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Everything was movement, movement, movement at the Jewish Family Service annual food sort event on Sun., Oct. 9. More than 250 community members, including kids as young as 1 year old, came to the warehouse district in South Seattle to sort, box and label 20 tons of nonperishables and toiletries for the JFS Polack food bank. Young Milo, pictured here, was part of a group of 20 children under age 5 that learned lessons in tzedakah with their own kids’ corner food sort. The food drive runs through Oct. 22.

Shalit deal was best Israel was going to getUriel Heilman JTa world news service

(JTA) — If captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is freed in the prisoner-exchange deal with Hamas was approved by Israel’s cabinet 26-3, it will raise two immediate questions: Which side finally acceded to the other’s demands after years of fruitless negotiations since Shalit was captured in a June 2006 raid along the Israel-Gaza border, and what took so long to get there?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered some hints about the first issue in a hastily called news conference shortly before going into the Cabinet meeting late Tuesday night.

This deal, he suggested, was the best Israel was going to get, so if Israel was ever going to recover Shalit, it had to happen now.

“With everything that is happening in Egypt and the region, I don’t know if the future would have allowed us to get a better deal — or any deal at all for that matter,” Netanyahu said on Israeli television. “The window appeared following fears that collapsing Mideast regimes and

the rise of extremist forces would make Gilad Shalit’s return impossible.”The prime minister added, “If all goes according to plan, Gilad will be

returning to Israel in the coming days.”The deal reportedly was signed by the two sides on Oct. 6 in Cairo fol-

lowing years of negotiations and mediation via the Egyptians. News of the deal was first reported by the satellite TV station Al Arabiya. Its exact contours remain unknown.

Shalit’s release would mark a remarkable end to a five-year saga that has transfixed the Israeli public, frustrated two successive Israeli govern-ments, and spanned two wars.

Then a corporal in the Israeli army, Shalit was taken captive at age 19 on June 25, 2006, and almost immediately his family launched an inces-sant public campaign to free him. The crusade included vigils, marches,

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Shalit’s plight struck a chord in the Jewish State and the Jewish world, and Israelis and Jews from all walks of life and political camps took part in activities call-ing for his release.

It’s not clear whether this public cam-paign helped usher in the deal announced Tuesday or whether it hindered an agree-ment from being reached.

Shalit’s family believed that it had to keep up the public pressure on the Israeli government to seal the deal. At the offi-cial state Independence Day ceremony last Yom Ha’atzmaut in May, Shalit’s brother Yoel darted onstage with his girlfriend and a banner reading “Shalit is still alive.” Instead of getting arrested for the stunt on the national television broadcast, he got an audience with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni.

But some analysts warned that all the public clamor to free Shalit only made a deal more difficult by increasing the price Hamas demanded for his release. Indeed, for years Israel insisted the price was too high.

On Tuesday, Time magazine reported the exchange would include as many as 1,000 Palestinian prisoners — the first 450 named by Hamas, and then 550 named by

Israel. The prisoners “will include as many as 315 men convicted of killing hundreds of Israelis in terror attacks,” Time foreign editor Tony Karon wrote.

Critics of prisoner-exchange swaps warn that such deal merely encourages Israel’s enemies to capture more Israelis.

Such criticism followed then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s decision in July 2008 to trade five Lebanese prisoners — including notorious murderer Samir Kuntar — and the bodies of 199 others in exchange for the bodies of Ehud Goldwas-ser and Eldad Regev, two Israeli soldiers captured in the border attack by Hezbol-lah that sparked the 2006 Lebanon War.

Goldwasser and Regev were thought to have been killed in the attack or shortly thereafter, but until the coffins with their bodies arrived on Israeli soil, Israeli offi-cials said they could not know with cer-tainty that they were no longer alive.

Shalit’s case has been a little different. In a video released by his captors in Octo-ber 2009, a frail but otherwise healthy-looking Shalit held a current newspaper and read a message asking Israeli author-ities to conclude an agreement for his release. In all his years in captivity, Shalit was allowed no international or Red Cross visitors.

As Israel’s Cabinet debated the deal late Tuesday night, the heads of the Israel Defense Forces, the Mossad and the Shin Bet internal security service all reportedly expressed support for the deal.

W ShalIT PagE 1The question of the dayemily K. alHadeff assistant editor, JTnews

You’re all here because you want to say “no” to hate, said Hilary Bernstein, com-munity director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Pacific Northwest regional office. But “what are you going to do about it? What are you willing to do to make our community no place for hate? That is the question of the day.”

The ADL’s annual luncheon, which supports its No Place for Hate anti-bul-lying educational program, featured John Quiñones of ABC’s “What Would You Do?” and longtime supporter Mark R. Schuster, this year’s 2011 Torch of Liberty Award recipient.

Quiñones, a Mexican-American, described growing up in the barrio of San Antonio, Tex. and traveling with his family as a migrant farm worker. Raised in poverty and with a sense of social injustice, Quiño-nes went on to earn a Master’s in Journal-ism from Columbia University because “I wanted to make a difference,” he said.

On his TV show, he sets up public sce-narios of racism, classism and xenopho-bia to challenge passers-by to take a stand. While the program doesn’t always show the philanthropic side of humanity, “We can be conditioned to care, to be gener-ous,” he said.

Schuster described an ADL mission to Israel in 2005, during which his group was

granted a rare opportunity to meet pri-vately with Palestinian Authority presi-dent Mahmoud Abbas.

“None of us had any pretense that we were going to influence Middle East peace that day,” he said.

But the meeting left him with hope, and it diminished a cynical view of a never-ending conflict.

What we need, he said, is to resur-rect three values: Civility, compassion, and optimism. “I’m an optimist, and I’m a dreamer,” he said. “We can change the world.”

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The mezuzah security cam rabbi Simon benzaqUen sephardic Bikur holim

While shopping at the pharmacy last week, I couldn’t help notice they were selling home security cameras. These cameras are to be installed outside of one’s home to mon-itor any activity day and night for security purposes. Some cameras were expensive and some were very cheap. I took a closer look at both options and noticed that the much cheaper secu-rity cameras were exact replicas of the expensive cameras, but they weren’t able to monitor or record anything at all. Even though they looked exactly the same as their expensive counterparts, and were made by the same company, there were in fact just decoys — empty cameras. A very interesting chance to take.

As a rabbi, I started thinking about the first home security system used by the Jewish people. They were installed on the Jewish homes in Egypt. The upside of these primitive yet very effective units was their simplicity of installation. Lamb blood on the door posts with hyssop branches. The downside of these units was that they were in service and effective for one night only, known as the beginning of “yetziat Mitzrayim,” the rapid exodus from Egyptian slavery. The Angel of Death just couldn’t penetrate these force fields of security and was forced to pass over onto the next domicile.

It is interesting to note that the Jewish people might normally have thought of keeping themselves secure by hiding their Jewish identity and especially not bringing any attention to their homes. During Passover, it was quite the oppo-site. God commanded them to proudly identify themselves as a group and stand up (or, more accurately, stay home) and be counted as one. Their security came via an identification with the community at large.

Fast forward some years, and the system was upgraded with the command-ment of mezuzah.

The Biblical source for the command-ment of mezuzah is found twice in Deu-teronomy, the fifth book of the Torah. The Torah states in two entire paragraphs: “And you shall write these words on the entry-ways of your dwellings and your gates.”

The oral law, which God taught Moshe at Mount Sinai, teaches that these first two paragraphs of the shema are to be affixed to the right side of the doorpost. The two paragraphs of the shema contained in the mezuzah include the declaration of God’s Oneness and the basics of reward and punishment, two fundamentals of the Jewish faith. The mezuzah is finally

affixed to each doorway of our homes, schools, synagogues, and some place them on their businesses. These parchments are to be written by a tradi-tional “God-fearing” scribe, according to strict codes of Jewish law. They must be written with special black ink and with a quill on one piece of specially prepared and

scored parchment. The mezuzah is care-fully checked for textual errors and incor-rectly formed letters by an expert who knows the strict laws of tefillin and mezu-zot. It is carefully rolled and inserted into the mezuzah case.

How does the mezuzah provide us with the sense of security we so desire from our high-tech monitoring gadgetry? The great sage, rabbi, doctor and philosopher Mai-monides writes in his magnum opus, the Mishne Torah, “Every time a person enters and exits (and encounters the mezuzah) one automatically contemplates the Sin-gularity of the Name of God. He recalls his affection for Him. He will then awake from his sleep and his obsession with the daily grind, and come to realize that there is nothing that lasts for eternity except for the knowledge of the Creator of the world. This will motivate him to regain full awareness and follow the paths of the upright. Tefillin, tzitzit and mezuzah are one’s true reminders and security guards.”

In reality then, it is not only the mezu-zah that watches over us, but it is our watching of the mezuzah that can bring us to a level of consciousness like no other, which can empower us to decipher the secrets of the universe.

So, how does the mezuzah compare to the modern-day security-monitoring camera system I stumbled upon at the pharmacy?

For one, there are also two models. A mezuzah that contains a kosher parch-ment is connected to a recording system and actually writes the data to a spiritual hard-drive, which some refer to nowadays as “The cloud.”

There is also a much cheaper model, from the same company, but it’s only the case. It might look serious, but it’s just a decoy.

This too is a very interesting chance to take, especially during this time of the year. For the High Holidays, Rosh Hasha-nah and Yom Kippur, many people do a lot of soul searching and introspection for an increased level of consciousness. Though I don’t install security cameras, I do install and check the parchments of mezuzot. Feel free to contact me if you would like additional monitoring systems.

SHIFT cOuRSEDoes the Israeli government — or ours for that matter — see the sad irony in opposing

votes at the UN regarding the recognition of a Palestinian state? Where would Israel be today were it not for the votes taken in 1947? Yet here we are in 2011, with Israel and the United States opposing action that reiterates the UN’s longstanding support for a two-state solution. Rather than opposing the recognition of a Palestinian state by the UN, Israel and the U.S. should endorse it and work with the Palestinian Authority to ensure its implementation. The longer Israel, the PA and the U.S. delay, the greater the possibility that dream of two states living in peace alongside each other will fade like a mirage in the desert. Instead we could look forward to the triumph of the maximalist, anti-Israel Hamas party, the anti-Palestinian activi-ties of ultra-nationalist, pro-settlement Israelis, and decades of increased violence.

Rabbi Anson LaytnerSeattle

EnOugH pLAyIng gAmESI commend Mervyn Danker for his perceptive op-ed column (“A Palestinian state should be

the result of negotiations,” Sept. 16) as right on the mark. Abbas needs to negotiate directly with Netanyahu without pre-conditions and accept Israel

as a Jewish state. Also, the creation of a Palestinian state via the UN will in no way end the Mideast conflict, but will only add to the instability in the region. It will not serve the interest of the Palestinian people.

Netanyahu spoke the truth to the General Assembly following Abbas’s speech when he said the United Nations has become both a “house of lies” and a “theater of the absurd” in its obsession to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and to falsify the history of the Palestinians’ own self-inflicted wounds.

