Melissa Rivkin at mrivkin@nyhs.net or

206-232-5272, ext. 515 or www.nyhs.netAnnual dinner and auction with John Curley. $150. Honoring Moshe Genauer and Ruben Owen. At Seattle Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine St., Seattle. 6:30–8:30 p.m. – how to Find your Bashert in 2011

Lynn Chapman at

lynn@lynnchapmancoaching.com or http://jew.sh/Y73gSingle Jewish women over 40 won’t want to miss this workshop. Learn the essential ingredients to meet your perfect partner. With life coaches Lynn Chapman and Andrew Nowacki. $10. At a private home, Seattle. RSVP.

moNday 28 fEbruary12–1:30 p.m. – Biblical interpretation in Poetry

Jennifer Cohen at jencohen@uw.edu or

206-543-0138 or jsis.washington.edu/jewishDr. Richard Benton, the 2010-11 Hazel D. Cole Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Washington,

will present Jewish liturgical poems as aesthetic and interpretive products of their authors. Free and open to the public. At Communications Building, UW, Room 202, Seattle. 7–8 p.m. – cSa Presents classic rock Lyrics from a Jewish Perspective

events@shevetachim.com or 206-275-1539

or www.shevetachim.com/events.phpIn the Spirit of Adar and Purim, Congregation Shevet Achim welcomes the entire community to a lighthearted look at classic rock lyrics from a Jewish perspective, presented by Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld. At Island Crust Café, 7525 SE 24th St., Suite 100, Mercer Island.

tuEsday 1 march7:30–9 p.m. – hadassah Parlor Meeting with Barbara Sofer

Peg Elefant at pelefant@hadassah.org or

541-740-3827 Major donors dessert reception with Barbara Sofer. Location TBD, RSVP for more information.

wEdNEsday 2 march5–6 p.m. – Dr. John Gottman: raising an Emotionally intelligent child

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social relationships. At Washington Cathedral, 12300 Woodinville-Redmond Rd., Redmond.7–9 p.m. – Jewish thoughts on the afterlife

Kelly Joseph at kellyj@jewishinseattle.org

or 206-774-2256 or www.JewishInSeattle.orgJoin Rabbi Beth Singer from Temple Beth Am for a teaching and discussion on the topic of Jewish views about the afterlife. Bring questions, learn among friends, and share your personal views. RSVP required. Free. Address given upon RSVP.10–11 a.m. – Joy, Love, and kindness

Mrs. Shaindel Bresler at

shainbresler@yahoo.com or 206-779-4373 or seattlekollel.orgExamine and discuss happiness and joy, love, and its natural outgrowth: kindness. Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your family and friends as well as practical tips for incorporating these Torah values in every day life. $25 for series. At the Stroum SJCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.7–9 p.m. – remembering our Loved ones: an introduction to Jewish Mourning rituals

Emily Harris-Shears at

familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-8784 or www.jfsseattle.org/uploads/pdf/DeathDying_Jan11_1Page.pdfJoin Rabbi James L. Mirel of Temple B’nai Torah and Jane Relin, LICSW, clinical director at Jewish Family Service for this program on grief and Jewish mourning rituals. Scholarships available. Advance registration required. $10/session. At Temple B’nai

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Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.3:30–5 p.m. – Spinoza’s ‘theological-Politi-cal treatise’: a critical Guide

Jennifer Cohen at jencohen@uw.edu or

206-543-0138 or jsis.washington.edu/jewishUW Professor Michael Rosenthal presents Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise, which claimed that the freedom of philosophizing can be allowed in a free republic and cannot be abolished without also destroying the peace and piety of that republic. At Petersen Room, Allen Library, 4th Floor, UW Campus, Seattle.

friday 4 march5:40–8:40 p.m. – Focus on israel Shabbaton

Susan Jensen at office@ezrabessaroth.net

or 206 722-5500 or ezrabessaroth.net/files/poster_color_Seattle_Shabbat.pdfFocus on Israel Shabbaton. Friday night dinner and lecture with Yishai Fleisher, Israeli radio host and lecturer. RSVP and make payment by 2/28. $14-24. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.

