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Lit by the nations?Rabbi Daniel a. WeineR Temple De Hirsch Sinai
“When Israel has prosti-tutes and thieves, we’ll be a state just like any other.”
—David Ben Gurion
David Gruen’s transforma-tion into Daveed Ben Gurion, from European socialist to Zionist utopian, reflected his potent awareness that outward perception impacts inner identity. And the indi-vidual experience echoes the larger, soci-etal one. The pioneering prime minister’s seemingly cynical sentiment, an aspira-tion for a base normalcy, was a necessary counterpoint to the messianic idealism that fueled the realization of the Zionist enterprise.
Yet lofty hopes still inform all that the modern State of Israel embraces, especially when faced with the annihilationist vision of nuclear aspirants and the messy com-promises of contemporary statecraft. But there has been a new, pernicious strain of realism afflicting a society bearing the transcendent dreams of global Jewry.
While Israel has borne its comparably small share of extremist tragedies, recent abominations of intolerance, particu-larly among the young, bode ill with the prospect of an emerging new era of big-otry. The desecration of monasteries and mosques, the firebombing of a Palestinian taxi by B’nai-Mitzvah–aged assailants, and the brutal beating of a Palestinian youth by Jewish teen thugs in the heart of Jeru-salem before a mob of hundreds reveal an unprecedented, virulent strain of Jewish xenophobia. More broadly, the growing appearance of anti-immigrant graffiti, and the more frequently expressed nativism it signifies, reflect a significant departure from the inclusive regard for the other by this young nation only a few generations removed from its roots as refuge for the stateless.
It is no coincidence that increases in violence percolate from the darkest cor-ners of the religious settlement movement. As Israeli society confronts the growing divide between the negotiated demands of modernity and the theocratic visions of fundamentalists, the intractable resist change and growth with greater ferocity and ignorance. But unlike most evolving, Western cultures, Israelis are permitting the marginal to erode the mainstream.
As scrupulously documented by jour-nalist Gershom Gorenberg in his contro-versially incisive book, “The Unmaking of Israel,” years of cynical complicity in the spread of settlements by the leader-ship of all political persuasions has created
not only a permanent caste of territorial intransigents, it has empowered maximalist ideol-ogy to permeate all facets of Israeli culture, including, and most disturbingly, the IDF. The recent spate of violent racism is but one symptom of this growing infection of the democratic body politic.
And while the secular Israeli education system has
confronted these tragedies with a system-atic heshbon nefesh (self examination) that could most likely not be found, or would most likely never be adopted by, the majority of Palestinians or any Arab state’s education system, to compare Jewish moral sensibilities to the undistinguished track record of three generations of radi-calized Islam is to set the bar uncomfort-ably low.
Former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg, the scion of a religio-political dynasty, lamented what he decries as “Israel’s fading democracy” in a recent op-ed in The New York Times. Burg mourns the devolution of the covenant between Israel and America, formerly founded upon humanistic values, but cur-rently metastasized into the mutual inter-ests of “war, bombs, threats, fear and trauma.” For Burg, Israel’s support for the most destructive expressions of religion and capitalism, paired with an increas-ingly aberrant brand of democracy sorely lacking the constitutional checks and bal-ances necessary for civic health, paves a path for Israel to become just another Middle Eastern theocracy.
In the midst of the last decade, the leadership of Israel’s right, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, building upon the sur-prising conciliation of previous reaction-aries like Menachem Begin, took critical steps to cede territory toward the cre-ation of a Palestinian state, not out of an appreciation for the self-determination of this beleaguered people, but from the very practical awareness of demographic pressure: To maintain Israel’s democratic and Jewish character, it could no longer occupy the land of a growing Arab popu-lation. And while Palestinian recalcitrance and Islamic extremism have spurned opportunities to create a viable state, these courageous gestures, and the mindset underlying them, remain critical to Israel’s secure and stable future.
But there is an equally important exis-tential confrontation that lies ahead. Someone once noted that for the first 50 years Israel focused on insuring its safety; the next 50 would be about secur-
ing its soul. Israel is currently in a battle for its soul. The next few years will deter-mine whether Israel can extract itself from becoming a permanent occupying force, excising territory that threatens its security and well being, and impacting its essential identity as an unparalleled experiment in Jewish democracy. Or, will Israel ingest the occupation existentially, empowering its soul-crushing character to irrevocably alter the nation’s moral and spiritual DNA?
The prophet Isaiah inspired Israel to perceive itself as an or l’goyim, a light unto the nations. Throughout most of its proud, tumultuous history, Israel has fulfilled this mandate, resisting the base standards of the rest of the world in its enlightened
conduct of war, its regard for the vulner-able and afflicted of all nations, and its unqualified pursuit of peace in the face of ongoing nihilism, terrorism and global prejudice. This exemplary history renders this recent, widespread descent into base intolerance, nativism and religious radi-calism even more troubling, disappoint-ing and dangerous. It is rightly difficult, even an existential challenge, to rise to the task of lighting the nations. It is far easier to be lit by the sensibilities, standards and expectations of others in an increasingly divided world. Will Israel continue to be a source of light to illuminate the world that can be, or will it become yet another pale reflection of the world as it is?
The exciTemenT of youThWe commend the JTNews on its recent J-Teen insert in the October 12 edition. What
a pleasure to hear first-hand from these impressive young Jewish adults their reflections on their engaging experiences with other Jewish teens in rich Jewish contexts. No doubt these teens’ excitement regarding these opportunities stems from the very thought-ful, passionate and intentional efforts of these programs’ professionals. We at the Samis Foundation feel a sense of privilege in having supported the programs which nurtured these teens: NCSY, Nesiya and the Northwest Yeshiva High School. For us at Samis, these programs share a common feature: Experiential immersion in Jewish life with friends. With Samis’s support and the support of many others in our community, we sincerely wish for these programs to go from strength to strength, to continue to impart the deeper meanings of Jewish life to more and more of our community’s teens.
Rabbi Rob Toren, executive DirectorAmy Amiel, Senior Program Director
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A fiTTing TRibuTeI read Emily Alhadeff’s article on the Rosenzweig family (“The family Rosenzweig cel-
ebrates Sukkot,” Sept. 28), and it reminded me of how important Norm and Shirley were in my Jewish growth. I joined Congregation Beth Shalom in 1988, and both Norm and Shirley Rosenzweig acted as models for how to live a Jewish life and how to be active in a congregation and community. More than that, they became my friends. I served on the CBS Board with Norm in the early 1990s, when he agreed to become treasurer. In both board meetings and executive committee meetings, Norm was a model of decorum and was always listened to as a person who had been through these “important issues” before. After all, he served as president three times, including being the founding presi-dent of the shul.
During the years I was a member, both Norm and Shirley were there every Shabbat, and every week people would look forward to greeting them and interacting with them during kiddush. Neither of the Rosenzweigs ever seemed to revel in the spotlight; rather, the spotlight appeared to find them naturally. I came to treasure them as friends and as role models, and I saw their influence not only on the members but also on their own family, especially their son David. He seems to reflect his father’s quiet confidence and his mother’s graciousness. It comes as no surprise that David and his sisters, Michele and Betty, have set up a most appropriate way to remember their parents and to honor the service they have given to Beth Shalom. I can think of no more fitting tribute.
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Fully Jewish representation 6Should things go a certain way this election, the delegation in Seattle’s 46th District could be entirely Jew-ish. Meet one of those candidates, incumbent Gerry Pollet.
A new girls’ high school 7An all-girls’ Jewish high school that opened quietly last month is currently in “beta testing” while its orga-nizers flesh out its mission.
Welcoming Bellingham’s newest rabbi 8When Josh Samuels was selling stocks, he felt like he was selling his soul. So Congregation Beth Israel’s new spiritual leader turned to the rabbinate.
Five Women to Watch 9From an entrepreneur to a belly-laugh–inducing blogger, our five women are making big waves in our community.
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The charitable cookbook 14When Joanne Caras began collecting recipes from Holocaust survivors to compile them into a cookbook, she had no idea it would turn into a charitable powerhouse and dozens of speaking engagements every year. Caras comes to Seattle this weekend.
Our first baby arrives 24What with all the holidays, the Brody family couldn’t tell us about their newest addition, a little boy born to the sound of the Rosh Hashanah shofar, until now. But here’s his introduction!
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Jews on the ballot: Gerry PolletTim Klass JTNews Correspondent
Washington State’s Jewish community is on the verge of a couple of political mile-stones, a cause for caution as well as cele-bration, says one of those responsible.
Based on primary election results, Jews could well hold nine seats in the 63rd Washington Legislature when it convenes in January, the most ever. That would make the 49-member Senate and 98-seat House more than 6 percent Jewish in a state where Jews comprise less than 2 per-cent of the population.
Moreover, also for what looks like the first time in state history, voters in one district — the 46th in Northeast Seattle, Lake Forest Park and Kenmore — have signaled a readiness to elect an all-Jewish delegation.
“I have pondered this, and I don’t know what to make of it,” said Rep. Gerry Pollet, D-46th, the state’s newest Jewish legislator. “Thus far it’s been a non-issue, and I think it’s not likely to become one [in the election].”
All the same, there could be a backlash “if all three of us are elected,” he said. “I’m very seriously worried about it.”
Historically, Washington’s small Jewish population had little to do with electoral politics and government. Among the few exceptions were Edward Salo-mon, who served as territorial governor from 1870 to 1872; Bailey Gatzert, Seat-tle’s mayor in 1875-76; and John R. Miller, who was elected to the Seattle City Council and then to four terms in the U.S. House.
Now the Legislature’s “Jewish caucus” is up to eight with the appointment last fall of Pollet, 53, known statewide for working to clean up the Hanford nuclear reservation and in his district for efforts to relieve over-crowding in North Seattle’s public schools.
A potential ninth, Jessyn Farrell, seek-ing the other House seat in the overwhelm-ingly Democratic 46th, finished first in a crowded primary field in August with
29.9 percent. She now faces Democrat Sarajane Sieg-friedt, who got 22.2 percent, for the seat that became open when Rep. Phyllis Gutier-rez Kenney did not seek re-election.
