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letters to the editorthe rabbis turn

Everything is very real its a mystery, but there are vampires, ghosts and werewolves, etc., who play in.

Librarian extraordinaire Nancy Pearl, who is speaking at the Jewish Federations Connections event on Sunday, about what shes reading these days.

Luchot vshivre luchotmenuchim baaron Te

whole tablets and the broken

tablets rested inside the Ark

o the Covenant (Babah

Batra 14b). Te whole and the

broken rest together in our

sacred covenant.

Tis past week we read in

our orah portion Yitro about

the receiving o the en Com-

mandments. And in a ew

weeks, we will read in the orah portion Ki

isa about Moses coming down the moun-

tain, bringing rom God the tablets. Beore

the tablets can be given to the people o

Israel, they become broken, as Moses hurls

them in his anger as part o his response to

the building o the golden cal.

Tis is one o our national low points

having quickly lost condence in our leader

and having demanded an idol be built, and

Moses acting upon his anger to destroy

that which had been written by God. And

yet, our tradition teaches us to redeem this

low point, these broken shards, and to place

them in our sacred ark with the new, whole,

unbroken second set o tablets.

I requently reect on this teaching o

the broken and whole tablet pieces being

housed together in the ark. I wonder about

how the broken tablets made it into the ark.

Did Moses pick them up himsel, or was he

too angry or disappointed that he could not

help collect them? Was there one person or

a team o people working on it together?

Did they get cut picking up the shards or

were they able to collect them without get-

ting hurt? Were they aware o the sanctity

amongst these shards?

One o our greatest challenges today is

allowing the broken and the whole to live

peaceully together. I see this problem on

two dierent levels in the internal and

the external.

How do we enable the broken and the

whole within our souls to coexist? How are

we kind to the broken bits o our souls?

How do we give them attention, attend to

them and see them as a source o growth

and vision into our souls, rather than run

away rom them or bury them deep.

And how do we create sacred commu-

nities to allow the broken souls and the

whole souls rest side by side? It is so easy

to label people who appear dierent as

broken, overlooking their humanity and

their wisdom, orgetting they too are cre-

ated in Gods image, and how our commu-

nities are richer when they welcome and

treasure the diversity o our population,

welcoming all and the gis they bring.

Te rabbis o the almud understood

how easy it was to dismisswhat appeared as shards and

brokenness. R. Yehoshua ben

Levi cautions his children:

Be careul regarding how

you treat an elderly individ-

ual who has orgotten his

learning due to an extenu-

ating circumstance (i.e., old

age, sickness, accident, strug-

gle, to make a livelihood, as

opposed to where his learning may

have deserted him due to lack o inter-

est, belie, or regular review). As we

say, Te ablets as well as the broken

pieces o the ablets were placed in the

Ark. (almud Berachot8b andMena-

chot99b)

Te arks contents are not complete

without both, and yet we so oen ool our-

selves into believing we are complete when

we cut o or deny the brokenness within

ourselves, and when we close our com-

munities to those who seem more broken,

more in need, than we are.

Experiencing brokenness does not make

us less holy, less worthy, less the object o

Gods love. Our brokenness may enable us

to reach higher than we ever did beore.

he almuds discussion o Moses

broken tablets continues: he broken

tablets were set at the bottom o the ark,

and the complete set was arranged right

on top, the broken set orming a steady

base, a oundation or the new set.

Not only are the broken and the whole

together in the ark, but the broken orm

the oundation or the new set. hese

broken tablets may even be allowing the

new tablets to reach higher than they

would have on their own, and bring with

them their own richness and importance.

Tis teaching o the important roles

both broken and whole vessels play is

shared by many cultures. Yose Jacobson

tells the story o an elderly Chinese woman

who owned two large pots:

Each hung on the end o a pole,

which she carried every day on her

shoulders to ll with water rom the

stream located at the end o the vil-

lage. One o the pots was complete and

always delivered a ull portion o water;

the other pot was cracked and arrived

home each day only hal ull.

O course, the complete pot was

proud o its accomplishments. he

poor cracked pot, on the other hand,

was ashamed o its own imperections

and that it could only do hal o what it

Th whl and th brknrst tgthr

Rabbi Jill boRodin Congregation Beth Shalom

had been made to do.

Aer six years o what it perceived to

be bitter ailure, the humbled broken pot

nally opened its heart to the woman at

the stream. I hate mysel, the cracked

pot cried, I am so useless and value-

less. What purpose does my existence

have when each day I leak out hal o my

water? I am such a loser!

Te old woman smiled and said,

Did you notice that there are owers

on your side o the path, but not on the

other pots side? Every day while w

walk back rom the stream, you hav

the opportunity to water them.

For six years I have been able

pick these beautiul owers to decora

our home. Without you being just th

way you are, we would have never cr

ated this beauty together.

May we too see and be able to integra

the holiness o both our ragmented an

whole pieces.

in defense of our defenders

David Shaynes otherwise excellent column defending the IDF against the truly scurri-

lous charge of war crimes has a statement that I strongly object to (Dishonest message

could have promoted hate crimes, Jan. 14). He writes, If the IDF deserves to be singled

out, it is for having a remarkable absence of the kind of incidents that plague other mil-

itaries engaged in warfare, including our own U.S. military, which has its own shameful

record of war crimes against civilians (My Lai, Haditha).I am a combat veteran of the U.S. military. Our record is not shameful, it is exem-

plary and every American should be proud. The attack on Poland in 1939, the bombing of

English cities and the Holocaust were war crimes, as were the Rape of Nanking and the

treatment of captured combatants and civilians by the Japanese. These atrocities were

carried out on a national scale as a matter of policy and cannot be compared to an inn -

itesimally small number of isolated cases of individual soldiers whose character was not

up to the stress of war.

Shaynes comment adds to the clatter on the left, especially in our educational system,

to damn the U.S. as an evil empire and an aggressor nation. That is an intolerable revi-

sion of history and a complete loss of perspective. America is a nation with a moral pur-

pose that ghts against war criminals to preserve freedom and peace in the world, and I

will not sit quietly while anyone slanders our military.

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Clarifying the defense

Re: Mr. Wilkes letter (whom, for sake of full disclosure, I consider a dear friend) in

which he took understandable umbrage at my remarks about My Lai and Haditha, I am

truly sorry my words were understood the way he did. He states, I am a combat vet-

eran of the U.S. military. Our record is not shameful, it is exemplary and every American

should be proud, and I could not agree more. The men and women who risked (and still

do) their lives or actually gave their lives are, in my mind, forever enshrined in the roles of

the ultimate American heroes, as people who did the hardest thing any person can ever be

called on to do ght and risk death and injury for our country. I certainly never meant

to cast dispersions of any kind on the U.S. military as whole.

