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Chabad-Lubavitch of Washington State would like to wish the entire Jewish community a Wonderful and Blessed Passover.

A pAssover MessAge froM the lubAvitcher rebbe o.b.M.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson Lubavitcher Rebbe OBM

chAbAd-lubAvitch pAssover services And coMMunity seders in wAshington stAteFor information on service times and seders in your community, visit our Web site

for links to all of the Chabads in Washington: www.chabadofseattle.org

shluchiM And representAtives of the lubAvitcher rebbe o.b.M., wAshington stAteRabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Levitin Regional Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Rabbi, Congregation Shaarei Tefilah-Lubavitch

Rabbi and Mrs. Mordechai Farkash Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue Rabbi, Eastside Torah Center

Rabbi and Mrs. Zalman Heber Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Pierce County

Rabbi and Mrs. Eli Estrin Director, University of Washington Campus Activities

Rabbi and Mrs. Zevi Goldberg Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Snohomish County

Rabbi and Mrs. Shimon Emlen Educator, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder

Rabbi and Mrs. Avroham Kavka Administrator, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Director, Gan Israel Day Camp

Rabbi and Mrs. Shmulik Greenberg Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Clark County

Rabbi and Mrs. Yossi Charytan Head of School, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder

Rabbi and Mrs. Yisroel Hahn Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Spokane County

Rabbi and Mrs. Cheski Edelman Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Thurston County

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Elishevitz Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Bellevue

Rabbi and Mrs. Yechezkel Kornfeld Educational Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Pacific Northwest Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Mercer Island Rabbi, Congregation Shevet Achim

Rabbi and Mrs. Elazar Bogomilsky Director, Northwest Friends of Chabad-Lubavitch Director, Friendship Circle

Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Ber Farkash Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of the Central Cascades

Rabbi and Mrs. Avrohom Yarmush Director, Chabad-Lubavitch of Whatcom County

Rabbi and Mrs. Avi Herbstman Educator, Menachem Mendel Seattle Cheder

In memory of Shmuel ben Nisan O.B.M. — Samuel Stroum — Yartzeit March 9, 2001/14 Adar 5761

Sponsored by a friend of Samuel Stroum and Chabad. For more information on any of these events and/or service times in all Washington State locations, please contact Chabad House at 206-527-1411, info@chabadofseattle.org or visit our website at www.chabadofseattle.org

a special fund for the needy has been set up at chabad for passover. if you would like to donate or know someone in need, please contact us.

Changing the Unchangeable

Passover, the Season of Our Liberation brought about a complete change from abject slavery to complete freedom, from utter darkness to brilliant light. This is also the kind of change which takes place in nature in the spring, when the earth awakens from its winter slumber, and is released from the chains and restraints of the cold winter, to sprout and bloom until the stalks of grain begin to fill.

It has often been emphasized that every detail in Torah (meaning “instruction”) conveys instruction and teaching; certainly a matter connected with a festival, and a comprehensive festival such as Passover, in particular.

One general instruction that may be derived from Passover, specifically from the connection of Yetziat Mitzrayim [the Exodus from Egypt] with the month of Spring, which is applicable to each and every Jew in his daily life, is the following: Human life, in general, is divided into two spheres: the personal life of the individual, and his accomplishments and contribution to the world. In both of these there is the spiritual life and the physical life.

The Jew’s task is to “liberate” everything in the said spheres “from bondage to freedom,” that is to say, to take all things out of their limitations and “elevate” them to spirituality (and more spirituality), until every detail of daily life is made into an instrument of service to G-d.

Even such things which apparently one cannot change — as, for example, the fact that G-d had created man in a way that he must depend on food and drink, etc. for survival — he nevertheless has the power to transform the physical necessity into a new and incomparably higher thing: One eats for the purpose of being able to do good, to learn Torah and fulfill mitzvot, impacting humanity as a whole, thus transforming the food into energy to serve G-d.

Moreover, in the very act of eating one serves G-d, for it gives the person an opportunity to make a bracha [blessing] before eating, and after, and so forth.

We find something akin to the above in regard to the month of Spring: At first glance, there is nothing man can do about it. After all, the laws of nature were established by G-d ever since He created heaven and earth, and subsequently ordained that “so long as the earth exists...[the seasons of] cold and heat, and summer and winter, shall not cease.” Nevertheless, a Jew observes and watches for the spring month in order to “make Passover to G-d your G-d.”

In other words, in the phenomenon of spring he perceives and discerns G-d’s immutable laws in nature. And more penetratingly: That it was in the month of spring — precisely when nature reveals its greatest powers — that “G-d your G-d brought you out of Egypt,” in a most supernatural way.

In all spheres of one’s daily life a person encounters conditions and situations that are “Mitzrayim” — restraints and hindrances — which tend to inhibit and restrain the individual from developing in the fullest measure his true Jewish nature.

The hindrances and limitations are both internal — inborn traits and acquired habits; as well as external — the influences of the environment.

One must free himself from these chains and direct his efforts towards serving G-d. If, on reflection, a person finds that spiritually he is still on a low level, so that he can hardly be expected to make a complete change from slavery to freedom and from darkness to a great light — there is also in such a case a clear message in the festival of Passover. For, as has been noted, Yetziat Mitzrayim was a change from one extreme to the other: From abject bondage to the most depraved idol worshippers, the Jews were not only liberated from both physical slavery (hard labor) and spiritual slavery (idolatry), but soon afterward — on the seventh day of Passover — they were able to declare, “This is my G-d,” as if pointing a finger; subsequently, they reached Mount Sinai, heard G-d Himself proclaim, “I am G-d your G-d,” and received the whole Torah, the Written as well as the Oral Torah — an extraordinary transformation from one extreme to the other.

May G-d help every Jew, man and woman, in the midst of all our people Israel, to make full use of the powers which the Creator has given each of them to overcome all difficulties and hindrances — to achieve a personal exodus from everything that is “mitzrayim,” in order to attain true freedom, by attaching oneself to G-d through His Torah and His mitzvot…

Including the mitzva of remembering the Redemption by day and by night, and from individual redemption to the collective redemption of the Jewish people as a whole, to merit the fulfillment of the prophecy, “As in the days of your liberation from Egypt, I will show you wonders,” at the coming of our righteous Moshiach, speedily indeed.

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“I’ve learned a lot about cultures, and different societies and languages.” —Michael Rogozinski, executive chef at The Summit at First Hill, on his culinary travels.

NEW YORK (JTA) — With Richard Goldstone himself admitting that the infamous Goldstone Report was criti-cally flawed, this is the best opportu-nity we have had in two years to bring to light the misconceptions of Opera-tion Cast Lead.

In his April 2 Op-Ed in The Wash-ington Post titled “Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and War Crimes,” Goldstone rebukes the very principles linked to Israel following the report submitted under his name to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Let me make this abundantly clear: Israel abides by international law. Does that mean that Israel is perfect? No.

But as Goldstone’s Op-Ed states, while Hamas “rockets were purpose-fully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets,” investigations pub-lished by the Israeli military and rec-ognized in the U.N. committee’s report that was chaired by former New York judge Mary McGowan Davis, “civil-ians were not intentionally targeted as a matter of policy” by Israel.

Reading Goldstone’s words that Israel “has the right and obligation to defend itself and its citizens against attacks from abroad and within” and that the U.N. Human Rights Coun-cil has a “history of bias against Israel [that] cannot be doubted,” it is amaz-ing how much he sounds like any one of us 18 months ago.

What caused Goldstone to do a 180 wasn’t a change of heart but an under-standing of objective and undisputable facts. The ironically named “fact-find-ing mission” wasn’t interested in wait-ing for Israel, as a democratic country, to investigate itself. Instead, the only “facts” it found were unsubstantiated allegations against Israel. The legacy of the Goldstone Report is that in the topsy-turvy world of the United Nations, Israel is guilty until proven innocent and Hamas is innocent until proven guilty.

In October 2009, I wrote for the JTA news service that “Goldstone does not differentiate between a democracy using force to defend its civilians and a terror organization targeting innocent civilians on purpose.” While Richard Goldstone has debunked the notion that Israel was intentionally targeting civilians, significant damage has been done.

It won’t be easy for people to accept the truth, but the steps needed are sim-pler than we may think.

What starts as an Op-Ed in The Washington Post is important momen-tum. Israel’s enemies were quick to use the Goldstone Report as ammunition in the fight to delegitimize the Jewish State. Now that Goldstone himself has begun to take away that weapon, we can finally win the fight armed only with truth.

This battle will take place in all forums — from the United Nations and U.S. Congress to the blogosphere and message boards. In the two years since Operation Cast Lead, the inter-national status of Israel and the Jewish people has been tarnished by the most insidious of lies and false claims. The Goldstone Report was seen by many as the final nail they needed to build the coffin for the Jewish State, and it almost succeeded.

Israel’s enemies may need lies and propaganda to fight us, but all we need to fight back is the truth. The objective truth, whether it is in Gaza or onboard the Mavi Marmara, exonerates Israel while weakening its enemies.

In my reaction to the Goldstone Report, I wrote that “such reports not only harm nation states in the war against terror, but harm the prospects for peace in the Middle East.” For over two years, lies about Operation Cast Lead have been circulating every mes-sage board on every website, and they all lead back to one source: The Gold-stone Report.

The Goldstone Report, as Prime Minister Netanyahu says, “must be shelved once and for all.” The United Nations, as a legal body, is capable of repealing or revoking past declarations. In 1991, Resolution 4686 was passed, which revoked the outrageous resolu-tion claiming that “Zionism is racism.”

Now that the full facts have come to light, coupled with the admission from Goldstone himself that his findings were flat out wrong, the international community must condemn the Gold-stone Report and send it to the ash bins of history.

It is time for Israel, the Jewish people and our friends to embark on a true “fact-finding mission.” If the Gold-stone Report was the darkest moment before the dawn, let us work together to ensure that the dawn is coming.

Joel Lion is the spokesperson and consul for media affairs at the Consulate General of Israel in New York.

Spreading the truth, post-Goldstone Op-EdJoel lion JTA World News Service

JERUSALEM — It’s difficult to think about peace when missiles are flying from Gaza into Israel, and when innocent civil-ians on both sides are regularly forced to take cover.

Yes, it’s true that Hamas and its prox-ies in Gaza intentionally shoot at Israeli civilians, but it’s also true that many inno-cent civilians inside Gaza end up paying with their lives — killed by Israeli bombs. Go and explain to their families that their deaths were not intentional. Israelis hate it when someone calls what is going on a “cycle of violence,” because it implies a built-in assumption that Israel is also an aggressor, while it perceives itself as an innocent, passive target of Hamas aggres-sion. For each new round of violence it is impossible to argue about “who started it,” since each side will choose a different starting point.

It’s so easy to engage in this competi-tion of suffering. The politicians on both sides love it. Indeed, they revel in it, with their fists clenched and their flatulent rhet-oric threatening more of the same. More firepower creates more deterrence, they say. And as we run for the shelters (those who have them) — the 1.7 million people in Gaza don’t have a single shelter, because it is true that their government doesn’t care about their needs — we continually fail to think of a better way.

I know the Hamas charter calls for our destruction, and is itself a horrible, anti-Semitic crime against humanity, but I seriously doubt if you could find even 50 Hamas members who can tell you what is in that document. Most don’t even know such a document exists.

I talk to people from Gaza every day. I spent this past weekend with a good friend from Gaza who I managed to bring to Jerusalem. He is a journalist from Rafah, married with three young children. He has spent time in Sderot, as well as on one of the kibbutzim nearby. He meets many Israelis and, like a majority of Gazans, is not happy with the present reality. He, like the Israelis he meets, wants a decent life for himself and his family. Most people in Gaza wish for the same.

It’s so easy to fall into the trap the Hamas military leaders have created for us. We play their game with such excel-lence; we do exactly what they provoke us to do. Of course there has to be an Israeli response to Hamas rocket fire, for no gov-ernment can tolerate having its civilian population attacked by a neighboring ter-ritory. But I wonder if any of our generals have ever thought of a different approach. The Hamas strategy is aimed at increas-ing its support, while its public appeal is

waning. The Palestinians are sick and tired of Hamas’s rule, but when Israel attacks them, such flagging enthusiasm disap-pears. It’s the natural response.

For some reason, our military people think that if we make the Palestinian public suffer, they will take it out on their rulers. Yet it never happens. The best Israeli strat-egy has always been to use force, and when force doesn’t work, use more force. And the Israeli public loves it. We don’t put names to them; we don’t see the pictures of destroyed families. All we know is that some Hamas person was killed; it doesn’t really matter if they were non-combatants, because we all know Hamas uses them as human shields, and why didn’t they just run away? And besides, they all hate us anyway, so they must all be Hamas sym-pathizers.

Why haven’t our leaders developed a strategy based on weakening Hamas’s control of Gaza? Could it be, as recent Wikileaks documents suggest, that there are people among Israel’s leadership who find it quite convenient to have Hamas next door? A strategy to weaken Hamas would have to be one that empowers the moderates, and the current government of Israel has either decided there is no such thing, or that empowering them might actually lead to peace.

In the case of peace, Israel will have to stop building settlements, Israel will have to compromise over Jerusalem, and Israel will have to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, and compensate the Palestinians with parcels of land inside Israel proper in exchange for land we wish to annex. So since we have a government intent on not making peace with the Palestinians, why not ensure that we have Hamas in con-trol of Gaza? As long as rockets hit south-ern Israel from time to time, international pressure to make peace with the Palestin-ians decreases every so often. All we have to do is tell the world that moderates don’t exist, or that they’re too weak, or that the area is really controlled by Hamas, and the only thing that prevents it from taking over the West Bank is the continued Israeli presence there.

We’re constantly getting better at this — we have moved from Cast Lead to an Iron Dome, and we are protected. So we can continue to delude ourselves — just as long as we continue to use our muscles instead of our brains.

The writer is co-CEO of IPCRI, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, and is currently in the process of founding the Center for Israeli Progress.

Encountering peace: The bombs bursting in air Gershon Baskin The Jerusalem Post

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letters to the editor

Making identificationsReferencing your article on “Washington’s newest congresswoman” (“Where she stands:

Washington’s newest congresswoman on Israel,” April 1), I suggest in the future you indicate at the top of your articles whether they are news reports or editorials.

Your reference to AIPAC as a “hawkish” organization is totally inaccurate. AIPAC sup-ports the government of Israel that is in power at the time, whether it be on the right or left of the political spectrum. J Street should have been identified as a left-wing, liberal, progres-sive organization that attempts to influence their policies and ideas on peace on the govern-ments of U.S. and Israel.

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a Moral coMpassAkiva Segan says it is inflammatory to use words such as “unspeakable evil” and “savage”

to describe the terrorists who entered the home of a young Israeli family in the middle of the night and stabbed to death the parents and three of the children including a 1-month-old baby girl. (“Inflammatory Words,” Letters, April 1.) If Segan cannot see the evil in their actions, then he must have no moral compass.

Segan says there is no difference between these intentional murders and the deaths of Pal-estinian civilians killed by Israeli missiles targeting Hamas. It is interesting that just this past week, Richard Goldstone, the chair of the committee that originally criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza, published a letter in the Washington Post “reconsidering” his own report. He says that subsequent investigations show “that civilians were not intentionally targeted [by Israel] as a matter of policy” and “that the crimes allegedly committed by Hamas were intentional goes without saying — its rockets were purposefully and indiscriminately aimed at civilian targets.” He also states that Israel has an obligation to defend its citizens.

