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Eli Genauers amily has been part o the Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath Orthodox congregation since 1909. Genauer, who on March 6was honored with his wi e Eva at the synagogues 120th anniversary gala,says the BCMH story is also Seattles story. As the city has grown roma transport center to a technological hub, the congregation has gottenyounger and larger.

At the hundredth anniversary, our president used an expression:Founders and nders, Genauer said. I think its a good mix o old-tim-ers and their amilies with a lot o newcomers. Without the newcomersthere wouldnt be the growth.

Larry Russak, a third-generation member o the Orthodox congrega-tion and also its president, notes that his grandchildren are the h gen-eration o his amily to be a part o Seattles oldest synagogue.

Russak points to constancy as a reason or his congregations stayingpower; times may change, but BCMH stays true to its roots.

Te average level o observance is much higher than it was at any

point in the last 20 years, Russak told J News. I think its more oswing toward traditionalism.

BCMH celebrated that swing, as well as the ebbs and ows o its 12year history at a dinner event on March 6 at the Sea ac Marriott. Tesold-out gala eatured Richard Joel, president o Yeshiva University an

ormer national Hillel director, as keynote speaker.BCMH started out as Chevra Bikur Cholim, or the Society to Vis it the

Sick, which incorporated in 1891, according to a book on WashingtonsJewish history, Family of Strangers. As Seattle became a more populatransport hub in the wake o the Klondike gold rush, local Jewish citizens saw a need or basic services such as medical assistance and a propJewish cemetery. Te cemetery, just o Aurora Ave. near Shoreline, pre-dates the congregations rst actual structural home.

In 1898, Bikur Cholim moved into its rst synagogue on 13th

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Fourth r ders fro the Se tt e Jewish Co unity Schoo tr ve ed to the st te c pito in O y pi , where they et with Rep. D vid Frockt (D46th). The fresh n e is tor ve the students tour whi e e rnin so e of the st tes history fro their ener -studies te cher E iz eth Sie e . Frockt, incident y, is the p re

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There are two issues that will ensure Jewish survival: One is text and the other is context. An ignorant tribal Jewishness doesnt transmit.

Richard Joel, president of Yeshiva University, during his recent visit to Seattle.

A ew weeks ago I was atan event in town and a riendo mine came over. We beganto discuss di erent goings-onin the Seattle community. My

riend, lets call him Jack, toldme about a certain Jewishevent that goes on every year.

ongue-in-cheek he said,You can come, its Ortho-

riendly.A ew o us got a good

laugh rom the new terminology. But asI drove home I got to thinking about theword he used and the perception thatwent with it. Ortho- riendly generateda series o thoughts that led me to a newword: Ortho-phobic: the ear o Ortho-doxy or ear o Orthodox Jews.

Could this really be true? I thought.And i it is, what can or should be doneabout it? It has certainly been somethingon my mind in one way or another or thetwo-and-a-hal years my amily has beenback in the United States. But this wordconcretized it in my mind.

here is an astonishing discussionamong the classical commentators on the

orah. Tey compare and contrast theollowing two episodes: First the orah

details the generation o the ood. Herewas a people completely broken downmorally who mistreated one another to anextreme. Te other generation was knownas the Generation o dispersal. Tesepeople tried to build a tower to ghtagainst God.

I we were looking at it and decidingwhich group was worse, I assume most o us would argue that trying to ght againstGod should warrant a harsher response.Yet the orah tells us that the generationo the ood was wiped out completely,whereas those who built the tower to ghtGod were only dispersed. he lesson:When there is unity among the people,even or a ne arious purpose, God cantolerate it, but disunity and stri e has noplace.

As a ather, Ive o en contemplatedthis idea. Should my children when my children? band together as a unit to pullsomething over on us, I walk away with acertain sense o joy that they get along andare able to work together despite their di -

erences. Sure, there may be consequencesthat need to be meted out or what they did, but theres a parental satis action intheir loyalty to one another. But shouldthey ght, call each other names, or hurtone another, we cannot tolerate it. Period.Such behavior is unacceptable.

In describing the encamp-ments on the way to Sinai,the orah repeats the phrase,and they. Yet when theJewish people are actually at the oot o the mountain,ready to receive the orah,the orah re ers to the peoplein the singular. Te commen-taries point out: Tey werelike one person at that time,a completely uni ied being.

hey were able to see the di erencesamong them and love each other nonethe-less. It is a power ul lesson indeed.

In the story o Purim we will be readingthis month, Haman, the ne arious despoto the story, when trying to convince theKing Achashverosh to allow him to killthe Jewish people, describes the Jews asa nation spread out and dispersed. Ourcommentators pick up on this expressionand take it to mean something beyond thephysical locale o where the Jews lived.Rather, Haman was saying, nows thetime to get them or they are dispersedand distant rom one another. Tey lack the unity to band together and withoutthat unity they crumble. And it took anEsther and Mordechai to piece (peace!)them back together.

We live in very turbulent times.he Jewish people have spite ul ene-

mies around the world. Tere is hardly a day that goes by without a terrible acto anti-Semitism and hate being perpe-trated somewhere on the globe against our

ellow Jewish brothers and sisters. Tere isno better time or us, the Jewish people, toband together strongly than there is today.Teres no greater a time than now to turnto our brothers and sisters, no matter howdi erent looking weve become and tolook past all di erences and unite. Histor-ically, Jews have lived in diverse cultures,picked up diverse habits rom their coun-tries, di erent modes o dress and evendi erent styles o ood. But there has beenone ront where the Jewish people havebeen uni ed throughout the generations:Te study o our sacred orah. Tis is aplace where our diversity comes to greatly enrich our understanding o the depthand beauty o the orah, and I would pro-pose that there is no time like the presentto engage in its richness like today. So graba study-partner, maybe even a Jew youveonly recently met, maybe even a Jew roma di erent stream o Judaism than yougenerally a liate with, and study uniteand study!

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IsRAELs sHORTEDsIgHTEDnEssJosh Bassons latest letter deserves congrats (In need of democracy, Feb. 25): He

has made the strongest case possible against dozens of letters he authored over thepast decade. He wrote forcefully and unceasingly in support of a rejectionist stance tonegotiations with Palestinians (because of Palestinian terror, missile strikes from Gaza,and Palestinian refusal to accept Israeli statehood).

He wrote against land for peace, and recently urged Israel to not negotiate at all.He criticized Arafat and successors unrelentingly, including moderate Palestinians. Hespoke of the need for strong military ops as the only way to address the con ict and hasbeen a tireless local spokesperson of the same policies promulgated to Congress andthe president by AIPAC, the ZOA, the ADL, and in Israel by every Israeli prime ministerexcept for the assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.

Now that Mubaraks brutal, corrupt and repressive regime has nally collapsed, Israels grossfailure to have aggressively pushed to shut down 90 to 95 percent of West Bank settlementsconcurrent with a massive housing and infrastructure development for those who would havebeen displaced to new towns inside the Green Line is now going to hit Israel hard in the face.

Israel could yet aggressively push for a two-state solution and defuse outrage by millionsof Arabs in adjacent countries. Save for Rabin, Israeli political leadership is not known for beingvisionary and farsighted: Israel will probably become more isolated and more of a pariah.