David Frockt is run-ning unopposed for the Senate seat to which he was appointed nearly a year ago following the death of Sen. Scott White. Pollet, who replaced Frockt in the House, got 59.1 percent of the primary vote to 39.9 per-cent for Democrat Sylvester Cann, Pollet’s opponent in the general election.
Completing the Jewish roster in Olym-pia are Sen. Adam Kline and Reps. Andy Billig, Sherry Appleton, Reuven Carlyle, Marcie Maxwell and Roger Goodman.
Billig won 57.9 percent of the primary vote in his bid for a Senate seat from Spo-kane. Kline, Appleton, Carlyle, Maxwell and Goodman made strong primary show-ings in their Seattle-area re-election cam-paigns. Carlyle faces a Republican Jewish candidate, Leslie Klein, on Nov. 6 in the 36th District, which includes Seattle’s Queen Anne and Ballard neighborhoods.
Zach Carstensen, director of govern-ment relations and public affairs at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, said there were only two Jews in the Legisla-ture when he began lobbying in Olym-pia in 2005.
“I think most people, especially in Seat-tle, look at the issues…and decide who better represents their values,” Carstensen said. “If identity politics ruled today, you’d have very different outcomes.”
Similarly, Pollet, who occasionally attends Temple Beth Am and feels close to Rabbis Jonathan and Beth Singer, believes
high levels of commitment, quality and performance explain the spate of Jewish election winners in Olym-pia.
“I don’t think any of us run on our religious iden-tity,” he said. “My Judaism is a deeply personal issue that helps to shape my sense of what’s right and wrong.”
When asked his religion by lobbyists who compile a directory of legislators for what Capitol insiders call “the Third House,” Pollet said he replied, “It’s none of your business what religion
I am. It’s not the basis of my voting.”The lobbyists said any legislator who
did not respond would be listed as “Chris-tian” — and, despite Pollet’s protests, that’s how he was described in the guide this year, he recalled.
Another source of discomfort for Jewish legislators, he said, is that about one day out of five, the opening prayer at the start of a floor session “is not non-denominational but is all about what Jesus would do.”
More grievously, in a community forum on his home turf this year, one par-ticipant attacked him “very viciously… as a part of the Zionist conspiracy to take over the government,” and the moderator “just totally didn’t do a thing,” Pollet said.
He also said he received an “anti-Semitic, nasty, vicious piece of hate mail” this year.
Those episodes, Pollet said, showed that however small a minority, those responsible show a potential for a back-lash against Jewish success in state politics.
Carstensen said he sees little poten-tial for a widespread backlash against Jews in politics, but adds, “I’m sure there are people for whom that is an issue.”
The Seattle area’s politics also may encourage some “people with strong views on the Middle East to try to impose their views on others,” Carstensen said. “It is a way for anti-Semitism to creep back into the public discourse.”
Pollet and his wife, Janet Miller, a former chair of the 46th District Demo-crats, have two children: Hank, a student at Roosevelt High School, and Eileen, a Western Washington University student.
Pollet grew up on Long Island in Valley Stream, N.Y., and said he regularly attended after-school Hebrew and Jewish studies classes, but quit after his Bar Mitzvah.
He first saw Seattle at the end of a trans-continental bicycle ride in 1975, at age 15.
“I said, ‘Wow, this is it. When I get out of school, this is where I’m going to go,’” he said.
Pollet was cross-country team cap-tain in high school and at Clark Univer-sity in Worcester, Mass., finished third in a national collegiate track-and-field compe-tition. He returned to Seattle and earned a law degree at the University of Washington.
He became executive director of the Washington Public Interest Research Group, WashPIRG, and in 1986 led the successful campaign for Referendum 40 to bar construction of a national nuclear waste dump at Hanford.
The next year Pollet founded Heart of America Northwest to press for cleanup of Hanford, which produced fuel for hydro-gen bombs and is now the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site.
Besides teaching at the UW’s School of Public Health and running an internship to train law students for work on behalf of the public interest, he is still executive director of HOANW.
“I never had any notion that I’d still be working to get the federal government to clean up Hanford 25 years later…and that we’d be so little along in the job,” he said.
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Gerry Pollet is running to retain the North Seattle legislative seat to which he was appointed last year.
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Now in beta testing: A new girls’ high school emily K. alhaDeff associate editor, JTNews
In a room on the second floor of the Seattle Kollel, three 9th-grade girls sat around tables strewn with Tanakhs, bind-ers, worksheets, and cookies. They were explaining “The Hunger Games” to their teacher, Shirley Edelstone, before she began the next lesson on the command-ments of interpersonal relations.
“Judging favorably — what does that mean?” Edelstone asked. “Giving every-one the benefit of the doubt? Is the Torah saying we need to be naïve? How do I live this commandment?”
This is Derech Emunah, the all-girls’ high school that quietly launched this September with an inaugural class of five teens. Currently staked out at the Kollel in Seattle’s Seward Park neighborhood, the school is in the process of moving to a more permanent residence in the base-ment of Congregation Ezra Bessaroth.
“There are a number of people in the community who would like a separate-gen-der school,” said Rooksie David, Derech Emunah’s head of school. David said she was positively influenced by her women-only educational experiences, and she sent her daughters to a single-sex high school in New Jersey. The girls, she said, should be able to build “strong relationships with their peers without the distraction.”
This is the second time members of
the Orthodox community in Seward Park have attempted an all-girls high school. The first, Shaarei Binah, opened in 2006 and closed a year later due to lack of interest and enrollment. Seattle has one other Orthodox girls’ high school, out of Chabad’s Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder in the North End, which has been in existence since 1994.
Jessica Hoffman, Derech Emunah’s board president, explained that the school will serve a pipeline of girls coming out of Torah Day School, which also opened
in 2006.“I’m one of those people who doesn’t
like to wait until my daughter is old enough,” said Hoffman, whose daughter is 2. “I do feel passionate about it, and not even for religious reasons, but for educa-tional reasons.”
A student of co-ed schools her whole life, Hoffman said of the boys, “either I was distracted by them, or I was intimi-dated by them.”
Derech Emunah advocates are in con-versation with the Samis Foundation, but
Samis won’t fund projects until they have been in operation for at least two years.
“They’re hoping they’ll receive some Samis funds eventually,” said Rob Toren, Samis’s executive director.
The women who spearheaded the pro-gram “worked rather quickly and intensely” to get it off the ground, said Toren. How it will develop — into a full-fledged high school, merged with Torah Day School or the Cheder’s girls’ high school, or some-thing else — has yet to be determined.
“We have been open in the past, and remain open to working together for the mutual benefit of all,” Tziviah Goldberg, development director at MMSC, wrote in an email.
The freestyle approach is part of the plan, said Hoffman. Derech Emunah (which means “path of faith”) follows the lean startup business philosophy devel-oped by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Eric Ries. Instead of planning and investing for years, lean startup’s “build-measure-learn” approach means the entrepreneur, using a series of tools, constantly assesses the needs of the target community instead of setting out to achieve a desired outcome that may ultimately fail.
They’re “essentially beta testing the
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© 2012 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.
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In this puzzle, the grid is trying to keep a hidden word to itself, but you will be able to pry that secret out of it. In each of the circles, reading across you will place a four-letter word hinted by the proverb at 34-Across. But reading downward, each circle will only contain one letter. Those letters read downward will spell the secret word.
ACROSS1 State where the Browns, the Reds, and
the Blue Jackets play5 Egg cells8 Barack’s 2012 opponent12 Go sour13 Tell a white lie14 Nicolas Cage film set on a prisoner
transport plane16 Drug administered over 65 million times
in 200919 Not pro20 Antlered animal21 Pixar specialty22 Darwin, MN and Cawker City, KS are
home to two of the largest ones on record
26 If-___ statement27 Entice28 The Vampire Diaries star Somerhalder29 Lawn trait, at times30 Prefix with meter31 Seven days33 Chicken ___34 Hebrew proverb that explains how to
extract this grid’s hidden word40 6 letters?41 Santa’s deliveries42 Blaxploitation film ’do43 R&B artist with the single “Pony”46 ___ Lingus47 Jai ___48 They can be inflated or massaged49 Hollow phrase of consolation52 Almond or cashew53 Item a seamstress may stick with?55 Chair56 Certain Cessna models62 Noises of disbelief63 Sounders’ org.64 Length times width65 Out of whack66 Nickname of all seven boys in the
Eisenhower family67 Don’t go sour
DOWN1 Hall-of-Fame slugger Mel2 “Whaddaya mean?”3 Rage4 Marked down5 “We’re ___ see the Wizard!”6 Drags through the mud7 ___ Dhabi (capital of the United Arab Emirates)8 Tease9 Co. ender10 Chinese martial art frequently practiced for its
health benefits11 Small traces14 Record-setting shortstop Ripken15 They hold your horses17 Naval rank below lieut.18 ___ diagram (mathematical figure made of
overlapping circles)22 How to play a jug23 BMW competitor24 Battlefield Earth author ___ Hubbard25 Socialize with the queen, perhaps26 It may contain lingo like “l8r” or “ttyl”29 Fawns’ mothers31 Part of a heron or hospital32 Composer Brian who created the Windows 95
start-up tones33 Stick one’s nose in35 Largest birds in Australia36 It’s thrown away with the husk37 Man ___ Mancha38 Mountain in the range that divides Europe from
Asia39 Perform backbreaking labor43 Ladies’ counterparts44 Large lizard45 “Later”46 Teenager’s woe47 National Railroad Passenger Corporation50 Brusque51 Apple computer53 “’Tis a ___!”54 Contacts57 Weimaraner’s warning58 Friend of Henri59 Exist60 Payment61 Source for water or beer
Bellingham synagogue welcomes its new rabbiJanis siegel JTNews Correspondent
Joshua Samuels appreciates each and every congregant that comes through the door at Congregation Beth Israel. Coming from his last rabbinical post in Los Ange-les, where, as in most big cities, Jews have choices for wor-ship and commu-nity, the Bellingham Reform synagogue’s new rabbi knows his adopted city is not as awash in oppor-tunity.
Replacing Rabbi Cindy Enger, who officiated there for the last seven years, Sam-uels, his wife Nicole, and their two young children arrived in June to grow the Reform Jewish com-munity there.
