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11th Annual Community of Caring Luncheon

Tuesday • April 30, 201311:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Seattle Sheraton Hotel Downtown, 6th & Pike

Event Chairs: Lela & Harley FrancoTo register, become a Table Captain or for sponsor information, please contact

Leslie Sugiura: (206) 861-3151, Lsugiura@jfsseattle.org or

visit www.jfsseattle.org

For complete details about these and other upcoming JFS events and workshops, please visit our website: www.jfsseattle.org

February Family Calendar

For the community

AA Meetings at JFSm tuesdays: 7:00 p.m. Contact (206) 461-3240 or ata@jfsseattle.org

Kosher Food Bank EventPre-registration requiredm Wednesday: February 6

5:00 – 6:30 p.m.Pre-register Jana Prothman, (206) 861-3174 or jprothman@jfsseattle.org

South King County Caregiver Classm tuesdays: February 12 – march 19

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.Contact Don Armstrong, (206) 861-3170 or darmstrong@jfsseattle.org

A Teamwork Approach to Caring for Your Aging Parentsm tuesday: February 19

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.Contact Leonid Orlov, (206) 861-8784 or familylife@jfsseattle.org

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Honoring a diverse Jewish communityRabbi beth SingeR Temple Beth Am

The Pacific Northwest was greatly honored this past month by a visit from the new president of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Rich-ard Jacobs. Rabbi Jacobs has quickly distinguished himself as a powerful visionary in an evolving contemporary Juda-ism, a leader who seeks to enable 1.5 million American Jews to practice liberal Juda-ism seriously, and as an ardent Zionist who practices what he preaches: “Am Yis-rael chai!” — “The people of Israel lives!”

Back when I was a newly minted rabbi, Rabbi Jacobs was one of my first bosses. I am the better for having learned with him as he transformed a synagogue in New York into a vibrant, serious home of Jewish lifelong learning and practice for over 1,000 Jewish families.

One reason we brought Rabbi Jacobs to our congregation on a Sunday morning was because the Reform movement is con-cerned with the national issue of the “dis-appearance” of Jewish kids after Bar and Bat Mitzvah. We wanted him to see the large, vibrant Jewish youth culture that prevails at Beth Am with over 100 post-Bar/Bat Mitzvah teens electing to serve as teen educational leaders each Sunday morning in our religious school “mad-richim” program.

At Beth Am, a teen may only enter the madrichim program if he or she is enrolled in our religious education program. Each year, in spite of our best efforts, a certain number of students do exit our program at some point in the year after Bat or Bar Mitzvah, and each departure is person-ally upsetting. At the same time, though, we have grown a powerful all-ages com-munity, and we know that large numbers of our students graduate 12th grade with a strong Jewish identity based on a com-bination of their Jewish home experience and their religious communal experience at Beth Am, Jewish summer camp, and our regular Israel trips.

So, that’s what I wanted Rabbi Jacobs to see on a Sunday morning in January. At 9:15, we planted him at the front entrance to our building, and over the course of the next 20 minutes he shook hands with an extraordinary number of teens stream-ing through our building. As I tried to

personally introduce him to as many teens as possible, I started to notice their great diversity. Some of these stu-dents come from interfaith homes where both parents have made a commitment to raise exclusively Jewish chil-dren. A number of the stu-dents are biracial. Even more were adopted at birth from other countries, particularly

from Asia and Africa. A couple of stu-dents are uncertain whether they are male or female. A few of them already know they are gay. Some of our teens have learn-ing disabilities or emotional disabilities or are somehow different than a stereotypi-cal Jewish kid. Standing by Rabbi Jacobs as each student smiled and shook his hand I was overwhelmed by a diversity I had not noticed before.

During his community address, Rabbi Jacobs relayed a true personal story in which he found himself in a crowd rush-ing down a street in Manhattan. On either side of him were strangers, each of a differ-ent skin color. A man on the street holding tefillin looked at all three and asked Rabbi Jacobs, “Are you a Jew?” The moral of the story: As we worry about shrinking num-bers of Jews worldwide, let us not over-look those Jews who do not look exactly the same as our old notions.

Let us all reflect on the diversity of the many faces of Jews in our time. There was once a stereotype of a white person of European descent with pale white skin and dark, curly hair. Now, that is simply one of so many looks that a Jewish person might have. Many of us will still look at a person of color in our shul reciting the prayers and wonder, “Is that person really Jewish?”

For the sake of a healthy Jewish future, it is vital we recognize that Jews come in all colors, nationalities, abilities, disabili-ties, sexual orientations and backgrounds.

Rabbi Jacobs spoke to the Jewish com-munity about the importance of welcom-ing all who bring strength to the Jewish people. I am proud of our efforts here in the Pacific Northwest to empower all vari-eties of Jews to grow as Jews. Watching the larger Jewish community move in the direction of welcoming Jews of all differ-ent backgrounds can fill us all with great hope for the future of American Judaism.

Remembering those who had courage to careabRaham h. Foxman Special to JTNews

It is fitting that the United Nations, as part of the international commemoration of the Holocaust on January 27, is paying tribute this year not only to the millions of innocents who died in the Nazi gas cham-bers, but also to those who made extraor-dinary sacrifices to hide and protect tens of thousands of Jews and others from cer-tain death at the hands of Hitler’s geno-cidal pogrom.

I’m speaking, of course, of the rescu-ers — those individuals who made a cal-culated decision to shelter Jews and others wanted by the Nazis for no crime other than being the members of a deeply hated minority.

The rescuers’ heroic deeds are often forgotten amid the greater tragedy of the Shoah.

Fourteen years ago, a group of students in rural Whitwell, Tennessee, embarked on a remarkable classroom project in an effort to come to grips with the sheer enor-mity of the Holocaust. They did so by col-lecting paper clips.

Over a period of many months, the stu-dents collected 6 million paper clips, one for each of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It was a monumental undertaking, requiring hours of unfor-giving tedium as the paper clips were col-lected and counted. But at the end of the day the students succeeded and filled the greater part of a rail car with paperclips.

I wish there could be a similar effort to raise awareness about the rescuers, those courageous individuals who went out of their way to save and protect Jewish lives.

Aside from Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” which in 1993 so greatly elevated public awareness of one res-cuer in particular, the stories of the righ-teous gentiles who stepped up to make a profound, life-altering choice have been largely forgotten to history.

Perhaps what is most remarkable about the rescuers is that their varied ethnicities and religious backgrounds challenge our preconceived notions about who might risk his or her own life for the sake of Jews.

Apart from their willingness to help others, they do not seem to have much in common. They crossed gender, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic lines. They were Catholic, Orthodox Christian, evangelical, Baptist, Lutheran, and also Muslim. They were farmers, doctors, dip-lomats, peasants, and kings. They were simple people of faith.

My very existence stands as testi-mony to those who had the courage to care. When I was a child in Nazi-occu-pied Poland, I was taken in by a Polish

Catholic woman who had been my nanny. She saved me by hiding my true identity from the Nazis. She provided food, shel-ter and a safe haven and raised me for four years until the war was over and my par-ents returned to claim me. She even had me baptized. And yet, while I’m eternally grateful for her sacrifice, it is still hard for me to understand why she went to such great lengths to keep me hidden. What was it that gave this poor, illiterate and uneducated woman the moral courage to save a life?

Others went to even more extraordi-nary lengths to protect their Jewish neigh-bors and friends. Consider the almost unfathomable story of Khaled Abdelwah-hab, recently unearthed by the historian and writer Robert Satloff.

In 1942, the Germans arrived in Mahdia, a town on the eastern shore of Tunisia, where Mr. Abdelwahhab lived with his family. In the town, the Ger-mans set up a house where they would capture Jewish girls and sexually violate them. Two local Jewish girls, unable to deal with the trauma of their experience at the house, committed suicide, and news of their fate spread like wildfire through the terrified town.

Abdelwahhab found out about it and did what he could to protect young girls by distracting the Germans with liquor and other pursuits. Later, after learning that a Jewish family was hiding in an olive oil factory, he warned them that they were in grave danger and gathered the family and all of their relatives and moved them to his family’s farm 20 miles to the west. He arranged for food and shelter, and every day, for over four months, he vis-ited them, provided for them and made them feel safe.

Abdelwahhab risked his life for the sake of others in the face of humanity’s greatest evil. Here is a story we don’t hear every day — an Arab saving Jews.

Another lesser-known story is that of Dr. Feng Shan Ho, a Chinese diplomat who issued thousands of visas to Jewish refugees during World War II. Dr. Ho was among the first of a small number of diplomatic rescuers who took extraordi-nary measures and personal risk to do the right thing.

Ho served as the Chinese Consul Gen-eral in Vienna from 1938 through 1940. Despite being ordered by his supervisors to cease his activities, he nonetheless facil-itated the safe departure of thousands of Jews in 1938 and 1939 by issuing visas to

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the Chinese port city of Shanghai.One would think that years later Ho

would be deemed a national hero for his actions. On the contrary, Dr. Ho became the victim of a campaign by Chinese nationalists in Taiwan to discredit him, and he was eventually impeached and denied a pension for his 40 years of dip-lomatic service. He died before the world could fully acknowledge all that he had done.

In November, the Anti-Defamation League posthumously honored Dr. Ho with the ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, and we have likewise honored Abdelwahhab for his remarkable actions.

The rescuers paved the way for us to understand how humanity can play a role, as it did to a sadly limited extent during the Holocaust, to take action and to pre-vent acts of hatred and genocide from hap-pening again.

Abraham Foxman is the national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

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AIPAC’s community dinner will feature guest speaker Saul Singer, co-author of “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle.” The book led to Netanyahu’s procla-mation, “We are the startup nation!” and is being translated into 21 languages. Singer is a former editorial page editor and columnist at the Jerusalem Post and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and other publications. A kosher dinner will be served. $36. Register online at aipac.secure.force.com/event/EV131134. For more information visit the site, or call 206-624-5152.

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Camp Solomon Schechter to open Teva Learning Center

Camp Solomon Schechter has to announced the opening of the Teva Learning Center this summer. Teva will provide an organic agricultural curriculum for the camp’s approx-imate 550 participants, with an environmental educator and a 2,000-square-foot garden containing the Torah’s seven species. “The Teva Learning Center is an incredible opportu-nity for our campers to, literally, get their hands dirty and discover where our food comes from and how our actions directly affect the balance of nature,” said the camp’s executive director, Sam Perlin. The program is funded in part by the Special Initiatives Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

For more information, visit www.campschechter.org.

lEttErS to tHE EdItorNot the oNly tragedy

I pick up JTNews at Einstein’s Bagel shop on Queen Anne Blvd. and enjoy the editorials.Regarding Rabbi Jaron Matlow’s editorial (Rabbi’s Turn, “Gun violence in our country,”

January 11, 2013). I certainly agree with the rabbi’s thesis that “guns are the tool but not the source of the violence”; I would add one more item to his causation analysis (along-side the glorification of gun violence in the media and a morally bankrupt country). Rabbi Matlow indicates that the “Torah tells us we were created ‘b’tzelem Elohim,’ in God’s image.” I would submit that we “are” created “b’tzelem Elohim” and that we have erased millions of images (children) of God’s genius by the tragedy that is birth control via abortion. For when is “b’tzelem Elohim” adhered to the creation in the womb? The callousness of our hearts has solidified to the point that we glorify death in our culture.

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A kluger farshteyt fun eyn vort tsvey. A wise man hears one word, and understands two.

