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Games people play, and other rehabilitation successesJanis siegel JTNews Correspondent

Two of the latest studies to come out of Israel have given hope to sufferers of neuro-degenerative diseases and stroke victims alike, in two vividly different but success-ful research trials.

For those who struggle with diseases like Alzheim-er’s, Lou Gehrig’s, and Par-kinson’s, the latest findings by Dr. Iliana Gozes, a Tel Aviv University researcher who developed a new com-pound called Davunetide, or NAP, found that her proprietary peptide compound solution prevented further cell damage in the brain cells of mice and that it also repaired damaged nerve cells.

In previous studies, NAP also showed positive results when it was tested on the damaged cells of patients with schizo-phrenia.

In the second study comparing the rehabilitative progress of stroke patients who played video games to that of patients who had traditional physical therapy, TAU occupational therapist Dr. Debbie Rand found that subjects who played video games using Xbox Kinect, Sony PlaySta-tion, and Nintendo Wii gaming consoles benefitted from two times the number of movements per session than those in a conventional physical therapy session. The

video game group also contin-ued progressing for months beyond the group that under-went conventional physical therapy.

Cell repair for the brain

Because nerve cells exist in a “microtubule network” that not only allows pro-teins to pass from cell to cell, but also enables communi-cation between cells, people impaired by neurodegener-

ative diseases have networks that do not function properly, which affect a person’s motor skills and brain function.

Gozes injected study subjects with NAP, a compound solution derived from a hormone-regulating powerhouse protein called ADNP. It restored and stabilized the flow of those critical proteins to both com-promised and chronically damaged cells and altered the progression of disease.

“There is no difference,” Gozes told JTNews. “NAP provides protection by restoring (or protecting) the transport system/scaffold of the nerve cell.”

In a statement to the university, Gozes said that “NAP appears to have wide-spread potential in terms of neuro-pro-tection.”

The study’s results were published in

the journal “Neurobiology of Disease.”Gozes holds a “composition of matter”

patent on NAP. She is a co-inventor named on over 15 other patents and patent applications for Allon Therapeutics Inc., in Vancouver, B.C., where she is a co-founder and the chief scientific officer. NAP is the company’s premier compound.

The studyTo test NAP, researchers injected two

sets of mice with manganese to observe its path as it traveled through the animals’ brains.

One grouping included normal mice whose microtubule system was damaged by the administration of compound sub-stance.

The second group of mice was geneti-cally modified to produce Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) symptoms. Their microtubule systems were chronically damaged.

Each group of mice was divided into those injected with NAP and the control group, which did not receive the NAP injection.

In the brains of mice injected with NAP, whether their cells were geneti-cally modified for ALS or impaired by the solution, the nerve pathways were either spared further damage or were returned to a healthy state. In both groups, the mice that did not get the injections continued

to experience a decline in function and degenerative symptoms.

Gozes anticipates continuing her research to see how NAP may be applied to humans in a treatment setting and to determine which patients would benefit the most from the therapy.

Game therapy — the studyRand looked at 40 stroke patients who

had the event between one and seven years prior to the study. At two sessions per week for three months, one group of 20 received traditional physical therapy and the other group of 20 received video game therapy.

Patients who played video games had a much greater frequency of movement, said Rand. Additionally, because the activ-ity involved strategy, she said, the brain was also engaged to coordinate with the movement. This involvement caused the patient to concentrate less on having to perform a required activity and more on completing a “fun” task.

Rand also found the interaction between brain and body contributed to “brain plasticity,” a necessary component in the reconnection of vital brain linkages in the stroke victim.

The most striking advantage, Rand noted, was that the video game group continued its progress in grip strength for three months after the sessions ended while the other group did not show the same results.

The study was a collaboration with Sheba Medical Center and funded by a Marie Curie International Reintegration grant.

Study participants also reported that the group activity and interaction was an important part of the “fun” factor. Rand will continue studying the effects of video gaming on stroke patients by experiment-ing with solitary video game players.

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“I need to learn what’s going on. I need to learn what the strengths are and what the areas of improvement will be.”— Keith Dvorchik, incoming CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, on what he needs to do when he first arrives. The story is on page 6.

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American JudaismRabbi saRah newmaRk Congregation Beth Hatikvah

When I tell people I’m a Reconstructionist rabbi, I generally get this response: “I’ve heard of Reconstruc-tionism, but I don’t know anything about it.”

Those of us who trained at the Reconstructionist Rab-binical College near Philadel-phia are used to this. In fact, in our first class on Recon-structionist thought in the seminary, we are all assigned to write “The Elevator Paper” — a summary of an entire movement that can presumably be pre-sented to someone during a brief ride in an elevator! Since America celebrated its birthday yesterday, I thought it would be appropriate for me to get in the elevator with everyone who is reading and intro-duce you to Reconstructionism, the only form of Judaism born on American soil.

The founder of Reconstructionism, Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan (1881-1983), did not intend to form a new branch of Juda-ism. His goal, rather, was to introduce a process by which Judaism would be con-tinually “re-constructed” so successive generations of Jews could find meaning in Judaism in the era and culture in which they lived. He was profoundly influenced by living in America (he immigrated with his family in 1889) and was inspired by the democratic principles upon which the country was founded.

Kaplan’s seminal work, “Judaism as Civilization: Toward a Reconstruc-tion of American-Jewish Life” (1934), put forth this important doctrine: “Juda-ism is the evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people.” Kaplan used the word “civilization” consciously. He was influenced by the then-new field of soci-ology and argued that Jewish civilization included history and culture, language, lit-erature, art, ethics and values, and beliefs and practices. He insisted that Jews who were not connected religiously to Judaism but who had different ties to it were still part of the civilization.

But he himself was not a secularist. Kaplan’s view was that Judaism was the product of the religious experience of the Jews through the history of the Jewish people.

Kaplan rejected the notion of what he called a “super-natural” God. He viewed divinity as the coordinating, integrating factor in nature that allows for the actu-alization of justice, truth, and compas-sion. He taught that human beings seek the divine because doing so adds meaning and purpose to their lives.

Kaplan described the Torah as the “earliest diary of the Jewish people.” He believed Torah to be the record of our ancestors’ search for meaning as well as the repository of a society’s moral principles, values and laws through which we are encouraged to become fully human. Reconstructionist theology teaches that Torah

is the Jewish people’s response to God’s presence in the world.

Kaplan taught that Jews living in dem-ocratic societies could and did “live in two civilizations.” I bristle when I hear the rather new appellation of “Jewish-Ameri-can.” I’m not a Jewish hyphen American. I’m Jewish and I’m an American. I take part in American political, social and cul-tural life. American English is my native language. I celebrate Thanksgiving and the 4th of July and other American civic holidays. My father (age 99) is a veteran of World War II and served in the European theater. My husband was a reservist who served in the Gulf War in Saudi Arabia. How much more American can we get?