The Palestinians came to the UN to get a state, but without giving Israel peace in return. What cannot be overlooked is the fact that the Gaza half of the proposed Palestinian state is ruled by Hamas that has openly called for the destruction of Israel and a genocide against the Jewish people.

UN Security Council Resolution 242 adopted on November 22, 1967 is the cornerstone for what it calls “a just and lasting peace” that recognizes Israel’s need for “secure and recognized boundaries.” The resolution became the foundation for future peace negotiations.

Netanyahu has extended his hand in peace. It is time that Abbas stop playing political games and accept it. This may well result for the Jewish and Palestinian people living side by side with a real and lasting negotiated peace agreement.

Pressuring Israel to make only one-sided concessions will not work.Josh Basson

Seattle

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The parchment on kosher documents such as those placed in mezuzot and tefillin must be checked twice every seven years to ensure they remain kosher. Climate and age can cause ink to crack, invalidating their kosher status. Just prior to the high holidays, Torah scribe Rabbi avraham Benzaquen, left, brother of Sephardic Bikur holim’s Rabbi Simon Benzaquen, who is also a scribe, visited Seattle to help community members check and, if necessary, repair their scrolls.here, the brothers have just resewn a tefillin box that they have confirmed is once again kosher.

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Bridging the Israel-Diaspora gap is more vital than everavi dicHter JTa world news service

Ashkelon, Israel (JTA) — Turkey, long one of Israel’s more stable and support-ive partners in the region, expelled Israel’s ambassador. In Egypt, a peaceful partner to Israel since the two nations signed a treaty in 1978, the Israeli Embassy was attacked by an angry mob whose members spoke of being willing to die just to have the chance to remove the Israeli flag. And in Jordan, staff-ers at the Israeli Embassy were evacuated recently for fear of a similar attack.

Israel’s ties with other Middle Eastern nations may never have been as fragile as they are today, which is a bold statement when one considers the history of violence and war in the region. It is that very fra-gility that lends new urgency to the effort to strengthen Israel’s ties to Jews around the world.

As a people, Jewish unity has been a primary value of our community.  But in the 21st century, we find the connec-tion between Israel and the Diaspora slip-ping away. Those bonds, critical to Israel’s standing and resiliency, must be reinforced so that we are able to contend with the myriad challenges confronting us today.

My parents were born in Poland, sur-vived Nazi concentration camps, and managed to immigrate to Israel. From a young age they taught me to appreciate the Jewish State and never take it for granted. I witnessed the rebirth of my nation, and I have served my country for the past 40 years through various roles in security and public life.

But the post-Holocaust Jewish nar-rative is, in fact, nothing less than a con-tinuum of the historic Diaspora — a

distancing that now, more than ever, raises troubling questions about support for Israel from Jews across the world, but especially in the United States.

My cousin Sammy and I, for exam-ple, share a common past and values, but totally different upbringings. Oceans away from my hometown of Ashkelon, Sammy

was raised in Detroit, where his father and uncle immigrated after surviving the Nazis. Sammy grew up as a committed Jew and Zionist, and remains so to this day.

We have been close since childhood, devoted to keeping our families intact with regular visits and communication. But will our children and grandchildren be com-mitted to maintaining that connection and its underlying devotion to Israel?

This has always been of great concern to me, but it became even more impor-tant on a study trip I took to North Amer-ica several months ago. Organized by the Ruderman Family Foundation, the trip showed me that my deep personal con-cerns for my family ties are but a micro-cosm of the dangers facing the continuity

of the Jewish people. I am not the first, of course, to grasp this threat to national Jewish unity and security. Pundits and researchers have examined the Israel-Diaspora relationship for years, with debates raging over the ability to sustain this unique bond in the 21st century.

As politicians, this was a new experience for all of us. Rather than coming to speak, we came to listen. Instead of espousing our

own ideas, we learned from others. And some of what we learned was alarming.

We found out that 12 percent of the population — more than 30 million Amer-icans — hold anti-Semitic views, accord-ing to a 2009 Anti-Defamation League survey. We were astonished to learn of such bigotry in America, the beacon of freedom around the world, where Jews have thrived for well over a century. Fur-ther, we learned that 35 percent of Amer-ican citizens view American Jews as more loyal to Israel than the United States.

Just as disturbing were inconsistent statistics about the number of Jews living in the United States. Various studies esti-mate the number of American Jews from 5.2 million to 6.5 million. The vast 25 per-cent difference in the sum suggests a seri-ous crisis of identity as to the definition of “Jewish” — or, as we in Israel frame the question, “Who is a Jew?” 

In Israel, we tend to define Jewishness with clear either-or classifications. But by doing so, we risk alienating our friends in the diverse Jewish communities around the world and most importantly in Amer-ica, which finds unity through diversity.

As Israeli political leaders, this journey into the American Jewish community has left us deeply concerned about this divide — and its potential for widening even fur-ther at a time when Israel must depend on friends from abroad.

Avi Dichter is a member of the Israeli Knesset for the Kadima Party. He is a former director of the Shin Bet security service and minister of public security.

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Remember whenFrom the Jewish Transcript ,

October 17, 1985Rabbi Chanina Rabinowitz and

the students of Seattle Hebrew Acad-emy held a memorial service and letter-writing campaign for Leon Klinghoffer, the man aboard the Achille Lauro cruise ship who was shot and thrown overboard by hijack-ers who called themselves the Pales-tinian Liberation Front.

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Kedó kon la tinya i la TurkedadHe was left with the scalp disease and his Turkishness

The story goes: A man had a scalp disease. After trying doctors and medicines with no success, he was told there was a Turkish clergyman who was expert in curing these dis-eases. He went to see the Turk, who told him, “I can cure you but you have to change your religion and become a Turk.” The man did so out of desperation. Months passed, but his scalp disease got worse. So he remained with the disease and his conversion to Islam.

Last call for Seattle Jewish co-op preschoolThe Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Parenting Center’s Seattle Jewish Cooperative

Playschool is will begin on Thurs., Oct. 27. This parent/caregiver–toddler class for children aged 18-35 months will meet weekly between 10 a.m. and noon on Thursday mornings at the Seattle Jewish Community School.

Class will be taught by an early childhood educator and will include playtime and explo-ration as well as songs, crafts, snack and outdoor play. A parent-education discussion group will also be part of each class period. Jewish content will be integrated into class-room activities as well as parent discussion with a focus on building community around parenting and Jewish identity. Limited space available. For more information, please con-tact seattlejewishcoop@gmail.com.

5772’s first baby 6The first Jewish baby of the New Year has arrived! Little Libby showed up a couple days after the start of Rosh Hashanah. We’re pleased to meet you!

The bus ads won’t be back 6Federal Judge Richard Jones said it in February, and last week he said it again: King County was right to not allow ads critical of Israel on the sides of its buses.

A new conversation about Israel 7Two local rabbis will be leading a program that attempts to shift the discourse on discussion about Israel.

Israel: To Your Health 11The debut of our new column about health and medical breakthroughs that come from Israel is all about work — do we do too much of it?

A new breed of explorer 17When a local dad gathered a bunch of other Jewish dads to do dad-style programs at the Y, he decided they should happen in a Jewish environment instead. Now they do.

A legal defense of immigration 17Several lawyers in the Jewish Federation’s Cardozo Society began a program to do pro bono defenses for asylum cases. They’ve had several successes already.

The new occupation 18The protests against Wall Street both in New York and in Seattle have parallels with the protests that took place this summer across Israel.

A dogsled to Jewish Alaska 20Our intrepid travel correspondent Masada Siegel made a trek to our 49th state to experience its beauty, its wildlife, and, of course, it’s Jewish communities.

Should my sukkah have a debt ceiling? 22That’s the question one correspondent asks as he decides whether his temporary hut should be an al-legory for his financial situation.

MOREM.O.T.: Two men and their boats 8A View from the U: Blame in on the Sifrei 10The Arts 12Community Calendar 15Lifecycles 23The Shouk Classifieds 21

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QFC proudly supports JFS “Bag Hunger” Food DriveBy Eric Miller, QFC Public Affairs Specialist

For information or comments contact Ken Banks, QFC Associate Communications Manager. He can be reached at ken.banks@qfci.com or phone 425-462-2205.

From September 29th through October 22nd, 2011, QFC is partnering with Jewish Family Service to help “Bag Hunger” here at home. We invite you to stop by one of our eleven store locations in Bellevue, Capitol Hill, Mercer Island or University Village to donate non-perishable food, personal hygiene items, and cleaning products. With your support of this important drive, we will be able to make a dramatic impact in meeting the needs of our local families.

The JFS Polack Food Bank serves people of all backgrounds and denominations from Downtown Seattle to the Madison Valley, as well as providing kosher food for those in the Jewish Community who request it.

QFC BELLEVUE VILLAGE 10116 NE 8th Street Bellevue, WA 98004

QFC BELLEVUE EAST 1510 145th Place SE Bellevue, WA 98007

QFC NORTH TOWNE 2636 Bellevue Way NE Bellevue, WA 98004

QFC BROADWAY MARKET 417 Broadway Ave East Seattle WA, 98102

QFC UNIVERSITY VILLAGE 2746 NE 45th Street Seattle, WA 98105

From July 1st, 2010, through June 30th, 2011, JFS served an average of 1,850 different individuals. This was an increase of nearly 18% from 2009/2010. Add to that an all-time monthly record of 1,375 households served in June, 2011 and the fact that the amount of food distributed has increased almost 40% since 2008, and you can see just how vital your support is to the success of this program. Thank you so much for your donations, and for helping QFC and Jewish Family Service “Bag Hunger” this year!

The following list of QFC locations will be accepting donations from September 29th through October 22nd:

QFC CROSSROADS 15600 NE 8th Street Bldg K1 Bellevue, WA 98008

QFC FACTORIA 3550 128th Street SE Bellevue, WA 98006

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Judge upholds ban on bus ads

In deciding to reject advertisements critical of Israel that had been scheduled to run on King County Metro buses late last year, a federal judge granted sum-mary judgment in favor of the county, ruling it had acted appropriately.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard

Jones said last week that while the court saw the need to defend free speech, in this instance the ads were “viewpoint neutral” and that the content about Israel was not at issue. He cited the response that followed after news out-lets reported on the ad campaign, which would have appeared for a month on 12 Seattle buses, that resulted in thou-sands of calls to the county and a possi-ble threat to public safety. The county’s

decision, Jones said, was a “reasonable restriction in a limited public forum.”

King County has since decided that any advertisements that take a political position will not be allowed.

Local Jewish groups had called the ads one-sided and unfair, while sup-porters of the Seattle Mideast Aware-ness Campaign, the organization that bought the ads, had called the campaign “perfectly legitimate messages that

are asking U.S. citizens to think about where their tax dollars are going,” as JTNews reported in December.

SeaMAC and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in federal court in February, where Jones denied a preliminary injunction. An appeal to the 9th District Court may be forthcoming, a SeaMAC spokesperson said.

— Joel Magalnick

Meet little libby, the first Jewish baby of 5772emily K. alHadeff assistant editor, JTnews

The JTNews searched desperately to find its first baby of 5772. Was it possible that no Jewish babies were born between Rosh Hashanah and press time? Were the angels in heaven on strike?

