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Harnek Pabla, second from left, owner of the Pabla Indian restaurant in Renton, celebrated 10 years of kashrut on July 29. Rabbi Moshe Kletenik, a rabbinical boa

member of the Vaad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, center, presented Pabla with a certicate, accompanied by Cecelia Benzaquen, left, kashrut consultan

Rabbi Dovid Jenkins, second from right, and Al Maimon, right, the Vaads executive director.

A year rom now, the nancial pictures o many o Western Washing-

tons Jewish organizations could look very dierent rom how they look

today. On July 28, representatives rom the Jewish Federation o Greater

Seattle began the public rollout o its new undraising and allocations

model, a radical shi rom the way this communal unding agency has

operated or much o the past 85 years.

Tough beneciary agencies can expect many changes in the alloca-

tions process, the changes will be most obvious in two ways:

Instead of receiving unrestricted allocations that cover operating costs,

agencies will need to request grant money or specic projects;

Where a handful of local organizations in the past received funding from

the Federation, any Jewish 501(c)3 charitable organization in Western

Washington, including synagogues, will be eligible to apply or these grants.

Tis is very dierent rom our old model. Were now looking

at the broader community, said Jack Almo, chair o the Federations

Planning and Allocations committee. Te statement that were really

making is that were a community tackling community challenges.

But that statement, said Richard Fruchter, the Federations president

and CEO, will need to be proven through action the results o which

are the culmination o more than two years o study and planning.

We are positioning the Federation to be a orward-looking organ

zation, the uture o the community, and trying to say, Heres how w

can take a community thats good right now and really turn it into a gre

community, Fruchter said.

Rabbi Jonathan Singer o emple Beth Am in Seattle, who also si

on the Federations board, has long promoted the idea that synagogu

should be eligible or Federation unding. He said he was impressed wi

the structure o this new model.

All the Jewish organizations can reach out together and work o

fundraising and on development and communal engagement, so Im ve

happy and proud o what the board achieved, Singer said.

What marks this new strategy rom the nationwide standard o ede

ated giving a big pot o money is collected each year, then distribute

to local and international organizations based on various community

directed criteria is how the undraising and allocating are inextricab

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When I was 10, I thought

my riend Kevin Hennessey

was nuts. Whenever hed get

mad at me, hed scream out,

You Jews are all gonna boin

in hell! To which Id respond,with all the cocky sel-assured-

ness that drove him nuts in the

rst place: Nyaaa! Tere aint

no hell in my religion!

Only decades later did I

learn, to my shock, that his

religion had borrowed hell rom mine!

As Casey Stengel used to say, You can

look it up!

he almudic rabbis, in act, were

convinced that there is a special place

Gehinnom or notorious sinners, such

as Korachs rebels, Jewish kings who spon-

sored idolatry and, lest we orget, a cer-

tain Messiah, who was said to be spending

eternity in boiling excrement.

All this came to mind one recent morn-

ing when my buddy the Archbishop or-

warded me a news item with his own

outraged commentary at an apparent

anti-Semitic slander. Te report claimed

(erroneously, it turns out) that a Haredi

rabbinic court in Jerusalem presided over

the stoning death o a stray dog aer deter-

mining its body harbored the reincarnated

soul o a secular lawyer, now deceased,

who had insulted the court 20

years earlier.

So which do you consider

more bizarre: hat orah

sages would stone a dog to

death or that the same sagesharbor a worldview that

includes metempsychosis (a

ancy Greek term or trans-

migration o the soul rom

body to body)?

Lets begin with metem-

psychosis. As any survivor o

Pro. Jaees UW oering on

Jewish Mystical radition well knows,

rom roughly the 16th-18th centuries, not

only did most Jews Sephardic or Ash-

kenazic believe in the restoration o the

soul to the body at resurrection, they also

held, as a matter o conviction, the idea

that each individual soul, in the course o

millennial wanderings, routinely inhabits

many bodies until it completes the mis-

sion or which God sent it into the world!

Te idea is unknown to the almud and

nds no place in Maimonides. It rst sur-

aces publicly in the Sefer ha-Bahir(around

the 12th century) and, riding the coattails

o the Zohar, makes steady progress among

Kabbalistic adepts. It finally goes viral

among the disciples of Rabbi Isaac Luria, the

great 16th-century theologian o Kabbalah.

In full Lurianic dress, this process of

soul-migration is calledgilgul hanefashot.

Te idea is that every soul has a repair

(tikkun) to make in this world in order to

prepare the world or redemption. And

each soul might take a number o cir-cuits (gilgulim) through this world until it

accomplishes its particular tikkun. Some-

times, the newgilgulbrings one to a higher

orm o lie. Sometimes not.

Consider this story rom the oledot

ha-Ari, a collection o legends about Rabbi

Isaac Luria compiled by his disciple, Shlomil

o Dresnitz, a generation aer the master

sloughed o his mortal coil in 1572:

Once the rabbi went with his disci-

ples to Ayn Zatun.

When they arrived at a grove o

olive trees, a raven came and perched

on a branch near the rabbi and called

out repeatedly.

Said the rabbi: Remember Shab-

betai, the tax collector? Well his soul

has become embodied in this raven!

Because o his cruelty to the poor, he

was punished with this heartache o

being reborn as a raven. And now he

asks me to pray or him!

Immediately, the rabbi rebuked him

and said: Wicked One! Be on your

way! And the raven ew o.

Youll get why this Shabbetai surely ha

coming to him a ew more years peckin

seeds out o cow pies! But lets ast-orwa

rom 16th-century sat to 21st-centu

Jerusalem and the case o the chutzpad

lawyer trapped in the body o a dog.Tis case ogilgulhas drawn intern

tional attention, despite the disclaim

by the Maariv daily, whose editors has

ily apologized or turning a vicious rum

into an occasion or anti-Semitic actoid

Everyone rom PEA (animal rights) to A

Jazeera (Palestinian rights) has weighed

on this latest Zionist assault on human

tarian norms.

Well, in order to set the record straigh

and restore the Jewish peoples reput

tion or humaneness, let me share anoth

story that might reassure the humanita

ian community that there are indeed Jew

who cherish humankinds best riend

even one unwittingly harboring the so

o a shark!

Consider this account o events su

rounding the death o one Nahman Dav

Dovinski, in 2009:

Upon returning to their Meah She

rim at rom the uneral, Reb Dovin

skis amily ound an unamiliar do

Who pt th psychosis back in mtmpsychosis?

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RepaiRing the woRld: does it Replace oR augment a committed Jewish life?

There is a spiritual aspect to business just as there is to the lives of individuals. As you give, you receive. As you help others, youre helped in return.

Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerrys. Read about the ice cream mans philosophy on page 18.

OMAHA, Neb. (JA) A lot o myhometown o Omaha, Neb., was under

water in the nal days o July. Pumps were

set down at various locations, including at

a nuclear power plant located not ar rom

town that had to be shut down. Te Mis-

souri River, which borders our city, rose to

dangerous levels, turning much o the city

into a lake. Some Omaha residents took

to sandbagging to help reinorce critical

locations along the river to little eect.

Tis disaster mirrors the serious chal-

lenge acing the non-Orthodox Jewish

world.

Non-Orthodox Judaism is conronted

by rising levels o secularism that almost

always lead to assimilation a trend that

within a generation or two could render

Reorm and Conservative Judaism largely

irrelevant in North America (and abroad

as well). Non-Orthodox Jews general

discontent with and resulting departure

rom Jewish lie, le alone, stands to bring

Reorm and Conservative Judaism to a

state o obsolescence.

Tis prediction is neither original nor

new. From studies about very high inter-

aith marriage rates to growing assimila-

tion percentages, we should know by now

that the non-Orthodox way o lie is ail-

ing by just about every metric we have at

our disposal. (I am not Orthodox, by the

way.)

Some may not like reading these words

and others may be angered by them, but

like the Omaha ood, its hard to ignore

what one sees.

Tis distancing rom Jewish religious

(i.e., God-based) teachings and ritual

experiences inevitably leads to a distanc-

ing rom Jewish purpose. So Jews increas-

ingly try to nd their Judaic meaning

in social/political causes (immigration

reorm, Supreme Court appointments,

environmentalism, womens rights, etc.).

Putting aside the merit o the positions

taken, lets be honest: Tese tikkun olam

pursuits might eel good and even do some

good, but they do little to build Jewish

communities.

Were losing Jews and the commitment

o Jews ar too quickly to think that we can

aord to continue on as we are. If Jews

continue to prioritize these social/politi-

cal eorts over proven religious practices,

we must have the courage to acknowledge

that we have substituted all these secular

causes or Judaism.

We cant have it both ways. We might

insist that tikkun olam and social jus-

tice are central to our Jewish way o lie,

but they are increasingly taking the place

o serious Jewish education and Jewishpractice. hose are the water pumps

and sandbags employed by the Ortho-

dox movement against the rising tides o

assimilation.

I watch with sadness as the seminaries

o our non-Orthodox movements lay o

employees and close programs. National

non-Orthodox day school attendance rep-

resents only a small percentage o Jewish

children in the United States. And its not

because the economy started spiraling

downward the trends leading to this

point were in place long beore.

Orthodox Jews, or whatever disagree-

ments many non-Orthodox Jews have

with them, have grown in number, and

not only by sheltering themselves in ultra-

Orthodox communities. In contrast to the

ultra-Orthodox, the Modern Orthodox

largely swim in the same secular waters as

other Jews: Tey own televisions, use the

Internet, attend secular universities, and

work and vacation in the secular world.

But they also hold to a religious disci-

pline they believe is lie-improving. Tey

observe Shabbat and the Jewish holidays,

and they study Jewish texts in ar greater

numbers than non-Orthodox Jews. Tey

are more likely to have children, and their

children are ar more likely to marry Jews

and make Jewish homes.

Judaism teaches us how to be better

riends, businesspeople, husbands, wives

and philanthropists. It tells us how to

help the weak and when to ght evil. In

short, Judaism done right makes us better

human beings. It is the discipline of lead-

ing a traditional Jewish lie that also

reminds us how best to engage in repair-

ing the world.

Ironically, by overemphasizing tikkun

olam we could ultimately, through lack

o Jewish knowledge and experience, lose

the very impetus that put us in the tikkun

olam business in the rst place.

Must every Jew become Orthodox to

live a committed and meaningul Jewish

lie? Clearly not. Tere are, o course,

great numbers o highly committed non-

Orthodox Jews. But as a community, at

least or now, well be severely weakened i

we dont acknowledge that we must repair

ourselves ar more urgently than we must

repair the world.

Joel Alperson is a past national campaign chair

for United Jewish Communities. His views do

not necessarily represent those of the Jewish

Federations of North America, formerly known

as United Jewish Communities.

Jdaism is mor thantikkun olam

Joel alperson JtA World news Service

NEW YORK (JTA) I have nopatience or survival Judaism. When-

ever I hear someone talk about what Jews

must do in order to survive, I head for

the door.

Joel Alperson has joined the long list o

Jewish communal leaders oering a or-

mula or Jewish survival. Along the way,

he inorms us that Modern Orthodoxy has

all the answers and Reorm and Conserva-

tive Judaism are on the road to extinction

a point with which I strongly disagree

but that I will not argue here. What does

need to be said, however, is that he shows

a total misunderstanding o what Juda-

ism is about and ails to comprehend that

a Judaism obsessed with survival is a Juda-

ism that will not survive.

Anyone who has urged college students

to care about Jewish survival knows they

will respond with indierence, incom-

prehension and contempt. Tey are not

interested in being Jewish so we can sur-

vive. Tey need to hear the opposite mes-

sage: Jews do not observe orah in order

to survive; they survive in order to observe

orah. And this is the key or such stu-

dents, and or most North American Jews

observing orah means much more

than worrying only about our own souls.

Observing orah involves ullling a

grander purpose. It means taking to heart

the words o R. Hayyim o Brisk, the great-

est almudist o the late 19th century, who

dened the rabbis task as ollows: o

redress the grievances o those who are

abandoned and alone, to protect the dig-

nity o the poor, and to save the oppressed

rom the hands o the oppressor.

Social justice, in short, is required by our

religious texts and is inseparable rom our

religious mission. Tere is no such thing as

a morality that is selectively indignant

that looks within but ails to look without.

And Judaism without ethics, both personal

and societal, is a contradiction in terms.

Do we need to study orah, embrace

Jewish ritual and observe Shabbat? Abso-

lutely, although Reorm, Conservative and

Orthodox Jews will interpret these obliga-

tions dierently. Te work o social jus-

tice, absent text study and ritual practice

as a oundation, is inauthentic and will not

sustain itself. Indeed, I have found that the

work o tikkun olam, or all its rewards,

is lonely and discouraging work, and onby absorbing the light o the Shabbat can

dles and by studying and worshiping wit

a strong, dynamic Jewish community can

immunize mysel against the cynicism an

alienation that surround me.