Having said that, it is a sad but undeniable fact that My Lai and Haditha happened

unforgivable mass murders carried out by U.S. soldiers aberrations, very uncharacter-

istic of the glorious and proud history of our armed forces when viewed in totality. Indeed,

Im sure many of the thousands of U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan

died as the result of policies of restraint intended to minimize civilian deaths.

The IDF in its past history also has some events for which it should be ashamed, in

1948 and later years. But, to the best of my knowledge, it has been many decades since

any IDF unit carried out mass murders, and certainly no such thing happened in Cast

Lead. As such, the IDF has, in my opinion, perhaps the cleanest record of any modern

army facing actual combat conditions, at least in the last two or three decades, completely

opposite of the impression Ed Masts group tried to convey (Provocative bus ads go to

highest levels of county government, Dec. 24).

So, again, I apologize to my fried Robert and any one else who thought I meant to

belittle the U.S. Armed Forces. I am very proud of both the U.S. Armed Forces, and of the

Israel Defense Forces, and Americans and Israelis are all fortunate to be so well served

by their ghting men and women. And to my friend Robert, thank you a thousand times

over for your sacrices and your service.

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RobeRt Wilkes Special to JTNewsRobert Wilkes is a political columnist who

writes from a conservative viewpoint. Roberts

column this week concerns matters of Jewish

survival and is not about American politics.

I you think American politics is dis-cordant, Israels is a cacophony. Since the

beginning o the Zionist movement and

continuing aer independence, the loci o

political philosophies regarding the mean-

ing, mission and destiny o Israel have

been arther apart than our parties ever

have in America.

Herzl and his political heirs ought a

erce battle over the idea o a Jewish state

against actions that, among other visions,

wished or nothing more than an intellectual

and cultural center or the Jewish people. Te

debate was eventually won by David Ben-

Gurion on May 14, 1948, when Jews became

sovereign over their land once again.

Founding arguments resuraced in the

late 1980s as Israel attempted a rapproche-

ment with Palestinians in their midst

aer the Six-Day War. Te doves came to

power under Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon

Perez with high hopes or peace. Instead,

they gave the world Araat, the debacle o

Oslo, and all that ollowed including

the withdrawal rom Gaza and subsequent

Hamas totalitarianism.

he Israelis have since learned their

bitter lesson and awakened to reality. Tey

are quietly supportive o Benjamin Netan-

yahus wary but realistic policy toward peace

negotiations. Te American administration,

we may hope, is coming to recognize its

own limitations aer a bad beginning.When events such as Oslo leave us bewil-

dered, we ask, What were they thinking?

Tis is precisely the question answered in

Kenneth Levins brilliant book, Te Oslo

Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under

Siege. I discovered the book during a talk by

George Gilder, author oTe Israel est.

In his speech, Gilder made three inter-

esting observations: Palestinian negotiat-

ing strategy can be explained in terms o

game theory; Israels obsessive pursuit o

peace to the point o jeopardizing its own

security at Oslo and aer can be under-

stood in terms o a psychological delu-

sion; and nally, animosity toward Israel

can be understood as envy and resentment

o Israels success. I leave it to the reader

to learn more about game theory and the

Israel test rom Gilder himsel.

Levin, a polymath, scholar, and psy-

chiatrist, elucidates the Oslo delusion this

way: Chronically besieged populations sub-

ject to bigotry, denigration or assault suer

delusions in which they believe their accus-

ers are right, and believe they must accom-

modate and change themselves to win

acceptance rom the society at large. He

illustrates his thesis by charting eorts at

assimilation (and, in many cases, abandon-

ment o Jewish identity) among German

Jews in the century beore the Holocaust.

Fast orward to the early 1990s. Occupa-tion atigue and an overwhelming hunger

or peace and security created a national

delusion during Oslo. Israel brought Araat

and his 7,000 armed gunmen rom unisia,

hoping to make them peace partners. Te

Peace Now movement promoted its leaders

into the government, and Yossi Beilin, a lead-

ing dove and deputy oreign minister under

Rabin, held secret talks with Palestinian coun-

terparts. Beilin oered everything and any-

thing to the Palestinians, the Golan Heights,

East Jerusalem even the Western Wall.

Araat responded with suicide bomber

attacks and continued incitement ollow-

ing his Plan o Phases, a deception with

the goal o destroying the Jewish State.

Te ruse was evident to a small number

o Israelis monitoring Palestinian media,

yet Israeli media, the American Jewish

press, and the Israeli government publicly

ignored it. Israel continued to educate its

schoolchildren to believe in the possibility

o a nal and enduring peace.

Israelis have awakened with heavy

hearts rom their delusion. Tey under-

stand the sel-evident reality that they

can do nothing by themselves to reach

ormal peace with the Palestinians. T

Palestinians will not abide it short o ann

hilation o Israel as a Jewish state.

Tose who think dierently remai

aicted with the Oslo Syndrome. ManAmericans do, and many o them ar

Jewish. hey support pro-Palestinia

groups and the BDS movement (boy

cott, divest and sanction), and seek t

delegitimize Israel. Tey employ trope

such as apartheid and Israeli-Naz

war machine to create a smokescreen o

twisted acts and history giving currenc

to Lenins adage, A lie told oen enoug

becomes the truth.

Among them are Seattle blogger Richar

Silverstein, Rabbi Michael Lerner oikkun

Naim Ateek o Sabeel Institute, Noam

Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, the Inter

national Solidarity Movement the li

goes on. Tey hyperbolically depict Isra

as a Nazi state inicting a Shoah on the Pa

estinians. Well meaning? I cannot assum

otherwise. Deluded? Without doubt.

Now that we know what they are think

ing, the question remains, Why are the

doing that? Dr. Levins keen psychoan

alytical paradigm has them pegged. Te

adhere to ar-le ideologies that despis

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Te controversy over ads critical o

Israel banned rom King County Metro

buses last month became a legal matter

on Jan. 19. In conjunction with the Seattle

Mideast Awareness Campaign, the ACLU

o Washington led suit in U.S. DistrictCourt requesting an injunction that would

place the ads on buses as soon as possible.

Te 12 ads, which read Israel War

Crimes: Your ax Dollars At Work, were

slated to run or our weeks beginning on

Dec. 27, 2010. On Dec. 23, King County

Metro announced the ads would not be

run, and that an interim policy or non-

commercial advertising would be imple-

mented.

At a press conerence announcing the

suit, SMEC spokesman Ed Mast cited

other controversial bus ads run by King

County Metro, including one related to

the Israeli-Palestinian conict in Gaza.

