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When the directors o local Jewish organization
opened up their email inboxes on June 17, most receive
a pleasant surprise: For the rst time in three years the
allocations rom the Jewish Federation o Greater Seattle
annual community campaign had gone up. In some case
the increase was signicant.
We made some strategic decisions within the Feder
tion budget this past year, and that allowed us to put mo
money into the allocations system, said Richard Fruchte
the Federations president and CEO.
In addition, with a reduction and shi in the way
pays dues to its umbrella organization, Jewish Federation
o North America, the Seattle Federations Planning an
Allocations committee had more money to work with, sa
Amy Wasser-Simpson, the Federations vice president
planning and community services.
All told, allocations to the local agencies and intern
tional organizations through the American-Jewish Joi
Distribution Committee and Jewish Agency or Israel
increased by about 7.5 percent overall rom last year.
Wasser-Simpson gave much o the credit or th
increased allocations to the agencies themselves, most
whom have or the past our years been working on honin
their requests through an objective scoring process base
upon several uniorm criteria.
People are really taking seriously the attributes w
developed, she said. Agencies are achieving higher scor
and thereore increasing allocations.
Wasser-Simpson said the organizations that sa
increases had been able to present themselves more clear
and concisely.
Some o them articulated what their programmat
pieces are in a way that gave Planning and Allocation mem
bers more insight into the work o the agency, she said.
Ken Weinberg, CEO o Jewish Family Service o Great
Seattle, said he received notication about his agency
increased allocation as he began his normal Sunday morn
ing ritual o diving into the New Yorkimes with his wi
I had a great Fathers Day, and it started with read
ing the allocation letter, Weinberg said. I was very, ver
pleased, very excited.
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go toward emergency services.
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people simply cant live without, and those things are a
enormous challenge or us because the numbers o utilizers
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letters to the editorthe rabbis turn
My mom always reminds me that I was reading the sports section of the L.A. Times when I was 4 or 5 years old.
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israel must act
Israel currently controls the lives of 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank. I therefore
nd it difcult to understand Wendy Rosens dire prediction (The coming Palestinian winter,
June 10) that declaring a Palestinian state will mark an end to Israel as a Jewish state. It
makes signicantly more sense that to secure Israels Jewish majority and character, its lead-
ers should act quickly to relinquish the occupied territories and make real progress toward atwo-state solution.
The West Bank settlements are a huge impediment to this goal. Not only are they an
obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, a security liability and an economic drain, but also a
terrible moral burden and a major contributor to Israels growing international isolation.
It is incumbent upon American Jews who care about the democratic future of an Israel
that is a light unto the nations that they not check their liberalism at Zionisms door (in
the words of journalist Peter Beinart). They would do Israel a greater service by challenging
Israels behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and by doing everything possible to bring
about a Palestinian state.
One cannot help but be concerned, as we watch current events unfold, that if more mean-
ingful progress is not made in establishing a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders as a
starting point, other forces will seize the initiative in shaping the Middle East.
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hoW Will you act?
As an infrequent visitor to the area I was interested in the JTNews and the opinions
expressed in the letters written to your publication.
The letter to Congress written in the J-Teen section (May 27) was interesting in what it did
not say as opposed to what was written. All the ethical reasons for not standing by and getting
involved in Libya were stated. What was missing was a personal statement of involvement, a
statement of what part of we should intervene you personally will make. Will you talk from
the sidelines, as in send in the Marines or will you volunteer to be part of the intervention?
Will you join ROTC? Will you enlist to be an active part of the intervention?
The letter was wonderful as far as it went in ethical thought, but it ended leaving me
thinking you are very willing to send someone elses son or husband or daughter to do what
you are wanting to be done. The ethical act is incomplete without you personally completing
it. The letter by Pastor Niemoller was his regret for not personally acting. I think you missed
the whole point.
There was a time that a president of ours said the same things as your ethical commit -
ment. I believed JFK and volunteered. I was never sorry I did.
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unseal the Fortress
Just back from my seventh Israel teaching trip and read my favorite JTNews section:
Letters.
Re: Mr. Israel Kochins letter, In Defense of Mom (May 11): I agree. Israel desperately
needs safety and security. Ditto Palestine. Mr. Kochin writes: The author writes that my
mothers views imply that she must have no moral compass if she cannot see the mitigat-
ing historical factors that motivate these terrorists.
Mr. Kochin attributes words to me I never wrote regarding terrorism; his inference that I
am a terror supporter is so far out in left eld its outside the park.
I have been a public critic of Israels failed military campaigns and of terrorism: Hamas and
Al-Aqsa for war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially murder-suicide bombings.
In Jerusalem the week of May 9, Haaretzpublished an ad urging Netanyahu to press now
for a Palestinian state. The all-Israeli signatories included former generals, military and civil-
ian intelligence directors, and police heads. Israelis (and Diaspora supporters of Netanyahu)
run the risk of appearing to support terrorism by their rejectionist stance.
Yet the forthcoming (nonbinding) planned UN resolution granting recognition to a Pal-
estinian state is exactly what late Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Jewish and
Diaspora Jews sought: Palestinian recognition of Israels 1967 borders.
If both sides recognized the other today, these still need negotiation:
We just celebrated the hol-
iday o Shavuot, and when
we explain this holiday, wetypically say that we sanctiy
Gods giving us the orah.
But as modern Jews, is it pos-
sible to believe in revelation?
Did any revelatory event in
act take place? How do we
know which o these events
are authentic and which are
not? And what was revealed
a Divine presence? Te Creators will?
And how? In a book? In nature? In histor-
ical events?
Tis holiday led me to explore more
about the nature o revelation, and I ound
superb resources in Rabbi Neil Gillmans
Sacred Fragments: Recovering Teology or
the Modern Jew. I oer three theological
understandings o Revelation, each den-
ing the Eternal and the nature o revela-
tion dierently.
Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, ounder o
Reconstructionist Judaism, believed in
religious naturalism. He saw God as a
salvational activity, an actualization o
personal and social ulllment, and the
elimination o all evils that stand in our
way. Our human discovery o how to
live religiously is the Eternals revelation
to us within the human mind.
But i revelation and orah are out-
comes o natural human activity, what
makes them unique and authoritative?
Kaplan would respond that orah is
unique because it is ours. However, the
locus o authority shied rom the super-
natural God to the human community;
the Jewish community has the power to
dene itsel and to make changes as it
determines appropriate. Some o us may
wonder where our reinterpretations stop,
and i anything can qualiy as Judaism,
how seriously would we take orah and its
hold on our lives?
ackling the nature o command-
edness, early 20th-century philosopher
Franz Rosenzweig employed an existen-
tial theology. Rosenzweig dierentiated
between law and command. He main-
tained that law was not part o the con-
tent o Revelation, but the sense o being
commanded was. While law is imper-
sonal, universal, and written in books,
commands are personal, subjective, and
experienced.
