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The importance of the Passover story, as told to our childrenRabbi Yohanna KinbeRg Temple B’nai Torah
“May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”
— Peter Marshall
As American Jews, when we sit down to our Passover seders this coming week, we should keep this fact in mind: We are, hands down, the freest Jews to have ever cel-ebrated a Passover seder. We are free to worship, move around, seek employment, seek public office, marry the people we love, receive the education we want and need, and participate in all aspects of civil society. What does it mean to sit down at our seder and retell the story of our people and feel that we too are slaves and we too have been redeemed, when our reality includes such unprecedented freedoms? How should this reality color our celebration?
Passover has several key purposes and deep moral messages. First and foremost, Passover functions to pass the story of our redemption to the next generation. The entire seder is constructed as an educa-tional tool that speaks to the younger gen-erations. The message of what it means to be a slave, the importance of freedom, and the miracle of our redemption must be passed on to youth in a way they can hear and understand.
In the past, tools like dividing the seder with four cups of wine or telling the story of the four sons or hiding the afiko-men might have spoken in a very relevant manner to the hearts and minds of our children. This is no longer true. I am not recommending doing away with those tra-ditions, but rather to add to them as free people who have access to libraries and the Internet and so many forms of technology.
It is our right and duty to make our seders engaging — there is no excuse for a boring seder. There is no reason to leave the kids at home or leave the seder early because it is “too much” for the youngest at the table. The message of the Passover story is too important to continue to do things exactly as they were passed down to you. It might be what you like as an adult, but if it is not speaking to the children — if they are not able to truly hear the story and the values passed down during this sacred rite — then you are failing.
I know this may be a harsh statement, but it’s important to say: A boring seder is a shanda. You are free to make differ-ent choices; it is therefore an obligation to
embrace this freedom and to use all of your capabilities and resources to pass the story along in a meaningful and rel-evant manner.
This is all the more impor-tant, because Passover has a very important moral mes-sage about how we as Jews should live in this world. Being a free people means we have an extra obligation. Tell-
ing the story each year and going through the rituals of Passover has to mean more than just remembering. We were liber-ated from Egypt. We were liberated from Dachau. We have been enslaved and oppressed and then managed to see our way through to liberation so many times in our history.
This is not just a precious remem-brance. This history is also a mandate. But to do what exactly? To make choices in our lives and encourage our greater com-munity and society to make choices that are just, life-sustaining and kind. We were brought forth from Egypt so we might have the opportunity to live a life of Torah, to live our highest values as Jewish people.
As a Reform Jew, I acknowledge that living a “life of Torah” might look differ-ent to each individual. But at the same time, there is no denying that our tradi-tion demands we create a just society and a society that cares for those in need. It also demands that we pass these traditions and values to the next generation. When we read, “let all who are hungry come and eat” at our seder table, it really needs to mean something. When the children at that table hear you read those words, they need to know you mean it.
Passover is an opportunity to show yourself, your family, and our commu-nity what it means to live a Jewish life in 2013 and that you fully embrace all the blessings and opportunities you have as one of the freest Jews of all time. Will you sit down at your computer tonight and research ways to make your seder speak in a more authentic and creative way to the next generation? The resources are out there. Will you take time to consider how you can make the words “let all who are hungry come and eat” a reality in your community? I know that Passover embod-ies many more deep moral messages than I have the space to address. Will you bring the topic of the practical and moral mes-sages of Passover as a conversation piece to your seder?
No to I-90 tollsGrowing up Jewish on Mercer Island, I often heard from others that it was a center of
Jewish life in the Puget Sound area (“How I-90 tolls would affect the entire Jewish com-munity,” March 8). I didn’t necessarily believe them, but when I moved back to the Pacific Northwest in 1994 to get married and raise a family, I knew being part of a Jewish commu-nity was very important to me. There are two Conservative synagogues in the Puget Sound area — one in Seattle and one on Mercer Island. There are two Jewish Community Centers in the Puget Sound area — one in Seattle and one on Mercer Island. There are two large chain grocery stores with fresh kosher meat in the Puget Sound area — one in Seattle and one on Mercer Island (and there is a second under development also on Mercer Island).
Like so many others, I chose to live on the Eastside (in Bellevue along the I-90 corridor) specifically in order to have easy access to the center of Jewish life that exists on Mercer Island. Over the past 10 years, I have commuted to Mercer Island at least 10 times a week to get my children to and from childcare at the JCC. I have commuted to Mercer Island at least eight times a week to get my children to and from Hebrew school at Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation. I have commuted to Mercer Island at least an additional six times a week to attend services at HNT, work out at the JCC, and buy kosher food at Alb-ertsons. Tolling I-90 could make being an active member of the Eastside Jewish commu-nity cost prohibitive. It is incumbent upon the WSDOT to not restrict access to religious life.
Ilyse WagnerBellevue
oBama IN Israel: Push for PeaceThis week President Obama will take the first overseas trip of his second term; it will
be the first time since taking office he has visited Israel. Many of us maintain that only the United States has the power to break the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate. We therefore hope his visit will present more than just the gesture of “friendship and strong partnership” Netanyahu has referred to, and will be followed by a serious diplomatic American initiative and a sustainable peace plan.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman suggests that during his visit, Obama should ask Israeli leaders and the Israeli public several questions, two of which I include here:
1. Given the relentless settlement drive in the West Bank, how can Israel avoid ending up there forever — ruling over 2.5 million Palestinians with a colonial-like administration that can only undermine Israel as a Jewish democracy and delegitimize Israel in the world community?
2. What is your long-term strategy? Do you even have one?The Israeli right continues to argue that a reasonable, peaceful two-state solution is not
possible, and that Israel should focus instead on maximizing its military advantage, devel-oping its economy, and extending its control over contiguous territory. I would argue, as many other Israelis do, that the ongoing occupation of the territories is not an option. Ruling over 2.5 million Palestinians is an obstacle to peace, a security liability, an economic drain, and a terrible moral burden.
Obama’s visit may be the window of opportunity for America to propose a peace plan that enlists wider regional and world powers, all of whom have a stake in resolving the con-flict. And we should support him.
simcha shtullseattle
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A word about freedomAs you read through this edition of JTNews, you’ll notice a common thread
throughout many of our articles: Freedom. With Passover nearly upon us, we thought it would be a good time to mention editorial freedom.
While JTNews is owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, we maintain editorial independence — our coverage is neither influenced nor approved by the Federation. With these freedoms comes great responsibility, of course, and JTNews does its utmost best to print only what we believe to be factual and accurate.
As you sit down for your seder this Passover to reenact the Exodus from slav-ery to freedom, keep in your thoughts that you hold this newspaper in your hands because we are free. Please don’t take it for granted. We certainly don’t.
Happy Pesach from all of us at JTNews.Joel Magalnick, Editor and Acting Publisher, JTNews
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Chabad-Lubavitch of Washington State would like to wish the entire Jewish community a Wonderful and Blessed Passover.
a passover Message froM the lubavitcher rebbe o.b.M.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson Lubavitcher Rebbe OBM
chabad-lubavitch passover services and coMMunity seders in washington stateFull information on service times and seders in your community is available at www.chabadofseattle.org,
where you can also make reservations and pay for the seder.
shluchiM and representatives of the lubavitcher rebbe o.b.M., washington stateRabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Levitin Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Rabbi, Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch
Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Farkash Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue Rabbi, Eastside Torah Center
Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Heber Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County
Rabbi and Mrs. Eli Estrin Director, University of Washington Campus Activities
Rabbi and Mrs. Berel Paltiel Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Snohomish County
Rabbi and Mrs. Shimon Emlen Community Educator
Rabbi and Mrs. Avroham Kavka Administrator, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Director, Gan Israel Day Camp
Rabbi and Mrs. Shmulik Greenberg Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County
Rabbi and Mrs. Yossi Charytan Head of School, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder
Rabbi and Mrs. Yisroel Hahn Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Spokane County
Rabbi and Mrs. Cheski Edelman Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Thurston County
Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Elishevitz Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue
Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Kornfeld Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Mercer Island Rabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim
Rabbi and Mrs. Elazar Bogomilsky Director, Northwest Friends of Chabad-Lubavitch Director, Friendship Circle
Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Farkash Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Central Cascades
Rabbi and Mrs. Avrohom Yarmush Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Whatcom County
Rabbi and Mrs. Avi Herbstman Educator, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder
Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Rapoport Director, Projects for Russian Speaking Community
In memory of Shmuel ben Nisan O.B.M. — Samuel Stroum — Yartzeit March 9, 2001/14 Adar 5761
Sponsored by a friend of Samuel Stroum and Chabad. For more information on any of these events and/or service times in all Washington State locations, please contact Chabad House at 206-527-1411, [email protected] or visit our website at www.chabadofseattle.org
a special fund for the needy has been set up at chabad for passover. if you would like to donate or know someone in need, please contact us.
Preparing Ourselves
The festival of Passover calls for early and elaborate preparations to make the Jewish home fitting for the great festival. It is not physical preparedness alone that is required of us, but also spiritual preparedness—for in the life of the Jew the physical and spiritual are closely linked together, especially in the celebration of our Sabbath and festivals.
On Passover we celebrate the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery and, together with it, the liberation from and negation of, the ancient Egyptian system and way of life. Thus we celebrate our physical liberation together with our spiritual freedom. Indeed, there cannot be one without the other. There can be no true freedom without accepting the precepts of our Torah guiding our daily life. A pure and holy life eventually leads to real freedom.
It is said, “In every generation everyone should see themselves as though they had personally been liberated from Egypt.” This is to say, that the lesson of Passover has always been a timely message for each individual. The story of Passover is the story of the special Divine Providence which alone determines the fate of our people. What is happening in the outside world need not affect us; we might be singled out for suffering, G-d forbid, amid general prosperity, and likewise singled out for safety amid a general plague or catastrophe. The story of our enslavement and liberation of which Passover tells us, gives ample illustration of this.
For the fate of our people is determined by its adherence to G-d and His Prophets.
This lesson is emphasized by the three principal symbols of the Seder, concerning which our Sages said that unless the Jew explains their significance, he has not observed the Seder fittingly: Pesach [the Paschal Offering], Matzoh [the bread of affliction], and Moror [bitter herbs]. Using these symbols in their chronological order and in accordance with the Haggadah explanation, we may say: The Jews avoid Moror (bitterness of life) only through Pesach (G-d’s special care ‘passing over’ and saving the Jewish homes even in the midst of the greatest plague), and the unleavened Matzoh—the very catastrophe and the enemies of the Jews will work for the benefit of the Jews, driving them in great haste out of “Mitzraim” [Egypt], the place of perversion and darkness, and placing them under the beam of light and holiness.
There is one more important thing we must remember. The celebration of the festival of freedom must be connected with the commandment “You shall relate it to your son.” The formation and existence of the Jewish home, as of the Jewish people as a whole, is dependent upon the upbringing of the young generation, both boys and girls—the wise and the wicked (temporarily), the simple and the one who knows not what to ask. Just as we cannot shirk our responsibility towards our child by the excuse that “my child is a wise one; he will find his own way in life therefore no education is necessary for him;” so we must not despair
by thinking “the child is a wicked one; no education will help him.” For, all children, boys and girls, are “G-d’s children” and it is our sacred duty to see to it that they live up to their above mentioned title; and this we can achieve only through a proper education, in full adherence to G-d’s Torah. Thus we all will merit the realization of our ardent hopes: “The next year may we be free. The next year may we be in Jerusalem!”
— from the Passover Message of 5728/1968
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From “Family of Strangers: Building a Jewish Community in Washington State.”
Forty years ago this week on the Hebrew calendar, the 11th of Nisan 5733, which corresponds to April 13, 1973, the first Chabad House in the state opened just in time for Passover, which began four days later. Rabbi Sholom Ber Levi-tin, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific, now oversees the entire region of many Chabad centers throughout the state. Photo courtesy of the Museum of History and Industry.
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human rites 6Circumcision: Holy rite or human rights violation? Experts from around the world gathered at the University of Washington to discuss the dynamics of the controversial practice.
Standing up for israel 8Hen Mazzig excels at helping people see the real Israel. That’s why he’s this year’s StandWithUs Northwest’s shaliach.
phoenix from the ashes 10Twenty-seven years into his job, Asher Ostrin, the director of JDC’s former Soviet Union department, has stopped trying to understand why the Soviet Jews who never left are reclaiming their Jewish identity.
washington State: Good for the Jews 11According to Census data and insider observations, Washington’s Jewish population is on the rise.
mission of all missions 12Rabbi Michael Skobac, the director of Canada’s Jews for Judaism, realized 15 years ago that missionaries aren’t the problem — Judaism just needs a better PR rep.
chag sameach! 15Our full coverage of Passover recipes, holiday how-tos, and more begins on page 15.
¿por qué esta noche es diferente? 25At the American Jewish Committee’s diplomatic seder, dignitaries discussed the meaning of freedom and slavery in today’s world.
change from the inside 27Rabbi Miri Gold has been at the forefront of fighting for equality for non-Orthodox rabbis in Israel. She’s making progress, but she’ll believe real change when she sees it.
Black-Jewish dialogue 29Black-Jewish relations go back a long way in America. But what happens when Civil War-era Southern Jews spend Passover with their freed slaves? A riveting new play works that out.
moRemot: Singing cancer away 9community calendar 13what’s your JQ? the plight of every generation 15Arts 28crossword 32where to worship 35Lifecycles 43the Shouk classifieds 36
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The humanitarian circumstances of circumcisionJaniS Siegel JTnews Correspondent
We are “citizens of the globe and cos-mopolitans,” said Michael Rosenthal, pro-fessor and philosophy department chair at the University of Washington, “and the rights of the child to bodily integrity have been pitted against the rights of par-ents to exercise religious liberty and raise their children according to the traditions of their faith.”