I understand that Segan wants to obfuscate the facts and suspend moral judgment in his blind defense of terrorists. What I do not understand is why the JTNews found it necessary to print his letter.

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the constant struggleThanks for printing Akiva Segan’s letter (“Inflammatory words,” April 1). There is so much

hatred in the world.Mr. Basson’s description of Palestinians as savages is not going to help break down barri-

ers and walls, nor lead to the face-to-face dialogue and negotiations necessary to achieve a two-state solution and peace. It certainly doesn’t show any sympathy for the vast majority of Palestinians who are not terrorists, but struggle to live their daily lives, and have so struggled for several generations, in an oppressive apartheid-like environment.

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a proper educationI commend Edward Alexander for his perceptive op-ed article (“A gentile critic of the new

anti-Semitism,” April 1). It was right on the mark. Alexander rightly points out that the resurgent anti-Semitism is not just the physical vio-

lence of Jew hatred of young Muslims, but the ideological violence is the work primarily of left-ists, self-identified anti-racists, humanitarians, and liberals (including Jewish ones).

What amazes me are liberal misguided Jews taking a pro-Palestinian Arab stand at the expense of Israel’s existential national interest. Why do they ignore their stated goals to destroy Israel? Why do they deny Israel’s right to exist on a tiny sliver of land in their ances-tral homeland? Fortunately, the majority of Americans support and favor Israel’s right to exist. Israel made a blunder in not enforcing the Oslo Accords agreement made with Palestinians under Yasser Arafat to stop incitement to violence against Israel.

Professor Bernard Harrison is to be applauded for his book, The Resurgence of Anti-Sem-itism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion (2006) and for agreeing to speak at the University of Washington on this extremely important topic. I hope his audience was properly educated from his extensive knowledge on this subject.

Josh Bassonseattle

ChallahWednesday, April 27, 2:00 p.m.

Seattle Hebrew Academy Library

$8 members/$10 nonmembers

Rivy Poupko Kletenik and daughter Gilah will

teach us the story of challah and how to make,

knead, separate, braid, bake and bless. We’ll also

learn how to make a shlissel challah, the challah

that is made in the shape of a key for the first

Shabbat after Pesach.

The Art of CheesemakingThursday, May 5, 6:30–9:00 p.m.Congregation Beth Shalom$40 members/$55 nonmembers Co-sponsored with Congregation Beth ShalomMark Solomon, an experienced instructor and ardent home

cheesemaker, will teach us how to make easy soft kosher cheeses at home, including fresh mozzarella, cream cheese, chevre and ricotta.

2031 Third Ave • Seattle Wa 98121

Space is limited.Purchase tickets or call Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at 206-774-2277 to reserve your spot or for more information.

See What’s Cooking at The Washington State Jewish Historical Society

A Taste of Sephardic Foods*

Borekas on Wednesday, May 11, 11 a.m.Biscochos on Thursday, May 12, 11 a.m. The Summit at First Hill, Second Floor$8 members/$10 nonmembers per program no charge for Summit residentsKatherine Scharhon will be our teacher and guide as we learn

to make (and eat) borekas, those divine filled pies and bisco-chos, the lovely simple cookies that can be sweet or savory and shaped for a variety of occasions.

*Corrected date & time

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Remember when

From the Jewish Transcript, April 10, 1967.A large group from the Washington-Oregon Israel Bond delegation got together

at Seattle-Tacoma Airport prior to boarding an El Al flight to make a visit to Israel.

Yiddish lessonBy ruth Peizer

Dos harts iz a halber novi.The heart is half a prophet. Moral: Trust your instincts.

correctionDue to an editing error, a word was omitted from the article on Jaime Herrera Beut-

ler (“Where she stands: Washington’s newest congresswoman on Israel,” April 1) that changed the meaning of the quote. The section stating that “two-state money should not be ‘isolated from the general foreign aid package, because we believe that will be beneficial to Israel,’” should have read “because we don’t believe that will be beneficial to Israel.

JTNews regrets the error.

It’s back! Five Women to Watch is coming April 29

If there’s a woman in our community that you think is deserving of honor and praise, whether it be in Jewish circles, career, or making a difference in the world, let us know! Email editor@jtnews.net with her name and a short explana-tion about why you think she qualifies.

Seeking judaica and kosher vendorsThis year’s community-wide Yom Ha’atzmaut and Lag B’Omer celebration

takes place on Sun., May 22, and will include an Israel fair. Organizers are seek-ing artists and Judaica and kosher food vendors to participate. To register, con-tact Carol Benedick at carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org.

Six degrees of anti-Semitism 6U.S. Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal talks about the ever-morphing mutations of the chronic illness called anti-Semitism.

More than mashed potatoes 7Seattle’s best-kept fine kosher dining secret is out, and it’s at The Summit, of all places.

passover comes with a price 13A critically acclaimed “comedy-hyphen-drama” about the Price family’s last seder together.

The flowers still bloom 17And Israelis still grapple with tragedy and identity, as David’s Grossman’s new novel shows.

Remains of the holiday 22A father encourages his daughter to remember, if nothing else, the meaning of Passover: that until we’re all free, no one is free.

Mexican Matzoh brei 26The much loved and hated Passover staple finds itself embroiled in controversy: to fry with sugar or salt? This year, try serving it with guacamole. (The horror! The horror!)

water for chocolate 30A Passover cooking expert weighs in with advice on how to substitute just about any kosher-for-Passover ingredient for just about anything else.

Zero bridge 37Jewish-Muslim filmmaker Tariq Tapa’s Zero Bridge may or may not be essentially Jewish.

arab Spring 38It’s springtime for the Arab world, and Israel had better clean house before it gets left out in the cold, some say.

MoreM.o.T.: Moderation and the Marcuses 8what’s your jQ?: The empty seat at the seder table 9community calendar 10The arts 18jewish on earth: Three earth-bound commandments 25emily’s corner: a different exodus 35where to worship 40lifecycles 41The Shouk classifieds 41

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7:30 p.m.Monday, May 9, 2011Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, Seattle

6:45 p.m. Pre-Concert Talk:

John Sharify interviews Terezín survivor Sidney Taussig

“an impressive record of performances with some of the region’s finest

musicians” –(Seattle Times)

A concert to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day

Two Premieres! MOR Commissions from Betty Olivero and Lori Laitman

MOR presents renowned Israeli composer Betty Olivero’s personal tribute to the Sephardic community at Thessalonika. The world premiere of Kolo’t (“Voices”) will be sung in Ladino by Portland Opera mezzo-soprano Angela Niederloh. Hear an intimate song cycle version of Lori Laitman’s Vedem, based on the secret poetry of teens from Terezín. Also: Olivero’s Golem klezmer suite, Haas’ String Quartet No. 2.

The six degrees of anti-SemitismJoel MaGalnick Editor, JTNews

On bus ads and BDSHannah Rosenthal, the U.S. Spe-

cial Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism, says the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel’s policies in Gaza and the West Bank is a complete failure.

“The problem with calling a boy-cott is, it had better work,” Rosenthal said. “Do you hear it discussed in the halls of power here?... Are you hear-ing governments wanting to divest their savings? No. It’s not working.”

BDS has gained traction on col-lege campuses, and in the larger community in Washington State it has led to attempts to boycott Israel products from the shelves of grocery co-ops — with one success in Olym-pia. Advertisements critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians that were set to appear on the sides of Seat-tle Metro buses were canceled by King County prior to their start date, with lawsuits still pending and a new policy on advertisements that bans political speech issued on April 8.

Rosenthal said that while she can appreciate non-violent protest, the people doing so don’t always see the bigger picture. Sometimes, she said,

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Hannah Rosenthal, the U.S. Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism.

Seven months after starting her new appointment, Hannah Rosenthal received a gift: Former White House correspondent Helen Thomas.

“If Helen Thomas, coming out of the Jewish Heritage Festival at the White House, had just said, ‘Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine,’ it would not have cost her her job,” said Rosenthal, the U.S. Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism. “That she followed it up with, ‘Tell them to go back to Germany and Poland’ made it a whole different statement.”

It became immediately obvious to Thomas’s colleagues that she had crossed a line.

“She was the first woman in the White House press corps, she’d been there since President Kennedy, she had amazing sto-ries to tell, she had respect from the press,” Rosenthal said. “They did not back her.”

Such hard-won victories are not always so easy to attain, said Rosenthal, who visited Seattle on April 7–8 as a guest of the local chapter of the American Jewish Committee.

There is no question that anti-Semi-tism is on the rise, Rosenthal said — in this country, FBI figures bear that out — but its face is changing.

“I run across people all the time that think anti-Semitism was a disease that was cured when Adolf Hitler killed himself,”

said Rosenthal. “It is not a disease, it is a chronic illness, and it has mutations and it is ever morphing.”

The worldwide increase in anti-Sem-itism was worrisome enough to mem-bers of Congress, including the late Tom Lantos (D–Calif.), a Holocaust survivor, that in 2004 it created an office within the U.S. Department of State to moni-tor and report on the phenomenon. Pres-ident Obama appointed Rosenthal, a former director of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, an umbrella organization for Jewish community relations councils across the country, in November 2009. She took over from Gregg Rickman, an appointee of former President Bush.

Rosenthal has been criticized as being anti-Israel because of her ties to progressive organizations like New Israel Fund and J Street. She rejects such criticism, and said anyone who hears her speak will discover otherwise. Regardless of others’ opinions, she said the leeway she has been given to educate other envoys within the State Dept. on clearing up misconceptions about anti-Semitism and Israel has shown the Obama administration’s commitment to her post.

When Rickman was appointed, “his office was in a satellite office and he was kind of alone unto himself,” Rosenthal said. “When they appointed me they brought

me into the State Department, totally inte-grated into everything that goes on there.”

Her data can be found in reports on more than 75 countries, as well as the soon-to-be-released International Religious Freedom report and a human rights report that was released earlier this month.

Rosenthal said that in her travels she

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Some might say that The Summit At First Hill has been keeping one of its most valuable assets a secret. Once a month, a small but happy group of restaurant-goers in Seattle’s Jewish community has been savoring the gourmet dining experience provided by The Summit’s world-class exec-utive chef, Michael Rogozinski. But now that the word has begun to spread about Rogozinski’s Bistro Night, which features an international wine selection, salads, desserts and a three-entrée prix fixe dinner menu, good luck in getting a reservation.

In addition to the cuisine, the entire Summit kitchen is fully kosher and super-vised daily by dedicated Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle staff. In past months, including at its most recent dinner on April 5, the menu has featured dry-rubbed prime rib roast, rib-eye steak, roasted whole game hens, cherry wood-smoked black cod, and Prince William Sound salmon wellington. It’s all a treat for the kosher-observant, who don’t otherwise have a kosher meat restau-rant to eat in locally.

“There’s enough talent here that we can pretty much do whatever you want,” Rogozinski, the Summit’s director of culi-nary services for the last seven years, told JTNews during preparation for the April Bistro Night. “Almost everything is natural, organic, and homemade. We splurge and we just charge a few percent over cost.”

That evening, Rogozinski served Chil-ean, Italian and Californian wines, each specially paired with a course and included in the total cost.

“It’s the only place you can get a kosher ‘three-for-$30’” said Chris Eager, dining room manager, referring to regular res-taurant promotions throughout the Seat-tle area.

Guests eat in the well-lit Summit dining hall, at tables set with linens and flowers.

“Kosher food used to be an excuse and it’s not an excuse here, for anything,” said Jeremy Duitch, sous chef at The Summit. “It’s nothing but top-notch product. We don’t miss out on anything. If it’s available, we go get it.”

Raised in Guatemala, Rogozinski infuses his roots into his cooking style, using dried chiles, cilantro, cumin, cinna-mon and clove, in the savory dishes.

He moved to the U.S. after an appren-ticeship at the Guatemala City Westin Hotel. From there, he took an apprentice-ship at the Houston Four Seasons. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, he moved to Paris and studied at Le Cordon Bleu. He moved to Seattle in 1993, where, coincidentally, his mother was born and raised.

“I’ve learned a lot about cultures and different societies and languages,” said Rogozinski, who speaks English, Spanish and French.

In Seattle, Rogozinski has worked at Sza-mania’s in the Magnolia neighborhood, Ray’s Boat House, and the downtown Sheraton hotel. He was also the executive chef at The

Uncovering Seattle’s hidden kosher restaurantJanis sieGel JTNews Correspondent

Pink Door in the Pike Place Market.

Rogozinski said that running a kosher kitchen is not hard, but it takes patience and planning.

“We have between eight to 10 hours a day of supervision,” he said, referring to the Va’ad oversight. “We are friends, and we are partners.”

Keith Krivitsky, vice president for the Center for Jewish Philanthropy at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, who observes kosher eating laws, invited a large table of friends to enjoy bottles of wine, sample the entrées, and share sumptuous desserts.

“The fact that this is the only kosher meat-eating-out option was a key reason for coming,” Krivitsky said, “but more than that, this is some of the best restau-rant food I have had in a while. The prime rib I had last time was out of this world, and the fried chicken they served this time was amazing.”

Elizabeth Davis, a self-described kosher foodie, said the food served at Bistro Night

was on par with really good non-kosher restaurants. According to Davis, the rib-eye steak with onion-balsamico marma-lade was “flavorful and tender, and the caramelized onions added a nice flavor counterpoint.”

Commenting about the desserts, Davis found the dark chocolate ganache with raspberry sauce and spicy glass pineapple tiles “was so rich — yet not heavy, it was bal-anced and had tremendous mouth-feel.”

But by far, the best dish that evening, she said, was the cherry-wood smoked black cod.

“The sweet-smoky flavor and the melt-ingly tender fish were light and yet it was also substantial,” Davis said. “It reminded me of great smoked fish you’d have at Sunday brunch, but here it’s dressed up, served warm, and really would make a wonderful Shabbat meal.”

The fish was smoked in-house by Rogozinski, who said he used his neigh-bor’s chopped-down cherry tree as an opportunity to claim the wood for use in his kitchen.

The smoked fish is also a delectable treat for all of the residents who eat there. They benefit from the Bistro Night menu, which usually finds its way into the daily Summit resident meal offerings.

“Right now, for Passover, we’ll do almost 400 to 500 pounds of different smoked fish,” said Rogozinski. “We even do our own lox and smoked salmon here, but the salmon is only for special holi-days because the process takes four or five days.”

Rogozinski and his staff want to have Bistro Nights at the Summit every month or two. They notify the community through synagogues and an email list.

“We have this opportunity to…show off a little bit,” sous chef Duitch said. “To the community that hasn’t come and seen what we can do, [they’re] missing out.”

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perceive her profession as a bunch of people saying “we want you to go on a diet.”

But, really, she explains, “I’m all about moderation and no diets.”

The Seattle Pacific Univer-sity grad who did her intern-ship at Oregon Health & Sciences University in Portland, recently started her own business, Say I Do Nutri-tion Services with partner Shena Wash-burn (www.sayidonutrition.com).

“I’m at the age where a lot of my friends are getting married,” she says, and she couldn’t help noticing that in their efforts to look “beautiful and gorgeous” in their wedding gowns, many of those friends were engaging in some, frankly, odd weight-loss techniques.

“One friend ate Doritos, but spit them out,” Lorren recalls. Another ordered Mex-ican dishes without chips, tortillas, rice or beans — “basically chicken and lettuce.”