What was revealed, then, was not the
commandments, but the act o being
commanded. During revelation, our obli-
gation was entirely spontaneous, a natu-
ral yearning to acknowledge the Eternal
and Gods covenant with Israel. Similarly,
in our deepest relationships, we are com-
manded or personally compelled to dem-
onstrate our devotion and
closeness. In the same way,
Rosenzweig argues, Godslove or Israel inspires Israel
to live in a certain way.
Te challenge is that our
original spontaneous desire
to acknowledge the Eter-
nals command aded, and
human beings changed the
commands into laws, into
an impersonal legal system
empty o the spontaneity and o the
emotion that characterized the original
response to Divine presence.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel,
another seminal modern theologian, elab-
orated on our understanding o orah.
Heschel maintains that our orah is not
pure orah, but our ancestors and our
own understanding o its contents. Te
orah is midrash, a report about revela-
tion. Authority comes rom our under-
standing o the text, not necessarily the
written words.
Tese theologies raise numerous ques-
tions about Jewish authority and its
implications or us. I the source o our
authority is not the orah itsel, but our
ancestors and our own understanding
o its contents, what i we disagree with
our ancestors interpretation? Is oral law,
rabbinically generated, just as binding as
Divine revelation? I the task or modern
Jews is to repossess the emotional com-
mand to respond, what i rabbinic mitzvot
do not urther that intrinsic desire? Are we
called to observe mitzvot without eeling
an emotional connection?
I believe that certain times call or
observance o mitzvot regardless o our
innate anity. Jewish observance is not
only about what eels good, and uphold-
ing tradition has its place. At the same
time, I connect to the Eternal and experi-
ence revelation in ways that the rabbis did
not prescribe. Without a visceral connec-
tion, Jewish authenticity and signicance
are severely attenuated.
Our orah teaches that the old set o
tablets containing the en Command-
ments were placed alongside the new ones
inside the mishkan, the tabernacle. We
keep the laws with us, but we also carve
our own new set o tablets. I the Eternals
revelation is ongoing, and we are stirred
to be in a relationship, then our everlast-
ing command is to recapture our original
sense o revelation.
Rabbi Jessica Kessler Marshall serves Temple
Beth Or in Everett and the Snohomish County
community. She also ofciates at lifecycle
events throughout the Seattle area.
Rvtis rvc
Rabbi Jessica kessleR MaRshall Temple beth or
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so high, Weinberg said. O JFSs allocation
request, he said, I think that we were much
more explicit than we ever have been o the
extent to which there is need in our commu-
nity. I think we spelled that out extremely
careully both or JFS and or the Seattle
Association or Jews with Disabilities.
SAJD, a subsidiary o JFS, receivedan increased allocation o $4,669 that
will help to cover the ees its clients are
increasingly unable to pay.
For an organization that had prepared
itsel or the worst, I know that the entire
board o directors and my sta all eel an
enormous sense o gratitude to the Fed-
eration or this increase, Weinberg said.
Were going to be able to do more o what
we want to do, which is help more people
who are in need.
Judy Neuman, CEO o the Stroum
Jewish Community Center, elt the same
sense o surprise, but also a validation o
the strides her organization has made over
the past ew years. She said the JCC has
been working hard to reach the require-
ments set orth by the Federations pro-
cess, which asks or demonstration o
collaboration between organizations, cre-
ating innovative programs, and adhering
to its stated mission.
Tis allocation is really a vote o con-
dence and allows us to continue along the
wonderul path were on, Neuman said.
he JCCs increase o $23,931, to
$320,131, will go toward inrastructure
and or unding new and existing pro-
grams that Neuman said are necessary but
not necessarily moneymakers.
Te mission-driven programs dont
drive revenue, but they build community,
she said.
Several educational and cultural orga-
nizations actually saw decreases in their
allocations this year. Rivy Poupko Klete-
nik, head o school at Seattle Hebrew
Academy, noted that despite a drop o
$3,300, the school had received several
gis through the Federations Small and
Simple grant program as well as $50,000 in
an emergency grant and loan aer a mud-
slide on the schools property.
I think it all balances out, Kletenik
said. Its more o a package, and when
you look at things like this you have to
look at it as a package.
he agencies that
received more money
did so at a time when
the community cam-
paigns revenue, or the
rst time in many years,
ell under $5 million. A
number o actors came
into play or the smallerintake: Te Federation
closed the campaign
our months earlier than
last year to allow or
a transition to a new
undraising and allo-
cations model; several
larger donors did not
make a donation this
year, costing the Feder-
ation several hundred
thousand dollars in lost
income; and the econ-
omy still played a part.
Most o our donors
either kept their gis fat
or were able to increase
a little bit, Fruchter
said. We did bring new
donors into the mix,
and thats been help-
ul to us. We have more
new donors than many
other communities in
the country.
he Federations
board recognized, how-
ever, that the agency
could not continue to do
business the same way
it had with a $6 million
campaign and needed to
take some drastic mea-
sures that included sta
layos and shedding
several programs that
didnt t into its core
philanthropy model.
wo o these pro-
grams, Hebrew High
and the education ser-
vices department, had
been on the chopping
block earlier in the year but were instead
handed to Planning and Allocations,
which gave the programs line items or the
coming year while a decision is made on
how or i they should continue.
Tose two positions will remain or
this year, even though the unding o
these positions will be coming rom die
ent places, Fruchter said.