We rejected stronger language, said

Mast. We abided by King County guide-

lines or what was appropriate speech in a

public orum. What we want is not some

kind o punitive action. We want our

ads back up as they were approved and

accepted.

Attorney Jerey Grant, who represents

SMEC in the suit, said that legally the case

boils down to ree speech.

Tis case is about more speech, not

less, said Bender. People have compet-

ing views on this, strongly held. But thats

the whole idea about the First Amend-

ment; that people should get their ideas in

the marketplace and let people talk aboutthem.

Rob Jacobs, director o Israel advo-

cacy organization StandWithUs North-

west, said he is concerned that the bus ads

would not necessarily amount to a serious

dialogue.

We had hoped that this would go away

and that there would be an opportunity

or dialogue and serious communication

thats more than slogans on the sides o

buses, Jacobs said.

A statement released by the Jewish

Federation reinorced the organizations

support or the Metro decision not run

the ads, calling them inammatory and

destructive.

Tis kind o demonization o Israel

is contrary to reconciliation and does not

contribute to urthering the peace process.

Our core values direct us to seek ways to

build bridges, not to destroy them, the

statement said.

Te case may rest on King Countys

claim that the running the ads and cor-

responding response ads submitted by

groups such as David Horowitzs Freedom

Center would be disruptive to Metro ser-

vice. Te county is currently in the process

o creating a new policy or dealing with

non-commercial metro ads.

Te county sells advertising to raiserevenue or the provision o bus service,

said Frank Abe, director o communi-

cations or King County Executive Dow

Constantine. Te escalation o this issue

rom one o 12 local bus placards to one

o widespread and oen vitriolic inter-

national response introduced a new and

legitimate risk o harm to or disruption o

our bus system.

I the injunction sought by ACLU and

the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign

is granted, then Jacobs said his group

would run ads encouraging a ocus on the

peace process. He also suspects that nega-

tive ads would be run by parties on both

sides o the Israel-Palestine issue.

Mast acknowledged the controversy

surrounding the ads but explained that he

would remain unsatised until they were

accepted by King County Metro as appro-

priate and nally run.

Certainly the controversy spread the

slogan wider than we had anticipated,

Mast said. But at the same time we need

to stand by it as appropriate speech.

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nationalism, especially within powe

ul, advanced nations such as the U.S. an

Israel, whom they judge troublemakers an

oppressors. Tey adopt utopian universa

ist prescriptions illuminated in Lennon

dreamy Imagine theres no countries

assuage their particularist Jewishness.

Te Oslo Syndrome is a threat to Jewissurvival. Clarity on this point can be oun

in the question, What does it mean to b

a Jew? For me, there are three pillars

Jewish lie: God, orah and Israel. I a

proud o our history and our people, an

I nd it difcult to imagine Judaism su

viving i Israel is deeated. A blow so de

astating to Jewish identity must hasten th

day Judaism slowly ades away, sharing th

ate o cultures and religions over the cent

ries that have been overcome by raw powe

Will a child be called to the orah (I pray i

not a Kindle) in 200 years? We dont know

but as Jews we must do everything we ca

to preserve the religion and the people th

gave the world the one God and the law.

O 257 countries rom Aghanistan

Zimbabwe, many newer than Israel, man

egregious by any standard, scores o the

theocracies, only one nds that it mu

deend its legitimacy. Only one is a perm

nent item o concern on the UN Huma

Rights Council agenda. Only one.

Stand with decency. Lose your del

sions. Fight or Israel.

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ies classes each week absorbed in tweets,text messages, and the latest iPhone apps.

In the hopes o helping teachers shrink

the tech divide in the classroom, the

National Association o emple Edu-

cators, an organization associated with

the Reorm movement, will meet or

its annual conerence at the W Hotel in

downtown Seattle starting on Jan. 30. Te

conerence is titled Imagineering Jewish

Education in the 21st Century.

Te world o education is changing so

dramatically, rom moment to moment,

that the experience o youth growing up

today is undamentally shited, Beth

Young, one o several certied Reorm

Jewish education directors attending and a

conerence co-chair, toldJNews rom her

home in Coral Gables, Fla., where she is

the director o education at emple Judea.

Young has been associated with NAE or

the last nine years.

We no longer live in an age where the

teacher is the person who has knowledge

and imparts that knowledge to students,

said Young. Te role o the educator

becomes one o helping students navigate

inormation. Its much more o a coach-

ing-modeling role.

A pre-conerence, one-day boot

camp will give education directors, dayschool teachers, and regional education

representatives who dont eel completely

comortable with technology a chance to

have some hands-on experience with the

basics. Darim Online, a national com-

pany that provides technical solutions or

Jewish organizations, will acilitate.

Still, NAE executive director Rabbi

Stanley Schickler cautions that Jewish edu-

cators shouldnt throw the baby out with

the bath water.

I believe that the use o technol-

ogy denitely has the potential to attract

Jewish youth to Jewish learning, Schick-

ler toldJNews via e-mail, but technology

is only the hook. I there is no substance

behind the technology, then I dont believe

that the youth will stay.

Rabbi Melissa Buyer, a NAE board

member, conerence co-chair, and the

director o religious school, youth and

camp programs at Stephen S. Wise emple

in Los Angeles, Cali., told JNews that

more technology in the Jewish classroom

really can orge increased bonds with

todays students and their parents.

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Janis siegel JTNews Correspondent

Buyer implemented a digital report

card system at her temple with weekly

parent updates, and a 4th-grade distance

learning program called iLearn, where stu-

dents spend one day a week at the school,

and one day in a session via a Webinar

chat room.Many o our students have not known

lie without technology and it is relevant

and ever-present in the lives o the next

generation o Jewish learners, Buyer said.

While I dont believe technology is the

magic bullet, I do believe technology can

help us rethink and reshape Jewish educa-

tion and perhaps community.

I think people are being pushed by

whats going on with the kids because it is

their world and were responding to their

reality, said Elizabeth Fagin, a longtime

supplementary school teacher who served as

director o education at emple Bnai orah

in Bellevue or nearly 10 years. She said

she had to switch her own communication

strategies to students when she realized that

kids just dont read e-mail anymore.

I started texting them, Fagin said. I

I was a director today, I would be using

Facebook or tweeting them.

Locally, more than 20 education direc-

tors will be attending the conerence,

thanks to a $2,000 grant rom the planning

and community services department o

the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle.

So how can congregations aord

upgrade their classrooms, make lapto

computers and the Internet availab

to students, and compete with some

the best Jewish Web sites out there, lik

JewishRockRadio.com, where mus

becomes a teaching tool?Te act o the matter is that mo

o our students carry smart phones, an

have small computers on their person

Buyer said. Its time to move away ro

labs [and ask], What more could we b

doing with mobile technology? Tat real

doesnt cost us anything except or th

training o our aculty.