Beth Israel is one of three Jewish organizations in Belling-ham and all hands are welcome on the bimah.
“It’s wonderful because the Jewish community is so small that everybody can pitch in,” Samuels told JTNews from his office in Bellingham, some 90 miles north of Seattle. “In Los Angeles you can really be anonymous, but this is their commu-nity, not the rabbi’s. This is not a top-down model. This is a Jewish community that is really lay-led by congregants.”
Beth Israel members bring can bring their musical skills and more to Samu-els’s worship services, and he’s more than happy to add them into the program.
Although Samuels oversees Beth Isra-el’s nearly 220 member families, he also embraces the idea of collaborating with other Jews outside of its sanctuary walls.
He’s already reached out to the Hillel group on the Western Washington Uni-versity campus and the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Community and Student Center also located there.
“I’ve met the rabbi and his wife at Chabad, had dinner with them, and they are a lovely family,” Samuels said. “I’m really happy he’s there so I’m not alone. With Hillel, I’ve been in touch with people there and I look forward to doing things with them.”
Samuels left a six-year career in the financial sector that he said didn’t fulfill his professional or personal goals, and in 2010 the San Francisco native earned his master’s degree in Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion in L.A.
“I’d go into my office, sit at a big trad-ing desk, and make calls to portfolio man-agers trying to spin stories so they would purchase large blocks of stocks,” Samuels recalled. “I just didn’t understand why I was
doing what I was doing. I didn’t feel like I was helping anybody on a personal level. All my relationships were with hedge fund managers and analysts over the phone.”
At the same time, according to the trader-turned-clergy member, he also rec-ognized the impulse to follow what he loved — Torah, Israel, and Jewish values.
“I loved learning about my Jewish tra-dition,” said Samu-els, “so, I thought, ‘If this is something I love doing, perhaps I should think about it as a career.’”
Samuels bring his passion for the work, which includes a par-ticular devotion to the pastoral end-of-
life needs of his congregation members and their families.
“For me, that kind of pastoral work is the most important work I can do as a rabbi,” Samuels said. “Fifteen, 20 years down the road, people aren’t going to remember any of my High Holiday ser-mons or my classes, but what people will remember is when I was with them at the bedside of their parent when they were taking their last breath. That’s what people remember and that’s what connects con-gregants to their clergy.”
Another long-term goal for Samuels is to institute regular congregational trips to Israel. However, this task presents him with some additional challenges, he said.
Besides raising money for the cost of such a trip, Samuels believes it is equally important to get a younger generation excited about visiting the Jewish State by teaching classes about its culture and his-tory.
“This has always been a dream of mine and cost is definitely an issue,” Samuels said, “but I feel that a lot of people these days are pretty apathetic about Israel. They don’t have the same kind of feeling about Israel as the older generation that lived through the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War.”
Samuels also arrived at the Bellingham temple in time to be a part of the new syn-agogue building currently under construc-tion. He hopes that it will be ready next year in time for the High Holidays.
He sees it more like a Jewish “center” for Bellingham, where the entire com-munity can come together and form even stronger bonds of friendship.
“We’re a really open and friendly Jewish community and people are wel-come anytime,” said Samuels. “I welcome anybody.”
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Rabbi Josh Samuels, his wife Nicole, and their two children are recent arrivals to Bellingham.
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Connie Kanter: on top of the ivory tower
Diana bRemenT JTNews ColumnistBeing CFO and vice
president of finance and business at Seattle Uni-versity “plays into my whole love of education,” says Connie Kanter, who started her new post this past May. She’s in charge of finance and facilities, among other things, and oversees an almost $200 million budget.
The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School graduate (1979) and University of Chi-cago MBA came to Seat-tle in 1983 to work for Hewlett Packard. She held her first CFO position at Physio-Control and worked at a variety of startups before marrying Chuck Broches, spend-ing the next seven years raising her two children and volunteering. That led her into the education world, and she became development director for Seattle Hebrew Academy, her kids’ school.
Kanter, who is also a Samis Foundation trustee, returned to the corporate world as controller of Pacific Bioscience Labo-ratories, makers of Clarisonic, working there through a successful sale to L’Oréal. Around the time the sale wrapped up, she became aware of the job at Seattle U. After a long interview process (made longer by January’s crippling snowstorm), she was offered the position.
“I had a need to be in a strong, mis-sion-based organization,” Kanter reflects. She was drawn to the Jesuit universi-ty’s “strong focus on educating the whole human being,” and the roles of social jus-tice and community service at the institu-tion. “Of any job I’ve been in…I feel most
integrated between my interest in community service and my interest in finance.”
Kanter was pleased to see that Seattle U’s “mis-sion statement is remark-ably similar to SHA’s mission statement” — without the Catholic con-tent, of course.
She further notes that “our graduation rates are better than national aver-ages,” and that the school is one of the most diverse in the region, working
to attract and graduate underrepresented minorities. “The notion of educating the first generation…is immense for us.”
That certainly resonates for Kanter. Her father was the first in his family to go to college and spoke often of how going two miles from his poor immigrant neigh-borhood in South Philadelphia to the ivied halls of UPenn “changed his life.” Kant-er’s mom, a high school guidance coun-selor, worked to get low-income students into college.
It might seem challenging for an Orthodox Jew to work at a Jesuit insti-tution, but the Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath member says, on the contrary, her religious observance is respected there. “They want to know about all my holi-days,” she says of her colleagues, and notes the Jewish student union had a sukkah “in front of the chapel of St. Ignatius.” Even her need to take seven holidays off in the last two months was valued and respected.
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Anne Levinson: equality is job one
Joel magalnicK editor, JTNewsNot everyone can point
to an event that guided them toward their life’s path. But Anne Levinson can. Levin-son, who is currently advis-ing on the campaign to approve Referendum 74, which would legalize same-sex marriage, has a long list of civic accomplishments that stem from one inci-dent: The shutting down of her field hockey team.
The Kansas native had returned to her home state from Massachusetts to attend the University of Kansas, where she had been recruited to play field hockey.
“We had quite a bit of success and won a number of tournaments,” Levinson recalls. But then the university announced it was cutting its women’s athletic pro-gram to focus on the men. This was back in the mid-’70s, when women’s teams were even more of an afterthought than they are today, and the Title IX Act, enacted in 1972 to guarantee gender equality in edu-cation, had yet to be associated with sports.
“In high school I had not been involved in civics, really paying attention to the world and what I should be contributing,” Levinson says. That quickly changed, and her lifelong fight for equality began.
“It was immediate immersion, and I spent the next three years lobbying the stu-dent senate for funding, lobbying the state
legislature and the gover-nor,” she says.
When a professor fol-lowing the controversy suggested to Levinson that Title IX could apply to ath-letics programs, she took the ball and ran.
“It was a very broad claim saying that the uni-versity was out of compli-ance in terms of equity for how it was treating women — female athletes — in all areas, from its facilities to its coaching staff, there was no medical care, no travel
budget, no scholarships,” she says.It took until after Levinson had gradu-
ated to be settled, but the fight set her life’s course.
“That actually set me on the path to law school, and started my involvement in larger civic and social justice and equity issues,” she says.
Growing up in a home that stressed the idea of tikkun olam, repairing the world, has guided a career that has included serving as deputy mayor of Seattle under Norm Rice; an appointment by current Mayor Mike McGinn as civilian auditor for the Office of Professional Account-ability, the agency that investigates police misconduct; a judgeship on Seattle’s municipal court, in which she created one
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Amy Wasser: envisioning her next chapter
Joel magalnicK editor, JTNewsPeople often ask Amy Wasser if she has
a business plan.Her answer, she says, is that people can
get so consumed with the idea of the busi-ness they may never actually launch the business.
But she does have a vision. Wasser’s new company, Strategic Vision Consulting, has bold and well-defined goals: “My goal is to help small businesses and nonprofits really maximize their potential,” she says.
That means she will help them assess where they are today, make strategic assessments of where they want to be, and then help them get there.
“I’ll really be examining their entire business, whether it’s their staffing, their vision, their marketing strategies,” she says. “The whole nine yards, so to speak.”
Wasser knows of which she speaks. For 18 years, she worked at the Jewish Federa-
tion of Greater Seattle as its vice president for planning and community services, which meant she served as the go-to person for matters regarding funding, capital planning, and organizational struc-ture for the Puget Sound region’s Jewish community. Her tenure and breadth of contacts gave Wasser, probably more than anyone today, an encyclopedic knowledge of the area’s Jewish community.
It’s not the encyclopedia Wasser takes with her to Strategic Vision, however. It’s the methodology of how she got there.
“What I’ve learned over my years working is that I have this…unique ability to really quickly assess the situation and to understand early on in the process what’s really happening, and to think strategically with a group of people about how they can move things forward in a constructive way,” she says.
Wasser plans to work with small or medium-sized businesses and nonprofits who know they need some-one to help them see the forest while they’re mired in the day-to-day business of minding the trees, then guide them to make sure they reach their goals.
“I think that the only way for them to actually achieve success is to have somebody who is helping them on a regular basis,” she says.
What’s crucial, as she has seen from her 30 years of working with Jewish organiza-tions of all sizes, is that businesses have to be willing to move forward.
“Sometimes that change can be scary, and it can be significant,” she says. “If you
have one person that wants to see change, they have to clearly articulate why that change needs to take place.
“To be able to tell that in a way that galvanizes the staff to moving forward with that change is really critical — that’s a place where I can come in.”
By the time Wasser was recruited by former Feder-ation CEO Michael Novick, she had already led a Jewish
Federation in Massachusetts, maintained a $6 million fund in Minnesota, and run the young leadership division of a large Jewish Federation in New Jersey — all before she was 30 years old. But it prepared her for the job that defined much of her life for nearly two decades.
Wasser “served with great distinction during my tenure as Federation CEO,” Novick told JTNews via email. “Amy has always been honest, forthright, thought-ful and visionary. I’m sure she’ll bring the same values to her clients.”
Wasser’s husband Chuck passed away six years ago, giving her the task of raising their three children while juggling the demands of her job. While she had help, she says one of the reasons she is able to start her own busi-ness now is that her kids are older. “I have more freedom and flexibility,” she says.