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Agency nAme finAl Agency AllocAtions
fiscAl yeAr fiscAl yeAr
2012 2011
HumAn need PillAr
Jewish Family Service $375,575 $347,500
Kline Galland Center and AfliatesPolack Adult Day Center only $11,997 $11,100
Seattle Association or Jews with Disabilities $62,469 $57,800
HumAn need totAls: $450,041 $416,400
JewisH educAtion PillAr
BBYOEvergreen Region $8,862 $8,200
Jewish Day School $122,885 $113,700
Jewish Studies Program at UW $9,900 $13,600
Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder $19,021 $17,600
Northwest Yeshiva High School $52,635 $48,700
Seattle Hebrew Academy $76,200 $79,500
Seattle Jewish Community School $42,700 $43,200
WA State Holocaust Education Resource Center $4,500 $5,500
Education Services $92,610
Hebrew High $28,550
JewisH educAtion totAls: $457,863 $330
JewisH identity/community Building PillAr
American Jewish Committee $5,700 $8,300
Anti-Deamation League $8,000 $9,700
Hillel: Foundation or Jewish Campus Lie at the University o Washington $145,100 $140,300
HillelWashington State University $1,000 $1,000
HillelWestern Washington University $2,063 $2,100
JTNews $20,103 $18,600
Stroum Jewish Community Center $320,131 $296,200
Washington State Jewish Historical Society $1,100 $1,300
JewisH identity/community Building totAls: $503,197 $477,500
world Jewry PillAr
Jewish Federations o North America $836,500 $1,107,800
Taglit-Birthright Israel $13,077 $12,100
Partnership 2000/TIPS Unrestricted & Consulting/Programmatic Fees $94,894 $87,800
Elective and Supplemental Giving
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Khabarovsk Chesed Center $21,940 $20,300
Kiryat Malachi - Emergency Medical Clinic $4,646 $4,300
SELAH: Israel Crisis Management CenterPartners in Healing $14,600 $18,900
Leket Israel $16,536 $15,300
YEDID Kiryat Malachi Citizens Rights Center $14,806 $13,700
world Jewry totAls: $1,016,999 $1,280,200
reserves And contingency
Emergency Capital Needs Fund $2,500 $1
Community Contingency Fund $2,689 $1
Community Research Fund $2,500 $1
Community Welare Funerals Fund $- $9,822
reserves And contingency totAls: $7,689 $9,825
totAl: $2,435,789 $2,513,925
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1983
According to an article that week,
Seattle Jewish couples were starting to
use ketubot, the Jewish wedding con-
tract, much more requently. Artist Victor
Scharhon displays a ketubah that he cre-
ated or one such couple.
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It came rom mud. It took on a lie o
its own. It grew enormous, bigger thananyone expected, possibly changing its
community irrevocably.
It is not a golem.
Its the brand-new Kesher Community
Garden at the Stroum Jewish Community
Center on Mercer Island. And on June 10,
shortly beore the start o Shabbat, dozens
o community members and volunteers
gathered in the garden pathways, amid
already-blooming fowers and ambitious
vegetable starts, or speeches, a little nosh-
ing, a shehecheyanu, and the gardens o-
cial launch.
Te idea or a garden is distinctly
i not exclusively Jewish. Even the
almud (Kedoshim 4:12) says, It is orbid-
den to live in a town which has no garden
or greenery.
Te idea o caring or the earth reso-
nates across all sectors o Judaism, notes
Shannon Cruzen, the SJCCs early child-
hood pedagogical coordinator. And since
the community center attracts people rom
all across the Jewish spectrum, and even
some rom outside o it, there are benets
to something that resonates widely.
Keshermeans connection in Hebrew,
and the SJCC sta, volunteers, and com-
munity members who created the garden
hope connections to other people and
to the earth will make up the gardens
most sizeable harvest.
Te space refects this goal. Te large
mandala-shaped garden, located adja-
cent to the JCCs building, eatures sixteen
P-patch-style individual and amily garden
plots, eight learning garden beds, a shed
with tools and educational materials, a re
pit, and soon a worm bin and solar panel
or educational purposes. Oxbow Farm will
deliver produce boxes or community-sup-
ported agriculture shares. Space or a larger
arm area is still being dug out.
Te result is a therapeutic and nur-
turing garden or children and adults to
gather, learn, share, and take care o the
land. Even the individual P-patch plots eel
more communal than separate; many ea-
ture small plants with tags declaring them
to be gis rom a neighboring gardener.
Its really un because weve got a
whole bunch o other kids helping, said
9-year-old Kiara as she tended her plot
with her brother Antonio, 10, and sister
Eleanor, 6. You dont just work on your
own patch. I someone else is busy, you
can water their patch and help them.
Te idea or the garden was in gestation
or several years. Te space was a mess
an enormous, soggy, muddy stretch o land,
the site o a ormer house that had been
donated. Nobody had thought o a garden
there, not even Lisa Porad; the garden was
her brainchild, born as she sat in a room
with Matt Grogan, the Senior Operations
Director at the SJCC, tossing out ideas.
She gured theyd tear up a modessized piece o lawn and plant a tiny garde
But momentum grew: Te donated spa
by the center was available. Te sta reele
in a committee o individuals and organ
zations.
Once we started, it was one o tho
amazing things that person aer perso
aer person kept coming and saying, Ho
can I get involved? How can I help? sa
Porad.
She was surprised in particular abo
not just how many people have gotte
involved with the project in signica
ways, but who those people have bee
Existing JCC members she would nev
have thought would care about a garde
people who had never been part o the JC
community; Jews and non-Jews.
As the idea grew, so did the need o
space, and JCC leaders began to eye th
plot o land next door.
Te space was a disaster. We had th
mud to begin with, but we picked the rai
iest spring in history to do this, Groga
said.
Te weather pushed work crews behin
by three months, but those aspects th
cant be controlled are just, as Grogan sai
part o the process.
As they worked, the gardeners m
Heide Felton, ounder o the organiz
tion Garden-Based Education, and Ri
Howard, a therapeutic-garden design
and writer who has developed curricula
a number o local school garden program
With Feltons and Howards contribu
tions, the vision expanded beyond a simp
P-patch to a vibrant, educational settin
to support the JCCs school programs an
other existing educational programs.
Support or educational gardens h
blossomed in recent years, sparked in pa
by visible programs like Alice Waters
Edible Schoolyard project in Berkele
as well as local eorts. Northwest group
such as the Puget Sound School Garden
Collective advocate or and support scho
gardens, highlighting educational, deve
opmental, social and nutritional benets
Howard noted that educational bene
o gardening vary by age group, somethin
good curricula must refect. For young
kids, ocusing on hand-eye coordinatio
detail, and sensory experience are critica
Digging builds skills and curiosity. Old
youth can get more into the science o ga
dening, testing soil pH and temperatur
sampling or insect lie, learning abo
ertilization, or analyzing weather. But
garden educates anyone.
Everybody eats, right? Howard sai
So harvesting and eating works or a
ages. Tere are so many people who didn
have the experience o picking and eatin
resh ood.
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Perhaps, she said, that will be the key
to its success.
I were really serious about sustain-
ability, we have to make sure kids have an
understanding o the act that ood comes
rom the earth, she said. Tats a real
investment in sustainability.
Besides, Howard added, there arent a
lot o places kids can engage in meaningul
work, and can share the setting and results
o that work with a larger community.
o the JCCs Grogan, its the bringing
in o people new and old that really mat-
ters. Hal the P-patchers had never been
to the SJCC beore, and are now welcomed
into the community.
When we had the rst planting day,
it was everything we could have dreamed
o, he said.
At the gardens opening ceremony, a
woman came up and asked Grogan i he rec-
ognized her. His ace grew into a grin; now
36, she was a mischievous 6-year-old when
she rst started spending time at the SJCC.