Citing the protections to minors in the United Nations General Assembly’s Con-vention on the Rights of the Child against bodily harm, two philosophers, a histo-rian, and a social scientist spoke for one hour to a crowd of 75 on Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue, about the growing movement seeking to limit circumcision, which is practiced around the world by many cultures and religions.
In 2010, a controversial ruling in a Cologne, Germany court acquitted a doctor who performed a circumcision on a Muslim boy who was later hospitalized with complications. However, an appel-late court later condemned the non-med-ical religious ritual, saying it constituted “bodily harm” and that in the future, a doctor “could be held accountable even when the parents consented to the proce-dure, if the boy did not.”
Rosenthal noted, however, that even in a religious context, people do often con-
sider the medical benefits of circumcision when making the decision about whether to circumcise.
The March 4 program was sponsored by the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the UW and the university’s Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Human-ities. The UW Department of Philosophy and the Seattle Jewish Film Festival co-sponsored the event.
Thomas Schmidt, a professor of the philosophy of religion at the Johann Wolf-gang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, advocated for a more concilia-
tory approach.“The terms of peaceful coexistence
must be negotiated,” said Schmidt. “There is a real and deep conflict between reli-gious freedom and the right to bodily integrity. Legal regulation would not sat-isfy the religious.”
Arguing the opposite view, however, Schmidt said the only morally acceptable act between two people, even parent and child, is one that is mutually agreed upon — including circumcision. But where, he asked, are the limits of this principle?
“In the case of the decision of the
Cologne court, I was really irritated by the hostility and ignorance among some of my secular friends,” said Schmidt. “For quite a few among them, the practice of circum-cision displays the pre-modern, barbaric, irrational, dangerous character of religion, in general.
“But if you are interested to live in a society in which religious and secular cit-izens operate under fair and equal condi-tions, without prejudices and resentment, you cannot be left indifferent by the ruling of the Cologne court.”
Bettina Shell-Duncan, a professor of anthropology and an adjunct professor of global health at the UW, said that accord-ing to a 2006 World Health Organization study on the health outcomes from the procedure and a United Nations inves-tigation, from an epidemiological stand-point the medical risk for males was hard to determine. She did note that in the case of female genital cutting, the report showed that while women who experience the practice experience increased difficul-ties during childbirth, including possible death of their newborns, the risk was still lower than mothers who smoke during pregnancy.
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The panel on the Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue discussion, from left to right: Professors Thomas Schmidt, Robin Judd, Bettina Shell-Duncan and Michael Rosenthal.
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medical data against the practices, said Shell-Duncan, legal human rights schol-ars agreed that the most viable argument for limiting the practice was that circum-cision violated a child’s rights to freedom from torture and to bodily integrity.
“The human rights framework implies that there’s responsibility on the part of the state for protecting these citizens against these violations,” said Shell-Duncan.
Within the U.N.’s Universal Declara-
tion of Human Rights, children are not only entitled to the broad general human rights that all humans enjoy, but according to its tenets, they also benefit from unique human rights due to their minority status.
Circumcision was a topic that was “vig-orously debated, particularly in Europe between 1840 and 1939,” said Robin Judd, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University.
But then, human rights were not the focus. Some cities there tried to impose regulations on the circumciser, requiring
licensure, said Judd, and anti-Semites used it as a reason to exclude Jews from certain groups, claiming that circumcision flawed the perfect human form.
These same groups, said Judd, also pro-moted cartoons of violent and bloody cir-cumcision rituals, invoking the old “blood libel” against Jews, accusing them of eating the blood of Christian and Jewish children.
“In the late 19th century, we saw an escalation of blood libel accusations,” Judd told JTNews. “The two rituals that get invoked with the most frequency are
circumcision and kosher butchering. There are a large number of cases where the kosher butchers were arrested for the crime. There were fewer cases where cir-cumcisers are accused of the crime.”
Judd said that these anti-Semitic accu-sations persist.
“Today, there are some blood libel accu-sations, absolutely, but we don’t see as many cases of circumcision being invoked. But we do see kosher butchering being invoked in the blood libel conversations.”
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■ Hillel UW Passover lunchesThursday and Friday, March 28 and 29 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Let my people go — to lunch! It wouldn’t be Passover in Seattle without the annual community Passover lunch at Hillel at the University of Washington. For two days, this is the place to be for anyone, young or old, Orthodox or secular, and anyone in between to meet up with old friends for a once-a-year catchup, escape from work, and, of course, eat. $15 (pre-paid online), $18 at the door, or just $8 for students gets a full meal, all kosher-supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. Visit www.hilleluw.org/passover to reserve or call 206-527-1997 for more information.
■ In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust RescuerThursday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Jeannie Smith, the daughter of Polish rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke, will be speaking about her mother’s memoir, “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.” Opdyke was 17 when the Nazis invaded her native Poland. She spent the next few years hiding in forests, living under a false identity, imprisoned by Russian soldiers who abused her, and forced to serve in the German army. Yet despite all this she risked her life to smuggle food to the Jewish ghetto and eventually help prisoners escape to the woods. When caught hiding Jews in the German villa she worked in, Opdyke went to even further lengths to save them. She
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■ Holocaust Remembrance Day programsSunday, April 7 at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
The Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center is holding two commu-nity events in honor of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. At 10:30, a memo-rial service led by Rabbi James Mirel, Rivy Kletenik, and Julie Mirel will take place for Holocaust victims and their families at the Stroum Jewish Community Center’s Holocaust memorial, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. At 2:30 a public lecture, “Liberator and Lib-erated: A Liberator of Buchenwald and a Survivor of Buchenwald Share Their Stories,” will feature Holocaust liberator Leo Hymas and survivor Robbie Waisman sharing their stories of survival, compassion, and hope. The lecture will take place at the University of Wash-ington’s Kane Hall.
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When he was growing up, Hen Mazzig’s mother would often tell him she hoped she wouldn’t have to send him to the army, because Israel would have reached peace with its neighbors, rendering the military unnecessary.
“Unfortunately, this day seems to be far,” Mazzig said.
When he told that story to a group of students at a local university, the class cheered him.
“I talked about how I crave that one day there can be two states and one day we can have peace with the Palestinians,” he said.
Mazzig was a guest at the class, which featured a woman recently returned from the West Bank. This woman had worked with the International Solidarity Move-ment, the same group with which Rachel Corrie, who was killed under an Israeli bulldozer while protesting the Israeli
Defense Forces in Gaza a decade ago, was involved.
Mazzig, 23, is the shaliach, or com-munity liaison, for Israel advocacy orga-nization StandWithUs Northwest. StandWithUs’ five-month program brings Israelis recently released from their mil-itary service to Washington State to talk with schools and community groups about Israel.
At this particular meeting, Mazzig said, what had begun as a one-sided talk by the woman about apartheid walls and occupa-tion became more of a dialogue.
“She changed her mind,” he said. “It got to a point that the professor started to ask me questions rather than her.”
These are the types of events where Mazzig said he feels most proud.
“It’s not when I’m getting people to love Israel, or start a group for Israel,” he
said. “It’s just when people get to see the other side.”
Encounters such as this are not the norm. Most of Mazzig’s time is spent speaking before large, mostly receptive groups — he goes to synagogues and high schools throughout the state, and even some churches — to talk about Israel and its diverse identity as a country.
Much of what he discusses inevitably turns toward the Israeli-Palestinian con-flict, and he sees much of his job to dispel what he believes are “misunderstandings of people about the conflict and the misin-formation that is out there,” he said.
This is similar to Mazzig’s military ser-vice in the COGAT unit, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territo-ries. He served as a liaison officer for inter-
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1 A friend with cancer says her doctor is “the singing oncologist.”
Recently, he sang the Mi She-berach (prayer for healing) with her.
Intrigued, I called Dr. Shel-don Goldberg of Minor and James Medical in Seattle to ask if he sings to all his patients. He does if he thinks they’re receptive. He’d sung to a patient that morning, he said, “a song from the ’70s called ‘Baby It’s You.’” The choices are “relevant to the occa-sion…Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead,” but not exactly up to date. “My repertoire ends with Stevie Wonder,” he says, although an occasional Adele song might creep in.
Jewish patients may be serenaded with the 23rd psalm (“The Lord is my shep-herd”) and he’s sung in Hebrew to reli-gious non-Jewish patients. “I think they’ve liked it,” he says.
In a video on the Minor and James website, Goldberg explains that he sees patients as friends, taking his cues more from Maimonides than Hippocrates. In the 12th century, Maimonides advised that the patient was not a “vessel of dis-ease,” but a human being.
Growing up in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, Sheldon went to Stuyvesant High School, Brooklyn College, and NYU medical school. He met his wife, Seattle native Karen Trieger, when they both worked in Washington, D.C. “My wife brought me to Seat-tle,” he explains.
The two met at a party on the auspicious 15th of Av, a lesser-known Jewish holiday of love — the Talmud says on this date “young people
are supposed to meet.” The couple was recently honored by Seattle Hebrew Acad-emy where Karen went to school and where her family has been involved for generations.
A board member of Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath, Sheldon, better known as Shlomo among friends, leads a weekly Shabbat Talmud class there, teach-ing in Yiddish, his first language.
“My parents were Holocaust survi-vors,” he explains, “people who came directly from the shtetl.” Sheldon’s father was one of 60 survivors of the Treblinka uprising and met Sheldon’s mother while they were hiding in the woods. Teaching
the class gives him the chance to preserve a little of that shtetl heritage.
Sheldon’s passion for his profession is palpable. “My great interest is in help-ing people and using every resource that I have to do so.”
2 Until about seven years ago, David Munden hadn’t practiced karate since childhood.
Now he is coach of the Maccabi USA karate team. Along with almost 1,100 other U.S. participants, he is headed to Israel in July for the international Macca-biah games.
David’s kids led him back to karate, he explains. His older son Benzion had expressed an interest back then, and David asked his younger son Joseph to come along. Joseph agreed only if Dad came, too.
It was Joseph, though, who took to the sport and now he’s on the Maccabiah team.
Both father and son have competed locally and nationally, and David was a p p r o a c h e d b y M a c c a b i U S A (www.maccabiusa.com) four years ago to compete. That didn’t work out, but he knew Joseph would be the right age for this year’s games.
Now 37, and nursing a couple of inju-ries, David told Maccabi USA he couldn’t compete this time, but wanted to be
involved. The organization suggested he apply to coach. He did and was named head coach.
That got Joseph, almost 16, “even more pumped up about the whole thing.”
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“No one conceived of the notion there would ever be vibrant Jewish life in the Soviet Union,” said Asher Ostrin. “Now they’ve disproved it big time.”
Ostrin has worked with the Ameri-can Jewish Joint Distribution Committee since 1986, first serving as the director of the Vienna office and the country director for Yugoslavia, then, since 1991, as direc-tor of the former Soviet Union department. He visited Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation over the weekend of March 8.
Ostrin, an ordained Conservative rabbi, is an old friend and former class-mate of Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum. Over Shabbat, he gave two lectures about his experiences working with diaspora Jewish communities, particularly in the former Soviet Union.
“The fight for Soviet Jewry was really a seminal event for an entire generation,” Ostrin told JTNews. Getting Jews out of the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ’80s was an effort, in part, to halt the Soviet agenda of assimilation, a concept taken for granted as final and irreversible.
“There was no real notion that any-
thing was left behind. This was four generations of this all-powerful system doing everything it could to erase any vestige of anything Jewish,” said Ostrin. “It was the end of the chapter, of the book.”
Except it wasn’t. In his almost three decades of working with Eastern Euro-pean Jewish communities, Ostrin has been struck by the unprecedented return to Judaism by younger gen-erations.
“There’s never been a case in Jewish history where an entire community has completely disconnected from their Jewish background [and come back],” he said.
Today, the JDC supports Jews in over 600 locations in Russia alone, providing assistance to needy families, elderly, and victims of emergencies, and supporting Jewish community centers in the revital-
ization of Jewish life. Jews who came of age in the 1990s have reclaimed their heritage en masse, gather-ing at Hillels for parties and holidays, often defying their parents’ and grandparents’ legitimate paranoia.
As for why this is hap-pening, “I’ve never found an explanation that was satisfying for me,” Ostrin said. “The Soviets were so thorough in their efforts to undermine — they wouldn’t stop at anything.
“The Nazis come in, you’re going to be killed by the Nazis. If you sur-vive the Nazis then it’s the
writers’ plot and the doctors’ plot. If the Nazis don’t get you, the communists will get you. If the communists don’t get you, then somebody else is going to get you. And then all of a sudden when it opens up, and your children are singing ‘Shalom Aleichem’ on Friday morning…I gave up
trying to figure out why.”Ostrin shared the story of a couple,
recently made aware of their Jewish roots, sent to lead a Passover seder in a northern Ukrainian town with a population of about 700 Jews. Expecting around 100-200 attend-ees, they rented space in an art school — a building formerly used for the Communist party headquarters. The hammer and sickle emblem remained above the door.
The room quickly reached capac-ity, and soon 500-600 people were there hoping to partake. When the leader, only 23 years old, reached the cup of Elijah, he proceeded to explain the connection between Elijah, the messiah, and Passover.
An older man, decorated with medals, stood up and told the leader he’d enjoyed himself until the talk about the messiah.
