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THE VOICE OF JEWISH WASHINGTON april 13, 2012 • 21 nisan 5772 • volume 88, no. 8 • $2 professionalwashington.com connecting our local Jewish community www.facebook.com/jtnews @jew_ish • @jewishdotcom • @jewishcal 7 8 10 24 poverty is local messy mapmaking young philanthropists a coming of age Obama administration is ready for Iran talks — but is Iran? RON KAMPEAS JTA World News Service WASHINGTON (JTA) — e Obama administration has its Iran ducks in a row: Tehran is coming to the table, Israel is sitting still, most of the world’s major oil buyers and sellers are on board with the sanctions effort, and Congress is in an agreeable mood. Ducks, though, have a tendency to wander off. Iran might not stay at the table, or it might offer delaying tactics that peel off support for sanctions by U.S. allies. Israeli leaders are skittish about alleged Obama administration leaks that they believe are aimed at heading off an Israeli military response. Republicans in Congress, while pleas- antly surprised at the administration’s diligence at keeping to the sanctions timeline, are worried the administration could offer too much at the talks. Iran is not likely to deliver the concessions the United States is likely to seek, said Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst at the Rand Corp., a think tank that oſten consults with government. “e issue between Iran and the United States is not the nuclear pro- gram,” he said. “ere is a perception among Iran’s leaders that Iran is engaged in a conflict with the United States and the nuclear program is part of the conflict. ey believe that if Iran makes compromises under pressure, it makes Iran looks weak.” Iran is ready for talks in Istanbul on April 13 with the world’s major powers, including the United States, on its nuclear program. It is not clear X PAGE 26 JOEL MAGALNICK At times the rush was frantic, but Emuna David, left, and Laura Hedeen, both undergraduate students at the University of Washington, were able to take a short breather from serving the appetizers — gefilte fish and matzoh ball soup — during Hillel at the UW’s annual Passover community lunch on Tuesday.

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t h e v o i c e o f j e w i s h w a s h i n g t o n

april 13, 2012 • 21 nisan 5772 • volume 88, no. 8 • $2

professionalwashington.comconnecting our local Jewish community

www.facebook.com/jtnews@jew_ish • @jewishdotcom • @jewishcal

7 8 10 24

poverty is local messy mapmaking young philanthropists a coming of age

Obama administration is ready for Iran talks — but is Iran?Ron Kampeas JTA World News Service

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration has its Iran ducks in a row: Tehran is coming to the table, Israel is sitting still, most of the world’s major oil buyers and sellers are on board with the sanctions effort, and Congress is in an agreeable mood.

Ducks, though, have a tendency to wander off. Iran might not stay at the table, or it might offer delaying tactics that peel off support for sanctions by U.S. allies. Israeli leaders are skittish about alleged Obama administration leaks that they believe are aimed at heading off an Israeli military response. Republicans in Congress, while pleas-antly surprised at the administration’s diligence at keeping to the sanctions timeline, are worried the administration could offer too much at the talks.

Iran is not likely to deliver the concessions the United States is likely to seek, said Alireza Nader, an Iran analyst at the Rand Corp., a think tank that often consults with government.

“The issue between Iran and the United States is not the nuclear pro-gram,” he said. “There is a perception among Iran’s leaders that Iran is engaged in a conflict with the United States and the nuclear program is part of the conflict. They believe that if Iran makes compromises under pressure, it makes Iran looks weak.”

Iran is ready for talks in Istanbul on April 13 with the world’s major powers, including the United States, on its nuclear program. It is not clear

X Page 26

Joel MAgAlNick

At times the rush was frantic, but Emuna David, left, and Laura Hedeen, both undergraduate students at the University of Washington, were able to take a short breather from serving the appetizers — gefilte fish and matzoh ball soup — during Hillel at the UW’s annual Passover community lunch on Tuesday.

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letters to the editorthe rabbi’s turn

“It is shocking to me that anybody would ever feel so worthless and meaningless that their child, having been bullied to a point of suicide, wasn’t worthy of the world’s attention.”— Oz Fishman, BBYO’s international co-president, on the effects of extreme bullying. A story about what the Jewish community is doing about it appears on page 20.

WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We would love to hear from you! Our guide to writing a letter to the editor can be found at www.jtnews.net/index.php?/letters_guidelines.html,

but please limit your letters to approximately 350 words. The deadline for the next issue is April 17. Future deadlines may be found online.

What happens at the seder (doesn’t) stay at the sederRabbi DaviD Fine Union for Reform Judaism

Years ago I passed a sign-board whose message has remained with me. “Reli-gion is what happens after the sermon.” Simple and pow-erful.

We are at the tail end of Passover. The rituals of the seder are behind us — or are they? I think the true impact of the seder is not on the one or two nights it is observed, but rather as a booster for the entire year. Take these days, a halfway point on the Jewish cal-endar to Rosh Hashanah, as a marker for what you want your year — or your life to be. Follow up on the message of Passover.

A scan of just four Passover ingre-dients, elements of the seder — though there are many more — will lead us in this direction.

Bedikat Chametz: The search for leaven — for that which puffs up. Just as yeast left to sit and rise puffs up baked goods, so too arrogance and pride can inflate a person if ignored. At Passover we seek out the leaven in our homes as a way to create distinction. How healthy it is, spiritually and physically, to con-sciously rid ourselves of conceit. Passover is an opportunity to look inward — into the home of our souls —and to adjust our own living.

Ha Lachma Anya: This is poor peo-ple’s bread. We declare this at the first appearance of matzoh at the seder. Who would order an item made solely of flour and water at a festive meal? At Pass-over we identify with those lacking food choices, who cannot choose what they will eat. How are we going to see to it that others have food to eat? Do we contrib-ute to MAZON — A Jewish Response to Hunger? Do we contribute to Leket Israel,

which distributes 220 tons of food a week to the hungry in Israel? Do we work at a food bank? Do we grow food and distribute to others?

Dayenu: It would have been enough. This is our paean to freedom. We recount the steps of liberation. Each one would have satisfied us, so long as we would have left

Egypt — Mitzrayim. In Hebrew the word literally means the most constricted of places. How are we fortifying others to depart their own internal or external mitz-rayim? Are we working collectively to end slavery, which still exists in Sudan, in the cocoa fields of Ivory Coast, or the broth-els of Cambodia and even in the streets of American cities? How are we partnering with others to release economic shackles and bring about justice?

Birkat HaMazon: Blessing after a full meal. This is intended to remind us to acknowledge the gifts and blessings that we have, rather than focusing on what we lack. In a larger sense, it calls us to aware-ness and to express our appreciation — to the Divine and to each other. Seek out opportunities for expressing gratitude. This not only increases social capital, but more important it changes our own inter-nal compass, directing us toward our gifts and responsibility to others.

The Talmud teaches that one should only pray in a room that has windows (Berachot 34b). One can read this as an admonition to know what is happen-ing in this world even as one reaches out beyond one’s self. Passover is an extended prayer. Keeps your eyes — and your mind — open. Celebrate Passover fully. May it last figuratively long after your seder is complete.

ADDITIOns TO THE TImELInEThe article “A chronology of the cancelled invitations to gay and lesbian Israelis” (March

30) left out important details. As one of the people who was present when the LGBT Com-mission made their decision to cancel the StandWithUs event and who later spoke at the City Council hearing in favor of their decision, I would like to fill in some gaps in the JTNews story.

At the Commission meeting on March 15, a group of LGBT Jewish and Palestinian activists urged the commissioners to reconsider their decision. Several Jewish Voice for Peace activists, myself included, explained that while we were not against hearing from individual LGBT Israe-lis, we could not support a tour backed by StandWithUs and the Israeli consulate.

We explained that this event was part of a larger strategy of pinkwashing, the Islamopho-bic strategy of positioning Israel as an oasis of gay freedom in the Middle East surrounded by uncivilized and homophobic Arabs, especially Palestinians.

Two Palestinian LGBT activists described how pinkwashing affected them and their com-munities. The commissioners were moved by their stories (at least two of the commissioners cried), and said that they hadn’t understood that holding this event would marginalize and invisiblize LGBT Palestinians.

Later, at the city council hearing, several Jewish and Palestinian activists spoke in favor of the cancellation, and Stefanie Fox, a Jewish Voice for Peace organizer (not Dean Spade as the JTNews states), presented the letter of 3,500 signatures in support of the cancellation.

Why did the JTNews interview only people who were against the cancellation (Rob Jacobs, the regional director of StandWithUs and Zach Carstensen from the Jewish Federation)? A more balanced article would have included interviews with the Jewish activists (part of a national Jewish peace group of 100,000 supporters) and the Palestinian activists who were in favor of the cancellation.

Wendy Elisheva somersonseattle

ApOLOgIEs ARE nOT EnOugHWe suffered a great public opinion defeat with the City of Seattle LGBT commission’s egre-

giously bad decision not to meet with the Israeli LGBT group (“A chronology of the cancelled invitations to gay and lesbian Israelis,” March 30). While I know that all sorts of apologies came forth from the Seattle LGBT community and the City Council, the damage was done. It is long-term damage both to the local Jewish community and to Israel.

Put simply, there were global news stories about the refusal, and no news about the apol-ogies. The anti-Israeli forces are publicizing their victory, which it was. They are using the vic-tory to gain more friends and to solicit more money. Check what they are doing and saying on their websites.

We got apologies, or as they say in Yiddish, “bubkis.” Proper reparations need to be made: What we should have asked for at the City Council

and what we should go back and ask for now is that the City of Seattle have a special day hon-oring countries that support gay rights and make Israel the top country in that category. We should ask that the City of Seattle invite the gay leaders from Israel back to Seattle and to have a day honoring them in their personal efforts to bring equality and tikkun olam to the world.

mark Bloomeseattle

Reflections from Mike WallaceThe following excerpt written by Mike

Wallace is from “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” by Dr. Judea and Ruth Pearl. Wallace was senior correspondent on “60 Minutes” and was a reporter for CBS News for more than four decades. He died on April 7 at the age of 93. Reprinted with per-mission from Jewish Lights Publishing

(JTA) — Occasionally down the years I’ve winced at being labeled a “self-hating Jew” because my reporting from the Middle East was perceived as tainted by hostility

toward Israel. It wasn’t true, of course, but I figured it came with the territory, meaning that I was deemed biased because I reported accurately what was happening on the other side, with the Palestinians.

And it turned out that every once in a while it was helpful to me as a reporter, for the fact that I am Jewish and not in the pocket of the Israelis seemed to appeal to movers and shakers in Cairo and Damas-cus and Riyadh, who were willing to talk to me on the record with some candor.

I’ve worked the Middle East beat since the 1950s, back in the days of Moshe

Dayan, Golda Meir, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Yasir Arafat, Muammar Gadhafi. My relations with all of them, with the sole exception of Begin, were cor-dial and straightforward. But when I ques-tioned Begin in a fashion that I thought reasonable and he found belligerent, our conversation was brought to an end by the intervention of Ezer Weizman, his defense minister, who shortly afterward took me for a friendly drink at a nearby bar.

My eyes had first been opened to Israeli-Palestinian realities by two pio-neering figures from that part of the world.

Back in the fifties, Reuven Dafne, a Roma-nian Israeli, and Fayez Sayegh, a Palestin-ian Christian, two friends of mine, gave me a primer course on the complicated subject, for which I remain grateful.

I have long admired the courage and determination of the Israelis and sym-pathized with their yearning for a secure state. I have similar feelings about the Pal-estinians. But I’m an American reporter, a Jew who believes in going after facts on the ground, as Daniel Pearl did, and reporting them accurately, let the chips fall where they may.

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Attempting to resolve a crisis on Friday the 13th WenDy Rosen Special to JTNews

Undeterred by the superstitions asso-ciated with Friday the thirteenth, negotia-tors are slated to meet in Istanbul on April 13 for new talks on resolving the threat of Iranian nuclear capacity. There, Ira-nian representatives will sit with the P5+1 group — the U.S., Russia, China, Great Britain and France (the permanent mem-bers of the U.N. Security Council) plus Germany.

This important meeting, the first of its kind in more than a year, comes at a crucial juncture in the international campaign to stop Iran’s nuclear program. The Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the intelligence services of nations around the world have determined that, contrary to its claim to be developing nuclear tech-nology for peaceful purposes only, Iran has in fact been moving forward with plans to acquire nuclear weaponry.

Will Iran come prepared to discuss in good faith a resolution or will this high-level gathering turn out to be another exercise in futility? Tehran, after all, has ignored calls by the European Union,

International Atomic Energy Agency, United Nations and United States to end its nuclear quest.

Should Iran achieve the capability to build the bomb, American interests would be severely compromised by increased instability in the Middle East. The nuclear prize would embolden Shiite Iran to commit aggression against Sunni nations in the region, and the latter, feeling threat-ened, would rush to join the nuclear club themselves. Nuclear proliferation could spread to non-state entities too, with Iran supplying missiles, or other devices, to terrorist cells. Oil supplies from the Gulf might be disrupted. And our democratic ally Israel, already under Iranian threat of being wiped off the map, would have its very existence endangered.