Tough Grogan has been at the center a
long time, he said he never would have seen
something like the garden coming 10 or 20
years ago. But the SJCCs ideas have grown
tremendously beore. A tiny soball league
ormed 26 years ago, Grogan said, grew intothe largest league in Washington State.
I the idea is ready to happen, and
theres momentum in the community, the
right people will come along. Be open to
everything, he said.
People have stepped up and donated
their time, supplies and labor, the equiva-
lent o $70,000 in three months, including
$20,000 in cash.
People, Grogan said, want to be part
o something successul probably have
been wanting to be part o something really
good happening at the J. And this is some-
thing really good happening at the J.
Families are on the waiting list or
garden patches as the center builds more.
Catie Morse, a naturopathic student, is
now oering classes on medicinal herbs
and naturopathic medicine. Tere is a lec-
ture series, a senior gardening club, plans
or a shelter, a platorm or gathering and
education, an oven, and other ideas. Once
it is ully completed, the JCC will partner
with local restaurants to serve herbs and
vegetables it has grown.
Bent over a patch, a woman admired
the plants and said to her companion, I
wonder what theyre growing.
It might have been broccoli. It might
have been connections. Well likely see
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Te women who have their breast health
check-ups at Hadassah Medical Centers
new Marlene Greenebaum Multidisci-
plinary Breast Center at Jerusalems EinKerem campus wont only have the con-
venience o some o Israels best medical
proessionals, rom oncologists to plastic
surgeons, in one clinic, they will also have
the peace o mind that comes rom prom-
ising recent statistics: 90 percent o women
diagnosed early will most likely survive.
Te center is a one-stop shop where
both men and women although the
incidence o male breast cancer is rare
can seamlessly visit with specialists, oen
during the same appointment, alleviating
the needless stress o waiting days or ol-
low-up procedures and running rom one
appointment to another.
We try to give the woman the best ser-
vice possible to reduce her stress as much
as we can, Dr. Einat Carmon, a surgeon in
the department o surgery at the Hadassah
University Medical Center in Jerusalem
told JNews. Having everything done at
the same place is much more convenient
or the woman.
Carmon visited Seattle earlier this
month or a Hadassah panel on breast
cancer. A specialist in the diagnosis and
treatment o breast cancer, the 36-year-
old surgeon and soon-to-be mother o
two spoke to a group o 70 women at
Seattle Chapter Hadassahs campaign
kicko or the womens Zionist organiza-
tions all undraising event, Breast Cancer
Exposed!
Te gala undraising event at Seattles
Fairmont Olympic Hotel on September
21, 2011, is designed to raise awareness o
prevention strategies and to raise money
to nd a cure.
Speakers at the event will include
Breast Cancer Exposed! honorary chair
Mary Alhade, a Seattle native who sur-
vived a rare orm o breast cancer as a
young mother o twins and a new baby,
and the galas keynote speaker, Jessica
Queller, writer and producer or the V
show Gossip Girl. Queller is the author
o the memoir Pretty is What Changes:
Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer
Gene, and How I Defed My Destiny. She
will tell her story o how a single 30-some-
thing woman enjoying her lie in Holly-
wood writing or hit shows that included
Felicity, and Gilmore Girls coped with
her breast cancer diagnosis.
We hope to have a lot o survivors in
the room, said Naomi Newman, market-
ing chair or the event. Our goal is to raise
$200,000 or the center. We are working
on corporate sponsorship to oset the cost
o the event so that the lions share will go
toward the research.
Although breast cancer is at epidemic
proportions around the world and at a
national high in the Seattle-Puget Sound
region, all women, and specically, East-
ern European Jewish women, shou
investigate the incidence o breast canc
in their amily as a rst line o deens
said Carmon.She advised women to rst nd out
they have a amily history o the brea
cancer genes two genetic mutation
BRCA1 and BRCA2, because they corr
late with a signicantly higher inciden
o developing the disease.
Tis is an extremely common disea
that will aect a lot o women, Carmo
said. About 90 percent o cases are n
hereditary, so every woman is at risk. T
non-BRCA [mutation] carrier Jewis
woman has to be screened just as oen
the woman who is not Jewish.
Between 20 and 50 percent o BRC
carriers will never get the disease, Carmo
said. Ashkenazi women with no histo
o breast cancer in their amilies have
one in 10 incidence o developing brea
cancer.
In the general population, one in eig
women, or 12 percent, has a lietime risk
getting breast cancer, continued Carmo
However, in the Ashkenazi Jewish po
ulation, one out o 40, or 2.5 percent
people are carriers o the BRCA mut
tions. For them, there is a 50 to 80 pe
cent chance o getting breast cancer. T
have a much higher risk o being a BRC
[mutation] carrier compared to the ge
eral population and need more close su
veillance or preventive measures.
Recently, Hadassah researchers oun
two additional BRCA mutations in th
Sephardic population, one in BRCA1 an
one in BRCA2, but, she added, they a
not nearly as prevalent as the Ashkena
BRCA mutations.
In addition, about 10 to 15 wome
out o 100 who have a BRCA1 or BRCA
mutation will develop ovarian cance
according to the Centers or Disease Con
trol, but or women who have both mut
tions, the risk or early breast cancer an
ovarian cancer is greatly increased.
Other lesser known risk actors
developing breast cancer include havin
children at the age o 30 or later, whic
Carmon said nearly doubles the risk
developing breast cancer when com
pared to the incidence o cancer oun
in women who had their rst child whe
they were 18.
Similarly, there is no exact statistic o
the incidence o developing breast canc
in women who havent had any childre
but they have an even higher risk, sa
Carmon.
Hadassah researchers want women
consider their own risk actors and choo
the best diagnostic approaches or them
selves. Tey may include breast sel-exam
digital mammography, ultrasound, ma
netic resonance imaging or MRIs, genet
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This Weeks Wisdom
Follow Your Parents Leadby Brendan Emmett Quigley
2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cae, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle.
All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
Answers on page 28
ACROSS
1 Humorist Bombeck
4 First reindeer name-checked byClement Moore
10 Bulk
14 Bill addition
15 Mysteries o the occult
16 Seths frst son
17 Kelly o daytime TV
18 Song in which someone let thecake out in the rain
20 ___ takers?