But the point that Mr. Alperson miss

is that social justice is not, as he claims,

secular pursuit meant to compensate

the absence o God-based Jewish exp

rience. Social justice is God-mandated

precisely the same way that Shabbat obse

vance and orah study are God-ma

dated. In the book of Jeremiah (9:24), w

nd these words: I am the Eternal, wh

exercises kindness, justice and righteou

ness on earth, for in these I delight. Ser

ous Jews know that in the Jewish traditio

healing the sick, clothing the naked, help

ing the poor, pursuing peace, loving m

people and my neighbors these are th

attributes o God, and we testiy to God

existence by emulating God behavior.

And in act, Mr. Alperson cant see

to decide i Jewish education and Jewi

practice are God-based or are instr

ments o survival. Ultimately he appears

choose the latter, reerring to them as th

water pumps and sandbags employed b

the Orthodox movement against the risin

tides o assimilation. Orthodox leade

can speak or themselves on this poin

but I will share with you the reaction

my daughter Adina, a social activist, wh

belongs to an Orthodox congregation an

was incensed by this article.

We dont observe Shabbat becau

it is a sandbag against assimilation, sh

said, but because it is part o the etern

covenant between God and the Jews th

evokes the miracle o Creation and th

Exodus rom Egypt and links me to Jew

throughout the centuries. Exactly so.

Te essence o Mr. Alpersons arg

ment, and the height o his olly, is th

we cant have it both ways; we cannot, h

says, both insist that tikkun olam and soci

justice are central and also embrace ser

ous Jewish education and Jewish practic

But we can, and in act, we must. o d

one without the other is to retreat rom th

world and distort Judaisms very essence

Rabbi Eric Yofe is the president of the Union

for Reform Judaism.

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What God is trying to do with this

world is to gure out who he is through us,

music sensation Matisyahu told the camp-

ers at Camp Solomon Schechter. Tatsreally what Jewish mysticism says.

Matisyahu, known or his usion o reggae,

hip-hop and beat-box sounds with Chas-

sidic Judaism perormed or 200 enthusias-

tic campers at Camp Solomon Schechter on

July 29. Te camp is the only Jewish summer

camp to ever have hosted Matisyahu and

this was his second appearance.

We are so blessed to be able to have

him share his message about peace, being

proud of being Jewish, and pride in Israel,

said Sam Perlin, the camps executive

director. Im thrilled that he feels pas-

sionate about Jewish camping. Its a real

joy to see the aces o our kids when he

enters the amphitheater.

Aer thunderous welcoming applause,

Matisyahu said, Its great to be back and

launched into one o his most popular

hits, Jerusalem. Between songs, Mati-

syahu engaged in warm conversation with

the campers, at times oering humor, as

well as serious and deep messages. He per-

ormed several o his well-known songs in

the 45-minute performance. He capped

o his appearance with his hit One Day,

which has been the camps theme song

since his rst visit last summer.

Beyond the music, however, Matisyahus

message clearly resonated with his audience.

Matisyahu said even rom his childhood

he has always had a strong belie in God,and that God would maniest his destiny.

I wanted to foster a relationship with

God; I wanted to build it, gure out how

to develop it, he said. So I just started

davening. I felt that somehow there was

something real about the Hebrew words

and the Hebrew language and letters. Even

if I couldnt understand them, I felt that

saying those words, saying those letters

was going to open up some doors.

Doing so wasnt always easy, Mati-

syahu said.

In times before I ever thought about

religion or Judaism, when I would feel

disconnected I would just try to recon-

nect, whether that meant going down to

the water, taking a walk, singing a song, or

writing some lyrics, he said. But it wasnt

working well enough or me to just do it

on my own; I needed help with it.

Ater exploring where he elt most

comortable in Judaism, in what he called

a process o discovering himsel, he arrived

at where he is today though he says the

exploration is a lielong process.

Campers said Matisyahus religious

explorations created a powerul message

or them.

Hes not the ste-

reotypical Jew, which

most o us are seen

as, to our non-Jewishriends, said Jacque-

line Schwartz, 14, of

Seattle. Were really

stereotyped at the

public school where

I go. So seeing Mati-

syahu as a religious Jew

who is cool, who rides

motorcycles and tells

jokes, is really cool.

Raael Kintzer, an 18-year-old sta

member also rom Seattle reected upon

the impact o Matisyahus appearance on

the rest o the camp session.

I think Matisyahu injects amazing

Jewish energy and spirit into everyone at

camp, Kintzer said. He gives everyone

a burst o joy to come to camp [and be]

happy rom the start. Tats so important,

because Jewish camping opens doors in so

many ways. Jewish camping changes how

people think about the world.

He has such amazing music, said

17-year-old Merav Rosenberg o Jerusa-

lem, a member o the delegation o the

camps four Israeli scouts. Seeing him

here brings so much spirit and makes the

camp experience so much stronger and

alive.

Relecting upon the origins o h

music, Matisyahu spoke o the bridg

between the music and Judaism.

My whole life all I really wanted to d

is to make music, he said. When I becam

religious and went to yeshiva, I just let go

it. I just said that if this is my destiny, if th

is what God wants for me, then I have

gure out the other parts o my lie rst.

For video of Matisyahus appearance, please

see the Camps YouTube channel at www.

youtube.com/campsolomonschechter. Corey

Salka is a board member of the Jewish

Federation of Greater Seattle and Camp

Solomon Schechter and the founding partner

of Israel Startup Angels.

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QFC proudly supports Seattle Childrens HospitalBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist

Eric Miller is the Public Aairs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at eric.miller@qci.com or 425-990-6182.

In early March, members o our QFC Corporate Oce team put a ew hours

o their own time toward helping achieve an extremely important goal raising

$1 million dollars or Seattle Childrens Hospital.

Te event was Jackie and Benders 10th annual One Big Kiss or Seattle Childrens

Hospital Radiothon, a 2-day undraiser which was broadcast live rom the Hospital.

Radio hosts Jackie and Bender brought the stories o Childrens patients, amilies,

sta and volunteers to their listeners across our region, who responded with generous

donations. QFC associates helped answer phones to take pledges rom these callers

and during the event, QFC provided two $5,000 miracle matches:

QFCs frst $5,000 match generated 96 gits totaling $7,894.

QFCs second $5,000 match generated 148 gits totaling $10,440

Overall, our $10,000 match motivated 244 people to donate $18,334 to Seattle

Childrens and the event did meet its goal the radiothon raised $1,090,396.72!

I was grateul or the opportunity to be part o such a worthy cause.

My older brother, Christopher, was diagnosed with leukemia at age

2 and Childrens Hospital was a very large part o the rst nine years

o his lie and the rst seven years o mine. Dr. Barbara Clark was our

primary care physician and she took a special interest in our amily. She

is now retired but will orever be considered a member o our amily.