Fagin agreed.

It doesnt require that classrooms hav

technology, she said. You can provid

homework experiences with their amilie

in the library, or in their schools, and sen

kids on Web searches.

Largely, NAE conerence organize

want the conerence educators that atten

to leave Seattle with something any pa

o a program they interact with here th

they can bring back to their schools an

teach their teachers.

Its a way o stretching the day an

asking, How can we expand the day by ut

lizing technology that students and am

lies are already using 24/7, Young sai

We need to start to think o students c

phones as tools instead o distractions.

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1Its become harder and

harder to be a physicianin private practice these

days, especially in primary

care, as Dr. Mindy Blaski

can attest. We chatted on the

phone last month about her

recent retirement. It wasnt

just about the challenges o

the current health-care envi-

ronment she admits shes

reached retirement age.

Mindy didnt always plan to be a

doctor. Born into an Orthodox amily in

Budapest just aer World War II her

parents survived Auschwitz (separately)

she struggled against their expectation

to marry young to become the rst in her

amily to go to college. She was majoring

in Poli-Sci at Brooklyn College with only

one basic science class on her transcript

when she decided to go to medical school,

adding two years o pre-med courses to

her education.

Sexism in medical school was still

strong in the 1970s, she remembers,

but she orged ahead, ueled by ideal-

ism and the eminist idea

that women needed to be

treated better in the health

care system. welve years

o yeshiva education at Beth

Jacob schools in New York

also shaped her sense o jus-

tice.

Ater medical school at

SUNY Bualo, and a three-

year amily medicine resi-

dency at the University o

Caliornia at Irvine, her hus-

bands love or the Paciic

Northwest brought them to

Seattle. Like many, we came or a visit, saw

Mt. Rainier on a beautiul sunny day, and

bought a house.

It was hard, she says, getting her career

on track in a new town, and aer a ew

years working or other practices, she

decided to open her own in 1985.

Mindy loved seeing patients and help-

ing people, but her practice became over-

whelmed dealing with multiple health

insurance companies and competing with

larger organizations or sta recruitment.

I tried to nd alternatives to retiring,

but I really couldnt, she says.

Hospitals and larger practices can hire

ull-time administrators to handle insur-

ance paperwork but most small groups

cant. She calls this insurance company-

imposed burden way out o line Its all

about their huge executive salaries, and

stock-holder prots, she says.

She points out that health insurers

made their largest prots ever last quarter

while primary care doctors are working

harder to treat patients in less time.

Te American public

paying more and gettinworse outcomes than oth

industrialized countries, sh

adds.

Mindys unwillingness

give up the time she neede

to spend with patients

provide the best care, oe

caused long waiting tim

or patients and late nigh

or me.

Although the doctor is ou

Mindy is not completely retire

It takes time to close a practice and pape

work is still being processed. She serves o

the board o the Western Washington chap

ter o Physicians or a National Health Pr

gram (www.pnhpwesternwashington.or

and continues to advocate or a single-pay

system. Shell do ll-in work or other do

tors, too.

From the perspective o retiremen

Mindy marvels at the trajectory o her li

From the ashes o Auschwitz, sh

says, thats how Im thinking o it.

Although she let the ultra-Orth

dox liestyle in which sh

grew up, she says it was

grounding Jewish exp

rience. Despite her ather

authoritarian nature, she w

inspired by his determin

tion to achieve a better lie o

his amily, and by the wor

ethic o both her parents.

In addition to spendin

winter hiking and dryin

out in ucson, and the kni

ting shes always enjoye

Mindy is an active memb

o emple Bnai orah, whe

she has ound great support rom the cler

and community, and learned to leyn (chan

orah. Her husband Paul is the Northwe

regional rep or the International Union

Rooers and Waterprooers. Tey have tw

grown daughters living in the Bay Area.

2Seattle attorneyJames Rogers w

recently selected as Outstandin

Plaintis rial Lawyer by th

Washington Deense rial Lawyers at th

organizations judicial reception in Oc

2010. Te WDLs members are 800 law

yers statewide engaged in civil deense lit

gation. Jim was nominated by his pee

other members o the organization

and nal selection was made by the WD

board.

Jim is not only a Jreader (or ra

script as he wrote, and we ondly remem

ber), but a member o a multi-generation

Seattle Jewish amily. His great-grand

ther Solomon Rogers was a ounder

emple De Hirsch in 1899.

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CouRTESy MiNDy BLASKi

Dr. Mindy Blaski, after decades

as a physician, has hung up her

stethoscope from private

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Dear Rivy,

Are Chinese mothers

elbowing out Jewish moth-

ers in the super-crazed,

ambitious, drive-your-child

department? How did we letthis happen? I thought that

Jewish mothers were frmly

planted in the top slot o

wild parental determina-

tion. Are we sliding? Do you

think Jewish mothering has

changed? Is this a good thing? Is there an

accepted model or Jewish mothering?

Amy Chua is grabbing headlines with

her shocking revelations o hours o com-

pulsory, epic-long piano practices, harsh

treatment or B+ grades, not to men-

tion ongoing merciless sleepover depri-

vation meted out cruelly to her children.

Everyones got something to contribute

in the way o Amy Chuas instant notori-

ety. Youve got the pro-Chua team, as in,

She knows what shes doing! Why didnt

I do that? versus the con-Chua team

she is cruel and inhumane, with varying

degrees ranging rom she is damaging her

children at one end to she has denied her

children real lie experiences at the other.

Whats a mom to think?

And what then is the Jewish angle in

all o this? We are used to being the ones

grabbing the headlines in the area o psy-

chotic mothering. Do I hear Sophie Port-

noy rolling over in her grave? Is that

Marjorie Morningstars mom chuckling

up there in heaven, giddy with delicious

schdenfreude as the attention deects

rom tomes dedicated to the demoniza-

tion o Jewish mothers en masse, shied

over to a whole other ethnic group? Say it

isnt so! I wish I could but as with many

other matters in this world, the Chinese

are pulling ahead. Woe are we.

On second thought, lets be glad. Te

glory days o Jewish mother mocking are

over let the word go orth no more

Jewish mother jokes! On to the next exploi-

tation o an immigrant stereotype! Tank

you, Ms. Chua, or dethroning us! Jewish

mothers o the world, it is sae to come out,

we have been relegated to the realm o the

normal it was only a matter o time.

Now would be a good time to pause

and regroup. Most o us were not thrilled

with the archetypal Jewish mother o pop-

ular culture. Its ading away gives us an

opportunity to recast ourselves. What is

Jewish mothering? Is there such a thing?