“What kind of nonsense is that?” Ostrin recounted about the man’s tirade. “It’s ideology. We’re finished with all that stuff. Why do you even bring it up?”
The young leader, Ostrin said, didn’t miss a beat.
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The newest research on the United States Jewish population shows that it is growing. Locally, some say the size of the “tribe” may even be underestimated.
Plagued by the ongoing decrease of landline telephones and a growing aver-sion to phone surveys, researchers today are often handicapped, leading them to suspect there are a greater number of Jews living within their borders than those who consent to be surveyed.
But despite those challenges, two large U.S. university studies, a Brandeis Univer-sity study by Leonard Saxe, and the U.S. Census 2012 Statistical Abstract from the 2010 Census concur: The number of U.S. Jews comes in at somewhere between 6.4 and 6.6 million.
Saxe, director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and director of the Steinhardt Social Research Insti-tute, used data from more than 150 gov-ernment surveys on education and health care and asked respondents directly about their religion.
“From this, we are now absolutely con-fident,” Saxe told The Forward, “and it has been vetted by all sorts of groups and people, that about 1.8 percent of the adult American population said that their reli-
gion is Judaism.”Dr. Ira Sheskin from the Univer-
sity of Miami and Dr. Arnold Dashefsky from the University of Connecticut com-piled information from 900 Jewish com-munities in the U.S. and analyzed four sources of information: National Federa-tion research, random-digit-dialing phone survey responses, U.S. Census figures, and locally knowledgeable Jewish “insiders” who helped identify Jewish residents.
Some respondents self-identified as Jews by religion, ethnicity, or culture, while others were identified by Jewish-sounding names. However, the main research methods used in the university-based studies were the same techniques used by the 2010 U.S. Census and the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle 10 years prior.
The studies confirm that the new fig-ures show a significant uptick from the 2000 National Jewish Population Survey, which was sponsored by Jewish Federa-tions of North America, known then as United Jewish Communities, that put the U.S. Jewish population at 5.2 million — and the local numbers support the trend.
In Washington State, the number of self-identified Jews living here is 45,885,
according to the same 2012 U.S. Census Statistical Abstract and published in the 2012 edition of the “American Jewish Yearbook” (Springer Books). The Seat-tle Jewish Federation’s 2000-2001 Demo-graphic Study of the Greater Seattle Jewish Population, the last local research done, found approximately 37,000 Jews in the Seattle–Bellevue–Tacoma area. The 2012 figures were estimated at 39,700.
David Chivo, the Federation’s executive vice president, believes, however, that the number might be much higher. Chivo is tracking some less-formal research through the Federation’s extremely popular PJ Library program, the local extension of a national program that mails free Jewish lit-erature and music to Jewish families.
“The Seattle Jewish Community School looked at the ZIP codes of where PJ Library families are in the greater Seat-tle area,” Chivo told JTNews. “What they discovered is that on the entire Eastside, there are 505 PJ Library families, and in North Seattle, from University Village to Mountlake Terrace, there are 500 PJ Library families. This quadrant of the city, the northern part of Seattle, is an area of tremendous growth of families. It contin-ues a trend from 12 years ago. The north-
ern quadrant will be a continued area of growth for the Jewish community.”
Chivo said the Federation is anxious to find this undercounted and potentially underserved Jewish population. He said it needs to come up with different ways of connecting with them and determining whether they are single or married, high or low income, or a more transient popu-lation, like some of the Israelis that move here to work in the technology sector.
“We just learned from the Israeli consul general that there are 10,000 Israe-lis in Seattle — that’s 3,000 families,” said Chivo. “They tend to be concentrated in the Redmond-Kirkland area and they work for the major high-tech companies.”
While the greater Seattle area, includ-ing Tacoma, is the 15th largest Jewish community in the country, the popula-tion still makes up only 1.1 percent of the overall population in the region. Drill-ing deeper shows that within the metro-politan area, 27 percent of the population lives in five ZIP codes, showing what many people can see from their front windows — that while some of the Jewish popula-tion is spread out, much of it is very con-centrated.
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Have you heard this one? An Ameri-can Jewish woman travels to the Himala-yas in search of a famous guru. She finds a Sherpa, who cautions her about the per-ilous trek. And, he warns, “Once we get there, you are only allowed to speak three words to the holy man.”
She consents. She must see the guru at all costs! Finally, they arrive at the moun-taintop where the guru spends his days meditating. The Sherpa warns her again: Only three words. The woman walks up to the guru and says, “Sheldon, come home!”
It’s a joke, but in all humor lies truth. From March 8 to 10, Rabbi Michael Skobac of Toronto-based Jews for Judaism visited Seattle to give three lec-tures to members of Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, during which he presented on the differences between Judaism and Christianity, Judaism’s public relations problem, and the role of meditation in Jewish life.
Jews for Judaism was founded in 1985 to counter Christian missionary activities aimed at Jews, and grew to address var-ious cults. Skobac makes himself avail-
able for questions at Jews for Jesus con-ferences, leads Pass-over seders in India for Jews and Israelis on an Eastern spiri-tual quest, puts out YouTube videos, and leads classes on subjects like Judaism and vegetarianism, ecology, and medi-tation — values that often lead Jews away from Judaism.
“The goal is basi-cally to serve as a catalyst to help Jewish people appreciate the spiritual treasures of Judaism,” Skobac told JTNews after his final talk. Skobac said the organization strives “to give people more of an appreciation of what they have in their own backyard.”
Bearded, suited, and topped by a black fedora, Skobac is visibly Orthodox. But he wasn’t always this way. At his talk, “Is Religion Killing Judaism?” after Shab-
bat-morning kiddush, he revealed that he was designated “class anti-Semite” by his high school, and he spent his first years at Northwestern University shunning Juda-ism and advocating for human rights, even going on a three-week hunger strike. When challenged to examine the culture he despised, but knew little about, he fell in love with it. The people he has been addressing for three decades, he said, are
not so different from his younger self.“I realized about 15 years ago that Jews
for Jesus is not the problem,” said Skobac. “They were a symptom of the problem. The problem is that Jews are disconnected from the spiritual core of Judaism. So when they’re disconnected from that, they can end up in a Buddhist [temple], in a Hindu [ashram], in a Sufi place or a Sikh place or Baha’i or whatever.”
The typical profile of the people Skobac meets looks like this: “I grew up in a Jewish home, I went to Hebrew school, had a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, we had a Passover seder every year. We lit Hanukkah candles,” he explained. “But I never experienced it in a spiritual way. I experienced it as my cul-ture, my heritage, my history, my identity, my tradition, but God was never part of it. It was never a spiritual thing.”
Judaism has a PR problem, he said. It’s misunderstood as a religion lacking spirituality — lacking, most crucially, God and growth.
“Religion is seen as a crutch for people
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Ari Hoffman at [email protected] or SeattleNCSY.comHead to Sephardic Bikur Holim for this NCSY fundraiser and leave with a clean car. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.3 p.m. — Crossing delancey
Art Feinglass at [email protected] or www.seattlejewishtheater.comSeattle Jewish Theater Company presents a romantic comedy about a grandmother and
a matchmaker who try to fix up a bookseller in New York with the owner of a pickle store. Free and open to all. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.5–8 p.m. — an evening with nancy Pearl
Judy Kinney at [email protected] or 206-525-6378 or www.nestseattle.orgNEST hosts an evening with Nancy Pearl, rock star librarian. Buffet dinner, no-host bar, and live music in celebration of Northeast Seattle neighborhoods. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.
WedneSdaY 3 apRil12–1:30 p.m. — Israel Current events
Shelly Goldman at [email protected] or 425-603-9677 or www.templebnaitorah.orgNevet Basker leads a discussion on a topic in the news pertaining to Israel. To find out the topic for this month or join the email list, contact Jayne Carlin at [email protected]. Optional pre-reading is available at www.broaderview.org/current. This session will be repeated on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. $5 payable at the door. At Temple B’nai
Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.
thuRSdaY 4 apRil7:30–9:30 p.m. — In my hands: memories of a holocaust rescuer
Janice A. Hill at 206-842-9010Lecture by Jeannie Smith, daughter of Polish rescuer Irene Gut Opdyke. Smith will speak about her mother’s memoir, “In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer.” Book signing to follow. Sponsored by Congregation Kol Shalom and the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center. Free; donations welcome. At Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Rd., Bainbridge Island.
SatuRdaY 6 apRil10 a.m.–2 p.m. — Jewish renewal service and art Presentation
Terry Walsh at [email protected] Renewal community Congregation Eitz Or welcomes UW students, family, and friends to a Shabbat service led by Reb Arik Labowitz from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. followed by a vegetarian/dairy potluck. After lunch, Eitz Or member and artist
Akiva Kenny Segan will present on “Under Wings of G-d,” featuring mosaics/drawings of Holocaust victims and works from his current exhibit, “Sight-Seeing with Dignity.” At Hillel at the University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.
SundaY 7 apRil10:30 a.m. — yom hashoah: holocaust remembrance day memorial service
Ilana Cone Kennedy at [email protected] or 206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.orgMemorial service at the Holocaust memorial. Free. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.2:30 p.m. — yom hashoah: liberator and liberated
Ilana Cone Kennedy at [email protected] or 206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.orgLeo Hymas, a liberator of Buchenwald, and Robbie Waisman, a survivor of Buchenwald, share their stories of compassion, survival, and hope. Free. At Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle.
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A Buckley resident, David had never heard of the Maccabiah Games until four years ago. Father and son train with the Japan Karate Federation Northwest at the Auburn Valley YMCA. “Our karate
friends and family have been extremely supportive.”
He’s now reaching out to the Jewish community, in part to raise awareness and excitement, and to meet fundrais-ing goals. He’s set up a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/mundenmaccabiah)
to communicate with supporters and a benefit concert is tentatively scheduled for April 7 at Louie G’s Pizza in Fife.
The Seattle native who attended Camp Gan Israel as a child is eager for his first visit to Israel. “It’s been one of the things on my bucket list,” he says, “and to do it
coupled with a sport that I love,” and with his son, adds to the fun.
Teams will be in-country from July 10 to August 1, spending the first week tour-ing and participating in community ser-vice. “Part of it is a pilgrimage, connecting young Jews back to Israel,” he says.
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who need it,” said Skobac. “What attracts them to Christianity is that evangeli-cal Christians are passionate about God. They’re God-intoxicated. That’s what people want. They want a relationship with God. They don’t want religion.”
While Jews for Jesus is much larger now that it has a second generation, Skobac explained that the bulk of Jewish conversion to Christianity is not through formal missionary activity, messianic Jewish or otherwise evangelical.
“It’s through Christian friends, Chris-tian neighbors, Christian business associ-ates, [who] in very different kinds of ways share their faith,” he said.
On the other side of the coin is the flight of Jews to Eastern religions.
“People see Buddhism as the technol-ogy for personal growth,” he said.
At his Saturday night talk, Skobac highlighted the ways Judaism is in fact a mindfulness practice.
“My wife is part of a Mussar group, and usually they’ll spend two to four years on an issue,” he said. “There are Jewish teach-ers who say we’re only here for ‘tikkun ha’middot’ [perfection of our character traits], and if we’re not doing that, we’re wasting our entire life. I think that many Jews don’t do that. It’s not part of their world.”
If these concepts were so integral to Judaism, why did they fade from the main-
stream?“Why did God get lost?” Skobac
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erations, particularly the younger ones steeped in a culture of science, God may not be an easy concept. How can Jews for Judaism inspire Jews to love God?
“Science can only answer ‘what.’ It can never answer ‘why,’” he said. “It can never explain why we’re here.”
As for large-scale tragedy, Skobac admits he has no comprehensive answer.
“We live in a world where we have freedom to make choices, and with that freedom comes great responsibility, and also, it can be abused. It helps us under-stand man-made evil, but it doesn’t help
us understand God-made evil. Human beings didn’t cause the tsunami. For that I have no thought….The Bible says about that there are limits to what humans can understand about God.”
It’s a very Jewish answer. But hard questions aside, Skobac reiterates that Judaism has something for all Jews.
“If Jews could be more connected spir-itually to Judaism, there’s less chance they’re going to go elsewhere, or assimi-late into non-descript North Americans, or marry out of the faith,” he said. “It’s like preventative medicine. Rather than wor-rying about curing illnesses, we want to build health.”
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The seder’s beautiful light, then…darknessRivY poupKo KleteniK JTnews Columnist
Dear Rivy,Year after year at the
seder all is going well, then — there it is — the para-graph that unsettles me every time, that dire dramatic pro-nouncement of deep Jewish pessimism: “In every gener-ation they rise up against us to destroy us.” Really? Do we need to be reminded? Why is this in the Hagaddah? Do we truly believe this? What kind of message is this for our chil-dren? This is not the Judaism I want to pass on to another generation. Yet there we are, holding a cup of wine in our hands proclaiming almost proudly, with gusto, “They’re out to get us!”
It is never fun to have our buttons pushed. This prayer is clearly bringing something up for you. Though it is not, thankfully, an everyday ordeal — it war-
rants some attention and probing. It’s reasonable to inquire about the heart of this challenging paragraph — its meaning and message, espe-cially in the context of seder night.
Notice first that you seem most moved or disturbed by the middle line of the para-graph. The beginning and the end actually seem rather redemptive in nature.