From the Jewish Transcript, January 24, 1997.The last piece of the puzzle that allowed Temple B’nai Torah to begin

construction on its building in Bellevue was the sale of its old building, which had been on the market for nearly two years. Radio host Michael Medved, who was part of a Jewish organization then known as Toward Tradition, purchased the building, which enabled B’nai Torah to remain on-site and Toward Tradition to begin holding its own classes.

Mixing the grandparents and the kids 7In the aftermath of the spectacular economic crash in Argentina more than a decade ago, one woman came up with the novel idea of placing a daycare inside a Jewish senior center. She visited Seattle recently to tell her story.

The rabbi listens 8Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the recently installed president of the Union for Reform Judaism, visited temples and organizations throughout the Puget Sound to watch and listen to how this community practices its Judaism.

Israel’s election returns 11It looks as if Bibi Netanyahu has secured his place as prime minister once again, but his coalition will be much more fragile than pundits expected. A look at the new landscape in Israeli politics.

Music for the Jewish soul 14Sababa’s band members live in three different cities, but they travel together to play their Jewish folk tunes and original numbers. They will be in Seattle this weekend to debut their newest album.

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A café of community heroes 16The owners of the kosher Island Crust Café were surprised to find themselves honored by the Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce as business of the year.

Teens in limousines 17Teenagers from five different youth groups came together on Saturday night to do a scavenger hunt around the city — by limo.

The results are in 21You came, you voted, they won. And now we have the results for our annual Best of Everything readers’ choice awards.

Reviving forgotten history 28You may not know the name Rosalind Franklin, but geneticists certainly do. Her work in the discovery of DNA was just as crucial as that of her colleagues Watson and Crick. Only now is her story being told — on the stage.

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From generation to generation, argentina’s Jews help their needyemily K. alhadeFF Associate editor, JTNews

Imagine: Tomorrow the economy col-lapses. The ATMs are empty, your sav-ings are gone, and you’re out of work. The hospitals run out of medicine. Fifteen presidents take over the country over the course of five days.

This is exactly what happened in Argentina during its economic crisis in 2001.

“From one day to another, my hus-band has no more income,” said Viviana Bendersky. Bendersky’s husband worked in construction, but building in Argentina ceased altogether for six months.

“The Argentine money we had was impossible to be touched,” she said. “Bankrupt in Argentina is bankrupt, and gone is gone.”

Bendersky is the director of Baby Help and Voluntarios en Red, two social wel-fare organizations with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. She visited Seattle last week to meet with a small group of supporters at the home of Bill and Toby Donner, and with Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum of Herzl-Ner Tamid Conser-vative Congregation, who has a relation-ship with the JDC and the Buenos Aires synagogue Adat Israel.

The JDC began assisting European ref-ugees in Argentina in the 1940s. Before 2001, JDC social welfare programs ser-viced 4,000 clients. With the collapse of the economy, and with it the middle class, that number rose to 40,000.

“That was the start of JDC’s rapidly ramped-up engagement in Argentina…to deal with the collapse of the middle class,”

said Michael Novick, the JDC’s executive director of strategic engagement.

After the collapse, “we realized that kids were not receiving their milk, no vaccinations, no medicine, so really our future was at risk,” said Bendersky. In 2003, Baby Help was established to pro-vide food, medicine, and other necessi-ties to children under 5 whose families fell below the poverty line. It also offered sup-port to pregnant women, many of whom became single mothers as the financial downturn led to family breakdown. Free daycare allowed parents to return to work.

While the country has largely recov-ered, even a decade later “there are still poor families that can’t cover their basic needs,” said Bendersky. In 2012 alone, milk saw 100 percent inflation. The price of chicken rose 45 percent, and subway tickets close to 200 percent.

“The incomes of the jobs were nowhere near on a relative basis,” said Novick, and even families above the poverty line have trouble making ends meet.

Today, Baby Help serves around 600 vulnerable children, and offers services such as counseling and nutrition educa-tion to parents.

Most notable is Baby Help’s current daycare location, inside the LeDor VaDor senior citizens’ home in Buenos Aires.

“We’re not aware of any other nursing home in the world that has a wing dedi-cated to children ages 0 to 5,” said Novick. “You have to imagine the Kline Galland…the opportunities just from the point of view of lifting spirits and engagement of the elderly is just huge.”

Bendersky describes the children’s funny, natural interactions with their adoptive grandparents. “[One child] came and told me, ‘You know Matilda’s teeth are not hers? The dentist gave to her!’” she said. “I saw elders with Alzheimer’s that have contact with no one…[but] with the kids they connect.”

The children and elderly celebrate Jewish holidays together, including a weekly Kabbalat Shabbat that sees 200 children and family members, in addition to the elders.

Argentina’s Jewish community of approximately 225,000 has a high rate of affiliation with synagogues and Jewish Community Centers. (Novick explained that due to the Catholic nature of the coun-try, the Jewish community did not assimi-late the same way as in North America, but instead built its own institutions.) There are four JCCs in Buenos Aires, and 50-60 percent of kids attend Jewish schools. Syn-agogue Kabbalat Shabbat services may see 500-700 attendees every week.

Bendersky is proud of her babies. “My kids know the blessings from Shabbat and from the festivities better than any kid from the most expensive schools in Buenos Aires.”

While Baby Care is expensive to main-tain, Bendersky said she is committed to providing the best services possible.

“I want good services for poor people,” she said. “Otherwise they will always know the same quality of facilities or places that they live.”

Bendersky shared the story of Luzmila, who a state social worker found with her mother, Romina, in a run-down boarding house in a dangerous neighborhood, when Luzmila was just two months old.

Romina had a troubled life and was homeless before becoming pregnant. The social worker set them up with the JDC, and Luzmila was accepted into Baby Care, where she receives food, clothes, a stroller and a cradle, as well as daycare. Furthermore, Romina discovered that her

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Keep Your Tent Open on All Sidesby Andrew Marc Greene

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

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The Midrash teaches that Abraham’s tent was open on all four sides, so he could see travelers approaching from all directions and show them hospitality. Similarly, the tent in the middle of this puzzle is open on all four sides, ready to welcome four visitors described, in some order, thusly: imagined a great number with reservations not planned. It is up to you to identify them and where they can be hosted.

ACROSS1 Native to Bangkok5 Native to Bangkok10 Result of freshness?14 They make baskets in Phoenix15 Where the buffalo roam16 City whose tower stopped moving in 200817 Choir member18 Take hold of19 “I agree!”20 Unjustly convict22 It may protect you in an Avalanche24 Wolf’s home25 Knightly trait27 Everything ___30 Month, in Mexico31 Wanderer35 High card in a royal flush36 Staves off39 Sot40 See the bold instructions43 Any of the last four winners of the Scripps

National Spelling Bee44 Winners45 Make faces for the camera46 Look of disdain48 Hellenic H49 Light on one’s feet51 Opera composer whom Victor Borge referred

to as “Joe Green”53 Sense of self54 Wreck-It Ralph setting57 ___ blinds62 Ultimate cause63 Tylenol competitor65 Fifth month, in Mexico66 Where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded67 Back tooth68 Like some cheeses69 First word in many letters70 Refuse71 Proper amount of medication

DOWN1 Russian ruler2 Dance accompanied by ukulele music3 Opposed to4 Tristan’s love5 Element under neon on the periodic table6 “Nobody doesn’t like ___ Lee”7 See the bold instructions8 Eric Holder, Janet Reno, et al.9 Country featuring the highest point on Earth10 Common songbirds11 An arm or a leg12 Out yachting13 Unit of regret?21 Take it easy23 Electrically imbalanced atom26 Reason to use Albuterol27 Hair that may get in your eyes28 Flip ___ (let fate decide)29 Noir or sci-fi, for example30 Dovetailed32 Dolphins’ home33 Undo, as a marriage34 Get out of the way of37 Crown ___38 Soak (up)41 Skyscraper necessity42 Dictionary topic47 See 50-Down50 Saw 47-Down52 Weyerhauser purchases53 First month, in Mexico54 Second Yankee to join the 600 HR club55 Stood56 Pepsi flavor58 Actress ___ Rachel Wood59 Othello’s nemesis60 Votes in favor61 Connection point on a network64 Mauna ___

Will synagogues still matter? ask the people who aren’t joiningJoel magalnicK editor, JTNews

Have synagogues been doing member-ship backwards?

“Many of our synagogues start with membership. Someone calls and right away they’re diving into, ‘Do you want to join?’” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, who was installed last June as the new president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the body that oversees Reform congregations across North America. “This idea that member-ship is our desperate need is the wrong frame. Doing meaningful Jewish teach-ing, observances, social justice, things that really define who we are, [people] should meet us and say, ‘I resonate with what this institution is doing. I would like to be asso-ciated with them.’”

Jacobs spent Jan. 10–12 meeting with Reform congregations and communal groups throughout the Seattle area. His visit came about in large part due to the efforts of a former colleague, Rabbi Beth Singer of Temple Beth Am, who served with Jacobs in the 1990s in New York.

“For me, Rabbi Jacobs’s visit to Beth Am was a double win,” Singer told JTNews. “He had the opportunity to see results of the intensive creative effort Beth Am has put into welcoming diverse Jewish individuals and families to a Jewish community that matters, and we had the opportunity to learn directly from the leader of our national movement about the direction Reform Judaism is headed.”

As Jacobs sees it, the direction Reform Judaism is headed is very much up to people who choose to engage. People may be eschewing denomination, he said, but they aren’t eschewing spirituality — they just aren’t fulfilling their needs inside the walls of a synagogue or church.

“People are hungry for meaning. They’re hungry for real community. Not fake community, not presumed commu-nity, but real community,” he said. “People are hungry to matter….Modern culture, in particular modern North American cul-ture, is not nourishing us in the deep way that many of us hunger for.”

Part of the alienation “comes from people being disgusted by organized reli-gion being so focused on money and power…values that they don’t resonate with,” Jacobs said.

He pointed to one group he feels is doing outreach right: “A lot of people talk about Chabad,” he said. “I have very warm feelings for what they try to do. They understand that relationships precede memberships.”

Or, in essence, putting the horse before the cart to engage people before asking them to become a part of a community, he said.

“Dramatic, transformative things can and must happen in synagogues if we’re going to matter in the next generation,” Jacobs said. “The majority of Jews right now live outside the walls of synagogues.

So if we only bother and focus and nourish those inside the walls, you’re kind of leav-ing out most of the Jewish people.”

Reaching outside of those walls is an important initiative Jacobs and his cohort have laid out in the past year and a half. At the same time, strengthening struggling congregations within the movement is a priority, as is ensuring that strong congre-gations continue to stay that way.

“The ones that are doing really well, they won’t be doing well in a couple years if they don’t pay attention,” he said.

Two initiatives devoted to early child-hood and another, what Jacobs referred to as “engaging the next generation” — Jews in their 20s and 30s — are also top priorities.

“Most 20s and 30s are not in syna-gogues, and they really are not in most of our Jewish institutions, they’re really kind of in-between,” Jacobs said. “How do we meet them where they are, and somehow engage them in Jewish life — not see them as potential members primarily, but young people with whom the tradition hopefully will grow?”

Jacobs may have found an exception to the rule. He celebrated Shabbat evening with nearly 200 young adults at a Jcon-nect dinner at Hillel at the University of Washington. His talk began by addressing “the common perception inside the estab-lishment Jewish institutions that people in their 20s and 30s are just absent from Jewish life,” said Rabbi Oren Hayon, Hillel UW’s Greenstein executive director. “It was kind of half funny, half ironic to be saying that in a room that was absolutely packed to the walls with people who were there to celebrate Shabbat.”