Where would we go to nd it?

Let it not be le to the Ayelet Wald-

mans o the world to set the new Jew tone

to mommy redux. It is time to hit the col-

lective reresh button and locate a work-

able image o Jewish mothering that will

resonate or the 21st century.

Who knows our? Four Jewish moth-

ers who can speak across times and con-

tinents our mothers whose lives speak

to the needs o the uture,

the challenges o the pres-

ent while having lived in the

past? A composite sketch is

in order, as we peruse the

pages and pictures rom thepast to pinpoint Magnii-

cent Moments in Matriarchal

Mothering; Four Foremoth-

ers, with our big Jewish ideas

in Jewish mothering.

First, Your Voice. As God

exhorts Abraham to ollow

the advice o his wie Sarah

regarding a precarious domestic situation

details o which we will not enter into

here God Almighty adjures Abraham,

to shema bekolah, listen to her voice. Te

rst tenet o mothering: Find your voice

and do not hesitate to use it. Tis new

mothering upon which you are embarking

must be an authentic expression o your

own deep belies; as such, they must be

voiced and notpassive aggressively com-

municated through olded arms over the

chest and side-swiping comments.

Second, Your Search. From whence

has come that voice, one might ask? As

Rebecca experiences her challenging preg-

nancy, she goes lidrosh et Hashem to

seek answers rom God. Tis short narra-

tive teaches an important idea: Answers

are not simply ound. Te action required

o us is lidrosh, a determined search that

involves doggedly seeking answers, some-

times rom a Higher and Deeper place

than we may conventionally turn to. o

raise Jewish children, a spiritual quest is in

order. What are your deep belies and how

will you pass them on to your children?When did you last set aside time or study

and contemplation?

Tird, Your ears. Te prophet Jere-

miah depicts mother Rachelcrying or her

lost children. Tis is not an easy undertak-

ing. We may be tempted to make light o

all the mothering shenanigans, but this is

serious stu. Raising up the next gener-

ation o Jews cannot help but be raught

with drama. Pictures o sel-sacriic-

ing Jewish mothers be they, Hannah and

her seven sons o Hanukkah or mothers

whose children were grabbed rom them

during painul moments in Jewish his-

tory, mothers who poignantly adjured,

Gedenk du bist a Yid remember, you

are a Jew to their young sons as they were

conscripted into the zars army, or moth-

ers who sent their children on the Kinder-

transport rescue mission to Great Britain

rom 19381940, these loom large in our

Jewish minds. Tough we live in blessed

21st-century times we cannot help but

harbor uncertainties about our childrens

continued engagement in Judaism. It

may take a leap o aith, but ear not, God

assures Rachel, be comorted, your chil-

dren will return.

Fourth, Your Appreciation. Upon th

birth o Judah, matriarch Leah declar

joyully, Tis time I will thank God

Te name reects a very special gratitud

Rabbi Yochanan, quoting Rabbi Shimo

bar Yochai, says, From the day that Gocreated the world there was no huma

who thanked Him, as it says this time

will thank God.

Leah is the rst person to walk th

earth to turn to her Maker and say

simple thank you. She teaches us grat

tude. Her motherly thank you becom

the name Judah, the name o the Jewi

people. It took a Jewish mother to teac

the world appreciation let its lesso

not be lost on us. Trough all the rus

o carpools, bedtime bedlam and morn

ing meshugas, dont orget to slow dow

and say a quick thank you or all the bles

ings tumbling around you. In days o ou

where the lie o rush and the tides o ce

phone rings, texting and Facebook pos

ings bring a everish pitch to lie, we nee

to say a Leahs thank you or all we hav

as messy and as complicated as it may b

its ours.

Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally

renowned educator and Head of School at

the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a

question thats been tickling your brain,

send Rivy an e-mail at

[email protected].

Jwish tigr mthrs

Rivy PouPko kletenikJTNews Columnist

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The people have spoken. The results are in. Beore weget too wrapped up in 2011, lets pause or one last lookback at the things we loved in 2010. The results o our

annual Best o Everything Survey might look amiliar insome places Island Crust pizza, anyone? but theyare also even more reective o our Jewish communitythan ever beore. How is that, you ask? Its simple: Morepeople flled out the survey than ever beore, shatteringthe record set just last year. But enough introduction andonto the best o Jewish Washington...

Mazel Tov!Pi Cbti

Best Place for a Wedding

Well kick things o with a wedding celebration. This yearthe people said, I do to the Seattle Sheraton, locatedright in the heart o downtown. Outdoor suggestions likethe Arboretum and Ballard Locks were popular, but thiscorrespondent suggests that anybody considering thosevenues wait a ew months or the weather to clear up.

Best Place for a Bar MitzvahStep right up, Congregation Beth Shalom. Well behearing more about you soon.

Best local Party Band or dJ

Mazel Tov to DJ Nicky B aka Nick Barrat, a frst-timewinner.

Best Place to Buy a Wedding/

engageMent ring

Seattles most amous Jewish jewelers are at it again.This category goes to Ben Bridge. Although one reader(obviously looking or something more dangerous than

a wedding ring) said hed head over to a BMWdealer: Id get a motorcycleinstead.

Best KetuBah artist

The voters expressed their own creativity with this vote,once again, or Joan Lite Miller, who designs classic and

contemporary ketubot, incorporating calligraphy, collage,and exotic papers.

Best PhotograPher

In an upset pick....just kidding. Perennial winner DaniWeiss Photography is the peoples choice. Go Dani!

Best videograPher

Our winner or videography is Edit 1 Media based inTacoma, but operating throughout the region. Also aspecial mention that bears passing along one personvoted or Josh Isaac, not an event videographer, but aflmmaker and mensch who passed away this past year.

Best florist

I you saw this action ick The Townthis year, you knowhow orists can pack a surprising punch. Anna Brandt,

however, reserves her talents or the task at hand,starting with a ree consultation and working all the waythrough the event.

Best hotel for a siMcha

Why i it isnt the old Seattle Sheraton again...

Best extreMe Party sPace

Our frst tie is as extreme as this category: A three-waydraw between the Space Needle, Camp Kalsman, andthe Georgetown Ballroom. I it were me, Id do all three:a sunny aternoon at camp ollowed by dinner at theNeedle and dancing until dawn.

Best caterer

The winner is Nosh Away, in a category that always

gets the competitive juices (and competitive appetites)owing. Speaking o which, I think Im going to go grabsome lunch...

Best Wedding caKe BaKer

Nosh Away takes this one, too with a nod to pastryche Rumi, who received special mention rom amultitude o voters.