Lo and behold, in the eleventh hour one came through. We are pleased to announce the birth of Libby Brooke Sarne, born Octo-ber 1 to Stephanie Relkin and Jason Sarne.

On her new role as first-time mom: “So far so good,” Stephanie says. “I’m just a little tired.”

Stephanie, 42, is thankful to have had a natural and healthy pregnancy, even

though Libby was delivered through an emergency cesarean section at Overlake Hospital. During her last 45 minutes of labor everything just went crazy, Stepha-nie said. The baby had stopped breathing.

Thankfully, she pulled through. Libby Brooke as born at 4:09 p.m. and weighed in at 7 lbs., 5 oz., measuring 19-3/4 inches. She is named for her maternal great-grandmother, Lillian (Libby in Yiddish) and Lillian’s brother, Bob.

Stephanie and Jason moved to Bellevue about a year and a half ago from New York so Stephanie could take on the position of

senior art director at Eddie Bauer. Once she goes back to work, Jason will take over childcare duties.

The couple is not yet affiliated with a congregation, but Stephanie, who grew up in the Conservative movement, says she is leaning toward Herzl-Ner Tamid.

After the interview, Stephanie sent an email with one more undeniable mes-sage: “We couldn’t imagine our lives with-out her.”

libby Brooke Sarne was born October 1, making her our first Jewish baby of 5772.

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Teaching a new narrative on IsraelJaniS Siegel JTnews correspondent

Two local rabbis are taking the lead from an Israeli leadership think tank and challenging Seattle-area Jews — and Jews worldwide — to re-imagine a more Jewish-values based Israel going into the future.

The Jewish Day School’s assistant head of school Rabbi Stuart Light and Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation’s Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum say Jews need to shift their vision of Israel from a refuge-based, post-Holocaust-era homeland dedicated to harboring endangered Jews everywhere, which they say it has since achieved, into a more ethical society that is more fair to religious and ethnic minorities, the poor, aliens, and even those in their midst who may be hostile to the Jewish State.

Teaching from the “Engaging Israel Project: Foundations for a New Rela-tionship” series developed by the Shalom Hartman Institute, the two rabbis will take students back to the future to study noted Jewish thinkers and politicians like Martin Buber and David Ben-Gurion, and texts from the Mishna to Maimonides to create a “new narrative” about Israel, they say, one that “allows for criticism and conver-sation with worldwide Jewry in a pluralis-tic approach that transcends politics and religious divide.”

“Israel has been the homeland for the refugee, the home for the outcast, a place

where all Jews can be free, the place where no one [need] be ashamed of their heritage, and that has been tremendously powerful for Jews in the past,” Light told JTNews from his JDS office. “Now, we see a shift because the United States is a place where a Jew can very much express everything about [his] identity. But what happens when you no longer need that place of refuge, when you no longer need to go there if everything is horrible? What’s the value of that place? That’s what this class is about.”

According to the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America’s marketing materials, “The Engaging Israel Project,” was developed to address the increasing feelings of “disenchantment and disinter-est toward Israel among an ever-increas-ing number of Jews worldwide.”

Bristling to some degree at that partic-ular language, Rosenbaum, who couldn’t speak highly enough about the qual-ity of scholarship at the SHI, clarified his approach and told JTNews exactly what predicament he believes Jews both in and out of Israel find themselves in, and what he hopes to accomplish in the classes.

“It’s a fresh approach and a paradigm shift,” said Rosenbaum. “There’s a flotilla in Gaza, we have to react to that. There’s a move by the Palestinians to get recog-nition unilaterally in the United Nations,

and we have to respond to that. There’s a constant attempt by people around the world to delegitimize Israel and we have to respond to that, but this is a chance to dig deep, to go back to our own terms.”

The SHI was founded in 1971 by a Mon-treal rabbi and professor, David Hartman. The congregational rabbi moved to Jerusa-lem hoping to realize his vision of creating a scholarly Jewish institute where the best and brightest Jewish thinkers could inno-vate new ideas and meet the challenges that he knew would inevitably come upon Israeli society.

The institute generally believes that Jews around the world are looking for new mean-ing to reinforce their connection to Israel. SHI also believes that Israel has wandered from its Jewish foundations, and may be betraying its original mission.

Other questions examined in the SHI course materials include an analysis of the benefits of Jewish sovereignty, a critique on the use of Israeli military power, and a look at some of the problems associated with governing a Jewish democracy.

Although both Light and Rosenbaum agree that this series is not politically based, they both say it’s nearly impossible to sepa-rate Israeli society from political concerns.

“This is not a propaganda piece with a particular point of view,” Rosenbaum said.

“This is a conversation. What’s our vision? We need to be motivated by a reason to be beyond survival.

“At the same time, North American Jewry looks to Israel and thinks, ‘How can it be that the values that I’ve been taught about Judaism aren’t manifested in the place that I’ve been told is the beacon of everything a Jew stands for?’”

Each rabbi will teach his own nine-session evening course. They will use the same class materials, though both rabbis will apply their unique personal styles in the discussion format. Both rabbis wel-come any and all Jewish denominations, secular and religious Jews, non-Jews and any interested community member.

If you go:

“The Engaging Israel project” nine-week course taught by Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum begins Tues., Oct. 25 at the Stroum Jewish commu-nity center, 3801 E mercer Way, mercer Island. Visit www.sjcc.org to register. Rabbi Stuart Light’s course begins Wed., Oct. 26 at the Jewish Day School, 15749 nE 4th St., Bellevue. contact rlight@jds.org to register. The cost is $150 for individuals and $275 for couples. Registration deadline is Oct. 19.

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Row, row, row your boat, gently down the ice cream — two men making (radio) wavesdiana brement JTnews columnist

1 No, this isn’t a series on the Kezner family. But if I hadn’t interviewed

Larry Kezner’s cousin Llance last issue, Larry’s name would never have jumped out at me from a Seattle Times piece announcing Larry’s small-boat passenger ferry con-necting Seattle’s South Lake Union and University Dis-tricts.

“Captain Larry” has piloted the Sunday “Ice Cream Cruise” around Seattle’s Lake Union for years (with hot chocolate and tomato soup in winter).

The 30-ton vessel, used for parties and charters the rest of the time, is busiest in December following the Christmas ships and with holiday parties.

The Seattle native mostly runs the business himself with a small crew and some administrative help. “Marketing and maintenance are the two big things,” he says.

Water transportation “catches peo-ple’s imagination,” he says. “People see that it doesn’t take roads, bridges, tunnels. The infrastructure is minimal,” reminding passengers of life 100 years ago.

Growing up in Seattle’s Madison Park, Larry’s family moved to Shoreline, where he attended high school. A ham radio enthusiast who built his own equipment, his first job was with the Coast and Geo-detic Survey, the precursor to NOAA. A long career in marine electronics ensued, punctuated by Merchant Marine service during the Vietnam War and starting and selling a business building long-range radios.

In 1999 he felt finished with indoor work, asking himself, “What am I going to do that is fun?”

Acquiring his captain’s license, he worked for Argosy Tours, which was so much fun he decided he needed his own boat.

He found a cute one, he said, “but it was in Cleve-land.” So he had it cut up and trucked here — “30 tons of steel down the road,” he said

—and a business was born.Larry’s new ferries, Mocha and

Espresso, are small, open boats, so service runs from spring through early fall. You can see pictures and get more informa-tion at www.seattleferryservice.com. Ice Cream Cruise guests, by the way, are wel-come to bring food and drink on board, and enjoy the ride while following dietary restrictions.

2 Quick, a trivia question: what Seat-tle-area parking lot entrepreneur hosts a late-night radio show?

If this was (answer, please!) Bruce Caplan’s show, you would have heard this as an audio clip. Bruce says he’s learned to rely on audio trivia for “Radio Trivia” on KIXI AM, because trivia questions are so easily answered on the Internet.

The show, airing at 1 a.m. Sundays (or any time at www.radiotrivia.com), is a must for old radio buffs, as is his Crime Club in the prior hour. Both feature old-time radio shows with interviews, Holly-wood anecdotes, and trivia contests.

Recording the show in a spare bed-

room in his and his wife Esther’s home means he can sleep at night, but Arbitron ratings indicate about 2,000 listeners at air time.

“There are a lot of insomniacs out there,” Bruce observes.

A man of many avocations, Bruce is well known as a Titanic expert and author

of The Sinking of the Titanic. The book, a compilation of interviews published three weeks after the ship sank, was in the public domain when Bruce got it as a gift. Finding it fascinating, but “sloppy,” he acquired the rights and rewrote it, correct-ing facts, removing archaic and racist lan-guage, and reissued it in 1996.

One year later, the blockbuster film Titanic was released. The next day the book “got 10,000 orders.” It’s now in its eighth printing.

Bruce is the resident expert at Titanic events and exhibits around the country and lectures on cruise ships (Caribbean routes) and at our own Stroum Jewish Community Center. The 69-year-old retiree, who still consults in the parking industry, is busier now than ever.

A Garfield High School grad — both his parents went there, too — attended University of Washington (Sigma Alpha Mu) and has a long family history in the area. One grandfather came for the Gold Rush and appears in Seattle’s 1903 Polk directory. His family includes B. Marcus (Benny) Priteca, architect of Chevra Bikur Holim (now Langston Hughes Arts Center) and the Alhadeff Sanctuary of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, where Bruce’s family belonged (he now goes to Shevet Achim on Mercer Island).

“I’m fascinated with…old radio,” admits Bruce, who is working to filter static out of old recordings he hopes to air.

“I even want to do the Jews of radio comedy,” he says. “It’s a great avocation, that and writing, then traveling.”

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This Week’s Wisdom

Write Your Sins in Pencilby Andrew Marc Greene

© 2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

Answers on page 18

In his book Otzar Midrashim, Yehuda David Eisenstein writes: “During the year, a person’s sins are recorded in pencil. During the Days of Repentance, if one repents, they are erased. On Yom Kippur, whatever remains is copied in ink.” When it comes to solving this puzzle, it is your choice whether to use pencil or pen—but this time, your choice will definitely matter. Pick one way, and you’ll get one result; pick the other, and a very different result emerges.