Re: Rabbi Jaron Matlows letter (In need of education, Feb. 25), he wrote: With thecreation of the state of Israel, it was supposed to be the Jewish homeland, with Jordan, theHashemite kingdom, being a place for Arabs in Palestine; this has never worked as Jordan(along with Lebanon, Syria and Egypt) does not allow Palestinans entry.

Oh? Fifty to 70 percent of Jordans population is Palestinian; the Palestinian popula-tion is between 2.4 and 3 million (the variance in numbers re ecting different demographicsources). The Palestinian population of Syria: 434,000; Egypt: 70,000. As of 2005, therewere 405,000 Palestinians in Lebanon.

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JusTIcE bEgIns AT HOMEThe governor of the state of Wisconsin is addressing his states budget de cit by attempt -

ing to limit the collective bargaining rights of both state employees and teachers. Further-more, he is also attempting to have those employees contribute a small percentage of theirwages to their health care bene ts and retirement bene ts. At present, those employeescontribute little or nothing to a very generous bene ts package they receive.

Across the breadth of the United States Jewish community, there is undoubtedly outragedirected at the Republican governor who is attempting to reduce the budget de cit on thebacks of hardworking state workers and teachers by reducing their bene ts and eliminatingsome of their collective bargaining rights.

Before the American Jewish community becomes too exercised by the actions of the gov-ernor, the following information should be ascertained about various Jewish institutions andorganizations, national and local, throughout the United States: Do employees of Jewishagencies, the teachers, day care workers, social workers, as well as of ce and other sup -port staff receive a commensurate salary to government employees employed in compara-ble federal, state and local governmental positions?

Are the employees and their families employed by American Jewish agencies andorganizations provided with a bene ts-rich medical package provided by their employ -ers with little or no out-of-pocket cost to their employees? Furthermore, are gener-ous medical packages extended to retired employees and their families employed at anagency for a requisite number of years?

Are the employees of American Jewish agencies and organizations provided with a gen-erous retirement package commensurate with government employees in similar positionsand with similar years of service?

And most important, are the employees of Jewish agencies and organizations not onlyallowed, but encouraged by both Jewish leaders and organizational end users, to unionize,and enter into collective bargaining agreements with their employers?

If the answer to any or all of the above questions is no, then moral outrage and indignityshould not be directed at the governor of Wisconsin. As they say, charity (as well as so-calledeconomic and social justice) begins at home.

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Last week I joined more than 2,400supporters o Israel 20 o them romWashington State at the second J Street

Con erence in Washington, D.C. heorum in which I ound mysel was com-prised o activists, students, political ana-lysts, members o Knesset, rabbis, andconcerned American Jews.

Unlike what the expected detractorshave suggested to the media, all o theseattendees support a secure and democraticJewish homeland that re ects the best o our values and traditions. With a broadrange o Jewish, Israeli, American and Pal-estinian speakers, the con erence providedan intellectual and emotional incubator orthe community o people who support bothIsrael and Palestinian national realization.

Tough the J A wire services article onMarch 1 inaccurately described the con er-ence as weak in its support or Israeli secu-rity, 700 o its attendees went to Capitol Hilla er the con erence ended to ask our Con-gressional representatives to support ourvision or peace in the Middle East. As parto our lobbying e ort, we requested support

or the administrations e orts to preventreductions in oreign aid that advance U.S.interests in the Middle East, and we askedmembers o Congress to support President

Obamas budget requestproviding $3.075 billionin assistance to Israel as

agreed upon in the 2007Memorandum o Under-standing between Israeland the United States.

Alongside that appealwas a request or strongand consistent undingto strengthen institu-tion- and state-buildinge orts in the West Bank.A viable PalestinianAuthority able to growits economy, meet thebasic needs o its citi-zens, and reduce the risk o terror aimed at Israelis essential to achievinga negotiated, peace ul solution with Israel.

A consistent theme in many o the con-erence discussions concerned the corro-

sive, trickle-down e ect o the con ict andcontinued occupation o the West Bank ondemocratic institutions in Israel. We haveseen in recent years an erosion o the legit-imacy o dissent, a growing intoleranceo religious and ethnic minorities, and arising tendency to label those Israelis (and

Jews across the globe) who de end humanrights as unpatriotic and even treasonous.

Con erence speakers expressed con-cern or this current that seeks to sti e dis-sent and impose an exclusive nationalismin Israeli society. Tey spoke, too, o themany courageous individuals and orga-nizations working to de end the values o democracy in civil society, in the courts,in Knesset, in the media, and in the arena

o public opinion.In an atmosphere o open discussio

and debate, journalists, analysts, direc

tors o NGOs, activists and policy makedeliberated whether the Israeli-Palestiniancon ict is, in act, a core national securiinterest or the United States; whetheIsrael is a Jewish social justice issue; whrole the United States should play in creating environmental cooperation, economicdevelopment and people-to-people proj-ects in the Middle East; how the sensitivsubject o an indivisible Jerusalem migbe negotiated; what the broader impli-cations o democracy movements in thArab world may mean or America, Israand the region; and much, much more.

I am an American and an Is raeli. I livein Israel or 20 years and raised my amthere; three o my our children still live

el Aviv. Te J Street experience reassuredme that there is a community that repre-sents and promotes the Jewish values onwhich I was raised and which inspired myaliyah almost three decades go. Journalist Peter Beinart eloquently expressed thisentiment in his remarks on the rst eve-ning o the con erence:

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A on rsation wit t pr sid nt 6Yeshiva Universitys president, Richard Joel, who was in town or Congregation Bikur Cholim-MHadaths 120th anniversary, spoke withJTNews about the state o Jewish education today.

hi g ts a n w dir tor 8It took a year to fnd him, but Hillel at the University o Washington just received word that their ctheir new executive director is approved and headed up to Seattle.

T y ar o t rabbi? 10Those crazy Chinese, God bless em, apparently couldnt tell the di erence between a symbol androppings. And now theyve fgured out theyve been celebrating their new year all wrong. And whheck are we talking about, anyway?

Tras t tras 14Our special green section eatures a guy who kept a years worth o his garbage in his basemenMaybe. But he got a much better understanding o where his trash goes.

i st pr i ws 16As the AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival gets underway, weve got a look at one o the most popuin the klezmer revival and a history o Jewish li e in Turkey.

T a ing p op ood 26Avraham In eld, the ormer international president o Hillel, likes to show young adults how to their Jewish identities. He was just in Seattle to help a group o University o Washington studenthat.

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Richard Joel, president of YeshivaUniversity, came to Seattle to speak at theBikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath 120thanniversary celebration on March 6. Thenext day he spoke to a small group of

Seattle Hebrew Academy supporters, and toJTNews about the state of Jewish education.

JTNews: Where is Jewish educationtoday, and where is it heading?

Richard Joel: I think its the same ques-tion as, Wheres the Jewish uture?because without Jewish education theresno Jewish uture. Were the people o thebook, were not the people o the text mes-sage. Tere are two issues that will ensureJewish survival: One is text and the otheris context. An ignorant tribal Jewishnessdoesnt transmit. Its not going to go romone generation to another. I theres notcontent and experience, its not going tohappen. Tat means you need community,you need a sense o mission.