DelI-CIousBest corned Beef sandWich

Some o our voters in this category reached beyondSeattle with their choices, but i you want that New Yoravor, you can fnd it at I Love New York Deli, withlocations in the Pike Place Market and the U-District. Pathe brown mustard!

Best Knish

You done with that corned bee? Make room, but dontget up. I Love New York Deli takes it though somereaders expressed their longing or the ormer storero

(and kosher) oerings o Leahs.

Best sMoKed fish

One reader suggested one location or whitefsh andanother or lox. But no matter how you smoke it, the

winner is Dressel Collins o South Seattle.

TraDITIon!Best rugelach

Unortunately, my grandmothers rugelach was not anominee in this category. But it still may not have beateNosh Away, whose pastries let the rest o the feld in aproverbial twist.

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Jon Jacobs of I Love NY Deli, with a fresh

brisket

Heres to lusting afterthat which is black andwhiteandreadall over.

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Best challah

Once again, Nosh Away wins the day. It turns out that thecaterers are beloved or more than sweets. Although Igive bonus points or confdence to the person who wrotemy own.

Best Bagel

In a battle that came down to two kosher titans, BagelOasis o Ravenna repeated as champion in a ver yclose match-up over Noahs at University Village. But a

contender has entered the ring. Up-and-comer Eltana,serving their Montreal-style bagels up on Capitol Hill, willbe a orce in next years vote.

DInIng ouTBest Burgers

Red Mill burgers are decidedly not kosher but theyare decidedly delicious, as voters chose them by a widemargin. Especially popular was the Veggie Verde burger. Idig their onion rings and taste or playing nothing but theRolling Stones. Remember to bring cash.

Best Pizza

We have a tie! Deending champion Island Crust Pizzaand Seattle icon Pagliaccis were all-even in this category

where the competition is sti but the crust never is. Keepin mind, however, that Island Crust is the kosher option.

Tutta Bella came in a close third.

Best sunday Brunch

And yet another tie! This one between Portage BayCa and Saltys on Alki. In my book, Saltys wins in theambiance and view departments, but Portage Bay gets anod or its organic and locally sourced ingredients.

Best foodie-style restaurant that

KnocKed your socKs off

In a category that does service to the old two Jews, threeopinions joke, the oodie-style restaurant that knockedthe most socks o was Jerry Traunelds Poppy on CapitolHill. Readers love their veggie options and their Thali(small dishes served on a large tray) concept.

Best neW asian/fusion

The runaway winner is Bellevues red-hot Spiced: Truly

Chinese Cuisine. They ocus on the Asian, serving upauthentic Szechuan recipes loaded, as you mightguess, with spicy red peppers.

Best roMantic dinner

I used to always wonder why there were alwayslimousines parked on the edge o the Aurora Bridge inQueen Anne. Then I realized, Oh, thats a restaurant.

Then I realized that it must be popular and ancy.

Delicious ood. Delicious wine. A stunning view. Ladiesand gentlemen, Canlis.

Best Kid-friendly restaurant

O course the best kid-riendly restaurant winner is a pizzaplace. It could also very easily be called the best dude inhis early- to mid-20s restaurant. The winner here notie this time is Island Crust Pizza in Mercer Island. Tothe reader who picked Camp Kalsman: Remember thatmeals are only supposed to be a small part o the camp

experience and not even the best part at that!

Best sushi

As a Wallingord resident, my heart is with the sushi(and the prices) at Musashi on 45th St. But the peoplethink otherwise; perhaps I ought to get in my car androll (ahem) over to Lake City to try Toyoda Sushi arunaway winner.

Best MoBile food trucK

This category is hard to keep up with. One, the trucks alwaysmove around. Two, it seems like a new delicious ood truckappears every week. The winner is Marination Mobile, theKorean/Hawaiian truck you might have seen in Belltown, orin Fremont, or in West Seattle, or on Beacon Hill....

Best BBQ

The Pacifc Northwest has a wonderul culinary tradition,

but other than the propensity or Seattleites to put onshorts and start grilling when its 50 degrees in Marchbecause the suns out, we have no great barbecuetradition. However, i you do want it, look south toColumbia Citys Jones BBQ and SODOs Pecos Pit.

Best Middle eastern

Cedars in the U District oers a delicious Indian menu inaddition to gyros, hummus and baba ghanoush. Make areservation it gets crowded.

Best indian

Voters went the kosher route in this category, declaring a

strong preerence or Pabla. The Golden Samosa goes tothe two locations, in Issaquah and in Renton.

lChaIM!Best Wine list or Wine Bar

The downtown location o Purple is an all-glass cubethat looks like a giant fsh tank. Except instead o water,JTNewsreaders apparently preer to swim in wine. Theca and wine bar, which opened in Woodinville a decadeago and also has locations in Kirkland and Bellevue, was a

huge hit in this category. Pour mea glass o Cab, please.

Best local

Bartender

What makes a good bartender?Familiarity? Sti drinks?

Theatrics? JTNewsreaders seemedto fnd the right combination inMurray Stenson at Zig Zag andAndrew Friedman at Liberty.

Best cocKtail

When the Beatles came to Seattlein 1964 they stayed at theEdgewater Hotel on Pier 67. I Ihad to guess, I would say at leastone o them probably wet his gullet at the hotel bar while

staring at the waters o Elliott Bay.

Best haPPy hour

Monas in Greenlake is a Mediterranean-style bistro.What better way to celebrate the Mediterranean liestylethan by spending an aternoon eating and drinking? Withdrinks starting at $3 and ood items or $5, count me in.

Best Place to Meet friends or

Watch a gaMe

The winner here is Montlake Ale House. With 15 rotatingbeers on tap, maybe this category could have been BestPlace to Have a Beer. I youre into those less traditional

sports, you could heed the advice o one voter and heato Camp Kalsman where there will surely be room orspectators at the gaga and capture the ag matches.

sWeeT TooThBest BaKery

The regions best pastries are in West Seattle, says you.Head to Bakery Nouveau or delicious treats both sweetand savory, then take a walk along Alki Beach to burn the calories.

Best chocolatier

Our readership, whatever itspolitical belies, has at least onething in common with PresidentObama: a love or FransChocolates. But o course, Fransmakes high-end, delectable treatthat anybody can enjoy.

Best ice creaM,

gelato, or frozen

yogurt

This wasnt even close. I youveseen the lines that orm outsideo the Molly Moon locations inWallingord and Capitol Hill, you

know the winner. Ive heard rumors o people who will

avoid walking past altogether because the smell o resice cream and wae cones is too overpowering.

Best cuPcaKes

Trophy, with a location just two blocks rom Molly Moon (aat U Village and The Bravern in Bellevue) is the winner.