Consider the text: And it is this, that stood by our fathers and us; For, not only one alone, has risen up against us to destroy us, but in all ages did they rise up against us to destroy us; but the Holy One, blessed be He, delivered us from their hands. The beginning is lofty and evocative
of trust. The end point seems in fact to be comforting: God Almighty, no matter what, always saves us. It’s that middle line
that makes us squirm. And if you really want to squirm — please, open the fairly new, artistic and edgy Hagaddah of Noam and Mishael Zion, “HaLaila HaZeh: An Israeli Hagaddah.” Here the prayer is illus-trated by an artistic rendering of a varied sampling of cartoonish Jewish foes armed and in hot pursuit with a timeline hovering above it detailing, indeed, every generation.
The list is about as dismal and dis-heartening as one could hope for: 1400 BCE, Egypt; 722 BCE, Assyria vanquishes Kingdom of Israel; 586 BCE, Babylonian exile; 167 BCE, Antiochus; 70 CE, Rome destroys the Temple; 135, Bar Kochba; 484, Persia; 627, Kuriza; 629, Spain; 873, Byzantium; 992, Limoges; 1007, Egypt; 1096, First Crusade; 1141, Norwich, Eng-land; 1171, blood libel, Paris; 1189, Third Crusade; 1198, Yemen; 1215, edict of the pope; 1242, burning of the Talmud in Paris; 1248, Baghdad; 1281, Castille; 1290, expulsion from England; 1306, expul-sion from France; 1348, black plague riots;
1354, Jerusalem attacks; 1391, forced con-versions, Spain; 1475, Northern Italy; 1492, expulsion from Spain; 1495, expul-sion from Lita; 1496, expulsion from Por-tugal; 1500, expulsion from Provençe; 1510, expulsion from Napoli; 1536, expul-sion from Saxony; 1597, expulsion from Milano; 1648, Chmielnicki pogroms; 1736, Iran; 1840, blood libel, Damascus; 1865, Iran; 1871, Odessa pogrom; 1877, riots in Morocco; 1881, Ukraine; 1891, blood libel, Corfu; 1894, Dreyfus affair; 1898, Algeria pogrom; 1903, Kishinev pogrom; 1910, Buenos Aires pogrom; 1912, Fez, Morocco attacks; 1919, Ukraine pogrom; 1929, Hebron massacre; 1935, Nuremberg Laws; 1935, persecution of Polish Jewry; 1938, Kristallnacht; 1942, the Final Solution.
The artists and authors are making a graphic point loud and clear — every-where, every generation. Don’t even try to
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With a new cookbook, choices abound for Passover mealshelen naSh JTa World news service
(JTA) — For the many who feel over-whelmed by Passover because of the demands of cooking without leaven, a word or two: That should not be an obstacle.
After all, on this most celebrated of Jewish holidays, we are allowed to eat fish, meat, poultry, eggs, nuts, fruits, most veg-etables and fresh herbs.
All of the recipes featured here are nutritious, attractive, flavorful and easy to prepare. They emphasize fresh, sea-sonal ingredients, fewer complicated tech-niques, and stylish, elegant dishes. What more would you want for Passover?
The recipes are from the new cook-book “Helen Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine” (Overlook Press).
Beet Soup1-1/4 lb. beets, plus 1 small beet for garnish2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil1 small red onion, sliced2 garlic cloves, sliced1 McIntosh apple, peeled and sliced
4-1/2 cups vegetable broth2 Tbs. apple cider vinegar1 Tbs. dark brown sugarKosher salt Freshly ground black pepper• Peel and slice the beets (see note to
the right). Heat the oil in a medium saucepan. Add the onion, garlic and apple, and sauté for 5 minutes. Add the beets and broth. Bring to a boil over high heat. Lower the heat and cook, covered, for about 30 minutes, until the beets are tender. Cool a little.
• While the soup is cooking, wrap the reserved beet tightly in foil. Bake in a toaster oven at 400º for 30 minutes, or until just tender when pierced with the tip of a paring knife. Cool, slip off the skin, and grate.
• Purée the soup in a blender until very smooth. Season to taste with the vin-egar, sugar, salt and pepper.
• Garnish with the grated beet. Makes 6 servings.
Note: I always wear thin plastic gloves when I work with beets, as this avoids staining my fingers with beet juice, which can be hard to remove.
Chicken with Potatoes and Olives5 Tbs. extra virgin olive oil9 garlic clovesKosher salt 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juiceLeaves from 10 thyme sprigsFreshly ground black pepper4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 6 ounces)5 plum tomatoes1 lb. Yukon gold potatoes, unpeeled, quartered1/2 cup pitted black olives, quartered• Preheat the oven to 450º. With 1 Tbs.
of the oil, grease a glass, ceramic or enamel-lined baking pan that can hold
all the vegetables in a single layer.• Coarsely chop 4 of the garlic cloves
on a cutting board. Sprinkle with 1/2 tsp. salt and, using a knife, crush them into a paste. Place the paste in a small bowl and combine it with the lemon juice, 2 Tbs. of the oil, half of
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the thyme leaves, and pepper to taste.• Pat dry the chicken breasts with pa-
per towels and season lightly on both sides with salt and pepper. Coat the chicken with the mixture and set aside.
• Bring a pot of water to a boil. Drop the tomatoes into the boiling water; bring the water back to a boil and drain. Core the tomatoes and slip off the skin. Cut the tomatoes in half width-wise and squeeze gently to remove the seeds. (Some seeds will remain.) Cut the tomatoes in quarters.
• Thickly slice the remaining 5 garlic cloves and spread them in the pre-pared baking pan along with the to-matoes, potatoes, olives, the rest of the thyme leaves, and the remaining 2 Tbs. oil. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Roast the vegetables, uncov-ered, for 20 minutes, or until almost tender.
• Place the chicken breasts on top of the vegetables and bake, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Turn them over, spoon on some pan juices and bake for another 5 minutes, or until the chicken is slightly pink on the inside. Cover with foil for 1 minute.
• Makes 4 servings.
Chocolate Meringue Squares1 Tbs. unsalted margarine for greasing the pan1/2 lb. blanched almonds6 oz. good-quality imported semisweet chocolate, broken into small pieces8 large egg whites (see notes)1 cup sugar• Preheat the oven to 350º. Line a 9-by-
13-by-2-inch baking pan with wax paper and grease the paper with the margarine.
• Chop the almonds in a food proces-
sor, in two batches, until medium-fine. Transfer to a bowl. Chop the choco-late in the processor until fine, and combine with the almonds.
• Place the egg whites in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Using the balloon whisk attachment, beat at high speed until foamy. Gradually add the sugar and beat until stiff.
• With a large rubber spatula, gently fold the chocolate-almond mixture into the egg whites, making a motion like a figure 8 with the spatula. Do not overmix.
• Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake on the oven’s middle shelf for 25 to 30 min-utes, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out almost dry.
• Cool on a wire rack. Invert onto a cut-ting board and peel off the paper. Cut into 1-1/2-inch squares; makes 3-1/2 dozen squares.Note: It is easier to separate the eggs
straight from the refrigerator, when they are cold, but make sure the whites have come to room temperature before beating.
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need a substitute? Try these for your Passover meal prepeileen goltz special to JTnews
At some point during Pesach prepara-tions we’ve all tried to convert a mainstream recipe into one for Passover, only to dis-cover that we don’t have a clue as to what to substitute for a chametz ingredient. Here’s a comprehensive list of substitutions:
• 1 oz. baking chocolate (unsweetened choc-olate) = 3 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 1 Tbs. oil or melted margarine.
• 16 oz. semi-sweet chocolate = 6 Tbs. un-sweetened cocoa powder plus 1/4 cup oil and 7 Tbs. granulated sugar.
• 14 oz. sweet chocolate (German-type) = 3 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 2-2/3 Tbs. oil and 4-1/2 Tbs. granulated sugar.
• 1 cup confectioners’ sugar = 1 cup minus 1 Tbs. granulated sugar plus 1 Tbs. po-tato starch pulsed in a food processor or blender.
• 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk for dairy bak-ing = 1 Tbs. lemon juice in a 1-cup mea-sure, then fill to 1 cup with Passover non-dairy creamer. Stir and steep 5 minutes.
• 1 cup honey = 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar plus 1/4 cup water.
• 1 cup corn syrup = 1-1/4 cups granulat-ed sugar plus 1/3 cup water, boiled until syrupy.
• 1 cup vanilla sugar = 1 cup granulated sug-ar with 1 split vanilla bean left for at least 24 hours in a tightly covered jar.
• 1 cup flour = 5/8 cup matzoh cake meal or potato starch, or a combination sifted to-gether.
• 1 Tbs. flour = 1/2 Tbs. potato starch.• 1 cup corn starch = 7/8 cup potato starch.• 1 tsp. cream of tartar = 1-1/2 tsp. lemon
juice or 1-1/2 tsp. vinegar.• 1 cup graham cracker crumbs = 1 cup
ground cookies or soup nuts plus 1 tsp. cinnamon.
• 1 cup (8 oz.) cream cheese = 1 cup cot-tage cheese puréed with 1/2 stick butter or margarine.
• Chicken fat or gribenes = 2 caramelized onions — sauté 2 sliced onions in 2 Tbs. oil and 2 Tbs. sugar. Cook until the onions are soft. Purée the onions once they are golden.
• 1 cup milk (for baking) = 1 cup water plus 2 Tbs. margarine, or 1/2 cup fruit juice plus 1/2 cup water.
• 1-1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk = 1 cup instant nonfat dry milk, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup boiling water, and 3 Tbs. marga-rine. Blend all the ingredients until smooth. To thicken, let set in the refrigerator for 24 hours.
• 1 cup wine = 13 Tbs. water, 3 Tbs. lemon juice, and 1 Tbs. sugar. Mix together and let set for 10 minutes.
• Italian seasoning = 1/4 tsp. each dried oregano leaves, dried marjoram leaves, and dried basil leaves plus 1/8 tsp. rubbed dried sage. This can be substituted for 1-1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning.
• Curry powder = 2 Tbs. ground coriander, 1 Tbs. black pepper, 2 Tbs. red pepper, 2 Tbs. turmeric, 2 Tbs. ground ginger. Makes 2/3 cup.
• Pancake syrup = use fruit jelly, not jam, and add a little water to thin. I always like to combine the jelly and water in a microwave-safe bowl and heat it gently before I serve it.
• Seasoned rice wine vinegar = 3 Tbs. white vinegar, 1 Tbs. white wine, 1 Tbs. sugar, 1/2 tsp. salt. Mix to combine. Makes 1/4 cup.
• Flavored vinegar = lemon juice in cooking or salad, grapefruit juice in salads, wine in
marinades.• Water Chestnuts = raw jicama.• Orange liqueur = substitute an equal
amount of frozen orange juice concentrate.
Soy Sauce SubstituteThis soy sauce substitute doesn’t taste
exactly like the real thing, but it makes a flavorful alternative for Pesach stir fry.2 Tbs. beef broth1 Tbs. red wine vinegar1 tsp. balsamic vinegar1 Tbs. brown sugar1 tsp. oil1/8 tsp. garlic powderblack pepper to taste1/4 cup boiling water• Combine all the ingredients. At this
point, you can either a) use the sauce as is, leaving for an hour to give the flavors a chance to blend, or b) for a thicker, richer sauce, boil the liquid until it is reduced by half, about 3 Tbs. Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator. Makes 2/3 cup. Use the sauce within 3–4 days.
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go light — serve fish this Passover eileen goltz special to JTnews
Pesach is that time of year when food prep is at the forefront of everyone’s to-do list and the concerns about cholesterol follow right behind. With the chopped liver and the mandatory brisket and roasts and chicken soup and, oy, the eggs, soooo many eggs, it makes my arteries start to harden just writing about it. Sometimes you just have to take a step back and say, “No more meat — pass the fish!”
Yes, gefilte fish might be your first thought, but after the seder leftovers are gone I’m going to suggest you utilize some fresh fillets of white fish or salmon and cook up these fast, easy and healthy fish recipes to help balance out all the heavy meat meals that make up the first two and last two days of yontif.
Of special note: No matzohs will harmed in the making of these recipes. They are completely, utterly and abso-lutely matzoh-free.
White Fish with Tomatoes and Black Olives (fish/parve)4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced1 bunch fresh basil, sliced thin, divided 2/3 and 1/3
2 Tbs. olive oil1 red pepper, chopped1-1/2 lbs. fresh tomatoes, chopped (or one 14-ounce can whole tomatoes)Salt and black pepper1 to 2 Tbs. red wine or 1 to 2 tsp. vinegar4 5-ounce whitefish fillets, skin and bones removed3/4 cup black olives, pitted and sliced1/2 to 1 cup toasted almonds• Heat the olive oil in a skillet. When
hot, add the garlic, red pepper, and 2/3 of the basil. Cook, stirring often, until garlic is soft, not browned, about 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat and cook, uncovered, about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the red wine or vinegar, cook 2 or 3 more minutes, and season with salt and pepper.
• Preheat the oven to 425º. Season both sides of the fish with salt and pepper. When the tomato sauce is done cooking remove it from the heat. Place the fillets on the tomato sauce. Top the two fillets with the olives and remaining 1/3 of the sliced basil
leaves. Transfer skillet to the oven and cook until fish is done, 10 to 15 min-utes. Serve the fillets topped with the tomato sauce and toasted almonds. Serves 4.
Salmon with Lime Sauce (fish, dairy or parve)Sauce:1 Tbs. minced garlic1/2 cup fresh lime juice1-1/2 tsp. salt1 tsp. black pepper3/4 to 1 cup unsalted butter or margarine, meltedOlive oil8 6-oz. pieces center-cut salmon fillet (about 1 inch thick) with skin2 tsp. to 1 Tbs. lime zest• Combine all the ingredients for the
sauce in a food processor and pro-cess until smooth, then set aside.