suNday 6 march2–4 p.m. – kabbalah and the tree of Life

Lynn Chapman at

lynn@lynnchapmancoaching.com Rabbi Charna Klein will teach about the moral dimensions and levels of soul and how to discern and balance our characteristics to climb the Tree of Life. Sponsored by Congregation Eitz Or. RSVP for location. $10/nonmembers; $5/members.5–8 p.m. – BcMh annual Dinner celebrating their 120th year

Julie Greene at julie@bcmhseattle.org or

206-721-0970 BCMH’s annual dinner celebrates the congregation’s 120th year. Honoring Daniel and Francine Birk, Eli and Eva Genauer, and Zak Shayne. At the SeaTac Marriott, 3201 S 176th St., SeaTac.5:30–10 p.m. – temple Beth am’s auction Fundraiser

Esther Herst at temple@templebetham.org

or 206-525-0915 or www.templebetham.orgTemple Beth Am’s annual Black & White Ball. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.6:30–8 p.m. – how to Make hamantaschen

Lynn Chapman at

lynn@lynnchapmancoaching.com or 206-368-0493 Whether you’ve made them before or are a total newbie, you’ll enjoy the camaraderie of other Jewish women in creating this age-old pastry for Purim. $5. RSVP for North Seattle location.

moNday 7 march7–8 p.m. – cSa presents classic rock Lyrics from a Jewish Perspective

events at events@shevetachim.com or

206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/events.phpIn the Spirit of Adar and Purim, Congregation Shevet Achim welcomes the entire community to a lighthearted look at three classic rock lyrics from a Jewish perspective, presented by Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld. At Island Crust Café, 7525 SE 24th St., Suite 100, Mercer Island.7–9 p.m. – Lunar Latte Women’s rosh chodesh Event

Mrs. Giti Fredman at

gitifredman@seattlekollel.org or 206-852-6418 or seattlekollel.orgAuthor Debbie Shapiro will talk about “Behind the Mask: Letting Ours and Others’ Potentials Out of the Box,” related to the upcoming holiday of Purim. RSVP for location.

tuEsday 8 march7 p.m. – is there one israeli Society?

Roni Antebi at ronia@sjcc.org or

206-388-0832 or http://jew.sh/jH9q“Is There One Israeli Society? Unexpected Perspectives on Communities, Cultures and Laws” by Gad Barzilai, Lucia S. and Herbert L. Pruzan professor of Jewish Studies at the UW. $10-$15. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

wEdNEsday 9 march10–11 a.m. – Joy, Love, and kindness

Mrs. Shaindel Bresler at

shainbresler@yahoo.com or 206-779-4373 or seattlekollel.orgExamine and discuss happiness and joy, love, and its natural outgrowth: kindness. Gain a deeper understanding of yourself and your family and friends as well as practical tips for incorporating these Torah values in every day life. $25 for series. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.7–9 p.m. – a new Journey: the Parenthood transition

Emily Harris-Shears at eharris@jfsseattle.org

or 206-861-8784 or www.jfsseattle.org/uploads/pdf/ParenthoodTransition.pdfWhat can you do to make the transition to parenthood smoothly? Larry Nicholas MA, MHC and certified Gottman educator, will offer strategies for coping, staying connected and insight into being a LGBTQ parent. $10/person. Scholarships available. Advance registration required. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.7:30 p.m. – heroines of the Bible — her Story, My Story

Devorah Kornfeld at

roshchodeshmi@gmail.com Presented by the Jewish Learning Institute’s Rosh

Chodesh Society, discuss six celebrated personalities in Jewish history in this monthly series. Connect with these women and enter their stories. For March: “Michal: In the balance, a daughter and wife in the political arena.” For women only. Cost includes materials. $75 for series. At the Community Center at Mercer View, 8236 SE 24th St., Mercer Island.

thursday 10 march7–9 p.m. – Evening of talent

Shirley Fox at admin@nyhs.net or

206-232-5272, ext. 513 Join faculty, students, and staff as they share their hidden talents. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

friday 11 march6–9:30 p.m. – Southern rabbis and Black civil rights

Wendy Dessenberger at

wdessenberger@tdhs-nw.org or 206-323-8486 or www.tdhs-nw.orgLearn about Southern rabbis and the black civil rights movement, from the 1880s-1990s with Rabbi Daniel Septimus. Lecture Free, Dinner: $10. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.