An open and honest dialogue followed, which allowed people to express their opinions on Judaism and spirituality.

“I was really impressed that he made a point of putting this on his itinerary,” Hayon said. “Anyone who’s serious about the spirituality of Jewish young adults would do well to look at Jconnect.”

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Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, with his former colleague Rabbi beth Singer, now of Temple beth am in Seattle.

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1Although executive directors of radio shows usually stay

behind the scenes, you can often hear Arik Korman on air during the Bob Rivers morning radio talk show on KJR-FM in Seattle (and on the web). He describes his on-air persona as “traveling philoso-pher, walking encyclopedia.”

Arik (pronounced “Eric”) worked his way up at KIRO radio before the show moved to KJR in 2011, but he got to radio in a roundabout way.

Originally planning to be a doctor, he headed to University of California, San Diego after graduating Redlands High School. Once there, “the areas I really enjoyed were visual arts and French,” he said. “So I just did a reboot,” and he left school.

Heading to Seattle to visit family and see Expo 86 in Vancouver, B.C., he was blown away by the beauty of “the South Sound, and the islands and the mountains and the trees,” that he saw from the airplane. It was not the gray, rainy place he’d been told it was, and he decided to move here.

After a variety of jobs — in retail, as a bank teller, and a political canvasser —

Arik realized that he enjoyed talking to people and won-dered how to get paid to do that. “It dawned on me: I should do radio,” he said. He enrolled in the now defunct National Broadcasting School, which netted him exactly one job interview. It was in Wenatchee, in winter, and required him to rent a car and buy chains to get over the pass.

He didn’t get the job.Eventually he did get a

temporary position there. That led to a weekend job in Seattle screen-ing calls for advice shows on then-KING 1090. Bored during downtime, “I started grabbing newspaper or magazine articles and rewriting them for broadcast,” Arik says. He continued to get more duties — including on-air stints when anchors were ill — eventually landing at KIRO radio working with Jim French. He stayed nine years, becoming executive producer of all talk programs.

His association with Rivers began with KIRO’s effort to attract younger listeners. Arik invited Rivers, a KISW DJ, to come over and eventually he did.

The Bob Rivers Show features seven on-air personalities, including news

anchor Jodi Brothers (featured as an MOT, “Radio personality not afraid to say she’s from New Jersey,” Jan. 23, 2009), Bob Spike and “Downtown” Joe Bryant. Spike heads the station band “Spike and the Impalers.” Arik recently took up the bass guitar and has been able to play a few gigs with them.

The show is a big supporter of World Vision, a Christian humanitarian orga-nization. All staff members sponsor chil-dren (Arik sponsors five) and the station runs an annual on-air fundraiser. “Our listeners are contributing $1.8 million per year,” he says, funding agricultural devel-opment, healthcare, school supplies, and microloans in Africa and India.

“We have a physical trip to the field

every year,” says Arik, who has been to India and Senegal and is thinking of going to Africa again.

When he’s not working, Arik and his wife Monique keep busy with their 3-1/2-year-old son. When time permits, he enjoys playing tennis, and he says, “I love Washington wine.” Arik says he’s also very community driven. “When I meet someone, I want to leave them better off than when I found them,” he says. “It’s one of my driving mantras.”

You can read about Arik’s recent India trip at www.BobRivers.com under the “blogs” tab.

2 On the visual side of broadcast-ing is Seattle native Steve Bunin, who has graced these pages before.

Steve was a basketball coach and good friend of Ari Grashin, of blessed memory, a Northwest Yeshiva High School and Seattle Hebrew Academy student who died of leukemia in 2002. (The gym at Seattle Hebrew Academy carries his name.) When Steve married his wife, Viv-iane, in Brazil in 2005, we heard about Viviane’s discovery of, and return to, her Jewish roots (“A story of love, loss, and recovered identity,” Apr. 29, 2005).

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bond. Jewish bond. Rivy poupKo KleteniK JTNews Columnist

Dear Rivy, Golden Globes, Oscar

nominations — any Jewish thoughts on this year’s movies?

Having not yet seen “Guilt Trip,” the obvious Jewish choice for some good, healthy cinematic banter, let’s go out on a limb here and take a Jewish look at…Bond. James Bond.

Sure, I hear you: “Skyfall” — not so Jewish. Well, friends, think again: An orphan aban-doned as per Psalm 27 by mother and father, two dramatic sink-ings into the deep water depths only to be reborn? Don’t even try to tell me that you didn’t catch all those subtle Jewish nuances and very Jewish lessons. Spoiler alert: Get thee to a theater before reading further if such previewing revelations are not to your likening. Forewarned is fore armed.

First we hear of it, we are not sure of what we are speaking, but then, along with many of the most mystifying of myster-ies of life, the meaning of the name “Sky-fall” is unveiled. As film watchwords go, “skyfall” assumes its rightful place next to Rosebud, presenting us with another com-plicated childhood fulcrum of our larger-than-life figure.

Skyfall is the majestic, mel-ancholy, long-past-its-prime ancestral estate. Our hero’s childhood home languishes, all but neglected, deep in the misty Scottish moors. It is to be his sole option for refuge in his time of need.

Skyfall: Poetic, other-worldly, it evokes that Kab-balistic concept of heaven’s descent to Earth. Jewish mys-ticism has long captured our imaginations with lofty notions of drawing the holy

down to earth, of a dynamic descent of the divine in each soul and a corresponding elevation of the mundane directed heav-enward. This temple-like sanctuary and Bond’s desperate pilgrimage there evokes Jewish ideas of the earthly Temple sta-tioned directly below that of heaven. Look for “Skyfall” to assume its place as the new bon mot to refer to this classic idea.

But we are getting ahead of ourselves. Cut to the opening sequence where we find Bond’s fellow agent and sharpshooter heroically attempting to keep up with Bond, who is hotly engaged in hand-to-hand combat with a mercenary, fighting for life atop a moving train. Very Bond. The fate of the world depends on the out-

come of this contest, and no guaranteed win for Bond is clear. “M,” a.k.a. Dame Judi Dench, the tough matriarchal chief back in London, has been monitoring and direct-ing the action via radio transmissions. She decisively commands, “Take the shot,” urging the sharpshooter to shoot no matter the lack of precision. Bond goes down.

What of this command, “Take the shot?” Was it rash? Was it taking a cavalier chance with Bond’s life? M’s order is in sync with Jewish values around those who serve as protectors of the state. No matter whether you serve as medic, soldier or spy, all are expected to be ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of the security of the country.

Which brings us to the provoker of all this malevolence, none other than a former MI 6 operative! The birth of the bully. The rise of the rabid. The advance of the aggressor. How does it happen? From where do these evildoers spring? A theory: Perceived injustice and an exagger-ated sense of hurt is most often the under-lying commonality shared by those who torment. There you have it. Slide any spec-imen, from classroom bully to community instigator to the heinous mass murderer. Though the spectrum is broad, they all share this common attribute. MI 6’s nem-esis, threatening complete destruction of British intelligence and security, has been hurt long ago by M, who had been forced for the good of the country to abandon him and allow him to languish in enemy prisons. He joins the rank and file of other spurned evildoers. Much as we might turn to the offended bully with a sympathetic twinge, reality check: Hurt does not neces-sarily lead to abusive behavior.

Jewish history is awash with this tragic syndrome, both from inside and from outside. Take Bar Kamtza, to whom the destruction of the Second Temple is attrib-uted. Bar Kamtza’s hurt? A misdelivered party invitation, leading to a mistaken attendance at a celebration, leading to a humiliating public removal, leading, ulti-mately, to revenge on the entire community

for allowing such a trespass to occur. For this dastardly deed our people still suffer.

The choice is each of ours. Are we the Talmud’s Bar Kamtza or Skyfall’s Raoul Silva? When hurt, do we lash out, as if the pain foisted on others can in some way assuage our own pain? There seems to be no limit to the damage done by pained, unbalanced victims. This seems to be the year of being forced to face this issue.

Our tradition urges delicacy around issues of social interactions. The goal of our hyper-attention to the feelings of others is the nurturing of fine character traits, while the side benefit might be the elimination of this seemingly inevitable diabolical incuba-tion of evil ones in the warm, inviting petri dish of hatred, hurt, and spite.

Finally, it cannot be that no one has yet to notice the obvious pointed initials of our hero, who is celebrating fifty years of suave spying, J. B. What Biblical figure do you associate with these initials? The very same initials are the title of a one-act play produced the very same year as the very first James Bond novel came out. “J. B.” by Archibald MacLeish a retelling of the story of Job — complete name J. B.

James Bond in this latest iteration is a Job-like figure. Enduring pain, going through trials and tribulations, and even performing self-surgery to remove shrap-nel, but all through it he continues to perse-vere, ostensibly alone and certainly selfless in the world. He embodies a superhumanly noble commitment to a greater good. As such, our biblical Job never gives in to his friends’ urgings to disavow goodness and God — no matter to what degree the world seems to testify to the opposite. Steadfast, loyal and unwavering they both stand.

Bond. James Bond. Great movie, great Jewish lessons.

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.

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The consequences of israel’s voteuRiel heilman JTA world News Service

(JTA) — A few observations about the Israeli election results. Right-left split changes, but not a game changer. From an outsider’s perspective, Israel would seem to be a very politically unstable place. The biggest party in the previous Knes-set, Kadima, crashed from 28 seats to two. The No. 3 party, Yisrael Beiteinu, hitched its wagon to the ruling party, Likud, but their combined list lost about a quarter of its seats, down to 31 from 42. Meanwhile, a party that didn’t exist until a few months ago, Yesh Atid, emerged as the 120-seat Knesset’s second largest with 19 seats.

Yet despite the swapping of party labels, not much has changed in the right-left power split. Yes, the right wing lost a little ground — from 65 seats in the last Knesset to 60 seats in the new one. But within the rightists’ camp, votes moved rightward from the more moderate Likud to the Jewish Home party. Also, it would be a mistake to lump together all the cen-trist and left-wing parties. The biggest winner of the center, Yesh Atid, espouses positions on Palestinian-related issues that in many respects are not dissimilar to Likud’s: Both favor negotiations with the Palestinians — though skeptics say Likud’s position is more rhetorical than

genuine — and retaining the large Jewish settlement blocs in the West Bank while opposing any division of Jerusalem. Most notably, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid has made clear that he wants to join a coalition with Likud, which is led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Even if centrist parties such as Yesh Atid are massed with the leftists, they con-stitute a minority of fewer than 50 seats; the balance goes to the Arab parties.

New priorities: With Israelis deeply pessimistic about the chances for immi-nent peace, a significant number of voters went for parties such as Yesh Atid that made socioeconomic issues, not secu-rity, the centerpiece of their campaigns. Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich, who led the party to 15 seats, up from eight in the last Knesset, virtually ignored secu-rity issues in her campaign. This repre-sents a sea change from the old days, when campaigns were all about security. Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua bucked the trend, empha-sizing peace with the Palestinians. The result: Six seats.

New faces: The 19th Knesset will see a plethora of new members, with more than a quarter of the parliament occupied by first-timers, most from Jewish Home and

Yesh Atid. Jewish Home is led by a son of American immigrants to Israel, business-man-turned-politician Naftali Bennett, and Yesh Atid is guided by Lapid, a former TV personality and the son of the late poli-tician Yosef “Tommy” Lapid.