Another planned on fasting for three days before her wedding.

“I couldn’t have my friends doing this,” Lorren says, and started teaching them healthy weight-loss and maintenance methods (one friend lost 30 pounds). From there she jumped to helping “everyone, not just my friends,” she says.

Lorren also works part-time at Harborview Medical Center where she sees a range of patients with illnesses from

diabetes to heart disease, along with obese children and babies who aren’t eating. Before Harborview, she worked at Kline Galland for a while.

The two dieticians have been giving a lot of talks recently. One is coming up on May 1 at the Eastside Torah Center’s “Spring Spa for Your Body and Soul” workshop (www.chabadbellevue.org). When not working, you’ll find the New-port High School alumna doting on her Yorkie puppy and going to hockey games. She’s an active member of Temple B’nai

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Torah in Bellevue, where she grew up.She and Shena practice what they

preach, in case you wondered. “Our philosophy is that you can eat

anything you want…in moderation,” she says. “I still eat cookies, I still eat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, but I don’t have five, I just have one.”

2 Don’t we all love Paris in the spring? Olympia residents Harold (Hal) and Inge Marcus do, and

will travel there and to Israel on the Amer-ican Technion Society Mission from May 29 to June 10. They will take in the splen-dors of Paris and the wonders of Israel all in support of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel’s leading science and technology university.

As vice-chair of ATS’ Northwest chap-ter (North Pacific region), Hal serves on the ATS international board of governors and the national board of directors.

An industrial engineer by training, he has a long commitment to bringing medi-cine and science together with technology and engineering. In 1995 he and Inge cre-ated the Marcus International Exchange in Industrial Engineering to foster interdisci-plinary research between Penn State’s Col-lege of Engineering and the Technion.

“My husband and I admire the Tech-

nion for the critical role it plays in building Israel’s economy, particularly its high-tech industry,” says Inge, who retired from Tacoma’s Pacific Lutheran University as an assistant professor of biology. She is also in ATS’ North Pacific Chapter, and is a member of the President’s Council at St. Martin’s University.

“Technion’s laboratories are state-of-the art,” she notes, “its faculty boasts Nobel Prize winners, and its often-interdisciplin-ary approach is exhilarating.”

But back to Paris. Hal says the trip will be “very eye-opening,” especially “for

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What comes immediately to mind is a song that used to play when our kids were little. It was on a tape along with other Jewish songs that were quite fun and lively. But then it would begin to play Moshe Yess’s “The Zaidy Song.” It always changed the mood. Suddenly the previ-ously dancing, jumping, happy kids were morose and tearing up.

“Turn off the music!” they would cry. It then became standard practice to

always skip that song. There would be the frantic scream as it started to come on, “Run! Fast forward it! Fast forward it!”

The song told the story of a Zaidy, a grandfather, who lived with his family. He would tell them stories about Poland and persecution, teach them Torah and

the story of the slavery in Egypt. Zaidy would make kid-dush Friday night and lead the seder. Zaidy would make them laugh and cry. And then the kids went off to camp one summer and Zaidy was gone. He had passed away. Here are the lyrics from the last stanza,

And now my children sit in front of me

And who will be the Zaidy of my children?

Who will be their Zaidy, if not me?Who will be the Zaidy of our children?Who will be the Zaidy if not we?It still makes me cry. Find it on You-

Tube — you can cry too. What an existen-tial angst of a song. Ironically, my father, a true Zaidy, loved that song. He would sing it to the kids over and over, and they would cry out, “Zaidy, Zaidy, stop singing!” In his own way, he was trying to prepare us.

A seder without our parents present is assuredly a coming-of-age experience. Though their place is empty, their pres-ence still fills the room. For now, we can close our eyes and still see them; their spe-cial Hagaddah, their kiddush cup in hand, and the certain lilt of the accents from time gone by echoing yet in our memories as their voices sing the melodies of their childhoods.

The reality, that the stories we heard from them year after year must now be told through us, is a sobering one. That something will be lost in translation is a given; just how much is the test of time.

There is no way I can tell my father’s story of how matzoh was made back in Velizh; the holi-ness of how the men would don white kittels and go out to fields to harvest the wheat, all the while sing-ing Hallel, and how my father would ride on the sled with the buckets of water, the mayim shelanu, taken from the Dvina River that ran through the shtetl. They would break the ice on the river, lower the buckets and then haul them up to the house to remain there overnight — water used for matzot must spend the night having already been drawn before being kneaded into matzoh dough.

Can I describe the improvised tool fashioned from a watch gear attached to the end of a stick that my father would hold in his hand, thrilled to be selected to

be the one to run it back and forth across the raw matzoh dough, creating lines and lines of holes, ensuring that the dough would not bubble up and rise. How can I tell that story the way he would tell it?

For that matter, how can I give over the poignancy of my mother’s rendition of the exhilaration of the mitzvah of baking matzot; the magic of rising early to bake the special matzoh baked on erev Pesach itself, called matzot mitzvah, because it was baked at the very same time the Pesach offering would have been brought in the days of the Temple? These stories

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FriDays9:30–10:30 a.m. — SJCC Tot ShabbatStroum JCC11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Creative BeginningsTemple De Hirsch Sinai12:30–3:30 p.m. — Bridge groupStroum Jewish Community Center12:30–3:30 p.m. — Drop-in Mah JonggStroum JCC11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Tots Welcoming ShabbatTemple B’nai Torah

saturDays10 a.m. — Morning youth ProgramCongregation Ezra Bessaroth9:45 a.m. — BCMH youth ServicesBCMH9–10:30 a.m. — Temple B’nai Torah Adult Torah StudyTemple B’nai Torah5 p.m. — The Ramchal’s Derech Hashem, Portal from the Ari to ModernityCongregation Beth Ha’Ari

sunDays9–10 a.m. — Change your ThinkingThe Seattle Kollel10:15 a.m. — Sunday Torah StudyCongregation Beth Shalom7:30–10:30 p.m. — He’Ari israeli DancingDanceland Ballroom (call to confirm)8 p.m. — Weekly Shiur (Note Day Change)The Seattle Kollel

MonDays10 a.m. — Jewish Mommy and MeThe Seattle Kollel12:30 p.m. — Caffeine for the SoulChabad of the Central Cascades7 p.m. — CSA Monday Night ClassesCongregation Shevet Achim7–8 p.m. — Ein yaakov in EnglishCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch7:45–8:45 p.m. — For Women onlyCongregation Shaarei Tefilah Lubavitch8–10 p.m. — Women’s israeli Dance ClassThe Seattle Kollel8:30 p.m. — Talmud, yeshiva-StyleEastside Torah Center

tuesDays11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Mommy and Me ProgramChabad of the Central Cascades12 p.m. — Torah for WomenEastside Torah Center7 p.m. — Alcoholics Anonymous MeetingsJewish Family Service7 p.m. — Teen CenterBCMH7:30 p.m. — Weekly Round Table Kabbalah ClassEastside Torah Center8:15– 9:15 p.m. — Jewish RockersCongregation Beth Shalom

WeDnesDays 9:45–10:45 a.m. — Mindful interactions with your ToddlerStroum JCC11 a.m.–12 p.m. — Torah with a TwistPrivate Home11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. — Talmud BerachotTully’s Westlake Center7 p.m. — Beginning israeli Dancing for Adults with Rhona FeldmanCongregation Beth Shalom7–9 p.m. — Teen Lounge for Middle SchoolersBCMH

7–9 p.m. — university Lecture SeriesTemple Beth Am7–9:15 p.m. — Feeding the Jewish Soul and the Jewish BodyCongregation Beth Shalom7:30 p.m. — Parshas HashavuahEastside Torah Center8–9 p.m. — Deeper Dimensions of Talmudic TalesThe Seattle Kollel8:15–9:15 p.m. — Pirkei Avot with the Commentary of Me’am Lo’ezCongregation Beth Shalom

thursDays12–1 p.m. — Pizza and Parsha Lunch and LearnIsland Crust Pizza6:50 p.m.–7:50 p.m. — introduction to HebrewHerzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation7 p.m. — Junior Teen CenterBCMH8–10 p.m. — Teen Lounge for High SchoolersBCMH

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snacks and drinks will be available. Reservations can be made at www.hilleluw.org/blooddrive.

First Night SederMonday, April 18 7:00 pm$54/Community, $25/Jconnect, $12/StudentsJoin Hillel Undergraduates, Jconnectors and community members for festive themed seders lead by Hil-lel staff and volunteers. Seating will be provided on a first come, first served basis. Please make your reservations by Monday, April 11th. All food supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle.

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For additional information or reservations call 206-527-1997 or go to www.hilleluw.org/passover.

Hillel UW is proud to present Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights on display during Passover and through May 31st. For more information visit www.hilleluw.org/suzman.

Passover LunchesThursday, April 21 and Friday, April 22 11:00 am to 1:30 pm $8/StudentsCommunity & Jconnect/$15 with pre-paid online reservations or $18 at the doorHillel lunches are a Seattle Passover tradition. Don’t miss your chance for a great meal and wonderful community experience. All food supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle.

Blood DriveThursday, April 21, 10:00 am - 4:00 pmHelp save lives by donating blood! The Puget Sound Mobile Blood Center will be at Hillel before, during, and after Thurs-day’s Passover lunch. Kosher-for-Passover

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FriDay 15 aPril5–8:30 p.m. — Camp-Style Shabbat Service

Isolde at rsvp@h-nt.org or 206-232-8555,

ext. 204 or www.campschechter.orgThe entire community is invited to a camp-style Shabbat service. Dinner: $14/adult $10/child. At Herzl-Ner Tamid Conservative Congregation, 3700 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.

sunDay 17 aPril10 a.m.–4 p.m. — Pre-Pesach Car Wash

Ari Hoffman at ncsynewsletter@seattlencsy.

com or 206-295-5888 or www.seattlencsy.comNCSYers will wash your car for Pesach! Inside and out! This is also a great volunteering opportunity. At Sephardic Bikur Holim, 6500 52nd Avenue S, Seattle. 6–8 p.m. — Spaghetti Dinner and Chametz Fest

Irit Eliav at iriteliav@bethshalomseattle.org or

206-524-0075 or www.bethshalomseattle.orgEnjoy that last bit of chametz before Pesach and support the youth department at Congregation Beth Shalom. RSVP to Irit Eliav. $12/adult, $8/children under 12. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.

WeDnesDay 20 aPril8–10 p.m. — Holiday Bizarre: Easter in Egypt

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A farcical holiday romp that takes Passover, Easter and current world events, sticks them into a funky musical comedy blender on high, and dishes out hilarious blasphemy. E. Bunny, hip hop star, joins Jesus, Moses, Pharaoh, and others in this new “egg-citing” episode. $12. At Ethnic Cultural Theatre, 3940 Brooklyn Ave. NE, Seattle. Shows also on Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.

thursDay 21 aPril10 a.m.– 4 p.m. — Hillel uW Passover Blood DriveHelp save lives by donating blood. The Puget Sound Mobile Blood Center will be at Hillel before, during and after Thursday’s Passover lunch. Kosher-for-Passover snacks and drinks will be available. Make reservations at www.hilleluw.org/blooddrive. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. — Hillel uW Passover Lunches

206-527-1997 or www.hilleluw.org/passover

Hillel lunches are a Seattle Passover tradition. Don’t miss a great meal and wonderful community experience. All food supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. $8/students, $15/community and Jconnect with prepaid online reservations, or $18 at the door. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.

FriDay 22 aPril11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. — Hillel uW Passover Lunches

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passoverHillel lunches are a Seattle Passover tradition. Don’t miss a great meal and wonderful community experience. All food supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. $8/students, $15/community and Jconnect with prepaid online reservations, or $18 at the door. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.

7 p.m. — Freedom Shabbat206-527-1997 or www.hilleluw.org/passover

This special Shabbat will connect the Passover story to issues of modern slavery and human trafficking. All food supervised by the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle. For undergraduates and Jconnectors. $15/Jconnect, free/undergrads. At Hillel UW, 4745 17th Ave. NE, Seattle.7–9 p.m. — Thank god it’s Shabbat “Chappy” Hour and Services

Orly Feldman at

ofeldman@templebnaitorah.orgNosh and schmooze with other Jews and toast the

start of the weekend. Chappy hour starts at 7 p.m. and service begins at 8 p.m. Melt away the stress of the week with a little Shabbat. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

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in the Price family home. Includes wine and dessert reception with cast and director. Tickets $15, $10/students and seniors. Order at http://jew.sh/cXQ3. At the University Prep theater, 2632 NE 80th St., Seattle.

WeDnesDay 27 aPril2 p.m. — Challah!

Lori Weinberg Ceyhun at

assistant@wsjhs.org or 206-774-2277Educator Rivy Poupko Kletenik and her daughter Gilah will teach the story of challah and how to make, knead, separate, braid, bake and bless, including a spelt challah for the dietary and health conscious. Recipes included. Space limited; register in advance. $8/Washington State Jewish Historical Society member, $10/non-member. At the Seattle Hebrew Academy library, 1617 Interlaken Blvd., Seattle.7–9 p.m. — israel Matters Series

Rabbi Yohanna Kinberg at

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Conversations with a young Israeli led by Assaf Nisenboym and the Israeli shaliach. $5 suggested donation. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

saturDay 30 aPril8 p.m. — The Last Seder Staged Reading

Art Feinglass at

accesscommunications@earthlink.netA reprise of the April 23 production. At Temple B’nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St., Bellevue.

sunDay 1 May10 a.m.–1 p.m. — The Art of Caregiving

Marjorie Schnyder at

familylife@jfsseattle.org or 206-861-3146“How Jewish Tradition Can Inform Our Caregiving Journey” featuring Rabbi Richard Address, founder of the Sacred Aging Project. Reservations recommended, as space is limited. Purchase tickets at http://jew.sh/iC8C. $5 (financial assistance available). At REI Seattle store, 222 Yale Ave. N, Seattle.

12:45–5:30 p.m. — Mussar – Light of Torah, Third Seattle Mussar Kallah

Carol Benedick at

carolbenedick@bethshalomseattle.org or 206-524-0075 or https://bethshalomseattle.org/ event_details.php?id=319Learn about the path of spiritual development called Mussar with Rabbi Ira Stone, Dr. Alan Morinis, Rivy Poupko Kletenik, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum, and Shirah Bell. $36 in advance, $45 at the door. At Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th Ave. NE, Seattle.3 p.m. — yom Hashoah Commemoration and StandWithus Presentation

Vivian Morrison at viviansm@earthlink.net

or 360-779-7619Commemorate Yom Hashoah and continue the conversation to support Israel’s desire for peace. Free. At Congregation Kol Shalom, 9010 Miller Road, Bainbridge Island.1–3 p.m. — yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance

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206-774-2201 or www.wsherc.orgFeaturing With My Own Eyes, a film preview and a dialogue with Holocaust survivors. Commemoration includes a reading of names, laying stones in remembrance, kaddish by Rabbi James Mirel and a performance by the Seattle Jewish Chorale. Free. At the Stroum JCC, 3801 E Mercer Way, Mercer Island.4:30–6 p.m. — yom Hashoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day Program

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first-time visitors to either Paris or Israel.” Along with the usual landmarks, the ATS group will “have access to important places and people that you would not have on your own,” including a dinner with Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë at City Hall (Hotel de Ville).