ACROSS1 ___ Raton5 Fairy tale monster9 Delta of Venus author Nin14 Plenty15 Person, place, or thing16 To some extent, slangily17 In pencil: Liquidated, as assets;

In pen: Liquidated, as assets19 Bold response to “All in!”20 Article in Paris Match21 Muscles above the abs22 In pencil: Appropriate for 65-Across;

In pen: Feature edged by a 66-Across23 Congregation ___ Israel (Bellingham or

Walla Walla synagogue name)24 Project Runway fashion guru Tim25 Wood used in baseball bats28 Woeful lament30 In pencil: Makes late?; In pen: Buck’s mate34 Improves by reworking35 Telephone button without any letters36 Gymnast Korbut37 They may be Red or White38 In pencil: Thoughts; In pen: Cocoa containers40 Abbr. before Pepper or Friday41 In pencil: Mythical sailor; In pen: Spoiled43 It may be taught as a second lang.44 Like pantyhose46 Prefix with nautical47 Rear49 Comedian Sykes50 Noticeably down52 Saharan54 In pencil: On the ascent; In pen: Construct57 Important portent58 Personal question?61 Element immediately below neon on the

periodic table62 In pencil: What rats flee;

In pen: Male supremacy?64 She played Thelma to Susan’s Louise65 Jazzy Fitzgerald66 Roof overhang67 Milk source68 Place for a poster69 Last word of the Kaddish

DOWN1 Neo-soul musician Erykah2 Lena of Chocolat3 In pencil: Trigonometric function; In pen: London

2012 Olympics chairman Sebastian4 Off-roader’s ride5 Start6 Bounty hunter’s cry of success7 Bitterly regrets8 Finish9 “Please give me ___!”10 “That’s just impossible”11 Syrian or Jordanian12 “___ be a cold day in hell…”13 Bargain hunter’s delight18 Olympic blades22 In pencil: Cranial cavities; In pen: Employs23 Quick deli order24 Jets or Sharks, on stage25 In pencil: Partner of Loggins; In pen: Big butte26 Acrobat software developer27 Toy Story studio29 In pencil: What you leave in Vegas;

In pen: Cabin components31 Mary-Kate or Ashley32 Pelted on Halloween, perhaps33 In pencil: Blue-eyed crooner;

In pen: Gillette razor38 Got together, as with pals39 E pluribus ___42 Confounded44 Playground equipment45 Victimized by a con artist48 Mark of Return of the Jedi51 ___ Lander (‘70s video game)53 Pertaining to the kidneys54 “That’s Italian!” brand55 Furious56 In pencil: Burned a bit; In pen: Dropout’s doc.57 Its state song is from a B’way musical58 ‘80s band with an exclamation point in its name59 Bee base60 Ready for business62 In pencil: What you might see while dissecting a

frog; In pen: What you might say while dissecting a frog

63 Briny deep

The midrash of love: Blame it on the Sifreimartin Jaffee JTnews columnist

This year, in preparation for the Days of Awe, I started a new project — working through the famous Tannaitic midrash on Deuteronomy, known as the Sifrei. This is no whim. The standard edition of Sifrei features 430 pages of text, with copious notes and variant manuscript readings compiled by the editor, Prof. Louis Finkelstein, of New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary. First published in 1939, it was the last Hebrew book pro-duced in Berlin before the official onset of the second World War.

Why am I picking such a challenging text? The answer is complicated.

First, I blame Rashi. Of course, all his Torah commentaries ransack the Tan-naitic midrashim for material. But his commentary on Deuteronomy seems to do so more than most. So I am curious: When Rashi quotes Sifrei, what is he leav-ing outside the quotation marks?

I also blame the Tannaim in general. These early transmitters of the oral Torah, whose teachings dominate the Mishna, are my favorite rabbis. Their terse wisdom and snappy mottos attract me more than their successors, those prolix yakkers, the Amoraim of the Talmud! So the prospect of spending lots of time with the Tannaim has its appeal.

This project will take some time. So far, I’m on page 59 (chapter 32 of 357), which covers Deuteronomy through the text of the shema (Dt. 6:4-9). Obviously, I have a way to go.

But I thought that, during this season of repentance, it might be a public-spirited gesture to report on how Rashi, as a stu-dent of Sifrei, encounters the command-ment to love God “with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your power.”

Let’s get down to the heart of the matter. What do we make of Deuteron-omy’s three-fold repetition of ways of loving Hashem — with “all your heart, all your soul, and all your power?” Does the Divine Author really need to pile up syn-onyms to show his linguistic skills? He cre-ated the world by talking, no? So why the poetic pyrotechnics?

Rashi is alert to this problem. And his comments on these words are all direct citations of Sifrei. Commenting on the word, levavechah (“your heart”), Rashi follows Sifrei’s lead by noting how here the word “heart” is spelled with two bets. Why this idiosyncratic spelling, when one bet will do the job (as in libchah)? Chan-neling Sifrei, Rashi writes: “This refers to the two impulses in the human heart — the impulse to obedience and the impulse to rebellion.” Then, for good measure, he adds another midrash from Sifrei: “Let your heart not be divided against the Omnipresent!”

Okay — we are to love God wholeheartedly. So what is added by the next phrase, “all your soul?” Rashi quotes another Sifrei: “Love Hashem even if He takes your soul.” Succinct and to the point: We owe our lives to God and must deliver them if need be.

Finally, a third quote from Sifrei adorns Rashi’s com-ment on “all your power”: “This means all your wealth. It addresses people who love

their wealth more than their own bodies!” This must be Jack Benny’s favorite

Rashi. Remember the shtick? A gunman pokes a Saturday night special into his ribs, saying: “Your money or your life!”

After a longish pause, the mugger says: “Well?”

Benny replies: “I’m thinking, I’m think-ing!”

But I digress.Sifrei devotes roughly 60 lines of its

text to explicating the shema. Rashi quotes maybe six of those lines. That means that 90 percent of Sifrei’s commentary on the shema is hidden by Rashi’s use of it as a source! So, what interpretive options did Rashi decline to share with his readers?

Here’s just a taste of what Rashi’s com-mentary omits: The passage to follow (page 55, line 6 of the Finkelstein edition) is the briefest of the several midrashic interpretations assigned by Sifrei to the Torah’s phrase “all your soul:”

“Shimon b. Azzai says: ‘This means: Love Him till your soul is drained dry!’”

It may be brief, but it packs a wallop, don’t you think?

How much of our being is supposed to be consumed by love of God? The image chosen by the midrash is remarkable: ad mitsui hanefesh (“even till the draining of the soul”). We are not merely to give up to God our entire capacity for love, and not only are we expected to give up our lives to God in martyrdom should it become nec-essary. Even more, we are asked to let our souls dry up and whither in longing for God, the soul’s true love.

Why did Rashi choose to ignore this most powerful (and demanding) of Sifrei’s interpretations of loving God “with all your soul”? Who knows? Rashi never tells his readers why he leaves out what he chooses to leave out (or why he quotes what he quotes).

But I think I can hazard a guess. Can it be that Rashi wants to offer his read-ers a model of loving God that is within human reach? After all, the Torah is given to flesh and blood — not to angels! To average people — not only to religious vir-tuosos, like the prophets! It is achievement enough to revere the Holy One in thought

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A chamber music concert to mark the 73rd anniversary of Kristallnacht

one night onlyMusic behind barbed wireDiscover What a Life!—a satiric cabaret-like revue by the Vienna-born composer Hans Gál, with ironic numbers like “The Barbed Wire Song,” “The Ballad of the German Refugee,” and “The Song of the Double Bed.” Gál created the revue for the entertainment of his fellow prisoners in the English detention camp where wartime authorities interned “enemy aliens.” ACT Theatre’s Kurt Beattie will read from Gál’s journal of those dark days. Also: Gál’s Huyton Suite, Marcel Tyberg’s romantic piano trio, Vilem Tausky’s Coventry: A Meditation for String Quartet.

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Work — it’s personal JaniS Siegel JTnews columnistEditor’s Note: This marks the debut of a new monthly column, “Israel: To Your Health,” which focuses on innovations in the health and medical fields from Israeli research and higher learning institutions.

It should come as no sur-prise to anyone in “the tribe” that we Jews put a high pre-mium on work and success. Jewish achievement in the disciplines of science, law, medicine, academia, religion, and art are well known.

But do we pay a personal price for our devotion to hard work and excellence, or is it a core value that has contributed to our longevity as a religion and a culture?

Are we workaholics?Mostly used as a social pejorative by

family, unhappy spouses, and significant others who feel deprived of attention, some of us also heap the guilt on ourselves for “ignoring our loved ones,” which is a Jewish double-whammy that could bury a person in a pile of self-help books for days.

But it’s an unavoidable fact that the term itself, a close cousin to its precursor, the alcoholic, can’t be a good thing, right?

Coined in 1971 by the late American

professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences Wayne Oates, a workaholic could be defined if his or her “need to work” took center stage in his life, endangered her health, or negatively impacted personal happiness, personal relation-ships, or social life.

Oates once said the work-aholic “drops out of the human community” in a

quest to optimize personal achievement.

But, apparently, people who study such things say there is really no one set of characteristics or personality traits that define someone as the “W” word.

In 1983, University of Texas researcher S.K. Mosier defined a worka-holic as someone who simply worked 50 hours or more per week.

Others researchers have speculated that creativity and self-expression are also elements of the workaholic personality and that so-called workaholics enjoy “pas-sionate involvement and gratification” through work. They found that worka-holics continue to think about work even when they are not working.

In a 1997 study, Prof. Itzhak Harpaz, a

leading researcher for the Israel Center for the Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management in the Gradu-ate School of Management at Univer-sity of Haifa, and his colleague Xuanning Fu at the University of California, found that expressive orientation was the stron-gest predictor of work satisfaction in Ger-many, Israel, Japan, and the United States.

In a 1998 international study that

seemed to bolster this theory, Harpaz and several colleagues found that a majority of workers in seven countries would con-tinue to work, even if it was not financially necessary.

The data showed that the American sample ranked second highest after Japan, followed by Israel, the Netherlands, and

Belgium. The British and the West Ger-mans ranked the lowest in what research-ers termed “work centrality.”

Also in 1998, Harpaz studied the effects of religious convictions on labor force samples from Israel, the Netherlands, and Germany. While there was a strong associ-ation between work and religious convic-tions in the latter two, Harpaz found that in Israel, the more religious the worker, the weaker the connection to his or her job.

But the common element, wrote Harpaz in a 2009 paper, “Worka-

holism from a Cross-Cultural Perspective,” co-written with colleague Raphael Snir from The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, is simply someone who

puts “a substantial investment in work.”“Some view it in positive terms, some

equate it with other addictions, and some differentiate between positive and nega-tive workaholic types,” wrote Harpaz.

Still others, he added, view it as only one kind of “heavy work investors,” and some say it’s mostly a “guy’s problem.”

In a 2003 study of two representative samples of the Israeli work force, “Work-aholism, Its Definition and Nature,”

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October 21 at 7 p.m.nancy pearlTalkPart of ArtsCrush 2011, Seattle’s favorite librarian will be talking about — you guessed it — books. Bring your favorite book title and help her inspire you to write your own review to share with the community. Book reviews will then be displayed at the Edmonds Sno-Isle Library and on the Edmonds Arts Commission website. Signed copies of Nancy’s books will also be available for purchase. At the Edmonds Public Library, 650 Main St., Edmonds. For more information call the Edmonds Arts Commis-sion at 425-771-1933 or visit artscrush.org. Free/pay-what-you-can.

October 19 at 4 p.m., October 27 at 7 p.m. and October 28 at 1 p.m.I Can’t Remember AnythingplayUniquely suited for seniors, I Can’t Remember Anything is Arthur Miller’s one-act comedy about two elderly friends, Leonora and Leo, and their argument over what they have learned to be “life’s truths.” For Leonora, the world is an increas-ingly ugly place, while Leo accepts reality and places hope in the future. Through the banter, themes of companionship and mortality shine through. The actors and director will lead a discussion following the performance. This event is part of the month-long ArtsCrush series.At the Mount Baker Community Center, 2811 Mt. Rainier Drive S, Seattle. For more information call 425-452-4874 or visit artscrush.org. Free/pay-what-you-can.