The international community has lev-eled a steadily mounting series of eco-nomic sanctions against Iran to get it to pull back, and more is on the way. On June 28, U.S. sanctions on foreign banks that buy oil from Iran come into effect. Three days later, on July 1, the European Union

will end all purchases of Iranian oil, and several already have taken that action.

The prospect of new harsh blows to its already reeling economy from sharply reduced oil revenues may very well be the motivating factor driving Tehran to sit down with the P5+1. Since sanctions against Iran’s banking and energy sec-tors seem to be working, it is imperative to keep them in effect, and certainly not to loosen them, until their goal is attained.

President Obama and other world leaders have expressed a strong prefer-ence for a negotiated solution. Tehran has a long history of dragging out fruitless dis-cussions while working toward its nuclear goal. The example of North Korea’s suc-cessful bluff-and-delay road to the bomb teaches a cautionary lesson. International patience is wearing thin. In the president’s words, “I believe there is a window of time to solve this diplomatically, but that window is closing.”

Secretary of State Clinton, for her part, has made it clear that U.S. policy “is one of prevention, not containment” — that

is, America is on record declaring that it cannot live with a nuclear Iran. Secretary Clinton has sent Iran a warning that it better mean business this time.

“We enter into these talks with a sober perspective about Iran’s intentions,” she said. “It is incumbent upon Iran to dem-onstrate by its actions that it is a willing partner and to participate in these nego-tiations with an effort to obtain concrete results.”

And in a clear warning to Iran that she can envision the use of force, she publicly suggested to the Gulf States that they work out a coordinated defense plan against a potential missile attack.

Let us hope that Iran sees reason and the Istanbul talks lead to a resolution of the crisis. Otherwise, this Friday the thir-teenth may prove unlucky indeed.

Wendy Rosen is the executive director of the Seattle chapter of the American Jewish Committee.

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Remember when

From The Jewish Transcript, March 30, 1959.

He finally hung up his clown shoes late last year, but back then, a much younger J.P. Patches was scheduled to appear at a pre-Passover bazaar at the Seattle Hebrew School. The event included games, excit-ing new toys, the appearance by the famous KIRO-TV personality, as well as “instantly developed polaroid [sic] pic-tures.”

LADInO LEssOn

Kedo debasho la kolcha.He remained under the comforter.

When a man is expected either in synagogue or at work in the morning and does not arrive in due time, people say that he’s lazy and doesn’t like to get out of bed so early.

Welcome to our interim Assistant EditorJTNews is happy to welcome Dikla Tuchman, who will be taking over assistant editor

and jew-ish.com management duties while Emily Alhadeff is away on maternity leave. Dikla was born in Israel and grew up in Los Angeles. She has been freelancing for

JTNews and jew-ish.com for several months, and says she enjoys being engaged in her community, and is interested in how the young adult Jewish community gets involved.

Aside from her work for us, she writes about fine beers, improv theater and commu-nity arts.

Poverty in Seattle 7Poverty exists in Seattle, and in Seattle’s Jewish community. Two speakers this month brought that mes-sage close to home.

Century-old confusion 8Decisions made by outside players nearly a century ago changed the face of the Middle East, and in many ways created the mess that exists there today.

Focus on Philanthropy: Hanging the mitzvot 10When a local high school student saw that the doorposts of the Stroum Jewish Community Center were missing mezuzot, he decided to take action.

A Passover gathering of the Russian Jewish community 16For the third year in a row, Temple Beth Am was the site of more than 200 Russian Jews gathering together to celebrate Passover in a way unique to them.

A woman and child who survived Titanic 17The grandest and largest ship of its day marks the centennial of its maiden voyage and subsequent sinking this week. Not everyone aboard was privy to the sit-down meal service and turned-down beds. Many, like a Jewish woman and her baby, were immigrants making their way to America.

Volunteer salute 18Celebrate volunteers by becoming one! Many opportunities abound within our Jewish community.

The campaign for ‘Bully’ 20The Jewish youth organization BBYO is leading the charge to combat bullying among teens, including a screening of the film that has people talking.

Prolific playwright comes to the U 23Joshua Sobol has written more than 60 plays, and he comes to the University of Washington as an artist in residence to share his stories.

A taste of freedom 24A film opening at the SIFF Theater is based on the true story of Muslims who helped Jews escape the Nazis during World War II.

Keeping the Holocaust memory alive 25The way to keep the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust is to have the younger generations learn from the survivors who still remain.

MOREM.O.T.: 90 and going strong 8Community Calendar 11Israel: To Your Health: New ways to live with diabetes 15Crossword 20The Arts 21Lifecycles 31The Shouk Classifieds 27

April 27 5 Top Docs

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E-mail [email protected] by Tuesday, April 17 with the name of your Top Doc, area of specialty, and a brief desctription of what makes your nominee exceptional.

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From Generation to Generation: Reclaiming the Legacy1:00 PM Reflection at SJCC Memorial

1:30-3:30 PM Program at Herzl-Ner Tamid

Fern Schumer Chapman brings us the story of how her two books, Motherland and Is It Night or Day?, resulted in an emotional reunion between her mother and Gerda Katz, a Seattle resident. As seen on Oprah.

Program includes keynote speaker Fern Schumer Chapman and recognition of Writing and Art Contest winners.

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Yom Hashoah

Holocaust Remembrance DaySunday, April 22, 2012

Coming up ■ Sports trivia contest kicks off Instant ReplayThe Washington State Jewish Historical Society marks the beginning of Instant Replay,

its year honoring Washington State Jews in sports, with a sports trivia contest on April 29 at 2:30 p.m. Teams of three are encouraged to sign up and compete for a place in the finals to take place at the WSJHS gala on October 28. Q13 Fox News sports anchor Aaron Levine will host this first challenge-style trivia contest. The event is 21-plus.

At Fuel Sports Bar Eats and Beats, 164 S Washing-ton St., Seattle. $20 for pre-registration; $30 at the door. For more information and to purchase tickets con-tact Lori Ceyhun at [email protected] or visit www.wsjhs.org.

■ Author Gershom Gorenberg to speak on Israeli democracy

Israeli scholar, analyst and author Gershom Gore-nberg will speak about settlement policy and growing fundamentalism in civic institutions, and how they are undermining democracy in Israel. In his most recent

book, “The Unmaking of Israel,” Gorenberg employs historical research and 25 years of reporting experience in the Middle East to make a plea for the repair of Jewish democracy. The talk takes place Tues., April 17, at 7 p.m., at Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1511 E Pike St., Seattle.

Hosted by J Street, Temple De Hirsch Sinai, Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congrega-tion and Temple B’nai Torah with the support of Congregation Beth Shalom and Temple Beth Am. Reception to follow.

For more information contact 206-442-2077 or [email protected].

■ Chorale to host a sing-a-long The Seattle Jewish Chorale will sponsor an old-fashioned “kumzitz” — Yiddish for

campfire sing-a-long — on Sun., April 22 from 6–9 p.m. Participants can sing all kinds of camp songs, ballads, and Jewish folk tunes with the backing of some of Jewish Seat-tle’s finest singers. The event, which will take place at Peaks Frozen Custard, 1026 NE 65th St. in Seattle, will have custard, coffee, sandwiches and baked goods, from which the pro-ceeds will be donated to the chorale. The chorale will also have a table where they will accept donations and be selling tickets to their spring concert. For more information, visit www.seattlejewishchorale.org.

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How we might bring Seattle’s poor out of the cycle of povertyJanis siegel JTNews correspondent

Traveling to the community meeting at a downtown Westlake Ave. venue on the subject of ending poverty in Seattle was a feat of strategic proportions — due to con-struction, closed streets, and congestion over massive Seattle Center renovations that signal the upcoming high-priced upgrades for tourists and locals to enjoy.

But while many in the city are pros-pering, University of Washington Prof. Marcia Meyers and Jewish Family Service CEO Ken Weinberg told an audience of nearly 60 at the event that since the onset of the economic recession in 2008, nearly one-quarter of a million households in Seattle — people just getting by — have now slipped below the poverty line.

“I think we had a problem before the recession, and then, of course, the reces-sion made everything a lot worse,” said Meyers, director of the West Coast Pov-erty Center at the UW.

Meyers said that in Seattle today, a family of four living within the federal poverty guideline of $22,000 a year will spend 60 percent of that on yearly rent for the average one-bedroom apartment.

“By one estimate, there were about 250,000 families with kids that have slipped below what we call the threshold for economic security,” Meyer said. “That is twice the poverty line.”

The event was the last in a series of four public forums, “Judaism Confronts Human Injustice,” sponsored by the Sam and Althea Stroum Jewish Studies Pro-gram at the UW, the Association for Jewish Studies, the Legacy Heritage Fund, and the Henry M. Jackson School of Inter-national Studies at the UW.

Noam Pianko, an associate professor of Jewish Studies in the Jackson School and director of the Stroum Jewish Studies Pro-gram, moderated the evening’s conversa-tion, which played like an informal living room-style discussion with feedback between audience members and panelists.

Meyers told the crowd that Seattle’s poverty rate is “strikingly average” com-pared to rates of poverty around the coun-try, but she suggested that making changes in public policy could result in higher incomes for lower wage earners today who haven’t seen increases since the 1970s.

Meyers also advocated for greater access to education and what she called a “tax-and-transfer system,” her substi-tute for the politically charged and highly decried term “income redistribution.” She quickly defended the concept that some call a form of socialism.

“We are very, very, very, very far from becoming a socialist country,” Meyers said.

Instead, Meyers said she sees her tax-and-transfer system as a “foundation of social protections,” in an effort to rebrand social safety net programs like Social Secu-rity as humane, effective, and poverty reducing.

“The problem in this country is that it doesn’t reach other populations,” she said. “We don’t have social insurance for work-ing-age families.”

Meyers said she approves of tax breaks such as the mortgage deduction for home-owners and tax-free health insurance for those who have jobs with benefits, but again, believes that more people need to be economically able to take advantage of them.

Other programs that include welfare, food stamps, and housing assistance are good, too, added Meyers, but they don’t do anything to prevent poverty.

Reciting the lyrics to what has become a depression-era anthem, “Brother Can You Spare a Dime,” taught to him by his father as a child growing up in New York, Weinberg told the audience how crushing MeRyl ScheNkeR PhoTogRAPhy

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ERIK LARSON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 7:00 P.M. Free, all are welcome

In honor of Yom Hashoah/Holocaust Memorial Day, the award-winning author of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, will read from his book and discuss his personal journey of wri ng this saga of an American family who were transported to the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. We will begin the evening with the ligh ng of a memorial candle and a moment of silence in honor of the six million.

MISHA BERSON WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 7:00 P.M. Free, all are welcome

Berson remembers falling in love with West Side Story early. Her parents had bought the original cast recording, and Berson and her cousin would act out the scenes as the album played. She is now a renowned theatre cri c for The Sea le Times, and has transferred her love of musical theatre into her book, Something’s Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagina on.

Temple B’nai Torah * 15727 NE 4th St. Bellevue, WA 98008 * (425) 603-9677 * TempleBnaiTorah.org

PROFESSOR PAUL LIPTZ ~ From Peyot to Bikinis: Religion in Israel MONDAY, APRIL 30, 7:00 P.M. Free, all are welcome

Professor Paul Liptz, a social historian born in Rhodesia and now at the World Union for Progressive Judaism in Jerusa-lem, will be discussing the complex developments in the Jewish State and delve into the advantages of "peyot" (side curls) or "bikinis" or perhaps, something in between. *Through the generosity of Hermine Pruzan Endowment, this event is free and open to all.

* Dessert recep on to follow *

TBT SPRING SPEAKER SERIES

The changing Middle East: How century-old boundaries created confusion today ChaRlene Kahn Special to JTNews

The plotlines of a political thriller are all contained within the complex, tan-gled web of the modern Middle East and its often misunderstood history. For three weeks, Resat Kasaba, director of the Jack-son School of International Studies at the University of Washington, discussed the ever-changing region and its “sequel,” the explosive, unpredictable — and still ongo-ing — Arab Spring, with both origins and parallels from 100-plus years earlier.

Adult learners at Temple Beth Am received insight and a broader under-standing on the subject from the Turkish-born Kasaba, an expert in Middle Eastern history with a focus on the Ottomans, as he sorted through this tangled web.

“People were excited to hear this schol-ar’s approach and his research,” said Linda Capell, who, with her husband Peter, co-chaired Beth Am’s University Lecture series that had a focus on the Arab Spring.

“Professor Kasaba was recommended,” Capell said. “The [advantage of the] lec-ture series gives scholars the opportunity to go into depth. It’s research-based.”