Ultimately, Wasser hopes to build a practice based on more than a recommen-dation and a quick exit. The relationships her company creates, she hopes, will be ongoing and long-lasting.
“Every business has something that I can offer them,” she says, “and I can learn from them, too.”
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Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris is organized by the Seattle
Art Museum and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. The Seattle presentation of this exhibition
is made possible with critical funding provided by SAM’s Fund for Special Exhibitions.
Image: The Blue Room (La chambre bleue) (detail), 1923, Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865-1938), oil on
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Jane isenberg: novelist visits seattle history
Diana bRemenT JTNews ColumnistIt took Jane Isenberg a number of years
to find a publisher for her just-released Seattle-based historical mystery, “The Bones and the Book.” While frustrating, there was a hidden benefit to working without a deadline. “I could just wallow in the research…It was fun and exciting.”
A retired teacher, Isenberg is the author of the Bel Barrett mystery series and an award-winning career memoir, “Going by the Book.” When she arrived in Issaquah in 2003, the new book idea “about a Jewish fortuneteller” was already in her head.
“I love to write about women who break the rules,” she says.
She got the idea at New York’s Tene-ment Museum, where she saw a business card for an actual Jewish prognosticator who lived in that building.
Her arrival coincided with the publi-cation of “Family of Strangers,” the sem-inal history of Jews in Washington State. Absorbed and intrigued by this account of her new home, Isenberg calls the coinci-dence “a message from God.”
While Isenberg found the move here challenging — she “felt like an outsider” for quite a while — she realized how much more challenging it would have been 100 years ago. She decided, “by George, I’m going to move that girl out here.
“All the research I had to do put me in
contact with lots and lots of people,” she says. It was “very therapeutic,” and ulti-mately she was no longer an outsider. The acknowledgments at the end of “The Bones” testify to all the help she got and new friends she’s made.
“The Bones” cleverly incorporates two sets of history. The novel takes place in 1965,
but protagonist Rachel Mazursky is translat-ing a 19th-century Yiddish diary discovered with a bag of bones in Seattle’s underground. Isenberg transports us back and forth across the decades, weaving in local sites and insti-tutions (including this newspaper).
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Lea Geller: not your mother’s mommy blogger
emily K. alhaDeff associate editor, JTNewsIn a house teeming with five kids ages
10 and under, Lea Geller always has a story to tell.
“Everybody would say to me, ‘You need to write this down.’ So I did. I just started.”
Last year, Geller’s WordPress blog “This is the Corner We Pee In” got picked up by ParentMap magazine. “In some ways this is so easy, so organic,” she says of the blogging process. “I love it.”
So do her readers. Geller won ParentMap’s reader-powered 2012 Golden Teddy award for parent blogs, right alongside New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson.
“I started with this one story,” she says, about how she discovered that her two sons were peeing in a corner of the rec room instead of tearing themselves away from the tele-vision to use the bathroom. Since then, Geller has been pounding out post after hilarious post about her children’s amus-ing antics, their confrontations with soci-ety at large, and their preoccupation with pee. Lots and lots of pee.
“If I have to clean up after it, I get to write about it,” she says.
Take the time, just last week, when one son supposedly hypnotized himself on the computer and crashed through a living room window, or earlier this summer, when the boys left a cup of urine at the top of the stairs so a visiting dog “will know us when she smells us!” or the time she caught her children conducting self-breast exams in the backseat of the mini-van. (“Nipples!”)
And while Geller, 39, and her husband Michal most frequently have to do damage control for their two sons, ages 10 and 8, they also have three daughters, ages 6, 4 and 2, the youngest of whom has a pen-chant for vomiting in the car. After an unfortunate vehicular resurgence of hot chocolate from her youngest, Geller, in her brutally honest style, writes:
She is the fifth child. I have no spare clothes for her. The kid is lucky if she gets a daily diaper change. So after I use the two dried-out baby wipes I have in the car to clean up, I take her up to the doctor. In nothing but a diaper. We are both whimpering and smell like puke.“Michal says I was talking about five
[kids] when we were dating. I don’t remember,” Geller says. Once she got
started, she figured she’d keep going. “I would let the [first] birthday happen, then I would start the lobbying.”
The Gellers live in Seward Park and attend Sephardic Bikur Holim Congrega-tion. When she’s not writing or getting her children out of pickles, Geller is jogging the Seward Park loop or working part-
time from home for a law firm in California, where she spent much of her life and attended law school at Stan-ford. Originally from Eng-land, she peppers her blog with Britishisms (“Get off the bloody roof!”) and sharp, dry wit.
This summer, Geller finally realized a dream: She took the kids to Cannes for a month.
“They got to experience another city,” she says. “It
really wasn’t about schlepping around and seeing every site in the south of France.” They spent their days on the beach, in parks, and, of course, getting into mischief.
“You want the things that are impor-tant to you to be important to them,” she expounds.
“They’re not Springsteen fans, one of them might be a Republican, but they will all like France,” she says. “I’ll be damned if I can’t pass France.”
To boot, it made for good material. Her kids got to experience the French art of topless bathing, thongs, and the noto-rious French dislike for enfants terribles americains.
Geller does not try to give parent-ing advice, and brushes off the saturated parenting book market. “Now there’s an industry. A lot of these books have one thesis and spend 200 pages [talking about it],” she says.
Regarding her own style, “I have a strong personality,” she says. She speaks frankly and honestly to her children. “Sometimes that works really well; some-times I fail miserably,” she says.
It’s the failures that sometimes make for the funniest stories, she adds.
As for her next baby — no, Geller resolved this Jewish New Year not to have any more — will it be a book?
“I’ve got a couple of ideas,” she says. “I just start doing something, and either it falls apart or it works.”
Read Lea Geller’s blog at thisisthecornerwepeein.wordpress.com.
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home at the president’s cabinet meeting Kanter attends every two weeks. Meetings start with a reflection or prayer led by each member in turn, and Kanter admits she was “really stressed out” about what she
would say for her first try. Ultimately she chose Pirke Avot (Sayings of the Fathers) 2:13, where Rabbi Elazar says a good heart is to be cherished most in a person.
“I ended with, ‘we go into the budget deliberations with a good heart,’ and everyone said, ‘Amen.’”
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15th Season • Mina Miller, Artistic Director
FALL CONCERT: The Emperor of Atlantis A Chamber Opera by Viktor Ullmann
TWO NIGHTS! November 16 at 8:00 pm & November 18 at 6:00 pm
THE OPERA THAT DEFIED THE NAZIS!MOR presents The Emperor of Atlantis, in a bold new production. Conducted by Seattle Symphony’s Ludovic Morlot and directed by Erich Parce, with a stellar vocal cast and a chamber ensemble of Seattle Symphony players. Also: works by Ernest Bloch and Marc Lavry.
Concert Tickets: $36 (206) 215-4747musicofremembrance.org
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“The most moving tale I’ve seen about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in recent memory.
This film can – and likely will – be talked about.”- Danielle Berrin, The Jewish News
“A beautiful film…It’s one of the best surprises that I’ve had in a theatre this year.”
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friday, november 2 at 8 p.m.David brozaconcertFor over four decades, Israeli singer/songwriter David Broza’s music has swept the globe. Broza has fused the three countries where he was raised — Israel, Spain and England — into music that ranges from flamenco to rock and roll. His tradition of incorpo-rating the lyrics of some of the world’s greatest poets adds depth and inti-macy into his performances, inspiring hope and optimism in his fans.At the Neptune Theater, 1303 NE 45th St., Seattle. Advance tickets can be purchase at stgpresents.org or by calling 1-877-784-4849 for $27.50 or $30 at the door.
Saturday, october 27 at 8 p.m.gil Shaham Plays mozartconcertPraised by The New York Times as “one of today’s pre-eminent violinists,” Israeli-American musician Gil Shaham returns to Benaroya Hall to perform Mozart’s rousing final Violin Concerto with director Ludovic Morlot. Shaham will be accompanied by the Sympho-ny’s string players performing Mozart’s perennial Eine kleine Nachtmusik.At the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Benar-oya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets start at
$19 and may be purchased online at seattlesymphony.org.
Sunday, november 4 at 2 p.m.Jewish Themes in modern DanceLectureThe second installment in this year’s Stroum Jewish Community Center Jewish Touch lecture series will feature Donald Byrd, Seattle’s renowned contemporary dance choreographer. Byrd will discuss “The Theater of Needless Talents,” an award-winning work depicting his vision of the Holocaust. Byrd will show how he creates dances incorporating Jewish themes and will talk about his work at the American Academy in Jerusalem. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For more information, contact Kim Lawson at [email protected] or 206-388-0823.
opens friday, october 26“The other Son” filmWhile preparing to join the Israeli army for his national service, Joseph’s true blood type is re-vealed and it becomes apparent that he is not his parents’ biological son. As it turns out, Joseph was inadvertently switched at birth during the Gulf War in Haifa with Yassin, the son of a Palestinian family from the West Bank. As expected, this revela-tion turns the lives of both families upside-down, forcing them to deal with the shock of mistaken identity and to reassess their respective identities, values, and beliefs.At the Landmark Egyptian Theatre, 802 E Pine St., Seattle. Show times vary, check local listings for tickets and times or visit landmarktheatres.com/market/seattle/egyptiantheatre.htm.
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Planning a Bat Mitzvah? How about your wedding? Maybe getting ready for that first baby? As a congregational rabbi, Yohanna Kinberg has seen it all. Because she’s been on the front lines of a decade’s worth of lifecycle events, she knows the players. So it occurred to her, given her
knowledge, that she should share that knowledge with the rest of Seattle’s Jewish community.
“I know all the vendors from doing so many B’nai Mitzvah and doing so many parties — the food I like, and which DJ I
like,” Kinberg said. “Very few people get to do that.”
On Sunday, Nov. 4, Kinberg’s syna-gogue, Temple B’nai Torah, will host the Simcha Fair and bring nearly 30 caterers, photographers, venues, musicians, activ-ity providers and more in one spot for an
afternoon of tastings, demon-strations and music.
“It’s so wonderful to have the opportunity to talk to ven-dors and see what it is they have to offer,” Kinberg said. “Sometimes it’s time consum-ing to go from place to place.”