My brother was expected to not live through the night on more than

one occasion, lost his hair 3 times due to radiation treatment, and the

suering and worry my parents must have experienced with every cold

and fu throughout those years is unimaginable. Te hospital and its sta

were supportive beyond what was expected. Tey helped where it was

truly necessary. I am proud to be able say that my big brother has been in complete

remission since his late childhood and is happily married with a wonderully bright

adopted son.

Josh Dooley, QFC Shrink Manager

Tis summer, we all have the same opportunity to aid Seattle

Childrens in their mission to prevent, treat and eliminate

pediatric disease. Starting August 7th and running through

September 3rd, Seattle Childrens Hospital will be QFCs Check

Stand Charity Partner. QFC customers can donate at any check

stand using the $1, $5, or $10 scan cards, by dropping change

in coin boxes or by designating their 3 cent bag reuse credit as a donation to Seattle

Childrens. In addition, QFC will make a donation o $10,000 to the Hospital. Your

willingness to donate will make a dierence in the lives o children and their amilies,

and that is something to celebrate!

he oldest Conservative congrega-

tion in Seattle is changing up its educa-

tional ormat, trading boutique Judaism

and the Synaplex model o individually

tailored ritual or a holistic generational

approach with the help o its newly hireddirector o congregational learning, Rabbi

Jill Levy.

Herzl-Ner amid Conservative Con-

gregations longtime spiritual leader,

Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, said a shi in Juda-

ism is taking place around the world.

Jewish communities, he said, are becom-

ing more proactive, less deensive, and

better at becoming the people who sur-

vived tremendous odds to thrive in the

21st century.

Herzl-Ner amid, he told the JNews,

will ollow that trend beginning this year.

We live in the age o individualism,

and weve been doing that, Rosenbaum

said. A amily service, a teen service, a

main service and we reached people

in new ways. But the sense o commu-

nity needed to be developed a little more

deeply.

So the board and HN leadership

started asking questions about how to

meld the Frankel Religious School, the

membership, and the community to a new

and unied level.

How do we create more connectivity

between the age groups and have a more

deeply connected relationship between

the school and the synagogue? Rosen-

baum asked. We want to create a more

holistic way o thinking about everything

Jewish.Levys role at the synagogue will incor-

porate this new vision, which emphasizes

lie-long learning.

Only onboard a ew weeks, Levy, was

ordained in May rom the Jewish Teo-

logical Seminary. She held the Wexner

Fellowship there, was a Legacy Heritage

Fellow, and also earned a masters degree

in Public Administration rom Columbia

University.

When the board and the congregation

decided to hire a director o congrega-

tional learning instead o continuing with

a more child-ocused education director,

Levy was a natural selection or many rea-

sons, including the act that she received

her bachelors degree at the University o

Washington in Conservation Biology.

Right now were very much in the

planning stages, said Levy. Part o what

Ill be doing over the course of this year is

taking a really serious look at the religion

school programs. What we dont want to

have is independent silos...but we want to

see ourselves as an integrated whole. What

happens in the religious school also has an

eect on what happens in the main sanc-

tuary.

One o the rst initiatives will be a

music program on Sunday mornings, led

by local musician Chava Mirel.

he existing BYachad program, atwo- or three-day-a-week religious school

program or grades 3 through 5, already

includes a amily education component.

BYachad is meant to encourage parents

to get involved and learn with their kids,

in the synagogue.

Rabbi Rosenbaum and I are going to

be teaching classes or the parents while

their kids are in religion school, Levy

said. And there will probably be some

kind o learning together component

where the amily studies together.

Te second hour o the morning, she

said, will be an interactive parent-to-par-

ent discussion time ocused around Jewish

values and amily dynamics.

Levy, her husband, and their two

daughters, ages 2 and 4 months, relocated

to Seattle rom Philadelphia, where she

was attending the Jewish Teological Sem-

inary. She was born and raised in Hous-

ton, exas.

Levy met her husband when the two

were working at Hillel o Georgia in

Atlanta. He has been a student at the

Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and

is currently taking time o to be a stay-a

home dad.

Im the parent of two very youn

kids, said Levy. I know that having th

community o other people to speak wi

about dierent struggles that Im goin

through with my own kids is really hel

ul.

One new aspect o this holistic edu

cation program will be the interminglin

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1A native o our air

state, Sheila (Schain)

Stuart, has just com-

pleted a term as mayor oCambridge, England.

Born in Seattle, Sheila

moved with her parents, Sid

and Vicki Schain, to Yakima

and then the ri-Cities or a

time, beore the amily settled

in Oregon. According to Sid,

Sheila always had an inter-

est in politics and interned in the Oregon

State Legislature.

She moved to England in 1991 to work

or Toby Churchill in his speech-aid busi-

ness. Tey subsequently married and had

a daughter, Lucy, beore divorcing. She

is currently married to Bruce Stuart, an

architect.

Sid explained to me that Cam-

bridgeshire has 42 councilors, or repre-

sentatives, similar to our city or county

councils.

Tey have much more direct import,

on their constituents, he says and, in his

opinion, the political system there is

much more satisactory.

Aer serving on the council in Cam-

bridges Trumpington Ward since 2004,

Sheila accepted the mostly

honorary yearlong position

o mayor or a term that

began in May 2010. She kepther so-called day job as an

accountant, perorming her

mayoral duties during the day

and keeping up with her pro-

ession at night.

Sid says she took the job

with the intent o making

it un, and rom the photos

I received, it certainly looks

that way.

Among her ofcial duties, Sheila has

met the Queen and Prince Charles a

couple o times, opened the 800-year-old

Reach Fair, and rappelled o o ancient

buildings.

As you can imagine, Sheila has received

a lot o press coverage in her adopted

hometown. You can search the Cambridge

News site at www.cambridge-news.co.uk

or articles and photos o Her Honor, the

very photogenic mayor, or see her review-

ing the Royal Anglican Regiment in a

BBC slide show at bbc.in/qB6Pyn (typists

should mind the capital letters).

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Speak Words of Peaceby Mike Selinker

2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12t h Avenue, Seattle.

All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

Answers on page 14

ACROSS

1 Peace is the beauty of life. (1978)

6 Elroy Jetsons mom

10 Belch

14 Concession speech?

15 Bell Labs creation

16 Give o

17 Let us reach for the world that ought to be. (2009)

18 True happiness comes from a sense of inner peace

and contentment. (1989)

20 How you might eel while sitting shiva

21 Foxx lm

23 Show or orensics ans

24 Guitarists need

25 With 51-Across, The poor people are very great

people. They can teach us so many beautiful things.