saturday 12 march9:30 a.m.–2 p.m. – congregation Shevet achim’s Scholar in residence

events@shevetAchim.com or

206-275-1539 or www.shevetachim.com/events.phpCongregation Shevet Achim scholar-in-residence Rabbi Daniel Korobkin speaks after a sit-down Shabbat kiddush. Rabbi Korobkin serves as director of community and synagogue services for the western region of the Orthodox Union. Free. At Congregation

Shevet Achim, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

suNday 13 march12:45–4 p.m. – repair the World hosts a community toolbox

conferences@werepair.org or

www.werepair.orgJoin Jewish educators and community members to bolster our commitment to service, justice and action, while developing tools for incorporating these values into daily life. $10. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.1:30–6 p.m. – interfaith Women’s confer-ence: common Ground-common Good

Chris Hillman at ipjc@ipjc.org or

206-223-1138 or http://www.ipjc.orgThe conference focus is Jewish, Christian & Muslim traditions and living one’s faith. The role of women in interfaith dialogue and promoting peace will be discussed. $25; after March 1: $35. At Campion Hall, Seattle University, 914 E Jefferson, Seattle.4–9 p.m. – JDS 30th anniversary Dinner & auction

Sarah Wayne at auction@jds.org or

425-460-0230 or www.jds.orgJoin to celebrate Jewish Day School’s 30th anniversary at its annual dinner and auction. Honoring JDS alumni parents Laurie Minsk and Jerry Dunietz. At Meydenbauer Center, 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue.7:30–9 p.m. – Pleasure of your company – improv night

Carol Benedick at

carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or http://jew.sh/gRTdGet together with friends old and new for improv games, entertainment, and conversation. Facilitated by Liora Minkin. Donations welcome. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

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them freedoms they never intend for a Jew in their lands. Get a grip. I’m tired of Israel being held to an unreasonable standard for people who want to destroy them and all of us as well.

Michelle Kaufmanseattle

Feeding the starving childrenWhenever I read an article like Richard Silverstein’s “The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt

not occupy” I am reminded of the Yiddish proverb “A father who does not steal to feed his starv-ing children is not a father.”

Yes, Mr. Silverstein, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank is a sin. Yes, Jews ruling over a con-quered people violates every canon of Jewish ethics I’ve ever read, but in this specific case, what is Israel’s alternative? Should Israel simply just hand the West Bank back over to the Arabs and hope for the best? Have you looked at a map lately? What if they remilitarize it? Do you really think a piece of paper will stop them? Do you really think the Arabs have given up their dream of driv-

ing the infidel Jews into the sea? If so, where is the evidence? What if they use the West Bank as a launching pad for missiles and terrorist raids against the Israeli heartland as they did before the 1967 war? What kind of peace will Israel have then?

Yes, Mr. Silverstein, the occupation goes on and on and on with no end in sight, and you and me and everyone else are sick of it. But we will be a lot sicker one day when we watch the evening news and see Tel-Aviv in flames. You ask, “Can Israel live forever surrounded by hostile nations?” and you answer, “I don’t believe so.” I agree with you. I don’t believe so either. But forever is a long time. And if what is happening now in Egypt happens in other Arab countries and democracy sweeps through the Middle East, giving the Arab young people hope for the future and access to happier lives, maybe — just maybe — Arab hostility toward Israel will wither away and a real peace can be established. But, unfortunately, until that day arrives, Israel must have defensible borders and the Jordan River is a damn good one.

An Israeli government that does not do everything in its power to provide safety and security for its citizens is not an Israeli government.

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The music director of southwest Wash-ington’s Vancouver Symphony Orches-tra is also the principal guest conductor of Israel’s Raanana Symphonette. Mae-stro Salvador Brotons, now celebrating his 20th season in Vancouver, conducted in Raanana last week on Feb. 17 and 19, and returns there within the month, to lead three concerts on March 9, 10 and 12.