The trip visits the Marais, the old Jewish quarter, where Jewish sites, trendy boutiques and pastry shops now mix. The Holocaust Museum, a meeting with the chief rabbi of Paris and the Great Syna-gogue of Paris are all on the itinerary. The Marcuses can look forward to dinner at a 17th-century chateau and cruising the Seine on a private yacht.

The Israel portion includes a midnight walk to the Western Wall and celebrat-ing Shavuot in the Negev. But for Hal and Inge, the visits to Technion are probably the most exciting part.

“To actually be in the labs with the professors and have them explain their research and demonstrate their advances is an incredible experience,” Hal says.

There may still be time to go, but the next best thing might be the video at www.ats.org, under the “events” tab, and you can learn more about the organization there, too. For more specific information, contact Jack Kadesh, North Pacific-Northwest Chapter director at 415-398-7117 or jack@ats.org.

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When the Price girls show up at their parents’ house for Passover, their mother Lilly opens the door and laments, “You’re early! You’re all early.”

Hardly an expected greeting from a mother whose four daughters have taken the pilgrimage home for one of the most important and celebrated Jewish holidays. But Lilly’s reaction sets the stage, so to speak, for what’s to come: A heartwarm-ing, sad, hilarious and realistic look into a family that’s coming to grips with memory and reality.

The Last Seder brings together Lilly and her husband Marvin, who is suffering advanced stages of Alzheimer’s, and their four unique daughters for the last Passover before Lilly sells the house. Amidst pack-ing boxes the family comes to terms with the end of an era.

“This is a comedy-hyphen-drama, and that’s really a fair way to describe it,” said Art Feinglass, the director of Jennifer Mai-sel’s The Last Seder.

The play’s cast of experienced actors are all members of Temple Beth Am. Feinglass is in the process of forming the Seattle Jewish Theater Company, which will perform three to four Jewish-related plays per season. He and the players are pleased with the response the play has garnered so far: half the tickets were sold within the first five days of sales. With this kind of response, Feinglass says he is optimistic about his budding theater com-pany. He also noted that this success would not have been possible without the sup-port of Rabbi Jonathan Singer of Beth Am and Rabbi Jim Mirel of B’nai Torah, where another production will take place.

In their rehearsal classroom at Temple Beth Am, the cast gathered around to share their experiences about the produc-tion as it enters its final weeks.

“This is like the Tevye stories that became Fiddler on the Roof,” Feinglass

said. “You have different daughters, each one confronting a different aspect of late 19th-century challenges.” In this version, “one daughter’s a lesbian, one daughter’s a workaholic, one daughter’s trying to find her art, and one runs away all the time.”

“I think it’s fair to say dysfunction doesn’t have to be a bad thing,” said Jo Merrick, who plays oldest daughter Julia.

Dawn Cornell, in the role of second-oldest daughter Claire Price, described the essence of the family as separate nuclei. “You’re the gay one, I’m the workaholic, you’re wandering, you’re searching, and I think this is the first time in a long time that we’re coming together and under-standing each other.”

“It’s not really a dysfunctional family,” said Floyd Reichman, who plays Lilly’s neighbor and romantic interest, Harold. “It’s a family that really can’t find them-selves and therefore lacks this cohesive force that a lot of families manage to sus-

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tain. They’ve all gone off in their own opposite directions and forgotten about what it is to be a family.”

Listening to their emotional and thoughtful reflections, it was hard some-

times to tell when they were speaking as characters and when they were speaking about themselves.

“I dreaded Passover, on so many levels,” said Cornell. “You love the traditions, you love being part of it, but it’s like, if Aunt Mabel asks me one more time, ‘When are you gonna have a baby, Claire, when are you gonna get married, Michelle?’”

The cast members agree wholeheart-edly that they internalize their roles and find the performance cathartic.

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The group, until now boisterous, grew quiet and pensive. Several cast members shared that they see their own personal trials and tragedies reflected in their char-acters.

“My mother was schizophrenic,” Mer-rick said. “So for me, I’m watching my mother’s situation.”

“We were probably all in tears the first time we read it,” said Feinglass. On the first read, “I was crying, and a bunch of other people were crying, and then when we did it we cried again, then we did it again and we cried again. We should be bored by this already.”

Playwright Maisel has managed to weave scenes of poignancy and humor together in a way that Feinglass and the cast members predict all types of Jews as well as non-Jews will be able to relate: the dynamics of family holidays across the spectrum. Feinglass chose the play in part for this reason.

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it’s best to simply not disagree.“Israel is not perfect and in fact there

are human rights violations against the Palestinians. But to single them out and not talk about Congo — you’re not going to buy an engagement ring for your girl-friend? Not talk about Sudan, not talk about Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Burma? What’s going on in these countries is bone chill-ing and dwarfs what’s going on in the Middle East,” she said. “For the sake of argument, you want to protest a human rights violation by Israel? Fine, but I can’t respect what you’re doing if the only country you’re picking on is Israel.”

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has seen six trends in hatred of Jews:• Traditional, old-fashioned anti-Semitism such as cemetery desecrations and graffiti on Jewish institutions. The conspiracy theory of Jews killing Christians to use their blood in religious rituals has changed to Jews now kidnap people to steal their organs.• Holocaust denial, which is grow-ing, Rosenthal said. “There is a sense of urgency that I think we all feel in address-ing it because Holocaust survivors and camp liberators are in their 80s, 90s and sometimes 100s, and they’re not going to be with us much longer.”• Holocaust glorification, meaning a “need to finish the job,” Rosenthal said. It has begun to appear in Eastern European cities, but is also growing in neo-Nazi par-ties in Germany, as well as the Middle East, where much of it comes from Egyptian TV and Al Jazeera.• Holocaust relativism, which conflates the Holocaust with other oppressions or genocides. “Never before and never since the Holocaust have we seen a government employ its best minds and talents and cul-ture into building killing factories, and how that can happen needs to be understood, and it needs to be understood from the par-ticular and the universal messages that come out of that,” Rosenthal said. “The Holocaust remains something that the world has to realize represents the possible.”But, she added, her challenge comes from avoiding the conflation “without trying to get into victimhood.”• Ultra-nationalism, which isn’t always directly anti-Semitic, but “that of course is never good for the Jews,” Rosenthal said. “We are absolutely despised, but we’re not the most despised.” Much of that sentiment, which focuses on ethnic purity and national identity, is directed toward Muslims and ethnic minorities. What alarms Rosenthal is “how clear the language is that these polit-ical parties are using, which once upon a time would have been completely unac-ceptable,” she said. “We all know what happened the last time someone said we

need to protect the purity of our nation.”She and her colleague Farah Pandith, the U.S. Special Representative on Muslim Communities, have worked closely together both in the U.S. and abroad to drive home the point that discrimination and hatred toward each other’s communi-ties is unacceptable.The State Dept., through Rosenthal and Pandith, has also embarked on an initia-tive using social media tools to stop big-otry and promote mutual respect across ethnic and religious lines, among others, called 2011 Hours Against Hate. The pro-grams are designed for people under 30 and have begun to gain ground in Azer-baijan and Turkey, where they were first introduced in February.• Opposition to Israel policy that crosses the line into anti-Semitism. “The most common statement I say on this job is, ‘George Mitchell is the Special Envoy on Middle East Peace and I am the Special Envoy to Combat Anti-Semitism,’” Rosen-thal said, but the two issues are so inter-twined that she often jokes to Mitchell that she’s doing his job.

“It’s very hard to separate the two,” she said.

The U.S. government has very specific guidelines on defining anti-Semitism, and the section that relates to Israel uses what Rosenthal called former Soviet political pris-oner Natan Scharansky’s three D’s: Demon-ization of Israel as a country; delegitimacy of Israel, or denying its citizens’ right to self-determination; and holding a double stan-dard to Israel that demands behavior not expected of other democratic countries.

“If there is a rally that is criticizing a policy of the state of Israel, does that make it anti-Semitic? Of course it doesn’t,” Rosen-thal said. But, she added, “the fact that they have rallies in opposition to Israel and not Burma and not China and not Vietnam and not the Congo and not Sudan — the list goes on of human rights abuses…. That they only do it to Israel is singling out Israel and holding Israel to a different standard than all other countries, and that is not objecting to a policy of the state of Israel. That is hating the collective Jew.”

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“It does not resonate,” Rosen said. “Those arguments will shut down conver-sation.”

Though the bus ad issue gained inter-national attention, Rosenthal noted that the BDS movement, while it should be answered, should be kept in perspective relative to other ways people are isolat-ing and demonizing Israel.

“We have to realize we are giving it a whole lot of our resources and atten-tion, and it is an unsuccessful strategy,” Rosenthal said. “We are identifying it as a priority and it’s getting our attention and our resources, and other things aren’t.”

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The pain is physical, it’s emotional, and it’s constant as Ora and Avram hike Isra-el’s northernmost reaches. But it’s impos-sible for them — and us — to ignore the beauty of the spring, the budding flowers through verdant fields. The detail woven throughout David Grossman’s To the End of the Land (Knopf, 2010, $26.95), an expansive and intimate journey by two former lovers as they once again get to know each other, is only the surface of what becomes more than just a walk in the woods. It’s the history of a family told through the violent recent history of a country — and vice versa.

Given the timing and subject matter of the story — Ora’s son Ofer has vol-untarily returned to the army during the Arab revolt in 2000, and it was he who was supposed to have been hiking with his mother — it’s difficult to write about the story without some mention of the author. As he was completing the book, Grossman’s son Uri was among the few soldiers killed in the 2006 Lebanon war. Much has been written about 21-year-old Ofer’s stand-in role as Uri, but Grossman writes in the afterword that though he had hoped this book would protect his son, “After we finished sitting shiva I went back to the book. Most of it was already written. What changed, above all, was the echo of

the reality in which the final draft was written.”

Still, so much of the story centers around this son who isn’t even there. Grossman deftly gives us bits and pieces about the family’s secrets, so to explain more gives away too much. But his presence puts into play this sprawling novel so representative of the modern psyche of Israel writ small.

To the End of the Land is actually a story in three acts. The first and third are really most inte-gral to the story while the second is a way to bridge the two. What’s disappointing about this structure is that it introduces the second section’s protagonist Sami, Ora’s family’s longtime driver and an Israeli Arab who grudgingly delivers Ofer to the sendoff of the campaign against his people. Sami then drops the befuddled Ora and the semi-catatonic Avram on the side of the road and drives off in a cloud of smoke, never to be heard from again. We never get closure.

But that’s a minor quibble in a story that has more depth, more realism, and, to be honest, more pages than most con-temporary novels. In the first part, during

the Six Day War in 1967, we meet young teenagers Ora, Avram and Ilan, who have been abandoned in a medical clinic while the rest of the coun-try hides in their bun-kers. Through various waves of fever-induced hallucinations and faint-ing spells, the three estab-lish a relationship that, as they grow older, becomes much more complicated

both emotionally and sexually. Nearly three decades later, as we meet them again, Ilan and Ora’s marriage has fallen apart. They haven’t seen Avram, once a poet and masterful linguist who now can’t get a handle on functioning society, in close to 20 years. And it seems oddly coincidental that he calls Ora on the same day Ofer gets discharged from the military. She drags him on her shoulders down three flights of stairs while he detoxes from a sleeping pill-induced stupor and takes him on the weeklong hike instead.

Once Sami dumps them on the side of the road, the novel turns from straightfor-ward narration to true storytelling. If he hadn’t mastered the craft before, Gross-

man’s weaving of present with the past, sometimes from paragraph to paragraph, works as only someone skilled with the written word can make it work. Jessica Cohen’s translation from the Hebrew, it should be noted, makes the transition to English just as seamless. A drawback to this method is that Grossman oftentimes shifts us from Ora’s head to Avram’s and then back, when conventional writing courses admonish us to keep to a single perspective.

As they walk, Avram begins to wake from the sleep that has enveloped him for nearly his entire adult life, and Ora finally begins to understand the mindsets of all of the men in her life, from her lovers to her estranged husband to her children, and that she can’t always protect them all. We learn about the conception of her children, their births and the revelations attendant to both; we see tender moments between husband and wife and otherwise mundane events that make each family unique; we learn, eventually, that secrets, no matter how dark and how long they are kept, will eventually, somehow, see the light of day.

Grossman can be graphic, whether it’s in the realm of sex or violence, but noth-ing is gratuitous. Just as shockingly as the story begins, so it ends. What is, is, and that’s that. But the flowers still bloom.

The mindset of the Israeli people, in the guise of a familyJoel MaGalnick Editor, JTNews

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april 21 at 7:30 p.m., april 22 at 12 p.m. and april 23 at 8 p.m.leonard slatkin leads seattle symphonySeven-time Grammy award-winning conductor Leonard Slatkin will lead the Seattle Symphony in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64. Joined by world-renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the program includes Cindy McTee’s Double Play and Gersh-win’s Concerto in F. Pre-concert talks begin one hour prior to the performanc-es. Guests are invited to stay after the performance on April 23 for an “Ask the Artist” with Slatkin. At the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets from $17 to $107.

april 27 at 7:30p.m.eric alterman: no progressive presidency – Yetspeaking engagementNation columnist, CUNY professor, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and now author of Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack, Eric Alterman comes to Town Hall to argue that the Obama admin-istration is not a failed liberal dream, but rather that the U.S. political system is set up to hinder progres-sive change. Come hear his ideas about how, through renewed civic engagement, reform is possible yet. Co-sponsored by Town Hall and Elliott Bay Book Company. Tickets are $5 through brownpapertickets.com or at the door. At Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave., Seattle.

april 28 at 7 p.m.the last sephardic JewfilmThe Last Sephardic Jew, Eleizar Papo’s time-traveling documentary from modern-day Jerusalem to the Jewish expulsion from Toledo 500 years ago, will screen at the SIFF Cinema. Director Miguel Angel Nieto will be in attendance to introduce the film and answer questions. The film is in Spanish and Ladino with English subtitles. At SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer St., Seattle. $10 admission at the door.

april 23 at 4:30 p.m.The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian’s Journey from Prisoner to Peacemakerauthor eventIn a book that allegedly answers the oft-pondered ques-tion, “Where are all the Palestinian peace activists?” Sami Al Jundi, with the help of Seattle-based filmmaker Jen Marlowe, tells the story of overcoming a life of obstacles and violent opposition to becoming a non-violent activist for peace among Israeli and Palestinian youth. At the Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 Tenth Ave., Seattle.

april 24 at 4 p.m.Benefit for peace and healing in palestine and israelconcert and fundraiserA house concert featuring more than a dozen musicians and artists will raise money for musician and massage practitioner Sheila Fox to help heal women in the Jordan Valley, Bethlehem and Jerusalem with the Jordan Valley School Build-ing Project. $15 suggested donation. RSVP to 206-898-5090. At 1158 17th Ave. E, Seattle.

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“My particular talent is working around restriction,” says Paula Shoyer, author of The Kosher Baker: Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy (Bran-deis University Press, 2010).

Her cookbook contains a chapter on Passover baking, as well as many sensa-tional recipes sans flour or yeast — Pass-over taboos. Flourless Chocolate Cake, Marble Chocolate Matzoh and Mocha Matzoh Napolean are some of the book’s gems.

Shoyer, whose magical touch is with-out peer in the Passover dessert genre, calls them “my gift to the Jewish people.”