• Heat a grill pan with a little oil. Sea-son salmon all over with salt and pep-per, then grill, flesh sides down, for 4 minutes. Turn fillets over and grill until just cooked through, 4 to 6 minutes more. Place the cooked fish on a plat-
ter, sprinkle with the lime zest and top each with 1 heaping tablespoon of lime sauce (you will have extra sauce). Modified from epicurious.com.Serves 8 to 10.
Cod with Green Olives (fish/parve)1 Tbs. oil6 cod fillets1 onion, chopped1 Tbs. minced garlic4 stalks chopped celery3 shredded carrots2 cups seasoned tomato sauce (like a pasta sauce)1/4 cup pimiento-stuffed green olives, halved1 Tbs. lime or lemon juice2 Tbs. chopped fresh parsley or cilantroMashed potatoes (optional)• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium
heat and sauté the onion and celery, stirring occasionally, 4 to 5 minutes, until tender. Add the garlic and car-rots and continue cooking for 1 min-ute. Add the tomato sauce and green olives. Place the cod fillets in the skil-let (making sure they don’t touch)
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and then spoon the sauce over the fillets. Bring the mixture to a boil. Re-duce heat to a simmer, cover and cook for 12 to 15 minutes until the fish flakes with a fork. Stir in lime or
lemon juice. Arrange fish on serving platter. Stir the parsley or cilantro into sauce, then spoon the sauce over the cod. Serve with mashed potatoes. Serves 6.
Parmesan Pecan Salmon
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“‘I want to ask you a question,’” Ostrin recounts. “‘If you and I had taken a stroll down the main street in this town 10 years ago, and…I would have said to you, you see this Communist Party headquarters? Ten years from now there’s going to be a seder, and hundreds of Jews are going to show up. You tell me what’s more implausible: That there’s going to be a messiah, or a seder?’”
Ostrin said that what he’s seen in his time defies academic or ethnographic pre-dictions, even natural law.
“All the stuff that you read in the books, and all the theories, it’s all great, but it’s what’s going to happen on the ground that’s going to prove [the reality],” he said.
When things get tough, Ostrin said he remembers the story of the Passover seder.
“In essence, that’s what it’s all about,” he said. “The empirical evidence all would point to the end of Soviet Jewry. But [it’s] the opposite.”
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How about preparing the children for the seder as carefully as you prepare the gefilte fish? Passover (and any holi-day) takes on more meaning if a parent or grandparent demonstrates its significance by personally sharing children’s books on the background of the upcoming festivi-ties. And since Passover is one of the only two Jewish holidays that almost every year sees a new crop of titles, we should take advantage. Be careful though, sometimes these calendar-driven books can be very misleading. For instance, Ideal Publish-ing put out “A Passover Book for Jewish Children” some years ago, which began innocuously enough but ended focused on a very unexpected seder, the Last Supper.
Here you’ll find some holiday titles, totally kosher l’Pesach:For the youngest children
Lotsa Matzah by Tilda Balsley, illus. by Akemi Gutierrez. (Kar-Ben Publish-ing, $5.95). A rhyming board book for toddlers, this 12-page charmer makes its way to their hearts through the stomach, introducing Passover’s traditional food presented and enjoyed in many different ways. Tasty and fun.
Grover and Big Bird’s Passover Cele-bration by Tilda Balsley and Ellen Fischer, illus. by Tom Leigh (Kar-Ben Publishing, $16.95). A Shalom Sesame book that has the Sesame Street crowd in Israel eager to
celebrate the first seder at B r o s h ’ s house. But they’re run-n i n g l a t e , continually delayed by
stopping to perform mitz-vot. The story and meaning of Passover are woven in, as are introductory words in Hebrew. Even grouchy Moishe Oofnik performs a mitz-vah, grudgingly giving the group a lift in his old truck to get them there in time for the Four Questions. Naturally, he stays to enjoy the seder and three helpings of bitter herbs, his favorite.
What Am I? Passover, by Anne Mar-garet Lewis, joins the “My Look and See Holiday Book Series” (Albert Whitman & Co., $9.99), as the first Jewish holiday
added to their popular Christmas, Easter and Halloween books for very young chil-dren. Brightly illustrated by Tom Mills, it features a series of simple holiday-related riddles on pages designed with flip-up flaps and brief explanations of symbols and the main components of the seder. Perfect for ages 2 through 4.
A Sweet Passover by Leslea Newman, illus. by David Slonim (Abrams, $16.95). A delicious read-aloud for 4-8 year olds
who may well relate to young Miriam. By the final day of Passover, she has had it with matzoh and refuses to eat another bite. As in many lov-able stories about family tradi-tions and Jewish cooking, the older generation (in this case, Grandpa) comes to the rescue with his out-of-this-world
“Passover French Toast.” His “shayneh maideleh” cannot resist and neither will you. The illustrations are humorous and a super matzoh brei recipe is included, as well as a glossary of Passover terms. Newman, a fine writer of children’s books, has done it again.
Sarah’s Passover by Lisa Bullard, illus. by Constanza Basaluzzo (Milbrook Press/Lerner Pub, $6.95). Mini-chapters with lively cartoonish pictures move this Clo-verleaf Books “Holidays and Special Days” work along briskly, providing a lot of information in its four sections and sup-plementary material. From the prepara-tion of house and food, to the seder, to the meaning of the holiday, it emphasizes fun and freedom. Back matter includes a pil-lowcase project, a glossary, and a list of resources.
The Little Red Hen and the Passover Matzah by Leslie Kimmelman, illus. by Paul Meisel (Holiday House, $6.95). This
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entertaining Pesadika spin on a favorite old tale follows the hardworking little red hen as she plants, harvests, shleps and grinds the wheat, cooks the dinner and bakes the matzoh for the holiday, all without a bit of help from her friends. Will they work? Oy, no. But, will they eat? You bet. Will she for-give and feed them? The author includes a quote from the Haggadah, a matzoh recipe, a note on Passover traditions, plus a glos-sary of Yiddish words. A matchmaker couldn’t have found a better companion to this kosher l’Pesach version than Meisel’s rollicking artwork, created with ink, water-color and pastel.For any age
Matzah Mishugas: Eight Passover Tales (Light Publications, $14.95; ebook, $9.95). Part of the “Chelm Series” by Mark Binder, self-proclaimed author, storyteller, and nice guy. This former editor of the Rhode Island Jewish Voice-Herald wrote the first Chelm story of the series to fill space when a contributor didn’t meet a deadline. It was well received and, in true Chelm fash-ion, things just got out of hand after that. Only in Chelm would lead-sinker matzoh balls save the village from a flood; only there would a knock on the door on Pesach bring in not Elijah, but a surprise visit by Mark Twain. Great for family reading aloud.
The Longest Night: a Passover Story by Laurel Snyder, illus. by Catia Chien (Schwartz & Wade Books, $17.99). This
unique Pesach picture book is told in verse (not usually my favorite approach) and richly il lus-trated with
a b s o r b i n g acrylic paint-i n g s . T h i s y o u n g g i r l lives in Egypt through the time of slav-ery and into the time of Exodus. “Every morning with the light / Came another day like night./ In the heat and blowing sand/ Each gray dawn my work began.” A book as real as the hard labor the children perform, as unreal to today’s children as the mysteri-ous events that begin, are seen but never understood. A river running red? Frogs, fleas, and then, worst of all, wolves! Each of the plagues is depicted and the people endure until the longest night, the night of the marked doorposts.
Poetic, evocative; by using the child’s viewpoint, this work makes us truly remember as if we were there. And remem-ber, too, that even today, in many places, children are not free. Recommended by the publisher for reading to ages 4 to 8, but consider using it with older kids and teens as an opener for some interesting conver-sations at the seder table.
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Simply amazing (raw vegan) coconut macaroonseMilY alhadeff associate editor, JTnews
Before you skip this page because it has “raw vegan” in the title, hear me out. Raw and vegan they are, yes, but only second to Simply Amazing. I generated this recipe over Passover 2010, the holiday that ren-ders two of my favorite food groups, home-made pizza and baked goods, taboo. I was also feeling a little bloated on bread and sugar in the days leading up to the holi-day — I wonder why —so I began to search for alternatives to the nutrient-free Pass-over cake meal and recipes that call for, like, 12 eggs.
Passover tends to raise Jewish cho-lesterol levels like a newfangled Angel of Death. Plus, being the gastronomic anar-chist that I am, I try to avoid brands and
products we all think we need, espe-cially the kosher-for-Passover prod-ucts that are usually unhealthy, if not strange. With all the fruits and nuts available to Passover-observers, it’s a wonder how underrepresented they are in Passover cooking.
And we can make most of these products ourselves, which is how I passed Passover without eating one macaroon out of a jar (incredible! I know!). The recipe is based on a macaroon tartlet crust in Ani Phyo’s “Ani’s Raw Food Desserts.” I highly recommend this book — the reci-pes are easy and it’s not one of those “out there” raw food cookbooks.
Mushed into little balls, the crust recipe makes killer cookies, rich and buttery with the healthy fats and goodness of coconut and nuts. They don’t leave you with that “I shouldn’t have eaten that” feeling, and oh, they are satisfying. In case you’re still worried about the raw vegan thing, know that I could hardly churn them out fast enough for the carnivore enthusiasts in my life. And another perk: You can eat them for breakfast without feeling guilty. At least I do.
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You haven’t truly heard The Four Questions until you hear them recited in multiple languages. Most of us at our seders will hear them in two: The usual Hebrew and their English translations. But at the first of what is hoped to become an annual event, 14 dignitaries from con-sulates across the Puget Sound region as well as several religious bodies learned on March 18 how Passover night was differ-ent from other nights. But they heard it in French, from Consul General Denis Ste-vens of Canada and dean of the Consular Corps; in German from Hon. Consul Petra Walker of Germany; in Spanish from Hon. Consul Luis F. Esteban of Spain; and in Turkish from John Gokçen, Hon. Consul of Turkey and president of the Consular Association of Washington. Rabbi James Mirel of Temple B’nai Torah led Monday’s diplomatic and interfaith seder, a program hosted by the Seattle chapter of the Ameri-can Jewish Committee.
Celebrating a feast of freedom on March 18 was fitting — the next day, noted keynote speaker Elena Poptodorova marked the 70th anniversary of her coun-try’s effort to save its 50,000 Jews from the Nazis. This came at the same time, Popto-dorova, Bulgaria’s ambassador to the U.S., noted, that “11,343 were deported from Macedonia and Northern Thrace.”
The seder focused heavily on the Hag-gadah’s theme of moving from slavery to freedom. Poptodorova spoke of Bulgaria’s constant fight for freedom over its 1,600-year history, more than half of which was under slave rule, from the Byzantines to the Ottomans to the Nazis to 45 years of communist rule.
But, she noted, “we cannot spend our life dealing with issues of controversy that happened so many centuries ago.”
Yet freedom, she added, should not be taken for granted.
“Freedom is just the first step. When you get freedom, you have to know what to do with it,” she said. “Freedom is never easy, it’s never smooth, it’s never uncondi-tional, it’s never forever.”
As the representative of a country that only in the past 25 years has once again experienced freedom, Poptodorova knows firsthand the challenges of maintaining it: Building the institutions that will promote freedom, and fighting to ensure it doesn’t go away.
“It always comes at a price, it always comes as a sacrifice,” she said.
The AJC created a Haggadah for the event that included readings of articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in addition to the standard telling of the story of the Exodus.
Another seder comes on March 28, after the holi-day begins, building on a biannual tradi-tion in Olympia that brings legislators from both sides of the aisle to Temple Beth Hatfiloh. Law-makers and many Jews whose holidays must come second to legislative work get together to break matzoh and put this feast of freedom into the context of the work they’re doing.
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A rabbi who served as plaintiff in a prec-edent-setting case for religious freedom in Israel visited the Seattle area on March 11. The case, brought before the court in 2005 by Rabbi Miri Gold and backed by IRAC, the Reform movement’s political and advo-cacy center in Israel, challenged the status quo in a seven-year effort to gain official recognition for non-Orthodox rabbis.
Rabbis in Israel receive state salaries, but only Orthodox rabbis have been recog-nized and salaried by the government.
“There is no separation between religion and state,” Gold said.
Though victorious in winning the deci-sion in May 2012, Gold said she will believe it when she “gets her first check.” She expects to be back at the Israeli Supreme Court.
The Detroit native who made aliyah in 1977 traveled back to the U.S. this month to meet with Jewish communities around the country. Accompanied by Barbara Kavadias, acting executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America, Gold stopped in Seattle for a day-long visit. The two women spoke with JTNews before a presentation at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
Gold and Kavadias shared the story of the legal case and also pitched for funds for a new synagogue building in Kib-butz Gezer, in central Israel near Rehovot.
Gold — small in stat-ure and bespectacled — seems unassum-ing. But when she speaks, it is with the confidence of belief and the earnestness of experience, fre-quently sprinkling the conversation with Hebrew phrases and biblical references.
Gold shared her story of coming from a Conserva-tive household and moving to Israel. After arriving there, she found something amiss.
“[I] didn’t fit into the Orthodox or the secular [mainstream],” she said. “Our kib-butz Haggadah focused on spring; the syna-gogue doubled as a weight room.”
She needed more than the requisite “kibbutz kosher kitchen and celebrating Jewish holidays,” she said.
When she saw that the boys would study with Orthodox rabbis but the girls had to travel to Jerusalem to learn, it lit a spark.