On the phone from his room at the Sheraton in Raanana, the energetic Bro-tons enthused about his relationship with the Israeli orchestra: “It’s almost like a love affair!” he said.

Born in Barcelona, he is not Jewish, but he says he feels connected through his Catalan cultural identity to the Jewish people, both as music lovers and as people whose history involves being stateless and oppressed.

“I’m very sympathetic to the things the Jewish people have gone through,” he says. In addition to his multiple engagements in Raanana, Brotons has a date later this year

to conduct the Kibbutz Orchestra. Located about half an hour’s drive

northeast of Tel Aviv, Raanana, like the Portland suburb of Vancouver, is high-tech country. Over half the musicians in the Raanana Symphonette were trained in Russia; the orchestra originated as part of the process of absorption of these new immigrants. Hebrew and Russian are the languages buzzing about in rehearsals. Brotons, who speaks neither Russian nor Hebrew, rehearses in the classic way: “I sing a lot. We use Italian terms. Music is an international language.”

Salvador Brotons was introduced to the Raanana Symphonette in 1999 by his friend, the Basque pianist Joaquin Achu-carro, and it’s been a great relationship ever since.

“They keep calling!” he says with delight, and in turn, “I invited their con-certmaster to solo in Vancouver a couple of times.”

His March concerts will have a Romeo

& Juliet theme, with Tchaikovsky’s romantic tone poem, highlights from Prokofiev’s ballet, Bellini’s “Capulets & Montagues” overture, and a Chinese star-crossed lovers tale, the “Butterfly Lovers” violin concerto featuring the orchestra’s concertmaster, Nitai Zori.

Zori and his award-winning cellist twin brother, Hillel, are expected in Vancou-ver for a concert together next year. (Their sister, the violinist Carmit Zori, artistic director of the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, is known here for her appearances with Seattle Chamber Music Society.)

Brotons, who makes his home in Bar-celona, also leads orchestras there and in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. He says his favorite place in Israel is “Jerusalem, Jeru-salem, Jerusalem! It’s just a phenomenal city!” He says he’s made a lot of friends in Israel, and is looking forward to introduc-ing the country to his daughter when she joins him there in March.

The Raanana Symphonette’s Web site

is a little, as they say in Israel, shvach (it could use some of that high-tech talent there), but there’s more about Salvador Brotons and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (not to be confused with the one in Vancouver, B.C.), at their attractive site, www.vancouversymphony.org.

A musical loop: Vancouver, Wash. Symphony’s maestro also conducts in Israelgigi yELLEN-KohN Jtnews correspondent

1. Benaroya Hall holds 2,500 people. It’s an acoustic paradise, especially when it’s full. Welcoming guests is a major mitzvah, so think of your attendance as giving some vis-iting Israelis the warmest Seattle welcome.

2. The orchestra is celebrating an anniversary: 75 years since its creation in 1936. Twelve years before than the birth of the State of Israel, the Polish Jewish vio-linist Bronislaw Huberman founded this refuge for Jewish orchestra musicians, all kicked out of their jobs in Nazi Germany. Huberman dedicated his life to music as an instrument of international goodwill.

The orchestra’s home hall in Tel Aviv is on Huberman Street.

3. The conductor’s celebrating an anniversary: 50 years since the legend-ary Zubin Mehta (from India! Not even Jewish!) first conducted the IPO, in 1961. He and the orchestra have been, basically, married ever since.

4. Because so many of the original players had been soloists in German orchestras, the IPO has often been called “an orchestra of soloists.” That’s kind of like political and social life in Israel, so watching Israelis make music together is a

way to show your support for the triumph of harmony. Maybe the message will go

Five reasons to see the Israel Philharmonic concert in Seattle

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Conductor Zubin Mehta with the Israeli Philharmonic, which comes to Seattle on Feb. 26.

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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conductor Salvador Brotons, who is conducting several performances in Raanana, Israel.

If you go:

the israel Philharmonic, led by the legendary Zubin Mehta, makes its benaroya hall debut for a single performance on sat., Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $45-$150 at www.seattlesymphony.org.