Women: The new Knesset will have more women: Yesh Atid leads with eight female representatives. The Likud-Beit-einu list has seven, Labor has four, Meretz has three and Jewish Home has two. Hatnua and Hadash each has one. Among the newcomers will be the body’s first Ethiopian-Israeli woman, Penina Tamnu-Shata of Yesh Atid, an attorney who immi-grated to Israel at age 3 during Operation Moses.

The end of Kadima: Twice in its short history, the Kadima leader occupied the prime minister’s office. But in just one election cycle, the party went from Isra-el’s largest faction to just two seats. Var-ious factors doomed Kadima: The rise of Yesh Atid, whose socioeconomic-focused platform and charismatic leader peeled away centrist voters; Livni’s failure to gain adherents for Kadima and subse-quent defection to her new party, Hatnua; and Shaul Mofaz’s decision to join, albeit briefly, the Likud-led ruling coalition. It’s

not the end of centrist politics in Israel, but it appears to be nearly the end of the road for the party started by Ariel Sharon as a breakaway from Likud.

Bibi weakened: Netanyahu supporters used to herald him as Bibi, King of Israel. So did Time magazine just a few months ago. But with the combined Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu list falling by a quarter after what was widely panned as a lackluster cam-paign, it’s difficult to make the case that Netanyahu’s star is burning brighter. He’s almost sure to capture the premiership again — now comes the horse trading of Israeli coalition building — but it seems it will be more for lack of an alternative than enthusiasm for Netanyahu.

Hello, Naftali Bennett: If there was any enthusiasm on the right wing this time, it appeared to be for Bennett, leader of the newly constituted Jewish Home party (itself a successor to the National Religious Party). The party captured 11 seats, up from just three as the NRP in the last Knesset. Bennett, who supports annexation of parts of the West Bank, is likely to apply pressure on Netanyahu to shift further right on security issues.

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LEGAL NOTICE

To merchants who have accepted Visa and MasterCard at any time since January 1, 2004:

Notice of a 6+ billion dollar class action settlement.

Notice of a class action settlement authorized by the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.

This notice is authorized by the Court to inform you about an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit that may affect you. The lawsuit claims that Visa and MasterCard, separately, and together with banks, violated antitrust laws and caused merchants to pay excessive fees for accepting Visa and MasterCard credit and debit cards, including by:

Agreeing to set, apply, and enforce rules about merchant fees (called default interchange fees);

Limiting what merchants could do to encourage their customers to use other forms of payment through, for example, charging customers an extra fee or offering discounts; and

Continuing that conduct after Visa and MasterCard changed their corporate structures.

The defendants say they have done nothing wrong. They say that their business practices are legal and the result of competition, and have benefitted merchants and consumers. The Court has not decided who is right because the parties agreed to a settlement. On November 27, 2012, the Court gave preliminary approval to this settlement.

THE SETTLEMENT Under the settlement, Visa, MasterCard, and the bank defendants have agreed to make payments to two settlement funds:

The first is a “Cash Fund” – a $6.05 billion fund that will pay valid claims of merchants that accepted Visa or MasterCard credit or debit cards at any time between January 1, 2004 and November 28, 2012.

The second is an “Interchange Fund” – estimated to be approximately $1.2 billion – that will be based on a portion of the interchange fees attributable to certain merchants that accept Visa or MasterCard credit cards for an eight-month “Interchange Period.”

Additionally, the settlement changes some of the Visa and MasterCard rules applicable to merchants who accept their cards.

This settlement creates two classes:

A Cash Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(3) Settlement Class), which includes all persons, businesses, and other entities that accepted any Visa or MasterCard cards in the U.S. at any time from January 1, 2004 to November 28, 2012, and

A Rule Changes Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(2) Settlement Class), which includes all persons, businesses, and entities that as of November 28, 2012 or in the future accept any Visa or MasterCard cards in the U.S.

WHAT MERCHANTS WILL GET FROM THE SETTLEMENT

Every merchant in the Cash Settlement Class that files a valid claim will get money from the $6.05 billion Cash Fund, subject to a deduction (not to exceed 25% of the fund) to account for merchants who exclude themselves from the Cash Settlement Class. The value of each claim, where possible, will be based on the actual or estimated interchange fees attributable to the merchant’s MasterCard and Visa payment card transactions from January 1, 2004 to November 28, 2012. Payments to merchants who file valid claims for a portion of the Cash Fund will be based on:

The money available to pay all claims,

The total dollar value of all valid claims filed,

The deduction described above not to exceed 25% of the Cash Settlement Fund, and

The cost of settlement administration and notice, money awarded to the class representatives, and attorneys’ fees and expenses all as approved by the Court.

In addition, merchants in the Cash Settlement Class that accept Visa and MasterCard during the eight-month Interchange Period and file a valid claim will get money from the separate Interchange Fund, estimated to be approximately $1.2 billion. The value of each claim, where possible, will be based on an estimate of one-tenth of 1% of the merchant’s Visa and MasterCard credit card dollar sales volume during that period. Payments to merchants who file valid claims for a portion of the Interchange Fund will be based on:

The money available to pay all claims,

The total dollar value of all valid claims filed, and

The cost of settlement administration and notice, and any attorneys’ fees and expenses that may be approved by the Court.

Attorneys’ fees and expenses and money awarded to the class representatives: For work done through final approval of the settlement by the district court, Class Counsel will ask the Court for attorneys’ fees in an amount that is a reasonable proportion of the Cash Settlement Fund, not to exceed 11.5% of the Cash Settlement Fund of $6.05 billion and 11.5% of the Interchange Fund estimated to be $1.2 billion to compensate all of the lawyers and their law firms that have worked on the class case. For additional work to administer the settlement, distribute both funds, and through any appeals, Class Counsel may seek reimbursement at their normal hourly rates, not to exceed an additional 1% of the Cash Settlement Fund of $6.05 billion and an additional 1% of the Interchange Fund estimated to be $1.2 billion. Class Counsel will also request reimbursement of their expenses (not including the administrative costs of settlement or notice), not to exceed $40 million and up to $200,000 per Class Plaintiff in service awards for their efforts on behalf of the classes.

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HOW TO ASK FOR PAYMENTTo receive payment, merchants must fill out a claim form. If the Court finally approves the settlement, and you do not exclude yourself from the Cash Settlement Class, you will receive a claim form in the mail or by email. Or you may ask for one at: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com, or call: 1-800-625-6440.

OTHER BENEFITS FOR MERCHANTS Merchants will benefit from changes to certain MasterCard and Visa rules, which will allow merchants to, among other things:

Charge customers an extra fee if they pay with Visa or MasterCard credit cards,

Offer discounts to customers who do not pay with Visa or MasterCard credit or debit cards, and

Form buying groups that meet certain criteria to negotiate with Visa and MasterCard.

Merchants that operate multiple businesses under different trade names or banners will also be able to accept Visa or MasterCard at fewer than all of the merchant’s trade names and banners.

LEGAL RIGHTS AND OPTIONS Merchants who are included in this lawsuit have the legal rights and options explained below. You may:

You will receive a claim form in the mail or email or file online at: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com.

from the Cash Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(3) Settlement Class). If you exclude yourself, you can sue the Defendants for damages based on alleged conduct occurring on or before November 27, 2012 on your own at your own expense, if you want to. If you exclude yourself, you will not get any money from this settlement. If you are a merchant and wish to exclude yourself, you must make a written request, place it in an envelope, and mail it with postage prepaid and postmarked no later than to Class Administrator, Payment Card Interchange Fee Settlement, P.O. Box 2530, Portland, OR 97208-2530. The written request must be signed by a person authorized to do so and provide all of the following information: (1) the words “In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation,” (2) your full name, address, telephone number, and taxpayer identification number, (3) the merchant that wishes to be excluded from the Cash Settlement Class (Rule 23(b)(3) Settlement Class), and what position or authority you have to exclude the merchant, and (4) the business names, brand names, and addresses of any stores or sales locations whose sales the merchant desires to be excluded. Note:

(Rule 23(b)(2) Settlement Class).

. The deadline to object is: . To learn how to object, see: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com or call 1-800-625-6440. Note: If you exclude yourself from the Cash Settlement Class you cannot object to the terms of that portion of the settlement.

For more information about these rights and options, visit: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com.

IF THE COURT APPROVES THE FINAL SETTLEMENT

Members of the Rule Changes Settlement Class are bound by the terms of this settlement. Members of the Cash Settlement Class, who do not exclude themselves by the deadline, are bound by the terms of this settlement whether or not they file a claim for payment. Members of both classes release all claims against all released parties listed in the Settlement Agreement. The settlement will resolve and release any claims by merchants against Visa, MasterCard or other defendants that were or could have been alleged in the lawsuit, including any claims based on interchange or other fees, no-surcharge rules, no-discounting rules, honor-all-cards rules and other rules. The settlement will also resolve any merchant claims based upon the future effect of any Visa or MasterCard rules, as of November 27, 2012 and not to be modified pursuant to the settlement, the modified rules provided for in the settlement, or any other rules substantially similar to any such rules. The releases will not bar claims involving certain specified standard commercial disputes arising in the ordinary course of business.

For more information on the release, see the settlement agreement at: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com.

THE COURT HEARING ABOUT THIS SETTLEMENT

On September 12, 2013, there will be a Court hearing to decide whether to approve the proposed settlement, class counsels’ requests for attorneys’ fees and expenses, and awards for the class representatives. The hearing will take place at:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York225 Cadman PlazaBrooklyn, NY 11201

You do not have to go to the court hearing or hire an attorney. But you can if you want to, at your own cost. The Court has appointed the law firms of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP, Berger & Montague, PC, and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP to represent the Class (“Class Counsel”).

QUESTIONS?For more information about this case (In re Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation, MDL 1720), you may:

Call toll-free: 1-800-625-6440Visit: www.PaymentCardSettlement.com Write to the Class Administrator:

Payment Card Interchange Fee SettlementP.O. Box 2530Portland, OR 97208-2530

Email: info@PaymentCardSettlement.com

Please check www.PaymentCardSettlement.com for any updates relating to the settlement or the settlement approval process.

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Sababa plays contemporary Jewish music, but it would be a mistake to think that the band’s music only touches young people, says Scott Leader, who co-founded the musical trio with Robbi Sherwin and Steve Brodsky.

“We had this gig in Naples, Florida,” he says, “and there was nobody there under 75 years old.” He admits he expected that a rock group and the older crowd wouldn’t mix.

“Instead, it wound up being one of the best shows we ever did. They loved it — and everybody had a granddaughter that they wanted me to meet, too.”

Leader, a vocalist and multi-instru-mentalist who has been the music direc-tor at Temple Gan Elohim in Phoenix for nearly a decade, is also a major light in Jewish rock — writing, performing and recording his own music, as well as pro-ducing recordings for other artists.

Sababa will perform on January 25–27 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle and Bellevue.

Sababa’s latest recording is called “Sha-losh.” That’s the Hebrew word for three, and it seems that threes are wild right now for Sababa, whose three players who live in three time zones recently released their third album — hence the title.

Sherwin and Brodsky have Jewish rock

credentials just as strong as Leader’s.Sherwin, a cantor, hails from Austin,

Texas, one of the capitals of American music, has sung on a host of albums and has two solo albums to her credit: “Todah LaChem” (“Thanks, Y’all”) and “Aish HaKodesh” (“The Holy Fire”).

Brodsky, who lives in Denver, was a founding member of the band Mah Tovu and is director of new media and spe-cial projects for URJ Books and Music, the Union for Reform Judaism’s publish-ing house.