She took on a “para-rabbinic role lead-ing services” and prepared students to
become B’nai Mitzvah. Studying for the rabbinate followed soon after. “At age 44, with three kids, encouraged by my hus-band as well as two rabbis, including the first woman ordained as a rabbi,” she said, she was ordained in 1999. She was the third woman ordained as a Reform rabbi in Israel.
Gold agreed to become the test case to challenge the court in 2005; in May 2012, the attorney general of Israel announced that rabbis of non-Orthodox communities were eligible for salaries — but through the Ministry of Culture and Sport.
Still, she said, “I have a full-time con-tract now.”
Speaking in measured tones about the necessity of the court battle, she added, “We can’t yet dialogue with the Orthodox; the ultra-Orthodox simply do not recognize us. In their eyes, we are imposters. [And] my focus is on the bigger, broader Israeli popu-lation. Look what we have to offer.”
In the seven years since the suit was filed, Reform preschools have been estab-lished and B’nai Mitzvah are taking place, Gold noted.
“More and more Israelis are comfort-able with us,” she said.
Gold told Ha’aretz’s Bradley Burston that she was “just the poster girl” of the battle to recognize non-Orthodox rabbis. Temple B’nai Torah’s Rabbi James Mirel lauded Rabbi Gold’s efforts to present a vibrant, accessible Judaism.
“Rabbi Miri Gold is the self-described Rosa Parks of Reform Judaism in Israel,” he said. “As an American Jew who made aliyah to her kibbutz over 30 years ago, she has demonstrated her commitment to Israel and its ideals. She is petition-ing for recognition and status as a com-munity rabbi. That is a just path. She is a brave pioneer and I wish her success.”
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Facing history and ourselves this Passover seasondiKla tuchMan JTnews Correspondent
“When Moses was in Egypt land, let my people go…” The haunting words of this recognizable Passover hymn take on new meaning in the highly acclaimed dra-matic play by Matthew Lopez, “The Whip-ping Man.”
Hard as it is to believe, over 100 years before Jews were at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement alongside their African American brethren, many were among the slave-owning population of the Confederate states. “The Whipping Man” draws the ironic parallels between these two groups of people — freed black slaves in the South at the end of the Civil War and Jews who, thousands of years prior, were themselves slaves in Egypt.
The play opens with Caleb, an injured Jewish Confederate soldier, return-ing from battle to his war-torn home in Richmond, Va. While the rest of the family seems to have gone missing, two of the longtime family-owned slaves — now emancipated — are all who remain to greet him. As they observe Passover together, recalling the Jewish exodus from Egypt, their shared pasts and “family secrets” call into question the futures of all three men.
“We read about the play about two years ago and found it absolutely fascinat-ing,” said Taproot Theatre’s artistic direc-tor Scott Nolte. “As the story is told you have to bring out the rest of the skeletons of what’s going on in the family and layers of betrayal and injustice that have taken place.”
For Nolte, the lasting moral the show offers is “you’re really not going to be free until you recognize the injustices. And
once you recognize them, then you can begin that reconciliation and forgiveness process.”
Nolte feels the play pays homage to the genuineness of Simon, the elder slave. “It pays a great deal of respect to the depth of his faith, in spite of the war, in spite of the death of Abraham Lincoln — Father Abraham, the American Moses. Despite his understanding that, though he thought his owners treated him like family, and he thought of them as family, that was just another layer of betrayal,” said Nolte.
The house (which is the setting of the play) is in itself reflective of the situa-tion between the men on stage. The vio-lent and devastating end of the war has left the house burned, shelled, and looted. The three men, essentially, are faced with the
fact that nothing about the way they used to live is safe. They have to leave there and move forward — they cannot stay in this house. The same can be said of their rela-tionships with each other.
Though there are several points at which Simon — the self-proclaimed leader of the seder — adapts the story of Passover to his own experience and the recent events (the surrender, death of Lin-coln, and so on), he holds true to a tra-ditional Jewish Passover ceremony. The men scrape together what they can in their dire situation, but they make it work. It becomes apparent to the audience that regardless of what has gone on outside the walls of their home, the men find it utterly imperative that this tradition is observed and honored. X Page 30
if you goIf you go: “the Whipping man” opens at the taproot theatre, 204 N 85th st., seattle, on fri. march 29 and runs through sat., april 27, with preview shows on Wed., march 27 and thurs., march 28. tickets and are avail-able for purchase online at taproottheatre.org or by call-ing 206-781-9707. Due to the mature content of the play, “the Whipping man” is recommended for ages 16 and above.
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“We have three really terrific actors that are really dedicated to it, which makes a huge difference,” said Nolte about the stirring performances by Ryan Childers, William Hall, Jr. and Tyler Trerise.
Nolte points out that, even though our response to the issue of slavery in the United States is often quite disconnected — “because slavery was a long time ago, and ‘it wasn’t my fault’” — there is impor-tance in acknowledging the legacy of that history.
It’s easy to walk away and say, “That was a great story, but it doesn’t apply to me. I live in Seattle, and we’re not racist here.” But Nolte’s hope is that the play will go
deeper than that for audience members. As with all of Taproot Theatre’s pro-
ductions, patrons who attend Wednesday night performances will have the oppor-tunity to participate in a post-play dis-cussion, which will feature the cast and director.
In addition, a free special event is planned for April 16: “Conversations” will be held in conjunction with the John Per-kins Center for Reconciliation, Leadership Training, and Community Development at Seattle Pacific University. Nolte has worked closely with the center through-out the development of the show to help his crew better understand how to relate to the issues of slavery, justice, and human rights, and convey that energy to the audi-
ence. The post-play discussion and “Con-versations” are opportunities for patrons to delve deeper into some of the topics brought up by this unique story.
Through confronting some of the most
unjust and dehumanizing periods of our humanity, we are able to move forward and be truly free, Nolte pointed out.
“This play, in a sense, is all of our sto-ries,” he said.
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lasts three months, Passover almost always falls near the end when the legis-lators are working feverishly to meet the final bill cutoff.
What originally began as a way to give the elected Jewish delegation a quick opportunity to celebrate the holiday has since expanded into a festive meal of more
than 100 participants.Zach Carstensen, director of govern-
ment affairs for the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, which plans and spon-sors the event, said the seder is a good way to raise consciousness among lawmak-ers about people in the state who are con-stantly struggling to get by.
“This year our focus is on, as we still are recovering from this recession, the
struggles of people just trying to keep their heads above water, finding a good job, ensuring that their family has ade-quate health care, [and] adequate supports so [they] can be economically secure,” Carstensen said.
Carstensen noted that the story of moving from slavery to freedom reso-nates in many ways today, from the jour-neys of modern-day refugees to economic
security.“It never ceases to amaze me that
when we tell the Passover story all these thoughts come flooding back — the rec-ognition that freedom and struggle often go hand in hand,” he said. “I think if legis-lators can walk away with that then we’ve done a good job.”
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Temple Beth am to honor Jewish musical giantgigi Yellen-cohn JTnews Correspondent
He was a force to be reckoned with, this large-voiced man, the composer Bonia Shur.
When Shur died last August at the age of 89, Rabbi David Ellenson, presi-dent of the Hebrew Union College-Jew-ish Institute of Religion, paid him tribute for having “composed for and taught hun-dreds of rabbinical students in Cincinnati and cantorial students on the Jerusa-lem and New York cam-puses.” Before becoming the director of liturgical arts at the Reform rab-binical school’s Cincin-nati campus, Shur placed his unique musical mark on Seattle’s Reform com-munity as music director of Temple De Hirsch.
On Friday, April 5, Temple Beth Am’s choir will pay tribute to the legendary creative force that was Bonia Shur. The tribute includes a pre-sentation by Shur’s wife, the equally forceful and creative choreog-rapher Fanchon Shur, whose work often combined with his.
Shur’s “life and musical expression reflected the trajectory of 20th-century Jewish experience, from the destruction of the Shoah to the birth of Israel and the flowering of Jewish culture in America,” Ellenson noted. “Together with Fanchon’s gifted choreography, his creativity and vitality nurtured the academic and spiri-tual journeys of our students and enriched the larger community.”
Shur’s biography reads like an adven-ture movie. Born in Latvia in 1923 to a musically talented Jewish family, Shur wound up getting drafted into the Rus-sian army, surviving by directing musical ensembles during the war. After the war, while serving as a Russian officer in occu-pied Germany and Austria, he escaped to Poland, joined the Jewish underground, and in 1949 moved to Israel. He lived on Kibbutz Netzer Sereni, studied with the foundational Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim, and established his lifelong reputa-tion as a supremely gifted arranger.
Shur moved to the United States in 1960 and worked in Hollywood. Among his projects: Collaborating on the score for the award-winning 1966 film, “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!”
Then came Seattle.Shur was tapped to succeed Temple De
Hirsch’s legendary longtime music director Samuel Goldfarb, who retired in 1968. His dramatically different approach to the job, both musically and personally, left powerful impressions on congregants and commu-nity members. Lucy Spring, now volunteer coordinator at the Caroline Kline Galland Home, worked as assistant to both men.
“Mr. Goldfarb was very traditional,” Spring said, picking her words carefully. “Bonia was the opposite. He did a lot of writing in dissonance.”
Spring remembers Shur’s creativity and the special programs he did for the temple youth. “Along with his wife, he created a music and dance program,” she said. “Her dancing troupe was students from the temple.”
The Shurs lived in the Woodridge neighborhood of Bellevue during their six years at Temple de Hirsch (which merged with Temple Sinai in 1971 to become Temple De Hirsch Sinai). With side-burns some have described as “California-shaped,” the charismatic Shur embodied the spirit of the times.
In 1974, Shur was appointed director of liturgical arts at the Cincinnati campus of HUC-JIR. From 1974 to 2003, as “a major musical force in the Reform Jewish move-ment of North America,” as Ellenson put it, he “revolutionized the sound of liturgi-cal music with emphasis on rhythm to text through contemporary sensory interpre-tation of worship practice. He composed arrangements in combination for cantor, choir, with diverse instrumentation. With over 300 published compositions to his credit, Shur’s prolific output for the High Holidays, life cycle, Sabbath, and festivals has influenced every Reform Jewish con-gregation in North America.”
In Cincinnati, Shur collaborated musi-cally with Christian and Muslim com-munities. He continued composing and arranging up to the end of his life. At a tribute concert one year ago in Cincin-nati marking Shur’s 88th birthday, he was celebrated as a musical revolutionary and dubbed the creator of a “Nusach Amer-ica,” a now-classic set of uniquely Ameri-can synagogue tunes.
Among his many works beyond the synagogue, Shur turned Seattle writer Robert Fulghum’s book “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door” into a 1991 compo-sition for a 40-piece orchestra. The work
if you gothe Bonia shur tribute concert performed by the temple Beth am choir takes place during Kabbalat shabbat services on friday, april 5, at 8 p.m. at temple Beth am, 2632 Ne 80th st., seattle.
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Leave a Cup Outby Mike Selinker and Gaby Weidling
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At Passover, many families leave the east door open, and a cup of wine out for the prophet Elijah. Only the youngest present think it’s going to get consumed that day. It’s a metaphorical gesture, designed to show respect for the news a traveler might bring. In this puzzle, we’ve left some cups out for you. In each of 12 symmetrically aligned entries, you can place the answer before CUP to get a new word or phrase (e.g., LOVING or PUDDING). Raise your glass!
ACROSS1 Serenity director Whedon5 He played Christian in Moulin Rouge!9 “It ___ me!”14 Stuck in ___15 It may be part of a horror film16 Grouchy owner of Slimey17 Earth’s most intelligent species, per The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy18 Travels19 Valerie Harper sitcom20 Bibliography abbr.22 Like a varsity player24 More caustic, as a comment26 Cap27 Explosive substance28 “What was ___ do?”29 Shade of brown32 “The check is the mail,” maybe33 AOL competitor34 Ivan the Terrible, e.g.35 Boy in a Johnny Cash song36 Type of tape39 Toxic output of cigarettes40 Tiny amount41 He wants you44 Arid45 Toast topper47 “Waterfalls” trio48 ___-wee Herman49 Insult50 Gets on the podium52 Western Hemisphere lands55 Force56 Cosmetic procedure57 Greatest60 Sacha Baron Cohen character62 Maker of Chocolat Razberi and Ohranj
vodkas, for short63 Huron, e.g.64 Pixar fish65 Portable Plains dwelling66 She sang over the closing credits of The
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DOWN 1 Type of session2 Positions3 What a vacuum cleaner has4 Place5 Silly Putty container6 Court7 Length times width8 Crunch producer9 Planet10 Tennis great Arthur11 Aberdeen Terrier, popularly12 Woman to whom Chuck Berry sings,
“Honey, is that you?”13 Plot of land21 Hannibal the Cannibal23 Hasten24 Virtual person in a series of PC games25 Pink, to Carlos30 Fourth notes in a scale31 Oft-seen symbols on a slot machine32 Drag35 Caught36 Month featuring Mother’s Day37 Do what a zombie does38 One of 12 allowed at an express checkout,
perhaps39 “Rock-a-bye Baby” locale41 The Devil Wears Prada co-star Tucci42 Like a still-standing record43 Hosts, briefly44 Take away responsibility from45 Pen brand46 Functional48 Beer with a blue ribbon49 Nickname for the South51 Keaton or Sawyer53 Part54 Penn of Mystic River58 Celestial dome59 Boston Harbor contents on December 16,
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Bonia Shur in the ’70s.
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‘Follow Me’ tracks an Israeli hero’s journey to entebbeMichael fox special to JTnews
The unexpectedly lovely documentary “Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story” reminds us what an unequivocal Israeli hero looks like.