But we are also Jewish, and our per-sonal calendars run according to Jewish rhythms. We are both: Jewish and Amer-ican. Kaplan articulated this concept to Jews struggling with their new Ameri-can identities and the old-world Judaism many had shed when they arrived on our shores.

Reconstructionism teaches that “the past has a vote but not a veto.” Like Reform Judaism, it is a post-halachic movement. Reconstructionists study Jewish texts to discern answers to today’s questions. Jewish tradition is the starting point for Reconstructionists, but it may not be the ending point. Teachings at odds with contemporary values may be rejected or “transvalued” — given new meaning to match the sensibilities of contempo-rary life.

Many American Jews of different denominations — or of no denomination — actually think about their Jewish lives much in the way Kaplan suggested with-out calling it “Reconstructionism.”

It has been quite a long elevator ride, and I’ve barely scratched the sur-face of Reconstructionist Judaism. I am a member of the third generation of Reconstructionist rabbis (the seminary was founded in 1968) and am one of about 335 Reconstructionist rabbis in the world. I wonder what Kaplan would have thought of our discussions of his theology

at the seminary. Many of us are not “Kap-lanians”; Reconstructionist prayer services would no doubt seem foreign to him. But Kaplan would probably be happy to see that Reconstructionist Judaism has con-tinued to evolve.

After all, he shocked the world, includ-

ing his own congregation, when his daughter Judith was called to the Torah to become the first Bat Mitzvah in 1922. America is the land of innovation, and Reconstructionist Judaism has found fer-tile soil here for its first 45 years.

seeking leadership

The “Rabbi’s Turn” on May 22 (“What we’re all about”) featured Rabbi Seth Goldstein of

Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia. While he provided interesting facts about the history of TBH

and Olympia’s local Jewish community, he does a great disservice to those of us in Olympia

who see that the very active and growing BDS movement and strong and well-organized

groups of Israel demonizers have caused harm and promote anti-Semitism here in Olympia

and beyond.

If the rhetoric against Israel — supposedly in support of the “suffering” Palestinians — could

have been curbed, or at least moderated, through some of our local Jewish leaders coming

forward to counter the false claims and outright lies that have been spewed by the Evergreen

State College professors and others, our community would not have been allowed to get so

poisoned with these biased and false anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments and propaganda.

Our family has never joined the TBH congregation because we couldn’t comfortably align

ourselves with a rabbi and other Jewish leaders who wouldn’t lead. Their peace-at-any-price

attitudes and concessions to local Israel haters have led to the strengthening of the BDS

movement at Evergreen and now South Puget Sound Community College and elsewhere in

Olympia.

Some openly Jewish and Israel-supportive students at these local public colleges have

been harassed, shoved, intimidated, and threatened by Israel demonizers. The silence of most

of our Jewish leaders has contributed greatly to the divisiveness, stress, and vitriol that most

of us experience here.

How can Rabbi Goldstein claim that we don’t have a problem with the vocal “minority” in

Olympia who hate Israel? I am actually offended that he has made this claim. Far too many

of us have been affected!

Some of us can’t even comfortably express our support of Israel in our community at large

without being shunned or attacked or intimidated. We have to constantly listen to the lies

and hatred against Israel and fellow Jews that take place through professors, guest speakers,

biased documentaries, and other events within our community.

At a major intersection in Olympia, a large, in-your-face mural showing “solidarity”

between Olympia and Rafah was painted by those who hate Israel. The anti-Israel organiza-

tion, The Rachel Corrie Foundation, headquartered in Olympia, sponsors ongoing events that

demonize Israel and its Jews.

Longtime friends in Olympia no longer talk to each other because they have differing opin-

ions on the merits of Israel and the Jewish people. What happened to a community that once

prided itself on its diversity, tolerance, and acceptance?

Is Rabbi Goldstein blind to what we’ve been forced to endure for all these years, including

the Olympia Food Co-op board’s unilateral decision, with BDS pressure, in July 2010, to boy-

cott Israel and Israeli goods without input from members on this contentious issue?

The anti-Israel proselytizing will take place, again, in September at Evergreen and SPSCC

to another group of young, impressionable, and unsuspecting students, with no counterbal-

ancing by Rabbi Goldstein or others. Another crowd of brainwashed students will then take

up the cause against Israel, based on lies and misinformation. Truthful facts are not part of

any dialogue, so proselytizing and hatred continue to foment in Olympia. Rabbi Goldstein has

buried his head in the sand.

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■ Jewish Peoplehood Crisis: A Call for ConversationSunday, July 14 at 6:30 p.m.

Following up on his book, “Baseless Hatred,” Seattle Jewish community member and retired University of Washington professor of pharmaceutics Rene H. Levy opens the floor to conversation about the age-old issue of Jewish unity and its obstacles, particularly lack of empathy. According to Levy, the erosion of empathy leads to the destruction of personal relationships and spreads to the community and world at large. Joel Benoliel will moderate the discussion. Kosher dessert reception to follow.

At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle. Tickets are free but reservations are requested at [email protected]. For more information visit townhallseattle.org or call 732-788-6489.

■ New Minyan in Seward ParkMinyan Ohr Chadash will celebrate its first Shabbat July 5-6. Ohr Chadash is a Modern

Orthodox, Zionist minyan that encourages singing and group participation for men, women, and teens. The group will meet for Shabbat and holidays at the Caroline Kline Gal-land Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S, in the activity center. Youth programming for chil-dren ages 3-6 will be available in the adjacent day center.

For Shabbat July 5-6, Mincha services will take place on Friday at 7:20 p.m. Satur-day Shacharit begins at 9 a.m. (followed by kiddush), and Mincha, followed by Seuda Shlishit, takes place at 8:45 p.m. For more information or to join the mailing list, contact [email protected].

Coming upHolocaust Center receives state funding

One big win for the Jewish community in this year’s legislative session came for the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center, which plans to build a stand-alone Holocaust museum.

“The Holocaust Center will be receiving $150,000 in capital support so they can build out their new facility in downtown Seattle,” said Zach Carstensen, director of government affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. “That’s a huge victory for them.”

Dee Simon, the Holocaust Center’s executive director, said the new museum “will allow our community and students from throughout the region to view a new Holocaust and human rights center. We’ve had many requests by community organizations and educa-tors to visit our center and view the artifacts, but have not had the space to accommodate large visits.”

Legislators from the Jewish caucus as well Sen. Ed Murray (D-Seattle), a Holocaust Center board member, led the funding effort. The museum is expected to open in spring 2014.