O en Jews are called people o history and people o destiny you need to knowthe history and you need to have a sense o destiny. Teres just no way that happenswithout some pro ound and serious edu-cation and Jewish li e experience.

Regardless o what our delivery mech-anisms are you have to start with a senseo peoplehood and a sense o purpose,

with a young amily saying, Tis is some-thing my children have to know and expe-rience. Clearly, I believe that a day schoolexperience o whatever avor should bea non-negotiable. Its ar rom a non-

negotiable. I dont think theres an alter-native to a serious day-school educationthats o quality thats also in the contexto a communal education that meansyouth groups and camp and resplendentJewish preschool and Israel experienceand the like.

Teres a harder question o saying, I its not going to be in the cards that stu-dents go to day school, what do we do?

Te supplemental education has alwaysbeen and continues to be a challenge. Icertainly think its better than nothing. Ithink the challenge that should really bevery important on the communal agendais to gure out how to make that work,because the old system where you go toschool, and then you spend three hours atthe end o the day while youre riends areplaying baseball, its hard to nd the suc-cess ul models o that. I suspect that theonly way to make it work, [is] a combina-tion o ormal and experiential educationinvolving amily retreats and enriching thecamping experience.

JT: Ive seen you address there being a

crisis in day schools.How do we pay forthe education?

I can tell you thati we dont pay or it,

we will pro oundly pay or it. We talk atYeshiva University in the work we aredoing with our grad-uate school o edu-cation about issueso sustainability andhow to make sureyou can deliver theproduct o educa-tion in as quality ande icient and e ec-tive a way as you can,while at the sametime making surethat the best and the brightest go into theteaching pro ession, because we need that.

Te issue is, how does the Jewish com-munity decide what matters? In otherwords, the nancial crisis should not be,Boy, we lived or a couple decades believingthat as middle-class people we could havean upper class li estyle, and weve seen thattheres a new normal. Te sentence thatsucceeds that should not be, Tere ore Idont want to pay or Jewish education. Te

next question should be, Let me look at thexpenses o our li e, lets see whats negoble and non-negotiable. Lets see how in athese areas we can be as cost-e ective as wcan. Te primal scream o tuition is terri-ble. I think its a short-sighted, terrible mistake that we shouldnt give into.

JT: In looking at the other side of thisissue, as a university present training

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so many students to be teachers, yourein many ways giving them a life wheretheyre not going to be paid very well.How do you get around that?

I you look at each or America, orour Jewish each or America thatsour Legacy Heritage Fellowships we

have a moment in time where all young

people are really looking at a world wherethey eel anonymous and where they wantto matter. Te best and the brightest wantto matter. Tat doesnt mean they cantmatter in hedge unds i they want to dothat. Tat doesnt mean they cant matterin business or in the pro essions.

Teres also a time now where peoplewant to matter in helping pro essions and

in education, and I think thats glorious

that the best want that. But we also have tobe honest with them and say, You knowwhat? Tis is not a path to wealth.

Id also tell you that the challenge o the community, as we deal with issues o sustainability, is that we do have to runas lean and mean a business as we can.We do have to decide what are the essen-tials o education. We cant just be pro -

ligate and say that theres every possible

course in every possible eld that I wanmy day school or university to o er. Andonce we do that, we have to have a conversation as a community and say, What ware saying to these educators is we o eyou the opportunity or a li e o meaniwhere youll be respected in your community and youll be paid well enough thayou get to live. Tat youll be able to have

your home and educate your kids.

Avenue and South Wash-ington Street in the CentralDistrict. A decade later, thecongregation again moved,this time a ew blocks away to a location on 17th Avenueand Yesler Way. In 1962,Bikur Cholim mergedwith a young congregationcalled Yavneh and ormed aSeward Park branch.

Jewish amilies bothAshkenazi and Sephardiccontinued to move south

rom the Central District,and by 1970, that branchhad become the heart o Bikur Cholimitsel . he Central District synagoguewas sold, and in early 1971 ground wasbroken on the synagogues South MorganStreet location, where it remains today.Tat same year, Bikur Cholim merged

with Machzikay Hadath,the Central Districts lastr e m a i n i n g O r t h o d o xshul , to orm what is stillBikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath. Tose who stayedbehind in the Central Dis-trict ormed whats nowcalled the BCMH CapitolHill Minyan. Tis year alsomarks those two important40-year milestones in thecongregations history.

Genauer also noted thatBCMH has, in 120 years,become an institution withreach beyond even theNorthwest. Rabbi Moshe

Kletenik is currently president o the Rab-binical Council o America, an Orthodoxorganization o about 1,000 rabbis. Hes the

rst president o the organization to hailrom the Northwest, and one o a hand ul

to come rom outside the New York area.

Obviously Rabbi Kletenik is deservingo that honor, but also that hes the rabbiat BCMH was taken into consideration,

Genauer said. I think it shows the respecthat our synagogue, which is 120 years oldhas not just locally but nationally.

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It has been nearly a year since RabbiWill Berkovitz, the previous executivedirector at Hillel at the University o Washington, gave notice that he would bemoving on. At that time, the Hillel board

began a search or a replacement, butcame up empty handed or a permanentdirector. According to incoming boardpresident Julia Bacharach, these types o searches are best begun at the start o theschool year.

Last spring we were a little late in theprocess, she said.

So the organization brought in Jeremy Brochin, who had retired as executivedirector o the Hillel at the University o Pennsylvania, to act as interim direc-tor or the year. Te search committeebegan its search again in September, andannounced in mid-February that RabbiOren Hayon would be the Jewish stu-

dent organizations new Greenstein amily executive director.

We were looking or our next exec-utive director to continue what Rabbi[Arthur Jacobovitz], may he rest in peace,

Rabbi Dan [Bridge], and Rabbi Will cre-ated, said Suzan LeVine, Hillel UWs cur-rent board president. We wanted to makesure the person we hired was up to that.But we also wanted to hire a person whocould put his own stamp on [the organi-zation]. With Oren, what we ound wassomeone with this energy.

Bridge, who served on the search com-mittee, agreed.

he excitement he showed aboutbeing here, and the programs that we do,and the kinds o questions he asked really showed the committee and the board andthe students and the young adults thateven though hes new to Hillel, he knewwhat he was talking about, Bridge said.

Hayon, 38, is currently an associaterabbi at emple Emanu-El, a large Re ormcongregation in the Dallas area.

Once I got the phone call rom Seat-tle, it became clear that what was going onwith the UW and what was going on withJconnect were really, really ideal or thenext step o what I wanted to do with my career and with my li e, Hayon said.

Hayon has been working extensively with the young adult population at his cur-

rent synagogue, though most o his work with college students has been to check in with them rom a ar and be with themduring breaks, he said.

As executive director, Im really

excited about taking the wheel, he said,and really getting the chance to steer aplace and vision that is signi cant andproductive and meaning ul or the con-stituents.