October 17 at 7:30 p.m.Hillary HahnconcertWorld-renowned violinist Hillary Hahn, alongside pianist Valentina Lisitsa, will perform Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001; Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 12; and Brahms’ Sonatensatz (Scherzo) in C minor, WoO2. Hahn is a two-time Grammy Award winner and was named “America’s Best Young Classical Musician” by Time magazine, among other accolades. Hahn will also per-form new pieces from her latest project, In 27 Pieces: The Hillary Hahn Encores.

At the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets range from $39 to $142. Tickets are available at 206-215-4747, at seattlesymphony.org, or at the ticket office at Benaroya Hall.

October 15 at 6:30 p.m.Alice HoffmanAuthor talkAlice Hoffman will discuss her new novel, The Dovekeepers, an imagined history of the two women and five children who survived the massacre at Masada in 70 CE. The tale follows the dramatic lives of Yael, Revka, Aziza and Shirah and their activities as widows, warriors, healers, victims and witnesses. The Dovekeepers has been described as Hoffman’s master-piece. Books available for signing. At Third Place Books, 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park. For more informa-tion visit www.thirdplacebooks.com.

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Harpaz and Snir found that gender was the strongest predictor of workaholic behav-ior.

In general, men work longer hours than women do, and married men work more hours per week than unmarried men.

Conversely, they also found that unmarried women worked more hours per week than married women.

“In Israel, life is generally family cen-tered, but women do double duty and often sacrifice pay and job for location, part-time work, and flex time,” noted Harpaz.

So, it seems that women in Israel also carry forward the everyday tasks of caring for home and family while working out-

side the home and, at the same time, often sacrifice wages and earning power. But that is another topic for another day.

For now, it might be time for a paradigm shift, a new label, a change in attitude.

Jews in Israel and in the United States don’t appear to be very different from others around the world — many of us like to work, consider our work an impor-tant part of our lives, and actually find it to be an expression of creativity. So, trade in that self-help tome and accept some kudos for your toil.

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ongoing eventSEvent names, locations, and times are provided here for ongoing weekly events. Please visit calendar.jtnews.net for descriptions and contact information.

fridayS9:30–10:30 a.m. — sJcc Tot shabbatStroum Jewish Community Center11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tots welcoming shabbatTemple B’nai Torah12:30–3:30 p.m. — Bridge GroupStroum JCC12:30–3:30 p.m. — drop-in mah JonggStroum JCC

SatUrdayS10 a.m. — morning youth programCongregation Ezra Bessaroth9:45 a.m. — Bcmh youth servicesBCMH9–10:30 a.m. — Temple B’nai Torah adult Torah studyTemple B’nai Torah5 p.m. — The Ramchal’s derech hashem, portal from the ari to modernityCongregation Beth Ha’Ari

SUndayS9:15–10:15 a.m. — advanced Talmud for menCongregation Beth Ha’Ari9:30–11 a.m. — pathways Through the oral Torah: an introduction to the Talmud and midrashTemple De Hirsch Sinai10–11 a.m. — hebrew class: advanced BeginnerCongregation Herzl-Ner Tamid10:15 a.m. — sunday Torah studyCongregation Beth Shalom11 a.m. –12 p.m. — hebrew class: BeginnerCongregation Herzl Ner-Tamid 11:30 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. hebrew Reading class – Back to BasicsCongregation Beth Shalom7:30–10:30 p.m. — he’ari israeli dancingDanceland Ballroom (call to confirm)

mondayS10 a.m.– 2 p.m. — Jcc seniors GroupStroum JCC12:30 p.m. — caffeine for the soulChabad of the Central Cascades7 p.m. — csa monday night classesCongregation Shevet Achim7–8 p.m. — ein yaakov in englishCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch

7:45–8:45 p.m. — For women onlyCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch8:30 p.m. — Talmud in hebrewEastside Torah Center8–10 p.m. — women’s israeli dance classThe Seattle Kollel8:30 p.m. — Talmud, yeshiva-styleEastside Torah Center

tUeSdayS11 a.m.–12 p.m. — mommy and me programChabad of the Central Cascades12 p.m. — Torah for womenEastside Torah Center7 p.m. — alcoholics anonymous meetingsJewish Family Service7 p.m. — Teen centerBCMH7 p.m. — hebrew (alef Bet) level 1Congregation Beth Shalom 7 p.m. — hebrew (Biblical) level 2Congregation Beth Shalom7 p.m. — siddur hebrew: amidahCongregation Beth Shalom7 p.m. — intermediate hebrewCongregation Herzl-Ner Tamid

7:30 p.m. — weekly Round Table Kabbalah classEastside Torah Center7:30 p.m. — The TanyaChabad of Central Cascades

WedneSdayS 7 p.m. — Beginning israeli dancing for adults with Rhona FeldmanCongregation Beth Shalom7–9 p.m. — Teen lounge for middle schoolersBCMH 7:30 p.m. — parshas hashavuahEastside Torah Center

tHUrSdayS10 a.m.–2 p.m. — Jcc seniors GroupStroum JCC6:50–7:50 p.m. — introduction to hebrewHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation7 p.m. — Junior Teen centerBCMH8–10 p.m. — Teen lounge for high schoolersBCMH7:30-9 p.m. — Beth shalom Beit midrashCongregation Beth Shalom

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friday 14 october10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — pJ library song and storytime at sJcs

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattleMusic, singing and storytelling with the PJ Library and Jeff Stombaugh. Free. At Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.12:30–3:30 p.m. — school’s out for sukkot

Josh Johnson at JoshJ@sjcc.org or 206-388-0828 or www.sjcc.orgK–5th graders will spend the day doing art projects, playing in the gym, swimming in the pool and more. Bring a non-perishable peanut-free dairy lunch, a swimsuit and towel. $50–55. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.5:30–7 p.m. — community shabbat dinner in the sukkah

Matt Korch at MattK@sjcc.org or 206-388-0830 or www.sjcc.orgCome for dinner in the sukkah, songs, PJ Library storytime and a campfire with s’mores. $5–$10. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.6:45–8:45 p.m. — sukkot community shabbat dinner

Marjie Cogan at marjiecogan@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgCome to a dinner in the Beth Shalom sukkah catered by Eric Gorbman. Member discounts available. $22/

person, free/kids under 4. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.7–11 p.m. — J explorers sleepover in the sukkah

Matt Korch at MattK@sjcc.org or 206-388-0830 or www.sjcc.orgJoin dads and their kids for a campfire, s’mores and a sleepover in the Kesher community garden. $20. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.7:30 p.m. — nishmat shabbat

Shellie Oakley at info@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgBet Alef teachers share their passion for meditation, mystical chant and the deeper transformational messages of Jewish tradition. $10 donation. At Queen Anne United Methodist Church, 1606 5th Ave. W, Seattle.

SatUrday 15 october3–9 p.m. — celebrate sukkot in Fremont

Shellie Oakley at info@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgCome to a Bet Alef family festival for all ages. Donations appreciated. At Nachman Glassworks, 310 NW 40th St., Seattle.

SUnday 16 october3 p.m. — The pJ library sukkot storytime Amy Hilzman-Paquette at amyhp@jewishinseattle.orgSeattle Jewish Community School hosts a Sukkot event, including performances by students. A PJ Library storytime precedes the event. Free. At SJCS, 12351 8th Ave. NE, Seattle.3–5 p.m. — city council candidates Forum on social Justice

Fr. Paul Magnano at

fran_abbott@earthlink.net or 206-452-1734 or bit.ly/q038VXSeattle City Council candidates will state their positions on social justice, poverty, homelessness and more. Cosponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. At Christ Our Hope, 1902 2nd Ave., Seattle.3–5 p.m. — Kabbalah of sukkot workshop

Shellie Oakley at info@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgIn Kabbalah, the eight days of Sukkot are intertwined with different sephirot (levels) of the tree of life. Rabbi Olivier will guide an exploration of these Kabbalistic energies. Donations appreciated. At Nachman Glassworks, 310 NW 40th St., Seattle.4–7 p.m. — pizza in the hut – sukkot across america

Rabbi David Fredman at rabbifredman@seattlekollel.org or 206-251-4063 or seattlekollel.orgThe sukkah will be open to all, with Island Crust Café pizza. Donations appreciated. At West Seattle Torah Learning Center, Seattle. Call for address.5 p.m. — ncsy Family sukkah party

Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.comCome to a dairy feast, enjoy an ice cream dessert buffet, bouncy house, music, cotton candy, popcorn and slushies. $15/person. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.7:15 p.m. — annual sukkot concert

Andrea Sievert at info@chabadofseattle.org or 206-527-1411 or www.chabadofseattle.orgChabad Lubavitch presents the annual Sukkot concert featuring Yossi Ben-Shimon. $5, free for students and seniors. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.

monday 17 october6–7:30 p.m. — meal planning made Quick and easy

Kim Lawson at KLawson@sjcc.org or 206-388-0828 or www.sjcc.orgJill Ginsberg of Seattle Health Coaches will guide a step-by-step customized meal plan lesson to suit the needs of the entire family. $159. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

tUeSday 18 october8– 9:15 a.m. — Jds Keys for success com-munity and parent Breakfast

Elizabeth Goertzel at egoertzel@jds.org or 425-460-0230 or www.jds.orgJoin the JDS board and administration for their Keys for Success parent and community breakfast. Free, but contributions to the JDS Annual Fund are encouraged. At the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, 15749 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

7–8 p.m. — hebrew (alef Bet) level i Carol Benedick at

carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgUsing the text Aleph Isn’t Tough, Talya McCurdy teaches this yearlong (23-session) class on basic biblical and siddur Hebrew. $250. Meets Tuesday nights. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

7–8 p.m. — hebrew (Biblical) level ii Carol Benedick at

carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.org

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Open Houses: Tues, Nov 8 at 7 pm and Wed, Dec 7 at 7 pm. Drop by Sat, Nov 12, 10am-noon to tour the campus www.billingsmiddleschool.org Billings Middle School admits students of any religion, race, color, sexual orientation and national or ethnic origin.

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Jeremy Alk teaches this yearlong (23-session) class on vocabulary, grammar, and reading of biblical Hebrew. $250. Meets Tuesday nights. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.7–8 p.m. — siddur hebrew – the Amidah

Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgLearn Hebrew, discuss theology and understand what is said when davening in Hebrew. Yearlong (23-session) class meets Tuesday nights. At Congregation Beth

Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.7–8:30 p.m. — introductory study of the zohar

Shellie Oakley at info@betalef.org or 206-527-9399 or www.betalef.orgDiscuss and wrestle with this Kabbalistic text, and have fun in the process. Seven-session course takes place on Tuesdays. Subsequent sessions in Bellevue. $90/members; $120/non-members. At Nachman Glassworks, 310 NW 40th St., Seattle.