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Express yourself with our special “Tribute Cards” and help fund JFS programs at the same time…meeting the needs of friends, family and loved ones here at home. Call Irene at (206) 861-3150 or, on the web, click on “Donations” at www.jfsseattle.org. It’s a 2-for-1 that says it all.

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Bar MitzvahDavid Joseph Loeb

David will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on February 26, 2011 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle.

David is the son of Don and JoEllen Loeb of Seattle and the brother of Adam. His grandparents are Frankie and Dick Loeb of Seattle, and Jolene and Thomas Gehl of Seattle.

David is a 7th grader at Seattle Academy. He enjoys baseball, music, and skiing.

For his mitzvah project, David is raising money to purchase adaptive ski equipment for the Outdoors For All Foundation, which provides outdoor experiences for disabled individuals.

BirthElizabeth Shoshanna Tanners

Avi and Christine Tanners of Long Beach, Calif. welcomed their daughter Elizabeth Shoshanna to the world on December 15, 2010.

Elizabeth is the granddaughter of Dina Tanners of Seattle and Paul Tanners of Spokane. She is the great-granddaughter of the late Sid and Jeanette Nelson.

Elizabeth’s middle name is for her great-grand-mother Jeanette, whose Yiddish name was Shendl, and her great-great-grandmother Anna Klemptner.

Bar MitzvahEvan Kelly Hemphill

Evan will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on March 5, 2011 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.

Evan is the son of Cynthia and Dan Hemphill and the brother of Nathan. His grandparents are Phil Flash of Mercer Island, Hellen Wilson of Bellevue, the late Claire Barley Flash, and the late Dale Hemphill.

Evan is a 7th grader at Tyee Middle School. He plays saxophone, enjoys lacrosse, soccer, swimming, and attending Camp Solomon Schechter. For his Bar Mitzvah project, Evan is helping lead a team raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Big Climb on March 20, 2011.

Bar MitzvahAaron David Halfon

Aaron will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on February 26, 2011 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.

Aaron is the son of David and Lisa Halfon and the brother of Tawni Halfon. His grandparents are Lionel Rivers of Sherman Oaks, Calif., the late Louise Rivers, and the late Sultana and Isaac Halfon.

Aaron is an 8th grader at Dimmitt Middle School. He enjoys basketball and swimming. For his Bar Mitzvah project, Aaron is volunteering at Children’s Hospital.

Bar MitzvahEvan Noah Crites

Evan celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on February 19, 2011 at Congregation Kol Ami in Woodinville.

Evan is the son of Allison Heber of Bellevue and William Crites of Bellevue. He is the brother of Zachary Crites. His grandparents are Judy and Jim Heber of Bellevue.

Evan is a 7th grader at Odle Middle School. His interests include math, science, aviation, building with Lego, skiing, camping, reading, swimming, chess, and spending time with his dogs.

Do some research and select a congrega-tion right for you: Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Reconstructionist, Renewal, meditative. (Caveat #1: I exclude so-called Messianic synagogues — another topic for another day.)

After you are sure it is one you would like to try, make the connections, appoint-ments, paperwork that will allow you to join for a year, sign on, and then bring a piece of paper to me, in person, stating the terms/costs, etc. (I can be reached very easily at 206-323-7674).

We will sit down and talk about your

choice for a few minutes and I will write you a check for three months worth of dues (made out the synagogue — I will get the tax deduction, it seems only fair). I would ask that you try it for an entire year and then report back to me by phone or e-mail.

I will also report to JTNews readers how many people took me up on this offer (no names, of course) and summarize our var-ious conversations.

Can I afford it? Yes. I believe in this passionately and I strive to be like Aaron: “Loving my fellow beings and bringing them closer to Torah” (Avot 1:12)

Sincerely,Rabbi Mirel

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host a party with the Od Yishama Orches-tra headlining.

“The rabbis and the rebbetzins are going to be dancing through the night!” Levitin announced.

Despite negative coverage about Jews in the news, when it comes to Jewish life, Levitin remarked that interest in Judaism from the non-Jewish world is increasing in

ways he’s never noticed before. This past year also marked the highest level of Yom Kippur synagogue attendance for the shul.