More than anything, Shoyer wants the eye rolls to stop upon hearing the words parve desserts — pastries made without dairy products. She laments that kosher bakeries year after year for Passover offer the same dry brownies, sponge cakes, coconut macaroons and vanilla rolls with jam inside.

Shoyer started baking for fun during college. She brought back chocolate from a trip to Belgium in 1984 and began exper-imenting with it in recipes.

During her 20s she moved to Geneva and landed a job at the United Nations. In

Switzerland, she tasted some sensational desserts and decided to reinvent them as dairy free without sacrificing their but-tery flavor.

Then in her 30s, while living in Paris, Shoyer received her pastry diploma from the Ritz Escoffier Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise. She returned to Chevy Chase, Md., and started Paula’s Parisian Pastries Cooking School.

In The Kosher Baker, Shoyer wor-ried the Passover chapter was too heavily weighted with chocolate pastries.

“Can you have too much chocolate?” asked one of her friends.

The following recipes are from The Kosher Baker. All are parve and kosher for Passover.

Key Lime Pie(Three-Step Prep, Doable But Requires Planning)

Crust:4 Tbs. parve margarine2 cups ground walnuts (walnuts can be purchased ground or can be prepared from 4 cups of walnut halves ground in a food processor but not as fine as flour)3 Tbs. light brown sugar8- or 9-inch pie pan

Filling:5 large eggs, plus 3 yolks1-1/2 cups sugar7 limes, or 14 Key limes 1/2 cup (1 stick) parve margarine1 drop green food color-ing, optionalMeringue Topping:2/3 cup sugar1/4 cup waterCandy thermometer2 large egg whites

Preheat oven to 1. 350º. to make the 2. crust: Place the margarine in a medium microwave-safe bowl and heat for 45 seconds or until melted. Add the walnuts and brown sugar; mix until combined. Place this mix-ture into the pie pan and press to cover the bottom and about 1 inch up the sides. Place in the oven for 15 minutes. remove from oven and set aside. Leave the oven on.to make the lime cream filling: Place 3. the eggs, yolks and sugar in a heat-proof bowl and set over a medium saucepan with simmering water (or

use a double boiler). Zest three of the regular limes (or six of the Key limes) and add to the bowl. Stir to combine. Juice the three zested limes, plus the remaining limes to obtain about 1/2 cup of juice. then stir juice into the egg and sugar mixture. Cook uncovered over sim-mering water for about 25 minutes, stirring occasionally, until a thick mixture forms. be patient and do

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letter from Dad: The seder’s story of justice through the ageskiM GolDov Special to JTNews

This time, relatively few of

our people made the crossing of a

modern Red Sea and as I say —

on this very day of Pesach you are

witnessing the waves of retribution smashing to bits the sinister man and

his people. Write down this year in your memories to be passed on to future

generations.

For the ones who did not survive will you please rise in their memory…

but we who are witnessing the triumph of justice let us say:

Boruch ateh ii eluhenu melech ho-oulom sheche-onu vekimonu vehigianu

lassman haseh.

S.G.

Grandpa Karl’s little family was lucky. They escaped with their lives, and even managed to bring over many of their possessions, some of which will grace our seder table tonight. They escaped with something else that is not as plain to see. Despite firsthand knowledge of the horrors that had befallen his relatives, community and people, my father was not hateful, vengeful or self-righteous. His moral compass led him to care about all injustice and all peoples, pollution of the planet, and life in general.

My parents fought for rights and freedoms of black people (the politically correct term of their day). At our seder table, we sang Negro spirituals. They protested the Vietnam war. I was 11 years old when the Israel Six-Day War broke out. Later, I remember my father being upset when settlements were made in the recently occupied territories. To him, this too was injustice.

My life is different from that of my father’s. We celebrate a full cycle of Jewish holidays, perform Jewish music, and belong to a synagogue. We sent you to a Jewish primary school and gave you Hebrew lessons so you could read from the Torah at your Bat Mitzvah. I have personally moved to where I can appreciate religion and even ponder the meaning of God. As far as my moral compass goes, though, I am still solidly in my father’s camp. My Jewish identity and desire for peace and justice in the world makes Israel an important focus. Like my father, I believe that the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories was a mistake; from when I was 11 to the present day. I believe that Israel must find a way to bring the settlers back into Israel proper and end the occupation.

Hanah, in several months, you are hoping to go on a trip to Israel. I’m not sure what experiences you will have there, but I hope you make it an opportunity to learn more about Israel, its people, the occupa-tion and the Palestinian people. I hope you start thinking about what you can do to help bring peace and justice to that part of the world.

Eight years ago, a community seder was held for 250 guests at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel. A 25-year-old suicide bomber came into the dining room and blew himself up, killing or wounding over 100

people. Most of the victims were seniors. Several were Holocaust survivors. Hamas claimed respon-sibility for the attack. What could make people like this so crazy and so cruel? Many Palestinians supported the attack. What were they thinking? A little over a year ago, the IDF attacked Gaza killing over 1,400 people. Many more were left homeless. Did this have to happen? Many Ameri-can Jews, including the Conservative movement, stated at the time that it was unavoidable. How can that be? What are the fundamental steps that must be taken to end the hatred and bloodshed?

Well, I’ve written enough. I hope I didn’t bring you down or scare you. But we do need to taste the bitter herbs while we celebrate our free-dom from slavery, and we must know that none of us are completely free until we are all free.

Love,

Dad

March 29, 2010

Dear Hanah,

This year marks the first time in your 19 years of life that you are missing from our seder table. Instead,

you are celebrating with your fellow students at Lewis & Clark. You there, and we here, will as in every

year past recount the story of how we were once slaves in Egypt, but are now free. We will eat our favor-

ite Passover foods and sing our favorite Passover songs. This year though I want to recount what Passover

is to me and our family.

You know that I did not grow up in a religious home. Grandma Lori and Grandpa Karl rejected Jewish

religious practice soon after they were married. Wendy and I did not go to Hebrew school. Our family never

went to synagogue all the years of my childhood. My dad described himself as “agnostic.” We didn’t cel-

ebrate the cycle of Jewish holidays and hardly even knew they existed, save one: Passover. Every year of

my life, we celebrated this holiday with our family; Wendy and I, our parents, Uncle Bob, Aunt Hedwig,

Mutti and Vatti, Grandma and Grandpa, and many non-Jewish friends with whom my parents found spe-

cial meaning in sharing our Passover tradition. After our grandparents were gone, we continued to cele-

brate together until I moved away.

So why did an agnostic family, completely disconnected from the religious Jewish world, keep an

unwavering observance of Passover?

Good question, Hanah. I have a two-part answer for you tonight. To sum it up, I could use two words:

Hitler and justice. That just begs more questions, so let me try to explain. Better yet, I’ll let Vatti explain.

This letter was written 65 years ago today, on March 29, 1945, less than 12 years after Mutti, Vatti, Uncle

Bob and Grandpa Karl escaped the impending Holocaust, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the S.S. Volen-

dam, just two months after Auschwitz was liberated, but before Buchenvald, Bergen-Belsen and Dachau

were liberated.

3/29/1945

Ladies and Gentlemen,

You are assembled tonight to celebrate the salvation of Israel some 3,000

years ago. I want you to fix in your memories for all the years you are going

to live the following:

Few times in the history of mankind have mortals been allowed to witness

the big events which changed the destiny of the human race. Considering the

unfortunate role the Jews played in our present tragedy, it is worthwhile to

remember on this very seder that we are in the same position as our ances-

tors were when they saw the floods of the Red Sea closing in on Pharaoh.

I doubt that all the infamous oppressors in our Jewish history, start-

ing with the Egyptians, then Haman, then the persecutors of the Jews in the

early Middle Ages as a result of the Black Plague and finally the Spanish Inqui-

sition could be compared in fiendishness, scope and calculated destructions

with the cruelty of Hitler and his lieutenants.

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VPRIV® (velaglucerase alfa for injection) Rx OnlyBRIEF SUMMARY: Consult the Full Prescribing Information for complete product information.INDICATIONS AND USAGEVPRIV is a hydrolytic lysosomal glucocerebroside-specific enzyme indicated for long-term enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) for pediatric and adult patients with type 1 Gaucher disease. DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATIONThe recommended dose is 60 Units/kg administered every other week as a 60-minute intravenous infusion.Patients currently being treated with imiglucerase for type 1 Gaucher disease may be switched to VPRIV. Patients previously treated on a stable dose of imiglucerase are recommended to begin treatment with VPRIV at that same dose when they switch from imiglucerase to VPRIV.Dosage adjustments can be made based on achievement and maintenance of each patient’s therapeutic goals. Clinical studies have evaluated doses ranging from 15 Units/kg to 60 Units/kg every other week.VPRIV should be administered under the supervision of a healthcare professional.CONTRAINDICATIONSNone.WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONSHypersensitivity ReactionsHypersensitivity reactions have been reported in patients in clinical studies with VPRIV [see ADVERSE REACTIONS]. As with any intravenous protein product, hypersensitivity reactions are possible, therefore appropriate medical support should be readily available when VPRIV is administered. If a severe reaction occurs, current medical standards for emergency treatment are to be followed. Treatment with VPRIV should be approached with caution in patients who have exhibited symptoms of hypersensitivity to the active ingredient or excipients in the drug product or to other enzyme replacement therapy.Infusion-related ReactionsInfusion-related reactions were the most commonly observed adverse reactions in patients treated with VPRIV in clinical studies. The most commonly observed symptoms of infusion-related reactions were: headache, dizziness, hypotension, hypertension, nausea, fatigue/asthenia, and pyrexia. Generally the infusion-related reactions were mild and, in treatment-naïve patients, onset occurred mostly during the first 6 months of treatment and tended to occur less frequently with time.The management of infusion-related reactions should be based on the severity of the reaction, e.g. slowing the infusion rate, treatment with medications such as antihistamines, antipyretics and/or corticosteroids, and/or stopping and resuming treatment with increased infusion time.Pre-treatment with antihistamines and/or corticosteroids may prevent subsequent reactions in those cases where symptomatic treatment was required. Patients were not routinely pre-medicated prior to infusion of VPRIV during clinical studies.ADVERSE REACTIONSClinical Studies ExperienceThe data described below reflect exposure of 94 patients with type 1 Gaucher disease who received VPRIV at doses ranging from 15 Units/kg to 60 Units/kg every other week in 5 clinical studies. Fifty-four (54) patients were naïve to ERT and received VPRIV for 9 months and 40 patients switched from imiglucerase to VPRIV treatment and received VPRIV for 12 months [see CLINICAL STUDIES]. Patients were between 4 and 71 years old at time of first treatment with VPRIV, and included 46 male and 48 female patients.The most serious adverse reactions in patients treated with VPRIV were hypersensitivity reactions [see WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS].The most commonly reported adverse reactions (occurring in ≥10% of patients) that were considered related to VPRIV are shown in Table 2. The most common adverse reactions were infusion-related reactions. Because clinical trials are conducted under widely varying conditions, adverse reaction rates observed in the clinical trials of a drug cannot be directly compared to rates in the clinical trials of another drug and may not reflect the rates observed in practice.Table 2: Adverse Reactions Observed in ≥10% of Patients with Type 1 Gaucher Disease Treated with VPRIV [Naïve to ERT (N = 54), Switched from imiglucerase to VPRIV (N = 40)] Number of Patients (%)—Nervous system disorders: Headache 19 (35.2%), 12 (30%), Dizziness 12 (22.2%), 3 (7.5%); Gastrointestinal disorders: Abdominal pain 10 (18.5%), 6 (15%), Nausea 3 (5.6%), 4 (10%); Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders: Back pain 9 (16.7%), 7 (17.5%), Joint pain (knee) 8 (14.8%), 3 (7.5%); Infections and infestations: Upper respiratory tract infection 17 (31.5%), 12 (30%); Investigations: Activated partial thromboplastin time prolonged 6 (11.1%), 2 (5%); General disorders and administration site conditions: Infusion-related reaction* 28 (51.9%), 9 (22.5%), Pyrexia 12 (22.2%), 5 (12.5%), Asthenia/Fatigue 7 (13%), 5 (12.5%). *Denotes any event considered related to and occurring within up to 24 hours of VPRIV infusion.

Less common adverse reactions affecting more than one patient (>3% in the treatment-naïve group and >2% in the patients switched from imiglucerase to VPRIV treatment) were bone pain, tachycardia, rash, urticaria, flushing, hypertension, and hypotension.Pediatric PatientsAll adult adverse reactions to VPRIV are considered relevant to pediatric patients (ages 4 to 17 years). Adverse reactions more commonly seen in pediatric patients compared to adult patients include (>10% difference): upper respiratory tract infection, rash, aPTT prolonged, and pyrexia.ImmunogenicityAs with all therapeutic proteins, there is a potential for immunogenicity. In clinical studies, 1 of 54 treatment-naïve patients treated with VPRIV developed IgG class antibodies to VPRIV. In this patient, the antibodies were determined to be neutralizing in an in vitro assay. No infusion-related reactions were reported for this patient. It is unknown if the presence of IgG antibodies to VPRIV is associated with a higher risk of infusion reactions. Patients with an immune response to other enzyme replacement therapies who are switching to VPRIV should continue to be monitored for antibodies. Immunogenicity assay results are highly dependent on the sensitivity and specificity of the assay. Additionally, the observed incidence of antibody positivity in an assay may be influenced by several factors, including assay methodology, sample handling, timing of sample collection, concomitant medications, and underlying disease. For these reasons, comparison of the incidence of antibodies to VPRIV with the incidence of antibodies to other products may be misleading.DRUG INTERACTIONS No drug-drug interaction studies have been conducted.USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONSPregnancy: Pregnancy Category B.Reproduction studies with velaglucerase alfa have been performed in pregnant rats at intravenous doses up to 17 mg/kg/day (102 mg/m2/day, about 1.8 times the recommended human dose of60 Units/kg/day or 1.5 mg/kg/day or 55.5 mg/m2/day based on the body surface area). Reproduction studies have been performed in pregnant rabbits at intravenous doses up to 20 mg/kg/day (240 mg/m2/day, about 4.3 times the recommended human dose of 60 Units/kg/day based on the body surface area). These studies did not reveal any evidence of impaired fertility or harm to the fetus due to velaglucerase alfa.A pre- and postnatal development study in rats showed no evidence of any adverse effect on pre- and postnatal development at doses up to 17 mg/kg (102 mg/m2/day, about 1.8 times the recommended human dose of 60 Units/kg/day based on the body surface area). There are, however, no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Because animal reproduction studies are not always predictive of human response, VPRIV should be used during pregnancy only if clearly needed.Nursing Mothers: There are no data from studies in lactating women. It is not known whether this drug is excreted in human milk. Because many drugs are excreted in human milk, caution should be exercised when VPRIV is administered to a nursing woman. Pediatric Use: The safety and effectiveness of VPRIV have been established in patients between 4 and 17 years of age. Use of VPRIV in this age group is supported by evidence from adequate and well-controlled studies of VPRIV in adults and pediatric [20 of 94 (21%)] patients. The safety and efficacy profiles were similar between pediatric and adult patients [see ADVERSE REACTIONS and CLINICAL STUDIES]. The safety of VPRIV has not been established in pediatric patients younger than 4 years of age.Geriatric Use: During clinical studies 4 patients aged 65 or older were treated with VPRIV. Clinical studies of VPRIV did not include sufficient numbers of subjects aged 65 and over to determine whether they respond differently from younger subjects. Other reported clinical experience has not identified differences in responses between the elderly and younger patients. In general, dose selection for an elderly patient should be approached cautiously, considering potential comorbid conditions.OVERDOSAGE There is no experience with overdose of VPRIV.