7–9:15 p.m. — living Judaism – The Basics Sandy Sloane at

sandysloane@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgThis yearlong course is an introduction to Judaism for Jews looking to deepen their knowledge, and for potential converts to Judaism. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

SatUrday 22 october9:30 a.m. — The pJ library storytime at Kol haneshamah

Amy at amyhp@jewishinseattle.org The PJ Library welcomes guest musician Erik Lawson with PJ Library manager Amy Paquette as storyteller. At Kol HaNeshamah, 6115 SW Hinds St., Seattle.7:30–11:30 p.m. — haunted havdalah for middle schoolers

Matt Korch at Mattk@sjcc.org or 206-388-0830 or www.sjcc.org or Ari Hoffman at thehoffather@gmail.comThis annual event brings together 6th–8th graders from BBYO, the J, NCSY and USY to celebrate Havdalah then go to Stocker Farms for a haunted corn maze. Transportation and corn maze admission included; spending money optional for warm drinks. $20. Meet at the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island or Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

SUnday 23 october10–11 a.m. — advanced Beginner hebrew

Janine Rosenbaum at Janinerosenbaum@comcast.net or 206-232-8555, ext. 204Advanced beginner Hebrew class. Call for cost. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Beginner hebrew course

Janine Rosenbaum at Janinerosenbaum@comcast.net or 206-232-8555, ext. 204Hebrew class for beginners. Call for cost. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.10–11 a.m. — sunday Forum: The politics of medicare and medicaid

Alysa Rosen at alysa@templebetham.org or 206-525-0915 or www.templebetham.orgU.S. Congressman Jim McDermott, WA-7, and Teresa Mosqueda, chair of the Healthy Washington Coalition, will discuss the impact of budget decisions on Medicare and Medicaid. Free. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

monday 24 october7–9 p.m. — J street community Reception

Barbara Lahav at bjlahav@comcast.net or 206-226-7205 or www.jSt.orgMeet J Street founder and president Jeremy Ben Ami with former Israeli naval commander and general

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Daddy time, Jewish-styleeric nUSbaUm JTnews correspondent

The Stroum Jewish Community Center will be hosting overnight guests Friday — and no, that doesn’t mean it’s launch-ing a new initiative to become a hotel. The guests will be the fathers, daughters, and sons of the SJCC’s J Explorers par-ticipating in the program’s second annual Sleepover in the Sukkah event.

The J Explorers program brings together dads and kids between kinder-garten and third grade for planned Jewish activities. The Sleepover in the Sukkah is the annual kickoff event. Last year, about 25 kids slept over. This year, sign-ups are underway with organizers expecting a much larger turnout.

“About 70 kids have expressed inter-est,” said Craig Fisher, who helped found J Explorers.

Fisher saw an opening for the J Explor-ers program when he was participating with his daughter in the YMCA Princesses program. He had arranged for a group of his daughter’s friends from the JCC’s early childhood program and their fathers to participate in the Y program — then real-ized that it might as well be a J program.

“There was no Jewish connection even though it was all Jewish friends,” said Fisher. “So I looked into why the J didn’t have a program like this and explored other Js that had father-kid programs.”

The program is anchored by two camp-outs: The Sleepover in the Sukkah and a spring overnight trip to Camp Kalsman in Arlington. In between, J Explorers par-ticipate in structured activities such as a food drive in coordination with Jewish Family Service and events for Hanukkah and Purim. The fathers and children also break into smaller groups based on gender and grade level for dad-planned activities.

For children who live in different neighborhoods but went to preschool and kindergarten at the JCC, J Explorers pro-vides an opportunity to keep in touch and

make new Jewish friends. The foundation of the program has been those groups of ECS graduates. But organizers are begin-

ning to see J Explorers expand.“They have a blast,” said steering com-

mittee member Paul Rosenwald, whose daughter is in the program and goes to school in Bellevue. “A lot of her girlfriends are friends she doesn’t see a lot. Plus at the Kalsman sleepover, she made some new friends with girls in other age groups.”

The program also provides a Jewish anchor in the lives of the participating children that goes beyond Sunday school classes. At last spring’s campout, one father conducted a Havdalah service that incorporated the weekly Torah portion. For Sukkot, their group will sings songs and eat a meal in the Sukkah.

“We’ve incorporated a Jewish element to all the activities,” said Fisher, who hopes the J Explorers can be the start of a bridge between early childhood programs and teen activities like BBYO.

J Explorers has also been a new-found Jewish element in the lives of the fathers, who are participating and bonding with other Jewish peers right alongside their children — though their activities might look a little different.

“We’ve started to do dad planning nights where we’ll met in a tavern and plan

If you go:

Sleepover in the Sukkah takes place tonight, Oct. 14, so RSVp now. contact matt Korch at mattK@sjcc.org or 206-388-0830. $20. In the Kesher community garden at the Stroum Jcc, 3801 E mercer Way, mercer Island.

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The dozens of dads with their young sons and daughters who have joined up to do programming with other members of the Jewish community in the Stroum JCC’s J Explorers program.

The legal defense of the immigrant experienceJoel magalnicK editor, JTnews

Attorney Daniel Swedlow has a client from Ethiopia seeking asylum in the U.S.

“When gunfire started erupting he just ran, and he ran and ran and ran and wound up going through something like 17 different countries,” Swedlow said. “All of his being beaten, detained and shot at is simply being a member of this minority group in Ethiopia.”

The man eventually ended up in Cali-fornia, and is currently living in SeaTac. He is scheduled for a hearing this month to grant him permanent residency here.

Swedlow is one of a number of Seat-tle-area lawyers affiliated with the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s Cardozo Society, whose leadership a year ago decided to begin a pro bono representa-tion project to take on asylum cases.

Cardozo partnered with an organiza-tion called the Northwest Immigration Rights Project, which exists to provide pro bono assistance to people in the region seeking asylum.

“It’s a wonderful partnership because there’s such an inherent connection between the Jewish community and the plight of the immigrant culture, regard-less of who those immigrants are,” Swed-low, now one of Cardozo’s co-chairs, said.

What’s clear is that several attorneys taking part in this program aren’t doing it because they have extra time on their hands.

Cardozo member Souphavady Bounlu-tay came to the U.S. as a child from Laos and her family had to deal with many of the same issues as her pro bono client: Language barriers, no family support net-work, navigating a new culture.

Bounlutay successfully represented a 20-year-old Somali woman who under-went genital mutilation at the age of 8 and was raped at the age of 9.

Because of that event, “her father dis-owned her and kicked her out of the house,” Bounlutay said.

The woman later became pregnant out of wedlock, and has since had the child. Had she been deported to Soma-lia, Bounlutay said, “her clan members or family members would kill her because she shamed them by being pregnant.”

That threat posed the basis for the asylum plea. Research on other cases showed that Bounlutay’s client had a strong case, but she received affidavits from a doctor confirming the genital mutilation as well as from members of the local Somali community that her life would indeed be in danger should she return home.

“Being a woman and being an immi-grant and having no family here, I knew how hard her life is currently, and I knew that if I could make it just a little easier, [and] make her legal, that I would be at least giving her an opportunity…here in the U.S.,” Bounlutay said.

Trial lawyer Barry Wallis also has an immigrant story: He came to the U.S. from France when he was a year old. His family had tried to gain asylum in the United States during World War II but only his mother, who was a toddler at the time, was granted entry.

“How can they send a 2-year-old child to America?” Wallis said.

His grandfather was in the French resistance and captured by the Gestapo.

“They took him and tortured him for 12 weeks because he was Jewish,” Wallis said.

Wallis spent far more hours than he expected on his first pro bono case, which as principal of his own firm caused him a bit of hardship, but “it’s actually one of the best cases I ever had,” he said. “It was really unbelievably rewarding.”

The case, a Colombian woman on the run from her “business lord” husband, resulted in her release from nine months in detention at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Tacoma.

“We were able to demonstrate that she had a real, credible fear of being tortured if she was forced to return to Colombia because of her husband’s extensive con-tacts,” Wallis said. “I hope that she’s going to be safe here.”

Wallis got so much satisfaction from his first case that he took another: This one in defense of a Moldavian Jewish woman who was raped by white supremacists there and threatened if she returns to Moldavia.

NWIRP assists with these cases the same way it does with the roughly 200 pro bono cases it assigns each year in addition to those taken by its staff attorneys. Jordan Wasserman, the organization’s pro bono program coordinator, makes it clear that each lawyer who takes a case is the attor-ney of record.

“They’re ultimately responsible,” Was-serman said. “We see our role as support and help them do what they need to do.”

The partnership with the Cardozo Soci-ety is the only group of otherwise uncon-nected attorneys with which NWIRP works, Wasserman said, though one large firm in Seattle has taken on asylum proj-ects as a companywide mission.

“To me it seems like a great idea to commit to one project because the firm or organization creates an institutional knowledge and it becomes easier and easier for them to do a good job on the cases,” he said.

Wallis said that given his family’s own troubles when trying to leave Nazi-occu-pied France, the issue of asylum “is some-thing that’s very, very close to my heart.

“We have a duty to the world to help anybody who is suffering in another coun-try because of race, ethnicity, political dis-position — anything to upset the status quo,” he said. “Jews have a deep obligation to help these people.”

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NEW YORK (Tablet) — As the Occupy Wall Street protest enters its fourth week, with demonstrations popping up in more than 10 cities, including Seattle and Port-land, the protesters are aggressively push-ing a comparison to the Arab Spring. Some say the movement has channeled the zeal (or perhaps the naivete, others would argue) of the 1960s anti-war demonstra-tions. But it’s not Tahrir Square or Chi-cago in 1968 that Occupy Wall Street most resembles. It’s the protests for economic justice that swept Israel this summer.

Start with location. Like the J14 — the catchy name for the Israel protests, taken from the date, July 14, when they began — the Occupy Wall Street activists have staked out their turf in the heart of the American banking industry.

In Tel Aviv, hundreds of protesters railed against the high cost of housing by setting up tents in the area of the city that houses Israel’s largest banks, specifically on Rothschild Boulevard, an exclusive street named after Baron Edmond James de Rothschild, a member of the famous Jewish banking family and a patron of Zionist causes.

In Lower Manhattan, the Occupy Wall Street protesters have made their base 2-1/2 blocks from the New York Stock Exchange in Zuccotti Park. While there are no tents allowed, hundreds of pro-testers have made the park their tempo-rary home, camping out in sleeping bags despite rain and the early autumn chill.

Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv houses Independence Hall, the site where Israel’s Declaration of Independence was signed in 1948. Zuccotti Park has been renamed “Lib-erty Park” by the protesters and is just a few yards away from Ground Zero.

Demonstrators are quick to explain that the movement, Occupy Wall Street, is leaderless. This same lack of leadership

characterized the August protests in Tel Aviv. (Yes, Daphne Leef, a 25-year-old film editor, was credited with sparking the pro-tests when she pitched a tent in a Tel Aviv square to draw attention to the price of rent in Israel. But she remained a symbol more than a leader.) This lack of real lead-ership has, at least so far, resulted in a fuzzy ideology and a dearth of concrete demands from the Occupy Wall Street crowd.

In the small hours of a Tuesday morn-ing, to take one example, I watched as a 24-year-old protester named Chris from Brooklyn tried to explain the movement’s goal to six of New York’s finest:

“The reason is bigger than you can pos-sibly understand,” Chris said.