CoMMunITY MaTTersBest local JeWish organization

Jewish Family Service, with its deep programmingoptions, counseling, ood bank, and so many otherservices resonates across all parts o the community, anonce again takes the prize.

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Best youth organization

The options or Jewish youth in this town are plentiul.The close race between USY, NFTY, NCSY, and BBYO thisyear exemplifed that all our organizations remainstalwarts. But this year, USY came out on top.

Best JeWish caMP

And here it is. Garnering more votes than ever y othercategory, the meanest, toughest, scrappiest competitiono em all. In one corner: Camp Solomon Schechter. In

the other: Camp Kalsman. The winner, ater going eightrounds is...Camp Solomon Schechter.

Best JeWish WeB site

It makes sense that the Best Jewish organization wouldalso have the Best Jewish Web site, and that JFSSeattle.org

would be our winner. Check it out or anything you need toknow about the goings on at Jewish Family Service.

Best Place to volunteer

JFS is the pick or volunteering, not just because o allthe organizations good work, but because it oers avolunteer so many dierent ways to help. Be a mentor,tutor an English learner, help prepare holiday baskets, orlend a hand in the ood bank.

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Best local food BanKAnd speaking o the JFS ood bank, it pops up again!

Thankully, Seattle has a great deal o organizationshelping eed the hungry, like JFS, Helpline, Hopelink, andNorthwest Harvest.

Best counseling services

And the winner here, once again, is JFS. Their counselingservices were the clear avorite among voters.

Best vocational/training

servicesJFS takes it again, but not all the way. Seattle CommunityColleges rounds out the tie or frst place. Each has itsadvantages, depending, o course, on the specifc natureo the training.

Best free activity for Kids

Our avorite answer in this category was being togetheras a amily. Assuming that, the winning suggestion wasa walk around the Seward Park loop. Perect or a sunnyday and ree all days except SeaFair.

Best source for local cheaP

stuff to do

The best source or cheap stu is, o course, The CheapBastards Guide to Seattleby local Jewish writer andhumorist David Volk. Its only $15, or i youre reallycheap, fnd the Cheap Bastards cheap deal o the day onFacebook. For ree.

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Best congregationIn this category voter turnout matters more than any other.Thats because most people rightully think highly otheir own synagogue communities. This year, CongregationBeth Shalom takes home the prize. Mazel Tov!

Best JeWish suPPleMental school

As Maimonides once said, where there is a strongcongregation, there is also a strong Jewish religious school.And this, perhaps, is why Congregation Beth Shalom is our

winner despite heavy competition rom so many others.

Best adult education

Once again, Congregation Beth Shalom is numberone. With a ull slate o classes with titles youd neverexpect rom your athers shul, and a teacher who hasbeen recognized nationally or her work, o coursereaders chose Beth Shalom.Best Mohel

Rabbi Simon Benzaquen is an artist with a paintbrush and more importantly or young Jewish boys in Seattle,hes not bad with a knie, either. The Sephardic BikurHolim rabbi is also no stranger to this honor; this is yetanother notch in his toolbelt.

Best local JeWish hero

Beth Huppin is a hero on behal o the people who say should value teachers, doctors, and frefghters insteado actors, athletes, and rock stars. She teaches at Seattl

Jewish Community School, Congregation Beth Shalom,and based on her votes in this category, she certainlymakes an impact. A special shout-out to nominee LeaHanan, who graciously donated a kidney to her ather.

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The voters kept things within the tribe, selecting theStroum Jewish Community Center as a great place toexercise (and gossip). The lavish Pro Club came in a verclose second, though I can relate to the voter who wroteFitness? Are you kidding me?

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a likeness of his new book, The Cheap Bastards

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launch party instead of putting on a real-live

version of the book. Then again, isnt printing

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session? The top spot or spa experiences in this years pollgoes to Olympus Spa in Lynnwood. But not i youre a guy.Regardless, its a ar cry rom the shvitz my grandatherused to visit in Jersey.

Best destination When iM

shoPPing for clothes for Myself

The voters went with a classic in this category, namingMacys. But is it Macys they love or do they miss the oldBon March?

Best KidsWear

Voters this year chose The Gap or their kids clothes. Oras I call it, the number one destination or kids who dressbetter than most adults.

Best indePendent shoes and

accessories

The Shoe Zoo has been in business or more than twodecades, outftting the eet o Seattles youth. Located behindUniversity Village, this is the place or everything romminiature wingtips to popular Crocs. But remember, kids only.

Best indePendent toy shoP

Top Ten Toys is not your average toy store: or one, theJTNewsreaders have chosen it (again) as their avoriteo the past year. But they also put some thought into theproducts they oer no toy guns, and or the sake o

parents, no toys that make annoying lights and sounds.

Best outdoor shoPPing

Yes, University Village is the winner or best outdoorshopping and why wouldnt it be? It has everything,rom Frans Chocolates to Noahs Bagels to Trophy cucakesto the kosher QFC. So why not?

Best local, little, indePendent

shoP

Seattle is blessed with many o these gems, and thenominees ranged rom clothing boutiques to tinybookstores. The winner is Cakespy, a new Capitol Hillstoreront with a little bit o everything rom art and gitsto the newest dessert trends.

Best Judaica

Rumor has it that the olks at Temple Bnai TorahsJudaica shop can get you anything you need, even i itsnot in stock. Psst. Hey you. Yeah, you! You wanna buy amezuzzah?

Best gift shoP

Light your sparklers! Fireworks with fve locationsaround the Puget Sound region oers everything romcreative Judaica to handcrated products by local artistsand designers.

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Best indePendent BooKshoP

Obviously the move to Capitol Hill hasnt slowed the olksat Elliott Bay Book Co. down at all. I anything, its been aboon as they edged out Third Place Books or the title oSeattles avorite.

Best JeWish BooK of 2010

Readers voted and critics would likely agree thatthe best Jewish book o 2010 was David Grossmans Tothe End of the Land. The Israeli novelists story o a amily,meted out on an aimless hike through the Galilee, is hismost personal yet. Another popular choice was rom localrabbi Mark Glickman and his new book Sacred Treasure The Cairo Genizah.

Best JeWish author of 2010

For this category, the voters went local, selecting NoahFriedland, a computer scientist whose frst novel, A HouseDivided, tells the story o an ambitious Israeli academicliving in the United States who gets drawn back into thepolitics o his home country when his brother dies.

Best JeWish-theMed or israeli filM

of 2010

Ajamitells the story o a Jaa neighborhood o mixedJewish, Muslim and Christian population. A collaborationbetween Christian and Jewish flmmakers, the flm wascritically acclaimed in Israel.