Bacharach said that since announcingHayons hiring, she has been impressedwith his proactive attitude toward the job.

He doesnt start until July 1, and yet hehas already said, Hey, I understand thatsta ng decisions get made around thistime, is there anything I should know,she said.

Tough Hillel UW told supporters lastmonth that Hayon had been hired, theorganization still had one hurdle to over-come be ore it became o cial: Approval

rom headquarters.Were very particular about the direc-

tors who we bring into our system, and putthem through quite a rigorous process,said Scott Brown, executive vice presidento Hillel International. We think he bringsa lot to our organization. Hes inspiring,he inspires others to act, nurtures growth,strives or excellence, and relates to others.

LeVine said that Hayon wont havemany major challenges to con ront as he

begins his new job.Tere is no mandate or him other

than to make sure that hes helping tmake this organization succeed, and carrying the mantle that was established b

Hillels previous directors, LeVine said.As someone who has held the positionBridge said Hayons challenges would two- old: One is the idea o reaching oto young adults who really are not a liated not just with Hillel but any Jewishorganization, he said.

Te other, he said, are the nancialchallenges in this tough age and our eraand making sure the nancial support ialways there.

But, Bridge added, Hes a young guso he understands young people and howto nd and reach them. Hes a smardelight ul young man. He will be a grerabbi and executive director.

Hayon and his wi e and two small chdren enjoy being outdoors, so he said he ilooking orward to what the Puget Sounregion has to o er. I he is nervous abohis impending move, its the adjustmenthe will have to make both personally anpro essionally.

I have to learn a new city, I have tlearn a new international organizationthat I havent worked with be ore. Ev

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Following attempts to force the city of Seattle to divest from companies that dobusiness with Israel, signs on campusesand highway overpasses decrying the Israeloccupation of Gaza, the takeover of a state-funded college campus in Olympia, cam-paigns to get several food cooperatives toremove Israeli products from their shelves,a still-to-be-fully determined attempt to putadvertisements critical of Israel on the sidesof King County Metro buses, an art exhibitthat calls Hebrew the language of abuse,and a disruption at a performance of theIsrael Philharmonic at Benaroya Hall, pro-ponents of the boycott, divestment and sanc-tions movement have taken aim at a mostunlikely target: Organizers announced thismonth that they would be boycotting theJewish Federated Fund for its support of Israel.

For many years, this Jewish group haspublicly and unapologetically proclaimed itssupport for a country where all of the people,even the old ones and the babies, do super,super mean stuff. I saw the pictures on theInternet, said Noah Goldstein, a spokesper-son for a new organization called bdSeattle.

The Purimonomist found Noah whilehanding out bumper stickers stating, ImAnti-Israel and I Vote at Westlake Park in

downtown Seattle.I think there needs to be a show of soli-

darity by everyone at the horrors of Gaza,Goldstein said. This is why we need todeligee deligitimy deli-jimmy dele-gitimize Israel.

Confederate of cials met the news of the latest boycott with a mix of shrugs andguffaws.

Um, yeah! We really werent expect-ing any of them to donate to our communitycampaign anyway, said one high-level of -cial. Everything they say about the moneywe send to Israel to bene t the poor and tobuild the infrastructure for new immigrantsand refugees there is all true. So I guess that if you think about it, their accusations are justi-

ed. Guilty as charged.Supporters of the Texas-based Christians

Who Really, Really Love Israel, upon hear-ing the news of the boycott, overwhelmedthe Jewish organizations phone lines withmessages of support.

Thanks, said a receptionist who askedto not be named, but you can all stop callingnow. I have actual work to do that doesntentail answering your unnecessary phonecalls.

A press release sent out by CWRRLI tookcredit for driving Goldstein out of the park,

though witnesses said he headed straighttoward a mens room before he left.

In addition, the Los Angeles-based Free-dom, Inc. threatened to send a person with hisown bumper stickers to the park during Gold-steins one-man demonstration, but wereunable to get the requisite permits in time.

A spokesperson from King County wouldnot comment on the foundations attempts toget a demonstration permit, saying only thathe had a really, really intense headache.

bdSeattles Facebook page posted a notethat they were so incredibly, awesomelyproud of themselves for their activism inhelping to end the occupation.

With the regions rst tolling authority,across the Highway 520 Evergreen Point bridge,set to launch this spring, a proposal set forth byJewish communal leaders may delay if noteliminate entirely the need to charge driversat all to get between Seattle and the Eastside.

Were calling it our brick by brick cam-paign, said Larry Rosen, execu-tive director of a local synagogueand the leader of a consortium of congregations who are pitchingthe idea to the Washington StateDepartment of Transportation. Itsa practice we all do in our shuls, sowhy not do it for a major regionalwaterway crossing?

The idea, as Rosen put it, is foreach concrete span, column, safetyrailing and rail tie should lightrail be added into the nal design

to have a brass plaque and adonors name.

We can offer different tiersof giving, from the Commuter level of just afew hundred dollars to the King of the Road,who would get his or her name on any tunnelentrances, Rosen said, plus the warning forwhen the drawbridge opens would say the per-sons name instead of a loud bell.

But not everyone is happy about the idea.Rob Johnson, executive director of the Seattle-based Transportation Choices Coalition, said

that he sees one of the bene ts of the toll system

being that drivers will now be able to see thetrue cost of the roads they drive on.

Its very generous of the Jewish commu-nity, Johnson said, but this doesnt feel liketrue tikkun olamif it doesnt allow people to sehow their actions affect our environment andtraf c patterns.

Some Microsoft employees who drive thespan each day also said they didnt like the idea,mainly because they hadnt thought of it rst.

Some other Jewish organizations havegotten in on the action, however. The themeof this years AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festi-val is Building Bridges. While the theme isintended as a metaphorical bridge between dif-ferent faith and ethnic groups, if the shoe ts,

said festival director Pamela Lavitt.

Latest Genizah discovery:Its the Year of the Rabbi

A document from a recently discoveredgenizah in China indicates that the Chineseyear that recently started was originally TheYear of the Rabbi and not The Year of theRabbit, as has been celebrated for centuries.Jewish and Chinese scholars working togetherto decode the document and verify its authen-ticity had long assumed the letter t has author-itatively been determined to be cigar ash. Thescholars issued a joint statement indicating itis too early to determine the impact that it willhave on the future of the Chinese calendar.

Everyone is always excited about theyear of the rabbit. I mean, who doesntlove those furry little creatures? said notedscholar Richard Indiana Jonestein. TheChinese will have a hard time adjusting to theyear of the rabbi. Most dont even know whata rabbi is and have never met one.

Another document found in the genizah purportedly explains the origin of the Jewishtradition of eating in Chinese restaurants onChristmas Eve apparently the result of anagreement between Jewish and Chinese lead-ers, which also reportedly led to the introduc-tion of vegetarian egg rolls to Chinese menus.

The discovery of the genizah, in the base-ment of a synagogue in Kaifeng, China, that hadbeen destroyed in the 1860s, was made by RabbiYesh Lee Mazal, who traces his own ancestry tothe Kaifeng community. He said he was tippedoff to the Kaifeng genizah after opening a for-tune cookie that read: Help, Im a prisoner ina Chinese fortune cookie factory written inHebrew. He traced the fortune cookie to a fac-tory on the outskirts of Kaifeng and was easilyable to identify the person who wrote the for-tune.