JTNews is co-sponsoring the event.
Some of the demonstrations include sets by two local bands, Sasson and the Shalom Ensem-ble featuring Chava Mirel, as well as DJs Nick Barratt and Premier Entertainment.
There will be a vendor of kosher foods, Nosh Away, as
well as several that might not be kosher but still cater to Jewish events. And there are “fun things like photo booths and henna,” Kinberg said, that “are striking me as being really creative.”
While the Simcha Fair is taking place
at Temple B’nai Torah, Kinberg envisions the event as one that transcends denom-ination or synagogue membership — everyone plans a simcha at one point or another, and the idea of having them all in one room to show off their wares is a way to bring people from different parts of the community together while supporting the businesses that provide for these impor-tant occasions.
Grace Keller, an events specialist at Kaspars Special Events & Catering, said that her company’s owners come from diverse cultures and “we think that the Jewish community is a fabulous oppor-
tunity for our business to grow,” she said. “The more we reach out to different com-munities, we can really spread the word of great food, great friends, and keep making memories of the events that we put on.”
If you goThe Simcha fair takes place Sun., nov. 4 from 2–5 p.m. at Temple b’nai Torah, 15727 ne fourth St., bellevue. cost is $5 age 13 and older/free under 13. for more information call 425-603-9677.
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A tray of strawberry wontons from kaspars Special events & Catering. they and several other caterers will display tastes from their menus.
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world-renowned creator of ‘Holocaust Survivor Cookbook’ to visit BellevuegWen Davis Special to JTNews
All she wanted to do was raise a few bucks for a soup kitchen in Israel.
Little did she know, her modest effort to chip in would celebrate the lives of over 240 Holocaust survivors, raise more than $800,000 for Jewish organizations all over the world, land her more than 250 speak-ing engagements in several countries, fea-ture her on national news channels, and give her her own TV show.
Joanne Caras’s “Holocaust Survivor Cookbook” and “Miracles and Meals” fea-ture hundreds of recipes and stories from Holocaust survivors. The books have received international critical acclaim and major publicity. Caras will speak at the East-side Torah Center in Bellevue on Oct. 28.
The cookbook journey began when Caras visited her son in Israel a few years ago. He and his wife volunteered in a soup kitchen, which provided 500 meals a day to people in need. After watching the work
of her son and daughter-in-law, Caras was inspired to help, and wanted to raise money for the soup kitchen.
Caras’s son suggested she write a cook-book with the proceeds benefiting the organization. Realizing she had two family members who had survived the Holo-caust, Caras decided she wanted to honor survivors and their families, and create a cookbook featuring survivors’ recipes and stories.
“We decided to collect stories and rec-ipes from every continent in the world,” Caras said.
It took two and a half years to put the first cookbook together.
“We gathered stories from the U.S., Israel, South Africa, Europe, Asia, Canada, New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland — all over.”
Once the media got wind of the proj-ect, Caras was snatched up by major news organizations, including Fox, CBS, and NBC, and national radio shows in the U.S., Canada, and Israel.
Caras solicited her recipes and stories by putting ads in local Jewish media out-lets. She also put an ad in the newsletter of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
“People would come up to me and would say, ‘I would love for you to honor my family and put our recipe in a book.’”
With so much demand, after the first book was published — with approxi-mately 120 of both recipes and stories — Caras knew she had to make another one. Her second cookbook, “Miracles and Meals,” likewise contains over 100 recipes and stories.
The cookbooks also feature photos from wartime.
“The concept is, you make the recipe and then you tell the story of the Holo-caust survivor,” she said. “We honor them with this beautiful book.”
The books have raised $800,000 for Jewish organizations all over the world. A portion of that is donated to the soup kitchen.
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If you gocaras will speak for the Jewish Women’s Sisterhood on Sunday, oct. 28 at 7 p.m. at eastside Torah center, 1837 156th Ave. ne, bellevue. A dessert buffet with pastries found in the cook-books will be served. $10 per person. Autographed cookbooks will be available for purchase. To pre-order a cookbook or for more information, visit survivorcookbook.org. cookbooks are $36.
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Joanne Caras, center, holds a check for the Carmei Ha’ir food bank in Jerusalem. Proceeds from “the Holocaust Survivor Cookbook” are directed toward the food bank.
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Not so fast, jaded Torah scholar. Even the most learned of sages, with some minimal exertion, are able somehow to find a new take on the parshah! With a plethora of books, classes and websites — the sky’s the limit! Vir-tual learning is at a ridiculous all-time peak! Get thee to a real or cybernetic beit midrash — and step on it! Much Torah is waiting for your perusal!
That said, I am here for you. Perhaps you need a little jumpstart to the battery, a gentle defibrillator paddle to the chest, a caffeinated, concentrated dose of Seattle’s best into the system to shock the Torah into you? I offer you a thought-provok-ing puzzle of a Bible quiz to convince you there is indeed something left for you to learn. Those of you who pride yourself on your Torah acumen — live it up with this contest of lesser-known biblical figures.
Name the obscure character from the Book of Bereshit! Test your knowledge by reading the description and checking at the end for answers. Good luck! May the best Talmid chacham win!1. In the olden days, before the invention of GPS, folks used to ask people for direc-tions when lost. I am mentioned but once
in the Book of Bereshit at an extremely critical moment. If not for me, the Israelites might never have made it down to Egypt, there might never have been 10 plagues, or, for that matter, a Passover!2. Everyone knows the more prominent person with the same name as me from the Book of Judges — most are shocked to know I am even in the Book of Bereshit. But, indeed, here I am wrapped in a shroud of morbidity. I
appear simply to be mourned and buried under the oak tree in Beth-El.3. Josephus says of me that I “exceeded all men in strength, and was very expert and famous in martial performances... and first of all invented the art of work-ing brass.” Seen as the original forger of bronze and iron, believe it or not I have a Pacific Northwest connection: “Tubal Cain Mine” is the name of an abandoned copper mine in the Buckhorn Wilderness, east of Olympic National Park in the State of Washington.4. Equipped with a sweet-smelling name, I bore Abraham six sons. Others may have gone west, but as for my sons and me, “Go east” was our instruction. Swirls of legends surround my descendants. Is Abraham the father of the Eastern faiths as well? 5. After “The Four and the Five King War,” I, the “King of Justice” go out to Abraham after the battle to free his nephew Lot and greet him with bread and water. Seen as the archetypical priest, I am gifted with maaser — tithing — a benevolent gesture by Abra-ham indicating gratitude to the Almighty. Surprise! I get a shout-out in the Book of
Psalms. Check it out in chapter 110.6. Here, another instance of a name assumed later by a character who becomes way more famous than his namesake. This time, though, I’m of apocryphal fame. Ironically, though, my name sounds very Jewish and very laudatory; I bring only bit-terness and disappointment to my in-laws, Rebecca and Isaac. 7. Not Harrison Ford, but indeed “The Fugitive.” I hang tight on a plank hang-ing from Noah’s Ark. I bring news from the front to Abraham. Reviews in Midrash are mixed as to whether or not I am a good guy or another despicable, lascivious man. The jury is still out on that one.8. Mother of two of the tribes, I am nei-ther Leah nor Rachel. Daughter of the Potiphera, priest of On, and married to Joseph, there are those who argue, among them the Midrash in Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer — prepare yourself for this: I am not the daughter of Potiphera, but instead I am the long-lost niece of Joseph, daugh-ter of Dinah. You decide — but first come up with my name!9. We are the other set of twins in the Book of Bereshit. With Jacob and Esau grab-bing the twin spotlight, we need to get our
names out there! We are another case of “who came first?” Red thread to the rescue. A foreshadowing of the red-thread charm? Who’s to know? But wait, there’s more. How’s this for stigma? Our mother was our father’s daughter-in-law. Ouch!10. Obviously, I’ve been under the radar quite a bit. But here it goes, confession time: I am the mother of the despised and detested Amalek, he of wipe-them-out-fame. As concubine to Eliphaz, Esau’s son, it is I, as the Talmud reports, a princess seeking to convert, ready to exchange a life of royalty, who was rebuffed by the forefa-thers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. History must tell the tale of that ignominious slight.
Congratulations to all participants! The rest is commentary…go learn!
The answers: 1. The Ish — Genesis 37:15. 2. Devorah, Deborah — Genesis 35:8. 3. Tuval Cain — Genesis 4:22. 4. Keturah — Genesis 25:1. 5. Melchizedek — Genesis 14:18. 6. Yehudit, Judith — Genesis 26:34. 7. HaPalit, a.k.a. Og, the King of Bashan — Genesis 14:13. 8. Asneth — Genesis 41:45. 9. Peretz and Zerach — Genesis 38:29, 30. 10. Timnah — Genesis 36:12.
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No sleeping on the job selling sleepers • Also: Devoted to abandoned catsDiana bRemenT JTNews Columnist
1 As a recent UW grad-uate, Max Alcabes was barely 20 five years ago
when his parents, Carlos and Meryl, brought him in to help run the family business. Sleep-ers in Seattle is a sleeper sofa specialty store located in West Seattle. Max went to North-west Yeshiva High School for two years and switched to Running Start, which allows high school students to take college classes and graduate early.
Max had grown up in the business which the family bought in the early 1990s. His parents met 40 years ago at a Sep-hardic Bikur Holim Purim party. They lived around the U.S. and in Carlos’s native Spain before moving back to the Pacific Northwest, closer to Meryl’s (née Solonsky) hometown of Eugene. That’s when they bought what was then just a small local furni-ture store.
Now Sleepers is on Inc. Magazine’s 500/5000 list, one the fastest growing private companies in America. Many of today’s most successful U.S. companies received their first national recognition from Inc., including Microsoft, Intuit and Zappos.com.
Clearly Max is doing more than selling sofas. After he knocked around the store for that first year, he saw the need for a better website.
“My first day we got a call from a gentleman in Chi-cago who saw [our] website and wanted to order a sleeper sofa,” recalls Max. He had to be turned down. “I thought, ‘this is crazy,’ other compa-nies sell furniture online.”
Now SleepersInSeattle.com is a “build-your-own”
site where customers select, design and
order a sofa, with customers around the world.
This 21st-century busi-ness model also allows Max to live in New York.