A portrait of the life and times of the only Israeli casualty of the stunning long-distance rescue of the Jewish hostages at Entebbe in 1976, Ari Daniel Pinchot and Jonathan Gruber’s excellent film hearkens to a time before black and white blurred into a morass of gray.
“Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story” is now available on DVD after play-ing several Jewish film festivals and receiv-ing a very limited theatrical release.
Israel owned the moral high ground on the world stage after the massacre of its athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and continued to hold it as PLO operatives and sympathizers followed that “success” with a wave of international hijackings and hos-tage taking in the next few years. At home, however, national morale suffered from the heavy Yom Kippur War casualties, widely attributed to a lack of preparedness and poor decision-making.
When Palestinian terrorists seized an Air France jet en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and diverted it to Uganda, Israel stuck to its staunch policy of not negotiat-ing for hostages. Bloodshed on a massive scale appeared inevitable until the surprise hit-and-run raid by an elite squad of Israeli soldiers — under the command of Lieu-tenant Colonel Yonathan Netanyahu — saved a hundred innocent lives and gave the nation a huge shot of pride and con-fidence.
This gripping chronology of events is intercut with Netanyahu’s compelling biography, which is largely unknown even to those with distinct memories of the exhilarating triumph at Entebbe. “Follow Me” is almost entirely in English and thus seems primarily aimed at American audi-ences, although it has no discernible polit-ical (or even generalized anti-war) agenda.
The eldest of three brothers, Yoni Netanyahu was born in New York City in 1946 and raised in the new State of Israel. His father was a professor and editor-in-chief of an encyclopedia, and scholars often visited their home. During Yoni’s adolescence, the family returned to the States twice for year-plus sojourns to accommodate his father’s research.
“I yearn for a place that’s narrow, hot, filthy,” a frustrated Yoni wrote from the comfortable Philadelphia suburb where they resided when he was 16. “A place that’s mostly desert and one can scarcely find on a map of the world.”
It’s apparent from photographs and the recollections of his brothers (includ-ing Benjamin, the current prime minister), lovers and fellow soldiers that Yoni was charismatic, with the open face and strik-ing good looks of a young Pierce Brosnan.
He belonged to a generation of youth-
ful nation-builders, and his first allegiance was to the State of Israel — even if it meant relinquishing certain goals. Wounded in the Six-Day War, Yoni married his sweet-heart and moved to Boston to attend Har-vard. But the pull of Israel, and the pull of the army, was so strong that they returned after just one year.
Yoni somehow finagled his way back into the military, even though he couldn’t bend or straighten his injured arm, and he was assigned to a top unit entrusted with risky and usually top-secret missions. An exceptional commitment was required, and he willingly made it even at the cost of his marriage.
There are telltale clues in his letters, and in his appreciation of poetry, that Netan-yahu was a multidimensional person capa-ble not just of leadership but reflection. Surprisingly, “Follow Me” doesn’t accen-tuate his lost potential for non-military contributions, nor does it invite any of the interviewees to contemplate how this deeply thoughtful, highly educated Zionist would have dealt with the invasion of Leb-
anon, or the construction of settlements on the West Bank.
“Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story” is a valuable, well-crafted and emo-tionally resonant addition to the video library of Israeli history, but it doesn’t stray beyond its boundaries. The ramifi-cations of these events, and the ways in which Israel and the world have changed in the ensuing 35 years, are left to the viewer to mull.
The film doesn’t explore the impact of the Entebbe raid on Bibi’s politics, for example, although one might assume that the combat death of a revered older brother would make someone less willing to compromise with enemies.
We also might consider, without expressing anything but happiness for the younger soldier, how the notion of an Israeli hero has evolved from Yoni Netan-yahu to Gilad Shalit.
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Yoni netanyahu with his girlfriend Bruria in 1975.
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“This is the unit that was basically responsible for Palestinians that are not involved in the conflict — the civilians — to ensure that they won’t get affected [by] the conflict, or at least minimize the effect from the conflict as much as we can,” he said.
While he said he received plenty of pushback from angry Palestinians, “the people that knew us and knew what COGAT is doing,” he said, “were really welcoming and really supportive to us.”
After he left the army in May 2012, but before he begins his university career in London this fall, where he is deciding between majors in law or international
relations, Mazzig was trying to figure out what to do with himself. When he saw the StandWithUs shaliach opportunity arise, he jumped at it and they bit.
It’s a volunteer position — he receives home hospitality, use of a car donated by a community members, and a small stipend for expenses.
Last year’s shaliach spoke to 9,000 people in the community, said Rob Jacobs, StandWithUs Northwest’s executive director. Jacobs hopes Mazzig will be able to reach even more.
“It’s been very effective because once somebody is in the community for a long enough period of time, we’re able to get them out more broadly,” Jacobs said.
Mazzig said he has enjoyed most of his encounters thus far.
“What I like the most about Stand WithUs is their purpose is education,” he said. “They want to have an open discussion.”
As Mazzig documented in an arti-cle reprinted in JTNews — along with a
response piece from Jewish Voice for Peace — not everybody is interested in that open discussion. As someone who strongly sup-ports peace, he had a rude awakening at a screening of the film “5 Broken Cameras,” by Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat when he and other Israelis in the room were shouted down and violently confronted.
“I was shocked by the people there. I was really shocked,” he said. “I came there thinking Jewish Voice for Peace would be a better experience.”
That American organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace and the Palestin-ian group that sponsored the film, which he saw as stifling others’ opinions, was an experience far different from what he would expect in his home country.
“Even in Israel, there are a lot of left-wing organizations that people tend to think that [we] Israelis are opposing them,” he said. “Not at all. This organi-zation just proved that Israel is what it is: That it’s a democracy.”
was part of the Minneapolis Chamber Symphony’s commissioned “Variations on a Theme from Kindergarten,” based on three of Fulghum’s bestselling books. The orchestra tuned not to the oboe, but to the hum of the refrigerator.
Temple Beth Am music director Wendy Marcus, who is organizing the April 5 Shabbat tribute, studied with Shur in a summer intensive in Cincinnati. She says that as far as she can tell, the Seattle trib-ute seems to be the first memorial tribute to Shur anywhere.
Marcus praises Shur not only for his compositional skills, but also “as a brilliant arranger, an arranger for the ages.
“He was a very adamant as a conduc-tor,” Marcus said. “When he worked with a choir, he had a vision and he wanted people to sing his vision. It really felt like we were interacting with one of the greats.”
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Chocolate shakes up the seder ritualdeboRah pRinz JTa World news service
New York (JTA) — Rabbi Adam Schaf-fer, who’s been leading chocolate seders since he edited a chocolate seder Hagga-dah in 1996, acknowledges that “people often do feel ill” from all the chocolate.
Still, Schaffer, the religious school director at Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills, Calif., says he was motivated to “experiment outside the box and engage college students who were not in the usual Hillel track,” and found that the chocolate seder took things to a “fun level, helping make connections for people, re-contex-tualizing the seder.”
In the last couple of decades, col-lege campus groups and synagogue youth groups have concocted the seders that replace the ritual foods with chocolate. There is green-colored chocolate for the karpas/lettuce; chocolate-covered nuts for the charoset mix of nuts, apples, and wine representing mortar used in building for the Pharoah; a chocolate egg for the roasted egg symbolizing the Passover sacrifice; a very dark chocolate (90 to 100 percent cocoa) for the bitter herbs or maror. You get the idea.
A chocolate-soaked seder may help sugar-hyped participants absorb the ritu-al’s teachings about freedom. An alterna-tive to wallowing in the gooey substitutes for the usual ritual foods, as entertaining as that might be, could use chocolate to name
the issues of slavery, economic justice, and fair trade in the chocolate business and to elevate the profound themes of Passover.
My chocolate Haggadah amplifies awareness about ethical quandaries around chocolate, and challenges partic-ipants to consider labor justice and spot-light Passover’s underlying messages of freedom, dignity, and fairness.
In “A Socially Responsible Hagga-dah for a Chocolate Seder,” chocolate becomes the medium for uncovering teachings about ethical kashrut, worker equity, and food sustainability to celebrate those who toil, often in great poverty, to grow and harvest cacao, including chil-dren and young adults — some of them in bondage in the Ivory Coast and Ghana’s cocoa plantations. The Haggadah hopes for a harvesting of the fruits of productive, meaningful, and safe labors.
The custom of three matzohs — the chocolate Haggadah version uses chocolate-covered — recalls tikkun olam, our ongoing struggle to perfect the world, as we consider responsibility for the contrast between the limited resources of most cacao growers and the wealthy consumers of chocolate. When we cover our matzoh with chocolate, we recall that not only are we descended from slaves in Egypt, but we also recall child slaves on cocoa plantations of our time.
As we prepare to celebrate Passover this year, may we feel assured that we have helped advance the messianic era through our tantalizing array of chocolate choices, not just chocolate matzah.
Rabbi Deborah Prinz is the author of “A
Socially Responsible Haggadah for a Chocolate Seder,” which may be found at her blog, www.jews-onthechocolatetrail.org. Her latest book is “On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao” (Jewish Lights).
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Chabad–lubavitch congregations from all over the state brought in the kids for their Model Matzoh Bakery, teaching them how kosher-for-Passover matzoh is made by letting them bake it themselves.
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deny it, there it is, generation to genera-tion: A full menu of Jewish torment. Iron-ically, at the time of its being written in the Hagaddah itself, back in the second cen-tury — this paragraph was far less men-acing and knotty. Now, at the time of its reading, about 1,900 or so years later, we’ve gotten so many additional anti-Semitic pogroms and persecutions under
our collective belt. That said, this prayer is recited, with
a glass of wine, salvation, in hand, and is meant to be a prayer of gratitude. What are we missing? What is its message?
Our paragraph is found in the section of the Hagaddah that offers an answer to the question asked by the children: Why is this night different from all other nights? We lovingly tell them our story. We were slaves in Egypt, we begin. But it did not
start there. Our story goes way back to our ancestor’s family, to Abraham, who came from idol worshippers. Then there was a covenant. There would be the promise of a land, and the experience of slavery, and then freedom. This is what has stood by us. No matter what, or when, God saves us. This is our story. It is timeless and true. This covenant has stood by us. That’s one interpretation.
Rabbi Twersky suggests that what has stood by us — ironically — is this very stream of persecution. As in the aphorism “when it is good for the Jews it is bad for Judaism and when it is bad for the Jews it is good for Judaism,” this constant stream of persecution has stood by us. It has for-tified us, made us stronger. Rabbi Lehman of 19th-century Mainz noticed we are a long-lasting people. Other nations from antiquity have faded away. Our fortitude to withstand suffering with the help of God has made us a people of endurance.
That cup of wine that we raise, says Rabbi Soloveitchik, represents our des-tiny. There will always be a Pharaoh. There will always be an Egypt, a drama. We are a lonely people. The Hagaddah is our eternal story, the Exodus a constant. We stead-fastly take our cup of destiny in hand.
For Elie Wiesel, though, there is wonder about the veracity of our salva-tion — we are a people who have sur-vived. For Shlomo Carlebach, we are the chosen people. He was wont to say, “Let’s not talk about killers, are they what makes me a Jew? Can you imagine how holy these people were? God meant more to them than life.”
Finally, the Lubavitcher Rebbe reminds us that within each of us is an enemy. It rises against us. It doesn’t allow us to be our best self. Enter God’s eternal uncon-ditional promise: With it we can persevere against our inner challenges no matter how daunting, even when we must face them at the seder itself.
So we grapple with that which vexes us most. We consider and reconsider and notice our reactions to things that rub us the wrong way. Is there something in them to which we are drawn and yet afraid to face? For this prayer, that is no surprise.
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Move over, elijah: Interfaith kids are joining the sederdeboRah finebluM Raub Jns.org
When you have youngsters from inter-faith families at your seder table, it can’t help but up the Passover ante.
Maybe you are the kids’ auntie, or their grandparent, cousin, neighbor or friend. And maybe, just maybe, you’re their parent. Whatever your relation-ship, what you need to know is that this may be the first seder these children have ever attended. You are in the driver’s seat, having been given this precious opportu-nity to make sure it won’t be the last.
The entire purpose of the seder is to inspire the next generation with the drama of the defining moment when God set us free after 210 bitter years of Egyptian slavery — and to do it in a highly mem-orable way. That’s not to say you’ll need to don the costumes of Moses, Miriam and the Pharaoh (more on that later) and act out the Exodus. But it does mean that, for many of these kids, your seder will go down in their memory as the definition of what a seder is. So, you want it to have lasting impact. And that takes a little plan-ning, so…
Plant the Seeds. Why not drop off (or if they live at a distance, pop into the mail) a copy of the Haggadah you’ll be using? Note: if the kids don’t know
Hebrew, it helps if the songs are trans-literated. Encourage the parents to teach the Four Questions to their offspring. For a refresher on the tune, visit You-Tube and search for “Four Questions” to play the Shalom Sesame video. You can also ask all of the children to bring a pic-ture they’ve drawn of something they’re looking forward to at the seder.
Play Hide-and-Go-Seek the Afiko-men Way. Some families’ tradition calls for the leader to stash the precious bit of matzoh in a fiendishly clever kid-proof hiding place. Others allow the younger guests to squirrel it away, which turns into a game of wits as the kids team up to out-smart the adults. Either way, remember to have a special “prize” handy for redeeming this important ritual dessert.