Funny, you dont look Chinese, he saidto the man, who then led him to the secretentrance to the genizah.

The Jewish community in Kaifeng datesfrom between the 10th and 12th centuries,when Jewish traders from central Asia set-tled in Kaifeng during the Northern SongDynasty. The community, which was alwaysrelatively small, survived into the 19th cen-tury, when the synagogue was destroyed andmuch of the community intermarried andassimilated into the surrounding culture.

Today, as many as 1,000 residents of Kaifeng claim to trace their ancestry to theJewish community and after contact withWestern Jews, some have reclaimed theirJewish roots and resettled in Israel.

Librarians of the Klau Library at HebrewUnion College in Cincinnati, Ohio wheremost of the known manuscripts of the Jewishcommunity of Kaifeng are located said therewas no indication that the Year of the Rabbi hadbeen observed by the Kaifeng community.

The news of the discovery broke into theopen an argument archaeologists with spe-

cialties in Chinese history have kept quiet

BDS movement to boycott Jewish Federation

Jewish groups stop 520 tolling before it startsfor the past several decades: Some have longcontended that early drawings of what wereinitially assumed to be cute widdle bunniesare actually portrayals of a lost sect of ultra-Orthodox mountain Jews with their peyot

long sideburns

ying through the air asthey skied to Torah study.

In an unprecedented joint news confer-ence by leaders of the Reform, Conservative,Reconstructionist, Humanist, Orthodox andChabad rabbinical associations, the rabbiswelcomed the news as an important step torestoring respect to the rabbinate. The Yearof the Rabbi will call attention to the impor-tant role that rabbis have played throughoutthe Jewish world, even in the most obscureplaces, they said.

Not everyone welcomed the news of thediscovery of the genizah. A number of can-tors, who refused to speak on the record,expressed concern these ndings would fur -ther diminish their role as clergy partnersof rabbis. They denied reports, however, of another document indicating that The Yearof the Pig ( Chazer ) was originally The Yearof the Chazan and was only changed due toscribal error.

Editors note: This piece may have plagia-rized the writings of a great sage who served his people in the ancient Northwestern set-tlement known to its natives as Tacoma (Ta-COME-a), but researchers were unable toverify this before the Purimonomist went topress, so we printed it anyway.

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Consider the remarkabletale o Ovadiah the Convert.

Born in a small village near

Naples in the late 11th century,he was sent by his parents to amonastery to prepare or a li ein the priesthood. But then,horri ed by the bloody massa-cres o Rhineland Jewry duringthe rst Crusade o 1096, hecommitted the entirely bizarreact o converting to Judaism.

Understandably out o place inCatholic Europe, he migrated to the moretolerant Ottoman Empire, settling by the early 1120s in Fustat, the Old City o Cairo. Tere, be ore his death, he pennedin Hebrew a religious hymn in homage toMoses, entitled Mi Al Har Horev (Whostood upon Mt. Horev). He accompaniedhis text with musical notations but notthe cantillation known rom orah chant-ing. Rather, he chose a tune and a nota-tional system amiliar to him rom themonasteries o Catholic Europe. When,centuries later, Ovadiahs notation systemwas deciphered, it became clear that hehad set his Hebrew hymn to Moses to thetraditional chords o the Gregorian chant!

You can hear it online today at http://jew.sh/M4xk.

How did we come to know the story o Ovadiah the Convert? How did we dis-cover what remains the oldest piece o written Jewish music?

Te answer comes in three words: TeCairo Genizah.

A scrap o parchment containing Ova-diahs poem was ound by the scholar o medieval Jewish history, Norman Golb,in 1964 as he searched through the vasthoard o uncatalogued manuscripts at theJewish Teological Seminarys collectiono Jewish manuscripts rom the genizah(text depository) o the Ben Ezra syna-gogue o Old Cairo.

Te story o Ovadiah the Convert o ersjust one tiny insight into the wealth o in or-mation the Cairo Genizah holds aboutMediterranean and Middle Eastern Jewishhistory in ancient and medieval times. And,at last, general readers with a curiosity aboutthe Jewish past have a sure guide to the story o the Cairo Genizah in the orm o a newbook by the local rabbi and Seattle imes columnist Mark Glickman. itled Sacred

reasure Te Cairo Genizah: Te Amaz-ing Discoveries of Forgotten Jewish History inan Egyptian Synagogue Attic(Jewish Lights,2010), this book is a marvelous guide notonly to the contents o the genizah, but alsoto the ascinating gures who have made itscontents accessible to the world.

Rabbi Glickman, a textual scholar inhis own right, is well-versed in the insand outs o genizah studies as a disciplineand guides readers through the techni-cal details o genizah manuscript studieswith a light touch. He also spins a darn

ine yarn. Rabbi Glickmanmanages to tell two stories atonce: Te story o the material

discovered a er 1,000 yearsin a synagogue attic and thestory o the brilliant and, attimes, idiosyncratic scholarswho discovered, deciphered,and organized the genizahtexts over the course o theentire 20th century and into

the 21st.Imagine a room with the

remains o some 300,000 man-uscripts thrown every which way since the11th century! Among the texts are bib-lical scrolls in Hebrew, Hebrew writing

rom the unknown Jewish sect, whichproduced the Dead Sea Scrolls discoveredin the 1940s, secular literature and docu-ments o all kinds documenting the li e-styles, economic world, and private liveso generations o Jewish Cairenes, themusical jottings o a converted monk whojoined his Catholic musical sensibilities tohis new aith in a stunning synthesis inaddition to a letter to Maimonides, signedby his brother, David, be ore the ill- atedbusiness trip that took his li e!

Now imagine the scholars who devotedtheir lives to the Genizah and its texts. Herewe nd a rich portrait o Solomon Schech-ter, known primarily to contemporary Jews by the Jewish schools and summercamps established in his name. In real li ehe was one o the great rabbinic scholarso the early days o secular Jewish Studies,who rst visited the Genizah in 1896 andrecognized it as more than a moldering pileo useless scraps o parchment.

We meet as well twin sisters Agnes Lewisand Margaret Dunlop Gibson, two genteel,highly educated Presbyterian ladies, who(in 1892!) rode on camel-back rom Suez toGaza in sun bonnets and long sleeves and

ound the manuscript identi ed by Schech-ter as the long-lost Hebrew original o theapocryphal Second emple Jewish textcited in the almud as Ben Sirah.

As Rabbi Glickmans tale o the discov-ery o this trove o textual treasures un olds,readers will grasp what exactly motivatesscholars who hole up in musty rooms withwormy books. But, more importantly, read-ers outside o academic textual research willlearn that there is an important lesson in thevery existence o such a thing as a genizah.Lets listen in as Rabbi Glickman explains.And lets give him the last word:

Tere is something awesome aboutthe power o writing, isnt there? Pentouches paper and moves across thesur ace, leaving a trail o ink behind it.Just so. Te shape o that trail orms let-ters; the letters orm words; the words

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DavE chamEiDEs JTA World New serviceLOS ANGELES (J A) My parents are dining at a Jewish Federation event with some

olks rom their community. As happens on occasion when Jewish parents get together, thesubject turns to the accomplishments o their children (shocking, right?).