“So, explain to it to us,” one of the cops responded. “I work this job because I have a pile of bills to pay. What’s your side?”

“It’s not about the small scale,” Chris said, unable to articulate a better reply. “You don’t understand.”

“That’s where the difference is —

between reality and your side,” the cop said. “It’s time to move along.”

This inarticulateness has provided lots of fodder for blistering satire. (“Because if there’s one thing New Yorkers never ignore,” Stephen Colbert quipped on his show, “it’s people sleeping in a park.”) At the same time, this big tent has served Occupy Wall Street, which has drawn a broad-yet-disparate coalition much in the way that the Tel Aviv protests did. Taking a lap through Zuccotti Park or Westlake Plaza, you’ll hear snippets of conversations about the envi-ronment, gay rights, police brutality, the Iraq War, Afghanistan, the drone program, tax cuts, foreign aid and more.

But the single overarching theme of the protests has been corporate greed. It is this one-note song of economic inequality that has allowed a collection of students, the unemployed, activists, anarchists, immi-grants and union members to form a coali-tion. They say they represent the 99 percent; the wealthiest 1 percent, they point out, controls 40 percent of the country’s wealth.

Similarly, by avoiding divisive politi-cal issues such as settlements, the status of Jerusalem, the future of the West Bank, policy toward Iran and financial subsi-dies for the haredi Orthodox, and focus-ing on one issue — the untenable cost of living — J14 was able to unite Jews, Mus-lims, Arabs, Christians, Druze, gays, the religious, the secular, the left wing and the right wing in common cause. In its final rally on Sept. 3, some 400,000 people par-ticipated — approximately 6 percent of the country’s population.

“We work for the richest retailer in the world,” a man from upstate New York who works at Wal-Mart said in Zuccotti Park. “And yet their employees make jack s—-.”

He wore a hoodie, which partially cov-ered a neck tattoo of the Hebrew letters aleph bet gimel, which he claimed was an

acronym for “everybody’s equal.” On the other side of his neck were four Hebrew words that meant “God’s earth, God’s planet,” bisected by a tree in the shape of a cross.

“There’s a lot of love,” an unemployed Occupy Wall Street protester named Donna told me.

On a Monday evening and in the early morning hours the next day, I saw what she was talking about. The sound of drums and guitars gave the space the feeling of a carnival. A quick tour of the plaza revealed a surprising abundance of provisions: anarchists with logistical acumen! There was more food than could be eaten, and no one knew from where it had come: Deli sandwiches, Pop Tarts, apples, bananas, coffee, and bottles and bottles of Poland Spring. There was talk of donating the excess food to homeless shelters. A simi-lar camaraderie had pervaded the Tel Aviv protests this summer.

In Zuccotti Park, a medical team roved the plaza giving out vitamins. A sanitation crew kept the square clean. Protesters used the bathroom in a nearby McDonald’s.

“They’ve been very nice to us,” Anya, who came from Iowa for the protest, told me. “The workers are part of the 99 per-cent.” At 1 a.m., a bounty of McDonald’s cookies and coffee arrived.

I met a guy named Max sipping McDonald’s corporate coffee. Max said he lived nearby and had just dropped by to check out the scene.

“The protesters have … no mission,” he told me. “It’s like they are fighting a ghost.”

The same could be said of the Tel Aviv protests, which nevertheless galvanized an apathetic Israeli generation into political engagement.

This article originally appeared on Tablet Magazine, tabletmag.com

Joel maGalnicK

Though smaller in number, protestors at Westlake Plaza in Seattle have created their own tent city in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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a different kind of Jewish communitymaSada Siegel special to JTnews

A look of horror crossed my mom’s face. We stared at the petite woman stand-ing in the pouring rain raising her hands over her head and making menacing faces.

“If you see a bear, put your hands over your head and start saying, ‘Bear, go away.’ If we do this all together, then he will be afraid and walk away,” said Tammy Smith, our hiking guide in Denali National Park. “Well, hopefully.”

The mud was sticky, the incline steep and droplets of rain stuck to our coats.

“Masada,” my mom said, “I don’t think this is for me.”

“That’s nice,” I responded. “Now let’s go.”

We grabbed walking sticks and set off, walking single file behind our guide on the Triple Lakes Trail.

Denali National Park in Alaska is a dream destination. The scenery is majes-tic, in both the rain and sunshine as it appears to be the land before time. It’s both pristine and rugged, and the magic only escalates when viewing a grisly bear at close range. (We saw a few, but out of a tour bus window in the park.)

But all of this came later. To start our three-week trek through Alaska — in search of both the scenic and Jewish angles — we landed in Fairbanks and worked our way south using nearly every mode of transportation possible: Planes, trains, automobiles, canoes, helicopters and a ship.

Fairbanks took us by surprise; it is charming and filled with unique places like the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum at Wedgewood resort. This living museum encompasses 78 vehicles ranging from the obscure such as the Hertel and Argonne to the legendary Peerless and Packard. It’s a walk through both automo-tive and American history. Many of the shiny cars are paired with figurines wear-ing the fashion of the period.

After exploring the fabulous ice museum, the fair and hopping on a riv-erboat cruise, but before dinner at the famous Pump House restaurant and saloon, we stopped by Congregation Or HaTzafon. Translated from the Hebrew, that’s the Light of the North.

Fairbanks has a small but vibrant Jewish community. The city started in 1902 and in 1904 a Jewish community formed with the arrival of Robert Bloom, a Lithuanian who came from Ireland via the Klondike in 1898. He ran a general store from 1906 to 1941 and contributed not only to the Fair-banks Jewish community but was one of the founders of the University of Alaska.

Next came a jaunt to the Arctic Circle with Northern Alaska Tour Company. We saw our first moose only an hour into the drive. The Alaskan pipeline rose and fell, guiding us along the way. We stopped to

pick wild blueberries and bounced along the squishy Arctic tundra. In remote places we met people who lived by nature’s rules, mainly fishing and hunting for their sustenance.

Our tour then took a turn for the luxu-rious as we boarded the majestic Alaskan railroad. The gold-star service is premier in train travel, and sitting on the upper floor was a treat; the car was all windows, making the views phenomenal. Watching the world roll by is relaxing, and what could be more romantic than a lovely meal on bone china and fine silver on a train, a throwback in time but with all the modern amenities?

The train took us to Denali, where other than hiking, Mom and I ventured to unknown places that included walking in thigh-high wader boots in 34-degree water to go fly fishing.

We followed our fearless guide, Terry Boyd from Denali Fly Fishing, to the river. As new experts in picking wild blue-berries, we grazed the entire way.

Mom gave me one of those “What have you gotten me into now?” looks as she started to walk through the near-freez-ing river running at around 20-25 miles per hour.

Of course she immediately caught a fish. I was not so talented, but I fell in love with the purple mountains and the serenity of the sounds of the river rushing around my feet.

Alaska has a freedom that’s easy to feel, perhaps because everyone seems to be up in the air, literally. The next day’s agenda included flying in a floatplane, and I was nervous. I had never flown in anything so small!

Talkeetna, Alaska is one of the prime locations to fly into Denali National Park. We flew over rivers, lakes and glaciers — it was like flying inside a painting. After an exceptionally smooth landing we were greeted with hors d’oeuvres before a hike in a seemingly untouched land.

It felt unreal, but Talkeetna surprised us in a few ways. We stayed at the Talkeetna Alaskan Lodge, where we could see Mt. McKinley from our room and ate dinner at the Base Camp Bistro, where the food was remarkable both in presentation and taste.

Our next adventure included a new mode of transportation: The rental car.

My mom had a map, but it was unneces-sary. Driving in Alaska is much like its res-idents: Straightforward.

Upon our arrival at the Matanuska gla-cier, we received a safety briefing and our gear: Crampons and walking sticks. As our car bounced along the unpaved road toward the icy blue glacier, I got nervous. Was I pushing adventure too far?

The glacial mud path was sticky, and when the ice was mere steps away, we laced our crampons to our boots. But hiking the icy blue glacier was an unex-pectedly incredible experience.

“There comes an age where you have to try every-thing,” Mom said. “It was one of the most remarkable and challenging experi-ences, as I had never climbed one.”

Once back on solid ground and starving, we drove to Sheep’s Meadows Lodge for a delicious home-cooked meal. Soon after we stepped into a fairytale called t h e M a t a n u s k a Lodge. This huge home turned into a bed and breakfast was filled with color-ful art, couches and

books — and, to our surprise, mezuzot on the doors and books about Jewish art in the living room. Even the guest book had notes written in Hebrew. This magical hideaway was known as far away as Israel!

Alaska is home to about 6,000 Jews and has long had a strong relationship with Israel. Rabbi Yosef Greenberg of Chabad of Anchorage explained how in 1949, Alaskan bush pilots risked their own lives to rescue thousands of Yemenite Jews and fly them in the dark of night to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.

“The planes at the time could make the trip from Yemen to Israel in 10 hours, however could only hold enough fuel for nine hours, and there was no country they could stop to refuel,” Greenberg said. “They had to take fuel on the plane — and refuel it while flying from the inside. These planes were at times shot at, but the Alas-kan pilots accepted the job. They flew 370 flights, and when Alaska Airlines had to pull out, their pilots carried on with the mission until it was completed.”

Additionally, the Alaskan Jewish com-munity, understanding the importance of the continuity of the Jewish religion and culture, is working with native Alaskans

to help them preserve their heritage and language, such as the Na-Dene language, which became extinct in January 2008.

Spending time with Rabbi Greenberg, who has lived in Alaska for 20 years, was an unexpected treat. He is filled with such a positive energy and light that listening to him was mesmerizing.

He hopes to complete an Alaska Jewish museum to highlight the beauty of the Jewish-Alaskan relationship. A gala and fundraiser in Anchorage in November will feature film stars Nicholas Cage and John Cusack.

Our royal treatment continued as we boarded the Holland America on an inside passage cruise. Our ship, the Statendam, had a cozy, intimate atmosphere.

With a never-ending selection of delec-table food, much of it was surprisingly healthy — and fabulous. The ship caters to kosher passengers as well as those with food allergies. No request seemed too big, with abundant little extras like cute ani-mals fashioned from towels and a variety of religious services onboard.

The ever-changing view from our deck was, of course, spectacular, and the ship itself is also a floating museum, with paint-ings and sculptures worth over $2 million.

My father joined us for the cruise, so Mom was off the hook, but a few shore excursions excited me.

In Haines, I opted to take a 30-foot canoe to Davidson glacier. Newfound friends who lovingly nominated me to sit at the front laughed as I got splashed with freezing cold water.

“I see you are getting the glacial facial, and for free no less,” said my friend Amy, sitting comfortably behind me. I chuckled as big chunks of ice banged into the canoe and we paddled close enough to the glacier to hear the ice cracking.

The next day, in Juneau, I stood atop Mendenhall glacier, arriving via a new mode of transportation. Never having been in a helicopter, the ride felt surprisingly smooth as the world of mountains, glaciers and waterfalls revealed itself below.

