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2014 ISRAEL PROGRAMS

2014

ISRAEL

PROGRAMSG t Irae!


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Teen ScholarshipsThe Jewish Federations IsraelScholarship Program enables teens to

participate in an Israel experienceto develop and enrich their Jewisheducation and reinforce theirJewish identity.

The Federation supports both need-basedscholarships and incentive grants.

Application DeadlinesFriday, January 16, 2015(Priority deadline for need-based scholarship applica-tions. Sole deadline for incentive grant applications.)

Friday, March 27, 2015(Second round deadline for need-basedscholarship applications.)

Wine & Culinary Tour:A Taste of Israel Like

No Other!Discover Israels culinary delights andfine wines on a tour taking place inMay 2015. Restaurant dining, outdoormarket visits, wine tasting, chocolatemaking, fruit picking, hands-on cook-ing classes, and much more!

Visit www.jewishinseattle.orgoverseasmissions for details.

Birthright TripsThe Jewish Federation supportsthe Taglit-Birthright Israel program,

which sends young adults onlife-changing trips to Israel.The experience is amazing:exploring Jerusalem, floating in theDead Sea, hiking up Masada, andmuch more in the company of your fel-low young adults. You will make life-time memories and new friends. Sum-mer 2015 registration opensTuesday, February 3, 2015!

Find out more atwww.hilleluw.org/programs/israel OF GREATER SEATTLE

www.jewishinseattle.org

Experience Israel!The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattleoffers you opportunities to engage

with Israel first-hand.



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A taste of Old Jerusalem, right here at home

JOEL MAGALNICK Editor, JTNewsSomewhere in the deepest nooks and

crannies o Jerusalems old city is a small ac-

tory that churns out thousands o pieces o

round pita bread each day. Sofer and more

pillowy than the more dime-a-dozen variety

ound in the local shouks, it was these pitas

that inspired Jeff Alhadeff as a student nearly20 years ago.

You know Howard Schultzs story, how

he went to Italy and was going rom coffee

shop to coffee shop and alling in love?

Alhadeff, 37, says. I elt like I was in the

eternal capital o the Jewish people, I was

mostly studying, I was involved in religious

pursuits and inspired the way I wanted to

be. On the side, I thought, this [pita] is really

good here and we do not get this at home.

Upon his return to Seattle, or about 16

years, Alhadeff tinkered on and off with rec-

ipes and baking techniques, different types

o flour, different techniques o shaping,

baking, that kind o stuff, he says. Finally,

about a year ago, when he acquired a pot that

reaches very high temperatures, he ound the

right combination.

Once youre able to get that high o a

temperature, it really makes the pitot incred-

ibly different rom what you can produce in a

conventional oven, he says. So I decided to

start a business on a simple level.

In October, Old City Pita was born.

When Alhadeff calls the business simple,

he means it. He has no plans to give up his

sofware-industry job, and as a one-man

show theres a limit to the amount o pita

he can make.

Te thing about pitot in particular is

theyre airly labor intensive, and so unless I

get to be incredibly aster at shaping them,

in order or me to produce this quality prod-

uct Id like to make its not a easible ull-

time proession, he says.

Te alternative, hiring people to do the

grunt work and the baking, is not some-

thing Alhadeff is yet ready to hand off.

I like doing all o it mysel, he says.

At this point, the only way to get an

eight-pack o Old City Pita is to order them

online through Alhadeffs Facebook page

at www.acebook.com/OldCityPita. Cus-

tomers can both sign up to be placed on

the email list and to place orders. In his

customer emails, Alhadeff announces his

baking days and when packages will be

available or pickup rom his home.

Te type o pita he makes are thick, with

a large pocket. Te ideal pita in my mind

hasa little bit o chewiness, a little bit o

toughness in the crust, and the dough is

going to have a chewy consistency, he says.

And, most important, he says, they

should be able to be completely stuffedwith as much protein and vegetables as you

can imagine to put in them and still hold

together.

In Seattle, he has yet to find anything

close.

Tough Alhadeff keeps a kosher home

and his riends trust hes baking to spec-

ifications o kashrut, they have not been

certified as such. Should the business con-

tinue to grow, he said Old City Pita would

seriously consider Vaad certification. He

operates under a Washington State Cot-

tage ood license, which allows him to bake

in his home. Te next big step, should he

take it, would likely mean moving to a

commercial kitchen that would require

rabbinic inspection to maintain his kosher

customers trust.

But hes not there yet. At this point,

Alhadeff is content to use his own kitchen

as the testing grounds or his love o bread

and a happy, satiated customer.

Te most gratiying part about this or

me is being able to provide people with an

experience that theyre not able to get in

Seattle otherwise, he says.

JEFF ALHADEFF

A batch of hot Old City Pita just pulled out of the

oven.

MERYL ALCABES PHOTOGRAPHY

Dr. Einat Wilf, senior fellow at the Jewish

People Policy Institute in Jerusalem, speaks

at Town Hall Seattle about the state of Israe

in the world on Dec. 14. The annua

StandWithUs Northwest event, which

honored Rabbi James Mirel, brought in a

crowd of 870.


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