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From JTNews, July 9, 2004.It’s hard to believe Seattle’s new downtown library is nearly a decade old, but the

Rem Koolhas structure has managed to keep ’em coming. SPL’s head librarian at the time, Deborah Jacobs, was gracious enough to give our reporter an insider’s tour of the then-new facility.

meet the CEO 6The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has announced its new leader, a current Hillel director who will move all the way across the country to start his new job.

as politics goes, compromises abound 7With the end of the legislative session finally upon us, and a government shutdown averted, the analysis is that had it not been for unexpected revenue, things could have ended up a lot worse.

a synagogue nears completion 10After nearly two years of building, the Eastside Torah Center’s new synagogue is coming close to its grand reopening, which its leaders hope will serve a wide swath of northern Bellevue, Redmond and even farther afield.

Cross-cultural honors 11Al Maimon keeps plenty busy within his Jewish community, but his outreach to Spanish and Portugese speakers to educate about Sephardic culture brought him an award from the Spanish consulate.

The JCC’s rebuilding begins 12After many years of waiting, the first phase of the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s remodel has gotten underway, with a makeover of its auditorium that leadership hopes will become a community centerpiece.

There is a future 16While Jews outside of Israel focus on the situations with the Palestinians and Iran, most Jews in Israel are struggling just to get by — and many are leaving. A Knesset member from a new centrist party was in Seattle last week to talk about what’s really on her fellow citizens’ minds.

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JTNews wins journalism awardAt the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association in Seattle on June

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The NCSY youth group’s national publication, Ignite, won two awards as well.

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Don’t Let Age Slow You Downby Mike Selinker & Gaby Weidling

© 2013 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker.

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“The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people,” writes Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. If so, the persons spotlighted in this puzzle make their countries very prosperous indeed. Accomplishing their most notable achievements after seven decades or more, these five give us hope that it is never too late to dream.

ACROSS1 Convenience store treats6 Build up11 Child’s oft-repeated question14 Mass times acceleration15 Artist fond of haystacks16 Color17 He published his first comprehensive

dictionary at 7019 Mischief maker20 Approximately21 Like candles on a cake22 “Essen,” in English24 Mao ___-tung25 Manipulate26 Cayman Islands account holders,

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Incoming Federation CEO is all earsJoel magalnick Editor, JTNews

Come next week, when Keith Dvor-chik spends his first days in his office at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, he’s got one item on his agenda: To listen.

“When I get off the plane, my first job needs to be to meet with people and to listen,” said Dvorchik, the Federation’s incoming CEO. “When I’m done meet-ing with people and listening, I need to meet with people and listen. I need to learn what’s going on. I need to learn what the strengths are and what the areas of improvement will be.”

The Federation’s board announced Dvorchik’s selection on June 28, with an official start date of Aug. 19, following a year-long search after the resignation of Richard Fruchter last July.

Dvorchik, 45, will come to Seattle from Hillel at the University of Florida, Gaines-ville, where he spent 15 years as the stu-dent organization’s executive director and built the small organization into a pow-erhouse that serves between 8,000 and 10,000 students annually and has been rec-ognized by Hillel International as well as by students both Jewish and non-Jewish.

When he began at Hillel, “there was very little impact on campus,” Dvorchik said. “We changed that fairly quickly. We made a decision that we would be out on campus, that we would be making a public presence, that we would become a signifi-cant part of the university and become an integral part of students’ lives.”

Today, he noted, the organization has strong ties with student government and has sent key leaders, including several stu-dent body presidents and former Gators football coach Urban Meyers, to Israel. And if the students don’t know what goes on inside Hillel, they can’t miss the build-ing: It’s across the street from the football and basketball stadiums, constructed from a capital campaign completed in 2004 under Dvorchik’s leadership.

“We were able to secure a site that nobody thought we ever could have secured,” said the lifelong sports fan. “You come to Gaines-ville, you literally cannot miss us.”

Though the bulk of his career has been at Hillel, Dvorchik’s life has taken some interesting twists and turns. He earned his undergraduate degree from Penn State in accounting, realized he’d made a mistake, and a year later returned to Penn for a master’s degree in counseling. His intern-ship took him to Gainesville, where he ended up working in the criminal justice system with patients ranging from trou-bled adolescents to death-row inmates.

“When the Hillel opportunity was pre-sented to me, I actually had two choices: One choice was to come work at Hillel, the other was to run an inpatient adoles-cent facility,” he said. “At the time, it was a big question.”

Dvorchik chose Hillel and threw himself into one of his greatest challenges during

his tenure — building excitement for an organization that’s a five-hour drive from its biggest stakeholders in greater Miami.

“It’s not easy to come see what’s going on,” he said. “It’s not easy to feel the pas-sion first hand.”

But it gave him insight into how Hillel needs to serve a community beyond its walls, which he believes can transfer to Federation leadership as well. What he would like to see, he said, is a unified community with the Fed-eration serving as its backbone.

At an organization’s event, for exam-ple, “it’s not just a JFS event, it’s not just a day school event, it’s not just a JCC event,” Dvorchik said, “it’s a communal event.”

He also wants to be sure that any orga-nization — whether it’s his own or a part-ner agency — is doing top-quality work.

“We can’t waste people’s time,” he said. Dvorchik has one pet peeve: “I don’t

ever want to hear a reason for doing some-thing is because we’ve always done it that way,” he said. “I don’t accept that.”

But he also doesn’t want to begin ruling with a heavy hand.

“I don’t know what the community wants and what the community needs,” he said.

Celie Brown, the Federation’s board chair as of July 1, said Dvorchik’s ability to listen is one of the key reasons he received her board’s vote of confidence.

During the search process, “one of the comments that we got the most was that ‘When he talked to me, he looked right at me and I knew he heard me,’ and that reso-nated with so many people,” she said.

Brown, who has a background in lead-ership coaching, said Dvorchik’s skills as “a change agent” resonated with her.

Dvorchik joins a Federation staff that has been humming relatively smoothly over the past year and has demonstrated a dedication to community building.

“We have the best staff since I’ve been volunteering. They’re all a team, they’re excited about him coming,” Brown said.

Will Berkovitz, who became CEO of Jewish Family Service on July 1, knew Dvorchik during his tenure as executive

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Keith Dvorchik with his wife, Alison. They and their two kids will move to the Seattle area later this summer.

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Legislative session (finally) ends with compromise, reliefJanis siegel JTNews Correspondent

Likening the final 2013-2015 state budget deal to a tied score baseball game in the bottom of the ninth inning, Washing-ton’s Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee was philo-sophical about the inevitable compromises on new taxes and transportation funding. But, he said, he’s ready to work with it.

“We didn’t hit a home run, but we hit a solid double,” Inslee told reporters at a post budget-signing press conference in downtown Seattle Tuesday.