“We got together in 2005 and it’s been a great ride,” Leader says of the group. “Individually, the three of us were heavily involved in Jewish music.”

They traveled in the same circles, doing performances at Jewish events such as CAJE (Conference on Alterna-tives in Jewish Education) gatherings and the Union for Reform Judaism biennials, and they all had a background in Jewish summer camps and as NFTY (National Federation of Temple Youth) song leaders.

“We were going out of our way to per-form with one another,” Leader says. “So we decided one day: ‘Why don’t we get together and be a band?’

“We all write and play instruments, and we really believed that when we came together we had a great synergy.”

That was borne of what he calls “a killer first album” (“Pray for the Peace,” 2007).

“It did really well, and we started trav-eling all across the country.”

“It’s All Good,” the band’s second album, was released in 2010, continuing Sababa’s journey.

Since radio play is negligible, it’s the traveling and performing — mostly to do synagogue gigs — that builds their audi-ence.

“It’s at the live performances that people hear about us,” he says. “We’ll be at a temple in some city and somebody who was at the show will come up after-ward and say, ‘I’d love to have you come to our temple.’”

In case you’re wondering, Sababa’s music is not rock a la the Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen. The group’s sound is driven by vocal harmonies. On the band’s recordings, you’re just as likely to find a vocal backed by a quiet piano or acous-tic guitars and mandolin as you are to find full-on rock arrangements using such sta-ples as electric guitars, saxophones and drums.

The songs’ styles range from reggae (check out their “Hinei Mah Tov” from “It’s All Good”) to calypso (“One Little, Two Little” from “Pray for the Peace”) to harmony-drenched folk-rock (“Am Yis-

rael Chai,” the sprightly track that leads off “Shalosh”).

“If you would have told 19-year-old Scott that I’d make a living playing Jewish music when I grew up, I wouldn’t have believed you,” Leader says. His vision of a music career was definitely in rock-star mode but there came a day when he realized, “I wasn’t going to be the next Billy Joel.”

He’d been playing Jewish music since his teens and a light bulb turned on for him at a Jewish music gig with fellow rock-ers Sam Glazer and Noah Budin.

“I realized while I was on stage with these guys, ‘I like being Jewish, why not do this Jewish music thing?’ “

That decision represented “a sort of practical approach,” he says.

IF yOu GOSababa performs on Fri., Jan. 25 at 6 p.m. for Shabbat Shira and at 7 p.m. on Sat., Jan. 26 at temple de hirsch Sinai, 1511 e Pike St., Seattle. they will per-form on Sun., Jan. 27 at 11:15 a.m. at the tdhS religion School, 3850 156th ave. Se, Bellevue. all events are free.

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community connectionsEducation Services at the Jewish Federa-

tion works to improve the quality of Jew-

ish education through teacher training.

This fall, approximately 70 teachers from

19 day schools, early childhood centers,

and congregational schools took part in

professional development programs. Free

classes continue this winter and spring.

The programs enable educators to earn

state-mandated continuing education

credits (clock hours and STARS). Teach-

ers in supplementary schools may work

toward or maintain their Jewish teaching

certificate, a local credential reflecting

their commitment to Jewish education

and enabling them to earn stipends. To

learn more, visit the Education Services

web page at www.jewishinseattle.org/

educators.

Scholarships are available for educators

to attend local, national or international

conferences. The application deadline is

February 15, and the application form can

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For more information about opportunities

for educators, please contact Liat

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Old challenges awaited new faces when

the 2013 Legislative session began on

January 14. Another budget shortfall

imperiling key state programs, including

services for the vulnerable, will be the top

issue for the Legislature and Governor

Jay Inslee.

With a nearly $1 billion state deficit,

legislators have few options to balance

the budget, short of making cuts that

will jeopardize our community’s ability to

deliver vital services. Since Washington’s

fiscal troubles began in 2009, $11 billion

has been cut from the state budget,

reducing or eliminating many human

services programs, including aid for dis-

abled people, health care for low-income

households, support for single parents,

and resources helping refugees begin

new lives.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle,

through our advocacy work in Olympia,

will advocate for a balanced solution to the

state budget. Where possible, we will en-

courage funding that helps grow the work

of our agencies. Other priorities include

monitoring implementation of the Afford-

able Care Act and reforming the long-term

Medicaid payment system to ensure it

meets the needs of older adults now and

in the future.

We will continue to advocate for policies

ensuring the religious freedoms and First

Amendment rights of all Washingtonians

and the civil rights of vulnerable popula-

tions. In the wake of the Sandy Hook Ele-

mentary School shooting, we are renewing

our call to close the “gun show loophole,”

strengthen our mental health system and

keep our public spaces secure.

As a note of interest, those who took

office this session include a new Jew-

ish senator, Andy Billig from the 3rd

District in Spokane, and a new Jewish

representative, Jessyn Farrell from the

46th District in Seattle. Farrell and her

district colleagues, Rep. Gerry Pollet and

Senator David Frockt, make the 46th the

first legislative district to be represented

entirely by Jewish lawmakers.

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Tu B’Shevat: A Reminder of Beauty Around UsDuring this time of long nights and frigid

mornings, sunny days might seem far

off for us Seattleites. Celebrating the

Jewish festival of Tu B’Shevat reminds

us that spring’s splendor is on the way.

Tu B’Shevat is a harvest holiday cel-

ebrating the new year for trees. The

holiday teaches us to celebrate nature’s

sustenance, reminding us that our Jewish

community is situated in a beautiful place.

Like the trees, how we nurture Jewish life

today will bear fruit for generations.

However you choose to celebrate Tu

B’Shevat, we at the Federation offer our

wish that, like trees, you will go from

strength to strength.

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Kudos to kosher: island Crust Café wins business of the yeargwen daviS JTNews Correspondent

It ain’t no lie: Seattle’s Orthodox Jews love their kosher restaurants. And they cherish them, too. Kosher restaurants in this region are a scarce and precious com-modity. None can be taken for granted, and any put-downs of the food usually result in immediate backlash from friends and mishpacha.

However, as of late, it is evident the broader community loves at least one kosher restaurant as well.

On Jan. 10, Island Crust Café was rec-ognized as the Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Year. Owners Rich and Kim Benjamin were presented with the honor at the monthly Chamber of Commerce luncheon. Chamber members cited the Benjamins’ dedication to giving back to the community.

The couple did not expect the honors.“We were white, white as ghosts,” Rich

Benjamin said. The restaurant was nominated for the

award by Kris Kelsay, a development offi-cer for Mercer Island Youth and Family Services, based on its charitable work. The café will cater the annual Giving From the Heart breakfast in February, which fun-draises for the Mercer Island Youth and Family Services (MIYFS). The breakfast

will serve 500 attendees with the res-taurant donating $5,000 to the cost of providing the food. At the 2012 break-fast, the restaurant gave free pizza par-ties to each classroom at Mercer Island Elementary School as a prize for an MIYFS-sponsored project. The restau-rant also gave 20 percent of its revenue to MIYFS.

In addition, Island Crust Café helps host or provide for local community events, including free meals to veter-ans on Veteran’s Day, special events to raise money for Israeli orphans, poker nights with proceeds going to philan-thropies, and local school fundraisers.

The Benjamins also offer meet-ing space in their restaurant, in the Island Corporate Center at 7525 SE 24th Street to various organizations for classes, meetings and other events.

“[Kelsay’s] letter reminded us about all the things we’ve done over the past year or two — and we were really over-whelmed because we never thought about it in this type of way,” Rich said.

“Owning a restaurant is certainly a thankless job — but just to be recognized by people who are so distinguished,” said Kim Benjamin. “We’re humbled by

it. We’re just little people and these are big players in the community, and it’s really nice they’re recognizing what we’re doing.”

The Benjamins took over Island Crust Café from its previous owners in Janu-

ary 2011. When it originally opened in 2008, it served mainly pizza. The couple has since expanded the menu to serve soups, salads, sandwiches and a wide array of entrées and des-serts. And, of course, they still serve the pizza.

The couple formerly had no expe-rience with restaurant management before Island Crust Café. Kim’s back-ground was in finance while Rich’s was in sales and marketing.

The Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce’s award is only one of a series of honors for the restaurant. Island Crust Café has won several online reader’s polls — including in JTNews for several years running — such as best take-out, best kids’ menu, and best vegetarian food on Mercer Island.

Diners come from all over, with an approximately 50/50 Jewish to non-Jewish split during the week.

David and Tova Wren, with their one-and-a-half-year-old Yaakov, come to Island Crust Café regularly and say they enjoy the food.

“The pizza is always good,” said David Wren.

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Rich and Kim benjamin took over the kosher island Crust Café just two years ago, but are already winning recognition in their mercer island community.

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As Shabbat came to a close on Jan. 19, the parking lot at the Stroum Jewish Community Center on Mercer Island was lined with limousines. Fifteen stretch limos, and their chauf-feurs, carried 135 teens from most of the area’s Jewish youth groups — NCSY, NFTY, BBYO, USY at Herzl-Ner Tamid — split up into groups for a scavenger hunt around the Seat-tle area that took them to such places as the original Bikur Cholim synagogue, now known as the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Safeco Field, and the Pike Place Market. The kids were dropped off at Island Crust Café to finish the evening with pizza and snacks. Funding for the multi-group event came in part from a grant by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

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alpenland delicatessenAn island favorite for over 38 years, Alpenland Delicatessen features specialty foods and gifts imported from Germany and Switzerland. Under new ownership, this comfortable spot will continue to serve imported coffee and teas, soups made from scratch daily, and fresh pretzel rolls on Thursdays and Fridays. In addition to the long-standing favorites, such as their German potato salad, Alpenland has introduced a new line of German beers and wine.2707 78th Ave. SE, Mercer Island • 206-232-4780

The french american school of Puget sound: excellence in Bilingual education The French American School of Puget Sound, FASPS, offers French American education with the highest standards from preschool (age 3) to grade 8, which represents 11 years of bilingual education. With a truly international community, represented by 48 nationalities, their students come with all levels of French when they join. They don’t require any previous French up to kindergarten. FASPS students become fully bilingual, are academically thriving, entrepreneurial-minded, and emerge as well-rounded, confident, and happy young individuals with an educated perspective on our global world. www.fasps.org • 206-275-3533

freshy’s seafoodBryce Caldwell, owner and operator, was born in Ilwaco, Wash. with a fishing pole in his hands. Ilwaco, with the Columbia River to the south and the Pacific Ocean to the west, is a fishing mecca. Bryce uses his many fishing connections to stock Freshy’s six days a week with the freshest sustainable seafood you can find. Fresh, sustainable seafood, no farmed fish, and a kosher section. 3,000 gallons of live fully stocked tanks. Fish ’n’ chips bar with grilled fish tacos and many other Northwest favorite choices. There is both indoor and outdoor seating. Beer and wine available both on tap and retail to-go, including growlers. Rusty’s cheesecake available. Everything to complete a meal!Open Sun.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.2411 76th Ave. SE, Mercer Island • 206-232-3028