Kasaba used his opening lecture, “Three Empires to Many States: Middle East in the Twentieth Century” to provide what he called a context to what’s happen-

ing in the Middle East today. He started by outlining facts: The 600-

year reign of the Ottoman Empire with its strong political center defined the Middle East during that time, ruling over a “multi-plicity of identities” such as Greeks, Turks and Jews. The major relationships were between empire and its subjects. The break-up into nation-states, “particularly messy in the Middle East,” he said, was complicated by the involvement of the European powers, primarily Great Britain and France, who were there to serve their own interests, and not those of the native populations.

“One unified space now was divided into 20 nation-states,” Kasaba said.

Referencing three secret and contra-dictory agreements — the Sykes-Picot Treaty, British support of the Arab Revolt, and the Balfour Declaration — “all impos-sible to follow,” Kasaba said, he proceeded to tell the story of the social and national implications of each.

He presented slides of these diplomatic documents and photographs, augment-ing with statistics and readings of original quotes, which provided further dimension to the complexity of the period.

“It’s extremely important to understand the events of World War I and the post-war

era,” Kasaba said. “The boundaries set by 1920 became the future Middle East.”

Those comments set the stage for his next talks, in which he discussed the rami-fications all the way up to the events of the past 18 months that have changed the face of the Arab world.

Many of the attendees commented that they had been unaware of the political and geographic implications unleashed by the carving up of the region.

Several of the attendees came because of Kasaba’s reputation as a speaker.

“It’s pertinent to everything that’s going on in the world,” said local author and Beth Am member Jackie Williams. “Professor Kasaba is very straightforward, makes salient points without editorializ-ing, and he’s organized, so you can follow. I’ve read the history many times, but I could never repeat it.”

Event co-chair Peter Capell said Kasa-ba’s talks provided important background.

“If you don’t know the history and background leading to the Arab Spring, then you can’t understand or interpret how people or countries will be affected or respond,” he said.

Kasaba’s expertise in the factual disci-plines of sociology and demography, the

use of statistics to study population, and his advocacy of a long-term, reflective approach proved useful in explaining the foundational issues behind the changes in the Middle East, many still to come.

As a self-declared optimist, Kasaba often referred to the necessity of hope in the lives of people in the Middle East.

“At the crux,” he said, discussing the Arab Spring in his second lecture, “was lack of hope in the future; this is the funda-mental issue for young people. You have to give people a reason to hope.”

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University lecture series scholar Resat Kasaba, Ph.D. drew 70-80 people for each of his three-session program on “The Changing Middle East” at Temple Beth Am.

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For questions or more information, please contact Ken Banks at 425-462-2205 or [email protected].

QFC supports The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to protect our heritage

Each month QFC is proud to support an organization that is making a positive impact on our community and our world. In April, we are pleased to continue our association with The Nature Conservancy as our Charity of the Month. This is a partnership that goes back over 20 years. The Nature Conservancy is doing important work to preserve plant and animal biodiversity in every state in the U.S. and over 30 countries around the world.

For over a decade, The Nature Conservancy has been using a collaborative, science-based approach combined with key analytical methods to decide where to work and what to conserve. This approach is called Conservation by Design. The concepts of Conservation by Design include: setting goals and priorities, developing strategies, taking action and measuring results. Using these concepts, The Conservancy focuses on finding the highest priority solutions in places where they can have the greatest impact.

There are four priority targets in Washington which the Conservancy has been working on. These targets are: clean up Puget Sound, restore Washington Coast salmon runs, restore forest lands in Eastern Washington and preserve Washington State sagelands.

The Nature Conservancy notes that “Puget Sound is slowly dying from toxic runoff, changes in the quality and quantity of fresh water, continued loss of natural shorelines and the effects of rising sea levels.” To clean up and protect the Sound, the Conservancy is working to reduce toxic runoff and to make conservation more profitable for farmers, timber managers and shellfish growers, and the lands and waters they manage. It is working to protect and restore important rivers and shorelines to safeguard the clean water and habitat they provide.

The numbers of wild salmon on the Washington coast have plummeted over the last few decades. Salmon need the clear, cold waters of Northwest rivers in order to spawn and survive. Protecting salmon on the coast becomes possible by restoring and protecting the rivers where they spawn. Recently, the Conservancy purchased 3,088 acres in a corridor along the Clearwater River and plans to restore the forests along the river. This restoration work will provide jobs and create an environment that will help in salmon recovery.

Restoring forests in eastern Washington is also one of the Conservancy’s priorities. Large-scale restoration projects will help protect habitat for wildlife and strengthen the overall ecosystem to protect against mega-fires and insect outbreaks. The Conservancy works with local communities and with public and private managers across ownership boundaries to pursue beneficial forest management practices.

Washington’s sagelands contain hundreds of unique plant and animal species. Unfortunately, two-thirds of these natural environments in Washington are gone due to ranching, agriculture or other development. The Conservancy is working with farmers and ranchers to restore sagelands and to provide a place for wildlife to roam free.

The Nature Conservancy is working to preserve and protect our natural heritage for future generations. If you would like to contribute to their efforts you can do so at your local QFC during the month of April. If you have comments or questions, please contact Ken Banks at [email protected] or call 425-462-2205.

Busy at 90 • Also: Honors galore for local philanthropists Diana bRement JTNews columnist

1 This past August found Henry Butler turning 90, and this past Purim

found him pouring shots of schnapps, whiskey and other spirits at Temple Beth Am in Seattle. An active member of the congregation since the late 1950s, he’s handled that par-ticular job for “many, many years…15, 20, I don’t know.”

Henry and his wife Olga were among some of the earliest members of the North Seattle congregation, socially “part of the group that started it,” but not among the original founders.

“At the time we were members of Herzl…[and] “not quite ready to go to Reform,” he recalls. “I had wanted [Beth Am] to become Reconstructionist.” But joining soon after, the couple each served a subsequent term as president and Olga was the congregation’s first female president.

Henry was a refugee from Wuerzburg, Germany in 1938 when his parents had the foresight to send him to join a cousin in New York just after Kristallnacht. He was raised Orthodox, “you might say neo-Orthodox,” he says, the only option in his hometown. Just 16 when he arrived stateside, he landed a job selling cam-eras, went to night school and ended up

back in Germany in the army during World War II, where his German was put to use in intelligence and prisoner interrogation.

Henry had a long career with the Brillo company, which sent to him California early in his career. It was there he met and married Olga.

After decades in Seattle’s View Ridge neighborhood, the Butlers now enjoy retire-ment at Mirabella Seattle in

the hip and happening South Lake Union neighborhood. They moved there in ’09 and the residence’s newsletter marked Henry’s 90th with a long profile. The But-lers enjoy the location, “walking distance from downtown,” and with easy access to the number 70 bus, which Henry rides to the University of Washington to take Access classes — the program that allows state residents over 60 to audit courses on a space-available basis and with instruc-tor approval.

A regular lap swimmer at View Ridge Swim and Tennis Club in the summer, Henry can now swim all year ’round at the Mirabella. The Butlers were founders of VRSTC, established by Jewish families who were banned from Sandpoint Coun-

try Club in the 1950s. Their two sons, daughters-in-law and two grandkids all live in the area.

2 Tireless Jewish community volun-teer and former board chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle,

Iantha Sidell, will receive the Kipnis-Wil-son/Friedland Award at the International Lion of Judah conference in New York in September. She became a Lion of Judah —

a woman who has donated $5,000 or more to her local Jewish Federation — in the 1990s after being terribly moved by a story of Ethiopian Jewish refugees.

“We don’t know what struggling and needs are,” she said, and having trav-elled to many places around the world where Jews are struggling, she appreci-ates knowing her gift helps internationally and locally.

Awardees have also “welcomed new voices to the table,” she says, and while Iantha “won’t take credit,” she notes that Shelly Bensussen, the Federation’s cur-rent board chair, is her niece and they have “talked a lot, a lot,” over the years.

With what she calls a “historic memory of the community,” this full-time Jewish community volunteer says she is good at helping people and organizations to get connected. Stating emphatically that pre-vious award winners “are awesome,” she feels “privileged and humbled” to receive the award at a conference her Denver-based daughter-in-law, Leslie Sidell, is presiding over.

“My volunteer work brings meaning to my life,” says Iantha. “To have it recog-nized nationally with my daughter-in-law chairing the event is pretty cool.”

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Henry Butler serves up adult beverages during Purim at Temple Beth Am in Seattle.

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Taking care of mitzvotemily K. alhaDeFF Assistant editor, JTNews

Uriel Cohen was substituting for a Sep-hardic Religious School class at the Stroum Jewish Community Center one day when, while reviewing the Shema prayer, he reached “…and you should write [these words] on your doorposts and your gates” — the origin of the mezuzah concept.

“We looked at the classroom door and there was no mezuzah,” he says.

Maybe they missed a door, he thought. But Cohen quickly realized that the Stroum JCC did not have a mezuzah on many of its doors.

“It’s a very serious problem,” he says.The mezuzah, a small vertical container,

often ornately or playfully designed, con-tains a parchment slip with two passages from the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21). The mezuzah is traditionally affixed to doorframes in homes and Jewish buildings to remind Jews of their religion as they come and go.

According to the SJCC’s CEO, Judy Neuman, Cohen came to her and said, “I really think it would be great if you had a mezuzah on every single classroom door.” Although mezuzot are “sprinkled all through the J” and on the most prominent doorways, “because we have 92,000 square feet of space, it’s not practical to put them on every door,” Neuman told JTNews.

So Cohen took it upon himself to adorn the Mercer Island facility’s doorways.

“We supported a mitzvah opportu-nity of a young man who felt passionate,” Neuman said. The idea to place mezuzot on the children’s classroom doors “came from his own sense of Judaism, and I said,

‘Listen, it would be a great gift.’”Once he had the go-ahead, Cohen

started a blog and set up a PayPal account. The simple, clear Lucite mezuzot sell for $36 each. Starting in January, orders began to come — first for three mezu-zot, then seven more in February, then 10 donated by a single donor, and then, to top the 10, another donor funded 11 more mezuzot in March. Cohen chose to start affixing mezuzot to the children’s class-room doors, because the mezuzah can be a learning tool.

The mezuzah initiative “was very much driven by him, and he went out and made it happen,” Neuman said. “It’s something that he should feel very proud of.”

On March 21, Rabbi Mark Spiro, Hebrew High’s managing director, gave an introductory lesson about the practi-cal laws and the meaning of the mezuzah to Hebrew High students who chose to partake in the first installation at the JCC. Spiro said the levels of knowledge about the mezuzah varied among the students, who come from a range of backgrounds.

Cohen estimates he needs about 60 mezuzot altogether, but he doesn’t set an end date for the project. He also seems realistic about his own involvement in the collection. This senior at Mercer Island High School, who also attends Bellevue College’s Running Start program, will be shipping off to yeshiva in Israel after grad-uation.

Until then, Cohen runs the Jewish Stu-dent Union program at Mercer Island High and at Running Start, where a growing number of high school students choose to study. He also works at Island Crust Café and spends whatever free time is leftover studying at the Seattle Kollel.

“I’m very busy,” he said.“Uriel is one of the best kids I’ve ever

worked with in NCSY and JSU,” said Ari Hoffman, greater Seattle city director of the NCSY youth group.

Under Cohen’s leadership, Hoffman said the JSU has flourished. Cohen “gets it done officially and he gets it done well.” He managed the mezuzah project all on his own, from starting the website to fun-draising.

After yeshiva in Israel, Uriel plans to attend Yeshiva University in New York. Hoffman informed JTNews that Cohen will receive “a massive scholarship” to the university based on his recommendation.

“He’s a dynamo,” Hoffman said. “I wish I could take more credit for him.”

To make a donation to purchase one of the mezuzot for the Stroum JCC, visit www.SJCCMezuzot.weebly.com.

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Uriel Cohen affixes one of the (so far) 60 mezuzot he will need to complete his project of placing the small boxes to the Stroum JCC’s doorways.

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Let your heart determine your investment:

promote positive aging for King County seniors by donating to Senior Services.

call 206-448-5757 or visit us at www.seniorservices.org

The mission of the Kline Galland Center and Affiliates, “to promote the highest quality of life by providing a continuum of exceptional care and services for the elderly in a Jewish environment,” is based on the Center’s foundation to “honor thy father and thy mother.”

Serving the Jewish community since 1914, 350 skilled staff and over 250 volunteers exemplify the Center’s core values of compassion, excellence, integrity, respect, and dignity. The Caroline Kline Galland Home, The Summit at First Hill, The Polack Adult Day Center, Senior Nutrition Program and the Kline Galland Hospice Services can all benefit from your donations.

Please send your contribution to 1200 University Street, Suite 100, Seattle 98101. We can be reached at 206-652-4444 or www.klinegalland.org.