21 Antibiotic target
22 Bonjour, ___ amis!23 Like an unsuccessul visa
application
25 Lunges toward, as with a ork
29 River in central Germany
30 Star Trekcharacter named ateran Asian sea
32 Show boredom
33 Medicine cabinet staples
37 D.C. baseballer
38 Domino unction
41 Days o ___ Lives
42 ___ the wall (excoriated)
43 Ars Amatoria poet
45 Swear
46 Stun
50 Lions and tigers, but not bears
52 Mosess sister
54 Org. on a toothbrush box55 Belch orth
57 Eureka-to-Seattle dir.
58 In 2010, the Boxing WritersAssociation o America namedhim Fighter o the Decade
62 Reason or a doctors visit
63 Gorilla who can read signs
64 Home o the SuperMall
65 HS dropouts test
66 Jacobs twin brother
67 Jetta alternative
68 Where MDs perorm triage
DOWN
1 Brokerage company with an asteriskin its name
2 Came down in sheets
3 2008 Mark Wahlberg movie based ona video game
4 ___ control (spin doctors specialty)
5 Like a rainbow
6 Harrison Ford has one on his chin
7 Injure
8 Leay Tolkien creature
9 Go team!
10 As a result o this
11 Pawn-capturing move12 ___ all intents and purposes
13 Sound accompanying a fnger wag
19 Lucys Kill Billco-star
24 The Hurt Lockersetting
25 Water park eatures
26 Made some grand adjustments?
27 On vacation
28 Inside the NBA channel
30 The Dog Star
31 Russian range
34 Optimistic orecast
35 Shalom!
36 Small fght
38 Pale purple
39 Home o Radio Ceylon
40 Sound o a souped-up engine
41 Punch to the breadbasket reaction
44 ___ Hear About the Morgans?(2009Hugh Grant flm)
47 Where a surer might end up
48 Less staid
49 Corrects
51 City in Caliornias wine country
52 Ben Stillers mom Anne
53 Forget it!
55 Long lunches?
56 Papal name thats a homophone o aword meaning deeply religious
58 Earn
59 Social Security IDs
60 Word with ice or salary
61 Sine ___ non
We all know the words Honor thy mother and ather. Thats easy to say and sometimes not so
easy to do. Here, weve made it in a little trickier by including fve phrases where your MA and
PA encourage their progeny to ollow close upon their heels.
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When I ask sports anchor Aaron
Levine about his passions outside o work,
he replies: Gol.
Levine, 29, is the lead sports anchor
Monday through Tursday on the Fox
Networks Seattle aliate Q13. He also
hosts his own hal-hour show, Q It Up,
on Sunday nights. Levine pretty much
eats, sleeps and breathes sports.
My rst love was the L.A. Lakers,
Levine says. My other passion beginning
in high school was writing.
Sports journalism uses his love o the
game with his love o writing.
I always wanted to be a sports jour-
nalist, says Levine. My mom always
reminds me that I was reading the sports
section o the L.A. imes when I was 4 or
5 years old.
Levines star is rising. He recently won
the Paciic Northwest Regional Emmy
award or best sports anchor in 2009 and
2010. But as anyone in journalism can tell
you, success comes with grunt work.
Levine covered sports on his college
radio station and in the paper, and then,
in his senior year, he came within inches o
scoring a year-long gig as an ESPN Sports-
Center anchor through the Dream Job
competition.
ESPN did a casting call or anyone who
wanted to be an anchor, but you couldnt
have any proessional experience, he says.
As a nalist, Levine had to take a quarter
o rom school during his senior year to
fy back and orth between San Francisco
and New York. He was runner-up.
In act, Im extremely happy that I
didnt win the Dream Job show, he says.
I didnt have enough experience to start
at ESPN.
Instead, he spent the next two-and-a-
hal years reporting or KBAK in Bakers-
eld, Cali., trying to break in.
I had to do everything or mysel, he
says, spending endless hours on the road
covering stories or Cal State Bakerseld,
ve minor-league baseball teams, and 24
high school teams.
At Fox since 2007, I still do everything
or the most part. I write, edit, produce, on
a daily basis, he says. I put eature pack-
ages together. I go to press conerences,
interview athletes and coaches.
He notes how ortunate he is to have
creative reedom. He begins each edition
o Q It Up with a commentary, some-
thing dierent rom most sports shows.
I consider mysel to be extremely or-
tunate to be a media director o the top-15
media market, he says, adding, I elt
lucky to get a job in Seattle at the age o
25.
Levine was raised in Calabasas, Cali.,
attending Hebrew school and traveling to
Israel three times beore the age o 11. He
considers his Judaism unique: His mother,
who is Filipino, converted beore he was
born. Tough he does not consider him-
sel observant, he says with conviction, I
denitely identiy mysel as a Jew.
Due to the coinciding nature o the
sports calendar and the Jewish calendar,
he adds, I I have a regret its not being
able to go to be with my amily or the hol-
idays.
And no, he never gets sick o sports.
However, when its your job you
dont appreciate sports as much as ans,
he says.
On his days o, when hes not playing
gol, Im a huge homebody, holing him-
sel up with movies and V.
Te industry is more stressul than
people give us credit or, he remarks.
I tend to sleep all day, says Levine.
Im not araid to admit that.
Aaron Levine:Builig his ow fil of ams
eMily k. alhaDeff assistnt Editr, JTNews
Mazel tov on this well-deservedrecognition, Josh!
Your innovation, leadership and vision
have made Jconnect Seattle one of the best
young adult programs in the country.
Thank you for your outstanding commitment to our community.
Hillel UW and Jconnect Seattle Community,
Board and Staff
Josh Furman,
Jconnect Seattle Director
Under
40
TEaM PhoToGE
aro lvi ccptig his emmy.
For the second year, JTNews and jew-ish.com presen
10 members o our Jewish community under the age o
40 who are making a dierence. Whether its in th
realm o Judaism, business, the arts, or even sports
these exceptional individuals have shown a commitment and dedication to what they do, oen or littl
more than the satisaction o a job well done. We ar
splitting the 10 over two issues, so stay tuned or ou
remaining fve but youll just have to wait to see wha
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Both Emily and Aaron Alhade shy
away rom being called the Seattle Jewish
communitys up-and-coming power
couple. But Emily is on the verge o taking
the presidency o one o Seattles two larg-
est and most visible organizations, and
Aaron is a year rom becoming president
o the other.
Tat noted, however, they come by
their titles honestly i we mention how this
story really begins: At the Stroum Jewish
Community Centers preschool, where
these two Seattle natives rst met more
than 30 years ago. Yes, they have known
each other that long.
From there both attended the Jewis
Day School, but then their paths diverge
or a time dierent high schools an
colleges but their paths still crossed
emple De Hirsch Sinais religion schoo
Tat they would embed themselves an
their children into Seattles Jewish com
munity now eels natural to them.
JFS has always been a part o my lie
says Emily, 35, who on July 1 will becom
president o the board o Jewish Fami
Service.