Off the table are catastrophic cuts to social services and help for the disabled that threatened to devastate the poor and needy in Washington throughout the early budget negotiation process.

Inslee said it “spared and in some cases, enhanced” critical social services for low-income residents, and extended health-care to 300,000 citizens, while sometimes preserving and otherwise ending tax relief to businesses.

Jewish communal leaders and aid agencies are also breathing a bit easier now since the late-breaking forecast from Washington’s Economic and Revenue Forecast Council found more than $300

million in additional monies in state cof-fers that averted the need to slash assis-tance programs.

“In this challenging 2013 legislative ses-sion,” Rep. Marcie Maxwell (D-Renton), a member of the state’s Jewish caucus, told JTNews, “we’ve worked hard to approve a state budget that makes these smart investments and preserves our commu-nity values. Our Jewish organizations have been strong advocates for budget decisions that value education (K-12, early learning, and higher education), ensure safe and healthy families and communities, protect vulnerable people of all ages and abilities, and grow economic opportunity.”

The state was $900 million in the hole when lawmakers began hammering out this biennium’s budget, but the surprise additional revenue paved the way for a bipartisan agreement in the final hours of their second special session.

The “blacker” bottom line came from privatized liquor sales, lottery sales, an increase in housing construction permits, and an anticipated contraction in con-sumer spending due to a 2 percent payroll

tax increase that didn’t happen. Within the 483-page document the leg-

islature fulfilled its obligation to fund $1 billion for K-12 schools — that’s $500 per student, paid for, in part, by cuts in state building projects, increases in state employ-ee’s health benefit premium cost-sharing, and no cost-of-living increases for teachers.

“This quality budget takes meaning-ful steps forward in funding public educa-tion from early learning, through higher education, and it protects the most vul-nerable with important human and social services,” Rep. Reuven Carlyle (D-Seat-tle) told JTNews. Carlyle is the chairman of the House finance committee and the House budget negotiator.

“Unfortunately, due to the Senate’s absolute unwillingness to close tax exemp-tions on the revenue side,” Carlyle added, “the spending plan is unsustainable in the long run and we will face similar chal-lenges again soon.”

However, Rep. Cathy Dahlquist (R–Enumclaw), the lead Republican on the House education committee, said she was pleased with the educational outcome.

“This bipartisan bill is the product of collaboration with stakeholders and leg-islators that starts us down a path to improve student outcomes and better sup-port teachers,” she said in a statement.

Zach Carstensen, the director of gov-ernment relations and public affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seat-tle, said he accepted the new budget, but he told JTNews the revenue won’t keep up with the cost of running the state, and these challenges will persist.

“In the final compromise budget there are things that are not so great but could have been a lot worse,” said Carstensen, who is acutely aware of the lingering bud-getary woes from the 2008 economic fall-out. “There’s nothing terrible about this particular budget, but it’s cumulative. We’re all going to have to struggle with [the effects of] the last five years.”

Carstensen said that Medicaid reim-bursements to nursing homes remain frozen at 2009 recession levels, which con-tinues to impact the always rising cost of

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The USO—Supporting our troops overseas and at home

When people think of the USO (United Services Organizations) many often think of the entertainment tours they sponsor for our troops in combat zones or the care packages they send out. These important services are actually just a small part of the wide-ranging work the USO is doing to support our U.S. military service personnel and their families. In fact, while many of the USO’s services are focused on supporting our troops in the field, a growing number of services are targeted at supporting the troops returning home and their families. QFC is proud to support the work the USO does to support our troops. The USO is our Charity of the Month for July.

The USO was created in 1941 and has been continually active since 1951, but it is really only within the last decade that it has experienced a profound growth in the services it offers to pursue its mission, which is: The USO lifts the spirits of America’s troops and their families. Among the programs and services of the USO are:n USO centers for troops and families that include: n “USO in box” for troops in isolated combat areas n USO on wheels also for troops in the field n USO Day Rooms in hospitals and medical facilities n The Wounded Warrior Center in Landstuhl, Germany n Two USO Centers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to support the families of fallen soldiersn Operation Phone Home to facilitate calls from troops to their familiesn Pro vs. G.I. Joe, a real-time video gaming experience that pairs soldiers against professional athletesn Health and Recreation Programs including: n Ride to Recovery, a cycling program, and n Warrior Games, Olympic-style athletic competitionsn Family Strengthening Programs such as: n A program featuring entertainer Trevor Romain to support military children as they adjust to a “new normal” with a wounded parent n Oxygen Couples Seminar to help work on and strengthen relationship issues n Healing Adventures Camps for families with a wounded or ill parent

n Education and employment services such as: n Hire Heroes USA/USO Workshops n Career Opportunity Days n Purpose Driven Rehab n Rivers of Recovery, fly-fishing program with an emphasis on female wounded warriorsn Operation Enduring Caren Grief Counseling such as: n TAPS—Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors n Grief camps for children

The USO is a nonprofit, congressionally chartered, private organization and is not part of the U.S. government. It relies on the generosity of individuals, organizations and corporations to support its activities. If you would like to support the great work of the USO in supporting our troops please hand a donation card to your checker the next time you visit QFC. Thank you!

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Mercer Island native speaks at Israel conference • L&I director happy out westdiana bRement JTNews Columnist

1 Just a couple of weeks ago, Eliana Rudee was part of a panel on the

future of Jewish leadership at the Israeli Presidential Con-ference in Jerusalem.

The Mercer Island High School grad, whom friends and family call Ellie, was already in Israel. She is on a five-month Career Israel internship through Masa, a program of the Israeli govern-ment and the Jewish Agency for Israel. Speaking at the annual conference, which was founded by Shimon Peres in 2008, was not originally on her agenda.

In early June, “I spoke at an informa-tional session for future Birthright group leaders, telling them about my experi-ence,” she wrote in an email. After the session, both a Masa director and a con-ference representative requested her bio.

“A couple days later, someone from the PC called me and said I had been nomi-nated by multiple parties” to speak on a panel, she wrote.

While she was surprised at first at being sought out, she was less surprised

on learning the panel topic. She knew it was vital “for a panel about the future of Jewish leadership…to have [the] perspec-tive of…a future Jewish leader,” she said.

As president of the Israel club at Scripps College in California, where she will be a senior in the fall, and a board member and employee of Hillel, Ellie is already an experienced Jewish leader com-fortable with public speaking.

The three-day conference’s theme was “Facing Tomorrow” and included a 90th-birthday bash for Peres, Israel’s

ninth president. Ellie reports the con-ference was multi-disciplinary. “Scien-tists, psychologists, politicians, actors and actresses,  economists, environmentalists and Jewish leaders” offered perspectives on “problems and solutions in the Jewish, Israeli and world community,” she wrote.