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

FRiDays9:30–10:30 a.m. — SJcc Tot ShabbatStroum Jewish Community Center11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tots Welcoming ShabbatTemple B’nai Torah12:30–3:30 p.m. — Bridge groupStroum JCC12:30–3:30 p.m. — Drop-in Mah JonggStroum JCC

satuRDays10 a.m. — Morning youth ProgramCongregation Ezra Bessaroth9:45 a.m. — BcMh youth ServicesBCMH9–10:30 a.m. — TBT Adult Torah StudyTemple B’nai Torah

1 p.m. — kabbalah for BeginnersTemple B’nai Torah5 p.m. — The Ramchal’s Derech hashem, Portal from the Ari to ModernityCongregation Beth Ha’Ari

sunDays10–11 a.m. — hebrew course: Advanced BeginnerHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation10:15 a.m. — Sunday Torah StudyCongregation Beth Shalom11 a.m.–12 p.m. — hebrew class: BeginnerHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation7:30–10:30 p.m. — he’Ari israeli DancingDanceland Ballroom (call to confirm)

monDays10 a.m.– 2 p.m. — Jcc Seniors groupStroum JCC12:30 p.m. — caffeine for the SoulChabad of the Central Cascades7 p.m. — cSA Monday Night classesCongregation Shevet Achim

7–8 p.m. — ein yaakov in englishCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch7:45–8:45 p.m. — For Women onlyCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch8–10 p.m. — Women’s israeli Dance classSeattle Kollel8:30 p.m. — Talmud, yeshiva-StyleEastside Torah Center

tuesDays11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Mommy and Me ProgramChabad of the Central Cascades12 p.m. — Torah for WomenEastside Torah Center7 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous MeetingsJewish Family Service7 p.m. — Teen centerBCMH7–9 p.m. — The Jewish JourneySeattle Kollel7:30 p.m. — Weekly Round Table kabbalah classEastside Torah Center

7:30 p.m. — The TanyaChabad of the Central Cascades

WeDnesDays 7 p.m. — Beginning israeli Dancing for Adults with Rhona FeldmanCongregation Beth Shalom7–9 p.m. — Teen lounge for Middle SchoolersBCMH7:30 p.m. — Parshas hashavuahEastside Torah Center

thuRsDays10 a.m.–2 p.m. — Jcc Seniors groupStroum JCC6:50–7:50 p.m. — introduction to hebrewHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation7 p.m. — Junior Teen centerBCMH8–10 p.m. — Teen lounge for high SchoolersBCMH

candlelighting timesApril 13 ............................7:39 p.m.April 20 ........................... 7:49 p.m.April 27 ........................... 7:58 p.m.May 4 .............................. 8:08 p.m.

FRiDay 13 apRil10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. — PJ library Song and Storytime at the Seattle Jewish community School

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at [email protected] or www.facebook.com/pjlibraryseattleMusic, singing and storytelling with the PJ Library and Jeff Stombaugh. Stay for activities and playgroup. Free. At the Seattle Jewish Community School, 12351 Eighth Ave. NE, Seattle.7 p.m. — Freedom Shabbat

Kris Sigloh at [email protected] or 206-527-1997 or hilleluw.orgConnect the Passover story to issues of modern slavery and human trafficking. For undergraduates

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At the FareStart Restaurant, giving back has never tasted

better. That’s because every meal helps fund culinary job training and support for disadvantaged

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and Jconnect (ages 18-32). $15/Jconnect; free for students. At Hillel at University of Washington, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.7:30–9:30 p.m. — one god, Three Faiths: Building community Through Prayer

Chris Hillman at [email protected] or 206-223-1138 or www.ipjc.orgInterfaith prayer series exploring sacred space and community in the Jewish, Muslim and Christian traditions. At Masjid Ar-Rahmah April 26 and Holy Spirit Lutheran Church May 9. Pre-registration encouraged. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

satuRDay 14 apRil10:30–11:15 a.m. — learner’s Minyan with Ron Schneeweiss

Carol Benedick at [email protected] or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgLearn a different part of the Saturday morning service each month. Check online for updates on topics. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.10:30 a.m. — Shabbat and yizkor Service

Jeanne Buchler at [email protected] or 206-525-0915 or www.templebetham.orgShabbat and Yizkor service. At Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.7–9 p.m. — Breaking Bread at the J

Matt Korch at [email protected] or 206-388-0830 or www.sjcc.org Feast on pizza, pasta, garlic bread, and a starch-laden dessert to end Shabbat and say goodbye to Passover. $12-$25. At the Stroum Jewish Community Center, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.8–10 p.m. — “The last Night of Ballyhoo”

Stacey Giachino at [email protected] or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233565It’s 1939 and Hitler has invaded Poland, but the Freitag family is concerned about the Jewish socialite ball. Followed by Q&A with the cast, director, and Rabbi Aaron Meyer. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.

sunDay 15 apRil2 p.m. — “Bully”

Ben Starsky at [email protected] screens “Bully,” the first feature documentary film about the effects of bullying. $5/teens, $7.50/adults. At AMC Pacific Place, 600 Pine St., Seattle.3–5 p.m. — “The last Night of Ballyhoo”

Stacey Giachino at [email protected] or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/233565At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.

tuesDay 17 apRil6 p.m. — honorary Doctorate and Dinner for harold Marcus

Jill Waggoner at [email protected] or 415-398-7117 or ats.orgOlympia and Seattle resident Harold Marcus receives an honorary doctorate from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. $50. At the Washington Athletic Club, 1325 Sixth Ave., Seattle.7–9 p.m. — israeli Democracy: What Threat-ens it, how to Save it

[email protected] or 206-442-2077 or www.tdhs-nw.org/learning/lecturesA discussion with author Gershom Gorenberg. How

settlement policy and the diplomatic stalemate undermine the Jewish State, and what must be done. At Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., Seattle.

thuRsDay 19 apRil10:30 a.m.–2 p.m. — Memorial yahrzeit Vigil for Victims of genocide

Robert Beiser at [email protected] or www.jconnectseattle.orgReading names of genocide victims to remind listeners of their loss. Interested readers should reply in the comments section of the RSVP. All faiths welcome. Free. At Westlake Park, 400 Pine St., Seattle.

satuRDay 21 apRil9:30–11 a.m. — PJ library Storytime at kol haNeshamah

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at [email protected] The PJ Library welcomes Erik Lawson as guest musician, with PJ Library manager Amy Paquette as storyteller. At Kol HaNeshamah, 6115 SW Hinds St., Seattle.

sunDay 22 apRil1–3 p.m. — yom haShoah: holocaust Remembrance Day community Program

Janna at [email protected] or 206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.orgFeaturing Fern Schumer Chapman, author of “Motherland - Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past.” At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.2–4 p.m. — “crossing Delancey”

Lori Ceyhun at [email protected] or 206-774-2277Join the Washington State Jewish Historical Society for the play “Crossing Delancey.” Meet the cast and purchase a copy of the WSJHS cookbook. $14/members. At the Renton Civic Theater, 507 S Third St., Renton.5–10 p.m. — Basarfest

Ari Hoffman at [email protected] Featuring Eli Varon’s barbecue, hot dog-eating contest, and a chili cook-off. All funds go to NCSY scholarships. $15-20; $70/families of more than five; $100/family with five bottles of Marion Davis barbecue sauce. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.7–9 p.m. — An evening of kosher Wine Ap-preciation and Tasting

Ed Epstein at [email protected] or 206-232-1919Learn the basics of wine tasting and experience kosher wines from around the world. $25. Benefits Congregation Shevet Achim. At Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.

monDay 23 apRil7:30–10 p.m. — Jews in the Borderland: The complicated, Fluid, and episodic Nature of Jewish identity (for Some) Today

206-543-0138 or JewDub.org/StroumLecturesThe 2012 Stroum Lecture Series presents Dr. Steven M. Cohen on the shift from peoplehood to purpose for Jews in their 20s and 30s. At 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle.

tuesDay 24 apRil7:30–9 p.m. — cello Recital

Don Larson at [email protected] or 206-384-1123 or seattlecellist.com

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A recital featuring “Shelomo” and “Kol Nedrei” by Don Larson, cellist, and Akiko Kinney, pianist. Donations welcome. At the Chapel Performance Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle.

WeDnesDay 25 apRil11 a.m.–12 p.m. — PJ library Storytime at Mockingbird Books

Amy Hilzman-Paquette at [email protected], storytelling and Hebrew through ASL with Betsy Dischel from Musikal Magik, a Certified Signing Time Academy. At Mockingbird Books, 7220 Woodlawn Ave. NE, Seattle.7–8 p.m. — NyhS Annual Meeting

Melissa Rivkin at [email protected] or 206-232-5272 or www.nyhs.netAt Northwest Yeshiva High School, 5017 90th Ave. SE, Mercer Island.7:30–9 p.m. — Devotion, Distancing and Disloyalty: The Diversity and complexity of American Jews’ Relationships with israel Today

206-543-0138 or JewDub.org/StroumLecturesThe 2012 Stroum Lecture Series presents Dr. Steven M. Cohen on the emerging patterns of Jewish identity. At 220 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle.

thuRsDay 26 apRil5:15–7 p.m. — yom ha’Atzmaut celebration

Susan Jensen at [email protected] or 206-722-5500 or ezrabessaroth.net

Meat dinner featuring Israeli food, Israeli music, children’s arts and crafts, and an inflatable bouncer. $18/adults, $10/children 5-12 by April 23. At the door: $25/adults, $20/children 5-12. Children 4 and under free. At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.7–9:30 p.m. — one god, Three Faiths: Build-ing community Through Prayer

Chris Hillman at [email protected] or 206-223-1138 or www.ipjc.orgInterfaith prayer series exploring sacred space and community in the Jewish, Muslim and Christian traditions. Pre-registration encouraged. Free. At Masjid Ar-Rahmah, 17550 NE 67th Ct., Redmond.7:30–9 p.m. — Beth Shalom Beit Midrash

Carol Benedick at [email protected] or 206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgStudy Talmud with Joel Goldstein on the second and fourth Thursday of the month. All levels welcome. $5/class, $25/6-class punchcard. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

satuRDay 28 apRil11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Peace, Politics and Plutonium

Julie Greene at [email protected] or 206-721-0970Gil Hoffman, chief political correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, will speak after morning services on “Peace, Politics and Plutonium: An Insider’s Look at the Quest for Security, Democracy and Peace in the Middle East.” At BCMH, 5145 S

Morgan St., Seattle.6:30–7:30 p.m. — Red States, Blue States, the Jewish State

Julie Greene at [email protected] or 206-721-0970Gil Hoffman will speak on “Red States, Blue States, the Jewish State: Washington D.C.–Jerusalem Relations from an Israeli Insider’s Perspective.” At Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 5217 S Brandon St., Seattle.64 Reasons for optimism About israel’s Future

Julie Greene at [email protected] or 206-721-0970Seudah shlishit talk by Gil Hoffman. Check with the synagogue for times. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Ave. S, Seattle.

sunDay 29 apRil9 a.m. — BcMh Men’s club holocaust Memorial Breakfast

Julie Greene at [email protected] buffet served after morning services in memory of Mel Wolf. With guest speaker Celia Benzaquen. At BCMH, 5145 S Morgan St., Seattle.9 a.m. — community Day of Service

Rebecca at [email protected] or 206-232-8555 or hnt.wufoo.com/forms/q7p2x7Sign up to volunteer with Eastside Baby Corner, Habitat for Humanity, HopeLink, Harborview Medical Center, make puzzles for local hospitals or clean and garden the Wittenberg Waterfront Park and Mediation Garden. Breakfast at 9:15. This family event replaces religious school. At

Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.10–11:30 a.m. — Tile Mural Decorating at ShA

Rayne Wilder at [email protected] or 206-323-5750, ext. 301 or seattlehebrewacademy.orgDecorate tiles for Seattle Hebrew Academy’s commemorative 65th year. Tiles can be purchased at the event. At Seattle Hebrew Academy, 1617 Interlaken Dr. E, Seattle.11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Parenting Mind-fully: The Middah of gratitude

Marjorie Schnyder at [email protected] or 206-861-3146 or www.jfsseattle.orgParents explore healthy ways to express emotions and beliefs with traditional Jewish writings and contemporary research. Facilitated by Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg and Marjorie Schnyder, LICSW. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.2:30–5:30 p.m. — WSJhS instant Replay Sports Trivia contest

Lori Ceyhun at [email protected] or wsjhs.org/events.phpWith guest MC Aaron Levine of Q13. Winners will advance to subsequent contests and compete in the playoff round at the Washington State Jewish Historical Society’s year of sports celebration on October 28. At Fuel, 164 S Washington St., Seattle.5 p.m. — Shaarei Tefillah’s 11th Annual Fundraising Dinner

Chabad of Seattle at [email protected] or 206-527-1411 or www.chabadofseattle.org

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Shmooze. Eat. Laugh. Give. Dinner honoring the volunteer eruv crew. 5 p.m. open bar, 6 p.m. dinner. $75. At Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch, 6250 43rd Ave. NE, Seattle.

monDay 30 apRil7–9 p.m. — From Peyot to Bikinis

Jennifer Fliss at [email protected] or 425-603-9677 or templebnaitorah.orgProfessor Paul Liptz discusses the religious development of the Jewish State and “peyot” vs. “bikinis” or something in between. Free. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue.