“I live in Williamsburg,” he says, although, “I’m not a Hasid or a hipster.” He also brought his good friend and Yeshiva classmate David Feldhammer in as director of operations, “a big part of the team.”
Wherever he is, Max is in contact many times a day with David and his dad, who still works at the store.
“He’s my dad,” Max says, “my partner and my best friend.”
Carlos, who sounds like actor Antonio Banderas, says their father-son business relationship “works very well.”
“I’m still in the 18th century” as far as technology goes, he adds, but “with small business, you either change with the times or you go out of business.”
In its effort to grow, the com-pany recently launched a new site, SavvyLeatherSofas.com.
2 “I’ve always loved animals,” says Rebecca Piha. As a girl she would bring home “little animals,” a baby
possum or baby bird she had rescued.She began fostering for PAWS in col-
lege, caring for abandoned dogs and cats until permanent homes were found. Buying food and supplies at Animal Talk, the Roosevelt Avenue pet store in Seattle
she’d frequented since child-hood, she learned they were also the nonprofit Animal Talk Rescue.
Twelve years later the Roosevelt High School and University of Washington Dental School alumna is president of ATR and their adoption and foster coor-dinator. She was especially attracted to ATR’s no-kill policy — publicly run or funded shelters euthanize
animals, especially to deal with over-crowding. One of Rebecca’s earlier ATR volunteer efforts involved driving around the state picking up animals from over-full kill shelters and abusive breeders.
Recently she chaired ATR’s annual auction, Nine Lives Gala, hosted by Pat Cashman, “a wonderful way to bring the community together” to support homeless animals, she says.
Although spay/neuter awareness has increased, there are still high numbers of abandoned and mistreated animals. Rural areas have the biggest problem with over-population and disease. An unspayed female cat can conceive a first litter at five months and bear up to four litters in a year!
“Each adoption through Animal Talk,” says Rebecca, “allows us to make room for an animal from a kill shelter or one living on the streets.” ATR gets “a ton of calls
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Rebecca’s husband, Paul Amato, esti-mates that Rebecca has fostered and adopted out 1,000 cats and dogs. The couple currently has three foster cats, a feral cat she’s trying to socialize, and two that were returned to the shelter as adults where they became ill, a common occur-rence.
Rebecca is an associate at Distinctive Dentistry. She’s due in March with twins, but will continue to volunteer and educate the public about the importance of rescue work.
There’s more information at ATR’s website at www.animaltalkrescue.org and on its Facebook page.
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of the country’s first mental health courts. “It was…a nascent movement to try
to help get individuals who had mental health issues out of the justice system and into more therapeutic options that would serve them better,” Levinson says.
Decreases in tax revenue have moved that program backward, she laments.
“There are even fewer services and even less housing for folks with mental illness than when I did this in the late ’90s, early 2000s,” she says.
Levinson is probably best known, how-ever, as the woman who brought the Seat-tle ownership group together to keep the Seattle Storm at Key Arena. Her stint as chair of the state’s utilities commission in the early 2000s gave her the credibility
to even begin negotiations with the Okla-homa-based owners of the former Sonics.
“A couple members of the ownership group ran the largest energy companies,” she says, which gave them the ability to look more closely at Levinson and see that she “would behave in a principled and eth-ical fashion.”
She left the ownership group in 2010.Levinson’s leadership on Referendum 71
in 2009, which brought domestic partner-ship rights to same-sex couples, was the first in the nation to be passed by popular vote. Probably more important was her leadership on Ref. 65 three years earlier that successfully held back a campaign to repeal gender iden-tity from the state’s non-discrimination laws.
“I think the combination of being LGBT and Jewish just imbues one with a sense of social justice,” she says.
Though not at the helm of the cam-paign to approve Ref. 74, she is advising Washington United for Marriage, “which has again been a wonderful effort with a huge coalition from communities of faith, both labor and business, small businesses, [and] major corporate support,” she says.
Levinson is cautiously optimistic that voters will approve the referendum to uphold the marriage equality bill signed into law by Gov. Christine Gregoire in February.
“I’m very grateful to live in a state where we have compassionate and thoughtful citizenry who really do look out for each other and where we have a faith commu-nity that takes a leadership role in con-necting justice with compassion, and individual liberties with our shared com-munity,” she says. “It’s just a pretty won-derful place in which we live.”
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Coming together to help our Jewish
community – locally and globally – is a
centuries-old tradition. One of the most
satisfying ways to do this is by volun-
teering at Federation’s Super Sunday
phone-a-thon. This annual community
fundraising event takes place on Sunday,
November 18, and with your help, it can
be the best Super Sunday ever!
As it does every year, Super Sunday
offers a fun-filled day with family
activities provided by PJ Library, great
food, prizes and more. All of the money
raised on Super Sunday supports the
Federation’s 2013 Community Cam-
paign. With a simple phone call, you
can help send more kids to Jewish
camp; support more older adults;
provide vital services for those in need;
strengthen our support of Israel and the
global Jewish community; and create
more Jewish learning and leadership
experiences for youth.
According to Co-Chairs Nance and Steve
Adler, “Our goal this year is to give Fed-
eration the opportunity to fund even more
innovative programs and have a major
impact on moving our community for-
ward.” New this year at Super Sunday is
an exciting contest for the organizations
or groups which bring the highest num-
ber of volunteers, with cash prizes for the
winning organizations. It’s a win-win!
Location: Stroum Jewish Community Center,
Mercer Island
Shifts (Includes ½ hour training):
9:30–Noon, 11:30–2 PM, 1:30–4 PM
Volunteers are asked to bring their own cell phones and chargers.
Join hundreds of community members
and change the world one call at a time!
Register for Super Sunday at
jewishinseattle.org/supersunday
or 206.443.5400.
HaMotzi at every meal, Shabbat candles
every week, Jewish kids and Jewish
culture 24/7. These are just a few of
the powerful experiences that Jewish
camps provide.
Jewish camp is a place to develop and
create a Jewish community, to find
Jewish roots, to connect to the land and
people of Israel and to live a Jewish life.
It’s where Jewish passion, creativity, and
spirituality grow and where leadership
skills develop. It’s where our community’s
next generation is nurtured.
Every year, thousands of young people
from our diverse community attend
Jewish camps thanks to funds from
Federation’s annual campaign. In 2012,
Federation allocated almost $200,000 for
camp scholarships and programs at URJ
Camp Kalsman, Camp Solomon Schech-
ter, Sephardic Adventure Camp and SJCC
Day Camp. These essential dollars enable
campers to grow closer to their Jewish-
ness and Jewish friends while enjoying the
best of summer in the Northwest.
“I learned so much about Jewish prayer
and tradition, how I feel about my Juda-
ism and how I want to practice,” writes
Jessica.
“Camp not only reconnected me with
my Jewish identity but connected me to
amazing people and educated me about
international challenges and Zionism,”
says Lear.
As much fun as summer at Jewish
camp is for kids like Jessica and Lear,
the effect is even more long-lasting.
Research from the Foundation for
Jewish Camp shows that kids who
go to Jewish camp are:
• 30% more likely to donate
to a Jewish charity
• 37% more likely to light
Shabbat candles
• 45% more likely to attend
synagogue at least once a month
• 55% more likely to feel very
emotionally attached to Israel.
You can donate to Jewish camping at
www.jewishinseattle.org/donatenow and
inspire children like Dylan, who writes, “I
did so much and learned about mitzvot
and good deeds and can’t wait to go to
camp next year!”
Time is running out to take advantage of
our offer to waive our fees for one year
for any new Jewish Federation donor
advised fund (DAF). This opportunity is
available for DAFs established through
December 31, 2012, so act now. You can
take advantage of a bull market by donat-
ing appreciated securities and avoiding
potential capital gains taxes.
Your DAF, Your Choice
A DAF is a simple, low-cost tax advanta-
geous and flexible way to direct your giv-
ing. With a Jewish Federation DAF, you
make a one-time contribution to the DAF
while disbursing the funds to the causes
you choose over a longer period of time.
Your DAF helps you plan your giving
strategically, ensures that your philan-
thropy reflects your core values and
provides long-term, essential support for
the causes that matter most to you.
Whether you choose to establish a
DAF as an individual, couple or family
group, your gift will pay dividends for
years to come – in the impact of your
gifts and the satisfaction you receive
from helping to change your commu-
nity and the world.
Forbes Magazine calls DAFs one of the
top ways to invest philanthropically and
have a positive influence in the world.
For more information about a
Jewish Federation DAF, contact:
Lauren Gersch, Endowment Manager,
206.774.2252.
spotlight on: Jewish Camping
donor advised funds: the time is now!
2012 Community Campaign alloCationsPlease note the correct pie chart for 2012 Community Campaign allocations.
We inadvertently included the incorrect pie chart in a previous edition of JTNews.
Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle
2031 ThIRD AvENUE | SEATTLE, WA 98121-2412 | P: 206.443.5400 | F: 206.443.0303 | WWW.JEWIShINSEATTLE.ORG | [email protected]
Building Jewish Community
Strengthening Global Jewry
Experiencing Judiasm
Helping Our Community
HelpinG Our lOcal
cOmmunity in need
$296,750 12%
BuildinG JewiSH cOmmunity
$321,060 14%
StrenGtHeninG GlOBal Jewry
$795,890 33%
eXperiencinG JudaiSm
$991,450 41%
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GREATER SEATTLEChabad House 206/527-14114541 19th Ave. NE Bet Alef (Meditative) 206/527-93991111 Harvard Ave., Seattle Congregation Kol Ami (Reform) 425/844-160416530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville Cong. Beis Menachem (Traditional Hassidic)1837 156th Ave. NE, Bellevue 425/957-7860Congregation Beth Shalom (Conservative)6800 35th Ave. NE 206/524-0075Cong. Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath (Orthodox)5145 S Morgan St. 206/721-0970Capitol Hill Minyan-BCMH (Orthodox) 1501 17th Ave. E 206/721-0970Congregation Eitz Or (Jewish Renewal)Call for locations 206/467-2617Cong. Ezra Bessaroth (Sephardic Orthodox)5217 S Brandon St. 206/722-5500Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch(Orthodox/Chabad)6250 43rd Ave. NE 206/527-1411Congregation Shevet Achim (Orthodox) 5017 90th Ave. SE (at NW Yeshiva HS) Mercer Island 206/275-1539Congregation Tikvah Chadashah (LGBTQ) 206/355-1414Emanuel Congregation (Modern Orthodox)3412 NE 65th St. 206/525-1055Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation (Conservative) 206/232-85553700 E Mercer Way, Mercer IslandHillel (Multi-denominational)4745 17th Ave. NE 206/527-1997Kadima (Reconstructionist) 206/547-391412353 8th Ave. NE, Seattle
Temple Beth Shalom (Conservative)1322 E 30th Ave. 509/747-3304
TAcomAChabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County 2146 N Mildred St.. 253/565-8770Temple Beth El (Reform) 253/564-71015975 S 12th St.