Mr. Cohen o ers up that his son is curing cancer. Mrs. Schwartz mentions that herdaughter is working with Obama. Ten my mom proudly declares, My son didnt throwanything away last year, instead keeping all o his garbage and recy-cling in his basement. And worms eat all o his ood scraps!

Te table alls quiet as orks clink on ge lte sh plates and looksare traded. Someone coughs. A ew moments pass and one motherleans in to another.

Tey always seemed like such normal people, she says. DidntDavid go to yeshiva?

And then I wake up.Yes, I did in act attend a yeshiva in my ormative years. Yes, I did save all my trash and

recycling in my basement a couple years ago, eeding ood scraps and paper to my 10,000worms. And yes, my mother is quite proud o my accomplishments, as is my dad.

It all began in October 2007 as I was talking with a riend about the idea o throwingthings away. It occurred to us that we had no idea where away was and that every timeour trash magically disappeared, it didnt seem entirely responsible. We assumed that wewere doing the right thing environmentally, socially and ethically but also understoodwhat happens when you assume.

I realized that the only way to really evaluate my waste ootprint was to stop. Stop throw-ing things away and start looking at what I was actually leaving behind. I gured recy-cling, while better than trashing something, still uses resources, energy and creates waste,so I decided to stop recycling as well. Essentially I took a pledge to keep all o my trash and

trash the trash,trash the planet

recycling or one solid year and see what happened. And thats just what I did.Now be ore you judge, hear me out. Im not insane not in the dictionary sense o the

word anyway and actually believe that despite what many may see as extreme, what Idid made more sense than just going with the ow. My traditional upbringing, Jewish day school education, and parental tutelage taught me to question things that didnt make sense

and x the things that I could tikkun olam and all that. Little diRabbi Li know when he was teaching me Bava Kama that he waactually preparing my mind to hoard stu in my basement.

Our people should be the most ardent stewards o spaceship earthWhy? I could give you a thousand reasons, but need go no urther thanthe concept o shmita. Every seven years we are told to let the land resand rejuvenate itsel . Hands o , as it were. Is there a better indication thatwe are mere sojourners here and not owner-operators? As any renter

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ake the United States, or instance. Te average American disposes o roughly 4.6pounds o trash every day more on Shabbat i youre rum. Tats roughly 480 billionpounds or the entire country, give or take a billion. Its insane, and I quickly recognizedthat I didnt want to be part o the problem anymore. But be ore you can x something, youneed to understand it, so down in the basement everything went.

And what happened? My trash output dwindled to a mere hal pound per month 31.5 pounds in total. I learned to make simple choices and ended up not changing my li e-style as much as my buying habits. My children learned that hand towels and paper go to

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dent on the support o power-ul allies, a song that expressesthanks and delight or every new blessing seems moreappropriate than a patri-otic, historical, sentimentalnational anthem.

But the Middle East is astbecoming an environmental disaster area,and theyre all running out o water andarable land.

Israels list includes orest re residues,a polluted Hai a harbor, air pollution romautomotive, maritime and air tra c, anda 92 percent reliance on ossil uels orenergy. Israel is a net ood importer orits growing population, and it burns oilto desalinate the Mediterranean, pumpout the Jordan River and Lake Kineret,and suck the last drops o non-renewablewater rom its natural aqui ers.

But wait! Teres more. SurroundingMiddle East countries eature autocraticgovernments, unhealthy economies, highunemployment, and: Industrial, agricultural, and urban envi -ronmental toxins pollute Lebanons air,water and land. Overgrazing and over-

cultivation are eroding top-soil ast, and its still cleaningup rom the 2006 war cluster bombs on armland,

water and sewage systemdamage, toxic waste rombomb damage and industrial

acility res. And bored Hez-bollah soldiers use migratingbird ocks or target practice; In Jordan, environmen -tal problems became seriousin the 1970s, as it modern-ized and urbanized, absorbed

in uxes o re ugees, and its populationburgeoned. Now, its dealing with de or-estation and agricultural erosion, air, landand water pollution; Syrias agriculturally disastrous droughtis driving re ugees rom arms to cities.De orestation, overgrazing, soil erosion,and deserti cation are also problems, anddumping o raw sewage and petroleum-re ning waste are polluting their water; Palestinian Authority and Israeli admin -istrators contend over managing sewageand solid waste, scarce water and land.Israelis continue clearing away Palestinianorchards and arms or settlements, wherehouses o ten eature water-devouringlawns and, sometimes, swimming pools.Palestinian houses are designed more or

the environment, with at roo s or har-vesting rainwater, and backyard gardenplots. Israelis are also trucking out WestBank rock or Israel construction projects;

Gaza is challenged with sewage and solidwaste management, war debris cleanup,deserti ication, brackish resh water,depletion and contamination o under-ground water resources, water-borne dis-eases, and soil degradation; Egypt, with low literacy and high birth -rates, has created terrible air pollution overCairo and Alexandria. Its losing arable landto development, desert wind erosion, over-cultivation and heavy uses o agricultural

chemicals. Expanded desert area irrigationhas increased soil salinity, and helped spreadwaterborne diseases. And oil pollution, rawsewage, and industrial efuent dumpingthreaten beaches, coral ree s, wildli e habi-tats and potable water supplies.

Given these deadly, common chal-lenges, and i only because misery lovescompany, one might expect Middle East-ern parties to nd ways they could work

together, to stabilize the worst situa-tions, mitigate damage and start restoringtheir environments. Yes, small, promis-ing, individual and cooperative e orts are

underway in every country, but historical,political, tribal and ideological animosities trump them. Externally, Israels toppriorities are survival and secure bordersInternally, secular vs. religious actions v

or Israels soul. Outside Israel, secular vreligious Arab actions ght over the samthings who will set each governmentsagenda, philosophy and laws. All partieseem to agree on two things:1. Annoyance with environmental prob-lems, and2. Disdain or peace negotiators.

Te two main actors on which theyshould agree, however, are those which his-torians have ound to torpedo every empiresince ancient Egypt: Failure to managwater, topsoil and ood supply, and creationo severe disparities in wealth and society.

In environmental business terms, theseare ailures to manage the triple bottomline economics, environment and socialequity. Its ironic to see 21st-century peoplein Judaisms birthplace repeat 4,500-yearold mistakes and know they see usmaking the same ones in the New World.

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GERARD SCHWARZ, conductor / LYNN HARRELL, celloTHE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON WIND ENSEMBLE (March 26 ONLY)

SEATTLE SYMPHONY

Two nights, two unique concerts celebrating renowned composer and longtimeWashington resident, Alan Hovhaness, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

MARCH 24 & 26

WITH CELLIST LYNN HARRELL

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When a band has been together ornearly a quarter o a century, a celebrationis warranted. I its a Jewish band, you can

assume that a certain amount o tzuris hasaccompanied the success.Tats the case with the Klezmatics, the

world-renowned klezmer band oundedin the mid-80s in New Yorks East Vil-lage. Beloved or their rousing, soul ulper ormances, the groups onstage cama-raderie masks a surprising amount o o -stage tension.