In Jerusalem for a five-month intern-ship at the Institute for Terrorism Research and Response, Ellie is also researching women’s involvement in terrorism and their motivations compared to men.

Growing up in Herzl-Ner Tamid Con-

servative Congregation, Ellie says her involvement in Judaism is driven by pas-sion and a sense of responsibility.

“I connect to faith…through loving and helping my community,” she writes, “and in my opinion, one of the most important things as a human being is to be responsible for other human beings. I cannot accept that there are problems facing our community that are not worth solving, or unsolvable.” And, she adds, “it is simply fun for me!”

Describing herself as athletic and close to her family, since being in Israel she’s taken up healthy cooking and buying fresh food from the shuk (market) and cooking for her friends.

2 In the mid ’90s, Joel Sacks was working for Joe Dear at the Department of Labor and Indus-

tries (L&I) in Joel’s home state of New Jersey. Dear is a Washington native and in 1996 newly elected governor Gary Locke asked him to come home and lead our state’s L&I.

“Just on a whim,” at Dear’s going away party, Joel asked him if he could get a job

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Ellie Rudee of Mercer Island participated in a panel discussion on the future of Jewish leadership at the Presidential Conference in Israel in June.

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Candle LightingJuly 5 .............................. 8:52 p.m.July 12 ............................ 8:48 p.m.July 19 ............................ 8:42 p.m.July 26 ............................ 8:35 p.m.

tuesday 9 July4–5 p.m. — Bullitt Foundation outing

Ellen Hendin at [email protected] or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.orgSee the world’s greenest building on a tour of the Bullitt Foundation and learn about the technically complex systems inside. Limited space available. Parking at Temple de Hirsch Sinai. At the Bullitt Foundation, 1501 E Madison St., Ste. 600, Seattle.

7–8:30 p.m. — Everyday Kabbalah Shelly Goldman at

[email protected] or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgMundane situations are where people encounter the divine and find meaning and joy. Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg will explore the ancient Kabbalistic approach to finding meaning in everyday life. $5 payable at the door. On Tuesdays through July 23. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 nE Fourth St., Bellevue.

thuRsday 11 July10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — Coal Train Controversy

Ellen Hendin at [email protected] or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.orgWilliam McPherson, a Sierra Club activist, will discuss why he is opposed to coal exports, including the environmental impact along rail lines, shorelines and waterways. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 nE Fourth St., Bellevue.

sunday 14 July12–4 p.m. — Camp solomon schechter open House

Jef Nobbe at [email protected] or 206-447-1967 or www.campschechter.org/index.php/aboutus/openhouse2013Feel the ruach (spirit) and energy of camp, introduce younger children to Schechter, reunite with old friends, and see the beautiful camp. $8 per person in advance or $10 at the grill. At Camp Solomon Schechter, Olympia.6:30–8 p.m. — Crisis in Jewish Peoplehood: a Call for Conversation

Rene Levy at [email protected] or townhallseattle.orgA community-wide discussion on Jewish unity, based on Rene Levy’s book, “Baseless Hatred.” Moderated by Joel Benoliel with kosher reception. Free with RSvP. At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle.

monday 15 July9:15–10:30 p.m. — Tisha b’av services

Heidi Piel at [email protected] or 206-542-0075 or bethshhalomseattle.orgTisha b’Av services beginning Monday evening and ending Tuesday with Havdalah and a small break-the-fast. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. nE, Seattle.

tuesday 16 July10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tough New Dui Laws

Ellen Hendin at [email protected] or 206-461-3240 or jfsseattle.orgRecent tragedies involving drunk drivers have put substance abuse in the spotlight again. Laura Kramer, Jewish Family Service addiction counselor and educator, will discuss proposed legislation, ways to reduce dUI incidents, and the effectiveness

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GREATER SEATTLEBet Alef (Meditative) 206/527-93991111 Harvard Ave., Seattle Chabad House 206/527-14114541 19th Ave. NE Congregation Kol Ami (Reform) 425/844-160416530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville Cong. Beis Menachem (Traditional Hassidic)1837 156th Ave. NE, Bellevue 425/957-7860Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative)6800 35th Ave. NE 206/524-0075Cong. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath (Orthodox)5145 S Morgan St. 206/721-0970Capitol Hill Minyan-BCMH (Orthodox) 1501 17th Ave. E 206/721-0970Congregation Eitz Or (Jewish Renewal)Call for locations 206/467-2617Cong. Ezra Bessaroth (Sephardic Orthodox)5217 S Brandon St. 206/722-5500Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch(Orthodox/Chabad)6250 43rd Ave. NE 206/527-1411Congregation Shevet Achim (Orthodox) 5017 90th Ave. SE (at NW Yeshiva HS) Mercer Island 206/275-1539Congregation Tikvah Chadashah (LGBTQ) 206/355-1414Emanuel Congregation (Modern Orthodox)3412 NE 65th St. 206/525-1055Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation (Conservative) 206/232-85553700 E Mercer Way, Mercer IslandHillel (Multi-denominational)4745 17th Ave. NE 206/527-1997Kadima (Reconstructionist) 206/547-391412353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle

Kavana Cooperative [email protected] K’hal Ateres Zekainim (Orthodox) 206/722-1464at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. SMitriyah (Progressive, Unaffiliated)www.mitriyah.com 206/651-5891 Secular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound (Humanist)www.secularjewishcircle.org 206/528-1944Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation (Orthodox)6500 52nd Ave. S 206/723-3028The Summit at First Hill (Orthodox)1200 University St. 206/652-4444Temple Beth Am (Reform) 206/525-09152632 NE 80th St. Temple B’nai Torah (Reform) 425/603-967715727 NE 4th St., Bellevue Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Reform)Seattle, 1441 16th Ave. 206/323-8486Bellevue, 3850 156th Ave. SE

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where to worshipCongregation Emanu-El (Reform)P O Box 30234 509/835-5050 www.spokaneemanu-el.orgTemple Beth Shalom (Conservative)1322 E 30th Ave. 509/747-3304

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New Chabad synagogue nearing completiongwen davis JTNews Correspondent

Rabbi Mordechai Farkash of the East-side Torah Center is thinking about the full synagogue experience.

“When people come in the shul, there will be couches in a section of the lobby, so if they are not comfortable yet with going to shul, they can just sit in the lobby and wait for services to end,” said Farkash of his new $4.5 million synagogue set to open in the fall.

F a r k a s h w a n t s t h e e l a b o r a t e 20,000-square-foot Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue to serve all Jews, whether they are observant or not, young or old, single or with a family, natives or travelers, and anyone in between, even those nervous about attending an Orthodox synagogue.

The property for the new synagogue, located at 16199 Northup Way, was pur-chased in 2006, with city permits acquired by late 2011. Since then, the building has been under construction and Farkash hopes to open its doors shortly after the High Holidays.