(1979)

28 Peace is not Gods gift to his creatures, it is our gift to

each other. (1986)

31 Summer appliances, or short

32 Starlets goal

35 O-kilter

36 ___ Reader(political magazine)

38 Fish-and-chips sh

39 It is time to make peace with the planet. (2007)

40 Peace is a dynamic construction to which all should

contribute. (1978)

42 Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the

world. (1964)

43 Cultural period

44 TVs warrior princess

45 Org. with a ood pyramid

46 Monopoly payment

48 ___ Red Road (thoroughare near Microsot)

49 Global challenges must be met with an emphasis onpeace. (2002)

51 See 25-Across

53 Bad stat or Hasselbeck

54 Hill dweller

55 When youd expect to leave SeaTac, briefy

56 Swelled head

59 Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity.

(1990)

64 The one radical solution is peace. (1994)

66 Neighborhood

67 It has buzzers at its entrances?

68 Word beore Gay

69 Did a cantors job, at times

70 Hebrew word meaning so be it

71 Peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory. (2001)

The Hebrew word shalom means peace. When we speak the word, we encourage those we greet to lead

lives free of violence. Along these lines, weve provided quotations from some of the best Nobel Peace Prize

Lectures. Name the speakers of the quotes in bold, with the years of their Nobel inductions given in parentheses.

DOWN

1 Book jacket items

2 Isle between Tuscany and

Corsica

3 Poke and prod

4 Sux with global or hero

5 Whenever Youre ___ (Ace

o Base song)

6 Elroy Jetsons sister

7 Santa ___ winds

8 Zippo

9 Obtains, as revenge

10 Rabbis attribute

11 Thurman o Kill Bill

12 Edge

13 Bake sale grp.

19 Sux with sheep or bull

22 Report card triumph

24 ___ sow, so shall

25 Let a new age dawn! (1993)

26 About 71% o the earths

surace

27 Bigot

28 Gamble

29 Jim, ___ a Tie Today (country

song by The HIghwaymen)

30 O the mark

33 Le___ (French newspaper)

34 Ms legend Martinez

37 They may be withheld

41 Unspoken, as an agreement

42 Dave and Krists Nirvana

bandmate

47 Lipton packet

48 You ___! (Palin exclamation)50 Tenor Bocelli

52 Genetic ino

55 Divisible by two

56 Black, poetically

57 Type o monster

58 Second son o Judah

59 Shell product

60 man ___ mouse?

61 Stimpys pal

62 That guy

63 Garden o Eden resident

65 ___ Arbor

On July 4 last year, we

huddled around res to keep

warm in Seattle. As o this

writing, weve so ar gotten 78minutes o summer tem-

peratures over 80 degrees,

that is. Meanwhile, across the

country in Washington, D.C.,

where politicians are wast-

ing taxpayer money ghting

over a phony debt crisis,

and trying to eliminate the Clean Air and

Water Acts, EPA, and conservation and

alternative-energy programs, theyre swel-

tering under record waves o heat and

humidity.

Is climate change afoot, or are these

weather gyrations just isolated events

that are part o the Earths natural cycles,

as climate change deniers assert? In the

interest o ull disclosure: Tese natu-

ral cycles have wiped out lie on earth a

dozen times. O such cycles, the orah

just mentions Te Flood, as i that was the

only time such an event occurred. It also

notes smaller, devastating environmental

events erasing Sodom and Gemorrah,

the Egyptian plagues, swallowing Korach

and Co. But it doesnt oer much guidance

on how we can address man-made envi-

ronmental dangers, or climate changes

other than to tough them out, or migrate

(i.e., the story o Joseph). We have become

renowned or that latter skill over the ages

as Wandering Jews.

But most o the worlds habitable

places are already settled, so migrating to

new, more promising lan

is no longer a viable optio

Everyone is in the same ar

So in addition to the consquences o natural cycles, c

mate change deniers mig

add a little more previous

unmentioned inormation

their claims, to wit:

Human output of green

house gases is demonstrab

overloading earths carbo

cycle, helping glaciers disa

pear rom South Pole to Nor

Pole, and Himalayas to Andes to Kilima

jaro, eliminating runo water or drinkin

and irrigation worldwide;

Changing ocean currents and weath

patterns are aecting growing season

patterns o rainall, drought and migr

tions, and disease vectors; rising ocea

acidity levels are adversely aecting s

lie, and pose threats o hydrogen suld

blooms;

Uncontrolled human population grow

and poor resource management are run

ning the world out o seaood, game bir

and animals, and depleting resh water an

arable land or growing ood.

o hedge their bets, a large group

Congressional climate change-denyin

politicians is working to cut ederal und

ing or the agencies and programs th

measure, report and take action on clima

change. Its simple logic: You cant prov

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money used. JNews will provide more

details about the donor side o the strategy

in a uture edition.

his new grant-based model will

include mechanisms to measure how each

project benets its intended population.

Tese measurements will be based on met-

rics set in part by the agencies that receivethe unding, meaning they will be required

to put more work into their requests than

in the past.

Were really looking or the agencies

to help guide us onthe right measurable

objectives that we can all use and agree

upon to measure the success o the pro-

grams that theyre running, Almo said.

Each project that we und is going to have

its own metrics that we look at and evalu-

ate, and well be asking beore their grants

are renewed to really evaluate them in year

two and beyond.

Projects most likely to be unded are

ones that t into our o what the Federa-

tion is calling impact areas: Helping our

community in need, Experiencing Juda-

ism, birth to grade 12, Building Jewish

community, post grade 12, and Strength-

ening global Jewry. Te Federation will

also maintain an unrestricted und to ll

any unding cracks and to account or

emergencies or other contingencies.

Te most important criteria or und-

ing, Almo said, is does the need get met?

Where possible, agencies that partner with

each other on projects could make the

requests more appealing.

Partnership is a mechanism or success

but isnt necessarily a requirement or suc-

cess, he said.

Where Almo said he has seen some ner-

vousness about this new model is in who

and what these grants are intended for: Its

not just or new and innovative programs,

he said. It may be for programs right now

that are being done in a terric way. We

want to continue to encourage that.

Rusty Federman, board president o

the Stroum Jewish Community Center,

said his board and leadership are standing

behind this initiative.

Our hope is that the community will

embrace this new model and see the value

in driving programmatic excellence in

rating the areas that are the highest priori-

ties or the community, he said.

As the second-largest local recipient ocommunity campaign unds, the SJCC is

holding a wait-and-see attitude with how

the overall unding plays out when alloca-

tions are announced in the spring.

Its real money in our budget, Fed-

erman said. All the agencieshave great

need and were all looking to grow our

bottom line as much as possible.