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3 Another tireless volunteer is Hal Marcus, whose long-time efforts on behalf of Technion, are being

rewarded with an honorary doctorate from the school next week. Professor Peretz Lavie, president of Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, will visit Seattle to personally present the honor because Hal’s health will not permit him to attend the cer-emony in Haifa in June. According to Lavie, Hal has an “unstinting dedication and gen-erous support to the Technion and the State of Israel.” Hal was profiled in these pages a year ago, Apr. 7, 2011.

4 Nathan Hale High School pole vaulter Lev Marcus (no relation!) earned a mention and photo in

the Seattle Times last month for soar-ing 15 feet, one inch at a recent competi-tion against Cleveland High School. This was a career-best for the junior, beating a prior personal best of 14’-7”. His mother, Wendy Marcus, isn’t surprised at his bounding around.

“All his life he’s been jumping off roofs, jumping out of trees,” she says.

She’s just glad to see that “energy and fearlessness” channeled into athletics.DoN BoRiN

Lev Marcus prepares to vault at a recent track meet.

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The

warmly welcomes its newest trustees:

Mr. Dana Behar, HAL Real Estate InvestmentsMr. DaviD ellenhorn, Ogden,Murphy, Wallace p.l.l.c.

The SamiS FoundaTion works in partnership with others to enhance the quality, committment, and continuity of Jewish life in

Washington State through educational experiences such as Jewish day school, overnight camping and israel experiences.

SamiS also supports targeted projects in the State of israel.

Victor Alhadeff Eddie Hasson, President Eli Almo Connie Kanter David Azose Al Maimon Dana Behar Lucy Pruzan Jerome O. Cohen Ernie Sherman David A. Ellenhorn Alex Sytman Barry Ernstoff Irwin Treiger Eli Genauer Rabbi David Twersky

Rabbi Rob Toren, Grants Director

Easing the pain of diabetesJanis siegel JTNews columnist

The facts about diabetes are startling. Of the 346 mil-lion people worldwide who now live with the disease, there are nearly 26 million in the United States, and hun-dreds of thousands in Israel. Fully 10 percent of adults in that country live with the disease, according to a large Middle East study published in the European Journal of Cardiovascu-lar Prevention and Rehabilitation in 2009.

But for the Tel Aviv University pro-fessor and doctor, Moshe Phillip, it’s the 5,000 Israeli children burdened with the life-robbing disease that compels him and his team to find ways to ease their pain.

Although Phillip, also the director of the Institute of Endocrinology and Dia-betes located in the National Center for Childhood Diabetes at Schneider Chil-dren’s Medical Center of Israel, is not touting a possible cure, he and his col-leagues were proud to announce a new, cutting-edge technological innovation this year, dubbed an “artificial pancreas” called MD-Logic. It comes a lot closer to elim-inating the debilitating effects of erratic blood sugar fluctuations in diabetics by

accurately monitoring blood-sugar levels.

Phillip, Dr. Revital Nimri and Dr. Shahar Miller from Schneider Children’s are now collaborating with PositiveID Corporation, a Florida-based company that develops tech-nology for diabetes man-agement, and the Diabetes Research Institute at the Uni-versity of Miami to develop several compact monitoring

systems that patients can easily carry with them to monitor their blood-sugar levels automatically and more precisely than they could on their own.

MD-Logic works with commonly available, over-the-counter, under-the-skin glucose monitors as well as insulin pumps, connecting these two units to a new computerized program that calcu-lates the exact amount of insulin necessary for the body on a continuous basis.

A sensor connected to the pump auto-matically adjusts the insulin ratio.

Phillip, the vice dean for research and development at TAU and an associate professor in the Sackler Faculty of Medi-cine Administration, told GlobeNewswire

that the MD-Logic system was a joint proj-ect developed by the Kinderkrankenhaus auf der Bult in Hanover, Germany, and the University Children’s Hospital in Lju-bljana, Slovenia.

“We at Schneider Children’s believe in the importance of international collabora-tive research,” Phillip said.

Phillip and his team tested the system on 18 12- to 15-year-olds at an over-night diabetes camp in Israel. Similar groups in Germany and Slovenia were also observed. The results showed greatly improved accuracy.

Right now, the MD-Logic is tethered to a computer, but Phillip and PositiveID are working to find a way to make it mobile so it can fit into a backpack. Diabetics could then have constant monitoring of their blood-glucose levels.

The next phase of research will be to test the product under home-use conditions.

Researchers know that the more stable a diabetic person’s blood sugar is, the lower the occurrence of devastating health consequences that can include the loss of limbs, organs, and eyesight. Diabetics are also twice as likely to meet an early death when compared to their healthy peers, according to the Centers for Disease Con-

trol and Prevention. PositiveID is working on bringing four

other systems to market. All have patents pending.

The first is Easy Check, a glucose-detec-tion monitor that analyzes a patient’s blood-sugar levels by analyzing their breath.

Another technology, already approved by the FDA, uses a radio frequency iden-tification chip embedded under the skin. This glucose-sensing microchip provides continuous blood-sugar monitoring when combined with the RFID.

PositiveID also has its own FDA-approved portable system, a wireless tech-nology that allows diabetics to access a website to keep logs of their blood sugar throughout the day. In addition, it also allows them to share their medical information with family and medical staff, as necessary.

Commenting in GlobeNewswire, Posi-tiveID chairman and CEO William Caragol said he was very optimistic about collaborat-ing with Schneider Children’s and the DRI.

“It will enable us to accelerate the remaining development and study of our non-invasive diabetes management proj-ects, and ultimately bring these ground-breaking products to market,” he said.

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A different kind of Passover seder

During the migration of Soviet Jews to the United States in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, thousands settled throughout the Puget Sound. In the ensuing years, many raised families and have become a part of the elderly population. Because so many scholarly Jews in the Soviet Union were killed either in World War II or by the Stalin regime, most of the Russians who came to the U.S. may have been experts in their professional careers, but they knew little about religious ritual or Jewish history.

Which is why Cantor Marina Belenky says that the Pass-over seder she led at Temple Beth Am on Sun., April 8 is “like a dream come true.”

The seder, performed entirely in Hebrew and Russian, used the Reform movement’s Russian-language Passover Hagga-dah. More than 200 people of Russian descent, from small children to elderly adults, were bused in from around the Puget Sound region to participate in an event they found both accessible and, at least from what appeared with the toasts and multilingual conversations, enjoyable.

“The Russian elderly here are such a small commu-nity, and they rarely get to see each other,” said Jane Relin, Jewish Family Service’s director of aging and adult programs. “There’s no occasions for them to get together.”

This is the third such seder, a joint effort of Temples Beth Am and B’nai Torah and Jewish Family Service.

— Joel MagalnickVolunteer Linda Kantor serves the chicken dinner to one of the many tables of elderly Russians.

Cantor Marina Belenky leads a blessing over one of the cups of wine. Her musical group, Marianna Trio, also performed dance numbers following the seder.

Dozens of participants sat family-style at one of the long tables set up in Temple Beth Am’s social hall.

William Kronblatt was the lucky kid to find the afikomen. His sister Melissa also took part in the search.

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The story of Titanic survivors Leah and ‘Filly’ AksmaRshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish observer

When Titanic departed on its first and last voyage from Southampton, England on Wednesday, April 10, 1912, 18-year-old Jewish immigrant Leah Aks and her 10-month-old son, Philip were on board.

Passover had concluded the day before. On sailing day, Leah was pleased to find that the third class was not completely booked; she and Philip had a cabin all to themselves.

Leah was born in Warsaw, Poland. In London, she had met Sam Aks, a tailor who was also from Warsaw. They were married there.

“In London he was barely making a living,” wrote Valery Bazarov, historian for the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, in a piece about the family for HIAS. “A cousin who lived in America visited him in London and told him that if he came to America he’d make money very quickly. So he came over, got a job, and soon saved enough money to bring Mrs. Aks and the baby over.”

Sam settled in Norfolk, Va. and entered the scrap metal business. In “Titanic: Women and Children First,” author Judith B. Geller indicates that all the money Sam earned was used for Leah and “Filly’s” trip to join him. Their arrival in Norfolk would mark the first time Sam would meet his son.

Though Leah and Filly were booked onto an earlier ship, Bazarov explained that Leah’s mother convinced her to wait a week and travel on Titanic, considered the world’s safest liner.

Four days into their journey, after the ship struck an iceberg, Leah and Filly fol-lowed other third-class passengers to the bottom of the third-class staircase at the rear of the ship.

At 12:30 p.m., the crew permitted women and children in this group to make their way to the boat deck. When crew members saw that Leah and Filly couldn’t get through the crowd up the stairs, they carried the two. Leah and Filly made it to the boat deck, part of the first-class area of the ship. Madeline Astor, the young wife of millionaire John Jacob Astor, covered Filly’s head with her silk scarf.

According to Bazarov, a distraught man — who had been rebuffed by the crew when he attempted to get into a lifeboat — ran up to Leah and said, “I’ll show you women and children first!”

The man grabbed Filly and threw him overboard.

Leah searched the deck until some-one urged or pushed her into lifeboat 13. She sat in the middle of the Atlantic with 63 others in number 13, a broken woman. Hours after Titanic went down and the cries for help from those dying in the water faded away, the liner Carpathia arrived at daybreak.

Leah searched the deck of Carpathia in vain for her baby. Despondent, she took to a mattress for two days. Titanic survi-vor Selena Cook urged Leah to come up

on deck for air. When she did, she heard Filly’s cry.

Unknown to Leah, Filly had fallen into lifeboat number 11, right into another woman’s arms. In Geller’s account, the woman is presumed to have been Italian immigrant Argene del Carlo. Her husband was not permitted to follow the pregnant Argene into the lifeboat.

“Argene shared her warmth with Filly through the long night,” Geller writes. “Toward morning she began to believe that God had sent this child to her as a replacement for Sebastino (her husband) and a brother for the child she carried in her womb.”

On the deck of Carpathia, the woman who had cared for Filly since Titanic sank refused to give Leah the child.

Leah appealed to the Carpathia’s cap-tain, Arthur Roston, now put in the role of

King Solomon.In an e-mail interview with The

Observer, Gilbert Binder, the husband of Leah’s late granddaughter, Rebecca, described what happened next.

Binder said that Filly was returned to Leah because “she identified him as a

Jewish baby and he was circumcised. The (other) woman was Catholic and Italian and her male child would not have been circumcised.”

After their arrival in New York, Leah and Filly were taken to HIAS’ shelter and remained there until Frank could come for them.

“Leah Aks gave birth to a baby girl nine months after arriving in this country and intended to name her Sara Carpathia,” in honor of the rescue ship, Binder explained. “The nuns at the hospital in Norfolk, Va. got confused and named the baby Sara Titanic Aks. I have a copy of her birth cer-tificate.” Sara was Binder’s mother-in-law.

Leah lived until 1967; her son, Filly, until 1991.

Marshall Weiss is the editor and publisher of The Dayton Jewish Observer.

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Eat that you may live! -Rambam

Each night in Seattle, 700 to 1,000 young people have no safe place to sleep. For almost 40 years, YouthCare has been working to get homeless youth off the streets and preparing for life, starting with a hot, nutritious meal at YouthCare’s James W. Ray Orion Center.

Find out how you can help our community’s

homeless youth at www.youthcare.org

Today, YouthCare pays tribute to Temple Beth Am, and to volunteers Diane Baer, Cheryl Cohen, Sue Covey and Susan Simon, who scheduled meal group volunteers at the Orion Center for more than 12 years. Thanks to them, thousands of homeless youth received the sustenance they so desperately needed.

The Board & Staff of Kline Galland

and Summit at First Hill

salute our

VolunteersThe Heart and Soul

of all we do.We honor and thank you.

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J-Serve 2012Ben at [email protected] For teens only! April 29 12:30-4:30 p.m. at Stroum Jewish Community CenterNational Jewish teen day of volunteering. Young adult chaperones needed.

JeWISH FAMILy ServICeContact Jane Deer-Hileman, Director of Volunteer Services206-861-3155 or [email protected] eSL Class Assistants and TutorsAssistants, class leaders and tutors needed Mondays-Thursdays, weekends and eve-nings.

Kent and Tukwila Family MentorsImmigrants in Kent/Tukwila need men-tors, drivers, ESL, job coaching, orienta-tion. Kent InternMentor, organize workshops and support groups for sole provider refugee women.Friendly visitorsVisit seniors, nursing home clients and others every other week.Big PalsAccompany youths and preteens on recre-ational activities. One-year commitment. Home DeliveryDeliver groceries to clients who can’t reach the food bank. Car required. Gleaning for GoodCollect farmers market produce Sundays, April–November for the food bank.

Other volunteer OpportunitiesSunday FLE, Shaarei Tikvah events, food bank shifts, or be on-call.