TRi ciTiESCongregation Beth Sholom (Conservative)312 Thayer Drive, Richland 509/375-4740
VAncouVERChabad-Lubavitch of Clark County9604 NE 126th Ave., Suite 2320 360/993-5222 [email protected] www.chabadclarkcounty.comCongregation Kol Ami 360/574-5169www.jewishvancouverusa.org
VAShon iSLAndHavurat Ee Shalom 206/567-160815401 Westside Highway P O Box 89, Vashon Island, WA 98070
WALLA WALLACongregation Beth Israel 509/522-2511
WEnATchEEGreater Wenatchee Jewish Community509/662-3333 or 206/782-1044
WhidbEy iSLAndJewish Community of Whidbey Island 360/331-2190
yAkimATemple Shalom (Reform) 509/453-89881517 Browne Ave. [email protected]
Kavana Cooperative [email protected] K’hal Ateres Zekainim (Orthodox) 206/722-1464at Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. SSecular Jewish Circle of Puget Sound (Humanist)www.secularjewishcircle.org 206/528-1944 Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation (Orthodox)6500 52nd Ave. S 206/723-3028The Summit at First Hill (Orthodox)1200 University St. 206/652-4444Temple Beth Am (Reform) 206/525-09152632 NE 80th St. Temple B’nai Torah (Reform) 425/603-967715727 NE 4th St., Bellevue Temple De Hirsch Sinai (Reform)Seattle, 1441 16th Ave. 206/323-8486Bellevue, 3850 156th Ave. SE 425/454-5085
SOuTH KING COuNTyBet Chaverim (Reform) 206/577-040325701 14th Place S, Des Moines
WEST SEATTLE Kol HaNeshamah (Reform) 206/935-1590Alki UCC, 6115 SW Hinds St.Torah Learning Center (Orthodox) 5121 SW Olga St. 206/938-4852
WAShinGTon STATEAbERdEEn
Temple Beth Israel 360/533-57551819 Sumner at Martin
bAinbRidGE iSLAnd Congregation Kol Shalom (Reform) 9010 Miller Road NE 206/855-0885 Chavurat Shir Hayam 206/842-8453
bELLinGhAmChabad Jewish Center of Whatcom County102 Highland Dr. 360/393-3845
Congregation Beth Israel (Reform) 2200 Broadway 360/733-8890
bREmERTonCongregation Beth Hatikvah 360/373-988411th and Veneta
EVERETT / EdmondSChabad Jewish Center of Snohomish County2225 100th Ave. W, Edmonds 425/967-3036Temple Beth Or (Reform) 425/259-71253215 Lombard St., Everett
FoRT LEWiSJewish Chapel 253/967-6590Liggett Avenue and 12th
iSSAquAhChabad of the Central Cascades24121 SE Black Nugget Rd. 425/427-1654
oLympiAChabad Jewish Discovery Center 1611 Legion Way SE 360/584-4306Congregation B’nai Torah (Conservative) 3437 Libby Rd. 360/943-7354Temple Beth Hatfiloh (Reconstructionist)201 8th Ave. SE 360/754-8519
poRT AnGELES And SEquimCongregation B’nai Shalom 360/452-2471
poRT ToWnSEndCongregation Bet Shira 360/379-3042
puLLmAn, WA And moScoW, idJewish Community of the Palouse 509/334-7868 or 208/882-1280
SpokAnEChabad of Spokane County 4116 E 37th Ave. 509/443-0770Congregation Emanu-El (Reform)P O Box 30234 509/835-5050 www.spokaneemanu-el.org
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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.
fRiDays11:15 a.m. — Tots Welcoming ShabbatTemple B’nai Torah12:30–3 p.m. — Drop-in bridgeStroum Jewish Community Center12:30–4 p.m. — Drop-in mah JonggStroum JCC
saTuRDays9:30 a.m. — beginners’ minyanEastside Torah Center9:45 a.m. — bCmH youth ServicesBCMH1:15–2:15 p.m. — moses and miriam on managementTemple B’nai Torah6:30–7:30 p.m. — avot ubanimSeattle Kollel
sunDays9–10:30 a.m. — Torah StudyTemple B’nai Torah9:15–10:15 a.m. — Journey Through HalachaSeattle Kollel
9:15–10:15 a.m. — mitzvot: The fabric of Jewish LivingSeattle Kollel9:30–10:30 a.m. — introduction to JudaismTemple B’nai Torah7:30–8:30 p.m. — Jewish ethics for WomenSeattle Kollel7:30–10:30 p.m. — He’ari israeli DancingDanceland Ballroom 8–10 p.m. — open beis medrashSeattle Kollel8:30–9:30 p.m. — Daf Hayomi/mishna beruraSeattle Kollel
monDays9:30–10:30 a.m. — essays in ethics for WomenSeattle Kollel (call for location)1:30–2:30 p.m. — Coffee and Parsha of the Week Class for WomenChabad of the Central Cascades7:30–9:30 p.m. — Learn to read TorahHerzl-Ner Tamid 8–9 p.m. — Talmud for menEastside Torah Center8–10 p.m. — open beis medrashSeattle Kollel8:30–9:30 p.m. — Daf Hayomi/mishna beruraSeattle Kollel
TuesDays12–1 p.m. Lunch ’n’ Law at microsoftEastside Torah Center7 p.m. — alcoholics anonymous meetingsJewish Family Service7 p.m. — Teen CenterBCMH7–9 p.m. — The Jewish JourneySeattle Kollel7:30 p.m. — The TanyaChabad of the Central Cascades7:30–8:30 p.m. — Tanya in-DepthEastside Torah Center (call for location)8–10 p.m. — open beis medrashSeattle Kollel8:30–9:30 p.m. — Daf Hayomi/mishna beruraSeattle Kollel
WeDnesDays 11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Torah with a TwistSeattle Kollel (call for location)12 p.m. — beyond the bible: Jewish Text StudyTemple B’nai Torah12–12:45 p.m. — Talmud Study (berachot)Seattle Kollel (Tully’s Westlake Center)7 p.m. — beginning israeli Dancing for adults with rhona feldmanCongregation Beth Shalom7–8 p.m. — Crash Course in HebrewSeattle Kollel
7–8:30 p.m. — Jewish Learning, Jewish LivingTemple Beth Or7–9 p.m. — Teen Lounge for middle SchoolersBCMH7:30 p.m. — Parshas HashavuahEastside Torah Center8–9 p.m. — Talmudic ethics and StoriesSeattle Kollel8–10 p.m. — open beis medrashSeattle Kollel8:30–9:30 p.m. — Daf Hayomi/mishna beruraSeattle Kollel
ThuRsDays10 a.m.–2 p.m. — JCC Seniors groupStroum JCC7 p.m. — Junior Teen CenterBCMH8–9 p.m. — rabbi eli mansour video PresentationSeattle Kollel8–10 p.m. — Teen Lounge for High SchoolersBCMH8–10 p.m. — open beis medrashSeattle Kollel8:30–9:30 p.m. — Daf Hayomi/mishna beruraSeattle Kollel
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fRiDay 26 ocTobeR8–9:30 p.m. — “The Theater of Needless Talents”
Spectrum Dance Theater at [email protected] or 206-325-4161 or spectrumdance.orgHomage to Czech Jewish composer Erwin Schulhoff and his brilliant music, and to all the artists who died
in the Holocaust. Choreographed by Tony nominee Donald Byrd. Runs through Sun., Oct. 28. $20–$50. At Spectrum Dance Studio Theater, 800 Lake Washington Blvd., Seattle.7:30 p.m. — The impact of Women in the rabbinate
Admin at [email protected] or 425-844-1604 or www.kolaminw.orgRabbi Beth Singer of Temple Beth Am in Seattle will speak on “How 40 Years of Women in the Rabbinate Changed My Life, Changed the World, and Changed the Jewish People.” At Congregation Kol Ami, 16530 Avondale Rd. NE, Woodinville.
sunDay 28 ocTobeR7 p.m. — Jewish Women Sisterhood Kickoff event
Rochie Farkash at [email protected] or 206-383-8441 or chabadbellevue.org
Well-known cookbook author and philanthropist Joanne Caras will speak about her “Holocaust Survivor Cookbook.” Open to all Jewish women. Tasting included. $15. At the Eastside Torah Center, 1837 156th Ave. NE #303, Bellevue.
monDay 29 ocTobeR9:30–10:30 a.m. — essays in ethics for Women
Mrs. Rooksie David at [email protected] or 206-722-8289 or seattlekollel.orgStudy the works of Rabbi Chaim Shmuelevitz. Free. Ongoing class Mondays through Dec. 17. At the home of Miriam Levy, Seattle. Call for address.7–9 p.m. — israel and the Classroom: israeli Culture Through Literature
Dena Kernish at [email protected] or 206-774-2279 or bit.ly/IsraeleducationLearn about the power of books and stories in Israel education, and bibliotherapy. Hebrew knowledge
not required. Facilitated by author Adina Bar-El. JTC, STARS and clock hours available. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
ThuRsDay 1 novembeR12–1 p.m. — Lunch and Learn at island Crust Café
Rabbi Yehuda Greer at [email protected] or 732-534-2284 or seattlekollel.orgExplore the weekly Torah portion by looking critically at the parsha themes, commentaries, and their relevance to modern-day challenges and experiences. Free (food not covered). Ongoing class Thursdays through Dec. 20. At Island Crust Cafe, 7525 SE 24th St., Suite 100, Mercer Island.