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We skeptical humans have always greeted novelty with suspicion. We prefer what makes us feel safe and com-fortable, not what challenges us. That’s why concepts like global climate change, carbon trading, waste-free business, and social equity confound us. It’s easier and more com-forting to believe that climate change is a hoax, carbon cap and trade hurts business, we’ll always create waste, and some people deserve (a lot) more than others.

But imagine 3,300 years ago when we Hebrews were about to exit slavery in Egypt. How many must have felt rising panic and demanded, “Whoa, Moses! What are you thinking? Don’t be dragging us into the unknown!”

Just outside Pharaoh’s cities, they stopped short at the Sea of Reeds. Moses held his hand over the water, but it took Nachshon ben Aminadav wading into the sea before it would part: One more exam-ple of the need to marry vision with action. And one more in 40 years’ worth of chal-lenges Moses faced with his people. The Torah has to remind us three dozen times to treat strangers with kindness, because we were once strangers in the land of Egypt.

It’s one of myriad require-ments and commandments. And when each appeared, most people probably viewed it with suspicion, or disdain. When Moses disappeared up Sinai for the Ten Commandments, for example, they reverted to idol worship. Most had been poly-theists, few took a weekly day off, and coveting the neighbors’ property, including wives, was part of tribal life.

So while the Torah’s con-cepts are all good ideas, they were origi-nally newfangled — even heretical. One could say they ran against human nature, if not against the nature of human behav-ior. Yet we found something so promising in these new directions that, for millen-nia since, we have used them to inspire and rally ourselves. We’ve made them our frameworks for creating personal and community relationships, for organizing societies and forming governments.

Old habits die hard: We still believe the shortest distance between two points is the one we’ve most traveled, even if there’s a shorter route we can learn. We still kill, steal, blaspheme, antagonize, and refuse to rest. But Torah, and other great works, provide sets of ideals toward which we can

strive, and against which we can measure our conduct and progress.

Now the planet we took for granted is doing terribly unexpected things, and people we have trusted in the past are acting extraordinarily disastrously. Who would have imagined earthquakes and tsu-namis wiping out Bali, New Zealand, Haiti and northeast Japan in such quick succes-sion? Who could have imagined the irony of Japan being destroyed by atom bombs, and embracing nuclear electric power at the risk of new nuclear devastation? Who could have imagined the Exxon Valdez and BP Gulf oil disasters, the Union Car-bide Bhopal catastrophe, Chernobyl, mine cave-ins, and the hundreds of other unpleasant industrial surprises we’ve expe-rienced in just the past few decades?

In the response, environmental state-ments can get strident (as with the cur-rent polar bear campaign), which can make observers skeptical. But for the most part, they’re authentic: Industrial poisons are rampant, glaciers are melting, climate is changing, humans do cause species extinctions. We can mitigate, even reverse these trends. But we’re up against the same obstacles that have blocked change agents dating back to times of Torah, Hammu-rabi’s Code and before: Beliefs and habits are established, we’ve “always” done it this

way; why should we change? So, let’s answer a question with a ques-

tion: Is poisoning ourselves a good thing? Or melting glaciers, changing climate, or erasing other species? Scientists have found evidence of five mass extinctions over the past 540 million years, when more than 50 percent of all animal species disap-peared. Over Earth’s 4.54 billion year his-tory, there may have been more than 20.

Basically, we humans are living between extinction periods. Does it make sense for us to bring on another prematurely — or to keep things healthy, and buy ourselves (and our descendants) as much time as possible? If we choose health, I suggest we abide by three “commandments” bor-rowed from Cradle to Cradle authors Wm. McDonnough and Michael Braungart:

• Make waste equal “food” (for other consumers and processes),

• Use current solar income (not ancient fossil fuels),

• Celebrate diversity (of crops, flora and fauna).

Maybe for this, we can suspend our skepticism.

Author and teacher Martin Westerman writes and consults on sustainable living. He can be contacted with questions at artartart@seanet.com.

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are of a previous generation. Is it really possible to tell them over?

Yet we are told by the Haggadah that each of us is obligated to see one’s self as having come out of Egypt. The task for each of us sitting at the seder is to assume the mantle of Israelite slave refugee; bear-ing witness to the bitterness of the oppres-sion, to the triumph of ten plagues, and to

the drama of the miraculous splitting of the sea. Our tradition was confident that we would be able to transcend the bounds of our specific moments in history and be able to the savor taste of freedom baked into the matzoh at our very own table in time.

In the book, The Gates of the Forest, Elie Wiesel draws from the work of Abba Kovner and tells us of the distanced decline through the generations:

We no longer have the power to go

to that forest and to light the fire there, the ancient prayer has already been for-gotten and we do not even know the location of the place. But we do know what happened, we know the story and that we can tell it and it must be suffi-cient. And it was.This telling of stories is a potent gift.

It can bridge vast distances of time and place. And so in this regard we have hope. We are empowered by our heritage to tell

the story, generation to generation, dor l’dor. Overwhelmed, overcome and feeble though we may feel, it will be, I hope per-haps slightly more than sufficient.

Rivy Poupko Kletenik is an internationally renowned educator and Head of School at the Seattle Hebrew Academy. If you have a question that’s been tickling your brain, send Rivy an e-mail at rivy.poupko.kletenik@gmail.com.

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Food blogger Debby Koenig (“Words to Eat By”) confesses that though she hates Passover with its “stick-to-the-roof-of-your-mouth matzoh, crumbs-a l l -over-your-sh i r t f ront matzoh , halt-all-intestinal-activity matzoh,” she considers the “only saving grace of this cardboardy so-called food is that it’s the main ingredient in matzoh brei.” Fried matzoh. I sympathize with Ms. Koenig’s position, though a cardboardy piece of matzoh slathered with unsalted butter is one of my all-time, anytime favorites.

Just as cooks at Purim spar over Hamantaschen dough (cookie vs. yeast) and filling (sweet vs. savory), so too do they battle at Passover over various matzoh brei methods. Soak the matzoh ’til it’s mush? Run the matzoh under the faucet for a mere mili-minute to keep the crunch? Sprinkle with cinnamon? A pinch of paprika? A conundrum, for sure.

Rumor has it that there are as many recipes for matzoh brei as there are Jewish grandmothers, and regular folk as well as the famous among us continue to argue the soggy/crisp/sweet/savory issue. For some, matzoh brei is a substitute for French toast, awash in maple syrup.

“Ixnay,” says Ruth Reichl — former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine and ex-restaurant critic for both The New York Times and the L.A. Times — who consid-ers sweet matzoh brei to be an abomina-tion. (Ms. Reichl’s word. Honest.)

Others prefer matzoh brei dished up like plain old scrambled eggs. Oddly enough, this humble presentation is preferred by over-the-top architect Frank Gehry (born Frank Owen Goldberg), who told Mark Bittman (a.k.a. The Minimalist of the New York Times) that he (Gehry) could make only one dish — matzoh brei — which he learned from watching his mother.

“I take the matzohs out, run them under the tap and then crumple them,” Gehry said.

“Do you make the matzoh brei look beautiful?” Bittman asked. “Do you arrange it in an architectural fashion?”

Gehry answered, “No.” (Listen. The guy probably depleted his creative juices designing the undulating Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao or, closer to home, the Experience Music Project.)

We’re told that when the Israelites dashed from Egypt with only flat bread in their packs, God answered their culinary cravings with endless mounds of manna. According to Ginsburg’s Legends of the Jews, this mirac-ulous manna contained the flavor of every conceivable dish. If an Israelite wanted a cer-tain food — roast lamb, let’s say — all he had to do was think of it, and voila! the manna tasted like roast lamb. Manna, it is also said, tasted to every one who ate it according to his or her age. To little children it tasted like milk; to strong youths, like bread; to old men like honey; and to the sick, manna

tasted like barley cakes steeped in oil and sweet mead. Nowhere, even in legend, do we read that manna tasted like matzoh brei (I’ll keep looking…); But those of us who con-sider matzoh brei to be a latter-day manna from heaven can conjure it up in traditional — plus astonishing alternative — flavors. In fact, pretty soon our seders might need to add a fifth question: Why is this matzoh brei different from all other matzoh brei?

Here’s one possible answer.

Mexican Matzoh Brei (from Yum Recipes, by way of The Boston Globe)Guacamole filling ingredients: 1/2 ripe avocado, peeled, pitted, and coarsely chopped.1 scallion, finely chopped2 Tbs. sour cream1 tsp. freshly squeezed lemon juiceOmelette ingredients: 1 matzoh, broken into 2” pieces3 eggs, lightly beatenKosher salt and pepper to taste1 Tbs. butter for pan1/4 cup shredded Monterey Jack or cheddar cheese1 small jalapeño, cored and finely choppedSalsa and various toppings (optional)

to make the guacamole: Stir together 1. the avocado, scallion, sour cream, and lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside.to make the omelette: Place matzoh 2. in a colander in the sink and pour boil-ing water over it. Let stand 2 minutes. Squeeze out the liquid and place matzoh in a bowl. Add eggs, salt, and jalapeño and mix well.in a 10-inch, nonstick frying pan, melt 3. the butter. Pour matzoh mixture into the hot pan and cook over medium heat, pulling eggs toward the center of pan with a spatula and tilting the pan to allow uncooked portions to flow into empty spaces until set.Sprinkle the omelette with cheese. 4. Spread the guacamole filling over half the omelette. Cover pan and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. fold omelette in half and slide onto a serving plate. Divide it in two and serve at once. if desired, garnish with salsa and/or grated cheese, black ol-ives plus more sour cream. Now let all who are hungry come and

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saucepan. Add the lemon juice and sugar and stir. Cook on medium-low heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasion-ally, until the sugar melts. Add the gelatin, whisk, and then remove from the heat. Strain into a medium bowl, pressing hard to get as much straw-berry purée through as possible, and place in the refrigerator for 20 min-utes, stirring twice during that time.in a large bowl with an electric mixer 4. on high speed, whip the whipping cream until stiff. remove the straw-berry purée from the refrigerator and fold in the whipped cream in four parts. Scoop the mousse evenly into the ramekins and smooth the tops with the back of a spoon. Cover with plastic and place in the refrigerator for at least three hours or overnight. You can store covered in the refrigerator for up to three days.to serve, remove from the refrigerator 5. and place a few of the rum-soaked strawberry slices on top.

Yield: 8 servings

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not stir too much. if the water in the saucepan or double boiler boils too fast, turn down the heat. remove the bowl from the heat and whisk in the margarine in small pieces until the lime cream is smooth. Add the green food coloring, if using, and stir.Pour the lime cream into the prepared 4. crust and smooth. Place the pie on a cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes, or until the outside edges of the lime cream are set (the inside can remain wobbly). Let cool and then place in the refrigerator for at least two hours.to make the meringue topping: in 5. a small heavy saucepan, bring the sugar and water to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Continue to cook the sugar until it reaches 230º on the candy thermometer. You can dip a pastry brush in water and wipe down the sides of the pot, if any sugar crys-tals appear on the sides. While the sugar is cooking, in a medium bowl, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer on high speed until stiff. When the sugar is ready, turn the mixer speed to low and then slowly pour the cooked sugar into the bowl, down the side of the bowl, not directly onto the wire whisk. When all of the sugar has been poured in, turn the mixer up to medium-high and beat for 1 minute, until the meringue is thick and shiny.Use a silicone spatula to spread the 6. meringue all over the top of the pie. You can use a blowtorch to lightly brown the top or place the pie in a 450º oven for a few minutes, watching the entire time until the top browns. Chill in the refrigerator. Pie can be stored in the refrigerator for up to four days.

Yield: 8 servings

Strawberry Mousse (Two-Step Prep, But Very Doable)

Shoyer likes to serve this dessert in indi-vidual ramekins. You can also use wine or martini glasses.

16 ounces fresh strawberries1 tsp. rum or cognac2 tsp. kosher-for-Passover confectioner’s sugar Juice of 1 lemon6 Tbs. sugar2 Tbs. unflavored kosher gelatin powder1 cup parve whipping cream

remove the stems from the straw-1. berries. Select 6 strawberries, slice thinly, and place in a small bowl with the rum and confectioner’s sugar. mix to combine and then place in the re-frigerator.Cut the remaining strawberries in half 2. and place in a blender or food proces-sor fitted with a metal blade. Purée the strawberries completely, scraping down the sides of the processor bowl or blender so that all the strawberry pieces are puréed.Place the strawberry purée in a small 3.

Amaretto Cookies (Quick and Elegant)

Parchment paper8-ounce bag slivered almonds (about 1-3/4 cups)1 cup sugar1 Tbs. potato starch (flour can be substituted after Passover)2 large egg whites1 Tbs. amaretto (almond-flavored liqueur)

Preheat oven to 325º. Line a large jelly 1. roll pan with parchment paper. Spread the almonds on the parchment paper and toast for 20 minutes, stirring the nuts after 10 minutes. When the al-monds are golden and fragrant, re-move the pan from the oven and slide the parchment off the pan. Let cool for 5 minutes.Place the toasted almonds into the 2. bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade. Process until the nuts are ground to a powder. Place the ground nuts in a medium bowl. Add the sugar, potato starch, egg whites and amaretto; mix until combined. Paula Shoyer likes to use her hands to mix the ingredients, but a wooden spoon is a neater option. Line two jelly-roll pans or cookie sheets with parchment.Wet your hands and take walnut-3. sized clumps of dough and roll them into balls about 1 inch in diameter. Place the balls on the prepared bak-ing sheets, about 2 inches apart. be sure not to overcrowd the cookies; they spread while baking. You can bake in two batches. bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Slide the parchment off the cookie sheet onto a cooling rack.Place baked and cooled cookies into 4. an airtight container or freezer bags and store at room temperature for up to five days or freeze up to three months.

Yield: about 3 dozen cookies

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This Week’s Wisdom

Extend the Tableby Mike Selinker

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

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electronically21 Ooze out23 Like some Blu-ray players26 Best Picture of 200529 Arduous journey31 Use a blowtorch, perhaps33 Kind of code or rug34 Creme-filled cookie36 Half a fortnight38 Worthy of taking out39 Duet between two Coles42 Close to the ground45 Band that released “Africa”46 Wield a scythe48 ___ Tzu (dog breed)50 Italian restaurant offering52 Quite the humdinger54 Treat shaped like a bagel56 Mailed58 Beachgoer’s shoe contents60 512, in Roman times62 Informative document, for short64 Franchise with shows set in Las Vegas,

Miami, and New York65 State exemplified by a pencil balanced on

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I swept the house clean through nine plagues,swept when Moses turned the river into blood,

swatted at frogs all day in the Egyptians’ kitchen,chased frogs in the bedrooms, whacked at them

on the beds, jumped after frogs in the kitchen. NextI cleaned off lice from the heads of the Egyptians.

When my brother sent flies, the Egyptians had mestand over their meals and beds swatting at flies.

After the Lord killed their cows, we laughed even as we smelled that horrible stench.

Then I spent hours wrapping up the boils all over the Egyptians’ skin rejoicing.