JeWISH FeDerATIOn OF GreATer SeATTLe Contact [email protected] or 206-443-5400volunteer researchersKeep the Federation’s databases updated. Phone calls and internet, Microsoft Word and Excel familiarity required. 2-6 hours/week ongoing. Database AssistantUpdate records, lifecycles, award winners, board members in database. Computer lit-eracy required. 1-8 hours/week ongoing.Administrative AidHelp departments with records, mailings,

As Jews, we have a special obligation to not separate ourselves from the commu-nity. From biblical times to today, our community has responded to the needs of others through volunteerism. Indeed, at the heart of our Jewish tradition is the concept of tikkun olam, repairing the world. We can do that by giving of ourselves freely to make our community — and our world — a better place.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle is proud to join JTNews in saluting our community’s volunteers who uphold our 3,000-year-old history. They carry boxes to fill our Jewish Family Service food bank. Their faces bring smiles to the sick, lonely and frail. Their voices engage others in our community to act, to participate and to give. Their minds help shape a vibrant future for Seattle’s Jewish community.

There are many words in the Jewish tradition that define the imperatives to volun-

A call to volunteerThen the voice of the Divine called out, “who shall I send, who shall go for us?” And I replied, “here am I. Send me.” (Isaiah 6:8)

teer including chesed (kindness) and tzedakah (righteous giving). When I see nearly 100 teens spending time with children with special needs at the Friendship Circle or a Stroum JCC auditorium overflowing with Super Sunday callers, what strikes me is that for many, the simple joy of helping others connects us to our ancient traditions and our sense of Jewish peoplehood.

Finally, please know that the work of our community simply would not happen without a partnership involving literally thousands of volunteers. To all those who help strengthen Jewish organizational life, I offer my heartfelt thanks. You are the life-blood of our community, answering the call to build a Seattle Jewish community and world that our children and grandchildren will be proud of.

— Richard Fruchter, President and CEO, The Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle

Below are listings of many different volunteering opportunities throughout our community. Please contact the individual organization for further details.

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What makes 100 years of Hadassah? Our VOlunteers!

Thank You Women of hadassah!We welcome all new members • Special Life Membership $212.00 (Usually $360.00) • Annual Membership $36.00.

Pacific Northwest Region • 515 116th Ave, Suite 131 • Bellevue, WA 98004Ph: 425-467-9099 • Fax 425-467-9199 • [email protected] • www.hadassah.org/pnw

Jacquie Bayley, Region President

They are: Courageous • Passionate • Out-of-the-Box Thinkers • Spunky Enthusiastic • Excited • Thoughtful • Smart • Dedicated • Innovative • Activists Involved • Creative • Tireless • Committed • Passionate • Brave • Philanthropic Movers & Shakers • Advocate • Ardent • Eager • Keen • Warm • Protective • Fiery Earnest • Spirited • Mothers • Daughters • Sisters • Wives • Effective • Devoted Partners • Spouses • Clever • Innovative • Inspired • Original • Productive • Tov Prolific • Visionaries • Exuberant • Generous • Magnanimous • Role Models Inventive • Women • Men Associates • Leaders • Supporters • Lovers • Aish Fighters • Leading-edge • Adept • Agile • Bright • Brillant • Nurses • Fearless Caregivers • Koach • Malka • Astute • Brainy • Clever • Genius • Good • Generous Ingenious • Knowing • Nimble • Ready • Resourceful • Sassy • Wise • Lovers Avid • Adroit • Artistic • Crafty • Gifted • Imaginative • Innovative • Intelligent Inventive • Original • Witty • Sharing • Caring • Nurturing • Keen • Daring • Bold

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communication, writing, social media and more. 2-8 hours/week. Internships Interns needed for office tasks in mar-keting, accounting, development and community services. Phone etiquette, computer literacy and multitasking a must.

event CoordinatorMichael Wardlow at 206-774-2256Summer intern needed for marketing and event planning 15-20 hours/week to orga-nize Campaign Kickoff on Sept. 23.

JCOnneCTJosh Furman at [email protected]

Lifelong AIDS Alliance1002 E Seneca St.Pack safer sex kits, prepare informational materials. Thursdays 4-7 p.m.

KLIne GALLAnD HOMeLucy Spring 206-725-8800 or [email protected]

Assist with Bingo, Mah Jongg, Bridge; escort residents to activities; lead or assist a class; assist creative arts therapy pro-grams; perform music or entertainment; assist afternoon café (food handler’s permit required); monitor movie room; provide one-on-one interaction; be on call for myriad chores.

Jewish groups must bring young volunteers on boardJon RosenbeRg anD lee sheRman JTA World News Service

(JTA) — Nonprofits in the United States don’t just benefit from government contracts and charitable donations. Some 62.8 million volunteers in the United States provided more than 8 billion hours of their time to nonprofits in 2010 at an estimated value of $160 billion.

Like other nonprofits, our own orga-nizations in the Jewish world continue to struggle as competition for funding dollars climbs, government support declines and staffs are stretched thin. It is time for us to rethink the role of volunteers and how we are working with them — especially the next generation of young adult volunteers.

Engaging young adults as volunteers with Jewish nonprofits has proven tricky, especially when it comes to connecting them with meaningful opportunities that have potential to have a real impact on cli-ents or communities.

The problem has not been a lack of willingness to volunteer among young Jews. According to Repair the World’s 2011 Volunteering + Values report, 78 percent of young Jewish women and 63 percent of young Jewish men said they had volunteered during the 12 months

prior to the survey. But their volunteerism in general now consists primarily of spo-radic, one-shot engagements, and most of it occurs outside the Jewish community.

That means there is great social spirit in the community, but not a lot of value added through volunteerism. There’s even less through volunteering with Jewish organizations.

Even as organizations struggle to sus-tain funding, we must do much more to engage the important human capital pro-vided by volunteers. But the volunteers must also know about the opportunities in order to engage with our collective work.

That’s the impetus behind a new part-nership between Repair the World, the service arm of the American Jewish com-munity, and the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies, the mem-bership association for North America’s 125 Jewish family service agencies.

Repair the World and AJFCA’s new Volunteer Initiative Program will focus on increasing volunteer opportunities for young people at Jewish Family Services organizations and on creating meaningful, effective service that better enables these

agencies to deliver on their mission. It will help us serve those in need.

Of course, while reports can help us identify concerns, we won’t really know what will work until we get on the ground. So starting in April, some 22 Jewish Family and Children’s Services organiza-tions will work to create better volunteer programs. They will come up with theo-ries, put those theories into practice, and help us see what works so we can spread best practices to the rest of the JFS net-work — and then beyond to the broader Jewish nonprofit world.

In this process, we will not only be informed by good work happening already in the JF&CS network, but also by emerging efforts in the secular ser-vice world such as Reimagining Service (reimaginingservice.org) and the Cities of Service (citiesofservice.org) initiatives.

We have a century-long American Jewish history of helping the other, be it the settlement houses of the turn-of-the-20th century, the vast network of Jewish hospitals that now exist primarily for a general population, or the work of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society with

immigrants that includes not only those pouring in from ravaged Jewish commu-nities of Eastern Europe but also refugees from all around the world.

Whether or not our young people are aware, like many of our stalwarts in the Jewish world today, JF&CS agencies began by assisting Jewish refugees and immi-grants, orphans, and the poor and needy. These agencies are continuing to pro-vide critical services to people of all ages of all religious and cultural backgrounds; with special needs and physical needs; and through economic challenges and life-cycle changes.

It’s time that we introduce this crucial work and these impressive organizations to the next generation of volunteers, sup-porters and advocates. It’s time we foster pride in our contributions to our commu-nities at large and enable young people to embrace their work as an entry point back into the Jewish community.

Jon Rosenberg is CEO of Repair the World. Lee Sherman is president and CEO of the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies.

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This Week’s Wisdom

Find a Path Through the Desertby Mike Selinker & Gaby Weidling

© 2012 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle. All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.

Answers on page 27

We recently finished the retelling of the Israelites wandering for 40 years in the desert. It’s symbolic of our own journeys through life, dealing with confusion and anguish, then emerging in a better place on the other side. Here, we’ll follow our own path through the desert. Starting somewhere in the top row and ending in the bottom, chart a winding path of 40 squares—one for each year—of nothing but SAND followed by more SAND.

ACROSS1 Indiana basketball player6 What alterations improve9 Electric bill data14 Humble dwelling?15 Luau music maker, for short16 Maritime17 Comedian C.K. or his eponymous sitcom18 Quality that may elicit teasing from jocks20 After-dinner treats21 Apollo org.22 Word with north or blue23 Ctrl-___-Del24 Freezer aisle namesake26 Recede, as the tide28 Pulls a prank on Oct. 31, perhaps29 Like Fran Drescher’s voice31 Daughter’s counterpart33 Biblical kingdom that, when reversed, is the

last name of 63-Across35 Several38 Fruity sodas42 Common lunch order45 They’ve clearly been framed?46 Easily maneuverable, to a salty old sea dog47 Eye irritant48 Rocker Ronnie James50 Bush 43’s nickname52 Finish55 Sat. preceder57 NBC comedy show that needed “more

cowbell”58 Catch red-handed61 College housing63 Costume designer for Bob, Helen, Violet, Dash,

and Jack-Jack65 She’s rolling deep in Grammys67 Ironically, it depicts an eagle, not an aquatic

mammal69 To, y’know, some extent70 Frigidaire competitor71 Creature studied by Jane Goodall or Dian

Fossey72 Records for later viewing, in a way73 AM/FM device74 ___ Vegas75 Surgeon’s tube

DOWN 1 Scarface director Brian De ___2 Like water that’s ready for pasta3 Pluralizable word like “chair” or “table,” but

not “furniture”4 Revise5 ___ Peanut Butter Cups6 Sequel starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny

Brice7 Swedish furniture giant8 Concise9 Prefix with cycle10 Milk director Gus Van ___11 Stave off12 Fuel, as a car13 “It’s no one ___ business!”19 Applies lightly25 Scandalous Gone with the Wind utterance27 00730 Psyched32 Filled with factoids33 Telepathy, for example34 Unable to be helped in the ER36 Top-secret government grp.37 Bargain hunters’ paradises39 Offend40 Treacherous to travel on41 That ship43 “Yeah, right!”44 …sechs, sieben, acht, ___, zehn49 What miners mine51 Fires a ray gun52 Mystery writer’s award53 “Candle in the Wind” honoree ___ Jean54 Descriptor of the pirate in The Princess

Bride56 Optimal59 Good Eats food guru Brown60 Beauty’s love62 Pedi go-with64 California wine valley66 Nike slogan “Just ___”68 Chinese “path”

BBYO embraces anti-bullying documentary, taking its message to Jewish teensDebRa Rubin JTA World News Service

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Emotional. Raw. Frustrating.

That’s how Oz Fishman describes his reaction to “Bully,” a documentary that follows five students who face daily bully-ing. The movie also focuses on two victims of bullying who killed themselves.

“I think every single person who wants to be a member of any community should see this film,” Fishman said.

As international co-president of the Jewish youth group BBYO, Fishman has been in a position to help make “Bully” available to Jewish teens and their par-ents throughout the country.

BBYO has part-nered with The Bully Project, which made the documentary, to bring the film to Jewish teens. “Bully” opened in limited release on March 30; two days later, the youth organization held the first two of 15 private screenings that it will host nationwide, including in Seattle.

The much-discussed film has fueled the national conversation over how to prevent bullying. The Bully Project aims to have 1 million teens see the movie and sign a pledge promising to take a stand against bullying — “stick up for others who might be in need of my help” — and be role models by not spreading hateful rumors — and not ignoring those who do.

“Bully” filmmaker Lee Hirsch is delighted by BBYO’s participation.

“BBYO has rallied around this film in a way that has absolutely been inspirational to me as a filmmaker and as a Jew,” Hirsch said. “It’s been an extraordinary thing to witness.”

The youth organization’s February convention in Atlanta included a pre-view of the film. BBYO members also were trained as facilitators for discussions that follow the screenings.

The discussions use a Jewish study guide developed by BBYO. The guide provides a Jewish foundation for the teens to talk about the film and about bullying, according to Rabbi David Kessel, BBYO’s chief pro-gram officer. It is used as a supplement to “BULLY: Fostering Empathy and Action in Schools,” the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum created for The Bully Project.

The BBYO curriculum includes dis-tributing cards that contain such Jewish values as “pikuach nefesh,” or saving a life; “hochai’ach tochee’ach,” you shall rebuke; “halbanat panim,” avoiding public humili-ation; and “ona’at d’varim,” laws aimed at avoiding verbal humiliation.

“When you’ve seen a movie like ‘Bully,’ it’s personal in a way because all of these teenagers have seen bullying in real life, know a friend who’s been bullied,” Kessel said. “The values give them a Jewish way to talk about it.”

Fishman, 18, was particularly struck by remarks in the film from the father of one of the suicide victims.