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Crossroads& overlakeCrossroads MallJewish Day SchoolTemple B’nai Torah
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greenlake, greenwood & nortHCouth Buzzard BooksForza Coffee CompanyGreenlake LibraryGreenwood LibraryMockingbird Books
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fRiDay 2 novembeR8:30 a.m. — Jewish Day School open House
Amy Adler at [email protected] or 425-460-0260 or www.jds.orgProspective or interested families can tour the JDS campus and learn about the preschool–8th grade program. At the Jewish Day School of Metropolitan Seattle, 15749 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.10:45 a.m.–12 p.m. — Herzl mishpacha minyan
206-232-8555 or h-nt.orgA Shabbat morning service with songs, stories and treats for 2–5 year olds and their families. Meets first and third Shabbat of the month. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.12 p.m. — Seattle Shabbaton
Ari Hoffman at [email protected] or SeattleNCSY.comThe annual Seattle Shabbaton. Hundreds of teens come together for a weekend with activities, food and friends. Hosted by NCSY. At Bikkur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.
saTuRDay 3 novembeR1:15–2:30 p.m. — Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism): Continuing our Journey (Tarot)
Shelly Goldman at [email protected] or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgInstructor Rachel Setzer will focus on Tarot. Series will continue in January (demons) and February (dreams) and end with a “Starting Your Own Journey Party” in March. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.2–4 p.m. — Kabbalah 101 with rabbi alyjah Navy
Rabbi Alyjah Navy at [email protected] or www.kabbalahcommunity.orgReceive Kabbalah insights and techniques for spiritual healing, enhanced intimacy, abundance, inner joy and purpose in life. No prior study needed. $40 per workshop. At Vashon Intuitive Arts, 17331 Vashon Hwy. SW, Vashon Island.6:30–9 p.m. — Wisdom of the Heart Spiritual Singles Celebrations
Rabbi Alyjah Navy at [email protected] or www.kabbalahcommunity.orgAll are welcome to meet new friends, relax,
meditate and enjoy a taste of intimacy through sharing personal insights about stuff that matters. $20 per celebration. At Vashon Intuitive Arts, 17331 Vashon Hwy. SW, Vashon Island.
sunDay 4 novembeR9:15–10:15 a.m. — advanced Talmud for men
Rabbi Avrohom David at [email protected] or 206-722-8289Study the intricacies of a classic Talmudic text. Examine the basic commentaries that bring forth its deeper understandings. Free. Ongoing class Sundays through Dec. 16. At the Seattle Kollel, 5305 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.10 a.m.–12 p.m. — annual meeting
Jeffrey Cohen, CEO at [email protected] or 206-652-4444 or klinegalland.orgAnnual meeting of the Kline Galland Center and Affiliates and open house of the newly remodeled Caroline Kline Galland Home in Seward Park. Free. At the Caroline Kline Galland Home, 7500 Seward Park Ave. S, Seattle.2–5 p.m. — Simcha fair
Yohanna Kinberg at [email protected] or 425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.orgPlanning a simcha? Meet over 25 vendors: Caterers, photographers, photobooths, henna artists, DJs, live bands and much more. Sponsored by JTNews and Temple B’nai Torah. $5/adults. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.4:30–8:30 p.m. — Dinner with orville
Esther Lee Sadis at [email protected] or 425-747-0915Annual gala dinner in honor of lifetime Ezra Bessaroth member Orville Cohen features a cocktail reception, dinner, live music, video presentation and a raffle. With keynote speaker Dr. Devin Naar. $100 per person. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.
monDay 5 novembeR7:30–9 p.m. — Learn to read Torah
Rabbi Jill Levy at [email protected] or 206-232-8555 or www.h-nt.org/ our-congregation/learning/adult-lifelongTaught by Cantor Bradlee Kurland. Classes run Mondays through Dec. 17. $50. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.
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she said. “And now we’re coming full-cir-cle — telling their stories and using this project to raise money for hungry people today in 2012.”
Caras has had her share of surprises during the project. “One day a lady called me from New Zealand [saying], ‘I hear
there’s a woman in the States who’s col-lecting recipes.’ And I thought to myself, ‘I guess my message has traveled to the other side of the world!’”
She was also taken aback by how quickly hundreds of organizations were contacting her, asking her to appear on a TV or radio show. Caras, who travels with her husband, has toured hundreds of cities
around the world. This year alone she’s had 90 speaking engagements.
“I have my own TV show, which airs on Monday evening in 37 million homes and in different countries,” she said. “Each week we make a recipe and tell the mirac-ulous story of a survivor.
“I really believe this was my purpose in life: Tikkun olam,” she said.
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Dr. Laenu Adelilah Greenberg KarpJun. 1, 1928–Oct. 14, 2012
In Palo Alto, Calif. at age 84 after a long illness. Beloved wife of Dr. Ira Lawrence Karp for 57 years; loving mother of Rabbi R. Reuel Karpov, Ph.D. and Yonah Karp (Harold Bobroff); adoring grandmother of Hannah Ruth Karp Bobroff, Abraham Raphael Karp Bobroff, and Nora Rayna Karp Bobroff; dear sister of the late Shelma Greenberg Angel, of Arcadia, Calif. and the late Frederick Raymond Greenberg, of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Laenu Karp was originally from Minneapolis, Minn. She was a lifelong learner, earning a Ph.D. in education and two master’s degrees through her lifetime. Her professorships included stints at Tuskegee Institute and University of Kentucky, and she was also a technical writer of computing documentation through the 1980s. She was also a lover of Judaism, having lived in Israel in the early 1950s, teaching English on a kibbutz and leading choirs at that time. She spoke fluent Hebrew and taught many students both Hebrew and trope. A lifelong musician as well, she was a composer, conductor and played every instrument in the orchestra.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday, October 16, 2012, at Eden Memorial Park, Mission Hills, Calif. She is buried near her parents, Esther Bernice Greenberg and Shuey Isadore Greenberg and sister Shelma Greenberg Angel.
Memorial donations to Congregation Kol Emeth, Palo Alto, Calif. preferred. Inquiries and memories to [email protected].
product,” Hoffman said. “This is an interim program that will lead into a long-term program.” When it hard launches in 2014, it may look completely different.
With build-measure-learn, “We can adjust and modify the curriculum as we go along to meet the needs of the girls or cur-rent events,” said David.
In spite of the variables, Hoffman and David are clear about the vision.
“Long-term, the girls should be able to open up any sefer [Jewish book] and find the answer,” Hoffman said. She also hopes they’ll be empowered by successful women and inspired to go into the “next
wave of careers” that will be flexible for women. “We really did want to focus a lot on technology and entrepreneurship.”
“We want to foster a love for learning,” David added. “I feel very strongly that a Jewish woman is always developing her-self…she has to have the skills to access the knowledge that she needs.”
One of the students, Clara (Aviva) Pri-zont, 14, said she is so far finding the edu-cational style useful.
“The learning style is good because it’s build around the student, and it really is structured around the best way to learn,” she said.
The girls spend half the day on Jewish studies and half on blended, online and
in-class general studies. The general stud-ies program, from the Insight School of Washington, is accredited by the National Accreditation Commission.
The class also commits to 100 hours of volunteering, and this semester, they’re taking a circus performance class at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts in Georgetown. Next semester: Zumba.
David quoted Rabbi Solomon Maimon, who visited the girls on a Friday to lead a weekly study of the Torah portion.
“First you have to make them happy, then you can teach them,” he told her.
“That’s really our underlying presence,” David said. “A positive, upbeat, strength-ening and uplifting environment.”
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Isenberg was especially interested in ten-sions between established German Jewish families and newly arrived Eastern Euro-pean and Sephardic Jews. Readers often ask what part of the author is in a book, and Isenberg says those tensions existed between her German Jewish mother’s and Ashkenazi father’s families, but it was years before she knew it was a common occurrence.
Isenberg was fortunate to have two meetings with a Seattle police depart-
ment forensic anthropologist, who taught her that the bones in question would not have survived in the underground much past the 1960s. This led Isenberg, who had planned a contemporary sleuth in Rachel, to double the history. Isenberg also sought help from Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld, who translated English to Yiddish.
“The Bones” is an on-demand print book, available wherever Isenberg is read-ing, on Kindle or Nook, and on the inde-pendent e-reader KOBO. Observing that the book world is in upheaval, Isenberg says
she ruled out self-publishing pretty quickly. “Publishing is complicated,” she says.
Design, as well as “copywriting, editing, marketing — I really appreciate those ser-vices from a publisher.” She’s very happy with Oconee, and glad she waited. “I was determined to find a publisher who loved the book…and I did.”
Find Isenberg’s upcoming readings and more on her website, www.janeisenberg.com. She’d love to visit your book group in person or by Skype.
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5773’s first baby: Born to the sound of the shofaremily K. alhaDeff associate editor, JTNews
The first Jewish baby of 5773:Netzach Mordechai BrodyBorn September 17, 2012 at 3:55 p.m.Weight: 6.68 lbs. Length: 18.5 in.Sarah Brody knew she was going to
give birth on Rosh Hashanah. “I had such a strong feeling,” she
says. Though her baby boy was not due until two days after the Jewish New Year, sure enough, her labor started erev Rosh Hashanah and Netzach Mordechai entered the world the next afternoon.
“He was born to the sound of the shofar,” says Sarah.
Literally. “My husband brought a shofar, because it was Rosh Hashanah. He was actually blowing the shofar in the delivery room,” she says. “The nurses were
really curious about everything he was doing.”
This is the fourth child for Sarah and her husband, Rabbi Shmuel Brody. Their older kids are 7-1/2, 6 and 4 years old, so bringing the baby home “was like bringing home a big present” for them.
Not only was Netzach born on the birthday of the world, “He was born on my birthday!” says Sarah, who turned 30 on September 17.
The baby is named for Sarah’s grandfa-ther Mordechai, who died six weeks before Rosh Hashanah. Netzach means “eternal” in Hebrew, and Sarah says they liked the way it sounded. Also, adding eternity to her grandfather’s name was a nice way to honor him, she says. CourTeSy rabbi SHmueL aND SaraH broDy
Baby Netzach takes in his new world.