The Egyptians made us women go into the fields, round up their cattle, drive them into barns,

lock the doors against the pounding hail.The day the locusts devoured the plants

Miriam’s SongBy Julia stein

I swept my home for house and swept three days that the Egyptians sat in darkness, for only we had light.

Before the tenth plague I swept once more, then roasted lamb and cut up bitter herbs we ate

remembering four hundred years of slavery that terrible night the Angel of Death screeched

and screamed as he flew over our houses on his bloody way to kill the Egyptians’ sons.

We were leaving so I baked my bread unleavened, packed clay crockery, black pots onto a rickety cart.

I wanted to smash the pyramids.We’d built them well. They’d last. A pity.

At the Red Sea, after we climbed onto the land and saw Pharaoh lead his chariots into a gap

riding between two huge cliffs of water when mountains of water crashed down on them,

I called the women who came with cymbals and drums,“Come dance now for we are flying into freedom.”

Taken from A Poet’s Haggadah, a compendium of poetry all related to Passover, written by 36 writers and edited by Rick Lupert. Order the haggadah online at www.poetseder.com.

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At some point during Passover preparations we’ve all tried to convert a mainstream recipe into one appropriate for Pesach, only to discover that we don’t have a clue as to what to substitute for a chametz ingredient. This panic moment is why I started compiling my complete list of Pesach substitutes. If you have any substitutions you would like to share or want to clarify something listed here, please contact me at eztlog@gmail.com.

1 oz. baking chocolate (unsweetened chocolate) = 3 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 1 Tbs. oil or melted margarine 16 oz. semi-sweet chocolate = 6 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 1/4 cup oil and 7 Tbs. granulated sugar

14 oz. sweet chocolate (german-type) = 3 Tbs. unsweetened cocoa powder plus 2-2/3 Tbs. oil and 4-1/2 Tbs. granulated sugar 1 cup confectioners’ sugar = 1 cup granulated sugar minus 1 Tbs. sugar plus 1 Tbs. potato starch pulsed in a food processor or blender 1 cup sour milk or buttermilk for dairy baking = 1 Tbs. lemon juice in a 1 cup measure, then fill to 1 cup with Passover nondairy creamer. Stir and steep 5 minutes. Butter in baking or cooking use parve Passover margarine in equal amounts. Use a bit less salt.1 cup honey = 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar plus 1/4 cup water 1 cup corn syrup = 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar plus 1/3 cup water, boiled until syrupy 1 cup vanilla sugar = 1 cup granulated sugar with 1 split vanilla bean left for at least 24 hours in a tightly

covered jar 1 cup of flour = substitute 5/8 cup matzoh cake meal or potato starch, or a combination sifted together 1 Tbs. flour = 1/2 Tbs. potato starch 1 cup corn starch = 7/8 cup potato starch 1 tsp. cream of tartar = 1-1/2 tsp. lemon juice or 1-1/2 tsp. vinegar1 cup graham cracker crumbs = 1 cup ground cookies or soup nuts plus 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 cup bread crumbs = 1 cup matzoh meal 1 cup matzoh meal = 3 matzohs ground in a food processor 1 cup matzoh cake meal = 1 cup plus 2 Tbs. matzoh meal finely ground in a blender or food processor and sifted 3 crumbled matzohs = 2 cups matzoh farfel 1 cup (8 oz.) cream cheese = 1 cup cottage cheese, puréed with 1/2 stick butter or margarine Chicken fat or gribenes = 2 caramelized onions: Sauté 2 sliced onions in 2 Tbs. oil and 2 Tbs. sugar. Cook until the onions are soft. Purée the onions once they are golden.1 cup milk (for baking) = 1 cup water plus 2 Tbs. margarine, or 1/2 cup fruit juice plus 1/2 cup water 1-1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk = 1 cup instant nonfat dry milk, 2/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup boiling water and 3 Tbs. margarine. Blend all the ingredients until smooth. To thicken, let it set in the refrigerator for 24 hours. 1 cup wine = 13 Tbs. water, 3 Tbs. lemon juice and 1 Tbs. sugar. Mix together and let set for 10 minutes. Pancake syrup = use fruit jelly, not jam, and add a little water to thin. I always like to combine the jelly and water in a microwave-safe bowl and heat gently before I serve it.Seasoned rice wine vinegar = 3 Tbs. white vinegar, 1 Tbs. white wine, 1 Tbs. sugar, 1/2 tsp. salt. Mix to combine. Makes 1/4 cupFlavored vinegar = lemon juice in cooking or salad, grapefruit juice in salads, wine in marinades.orange liqueur = substitute an equal amount of frozen orange juice concentrateWater chestnuts = substitute raw jicamaitalian seasoning = 1/4 tsp. each dried oregano leaves, dried marjoram leaves and dried basil leaves plus 1/8 tsp. rubbed dried sage. This can be substi-tuted for 1-1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning.Curry powder = 2 Tbs. ground coriander, 1 Tbs. black pepper, 2 Tbs. red pepper, 2 Tbs. turmeric, 2 Tbs. ground ginger. Makes 2/3 cup.For frying: Instead of chicken fat, use combination of olive oil or vegetable oil and 1 to 2 Tbs. parve Passover margarine.

Pesach recipe substituteseileen Goltz Special to JTNews

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Soy sauce substitute

This soy sauce substi-tute doesn’t taste exactly like the real thing, but it makes a flavorful alter-native for Pesach stir-fry.2 Tbs. beef broth1 Tbs. red wine vinegar1 tsp. balsamic vinegar1 Tbs. brown sugar1 tsp. oil1/8 tsp. garlic powderblack pepper to taste1/4 cup boiling water

Combine all the in-1. gredients. At this point, you can either a) use the sauce as is, leaving for an hour to give the flavors a chance to blend, or b) for a thicker, richer sauce, boil the liq-

uid until it is reduced by half, about 3 tbs. Store in a sealed container in the refrigerator. makes 2/3 cup. Use the sauce within 3–4 days.

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In the fall, the Washington State Jewish Historical Society will tell the story of our state’s Jewish history through food with the publication Yesterday’s Mavens, Today’s Foodies: Traditions in North-west Jewish Kitchens. This cookbook will be filled with recipes from Jewish grand-mothers — and grandchildren — around the Northwest that have entertained and nourished families for generations. A committee of tasters has been dispatched to recreate and eat hundreds of submis-sions, including this one:

“This recipe has been handed down from Sarah Rosenthal Esac, grandmother of Michael Eulenberg and the great-grand-mother of Rabbi Sarah Rubin. Grandma Esac’s Romanian accent paved the way for a family riddle invented by her son-in-law. When the grandchildren asked what she was baking, Grandma Esac replied, ‘A not cake.’ Ed Eulenberg’s riddle? ‘When is a cake not a cake?’ The answer, of course, is when it is a ‘not cake’ — or this very fine and moist Passover Nut Cake.”

Baking our Jewish history: Passover nut cakeJulia nieBuhr eulenBerG Special to JTnews

10 large eggs, separated and at room temperature1-1/2 cups sugar1 medium orange, juiced and the rind finely chopped1/2 lemon, rind finely chopped but NO juice1 medium apple, grated3/4 cup Passover cake meal, sifted1/4 cup potato starch, sifted1 cup walnuts or pecans, finely chopped

Preheat oven to 325°. beat the egg 1. whites until foamy and stiff. in a sepa-rate bowl, beat egg yolks until thick and lemony in color. Add the sugar

slowly to the egg yolks. Add the orange juice and the rind, lemon rind, and the grated apple. then add the sifted cake meal and potato starch. fold in the nuts, then fold in the stiff egg whites.bake 60 minutes in an ungreased 10-2. inch tube sponge cake pan. When baked, turn the cake pan upside down over the neck of a wine bottle to cool completely.

tips and tricks: Don’t worry, the cake will not fall out of the pan.Yield: Serves 12

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SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Nearing its 80th birthday, perhaps it was time the most printed Passover Haggadah in his-tory had a major facelift.

The Maxwell House Passover Haggadah, which has had more than 50 million copies published, hit the shelves — and supermar-kets — this spring featuring its first new English translation since 1934, the year it was originally printed.

Banished are the awkward “thee” and “thou,” replaced by the more conversational “you.” The Eternal One no longer “delivereth” but “delivers,” and seder participants are not invited to “eat thereof” but simply to eat.

While American Jews of the early 20th century might have accepted the original, archaic language, “it makes the Haggadah more clumsy for contemporary readers,” said Elie Rosenfeld, CEO of Joseph Jacobs Advertising. The firm has represented Maxwell House from the beginning and spearheaded the new translation, which took nearly a year to complete.

“We wanted to make sure everyone who uses it feels comfortable with it,” Rosenfeld said.

That meant political as well as linguistic changes. The Higher Power in this Hagga-dah isn’t a He, Lord or King, but is referred to by the gender-neutral monikers God, the Eternal and Monarch of the Universe.

The impetus for the new translation was not to address gender issues but to retell the old tale in contemporary lan-guage. Still, using gender-neutral language for God is indicated by modern theological understanding, Rosenfeld says.

“The fact of the matter is, God doesn’t have a gender,” he said.

The original Maxwell House Haggadah was created as a marketing tool to promote the company’s coffee, which was certified kosher in 1923. There had been contro-versy for years over whether coffee beans were legumes, and thus forbidden for Passover according to Ashkenazic norms, or whether they were in fact a berry — a fruit — and therefore permitted.

Marketing whiz Joseph Jacobs, founder of the ad agency, got Orthodox Rabbi Hersch Kohn to certify the coffee kosher for Passover. The publication 11 years later of the eponymous Haggadah, still distributed free in supermarkets with the purchase of the coffee, cemented the dom-inance of Maxwell House and its Hagga-dah at American seder tables ever since.

Though the look has changed, the story stays the same.

“The Jews don’t end up in Boca; they

still get to the Promised Land,” Rosen-feld says.

Another old-new Passover Haggadah out this year is a new edition of the famous Szyk Haggadah featuring the magnificent illustrations of Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk. Set for April publication, it has a newly commissioned English text written by Rabbi Byron Sherwin with Irvin Ungar.

A refugee from Nazi Europe, Syzk embed-ded Eastern European Chassidic imagery in his intricate and highly emotional rendition of the Exodus narra-tive, creating the orig-inal version of his Hagaddah in the mid-1930s. Jewish survival, which Szyk viewed as the pressing need of his age, also is the theme of his Haggadah: The illustration on page 26, for example, depicts

empires that have tried to conquer the Jews, from the Assyrians to the Inquisition to Nazi Germany, with the two tablets of the law astride them all, signifying the per-severance, and ultimate triumph, of the Jewish people.

“Szyk was an activist artist,” said Ungar, a former pulpit rabbi and San Francisco Bay Area resident who is curator of the Arthur Szyk Society. “He believed the Jews of Europe needed to be rescued immedi-ately, and he was going to do whatever he could to motivate the world community to take action.”

A Passover Haggadah: Go Forth and Learn, by Rabbi David Silber with Rachel Furst, is being put out by the Jewish Publi-cation Society.

If the Szyk Haggadah is gorgeous, this new work by Silber and Furst is thought-provoking, delivering new insights into the seder themes as well as first-rate com-mentaries on the liturgy.

Silber is an Orthodox Torah scholar and educator of wide renown, the founder and dean of the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He has been teaching these lessons for years, and here he puts them down on the page in a manner at once scholarly and accessible.

Furst teaches at Matan, a women’s institute for Torah studies in Israel, and is pursuing a doctorate in medieval Jewish history at the Hebrew University in Jeru-salem. This is a seder to study and discuss, but also to use — with the right crowd.

Speaking of the right crowd, kids are the target audience for Passover Hagga-dah in Another Dimension by Michael Medina, with artwork (sculptures and

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Exile. Banishment. Assimi-lation. Remembrance. Pesach: Celebration! Usually we remember only the exile from Egypt thousands of years ago in our Passover celebration of freedom. But some of the depth and richness of the full global Jewish experience in exile happened at other times in our incomparably long his-tory. This year I have been thinking most particularly of an exile of Jews from Europe to the Americas in the era of the Renaissance: The Inquisition and the story of crypto Jews.

It began in 1412, when Jews were well established in the merchant class of Spain and Portugal, making significant cul-tural contributions in the arts, poetry and music, and in finance as consultants to gentry and royalty. At that time, Spain and Portugal were at the end of centu-ries of wars attempting to eject the Moors (Muslims) from the territory and, because the Moors were also at the core of the Ibe-rian economy, their exit and the burden of paying for the wars left the area impov-erished.

The Crusades were also very costly and the gentry were looking around for ways to improve the economic situation. Jews came under suspicion as the Church tight-ened its grip on the area with a view to taking control of the royalty, trade and the major sources of income for the area.

By the time pious, Catholic, 17-year-old Queen Isabella acceded to the throne in the late 1480s, the Inquisition was in full swing, with all Jews being forced to con-vert or be tortured to death or killed out-right. Many Jews fled to Scandinavia or parts of France and Italy, to live as under-ground Jews as the Inquisition spread across Europe. Others became “conver-sos,” and secretly practiced their faith in Spain and Portugal while engaging in elaborate ruses to fool the Church into believing their conversions were real.

In 1492 Torquemada, the leader of the Inquisition in Spain and a close confidant of Isabella and her husband Ferdinand, exiled all the Jews from Spain. Portugal quickly followed suit.

Not insignificant to the theme of our story, Columbus opened the route to the New World in the same year and within a decade, conversos fleeing Spain and Por-tugal took the arduous journey across the Atlantic, settling in Mexico, Central America and Brazil, hoping to find free-dom from oppression just as the Jews flee-ing Pharaoh hoped to find freedom across the Sea of Reeds.

It was not to be. The Church rapidly established itself in the new world under the flags of both Spain and Portugal. The Inquisition followed the fleeing Jews, keeping them underground and practic-ing secretly until the conversos evolved into “crypto Jews,” or non-practicing

Jews — oftentimes practicing Catholics — with oddly tradi-tional quasi-Jewish practices passed down in their families. As more research into these forgotten Jews comes to light, some poignant and fascinat-ing stories emerge.

In Portugal, in the vil-lage of Belemonte, a group of about 200 people still prac-tice a very ancient form of Judaism, half secret and half “emerged.” The women light

two candles on Friday nights in a vessel with a cover to hide the light. They bake and eat unleavened bread at the beginning of April and celebrate Passover in attics similar to the ancestral Samaritans (Jews who believe they are the tribe of Israel that never left the ancient land, they live at the foot of Mt. Gerizim near Nablus and cel-ebrate Pesach as it was done in Temple times, lamb sacrifice included). They wear all-white clothes, as in Temple days, and tell the story of the exile from Egypt in Portuguese, with only the word “Adonai” identifying them as Jews.

In the early 1900s, these cryptos and a similar village in Majorca were visited by Jews from the outside. The cryptos dis-trusted their visitors, believing it was a trick to get them to reveal their Jewish identities. But when they recognized “Adonai” in the spoken Hebrew prayers of the visitors, they finally believed in their Judaism and were shocked to learn of the millions of practicing Jews all over the world.

The Inquisition continued in the New World for 350 years, to the early 1800s, making it even more incredible that many conversos practiced their Judaism in secret with a passion that invested their ancestors, some of whom no longer knew they were Jews, with an internal commit-

ment to continue family traditions with-out knowing the significance.