Her ather, Dennis Warshal, was o
the board when she was growing up. H
amily used JFS or amily counseling. An
resh out o school with a degree in soci
work, Emilys rst paying job was at JFS
From there she worked at the Harbo
view trauma center and or the past e
years has been a stay-at-home to her tw
kids, ages 5 and 2.
But she never really le JFS.
When I was asked to be on the boar
I was just so honored, because to be
closely associated with that agency is
special, Emily says. Every employee th
works or JFS is so completely dedicate
to the mission, and that really trans lates
the work that they do.
As board president, Emilys main ocu
will be on undraising, in part to shore u
the $30-plus million strategic plan th
includes JFSs current $9 million buildin
expansion project.
Everyone is eeling the pinch. O
institutional unding sources are not ab
to und us in the ways that theyve bee
able to in the past, and we need to re
Aaron and EmilyAlhadeff:Th xt gatio of
commual laship
Joel MagalnickEditr, JTNews
LiSi woLF PhoToGra
Fmiy coms rst for aro d emiy ahdff, but th rspctiv orgiztios thy ddict th
ivs to tk cos scod.
Hes still got about a week beore heocially steps into his role as emple De
Hirsch Sinais director o congregational
learning, but participants at an early child-
hood educators conerence earlier this week
certainly got a taste o whats to come.
Rabbi Daniel Septimus spoke anima-
tedly about this weeks orah portion
o the man Korach and his ollowers who
challenged Moses and brought the story
into the context o the evening.
Rather than lash back, he demonstrates
condence in his leadership, Daniel told
the educators. We should model good
behavior as Moses does or us.
Tis young associate rabbi was right at
the point in his career where he could have
ound a pulpit in a smaller city and served
out his career there or used it as a step-
ping stone to lead a congregation the size
o the one where he has spent the past our
years. But Daniel, 32, decided to step o
that track and head in a direction he knew
he should go. His new role means he will
be taking a holistic approach to educating
his congregants.
Its always been a passion o mine,
teaching and learning, and learning to really
create innovative programs, he says. Last
year, in particular, I began to think about a
position like this because this is kind o a
new thing in the education world.
Te temples board agreed, and asked
him to step in as the new director. Te team
that runs the temples religion school will
stay in place, and Daniel will put more o
an emphasis on early childhood and adult
learning to round out the synagogues oer-
ings and unite them where possible.
When Daniel arrived in Seattle resh
rom his training in 2007, he and his wie
Amanda settled in South Seattle.
We really love living in Columbia
City, he says, were proud o the act that
were in one o the most diverse areas o
the country.
From the start, this new rabbi began
building a program or people in his age
group, something that had long been a
challenge or the citys oldest Reorm con-
gregation.
His starting Te ribe has ar sur-
passed any historic success weve had,
says Larry Broder, emple De Hirsch
Sinais executive director. Hes brought
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Although he is running or oce
Seattle City Council Position 1 Michael
aylor-Judd says, Im pretty busy, but
Im not sure my lie is radically dierent
rom beore.
he 36-year-old continues to work
part-time at the oundation or Health
Care Quality, where hes worked or eight
years. Tat organization tracks health-
care practices and progress, advocating or
things like surgical checklists in operat-
ing rooms and standards o cardiac proce-
dures in hospitals.
And aylor-Judd is still the local polit-
ical activist hes been since he moved to
Seattle to canvass door-to-door or state
healthcare 13 years ago.
Growing up in Southern Caliornia, he
was active in USY at emple Beth Emet
in Anaheim. Now hes a board member
o Kol HaNeshemah in West Seattle and
sings in the choir there. He sees a direct
connection between his years o social
activism and religion.
Something about the Jewish educa-
tion that we getwe try to improve the
world we live in, try to get other people on
board to improve the world, and ght or
others, he says. I think that has a lot to do
with religion.
A deep admirer o the late Sen. Paul
Wellstone, a progressive Democratic Party
leader, aylor-Judd eels his motivation
to help others comes rom a deep-rooted
source within.
aylor-Judds campaign ocuses on
three major issues acing Seattle: trans-
portation transportation equity in par-
ticular, aordable housing, and support
or education and youth and amily pro-
grams.
Tere are lots o details under those,
he says.
Hes running against the well-known
Jean Godden and two other candidates, so
his name will appear on the primary ballot
in August. Te top two vote-getters will
appear on the all ballot.
When we spoke last Friday, hed just
wrapped up a particularly demanding
week attending state Democratic Party
endorsement meetings. Hes been active in
the party, too, including trying to resur-
rect the LGB caucus, successully
and being active in the Jewish caucus.
Hes working on the perpetual prob-
lem o events being scheduled on Jewish
holidays and Saturdays, not because o
discrimination but because people dont
seem to be aware, he says. o raise their
awareness he wore his Obamica a
bright blue kippah with the presidents
name emblazoned on it to the state
Democratic convention and tries to make
sure Im always wearing one at Democratic
Party events, he says.
Hes proud o the party or stepping
up to address the issue.
In Seattle, aylor-Judd has been active
in marriage equality and transportation
issues. Hes helped to bring a bus-ser-
vice unding problem to the attention o
King County Metro, in which Seattle was
slated to receive only 20 percent o Met-
ros monies, even though it accounts or
75 percent o bus service. A new plan
passed by a regional task orce will go to
the County Council soon. He also worked
on the Sound ransit 2 ballot measure,
bringing light rail to the University Dis-
trict and Eastside.
No matter the results o the primary,
aylor-Judd will be taking Labor Day
weekend o to sta the admission gates or
the Bumbershoot music estival, as he has
done since 1998.
It makes me eel part o the commu-
nity, he says.
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Diana bReMent JTNews ClumnistMake sure you say Im a very orgiving
editor, says Joel Magalnick as we sit down
to talk near his home in Seattles Ravenna
neighborhood.Ive wondered or years when I could
turn my keyboard on the man who says
yea or nay to my story ideas. Now 39,
this papers editor has been nominated
(not by himsel) as one o our 10 under 40,
giving me my opportunity.
As editor or the past eight years o our
states only Jewish newspaper, Joel works
very hard to promote our community,
to let readers know whats going on and to
give as many people as possible a voice.
Joel also hopes the JNews is shining
light where there needs to be light shined,
exposing problems and issues in the com-
munity. I try to do that the best that I can
given the size and politics within our com-
munity.
Fortunately, theres not a whole lot
thats scandalous thats going on, he says,
but concerns do need to be aired. Some-
times it has to be uncomortable.
O course, being in journalism means
being the target o some vitriol. He most
oen hears the JNews is either too le
wing or too right wing oen consid-
ered a mark o balance. Israel, though, is
one subject that keeps him up at night,
especially i the invective is directed at
JNews.I nd it patently ridiculous that some-
one would call the paper or me anti-Israel,
he says. We have to refect the opinions o
everyone in the community.