Herzl-ner Tamid conservative congregationHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation has something for everyone! Whether you want to take your two-year-old to the UW Arboretum to celebrate Tu B’Shevat, study with a nationally renowned speaker during their Scholar-in-Residence weekend, or enjoy a Shabbat service filled with ruach and tradition, HNT is the place for you! Please join them for any of their many holiday celebrations, special Shabbat for Kids events, or services Friday nights at 6 p.m. and Saturday mornings at 9:30 a.m.3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island • www.h-nt.org

island BooksNow in its 40th year of serving readers, Island Books has always had a special atmosphere that’s essential to Mercer Island. Their experienced staff is happy to recommend a recent favorite or help you track down an out-of-print title. Alongside the classics on their shelves you’ll find all the latest bestsellers, e-books and e-readers, too. Not to mention toys, games, housewares, chocolates, and gifts galore. Come in, call, email, or visit the store’s thriving online community. Island Books keeps up with the times, but their personal connection with customers never goes out of style.Located at 3014 78th Ave. SE, Mercer Island. 206-232-6920 • www.mercerislandbooks.com

island crust caféThe food is always fresh — and the service always friendly — at Island Crust Café. Island Crust Café is famous for its mostly vegetarian cuisine. A diverse kosher menu includes eggplant florentine, falafel “Hadassah“ salad, roasted vegetable lasagna, blackened salmon, and award-winning pizza and calzones. Along with daily specials, Island Crust Café offers a variety of homemade soups, salads, and mouth-watering desserts. Awarded the Mercer Island Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year. JTNews readers voted Island Crust Café the most family-friendly restaurant in Western Washington. Dine-in, take-out and catering.7525 SE 24th St., Mercer Island • 206-232-7878 • info@islandcrustcafe.com www. islandcrustcafe.com

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Julie Varon — John l. scott real estateLet Julie help you with all of your real estate needs in Seattle, Mercer Island and the greater Eastside.With over 16 years of experience, Julie’s negotiating skills ensure that you are getting top value when selling your house. As a buyer’s agent she will look beyond the listed inventory to help you find what you are looking for.Having been rated 11th and 16th out of over 5,000 agents, Julie can’t wait to work with you to achieve your real estate goals. Visit her website at julievaron.com to start your search.Call or email Julie at 425-444-SALE(7253) • julievaron at gmail.com

mercerwood shore clubSince 1953, the Mercerwood Shore Club has been offering family fun! They are a year-round facility located on beautiful Lake Washington with a sandy beach and a grass lakefront picnic area, a perfect setting for making lasting lifetime memories. Boating, BBQs and summer swimming. Mercerwood is like owning your own piece of waterfront property. The club offers competitive swimming, diving, tennis and water polo for kids ages 5 and up. Weekly lessons are offered for beginners and young children and a

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ncsYNCSY is the premier organization dedicated to connecting, inspiring and empowering Jewish teens and encouraging passionate Judaism through Torah and tradition. NCSY, through its allied agencies JSU (Jewish Student Union) and Jewish High (jewishhighseattle.com), reaches over 1,000 teens in greater Seattle annually. In addition to the JSU club at Mercer Island High School, the NCSY hub on Mercer Island centers around two programs: Jewish High (at the Stroum JCC on Wednesday night at 7 p.m.) and Latte & Learning. At Jewish High teens can take classes for credit that fulfill their school requirements (ex: Hebrew replaces language). Latte & Learning brings Judaism to local coffee shops and serves up Torah in a relaxed and fun setting. Latte & Learning is the place for teens to ask questions, voice their feelings, and connect with each other. To find out more about all of NCSY’s programs, visit www.seattlencsy.com.

stopsky’s delicatessenNow in its second year, Stopsky’s Delicatessen has become a gathering spot for the Mercer Island community and a destination for Seattle and Eastside residents and out-of-town visitors alike. Only 15 minutes from downtown Seattle or Bellevue, Stopsky’s is easy to reach for breakfast, lunch, happy hour, dinner or weekend brunch. Stopsky’s features both traditional deli favorites and Jewish-inspired dishes from around the world, made in-house from the freshest local ingredients. Along with a full liquor license, Stopsky’s is the sole MI location for Stumptown coffee. The Hebrew in the logo means “made with love,” as you will taste when you come for a meal or a nosh.3016 78th Ave. SE • 206-236-4564 • www.stopskysdelicatessen.com

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FRiday 25 JanuaRy9 a.m. — NyhS Shabbaton for Prospective and Current Students

rabbi Yona margolese at admissions@nyhs.net or 206-232-5272, ext. 547 or www.nyhs.netSpend Shabbat with the NYHS community at the annual shabbaton for all current students and prospective students. $65 for prospective students. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.5–8 p.m. — fruticas Shabbat dinner (Tu B’Shevat)

susan Jensen at office@ezrabessaroth.net or 206-722-5500 or ezrabessaroth.netChicken dinner with fruits and grains of the Holy Land. The children of EB will recite special blessings in Hebrew, Ladino, and English. RSVP and pay by Jan. 22; no walk-ins. $20 adults, $10 kids 5-12, $60 family price. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.6–7:30 p.m. — Shabbat Shira with Sababa

stacey at info@tdhs-nw.org or 206-323-8486Well-known Jewish rock group Sababa will be joining temple musical groups for a Shabbat Shira service and celebration. Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.6:30–8 p.m. — Tu B’Shevat Community Shabbat dinner

marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgServices at 5 p.m. with drash about nusach (liturgical melodies). Dinner at 6:30. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. Zemirot (singing) at 8 p.m. $15/person. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.8–10 p.m. — Annex Theatre Presents “undo”

Bret Fetzer at info@annextheatre.org or 206-728-0933 or www.annextheatre.org/ 2013-season/main-stage/undoRachel and Joe Pfeiffer are getting divorced and everyone they know is invited. Guilt, grief, desire, and booze collide in this darkly comedic new play. $5-$20, all Thursdays pay-what-you-can. Runs through Feb. 16. At the Annex Theatre, 1100 E Pike St., Seattle.

SatuRday 26 JanuaRy11 a.m. — family Shabbat Service

irit eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or bethshalomseattle.orgFamily service led by Jewish educator Rabbi Lauren Kurland. Geared toward families with children ages 6-11. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.1:15–2:30 p.m. — The Most important liturgy in the Jewish Calendar: Shabbat

shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or

www.templebnaitorah.orgCantor David Serkin Poole will teach about the history, structure, and hidden meaning in how the prayers are organized and used during the Shacharit (Sabbath morning) service. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.5–7 p.m. — Spice Night 2013: havdalah in the Clouds

rabbi Jill Levy at rabbi.levy@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555 or www.h-nt.orgLively Havdalah led by Cantor Bradlee Kurland. See kites, gliders, and stomp rockets take off as the Museum of Flight’s Flying Gizmo show visits Herzl. $7/adults, $5/kids, free/under 3. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.7–8:30 p.m. — Sababa Concert

stacey at info@tdhs-nw.org or 206-323-8486 or www.tdhs-nw.orgSababa’s award-winning Jewish music is performed around the world. This concert will help launch their third album, “Shalosh.” Free. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.7:30–9 p.m. — Cremation or Burial: The Jewish Perspective

rabbi avrohom david at info@seattlekollel.org or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.orgMore and more Jews are choosing cremation rather than burial. Bestselling author Doron Kornbluth spent over three years studying the subject. Gain insight, knowledge and understanding of this important issue. Free. At Hillel at University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.

Sunday 27 JanuaRy9:30–10:30 a.m. — The 30 greatest Jewish Stories of All Time

shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgRabbi Jim Mirel will lead a discussion each week on three stories from the Torah, Bible, Midrash, and Talmud, and discuss the lessons they teach. $5 payable at the door. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.10 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tu B’Shevat with rabbi doron kornbuth

rabbi Yehuda Greer at rabbigreer@gmail.com or 206-643-6623 or seattlekollel.orgSunday brunch featuring guest speaker Rabbi Doron Kornbluth on “John Lennon and The Jews: Identity, Pride, and Bagels.” Brunch includes a chocolate fondue and fruits from Israel and beyond. RSVP to Rabbi Greer. Free. At West Seattle Torah Learning Center (call for address), Seattle.10 a.m.–1 p.m. — Connections 2013: women Making Choices

michael Wardlow at michaelW@Jewishinseattle.org or 206-774-2256 or www.Jewishinseattle.orgThe Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s annual women’s philanthropy brunch, featuring Mona Golabek and her one-woman show, “The Children of Willesden Lane.” At the Hyatt Regency Bellevue, 900 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue.5–10 p.m. — Torah day School Annual dinner

rena Berger at renaberger@tdsseattle.org or 206-722-1200A celebration of students and staff. $36. At Congre–gation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.

tueSday 29 JanuaRy7–9 p.m. — Caring for our Aging Parents: dif-ficult Behaviors

Leonid Orlov at familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-8784 or www.jfsseattleorgAs parents age, they often experience major life changes. Learn how to recognize behaviors such as depression, mental illness or substance abuse and help your parents find the support they need. $15 at door; $10 in advance. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.

thuRSday 31 JanuaRy7:30 p.m. — women’s Movie Night

nechama Farkash at rabbifarkash@gmail.com Women are invited to watch “Sarah’s Key,” the story of a journalist in Paris who becomes entwined with the story of a young girl whose family was torn apart during the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup in 1942. Wine and snacks provided. Hosted by Chabad of the Central Cascades. $10. At Discovery Heights Club House, 942 Discovery Circle NE, Issaquah.

SatuRday 2 FebRuaRy5:30–7 p.m. — Cupcakes and Cocoa havdalah

mark rosenberg at markr@sjcc.org or 206-388-0830 or bit.ly/cupcakescocoaThe ECS and SJCC communities are invited to come together to celebrate Havdalah with cupcakes and cocoa, music and crafts. Appropriate for children of all ages. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.8:30 p.m. — The Q

ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.com or seattlenCsY.comTrivia competition for adults 21-plus, with food, open bar and top-shelf liquor. All proceeds go to Seattle NCSY. Free babysitting available on a first-come, first-served basis. $36 per individual, $248 per table of 8, and various sponsorship levels up to $1,000. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.

Sunday 3 FebRuaRy10 a.m.–12 p.m. — hebrew free loan Association Annual Brunch

HFL-seattle@yahoo.com or 206-722-1936Annual brunch of the Hebrew Free Loan Association of Greater Seattle. At The Summit at First Hill, 1200 University St., Seattle.6–8 p.m. — The livnot Project Think Tank

Julie Hayon at info@thelivnotproject.org or 206-486-0104 or thelivnotproject.orgStudents of The Livnot Project hear from featured community leaders about overarching justice themes and share personal experiences with their peer community. At Jewish Family Service, 1601 16th Ave., Seattle.

monday 4 FebRuaRy6–9 p.m. — AiPAC washington State Community event

seattle aipaC at 206-624-5152 or aipac.secure.force.com/event/ev131134Dinner featuring Saul Singer, co-author of  “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle.” Dietary laws observed. $36. Register online. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

7–9 p.m. — Jewish Studies and the Classroom: Be wise, do wise

dena Kernish at denaK@Jewishinseattle.org or 206-774-2279 or bit.ly/XeqJewStudy the source texts for giving and discuss how to transform the wisdom of the sages into action, developing practical mitzvah projects to take back to your classroom. Facilitated by Danny Siegel of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund. JTC and STARS credit and clock hours (for two or more sessions) available. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

wedneSday 6 FebRuaRy7–8:30 p.m. — israel Current events

shelly Goldman at sgoldman@a.templebnaitorah.org or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgNevet Basker will focus on a different topic each month with optional pre-reading materials available. This class repeats on Thursday at 7 p.m. $5 payable at the door. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

FRiday 8 FebRuaRy10:30 a.m. — PJ library Storytime at SJCS

amy paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.orgThe PJ Library welcomes Shoshana Stombaugh as guest musician and storyteller. Stay for songs and a story, activities and playgroup fun. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.