“It’s a home for every Jew, especially for Eastsiders,” he said about the diverse group of people that makes up the East-side Torah Center. “Some come for ser-vices, others for Bar Mitzvah celebrations, others for yahrzeits [anniversaries of a death], others for classes.”

Chabad empha-sizes outreach to non-observant Jews, and subsequently caters to people who know very little or nothing about Orthodox Judaism. Farkash wanted the design of the build-ing to keep these Jews in mind.

“There will be a women’s section on the main floor with a mechitzah [bar-rier] for people who feel it’s important to be up close,” he said, “and a more traditional upstairs balcony for women who are more com-fortable with that.”

The location, about a half mile from its current spot on one floor of a Bellevue office complex, took its members’ housing situations into consideration as well.

“In this area there are opportunities for people to find comfortable and affordable housing,” Farkash said. “There are houses nearby for a million dollars or more, there

are houses for $300,000 or $400,000, there are smaller houses, apartments or condo-miniums.”

Having affordable housing nearby ben-efits families who are not Orthodox but may become so in the future, Farkash noted. The synagogue will not have a set seating capacity, but will remain flexible depending upon how many people come to a given service or event.

“At Simchat Torah last year we had such a packed crowd at the Torah Center that we had to dance outside in the park-ing lot,” he said.

The facility will include an outdoor playground and approximately 50 parking spaces. More parking will be available at the church next door.

In addition to offices and a beit midrash, a space for learning, the syn-agogue will house the Eastside Jewish Public Library and have classrooms and a large recreation room with couches and ping-pong tables for the Torah Center’s CTeen Club so teenagers can talk and “schmooze,” Farkash said.

The Eastside Torah Center currently serves approximately 500 families. Some are regulars, while others show up for major events such as the High Holidays.

However, whichever the attendance style, everyone is welcomed, Farkash said.

“It’s an open door policy, [which is] Chabad’s traditional policy,” he said. “This is not a typical synagogue. It’s not just for members. It’s for every Jew to come and take advantage.”

Since 2002, when the current space for the Eastside Torah Center was purchased,

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Rabbi Mordechai Farkash points out the design plans of the new Eastside Torah Center from inside the under-construction synagogue.

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Sephardic community leader receives public service awardchaRlene kahn JTNews Correspondent

In a move that continues to cement the historic relationship between Spain and the Iberian Jews, a member of the Seattle Sephardic community received a public service award from the University of Washington for his commitment to pre-serving Ladino culture and heritage.

On Friday, June 14, the 2013 Luis Fer-nando Esteban Public Service Award was presented to Seattle native Al Maimon, a descendant of both the Turkish and Rhodes Jewish communities, at a gradu-ation celebration for 80-plus graduates of the University of Washington’s Spanish and Portuguese Studies department at the Center for Urban Horticulture.

Officials presented Maimon with let-ters of commendation from statewide and international sources, after which Maimon gave the graduation address using a mixture of Spanish, Ladino and English.

Recalling all the solemnity of official proclamations — but laced with some informal Northwest humor — depart-ment chair Anthony Geist was joined on the dais by Luis Fernando Esteban, hon-orary consul of Spain in Seattle and the program’s namesake; Washington State Representative Marcie Maxwell (D-41) representing Gov. Jay Inslee; Dr. Ricardo Sanchez from Lt. Gov. Brad Owen’s office; and Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, rabbi emer-itus of Congregation Sephardic Bikur

Holim, bearing congratulations from the rabbi of the Israeli Knesset, Alex Hoch-man. A letter of commendation from Miguel de Lucas Gonzales, director of the Spanish government agency Casa Sefarad in Madrid, also attended.   

“One person can make a difference,” Maimon said, lauding Esteban’s role in “so many ambitious and substantial edu-cational, cultural and industrial projects here and in Spain.”

The award is presented in the name of Esteban for contributions to the region, in particular to its Hispanic community and the Spanish and Portuguese Studies department. In 2008 Esteban received the Washingtonian of the Year from Lt. Gov. Owen for his work on over 200 significant educational, cultural and commercial proj-ects involving Spain and the state, accord-ing to the lieutenant governor’s office.

Maimon taught his audience a few phrases in Ladino, the amalgam of medi-eval Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and other languages, to show how it differs from modern-day Spanish.   

Maimon, who retired from Boeing in 1999, is a longtime community volun-teer: He is currently board president of the Samis Foundation, sits on the UW’s Sephardic Studies committee, and volun-teers in his congregation, Sephardic Bikur Holim. He also sits on the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, and noted that his terms on the UW’s Stroum Jewish Studies Program advisory board and the Seattle Association for the Jewish Disabled Foundation are expiring. He is also transitioning from interim director of the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle.

“I have a modest, informal ‘distribu-tion list’ for matters of Sephardic/ Ladino interest and I do poke my nose in a lot of different places…to make connections across organizations and/or community divides,” Maimon said.

He has collaborated with the Spanish and Turkish consuls and communities, the UW’s library archives, and its Turkish, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese and music departments.

Through his award, Maimon hopes “to help achieve even greater accomplishments of academic scholarship and communal progress in understanding and realizing

the dignity and true strength of diversity” in Seattle and around the world, he said.

Geist plans to further the department’s connection with Sephardic communities, specifically Seattle’s, one of the largest in the U.S.

“It’s been my dream for years to estab-lish links with the Seattle Sephardic com-munity,” Geist said.  “We have many historical, linguistic and cultural points of intersection that go back to the Middle Ages and the period of convivencia [coexis-tence] when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together in peace for many centuries.”

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The University of Washington Spanish and Portuguese Studies department chair Tony Geist, left, awards Al Maimon, right, the Luis Fernando Esteban Public Service Award for his work supporting the Sephardic community and culture. Esteban, the honorary consul of Spain, is standing in the center.

providing care at retirement, assisted-liv-ing, long-term–care facilities, and hospices like the Caroline Kline Galland Center.

Additionally, he said, the loss of state funding for these programs only puts more financial pressure on private Jewish agen-cies like Jewish Family Service to make up the difference.

In the current budget, Carstensen noted the supplemental food program is funded at 75 percent, which is below the level of need in the community. However, the 2013-2015 budget increased that amount by 25 percent from the previous biennium.

Still, Carstensen’s reference point reaches back to the start of the recession, when so many programs were downsized. Those cuts, he said, are only compounded today.

“It’s different than what it was a few years ago,” he said. “We had general assis-tance programs. We used to provide the disabled a modest cash stipend, a few hun-dred dollars a month, not enough to live on. Now, as they’re struggling with pro-found mental health issues and disabilities that haven’t quite reached the threshold to invoke federal support, we tell folks we’ll give you a voucher for housing.”