Joel sees an increasing division and hos-
tility between some local organizations on
the subject. He also worries about the rise
o delegitimization o Israel around the
world and an increase in anti-Semitism
and anti-Zionism.
Joel and his wie Jenn, an early child-
hood specialist or the Union or Reorm
Judaism, met in Israel while doing a year
abroad at Hebrew University. Aer Joel
graduated rom the University o Col-
orado with a degree in journalism, the
couple moved around the country beore
settling in Seattle. He had been working in
web design and moved here or a dot-com
job, just in time or the bubble to burst. He
started reelancing and eventually landed
in his current job.
Joel and print editors everywhere
are preoccupied with moving protably
into the 21st century. Actually, were here
The Young Leadership Division
of the Jewish Federation of
Greater Seattle
congratulates the
10 Under 40
for truly having an impact
on our world.
You are the future leaders
of our community!
new members to the congregation, hes
brought a vitality and a zeal or more to
the congregation and to that community
o young olks.
Emily Alhade, a lie-long emple De
Hirsch Sinai member and one o the other
10 Jews under 40 we recognized, agrees.
Hes such a wonderul asset to his
community, she says. Were so lucky to
have him.
Four years can bring a lot o changes to
a persons lie, and Daniel is no exception.
For one, he now has two children.
Fatherhood is unbelievable, Dani
says. Teres nothing better than watc
ing your kids growing up.
Becoming a parent has meant chang
in his proessional outlook as well.
Certainly early childhood is more o
my radar than it was beore, he says.
Tough Daniel says it hadnt occurre
to him when he received his ordinatio
that he could step o the typical rab
track and ocus on building an educatio
program, it also eels right to him.
Tats where my passion is, he says.
more and more on individual donors,
she says.
[Emily] is truly a person who cares
very, very deeply about people who are
in need, with her whole heart and soul,
said Ken Weinberg, CEO o JFS. Tis is a
young woman who really cares.
Weinberg noted that as a social worker
who worked in the trenches, Emily
understands the needs o people who work
in social service elds.
She did not choose the easy path, he
said. As a result o doing that she not only
developed skills in working with people, it
urther developed her own empathy and it
also developed her own understanding o
what it means to be a sta person.
Aer Aaron returned to Seattle rom
some time living in San Francisco, he went
back to a place that he had spent so much
time during his teen years: Te Stroum
JCC.
When I came back, it was the rst
place I wanted to plug back in and give
some o my time and energy, he says.
As these things oen happen, Aaron,
35, started on a committee and rom there
was asked to join the board. In 15 month
he will become the JCCs president.
here are more and more Jewis
people that arent aliated at synagogues
Aaron says. Te JCC is a natural place
plug in to get Jewish lie and culture.
Proessionally, Aaron is president
Elttaes Enterprises, which ocuses o
investments and owns such local prope
ties as the Majestic Bay Teater in Ballar
His parents and grandparents are lon
time philanthropists in Seattles Jewi
community, and even rom an early a
they instilled in him a desire to help peop
who dont have what he does.
I was always raised that its been
privilege and an honor to give back
our community, Aaron says. Its not
burden or a tax.
Judy Neuman, the JCCs CEO, cal
Aaron remarkable.
Te time and commitment and pa
sion that Aaron has, specically or the
is just unparalleled. His heart and soul a
in this place, Neuman says. I you nee
help, or you need an idea, or you just nee
an extra person to come and sit and thin
with you, hes always there. He alwa
answers the call.
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in the 21st century, he says o the ormer
ranscript, with more online readers than
print subscribers and an iPad app coming.
A companion site developed by Joel or
younger adults, Jew-ish.com, is gaining
traction, and both publications are active
on witter and Facebook.
Te 21st-century challenge is in makin
a prot. Te traditional print advertisin
model doesnt work on screen, but adve
tisers are shying away rom print medi
which is why publications have shrun
Teres not less news, just less advertisin
Electronic publishing could work we
by making publications more ecientocusing more on gathering the news an
less on distribution, Joel says.
Te Jewish publishing world can tak
advantage o being small and nimble,
test ideas like the various guides that com
with the JNews: Te Guide to Jewi
Washington, the Proessional Directo
and Northwest Jewish Family.
Joel jokes that hes been called a mod
o Jewish continuity, with the requisi
years o Hebrew school (Denvers Rod
Shalom) and camp (Ramah in Caliornia
Living in Ravenna with Jenn and their tw
young sons, Joel observes that he is at th
crossroads o rabbis taking walks.
At Tird Place Books, his local boo
store and hangout, rabbis and Jewish com
munity members he runs into might n
pitch him stories, but theyll oen tell m
stu thats going on.
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1Supporters and cli-
ents o Jewish Family
Service in Seattle are
already aware o the construc-
tion project that has domi-
nated the organizations landat the corner o 16th Avenue
and Pine Street or the past
ew months.
Ed Weinstein, architect o
JFSs new oces, just received
the 2011 American Institute
o Architects Seattle Medal o Honor, pre-
sented to him at the annual AIA Honors
dinner in May.
AIA board president George Shaw
recognized the consistently exceptional
quality o [Eds] rms work as well as
Eds generous, open, engaging, down-to-
earth personality [which has] has clearly
made its mark on our proession and our
community.
I elt very honored, said Ed, noting
that while the award is given or lietime
achievement, in many respects I eel that
Im only mid-career.
It was very much a surprise; I consider
mysel to be a young pup.
Ed has been involved in the Jewish
community both as a proessional and a
volunteer or many years. He and his wie
Marcia Friedman are long-time mem-
bers o emple De Hirsch Sinai and o the
Stroum Jewish Community Center, and he
has served on the acilities committee o
the ormer and the board o the latter.
Growing up in Aberdeen, Wash., in a
merchant amily, he was always interested
in architecture.
I enjoyed drawing and
building models, and his
mother suggested the career
over those more traditional
Jewish careers o doctor or
lawyer. She thought his cli-ents might be happier. Ed
shared this anecdote with
the audience at the awards
dinner to quite a bit o laugh-
ter which youll under-
stand i youve been on either
end o a building or remodel-
ing project.
Coming to Seattle in the late 1960s to
attend architecture school at the Univer-
sity o Washington, he added two years o
grad school at Harvard beore returning
to Seattle. He worked or others here or a
short while beore orming his own rm.
Were very experienced in working or
not-or-prots, he says o Weinstein A/U,
which has taken on a wide variety o public
and private building projects, including
DHSs Bellevue building. Designing the
JFS project was particularly challenging
because o the tight space and the need to
keep them in business [on-site], he says.