SatuRday 9 FebRuaRy6:30–8:30 p.m. — Pajama havdallah goes up, up, and Away

irit eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075Pajama Havdallah includes a special service, Jewish art projects, cookies, and Jewish music. Special guests from Mad Science Shows will teach about the principles of air and pressure. Free. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

Sunday 10 FebRuaRy9:45 a.m.–12 p.m. — herzl-Ner Tamid legacy Brunch

nadine strauss at nadine@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555 or h-nt.orgAnnual fundraiser brunch, featuring guest speaker Emily Moore, culinary director and executive chef for 21 Acres Center for Local Food and Sustainable Living in Woodinville. Tickets start at $18. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.5:30–9 p.m. — SJCS gala 2013

Karen Friedman at development@sjcs.net or www.sjcs.netSJCS Gala 2013, honoring alumni parents Howard and Eileen Klein. Dinner, live auction and program start at 6:45 p.m. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.7–8:30 p.m. — New voices in world Jewish Music: galeet dardashti

Lauren spokane at jewishst@uw.edu or 206-543-0138 or stroumjewishstudies.orgThrough conversations and live performances, three musicians will showcase their Sephardic roots from medieval Spain to Greece, Iran, Turkey, and Jerusalem. Next up: Galeet Dardashti. Free. At the UW School of Music, Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle.

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Design Florist is a second-generation, family-run flower business that creates lovely and creative arrangements for any event, happy or sad.Best Hotel for a Simcha: With a kosher kitchen and lots of space, the Seattle Sher-aton in the heart of downtown is clearly

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Our COmmunityBest Local Jewish Organization, School or Agency: Is there really a contest? Jewish Family Service serves so many areas of our

Jewish community — and a lot of the non-Jewish community, it should be said — in so many different ways. Once again this agency is the clear winner.Best Youth Organization: NCSY isn’t just a youth group. Its leaders have expanded the program into Israel trips, high school classes, fashion shows, and so much more. Plus, the kids who participate have a most rocking time!Best Jewish Camp: With its new nature center and decades of tradition, the kids who head to Tumwater each summer to Camp Solomon Schechter come home with smiles and Jewish spirit.Best Jewish Website: Aw, shucks, guys. We’re kind of blushing over here. But we’re thrilled that JTNews and our regular updates (way more than every two weeks) of local and world news got your vote. Have you friended us on Facebook or fol-lowed us on Twitter? Best Place to Volunteer: Whether it’s delivering holiday packages to home-bound seniors or making a party out of sorting non-perishable foods, Jewish Family Service wants you, no matter how

old or young you are, to join up.Best Local Food Bank: If you keep kosher and need food assistance, you won’t find a fresh alternative to Jewish Family Ser-vice. Even if you don’t need kosher, the state-of-the-art food bank has produce, toiletries and packaged foods, and treats its clients with quiet dignity.Best Counseling Services: Once again, Jewish Family Service takes the prize. With the completion of its new building, JFS’s counseling services have been given their own space that allows for confidenti-ality and breathing room. The agency also holds weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meet-ings and provides counseling at Hillel at the University of Washington. Talk about a full plate!Best Congregation: Once again, Congre-gation Beth Shalom wins it. The small Conservative congregation in Wedgwood with lots of prayin’, eatin’, and social action has a lot of passion among its members.Best Jewish Supplemental School: Con-gregation Beth Shalom’s program serves kids from early childhood to middle school, and was part of the team that brought

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deli-CiOusBest Pastrami: It’s a tie on rye: Tradition vs. tradition updated. But we’ve got room for both. Goldberg’s Famous Delicates-sen in Factoria and Stopsky’s Delicates-sen on Mercer Island share the prize!Best Smoked Fish: Einstein’s Bros. Bagels wins in the general “Dang, that

smoked fish is good!” followed by the more specific goodness that is the hand-smoked white king salmon at University Seafood & Poultry. Oh, how my mouth is watering as I type this.Best Rugelach: They may be hard to find, but the rolled-up pastries from Leah’s Catering get many a-tummy filled with satisfaction.Best Challah: It’s clear: Nothing beats homemade. But the soft, simple challah from Grateful Bread in Wedg-wood is a close, close second.Best Bagel: In the year since the Mon-treal-style Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Café last won, this locally owned champ has expanded from one beautiful space on Capitol Hill to two more — on Stone Way in Wallingford and in the revitalized Armory at Seattle Center. Best Dill Pickle: Britt’s Pickles will take just about any vegetable and toss it into a barrel of brine. Started on Whidbey Island, and with a recently opened stall in the Pike Place Market, this upstart is wowing pickle lovers the world over.

dining OutBest Burger: Yes, you can’t trip without falling on a fancy new burger joint. But those mainstays of cheap and delicious (yet known for treating their employees well), Red Mill and Dick’s, share the prize.Best Pizza: Kosher, tasty and hitting the spot, Island Crust Café wins the prize for the fifth year in a row!Best Sunday Brunch: The line-ups tell the story: Both Portage Bay Café and Stop-sky’s Delicatessen know how to please a groggy Sunday morning crowd.Best Organic/Local/Sustainable/Chef-Driven Restaurant that Knocked Your Socks Off: Portage Bay Café’s three Seat-

tle locations and Tilth, located inside a house in Wallingford, have diners pulling up their argyles between bites.Best Sushi: You might get lost trying to navigate the streets of Tangletown to get to neighborhood mainstay Kisaku, but it’s worth it.Best Romantic Dinner: There’s noth-ing more romantic than two people sit-ting across from each other, glass of wine in hand…and looking at something else. But if it’s a view and white-glove treatment you want, both SkyCity atop the Space Needle and Canlis atop the Aurora Bridge will take excellent care of you.Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant: You’ll find plenty of kids hanging out at Island Crust Café, which once again takes the prize.Best Middle Eastern: It wasn’t so long

ago to find good Middle Eastern in this town you had to go to the Middle East. But Ravenna’s Harissa, Bellevue’s Med-iterranean Kitchen, and the University District’s Cedar’s will do wonders to help your falafel jones.

lOCal buzzBest Wine List or Wine Bar: Purple is not just a color. It’s a way of life. It’s a tower of wine. And it’s now in four locations: Downtown Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland and Woodinville.

Best Happy Hour: If Italian food makes you happy — and you’d have to be crazy for it not to — Momma Melina’s just north of University Village is classy, inexpensive, and delicious.Best Cocktail in Town: Spur Gas-tropub, with its eclectic food menu, also makes a mean cocktail. It shares honors with the bar at the W Hotel, which does its cocktails with class and a few extra drops of the hard stuff.

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Best Bakery: If you’re in West Seat-tle, you’re already well aware of the baked goodness that fills the display cases of Bakery Nouveau. For everyone else, get over there pronto (or however you say that in French) for the most amazing croissants.Best Chocolatier: Legend has it that when President Obama needs to clear his head, he likes to play basketball. The truth? He sneaks down to the White House base-ment, hides behind some steampipes, and pulls out his box of salted caramels from Fran’s Chocolates.Best Ice Cream, Gelato or FroYo: Those self-serve yogurt places are popping up everywhere! The best of the bunch is Menchie’s. The plain yogurt is kosher, and you have to love those cute little spoons! Now if only they’d make their disposables compostable…Best Pie: High Five Pie, found at its Capitol Hill shop and at Fuel Coffee joints around the city, once again wins the award for its light, flaky crusts and yummy fillings.Best Cupcakes: Oh, Trophy, why must you tempt me with those rows and rows of delicious cakes and mile-high frost-ing? Damn your Snickerdoodle. And your Red Velvet (gluten-free!). And your Triple Coconut.

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you can do with an old military hangar. Magnuson Health Club is spacious, well-equipped, and, if you live in the ’hood, convenient.

Best Spa Experience: Once again, the men are stuck at home watching football while the ladies can head to Tacoma or Lynnwood for the ultimate experience at Olympus Spa.

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Best Consignment or Secondhand Clothing: The Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s thrift store is up on Capitol Hill, so you’ll be fighting off ironic hipsters for the best threads, but it’s for a good cause.

Best Independent Toy Shop: Top 10 Toys’ conscientious playthings in Green-wood and Pacific Place eschew guns and plastic for more creative, mind-bending activities.

Best Little, Local, Independent Shop and Best Independent Gift Shop: Fire-works, with locations in upscale malls across the region as well as at the airport, always has a fun and interesting selec-tion. Bike Works in Columbia City fixes donated bikes and has programs to get underprivileged kids on two wheels. It’s a win-win!

Best Independent Bookshop: Located in Ravenna and Lake Forest Park, Third Place Books really does serve as that third gathering place. And their book selection is pretty good, too.

Best Theater Company: ACT Theater puts on some amazing shows year after year, but their work in cultivating up-and-coming playwrights and local talent makes this local gem shine. Bravo!

the prOfessiOnal lifeBest Family Doctor: Fight the flu! Don’t delay your physical! Drs. Gary Spector and Deborah Klein will make you feel better.Best Dentist: Do you know how I know Dr. Gordon Sako is a great dentist? Every time I go to see him he tells me what great teeth I have. The better to eat you with, my dear. Walk a few steps to Dr. John Way, who shines on the pediatric dentistry.

Best Plas-tic Surgeon: “Seriously...aren’t we as a people past

this at this point?” asks one respondent. Enough said.Best Lawyer: Though he only set up his own practice in 2010, Joshua Moultray already has a following. Use him for busi-ness or real estate law, to defend yourself against a misdemeanor, or a number of other services. We hear John Grisham’s next book will be based upon Josh. But don’t quote us on that.Best Accountant: Tax time’s coming up. Who you gonna call? Bellevue CPA

Dennis Goldstein has decades of experi-ence, though he has yet to get the call from Grisham.Best Real Estate Agent: Serving primar-ily Seattle’s Northend, Rhona Feldman can list, list, list. Her best-kept secret? She teaches Israeli dance on the side.Best Car Dealership: If you’re looking for a Volkswagen or a Subaru, Chaplin’s in Bellevue has a great selection. The cars, of course, speak for themselves.

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Best Jewish Book of 2012: “From Aleph to Ze’ev: Excursions into Jewish Culture, History, Rituals and Beliefs” is actually from 2011, but close enough. A review in our com-patriot to the south, the now-defunct Portland Jewish Review, said the Cor-vallis author’s book “presents intrigu-ing insights, concise summations and fascinating esoterica that will delight readers from all walks of Jewish life

as well as non-Jews curious about Judaism and Jewish history.”Best Jewish Author of 2012: Nathan Eng-lander. Neuroses and deft imagination won the day with his book of short stories, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.”Best Jewish-Themed or Israeli Film of 2012: “Yossi,” Israeli director Eytan Fox’s follow-up (after nine years) to “Yossi and Jagger,” revisits the surviving protago-nist of the story of two star-crossed lovers, back when gay film in Israel was still scan-dalous.Best Jewish Actor/Comedian of 2012: This is sad, but we had a 10-way tie. Let’s just say that Adam Sandler wasn’t on the

list. But neither was Lena Dunham, and she should have been.