Music documentaries such as Erik Greenberg Anjous excellent Te Klezmat-ics: On Holy Ground , screening in the AJCSeattle Jewish Film Festival, acknowledge

ans demands that their spirits not just beraised, but untethered.

I can report that the music is indeed ahighlight, with a slew o toe-tapping num-bers and poignant Yiddish ballads recordedin a variety o venues and settings. But theheart o the documentary, somewhat unex-pectedly, is the unique and sometimesheated dynamic among longtime mem-bers Frank London (the high-energy trum-pet player and keyboardist), violinist LisaGutkin (the lone woman in the ensemble),saxophone and clarinet maestro Matt Dar-riau, Paul Morrissett (bass and cymbal) and

the charismatic accordionist, guitarist andpianist Lorin Sklamberg.

Te Klezmatics: On Holy Ground is nota Behind the Music-style, rags-to-richeschronicle o a success ul group undone by drugs, egos or ne arious record company executives. Nor is it a saga o serious art-ists orced to compromise to attain main-stream popularity, or re using to bend andthere ore su ering commercial ignominy.

At its core, the documentary is about thechallenge o being a middle-aged artist inAmerica and struggling to earn a consistentincome (and perhaps support a amily).Its almost incidental, in a way, that the art

orm is a kind o eclectic ethnic music with

avant-garde elementsthat has a niche audi-ence.

Anjou lmed theband on and o overmore than our years,and the musicians gra-ciously (albeit reluc-tantly, at rst) allowedthe lm crew to recordsome o their meet-ings. While it is as-cinating to observemature, mutually

respect ul adults ghting airly talkingstraight without manipulation, name-call-ing or sugar coating the tension eventu-ally darkens the mood o the lm.

Although creative disagreements areinevitably part o the mix when strong-willed musicians play together, the realangst on display in Te Klezmatics involvesclashing priorities and opportunities. Frank London has numerous side projects andsession dates, to a seemingly greater degreethan the other members, which complicatescheduling a Klezmatics tour. And or atleast a ew o the other members, live per-

ormance is their main source o income.What we glean is that all the acclaim,

and the galvanizing inspiration o colaborating over the years with the likeo Allen Ginsberg, ony Kushner, ItzhaPerlman and Chava Alberstein, and evena Grammy Award or best contemporaryworld music album or Wonder Whe(2006), are tempered by the real-worldrealities o making a living.

o be sure, this valuable documentaryamply honors and salutes the bands stead

ast contribution to Jewish music anJewish culture. Indeed, all the mishegomelts away when the ensemble takes th

The K e t cs r se the roof n fest v docmichaEl Fox special to JTNew

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Jewi h Film Fe tival o s ., Mar h13 at 1 p.m. at AMC Paci c Place 11,600 Pi e st., seattle. Vi it

www.seattlejewish lmfestival.orgfor ti ket . A e ore e ior performa e will take pla e Wed.,Mar h 16 at the stro m Jewi hcomm it ce ter, 3801 E Mer erWa , Mer er I la d. $7. no ti ketfor thi performa e will e old atthe door or o li e. RsVP to Ro i at206-232-7115, ext. 269 orro ia@ j .or .

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Rachel Amado Bortnick didnt su erthrough pogroms. She didnt escape herhome country as government troops

closed in on her town. She didnt have toleave everything behind her amily, hercherished treasures to make her way tothe new world. But that doesnt mean shedoesnt have a story to tell.

Her 1989 lm, rees Cry for Rain: A Sep-hardic Journey, will most likely resonatewith Seattles sizeable Sephardic commu-nity, as its the story o Bortnicks child-hood growing up in urkey and what li ewas like in the early to mid-20th century ora Jewish amily there. Bortnicks memoiron lm screens as a part o the AJC SeattleJewish Film Festival on Sun., March 13.

Li e, as it turned out, was pretty good.Jews were more or less integrated though not always ully assimilated into

urkish society. Tey owned businesseswere able to move about as they pleased,and were o en welcomed into their neigh-bors homes.

Part history o the region whichunless you grew up in a urkish Sephardic

amily you would probably not have any insight into and part personal history,

rees Cry for Rainconsists mostly o Bort-nick looking back on her home country

and the traditionsshe remembers andbrought with her to

the U.S. She inter-mingles photographsand art, Sephardicmusic, and with a

riend, Esther Levy,one o the last Jews

rom Egypt, she givesa cooking demon-stration as well.

Bortnick goes asar back as the 15th

century, when Jewsexpelled rom Spainwere welcomed by the Ottomans, andtalks about li e under both Muslim andChristian rule.

In her own amilys history, she talkedabout li e in her town: Te egg man, whoclucked when he came with his deliver-ies, or the wine man, whose wares o enturned to vinegar be ore the Shabbat orholiday, and the intricate traditions whenvisiting other amilies, rom the young-est daughters who compliment their hostswhile serving baked sweets to the cere-mony o serving the urkish co ee.

One moment that will likely strikemany people as unny comes later in the

lm, when Bortnick talks about her arrivalin the U.S. and the trouble she had con-vincing people she was even Jewish.

Growing up in urkey I thought Span-ish was the Jewish language, she says. Butwhen she landed in St. Louis to attend col-lege, most o them had never even heardo Sephardic people, let alone believedthat you could be Jewish and not be roma Yiddish-speaking background.

Her rst holiday in America, Hanukkah, was very di erent rom anything shhad ever experienced.

I had never seen a dreidel, and I didnknow what latkes were we have ourown oods or the holidays, she says. whole concept o what being a Jew meawas shaken. It was very, very disturbinand I elt very, very lonely to tell you thtruth.

A ew years a er making this lm, Bonick ounded Ladinokomunita, an organization that creates materials to keep theLadino language alive. It appears she ounher place in her adopted country.

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Journey ree a part of the AJcseattle Jewi h Film Fe tival o s .,March 13 at 3 p.m. at AMC Paci cPla e 11, 600 Pi e st., seattle.Ra hel Amado bort i k will eappear a a pe ial e t. Vi itwww.seattlejewish lmfestival.orgfor ti ket .

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Mar h 18 at 7:30 p.m.David La kin: The Long Way HomeReadingDavid Laskins book The Long Way Home tells thestories of 12 immigrants who went from Europe toEllis Island and then back to Europe to serve inWorld War I. Two won Medals of Honor, and threewere Jewish. At Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell

Way NE, Lake Forest Park.

Mar h 18-April 177:30 p.m.All My SonsTheaterAll My Sons is the secondplay by the legendary ArthurMiller, who would later writeDeath of a Salesman and TheCrucible . This family dramais set in an African Ameri-can household in SeattlesCentral District in 1947 theyear the play debuted. AtIntiman Theater, 201 MercerSt., Seattle. Tickets at www.intiman.org.

Mar h 21, 7:30 p.m.David brookReadingDavid Brooks, the well-known New York Timescolumnist, brings his third book, The Social Animal:The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achieve-ment to Seattle. In the occasionally novelistic form,Brooks takes on the ultimate questions of naturevs. nurture. At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle.Tickets $5.