The crowd “was absolutely down the steps into the street,” he said. “They go once a year to shul. But where do they go? To a Chassidic Orthodox shul. Go figure.”

In light of this positive potential for growth, Levitin muses, “Now, how do you take that 26-hour feeling and run with it for the rest of the year? That’s the challenge.”

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beyond the concert hall?5. Mahler. Webern (the early, Roman-

tic Webern). Beethoven. It’s a great musi-cal program. They’re one of the great orchestras of the world. Music conquers fear. Music speaks beyond borders.

— Gigi Yellen-Kohn

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~ February 26 ~

ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC

ORCHESTRA with CONDUCTOR

ZUBIN MEHTAThe legendary ensemble makes a rare Seattle stop for what is sure to be an unforgettable evening.

Sponsors: Martin Selig & Catherine Mayer

206.215.4747WWW.SEATTLESYMPHONY.ORG

Tickets still

available!

February 26 at 8 p.m. balkan beat box, soulicoconcertA pair of Israel-rooted bands bring genre-blending, progressive music to Seattle for what should be a dance-heavy night. Headliners Balkan Beat Box consist of a talented drum-mer and electronic musician and a former clarinet player for Gogol Bordello – they’re style is collaboration heavy, and their music is equally inviting. At Showbox at the Market, 1426 1st Ave., Seattle. $20. 21-plus only.

March 6 at 5 p.m. Marvin hamlischlectureMarvin Hamlisch has won almost every award a songwriter could conceive of – Oscar included. The composer and conductor (including the Seattle Symphony’s principal Pops conductor) will discuss his varied career in New York, Los Angeles, and the North-west. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. Tickets free for members, $10 for adults, $5 for seniors.

February 25–March 4Nuremburg: Its Lesson for TodayFilmCommissioned by the United States government, and screened across post-war Europe to aid in “de-Nazifica-tion,” this film never made it to American theaters due to political concerns. Now Sandra Schulberg, daughter of original filmmaker Stuart, has reconstituted the once-lost film. At the Varsity Theater, 4329 University Way NE, Seattle. Check listings for showtimes.

February 26 at 8 p.m. israeli Philharmonic orchestraconcertConductor Zubin Mehta leads the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra in their Ben-aroya Hall debut. The orchestra will perform works by Beethoven, Webern, and Mahler. At Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets $45–$150.

February 27, 2:30 p.m. benefit recital for emanuel congregationThe Emanuel Trio, consisting of Maxx-ine Smith on flute, Joel Rothschild on oboe, and David Dintenfass on clarinet, will perform jazz and traditional Jewish songs. There will be a reception with light appetizers after the show. At Con-gregation Emanuel, 3412 NE 65th St., Seattle. $5 minimum donation.

An Inspiring Journey in Israel

For North American and Israeli High School Students

Travel – Outdoor Adventure – Community Service – Arts – Creative Study

New merit-based $7,000 Fellowships for Washington State teens

currently in grades 10, 11 and 12

Nesiya Presentations in Seattle area April 22 and April 23

For full information on the fellowship, the program, and presentations.Please call 212-951-7128 and visit www.nesiya.org

An Inspiring Journey in IsraelFor North American and Israeli High School Students

Travel — Outdoor Adventure — Community Service — Arts — Creative Study

Merit-based $7,000 Fellowships for Washington State teenscurrently in grades 10, 11 and 12

Nesiya Presentation March 10th, 7–9p.m. at the SJCC on Mercer Island

For full information on the fellowship, the program and the presentation, Please contact Joy Maimon, Regional Outreach Coordinator,

joy@nesiya.org

February 25 to March 20 My Name is Asher LevtheaterNorthwest Yeshiva High School drama teacher Rebecca Osman Polyakovsky assistant directs Aaron Posner’s adaptation of the novel by Chaim Potok. The play, making its Pacific Northwest debut, tells the story of an Orthodox painter torn between his art and his faith. Tickets $27.50. At Lakewood Playhouse, 5729 Lakewood Towne Center Blvd., Lakewood.

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