A large population of crypto Jews in the American Southwest, mostly in New Mexico and southwestern Texas, eschews the Catholic tradition of eating fish on Fri-days, but also refrains from eating pork, rabbit, venison or shellfish and slaugh-ter meats traditionally at home, using a special highly sharpened knife. Just like with kosher slaughter, they bleed the ani-mals completely (saying the blood is car-gado, charged, without knowing what that means) before washing and thoroughly salting the meat.

Some do have the knowledge that they are Jews and pass the “burden” (in a hugely Catholic society) on to their sons on their 12th or 13th birthday, saying, “Tue res judio,” you are Jewish, “somos judios,” we are Jewish, and pouring water over the child’s head to “wash off” their baptism into the church. On Passover, without knowing why, families will give up regu-lar tortillas and bread and make very crisp “unleavened” wheat tortillas, which they eat for a week. Some have vestigial mezu-zot on their doorposts, little bags filled with earth that they kiss when entering and leaving the house. One man in Albu-

querque remembers his grandmother having a statue of a Madonna whose foot she would often kiss. When she died, the family opened the foot and found a silver mezuzah she had hidden inside.

So, in this lovely season of spring and celebration of Passover, I would like to give you a recipe in remembrance of some of our brethren who are still with us from our past, some converting to Judaism when they realize their past, some saying, “I don’t need to convert, I have always been Jewish, since my exile from Spain, 500 years ago!”

Escabeche is essentially marinat-ing raw fish in vinegar and spices until it is “cooked” by the acid, much like cevi-che. In the Renaissance, fowl were mari-nated in the same way after cooking, or sometimes cooked in a marinade as we do today. Here is a recipe for fish escabeche as done in the late 1500s in Spain.

Escabeche of Fish or Fowl

1-1/2 lbs of halibut, salmon or snapperJuice of 1 lemon plus zest if desired1/4 cup sherry vinegar

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paintings) by Emi Sfard and photograph by Eli Neeman.

Published by Kippod3D, this Hagga-dah boasts 3-D illustrations and comes with a pair of 3-D glasses that make the characters seemingly leap from the pages. Whoa, are those soldiers really drowning in the Red Sea?

There’s an English text, some Hebrew and transliterations of the main attrac-tions — the plagues, the blessings, the favorite songs. But this is really all about the images, which might make some adults too queasy to tackle the gefilte fish. It’s a gimmick, but a fun one.

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1/2 cup dry white wine1/2 cup orange juice plus zest if desired1 large pinch saffron2 whole cloves, crushed1 bay leaf1/2 tsp. freshly ground or crushed black pepper1 tsp. kosher salt

Combine all the ingredients except the fish. Cut the fish into 2” pieces and marinate in the mixture for about an hour. heat gently in a non-reactive pan just until the fish flakes when gently pressed. Chill completely. Serve the fish with some of the marinade and spring greens such as scallions, green garlic or chives.Serves 6 as a Passover fish course.

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“Why did you leave me? Why can’t you come back for me?”

Dilawar, a young, unemployed Kash-miri Muslim, is praying, as he does after each of his many calamities in Zero Bridge, to a godlike figure, his mother, who aban-doned him, who never answers him. His voice, actually his voice over, has a plain-tive, exilic, Jewish ring.

Not surprising, I thought. Tariq Tapa, the 29-year-old director of Zero Bridge, winner of the best film award at Leeds Inter-national Film Festival, the audience award at the Mumbai International Film Festi-val, is Jewish, the son of a New York Jewish mother and a Kashmiri Muslim father.

I was impressed by how Tapa depicts poverty as the systematic pilfering of the air of hope that a man breathes. When we first see Dilawar, he is a pickpocket pacing back and forth across Zero Bridge in Srini-agar waiting for his handler, wearing a Red Sox cap so old and faded it could be some-thing unearthed from an archaeological dig. He’s a sort of overaged, overgrown, Kashmiri Oliver Twist.

Tapa called me from Berkeley to be interviewed. I was surprised to hear him say he didn’t see anything Jewish in the way Dilawar prayed, or in the film itself.

“My work has nothing to do with eth-nicity,” he said. “I am interested in discov-ery. That’s why I make films.”

“Yes,” I responded, “but inevitably we do bring our backgrounds to our art as we do to our lives. For instance, you vis-ited Kashmir every summer until you were almost 10 [when the separatist violence there put an end to his family’s vacations in Northern India]. That was part of your background, and part of the reason you made Zero Bridge. You could as easily have gone to Israel, and that would also have been part of your background.”

I heard an impa-tient sound at the other end of the phone.

“I didn’t grow up s p e a k i n g a b o u t Israel,” he replied. “My mother didn’t speak Hebrew. We had no relatives there. Israel was abstract to me.”

I was fascinated by how Tapa was able to abstract eth-nicity, yet make a film in the neo-realist tradition that was able to transport you inside the skin of his protagonist.

Only later did it occur to me that Tapa, over 40 years my junior, is the prod-uct of a generation in America that is all but post-ethnic. Cyber-rooted, uncon-nected to family stories of dark journeys and deep histories, it glides along its own self-made surfaces. At one point, I seemed

to crack his resistance by reminding him that merely wanting Zero Bridge to make noises in Jewish journals was not enough.

“Any artistic activity requires a sense of doubleness,” he said. “Because in the pro-cess of doing something artistic, you have two natures operating at the same time; you are experiencing something and you are observing something. Something may happen along the way that may complicate

that sense of doubleness, like multiple eth-nicities in your life.”

Whatever else Tariq Tapa may be, he is no panderer. I like that about him.

The director arrived in Kashmir to shoot his film without any knowledge of Kashmiri. (Zero Bridge was shot entirely in Kashmiri.) He had no money, no crew. He relied on his cousin Hilal to help with trans-lations. He had another cousin, Imran, work as his production assistant. Together, they biked around Srinigar with glue and a brush, in a war zone, to affix audition post-ers to walls casting for the role of Dilawar. (Imran was eventually cast as Dilawar.) The two must have resembled characters stolen from De Sica’s Bicycle Thief.

If I were casting for the part of an itinerant Jewish director shooting a film with Chap-lainesque chutzpah in a land serenaded with bomb blasts and infected with the ill will of two nations, I would choose Tariq Tapa.

The contradictions of a Jewish-Muslim filmmaker roBert hirschFielD Special to JTNews

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Dilawar, the protagonist of Zero Bridge, and his friend Bani discuss their aborted plan to leave Kashmir for Delhi.

State Rep. Mary lou Dickerson (R–36th) breaks the middle matzoh as Rep. Sherry appleton (D–23rd) looks on during a legislative Passover seder hosted by the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. Several legislators and staffers from both sides of the aisle attended the april 12 dinner at Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia, which tied the Passover story to refugees of today. Jeanette lozovsky, one of two refugees to speak at the event, spent 18 years at Jewish Family Service helping to acclimate other immigrants and refugees before her retirement. “Freedom helps them to achieve what they couldn’t back home,” lozovsky told the attendees.

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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Unless Israel acts fast, when the Arab Spring comes to full bloom, the Jewish State will be left out in the cold.

That was the essence of the dire warn-ings issued last week by the high-profile backers of a new Israeli peace push who say they seek to propel the country along the peacemaking path before it’s too late.

With Israel’s diplomatic position sink-ing and the Palestinians on the cusp of taking a unilateral path to statehood at the U.N. General Assembly in Septem-ber, a group of ex-military men, business leaders, former security chiefs and diplo-mats say now’s the time for action — and they’re trying to do something about it.

“Our ongoing presence in the territo-ries is a danger to Zionism,” a stern-faced Yaakov Perry, former head of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, told a crowded news conference April 6. “Every minute that passes makes things worse. “

Urging Israel to make bold decisions or risk becoming an international pariah, he said that “Israel cannot disconnect from the world and become Syria or North Korea.”

Hinting at U.S. backing for Israel, Perry said that “All of us have felt this isolation, and the power of others to back up Israel is diminishing.”

Perry is one of about 50 prominent Israelis behind the new Israeli Peace Initia-tive, a plan that spins off the Arab Peace Ini-tiative of 2002. The latter initiative, to which Israel never issued a formal response, offered the principle of full normaliza-tion of ties between Israel and the Arab

world in exchange for Israel ceding all ter-ritories captured in the 1967 Six-Day War: the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and eastern Jerusalem. Israel ceded Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005.

The new Israeli initiative differs little from other nongovernmental plans pro-posed over the last decade or so. It envi-sions the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza with some limited land swaps, Jerusalem as a shared capital, and peace deals with Syria and Lebanon.

It foresees a demilitarized Palestinian state with control of its own internal secu-rity, and resolution of the Palestinian ref-ugee issue — historically one of the main sticking points in negotiations — with financial compensation and a resettle-ment of refugees and their descendants to Palestinian areas only with “symbolic and agreed-upon exceptions.”

The idea, its proponents say, is to get the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act. Netanyahu’s office has declined to comment on the ini-tiative; members of the group said he has received a copy.

The dovish Israeli figures who com-prise the group say the pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Arab world, which have toppled Israel’s main regional ally, Egyptian President Hosni Muba-rak, are game changers for Israel, and the Israeli government needs to respond with decisive action.

“There is a new wind blowing,” Perry said. “It’s time to change the paradigm we have had for years about the Arab world.”

Idan Ofer, a leading Israeli business-man, said he already has begun to feel a change in his business dealings abroad.

“It was made clear to me more than once that if the situation here does not improve, Israeli companies that employ thousands of people will be hurt,” he said.

Echoing Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s recent warnings that a U.N.-recognized Palestinian state could usher in a “diplo-matic tsunami,” Ofer offered his own stark assessment, saying that possible economic sanctions could hit Israel once a Palestin-ian state becomes a U.N. member.

“The tangible effects will change every-thing,” Ofer said. “I’m trying to wave a red flag.”

While this group of critics believes Netanyahu is waffling, Netanyahu has said that the revolutions transforming the Arab world require that Israel move more cautiously.

Among the new threats Israeli officials are considering are what would happen if the Jordanian regime fell and was replaced by a hostile government along Israel’s eastern border, and how to deal with an Egypt that is a less reliable ally. If the Syrian regime falls to the protests roiling that country, Israel’s strategic calculus in the north could change, too.

On the diplomatic front, circumstances already are rapidly changing. The new regime in Egypt has taken a harsher line on Israel, although Amos Gilad, the head of the Defense Ministry’s diplomatic-security bureau, said this week that he was impressed by the stability and achieve-ments of the new Egyptian leadership.

Perhaps most significantly, the Pales-tinian Authority is moving closer to a uni-lateral declaration of statehood. Last week, both the International Monetary Fund and World Bank said that the Palestinian economy is ready for statehood.

Citing the 9 percent growth among Palestinians last year, the World Bank commended the state-building initia-tives spearheaded by P.A. Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and warned of the dangers of foreign aid overdependence and Israeli restrictions on movement in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, considered to be one of the more moderate members of Netanyahu’s gov-ernment, spoke out last week against the unilateral Palestinian push for statehood.

“Borders need to be agreed on by two parties, not decided unilaterally,” he said. “Of course, there are political problems on both sides. But as long as people don’t come to talk, it’s difficult. We have to say our goals up front.”

Once a Palestinian state is accepted by the United Nations, it will be virtu-ally impossible for Israel to influence what kind of state it might become, the organiz-ers of the new Israeli Peace Initiative said. They stressed the need for Israel to take initiative now.

“We hope that brave leaders will be found in Israel, the region and in the inter-national community who will translate the Arab and Israeli vision for peace into real-ity instead of waiting in vain for magic to take place,” they said in their founding document.

With arab Spring, will Israel be left in the cold?Dina kraFt JTA World News Service

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Born in Seattle, Joe was the youngest son of Abe and Bessie Brenner, Austrian emigrants who met in Seattle, had six sons and one daughter and started the first Jewish bakery and delicates-sen in the area. From an early age, all the children worked there at one time or another, baking, delivering and serving retail customers. The bakery, which became a Seattle institution, was founded sometime soon after Abe’s arrival in the city in 1902. It is believed to have been the first to introduce bagels (as well as other Eastern European baked goods) to the early 20th-century food scene in Seattle. The bagels were first sold by Abe door-to-door by horse and wagon as well as at Pike Place Market from its earliest years, long before bagels became a staple of the American table. The original bakery was located first near the King Street Railroad Station at

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in San Diego, Calif., and Corpus Christi, Texas. He expressed his frustration his entire life at not having been sent overseas, as three of his brothers were, so he could have been on the European front fighting Hitler’s troops.

In addition to his love of watching football and baseball — a life-long sports fan, Joe played football at Seattle’s Garfield High — he was a daily crossword puzzle devotee and an occasional writer of whimsical poetry. He was a voracious reader of magazines, newspapers and books, especially those dealing with history, politics and biographies. He kept well-versed in national and international events and expressed his opinions, often defending the underdog, underprivileged and unfortunate people of the world.

If someone needed financial help, Joe could be counted on to assist. He also opened his home to persons needing a meal or a place to sleep.

A frequent prankster and good-natured teaser who usually had a smile on his face, Joe was renowned for his sense of humor and his deep laugh. He loved to hear a good story or a good joke and he loved to tell them, too. He and his late brother Sam were especially adept at making each other laugh. Each constantly tried to top the other, with the result that whenever they were together, they were like the Marx Brothers (or Phil Silvers and Milton Berle, if they had been brothers). Joe’s signature laugh would come from deep within him and could continue for minutes, morphing into coughing, yelps and tears. Then it was on to the next joke or story — and another good laugh.

Joe supported various Jewish youth, social, religious and philanthropic organizations and causes with both his time and donations. He visited Israel several times. He was keenly aware of human rights and the lessons of the Holocaust and admonished others that these should never be forgotten.

He was an advocate for the elderly, donating bakery goods and presenting occasional programs at the Caroline Kline Galland Home in Seattle and other residential institutions. He was attentive to and popular with children, too. Whenever he could, he visited one young family member who has lived in a residential group home since childhood. He was the favorite uncle to his many nieces and nephews and all their friends in part because he often seemed more like an older brother than an uncle, being young at heart and looking decades younger than his actual age.

Joe was predeceased by his parents, stepmother Ruth Kutoff Brenner, and brothers Bernard, Itsey, Dave and Sam.

Joe is survived by his wife, Joan, of Surprise, Ariz.; his brothers, Charlie Brenner of Bellevue and Mark (Diane) Brenner of Surprise, Ariz.; and his sisters, Yetta Brenner of Kirkland and Phyllis (Billy) Dolgoff of Bellevue.

Other survivors are his son, Adam Brenner, the internationally known rock musician and singer who performs as Adam Bomb, his wife Claire and their daughters, Darian and Blaise of New York City; daughters Lisa Healey of Surprise, Ariz., Janice Newman (and children Cory Cordova and Brad Newman) of Renton, and Cathy Brenner (and daughter Davia Zauhar) of Renton; and son David Brenner of Seattle. He will also be missed by his brother-in-law John (Maria) Herbert of Mesa, Ariz., and sister-in-law, Carol Herbert Severson of Palm Desert, Calif., and their families.

He also leaves behind close friend Fritzi Vyzis of Florida for whose children, Dmitri, Mia and Carl, he served as grandfather; and nieces, nephews and cousins and their families throughout the United States.

Memorial contributions may go to Hospice of the Valley, 1510 E Flower St., Phoenix, AZ 85014.

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