According to the state revenue report, Washington’s economy will continue to experience moderate growth; however, overall employment numbers will remain tepid, at best.

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JCC remodel begins its first phaseJoel magalnick Editor, JTNews

The Stroum Jewish Community Cen-ter’s Mercer Island site looks the same until you make your way toward the back of the building. That’s where you’ll find temporary walls in front of the old audito-rium, and you’ll hear plenty of construc-tion noise, but what the JCC will unveil by early next year will be a completely differ-ent space from the dark, outdated room that preceded it.

“All of it is going to be fully remodeled,” said Judy Neuman, the JCC’s CEO. “It’s going to be a very fluid and flexible space.”

Aaron Alhadeff, the JCC’s board pres-ident and capital campaign chair, said it’s no secret a remodel has been needed for the 45-year-old building. But just doing con-struction didn’t resonate with donors with-out giving them an understanding of how it could benefit the people who will be using it.

“Once we shifted from what our facil-ity needs were to what the community needs were, that’s when we got traction,” Alhadeff said.

Permits were obtained early last month and work began soon after. The project will not just create a new auditorium, but also rework the space around it so what is currently a foyer and classroom will become a modular space for multiple uses,

with a library and play area to draw people in from across the region.

“You could have a reception in the foyer one moment, and you could have drop-in play space for a family in the unscheduled times,” Neuman said. “The library room will open up into the foyer so you can have that as two distinctly sepa-rate spaces, or one space.”

All of which will flow into the center-piece of this project, the auditorium.

“One of the big things we’ll be doing is bringing natural light in,” Neuman said. That will come through the installation of skylights as well as windows on the north-facing wall that opens onto the build-ing’s rear courtyard. Seating capacity will increase by 50 percent.

The way the space will be reworked will allow for the overall execution of the JCC’s programmatic strategy: The new audio-visual system will have digital projection capabilities, surround sound, and the abil-ity to stream online video, in line with the agency’s takeover of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival last year.

While the festival wouldn’t move entirely in-house from its regular Seattle venues, this will create Mercer Island’s only movie theater, as well as a more inviting

performance space. “We’ll be able

to bring all kinds of talent and artists culturally that we haven’t been able to serve before, from a standup comedian to dance troupes to musical ensembles to concerts,” Neuman said.

Alhadeff pointed to JCCs in New York and San Francisco that have become cen-ters of Jewish culture.

“Demand is growing more and more every day for a cultural and performing arts central place in the Jewish commu-nity,” he said.

Alhadeff added that the space will be suitable for wedding and B’nai Mitzvah receptions as well. Still, Neuman noted that becoming a cultural arts and events center does remain secondary to the early childhood and camps programs, which will make use of the space on a daily basis.

This phase, which the JCC expects to be the first of several, raised $5 mil-lion and encompasses the remodel, land at the southern end of the property pur-chased from the Washington State Holo-

caust Education Resource Center that now houses the JCC’s Kesher garden, and pro-gramming dollars.

“The programmatic money we’re get-ting is as significant, if not more signifi-cant, than rebuilding the facility,” Alhadeff said. “We were definitely intentional about not building a wonderful vessel without being able to put anything in it.”

The campaign launched with a large lead gift and multiple community sup-porters, which Alhadeff called “angel funders,” as well as full board participa-tion. For future phases, the JCC will need much wider community support, he said.

As for the next phase, “we want to see how the community responds before we put the date out there,” Neuman said. “Right now our schedule is to get this proj-ect completed.”

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A rendering of how the foyer in front of the auditorium will look after this first remodel phase.

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“We just fell in love with the Northwest,” says Joel, and the “much healthier lifestyle,” kept them here along with their daughters, Gabby, 9, and Samantha, 6. Plus, two of Joel’s siblings have moved here, too.

The family belongs to Olympia’s Temple Beth Hatfiloh, where Joel served a term as the congregation’s vice president.

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Jersey directly influenced his choice of career in public service, Joel says. His par-ents were both very active in synagogue and “growing up in that Jewish environ-ment…grounded [me] in a really strong belief in giving back” and convinced him “to spend my life in public service.”

While he enjoys exer-cising and reading, most of Joel’s free time is spent doing things with the kids. On Father’s Day the family drove to Paradise on Mt.

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“I kept reminding her that we had to get down,” which they did, Joel says, but it involved “a lot more sliding than walking.”

3 A correction: In my last column, I misidentified which college Julia Snyder attends. Julia is a student at

List College of the Jewish Theological Sem-inary and Columbia University.

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In its brief existence, Israel has made enormous strides. But the popular impres-sion that the state is an indefatigable mira-cle of creation is eroding. “Will Israel exist in 50 years?” is no longer a cynical question.

“That’s my husband!” Adi Koll exclaimed. “Sometimes he says, ‘Let’s go to Iowa…They have no problems.’”

At 37, Koll is a doctor of law and the award-winning founder of University of the People, which offers free courses at Tel Aviv University. And she’s one of the 19 members of the new Yesh Atid (There’s a Future) party in the Israeli Knesset, a party populated by a diverse group of individu-als new to politics.

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“We want to change the way politics have been done in Israel to make it more accessible,” Koll told JTNews.

Using social media to their advan-tage, Yesh Atid members invite Israelis to ask questions through a website called “Your Friend in Knesset” — a new move for Israeli politicians. The party also sports Facebook and Instagram pages.

When Yair Lapid, handsome news anchor turned finance minister, launched

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“We all came from the outside, and we all felt the need to make a difference, and we all decided that we want to do it from within,” Koll said.

As far as the hot-button issues in the American Jewish community, namely the conflict with the Palestinians and the reli-gious-secular divide, “I’ll start with the easier one,” said Koll.

Koll has been working with Haredim to understand their world better, and to bring them into the fold.

“There are 26-year-old kids who have, like, $100,000 debt, and they have no way to cover it,” she said. And “working is not part of their tradition.”

She believes army or civil service, the shared experience

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“This is the main issue: Educating people to work and to support themselves.”

Americans should understand that the cost of living is the biggest concern to the majority of Israelis, Koll said, as opposed to the Iran threat or the “matzav,” the conflict.

“No one cares and no one talks about the matzav anymore. I think you talk about it more than us,” she said. “I’ve been

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here for four days meeting a lot of Jews that are involved in J Street especially, and they’re talking about Oslo agreements…. People in Israel don’t have a clue what the Oslo agreement is about.

“This is what Yesh Atid came to talk about,” she continued. “We can’t ignore it anymore if we want Israel’s future to be secured as a…democratic Jewish state.”

Additionally, the longer liberal, demo-cratic ideals flourish among young Israe-lis, the sooner they’ll feel Israel is not their home, Koll explained. She cites the stag-nated political process and Orthodox con-trol as factors driving Israelis to other lands.