Mar h 23 at 7:30 p.m.suze OrmanReadingTV host Suze Orman brings her message of smart personal financial planning to Seattle witha reading at the University of Washington. Or-man will (energetically, we imagine) read fromThe Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream and then sign copies. At KaneHall 130, University of Washington, Seattle.

Mar h 19 & 20Mu i In pired y shel silver tein Where the Sidewalk Ends

con ertThe Bushwick Book Club presents two performances of music

based on the Silverstein childrens poetry classic. They playSaturday night at the Can Can at 9 p.m. and Sunday after-noon at Town Hall at 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. At the Can Can,93 Pike St., Seattle, and Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave., Seattle.

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County transit pass22 Macroeconomic stat23 Stan ords main rival24 Some W.B.A. wins26 Saturday Night Live alumna Cheri28 Wallet contents30 Phonies33 Fails to keep pace with35 Louisianan style o cuisine37 Begins diplomatic partner38 Welcome!42 Fetch43 A square has our44 Bagel topping45 Song by Stone Temple Pilots, TLC, or

Radiohead46 Engrave with acid50 Social stratum52 ___ vous plat 54 Vinces agent on Entourage 55 Weather map icon56 Withdraw rom, as a class59 Spruce up61 Welcome!64 No sweat65 ___ boy!66 Intrinsically67 Small songbird68 Series whose villain was a smoke

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Eric Miller is the Public A airs Specialist or QFC. He can be reached at eric.miller@q ci.com or 425-990-6182.

QFC and Treehouse team up to helpsupport foster childrenBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Afairs Specialist

Being able to provide the proper oundation andsupport or our children is extremely important.Te chance to grow up in a loving amily whonurtures one another and aces challengestogether is something every child deserves, andIm sure many o us have been quite lucky to grow up in this type o household. While we may nothave been wealthy, we never went hungry and wewere always loved and protected. We had all o thenecessities and maybe even got a ew extras too.

Un ortunately, not every child can claim toknow this kind o stability. Trough no ault o their own, some children are removed rom theirhomes in order to protect them rom unspeakableacts o abuse, neglect and cruelty. Although it is inthe best interest o the child or their physicaland emotional wellbeing to be taken out o thesituation, this displacement can sometimes causeunintended consequences including anxiety andlow sel -esteem.

Foster amilies provide the sa e homes or thesechildren, but many times they cannot a ord the

extras like music or dancelessons; or sometimes eventhe simple things like awarm winter coat. Tis iswhere reehouse comes in.Tey are the local nonproftorganization helping tobring the childhood back to scores o oster childrenin our area. reehousebridges the gap or oster

amilies to provide schoolsupplies and clothing, as well assupport or the extras such as tutoring or sportsequipment. Tey help create wonder ul memoriesand encourage positive sel -image, sel -worth andsel -confdence in local oster children. All o theseare critical components to developing well-adjustedadults who will hope ully make the correct choices inli e or themselves and or their uture amilies.

QFC is proud to partner with reehouse to raiseawareness and unds in support o local oster

children. We invite you tomake a donation at any QFC checkstandor designate your bag reuse credit to reehouse now through April 2nd. We hope that youll join us andsupport reehouse because Living in oster careshouldnt keep a kid rom just being a kid.

VANCOUVER, BC David DuduFisher, Israeli-born world-renowned per-

ormer who rose to ame as Jean Valjean inLes Misrables, rst in Israel where LesMiz became the nations longest running

show and then on Broadway, is comingto Vancouver, BC or one Paci c North-west per ormance as part o his currentworld tour on March 14.

Event organizers have arranged a spe-cial package or the Seattle community,including concert tickets, 10 percent o lunch or dinner at the kosher Maple Grill,and a discounted hotel rate (reservedunder the concert name) o $105 (plus tax)at the Park Inn & Suites near the venue.

Dudus vocal talent has lled concerthalls throughout the world, rom Carn-egie Hall, Wembley Stadium, and Syd-neys Opera House to the Bolshoi Teater

in Moscow. Dudu has also per ormed orPresident Clinton, the British and TaiRoyal Families, and even or the Pope.Dudu Fisher is perhaps one o Israelsmost renowned musical ambassadors.

Te rst per ormer on Broadway to becontractually exempt rom Friday nightand Saturday matinees in order not toviolate Shabbat, Dudu has enjoyed a richinternational musical career, launched by his success in Les Misrables, that led todozens o CD and DVD recordings o hiswork. Dudu per orms in many languages,

rom Hebrew, English, and Yiddish, toRussian, Italian, Spanish, and Ladino.

An Israeli-trained cantor in the Ashke-nazi European Orthodox tradition, Duduhas served as cantor at congregations in

el Aviv, New York, and South A rica.He still serves annually as cantorial solo-

ist or High Holiday services in Sao Paulo,Brazil.

Following a concert tour that has takenhim to Mexico, the U.S., and Australia,Dudu is coming to Vancouver or a special

undraiser or Congregation Beth Hami-drash, the largest and only Sephardic syn-agogue in Western Canada.

According to anya Marciano, amember o Beth Hamidrashs organiz-ing committee, Dudu Fisher is not only known as a world-class Broadway per-

ormer but he also per orms traditionalAshkenazi, Sephardi, Israeli, and Yiddishsongs. Marciano added.

As Dudu con rmed, this will be anintimate evening with just piano accom-paniment and a broad repertoire o hismost popular and enduring avorites romBroadway and the Yiddish and Jewish

liturgical traditions. As this year is also th25th anniversary year o Les MisrablDudu will also share stories and song

rom this long-time audience avorite.

Wor d-renowned s n er co n to V ncouverarthur Wolak special to JTNew I f

y ou go:

D d Fi her will perform at

Va o ver olde t a o e,s hara Tzede k, 3476 Oak st.,Va o ver, bc o Mo ., Mar h 14at 7:30 p.m. For i formatio oti ket a d a ommodatio ,

o ta t co re atio bethHamidra h at 604-872-4222 ori fo@ ethhamidra h. om.

sometimes o indescribable splendor.Te written word can convey the eva-nescent content o one mind or heartto another. God knew this; thats why Gods greatest gi to the Jewish peopleis orah a magni cent collection o written words. And even those o us

who dont use genizahs know it, too.Why else would we cherish our old let-ters, owery certi cates, and tatteredchildrens books? o save these papersis to connect ourselves to our past,retain long-ago experiences, and bindourselves, i only eetingly, to the soulso others. I thats not holy, then whatis? (pp.229-230)

Martin S. Jaffee currently holds the Samuel &Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies at theUniversity of Washington. His award-winningcolumns for JTNews have recently beenpublished in book form as The End of JewishRadar: Snapshots of a Post-Ethnic AmericanJudaism by iUniverse press.

stage, and connects with both Jewish tradition and diverse audiences as it always doe

And it is the songs, with their echoes oloss, love and riendship, as much as thmusicians candid and complex relationship that makes Te Klezmatics: On HolGround such a bittersweet and rewardinexperience.

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