“The father said, ‘We’re nobody; we’re just some random people. Had this hap-pened to a son of a politician, it would have been on the front pages everywhere,’” Fishman recalled. “It is shocking to me that anybody would ever feel so worthless and meaningless that their child, having been bullied to a point of suicide, wasn’t worthy of the world’s attention.”

As Jews, he said, “It’s part of our values to do our best to stop [bullying]. That’s how we build a better world.”

BBYO officials say the film dovetails with the group’s Stand Up for Each Other Campaign for Respect and Inclusion, a project that began in 2010 and is “designed to raise sensitivity, to teach teens to create open communities,” Kessel said.

“The concept behind The Bully Proj-ect is that it takes a movement, it takes a village” to change attitudes, “and you can be that change,” said Estee Portnoy, who chairs BBYO’s international board of directors. “That really aligned” with BBYO’s Stand Up campaign.

As part of the Stand Up project, BBYO joined with Keshet, a gay and lesbian

If you go:

Evergreen BBYO and The Bully project invite all seattle-area Jewish youth and their parents to a screen-ing of “Bully,” followed by a discus-sion and training session. Tickets cost $5/teens and $7.50/adults. Advance registration required. For information and to register, visit www.bbyo.org/bully/seattle.

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BBYO and The Bully Project are working together to bring the film “Bully” to Jewish teens.

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April 25 at 7:30 p.m.Etgar KeretAuthor talkInternationally acclaimed Israeli writer Etgar Keret will speak about his latest collec-tion of short stories, “Suddenly a Knock on the Door.” Described by Salman Rushdie as “the voice of the next generation” and compared to Franz Kafka, Woody Allen and Kurt Vonnegut, Keret employs a dark, comi-cal and absurdist style that’s launched him into Israel’s uppermost literary echelons. Sponsored by Seattle Arts and Lectures and Jew-ish.com.At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle. Tickets are $5 for students under 18, $15/general, $30/patrons. For more information visit bit.ly/suddenlyaknock.

April 18 at 7 p.m.Erik LarsonAuthor talkIn honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Erik Larson will talk about his latest book, “In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin.” The evening will begin with lighting a memorial candle and a moment of silence to honor the victims of Nazi terror. At Temple B’nai Torah, 1527 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. Free; dessert reception to follow. For more infor-mation contact Jennifer at 425-603-9677 or [email protected], or visit templebnaitorah.org.

April 21 at 2 p.m.Far is my HomeConcert-commentaryMusic of Remembrance’s final Sparks of Glory concert at the Seattle Art Museum builds on the current Gauguin exhibit to express how non-Western influences af-fected the painter as well as three composers who lost their lives in the Holocaust. Pieces include Gideon Klein’s “Fantasy and Fugue for String Quartet,” Pavel Haas’s “Four Songs on Chinese Poetry,” and Erwin Schulhoff’s “Five Pieces for String Quartet.”At the Seattle Art Museum, Plest-cheeff Auditorium, 1300 First Ave., Seattle. For more information visit musicofremembrance.org.

April 14 at 8 p.m.Eli Rosenblatt Trio and Correo AereoConcertEmpty Sea Studios presents Eli Rosenblatt’s Spanish/klezmer/swing/Afro-Cuban styles with Correo Aereo (Air Mail), a Latin/world music duo featuring harp, guitar, cuatro, violin, maracas, bomba and jarana. Just try

to stay in your seat. The performance will be webcast and available live and on-demand through Empty Sea Television. At Empty Sea Studios, 6300 Phinney Ave. N, Seattle. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 at the door and available through www.brownpapertickets.com. For more information visit bit.ly/emptysea.

April 26 at 7:30Best of Fest: “mabul”FilmThe Stroum Jewish Community Center and the American Jewish Committee team up for a post-Seattle Jewish Film Festival series, kicking off with the opening night hit film “Mabul.” As Yoni prepares for his Bar Mitzvah, his autistic older brother Tomer unexpectedly returns home, forcing the entire family to cope with his pres-ence. Rated PG. Hebrew with English subtitles. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island. For more information con-tact Roni Antebi at 206-232-7115 or [email protected]. To register, visit bit.ly/mabul.

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April 30 at 7 p.m.From peyot to Bikinis: Religion in IsraelLectureProfessor and social historian Paul Liptz will speak about Israel’s shift from a largely secular nation at its founding to a country divided along secular and religious lines. What are the advantages of peyot over bikinis, and vice versa? Or is there something in between?At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE Fourth St., Bellevue. For more information contact Jennifer at 425-603-9677 or [email protected] or visit templebnaitorah.org.

April 28 at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.The Touré-Raichel CollectiveConcertIdan Raichel returns to Seattle with Mali guitarist and song-writer Vieux Farka Touré. Together, the two produced an album released in February of improvised, acoustic recordings in the spirit of promoting peace and cross-cultural harmony. With bassist Yossi Fine and percussionist Souleymane Kané on a djembe drum, the Vieux Farka Touré and Idan Raichel Quartet create “sublime and transcendent music.”At the Triple Door, 216 Union St., Seattle. Doors open at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Shows are all ages. Tickets are $45 in advance, $47 at the door and available through bit.ly/toureraichel. Visit www.toureraichel.com for more information about the quartet.

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As the spring quarter launches into full bloom at the University of Washing-ton, the Stroum Jewish Studies Program prepares for a special visitor to arrive on campus from Israel. Selected as one of 10 sites nationwide to participate in the Schusterman visiting artist program, UW will be hosting world-renowned Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol from April 15 through June 10.

With a vast amount of playwriting under his belt, Sobol is most famous for his work, “Ghetto” (1984), which has been produced in over 25 countries and won the London Critics’ award for Britain’s best play of the year in 1989. His work has been internationally recognized and acclaimed over the last 30 years.

Bringing an Israeli artist on campus to share both his work and his experi-ence gives the program the opportunity to reach across campus and work with other departments, in this case the UW School of Drama, to create a calendar of classes and community events featuring Sobol throughout the spring quarter.

The Schusterman visiting artist program was created to build and share Israeli cul-ture with Jewish communities in a variety of ways. Founded in June 2008 as a project of the Foundation for Jewish Culture, this program brings Israeli artists in a variety of disciplines to North American institutions.

Jewish Studies Program leaders say they are excited about the opportunity to share the wealth of knowl-edge, experience, artistic wisdom and — possibly most important — the Israeli and Jewish culture Sobol brings to the community and campus.

“We see this as an oppor-tunity to expand across the university to expose other programs to Israeli and Jewish culture,” said Jewish Studies chair Noam Pianko. “One of our missions is to take what we study and research and share that with the community.”

The Jewish Studies program’s Hannah Pressman, who is in charge of coordinat-ing events during Sobol’s visit, agreed.

“Hosting an Israeli artist is an ideal way to expose students, faculty, and com-munity to the ways that a creative mind mediates the socio-political complexity of life in Israel,” she said. “We hope that Mr. Sobol’s presence during spring quar-ter will help to highlight Israeli culture for those curious about the role of the artist in this complicated part of the world.”

Aside from the 60 plays Sobol has writ-ten, he has also authored several novels and non-fiction books and taught work-

shops at a number of Israeli Universities.

“Though teaching has never been my main occu-pation, I have always kept a working contact with drama departments at vari-ous Israeli universities and training schools for actors,” Sobol told JTNews. “I find the working contact with stu-dents very stimulating and inspirational.”

While working with the UW School of Drama, Sobol plans to share with students his experience “in approach-ing text as a point of departure for impro-visation and using improvisation as a basis for creating and approaching text.”

He plans to work with students on exploring many aspects of dramatic inter-pretation, along with introducing students to the form and the open structure of the so-called Polydrama, “a form I developed in cooperation with the Austrian director Paulus Manker,” Sobol said.

Having worked primarily with Israeli students in the past, Sobol said he looks forward to his upcoming work with American students.

“I am quite curious to meet young American students,” he said, “and to get an idea about the values, the taste, the

ideas and the beliefs and convictions that animate them, in one word — to capture the Zeitgeist of the present rising genera-tion of young Americans.” 

Odai Johnson, head of the UW’s School of Drama Ph.D. program and asso-ciate professor of theatre history, will be co-teaching a playwriting class with Sobol. Like Pianko, Johnson said he looks for-ward to working across the university with other departments during Sobol’s residency.

“We are delighted to have a profes-sional playwright of international rep-utation here in residence working with students in the School of Drama,” he said.

Beyond teaching classes with the drama and Jewish studies programs at UW, Sobol will be spending his visit working with other Jewish organizations throughout the greater Seattle area to share his artistic and cultural experience. Currently, commu-nity events that will feature Sobol and his work include a reading at the UW Book-store on May 8, and an invitation-only evening of staged readings on May 15.

“We have reached out to Seattle Jewish organizations to allow Mr. Sobol to engage with the community here,” said the Jewish Studies Program’s Pressman. Programs so far include engagements with UW Hillel and synagogues in Seattle’s Northend.

coURTeSy JoShUA SoBol

Renowned Israeli playwright Joshua Sobol.

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‘Free Men’ uncovers Muslim role in helping French Jews during WWII miChael Fox Special to JTNews

If movies can truly make a difference, then the timing of the soulful French war-time drama “Free Men” couldn’t be better.

Based on actual events, the engrossing second film by the Moroccan-born direc-tor Ismael Ferroukhi reveals the largely forgotten efforts of the director of the Mosque of Paris, Kaddour Ben Gabrit, to assist the Resistance and save Jews during the Nazi occupation.

With contemporary Muslim-Jewish tensions in France and elsewhere an ongo-ing cause of concern, “Free Men” provides a deeply felt reminder that both peoples are capable of performing bravely and righ-teously when faced with mindless racism.

“It’s true that I wanted the film to have an echo today, and to echo in the Arab and Jewish relationship that most of the time we believe is nonexistent,” Ferroukhi said in a phone interview a few days before the March 19 murders outside a Jewish school in Toulouse.

“Free Men” opens Friday, April 13 at the SIFF Cinema. It made its Seattle debut at the AJC Seattle Jewish Film Festival last month.

The film’s main character is a young, street-smart Algerian who sells black-mar-ket goods in wartime Paris. Arrested by the police, Younes (Tahar Rahim) is given

a choice: Go to jail, or turn informer and report on the goings-on at the mosque.

“Free Men” is a classic story of politi-cal awakening in which a callow protag-onist encounters a cause and discovers a purpose larger than himself. With the wise, low-key guidance of Ben Gabrit (played with equal gravitas and softness by Michael Lonsdale), Younes finds himself helping Jews — and changing from selfish to selfless before our eyes.

Along the way, he becomes friends with a gifted Algerian singer with his own secrets, Salim Halali, an actual his-torical figure played by the Israeli actor

Mahmoud Shalaby and dubbed in musi-cal sequences by the Moroccan vocalist Pinhas Cohen. If this provides a clue to what Salim is hiding, so be it.

“The Northern African population believes, most of the time, that relations between Arabs and Jews never existed,” Ferroukhi explains. “In our research, we discovered exactly the opposite — there were relations. But that memory has faded, and was deleted from collective memory. And that is due to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. There was litera-ture as well as music that dates to Andalu-sia, where the Arabic, Jewish and Christian cultures created culture together.”

Younes is also introduced to the nascent Algerian independence movement. “Free

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Younes (Tahar Rahim) must decide between helping himself and others in ‘Free Men.’

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Keeping the Holocaust memory alive — and sacredmenaChem Z. RosensaFt JTA World News

NEW YORK (JTA) — The destruc-tion of Solomon’s Temple by the Bab-ylonians in 586 BCE was the first great national tragedy in Jewish history. During the subsequent exile, four fast days com-memorating the calamitous event were added to the Jewish calendar: The 10th day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, when the siege of Jerusalem began; the 17th of Tammuz, when the walls of Jerusalem were breached; the 3rd of Tishri, marking the assassination of the Gedaliah, gover-nor of Jerusalem; and Tisha b’Av, the 9th of Av, when the Temple was destroyed.

For more than 2,500 years these fast days have remained on the Jewish reli-gious calendar, and the Book of Lamenta-tions continues to be read on Tisha b’Av. This is as it should be.

Even though it is a far more recent horror, the Holocaust was no less a national Jewish catastrophe than the destruction of the first and second Tem-ples. Yom HaShoah, designated as the official Jewish day of remembrance for the millions annihilated by Nazi Germany and its multinational accomplices, is as ritu-ally significant and divinely inspired as Tisha b’Av. This year, Yom HaShoah falls on April 19.

The preservation and transmission of our parents’ and grandparents’ memories is the most critical mission to which the chil-dren and grandchildren of survivors must dedicate themselves to ensure meaningful and authentic Holocaust remembrance in future generations. As the ranks of those who suffered alongside the murdered vic-

tims of the Holocaust steadily dwindle, the task becomes ever more urgent.

In his keynote address at the first International Conference of Children of Holocaust Survivors in 1984, Elie Wiesel mandated us to do what the survivors “have tried to do — and more: to keep our tale alive — and sacred.”