As my trip began to come to an end, reality rapidly approached. Alas, putting my hands over my head to try to scare it away was not going to work. Though I was done seeing bears, my Alaskan adventure with Mom will last in my photos and my memories.

Want a bit of Jewish Alaska? Visit the fledgling Alaska Jewish Museum at www.alaskajewishmuseum.com or find out about its November gala at www.alaskajewishgala.org. The Matanuska Lodge can be found at www.matanuskalodge.com and the Reform Congregation Or HaTzafon can be found at www.mosquitonet.com/~orhatzafon.

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Should my sukkah have a debt ceiling?edmon J. rodman JTa world news service

LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Each Sukkot we read in Kohelet, Ecclesiastes, that there “is a time to tear down, and a time to build up.” For my sukkah it was time for both.

Last year the legs of my sukkah were bowed and its roof supports looked flimsy. This year I wanted to rebuild my Jewish infrastructure, maybe even expand. But in a year of tight budgets, both personal and national, in a year when even the U.S. Congress had finances as shaky as any sukkah, how should I proceed?

Given the polarizing national debate on fiscal responsibility, I was concerned. Would my fiscal approach to sukkah repair cause it to lean to the left? The right? Or, overwhelmed, would I just sit in my sukkah, go with the Bachmann flow and, like my Yiddish-speaking grandmother, drink “a nice glass tea?”

As a practical guideline, the Talmud provides the requirements: The hand-breadths, cubits and crossbeams, and that the roof covering, the schach, should pro-vide more shade than allow sun.

What we don’t get is cost analysis and debt ceilings. Where could I turn for eco-nomic advice on how to rebuild my holi-day infrastructure?

As the psalm says, “I lift up my eyes to the hills.” Capitol Hill, that is.

For example, President Obama in his recent “jobs” speech before Congress, said that “we can put people to work rebuilding America. Everyone here knows we have badly decaying roads and bridges all over the country.”

Obama called for a plan that would “put people to work right now fixing roofs and windows.” And to assist “responsible homeowners,” he added, “we’re going to work with federal housing agencies to help more people refinance their mortgages at interest rates that are now near 4 percent.”

Inspired by the president’s words, I

thought, “I have badly decaying stuff, too — my sukkah — with a roof that needs fixing right now. Good-bye sagging schach. And with all that low-interest refi green, I might even add enough room for a few more guests.”

But eyeing my credit card, I won-dered: Isn’t borrowing against the house

how we got into trouble the last time? Maybe I should look to the other side of the sukkah, so to speak, for a more con-servative idea.

Not that the Republicans or tea par-tiers had presented a schach reduction bill, but House Speaker John Boehner did have a different approach to infrastructure and putting Americans back to work.

“Private-sector job creators of all sizes have been pummeled by decisions made

in Washington,” said Boehner, an Ohio Republican, in response to Obama’s jobs speech. “They’ve been slammed by uncer-tainty from the constant threat of new taxes, out-of-control spending and unnec-essary regulation from a government that is always micromanaging, meddling and manipulating.”

Oh yeah, I had been slammed by uncertainty, too. I certainly could build a better sukkah without any meddling. And who needs rabbinic supervision for any of this stuff? It’s just too expensive!

So I was going strictly private sector — no more approved prefab sukkahs or out-of-control holiday spending. But upon reconsideration, maybe just a smidge of supervision might not be so bad, I thought. Who would decide if the etrog was fit to use in my sukkah?

Confused, I needed to talk to someone about both the spiritual and design sides of my plan. I needed a rabbi and an archi-

tect, so I called both: Rabbi Alan Lurie of Rye, N.Y.

Lurie is a modern-sounding rabbi with private smicha from a beit din, or rabbin-ical court, as well as a licensed architect who studied at the Chicago Institute of Technology. He is the managing director of the real estate firm Grubb & Ellis.

In the introduction to his book Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unex-pected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work, Lurie wrote, “Uncertainty can, in fact, be a great gift because it can cause us to rethink our established, fixed way of seeing things.” Thus, I thought, he could advise me on my own sukkah uncertainty.

“Certainly I wouldn’t go into debt. I don’t think the Shulchan Aruch would suggest that,” Lurie advised, crushing my expansionary dreams in a fiscally conser-vative way.

“We all don’t need so much. The coun-try is going through a tikkun, a major cor-rection. We need to readjust,” he said. “I know families who have playrooms bigger than our house, and they are still not happy.”

Moving the debate back in time from America’s founding fathers to a group of fathers much older, Lurie reminded me that the sukkah is supposed to be “a humble structure” and that size was not important.

“To build it just to impress someone is a chet,” he reminded, a sin.

“And what about spending for repairs?” I asked.

“A rickety structure is kind of a lovely way to celebrate,” the rabbi responded, quieting my appetite for costly infrastruc-ture repair, though he did point out that my “sukkah needed to be safe.”

“It shouldn’t fall on someone,” he said, sanctioning necessary repairs as the presi-dent had proposed.

So I would be “building up” after all, just in a scaled-down sort of way. By com-promising, I would soon be on my way to a season of sukkah recovery.

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the schedule and talk about what we’re doing for the kids,” Fisher said.

The program is also expanding beyond the SJCC’s Mercer Island campus. The North Seattle branch of the JCC is send-ing participants to Mercer Island for the sleepover and is in the process of building its own J Explorers program.

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on the case.“My son is a second grader so we’re still

into it,” he said. “But next year we’ll have to figure out what to do. We’re currently trying to figure out what that looks like third through seventh grade.”

If it connects fathers to their kids, kids to kids, fathers to fathers, and everybody to Judaism, it will be a success, Rosen-wald said.

“That’s the premise of the program,” he said. “To keep the community going, to keep the kids with their friends.”

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Bar MitzvahKyle Morgan Israel

Kyle will celebrate his Bar Mitzvah on October 22, 2011, at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Bellevue.

Kyle is the son of Audrey Rosenfeld and David Israel of Sammamish and the brother of Dylan. His grandparents are Bella Israel of Bellevue, Michael and Linda Rosenfeld of Vancouver, BC, and the late Morris (Sharkey) Israel.

Kyle is a 7th grader at Pacific Cascade Middle School. He enjoys playing basketball and soccer, travel, attending Camp Kalsman, and relaxing with friends and family. For his mitzvah project, Kyle is donating toiletries to Noel House, a shelter for homeless women.

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BirthEvelyn Kohealani Redican

Sarah and Colin Redican of Kaneohe Oahu, Hi., announce the birth of their daughter Evelyn Kohealani on September 15, 2011, at Castle Medical Center in Hailua Oahu. Evelyn weighed 7 lbs., 2 oz. and measured 20-1/2 inches.

Evelyn’s grandparents are Karen Binder of Seattle, Carol and Steve Medwell of Seattle, and Tom and Pat Redican of Hilo, Hi.

DeathArnold B. Robbins

Arnold B. Robbins, a native son who practiced law in Seattle for 46 years, honored and served the Jewish community all of his life, and delighted in coaxing joyful noise from his trumpet, died September 25, after a brief illness. He was 83.

Arny, as he preferred to be called, was the only child of Earl and Sara Robbins, and grew up in the Cherry Street neighborhood of Seattle, then the heart of the Orthodox Jewish community. He graduated from Garfield High School in 1945, and received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Washington, becoming an attorney at age 23. He spent seven years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves.

He was a partner in the law firm that became Breskin & Robbins for more than 30 years. He appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1974, and served as an officer in the Washington State Bar Association.

He lived in Bellevue for many years with his wife, Esther, whom he married in 1950, and who predeceased him in 2006. He is survived by their children and spouses, daughter Vicki Robbins and son-in-law Rocky Silverman of Seattle; son Seth Robbins and daughter-in-law Mari Robbins, of Bozeman, Mont; and his second wife, Barbara Hurst of Dallas, from whom he was divorced.

Before and after his retirement in 1996, Arny’s involvement in the Jewish community was extensive, including the American Jewish Committee, the Temple De Hirsch Sinai board, and Endless Opportunities. He was a proud participant in projects of the Washington State Jewish Historical Society, and recorded an oral history for the University of Washington, describing the Seattle of his childhood. He loved to study and he loved to travel the world. Plus, he also volunteered at North Seattle Community College for 15 years, as an aid to an ESL teacher.

In addition to his family, Arny leaves his many musical comrades, including fellow members of the Coal Creek Dixieland Jazz Band; the Around the Sound Band; the Bellevue Community Band, and the Sounds of Swing. On the few occasions when he stepped down from the stage, he was a polished ballroom dancer. He spent the last years of his life with his significant other, Sue Mon Wei.

Graveside services were held at Bikur Cholim Cemetery. A memorial service was held at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle at 10 a.m. on Oct. 11. Donations may be made to Jewish Family Service or Temple De Hirsch Sinai.

DeathEdith Sondland

Edith Sondland, 88, passed away on September 13, 2011, joining her beloved husband, Harry. Born in Berlin, Germany, Edith came to Seattle with her family after 12 years in Shanghai, China as a German refugee during World War II. The Broadview area was her home for 40 years. Her devotion to her husband and family always came first. After Harry’s death, she moved to Ida Culver/Broadview and then, as her health declined, to the Stratford Maple Leaf. Edith always had a smile on her face and a kind word. She will be missed by her family, friends and all whose lives she touched.

She is survived by daughters Ruth Lerner (Jeff), Marion Gabrlik (Denny), grandchildren Jason, David, Leah, and Ben, and great-granddaughter Alyssa.

Contributions may be donated to the Kline Galland Home and Jewish Family Service.

DeathReva Ketzlach Twersky

May 8, 1923–September 30, 2011 Reva Ketzlach Twersky, 88, a Seattle native, passed

away peacefully at the close of the Jewish New Year, in the Kline Galland Home. She is survived by son Rabbi David Twersky of Seattle and daughters Judy Twersky of Forest Hills, N.Y. and Marya Twersky of Fair Lawn, N.J. She had six grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren — all of whom she was very proud. She was preceded in death by more than 20 years by the “love of her life,” Meyer Twersky, a communal leader and son of the Talner Rebbe of Philadelphia.

Mrs. Twersky was a life-long member, regular worshipper and active Sisterhood worker at Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath. She was a dedicated parent, volunteer, and PTA president at the Seattle Hebrew Day School (Academy) and was active in the (Women’s) Hebrew Free Loan Society, Mizrachi Women (AMIT), and the Washington State Jewish Historical Society.

Reva was a proud alumnus of the Seattle Talmud Torah, Garfield High School (where she was honored by the Garfield Golden Grads for lifetime achievement), and the University of Washington (from which she earned her MSW and was a founding social worker at the UW School of Family Medicine at University Hospital.)

She loved family and was considered to be the “matriarch” of the Steinberg-Ketzlach-Treiger-Elyn families who were and are pioneers and leaders within Seattle’s Jewish community. She authored a two-volume memoir entitled In the Footsteps of My Grand-mother, referring to her grandmother and role-model, Chaya Tsivya (Anna) Steinberg (in whose home Reva was born), who died in 1944.

The family suggests that donations be made to Congregation BCMH, the Seattle Hebrew Academy, or the Northwest Yeshiva High School.

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