Let Those Special Passover Foods Talk. Charoset resembles the bricks we were forced to make, and then build Egyp-tian cities with. Hot horseradish, for the suffering of slavery. Salt water, remind-ing us of our people’s bitter tears as we pleaded with God to set us free. Don’t just provide the necessary food items, take the children through what they represent. Seders wrote the book on multi-sensory learning as we literally eat the story of our
freedom. Keep the Noshes Flowing. Speaking
of food (this being, after all, a Jewish holi-day), since it can be a long dry spell until the meal is served, you’ll be investing in the kids’ cheerful dispositions — and their parents’ gratitude — if you keep a bowl of carrot sticks and dip or nuts at the table.
Why Stop at Four? As in questions, not cups of wine. Encourage each child who’s old enough to ask at least one ques-tion of his or her own. And then answer them patiently, honestly and with respect. This can turn into a lively game of “Stump the Leader,” as you issue a friendly chal-lenge to the kids (and adults, too) to try to ask a Passover question you can’t answer.
Give it Over Simply. The traditional Haggadah tells the story of our peo-ple’s release from Egyptian slavery in the roundabout way we have come to love over the years. But, let’s face it: Simple it ain’t. Helping lend drama and fun to the telling are the pre-packaged plague bags (filled with small tchotchkes, each rep-resenting a plague) and assorted collec-tions of plague masks and puppets. These have gained popularity for a reason: They work, delighting the youngsters and keep-ing them engaged. You may also want to
have some scarves and sheets handy for dressing up as the key players in the Pass-over story so that, during the telling, the kids (and grown-ups who’ve had enough Manischewitz) can play a role.
Pass the Baby Moses. Wrap an ordi-nary doll in a towel fastened by a safety pin and voila! It’s Baby Moses. Give each child a turn to take care of him as you tell the story of his dramatic rescue by three heroic women — his mother Yocheved, big sister Miriam, and Egyptian princess Batya.
Sing It Loud, Sing It Proud. No seder is complete without rousing (and typi-cally off-key) renditions of such tradi-tional favorites as, Eliyahu Hanavi, Chad Gadyah, Adir Hu and Dayenu. The latter is a perfect opportunity to explain how grateful we are to God for each and every gift given us, even those we often take for granted. Again, if your Haggadah doesn’t have transliterations, here’s where an Internet search can prove useful in com-piling song sheets to print out.
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a more inclusive definition of freedomgaRY SMith special to JTnews
For the last three years, my friends and I have celebrated “veder” — a vegan Pass-over seder.
The animal-protection community is full of Jewish vegans, and many of us find it difficult to sit through a typical seder at a table filled with the body parts of the animals that we love and fight so hard for. However, the meaning and purpose of the holiday is something we connect to very deeply as social justice activists, and, let’s be frank, we missed the flavors and feel-ings of the dishes we grew up eating.
We wanted to create new traditions that included the traditions of our ances-tors, but also included the enslavement and oppression of non-human animals. We were also excited by the challenge of recreating and veganizing dishes we grew up with, such as brisket, gefilte fish, matzoh ball soup and potato latkes.
We weren’t exactly sure what we were creating, only that we wanted to make sure we acknowledged and honored the bil-lions of animals exploited for food, cloth-ing, entertainment and scientific research. We wrote an adapted Haggadah that told their stories, which connected the Jewish people’s escape from slavery with the cur-rent enslavement of animals.
We tell the stories of the cows exploited for dairy, who have their children stolen away in their first 48 hours of their lives so humans can drink the milk their bodies produce for their newborns. We tell the stories of the egg-laying hens living in filth, crammed in cages their entire lives until they no longer produce eggs at the rate industry deems sufficient, and are then met with a violent death. We tell the stories of cows, veal calves, lambs, pigs, turkeys, and chickens who live under hor-
rendous conditions until they meet their ends by the slit of a knife across their throats or a bolt in their foreheads.
The saddest part of their stories is that none of this is necessary. We don’t have a biological need to eat their body parts or secretions, to wear their skins, or be enter-tained by their exploitation. We do so out of habit, tradition and palate desires. The Pharoah enslaved Jews not because of any real-world need, only because he viewed them as lesser beings. This is how we view nonhuman animals today, and Jewish vegans are particularly sensitive to this reality.
Jews and ethical vegans share common values including a belief in justice, fair-ness, equality and compassion. Both tribes believe unnecessary suffering is wrong. The Passover story reminds us that free-dom is one of the greatest entitlements we all have. It reminds us that slavery is no longer acceptable, and viewing and treat-ing each other as property has no place in a just and fair world.
As ethical vegans, we fight for the free-dom of other animals. We fight for their
right to not be viewed and used as prop-erty. We believe and act as if all sentient beings have the right to freedom.
And so we indulge in rich, flavorful foods, drink many glasses of wine, enjoy each other’s company, but we also remem-ber the obligation we have as Jews, which is to fight against oppression, to fight against violence, to fight for justice and compassion.
Gary Smith is co-founder of Evolotus (www.evolotuspr.com), a PR agency that specializes in health and wellness, spirituality, animal protection, natural foods, documentary films, non-profits and socially beneficial companies. He also founded The Thinking Vegan blog and has written for Elephant Journal, the Jewish Journal of L.A. and for Mother Nature Network.
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Kayla will celebrate her Bat Mitzvah on March 23, 2013 at Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue.
Kayla is the daughter of Janice and Marshall Brumer of Bellevue and the sister of Megan and Jessica. Her grandparents are Shirley and Edmond Goldstein of Bothell, Dorothy Brumer of Huntington Beach, Calif., and the late Eugene Brumer.
Kayla is a 7th-grader at the Jewish Day School. She enjoys volleyball, cheer, reading, and hanging out with her friends. For her mitzvah project, she is helping to support animals in need at zoos in the Pacific Northwest.
DeathMaurice M. EpsteinDecember 11, 1925–March 3, 2013
Maurice was a life-long resident of Seattle. After graduating from Garfield High School in 1944 he enlisted in the army, where he served in Japan and Korea until 1947. Upon his return, he completed his undergraduate studies and law school at the University of Washington, and then married the love of his life, Muriel Marsh. Maurice began his legal career with the Washington State Attorney General’s office, followed by the King County Prosecutor’s Office, then transitioned to private practice with respected friend and partner John Hay. In 1978 he became court commissioner for King County, where he served on the bench until retiring in 1995. Throughout his career, Maurice showed all who knew him the importance of always doing what you love.
Maurice (Moe) was the youngest of seven and was preceded in death by his parents, Sophie and Samuel Epstein, his sister, Minnie, and brothers Arthur, Irving, Herbert, Leonard, and Sollie. Moe leaves behind Muriel, his wife of 56 years; his two sisters-in-law Irene and Libby; his children, Rob (Betsy), Esa (Brian) and his grandchildren Forrest, Maya, Ella and Isaac; nine nephews, Burt (Mozelle), Larry (Jean), Larry (Rosie), Ronnie (Olga), Steve (Charlene), Eugene (Linnea), David (Lorena), Jeff (Kelly), and Jeremy; four nieces, Sandy, Frances, Deborah and Rebecca (Rick); many great-nieces, great-nephews and devoted friends.
Growing up with his family in Seattle’s largely Jewish neighborhood (now the Central District), Moe became a Bar Mitzvah at Herzl Conservative Congregation on 20th and Spruce, where his family were longtime members. In 1957 he and Muriel, of Pendleton, Oregon, were married at Herzl by Rabbi Joseph Wagner. After moving to the Eastside, they became members of Congregation Ner Tamid in Lake Hills, Bellevue, and were part of its original congregation. When the two synagogues joined in 1970, Moe sat on the committee overseeing the merger and subsequent creation of Congregation Herzl-Ner Tamid on Mercer Island. Moe served on the HNT board during the 1970s. He and Muriel’s son and daughter became B’nai Mitzvah at Herzl in the 1980s.
Maurice Epstein lived his life to the fullest. He always had a kind word for everyone and will be remembered for his humor, his caring, and his love. He will be missed very much.
Services were held March 6, 2013 at Herzl Memorial Park, 16500 Dayton Ave. N., Seattle. Please make any donations to Jewish Family Service.
DeathEve Rozsa SennOctober 23, 1944–February 24, 2013
Eve Rozsa Senn, 68, died on February 24, 2013. Eve was born October 28, 1944 to Lisa and Imre Rozsa in Nairobi, Kenya, where she was also raised by her grandmother Selma, a Holocaust survivor. Eve graduated high school in Kenya and then traveled through Europe before attending university in England. Eve met and married Dick Senn in 1964. While living in Switzerland, their first child, Mara, was born. Careers led the family back to Chicago coinciding with the birth of their second daughter, Tana. From there, the family moved to California. Eve’s marriage to Dick ended in divorce. Putting her travel experiences and love of people to work, Eve was a vice president for Abercrombie & Kent, sending clients and friends on the most exotic of holidays and safaris. After life adventures living and traveling around the world and raising a family in Pacific Palisades, Eve moved to Santa Barbara and was a frequent visitor to the Seattle area. Always committed to community, Eve dedicated herself to Santa Barbara Hillel, Music Academy of the West, and Jewish Family Service. Eve lived life to the fullest at every turn. She appreciated beauty, nature, and friendship. She positively affected everyone she met with her warmth and storytelling abilities. Her unique accent and charm made her an amazing fundraiser for many causes. She loved singing, painted beautiful pottery, had an amazing green thumb and was the best granny in the world. Surviving Eve are her
greatest joys — her two daughters, Tana Senn (husband Kevin Flaherty) of Mercer Island, and their children, beloved grandchildren Benjamin and Rachel; Mara Senn (husband Chris Michaels) of Potomac, Md., and their children, beloved grandsons Aaron and Seth; sister Julia Smith (husband Howard) of Santa Barbara; and brother Johnny Rozsa of NY, NY. Memorial contributions may be made to Community Health Africa, P.O. Box 40529, Bellevue, WA 98015-4529 or online at communityheatlhafrica.org.
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Jews find early signs from Pope Francis encouragingRuth ellen gRubeR JTa World news service
ROME (JTA) — When the white smoke rose last week at the Vatican, signaling to the world the College of Cardinals had chosen a new pope, Catholics weren’t the only ones waiting with bated breath.
Jews, too, were eager to see whether the new pontiff would be someone familiar with their concerns.
Would he be a non-European unfamil-iar with the Jewish people and the weighty legacy of the Holocaust? Would he carry on the legacy of his immediate predeces-sors and work to further Jewish-Catholic relations?
After the new pope appeared before the masses in St. Peter’s Square, it didn’t take long for him to signal that he would main-tain the church’s outreach to Jews. Nor did it take long for the Jews to sing his praises.
As it turns out, Pope Francis, 76 — né Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina — was from outside Europe and had a long history of interfaith outreach and good relations with the Jews.
The new pontiff “is no stranger to us,” World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder, who met with Bergoglio in Buenos Aires in 2008, said in a statement. “He always had an open ear for our concerns.
“By choosing such an experienced man, someone who is known for his open-
mindedness, the cardinals have sent an important signal to the world,” Lauder said. “I am sure that Pope Francis will con-tinue to be a man of dialogue, a man who is able to build bridges with other faiths.”
Like Benedict before him, Francis, in one of his first official acts, wrote to Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni. He invited Di Segni to the papal inaugu-ral Mass and said he hoped “to be able to contribute to the progress that relations between Jews and Catholics have experi-enced” since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s.
The election of Francis, Di Segni wrote back, “gives us the hope that the path of friendship, respect and productive collab-oration will continue.”
On Saturday, the pope went out of his way to acknowledge non-Catholics in a blessing offered to news media.
“Given that many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are not believers, I give this blessing from my heart, in silence, to each one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you, but knowing that each one of you is a child of God,” Francis said in his address, according to The New York Times. “May God bless you.”
Pope John Paul II had made outreach
to Jews one of the pillars of his papacy. His successor, Benedict XVI, continued dialogue with the Jews but also made sev-eral policy decisions that angered Jews, including lifting the excommunication of a renegade bishop who turned out to be a Holocaust denier.
While a staunch conservative on social issues such as gay marriage, female priests and abortion, Francis spent years working among the poor and made interfaith out-reach one of his priorities.
“The Latin American Jewish Congress has had a close relationship with Mon-signor Jorge Bergoglio for many years,” said Claudio Epelman, executive director of the congress. “We know his virtues and have no doubt whatsoever that he will do an excellent job for the church.”
As archbishop of Buenos Aires, his relationship with Argentinian Jews was personal as well as institutional.
His only book, “Regarding Heaven and Earth,” is the transcript of wide-ranging conversations between himself and Rabbi Abraham Skorka, the rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary. Francis and the rabbi also shared billing on an Argentin-ian TV talk show on religious issues.
Francis has referred to Skorka as his “brother and friend.” The then-cardinal
attended services at Skorka’s synagogue and also arranged for Skorka to receive an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Argentina.
Francis also wrote the foreword to a book by another Buenos Aires rabbi and civic activist, Sergio Bergman.
“Bergoglio is a master,” Bergman wrote in the Argentinian media after Francis’ election. “True to my Jewish roots and rabbinical vocation, inside my home com-munity and the entire Argentine society, I found in Francis a teacher who heard me, guided me and advised me on how to deploy my vocation to serve both the Creator and his creatures in defiance of common good.”
Last December, Bergoglio joined Berg-man and other Jewish leaders and repre-sentatives of other faiths in lighting the Hanukkah candles.
Francis is cited with particular warmth by Argentinian Jews for showing soli-darity with the Jewish community fol-lowing the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that left 85 dead. The attack, Francis told the Argentinian media, was “another link in the chain of pain and persecution that God’s chosen people has suffered throughout history.”