Tough Federman said it was still pre-

mature to comment on how the new

model will aect his organizations budget,

he doesnt oresee any major changes to

the programmatic model the SJCC has

been building over the past ew years.

Federman and Judy Neuman, the

SJCCs CEO, have met with Fruchter and

Federation board chair Shelley Bensus-

sen to discuss the model, and expect to

have more one-on-one discussions with

the Planning and Allocations committee

to get a better sense o how to most eec-

tively apply or grants.

Tose discussions, Almo said, will not

be exclusive to the larger organizations.

He said the Federation plans to hold ses-sions to provide grant-writing instruction

as well as a letter-o-inquiry process that

will give any agency eedback on whether

a proposed request would be likely to

receive unding.

As a lielong member o Seattles Jewish

community, Wendy Rosen looks orward

to seeing this new model put into action.

Im excited about it. Im energized about

it, she said. I think that they have really

responded to what the donors are interested

in thats philanthropy in 2011.

As executive director o the Seattle

chapter o the American Jewish Commit-

tee, however, Rosen is skeptical. Te AJC

would most accurately t into the Buil

ing Jewish community impact area, b

the international organization ocus

on reaching out to other aith and ethn

groups, and not working as closely with

the Jewish community.

We eel like we are doing invaluab

work for the Jewish people and for Israe

but it doesnt t into the Jewish Federatio

o Greater Seattles criteria, Rosen said.Te AJC has seen shrinking allocation

rom the past several Federation cam

paigns, as has its largest undraiser an

community event, the Seattle Jewish Fil

Festival. Its the festival, however, whe

Rosen sees opportunity.

For some people in Seattle, this is the

only experience in the Jewish communi

the entire year, so I think that denite

builds Jewish identity, Rosen said. Give

the difculty in undraising or the ar

these days, Im hopeful that the Jewis

Film Festival will receive more dolla

than it has in the past.

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also directed) and Baya Kasmi cover the

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Pairing its goring o sacred cows with

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Te Names of Love opens Friday, Aug.

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Every romantic comedy requires a

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especially and cheerully shameless. A but-

toned-down, middle-age, Jewish environ-

mental scientist named Arthur Martin (an

endearing Jacques Gamblin) is conduct-

ing a staid radio interview when a youth-

ul station volunteer inuriated by his

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avian u bursts into the studio to ream

him out.Tis incident impels Arthur to directly

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and killed in the Holocaust, although hes

never been told the story.

In fact, the subject was taboo in the

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Another turn o the dial and there, thank-

ully, is an innocuous quiz show.

Except, however, a contestant is giving

a Holocaust-related answer. Holocaust

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Inevitably, Arthur and his amboy-

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Youth Theatre Northwests 28th season

will feature the beloved Andrew Lloyd

Weber biblio-musical about Josephs

life. The cast is comprised of 30 local

teens and the production is headed upby director Kate Swenson and musical

director Julie Ann Parsons.

At Youth Theatre Northwest, 8805 SE

40th St., Mercer Island. Weekend per-

formances begin at 7 p.m., and Sunday

and weekday matinee performances star t at 2 p.m. Tickets run $13$17 and

are available through the box of fice at 206-232-4145, ext. 109. For more

information visit youththeatre.org or call 206-232-4145.

through augu 21

th tln show

ar inllon

If weird, lonely and vaguely depressing is your kind of thing that is, if youre

into modern art then try to make it to the Henry Art Gallery for The Talent

Show, a reality-TV inspired exhibition of video and photography exploring

public and private space on film and the relationships between artists and

their audiences. One particular segment features 16 simultaneous two-hour

videos, The Intra-Venus Tapes, which depict feminist (and Jewish) artist Han-

nah Wilkes final years as she succumbs to cancer.

Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday and Friday 11

a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave. NE, Seattle. For more

information call 206-543-2280 or visit www.henryart.org.

arts

augu 9 7 .m.

The Food Lovers Guide to Seattle

auhor vn

Keren Brown, of Frantic Foodie

blog fame and author of the newly

released The Food Lovers Guide

to Seattle: Best Local Specialties,

Markets, Recipes, Restaurants and

Events, will speak about her newhungry user-friendly book. Brown is

a self-made foodportunist: After

learning to cook and falling in love

with the art, the 32-year-old mother

started writing and hosting food-

portunity foodie networking events

and was recently named Doer of the

Week by MarthaStewart.com. The

book, apparently, is a must for every Seattle foodie.

At the University Book Store, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle. For more

information call 1-800-335-READ.

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Hands on learning

generates enthusiasm

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Creative arts and

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or disprove a claim i theres no evidence.

Its also ironic: Science works if it agrees

with ones ideology (natural cycles), but

not i it doesnt (climate change).

We humans have survived climate

changes beore. We seem to have irst

appeared, as homo ergaster, about 2.3 mil-

lion years ago, during a hiatus in our current

ice age, the Pliocene-Quaternary glaciation,

which started about 2.58 million years ago.

Since then, world ice sheets have advanced

and retreated on roughly 40,000- and

100,000-year time cycles. But another ull

disclosure note to climate change deniers

there were 7,500 percent ewer people, more

ood per capita, and no global, human-

made environmental threats back then. Te

explosions o our population, ood supplies,

inventions, and global pollution threats

have all occurred in just the past 10,000

years, during the environmentally benign

period since the last glacial retreat.

oday, were learning to survive in

new normal Earth climates, with new

patterns o heat and cold, rainall and

drought, etc. And we Jews, who are argu-

ably historys people o the greatest

impact, now have a golden opportunity to

become the worlds people o greatest sus-

tainable impact. As the Manhattan-based

Beavan amily discovered in their docu-

mentary, No Impact Man, the simple act o

living creates impacts on the earth. In fact,

humans and their planet are resilient and

designed or this; appropriate, sustainable

impacts create mutual, positive eects. On

the other hand, neither we, nor our planet

are resilient against traumatic and cata-

strophic injury, carcinogenic and muta-

genic poisoning, acidic waters and soils,

and low-oxygen atmospheres. With the

exception o natural disasters, everything

on the list above is caused by humans

wars, pollution, oil rig and nuclear plant

accidents. And theyre all avoidable.

Its irrelevant whether or not climate

change is afoot. If climate change denie

assert that humans will survive in mo

natural conditions, I can agree. Histo

shows were an utterly adaptable, innov

tive species. And o all peoples on eart

we Jews have been among the best o su

vivors, because weve been so good

making things up as we go along. o gi

ourselves the ghting chance we nee

however, we must create the healthie

possible circumstances or ourselves. An

that means eliminating the pollutant

dangerous processes and man-made cata

trophes that make us less resilient and ab

to ace what the uture will bring.