Out in the COmmunityBest Place to Hang Out and Meet Other Fun Jews: It should go without saying that Hillel UW, and its big brother Jconnect, are where the cool kids are. Which should mean it goes without saying that when you meet cool people, it’s also the Best Place to Meet a Nice Jewish Boy or Girl. Best Local Sports Team: The Seahawks had a great year, and that last minute time-out flub should not put a damper on the fact that they deserved to go as far as they went.Best Online Dating Site: JDate, as usual, wins, but we should give special mention to a local dating site, still in beta, called HappyBubbe.com. Get those profiles coming!Best (or Worst) Political Antic of 2012: Every response had something to do with anything one presidential candidate or the other did. No need to relive the details.Most Important Political Issue of 2012: Being Jews, the winner was, of course, every single ongoing issue in Israel: The thousands of rockets that have fallen in Southern Israel, the UN vote on Pales-tinian observer state status, to name but two, followed by marriage equality.Best local Jewish news item of 2012: From one respondent: “Not the best but the most impactful — our community’s loss of David Brumer,” a local activist; the opening of the new Jewish Family Ser-vice building, and that whole kerfuf-fle with the cancellation of events with a contingent of gay Israelis by the City of Seattle.

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Saturday, January 26 at 2 p.m.Steve reich’s “different trains”ConcertIn conjunction with the Seattle Art Museum and its effort to explore the many ways in which artists have responded through their work to world-changing events, Music of Remembrance presents Steve Reich’s “Different Trains,” which was inspired by childhood memories of his transcontinental train trips between his separated parents during World War II, and the tragic irony of the rail jour-neys made by European children of the same age. At the Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., Seattle. This event is part of MOR’s free “Sparks of Glory” educational series and open to the public.

Saturday, February 9 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, February 10 at 2 p.m.“In the Book of…”Staged readingThis adaptation of the Book of Ruth follows two women — Naomi, an African-American Army lieutenant, and Anisah, her Afghan translator — who lose their husbands to war. Upon discharge, Naomi uses forged documents to save Anisah by bringing her home to Mississippi. But Naomi’s controversial act of kindness may spark another war at home. At the Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle. Saturday $10, Sunday $8. Half-price tickets available for seniors and students; every perfor-mance has 10 pay-what-you-can rush tickets ($1 minimum) for purchase at the door. For more information, visit www.mirrorstage.org/inthebookof.

Monday, January 28 and tuesday, January 29 at 7:30 p.m.Marc CohnConcertGrammy award-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, famous for “Walking in Memphis” and “Silver Thunderbird,” combines musical preci-sion with passion and soul. A natural storytell-er, his songs distill universal truths out of what are often romantic, autobiographical tales. At the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall, Bena-roya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle.Tickets are $43. For tickets and information,

call 206-215-4747 or visit www.benaroyahall.org, or visit the ticket office at the corner of Third and Union.

Saturday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m.Songs of heavenPhilharmonia Northwest chamber orchestra and Kirkland Chorale Society/Magnolia Chorale present “Songs of Heaven,” including Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms” and Max Bruch’s “Kol Nidrei,” the latter performed by cellist Miriam Shames. Other pieces to be performed are Dvořák’s “Te Deum” and “Three Chorale Preludes” of Bach-Respighi. At Meany Hall, University of Washington, 1401 15th Ave., Seattle. $18. For more information and tickets, visit www.philharmonianw.org.

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Thelma CaplanJanuary 10, 1928–January 7, 2013

thelma died peacefully on January 7, 2013, three days shy of her 85th birthday. she was born in seattle on January 10, 1928 to rose and Louis Caplan. she attended Horace mann elementary and Garfield High school. thelma graduated from the University of Washington with a B.a. in sociology in 1949, followed by a master’s in social work in 1952. she was a social worker in new York City for over 30 years, ultimately working for the association of protestant Welfare agencies doing field evaluations of their various programs. a lover of art and music, she served for several years as a docent at the metropolitan museum.

in 1996, thelma returned to seattle, where she was active in civic affairs and generously supported many organizations. she was a resident of the summit at First Hill and the Kline Galland Home, and is survived by her sister, Gladys Caplan Fogel of Los angeles, her nephews Barry Fogel, m.d., and Judge Jeremy Fogel, grandnieces and grandnephews, and many cousins and friends in the seattle area. remembrances to the UW school of social Work.

grandmother lives at LeDor VaDor, and now the elderly woman and her great-granddaughter have a relationship. Luzmila is now 2 years old.

“What is unique is not only her com-mitment to the work that she’s doing, but the creative aspect that she brings to her programming,” said Seattle host Toby Donner of Bendersky.

The Donners traveled with the JDC to Buenos Aires last March. “Viviana just has a way with people,” Donner said. “This program is so loving and so supportive.”

LeDor VaDor was built in 2007 with the JDC’s help to create a better living facility for Jewish seniors.

“It came to my mind, why not move the daycare to the elderly home and to make it an intergenerational project?” said Bendersky. “In the beginning, my bosses thought that I was completely crazy. They know already that I am crazy, but they also know that when I want something…”

“Having these children so intimately involved with the seniors is remarkable,” said Donner. “It’s a two way street. That’s what it’s about.”

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Now, after nine years as a host on ESPN, Steve, Viviane and their 3-year-old, Gabriela, have moved to Houston where Steve has joined Comcast SportsNet. He will be lead anchor for the 6 p.m. and 10

p.m. editions of “SportsNet Central” and also report for “CSN Houston.” 

Steve has continued his passion for coaching and mentoring at-risk teens, and will take this up again in Houston. He received a Presidential Service Award in 2012 for his volunteer work.

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“As an artist, what do I want from people? I want them to listen to music I cre-ated and have it mean something to them,” Leader says. Unlike the audiences for sec-ular music at a club, for instance, Jewish music audiences “inherently listen. They

tell themselves, ‘I want to hear what this guy has to say.’ That began to speak to me.”

The whole point is to connect with people who aren’t reached by traditional Jewish services and music, he says.

“The beauty of Jewish music is that everybody sort of connects to it in their own way.”

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Bar MitzvahNathan Shay Tuvey

nathan will celebrate his Bar mitzvah on saturday, January 26 at temple B’nai torah in Bellevue. nathan is the son of amy and Jon tuvey of issaquah and the brother of Briana tuvey. His grandparents are paul and sandy sirull of surprise, ariz., roberta tuvey of rockford, Wash., and the late robert tuvey.

nathan is a 7th-grader at Beaverlake middle school and enjoys computers, robotics and performing arts. His mitzvah project has been working with the issaquah Food Bank.

Bat MitzvahJuliana Rose Sherer

Juliana will celebrate her Bat mitzvah on saturday, February 2 at Congregation Beth shalom in seattle. Juliana is the daughter of amee and michael sherer, and the sister of sam. Her grandparents are Gene and Gerry Huppin of Kirkland and palm desert, Calif., and the late abe and eunie sherer.

Juliana is a 7th-grader at Hamilton international middle school. she is a member of the Hamilton vocal Jazz ensemble, and she enjoys reading, being with friends and family, and attending Camp solomon schechter. 

Juliana is collecting itunes gift cards and ipods for the music and memory program at Kline Galland.

Bar MitzvahTomer Shlafer

tomer will celebrate his Bar mitzvah on saturday, February 2 at temple B’nai torah in Bellevue. He is the son of Boris and elena shlafer of Woodinville and the brother of atalia. His grandparents are Ludmila shlafer of Bellevue, svetlana seluyanov of st. petersburg, russia, the late Wolf shlafer and the late michael seluyanov. tomer is a 7th-grader at Kirkland middle school and enjoys traveling, watching movies, and his friends. His mitzvah project is to plant a tree in israel.

Northwest: In 2007, the Icicle Creek The-atre Festival in Leavenworth presented “Dov and Ali.” Ziegler likes the art scene at Seattle Center and finds Seattle “friendly, welcome and supportive,” she said. “It’s not true everywhere.”

“Photograph 51” has already played to audiences in Los Angeles, New York,

Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis. It has garnered awards from the Tribeca Film Institute Sloan Filmmaker Fund and STAGE International Competition. A film version starring Rachel Weisz is in the works.

“Photograph 51” has “a sense of humor, and it’s funny, not dry,” said Ziegler. “There’s real warmth. It’s defi-nitely not a play written by a scientist.”

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IF yOu GO“Photograph 51” runs February 1 through March 3 at Seattle rep-ertory theatre, 155 Mercer St., Seattle. For more information and tickets, visit www.seattlerep.org. Following the Feb. 17 matinee performance, a panel discussion will be held to discuss the role of women in science today.

‘Photograph 51’ captures Jewish woman’s role in sciencechaRlene Kahn JTNews Correspondent

Up alongside the process of major sci-entific research and discovery is the neces-sity of human communication.  Within that context comes miscommunication. This scenario is the subject of “Photo-graph 51,” opening February 1 at Seattle Repertory Theatre on the Seattle Center Campus.

Written by Anna Ziegler, the play is directed by Braden Abraham, a native Northwesterner who’s been at The Rep for nine years, most recently as associate artis-tic director.

Early genetic research in post-war Brit-ain brought fame to scientists like James Watson, Maurice Wilkins, and Francis Crick. Additionally, Rosalind Franklin was involved in leading research in sev-eral areas of scientific importance, includ-ing the identification and discovery of the structure of DNA.

Yet in 1962, Watson, Wilkens, and Crick shared the honor of a Nobel Prize, while Franklin’s contribution went unmentioned, her role dismissed and downgraded by Watson in his account of the discovery of the double helix.

Rosalind Elsie Franklin’s contribution to the discovery of DNA, with the use of an X-ray diffraction image of DNA nick-named Photograph 51, is only recently becoming part of history. Fellowships, awards, and even a university have been

named after her, and books have been penned about the physicist who died in 1958, at 37, of ovar-ian cancer.

The play focuses on the young Brit-ish Jewish woman from Notting Hill, London. Born into a family long involved in Jewish causes, Franklin’s uncle was Sir Herbert Samuel, High Commissioner of Palestine during the British Mandate. Early on, Franklin showed a talent for chemistry and phys-ics and stubbornly stayed true to her love of science, receiving her Ph.D. from Cam-bridge University. Her research extended far into natural and what later became genetic science.

Playwright Ziegler discovered Frank-lin and her story when researching another play. “I had never heard of her, but later [developed] a ‘love affair,’” she said. Ziegler worked on a project com-missioned for the state of Maryland about three women in science. “It was a total education,” she said. “I even learned about the race [to discover the structure of

DNA]. It was fun to write a play that’s an education for yourself.”

“Drawing from real accounts and her own imagination, Anna presents a fic-tionalized version of the race to claim this enormous discovery in very human terms,” said Abraham. “This is a play about the rewards and sacrifices of achiev-ing great things.”

Franklin was “complicated, a prickly person, and was hard to work with,” said Ziegler. The role of Franklin will be played by Boston University grad Kirsten Potter.

“The portrait you see is [that] she’s a strong, directed person...but how circum-stances get in her way,” said Abraham.

Franklin “was an outsider at King’s Col-lege,” and the play shows “how she feels, how she is being treated — she protects herself.”  

“This is where the plays starts,” said Ziegler, “with a central miscommunica-tion: [Franklin] thinks she is in charge.”

Staged in the smaller Leo K Theatre at Seattle Rep, all six characters remain on stage the entire time. Abraham says his production will be fluid, combining “nar-rative, real scenes and commentary.”

Asked if or how Seattle’s reputation as a biotech and science hub was a factor in staging the play here, Abraham said that the theatre “has added performances [because] Rosalind Franklin is pretty famous in the biotech community.”

This is Ziegler’s second time in the

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The cast of “Photograph 51” surrounds its heroine Rosalind Franklin, played by Kirsten Potter.