“You have screened Yourself off with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through,” we read in Lamentations. And yet it is told that Reb Azriel David Fastag, a disciple of the Chassidic rebbe of Modzhitz, spon-taneously composed and began to sing what has become the best-known melody to Maimonides’s 12th Principle of Jewish Faith while in a cattle car from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp: “Ani ma’amin be’emuna sh’leima, b’viat

hamashiach; v’af al pi she’yismameya, im kol zeh, achakeh lo b’chol yom she’yavo” — “I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though he may tarry, nevertheless I will wait every day for him to come.” 

A young Jew managed to escape from the Treblinka-bound train, taking with him the niggun, the melody, of Fastag’s “Ani Ma’amin.” Eventually the melody reached the Modzhitzer rebbe, who is said to have exclaimed, “With this niggun, the Jewish people went to the gas chambers, and with this niggun, the Jews will march to greet Moshiach.”

My mother, who had survived Aus-chwitz and Bergen-Belsen, died in 1997,

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hours after the end of Rosh Hashanah. Six months later I took my daughter Jodi, then a college sophomore, to Poland for the first time. She and my mother had been very close and spent a great deal of time together as Jodi was growing up. We went to Warsaw and Krakow, and then to Auschwitz.

On a gray day with a constant drizzle, I showed Jodi Block 11 — the death block at Auschwitz where my father was tor-tured for months. Then we went to Birke-nau, where we walked in silence past the decaying wooden barracks. After 15 or 20 minutes, Jodi turned to me and said, referring to her grandmother by her nick-

name, “You know, it looks exactly the way Dassah described it.” 

I realized that a transfer of memory had taken place. My daughter, born 33 years after the Holocaust, had recognized Birke-nau through my mother’s eyes, through my mother’s memories that Jodi had absorbed into her consciousness.

For the past several years, grandchildren of survivors at Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City have described their grand-parents’ experiences as a core element of what is evolving as our Yom HaShoah lit-urgy. Thus deportations, separations from parents and siblings, selections for the gas chambers, desperate escapes, nighttime ambushes of Nazi troops by partisan units, and avoiding death in secret hiding spaces

and on forged identity papers cease to be abstract concepts.

As family histories merge with haunt-ing songs and melodies that were sung in the ghettos and camps, we are reminded that these firsthand, personal accounts that together chronicle the enormity of the Holocaust must enter our theology just as the testimonies of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel became part of our Scripture.

At the Passover seder we recite “B’chol dor vador chayav adam lir’ot et atzmo ke-ilu hu yatza mi-mitzrayim” — “In each gener-ation it is incumbent on each of us to see ourselves as if we had come out of Egypt.”

We have been entrusted with a precious and fragile inheritance that ultimately belongs to the entire Jewish people and to

humankind. In the aftermath of the Holo-caust, each of us, and our children and our children’s children, must also see ourselves as if we had emerged from Auschwitz, Ber-gen-Belsen, and all the other ghettos and camps, the forests and secret hiding places of Nazi Europe. To do so, all of us, and our children and our children’s children, must discover the past by immersing ourselves as best we can in the survivors’ memories until they become a part of us.

Menachem Z. Rosensaft is vice president of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. He teaches about the law of genocide and World War II war crimes trials at the law schools of Columbia, Cornell and Syracuse universities.

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what the U.S. bottom line is, but Obama administration officials repeatedly have said that they will not ease the sanctions until Iran meets criteria set by the U.N. Security Council to make its nuclear pro-gram transparent.

The U.S. demands, according to reports, are that Iran stop enriching ura-nium to the 20 percent level. That figure is short of the 85 percent enrichment level needed for weapons grade, but it is close enough to raise concern. The U.S. also will reportedly demand that Iran shut down its underground nuclear facility near Qom.

The United States would allow Iran to enrich uranium to 3.5 percent for medi-cal purposes, according to the reports, and would agree to put a stop on planned new sanctions in the congressional pipeline that would further isolate Iranian finan-cial institutions.

That approach would not be enough to

keep the Iranians at the table, according to Trita Parsi, the director of the National Iranian American Council, and it could push away major powers that until now have followed the Obama administra-tion’s lead.

“This package is a non-starter to most observers, including to other P5+1 dip-lomats,” Parsi wrote on The Huffington Post, referring to the grouping of nations that negotiates with Iran on nuclear issues and comprises permanent U.N. Security Council members United States, Russia, China, France and Britain as well as Ger-many. “The problem is not necessarily the demands but the imbalance between what is demanded and what is offered.”

Dennis Ross, Obama’s former top Iran adviser who still consults with the White House, suggested last week that the U.S. might soften one critical additional piece of the sanctions should Iran comply with the demands on the Qom site and enrichment.

“If Iran were to stop enriching uranium

to 20 percent, ship out the material it has already enriched to that level and deacti-vate the Fordow facility near Qom, that would probably be sufficient,” he said in an analysis distributed by the influential Washington Institute for Near East Policy think tank, where he now works. “Here again, the question is what Iran would seek in return. Lifting the Central Bank sanctions would probably be the mini-mum it would require.”

That prospect alarms Republicans in the U.S. Senate who until now have been impressed with Obama’s implementation of the sanctions regime.

“So far the Obama administration is completely faithfully implementing” the sanctions, said a Republican Senate aide involved in the sanctions legislation talks. “They’re executing everything as they’re supposed to.”

The Senate aide referred particularly to the president’s March 30 determina-tion that oil markets could withstand

U.S. sanctions that would effectively force much of the world to choose between cut-ting off Iran’s Central Bank and its energy sector or not dealing with the United States.

That effectively set the sanctions in motion and earned Obama some leeway in Congress for concessions he could make to the Iranians — but they would have to come after the Iranians had verifiably shut down their suspected nuclear weapons program, the Senate aide said.

“The idea that you have minimized a nuclear weapon by keeping them at 20 percent and not touching Natanz,” the aide said, referring to another enrichment facility, “that in no way stops the danger and would not change the calculus in Jeru-salem.”

Republicans — and likely some Dem-ocrats, as well — would be “looking for a full suspension of all enrichment capabili-ties,” the aide said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who met last month with Obama, told the White House and con-gressional leaders that he had not yet come to a decision on whether to strike, and would hold off while he assesses how Obama’s diplomacy and sanctions regime are working.

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poverty caused his father to be “stagger-ingly damaged,” changing who he was for the rest of his life.

Today, he is hoping to dissolve some of the stereotypes about Jews that persist, particularly those that associate the Jewish community with wealth. His numbers reveal the real level of need in the Jewish community in Seattle.

“I asked the person in charge of our Emergency Services Department — that

is, rent, utilities, and medications — and in 2007 we gave out, in just rent assistance, $43,000,” said Weinberg. “Last year we gave out $75,000, and if we had an additional $75,000, we could have distributed it all.”

Weinberg said he was proud of the work that JFS does but that as far as he’s concerned, it’s really only a “Band-Aid” over the problem of poverty that will never be eliminated in our society.

“Jewish Family Service has a food bank and we serve 4,000 families a month,” Weinberg said. “Of the 15,000 people we

serve a year, about half of them fall below poverty level. In 2007, we saw 17,000 people and in this past year, 2011, we saw 22,000 people. Many of them are refugees from the former Soviet Union. What we did is we settled hundreds of thousands of Jews and then we dropped them.

“I think there’s a certain sense of noblesse oblige in members of my com-munity,” he added. “I want to substitute the word charity with justice, so that when somebody contributes $10,000 to the food bank, it’s not charity, it’s justice.”

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Men” subtly but unmistakably acknowl-edges the betrayal of the Algerians along with the thousands of other men from France’s North African colonies who fought in the war and were denied the rec-ognition, rights and respect they deserved.

But the soft-spoken Ferroukhi, speak-ing through an interpreter, downplays the suggestion that “Free Men” is intended to incite younger moviegoers to be politically engaged.

“The movie is not about the need for action, but history reminds the new gener-

ation of the need to act,” Ferroukhi main-tains. “We can take a lesson that people from different [backgrounds], from differ-ent regions, unite for a common goal against a common enemy. I am not here to give any lessons to anyone. I learn from history and other people will learn—I don’t teach.”

Indeed, when Ferroukhi told a Jewish friend who worked on his first film, “Le Grand Voyage,” that Kaddour Ben Gabrit was the focus of his new project, the man exclaimed, “No way — that’s the man who saved my grandma.”

“It’s stronger than history,” Ferroukhi says quietly. “It’s intimacy.”

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Jewish group, to get signatures for Keshet’s “Do Not Stand Idly By: A Jewish Commu-nity Pledge to Save Lives,” which commits signers to speak against homophobic bul-lying and harassment.

The youth group also put together a resource guide that contains “a number of different model programs that you could run at a convention, Shabbaton, leadership event,” Kessel said.

The rabbi says he already sees a culture shift. People are more aware, for example, of the kind of language they use.

“We looked at terms like, ‘That’s so gay,’” Kessel said, and tried to make people understand it’s a pejorative.

“We haven’t solved the problem,” he said, “but we’ve taken a major step for-ward.”

For Adam Greenburg, 18, who was bul-lied as a child — for being “the only Jew for miles” and for being overweight — BBYO already is a safe haven.

“We don’t put up with bullying at all,” said Greenburg, of Redondo Beach, Calif. “Jews are really big on doing the right thing, and I think with the Stand Up cause, it gives us the opportunity do the right thing.”

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The Meridian School is well known for its summer program.  Open to the general public and conveniently located in Wallingford. Day Camp program for ages 5–12 offers a new theme and three field trips each week. Plus, nearly 30 enrichment classes for ages 5–15. They have something for everyone!

206-632-7145 x.308 or 324 • www.meridianschool.edu/content/summer-program

Red Gate Farm Day Camp Red Gate Farm is a special place where young campers can build their self-confidence

while enjoying the pleasure of riding and developing a friendship with their camp horse. Eight one-week sessions are offered.

Campers will learn everything about horse care including basic grooming, saddling, even some horse psychology! Other activities include arts and crafts, Dutch oven cooking, on-the-ground horsey time games and gardening. On the last day of every session, campers get a chance to demonstrate their new riding skills with a horse show for friends and family!

425-392-0111

Seattle Audubon Nature CampExplore and discover nature and science through fun, hands-on activities, art and field

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Express yourself with our special “Tribute Cards” and help fund JFS programs at the same time…meeting the needs of friends, family and loved ones here at home. Call Irene at (206) 861-3150 or, on the web, click on “Donations” at www.jfsseattle.org. It’s a 2-for-1 that says it all.

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DeathChana Lorber

Chana Lorber, beloved mother and grandmother, passed away Saturday, March 10 at the age of 91. Chana is survived by her daughter Rosalie Revesz and granddaughter Laura Revesz.

Chana was born in Warsaw, Poland and survived the concentration camps. She came to Seattle, Washington, where she had relatives, in 1951. Shortly thereafter, she married her husband of 45 years, Dow M. Lorber, who preceded her in death. Chana was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother as well as a successful businesswoman. She and her husband worked side by side at their store, Dows Economy Clothing in the Pike Place Market area for many years. She was active in many Jewish organizations including AMIT Women and Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath. She will be greatly missed by her friends and family. Donations may be made to Congregation Bikur Cholim-Machzikay Hadath or the Kline Galland Home of Seattle.

lifetrips! With sessions about birds, forests, oceans and ecology, their day camps engage kids ages 5–15. Located at 8050 35th Ave. NE in Seattle.

206-523-4483 • [email protected] • www.seattleaudubon.org

SJCC Summer CampSJCC Summer Camp brings outdoor adventures to life, from rock climbing and rock-

ets to kayaking and beachcombing. They reach hundreds of campers, kindergarten through 10th grade, with one, two and three week camps. They hope their campers learn more about themselves, create life-lasting friendships and develop self-confidence. Thirty-five unique camps in Mercer Island and North Seattle. They welcome everyone.

www.SJCC.org

The Union Hill RanchThe Union Hill Ranch is a private horse boarding facility in Redmond, owned by the

Sternoff family for 23 years. Their daughters grew up riding horses and competing at a world breed show and college varsity equestrian level. Their program currently supports the childhood dream of owning your own horse. They have children’s lessons as well as horse boarding and leasing available. Located at 22440 NE Union Hill Rd., Redmond.

425-868-8097 • [email protected] • www.theunionhillranch.com

URJ Camp KalsmanSituated on 300 acres, their state-of-the-art facility is just over an hour north of down-

town Seattle in the foothills of the Cascades. Sessions range in length from one to three weeks and are staffed by mature college students under the guidance of experienced senior staff members and faculty from across the country.

Camp Kalsman is proud of its commitment to providing campers with strong and encouraging Jewish role models. Your child will never forget the joy of living in a close-knit community and developing new skills under the guidance of a dynamic staff — and the Jewish values and identity developed at camp will last a lifetime!

425-284-4484 • www.kalsman.urjcamps.org

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