JeWISH ON eARTHW PAGe 8

WASHINGTON (JTA) A Wash-

ington state appellate court ruled against

an animal protection groups bid to strike

down as unconstitutional a law protecting

religious slaughter.

Te three-judge panel o the Wash-ington Court o Appeals on July 25 was

unanimous in rejecting the suit brought by

Pasados Sae Haven.

Te state law denes as humane stun-

ning an animal beore slaughter, which is

the conventional means o slaughter, and

severing the carotid artery, which it says

is in accordance with the ritual require-

ments o [a] religious aith. Te lattermethod is used in Jewish and Muslim

ritual slaughter.

Pasados said the law was unconsti-

tutional in part because it avored reli-

gious ritual over other methods. Te court

rejected the claim, saying that invalidat-

ing part o an act while upholding another

would usurp the state legislature.

he Orthodox Union, an umbrellabody or synagogues and a kosher certier,

praised the ruling.

Kosher slaughter has been targeted by

various ringe activists, but it is a necessa

component o our communitys religio

lie, it said in a statement. We apprec

ate that elected ofcials, such as those

the Washington legislature, recognize th

humane nature oshechita, and ensure iprotection and thereby the ourishing

Orthodox Jewish lie.

Washington stat cort pholds koshr slaghtr law

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Home owners club Northwest Gelte Fish:A Family Afair

Tuesday, August 16 11am1pm

Dorothy Becker andher amily make their fsh

together. They have it down to a science.

Did you never have the opportunity to learn how to make gelte sh? Dorothy

and her daughter Arlene Azose are experts. Come and learn. Step by step. From

the rst step when Dorothy brings up her large pot and the scar that protects

her hair rom the shy smell, to the taste o the sot, favorul sh ball that is

made with salmon rom northwest waters. Youll go home with a packet o sh

recipes gelte, sweet and sour, pickled and a layered sh terrine.

Space is limited.

Call Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at

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tickets or reserve your spot.

at Congregation Beth Shalom6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle 98115

Co-sponsored by Congregation Beth Shalom

$8 members of WSJHS and Beth Shalom $10 nonmembers

Cae lh tes

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Irit Eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org

or 206-524-0075, ext. 2503 or

bethshalomseattle.org

Children ages 0-3 (and their parents) are invited to

a un Shabbat morning tot-riendly service! Service

meets on the rst Shabbat o the month. Free. At

Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE,

Seattle.

sunDaY7 august7 p..9 p.. yzkee, reee

he! thee Weeks ves

Rabbi Avrohom David at ino@seattlekollel.org

or 206-722-8289 or www.seattlekollel.org

It is critical to hear the stories and memories o the

last survivors o the Holocaust, vividly connect with

their individual experiences, and transmit their legacy

to uture generations. View this video presenting two

great heroes: Rav Michael Ber Weissmandl o Nitra

and Rav Shlomo Schoneld o the Kindertransport.

Free. At The Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave S,

Seattle.

MonDaY8 august9:30 a..12:30 p.. SEEd Pjec bs

Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at

rabbibresler@seattlekollel.org or

206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org

Torah learning or boys grades 2 and up. Tuesdays

and Thursdays extended hours 12:30-2 or baseball

at the park. Registration orms required. $25/week.

At 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle. Runs throughout the

week.

7:3010 p.. Chausa lea me

a bs

Rabbi Yehuda Bresler at

rabbibresler@seattlekollel.org or

206-331-8767 or seattlekollel.org

Join the Seattle Kollel or beit midrash chavrusa-

style learning with SEED students rom Ner Israel in

Baltimore. Call Rabbi Bresler to set up a chavrusa.

No charge. At 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle. Runs

throughout the week.8:45 p.. Ee tsha bA

Carol Benedick at

carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or

206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.org

Congregation Beth Shalom will read the book o

Aicha, Lamentations, by candlelight sitting on the

foor o the sanctuary. Free. At Congregation Beth

Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

tuesDaY9 august2:45 p..7:30 p.. tsha bA ves

Rabbi David Fredman at ino@seattlekollel.org

or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.org

Mending Relationships, Rebuilding the World lm

screenings. Video A screens at 2:45 at Bikur Cholim

Machizikay Hadath. Video B screens at 6:30 at

Sephardic Bikur Holim. Suggested donation o $15/

adults and $10/students. At 5145 S Morgan St. and

6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

WeDnesDaY10 august11 a..12 p.. the PJ la S e

a mck bks

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at

amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or

www.acebook.com/pjlibraryseattle

Join the PJ Library or music, storytelling and le arning

Hebrew through ASL with Betsy Dischel rom Musikal

Magik, a certied Signing Time academy. Free. At

7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle.

35 p.. SECC ope Huse

Leyna Lavinthal at

llavinthal@templebnaitorah.org or

425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.org

Temple Bnai Torah Solomike Early Childhood Center

open house. Learn about parent/baby/toddler/pre-

school classes, meet the teachers and learn about the

curriculum. enjoy crats, games, garden play, a song

session with Chava Mirel, snacks and more. Free. At

Temple Bnai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.6:308 p.. Suppe a Su me

Rabbi David Fredman at

rabbiredman@gmail.com or 206-251-4063 or

seattlekollel.org

A sup(p)er learning opportunity. Enjoy a succulent

supper and then take some time to study with the

SEED guys. Supper rom about 6:30-7:15, study

7:15-8 and short service. No charge, donations

grateully accepted. Call or location.

7 p..9 p.. Wes nh ou rsh

Chesh A

Mrs. Giti Fredman at

gitiredman@seattlekollel.org or

206-852-6418 or seattlekollel.org

The Hebrew month o Av marks a dark period in

Jewish history. Both the rst and second temples

were destroyed in this month as well as a number

o other major calamities. Come hear Rabbi Daniel

Lapin speak on the topic o why bad things happen

to good people. Free. Call or location.

thursDaY11 august8 p..10 p.. Wa, Wha s g F?

Rabbi Avrohom David at

ino@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or

seattlekollel.org

Cholent shiur and book signing: War, What is it

Good For? A Practical Application o the Middah o

Netzach From Moshe Our Teacher. Based on the

new bookThe Seven Waysby Ian Bailey. Followed by

maarivservice. No charge, donations accepted. At

the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave S, Seattle.

friDaY12 august10:30 a..12 p.. PJ la S a

Se a he Seae Jewsh Cu

Sch

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at

amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or

www.acebook.com/pjlibraryseattle

Music, singing and storytelling with the PJ Libra

and Je Stombaugh. Come or the songs and sto

and stay or activities and playgroup un. Free. SJCS, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.