Te sta has continued to use the exist-
ing Jessie Danz building and the ood
bank has been operating during construc-
tion, too.
What we remember as the parking lot
provided the ootprint or the new build-
ing. On its completion in December, sta
will move in and renovations on the old
building will begin. On completion, JFS
will be almost double its current size, at
33,500 square eet.
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Diana bReMent JTNews Clumnist
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2We last heard rom
Jake Bobman our
years ago when he
graduated rom Mercer Island
High School and was on
his way to the University oWashington honors program.
As a National Merit Scholar, a
Washington State Scholar and
class valedictorian, we cer-
tainly had high hopes or this
young man who said then that
he planned to blend his aca-
demic interests with a desire
to help others.
Back then he expected to double major
in biochemistry and math. He achieved that
goal, graduating with two degrees, a BS in
mathematics with college honors and a BA
in biochemistry, but bettered his predictions
by adding minors in music, chemistry, and
international studies.
With all that to his credit, its no sur-
prise that Jake is the 2011 UW presidents
medalist or his class, an award given to
the graduating senior with the Universi-
tys most distinguished academic record.
He was presented with the award by UW
interim president Phyllis Wise at com-
mencement on June 11.
While at UW, Jake worked in the Kim
Laboratory conducting behavioral neuro-
science research and wro
his honors mathemati
thesis on cryptograph
research ocusing on a typ
o public key cryptograph
and how it protects patieprivacy, he explained. H
studied abroad in Cos
Rica, sang with the UW
Vocal Jazz Ensemble an
Mens Glee Club, and he
leadership positions with
the honors program.
Jake is the son oKare
and Bruce and grandson
the late Rae and Jack Tacher and Marc
and the late Joseph Bobman. Te Bo
mans are longtime members o emple D
Hirsch Sinai, and Jake is a longtime acti
volunteer in our community.
As anticipated by Jake our years ag
he is headed to medical school, atten
ing Columbia University College o Phys
cians and Surgeons on a ull-tuition mer
scholarship.
Its extremely exciting, he says an
hes looking orward to experiencing
new city.
But or now hes just hoping or tim
with amily and riends and having
relaxing summer beore going to med
cal school.
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Dear Rivy,
I am being urged by just
about everyone I know to get
on Facebook. My riends are
threatening to write me o
saying that I am out o it. Iam not old nor am I not hip
I actually think I am quite
with it. I am just not into
the Facebook thing. I have
ventured onto my riends
Facebook pages and fnd the
whole thing somewhat revolting. I eel
that there is something decidedly not
Jewish about the whole thing. What is
your take on it?
I eel your pain. But its time to come
ace-to-ace with Facebook. Mark Z., here
we come. Your calling it revolting seems
strong; what did you catch a glimpse o,
Anthony Weiners postings? Hope not
thats ar rom the best in show. Tat said,
the time has come to cast the Facebooking
o America under the scorching scrutiny
o the lens o orah.
But rst, what is this thing we call Face-
book? It is at once a rolling marquee o
updates postings, i you will, o all o
your riends who might include just
about anyone youve ever met anytime in
your lie, rom your nursery schoolmates
through your college buddies up to and
including yesterdays new acquaintances.
It is a busy percolating town square where
you bump into just about everyone you
know, exchange a quick hello, a whats
up check-in, and continue on your way
all day long!
It can similarly, suddenly
take on the accoutrements o
a dimly lit salon, a whispered,
urtive, soul-bearing inti-
macy revealed to the whole
world!It is a bulletin board, amessage board, a amily pic-
ture album, a community
newsletter, and a street corner
with many a anatic stand-
ing on a soap box demand-
ing your ear. It is the wave o
the uture!
We humans love to com-
municate, rom cave wall scratches to
high-tech tweets. Tis is who we are and
how we do business. What are the Jewish
values that should inorm our Facebook
usage? o this need I oer you Masechet
Facebook a Mishnaic approach to this
newangled o oibles.
From what time may one post updates
on Facebook? From the time that the rst
morning milk is steamed or lattes at Star-
bucks. No desperate, irresponsible, mid-
dle-o-the-night postings. Tese cannot
be trusted. Te rabbis add: Review your
words careully beore hitting share.
Once it happened that the sons o Rabbi
G. came home so late rom a wedding east
and sharedtoo much!
Mark Z. received the tradition from
those at Harvard who came beore him,
such as Bill G. He should have said three
things: Be not the one to reveal a secret
conded in trust, degrade not the business
rom which you draw a check, and be not
o the students o those who bore us with
their mundane ripperies.
He was wont to say, Let your home page
be modest and open to those you choose;
let your inormation be guarded lest it
incite the jealousies o others or draw you
into bitter waters or once drawn into
such evil, Heavens name may becomeproaned.
Who desires long life? Who loves peace
and seeks to pursue it? Te one who causes
no grie through their postings. hey
guard their keyboard rom harm; they lead
no one down paths o illicit intrigue.
How many postings may a man or
woman post in an hour? Or how many
postings may a man or woman post in a
day? As many as will not bring tedium
to those who ollow them. Whats or
dinner is acceptable to some, others tire
o such news. All agree that marriage pro-
posals are to remain private while engage-
ments must be shared.
Be cautious of braggadocio, our rabbis
teach; blessings are ound only in that
which is hidden rom the eye.
Te rabbis said: Which is the right way
to choose to link videos, to post upcoming
events, or even to Like that which you
see? Te right way is the middle path
not too much nor too ew. Be not the one
to Like it all.
With whom may we connect, with whom
may we not connect? We may connect
with all whom we know; but do not be
ooled real connections need time and
attention. Do not mistake the casual or
the real. Nor be ooled by concern o the
virtual ace time is more precious than
Facebook.
Excellent is Facebook together with
orah, or without orah one might com
to set aside the eelings o others. Hee
yoursel lest you become an addict; to
much time with hand-held devices o pla
tic might put a person out o this world.
It is not incumbent upon you to shaevery video that comes your way; you
chuckle is not always the chuckle o other
rerain rom orwarding all that com
your way.
Find friends who you may know wi
caution and care connect with wisdom
not whim.
Reward is waiting for those who inspi
others to do good, who share words
orah and opportunities to do tzedaka
and righteousness. Tey who bring othe
to mitzvah through postings will hav
eternal lie.
You will not come into the power of s
i you know what is above thee: A clou
that deletes nothing, eyes that see ever
thing where all your postings are orev
recorded; your deeds in data centers an
your actions in search engines will n
you.
Know that whatever the Holy One cr
ated in this world is or His glory eve
Facebook the rest is commentar
Amen.
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
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