“This is a real threat,” she said. “The answer too often is that we shouldn’t be here. Yesh Atid comes to say that we have to be here, but we have to change.”

The problems are personal for Koll, who got married in the U.S. to avoid the rab-binic establishment. She would like to start a family, but is not religious enough to be approved to adopt and raise a Jewish baby, who would likely have to go through an Orthodox conversion first.

“These are things that bother people,” she said. “They don’t want to live in a coun-try like that.”

Koll hopes Judaism can be a bridge between democracy and security, and that a new, pluralistic Jewish voice will emerge.

“I think protecting the fact that it’s a Jewish democratic country is something we need to do with all the forces that we have,” she said. “This is why I’m there.”

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the center has grown to the point where a new building made sense.

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ebrate Judaism and life. But our place was just becoming too small.”

More than two thirds of the money to build the synagogue has been raised. Far-kash hopes the sell the current facility for an additional $500,000.

Farkash and his wife, Rochie Far-kash, are well suited to the growth of the Chabad movement. When the couple started out 18 years ago, very few people were involved. Now their efforts have

extended to more than a thousand par-ticipants.

Rochie Farkash’s parents, Rabbi Sholom Ber and Chanie Levitin, opened Chabad’s first center in the Pacific North-west in 1972; now, Rabbi Levitin is the director of Chabad for the Pacific North-west. Mordechai Farkash was born and raised in Jerusalem. His brother, Rabbi Shalom “Berry” Farkash, runs the nearby Chabad of the Central Cascades.

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Daniel will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on July 20, 2013, at Congregation Beth Shalom in Seattle.

Daniel is the son of Michael and Laurie Almoslino and the brother of Suzanne DeSelms. His grandparents are Arnold and Beverly Slatin of Scottsdale, Ariz., Minnette Almoslino of Seattle, and the late Danny Almoslino.

Daniel is entering 8th grade at Eckstein Middle School. He enjoys football, biking, movies, anything Batman, and hanging out with friends. For his mitzvah project, he is collecting funds and sports equipment for children who want to play sports but can’t afford the equipment or fees.

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Bert resided on Mercer Island with his wife for 40 years. Together they had one child, Jahneen. Other living relatives include Libby Goldstein, David Van Gelder, Adrienne and Jim Moore, and other Schenck relatives living within the Los Angeles area.

Bert was a very kind and patient man, an honest man, and highly intelligent. He will be greatly missed. Donations may be sent to Jewish War Veterans, World Jewish Congress, and the International Jewish Braille Institute.

director of Hillel at the University of Wash-ington. He called Dvorchik “a big-tent thinker.”

“He understands the diversity of the Jewish community [and] he understands the ability of how to engage the next gener-ation, which I think is vital,” Berkovitz said. “[The Federation needs] somebody who is going to bring a very different perspective to what it means to convene community and what it means to build community.”

Rabbi Oren Hayon, the current Green-

stein executive director at Hillel UW, agreed.“I am personally very pleased about his

background in the Hillel world because Hillel is an organization that rewards cre-ativity, agility, thoughtfulness and inno-vation, all of which are qualities that will mean the success of the new Federation CEO,” Hayon said.

At the same time, however, Hayon cau-tioned that a lot is riding on Dvorchik.

“Everyone recognizes that the stakes are really high with this appointment,” he said. “It’s a time that the Federation needs to succeed.”

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A foodie twist on a summery, American classicmichael natkin JTNews Columnist

To my way of thinking, summer hasn’t started until we’ve had our first big bowl of strawberry shortcake. Gen-erally I make it with big, flaky biscuits, but for some reason this year it crossed my mind to try it with cornbread instead. Corn and strawber-ries go really well together, and they both speak of Amer-icana, so why not?

I modified my regular cornbread recipe by using a slightly lower corn-to-flour ratio, skip-ping the brown butter, and adding a bit of vanilla to make it slightly more cakey and dessert-like without being overly sweet.

There are two ways to think about the strawberries for strawberry shortcake. Ideally, of course, you would have the freshest berries from the farmer’s market, still warm from the field and one of the delicate, perfumed varieties that don’t travel well enough to be found at the gro-cery. If you are so lucky, you might want to macerate them less or not at all.

If your strawberries aren’t quite that good, a longer maceration period with plenty of sugar will cause them to break down and be more tender and release

more flavor. This won’t turn pale, flavorless berries into gold, but it can make fair ones taste a lot better.

Okay, I know you’ve read this far but you are really thinking: “Tarragon whipped cream? Really?” Well, all I can tell you is that I think it goes beautifully with the ber-ries and cornbread. If this is too out there for you, or just violates everything you think strawberry shortcake should

be, I can accept that. But if you are on the fence, I think you should try it! Something about the anise-y intensity of the herb adds just the right balance against the corn and strawberries.

Strawberry “Shortcake” with Cornbread and Tarragon Whipped CreamFor the tarragon-infused whipped cream:2 cups heavy (whipping) cream4 tsp. tightly packed fresh tarragon leaves1/4 cup confectioner’s sugarFor the strawberries:6 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and halved or quartered (depending on size)1/2 cup sugarFor the cornbread (makes more than you need):

1 cup buttermilk1/2 cup butter, melted2 eggs, lightly beaten1 tsp. vanilla extract2/3 cup cornmeal1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour1 tsp. salt1/2 tsp. baking soda• For the whipped cream: Bruise the

tarragon leaves by rubbing them be-tween your fingers. Stir into the cream and refrigerate for at least one hour. If you like a stronger tarragon flavor, overnight is even better. Strain the cream, add the confectioner’s sugar, and whip until it holds firm peaks or use a cream-whipping device.

• For the strawberries: In a medi-um bowl, gently toss together the strawberries and sugar. Set aside to macerate for about one hour, tossing

occasionally.• For the cornbread: Preheat the oven

to 375° and butter an 8x8” baking pan. In a small bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, melted butter, eggs, and vanilla extract.

• In a medium bowl, whisk together the cornmeal, flour, salt, and baking soda. Pour in the wet ingredients and gen-tly fold together to just combine. Do not overbeat. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 25 minutes.To serve: Cut four generous squares of

cornbread, and then cut those in half hor-izontally. Place one half in the bottom of each of four bowls and ladle in some of the strawberries and their juice. Add another half piece of cornbread and divide up the remaining strawberries and juice. Top with a generous portion of the tarragon whipped cream and serve immediately.

Serves 4.

local food writer and chef michael natkin’s

2012 cookbook “Herbivoracious, a Flavor

Revolution with 150 vibrant and original

vegetarian Recipes,” was a finalist this year for

a james beard award. the recipes are based

on his food blog, herbivoracious.com.

jewish and veggie

miCHaEL NaTKiN


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