56:30 p.. Fa Hauah Shaa

Matt Korch at MattK@sjcc.org or

206-388-0830 or bit.ly/oyLzdb

Take a break and enjoy Shabbat with riends. Ha

dinner, sing songs, hear a Shabbat story. Light t

candles and enjoy some resh challah. Open to t

entire community. $5-$10. At the Stroum Jewi

Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Merc

Island.

7:30 p..9 p.. nsha Shaa

Shellie Oakley at ino@betale.org or

206-577-2391 or

www.betale.org/shabbat.html#nishmat

Bet Ale teachers share their passion or meditatio

mystical chant and the deeper transormatio

messages o Jewish tradition. $10 donation.

Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606 5

Ave. W, Seattle.

7 p.. Shaa wh ra See vae

Robin Kroll at robinkrollmd@gmail.com or

206-276-8346 or on.b.me/nbx3i9

The celebration with Rabbi Steve begins w

Kabbalat Shabbat meditations/celebrations. Plan

arrive early. An onegpotluck will ollow (please bri

a vegan/vegetarian snack to share). Donation

denominations o $18. Email or call or North Seat

address.

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Russ Katz, RealtorWindermere Real Estate/Wall St. Inc.206-284-7327 (Direct)www.russellkatz.com

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Robin Kroll at robinkrollmd@gmail.com or

206-276-8346 or on.b.me/nbx3i9

Shabbat Torah study/meditation/brunch. Begins with

energy work and meditation, then nosh and drash,

ollowed by Spring Forest Qigong class. Please

bring vegetarian/sh dishes to share. Donation in

denominations o $18. Email or call or North Seattleaddress.

bCmH Shaa wh Scha--resece

Sha taa

Julie Greene, julie@bcmhseattle.org or

206-721-0970

Mrs. Shani Taragin will speak at a BCMH luncheon

ater Shabbat services in the social hall, and at the

home o Leah Almo at 6 p.m. The aternoon talk

is or women only. Call the ront oce with a credit

card number or send a check. Adults $18/children

411 $10/children under 3 ree. Please be specic

with number o reservations. Ater August 8 prices

increase $2. At Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath,

6070 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

sunDaY14 august5 p.. A tase Eeace he Cu-

a: Cee Che Fuase

Ellen Naor at ejnaor@comcast.net or

206-523-9846 or templebetham.org

Gourmet dinner with well-known ches demonstrating

their art, preceded by wine tasting, appetizers, and

a silent auction, all to benet Temple Beth Ams

Homeless to Renter (H2R) program. $100 per

person. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St.,

Seattle.

4 p.. be Ae Cu Pcc

Shellie Oakley at ino@betale.org

or 206-527-9399 or

www.betale.org/programs.html#picnic

Join Bet Ale or ood, games, and good times at the

Bet Ale annual picnic. An excellent way to connect

with Bet Ale members, meet new riends, and enjoy

the last days o summer. Open to members and non-

members. Free. At 5902 Lake Washington Blvd. S,

Seattle.

tuesDaY16 august11 a..1 p.. nhwes gefe Fsh: A

Fa Aa

Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at

assistant@wsjhs.org or 206-774-2277Dorothy Becker and her amily make sh together.

They have it down to a science. Come and learn rom

the rst step when Dorothy brings up her large pot

and the scar that protects her hair rom the shy

smell, to the taste o the sot, favorul sh ball that is

made with salmon rom Northwest waters. Recipes

to take home. Space limited; registration necessary.

At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE,

Seattle.

friDaY19august7:30 p..9:30 p.. i be Aes

meae Shaa

Shellie Oakley at ino@betale.org or

206-527-9399 or www.betale.org/shabbat.html

I you are curious about what a meditative service

is like, but have not yet experienced it rs t-hand, then

the Intro to Bet Ales Medit ative Shabbat is or you! I

you are a regular, this is a great night to bring others

or a rst or second taste. At Unity o Bellevue,

16330 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

sunDaY21 august10 a..12 p.. SJCS Sue Pa dae

Deb Frockt at drockt@seattlejcs.org or

206-522-5212

2011 summer un or preschoolers and kinder-

garteners has a summer ull o ree, drop-in activities

that are perect or young children and their parents

or caregivers. Come by or a play date. Free. At

Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 8th Ave.

NE, Seattle.

As or her Seattle bona

des, Sid wrote me that she is

descended rom suitably illus-

trious lines o Seattle amilies,

including Maimons, Schar-

hons, Azoses, Adattos and on

the paternal side, Benders,

Kosins, Abrams. Fitting or anEnglish mayor, yes?

2I never had such an

interesting proessional

development, says

Jewish Day School teacher Margaret

Chasen o the nine days she spent on Cen-

tropas Summer Academy Holocaust edu-

cation European workshop.

Centropa (Central Europe Center

or Research and Documentation) is a

Vienna- and Budapest-based non-prot

NGO that uses advanced technologies to

preserve Jewish memory in Central and

Eastern Europe, the ormer Soviet Union,

the Balkans and the Baltics. Teir inter-

views, photos, amily trees and lms are

available to all on the Internet and through

social media like Facebook.

Margaret rst heard o Centropa when

she received a last-minute invitation to

attend their winter seminar in Los Ange-

les, along with her colleague Nance Adler.

I went toVienna, Sarajevo and

Krakow, with a group o about 75 teachers

from the U.S., Europe and Israel, Margaret

says. Most o the European teachers were

not Jewish and Margaret saw rsthand the

need or Holocaust education in countries

like Hungary, which are only beginning to

publicly explore their Jewish history. Mar-

garet noted a museum she visited in Buda-

pest dealt with World War II but made no

mention o the Holocaust.

Centropas work dovetai

nicely with what Margaret

already doing in her classroom

JDS is a technically sophi

ticated school and I am luck

enough to teach in a wire

classroom where all my stu

dents have school-issued la

tops, she explained.

Her students have alreaddone survivor interviews an

made lms, but shes red u

to do more. Centropa volun

teers conduct audio interview

with Holocaust survivors in

number o countries. Te transcripts a

posted on their site and accompanied b

amily photos and amily trees. At www

centropa.org you can search the databa

by country, surname or city.

Margaret calls the workshop exper

ence incredibly rich. eachers learne

rom each other and the group heard ro

speakers rom Polish, Austrian, Germa

Israeli and Bosnian embassies, as well

rom survivors and rescuers. Tey eve

heard rom the person who kept the Sar

jevo Hagaddah sae.

Every day was amazing and jam

packed, she says.

In Krakow, Margaret was particular

moved by ground-breaking work bein

done in that countr