Best JeWish actor of 2010

There is no shortage o talented, dramatic Jewish actors. Butthis year, the people have chosen to go or unny. Grownups

star Adam Sandler wins here, although an awkward shruggoes out to the person who nominated Larry David.

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Best Place to hang out and Meet

other fun JeWs

JConnect wins here, which makes sense: One o the slogansconsidered by the UW Hillel young adult organization wasA Great Place to Hang Out and Meet Other Fun Jews.

Best Place to Meet a nice JeWish

Boy or girl

And by meet other un Jews they really meant meetother un Jews o the opposite sex (or or those with adierent orientation, o the same sex not that theres

anything wrong with that). Yes, JConnect takes the prizehere as well.

Best online dating site

The competition or Jewish dating sites is slim, so nosurprise that JDate racked up nearly all the votes. And

who could deny the greatness o a dating site that asksright away i you keep kosher?

Best JeWish PicKuP line

My avorites range rom the simple (Nice kippah!) tothe hilariously Jewish (Is that a bagel in your pocket?)to the almost uncomortably direct though sure toappeal to mothers (Hi, Im a doctor).

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2010

The winner squeaked in beore 2010 ended. Readerspraised the eort to prevent bus ads critical o Israel romrunning on King County Metro lines. In other news, SarahPalin elicits strong emotions rom our readers.

Most iMPortant Political issue

of 2010

Here our readership turned away rom specifcally Jewish

issues toward something more universal (though i you asome people, not universal enough): Healthcare reorm.Also checking in with high vote totals were, o course, theconomy. And WikiLeaks? Not even a WikiSqueak.

Best local sPorts teaM of 2010

This award goes out to the only Seattle sports team to wa title this year, the Seattle Storm, starring Jewish pointguard Sue Bird! The award or best Jewish team nameheads over to Rock, and the 613s o Northwest Yeshiva

High School.

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o many in the Middle East and

beyond, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish represents

a triumph o aith, hope and determina-

tion over squalor, suering and righten-

ingly long odds.

Te oldest o nine children, all bornin the Jabalia reugee camp, he became

known as the Gaza doctor, the rst Pal-

estinian physician on sta at an Israeli

hospital, a globally respected obstetrician

and gynecologist specializing in human

ertility with a masters degree in public

health rom Harvard.

Ten his wie Nadia, the mother o their

eight children, died o leukemia at age 45.

Four months later, on January 16, 2009, three

o his daughters, Bessan, 21, Mayar 15, and

Aya, 14, and a niece, Noor, 17, were killed

when someone in an Israeli tank shelled the

amily home during the Gaza war. No Israeli

authority has asserted there was hostile re or

any other sign o resistance rom the house.

Abuelaish, an observant Muslim, sub-

sequently completed a book he had been

contemplating or three years, I Shall Not

Hate, an autobiographical plea or peace

and human dignity that he brought to a

pair o recent Seattle-area book signings.

It is important to eel anger in the

wake o events like this; anger that signals

that you do not accept what has happened,

that spurs you to make a dierence, he

wrote. But you have to choose not tospiral into hate. All the desire or revenge

and hatred does is drive away wisdom,

increase sorrow, and prolong strie.

In an appearance beore about 275

people at emple Bnai orah in Belle-

vue on January 17 and a presentation

that drew 310 at own Hall in Seattle two

nights later, Abuelaish never wavered

rom that theme.

In Seattle, where the audience appeared

to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian

cause, he was berated by a middle-aged

man who said he grew up in a reugee

camp on the West Bank and served time

in an Israeli prison.

How can you say dont hate them?

the man said.

For many Palestinians, we hate the Israeli

army. Tey are our killers they murdered

your daughters, he continued, raising his

voice. Youre asking us to love them?

Killing cant be

solved by killing.

Whats important to

me is my daughters,

Abuelaish replied.

hey will nevercome back.

he Palestinian

cause is holy and

noble. We must use

the holy and noble

means away rom

any hate, he said.

Keep conident in

your cause with rationality, with wisdom.

At the synagogue, a center o interaith

eorts, the audience was predominantly

Jewish but included Christians and Mus-

lims, including women in headscarves.

Asked what he would tell Hamas about

justice and violence, Abuelaish said he

would not single out Hamas, that his

message was the same to the Palestinian

Authority and the Israeli government:

Violence will never win words are

stronger than bullets.

He has repeatedly asked personal

acquaintances in the Israeli governme

why his house was shelled, people wh

know what happened, and the respons

he said, has been nothing. Tey turn

dea ear.

Beore his appearance in Bellevu

Abuelaish was asked how trying to pr

mote understanding and ease tensio

between the Israeli and Palestinian pe

ples could be translated into governme

and political action.

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tim klass Special to JTNews

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Because of Temple Bnai Torahs work in the interfaith community, Dr. Izzeld

Abuelaishs appearance was a mix of Jews, Muslims and Christians, includin

some in headscarves that greeted Abuelaish as he signed books.

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First the bad news: Book Lustis nished.

Now the good news: Nancy Pearl, the

creator o the series o books that helps

hungry readers nd the right book at theright time and Library Journals 2011

librarian o the year, isnt giving up her

personal quest to promote literacy and

the pure joy o reading. Its just that she

has so many new channels to spread the

word her blog at www.nancypearl.com

and a witter eed (@Nancy_Pearl) with

recommendations that she updates on a

regular basis.

Its so much un to witter. I wit-

ter every day about a book, Pearl told

JNews rom her home in Seattle. I think

thats an easier, maybe even more efcient

way to do it.

Tis woman who has spent so much

time with other peoples words has also

embarked upon something new: Her rst

novel. But Pearl is somewhat daunted by

the thought o putting her own characters

on the page.

Its much scarier, she says. Even

though the novel that Im working on is not

autobiographical at all, it eels much more

personal than the Book Lust books did.

Its your characters and your ideas and your

way o putting the words together.

Pearl, who retired as director o the

Seattle Public Librarys Center or the

Book in 2004, is certainly

not lacking or what to do.

Aside rom writing, she

reads. A lot. On the morningJNews spoke with Pearl,

she had completed reading

a 19th-century antasy novel

by Ben Aaronovich called

Midnight Riot.

Everything is very real

its a mystery, but there

are vampires, ghosts and

werewolves, etc., who play

in, Pearl says.

Pearl also talks books

on NPR, travels to various cities to train

librarians and readers to help them advo-

cate or literacy and works with students

in the University o Washingtons Library

and Inormation Sciences program.

But shell take a break rom all o that on

Sun., Jan. 30, when shell be the speaker at

the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattles

annual Connections womens event.

Pearl oers up two books or readers

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